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Come to Carnaval The Brazilian Student Association's biggest party of the year, Carnaval, is tomorrow night at Abe & Jake's Landing, 8 E. Sixth St. Scheduling conflicts caused the group to throw the Fat Tuesday celebration after the start of Lent. PAGE 3A
Pay raises unresolved
Big 12 brawl
Despite the Senate Committee's attempt last week to revoke pay raises to unclassified staff, a meeting between University faculty and Kansas legislators stayed civil. PAGE 3A
Kansas will look for a third victory against Missouri tonight in
Dallas in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament. The game is similar in many regards to what the Jayhawks faced in the postseason last year. PAGE 1B
Have no fear
Goalies are often the last line of defense for a team, and their job is unlike any other in a game. It takes a special person with a love for the game to play the position. PAGE 1B
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KANSAN
March 12, 2004 IN ITS 100TH YEAR AS THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol.114 Issue No.111
Vol.114 Issue No.112
Festival tickets on sale today
Fifty-band concert could bring thousands to city, organizers say
By Dave Nobles
dnobles@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Portajohns, sweaty, shirtless dancers rows of vendors — sounds like your typical summer concert.
But the Wakaraus Music and Camping Festival is anything but typical.
Tickets will go on sale today for the festival, which is in its first year and will be held at Clinton Lake State Park.
More than 50 bands are scheduled to play at the event, which will take place June 18 to 20. Organizers expect as many as 30,000 people to descend on Lawrence from throughout the country.
Today, early-bird tickets go on sale for $65
The first round of tickets will be available in limited quantities. The second round of tickets goes on sale April 30 and costs $75. Regular tickets after the second round run $95 and procrastinators will have to pay $105 after June 1.
There also will be early-bird specials for moving onto the site on June 17.
Festival co-organizer Brett Mosiman said fans from coast to coast were talking about the festival on the Internet and that he expected as many as 20,000 people from outside of the area.
"It's a situation where people need to get their tickets early or wait until next year." Mosiman said.
The festival is still in its developmental stages, with more bands signing on to perform each week. Mosiman said
"We will definitely be adding more bands." Mosiman said.
The array of acts will play on three separate stages at the festival. A fourth stage is a possibility.
Some other options the organizers have considered for the festival visitors include a tent featuring electronic music and DJs, a movie tent and shuttles to the Massachusetts Street area.
These options would add to a variety of activities fans will be able to take part in at the festival.
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First Lieutenant Robert Chamberlain, 2002 graduate, spoke with a group of ROTC cadets yesterday near training grounds on West Campus. Chamberlain, who returned from service in Iraq six weeks ago, related his experiences with the training the cadets are currently in." I got to see where the rubber meets the road, so to speak," Chamberlain said about taking up duty in Iraq almost immediately after he graduated from the University of Kansas.
Veteran speaks to cadets
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By Andy Marso
amarso@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The camouflaged Army ROTC cadets emerged from the woods, their rifles still in hand from the training session they'd just finished.
Each of them fell to one knee and leaned forward, completely silent, and all eyes focused on Robert Chamberlain as
he explained how the same training they had just completed on the University of Kansas' West Campus had helped him this year in Iraq.
"I've seen what the soldiers you'll lead are capable of and I know what you're capable of." Chamberlain told them. "You guys will be the lieutenants when I'm a captain and you'll get to lead the same soldiers I worked with. You're going to do a great job and I can't tell you how proud I am."
Chamberlain is a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He's also a Rhodes Scholar who graduated from the University with a degree in political science in 2002 and postponed studying at Oxford University to serve in Iraq for nine months.
Chamberlain, a Topeka native, flew into Kuwait on April 30. The next day, May 1, President Bush announced the
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A changed New York was too much after attacks for University student
Coming home post-Sept.11
By Samia Khan
skhan@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Every face in the crowd and every name in the phone book has a story behind it. Every week, Kansan staff writer Samia Khan tells the story of a randomly selected University of Kansas student.
Castle, Oberlin senior,
wanted to move to a bigger
city and try acting school.
His mother, Pam
Simonsson, was nervous
sending her son to a big
When Travis Castle was 19, he left his family farm — once home to the only yak in Kansas — to move to New York City.
Four years later, on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Castle woke up in his Brooklyn apartment knowing as little about what was going on as his friends waked up in Kansas.
"I looked out my window and thought it was just a fire." Castle said.
"It was scary," she said. "I said a lot of pravers."
city where he didn't know anyone.
Castle got dressed and walked to the
Castle said he didn't want to just stay at home, so he decided to try to get to his job at Starbucks Coffee. He managed to get to Manhattan on one of the last subway trains to run. But the Starbucks was already closed when he arrived because it was so close to the towers.
subway station, preparing for a day of work at a Manhattan Starbucks. When he got to the station, he looked up and saw the second plane hit the World Trade Center tower.
Although Starbucks was closed for business, Castle said he and his co-workers remained in the store to help with what they could in the city. For the next five days, Castle and the rest of the Starbucks staff brewed coffee for the rescue workers. All day and all night, they delivered coffee and water to Red
Cross workers and the doctors at the hospital across the street.
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"I don't think I slept." Castle said.
St. Vincent's Hospital was the nearest and most accessible medical center to ground zero. After the attacks, the hospital did not receive a heavy influx of injuries as expected. Castle said right after the attacks the majority of the people in the towers either came out safely or didn't make it out at all.
"It was hard to cope with seeing all
Travis Castle, Oberlin senior, returned to Kansas after four years in New York City. Castle worked with co-employees at a Manhattan Starbucks to provide rescue teams with coffee and water in the days following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
these doctors ready to help, but not able to do anything because nobody made it out," Castle said.
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Caucus to decide county's delegates
By Patrick Cady
pcady@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The caucus brings together the ranks of the Douglas County Democrats. It is the Kansas Democratic Party's first step in choosing delegates to attend the Democratic National Convention in July.
Tomorrow the Kansas Caucus will begin. Whether it will have an effect on the presidential election depends on who you talk to.
Counties throughout Kansas will hold their conventions tomorrow. Each county's chosen delegates will then attend a district convention in April, where delegates will be chosen to attend July's national convention. At the national convention the chosen delegates will vote for a specific presidential candidate to represent the Democratic Party in November's general election.
The caucus is vital, said Marilyn Greathouse, leader of the Douglas County Democrats and a receptionist at the department of engineering administration. It is a time for the Democrats to hash out differences and ultimately unite.
"I think it's seeing our democracy at work." Greathouse said.
But to some the event might appear as an exercise in futility, at least as far as the presidential nomination process goes.
A few weeks ago, the KU Young Democrats planned to have a mock caucus on Wescoe Beach to promote the gathering. But that was when the race for the nomination was very unclear, said Tom Keating, Marysville junior and president of the Young Democrats.
But the group's enthusiasm for the caucus was depleted after Kerry locked up the presidential bid, Keating said. And because Kansas sends only 41 delegates to the national convention — compared to Missouri's 87 or California's 441 — it was hard to believe the Kansas caucus would make a difference, Keating said.
Earlier this week, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts gained the number of national delegates needed to attain the presidential nomination.
"We kind of get the message we don't matter." Keating said.
Mark Simpson, special assistant to the Chairman of the Kansas Democratic Party, said participation in the caucus was valuable to all, especially youth.
"I think it is important for student Democrats to unite with the rest of the Kansas Democrats to make their voice heard." Simpson said.
That is exactly why Madelaine Marchin, Manhattan senior, will attend the caucus, she said.
"I think most people aren't interested
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