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Plugged-in technology Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, spoke on Friday about the importance of communications technology on issues such as telemedicine. PAGE 3A
Student leaders The Blueprints Leadership Conference will bring local and regional leaders to the University to speak to KU students Saturday. The annual conference provides students with to network with other student leaders. Applications for the conference are due today. PAGE 3A
Big finale for Sex Across Lawrence, people watched the series finale of Sex and the City with a few shedding tears into their cosmopolitians. PAGE 8A
Texas test
After slipping past the Cyclones in overtime at Allen Fieldhouse Saturday, the men's basketball team will face the No. 12 Texas Longhorns tonight in Austin, Texas. PAGE 1B
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losing streak in its home opener against Creighton yesterday. The Jayhawks play the Bluejays again today at 3 p.m.PAGE1B
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KANSAN
February 23, 2004 IN ITS 100TH YEAR AS THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol.114 Issue No.9
By Azita Tafreshi
atafreshi@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Parking commission may offer reduced rate for Lied Center parking
Students may be able to circle the parking lots on Daisy Hill one less time to find a place to park next fall.
Lot surplus may decrease
The parking commission has endorsed a proposal enabling the parking department to offer 300 Lied Center only permits to Daisy Hill residents. The permits will be sold for $50 rather than the full price of $85, if the Provost also endorses the proposal, said Donna Hultine, director of the parking department.
tor of the parking department Kristan Seibel, Association of University Residence Halls student senator, said she submitted the proposal to
Proposed Daisy Hill permit options
Lied Center Daisy Hill
Permits offered 300 unlimited
Spots available 1,100 1,166
Price of permit $50 $85
Source: Parking department
A parking proposal for next fall would allow Daisy Hill residents to buy a cheaper permit to park in the Lied Center lot. This semester, cars are forced to park in the Center's lot but are paying the same price.
the parking department in November after hearing complaints from students who were forced to park at the Center despite paying full price for a parking permit near their residence halls.
permit near their residence. "I figured that since students were parking there anyway, it makes sense to give them a reduced rate." Seibel said.
The Topeka sophomore said that this permit would be an ideal option for students who infrequently use their cars and for upperclassmen who were familiar with the parking situation on the Hill and had to park at the Center regularly.
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"I don't know that many people that
and had to patr Brett Jentz, Platteville, Wis., sophomore, said he would be interested in buying the new permit if it became available. Jentz lives in Ellsworth Hall but said he had to park at the Lied Center every night.
A $35 discount isn't enough to persuade Holly Wittenbach, Topeka freshman, to give up parking near her residence hall. 'She lives in McCollum and said she has never had to park at the Center.
"I don't get off work until midnight, and there's not even a chance that I can park in Ellsworth or even Hash," Jentz said. "So I might as well not spend as much money."
SEE DAISY HILL ON PAGE 5A
Convention shows need to network
By Jodie Krafft
jkrafft@kansan.com
kansan staff writer
While teams from the Big 12 Conference were battling on basketball courts Saturday, members of the Big 12 council on black student government were working together to bridge a communication gap in the conference rooms.
During the three-day convention in Manhattan, the Big 12 council passed a bill that will increase communication between Big 12 and non-Big 12 schools. Called State, Caucus System of Inclusion, the bill allows state senators from non-Big 12 schools to work with state liaisons from the Big 12 council.
The purpose of the bill was to unify and increase communication among all schools. It was something that had never been done in the history of the Big 12 council, said Asia Diggs, former vice president of the council from the University of Texas.
"We're extending out our hand to all schools because no matter what school it is, they're all facing the same issues," Diggs said.
The Kansas City, Kan., senior said the response to his announcement of the bill at the convention was positive.
Rose Nduati, president of the Black Student Union at Fort Hays State University, said that the communication between the Big 12 and non-Big 12 schools could be better. Nduati said this year was her fourth year attending the convention, and the larger schools often took precedence over smaller schools.
"we're basically invisible when we come here," Nduati said.
Mark Dupree, former president of the council, said non-Big 12 schools saw the need for a better system of networking and communication, but they had to wait until Big 12 schools realized the same thing.
Dupree said Robert Page Jr., director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, helped formulate the specifics of the bill. From there, Dupree worked with Diggs and Kriston Guillot, newly elected president of the council, to write it.
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Dupree said he had the idea and vision of the bill, but other KU students and staff contributed to the process.
"The whole room was so excited, and everyone cheered for a few minutes," Dupree said.
Guillot, Shawnee sophomore, said he will have an easy transition to the presidency because he and Dupree are from the same school. And because Guillot helped write the bill, he said he already had ideas of how to make the bill work.
of how to make the decision.
In addition to Guillot, Trey Allen, Wichita sophomore, and Renita Norman, Topeka junior, serve on the council. Dupree also said that three of the last four council presidents have been from the University.
"I think it represents the campus very well," Dupree said. "It tells the University that you have the cream of the crop here."
Indrea Stoneback, lawrence sophomore, practiced lifts in her coach's garage Friday afternoon. Stoneback lifted 104 pounds, which nearly equalled her body weight. She was preparing for September's Junior Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. Stoneback is the No.9 junior lifter in the United States across all weight classes.
Exceptionally strong
105-pound, nationally ranked weightlifter hopes to compete in Olympics
By Samia Khan
skhan@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
In a dimly lit garage, 105-pound Andrea Stoneback is about to perform what her coach calls one of the fastest and most difficult movements in the sports world.
With a deep exhale, a small grunt and a twisted grimace, Stoneback bends over and lifts 103 pounds off the ground and locks her arms above her head in one quick motion.
She has just performed the snatch, one of two Olympic-style weightlifting moves.
She moves on the other Olympic-style move, the clean and jerk. With the same exhale, grunt and expression, she lifts a heavier bar to her shoulders (the clean), lunges forward and locks her arms in the air (the jerk).
Stoneback, Lawrence sophomore took first place in her weight class Feb. 13, at the USA Junior National weightlifting competitions. There she lifted more combined weight in the clean and jerk and the snatch than she ever has: 266 pounds.
She is ranked ninth in the nation in junior weightlifting across all weight classes and first in her weight class.
Although she said she probably won't make the Junior World Championships, she is in a good position to compete in the Junior PanAm competition in Santiago, Chile, this summer.
It took her six months to decide to begin training with her coach, Loren McVey. Her parents, Bill and Jill Stoneback, said they had to convince her to do it.
Stoneback was powerlifting in high school when she heard about Olympic style weightlifting. She said at first she didn't know anything about it.
SEE WEIGHTLIFTER ON PAGE 8A
Drivers sink cash into repairs
Street maintenance crews, auto shops busy repairing damage
By Steve Vockrodt
svockrott@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Though the snow has melted and the weather has warmed up, students still have a reason to curse the recent cold-weather spell. Thanks to the cold and precipitation, Lawrence streets are left with an unusually high number of pot holes.
holes. Vishal Patel, Shawnee senior, finds himself dodging potholes that pepper Lawrence streets. A road he thinks particularly dangerous is Arkansas Street behind Naismith Hall that he uses to drive to the Student Fitness Recreation Center.
"That road is absolutely horrendous," Patel said. "You have to go one mile an
SEE POTHOLES ON PAGE 5A
A pickup narrowly missed a pothole at 25th and Iowa streets. The pothole was more than 2 feet wide and about 4 inches deep.
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