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The Olympic Village, a combination of soccer, softball and track facilities, will cost approximately $25 million dollars according to a report issued by the University. It would meet NCAA requirements for championship competitions, and
include concessions, restrooms, grandstand seating and press boxes. It would also increase seating capacities for all events.
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BY KAYLA REGAN
kregan@kansan.com
April showers bring May flowers,
and possibly more flooding.
According to the National
Weather Service, increased rainfall,
along with melting snow packed
into the ground, makes the chance
of flooding across the midwest
higher than normal.
For students like Brandon Worley,
Wichita junior, heavy rainfall can
cause flooding outside and inside
their homes.
The last time the basement flood-
ed it ended up being a quarter inch
of water, Worley said. Everything
on the ground was soaking wet.
Brian Jimenez, city code enforcer,
said landlords could take steps to
help prevent home flooding, but
sometimes it was something tenants
would have to deal with. Jimenez
said students renting homes that
flood could still be proactive to
lessen any damage to their property.
He said older houses were more
susceptible to flooding because of
aging foundations, but all homes
were at risk.
Any time a ten-
ant has a problem
with a dwelling
unit that is leak-
ing or flood-
ing they can call
us, Jimenez said.
There may not be
much we can do,
but we can make
sure the dwelling
gets appropriately
cleaned.
Because he and his roommates
didnt know what to do when their
house flooded, Worley said the
water sat in their basement and
eventually dried up. Jimenez said
students shouldnt wait until stand-
ing water evaporated to solve any
flooding issues, and instead should
call their landlord to dry out the
home.
Water gets stagnant, Jimenez
said. You never know whats in the
basement. Its just not
sanitary.
Jimenez said land-
lords should make sure
their propertys down-
spouts were directed
away from the house
to keep water from
the gutters away from
reaching the founda-
tion. Proper draining
around a home isnt
foolproof protection from flooding
though, Jimenez said. Worley said
heavy rainfall found other ways of
getting into his home.
I could see where the water had
been leaking in at from cracks in the
side of the house, Worley said. If
it does it again we will probably tell
the landlord.
Jimenez said the best way for
students to prevent home flood-
ing from damaging property was to
purchase renters insurance and use
common sense. Students shouldnt
store valuable items in unfinished
basements, for example, without
taking steps to make sure water cant
reach them, Jimenez said.
Mitch Jones, Burlington junior,
said he practiced with his band in
a friends unfinished basement.
After a heavy rainfall, Jones said
their practice space flooded and
the standing water in the basement
could have cost him as much as
$1,000 to replace his amp and bass
guitar. Jones said he was lucky his
equipment was not damaged, but he
and his band made sure they didnt
leave their gear where water could
get to it.
Editedby MelissaJohnson
Matt Bristow/KANsAN
Mitch Jones, Burlington junior, dries out the basement where his band practices onTuesday
afternoon. None of the bands equipment was damaged because of the fooding.
Increased rainfall could cause fooding
Housing
Water gets stagnant.
You never know
whats in the base-
ment. Its just not
sanitary.
Brian jimenez
City code enforcer
BY MICHELLE SPREHE
msprehe@kansan.com
Five student dance groups
will be surrounded by audi-
ence members on all four sides
of the stage at 7 tonight as they
compete to be KUs Best Dance
Crew.
Grace Sha, Student Union
Activites cultural arts coor-
dinator, organized the event.
Audience members will decide
which group will win the grand
prize of $500.
The groups have to have a
minimum of four people and
theres no maximum, Sha,
Derby junior, said. The only
challenge they have is to put on
a show that will be performed
toward all four edges of the
stage so all the audience is
included.
The event is aimed at giv-
ing cultural groups on campus
an opportunity to showcase
the different types of dances
from their culture. Groups will
perform hip-hop, break danc-
ing, classical Indian and Asian
styles of dances.
We wanted the cultural
groups to come do their dances
all together and show them
to different audiences who
may not see them usually, Sha
said.
Roya Ibrahimi, Shawnee
freshman, is a member of
Jeeva, an Indian dance group
on campus that will perform
tonight.
Well be doing classical
Indian dancing, hip-hop and a
kind of a step dance where we
have bells on our feet so when
we stomp the floor we make a
rhythm, Ibrahimi said.
sua
Crews to
compete
tonight at
dance of
sEE sua ON PAGE 5A
BY ADAM SAMSON
asamson@kansan.com
Kansas Athletics has another
big project in the works after com-
pleting the $33 million Anderson
Family Football Complex in July
2008.
An initial report issued
Wednesday by the University of
Kansas featured a proposal for the
Kansas Olympic Village, a $24.6
million project.
The Olympic Village would focus
on combining the fields and facili-
ties for soccer, softball and track
into one location and would also
increase the spectator capacity for
those sports.
According to the master plan,
all of the facilities would meet the
requirements for NCAA champi-
onship competition. The proposed
facilities would include a new soc-
cer competition field with a press
box, a new soccer practice field, and
a new track and field facility with a
press box. The plan would also add
grandstand seating and a press box
to Arrocha Ballpark, as well as a
centralized plaza area with a ticket
soccer competition
Field
cost: $4.5 million
includes: natural sand-based
turf soccer feld, grandstand
seating for 2,500, press box,
scoreboard, sound and sports
lighting
soccer practice
Field
cost: $2 million
includes: natural sand-based
turf soccer feld
soFtball improve-
ments
cost: $1.1 million
includes: new grandstand
seating for 1,200 (400 seat
backs and 800 bleacher seats)
and press box
track & Field
cost: $6.5 million
includes: new 400-meter
track and feld, grandstand
seating for 5,000, press box,
scoreboard, sound and sports
lighting
auxiliary buildings
& Facilities
cost: $5.5 million
includes: Concessions, rest-
rooms, visiting team locker
rooms, KU Store area, ticket
booth and entry, and
landscaped plaza area
facilities
sEE athletics ON PAGE 5A
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have ever done it twice. And
only four have done it more
than twice: Mike Krzyzewski
with three, Bobby Knight with
three, Adolph Rupp with four
and John Wooden with ten.
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ON CAMPUS
The Introduction to Super-
vision workshop will begin at
9 a.m. in 204 JRP.
The Senior Session lecture
will begin at 10 a.m. in the Re-
ception Room in the Spencer
Museum of Art.
The Stay Safe Online
workshop will begin at 11:30
a.m. in the Instruction Center
in Anschutz Library.
The Essentials of Export
Control seminar will begin at
11:30 a.m. in Room 152 in the
Smissman Research Labora-
tories.
The Unclassifed Senate
Executive Council Meeting will
begin at noon in Alcove G in
the Kansas Union.
The Research Audits and the
Audit Process panel discussion
will begin at 1 p.m. in Simons
Auditorium in the Higuchi
Biosciences Center.
The Windows: Vista work-
shop will begin at 1 p.m. in the
Budig PC Lab.
The Papyrus, Parchment,
Paper: A Brief History of Map-
Making seminar will begin at
2 p.m. in the Spencer Research
Library.
The InDesign: Introduction
workshop will begin at 2 p.m.
in the Instruction Center in the
Anschutz Library.
InternatIonal
1. French workers protest
3M job cuts, exec. bonuses
PARIS French workers
burned tires, marched on the
presidential palace and held a
manager of U.S. manufacturer
3M hostage Wednesday as anger
mounted over job cuts and
executive bonuses.
Rising public outrage at
employers on both sides of the
Atlantic has been triggered by ex-
ecutives cashing in bonus checks
even as their companies were
kept afoat with billions of euros
(dollars) in taxpayers money and
unemployment soars.
French President Nicolas
Sarkozy is threatening new laws
on bonuses and golden para-
chutes.
2. American journalists
being held in North Korea
SEOUL, South Korea Two
American journalists being held
by North Korea may have been
led across the border from China
by a guide promising them exclu-
sive footage of human trafcking
or drug deals, an activist who
helped organize their trip said
Wednesday.
The guide and a third Ameri-
can, cameraman Mitch Koss, re-
portedly escaped arrest last week
but were detained by Chinese
border guards.
A South Korean newspaper
said the two were undergoing
intense interrogation at a mili-
tary guesthouse in Pyongyangs
outskirts for alleged espionage
and for crossing the border il-
legally.
3. Sudanese leader visits
Egypt despite warrant
CAIRO Egypt welcomed
Sudans president on Wednesday
despite an international warrant
seeking his arrest.
Omar al-Bashir was making his
frst high-profle journey abroad
since the warrant was issued
March 4 by the International
Criminal Court.
The ICC charged al-Bashir with
leading a counterinsurgency
against Darfur rebels that has
involved rapes, killings and other
atrocities against civilians.
natIonal
4. F-22 fghter jet crashes in
southern California desert
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. One of the Air Forces
top-of-the-line F-22 fghter jets
crashed Wednesday in the high
desert of southern California.
There was no immediate word on
whether the pilot ejected.
Rescue crews were en route
and the status of the pilot was un-
known, said Air Force Maj. David
Small at the Pentagon.
Small said the jet, assigned to
the 411th Flight Test Squadron
of Edwards 412th Test Wing, was
on a test mission but he did not
know its nature. The crash oc-
curred at midmorning.
5. New York City teenager
murders radio reporter
NEW YORK A teenager with
a Web site describing him as a
sadomasochist and featuring
photos of a knife collection was
arrested Wednesday in the stab-
bing death of a veteran New York
City radio reporter he met on the
Internet.
Police ofcials said that John
Katehis, 16, confessed to killing
George Weber shortly after being
taken into custody late Tuesday in
Middletown, N.Y.
Police Commissioner Raymond
Kelly said at a news conference
Wednesday that the meeting be-
tween the suspect and Weber, 47,
involved an exchange of money.
A law enforcement ofcial,
speaking on condition of ano-
nymity because charges were still
being drawn up, later said the sus-
pect claimed Weber had ofered
him $60 to have rough sex.
6. Alaskan volcano erupts
twice; minimal ash fall
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Vol-
cano monitors indicate that there
have been two small, brief erup-
tions at Alaskas Mount Redoubt.
Shortly after 5 a.m. Wednes-
day, the volcano emitted an ash
plume about 15,000 feet high that
appeared to be drifting north to
northwest.
The second explosion occurred
about fve hours later.
Associated Press
Water rescue
employment
Laborers Union increases
awareness of fair wages
The Kansas City chapter of the
Laborers International Union
is hosting a drive to increase
University employees awareness
about their right to fair wages
and representation. Today and
Friday, the local chapter will host
a lunch and a drawing for a new
plasma T.V. for new members.
The role of union representa-
tives is to approach employers
and negotiate wages and working
conditions for member employ-
ees.
The situation right now is that
employees are unaware they have
Union representatives,Jeremy
Hendrickson, the local labor
unions business manager, said. At
the University of Kansas, the labor
union has increased its involve-
ment in the past few years, and
increased wages of 197 members
by an average of 7 percent. Hen-
drickson said the problem with
union representation in the past
was little or no involvement by
representatives.
Steve Alvarez, an electrician for
student housing, has been a union
man since 1994, and said he liked
the collective voice that belonging
to a union gave employees.
They try to make things a little
better for the working men and
women at KU,Alvarez said.
The Laborers International
Union will be stationed in Alcove
K in the Kansas Union until Friday,
and will be serving lunch today
in Alcove K in the Kansas Union
and room 307 Drive in the Burge
Union.
Betsy Cutclif
odd news
Red Cross honors parrot
for saving choking girl
DENVER Willie, a Quaker
parrot, received the local Red Cross
chapters Animal Lifesaver Award
after his cries of alarm alerted
his owner to a little girl who was
choking.
In November, Willies owner,
Megan Howard, was baby-sitting
for a toddler. Howard left the room
and the little girl, Hannah, started
to choke on her breakfast. Willie
repeatedly yelled Mama, baby
and fapped his wings. Howard
saved Hannah by performing the
Heimlich maneuver but said Willie
is the real hero.
Willie got his award during a
Breakfast of Championsevent
Friday attended by Gov. Bill Ritter
and Mayor John Hickenlooper.
Associated Press
Emergency workers use
an air boat to rescue Destiny
Dolan, front left, 15, and
friend Kayla Weston, 15, on
Wednesday froma home
that was surrounded by Red
River foodwaters in Oxbow,
N.D., south of Fargo. Dolan
said the experience of being
trapped was terrifying. The
home was one of several
evacuated onWednesday in
rural areas outside of Fargo,
which is preparing for a food
of its own that could come in
the next fewdays.
ON THE RECORD
A vehicle registration decal
was reported stolen from a car
in KU parking lot No. 59 at a
loss of $10 Tuesday.
A 21-year-old KU student re-
ported a burglary and criminal
damage to a stereo at a loss
of $300 in the 1300 block of
Kentucky Street Monday.
A 23-year-old Lawrence resi-
dent reported that someone
shot the side of his car with a
frearm, resulting in criminal
damage at a loss of $500. The
incident happened March 15 in
the 2200 block of Iowa Street.
A 19-year-old KU student
reported a battery March 14 in
the 1100 block of 11th Street.
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Most-wanted trafcker,
four suspects captured
MEXICO CITY Soldiers
captured one of Mexicos
most-wanted smugglers, a man
accused of controlling the fow of
drugs through the northern city
of Monterrey for the powerful
Beltran-Leyva cartel, the Mexican
army said Wednesday.
The announcement came
hours before U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton arrived in
Mexico promising to do more to
help Mexico crack down on drug
violence that is spilling over into
the U.S.
Gen. Luis Arturo Oliver said
Hector Huerta was detained Tues-
day in a Monterrey suburb, along
with four men identifed as his
bodyguards. Soldiers also seized
assault rifes and four grenades.
Huerta was arrested on an out-
standing homicide warrant; the
other four suspects were being
held pending charges.
Huerta is the frst most-wanted
trafcker to be captured since
the government on Monday
published a list of top suspects.
The list identifed him as a top
Beltran-Leyva cartel lieutenant,
with a $1 million reward of-
fered for information leading to
his capture. It was not clear if a
reward was paid in this case.
Two men on the list had al-
ready been captured by the time
it was published.
The mustached, chubby-
cheeked Huerta is nicknamed La
Burra,or female donkey.
Associated Press
news 3A thursday, march 26, 2009
awards
Students honored for
work on campus media
Students in the School of Jour-
nalism and Mass Communication
have been honored for their
contributions to campus media.
John Hudnall, director of
Kansas Scholastic Press Associa-
tion, said KU campus media was
one of the major successes of
the University, .
I think student media is a
refection upon the school, Hud-
nall said. Any time we see suc-
cess in the media that generally
refects positively on the School
of Journalism and the curriculum
were trying to provide.
Mike Williams, News and In-
formation Chair, said the awards
were a result of hard work from
the students and the schools
standard of excellence.
Regardless of whats happen-
ing in the profession people still
want info and our students are
doing a great job of giving it to
them.
The Kansas Association of
Broadcasters gave the following
14 awards to students involved
with KJHK.
1st Place
Best Public afairs Program:
The KJHK News Staf
Best complete News Feature:
Danny Spence and Derek Zarda
Best station Website: Zach
Gardner
Best 30 second Psa, Gradu-
ate: Peter Adany
Best station Promotion an-
nouncement, Graduate: Peter
Adany
Best station Promotion an-
nouncement, Undergraduate:
Annie Harrigan
2Nd Place
enterprise News Package:
Connor Donevan
complete News Feature:
Justin Leverett
complete sports Feature:
Sean Levine, Taylor Witt and Alex
Beecher
sports Play-by-Play: Michael
Spero and Kyle Larson
Promotional event/activity:
Rachael Gray
HoNoraBle MeNtioN
enterprise News Package:
Abby Olcese
complete News Feature:
Justin Leverett
sports Play-by-Play: Kyle West
and Kyle Larson
station Promotion announce-
ment: Sean Wilson and Taylor Ford
The University Daily Kansan,
Kansan.com and KUJH received
the following regional Society of
Professional Journalists Mark of
Excellence Awards.
General News reporting:
Haley Jones, Alex Parker
in-depth reporting: Brenna
Hawley, Ryan McGeeney
Feature Writing: Thor
Nystrom
sports Writing: Thor Nystrom
Best all-around daily News-
paper (published at least four
times a week): The University
Daily Kansan staf
television Feature: Wendy
McCart
television in-depth report-
ing: Wendy McCart
online in-depth reporting:
Alex Parker
the associated collegiate
Press online Pacemaker
award: Kelsey Hayes
The SPJ regional awards
will be presented to students
April 25 and the recipients will
advance to the national compe-
tition. Winners of the national
awards will be announced Oct. 8
to Nov. 1.
Kayla Regan
BY BrIanne PFannenstIel
bpfannenstiel@kansan.com
Envision, a new coalition this
year, nominated JJ Siler, Overland
Park junior, and Alex Porte, Great
Falls, Va., junior, as its presidential
and vice presi-
dential candi-
dates.
As weve
seen in the
past few years,
Student Senate
is irrelevant to
a lot of people
here at KU,
Siler said. Our
issues are broad
enough that
anyone can get
behind them.
Theyre things
that can help
KU in concrete
ways that we
can achieve within a year.
taKiNG oN stUdeNt
seNate: etHics reForM
The creation of the Student
Senate Judicial Branch: Envision
said it wanted to create a judiciary
branch within Student Senate that
would hear appeals. It said appeals
were currently sent to a board that
was essentially biased, because
board members were all political
allies of the student body president.
Envision said too much power was
given to one individual and one
branch of the governing body. It
said adding an impartial judiciary
system could create a check on
power as well as oversee purchases
of the Executive staff.
Separation of powers:
Envision said currently there was
no separation of powers between
the Executive and Legislative
branches of Student Senate. It said
it thought the current administra-
tion chose to consolidate its power
and assume seats in the legislature
rather than extending representa-
tion to many campus groups.
Anti-bribery legislation:
Envision said it wanted to pro-
pose new legislation to define gifts.
Currently, Student Senate is allowed
to accept gifts from the chancel-
lor and the Athletics Department
without declaring them. Envision
said it planned to enact legisla-
tion that would require senators to
declare when they received a gift,
the value of that gift and who gave
it to them.
taKiNG oN tHe city:
GiviNG stUdeNts a
voice iN laWreNce
Changing zoning laws and
noise ordinances in the Oread
neighborhood: Porte said the city
of Lawrence had disenfranchised
students by making unreasonable
zoning and noise ordinances within
the Oread neighborhood. Envision
said the coalition planned to attend
every city commission meeting to
create a more solid student pres-
ence. It said it wanted to propose
several ideas to the city and the
Oread Neighborhood Association,
including exemptions for students
from such ordinances or rework-
ing the current laws to make them
more student-friendly in order to
minimize student evictions.
Increasing off-campus light-
ing: Envision said most of the crimes
that occurred in Lawrence hap-
pened on and around campus. In
order to combat this, Envision said
it wanted to create a lighted path-
way from Massachusetts Street to
campus. They said increased light-
ing had continuously been shown
as a deterrent to crime, especially
robberies and sexual assaults. Porte
said the coalition was already work-
ing with the School of Engineering
to determine where the most effec-
tive light placement was.
Fiscal leadersHiP:
GiviNG stUdeNts tHe
tools to sUcceed
Envision is seeking to provide
students with the tools they need in
order to succeed at the University.
This means providing affordable
financial planning for the students
who need it, as well as opportunities
to manage money for students inter-
ested in careers in finance. Using
a model that reflects Envisions
research into this project, it hopes
to create a self-sustaining center
within a matter of years.
Envisions financial planning
center: Envision said it planned to
provide free financial counseling
and planning services to students
through a financial planning center.
Students would receive advice from
KU empoyees about things such as
paying bills and creating budgets.
The center would also help students
apply for scholarships and financial
aid.
Interactive programming:
Envision said the financial plan-
ning center would provide hands-
on advice and host workshops for
students regarding issues such as
the current recession, how to begin
an investment portfolio or how to
get involved in the financial sector
of business.
The student investment fund:
Envision has proposed creating an
investment fund in which students
could gain experience investing
money into the market. Financial
planning center faculty would over-
see the investments. Student Senate
would be responsible for a signifi-
cant portion of the initial invest-
ment into an endowment account,
but it said it would also seek private
donations. Envision said the ulti-
mate goal of the student investment
fund was to provide operational
funding for the financial planning
center so that it could become self-
sustaining.
taKiNG oN tHe UNiver-
sity: eNviroNMeNtal-
isM as aN ecoNoMic
solUtioN
Envision said it was committed to
environmentalism for its own sake,
but also realized that it was one of
the best ways for the University to
cut budgets in a time of need. It said
it planned to push sustainability to
the top of the agenda and planned
on spending capital improvement
funds from both student fees and
Student Senate.
Theres an attitude of sustain-
ability, Porte said. Last year it
was an idea, but this year its a way
of life.
ReRev Investment in the
Ambler Student Recreation
Center: Envision said it planned to
outfit 15 elliptical machines in the
recreation center with generators
that would capture energy created
by students while they exercised
to power the recreation center.
Envision said they were the most
efficient machines at transferring
energy and there would be room on
the grid to expand the system by 10
more machines in the future.
KU Recycling/
Environmental Stewardship
Investment: Envision said it
planned to expand recycling on
campus. It said new equipment
had already been purchased, so the
only restriction to how much could
be recycled on campus was the
number of recycling pick-up sites
on campus. Porte said Envision
planned to start putting recycling
bins in all the residence halls, which
would require a one-time cost of
about $10,000 from the Student
Senate reserve account.
Revolving sustainability
fund: Envision said it met with KU
Endowment leaders to create an
account that would fund campus
sustainability initiatives.
Its essentially a loan from
Endowment, and we use this loan
to pay for big, cost-sustainable
projects on campus, Porte said.
From these projects we save a lot.
That saved money we put directly
as a down payment on the loan and
we get more back. We reinvest the
dividends. Its deceptively simple.
He said with money going into
campus and money flowing back
into the account through smart
investment, it would create a revolv-
ing endowment fund that wold have
the potential to grow immensely in
a small time frame. Envision said it
had already received support from
KU Endowment leaders.
Envisions pledge to accountabil-
ity: Have a say before you pay
This is something that has
been tossed around Senate for a
long time, Porte said. Any fee
increase would have to be voted on
by students. Every student should
know exactly what fee increases
are going on and more importantly
why. That will foster a culture of
accountability.
More information about
Envision and its platform issues is
available on its Web site at envi-
sionku.org.
Edited by Carly Halvorson
Envision coalition calls for changes in Senate ethics
stUdeNt seNate electioNs
Porte
Siler
Other campaign issues include creating a financial planning center and making campus sustainable with recycling and wind power
natIon
Blagojevich rants during
time hosting radio show
CHICAGO Live from
Chicago: Its impeached, ousted
former Gov. Rod Blagojevich!
The former Illinois governor
flled in as a local radio talk
show host Wednesday, a morn-
ing gig complete with Elvis
Presley introductory music,
rants against the government
and a lineup of sympathetic
callers and guests.
In one of the shows weirder
moments, Blagojevich even
chatted with the comedian who
plays him in The Second Citys
Rod Blagojevich Superstar,
a comedic spin on the politi-
cians downfall thats a takeof
on the rock opera Jesus Christ
Superstar.
I feel like Laurence Olivier
meeting Hamlet. ... This is big for
me, so its a little surreal. I won-
der how surreal this is for you?
comedian Joey Bland said.
Program director Bob
Shomper, who said the former
governor did a wonderful job
for his frst time, added that he
might consider Blagojevich for
future fll-in duty.
Hes defnitely not afraid of
the microphone, Shomper said.
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MEXICO CITY Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton said
Wednesday that Americas insatia-
ble demand for illegal drugs and its
inability to stop weapons from being
smuggled into Mexico are fueling
an alarming spike in violence along
the U.S.-Mexican border.
Clinton said that the United
States shared responsibility with
Mexico for dealing with the vio-
lence and that the Obama admin-
istration would work with Mexican
authorities to improve security on
both sides of the border.
President Barack Obama himself
said Tuesday that he wanted the
U.S. to do more to prevent guns
and cash from illicit drug sales
from flowing across the border
into Mexico. But Clintons remarks
appeared more forceful in recog-
nizing the U.S. share of the blame.
In the past, particularly under the
Bush administration, Mexican
officials have complained that
Washington never acknowledged
the extent that the U.S. demand
for drugs and weapons smuggling
fuels the violence.
I feel very strongly we have
a co-responsibility, Clinton told
reporters accompanying her to
Mexico City a day
after the Obama
a dmi ni s t r at i on
said it would send
more money, tech-
nology and man-
power to secure
the Southwestern
frontier and help
Mexico battle the
cartels.
Our insatiable
demand for ille-
gal drugs fuels the drug trade,
she said. Our inability to pre-
vent weapons from being illegally
smuggled across the border to arm
these criminals causes the deaths
of police officers, soldiers and
civilians.
Criminals are outgunning law
enforcement officials, she said,
referring to guns and military-style
equipment like night vision goggles
and body armor that the cartels are
smuggling into Mexico from the
United States.
Clearly, what we have been
doing has not worked
and it is unfair for
our incapacity ... to
be creating a situa-
tion where people are
holding the Mexican
government and
people responsible,
she said. Thats not
right.
Clinton said
she would repeat
her acknowledg-
ment as loudly and as often as
needed during her two-day visit
to Mexico City and the northern
city of Monterrey during which she
will brief Mexican officials on U.S.
plans for the border and counter-
narcotics aid to Mexico.
NEWS 4A Thursday, march 26, 2009
Students rebuild Katrina home
EnginEEring
Group will also travel to Latin America
BY MICHELLE SPREHE
msprehe@kansan.com
Seven student members of
Engineers Without Borders went
south for spring break but not to
relax on a tropical beach. Instead,
they spent the week in New Orleans
applying their knowledge from
engineering classes to real life by
rebuilding a house that was dam-
aged by Hurricane Katrina.
Jamila Saadi, Topeka senior and
outreach coordinator for EWB,
said she heard about the trip from
a professional engineering group in
Kansas City and helped organize it
for the students.
We thought itd be a great way
to get our members involved and
get hands on experience, especial-
ly with the construction aspect,
Saadi said.
Students spent the week remov-
ing nails from boards to be reused
in houses and installing insulation
in a 1,500 square-foot house.
James Iliff, Topeka freshman,
joined EWB in January and went
on the trip to gain experience using
different tools and to help a com-
munity in need.
It was wonderful to learn how
to work with your hands and apply
stuff that wed learned in class,
Iliff said. A lot of the stuff that
was talked about in my intro to
engineering class really came to life
when I went down there.
Jodi Gentry, Topeka graduate
student and president of EWB,
helped start the KU chapter of
the group two years ago and said
she hoped it would give engineer-
ing students a way to socialize
and spark the interest of a diverse
group of people.
A group like EWB helps to
attract women and minorities to
engineering who normally wouldnt
be attracted to such a hard science,
Gentry said.
The organization is open to all
majors and has more than 100
members.
We really try to get lots of peo-
ple from all over campus involved,
Gentry said. Our goal is to have
one third of our membership be
non-engineering majors.
Since the group started, mem-
bers have worked on Habitat for
Humanity projects in Lawrence
and volunteered to help with
reconstruction in Greensburg after
a tornado damaged the town.
EWB has planned two more
trips this summer to Bolivia and
Guatemala where students will
work on projects such as reinstall-
ing water systems and building
latrines.
Iliff plans to go on the trip to
Guatemala to help educate schools
about clean water.
I think its wonderful that KU
can participate in any type of com-
munity service, not only at home
but abroad, Iliff said. I can hardly
pass up any experience they give
me.
Edited by Heather Melanson
Contributed photo
After a long day of volunteer work, Connor Donevan Dexter, Mich., senior, boards
up the last windowon a house in NewOrleans to prevent break-ins while the house is vacant.
Donevan went to NewOrleans during spring break with six other members of Engineers Without
Borders to help reconstruct the area.
intErnational
Czech PM calls U.S.
stimulus road to hell
intErnational
Clinton: U.S., Mexico have co-responsibility to up security
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek puts on headphones Wednesday at the Euro-
pean Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. Topolanek has told the European Parliament
that the collapse of his government will not afect his running of the EU presidency.
AOIFE WHITE
Associated Press
BRUSSELS The head of
the European Union slammed
President Barack Obamas plan to
spend nearly $2 trillion to push
the U.S. economy out of recession
as the road to hell that EU gov-
ernments must avoid.
The blunt comments by Czech
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek
to the European Parliament on
Wednesday highlighted simmer-
ing European differences with
Washington ahead of a key sum-
mit next week on fixing the world
economy.
It was the strongest pushback
yet from a European leader as the
27-nation bloc bristles from U.S.
criticism that it is not spending
enough to stimulate demand.
Shocked by the outburst, other
European politicians went into
damage control mode, with some
reproaching the Czech leader
for his language and others reaf-
firming their good diplomatic
ties with the United States. The
leaders of EUs major nations
France, Britain and Germany,
among others largely ignored
Topolanek and his remarks.
Obama pays his first official
visit to Europe next week, aiming
to thrash out reforms to the global
financial system with the group
of 20 nations and call on NATO
allies to commit more troops to
the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
Europeans leaders hope the
new U.S. administration will agree
with them on tightening oversight
over the global financial system
which they see as crucial to
fixing the global economy.
Instead, the United States is
focusing its efforts on economic
stimulus and plans to spend heav-
ily to try and lift itself out of
recession with a $787 billion plan
of tax rebates, health and welfare
benefits, as well as extra energy
and infrastructure spending.
To encourage banks to lend
again, the U.S. government will
also pump $1 trillion into the
financial system by buying up trea-
sury bonds and mortgage securi-
ties in an effort to clear some of
the toxic assets devalued and
untradeable assets from banks
balance sheets.
Obama insisted Tuesday that
his massive budget proposal will
put the ailing U.S. economy back
on its feet. This budget is insepa-
rable from this recovery, he said,
because it is what lays the foun-
dation for a secure and lasting
prosperity.
But Topolanek took aim at
Washingtons deficit spending.
All of these steps, these com-
binations and permanency is the
road to hell, Topolanek said. We
need to read the history books
and the lessons of history and the
biggest success of the (EU) is the
refusal to go this way.
Americans will need liquidity
to finance all their measures and
they will balance this with the sale
of their bonds but this will under-
mine the liquidity of the global
financial market, Topolanek
said.
Topolanek spoke the day after
he was ousted by his own parlia-
ment.
The Czech Republic currently
holds the six-month rotating EU
presidency but its leadership is in
question, with Topolanek hanging
on to a caretaker government at
home after losing a no confi-
dence Tuesday.
Major EU leaders ignore negative remarks
Our insatiable
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news 5A thursday, march 26, 2009
Dance groups had the
opportunity to sign up start-
ing in November and end-
ing Wednesday which one
group took full advantage of.
Julian French, Shawnee
senior, said his urban hip-hop
group signed up at the last
minute yesterday.
I think were going to do
pretty decent and as long as we
can perform well to our stan-
dards, thatll be enough satis-
faction for me, French said.
Lauren Winchester, Olathe
sophomore, is co-director
of the morale committee for
KU Dance Marathon in April
and will be dancing with nine
other members of the com-
mittee tonight. If her group
wins the grand prize they will
donate the money to Childrens
Miracle Network.
None of us are great danc-
ers but I think our dance is
pretty fun, Winchester said.
The coolest thing would be
to win because that would
be $500 we could put toward
Childrens Mercy.
Sha said that she hoped
the competition would be an
annual event and that more
people would be involved next
time.
We didnt think of it so
much as a serious dance com-
petition as much as a way for
people to show off their par-
ticular style, Sha said. But I
think some groups are taking
it seriously so Im fairly certain
that were going to get some
impressive performances.
Edited by Heather Melanson
booth, restrooms, and concession
building with merchandise sales.
Jim Marchiony, associate ath-
letics director, said the Athletics
Department had been discussing
the Olympic Village for at least a
year now and was actively fundrais-
ing for the new facilities. Marchiony
also said the Olympic Village was
another step in improving facilities,
which is a part of Athletics five-year
strategic plan for 2006-2011.
I would say that the football
facility and the basketball practice
facility is a very important part,
the new academic center, and other
renovations for Allen Fieldhouse,
Marchiony said. This Olympic
Village is another step toward what
we want to provide our coaches and
student athletes.
Ryan West, Ellsworth freshman,
regularly attends baseball games,
but said this was the first time he
had heard of the Olympic Village.
West said he thought it would be a
nice addition for some of the non-
revenue sports.
I think its needed and a good
idea if youre trying to give more
money for the non-revenue sports
and get the facilities in a compact
area, West said.
Marchiony said that Athletics
wanted to put the Olympic Village
master plan into action as soon as
possible and that the time frame
for the start of the project was wide
open.
West said he thought the Olympic
Village process could take more time
than projects such as the construc-
tion of the new football facility.
These sports dont bring in
as much money for the Athletics
Department, West said. I think the
football stadium was on a tighter
timeline and the Olympic Village
involves more sports and facilities
to improve.
Marchiony said Kansas Athletics
Director Lew Perkins was leading
the push for the Olympic Village.
As director of athletics, he takes
the lead on setting our priorities,
Marchiony said. And after talk-
ing to a lot of people involved in
Athletics, this became one of our
next projects.
Edited by Melissa Johnson
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fnding Aasha Davis sister
LOS ANGELES Police ap-
pealed to the public for help in
fnding the sister of TV actress
Aasha Davis, saying the woman
vanished six weeks ago after an
argument with her husband.
Detective Chris Gable told
a news conference Tuesday
that Lesley Herring, 46, hasnt
been seen since Feb. 8 and her
husband, Lyle Herring, had not
cooperated fully with authorities.
Davis, who has had recurring
roles on Friday Night Lights and
South of Nowhere, reported her
sister missing after discovering
she had not been to work.
She is a creature of habit, Da-
vis said at the news conference.
And this is why her disappear-
ance is so alarming to us.
Gable said Lyle Herring, who
was standing nearby at the news
conference, was not considered
a suspect, but added that he had
not been fully forthcoming.
I would describe his coopera-
tion as fragmented and less than
helpful, not someone I would
expect as a grieving husband,
Gable said.
Lyle Herring appealed for his
wife to come home.
Please give us a call, he said.
Let us know whats going on.
We have a lot to talk to about.
He did not take questions, but
in an interview with KCAL-TV, he
denied any involvement in his
wifes disappearance and said
police had not asked him to take
a polygraph test.
Gable said detectives were
pursuing leads stemming from
threats Lyle Herring received
over money he owed.
Associated Press
entertainment 6a thursday, march 26, 2009
10 is the easiest day, 0 the
most challenging.
Charlie Hoogner
Jefrey Baldridge
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Horoscopes
Kate Beaver
Joe Ratterman
aries (march 21-april 19)
today is a 9
OK, you can push hard now.
Get your point across. People
are listening. You and your
team can accomplish the im-
possible if you believe in your
cause, and hurry!

taurus (april 20-may 20)
today is a 6
You have a lot to think about,
thats for sure. Dont get stuck
in the past. Use what youve
learned to make a wise choice
about your future. Theres no
going back.
gemini (may 21-June 21)
today is a 9
Your support group is enthu-
siastic, believing you can do
anything. You may not be quite
so sure of that, but you do re-
spect their judgment. So take
the chance. With their help,
youll do fne.
cancer (June 22-July 22)
today is a 5
A person in a position of au-
thority is on a rant. Its best not
to argue now. Listen and watch
instead. If you agree with the
new policies, you might even
beneft. If you dont, youll
know where the others stand.
leo (July 23-aug. 22)
today is a 9
The world is your playground
and you should be enjoying
every minute. Coax a person
whos holding back to get out
there with you, on the edge.
Make this an experience you
can talk about for years.
Virgo (aug. 23-sept. 22)
today is a 5
Youre under pressure, true,
but that doesnt have to bother
you. Some of your best work
comes after everyone else has
gone to sleep. The urgency
of the situation helps to clear
your head.
libra (sept. 23-oct. 22)
today is a 9
Relax and let somebody you
trust take good care of you. Let
them fuss over you and bring
you things and tell you what to
do. If you dont have a person
like this in your life, you can
fnd one at your nearby salon
or gym.
scorpio (oct. 23-nov. 21)
today is a 6
You may fnd yourself feeling
temporarily overwhelmed.
That happens just before you
remember who you are. Youre
capable of amazing things,
remember? Kick into high gear.
sagittarius (nov. 22-dec.
21)
today is a 9
A fascinating conversation
could last long into the night.
If something else develops
from this friendship, so much
the better. It looks like youve
found a person you can re-
spect and depend on.
capricorn (dec. 22-Jan. 19)
today is a 5
Domestic matters demand
your attention and just about
all of your time. The outcome is
good, so dont worry about it.
Just reorganize your schedule
to have more time at home.
aquarius (Jan. 20-feb. 18)
today is a 9
Aquarius is a scholarly sign.
Thats because you get so
passionately involved in the
subjects youre studying. You
imagine you can change the
world with your discoveries,
and maybe you can.
pisces (feb. 19-march 20)
today is a 6
Apply for that promotion or
better job. Conditions are right
to have more money come in
your direction. Can you put
yourself in the right place
to make that happen? Your
participation is required.
courts
June dates announced
for Piven, producers case
NEW YORK The dispute be-
tween the Broadway producers
of Speed-the-Plowand Jeremy
Piven is ofcially on to its next act
arbitration.
In a statement, the shows
producers said Wednesday the
case would be heard June 8-9
in New York by George Nicolau,
a professional arbiter. It follows
a grievance hearing held last
month at Actors Equity Associa-
tion in which a committee com-
posed of fve Equity members
and fve members of The Broad-
way League, which represents
the producers, did not resolve the
dispute.
Piven abruptly left the revival of
the David Mamet play in Decem-
ber after his doctor said he was
sufering for mercury poisoning
after eating too much fsh over a
lengthy period of time.
The producers said in a state-
ment that they were preparing
their case, and in connection with
that, have requested a wide range
of relevant information from Mr.
Piven relating to his claims that
an alleged illness required him to
leave the show.
Among the information re-
quested, the statement said, were
medical records and documenta-
tion of Mr. Pivens activities both
during and after the run of the
show.In response, Piven spokes-
woman Samantha Mast said in a
statement that the actor was look-
ing forward to testifying.
The fact that the producers
issued a statement announcing
the arbitration dates suggests that
this is part of a punitive strategy
to intimidate actors so that they
ignore serious health symptoms
and the advice of medical profes-
sionals due to fear that they will
be sued,she said.
Speed-the-Plowopened last
October to favorable reviews and
by the time the revival ended Feb.
22 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre,
it had recouped its $2.26 million
production costs.
Three diferent actors un-
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Leo Butz and William H. Macy
followed Piven in the role
of movie mogul Bobby Gould.
Mamets three-character play
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in February, up from 4.8
percent during February last year.
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the increasingly dire economic
picture means that finding a job
or getting into grad school will be
more difficult than ever. But most
of the medias economic coverage
does not convey exactly how the
recession will impact employment
prospects for the class of 2009.
The Federal Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported that a net
651,000 Americans lost their jobs
in February, and unemployment
in March will likely be higher still
as the recession deepens and more
firms are forced to make layoffs.
Graduates will face
more competition for
fewer jobs. However,
the impact of the eco-
nomic downturn has
not been felt evenly.
Some regions and
some industries have fared much
better than others.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
breaks down the unemployment
rate by state, by type of work and
by education level, and these num-
bers can tell us a lot about the best
options for graduating seniors.
Lesson #1: Finish your degree
It goes without saying that
getting a bachelors degree will
increase your potential income,
but a degree also makes it much
easier for you to find a job. For
individuals with a bachelors
degree or higher, the unemploy-
ment rate was 4.2 percent in
February, compared with 7.2 per-
cent for those with some college or
an associate degree, 9.6 percent for
those with only a high
school degree, and
15.1 percent for those
who didnt finish high
school.
Lesson #2: Stay in
the Midwest.
In January, the unemployment
rate in Kansas was 6.1 percent, the
thirteenth lowest in the nation.
The rate in Lawrence was even
lower, at 5.3 percent; it was 5.8
percent in Wichita, 6.6 percent
in Topeka, and 8.2 percent in the
Kansas City Metropolitan area.
Kansas and other Midwestern
states have fared well compared
with the places like California,
which was hit hard by the crash
of the housing market, and
Michigan, which has been eco-
nomically devastated by the fail-
ing automobile industry. One in
10 Californians and one in nine
Michiganders are unemployed.
Lesson #3: Look for a job in
healthcare or education
The only (faintly) bright spot
in the economy can be found
in education and the healthcare
industry. Their combined unem-
ployment rate is only 4.1 percent,
and its even lower for those with
college degrees. In contrast, the
unemployment rate in the con-
struction industry is 21.4 percent,
11.5 percent in manufacturing,
10.8 percent in professional and
business services, 11.4 percent in
leisure and hospitality, 7.1 percent
in information services and 8.9
percent in retail.
Lesson #4: Persevere
All things equal, 2009 is an
unlucky year in which to graduate,
but the job market will eventually
recover, just as it always has. In the
meantime, good luck.
Dan Thompson for
The Kansan Editorial Board
Opinion
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Pope: Hey Ryan, I just came
up with a great idea for our
new column. Which do you
think is better: owning a pet
or having a boyfriend or girl-
friend?
Ryan: Thats funny, I just
found this crumpled letter in
our trash asking that same
question.
Pope: I I dont know any-
thing about that.
Ryan: But it has your hand-
writing all over it. Steal this
idea, burn this paper, buy: axe,
raincoat, milk.
Pope: I knew my cereal tast-
ed weird this morning! Anyway,
I think were perfectly qualified
to preside over this case, seeing
as how neither of us have a pet
or a relationship.
Ryan: Actually, thats not
entirely true. Ive met someone
who qualifies as both. Id like
you to meet Shirley.
Shirley: Baaah.
Pope: I think I speak for
everyone when I say Ewe.
Lets start by breaking down the
mess each one makes. Its safe
to say that youre all for own-
ing pets, in which case I should
have things wrapped up pretty
easily. With significant others,
you only have to occasionally
pick up their dirty clothes, and
clean their dishes, and take out
their trash, and tidy their side
of the bathroom, and dispose of
their used pregnancy tests
Ryan: Sounds like a lot of
work. All I do is roll up the old
copies of our columns that she
eats and poops on, and throw
them away. And I hardly ever
spend money on her. Our idea
of a romantic dinner is for me
to walk her to Mass. so she can
nibble on garbage. Are you as
excited for our date tomorrow
as I am, darling?
Shirley: Baaah.
Pope: But what about those
things that only humans can
give each other? Meaningful
conversation. Words of encour-
agement. Sweet nothings and
sappy love poetry and venereal
diseases. How can you connect
with someone when you have
no real way of communicating
with them?
Ryan: We communicate just
fine. Nothing I say or do could
ever result in an argument
because she cant speak English.
Or speak at all, for that mat-
ter. Plus, meeting her parents
is highly unlikely, and if her
mother doesnt approve of me I
can just have her put down.
Pope: You know, I had
planned to discuss intimacy as
my trump card, but now Im
not sure thats such a good idea.
Ryan: Suffice it to say, we
give a whole new meaning to
the term heavy petting.
Pope: I guess what weve
learned here is that owning a
pet and having a relationship
are actually pretty similar. Each
requires only that you follow a
few basic rules: feed them, care
for them, and if they try to run
away chain them to a tree in
the backyard.
Ryan: Love truly knows no
bounds. Isnt that right, my
dear?
Shirley: You guys are idiots.
Pope is a Kansas City senior
in English. Snyder is a
Leawood senior in English.
ediTOriAL cArTOOn
LeTTer TO THe ediTOr
NIcHOLAS SAmbALUK
An American (runner) in Paris
Students should stop
hoarding cash and spend
A specter is haunting
Lawrence the specter of
frugality. This ghost has scared
our nation and our community
into the terrible afiction
of thriftiness. How did this
happen? When economies
are in recessions, people start
penny-pinching to save for
a later date, spending less
money on feel-good items
such as new shoes or organic
bread. Being parsimonious
during this time of crisis
displays poor confdence in our
nation and our community.
Our economy is only as
strong as the confdence
that is placed in it, and right
now, we students have not
fulflled our roles as protectors
of our communitys future.
Therefore, as the economy
stabilizes from a very volatile
year, every student should
start focusing more on their
own contribution to our
nations troubles by going
out and enjoying themselves
during these next couple
months before summer. Yes,
that means every student
should spend more money,
especially in Lawrence where
some businesses are in risk of
closing.
Although spending more
money to some might seem
egregious, there are other
benefts as well. In his March
24th column for the New
York Times, John Tierney
highlighted a study that
proves that consumers are
experiencing what he terms
hyperopia, or farsightedness,
when they are faced with the
problem of thinking about the
future too much, ignoring the
present. He says people end
up looking back sadly on all
their lost opportunities for fun.
This is another reason why we
should not sew our wallets into
our pockets and our purses,
and we should go out and
spend.
We can create experiences
that we will remember for our
lifetimes when we simply go
to see that extra movie, or buy
that extra margarita. Our lives
are too short and our local
economy needs you. Therefore,
do the right thing and splurge.
Michael Stock is a junior from Merriam
n n n
So my friend was trying to
submit a Free for All and
thought that there was a
registration fee of 2 cents ... It
says share your 2 cents.
n n n
I just learned I can lick my
elbow ... You ask what I did
last night. I say I did the
impossible.
n n n
Is it time for a new roommate
when you fnd him maxing out
in squat, wearing nothing but
underwear and shoes?
n n n
Murdoch, why didnt you see
the damn iceberg?
n n n
To the guy wearing a K-State
shirt: Shouldnt you be
mowing my lawn?
n n n
Why is KU getting rid of all the
trees?
n n n
Thanks UDK for printing
United Students program. I
thought they were all about
showing of sorority chicks on
Wescoe before.
n n n
Is it sad that one of the best
things about dating a deaf
person was that they couldnt
hear me fart?
n n n
First rule of being a KU student
or fan: Never, ever, EVER root
in favor of Missouri unless it
will beneft Kansas!
n n n
Thank you to everyone who
gets dressed without checking
the weather for providing my
daily entertainment.
n n n
I get the greatest joy out of
the most mundane activities,
like cleaning out the lint trap
of the dryer.
n n n
I just saw a guy who looked
exactly like Will Smith.
n n n
Dear Tyrel Reed, Im sorry
people are dissing you. They
are just jealous they dont look
as beautiful as you do.
n n n
I am quite happy with life. I
need a girlfriend to ruin that.
n n n
To the apartment below me:
Let your cat inside or tell your
girlfriend to quit being so
loud.
n n n
Dear Guy playing the piano on
the fourth foor of the Kansas
Union this morning: I listened
for an hour and a half and I
think thats long enough to
know that you should marry
me. Sincerely, Head-over-heels
Girl.
n n n
Usted piensa el FFA pondra
comentarios en el papel si
estn en otra lengua?
n n n
STudenT LiFe
BY MARK DENT
mdent@kansan.com
PARIS The sidewalk gleamed
on the Champs-Elysees. Thats what
Ill remember.
It felt slick on the bottom of my
shoes, too, as if the pavement wasnt
actually pavement. The sidewalk
must have been made of marble or
something fancier, something even
more French, something magical.
It was barely 7:30 in the morning.
The sun hadnt quite crept all the
way over the Louvre on the east end
of the avenue, and only a handful of
cars circled the Arc de Triomphe a
few meters to the west.
Five people, maximum, walked
down the glossy sidewalk. I had
my running shoes on, iPod shuffle
clipped to my shorts and a wide
smile on my face, knowing I had the
Champs-Elysees all to myself.
This is what runners live for. The
perfect run.
Runners are a strange type. We
live for pushing our body in ways
that create new types of pain on
an often daily basis, and usually
do so early in the morning before
school or work, or late at night, after
the day is over and we should be
watching TV or at least doing some-
thing that doesnt cause exhaustion.
Worse, then we go and tell all of our
friends how great running feels as
they nod their heads disinterestedly,
thinking someone must have spiked
our sports drink.
But I love running, especially
vacation running. I remember the
first time I ran on vacation. It came
the summer before my freshman
year of high school. My family was
at a hotel on the beach. That morn-
ing I ran through the white sand
and the sticky Florida humidity that
didnt feel so bad after I dove into
the ocean when I finished running.
Since then, Ive tried to replicate
those kinds of runs when I travel.
Vacation running is the best. Its a
taste of the unknown at a frenetic
pace, and its done best early in the
morning.
So far in Europe, Ive run over the
canals of Venice in the falling snow,
Ive run along the Appian Way, the
most famous road in all of Rome,
and Ive run on the Ponte Vecchio, a
bridge so beautiful that even Hitler
ordered the German troops not to
destroy it.
But the Champs-Elysees had a
hold over me. Im not really sure
why. Its basically just a street, one
with a bunch of overpriced stores
and cafes and a totally out of place
McDonalds. But the name Champs-
Elysees stands for something. It
stands for elegance. It stands for
history. As the French say, its la
plus belle avenue du monde.
So thats why I crawled out of the
hotel room at 6:45 a.m. on Saturday.
Soon, I was near the famous avenue,
under the Arc de Triomphe.
Two tourists walked around with
brochures in their hands. Green
street lights glowed down the street,
preparing for the messy traffic that
hadnt congested yet. That wouldnt
happen until later in the day. Now it
was my time.
I took off, nearly sprinting toward
the sidewalk. I nearly slipped. It was
that slick. That unreal. That magi-
cal.
I floated until I reached the half-
way point of Champs-Elysees. At
this point, I had to turn back for the
hotel. Id been running for too long,
and paradise is best enjoyed in small
doses anyway.
Later that afternoon, I went
back to the Champs-Elysees with
a few friends. People crowded both
sides of the street, creating a sea of
smashed bodies and shopping bags.
Scammers asked if we spoke English
so they could tell us a story about
how we needed to give them money.
The sparkle on the sidewalk had
faded, and worst of all, it felt like
pavement, definitely not marble.
Thats the bad part about the
magic of running. You always have
to stop.
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When photojournalist Stephen
Williams attended the University
of Kansas in the 1960s, the Spencer
Museum of Art building did not
exist yet.
Now Williams will return to the
University to give a gallery talk on
Friday in the art museum, which is
featuring some of his photographs
in its Climate Change at the Poles
exhibition.
My still photography career
started at Kansas, said Williams,
a 1965 journalism graduate who
worked for the yearbook and The
University Daily Kansan.
Williams photographs on dis-
play in the Climate Change exhibi-
tion come from his book, In the
Middle: The Inuit Today. Williams
traveled to the Quebec province
in the 1970s to take photos of the
Inuit people.
His work background and his
schooling background give him a
good perspective on how people
live and operate, Kate Meyer, the
museums curatorial assistant,
said. That comes through in his
observations and his lens.
Williams, who has worked
for publications such as
Life Magazine and National
Geographic Magazine, now
works as a family therapist in
Philadelphia.
Jennifer Talbott, the muse-
ums assistant to the director,
said Williams was encouraging
students interested in photogra-
phy to bring some of their work
to share during the gallery talk.
He wants to give back to the
next generation, Talbott said.
Heres a closer look at Stephen
Williams:
Describe your time at the
University.
During that time, I learned
how to process film and make
prints from my classmate Roy
Inman. He introduced me to
doing photography on the
yearbook. The biggest memory
I have is I had to produce a
10-minute television film and I
chose to interview Gale Sayers.
I didnt know what I was doing,
but I sure had fun. While I was
at KU, I looked at as many Life
magazines as I could that had
the photographer Eugene Smith
in them. He was my mentor
without knowing it, and I met
him many years later.
I remember campus being
much smaller. Friday nights in
the basketball arena taking pho-
tographs and then taking classes
and doing photography I was
in seventh heaven. I had my first
published article in The Daily
Kansan. I attended from 1964
to 1965, and thats when we had
protests and it was a hot politi-
cal time. It was a pretty intense
period at Kansas.
Describe your book In the
Middle: The Inuit Today. Why
did you decide to write it?
The book came from wanting
to visit the north and the Inuit
ever since I saw the documentary
Nanook of the North by Robert
Flaherty while I was at KU. I
was commissioned to go north
with a friend, Charles Kirk, to a
village. While I was there, it felt
to me that there was the pro-
cess of assimilation happening in
the culture. I traveled there three
more times from 1974 to 1979.
The book was published in 1984.
Why did you become a family
therapist?
I changed careers. I originally
went to college to be a social work-
er. I went to Temple University and
got my degree in psychology. Ive
been doing narrative family therapy
and working for the same group for
17 years. In 2002, I called my pub-
lisher out of the blue because my
kids had been bugging me to take
pictures again, and he said I could
do a new book if I wanted. Im
back to doing photography. From
2002 to 2004, I photographed the
Shaker site in Maine and produced
my third book of which I am par-
ticularly proud because it is a small
book but it turned out well.
How do you see photogra-
phy and therapy relating to each
other?
I have to separate them. I make
my living being a family therapist,
but I would prefer doing pho-
tographs. Im trying to do both.
In the meantime, I exhibit pho-
tographs and Im represented by
Sanford Smith Fine Art. Im get-
ting recharged to do some more
work.
Edited by Carly Halvorson
news 9A thursday, march 26, 2009
Climate change meets music
beats and turntables when DJ
Spooky brings a multimedia per-
formance to the Lied Center on
Friday evening.
Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky
That Subliminal Kid, will perform
Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica
on Friday evening at the Lied
Center.
The performance features music
matched with field recordings and
images from Millers 2007 trip to
Antarctica. Miller combined the
sound of ice with his photos of the
landscape.
Its like classical music meets
hip-hop, Miller said. Its a cli-
mate change symphony.
A trio of KU students vio-
linist Kelly Simmons, pianist
Nathanael May and cellist Tom
Maples will provide the music
for the performance.
May, Janesville, Wis., doctoral
student, said it would be his first
time performing with sounds that
were manipulated live on stage.
Its not that often that I get
to collaborate directly with some-
one with more mainstream music,
May said.
During his time at the University,
Miller will also participate in sev-
eral events on campus, including a
book signing this afternoon.
Tim Van Leer, executive direc-
tor of the Lied Center, said Millers
performance would give students
an intellectual and entertaining
experience dealing with a contem-
porary topic.
As we look to this important
issue of global warming, I think
students will be interested in how
he might bring this scientific mat-
ter with his artistic matter to the
audience, Van Leer said.
Heres a closer look at DJ
Spooky:
Describe your performance on
Friday.
Basically the Terra Nova project
and Antarctic symphony is a musi-
cal meditation on climate change,
and what it means to go away from
everything you know, everything
youre familiar with and see what
happens when youre out of your
comfort zone. Its a DJ mix applied
to cinema. I wrote the score to
the piece and am having a string
ensemble play the score while I DJ
it. My biggest influence for the proj-
ect is John Cages piece Imaginary
Landscape its the first compo-
sition written for turntables in
1939. Its 2009 now, so hey...
Why did you pick climate
change as your topic of perfor-
mance?
The city is an ecosystem.
Everyone tends to think that some-
how were separate from nature, and
that somehow if we just change our
consumer habits, and you know,
dont have as much plastic bags et
cetera that things will all of a sud-
den get better. We need massive
change to match the way the planet
is changing.
Describe your trip to
Antarctica.
The whole idea was getting out
of your comfort zone. I wanted to
go to think about not only the cli-
mate issue but to also think about
how the city has changed. Its an art
piece and Im an artist. Its a lyrical
take on the ice. I went for about
four weeks and went to several
of the main ice fields. I brought a
system to Antarctica and we had to
get equipment out there to record
the ice.
How did you get involved with
music and performing?
I was never really planning on
being a DJ. I majored in macro-
economic policy the first couple
of years of university, and then
switched to philosophy and French
literature.
I ended up doing 2 degrees.
Music was basically always a
hobby and I never really took it
seriously. Basically its still a hobby,
but a globalized and totally bizarre
hobby.
How did you get the name DJ
Spooky That Subliminal Kid?
Its basically when you press
play and theres no one there. I
gave myself the name as a sense of
humor about music in the 24-hour
info-drenched world we all call
home.
Its an English update of what
Sigmund Freud was talking about
when he came up with the term
Unheimlich uncanny. I
took my other nickname That
Subliminal Kid from William S.
Burroughs novel Nova Express.
Its all samples!
Edited by Carly Halvorson
dj spooky events
presentation
and book signing
WHat: A presentation fea-
turing DJ Spookys books
Sound Unbound and
Rhythm Science. Copies
of DJ Spookys flm Re-
birth of a Nation will also
be available for purchase.
WHen: 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Friday
WHere: Oread Books on
level two of the Kansas
Union
Cost: Free
terra nova:
sinfonia
antarCtiCa
WHat: A multimedia
performance featuring
music, feld recordings and
images of Antarctica
WHen: 7:30 p.m. Friday
WHere: Lied Center
Cost: $12 KU students,
$24 adults
CHris Hs
breakfast for
beat Lovers
What: DJ Spooky will be
answering questions, pro-
viding music and talking
about his Friday appear-
ance.
When: 9 a.m. to noon
today
Where: KJHK 90.7 FM or
www.kjhk.org
arCtiC art
BY JENNIFER TORLINE
jtorline@kansan.com
Two artists musician
Paul Miller, known as DJ
Spooky That Subliminal Kid,
and photographer Stephen
Williams are appearing
on campus this week in con-
nection with the Spencer
Museum of Arts Climate
Change at the Poles exhibit.
The two men will appear
on a panel discussion on cli-
mate change this evening at
the Spencer Museum of Art
and will be involved with
separate events Friday.
Heres a look at how a
musician and a photojour-
nalist approach climate
change.
CLimate CHange at tHe poLes paneL
disCussion
WHo: Paul Miller (DJ Spooky), photojournalist Stephen
Williams, photographer Jonathan Chester and Brandon
Gillette of PolarTREC and CReSIS.
WHat: Guest speakers share their experiences at the
North and South Poles.
WHen: 5 p.m. Thursday
WHere: Spencer Museum of Art
Cost: Free
Visiting artists to speak about climate change
stepHen WiLLiams event: gaLLery taLk
WHat: Photojournalist Stephen Williams will discuss his photo-
graphs in the Climate Change at the Poles exhibition and look
over the work of KU students.
WHen: 1 p.m. Friday
WHere: Spencer Museum of Art, North Balcony
Cost: Free
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Paul Miller, also known as DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, describes his music as classical
music meets hip-hop.He will be performing at the Lied Center at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
This photograph,
which appears in
the Spencer Mu-
seumof Arts cur-
rent exhibition
Climate Change
at the Poles,
was taken by
photojournalist
StephenWilliams
during a trip to the
Quebec province
in the 1970s.
Students can talk
withWilliams at 1
p.m. at the Spencer
Museumon Friday,
during a gallery talk
about his work at
the North Pole.
Photojournalist discusses work from his book, invites students to share their pictures
DJ Spookys multimedia performance uses
photos, sounds of ice falling in Antarctica
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THE RETURNING
This is part 3 of a 3-part series on
veterans views of the war in Iraq
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF
bcutclif@kansan.com
Shoot to kill.
William Stewart had seen the
deadly force of that concept before,
but this time was different. As his
units medic, Stewart was obligated
to provide aid for the man who now
had no face, even though he knew the
Iraqi civilian was beyond his help.
The driver of the mans car hadnt
understood the checkpoint, and an
American soldier had opened fire
when the vehicle didnt stop. It wasnt
the first time Stewart had been called
on to help fatally-injured Iraqi civil-
ians, but it was the first time hed
witnessed both the cause and effect
of deadly force.
Before then, everything Id seen
was justifiable, like theyd deserved
it, Stewart said. This was the first
time I questioned another soldiers
judgment.
Watching the Iraqi civilian lose his
life was the tipping point for Stewart,
Lawrence senior, making him rethink
his support for the war in Iraq. The
fact that warfare in an urban setting
creates an unavoidable danger for
civilians is one of the reasons some
veterans like Stewart are rethinking
the actions of the
United States mili-
tary in the Middle
East.
The difficulty in
discerning friend
from foe was one
reason civilian
casualties were high
during the Iraq
campaign, said Dan
Parker, McPherson
senior and former Marine.
Any time that theres armed con-
flict, innocent people are going to
die, Parker said. Civilians are going
to die, especially in urban warfare,
and especially in modern times.
Master Sergeant John Peacock,
senior Army ROTC instructor at
the University, said although soldiers
and Marines tried their best to limit
collateral damage as much as possi-
ble, not having an easily recognizable
enemy made the task more difficult.
Stewarts typical day began with
the crackling of a radio. The medics
listened over the militarys frequency,
catching the chatter and preparing
the first aid station for the injuries
that days operations would bring.
At the beginning of his 2004
deployment to Habbaniyah, Iraq,
Stewart said he held the same view
of war as many soldiers who hadnt
been exposed to combat: They were
liberators, flushing out the enemy so
democracy could flourish. But the
bloody realities of warfare hit him
hard, he said.
Stewart saw every kind of injury,
from bullet wounds to lost limbs, but
was never quite prepared for what
would come next.
One day, the back hatch of the
medic vehicle dropped to show what
Stewart described as a bloodbath,
and two of his comrades were in
the middle of it all, stumps where
their legs had once been. The unit
had been on a foot patrol when
an Improvised Explosive Device, or
IED, had detonated, instantly killing
the units Iraqi translator and seri-
ously wounding those around him.
The medic who was sent out, he
just started stuffing body parts into
his pockets so we could try to save
the limbs, Stewart recalled.
As violence became more and
more frequent in late 2004, Stewart
said he and his men hardened, treat-
ing every civilian as a terrorist sus-
pect and every movement as a pos-
sible explosion.
Thats a scary place to be, when
you throw out your compassion, and
then you start doing some really
fucked up shit, he said, and thats
the point that we were at.
Felix Zacharias, former Marine
and Wichita junior, said it was dif-
ficult to forget the reality of death
while in action. He said the urban
warfare setting put extra stress on
soldiers and Marines trying to com-
bat an enemy who hid in plain sight.
Theres no uniform theyre
mixed in with the people, Zacharias
said.
The day the Iraqi man lost his
face at the checkpoint, Stewart said
the soldier at the checkpoints fear
of a vehicle-borne IED overrode his
fear of accidentally killing a civilian.
Though Stewart later testified on the
soldiers behalf at a military trial,
he said it was after the entire ordeal
that he thought the war had turned
into an occupation, and, initially, U.S.
soldiers werent prepared to police
the streets.
A lot had to do with the fact that
the soldiers jobs they were trained
for were done, Stewart said. As crazy
as it sounds, a soldier isnt trained to
provide stability.
But many soldiers,
such as Parker, think
stability has become
the militarys respon-
sibility.
We need to at least
stay until we said we
would, stay until we
have a successful tran-
sition, Parker said.
We cant leave.
Still, Stewart isnt alone in his point
of view. He works as the president
of the KU chapter of Iraq Veterans
Against the War to increase aware-
ness of American policies being put in
place overseas. He kept his thoughts
about his role in the war to himself
until he heard members of IVAW
speak out about their concerns.
I knew I had to do something,
and it made perfect sense, Stewart
said about joining the group.
He said that he wanted potential
enlistees to understand what they
were signing up for, and neither the
national media nor the recruiters
could tell them how their lives would
change.
Edited by Andrew Wiebe
A shift in perspective
Collateral damage during
war in Iraq forces veterans
to question U.S. involvement
Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
WilliamStewart, Lawrence senior, is president of the KU chapter of IraqVeterans Against the War. Stewart, who served as a medic with the U.S. Army in 2004, draws upon his personal experi-
ences during the war to create large-scale works of art and to speak at public events for IVAW.
Before then,
everything Id seen
was justifable, like
theyd deserved it.
William SteWart
Former U.S. army medic
Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
Stewart applies a red banner to a large-scale drawing that represents an incarnation of the Iraqi
fag, portrayed through scenes of torture Stewart said occurred during his time in Iraq.
Photos by Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
ABOVE: Stewart helps decorate
a protest banner during a March
14 event in downtown Kansas City
sponsored by IraqVeterans Against
the War.
LEFT: Stewart addresses a small
crowd near the Plaza in Kansas City
during a March 14 anti-war event
sponsored by IraqVeterans Against
the War.
BY JAYSON JENKS
jjenks@kansan.com
The best defender junior guard
Sade Morris faced this season
resided in the depths of her own
mind.
Morris is Kansas second best
scorer a player who possesses
speed, impressive wingspan for
a guard (shes 5-foot-11) and the
ability to be a lockdown defender.
But, at times, Morris thoughts
subtly betrayed when she was on
offense with the ball in her hands.
I dont understand it because if
I was De, Id be puffed up, walking
around here like I owned every-
thing, coach Bonnie Henrickson
said.
Morris struggles with self-con-
fidence have always been present,
but her tale is one thats familiar
to many athletes playing Division
I sports.
The competition for playing
time and the high-
caliber of athletes
leave many ques-
tioning their own
abilities.
Every player
goes through
maybe Im not
good enough to
be at this level,
Morris said. But
then you figure out
that you wouldnt be here if you
werent good enough.
Theres no doubt that Morris is
talented enough to compete in the
Big 12. But in games this season
Morris did not appear confident,
often deferring instead of attack-
ing.
Sometimes, she simply lacked
the aggressive, take-it-to-the-
basket style that
serves as her great-
est strength.
I never want to
be the person that
wants to be selfish,
Morris said. There
will be times when
I say De, youre
doing way too
much.
In return,
Henricksons pleas with Morris
have been relentless and seeming-
ly neverending. The goal, the pur-
pose behind the constant prod-
ding for more hinges on Morris
natural ability and noticeable
importance to Kansas success.
When Morris missed two games
and the second half of another
earlier in the year, Kansas went
0-3.
But when shes healthy and at
her best, as was the case when she
scored 24 points against Nebraska
in the Big 12 tournament, Kansas
offense changes from two-
dimensional (junior forward
Danielle McCray and everyone
else) to a three-dimensional
offense capable of competing
with any team in the Big 12.
Sade is a great player, and I
always tell her that to booster
her confidence. I tell her that
she can take anyone to the bas-
ket, McCray said. Shes a good
player like that. And once shes
aggressive, you cant stop her.
Indeed, Morris has been dif-
ficult to stop, let alone slow down,
in Kansas past three games. In
that stretch, shes averaged 20
points per game and made 54
percent of her attempts.
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Kansas had just won its first-
round game when we my
father, brother and I

began
to navigate the jagged bank of
Clinton Lakes dam.
Hopes of catching spawning
walleye invited us to cast our bait
into the water.
No luck. In fact, I had caught a
cold just days before, so even that
old axiom was out the window.
The wind, not as biblical as
Mondays offering, was enough
to upset my line, creating a nasty
backlash to end the day. To be
more accurate, relative inexperi-
ence with open-faced fishing reels
and a lengthy hiatus from fishing
may have played a small role in
my folly and frustration.
In place of success was a per-
spective of the time off the water
time that grows with age and
obligations. Textbooks, keyboards
and money occupy increasing
amounts of our time. Diversions
sometimes include house parties,
hurried jogs and maybe a trip to a
game or two.
Despite my lures being ignored
and my mishandling of fish-
ing equipment, the freedom of
shutting it all down was wel-
come. With the University, East
Lawrence and workplaces out of
sight, all to be seen was miles of
choppy water. Out there was a fish
that would take the bait. Maybe.
Roy Williams once said he
didnt give a s--- about North
Carolina. While at the lake, nei-
ther did I. Honestly. Quality time
with family another element
growing in relation with the pas-
sage of time took precedence
over bracketology. That and I
wanted a walleye.
The walleye, which is from the
perch family, is among the many
fish of Clinton Lake. It is among
the best-tasting fish as well, but
upon first sight its distinctive
features stand out. Its eyes sport a
haunting glow like something out
of a science fiction. Its thick body,
colored yellow, brown and black, is
crowned by a spiny dorsal fin that
means business.
April, May and early June are
the prime months for hooking
these fish. Fishingnotes.com says
they are coming off the spawn
now and will be aggressively feed-
ing in the months ahead. The key
is to beat the other fisherman to
the walleye. If you are too early
or simply unsuccessful like we
were Culvers offers a consola-
tion prize with its fried walleye
basket.
There are plenty of other fine
fish in that lake. Crappie, for
instance, will soon be ready to be
caught en masse and later fried or
smoked to perfection.
And so while our dollar gets
us little more than toilet tissue
these days, a few bucks spent on
a license and a few supplies make
for a cost-efficient diversion.
Fishing offers one more thing
we could all use: Hope. Hope that
tomorrow things will be better.
You may have no luck, but theres
always tomorrow.
Edited by Melissa Johnson
BY StEphEN mONtEmAYOr
smontemayor@kansan.com
commeNtAry
Going
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tale of the
walleye
WomeN'S bASKetbAll
Confdence issues hurt Morris' game this season
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BY CASE KEEFEr
ckeefer@kansan.com
n
o verb can accurately describe the phys-
ical domination Kansas encountered
in its 75-62 defeat to Michigan State
earlier in the season.
So Kansas coach Bill Self made up
one his own.
We got big-boyed, Self said.
How exactly does a team get big-boyed? Self
identified three main criteria: getting thoroughly
out-rebounded, allowing a monstrous individual
performance, and not dealing with a road environ-
ment effectively.
Kansas did all three in its beatdown at the
Breslin Center in East Lansing, Mich., on January
10. The Spartans out-rebounded the Jayhawks
42-31. Michigan State guard Kalin Lucas, the Big
10 Player of the Year, scored 22 points and con-
trolled the pace of the game. The Breslin Center
crowd became a major factor when Michigan State
went on a 19-1 run in the first half.
Junior guard Sherron Collins cringes at the
mention of being big-boyed, but he knows thats
what happened.
That doesnt sound good, Collins, whose nose
was bloodied by a Michigan State player in the
game, said. Big-boy only works for us when we
big-boy each other in practice. We dont want to
hear it with any other team.
And the Jayhawks certainly dont want to hear
it associated with another team twice in the same
season. Yet that could easily happen if Kansas
repeats its performance from earlier in the year
when it meets Michigan State again Friday at
approximately 8:37 p.m. in the Sweet Sixteen at
Indianapolis Lucas Oil Stadium.
But no one is expecting it. The Jayhawks say
they arent even the same team that the Spartans
pounded earlier in the season.
Michigan State played a team in East Lansing
that was not the Big 12 Champion, Self said. They
played a pretty good college basketball team, but
not one that played to the level we played at.
see women's on page 5B
Every player goes
through 'maybe I'm
not good enough to
be at this level.'
SAde MorriS
Junior guard
L
ife in March is a funny
thing. Office sick days
go up. Production
goes down. Beer consumption
goes up. Test scores go down.
Gambling debts go up. Marriage
counseling bills go well, up.
Anyway, the point is theres
nothing like the KU campus in
March. You know, I love that
feeling when everyone has one
collective thought on his or her
mind. On Facebook right now, I
think there are about 700 million
statuses about KU basketball.
And after a three-day break,
the big dance is back. The Sweet
Sixteen round starts tonight with
regional semifinals being played
in the West and East Regions.
And of course, Kansas plays
Michigan State at 8:37 p.m. on
Friday at Lucas Oil Stadium in
Indianapolis.
Heres the Morning Brews
10-minute guide to the Sweet
Sixteen.
CoaCh Speak
Its really no big secret that
coaches are the stars of college
basketball. Of course, youve
heard the argument that coaches
are one part CEO, one part gen-
eral manager, one part coach,
one part parent, one part recruit-
er and so on. Of course, coaches
have always been stars. Just go
back to Dean Smith and John
Wooden and Knight and Rupp
and Allen and so forth.
And so here we are in the
Sweet Sixteen, and we have a
collection of coaches that would
rank up there with any in the
history of the game. Yep, this
year its truly about the guys in
Armani.
Just look at this list.
1. Duke: Mike Krzyzewski - 3
titles, 10 Final Fours
2. North Carolina: Roy
Williams - 1 title, 6 Final Fours
3. Louisville: Rick Pitino - 1
title, 5 Final Fours (And the only
coach to take three different
teams)
4. Michigan State: Tom Izzo, 1
title, 4 Final Fours
5. Syracuse: Jim Boeheim - 1
title, 3 Final Fours
6. Connecticut: Jim Calhoun -
2 titles, 2 Final Fours
7. Kansas: Bill Self, 1 title, 1
Final Four
8. Memphis: John Calipari, 0
titles, 2 Final Fours
LouiSviLLe SLeeper
If Kansas can knock off
Michigan State in the Sweet
Sixteen, the Jayhawks will most
likely have a date with No. 1 seed
Louisville in the Elite Eight.
The Cardinals season has
taken on a interesting narra-
tive. A trendy Final Four pick in
October, Louisville scuffled in
November and December, los-
ing games to Western Kentucky,
Minnesota and UNLV. And
of course, the Cardinals were
quickly resigned to the college
basketball scrap heap.
Now three months later,
Louisville has a Big East regular
season championship and post-
season tournament title on its
resume, and the Cardinals are
the tournaments overall No. 1
seed.
So how did Louisville do it?
Well, of course, theres not one
answer. But much of the turn-
around should be credited to the
brilliant play of senior forward
Terrence
Williams.
Williams is
a rare species
in the college
game. Hes a
hybrid point-
forward, who
has the abil-
ity to jump-
start Louisvilles offense from
the forward position. Williams,
a 6-foot-6 forward, averages
just 12.7 points per game, but
rebounds remarkably well for his
size 8.7 rebounds per game
and hands out five assists per
contest. He doesnt have gaudy
stats like Blake Griffin, he isnt
a physical specimen like DeJuan
Blair, and he isnt worshipped by
ESPN like Tyler Hansbrough. But
Williams may just be the most
valuable player in the country.
WhoS Cutting doWn
the netS?
Theres a
great story
about Russell
Robinson after
Kansas beat
Davidson and
advanced to
the Final Four
last year. The
Jayhawks took
their time and snipped down the
net at one end of the court.
It took about 25 minutes, and
by the time Bill Self cut the last
strands of net, the Kansas play-
ers and coaches were ready to
get back to the locker room to
celebrate. Robinson had another
thought. His eyes were focused
on the other end of the court.
Hey, Robinson shouted to
nobody in particular. What
about the other net? Can we get
that other net?
Four teams will get to climb a
ladder and cut down the nets as
Regional Champs. So who will
it be? Well, lets go to basketball
statistics guru Ken Pomeroy at
Basketball Prospectus.
According to Pomeroys com-
plicated* formula, these teams
have the best odds of making it
to the Final Four in Detroit.
*Seriously, we dont have
enough ink to explain it. I know I
sound a little like former treasury
secretary Henry Paulson right
before Congress passed the $700
billion bailout plan, but its true.
Pomeroy gives Louisville a
47.6 percent chance to come out
of the Midwest Region, while he
gives Pittsburgh a 40.1 percent
chance to come out of the East.
Memphis is his pick in the West,
with a 40.8 percent chance, and
he goes with North Carolina in
the South with just a 35.4 per-
cent likelihood.
As for Kansas, Pomeroy gives
Kansas a 26 percent chance to
make it to the Final Four, but just
a 5 percent chance to win it all.
If you recall, Pomeroy gave
Kansas the best odds to win it all
at this time last year.
Just saying.
Edited by Liz Schubauer
sports 2B Thursday, march 26, 2009
The guide to the Sweet Sixteen
By Rustin DoDD
dodd@kansan.com
thiS Week
in kanSaS
athLetiCS
FaCt oF the daY
Arkansas womens basketball
team is 1-3 against the Big
12 this season. The Razor-
backs sufered regular-season
defeats to Missouri (56-55),
at Kansas State (65-56) and
at Texas Tech (75-60) before
defeating Oklahoma State (61-
60) in the WNIT second round
on Monday.
Arkansas Athletics
trivia oF the daY
Q: Whens the last time the
womens basketball team
defeated Arkansas?
a: On Dec. 9, 1989, Kansas
defeated Arkansas 56-51 in
Fayetteville, Ark. The teams last
met in 1998 when the Razor-
backs 79-63 victory ended the
Jayhawks season in the NCAA
Regional Semifnals.
KU Athletics
todaY
Womens
basketball
Arkansas, 7 p.m.
Lawrence
FridaY
Mens basketball
Michigan State,
8:37 p.m.
Indianapolis
tennis
Oklahoma, 6 p.m.
Norman, Okla.

Baseball
Texas A&M,
6:35 p.m.
College Station,
Texas
Womens golf
Liz Murphey
Collegiate Classic
Athens, Ga.
track & feld
Missouri Relays
Columbia, Mo.
SaturdaY
Softball
Texas A&M, 2 p.m.
Lawrence

Soccer
Creighton, 2 p.m.
Lawrence
Baseball
Texas A&M,
2:05 p.m.
College Station,
Texas
rowing
Oklahoma, TBA
Oklahoma City
track & feld
Missouri Relays
Columbia, Mo.
Womens golf
Liz Murphey
Collegiate Classic
Athens, Ga.
SundaY
Soccer
KU Mens
Club Team,
10 a.m. Lawrence
tennis
Oklahoma State,
11 a.m.
Stillwater, Okla.
Softball
Texas A&M, noon
Lawrence
Baseball
Texas A&M,
12:05 p.m.
College Station,
Texas
Womens golf
Liz Murphey
Collegiate Classic
Athens, Ga.
Mens golf
Western
Intercollegiate
Santa Cruz, Calif.
CoMMentarY
Williams
Robinson
mlB
Royals Buck prepares
for season as backup
SURPRISE, Ariz. John Buck,
the Kansas City Royals opening
day catcher for the past four
years, wont be in the lineup
when the Royals start the sea-
son against the Chicago White
Sox on April 6.
But Buck said he still views
himself as a starting catcher,
even after losing the starting
job to Miguel Olivo.
I dont look at myself as a
backup at all, Buck said. I dont
think the Royals want me to,
either. Im not content with it,
but at the same time Miguel
has been named the starter. Im
going to support him. I want
him to succeed, as much as I
want myself to succeed. Cause
if he succeeds, that means the
team is doing good. I think
ultimately, we all want to get to
the playofs.
Manager Trey Hillman had
promised Olivo that he would
get most of the playing time
behind the plate when he and
the team exercised mutual
contract options in November
to keep Olivo in Kansas City.
Associated Press
Quote oF the daY
Similar to us, theyve had big
wins down the stretch. They
are so diferent. I started with
the most recent flm and then
went backwards and it got to
the point where I said Let me
start over at the beginning
again because they dont look
like that anymore. But they are
literally a completely diferent
team.
Coach Bonnie Henrickson on Arkansas
footBall
Team to hold practice
open to the public Friday
After its frst scheduled open
practice was postponed by the
cold, the Kansas football team
will tempt weathers fate Friday
with a 3:30 p.m. practice open
to the public.
Admission to Memorial Sta-
dium will be free and the team
is asking that fans dont bring
cameras and turn phones of
upon entering. Parking will be
available on the east side of the
stadium with an entrance at the
southeast gate.
This will be the teams frst
practice open to the public this
spring. A March 11 practice
was postponed due to cold
temperatures. The team has said
it plans to make up that practice
but a date and time has yet to
be announced.
Stephen Montemayor
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Lifeguard training begins soon!
For course times
and pre-registration
Call 785.843.3550
April 17-19
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BaseBall
Long balls fuel Kansas victory
BY JOSH BOWE
jbowe@kansan.com
When youre batting average is
still .360 heading into a game, its
hard to say that youre in a slump.
But thats what Tony Thompson
found himself in entering
Wednesday game after the Texas
series. Picking up only one hit in 11
at-bats during last weekends sweep
was abnormal especially consider-
ing Thompson, a sophomore third
baseman, had a 23-game hit streak
stretching from last season.
Consider the slump busted.
Thompson went 3-for-4 with
two home runs and three RBI to
propel Kansas (15-7) to a 7-4 vic-
tory and a series sweep of Western
Illinois Wednesday afternoon at
Hoglund Ballpark.
It just felt good to finally put
some good at-bats together, more
than one a game, Thompson said.
Put our team in the lead by anoth-
er run so I guess thats the most
important part.
Thompsons second home run in
the bottom of the fifth inning put
the Jayhawks up 5-2, and finally
gave them some breathing room
against the Leathernecks (3-12)
who put up a fight all the way to
the end.
It helped Thompson to log at-
bats against a lower level of com-
petition, coach Ritch Price said.
Against Texas, Price felt the supe-
rior velocity of the Texas pitch-
ing staff disrupted the timing of
Thompsons swing
He wasnt as sharp as he had
been earlier in the season as far as
getting his bat released, Price said.
Usually when hes going good, hes
dialed in on a fastball regardless of
what the velocity is.
Both of Thompsons home runs
were to left field and were well on
their way to clearing the fence by
the time Thompson reached first
base.
It was good to see him abso-
lutely smoke those two balls,
Price said. Those two balls were
crushed.
Unfortunately for Kansas, it
needed all the runs it could get on
Wednesday a day after after blow-
ing away Western Illinois 14-3 on
Tuesday. The Leathernecks kept
it a scoreless game until the third
inning, and they never fell behind
by more than four runs, much to
the chagrin of Price.
Without question, Price said
when asked if the game was too
close for comfort. I didnt think
our energy was very good yester-
day, and I didnt think it was very
good in the dugout today.
Even after Thompsons first
home run ignited a three-run
fourth inning for Kansas, Western
Illinois responded immediately in
the top half of the fifth with two
runs of its own.
Then after a two-run eighth for
Kansas, Western Illinois respond-
ed yet again with back to back
hits. The first was a home run by
former Jayhawk Travis Metcalf s
younger brother Tyler, to keep the
game within reach before Smyth
induced a ground ball to get a
double play to end any possible
comeback.
We could of put a few more
runs up and had a couple bet-
ter at-bats, junior shortstop David
Narodowski said. But we man-
aged to score a few runs late which
just made everybody comfortable
at the end.
With upsets seemingly occur-
ring all across America in college
baseball, Thompson said a victory
is all that matters in the end.
I think any win is good,
Thompson said. You like to have
a little padding in between but you
take whatever win you can get.
Thompson has now surpassed
his home run total of a year ago
(five) with six home runs through
22 games. Which begs the ques-
tion: Does he consider himself a
power hitter now?
Thompson smiled before
answering.
I guess Id like to think so some-
times, he said. I try to hit some
balls in the gap and hit a few out of
the park every once in awhile.

Edited by Andrew Wiebe
BY TIM DWYER
tdwyer@kansan.com
Te last time shortstop David
Narodowski and second base-
man Robby Price turned a double
play together was March 6 against
Northwestern13 full games and
119 innings ago. Ten in the ffh
inning of Tuesdays game, that all
changed.
Western Illinois cleanup hitter
Kenny Price chopped a ground-
er to short, Narodowski felded
it, fipped to Robby, who fred a
throw over to frst baseman Zac El-
gie. All of a sudden, it was like the
Jayhawks junior middle infeld-
ers couldnt help themselves. Tey
turned three in Wednesdays game,
each turning in one by themselves
before collaborating on a textbook
4-6-3 double play in the ninth.
Seven times in Wednesdays game
the Leathernecks found themselves
with a runner on frst and less than
two outs, only three runners made
it past that. Price and Narodowski
are quick to share credit, though.
Every time theres a guy at frst,
Narodowski said, Paulie (Smyth,
senior closer) runs that fastball in
on right-handed hitters and gets
them to hit little knuckle ground
ball and afer that its just routine.
Price was quick to give the pitch-
ing credit as well, saying the Jay-
hawk pitchers werent letting the
Leathernecks hit anything hard
and were giving them a chance to
Family Ties
Western Illinois frst baseman Tyler Metcalfs
brother Travis set a Kansas record with 18
home runs in the 2004 season. The younger
Metcalf sent two balls sailing over the outfeld
wall Tuesday then hit another Wednesday. I
got a text from Travis that said, Thats how the
Metcalfs roll in Hoglund Ballpark, coach Ritch
Price said, laughing.
Two for Thompson
Tony Thompson hit his ffth and sixth home
runs of the season Wednesday night. It is the
frst time in his Jayhawk career that Thomp-
son has had a multi-homerun game and it is
the frst one for KU since Erik Morrison did it
last year against Baylor. Those two balls were
crushed, coach Ritch Price said.
TimDwyer
baseball notes
Ryan Waggoner/KANSAN
Sophomore third basemen Tony Thompson hits a solo home run to left feld, his teamleading sixth of the year, in the ffth inning of a 7-4
victory against Western Illinois onWednesday at Hoglund Ballpark. Thompson hit two home runs and had three RBIs to lead Kansas.
roll them up, but he also said he
and Narodowski have started to
recognize each others tendencies
on double-play balls.
Im starting to get a feel for
what hes going to do on what
type of feeds, Price said, and
the same with me for him. Hes
been real smooth out there and
its been real easy to work with
him.
Coach Ritch Price, Robbys
father, said that double plays
make a huge impact in a game,
especially with Kansas style of
baseball.
I think, especially when
youre trying to pitch to contact
like we are, he said, if you can
execute in the middle of the dia-
mond then you can get out of a
lot of jams.
Its not easy work for Naro-
dowski and the younger Price,
though. Its their frst season
working together, and Price
spent last season playing with
Texas Rangers draf pick Erik
Morrison.
In the fall we practiced that
a lot, actually. Narodowski said.
In practices during the week,
too, we spend probably 15 or 20
minutes just working on double
plays, so weve started to get used
to each other with that.
While Price and Narodowski
are getting used to each other in
the feld, its a safe bet that the
Kansas pitchers wont have any
trouble getting used to the re-
sults.
Edited by Heather Melanson
Ryan Waggoner/KANSAN
Junior shortstop David Narodowski turns a double play during the third inning of
Kansas game against Western Illinois onWednesday at Hoglund Ballpark.
Double plays help kill rallies
BaseBall
Western Illinois 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 4 10 3
Kansas 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 2 X 7 11 1
Western Illinois aB R H RBI
Stewart C 4 0 1 1
Wolf LF 4 0 1 0
Laidig 3B 4 0 1 1
Price RF 4 0 0 0
Metcalf 1B 3 1 1 1
Johnson 2B 3 1 2 0
Spicer DH 2 0 0 0
Koszuilnski 2 0 1 0
Hagins CF 4 1 1 0
Gallaga ss 2 1 2 1
Totals 32 4 10 4
Kansas Jayhawks aB R H RBI
Narodowski CF 4 0 1 1
Heere RF 3 1 1 0
Price 2B 4 0 0 0
Afenir SS 4 1 1 1
Thompson 1B 4 3 3 3
Waters DH 4 0 0 0
Lytle PR 0 1 0 0
Land 1B 4 0 0 0
Lincoln C 4 1 1 1
Faunce 3 0 2 0
Totals 34 7 11 6
E-Western Illinois: Metcalf (4); Gallaga 2(5).
Kansas: Thompson (1)
HR-Western Illinois: Metcalf 1(5) Kansas:
Thompson 2 (6)
Pitchers
Western Illinois IP H R eR BB sO
Brough L (0-2) 4.2 7 5 4 1 1
Lingle 3.1 5 2 1 0 3
Kansas Jayhawks IP H R eR BB sO
Bollman W (2-0) 5.0 5 2 1 1 5
Murray 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Blankenship 1.0 1 0 0 1 1
Boyer 0.2 2 1 1 0 1
Bochy 0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Smyth 1.0 2 1 1 0 0
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. By the
time Jodie Meeks got going for
Kentucky, Notre Dame was all but
packing its bags for New York.
Te Irish were up by 15 points
before Meeks made his second
basket, on just his fourth shot
with 12:18 lef in the game, and
the Irish survived a 17-5 run late
by the Wildcats to end a 10-game
losing streak to Kentucky with a
77-67 victory Wednesday night to
advance to the National Invitation
Tournament semifnals.
Tey did a great job of guard-
ing him, Kentucky coach Billy Gil-
lispie said. You think about what
hes been through all season, as far
as the physical stress, the mental
stress, hes handled it well.
Notre Dame coach Mike Brey
said the Irish (21-14) threw a va-
riety of defenders at Meeks, who
fnished with 21 points on 6-of-10
shooting, although Ryan Ayers had
the most success against Meeks.
He only had three shots in the
frst half, Brey said. But a guy like
that, he got going a little bit in the
second half. But overall I thought
we did a really good job.
Kentucky, meanwhile, had no
answer for Luke Harangody, who
had 30 points and 11 rebounds.
He was pretty much scoring
all over the court, said Kentucky
forward Patrick Patterson, who
guarded Harangody.
Kentucky (22-14) cut the lead to
67-62 on a slam dunk by Perry Ste-
venson with 2:42 lef. But the Irish
were 8-of-8 from the free-throw
line over the fnal 1:29 to end the
game on a 10-5 run to hang on.
Were all super excited, said
Notre Dame guard Kyle McAlar-
ney, who added 15 points.
Tis was our goal coming into
the NIT. We put all the talk about
us getting to the NCAAs way be-
hind us and we focused on getting
back to New York.
Te Irish, who hit 12 3-point-
ers in the win, will face Penn State
(25-11) Tuesday night at Madison
Square Garden.
A large number of Kentucky fans,
including its pep band, made the
trip to South Bend, which is about
325 miles away from Lexington.
It appeared about a quarter of
the 7,636 fans were wearing Ken-
tucky blue. When Meeks hit a pair
of 3-pointers midway through the
second half to cut Notre Dames
lead to 52-41, the Kentucky fans
started chanting Go big blue.
Tey were quickly drowned
out by Notre Dame fans chanting:
Lets go Irish.
Tey brought their band and
cheerleaders like a high school
game, Harangody said. It was
kind of fun, the fans going back
and forth. It was neat. It was a good
crowd.
Te scene was reminiscent of
when red-clad Nebraska fans flled
about a third of Notre Dame Stadi-
um for a football game in 2000 and
chanted: Husker, home game!
It was Notre Dames frst win
over the Wildcats since an 80-67
victory in 1990 during Rick Pitinos
frst year as Kentucky coach.
Gillispie now returns to Lex-
ington with many fans wondering
about his future.
sports 4B thursday, march 26, 2009
college basketball
Notre Dame defeats Kentucky
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Notre Dame guard Tory Jackson, right, drives the lane as Kentucky forward Patrick Patterson defends during the frst half of the NIT quarterf-
nals onWednesday. Notre Dame defeated Kentucky 77-67.
The Irish will go on
to NIT in New York
Mlb
Los Angeles defeats
Colorado by 7 runs
AssociAted Press
TEMPE, Ariz. A stiff wind
blowing out to center field made
things difficult for the pitchers
Wednesday. Torii Hunter had it
worse, though.
The Angels center fielder
had a ball deflect off his nose
in the first inning, turning a
drive by Jeff Baker into a two-
run inside-the-park homer, but
Los Angeles beat the Colorado
Rockies 18-11.
Hunter tried to make a leap-
ing catch at the wall but the ball
hit the padding and struck him
in the face. He had to leave the
game. X-Rays
were negative.
I thought he
went head first
into the wall.
I think for the
most part, his
playing hard
keeps him away
from injuries.
That was a
fluke, Angels
manager Mike Scioscia said. He
wants to play tomorrow, but I
dont think were going to. Well
give him a little time to (recu-
perate).
Jered Weaver was hit hard
again, giving up seven hits, six
runs five earned and three
of the homers in 4 1-3 innings.
Weaver made his fourth spring
start after a slight delay at the
start of camp due to shoulder
soreness.
He was coming off his best
outing on March 20, when he
limited Arizona to one run and
four hits in four innings, but he
has a 7.94 ERA.
I thought his stuff did better
than the results would show,
Scioscia said. His arm felt great.
His stuff was good. Just a couple
of his fastballs they got out of
here.
Weaver was considerably bet-
ter than Rockies right-hander
Jason Marquis, who allowed 10
hits, 12 runs 11 earned
with four walks over 3 1-3.
Marquis, who was making his
fourth Cactus League start and
sixth appearance of the spring,
has allowed 22 earned runs over
his last 14 innings.
It goes without saying, hes
still trying to get some things
squared away, Rockies acting
manager Jim Tracy
said.
He had a very
good first inning.
From there, he was
doing a decent job
of getting ahead of
hitters but then hed
give the count right
back to them.
He got some
pitches up and they
hit him. When he gets pitches up,
they hit him.
Manager Clint Hurdle stayed
back in Tucson with the Rockies
that were playing in a minor
league game.
Baker finished 4-for-4. Bakers
homers were his first two of the
spring. Ryan Spilborghs hit his
fourth and Yorvit Torrealba his
second.
Sean Rodriguez hit his first
spring homer.
Erick Aybar had four hits in
five trips to the plate, raising his
spring average to .389.
Angels Torii Hunter leaves the game
after being hit in the nose with baseball
I think for the most
part, his playing hard
keeps him away from
injuries. That was a
fuke.
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Freshman guard Tyshawn
Taylor agrees. Thats why he told
his teammates he was rooting for
Michigan State to beat Southern
California in the second round
of the NCAA Tournament in
Minneapolis after Kansas beat
Dayton to move to the Sweet
Sixteen.
Taylor wanted another shot at
Michigan State. Hes not hiding
the revenge factor.
People are going to notice how
much we matured when we play
Michigan State again, Taylor said.
This is a totally different team.
Some of the Jayhawks believe
the defeat in East Lansing, which
in reality was more lopsided than
the 13-point deficit, shaped them
into the team they are today.
Sophomore center Cole Aldrich
hasnt forgotten the disappointment
in the Kansas locker room after
that game. But he also remembers
how Kansas used it to mature and
won 13 of its next 14 games.
Its something you dont want
to go through as a team or as
a player learning through a
loss, Aldrich said. But some-
times thats the best way to learn,
through defeat, and we definitely
learned from that.
But dont misunderstand: No
one has positive memories from
what happened at the Breslin
Center. Collins said he remem-
bered being shell-shocked. Self
called the experience humbling.
Can all that negativity be used
as motivation to give Kansas an
edge in the re-match?
Since we lost the first match-
up, Self joked, Im saying we
have a huge advantage.
Edited by Carly Halvorson
P No. Kansas Ht. Yr. PPG
G 3 Ivana Catic 5-8 Sr. 2.5
F 4 Danielle McCray 5-11 Jr. 20.5
G 20 Sade Morris 5-11 Jr. 12.3
F 24 Nicollette Smith 6-2 So. 6.9
C 14 Krysten Boogaard 6-5 So. 8.8
P No. Arkansas Ht. Yr. PPG
G 2 Shanita Arnold 5-4 So. 5.6
G 22 Ceira Ricketts 5-9 Fr. 12.5
G 33 Lyndsay Harris 5-9 Fr. 9.9
G 34 Ayana Brereton 5-10 Sr. 10.1
F 31 Whitney Jones 6-0 Sr. 10.5

When/Where...
Tipof scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight at Allen Fieldhouse.
Who to watch for...
Freshman Ceira Rickets. It was pretty apparent Ricketts was going to be an impact freshman at the
college level way back in the seventh grade. Ricketts started for her high school team for six years
and had four quadruple-doubles in her career at Fairdale High in Kentucky. Her most impressive line:
21 points, 17 rebounds, 10 assists, 10 steals and 7 blocks. She continues to do it all for the Razorbacks.
What to expect...
A very close game. Arkansas lost at Kansas State in December by nine and just beat Oklahoma State
by one in the second round of the WNIT. Arkansas didnt play too well in the SEC this season, but it
was a tough conference and the Razorbacks are very young. They just might be coming together a
little too late.
Why Kansas will win...
Simply, Kansas is taller. The tallest player who played in the Razorbacks victory over Oklahoma
State is 6-1. 6-5 sophomore Krysten Boogaard will seize the opportunity to pull down rebounds and
go back up without much interference.
How the game is important...
Its the Sweet 16 of the WNIT, and the Jayhawks are set on winning the whole tournament to show
the NCAA tournament committee they made a mistake by leaving Kansas out of their feld. A loss
ends steady senior point guard Ivana Catics career.
Magic number...
192 Number of three-point attempts for freshman Lyndsay Harris on the season. Thats more than
six a game. She was one of eight against Oklahoma State, and you can bet shell be the frst one to
put it up from deep if the Razorbacks fall into a hole.
Clark Goble
kansas vs. arkansas
Morris statistical improvement
is drastic she scored just 10
points combined in Kansas final
two games of the regular season.
But more startling is her recent
resolve to continue attacking the
basket throughout the games
entirety.
With Danielle bringing to the
table her outside shot, we definite-
ly need a slasher somebody who
draws defense and then she can
kick it out and create easier shots,
senior guard Ivana Catic said.
Attribute at least a portion of
Morris recent improvement to
McCray, Kansas leading scorer this
season. In watching how McCray
continually looked for shots on
offense, Morris adopted a similar
mindset.
I realized that if I have a girl
beat and shes on my shoulder, I
can still shoot it because shes not
going to stop me, Morris said.
And I took that from Danielle. She
does that all the time.
Yet, beyond that, Morris key to
success has been simple: Continue
being the aggressor. In Kansas
last three games, thats what shes
done.
I dont even know how to
describe it. I guess Im in a better
rhythm, a better flow, Morris said.
Im looking for things I didnt
look for in the beginning.
Edited by Susan Melgren
women's (continued from 1B) sequel (continued from 1B)
NANCY ARMOUR
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES Forget the
quad. It was another jump that
put Brian Joubert ahead of Evan
Lysacek.
The Frenchman botched his
quad combination yet still edged
Lysacek in the short program at
the world figure skating champion-
ships on Wednesday, bolstered by a
more difficult solo jump. Joubert,
the 2007 champion, scored 84.40
points, putting him 1.7 ahead
of Lysacek going into Thursday
nights free skate.
Patrick Chan, Canadas up-and-
comer, is third, and the audience
thought he deserved better, booing
when his marks were posted. Chan
shrugged and, when the boos con-
tinued, smiled and put his finger
to his lips.
Brandon Mroz showed his
second-place finish at his first
senior U.S. championships was no
fluke, finishing eighth with a solid,
clean skate. U.S. champion Jeremy
Abbott, however, ran into a few
problems and is in 10th place.
The pairs final is later
Wednesday, with reigning champi-
ons Aliona Savchenko and Robin
Szolkowy of Germany in the lead.
Joubert found himself in a dust-
up with Chan earlier this week
over the importance of the quad;
Joubert thinks it should be a staple
of mens skating, Chan thinks its
the overall quality of a program
that should matter most. Both
wound up being right Wednesday.
A painstakingly slow entry into
his quadruple toe loop-triple toe
combination forced Joubert to put
his right hand all the way down on
the ice to save the landing. That
made for a crooked takeoff on the
second jump, and another ugly
landing.
But because Joubert had done
the quad toe, he could do a triple
lutz as his required solo jump.
Lysacek had done a triple lutz as
the opening jump in his required
combination, so he had to do a
triple flip for his solo jump. Throw
in style points, and Jouberts lutz
ended up being worth two points
more.
As Chan pointed out, however,
its the whole program that gets it
done and Joubert had it with a play-
ful, entertaining number that was
just the right fit for Hollywood.
FiGuRe SKAtiNG
AssoCIATeD PRess
united states evan lysacek skates during the mens short programat the World Figure Skating Championships in Los Angeles Wednesday.
Frenchman wins the short
American gets second and the competition continues today
NCAA touRNAMeNt
michigan guard scores career-high
LARRY LAGE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
EAST LANSING, Mich. Travis
Walton strolled onto Michigan
States practice court shortly after
midnight with a McDonalds cup
in one hand and
a basketball in
another.
Just getting
some shots up and
watching more
film, Walton said
Wednesday in an
interview with The
Associated Press.
Just cherishing
this moment.
The second-
seeded Spartans
still have a chance to soak up and
create memories because the Big
Tens defensive player of the year
had his best game offensively in
the second round against USC.
Walton scored a career-high
18 points in the victory, putting
Michigan State in the regional
semifinals for the eighth time in
12 years and keeping his hopes
alive to continue a streak for the
elite basketball program.
Since Tom Izzo succeeded Jud
Heathcote in 1995, every player
who has played for the Spartans
for four years has been on a Final
Four team.
If Walton can help the Spartans
defeat defending national cham-
pion Kansas on
Friday night and
the winner of the
Louisville-Arizona
game on Sunday,
he and his fellow
seniors will extend
the feat.
Its something
you think about, but
it takes patience,
Walton said. We
just have to focus
on Kansas.
Despite Waltons breakout game,
the Jayhawks probably wont have
to worry about him making rain-
bow jumpers from all angles as he
stunningly did against USC.
They will, though, have to hope
Sherron Collins can score against
him on Jan. 10 in East Lansing.
Collins made 11 of 14 free
throws and scored 25 points in
Michigan States 13-point win.
The key is keeping him off
the line this time, Walton said.
But thats easier said than done
because hes really good.
Waltons statistics arent good,
but his impact is great.
He is scoring just 5.3 points
a game, ranking seventh on the
team, and averaging 3.2 assists, 2.3
rebounds and 1.5 steals.
The guard has made his greatest
contribution with intangibles Izzo
needed again.
Michigan State won the 2000
national championship during a
four-year run that included four
Big Ten titles and three Final Four
appearances because it was men-
tally and physically tougher than
many of its opponents.
Then, the Spartans went seven
seasons without a conference
championship and advanced to
the national semifinals once.
Izzo said he made the mistake
of valuing talent over toughness
before recruiting Walton out of
Lima, Ohio, to bring the program
back to its blue-collar roots.
We went from tough to a
little soft to tougher, Izzo said.
Travis has been a big part of the
upgrade.
Travis Walton gets ready to play Kansas after making 18 points in round two
The key is keeping
[Collins] of the line
this time. But that's
easier said than done
because he's really
good."
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Softball
Kansas loses two one-run games against Creighton
BY TOM POWERS
tpowers@kansan.com
The Jayhawks just cant seem
to catch a break as the Creighton
Bluejays did just enough to
squeak by and steal two victories
Wednesday during a chilly dou-
bleheader at Arrocha Ballpark.
Kansas suffered two tightly con-
tested one-run losses. Creighton
barely etched out a 2-1 victory
in the first game with a suicide
squeeze in the top of the fifth
inning. Game two went into extra
innings, ending 4-3 in the tenth on
a sacrifice fly by Bluejay first base-
man Renae Sinkler.
Those were two good ball-
games, coach Tracy Bunge said in
a postgame interview. Creightons
a very good ball club, theyve got
an all region kid on the mound
and they hit the ball well. Im not
displeased with our play.
Kansas indeed played two solid
ball games, the first being a pitchers
duel. Jayhawk senior Val George
racked up a career-high fourteen
strikeouts in the first game, allow-
ing only two runs on five hits in a
complete game performance.
My riseball was my most effec-
tive pitch today, George said after
the game.
Also pitching a complete game,
Creightons Tara Oltman record-
ed eight strikeouts, holding the
Jayhawks to one run on four hits.
Kansas sole run came in the bot-
tom of the seventh off of a towering
home run shot over the left field
wall by left fielder Allie Clark.
In game two, the Jayhawks got
off to a hot start in a hurry. Third
baseman Val Chapple and right
fielder Liz Kocon got the Jayhawks
on the board in the first inning,
both scoring on a pair of singles.
The Bluejays answered back quick-
ly, scoring one run in the top of the
second inning and two in the third.
Kansas knotted up the score in the
fifth inning with an RBI double by
Kocon before suffering the loss on
Sinklers sacrifice fly in the tenth.
Kansas battled all afternoon and
came away with nothing to show
for it, so it comes as no surprise
that whats plaguing the Jayhawks
is a lack of confidence.
Its definitely been a big issue
this season, senior center fielder
Dougie McCaulley said. The lack
in confidence was personified
with the play of shortstop Stevie
Crisosto.
Crisosto was pulled in the sec-
ond inning of yesterdays con-
test against Missouri State and,
after committing her tenth error
of the season in the top of the
seventh inning of the first game,
was replaced by sophomore Kolby
Fesmire in the second game versus
Creighton. It visibly affected her
overall performance.
Stevie is an experienced senior,
a player that has been there and
fought the good fight, Bunge said
of the struggling Crisosto. Shes a
good hitter, she just needs to com-
partmentalize. Shes not pouting or
putting her head down, shes in it
for her teammates.
Kansas will have to regain that
confidence in a hurry as it faces
No. 23 Texas A&M in a two-game
series this weekend. The Aggies
were last years runner up in the
NCAA College World Series, los-
ing to Arizona State in two straight
games. The games will be at 2
p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday in
Arrocha Ballpark.
Edited by Liz Schubauer
Chance Dibben/KANSAN
Pitcher Sarah Vertelka, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., junior, pitches during the second game of Wednsdays doubleheader against Creighton. The Jayhawks lost to the Bluejays in both games.
They lost the frst 2-1 and the second 4-3.
Chance Dibben/KANSAN
First baseman
Amanda Jobe,
Shawnee junior,
slides into third base
duringWednsdays
game against the
Bluejays. Creighton
swept Kansas in the
doubleheader, win-
ning the frst match
2-1 and the second
4-3.
Jayhawks performed solidly in both games
Creighton 2, Kansas 1
WP: Tara Oltman (13-5)
LP: Val George (7-9)
HR: Renae Sinkler (CU, 5)
Allie Clark (KU, 3)
Creighton 4, Kansas 3
WP: Tara Oltman (14-5)
LP: Val George (7-10)
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Ironwood Court Apartments
1&2 Bedrooms
Washer/Dryer, Pool, Fitness
1 Car Garages Available
Park West Gardens Apartments
1 & 2 Bedrooms
Washer/Dryer, Large Bedrooms
1 Car Garages Included in Each
Eisenhower Drive
Park West Town Homes
2 & 3 bedrooms
Washer/Dryers Included
2 Car Garages in Each
Eisenhower Terrace
For a Showing Call:
(785) 840-9467
www.ironwoodmanagement.net
Two bedrooms avaiable in threebedroom
duplex in June. Inludes w/d, d/w, small
yard,garage, pets welcome. $330 plus
utilites.Email mocha117@ku.edu
hawkchalk.com/3161
$250 SUMMER SUBLET! FEMALES! .25
mi from campus. FURNISHED! May -
July. 1st mth paid! Move BEFORE FI-
NALS! Call (760) 604-0212 for more de-
tails or to come see the place! hawkchalk.-
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$275 NEED 3rd Roommate Male/Female
thru 7/31/09 Bus line walk campus New
furn Clean 3/2/LR/DR/Kit/W/D Util $100
mo Bronze Gold cable/int toole@ku.edu
214-478-2675
$400/month incl. rent & all util. 4 bdrm,3
bath,W&D,gar.parking.Need female room-
mate for last bdrm w/walk-in closet & priv.
bathroom.Call 913-220-4471. hawkchalk.-
com/3137
$300/mo+util, 1br available for summer
sublease to female, may 16-august (fexi-
ble dates). cute, clean, 10 min. walk to
campus! hawkchalk.com/3154
$350/mo. 2 roommates wanted (male or
female) 3bd/2bath duplex. Dishwasher,
W/D, garage, central air, deck. June 09 to
May 2010. 1042 Jana Dr. peter@ku.-
edu/785.550.6571. hawkchalk.com/3129
1 BR. 463/mo utl. inc. looking to sublet for
June/July. Apartment fully furnished.
Washer/Dryer & full personal bathroom
inc. Contact Ben@913-638-7696 or bhunt-
ley@ku.edu. hawkchalk.com/3138
1 BR for rent. Very nice. Fireplace, sky-
lights, one car gar, remodeled kitchen, all
appliances, W/D hookup, no smoking.
$515/mo. 2901 University Dr. Call 748-
9807 or 766-0244.
1,2,3,4+ apts, townhomes, & houses
available summer & fall 2009. Pool, pets
allowed, on KU bus route. Contact
holiday-apts.com or 785-843-0011.
1 lg studio apartment avail. July/Aug,
$490/mo. + electricity (gas and water
paid), 12th and Oread (on campus), 1-2
min. walk from Union 316-650-0227
hawkchalk.com/3160
1,2,3 BR Apts. and Houses for Aug. Close
to Campus. Free W/D use, wood foors.
$395-$800/mo. 785-841-3633 ANYTIME!
3 bed 2 bath condo $315/room + 1/3 utili-
ties. 2 female roommates needed avail
Aug 1st. Ample parking, W/D in unit, 15-
20 min. walk to Wescoe. 913.775.0413
Alyson. hawkchalk.com/3132
1-5 BR homes. Some now, others Aug. 1.
615 Ohio, 1221 Brook, 217 Ill. 407 E.11th,
945 Ken., 746 & 901 MO. 785-842-2268
2 BR, 1 Bath loft avail. Aug $550/mo.
W/D, low utilities, close to campus. Matt
979-5587
2 and 3BRs, leasing now and for Aug. For
more info, visit www.lawrencepm.com or
call (785) 832-8728.
front apt. of renovated 2 story house; new
everything; cheap utilities; walk to campus
or KU bus stop; bkisner@cox.net
hawkchalk.com/3155
3 BR apt. 2901 University Dr. Newly re-
modeled, all new appliances. Very spa-
cious.1 1/2 BA. Fireplace, sky light, W/D,
new carpet, patio, garage, close to cam-
pus. No smoking/pets. Rent $885. Call
748-9807 or 766-0244.
4 BR, 3 BA, 1 blk from KU, avail.
Aug/June. Great cond., WD, DW, CA/ CH,
all appliances, spacious. 785-841-3849
463/mo sublet avail. May 20. 1BR/1BA.
Util incld. Fully furnished+washer/dryer in-
cluded. Must sublet, Im leaving the coun-
try. Contact Ben@913-638-7696/bhunt-
ley@ku.edu. hawkchalk.com/3158
3 BR, 2 car attached garage, all appli-
ances, W/D included. approx. 1 mile from
KU campus, fenced yard. Avail July.
$950/mo. Please call (913) 492-8510
3 BR, 2 BA, avail. in Aug or June. Walk
to KU. Great condition with appliances.
785-841-3849
3/4/5/6 BR Apartment and Houses avail-
able August. 785-842-6618 rainbowworks.-
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3rd and 4th roommate needed in 4bd 2
bth house - lots of space, full kitchen,
backyard, silver internet - 250$/month
plus utilities/4 ppl - call luke @ (785)817-
2804 hawkchalk.com/3147
4bd,2ba house,garage,privacy pa-
tio,$1300/mo. Call 620-340-7742 or e-
mail gmscali@yahoo.com. Avail July 1.
5 BR, 2 Bath Aug. $1750/mo. W/D, low
utilities, fenced in yard, close to campus.
Matt 979-5587
940 Indiana, fabulous house with a huge
deck, hardwood frs, 2 kitchens, off-st.
parking, all amenities. Can be 3 BR, 2 BA,
or 4 BR, 2 BA, or 7 BR, 4 BA. Take your
pick. Also available, 5+3 or 8 BR on Ken-
tucky for August. Call 785-842-6618
Apartment at the Reserve for the summer
with rent at $319 a month. Available in
May or June. Call (314)605-3340
hawkchalk.com/3149
Apartment at the Reserve for the summer
with rent at $319 a month. Available in
May or June. Call (314)605-3340
hawkchalk.com/3149
Beautiful 2, 3 & 4 BR homes.
Available immediately. We love pets.
Call for details. 816-729-7513
Avail. 8/1 at 742 AR $825/mo 2 BR
house, wood foors, garage, quiet, n/s, no
pets 785-550-6812 or 785-842-3510
Available Aug. 1 Spacious 1& 2 BDR
apartments. Between campus and down-
town. Close to GSP-Corbin. No pets. 785-
550-5012.
Available now: 1 and 3 BR, 1 Mo. FREE,
only $99/BR Deposit. 842-3280
Hurry, limited availability
Canyon Court
700 Comet Ln. 785-832-8805
Now Leasing Fall 2009 **Deposit
Special**
1, 2, & 3BRs, pool, spa, free DVD rentals
www.frstmanagementinc.com
Female Summer Sublet Needed!!!
1 Room available in house @ great loca-
tion. ***RENT NEGOTIABLE*** Please
contact blush@ku.edu
hawkchalk.com/3174
Coolest apartments in town. 2BR & 4BR
loft apartments in N. Lawrence located at
642 Locust St. Hardwood foors and all
modern conveniences. $875 for 2BR and
$1575 for 4BR per month. Available Aug
1st. Call 785-550-8499.
Discounted two bedrooms at Tuckaway!
For March move ins only.
Deposit $100 per person, Rent starting at
$750. For more info. call 785-838-3377
Duplex for rent! 3 BDR 2.5 BATH. 2 Car
Garage. W/D. $350/ per person plus utili-
ties. 785-550-4544.
Female Sublease needed for the summer
(May to July 31) in a 3BR/2BA Townhome
off 6th Street. Rent is $295. Email Jessica
for details jyhawk55@ku.edu
hawkchalk.com/3163
fully furnished condo in overland park. Liv-
ing with 2 other guys. avail. June/July.
centrally located. 303-995-6704.
hawkchalk.com/3142
HIGHPOINTE APARTMENTS
2001 W. 6th St.
Now Leasing Fall 2009
1,2, & 3 bedrooms
Deposit special
785-841-8468
www.frstmanagementinc.com
Houses and apartments, all sizes and
locations 785-749-6084
www.eresrental.com
Roommate wanted for 09-10 school year,
$425/mo everything included, located
19th and Delaware. Contact Valerie at
816-914-4363 or Brian at 816-806-9997.
hawkchalk.com/3151
Houses available for August 2009. See
what is available at kawrentals.com or call
Jim at 785-979-9120.
Japanese lessons wanted in exchange for
rent on large 1 BR apt in nice, quiet home
on Kentucky St; CA, fridge, stove, W/D,
covered front porch w/ swing; parking; no
smoking/pets; 8/1/09-8/1/10. Tom at 766-
6667.
Looking for someone to take over my
lease until July 31. No Deposit neces-
sary. The other 2 roomates are college
students. Please call 816-728-0603.
hawkchalk.com/3131
Need June 1 subleaser 4 my awesome
townhome 27 & Crestline! 3 bd 2.5 ba. My
lease is up Aug 1, summer only or renew
for another yr! $320/mo contact Kara 913-
406-1151 hawkchalk.com/3127
Nice 3 bed 1 bath 1400sqft house avail-
able now!! in walking distance of KU!!
250/m plus utilities. Remodled over sum-
mer. email brentf@gus.pittstate.edu for
questions. hawkchalk.com/3127
Parkway Commons; Townhomes,
houses & luxury apartments. Garages,
pool, w/d, gym. Leasing for fall.
842-3280. 3601 Clinton Pkwy
RIGHT OFF CAMPUS, 1 roommate
needed for next year, 5 BR 3 BA, 1322
Valley Lane. Huge kitchen, front/back
porches, awesome place. $375 + ut Call
Brandon 913-593-6315.
hawkchalk.com/3164
Want to rent furnished house or apart-
ment. Approx. June 1- September 30,
Rent Negotiable, call 772-343-9673
Studios 1BDR. Near KU. Also Offce/Apt.
Call 841-6254. See rental services &
goods at www.a2zenterprises.info
SUMMER SUBLEASE AT THE RE-
SERVE! 4BR 2 BA, Facilities include pool,
jacuzzi, basketball courts, & grill areas.
Located on KU bus route, $319/mo. Call
Bryn 913-636-8893 hawkchalk.com/3165
Summer Sublease, dates negotiable, 3
Br, 1 Ba, close to campus, garage, big
fenced backyard, patio, washer/dryer, 350
per room. 785-840-8584. hawkchalk.-
com/3146
Sunfower House Co-Op: 1406 Ten-
nessee. Rooms range from $250-$310,
utilities included. Call 785-749-0871 for in-
formation.
Tuckaway Management
Leases available for summer and fall
For info. call 785-838-3377 or go online
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Remodeled 1&2 Bedrooms
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Hanover Place-14th and Kentucky
Spacious 2 BRs w/ garage
From $700
Woodward Apartments
7th and Florida
1,2 & 3 Bedrooms

California Place
Near 6th and Iowa
Newer 1,2 & 3 BRs
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College baseball
Hall of Fame inductees for 2009 to be honored July 3
Former Wichita State player Joe Carter, Mississippi States Rafael Palmeiro, Brooklyn Dodgers Branch Rickey among the 10 selected
AssociAted Press
LUBBOCK, Texas Former
World Series star Joe Carter of
Wichita State and Mississippi
States Rafael Palmeiro, who hit 569
home runs in the major leagues,
are among 10 inductees into the
College Baseball Hall of Fame.
Carter was a two-time MVP of
the Missouri Valley Conference
with the Shockers. The outfielder
won the 1993 World Series for
Toronto with a home run in the
bottom of the ninth inning of
Game 6 against Philadelphia closer
Mitch Williams.
Other 2009 inductees announced
Tuesday include pitchers Darren
Dreifort of Wichita State and Kirk
Dressendorfer of
Texas; shortstop Barry
Larkin of Michigan;
second baseman
Todd Walker of LSU
and catcher Keith
Moreland of Texas.
Longtime coach
Ron Polk also made
the list. Hes the only
coach to lead three
teams to the College
World Series: Mississippi State,
Georgia and Georgia Southern.
The late Branch Rickey, most
famous as the Brooklyn Dodgers
executive who broke baseballs
color barrier with
Jackie Robinson in
the 1940s, was the
vintage-era induct-
ee. Rickey played
at Ohio Wesleyan
and coached at
Michigan.
The first small-
school inductee is
St. Francis coach
Gordie Gillespie.
The 82-year-old started the sea-
son with 1,783 wins, most in col-
lege baseball, and is the first active
coach inducted into
the college hall. The
small-school desig-
nation is for two- and
four-year schools
other than NCAA
Division I.
Palmeiro was
an outfielder
for the Bulldogs
when he became
the Southeastern
Conferences first triple crown win-
ner in 1984. He became an All-Star
at first base in the majors before his
career ended after a positive test for
performance-enhancing drugs.
Dreifort led
Wichita State to
three consecutive
College World
Series appearances
from 1991 to 1993,
and Dressendorfer
was one of the
winningest pitch-
ers in Southwest
Conference his-
tory with 45 victo-
ries for the Longhorns.
Larkin, the starting shortstop
for the Cincinnati Reds when they
won the World Series in 1990, was
a .361 career hitter at Michigan.
A 12-time All-Star in the majors,
Larkin twice led the Wolverines to
the College World Series.
Walker, a second baseman who
was a career .289 hitter in 12 Major
League seasons, was named the
Most Outstanding Player at the
College World Series when LSU
won the title in 1993.
Moreland led the Longhorns to
three consecutive College World
Series appearances and the 1975
national title. Texas was 160-21 in
his three seasons.
The 2009 class will be inducted
July 3.
Joe Carter, two-time
MVP of the Missouri
Valley Conference,
won the 1993 World
Series for Toronto
with a home run in
the ninth inning.
In 1984, Rafael
Palmeiro became the
Southeastern Confer-
ences frst triple
crown winner. He hit
569 home runs in the
major leagues.
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5 A M - 4 PM
$10.53 - $11.81
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We d. - Sa t .
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1400 Apple Lane
2300 Wakarusa Dr.
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The Energy Balance Laboratory at the University of
Kansas is conducting a 9 month research
project to study the effects of resistance training in
conjunction with protein supplementation on body
weight, body composition, and metabolism.
To qualify you must be living in Lawrence for the
entire 9 month study. Study participants will earn
up to $1000 for their time and effort.
If interested please email rtexercise@ku.edu
for more information.
Would like to participate
in a KU study with a
personal
trainer?
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Small white refrigerator (about 1.7cu.ft.).
Used, $13. 785-393-5145. hawkchalk.-
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Studio full of stuff! Brand New printer/s-
canner with all paperwork/cables. Call to
come look at anything! Also selling a few
bikes and a guitar amp. 405.206.5347
hawkchalk.com/3145
BARTENDING. UP TO $300/DAY. NO
EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. TRAINING
PROVIDED. 800-965-6520 EXT 108
CAMP COUNSELORS wanted for private
Michigan boys/girls summer overnight
camps. Teach swimming, canoeing,
lacrosse, skiing, sailing, sports, comput-
ers, tennis, archery, riding, crafts, drama,
climbing, windsurfng & more! Offce,
maintenance jobs too. Salary $1900+,
free room/board. APPLY ONLINE! www.-
lwcgwc.com, or call 888-459-2492.
Participants needed for a one hour one
time only paid speech perception experi-
ment. Email rkreed20@yahoo.com for re-
quirements and to schedule an appoint-
ment! hawkchalk.com/3167
Carlos OKellys is NOW hiring for
summer servers and hosts. Day and
night shifts. Please apply within at :
707 W 23rd Street.
CAMP TAKAJO, Maine, picturesque lake-
front location, exceptional facilities, experi-
ence of a lifetime! From June 19- August
16. Counselor positions available in land
sports, water sports, fne arts, outdoor ed-
ucation call (800) 250 8252 for informa-
tion and online application - takajo.com
Help Wanted for custom harvesting. Com-
bine operators and truck drivers. Guaran-
teed pay. Good summer wages. Call 970-
483-7490 evenings.
IRONHORSE GOLF CLUB LEAWOOD,
KS. SNACK BAR/BEVERAGE CAR
amyadent@gmail.com
Now taking applications for summer life-
guards, pool manager, snack bar
cooks. Apply in person, Lawrence Coun-
try Club, 400 Country Club Terrace
Local Lawrence Club is looking for hot
female bar staff and dancers. Great tips
and work environment. Please contact
Megan or Lindsay @ 785-843-9601.
STUDENTPAYOUTS.COM
Paid Survey Takers Needed in Law-
rence.
100% FREE to Join! Click on Surveys.
Skate camp coordinator, paintball direc-
tor, climbing tower staff, lifeguards, coun-
selors, nature director and wranglers;
Spend your summer in the beautiful Flint
Hills making a positive impact on the life
of a child. Camp Wood YMCA Elmdale,
KS, is seeking caring and enthusiastic
people for our 2009 summer staff team.
Call to schedule an interview 620-273-
8641 or email ymca@campwood.org
Sunfower State Games seeks energetic
and responsible summer interns to assist
in event planning and promotions for
Olympic Style Sports Festival. Call 785-
235-2295 or www.sunfowergames.com
Survey takers needed; make $5-$25
per survey. Do it in your spare time.
www.GetPaidToThink.com
The City of De Soto Parks & Recreation
Department is looking for Land and Wa-
ter Fitness Instructors. If interested please
call Justin at 913-583-1182 ext or e-mail
jhuslig@desotoks.us.
Teachers aide needed for varied hours
M-F starting immediately and for sum-
mer. Please apply at Childrens Learning
Center at 205 N. Michigan or email
clc5@sunfower.com
Teachers: prefer degree - ECE or CDA
with minimum 6 month childcare teaching
experience for 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 yrs old unit.
Little Angels Learning Center, Inc.
913-724-4442
Undercover Shoppers Earn up to $70
per day. Undercover Shoppers needed to
judge retail and dining establishments
EXP. Not RE. CALL 800-722-4791
2007 Orange Genuine Buddy Scooter
50cc - Great Condition!
Over 80 mpg
Park it on campus at any bike rack!
$1500 obo
913-424-5099/afell@ku.edu. hawkchalk.-
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NFL
Vick suspected of illegal use of pension plan funds
CYCLING
Doctors repair Armstrongs collarbone
JIM VERTUNO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN, Texas His broken
collarbone surgically mended,
Lance Armstrong is on the clock.
The seven-time Tour de France
champion will be back on his bike
in days even though the bone may
take eight to 12 weeks to fully
mend. Armstrong must resume
training almost immediately if hes
to meet his goal of racing in the
Giro dItalia, which begins May 9.
The 37-year-old American
cyclist also plans to ride in the Tour
de France this July.
Surgeon Doug Elenz inserted a
stainless steel plate and 12 screws
to stabilize the broken collarbone
on Wednesday, two days after
Armstrong crashed in the first
stage of the Vuelta of Castilla and
Leon race in northern Spain.
Lance is going to be a patient
who is going to push the envelope,
Elenz said.
After taking a few days off,
Armstrong will be allowed to ride
a stationary bike.
Then doctors will monitor his
arm strength, range of motion in
his shoulder, as well as his pain,
to decide what kind of training he
can do.
Just hours after the surgery,
Armstrong was posting to his
Twitter feed, reassuring fans.
Howdy folks. Made it thru. Took
longer than we thought. Playing
with my kids right now. Making me
feel A LOT better, he wrote.
Although doctors initially
thought it was a simple fracture,
Elenz said X-rays showed it was
broken in four pieces.
This was a challenge, Elenz
said. It was a hard case.
Elenz said the 12 screws were
more than he might normally use,
but he felt they were needed know-
ing Armstrongs goals. The surgery
to stabilize the bone required about
a 5-inch incision and the steel plate
measures about the same length,
said Elenz, who added its likely
doctors will someday remove the
plate.
Armstrong returned to elite
cycling this year after a 3-year lay-
off.
During a conference call Tuesday
night, he said he was frustrated the
injury came just as he was getting
into top shape. He was among the
top 10 riders for much of the race
Monday before he crashed about 12
miles from the end of the stage.
Now, hes determined to get back
to the front.
I think the Giro is still very
doable, Armstrong said. This is
definitely a setback, no doubt. Its
the biggest setback Ive ever had
in my cycling career, so its a new
experience for me.
LARRY ODELL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHMOND, Va. The U.S.
Department of Labor filed com-
plaints Wednesday accusing sus-
pended NFL star Michael Vick of
illegally spending about $1.3 mil-
lion in pension plan funds for his
own benefit, including paying res-
titution ordered in his dogfighting
conspiracy case.
The department
filed the complaints
in federal district and
bankruptcy courts
the same day Vick
left a federal lockup
in Kansas, apparent-
ly bound for Virginia
to appear at a bank-
ruptcy hearing next
week. Vick was at the
Federal Transfer City
in Oklahoma City late Wednesday
afternoon.
Mark Lichtenstein, one of Vicks
bankruptcy attorneys, declined
to comment on both the Labor
Department allegations and the
details of Vicks apparent tempo-
rary move to Virginia for the April
2 hearing.
The Labor Department said
Vick made a series of prohib-
ited transfers from a pension plan
sponsored by MV7, a celebrity
marketing company owned by the
former Atlanta Falcons quarter-
back. The department alleges
that Vick violated his duties as
trustee of a pension plan that cov-
ered nine current or former MV7
employees.
This action sends a message
that the Labor Department will
not tolerate the misuse of plan
money and will take whatever
steps necessary to recover the
assets owed to eligible workers,
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis
said in a prepared statement.
The department also accused
two of Vicks former financial
advisers, Mary R. Wong and David
A. Talbot, of participating in some
of the transfers.
The filing further complicates
Vicks bankruptcy case, which has
gradually moved
along in Newport
News while
Vick serves a
23-month prison
term in the fed-
eral penitentiary
in Leavenworth.
The judge pre-
siding over the
bankruptcy case
has ordered Vick
to testify in person at next weeks
hearing on confirmation of his
Chapter 11 plan.
U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokes-
woman Felicia Ponce said
Wednesday that Vick was at the
Oklahoma transfer facility but
added that she could not disclose
the inmates ultimate destina-
tion until he arrives. There was
no indication of when Vick left
Leavenworth or when he would
arrive in Virginia.
Vick will likely be kept in a
southeastern Virginia jail until
the hearing, but it wasnt known
which one.
Newport News Sheriff Gabe
Morgan said he had not been noti-
fied that Vick would be staying in
the city jail, but it was possible
Vick and federal marshals could
show up unannounced.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Frank
Santoro earlier this month reject-
ed the idea of allowing testimony
by video hookup, saying he need-
ed Vick in the courtroom so he
could assess his demeanor and
credibility.
Vicks plan for paying his credi-
tors is based largely on his inten-
tion to resume his NFL career.
Vick was suspended indefinitely
after his 2007 indictment, and NFL
Commissioner Roger Goodell has
said he will review Vicks status
after he is released.
The Falcons still hold the con-
tract rights to Vick but have said
they will try to trade him. Vicks
bankruptcy plan would allow him
to keep the first $750,000 of his
annual pay.
After that, a percentage would
go to his creditors based on a slid-
ing scale.
Vick is eligible to move into
home confinement no earlier than
May 21 and is scheduled to be
released from custody July 20.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Michael Vick shakes hands with his lawyer, Billy Martin, left, as he arrives at federal court Aug. 27, 2007 in Richmond, Va. Vick has been approved for release to home confnement. The Depart-
ment of Labor has fled complaints against Vick for suspicion of illegally using pension plan funds. Vicks lawyers have said they expected himto be moved any day into a halfway house in Newport
News, Va. or to his Hampton, Va., home as soon as May 21.
NFL player used money from shared plan
to pay restitution in dogfighting case
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lance Armstrong listens to Dr. Douglas Elenz before surgery on his broken right collarbone onWednesday in Austin, Texas. Armstrong broke his
collarbone in the frst stage of the Vuelta of Castillo cycling race in Spain on Monday.
Vick left Leavenworth
on Wednesday,
bound for Virginia.
The judge for the
bankruptcy case has
ordered Vick to testify
in person next week.
wOMENs bAskETbALL
Powerhouse teams already
knocked out of tournament
Goodbye Tennessee. So long
Duke. See you next time North
Carolina.
Thirty-two games into the
NCAA womens basketball
tournament and three of the
powerhouses have already been
bounced. Throw-in LSU, which
had made the previous fve Final
Fours, and it would be easy to
see a transformation under way.
There is a lot of champion-
ship experience left with UConn,
Stanford, Baylor and Purdue
still playing. Those four teams
have combined to win seven
of the past 10 national titles.
No mid-major team made it to
the second weekend as all 16
teams left come from power
conferences. The Big 12 and Big
East each have four teams, the
Pac-10 and Big Ten are sending
three. The SEC and ACC only
have one representative each.
Of the major upsets that hap-
pened so far in the tournament,
none is more talked about than
Ball States victory over Tennes-
see.
Any other season it might
have been considered the great-
est upset of all time, surpassing
top-seed Stanfords loss at home
to Harvard in 1998.
But the Lady Vols were
already sufering through the
worst year in Pat Summitts
career. With all fve starters gone
from the two-time defending
champs and the team being
inconsistent all season, the Lady
Vols were vulnerable to see their
unbelievable streak of making it
to the regional semifnals every
season come to an end.
Now if Connecticut had lost
to Vermont in the opener, that
would have been something.
Yet the UConn express keeps
rolling as the unbeaten Huskies
(35-0) have shown no signs of
weakness routing both Vermont
and Florida in their frst two
games.
As much as everyone focuses
on Connecticut, there are going
to be some great stories coming
out of the tournament, Con-
necticut coach Geno Auriemma
said. The tournament has just
become an unbelievable event
for these kids. There are no
guarantees. We want to get a lot
better this week than we were
this weekend.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. Missouri
and Memphis have much more in
common than a nickname.
Energy, intensity and speed will
be on display in this Tiger vs.
Tiger semifinal at the NCAA West
Regional Thursday night.
You will see
some things that
you marvel at,
Missouri coach
Mike Anderson
said. You will prob-
ably see some things
like Wow, did he do
that?
Anderson needs
everybody to keep up with the
deep, talented Conference USA
champions, and he got a scare
Wednesday when one of his most
relentless players DeMarre Carroll
twisted his left ankle in practice
and limped off the court. Carroll
downplayed the incident.
Trying to make a move and I
tweaked my ankle a little bit, he
said. But at this point, it is the
Sweet Sixteen, Im 100 percent.
Missouri (30-6) and Memphis
(33-3) are right where they were
supposed to wind up after being
tabbed the No. 3 and No. 2 seed in
the region, respectively.
Anderson, a disciple of Nolan
Richardson at Arkansas, coached
the Tigers to the Big 12 tour-
nament championship in just his
third season at Missouri.
And he knows how to beat
Memphis.
The last time Memphis lost a
Conference USA contest to
UAB 62 games ago Anderson
was the opposing coach.
We saw each other in the hall-
way out there and I said It is going
to be another boxing match, I can
just see it coming, John Calipari
said after the teams worked out
at University of Phoenix Stadium.
And he laughed, because we have
had wars.
Missouris Leo Lyons said that
when Anderson first arrived in
Columbia, one of
the first things the
new coach did was
show the video-
tape of that UAB-
Memphis game.
And we watched
that UAB tape,
watched how they
pushed the ball,
Lyons said. I think
we are pretty close to where he
wants us to be. We are still trying
to get better every single day.
Anderson gives Calipari and
Memphis the edge in pure talent,
though.
He has probably
three or four guys
that are going to the
NBA, the Missouri
coach said. I got
some guys that are
hoping they get into
the NBA.
No program has
won more games
since the start of the
2005-06 season than Memphis
137.
Memphis carries a school-
record 27-game winning streak
into Thursdays game, the teams
fourth consecutive appearance in
the round of 16.
Tyreke Evans is the slick fresh-
man at the controls, but the
heart and soul is senior Antonio
Anderson, the Conference USA
defensive player of the year and
the only player in school history
with at least 1,000 career points,
500 rebounds and 500 assists.
While this team has, Calipari
said, developed an identity sep-
arate from the one that nearly
won the NCAA title a year ago,
Anderson is a common denomi-
nator.
He is a guy that comes out
on our team and does everything
on the court, teammate Robert
Dozier said. You dont have to pep
him up, talk to him like We need
you in a game. He has been that
since he has been a freshman.
Anderson is concerned about
rebounding with the athletic talent
of the 6-6 Anderson, 6-9 Dozier
and 6-10 Shawn Taggart.
The Missouri coach remembers
Dozier and Anderson from his
days at UAB.
One of the things they do is
crush people on the
boards, he said.
Their best offense
was to throw it up
there and go get it.
We cant afford to
let that happen.
When told of
Andersons com-
ments, Memphis
Taggart said, he
should be worried
about it (rebounding). But there
are other things he should be wor-
ried about, too.
Missouris J.T. Tiller said that
Memphis controls the game with
its offense.
With us it is more we try to
control the game with our defense,
control the pace with our defense,
Tiller said. I think thats the tale.
It will be our defense against their
offense, and try to keep them off
the glass.
And it all should be played at a
fever pitch.
One of the things I have
always respected about his (Coach
Andersons) teams is they play.
They get after it, Calipari said.
They feel unleashed, and thats
what Im always trying to get my
teams to be. I want them to have
more fun than anybody in this
tournament.
sports 10B thursday, march, 26 2009
mens basketball
Flood threatens Fargo, N.D.
TIM DAHLBERG
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A week ago they were on the
big stage at the Metrodome in
Minneapolis, playing the defending
national champions in a game they
were supposed to have no chance
of winning.
No one from
North Dakota
State believed
that. Neither did
any of the 10,000
fans who drove
down I-94 from
Fargo to cheer
the Bison on in
their first NCAA
t o u r n a me n t
appearance.
My last memory of college
basketball was walking off the
court to their cheers, senior Brett
Winkelman said. Theyve given us
so much over the last few years.
Now the Bison are giving back.
Theyre trying to save their town.
Once again, the odds are against
them.
Snow was falling Wednesday in
Fargo, just more bad news in the
citys fight against the swelling Red
River. The bad weather was ham-
pering efforts to fill a staggering 2
million sandbags to protect the city
amid new projections that the river
would crest at levels never before
seen by the weekend.
Thousands of people from all
walks of life, many of them with
vivid memories of the disastrous
1997 floods, are racing around the
clock to keep the city dry. With
school canceled, students are stack-
ing sandbags, while others are tak-
ing time off from work to do what
they can to help.
Working right alongside them,
shovel for shovel, are coach Saul
Phillips and the Bison basketball
team.
Had a few more bounces
gone their way they might be in
Indianapolis right now, practic-
ing for a third-round game against
Michigan State. Instead theyre
working on something a little more
urgent saving peo-
ples homes.
Its just the way
of life around here,
Winkelman said. Its
obvious that if anyone
needs a helping hand,
they can expect to get
help.
People in Fargo first
began worrying about
a possible flood about
the same time the Bison were elim-
inated by Kansas in the first round,
a game they were in until the final
minutes. The Red River is bloated
from heavy winter snows made
even worse by spring rains, and
has risen some 20 feet in the last
week alone.
The prognosis isnt good, which
makes the sandbagging even more
critical. Every able body is needed,
including the big bodies of the
Bison.
Phillips began calling his play-
ers during the weekend when it
became apparent how bad things
might get. He hoped to have the
entire team working together, fill-
ing and stacking the sandbags.
His players beat him to it. Half
of them were already on the front
lines.
You go from a terrific diver-
sion like the NCAA tournament
to everybody literally walking
down streets asking if anyone
needs help, Phillips said. Its a
really weird dynamic. I dont think
you could find two more opposite
deals.
The team has worked together
the last few days, going house-to-
house near the river to offer help.
Like all volunteers, theyre braving
freezing temperatures and muddy
lawns that quickly give way to size
17 boots.
The people being helped are
not only grateful, but eager to talk
some hoops.
They want to talk about the
Kansas game and how much fun it
was to watch, senior center Lucas
Moormann said.
The basketball players are just
a small part of an army of thou-
sands of volunteers, some from
other towns, who have been work-
ing long hours to protect homes
and businesses along the river that
separates the city from Moorhead,
Minn.
They work in shifts as dump
trucks loaded with sand rumble by
on a continuous loop.
Phillips worked an extra shift,
from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., figuring
that would be a time the city would
be hurting for volunteers. He was
wrong.
I went to the Fargodome to
hop on a bus and the buses were
all jam-packed, the coach said.
There were so many college stu-
dents on them going out to help.
A week ago those students, like
the rest of the town, were ready for
a wild ride in the NCAA tourna-
ment. It didnt happen.
Now, instead of coming together
for a team, theyre coming together
for a town.
If this is our countrys future,
Phillips said, then were in awfully
good shape.
nCaa
Tigers duke it out in Sweet 16
No. 2 Memphis takes on No. 3 Missouri in third round of the tournament
You will see some
things that you
marvel at.
MIkE AnDERSOn
Missouri coach
They feel unleashed,
and thats what Im
always trying to get
my teams to be.
jOhn CAlIPARI
Memphis coach
North Dakota State basketball team works to help save hometown
Its obvious that if
anyone needs a help-
ing hand, they can
expect to get help.
BRETT WInkElMAnn
north Dakota State
basketball player
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