Another snoozer in store? After beating Baylor by 26 earlier this week, Saturday's game could be even worse. Kansas plays last place Colorado at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.
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》2007 Agenda
Bush advocates health care
Health care is too expensive for small businesses and individuals to afford, President Bush said Thursday at a roundtable discussion at Saint Luke's Hospital in Lee's Summit, Mo.
BY JOE HUNT
SARAH HUMAN/KARIN
President George W. Bush arrived in Kansas City on Thursday, President Bush awarded a local volunteer for service in the Mid-America Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) and toured St. Lukes Hospital in Lee's Summit, Mo.
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He further explained the health care reform policy he introduced during his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Bush plan would support independent, privatized health care. This would keep health insurance and jobs separate. "People change jobs seven or eight times in this country before they turn 35," Bush said. "So you better have a moveable health plan."
Bush said that changes were needed to enable consumers to control their own health insurance.
Bush said that technology that helps doctors treat patients quickly and effectively needed to become more widespread.
"When a hospital modernizes, when you go from files to electronics, it helps hold the cost of health care down." Bush said.
Storing information electronically would make another part of Bush's plan possible: price transparency. Price transparency allows consumers to see how much they will be spending on health care. Bush congratulated Saint Luke's Hospital for using advanced technology that allows for price transparency.
"This hospital system has been willing to place its prices and its quality ratings out for consumers to see." Bush said. "Health care is an interesting industry, in that where a lot of times you have no idea of the price of the service your paying for."
Bush said that if consumers knew what they were getting and how much they were spending, they would make better purchasing decisions. Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt agreed.
"People need to have access to their own records in a way that is convenient to them," Leavitt said. "Once you have cost and quality, you're now making decisions based on value."
Esmealda Wergn, a waitress in Overland Park and a mother of two, was on a panel of people who spoke with Bush. She said good health insurance was too expensive for her
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》 ATHLETICS DIRECTOR
Perkins honored at USC-Aiken
BY KYLE CARTER
Kansan File Photo
The University of South Carolina at Aiken unveiled plans to name a Wall of Champions after Kansas Athletics Director Lew Perkins earlier this month.
USC-Aiken Athletics Director Randy Warrick said the wall would include a timeline of prominent coaches, athletes and administrators from the university's history. Perkins coached basketball there from 1969 until 1979 and served as athletics director from 1969 until 1980.
Lew Perkins, KU athletics director, is honored by Randy Warick, USC-Aiken athletics director, for his contribution to the USC-Aiken athletics department.
During Perkins' tenure, the athletics program switched from the NAIA competition to NCAA
Division II. Warrick said that Perkins was the driving force behind that change as well as the large increase in the number of programs offered. When Perkins started as athletics director
"Nobody had more of an influence on the development of our program than Lew", Warrick said. "My vision was to do something to connect our former athletes with our current situation."
The wall will be part of a new convocation center that will include trophy cases and the Lew Perkins Wall of Champions, similar to the Booth Family Hall of Athletics at the front of Allen Fieldhouse. Warrick estimated the project would be completed by April.
to become the associate athletics director at the University of Pennsylvania.
RANDY WARRICK
Athletics Director, USC-Aiken
Warrick estimated that only four or five scholarship sports were available. He said there are now 11 scholarship sports at UC-Aiken. Perkins hired Warrick as the baseball coach, and was succeeded by him when Perkins left UC-Aiken
"Nobody had more of an influence on the development of our program than Lew."
The plans were revealed to
perkins before the Kansas vs. South Carolina basketball game in Columbia at a brunch attended by many of Perkins' former players from USC-Aiken. Warrick said he planned the surprise with the help of
Perkins' wife Gwen.
Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchiony said a few people in the Kansas Athletics Department knew of the plans beforehand as well.
"It was so out of left field that Lew never suspected anything," he said.
The original plan was to surprise Perkins with the plans in his suite at the game, but when Perkins invited many of his former players to a brunch earlier in the day. Warrick decided to unveil the plans then.
Perkins said they succeeded in keeping the secret from him.
"I was overwhelmed when they did it," he said. "I was totally caught off-guard."
Perkins said that he learned the ropes of college athletics during his time at USC-Aiken.
"Because of the size of the university, I did a lot of hands-on things," he said. "I taped ankles and my wife washed the clothes. I drove the school bus I learned a lot about it just because I had to do it all."
Warrick said that USC-Aken also has an endowed scholarship for athletes in Perkins' name. The university awarded him an honorary Doctor of Education degree in May 2005.
Kansan staff writer Kyle Carter can be contacted at kcarter@ kansan.com.
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Satellites planned statewide Remote voting possible for 2008
BY TYLER HARBERT
Even though the next general election is more than a year away, Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew is working hard to make sure voting in the future is as simple as possible.
"If the bill passes we would institute satellite voting in 2008," Shew said.
Shew was in Topeka last week pushing for statewide satellite voting, which allows registered voters to cast their ballots at places other than their designated precincts. The Kansas Legislature is considering a bill that would allow satellite voting in all counties.
Currently, only counties with populations of more than 250,000
"If they went home during an election they could have access from their counties."
in Kansas are permitted to institute satellite voting. Only two Kansas counties, Sedgwick and Johnson, currently qualify to use satellite voting. The new bill would allow each county to decide whether or not to implement satellite voting.
"It provides them another level of access to vote," Shew said. "If they went home during an election they could have access from their own counties."
JAMIE SHEW
Douglas County
Clerk
The bill
Shew, who is a proponent of paper-based balloting, said satellite voting wouldn't affect the county's use of paper ballots. Touch-screen voting technology would not be implemented, he said.
Even without buying new machines, Shew estimates satellite voting would cost the county between $6,000 and $7,000 for larger elections.
would permit voters to cast advance ballots at locations outside of the county courthouse, including places on and near campus.
He said satellite voting could also benefit new students who aren't familiar with their precincts or the county courthouse, and it could allow voting on Saturday.
Shew said advance satellite voting could help encourage student turnout.
Two KU students, Kelly Weddle, Topeka freshman, and Sarah Zimmerman, Lawrence freshman, both volunteered to help at the polls during the 2006 general election in the 10th Precinct, which falls predominately on campus and includes campus housing.
When voters came in on election day, the two students made sure the voters were in their correct precinct.
"I had people turn up in the wrong place who may have just given up," Weddle said. Still, Weddle said satellite voting might be more confusing than convenient.
"I think it would be harder to keep track of who already voted and who hadn't," she said.
Zimmerman said satellite voting might require fewer volunteer poll workers, but the process would be a
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