2010-02-11

BY JENNY TERRELL
[email protected]
General Gary Patton wants to
work harder so he won’t have to
keep his job. Every day his job
involves building, equipping and
training the Afghan army and
police force.
“The goal is that we make the
Afghan army and police force so
good that we work ourselves out
of a job, and we can come home,”
Patton said.
Patton may be building an army
in Afghanistan, but 20 years ago,
he was here at
the University
w o r k i n g
towards a grad-
uate degree in
journalism.
After com-
pleting his
unde r gr adu-
ate degree in
engineering at
West Point, Patton came to the
University as a captain in the U.S.
Army and graduated with a mas-
ter’s degree in journalism in 1990.
When he was at the University, he
was the associate campus editor
for the University Daily Kansan
and also spent some time as a
sports reporter.
“That was my dream job. If I
couldn’t have been an army offi-
cer, I wanted to be a sports report-
er,” Patton said.
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Chris Klee, a junior fromOlathe, leans in to steal the ball fromPeter Lewis, a senior fromLawrence, during their bike polo match at Veterans Park Feb. 7.
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Lawrence’s super smash bikers
BY ELLIOT METZ
[email protected]
What: The unique sport of bike polo,
which is exactly what it sounds like. Two teams
of three players each ride bikes on a hard court,
hitting a ball with mallets to score more
goals than the other team in
eight minutes. Contact is al-
lowed between bike and bike,
mallet and mallet and body and
body. However, none of these can
cross. For example, a player cannot
whack another player with a mallet.
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BY BRENNA LONG
[email protected]
The Board of Regents’ decision
to put a hold on increasing student
fees has forced Student Senate to
make difficult budget choices.
The fixed budget requires
Senate to make cuts in certain
areas to fulfill needs in others, said
Matthew Shaw, Senate communi-
cations director. The renewable
energy and sustainability fee was
one of the areas Student Senate
decreased. The fee went from
$1.25 to 25 cents in the past year.
“At fee reviews, there is a limited
amount of money to be disbursed,
and everyone wants more than
actually exists,” Shaw said.
Only student fees finance the
Student Environmental Advisory
Board. The $1 decrease took the
group’s annual funds from $59,500
in the 2008-09 school year to
$11,400 in the 2009-10 school
year. The 2008-09 budget allowed
the group to finance large projects
such as the ReRev machines that
produce electricity at the Ambler
Student Recreation Fitness Center,
which cost $15,900, and a year’s
worth of wind energy credits to
offset fossil fuel used to power
for Anschutz Library, costing
$28,000.
Members of Senate didn’t
favor the wind credit investment
that was made by the Student
Environmental Advisory Board,
Shaw said. The funds are primarily
used for capital investment — ser-
vices for the next 10 to 20 years.
The wind energy credits did not
fit that category, but at that time it
was seen as a good starting point
and worthwhile investment.
The Student Environmental
Advisory Board is developing a
new point system to judge propos-
als and allocate its funds accord-
ingly. The amounts requested and
numbers of proposals will increase
if the funding increases, said Jason
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Gary Patton is a general on his third tour in Afghanistan. Patton graduated fromthe University in 1990 with a master’s degree in journalism.
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Why they play: According to Malakai Edison, a 2008
KU graduate, “it’s created by people who love playing, plus
trash-talking is allowed and supported.” Edison is also one of
three regional representatives for the South Central Region
of the North American Hard Court Bike Polo League.
When and Where: The local bike polo league, called
Scary Larry Kansas Bike Polo, plays at Veterans Park on Sun-
days from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and on Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 8 to 10 p.m.
Who: Though the league was created by bicycling enthu-
siasts, anyone is welcome. “I think it’s mostly about getting
together with a bunch of friends. We don’t discriminate based
on whether you’re good or bad,” said Chris Klee, a junior from
Kansas City, Kan., and a player in the local league. They also
don’t discriminate based on bikes. “A few of us ride six-speed
bikes, but the most strategic choice is whatever bike you’re
most comfortable on,” Klee said.
inJury factor: Although the
rules don’t permit mallet-on-body ac-
tion, it happens. “I’ve taken a mallet to
the head,”Klee said. “I’m mainly known
as the person who crashes and takes
other people out.”It’s not just bodies
that are taking abuse. “In my last game,
I broke the front fork of my bike and
the front wheel came completely of,”
Edison said. But he said he didn’t think
injuries should scare of prospective
players. “There are people who don’t
play with much contact, then there are
people like me that everyone comes
after because I’m so aggressive,”Edison
said. “But if someone new wanted to try
it out, they would have a small to zero
chance of getting injured.”
— Edited by Kate Larrabee
Local bike polo league updates sport
by switching its game to wheels
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angelo obtained their marble from
the same quarry, but what each saw
in the marble made the diference
between a nobleman’s sink and a
brilliant sculpture.”
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the SUA Valentine’s Day
open House from 11 a.m.
until 2 p.m., then Tea @
Three starting at 3 p.m.
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FRIDAY
Feb. 12
nThe Sabatini multicultural Resource center
will host the Tunnel of oppression, an interac-
tive exhibit into the various types of oppres-
sion within society and the campus commu-
nity, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tours start on the
hour and last about 30 minutes.
nThe play “kU confdential” will begin at 7:30
p.m. in the William Inge memorial Theatre in
murphy Hall. Tickets are $10 for students, $15
for the public and $14 senior citizens.
SATURDAY
Feb. 13
nkU opera will present the play “The Rake’s
Progress” at 7:30 p.m.. in the Robert Baustian
Theatre of murphy Hall. Tickets are $5 for
students and senior citizens and $10 for the
public.
nSUA will screen the flm “Precious: Based
on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” at 8 p.m. in
the Woodruf Auditorium of the kansas Union.
Tickets are $2 with a kU student ID, $3 for the
general public andfree with Student Saver
card.
SUNDAY
Feb. 14
nValentine’s Day
nchinese new Year
MONDAY
Feb. 15
nThe kU School of music will present a visit-
ing artist workshop with trombonist Ron Bar-
ron at 4:30 p.m. in the Swarthout Recital Hall in
murphy Hall. The workshop is free.
nThe ofce of multicultural Afairs will host
“Black Jeopardy,” a trivia game to test students’
knowledge of black history topics at 7:30 p.m.
in the Gridiron Room of the Burge Union.
TUESDAY
Feb. 16
nStudent Health Services will host the Well-
ness Fair, “Preparing for a Healthier U,” from
10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the lobby area of the
Watson Library.
nThe Department of Human Resources and
Equal opportunity will ofer a time manage-
ment workshop at 9 a.m. in Room 204 of
Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
WEDNESDAY
Feb, 17
nmilton Wendland will present the seminar
“Falling from kansas: on Aliens, Witches and
the Sinthomosexual” at 3:30 p.m. in the Semi-
nar Room of the Hall center.
nReza Aslan will present “How to Win a
cosmic War: God, Globalization & the War on
Terror” at 7 p.m. in Hansen Hall of the Dole
Institute of Politics.
nStudent Union Activities will host the Valen-
tines Day open House “Love is in the Air” at 11 a.m.
in the Traditions Area of the kansas Union. The
open house will feature a Build-A-Bear workshop,
palm reading, trivia and snacks.
nThe Engineering and computer Science career
Fair will be from noon to 4 p.m. in kansas Union
Ballroom. Students are advised to research com-
panies and agencies they are interested in, dress
professionally and bring multiple copies of their
resumes.
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BY BRENDAN ALLEN
[email protected]
Death. Abuse. Violence. These topics
are considered depressing, perverse and
uncomfortable by some. Even fewer might
consider them to be humorous.
However, in the English 203 class, “The
Dark Side of Satire,” being amused by these
subjects isn’t only encouraged — it’s often
an integrated component of the course
material. In the class, lecturer Nicole Pope
pushes students to question the boundaries
of what themes are socially acceptable to
discuss, or even further, to laugh at.
“On the first day of class I say, ‘OK, let’s
brainstorm topics that are taboo. Topics
that you wouldn’t normally discuss in polite
company,’” Pope said. “And we come up
with various unmentionables — everything
from sexual abuse to masturbation. I tell
them, ‘Look, at some point in this semester,
this topic may come up in class.’
Pope uses this initial activity to set the
tone for the discussions to come.
“I think that when they approach it in
that way, they know it’s going to be dark,”
she said. “There are some serious topics
treated in a very funny way.”
This is Pope’s sixth semester teaching
the class, and she finds ways to keep the
material fresh.
On any day, students may find them-
selves watching clips from cartoons such as
“The Venture Bros.” or “South Park” as well
as reading selections that include Franz
Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.”
Laura Asmussen, a sophomore from
Agar, S. D., finds the combination of con-
temporary and classic examples compel-
ling.
“She uses a lot of mixed media,”
Asmussen said. “I think it’s pretty kick ass.”
Pope bases the class in discussion. Dylan
Conrad, a freshman from Wichita, finds the
conversation to be especially worthwhile.
“She keeps the lectures really fresh,”
Conrad said. “Everyone has a chance to
insert their opinions.”
It’s precisely this give-and-take method
between classmates that Conrad enjoys
participating in.
“It gives you a chance to have a lot
of involvement,” Conrad said. “Reacting
off what other people throw out there.
Working off of each other is a good way to
learn.”
Through these discussions, Pope hopes
to touch on ground that a straight lecture
might not cover.
“I like it when people say something
goes too far,” Pope said. “We talk about the
writer’s intentions, what they are trying to
say.”
But the conversations aren’t only for the
students’ benefit. Pope often finds herself
exposed to new content as well.
“They do a lot of field work for me in
finding real examples,” Pope said. “I show
them works they may have never seen
before.”
This exploration of topics keeps both
Pope and her students yearning for more.
“It’s an honor to teach this class,” she
said. “I consistently get a great group of stu-
dents. They’re always so open-minded and
eager to share.”
Pope’s students share her sentiments
about the class.
“I would definitely say to take it,” Conrad
said of the course. “It’s a great learning expe-
rience and a fun overall class. There’s never
a dull moment.”
—Editedby Kate Larrabee
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He said his background in
journalism helped him interact
with the international media,
which he does on an almost daily
basis. Patton said he recently
spoke with five television jour-
nalists from Pakistan.
“The great educational and
practical experience that I got at
KU has really helped me develop
the ability to deal
with the media
and also know
why it is impor-
tant,” Patton said.
As a brigadier
general, he is
above a colonel
and below major
general. Patton is
the deputy com-
mander of NATO
Training Mission
Af g h a n i s t a n ,
which is in charge of training
the Afghan army and police.
Patton said the war is against the
insurgency of the Taliban, which
is known to provide safety to
al-Qaida.
“Our goal is to reverse that
insurgency and stabilize the gov-
ernment of Afghanistan so we
don’t have the Taliban opposing
it and we don’t have a safe haven
for al-Qaida,” Patton said. “That
ties directly into the safety and
security of America.”
This is Patton’s third tour
overseas. He was previously in
Iraq for 27 months. Meanwhile,
his wife and three children live
in northern Virginia.
Tim Bengston, associate pro-
fessor of journalism, was Patton’s
faculty advisor when he was at
the University. Bengston said
he remembered
Patton having a
strong desire to
learn as much as
possible in the
master’s program.
“He was not
a wanderer,”
Bengston said.
“He had clear
objectives in
mind.”
After more
than 30 years in
the service, Patton recommends
students broaden their experi-
ence in education while they
can. He emphasized the impor-
tance of skills over subjects.
“The skills that you learn in
school are ones that you will rely
on the rest of your life regardless
of what direction your career
takes,” Patton said.
— Edited by Kate Larrabee
PATTON (continued from 1A)
Hering, president of the Student
Environmental Advisory Board.
“We have a lot of good pro-
grams so far this semester,”
Hering said. “But we don’t have
the money to fund them all com-
pletely.”
Last Thursday and Friday, the
group used iPod Touches from
the Office of Student Success to
survey students in the Kansas
Union. The group surveyed
more than 250 people, mostly
students, to measure the inter-
est in environmental issues on
campus. The results from the
survey were not published, but
the group says many students
were interested in ways to bring
renewable energy to campus.
“The most encouraging
response was that about 47
percent of the 276 students
surveyed responded that they
would be willing to pay $3 to
$5 per semester for the required
campus renewable energy
and sustainability fee,” said
Kimberly Hernandez, a Student
Environmental Advisory Board
member. “It was really inspiring
to talk to so many students who
cared about the environment
and had an interest in sustain-
ability at KU.”
The group plans to do another
survey in the spring in front of
Wescoe Hall to get more input
from more students.
— Edited by Michael Holtz
“He was not a
wanderer. He had
clear objectives in
his mind.”
tiM BENgStON
associate professor
of journalism
fuNdiNg (continued from 1A)
NATIoNAL
ABC releases new
photos of Sept. 11
ASSOCiATEd PRESS/ NYPd via ABC News, det. greg Semendinger
This photo taken Sept. 11, 2001, by the NewYork City Police Department was obtained by ABC News, which claims to have acquired it under the Freedomof Information Act, shows smoke and ash
engulfng the area around the WorldTrade Center in NewYork. The photos were taken froma police helicopter.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — A trove of aer-
ial photographs of the collapsing
World Trade Center was widely
released this week, offering a rare
and chilling view from the heavens
of the burning twin towers and the
apocalyptic shroud of smoke and
dust that settled over the city.
The images were taken from
a police helicopter — the only
photographers allowed in the
airspace near the skyscrapers on
Sept. 11, 2001. They were obtained
by ABC after it filed a Freedom
of Information Act request last
year with the National Institute
of Standards and Technology, the
federal agency that investigated the
collapse.
The chief curator of the planned
Sept. 11 museum pronounced the
pictures “a phenomenal body of
work.”
The photos are “absolutely
core to understanding the visu-
al phenomena of what was hap-
pening,” said Jan Ramirez of the
National September 11 Memorial
& Museum. They are “some of
the most exceptional images in the
world, I think, of this event.”
In some of the pictures, the tops
of the nearby Woolworth Building
and other skyscrapers can just be
seen above the enormous cloud
of debris, gray against a clear blue
sky. Gray clouds billow through
the streets of the financial district
and shroud the 16 acres where the
towers had stood just moments
before.
Buildings can hardly be seen at
all in one image — just dust clouds
hanging over the Hudson River at
the southern tip of Manhattan.
One close-up shows orange
flames and black smoke pouring
from the upper floors of the north
tower, the first hit by a hijacked
plane.
“I almost didn’t realize what
I was seeing that day,” Greg
Semendinger, the former New York
Police Department detective who
took the 12 pictures posted on
ABC’s site, told The Associated
Press. “Looking at it now it’s amaz-
ing I took those pictures. The
images are ... stunning.”
The attack and the collapse of
the World Trade Center were well
documented on live TV and ama-
teur video. But more than eight
years after the nation’s deadliest
terror attack, the images still had
the power to shock and disturb.
They were an instant sensation on
the Internet.
“Some survivors may find these
pictures too painful to look at,”
said Richard Zimbler, president of
the WTC Survivors Network. “But
they are an important part of the
historical record.”
ABC said NIST gave the net-
work 2,779 pictures on nine CDs.
The network posted 12 pictures on
its Web site Monday. ABC initially
said some of the photographs post-
ed had never been seen before, but
later backed off that assertion.
Semendinger was first in the air
in a search for survivors on the
rooftop. He said he and his pilot
watched the second plane hit the
south tower from the helicopter.
“We didn’t find one single per-
son. It was surreal,” he said. “There
was no sound. No sound whatso-
ever, but the noise of the radio and
the helicopter. I just kept taking
pictures.”
ASSOCiATEd PRESS/ NYPd via ABC News, det. greg Semendinger
This photo was taken Sept. 11, 2001, by the NewYork City Police Department and obtained by
ABC News under the Freedomof Information Act. It shows a WorldTrade Center tower burning
after it was hit by a passenger jet.
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WASHINGTON — A bliz-
zard howled up the East Coast
on Wednesday, making roads from
Baltimore to New York City so
treacherous that even plow driv-
ers pulled over and bringing more
misery to a Mid-Atlantic region
poised to have its snowiest winter
on record.
In Pennsylvania, the governor
closed large stretches of major
highways because the second major
storm in less than a week was mak-
ing travel too risky.
In Washington, snow fell so hard
that people on the National Mall
could not see the Capitol. Many
in the region were still without
power from the historic storm over
the weekend, and even more were
expected to lose it during this one.
“The snow has just been relent-
less,” said Washington Fire Chief
Dennis L. Rubin, a D.C. native
who said the back-to-back storms
are like nothing he has ever expe-
rienced. “It doesn’t seem like we’re
getting much of a break.”
Up to 16 inches fell in parts
of western Maryland and Reagan
National Airport in Washington
had nearly 9 inches by midday,
just short of the amount needed
to make it the snowiest winter on
record in D.C. That was on top of
totals up to 3 feet in some places
from the weekend storm. And it
was still snowing.
The streets of downtown
Philadelphia, also hard hit by the
last storm, were nearly vacant as
people heeded the mayor’s advice
to stay home.
“For your safety, do not drive,”
Gov. Ed Rendell said. “You will
risk your life and, potentially, the
lives of others if you get stuck on
highways or any road.”
In Arlington, Va., streets that
had been packed with people play-
ing in the snow over the weekend
were also empty.
“I’ve seen enough,” said Bill
Daly, 57, as gusts of wind and snow
lashed his face. “It’s scary and beau-
tiful at the same time. I wanted to
shovel but thought if I had a heart
attack it could be a while before
anybody found me in this kind of
weather.”
In Washington, the federal gov-
ernment was closed for a third
straight day. The longest weather-
related government shutdown ever
was in 1996, when employees did
not have to go to work for a full
week.
The National Weather
Service issued blizzard warnings
Wednesday that extended into
New York City, where 10 to 16
inches could fall. Airlines canceled
hundreds of flights at airports on
the Eastern seaboard and schools
in New York City were closed, only
the third snow day in six years for
the district’s 1.1 million students.
D.C.’s two airports had no flights
coming or going Wednesday.
Rajesh Moorjani flew to
Newark International Airport
from Mumbai, India, in hopes of
catching a connecting flight to San
Francisco, but that seemed unlikely
with most flights canceled.
He said the crew offered to let
people off the flight before it left
Mumbai because of severe storms
in the U.S., but he decided to try
his luck.
“Initially I was quite hassled,
and I was thinking about it a lot
on the flight, but once I’m here, I
say: ‘Let’s just make do with what
we have, there’s no point in sitting
grumpy for too long,’” he said as he
tried to use Facebook to find an old
classmate or acquaintance in the
New York area he might be able to
stay with.
Snow was falling from north-
ern Virginia to Connecticut after
crawling out of the Midwest, where
the storm canceled hundreds of
flights and was blamed for three
traffic deaths in Michigan.
Baltimore has already broken
the previous record for snowiest
winter, 62.5 inches in 1995-96, and
Washington was poised to break
the record of 54.4 inches set there
in the winter of 1898-99.
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MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
DETROIT — Michigan State
University student Nichole
Wickens never imagined standing
in line to get staples from a food
pantry.
But that’s what the 21-year-old
is doing at MSU’s Olin Health
Center, where
the student-
run food bank
has seen a 25
percent jump
in need from
the 2007-2008
school year.
In three bags,
Wickens carries
away boxes of
instant mashed
potatoes and
dried pasta, a loaf of bakery bread,
applesauce and a box of shredded
wheat cereal. At retail, it’s only
worth about $20 — but it makes a
big difference to Wickens.
“My student account was in
stocks, and stocks were hit hard,”
Wickens said. “And I’m the oldest
of five.”
She has a part-time job on cam-
pus as a night receptionist, and
gets some financial aid for tuition.
“But I’m paying for a car, phone,
computer, rent and everything
else,” she said, “so coming here
really helps. It’s a resource to stu-
dents.”
College campuses aren’t places
where you expect to find a food
bank. But students are turning to
college-sponsored food banks for
help because of ever-increasing
tuition costs, the loss of financial
aid programs like state scholar-
ships and financial support from
home being cut-off or diminished
because parents have lost jobs.
“This perception that students,
because they’re going to college,
have money isn’t accurate and
never was,” said Dennis Martell,
the MSU health education services
coordinator and the food bank’s
faculty adviser.
Director Kristin Moretto said
the MSU food bank’s budget is
about $40,000.
The food bank purchases items
in bulk from the Mid-Michigan
Food Bank, which is operated by
the American Red Cross. Retailers
sometimes donate perishable items,
such as milk or baked goods.
“This is a
g r a s s - r o o t s
s t u d e nt - r u n
organization,”
Moretto said.
“The food isn’t
being taken
away from any-
one else who
needs it.”
S t u d e n t s
need only
prove that they’re enrolled at MSU
and haven’t purchased a university
food plan.
HELp IS AVAILAbLE
While other large Michigan
schools don’t operate food banks,
many are reporting a surge in stu-
dents asking for more financial
aid.
The University of Michigan
has experienced an increase in
students showing demonstrated
financial need, said school spokes-
woman Kelly Cunningham.
“We occasionally see a student
who is in need of emergency fund-
ing. In those cases, we provide an
emergency grant to cover imme-
diate needs like food, money to
move into an apartment, purchase
medication, etc.,” Cunningham
said.
“If the student comes forward,
we can help them. We always
reserve funds for emergencies, and
we can disburse emergency funds
as quickly as the same day the stu-
dent asks for help,” Cunningham
said. “Students can apply online
and receive up to $500 the next
morning.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brooks Chamberlin of Annapolis, Md., shovels the sidewalk near his home in Annapolis during a
blizzardWednesday. With each shovel full of snow, the wind blewsome of it back.
Record snow causes mass closings, cancelled fights
Rise in food bank
needs on campuses
Racking up green for St. patty
Karsten Lunde/KANSAN
Tyson Paulson, a sophomore fromLawrence, aims his cue during the Lawrence St. Patrick’s Day Committee’s fundraising pool tournament at Astro’s bar on Saturday afternoon. Participants
donated $10 dollars, which will be used for the Lawrence St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The committee will hold other fundraising events, including a Texas Hold‘Emtournament Feb. 28th at the
Flamingo Club. For more information go to www.lawrencestpatricksdayparade.com.
“This perception that
students, because they’re
going to college, have
money isn’t accurate.”
DEnniS mARTEll
mSU food bank faculty adviser
Lunch lady hit with
food, gets revenge
WATERBURY, conn. — A
connecticut school cafeteria
worker and a 13-year-old girl
face criminal charges after police
said a food fght turned into
a real fght. Waterbury police
said the ffth-grader at Gilmar-
tin Elementary School threw
vegetables at 55-year-old lunch
aide Rosa Robles last Thursday,
and Robles responded by throw-
ing vegetables in the girl’s face.
Police said a fght broke out
when the girl punched Robles
in the face. Authorities said both
sufered cut lips, and the girl
also had scratches on her face.
School ofcials said Robles is on
paid leave and the girl has been
suspended.
Robles posted $500 bail after
being charged with assault
and other crimes. Police didn’t
release the girl’s name or the
charges she faces because of
her age. A telephone listing for
Robles could not immediately
be found.
Thief takes coat
from shivering dog
nEW YoRk — A Brooklyn
woman said a mugger stole a
doggie coat right of the back
of her mild-mannered terrier.
Donna mcPherson said she tied
up lexie, her 10-year-old Westie,
outside a Park Slope supermar-
ket “for two minutes” while she
bought milk. She heard a “funny
bark.”When mcPherson went
outside, she found the little
white dog shivering. His green
wool coat, with leather trim and
belt, were nowhere in sight.
mcPherson said the dog coat
was worth $25. She said that,
fortunately, lexie wasn’t wearing
his pricier Burberry.
Man tries to bribe
children for urine
mAnHATTAn BEAcH, calif. —
manhattan Beach police have
arrested a man they claim tried
to buy urine from boys at an
elementary school. Sgt. Brian
Brown said an 18-year-old man
was arrested on monday for in-
vestigation of annoying children.
He remained jailed Wednesday
on $150,000 bail. Authorities
believe the man walked into a
restroom at Pacifc Elementary
School last week and ofered
two boys several dollars to
urinate in a cup. School ofcials
said they refused.
Brown said investigators
suspect the man was trying to
collect urine to pass drug tests.
Brown said the man’s im-
age was captured by a video
surveillance camera and he
was arrested monday when he
returned to the school.
— Associated Press
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LOS ANGELES — California
brown pelicans have recently been
dying in large numbers for reasons
wildlife ofcials don’t yet fully un-
derstand.
Organizations like the Interna-
tional Bird Rescue Research Cen-
ter are maxed out, with no more
room and little money lef to help,
spokesman Paul Kelway said.
Tere are usually about 400 peli-
cans among the more than 2,000
birds the San Pedro center takes
in every year, but it has received
more than 300 pelicans in the last
three weeks. About 100 sick peli-
cans from Santa Barbara were sent
to the IBRRC’s Northern California
center, and a quarter of all the peli-
cans received at the two centers in
the last three weeks have died, Kel-
way said.
“Many of them were severely
emaciated and hypothermic, and
we couldn’t get to them in time,”
Kelway said.
Te Southern California center
released 14 pelicans Wednesday af-
ternoon to make room for more of
the ailing birds.
Te Coast Guard reported a
group of sick birds in the Los An-
geles Harbor on Tuesday. Rescue
workers found around 30 dead
birds and rounded up 30 more that
were sick and wet.
Biologists point to several rea-
sons why more birds need help.
“Tis is an El Nino year. Te
weather is topsy turvy. Storms are
forcing the fsh deeper into the
ocean, or the fsh are in diferent
places than they normally would
be. Te pelicans are not fnding
food and they are starving,” Kelway
explained.
“Something is also contaminat-
ing their feathers and stopping
them from being weatherproof,” he
said.
About 1,000 California brown
pelicans stayed in Oregon this
year instead of migrating south to
breeding grounds.
It could be a natural pelican die-
of, Kelway said, but biologists don’t
know yet.
Te research center hopes to re-
lease several more pelicans over the
next week. Warmer temperatures
should help, he said.
It is costing the two centers
about $3,000 a day to care for the
pelicans, which eat around 1,000
pounds of fsh each day.
Te rescues will have to do some
serious fundraising, pushing their
“Adopt a Pelican” and “Pelican
Partner” programs, Kelway said.
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Dying pelicans mystify researchers
ASSOCIATED PRESS
California brown pelicans are seen inside a cage before being released into the wild by members and volunteers with the International Bird Rescue
Research Center at the beach in San Pedro, Calif. Wednesday. Researchers haven’t determined why the pelicans are dying in large numbers.
Non-Christians
get ‘wiggle room’
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The
Presbyterian Church USA’s state-
ment of faith says God through
Jesus Christ delivers followers
“from death to life eternal.”
But one in three members of
the nation’s largest Presbyterian
denomination seem to believe
there’s some wiggle room for
non-Christians to get into heaven,
according to a recent poll.
T h e
Presbyteri an
P a n e l ’ s
“Religious and
Demographic
Profile of
Presbyterians”
found that
36 percent
of members
disagreed or
strongly dis-
agreed with
the statement:
“Only follow-
ers of Jesus Christ can be saved.”
Another 39 percent, or about two-
fifths, agreed or strongly agreed
with the statement.
A total of 3,450 Presbyterians
responded to the study, which
was mailed in October 2008. The
panel issued the religious and
demographic report last month.
The Rev. Dirk Ficca, a
Presbyterian minister in Chicago,
said a majority of Presbyterians
think “the God they know in
Jesus” can save non-Christians.
“I’m a Christian. And so I can’t
think about God or about the
nature of salvation apart from
Jesus of Nazareth,” said Ficca,
executive director of the Chicago-
based Council for a Parliament of
the World’s Religions. But “that
God I know in
Jesus, I find at
work in peo-
ple who aren’t
Christians.”
The study
broke down
responses in
four catego-
ries: members,
elders, pastors
and special-
ized clergy.
The panel
found that 45
percent of elders agree or strongly
agree that “only followers of Jesus
Christ can be saved,” while 31
percent disagreed or strongly dis-
agreed. More pastors disagreed
(45 percent) than agreed (35 per-
cent) and a majority of specialized
clergy (60 percent) disagree.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Rev. Ton Hay gives the benediction at Midday Prayer Tuesday in the chapel at the denomi-
national ofces of the Presbyterian Church USA in Louisville, Ky. It is the largest Presbyterian
denomination in the country.
A majority of Presbyteri-
ans think “the God they
know in Jesus”can save
non-Christians.
thE rEv. dirK FiCCA
Presbyterian minister
Court judge now has
Edwards’ sex tape
hiLLSBOrOuGh, N.C. — A
video cassette purportedly show-
ing two-time presidential candi-
date John Edwards and his former
mistress in a sexual encounter
is now in the hands of a North
Carolina judge.
Superior Court Judge Abraham
Penn Jones took possession of
the tape Wednesday, a week after
ordering Edwards’ former aide
Andrew young to hand over the
recording.
young has said the tape depicts
Edwards in a sexual encounter
with a pregnant woman he be-
lieves to be hunter.
Edwards admitted last month
that he fathered a child with
hunter.
—Associated Press
Ohio man tattoos
‘A’ on child’s rear
LOuiSviLLE, Ohio — Police
say an Ohio man tattooed the
letter “A” on the rear end of a
1-year-old girl visiting his home.
twenty-year-old Lee deitrick
of Louisville was arraigned
Wednesday on a felony child
endangering charge in Canton
Municipal Court.
Authorities say there’s no
evidence the toddler’s mother
permitted the November tattoo-
ing. it’s not clear what the letter
“A” signifes.
Bond was set at $250,000. if
convicted, deitrick could face up
to fve years in prison.
—Associated Press
NATIoNAL cRImE
NATIoNAL RELIGIoN
DeGeneres hosts
frst night of ‘Idol’
Ellen DeGeneres has an easy-
going vibe about her, so it made
sense that her frst appearance
as a judge on “American Idol”
was relatively low key.
DeGeneres’ debut as a judge
took place Tuesday, during the
frst Hollywood episode of “Idol.”
When the annual talent contest
moves to the Hollywood round,
the culling of contestants truly
begins in earnest.
On Tuesday, DeGeneres had
no substantial run-ins with Si-
mon Cowell, the show’s famously
acerbic judge, even though
DeGeneres has promised to ofer
a kinder, gentler counterpoint to
Cowell’s pointed critiques.
“You scared me,” DeGeneres
told one stage-prowling contes-
tant. “Don’t frighten your audi-
ence,” she told another singer.
— McClatchy-Tribune
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10 is the easiest day, 0 the
most challenging.
Blaise Marcoux
COOL THING
FISH BOWL
ORANGES
HOROSCOpES
Joe Ratterman
Kate Beaver
ARIES (March21-April 19)
Today is a 7
Everyone shifts gears. Social
contacts occur in private.
Emotional moments happen in
public. Overall, love triumphs.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
Who’s on frst? not you? That’s
because you’ve rounded third
and you’re on the way home,
with just the score you wanted.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
Relationships undergo a shift
from contentment to excite-
ment. You better understand
your own needs. Share your
feelings as openly as you can.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
Social contacts soothe your
feelings and allow you to bal-
ance work with the rest of your
schedule. Opt for time alone at
the end of the day.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 5
A female’s plan remains out
of focus until you adjust your
sights. She wants what you
want, only in a diferent shade of
green. In this case, money talks.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
Work on a close relationship
today as Venus enters Pisces. You
understand on an empathetic
level. Take independent action
to get things done.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Balance! You want love to domi-
nate the scene, but you have
work to do. Save love for dinner
and dancing with someone
special.
SCORpIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 6
Focus on feelings (it will be
hard to do anything else). Own
what’s yours, and listen to family
members. Don’t leave until the
conversation is complete.
SAGITTARIUS(Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 7
A female decides to go in a
new direction. This challenges
your thinking about your role.
Remember, the two of you are
not connected at the hip.
CApRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
If you’ve been seeking inde-
pendence, today can set you on
that path in surprising ways. Be
careful what you ask for. Today,
you just might get it.
AqUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 8
Your weekend plans get ahead
of your end-of-the-week work
schedule. keep your mind on
today’s tasks and maintain
confdentiality as needed.
pISCES (Feb. 19-March20)
Today is a 7
On a personal level, you’re stay-
ing comfortable. An associate
jumps into a shocking new
relationship. Only time will tell
how it will work out.
MOVIES
Captain America
dons a fag suit
LOS AnGELES — In the new
Captain America flm, the hero is
essentially a walking fag, which
might leave many average movie-
goers giggling instead of saluting.
But director Joe Johnston has
a plan for “The First Avenger:
Captain America,” which is due
in summer 2011. “The costume is
a fag, but the way we’re getting
around that is we have Steve Rog-
ers forced into the USO circuit,”
Johnston explained. “After he’s
made into this super soldier, they
decide they can’t send him into
combat and risk him getting
killed. So they say, ‘You’re going
to be in this USO show’ and they
give him a fag suit. He can’t wait
to get out of it.”
— McClatchy-Tribune
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W
earing KU cloth-
ing has always been
a popular way to
show school spirit. But there’s
a phenomenon on campus that
bucks this trend. Amidst the sea
of “hawkaholic” and “hill yes”
T-shirts, a few non-conformists
wear the colors of diferent insti-
tutions.
For various reasons, some
KU students like wearing other
schools’ clothing on campus. It’s
important not to judge this mi-
nority, though. Instead, it’s neces-
sary to understand the message
that each diferent type of apparel
sends.
First, there are the occasional
community college T-shirts. Stu-
dents wearing clothing from a
junior college could be sending
several diferent messages. Tey
could be announcing, “I worked
my way up from humble begin-
nings and earned my way into a
respected public university.” Or
they could just be trying to say, “I
got lost on the way to community
college. Please help.”
On the opposite end of the
spectrum from these modest
community-col l ege-T-shi rt-
donning students are the KU stu-
dents who wear apparel from Ivy
League schools. It can be startling
to see a student wearing such a
respected university logo in Math
101, but there are explanations
for this rarity.
For example, it’s possible that
these KU students were, indeed,
brilliant enough to attend a pres-
tigious college at one time. Un-
fortunately, they missed Spangles
too much and returned back to
the comfort of Kansas. Tese stu-
dents still wear their Yale hoodies
to announce that, if it wasn’t for
their tragic weaknesses for half-
price-burger Monday, they would
be on their way to brilliant law
careers.
Te much more likely explana-
tion, however, is that these stu-
dents went down to Victoria’s Se-
cret and bought sweatpants with
the logo of one of the country’s
most respected academic institu-
tions slapped on the butt.
Tis relatively new trend of
exploiting top universities’ trade-
marks to sell clothing to anyone
who wants to give of the “cute
but valedictorian” look makes
me question my generation more
than anything else. And that in-
cludes “Jersey Shore.”
Finally, some KU students oc-
casionally wear apparel from uni-
versities with names that appear
made-up. Don’t be confused.
Tis is actually a student who has
studied abroad and would like
to ensure that everyone around
them is aware of this.
Any encounter with a student
wearing clothing from an unpro-
nounceable university is a chance
to play “Guess the Study Abroad
Country” with this person. To
play, simply begin insulting ev-
ery country you can think of loud
enough for them to hear until
they interject afer hearing the
home of their foreign university.
Tey will inevitably defend the
country and admonish you for
being ignorant of its “beautiful
scenery and wonderful people.”
Tis means you have won “Guess
the Study Abroad Country” and
you can award yourself 10 points.
Earn fve bonus points if they use
an expression from that country,
like “bloody” or “voilà.” A total
of 500 points during your college
career will earn the title of “Guess
the Study Abroad Country Cham-
pion” or “Xenophobic Jerk.”
So, though school spirit is im-
portant, don’t forget to accept
those with diferent preferences
in college apparel.
And if you’ve seen my John-
son County Community College
snuggie, please let me know.
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By Joel Petterson
[email protected]
I
t’s a pretty uncomfortable feel-
ing to know someone is look-
ing at you, especially when you
don’t know who the person is or
why he or she is staring.
Ofen, we are stared at because of
our outfts or hairstyles. But when
the staring is because of the person
we are with, it becomes more than
uncomfortable; it’s malicious.
On Wednesday nights, Wilde’s
Chateau has Pride Night. It’s a night
for the adult LGBT community and
their allies to enjoy an atmosphere
where two people of any sex can
dance together, firt and be a couple
without the fear of being stared at
or harassed.
Te secure atmosphere of Pride
Night is dampened with unwanted
attention, usually in the form of
leering heterosexual men.
It should be known that anyone
and everyone is welcome to Pride
Night.
However, these men are clearly
not there to enjoy the good times.
Instead, they take an obscene
pleasure in ogling women who are
there specifcally to be with other
women.
For these men, it’s like a live
pornographic flm, except for the
gratuitous nudity and the fact that
none of us women are remotely in-
terested in turning on a man.
What’s worse is that the creeping
does not end with simply staring.
Some of the men stand at the
entranceways to the dance foor.
Tis makes it impossible to not
rub against them as we go between
the bar and the dance foor.
Not long ago, I was going out
with a group of gal pals, all of them
heterosexual.
Tey wanted to go to a place
where they wouldn’t have to deal
with men hitting on them, so we
decided on Pride Night.
We were having a great time
rocking out to the DJ’s tunes when
we noticed some guys leaning on a
wall nearby, eyeing us and giving us
sleazy grins.
As we continued to dance, a
few of them circled our group and
moved in, dancing inappropriately
and even touching us in sexually
harassing ways.
Needless to say, we all felt vio-
lated and lef. My fury only in-
creased when, as my friends and I
were leaving, these same guys sur-
rounded an obviously intoxicated
girl and her girlfriend and did the
same thing.
Tis is just another reminder of
the way many heterosexual men
view lesbian sexuality: as if for their
entertainment.
I beg you, heterosexual men, to
consider the perspective of wom-
en—both homosexual and het-
erosexual. How you would feel if
someone came up and grabbed you
by the ass? What would you feel if
someone stared at you in a sexual
manner while you made out with
the girl you were dating? What if
someone asked you and your girl-
friend for a threesome because of
your sexual orientation?
We all deserve to go out and
have a great time without the threat
of harassment, sexual orientation
aside.
Pride Night is a night where ev-
eryone can enjoy themselves. It’s
intended to ofer everyone a sense
of security to be who they are with
whoever they want.
But why stop there? Every night
should ofer such security. Every
person should be able to enjoy
themselves, free of creeping hands
and eyes.
Bornstein is a senior from
Lawrence in women’s studies.
Everyone deserves the
right to feel comfortable
LGBT issues
Queerly
Speaking
By laUren BornsteIn
[email protected]
LeTTer TO THe ediTOr
W
alking around
campus over the past
couple of weeks, I’ve
seen multiple advertisements
for the upcoming Asher Roth
concert at Liberty Hall hosted by
SUA. Te irony of this selection
just hit me today.
With the recent deaths due
to alcohol in KU’s community
and the following actions by the
administration and community
to strengthen alcohol awareness
and policies, I fnd it kind of
hypocritical for SUA to put on a
concert with an artist who’s main
song, “I Love College,” describes
the exact stereotype KU has tried
to distance itself from for years: a
party school.
I have no problem with Asher
Roth writing about drinking, sex
and parties, but I wanted to point
out the irony of the situation.
Also, many would agree that the
selection is a tremendous step
down from socially conscious
artists, such as Common, who
have come to KU in the past.
Hip hop is an expansive genre
and, yes, respectable; SUA could
have done a great deal better.
James Baker is a sophomore
fromCoppell, Texas.
W
e will soon be paying
the piper for more than
a decade of free.
The New York Times announced
last week it will begin charging to
view its online content in 2011.
Unlike when governments and
corporations try to reach into the
collective pocket of consumers,
it’s next to impossible to call this
greed-based.
The print news industry as a
whole is malnourished. When a
human being is deprived of food,
it begins feasting on the fat and
energy it has stored up, but that can
only last so long.
The Times, much like many
publications across the country,
has been chipping away at its col-
lective stored fat, downsizing and
laying off as the transition away
from print continues.
The Kaiser Family Foundation’s
study “Generation M2: Media in
the Lives of 8- to 18-year-olds”
found that during a typical day
people in this age range consume
an average of 7 hours and 38 min-
utes a day across mediums such
as TV, computers, video games,
music, print and cell phones.
Consumption increased for all
these categories except for, you
guessed it, print.
This is the new generation
of news consumers, and they’re
insatiable.
For any media organization to
succeed it has to whet the collective
appetite and the print product is
looking as appetizing to consumers
as Brussels sprouts.
With unemployment hovering
close to 10 percent and the econo-
my in the proverbial toilet, forcing
people to pay for something they
are conditioned to know as free is
no enviable task.
Unlike the “too big to fail banks,”
there’s no stimulus package for this
cornerstone of information.
The details of the plan released
on the Times’ Media Decoder blog
and in subsequent articles were
reasonable and it addressed some
of the main concerns of the casual
reader.
Under the plan, if you already
have a home subscription, you get
free website access.
Otherwise, you’ll have to pay
for access after a certain amount of
page visits.
The Times is still heavily lever-
aging the print product, but letting
its web presence be compromised
by something that people are gravi-
tating away from makes very little
sense.
“We can’t get this halfway right
or three-quarters of the way right.
We have to get this really, really
right,” said Times Company chair-
man Arthur Sulzberger Jr. in the
paper’s article announcing the
change.
Other interminglings of
Internet and payment plans have
been attempted and abandoned.
Times Select, a previous pay-
ment model, was abandoned
“because search was becoming a
bigger factor and advertising was
more robust,” according to a recent
post by executive editors on the
Media Decoder blog.
Sulzberger Jr.’s deliberate
approach with this new plan isn’t
in the spirit of the Internet and it’s
where the plan falls apart.
I applaud Sulzberger Jr. standing
up for the financial well being of an
American institution, but the tim-
ing is all wrong.
Do the executives at the New
York Times honestly believe with
rapidly changing technology, espe-
cially online, that the Internet eco-
system they are planning for now
will be the same in a year?
–0Irving DeJohn, Albany Student
Press, University at Albany, College News
Network
To fnd out more about
subscriptions go to
www.nytimes.com
It’s ‘Times’ for a change
The New York Times to charge for online service in 2011
news And inFOrMATiOn
8A / NEWS / THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / kAnSAn.com
BY TIM DWYER
[email protected]
The University of Kansas Cancer
Center has begun running a Phase
I clinical trial of the anti-ovarian
cancer drug Nanotax. Nanotax is a
breakthrough drug because, unlike
other anti-cancer drugs, it is water-
soluble.
Charles Decedue, Valentino
Stella, Bala Subramaniam and
Roger Rajewski worked in the
KU Higuchi Biosciences Center
developing Nanotax. Last year the
American Cancer Society esti-
mated that there were just under
22,000 new cases of ovarian cancer
and 14,600 deaths caused by it in
the United States.
The clinical trial at the University
comes 13 years after Nanotax was
first conceived. It is one of three
active clinical trials for ovarian
cancer treatment in Kansas, and
it’s the only one still recruiting
patients. The trial is classified as
Phase I because it tests the drug in
a small group.
Decedue said he wasn’t allowed
to give out numbers because the
clinical trial was not finalized, but
he offered an optimistic analysis.
“The only thing I can tell you
so far is that we have not seen any
adverse effects to the drug or the
procedure,” Decedue said. “That’s
as good as it gets in a Phase I
trial.”
Nanotax is the brainchild of
Stella and Subramaniam, who
came up with an idea while con-
templating a way to improve the
delivery of oncology drugs that
are not water-soluble. This creates
a problem because a drug has to
dissolve in the bloodstream to be
effective at what Decedue called
“the site of action,” or where a drug
needs to work to alleviate whatever
ailment a person might have.
“This is a problem with, par-
ticularly, anti-cancer drugs, pretty
broadly across the spectrum of
anti-cancer drugs,” Decedue said.
“They tend to have very, very, very
poor water solubility.”
One cancer drug that suffers
from a distinct lack of water-sol-
ubility is paclitaxel, which is sold
as Taxol. Stella and Subramaniam
wanted to break down pacli-
taxel into particles just hundreds
of nanometers wide. To put that
into perspective, a human hair is
around 100 micrometers in diam-
eter. There are 1,000 nanometers in
one micrometer.
“That idea has been around for
a while,” Stella said. “That was sort
of a combination of effort from a
number of people, Roger Rajewski,
Bala Subramaniam and myself.”
The team used carbon dioxide
as a solvent to make nanoparticles
of the Taxol. They filed a pat-
ent for the process they discovered
more than a decade ago in 1997,
and if production of Nanotax goes
mainstream, it will break down all
paclitaxel into nanoparticles here
in Lawrence.
Once they were able to break
paclitaxel down to the nanoparticle
form they needed, they worked
with Kathy Roby, a research associ-
ate professor of anatomy and cell
biology, who did two studies with
mice infected with ovarian cancer.
Roby injected Taxol and Nanotax
into the tails of mice with the can-
cer and injected both directly into
the space that contains the ova-
ries and other organs. The average
lifespan of the mice, once infected,
is about 80 days, Decedue said.
When injected into the tails,
Nanotax performed just as well as
the already established drug Taxol,
prolonging life in the infected mice
by 20 to 25 days. When injected
into the space near the ovaries,
however, Nanotax prolonged life
by 90 to 140 days, while Taxol
stayed in the 20-to-25 day range.
“This was the exciting piece of
data that told us we had some-
thing that might be worth pursu-
ing,” Decedue said. “And this was
around the time that the company
really took off.”
That was around 2000, and for
the next decade, the trio of doctors
went into the long process of get-
ting Federal Drug Administration
approval to begin a Phase I clinical
trial, which is the first step of test-
ing the drug on people.
“No matter how good your ani-
mal testing is, humans are different
than any other animal,” Decedue
said. “While it is indeed a science,
there is an awful lot of art to it.
We’re the experts at that.”
— Edited by Allyson Shaw
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — Charlie Wilson,
the fun-loving Texas congressman
whose backroom dealmaking fun-
neled millions of dollars in weapons
to Afghanistan, allowing the coun-
try’s underdog mujahedeen rebels
to beat back the mighty Soviet Red
Army, died Wednesday. He was 76.
Wilson died at Memorial
Medical Center-Lufkin after having
difficulty breathing after attend-
ing a meeting in the eastern Texas
town where he lived, said hospi-
tal spokeswoman Yana Ogletree.
Wilson was pronounced dead on
arrival, and the preliminary cause
of death was cardiopulmonary
arrest, she said.
Wilson represented Texas’ 2nd
Congressional District in the U.S.
House from 1973 to 1996 and was
known in Washington as “Good
Time Charlie” for his reputation
as a hard-drinking womanizer.
He once called former congress-
woman Pat Schroeder “Babycakes,”
and tried to take a beauty queen
with him on a government trip to
Afghanistan.
Wilson, a Democrat, was con-
sidered both a progressive and a
defense hawk. While his efforts to
arm the mujahedeen in the 1980s
were a success — spurring a vic-
tory that helped speed the downfall
of the Soviet Union — he was
unable to keep the money flowing
after the Soviets left. Afghanistan
plunged into chaos, creating an
opening eventually filled by the
Taliban, which harbored al-Qaida
terrorists.
After the Sept. 11 attacks —
carried out by al-Qaida terrorists
trained in Afghanistan — the U.S.
ended up invading the country it
had once helped liberate.
“People like me didn’t fulfill our
responsibilities once the war was
over,” Wilson said in a September
2001 interview with The Associated
Press. “We allowed this vacuum to
occur in Afghanistan and Pakistan,
which enraged a lot of people. That
was as much my fault as it was a lot
of others.”
His efforts to help the Afghan
rebels — as well as his partying
ways — were portrayed in the
movie and book “Charlie Wilson’s
War.” In an interview with The
Associated Press after the book was
published in 2003, he said he wasn’t
worried about details of his wild
side being portrayed.
“I would remind you that I was
not married at the time,” Wilson
said.
Charles Wilson was born June
1, 1933, in Trinity. He attended
Sam Houston State University in
Huntsville before earning his bach-
elor’s degree from the U.S. Naval
Academy in 1956.
Wilson served as a Naval lieuten-
ant between 1956-60, then entered
politics by volunteering for John F.
Kennedy’s presidential campaign.
He served in the Texas House and
then in the Texas Senate before
being elected to the U.S. House in
1972.
Vickers, now assistant secretary
of defense for special operations,
said Wednesday that Wilson was
a “great American patriot who
played a pivotal role in a world-
changing event — the defeat of the
Red Army in Afghanistan, which
led to the collapse of communism
and the Soviet empire.”
Longtime friend Buddy Temple,
who was with Wilson when he col-
lapsed Wednesday, said that despite
Wilson’s reputation as a playboy, he
was serious about representing east
Texas, including helping to create
the Big Thicket National Preserve.
“Charlie was a giant. We have
lost a giant. There won’t be another
like him,” Temple said at a hospi-
tal news conference announcing
Wilson’s death.
Wilson is survived by his wife,
Barbara, whom he married in 1999,
and a sister.
Congressman dies at 76
Fast track to the real world
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rep. Charlie Wilson, D-Texas, holds a British Enfeld rife in his Capitol Hill ofce in October 1988.
According to a hospital spokesperson, Wilson, 76, diedWednesday of cardiopulmonary arrest in
Lufkin, Texas.
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Zac Ansaldo, a senior fromStilwell, discusses job opportunities Wednesday inside the Kansas Union with a representative for Chicago-based
CommandTransportation. The University Career Center and the Ofce of Multicultural Afairs held the event from2 to 6 p.m.
University runs clinical trial of breakthrough anti-ovarian cancer drug
Reporter called to
court about source
WIcHITA — A kansas judge
found a subpoenaed newspaper
reporter in contempt and fned
her $1,000 a day after she failed
to show up to testify Wednesday
about a jailhouse interview and
her sources in a murder investi-
gation.
District Judge Daniel Love
ordered Dodge city Daily Globe
reporter claire o’Brien to appear
Friday at a rescheduled inquisi-
tion.
At the heart of the subpoena
is an oct. 13 Daily Globe story
based on o’Brien’s jailhouse
interview with Sam Bonilla, who
has been charged with second-
degree murder and attempted
murder.
“I feel the choice is a personal
and private one and has to be
driven by my own ethics in the
end,” she said Wednesday.
—Associated Press
STATE
NATIONAL
SCIENCE
I
n Kansas’ 67-60 loss
against No. 3 Nebraska
— in a game that seemed
destined to turn into a route
afer a rather ugly frst half —
the Jayhawks did something
improbable.
Tey dug themselves out of
a steep hole against one of the
best teams in the country — a
team that, until this point, had
run straight through every
team in the Big 12. Tey cut a
10-point halfime defcit and
quickly built a small lead.
And they did all of this with
a cast of players that barely
touched the court in the begin-
ning of the season.
Sure, Kansas missed a per-
fectly available opportunity to
shake the women’s basketball
landscape and polls. And sure,
the Jayhawks looked sloppy and
overmatched in the game’s fnal
minutes as Nebraska secured
its 22nd consecutive victory
this season.
But more important than
any of that, at least in terms
of the remaining seven games
on Kansas’ schedule, is this:
Te Jayhawks displayed that
even without former starters
Danielle McCray and Angel
Goodrich, they can still play a
factor in the Big 12.
“Te message to these kids
is: We’re talented enough,”
coach Bonnie Henrickson said.
“Now we need to fnd some
toughness to win.”
Afer the game, a somber
Henrickson said the game
was “two fold,” meaning she
couldn’t view it as mostly posi-
tive or mostly negative.
Tere was certainly a mix-
ture of both.
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commentary
By JAySON JENKS
[email protected]
Kansas
proves
it's still
a threat
softball
New coach renews enthusiasm, plans to take Kansas in new direction
By ZACH GETZ
[email protected]
twitter.com/zgetz
Senior shortstop Sara Ramirez
knew right away that new coach
Megan Smith was the right choice
for the Kansas sofball team.
“Her frst statement was, ‘We’re
turning Kansas sofball around,’”
Ramirez said. “Just to hear those
words and to hear that we were go-
ing to win — everyone around the
room was wide-eyed and all in.”
Smith replaced Tracy Bunge,
who retired last season afer 13
years as Kansas’ coach. Smith was
hired last fall, and this will be her
frst season coaching the Jayhawks.
Smith said she wanted to bring
titles to Lawrence and wanted the
players to think positively when-
ever they stepped on the feld.
Kansas fnished 21-31 last season
and went 6-11 in the Big 12. Kansas
hasn’t made the NCAA Sofball
Tournament since 2006. Te Jay-
hawks open the season Feb. 12 in
Houston at the Marriott Hobby In-
vite against Louisville.
Smith brings a lot of enthusiasm
to a program that placed ninth out
of 10 teams in the Big 12 Con-
ference last season and was also
picked to place ninth this season in
the coaches’ preseason poll.
“She has an incredible amount
of passion,” Ramirez said. “You can
just see the fre in her.”
Smith doesn’t have any time-
tables in place for Kansas, but she
said she wanted the sofball pro-
gram to be turned around as soon
as possible.
“Our success this year isn’t going
to be measured by wins and losses,”
Smith said. “It’s going to be by how
we approach things and what our
demeanor is on the feld and how
we play as a team.”
Smith said she also wanted to
have a system that allowed Kansas
to be highly competitive in both
conference play and on the na-
tional scene. One of her goals is to
improve recruiting.
“We want to create that cham-
pionship mentality, which is excit-
ing for players,” Smith said. “Tey
want to come in and get a chance
to do something special. It’s hard
for players not to fall in love with
Kansas.”
Ramirez said Smith expected big
things from the team right away.
“She knows that this is a growing
period together as a team with the
new coach and staf,” Ramirez said.
“But to her that doesn’t mean we
can’t win, and this isn’t automati-
cally a season we just throw away.”
Junior outfelder Liz Kocon said
that Smith did not accept anything
less than perfection in practice — a
fact that refects on Smith’s desire
to slowly improve the Jayhawks in
the minor, yet important, areas of
the game.
“Everything we do from funda-
mental work to scrimmage has to
be our hardest work,” Kocon said.
“If she’s not satisfed with our work,
we’ll be there all night until she is.”
To be successful this season,
Kansas needs to even out the in-
consistencies that it has had in the
past.
“We’ve always had good defen-
sive players, we’ve always had good
hitters, we’ve always had pitchers,”
Kocon said. “But we’ve never had
them working all together consis-
tently.”
— Edited by Katie Blankenau
Weston White/KANSAN FILE PHOTO
First-year coach Megan Smith slaps hands with senior shortstop Sara Ramirez following a home run against Emporia State University on Oct. 3,
2009. Smith was previously an assistant coach at Louisiana State University.
nebrasKa 67, Kansas 60
Upset so close for Jayhawks
Jerry Wang/KANSAN
Freshman forward Carolyn Davis blocks Nebraska forward Kelsey Grifn during the second half. Davis had another double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds in the 67-60 loss to Nebraska.
By MAX ROTHMAN
[email protected]
twitter.com/maxrothman
Directly afer the opening tip,
Nebraska senior Kelsey Grifn
caught a darted pass, faked lef
and drove past sophomore forward
Aishah Sutherland for a layup on
the right side. Afer that, it seemed
Grifn wouldn’t need to do much
else.
No. 3 Nebraska had beaten its
opponents by an average of 23.6
points per game. Afer the frst half,
the game Wednesday looked to be
headed down the same path.
Ten an inexperienced Kansas
team snapped back, pushing an un-
defeated Nebraska team until the
fnal minutes before falling 67-60.
Kansas fell to 4-5 in the Big 12,
but it gave a valiant second-half ef-
fort in a game that looked all but
over by halfime.
Kelsey Grifn, a national player
of the year candidate, played just
nine minutes, and still the Corn-
huskers slugged Kansas 30-20 in
the frst half.
“You’re either dead or dying,”
coach Bonnie Henrickson said to
her team at halfime. “If you’re dy-
ing, you’ve at least got breath.”
Te Jayhawks responded to Hen-
rickson’s speech.
After missing nine of its last
10 shots and converting just one
field goal in the final 11:40 of the
first half, the Jayhawks started the
second half by nailing their first 11
shots, taking the
lead with 13:38
to go in the sec-
ond half.
Griffin said
sometimes peo-
ple looked past
unranked teams,
but tonight was
an example
of why they
shouldn’t.
“Kansas did
a great job executing their sets
throughout the game,” Griffin said.
“Our coaches prepared us for them,
we knew them, and they were still
able to execute.”
The seats may have been mostly
vacant in Allen Fieldhouse, with
an announced attendance of 3,156,
but there was some raucous noise.
Kansas again clawed back by
way of its fresh-
men.
Freshman for-
ward Carolyn
Davis was the
focal point of the
offense, scor-
ing 17 points
and grabbing
11 rebounds for
her third career
double-double.
She converted
7-of-9 free throw attempts.
Freshman guard Monica
Engelman converted 2-of-7 shots
in the first half and said she was at
first a bit nervous at the prospect
of challenging an undefeated team.
But in the second half, Engelman
glided her way to silky shots and
finished with 13 points.
Henrickson said it was also a
good defensive effort that helped
spark the comeback.
“We got them to rush and pres-
sure some shots,” Henrickson said.
“We were able to scramble out of
some plays too.”
But the absence of a true point
guard stung Kansas. Playing out of
her natural position, senior guard
Sade Morris, who finished with
seven turnovers, committed three
of Kansas’ four crucial turnovers
in the final three minutes of the
game.
“It’s just not making the right
pass,” Morris said. “It was there. I
needed to go over instead of try to
Kansas turnovers
help Nebraska
storm back late
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“It's gut-wrenching. It's
a missed opportunity
where I thought we beat
ourselves."
BONNIE HENRICKSON
Kansas coach
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friday
Softball
vs. Louisville in Houston,
11 a.m

Softball
vs. Sam Houston State in
Houston, 1 p.m.
Track
ISU Classic/Tyson Invita-
tional, Ames, Iowa/Fayett-
ville, All Day
SaTurday
Women’s Basketball
vs. Texas, 1 p.m.
Softball
at Sam Houston State,
3 p.m.

Men’s Basketball
vs. Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Softball
at Houston, 7 p.m.
Track
vs. ISU Classic/Tyson
Invitational, Ames, Iowa/
Fayettville, Ark., All Day
Sunday
Tennis
vs. Iowa, 10 a.m.
Softball
vs. Ohio State in Houston,
Texas, 11 a.m.
Tennis
vs. South Dakota, 3 p.m.
MOnday
Men’s Basketball
at Texas A&M, 8 p.m.
Men’s Golf
at Rice Intercollegiate,
All Day
TuESday
Women’s basketball
at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Men’s Golf
at Rice Intercollegiate,
All Day
O
n Monday against Texas,
Sherron Collins scored his
1,704th point as a Jayhawk and
moved to 10th all-time on the Kansas
career scoring list.
The career scoring list now looks like
this:
Player (Years at KU) Points
1. Danny Manning (1985-88) 2,951
2. Nick Collison (2000-03) 2,097
3. Raef LaFrentz (1995-98) 2,066
4. Clyde Lovellette (1950-52) 1,979
5. Darnell Valentine (1978-81) 1,821
6. Keith Langford (2002-05) 1,812
7. Paul Pierce (1996-98) 1,768
8. Dave Robisch (1969-71) 1,754
9. Kirk Hinrich (2000-03) 1,753
10. Sherron Collins (2007-now) 1,704
Every one of those players except
Langford and Collins has his jersey
retired in Allen Fieldhouse. Only Collins,
Manning and Lovellette have won
national championships.
For Collins to catch Manning by the
end of the regular season, Collins would
need to average 178.14 points per game.
Yes, Manning was that great, and no,
he will never be caught. Anyone who is
capable of coming close to that number
will leave early for the NBA.
A hundred years from now, Manning
will still be the career leading scorer.
Because he’s an assistant coach, just
imagine how lucky you are that you’re
still able to see him as part of the Kansas
program.
Appreciating Collins’ historical
greatness is also something that should
not be taken for granted.
Kansas has seven games left in the
regular season. If the Jayhawks make it
to the Big 12 Tournament champion-
ship, they will have played three addi-
tional games. If they play in the National
Championship that would be an extra
six games, so at most Kansas will play 16
more games this season.
If over those 16 games Collins aver-
ages 24.6 points, he will tie for second
place with Nick Collison.
If he averages 22.6 points, he will tie
for third place with Raef LaFrentz.
If he averages 17.2 points, he will tie
for fourth place with Clyde Lovellette.
Even if the Jayhawks played only one
conference tournament game and one
NCAA tournament game, they still have
nine guaranteed games left this season.
For Collins to crack the top five in
career scoring, he would need to aver-
age 13 points per game over those nine
games.
Now assume Kansas makes it to the
Big 12 Tournament championship and
then makes it to the Elite Eight of the
NCAA tournament. That would be 13
more games, and over those 13 games
Collins would need to only average nine
points per game to be the fifth leading
scorer in Kansas history.
Catching Lovellette, LaFrentz, Collison
and Manning would be nice, but are they
the names that really matter in regards to
Collins’ pursuit of all-time greatness?
They all played as forwards or centers.
Barring injury, Collins will pass
Valentine and be the highest scoring
guard in Kansas history. He’s already the
only guard in the top 10 with a national
championship.
When will that happen though?
Collins is averaging 15.6 points per
game.
If Collins averages 16.7 points per
game, about a point more than his sea-
son average, the rest of the regular sea-
son, he will move into fifth place all-time
March 6 at Missouri.
— Edited by Jesse Rangel
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Collins makes it into top 10
MOrninG BrEW
QuOTE Of THE day
“Always remember Goliath was a
40-point favorite over David.”
—Shug Jordan, former Auburn football coach
faCT Of THE day
Despite a 21-1 record, kansas is
just 9-11-1 against the spread set
in football by Las Vegas sports-
book before a game.
— VegasInsider.com
TriVia Of THE day
Q: As of Tuesday afternoon,
which team in the country has
the best win-loss record against
the spread?
a: Villanova. The Wildcats are
16-6 against the spread this
season.
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no. 13 Ohio State 69 , Indiana 52
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no. 20 Georgia Tech 62, Miami 64
nCaa WOMEn’S BaSKETBaLL:
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no. 1 Connecticut 95, DePaul 62
no. 6 Xavier 63, Saint Joseph’s 56
no. 11 Baylor 60, no. 12 Oklahoma 62
no. 13 Texas A&M 54, Texas Tech 57
no. 14 Texas 74, Colorado 50
no. 16 Georgetown 66, Pittsburgh 63
no. 25 St. John’s 91, Louisville 56
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Toronto 104, Philadelphia 93
Milwaukee 97, new Jersey 77
Sacramento 103, Detroit 97
Boston 85, new Orleans 93
Orlando 107, Chicago 87
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Portland 108, Phoenix 101
LA Lakers 96, Utah 81
LA Clippers 102, Golden State 132
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playing surface for an NBA All-
Star game, the process is old hat
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Hamar, the president and
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which is 29 inches off the
ground on a raised platform.
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is expected to attend Sunday’s
game. And Brett Daniels wants
everyone to know that the All-
Star Game is not serving as a
trial run for the Super Bowl,
which will be held in this same
venue next year.
“There’s certainly going to be
things we can learn from (the
All-Star Game),” said Daniels,
the director of corporate com-
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Cowboys.
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crowd to ever witness a bas-
ketball game in the history of
mankind, I wouldn’t call that
much of a dress rehearsal.”
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More than halfway through the
Big 12 season, Kansas has dis-
patched a gritty Kansas State team
and a hyped Texas team on the
road, as well as all other comers. A
weaker second-half schedule pres-
ents the question: Can Kansas run
the table?
After making quick work of
their once-biggest threat in the
Big 12, Texas, on Monday, the
Jayhawks (23-1, 9-0) are capable
of finishing the Big 12 schedule
undefeated.
“The Big 12 is a tough confer-
ence, and anybody can be beat any
night,” sophomore forward Marcus
Morris said Monday. “Having a
three-game lead gives us a lot of
confidence. We’re still not going
to let up, but that doesn’t mean we
can’t lose any games.”
As much as they keep saying
anyone can beat anyone in the
league, the Jayhawks are breaking
that rule so far.
Kansas already survived its
toughest road challenges: The
overtime victory against Kansas
State with what Sherron Collins
said was the best crowd he ever
faced and against highly ranked,
though slowly fading, Texas.
Don’t forget the fight the
Colorado Buffaloes gave the
Jayhawks on their home court,
also an overtime victory. The
Jayhawks also pounded Missouri,
their bitter rival, at home.
With seven games to go — four
at Allen Fieldhouse — and a three-
game lead in the Big 12, coach
Bill Self is trying to keep his team
hungry by down-playing the situ-
ation.
“We haven’t done anything
yet, but it certainly puts us in a
very favorable position,” Self said.
“Looking forward, we still have
some tough games left.”
Here’s a look at the rest of their
schedule.
FEb. 13: IOwA STATE
Kansas already played this team
away and won by 23. Sherron
Collins had 11 points. You do the
math. The duo of Craig Brackins
and Marquis Gilstrap is formi-
dable, but the Jayhawks can find
other ways to produce at other
positions. The Cyclones can’t.
FEb. 15: AT TExAS A&M
If any game left on the sched-
ule spells upset, here it is. The
Jayhawks go back down to Texas,
this time in College Station to
take on the 17-6, 6-3 Aggies. The
Aggies are tied with the Wildcats
for second place in the confer-
ence. Donald Sloan, averaging
18.5 points per game, is their only
note-worthy player. Just like the
other opponents Kansas has faced
with a single star on its team,
the Jayhawks should focus their
defense on him and force the rest
of the team to make plays.
FEb. 20: COLORADO
The rematch is at home for
Kansas, and the Jayhawks don’t
have the altitude to worry about.
What they will have to worry
about is the return of Alec Burks.
Burks is the second leading scor-
er on the Buffaloes with almost 17
points per game and he missed
only the Kansas game this year.
This may be one of the tougher
home games, but Colorado is sec-
ond to last in the Big 12 for a
reason — the team can’t win on
the road.
FEb. 22: OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma is 4-5 in the confer-
ence. It isn’t ranked in the top five
in most of the main statistical
categories for the Big 12. Tommy
Mason-Griffin can pass the ball
around, but again, it’s nothing to
get excited about.
FEb. 27:
AT OKLAHOMA STATE
The leading scorer in the Big
12, James Anderson, who averages
22.2 points per game, will be the
main threat here. The Cowboys
are dangerous, having victories
against the Wildcats in Manhattan
and the Aggies at home. Still, the
Jayhawks have the more impres-
sive track record.
MARCH 3:
KANSAS STATE
It was one of the greatest games
of the season in Manhattan, but
this time the Kansas fans get
to have their say in the matter.
Besides the game against Mizzou
at home, Allen Fieldhouse may be
as loud as it has been all season.
Can the Wildcats handle that and
the Jayhawks at the same time?
So far, the past 55 opponents to
visit Allen Fieldhouse haven’t been
able to.
MARCH 6: AT MISSOURI
This is an interesting matchup.
Kansas destroyed Mizzou at home
earlier this season 84-65 in the
most hostile crowd of the season.
You can bet the Mizzou fans will
be all riled up in the regular sea-
son finale, but will the Jayhawks
match that intensity? Worst-case
scenario, the Jayhawks will have
nothing to play for and won’t give
the Tigers their best effort. Still,
with the coaching staff and per-
sonnel this Kansas team has, that
shouldn’t be a problem.
—Edited by Kate Larrabee
Jayhawks feel at home on the road
Weston White/KANSAN
Junior center Cole Aldrich high-fves freshman guard Xavier Henry during a timeout. Kansas beat Texas 80-68 to remain undefeated in the Big 12.
Programs like Duke,
Kansas, Wisconsin
thrive at home
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MADISON, Wis. — Eighty-two
miles and a sea of orange. That’s
what former Oklahoma coach
Kelvin Sampson remembers on
the way to Oklahoma State.
“I can remember vividly driv-
ing the 82 miles from Norman to
Stillwater, getting to Gallagher-Iba
Arena and there would be a gant-
let of students we’d have to walk
through just for shootaround,”
said Sampson, who spent 14 years
as a head coach
with the Sooners
and Indiana.
“And that was
at 11:30 in the
morning. The
game wasn’t until
eight o’clock.”
Fact is, there’s
no place like
home in college
basketball.
Like Kansas at
Allen Fieldhouse,
which has a 94.4 percent winning
percentage at home since 2001-
02. Or Duke’s Cameron Indoor
Stadium, where the Cameron
Crazies have helped the Blue
Devils win 93.5 percent of their
games in that span.
Four more programs —
Gonzaga, Utah State, Wisconsin
and Pittsburgh — have won 92
percent or more of their home
games over the last nine years.
“It’s a way of life here,” said
Kansas coach Bill Self, who has a
111-7 home record since taking
over in 2003. “No matter who
you play, when you play them,
you’re going to have 16,000 peo-
ple there.”
Since coach Bo Ryan came to
Wisconsin in 2001, they’ve gone
133-11 at home. The Kohl Center
opened just a dozen years ago and
doesn’t have the history of other
college basketball landmarks, but
two overhanging balconies keep
even the highest seats close to
the court.
Wisconsin’s loss to Illinois on
Tuesday night snapped a 51-game
winning streak against unranked
Big Ten opponents — something
not lost on Illini coach Bruce
Weber.
“It’s just
amazing what
Bo has done
here,” Weber
said. “The
arena is great.
The fans are
great, but it’s
Bo and the
system and the
players.”
L o u d
crowds are just
the start of a
successful home court.
Since 2001-02, the home team
in a BCS conference school has
won more than 76 percent of
its games overall and 64 percent
in conference tilts. To compare,
NBA teams win about 60 percent
of their home games.
“It’s amazing how success-
ful everybody is at home,”
Baylor coach Scott Drew said.
“Everybody just seems to be a
little better.”
Home court key
for big schools
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Syracuse fans hold up giant cutouts of coach JimBoeheim, left, and players Kris Johnson, cen-
ter, andWesley Johnson during an NCAA college basketball game in Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse is
one of the college basketball programs with a reputable home court advantage.
“It’s amazing how suc-
cessful everybody is at
home. Everybody just
seems to be a little bit
better.”
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The Big 12 Stock Report takes
into account several variables. The
team’s perception and remaining
schedule are the biggest factors.
Kansas (23-1, 9-0): BUY
The Jayhawks can’t sleepwalk
through the rest of the conference
season after their monster victory
at Texas. Of the remaining seven
games, four of them are easily lose-
able and a fifth, against Oklahoma,
could slip away if Kansas loses its
focus. Against Texas A&M next
Monday and the season finale at
Missouri will
be the tough-
est of the
bunch, but
the Jayhawks
have a legiti-
mate shot at
running the
table in the Big 12 for the first time
since the 2002 Jayhawks.
Kansas state (19-4,
6-3): BUY
It’s a good thing the Jayhawks
have a three-game cushion, because
the remaining schedule favors the
Wildcats. They should be favored
in every game except for the trip
to Allen Fieldhouse in the second-
to-last game of the regular sea-
son March 1. Unless the Jayhawks
stumble before
then — possi-
ble, but hardly
probable —
the Wildcats
will be playing
for nothing
more than tournament seeding,
both conference and NCAA. Right
now, it looks like they’ll be a two-
seed in both.
texas a&M (17-6, 6-3):
BUY
After starting 3-3 in conference,
the Aggies have been impressive
in their last three games. They
did what they should have done
by defeating Texas Tech at home,
but they stunned plenty of people
when they ended Missouri’s home
w i n n i n g
streak at 32 on
Feb. 3, despite
missing 17
free throws.
“When we
miss 17 free
throws at
Missouri we don’t panic,” coach
Mark Turgeon said to ESPN on
Wednesday. “We’ve grown accus-
tomed to ourselves. We’re not great
shooters, so we execute better.”
MissoUri (17-6, 5-3):
seLL
The Tigers are a solid team and
Mike Anderson is an excellent
coach, but their remaining sched-
ule is just too
brutal for
them to stay
in the hunt for
second in the
Big 12. They’re looking at potential
losses at Baylor, at home to Texas,
on the road at Kansas State, and
home to Kansas. If the Tigers split
those four and win the rest, they
could have the resume of a three-
seed for the NCAA tournament.
texas (19-5, 5-4): seLL
This is why I’m not a stock-
broker. Stockbrokers are good at
calling trends before they happen.
I thought Texas’ swoon was tempo-
rary, even though the Longhorns’
flaws were easily visible. I was
wrong. Freshman forward Jordan
Hamilton and freshman guard
J’Covan Brown are all too willing to
jack up bad
shots. The
Longhorns’
two best
def enders,
senior guard
Justin Mason and junior guard
Dogus Balbay, simply cannot score.
Mess with Texas all you want. But
you still can’t mess with senior
guard Damion James.
BaYLor (17-5, 4-4): BUY
The Bears may be the best .500
in conference team in any confer-
ence in the country. They destroy
the teams they’re supposed to and
stick around with the teams at the
top of the conference. The one
anomaly is their loss at Colorado,
but as evidenced when Kansas
went to over-
time there,
the Coors
Events Center
is hardly the
cakewalk it
used to be.
The Bears’
other three losses, though, are to
the top three teams in the confer-
ence by an average of just five
points.
texas tech (16-7, 4-5):
seLL
Against teams below them in
conference, the Red Raiders are
4-0. Against teams above them in
conference the Red Raiders are 0-5.
Should that trend continue, Texas
Tech goes 2-5
the rest of
the way. That
seems about
right, but I
wouldn’t be
s u r p r i s e d
to see the
team lose at
Colorado.
oKLahoMa state (16-7,
4-5): seLL
It looks like Oklahoma State has
been the beneficiary of the trap
game this year. The Cowboys’ best
win — at Kansas State — came in
between a couple of monumental
games for the Wildcats, a victory
against the then No. 1 Longhorns
and an overtime loss to Kansas.
Junior guard
J a m e s
Anderson is
still one of the
best players in
the conference,
but senior guard Obi Muonelo and
junior forward Marshall Moses are
too streaky to be relied on.
oKLahoMa (13-10, 4-5):
seLL
In his last four games, freshman
guard Tommy Mason-Griffin has
scored 38, 9, 24 and 9. The Sooners
have won, lost,
won and lost.
That’s not a
coi nci dence.
It’s not good
news for the
Sooners that
both of their
top scorers —
s o p h o mo r e
guard Willie Warren leads the team
with 16 points per game to Mason-
Griffin’s 13 — are incredibly incon-
sistent. The real low point for the
Sooners was scoring 46 points in a
loss to Nebraska. It is the Huskers’
only conference victory.
iowa state (13-10, 2-6):
seLL
The Cyclones have some all
but impossible road trips loom-
ing. They’ve really imploded since
junior guard Lucca Staiger left the
team, losing five of their last six.
The only win
was 64-63
a g a i n s t
Colorado at
home thanks
to a missed
Buffalo layup
at the buzzer. The Cyclones haven’t
hit rock bottom yet, but they’re
getting close. Iowa State has games
against the two teams that remain
below it left, but they may not even
win those with the way the team
has been playing.
coLorado (11-12, 2-7):
BUY
The Buffaloes demonstrated
their toughness in taking top-
ranked Kansas
to overtime on
Feb. 3 despite
not having
freshman guard
Alec Burks, their second-leading
scorer. Colorado will lose at Kansas
State, at Kansas and at Missouri,
but it has a shot at stealing the
other four games on their remain-
ing schedule. A victory against
Oklahoma next Wednesday would
be a real boost for Colorado.
neBrasKa (13-10, 1-7):
seLL
The Huskers’ stifling defense is a
hassle for even the best offenses in
the Big 12, but they are last in the
conference in points scored. They’ll
p r o v i d e
the perfect
bounce back
for the stum-
bling Texas
Longhor ns
this Saturday,
and will
struggle to
pick up more than one win the rest
of the way.
— Edited by Jesse Rangel
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Carolyn Davis
Carolyn Davis scored nine of Kansas’ measly 20
points in the frst half. She fnished with a team-high
17 points and 11 rebounds on her way to her third
career double-double. She was the focal point of
Kansas’ ofense, scoring in bunches by getting to the
free-throw line where she sunk 7-of-9 attempts. Davis
is the team’s true low post option, because Aishah
Sutherland is more of a jump shooter and Krysten
Boogaard has struggled in minimal time.
BY ANDREW TAYLOR
[email protected]
With senior guard Danielle
McCray and freshman guard Angel
Goodrich permanently residing on
the bench because of untimely inju-
ries, the Jayhawks lack key players
at the guard position.
That seemed to make a big dif-
ference in Kansas' 67-60 loss to No.
3 Nebraska Wednesday night.
After the Jayhawks opened
up the second half with sizzling
shooting from the field, making
all of their first 11 shot attempts,
they seemed to hit a wall. It’s pos-
sible that this was a direct result of
Nebraska’s pressure defense and the
trouble it caused for the guards.
“They have to work hard to get
the ball up the court,” freshman
forward Carolyn Davis said of the
guards, “and then they have to run
the offense and go back on defense.
It wears on you.”
The Jayhawks’ guards were the
ones primarily dealing with the
Cornhuskers’ full-court press,
and they were the ones showing
the effects of it. On Wednesday
night, Kansas’ guards turned the
ball over 13 times, and seven of
those occurred down the stretch
as Kansas fought to hang on in a
losing effort.
On top of having to fight through
the press on nearly every posses-
sion, the guards didn’t get much
time to rest on the bench. Kansas’
three starting guards missed only
a combined 14 minutes of action
in the game, and senior guard Sade
Morris played the full 40 minutes.
“We talked about playing
through some fatigue, and we did
at times,” coach Bonnie Henrickson
said. “Then we kind of let it get to
us and played a little bit soft there
at times.”
In addition to the turnovers, the
fatigue factor also seemed to cause
a few mental missteps in some the
Jayhawks, especially the younger
ones.
With less than eight minutes
to play, freshman guard Monica
Engelman had an open shot behind
the arc from the wing. Instead of
shooting the ball, Engelman passed
it into traffic and the ball wound up
in Nebraska’s hands.
“I was wide open,” Engelman
said. “I don’t know why I didn’t
shoot the shot.”
That was just one in a series of
three consecutive turnovers that
allowed the Cornhuskers to recov-
er from a five-point deficit to steal
the lead from the Jayhawks.
“There’s no excuse to be tired
in a game of this magnitude,”
Henrickson said. “There’s no
excuse.”
Despite the unraveling toward
the end of the game, Kansas’
guards still found a way to produce
on offense for the second straight
game. They accounted for 29 of the
Jayhawks’ 60 points after scoring
37 combined points in a victory
against Kansas State last Sunday.
The Kansas guards, as well as
the rest of the team, will need to
find a way to maintain energy and
composure for a full 40 minutes
when No. 14 Texas visits Allen
Fieldhouse on Saturday.
“We want to compete and prove
that we’re good enough to win,”
Henrickson said. “We tried to do
that tonight. We just didn’t play
long enough to get it done.”
— Edited by Allyson Shaw
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL REWIND
Nebraska 67, kaNsas 60
Jerry Wang/KANSAN
Junior center Krysten Boogaard is blocked by Nebraska center Catheryn Redmon. Boogaard played for six minutes against Nebraska and pulled
down one rebound.
COLUMN (continued from 1B)
Guards struggle, fail against cornhuskers
Game ball
Davis
Stat of the night
After shooting just 6-of-23 in the
frst half and missing 9-of-10 of its fnal
attempts leading into half time, Kansas
came out of the locker room ready to right its wrongs. The Jayhawks
converted their frst 11 feld goals in the second half and wound up
shooting 69.2 percent in the second half. Sutherland made all six of
her shot attempts in the game and Davis and Engelman combined to
shoot 7-of-13 in the second half.
69.2%
6B / SPORTS / THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KAnSAn.Com
Afer building a four-point
lead with 7:56 lef in the game,
Kansas made careless mistakes.
Te Jayhawks committed seven
of their 19 turnovers in the fnal
eight minutes, and many of those
miscues resulted in points for the
Cornhuskers.
But that Kansas even held a
lead late against a veteran-heavy
Nebraska team is surprising.
Behind another strong inside
performance from freshman Caro-
lyn Davis — and with help outside
from freshman Monica Engelman
— the Jayhawks made their frst 11
shots of the second half.
Tey threw a counterpunch
that even some of the Big 12’s
elite teams couldn’t produce when
playing the Cornhuskers. And they
did this with two inexperienced
freshmen leading the way.
In their last two games, the
Jayhawks have hardly displayed a
hangover efect afer the season-
ending injury to McCray. Actually,
the injury has seemingly inspired
the remaining players.
Kansas knocked of Kansas State
last Sunday and followed that per-
formance with another solid out-
ing against Nebraska Wednesday.
“I watched their K-State game
and thought, ‘Boy I don’t know
what they would do with McCray,
but they looked really good in that
game,’” Nebraska coach Connie
Yori said. “I think that maybe
comes with not having to run
everything for McCray, and now
they’re getting some other people
involved. No, this doesn’t surprise
me at all.”
Kansas certainly isn’t better of
without McCray. Tat point would
be hard to argue.
But the Jayhawks displayed an
ability to scrap and fght, even
against one of the nation’s most
dominant teams.
More than anything, that’s the
most important lesson to take
moving forward.
— Edited by Michael Holtz
push it through my left hand.”
The Jayhawks will walk out of
this game a far more confident
team, having given the now 22-0
Cornhuskers one of their toughest
tests of the season. However, after
Kansas took the lead, Nebraska
snagged seven of its 10 steals in the
final eight minutes of the game.
Henrickson said the team played
tired at the wrong time.
“Nebraska kept fighting, and we
coasted,” Davis said.
After an exhausting game,
Henrickson said in her press con-
ference that she could not help
but feel like her team let an upset
slip away.
“It’s gut-wrenching,” Henrickson
said. “It’s a missed opportunity
where I thought we beat our-
selves.”
— Edited by Jesse Rangel
RECAP (continued from 1B)
Miami barely defeats
Georgia Tech , 64-62
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — After
missing a chance to seal the win,
James Dews made a 15-footer at
the buzzer Wednesday night to
give Miami a 64-62 victory over
No. 20 Georgia Tech.
Dews missed the front end of
a one-and-one with 19 seconds
left, and Iman Shumpert sank a
layup for Tech to tie the game
with 10 seconds to go. That
capped a comeback by the Yel-
low Jackets, who trailed by 14
early in the second half.
Following a timeout, the
Hurricanes moved the length of
the court and Durand Scott fed
Dews, who faked out a defender
before swishing his shot. Dews
then leaped into a mob of jubi-
lant teammates.
The Hurricanes (17-7, 3-7
Atlantic Coast Conference) won
for only the second time in the
past eight games.
The crowd numbered less
than 500, pep band included,
when the Hurricanes took the
court a few minutes before tip-
of. Miami improved to 11-1 at
home this season.
— Associated Press
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Wes
Johnson and Kris Joseph combined
to make six straight free throws
in the final 33 seconds, and No.
2 Syracuse held off Connecticut
72-67 on Wednesday night after
squandering a 16-point lead in the
second half.
Jerome Dyson’s 3-pointer for the
Huskies tied it at 65 with 2:33 left,
but Johnson put the Orange back in
front by hitting two foul shots with
30.4 seconds to go.
It was the 11th straight victory
for Syracuse (24-1, 12-1) and it
snapped a six-game skid against
the Huskies in the regular season.
Syracuse opened the season with
13 wins before losing to Pittsburgh.
It’s the first time in school history
the Orange have had two 10-game
winning streaks in one season.
Connecticut (14-10, 4-7)
dropped to 0-6 on the road this sea-
son and 1-5 against ranked teams.
That lone victory was over Texas
when the Longhorns were No. 1,
and the Huskies are still looking for
another signature win.
George Blaney fell to 3-4 in place
of coach Jim Calhoun, who took
a medical leave of absence last
month.
Rick Jackson led Syracuse with
15 points. Joseph had 14 and
Johnson 13.
Dyson paced Connecticut with
19 points and Stanley Robinson
had 16, but only two in the second
half. Kemba Walker added 14 and
Gavin Edwards 12.
The Orange seemed in command
after Jackson’s shot over Edwards
gave Syracuse a 50-34 lead with
13:50 left.
But the struggling Huskies
roared back with a 14-2 run. Dyson
scored six points, drawing a key
charge on Andy Rautins to set up
a dunk by Edwards, then converted
a follow on the third try to move
Connecticut within 52-48 with
8:36 to go.
Syracuse held the lead, but never
by more than six, and Dyson’s 3
from the top of the key had the
Huskies within 61-60 with 4:06
remaining.
Johnson’s soaring dunk along the
baseline over Ater Majok put the
Orange back up 65-62, but Dyson
followed with another 3 from the
left wing to tie it at 65 with 2:33
left.
Walker then missed a 3, Dyson
snared the long rebound from
Joseph and missed a runner as the
shot clock was about to expire.
After a timeout, Rautins missed
a 3 off the inbounds pass, Jackson
rebounded and Orange coach Jim
Boeheim called a timeout with 36.6
seconds left and 32 on the shot
clock.
Johnson was fouled by Robinson
as soon as play resumed and sank
both free throws to give Syracuse a
67-65 lead with 30.4 seconds left.
Joseph followed with two more
free throws with 11.5 seconds to
go. Walker hit a layup to cut the
lead back to a basket, but Joseph
sealed it with two more free throws
after he was intentionally fouled
by Majok on a breakaway with 5.8
seconds left.
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Syracuse hangs on to win
after giving up huge lead
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Syracuse’s Wesley Johnson celebrates after his teamgained possession on a loose ball during the
game against Connecticut Wednesday. Syracuse won the game, 72-67.
BIG 12 BASKETBALL
Despite starters’ of games,
Mizzou defeats Iowa State
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
North Carolina’s Larry DrewIII is fouled as he drives past Duke’s Kyle Singler and Jon Scheyer during the frst half of the Duke-North Carolina game
Wednesday. The Blue Devils won 64-54.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBIA, Mo. — J.T. Tiller
scored a season-high 17 points
after discarding a face mask for a
broken nose in the opening min-
ute, helping Missouri beat Iowa
State 65-56 on Wednesday night.
Laurence Bowers added
10 points and a career-best 12
rebounds, and Justin Safford had
13 points and nine rebounds for
the Tigers (18-6, 6-3 Big 12), who
are three games above .500 in
conference play for the first time
this season.
Craig Brackins had 12 points
and 14 rebounds for his ninth
double-double of the season for
Iowa State (13-11, 2-7).
Missouri survived 4-for-20
shooting from 3-point range in
its first time back in the Mizzou
Arena since its 32-game home-
court winning streak was ended
by Texas A&M a week earlier.
Tiller broke his nose Saturday
at Colorado and scored just four
points. He had been held below
double figures nine of the previ-
ous 10 games.
Missouri overcame off games
from starters Kim English, held
to nine points, and senior Zaire
Taylor, who went scoreless in
consecutive games for the first
time in his career. The Tigers also
committed as many turnovers
(14) as they forced.
Marquis Gilstrap had 18
points and nine rebounds for the
Cyclones, who cut the gap to one
point five times in the second half
before fading to their sixth loss in
seven games.
Iowa State was just 2 for 14
from 3-point range and shot 33
percent overall.
Brackins’ dunk cut the deficit
to 54-53 with 4:40 to go and the
Cyclones didn’t score again until
Gilstrap hit a 3-pointer with seven
seconds to go. Missouri pulled
away with 11 straight points, five
from English.
Iowa State missed its first seven
shots, shot only 31 percent in the
first half but trailed 28-23 because
Missouri had its own issues.
English, who has a team-lead-
ing 15-point average, picked up
two quick fouls in the opening
two minutes and watched the
rest of the half from the bench.
Missouri leaned on its reserves,
outscoring Iowa State 20-0.
Duke pulls away late to defeat UNC
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Jon
Scheyer scored 24 points and
eighth-ranked Duke pulled away
in the final minutes to beat North
Carolina 64-54 on Wednesday
night.
Kyle Singler added 19 points for
the Blue Devils (20-4, 8-2 Atlantic
Coast Conference), who shot poor-
ly all night and couldn’t make much
of anything in close. But boasting a
bigger and tougher front line than
in years past, Duke dominated the
boards and got plenty of extra looks
to make up for all those misses.
Duke hit nine 3-pointers, but
shot 32 percent overall and went
13 for 51 (25 percent) from inside
the arc.
The loss only added to the
defending national champions’
misery in a season that is slipping
away. North Carolina (13-11, 2-7)
has lost eight of 10 since the start
of 2010, including four in a row
overall to fall near the bottom of
the league standings.
Will Graves scored 13 points to
lead the Tar Heels.
The rivalry game might have
lost some luster this time around
due to North Carolina’s struggles
and Duke looking like a good, but
hardly great, team. Both schools
had been ranked in the top 10 in
the past four meetings, but North
Carolina — which started the sea-
son at No. 6 and as co-ACC favorite
with Duke — fell out of the poll
two weeks ago.
Still, this one ended up fitting
right in with college basketball’s
fiercest rivalry when it came to
intensity and fight. Neither team
led by more than six points in the
first 30 minutes and they were tied
with about 8 minutes left before the
Blue Devils finally took control.
Duke finished with a 51-42
rebounding advantage and con-
verted 23 offensive rebounds into
21 second-chance points, bas-
kets that repeatedly drained the
momentum building when the Tar
Heels appeared on the verge of a
defensive stop.
It was a satisfying win for the
Blue Devils, who had lost six of
seven meetings during a stretch
that seemed to signal a shift in
power between the programs
back to the light blue in Chapel
Hill. North Carolina has won two
national championships, including
last year in Detroit, since Duke last
went to a Final Four in 2004.
In addition, Duke’s win came on
a night when the Tar Heels retired
the No. 50 jersey of four-year star
Tyler Hansbrough, who graduated
as the storied program’s leading
scorer and rebounder, as well as the
top scorer in ACC history.
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BY KATHLEEN GIER
[email protected]
Te Kansas tennis team brought
its frst victory to its newly named
Jayhawk Tennis Facility against
the University of Missouri-Kansas
City Kangaroos. Te Jayhawks
won 7-0.
Tey swept doubles, only drop-
ping seven games overall, in three
matches.
“It defnitely builds up your
self-esteem,” said coach Amy
Hall-Holt. “Bouncing back and
winning against UMKC showed a
lot of character of our girls. Tey
had a lot of energy and a lot of
fght out there, and it was a good
UMKC team.”
Freshman Sara Lazarevic and
sophomore Erin Wilbert, the No.
1 doubles team, started their set
winning fve straight games. Tey
hit a snag and switched of the
next four sets before winning 8-3
on a volley by Wilbert. It was their
frst match together.
“I was a little nervous because I
wanted to show Coach that we can
do this,” Wilbert said. “It wasn’t
exactly difcult. It was just closing
it out it was like, ‘We can do this.
We just have to put it into play.’”
Tough this was Lazarevic and
Wilbert’s frst time in competition
together, they are no strangers of
the court.
“We are roommates, and she is
one of my best friends here so we
get along really well, and we com-
municate really well, and I think
we make a good team,” Wilbert
said. “I hope we get to play more
together in the future.”
Wilbert also found success in
singles, where she did not drop a
single game in either set to win
6-0, 6-0 at the No. 5 spot.
“I don’t like being on the last
court down there, so I try to get it
done as fast as possible,” Wilbert
said. “She just kind of hit balls
back and forth, so I just came in
and tried to fnish the points.”
In singles, the Jayhawks saw
some trouble, but they dropped
only one set before winning all six
singles matches. Senior Kuni Dorn
lost her frst set, but she came back
to win the second and force a third
set into a tie breaker.
“I was down the second set 6-5,
so I was really close to losing, but
my heart was there, so I was fght-
ing,” Dorn said.
Dorn was the fnal match to fn-
ish on the day, and the team had
ofcially won before she went into
the tiebreaker.
“I was kind of nervous,” Dorn
said. “I was calm because we
had already won, so it is not a
bad thing, but it feels good that I
won.”
Dorn fnished the match win-
ning 3-6, 7-6 (2), 10-4. Hall-Holt
was impressed with Dorn’s efort
fghting through her match.
“Kuni has been struggling a
little bit with parts of her game,”
Hall-Holt said. “But I think def-
nitely by fghting back and bounc-
ing back from losing the frst set
shows a lot of character on her
part, and I think her bouncing
back as a senior and wanting this
match is going to keep getting bet-
ter from here on out.”
Te Jayhawks improved to 4-0
in the series with UMKC under
Hall-Holt and 2-1 on the spring
season overall.
Te Jayhawks have a double-
header on Sunday facing Universi-
ty of Iowa at 10 a.m. and the Uni-
versity of South Dakota at 3 p.m.
at the Jayhawk Tennis Facility.
—Edited by Anna Archibald
Kansas christens court with win
TENNIS
Mike Gunnoe/KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Sophomore Ekaterina Morozova returns a serve Friday at the Jayhawk Tennis Facility. Coach Amy
Hall-Holt said the teamwas fortunate to have newcourts, which were frst usedWednesday.
Future All-Star
locale not decided
nEW YoRk – This weekend is a
can’t-miss proposition.
The nBA is in town, sweating
every last detail, and there just
isn’t any way that this All-Star
extravaganza will be anything but
an unqualifed success.
It’s a chamber of commerce
dream – the biggest party week-
end in sports (from mark cuban’s
perspective) with thousands
of visitors, celebrities, athletes,
exotic dancers and hangers-on
bringing their dollars into north
Texas.
So naturally, All-Star Weekend
will be coming back to Dallas and
Arlington again soon, right?
Don’t be so sure.
David Stern sees this visit to the
world’s newest, grandest sports
playpen as a one-shot deal.
“I think it’s possible,” the com-
missioner said of a quick return.
“But right now, we’re viewing it as
a place where we’re going to set
and retire the record for the most
people ever to have attended not
just an nBA game but a basket-
ball game.
During an exclusive interview
at the nBA’s midtown manhattan
ofces, Stern touched on a variety
of subjects but was particularly ef-
fusive about the mavericks, their
history and this year’s marquee
event (so far), the 59th All-Star
Game and its accompanying
events.
“I think that’s a moving defni-
tion,” Stern said. “In other words,
as many tickets as have been
released have been sold. There’s
some pressure to open up more
sections and the like. But we’ll see
how that goes. We could live and
hold our heads high with 85,000
to 90,000 people. There are some
among us – and I don’t want to
reveal mark and Jerry’s identities –
who say, what the hell, let’s go for
100,000-plus.
—McClatchy-Tribune
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VACCINE PATCH STUDY
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Qualified volunteers will receive:
• Study-related medical exams
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• Compensation for time and travel
Johnson County Clin-Trials is currently looking for healthy volun-
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outpatient Travelers’ Diarrhea Investigational Vaccine Patch Study.
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