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47 29
saturday
55 36
business
4A
3A
mens basketball
pollution
4A
gambling
The Sierra Club
has fled a lawsuit
against the state
of Kansas, alleging
the state did not
research coal
alternatives.
Gov. Kathleen
Sebelius signed a
law Wednesday
to allow
casino
gambling
at several
locations
around
the state. One is in
Kansas City,
Kan.
Pier 1 Imports is
keeping its doors
open after
announcing last
month that it would
be closing.
ONE LAST CHANCE TO CAST A VOTE
delta Force accused of violations
student senate elections
By AshlEE KiElEr
With student senate elections
underway, hostility between the
united students and delta Force
coalitions continues to grow.
united students filed an elec-
tions code violation complaint
on Wednesday morning against
delta Force for using mass e-mails
to remind students to vote. The
elections commission will hear the
complaint Monday evening, along
with a previous defamation com-
plaint against united states by delta
Force.
The election code in question
regulates token, which is any non-
paper campaign material distributed
to individuals, including e-mails.
The interpretation of the rule
states that campaign e-mails must
be addressed to students individual
addresses. e-mails sent on distribu-
tion lists, where individual addresses
are not typed but a list server is used,
is in violation of the code.
The complaint filed claims that
delta Force used a Microsoft excel
spreadsheet to create a mass mailing
list of student e-mails.
studie Red corn, shawnee junior
and delta Force member, said a
list of e-mails was created but that
addresses were entered individually.
The code says an e-mail cant be
sent out over a Listserv, we had peo-
ple working hard to insert every e-
mail address so its within the code,
United Students claims coalition used illegal campaigning
student senate elections
see violations on page 5a
Marla Keown/Kansan pHotos
Brian smith, oklahoma City sophomore, votes outside of Wescoe Hall for the Student Senate elections. I think its important that we exercise our
right to vote. Everybody should vote,Smith said. Students can vote in elections until 4 this afternoon by going online to www.ku.edu.
at left, Hannah Love, United students presidential candidate, hands out fiers to students passing by Wescoe Beach on Wednesday. at right, Van-
essa Copple, salt Lake City freshman, talks to a student in front of Budig Hall. Copple is running for a freshman-sophomore CLAS seat with Delta Force.
environment
underexposed
in news media
speaKer
Kennedy says changes must be made
By TylEr hArBErT
Robert Kennedy Jr. stood at the
podium, flashed a handed-down
smile and explained why hes
fought for environmental changes
for two decades.
i dont want my kids to grow up
in a world where there are no fam-
ily farms in Kansas, he said.
Kennedy, a senior attorney for
the natural Resources defense
council, gave his crimes against
nature, speech at the Lied center
on Wednesday night. Kennedy is
also a best-selling author of three
books including, crimes Against
nature, and The Riverkeepers.
he said the key methods for
encouraging environmentalism in
a broken democracy, are reform-
ing campaign finance rules and
reforming the media so that they
actually inform the public rather
than sway and harm it.
Before his lecture, Kennedy said
he had been interviewed by the
KJhK radio station and asked why
dangerous dog
debate continues
Pit bulls victims of stereotypes, fanciers say
city ordinance
By EricK r. schmidT
its been two weeks since sean
Oneals 10-month old dog, dice,
was shot by a Lawrence police offi-
cer.
his leg amputated as a result of
the damage done, dice now lin-
gers a bit behind Oneals other
dogs, B.J. and Blackjack when the
three play inside the fence. Besides
a four-inch scar where the leg
used to be, Oneal said his pet
has remained the same dog it was
before the incident.
same old dog, Oneal said of
his dalmation-boxer-pit bull mix.
You stand over there and see him
from the side, you wouldnt ever
know anything happened.
According to the police report,
what happened on March 28 out-
side Oneals north Lawrence home
was a response to two dogs running
loose. One of the dogs was dice,
and the other was neighbor Kathy
awareness
Crop artist to create stamp replica
By dAnAE dEshAzEr
A Ku professor and Lawrence
crop artist are working together
to create a half-acre replica of a
southern dogface butterfly stamp,
to catch the publics eye about the
increasing loss of habitat for pollina-
tors around the world.
Purple petunias, yellow mari-
golds, and other flowers, greenery,
and mulch will be used in the design
to replicate one of the four stamps the
u.s. postal service will issue for the
first ever national Pollinator Week,
June 24 to 30. national Pollinator
Week was issued by the u.s. senate
with collaboration with The north
American Pollinator Protection
campaign and The coevolution
institute.
We need to create some sort of
image that will help us get the mes-
sage out to the public that pollina-
tors are important and we have to
recognize their value, chip Taylor,
professor of ecology and evolution-
ary biology, said.
Taylor is working with stan herd,
Lawrence crop artist, to create the
image.
Birds, beetles, bats, flies, butter-
flies, bees, and thousands of species
are called pollinators. These species
are responsible for the reproduc-
tion of plants and flowers by the
transfer of pollen. About 80 percent
of vegetation on the planet requires
pollination to exist.
six thousand acres of farms,
ranches and undeveloped forest land
is being converted to shopping malls
and housing developments each day,
said Taylor.
That results in 2.2 million acres
a year.
You cant have your cake and eat
it too, Taylor said. if you want to
get the services from these organ-
isms, then were going to have to
provide the support for them.
herd, Lawrence crop artist, said
he would start growing his favorite
vegetable, squash, to be used in the
ContRIBUted pHoto
the southern dogface butterfy stamp is one
of four stamps createdfor National PollinatorWeek.
amanda sellers/Kansan
Lawrence resident sean oneal bends down to talk to his dog, Dice. Dice, a 10-month-old
Dalmation-Pit bull-Boxer mix, lost his leg when he was shot by a police ofcer two weeks ago.
see Crop art on page 5a see dogs on page 5a
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MARTINSVILLE, Va. As his
bride-to-bes house went up
in fames hours before their
wedding, Rocky Nelson got his
priorities in order.
Rescue his mother from the
blaze. And rescue his tuxedo.
Lisa Nelson laughed while re-
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tux like it was his baby.
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Fortunately, she had left her
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What do you think?
by jennifer mohwinkle
Whats your favorite building on campus? Why?
jessIca gonzalez
topeka sophomore
I like Budig the most because I like
space, and you dont feel trapped
in there.
alan martInez
lawrence senior
Staufer-Flint is my favorite just
because of the architecture and
the setting.
torI logan
olathe junior
I like Spahr Engineering Library
because I can get my homework
done easily because its quiet and I
know a lot of people there.
jon shallbetter
plymouth, minn., junior
Robinson because its got a pool
and basketball courts and I got Bs
and As in all of my classes there.
and KU seemed to ofer the most
for both of us. There are always
compromises.
Whats your favorIte
thIng to do outsIde of
the classroom? I love hiking,
particularly in the mountains, but
when I am around town I like to
run, walk the dog and baby, see
flms, and garden.
Where dId you attend
college? Reed College, Portland,
Oregon.
Whats your favorIte
thIng about laWrence? I
like the people in Lawrence who
are generally very friendly. I enjoy
running into to people I know
downtown.
Whats somethIng your
students dont knoW
about you? There is a lot my
students dont know about me. I
spent nine months in East Africa
during college, and I also spent
time in Mexico and South America.
If you had any other
career, What Would It be
and Why? I have a whole list of al-
ternative careers, but the diference
between fantasy and possibility is
wide here. I would love to be a jazz
singer or a cartoonist, but dont
have the skills for these. Sometimes
I think of a position that would
allow me to use my skills in a more
hands-on way medical transla-
tion or working for a non-govern-
mental organization.
Whats your favorIte
food? I love spicy food Thai
red curries, that kind of thing.
What Was the best class
you took In college? Several
of my literature classes come out
ahead here; probably the one on
allegory as we read works from dif-
ferent cultures with some theoreti-
cal texts to enlighten our readings.
If you could lIve any-
Where else Where Would
you lIve? I love the Pacifc North-
west, but right now, any of the
states that are less repressive for
gay people and gay rights: Massa-
chusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Vermont. There are states where
people have voted to embrace
diversity and equal rights for all of
their residents.
Edited by Mark Vierthaler
God is really only another
artist. He invented the girafe,
the elephant and the cat. He
has no real style. He just keeps
on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso
Girafes have the same
number of neck vertebrae as
humans seven but each
one can be more than 10 inches
long. A girafes 6-foot neck
weighs about 600 pounds.
Source: sandiegozoo.org
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Caitlin Janda, 8, plays with an umbrella during a soccer game between hutchinson high school and mcpherson high school, tuesday at the hutchinson
high athletic felds in hutchinson.
ready for rain
odd news
daily KU info
Max Paley will present the
lecture The Role of the U.S.
Embassy in Immigration from
Ecuador to the United Statesat
12 p.m. at room 318 in Bailey Hall.
The Gallery Conversations
lecture will be held at 12:15 p.m.
in the Spencer Museum of Art.
Free tea and treats will be
served at Tea Time at 3 p.m. at
the Union Lobby in the Kansas
Union.
The workshop Better Late
then Joblesswill be held at 3
p.m. at Room 149 in Burge Union.
Jim Butcher, author of The
Dresden Files,will hold a book
signing at 4 p.m. at Oread Books
in Level 2 Kansas Union.
May Scheve and Brad Ketcher
will present the seminar You Be
the Governor: Making Decisions
in the Fast Lane Policy vs.
Politicsat 4 p.m. in the Robert J.
Dole Institute of Politics.
The play Keely and Duby
Jane Martin will be performed at
7:30 p.m. at William Inge Memo-
rial Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Former Vice President Walter
Mondale will present An Evening
with former Vice President Walter
Mondaleat 7:30 p.m. in the Dole
Institute.
The flm Charlottes Webwill
be shown at 8 p.m. at Woodruf
Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Tickets are $2 or free with an SUA
Card.
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stories from Kansan.com.
1. Only one award given at
annual banquet
2. Delta Force fles election
complaint
3. Letter to the Editor: State-
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4. Editorial: Campaign ideas
disappoint
5. Letter to the Editor: Hu-
man sufering cant be ignored
The deadline for dropping a
class is 5 p.m., April 19th, which
is one week from today. To drop
a class by that date, you need
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An article in Mondays Uni-
versity Daily Kansan needs clari-
fcation. The article, KU agrees
to raise GTA salaries, stated that
the University would increase
its minimum salary for GTAs
by $250. If approved by state
agencies, $250 will be added to
the Universitys proposed GTA
salary.
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*Refreshments will be served*
A pro-choice interfaith forum
The Odd Couple?
Reproductive Rights
and Spirituality
Where: The Kan-
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Kansas Union, KU
When: Tuesday,
April 17th at
7pm
This event is organized by Students for
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Freedom and ChoiceUSA. sfrrku@gmail.com
Reproductive
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Tax & Spend or Spend & Tax, and the
Future of Stem Cells
Join Gov. Holden and his guests
May Scheve, Missouri House
Budget Committee, and
Brad Ketcher, Carnahan Chief of
Staff and stem cell campaign manager
in Missouri.
4:00-5:30 p.m. tonight at the Dole
Institute of Politics, KUs West Campus
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Pier 1 Imports reverts decision to close
By Matt erickson
Two weeks ago banners outside
of Pier 1 Imports, 3211 Iowa St.,
announced that the store was clos-
ing. But now, a sign in the window
says Now accepting applications.
Earlier this year, the stores
employees heard from the Pier 1
corporate office that the store would
close on April 15. But at the begin-
ning of this month, the employees
heard a different message; the store
would remain open.
Now, after the store sold nearly
all its merchandise, and even many
of its shelves and light fixtures, and
many of its employees found new
jobs, the store must essentially start
anew.
Kristen Byington, Lawrence
senior, has worked at Pier 1 since
2003. She said the store would start
re-stocking on Friday.
Pretty much right now, the back
half of the store is completely empty,
she said. We do have some of the
shelves still up.
Byington, an assistant manager,
said all but three or four of the
stores employees had left or would
leave soon. She said that after she
heard the store would be closing, she
decided she wanted to use the sum-
mer to look for a full-time job after
graduating. Now she will leave Pier 1
at the end of the month.
She said both employees and cus-
tomers were surprised by the news
that the store would stay open.
Business has been pretty slow
because a lot of people thought that
we were closing, Byington said.
Hopefully, over time people will
realize that were staying open and
theyll come back in.
Whitney Rogers, Pier 1 public
relations coordinator, declined to
comment on the reasons for the
decision to keep the Lawrence store
open.
I can tell you Pier 1 continually
reviews new and existing store loca-
tions, to make sure were operating as
efficiently as possible, Rogers said.
Pier 1 hired a new CEO, Alex
Smith, earlier this year. According to
a release from the company, Pier 1s
sales last year fell by 8.6 percent from
the previous year, though sales dur-
ing the month of February rose 14.3
percent from the year earlier.
Byington said she had been told
the companys new CEO decided to
save some stores the company had
planned to close.
kansan staf writer Matt erickson
can be contacted at merickson@
kansan.com.
Edited by Jyl Unruh
Lisa Lipovac/KANSAN
Pier 1 Imports, 3211 Iowa St., advertised it would be going out of business this month. Later,
the corporate ofce decided to keep the Lawrence location open.
name:
Jarrod Morgen-
stern
coalition:
delta Force
seat: journalism
Hometown:
Overland park
year: junior
Major: journalism: strategic com-
munications
Favorite kU tradition or memory:
hawk Week during my freshman
year
Favorite Lawrence place: staufer-
Flint hall
Political role model: Franklin d.
roosevelt
Morgenstern
name: Kirsten
hoogstraten
coalition: united
students
seat: fne arts
Hometown: Kan-
sas City, Mo.
year: sophomore
Major: music education
playing the alma mater at the basket-
ball games with the mens basketball
band. the sound of thousands of fans
singing is indescribable.
Favorite Lawrence place: au
Marche
Political role model: Kathleen
sebelius
Hoogstraten
Te following profles ran incorrectly Wednesday
After liquidating
merchandise,
store opts to keep
its doors open
name:
scott toland
coalition:
independent
seat: Clas fresh-
man/sophomore
Hometown: iola
year: freshman
Major: journalism
Basketball games
Favorite Lawrence place: allen
Fieldhouse
Political role model: N/a
Toland
KeNNedy (continued from 1A)
he chose to pursue safeguarding
the environment.
This is an issue thats inter-
twined with everything we care
about, he said.
He was also critical of President
Bushs administration, saying that
in seven years the Bush adminis-
tration has been responsible for
a large number of environmental
problems.
This is the worst environmen-
tal White House weve had in all of
history, bar none, Kennedy said.
He said in 1988, President
Reagans administration abol-
ished the Fairness Doctrine which
required U.S. broadcasters to
report news of public importance,
devote time to all sides of political
opinion and promote local control
of news.
Because of that abolishment,
Kennedy said the U.S. public hasnt
received adequate information
about issues like global warming.
We know more about Kate and
Tom than we do global warming,
he said.
He said corporations that have
close ties to the government have
also snuffed out environmental
issues because the issues could
keep the companies from making
larger profits.
Polluters make themselves rich
by making others poor, he said.
David Burchfield, Shawnee
sophomore, asked Kennedy a ques-
tion at the end of the lecture about
a case Kennedy was involved with
in Ecuador.
The case would have guaranteed
an indigenous Ecuadorian tribe
royalties made from oil drilled on
their lands by the Conoco com-
pany.
The tribe asked for help from
the Natural Resources council, of
which Kennedy was an integral
part.
The case fell apart and some
authors blamed Kennedy for the
result.
Burchfield said when he pressed
Kennedy for a clearer understand-
ing of the issue, he didnt get it.
His explanation was entirely
too simple to explain something so
complex, Burchfield said.
He said he still enjoyed the
lecture but accused Kennedy of
changing his stance throughout the
speech.
The event was sponsored by
Student Union Activities.
kansan staf writer tyler Harbert
can be contacted at tharbert@
kansan.com.
BY JOHN HANNA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA Gov. Kathleen
Sebelius and other supporters of
expanded gambling are celebrat-
ing the prospects of Kansas even-
tually reaping $200 million a year
in revenues from legislation that
makes it the only state to own
resort casinos.
A new law that permits new
casinos in four areas and slot
machines at dog and horse tracks
in three cities, is expected to take
effect April 19, despite the threat
of a lawsuit from an Indian tribe
already operating a casino on its
reservation in northeast Kansas.
Sebelius signed the bill in four
communities that could become
home to state-owned casino-
and-hotel complexes designed to
attract out-of-state tourists. Her
tour started in Wichita and took
her to Dodge City, Kansas City
and Columbus.
The governors been working
on trying to get responsible gam-
ing passed in our state for several
years, said Sebelius spokeswoman
Nicole Corcoran. She is proud
that its here.
The casinos and slot machines
would be owned by the Kansas
Lottery, though the legislation
envisions the state hiring private
companies to manage the new
enterprises. While the state consti-
tution allows only a state-owned
and operated lottery, the Kansas
Supreme Court has said the term
lottery is broad enough to
include casino games.
Legally, the new casinos are
known as lottery gaming facili-
ties.
How many people on the
street really know what a lottery
gaming facility is? asked Glenn
Thompson, president of the anti-
gambling group Stand Up for
Kansas. Its an invitation for cor-
ruption.
Critics question whether the
state can delegate day-to-day
management decisions. The
Prairie Band Potawatomis chair-
woman already has said her tribe
will press that issue in court.
The Potawatomi and three
other tribes operate casinos
under compacts with the state,
though the state doesnt receive
a share of their profits. Two
other tribes, the Sac and Fox and
Kickapoo, want to compete for a
new Kansas City casino.
Eleven other states have non-
tribal casinos, but none owns
resort casinos, according to the
American Gaming Association.
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the Kansas Supreme Court to reas-
sure potential casino investors. She
said shes confident the new law will
withstand court scrutiny.
If youre asking investors to
come forward and make a minimum
$225 million investment, they need
to know that theyre on strong legal
grounds, so I think the faster we can
get a ruling from the Supreme Court,
the better off well be, Sebelius said
during a bill-signing ceremony at
The Woodlands dog track.
Morrison spokeswoman Ashley
Anstaett said the attorney general
was reviewing the law to assure a
prompt review of its constitutional-
ity.
BY JOE HuNT
The Sierra Club has raised global
warming concerns about a planned
1,400 megawatt coal power plant in
Holcomb.
The conservation society is suing
the state of Kansas for not allowing a
full hearing about the construction
of the plant.
Bruce Nilles, attorney with The
Sierra Club, said it wants a chance
to bring in experts to argue why
the plant should
not be built in
Holcomb, a town
in mid-western
Kansas.
The power
plant is set to
be built in two
phases next to
an existing 360
megawatt coal
power plant.
Each phase will
contain one coal
burning unit,
capable of generating 700 megawatts
of electricity. One phase of the plant
would generate enough electricity
to power more than 11.5 million 60
watt light bulbs. Construction for
the first phase will begin in early
2008, and construction for the sec-
ond phase will begin a year later.
Nilles said the large power plant
would set the U.S. back in regards to
environmental protection.
The largest source of global
warming in the U.S. is coal-burning
power plants, Nilles said. We need
to start cutting our pollution, not
increasing it.
But Steve Miller. senior manag-
er of external affairs at Sunflower
Energy, the company backing the
power plant, sees the issue as a mat-
ter of supply and demand.
Coal is the least expensive form
of electricity, Miller said. If we
make power so expensive people
on the lower end of the economic
spectrum cannot afford it, thats a
problem.
One of the ways Sunflower is
trying to appease environmental-
ists is by scaling back the size of
the plant, Miller said. The original
design called for three phases of
construction with three coal burning
units instead of two.
Miller said Sunflower also hopes
to make the plant carbon neutral,
meaning it would compensate for all
the carbon diox-
ide emissions it
produced using
a complex chain
of systems.
Algae would
be used to
recover carbon
dioxide from
the plant. Miller
said the system
would be the
first of its kind.
The energy
from the plant would go to seven
states. The first phase of the plant
would serve Texas, Oklahoma and
Kansas. The second phase would
serve Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska
and New Mexico.
Robin Pena, city administrator,
said that citizens in Holcomb would
see benefits from the power plant.
Holcomb could see a population
increase from the new plant due to
the new jobs it would create.
Pena said Sunflower Energy
would also contribute significantly
to the school district through prop-
erty taxes.
Kansan staf writer Joe Hunt can
be contacted at jhunt@kansan.
com.
Group says coal alternatives disregarded
The largest source of global
warming in the U.S. is coal-
burning power plants. We need
to start cutting our pollution.
Bruce Nilles
sierra club attorney
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Sebelius signs casino bill
Michael Schweitzer/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius shakes hands with Senate President Steve Morris after signing a bill allowing expanded gambling in four Kansas counties, while Senate Minority Leader Anthony
Hensley (D-Topeka) applauds Wednesday in Dodge City. The state of Kansas will receive 22 percent of the revenue fromthe newcasinos.
Governor
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By Brian lewis-jones
Robert Bindschadler knows
theres a problem with last Februarys
intergovernmental panel on climate
change report: The inability to pre-
dict the rise in sea level from climate
change in the next century.
Bindschadler, chief scien-
tist of NASAs Hydrospheric and
Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at
Goddard Space Flight Center, spoke
Wednesday at Spahr Auditorium at
the University of Kansas.
At his lecture, titled Ice Sheets
on the Edge: A Golden Age for
Glaciology, he said that understand-
ing ice sheets and rising sea level
were urgent to plan for the two bil-
lion people in the world who live on
coasts.
Weve got an issue that all of a
sudden is not just esoteric, he said.
Its something that policy makers
and the public really want to know
something about.
Bindschadler said the problem
with the latest Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change report,
released last February, was that
scientists havent found a way to
link rising sea levels with climate
changes.
There is currently no model
for accurately predicting sea level
increase from melting ice sheets,
Bindschadler said.He said a num-
ber of Greenland and Antarctic
ice observations surprised us and
caught us off guard.
Ice shelves typically hold land ice
in, but Bindschadler said when they
disintegrate into the sea, the flow
rate of glaciers that feed the shelves
increases by more than 500 percent.
This has also led scientists to think
sea level will be higher.
These are features that take tens
of thousands of years to form, he
said. The fact that they leave in a
few years, thats not something that
happens.
The lecture was hosted by the
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice
Sheets, which has its headquarters
at the University of Kansas. The
center is funded by a $19 million
grant from the National Science
Foundation and has partnered with
NASA since its beginning.
Prasad Gogineni, director of
CReSIS, said its important to under-
stand how and why ice sheets are
changing to help predict the sea level
increase.
Gogineni, who worked with
Bindschadler at NASA, contacted
him to be involved at the center.
He speaks very passionately
about what is happening to the
sheets, he said. Students have the
chance to make a very important
contribution to climate change.
Bindschadler said making the
issue of climate change more famil-
iar to the public was required to
understand it.
Even though a sea level change
wont affect Kansas, he said disin-
tegrating sea ice, the planets air
conditioner, will ultimately heat up
Earth.
Melting permafrost, which cov-
ers 20 percent of the Northern
Hemisphere, will release methane
and further warm the planet, he
said.
I think the public wants the
information, Bindschadler said.
Now, the message is finally getting
understood, that every individuals
actions affect the planet.
Kansan staf writer Brian lewis-
jones can be contacted at bl-
jones@kansan.com.
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Concern for coasts increases
Global WarminG
Link missing between climate changes, rising sea level
Coffeys labrador-hound mix, Sid.
When animal control officers were
unable to control the two dogs, they
called for police backup.
The report said a 10-year old boy
approached the area on his bike,
and when the officer felt the boy
and himself were being threatened
by Dice, he pointed his gun at the
dog.
The dog initially retreated, but
then again approached the two,
and the officer fired one shot. Dice
retreated to Coffeys front porch,
but Sid charged the officer and was
shot twice and killed on the scene.
Messages left with Lawrence
Animal Control were not returned.
While many cities includ-
ing Kansas City and Lees Summit,
Mo. are moving toward pit bull
bans, Lawrence currently abides by
a dangerous dog ordinance. The
ordinance, which was passed in
2003, can require owners to keep
their dogs in muzzles or in cages if
the dogs are cited for dangerous
behavior. None of the three dogs
at the scene had been reported as
dangerous before the incident.
Midge Grinstead, executive
director of the Lawrence Humane
Society, said the ordinance had been
successful in limiting the number
of dog bites in the county since its
inception. She said the ordinance
was a more well-rounded approach
to controlling a citys animals than
breed bans, which focus on single
breeds of dog.
The difference is, were not
waiting for someone to take care
of it, Grinstead said. Our job is
to protect the public, and were
doing it.
Grinstead said breed bans cast
an unfair opinion of certain dogs,
most often pit bulls. She said the
media played a role in portraying
the animals as vicious.
Theyre not any more aggres-
sive than a German shepherd or
a rat terrier. We should be track-
ing the owner, Grinstead said. If
something happens and its a pit
bull, its getting reported.
The police report referred
to Dice, Sid and Blackjack as pit
bulls. Sid was not a pit bull, and
Blackjack, the only purebred pit
bull, was inside the gate when offi-
cers responded.
Currently, the Lawrence Humane
Society has 31 animals catalogued
as dangerous, though some of
them have been removed from the
area or have been euthanized for
additional violations.
Coffey said no police or animal
control units had ever been called
to her residence, and that her dogs
had never been mentioned as dan-
gerous. She was troubled by the
polices response call being treated
as a pit bull attack, when neither
of the dogs involved was a pure
pit bull.
Pit bulls are a product of their
owners, Coffey said. Give them
the time and attention they need,
and they know when you care for
them or when you dont. Sid was
my puppy in a big dogs body. He
was my goofy dog.
Coffey and ONeal said
Lawrences current laws were doing
a fine job, and that neither dog had
previously been cited for any type of
violent behavior. What they wanted
to see, they said, were changes in
the way animals were identified
and treated.
Aggressive dog calls need to be
labeled as such, not pit bull attacks,
Coffey said. I think the LPD are
doing what theyve been trained to
do, which is fine. They just need
more training in breeds so they
know what theyre responding to.
ONeal also said he didnt blame
the officer who shot his dog. He
said he wondered why it took ani-
mal control units an hour to control
a dog that he calls calm and loving.
Id definitely like to see that
animal control could do its job,
ONeal said.
ONeal said the animal control
officer he spoke to told him when
they tried to restrain Dice, Sid
would move in and vice versa.
Why is that so hard? It shouldnt
be that difficult to understand,
ONeal said. Hell, my seven-year
old son can understand patterns.
ONeal said the message he
wanted the public to take from the
incident was that his dogs were not
violent, and not all pit bulls should
be grouped by stereotypes. Ive
seen pit bulls that were trained to
fight, and it makes me sick, ONeal
said. But anyone who wants to
come see my dogs, I say come see
them. They dont know you from
Tom, Dick or Harry, but theyll
come running up to you like they
know you.
Kansan staf writer erick r.
schmidt can be contacted at es-
chmidt@kansan.com.
Dogs (continued from 1A)
design. Although it wont be Herds
original design, he said he will put
his own spin on the image.
I grew up on the farm, and
the pollinator story was kind of in
the back of my mind, but I didnt
realize the extent the problem had
grown, Herd said.
The image will be located outside
Lawrence at Pendletons Country
Market, and will be easily viewed if
flown over in an airplane.
Many of the flowers will be pro-
vided by Pendletons, said Karen
Pendleton, owner of the farm.
Pendleton said she has worked
with Herd and Taylor on numerous
other projects, so this one will just
continue their work together.
Approximately $25,000 is needed
to finish the image, and the money
will be raised strictly by donations.
Taylor said he hopes to raise all
the money and have it completed
by June 18, in time for Pollinator
Week.
Kansan staf writer Danae De-
shazer can be contacted at
ddeshazer@kansan.com.
Crop Art (continued from 1A)
Red Corn said.
Red Corn also said that both
the Delta Force and Ignite coali-
tions used the technique last year to
remind students to vote.
Jason Boots, Plano, Texas senior
and Student Body President, said
Ignite used a similar process last
year.
We used something with our
candidates to remind their friends to
vote, Boots said.
Ray Wittlinger, Olathe junior and
vice presidential nominee for United
Students, said you simply cant send
mass e-mails.
Jack Connor, Overland Park
junior and Delta Force member, said
the coalition didnt break any rules.
The Elections Commission was
unavailable for a response.
Elections continue today online
and at polling sites on Wescoe Beach
and Mrs. Es. Voting ends at 4 p.m.
Kansan staf writer ashlee Kieler
can be contacted at akieler@kan-
san.com.
ViolAtions (continued from 1A)
ContriBUtED pHoto
robert Bindschadler says meltwater can cre-
ate a slippery surface on ice sheets, which can
cause sheets to slide into the ocean.
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AssociAtED PREss
PASADENA, Calif. A stone-
faced Snoop Dogg pleaded no con-
test to felony gun and drug charges
Wednesday.
The 35-year-old rapper, born
Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr., agreed
to five years probation and 800
hours of community service. He
faced charges of gun possession by
a felon and sale or transportation of
marijuana.
Snoop Doggs recent arrests
marked the end of a relatively long
trouble-free stretch for the rapper.
He has burnished his image recently
with appearances in movies and by
starting a youth football league.
He was arrested at Bob Hope
Airport in Burbank Oct. 26 on
suspicion of transporting marijua-
na. Police later found a gun at his
home.
Snoop Dogg also faces separate
felony charges stemming from the
Sept. 27 discovery of a collapsible
baton in his computer bag by a secu-
rity screener at John Wayne Airport
in Orange County.
Authorities allege the baton was a
dangerous weapon. Snoop Dogg
has said it was a prop for a video
and pleaded not guilty.
Snoop Dogg was convicted
in 1990 of cocaine possession
and charged with gun posses-
sion after a 1993 traffic stop.
He pleaded guilty in exchange
for three years probation and a
promise to make public-service
announcements against violence.
He was acquitted of a murder
charge in 1996 after the death of
an alleged gang member killed by
gunfire from the vehicle in which
Snoop Dogg was traveling.
crime
Snoop Doggs image takes another hit
By sAMANtHA cRitcHELL
AssociAtED PREss
NEW YORK Drew Barrymore
grew up with tear sheets of models
such as Cheryl Tiegs, Rachel Hunter
and Christie Brinkley plastered on
her bedroom wall like wallpaper.
Come January, another young girl
can do the same with Barrymores
photo.
Barrymore is
CoverGirls new-
est model and
spokeswoman,
joining a stable
of famous faces
that includes her
former idols and,
more recently,
Queen Latifah,
Molly Sims and
Rihanna.
Her selec-
tion by the Procter & Gamble Co.
beauty brand was to be announced
Wednesday at a news conference in
Los Angeles.
The 32-year-old Charlies
Angels actress is also a co-creator
of the ads, and before any wardrobe
or beauty decisions were made at
Mondays print shoot, Barrymore
said she was consulting on the con-
cept, graphics, lighting and how the
photo would be cropped.
I leave the makeup and product
up to them, thats their exper-
tise, she told The Associated
Press in a phone interview from
the set. What I want to do is
honor the tradition of CoverGirl
but hopefully bring myself and
my personality into it, as well
as some edgy fashion-forward
thinking and positivity to it.
Look for her in a nude-col-
ored dress, which, Barrymore
e xpl ai ne d,
is a contrast
to the bright
colors often
used in cos-
metics ads.
I like to
be involved
in every
aspect. Im a
control freak
but I keep
those issues
at bay when I work with other
people, she said with a laugh.
Its Barrymores strength that
led the company to seek her out.
We partnered with Drew
because she emulates the icon-
ic image of CoverGirl with
her fresh, natural beauty and
energetic yet authentic spirit,
said Esi Eggleston Bracey, vice
president and general manager
of CoverGirl Cosmetics North
America.
AssociAtED PREss
NEW YORK Marcia Cross,
who recently gave birth to twins, is
proud to be a member of the Mom
Club.
I wanted to be a member of that
club so badly, and now Im in and
its so much better than I even imag-
ined, says the 45-year-old actress,
who plays Bree on ABCs Desperate
Housewives.
Even before I was 30 I start-
ed thinking about (motherhood),
Cross tells People magazine in its
April 23 issue, on newsstands Friday.
The years started going by and I
was anxious about the clock ticking.
Now it seems like it was all meant
to be.
Cross gave birth to daughters
Eden and Savannah in February
one month before her March 21
due date hours after being diag-
nosed with preeclampsia, a disorder
characterized by high blood pressure
that threatens both mother and baby,
according to the magazine.
Savannah was born first and
then Eden followed within the same
minute, says Cross stockbroker
husband, Tom Mahoney. Then we
had a symphony of crying and it was
fantastic.
Cross appears with the twins on
the cover of magazine, with more
photos inside.
The couple, who wed last June,
began dating in 2004 after Cross
spotted Mahoney, 49, at a flower
store in Los Angeles and left her
number with the shopkeeper.
We did in vitro a week after we
got married, she tells the magazine.
We were supposed to go to Greece
and Paris and have this fancy hon-
eymoon, and I said, `Lets stay put
and see if we cant give this baby a
chance.
The plan obviously worked.
I was hugely terrified, Cross says
of expecting twins. And I was more
scared to have girls probably from
just having been one. Now Im just
delighted. Theres nothing closer
than the female bond.
celebrity
Cross proud to be in Mom Club
advertising vandalism
Barrymore named
new CoverGirl face
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rapper Snoop Dogg pleaded no contest to gun and drug charges Wednesday. In the 1990s, Snoop Dogg was charged with gun possession, acquit-
ted of a murder charge and convicted of cocaine possession.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Marcia Cross, Bree on ABCs Desperate
Housewives, is featured in the latest issue of
People magazine with her twin babies.
By ANicK JEsDANUN
AssociAtED PREss
NEW YORK In the NBC series
The Office, the boss Michael Scott
turned to Wikipedia for tips on
fending off an employees request
for a pay raise. Viewers quickly
flocked to the online encyclopedia
and added their take to its entry on
negotiations.
Administrators at Wikipedia had
to limit editing of the entry, most
recently late Tuesday, placing it in
semi-protection mode. That meant
users couldnt make changes anony-
mously or from accounts fewer than
four days old to discourage those
drawn to the site specifically because
of the broadcast.
The site imposed similar restric-
tions on the entry twice before, only
to see vandalism continue after they
were lifted.
Wikipedia is a collaborative ref-
erence site where anyone can add,
change or even delete entries, regard-
less of expertise. The thinking is that
the collective wisdom results in a
better product overall, and members
of the community can watch for any
vandalism and reverse it.
Fans of Stephen Colberts Comedy
Central show The Colbert Report
flocked to Wikipedia to alter arti-
cles on elephants after he said on
the program, all we need to do is
convince a majority of people that
some factoid is true for instance,
that Africa has more elephants today
than it did 10 years ago.
Changes arent always noticed
and fixed immediately.
In late 2005, prominent journal-
ist John Seigenthaler, the former
publisher of the Tennessean news-
paper and founding editorial direc-
tor of USA Today, revealed that a
Wikipedia entry that ran for four
months had incorrectly named him
as a longtime suspect in the assassi-
nations of President John F. Kennedy
and his brother Robert.
Ofceepisode
forces Wikipedia
to restrict entry
cUstoDy HEARiNG
Birkhead will not share
custody of Dannielynn
NASSAU, Bahamas Larry
Birkhead, the biological father of
Anna Nicole Smiths baby, said
Wednesday there is no need to
share legal custody of the child, a
day after DNA tests proved that he
is the father.
A hearing is scheduled for Friday
at which a judge is expected to
discuss who will raise 7-month-old
Dannielynn. Howard K. Stern, who
has been caring for the baby
since Smiths sudden death
in February, said Tuesday he
wouldnt fght for custody, but a
lawyer for Smiths mother, Virgie
Arthur, indicated she might.
Birkhead said Wednesday
he did not want another legal
fght. Birkhead said he has no
intentions of sharing custody of
the child.
It would imply that Im unft
as a parent, which Im not, the
Los Angeles photographer said.
Associated Press
I like to be involved in every
aspect. Im a control freak but I
keep those issues at bay when I
work with other people.
DreW BArrymore
CoverGirl model
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AssOCIATeD PRess
WASHINGTON The
Pentagon poured more than $1
billion into bonuses last year to
keep soldiers and Marines in the
military in the face of an unpop-
ular war and battlefield deploy-
ments that are getting longer and
more frequent.
The incentives including
tax-free payments for those who
re-enlist while in the war zone
have jumped nearly sixfold
since 2003, the year the war in
Iraq began.
It helps a lot of guys out, said
Sgt. 1st Class Richard Doran, who
re-enlisted late last year during
his tour in Iraq. And I think it
does sway some of the decisions
to stay in when guys are on the
fence trying to decide.
The size and number of
bonuses have grown as officials
scrambled to meet the demand
for troops on the battlefields
in Iraq and Afghanistan and
reverse shortfalls in the number
of National Guard and Reserve
soldiers willing to sign on for
multiple tours.
On Wednesday, officials said
the Pentagon is thinking about
lengthening tours of duty for all
active-duty Army units in Iraq to
15 months instead of 12.
Besides underscoring the
extraordinary steps the Pentagon
must take to maintain fight-
ing forces, the rise in costs for
re-enlistment incentives is put-
ting strains on the defense budget,
already strapped by the massive
costs of waging war and equipping
and caring for a modern military.
The bonuses can range from a
few thousand dollars to as much as
$150,000 for very senior special forc-
es soldiers who re-enlist for six years.
All told, the Army and Marines spent
$1.03 billion for re-enlistment pay-
ments last year, compared with $174
million in 2003, the year the war in
Iraq began.
The Associated Press compiled
and analyzed the budget figures from
the military services for this story.
The soaring budget for re-enlist-
ment bonuses particularly for
the Guard and Reserves, which have
seen the most dramatic cost increas-
es has prompted some observers
to question whether the country can
still afford its volunteer force.
I believe the whole issue of the
affordability of the volunteer force
is something we need to look at,
said Arnold Punaro, who heads
an independent panel established
by Congress to study the National
Guard and Reserves.
The higher bonuses come as
support for the war continues to
wane both in Congress and with
the American public. That decline
is fueling concerns that more sol-
diers will leave the military under
pressure from families who fear
the rising death toll and are weary
of the lengthy and repeated over-
seas deployments. The Iraq war has
claimed the lives of at least 3,280 U.S.
troops to date.
By KAReN MATTHeWs
AssOCIATeD PRess
NEW YORK The nations larg-
est student loan provider will stop
offering perks like trips to exotic
locations to college employees as
part of a settlement announced
Wednesday in a widening probe of
the student loan industry.
SLM Corp., commonly known as
Sallie Mae, also agreed to pay $2 mil-
lion into a fund to educate students
and parents about the financial aid
industry, and it will adopt a code
of conduct created by New York
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo,
who is heading the probe.
Cuomo said the expanding inves-
tigation of the $85 billion student
loan industry has found numerous
arrangements that benefited schools
and lenders at the expense of stu-
dents. Investigators say lenders have
provided all-expense-paid trips to
exotic locations for college financial
aid officers who then directed stu-
dents to the lenders.
Our position is very simple,
Cuomo said. Loan decisions should
be made in the best interest of the
students, and not the best interest of
the school.
Sallie Mae CEO Tim Fitzpatrick
said in a statement Wednesday, We
are please that Attorney General
Cuomo has recognized Sallie Maes
leadership in the student loan indus-
try and our ethical market practices
with students and schools.
Investigators found that many
colleges have established preferred
lender lists and entered into rev-
enue sharing and other financial
arrangements with those lenders.
Some colleges have exclusive pre-
ferred lender agreements with the
companies.
There is a spectrum of what
we consider to
be deceptive and
illegal practices,
from finan-
cial incentives
that go back to
the schools to
financial incen-
tives to financial
aid officers, to
perks to finan-
cial aid officers,
to employees of
lenders being
stationed at schools, Cuomo said at
his Manhattan office.
The newly established code of
conduct prohibits revenue shar-
ing between lenders and schools,
mandates disclosure of relationships
between colleges and lenders, sets
restrictions on how lenders are cho-
sen for school preferred lender
lists, and bans gifts or trips to uni-
versity employees from lenders.
Sallie Mae is the second lender
to agree to the code, which is aimed
at making the loan process more
transparent.
Reston, Va.-based Sallie Mae,
which serves almost 10 million bor-
rowers and has relationships with
over 5,600 schools, also agreed to
stop running call centers or pro-
viding other staffing for college
financial aid offices and stop paying
financial aid officers for serving on
advisory boards.
Citigroup Inc.s Citibank, which
does business
at about 3,000
schools, last
week agreed to
donate $2 mil-
lion to the same
fund as part of a
settlement with
the attorney gen-
erals office.
So far, six
schools the
University of
Pennsyl vani a,
New York University, Syracuse
University, Fordham University,
Long Island University and St. Johns
University have agreed to reim-
burse students a total of $3.27 mil-
lion for inflated loan prices caused
by revenue sharing agreements,
Cuomo said.
Those schools, along with all 29
four-year State University of New
York campuses and St. Lawrence
University, also agreed to abide by
the code of conduct.
Within the past week, six financial
aid officers at various schools and
a federal Department of Education
official were placed on leave after
Cuomos office said they received
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entertainment 8a thursday, april 12, 2007
horoscope
nuclear forehead
jacob burghart
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most
challenging.
aries (March 21-april 19)
Today is an 8
You wont have to push other
people around to get them to
obey your orders. Youre devel-
oping a righteously admirable
command presence.
Taurus (april 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
People are starting to recognize
how important you are. Its nice
that theyve noticed but dont
forget to ask for the fnancial
rewards that are due. Dont feel
the least bit guilty.
GeMini (May 21-June 21)
Today is an 8
Youll fnd it easier to take control
of the situation for the next
several weeks. Youre charming
and youre lucky, even more than
usual.
cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
Theres lots of work. Dont feel
overwhelmed. Dont try to do it
all at once. Set a pace that works
for you and nibble away at it.
leo (July 23-aug. 22)
Today is an 8
Let your opinion be known when
you select an assistant. You dont
have to agree upon everything,
just on your fnal objectives. Get
that part down in writing.
VirGo (aug. 23-sept. 22)
Today is an 8
Youre very imaginative now in
your work, so dont worry. Even
if youve never done this task
before, youll think of a way.
libra (sept. 23-oct. 22)
Today is a 6
The truth is revealed, much to
your delight. You couldnt be
more pleased. A person you think
is marvelous feels the same way
about you.
scorpio (oct. 23-nov. 21)
Today is a 7
A suggestion postulated by a
family member or loved one
turns out to be just the thing
youve been looking for. You see?
It pays to be polite and actually
listen.
saGiTTarius (nov. 22-dec. 21)
Today is a 6
Youre pretty good mechanically,
when youre in the mood. You
should be really good at it now,
so fx a lot of things.
capricorn (dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
Push really hard the next couple
of days, and youll make a bundle.
Right about now you could fnd a
good use for a pocketful of bills.
Trade of for the bills you already
have.
aquarius (Jan. 20-feb. 18)
Today is a 6
Youre coming up with proofs for
concepts that are way out on the
edges. Is there a scientifc basis
for God, or vice versa? Youre one
of the ones wholl fnd out.
pisces (feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
Business is going well the way
your routine has been arranged.
Now, consider making a few
technical improvements. Take
your time, and do it right.
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actor requests nonjury trial
for alcohol related accident
NORTH SALEM, N.Y. Rip Torn
wants a nonjury trial on a charge of
driving while intoxicated, a county
clerk said.
The 76-year-old actor was
charged Dec. 4 after a crash in
North Salem, a suburb about 60
miles north of New York City. Torn
lost control of his sedan and struck
a tractor-trailer.
Torn refused a sobriety test and
was charged with DWI, state police
said.
The actor was initially represent-
ed by Adam Levy, who is running
for Putnam County district attorney
and is the son of televisions Judge
Judy Scheindlin. But Levy said
Torn has hired a new lawyer.
Were waiting to confrm that
he has new counsel. We did not put
the case on the nonjury trial list,
Levy told The Journal News.
A call by The Associated Press to
Torns Los Angeles-based publi-
cist wasnt returned Wednesday.
Levy represented Torn in a
2004 drunken-driving case in
New York City in which the actor
was acquitted after jurors said
the prosecution failed to prove
that he was drinking before his
fender-bender with a taxi. Police
videotape showed Torn berating
police ofcers and refusing a so-
briety test. Levy said Torn refused
because he was angry.
Associated Press
opinion
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or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
editorial: Brandon Minster bemoans stu-
dents tendencies to use vulgarities too often
and for no reason.
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this is sparta!
You see, Julian wright? You see
what happens when you tell
us youre going to stay and you
dont? You get weather like this.
Just kidding. i love you, Julian.
n
i opened up the Free for all today,
and it was really huge, and i got
excited until i realized that half of
it was some idiot singing about
the states.
n
Free for all, can you please tell my
friend nate that everybody Loves
raymond is the worst show ever,
and he is awful at super smash
brothers?
n
Hey JuJu, i knew i always liked
brandon rush better.
wang chung is the name of the
band that made the song every-
body Have Fun tonight. as far
as the deeper meaning of wang
chung, wow man. dude. we re-
ally dont have time for that.
n
to the kid who doesnt love ray-
mond: i dont love you.
n
i swear to God i just saw a 75-year-
old woman doing a paper route.
n
dear mitch, you dressed up as a Vi-
king today, and i missed it. could
you please do it again at your clos-
est convenience? thank you.
Julian, i thought you said you
were staying? why did you pull
a roy williams on us? oh well.
Good luck with your future. i still
love you.
n
what the hell is delta Force?
n
im voting for delta Force tomor-
row, because they have a Greek
letter in them.
n
Free for all, when are you going to
get stinkin text messaging?
n
Free for all, i just got a $35 parking
ticket for parking too close to a
dumpster.
Youre cute. Lets kiss.
n
when was the frst Free for all
published?
n
Lewd is spelled L-o-o-d.
n
Free for all, my favorite band isnt
answering the phone, and youre
kind of a big deal, so you think
you could work something out for
me? appreciate it, thanks.
n
chris pulled the greatest prank in
the history of mankind and should
be given a medal and a parade.
n
im going to vote for student
rights and delta Force, because
none of their candidates sexually
harass their other candidates.
n
Hey Free for all, i just got all up in
your afternoon! woo!
n
okay, i messed up my last mes-
sage, so this one is Hey Free for-
(laughing followed by someone
in the background shouting You
ruined it!).
n
Hey Free for all, i just got all up in
your afternoon, boy-ee!
n
my bus driver just ran into a pe-
destrian crossing sign. im scared.
FREE FOR ALL
call 864-0500
letter to the editor
Its little wonder that politics
has a negative connotation.
Recent allegations of scandal
in student body politics are dis-
heartening, and not just because
they allude to dirty campaigning
and a lack of cooperation or sol-
idarity in Student Senate. More
significantly, such accusations
suggest that, through student
elections, university students
are enabling the very conniv-
ing politicians that we complain
about in real politics.
Delta Force filed a case
against United Students for
defamation, alleging that
presidential candidates Hannah
Love and Ray Wittlinger had,
on numerous occasions, lied
about the number of bills they
had authored in Student Senate
as well as the number of bills
authored by John Cross, Delta
Force presidential candidate and
student senator. Unconfirmed
evidence suggests that Love had
authored only 18 bills instead of
29 and Wittlinger, a three-year
student senator, had authored
none. Cross is said to have actu-
ally authored four bills instead
of one.
On Tuesday, the Hearing
Board Committee issued a con-
tinuance on this case, which will
not be readdressed until after
the election. However, Cayla
Witty, election commissioner,
suggested that, if the accusations
are verified, United Students
actions may have been egregious
enough to disqualify Love and
Wittlinger.
Regardless of the outcome
in this case, it is unsettling
that university students may
be voting for less-than-honest
individuals whose actions could
be harbingers of shady political
careers. It is not the magnitude
of the alleged behavior that is
disappointing such behavior
could easily be considered petty
but the idea that students with
political aspirations could so
easily disregard rules, regula-
tions and respect for their fellow
candidates.
Indeed, the individuals that
students empower in college
could be future dazzling, well-
spoken politicians whose lies
give politics a bad name. In the
future, these persons political
capabilities may be more signifi-
cant than decisions regarding a
$1 increase in student fees.
Alison Kieler for the editorial
board
Missing peace pole a sad thing
If you walk near Malott and
Haworth halls near the Anschutz
Science Library you may have
noticed a white pole with the phrase
May peace prevail on Earth
engraved in several languages.
This commemoration to peace
was dedicated in 2006 as a gift
to the University of Kansas from
a Japanese benefactor, Kazumni
Nakayama, a friend of alumnus,
Leslie Green Renzelman. Mrs.
Nakayama took inspiration to pro-
mote peace in a non-sectarian way,
according to the Web site www.
worldpeace.org. She raised money
to make the pole according to speci-
fications that included several lan-
guages chosen by the officers of the
Universitys International Students
Association. The Association made
this a service project and helped
get Student Senate funding for the
installation.
The sad thing is that sometime
before March 5, 2007, the pole was
evidently broken off and is now
gone. Jack Campbell, University
police officer, found no evidence to
suggest how the damage occurred.
It had been there about a week
prior before it was noticed missing.
Although snow removal equip-
ment was not in use, construction
equipment at Malott could have
accidentally damaged it. No one
has come forward. As one belong-
ing to an organization involved in
the dedication, Phi Beta Delta, I
encourage anyone to report what
they may know about this mishap
to University police.
Linda Wiley
administrative associate in
molecular biosciences
Grant Snider/KanSan
Commentary
Students should watch their mouths
Ive effing had it with vulgarity.
Im not one of those people who
thinks every use of a vulgar word is
horrible. These words were invented
because they have a distinct mean-
ing. Sometimes the exact word you
need to use to express your thoughts
or feelings is a vulgar word, and
thats fine.
But thats not how most people use
these words. Instead, they use them
as synonyms for really or very.
Or they use these words to con-
vey meaning they dont even know
themselves. Its the verbal equivalent
to punting. Why be articulate when
you can just throw out the f-word,
followed, if necessary, by, Dude?
I am surprised to find this level of
intellectual laziness at a university.
How much education is required
before your articulation surpasses
caveman level?
Part of the power of vulgarity is its
infrequency. The person who resorts
to vulgarity shows desperation to be
understood or believed. When vul-
gar words compete with articles such
as the and a in your speech fre-
quency, you sound
like an idiot.
There will
always be those
who wish to dem-
onstrate how
avant-garde they
are by not obey-
ing conventional
rules of conversa-
tion. I admit that
was why I started
swearing, in fifth
grade. By the time
your parents can
no longer wash out
your mouth with
soap, the thrill of
swearing should be
gone.
Defining your-
self in opposition to
something gives the
thing you suppos-
edly hate complete
control of your life.
Your individual-
ity is really just a
sign of your enslavement. Nobody
really thinks this
way about it any-
more. I think for
most it became a
habit after fifth
grade and they
cant stop it. Thats
why I do it.
If its a habit
now, why dont
you break it. Youre
getting an educa-
tion presumably to
be a more profes-
sional, hire-able
person. Getting rid
of a filthy mouth
should go along
with a diploma and
knowing how to
craft a resume.
I have two chil-
dren who love
the University
of Kansas more
than life itself. My
daughters dream is
to have a Jayhawk
statue in our front yard. The biggest
treat my children receive is a visit to
campus. But how frequently can that
happen when so many overheard
conversational snippets contain
coarse language? Forgive me for not
understanding the nuances between
I was so drunk, and I was so f-ing
drunk. They say the same thing:
Im an idiot.
Cultural institutions continue to
abet this degrading slide of vocabu-
lary. Here at the University, the pri-
mary cultural forum, Free for All,
continues to print an advisory state-
ment that says obscene comments
will not be printed, but lately it
seems it cant be a complete Free for
All without at least three f-words.
If the point of a college educa-
tion is to educate, to teach students
to think for themselves, why does
a stroll across Wescoe Beach sound
like a sailors convention? Its getting
to the point where its ridiculous.
Cut it out.
Minster is a Lawrence junior in
economics
By BrAndon minstEr
kansan columnist
opinion@kansan.com
Part of the power of vulgarity
is its infrequency. The person
who resorts to vulgarity shows
desperation to be understood
or believed. When vulgar words
compete with articles such as
the and a in your speech fre-
quently, you sound like an idiot.
Minster is a Lawrence junior in
economics.
Alison Kieler for the editorial
board.
By ROBERT BURNS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON Stretched
thin by four years of war, the Army
is adding three months to the stan-
dard yearlong tour for all active-duty
soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, an
unpopular step aimed at maintain-
ing the troop buildup in Baghdad.
The change, announced
Wednesday by Defense Secretary
Robert Gates, is the latest blow to
an all-volunteer Army that has been
given ever-shorter periods of rest
and retraining at home between
overseas deployments.
Rather than continue to shrink
the at-home intervals to a point that
might compromise soldiers pre-
paredness for combat, Gates chose
to lengthen combat tours to buy
time for units newly returned from
battle.
Our forces are stretched, theres
no question about that, Gates said.
The extended tours are a price the
Army must pay to sustain the troop
buildup that President Bush ordered
in January as part of his re-jiggered
strategy for stabilizing Baghdad and
averting a U.S. defeat. Troop levels
are being boosted from 15 brigades
to 20 brigades, and in order to keep
that up beyond summer the Army
faced harsh choices: either send units
to Iraq with less than 12 months at
home, or extend tours.
Reaction on Capitol Hill to Gates
announcement was harsh.
Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), chair-
man of the House Armed Services
Committee, said the longer tours will
have a chilling effect on recruiting
and the Armys ability to keep sol-
diers from quitting the service.
We also must not underestimate
the enormous negative impact this
will have on Army families, Skelton
said.
Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska,
one of only two Republicans who
voted to set a timetable for beginning
to withdraw troops from Iraq, said
Gates announcement was a stark
admission that the administrations
policies in Iraq are doing permanent
damage to our military.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.),
who supports the troop buildup, said
of the affected soldiers, Theyll be
disappointed, but theyll do it.
Indeed, at Fort Hood, Texas,
home of the 4th Infantry Division,
some Army families took the news
in stride.
Carol Frennier, whose husband,
Command Sgt. Maj. Steve Frennier,
is in Iraq, said she had prepared
herself and her family for a longer
deployment.
They kind of told us to expect
12 months to 18 months, she said.
We were already prepared to have
them extended. And her family has
been through an extended tour of
duty before.
Last time they said nine months,
and it was 14 months, Frennier
said.
Gates said the new policy seeks
to ensure that all active-duty Army
units get at least 12 months at home
between deployments.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW HAVEN, Conn. A for-
mer New York University whiz kid
who posed as a Turkish heir and
persuaded sophisticated investors
to pour millions
into a nonexis-
tent hedge fund
was sentenced
Wednesday to
3 1/2 years in
prison.
H a k a n
Yalincak, 22,
who has already
served 20
months, needs
the time in pris-
on to reflect and find his moral
compass, U.S. District Court Judge
Janet Bond Arterton said.
It would appear the majority of
his life was spent engaged in fraud,
said Arterton, who ordered him to
pay $4.18 million in restitution.
Yalincak, who pleaded guilty
last year to bank and wire fraud,
acknowl edged
i n court
Wednesday that
he did play a
pivotal role in
the scheme and
pledged to work
on paying the
restitution.
I made sig-
nificant errors
of judgment, he
said. If I could
go back and take back what Ive
done Id do it in a heartbeat.
His attorney had asked for a sen-
tence of 20 months that he has
already spent in prison as well as
home confinement and restitution.
Yalincaks mother, Ayferafet
Yalincak, 52, was sentenced last
month to two years in prison after
she pleaded guilty last year to con-
spiracy to commit wire fraud in
connection with the scheme.
The elder Yalincak said in court
papers that she had been bent to
the will of her brilliant college-age
son and played a limited role in the
fraud.
She purchased, or had purchased
for her, a $56,000 Mercedes Benz
and a $51,000 diamond ring with
investors funds, and lived in a house
with an annual rental fee of $77,000
that came from investors funds,
prosecutors said.
Prosecutors say Hakan Yalincak
charmed his way into the exclusive
world of Greenwich high finance
by posing as an heir to a wealthy
Turkish family, shuttled counterfeit
checks across the world and bro-
kered deals with a Kuwaiti finan-
cier.
Authorities say the Yalincaks
also gave $1.25 million of investor
money as a down payment on a $21
million donation to NYU as a way
to cast themselves as wealthy phi-
lanthropists in hopes of luring more
investment.
Hakan Yalincak has been free on
bond and is scheduled to return to
prison May 8.
fraud
Man ordered to pay $4.18 million
Hakan Yalincak, 22, leaves U.S. District
Court in New Haven, Conn., Wednesday after
his sentencing hearing. Yalincak was sentenced
Wednesday to 3 1/2 years in prison.
I made signifcant errors of
judgement. If I could go back
and take back what Ive done Id
do it in a heartbeat.
Hakan yalincak
convicted of fraud
Bob Child/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Military
Armys tours extended 3 months
By Michael PhilliPs
B
randon Rush has yet to make a decision on
whether hell enter the NBA Draft, but two
other Jayhawks who were on the fence have
committed to another season.
Freshman forward Darrell Arthur and
sophomore guard Mario Chalmers received attention
from pro scouts this year, but both reaffirmed Tuesday
that theyll be back for another sea-
son.
Chalmers asked coach Bill Self to
look into where he might be draft-
ed, and ultimately decided he could
improve his standing with another
year in Lawrence.
From what they were saying, I
would have been in the first round,
Chalmers said. But I think its better
for me to come back. Ive made my
decision, and Im ready to come back
for another great year.
Arthur took less time to make up
his mind, saying that hes known since
the end of the season that he would be back.
I havent really talked to anybody about it, because I
wasnt even thinking about it, he said. I never decided,
because I always knew I was coming back.
With the departure of Julian Wright, Arthur will likely
earn a starting spot next season. He plans on working
on his strength and conditioning during the offseason to
prepare for his new workload.
Self said that Arthur, nicknamed Shady, would be a
strong NBA prospect in the future.
People like Shady a lot, Self said. But hes just a fresh-
man. Hes young, and its going to be a strong draft.
Spoons uncertain future: There are no worries that
junior guard Brad Witherspoon will bolt for the NBA,
but its not known for sure yet whether hell be invited to
join next years roster.
The team will add a new walk-on, guard Conner
Teahan of Rockhurst High School
in Kansas City, Mo. Still, Self said
he had yet to make a decision about
Witherspoon, who became a fan
favorite after joining the team dur-
ing open tryouts.
I like him, Self said. I havent
decided what were going to do.
Sherrons rumor control:
Assistant coach Kurtis Townsend
was talking with freshman guard
Sherron Collins on Monday, and
mentioned that a rumor was circu-
lating that Collins was transferring
to DePaul.
Collins laughed.
This is for everybody, he said. I dont know where
it came from, but Sherron Collins will not be leaving
Kansas. Im staying at Kansas through my whole career.
Whatever it takes.
Since the rumor first hit the internet, Collins has
sports
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Intense speculation surrounds sophomore guard Brandon Rush, and whether he will leave Kansas early for the NBA Draft. With the departure of
sophomore Julian Wright, Rush is the next player who is likely to declare.
Arthur, Chalmers, Collins will return for another year
Im just going to wait and see.
Its going to come down to the
last few weeks, when I can get
a feel for who is going to get
picked.
Brandon rush
sophomore guard
Fresh ofense
gives fans
more upbeat
style of play
By asher fusco
Think of a football team as a
human body: the coaches represent
the brain, the quarterback the heart,
and all of the other players the vari-
ous limbs and appendages.
In these terms, the Jayhawk
offense is heading into the 2007
season with a brand new head on its
shoulders.
When Kansas hired Ed Warinner
to fill the role of offensive coordina-
tor this past winter, media and fans
raised questions about what style of
play he would bring to the team.
If the words of sophomore quar-
terbacks Kerry Meier and Todd
Reesing are any indication, fans are
in store for some exciting football
when the Kansas offense takes the
field.
Its more up-tempo, Meier said.
Theyre trying to let us get out there
and cut loose.
Were utilizing our playmakers a
lot more, Reesing said. Were play-
ing to our strengths instead of just
running plays.
The offenses tendency to just
run plays during previous offensive
coordinator Nick Quartaros tenure
frustrated many. Instead of trying to
exploit defenses by throwing the ball
downfield, the Jayhawks often opted
to play more conservatively, using
screen passes and short runs.
From the start of spring practices,
coach Mark Mangino has been ada-
mant that the changes in the offen-
sive scheme will be for the better.
Mangino said the streamlined
offense allows the players to focus on
making plays rather than struggling
with complex terminology.
Even though the game plan has
been simplified, the young quar-
terbacks have been forced to make
adjustments this spring.
Its been more mental than any-
thing, Reesing said. Learning a new
offense with a new coach, there will
always be a learning curve.
Meier has only started eight games
in his career at Kansas, and Reesing
has only appeared in three games.
But an offense focused on athleti-
cism should fit either quarterback
like a glove.
Reesing is slight of stature but
quick enough to evade defenders
and Meier has proven that he can
use his size and quickness to run the
option play effectively.
Meiers experience running the
option could help him gain the upper
hand at quarterback in an offense
that players said was based heavily
on the spread scheme. The spread
offense uses three or four receivers
on nearly every down and keeps the
opposing defense on its heels with
quick passes all over the field.
As of Wednesday, the coaching
staff had not decided which quarter-
back will take the reins of the new
offense.
Meier said he and Reesing are cur-
rently in a deadlock in the race for
playing time. The two quarterbacks
have spent equal time practicing with
the first team so far this spring.
Kansas fans will have their first
opportunity to catch a glimpse of
the retooled offense at the spring
game this Sunday afternoon. The
game is at 3:30 pm at Memorial
Stadium. Entry and parking are free
of charge.
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CArDs BACK IN FIrst
With another 3-2 victory against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the St. Louis Cardinals
move back into frst place in the National League Central with a record of 5-4.
Jayhawks fall
despite No. 2
doubles victory
TeNNis
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Elizaveta Avdeeva, obninsk, russia, junior, returns a serve during a singles match
against Kansas States Viviana Yrureta. Avdeeva lost 6-4, 6-3.
The Kansas and Missouri soft-
ball game was postponed because
of wet and cold conditions in
Columbia, Mo.
Both teams agreed to cancel
Wednesdays Border Showdown
due to the poor conditions.
They rescheduled the game
for Wednesday, April 18 when
Missouri comes to Arrocha
Ballpark.
The meeting next week was
supposed to be a single game, but
will now be a double-header with
game one starting at 3 p.m.
Kansas (27-14-1, 3-4 Big 12)
now gets more time off before
hosting Texas A&M (31-6, 5-3 Big
12) this weekend in Lawrence.
The first pitch is scheduled
for 2 p.m. Saturday against the
Aggies at Arrocha Ballpark.
Evan Kafarakis
Game postponed
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By rusTiN DoDD
The Kansas tennis team left
First Serve Tennis Center disap-
pointed and emotionally drained
after their fifth consecutive loss.
Kansas fell to Kansas State 5-2,
dropping the Jayhawks to 4-13
and 2-6 in the Big 12.
Kansas doubles problems
continued, despite an 8-6 victory
from junior Lauren Hommell and
freshman Kunigunda Dorn at No.
2 doubles. The normally reliable
No. 1 doubles team of junior
Elizaveta Avdeeva and sophomore
Edina Horvath fell 8-4, and junior
Stephanie Smith and sophomore
Yuliana Svistun dropped the No.
3 doubles match, 8-4.
The loss dropped Avdeeva
and Horvath to 13-4 in dual play
and continued a disturbing trend
Kansas is 0-13 when losing the
doubles point.
We had a great chance to win
the doubles point, said coach
Amy Hall-Holt. I was very
impressed with how Kuni and
Lauren came out. They had a lot
of good energy but Eliza and
Edina just didnt show up today
and theyll be the first to admit
that.
The victory from Dorn and
Hommell also marked the first
time the No. 1 or No. 2 doubles
teams have won since March 10
against Nebraska.
I thought as soon as we won,
the No. 1 doubles match would
be a lock. They always win,
Hommell said.
Kansas was able to draw the
duel even at one match apiece with
a three set victory from Dorn at
No. 3 singles. Svistun won in No.
5 singles because her opponent
was injured. But the good news
for Kansas ended there. Avdeeva
and Horvath both lost straight set
matches almost simultaneously,
and Hommell fell at No. 4 singles
to clinch the victory for Kansas
State. Smith concluded the duel
with a loss at No. 6 singles to
make the final score 5-2.
Hall-Holt said the month long
winless streak has taken a toll.
Theyre tired of it, Hall-Holt
said, We just have to keep our
heads up, keep our confidence up
and keep practicing hard every-
day at practice.
Kansas returns to action
at home against Colorado on
Sunday, and then concludes the
regular season the next week
with duels against Oklahoma and
Texas A&M.
Kansan sportswriter rustin
Dodd can be contacted at
rdodd@kansan.com.
Edited by Jyl Unruh
sEE BasketBall oN pAgE 3B
By Cody Hale
daily Texan
AUSTIN, Texas - Cmon, be hon-
est with yourself. Youd be lying if
you said youre shocked that Texas
Kevin Durant has declared for this
years NBA Draft.
In a way, we all knew it was com-
ing. Sure, there was a little hope that
the most electrifying player in col-
lege basketball would return for his
sophomore season at Texas.
And for a while, it seemed like
that could have been a reality.
But after Tuesdays press con-
ference in which Durant formally
announced his decision to turn pro
where hell likely be the No. 1 or
No. 2 overall pick its now official.
I cant blame him.
And neither should you.
He didnt make his decision based
on the $20 million-plus endorse-
ment deal with Nike, though Im
sure that didnt hurt. In fact, I hon-
estly believe him when he says that
a guaranteed NBA contract and the
endorsements werent the defining
factors in making his decision.
Hes leaving college after one year,
because hes ready to take his skills
to the next level. Durant is ready
to make an impact. True, hell need
to get better, especially on defense,
and he knows that. Hes the type of
player who will continue to work
hard every day until he reaches a
level of greatness.
The passion and attitude he has
on the court is what is going to help
him become a superstar at the next
level. He doesnt mind putting the
entire team on his back with the
game on the line.
The 18-year-old from Suitland,
Md., is as fearless a basketball play-
er the NBA Draft has seen in a
long time. When it was brought up
that Durant would be going against
players such as Shaquille ONeal,
Tim Duncan and Kobe Bryant, all
Durant could do was smile.
What are you trying to do, are
you trying to scare me? Durant
asked. Its going to be a tough chal-
lenge, but Im looking forward to it.
Its been my dream for a while, and
I felt like I was ready to take my
game to the next level.
Truth is, theres really nothing
that scares him on the basketball
court. Durant started college as
a 17-year-old, and as the season
progressed, he raised eyebrows
across the entire nation and
brought some spotlight to the
entire Texas basketball program.
Everyone wanted a glimpse of
the kid from Texas, a look at the
guy who has enough skills to one
day do things in the NBA that no
one else can. People will ask if it
was really worth it for Durant to
have played at least one year in
college. The answer is a simple
one. Yes.
He matured both personally
and physically. He developed a
low-post game, his defense came
along tremendously and he got
to act like a normal 18-year-old
teenager one year longer.
I never thought about skip-
ping college, I was always going
to come to college, Durant
said. And I will always be a
Longhorn.
As a coach, your job is to
help people realize their dream,
and very few people get to see their
dream come true so early in their
life, Texas coach Rick Barnes said.
It was a hard decision because hes
fallen in love with his teammates
and the UT family.
sports 2B thursday, april 12, 2007
BIG 12 MENS BASKETBALL COMMENTARY
Durant makes wise choice leaving Texas for NBA
Jack Plunkett/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Texas forward Kevin Durant, left, announces he will enter the June NBA draft during a news conference in Austin, Texas, onTuesday. Texas basketball
coach Rick Barnes, right, joined Durant for the public announcement.
Mens golf
Woodland places second
after rough frst round
The mens golf team tied for ffth
Tuesday at the Wyoming Cowboy
Classic. Kansas recorded the top
score in the fnal round.
Senior Gary Woodland tied for
second place. He shot a 66 in the
fnal round. It was his eighth top-10
fnish this season.
We played a lot better today,
coach Ross Randall said in a press
release. Really if we had not dug
ourselves such a big hole in the
frst round we very well could have
won the tournament the way we
played the last two rounds of play.
Senior Tyler Docking fnished in
a tie for 31st. Senior Barrett Mar-
tens fnished in a tie for 46th and
junior Joey Mundy tied for 56th.
The Jayhawks next tournament
is the Big 12 Championships on
April 23-24 in Prairie Dunes.
Kansan StafReport
WoMens golf
Coster, Giangrosso named
Academic All-Big 12 team
Golfers Amanda Coster and An-
nie Giangrosso were both named
the Academic All-Big 12 Womens
golf team. They made the frst team
by keeping a 3.2 or higher GPA in
the two previous semesters and
having competed in at least 60
percent of Kansas tournaments.
Costner, a Claremore, Okla.,
senior, is on the frst team for the
third time in her career. She is
majoring in applied behavioral
science. Giangrosso, a Prairie Vil-
lage junior, is on the team for the
second time.
Kansan StafReport
TraCk
Big 12 names Saunders third
2007 Athlete of the Week
After winning the Texas Relays
long jump competition with a leap
of 25-10 feet last weekend, the Big
12 named junior Barrett Saunders
its Male Co-Athlete of the Week.
Not only was Saunders distance
enough to qualify him for the
regional meet at the end of the
regular season, but its also nearly
16 inches farther than his previ-
ous personal best and the farthest
outdoor jump in the nation. The
junior fnished eighth in the event
at the 2007 Big 12 Indoor Champi-
onships.
Texas Joseph Davis shares the
award with Saunders, winning the
Texas Relays triple jump with a na-
tion-leading distance of 52-00.50.
Saunders honor makes him the
third track and feld athlete to be
named athlete of the week during
the 2007 season. Also receiv-
ing recognition were junior pole
vaulter Kate Sultanova (Feb. 13)
and sophomore hurdler Ashley
Brown (March 27).
The Jayhawks travel to the John
Jacobs Invitational in Norman,
Okla., this weekend.
Taylor Bern
athletics calendar
FRIDAY
nBaseball vs. Baylor, 7 p.m.
hoglund Ballpark
nTrack at sooner invitational, all
day, Norman, Okla.
SATURDAY
nSoftball vs. texas a&M, 2 p.m.
arrocha Ballpark
hoglund Ballpark
nTrack at sooner invitational, all
day, Norman, Okla.
nRowing at Knecht Cup, all day,
Camden, N.J.
nVolleyball vs. tBa, tBa,
Chicago
SUNDAY
nTennis vs. Colorado, 11 a.m.
robinson Center courts
nSoftball vs. texas a&M, 12
p.m., arrocha Ballpark
hoglund Ballpark
nRowing at Knecht Cup, all day,
Camden, N.J.
NCAA FOOTBALL
Running backs annoy Meyer
No set starter means position is open for Gators
By niCk ZaCCardi
independenT florida alligaTor
GAINESVILLE, Fla. Its been
Urban Meyers pet peeve since he
arrived at the University of Florida.
The running back position has
annoyed, disappointed and frus-
trated the Gators coach the last two
seasons.
Its been the same story during
spring practice.
At running back, were not
exactly knocking them dead,
Meyer said.
The biggest concern for the
offense during spring practice
hasnt been how quarterback Tim
Tebow is maturing.
It hasnt been how it will replace
wide receivers Dallas Baker and
Jemalle Cornelius.
Its who will receive carries.
Thats been a problem for a
while.
Weve always been on the
downfall with Coach Meyer, said
running back Kestahn Moore, the
first stringer who will miss the rest
of spring practice with a sports her-
nia. He really hasnt seen anything
from us. Were trying to prove our-
selves to Coach Meyer. Last year, he
had receivers running the ball.
Those receivers, Percy Harvin
and Andre Caldwell, are back to
steal carries from Moore and his
backfield mates. So is Tebow, who
led the team with eight rushing
touchdowns last season.
Were going to be a 50-50 run-
pass team, offensive coordinator
Dan Mullen said. Youre going to
see Percy Harvin, Jarred Fayson
run the ball.
And our quarterback is a little
bit more of a ball carrier than our
quarterback was last year.
But somebody has to replace
DeShawn Wynn, who averaged
10 carries per game in his senior
season. Moore was the leader by
default before the injury.
Mon Williams, maybe the most
talented runner on the team, tore
his ACL earlier in the spring,
knocking him out for the season.
Markus Manson, the only other
back with substantial game expe-
rience, has moved to cornerback
but could return to the backfield if
Meyer remains displeased.
With Moore, Williams and
Manson out of the picture, expect
Brandon James and Chevon Walker
to get the bulk of the Orange and
Blue game carries Saturday.
James, a 5-foot-6 speedy kick
returner, stepped up to the No. 1
spot when Moore went down ear-
lier this week.
Size and all that stuff doesnt
matter as long as you have tough-
ness, running backs coach Stan
Drayton said, and (James has)
shown me he has some toughness.
But James and Walker could be
out of the picture come preseason
workouts.
Signee Chris Rainey could take
the reigns upon arrival this sum-
mer.
In the meantime, Meyer has
approached Moore as the No. 1
option.
Hes told me a couple times in
the hallway that I need to come out
and play similar to my freshman
year, Moore said. Freshman year,
he saw a lot of me. Last year, Wynn
played because he really didnt see
as much intensity as my freshman
year.
Moore got a surprising start in
Meyers first game in 2005 and aver-
aged 5.8 yards per carry for the
year.
But he took a step back last sea-
son and fell out of Meyers graces
after fumbling three times in a span
of 22 carries in the middle of the
year.
Going into his junior season,
Moore is the experienced leader of
the backfield, and he knows its time
to quell Meyers fears.
It is my year to step up, he
said.
MlB
Brewers win completion
of frst suspended game
MIAMI Prince Fielder
singled in the go-ahead run in
the 13th inning, the seventh time
he reached base, and Milwaukee
won the completion of the frst
suspended game caused by
Major League Baseballs rules
change.
The game was suspended with
the score 2-2 after 10 innings
and three rain delays Tuesday
night. Under the rules change
made during the ofseason, it
was picked up where the teams
left of.
Fielder fnished 4-for-4 with
three singles, a double and three
walks.
Renyel Pinto (0-1) relieved to
start the 13th and took the loss.
Elmer Dessens (1-0) pitched a
scoreless 12th for his frst victory
for the Marlins.
Erstads sacrifce-fy wins
game for White Sox
OAKLAND, Calif. Darin Er-
stad hit a go-ahead sacrifce fy in
the ninth after Jermaine Dye con-
nected for a tying two-run homer
an inning earlier, and the Chicago
White Sox beat the Oakland Ath-
letics 6-3 on Wednesday.
The As scored all of their runs
in the frst inning of Mark Bueh-
rle, who settled down to hold
Oakland to four hits in, retiring
17 of his fnal 18 batters. David
Aardsma (1-0) pitched a perfect
eighth and Bobby Jenks fnished
for his second save.
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TORONTO The Blue Jays are
well aware of how tough the AL
East can be. If they keep hitting like
they have been, they could make it
a lot tougher.
Troy Glaus homered and reached
base four times, and Aaron Hill had
three hits and three RBIs to lead
the Blue Jays over the Kansas City
Royals 7-4 on Wednesday night.
Were built to score runs, said
Toronto manager John Gibbons. If
our pitcher keeps us in the game,
well get a lot of wins.
Gustavo Chacin (1-0) did just
that, allowing three runs and five
hits in five-plus innings as the Blue
Jays won for the fourth time in five
games.
Bottom line is he kept himself
in there and got himself a win, said
Gibbons.
But it was another fine offensive
effort that led Toronto to the win.
The Blue Jays pounded out 12 hits,
and scored more than five runs for
the seventh time in eight games.
Glaus was 2-for-2 with two
walks and three runs for Toronto
(5-3), striving to overtake the New
York Yankees and Boston in the
AL East.
Glaus, who left Saturdays game
with a sore left heel and also sat
out Sunday, was replaced by John
McDonald at third base to begin
the eighth.
Glaus said hes still tender but
expects to play on Thursday. He
homered in the sixth, his second
of the year.
Down 2-1 in the fourth, Alex
Rios doubled to deep center to score
Vernon Wells and Frank Thomas.
With the hit, Rios extended his hit-
ting streak to eight games.
Hes the only Blue Jay with a hit
in every game this season. Glaus
tried to score from first on the play
but was thrown out on the relay
from shortstop Tony Pena Jr.
Vernon Wells RBI infield single
made it 4-2 in the fifth, but Ryan
Shealys sacrifice fly pulled the
Royals within a run in the sixth.
Esteban German pulled the
Royals within 5-4 in the seventh
with an RBI single off Casey Janssen
that ended a 14-inning scoreless
streak by Torontos bullpen.
Hill hit a two-run double against
Todd Wellemeyer in the bottom
half.
We kept scoring but they kept
scoring, said Kansas City manager
Buddy Bell. We just couldnt get a
goose egg up there after we scored
a run.
B.J. Ryan pitched a perfect ninth
for his third save in four chances.
Weve got a great bullpen and
those guys are doing a great job,
said Chacin.
Jorge De La Rosa (1-1) gave up
five runs four earned and nine
hits in 5 2/3 innings.
David DeJesus homered for
Kansas City (3-6), back in the AL
Central cellar, its usual home.
Its tough right now. Were in a
lot of games, said De Jesus. Weve
got to fix those little things, make
a play here and make a play there.
Weve got to stay confident, stay
together and be behind each other,
want to make that play to get us
back in the dugout and get us hit-
ting.
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received more than 700 messages
on Facebook from people asking
him about it or urging him to stay at
Kansas. Collins was in Chicago last
week, but he was there to help take
care of his newborn child.
People come up with stuff all the
time thats not even remotely close to
being true, Self said.
Collins will return for his sopho-
more season, but has yet to recover
from a knee injury he suffered at
the end of March. He is staying off
the court, but still working out daily,
and says the knee is about 90 percent
healed. Even as he struggled through
the final weeks, he said there was no
chance of him missing the tourna-
ment.
There wasnt anything that was
going to stop me from playing in
those games, he said. It hurt pretty
bad, but in a game like that your
adrenaline starts rushing and you
dont think as much about your
knee.
Decision time looms for Rush:
Sophomore guard Brandon Rush has
until April 29 to decide if hes leaving
for the NBA Draft, and he intends to
use all of his time.
Im just going to wait and see, he
said. Its going to come down to the
last few weeks, when I can get a feel
for who is going to get picked.
If other underclassmen declare for
the draft, Rush might be inclined to
stay in Lawrence another year instead
of going up against a strong rookie
class. If fewer players declare, it would
improve his position.
Rush said that even if he left, he
wouldnt immediately hire an agent.
Right now hes gathering informa-
tion about how different teams view
him, as well as meeting with Self
and talking on the phone with his
brother, Kareem.
Ive been able to relax, but its
going to come to the point where I
have to make a decision, Rush said.
His teammates said that they
would encourage him to stay, but
understand why he would want to
leave for the NBA.
Its all on Brandon right now,
Chalmers said. We all want him to
come back, but its his decision. Hes
going to do whats best for him.
A new addition? If Rush left,
a scholarship would become avail-
able for next year that Self was not
anticipating. Rumors are already
swirling about whether he would
pick up a junior college player so the
team would remain at full scholar-
ship capacity, but Self refused to
speculate.
Finding somebody, in large part,
will more than likely depend on our
roster status, he said. If everybodys
back, theres a great chance we wont.
If somebody leaves, theres a chance
we will.
Self said that he will be taking
the weekend off, and will continue
his offseason recruiting early next
week.
Kansan senior sportswriter Mi-
chael Phillips can be contacted at
mphillips@kansan.com.
BasketBall (continued from 1B)
MLB
Ofense leads Blue Jays to victory
aaron Harris/assOCIateD PRess
kansas City Royals pitcher Jorge De la Rosa hurls home during frst inning baseball action against theToronto Blue Jays in Toronto on Wednesday.
The Royals lost 7-4 to fnish their series with the Blue Jays with just one win and two losses.
Former Grambling
coach remembered
MeMoriaL
By MARy FOSTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GRAMBLING, La. They began
arriving soon after the sun came
up over the piney woods: football
greats, government figures and
everyday people all of them there
to say goodbye to former Grambling
football coach Eddie Robinson.
Most coaches are rated by
the players they recruit, the Rev.
Jesse Jackson said as he waited for
Robinsons funeral to start in the
schools new assembly center. Coach
was known for how many players he
graduated and sent on to successful
lives.
About 5,000 people attended
Wednesdays funeral just across
the street from the stadium where
Robinson and his players made his-
tory.
Its like coming to your fathers
funeral, said Robert Big Bird
Smith, who played for Robinson
and was an assistant coach dur-
ing Robinsons final four years at
Grambling. He was like a father to
everyone that ever played for him.
The funeral wrapped up three
days of mourning that stretched
across the state from Memorial Hall
at the state Capitol in Baton Rouge
to Memorial Garden, a cemetery two
miles from the college.
A plywood sign hung at the
Grambling exit off Interstate 20 read
Eddie Robinson, La. And for the
people of this little city and school, it
certainly seemed that way.
Robinson died last week at 88.
He was widely admired as one of
the nations winningest college foot-
ball coaches and as a mentor to the
young black men whose lives he
influenced for 57 years.
He was the most influential per-
son in my life, said Charlie Joiner,
now a wide receivers coach with the
Kansas City Chiefs. His first lesson
for all of us was to first become a
good American, then a good football
player.
The 26 pallbearers included at
least 15 former NFL players, some of
the more than 200 Robinson sent to
that league.
Royals need to
focus on details
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going 3-for-3 with two doubles and
reaching base four times. With the
game on the line in the ninth inning,
Cardinals manager Tony La Russa
felt he had an even better option.
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the perfect-until-then Taguchi, hom-
ered off Pittsburgh closer Salomon
Torres to give St. Louis a 3-2 victory
over the Pirates on Wednesday and a
three-game sweep.
That second spot was hot today,
La Russa said.
Duncans homer was his fourth
as a pinch hitter in 28 at-bats the
last two seasons and made for
another rough day for Torres (0-1),
who squandered a 2-0 lead and a
save opportunity during the ninth
Tuesday night before the Cardinals
won 3-2 in the 12th.
When I saw Torres warming up,
I figured thats who I was going to
face, Duncan said. Tony kind of
gave me a heads up. I made sure I
stayed warm and I was ready to go
when I got my opportunity.
Duncan saw nothing but fastballs
when he walked against Torres the
night before, and he kept looking
for the fastball again until he got one
below the knees on a 2-2 pitch.
Late in the game, you cant afford
to walk guys and they (the relievers)
are a little more aggressive, Duncan
said. I knew he had a good fastball, I
just wanted to make sure I was ready
to hit it.
La Russa said he didnt automati-
cally hit for Taguchi because a right-
hander was on the mound Taguchi
doubled against right-hander Jonah
Bayliss in the seventh.
Keith Srakocic/ASSOCIATED PRESS
St. Louis Cardinals So Taguchi hits a single to left in the frst inning against the Pirates in Pittsburgh onWednesday. The Cardinals beat the Pirates 3-2
to sweep the three game series.
mlb
Pinch hitter homers in ninth, Cardinals sweep series
sports
5B thursday, april 12, 2007
Duke lacrosse case
By AARON BEARD
AssOciAtED PREss
RALEIGH, N.C. Prosecutors
dropped all charges Wednesday
against the three Duke lacrosse play-
ers accused of sexually assaulting
a stripper at a party, saying the
athletes were innocent victims of a
tragic rush to accuse by an over-
reaching district attorney.
There were many points in the
case where caution would have
served justice better than bravado,
North Carolina Attorney General
Roy Cooper said in a damning
assessment of Durham County
District Mike Nifongs handling of
the sensational case.
Cooper, who took over the case
in January after Nifong was charged
with ethics violations that could get
him disbarred, said his own inves-
tigation concluded not only that
the evidence against the young men
was insufficient, but that no attack
took place.
Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty
and David Evans were indicted last
spring on charges of rape, kidnap-
ping and sexual offense after the
woman told police she was assaulted
in the bathroom at an off-campus
house during a team party where
she had been hired to perform.
But the attorney general said the
eyewitness identification procedures
were unreliable, no DNA supported
the womans story, no other wit-
ness corroborated it, and the woman
contradicted herself.
Based on the significant incon-
sistencies between the evidence and
the various accounts given by the
accusing witness, we believe these
three individuals are innocent of
these charges, Cooper said.
He said the charges resulted from
a tragic rush to accuse and a failure
to verify serious allegations.
Cooper called for the passage
of a state law that would allow the
North Carolina Supreme Court to
remove a prosecutor who needs to
step away from a case where justice
demands.
This case shows the enormous
consequences of overreaching by a
prosecutor, he said.
All charges dropped
Inconsistent evidence, accounts prove players innocence
We believe these three
individuals are innocent of these
charges.
Roy coopeR
North carolina Attorney General
cooper
By tROy scHULtE
AssOciAtED PREss
COLUMBIA, Mo. Missouri
tight end Martin Rucker flirted
with entering the NFL draft, but
decided against it, giving a boost
to an offense that should be
among the nations most lethal
in 2007.
Ruckers return is a bonus for
the Tigers.
After catch-
ing 53 passes
for 511 yards
and five
touchdowns
as a junior,
he sent game
film to an
NFL advisory
committee in January to gauge
his potential draft status.
What he found out made
Rucker, the All-Big 12 tight end,
decide to return to Missouri.
I was projected to go in the
fifth round, and I wasnt going
to leave for that, Rucker said.
There wasnt much talking
about it after I got the phone call,
it was just, eh, Ill be here another
year.
Rucker also sought the advice of
his brother, Carolina Panthers Pro
Bowl defensive end Mike Rucker.
I really want to play with him
and hes close to the end of his con-
tract, Martin Rucker said. That
was a really big factor in the thing,
but basically the overall decision
came from the projection.
Missouri coach Gary Pinkel and
quarterback Chase Daniel are cer-
tainly pleased to have Rucker back.
With Rucker and junior-to-be Chase
Coffman, who caught 58 passes for
638 yards and nine touchdowns, the
Tigers will again have one of the
best tight end combinations in the
country.
Pinkel has been through this
before. In 2001, defensive end Justin
Smith decided to leave early and was
picked fourth overall by Cincinnati.
In 1991, when Pinkel was an assis-
tant at Washington, he advised
defensive lineman Steve Emtman
to forego his senior year. Emtman
was the first overall pick by the
Indianapolis Colts.
I generally think that if youre
a high first-round pick, you should
go, Pinkel said. If youre a lower
round pick I think its ridiculous to
go because you can improve.
That was Ruckers thinking, too.
The feedback he received from the
advisory committee was to improve
his interior blocking, something he
admitted is hard to do in Missouris
spread offense.
Daniels pitch to one of his favor-
ite targets was the potential of a
Missouri team that finished eighth
nationally in total offense last year.
I told him, Were going to win a
lot of games and youre going to be a
big part of it, Daniel said.
Big 12 footBall
Mizzou tight end to return for senior season
I told him, Were going to win a
lot of games and youre going to
be a big part of it.
chAse DANiel
Missouri quarterback
Rucker
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to site at 35230 W. 135 Street Olathe Kan-
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GREAT SUMMER JOBS @ the Tall Oaks
Christian Camp at Linwood, KS. (15 miles
from Lawrence & 10 from Lenexa). Full
time summer positions for live on site or
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Classifieds 6b thursday, april 12, 2007
Female Roommate wanted for 4BR
house. Summer subleases and Fall 2007-
Spring 2008 available. W/D, large room,
$325+ 1/4 utilities. Call Nicole,
785-766-4641 hawkchalk.com/1712
Duplex 2B/1.5Ba, W/D, May Rent
Paid,Garage, Fenced Yard, $700/mo. 14
month lease. Sm. Pet OK Call Soon
785-856-2620. 306 Birch Ln.
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On Campus 3 br 2 ba apt avail for sum-
mer. 1150/mo+gas+elec Closest apt to
campus. Furnished as needed. On cam-
pus parking included. Call 816-509-7238
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Looking for 2 roommates to share 3 BR
house. Outside dog /cat inside okay- must
be fxed. Fenced in backyard, near K10,
lots of space. Call Lindsay (785)840.5597.
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Sublease May-July. Hutton Farms Duplex:
2BR, 2 ? Baths, Garage, plus washer and
dryer. Rent $975 + $30 for cable--willing
to negotiate on price. Call 785-727-0207.
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TWO SUMMER SUBLEASERS WANT-
ED. CALL 816.309.4404
FOR MORE INFORMATION!
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Summer Sublease: Three Bedroom,
Hawker apartments:11th and Missouri,
washer and dryer in unit! If interested
please call Ann (316)655-6961
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A cute house needs two clean people to
sublease for summer 07. WD included,
patio, no deposit required, large bed-
rooms. Please contact Nicole 785-766-
4641 asap.
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Avail June 1 to July 31! Only $289 + 1/3
utilities. 1 bedroom in 3bd/ 2bath apt. Very
large room private bath, walkin closet. Call
Andrew 918-527-6654 or aterkel@ku.edu.
hawkchalk.com/1704
A female sublease needed for the summer
in a 2 br apt on 6th and Florida. Rent is
287.5 w/ water paid. IF interested email
me @ katelyb@ku.edu
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FOR RENT
2 BR, 1 BA, 1 car garage. Newly remod-
eled. Large fenced yard. Pets OK $600
per month. Avail Aug. Call 785-841-3849.
Free Rent? 4 BR 3 BA, 2 car garage
townhome. All apliances. W/D included.
Avail Aug/Sept.Call 785-841-3849.1200/
mo.
Houses for Rent Near Campus
including 3/5/6/7 BR Avail in Aug.
Great Landlord!
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3BR 1BA hardwood foors, full basement,
W/D hookups, diswasher, large trees.
$850. Avail. Aug 1 Please Call 749-3193
1820 Alabama 3BR 2BA w/1 car cover.
Wood foors. Walking distance to
campus. All amenities included.
$1245/mo.
Avail. Aug. Call Ed at 760-840-0487.
1822 Maine 3BR 2BA w/ 2 car garage.
Wood foors. Walking distance to
campus. All amenities included.
$1245/mo.
Avail. Aug. Call Ed at 760-840-0487.
1731/1735 Kentucky Street Large 4
Bedroom, 2 bath, Washer/dryer included.
Available August. MPM 785-841-4935.
Now Leasing for 2007! Chase Court Apts.
Free DVD library & Free Breakfast. $99
deposit per BR. Call for details. 843-8220.
FOR RENT
Holiday Apts.Now Leasing 1, 2, 3 & 4 BR
apts. for Summer & Fall, nice quiet set-
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large closets, on KU bus route. Cats
welcome. Call 843-0011
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FALL LEASING
Spacious 1, 2, & 3 BRs
Canyon Court Apts.
700 Comet Ln.
785-832-8805
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Great location 1801 Mississippi. 3BR apt.
Hardwood foors, CA, $660/mo. Aug 1. No
pets. 842-4242.
3 BR 2.5 BA townhome in NW Lawrence,
gas log freplace, W/D hookups, all appls.,
2 car garage w/opener. $850-$950/mo.
Avail. now! 785-423-2525
Hawthorn / Parkway Townhomes.
2 & 3 BR avail. Some with attached ga-
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Hawthorn Houses. 2 & 3 BR avail.
w/ 2-car garage. Burning freplace.
Large living area. 842-3280.
Cute 2 BR apart. in renovated older
house, 1300 block Vermont, wood foors,
DW, cats ok, sm offce, private deck, off
st parking, and 90% effcient furnace,
available August. $780 ($390 each) Call
Jim and Lois 785-841-1074
ROOMMATE/SUBLEASE
Large house on 19th Terrace. Close to
campus. Rec room, pool table, DW, W/D,
Big yard. Looking for guy or girl room-
mate. Please call Ryan @ 785-331-9215.
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Roomates needed to share 3BR 2BA
condo with W/D near campus. $290/mo.
+1/3 util. Avail June 1 or Aug 1. 550-4544.
3 BR 1 BA duplex 1 car garage. W/D
hookups. Big yard. Big foor plan. Quiet
location. $550/mo. Guy at 785-331-9080.
1BR furnished apt sublease from June
1 to August 30. Non smoker and no
pets.19th & Kentucky. Rent $550/mo.
including utilities.
Email sumit@ku.edu. hawkchalk.
com/1660
The Reserve @ W 31st.Sublease needed
from May until July 31st. 4BR 2BA. $319/
mo including util. Split elect.1/4.
W/D, fully furnished, pool, bball courts.
Call 913-360-9164. hawkchalk.com/1801
1BR 1BA apt. Avail for June and/or July.
Features DW, W/D, pool, hot tub, ftness
center, bball court, free breakfast & DVD
rental. Call 785-955-0173.
Hawkchalk/ 1683.
2 Christian Roommates needed! 3 BR
House, garage, W/D. Master BR w/private
BA $350/mo. 2nd BR $300/mo. Call Eric:
(785)393-2127 BrinkmanE82@yahoo.com
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Roommate needed from now until July
31st. Rent is $257.50 a month plus utili-
ties. Must be responsible and fun. Call
(913)207-5044 or email jtimmns1@ku.edu
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June/July sublease in new Meadowbrook
Apts. 1BR/1BA in 2BR apt. W/D, all elec-
tric. Pool &gym. $400 a month plus 1/2
util. Call Kyle (913)579-9381.
hawkchalk.com/1729
Roommate needed. Aug07-Aug08. W/D
D/W large room w/ large closet, own full
bath. $260/mo. + 1/3 bills. 913-530-9371.
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Seeking 1-3 roommates for 4 BR, 3 BA
nice house, W/D. May rent 1-room or
entire house. $250-300 each + util, frst
month reduced. 913-207-6519.
1 female needed for summer sublease
in a 4 BDRM/2 BATH, fully furnished
apartment. Pool, gym & tanning bed.
309/mo + shared utilities. If interested call
9132200637. hawkchalk.com/1705
1BR & 1BA avail. in 4BR apt. Free
Internet. $260/month + 1/4 util. Living w/3
great guys, very clean. 23rd & Inverness
Contact Jonathan jdash@ku.edu.
hawkchalk.com/1703
1BR avail for sublease of 4BR/4BA at The
Reserve. $339/mo + electric. Fully fur-
nished, W/D, pool, workout facility. Avail.
end of May - July 31st. 785-766-8423
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Hampton Inn is now hiring! Front
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Housekeeping(weekends). Email basic
resume to derek_felch@hilton.com.
PT person needed at small apt. complex
near campus. Need a reliable multi-tasker
to do leasing & misc. Approx. 15 hrs/wk.
Briarstone Apts. 749-7744
Servers and Kitchen Help needed. Lake
Quivira Country Club is looking for
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schedules Tues - Sun. Located I-435 and
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Account Service Reps needed to start
full-time on or before June 1, at Security
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Accepting applications for broiler cooks
and dishwashers. No late hours. Apply at
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Camp Counselors needed for great over-
night camps in the Pocono Mtns. of PA.
Gain valuable experience while working
with children in the outdoors. Teach or as-
sist with athletics, swimming, A&C, drama,
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Offce & Nanny positions also avail. Apply
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Teacher aids needed for summer and or
fall. 7-2 or 1-6 . Please apply at Childrens
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WERE YOU A HIGH SCHOOL ALLSTAR?
Of course you were - thats why your at
KU. This summer, gain experience, travel,
regain your competative edge, make
$700/week Call for details 785-856-2783
1 & 2 BR apts avail. for August.
Great location near campus. Walk or ride
bus. Quiet area. Balcony or patio, W/D
hookups, DW, CA, walk-in closet, minib-
linds, ceiling fan. No pets. Briarstone Apts.
1000 Emery Rd. 749-7744.
2 BR. June. 1335 Connecticut. $650.
4 BR. June. 617 Maine. $1200.
4 BR. August. 613 Maine. $1200.
7 BR. August. 1536 Tennessee. $2800.
Call 550-6414.
3 BRs for rent in a house near Lawrence
High school. Rooms available May 19th
through July 31st. $400/mo includes utili-
ties. If interested call Travis @ 760-3325
4BR 3 1/2BA house for rent. Fenced
backyard. W/D. Central heat and air. Very
spacious. Close to campus. $1300/mo.
Please Call Chris 913-205-8774
California Apartments: Studios, 1, 2, 3
Bedrooms from $425/month. W/D hook-
ups or included, D/W, C/A. 785-841-4935
Country Club Apartments: Upscale 2 BR/2
BA, w/d included, D/W, C/A! Dont miss
out! 785/841-4935
Studio apt. at 945 Mo. St. Avail. Now! New
hrdwd frs in kitchen, renovated BA, Bay
window, off-street parking. $390/mo gas &
water pd. Please call 749-0166
1 bedroom apt. available for summer sub-
lease at Hawker apartment, 1011 Missouri
St. 612-702-4073 if interested.
hawkchalk.com/1789
1 bedroom open in 3 bedroom duplex
very close to campus $325 + 1/3 utilities
high spd internet & new appliances
913 449 9995 hawkchalk.com/1756
1BR 1BA avail in 4BR apt. female only.
June/July. lots of privacy, w/d, pool, work-
out facilities, high speed internet. 500/mo
w/ utils included. call 785-393-5115
hawkchalk.com/1799
3 BR apt. Highpointe. Lease starts june 1.
Next to pool, ku bus stop & clubhouse.
Well kept. New appliances!! $320/mo./BR
hawkchalk.com/1772
3BR duplex for rent Jun07-Aug08 3726
HartfordAve by Alvamar links.Major
appliances + 2 car garage Central air +
24/7 maintenance. 350month Freddie@
ku.edu/7852186005 hawkchalk.com/1791
Female grad student seeks 1-2 room-
mates to share a 3BR, 2Bath townhouse
in Lawrence. Move in as early as July.
E-mail suzannea@ku.edu if interested.
hawkchalk.com/1780
Live at the Reserve over the Summer.
1BR avail. in 4BR 2Bath apartment.
315/m + electric. Call Sean (913) 314-
8988 Pool, hottub, workout,+ tan bed.
hawkchalk.com/1794
2BR avail in 4BR 2BA for sublease, MAY-
JUL On KU Bus route + Rec & gameroom.
$223/mo+Util. 913-638-3553, talk to
Michael. hawkchalk.com/178
Male roommate needed for 3BR 2 bath
town home with garage; to move in July
or beginning of August 2007. $280/mo.
plus utilities. For info call Daniel at 785-
979-2066 hawkchalk.com/1784
ROOMMATE/SUBLEASE
Baldwin Highschool and Baldwin Allstars
14 and under need head and assistant
coaches. Needing coaches with experi-
ence in stunting, tumbling and dance.
Email summary of experience to
plenning@usd348.com
CAREGIVERS & companions for our
clients in their homes. Set your hours, we
train. Home Helpers. 785-424-3880.
Bartenders needed PT experienced only.
Apply in person at Slow Ride Roadhouse
1350 N. 3rd st. N. Lawrence.
DCCCA, a diversifed provider of human
services, has a FT substance abuse
counselor position available. Hrs include
some evenings. Duties incl. court eval;
group therapy w/ adolescents & adults.
Requirements incl AAPS certifcation or
certifcation eligible; successful
completion of background checks.
Masters degree preferred. Send resume
to Dave Ruhlen 1739 E. 23rd Lawrence,
KS 66046; fax 785-830-8246
email druhlen@dccca.org. EOE
Group Home Support Staff with good work
ethic & communication skills. Bachelors
degree and Behavioral knowledge pre-
ferred. $10-14hr or more based on exp.
Resume fax 816-777-1305
tmcdonald@behavioralmilestones.com.
Seeking certifed Special Education
Teacher for position in private ABA school
serving ages 5-21. Fax resume to 816-
777-0626 dmatthews@behavioralmile-
stones.com
Seeking PT babysitter for mornings for 3
kids. Mon-Fri 6:45 am-7:30 am. Sun
7:00 am-10:00 am. May split time
between 2 people, if needed. $12/hour.
Please call 842-8104 for interview.
SUMMER MANAGEMENT JOB!
Hundreds of jobs available!
Work outside, gain leadership skills,
advancement opportunities!
To apply call College Pro Painters NOW!
1-888-277-9787www.collegepro.com
Summer Nanny for two children in SW
Topeka. Responsible and caring. Includes
light chores. Must have transportation and
references. Contact Mike 785-250-8226
Sublease available in May: 2BR, 2 ?
Baths, Garage, plus washer and dryer.
Rent $975 + $30 for cable--willing to
negotiate on price. 785-727-0207.
Hawkchalk.com/1809.
Are you an artist? Work well with oth-
ers? Will you be here this summer?!
Yes? Contact mimitot@gmail.com SUBJ:
COMIC for details. hawkchalk.com/1760
Advertising & Marketing Manager
Responsible for the creation of print
materials & all forms of advertisement for
property management team. Including
updates to website and tracking of leads.
Requires excellent written and verbal
communication skills. Submit resume &
salary requirements to:
jobs@frstmanagementinc.com or
P.O. 1797 Lawrence, KS 66044.
Do you speak Spanish, like peanut
butter and dont mind getting sand in
your shoes? Raintree Montessori School
is looking for a toddler assistant who loves
working with very short people. 10:30 AM
- 5:30 PM Mon-Fri. $11/hr.
Call 785-843-6800
Looking for fun, outgoing, motivated
people to work in-store promotional sales.
$10/hr (Weekends Only!) Email for more
info: instoredemos@yahoo.com
10 min walk, 1 full bath, back deck &
backyard, ref. & DW, available immedi-
ately. 1311 Valley Lane $575/mo.+ util.
Call Deborah 913-269-4265
hawkchalk.com/1851
$1200/mo. 2 BR 2 BA 2 walk-in closets
near FB stadium W/D avail & parking
June 1st to July 31st email
rnadolna@ku.edu
hawkchalk.com/1848
$325/mo + ? utilities for bigger BR at
Highpointe. W/D and D/W. Free breakfast,
pool, weight room, on KU bus route. Call
Joe today 860-268-2877.
hawkchalk.com/1822
1 Room for summer rent
19th & Alabama. 350 a month + Utility
Nice Large Room. aippel@ku.edu
hawkchalk.com/1829
1700 & 1716 Kentucky St.
4 bedroom, 2 bath, w/d, $1100
call 979.2597 hawkchalk.com/1827
1BR/1BATH in 3BR/3BATH Apt. for the
summer. Great location, pool, workout
center, on bus route. Rent is negotiable at
a reduced price. Call (847)571-7149
hawkchalk.com/1836
2 BR (or 1 BR) apt, 2 BA. Mid-May to end
of July. $825 for 2-beds;$400 for 1-bed.
W/D & furnished. 5 min to campus.
On bus route. Email: kafkapo@gmail.com
hawkchalk.com/1841
22-yr-old senior looking for roommate(s)
for the summer & fall semester 07. I am a
normal, laid back guy, no pets, non- smok-
er, athletic, agreeable/responsible.
hawkchalk.com/1845
3 BR avail. in 4 BR 2 BA townhome.
Females only. $400/mo.+ 1/4 util. 1 mile
west of KU. Nice community. Call 816-
746-5746 or Rachel @785-979-4740.
need 1-2 subleasers. $315/mo+split
electric. furnished, w/d, pool, workout
room, hot tub, free internet, comp. lab.
cool,college-age roomies. Call(316)806-
Need up to 3 Roommates for 4 BR, 3 BA
nice house, W/D. May rent 1-room, or
entire house is available. $250-300 each
+ util, frst month reduced. 913-207-6519.
hawkchalk.com/1828
Roomate wanted for nice place off
Naismith. 3 BR 1 BA, W/D, wi-f, etc.
Please come and check it out.
Call Dan @ 785.979.8286
hawkchalk.com/1834
FT opening for CNA on day shift at Eu-
dora Nursing Center. Apply in person at
1415 Maple St, Eudora, KS.
Enjoy a panoramic view of Lawrence from
your well maintained, spacious, 3 bed-
room, 2 bath condo. Rent is only $885.00
with water and trash paid. Featuring a
fully equipped kitchen, washer/dryer,
on the KU bus route, or enjoy a short 5
minute walk to class or downtown. For
a showing call 842-6264 or 865-8741 on
evenings & weekends.
Newly Renovated 2 BR 2 BA Apt Close
to Campus. Pool, Gym, Hot Tub, Free
Internet. Pay only electric. Avail June-Aug
1. $297 pp. email whitneyn@ku.edu
hawkchalk.com/1869
Nice 3BR 2Bath apartment. Walking
distance from campus, Washer and dryer
included, wood foors. Only $279/person.
Call Martha (785)841-3328
hawkchalk.com/1782
On Campus 3 bdrm 2 bth apt avail for
summer sublease. 1150/mo+gas+elec
Closest apart to campus. Furnished as
needed. On campus parking included.
Call 816-509-7238 hawkchalk.com/1875
Roommate wanted for 2 bed/2 bath apart-
ment @ Hawks Point3. Lease dates from
7/29/07-7-28/08. Clean, well maintained
aptmt. Rent is 425/mon+utes. Contact Ted
Spacious 1 bd 1ba summer sublease
available may 19 -aug 5? Pets welcome
and COMPLETLY FURNISHED. More
info? cassie25@ku.edu 785-493-1409
hawkchalk.com/1726
Spacious with hardwood foors, fenced
yard, W/D, dishwasher. No smoking or
pets. Family units only. $1,000/mo.+ util.
Avail July 1 or later. 785-749-1304
hawkchalk.com/1884
Summer Sublease $200 a month plus 1/4
of utilities Near 6th and Monterey Way
Contact Betty at brk_05@hotmail.com for
more info hawkchalk.com/1871
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ROOMMATE/
1BR and 4BR Apts avail now. Private
entrance, roomy, large yard. $525/mo and
$750/mo 785-749-1530
Very nice 3 BR house close to campus.
Washer and dryer provided. No smoking,
no pets. $1100/mo. Call 979-6453.
Student Cooperative near campus featur-
ing laundry, kitchen space, pool table,
cable TV, private rooms and much more.
Rent ranges from $250-350/mo. including
utilities. Call 785-749-0871.
1 bedroom basement apartment avail-
able August 1, 13th and Vermont, $379,
DW, off street parking, window AC, cats
ok, call Jim and Lois 785-841-1074
FOR RENT FOR RENT FOR RENT FOR RENT FOR RENT
Jacksonville Apartments: 1 & 2 Bedrooms
on the West Side from $460/month. Laun-
dry on-site, D/W & C/A. OPEN HOUSES
ON WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS-700
Monterey Way Apt. N2 785-841-4935
1 and 2 BR Apt. Avail June and August.
Between campus and downtown. Close to
gsp/corbin. No pets. 785-550-5012
1 BR & studio. 1530 Tennessee.
Remodeled. Quiet. $460 and $390.
Water paid. 785-393-6443.
3BR 3BA $1500/mo 946 Illinois; 3BR 3
1/2BA $1575/mo 940 & 942 Illinois; 4BR
Game Room, 5 1/2BA $2500/mo 1136
Mississippi; 2BR 1 1/2BA $550/mo 627 W
25th; 785-979-9120
River City Homes
Well maintained town homes in west
Lawrence. All appliances and lawn care
furnished. Visit our website for addresses
and current prices. www.rivercity4rent.
com
785-749-4010
1326 Massachusetts 4BR 1BA. Large
house w/ wood foors. Walking distance
to campus & downtown. All amenities incl.
$1500/mo. Avail. Aug. Call 760-840-0487.
For Rent 1BR Duplex 400 blk of E 19th
kitchen w/ eating area. Full BA. AC. W/D
Hookups. Hrdwd Flrs. Avail. 6/1 No smok-
ing/pets call 842-3175 or 979-6211
Awesome location 4-plex at 922 Tennes-
see. Close to campus and downtown.
3 BR 2 full BA. W/D. Available Aug. 1.
$850/mo. Call 785-393-1138.
4 BR 2 BA house. 1 car garage, yard
on quiet col-de-sak. 608 Saratoga. Rent
Aug. 1. 785-842-6779 or 785-760- 2896.
4 BR 2 BA townhome 2 car GA. Avail
Aug. Over 1500 sq. ft. Large rooms,
$1240/mo ($310/person). 785-766-6302.
Large master bedroom in 3 BR duplex,
cable, internet, garage, washer/dryer, 3 mi
from campus. quite neighborhood. 350/
month + 3rd utilities. e-mail: kmingold@
ku.edu. Hawkchalk.com/1803
1317 Valley Lane. 1, 2, 3 BR apts.
$610-$940/mo. Washer dryer hookup,
dishwasher and garage. Close to campus.
749-6084.
Tuckaway Management
Great Locations!
Great Prices!
Great Customer Service!
Call 838-3377 or 841-3339
www.tuckawaymgmt.com
3 BR 2BA 1 garage. W/D hookup. No
pets or smkr. On KU bus route. 806 New
Jersey. $900/mo. Aug. 1. 550-4148.
Unfurnished. 1 - 2 Blocks from campus.
Newer construction. 3 & 4 Bedrooms
Please call 785-841-5444
Very close to campus, spacious 1BR apt
in Victorian house at 1100 Louisiana. No
Pets, No smokers Aug 1st $500/mo/water
paid 766-0476
Small 3 bedroom apartments in renovat-
ed older houses, walk to Ku or downtown,
$780 per mo which is $260 per person,
cats ok, wood foors, and DW call Jim and
Lois 785-841-1074
Small Studio apartments in renovated
older house, wood foors, antique tubs,
window AC, Avail Aug. $399, cats ok call
Jim and Lois 785-841-1074
Parkway Commons 1, 2 & 3 BR. Util.
packages. $99 deposit. 842-3280. 3601
Clinton Pkwy.
Seniors and grads:1&2 BR apts or
duplexes close to KU&downtown. Upstairs
or down, tile, carpet, or hrdwd, $395-760/
mo+util. No smoking/pets. Avail. 5/15 and
8/1. Call Big Blue Property 785-979-6211.
Renovated house at 9th and Missis-
sippi has 1 BR apartments available
for August $469 to $499 all have wood
foors, off st parking, and DW. Cats ok,
90% effcient furnace, call Jim and Lois at
785-841-1074.
2 BR open in a 3 BR house. Brand new,
3 bath, freplace, near 15th & Wakarusa.
Rent is $475 and that includes all utilities.
Call Rachel at 816-550-8437.
hawkchalk.com/1775
Now leasing for fall.
Highpointe Apts.
1,2&3 BR. 785-841-8468.
Excellent Locations 1341 Ohio and 1104
Tennessee 2BR CA DW W/D Hookups
$510/mo and $500/mo No Pets
Call 785-842-4242
2 BR August lease available. Next to cam-
pus. Jayhawk Apts. 1130 W 11th $600/mo.
No pets. 785-556-0713
3BR 2BA apts off Emery close to campus.
W/D included. Rent $275/mo/per person.
785-550-5979 between 8AM and 8PM
2 BR apt. W/D. Close to campus. 928
Alabama. By the stadium. $500/mo.
Ask for Edie at Silver Clipper 842-1822.
3 BR Apt. Very spacious, 2 story. 1 &
1/2 BA. Fireplace, skylight, remodeled
kitchen, bathrooms. W/D, walkout patio, 1
car garage. Near campus. 2901 Univer-
sity Dr. $900/mo. No smkng. 748-9807.
Attention seniors & grad students!
Real nice, quiet 1 & 2 BR apts/houses.
Avail. June 1. Hard wood foors. Lots of
windows. No pets or smoking. 331-5209.
1125 Tennessee 3&4 bedrooms available
for August. Fully-equipped kitchens,
over 1400 square feet w/ washer/dryer
included. MPM 785-841-4935.
941 Indiana Street: 1,2&3 Bedrooms
available for August. Starting at $490-
$975. Close to stadium and campus!
MPM. 785-841-4935.
Eastview Apartments 1025 Mississippi
studio, 1&2 bedrooms. Laundry on-site.
Available August. MPM 785-841-4935.
3BR 2BA Condo close to campus! 927
Emery Road. W/D and all appliances. No
Pets. $825/mo Please call 913-220-5235
1701-1717 Ohio 2BR 1BA Close to KU
Dishwasher. W/D. No pets. $620/mo
749-6084 www.eresrental.com
1&2 BR studio apts near KU & resi-
dential offces near 23rd St. Ideal for
students&profs to launch business.841-
6254.
Now Leasing for 2007! Applecroft Apts.
Walking distance to campus. $99 deposit
per BR. Call for details.785-843-8220.
Houses, Apartments, Townhomes
available for Now and August 1st
www.gagemgmt.com 785-842-7644
1-3 BR apts&houses.Most near campus
405-$1050. www.longpropertymgmt.com.
kelli@longpropertymgmt.com.842-2569.
2 BR. Avail June 1. 1242 Louisiana. CA,
DW, hardwood foors, W/D. $560 - water
paid. 785-393-6443.
3 BR 1 BA, W/D, DW, basement, garage
storage, pets (depends). 1005 Penn St.
$875. Owner managed. 842-8473.
OTHER PROPERTIES AVAILABLE!
3BR 2BA, W/D, DW, 3 blocks from cam-
pus! College Hill Condo available Aug 1,
rent $835/mo. 913.424.8137
5 BR House near campus at 941 Missouri
St. Avail. June 1. Lg. porch & deck. DW,
W/D, A/C. Off-St. parking. $1,250/mo. Call
749-0166 or 691-7250 to see
Available August sm 2 BR apartment
in renovated older house, 14th and Con-
necticut, wood foor, DW, W/D, hookups,
new 90% effcient furnace, CA, cats ok,
off st parking, $625 call Jim and Lois 785-
841-1074
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NCAA MENS BASKETBALL COMMENTARY
UCLA fans should thank Afalo
Nick Ut/ASSOCIATED PRESS
UCLA junior Arron Afalo speaks to media at a news conference Tuesday in Los Angeles. Afalo, who led UCLA to its second straight Final Four this
season, is passing up his fnal year of eligibility with the Bruins to turn pro. With Afalo is coach Ben Howland.
By Sam allen
Daily Bruin
LOS ANGELES At Tuesdays
press conference Arron Afflalo
calmly explained his decision to
leave school for the NBA. He was
confident and articulate as he dem-
onstrated his love and appreciation
for UCLA, and he thanked the com-
munity for all of its support.
UCLA fans should be the ones
thanking Afflalo, whether they agree
with his decision or not.
Afflalo was the first recruit Ben
Howland signed as UCLA coach.
The programs meteoric rise can
be traced to that recruiting class of
2004, which included Afflalo, cur-
rent Laker Jordan Farmar, junior
Lorenzo Mata and redshirt sopho-
more Josh Shipp. When Afflalo
arrived, UCLA had missed the tour-
nament two years in a row; hes
leaving after guiding the team to two
straight Final Fours.
Those players were recruited
with the understanding that the
NBA was their dream. Last year
it was Farmars time to go, and he
was selected in the first round and
has found a home with the Lakers.
Afflalo wisely declared, gauged his
draft stock, and returned to UCLA
for a junior season.
This year, Afflalo became one of
the Bruin greats. He was UCLAs first
consensus All-American since Ed
OBannon in 1995. He was the Pac-
10 Player of the Year and the Bruins
top scorer. UCLA won 30 games, and
basketball was alive in Westwood,
Calif., for four great months.
Clearly Afflalo has proven himself
as a Bruin on and off the court. After
three years he is just a few classes
away from graduating and still wants
to be a UCLA alumnus.
But after the emotions settled and
the tears dried up from this years
loss to Florida, Afflalo had to make
the smart choice, the best one for
him and his family, to leave the
school he has grown to love.
Howland is certain that Afflalo
will be a first-round pick. Its obvious
that he would be very attractive to
teams selecting at the end of the first
round. If Howland is right, Afflalo
will be earning no less than $700,000
next season.
But its not just the money. Afflalo
has fully developed as a player and
person in Westwood. He has gained
the physical strength to confront
the rigorous NBA schedule. He has
cultivated a jump shot and defensive
game that are NBA-ready. Afflalo
has put in all the work and now
has the opportunity to realize his
ultimate dream. And after all he has
done for UCLA, he has earned the
right to make the decision that is
best for him.
mlB
Matsuzakas home debut
spoiled by Mariners
BOSTON Fans were treated
to a great pitching performance
in Daisuke Matsuzakas Fenway
Park debut only it was by Felix
Hernandez.
Hernandez didnt allow a hit un-
til the eighth inning, overshadow-
ing the frst major league matchup
between Dice-K and Ichiro Suzuki.
Matsuzaka (1-1) allowed three
runs and eight hits in seven innings
and Sukuzi went 0-for-5 in the
game.
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NCAA MENS BASKETBALL COMMENTARY
Loss of Oden wont
hurt title hopes
Ohio State has ringer in Mike Conley Jr.
By JoSh lehman
The lanTern
COLUMBUS, Ohio Dont let
the depression set in.
Speculation is rampant that
weve seen Greg Oden play his
last game in the scarlet and gray.
After a dominating performance
in Ohio States loss to Florida in the
national title game, he definitely
looks ready to go to the next level.
Twenty-five, 12 and four makes for
a difficult counter-argument.
And who
could blame
him? Hes a
lock to be the
top pick in the
NBA draft,
make millions
in salary and
endorsements
and set up shop
in the painted
area in arenas
throughout the
country. I cant name a single cen-
ter in the NBA who I think could
stop him right now not named
Shaq, and the Diesels tank is run-
ning out of, well, diesel.
Although I disagree that the
Bigger O is a mortal lock to leave
the Buckeye state this summer,
even if he does go, this team has a
chance at a title next year.
The reasons can be counted
on one hand, one finger and one
jersey. Specifically, the jersey that
reads 1.
Mike Conley Jr. will lead the
Buckeyes back to the promised
land. By promised land, I mean
the 2008 Final Four in San Antonio.
You can bet your tuition money on
it. In fact, Ill go a step further and
say you can bet your beer money
on it.
Crazy right? Just hear me out.
Simply put, hes the best player
in the country. Not after Texas
phenom Kevin Durant, not after
his teammate Oden, not after any-
body. Mike Conley Jr. is the best
player in the country.
Hes a scorer who cant be
stopped. He has the speed to beat
anybody off the dribble and the
only way to keep his runners out
of the basket is to foul him. Ask
Xavier and Memphis how that
worked out.
Conley is selfless. On a team
abundant with shooters, he passed
the ball around to make sure that
everybody got their touches, even
at the expense of his own.
He takes
care of the
ball. His abil-
ity to hit his
t e a mma t e s
without turn-
ing the ball
over makes
him the best
point guard in
the country.
The differ-
ence between
Durant and Odens clubs was the
difference between D.J. Augustin
and Conley.
But more than anything else,
hes a leader. Think about it. Who
brought us back so many times
with Oden riding pine? Who took
over in overtime against Xavier?
Who calmly walked up the court
after Georgetown took a 34-33
lead early in the second half and
promptly took the lead back?
Mike Conley Jr., thats who.
Because hes already said that he
is coming back for at least one
more season, Im feeling really
good. Obviously nothings set in
stone until the April 29 declara-
tion deadline passes, but I like the
odds here.
Oden might get all the press, but
make no mistake about it. Youre
not wearing that Final Four T-shirt
if Conley isnt on this team, and
Im writing about another early
March exit.
Conley is selfess. On a team
abundant with shooters, he
passed the ball around to make
sure that everyone got their
touches, even at the expense of
his own.
sports
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2540 Iowa
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1.____________
2.____________
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Anderson Chandler Lecture Series
The University of Kansas School of Business,
in conjunction with the School of Engineering,
present the Engineering Distinguished Lectureship
Alan Mulally
President and Chief Executive Officer
of Ford Motor Company
Working Together
Monday, April 16, 2007 7:00 p.m.
The Lied Center of Kansas
* Tickets are required and
available free of charge at
the Lied Center of Kansas.
By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS
ASSOCIATed PreSS
TULSA, Okla. Scott Sutton,
who led Oral Roberts to its first con-
secutive NCAA tournament berths
in school history, said Wednesday
he is withdrawing his name from
consideration to be Wichita States
next head coach.
But he left open the possibility he
could someday walk away from the
program for another job.
Ive always said it would take a
special place for me to even con-
sider leaving ORU, or even consider
talking to someone, Sutton said
at a Wednesday news conference
at the Mabee Center. And I think
that shows what type of job I think
Wichita State is. I think its a great
job.
Sutton, who has spent his entire
coaching career at Oral Roberts, had
been contacted by Wichita State on
Tuesday. He owed it to himself, his
staff and his family to listen to the
school.
Wichita State is looking for a new
coach after Mark Turgeon was hired
by Texas A&M on Monday.
But it was loyalty to ORU President
Richard Roberts and athletic direc-
tor Mike Carter, who gave him a
coaching opportunity he couldnt
get anywhere else, that factored in
his decision to stay.
Sutton, 36, also said he wanted to
build upon the schools back-to-back
NCAA berths and prove wrong the
doubters who dont believe the pro-
gram can make it back to where the
program has been.
I think theres unfinished busi-
ness here, Sutton said.
There may be a day down the
road that I take another job, but
right now my focus is trying to make
this program and our team the best
it can be.
An ORU athletics spokesman said
the school likely will offer Sutton a
contract extension, but those negoti-
ations had started before the Wichita
State job came up.
NCAA BASeBAll
One month after wreck,
coach still in hospital
ATLANTA A student coach for
an Ohio college baseball team
who barely survived a deadly
bus crash more than a month
ago has been upgraded to fair
condition, hospital ofcials said
Wednesday.
Tim Berta, 22, sufered brain
injuries March 2 when a bus
carrying his Blufton University
baseball team plowed of an
overpass onto Interstate 75 in
Atlanta.
Associated Press
Dice-K mania hits Fenway
Chitose Suzuki/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fans hold fags in support of Boston Red Soxs Daisuke Matsuzaka during practice before the start of the game between the Red Sox and Seattle Mariners at Fenway Park in Boston on Wednesday. The
Mariners spoiled Matsuzakas home debut. Matsuzaka allowed eight hits, three runs and struck out only three.
NCAA MENS bASKEtbAll
Sutton
turns down
Wichita State,
stays at ORU
bIG 12 MENS bASKEtbAll COMMENtARY
Turgeon could surprise fans
By JACk MOlITOr
The BATTAlION
COLLEGE STATION, Texas
Texas A&M basketball fans
who dont know new head coach
Mark Turgeon will find out soon.
And chances are, they will be
pleasantly surprised.
A&M did very well con-
sidering the time constraints,
available options and the obvi-
ous shock and disappointment
of Billy Gillispies departure.
Turgeon has been one of the
most sought after coaches in
the country, especially after his
transformation of the Wichita
State Shockers from a run of
the mill mid-major to expect-
ed NCAA tournament team.
Granted, he and the Shockers did
not make the tournament this year,
as they struggled down the stretch;
it was actually his past success that
led to his difficulties in 2007.
Turgeon and a litany of other
very successful Missouri Valley
Conference coaches, including
Southern Illinois Chris Lowery,
Creightons Dana Altman and oth-
ers, have turned the MVC into a
power conference. The MVC is so
deep now that for the past three
years, it has almost been expected
that this mid-major conference will
have anywhere from two to five
NCAA tournament teams. This puts
it almost on par with major confer-
ences like the Pac-10 and the Big
12.
As a result, these coaches have
become the victim of their own
success because their increased
accolades have made the MVC and
others like it even more competi-
tive. These coaches truly have lifted
college basketball to a level of parity
that has never been seen.
What does all of this mean to
A&M fans? These coaches have
given college basketball fans great
Cinderella stories the past few sea-
sons, but beyond that, they have
blurred the normally obvious differ-
ences between their programs and
the upper echelons.
And that is something that A&M
is definitely looking for. After expe-
riencing tastes of victory from the
past two seasons, Aggie fans want
more.
And they do not consider their
program too far from the top.
Ex-Jayhawk will need support to keep Texas A&M competitive
By MIKE FITZPATRICK
AssoCIATEd PREss
NEW YORK Rachel
Robinson still has vivid memo-
ries of April 15, 1947, when her
husband changed America for-
ever.
As Jackie Robinson was get-
ting ready to break baseballs
color barrier with the Brooklyn
Dodgers, Rachel was hustling to
get to Ebbets Field to see it.
She waited a long time for a taxi
because drivers routinely passed
up black passengers. She wor-
ried their baby, Jackie Jr., would
be cold because she had dressed
for spring.
And she
stopped at a
hot dog stand
in the ball-
park, where
a vendor was
kind enough
to heat up the
boys bottle.
It was
an exciting,
exhilarating
time, but it also was a stressful
time, Rachel Robinson said.
Reform is rarely a breeze.
Sustaining a legacy can be even
more difficult.
As Major League Baseball pre-
pares to celebrate the 60th anni-
versary of Robinsons landmark
achievement on Sunday, there
are growing concerns about the
sports racial makeup.
Only 8.4 percent of big league
players last season were black, the
lowest number in two decades. In
1995, 19 percent of major leaguers
were black, according to Richard
Lapchick, director of the University
of Central Floridas Institute for
Diversity and Ethics in Sports.
Obviously, he would not be satis-
fied with where we are now, Rachel
Robinson said, referring to the man
she still calls Jack. He would be
disappointed, because he felt we
were on the way toward some lasting
change.
Has baseball betrayed Jackie
Robinson?
Thats what it seems like to me
that all the
work hes done is
almost for noth-
ing, Minnesota
Twins center
fielder Torii
Hunter said.
Because look
where we are. We
should be pro-
gressing. Were
regressing.
To be fair,
baseball is undeniably diverse in
certain areas.
More and more players are com-
ing from Asia and especially Latin
America. According to Lapchick,
29.4 percent of players last season
were Latino and 2.4 percent were
Asian.
That means 40.5 percent were
minorities, just below baseballs all-
time high of 42 percent in 1997.
By dAVId CRARy
AssoCIATEd PREss
NEW YORK MSNBC said
Wednesday it will drop its simulcast
of the Imus in the Morning radio
program, responding to growing
outrage about the radio hosts racial
slur against the Rutgers womens
basketball team.
This decision comes as a result
of an ongoing review process, which
initially included the announcement
of a suspension. It also takes into
account many conversations with
our own employees, NBC news said
in a statement.
The announcement also was
made on air.
Talk-show host Don Imus trig-
gered the uproar on his April 4 show,
when he referred to the mostly black
Rutgers womens basketball team as
nappy-headed hos. His comments
have been widely denounced by civil
rights and womens groups.
The decision does not affect Imus
nationally syndicated radio show,
and the ultimate decision on the fate
of that program will rest with execu-
tives at CBS Corp.
In a statement, CBS reiterated that
Imus will be suspended without pay
for two weeks beginning on Monday,
and that CBS Radio will continue to
speak with all concerned parties and
monitor the situation closely.
NHL
Coyotes fire GM, administrators,
keep Gretzky as coach
PHOENIX The Phoenix
Coyotes cleaned out their front
ofce, fring general manager Mike
Barnett, director of hockey opera-
tions Clif Fletcher and assistant
general manager Laurence Gilman,
a person with knowledge of the
move said Wednesday.
The shakeup, which follows the
Coyotes worst season since the
franchise moved from Winnipeg in
1996, was confrmed to The Associ-
ated Press by a team ofcial who
asked not to be identifed because
the announcement had not been
made.
Wayne Gretzky, who owns a
share of the team and is its manag-
ing partner, will return for a third
season as coach next fall.
But the front ofce felt the fall-
out from the teams third consecu-
tive last-place fnish in the Pacifc
Division. The Coyotes fnished last
in the Western Conference for the
frst time since the franchise came
to Arizona and their 67 points were
the teams fewest since that move.
Phoenix hasnt made the playofs
since 2002.
Barnett, Gretzkys close friend
and his agent for 21 years, had
signed a four-year contract exten-
sion before last season. He had
been general manager since 2001,
when Gretzky joined the organiza-
tion as managing partner.
Fletcher, who entered the
Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004, was
hired as Phoenix general manager
in 2001 and promoted to executive
vice president of hockey opera-
tions the following year.
Associated Press
jackie robinson honored
Fewer blacks
choose baseball
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jackie Robinson led the way for minorities to play in the major league. This year, which marks the 60th anniversary of when Robinson played for the
Brooklyn Dodgers, only 8 percent of major league baseball players are black.
Thats what it seems like to me
that all the work hes done
is almost for nothing. Because
look where we are. We should
be progressing.
TOrII HuNTEr
Minnesota Twins center felder
racist comments
Don Imus
MSNBC
simulcast
canceled
Jayplays
april 12, 2007
and sam carlson remembers the solitary pleasures of studying alone in scotland. page 19
rescue
rangers
saving injured
animals at
operation wildlife
page 7
Walking in
the rain
one girl, five days,
no car
page 10
happy
campers
tips for a weekend
woodland getaway
page 15
Go outside issue
Ive been looking forward
to this issue of Jayplay since
the frst week of this semester.
Its not that I particularly love
mountain biking (page 5),
Operation Wildlife (page 7) or
camping (page 15), and I dont
have a passion for helping
the environment (page 10).
Instead, Ive been excited for
sundresses and Chaco sandals.
Every time I bundled up in a
winter coat or put on two pairs
of socks, I would remind myself
that issue 11 was the Go
outside issueand by April 12
the thermometer would read
somewhere in the 80s.
Then, on Monday of this
week, as I trudged to Blake Hall
for class, it began to snow.
Granted, I only saw about
eight snowfakes total, but
their presence spoke of some-
thing ominous: mittens, scarves
and a wasted pedicure.
This issue is hitting campus
just a little early, and my dress-
es and sandals remain unworn,
but Im going to hang on to
Jayplay this week maybe Ill
hang it on my fridge so Ill
remember to hit the trails or
head out to Clinton Lake when
the Kansan Weather Jay fnally
dons his shades.

Becka Cremer, co-editor

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Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and more
A dAy wiThOuT A cAr
feature 10
alksdjfksdfjaklsdfjklsdf
cAriNg FOr criTTErS
people 07
Volunteering at Operation Wildlife
SAddLE up
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Mountain bikers and their favorite local trails
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What to do outdoors, on campus and beyond
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SETTiNg up cAmp
health 15
Day-by-day tips to prepare for your vacation
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ScOTTiSh SEcLuSiON
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Sam Carlson, alone and content in Stirling, Scotland
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Sunny and Beautiful
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Workshop:Better Late than
Jobless. 149 Burge Union, 3
p.m., FREE, www.ucc.ku.edu.
Mutemath/The Cinematics/
Someone Still Loves You Boris
Yeltsin. Granada, 7 p.m., all
ages, $12, www.myspace.com/
mutemath.
John Anderson. VooDoo
Lounge at Harrahs Casino,
7 p.m., 21+, $25, www.
johnanderson.com.
Andre Manning/3rd Power.
Blue Room, 7 p.m., 21+, FREE.
Hit the Lights/Valencia/
Forgive Durden/Love Arcade.
Grand Emporium, 7:30 p.m., all
ages, $8.
Theater: Keely and Du. William
Inge Memorial Theatre, Murphy
Hall, 7:30 p.m., FREE, www.
kutheatre.com.
Martina McBride. Kemper
Arena, 7:30 p.m., $45.75
$55.75, www.kemperarenakc.
com.
Last Laugh Comedy Jam.
Beaumont Club, 8 p.m., 21+,
www.kcclubs.com.
Ginger Leigh/Patrice Pike.
Daveys Uptown Ramblers Club,
8 p.m., $10 adv./ $12 at the door,
www.gleigh.com.
Les Fossoyeurs/Joey
Skidmore. Knuckleheads
Saloon, 8 p.m., 21+, $6.
Doug Stanhope/Andy
Andrist/James Inman. Record
Bar, 8 p.m., 21+, $10, www.
dougstanhope.com.
The Burden Brothers/Leo/
Action Figure. Hurricane, 9
p.m., $10, www.myspace.com/
burdenbrothers.
Emperor Stan. Jazzhaus, 10
p.m., 21+, $3, www.myspace.
com/emperorstan.
Men Women and Children/
We Are the Fury/Lovers In
Transit. Jackpot Saloon, 10 p.m.,
18+, $8, www.myspace.com/
menwomenandchildren.
Boo & Boo Too/Paper
Airplanes. The Replay Lounge,
10 p.m., 21+, $2.
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Walk-Ins Welcome Friday.
Spencer Museum of Art, 10
a.m., FREE.
Tunes at Noon. Union Plaza,
Kansas Union, 12 p.m., FREE.
Bowling for Soup/Quietdrive.
Grand Emporium, 7 p.m., all
ages, $15, www.bowlingforsoup.
com.
Theater: On Golden Pond.
Lawrence Community Theatre,
8 p.m., $1819.
Film: Charlottes Web.
Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas
Union, 8 p.m., $2 or FREE w/
SUA movie card.
Crux Against Cancer w/ Crux
Crew/Nick West. Granada, 8
p.m., 18+, $5, www.thegranada.
com.
Rod Stewart. Kemper
Arena, 8 p.m., $55126, www.
kemperarenakc.com.
Elders. Record Bar, 8 p.m., 21+,
www.eldersmusic.com.
Ida McBeth. Blue Room, 8:30
p.m., 18+, $10.
Anvil Chorus/Fairbanks/21
Reasons/Redline Chemistry/
The Waiting List. Beaumont
Club, 9 p.m., 18+, $6.
The Karen Davis Project.
VooDoo Lounge at Harrahs
Casino, 9 p.m., 21+.
Wakamojo/Backlash. Boobie
Trap Bar, 9:30 p.m., all ages,
$56, www.myspace.com/
wakamojo.
The Threes/Stampead. Mikes
Tavern, 10 p.m., 21+, www.
myspace.com/stampead.
Moonlight Drive (Doors
Tribute Band). Jazzhaus,
10 p.m., 21+, www.
moonlightdrivetribute.com.
Cosmic Bowling. Jaybowl,
Kansas Union, 10 p.m., FREE w/
KUID.
Big Metal Rooster/
Cosmopolitics/Brothers
Green. Bottleneck, 18+.
Rockabilly Prom/Krazy Kats.
Knuckleheads Saloon, 21+, $10.
Concert: Day on the Hill w/ The
Faint/G. Love & Special Sauce.
Lied Center lawn,12 p.m., $5,
www.suaevents.com.
Theater: Right Between
the Ears. Liberty Hall, 5
p.m., $15.5019.50, www.
rightbetweentheears.org.
Type O Negative/Celtic
Frost/Brand New Sin. Granada,
6 p.m., all ages, $25, www.
typeonegative.net.
Placebo. Beaumont Club,
7:30 p.m., all ages, $19, www.
placeboworld.co.uk.
Theater: Right Between
the Ears. Liberty Hall, 8
p.m., $15.5019.50, www.
rightbetweentheears.org.
DJ Tina T. VooDoo Lounge at
Harrahs Casino, 8 p.m., 21+.
Elders. Record Bar, 8 p.m., 21+,
www.eldersmusic.com.
Dianne Reeves. Blue Room, 8
p.m., 21+, $30.
Film: Charlottes Web. Woodruff
Auditorium, Kansas Union, 8
p.m., $2 or FREE w/ SUA movie
card.
Lawrence Community Theatre, 8
p.m., $1920.
National Fire Theory/River
City High/Jet Lag Gemini/A
Hero Pattern. Hurricane,
9 p.m., www.myspace.com/
rivercityhigh.
Chicago Afrobeat Project.
Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+, $6, www.
chicagoafrobeatproject.com.
The Roseline/Volunteers/
Martin Devaney. Jackpot
Saloon, 10 p.m., 18+, www.
myspace.com/colinpepper.
Arthur Dodge and the
Horsefeathers/Coyote Bones.
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+,
$2, www.arthurdodge.com.
Cosmic Bowling. Jaybowl,
Kansas Union, 10 p.m., FREE w/
KUID.
The Silvermen/Mach Rocket
3000. Mikes Tavern, 21+, www.
thesilvermen.com.
Lawrence Community Theatre,
2:30 p.m., $1920.
Comedy Night feat. John
Joseph. VooDoo Lounge at
Harrahs Casino, 5 p.m., 21+,
$15.
Carillon Concert. Memorial
Campanile, 5 p.m.
Chess Night. Henrys on Eighth,
7 p.m., FREE.
David Bazan/Will Johnson.
Bottleneck, 7 p.m., 18+, $9.
Coyote Bones/Arthur Dodge
and the Horsefeathers/Casper
and the Cookies. Record Bar, 8
p.m., 21+, www.myspace.com/
coyotebones.
Joshua Radin/Schuyler Fisk.
ages, $12, www.joshuaradin.
com.
Glossary. The Replay Lounge,
10 p.m., 21+, $2. www.myspace.
com/glossary.
Film: Spellbound. Alderson
Auditorium, Kansas Union, 7
p.m., FREE.
Lucero/Catfsh Haven/The
American Princess. Granada,
8 p.m., all ages, $10, www.
myspace.com/lucero.
Club Wars XII Qualifier w/
Left on Northwood/Count
Thy Days/H Gage/Kleio.
ages.
The ACBs/Alice Rose/Dead
Girls Ruin Everything/The
Belated. Hurricane, 9 p.m.,
www.myspace.com/theacbs.
Hollywood Marriage/Drunk
Punk/Zoo of Death/Tony
Mendez. Boobie Trap
Bar, 9:30 p.m., all ages,
hollywoodmarriage.
Gadabout Film Festival/Baby
Birds Dont Drink Milk/I
Love You. Jackpot Saloon, 10
p.m., 18+, www.myspace.com/
babybirdsdontdrinkmilk.
Softball: Kansas vs. Missouri.
Arrocha Ballpark, 5 p.m.
Chess Night. Aimees Coffee
House, 7 p.m., FREE.
Theater: Elton John and Tim
Rices Aida. Lied Center, 7:30
p.m., $19.5024, www.lied.
ku.edu.
Miss Major and Her Minor
Mood Swings. Knuckleheads
Saloon, 7:30 p.m., 21+, FREE
KU for Uganda Beneft
Show. Granada, 8 p.m., www.
thegranada.com.
Echo the Sky/Carmine Red/
Seeking Surreal/Jeremy
Wilder. Hurricane, 9 p.m.,
echothesky.
That Acoustic Jam Thing.
Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+, $2.
Minmae/Parastrika/The
Winter Blanket. The Replay
Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+, $2, www.
myspace.com/minmae.
Beaumont Club
4050 Pennsylvania St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 561-2560
Bottleneck
737 New Hampshire St.
Lawrence
(785) 841-5483
The Brick
1727 McGee St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 421-1634
Fatsos
1016 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence
(785) 865-4055
Gaslight Tavern
317 N. Second St.
Lawrence
(785) 856-4330
Grand Emporium
3832 Main St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 531-1504
Harbour Lights
Lawrence
(785) 841-1960
Jackpot Saloon
Lawrence
(785) 843-2846
The Jazzhaus
926 1/2 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence
(785) 749-3320
The Record Bar
1020 Westport Road
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 753-5207
Replay Lounge
Lawrence
(785) 749-7676
Signs of Life
Lawrence
(785) 830-8030
Uptown Theater
3700 Broadway St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 753-8665
VooDoo Lounge
1 Riverboat Drive
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 889-7320

THURSDAY
april 12
MONDAY
april 16
april 17
SUNDAY
april 15
SATURDAY
april 14
FRIDAY
april 13
WEDNESDAY
april 18
VENUES
where?
The Dead Sea Scrolls. Science
City at Union Station, 9:30
a.m.4:30 p.m., $2036, www.
sciencecity.com.
Pizza and Politics. Centennial
Room, Kansas Union, 12:30 p.m.,
FREE.
Workshop:Better Late than
Jobless.149 Burge Union, 3:30
p.m., FREE, www.ucc.edu.
Matt Hopper. Blue Room, 7
p.m., FREE.
The Whigs/Left on
Northwood/Aphasia. Grand
Emporium, 8 p.m., all ages.
Tom Russell. Knuckleheads
Saloon, 8 p.m., 21+.
From A Proud Tower/Crisis/
Audio Kinetic Assault/Sect.
Hurricane, 9 p.m., www.myspace.
com/ihearnothing.
The Alice Rose/The Kinetiks/
Kaw Valley Project. Jackpot
Saloon, 9 p.m., 18+, www.
thealicerose.com.
TUESDAY
If you have a pair of tight leather pants, nows the time
to pull them out. Put them on and feather your hair into
a lion-like mane worthy of 80s decadence.
If youre lucky (or just willing to shell out $55 or more
for a ticket), you can catch a glimpse of Rod Stewart
on Friday night. Stewart will reveal if hes really stayed
Forever Young when he takes the stage at 8 p.m. in
Kemper Arena, 1800 Genessee St., in Kansas City, Mo.
Bring your mom shell probably appreciate it as much
as you do.
For more information, or to buy tickets, visit www.
kemperarenakc.com.
Courtney Hagen
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JAYPLAY 04.12.2007
Q&A Q&A
Wheres your favorite
place to spend time
outdoors in Lawrence?
WEEKEND THIS
Jaime Netzer
Mountain biking at the
Kansas River Trails because
you get a feel of nature even
though its just across the
river. The fresh air helps me
clear my mind.
Danny Pressly, Overland
Park junior
My favorite place is by
the Campanile on the
hill. I love studying there
on really nice days.
Sara Vestal, Kansas
City, Kan., freshman
Playing catch with a
baseball in any park in town.
Its just not summer until you
go outside and play catch.
Andrew Hauser, Stillwell
junior
I really like sitting
outside of the Spencer
Art Museum on the
benches. Im an art
history major, so I spend
a lot of my time there. Its
my mecca.
Caitlin Alvarez,
Rossville freshman
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Saddle up
Sweat drips into the eyes of
Jon David Wright as he picks
himself up from the creek bed
in which hes unwillingly landed.
Calloused hands wipe away
dirt and brush after he lifts his
29-speed Trek mountain bike
back to its upright position.
The limb Wright attempted to
grab before tumbling backward
lies on the ground nearby, an
unspoken reminder that Wright
almost left Clinton Lake State
Park without a scratch. Almost.
A rush of adrenaline led
Wright, Fairbanks, Alaska, senior,
to barrel through the dry creek
bed. Some might have called his
attempt brave, but Wright calls it
routine just another obstacle
on the parks 25 miles of single-
track mountain bike terrain hed
ridden dozens of times before.
Wright relies on mountain
biking as an adventurous
and fast-paced alternative to
running to stay in shape. But
for Lydia Krebs, attraction to
the sport began while she was
preparing to take the state bar
exam. Krebs, 2006 graduate,
used mountain biking as an
excuse to get herself outside
when shed been spending too
much time studying indoors.
Krebs rented a mountain bike
from Sunfower Outdoor and
Bike Shop, 802 Massachusetts
St., and went to the Lawrence
River Trails near downtown
Lawrence with several of the
stores employees for her frst
ride. She was immediately
hooked, she says, and returned
to the store the next day to buy
a 26-inch bike of her own.
Dan Hughes, owner of
Sunfower Outdoor and Bike
Shop, says that new riders like
Krebs should plan on spending
$300 to $500 on an entry-level
mountain bike. If the rider
budgets $100 beyond the price
of the bike, they should have
everything necessary to be trail-
ready, he says.
Since she began riding, Krebs
has placed second in two local
mountain bike races. More
importantly, Krebs says shes
excited to have a competitive
outlet, other than her career, in
which to push herself.
Im proud of my bruises, she
says.For me, if I dont fall off my
bike at least once during a ride,
Im not pushing myself to get
any better.
Its possible for novice riders
to begin mountain biking in
Lawrence without all the bumps
and bruises Krebs and Wright
have sustained. For many, the
safer (and less painful) route is
also worth traveling.
People arent always seeking
the line of most resistance,
Hughes says. Theyre coming
up to the 4-foot ledge and
thinking,Wow, Im going to take
the trail to the left instead, even
though it isnt going to result in
them being in a Mountain Dew
commercial.
Krebs has had to get used to
riding primarily with male bike
enthusiasts since her frst visit
to the riverfront, even though
she continues to recruit female
friends as riding partners. Shes
used to meeting people who are
intimidated by the sport at frst,
but she encourages everyone
especially women to try
it out. Now, the same student
who spent her undergraduate
years at nearby Baker University
on the dance team is content
to spend her time trudging
through the mud.
Its unfair that women get
placed in one of those you
cants,Krebs says.Either youre
a girly girl and you like to dress
up or youre a tomboy and you
like to get dirty. I can go either
way.
Lawrence and the
surrounding area offers more
than just the best handful
of trails in the state for bike
enthusiasts. Rob Pennell, owner
of Badger Cycles, has been
building bikes from scratch for
the past two years. Originally
constructing frames and forks
as a hobby, Pennells now sells
his handmade pieces through
www.badgercycles.com to riders
across the country. For Pennell,
there was no better place to
build bikes than Lawrence.
The people here are great,
he says. You can ride around
town without having any issues
and you can ride your bike to hit
the trails as well. This is cycling
heaven in my opinion.
lawrence is Kansas premier spot for two-wheeled, off-road adventures
by Matt elder
04.12.2007 JAYPLAY 05
ouT
Nearby TrailS
Lawrence River Trails
This 9-mile loop near
downtown Lawrence is
a good place for novice
riders to begin.
Clinton Lake State Park
Clinton Lake offers
two interconnected trails
for bikes and hiking that
offer moderately technical
terrain. Riders can expect
short, steep climbs over
rocks, tree roots, creek
beds and bridges.
Perry Lake State Trails
Located 30 minutes
outside of Lawrence, the
Perry Lake trails are for
experienced riders. The
lakes 15 miles of looped,
single-track terrain provide
a competitive level trail in
northeast Kansas with fast,
rocky terrain and climbs
steeper than those at
Clinton Lake.
PHOTOS/ SARAH LEONARD
Jon David Wright, Fairbanks,
Alaska, senior, rides through
the Lawrence River Trails.
if i doNT fall off My biKe aT leaST oNce duriNg a
ride, iM NoT puShiNg MySelf To geT aNy beTTer.
lydia KrebS, 2006 graduaTe
03.08.2007 JAYPLAY 15
MUSIC THAT MOVES YOU
06

JAYPLAY 04.12.2007
Listener: Kallie Damon,
Lawrence sophomore
Springtime tune: So
Real by Jeff Buckley
While pumpin the
jams, she was: Waiting
for the bus to go
downtown.
She says: Its good
springtime music.
Everything kind of
moves with it.
Listener: Jack Miles,
Halstead freshman
Springtime tune:
Raindrops Keep Falling
On My Head by B.J.
Thomas
While pumpin the
jams, he was: Heading
home to McCollum
Residence Hall.
He says: Its a feel-good
song.
Listener: Joe Sibinski,
Lawrence senior
Springtime tune:
Missed the Boat by
Modest Mouse
While pumpin the
jams, he was: Leaving
Wescoe Hall after his
Gothic literature class
He says: The tunes
upbeat. Id say its kind
of relaxing. The lyrics
are always kind of
pessimistic, though.
Listener: Nic Langford,
Topeka sophomore
Springtime tune:
Queen Bitch by David
Bowie
While pumpin the
jams, he was: Heading
to Anschutz Library to
study for a test.
He says: It makes you
move a little faster.
Sam Carlson
Back in the day: Harold lived
in Stephen Scholarship Hall
but could often be found
working on the Universitys
SAE Formula car or playing
sports with intramural teams
and in Lawrence adult leagues.
As a member of the Student
Alumni Association and the All
Scholarship Hall Council,he says
the variety of people he met
and the myriad experiences he
had with them were rewarding.
His favorite memory of life as an
undergrad was sitting outside
on Massachusetts Street on
a sunny spring day having a
cold beer with good friends.
The grad life: After
graduation, Harold moved
to Houston to work for
ExxonMobil. He has since
relocated to Doha, Qatar,
where he is responsible for
ensuring that materials and
equipment are bought and
delivered to liquefied natural
gas production facilities on
time and that construction
projects stay on budget.
After he completes his
international assignment, he
hopes to move back to the
U.S. and transition into a more
traditional engineering role.
Life abroad: Harold says the
hardest thing about living
abroad is being so far away
from family and friends, not
to mention the lack of good
Mexican food and KU basketball.
However, the experience has
been exciting and he has
met people from all over the
world, he says. Living in a
predominately Muslim country
has been especially challenging,
he says, because there are lots
of things that seem normal here
that cant be done there.

He says: Dont think you have
to know what youre going to
do with the rest of your life
by the time you graduate. You
shouldnt be afraid to take what
may seem like big risks. Travel
the world if you can, but never
lose track of your friends.
Jennifer Denny
David Harold
Year: 2003
Hometown:
Topeka
Degree: Mechanical
Engineering and Business
Administration
GRAD
CHECK
Sarah Rages, Hutchinson
senior, carefully eases a red,
toothpick-sized tube down the
throat and into the stomach of
a baby bunny. She squeezes the
syringe attached to the other end
of the tube until all the formula
is in the bunnys stomach. She
puts the bunny safely back into
the shoebox with the rest of its
siblings, opens another box and
pulls out a bloated baby bunny
on its last legs. She doesnt know
if she can save it.
Rages volunteers with
Operation Wildlife in Linwood
to save orphaned and injured
animals from certain death in the
wild, though she actually sees
death on a regular basis when
she works,
OWL, a privately run
organization, was founded in
1979 by Diane Johnson and
incorporated 10 years later. It
provides citizens in northeast
Kansas and northwest Missouri a
place to take injured or orphaned
wildlife for rehabilitation so they
can be released back to nature
successfully. OWL also educates
the public about wildlife in the
area. Rages own experiences
at OWL are vast, exciting,
traumatizing and sometimes
even funny.
Rages, who is majoring
in ecology and evolutionary
biology, heard about OWL
through the Biology Teaching
Resource Center in Haworth Hall
just over a year ago and has been
volunteering ever since. She says
she wants to do exactly this for
her profession, but there arent
many jobs available.
Sheryl Saunders,who currently
holds one of only two paying
positions at OWL, says Rages will
just have to wait until her body
gets too old to work anymore
because she loves working as the
Animal Care Coordinator.
There is no such thing as
a typical day at OWL, but on
Wednesday, March 28, Rages
is busy acting the part of an
emergency room doctor. She
treats an American kestrel (a
small falcon) with head trauma,
another bird with a broken wing,
and a pair of mating ducks that
had been mauled by a fox.
Sadly, the duck couple
probably doesnt stand a chance;
theyll have to be euthanized.The
American kestrels eye is swollen,
most likely from hitting a car, but
the eye isnt lost and the bird has
a chance to survive in the wild if
it recovers.
Rages begins by giving the
kestrel antibiotic fuids to relieve
the swelling. She carefully
weighs the bird, calculates the
amount of medicine needed and
administers it. She sets the bird
aside; only time will tell its fate.
Between emergencies,
Rages manages her typical
responsibilities: peeing baby
bunnies and opossums and
feeding the other animals in the
double-stacked cages lining the
hallway in the main work area of
the barn in which OWL is located.
Rages is all too familiar with
bodily functions. Shes peeing
the baby opossums, nearly
furless creatures only a few
inches long. They look like alien
caricatures, with upside down
eggheads and big eyes. She ficks
her fnger at their genitals to
simulate a mothers licking and
wipes the urine off with a cotton
ball. Later, she does the same for
the baby bunnies. Baby animals
cant urinate by themselves; if
they arent helped, their bladders
can explode.
In essence, Rages has to do
everything a mother animal
would do, but without making
the baby animals accustomed
to human contact so they can
be released into the wild again.
Besides, she says jokingly, she
wouldnt want to lick them like
their mother does.
During the feedings, a woman
pokes her head through the
doorway at the end of the hall.
She alerts Rages and another
volunteer that she has a squirrel
that had been hit by a car in the
back of her minivan. She rushes
out to bring it in. Janet Nosseir,
a Leavenworth resident who
frequents OWL, lets her 14-year-
old daughter, Megan, carry in
a dog kennel with the squirrel
while she tends to the paperwork
shes already familiar with.
Nosseir says shes been
bringing injured animals to
OWL for seven years and does
it several times a year. She cant
pass by an animal lying on the
side of the road to be run over
again and again, and she says
she doesnt understand how
anyone else could just drive on.
Like many people who bring
in animals, Nosseir is worried;
she tells Rages she would like to
be notifed later on about what
happens to the squirrel. Follow-
up phone calls are a service OWL
offers.
While shes there, Nosseir
donates two overfowing paper
grocery bags of old towels and
sheets. Rages says donations
help OWL remain open because
it doesnt receive government
funding.
Ultimately, Rages doesnt fnd
out if the bloated bunny she
helped earlier in the day would
live or not. She hopes that the
drug she administered will cure
the little animals ailment, which
could just be hypoglycemia. All
bunnies have it, she says, and
a shot of sugar may be able to
cure the seizure the bunny was
having. She leaves after her shift
and wont be back for a week;
one bunny in box of several, in a
counter full of boxes, is hard to
keep track of if shes not there to
see it die.
Sarah Rages, Hutchinson
senior, feeds a baby bunny
during her shift at Operation
Wildlife, 23375 Guthrie Rd., in
Linwood.
One student steps up to help during Operation Wildlifes busiest season
by Anne Weltmer
04.12.2007 JAYPLAY 07
CAring fOr Critters
peOple
pHOTOS/ ANNe WeLTMeR
Bleach
Laundry detergent
Dishwashing soap
Latex or non-latex exam
gloves
Trash bags (20- or 33-gallon)
pine Sol or Lysol foor cleaner
Baby food dark green and
yellow vegetables (green
beans,peas,squash,spinach,
carrots, sweet potatoes)
and strained meats (turkey,
chicken)
Gerber rice cereal
Shelled and unsalted walnuts,
pecans and almonds (no
peanuts)
Jarred applesauce
Source: Operation Wildlife
HOW tO VOlunteer
Operation Wildlife
volunteers do not need any
experience to participate.
They must fll out a detailed
application, including
references and experience,
and then, if accepted, will be
trained by OWL staff.
There are three types
of volunteers: facility
center staff, receiving
center staff and transport
staff. The facility center
staff works at the clinic
in Linwood with animals.
Tasks include feeding, cage
cleaning, physical therapy
and housecleaning duties,
among other things.
The receiving center
staff works in Shawnee at
an intake center for the
area. Tasks include handling
phone calls and providing
species-specifc information
to callers. Immediate
treatment of animals in need
is also part of the job.
The transport staff
transports animals between
the two locations.
The busiest season of
the year is April through
September.
Call (785) 542-3625 for
more information.
Source: Operation Wildlife
OperAtiOn Wildlife WisH list
08

JAYPLAY 04.12.2007
The super-
popular hBo
series The
SopranoS
Begins iTs final
nine-episode
season.
AmericAn billionAire chArles
simonyi blAsts off into spAce
AboArd A russiAn spAcecrAft,
becoming the fifth spAce
tourist in history.
radio shock jock don imus comes under fire afTer
making racially insensiTive remarks aBouT The
mosTly Black ruTgers womens BaskeTBall Team.
Imuss remarks bring back painful memories of the heated and often violent
debates that raged after the 2002 release of the seminal womens basketball drama
Juwanna Mann.
Occidental PetrOleum ceO ray
irani made mOre than $400
milliOn in 2006, accOrding tO
a rePOrt frOm the cOmPany.
Vice President dick cheney
reasserts that al Qaeda was
wOrking with saddam husseins
iraQi gOVernment befOre the u.s.
inVasiOn, desPite anOther rePOrt that
says there was nO such link.
The Top aide
To embaTTled
U.S. aTTorney
General alberTo
Gonzalez reSiGnS
amid The conTroverSy
SUrroUndinG The
alleGedly poliTical
firinGS of federal
proSecUTorS.
hawk tOPics
RAINE REVIEWS
NEWS YOU CAN USE
04.12.2007 JAyplAy 09
Chris Raine
film direcTor roBerT
clark, BesT known
for direcTing The
ChriSTmaS STory, dies
afTer his vehicle is sTruck
By a drunk driver.
So lets see: Its terribly cold, you cant
go outside, the food sucks and the
actual traveling is a bitch. Hey, cool
vacation, man, $25 million well spent.
And if youre familiar
with this story at all,
Im surprised youre
reading Hawk Topics.
Cheney also praised the execution and
progress of the Iraq
War, the swift and
effective government
response to Hurricane
Katrina and the awe-
inspiring acting and
dialogue in his favorite
show, Greys Anatomy.
Clarks last words? FUUUUUUDGGGEEEE!
Disney opens its
Fairy tale WeDDing
program to same-sex
couples.
At long last, Chip,
Dale and the
other Rescue
Rangers can come
out and enjoy
the same rights
as heterosexual
couples.
medical reSearcherS aT vanderbilT
UniverSiTy reporT ThaT The
infamoUS haTfield-mccoy feUd ThaT
haS feSTered for GeneraTionS may
be The reSUlT of a rare GeneTic
diSeaSe ThaT caUSeS Too
mUch adrenaline oUTpUT in
The mccoy family.
A Southern family with a
defective gene pool? Now
Ive seen everything.
Sure, but because of the oppressive
federal income taxes needed to support
our bloated social programs that help
the poor and disadvantaged, hes only
going to see, like, $250 million of that
money. Wheres the justice?
Which means that in
ten weeks, America will
go back to trying to
ignore New Jersey.
think yOu haVe a better jOke? e-mail me at hawktopics@kansan.com.
KanSaS STaTe loSeS iTS head
baSKeTball coach afTer bob
hUGGinS leaveS afTer one year To
coach aT WeST virGinia, Then promoTeS
aSSiSTanT coach
franK marTin 24
hoUrS laTer in a
deSperaTe aTTempT
To Keep michael
beaSley and
oTher recrUiTS in
manhaTTan.
This comedic drama to the west has
somehow managed to make Mizzous
athletic department look like a well-oiled,
classy operation. I love it when funny things
happen to stupid people. Kudos,Cats, and
long live Huggieville!
,GI@E>C@E>
I have a confession to make: Im a polluter,
a non-conservationist and an all-around
enemy of the environment. Im oil- and
energy-dependent. I sleep all night with the
television on and Im too concerned with
my own life to worry about the effect of oil
tankers on fragile coral reef systems. I havent
seen An Inconvenient Truth and I hardly feel
threatened by environmental soothsayers
who proclaim that the end is near.
Sometimes I litter, but only because I cant
stand trash in my car (not likethats an excuse).
I spend my life in my car, driving thousands
of miles each year to quickly get to where I
need to go. I cant imagine my life without it.
It gets me to classes, meetings, the grocery
store and the gym each day. I hate asking
for rides and carpooling, so I see no problem
driving across town
by myself to meet
up with friends or
go shopping. Im the
kind of person who
drives four blocks
to get a Diet Coke
while I blast the air
conditioning in the
summer and the heat
in the winter. I guzzle
gas. My very frst car
was an SUV, which I
received on my 16th
birthday (though Ive
since changed to a
compact car).
I hate myself for
this environmental disregard, and you may
hate me, too. But Im not ignorant Ive
read the statistics and I know better. Its just
so hard to change. Change takes time
and patience, something I dont have
a lot of.
Yet in a world that is
becoming more sprawling
and industrialized, a change might be
in order. A 2005 report by the Bureau of
Transportation Statistics found almost four
million miles of public highways in theUnited
States and reported 59, 410,000 annual
vehicle sales and leases. Automobiles, and
more specifcally the fossil fuels they burn,
contribute to global warming, according to
the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
CO2 emissions from cars create a
greenhouse effect, trapping the heat from
the sun in the earths atmosphere, melting
ice caps, raising temperatures and harming
fragile ecosystems. Though improvements
have been made to reduce this harmful
impact since the Clean Air Act of 1970,
including signifcant decreases in emissions
per mile traveled there are now twice
as many cars on the
road, according to
a 2004 report from
the Environmental
Protection Agency.
Though cars are a
hazardous byproduct
of modern life, its
possible to combat
their negative
infuence. Kristina
Johnson, associate
press secretary for
the Sierra Club,
says that fnding
alternative methods
of transportation such
as walking or biking
is one of the best ways to combat global
warming.
Scientists havetold us that wemust reduce
carbon emissions by 80 percent before the
year 2050 in order to minimize the negative
effects of global warming, Johnson says. It
sounds overwhelming, but when you break
it down, it adds up to about a two-percent
reduction
a year.
E r i c
R o g e r s
operates kcbc.
org, a bicycle
advocacy Web
site that caters to
the Kansas City metro
area, and is an outspoken
proponent of bicycling as an
alternative method of transportation.
In the Kansas City metro area, the
number-one source of greenhouse
gas emissions is the automobile,
Rogers says. Were projected to
violate the federal limits on ozone
emissions this year. We have one of
the highest rates of reliance on the
single-occupancy automobile. The
consequence is that we have some of
the highest transportation costs in the
country and some of the lowest rates
of walking, bicycling and riding public
transit.
I decided I cant ignore these
devastating statistics any longer.
In an effort to reduce my negative
environmental impact and renew an
appreciation for the natural beauty of
my personal environment, I decided to
throw my keys in my desk drawer and leave
my car untouched for fve days.
For fve days, I walked or rode a bike
everywhere I needed to go, from class to
the gym to the store, to discover the impact
that a few days without cars would have on
myself and my environment. It wasnt easy,
but in the end I learned how to leave a better
imprint on my world.
This is my diary of those days.
Day one: Thursday
I spend a week worrying about and
preparing for my car detachment. I
calculate the best routes by bike and on
foot from my house to campus and back
again. I get nervous about being on a
bike. I havent been on one that wasnt
at the gym since elementary school. My
klutziness has me convinced that Ill get
hurt during the course of this experiment.
For motivation, I calculate my personal
contribution to global warming through
www.fghtglobalwarming.com. I answer a
few quick questions about my living
arrangements, my car and
average miles driven, and
the number and length
of airplane fights
I took this past
year. According
to the sites
cal cul ator,
I create
2 1 . 3
metric tons of carbon emissions each year;
the average American uses about 8.4 tons.
Much of this has to do with the dozen or so
fights Ive taken in the past few months, but
Im still determined to reduce my harmful
impact, so I park my car in the driveway and
ask my roommates to keep me accountable.
I dont have class today, so I use it as an
excuse to get outside. I walk to do a few
errands and then settle in at home to catch
up on homework.
I discover that walking is incredibly
time consuming. If I wanted to go to
Massachusetts Street, it would probably take
me the whole day to get there and back on
foot. I start to feel like Ill be trapped at home
for the next four days because everything
is too far away by bike or on foot. I feel like
giving up, but Ive barely started. I call Paul
Dorn, former executive director of the
California Bicycle Coalition and an advocate
of bicycle commuting, for inspiration on
alternative modes of transportation. Dorn
operates a Web site (www.runmuki.com/
commute) with tips for bicycle commuters.
He hasnt owned a car in over a decade and
has been commuting by bicycle to work
and elsewhere in San Francisco for about 12
years.
You get sort of an enthusiasm for life
when youre in more of a connection with
it, when you hear the birds sing and feel
the sun shining, as opposed to when youre
in your car driving, Dorn says. Youre
more connected to your community than
someone thats simply driving through it.
Dorn says that although its a challenge
at frst, after time, commuting on a bicycle
becomes less of a chore. I hope this is true.
Day two: Friday
Im awake at 7:30 a.m. to walk to my 9 a.m.
class. Im not a morning person or a coffee
drinker, so I wake up irritable and cursing
myself for taking on this project. Id rather
stay in bed for an extra 15
minutes than have to drag
myself outside.
Still, Im out the door by 8:15 to a
gray and rainy morning (thank God, I put on
my rain boots). I forget my iPod, so I have to
listen to the swoosh of cars through the wet
streets and the sound of raindrops duringmy
watery trek. I begrudgingly pull my hoodie
over my head and shove my hands into my
pockets. This sucks, I think.
I liveabout two miles from theUniversity of
Kansas main artery, off of 15th and Crestline.
Its about a fve-minute drive in light traffc to
get from my front door to a parking spot on
campus. Today it takes me nearly 45 minutes
of tiptoeing around puddles and dodging
wayward cars in crosswalks to arrive a cold
and soggy mess to my only class of the day.
Fifty minutes later, Im out the door to
walk back home. The trek back isnt so bad
becausethesun fnally starts to comeout,but
during my 45-minute walk back I suddenly
have the urge to go to the bathroom. I do the
pee dance as I march up the hill that leads to
my house before bursting through my front
door.
I spend the rest of the day inside until I
decide to walk to the gym in the evening.
Day three: Saturday
I wake up sore and sick with a stuffy nose,
which I attribute to my rainy journey the day
before.
Its the weekend, and some of my friends
call and ask if I want to go shoppingin Kansas
City. I cant, I say theres no way I can make
that trip by foot or bike.
Its diffcult to have a social life without
the use of a car. It might be easier if I lived in
New York or San Francisco, but Lawrence is
too sprawling and suburban for anything of
interest happening late at night to be within
safe walking or riding distance. I live too far
from any good restaurants, shops or bars to
convince me to make the trek there by foot.
Im afraid of riding a bike anywhere at night
by myself, too. Plus, how cool would it be
if I rolled up to a bar on a bike in my dress
and red platforms, let alone trying to pedal
home under the infuence of too many gin
and tonics?
This problem might be solved by an
idea known as the new urbanism, says
Matt Toplikar, 2005 graduate. Toplikar will
introduce the flm The End of Suburbia April
23 at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St.
The flm addresses the United States
oil dependence and ways to
reduce it. One way to combat
the overuse of gas and oil
is the building of new
urban neighborhoods
that promote
walking and biking
capabilities, a
design theory
known as the
new urbanism,
T o p l i k a r
says. These
n e i g h b o r h o o d s
combine homes,
schools, shopping centers
and businesses together in the
same community to make the use of cars
almost obsolete.
Theres not really a way to stop using oil,
Toplikar says.Our supply will eventually run
out, but if we use less there will be less of a
problem. We just have to change how we
live.
For now I try to change how I live by I
thinking of other ways to spend my evening,
like baking red velvet cake or watching
reruns of Family Guy on DVD.
Day four: Sunday
I fnally work up the courage to hop
on a bike. It takes me about an hour to
ready myself for the challenge, but Im off
to get some work done on campus by late
afternoon.
I take off, furiously peddling while trying
to keepmy balance. Im reminded why it took
almost a year to get my trainingwheels taken
off my bike when I was a child I nearly fy
into two oncoming cars in the street.
Despite a few pitfalls, the ride to campus
is rather breezy. My favorite part is going
downhill as I feel the wind rush through my
hair. Dorn is right, there is something about
connecting to all this nature stuff thats
helped clear my head. I even think I can feel
my skin turning golden in the sun.
After doing some work in Stauffer-Flint, I
ride down to the Student Recreation Fitness
Center for a workout before riding back
home.
The ride home is exhilaratingand I feel like
I can ride a bike for fun every once in awhile.
Once home, I jump off in the driveway and
feel nearly every muscle in my legs pulsating
muscles I didnt even know I had just a
half hour before at the gym.
Ivestarted to look out for things I normally
wouldnt pay attention to, like the amount
and location of bike racks and walking trails.
Thesethings makealternativetransportation
easier, safer and less time consuming. Luckily,
Ive noticed plenty of bike racks on campus.
Around the rest of Lawrence, though, this is a
bit of a different story.
Day fve: Monday
I know I have to be on campus until the
wee hours of the morning, so for safety
reasons I decide to go back to my car for one
day before fnishing up my fnal day without
a car.
Day fve (take two): Tuesday
I wake up this morning still dreading
the long trek to class, but Im excited to get
outside. A steady and refreshing breeze is
blowing and I can feel my body waking up
and becoming more energized with each
step I take.
The best part about walking is that I dont
have to deal with the headache of fnding a
parking spot on campus. I have new sense
of freedom. I can get wherever I need to go
without two tons of metal, rubber and gas.
I can spend all day on campus darting back
by Courtney Hagen
How fve days without a car helped Jayplay writer Courtney
Hagen realize we can all make small changes in our day-to-
day lives to help the environment
04.12.2007 JAYPLAY 11 10 JAYPLAY 04.12.2007
Valuable Web sites
Learn more about global warming,
purchase energy offsets and calculate
your impact on these sites:
www.stopglobalwarming.org
www.sierraclub.org/foundation
www.globalgreen.org
www.fghtglobalwarming.com
tHe end of suburbia
To celebrate Earth Day, Lawrence
residents Matt Toplikar and Tim
Hjersted will present TheEnd of Suburbia
at Liberty Hall as part of the Films
for Action series. The documentary
examines urban sprawl and the
outrageous demand for fossil fuels in
the United States. The flm begins at 7
p.m. Admission is $2.
For more information visit: www.
endofsuburbia.com
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But I stay on well-traveled and
well-lit paths, and eventually
make it home just fne. The night
is calm and the wind rustles tree
leaves and blades of grass as I
walk past. The sky is clear and I
arrive in my driveway staring up
at the stars. I realize Ive had more
time to think and appreciate
the simple aspects of life that I
wouldnt have had in a car. My
whole body is tired, but I feel like
I lived through a fulflling fve
days.
I begin to think that this
be kind to the environment
attitude might not be so bad. Im
glad my days of slow and clumsy
transportation are over and Im
back to the speediness of my car,
but part of me feels an obligation
to keep walking and riding.
The aftermath
A day later I talk to Julie Feldt,
St. Louis junior. Feldt doesnt own
a car and walks everywhere she
goes. She got hooked on natural
transportation living in St. Louis
and says its the only exercise she
has time to ft in each day.
She says the best part about
walking is the things shes
discovered on her journeys, like
a pottery and ceramics shop off
of Massachusetts Street that she
never would have noticed had
she been in a car.
Walking has affected my
outlook, Feldt says. I notice
things on the street and how
people litter. Its nice to see the
environment.
I agree. Since Ive walked
or rode Ive felt less stressed
and more comfortable in the
wonder of my surroundings. Ive
lost two pounds in just a few
days. Ive saved about $20 in gas
money and prevented a few gray
hairs from road rage. If I keep
this up for a year, I could save
nearly $1,000 and become a lot
healthier, according to Johnson
at the Sierra Club.
If I can I get to where I need
to for fve days on foot or bike, I
might be able to manage without
a car every once and awhile. Im
thinking about making it a goal
to walk to campus at least once
or twice a week for the rest of the
semester and fnd more reasons
to start carpooling with friends
to save gas. These little steps
might not change the world,
but they will defnitely change
me and the impact I have on my
environment.
Drive smart: Make sure your
tires are properly infated.
Avoid aggressive start-
and-stop driving. Look for
ways to use alternative
transportation.
Write to government
offcials and urge them
to raise fuel economy
standards: Asking to raise
the fuel economy standard
to 40 miles per gallon can
greatly reduce the amount
of CO2 put into the air and
save about 4 million barrels
of oil each day.
Support clean, renewable
energy: Look for energy
solutions in wind or solar
power. If your energy
company doesnt offer
alternatives, urge them to.
Replace incandescent light
bulbs with compact
fuorescent bulbs:
Compact fuorescent
bulbs use a quarter of the
electricity of incandescent
bulbs and last 10 times
longer.
Save energy at home: Caulk
and weather strip doors
and windows, and try to
keep your thermostat
adjusted.
Plant a tree: Plant CO2
absorbing shade trees.
Recycle: Recycling saves 70
to 90 percent of the energy
and pollution needed to
create things from scratch.
Start a local campaign
against global warming:
Educate your friends and
neighbors about the
effects of global warming.
Source: Sierra Club
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Amber, you should try giving up.Youve
probably scared the guy more than a bank
robber would if he came in to talkto him.
You say you dress up, which probably means
you wear 10-inch heels and a mini-skirt when you
go in.Youre trying too hard, and you come off as
silly and desperate.You say youve been going
in a bit,which probably means youve been
withdrawing more money than hes been gaining
interest in you.Youve suggestedhanging out; I
hope you dont mean you gave him your number,
a date and a time.
Take a hint from HesJust NotThat IntoYou: hes
just not that into you! Youve gone in there, youve
displayed interest, youve been friendly, youve even
suggested hanging out.He hasnt taken you up
on that offer.If he were interested, he would have
jumped at the hints or not-so-subtle suggestions.If
he were into you, he would have wanted to know
when and where you wanted to hang out.
Continue to be friendly, but if he wants, hell
pursue you. If youre not comfortable with this, you
could hold a gun to his head and ask him to give
you all his money... and his number... then you can
use that as your one phone call from prison.
Ive had a crush on thIs guy who works
at a bank for a whIle and Ive been
hopIng hell ask me out. Ive been goIng
to the bank a bIt and talkIng to hIm. I
make sure I dress nIcely and act frIendly,
and I try to suggest that we hang out
sometIme. but I havent gotten anywhere.
Is there somethIng Im not doIng?
amber, freshman
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my boyfrIend farts around me all
the tIme. I feel lIke he must take
me for granted. why else would
he do that around me? shouldnt
he be tryIng to Impress me? Its
dIsgustIng!
karI, senIor
Men have never been fans
of perfume, scented lotions or
aromatherapy candles, but when
it comes to their own organically
produced scents, they sure do like to
douse themselves and the world
in the stench. But dont worry, it
just means he loves you. He fnally
feels comfortable enough with you
to truly let go. Dont look at it as the
spark dying look at this as growing
intimacy.
I wouldnt reciprocate with your
own signature scent. Its a horrible
double standard, but most men
never totally comfortable with true
intimacy have trouble stomaching
their ladys personal perfume. If you
fnd this terribly upsetting, fnd a guy
whos as passionate about the Womens
Revolution as you are. If this turns out to
be too much of a struggle, just hold it in
and steer clear of beans and broccoli.
Lied Center of Kansas
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The sport: During a game of
disc golf, participants throw
a fying disc into a numbered
basket known as a disc pole
hole. As players travel the 18-
hole course, they aim to travel
from beginning to end with
the fewest number of throws.
Disc golf shares similar
rules and terminology with
traditional golf, and because
disc golf courses and playing
areas can be found in public
parks that require inexpensive
equipment, its the perfect
sport for any Frisbee-loving
golf enthusiast whos strapped
for cash.
Nick Norcia, Libertyville, Ill.,
senior, has been competing
in disc golf tournaments since
the eighth grade. Because
the sport doesnt require too
much physical prowess and
the learning curve is fairly
quick, its something you can
go out and do with any of your
friends, he says.
The history: It was Ed
Headrick, the same man who
invented the modern Frisbee
in 1964, who invented the disc
pole hole in 1975. That same
year the frst disc golf course
opened in Pasadena, Calif.,
and the Professional Disc Golf
Association was founded. The
PDGA lists 8,690 members and
disc golf courses can be found
in every state and throughout
the world.
The gear: Because disc pole
holes are available for free at
any disc golf course, you only
need a disc to play, which can
be purchased for less than
$10 at most sports stores.
More experienced golfers
can choose to carry three
distinct types of discs: putters,
mid-range discs and drivers.
Each disc is designed to fy
differently, allowing players to
select a disc depending on the
distance to the disc pole hole.
The course: In Lawrence, an
18-hole disc golf course is
located at Centennial Park, 600
Rockledge Road.
Source: www.pdga.com
Elyse Weidner
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sport specs
While you go to the pool
to get wet, your hair becomes
dry chlorine and sun can
wreak havoc on your tresses. Its
best not to get your hair wet,
but if you do, use a clarifying
shampoo weekly, says Brandy
Lewis, stylist at Sizzors Hair
Salon, 600 Lawrence Ave.
Clarifying shampoos strip the
hair of unnatural impurities
such as chlorine and prevent
the unfattering green cast they
tend to create.
If the sun is your culprit, Lewis
recommends using Redken UV
Rescue shampoo and leave-in
conditioner daily to resuscitate
your mane.
Source: Brandy Lewis, stylist
Lindsey St. Clair
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As the weather gets warmer,
take advantage of the 65-degree
nights with a camping trip
followed by a sunshine-flled day
hiking. Before you set up your
bonfre and build a beer-can
pyramid, take these camping and
hiking tips from area experts to
ensure a safe and memorable
weekend in the wilderness.
Foraging for food
Its best to bring along your
own nuts and berries and leave
the others to the animals outside.
Berries from daphne, jasmine, red
sage, moonseed and yew plants
are especially fatal, according to
the National Safety Council. Stick
to non-perishable foods such as
peanut butter, granola bars, trail
mix and dried fruits.
If you plan to cook chicken or
steak, make sure to pack a food
thermometer. Most meat must be
cooked at over 140 degrees to kill
harmful bacteria, and a campfre
or portable stove is essential.Keep
cold foods chilled at less than
40 degrees to prevent bacteria
growth. Remember, always wash
your hands after handling raw
meat to prevent spreading germs
that can cause diseases such as
salmonella. Bring along some
antibacterial hand sanitizer to
avoid re-contaminating yourself
by washing in lake or river
water, which can contain animal
droppings or sewage runoff.
Layering it on
Just because its warm outside
during the day doesnt mean
the temperatures wont drop in
the middle of the night. Wear
thin layers of clothing instead of
a sweater and a bulky jacket to
keep warm. When temperatures
rise, its easier to peel off clothes
layer by layer and remain warm.
Choose shirts and pants made
of polyester, wool and feece for
your layers. Wear polyester-blend
shirts to absorb sweat, then pile
on lightweight synthetic fabrics
and top it off with wool or feece
for insulation. Its best to not
wear cotton at all because it stays
wet and keeps you cold when you
sweat,says Wes ONeal, manager
at Sunfower Outdoor and Bike,
802 Massachusetts St. ONeal
recommends wearing wool as an
inner layer because when wool
gets wet with sweat, it actually
keeps the body warm.
If you plan on hiking, invest in
some comfortable and durable
boots to provide traction against
rocks and other rough terrain.
Dont forget to bring along
proper socks 100-percent
cotton socks dont dry as quickly
as other materials and can lead
to painful blisters and chafng,
so they wont cut it if you plan on
doing some heavy hiking. Look
for wool socks and sock liners,
which pull moisture away and
keep your feet happy.
Sleeping under the stars
Whether youre on a weekend
getaway with your lover or on a
hiatus from the bar scene with
your friends, choosing the right
tent when youre setting up camp
is essential for a comfortable
experience. Most tents are
weatherproof and sturdy, so focus
on size when choosing a spring
camping tent. If you plan to
camp year-round, invest in an all-
weather tent that can withstand
rain, sleet and snow.
For added comfort, purchase
cots and air mattresses to place
inside the tent, and stock up on
thick sleeping bags. Dont forget
to pack along enough chairs
for your camping group its
uncomfortable and unsafe to sit
on the ground because pesky
bugs and poisonous plants can
make contact with your body.
If you want to keep warm
without having to spend all of
your time inside the tent, start
a fre that will last most of the
evening. Easy fre starters such
as dryer lint or frayed rope make
good base layers for adding small
twigs and logs to a bonfre, says
Brian Lechner, Leavenworth
senior and an Eagle Scout. Top
it off with lighter fuid and a few
matches, and youll have a blazing
fre in no time. Remember to have
plenty of water to put out the fre
when the night is over. If you
cant touch the coals when the
fre is out, then you need to keep
putting water on them, Lechner
says. It should look like a mushy
soup when the bonfre is out.
Avoiding rashes and bites
Familiarize yourself with what
poison ivy, sumac and oak look
like: Poison sumac has seven to 13
leaves per branch; poison ivy and
oak have three leaves per cluster.
Craig Martin, professor and chair
of the department of ecology
and evolutionary biology, says
to remember the old adages,
leafets of three, let it beto avoid
poison ivy, and berries white,
poisonous sight to remind you
of poison sumac.
Poison ivy can grow in vines,
shrubs and small trees, so be
wary of these plants when youre
searching for frewood or hiking
through the forest. If you do run
into either of these, be careful not
to touch anything and spread
the urushiol oil the poisonous,
sticky residue from the leaves
to your camping supplies or
uninfected body parts.
Rinse the contaminated
areas with cold water as soon
as possible. If you can do this
within fve minutes of contact,
washing can prevent the oil
from penetrating the skin and
spreading to other parts of the
body, according to the American
Academy of Dermatology. Be
careful of burning any wood with
leaves or vines on them because
urushiol oil from poison ivy can
contaminate the air and,if inhaled,
can have the same internal effect
as it does on your skin, which
may require hospitalization.
Keeping yourself covered is
the best way to avoid pesky
insect bites. Routinely check
your legs, feet, arms and back for
ticks. Always use a bug repellant
to ward off unwanted pests.
Keep your outdoor
experience safe
HeaLtH
04.12.2007 JAYPLAY 15
by Kim Wallace
KOA
Kampgrounds of America
offers a free Saturday of
camping for its Come Camp
& Care With Us Weekend
when you pay to camp
on Friday, May 11. Make
reservations online at www.
koa.com/comecampwithus/
list.htm. KOA memberships
are $16 per year.
1473 Highway 40
(785) 842-3877
Clinton State Park
Just four miles west of
Lawrence, Clinton State
Park boasts more than 500
campsites and offers easy
access to Clinton Lake. Clinton
has 15 campsites with utilities
available for reservation;
all other campsites are frst
come, frst serve. Campers
must pay vehicle and
camping fees in advance at
the self-pay station located at
campsite entrances and the
park offce.
798 N. 1415 Road.
(785) 842-8562
Camping Hot SpotS
PHOTO/ ANNA FALTERMEIER
Setting up Camp
WESCOE wit
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Girl 1: Do you think the limo
driver will come back with us
tonight and get in the hot tub?
Girl 2: I dont know if they do
that.
Girl 1: Well, Im sure we could
fgure something out. I bet hes
done it before.
Girl 1: Who are you calling?
Girl 2: Your butt!
Girl 1: So does that mean
when it rings I fart?
Girl: So I get to take care of my
friends dog this summer while
hes gone for a month.
Guy: Oh, thats kind of like
me. While my roommates in
Florida, I get to take care of my
other roommate, Megan.
Girl 1: That kind of reminds
me of my sweater.
Girl 2: Except yours isnt
sparkly.
Guy 1: (turns to Girl 1) And
yours is more slutty.
Guy: Did you eat all my
donuts?
Girl: Maybe.
Guy: I will smother you in your
sleep with glazed donuts!
Girl: Well, too bad you cant,
cause I ate them all!
Girl 1: Whats your biggest
fear?
Girl 2: Oh, if my parents only
knew
Laura Evers
Nicole Simms will compete in her second
marathon in less than a year April 16 in Boston.
Less than a year and a half ago, Simms, St.
Louis sophomore, couldnt run for more than
10 minutes without stopping and can now
complete the 26.2-mile race.
Simms played sports in high school, but
says she was always bigger than the other girls.
During winter break of her freshman year at KU,
Simms began running to lose weight. Within
three months, she says, she was hooked on
running and had lost more than 30 pounds.
After running for only nine months, Simms
competed in the Lewis and Clark Marathon in
St. Charles, Mo., in September 2006. Going into
the marathon, Simms says, she didnt know
if shed even be able to fnish, but she placed
41st out of more than 1,600 racers with a time
of 3:24:58. At mile 23, she says, she hit a wall,
but a girl Simms babysat ran up to her holding
a sign that read, I hope you sleep when youre
done. This little bit of encouragement was all
she needed to keep going, she says.
After I fnished, I just sat in my bathtub and
devoured a batch of cookies my grandmother
made me, she says. I was so sweaty and I had
chafed in places I never thought possible.
Simmss time was fast enough to qualify her
for the prestigious Boston Marathon, the worlds
oldest. At frst it was hard to fnd a balance
between school and running 60 to 70 miles a
week for training, Simms says, but shes found
a routine that keeps her on track whenever
shes tempted to skip a run. Simms advises
runners who want to complete a marathon
that they need to be dedicated, have extreme
willpower, pay attention to nutrition and have
a superhuman threshold for pain.
Anyone can run, she says, but it takes
something else to be a marathoner.
Katrina Mohr
WHAT its likE
to run a
marathon
Nicole Simms, St. Louis sophomore, ran
her first marathon in September 2006 and
plans to run her second this month.
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notiCe
by Dani Hurst
What to do and where to do
it when spring is in full swing
Get off your butt and go outside,
even if only for the time it takes to
read this article. Chances are its a
beautiful day on one of the most
gorgeous campuses in the nation.
The tulips are in bloom, the grass is
green and lush, and the birds and
the bees are doing their spring thing.
If you arent sure what to do once
youre out your front door, check out
these tips for what to do and where
to go on and off campus.
Henry KritiKos
Lyndon senior
Activity: Playing guitar
Ideal Place: Chancellors fountain
Why: Its pretty and the fountain makes cute little gurgling sounds. Plus, the view down the
hill is really nice.
Maggie sHerMan
Lenexa senior
Activity: Walking barefoot
Ideal Place: Campanile Hill
Why: I like walking there
because there arent as many
trees, so there arent as many
twigs on the ground. Its one of
my simple pleasures in life.
stepHanie sHiflett
Overland Park freshman
Activity: Relaxing outdoors
Ideal Place: The grassy area
between the Campanile and
Potter Lake
Why: Its really pretty. It blocks
the wind just enough that you
get a nice breeze. Its very plush.
CHristy BraDley
Kansas City, Mo., senior
Activity: Bike riding
Ideal Place: The road to Clinton
Lake
Why: You get to cross this
really long bridge and the whole
time you get to look out over
the lake. Its quite fabulous.
tyler WaugH
Topeka sophomore
Activity: Taking photos
Ideal Place: Potter Lake
Why: It has really cool refections in the water. The colors are really nice
when everything is in bloom.
gaylorD riCHarDson
Professor of architecture and urban planning
Activity: Teaching class outside
Ideal Place: On campus
Why: Weve been all over campus: Wescoe, Potter Lake, Dyche Hall,
Lindley. I take students outside to prepare them for travel sketching and
on-site sketching.
lauren fulton
Dallas freshman
Activity: Sketching outdoors
Ideal Place: Potter Lake
Why: Theres so much there to sketch. You can sketch trees or the
bridge or the Campanile, or even the buildings in the distance. There are
even little statues around the lake that you can draw.
aaron steHMan
Hesston junior
Activity: Throwing Frisbees
Ideal Place: Strong Hall lawn
or Fraser lawn
Why: Its real nice and its out
in the open. Its kind of busy,
but youre not in anyones
way.
eMily BrusCHi
Leawood sophomore
Activity: Playing on
playgrounds
Ideal Place: South Park, 1141
Massachusetts St., or Water
Tower Park, 1245 Sunset Drive.
Why: The one on Mass. Street
has things other than swings.
Its got ramps and slides. Its
cool because you can frolic
through the feld.The Water
Tower Park is good because
its closer to where I live, so its
convenient.
stepHanie King
Flower Mound, Texas,
sophomore
Activity: People watching
Ideal Place: Wescoe Beach or
Massachusetts Street
Why: People wear the
craziest things when they
think its warm out. I like
to just sit there and watch
people pass by. Mass. Street is
cool because then you get to
see all the Lawrence townies.
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PHOTO/ MaRLa keOWn
Grindhouse
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All rAtings Are out of A possible five stArs.
In the world of Grindhouse,
no limb remains attached to
its torso, no shirt unsoiled by
blood. If youre a guy, your balls
are coming off. Ladies, your
nether region is going to be
mutilated, either by a knife or
a guy who still has his balls.
And if youre a Thanksgiving
turkey, Im sorry.
Shocking, yes, but did we
really expect anything less
from the sick minds of Robert
Rodriguez and Quentin
Tarantino?
The flm consists of two
separate features. Planet Terror,
Rodriguezs contribution,
plays like a retro zombie fick
on steroids, beginning with a
toxic gas leak that produces
skin infections that make acne-
ridden adolescent faces look
attractive by comparison. But
nasty pus pops get old quickly,
and it doesnt take long to
realize that theres someone
waiting behind each door. The
blood and guts overexposure
desensitizes the audience to
the point of boredom.
The hilarious intermission
sequence wakes us up and
Tarantinos half, Death Proof,
recaptures our attention.
Tarantino understands the
value of a little exposition;
knowing a bit about his
characters makes the eventual
severances all the more
gruesome.
The innocents are two
groups of girls looking for
fun who are oh-so-rudely
interrupted by Stuntman
Mike (Kurt Russell), a stalker
who doesnt spare fashing
the audience the its all too
easy look. But this time hes
underestimated his targets. The
female redemption la Kill
Bill is a refreshing conclusion
to what at times feels like
Rodriguez and Tarantinos
twisted sexual fantasy being
played out onscreen.
Jared Duncan
Movie
Im sitting alone in a coffee
shop on a cold, drizzly day in
central Scotland and Im not
expecting anybody. Its just me, a
book and a cup of the strongest
coffee Ive ever tasted. The
familiar feeling of a pocketed
cell phone pressing against
my leg is gone. I have no direct
connection to anyone my
friends and family are an Atlantic
Ocean away and I am content.
Aside from a few one-week
visits from friends and family,
I spent most of my semester
abroad in isolation. Sure, I made
friends with all of my fatmates
(Scottish for roommates)
and I met plenty of Americans
who were overseas. But Im a
shy, private person and a few
months just werent enough
time to detach myself from
my natural inclination toward
solitude. And thats not a bad
thing.
I arrived at my fat in Stirling,
Scotland, on a misty morning in
January 2006. I was so physically
drained from the nine-hour
fight that as I trudged up
the stairs to my room, I was
grateful the airline had lost the
heaviest piece
of my luggage (I
eventually got it
back). I had two
weeks to get
settled in before
the start of classes.
My fatmates were
still enjoying their
Christmas breaks
and wouldnt
return for more
than a week.
I slept well the
frst night, but then my body
returned to the schedule I had
been on while at home in St.
Louis. My midnight snack of
sleeping pills, warm English
beer and more sleeping pills
didnt help me fall asleep any
earlier. I convinced myself that
the mattress was too frm, so I
fipped it over with the hope
that the other side would be
more comfortable. Each day for
two weeks I greeted the rising
sun and fell asleep hours later. It
was then I realized
I had better get
used to change
and a new kind
of solitude.
This feeling
was a bit scary
at frst, even
though it ft my
lifestyle perfectly.
Ive already
mentioned that
Im no extrovert.
I still dont have
all of my current roommates
phone numbers and weve been
living together for almost a
year. Im the person who hates if
someone sits next to him when
there are plenty of other open
seats and, for the most part, I
dont like seeing anyone I know
in public because I never know
what to say.
At home, I choose to be
somewhat reclusive. But
overseas, I had no choice. After
the initial loneliness, however, I
became comfortable with the
solitude. Keeping to myself is
a hobby of mine, and studying
abroad was a great opportunity
to perfect that hobby. I was the
same person, just in a new place.
One by one, my fatmates
returned from their vacations
and I quickly befriended them.
The human contact was nice,
but artifcial. I got as close as
I thought I needed to, but no
closer. After all, my return fight
home was booked and the date
was circled on my calendar.
Here I was, an American student
thrown into a solid circle of best
friends only to be taken out
again in a few months. Although
memorable, the times I had with
my Scottish buddies seemed
as rented as the fat we lived in.
And, like the key to that fat, the
friendships would have to be
given back.
I did the touristy things such
as a visit to Edinburgh Castle
and a tour of a whiskey distillery,
but I only did these things so I
could say Id done them. They
didnt defne my time abroad.
As my fatmates went home
each weekend, I stayed in and
watched TV, even episodes of
American Idol that were new to
Scotland but weeks behind the
airings in the U.S. During the day
I would go into town to explore
or sit by the lake on campus.
My 21st birthday celebration
consisted of a six-pack of Carling
beer and history notes (fnals
began the following day). My
classes were mostly big lectures,
reminiscent of freshman year. I
bought my coffee from the same
machine each day and took my
place in the back of the room
where I could listen and take
notes unnoticed, alone.
I studied by myself, ate by
myself, shopped by myself,
experienced by myself. True, few
times in my life have I ever felt so
alone, but few times have I ever
been so content. The obligations
that had characterized my pre-
Scotland life vanished. Life was
less hectic, less stressful. I had
fewer things on my mind, yet I
thought more than ever before,
and not about deadlines or due
dates. I never had to call anyone
back and rarely had to be
somewhere at a certain time.
Before my experience in
Scotland, I had almost forgotten
what it was like to have enough
time to truly relax, enjoy these
college years and not worry.
Spending time alone made me
realize that the simpler life is, the
happier I am. Unfortunately, the
days since my return have been
busier than ever. My memories
of Scotland have left me with
a longing for simplicity and a
stronger sense of comfort in my
quiet character.
SPeAK
04.12.2007 JAYPLAY 19
I studied abroad alone and wouldnt have had it any other way
pHOTOS COUrTESy Of SAMCArLSOn
ScottISh SecluSIon
by Sam carlson
Sam Carlson at Loch Ness,
(above), and in front of
Airthrey Castle on the
University of Stirling
campus (left).
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table of contents
what do you think? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
accessorize your apartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
what do you think? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
apartment maintanence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
the tiki room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
lease smarts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
decorating for less . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
what do you think?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
checklist: apartment decorating . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
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What do you think?
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Lawrence has many
options to help create a room with great
atmosphere that is sure to catch some
attention.
You could buy bed-
room decor from Ethan
Allen or Jonathan Adler,
but most college stu-
dents cant afford high-
end furniture.
Frugality is necessary
for most college stu-
dents, and it can create
the common scenario of
How do I make it look
like that, but spend less
on it?
Anyone can succeed in their look-
for-less goal, but first they should know
whats hot and whats not.
(Luckily, unlike fashion, home dcor
trends stay popular longer and wont look
outdated in your home after the trend has
left stores.)
Paige Ensminger, sales associate at the
home-furnishings store Blue Heron, 921
Massachusetts St., said black and white
were good bases.
She said that by adding popular graph-
ic prints or flashes of bright yellows and
blues, anyone can create a chic living
space.
A fashionable motif
can be created in other
ways, too.
You can find inex-
pensive lighting fixtures
that are really important
in creating a high-end
look, Esminger said.
Esminger said rugs
are a good way to com-
bat a boring design.
If you have
kind of blah furniture, rugs
can spruce things up, she said.
Shay Elder, owner of Eangee Home
Design, 933 Massachusetts St., said he
saw a shift to more eco-friendly furni-
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tic approach in terms of decorating ideas,
and that people were craving something
different.
People want their home to hold a
sense of place, Elder said. Basically, each
home should be unique and not look like
everyone elses.
Elder said a budget was the best way
to achieve a high-end look for a lower
price.
He said buyers should pay more for a
few select items and place the furniture in
a way that would showcase the expensive
items.
Elder also said lighting was a great
design feature, and its functionality and
pizzazz make it a crucial part of the
design aspect.
With the right design and a knack for
bargains, everyone can get the room they
envision without the intimidating price
tags.
Edited by Carissa Pedigo
ApArtment guide 4 6
What do you think?
by Anne Weltmer
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lawrence senior
You need paintings all over the
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Bright things. Just to make it so
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aintenance problems are
not always as traumatic
as finding a new body of
water in your apartment
from a broken pipe or a
new pool of water from a leaky faucet, but
they frequently do interrupt apartment life
They can range from a leaky faucet to a
backed up sink.
We get calls about clogged drains, broken
light fixtures and broken window screens,
said Andreas Brandenberger, Baldwin
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Maintenance requests can cost you
money, so you might want to get your
hands dirty if its a simple task.
But if the problem is too big for you to
handle, its best to put in a maintenance
request with management.
A tenant can call the office and we write
it down and give it to our maintenance
crew, Brandenberger said.
After putting in a request, management
will notify you 24 to 48 hours before they
come to do repairs.
It is important to remember the date
and time maintenance will be coming, so
if you have an animal you can keep them
out of the way and also to prevent yourself
from being surprised when some unknown
person comes into your apartment.
You do not need to be there when main-
tenance comes to do repairs, Brandenberger
said. But if you feel better about being in
your apartment when someone else is there
that is fine.
It depends on the job when it comes to
time. For small jobs, maintenance person-
nel will not be in your apartment long, but
for the bigger projects, they could be there
for an hour or more.
Edited by James Pinick
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Today most apartment leases have clauses that clearly defne the
procedure for maintenance. Here are some things to look for:
>> Notice: Make sure to see how long of a notice you should have before manage-
ment comes into your apartment.
>> Cost: Take a look at how much each maintenance call will cost.
>> People: Pay close attention to who the lease states can come into your apart-
ment.
>> Time: Most clauses will state what time of the day maintenance personnel will
arrive to fx the problems.
>> Cause: Maintenance personnel can also come to do things such as check for
fre hazards or spray for pest control. Make sure you know the possible
instances when management can enter your apartment.
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clogged garbage disposals
broken air conditioners or
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broken washer or dryer
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Problems (continued from 7)
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Carella and Nel-
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their roommates
painted the inte-
rior of their house
crimson and blue.
We made it KU
themed so people
would remember
our house after
they came over,
Carella said.
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Moving into an apartment can be
exciting. Although the process of get-
ting everything together for move-in
day can be tedious, the end result can
be worth the work.
It is important to have specific goals
for what you are look-
ing for in your apart-
ment and lease.
The best way to make
sure every desire is met,
is to keep open com-
munication between
the landlord and man-
agement. Throughout
the process it is very
important to be open
with what you are want-
ing from your living experience.
It is very important to keep every-
thing in writing, Kate Clark, a travel-
ing marketing manager working for
Hawks Pointe, said. After the first
conversation, it is important to have
two written copies, one for you and
one for the file.
Clark recommends the written doc-
umentation because it is easy to keep
track of.
A written document is always on file
when a follow-up call is made to make
sure everything is
being done before
move in day.
It is also important
to remember that you
are just one of the
many clients the com-
pany is working with.
Specific details that
are easy to remem-
ber are not so easy
for a company that is
working with 20 other clients.
Because of communication errors
or different ideas on both parties, not
everything can be perfect at the time
of move in.
In this situation, it is still important
to be vocal on what needs to happen to
create a positive living experience.
Shannon Rigney, Orchard Corners
property manager, said that everything
agreed on by the renter and landlord
should be in writing before move in.
With everything in writing, it is easy
to have a secure idea for what really
was to happen.
Rigney agrees with Clark and
stressed the importance of documen-
tation. However, if things do not hap-
pen, there are still ways to deal with
the problem.
It is important to contact us imme-
diately with the problem and we will
do everything in our power to fix it,
Rigney said.
The most important thing to remem-
ber in this process is allowing your
voice to be heard. If you are open with
your ideas, it will be hard to have a
negative living experience.
Edited by Ryan Schneider
It is important to contact us
immediately with the problem
and we will do everything in
our power to fx it.
Shannon Rigney
orchard Corners property manager
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Shopping on a budget
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For most college students, moving out of the
dorms and into an apartment or house is an
exciting and liberating time. The expenses of
decorating, however, are less than thrilling.
Most students are already paying for school,
rent and gas, among other things. When priori-
tizing with money, interior decorating is often
neglected.
Despite the overpriced furniture and acces-
sories found at most home goods stores, it is
possible to create a living space that is still chic
at a fraction of the cost.
At the end of each school year, many stu-
dents will be graduating from college and
jumping into the work world. Often these
students will be moving, therefore needing to
discard furniture and other items.
The public works of the city of Lawrence
is usually notified when a person needs large
items, such as a couch or table, to be picked up.
By contacting public works, future homeown-
ers and renters can often save garbage collec-
tors an extra trip and adopt others abandoned
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tors usually arrive in the morning to claim
garbage, and diving at the aforementioned
times will allow a few hours to salvage any
big valuables.
Thrift and vintage stores are places where
students can often find deals on home
goods, too. However, shoppers should make
sure theyre paying fair prices.
Some vintage stores
jack up the prices on items
and college students are
often unaware that they
are actually losing money,
said Brian Fieldman, who
works at D & R Salvage in
Kansas City, Mo.
To be safe, it is impor-
tant to set a limit of how
much money will be spent
on any given item.
Even if someone has
sofas, tables, and lamps, a
room may still look a little lifeless. Kansas
City Home and Gardens magazine predict-
ed natural accessories and decorating to be
in for 2007. This is a great style for students
on a budget, because it involves using things
found in nature to spruce up a room.
Spend a day outside to find articles that
can add an extra feel of home to a par-
ticular room. Anything from pinecones to
earthy-colored rocks will appeal to the eye
when paired with a neutral bowl. And for
those who will remember to take care of it,
think about buying a plant. An attractive
leafy green is sure to add a little something
extra.
Paint also gives students the chance to
add diversity to a house or apartment. For
those who cannot afford buckets of paint or
are not the most talented with a brush, try
choosing an accent wall. Simply choose one
wall, or even the ceiling or floor, and paint
it a bright, different color than the other
walls. If painting large
surfaces seems too dif-
ficult, consider paint-
ing a wooden table or
chair an accent color
instead. Many experts,
including Martha
Stewart and Home
and Garden magazine,
have advocated this
technique.
Just because a col-
lege student cant spend
hundreds of dollars on
decorating a new home does not mean he or
she cannot create a fashionable living space.
Using a sharp eye and following these tips
will ensure that a home is affordable.
With the right techniques and a little
extra effort, it is possible to turn a simple
apartment into a trendy hot spot where
friends can gather.
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Look over your lease and make sure you understand all the elements of what you will sign.
To Do LisT: aparTmenT DecoraTing
Use this handy guide to work out the details of your living space
1. check:
2. Fix:
3. search:
4. Talk:
5. pick:
6. shop:
7. enjoy:
Check over your apartment to make sure you dont have any maintenance issues before you move
in. If you do have a leaky faucet or a clogged drain contact your rental company or fgure out how to
fx the problem yourself.
Look for new stores that ofer cheap and creative ways to decorate your apartment.
Discuss with your roommates what design ideas you have for your new living
space.
Decide on a theme for your apartment and think of ways to implement that theme into your space.
Check out second-hand shops, vintage stores and dumpsters to fnd furniture and decorating
elements.
Have a great year in your new living space.
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