2007-04-17

By SUE LINDSEy
ASSocIAtED PrESS
BLACKSBURG, Va. — A gunman
massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech
in the deadliest shooting rampage in
modern U.S. history Monday, cut-
ting down his victims in two attacks
two hours apart before the university
could grasp what was happening and
warn students.
The bloodbath ended with the
gunman committing suicide, bring-
ing the death toll to 33 and stamping
the campus in the picturesque Blue
Ridge Mountains with unspeakable
tragedy, perhaps forever.
Investigators gave no motive for
the attack. The gunman’s name was
not immediately released, and it was
not known if he was a student.
“Today the university was struck
with a tragedy that we consider of
monumental proportions,” Virginia
Tech President Charles Steger said.
“The university is shocked and
indeed horrified.”
But he was also faced with difficult
questions about the university’s han-
dling of the emergency and whether
it did enough to warn students and
protect them after the first burst of
gunfire. Some students bitterly com-
plained they got no warning from
the university until an e-mail that
arrived more than two hours after
the first shots rang out.
Wielding two handguns and car-
rying multiple clips of ammunition,
the killer opened fire about 7:15 a.m.
on the fourth floor of West Ambler
Johnston, a high-rise coed dormi-
tory, then stormed Norris Hall, a
classroom building a half-mile away
on the other side of the 2,600-acre
campus. Some of the doors at Norris
Hall were found chained from the
inside, apparently by the gunman.
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We ofer our sympathy to the Virginia Tech community
‘Monumental’ massacre
At least 33 dead at Virginia Tech in worst school shooting in
U.S. history • Tech president says university is ‘shocked.’
Man kills 32 in
shooting spree
Tragedy hits close to
home for KU student
Alan Kim/THE ROANOKE TIMES
An injured occupant is carried out of Norris Hall at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., Monday. A gunman opened fre in a dorm and in classrooms on the campus, killing at least 30 people.
Matt Gentry/THE ROANOKE TIMES
Blacksburg police ofcers run from Norris Hall on the Virginia Tech campus Monday. A gunman
opened fre in a dorm and then, two hours later, in classrooms across campus.
Matt Gentry/THE ROANOKE TIMES
Virginia Tech students watch from the doorway of McBryde Hall on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., as police infltrate the area where a shooting took place.
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By ErIck r. SchmIDt
Just hours after Monday’s deadly
shootings on the campus of Virginia
Tech, Matt Drake’s phone was flood-
ed with calls from family members.
“Everyone wanted to know if I had
heard,” said Drake, a Woodbridge,
Va., graduate student who earned his
undergraduate degree from Virginia
Tech last May. “Everyone I know is
OK to this point.”
Drake said he arrived to
work on campus at 7:30 Monday
morning and began receiv-
ing calls about an hour later.
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4.16.07
» Business
Judge
delays
Wal-Mart,
city trial
By mAtt ErIckSoN
A new city commission means
a new round of discussion on the
potential construction of a second
Lawrence Wal-Mart store at Sixth
Street and Wakarusa Drive.
A lawsuit challenging the city’s
denial of a building permit for the
Wal-Mart was scheduled to go
to court Monday, but a Douglas
County district judge last week
delayed the
trial until
Sept. 10 at
the request
of the city,
Wa l - Mar t
and the site’s
developers.
The city
r e ques t e d
the delay so
the new city
commission
could dis-
cuss the Wal-Mart issue for the
first time at its May 1 meeting.
“We’ve got a new commission,
two new commissioners,” said
mayor Sue Hack. “This was an
opportunity to bring them up to
speed.”
New commissioners Mike
Dever and Rob Chestnut
replaced Mike Rundle and David
Schauner, two of the commis-
sioners who voted against the
most recent Wal-Mart building
proposal in a 3-2 decision. The
only remaining commissioner
who rejected that plan is Dennis
“Boog” Highberger. Hack and
commissioner Mike Amyx voted
for the plan.
Highberger said he opposed
the delay of the trial because the
former commission had already
made a decision about the Wal-
Mart issue.
Hack said the previous com-
mission rejected the last Wal-
Mart proposal because of con-
cerns with the increase of traffic
in the area and the increase in
retail businesses citywide.
“My feeling was that those
issues had been addressed in a
compromise plan,” Hack said.
Angie Stoner, Wal-Mart
spokesperson, said Wal-Mart
would begin new discussions
with the city at the May 1 meet-
ing “to possibly start discussing
future plans for the project.”
Hack said the May 1 discussion
would not involve any specific
development plans, but instead
would serve as an opportunity for
the new commissioners to par-
ticipate in their first discussion
of the issue. She said members
of all parties involved, including
neighbors of the property and
other members of the public, were
invited to make comments.
The lawsuit between Wal-Mart
and the city dates back to 2003.
The building site’s developers
first proposed a Wal-Mart store
in 2002.
kansan staf writer matt Erick-
son can be contacted at mer-
[email protected].
— Edited by Darla Slipke
New commission
has until Sept. 10
to discuss plan
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Ford
CEO
gives
advice
By joE hUNt
Alan Mulally said work-
ing together was something he
loved, although he didn’t invent
the idea.
“That would be like Al Gore
saying he invented the Internet,”
Mulally, president and CEO of
Ford Motor Company and KU
alumnus, said.
Working together was a key
focus during Mulally’s speech
Monday night at the Lied
Center.
In his time as president and
CEO of Boeing Commercial
Airplanes and Ford, Mulally
stressed putting people first and
including everyone in projects.
Communication was key in this
process.
“The biggest problem with
communication is the illusion
that it occurs,” Mulally said.
“The fact that you say something
and expect them to know what it
means; that’s arrogant.”
Mulally said coworkers
should share a unified plan that
was understood by all. When
problems arose, Mulally said
he wanted to be around people
who found a way to make things
work. He said he saw that kind of
people at the University.
“There is not an institution in
the world that has more moti-
vated, more skilled and neater
students than the University of
Kansas,” Mulally said.
Mulally grew up in Lawrence
working several jobs, starting with
a paper route. He then moved to
a bag boy position at Dillons gro-
cery store before he was inspired
by President Kennedy via tele-
vision to
b e c o m e
an astro-
naut. He
s wi t c h e d
from liberal
arts classes
to aero-
n a u t i c a l
and astro-
n a u t i c a l
e ngi ne e r-
ing at the
University.
“ T h e y
didn’t tell
me to be an
ast ronaut ,
you had to be perfect,” Mulally
said.
He was removed from the
space training program because
he was slightly color blind.
Upon graduation a KU profes-
sor who had just left a position
at Boeing recommended that
Mulally try to get work there.
Mulally was hired and drove his
Volkswagen Beetle across the
country to Seattle.
Much of Mulally’s speech was
a question and answer session
because he said he was a “cus-
tomer-oriented person.”
Mulally said a big issue with
the automobile industry was
the state of the environment.
He proposed a few alternative
methods of fuel for the future.
One was using ethanol to power
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Jerry Mikkelson will present
the lecture “Valentin Rasputin
at 70” at noon at Room 318 in
Bailey Hall.
The Runner’s Clinic will start
at 1 p.m. in Watkins Memorial
Health Center.
The Global Awareness Pro-
gram forum will be held at 3:30
p.m. at the International Room
in the Kansas Union.
The Peace Corps General
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p.m. at Room 149 in the Burge
Union.
The flm “Spell Bound” will be
shown at 7 p.m. at Alderson Au-
ditorium in the Kansas Union.
Tickets are $2, or free with your
SUA Card.
The Student Chamber
Ensemble and KU Trumpet En-
semble will perform a concert
at 7:30 p.m. at Swarthout Recital
Hall in Murphy Hall.
John Patrick Diggins will
present the lecture “Ronald
Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the
Making of History” at 7:30 p.m.
in the Dole Institute of Politics.
Toilet maker to repair
fre-starting units
TOKYO — Japan’s leading toi-
let maker, Toto Ltd., is ofering
free repairs for 180,000 bidet
toilets after wiring problems
caused several to catch fre, the
company said Monday.
The electric bidet accessory
of Toto’s Z series caught fre in
three separate incidents be-
tween March 2006 and March
2007, according to spokeswom-
an Emi Tanaka. The bidet sent
up smoke in 26 other incidents.
“Fortunately, nobody was
using the toilets when the fre
broke out and there were no
injuries,”Tanaka said. “The fre
would have been just under
your buttocks.”
The company will repair toi-
let units manufactured between
May 1996 and December 2001.
The Z series features a pulsat-
ing massage spray, a power
dryer, built-in-the-bowl deodor-
izing flter, the “Tornado Wash”
fush and a lid that opens and
closes automatically.
The model is not sold over-
seas.
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Shawn Bowers, Overland Park junior, dressed as “Spellington the Spelling Bee”Monday afternoon onWescoe Beach to promote the Student Union Activities’ Spelling Bee, which will be 7 p.m. today at
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Breathlizers mandated at
Catholic school dances
DUBUQUE, Iowa — Wahlert High
School students are being tested to
make sure they’re not DUI — danc-
ing under the infuence.
Ofcials at the Catholic school
said students will have to undergo
a breath test before they are
admitted to any school-sponsored
dances for the rest of this school
year, including the May 5 prom.
“Our goal is to do what we can
do to ensure that our events are
alcohol-free,” Principal Don Sisler
said. “It’s a big step, but it’s a real
simple one.”
A consent form giving the
school permission to administer
the test was sent home to parents
along with a letter from Sisler.
Students from other schools
who attend the dance also will be
required to bring a signed consent
form, Sisler said.
Students who test positive will
be retested, he said.
“If there is any question about
the frst test, we administer a sec-
ond,” he said. “If it’s a breath mint
or some mouthwash throwing of
the frst reading, that tends to dis-
sipate quickly. We’ll retest them.”
Sisler said the school previously
used breath tests on an individual
basis when ofcials suspected
alcohol use at dances.
Volunteers clip salmon fns
at Oregon hatchery
NETARTS, Ore. — When a
salmon reared at the Whiskey Creek
Fish Hatchery grows up, fshermen
will be able to distinguish it from
a wild chinook by the absence of a
tiny fn.
More than 350 volunteers
turned out over the weekend for
the hatchery’s annual fn-clipping
day, teaming up to give about
100,000 young salmon a telltale
snip.
“Once you get the hang of it,
it gets pretty easy,” said Avalon
Reynolds-Brice, a sixth-grader from
Portland who volunteered with her
sister, Haven.
The salmon get a dose of anes-
thetic before the scissors-wielding
volunteers clip of the tiny adipose
fn, located on the fsh’s back just in
front of the tail.
“They wake up and have no
idea what’s happened to them,”
said Jerry Dove, 68, president of Til-
lamook Anglers, which organized
the gathering.
The hatchery raises 200,000
salmon a year and places them in
the Wilson and Trask rivers.
Bill Bakke, executive director
of the Native Fish Society, said it’s
important that hatchery fsh are
marked if they are introduced into
rivers, so fshermen can keep them
and throw back the wild ones.
Hatchery fsh can be a problem,
he said, because they compete
with wild fsh for food and may
interbreed with them, possibly cre-
ating genetically inferior ofspring.
Mammoth skeleton sells
for record-setting amount
PARIS — If you were looking for
the skeleton of a prehistoric mam-
moth, Monday was your day to
buy. Christie’s auction house sold
one for $421,200 — a world record.
The unidentifed buyer was a
European who collects contempo-
rary art and 19th century furniture,
Christie’s spokeswoman Capucine
Milliot said.
The mammoth sale was one of
a dozen world records set during
Monday’s auction.
The 10,000-year-old skeleton of
a 13.5-foot-long rhinoceros sold
for a record $162,000. That of a 7.5-
foot-high prehistoric cave bear sold
for $63,180.
The skeletons previously were
owned by private collectors.
Most were bought by individu-
als, although a German museum
and a French museum — neither
identifed — purchased fossils for
smaller sums, Milliot said.
—Associated Press
nation
Nor’easter leaves nine
dead, devastates coast
CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — A
menacing spring storm punished
the Northeast for a second straight
day Monday, dumping more than
8 inches of rain on Central Park and
sending refrigerators and pickup
trucks foating down rivers in one
of the region’s worst storms in
recent memory.
“This one is really a horror show,”
Gov. Eliot Spitzer said after touring
hard-hit areas north of New York
City.
The nor’easter left a huge swath
of devastation, from the beaches
of South Carolina to the mountains
of Maine. It knocked out power to
hundreds of thousands of people
and was blamed for at least nine
deaths nationwide, including a
New Jersey man who drowned
inside a car.
The storm showed no immedi-
ate sign of letting up. The National
Weather Service predicted showers
through Wednesday night in the
New York City area, with rain mixed
with snow at times.
The storm was especially harsh
in the Westchester County suburbs
north of New York City and in New
Jersey, where the state was placed
under a state of emergency and
more than 1,400 residents were
evacuated — many by boat.
President Bush pushes
again for war-funding bill
WASHINGTON — President Bush
surrounded himself with military
families on Monday to push anew
for a war-funding bill that isn’t tied
to pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq.
The Senate’s Democratic leader,
Harry Reid of Nevada, responded
that Bush must choose between
holding to “discredited policies” in
Iraq or working with lawmakers on
a new course.
Bush, who will meet with law-
makers on Wednesday, said: “We
should not legislate defeat in this
vital war.” He said he’s willing to dis-
cuss a way forward with Congress,
but he stood frm in opposing
any measure that restricts military
commanders, sets a withdrawal
timetable or includes billions of
dollars of spending unrelated to
the war.
“Listen, I understand Republi-
cans and Democrats in Washington
have diferences over the best
course in Iraq,” Bush said. “That’s
healthy. That’s normal, and we
should debate those diferences.
But our troops should not be
caught in the middle.”
— Associated Press


news
3A
tuesday, april 17, 2007
By Bethany Bunch
“Fall From Grace,” an hour and
15-minute documentary surround-
ing Fred Phelps, was shown last
night at Woodruff Auditorium in
the Kansas Union. The documen-
tary was shown for the second time
on campus by student filmmaker
Ryan Jones, Wichita senior.
The film was selected to
be screened early last month at
the South by Southwest Film
Conference and Festival in Austin,
Texas. The annual event features
the art and business of independent
filmmaking by young cinematogra-
phers. Jones said he was one of the
youngest filmmakers at the confer-
ence.
“For anyone to get into the fes-
tival is really a big deal,” Jones said.
“It was very well received.”
“Fall From Grace” was such
a success at the conference that
Jones’ brother, Garrett said, Morgan
Spurlock, director of “Super Size
Me,” expressed interest in Jones’
film. Garrett
and his parents
traveled with
Jones to the
conference.
“He was
handing out fli-
ers for the film
and handed
one to Morgan
S p u r l o c k , ”
Garrett said.
“He said he
wanted to see
his film.”
The documentary was enjoyed
among the emotionally charged
audience last night, too. Applause
broke out twice during the movie,
both times in response to the silenc-
ing of the Phelps’ family message:
God hates fags.
Phelps is the minister of his
75-member church in Topeka.
Ninety-eight percent of the church’s
members are in the Phelps family.
Members pick-
et thousands of
events world-
wide, includ-
ing several KU
events.
Jones spent
several weeks
with the
Phelps fam-
ily and at Fred
Phelps’ church,
We s t b o r o
Baptist Church,
in Topeka. He said the most dif-
ficult part of taping was obtaining
access to interview Fred.
“I see them as very flawed indi-
viduals,” Jones said. “But I can’t
shake how nice they were to me.”
Adrienne Rainger, Quinter
senior, said she attended the screen-
ing of the film after having some
classroom knowledge of the Phelps
family.
“I wasn’t really that surprised by
anything I saw,” Rainger said. “It’s
an interesting group of people that
can’t be understood.”
Jones showed the Westboro
Baptist Church members the com-
pleted film before its debut at the
University last month. He said the
congregation was pleased with the
outcome, even though they dis-
agreed with the opposing positions
the movie presented.
“It didn’t surprise me that the
family liked it because they told
me beforehand that even if there is
only one of their signs seen in the
film then it would be a success,”
Jones said.
Kansan staf writer Bethany
Bunch can be contacted at
[email protected].
— Edited by Katie Sullivan
By ashlee Kieler
After an election week riddled
with violation complaints against the
Delta Force and United Students
coalitions, the parties seem to have
made peace. Each coalition with-
drew its complaints against each
other Monday night at the Election
Commission meeting.
Delta Force filed a violation
complaint last week citing that the
United Students coalition defamed
Delta Force presidential nominee
John Cross, Kansas City, Mo., junior,
saying he had authored and passed
only one bill while in Senate. The
complaint said Cross authored three
bills.
United Students members told
potential voters that Hannah Love,
Dodge City junior and presidential
candidate for United Students, and
running mate Ray Wittlinger, Olathe
junior, authored and passed a com-
bined 29 bills. The complaint said
Love and Wittlinger actually passed
a combined 17 bills.
Delta Force dropped the com-
plaint in order to move on.
“We realized it was a misun-
derstanding and rather than drag
out the complaint we’ve decided to
look ahead to the future,” said Jack
Connor, Overland Park junior and
the complaint filer.
Had the complaint been heard
and United Students been found
guilty of using malicious intent in
the statements, the coalition could
have been disqualified and Love and
Wittlinger could have been removed
from their new positions.
United Students withdrew its vio-
lation complaint against Delta Force
for the improper use of mass e-mails
to potential voters.
The complaint cited Delta Force
for using a mass e-mail to remind
friends to vote. Wittlinger said that
it wasn’t right to get off on the wrong
foot after elections.
“We feel that with the conclusion
of the election it’s time for the coali-
tions to come together for students,”
Wittlinger said.
Kansan staf writer ashlee Kieler
can be contacted at akieler@kan-
san.com.
— Edited by Joe Caponio
» student senate
Parties drop complaints
of election violations
health
Doctors drill holes in pa-
tients’ skulls for therapy
WASHINGTON — The frst dozen
Parkinson’s patients to have holes
drilled in their skulls for a novel
gene therapy attempt weren’t
harmed — and hints at some
improvement have researchers
embarking on a larger study to see
if the treatment really may work.
Doctors reported initial results of
the closely watched experiment at
a neurology meeting Monday, but
cautioned that it’s far too soon to
raise hopes. At issue: Using a nerve
growth factor to try to rescue dying
brain cells.
Some 1.5 million Americans
have Parkinson’s, a disease that
gradually destroys brain cells that
produce dopamine, a chemical
crucial for the cellular signaling that
controls muscle movement. Too
little dopamine causes increasingly
severe tremors and periodically stif
or frozen limbs.
Standard treatments can control
tremors for a while but can’t stop
the disease’s inevitable march.
So scientists are hunting ways
to protect remaining dopamine-
producing neurons, and rescue
dying ones. Previous attempts with
growth factors haven’t panned
out. The new approach uses gene
therapy — injecting a virus that
carries a gene that in turn produces
the growth factor neurturin — to
try to get the protein right where
it’s needed.
— Associated Press
» student project
Filmmaker documents Phelps
“I wasn’t really that surprised
by anything I saw. It’s just an
interesting group of people that
can’t be understood.”
RyAN jONeS
Wichita senior, flmmaker
» journalism
Seattle newspapers settle four-year dispute
By Gene JOhnsOn
assOciated Press
SEATTLE — Seattle’s two daily
newspapers have agreed to settle
a legal dispute that threatened to
close the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
erasing a cloud that has hung over
the city’s journalism industry for
the past four years.
The Seattle Times Co. and Hearst
Corp., which publishes the P-I,
announced the settlement in sepa-
rate statements. The two had been
headed for binding, closed-door
arbitration to settle disagreements
with their joint operating agree-
ment, which The Times contended
was no longer financially viable.
“It’s a new beginning for the
P-I,” said Hearst spokesman Paul
Luthringer.
Under the agreement, which
took effect in 1983 to save the P-I,
The Times handles printing, cir-
culation and advertising for both
papers, and keeps 60 percent of
their joint profits.
Hearst will pay The Times $25
million in exchange for not seeking
to end the agreement before 2016.
The Times, meanwhile, will pay
Hearst $49 million to settle the liti-
gation and buy Hearst’s right to col-
lect 32 percent of The Times’ profits
through 2083 if the P-I closes _
“Now no one can argue that Hearst
might have a financial interest in
seeing the P-I fold,” Luthringer
said.
Even though the settlement
requires The Times to pay a net $24
million to maintain an arrangement
that its officials have long criti-
cized, Times Chief Executive and
Publisher Frank Blethen called the
deal “very good news for us.”
“It gives us a longer period of
time to see if we can make this
model work,” Blethen told a news
conference. “The huge $64 question
for all of us is, are newspapers going
to survive? ... I’m still very skeptical
that it will work.”
Gene Balk, a Times news
researcher and the newspaper’s unit
chairman for the Pacific Northwest
Newspaper Guild, said staffers were
struggling to understand what effect
the deal would have on The Times.
“We’ve been operating under this
assumption that we can’t really sur-
vive under the JOA,” he said. “Now,
we are going to be operating under
the JOA still, so it does raise a lot of
questions.”
Blethen noted that the deal
would allow The Times to stop
spending millions of dollars a year
on litigation, focus on adapting to
an Internet-driven world, and avoid
the uncertainty of binding arbitra-
tion. Blethen and Times President
and Chief Operating Officer
Carolyn Kelly said no decisions had
been made about when the compa-
ny would pay Hearst, where exactly
the money would come from or
whether the deal would require lay-
offs at The Times.
Reporters and editors at the P-
I, some of whom had taken side
jobs as professors or bartenders in
case the paper closed, burst into
applause when Publisher Roger
Oglesby walked into the newsroom
Monday morning with several law-
yers who worked on the settlement.
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*Refreshments will be served*
A pro-choice interfaith forum
The Odd Couple?
Reproductive Rights
and Spirituality
Where: The Kan-
sas Room in the
Kansas Union, KU
When: Tuesday,
April 17th at
7pm
This event is organized by Students for
Reproductive Rights, which is an affili-
ate of Spiritual Youth for Reprouductive
Freedom and ChoiceUSA. [email protected]
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Rights
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By Katy BLair
Templin Hall is buzzing with
activities for its first Pride Week.
The residence hall staff planned
events around a toilet paper theme,
which made “TP” a necessity for the
week.
“We just wanted to do some-
thing for the residents,” said Laura
R e m i n g t o n ,
assistant com-
plex director.
“To show them
that we appreciate
them.”
R e mi n g t o n
said most of the
other halls have
social events for
the residents, so
she wanted to
start a tradition
for Templin, too.
“We thought it would be real-
ly interesting to leave something
behind from our staff this year,” said
Ozzy Bravo, Lima, Peru junior and
resident advisor.
Resident advisors spoke with the
students on their floor and came up
with a list of popular events. The staff
then tried to pick a week that was less
academically stressful for students.
The week started with doughnuts,
snow cones and a global awareness
program on Monday. Students were
also able to work with the Career
Center to make or improve resumes.
Remington said she was most
looking forward to the toilet paper
fashion show that will start at 8
tonight.
Nathan Jones, Wichita sopho-
more, said Tuesday’s main event for
him was the hot dog eating contest.
“I’m going to try to get to as much
as I can this week,” Jones said. “But
the hot dogs, that sounds like fun.”
Jones said he would definitely par-
ticipate in the contest, which will
start once the fashion show is com-
plete.
Wednesday is “Wear Your TP
Week T-shirt” day, and Thursday the
residents will
enjoy massages
by certified
masseuses. For
Friday night,
the staff incor-
porated Student
Union Activities’
casino night as
the finale for the
week’s events.
To help the
Lawrence com-
munity, the Templin staff is collect-
ing toiletries this week to be given to
Lawrence Community Center.
Residents will also have opportu-
nities to earn goodies throughout the
week. Door prizes will be given out
and a writing contest will conclude
next Sunday.
Students may write a two- to
four-page paper on how diversity
has impacted their experiences at
the University. Remington said the
winner would be chosen by next
Tuesday. The grand prize is a $200
gift certificate to KU Bookstores.
Kansan staf writer Katy Blair can
be contacted at kblair@kansan.
com.
— Edited by Joe Caponio
Templin revels
in ‘TP’-themed
Pride Week
» residence hall
“We thought it would be really
interesting to leave something
behind from our staf this year.”
Ozzy bravO
Templin Hall resident advisor
vehicles, which is composed of
15 percent gasoline and 85 per-
cent corn. But that technology
has problems with the supply
of corn.
“If we took all of our farm
capacity, we would only satisfy
20 percent of demand,” Mulally
said.
Other developing technolo-
gies include cars that run on
hydrogen and electricity, ideally
only releasing water out of the
tail pipe.
Although these technologies
are being developed by the auto
industry, Mulally said more had
to be done.
“The auto industry only
accounts for 15 percent of car-
bon dioxide emissions, so the
whole country needs to work
together.”
Kansan staf writer Joe Hunt
can be contacted at jhunt@
kansan.com.
— Edited by Darla Slipke
mulally (continued from 1A)
michiko Takei/KaNSaN
alan mulally, president and chief executive ofcer of the Ford motor Company, gives a presen-
tation about his experiences Monday at the Lied Center. Mulally is a Lawrence native and KU alumnus.
» public lecture
Speaker grades separation of church, state
By Katy BLair
The United States got a C+ on
its current attempts at separating
church and state.
Derek H. Davis announced his
final grade for the U.S. Monday eve-
ning during his lecture, “Explaining
the complexities of religion and state
in the United States.” Davis lectured
about his thoughts on a deteriorat-
ing separation between religion and
government matters.
“There are lots of conflicts,
anomalies and inconsistencies in
the whole system,” said Davis, dean
of the college of humanities at the
University of Mary-Hardin Baylor
in Belton, Texas. “Lots of people
think we can’t have prayers before
athletic events, and yet the U.S.
Congress has people who are paid
with your tax-payer dollars to stand
in front of them every day to lead
these sessions with prayers.”
Davis said one erosion of the
separation idea deals directly with
schools.
Private schools have become
dependent on government money
to function. Not only does govern-
ment financial support conflict the
idea of religion being independent
from government, but it will result
in decreasing public duty to support
those religious institutions.
J.R. Madill, a
Baptist minister
in Columbia,
Mo., said the
separation of
church and state
was crucial to
the success of
the nation.
“I think the
church relies
far too much
on the govern-
ment to do what
it was created to do,” Madill said.
“I think that by allowing the two
to be intertwined, we really sort of
cheat both.”
Madill said that if the U.S. wants
to be a secular society by definition,
it must exclude specific religious
groups from any authoritative lead-
ership roles. The Columbia minister
said that interaction rather than
reliance on one another will help
both prosper.
Davis expanded on his point by
addressing political issues that com-
bine the church and state in the
country. Presidential candidates are
not required
to adhere to
one religion,
but Davis said
they were unof-
ficially expected
by the public
to express their
religious beliefs.
Ho w e v e r ,
Davis said
there was such
a thing as “civil
religion,” where
some religious practices were
accepted in government because
they create a national identity.
Civil religion includes the
national motto, “In God We Trust,”
and even the religious symbols on
the back of the dollar bill.
Davis said civil religion has a
place in society, but misuses were
a detriment to its success. Davis’
example of such misuse was for-
mer President George Bush using
religion as a justification for the
Gulf War.
He explained that President Bush
compared the U.S. to Jesus Christ as
the light of the world, representing
good. To stamp out the evil, or Iraq,
he proposed going to war, hoping
the religious representation would
spur support.
Rich Morrell, Warrensburg,
Mo., resident, said Davis discussed
concerns for our nation that were
important to address. He added that
the separation of church and state
was necessary for both to function
correctly.
“I think that the separation of
church and state has served our
nation very well,” Morrell said.
“When we have this creeping of
religion into government, we actu-
ally devalue the value of religion.”
Kansan staf writer Katy Blair can
be contacted at kblair@kansan.
com.
— Edited by Joe Caponio
“there are lots of conficts,
anomalies and inconsistencies
in the whole system.”
derek H. davis
dean of the college of humanities
at Mary-Hardin baylor
» student loans
investors buy Sallie mae amid legal troubles
aSSOCiatED PrESS
WASHINGTON — A group of
investors announced plans Monday
to buy Sallie Mae, taking the
nation’s largest student lender pri-
vate in a $25 billion deal that comes
as some regulators call for tougher
standards and lower federal subsi-
dies for the $85 billion college loan
industry.
Private-equity firm J.C. Flowers
& Co. and three other investors will
pay $60 per share for the Reston,
Va.-based SLM Corp., commonly
referred to as Sallie Mae. The sale
price represents a nearly 50 percent
premium for Sallie Mae’s previ-
ously sagging stock before takeover
rumors emerged last week.
SLM shares traded up more than
17 percent on the New York Stock
Exchange after the buyout was
announced Monday.
J.C. Flowers and private-equity
firm Friedman Fleischer & Lowe
will invest $4.4 billion and own 50.2
percent of the company. Bank of
America and JPMorgan Chase each
will invest $2.2 billion and each will
own 24.9 percent. The buyers will
also provide Sallie Mae with $200
billion in backup financing.
John Oros, a managing director
at J.C. Flowers, said the firm was
drawn by Sallie Mae’s stock price,
which had fallen to around $40 per
share before takeover talks began.
The investors also weren’t deterred
by the the prospect of a clampdown
on the industry by lawmakers.
“We think Sallie Mae is a great
company and a great business, and
appropriate regulation will sort
itself out in a way that will make
this an attractive transaction for
us,” Oros said.
Sallie Mae is by far the largest
school lender, originating $23.4 bil-
lion in student loans last year, many
of them federally subsidized such
as widely used Stafford loans. The
company has recently expanded
into other areas of lending, such
as debt collection and 529 college
savings plans.
But it has also been subject to
greater attention from lawmakers
and regulators currently probing
ties between lenders and college
officials who guide students toward
specific lenders for their loans.
Last week, Sallie Mae settled
with New York Attorney General
Andrew Cuomo over the compa-
ny’s business practices, agreeing to
pay $2 million to a student loan
education fund. It will also no lon-
ger pay travel and entertainment
expenses for university officials or
send its employees to work for free
in campus financial aid offices.
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“I’m just dumbfounded, speechless,”
Drake said. “It makes me realize
something like that can happen
anywhere.”
Kansas women’s basketball coach
Bonnie Henrickson spent 14 years
of her coaching career at Virginia
Tech, including the seven years
before she came to Kansas in 2004.
She said the Virginia Tech campus
was similar to the University of
Kansas campus.
“It’s a safe place, it really is,”
Henrickson said. “It just shows you
what a scary world we live in.”
Henrickson, who was in her office
when she was told about the shoot-
ings, said she immediately called
current Virginia Tech women’s bas-
ketball coach Beth Dunkenberger to
make sure she was all right.
“She said, ‘You can’t possibly
imagine what it’s like right now,’”
Henrickson said. “The senseless-
ness is just hard to grasp. It’s tough
to watch.”
Christopher Grey, a sopho-
more at Virginia Tech, told The
University Daily Kansan he saw
SWAT members surrounding the
building where the second round
of shootings occurred, but that he
didn’t think much about it.
“We’ve had two false bomb
threats lately, and I just thought of
that,” Grey said. “I just walked in
and sat down.”
For the next two hours, Grey
and six others, including a profes-
sor, were locked in their classroom
across the street. They watched the
scene unfold as “police car after
police car” and “ambulance after
ambulance showed up and sped off,”
Grey said.
When the classroom was finally
unlocked, Grey returned to his on-
campus residence hall and began
watching news coverage.
“It’s pretty depressing to see the
death toll rise. Just incredible,” Grey
said.
He said all of his friends were so
far accounted for.
“I honestly never thought any-
thing of this magnitude would hap-
pen anywhere, not just on campus,”
Grey said. “It always just felt so
secure.”
Joshua Nold, Auburn, Kan.,
junior, said the news immediately
reminded him of the Columbine
High School attack in 1999.
“It makes you wonder if it was
someone going through misfit
stuff,” Nold said. “That’s not the
type of thing you think goes on in
college.”
Nold said he would never expect
anything similar to happen at the
University.
“Lawrence seems like too peace-
ful a place. That’s probably the same
way they felt out there in Virginia,
though,” Nold said.
Kansan staf writer Erick R.
Schmidt can be contacted at es-
[email protected].
— Edited by Joe Caponio
students (continued from 1A)
By ERicK R. Schmidt
Officials from the University of
Kansas responded Monday to the
morning’s deadly attacks at Virginia
Tech and addressed safety concerns.
Todd Cohen, director of
University Relations, said the
University had response plans which
were constantly being updated.
“We always have to learn from
other tragedies and apply them,”
Cohen said. “It’s appalling, unfor-
tunate, and all we can do is pray for
the survivors at Virginia Tech and
try to apply the lessons learned.”
Cohen related the attacks to the
Columbine, Colo., shootings in
1999.
“It could be like Columbine,
where you look at what happened
and change accordingly,” Cohen
said. “We’ll be looking at what
worked and what didn’t.”
Chancellor Robert Hemenway
released a statement Monday morn-
ing:
“Our heartfelt thoughts and
prayers are with the Virginia Tech
University family today. The horrific
tragedy that occurred this morn-
ing is so immense it is difficult to
comprehend.”
Hemenway also addressed secu-
rity in his statement to the KU
community.
“It is a chilling reminder why
campus security must always be a
top priority. The safety of our stu-
dents, faculty, staff and visitors is
paramount,” he said.
Jennifer Jensen, Goodland junior,
said she heard about the shoot-
ings through classmates who were
watching news stories on their cell
phones during her morning class.
“Both the amount of people
around and seeing the police driv-
ing around makes it feel like a pretty
safe place,” Jensen said. “I just think
it’s horrible. There should be more
protection, but I don’t know what
that would mean. It could happen
anywhere.”
University staff and students
interested in offering their condo-
lences Virginia Tech can sign a ban-
ner this morning from 11 a.m. to
2 p.m. in front of Wescoe Hall.
Student Union Activities provided
the banner and will send it to the
university. SUA is also giving out
maroon ribbons in honor of the
victims.
Kansan staf writer Erick R.
Schmidt can be contacted at
[email protected].
— Edited by Katie Sullivan
Two people died in a dorm room,
and 31 others were killed in Norris
Hall, including the gunman, who
put a bullet in his head. At least 15
people were hurt, some seriously.
At an evening news conference,
Police Chief Wendell Flinchum
refused to dismiss the possibility that
a co-conspirator or second shooter
was involved. He said police had
interviewed a “person of interest” in
the dorm shooting who knew one of
the victims, but he declined to give
details.
“I’m not saying there is someone
out there, and I’m not saying there is
someone who is not,” Flinchum said.
Ballistics tests will help explain what
happened, he said.
Sheree Mixell, a spokeswoman
for the federal Bureau of Alcohol,
T o b a c c o ,
Firearms and
Explosives, said
the evidence
was being moved
to the agency’s
national lab in
Annandale. At
least one firearm
was turned over,
she said.
Mixell would
not comment on
what types of weapons were used or
whether the gunman was a student.
Students jumped from windows
in panic. Young people and faculty
members carried out some of the
wounded themselves, without wait-
ing for ambulances to arrive. Many
found themselves trapped behind
chained and padlocked doors. SWAT
team members with helmets, flak
jackets and assault rifles swarmed
over the campus. A student used
his cell-phone camera to record the
sound of bullets echoing through a
stone building.
Alec Calhoun, a 20-year-old
junior, said he was in a 9:05 a.m.
mechanics class when he and class-
mates heard a thunderous sound
from the classroom next door —
“what sounded like an enormous
hammer.”
Screams followed an instant later,
and the banging continued. When
students realized the sounds were
gunshots, Calhoun said, he started
flipping over desks for hiding places.
Others dashed to the windows of the
second-floor classroom, kicking out
the screens and jumping from the
ledge of Room 204, he said.
“I must’ve been the eighth or
ninth person who jumped, and I
think I was the last,” said Calhoun,
of Waynesboro, Va. He landed in a
bush and ran.
Calhoun said that the two stu-
dents behind him were shot, but that
he believed they survived. Just before
he climbed out the window, Calhoun
said, he turned to look at the profes-
sor, who had stayed behind, perhaps
to block the door.
The instructor was killed, he
said.
Trey Perkins, who was sitting in
a German class in Norris Hall, told
The Washington Post that the gun-
man barged into the room at about
9:50 a.m. and opened fire for about
a minute and a half, squeezing off
about 30 shots.
The gunman first shot the pro-
fessor in the head and then fired
on the students,
Perkins said.
The gunman
was about 19
years old and
had a “very seri-
ous but very
calm look on his
face,” he said.
“Everyone hit
the floor at that
moment,” said
Perkins, 20, of
Yorktown, Va., a sophomore study-
ing mechanical engineering. “And
the shots seemed like it lasted for-
ever.”
Students said that there were
no public-address announcements
after the first shots. Many said they
learned of the first shooting in an
e-mail that arrived shortly before the
gunman struck again.
“I think the university has blood
on their hands because of their lack
of action after the first incident,”
said Billy Bason, 18, who lives on the
seventh floor of the dorm.
Steger defended the university’s
conduct, saying authorities believed
that the shooting at the dorm was
a domestic dispute and mistakenly
thought the gunman had fled the
campus.
“We had no reason to suspect any
other incident was going to occur,”
he said.
Steger emphasized that the uni-
versity closed off the dorm after the
first attack and decided to rely on
e-mail and other electronic means to
spread the word, but said that with
11,000 people driving onto campus
first thing in the morning, it was dif-
ficult to get the word out.
security always top priority
virginia tech (continued from 1A)
“i must’ve been the eighth or
ninth person who jumped, and i
think i was the last.”
alec calhoun
Virginia Tech junior
University Relations shows sympathy, applies lessons learned
alan Kim/the rOanOKe tiMes
an unidentifed person is carried out of Norris Hall at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., on Monday after a shooting incident. A gunman opened fre in a
dorm and classroom on the campus, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. The gunman is killed but it’s unclear if he
was shot by police or took his own life.
entertainment 6a tuesday, april 17, 2007
» horoscope
» nuclear forehead
jacob burghart
10 is the easiest day, 0 the
most challenging.
aries (March 21-april 19)
Today is a 9
Continue to speak decisively.
Others depend upon your
sense of certainty now. Luckily,
for you, this is not a problem.
Taurus (april 20-May 20)
Today is a 5
The good news is that the work
you’re doing is increasing your
reserves. The bad news is that
you have to hustle more than
you fnd comfortable. You’ll
survive.
GeMini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 7
Let people know you appreci-
ate their advice, but don’t fol-
low it all. Check it out with your
partner frst. The best schemes
will meet with approval, the
reckless ones won’t.
cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 9
Follow orders, and also use
your own imagination. It’s OK if
superiors don’t know that you
ever make mistakes. Produce
results and smile, as you accept
the kudos.
leo (July 23-aug. 22)
Today is a 7
You’re still lucky, and you’re
starting to get a little more sen-
sible. Don’t depend too heavily
on a faky assistant. Make sure
the job gets done right.
VirGo (aug. 23-sept. 22)
Today is a 5
You can put away money for
the future by letting a client pay
later. Only do this for somebody
you’re certain can be trusted.
libra (sept. 23-oct. 22)
Today is an 8
Don’t let your partner spend
all the money. There’s a great
temptation to simply have
somebody else make all the
decisions. That’s not a good
idea.
scorpio (oct. 23-nov. 21)
Today is a 9
You’ll have time to relax later,
after your associate is trained.
Don’t have a helper in training?
Get on that right away.
saGiTTarius (nov. 22-dec. 21)
Today is an 8
You’re slightly more interested
in settling down to work. This
is good, but don’t go exactly
by the book. The latest theory
does not apply well.
capricorn (dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 5
Suddenly, it all makes sense. In
the next moment, you wonder
why you worried. After that,
you can forget all about it, and
get onto the next question.
aquarius (Jan. 20-feb. 18)
Today is a 6
Your research is producing
results, or it will, if you keep
at it. Don’t schedule anything
demanding for tonight. You’ll
want to mull things over.
pisces (feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 9
Make sure everybody knows
who’s in charge of your produc-
tion. It’s you, of course. Taking
full responsibility makes the job
easier.
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Efects of NBA draf
warrant scrutiny
Before you read this column I
have an assignment for you. Take
out a pen, preferably a black one,
and sketch a beard on my picture.
You are now looking at a repre-
sentation of what I would like my
photo to be.
There’s an underground popu-
lation of us at the University of
Kansas who cannot grow enough of
a beard to show up even faintly in a
photograph.
I have been waiting to look like
Grizzly Adams since I shaved for
the first time at age 14. Yet each
year passes and I still glare at a
clean face in the mirror.
Of course, not everyone shares
my approval of beards. You may be
asking right now, “But Sam, why
would anyone want a beard?” The
answer lies in the recesses of human
history. It confronts the very ques-
tion of what a man’s face was made
to do.
Men have struggled to decide
what to do with their facial hair for
several thousand years. History has
seen times in which men lost sight
of their chins at an early age and
never glimpsed
them again; at
other times,
shaving becomes
the law of the
land.
In the fourth
century B.C.,
Alexander the
Great decreed
that his soldiers
be clean-shaven so that in battle
their enemies couldn’t grab hold of
their beards in combat.
No anti-beard laws hold sway
these days, but
beards still lack
the acclaim
they deserve.
In fact,
anyone grow-
ing a beard,
especially an
untrimmed
one, risks a
degree of social
discomfort.
To combat this, a human rights
group called the Beard Liberation
Front campaigns in the United
Kingdom against all forms of
“beardism.” Beardism is a hid-
den prejudice against people with
beards.
You may be unaware that you
are a beardist. To test yourself, go
on campus and stare at a someone
with a beard for 20 seconds — but
don’t be too obvious about it. If
during that time you formulate
any thoughts containing the words
“gross,” “dirty” or “too much,” then
you probably have at least a minor
case of beardism.
To all the male readers of The
University Daily Kansan, I invite
you to consider the possibility of
trying a beard to see if it makes you
a little more manly and confident.
To the significant others of these
men, if you are angry at what I
have just said, I invite you to think
deeply on this issue and rid yourself
of all beardism. Each individual
man must have the right to decide
for himself whether to enshrine his
face in a beard.
Schneider is a Topeka junior in
English.
Julian Wright’s announcement
to leave the University of Kansas
for the NBA draft raises several
concerns regarding “student ath-
letes.” These athletes, often just
teenagers, are caught between the
commitment and pride of college
sports and the money and added
incentives of professional athletics.
Oftentimes it’s the student athlete
who, while seeming to hold all the
power, is the ultimate loser in this
process.
Some players make the transition
from a couple years of college ball
to the professional leagues effort-
lessly. Paul Pierce left the University
to enter the NBA draft and hasn’t
looked back since. Some players
face factors such as team dynamics,
injuries and lack of preparedness to
up their level of play, which cause
them to quickly fade out before
they’ve had a chance to shine.
This is when the student athlete
becomes the biggest loser. He or
she has no diploma, not enough
money to live off and crushed hoop
dreams. These stories happen all
too often; stories of money made
from those players, by their colleges
and then many sponsorships, are
nowhere to be found when the dust
settles and the last fan leaves the
venue. No matter how often those
corporate sponsors or professional-
league bigwigs tell the players it’s
about them, it rarely is. The part-
nership is solely based on money.
Not the player.
The role of the big time “student
athlete” is due for reevaluation.
Perhaps paying them to play in col-
lege would keep them in school for
four years and they could earn a
diploma to fall back on, just in case.
Maybe a redrawing of the profes-
sional draft rule might be in order.
Whatever the case, a prime-time,
cover-of-national-magazine “stu-
dent athlete” is more than just your
typical sophomore in college. The
added responsibility, hours put in
and pressure may seem glorious and
worth it for those on the outside
looking in, but the local fame isn’t
enough. Oftentimes these youths,
barely legal adults, are the victims of
the moneymaking sports machine.
More care ought to be placed in
protecting them.
— Tasha Riggins for the edito-
rial board
Long, sustained looks a good way to evaluate one’s own level of ‘beardism’
By sAm schnEidEr
kansan columnist
[email protected]
editors’ note
Tomorrow’s opinion
page will contain an
editorial about the
shooting at Virginia
Tech.
The editorial board
decided to postpone
an opinion until more
information could be
released about the
tragedy.
Continue to check out
The University Daily
Kansan and kansan.
com for coverage
with a local focus.
Beards hold important place in history, if not on campus
PASS / FAIL
Oh, if only you could judge news events as easily as a credit / no-credit class ... it’s good
enough or it ain’t. Read below for such a simple take from the opinion editors.
— Student Senate
elections are held
and scandal al-
legations ensue at
the University of
Kansas: Fail
— Lawrence par-
ticipates in the
National Day of
Climate Action:
Pass
— Robert F. Kenne-
dy Jr. speaks at the
University: Pass
— Julian Wright
announces he’s
going for the nba
draft: Fail
— ‘noreaster’
Storms hit, devas-
tate the north-
eastern United
States: Fail
— wicked-crazy
cold weather
freezes fowers,
fruits, vegetables
nationwide: fail
— anna nicole
smith’s baby’s pa-
ternity deter-
mined: ??
— Kansas City fam-
ily gets new home
from TV show “ex-
treme makeover:
home edition”:
pass
— tax deadline
gets extended to
april 17 from previ-
ous april 15: pass
— Kansas has more
volunteering
than national av-
erage : pass
— Tasha Riggins for the edito-
rial board.
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security
Businessman sentenced
for terrorist conspiracy
NEW YORK — A bookstore
owner was sentenced to 13
years in prison Monday for his
role in a conspiracy to fund ter-
rorist groups abroad.
Abdulrahman Farhane, 52,
was sentenced by U.S. District
Judge Loretta A. Preska in
Manhattan after he pleaded
guilty in November to money
laundering and lying to federal
agents.
The sentencing was the frst
in a case that also ensnared a
New York musician and karate
expert, a Florida doctor and a
Washington cab driver.
Prosecutors said Farhane and
the musician, Tarik Shah, spoke
with an FBI informant in December
2001 about a plot to help terrorists
in Afghanistan buy weapons and
communications equipment to
fght American soldiers.
Shah and Mahmud Faruq Brent
Al Mutazzim, have pleaded guilty
to agreeing to provide material
support to terrorist organizations
and are awaiting sentencing.
Farhane’s lawyer, Michael
Hueston, argued that his cli-
ent should be treated leniently
because another man convicted
of aiding al-Qaida, David Hicks,
recently reached a deal to serve a
nine-month sentence in his home-
town of Adelaide, Australia, after
a military proceeding at the U.S.
naval base at Cuba’s Guantanamo
Bay.
— Associated Press
By GeOFF MuLViHiLL
AssOciAted Press
CAMDEN, N.J. — Gov. Jon S.
Corzine on Monday underwent
another operation on the leg he
broke in a highway crash that left
him in critical condition.
The hour-long surgery at
Cooper University Hospital,
performed to clean out the 6-
inch wound created when his left
femur broke, was “uneventful,”
said Andrew Poag, a spokesman
for the governor.
Corzine remained in criti-
cal but stable condition. He also
broke 12 ribs, his collarbone and
chest bone and suffered some
other, more minor injuries in
Thursday’s accident.
“He continues to do, thank-
fully, far better than one would
expect anyone with these inju-
ries to do,” said Dr. Steven Ross,
the head of the trauma unit at
Cooper.
Physicians also operated to clean
the leg wound on Saturday and a
titanium rod was inserted into his
leg after the crash Thursday. On
Sunday he underwent a brief pro-
cedure to remove fluid that had col-
lected outside his left lung.
Previously, doctors said they
would evaluate after the surgery
whether Corzine would be strong
enough to breathe without a ventila-
tor that was put in shortly after the
accident.
Corzine, 60, was injured when
the sport utility vehicle he was rid-
ing in crashed on the Garden State
Parkway just north of Atlantic City.
The SUV, which was being driven
by a state trooper, was hit by anoth-
er vehicle that swerved to avoid a
pickup truck, sending the governor’s
vehicle skidding into a guard rail.
Corzine had been on his way to a
meeting at his mansion in Princeton
between radio show host Don Imus
and the Rutgers women’s basketball
team.
The governor apparently was not
wearing his seat belt as he rode in the
front passenger’s seat.
Doctors said Monday they would
reduce the amount of sedation and
give Corzine some control over
the amount of pain medication he
receives.
Corzine’s relatives said he recog-
nized them and responded to visi-
tors when they saw him Sunday.
“When you talk to him, he can
recognize your voice, that’s my feel-
ing,” said Joshua Corzine, 30, the
eldest of Corzine’s two sons. “He
definitely responds when you let him
know who you are.”
The governor’s children and his
girlfriend, Sharon Elghanayan, said
they were feeling positive about his
condition.
“We’re giving him the thumbs-
up right now, so we’re really feeling
good about what’s happening,” said
the governor’s daughter, Jennifer
Pasani.
By deePti HAJeLA
AssOciAted Press
NEW YORK — The Wall Street
Journal won two Pulitzer Prizes on
Monday for exposing excesses of
capitalism — in America and in
communist China. The Associated
Press captured one for what the judg-
es called a “powerful photograph” of
a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli
security forces.
The journalism prizes recognized
a range of American print journal-
ism on subjects from the world’s
oceans to corruption in Alabama
colleges to restaurant reviews.
The Journal, the only multiple
winner, was honored for public ser-
vice for its coverage of the stock-
options scandal that rattled corpo-
rate America in 2006. It also won
the international reporting award for
what the judges praised as “sharply
edged reports on the adverse impact
of China’s booming capitalism on
conditions ranging from inequality
to pollution.”
“They were just tremendous piec-
es of work and I’m very proud of
them,” Managing Editor Paul Steiger
said. “One of the most important
missions of The Wall Street Journal
is to expose ills in business so that
they can be corrected. And this
coverage resulted in more than 100
companies coming under investiga-
tion and many companies having to
restate their earnings.”
The AP captured the Pulitzer
for breaking news photography for
Oded Balilty’s picture of the Jewish
woman resisting Israeli security
forces face-to-face as they removed
settlers in the West Bank. The AP
was a finalist in the same category
for photos from the war between
Israel and Hezbollah, including one
by Balilty.
“I feel like today I kissed the
moon. It’s amazing. I’m so happy,
also for myself and also for the
bureau,” Balilty said.
The staff of The (Portland)
Oregonian won for breaking news
for its reporting on a California fam-
ily that disappeared in the mountains
during a blizzard. James Kim and
his family took a wrong turn while
returning home to San Francisco fol-
lowing a Thanksgiving trip. Kim was
found dead after his wife and two
young daughters were rescued. The
judges praised the newspaper for its
“skillful and tenacious coverage ...
telling the tragic story both in print
and online.”
“Our thoughts today are with the
Kim family, for, as our reporting
showed, this is a tragic accident that
might have been avoided,” Executive
Editor Peter
Bhatia said.
R e p o r t e r s
Kenneth R.
Weiss, Usha Lee
McFarling and
phot og r aphe r
Rick Loomis of
the Los Angeles
Times won for
e x p l a n a t o r y
reporting for
stories on the
world’s distressed
oceans.
“This is such great work, and it’s
such a great day,” said Editor James
O’Shea, surrounded by staffers in the
newspaper’s third-floor newsroom,
where morale had been affected by
job cuts and management depar-
tures.
The judges also praised the Times
for its online work on the proj-
ect, including video and photos by
Loomis — reflecting the added con-
sideration given to multimedia this
year. The last time a photographer
won in the explanatory reporting
category was 1995.
This year’s Pulitzers marked a sig-
nificant expan-
sion of online
journalism in
the entries.
Ne ws p a p e r s
were able to sub-
mit online mate-
rial like video,
blogs, databases
and interactive
graphics for all
print categories.
Sig Gissler,
who administers
the Pulitzers, said online content
was involved in about 15 percent to
20 percent of the entries in various
forms.
Brett Blackledge of The
Birmingham (Ala.) News won for
investigative reporting for his expo-
sure of cronyism and corruption in
the state’s two-year college system.
The stories resulted in the dismissal
of the chancellor and other correc-
tive action. The stories were also
finalists in the public service catego-
ry, but were moved to investigative
reporting by the board.
Charlie Savage of The Boston
Globe won for national reporting for
his revelations that President Bush
often used “signing statements”
to assert his controversial right to
bypass provisions of new laws.
“This is a great honor, and I view
it as a great moment not just for
myself but for the Globe as an insti-
tution,” Savage said. “The Globe for
a while was throwing it out on the
front page when a lot of people were
ignoring it, and that took a lot of
courage.”
The New York Times won one
Pulitzer — Andrea Elliott for feature
writing for a “richly textured por-
trait” of an immigrant imam striving
to serve his faithful in America.
The Pulitzers were created under
the terms of the will of newspa-
per publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who
died in 1911. The first awards were
handed out in 1917.
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Governor’s surgery continues
» media awards
Wall Street Journal takes home Pulitzer Prizes for coverage in U.S., China
“I feel like today I kissed the
moon. It’s amazing. I’m so
happy, also for myself and also
for the bureau.”
ODED BALILTY
Associated Press photographer
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bY ASHER FUSCO
As expected, junior cornerback
Aqib Talib saw action on both sides
of the ball Sunday.
Talib played the majority of the
snaps at cornerback on defense and
also lined up as the slot receiver on
offense in the first half.
“He has all that defensive venom
in him,” said coach Mark Mangino.
“He’s a gifted player. He can do a lot
of things for us.”
Talib caught two passes and was
overthrown by sophomore quarter-
back Kerry Meier on what could
have been a 30-yard gain down the
sideline.
Last season, Talib saw nearly
all of his snaps on defense. He did
record one catch last season against
Missouri.
» Unexpectedly, both of the quar-
terbacks were “live” during the first
half of the spring scrimmage, mean-
ing the defenders were free to tackle
them with
u n l i m -
ited gusto.
Mangino said
he wanted to
test the quar-
terbacks’ dura-
bility by simu-
lating a game
situation. The
only major
scare came
when junior
linebacker Joe
Mo r t e n s e n
delivered a
vicious hit on
Meier in the
second quarter
as Meier tried to get out-of-bounds.
Mortensen quickly realized his error.
“I had a little talk with the coach-
es,” Mortensen said. “I know we need
number 10 out there.”
» Spring football often brings
surprises, but almost no one expect-
ed Mortensen to play middle line-
backer with the first team in favor
of junior Mike Rivera. Mortensen
played outside linebacker last season
and was expected to fill the backup
role to Rivera, the incumbent middle
linebacker.
“They’re going to have to find
a way to put us both on the field,”
Mortensen said. “We just go out
there we have fun and play hard. It’s
an intense competition but we have
a good time.”
Mortensen led the Blue team in
tackles.
» The offensive line looks like
one of the most stable units on
the team. Junior offensive lineman
Anthony Collins and senior offen-
sive lineman Cesar Rodriguez have
locked up the tackle positions. Junior
offensive linemen Ryan Cantrell and
Chet Hartley are the favorites at
center and right guard, respectively.
Junior offensive lineman Adrian
Mayes is the favorite at left guard,
but junior offensive lineman Matt
Darton also saw action with the first
unit on Sunday.
Kansan sportswriter Asher Fusco
can be contacted at afusco@kan-
san.com.
— Edited by Darla Slipke
bY TAYLOR bERN
After a fruitful beginning to
the 2007 outdoor track and field
season, the Jayhawks return home
for the 80th Kansas Relays April
18 to 21 at Memorial Stadium.
First-year meet director Milan
Donley has nearly 200 students,
volunteers and coaches helping
the stadium take on a new look
for the weekend.
“As the next couple of days go
on, you’ll see it develop from a
football-track facility to a track
facility,” Donley said.
The Kansas Relays welcome
a plethora of
the top col-
lege teams
and world-
class athletes.
However, this
year, unlike
past years,
there are few
hou s e ho l d
names.
“ De p t h -
wise, the field
is very good,
but there
aren’t as many
big names
c o m i n g , ”
Donley said.
“We’re seeing
a changing of the guard, because
the people that are coming will
be in the Olympics in ’08 and ’12,
and the World Championships in
between.”
The coaches focus in prepara-
tion for this year’s meet was to
bring in more high-quality col-
legiate teams, and Donley’s famil-
iarity with other school’s track
and field programs helped achieve
that goal.
“We have to thank coach
Donley because he knows a lot
of the coaches out there and was
able to bring some of those teams
in,” head coach Stanley Redwine
said.
After dealing with wind and
rain for much of the outdoor
season, the coaches and athletes
are excited about the forecast and
possibility of clear skies.
“This is going to be the best
weekend of the spring in that
regard. I don’t know if that’s luck
or if Mother Nature decided we
need some good weather too,”
Donley said.
As the meet approaches,
Donley and his staff are making
the final preparations.
“The last minute details are the
big thing,” Donley said. “It’s sort
of like a small tidal wave, there’s
a little water at first and a lot of
water at the end, and we just need
to make sure all the little things
get done.”
The Kansas Relays begin at
10 a.m. Wednesday at Memorial
Stadium.
Kansan sportswriter Tay-
lor bern can be contacted at
[email protected].
—Edited by Katie Sullivan
bY RYAN SCHNEIDER
Kansas Athletics announced
Monday that it has signed a 10-year,
$65 million multimedia contract
with ESPN Regional Television and
Host Communications.
Under the terms of the agree-
ment, Host will serve multiple mar-
keting functions for the Athletics
Department. Among its functions
will be selling, producing and dis-
tributing Kansas’ radio broadcasts
of football and men’s and women’s
basketball games and coaches’ shows.
Host is also responsible for televi-
sion broadcasts of games, game-day
programs, corporate sponsorship,
hospitality events and venue signage.
ESPN Regional will manage the tele-
vision production and distribution
for Host and the department.
“We are delighted to be repre-
sented by two of the finest names
in college sports,” Athletics Director
Lew Perkins said in a media release.
“ESPN is recognized as a leader in
college sports television, and Host
is a pioneer in collegiate market-
ing, recognized as one of this coun-
try’s top sports marketing agencies.
Together, they give Kansas Athletics
a great one-two punch.”
“Kansas is one of the premier ath-
letics programs in the nation,” said
Tom Stultz, president and chief exec-
utive officer of Host. “We are thrilled
and honored that KU and ESPN have
chosen to work with Host. We look
forward to being part of the Jayhawk
family for a long time.”
Host holds multimedia contracts
with at least 10 major universities,
including Big 12 Conference schools
Nebraska, Oklahoma State and
Texas.
The agreement signed Monday
replaces a previous contract between
Kansas Athletics and ESPN Regional.
The previous contract, extended in
July 2005, was good for seven years
and worth $40.2 million.
This is the third major contract
signed by the department since
Perkins came to campus in 2003.
Along with the two ESPN Regional
contracts, Kansas is in the second
year of a seven-year, $26.67 million
athletic apparel and equipment con-
tract with Adidas.
Kansan senior sportswriter Ryan
Schneider can be contacted at
[email protected].
—Edited by Joe Caponio
» football » track and field
Kansas
Relays
lack big
names
Event draws
stronger college
programs instead
talib shows diversity of play
KANsAN FILE pHoto
the football teamfaced of for a scrimmage on Sunday. The players showed their strengths and gave fans a previewof what is to come in the fall.
“ Depth-wise,
the feld is
very good, but
there aren’t
as many big
names
coming.”
milan
donley
meet director
» athletics department
University signs new contract with ESPN
recent contracts
Spring scrimmage
brings surprises,
strong offense
injury update
» Jake sharp was limited by
a leg injury but not held out of
the scrimmage. mangino said
he would have held sophomore
running back sharp out of the
game, but sharp insisted on
playing. He looked as explosive
as ever, carrying the ball seven
times for 38 yards.
» The Jayhawks were thin
at wide receiver because of
injuries to junior dexton Fields
and freshman Tertavian ingram.
Both players’ injuries are consid-
ered minor.
“He has all
that defensive
venom in him.
He’s a gifted
player. He can
do a lot of
things for us.”
mark mangino
coach
2005
The new multimedia contract signed by kansas
athletics on monday was the third major contract
signed since athletics director lew Perkins came
to campus in 2003.
n kansas signed a $40.2
million, seven-year contract
with esPn regional
television
n kansas signed a $26.67
million, eight-year apparel
and merchandise contract
with adidas
2007
n kansas signed a $65
million, 10-year contract
replacing the 2005 con-
tract.
$65 million agreement with Host to last 10 years
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royALs FALL to tIgErs
The Royals cost the Detroit Tigers the AL Central title last season, but the Tigers
got a little revenge Monday night, with a 12-5 victory.
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nWomen’s golf, Big 12 Champi-
onship, all day, Waco, Texas
WEDNESDAY
nWomen’s golf, Big 12 Champi-
onship, all day, Waco, Texas
nTrack at Kansas Relays, all
day, Memorial Stadium
nTennis at Oklahoma, 1 p.m.,
Norman, Okla.
nSoftball vs. Missouri, 3 p.m.,
5 p.m., Arrocha Ballpark
nBaseball at Wichita State, 7
p.m., Wichita
THURSDAY
nTrack at Kansas Relays, all
day, Memorial Stadium
FRIDAY
nTrack at Kansas Relays, all
day, Memorial Stadium
nBaseball at Texas Tech, 6:30
p.m., Lubbock, Texas
SATURDAY
nTrack at Kansas Relays, all
day, Memorial Stadium
nBaseball at Texas Tech, 2
p.m., Lubbock, Texas
nSoftball at Texas Tech, 2 p.m.,
Lubbock, Texas
nVolleyball vs. North Caroli-
na, TBA, Horejsi Family Athletics
Center
nVolleyball vs. Saint Louis,
TBA, Horejsi Family Athletics
Center
nRowing at Minnesota, TBA,
St. Paul, Minn.
SUNDAY
nTennis vs. Texas A&M, 11
a.m., Robinson Center courts
nSoftball at Texas Tech, noon,
Lubbock, Texas
nBaseball at Texas Tech, 1:05
p.m., Lubbock, Texas
nSoccer vs. Nebraska-Omaha,
2 p.m., Jayhawk Soccer Complex
athletics
Howard hired to fll
administrative position
Chris Howard was named the
Associate Athletics Director for
Alumni Relations, Athletics Di-
rector, Lew Perkins announced
Monday.
Howard previously served as
an associate athletics director at
Louisiana State. At Kansas, he’ll
work with the Williams Educa-
tional Fund and KU alumni. He
returns to the campus where
he worked as a supervisor in
Student Support Services from
1996 to 1998.
Howard is a 1997 graduate of
the University, where he earned
a bachelor of science in educa-
tion. He also earned a master’s
degree in education and a jurist
doctor in 2001.
Howard also served in the
U.S. Army from 1990 to 1995,
participating in Operation
Desert Storm.
— Kansan StafReport
» BIg 12 BASEBALL
Texas tops the conference
BY shaWN shROYeR
KANSAS (19-22, 5-10) VS.
BAYLOR (21-17, 6-9)
SERiES: BAyLOR, 2-1
Up: Baylor third baseman Raynor
Campbell set the tone for the Baylor
offense as the Bears’ lead-off hitter.
Campbell led the Bears in hits for the
series, going 6-for-14 with two RBI,
one run and two stolen bases.
IN THE HOLE: It was a feast or
famine weekend for Kansas right
fielder Brock Simpson. He batted
fourth in the order in game one and
fifth in the order in game three, going
a combined 0-for-8 with three strike-
outs. However, he dropped to ninth
in the order in game two and went
3-for-4 with a run scored.
ON DECK: Kansas heads to Texas
Tech this weekend on a quest for
its first Big 12 series victory. Baylor
will play Missouri at home, seeking
its third straight conference series
victory.
MISSOURI (25-11, 7-5) VS.
NO. 16 TExAS A&M
(30-8, 8-6)
SERiES: TExAS A&M, 2-1
Up: Game one of the series was the
definition of a pitchers’ duel as Texas
A&M’s Kyle Nicholson (8-1) and
Missouri’s Aaron Crow (4-2) both
threw complete games. Although
Crow allowed only three runs while
striking out five, Nicholson got the
victory, allowing an unearned run
and striking out six.
IN THE HOLE: Missouri first base-
man John McKee was ineffective in
the heart of the Tiger’s order, going
0-for-9 with four strikeouts.
ON DECK: Missouri looks to reen-
ter the Baseball America Top 25 Poll
as it takes on Baylor next weekend
while Texas A&M, having won eight
of its last 11 games, returns home to
take on Oklahoma State.
OKLAHOMA (25-13, 5-7)
VS. NEBRASKA (22-14, 7-8)
SERiES: NEBRASKA, 2-1
Up: Nebraska on the whole has
to be feeling good. After looking fit
to have a fork stuck in them, the
Cornhuskers have won back-to-back
series against ranked opponents.
Against Oklahoma, Nebraska did it
all, getting strong pitching perfor-
mances all three games and 18 total
runs on 32 hits.
IN THE HOLE: Oklahoma first
baseman Aaron Baker embodied
Oklahoma’s mediocre offense during
the weekend, going 2-for-12 with only
one RBI, two runs and two strike-
outs.
ON DECK: Oklahoma heads north
to Kansas State this weekend, looking
to rejoin the Baseball America Top 25
Poll. Nebraska will get a true test of
how good it is against the top team in
the Big 12, Texas, at home.
NO. 5 TExAS (31-10, 12-3)
VS. TExAS TECH (22-16, 5-9)
SERiES: TExAS 3-0
Up: Texas out-scored Texas Tech
21-5 in the series, and the Longhorns
had some stellar pitching from their
starters. James Russell (8-2), Adrian
Alaniz (9-2) and Joseph Krebs (4-
0) combined to strike out 24 Red
Raiders in 19.2 innings, while allow-
ing only four earned runs.
IN THE HOLE: Texas Tech catcher
Matt Smith is one of the Red Raiders’
most potent offensive weapons, but
he didn’t show it against Texas, going
2-for-12 with just one RBI.
ON DECK: Texas hits the road this
weekend to face a surging Nebraska
squad while Texas Tech will play host
to a slumping Kansas team.
NO. 15 OKLAHOMA STATE
(27-9, 8-4) VS. KANSAS STATE
(23-13, 5-7)
SERiES: OKLAHOMA STATE,
2-1
Up: Oklahoma State first base-
man Rebel Ridling could be in line
for another Big 12 Player of the
Week selection after his performance
against Kansas State. Ridling went 5-
for-11 with a home run (6), triple (2),
one RBI and five runs.
IN THE HOLE: Despite taking their
third of four conference series, the
Cowboys’ starting pitchers are strug-
gling. Jeff Breedlove (0-1), Andrew
Oliver (5-1) and Matt Gardner (4-0)
combined to pitch just 10 innings and
allowed nine runs on 21 hits.
ON DECK: Oklahoma State will
travel to College Station, Texas, for
a Top 25 match-up with Texas A&M
while Kansas State returns home to
play host to Oklahoma.
Kansan senior sportswriter shawn
shroyer can be contacted at sshroy-
[email protected].
— Edited by Darla Slipke
Kansas golfer leads
Big 12 championships
Senior Amanda Costner leads
the Big 12 Championships in
Waco, Texas after the frst round
of play. She is the only golfer
under par, with a 71.
As a team, Kansas sits in a
seventh-place tie with Ne-
braska.
“i am very proud of Amanda,”
coach Erin O’Neil said in a press
release. “She played a very solid
round. Although it was windy,
Amanda held in there and
fnished with a birdie. Overall,
the team played well and is in a
good spot going into the next
two days. We left a few shots
out there, but hopefully we will
get those back tomorrow and
continue to improve.”
Freshman Camilla Svens-
son is tied for 30th place, while
junior Annie Giangrosso and
freshmen Meghan Gockel and
Emily Powers are tied for 44th
place.
Play at the Ridgewood Coun-
try Club continues through
Wednesday.
— Kansan StafReport
BY MiKe haRRis
assOciateD PRess
LONG BEACH, Calif. —
Sebastien Bourdais isn’t used to
failure, and the weeks leading up
to the Toyota Grand Prix of Long
Beach were a worrisome time.
His version of the new Panoz
DP01 race car that everyone in the
Champ Car World Series is using
this season had some gremlins in
the fuel system and transmission
in preseason testing.
Then, at the season-opener in
Las Vegas, Bourdais had the worst
race weekend of his Champ Car
career. He had an electrical prob-
lem on the first day, hit the wall in
qualifying the next day and, after
overcoming three tire punctures,
crashed and finished 13th.
“You do have some doubts after
things like that happen,” Bourdais
said.
To get ready for Long Beach,
Bourdais took a day early in the
week to relax and refresh himself
by driving his wife and baby from
Las Vegas to Southern California
in a motor home.
“It gave me time to think and
just remember how good my team
is,” he said. “I knew we would
bounce back.”
Indeed they did.
Bourdais dominated Sunday,
leading 58 of 78 laps on the way
to his third straight victory in the
streets of Long Beach.
“The team didn’t panic after
Vegas, which was crucial,” the 28-
year-old Frenchman said. “A lot of
teams could really blow apart after
a weekend like that. We didn’t.
“That race was like a bad dream.
This is a whole lot nicer.”
Bourdais, who has won 24 of
61 starts and three straight Champ
Car titles, was certainly the class
of the field here. He started from
the pole and raced away to a nearly
25-second lead — about a third of
a lap on the 1.968-mile, 11-turn
circuit — and appeared on the
way to a rout.
But that lead disappeared
when rookie Simon Pagenaud
slid into a tire barrier on lap 53,
bringing out one of three full-
course caution flags.
After pit stops by the leaders,
Bourdais found himself trail-
ing rookie Tristan Gommendy,
who was on a different pit strat-
egy and had pitted last on lap
39. With surprising runner-up
Oriol Servia conserving fuel
and not pushing the leaders,
Bourdais chose to be patient
and wait for Gommendy to
make his final stop.
“I made one try to pass
Tristan and I decided it was bet-
ter to back off and wait because
he was pretty fast at that point,”
Bourdais said. “I didn’t want to
make a mistake and embarrass
myself by winding up in the
tires.”
Bourdais regained the lead
on lap 68 and stayed out front
the rest of the way, easily hold-
ing off Servia on a restart on lap
77 after the last caution period.
It’s the longest winning streak
at Long Beach since Al Unser Jr.
won a record four in a row from
1988 through 1991.
Servia, the 2005 series run-
ner-up as Bourdais’ teammate,
started the weekend without a
ride but took over for Paul Tracy
after the 2003 series champion
injured his back in a crash dur-
ing Saturday’s practice.
“I did a great job, but noth-
ing compared to what the team
did,” Servia said of his Forsythe
Championship Racing crew. “I
had to adjust to the car, but I’m
a race car driver. The team had
to adjust to me and they gave
me a fabulous car and great pit
stops.”
The victory moved Bourdais
all the way from 13th to third in
the standings.
» NASCAR
Bourdais races
from 13th to third
NBa
Bryant now trails only Wilt
in 50-point games
Kobe Bryant carried the Los
Angeles Lakers into the playofs and
left the Clippers and Golden State
Warriors to fght for the fnal playof
spot in the Western Conference.
Bryant fnished with 50 points on
18-of-25 shooting Sunday night to
carry the Lakers to a 109-98 victory
over Seattle that clinched a playof
spot for Los Angeles. He scored 50
or more for the 10th time this sea-
son, the third-highest total in NBA
history behind Wilt Chamberlain’s
45 times with 50 or more in 1961-62,
and the center’s 30 times the follow-
ing season.
“We feel much better. We needed
this type of win,” Bryant said.
Bryant said that when the
playofs begin, he may score a lot of
points and he may not.
“if the jumper is on, we’ll ride it
out,” he said. “if it’s not, we’ll have
to fnd another way to win. Our
defensive continuity is going to be
our biggest challenge.”
Phil Jackson has never missed the
playofs in his 17 years as an NBA
coach.
The Lakers, who have one regu-
lar-season game remaining, will fn-
ish seventh or eighth in the Western
Conference and face either Dallas or
Phoenix in the frst round.
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big 12 baseball
Wildcats fall to Cowboys in
back-and-forth game
STILLWATER, Okla. - Tyler Mach
went 2-for-4 with four RBIs and
three other Oklahoma State players
homered on Monday as the Cow-
boys beat Kansas State 9-6.
Mach’s two-run double put
Oklahoma State (27-9, 8-4 Big 12
Conference) ahead 2-0 in the frst
inning.
The Cowboys led 4-1 in the third
inning after a solo home run by
Rebel Ridling, but fell behind 5-4
in the top of the fourth as Kansas
State (23-13, 5-7) scored four runs,
two on a single by Derek Bunker.
Oklahoma State regained the
lead in the bottom of the fourth
on a two-run single by Mach. The
Cowboys added three insurance
runs in the seventh on a solo home
run by Corey Brown, his 15th of the
season, and a two-run homer by
Jordy Mercer.
Justin Friend (4-2) relieved Matt
Gardner in the fourth inning and
picked up the pitching win for the
Cowboys. Friend allowed three hits
and struck out four in 5 1/3 innings.
Kansas State starter Ben Horn-
beck (2-1) took the loss, allowing
six runs, fve hits and four walks in
3 1/3 innings.
Adam Muenster, Drew Biery,
Nate Tenbrink and Tyler Ruch had
two hits apiece for the Wildcats.
—Associated Press
associated Press
DETROIT — Seven months later,
the Detroit Tigers managed to beat
the Kansas City Royals.
Ivan Rodriguez had a grand
slam and six RBIs to back Justin
Verlander’s first win of the season in
the Tigers’ 12-5 victory against the
Royals on Monday night.
Carlos Guillen had four RBIs for
the Tigers, who were swept by last-
place Kansas City on the final week-
end of last season, costing Detroit
the AL Central title. As a wild-card
team, Detroit beat the New York
Yankees and Oakland in the play-
offs, advancing to its first World
Series since 1984 before losing in
five games to St. Louis.
After the Tigers loaded the bases
on a single and two walks in the
first against Zack Greinke (1-2),
Rodriguez fouled off a pair of two-
strike pitches before driving a 1-2
offering over the wall in right-cen-
ter. It was the sixth career slam for
Rodriguez, a drive estimated at 423
feet.
He added a two-run double in
the second off Jason Standridge that
put the Tigers ahead 7-2.
Detroit has three slams in 13
games — Curtis Granderson hit
one on April 4 against Toronto and
Craig Monroe had one in Baltimore
on April 11. There was one grand
slam in the entire National League
entering Monday.
Verlander (1-0) had not allowed
any earned runs in 13 innings com-
ing in, but didn’t get a decision in his
first two starts.
He allowed three runs and five
hits in six innings, struck out six and
walked none.
Greinke, who had been 6-0 in his
prior eight starts against the Tigers,
lasted just two-thirds of an inning,
the shortest of his 60 major league
starts.
Kansas City did close to 4-2
in the second on RBI doubles by
Emil Brown and John Buck, but
Tony Pena Jr. misplayed Magglio
Ordonez’s potential double-play
grounder to shortstop in the bottom
half as Placido Polanco scored, and
Rodriguez’s double put the Tigers
ahead by five.
Polanco’s liner in the third hit
off the heel of Mark Teahen’s glove
in right, allowing Tigers to add an
eighth run, and Guillen led off the
fourth with a 438-foot homer to
right-center.
Kansas City cut the gap on David
DeJesus’ RBI single in the fifth, and
Ryan Shealy’s two-run homer off
Jose Mesa in the seventh. Guillen
hit a three-
run double
in the eighth
against Jimmy
Gobble.
N o t e s :
R o d r i g u e z
drove in nine
runs for Texas
against Seattle
on April 13,
1999 ... Kansas
City made an
unusual defen-
sive switch in
the third inning
— bringing
Jason LaRue in
to play third,
moving Alex Gordon to shortstop
and Pena to second. LaRue hadn’t
played third since 2001, and Gordon
and Pena were making their major
league debuts at those new posi-
tions. The moves came after second
baseman Esteban German left with
a sore shoulder. He is day to day.
Duane Burleson/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Detroit Tigers shortstop Carlos Guillen avoids Kansas City Royals’ David DeJesus to turn a double
play on Jason LaRue in the sixth inning of a baseball game Monday in Detroit.
Duane Burleson/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kansas City Royals’ Mike Sweeney, left, argues with home plate umpire Brian O’Nora after a
called third strike in the second inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers on Monday in
Detroit.
» mlb
Pittsburgh gets 3-2 victory against St. Louis; Cards 1-5 at home since World Series
Royals lose in Detroit
Rodriguez leads
Tigers with 6 RBI,
grand slam in
12-5 victory
Rodriguez
fouled of a pair
of two-strike
pitches before
driving a 1-2
ofering over
the wall in right
center.
» mlb
by r.b. FallstroM
associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Albert Pujols
popped up with the bases loaded
for the final out, and the Pittsburgh
Pirates got an excellent pitching per-
formance from Ian Snell in a 3-2
victory over the St. Louis Cardinals
on Monday night.
Snell threw seven innings of
three-hit ball and Xavier Nady had
two RBIs, helping the Pirates snap
a four-game losing streak. Salomon
Torres escaped a bases-loaded jam
in the ninth, retiring Chris Duncan
on a shallow fly to left and Pujols on
a foul pop-up to third.
Anthony Reyes barely made
it out of the first inning for the
Cardinals, who are 1-5 at home since
clinching the 2006 World Series. St.
Louis swept a three-game series at
Pittsburgh last week, beating Snell
even though he allowed only one
run in seven innings.
Freddy Sanchez singled and tri-
pled for the Pirates, who are 5-2
on the road after finishing 24-57
away from home last year — the
worst record in the National League.
Pittsburgh, which returned to action
after two rain-outs at home last
weekend, was 1-13 on the road to
start 2006 and didn’t win its fifth
road game until June 5.
Snell (1-1) allowed one run with
six strikeouts and four walks, two
coming in his final inning when the
Cardinals got an RBI single from
Adam Kennedy and had the bases
loaded with one out before pinch-
hitter Skip Schumaker fouled out
and David Eckstein grounded out.
Scott Rolen singled twice for the
Cardinals, one with two outs in the
first and the other leading off the
seventh. Between those at-bats, Snell
retired 16 of 17 batters with the
stretch interrupted only by Yadier
Molina’s two-out walk in the fifth.
His toughest inning by far was
the seventh, when he faced seven
hitters.
Jim Edmonds drove in his first
run of the season with a bloop single
off Damaso Marte that cut the deficit
to one in the eighth. Torres worked
the ninth for his fifth save in six
chances, completing a six-hitter.
Reyes (0-2) needed 47 pitches to
escape the first, allowing three hits
and walking two while the Pirates
took a 3-0 lead. The first run scored
on Jason Bay’s bases-loaded, full-
count walk, and Nady followed with
a two-run single.
Reyes held off the Pirates his last
four innings, stranding Sanchez after
a leadoff triple in the third and get-
ting Adam LaRoche on a double-
play ball with runners on first and
third to end the fifth. In five innings,
Reyes gave up three runs and six
hits.
Duncan was 1-for-5 for the
Cardinals, making him 8-for-15 the
last four games. Much criticized for
his outfield play last season, Duncan
also made the defensive stop of the
game with a diving grab on Sanchez’s
sinking liner for the first out in the
eighth.
Notes:
» Pirates LHP John Grabow
(elbow irritation) allowed two hits
and struck out one in a scoreless
inning in his second rehab appear-
ance for Triple-A Indianapolis
» Pittsburgh went 64 innings
without an error before LaRoche
botched a slow grounder to first in
the ninth
» The Pirates were 1-5 at Busch
Stadium last year.
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SUBLEASE SERVICES CHILD CARE TICKETS TRAVEL
Classifieds 4b tuesday, april 17, 2007
On Campus 3 br 2 ba apt avail for sum-
mer. 1150/mo+gas+elec Closest apt to
campus. Furnished as needed. On cam-
pus parking included. Call 816-509-7238
hawkchalk.com/1716
TWO SUMMER SUBLEASERS WANT-
ED. CALL 816.309.4404
FOR MORE INFORMATION!
hawkchalk.com/1715
Large house on 19th Terrace. Close to
campus. Rec room, pool table, DW, W/D,
Big yard. Looking for guy or girl room-
mate. Please call Ryan @ 785-331-9215.
hawkchalk.com/1866
Roomates needed to share 3BR 2BA
condo with W/D near campus. $290/mo.
+1/3 util. Avail June 1 or Aug 1. 550-4544.
Roommate needed from now until July
31st. Rent is $257.50 a month plus utili-
ties. Must be responsible and fun. Call
(913)207-5044 or email [email protected]
hawkchalk.com/1802
Roommate needed. Aug’07-Aug’08. W/D
D/W large room w/ large closet, own full
bath. $260/mo. + 1/3 bills. 913-530-9371.
hawkchalk.com/1675
Seeking 1-3 roommates for 4 BR, 3 BA
nice house, W/D. May rent 1-room or
entire house. $250-300 each + util, frst
month reduced. 913-207-6519.
JOBS
BARTENDING. UP TO $300/DAY. NO
EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. TRAINING
PROVIDED. 800-965-6520 EXT 108
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Help Wanted for custom harvesting.
Combine operators and truck drivers.
Guaranteed pay. Good summer wages.
Call 970-483-7490 evenings.
Hampton Inn is now hiring! Front
desk(PT now, FT in summer).
Housekeeping(weekends). Email basic
resume to [email protected].
Account Service Reps needed to start
full-time on or before June 1, at Security
Beneft, Topeka, KS. All degree pro-
grams welcome. After comprehensive
training, ASR’s provide information and
service (no selling or solicitation) relating
to fnancial products. Competitive salary
and benefts package for this entry-level
career position in our dynamic technology-
based business, se2. Apply via our online
application at www.securitybeneft.com. or
phone 785.438.3288. EOE.
SUMMER JOB OPPORTUNITY!
Work outside, with other
students, have fun, and make
$8-12 phr. Get experience!
Call College Pro Painters NOW!
1-888-277-9787
www.collegepro.com
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Work outside, gain leadership skills,
have fun, advancement
opportunities!
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Call now to apply!
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Attention College Students!
We pay up to $75 per survey.
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JOBS
Accepting applications for broiler cooks
and dishwashers. No late hours. Apply at
Don’s Steakhouse.
Teacher aids needed for summer and or
fall. 7-2 or 1-6 . Please apply at Children’s
Learning Center 205 N Michigan.
WERE YOU A HIGH SCHOOL ALLSTAR?
Of course you were - that’s why your at
KU. This summer, gain experience, travel,
regain your competative edge, make
$700/week Call for details 785-856-2783
California Apartments: Studios, 1, 2, 3
Bedrooms from $425/month. W/D hook-
ups or included, D/W, C/A. 785-841-4935
Country Club Apartments: Upscale 2 BR/2
BA, w/d included, D/W, C/A! Don’t miss
out! 785/841-4935
Studio apt. at 945 Mo. St. Avail. Now! New
hrdwd frs in kitchen, renovated BA, Bay
window, off-street parking. $390/mo gas &
water pd. Please call 749-0166
NOW LEASING FOR
SPRING AND FALL
ROOMMATE/SUBLEASE
Bartenders needed PT experienced only.
Apply in person at Slow Ride Roadhouse
1350 N. 3rd st. N. Lawrence.
Group Home Support Staff with good work
ethic & communication skills. Bachelors
degree and Behavioral knowledge pre-
ferred. $10-14hr or more based on exp.
Resume fax 816-777-1305
[email protected].
Seeking certifed Special Education
Teacher for position in private ABA school
serving ages 5-21. Fax resume to 816-
777-0626 dmatthews@behavioralmile-
stones.com
SUMMER MANAGEMENT JOB!
Hundreds of jobs available!
Work outside, gain leadership skills,
advancement opportunities!
To apply call College Pro Painters NOW!
1-888-277-9787www.collegepro.com
Summer Nanny for two children in SW
Topeka. Responsible and caring. Includes
light chores. Must have transportation and
references. Contact Mike 785-250-8226
Advertising & Marketing Manager
Responsible for the creation of print
materials & all forms of advertisement for
property management team. Including
updates to website and tracking of leads.
Requires excellent written and verbal
communication skills. Submit resume &
salary requirements to:
[email protected] or
P.O. 1797 Lawrence, KS 66044.
Do you speak Spanish, like peanut
butter and don’t mind getting sand in
your shoes? Raintree Montessori School
is looking for a toddler assistant who loves
working with very short people. 10:30 AM
- 5:30 PM Mon-Fri. $11/hr.
Call 785-843-6800
Looking for fun, outgoing, motivated
people to work in-store promotional sales.
$10/hr (Weekends Only!) Email for more
info: [email protected]
22-yr-old senior looking for roommate(s)
for the summer & fall semester ‘07. I am a
normal, laid back guy, no pets, non- smok-
er, athletic, agreeable/responsible.
hawkchalk.com/1845
3 BR avail. in 4 BR 2 BA townhome.
Females only. $400/mo.+ 1/4 util. 1 mile
west of KU. Nice community. Call 816-
746-5746 or Rachel @785-979-4740.
need 1-2 subleasers. $315/mo+split
electric. furnished, w/d, pool, workout
room, hot tub, free internet, comp. lab.
cool,college-age roomies. Call(316)806-
2412. hawkchalk.com/1868
Need up to 3 Roommates for 4 BR, 3 BA
nice house, W/D. May rent 1-room, or
entire house is available. $250-300 each
+ util, frst month reduced. 913-207-6519.
hawkchalk.com/1828
Roomate wanted for nice place off
Naismith. 3 BR 1 BA, W/D, wi-f, etc.
Please come and check it out.
Call Dan @ 785.979.8286
hawkchalk.com/1834
FT opening for CNA on day shift at Eu-
dora Nursing Center. Apply in person at
1415 Maple St, Eudora, KS.
Newly Renovated 2 BR 2 BA Apt Close
to Campus. Pool, Gym, Hot Tub, Free
Internet. Pay only electric. Avail June-Aug
1. $297 pp. email [email protected]
hawkchalk.com/1869
Roommate wanted for 2 bed/2 bath apart-
ment @ Hawks Point3. Lease dates from
7/29/07-7-28/08. Clean, well maintained
aptmt. Rent is 425/mon+utes. Contact Ted
8165200198. hawkchalk.com/1872
Spacious with hardwood foors, fenced
yard, W/D, dishwasher. No smoking or
pets. Family units only. $1,000/mo.+ util.
Avail July 1 or later. 785-749-1304
hawkchalk.com/1884
Summer Sublease $200 a month plus 1/4
of utilities Near 6th and Monterey Way
Contact Betty at [email protected] for
more info hawkchalk.com/1871
Wait staff position for independent living
dining services. Day hours. Experience
required. Drug testing required. Apply
in person at Presbyterian Manor 1429
Kasold
3 to 4 BR house. Full basement, new
kitchen/bath, appls included, big yard.
Near KU. Avail. Aug. Call 785-841-3849.
4 BR/2BA house at 2235 Tennessee St.
Good location, close to campus. Call
913-530-7211.
FOR RENT
3BR & 4BR townhomes
Jill (785) 393-7368
www.Rentinglawrence.com
2BD 2BA apart, W/D, furnished, covered
parking cable & water free pay electricity
pool KU bus route girls only $379/month
avail Aug-July [email protected]
hawkchalk.com/1862
For June & July: 1 Bdrm. Apt. near 17th
& Ohio: wood fooring, balcony, laundry in
building. $460/month +gas/electric con-
tact: (785) 221-8858 or [email protected]
hawkchalk.com/1815
Summer sublet needed for a room in a
2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment at
Westhills Apartments. $370 a month
includes all utilities. Pets allowed. Contact:
[email protected]
hawkchalk.com/1890
ROOMMATE/SUBLEASE
Wanted: Students with an interest in
helping families with disabled individuals
in the home and community setting.
After-school, evening, and weekend
hours. Salary: $8.50/hr. Contact Ken at
Hands 2 Help 832-2515
JOBS
PT evening teachers needed 2:30pm-6pm
or 3pm-6pm Monday - Friday Apply in
person at Kinder Care Learning Center
2333 Crestline Drive 785-749-0295
Seeking a personal care attendant for a
young adult with autism. 20-25 hrs/ wk
+ 1-2 overnights. Call 785-266-5307 for
more info or fax resume to 785-271-8299
Kansan Classifeds
864-4358
[email protected]
ROOMMATE/SUBLEASE
FOR RENT
Have summer plans?: We have
openings for Assistant Cooks, Male Craft
& Rifery counselor. It is an awesome
way to spend your summer in Colorado.
Cheley Colorado Camps. A residential
wilderness camp for ages
9-17. Employment from 6/3-8/6 or
extended opportunities. Call us at
1-800-CampFun, or visit our website at
www.cheley.com
1 BR 2nd foor apt in renovated old
house, 9th and Miss, wood foors, off
st parking DW, avail. Aug, 90% high
effciency furnace, $469 Jim & Lois
841-1074
1 female roommate needed to live in a
house with 3 girls. 4 BR 3 BA, great loca-
tion. Lease begins Aug. 1. Contact if you
have any questions. [email protected]
hawkchalk.com/1919.
2 BR apt in renovated older house, with
offce space, avail Aug for 10 month
lease, wood foors, DW, off street parking,
14th and Vermont, private deck, $780
call Jim and Lois 841-1074
3 BR apt in renovated older house, avail-
able August for 10 month lease, wood
foors, DW, 14th and Vermont, off street
parking, private deck $780 call Jim and
Lois 785-841-1074
3 BR apt in renovated older house,
1300 blk Rhode Island, wood foors, DW,
antique tub, Avail Aug, large porch, $750,
call Jim and Lois at 785-841-1074
3BR 3 BA apt. 1 person needed to
sublease for summer. W/D included, Fur-
nished. Rent $380 + electricity. Call Briana
281-685-3882. hawkchalk.com/1931
Summer Sublease. 3BR Townhome 2.5
baths. Located on 6th street. Rent $280
plus utilities. Call Kyle 316-64-6377
hawkchalk.com/1928
FOR RENT
Part-time, hard worker needed for
Landscape Maintenance.
Must be able to work
two- 8 hour week days,
plus some Saturdays.
More hours are available
during the summer.
This can be year-round employment
for the right candidate.
$9 per hour to start.

i‘m lovin’ it ™
Please apply at the McDonald’s office,
1313 W. 6th Street
(6th & Michigan streets)
Mon-Fri 8am to 5 pm
SUMMER JOBS
Positions open NOW!
Data Entry · Oċce · Accounting
Warehouse · Production
Key StaĆng
2815 S. Wanamaker | Topeka, KS
785.272.9999
Student Summer Help Wanted:
General Field Work growing Flowers,
Fruit, Vegetables and Turf at K-State
Research and Extension Center South of
Desoto. Must have own Transportation
to site at 35230 W. 135 Street Olathe Kan-
sas 66061. $8/hr 40 hrs/wk.
For Application Call Terry 913-856-2335
Ext 102. Taking
applications until positions are flled.
Summer Nanay: For 2 kids, 8:30-2:30
Monday thru Thursday. Must have own
transportation. Email Tara with experi-
ence and 2 refs at [email protected].
hawkchalk.com/1904
Sunshine Acres Preschool & All day
Kindergarten. Now enrolling children
for summer & fall. To hire 4 teachers for
2007-2008 school yr. Two to start May
24. Other positions begin July 30. Must
meet state KDHE requirements. Send
resume to director, 2141 Maple Ln, Law-
rence 66006. 842-2223.
Website Maintenance/Advertising
Design. Lawrence Alternative Publica-
tions seeks Journalism or Art student for
website maintenance, website advertis-
ing design, and print advertising design.
Candidates should be web-saavy and
familiar with Photoshop. Knowledge of
Flash a plus. Knowledge of Adobe Illustra-
tor/Pagemaker/InDesign a plus. Position
PT. $7/hr. J-School students may qualify
for internship credit. Email your qualiifca-
tions to [email protected]. Please
attach PDF of your original Photoshop
designs.
3BR 2BA Duplex. $750. Close to KU. W/D
Hookups. Pets OK. 744 Missouri. Avail
Aug 1. Call 218-3788 or 218-8254.
3BR/2BA. 1 BLOCK TO KU @ College
Hill Condo. W/D Hookups. Avail Aug 1.
$850 water paid. 785.218-3788.
Small house for rent. 2BR 1BA Close to
bike and walking trails. Off street parking.
$515/mo. Close to bus route. 749-2767
$1200/mo. 2 BR 2 BA 2 walk-in closets
near FB stadium W/D avail & parking
June 1st to July 31st email
[email protected]
hawkchalk.com/1848
$325/mo + ? utilities for bigger BR at
Highpointe. W/D and D/W. Free breakfast,
pool, weight room, on KU bus route. Call
Joe today 860-268-2877.
hawkchalk.com/1822
$700 FLAT RATE FOR THE ENTIRE
SUMMER 3 BR 3 BA. ALL UTIL. PAID.
HAS W/D AND FULL KITCHEN. PLEASE
CONTACT BRIANA, 281-685-3882.
hawkchalk.com/1937
1 bd 1 ba sublease available. Very
large,COMPLETLY FURNISHED and
great location. On bus routes and pets are
welcome. Contact Cassie 785-493-1409
[email protected] hawkchalk.com/1882
1 bedroom 735 sq. ft. apartment. $512
incl. utils. walk to campus. Westhills
Apartments. Sublease for June/July,
possible to move in the end May. James:
913-568-8738
hawkcahlk.com/1892
1 bedroom near campus and downtown;
extra sunroom/study; rent $399; good
landlords, great for a grad student. Lois
Schneider, 785-841-1074 hawkchalk.
com/1908
1 Room for summer rent
19th & Alabama. 350 a month + Utility
Nice Large Room. [email protected]
hawkchalk.com/1829
1301 Sunchase Drive - For rent 900/mo,
3 bed, 2 bath, fenced yard, patio, VERY
NICE! Call Meagon @ 856-6903 or see
pictures at www.fsbolawrence.com/1118
hawkchalk.com/1914
1700 & 1716 Kentucky St.
4 bedroom, 2 bath, w/d, $1100
call 979.2597 hawkchalk.com/1827
1BR & 1BA avail. in 4BR apt. Free
Internet. $260/month + 1/4 util. Living w/3
great guys, very clean. 23rd & Inverness
Contact Jonathan [email protected]. hawk-
chalk.com/1861
1BR furnished apt sublease from June 1
to August 30.Non smoker and no pet.19th
and Kentucky.Rent $550 month including
utilities.e-mail [email protected].
hawkchalk.com/1818
1BR/1BATH in 3BR/3BATH Apt. for the
summer. Great location, pool, workout
center, on bus route. Rent is negotiable at
a reduced price. Call (847)571-7149
hawkchalk.com/1836
2 BR (or 1 BR) apt, 2 BA. Mid-May to end
of July. $825 for 2-beds;$400 for 1-bed.
W/D & furnished. 5 min to campus.
On bus route. Email: [email protected]
hawkchalk.com/1841
Female grad student seeks 1-2 room-
mates to share a 3BR, 2Bath townhouse
in Lawrence. Move in as early as July.
E-mail [email protected] if interested.
hawkchalk.com/1942
Female roommate needed for 2 BR apt.
non-smoker. pets. fully furnished. rent
$605/month+utilities. on KU bus route.
contact: hannah at [email protected]
hawkchalk.com/1939
Female sublease available in 4bed/2bath
apt. 325/mo.+ electric. Available May 21-
July 31. Contact Kelsie at 785-840-5106.
hawkchalk.com/1938
ROOMMATE/SUBLEASE
Need female student to sublease 1 BR
for summer in a very nice 4BR/2BA town-
home. Fully furnished, W/D, 2 car garage,
dates fexible, $243/mo (913)449-7451
hawkchalk.com/1944
Roomates needed to share 3BR 2BA
condo with W/D near campus. $290/mo.
+1/3 util. Avail June 1 or Aug 1. 550-4544.
Summer sublease available end of May
Located at 9th & Avalon, near campus
2BR, 1Bath, balcony $545/month +
utilities
Call 816-807-1241 for more info
hawkchalk.com/1918
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Classifeds Policy: The Kansan will not knowingly accept any advertise-
ment for housing or employment that discriminates against any person
or group of persons based on race, sex, age, color, creed, religion, sexual
orientation, nationality or disability. Further, the Kansan will not knowingly
accept advertising that is in violation of University of Kansas regulation or law.
All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal
Fair Housing Act of 1968 which makes it illegal to advertise “any pref-
erence, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex,
handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make
any such preference, limitation or discrimination.”
Our readers are hereby informed that all jobs and housing advertised
in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.
Classifieds
5b tuesday, april 17, 2007
KANSANCLASSIFIEDS
PHONE 785.864.4358 HAWKCHALK.COM [email protected]
AUTO STUFF JOBS LOST & FOUND FOR RENT
ROOMMATE/
SUBLEASE SERVICES CHILD CARE TICKETS TRAVEL
1BR and 4BR Apts avail now. Private
entrance, roomy, large yard. $525/mo and
$750/mo 785-749-1530
Very nice 3 BR house close to campus.
Washer and dryer provided. No smoking,
no pets. $1100/mo. Call 979-6453.
Student Cooperative near campus featur-
ing laundry, kitchen space, pool table,
cable TV, private rooms and much more.
Rent ranges from $250-350/mo. including
utilities. Call 785-749-0871.
1 bedroom basement apartment avail-
able August 1, 13th and Vermont, $379,
DW, off street parking, window AC, cats
ok, call Jim and Lois 785-841-1074
FOR RENT FOR RENT FOR RENT FOR RENT FOR RENT
Jacksonville Apartments: 1 & 2 Bedrooms
on the West Side from $460/month. Laun-
dry on-site, D/W & C/A. OPEN HOUSES
ON WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS-700
Monterey Way Apt. N2 785-841-4935
1 and 2 BR Apt. Avail June and August.
Between campus and downtown. Close to
gsp/corbin. No pets. 785-550-5012
1 BR & studio. 1530 Tennessee.
Remodeled. Quiet. $460 and $390.
Water paid. 785-393-6443.
3BR 3BA $1500/mo 946 Illinois; 3BR 3
1/2BA $1575/mo 940 & 942 Illinois; 4BR
Game Room, 5 1/2BA $2500/mo 1136
Mississippi; 2BR 1 1/2BA $550/mo 627 W
25th; 785-979-9120
Free Rent? 4 BR 3 BA, 2 car garage
townhome. All apliances. W/D included.
Avail Aug/Sept.Call 785-841-3849.1200/
mo.
Houses for Rent Near Campus
including 3/5/6/7 BR Avail in Aug.
Great Landlord!
842-6618 [email protected]
3BR 1BA hardwood foors, full basement,
W/D hookups, diswasher, large trees.
$850. Avail. Aug 1 Please Call 749-3193
1820 Alabama 3BR 2BA w/1 car cover.
Wood foors. Walking distance to
campus. All amenities included.
$1245/mo.
Avail. Aug. Call Ed at 760-840-0487.
1822 Maine 3BR 2BA w/ 2 car garage.
Wood foors. Walking distance to
campus. All amenities included.
$1245/mo.
Avail. Aug. Call Ed at 760-840-0487.
1731/1735 Kentucky Street Large 4
Bedroom, 2 bath, Washer/dryer included.
Available August. MPM 785-841-4935.
River City Homes
Well maintained town homes in west
Lawrence. All appliances and lawn care
furnished. Visit our website for addresses
and current prices. www.rivercity4rent.
com
785-749-4010
1326 Massachusetts 4BR 1BA. Large
house w/ wood foors. Walking distance
to campus & downtown. All amenities incl.
$1500/mo. Avail. Aug. Call 760-840-0487.
For Rent 1BR Duplex 400 blk of E 19th
kitchen w/ eating area. Full BA. AC. W/D
Hookups. Hrdwd Flrs. Avail. 6/1 No smok-
ing/pets call 842-3175 or 979-6211
Awesome location 4-plex at 922 Tennes-
see. Close to campus and downtown.
3 BR 2 full BA. W/D. Available Aug. 1.
$850/mo. Call 785-393-1138.
4 BR 2 BA house. 1 car garage, yard
on quiet col-de-sak. 608 Saratoga. Rent
Aug. 1. 785-842-6779 or 785-760- 2896.
4 BR 2 BA townhome 2 car GA. Avail
Aug. Over 1500 sq. ft. Large rooms,
$1240/mo ($310/person). 785-766-6302.
1317 Valley Lane. 1, 2, 3 BR apts.
$610-$940/mo. Washer dryer hookup,
dishwasher and garage. Close to campus.
749-6084.
Tuckaway Management
Great Locations!
Great Prices!
Great Customer Service!
Call 838-3377 or 841-3339
www.tuckawaymgmt.com
3 BR 2BA 1 garage. W/D hookup. No
pets or smkr. On KU bus route. 806 New
Jersey. $900/mo. Aug. 1. 550-4148.
Unfurnished. 1 - 2 Blocks from campus.
Newer construction. 3 & 4 Bedrooms
Please call 785-841-5444
Parkway Commons 1, 2 & 3 BR. Util.
packages. $99 deposit. 842-3280. 3601
Clinton Pkwy.
Seniors and grads:1&2 BR apts or
duplexes close to KU&downtown. Upstairs
or down, tile, carpet, or hrdwd, $395-760/
mo+util. No smoking/pets. Avail. 5/15 and
8/1. Call Big Blue Property 785-979-6211.
Now leasing for fall.
Highpointe Apts.
1,2&3 BR. 785-841-8468.
Now Leasing for 2007! Chase Court Apts.
Free DVD library & Free Breakfast. $99
deposit per BR. Call for details. 843-8220.
FOR RENT
Holiday Apts.Now Leasing 1, 2, 3 & 4 BR
apts. for Summer & Fall, nice quiet set-
ting, great foor plans, laundry, pool, DW,
large closets, on KU bus route. Cats
welcome. Call 843-0011
www.holidayapts.com.
Excellent Locations 1341 Ohio and 1104
Tennessee 2BR CA DW W/D Hookups
$510/mo and $490/mo No Pets
Call 785-842-4242
2 BR August lease available. Next to cam-
pus. Jayhawk Apts. 1130 W 11th $600/mo.
No pets. 785-556-0713
FALL LEASING
Spacious 1, 2, & 3 BRs
Canyon Court Apts.
700 Comet Ln.
785-832-8805
www.frstmanagementinc.com
3BR 2BA apts off Emery close to campus.
W/D included. Rent $275/mo/per person.
785-550-5979 between 8AM and 8PM
2 BR apt. W/D. Close to campus. 928
Alabama. By the stadium. $500/mo.
Ask for Leslie at 550-2342
3 BR Apt. Very spacious, 2 story. 1 &
1/2 BA. Fireplace, skylight, remodeled
kitchen, bathrooms. W/D, walkout patio, 1
car garage. Near campus. 2901 Univer-
sity Dr. $900/mo. No smkng. 748-9807.
Attention seniors & grad students!
Real nice, quiet 1 & 2 BR apts/houses.
Avail. June 1. Hard wood foors. Lots of
windows. No pets or smoking. 331-5209.
1125 Tennessee 3&4 bedrooms available
for August. Fully-equipped kitchens,
over 1400 square feet w/ washer/dryer
included. MPM 785-841-4935.
941 Indiana Street: 1,2&3 Bedrooms
available for August. Starting at $490-
$975. Close to stadium and campus!
MPM. 785-841-4935.
Eastview Apartments 1025 Mississippi
studio, 1&2 bedrooms. Laundry on-site.
Available August. MPM 785-841-4935.
3BR 2BA Condo close to campus! 927
Emery Road. W/D and all appliances. No
Pets. $825/mo Please call 913-220-5235
Great location 1801 Mississippi. 3BR apt.
Hardwood foors, CA, $660/mo. Aug 1. No
pets. 842-4242.
1701-1717 Ohio 2BR 1BA Close to KU
Dishwasher. W/D. No pets. $620/mo
749-6084 www.eresrental.com
1&2 BR studio apts near KU & resi-
dential offces near 23rd St. Ideal for
students&profs to launch business.841-
6254.
Now Leasing for 2007! Applecroft Apts.
Walking distance to campus. $99 deposit
per BR. Call for details.785-843-8220.
Houses, Apartments, Townhomes
available for Now and August 1st
www.gagemgmt.com 785-842-7644
1-3 BR apts&houses.Most near campus
405-$1050. www.longpropertymgmt.com.
[email protected].
3 BR 2.5 BA townhome in NW Lawrence,
gas log freplace, W/D hookups, all appls.,
2 car garage w/opener. $850-$950/mo.
Avail. now! 785-423-2525
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sports 6B tuesday, april 17, 2007
N
ow that “second winter”
has come and gone, the
time is ripe to head east
on Interstate 70 and catch a Royals
game. It’s an annual tradition for
most baseball fans in the Kansas
City area, yet the stadium has tra-
ditionally struggled to lure college
students from Lawrence.
It took me a while to pin down
the reason why so few KU stu-
dents make the trek to the Truman
Sports Complex, home of Kauffman
Stadium and Arrowhead Stadium.
Try to rule out the home team’s
horrid performance. Kansas City’s
lackluster play has gotten so much
media attention the last few years it
almost became “cool” to be a Royals
fan at one point.
The second and most prob-
able reason a majority of Jayhawks
haven’t flocked to the Kauffman, or
the “K,” routinely is that it really is
the hidden beauty of Major League
Baseball.
You don’t have to be a baseball
purist to enjoy the subtle simplicity
of the place. You don’t even have to
enjoy baseball. Like social interac-
tion? How about social interaction
set in a stadium that rivals our own
campus in terms of outdoor appeal?
Whatever the case, a day at the
“K” is worth it. My Kauffman mem-
ories number almost 60, the team’s
total wins from the last five years.
I’ve gone when the first-inning
score looked more like a perfect
record for a football team than a
score that would give a Royals fan
any glimpse of hope for the follow-
ing eight to come.
I’ve gone when the brutal midday
sun and Midwest humidity damn
near melted all the cheap John Buck
jersey giveaways.
I’ve gone when the wind chill
in the teens shivered the life out
of everyone in the stadium, play-
ers included. This was the only
time in my life I have ever envied
“Sluggerrr” and his warm costume.
There is one common thread in
each of those experiences: not once
did I leave the ballpark upset or
feeling like I wasted two and a half
hours. How could you when you just
witnessed America’s pastime being
played by some of the world’s best
- OK maybe not always - players in
one of the most beautiful parks in
the nation?
The scene set at Kauffman, even
on the worst days, is picturesque.
The fountains frame the outfield
and are arguably the most distin-
guishable feature. Every park has its
own special feature. Fenway has the
Green Monster. Wrigley has its ivy
vines. Kauffman has its fountains.
There are also the two vehicles
beyond left field. They would be
out of place in any other venue
but are strangely right at home in
the “K.” The Ford F-150 sits atop
a perch that never stops spinning,
while the Dodge Durango that is sit-
uated by the visiting team’s bullpen
has a “Hit it here!” sign that taunts
right-handed hitters.
In a nutshell, the park oozes that
good ol’ Midwestern charm. When
the dust settles on the upcoming
planned renovations, I’m sure some
part of me will miss the old “K.”
Ever since I can remember,
Kauffman has been a humble place,
not too high on itself to show off a
gazillion scoreboards that display
random and useless statistics. (“Oh
look, Mike Sweeney is 7-for-18 with
runners in scoring position and a
full moon in the sky!”)
Whatever the end product of the
renovations, let’s hope the product
on the field gets revamped as well.
Molina is an Olathe sophomore in
journalism.
—Edited by Katie Sullivan
» ROYALS LOYAL
Any day at the ‘K’
a memorable one
By daniel MOlina
kansan sports columnist
[email protected]
»’hORn bORn, ’hAwk bRed
Limited shirt sizes disappoint
A
h, the good ol’
University of Kansas
football spring scrim-
mage, where the tackling isn’t
too hard and the T-shirts are free
of charge. But are they too large?
Seriously, good luck fitting
into one of the complimen-
tary T-shirts you get from the
Athletics Department. Fans who
stood in the fairly long T-shirt line
had two options: large or extra large.
What about people like me, the
victims in this case? My metabolism
is abnormally fast. I stay skinny no
matter what I eat. The weight-gain-
ing impaired should be able to wear
a free T-shirt that fits. After all, this
is the United States.
“We’ve found most people want
shirts that are a little bigger,” Jim
Marchiony, associate athletics direc-
tor, said. “That’s what we stuck
with.”
How hard would it be to make
some mediums, or smalls for the
kiddos? It’s not about the money,
Marchiony said, but that too many
options may slow down entrance to
an event, with people taking more
time to choose a shirt size.
Marchiony is right to an extent.
Some people I talked to love the
shirt sizes, but they were all males.
“My preference is large,” Richie
Schlozman, Overland Park fresh-
man, said. “I can imagine there
are people who they wouldn’t fit,
though.”
Yeah, people like Breanne Russell.
“I use them as night shirts, or
give them away to my dad,” the
Topeka senior said. “They are even
too big for him.”
Of the seven T-shirts I’ve collect-
ed at KU sporting events, five are
folded up somewhere in the back of
my closet, while the other two are
decorative pillow cases for my liv-
ing-room couch (thanks for the tip,
Mom). For me, wearing one makes
me look like a ten-year old playing
dress up with big-people clothes.
“We want to make everyone
happy, but sometimes that’s not pos-
sble,” Marchiony said. “Most people
are just happy to receive a free shirt.”
But if the sizes were more
diverse, I guarantee you’d see those
free T-shirts more often around
campus.
“If they’d fit, I’d wear them more,”
Russell said. “I’m not angry, just
kind of like ‘ugh.’ ”
Robinett is an austin, Texas senior
in journalism.
— Edited by Joe Caponio
By TRavis ROBineTT
kansan sports columnist
[email protected]
» Running
By JiMMy GOlen
assOCiaTed PRess
BOSTON — The runners
were soaked, the pavement slip-
pery, and Robert Cheruiyot knew
exactly where trouble was wait-
ing along the Boston Marathon
route.
So 48 hours before the start
of Monday’s race, after his more
traditional training was complete,
the defending champion headed
to the course to test the traction
of the finish line. It was at the
end of the Chicago race, 26 miles
and 384 yards in, that he slipped
— nearly costing himself a race, if
not a career.
“I don’t want myself to think
about falling down in Chicago,”
Cheruiyot said after overcoming
from a concussion from that slip
and the remnants of a nor’easter
to win his third Boston title. “It
is like telling someone something
very bad.”
Cheruiyot, who also won in 2003,
earned his third Boston title standing
up. He outkicked countryman James
Kwambai on the way into Kenmore
Square to win
in 2 hours, 14
minutes, 13 sec-
onds — slower
than the course
record of 2:07:14
he set last year
but enough to
win by 20 sec-
onds.
“When the
lion is chasing
the antelope, he doesn’t look back.
He has to eat,” Cheruiyot said. “So
when I run, I don’t stare at my time.”
Kenya took the top four spots in
the men’s race and its 15th victory in
17 years. The top American man was
Peter Gilmore, in eighth place.
Russia’s Lidiya Grigoryeva cap-
tured the women’s crown in 2:29:18,
winning by 20 seconds and sending
Latvia’s Jelena Prokocuka to her sec-
ond consecutive second-place fin-
ish. Grigoryeva, who set the course
record in Los
Angeles last year,
veered to the
stands to grab a
Russian flag just
before crossing
the finish line.
Top American
hope Deena
Kastor fell back
after stomach
problems divert-
ed her from the course for a minute
near the midpoint. Kastor, the defend-
ing London champion, American
record-holder and Olympic bronze
medalist, still finished first in the
U.S. national championships, a race
within a race that carried a $25,000
bonus.
“It’s hard to deal with a disap-
pointing performance when you’ve
prepared for so much better than you
did out there,” she said.
Cheruiyot spent two nights in a
Chicago hospital in October after
slipping on the finish line as he raised
his arms to celebrate his victory. He
couldn’t sleep for more than a month,
had trouble with his back, along with
headaches that persisted until six
weeks ago.
“I thought maybe it was the end
of my career,” Cheruiyot said after
arriving in Boston.
On Saturday, as he prepared to
defend his title, he accompanied a
TV crew to the finish line, bending
over to touch the nonskid surface.
By the time he came that way again
Monday, the skies had cleared, the
winds had settled and he passed over
it with ease, holding his arms to the
side and blowing a kiss to the crowd.
Kenya takes frst individual, overall in Boston Marathon
“When the lion is chasing the
antelope, he doesn’t look back.
He has to eat.”
RobeRt CheRuiyot
boston Marathon winner
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.
— Augusta National, get ready for
Boo Weekley.
Perhaps no one fits the mold of the
staid, in-control PGA Tour pro less
than Weekley, the 33-year-old coun-
try boy from the Florida Panhandle.
He punctuates answers with “reckon”
and “ain’t,” and one time, in Texas,
got so angry with his play, he put a
hole in his golf bag with a club.
Now, after his first PGA Tour
victory at the Verizon Heritage on
Monday, Weekley’s got a spot in next
year’s Masters.
“I don’t think the plaid’s going to
fit me,” said Weekley, picking at his
tartan winner’s coat. “I’d like to have
a green one to go along with.”
Weekley got that chance with a
pair of dramatic, par-saving chips on
the 17th and 18th holes.
“Right now, it feels good,” he said.
“It ain’t all sunk in yet.”
Along with $972,000 and a PGA
Tour exemption through 2008,
Weekley becomes the first PGA
Tour winner to qualify for next year’s
Masters after Augusta National chair-
man Billy Payne restored a privilege
taken away in 1999.
Weekley had gained the sympa-
thy of golfers everywhere last month
when he missed a three-footer on
the 72nd hole of the Honda Classic
that would’ve given him the out-
right victory. Instead, the 33-year-old
Weekley fell into a four-man playoff
eventually won by Mark Wilson.
Weekley got it done this time.
He nearly squandered a three-shot
lead at Harbour Town Golf Links
before his heart-stopping finish.
Weekley made bogey on the 16th,
then muffed a chip behind the 17th
green. He followed the blunder with
a 40-foot, par-saving chip to keep a
one-stroke lead.
But then Weekley had his troubles
on Harbour Town’s lighthouse hole,
No. 18. He chipped across the green
and into the fluffy rough down a
short slope. Once again, Weekley’s
short game saved him, this time roll-
ing it from 36 feet away.
Weekley never thought about his
Honda gaffe from last month, confi-
dent his time in the spotlight would
come.
When his first chip fell, Weekley
thought “this could be my day.” He
knew it about 15 minutes later when
he repeated the feat to close out the
victory.
“Unreal,” Weekley said. “This is
unreal.”
The Big Easy, bidding for his
first tour victory
since 2004, lost
his chance on No.
17, driving into
the hazard behind
the green for a
bogey. Els made
things interesting,
though, putting his
second shot — and
last opportunity to
tie — at the 18th inside two feet.
“I don’t think I want to see this
replay,” Els said, smiling.
Weekley finished with a 68 and
was one in front of Els (70) and
two ahead of Stephen Leaney (68).
Masters champion Zach Johnson
continued his inspired play a week
after slipping on the green jacket
with a 71 to finish sixth.
Difficulties with the weather
Sunday forced the tournament to
finish Monday.
The Verizon Heritage probably has
never had a champion like Weekley,
whose nickname comes from Yogi
Bear’s sidekick, Boo Boo. Weekley
played golf for
a year or so
at Abraham
B a l d w i n
Agr i cul t ur al
College in
Tifton, Ga.,
until it did
away with the
golf program.
He didn’t
mind the Sunday delay until Monday
because he had stayed up too late
Saturday playing cards. Weekley’s
preparation for the final round last
night? “Ate about a handful of jelly
beans and called it quits,” he said.
Els had opened the tournament
with two 65s and appeared ready to
pick up his first tour victory since
2004. Still, it’s his seventh top-10
finish here in nine visits to Harbour
Town.
Jerry Kelly, who used a hole-in-
one Saturday to take the third-round
lead, was still two shots in front at
15 under after an eagle on the par-5
second. His chance to end a nearly
five-year-old victory drought slipped
away when he drove into the water
on No. 10. He finished with a 77.
Winds, though not as fierce
as Sunday, continued to whip off
Calibogue Sound, tilting flagsticks
on Harbour Town’s three closing
holes when play resumed at 8 a.m.
Weekley had his troubles with
the conditions, too, just less than his
competitors. Now that he’s a PGA
Tour champion, Weekley expects to
be the same fun-loving golfer who’s
spent the past four seasons on the
Nationwide Tour.
“I ain’t going to change,” he said,
grinning. “I ain’t got no reason to.”
By DOUG TUCKER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Veteran
John Welbourn, who filled in at right
tackle last year with mixed results,
will probably take over for 12-Pro
Bowl right guard Will Shields,
Kansas City Chiefs President Carl
Peterson said Monday.
Shields, 35, announced on his
Web site Sunday that he was step-
ping down after an illustrious 14-
year career in which he made 231
consecutive starts, counting playoff
games, and tied the NFL record for
most Pro Bowl selections.
His retirement was not unexpect-
ed, but will no doubt leave a hole in
what had been for many years one of
the NFL’s finest blocking units.
“We’ve already made preparations
for this by acquiring some talented
veterans as well as younger offensive
linemen,” Peterson said. “I would say
without question, nobody’s going to
fill those shoes. Nobody’s going to be
quite as good as Will Shields. That
would be very, very difficult.”
Shields, who strongly contem-
plated stepping down after the 2005
season, wrote on his site that the
physical requirements of the game
had become more difficult with each
passing day.
“The decision to hang up my
cleats has not been an easy one to
make for me, but one I knew I would
eventually have to make,” Shields
wrote. “Today, I am letting everyone
know that I am putting away my
pads.”
Neither Peterson nor anyone else
with the Chiefs knew for sure that
Shields had decided to step away
until it appeared on his Web site.
Peterson said he had a long con-
versation with him Monday morn-
ing and they talked about Shields
maintaining some connection with
the club.
Through his “Will to Succeed
Foundation,” Shields has made many
charitable contributions while work-
ing behind the scenes on behalf of
community projects.
“You’re not going to miss the off-
season program,” Peterson said he
told Shields. “You’re not going to
miss training camp. But when that
first Sunday rolls around, you’re gong
to miss it. You will miss it because it’s
been such an integral part of your
persona for all these years. It’s like
a metabolic clock going off in your
body. It’s tough.”
By MARK STEVENSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEXICO CITY — A 14-year-
old matador who left Spain to
escape his home country’s ban
on young bullfighters was nearly
gored to death in a Mexican ring,
his lung punctured by a 900-
pound bull.
Jairo Miguel, who has been
bullfighting professionally
in Mexico for about the past
two years, was fighting at the
Aguascalientes Monumental
Bull Ring on
Sunday when
a bull named
Hidrocalido
rushed him
at top speed
and lifted
him in the
air, appearing
to carry him
several yards
with one
horn firmly
lodged in his
thorax.
“I’m dying, Dad, I’m dying,”
government news agency
Notimex quoted Jairo as saying
immediately after the goring.
Jairo’s father, Antonio Sanchez
Caceres, is also a well-known
bullfighter who came with him
to Mexico from Spain and was
reportedly at the ring on Sunday
when his son was injured.
Jairo was billed as the young-
est matador in the world when
he came to Mexico almost two
years ago at age 12, apparently to
escape Spain’s ban on bullfighters
younger than 16.
In his two years in the Mexican
ring, Jairo has scored some victo-
ries that earned him the right to
cut off the defeated bulls’ ears.
But he has also been trampled
and knocked around.
In Spain, an aspiring “torero”
must be at least 16 to begin train-
ing with small bulls but is not
allowed to kill a bull in the ring
before he or she is 18, said an
official from the Royal Bullfighting
Federation of Spain.
But in Mexico, some start as
young as 12 or 13, and there appears
to be a rush toward ever-younger
fighters who have become a growing
attraction in Latin America.
Dr. Carlos Hernandez Sanchez
said Jairo was the youngest goring
victim he had ever treated. But he
does not think he was too young to
be in the ring.
“These are injuries that happen.
He’s a great bullfighter,” Hernandez
Sanchez said.
Dr. Luis
Romero, the sur-
geon who oper-
ated on Jairo at
Aguascalientes’
G u a d a l u p e
Clinic, said
the bull’s horn
brushed his aorta
and came about
an inch from his
heart.
“He was lucky,
if you can call
somebody who has been gored by a
bull lucky,” he said.
If the four-inch gash had been
one inch closer to the heart, “this
surely would have been a catastro-
phe where it would have been very
difficult to control” the bleeding.
Jairo was connected to a respira-
tor on Monday but doctors were
confident they could restore much of
his lung function and expected him
to recover.
Juan Carlos Lopez, the manager
of the Aguascalientes ring, said there
have been even younger fighters in
the ring there, but he would not give
their ages.
Inaki Negrete, of the Mexican
Association of Fighting Bull
Breeders, said the responsibility for
young bullfighters rests largely with
their families, who are often the ones
who encourage their sons to go into
bullfighting in the first place.
“Normally, it’s the parents of these
children — and they are children
— who put them into bullfighting
schools,” Negrete said.
» chiefs
Shields announces retirement from NFL on Web site
» pga tour
Weekley secures Masters spot
“Right now, it feels good. It ain’t
all sunk in yet.”
Boo Weekley
PGA golfer
» bullfighting
Injured bullfghter
reignites age debate
“Normally, it’s the parents of
these children — and they are
children — who put them into
bullfghting schools.”
inAki neGrete
Bullfghting spokesman
Kristin Goode/THE ISLAND PACKET
Boo Weekley watches his tee shot from the 13th hole during the fnal round of the Verizon Heritage golf tournament at Harbour Town Golf Links at
Hilton Head Island, S.C., Monday. Weekley won the tournament.
baseball 8b tuesday, april 17, 2007
By R.B. FALLSTROM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — Jim Edmonds has
stayed patient throughout his early
slump, reminding himself that he
got a late start in spring training.
The St. Louis Cardinals’ center
fielder was batting .233 with no
RBI in 30 at-bats entering Monday
night’s game against Pittsburgh. His
swing has looked a lot better the last
few games, though, and he was able
to shrug off a couple of nice defen-
sive plays that robbed him of hits
against the Brewers on Sunday.
“I’ve played this game too long,”
Edmonds said. “Given the circum-
stances of not having very many
at-bats and what I’m going through,
I just kind of shake it off.”
Brewers right fielder Corey Hart
made a diving catch on Edmonds’
drive in the first inning and second
baseman Rickie Weeks snared his
smash up the middle in the third,
turning it into a double-play ball.
Edmonds ended up 0-for-4 with a
walk, and manager Tony La Russa
anticipated frustration.
“At the end of the day he got an
0-fer, but it wasn’t really an 0-fer,” La
Russa said. “It has a way of getting
under your skin and you can come
out of your game
a little bit.”
The 36-year-
old Edmonds
underwent sur-
gery on his right
shoulder and left
foot after help-
ing the Cardinals
win their first
World Series title
in 24 years, and
didn’t start play-
ing in spring training until a week
before opening day. He’s coming off
his worst season since coming to St.
Louis in 2000 after being hampered
much of the second half by post-
concussion syndrome.
Edmonds batted .257 with
19 homers and 70 RBIs in 110
games.
“I was basically in a walking
cast for six weeks, so I really
don’t have the muscle strength in
my left leg that I need to keep my
legs fresh,”
E d mo n d s
said. “I’m
trying to
build on that
and play at
the same
time, and it’s
been a little
difficult at
times.
“But I’m
happy to go
out there and play every day.”
Edmonds said he feels bet-
ter at the plate than in center
field, noting that his upper body
is catching up quicker than his
lower body.
“I’ve surprised myself how
I’ve been able to do the things
that I’ve actually wanted to do,”
Edmonds said. “There’s been a
couple of bad swings that haven’t
felt great, but there have been
way more good swings than bad,
so I’m happy with that.”
» baseball
Jayhawks split Bears doubleheader
Amanda Sellers/KANSAN
Junior second baseman Ryne Price catches
a pop fy during Sunday’s doubleheader against
Baylor. Price hit a game-winning home run to
win the frst game Sunday.
Amanda Sellers/KANSAN
ABOVE: Sophomore frst baseman Preston
Land tries to beat out a throwat frst base dur-
ing Sunday’s doubleheader against Baylor.
BELOW: Senior center felder Kyle Murphy
gets a hit during Sunday’s doubleheader
against Baylor at Hoglund Ballpark. Murphy
scored a run in the second game.
Amanda Sellers/KANSAN
Junior left felder John Allman is congratulated by teammate Robby Price as he crosses home plate after hitting a two-run home run during Sunday’s doubleheader against Baylor at Hoglund Ballpark
The Jayhawks won the frst game 4-3 and lost the second 6-2.
» mlb
Edmonds weathers slump
Cardinals outfielder starts slow after shoulder surgery
“Given the circumstances of not
having very many at-bats and
what I’m going through, I just
kind of shake it of.”
jim edmonds
Cardinals center felder
» mlb
San Francisco shuts out Colorado
» mlb
Diamondback gets two home runs in victory
By PAT GRAHAM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — The rain stayed
away, and the San Francisco Giants
finally squeezed in another game.
Barry Zito gave up three hits
in six innings for his first vic-
tory with San Francisco, and Ray
Durham and Bengie Molina hit
back-to-back homers in the third
as the Giants beat the Colorado
Rockies 8-0 Monday night.
San Francisco hadn’t played
since Friday night because of rain
in Pittsburgh. In a game played
under overcast skies, Barry Bonds
was one of five San Francisco play-
ers and coaches to wear Jackie
Robinson’s No. 42 — a tribute
pushed back a day because of the
rain.
Bonds was 1-for-3 with a walk, nar-
rowly missing his fourth home run of
the season. His fourth-inning drive to
right landed just below the yellow line
on the fence, and the ball hit so hard
off the wall that Bonds had to hold at
first with a single.
Zito (1-2) combined with three
relievers on a six-hitter. Zito, just 12-
17 in the month of April during his
career, struck out four and walked
three as he improved to 86-4 when his
team scores four or more runs.
After Colorado loaded the bases
with two outs in the fifth, Zito struck
out Jamey Carroll. Relievers Vinnie
Chulk, Kevin Correia and Steve Kline
pitched an inning apiece.
“We have some fresh arms,” San
Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said
before the game.
Jeff Francis (1-1) lasted only five
innings and gave up seven runs and
nine hits. He was pushed back from
Sunday as he completed a five-game
suspension, assessed after the com-
missioner’s office said he intentionally
threw at San Diego’s Kevin Kouzmanoff
during a spring training game.
Omar Vizquel had four singles,
scored twice and drove in two runs.
Durham had a three-run homer to
right and Molina followed with a solo
shot to left in the Giants’ five-run third
inning. It was the first home run of the
season for both. Durham now has a
hit in all 11 of San Francisco’s games
this season.
Colorado was blanked at home for
the first time since a 1-0 loss to the
Milwaukee Brewers on Aug. 1.
By BOB BAUM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHOENIX — Tony Clark is a
graybeard among all the youngsters
in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ line-
up, and he gave the kids a lesson in
power hitting on Sunday.
Clark drove in three runs with
two homers and the Diamondbacks
beat Colorado 6-4 to take two of
three from the Rockies.
It was the 22nd multi-homer
game for the 34-year-old Clark, one
of many major leaguers who wore a
No. 42 jersey to commemorate the
60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s
major league debut.
Orlando Hudson, another who
wore No. 42, went 2-for-3 for Arizona
for his eighth multiple-hit game this
season, pushing his average to .412.
Todd Helton hit his first home run
of the season for the Rockies, a solo
shot in the fourth.
After getting the first two outs
in the ninth, Jose Valverde walked
Helton and Matt Holliday. Valverde
then struck out Jeff Baker looking for
his sixth save in seven chances.
The Diamondbacks jumped
on Colorado’s Byung-Hyun Kim
for four runs in the first inning
after the Rockies had scored
a pair off Doug Davis. Kim, the
former Diamondback, was on the
mound because scheduled starter
Rodrigo Lopez was pushed back to
Wednesday because of right elbow
inflammation.
Arizona loaded the bases without
an out on a walk to Stephen Drew
and singles by Alberto Callaspo and
Orlando Hudson. Two scored on
sacrifice flies by Chad Tracy and Eric
Brynes, then Clark hit a 2-0 pitch 420
feet onto the walkway in center field,
a two-run homer that made it 4-2.
Willie Taveras’ suicide squeeze
bunt brought Troy Tulowitzki in
from third to make it 4-3 in the
second inning, then Helton _ who
had singled in a run in the first _
lined one into the left-center seats to
tie it at 4.
Clark’s second homer, leading off
the fourth, put Arizona ahead 5-4.
Kim (1-2) left after that with a bruised
right thumb. The ex-Diamondback
closer pitched three-plus innings,
allowing five runs on five hits.