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Jana silverman, 2008 graduate, and ann fitzgerald, southlake, texas, graduate student, are industrial designers who designed a shower chair from a material
called 3Form, an environmentally safe recyclable plastic. The patent is currently pending for the dishwasher- safe shower chair.
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA
smiyakawa@kansan.com
With the struggling U.S. economy
presenting obstacles to business owners,
some KU students are challenging the
business world with their own ideas.
Ann Fitzgerald, Southlake, Texas,
graduate student, and her business part-
ner, Jana Silverman, 2008 graduate, are
preparing to sell shower chairs, while
Adam Hofmann, Overland Park senior,
runs a photography business targeting
high school seniors.
Te three won the Mark L. Morris
Jr. New Venture Development competi-
tion, a contest sponsored by the School
of Business, in Spring 2008. Tey now
compete with businesses that have more
money and more experience than they
do.
TAke A SeAT
Fitzgerald and Silverman, who both
earned their bachelors degrees in indus-
trial design, started their business plan for
a senior design project in 2007. Te proj-
ect involved doing marketing research as
well as designing.
Te pair eventually decided to sell
shower chairs for people who were unable
to stand in the shower.
Fitzgerald said she and Silverman
wanted to design a chair that was both
practical and aesthetically pleasing. Tey
also decided to use 3Form, a recyclable
plastic, to construct the chair.
Most people have a negative connota-
tion about shower chairs, Silverman said.
When you think of one, you think of just
a plastic seat with steel legs.
Fitzgerald and Silverman tried several
designs and materials to refne the pro-
totype, asking their relatives to use the
chairs and displaying the chairs in front
of Wescoe Hall to get feedback.
Good design reaches the gap between
what the industry ofers and what cus-
tomers want, Fizgerald said.
Silverman said protecting their ideas
from competitors was always a challenge.
Te pair is looking for investors and man-
ufacturers to sell the chairs within a year.
Silverman works for a Web site design
company full time. Fitzgerald said she also
planned to seek full-time employment
afer completing her masters degree in
industrial design. But Fitzgerald said they
would both continue their own business.
ShooTing for excellence
For his project, Hofmann combined
business with his interest in photography,
which began in high school while taking
pictures for yearbooks and sport teams.
He said he didnt consider starting his
own business until Summer 2007, when
he took several portraits for high school
students and recognized an opportunity
to make money in the photography busi-
ness.
It defnitely pays of, Hofmann said.
If you break down per hour, its a pretty
good hourly wage.
At frst, Hofmann talked to his high
school principal and faculty members
about his business and sent advertising
fyers and letters to personal connections
to fnd customers. His high school-aged
brother also helped him. He said once he
took some portraits, it was easier for him
to fnd other customers through word of
mouth.
He said he made his business stand out
by providing more convenience for cus-
tomers.
He talks with customers for a few hours
to pick the best places and outfts for the
portraits, then picks up customers from
their homes and takes them to photogra-
phy locations. One of the most interesting
ideas he had ever helped come up with,
Hofmann said, was to shoot a photograph
of a boy playing the guitar in a tree.
I try to fnd out things that will make
it more personal, Hofmann said. I ask
what kind of music they like, where they
like to go, who they hung out with.
If the city manages to keep its bus
transit system through a sales tax ini-
tiative on Novembers ballot, University
and city administrators will have to
decide on whether, and how, to merge
the two bus systems.
Queers and Allies attended a pro-
duction of Te Laramie Project, on
Friday in Manhattan. Te play depicts
Matthew Shepards murder and events
surrounding it in 1998 in Laramie,
Wyo. Te 10th anniversary of Shepards
death was Sunday.
BY B.J. RAINS
rains@kansan.com

Te 07-08 sports season, one of the
best years in the history of Kansas athlet-
ics, brought the city of Lawrence a special
honor.
Te football team went 12-1 and won
the 2008 FedEx Orange Bowl. Te basket-
ball team beat Memphis 75-68 in overtime
to win the NCAA National Championship.
Students, fans and citizens of Lawrence
focked to Massachusetts Street to celebrate
all along the way.
Now, the city of Lawrence has received
an award of its own. Te Sporting News
released its annual list of the top sports cit-
ies in America and Lawrence has checked
in at No. 15, the highest college town on
the list.
Im not surprised at all, said Jim
Marchiony, associate athletics director. Its
a refection of the great student athletes we
have, the coaches that we have and the fans
that we have.
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BY GEORGE HART
editor@kansan.com
Its Thursday evening. Youve
just finished dinner, and the storm
hits. The vortex of homework, jobs
and relationships becomes over-
whelming. So many things need to
be done, but there is rarely enough
time.
College students handle
their stress with varying levels
of efficiency. One method that
scarcely comes to mind is one of
Eastern origin: yoga. But a club
of 20 University students, lead by
president and founder Brandon
Hidaka, find that this meditative
practice is the perfect remedy for
anxiety and an effective way to
stay in shape.
The KU Yoga Club, which
was founded in the Spring 2007,
meets from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. every
Thursday at the Courtside Room
in the Burge Union. Consisting
of about 70 percent women, the
class is more gender balanced than
the typical yoga class found in
Lawrence.
With soft music humming in the
background, sessions begin casu-
ally, as the members grab a mat and
stake out their territory.
Even if you dont have a mat,
we have an extra supply of them for
people to use, Hidaka said.
The meeting begins with a brief
warm-up. The standard warm-
up includes light movement and
breathing exercises. After the
warm-up, more experienced mem-
bers may modify certain positions
to increase the intensity of their
workout. Focus on breath is an ini-
tial barrier, but it is the key to true
meditation.
Hidaka said he enjoyed the
constantly changing rhythms of
his breath and the sound of his
voice during chants.
From here, either Hidaka or a
guest leader will lead the group
through a series of postures. Most
of the members break a sweat
during the heart of the workout.
Duration of holding a stretch cor-
relates directly with the intensity
of a session. Many members notice
an improvement in their flexibility
after only a few meetings.
Lack of flexibility is no excuse
to avoid yoga, Hidaka said, Its
really easy to increase your flex-
ibility by devoting as little as 10
minutes a day.
At the end of a workout, mem-
bers lie on their backs, eyes closed,
in the corpse position. For two to
five minutes they relax and reflect.
Group members mingle before
heading back to their respective
homes.
Yogas appeals are wide-ranging.
For some, it is their one physical
activity of the week. Others find
the opportunity to unify body and
mind enthralling.
The experience can be theistic
or secular, it depends on the per-
son, Hidaka said.
But the abstract goal of connect-
ing body and soul provides ample
rewards. Along with this, Hidaka
said that, concentration improves,
you feel better about yourself, and
you feel at peace with the earth.
Most of the members practice yoga
only once a week, but some medi-
tate with the rising sun each morn-
ing. The club consists of members
of all experience levels.
Keep an open mind and dont
be self conscious, yoga is about
self-improvement, Hidaka said.
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Frank Ciofa, President of The Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation; TimYoung of East Hampton, Ma.; and TomTorti, Presi-
dent of the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce (LCRCC), participate in the First Annual Giant Pumpkin Regatta, sponsored by
LCRCC, on Lake Champlain of the shore of Waterfront Park in Burlington, Vt., on Sunday.
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Fake realtor rents home
thats not for rent
NEW YORK A Long Island,
N.Y., family thought they got
a good deal when they found
a rental house for $1,000 a
month until the owner
showed up and asked what
they were doing there.
Nassau County police
arrested Gregory Garvin on
Wednesday for posing as a
real estate agent and renting
out the house in the hamlet of
Roosevelt. Garvin was charged
with grand larceny and fraud.
Police say Garvin also
collected a $1,000 security
deposit from the couple.
The family was living in the
house about two weeks when
the real owner showed up.
Police say the house had
been vacant and the real
owner had planned to sell it.
Lump sum a gamble
for $42M lottery winner
LANSING, Mich. A winner
of a $42 million Mega Millions
jackpot in Michigan will receive
the money in installments
rather than getting a smaller,
one-time cash payment.
The winner of the Oct. 3
jackpot indicated a preference
for taking the annuity. State
lottery spokeswoman Andi
Brancato says she cant remem-
ber a Mega Millions winner in
Michigan ever doing that.
Associated Press
Drunk man fnds his way
home to wrong home
GAITHERSBURG, Md.
Unlike Goldilocks, a man who
stumbled into the wrong sub-
urban Washington, D.C., home
after drinking too much found
the bed there just right.
Bob and Joanne Breiner
returned home from a night
out to fnd a man with a white
beard nestled in their bed,
sound asleep. Once police
showed up and the drunken
stranger realized what had
happened, he apologized
profusely and complimented
the couple on their comfort-
able bed.
Im so sorry, Im so sorry,
Joanne Breiner recalled him
saying.
The man accidentally went
to the Breiners house after
apparently getting of at a bus
stop eight miles from his own
home, police said. He entered
through the unlocked front
door.
Joanne Breiner said she frst
realized something was amiss
the night of Sept. 27 after
noticing crumpled aluminum
foil and crumbs on the kitchen
counter, along with a missing
crab cake.
Minutes later, she recalled
Thursday, her husband walked
upstairs to the master bed-
room, fipped on the light and
noticed the intruder.
The man didnt stir, and
Joanne Breiner says her
husband wasnt even sure
whether he was alive.
Quickly and quietly
Bob alerted Joanne and the
couples 16-year-old son. They
fed into the rainy darkness,
not pausing to grab their car
keys or other belongings.
Joanne Breiner said, she
found the incident bizarre.
At frst we thought, Thats so
strange, so weird, we couldnt
even imagine, she said.
Police arrived, made their
way to the master bedroom
and woke the man by shaking
him. Breiner said he asked the
ofcers what they were doing
in his house.
The family decided not to
press charges.
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BY JESSE TRIMBLE
jtrimble@kansan.com
Seven members of Queers and
Allies attended a production of
The Laramie Project Friday night
at the Purple Masque Theater in
Manhattan. The Laramie Project
is a play by Mosis Kaufman and
the Numbers
T e c t o n i c
Theater Project
and is based
on Matthew
Shepards mur-
der. The 10th
anniversary of
Shepards death
was Sunday.
In 1998, two men beat and mur-
dered Shepard in Laramie, Wyo.,
where he was a student at the
University of Wyoming. Shepards
murderers objected to his homo-
sexuality and the Shepard case
drew international attention as one
of the first gay hate crimes in the
United States.
The play depicts a theater com-
pany from New York traveling to
Laramie to conduct hundreds of
interviews with the residents of the
town about Shepards murder. The
company members are also present
for the trial and sentencing of the
two men accused of Shepards beat-
ing and murder. According to the
2000 census, the town had around
27,000 residents.
Rachel Gadd-Nelson, Kansas
City sophomore and Queers and
Allies public relations manager,
said that the play was similar to the
movie The Laramie Project that
was released in 2002.
This was an international
event, Gadd-Nelson said. People
from everywhere were watching
and it opened the eyes of people to
hate crimes and what that meant.
Gadd-Nelson said the play hit
home about how an event like this
could still easily happen anywhere.
They put everything togeth-
er into this play and the movie,
Gadd-Nelson said. It was scripted,
but it was also a first-hand account
of what was going on at the time
from the people of Laramie.
Hahna Curtin, Oconomowoc,
Wis., freshman and member of
Queers and Allies, said that it was
a very emotional and intense per-
formance.
One of the actresses on stage
started crying when she wasnt sup-
posed to, Curtin said. The guy
sitting next to me started crying,
too.
Curtin said she barely remem-
bered the actual event in 1998, as
she was only eight years old at the
time.
Jared Kelly, Salmouth, Mass.,
freshman and member of Queers
and Allies, said although hed never
seen any version of the play before,
it was extremely powerful.
Before seeing this, I felt like Im
gay and people see homosexuality
as being so bad and so wrong, but
afterwards, I felt really empow-
ered, Kelly said. Kind of like Im
gay and thats OK.
Rumors swirled that Fred Phelps,
the pastor of Westboro Baptist
Church in Topeka, was supposed
to come with a group of parishio-
ners and picket the play, but they
never showed up on Friday. Phelps
infamously picketed Shepards
funeral in 1998. Friends of Shepard
organized a group of people who
wore white robes and wings and
surrounded Phelps protest group
to block their message from being
heard by people at the funeral.
That was one of the most pow-
erful parts of the play just amaz-
ing, Gadd-Nelson said.
She said that Phelps was por-
trayed as a character in the play.
Curtin said that the plays depic-
tion of Phelps was accurate and
Phelps characters lines in the play
were what Phelps actually said.
His desire to picket the actual
play and the funeral is incredibly
bad taste, Curtin said. If you have
a problem with homosexuality
thats one thing, but to picket the
funeral of a boy who was killed
because he was gay thats just
heartless.
Gadd-Nelson said that since
Shepards murder, his mother,
Judy, had become an activist for
gay rights. Recently, an interview
was conducted with Judy concern-
ing hate crime laws being passed.
Gadd-Nelson said it was upset-
ting to see her say that nothing
had been passed concerning hate
crime laws. Although Connecticut
recently passed the gay marriage
law, Gadd-Nelson said something
should be done about hate crime
laws.
Kelly said that hate crimes were
a problem, not only within Kansas,
but the nation as a whole.
I dont think hate crimes
occur as much as I initially
thought, Kelly said. But they are
most definitely a problem. There
should be legislature passed to do
something about it. It needs to be
dealt with.
For the past two years Queers
and Allies have hung up flags
around campus for Pride Week,
which were then immediately
torn down by students. This year
the group decided to hang the
flags higher, using a 24-foot tall
ladder.

Edited by Rachel Burchfeld
organizations
Student group travels
to see Laramie Project
Shepard
Just two days before the 10th anniversary of Matthew Shepards
murder, Queers and Allies takes in performance in Manhattan
BY GEORGE JAHN
ASSOcIATEd PRESS
VIENNA, Austria North
Korea moved closer to restart-
ing its nuclear arms program
Wednesday, barring U.N. inspec-
tors from its main plutonium
reprocessing plant and announc-
ing it will reactivate the facility
that provided the material for its
atomic test blast.
The move fed fears about a
resurgent nuclear North Korea,
but there also is speculation it
might be motivated by negotiat-
ing strategy. Pyongyang could use
the year needed to restart its sole
reprocessing plant to wrest more
concessions from the U.S. and
others seeking to end the atomic
program.
Still, coming amid reports lead-
er Kim Jong Il suffered a stroke,
the nuclear reversal is raising ner-
vousness about a breakdown in
the international attempt to coax
the North out of its confrontation-
al isolation a point addressed
Wednesday by Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice.
U.S. diplomats are talking with
other nations involved in bargain-
ing with the North at this weeks
meeting of the U.N. General
Assembly.
Any move by Pyongyang to
restart its nuclear program would
only deepen its isolation, Rice
warned. We strongly urge the
North to reconsider these steps
and come back immediately into
compliance with its obligations
under a disarmament-for-aid
agreement reached in six-nation
talks.
Hours earlier, the International
Atomic Energy Agency announced
that North Korean officials
informed the IAEA inspectors
that they plan to introduce nucle-
ar material to the reprocessing
plant in one weeks time.
The statement from the Vienna-
based U.N. agency said Deputy
IAEA Director General Olli
Heinonen told the IAEA board
that after a request from North
Korea, his inspectors removed
all agency seals and surveillance
equipment from the reprocessing
plant and its immediate area.
That work was completed
today, Heinonen said, according
to the statement.
It also said North Korea barred
IAEA inspectors from further
access to the Yongbyon nuclear
complex.
North Korea had signaled in
recent days that it would break
out of the disarmament deal,
announcing it was making thor-
ough preparations to restart
Yongbyon.
What theyve done is trouble,
said Gregory L. Schulte, the chief
U.S. delegate to the IAEA.
international
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A South Korean woman reads a newspaper reporting the United States removed North Korea fromits terrorismblacklist in Seoul, South
Korea, on Sunday. North Korea said Sunday it would resume disabling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the United States removed the
communist country froma list of states that sponsor terrorism.
North Korea feeds nuclear fears
Country blocks U.N. inspectors, reactivates plutonium plant
He said he had many competi-
tors, with one of the largest senior
portrait companies in the country
located in Overland Park. However,
he said his age helped him connect
to and understand more about his
high school customers.
Ultimately, you have to give
what the clients want, but at the
same time you always give some-
thing that nobody else has given
to you, Hofmann said.
Hofmann, a business marketing
major, will graduate in May 2009.
He said he was not sure about
continuing the photography busi-
ness afer graduation, but always
enjoyed meeting diferent people
and taking pictures for them.
Probably the most fun is afer
the shoot. Shooting is fun, but
aferwards they get to see the pic-
tures and their reactions are pretty
cool, Hofmann said.
Finding a niche
Wally Meyer, director of
Entrepreneurship Programs who
advised the three students, teaches
entrepreneurship courses at the
School of Business. He said that since
the school started ofering the cours-
es in 2005, the number of students
taking the classes had increased.
Hofmann said he had enrolled
in entrepreneurship courses, which
reinforced his knowledge after
starting his business. He is also
the president of the Entrepreneur
Club on campus.
Meyer said the current econo-
my presented challenges to entre-
preneurs who needed new funds.
He said businesspeople would also
face sales challenges with fnan-
cially pinched consumers not
wanting to buy new products or
services.
The entrepreneur with a
unique product or service target-
ed at a recession-resistant market
with sufcient tenacity to weather
the economic storm can still be
very successful in todays econo-
my, Meyer said.
Edited by AdamMowder
BY RYAN McGEENEY
rmcgeeney@kansan.com
Even afer Lawrence voters
decide whether to fund the city
bus transit system through a pair
of proposed sales taxes on the
Nov. 4 ballot, both the city and
University will still have at least
one major transportation issue to
sort out.
A collection of representatives
from the University, city and
Student Senate has been meeting
on a weekly basis since September
to discuss the details of a pro-
posed merger of Lawrences two
bus systems: KU on Wheels,
which also includes the Park and
Ride system, and the Lawrence
bus transit
system, the
T.
A merger
would involve
c o or di nat -
ing the citys
feet of twelve
buses with the
Universitys
43 buses, fve
of which are
dedicated to
the Park and
Ride system. If the merger were
to go through, its organizers hope
to have its details worked out by
July 2009.
Casey Toomay, the citys inter-
im transit administrator, said one
of the primary motivations for
the merger was a sense of the two
systems inefciencies resulting
in wasted resources.
I think theres a perception
in the community that there
are deficiencies out there, like
routes and destinations that
are served by both systems,
Toomay said.
Toomay said that the two sys-
tems had diferent, if occasionally
overlapping, goals.
KUs goal is to get people
from where they live to the cam-
pus, Toomay said. Thats a little
different than our goal, which is
to get people all throughout the
community. We have routes that
go through campus. Whether
we would continue to do that
under a consolidated system
or a merged system, we dont
know.
Because the mergers very
existence rests on an unknown
outcome namely, whether
Lawrence citizens will pass a tax
proposal in November that will
provide funding for city transit
afer January 2009 the indi-
viduals in the meeting are forced
to react to a series of hypothetical
situations.
Most of the planning stems
from the Dan Boyle Report.
Te report, commissioned by
the city, lists possible variations
of combined routes, governance
and other factors of a merged bus
system, including contingency
plans for various levels of fund-
ing.
Robert Chestnut, vice-mayor
of Lawrence, said that the lack
of certainty about the city tran-
sits funding required a broad
spectrum of alternative merger
plans.
It could
be approved
at two dif-
ferent lev-
el s, sai d
Ch e s t n u t ,
referring to
the two sales
tax propos-
als. Te frst
would pro-
vide basic
funding for
the city transit system through
a 0.2 percent sales tax, and the
other would establish a bus
replacement fund through a
0.05 percent sales tax. Itd be
one thing if it were X or noth-
ing. Ten we could start plan-
ning right away. But because it
could be X, or Y, or Z, its just
wise to wait and see what we
have to work with.
Derek Meier, Independence,
Kan., sophomore, participates
in the meetings as the Student
Senate transportation coordi-
nator.
Meier pointed to the cur-
rent ambiguity of the city sys-
tems future as cause for the
University to withhold direct
involvement.
Most of the student senators
are sitting on the sidelines until
a merger plan emerges, Meier
said.
The details arent known
yet. I think that Student Senate
forming an opinion at this point
is pretty premature. Teres not
many details to be passing judg-
ment on.
Julianne Kuefer/KANSAN
Adam Hofmann, KU senior, Overland Park, began a photography business about two years ago, specializing in senior portraits. He said that
high school students with extracurricular interests, such as music or sports, tended to have more personality in front of the lens.
ENtrEPrENEUrS (continued from 1A)
October 2007 to October 2008
and is compiled based on points
given out for several diferent cat-
egories. Sporting News takes into
consideration win-loss records,
post-season appearances, team
results, the number of teams and
the teams attendance all play a part
in the ranking.
Boston tops the list thanks to
the Red Sox World Series title in
2007 and the Celtics NBA title a
few months ago. Te Patriots went
to the Super Bowl as well, but lost
to the New York Giants.
Lawrence is the top college town
on the list, fnishing well ahead of
the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill
tandem that was grouped together
because of the towns close prox-
imity and came in as the second-
highest college city at number 24
overall.
Were defnitely one of the top
college towns in America, said
Matt Bradbury, Olathe senior and
life-long KU sports fan. But to
rank that high within all of the cit-
ies in the country, its pretty cool.
It shows how crazy people are here
for the Jayhawks.
When the Jayhawks won the
2008 NCAA Championship, thou-
sands of fans flled Massachusetts
Street of Lawrence that night to
celebrate the victory.
Te fans are a big part of it,
Marchiony said. The people
around Lawrence are a big part of
it. It doesnt surprise me at all that
we were ranked that high.
Te next highest city with a Big
12 school was Austin, Texas, with
the University of Texas, at num-
ber 31. Columbia, Mo., home of
the University of Missouri, came
in at number 60. Kansas State
University in Manhattan was
ranked 76th.
lAwrENcE (continued from 1A)
TransporTaTion
Uncertainty colors
bus merger talks
WoRld NEWs
car bombers kills six,
wounds dozens in Mosul
BAGHDAD Suicide car
bombers struck twice Sunday in
the northern city of Mosul, killing
at least six people and wounding
dozens of others, U.S. and Iraqi
ofcials said.
A car bomb killed seven other
people in Baghdad.
Two Iraqi soldiers were killed
by snipers in separate attacks
Sunday in the capitals Yarmouk
district, police said.
Also Sunday, the govern-
ment announced new security
measures to protect Christians
in Mosul after a spate of attacks
against them by Sunni religious
extremists.
The series of attacks shows
the ongoing security challenges
facing Iraq as the U.S. shifts re-
sponsibility to this countrys own
soldiers and police following the
sharp decline in violence since
last year.
clintons cheer for Obama
in fnal campaign rallies
WASHINGTON When Bill
and Hillary Clinton take the stage
Sunday at a campaign rally in
Pennsylvania, it will be the launch
of an active campaign for their
former nemesis Barack Obama
in the home stretch of the 2008
presidential race.
The nations best known and
most powerful Democrats for
nearly two decades, the former
frst couple is getting used to
a new role: cheerleaders for
Obama, who vanquished Hillary
Clinton last spring in a Demo-
cratic primary contest for the
ages.
Whatever recriminations the
Clintons may still harbor from
that long battle seem to have
been nudged aside as they cam-
paign in earnest for the Demo-
cratic ticket.
The New York senator and
the former president will appear
with Obamas running mate,
Joe Biden, at a rally Sunday in
Scranton, a working class town
that has assumed something of
an outsize role in the presidential
race.
Biden was born in Scranton
and lived there for several years
as a child, while Hillary Clintons
father grew up in the town and is
buried there.
Both Biden and Clinton have
emphasized their Scranton roots
to illustrate their connection to
blue-collar voters.
After the rally, the Clintons
will follow separate itineraries
through presidential battle-
ground states. They will also cam-
paign on behalf of Democratic
House and Senate candidates
across the country.
Associated Press
most of the student senators
are sitting on the sidelines until
a merger plan emerges
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Student Senate transportation
coordinator
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TOPEKA Some Republicans
watched with frustration last week
as Lynn Jenkins, their nominee
in the 2nd Congressional District,
faced questions about recent
meetings she missed as a state
pension system trustee.
Democratic Rep. Nancy Boyda
raised the issue during their last
debate. Fellow
De mo c r a t s
noted that
as Jenkins
was missing
m e e t i n g s ,
turmoil on
Wall Street
was causing
the pension
funds assets to
decline more
than $1 billion
in value.
Republicans said the missed
meetings werent a big deal. But
the Kansas GOPs frustration
suggested at least a little fear that
Jenkins might have lost a little
ground with voters in a close
race in which a few missteps might
make the difference.
Republicans have another
reason to be frustrated. If the issue
sticks with voters, it will because
the GOP has made diligence an
issue against several Democrats,
including Boyda. Something
the GOP has raised will have
unintentionally boomeranged.
An attack only really works
when it taps into an issue people
are already thinking about, said
Washburn University political
scientist Bob Beatty.
Boyda is seeking her second
term in the eastern Kansas. Jenkins
is a two-term state treasurer.
As treasurer, Jenkins
automatically has a seat on the
Public Employees Retirement
Systems Board
of Trustees.
Since January
2003, shes
missed 12 of
46 meetings,
or 26 percent,
i n c l u d i n g
ones in July,
August and
September.
Since July
31, KPERS
estimates that
its assets have dropped almost $1.1
billion in value, or about 9 percent.
But KPERS is a long-term investor,
and retirees benefits arent in
danger.
Boydas attack particularly grated
on Christian Morgan, the Kansas
GOPs executive director. Thats
not surprising, because Morgan
has been criticizing Democratic
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for months
for campaigning outside Kansas for
her partys presidential nominee,
Barack Obama.
In August and September, the
governors staff disclosed, she spent
14 days campaigning for Obama in
12 states.
The political result? A big yawn,
it seems.
People have told me that it is a
non-issue, Morgan said.
Of course, Sebelius isnt on the
ballot this year. And, as she noted,
shes got a Blackberry to keep her in
touch by phone or e-mail, meaning
she was probably more isolated
from her office during the hours
she spent answering a jury duty
summons last week.
Jenkins also has said e-mail
allows her to keep up with KPERS
business.
But its not just Sebelius whos
faced questions from Republicans
about her diligence.
In July, Republican Sen. Pat
Roberts re-election campaign
began airing an ad that attacked
Democratic challenger Jim Slattery,
a former 2nd District congressman,
for missing 44 percent of his
scheduled votes in 1994, his last
year in the House.
news 5A monday, october 13, 2008
BY BrANdY eNtsMiNGer
bentsminger@kansan.com
Not having a chapter house
doesnt stop fraternities from
being unified or from planning
for events such as Homecoming,
which begins next week.
Alex Rock, Lawrence senior
and president of the Interfraternity
Council, said having an official
house was beneficial for recruit-
ment but that it wasnt necessary
for a chapter to be successful.
Chapters can be very strong
without being housed, Rock said.
Pi Kappa Alpha has been
living without an official house
since 2000. Alumni sold the house
to First Management after the
fraternity lost its charter in the late
90s. There are 21 members in the
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Nine live
together in a house on Mississippi
Street and the rest live in smaller
groups around Lawrence.
Brian Palmer, Leavenworth
senior and president of Pi Kappa
Alpha, said maintaining unity
within the house was no more dif-
ficult than maintaining unity with
any group of friends.
Palmer said one of the challenges
was making announcements about
an event. He said events had
to be planned further ahead of
time because he couldnt put an
announcement on a bulletin board
or knock on doors to let members
know about it.
The fraternity has weekly broth-
erhood events where members par-
ticipate in activities such as bowl-
ing and watching sporting events.
They also hold weekly chapter din-
ners, meetings and take part in
intramural competitions. Palmer
said chapter dinners were common
among fraternities, but that their
fraternity generally visited restau-
rants because they werent living
together. Chapter meetings are
held at the Kansas Union. Palmer
said they chose to have the meet-
ings there because the living room
of the Mississippi house provided
too many distractions.
It takes on more of a professional
demeanor, Palmer said.
Palmer said it was nice to have
the privacy of not sharing a room
with members in a house while still
being able to spend time with the
other members in the living room
of the Mississippi Street house.
This year Pi Kappa Alpha has a
pledge class of 11 men. Palmer said
formal recruitment was a challenge
because some people were turned
off when they heard the fraternity
didnt have a house.
Tau Kappa Epsilon had to move
out of its house last May because it
was renting from Delta Tau Delta
who returned to campus.
Alex Porte, Great Falls, Va.,
senior and president of Tau Kappa
Epsilon, said his fraternity was
able to maintain unity because
members never went more than a
few days without seeing each other
on campus or at an event.
Tau Kappa Epsilon has chapter
meetings, weekly committee meet-
ings and rush dinners. Porte said
moving out of the house forced
members to improve communica-
tion and that weekly events helped
keep them all on the same page.
Ten of the 21 members live in
a house on Indiana Street and the
rest live around Lawrence. The fra-
ternity lost six members at the end
of last semester, which Porte said
was to be expected during a hous-
ing transition.
Its kind of showed us who our
strong members are and who our
weak members are, Porte said.
Porte said not having a house
also gave freshmen the opportunity
to live in a dorm their first year.
Tau Kappa Epsilon has formal
chapter meetings at the house
on Indiana Street but does larger
mandatory meetings at the Kansas
Union. Porte said the location gave
meetings more of a sense of for-
mality.
Porte said one recruitment
advantage for Tau Kappa Epsilon
was that it could be more selective
and focus on values such as
brotherhood, academics, service
and leadership when considering
potential members.
Other unhoused chapters
include Alpha Gamma Delta
sorority and all of the National
Panhellenic Council and the
National Association of Latino
Fraternal Organizations chapters.
Edited by Arthur Hur
greek Life
Fraternities do well without home
KU chapters able to meet, participate in activities without physical house
Tyler Waugh/KANSAN
MatthewBertino, Ossining, N.Y., junior, Branden Tinker, Wichita junior, Danny Cook, Wichita junior, Brian Palmer,
Leavenworth senior, Matt Lanning, Shawnee junior, Jake Miller, Shawnee sophomore, Matt Petty, Chanhassen, Minn., junior
and Tanner Knight, Gardner senior, have a Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity meeting at the Kansas Union on Sunday. Palmer, the president of the
fraternity, said they have fraternity meetings in the alcoves at the union because they dont have a house on campus.
poLitics
BY LiZ sidoti
AssociAted Press
INDIANAPOLIS Three
weeks before the election,
Republicans are growing
increasingly concerned about
John McCains ability to mount
a comeback, questioning his
tactics and even his campaigns
main thrust
in a White
House race
increasingly
focused on
e c o n o m i c
turmoil.
He has
to make the
case that hes
different than
Bush and
better than
Obama on
the economy, said former House
Speaker Newt Gingrich, one of
more than a dozen prominent
Republicans who in interviews
during the past week expressed
concern over the course of
McCains bid. If he doesnt win
that case, its all over, and its
going to be a very bad year for
Republicans.
Several Republicans, who
spoke on condition of anonymity
to avoid angering McCain, said
the campaign should have sought
to plant doubts about Obamas
associations with 1960s-era
radical William Ayers and others
months ago, rather than waiting
until the campaigns final weeks.
Doing so now, they said, makes
the 72-year-old McCain come off
as angry, grouchy and desperate,
playing into Democrats hands.
Rather, these Republicans said,
McCain needs to strike a balance in
his tone appearing presidential
while also questioning Obamas
readiness to serve and judgment
to lead. And, several said McCain
should close the campaign on an
honorable note.
He doesnt need an attack
strategy, he needs a comeback
strategy, said Alex Castellanos,
a longtime national GOP
media consultant who worked
for McCain primary rival Mitt
Romney.
The unsolicited advice comes
as McCain campaign officials
are becoming increasingly
discouraged. From junior aides
to top advisers, the frustration is
palpable. Some argue the media
isnt giving McCain a fair shake
and are weary of the increasingly
problematic environment working
against the GOP. Tensions have
grown over how hard to go after
Obama amid concerns about
irreparably damaging McCains
straight-shooter reputation.
And the
c a n d i d a t e
himself, the
target of
a negative
w h i s p e r
c a mp a i g n
in the 2000
GOP primary,
a p p e a r s
conflicted on
the campaign
trail. Hes
cheery and
smiling during question-and-
answer sessions with crowds but
becomes visibly annoyed even
surly when he reads aloud
scripted attacks on Obama and
Democrats.
Despite the polls showing
Obama with a lead nationally and
challenging for states long in the
Republican column, none of the
Republicans interviewed said the
race was lost. They said McCain
can prevail if he presents himself
as the optimistic visionary the
public wants at deeply worrisome
economic times.
He needs to come forward
with a serious new plan and
announce it in a serious manner,
said Scott Reed, who managed
Bob Doles 1996 campaign.
McCain cannot outdo Obama in
just expressing outrage over Wall
Street greed.
The candidates meet
Wednesday in their third and final
debate; its McCains best chance
to make a lasting impression.
He has an opportunity to
step up and be a forceful leader
during these challenging times,
said Ron Kaufman, a veteran
party operative who also worked
for Romney. McCain got the
nomination because thats what
his brand is, but somehow its
gotten muddled.
Hes got a great story and
a great case to make, Murray
Clark, the state party chairman,
said of McCain. Has he made
that yet? Not really.
eLection 2008
McCain has to be better
than Obama on nations
economy, experts say
He [McCain] doesnt need
an attack strategy, he needs a
comeback strategy.
alex castellanos
national GoP media consultant
State Republican frustration mounts
An attack only really works
when it taps into an issue
people are already thinking
about.
BoB Beatty
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most challenging.
Aries (MArch 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
The odds of a projects succeeding
are much better if you start it now.
If you really want the vibes on your
side, Tuesdays even better. Maybe
you can drag it out.
TAurus (April 20-MAy 20)
Today is a 6
Be careful at work; there will be
lots of reversals. People will change
their minds about what they want
and howthey want to get it. Youd
better fgure out whats best for
themand talk theminto it.
GeMini (MAy 21-June 21)
Today is an 8
Youre so popular, its hard to keep
your appointments straight. Thats
especially true now, since the de-
tails keep changing. Your calendars
getting to be a mess. Better fnd
your white-out and eraser.
cAncer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
Dont argue with the boss, or say
much of anything. Even a word of
agreement could be misconstrued
as criticism. Hold your opinions un-
til theyre requested, which might
not happen.
leo (July 23-AuG. 22)
Today is a 7
Youre anxious to get going on
something thats newand exciting.
Do your routine chores quickly
to get themout of the way. Then,
venture outside the box.
VirGo (AuG. 23-sepT. 22)
Today is a 6
Run the numbers out, both down
and across. You can get the funding
you need for a domestic project,
but youll have to work at it. Do the
homework and fnd the best deal.
librA (sepT. 23-ocT. 22)
Today is a 7
You pride yourself at working well
with others. Youll get to test that
theory again, as a strong-willed
person tries to order you around. Be
polite, but frm.
scorpio (ocT. 23-noV. 21)
Today is a 7
Theres a sense of urgency at the
job. If things havent heated up yet,
just wait. And be prepared. Be ready
to do whatever you do quickly and
perfectly.
sAGiTTArius (noV. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
Your lucks getting better. Funny
howthis happens. This time, your
biggest decisions involve which of
the many invitations to accept. Its
one of the burdens of being so im-
mensely popular. You can do it.
cApricorn (Dec. 22-JAn. 19)
Today is a 6
You may be a little bit short on
patience now. Take care not to bite
somebodys head of unless, of
course, its totally necessary. Exer-
cise good judgment. If you must,
simply shut up.
AQuArius (JAn. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is an 8
Youre liable to get sucked into a
book or the Internet for the next
couple of days. Let your family
knowyou still love them, but that
youre on a quest for the answers.
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Today is an 8
Do what you always do, to make
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LOS ANGELES An adorable
talking dog remained just the sort
of escapist movie hero audiences
wanted after a week of awful
economic news.
Disneys family comedy Bever-
ly Hills Chihuahua, with Drew Bar-
rymore providing the voice of the
pooch, was the No. 1 fick for the
second-straight weekend with
$17.5 million, raising its 10-day
total to $52.5 million, according
to studio estimates Sunday.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua is
the only light comedy in a market
heavy on drama. Chuck Viane,
Disneys head of distribution, said
movie-goers may be turning to
the perky pooch to help forget
the market free-fall on Wall Street.
This is only word-of-mouth
coming back to us from theaters.
I dont have any statistical proof.
But theyre telling us were get-
ting more unaccompanied-by-
children adults coming on their
own. Theyre looking for a little
entertainment,Viane said. The
axiom weve always lived by is
funny is money. People come out
for comedy.
The weekends No. 2 fick
the fright flm Quarantine,
which debuted with $14.2 mil-
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for the horror crowd. The Sony
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contagion that turns an apart-
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Its probably the perfect kind
of movie for todays climate, said
Rory Bruer, Sony head of distribu-
tion. Lets just get away from
the news, from all thats going
on, and go someplace else, and
this is something thatll take you
someplace else.
The marquee trio of Leonardo
DiCaprio, Russell Crowe and
director Ridley Scott got third-
place with their terrorism thriller
Body of Lies, with a $13.1 mil-
lion debut.
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Humans produce waste, but very
few of us realize just how much
garbage we are responsible for.
The average American produces
about 4.4 pounds of garbage a day,
according to the Environmental
Protection Agency. This amounts
to 29 pounds of garbage a week
from only one American. In an
effort to reduce waste from school
cafeterias, KU Dining Services is
urging students to try it trayless.
KU Dining Services conduct-
ed an experiment by eliminating
trays in campus cafeterias. Students
produced much less trash when
they did not use trays compared to
when they did. Total liquid waste
was reduced by 53.6 percent, food
waste was reduced by 38.2 percent,
and paper waste was reduced by
12.6 percent during the experi-
ment, according to The University
Daily Kansan.
The incredible decrease in the
amount of waste is just one reason
Dining Services should make the
absence of trays permanent in all
dining facilities.
If trays arent available, students
become more conscientious about
how much they throw away. Using
a tray subconsciously urges an
individual to cram as much food,
napkins and soda as they can on it.
With the absence of trays, students
will begin to take only what they
need and stop wasting what they
dont.
The decrease in food wasted
will also be an increase in money
saved. If less food is being thrown
away, less money is being wasted.
KU Dining Services will not need
to purchase as much food as it has
in the past, because it will not have
to account for all the food that was
once tossed out.
The University, as well as
Americans as a whole, should do
their part to preserve the world
that we all share. The first step to
decreasing our effects on the envi-
ronment is to understand it.
The results of this experiment
should alert students to the conse-
quences of their choices.
Eliminating the use of trays is
just one way the University can
make an effort to protect the envi-
ronment and to save money.
Going trayless is just one small
sacrifice students should make in
order to yield large environmental
benefits. I urge the University to
eliminate all trays in on-campus
dining facilities, which will perhaps
decrease the amount of garbage a
KU student produces a week.
Brown is a Wichita sopho-
more in journalism and politi-
cal science.
Gardasil commercials convince
me I can be my own athletic dop-
pelganger. The actresses engage
in agile activities that my clum-
sy limbs envy skateboarding,
jump-roping, shooting hoops as
if they received a 2-for-1 insurance
deal for liquid steel along with the
Human Papillomavirus Virus vac-
cine. But are these Olympic god-
desses really protected from cervi-
cal cancer?
Since its introduction two years
ago, Gardasil has been hailed by
many as a miracle drug. Time com-
mitment is negligent: A patient
receives three shots over six
months. Users have reported only
mild side effects, such as skin irri-
tation and pain after injection.
Not bad sacrifices for a drug
claiming to prevent the second-
most common cause of cancer-
related deaths among women. Its
price tag at $360 seems to be the
only drawback. Not everyone,
especially the uninsured, can afford
such expensive nether regions.
However, the lurking danger of
Gardasil is women treating it as a
Get Out of Jail Free card.
Clinical trials conducted over
a five-year period did not span
enough time for cervical cancer to
appear. Although the tests showed
that the drug may prevent vaginal
lesions from HPV that can lead
to cervical cancer, we cannot con-
fidently say that Gardasil directly
prevents it.
The drug works only if you
havent been exposed to HPV
before or during the vaccination
process. A pap smear is necessary
before receiving the shot if you
are sexually active or frequently
use public toilets of questionable
hygiene.
Gardasil prevents against only
two types of HPV. These types
account for 70 percent of cer-
vical cancers cases, but not all.
According to The New England
Journal of Medicine, suppression
of these strains may encourage
other mutations of the virus to
flourish. Overestimating Gardasils
effectiveness may give a false sense
of security and deter women from
testing for HPV and cervical can-
cer regularly.
But the real kicker is Gardasils
longevity is still questionable. The
drug has only been on the market
for two years, and the FDA admits
on its online Gardasil fact sheet
that protection time and long-term
side effects are not yet determined.
The shot is intended to last a
lifetime, but the drug has only been
studied for seven years. When will
we know if a booster shot is need-
ed, when a vaccinated woman con-
tracts HPV or cervical cancer?
Maintaining sexual health is an
individual choice. However, women
should strive to be "one less" ill-in-
formed drug user. Gardasil requires
continuing scrutiny both from the
FDA and potential buyers. The real
vaccine we need is against being
blind consumers.
Oberthaler is a Wichita junior
in English.
I was having a good day until
I sat down at my desk and it
said I hate Asians.
n n n
Are we still getting slushies?
n n n
Three thirty in the morning
and I am not the last one out
of the design lab. You know
what, I deserve to be a well
paid engineer.
n n n
There is a frat dog barking
outside my door.
n n n
Pakistan is not considered a
part of the Middle East.
n n n
Kick his ass, Seabass.
n n n
FIFA 09 is going to be so fun.
n n n
I just saw that Gabriel Iglesias
was coming to KU, and I am
excited.
n n n
Is it bad that I based my
Halloween costume of a rac-
ist South Park joke?
n n n
I must admit: I love a Missouri
Tiger. And quite frankly, Im
proud of it.
n n n
Dont embarrass your school
with that stupid kickof chant
in front of millions of fans.
n n n
Whats up with all the pot-
heads smoking and crouched
down behind Ellsworth? Its
out of control.
n n n
Dear hot Pita Pit delivery guy,
you should ask me out.
n n n
I just watched a squirrel try to
hide an acorn on a concrete
step.
n n n
He could kill someone with
his chest hair only.
n n n
Why do you make me start
drinking at 9 a.m. for an 11:30
game? This is going to be fun.
n n n
Im at the game, and Im so
thirsty. Im about to die of hic-
cups. I need a beer.
n n n
I have Park Place. Lets be half-
millionaires and best friends.
n n n
Fellow students: Please do
away with the Rip his fucking
head of chant. It sounds like
something jean short-wearing
Mizzou fans would say.
n n n
I hate it when friends dont
call after they said they would.
n n n
SafeBus was the highlight of
the night!
n n n
Why campus should
keep going trayless
ERin bRown
THE
CAMPUS
VOTE
Has Gardasil actually
conquered its enemy?
KAtiE obERthALER
I
LICHEN
THIS TO
SCIENCE
editorials around the nation
LeTTers TO THe ediTOr
How can Jesus belong to
the Republican party?
I grew up in a very religious
family. I was taught from an
early age the values of Christi-
anity. My family is very Republi-
can. A few months ago we went
out to dinner, and the conver-
sation turned to politics. After
I voiced my view, I was asked
how I could be a Christian and
support Democratic presiden-
tial nominee Barack Obama.
Why do many Republicans
think God belongs exclusively
to their party? I vote mostly
for Democrats because I am a
Christian and support the val-
ues that the church and Christ
preached.
Christ preached a message
of peace and love. According
to the Bible, the apostle Peter
pulled out his sword and cut
of the ear of one of the mob.
Jesus healed the ear and told
Peter to put away the sword.
He said that if you live by the
sword, you would also die by
the sword. Christ, even in His
defense, did not want to use
warlike behavior.
That is why it was wrong to
support the invasion of Iraq.
The Democrats know we will be
perceived as a warlike country
in the international community.
That will be our undoing.
Christ also preached of what
is called in the King James Bible
charity. Charity is the main
focus of the Democratic Party.
I can think of no larger demon-
stration of Christ-like love than
to make sure that all people,
regardless of social status, have
access to good healthcare.
A Christian should have no
problem paying a little more in
taxes to make sure that all have
access to healthcare. That is the
self-sacrifcing part.
Christ is also pro-choice. One
of the biggest gifts God gave
us was the ability and right to
make our own choices. One of
the ways that we prove to Him
that we love and follow Him
is to make the right choices.
If you do not think abortion is
right, then that is fne; dont get
one. But you still have the right
to choose.
Republicans need to stop
thinking that God is their
exclusive property. They make
that claim when their policy, at
times, goes against everything
that Christ taught. It is as if
they claim God as a political
move to get votes. Democrats
do not faunt their Christianity.
They let their actions speak. I
am a Democrat because I am a
Christian.
Jeremy Riggs is a senior fromLawrence.
TYLER DOEHRinG
ASSOCiATED pRESS
COMMenTs ALreAdY OnLine
@
Jesus is not a politician.
Jesus does not support the
Republican National Conven-
tion or the Democratic National
Convention. The ancient Ro-
mans were also religious. Even
satanists are religious. Religion
is a hobby. It is something you
do in your life. In contrast, fol-
lowing Jesus Christ is a way of
life. Everything else is a side bar.
Is Jesus a Republican? No.
Is Jesus a Democrat? No.
Is Jesus pro-life? Indeed.
Abundantly so.
Where does Obama stand on
this type of murder?
excerpted froma comment by don1
Please don't forget that more
than 70 percent of Congress
voted for this war too, includ-
ing many of our Christian
Democrats.
Jesus also told the rich man
who came to him that for him
to get into heaven he would
need to sell all he had and give
it to the poor. Just like Joe Biden
gave 0.2 percent of his income
($380 a year) to charity over
the last 10 years, but calls for
massive tax increases to fund
social programs he himself
obviously isn't giving to. The
Obama-Biden tax plan calls for
the highest tax rate to be right
around 40 percent, but at least
we'll be funding all these great
Christian social programs. In
the spirit of every liberal here
I say, Don't push your beliefs
on me.
I agree Jesus was no Repub-
lican, but don't tell me I should
be a Democrat either.
excerpted froma comment by em1
Why we need to know
where food comes from
Federal legislation prompt-
ed by a spate of food safety
scares, some of them deadly,
took efect recently. It will
require labels identifying the
country of origin of fresh fruit,
vegetables, nuts, meats and
frozen produce. Seafood origin
has been labeled since 2005.
Although this law is a good
beginning, more can be done.
Food and other goods from
some countries have been the
source of so many incidents
that the mere mention of the
country's name can cause
alarm, as in the case of China.
Although the country-of-or-
igin label might unfairly taint
some harmless goods, con-
sumers have a right to know
where food was produced and
then decide for themselves.
Given a choice between
apples grown in China and
those grown in upstate New
York, many consumers might
prefer the latter, even if they
have to pay more for them.
Education, tighter food han-
dling rules and other precau-
tions are needed to prevent
food-borne illnesses. To do so
would require expanding the
role of the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration, which often fnds
itself reacting to outbreaks
instead of preventing them.
The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.
Oct. 2 editorial
JEFF KEEn @ FLiCKR.COM
AssociAted Press
LOS ANGELES Firefighters
backed by water-dumping heli-
copters and planes gained ground
Sunday on a wildfire that destroyed
two homes and forced the evac-
uation of about 1,200 people in
a rugged area 20 miles north of
downtown.
Los Angeles County Fire
Department spokesman Ron
Haralson said the blaze charred
up to 750 acres and also burned
a garage, several sheds and three
motor homes.
No one was seriously injured. A
firefighter and one resident report-
ed minor breathing problems.
Haralson said firefighters are
getting a really good handle on
the blaze that started early Sunday.
But powerful Santa Ana winds are
expected to arrive in the evening,
and gusts could spread embers
igniting brush, grass and chaparral
in the area.
About 450 homes were evacu-
ated early Sunday when the blaze
moved southeast toward city limits,
said U.S. Forest Service spokesman
Stanton Florea.
It burned right down to a cou-
ple of neighborhoods, Florea said.
The fire was burning south of
the Wildlife Waystation, an animal
sanctuary and rehabilitation facility
set on 160 acres.
The nonprofit agency houses
more than 400 animals, including
lions, bears and deer.
Officials were loading up the
animals in case the fire switched
direction.
The cause of the fire is under
investigation.
Elsewhere in California, fire-
fighters halted the spread of a wild-
fire that burned about 300 acres
of heavy brush, destroyed a home
and threatened several wineries in
Napa Valley.
More than 1,500 firefighters
were called in to work the blaze,
which state fire officials said was
fully contained by Sunday morn-
ing.
Investigators said Saturday a
rock struck by a car ignited the
wildfire Friday afternoon.
Strong winds in the hills near the
wine country town of St. Helena
caused the fire to spread quickly.
The California Department of
Forestry and Fire Protection said
all evacuation orders had been lift-
ed, allowing 100 people to return
home after the flames forced them
to flee.
national
Wildfre engulfs more of L.A.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A U.S. forest service frefghter battles towering fames burning along Little Tugunga Road, in the Angeles National Forest, about 20 miles north
of downtown Los Angeles on Sunday. Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman Ron Haralson says the blaze has charred up to 750 acres in the
rugged area of Little Tujunga Canyon.
Economy
Administration doesnt disclose
next steps for global fnancial crisis
AssociAted Press
WASHINGTON Treasury
Secretary Henry Paulson told
international leaders on Sunday
that isolationism and protection-
ism could worsen the spreading
financial crisis. With a new trad-
ing week dawning, U.S. lawmak-
ers urged quick action by the
Bush administration on measures
to make direct purchases of bank
stock to help unlock lending.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, chairman
of the Joint Economic Committee,
said an administration proposal to
inject federal money directly into
certain banks, in effect partially
nationalizing the banking system,
is gaining steam.
I am hopeful that tomorrow,
the Treasury will announce that
theyre doing it. And they have to
do it quickly ... markets are wait-
ing, Schumer, (D-N.Y.), said.
The administration has not
indicated when it would announce
its next steps.
Democrats also are lining up
behind House Speaker Nancy
Pelosis plan to bring lawmakers
back to Capitol Hill after the Nov.
4 election to work on a second
economic relief plan. The idea
is give the middle class and the
average citizen the same kind of
relief that we try to give the finan-
cial sector, said Democratic Rep.
Barney Frank of Massachusetts,
chairman of the House Financial
Services Committee.
Top Democrats are suggesting
a $150 billion measure that would
extend jobless benefits, provide
more money for food stamps and
finance some construction proj-
ects, such as rebuilding bridges
and roads. It would also include
either a tax rebate or tax cut.
Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri,
the second-ranking House
Republican, said he would help
on a plan that makes sense but is
not laden with huge public works
projects or bailouts for states that
overspent on social programs.
In another step aimed at easing
the financial crisis, the Federal
Reserve on Sunday approved
the $12.2 billion acquisition of
troubled Wachovia Corp. by Wells
Fargo & Co. Wachovia is the lat-
est in a string of major banks and
financial institutions that have
been felled by the financial crisis.
The Fed action was expected.
As the International Monetary
Fund and World Bank held their
annual meetings over the week-
end, Paulson warned the banks
policy-setting committee of the
dangers of inward-looking poli-
cies.
Although we in the United
States are taking many extraordi-
nary measures to ease the crisis,
we are not pursuing policies that
would limit the flow of goods, ser-
vices or capital, as such measures
would only intensify the risks of a
prolonged crisis, Paulson said.
Meanwhile, the World Bank
pledged to protect poor and vul-
nerable countries and nations
with rapidly developing econo-
mies. Mexican Finance Minister
Agustin Carstens, who heads the
banks policy-setting committee,
said the bank and the IMF will
draw on the full range of their
resources to help these coun-
tries.
Bank President Robert Zoellick
told reporters the financial crisis
has been a manmade catastro-
phe. The actions and responses to
overcome it lie in our hands.
Jittery investors awaited the
reopening of stock markets
the Dow Jones industrial aver-
age just completed its worst week
ever, plummeting more than 18
percent and hoped for bold,
coordinated international steps to
address the crisis.
At a Paris meeting of European
leaders Sunday, countries that
use the euro agreed to temporar-
ily guarantee bank refinancing to
ease the credit crunch. French
President Nicolas Sarkozy it would
apply in 15 countries through the
end of 2009 and was not a gift to
banks.
President Bush met at the White
House with top global financial
leaders on Saturday in a display of
unity and said afterward that they
had agreed to general principles to
combat the crisis. Bush, who had
spoken about the crisis for 22 of
the past 27 days, went biking at a
state park in Maryland on Sunday
morning and then kept to a pri-
vate schedule the rest of the day.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Bush smiles during the G20 ministerial meeting at the International Monetary
Fund Saturday inWashington. Fromleft, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury
Secretary Henry Paulson, and Bush.
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The universiTy daily kansan www.kansan.com monday, ocTober 13, 2008 page 1b
the hot roUte:
Post-game Podcast
Check Kansan.com for post-game analysis on Kansas
30-14 victory against ColoradoKaNsaN.com
Los aNgeLes cLaws bacK
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Manny Ramirez and the Dodgers win game three of the
NLCS, 7-2, against the Phillies mLb8B
Jake Sharp leads charge as
Kansas uses ground game
to dispatch Colorado
BY B.J. RAINS
rains@kansan.com
Noticing their buddy was a little down
in the dumps, quarterback Todd Reesing
and wide receiver Kerry Meier decided to
pull running back Jake Sharp aside from
practice a few weeks ago for a chat.
The three are close friends off the
field, and the two encouraged Sharp to
stay positive. They promised him that
his time would soon come.
It came on Saturday. Making his first
start in almost a month, Sharp looked
more like the player who had 821 yards
rushing as a backup last year than the
one who had only 62 yards rushing
in the first three games of the season
before his demotion.
Sharp had a career-high 31 carries,
rushing for 118 yards and three touch-
downs to lead No. 16 Kansas to a 30-14
victory against Colorado on Saturday at
Memorial Stadium.
Hes really come to life, said coach
Mark Mangino. Hes really comfort-
able, and were really pleased with his
performance. Hes a guy that plays well
based on sheer determination. Hes a
determined guy. He has a lot of heart.
Kansas battled poor field position for
much of the first quarter and fell behind
7-0 for the second straight game. But
thats when Sharp went to work, rushing
five times for 37 yards on the Jayhawks
next drive, including a 1-yard touch-
down run that tied the game 7-7 with
8:56 left in the second quarter.
I just told Jake that he has to keep
his head up and keep fighting, Reesing
said. We kind of had a round robin
thing going at running back and were
trying to find someone with that consis-
BY CASE KEEFER
ckeefer@kansan.com
Thomas Robinson didnt bond with
any single player during his official visit
to Kansas last month.
He didnt feel an undeniable connection
with a specific coach,
either. And thats what
he loved about it.
Anything you do
with one of them,
Robinson said, youre
with the rest of them.
Robinson, a five-star
power forward recruit
from Washington,
D.C., became the first player to orally
commit to Kansas from the class of 2009.
He said the togetherness of everyone in
the program was the main reason he
selected Kansas over Memphis, which he
had pegged as his other finalist.
He informed Kansas coach Bill Self
of his decision late Thursday night.
Robinson, whom rivals.com ranks as the
18th best player in the nation, is the first
five-star commit for the Jayhawks since
Darrell Arthur and Sherron Collins chose
them in 2006. Robinson knows exactly
why hes such a highly touted player.
Rebounding, Robinson said.
The one-word answer works. Robinson
averaged 13 rebounds per game during his
junior season in high school at Riverdale
Baptist just outside of Washington, D.C.
Robinson has transferred to Brewster
Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H., to polish
the rest of his game for his senior season.
The rebounding, well, its still going to be
his strength.
Just ask the people who have followed
him. Shay Wildeboor, a recruiting expert
and jayhawkslant.com senior editor, said
Robinson was elite at grabbing boards.
To be honest with you, hes probably
the top rebounder in his class, Wildeboor
said. Hes got a motor that never stops.
Wildeboor said Robinson was barely
a top-100 player when rivals.com first
released their recruiting ranking.
Robinson, however, impressed scouts and
coaches throughout the spring and sum-
mer in amateur tournaments.
He jumped all the way to the No. 18
ranked player in the country. Kansas,
Memphis, Miami and Southern California
all offered him scholarships, according to
rivals.com.
After narrowing his options down to
Kansas and Memphis, Robinson visited
both campuses a few weeks ago.
His trip to Lawrence, which included
attending the national championship ring
ceremony, stuck out.
The ring ceremony was definitely
great, Robinson said, but it didnt have
much impact on my decision.
Nope, the only reason Robinson gave
for his commitment was the feeling of
family within the Jayhawk basketball pro-
gram.
Robinson hasnt given much thought to
what he hopes to accomplish as a Jayhawk.
He says he wants to excel in school and get
a degree and do one other thing.
I also hopefully will win a champion-
ship, Robinson said. A national cham-
pionship.
WHAT ROBINSON MEANS TO
OTHER RECRUITS
With the commit-
ment of Robinson, Self
is down to only two
available scholarships
to spend on the class
of 2009. At least seven
top 25 recruits will be
in Lawrence for this
weekends Late Night
in the Phog.
Headlining the list of targets for Self
are John Wall, a point
guard and No. 1 ranked
player in the nation,
and Xavier Henry, a
shooting guard and
No. 3 ranked player.
Both Wall and Henry
have said they are
deciding between
Kansas and Memphis
the same situation
Robinson was in.
I
t was warm and sunny very sunny
in Lawrence on Saturday. A beauti-
ful day for a football game in a coun-
try where beautiful days have been scarce
as of late.
Saturday offered a brief hiatus from a
volatile presidential campaign trail and a
wild and wooly Wall Street, described by
many as riots every day.
Sen. John McCain in an effort to
regain momentum kicked up attacks on
Sen. Barack Obama, inadvertently whip-
ping up some supporters into a brutal
frenzy. Some shouted at recent campaign
stops that they want this terrorist dead.
Oops. Last Friday, McCain urged at
a Lakeville, Minn., town hall meeting to
show respect for his opponent. It was too
late, as his own supporters responded by
booing him.
Parallels were hard to miss when
Kansas football coach Mark Manginos
plea to end students profane kickoff chant
landed in their e-mail inboxes and was
replayed before Saturdays game.
And so all eyes Saturday in the press
box at least were focused on the Kansas
student section rather than the field dur-
ing kickoffs. A local papers front page
story read After coachs plea, focus is on
fate of obscene chant.
Thats right. Above all else right now,
you should care most about whether a few
thousand students drop the fbomb on
kickoffs.
They did as loud and clear as ever
and those that cared to follow the game
saw No. 16 Kansas rally from another
punchless start to eventually crush
Colorado.
Kansas 30, Colorado 14.
There was something different about
this contest the Jayhawks second con-
ference game and last game of the seasons
first half. Several key flaws that plagued
the seasons first half were addressed while
a glaring one was put under Manginos
microscope.
For the third consecutive game, the
Jayhawks were shut out during the first
quarter. Yet while that led to a 20-0 half-
time deficit at Iowa State, Kansas avoided
a similar disaster with stellar defensive
play and an offense that again bloomed in
the second half.
As emphatic as the Kansas student sec-
tion was in being heard in all its obscene
glory on ESPN2, the subject of their man-
tra special teams frequently failed to
live up to the chant.
At times students would have been
better served shouting Make a f*cking
tackle! or Return the f*cking punt!
Comical at times, Kansas return units
played a huge role in giving its offense
poor field position for much of the game.
But everything else was in place
Saturday. Todd Reesing simply didnt
miss completing 27 of 34 passes with
no interceptions. Old Faithful Kerry Meier
sprung to life in the second half, nearly
notching a fourth consecutive 100-yard
game.
Six games through and six crucial
games left, Kansas forcefully answered its
once woeful rushing attack. Junior Jake
Sharp returned to shifty form while add-
ing some new highlights to his resume.
Once dismissed as mere change of pace
back, Sharp carried the workload for the
Jayhawks with 31 rushes for 122 yards and
three touchdowns all career highs.
Defensively, the Jayhawks were as good
as ever. It speaks volumes about this unit
when a coach has to pull his own sorry
son. Colorado coach Dan Hawkins had
no choice but to put quarterback Cody
out of his misery after sophomore defen-
sive end Jake Laptad chased him 16 yards
backwards into his own end zone, bring-
ing the poor fellow to the turf for a game-
changing safety.
Now comes the second half of the
see basketball oN Page 8b
BY StEphEN moNtEmAYoR
smontemayor@kansan.com
Wild
weekend
muddies
forecast
COMMENTARy
KANSAS 30, COlORAdO 14
bufed and waxed
Jon goering/KaNsaN
Junior running back Jake sharp pauses for a key block fromfreshman tight-endTimBiere on his way to the endzone for a touchdown in the second quarter. The touchdown
was the frst of Sharp's three in the game. Sharp carried the ball 31 times for 118 yards, leading the Jayhawks to a 5-1 record with the 30-14 victory against Colorado at Memorial
Stadium. Go to Kansan.comfor complete coverage fromSaturdays game. see football oN Page 4b
see montemayor oN Page 8b
Five-star power forward verbally commits
BASKETBAll
BY ANDREW WIEBE
awiebe@kansan.com
STILLWATER, Okla. Sixty agoniz-
ing seconds separated Kansas (8-5-1)
from a marquee road victory over No. 13
Oklahoma State (12-1-1) Friday night at
the Cowgirl Soccer Complex.
Leading 2-1 and weathering a desperate
late-game barrage by the Cowgirls, coach
Mark Francis team fell 60 ticks short.
With just over one minute remaining a
wayward shot struck a Kansas defenders
arm, Oklahoma State clawed back into
the game with the ensuing penalty kick
and followed that by scoring a golden goal
two minutes into the first overtime for a
shocking 3-2 victory.
I kind of felt like we got robbed,
Francis said. I thought the game was ours
then right at the end it ended up not being
ours. I had no issue with our team today.
For 89 minutes, the Jayhawks played
what Francis called their best soccer of the
season, claiming an
early lead on junior
defender Estelle
Johnsons first career
goal and breaking
a 1-1 tie late in the
first half when senior
Missy Geha rattled in
her second goal of the
season off the right
post.
But the positives couldnt console
Kansas emotionally drained players and
coaches after suffering their second over-
time loss of the season.
It hurts, Johnson said. We domi-
nated the whole game, but that is how
soccer is. Sometimes you can dominate
the whole game and still lose.
Apart from junior forward Kasey
Langdons point-blank equalizer in the
31st minute, junior goalkeeper Julie
Hanley kept Oklahoma State in check,
tying a career-high with nine saves, until
the home team threw bodies forward the
final 10 minutes.
Oklahoma State outshot Kansas 8-2 in
the last 10 minutes of regulation and the
ensuing overtime.
Though Kansas appeared to be in con-
trol after Gehas goal in final minute of the
first half, Francis said he stressed main-
taining pressure in the second half.
We definitely went in to halftime say-
ing we needed to score another goal,
Francis. There was no doubt. Having the
wind with us, we felt like we needed to
take some shots when we had the oppor-
tunity.
Oklahoma State made the most of their
opportunities when it looked as though
the game was out of reach and carried
that momentum into the overtime period.
Kansas came out strong, but a lightning-
quick counter attack sealed the game for
the coach Colin Carmichaels team.
Senior midfielder Yolanda Odenyo,
neutralized for most of regulation, slide
Langdon in behind junior defender Kim
Boyer where she applied a flawless finish
to send the home crowd into hysterics.
KANSAS ENdS WEEKENd
WITH dRAW AGAINST
OKlAHOMA
Two days after Kansas heartbreaking
loss in Stillwater, Okla., the Sooners held
Jayhawks lose in overtime against Cowgirls
Johnson
SOCCER
Wall
Robinson
see soccer oN Page 8b
Henry
The Waddell and Reed Kansas
City Marathon, Half-Marathon
and 5-K take place this Saturday.
Several KU students will run it. So
will elite runners. So will senior
citizens.
Thats the best part about run-
ning. Anyone can do it. Its a sport
in which you challenge yourself
and try to beat your own best
times, and especially a sport for
college students.
The college years really are the
best of our life. Were young and
surrounded by thousands of other
people in the same age group who
share similar interests.
We go to parties, pay $1.75 for
gigantic beers at Louises on the
right night, watch national-cham-
pionship basketball and walk down
tree-lined Jayhawk Boulevard dur-
ing the fall as the leaves change
into red, yellow and orange.
But its still tough. There are
midterms, essays, Ramen noodles
and occasional bouts of homesick-
ness. At times, college isnt so fun.
Running takes away the stress.
When you run, you lose your mind
in a good way. You can pound out
all the negative thoughts from a
day of studying or worrying about a
boyfriend or girlfriend by throwing
on the headphones, stepping out-
side and running for 20 minutes.
Famous poet Rudyard Kipling
said it best when he wrote about the
power of running in his poem If.
If you can fill the unforgiving
minute/With sixty seconds worth
of distance run,/Yours is the Earth
and everything thats in it,/And
which is more youll be a Man,
my son!
All About
Rob SchneideR
Well, everyone in the student
section yelled the expletive-laced
ode to Rob Schneider during kick-
offs at Saturdays football game.
Mark Manginos speech obviously
didnt work the first time through.
Im sure everyone is sick about
the media spectacle surrounding
the chant, but when the University
of Kansas becomes synonymous
with Rob Schneider, something
needs to be done.
Dont know Schneider well
enough? Heres a sampling of the
countless movies that hes made a
fool of himself in.
The Animal. Deuce Bigalow:
European Gigolo. Little Nicky.
Little Man. You Dont Mess
With the Zohan. And last but not
least, The Hot Chick.
It gets better. The Animal
was so bad that distributor, Sony
Pictures, invented a critic so it
could feature a positive blurb on
the movie poster.
Forget about the profanity. Just
think about those movies. Think
about Schneider. Think about how
he hasnt said anything funny that
isnt about making copies.
Every time you say that chant,
you affiliate yourself and the
University with Schneider. You
sound trashy, just like the char-
acters Schneider plays in all his
movies.
Worst of all, when that ball gets
kicked in the air and you pause for
one second and then let loose with
the Rob Schneider special, you are
endorsing The Hot Chick.
That alone should make us
stop.
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pick games. Beat the Kansan staf.
Get your name in the paper.
This weeks games:
1. No. 11 Missouri at No. 1 Texas (score)
2. No. 12 Ohio State at No. 20 Michigan State
3. No. 16 Kansas at No. 4 Oklahoma
4. Kansas State at Colorado
5. No. 22 Vanderbilt at No. 10 Georgia
6. No. 13 LSU at South Carolina
7. No. 18 North Carolina at Virginia
8. No. 21 Wake Forest at Maryland
9. No. 25 California at Arizona
10. Oregon State at Washington
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KICK THE KANSAN
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wEEK EIgHT
Most people run a race to
see who is fastest. I run a race
to see who has the most guts.
Distance runner Steve Prefontaine,
January 25, 1951 May 30, 1975
Wednesday
Volleyball: Missouri, 6:30 p.m.
(Columbia, Mo.)
thursday
Tennis: ITA Central Regional
Tournament (Salt Lake City,
Utah)
Friday
Swimming & Diving: Arizona
State, 3 p.m. (Tempe, Ariz.)
Soccer: Texas A&M, 4 p.m.
(Lawrence)
Tennis: ITA Central Regional
Tournament (Salt Lake City,
Utah)
Saturday
Swimming & Diving: Northern
Arizona, 11 a.m. (Flagstaf, Ariz.)
Volleyball: Oklahoma 7 p.m.
(Lawrence)
Football: Oklahoma, 2:30 p.m.
(ABC) (Norman, Okla.)
Tennis: ITA Central Regional Tour-
nament (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Cross Country: NCAA Pre-Na-
tionals Invitational, TBA (Terre
Haute, Ind.)
Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie
set the mens world record in
the marathon on Sept. 28 in
Berlin. Gebrselassie fnished the
marathon in 2:03:59.
Q: When did the womens
marathon become an Olympic
sport?
A: 1984, at the Los Angeles
Olympics.
Running clears ones mind and sole
wEEK SEvEN rESulTS
Ku sports this week
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Former Kansas Jayhawk and current Miami Heat guard Mario Chalmers, right,
passes past NewJersey Nets guard Chris Douglas-Roberts during the frst quarter of an pre-
season game Thursday in Paris. Chalmers played 25 minutes and fnished with eight points.
Max Wescoe, San Diego, Calif.,
junior, took home the Kick the
Kansan crown in week seven.
Wescoe, a Kick the Kansan all-star
who has finished on top twice this
year, correctly predicted eight of
the weeks 10 games.
Wescoe was the only University
student to correctly predict that
Texas would defeat Oklahoma, and
he topped The Kansan staff as well.
Andrew Wiebe, Wichita senior
and associate sports editor, led the
Kansan staff, finishing 7-3.
On the opposite end of the spec-
trum, Dani Hurst, Overland Park
senior and Kansan managing edi-
tor, suffered a cataclysmic Kick the
Kansan week. Hurst finished 2-8.
Our thoughts and prayers go
out to Hursts friends and family.
Better luck next week.
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LANDOVER, Md. The St.
Louis Rams seemed almost deter-
mined to sink to 0-5.
They fumbled at their own
4-yard line on their second play
from scrimmage. They were going
nowhere until a fluke turnover
flipped the momentum. They blew
a nine-point lead in the fourth
quarter. They set themselves up
for a gimme field goal to win the
game, then committed a 15-yard
unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.
But this is the start of the Jim
Haslett era, so maybe the ball
is finally going to bounce the
Rams way. The defense forced
the Washington Redskins offense
into its first three turnovers of the
season, and Josh Brown kicked a
49-yard field goal on the last play
Sunday to give the two-touchdown
underdogs a 19-17 victory.
Im kind of, like, blank. I dont
know if I want to cry or laugh,
Rams linebacker Pisa Tinoisamoa
said. A lot of emotions hit me at
once. Its different, but a good dif-
ferent.
A lot of emotions? Darn right.
There was plenty of the bizarre
in a game that ended the fran-
chises eight-game losing streak
over two seasons and helped put
Scott Linehan, fired two weeks
ago before the bye, firmly in the
rearview mirror.
The Redskins, guilty of playing
down to the opposition after two
big NFC East road wins, appeared
set to win their fifth straight game
when Clinton Portis 2-yard run
with 3:47 left gave Washington a
17-16 lead. St. Louis, however, had
enough time to mount a comeback.
Reinstalled starter Marc Bulger hit
Donnie Avery down the right side-
line for a 43-yard gain on third-
and-13 to move into field-goal ter-
ritory.
But the Rams (1-4), being the
Rams, nearly botched it from there.
With his team trying to kill the clock
to set up for the easy kick, lineman
Richie Incognito said something
to an official that prompted a yel-
low flag. Brown, who was already
3-for-3 in the game, no longer had
a chip shot to win it.
I was just kind of angry, Brown
said.
Incognito claimed he doesnt
know what he said to provoke the
official, and Haslett also tried to
plead his players case.
If youre going to call a penalty
on a guy who swears if he did
swear then theres going to be a
lot of flags flying out there, Haslett
said.
Washington (4-2) was play-
ing as a huge favorite for the first
time under coach Jim Zorn, and it
showed. Portis said the Redskins
overlooked the Rams, who were
supposed to be the first of three
easy wins in the soft part of the
schedule.
The headlines got good. The
guys started high-fiving, Portis said.
We hadnt thought ahead all season
long until this week. ... The previous
four games, the focus was there.
The Redskins entered the game
as the only team in NFL history
to open a season with no offen-
sive turnovers through its first five
games, but that bit of good fortune
ended with three lost fumbles in
four possessions.
The Rams were able to convert
only one into a score, but it was the
type of weird play that can give a
struggling team the lift it needs.
With the Redskins in scoring
position near the end of the first
half, a pass tipped at the line of
scrimmage ended up in the hands
of offensive lineman Pete Kendall.
Tinoisamoa knocked the ball away
from Kendall, and Oshiomogho
Atogwe picked it up and ran 75
yards for the touchdown that
gave the Rams a 10-7 lead and
momentum that carried into the
second half.
Im sitting there waiting for
someone to blow a whistle or chal-
lenge the play or something like
that to happen because thats how
our years been, Tinoisamoa said.
But I think this kind of signifies
the tides are changing.
Kendall, meanwhile, took the
blame for the loss, saying he should
have just knocked the ball down.
If I do that, all things being
equal, we win the game today, he
said.
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St. Louis Rams kicker Josh Brown (3) celebrates his game-winning 49-yard feld goal
with teammates AdamCarriker (90) and Donnie Jones (5) during the fourth quarter against the
Washington Redskins, Sunday in Landover, Md. The Rams won 19-17.
nfl
Rams pull out of rut against Redskins, 19-17
Kansas 30, Colorado 14 4B Monday, october 13, 2008 Kansas 30, Colorado 14 5B Monday, october 13, 2008
FOOTBALL REWIND
BY TAYLOR BERN
tbern@kansan.com
Jake Laptad fired out of his
defensive stance and rushed past
Colorados offensive line.
The sophomore defensive end
is a quarterbacks nightmare. Hes
6-foot-4 and 250 pounds with
plenty of speed to get up field in
a flash, as he did midway through
the second quarter.
With the offensive line behind
him, Laptad tracked down
Colorado quarterback Cody
Hawkins and wrapped him up for
a sack his team-leading fifth of
the year and Kansas first safety
of the season.
The strange thing was that the
Buffaloes started the play at their
own 16-yard line.
I was really surprised, Laptad
said. I was expecting him to cut
back in, but he didnt cut back in
at all. He just kept trying to get
farther away.
Laptads safety put the Jayhawks
up 9-7 and they never relinquished
the lead, cruising to a 30-14 vic-
tory.
The play was unusual, to say the
least, because Hawkins could have
tossed the ball out of bounds at any
time. Instead, he kept retreating
towards his own end zone where
Laptad took him down.
Honestly, I didnt even think
about a safety when that play start-
ed, junior safety Darrell Stuckey
said. But when it ended I was like,
What line were we on?
Laptads safety set a defensive
tone that helped carry Kansas until
the offense finally came around.
The Jayhawks offense started
with three punts and a missed field
goal, but luckily the defense was
solid throughout the game.
That wasnt always easy, as
Kansas special teams often put its
defense in tough situations.
The defense bailed out the spe-
cial teams today, Mangino said.
You can do everything perfect
with 10 guys and one can break
down. But Im not going to lie to
you, there were two or three guys
on some units today that didnt do
their job.
Stuckey is one of the few starters
who also plays on special teams.
I dont think we lack the ability,
but its more about us going out
there and being prideful about it,
Stuckey said.
Late in the first quarter, Alonso
Rojas punt from his own end zone
traveled just 27 yards.
Colorado took advantage of the
short field with a quick drive and
an 11-yard touchdown pass from
Hawkins to Cody Crawford.
Crawford was open because he
faked out cornerback Kendrick
Harper with a double move and
help didnt arrive in time.
Harper shrugged off the play
and finished with three pass break-
ups and an interception. Harper
has dealt with a plethora of injuries
throughout his career, including
being carted off the sidelines in
week two. After the game Mangino
called hima happy cat because he
made it through unscathed.
Poor guy, he finally played two
weeks in a row, Mangino. If we
can just keep himhealthy and keep
him going, hell get better as we
go.
Hawkins was pulled from the
game by his father, no less in
the fourth quarter for freshman
quarterback Matt Ballenger.
Kansas defense tortured
Hawkins all afternoon, as he com-
pleted only 8 of 22 passes with two
interceptions and that one memo-
rable sack.
The credit for that 16-yard loss
may belong to Hawkins for simply
not using his head, but Stuckey said
Laptads hustle epitomized Kansas
defense.
It showed desire, it showed
effort and it showed a commit-
ment and dedication to getting to
the football on defense, Stuckey
said. Jake did everything he had to
do to get to the quarterback, by any
means necessary.
IT WAS OVER WHEN
Jake Sharp shufed seven
yards for his third touchdown of
the game. The score put Kansas
up 30-14 with 10:29 to go in the
game and Colorado responded
by substituting freshman quar-
terback Matt Ballenger into the
game.
GAME TO REMEMBER:
JAKE SHARP
Last week he spurred Kansas to
a furious comeback. On Saturday
he carried the entire rushing load,
running a career high 31 times for
118 yards and three touchdowns.
Sharp was the only running back
to receive any carries and he
made the most of it by pounding
out the clock with a 3.8 average
per carry.
GAME TO FORGET:
CODY HAWKINS
Yikes. Hawkins play was so
bad that his own father and
coach pulled himin the fourth
quarter.
Hawkins completed only
8-of-22 passing with two inter-
ceptions and took a 16-yard sack
for a safety. He did have two
touchdowns but his mistakes
doomed Colorado.
COACHES CORNER
Kansas coach Mark Mangino
talking about his teams defensive
performance:
Were getting that style of
defense back that we wanted
to play. I knoweverybody says,
Well, you have nine guys back.
Well, I understand that, theres no
question.
But we may have lost the
two best defensive players in the
history of the school, in one year.
You dont get over losing Aqib
Talib and James McClinton at the
snap of a fnger. Were not that
good.
Taylor Bern
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Junior running back Jake Sharp breaks the goal-line during a second-quarter touchdown run during Saturday's game against Colorado at Memorial Stadium. The touchdown, the frst of three for Sharp on the day, tied the game at seven, with 8:56 to go in the frst half. Sharp fnished with 118 rushing yards on 31 atttempts, and Kansas fnished with 151 yards on the ground.
Weston White/KANSAN
Head Coach Mark Managino yells at a line judge after a call he did not agree with. Kansas defeated Colorado 30-14 and will face of against
Oklahoma next Saturday at a time to be determined.
Weston White/KANSAN
Sophomore defensive end Jake Laptad celebrates with Maxwell Onyegbule by showing the signal for a safety after Laptad sacked the
Colorado quarterback in the end zone.
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Sophomore defensive end Jake Laptad chases Colorado quarterback Cody Hawkins into the end zone, where Laptad brought himdown for a safety. The safety gave the Jayhawks a 9-7 lead with 8:07 left in
the frst half.
tency. Jakes a hard working kid. He
kept his chin up and continued to
learn, and its paid off for him.
Sharps 31 carries were the most
for a Kansas running back since Jon
Cornish in 2006, and his 118 yards
rushing were the most by a Jayhawk
since Brandon McAnderson rushed
for 132 yards against Oklahoma
State last season.
I guess for anyone who has ever
doubted the fact that I cant do that,
there you go, Sharp said. If you
keep working hard and plugging
away it usually comes back to you.
And it did.
Kansas led just 9-7 at halftime
but could have trailed if not for
a strong performance from the
Jayhawk defense. Kendrick Harper
and Darrell Stuckey both had inter-
ceptions and Jake Laptad sacked
Colorado quarterback Cody
Hawkins in the end zone for a
safety, the first KU safety since
Maxwell Onyegbule had a sack
against Southeastern Louisiana last
season.
The defense bailed out the spe-
cial teams, Mangino said.
The special teams unit struggled
to say the least, having problems
in almost every phase. Daymond
Patterson and Dexton Fields
both fumbled punt returns, Jacob
Branstetter missed a 39-yard field
goal and Marcus Herford averaged
just 13 yards on two kick returns
against the worst kickoff coverage
teamin the nation in the Buffaloes.
The Jayhawks average starting
field position on the first five drives
was their own 16 yard line, with
their best start in that span being
just the 24 yard line.
Ill make sure that we get that
corrected, Mangino said. That is
my number one priority going into
practice this week.
Reesing completed 27 of 34
passes for 256 yards and one touch-
down, a five yard strike to Dezmon
Briscoe that capped a 12-play,
78-yard drive that made it 16-7
Kansas late in the third quarter.
Reesing now needs just six comple-
tions to move past Frank Seuer for
the school record.
Sharp, who had just 21 carries
his entire freshman season in 2006,
added touchdown runs of seven
and eight yards in the fourth quar-
ter as the Jayhawks pulled away for
the 16-point victory.
Kansas now travels to Oklahoma
for a nationally televised ABC
matchup on Saturday against the
Sooners, who were ranked No. 1
before losing 45-35 to Texas on
Saturday. After opening the season
5-1 and 2-0 in conference play,
Kansas will now play four Top 10
teams in a span of seven weeks.
I see an opportunity for our
football program to make a state-
ment, Mangino said.
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(continued from 1B) Hawks defense
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notes
MEIERBANGEDUP
Despite having nine
catches for 94 yards,
Kerry Meier appeared
to be injured for most
of the Jayhawks
30-14 victory against
Colorado. Meier had an
obvious limp and was
on the bench for several
key third down plays,
normally the time that
he excels.
After the game, he
sidestepped multiple
questions about his
health. Here was the
brief exchange with
reporters:
Question: Is your
health a concern at all?
Meier: Ofensively
and defensively, we
played great tonight.
Special teams needs to
come along but well
fx things this week
and get ready for the
Sooners.
Question: Are you at
100 percent?
Meier: I go out and
try to play 100 percent. I
might not be all the way
there, but Imgoing to
play my heart out and
see howthings go.
Question: Are you
limited at all?
Meier: Ofensively,
I think we played well
enough to win the
ballgame. We just made
more plays than Colo-
rado did and executed
just a little bit more and
came out on top.
OKLAHOMA
GAME AT 2:30
ABC announced
this weekend that the
KansasOklahoma
game on Saturday will
begin at 2:30 p.m. and
will be televised on the
network. The Jayhawks
would have been
traveling to play the na-
tions top teamhad the
Sooners not lost 45-35
to Texas on Saturday.
Instead, Kansas will now
face a hungry and fred
up Oklahoma squad
wanting to make a
statement.
Texas will play host
to Missouri, who lost
28-23 at home to
Oklahoma State, on
Saturday at 7 p.m. That
game will be televised
by ABC as well.
B.J. Rains
Kansas Colorado
Total Yards 407 233
First Downs 22 16
RushingYards 151 86
PassingYards 256 147
Time of Possession 28:01 31:59
Kansas (5-1, 2-0 Big 12)
Rushing ATT YDS AVG. TD
Jake Sharp 31 118 3.8 3
Todd Reesing 8 33 4.1
Passing COMP/ATT YDS TD INT
Todd Reesing 27/34 256 1 0
Receiving No. YDS TD
Kerry Meier 9 94 0
Dexton Fields 5 49 0
Colorado (3-3, 0-2 Big 12)
Rushing ATT YDS AVG. TD
Rodney Stewart 18 77 4.3 0
Cody Hawkins 6 13 2.2 1
Passing COMP/ATT YDS TD INT
Cody Hawkins 8/22 90 1 2
Matt Ballenger 5/8 57 0 0
Receiving No. YDS TD
Josh Smith 1 38 0
Cody Crawford 4 33 1
Kansas 30, colorado 14
sports 6B monday, october 13, 2008
BY ADAM SAMSON
asamson@kansan.com
Before the Crimson-Blue intrasquad
meet, the Kansas coaches sat down and tried
to split up the two squads up as evenly as
possible so that the meet would come down
to the last relay. They did exactly that.
The Crimson squad prevailed, claiming
victory against Blue 144-142 Friday night at
Robinson Natatorium.
Crimson took a commanding lead
from the start with a first-place finish in
the 200-yard medley relay, led by sopho-
more transfer Iuliia Kuzhil, sophomore Joy
Bunting, senior Ashley Leidigh and senior
Anne Liggett. Kuzhil picked up two more
first-place finishes in the 100-yard back-
stroke and 200-yard backstroke events. The
Crimson squad also got help from Leidigh
in the 100 and 200-yard butterfly events
with two firsts. Sophomore diver Erin Mertz
cleaned up in the diving competition for
Crimson with a score of 303.00 in 3-meter
diving and 272.70 in 1-meter diving.
The meet helped transition the team from
preseason workouts to the meet season.
Before intrasquad, the team focused heavily
on dry land workouts including running and
lifting weights, and limited swimming time.
Now that were transitioning into swim-
ming, theyre a lot more fit athletically, coach
Clark Campbell said. So our challenge as a
coaching staff is to take that and based fit-
ness and transfer it into aquatic fitness.
Campbell said he thought the team was
where it needed to be right now, but that
they werent ahead of the curve. Right now,
Kansas swims around 40,000 meters per
week and will gradually climb to 60,000
meters, but that wont happen until January.
The intrasquad meet gave Campbell a
chance to see the team executing skills cor-
rectly at the beginning of the season.
I always have a high degree of expectation
that we do our skills correctly: starts, turns,
relay exchanges, Campbell said. Because in
that 25-yard pool, your skills make you or
break you.
For now, the swimming and diving team
will concentrate on its trip this weekend to
Arizona.
BY TAYLOR BERN
tbern@kansan.com
No. 1 TEXAS 45,
No. 4 oKLAHoMA 35
Hook em Horns: The question sur-
rounding Texas entering this weekends
biggest game was could the Longhorns
run the ball? Chris Ogbonnaya and Cody
Johnson answered that with a resound-
ing yes. Ogbonnaya averaged 8.3 yards
per carry and rushed for 127 yards while
Johnson carried the ball three times and
scored three short yardage touchdowns.
Senior wide receiver Jordan Shipley caught
11 passes for 112 yards and a touchdown,
and also scored on a momentum-shifting
96-yard kick return.
Bummer Sooner: Oklahoma quarter-
back Sam Bradford threw for 387 yards
and five touchdowns, but his two inter-
ceptions proved costly. Even worse was
the Sooners rushing attack, which stum-
bled to 48 yards on 26 carries. Running
back DeMarco Murray gained six yards
on seven carries and was a major reason
Oklahoma controlled the ball for less
than 23 minutes. Bradford and his receiv-
ers performed well, but it wasnt enough
to overcome Oklahomas inept running
game or 10 penalties.
Next up for No. 1 Texas: No. 11
Missouri
Next up for No. 4 Oklahoma: No. 16
Kansas
No. 7 TEXAS TECH 37,
NEBRASKA 31, oT
Lucky in Lubbock: Excluding the score,
everything in the box score suggests that
Nebraska won Saturday afternoons game.
The Red Raiders were out-gained (471
yards to 421), had almost half as many
first downs (29 to 16) and were doubled
up in the time of possession battle (40:12
to 19:48).
Still, Texas Tech came up in the clutch
and snuck out of the game with its per-
fect record intact. Quarterback Graham
Harrell was efficient, completing 20-of-25
for 284 and two scores. Cornerback Jamar
Wall intercepted Joe Ganz to seal the vic-
tory.
Say it aint so, Joe: One week after
allowing the most points at home since
World War II, Nebraska looked ready
to steal a road win from Texas Tech.
Quarterback Joe Ganz scored three
fourth quarter touchdowns (two passing,
one rushing), but his final throw is the
one hell remember.
Trailing 37-31 in overtime and under
duress, Ganz tried to flick the ball out of
bounds. Instead he tossed it right to Jamar
Wall for a game-ending interception. It
was a tough loss for the Cornhuskers,
who out-played the Red Raiders for most
of the game.
Ganz finished with 349 passing yards.
His final interception was the only turn-
over of the game.
Next up for Nebraska: At Iowa State
Next up for No. 7 Texas Tech: At Texas
A&M
No. 8 oKLA. STATE 28,
No. 11 MISSoURI 23
Cowboy Up: Oklahoma State run-
ning back Kendall Hunter continued to
annihilate defenses, rushing 24 times for
154 yards. Hunters 68-yard touchdown
less than a minute into the second half
spurred the Cowboys to their improb-
able upset in Columbia. Quarterback
Zac Robinson was the second leading
rusher with 34 yards and a touchdown.
Robinson also got it done through the air,
throwing two second half touchdowns to
Damian Davis.
O Danny boy: The stage was set for
a Heisman-worthy drive. With Missouri
trailing 28-23, quarterback Chase Daniel
took over at his own 35-yard line with
2:40 left in the game. It looked as if Daniel
and Co. would make the game-winning
drive, salvaging his Heisman Trophy
hopes and the teams national champion-
ship dreams.
Instead, Daniel tried to squeeze a pass
into Jeremy Maclin, only to have it inter-
cepted by Patrick Lavine with 1:41 to go.
It was Daniels third interception of the
game. Also, Missouri only rushed for 64
yards.
Next up for No. 8 Oklahoma State:
Baylor
Next up for No. 11 Missouri: At No.
1 Texas
BAYLoR 38,
IoWA STATE 10
Artful victory: Coach Art Briles Bears
never gave the Cyclones a chance. Baylor
stormed out to a 21-3 halftime lead,
thanks to freshman quarterback Robert
Griffins two touchdowns (one passing,
one rushing). For the game, Griffin com-
pleted 21-of-24 passes for 278 yards and
two scores. His primary target was fresh-
man Kendall Wright, who caught seven
passes for 132 yards and both touch-
downs.
Awful Austen: One week after nearly
picking off No. 16 Kansas, Iowa State
quarterback Austen Arnaud turned in his
worst performance of the season.
Arnaud completed just 21-for-41 pass-
ing with one interception. He also threw
a touchdown, but it came with Iowa
State already trailing 38-3. The Cyclones
rushed for 86 yards and committed 10
penalties.
Next up for Iowa State: Nebraska
Next up for Baylor: At No. 8 Oklahoma
State
KANSAS STATE 44,
TEXAS A&M 30
See Josh Run: Wildcat quarterback
Josh Freeman was efficient through the
air 21-for-26 for 234 yards but he
was lethal on the ground.
Freeman rushed 18 times for 95 yards
and four touchdowns. Kansas States
rushing attack was the best it has been
all season. Freshman Logan Dold carried
21 times for 115 yards and a score. The
Wildcats rushed for a season high 215
yards.
Average Aggies: Texas A&M kept try-
ing to crawl back into the game, but
Kansas State had an answer every time.
Aggie quarterback Jerrod Johnson threw
for 419 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
Freshman wide receiver Ryan Tannehill
caught 12 passes for 215 yards and a
score. Still, the Aggies couldnt offset the
Wildcats balanced attack.
Next up for Kansas State: At Colorado
Next up for Texas A&M: No. 7 Texas
Tech
BIg 12 fooTBALL
Longhorns lead weekend of upsets
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Texas running back Chris Ogbonnaya (3) is knocked out of bounds by Oklahoma linebacker Keenan Clayton
after a 62-yard run to the 2-yard line in the fourth quarter on Saturday in Dallas. The play set up a Texas score in its
45-35 victory.
Texas claims No. 1 in both polls, Oklahoma State defeats Missouri in Columbia
SWIMMINg & dIvINg
Crimson squad
defeats Blue in
intrasquad meet
sports 7b monday, october 13, 2008
AssociAted Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Tony
Gonzalez, the most productive
tight end in NFL history, will be
traded to a contender if the Kansas
City Chiefs get the right price.
Three people familiar with the
situation told The Associated Press
on condition of anonymity that the
nine-time Pro Bowl player could
be dealt before the Tuesday trade
deadline. The three didnt want to
be identified because a deal hasnt
been struck.
Gonzalez, who holds the NFL
tight end record for receptions,
touchdown catches and yards
receiving, is active in civic and
charitable affairs and enjoys great
popularity in Kansas City. He has
always said he would like to end
his career with the Chiefs, who
drafted him in the first round out
of California in 1997.
But the Chiefs (1-4) are rebuild-
ing from the bottom up and not
likely to contend for the Super
Bowl any time soon. In spite of
all his personal accomplishments,
Gonzalez, 32, has never even won a
postseason game.
He would like an opportunity
to play in a Super Bowl and the
rebuilding Chiefs would like to
acquire extra draft picks.
Two people involved in the situ-
ation said there had been discus-
sion with the New York Giants, but
that talks had not been productive.
The Giants traded tight end
Jeremy Shockey to New Orleans
last summer for Nos. 2 and 5 drafts
pick in 2009. Shockeys replace-
ment, Kevin Boss, has been a
disappointment even though the
defending Super Bowl champs are
undefeated.
Chiefs general manager Carl
Peterson is a notoriously tough
negotiator and would probably
demand at least a second-round
pick for the man many Chiefs fans
believe is the greatest offensive
player in team history.
Gonzalez has 21 catches in five
games this season for a sputter-
ing Kansas City offense. Gonzalez
caught 99 passes for 1,172 yards in
2007. The tight ends career-high
for reception came in 2004 when he
caught 102 passes for 1,258 yards.
nfl
Say goodbye to Gonzalez?
AssociAted Press
NEW YORK Texas rode
its resounding Red River Rivalry
upset right to No. 1.
The Longhorns leapfrogged
No. 2 Alabama on Sunday and
sit atop The Associated Press Top
25 in the regular season for the
first time in 24 years after beating
Oklahoma 45-35.
Texas jump to No. 1 is the larg-
est since Miami went from No. 6 to
No. 1 on Aug. 29, 1988, after beat-
ing preseason top-ranked Florida
State 31-0 to start the season.
Texas received 39 first-place
votes and 1,599 points from the
media panel. Alabama received
the other 36 first-place votes and
1,582 points.
Being ranked No. 1 shows
respect for what weve accom-
plished through the early part
of the season, but nobody really
knows who is No. 1 at this point,
Texas coach Mack Brown said
Sunday.
It certainly has been a fluid
situation.
The Longhorns are the fourth
No. 1 team this season, following
Georgia, Southern California and
Oklahoma. So its just more of the
same following an unpredictable
2007 season that had four No. 1
teams and eight different teams
ranked second.
For the second time this sea-
son, three of the top four teams
in the country lost on the same
weekend. While the losses by the
previously top-ranked Sooners,
Missouri and LSU werent stun-
ning, they did a number on the
rankings.
Unbeaten Penn State moved up
three spots to No. 3. The Sooners
dropped three spots to No. 4 after
their first loss. Florida jumped six
spots to No. 5 after pounding LSU
51-21 on Saturday night.
No. 6 Southern California is
followed by Big 12 rivals Texas
Tech and Oklahoma State, which
upset Missouri 28-23 and has its
highest ranking since November
1985 when the Cowboys were sev-
enth.
No. 9 BYU and Georgia round
out the top 10.
Missouri dropped eight spots
to No. 11. The Tigers could vault
right back up the polls when they
play Texas in Austin on Saturday.
Our team has just played well
for six weeks and we know more
about where we are today than
we did last Sunday, but we have a
long way to go and a lot of room
to improve, Brown said. Every
week, were seeing teams learn the
hard way that the only poll that
matters, or lasts, is the final one.
No one remembers who was No.
1 after six weeks last year. If were
No. 1 in late January, it becomes a
statement.
Brown and the Longhorns
made that kind of statement in
2005. They won the national title
after spending the entire regular
season ranked No. 2 behind USC,
then beating the Trojans 41-38 in
the Rose Bowl.
Texas was also No. 1 in the
USA Today coaches poll and the
Harris poll, with Alabama second
and Penn State third. The coaches
poll and the Harris poll are used
by the Bowl Championship Series
to determine which teams play for
the national title. The first BCS
standings will be released Oct. 26.
Ohio State is 12th and LSU is
13th, a nine spot drop after get-
ting drubbed in the Swamp.
No. 14 Utah, No. 15 Boise
State and No. 16 Kansas all held
their spots. No. 17 Virginia Tech
was followed by North Carolina,
which jumped four spots after
beating Notre Dame 29-24.
South Florida and Michigan
State completed the first 20.
The final five were Wake Forest,
Vanderbilt, which lost its first
game of the season at Mississippi
State on Saturday and dropped
eight spots, Pittsburgh, Ball State
and California.
The Golden Bears were the
only team to move into the rank-
ings this week. Its their second
time in the Top 25 this season.
Auburn dropped out after los-
ing its third game of the season.
AP Top 25
1. Texas (39) 6-0 1,599
2. Alabama (26) 6-0 1,582
3. Penn State 7-0 1,492
4. Oklahoma 5-1 1,306
5. Florida 5-1 1,284
6. USC 4-1 1,247
7. Texas Tech 6-0 1,210
8. Oklahoma State 6-0 1,184
9. Brigham Young 6-0 1,131
10. Georgia 5-1 1,081
11. Missouri 5-1 984
12. Ohio State 6-1 908
13. LSU 4-1 893
14. Utah 7-0 834
15. Boise State 5-0 714
16. Kansas 5-1 620
17. Virginia Tech 5-1 540
18. North Carolina 5-1 416
19. South Florida 5-1 397
20. Michigan State 6-1 371
21. Wake Forest 4-1 330
22. Vanderbilt 5-1 258
23. Pittsburgh 4-1 182
24. Ball State 7-0 166
25. California 4-1 115
Texas takes the top spot in AP poll
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Texas quarterback Colt McCoy fashes
a hook 'emhorns sign after beating No. 1
Oklahoma 45-35 on Saturday in Dallas.
Texas is ranked No. 1 in this weeks Associ-
ated Press Top 25 Poll.
big 12 football
Longhorns topple
Sooners at Cotton Bowl
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kansas City Chiefs' Tony Gonzalez is tackled by Carolina Panthers' Jon Beason after a catch in the second quarter in an NFL football game in
Charlotte, N.C., on Oct. 5, 2008.
NFL
Chargers victory against
Patriots could save season
SAN DIEGO Philip Rivers and
the San Diego Chargers solved
their Patriots problem and per-
haps saved their season.
Rivers threw three touchdown
passes and San Diego's defense
stufed quarterback Matt Cassel
on fourth-and-goal from the
1-yard line to highlight a 30-10
victory against the Patriots on
Sunday night.
It was a measure of payback
against a team that had beaten
the Chargers three straight times,
including in the playofs the last
two seasons.
Rivers drew raves for his tough-
ness by playing the AFC cham-
pionship game with a shredded
ligament in his right knee, but he
couldn't get the Chargers into the
end zone that day and they lost
21-12 to the Patriots at Foxbor-
ough.
He had no trouble Sunday
night, when he threw touchdown
passes of 49 yards to Malcom
Floyd, 4 yards to Vincent Jackson
and 1 yard to Antonio Gates. It
was the fourth time this season
that Rivers threw three TD passes.
Rivers completed 18 of 27 passes
for 306 yards.
Of course, the Chargers didn't
have to face Tom Brady, out for
the season with a knee injury.
Cassel, making his ffth career
start, was sacked four times and
intercepted once.
After a disheartening loss to
Miami, LaDainian Tomlinson said
the Chargers were heading into
a "critical time." Rivers threw a
touchdown pass of 49 yards to
Malcom Floyd and another of 4
yards to Jackson in the frst half.
Rivers threw a 4-yard scor-
ing pass to Jackson just before
halftime. Tomlinson became the
17th player to rush for more than
11,000 career yards.
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DARRELL ARTHUR
INVESTIGATION
REOPENED
The Dallas Independent
School District has re-opened
its investi-
gation into
the Darrell
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g r a d e -
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scandal.
WFAA-
TV aired a
story in May
reporting Arthur had failed
classes while at South Oak Cliff
High School in Dallas, but the
grades were changed to pass-
ing.
The school district investi-
gated the claim this summer
and absolved the high school
of any wrongdoing in August.
WFAA-TV, however, kept
investigating and found holes
in DISDs investigation, which
forced it to look back into the
situation.
BARRY
HINSON
JOINS
KANSAS
STAFF
K a n s a s
At h l e t i c s
D i r e c t o r
Lew Perkins
confirmed the hiring of for-
mer Missouri State coach Barry
Hinson Friday in a statement.
Hinson will join Kansas as
the mens basketball director of
external relations. His duties
will include heading fundrais-
ing initiatives and connecting
with former players.
Hinson coached at Missouri
State for nine years. He also
played college basketball with
Self at Oklahoma State and
coached with him at Oral
Roberts.
Francis team to
a disappointing
1-1 tie.
T h e
J a y h a w k s
jumped ahead
a minute after
kickoff when
senior mid-
fielder Jessica Bush scored her first
goal of the season from 22 yards
out, but couldnt manufacture an
answer to junior forward Whitney
Palmers goal in the 65th minute.
Francis said the game was typi-
cal for a Sunday matchup with play-
ers still recovering from Fridays
intense contest with Oklahoma
State.
The loss was all the more frus-
trating considering Kansas cre-
ated plenty of chances offensively,
Francis said.
We had ample opportunities
to score, Francis said. We missed
a couple right in front of the goal.
You just cant miss those kinds
of chances and expect to win the
game.
HANLEY SEES RED
AGAINST COWGIRLS
Junior goalkeeer Julie Hanley
was shown a red card following
Kansas overtime loss to Oklahoma
State on Friday
night, forc-
ing her to
miss Sundays
contest with
Oklahoma.
Fo l l owi ng
Kasey Langdons
game-winning
goal, Hanley
said she punted the ball in frus-
tration, it bounced and eventu-
ally struck referee Sandra Serafini,
leading to her ejection.
Senior Stephanie Baugh played
110 minutes in goal for the
Jayhawks on Sunday.
Both coaches were also given
yellow cards during a tense point
late in the second half.
basketball
(continued from 1B)
soccer
(continued from 1B)
Hanley
Langdon
Hinson
Arthur
Jayhawks schedule a
real bitch of a slate ahead.
Beginning with a trip to No.
4 Oklahoma on Saturday, the
Jayhawks will welcome No. 7
Texas Tech, No. 1 Texas and
finish the regular season at
Arrowhead Stadium versus
No. 11 Missouri.
As unclear as to how a
tougher schedule would play
out, the forecast for this sec-
ond half is actually cloudier
in the best possible way.
While Kansas was waxing
Colorado, Texas out-dueled
the once infallible Sooners in a
game where neither produced
much on the ground. The
high-flying Red Raiders were
nearly upended in overtime
against sorry Nebraska while
Missouris Heisman hopeful
Chase Daniel threw three picks
at home before falling 28-23 to
Oklahoma State. No team in
the mighty Big 12 is unstop-
pable.
Should Kansas overall sea-
sons success mirror their indi-
vidual games, we may be in for
another surprise in Lawrence,
as the Jayhawks appear to be
hitting their stride at halftime.
montemayor
(continued from 1B)
MLB
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES Tired of get-
ting brushed back in the NL cham-
pionship series, Manny Ramirez
and the Los Angeles Dodgers
came out ready to fight their way
back against Philadelphia.
Blake DeWitts bases-loaded
triple off Jamie Moyer capped
a five-run first inning, and the
feisty Dodgers beat the Phillies
7-2 on Sunday night to trim
Philadelphias lead to 2-1 in the
best-of-seven series.
The benches and bullpens emp-
tied moments after Los Angeles
starter Hiroki Kuroda threw a
pitch over Shane Victorinos head,
with an angry Ramirez barking at
the Phillies during the dustup.
But there were no punches or
ejections, and the Dodgers played
with poise all night.
Kuroda pitched effectively into
the seventh for Los Angeles, which
will try to even the series Monday
night. Game 1 loser Derek Lowe,
working on three days rest, will
face Philadelphias Joe Blanton in
a matchup of right-handers.
Kuroda buzzed Victorino in
the third, apparently an attempt
to retaliate for Philadelphias Brett
Myers throwing behind Ramirez
in Game 2.
Plate umpire Mike Everitt
immediately warned both teams.
Victorino shouted at Kuroda
while pointing at his own head
and upper body as if to say: Its
OK to throw at my body, but not
my head.
Victorino grounded out to
first baseman Nomar Garciaparra
and then exchanged words with
Kuroda near the bag. Both dug-
outs emptied and the bullpens
followed, but no punches were
thrown and there were no ejec-
tions.
Dodgers third base coach
Larry Bowa and Phillies first base
coach Davey Lopes appeared to
be two of the angriest participants
in the near-scuffle, yelling at each
other before the teams cleared the
field. Ramirez also came in from
left field to bark at the Phillies
and had to be restrained by team-
mates, manager Joe Torre and an
umpire.
Myers threw behind Ramirez
in the first inning of Game 2 on
Friday, and Los Angeles Russell
Martin was brushed back as
well. The soft-tossing Moyer hit
Martin with a pitch in the first
inning Sunday night, and reliever
Clay Condrey knocked down the
Dodgers catcher in the second.
Martin was hit by another
pitch in the seventh, by Chad
Durbin, drawing a boos from the
crowd and prompting Ramirez to
climb to the top step of the dug-
out, but he took first base without
incident.
The Phillies and Dodgers dont
have a recent history of animosity,
unlike Boston and Tampa Bay, the
ALCS participants. The Red Sox
and Rays have played two peace-
ful games in their series after a
nasty brawl in June.
The Phillies and Dodgers have
played 11 times this year includ-
ing eight in the regular season,
with the home team winning
every game.
assocIateD Press
los angeles Dodgers' rafael Furcal scores in front of Philadelphia Phillies' Carlos Ruiz during the frst inning in Game 3 of the National
League baseball championship series Sunday in Los Angeles. Furcal scored fromsecond on a hit by Manny Ramirez.
Dodgers fght back against Phillies
MLB
rays win, tie al series
with one victory each
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. B.J.
Upton and the Tampa Bay
Rays won a game of home run
derby with a shallow fy ball.
Pinch-runner Fernando
Perez dashed home on Up-
tons sacrifce fy in the 11th
inning and the Rays outlasted
the Boston Red Sox 9-8 early
Sunday, evening the AL cham-
pionship series at one game
each.
The series shifts to Fenway
Park for Game 3 Monday, with
left-hander Jon Lester pitching
for Boston against Matt Garza.
Associated Press
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