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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2011
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VOLUME 123 ISSUE 113
THE BUFFS STOP HERE
COLORADO TWOSOME WILL MAKE LIFE DIFFICULT
Check out page 7A for a game day preview
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CU guards Higgins and Burks could light up the scoreboard
BY TIM DWYER
tdwyer@kansan.com
twitter.com/UDKbasketball
Part one of the fairy tale won't happen.
The Jayhawks wanted, badly, to take down both teams who beat them in the regular season. They had a chance for the dream script to play out when the bracket was released, with potential meetings with Kansas State and Texas slated for the semis and finals, respectively.
But Kansas State didn't hold up its end of the bargain, falling for the third time this season to Colorado, this time by a count of 87-75, and setting up a far less anticlimactic rematch between the Buffalooes and the Jahwhaws.
"I think our guys will look forward
Sophomore guard Elijah Johnson chases down Cory Higgins of Colorado in the first half on Feb. 19. The Jayhawks play Colorado again today at 6 p.m.
to that game just like their guys will," Self said before the Kansas State loss. "I think it could be a fun deal. They have a tough game to play first."
The Wildcats, though, maybe looked ahead too soon, and the Buffaloes took advantage. So the Jayhawks will have to adjust, get over the disappointment of not getting a shot at their rival, and focus on shutting down the potent Colorado offense.
The Buffaloes are led by two of the Big 12's top eight scorers in Alec Burks, who finished with 24 points, and Cory Higgins, who led all scorers with 28 points in the victory against Kansas State.
Burks, who went to high school less than 30 miles away from the
SEE BASKETBALL ON PAGE 3A
STUDENT SENATE
Proposed budget cuts anger students, ignites petitions
NCAA brackets announced on ESPN on Sunday at 6 p.m.
BY ALEX GARRISON agarrison@kansan.com
The Student Senate finance committee proposed cutting all funding from the required campus fees to four community health services - the Douglas County AIDS Project,
Headquarters, GaDuGi SafeCenter and Willow Domestic Violence Center — on Tuesday.
By Thursday, dozens of students had expressed their disapproval of the measure.
Matthew Blankers, a graduate student in social work from Clearmont,
Calif., and a former senator, printed and distributed 250 fliers promoting students to contact senators. The budget would remove all funding from the Willow Center starting next year and all funding for the
SEE FUNDING ON PAGE 3A
Proposed reallocation of student fees
ARGUMENTS IN BRIEF:
Wants to cut all funding for the Douglas County AIDS Project, Headquarters, GaDuGi SafeCenter and Willow Domestic Violence Center from the student activity fee by fiscal year 2012; funding for these services is currently $2.11 of $11.41 (18 percent of total).
Student Senate finance committee:
- They say they don't want these services to lose funding but believe they should not be funded through the Student Senate activity fund
- Plan to set up a taskforce to find ways to fund these services outside the activity fee
  Sources: David Cohen, treasurer; Aaron Döllinger, chief of staff
- The Douglas County AIDS Project, Headquarters, GaDuGi SafeCenter and Willow Domestic Violence
- Funding cuts are coming from federal and state levels—even if student contributions are relatively small, every little bit helps, especially in preparation for Gov. Brownback's proposed budget, which cuts state funding to community mental health centers completely
- Wants funding to remain at $2.11 per student, per semester
in, executive director of the Willow Center; Olivia Burchett, outreach coordinator of DCAP
CAMPUS
Student-made weather balloon to be launched in April for research
BY IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
Weather permitting, the balloon will lift off from one of several possible launch sites on public land around the city. As the balloon rises, the camera will take hundreds of pictures of Lawrence and Douglas County. The students will use the balloon's flight data for several research projects on remote sensing, mapping, image processing and the effects of high-alitude on photography. Because the mission depends on obtaining good photographs,
Take a look at the sky on April 8 and you just might see a balloon flying over Lawrence. They call it Project GeoHawk, an assignment in Geography 726, Remote Sensing II.
A team of 18 geography students is preparing to build and launch a weather balloon 20 miles into the sky.
"The cameras worked great," said Kelly Miller, a senior from Waterloo, Ill. "If we can get that quality from the flight it will be amazing."
some team members boarded an airplane on Thursday for a test flight, removing one of the aircraft's windows to experiment with a variety of camera settings and lenses.
"We have no idea where it's going to land," he said. "It could land 300 miles downwind or in
The balloon will expand in response to the decreasing air pressure as it rises, and the team expects it to pop at about 100,000 feet.
The self-destruction of the balloon will release the parachute, as it returns to earth. GeoHawk team member Ryan Callihan, a graduate student from Lenexa, said the team would track the vehicle's entire flight, but could not predict the landing exactly.
Miller said that the vehicle, along with its data, could be destroyed if it lands in Clinton Lake or on Interstate 70. She said Olympus, the camera manufacturer that lent the students two Flagship E-5 cameras, also accepts that possibility and had been promised copyright of any images taken with their equipment.
The entire apparatus will be about 23 feet long, with the balloon measuring four feet wide and six feet tall, pulling a tail strung with a parachute, radar reflectors and two boxes of electronic equipment. The equipment, which includes GPS trackers, will measure internal and external temperatures, air pressure and the orientation of the contraption. A camera will dangle from the end, pointed downward,
SEE GEOHAWKS ON PAGE 3A
Group hopes to end use of fake IDs in Lawrence
Kansas City."
ALCOHOL | 3A
The New Traditions Coalition works to promote awareness of alcoholism through new initiatives to stop underage drinking.
TECHNOLOGY 3A
The future of cars is here
A guest speaker discusses the prospects of new electric cars.
INDEX
Classifieds. 11A
Crossword. 4A
Cryptoquips. 4A
Opinion. 5A
Sports. 12A
Sudoku. 4A
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