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Victoria Moran, author and life transformation specialist, will speak to the greek community tonight about the importance of individuality and self confidence. The program sponsored by the Panhellenic and Interfraternity Councils is at 7 tonight in the Kansas Union at the Ballroom. PAGE 3A
Pot-based drug in Europe
A pain-killer, Sativex, will be on pharmacy shelves overseas in a matter of months. The drug can benefit multiple sclerosis patients without that "high" feeling, but don't look for it in the United States anytime soon. PAGE 5A
'Hawks on road again
Tonight's men's basketball game against
Oklahoma State is a homecoming for three Jayhawks. The Jayhawks will face the Cowboys in Stillwater, Okla. PAGE 12A
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The Kansas women's basketball team lost another road game 59-48 Saturday on a late run by the Nebraska Cornhuskers. The team was without freshman forward and teamleading rebounder Lauren Ervin, who served a one-game suspension. PAGE 8A
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KANSAN
IN ITS 100TH YEAR AS THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol.114 Issue No.88
Coalition names candidates
Steve Munch, Jeff Dunlap of KUnited will attempt to defeat Delta Force in this spring's Student Senate election
By Andy Marso
amarso@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Steve Munch still has a few years left at the University of Kansas, but he is already shooting for the campus's top political position. The Bellevue, Neb., sophomore is running for student body president this year with the KUnited coalition.
The position has traditionally been dominated by seniors, but Munch isn't intimidated.
In other positions I've found that age hasn't really meant as much as experience," Munch said. "I do have the experience. I've been in Senate two years, I've seen the full spectrum of what it's about."
Munch and his running mate,
Leawood junior Jeff Dunlap, won their
coalition's nomination in November, beating out a handful of other hopefuls. They had the first meeting to kick off their campaign last night.
Though Munch said he was definitely the presidential candidate, he expected plenty of help from Dunlap.
"We're approaching this as a partnership," Munch said. "Together we're a good team. It's not like Jeff is my subordinate, we're on the same level."
Munch and Dunlap are freshman and sophomore College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senators and have both been involved in Senate since their freshman years.
Munch is currently vice chairman of
Munch
the campus safety advisory board and also works outside Senate in the Office of New Student Orientation and the Department of Student Housing. Dunlap is chairman of the Senate transportation committee and vice chairman of the Finance Committee, as well as on the parking commission.
While both of them have developed extensive resumes, Munch said that wasn't necessarily a priority for them in choosing Senate candidates for their campaign.
"We're not looking for people with resumes, we're looking for people with plans." Munch said.
Munch and Dunlap said it would take time to develop realistic platform ideas because they wanted to live up to the standards set by past KUnited campaigns.
"KUnited has always been about relevance and following through on commitments," Dunlap said. "A lot of research will be involved so we come up with feasible, positive ideas."
Munch said he learned from last year's KUnited campaign and current student body president Andy Knopp, who ran with the coalition.
"I've always had a lot of respect for Andy," Munch said. "He's just a very easy-to-work-with guy."
Dunlap said he and the other KUnited members thought Munch could be as successful as Knopp.
"What impressed us with Steve is that he had a vision," Dunlap said. "He thinks long-term, and he knows how to get things done."
— Edited by Louise Stauffer
Annie Bernethy/Kansan
Jon and Katie Davis played with their 11-week-old daughter, Paige, Wednesday afternoon. Katie, Jon and Paige live in Templin Hall.
Oh,Baby!
By Azita Tafreshii
atafreshi@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
At only 11 weeks old, Paige is Templin's youngest resident. She lives in a second-floor apartment with her parents: Jon, assistant complex director for Templin, and Katie, desk manager for Templin and Lewis Hall.
Paige Davis loves to hang out at the front desk of Templin Hall. She's friends with all the "deskies" and gets a kick out of people-watching as her fellow residents walk by. She just hasn't learned how to tell them why — yet.
As the assistant complex director, not
Graduate students enjoy Templin and so does their infant daughter
only are Jon and his wife allowed to live as a married couple with their daughter in a residence hall, but they also get free room and board. Katie said that although they sometimes got teased for being married graduate students who still live in a residence hall, the arrangement had been practical for them.
"It was kind of a sacrifice as a newly married couple, but it's given us the opportunity to build up our savings for a house," Katie said. "We look at that as our motivator."
Jon, Newton graduate student, and Katie, Merriam graduate student, have lived in the residence halls since they were freshmen, although not always
together. The couple met at an Association of University Residence Hall's leadership conference and started dating after Katie moved onto Jon's floor in Ellsworth Hall in spring 1999. That summer, they were housing interns at GSP-Corbin Hall, and they've been involved with each other and the Department of Student Housing ever since.
After living on the same floor in Lewis for a year, they became resident assistants, Jon at Ellsworth and Katie at Hashinger Hall.
Proposal may change meter policy
By Misty Huber
editor@kansan.com
editor of the Kansan
Kyle Johnson, engineering senator and student representative on the parking commission, will propose a change to the policy that requires paying for parking meters 24 hours a day.
University of Kansas students, faculty staff and visitors may soon be able to park at meters on campus for free after 5 p.m.
These meters are the short-term meters in front of buildings.
Johnson said he thought meters should be free after 5 p.m. because most campus parking is free at that time.
Allen Ford, parking commission chairman, said he had not heard complaints about the current policy but said the commission was always looking for ways to improve parking. He said the commission was likely to vote on the proposal at its next meeting on Feb.17.
"Id observed that this was a problem, and I've had to pay a lot of parking tickets myself," Johnson said.
Johnson said the commission discussed the proposal at a meeting Jan. 27 and it was generally well-received.
Samantha Horner, Leawood junior, said she estimated that she received 10 parking tickets at meters at Corbin Hall her freshman year, several after 9 p.m.
"That year, there was a complete lack of parking, and if you got there after 7 p.m. you were out of luck," Horner said.
Ashley Huggins, Olathe sophomore, also said she would support the reform. She received a ticket at Watkins Memorial Health Center. She paid the meter, but her physical therapy appointment lasted longer than scheduled and her meter expired.
Johnson said if the reform passes it would take effect this August.
— Edited by Ashley Arnold
Dole Institute celebrates life of Lincoln
By Rupal Gor
rgor@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A program director said he hoped a five-day event will not only celebrate former President Abraham Lincoln's impact on history, but will bring more visitors especially students — into the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
The University of Kansas is hosting Lincoln Week to honor the former president and as part of a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Kansas Territory.
The series began at 7 last night and will continue through Thursday, Lincoln's birthday.
Award-winning scholars will speak about different aspects of Lincoln at the institute, located west of the Lied Center.
Jonathan Earle, associate director of programming at the institute and associate professor of history, said he wanted to get more of the University community involved at the institute through the Lincoln Week speeches.
"I think now with more people thinking of presidency and leadership, one won't be able to avoid thinking about Lincoln's past as to what we are dealing with now," Barle said.
The more knowledge people have of the past, the more they can understand the future, said Douglas Wilson, director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. He is the author of Honor's Voice, a book about Lincoln's life before he became president.
Wilson began the series last night when he spoke about Lincoln before he became a national figure.
LINCOLN WEEK EVENTS
■ Tonight: Allen Guelzo, Grace F. Kea professor of American history at Eastern University in St. David's, Pa. He was co-winner of the 2001 Lincoln Prize for his biography, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President.
**Tomorrow:** Phil Paludan, the Naimil B. Lynn distinguished chairman of Lincoln studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Paludan wrote Victims: A True Story of the Civil War, A People's Contest: The Union and Civil War and the winner of the 1995 Lincoln Prize The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Paludan
He said that although Lincoln was one of the most well-known figures in history, scholars were still finding new and important information about
also taught for many years in the history department at KU.
Wednesday; Jean Baker, professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, will lead a lecture on Mary Todd Lincoln. She is the author of Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography.
Thursday: James McPherson, professor of history at Princeton University, will lead the lecture at the Kansas Union Ballroom. McPherson won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, Battle Dry of Fraedom: The Civil War Era. He won the Lincoln Prize for his book For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War.
Lincoln.
SEE LINCOLN ON PAGE 6A
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