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Bringing down the house
KU grad wins ‘Design Star’ show
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA
[email protected]
Jennifer Bertrand reached the peak of
exhaustion after six weeks of design compe-
titions. She hadn’t had a day off during the
competition and her emotions were high.
She was anxious to create the best design for
her client on Home and Garden Television’s
“Design Star” television show.
Her final assignment for the show was
to design and build a kitchen, dining room
and living room for a family whose house
was damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
“I didn’t even think about the fact that
it was the final to win the show,” Bertrand
said. “I thought more about the family, and
this family hadn’t had a kitchen for three
years.”
Bertrand, 1998 graduate and designer
from Olathe, won HGTV’s “Design Star”
competition earlier this month. She also
received her own HGTV show, which will
start in January.
Bertrand auditioned for “Design Star”
because she always dreamed of having her
own show and didn’t want to regret not tak-
ing the chance.
“I always thought I wanted to do some-
thing on a big scale,” Bertrand said.
Hosting her own show combines two of
her passions: designing and teaching.
“All my worlds collide and everything
comes together,” Bertrand said.
Bertrand said she would look forward to
teaching design, decor and art.
Lee Skoglund, Bertrand’s sister, said the
best words to describe Bertrand were “fun”
and “energetic.”
“What made her the best candidate is she
really cares about what people want and how
the design will function,” Skoglund said.
Bertrand was always around art. Her
father is the director of a museum in Saint
Joseph, Mo. Her mother is a sculptor.
Bertrand also experienced art in differ-
ent countries. Her father was in the military
when she was younger, so she lived in sev-
eral places, including Germany.
“As a kid, I grew up going to all the
different castles and chateaus in Europe,”
Bertrand said. “That’s where I started to fall
in love with design.”
Bertrand learned about other cultures
and different beliefs and values, while trav-
eling to other countries.
“When you are a designer, you can just
design the way you want to,” Bertrand said.
“I have to be able to change my style to fit to
whoever I’m working with.”
Bertrand earned a degree in visual arts
education from the University in 1998. She
belonged to the Kappa Alpha Theta soror-
ity and juggled multiple jobs along with
her academic respon-
sibilities. She said the
University allowed her
to meet a variety of
people and exposed her
to different art media.
She went back to the
University to continue
her studies while she
was working full-time
on her business. She
earned a master’s in
education in 2007.
Bertrand taught art
in the Shawnee school district and in Italy
before she became a full-time designer.
She runs a small design firm in Olathe
with her husband, Chris Bertrand. They
design everything from interiors of resi-
dential homes to restaurants and condos on
the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Mo.
She said being on television brought more
business opportunities to her firm. She said
she would continue to work for the firm
after the show began in
January.
Chris and Jennifer
Bertrand now spend
a lot of time work-
ing together and they
sometimes have to
work on weekends.
He said they both had
strong wills and some-
times they clashed
during work. But he
said he always enjoyed
working with her.
“She has an amazing ability to connect
with people,” Chris said. “She’s good at mak-
ing people feel comfortable.”

— Edited by Ramsey Cox
tyler Waugh/KanSan
Jennifer Bertrand, winner of Hgtv’s “Design
Star” poses in front of her mural at Salon Reaction in
Overland Park onWednesday. Bertrand designed much
of the salon, including the sinks and lamps.
What made her the best can-
didate is she really cares about
what people want and how the
design will function.
Lee SkogLung
Jennifer Betrand’s sister
tyler Waugh/KanSan
Paintings by Jennifer Bertrand make up much of Salon Reaction, in Overland Park. She designed the interior with her design frm. Bertrand recently won HGTV’s “Design
Star”and will have her own showon the network.
cAmpus
IT security ofce responds afer
users are hit with phishing e-mail
The KU Information Technology
Security Ofce sent its frst e-mail alert
to faculty and students in response to a
fraudulent e-mail asking users for personal
information. Te message warned users
about the attack, part of a trend called
phishing.
See fULL Story on Page 3a
cAmpus
KU launches new insurance plan
A newly revised student health insur-
ance plan from United Health Care is
available through the University. The plan
provides more benefits than the one pre-
viously offered and costs less than $1,000.
Students can find applications for the
insurance online or at Watkins Memorial
Health Center.
See fULL Story on Page 4a
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County sherif sees prison
from a new perspective
WAUKEGAN, Ill. — The Lake
County sherif is behind bars —
voluntarily.
Sherif Mark Curran said his
goal is to talk to inmates so
he can see the jail from their
perspective. That way he can
try to solve potential problems,
such as safety issues, and better
understand the inmate experi-
ence, he said.
Real inmates bunk together
in a cell, but Curran will sleep in
his own cell for safety reasons. He
was locked up Wednesday.
“I want some introspection
but let’s be realistic. I’m never
going to be able to completely
create that scenario,” Curran told
The Associated Press by tele-
phone from jail.
Curran said he’s also trying to
draw attention to the fact that
jails are overpopulated with the
mentally ill, the uneducated and
repeat ofenders. Rehabilitation
needs to be a focus, he said.
So far Curran said he has met
several inmates, not all of whom
appeared to realize he was sher-
if. For those who do recognize
him, he said he’ll have to work to
gain their trust.
“There might be some skepti-
cism amongst them,” he said.
“You break down the walls as
much as you possibly can.”
Unlike the other inmates,
Curran gets to leave on a date he
chooses: Aug. 27.
Commissioner kisses
horse after losing bet
FARMINGTON, Utah — Lose a
bet, kiss a horse.
That’s how Davis County Com-
missioner Alan Hansen found
himself kissing a 3-year-old sand-
colored horse named Reno.
The smooch stemmed from
a contest between employees
at Davis County and the Davis
Hospital and Medical Center.
The rules: Members of the team
that lost the most weight got
to watch their boss kiss a farm
animal. This year, the county em-
ployees won — county stafers
lost 397.6 pounds, just slightly
trimmer than the hospital work-
ers.
Hansen missed out when his
fellow commissioners locked lips
with a cow over the weekend.
So on Tuesday, Hansen met
Reno on the front steps of the
county courthouse and puckered
up for what became a quick
peck.
But not before he slathered
on some lip balm and popped a
breath mint.
He told the mare: “This is more
for you than me.”
New set of wheels per
year for one Chevy fan
FLINT, Mich. — There are
loyal customers, and then there’s
Joseph Macko.
The 84-year-old Flint man has
bought or leased a new Cadillac
every year since 1955, the year
Disneyland opened in Anaheim,
Calif., and Rosa Parks refused to
give up her seat on a Montgom-
ery, Ala., bus.
“You only live one time.
Money is to spend,” he told The
Flint Journal. “I spend it once I
get it.”
Macko, a retired General Mo-
tors Corp. worker, used to buy a
new car every year, but he’s been
leasing the last few years. Last
week, he drove home this year’s
fresh set of wheels — a black
2009 Cadillac DTS — from the Al
Serra Auto Plaza in Grand Blanc.
“He looks forward every year
to buying a new car,” said Gordon
Taylor, who has been Macko’s
salesman for 22 years. “He wants
that same vehicle.”
Marcella Macko says her
husband isn’t the spendthrift he
might seem — he saves up all
year to pay for a new car.
But, she said, she just doesn’t
get excited anymore about the
annual ritual.
“He does, but I don’t,” she said.
— Associated Press
ODD NEWS
On Aug. 21, the Lawrence
Police Department reported
that:
-On Aug. 19, a KU student
reported a stolen credit card.
-On Aug. 19, a KU student
reported $250 in criminal dam-
age to a pickup truck.
-On Aug. 19, a KU student
reported three instances of the
unlawful fnancial use of an
overseas credit card, totaling
$1,045 in loss.
-On Aug. 19, a KU student
fled a complaint of criminal
trespass.
-On Aug. 20, a KU student
was the victim of disorderly
conduct.
nation
Restrictions on wireless
microphones proposed
WASHINGTON — The
Federal Communications
Commission is proposing a ban
on certain types of wireless
microphones and has begun
an investigation into how the
industry markets its products.
Consumer groups alleged
in a complaint last month that
users of the ubiquitous micro-
phones, including Broadway
actors, mega-church pastors
and karaoke DJs, are unwit-
tingly violating FCC rules that
require licenses for the devices.
The Public Interest Spec-
trum Coalition accused manu-
facturers of deceptive advertis-
ing in how they market and
sell the microphones, which
largely operate in the same
radio spectrum as broadcast
television stations.
The agency, in a notice
released Thursday, said its en-
forcement bureau had opened
an investigation. The FCC also
is proposing that the sale and
manufacture of some of the
devices be banned.
“These actions would
ensure that low power auxil-
iary operations do not cause
harmful interference to new
public safety and commercial
wireless services in the band,”
the agency said Thursday.
Most owners of the micro-
phones are unaware that FCC
rules require them to obtain a
license.
Wireless microphones that
operate in the same frequency
bands as broadcast TV sta-
tions are intended for use in
the production of TV or cable
programming or the motion
picture industry, according to
FCC rules — not karaoke.
The FCC rarely enforces the
licensing requirements on the
microphones because there
have been so few complaints.
The microphones are pro-
grammed to avoid television
channels.
But the looming transition
to digital broadcasting, which
takes place Feb. 17, has forced
the FCC to act.
Channels 52 through 69 in
the UHF television band, cur-
rently used by broadcasters,
will be vacated as they convert
to digital broadcasting. The
government sold that section
of airwaves for $19 billion
in the FCC’s most successful
auction in history. Other parts
of that spectrum will be used
by paramedics, police and
frefghters.
The concern is that micro-
phones that operate in that
range may cause interference
for the new licensees. It’s not
known how many wireless
microphones operate there,
but Harold Feld, a lawyer for
the consumer groups, says the
total is likely more than 1 mil-
lion, based on a trade journal
estimate.
— Associated Press
Politics
Obama slams McCain
over real estate gafe
WASHINGTON — John McCain
may have created his own hous-
ing crisis.
Hours after a report that the
Republican presidential nominee-
in-waiting didn’t know how many
homes he and his multimillionaire
wife own, Democratic rival Barack
Obama launched a national TV
ad and a series of campaign stops
aimed at portraying McCain as
wealthy and out of touch.
With the economy ranking as
the top issue in the race, Obama
sought to turn McCain’s gafe into
one of those symbolic moments
that stick in voters’ minds.
Think John Kerry sailboarding
or the frst President Bush wowed
by a grocery store checkout
scanner, Michael Dukakis riding
in a tank or Gerald Ford eating a
tamale with the husk still on.
“I think — I’ll have my staf get
to you,” McCain told Politico when
asked Wednesday how many
houses he owns. “It’s condomini-
ums where — I’ll have them get
to you.”
Later, the McCain campaign
told Politico that McCain and his
wife, Cindy, have at least four in
three states — Arizona, California
and Virginia. Newsweek recently
estimated the two owned at least
seven properties.
— Associated Press
Politics
Obama decides on VP,
will announce in text
EMPORIA, Va. —Barack Obama says he’s
decided on a running mate, but he won’t
say who. “I’ve made the selection, that’s
all you’re gonna get,”Obama told reporters
while campaigning inVirginia Thursday.
Obama didn’t say whether he’s informed his
pick yet.
Obama is planning to announce his
choice in a text message to supporters
sometime before Saturday afternoon, when
he’s scheduled to appear with his pick in
Illinois.
Asked by an Associated Press reporter
when the text would be sent, Obama just
grinned and said, “Wouldn’t you like to
know?”
—Associated Press
corrections
In the Aug. 21 story ‘Team USA
tested against Australia,’ the Kan-
san misidentifed two players in
a photo as Kobe Bryant and An-
drew Bogut. They were Dwayne
Wade of the United States and
Patrick Mills of Australia. The
Kansan regrets the error.
War casualties hit one small town
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mourners for fallen Marine Pfc. Daniel McGuire and U.S. Army Pfc. Paul Conlon, both of Mashpee, Mass., comfort one another while holding candles during a vigil near the Mashpee
Town Hall Monday. The Pentagon says McGuire was killed Aug. 14 while on a security patrol in Fallujah, Iraq. Conlon died Aug. 15 in Afghanistan when a roadside bomb blewup his vehicle.
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Florida deals with wildlife
left in storm Fay’s wake
MELBOURNE, Fla. — As if a
fourth straight day of rain from
Tropical Storm Fay wasn’t enough,
weary residents are now dealing
with quintessentially Floridian
fallout: alligators, snakes and
other critters driven from their
swampy lairs into fooded streets,
backyards and doorsteps.
National Guardsman Steve
Johnson was wading through
hip-deep water Wednesday night
when his fashlight revealed an
alligator drifting through a sea of
fooded mobile homes.
“I said, ‘The heck is that?’ and
there was an alligator foating by,”
Johnson said. “I took my fashlight
and was like, ‘You’ve got to be
kidding me, a big old alligator
swimming around here.’”
The erratic storm has dumped
more than 2 feet of rain along
parts of Florida’s low-lying central
Atlantic coast this week. The
system continued its slow, wet
march Thursday.
—Associated Press
aSSoCIateD PreSS
BARROW, Alaska — Rapidly
melting ice on Alaska’s Arctic is
opening up a new navigable ocean
in the extreme north, allowing oil
tankers, fishing vessels and even
cruise ships to venture into a realm
once trolled mostly by indigenous
hunters.
The Coast Guard expects so
much traffic that it opened two
temporary stations on the nation’s
northernmost waters, anticipating
the day when an ocean the size
of the contiguous United States
could be ice-free for most of the
summer.
“We have to prepare for the
world coming to the Arctic,” said
Rear Adm. Gene Brooks, com-
mander of the Coast Guard’s Alaska
district.
Scientists say global warming
has melted the polar sea ice each
summer to half the size it was in
the 1960s, opening vast stretches
of water. Last year, it thawed to its
lowest level on record.
The rapid melting has raised
speculation that Canada’s
Northwest Passage linking the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans could
one day become a regular shipping
lane. And there is a huge potential
for natural resources in a region
that may contain as much as 25
percent of the world’s undiscovered
oil and gas.
But scientists caution that
it could be centuries before the
Arctic is completely ice-free all
year round.
Still, conservative estimates indi-
cate the Arctic Ocean will be ice-
free in the summer within 20 years,
although some scientists believe
that will occur much sooner.
As it thaws, the receding ice has
made ocean travel along Alaska’s
northern coast increasingly allur-
ing, but ships can still be trapped
by ice.
Earlier in August, three oil
industry vessels bound for Canada
became stuck in ice about 60 miles
north of Point Barrow. The Coast
Guard sent the icebreaker Healy to
help, but before it could arrive from
300 miles away, the wind shifted
and pushed the ice apart, freeing
the vessels.
“They were able to get away,”
Brooks said. “The problem with
this ice is it’s very unpredictable.”
Because of such risks, the Coast
Guard established temporary bases
this month in Barrow, the coun-
try’s highest-latitude town, and at
the North Slope’s Prudhoe Bay, the
nation’s largest oil field. The bases
will operate for a few weeks while
Guard officials evaluate the need
for the agency’s services.
The Northwest Passage is also
increasingly popular with tourists.
Chuck Cross has been leading
excursions to the North Pole with
his Bend, Ore.-based Polar Cruises
since 1991, and he’s noticed a big
change over the years.
“It’s amazing to me when I go to
the pole how thin the ice is, huge
open spots of water in some areas,”
he said. “Before, you spent more
time getting there and more time in
the ice. We’d have helicopters look-
ing for breaks in the water for us.”
The thaw has added urgency
to the race among neighboring
nations to claim a piece of the
North Pole’s resources. The U.S.
is compiling mapping data that
could bolster any claims for drill-
ing rights.
Many countries have launched
scientific expeditions, hoping to
take advantage of a provision in
international law that allows
nations to claim rights over their
continental shelf beyond the nor-
mal boundary of 200 nautical
miles, if the claim can be supported
with geologic evidence.
The Coast Guard is concerned
that the increasing volume of ship
traffic brings greater potential for
oil spills, lost boaters and other
mishaps.
“We have to ask ourselves
whether we’re prepared for these
ships coming to our shores,” said
Mead Treadwell, who chairs the
U.S. Arctic Research Commission.
He testified in Congress this sum-
mer about the need to build new
Coast Guard icebreakers to better
protect traffic in its Arctic water-
ways.
Before the Coast Guard opened
its base in Barrow, the nearest sta-
tion where ships could stop for fuel
and provisions was Alaska’s Kodiak
Island, almost 1,000 miles away.
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[email protected]
For the first time, the KU
Information Technology Security
Office sent an e-mail alert to all
University faculty and students
Aug. 4 that warned of a spear
phishing e-mail targeting KU net-
work users. The e-mail directed
KU network users to verify their
usernames and passwords to keep
their accounts from going dor-
mant.
Bill Myers, director of assess-
ment and outreach for Information
Services, said the office received
reports of e-mails appearing to
come from “KU Online Services”
with an address of onlineservic-
[email protected] and a non-KU reply
address.
Julie Fugett, information securi-
ty analyst for Information Services,
said this was the first e-mail warn-
ing the office sent to avoid filling
the inboxes of University students
and faculty.
“You cry wolf too many times
and people will be like, ‘there they
go again,’” Fugett said.
Myers said the office received
hundreds of reports a week of
phishing messages and thousands
of attacks on the University’s net-
work.
Fugett said some people even
reported the office’s alert e-mail to
[email protected] as spam.
“People really hate getting these
things,” Fugett said. “They get tired
of it.”
Fugett said fewer than 10 people
replied to the last spear phishing
message, which the office consid-
ered a threat.
Fugett said spear phishing mes-
sages were first reported to the
office last March. She said each
round of phishing attacks looked a
little different.
“Since people change their tac-
tics, we are playing catch-up to
update our defenses,” Fugett said.
Fugett said after four to five
reports of a specific phishing mes-
sage, she would begin to draft an
alert to post at the office’s Web
site, www.security.ku.edu, and its
beseKUre blog site, www.besekure.
ku.edu.
Links to the security alerts are
also posted on student portals
and occasionally on Outlook Web
Access.
The office works loosely with the
University Privacy Office to handle
phishing and spear phishing mes-
sages and their potential threats.
Jane Rosenthal, privacy coordina-
tor and custodian of records for
the privacy office, said her office
handled University information
security issues.
“Security and privacy go hand
in hand,” Rosenthal said. “If there
were a phishing message of some
flavor and it gave out University
information, we would step in.”
— Edited by Kelsey Hayes
news 3A Friday, august 22, 2008
campus
Security ofce sends warning about fraudulent e-mails
what’s phishing?
Phishing is a fraudulent
e-mail that looks like it was
sent by a legitimate busi-
ness to get the recipient to
give out private informa-
tion.
Spear phishing is a fraudu-
lent e-mail targeted at a
specifc person that looks
like it was sent by a person
or organization familiar to
the recipient.
InternatIonal
Global warming gives far north new sea route
How to recognize a phishing e-mail
The date is
in European
format, not
American.
Grammatical
errors show
English is not
the sender’s
native lan-
guage.
The Univer-
sity will never
ask you to
verify your
password.
They have it
in encrypted
format.
It may ask
for other
information
to make it
appear more
legitimate.
Sandra
Dubois does
not work
for Online
Services. The
staf directory
is available
online.
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New exhibit at Spencer Museum of Art explores time
BY BRANDY ENTSMINGER
[email protected]
An art exhibition exploring the
representation of time throughout
history and within cultures will
open at the Spencer Museum of
Art on Aug. 23.
The exhibition, Time/Frame,
was organized by graduate student
interns at the museum.
Kate Meyer, curatorial assistant
at the museum, said the exhibition
was divided into four sub-themes:
Short Time, Long Time, Lifetime
and Beyond Time.
“We all worked together to make
it seem like it was coming from one
uniform voice,” Meyer said.
Meyer said visitors would enter
the exhibition through an area that
featured a series of clocks. One of
the clocks is a Hawaiian necklace
that measures time as it burns. The
necklace is made of nuts that each
take 15 minutes to burn.
The Short Time category of the
exhibition addresses increments
of time and includes pieces such
as a stop-motion photograph of a
squash game.
The Long Time category focus-
es on different representations of
cyclical events such as seasons.
It features both a series of 17th
century Dutch
paintings and
a series of
Japanese paint-
ings from 1895.
Meyer said it
was exciting
to see how dif-
ferent cultures
depicted the
seasons.
Meyer said
the Lifetime
category focused on measuring
time through personally signifi-
cant events. One series of works
is arranged to represent a lifetime,
beginning with eggs and finishing
with skeletons.
The fourth sub-theme, Beyond
Time, features abstract concepts
such as meditation, death and time
travel.
E l l e n
R a i m o n d ,
Naperville, Ill.,
graduate stu-
dent, worked
on the exhibi-
tion and said
the lifetime
series showed
how much
fun the interns
had putting it
together.
“It’s playful but at the same
time there is a seriousness to it,”
Raimond said.
Meyer said this was the first
show where pieces from the
Spooner Hall collection of over
10,000 artifacts had been included.
Recent graduate Stephanie
Teasley worked with the artifacts
and said they were integrated into
the show to
demonst r at e
the continuity
of time.
Gr a d u a t e
student interns
Robert Fucci,
S h u y u n
Ho, Lauren
Kernes, Lara
Kuy ke nda l l ,
Raimond and Teasley began work
on the Time/Frame exhibition last
August.
Meyer acted as project man-
ager and said this was the first time
interns at the museum had come
together to work on a collective
project.
“It was exciting to see all our
different interpretations of time,”
Raimond said.
Meyer said the idea for Time/
Frame began
with a planned
e x h i b i t i o n
and artist talk
by Wendell
Castle, artist
and University
graduate. The
exhibition will
consist of five
clock sculp-
tures created by Wendell.
The Time/Frame exhibition will
run through Dec. 14 and the Castle
exhibition will open Sept. 20.
— Edited by Arthur Hur
campus
New health insurance plan ofers more benefts for students
BY JOE PREINER
[email protected]
A newly revised student health
insurance plan is now available to
KU students looking for coverage
this academic year.
The new plan, which the Kansas
Board of Regents oversees, offers
coverage for students for less than
$1,000 per year.
The injury and sickness insur-
ance plan is designed specifically
to cater to international, health sci-
ence and graduate students. While
many graduate students are eligible
for GTA/GRA coverage, the ones
who are not can apply for the new
plan.
Diana Malott, assistant direc-
tor of Student Health Services at
Watkins Memorial Health Center,
said she was pleased with the
changes the new plan included,
such as raising the dollar amount
for which students would be cov-
ered.
“Coverage is just much better
with the new plan,” Malott said.
“We’ve really seen enrollment start
to climb.”
Malott said she didn’t have
enrollment numbers because the
plan is so new.
Though Malott said many health
insurance plans cost less than the
one being offered, she said cheaper
plans usually come with fewer ben-
efits.
One goal the insurance compa-
ny, United Health Care and Student
Resources, wanted to achieve was
to keep the price for the revised
plan less than $1000.
“What we want to really do here
is provide students with what they
need,” Malott said.
Hannah Hendricks, El Dorado
first-year pharmacy student,
recently applied for the new insur-
ance plan. She said that the plan
was cost-effective, which worked
well for students who are short on
cash. Although she had not had
any serious medical issues, she said
having the insurance made her feel
more secure.
“I went four years without insur-
ance,” Hendricks said. “Don’t go
without it because something will
happen, believe me.”
Some students are covered by
their parents’ health insurance
policy. Malott said most insurance
policies discontinue that coverage
when individuals reach age 23.
Andrea Gore, assistant supervi-
sor of records and regulations at
Watkins, said her son attended the
University and was nearing that
age. She said she would encour-
age him to look into getting health
insurance, and that she would sug-
gest the new plan. Gore also said
the plan was reasonable and a
good idea for people still in school
but cut off from their parents’
plan.
Students can apply for the
health insurance plan online or
by mail. Applications are available
in Watkins during business hours.
Students can buy the policy annu-
ally or by semester on the United
Health Care Web site at www.
uhcsr.com, with prices varying
accordingly.
The plan will be effective imme-
diately for students needing quick
coverage.
— Edited by AdamMowder
Student Insurance Plan
Fall/spring semester rates
(per semester cost):
$409 for students,
$2098 for student plus spouse,
$1864 for student and all
children,
$3553 for student, spouse and
all children
summer plan rates:
$180 for students
$921 for student plus spouse
$818 for student and all
children
$1559 for student, spouse and
all children
annual plan rates:
$998 for students
$5117 for student plus spouse
$4546 for student and all
children
$8665 for student, spouse and
all children
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Watkins Memorial Health
Center
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Top: Kris Ercums, curator of Asian art at the Spencer Museumof Art, works Tuesday at the museumin preparation for the Time/Frame
exhibit. The exhibit is expected to open this week and coincides with the museum’s showing of the movie“Back to the Future”onThursday night.
Right: Richard Klocke, exhibition designer at the Spencer Museumof Art, prepares for the Time/Frame exhibit Tuesday alongside some of
the artwork.
We all worked together to make
it seem like it was coming from
one uniform voice.
KATE MEYER
Curatorial assistant
It’s playful but at the same time
there is a seriousness to it.
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TOPEKA — After a day of ques-
tioning applicants, a state review
board planned to vote Friday on
which companies will manage
state-owned casinos in Cherokee
and Sumner counties.
On Thursday, the seven-
member Lottery Gaming Facility
Review Board questioned three
applicants vying for the Sumner
C o u n t y
c o n t r a c t
— Harrah’s
Entertainment
Inc., Penn
N a t i o n a l
Gaming Inc.
and Marvel
G a m i n g .
Penn is the
sole applicant
for Cherokee
County.
Harrah’s casino would be in
Mulvane, while Penn and Marvel
have staked out locations near
Wellington.
Board chairman Matt All said
he wouldn’t be surprised by unani-
mous votes on the final selections.
Kansas law requires the board to
consider which contract will bring
the state the most revenue, best
promote tourism and be in the
best interest of the state, he said.
“We have to follow the law, and
following the law, and doing what
the law requires us to do, is differ-
ent from doing what we want to
do,” All said. “We may want to vote
for a particular facility, but the law
requires us to vote for another, or
we may want to vote for a particu-
lar casino but the law requires us
to send it back for more negotia-
tions.”
The board has the option of
rejecting all applicants and send-
ing their proposed contracts back
to the Kansas Lottery for more
negotiations. The Lottery will own
the new casinos.
Any applicant selected by the
review board would still undergo
a background check by the Kansas
Racing and Gaming Commission.
The review board votes Sept.
18 and 19 on four applicants for
Wyandotte County and two for
Ford County.
Much of Thursday’s discussions
focused on how each applicant
would finance
its project. All
three appli-
cants said they
had the finan-
cial ability
to build and
operate the
casino over
the life of the
15-year con-
tract, and the
board’s con-
sultants agreed.
According to Lottery officials,
Harrah’s said earlier that it wanted
to change the contract it signed in
May to remove about $50 million
in proposed retail facilities.
Dan Biles, the Lottery’ attorney,
said the idea
was rejected
because it
wouldn’t be
fair to the other
applicants. He
said Harrah’s
and other
applicants are
bound by the
terms of the
contracts they
signed with
the Lottery.
Harrah’s later called the situ-
ation a misunderstanding and
that there never were plans to cut
back.
“It’s no longer an issue. We
solved it in a different way,” said
Charles Atwood, vice president of
Harrah’s board.
Penn continued to push what
it called its “southern strategy”
— casinos in both Cherokee and
Sumner counties. Steve Snyder,
Penn senior vice president for cor-
porate development, said operat-
ing both casinos would generate
more revenue than two facilities
with different managers.
But consultant William
Eadington, of the University of
Nevada-Reno, said, “I don’t place
much credence in the southern
strategy. It’s probably overstated
as presented.”
Snyder again told the board
that Penn would move forward
in Cherokee County if it gets
the Sumner County contract but
would have to rethink its posi-
tion if that didn’t happen.
A new casino that opened
on the state line by Oklahoma’s
Quapaw Nation this summer
is expected to cut into Penn’s
potential revenue.
Consultants estimate first-
year revenue in Sumner County
at $186.5 million for Harrah’s,
$132.6 million for Marvel and
$123 million
for Penn.
Harrah’s and
Marvel ini-
tially would
pay 22 per-
cent of their
revenue to
the state
while Penn
would pay 25
percent. They
would pay
more as revenues increase.
In Cherokee County, consul-
tants estimate revenue for Penn
at $30.2 million, and the state’s
share would be 22 percent. Penn
had projected revenues of $57.4
million.
The move toward state-owned
casinos started last year with
passage of the Kansas Expanded
Lottery Act. After the contracts
were signed with the Lottery in
May, the review board conducted
public hearings and meetings.
In June, the Kansas Supreme
Court ruled that state would truly
own and operate the new gam-
bling, ending any constitutional
question about the new law.
Voters amended the state
Constitution in 1986 to allow a
state-owned and operated lottery,
and the court said in 1994 that the
term “lottery” is broad enough to
include slots and other games.
news 5A Friday, aUGUST 22, 2008
BY JESSE TRIMBLE
[email protected]
The Robert J. Dole Institute of
Politics will begin its Dole Forum
series this year
with “Iraq: What
Went Wrong?
What’s Next?”
The event
will feature three
expert speakers
on the war in
Iraq.
The speakers
include Adrian R. Lewis, profes-
sor of history, retired Col. Kevin
Benson and Donald Wright, author
of “On Point II: Transition to the
New Campaign. The U.S. Army
in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM,
May 2003 to January 2005,” the
Army’s official history of the war
in Iraq.
Bill Lacy, director of the Dole
Institute, said he wanted to remind
students of the importance of the
Iraq War in the upcoming presi-
dential election.
“I think, number one, that this
is arguably the most pressing issue
the next president is going to face,”
Lacy said. “What we tried to do is
structure a program that would
focus on what hasn’t worked,
what’s gone wrong and at the same
time, what we can do about it.”
Wright said he thought the lec-
ture would be important to dis-
pel many of the false assumptions
concerning the war.
“There has been a lot of ques-
tioning during this period,”
Wright said. “All of it has forced
Americans to ask themselves
‘What are we willing to do in the
name of national defense? Give
up rights to make our nation
more secure?’”
Wright’s book focuses on the
Army’s reaction to the war. He
said the book’s readers have been
surprised that the Army would
disclose unfavorable information
about itself.
“The purpose of the book is
to tell the story and for the Army
and its members to learn from it,”
Wright said. “Civilians sometimes
don’t understand that the Army is
trying very diligently to learn from
its mistakes.”
Lewis, also the director of the
University’s Fort Leavenworth
Program, soon to be called the
Office of Graduate Professional
Military Education, said he
thought people were a bit con-
fused as to what was really going
on in the war.
“There are a lot of myths about
the war in Iraq, I see it on TV
all the time and it’s completely
wrong,” Lewis said.
As a liaison between Fort
Leavenworth and KU, Lewis helps
push certain programs to help offi-
cers earn advanced degrees related
to special operations, local govern-
ment and special agencies, and
areas and cultures of the world.
Benson will also be a speaker
at the forum. As a retired colo-
nel for the Army, Benson, was
director of plans at the beginning
of Operation Iraqi Freedom from
July 2002 to July 2003.
Lewis said the forum would
raise issues that should be impor-
tant to students.
“This country is at war and
people aren’t really paying atten-
tion because there isn’t a draft,”
Lewis said. “We are spending over
$100 billion a year on this and it
translates to money that doesn’t
get spent on health care, highways,
universities even. It affects every
American.”
The forum begins at 5:30 p.m.
on Sunday at the Dole Institute.
—Edited by Brieun Scott
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA
[email protected]
The University of Kansas
increased the amount of garbage it
recycled last year by 5 percent.
The University recycled 542.4
tons of garbage, including paper,
aluminum and
cardboard, in
the 2008 fis-
cal year. That
was an increase
from the previ-
ous year, when
517 tons of gar-
bage were recy-
cled, accord-
ing to the KU
Recycling ton-
nage report.
C e l e s t e
Hoins, administrative manager of
the Environmental Stewardship
Program, said the program’s new
services increased the conve-
nience of recycling on campus.
The recycling project, funded by
the Kansas Department of Health
and Environment, promotes paper
recycling in the offices of sev-
eral campus buildings, including
Strong, Haworth and Summerfield
halls. The program also added more
cardboard recycling locations.
The amount of cardboard recy-
cled last year increased more than
10 percent from the previous year,
according to the tonnage report.
KU Recycling is funded by stu-
dent fees, Facilities Operations,
and revenues
from the sale
of recyclable
materials.
Hoins said
the service
helped the
Un i v e r s i t y
achieve its
sustainability
goals.
“We employ
students, and
KU student
government has proved that they
want campus recycling by support-
ing recycling through student ref-
erendums and fees,” Hoins said.
Hoins said the stewardship pro-
gram wanted to add new recycling
locations.
The Environmental Stewardship
Program also works with student
groups to raise awareness about the
importance of recycling.
KU Environs, one of those stu-
dent groups, collaborated with
the stewardship program to start
electronic waste recycling at the
University in the fall.
Ryan Callihan, Lenexa senior
and vice president of KU Environs,
said the University provided a good
recycling system and many stu-
dents learned the benefits of recy-
cling, but that some people could
put more effort in recycling.
He said that people could recy-
cle in their homes and could drop
off their recyclables while running
errands.
Jeff Severin, director of the KU
Center for Sustainability, said the
center updated checklists on its
Web site to promote sustainability
at work and at home, including tips
for recycling and waste reduction.
“We encourage waste reduction,
which is, I think, just as important
as recycling,” Severin said.
For example, he said, reducing
the margin of Word documents
and printing on both sides of paper
would contribute significantly to
reducing paper waste.
— Edited by Rachel Burchfeld
Wright
Students will be
able to question
guest speakers on
aspects of the war
Sunday night at
the Dole Institute
Recycling on campus increases
as KU becomes more sustainable
Program’s services contribute to rise in conservation
Forum features Iraq experts
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aries (March 21-april 19)
today is a 7
You’re entering a very busy
phase. No worries. It’s actually
going to be fun, most of the
time. You can also make lots of
money, which certainly helps.
taurus (april 20-May 20)
today is a 9
You may feel like a million
bucks, but you’re still practical.
This will help you keep from
falling for a silly scheme. Have
high hopes, but also do the
math.
gemini (May 21-June 21)
today is a 6
You’re entering a four-week
domestic phase. You’re not
really hiding out; you’re getting
energized. You’re not lazy,
you’re resting. And enjoying
your home.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
today is a 9
You can clearly see what will
work and what will fail. Stick
with the practical plan. Don’t
waste your time on unsubstan-
tiated fantasies.
Leo (July 23-aug. 22)
today is a 7
Considering your responsi-
bilities, it’ll be good to bring in
a little more money. Reassure
your partner that you can do so
without stressing the relation-
ship.
Virgo (aug. 23-Sept. 22)
today is a 9
You’ll have the advan-
tage for the next four weeks,
although there will be chal-
lenges. It ought to be very
interesting, actually. Make a list
of what you’ll accomplish.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
today is a 6
You can be a very practical
person, if you put your mind
to it. You don’t have to tell any-
body, though. Let them think
you have fabulous wealth.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
today is a 9
With you in the driver’s seat,
the goals get accomplished
sooner. The whole team is
happier, knowing what they’re
supposed to do and what is
not allowed. You leave no room
for doubt.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.
21)
today is a 7
When you’re in charge,
you have to make sure the job
gets done. You don’t neces-
sarily have to do it. However, if
you’re going to delegate, get
somebody reliable. And check
up often.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
today is a 9
Don’t worry about the costs;
go ahead and splurge. Special
time spent with loved ones
justifes a special treat. Get the
strawberry and rocky road as
well as vanilla!
aquarius (Jan. 20-feb. 18)
today is a 5
For the next four weeks,
accuracy is required. Overlook
a detail and it’ll be pointed out
to you. You’ll even be reminded
of what you said before. Keep
your numbers and your stories
straight.
Pisces (feb. 19-March 20)
today is an 8
Ignore whatever it was that
you’ve been worried about. Let
somebody else handle that,
for now. Concentrate on what
you’re doing well, and go for
mastery.
ENtERtaiNMENt
Seinfeld to endorse Microsoft
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Junior Mints,
Yoo-hoo, Drake’s Coffee Cakes,
puffy shirts: These are all things
Jerry Seinfeld has endorsed — at
least in his alter ego on his classic
sitcom. Now, add Microsoft soft-
ware.
Seinfeld will be a key pitch-
man in a planned $300 million
fall advertising campaign for the
software giant, a person familiar
with the plans confirmed to The
Associated Press on condition on
anonymity because the deal has not
been formally announced.
The Wall Street Journal first
reported the plans. Citing people
close to the situation, it report-
ed the comedian will be paid $10
million for appearing in ads with
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
It’s Microsoft’s latest move to try
to capture some of the cool quo-
tient that rival Apple has appeared
to win so effortlessly.
But for younger consumers
especially, can Seinfeld turn the
image tide for Microsoft?
“Seinfeld does represent sort of
a challenge,” says Brian Steinberg,
television editor for the weekly
advertising magazine Ad Age. “He’s
not Dane Cook. He’s got a more
sophisticated everyday take on
things. He often comes across as a
questioner of conventional wisdom
but also can be kind of a crank.
It’s a fine line to walk when you’re
dealing with a younger person.”
Steinberg did point out that the
firm producing the spots — Crispin
Porter and Bogusky — is known for
creating commercials that appeal
to young males, particularly in its
campaigns for Burger King.
Seinfeld has shown himself to
be a superior promoter in the past,
particularly for American Express
(which also featured Patrick
Warburton as Superman) and in
selling his Dreamworks animated
film “Bee Movie” last summer.
For “Bee Movie,” which Seinfeld
co-wrote, co-produced and voiced,
he also created 20 “TV juniors,”
which seemed
less like com-
mercials than
o n e - mi n u t e
bite-sized bits
of comedy. The
extensive pro-
motion of the
film began with
him dressing up
as a giant bee at
the Cannes Film
Festival.
“You gotta
sell it,” Seinfeld told the AP last
year. “I’ve never been uncomfort-
able with that aspect. I don’t feel
like it’s beneath me to sell what I
did.”
But Seinfeld’s greatest triumph
— the nine seasons of “Seinfeld”
— ended more than 10 years ago,
which means that many young
computer users were still watching
cartoons during his pop culture
dominance.
Of course, the show is still on
nightly reruns and Seinfeld has
been active on the standup circuit.
There have
even been
efforts to bring
“ S e i n f e l d ”
to younger
demographics.
Sony Pictures
Te l e v i s i o n ,
which distrib-
utes “Seinfeld”
in U.S. syndi-
cation, is hold-
ing a 26-city
promotion in a
cross-country bus tour of colleges.
Calls to Seinfeld’s agent and man-
ager went unreturned Thursday.
Vista, Microsoft’s latest operat-
ing system that launched with the
slogan “The Wow starts now,” has
received mostly negative publicity
since its release last year. But sales
have been strong, since more than
90 percent of PCs sold worldwide
run Windows.
Apple’s ad campaign “Get a
Mac” pits a coat-and-tie clad older
guy (John Hodgman) representing
a PC, against jeans and T-shirt-
wearing Justin Long, who plays
the Mac. The commercials have
also poked fun at Vista.
Steinberg said this latest cam-
paign by Microsoft shows that the
rivalry between the software com-
pany and Apple is reaching the
intensity of Coke and Pepsi’s cola
wars of years ago.
It’s also possible Seinfeld seems
more like a Mac guy, Steinberg
said.
After all, it’s a Macintosh that’s
seen in the background of his
apartment on “Seinfeld.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerry Seinfeld attends the premiere of “Sex and the City”at Radio City Music Hall in NewYork
on May 26. The Wall Street Journal reported onThursday, Aug. 21 that Seinfeld will be a key
pitchman in a planned $300 million fall ad campaign for the software giant Microsoft.
He’s not Dane Cook. He’s got a
more sophisticated everyday
take on things. He often comes
across as a questioner...
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TV editor, Ad Age
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Even though gas prices have
waxed and waned recently, they
seem to have temporarily settled
around $3.55 in Kansas, a 30
percent increase from last year,
according to GasBuddy.com.
Luckily, KU students last year
voted to pass a referendum that
opened bus transport to all with
the addition of a student fee.
With these changes, students can
move toward negating at least
two long lasting complaints, a
lack of parking on campus and
the high price of gas.
More importantly, though,
students can move towards
instilling a progressive support
for public transit at the University
and in Lawrence.
Starting with the first day of
school, students can board buses
on campus without needing to
show any ID. Students catching
the bus off campus must provide
a KUID. The Lawrence Public
Transit System, known as the T,
is also free to students who have
the updated KUID.
All of these moves are
designed to increase bus rider-
ship and should resolve long-
standing grievances about park-
ing on campus.
Parking issues have become
especially contentious since con-
struction of a football practice
facility began. During construc-
tion, 667 parking spots were sup-
posed to be replaced, but 222
spots still have not been replaced
Even back in 2005, Chance
Management Associates, a pro-
fessional parking consultant, said
parking on campus was inad-
equate.
Regardless of talk from the
Parking or Athletics depart-
ments, parking will always be
limited on a campus built on a
hill. Buses hold the long-term
key to parking problem on cam-
pus.
Most of the failures of mass
transit come from a lack of infor-
mation about how the system
works. KU On Wheels should
increase knowledge about routes
and times to the student body
by distributing maps on cam-
pus or including a prominent
link on the University’s homep-
age. Student understanding and
acceptance of the system is criti-
cal to ensuring the success of
public transit.
The city of Lawrence, espe-
cially south of 23rd Street and
west of Iowa Street, has been
designed for the car. Miles of
roads paved the way for expan-
sion into western and southern
Lawrence and the construction
of massive student apartment
complexes. All of this has led to
sprawl and low population den-
sity: the twin enemies of effective
public transit.
Alone, Lawrence’s T System
has not been effective at reduc-
ing the number of drivers com-
ing to campus. The University
and the city of Lawrence have
discussed integrating their sys-
tems, but current efforts have
stalled in the face of possible
financial problems for the T.
Students may hold the key
to saving the T, which will be
scrapped if a sales tax is not
passed on the November ballot.
If students increase their use of
the KU bus system and the T,
they would see the necessity to
save Lawrence’s only method of
mass transit.
Although mass transit is espe-
cially important for international
students, who typically don’t
own cars, it benefits anyone who
would otherwise pay for gas.
Reducing overall gas consump-
tion in Lawrence would also help
the city maintain its environ-
mentally friendly mantra.
Students should take advan-
tage of a system that they are
required to pay for. Many stu-
dents come from cities where
public transit isn’t a viable option,
but by experimenting with the
KU and city bus systems, they
may find a few less issues to com-
plain about.
—Alex Doherty for the
editorial board
If America is addicted to oil
then we’re addicted to corn. And
as with oil, those with the lowest
incomes are hit the hardest when
prices of gasoline and food go up.
As college students, a lot of us
are in that low-income bracket.
Don’t worry though, the govern-
ment has your back. Washington
has responded to the problem with
another solution in the form of
stimulus checks. Wait, you already
spent yours?
To make matters worse, while
people are increasingly experienc-
ing “sticker shock” at the grocery
store, the government continues
to encourage the use of etha-
nol through subsidies and mix-
ing requirements. Along with
the increase in the price of oil,
America’s increasing reliance on
corn ethanol has significantly
increased the cost of food.
Ignoring that it’s less fuel effi-
cient than gasoline, requires more
energy to produce than is gained
and that it won’t support the
amount of fuel necessary to fuel
the economy, at best the use of
corn-based ethanol has saved no
money. Any money claimed to be
saved at the pump as been lost at
the grocery store.
Poultry, beef, pork, cereal,
soft drinks and many juices also
rely heavily on corn products in
their production. Corn for fuel is
increasingly competing with corn
for food.
In 2006, a bushel of corn was $2,
but this June it reached more than
$7 a bushel. However, instead of
rolling back the ethanol subsidies,
which would lower the price of
food, the government has gone in
the opposite direction.
In December, Congress
increased the amount of ethanol
that states are required to mix in
gasoline. The new bill mandates
that 36 billion gallons of ethanol be
mixed with gasoline by 2020. That’s
is 27 billion gallons more than the
2009 requirement.
So not only are taxpayers paying
to pay more at the grocery store,
but are headed to pay even more
for higher prices as the corn supply
is further strained. Last year, The
Boston Globe reported that food
prices were increasing at the fastest
rate since 1990.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry spent
the last few months unsuccess-
fully lobbying the Environmental
Protection Agency to cut the etha-
nol requirement for Texas in half,
but his request was rejected. Citing
skyrocketing corn feed prices,
Perry argued the ethanol mandate
was bankrupting cattle producers
in his state.
Though the corn ethanol indus-
try is not going to disappear over-
night, eliminating the subsidies
for it and mixing requirements are
the first two steps in encourag-
ing alternatives. According to Slate
magazine, subsidies paid for etha-
nol were $37 billion from 1995 to
2003.
However, since its unlikely etha-
nol use is going to go away entirely,
it would at least make more sense if
the United States abandoned corn-
based ethanol and started using
other crops, such as sugar cane or
beets. Both crops are about twice as
energy efficient as corn and beets
don’t have the problem like corn
and sugar do with competing with
the food supply.
Other countries have started
using both for energy. Brazil has
taken the lead on sugar cane eth-
anol, and France produces beet-
based ethanol.
Investment in alternative energy
sources is a good thing, but only
provided that those alternatives are
better than what we have now.
Mangiaracina is a Lenexa
senior in journalism.
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thE contEXt
The number of football players
you will see practicing on the
newly constructed football felds.
thE big PictuRE
Because the new felds can be
clearly seen from nearby streets,
coach Mark Mangino moved
practices to the slightly-more-
secluded-but-not-really Memorial
Stadium to keep apparently clas-
sifed plays from being leaked.
The lines painted on the feld look
similar enough to lines in a park-
ing lot, so maybe students can
reclaim some of our lost territory.
thE contEXt
The amount, in dollars, for three
new Segway scooters used by
campus police.
thE big PictuRE
Although the University should
take the environment into con-
sideration when purchasing new
vehicles, the best way to go green
is to not drive any vehicles when
possible. Even electric vehicles
are indirectly polluting because
Lawrence’s electricity comes from
a coal-fred power plant. Student
Senate paid at least part of the
cost of the Segways.
thE contEXt
The number of DUI and OUI
arrests by the Lawrence Police
Department last year.
thE big PictuRE
The Lawrence Police Department
has stepped up patrols to moni-
tor drunk driving for six years,
but the program lasts only at the
beginning of the fall semester,
and this year will end Sept. 1. To
be more efective, Lawrence and
campus police should have sobri-
ety checkpoints more frequently
and randomly throughout the
year.
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Do our cops really need to
use Segways? (“Campus police
go green,” Aug. 21) Can’t they
just walk or ride a bike? What
about when they have to arrest
someone? How will that work
out with a Segway?
They could have spent our
$15,000 better — on programs
that actually work or hiring ad-
ditional security forces. Buying
bicycles for campus cops would
have been a lot cheaper —
probably in the neighborhood
of $1,500.
—excerpted froma comment by sjschlag
Empty lot
Quite an example the
Athletics Department is setting
for those incoming freshmen
(Fans get sneak peek of football
practice, Aug. 21). The Athlet-
ics Department’s work on this
monstrosity not only was a
burden to those trying to get
to and from classes, (especially
those in the Spencer) but it has
demonstrated its complete
disregard for what the real Jay-
hawks need. I’m talking about
those of us who attend class, do
our own work, and work hard to
have stable careers and futures
from the work done on our
backs and not on everyone else.
We came after you last year, and
we’re coming after you again.
Thanks for the ammunition.
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While reading the campus
survival guide, I was attacked
by a zombie mob.
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Who is the construction on
campus benefting besides
the money-hogging
developers?
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KU should implement a
policy that if you aren’t smart
enough to fgure out the four-
way stops, you aren’t going to
college anymore.
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So the Athletics Depart-
ment killed hundreds of stu-
dent parking spaces to build
a feld that it won’t even use? I
want my parking lot back.
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Maury should change the
name of his shows to “Is He
the Father?”
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He always sends me mes-
sages when he misses her. I
should have ignored him. I’m
worth more than being some
guy’s “go-to-girl.”
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Thank you, Parking Depart-
ment. I parked in the garage
and was there way past my
time on the frst day of class,
and you didn’t ticket me.
Thanks so much!
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Epic fail.
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Free for All, I love you but
these classes are just stressing
me out way too much already.
I’m sorry but I’m breaking up
with you.
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It’s a new semester, a beau-
tiful day, the ladies are back,
and White Owl has returned.
Life is good!
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making the transition to
college can be a difcult one.
However, with that transition
comes certain responsibili-
ties. Please do not get on the
wrong bus, and then expect
the driver to drop you of at
the dorms. Read the damn
map.
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to KU!
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Third foor Watson Library
got a makeover. Check it out.
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pre-med students will never
make it into med school, yet
you walk around so proudly
with your shirts and made-up
major.
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person: It’s called an interest
code like pre-business, pre-
journalism and whatever else.
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Last year’s
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Mangi no
embraces
chal l enge
of schedule
Standing at the podium in Mrkonic
Auditorium of Kansas’ brand new state-
of-the-art Anderson Family Football
Complex, coach Mark Mangino fielded
questions about the team on its media day
on Aug. 5. There were the typical questions
that media and fans alike wonder about in
the preseason.
What’s the situation at running back?
How are the wide receivers looking this
season? What are your thoughts on your
linebackers? Who will be the kicker this
season? What’s your favorite color? Just
kidding on that last one. Sort of.
Media days are basically a time when
reporters can get a feel for what to expect
of the team in the upcoming season. The
questions are usually straightforward, no
nonsense and to the point, and so are the
answers. It’s almost as if both reporters
and coaches rehearsed their questions and
answers beforehand.
One question that Mangino has been
asked repeatedly about is last season’s suc-
cess being a result of a “cupcake” sched-
ule. Mangino’s response was just about the
same as his response to the question at Big
12 media day.
“Just stop and think for a minute that
Kansas’ football coach has been asked
about his 2008 schedule not being tough
in a year where they defeated Nebraska,
Texas A&M, Colorado and Virginia Tech,”
said Mangino. “All that tells me is that we’re
making progress, if you’re asking me those
questions.”
Mangino makes a good point. Virginia
Tech, Kansas’ opponent in last year’s Orange
Bowl, played for the national champion-
ship in 2000. Kansas’ coach after the 2000
season was Terry Allen, who had a 20-33
record in five seasons with the Jayhawks
before Mangino replaced him. Had Doc
Brown from “Back to the Future” rolled
up in a DeLorean powered by plutonium
and told him they would beat those teams,
Allen would have asked, “Does that mean I
get to keep my job?”
But Mangino has a point: even if it is
rehearsed. Allen’s 2000 team went 4-7 (2-6
Big 12), which means there has been a
changing of the guards in the Big 12 and
Kansas has made progress. ESPN’s Big 12
writer Tim Griffin, who has covered the
Big 12 teams for 24 years, also thinks so.
“(The) Jayhawks could be better than
last season — even if their record won’t
reflect it,” he said on Aug. 5.
And progress is what Mangino and the
Jayhawks have done and hope to continue
to do. In 119 years of Kansas football, there
has been no greater opportunity for the
team to do something it has never done: go
to back-to-back bowls. Sure, Kansas may
have had an easier schedule than they will
have this year because they have to play AP
ranked No. 4 Oklahoma, No. 6 Missouri,
No. 11 Texas, No. 12 Texas Tech and No.
19 South Florida.
“Yes, does the schedule get a little tough-
er? It sure does,” said Mangino at Kansas’
media day. “All I’m looking for here is con-
tinuingly getting better.”
With Mark Mangino’s “one game at a
time” approach the Jayhawks took to reach
a 12-1 record last season, progress can be
made.
— Edited by Arthur Hur
By Bryan Wheeler
[email protected]
With the season beginning, question of leadership emerges
BasketBall
By case keeFer
[email protected]
Sherron Collins, wearing a white prac-
tice jersey, slowly walked into the Kansas
locker room after the Jayhawks’ first prac-
tice of the season Thursday night.
It might have looked like the junior
guard just practiced with his teammates,
but he hadn’t. And the problem wasn’t his
knee. Collins spent the last four months
recovering from surgery, but doctors
declared his knee healthy enough to play
three weeks ago.
But Collins didn’t condition well enough
during the recovery and was in poor shape.
Kansas coach Bill Self said it was bad
enough that he couldn’t practice.
“He’s a month behind where I thought
he’d be at this stage,” Self said.
Add another chapter to the well-publi-
cized battle Collins has faced keeping his
weight down. Self said he didn’t know how
much Collins weighed at the moment, but it
wasn’t his ideal playing size of 195 pounds.
Fans expect Collins, who is the only
returning player who averaged more than
10 minutes per game last season, to be the
leader of the defending national champi-
ons.
But Self has his doubts. He said Collins
didn’t make a good first impression on his
coaches or teammates by having to sit out
of practice. Self doesn’t know if Collins can
be the leader.
“I’d like for him to become that, but
based on him not reporting back in shape
doesn’t go very far in him becoming that
with me,” Self said. “That’s how I see it.”
Collins spent the two hours and twenty
minutes of practice with trainers to help
FootBall
Redshirt freshmen pair with vets on ofensive line
By B.J. rains
[email protected]
At 6-foot-6, 314 pounds, Jeff Spikes
wouldn’t be your typical kicker.
But because the number of kickers on
the roster continues to dwindle, coach
Mark Mangino figures to go looking for
a backup kicker anywhere he can find
him. And though Spikes has already
nailed down a starting spot at left tackle,
he’d gladly step back and launch a few
kicks if called upon.
“I actually kicked in high school,”
said Spikes, a redshirt freshman from
Painseville, Ohio. “It’s funny because
most of my teammates don’t believe
me, but I kicked off and had a lot of
touchbacks. I kicked one extra point
when our field goal kicker got hurt dur-
ing the game. It went off the goalpost
and went in. I’m always willing to do
whatever I have to do to help my team.”
Spikes joked about the possibility
two weeks ago when the Jayhawks had
four viable kickers on the roster, but the
matter may not be as funny now that
the Jayhawks appear to be down to just
one kicker.
Chances are Spikes won’t get his chance
to kick, but just nailing down a starting
spot on the offensive line and being able to
ready for redemption
soccer
By anDreW WieBe
[email protected]
Jessica Bush saw the frustration and
heartbreak on the faces of last year’s
seniors after a miserable start derailed
their final campaign in crimson and
blue.
She saw just how quickly NCAA
Soccer Tournament dreams slip through
your fingers when seven of the first nine
games end in defeat.
Now the senior midfielder finds her-
self in the same position. One year left,
only 19 games remaining and no sec-
ond chances to fall back on.
“It’s really emotional knowing going
into your senior year that this is it,”
Bush said. “In four months everything
you worked for pretty much your whole
life is going to be done, and you don’t
want to see what happened last year
happen to you.”
Today Bush and fellow seniors Missy
Geha, Kristin Graves, Sara Rogers and
Stephanie Baugh get their first chance
at redemption against the nationally
ranked Purdue Boilermakers at the
Jayhawk Soccer Complex.
Kansas returns eight of 11 starters
from the team that finished third in the
ultra-competitive Big 12 Conference
last season despite a disastrous 1-7-1 non-
conference record. Nevertheless, this is
different squad than the one coach Mark
Francis had at his disposal in 2007.
For starters, the Jayhawks have reload-
ed offensively after being shut down eight
times last season and averaging barely
better than a goal per contest. Freshman
forwards Emily Cressy and Kortney
Clifton should step in and start imme-
diately to support junior forward Kim
Boyer if Saturday’s 3-0 exhibition win
against Drake is any indication.
Cressy’s debut simply couldn’t have
gone any better. After redshirting last
season, the Ventura, Calif., native scored
twice against the Bulldogs in her first
game as a Jayhawk. Complementing
her predatory instincts in front of goal
is Clifton, who finished her high school
career as the state of Kansas’ most prolific
scorer and figures to see significant time
as a true freshman.
“Goal scoring is just a knack,” Francis
said. “You either can do it or you can’t.
Emily is a goal scorer. That’s why we
recruited her. Kortney Clifton is a goal
scorer. That’s why we recruited her.
Kansas’ revamped offense should be
bolstered even more by the formation
change Francis and associate head coach
Kelly Miller began tinkering with this
spring. The team previously employed
Geha as a lone holding midfielder while
two attacking midfielders pushed forward
into the final third.
Upon Miller’s suggestion, Francis said
they began toying with pairing the defen-
sive-minded Geha with Bush to bring
more balance and flexibility to the middle
of the field.
Against Drake the duo showed off the
kind of familiarity and combination play
that comes with more than three years
together in Lawrence. While provid-
ing cover for the defense, Bush’s incisive
runs through midfield will give Kansas
a dynamic force from midfield that it
lacked in 2007.
Geha said sharing defensive responsi-
bilities with Bush allowed them to defend
together and pass their way out of trouble
along with opening opportunities for
both to get forward.
Along with junior midfielder Monica
Dolinsky, Francis said this is the deepest
midfield he has had in nine years at the
helm. UCLA transfer Sarah Salazar could
also see time along with returning sopho-
mores Erin Ellefson and Rachel Morris.
“They are really the engines,” he said
of what has become a crowded stable of
quality players. “I think if those guys are
playing well then we’ll play well.”
Meanwhile, Francis shouldn’t have to
worry about depth or talent defensively
either only a year after being forced to
throw freshman Katie Williams into the
fire.
Williams responded so well that
Soccer Buzz named her to the Central
Region All-Freshman Team after start-
ing 18 matches and scoring three goals.
Junior Estelle Johnson was a third team
all-region selection as well. Junior Jenny
Murtaugh, a 2006 All-Big 12 Second
Team selection who took a redshirt last
year due to injury, also returns to give the
Jayhawks depth where they sorely lacked
it last season.
Johnson have assumed the role of
defensive leader, and said she looked for-
ward to seeing the results of having con-
tinuity in the back for a full season with
Williams.
“It’s relieving because last year we
had to throw Katie in the middle, but I
think she’s adjusted well,” she said. “She’s
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freshman ofensive lineman jefspikes, left, squares ofagainst senior ofensive lineman Adrian Mayes during a back-and-forth hitting drill at Friday morning’s open
practice.
see Football On page 3B
see Soccer On page 3B
An unconditioned Collins may not play in
exhibition game; Aldrich could head team
see baSketball On page 3B
Weston White/Kansan
seniors Missy geha, jessica Bush and junior estelle johnson look to start of the season better than last year’s 1-7-1 disaster. They will get their frst chance to start the
2008 season on the right foot today when they play Purdue.
Olympics
Performance in fnals
approaching for Russell
Scott Russell is one round clos-
er to his Olympic javelin dream.
On Wednesday in Beijing, the
former Kansas track and feld
athlete and current KU grad stu-
dent advanced to the fnals of the
javelin competition at the Olympic
Games.
Russell, a Windsor, Canada, na-
tive, threw 80.42 meters — 263.1
ft. — on his frst attempt, qualify-
ing him for the fnals. After quali-
fying on his frst throw, Russell
passed up his next two attempts
to save energy lfor the fnal.
“I made the fnal and I’m ready
to run,” Russell told the Windsor
Star.
Russell, who won multiple
national championships in track
and feld while at Kansas, qualifed
sixth.
Vadims Vasilevskis of Latvia, sil-
ver medallist four years posted the
top qualifying throw, heaving his
javelin a distance of 83.51 meters.
Russell will throw sixth in the
fnals, which are scheduled to
begin at 6:10 a.m. Saturday.
Russell’s dad told the Kansan
before the Olympics that while
making the fnals was a realistic
goal, anything beyond that would
be icing on the cake.
As for Russell?
“We’ll just see,” Russell said. “I’ve
never been a gambler, although I
do like poker.”
— Rustin Dodd
Junior running back Jocques
Crawford couldn’t wait to check out
the video game
“NCAA Football
2009” on his Play
Station 3.
Crawford was
certain he’d call
up the Kansas
running back
depth chart and
find a player
listed with jersey
No. 3 — the video-game version of
himself. Only he didn’t.
“I wasn’t too happy because I
don’t know where I am on the
game,” Crawford said. “I don’t know
if I’m that No. 21. I don’t know who
that is — maybe it’s me.”
The only way to identify play-
ers on the game is by their jersey
numbers. EA Sports, the company
that created the game, cannot use
real names of players because it
would violate NCAA rules. The
absence of his
number upset
Crawford.
But that’s
not the only
p r o b l e m
Crawford had
with the game.
Even if No. 21
is supposed to
be representa-
tive of him,
he thinks the
ratings are off.
The game rates
each player on
a number of categories, with 0 being
the worst and 99 being the best. No.
21, for example, has an 87 speed
rating and a 74 strength rating. If
No. 21 is supposed to be Crawford,
he thinks he should rank higher.
“I don’t think they rated anyone
right,” Crawford said. “Our guys
have much more abilities than what
they put on the game.”
Crawford’s roommate, sopho-
more receiver Rod Harris, had a
solution for the ratings disparity.
Before Harris
went home to
Bryan, Texas at
the end of July,
he changed all
the Jayhawk
players’ overall
rating to 99.
P r o b l e m
solved. But
now Crawford
can’t play with
the Jayhawks
when he chal-
lenges team-
mates on the
video game because it would be
unfair.
When he recently played against
sophomore receiver Dezmon
Briscoe, Crawford opted to play
with West Virginia. He thought
the combination of speedy
quarterback Pat White and play-
making running back Noel Devine
would be enough to beat Briscoe,
who picked to play with Clemson.
Crawford was wrong. He said
Briscoe stuffed the Mountaineer
running game and marched to an
easy victory. Most of the Jayhawks
cited Briscoe as the best NCAA ‘09
player on the team.
“He said he was the ‘truth of the
game,’” Crawford said. “Obviously,
he is.”
Senior receiver Marcus Herford
isn’t ready to jump to the same con-
clusion. Herford says he’s a pretty
good “NCAA Football 2009” gamer
as well. He said he hadn’t played
Briscoe before but would challenge
him in the future to find out who
was the best.
Herford agreed that most of the
Jayhawks didn’t receive appropri-
ate ratings. Instead of changing
everyone to a 99 rating, however,
Herford just went player-by-player
and adjusted the numbers based on
his own opinion.
Even Jayhawks who don’t play
the game were offended by the rat-
ings. Junior safety Justin Thornton,
who prefers playing Madden video
games, said fans shouldn’t pay too
much attention to the player rat-
ings.
“How are them guys going
to know how we work and how
things really go on around here?”
Thornton asked. “They can go off
the stats and what they’ve seen but
they really don’t know what goes on
and the work we put in.”
One player who should have no
beef with the ratings is junior quar-
terback Todd Reesing. Reesing, or
No. 5 quarterback in the game,
has an overall rating of 92 — the
team-high.
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Chiefs rookie injured
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Rookie
receiver Will Franklin limped of
the Kansas City Chiefs practice
feld Thursday with a right knee
injury.
Franklin, a fourth-round pick
out of Missouri, was to see a doc-
tor later Thursday to learn the
extent of the injury.
“I took a little weird step and I
felt a little slight tweak,” Franklin
said. “It was just a little awkward
movement. I went to get (safety
Jarrad) Page and the knee just
gave out.”
Franklin said he is not con-
cerned “at all” that the injury is
serious.
The Chiefs will wait for the
doctor’s report before deciding
whether Franklin will play Satur-
day at Miami.
Going into his sophomore
season at Missouri in 2005,
Franklin sufered a meniscus tear
to the right knee, which required
arthroscopic surgery.
Franklin is the eighth of the
Chiefs’ 12 draft picks this year to
be injured in preseason.
“You can’t prevent injuries,
they happen and life goes on,”
Chiefs coach Herm Edwards said.
“The next guy gets an opportu-
nity. He’s had a good camp. He
played well for us. Hopefully, it’s
nothing serious and hopefully,
he can get back.”
Franklin had three catches for
37 yards in the frst two pre-
season games.
mlB
Dodgers beat Rockies
LOS ANGELES — Derek Lowe
knew he faced a difcult assign-
ment against the Colorado Rock-
ies. Not only were the defending
NL champions on a roll, but they
match up well against him.
So the 35-year-old right-
hander did his best to keep the
Rockies guessing.
The strategy worked.
Lowe cooled of Colorado by
allowing one run in 6 1-3 innings,
James Loney homered and drove
in two runs, and the Los Angeles
Dodgers beat the Rockies 3-1
Thursday to salvage the fnale of
a three-game series.
Manny Ramirez contributed
with a stolen base, of all things,
as the Dodgers completed their
10-game homestand with a 7-3
record and moved within 1½
games of NL West-leading Ari-
zona, which played visiting San
Diego on Thursday night.
“I think they have one of the
best ofenses we face, especially
against me. They’re all low-ball
hitters,” Lowe said. “I threw a lot
of breaking balls and tried not
to be so predictable, throwing
sinker away, sinker away. You
have to command your of-
speed pitches against this lineup.
I was fortunate to keep it to one
run.
“Manny got a stolen base to
get us going. The bullpen did a
great job.”
The loss snapped a fve-game
winning streak for the Rockies,
who scored 36 runs in three wins
in Washington and two more at
Dodger Stadium. It also ended
Colorado’s four-game winning
streak against the Dodgers.
Lowe (10-10) allowed four
hits with two walks and seven
strikeouts before relieved by
Hong-Chih Kuo after issuing a
one-out walk to Jef Baker in the
seventh.
“When he’s hitting his spots
like that, he’s tough,” Colorado’s
Ian Stewart said of Lowe. “It
seemed like (Dodgers catcher
Russell) Martin never moved his
glove from where he set up.”
Kuo struck out pinch hitter
Troy Tulowitzki before Clint
Barmes blooped a double to
right. With the tying and go-
ahead runners in scoring posi-
tion, pinch hitter Willy Tavares
popped to frst to end the inning.
Kuo then retired the Rockies
in order in the eighth, and Jona-
than Broxton worked the ninth
for his 10th save in 11 chances
since taking over the closer’s role
last month when Takashi Saito
went on the disabled list.
Broxton was the losing pitcher
Wednesday night when the
Rockies scored a run in the ninth
for a 4-3 victory.
“It was a stupid pitch on my
part,” Broxton said of the ball
Stewart hit.”
After that, the Rockies didn’t
appear to have a chance.
The Rockies scored their run
in the frst when Barmes singled,
stole second, took third on an
infeld out and came home on
Matt Holliday’s sacrifce fy.
The Dodgers tied it with an
unearned run against Jorge De
La Rosa (6-7) in the fourth when
Ramirez reached on an error by
third baseman Stewart, stole
second without a throw and
scored on Loney’s out-out single,
the frst Los Angeles hit.
Matt Kemp hit a two-out
double in the ffth and scored on
Andre Ethier’s single to put the
Dodgers ahead for good.
Lowe, who threw 107 pitches
on a hot day, worked out of
a two-out, two-on jam in the
fourth by getting De La Rosa on
a fy to left.
— Associated Press
Just ‘cross the bridge
sports 3b FRIDAY, August 22, 2008
football (continued from 1b)
contribute has him counting down
the days until the Jayhawks play
host to Florida International next
Saturday.
“I’m overwhelmed with excite-
ment,” Spikes said. “Last year was
something that couldn’t be traded
for anything, and hopefully we do
what we have to do to make it back
there again and I can contribute
and felt good about it.”
Spikes sat atop the depth chart
at left tackle since the spring game
and beat out Ian Wolfe for the spot
during camp. He was ranked as the
seventh best lineman in the state of
Ohio by Rivals.com coming out of
high school in 2007, and impressed
Mangino and the coaching staff
right away.
“He’s one of the most athletic
linemen we’ve had here,” Mangino
said. “Of course he’s young and has
a lot to learn but he’s coming along
fine. He has a chance at the end of
the day when he’s done here, to be
one of the better offensive lineman
we’ve had at Kansas.”
Just being a starter as a red-
shirt freshman is hard enough,
but having to replace a First-Team
All American in Anthony Collins
makes Spikes’ job almost impos-
sible.
“It’s going to be hard; filling his
shoes will be a great challenge,”
Spikes said. “I learned a lot from
A.C. He was a wonderful player.
Every time he came to the field he
was always energetic and loud and
some people thought it was kind of
annoying but in my mind, it was
something that helped us get ready
for practice or the game and I am
trying to take that from him.”
Spikes will join Jeremiah Hatch
as newcomers to the offensive
line this fall. Hatch, a 6-foot-3,
311-pound redshirt freshman from
Dallas, was listed on the preseason
depth chart as the second string
left guard, but Hatch beat out Matt
Darton for top right tackle spot.
He replaces Cesar Rodriguez, who
started more than 40 games during
his career at Kansas before graduat-
ing last spring.
“He is one of the hardest work-
ing and hardest playing guys we
have on the team,” Mangino said
of Hatch. “What he lacks in experi-
ence, he’ll make up with grit and
toughness and hard work.”
Joining Hatch and Spikes on
the offensive line are three return-
ing starters in center Ryan Cantrell
and guards Adrian Mayes and Chet
Hartley. Despite losing two starters
on the line, Mangino is confident
that the group will be more than
capable of protecting quarterback
Todd Reesing.
“I have confidence in all five kids
up front,” Mangino said. “The tack-
les are really developing and com-
ing along, I’m pretty pleased with
that. I think that we will be able run
the ball as much as we want. Plus,
our pass game provides creases and
opportunities to run the football.
They kind of complement each
other pretty well.”
— Edited by Kelsey Hayes
soccer (continued from 1b)
a big part of the team now, and
she knows what I want from her
and I know what she wants from
me.”
Bush knows what she wants
too. After arriving in Lawrence
on the heels of three NCAA
Tournament appearances in four
years, the team has failed to make
the postseason in each of her
three years on Mount Oread.
Today marks the first step
towards finally recapturing that
success, something that doesn’t
escape her attention.
“This is a huge game for us,”
Bush said. “I have been waiting
for this game for a long time.”
Kansas picKed to
finish sixth
Big 12 coaches picked the
Jayhawks to finish sixth out of 11
teams in 2008. Kansas finished
third in 2007. Francis said he
didn’t pay attention to preseason
rankings, but Johnson said it
would serve as motivation.
“I can’t tell you where I think
we should be because I haven’t
seen all the other teams,” Johnson
said. “But judging from last year,
I definitely don’t think we should
be sixth. I think that is going to be
motivation for all of us to go out
and knock some girls around.”
Williams suspended
Sophomore defender Katie
Williams is ineligible to play today
against Purdue after receiving a
red card against Oklahoma State
in the Big 12 Tournament last fall.
Williams started 18 games for the
Jayhawks last season, scoring
three goals.
salaZaR Yet to pass
fitness test
Francis said Wednesday that
UCLA transfer Sarah Salazar
hadn’t passed the team’s fitness
test and could be ineligible to
play today unless she passed the
test at practice Wednesday after-
noon or Thursday. Salazar rep-
resents a major recruiting coup
for Francis. She was the No. 12
ranked recruit in the nation by
RISE Magazine in the class of
2007 before spending last year as
a member of the Bruins.
GRaves status
unKnoWn
Senior defender Kristin Graves
did not dress for Saturday’s exhi-
bition against Drake, and Francis
refused to elaborate on her injury
or status for today’s game. Graves
started 15 of the final 16 games of
2007.
— Brieun Scott
obituaRY
Nfl lineman, union leader Gene Upshaw dies at 63
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Gene Upshaw,
a towering lineman on the football
field who went on to win untold
millions of dollars for NFL players
as their union leader, has died at
age 63.
Upshaw had a Hall of Fame career
as a guard for the Oakland Raiders
— a team that won two of the three
Super Bowls it reached during his
15 years in a black and silver jersey.
But his work as executive director
of the NFL Players Association over
a quarter-century was even more
important. It changed the business
side of the league.
Upshaw died Wednesday night
at his home near California’s Lake
Tahoe, of pancreatic cancer, the NFL
Players Association said Thursday.
His wife Terri and sons Eugene Jr.,
Justin and Daniel were by his side.
NFLPA president and Tennessee
Titans center Kevin Mawae said
Upshaw only learned Sunday that
he had the disease, after he fell ill
and his wife took him to the hos-
pital.
“Gene was a great player. He was
an All-Pro. He was a Hall of Famer.
If you look at the history of the NFL
you’re going to find out that he was
one of the most influential people
that the league has known. He did
so much, not only for the players,
but also for the owners, the teams,
and the game of pro football,” John
Madden, who coached Upshaw
when Oakland won its first Super
Bowl, said in a statement.
“This is deeper than head of the
union passing away, and it’s deeper
than an ex-player. This is missing
someone that is and was like family.
It’s a tough day for all of us.”
Upshaw’s death reverberated
throughout the NFL, a shock to
owners and players alike, even
those who had made him the focal
point for their complaints over pen-
sion and health benefits for retired
players.
As a player, the seven-time Pro
Bowler was one of the best ever,
elected to the Hall of Fame in 1987,
the first time he was eligible.
That also was the year Upshaw
led the second players’ strike in five
years, a short walkout that led to the
embarrassing spectacle of games
with replacement players, or “scab
football” as it was jokingly called
at the time.
By 1989, while the union was
pressing in court for a settlement,
the league implemented a limited
form of freedom, called Plan B. A
new, seven-year contract was finally
worked out in 1993, bringing in a
new age of free agency and salary
caps.
That will go down as Upshaw’s
legacy because it brought prosperity
to both union members and own-
ers, leaving many of today’s play-
ers appreciating Upshaw as a labor
leader without knowing much about
his playing career. Brandon Moore,
the New York Jets player represen-
tative was 2 years old when Upshaw
retired and said simply: “From what
I hear, he was a pretty good player.”
What Upshaw did for Moore,
and his counterparts is make them
money — the salary cap for this
season is $116 million and the play-
ers are making close to 60 percent
of the 32 teams’ total revenues, as
specified in the 2006 labor agree-
ment. The players will be paid $4.5
billion this year, according to own-
ers.
That sum led the owners to opt
out in May from the collective bar-
gaining agreement, meaning that
if no new deal is reached, there
will be an uncapped year in 2010,
the season before the contract is
expected to expire.
Upshaw, who had often been
criticized for his close relationship
with Paul Tagliabue, the former
commissioner, and Roger Goodell,
the current one, had been talking
tougher than usual about upcom-
ing negotiations, vowing that if the
cap was ever abolished, he would
never accede to a new one.
Upshaw’s death raises a big
question mark about negotia-
tions although the union’s execu-
tive committee tried to answer it
quickly by appointing the union’s
most experienced official, Richard
Berthelsen, as the interim executive
director.
Berthelsen, the NFLPA’s chief
counsel and Upshaw’s top aide, has
been involved in labor negotiations
for 37 years and is expected to steer
the union through the negotiations
and then make way for a younger
man, probably an ex-player such as
Trace Armstrong or Troy Vincent,
two past presidents, or former
Minnesota running back Robert
Smith, who has expressed an inter-
est in the job.
speed up the process of getting
him back
in shape.
Self said he
didn’t think
C o l l i n s
would be
ready for at
least anoth-
er week.
S e l f ,
h o we v e r ,
wouldn’t rule out the possibility
of Collins playing in the Jayhawks’
three exhibition games next
weekend in Canada. Kansas will
play against McGill University,
Carleton University and the
Un i v e r s i t y
of Ottawa in
Ottawa on
Aug. 30 and
Aug. 31.
Self said
Collins simply
“didn’t live up
to his end of
the bargain,”
during the
summer. He’s deferring the deci-
sion of whether or not he’ll play
in Canada to the team’s medical
staff.
“I’m not going to put him out
there until the doctors tell me,
‘Hey he’s in the condition he
needs to be to go play,’” Self said.
so Who can be the
leadeR?
Behind Collins, the Jayhawks
are noticeably short of players
with significant college basketball
experience.
He’s the team’s leading return-
ing scorer with 9.3 points per
game last season and the only
player who has started a game
for Kansas. If Collins truly won’t
be the leader of the team, Kansas
might lack anyone who can be.
Right? Not the way Self sees it.
Self said he knew exactly who
the rest of the Jayhawks could
look up to — sophomore center
Cole Aldrich.
“Cole, right now, I’d say would
lead our team hands down,” Self
said. “He would be the guy.”
Aldrich averaged eight min-
utes, three points and three
rebounds per game last season.
Aldrich saved his best game for
the Final Four contest against
North Carolina where he guard-
ed national player of the year
Tyler Hansbrough, grabbed
seven rebounds and recorded
four blocks.
extRa RunninG
Aldrich gasped for breath
as he walked toward the locker
room. Sophomore guard Tyrel
Reed put his head down toward
his sweat-soaked shirt and junior
guard Tyrone Appleton limped
toward the door.
Kansas looked like they’d just
completed a marathon – not a
basketball practice. Self said the
exhaustion came from 20 min-
utes of running he added to the
end of practice.
“We had a couple of reasons to
maybe do some extra condition-
ing at the end of our workout,”
Self said. “They’re probably not
too happy with me right now.”
self addResses
maRKieff moRRis
situation
Self didn’t want to discuss the
recent report filed against fresh-
man forward Markieff Morris,
but did say he would handle the
matter at the appropriate time.
“I think there’s probably more
to the story than what was on the
original report, no question,” Self
said. “He’ll be punished.”
Morris received an order to
appear in court last weekend after
he allegedly shot a woman with
an Airsoft rifle at the Jayhawk
Towers. His
court date is
set for Sept.
10.
eliGibilitY conceRns
Marcus and Markieff Morris
can’t attend classes or practice with
the team until the NCAA rules
them academically eligible.
— Edited by AdamMowder
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All-American Colby Wissel
is gone. So is Paul Hefferon.
But Kansas cross country coach
Stanley Redwine spoke noth-
ing but positive remarks at the
Jayhawk Olympic Media Day on
Wednesday. Despite having a rela-
tively young team, Redwine said
that the men’s cross country team
was in good shape even after only
three practices. The team lost four
seniors from last season, includ-
ing Hefferon and Wissel, the only
Jayhawk to make it to the NCAA
Championship, placing 39th over-
all. But Redwine, who welcomes
11 new runners to the team, sees
opportunities for the runners.
“They know that’s its there turn
now to step up.” Redwine said of the
returning guys on the team. One of
the guys who will be stepping up
is Bret Imgrund. The junior from
Shawnee, Kan., had strong perfor-
mances during last year. Imgrund
finished third behind Wissel and
Hefferon in almost every competi-
tion, but had a strong performance
finishing second overall behind
Wissel at the ISU Pre-Nationals.
Imgrund, who suffered a stress
reaction femur injury in the spring,
said he was excited about the
upcoming season. Imgrund said he
was up to full speed and he ran
about 70 miles a week during the
summer. Imgrund said that he had
two goals this season.
“Obviously to do well and keep
pushing myself,” Imgrund said.
“But the other is to get the team to
where it needs to be and bond and
grow as a team.”
On the women’s side, the team
will be led by Lauren Bonds. The
Hutchinson junior finished first in
every meet she competed in last
year. Her best performance was
at the NCAA Midwest Regional
where she finished 25th.
“She’s very competitive and a
hard worker. She wants to win,”
Redwine said about Bonds. He said
he thought she had the potential to
make it to the NCAA Championship
this year after her performance at
the Midwest Regional.
Redwine also said sopho-
more Amanda Miller could be an
influence. As for the men’s team,
Imgrund said sophomore Dan Van
Orsdel could contribute as well.
Both teams will compete in
their first meet on Aug. 30 at the
Bob Timmons Classic at Rim Rock
Farm.
— Edited by Brieun Scott
sports 4B Friday, august 22, 2008
big 12 FOOTbALL preview
New Nebraska football coach embraces defense, tradition
BY TAYLOR BERN
[email protected]
Bo Pelini may be stepping into a
better situation as Nebraska’s coach
than most people think.
Pelini, the former LSU and
Nebraska defensive coordinator,
takes over in Lincoln after Bill
Callahan was run out of town. The
Cornhuskers’ biggest error last year
was their atrocious defense, while
Pelini’s defensive unit in Baton
Rouge led the Tigers to a national
title. Sure, LSU currently has supe-
rior athletes, but Pelini’s schemes
can do wonders for any squad.
OFFeNSe
Senior Joe Ganz isn’t technically
a returning starter, but he does
bring back starting experience. The
senior quarterback threw for 1,399
yards and 15 touchdowns in the
final three games after taking over
for Sam Keller.
“He can make all the throws and
he can also do some things with his
feet,” Pelini said. “I feel really com-
fortable having him as our starting
quarterback and I think he’s set up
to have a really good year.”
Joining him in the backfield is
senior Marlon Lucky, who amassed
1,743 all-purpose yards last year.
Together they make a formidable
duo that will keep the Cornhuskers
in most games.
Last season Nebraska’s offense
averaged nearly 470 yards per
game, the ninth most in the coun-
try. In addition to the backfield,
Pelini welcomes back four starters
on the offensive line and senior
receiver Nate Swift.
It won’t be the option attack
that made them a national power,
but Pelini’s willingness to adopt
the shotgun spread means the
Cornhuskers offensive attack is
headed in the right direction. And
according to Ganz, they could
reach their destination this season.
“If we don’t think we can win
the Big 12 North, there’s no reason
to play,” he said.
DeFeNSe
Pelini’s defensive units during
his time at Nebraska were solid.
Nebraska defeated Michigan State
17-3 in the 2003 Alamo Bowl,
when Pelini served as interim head
coach.
Pelini’s defenses ranked in the
top 15 every year when he was the
defensive coordinator at LSU.
Now he gets to dig in and try to
revamp a unit that ranked in the
bottom 10 in scoring, total yards
and turnover margin last year.
Nebraska returns its entire start-
ing defensive line, including end
Barry Turner. Turner was taken
aback by his new coach’s interest in
his players’ lives and not just their
performance on the field.
“He talked to every single player
on the team in a one-on-one con-
versation — just wanting to know
you, wanting to know the player
personally,” Turner said. “He asked
me about my daughter and how my
daughter is doing and my family.”
Family is very important in
Lincoln, as in the family of former
football players. Callahan turned
away former players from practice,
which used to be a time-honored
Cornhusker tradition. Now former
greats are welcome anytime and
the pride that once came with play-
ing for Nebraska is returning.
Part of that is the once-dreaded
Blackshirt defense. The Cornhusker
defense used to be a tenacious
and feared unit, but last year they
were stripped of their traditional
Blackshirt practice jerseys. Pelini
is bringing back that defensive fire
and everyone around the team is
taking notice.
At spring practice the defense
made a big play and Ganz saw
Pelini bolt over to them.
“He was going out there and
head butting people and pushing
people around,” Ganz said. “He’s
just like one of us.”
SeASON OUTLOOK
The first year of a coach’s tenure
is rarely a pretty one, but Pelini’s
team has most of the pieces in place
for a successful campaign.
The offense will score points, that
we know. The question is whether
the defense can stop anybody.
Nebraska surrendered a school
record 76 points to Kansas in
November, but they’re unlikely to
continue with that kind of record-
breaking performance. So, the
question you’ve got to ask yourself
is, ‘Do I feel Lucky?’ Well, do you
Pelini?
preDiCTiON
7-5, Insight Bowl
— Edited by Arthur Hur
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nebraska head coach Bo Pelini, left, instructs defensive end Barry Turner, second right, on
the frst day of football practice on Aug. 4 in Lincoln, Neb.
vOLLeybALL
Senior aims high for this year’s season after medical redshirt
BY JOSH BOWE
[email protected]
While most 24-year-olds are
adapting to life without college,
or playing a sport, Natalie Uhart is
still going strong, just as long as her
body lets her.
The sixth-year senior from
Lansing is ready to show how
talented this year’s Jayhawks vol-
leyball squad is, even if they’ve
encountered some bumps and
bruises along the way.
Uhart recently came back from a
congenital heart defect that forced
her to sit out for 20 matches last
year. “I go through phases of being
frustrated,” Uhart said. “Then I just
get used to it.”
Uhart is used to her fair share of
injuries. She suffered a knee injury
that forced her to miss her entire
junior year. The NCAA granted her
a medical redshirt early last season,
giving her a sixth year of eligibility.
But more recently a heart condi-
tion limited her playing time last
year, although she still led the team
with 1.71 blocks per game and a
.271 hitting percentage.
“It never crossed my mind that
I would stop playing,” Uhart said.
“But I thought about if I was going
to live till 40.”
With all the injuries she’s had
to endure, Uhart said she contem-
plated a switch to her high school
number 15, thinking her college
number was jinxed, but decided to
stick with it. Even being named to
the preseason All-Big 12 coaches’
team hasn’t added any pressure to
Uhart.
Kansas coach Ray Bechard
understands the value of having
a player with Uhart’s talent and
experience.
“She’s got tremendous courage, I
think she’s a winner,” said Bechard.
“A lot of people would probably
walk away from the sport.”
Uhart’s teammates share the
same sentiments as their coach
about Uhart and what she brings
to the table.
“She can do everything, help
anywhere on the court,” senior
middle blocker Savannah Noyes
said.
Uhart, Noyes and the other vet-
erans will help with leadership and
maintaining the chemistry of the
team.
“Natalie has her place; I have
mine,” Noyes said. “And the young-
er players offer help too, when it’s
their area.”
Kansas can boast a healthy squad
that will see the return of junior
middle blocker Brittany Williams,
who tore her ACL last season, and
the Jayhawks return experienced
sophomores Melissa Menda and
Jenna Kaiser as well. But an NCAA
tournament birth isn’t guaranteed.
A league with Nebraska, who went
to the Final Four last year, and
Texas, a top 10 school, will prove
difficult.
“We will be very disappointed if
we are not playing in December,”
Bechard said. Kansas hasn’t been
to the NCAA tournament since
2005.
Williams agrees with her coach’s
expectation.
“We want to make it to
December,” Williams said. “We
can feel confident.”
Uhart also has her own check-
list for what she wants done so
she can walk away from the game
happy, like proving the team’s low
ranking was wrong.
“I want to prove a lot of people
wrong,” Uhart said. “Shut a lot of
people up, who rank us low.”
— Edited by Ramsey Cox
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Natalie Uhart, returning senior middle blocker, jumps to block a spike froma Texas hitter
Nov. 7, 2007 in the Horejsi Family Athletics Center.
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