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A school shooting
claimed the lives of fve
and injured sixteen more
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By Alex PArker
aparker@kansan.com
Felix Zacharias instinctively swerves
around potholes when hes driving. The
staccato of exploding fireworks jolts him
when hes not expecting it. Hell look up
for flares calling for an extract. He smokes
cigars to calm his nerves.
Zacharias, Wichita sophomore, knows
hes back in Jayhawk country, not the dan-
gerous Sunni Triangle in Iraq that surrounds
Baghdad, angles north towards Tikrit and
expands west across the Euphrates River
past Ramadi. He knows improvised explo-
sive devises, such as the two that destroyed
Humvees in which he rode, wont explode
in discarded beer cans on the side of the
street. As long as he can see a firework
being lit, memories of combat and the flut-
ter of medic helicopters dont seem to flood
back unexpectedly.
But watching Iraq implode from a
Humvee turret tends to make a man cau-
tious, no matter where he is.
Zacharias, a political science major whose
gap-tooth smile belies his experience, said
he was more relaxed than before he was
deployed to Fallujah, Iraq, in 2006, shortly
after an American offensive reclaimed the
city. He drinks less, probably holds his
tongue a bit more, but that doesnt mean he
wants to talk about it.
When people ask me what I did in Iraq,
I just tell them its hot, Zacharias said. Its
not a subject most students at the University
of Kansas or any other University can
easily relate to.
Dan Parker, McPherson junior, said that
veterans like him and Zacharias are
largely overlooked at the
University.
I would say that vet-
erans are pretty easily the
most underrepresented
special group on cam-
pus, Parker said. Joan
Hahn, assistant registrar,
said there were about 180
veterans enrolled at the
University.
While the University
supplies counseling ser-
vices for all students,
including young veterans of the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan, there are no veteran-
specific services. The Universitys lone staff
member assigned to assisting veterans is
Hahn, but there are no other official advo-
cates on campus.
Her role as a Veterans Administration-
certified official is to assist veterans return-
ing to campus with enrollment, as well
as ensuring that vets receive their educa-
tion benefits. Many vets begin the enroll-
ment process when they are still on active
duty, Hahn said. This can make enrollment
tricky.
If the individual is currently deployed,
they are trying to plan ahead. Youre in a
position where you have limited access to
a computer; then you have limited access
when youre on the computer, she said.
Parker, Hahn and Frank DeSalvo, asso-
ciate vice provost for student success, are
working on a plan to create a University
position for a full-time veterans advocate
who would assist returning soldiers with
questions or issues, a task not in Hahns job
description.
I think it would be very helpful, Hahn
said. I think the system now is not ideal. I
think its better than some. I think its not as
good as others.
In response to the lack of on campus sup-
port, Parker, a Marine who served two tours
in Iraq, founded the Collegiate Veterans
Association in fall 2006 with two other
former Marines. Parker is president of the
group and Zacharias serves as vice presi-
dent.
The KU chapter, which has about 40
members, was the third to emerge in the
country and the first in Kansas. It serves
student soldiers as a way to wade through
issues ranging from University red tape to
the challenge of being older than the major-
ity of students.
Common ExpEriEnCE
Thats a lot of the reason CVA was
actually started, said Parker, a soft-spoken
intelligence specialist who served in north-
ern Iraq and Al Anbar province. The two
guys that I started CVA with, we all kind of
sat down and looked around and were like,
Well, pretty much everyone we hang out
with are veterans. Because you have a shared
experience, a common experience.
He said it was hard to connect with young
undergraduates who had not been to war.
Then you sit down with someone whos
also in the military and just right there,
regardless of what service they were in, you
have a lot in common, Parker said. Nobody
understands a veteran like another veteran.
Zacharias, an infantryman who also
worked as an intelligence specialist, said
CVA was founded for many of the same
reasons as organizations like the Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
He said returning veterans of past wars
had to go through a lot of horrific incidents.
It was very tough for those people coming
back at the time; these
people came back,
they had these experi-
ences that they really
couldnt speak about
so everyone else could
understand.
You dont want to
talk to civilians or peo-
ple who havent been
there about it because
they have no basis for
relating to it, Parker
said.
That can limit the services the University
provides to veterans, and few take advantage
of the resources available on campus, said
Pamela Botts, clinical director for Counseling
and Psychological Services.
Part of the problem is the militarys atti-
tude toward those who need psychological
help, she said.
The militarys been particularly bad
about not appreciating that. There is a stigma
there that soldiers are supposed to suck it up
and go on.
Botts said her staff was sensitive to stu-
dent veterans unique circumstances.
Part of that is understanding the whole
context that the veteran might be dealing
with, she said.
We have relatively limited services here,
so if someone is really struggling with PTSD
(post-traumatic stress disorder) in a way that
is interfering with their functioning, we may
not be the best resource, because we dont
have the resources, Botts said.
While veterans seeking help are often
referred to the Veterans Administration,
many are reluctant to do so, Parker, a politi-
cal science major, said.
As soon as you go to the VA to talk about
PTSD, youll be fitted for a straight jacket,
Parker said. Theres that stigma that Oh,
this guys come back and now hes the crazy
war veteran.
A WAiting gAmE
Parker, who suffered hearing loss due to
explosions in Iraq, said that
he has worked with the VA,
with the help of AMVETS, a
veterans advocacy group, to
assist him in speeding up the
claim process. His experi-
ence is counter to what many
veterans face.
Some veterans who file
claims with the VA wait
months, sometimes years,
to hear the status of their
cases. Time out of service
only worsens this problem,
Parker said, as he explained the difficulties
many veterans face. Complicating the pro-
cess is that many veterans do not file claims
upon discharge. Another problem is that
some traumas, like PTSD, are not apparent
for months or years after soldiers leave the
service.
When veterans seek help at the VA or
through VA clinics at hospitals, they often
have to wait three to five months to even
get in the door, Parker said, calling the
Lawrence clinic wildly overbooked.
Parker said that this could have a detri-
mental effect to people who needed imme-
diate treatment, and that CVA was attempt-
ing to foster communication between CAPS
and a traveling VA squad that was set
up solely to deal with veterans from the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Parker said
the partnership would speed up the claim
process, making
it more efficient
by giving veterans
resources to help
file and monitor
their claims.
Parker said it
was reasonable that
the University was
not prepared to
deal with a lot of
the issues veterans
face.
Its a small-
er population, he said. There are some
instances, I guess, where CAPS could be
useful, but its probably better to refer (vet-
erans) to the VA.
For Zacharias, who displays a photo of
his mangled Humvee on his MySpace page
and conducted about 100 combat missions,
its clear that CVA provides a catharsis for
war veterans that neither CAPS nor the VA
are able to.
Imagine trying to describe that to a
friend of yours who has no idea.
Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
studEnts As vEtErAns
group to unite, assist soldiers
Mindy Ricketts/KANSAN
Dan Parker served as a Marine in Iraq twice and founded the Collegiate Veterans Association after coming to the KU. The
association is an advocacy group that helps veterans navigate University requirements and adjust to college life.
Randal Jelks, the Langston Hughes
visiting professor of American stud-
ies, presents the 2008 Langston Hughes
Lecture on Tuesday at the Dole Center
of Politics.
Jelks, who spent his childhood in New
Orleans, said growing up in the south in
the 1960s inspired him to research and
study the pioneers of the American civil
rights movement.
The student section will be about 300
seats smaller for Saturdays mens basketball
game against Colorado.
Kansas Athletics plans to reserve about
300 seats from the student section for the
more than 200 former players and coaches
and their families returning for the basket-
ball teams 110 year reunion.
The sea of blue has plenty of other
colors floating in it.
The student section at mens bas-
ketball games is wearing more than
the Universitys official crimson and
blue. Other colors finding their way
into the crowd include orange, green
and pink.
CAmpus
Visiting
professor
to talk on
civil rights
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tEAm spirit
Kansas Athletics reserves
seats for Colorado game
Variety of colors fnds its way
into Allen Fieldhouse stands
You dont want to talk to civil-
ians or people who havent been
there about it because they have
no basis for relating to it.
DAN PARKER
McPherson junior
There is a stigma there that
soldiers are supposed to suck it
up and go on.
PAMELA BOTTS
Clinical director for Counseling
and Psychological Services
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Rumplestiltskin, created by
Moses Goldberg, begins at 9:45
a.m. in the William Inge Memo-
rial inside Murphy Hall.
The workshop Lunch &
Conversation: Using Laptops in
the Classroom begins at noon
in 135 Budig Hall.
The workshop SAS Enter-
prise Guide: Point and Click
with SAS will begin at 1:30 p.m.
in the Budig PC Lab.
The workshop Blackboard
Strategies and Tools will begin
at 1:30 p.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
The workshop Curricular
Practical Training and Optional
Practical Training will begin at
3:30 p.m. in Prewster Audito-
rium, 330 Strong Hall.
TGIF will begin at 4 p.m. in
the Kansas Alumni Center.
The concert Royal Scots
Dragoon and the Coldstream
Guards will begin at 7:30 p.m.
in the Lied Center.
The flm The Monster of the
Milky Way: The Black Hole at the
Center of the Galaxy will begin
at 7:30 p.m. in 1001 Malott Hall.
The SUA Feature Film Ameri-
can Gangster will begin at 8
p.m. in Woodruf Auditorium in
the Kansas Union.
SUA Cosmic Bowling will
begin at 10 p.m. at Jaybowl in
the Kansas Union.
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University of Kansas police
reported a M-Box audio mixer, a
fash card reader and an Apple
computer hard drive stolen
Wednesday from Oldfather
Studios, 1621 W. Ninth St.
Someone stole a checkbook
from a Watkins Memorial Health
Center ofce Tuesday, accord-
ing to police reports.
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and Connect onThursday. Were a newstudent-coalition devoted to reaching out to as many students as possible,Oruch said.
daily KU info
February is Black History
Month. The Ofce of Multi-
cultural Afairs is sponsoring
an entire month of programs,
culminating in a big gala in the
Kansas Union on March 1.
Odd News
Couples tie the knot with
burgers, fries and a shake
COLUMBUS, Ohio Three
couples got the Valentines Day
wedding they craved on Thursday,
marrying at a White Castle in the
restaurant chains home city.
The morning ceremony at the
burger joint, which features the
slogan What You Crave, involved
a fower girl who threw salt and
pepper packets instead of rice,
and employee name tags on the
grooms lapels.
The cake resembled a White
Castle tray holding three slyder
burgers, fries and a drink all
made of cake and frosting.
Cyndie Nunamaker of Plain City,
17 miles northwest of Columbus,
said she and new husband Brian
Wilson opted for the alternative
wedding because they love White
Castle.
The nuptials were broadcast live
on a local radio station, which paid
for the fowers and other arrange-
ments.
New York City promotes
safe sex via street team
NEW YORK The ofcial New
York City condom has a diferent
look and a sexy new slogan: New
Yorkers were encouraged to get
some on Valentines Day.
Street teams handed out free
condoms at busy hubs around the
city yesterday, including Times
Square, Wall Street and near City
Hall.
And an ad campaign on televi-
sion, radio and subways and buses
featured the catch phrase.
We want to give away as
many condoms as people will use
because were trying to make New
York City an even safer place to
have sex, and this is a powerful
way to do it, said Monica Sweeney,
the Health Departments assistant
commissioner for HIV prevention
and control.
The free condom initiative is part
of the citys efort to reduce rates of
sexually transmitted diseases and
unplanned pregnancies. About
100,000 of New Yorks 8.2 million
residents have HIV or AIDS, and
many more are diagnosed each year.
The city has made free condoms
available for years, but last year
revamped the package with a
distinct look to encourage usage.
Since then the city has been giving
away 3 million condoms a month
on average, up from 1.5 million a
month before the redesign.
The design introduced last year
was a black wrapper stamped with
the letters NYC CONDOM in the
same font and bright colors used
on city subway maps and signs.
The new design unveiled
Wednesday features the letters
NYC in black, inside three adjoin-
ing white circles.
1700s violin crushed in
backwards fall down stairs
LONDON Can his fractured
fddle a million dollar Guadag-
nini be fxed? Its too early to tell.
David Garrett, a former model
who has been called the David
Beckham of the classical scene, said
he tripped while carrying his 18th
century violin as he was leaving
Londons Barbican Hall after a per-
formance, smashing it to bits.
I had it over my shoulder in its
case, and I fell down a concrete
fight of stairs backward, Garrett
said Thursday. When I opened the
case, much of my G.B. Guadagnini
had been crushed.
Garrett said he bought the 1772
violin for $1 million in 2003, and he
is now hoping to get it repaired in
New York, where he is based.
I hope and pray that it can
be fxed, but if it cant, I hope my
insurance policy will let me buy
another great violin, the 26-year-
old musician said. He told The
Associated Press that other pub-
lished accounts saying the violin
was a Stradivarius were incorrect.
Guadagnini is believed by some
to have been a student of Antonio
Stradivari.
The accident occurred Dec. 27
but only came to light this week
when he returned to London for
another concert at the Barbican
and told British reporters what had
happened.
For his Valentines Day concert
there, he is playing a Stradivarius
thats been loaned to him.
Garrett gained attention as a
child prodigy. Before he was 10,
he played as a soloist with the
London Philharmonic, according
to his Web site. When he studied at
the Juilliard School in New York, he
became a part-time model to help
supplement his income.
Shih Tzu case draws lawsuit
against former Texas mayor
ALICE, Texas The former may-
or of Alice who resigned because of
a custody dispute over a Shih Tzu
named Puddles insists she didnt
steal her neighbors pooch.
In an interview Thursday on
NBCs Today show, ex-mayor
Grace Saenz-Lopez said she had
taken Puddles whom she
renamed Panchito to protect a
dog because she believed he was
being neglected.
I didnt steal the dog. I did not
return him to save his life, said
Saenz-Lopez, who was indicted Jan.
18 on two felony charges related
to the alleged dognapping. As she
spoke, the former mayor cuddled
Puddles/Panchito in her lap.
The dispute began in July when
Puddles original owners, Rudy
Gutierrez and Shelly Cavasos, asked
Saenz-Lopez, their next door neigh-
bor, to take care of him while they
were on vacation. When they called
to check on him, Saenz-Lopez told
them Puddles had died and was
buried in her backyard.
However, three months later, a
relative of the neighbors saw the
pet at a dog groomer. When Saenz-
Lopez refused to return the dog,
the family fled a criminal com-
plaint and a civil lawsuit against
her.
Saenz-Lopez later reported the
dog missing, only to have Puddles/
Panchito turn up at the home of
the mayors twin sister. Saenz-Lo-
pez resigned as mayor on Feb. 1,
after a recall petition was circulated
in the South Texas town of fewer
than 20,000 residents.
Cavasos, who also appeared on
the Today show with Gutierrez
and their attorney, said she left
Puddles with Saenz-Lopez because
I trusted her. I knew he was sick.
I never thought this would happen.
At the time, the dog was sufer-
ing from a severe fea infestation
and a reaction to the chemicals
used to treat him.
Last week, a judge in Alice
declined to give the Gutierrez fam-
ily temporary custody of the dog
pending trial in April, saying they
had not shown the required need
for extraordinary relief.
Third graders questions
rattle NYC mayor
NEW YORK Mayor Michael
Bloomberg faces the notorious
New York City press corps sev-
eral times a week, but nothing
prepared him for the grilling he got
Thursday from a group of third-
graders.
The kids at a public school in
Harlem, where Bloomberg was
holding a news conference down
the hall, disarmed the potential
presidential candidate by sing-
ing Happy Birthday to honor
the billionaire, who turned 66 on
Thursday.
Then they got down to business.
Are you rich? asked one little
boy.
Am I what? I cant hear you,
Bloomberg said.
The boy repeated his question,
and the mayor demurred, pointing
out that he works for just $1 a year.
Then another kid piped up,
wanting to know if Bloomberg lives
in the White House.
I dont live in the White House,
the mayor told the class. I live on
the east side of Manhattan, and
Ive lived there for 20 years in that
house. But Ive lived here since
1966, in New York.
Earlier, when they tried to guess
his age, the roomful of 8 and 9-
year-olds started high, at 107.
They fred more questions: Have
you ever met the president? Yes.
Do you have a million dollars?
I dont have I have a wonder-
ful birthday card, Bloomberg said,
holding up the creation that they
had made for him. And this is really
nice. So, OK, I better get going.
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Thursdays Jayplay article Pub
Sprawl should have said that the
Shenago Lounge was no longer
open. The bar has relocated to
1520 Wakarusa Drive, Suite D, but
has not yet reopened.
POlitics
Bill proposed to raise
age discrimination limit
TOPEKA A House panel
has endorsed a bill eliminating
what some legislators see as a
20-year-old quirk in the state
law against age discrimination.
The law says anyone 18
or older who believes he has
faced on-the-job discrimination
because of his age can fle a
complaint with the Kansas Hu-
man Rights Commission. The bill
would change the age to 40.
The Commerce and Labor
Committees voice vote Thurs-
day sent the measure to the
House for debate.
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When Randal Jelks was seven years
old, the city of New Orleans closed
the community swimming pool near
his boyhood home.
The pools dry, cracked concrete
was Jelks daily reminder of the divid-
ed world he lived in. Jelks skin was
too dark to swim in that pool.
Six years, Jelks said. They didnt
want black kids swimming in the
pool.
Jelks, the Langston Hughes visit-
ing professor of American studies at
the University of Kansas, presents
the 2008 Langston Hughes Lecture.
Jelks lecture which takes place at
5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Robert J.
Dole Institute of Politics centers
on Benjamin Elijah Mays, a prede-
cessor to the American civil rights
movement.
Martin Luther King Jr. said Mays
was one of his spiritual and intellec-
tual mentors, Jelks said.
Mays, who served as president of
Morehouse College, is also the sub-
ject of Jelks second book, Benjamin
Elijah Mays: A Religious Rebel in the
Jim Crow South.
Growing up in the 1960s in a
racially-charged New Orleans, Jelks
said his interest in the American civil
rights and black history started at a
young age.
New Orleans oozed with history,
Jelks said. I would always ask my
grandmother, Well, what was this
like, or what was that like?
Jelks said his childhood also shed
light on some harsh realities.
Schools were segregated. The ele-
mentary school just blocks from his
house was for white children only.
In 1962 and 1963, people were
still protesting so black students
could go to a school where they lived
by, Jelks said.
Jelks childhood in New Orleans
was a cultural mosaic, and he
embraced it.
I saw people from around the
world. I saw people had different
stories to tell, and thats what formed
me, Jelks said.
At age 14, he left New Orleans and
moved to Chicago.
When I got to Chicago, I asked
my mama if it was Christmas, Jelks
said. My mom said, Christmas?
Whats wrong with you? Its August.
People moved so fast in Chicago
they reminded a 14-year-old Jelks of
last-minute Christmas shoppers.
Chicagos crowded streets werent
the only thing Jelks noticed.
It was so intensely ethnically
divided, Jelks said.
He said his time in New Orleans
and Chicago molded his worldview.
Hes about standing up for the
equality of people, William E. Van
Vugt said. Van Vugt is a professor and
the chairman of the department of
history at Calvin
College in Grand
Rapids, Mich.,
a school Jelks
worked at for the
last 15 years.
Van Vugt said
Jelks had a pro-
vocative side.
He was high-
ly visible on cam-
pus, someone
who was never
hesitant to voice
his opinion, Van
Vugt said
A short time after coming to
Kansas, Jelks heard a story about
Langston Hughes the Harlem
Renaissance poet who spent his child-
hood years in Lawrence.
Langston Hughes comes up to the
hill when hes a little kid, Jelks said,
retelling the story. And standing up
on the hill, Hughes said that was the
first time he wanted to travel and
see the world, because he could see
all-around.
Having Langston Hughes name in
his job title does have a special mean-
ing, Jelks said.
He called
Hughes a person
who helped other
people to be cre-
ative in their own
work.
Tell me one
other person who
lived in Lawrence
whos interna-
tionally known,
Jelks said.
Jelks said his
adjustment to a
new University
had so far been enjoyable, even if
he was slowly coming around to
the Universitys sports teams. Right
now, hes still a Michigan Wolverine.
Im in Jayhawk territory, but I still
bleed maize and blue, said Jelks, who
graduated from the University of
Michigan.
Jelks is teaching two American
studies courses this semester: African
American Views of the African
Continent and a graduate seminar
on African American Religion and
American Civil Rights Movement.
Jelks like the subject of his
book, Benjamin Elijah Mays is
an ordained minister. He served a
church in Grand Rapids, Mich., for
seven years before working at Calvin
College.
At the moment, Mays isnt far from
Jelks thoughts.
Everybody talks about a Martin
Luther King Jr. as though he had
no predecessors, Jelks said. Heroes
arent always the big giants, but some
times they are these other people who
are playing these roles of teaching and
instructing.
Edited by Patrick De Oliveira
news 3A friday, february 15, 2008
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Randal Jelks is the Langston Hughes visiting professor of American studies at the University of Kansas. He became interested in black history and the
civil rights movement after growing up surrounded by prejudice. Jelks speaks at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
Langston Hughes Lecture to focus on American civil rights predecessor
Professor discusses history, prejudice
Campus
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OVERLAND PARK State
health officials have ordered a
landfill in south Overland Park to
close by the end of 2010.
The Kansas Department of
Health and Environment issued a
conditional permit that will allow
APAC-Kansas to run the 167th
Street landfill until Dec. 31, 2010.
It must close the landfill after that
and cap it six
months later.
The ruling
closes the land-
fill 10 years
earlier than
APAC original-
ly planned.
The land-
fill has been
the source
of numerous
c o mp l a i n t s
over its rot-
ten-egg smell,
which is caused by the hydrogen
sulfide its emits. State officials said
the landfill is one of only four in
the country with such a significant
hydrogen sulfide problem.
Besides the irritating odor,
hydrogen sulfide can cause head-
aches and breathing problems for
asthma sufferers at low levels and
lead to more extensive health prob-
lems, or even death, from lengthy
exposure to high concentrations.
About 6,000 people live near the
landfill. Software developer Rick
Lucas said he blamed the landfill
for breathing problems plaguing
his family and welcomed the land-
fills closing.
Its the right call, he said of the
conditional permit. I dont think
its realistic for them to shut their
doors tomorrow.
The company must still sign the
conditional permit to make it offi-
cial. If APAC chooses not to accept
the conditional operating terms,
it would have to operate under its
current permit and risk having to
close the plant earlier than 2010, a
state official said.
The state is giving APAC addi-
tional time to operate the landfill so
the company can fill in depressions
on the property that allow storm
water to collect in large pools. Parts
of the landfill now have 10 to 12
feet of water, which state health
officials want reduced to a foot or
less by the end of the year.
The water in the landfill, which
accepts construction and demoli-
tion debris, is mixing with sulphur-
laced drywall
and producing
the toxic gas,
said Kansas
De par t me nt
of Health and
Envi ronment
spokesman Joe
Blubaugh.
W h i l e
APAC has tried
to measure and
control the gas,
the permits key
goal is remov-
ing the water, Blubaugh said.
The shale base of that landfill
just doesnt allow water to escape,
he said. So it becomes, in effect,
like a swimming pool down in
there.
Environmental regulators last
year hinted that they couldnt chal-
lenge the conditional permit, say-
ing they thought the company had
made progress over the last two
years.
But Blubaugh said the agency
has since learned more about the
long-term effects of hydrogen sul-
fide exposure.
Last October, state officials
completed a review of the compa-
nys request to expand the landfill
from 50 to 82 acres. The landfills
original 1986 permit allowed a 50-
acre landfill, but it expanded to 82
acres without a permit.
The conditional permit allows
dumping on 82 acres as officials
said the extra 32 acres are already
covered in garbage and removing
refuse from those areas now could
release additional gas.
BY caRL MaNNING
aSSOcIaTeD pReSS
TOPEKA A western Kansas
utility won a major battle Thursday
in its bid to build two coal-fired
power plants.
The Senate passed a bill allow-
ing Sunflower Electric Power Corp.
to go forward with its plants out-
side Holcomb, in Finney County.
The $3.6 billion project has been
blocked since October by Gov.
Kathleen Sebelius administration
over potential carbon dioxide emis-
sions.
Sebelius has strongly criticized
the Senate bill, which passed 33-7,
six more votes than the two-thirds
majority necessary to override a
veto.
The bill went to the House,
which plans to debate its own mea-
sure early next week. The major
difference in the two bills is that the
House requires utilities to generate
10 percent of their electricity with
renewable resources, such as wind,
by 2010 and 25 percent by 2025.
Earl Watkins Jr., Sunflowers
chief executive officer, watched
from the Senate gallery Thursday.
Clearly we are very pleased
with the fact that this legislation
has taken a major step forward,
Watkins told reporters.
Sebelius spokeswoman Nicole
Corcoran said the bill has a ways to
go before it reaches the governors
desk.
She wasnt fond of the bill as
introduced, and the Senate com-
mittee removed all of the green
features before passing it, so it got
worse, Corcoran said.
Several senators offered reasons
for their votes.
This bill leaves us with a sig-
nificant carbon footprint without
a forward-looking solution, said
Sen. Marci Francisco, a Lawrence
Democrat who voted against the
bill.
Senate President Steve Morris, a
Hugoton Republican, voted for the
bill, saying, This bill takes the first
step toward securing Kansas energy
security.
Some House members argue
that those provisions make their
measure more
balanced ener-
gy policy. Rep.
Tom Sloan, who
serves on the
House Energy
and Utilities
C o mmi t t e e ,
acknowl edged
that a bill must
address the
states power
future needs.
Its got to
address the public concern about
the impact of society on the envi-
ronment, which includes global
warming, said Sloan, a Lawrence
Republican. It does have to be
balanced.
The final version of a single
energy bill is likely to be drafted
by three senators and three House
negotiators.
Both chambers bills limit the
secretary of health and environ-
ments power to reject air-qual-
ity permits for projects such as
Sunflowers. Secretary Rod Bremby
did just that in October, citing
concerns about the estimated 11
million tons of CO2 emissions
expected to come from the two,
700-megawatt plants.
Businesses all across Kansas
have to have the regulatory reform
because its so unstable now you
cant do business, Neufeld said.
We have to do that.
Sebelius strongly objects to
those provisions, saying they would
prevent the secretary from protect-
ing public health and the environ-
ment and encourage utilities that
have had coal-fired plants blocked
in other states to build them in
Kansas.
The Senate bill also would pre-
vent the secretary from imposing
some emissions rules without legis-
lative approval.
Supporters of
the project view
it as economic
development for
western Kansas
and say the state
eventually will
need the power
from the plants.
Opp one nt s
said the envi-
ronmental harm
will more than
offset any economic advantages.
Many scientists have linked CO2
emissions to global warming a
factor Bremby took into consider-
ation when he denied the permits.
His decision upset many legisla-
tors because the state hasnt ever
attempted to control CO2 emis-
sions and has no rules in place.
Watkins called the bill a step to
move Kansas forward to address
the issue of rule of law and regula-
tory certainty.
Excluded from the Senate bill
were proposed limits on CO2 emis-
sions from new power plants and a
$3 per ton tax for excess emissions
for utilities that didnt comply.
Sebelius, environmentalists and
some legislators viewed the rules
as far too weak. Some conservative
legislators objected to any plan to
regulate CO2, and anti-tax groups
criticized what they saw as a tax
increase.
Kansas landfll
ordered to close
Overland Park site source of complaints
Besides the irritating odor,
hydrogen sulfde can cause
headaches and breathing
problems for asthma sufers
at low levels and lead to more
extensive health problems, or
even death.
CONGREss
Senate approves Kansas coal-plant bill
Project viewed as economic boost, environmental hazard
hEalth
Metal found in Valentines Day candy
aSSOcIaTeD pReSS
LAKELAND, Fla. What
appeared to be a metal staple was
found Thursday in a Valentines
Day lollipop at an elementary
school, a day after a woman report-
ed a blade-like piece of metal in
another bag of the same product.
It has been pulled from the shelves
of thousands of stores across the
country.
Roughly 20 lollipops, from a
bag of Pokemon Valentine Cards
and Pops, were seized at Kathleen
Elementary School in Lakeland.
X-rays determined that only one
piece definitely had metal what
appeared to be a staple baked
inside, Polk County Sheriff Grady
Judd said.
On Wednesday, Lisa Potter in
nearby Mulberry told authorities
she found a lollipop with a piece
of metal in it in a bag of the same
product. The metal appeared to be
part of a razor blade, authorities
said.
The Polk County Sheriff s Office
issued a safety advisory and the
Dollar Store chain removed the
product, sold in bags of 10, from its
more than 8,000 stores nationwide.
The Food and Drug Administration
is investigating.
Judd said the two tainted lol-
lipops were purchased from dif-
ferent Dollar General stores near
Lakeland. He said the lollipops did
not appear to be tampered with and
it appeared the metal was baked
into the candy in China, where it
was produced.
No injuries have been reported
and it was unclear whether the
metal was intentionally placed in
the candy.
The sheriff s office said
Sherwood Brands of Maryland,
which imports the candy from
China, was cooperating.
They are as concerned as we
are, Judd said.
Dollar General, headquartered
in Goodlettsville, Tenn., also pulled
another Sherwood Brands product,
Dog Artlist Collection Valentine
Cards and Pops, from shelves. A
store chain spokeswoman, Tawn
Earnest, said no other pieces of
metal have been found in the man-
ufacturers products.
hEalth
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Metal fragments were found in at least two Valentines Day lollipops sold at separate stores in central Florida, authorities saidThursday. Deputies
confscated 18 to 20 lollipops of the same brand froman elementary school late Thursday, but they did not fnd evidence they contained metal
shards.
This bill leaves us with a signif-
cant carbon footprint without a
forward-looking solution.
sen. marci francisco
Lawrence democrat
I saw people from around the
world. I saw people had dif-
ferent stories to tell, and thats
what formed me.
randaL jeLks
Langston Hughes visiting
professor of american studies
NEWS 4A friday, february 15, 2008
By CARyN ROUSSEAU
ASSOCiAtEd PRESS
DEKALB, Ill. A man dressed
in black opened fire with a shot-
gun and two handguns from the
stage of a lecture hall at Northern
Illinois University on Thursday,
killing five students and injuring
16 others before committing sui-
cide, authorties said as of 9:30 p.m.
Thursday.
The gunman fatally shot four
women and a man in a brief, rapid-
fire assault that sent terrified stu-
dents running for cover, university
President John Peters said. Four of
the six total dead died at the scene,
and the other two died at a hospital,
he said.
Witnesses in
the geology class
said someone
dressed in black
came out from
behind a screen
in front of the
classroom and
opened fire with
a shotgun, Peters
said.
Lauren Carr
said she was sit-
ting in the third
row of the lecture hall around 3
p.m. when she saw the shooter walk
through a door on the right-hand
side of the stage, pointing a gun
straight ahead.
I personally Army-crawled half-
way up the aisle, said Carr, a 20-
year-old sophomore. I said I could
get up and run or I could die here.
She said a student in front of her
was bleeding, but he just kept run-
ning.
I heard this girl scream, Run,
hes reloading the gun.
Peters said the gunman was a for-
mer graduate student in sociology at
NIU, but was not currently enrolled
at the 25,000-student campus about
65 miles west of Chicago.
It appears he may have been a
student somewhere else, University
Police Chief Donald Grady said,
adding that police had no apparent
motive.
Seventeen victims were brought
to Kishwaukee Community Hospital
in DeKalb, according to spokes-
woman Theresa Komitas. One died,
two were admitted and three were
discharged; five are being evaluat-
ed and six others were transferred
to other hospitals in critical con-
dition. At least one male died at
OSF St. Anthony Medical Center in
Rockford, an official said.
George Gaynor, a senior geogra-
phy student, who was in Cole Hall
when the shooting happened, told
the student newspaper the Northern
Star that the shooter was a skinny
white guy with
a stocking cap
on.
He described
the scene imme-
diately following
the incident as
terrifying and
chaotic.
Some girl got
hit in the eye,
a guy got hit in
the leg, Gaynor
said outside just
minutes after the shooting occurred.
It was like five minutes before class
ended too.
Witnesses said the young man car-
ried a shotgun and a pistol. Student
Edward Robinson told WLS that the
gunman appeared to target students
in one part of the lecture hall.
It was almost like he knew who
he wanted to shoot, Robinson said.
He knew who and where he wanted
to be firing at.
Jillian Martinez, a freshman from
Carpentersville, told the Chicago
Tribune she was in the auditorium
when the gunman entered through
a door to the right of the lectern
and opened fire about 3 p.m. He
just started shooting at all the kids,
she said. He just started shooting
at people, and I ran out of there as
fast as I could. I ran all the way to
the student center; when I got there
I could still hear shooting (from the
classroom).
Agents with the U.S. Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives were assisting local
authorities at the scene, spokesman
Thomas Ahern told the Chicago
Tribune.
We will be urgently tracing the
firearms and learning the history of
the weapons, Ahern said.
All classes were canceled Thursday
night and the campus was closed
on Friday. Students were urged to
call their parents as soon as pos-
sible and were offered counseling at
any residence hall, according to the
school Web site.
The school was closed for one
day during final exam week in
December after campus police found
threats, including racial slurs and
references to shootings earlier in
the year at Virginia Tech, scrawled
on a bathroom wall in a dormitory.
Police determined after an inves-
tigation that there was no immi-
nent threat and the campus was
reopened. Peters said he knew of no
connection between that incident
and Thursdays attack.
The shooting was the fourth at a
U.S. school within a week.
crime
Man opens fre at Illinois college, kills fve students
Jim Killam/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rescue workers carry an unidentifed victimfromthe scene of a shooting at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., onThursday. A man dressed in black opened fre with a shotgun froma
stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University onThursday before he killed himself, the schools president said.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
An ofcer leads a female fromCole Hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., Thursday. A
man opened fre, killed more than four people, injured several others and then committed suicide.
I personally Army-crawled
half-way up the aisle. I said I
could get up and run or I could
die here.
Lauren carr
northern Illinois student
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK NBC News is
apologizing again this time for
Jane Fonda.
The 70-year-old actress used a
vulgar slang term on the Today
show Thursday while talking about
the play The Vagina Monologues.
Fonda is appearing in a 10th-anni-
versary performance and was on
Today with author Eve Ensler.
Fonda told co-host Meredith
Vieira that she was asked to per-
form a monologue with a slang
term for vagina as the title and
Fonda used the term itself on the air
in explaining why she said no.
About 10 minutes later, Vieira
told viewers that Fonda used a word
from the play that normally isnt
used on television.
It was a slip and obviously she
apologizes and so do we, Vieira
said. We would do nothing to
offend the audience, so please
accept that apology.
Today moved quickly to silence
the word and cover up Fondas face
with a still photo when the show
was aired in the Midwest, Mountain
and West Coast feeds.
Its been a months worth of apol-
ogies for NBC News. MSNBC cor-
respondent David Shuster was sus-
pended for saying the Clintons had
pimped out daughter Chelsea for
presidential campaigning. MSNBC
anchor Chris Matthews said he was
sorry for suggesting that the reason
Hillary Clinton was a presidential
candidate was because of her hus-
bands infidelities.
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10 is the easiest day, 0 the most
challenging.
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Today is an 8
Just when youd almost given
up, you fnd another clue. Youre
of on the quest again, after a
brief respite. Youre at the head
of the pack, with your friends
close behind.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 6
Be careful not to outspend
your income and get yourself
into debt, unless thats your
intention. Things are happening
pretty fast. Follow your plan.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is an 8
Travel conditions are good now.
Get going as soon as you can. Go
to a place where you can shop;
youll fnd some excellent deals.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 5
Pay of an old debt, but not a
penny more than is required. You
may be able to work a deal to
avoid excessive charges. Consult
an expert.
leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
Party conditions are excellent.
What other excuse do you need?
Celebrate love, friendship and
family. Celebrate roses and
chocolate. Celebrate life.
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Today is a 5
Youre very good at following di-
rections when they make sense.
Some you get now may not,
however. Keep asking questions
until youre sure what to do.
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Today is a 10
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fnd better conditions for follow-
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Somebody else wants to tell you
how to run your business. Listen
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Today is a 9
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When my alarm sounds in the
mornings, I wake and slide my
boots on my sheets-softened feet
and walk two inches taller to class.
I return to my sheets where that
extra two inches of confidence
is sloughed off; a time when one
becomes susceptible to the loneli-
ness that comes when naked feet
obtain warmth from sheets and not
other naked feet.
This is the stuff of lonesome
times so easily arising in our hun-
gry, adolescent soul searching, when
we want the comfort of a partner or
miss the presence of a long-distance
lover. Being in a committed rela-
tionship is something that most of
us want to experience in our time
here, and monogamy is something
that has been placed on a pedestal
since the beginning of religiously
sanctioned unions. But now we
must deny the whole idea of find-
ing true love and soul mates and
question if humans truly are inher-
ently monogamous.
David Barash and Judith Eve
Lipton co-wrote the book The
Monogamy Myth: Fidelity and
Infidelity in Animals and People.
They argue, Monogamists are
going against some of the deepest-
seated evolutionary inclinations
with which biology has endowed
most creatures, Homo sapi-
ens included. Through study of
monogamy in the animal kingdom
(which is very rare, according to
Barash and Lipton) and patterns
in which men and women wander
from monogamous relationships,
we are obligated to give attention to
the idea that monogamy is our own
creation, and this is why it concerns
us so greatly.
According to the National Center
for Health Statistics, the last report-
ed divorce rate for a calendar year
is 38 percent in 2005. We are all
aware of this high rate, exempli-
fied in some cases by the genuine
interest and intrigue exhibited when
one says that their parents are still
together. Is this evidence in defense
of the idea that we are not meant
to be monogamous? Hooking
up is not a new term, and author
Laura Sessions Stepp (author of
Unhooked) suggests that women
hook up, or engage in some sort of
non-emotional, sexual act, because
women are increasingly goal-ori-
ented in their professional lives and
believe that a non-committed hook
up would not obstruct their ambi-
tions.
When a good friend of mine, an
insightful English major, was asked
to give a definition of monogamy,
he wrote: monogamy-1) a state of
being, not unlike marriage, result-
ing from idiot religiosity; 2) two lov-
ers lacking imagination, curable by
direct application of grain alcohol at
an office party.
Essentially everyone dreams of
soul mate or perfect match, but
now is the time for us to tell those
standard images of monogamy like
beach weddings and Hawaii honey-
moons to screw off. Thanks to my
spirited friend for personifying my
point, which comes to: monogamy
stems from historically held social
norms that, in the end, create a path
that we end up believing is the only
one to true happiness. Monogamy
is not something built into our
DNA, but rather a convention of
comfort that we turn to because we
all want to be loved, and because it
is so ingrained in us that we cannot
imagine a life of happiness without
a mate.
I believe that monogamous rela-
tionships are successful for people
because they believe in them, and
that they can work for the young
adult who accepts their benefits as
truths. Do not cheapen the impor-
tance of your own happiness by
assuming that you can only find
it only in another pair of arms.
Not all hook-ups must be without
emotion, not all relationships must
imply long-term commitment and
self-sacrifice, and self-love is the
most important variety of love.
I am not encouraging rampant
bed-hopping, but rather for you to
be open to something other than
settling down once you find who
you think is that solitary special
someone. Grab hold of those lonely
thoughts and take them for some-
thing more than nobody loves me
dribble. Love is not just another pair
of feet in your bed, and life can still
be pretty good with all of that extra
mattress space.
Ryan is a Salina junior in art
history.
The WiKUpedia project prides
itself on being an objective infor-
mation source for all things relat-
ed to the University of Kansas. It
has become its own student group,
acknowledged by the University,
complete with three student offi-
cers and a sponsor from the School
of Journalism. Anyone is welcome
and even encouraged to create
new pages or simply edit or add
to existing ones. The creators have
reached out to KUInfo, the Alumni
Association and the student body,
holding an informational session
earlier this week to demonstrate to
people how they can modify and
add to it. It seems to be on the right
track toward being what it claims.
But the origins of the endeavor
seem to reveal its potential for some-
thing more or less than objective.
According to Jarrod Morgenstern,
Jarrod Morgenstern, Overland Park
senior and School of Journalism
senator, one of the founders, the
idea for the Web site came out of a
brainstorming session between him
and four other members of Connect,
a new student political party that
will be running for the first time in
upcoming Student Senate elections.
It was then developed and created by
the members of this group.
The Web site is hosted by the
Connect Web site, essentially as a
subsidiary to that of the political
party, at connectku.com/wiki, and
all of the edits made to the pages
by anyone are reviewed and
deemed necessary or appropriate
by the Web sites six administrators,
three of which are supporters of
Connect. Two offer technical sup-
port, and the last is the president of
the KU Chess Club.
This does not seem like the most
fertile grounds for the seeds of blind,
objective truth.
The founders have made oaths of
discretion, assuring that their work
is entirely apolitical and solely about
the proliferation of information.
And maybe theyre right. Maybe
they want this to be some glorious
and conveniently organized platter
of information for the world about
our Midwestern university, but they
are all seniors. In four months new
leadership will be required, and there
is no guarantee that they will remain
as noble as their predecessors.
For the project to be successful, it
needs to be run by an independent
student organization.
An informational Web site that
relies on factual content from the
impassioned, opinionated and fre-
quently intoxicated students of our
university, nationally known for
wearing its Muck Fizzou T-shirts?
It causes some worry.
This project is just a fraction of
what it will be one, two or even 20
years from now Morgenstern said.
Zach White for the editorial
board
Encyclopedia project deserves objectivism
an informational Web site that relies on factual content from the impas-
sioned, opinionated and frequently intoxicated students of our university.
Max Rinkel
the editorial board
Third-party involvement in WiKUpedia
will encourage accuracy, remove bias
Jordan ryan
annie simmermon
Lyrics degrading
to female listeners
Im gonna bitch-slap my ho,
and you should too.
I think it hit me as I was driving
home from work the other day.
I was mindlessly listening to the
radio when the song Big Pimpin
came on. So here I am singing
along, thinking about getting
home and fixing a lean cuisine,
whenlike a ton of bricksit hits
me that I am completely degrading
myself. I have often dismissed song
lyrics based on a fun beat or just
never taking the time to really lis-
ten, but there are songs out there,
especially in the rap and hip-hop
genre, that endorse the mistreat-
ment and inequality of men to
women. Whether its talking about
how fun it is to be a player or
if your ho act up, put her six feet
deep.
Does nobody else have a prob-
lem with this? I feel like Im taking
crazy pills here (this is a line Ive
been working on. I really think
I might be the next Ludacris.).
Look I dont care how crazy yo
bitch is, you cant kill her, and if
you did, it would mean some seri-
ous jail time...playa.
OK, maybe not Luda. Maybe
more like R.Kelly.
One might say chauvinism has
existed from the beginning of time.
The supposed first story ever writ-
ten claims that women came from
men and are therefore innately less
superior. However, such ideas have
been progressively suppressed
since the womens right move-
ment, so Im wondering when it
became cool to be a bigot and how
society has let it come this far.
These artists and their ideals
are glorified by the media, which
allows people to feel justified in
their own mistreatment of others.
Some men think its cool to spread
their seed all over the town,
because thats what they hear
on the radio and the TV. We are
not animals living in some primi-
tive world. We are rational beings
capable of respect and meaningful
relationships. By demoralizing our
set standards as higher-thinking
beings, we are slowly sending our-
selves back into the Stone Age.
I dont mean to sound like Will
Smith, but its gotten a little out
of control, when lyrics that talk
about raping and killing women
are considered the new hot thing.
We have to sit back and ask our-
selves, what kind of society are we
becoming?
Art is an expression, true, but
when the emotions being sparked
by that form of expression are
causing more harm than good, its
time to take some responsibility
for the principles we supposedly
hold. I really feel, however, that
this argument is hopeless, lyrics
are going to keep degrading and
objectifying women, artists are
going to continue to make mil-
lions of dollars off of them and
women are going to keep grinding
their booties on the dance floor to
them. Everybodys going to give
up their integrity and get VDs, and
the worlds going to continue to
turn like it always has.
Simmermon is a Leawood
senior in journalism.
Conventional relationships
leave students wanting more
Experts question monogamy, say it contradicts human nature
My girlfriend made me cookies
and gave me an awesome card for
Valentine's Day. Somehow that
means more to me than some
sweet present. +1 for her.
n n n
I got my go go go go go go go
go go go go gadget fow.
n n n
Try sitting at the table next to
the British chick. I wanted to take
my life with fre.
n n n
To the girl in the white tank top
at E's last night, why tease every-
one like that?
n n n
OK, just because you have a Brit-
ish accent doesn't mean you can
talk as loudly as you want in The
Underground. I'm across the room,
and I can still hear you every day!
n n n
KU, your improved Web site
pleases me immensely. It was
about time.
n n n
I think for most people this is
National Masturbate While Your
Friends Are Out On Dates Day.
n n n
I did not realize that there were
so many fne ladies in Physics 211.
n n n
To the person who enjoyed his
or her physics test because of all the
fne ladies, shouldnt you have been
keeping your eyes on your test?
Even if you were just looking at the
ladies, its not like the answers are
on them.
n n n
Ill be spending Valentines Day
camping for basketball: my one and
only love.
n n n
Hawks basketball is breakin this
alums heart. Im ready to walk out
of this relationship because it aint
goin nowhere, baby.
n n n
I just had a fve-minute Valen-
tines date with my left and right
hand.
n n n
I love Bill Self and all, but he cant
always blame it on the players.
n n n
To everyone out there: I would
like to wish you a happy Singles
Awareness Day!
n n n
Ive heard it called Valentines
Day, something about Singles Day,
and something about Masturba-
tion Day. I think I like the latter. Not
so much because I m single, but
because getting a greeting card for
such a day would really make that
day special.
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Arizona Sen. John McCain is still
trying to prove that he's conservative
enough to deserve the nomination.
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NEWS 8A Friday, February 15, 2008
MIDDLE EAST
Hezbollahs leader declares open war on Israel
By SCHEHEREZADE
FARAMARZI
Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon Israel
ordered its embassies on high alert
and the FBI put U.S. terror squads
on guard to protect Jewish institu-
tions after Hezbollahs leader vowed
Thursday to retaliate anywhere in
the world for the assassination of
one of its top commanders.
Zionists, if you want this kind
of open war, let the whole world
listen: Let this war be open,
Hassan Nasrallah told a throng of
fist-waving mourners who attend-
ed the funeral of Imad Mugniyeh,
the mastermind of terror spec-
taculars that claimed hundreds of
American lives.
Thousands of black-clad mourn-
ers raised their fists in the air, chant-
ing, At your orders, Nasrallah
in response to Nasrallah, who
appeared via video. He has been
in hiding since the 2006 Israel-
Hezbollah war in Lebanon.
Nasrallahs fiery speech signaled
the Iranian-backed Shiite group
was ending a years-long policy
of battling Israel only on Israeli
or Lebanese territory, raising the
specter of attacks in Western or
other coun-
tries.
Hezbol l ah
and i t s
Iranian back-
ers blamed
Israel for
Mughni yehs
death in a
car bombing
Tuesday in
Damascus, the
Syrian capital.
Israel denied involvement.
Unlike Middle Eastern leaders
who have indulged in exaggerated
rhetoric, Nasrallah is known for
acting on his threats.
Fearing revenge attacks after
Mughniyehs assassination, Israel
ordered its military and embassies
overseas on high alert yesterday
and recommended Jewish institu-
tions worldwide do the same.
In Washington, the FBI put its
domestic terror squads on alert
for any threats against synagogues
or Jewish centers in the United
States.
The events
i n Bei r ut
raised fears that
Lebanons inter-
nal turmoil could
worsen. Earlier
in the day, tens
of thousands of
Hezbollahs pro-
Western political
opponents filled a
downtown Beirut
square to mark the anniversary
of former Prime Minister Rafik
Hariris 2005 assassination.
Fearing clashes, authorities
deployed thousands of troops. The
two mass gatherings ended with
a few fights involving fists, sticks
and knives between government
supporters and opponents that left
at least four injured.
Officially, the Israeli govern-
ment denied involvement, but
speaking privately, Israeli military
officials were more vague, refusing
to confirm or deny involvement.
Israel has reacted with similar
ambiguity after past assassinations
widely believed to be the work of
its spy agency, the Mossad. The
officials spoke on condition of
anonymity because of the sensitiv-
ity of the matter.
Some experts suggested that
Hezbollah could count on Iran
for help on any attacks against
Israeli targets. The only aspect
that is uncertain about Hezbollahs
retaliation is its timing and loca-
tion. Its happening and lethality
are almost certain, said Bilal Saab,
a Middle East security researcher
at the Brookings Institution.
The funeral hall in the Roueiss
neighborhood of south Beirut was
packed with mourners in front of
Mughniyehs coffin, draped in a
Hezbollah flag. Two giant post-
ers of the bearded
militant leader in
a cap and mili-
tary fatigues were
hung behind
the coffin, with
a banner read-
ing, The Great
C o m m a n d e r
Mar t yr
Haj j Imad
Mu g h n i y e h .
Some mourners
cried as a band
played Lebanons national anthem
and the guerrilla groups anthem.
Outside in the rain, tens of thou-
sands massed.
Nasrallah warned Israel that its
alleged killing of Mughniyeh was
a very big folly which will be
avenged.
Mughniyehs blood will lead to
the elimination of Israel. These
words are not an emotional reac-
tion, he said.
Iranian Foreign Minister
Manouchehr Mottaki, who attend-
ed the funeral, offered condolenc-
es to the family and Mughniyehs
associates. Underlining Irans close
ties to Hezbollah, he sat between
Mughniyehs father and Hezbollahs
deputy leader.
Hes not the first martyr, nor
will he be the last on this path,
Mottaki said, reading a statement
from Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad. There will be
h u n d r e d s
and millions
more like
him.
The coffin
was then car-
ried through
the crowds
of mourners,
who marched
with it to a
nearby cem-
etery, pray-
ing aloud, as
some chanted Death to Israel
and Death to America.
Mughniyehs killing exacerbated
tensions at a time when Lebanon
is already entrenched in a long-
running political crisis between
the Hezbollah-led opposition
and the U.S.-backed govern-
ment. Government backers accuse
Hezbollah of seeking to restore
Syrian domination of the coun-
try, while the opposition says the
government is putting Lebanon
in the hands of the United States
and Israel.
Earlier in the day, tens of thou-
sands gathered in the main Martyrs
Square of downtown Beirut to
commemorate the third anniver-
sary of Hariris assassination. The
anti-Syrian rally appeared larger
than the crowds at Mughniyehs
funeral, but it had been planned
weeks in advance.
Waving Lebanese flags and car-
rying pictures of the slain leader,
crowds paid respects at Hariris
grave site as his brother, Shafik,
unveiled a statue of Hariri at the
spot where he was killed. The
sound of beating drums mixed
with cheers from the crowd as
speakers lashed out at the opposi-
tion.
Saad Hariri, the late premiers
son, launched a scathing attack
against the Syrian government. But
he spared Hezbollah, apparently in
deference to the funeral, and even
reached out to the opposition, say-
ing: Our hand will remain extend-
ed no matter what difficulties and
conspiracies there are.
When Saad Hariri alluded to
Mughniyehs funeral, the crowd
booed.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hezbollah fghters honor-guard the cofn during the funeral of top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh, his picture in the background, at the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, onThursday. Hezbollahs chief vowed to retaliate against Israeli targets abroad after accusing Israel of taking the fght
beyond Lebanese borders by assassinating militant commander Imad Mughniyeh in Syria.
WEATHER
Winter storm aficts Northeast region
By JESSICA M. PASKO
ASSOCIAtED PRESS
ALBANY, N.Y. A powerful
winter storm spread more than a
half-foot of snow across parts of the
Northeast on Wednesday, closing
hundreds of schools and switching
off the lights for thousands of homes
and businesses.
The Maine Legislature called off
its session for the day and federal
agencies opened two hours late in
Washington. The Armys Fort Drum
in northern New York state canceled
all outdoor physical fitness training.
The National Weather Service
reported 10 inches of snow in Maine
at Auburn and Lisbon Falls, 8.5
inches at Fitchburg, Mass., and 3 to
5 inches in eastern New York state,
where ice was up to a half-inch
thick. Winter storm warnings were
in effect for much of New England
and northern New York state, along
with flood warnings in wide areas
as heavy rain combined with melt-
ing snow.
Combined snow and sleet accu-
mulations could reach a foot in parts
of northern New York, the weather
service said.
The storm system had been
blamed for at least 15 deaths since
Monday.
The storm pummeled much of
the Ohio Valley
with ice and
snow on Tuesday
as it followed
a northeasterly
track toward
New England.
Precipitation in
New England
started as snow,
changed over to
sleet and freez-
ing rain, and
was expected to
change completely to rain during
the day. Farther south, rain soaked
the Eastern Seaboard from North
Carolina to the New York metro-
politan area.
I guess we wouldnt be here (the
Northeast) if it bothered us, Peter
Rossi said as he had breakfast in
Albany, N.Y. The big deal with the
weather like this is the other guy you
have to watch out for on the roads.
Everyones got a different driving
style.
Thousands of customers were
without power in New Jersey,
New Yorks
Hudson Valley,
Conne c t i c ut ,
Virginia, West
Virginia, Maine
and Maryland.
More than
10,000 cus-
tomers still
had no power
We d n e s d a y
in southwest
Missouri, where
the ice struck on
Monday.
This snow may be heavy and
sticky, and after the changeover
there could be significant icing in
some areas this kind of weather
can be hard on our system, said
Central Maine Power Co. spokes-
man John Carroll.
Many flights in and out of Portland
International Jetport were canceled
Wednesday morning, and bus ser-
vices reported cancellations and
delays. Philadelphia International
Airport reported numerous cancel-
ations and delays, and ice and freez-
ing rain shut down Connecticuts
Bradley International Airport at
Hartford for nearly five hours dur-
ing the morning.
Weather-related delays averaged
nearly five hours during the morn-
ing at the New York areas La Guardia
Airport and nearly three hours at
Newark International Airport, said
Arlene Salac-Murray, a spokes-
woman for the Federal Aviation
Administration.
Three buildings collapsed under
the weight of the wet snow in New
Hampshire, but no injuries were
reported.
Forecasters at the National
Weather Service issued a flood warn-
ing Wednesday for parts of Rhode
Island, as heavy rainfall caused the
Pawtuxet River to suddenly rise
along its lower reaches.
Hezbollah has a long record
of carrying out violent acts and
acts of terrorism around the
globe.
seAn mccormAck
state Department spokesman
The big deal with the weather
like this is the other guy you
have to watch out for on the
roads.
PeTer rossI
new York resident
Zionists, if you want this kind of
open war, let the whole world
listen: Let this war be open.
nAssAn nAsrAllAh
hezbollah leader
BY MIKE STOBBE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA At least 82 youths
have died from the so-called chok-
ing game, according to the first gov-
ernment count of fatalities from the
tragic fad.
In the game, children use dog
leashes or bungee cords wrapped
around their necks or other means
to temporarily cut blood flow to
their head. The goal is a dreamlike,
floating-in-space feeling when blood
rushes back into the brain.
As many as 20 percent of teens
and preteens play the game, some-
times in groups, according to esti-
mates based on a few local studies.
But nearly all the deaths were youths
who played alone, according to the
count compiled by the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC started the research
after receiving a letter last year from
a Tacoma, Wash., physician who said
her 13-year-old son died from play-
ing the game in 2005.
At the time I had never heard
of this, said Patricia Russell, whose
son was found hanging in his closet,
but later learned he had talked to a
friend about it.
One thing that really needs to
happen and is starting to hap-
pen now is to get more informa-
tion about how common this is,
she said.
The CDC counted cases from
news reports and advocacy organi-
zations in the years 1995 through
2007, totaling 82 fatalities of children
ages 6 to 19. They did not include
deaths in which it was unclear if the
death was from the choking game or
if it was a suicide. They also did not
include deaths that involved auto-
erotic asphyxiation, which is self-
strangulation during masturbation
and is said to be mainly done by
teenage boys or men.
The 82 deaths were spread across
31 states. Nearly 90 percent were
boys, at an average age of about 13,
the CDC found.
Three or fewer deaths were
reported from 1995 through 2004.
They jumped to 22 in 2005, 35 in
2006 and at least nine in 2007. Its
not clear what drove the increase in
recent years, investigators said.
The report is being published this
week in a CDC
pu b l i c a t i on,
Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly
Report.
CDC officials
urged parents
to be aware the
fad exists, and to
watch for pos-
sible warning
signs like blood-
shot eyes, marks
on the neck, fre-
quent and severe
h e a d a c h e s ,
disorientation after spending time
alone, and ropes, scarves or belts tied
to bedroom furniture or doorknobs
or found knotted on the floor.
The authors acknowledged that
82 is probably an undercount. They
could not rely on death certificates,
which do not differentiate choking-
game deaths from other uninten-
tional strangulation deaths. Instead,
they relied mainly on a news data-
base that is large but doesnt include
all media out-
lets.
Its likely that
there are about
100 U.S. chok-
ing game deaths
each year,
said Dr. Tom
Andrew, New
Ha mps hi r es
chief medical
examiner, who
has been study-
ing the phe-
nomenon for
several years.
Andrew said many coroners and
medical examiners likely label the
deaths as suicides because they dont
have the time or resources to inter-
view a victims friends and look for
alternate explanations.
Many of the children who
died from the choking game were
described as bright, athletic students
who apparently were intrigued by a
method of getting high that doesnt
involve drugs or alcohol, he said.
They watch it on YouTube, or
hear about it in school or at summer
camp, said Sharron Grant, a woman
who founded an advocacy group
called Games Adolescents Shouldnt
Play (GASP).
Choking game fatalities are not
nearly as common as suicide deaths
among youths who choose hanging
or suffocation. About 5,100 such
suicide deaths were reported from
1995 through 2007, and while its
possible some were unrecognized
choking game deaths, most were
believed to be actual suicides, said
Robin Toblin, a CDC epidemiolo-
gist.
Variations of the game have been
around for decades, but the trend of
doing it alone seems to be recent,
Andrew said.
news 9A friday, february 15, 2008
Business
Yahoo considers two media mergers
CDC reveals statistics about choking game
HealtH
BY MICHAEL LIEDTKE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo
Inc. hopes media conglomerate
News Corp. can rescue it from a
Microsoft Corp. takeover or at
least prove the slumping Internet
pioneer is worth more money than
its unsolicited
suitor wants to
pay.
A News
Corp. part-
nership could
provide Yahoo
with the escape
hatch that the
S u n n y v a l e -
based company
has been seeking
since Microsoft
pounced with its
takeover bid two weeks ago.
If nothing else, the possibility of
Yahoo joining forces with one of
the worlds largest media empires
could prompt Microsoft to sweeten
its bid, which was originally valued
at $44.6 billion, or $31 per share.
Yahoo is
thought to want
at least $40 per
share, or about
$56 billion.
The details
of the proposed
News Corp. alli-
ance were still
being worked
out Wednesday,
according to a
person familiar
with the situa-
tion. The person
didnt want to be identified because
the talks are considered confiden-
tial.
Most analysts believe Microsoft
will do whatever is necessary to buy
Yahoo because the worlds largest
software maker views the acquisi-
tion as the best way to counter-
act Google Inc.s dominance of the
online search and ad markets a
battleground that is rapidly reshap-
ing the technology and media
industries.
Buying Yahoo makes tremen-
dous sense for Microsoft, more
sense than any other company in
the world, said Ken Marlin, a New
York investment banker specializ-
ing in media and technology deals.
Both The Wall Street Journal
and a prominent blog, TechCrunch,
reported that News Corp. is inter-
ested in folding its popular online
social network, MySpace.com, and
other Internet assets into Yahoo
an idea that first came up last
year. News Corp. owns The Wall
Street Journal.
News Corp. and a private equity
firm reportedly would buy signifi-
cant stakes in Yahoo as part of a
complex deal designed to push the
Sunnyvale-based companys market
value toward $50 billion.
A Yahoo spokesman said the
company con-
tinues to care-
fully and thor-
oughly evalu-
ate alternatives
that will enrich
its long-term
s har ehol der s .
Yahoos board
reportedly is
to meet again
Thursday or
Friday to con-
sider the com-
panys next move.
News Corp. spokeswoman Teri
Everett declined to comment on the
Yahoo talks.
Yahoo shares climbed 31 cents to
$29.88 Wednesday while Microsoft
shares gained 62 cents to $28.96.
News Corp.
shares slipped
10 cents to fin-
ish at $19.93.
Based on
Microsofts cur-
rent market
value, its cash-
and-stock bid
for Yahoo now
stands at $29.50
per share, or
about $41 bil-
lion.
Yahoo reject-
ed Microsofts offer Monday, saying
it substantially undervalues assets
that include one of the Internets
biggest audiences and best-known
brands.
Microsoft has held firm so far,
calling its original bid full and
fair while threatening to launch a
hostile takeover attempt.
Whats unclear now is whether
Yahoo is just trying to get a high-
er offer or if the company really
doesnt want to sell to Microsoft,
said Peter Falvey, a technology
investment banker with Revolution
Partners.
Although News Corp. Chairman
Rupert Murdoch unequivocally
said during a conference call last
week that his New York-based com-
pany isnt interested in an outright
acquisition of Yahoo, he didnt rule
out the possibility of a deal involv-
ing MySpace.
When asked whether he might
renew the previous discussions
with Yahoo about a MySpace alli-
ance, Murdoch replied: I think
that day has passed, but you never
know.
A News Corp.
stake in Yahoo
might hinge on
whether the two
sides can agree
on how much
MySpace is
worth.
News Corp.,
which also owns
the Fox television and movie stu-
dios in addition to its newspaper
and Internet holdings, bought
MySpace for $580 million in 2005.
But the social networks value has
soared as its audience has swelled
above 100 million users, creating a
potential advertising gold mine.
Ironically, Murdoch and his
lieutenants can point to a recent
Microsoft deal to make a case that
MySpace is worth more than $15
billion.
Facebook Inc., which owns the
Internets second largest social net-
work behind MySpace, now argu-
ably has a $15 billion market value,
based on Microsofts purchase late
last year of a 1.6 percent stake for
$240 million.
Despite its popularity, MySpace
hasnt established itself as an effec-
tive advertising
vehicle. Google
last month
cited lackluster
returns from its
ad partnerships
with MySpace
and other social
networks as one
of its few disap-
pointments during the fourth quar-
ter.
Besides talking with News Corp.,
Yahoo also reportedly has explored
an advertising partnership with
Google, its biggest rival. Although
Google probably could help elevate
Yahoos drooping profits, the alli-
ance would likely face antitrust hur-
dles because the companies operate
the Webs two biggest ad networks
and eliminating one would reduce
competition.
Reports of a possible merger with
Time Warner Inc.s AOL appear to
be more rumor than fact, said the
person familiar with News Corp.
negotiations.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rupert Murdoch, who controls global media conglomerate News Corp., spoke at a news confer-
ence in NewYork on Oct. 20, 2006. Yahoo Inc. hopes News Corp. can rescue it froma Microsoft Corp.
takeover onWednesday, or at least prove the slumping Internet pioneer is worth more money than
its unsolicited suitor wants to pay.
Buying Yahoo makes tremen-
dous sense for Microsoft, more
sense than any other company
in the world.
Ken marlin
new York investment banker
Whats unclear now is whether
Yahoo is just trying to get a
higher ofer or if the company
really doesnt want to sell to
Microsoft.
Peter falveY
technology investment banker
I think that day has passed, but
you never know.
ruPert murdoch
news corp. chairman
HealtH
Katrina trailers
deemed unsafe
BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS U.S. health
officials are urging that Gulf Coast
hurricane victims be moved out
of their government-issued trailers
as quickly as possible after tests
found toxic levels of formaldehyde
fumes.
Fumes from 519 trailer and
mobile homes in Louisiana and
Mississippi were on average
about five times what people are
exposed to in most modern homes,
according to the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
In some trailers, the levels were
nearly 40 times customary expo-
sure levels, raising fears that resi-
dents could contract respiratory
problems.
The Federal Emergency
Management Agency which sup-
plied the trailers should move
people out quickly, with priority
given to families with children,
elderly people or anyone with asth-
ma or other chronic conditions,
said Mike McGeehin, director of
a CDC division that focuses on
environmental hazards.
We do not want people exposed
to this for very much longer,
McGeehin said.
In New Orleans, Jim Herring,
63, who recently moved back into
his partially renovated house in
the badly flooded Lakeview neigh-
borhood, said he wasnt surprised
about the finding.
The workmanship is pathetic,
said Herring, a retiree who worked
for 25 years in a chemical plant.
Herring and his wife, Susan,
decided not to stay in their trailer,
which they received in April 2007.
Both Herrings are smokers, but
Jim Herring said he did not have a
cough until they moved into it.
Lets face it, these things were
not meant to be lived in for a year,
Susan Herring said.
FEMA spokesmen said more
than 35,000 of the trailers and
mobile homes are still occupied
in Louisiana and Mississippi more
than two years after Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita laid waste to much
of the two states coastlines.
With housing still in short supply
80 percent of New Orleans was
flooded and the pace of rebuilding
has been slow many were unsure
of their next move.
I got nowhere else to go, said
75-year-old Ernest Penns, whose
FEMA trailer is his only shelter.
FEMA spokesman James
McIntyre said the agency would be
releasing its response to the CDCs
findings during a news confer-
ence in Louisiana later Thursday.
Meanwhile, he said the agency
would proceed with its plan to dis-
tribute mobile homes to victims of
last weeks tornadoes in Arkansas
and Tennessee.
There will be processes put in
place to ensure safety, McIntyre
said.
While there are no federal safety
standard for formaldehyde fumes
in homes, the levels found in the
trailers are high enough to cause
burning eyes and breathing prob-
lems for people who have asthma
or sensitivity to air pollutants, said
McGeehin.
CDC officials said the study
did not prove people became sick
from the fumes, but merely took
a snapshot reading of fume lev-
els. Only formaldehyde was tested,
they added.
FEMA provided about 120,000
travel trailers to victims of the
2005 hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
In 2006, some occupants began
reporting headaches and nose-
bleeds.
The complaints were linked to
formaldehyde, a colorless gas with
a pungent smell used in the pro-
duction of plywood and resins.
Commonly used in manufac-
tured homes, formaldehyde can
cause respiratory problems and
has been classified as a carcino-
gen by the International Agency
for Research on Cancer and as a
probable carcinogen by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.
Last May, FEMA officials dis-
missed findings by environmental-
ists that the trailers posed serious
health risks. They said the trailers
conformed to industry standards.
By August, about 1,000 fami-
lies in Louisiana asked FEMA to
move them to other quarters. In
November, lawyers for a group of
hurricane victims asked a federal
judge to order FEMA to test for
hazardous fumes.
The CDC, working with FEMA,
hired a contractor. The firm
Bureau Veritas North America
tested air samples from 358 travel
trailers, 82 park model trailers and
79 mobile homes.
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RELIGION
Omaha council rejects
street honoring atheist
omaha, neb. citing com-
munity opposition, the city council
unanimously rejected a request to
erect a commemorative street sign
for noted atheist madalyn murray
ohair.
the only person to speak in sup-
port of the proposal was the man
who proposed it atheist ray-
mond Zbylut, who said the gesture
would honor the civil rights work
of murray ohair, who was not from
omaha.
council members voted 6-0 to
deny the request without discuss-
ing it. councilman Garry Gernandt
said afterward that nearly 200
constituents contacted him oppos-
ing the sign.
most people in omaha believe
in God, and naming a street after
this individual didnt match the
community, councilman Jim vokal
said.
murray ohair, who fled a law-
suit that ultimately led the courts
to bar organized prayer in public
schools, disappeared in 1995. a
former employee was convicted in
her murder.
BY LUKE MORRIS
lmorris@kansan.com
Crimson and blue. And green and
pink? Some unfamiliar shirt colors
have leeched their way into the stands
at Kansas basketball games.
The sea of blue in Allen Fieldhouse
evolved into a vast ocean of col-
ors. Some fans are annoyed by the
decreasing uniformity in shirt color
at games.
Why do people wear green shirts?
I just dont understand, Megan
Lemon, Smithville, Mo., junior and
member of the Student Alumni
Association, said.
The green shirts Lemon refers
to have the phrase Rock Chalk
Shamrock printed on them. The
shirt celebrates St. Patricks Day.
Various stores on campus and around
Lawrence sell shirts in colors such as
pink, yellow and green. Orange shirts
also began to sell after the Jayhawks
were selected to play in the 2008
Orange Bowl.
Kansas associate athletics director
Jim Marchiony said that in the past
few years, he felt that student fans
became better at wearing blue to the
games. He also said that students
seemed to do a better job with stick-
ing to blue than most other fans.
Christina Steger, manager at
Tarheel Bookstore in Chapel Hill,
N.C., the bookstore of the University
of North Carolina, said non-Tarheel
colored shirts didnt sell very well.
We have a few off-color shirts, but
theyre not that popular, Steger said.
People tend to wear more Carolina
blue.
North Carolinas university colors
are white and Carolina blue, a light
blue.
At some other universities, groups
regulate the shirt colors in their stu-
dent sections. At Michigan State
University, students who want to sit
in the Izzone, the universitys bas-
ketball student section, must wear
white.
Students have to sign a contract
saying theyll wear white to the games
before they can get their tickets to the
Izzone, Michelle Berry, a junior at
Michigan State and co-director of the
Izzone said.
Berry said that Michigan State
shirts that didnt use the universitys
colors, green and white, werent very
popular on the campus.
Carolina Fury, a group that makes
up most of North Carolinas student
section, has a similar program that
asks students to wear the universi-
tys colors at basketball games and
other athletic events. The group uses
a point system to determine who sits
in the lower bowl of the arena. If fans
dont wear the universitys colors, they
forfeit their points.
Allison Berg, marketing specialist
for University of Illinois Athletics,
said that more than 90 percent of
Illinois fans wore orange to every
home basketball game without any
enforcement of uniformity.
We dont require anyone to wear
orange, but they choose to, Berg
said. But weve developed a culture
throughout the years with our fans
with a combination of promotions and
other things the athletic department
has done to push the orange color.
Erik Benz, University of Illinois
senior and president of the Orange
Krush, an organization that makes up
most of the Illinois student fanbase,
said that the Orange Krush didnt put
a rule on shirt color because it felt like
the rule would limit creativity.
We dont want people to feel like
theyre not free to express themselves
as fans, Benz said. But its part of
the culture here anymore. Were
known for our sea of orange, so most
everyone comes to the game wearing
orange.
Marchiony said that although the
University didnt enforce wearing
blue shirts, it took steps to encourage
all Jayhawk fans to wear blue.
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NEWS 10A Friday, February 15, 2008
team spirit
Fans debate game day shirt color
Jessie Fetterling/KANSAN
Sean McDonald, Shawnee senior, and Maggie Long and Jennifer Schmidt, Overland Park seniors , applaud the halftime showat the Kansas
vs. Baylor game Saturday night at Allen Fieldhouse. Many students wear blue to the games, but some still wear crimson to support the Jayhawks.
athletics department
Basketball alumni
obtain reserved seats
Bryan Marvin/KANSAN
The pink portion shows seats reserved for former University athletes during tomorrows game
against Colorado. The alumni will include two former Olympic champions.
BY LUKE MORRIS
lmorris@kansan.com
Basketball fans may have a tough
time finding seats for Saturdays
game against Colorado.
Kansas Athletics plans to save
about 300 seats in the student sec-
tion for former Kansas basketball
players, coaches and their families.
The former players return for
the celebration of 110 years of
Kansas basketball. Associate ath-
letics director Jim Marchiony said
that Kansas Athletics holds an
anniversary ceremony every five
years.
Seats are reserved near the court
on the south side of the student
section. The athletic department
saved about 50 seats in that area
Saturday against Baylor for induct-
ees in the University of Kansas
Athletics Hall of Fame.
Erryn Kindle, Eudora freshman,
said he didnt like the idea of tak-
ing seats away from the student
section.
Thats total crap, Kindle said.
The student section is for stu-
dents. Weve already paid for them,
and weve been camping for them.
But not every student spectator is
frustrated by Kansas Athletics tak-
ing the seats. Johana Bravo, Lima,
Peru sophomore, said it bothered
her that the athletic department
was reducing the number of stu-
dent seats, but she trusted that it
was for a good reason. She only
wished that the former players and
coaches would be seated higher
up.
Marchiony said that he and
other Kansas Athletics represen-
tatives discussed the reservations
with basketball campers Feb. 4.
We wanted to make sure
they would know that there were
going to be seats down low on the
south end that would be taken,
Marchiony said.
He also said that the depart-
ment would remind fans about the
reservations the day of the game.
Well put a sign up to encour-
age campers to fill up the north
end first so we can save seats on the
south end for these former play-
ers, Marchiony said.
A variety of Jayhawks return to
Allen Fieldhouse for the anniver-
sary celebration. Those who attend
reach as far back as the Phog
Allen coaching era, which ended
in 1956. Bill Hougland and Clyde
Lovellette, members of the 1952
national championship team, plan
to attend. Other Jayhawks planning
to attend include Darnell Valentine
(1978-81), Ryan Robertson (1995
99) and Wayne Simien (2001-05).
The anniversary celebration
includes recognition of those in
attendance at halftime and a 20-
year anniversary celebration of
the basketball teams 1988 nation-
al championship. The returning
Jayhawks attend a pre-game brunch
and a post-game banquet.
Tip-off for Saturdays game
against Colorado is scheduled for
12:45 p.m.
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Bill to allow immediate
drug, alcohol testing
TOPEKA People involved in
serious or fatal vehicle accidents
could be tested immediately for
drugs and alcohol under a bill
passed by the House.
The 117-5 vote Thursday sends
the bill to the Senate.
Supporters of the bill say re-
quiring immediate testing in such
cases could mean law enforce-
ment ofcers dont lose valuable
evidence, such as the blood-al-
cohol level or evidence of drugs.
That evidence could disappear if
testing is delayed too long.

Kansans may enter
state parks for free
TOPEKA Republican legisla-
tors are split over a plan from
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to allow
Kansans to use state parks for
free.
The proposal is part of the
governors budget. She would set
aside $1.5 million so that the 23
parks could drop their summer
fee of $4.20 for every vehicle
from Kansas. Camping fees would
remain.
A decision last year to cut
those fees in half increased
park use. Rep. John Grange, an
El Dorado Republican, believes
eliminating them would increase
usage.
Sebelius plan would use
revenues from casinos and slot
machines at dog and horse tracks
to provide money for parks.
Research center to be
built in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Mo. An
ofshoot of Stowers Institutes
medical research center is mov-
ing into its own facility in south
Kansas City.
The 280,000-square-foot facil-
ity for BioMed Valley Discoveries
has a $20 million price tag and
will also house laboratory sup-
port and storage operations.
Construction is scheduled to
start within two months and be
fnished early next year.
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BY RUSTIN DODD
dodd@kansan.com
Lets be clear, Bill Self wasnt concerned
about his teams toughness.
We didnt play tough one night, Self
said about his teams Monday performance
against Texas. We didnt play tough on the
glass one night. That doesnt mean we have
soft guys, Self said.
Self said not to question his teams tough-
ness after it gave away a four-point half-
time lead Monday against the 11th ranked
Longhorns. Kansas, leading 42-38 at half-
time, let Texas dominate the glass in the
second half, and let them sneak away with a
72-69 victory. Texas out-rebounded Kansas
by 11 in the second half.
We have plenty of things to work on, but
Im not ready to say the sky is falling because
we lost to a Top 11 team on the road by a pos-
session, Self said.
Still, Kansas flaws were magnified after
its second loss of the season. Kansas is 0-2
against teams in the Associated Press Top 25
poll, and the Jayhawks seemed to have lost
their outside shooting touch. Kansas shot
4-for-26 from the three-point line during the
last two games.
It just happened, Self said. Im not going
to make a big deal out of that, certainly we
need to shoot the ball better.
Self said he liked how Kansas schedule
shaped up for the next two weeks.
Kansas plays host to Colorado on Saturday,
then has six days off before traveling to
Oklahoma State. That gives Self a week to
practice.
Im not a believer in that we can just play
in the games and automatically get better, Self
said. You have to work on things you need to
improve on.
Senior guard Russell Robinson has played
on teams that were questioned before. When
Robinson was a freshman, Self brought
shoulder pads and football helmets to prac-
tice. Self s point was simple: that team needed
to be tougher.
However, Self said no gimmicks were
needed this year.
Ive never had a team, nor has anybody
ever coached a team that didnt go through
periods of time where some weeks they were
a little better than other weeks, Self said.
The rest of the Jayhawks said the sour taste
from the Texas game was gone.
You cant be too upset about what hap-
pened in the past, Senior forward Sasha
Kaun said. We should see how it will affect
us in the long run and turn a negative thing
into a positive thing.
First place (in the Big 12) Kansas is look-
ing toward March after K-States loss to Texas
Tech Wednesday.
My goal has always been for our teams to
start getting better in February, and hopefully
be peaking in late February, early March,
Self said.
In order to do that, Self said Kansas had to
regain its toughness and swagger.
Edited by Nick Mangiaracina
BY TAYLOR BERN
tbern@kansan.com
There are some people who complain
about Kansas fans at basketball games
wearing shirts in all sorts of colors other
than the traditional crimson and blue.
However, Sunday afternoon there will be
a different hue to Allen Fieldhouse and it
will start with the players themselves.
For its 2 p.m. game against Nebraska,
the Kansas womens basketball team will
don pink jerseys in support of the Think
Pink initiative by the Womens Basketball
Coaches Association to raise awareness and
funds for the fight against breast cancer.
In its second year, this initiative has
the support of more than 900 schools
and Jayhawk coach Bonnie Henrickson is
thrilled to be a part of it.
Im very, very excited about our opportu-
nity to help in the community, Henrickson
said. Obviously its a national event but its
grassroots here. All of the money will be
donated to the LMH (Lawrence Memorial
Hospital) breast cancer center.
To a person in Allen Fieldhouse, weve
all been impacted somehow and its a
chance for us to create awareness and cre-
ate funds towards research to find a cure
for the disease.
The entire Athletics Department has
worked hard to make this a truly special
event for all of those involved.
We consider it very important to par-
ticipate in this, Associate athletics direc-
tor Jim Marchiony said. Its an illness
that somehow affects almost everybody in
someway.
Along with the jerseys, which Henrickson
says look great, the first 5,000 fans in atten-
dance will receive free pink T-shirts.
Were asking everyone to wear them
when they get them so we can pink it out in
Allen Fieldhouse on Sunday, Henrickson
said.
More importantly, for every fan in atten-
dance, the department will donate one dol-
lar to the LMH breast cancer center.
We came up with that as a department,
Marchiony said. Its something that we can
do that will hopefully encourage others to
contribute to the cause as well.
In August, the Alvamar Golf and Country
Club hosted the annual Bonnie Henrickson
fund-raising golf tournament, and a por-
tion of those proceeds were designated to
go to the same cause. During a time out on
Sunday, a check with those funds will be
presented to the hospital.
The Think Pink theme has also
bounced beyond the court and into City
Hall.
On Feb. 12, Mayor Sue Hack pro-
claimed Feb. 17 to be Think Pink Day, in
Lawrence.
Anything that I can do or that the
community can do to further that along
I think is really important, Hack said. It
was amazing to note on the proclamation
that deaths from breast cancer have actu-
ally declined. I think itd be hard to find
any other cancers where the death rate has
declined, and thats due to early detection
and education (about breast cancer).
Its not the death sentence that it used
to be.
The actual event may only be a basket-
ball game, but everything that surrounds it
means so much more to everyone involved
and those affected by breast cancer.
This is the perfect example of ath-
letics doing something good for society,
Marchiony said.
Its a great pairing of the university and
the city of Lawrence and the more we can
do that the better it is for all of us, Hack
said.
Edited by Jared Duncan
BY MARK DENT
mdent@kansan.com
Twenty years from now, Russell Robinson
would love to be at Allen Fieldhouse cele-
brating the anniversary of a national cham-
pionship.
Danny Manning,
assistant coach and one
of the players from the
1988 NCAA champion-
ship team who will be
honored Saturday at the
KU basketball 110-year
reunion, thinks that
Robinsons dream could
come true.
Our championship team, he said, is
nowhere near the team we have now at
Kansas.
Robinson didnt quite know how to
react.
Thats a compliment, he said with a
smile.
Manning could be right. In 1988, the
Jayhawks were far from
a force. They started
the season 12-8 and
looked NIT-bound
for the longest time.
Their tournament run
wasnt even spectacular.
Kansas barely scraped
by Murray State in the
second round.
This Jayhawk team
has been far more domi-
nant so far, starting 23-2 and beating oppo-
nents by an average of 21.1 points a game.
Although recent losses to Kansas State
and Texas exposed some flaws, including
toughness and outside shooting, Kansas
should still be capable of conference cham-
pionships and a possible deep run in the
NCAA Tournament.
Any player in the main seven-man rota-
tion can score. Robinson, Sherron Collins,
Brandon Rush, Sasha Kaun, Darrell Arthur,
Mario Chalmers and Darnell Jackson have
all led the team in scoring at least once this
season.
We didnt have the same depth or talent
level, Manning said. We couldnt score
points in flurries like this team can.
Manning acknowledged that a team
needs more than talent to win a champion-
ship. Thats obvious from looking at the
1988 team. The Jayhawks put together a
run to the title game because they found
an extra gear and rose above all the
adversity they faced during the season.
It wasnt just talent that got them to the
championship.
It was their ability to grow from defeats.
Morale goes down anytime you lose,
Manning said. Morale goes down and
work ethic goes up.
Its still a mystery as to whether this
team can make the same type of strides.
Kansas came out flat at Colorado after its
first loss of the season against Kansas State.
The Jayhawks won
three games after it but
struggled on defense.
The defense was bet-
ter against Texas on
Monday, but Kansas
couldnt rebound, and
allowed the Longhorns
to come back and win in
the second half. Getting
that toughness back will
be a key to bouncing
back from the loss.
Its something we have to emphasize,
Kaun said of toughness. Its all about
single possessions. We need to score or get
a stop and be more mentally tough so we
wont break down.
The Jayhawks are also lacking a go-to
player. When they needed to score bas-
kets late against Texas, no one stepped
up. Chalmers tried, taking several shots
down the stretch, but he couldnt quite be
the hero. Jackson and Arthur were unable
to get the ball. There wasnt a player who
could lift Kansas at the end.
We dont have a Danny Manning,
Robinson said.
But Robinson is still confident the team
could put together a special run. He wants
the same recognition the 1988 team is
going to receive on Saturday.
We have a good team, Robinson said.
Even though we have two losses, we just
have to know that we are still a good
team.
Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
SportS
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softball
team wins
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womens, mens
game days
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Manning
REtuRn of thE champions
Kansan File Photo
Themens basketball teamwill celebratethe 110-year anniversary of Kansas basketball saturday at allenfieldhouse. the 1988 nCaachampionship teamwill be recognized at the game.
1988 team to celebrate reunion on court
manning hints at possible 2008 nCaa title
Courtesy of Kansas Athletics
The womens basketball teamwill wear pink jerseys at sundays game to raise awareness of and money for breast
cancer. the frst 500 fans in attendance will receive free pink t-shirts, and for every attending fan the athletics department
will donate one dollar to the breast cancer center at lawrence memorial Hospital.
KANSAN FILE PHOTO
The mens basketball teamdidnt play as well as it expected against texas. Rebounding made the diference.
team to wear new jerseys as part of think Pink breast cancer initiative
Kansas goes pink to raise awareness, funds
womEns baskEtball
Notes
brown sighting: Former coach Larry
Brown, who was the head man on the
1988 National Championship team,
watched practice yesterday.
selfs favorite: Kansas coach Bill Self
said he cant wait to meet Clyde Lovel-
lette for the frst time on Saturday,
but hes looking forward to the entire
reunion weekend.
The thing about this that is really
cool is that I dont think we look at the
reunion as what players that have had
their number hanging in the rafters are
coming back, Self said. I dont think
you look at it that way. Its not about
one person coming back. Its about the
collection of everybody being here.
That is what Im going to get out of it as
much as anything.
high turnout: About 230 former play-
ers, coaches and managers are sup-
posed to be at Allen Fieldhouse for the
110-year reunion. All the attendees will
go to a brunch before the game and a
banquet afterward.
Our championship team is
nowhere near the team we have
now at Kansas.
DANNY MANNING
Assistant coach and 1988 NCAA
championship team member
mEns baskEtball
Jayhawks remain
tough despite loss
sports 2B Friday, February 15, 2008
trivia of the day
quote of the day
Colorado is very lucky to
have Jef Bzdelik as its head
coach. It was a tremendous
hire.
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski
on TV this weekend
Mens College Basketball:
Friday:
- Pittsburgh at Marquette, 8
p.m., ESPN
Saturday:
- Georgetown at Syracuse, 11
a.m., ESPN
- Virginia Tech at North Carolina,
Noon, CBS
- Colorado at Kansas, 12:30 p.m.,
NBC
- Louisville at Providence, 1 p.m.,
ESPN
- Creighton at Bradley, 1 p.m.,
FSN
- Oklahoma at Texas Tech, 3 p.m.,
NBC
- Arkansas at Mississippi State, 3
p.m., ESPN
- Missouri at Kansas State, 5
p.m., NBC
- Texas at Baylor, 5:00 p.m., ESPN
- Holy Cross at Bucknell, 5 p.m.,
ESPN2
- Southern Illinois at Wichita
State, 6 p.m., FSN
- Old Dominion at Virginia Com-
monwealth, 7 p.m., ESPN2
- Washington State at Oregon,
8:00 p.m., FSN
- Michigan State at Indiana, 8
p.m., ESPN
Sunday:
- Notre Dame at Rutgers, 11
a.m., FSN
- Seton Hall at West Virginia, 1
p.m., FSN
- Duke at Wake Forest, 6:30 p.m.,
FSN
- UCLA at Southern California, 9
p.m., FSN
Womens College Basketball:
Friday:
- Indiana State at Illinois State,
7:30 p.m.,
Saturday:
- Arizona State at Stanford, 3
p.m., FSN
Sunday:
- Oklahoma at Baylor, 12:30 p.m.,
FSN
- Texas Tech at Texas A&M, 3
p.m., ESPN2
- Maryland at Duke, 4:30 p.m.,
FSN
NBA:
Friday:
- Rookie Challenge, 8 p.m., TNT
Saturday:
- Slam Dunk Competition,
7:30 p.m., TNT
Sunday:
- All Star Game, 7:30 p.m.,
TNT
NHL:
Sunday:
- Detroit at Dallas, 2:30 p.m.,
NBC
PGA Tour:
Saturday:
- Northern Trust Open, 2
p.m., CBS
Sunday:
- Northern Trust Open, 2
p.m., CBS
NASCAR:
Sunday:
-Daytona 500, 1:00 p.m., FOX
Q: Who was the Denver
Nuggets coach from 2002
to the middle of the 2004
season?
A: Colorado coach Jef
Bzdelik. He coached the Nug-
gets to a 74-123 record overall
and made the 2003-2004 NBA
playofs behind a strong rookie
season from Carmelo Anthony.
Colorado basketball media guide
fact of the day
Bzdelik played college
basketball at the University of
Illinois-Chicago. He still holds
the record there for single-sea-
son free throw percentage at 88
percent.
Colorado basketball media guide
calendar
TODAY
Softball vs. Oregon, 2 p.m.,
Las Vegas
Softball vs. Portland State,
5 p.m., Las Vegas
Track, ISU Classic, All day,
Ames, Iowa
Track, Tyson Invitational, All
day, Fayetteville, Ark.
SATURDAY
Softball vs. Brigham Young,
11 a.m., Las Vegas
Tennis vs. UMKC, 11 a.m.,
Lawrence
Mens basketball vs. Colo-
rado, 12:45 p.m., Lawrence
Track, ISU Classic, All day,
Ames, Iowa
Track, Tyson Invitational, All
day, Fayetteville, Ark.
SUNDAY
Softball vs. Seton Hall, 11
a.m., Las Vegas
Softball vs. UNLV, 1:15 p.m.,
Las Vegas
Womens basketball vs.
Nebraska, 2 p.m., Lawrence
Womens golf, Papa Johns
Collegiate, All day, Miami
SportS
Big 12 Kansas baseball game
to air on Fox Sports Network
The middle game of Kansas se-
ries against Texas Tech at Hoglund
Ballpark, Saturday, April 12, is one
of six Big 12 Conference baseball
games scheduled to appear on FSN
this spring.
The Big 12 Conference an-
nounced the 2008 FSN Big 12
Baseball Telecast Schedule on
Wednesday and Kansas is one of
seven Big 12 schools that will have
games aired on FSN.
Shawn Shroyer
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Jayhawks fy to Miami,
but this time for golf
For the second time in two
months, The Jayhawks will descend
to Miami. But instead of scoring
touchdowns, the team will be
teeing of and sinking putts as the
womens golf team prepares for the
Papa Johns Collegiate from Feb. 17
to Feb. 19.
Coach Erin ONeil is just ready to
fnally get back onto the course.
We couldnt play during winter
its been so cold just glad to get
into the warm weather and hit
some shots, ONeil said.
For this season, ONeil has a new
motto for the team.
No expectations, we havent
been able to practice a lot during
the winter, so were just going to
go out there have fun and put the
ball in the hole and do the best we
can, ONeil said.
ONeil was pleased with the
teams fall performance, but does
not think of having one person
carry the team, instead everyone
is held accountable. Improving
each week, Emily Powers has really
stepped up her game. Shes raised
her average to 74 and is really
improved.
Also the senior leadership of
Annie Giangroso among others has
helped the team stay close-knit.
Annie has been steady; I think
well be in good shape.
The team also consists of three
international players: Freshmen
Meghna Bal, Grace Thiry, and soph-
omore Camilla Svensson. ONeil
takes pride in seeing these ladies
develop in a new and sometimes
difcult situation.
Its an ongoing transition. Its
hard to come to a new college,
even when youre from the states,
but its even harder to come from
another country. And just like
those other Jayhawks did in Miami
a little over a month ago, these
Jayhawks plan to have fun.
Josh Bowe
Pretty slick, eh?
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Nonroster invited to training camp
By ALAN ESKEW
ASSociAtEd prESS
SURPRISE, Ariz. Hideo
Nomo is 39, has not pitched in the
majors since 2005 and is trying to
bounce back after surgeries on his
shoulder and elbow.
Nomo has nothing to prove after
10 years in the majors. He was the
1995 National League Rookie of the
Year, going 13-6 with a 2.54 earned
run average and a league-leading
236 strikeouts with the Los Angeles
Dodgers. He has thrown two no-
hitters and struck out nearly 2,000
batters.
Nomo, who pitched only 13 2/3
innings in winter ball last year after
having elbow surgery to remove
bone chips in 2006, is a non-roster
invite to the Kansas City Royals
training camp.
I feel like I can still pitch in the
major leagues, Nomo said through
an interpreter Thursday. I did
rehab for it. Pitching in the major
leagues is my goal. I like baseball
a lot.
Nomo also had shoulder surgery
in 2003.
It feels better than two years
ago, Nomo said of his arm. I
didnt have any pain in my shoul-
der and elbow when I threw in
Venezuela. The pain didnt go
away for a long time (after the
surgeries).
Nomo was 0-2 with a 6.59 ERA
in seven starts with Caracas in
the Venezuelan Winter League.
During his last two seasons in
the majors 2004-05 with the
Dodgers and Tampa Bay Nomo
was a combined 9-19 with a 7.70
ERA.
Nomos situation is twofold
really, Royals general manager
Dayton Moore said.
Anybody who has had as
much success as Nomo has had in
his career and his desire to pitch
in the major leagues and with his
competitiveness, youve really got
to listen, Moore said.
Secondly, his influence on
(Yasuhiko) Yabuta in transition. It
just makes sense for him to be here.
We all recognize how much success
hes had. He still feels like he can
pitch in the majors. Hes a great
competitor and he can help transi-
tion Yabuta. Somebody is going
to give Nomo the opportunity to
come to a major league camp, so
why not us?
Kansas City signed Yabuta, one
of the best relievers in Japan, to
a two-year contract in November.
While Yabuta has pitched 12 years
in the Japanese League, this will be
his initial experience in the majors.
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opening day of spring training at the teams
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PICK EM Kansan sports staf forecasts this weekends games
Games
Case Keefer
Kansan sports editor
ckeefer@kansan.com
tara smith
associate sports editor
tsmith@kansan.com
marK Dent
Kansan sports writer
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rustin DoDD
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B.J. rains
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Oklahoma @ Texas Tech
3 p.m. Saturday, ESPN+
Texas @ Baylor
5 p.m. Saturday, ESPN
Michigan State @ Indiana
8 p.m. Saturday, ESPN
Florida @ Vanderbilt
2 p.m. Saturday
Stanford @ Arizona
2:30 p.m. Saturday, ABC
Welcome to the Martin Zeno and
Alan Voskuil show.
Texas might be able to eke out a
home victory despite star guard
D.J. Augustins troublesome slump,
but thats not going happen when
they travel up the road north to
Waco.
Can the Big Ten be any worse?
After a 40-point victory against
Kentucky, Vanderbilt fnds itself
perched atop the college basket-
ball world. Its hard to keep your
balance up there.
Jerryd Bayless, Chase Budinger,
Jawann McClellan. Yeah, this
Wildcat team is better than theyve
been playing.
Riding high after upsetting Kansas
State, Pat Knight could manage
career victory number two.
Baylor has hit a skid but is playing
everyone close, and its hard to get
wins on the road in the Big 12.
A huge matchup in the Big Ten will
go the way of Indiana and super
freshman Eric Gordon.
Vanderbilt is undefeated at home,
and Florida is only 2-4 on the road.
Stanford and my favorite col-
lege basketball twins, Brook and
Robin Lopez, will be too much for
Arizona.
Few teams can win in Lubbock
when the fans actually show up.
The victory against Kansas hid
Texas faws. The Longhorns are a
team in decline.
The only question here is which
team is more overrated?
Too bad Kevin Stallings cant get in
a fght with Joakim Noah this time.
The Wildcats need to win badly.
Theyve struggled since getting
blown out by UCLA.
The Sooners lost forward Longar
Longar to injury, and look what
Texas Tech just did at home against
K-State.
Home court advantage rules.
Baylor should be motivated after
losing to Oklahoma State, and the
Bears desperately need a signature
win.
The real question: Will Indian
coach Kelvin Sampson still be
coaching the Hoosiers after accu-
sations of committing major NCAA
violations.
Fresh of a 40-point blow-out
of Kentucky, Vanderbilt should
chomp down on the Gators.
Is Stanford a legitimate top-10
team? Well see this weekend when
the seventh-ranked Cardinal travel
to Tucson, Ariz., to play Arizona.
After upsetting Kansas State for Pat
Knights frst win, Texas Tech makes
it two in a row at home.
Baylor is good, but not this good.
Being at home will help, but Texas
will win the battle of the guards
and win a close one on the road.
Kelvin Sampson will be calling
recruits and miss the opening tip.
When his phone battery dies and
he returns to the court, it wont
matter. Michigan State wins a
thriller.
Im not sure how Florida even has
a winning record after losing four
players to the frst round of the
draft, but the train slows down
here. Vanderbilt keeps its story-
book season alive with a big home
win.
Chase Budinger goes for 25 and
Jared Bayless gets to the foul line
10 times as Arizona gets back on
track with the upset home win.
softball
Jayhawks open season with strong tournament victory
KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Freshman second baseman/shortstop Kolby Fesmire bunts during the softball game against Missouri Southern on Sept. 22, 2007. Kansas will play
in the UNLV Invitational Tournament starting today with a double header against Oregon and Portland State.
BY KeLLY BreCKunitCh
kbreckunitch@kansan.com
The Jayhawk softball team start-
ed the season strong with a tourna-
ment victory at Central Florida.
The Jayhawks won five games and
lost only one.
Sophomore pitcher Sarah
Vertelka won
three games and
didnt give up a
run in the tour-
nament. Coach
Tracy Bunge
said she was
very pleased to
see the pitching
staff perform so
well.
Of all things through the week-
end, I was most pleasantly sur-
prised with our pitching staff,
Bunge said.
Bunge spoke highly of all teams
in the tournament, especially
Illinois State, North Carolina State
and Central Florida.
All three of those teams were
good, quality teams and those were
good, quality wins for us, Bunge
said.
Bunge was very pleased with the
offensive performances of junior
third baseman Val Chapple, fresh-
man catcher Brittany Hile and junior
outfielder Dougie McCaulley.
Chapple came out of the week-
end leading the Jayhawks in nine
offensive categories, including hits,
runs batted in and batting average.
Hile turned in two multi-hit
games, scored three runs and drove
in a run in her debut weekend with
the Jayhawks.
McCaulley finished strong with
multi-hit games in the semifinal
and championship games while
also scoring two runs and driving
in one run.
Sophomore first baseman
Amanda Jobe
also did her
part for the
Jayhawks in the
t o u r n a me nt ,
getting seven
hits and driv-
ing in the win-
ning run in the
semifinal game
against Illinois
State.
The whole team, and especially
the pitchers as a whole, proved how
good were going to be this season,
Jobe said.
Bunge said she wasnt surprised
by one concern that came up in the
tournament: team defense. She said
the team had trouble just playing
the ball off of the dirt because they
had practiced inside for most of
the season.
It takes a little while to adjust
yourself to being outside, Bunge
said.
The Jayhawks have been pre-
paring for another warm weather
tournament in Las Vegas.
They will try to build on the
success of the Central Florida
Invitational.
Bunge said it hurt having to
practice inside and not being able
to practice on dirt.
She said another problem she
noticed in the Central Florida
Invitational was the throwing
errors.
We just need to get a little bit
better each and every day, Bunge
said.
Bunge and Jobe said the team
wanted to focus on continuing suc-
cess of achieving their season goals
in this tournament. They said the
team wanted to stay aggressive on
the base paths.
Bunge said that she wanted to see
the offense continue its steady out-
put, they outscored their opponents
24 to 12 in the Central Florida tour-
nament, and of course she wanted
to see the defense put together a
better weekend than last.
The Jayhawks will be challenged
in Las Vegas. Oregon, Brigham
Young University and the host
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
will be competing.
Bunge said all those teams were
good teams and have gotten of to
a good start this season. She said
they would be the toughest compe-
tition for the Jayhawks.
Bunge said she wanted the team
to get pushed by this level of com-
petition.
Last weekends performance did
not go unnoticed. The Jayhawks
received votes in the USA Today/
NFCA softball poll for the first
time since 2006.
Theres a lot of people in our
conference and a lot of people
around the country that really were
not giving us the respect that we
were due, Jobe said.
The country has taken notice,
and the Jayhawks can open some
more eyes with a good performance
at the UNLV invitational. Three
teams, UNLV, Oregon and BYU,
are just outside the rankings in
the USA Today/NFCA softball poll.
Another strong showing by the
Jayhawks this weekend will garner
more national attention.
Edited by Jared Duncan
UNLV Invitational
Date opponent time
Today vs. Oregon 2 p.m.
vs. Portland State 5 p.m.
Saturday vs. BYU 11 a.m.
Sunday vs. Seton Hall 11 a.m.
vs. UNLV 1:15 p.m.
We just need to get a little bit
better each and every day.
TRACY BUNGE
Kansas softball coach
By JOSEPH WHITE
ASSOcIATEd PrESS
WASHINGTON In the Roger
Clemens primary, the Republicans
nominated the Rocket. The
Democrats went with the other guy.
That was the feeling on Capitol
Hill on Thursday, the day after the
seven-time Cy Young Award winner
defended himself before Congress.
Showing that even baseball isnt
exempt from Americas Red State-
Blue State divide, questions such as
How did Roger do? were often fol-
lowed with something like: Why are
the two parties bickering over this?
Of all the things to become par-
tisan over, Rep. Elijah Cummings, a
Maryland Democrat, said Thursday,
this was the wrong one.
Cummings was among those who
strongly questioned Clemens cred-
ibility in testimony involving the
pitchers former personal trainer,
Brian McNamee, during Wednesdays
4-hour hearing held by the House
Committee on
Oversight and
Go v e r n me nt
Reform.
Republicans,
for the most part,
saved their sear-
ing comments for
McNamee, who
was repeatedly
called a drug
dealer by Rep.
Christopher Shays of Connecticut.
I thought the tone of the hearing
was a little askew, said Rep. Diane
Watson, a California Democrat. I
told Mr. Clemens that I didnt think
it was going to be a court trial or an
inquisition, but I think some of the
members did go out of their way to
be accusatory without having all of
the facts.
It is hard for me to discern who
was not telling
the truth and
who was. Both
men denied
the other ones
claim. I saw
the questioning
kind of divided,
with some on
the Republican
side calling Mr.
McNamee a liar
and some on the Democratic side
really questioning Clemens, and so
I dont think we got anywhere on
that.
Theories abounded over why the
sides couldnt see eye to eye.
Richard Emery, one of McNamees
lawyers, said that some Republicans
treated his client harshly because of
Clemens friendship with the Bush
family. Emery predicted the pitcher
will be pardoned by President Bush
should Clemens be indicted or con-
victed of anything related to the
hearing.
It would be the easiest thing in
the world for George W. Bush, given
the corrupt proclivities of his admin-
istration, to say Roger Clemens is
an American hero, Roger Clemens
helped children, said Emery, an
attorney who has worked for lib-
eral causes. Its my belief they have
some reason to believe they can get
a pardon.
Not surprisingly, Clemens camp
and the GOP saw things dif-
ferently.
Richard Emery just has to quit
smoking his own dope, said Rusty
Hardin, one of Clemens attorneys.
As for a pardon from a president?
Im not aware of Mr. Clemens hav-
ing been charged with anything,
White House deputy press secretary
Tony Fratto said.
A spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa
of California said the hearings parti-
san tone evolved because Republican
members felt the hearing was over-
ly focused on Clemens instead of
the broader concerns raised in the
Mitchell Report on drugs in base-
ball.
Its clear Democrats had expect-
ed a government-funded, TV show
trial, and now theyre whining that
Republicans didnt want to play, said
the spokesman, Frederick Hill. The
hearing was supposed to be about
the Mitchell Report. The Democrats
are at fault for focusing on individual
wrongdoing instead of the validity of
the Mitchell Report.
Said Issa: Were not supposed to
have these kinds of spectacles.
But a spectacle it was, much like
the 2005 hearing that featured Mark
McGwire and his oft-repeated state-
ment: Im not hear to talk about
the past. That hearing damaged
McGwires reputation immeasurably,
but it is also spurred baseball into
stricter penalties and more frequent
testing for performance-enhancing
drugs.
The ramifications from
Wednesdays hearing might not be
known a while. McNamee said he
injected Clemens with steroids and
human growth hormone. Clemens
said he has never used either. Since
both were under oath, one or both
could face charges stemming from
making false statements or obstruct-
ing.
As for Clemens reputation, even
one of his lawyers conceded the
pitcher might have not have given an
All-Star performance.
In all of my years of watching
politics, Im never seen a good wit-
ness before Congress, Hardin said.
If there are members of that com-
mittee that think theyre adverse to
you, and when you have the chair-
man adverse to you, youre not going
to appear good. The average citizen
is not a good witness before (the
bright lights). This guy is the greatest
pitcher of all time, and thats what he
is good at.
During the hearing, some con-
gressmen questioned whether the
committee should be focused on
other pressing matters. That also
was a sentiment expressed at spring
training, which began in Florida and
Arizona on the same day as the
hearing.
Its all hearsay. Everybody is all
pointing fingers, San Francisco
Giants reliever Steve Kline said of
Clemens. I pity the guy. Half the
guys admitted it and theyre not
getting persecuted. Its just bad for
baseball.
Who cares about what happened
in 1987? Its over. Who cares about
Congress? Weve got gasoline prices
that are off the charts and theyre
worried about steroids. Maybe this
gets peoples minds off the war.
Everybodys got skeletons in their
closet. If you did it, admit it. If he
didnt do it, I see why hes fighting his
(tail) off, he said.
sports 8B friday, february 15, 2008
Kansas March 3 game against
Texas Tech will be the last time
Russell Robinson will hear the
majority of 16,300 fans yell New
York, New York when his home-
town is announced. Darnell Jacksons
breakout season as a star for Kansas
will be closer to ending. For center
Sasha Kaun, guards Rodrick Stewart
and Jeremy Case, who have shown
flashes of brilliance at times this sea-
son, the clock is winding down.
Saturdays game against Colorado
is one of three remaining home
games for the mens basketball team.
For the seniors, it is one of their last
bouts in the Phog. For most of
these seniors, it may be the height
of their basketball careers as players.
Jackson is the only senior who is
projected to be drafted by an NBA
team. Every player in this senior
class needs to feel a heightened
sense of urgency.
It is the seniors who are most sea-
soned for leadership. Whether its
late in a game and someone needs to
step up to win a close game, or dur-
ing practice when the team is slack-
ing in performance, it is the seniors
who need to assert themselves more
than anyone. Coach Bill Self knows
this more than anyone.
The reality for the seniors is,
`Hey, it is coming to an end and
there should be more of a sense of
urgency. I hope thats the case, Self
said on Feb. 7 in a press conference.
I dont know if I feel it every day in
practice yet, but its going to get to
that point soon.
This is the first senior class of Bill
Self s 15-year career that is made up
of his recruits. Before this season,
Self had not coached at one school
long enough to have a recruiting
class of seniors that was his. Self
could not have sounded more opti-
mistic about the position his seniors
were in before the start of the sea-
son.
I think we are blessed this year
in that we have five guys that are
great leaders, said Self on media
day, Oct. 12. They want to go out as
being recognized as one of the most
winning (recruiting) classes.
If Kansas were to win the Big 12
regular season, it would be the fourth
time for these seniors. If Kansas were
to win the Big 12 Championship, it
would be their third straight tourna-
ment crown. With Kansas loss to
Texas on Monday, the Jayhawks are
now in a three-way
tie for first place
and these accom-
plishments may be
in jeopardy.
As Kaun, Robinson,
Case, Stewart and
Jackson run through the
tunnel into the Phog
Saturday afternoon for
their third to last time,
they need to know that
their time as Kansas basket-
ball players will be ending soon.
I hope to try and go out with a
bang, so I am going to work and play
hard every game, Robinson said on
media day.
These seniors should look to the
Jayhawk foot-
ball teams 2007
roster and its
12 seniors, who
came home victo-
rious in the Orange
Bowl this year. It is
time for the sense
of urgency Self
talked about. It is
their last go-around
and there would be
no better way to go
out than on top.
Edited by Samuel Lamb
The end is near for seniors
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AT A GLANCE
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AT A GLANCE
Nebraska
(17-7, 6-4)
Kansas
(14-9, 3-7)
jAyhAwKs hopE To boUNCE bACK
Team ready to face Nebraska after defeating Colorado on the road
NebrasKa at KaNsas, 2 p.m. Sunday, Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence
Kansas played its frst Big 12
road game at Nebraska on Jan. 12
and coach Bonnie Henricksons
team was handled from start to
fnish, falling 71-51. Cornhusker
forward Kelsey Grifn scored a
game high 15 points. Defensively,
Grifn and center Danielle Page
teamed up to harass freshman
center Krysten Boogaard, forcing
her to go scoreless for the only
time this season. Boogaard and
sophomore guard Danielle McCray
gelled on the court lately, creating
better opportunities for each other
and a better chance for victory.
Will McCray and Boogaard
combine for at least 35 points?
Each one of these players is a
threat to put up 20 points on any
given night, and its not unlikely
that they could both do it in the
same game. Coach Bonnie Hen-
rickson searches for a consistent
third- scoring threat most of the
season. The only reason to believe
these two cant consistently domi-
nate is that theyre the two most
foul-prone players on the team.
Wednesday night McCray fouled
out late in the game after picking
up three fouls in just over a minute.
If they can stay on the court, the
Jayhawks can stay in the hunt.
Three losses in their last fve
games have left the Cornhusk-
ers fghting for second in the
Big 12 North. Nebraska handled
Kansas easily in Lincoln but
that was a completely diferent
team. The Cornhuskers only loss
to Big 12 North opponents was
against Kansas State in Lincoln,
and if Connie Yoris team plays
to its potential that shouldnt
change on Sunday.
Can Nebraska win the
free-throw battle?
Its hard to lose when you
make 30-32 free throws like
Nebraska did when the two
teams last met. While Kansas
shot 87.5 percent from the
free-throw line, that was on
only eight attempts. If that
trend repeats itself on Sunday,
Nebraska will waltz to a sev-
enth conference victory.
McCray
Boogaard
Catic
Turner
Page
Grifn
Kelsey Grifn 6-foot-2 junior forward
14.1 ppg, 6.7 rpg
The All-Big 12 performer has led the Cornhuskers
in half of their conference games. Against Kansas in
January, Grifn scored 15 points and hauled in six re-
bounds on only six shots, but that was mostly against
an overmatched Krysten Boogaard. Boogaard is
averaging a double-double over the last four games,
but if anyone can get the freshman center in foul
trouble its Grifn.
Danielle Page 6-foot-2 senior forward
12.6 ppg, 6.6 rpg
Page may not have had a banner
performance in the frst meeting with
the Jayhawks, but she has proven to
be a reliable scorer, rebounder and
defender for the Conhuskers over her
four-year career. Page and Grifn form
a formidable one-two punch in the
post that Kansas had trouble defend-
ing in Lincoln. If Grifn gets to the line
against the Jayhawks, it could be a long
afternoon.
Yvonne Turner 5-foot-8
sophomore guard
8 ppg, 45 percent three-point in
conference play
After shooting 17 percent from behind
the arc in nonconference play by making
6-35 attempts, Turner has turned into a
sharpshooter in 10 Big 12 contests. With
Turners outside shooting and Grifn and
Page inside, Nebraskas ofense
has the kind of balance that
wins games in the Big 12.
Andew Wiebe
Danielle McCray, 5-foot-11 sophomore guard
14.7 ppg, 7.3 rpg
Coach Bonnie Henrickson said she noticed an
extra bounce in McCrays step leading up to the
Colorado game. Apparently a little bounce is the
diference between 11.3 points and seven rebounds
her average in the frst nine Big 12 games and
an explosion of 24 and 10. McCray hasnt played this
aggressive since the nonconference schedule and
hopefully it wasnt a one game deal.
Krysten Boogaard, 6-foot-5 fresh-
man center
9.7 ppg, 27 blocks
In every game Boogaard is looking
more and more comfortable out on
the court. With every basket made
and every shot blocked the colossal
Canadian is announcing her arrival
to the elite group of Big 12 post play-
ers. Boogaard is averaging 16.8 points and
10.5 rebounds over the last four games. Thats
even more impressive considering two of those
games pitted her against Oklahomas Courtney
Paris and Colorados Jackie McFarland, both All-
Big 12 frst team selections last season.
Ivana Catic, 5-foot-8 junior guard
38 steals, 1.6 assist-to-turnover ratio
Catic doesnt have the same turnover prob-
lems as fellow point guards LaChelda Jacobs
and the now-injured Chakeitha Weldon.
On the other hand, she normally doesnt
provide the same play-making ability as the
other two. Wednesday night, however, she
decided to assert herself more ofensively
and it resulted in 10 points, including a pair
of late free throws. She doesnt have to be
the number one option, but a few plays for
Catic per game can only make the Jayhawks
better.
Taylor Bern Boogard
Kuehne takes sbs open lead
By JAyMES SONG
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KAHUKU, Hawaii Kelli
Kuehne shot a bogey-free 5-under
67 to take the early first-round lead
Thursday in the LPGA Tours sea-
son-opening SBS Open.
Annika Sorenstam, coming off an
injury-shortened season where she
failed to win for the first time since
her rookie season in 1994, was 2
under through 11 holes. She played
in a group with defending champion
Paula Creamer, also 2 under.
South Koreas Jacqueline Yang
had three birdies and a bogey on
each side to open with a 68, and
countrywoman Meena Lee matched
45-year-old Sherri Steinhauer with
a 69.
Kuehne was in the second group
off the 10th tee and took advantage
of the tranquil morning conditions.
I hit it well and I made a couple
putts, so Im certainly not complain-
ing about my first round of 08, said
Kuehne, whose best finish last year
was a tie for 24th at the MasterCard
Classic. She tied for 25th a year ago
at Turtle Bay.
The 30-year-old Kuehne attacked
the pins with several strong wedge
shots from about 100 yards and
made a move just before the turn
by birdieing Nos. 16-18. She made
a 60-foot birdie
putt on the par-3
fourth to reach 5
under.
It was a
bomb, she said.
The former
University of
Texas standout
was considered
a rising star
after she won
U.S. Womens
Amateur titles in
1995 and 96 before turning pro.
She won 1999 LPGA Corning
Classic but has struggled in the past
three years with only one top-10 fin-
ish. She finished fourth at Q-school
to earn exempt status this season.
Some bumps and bruises along
the way. You get knocked down,
youve got to get back up, Kuehne
said. Ive certainly struggled. I think
the struggle definitely taught me to
be humble to say the least.
Kuehne credited her preparation
heading into the season and her cad-
die, Tracy Phillips, who also serves
as a swing coach.
Hes my ace in the hole. If I fol-
low directions,
it usually goes
in, she said.
The 37-year-
old Sorenstam is
playing at Turtle
Bay for the first
time and begin-
ning her season
a month earlier
than usual. She
is making her
first appearance
in Hawaii since
winning the 2002 LPGA Takefuji
Classic at Waikoloa.
Sorenstam was limited to 13 events
last year because of neck and back
injuries. She had six top-10 finishes,
including a playoff loss to Meaghan
Francella in the MasterCard Classic
in Mexico.
The group at 70 included Michelle
Ellis, Patricia Meunier-Lebouc, Meg
Mallon and Gloria Park.
AssoCiATED prEss
Annika sorenstamof sweden follows her drive of the 10th tee during the frst round of the LPGA SBS Open golf tournament at the Turtle Bay Resort
in Kahuku, Hawaii, onThursday.
i hit it well and made a couple
putts, so im certainly not
complaining about my frst
round of 08.
KELLI KuEHNE
LPGA golfer
LPGA
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where the buffalo roam
Jayhawks face of against lowest-ranked team in Big 12
Kansas vs. Colorado 12:45 p.m., allen fieldhouse, eSPN+
Richard Roby, 6-foot-6
senior guard
The easy answer is Roby,
and thats because most of the
Bufaloes just
arent worth
watching.
Anytime an
NBA talent
comes into
Allen Field-
house, fans
should take
notice. Robys critics screamed
for years about how hes under-
achieved during his four-year
career, but he still has the size,
skill and athleticism to make
millions of dollars playing bas-
ketball. Hes Colorados leading
scorer at 17.1 points per game,
and his tomahawk dunk against
Kansas Feb. 2 was defnitely
YouTube-worthy.
Brandon Rush, 6-foot-6 junior
guard
The last two games were dif-
fcult for Rush. After shooting the
ball well throughout most of Big 12
play, he is start-
ing to struggle.
Hes made two
of his last nine
three-pointers
and eight of
his last 21 feld
goals. Hes been
to the free-throw
line only nine
times in the past seven games.
Rush can have a big game against
Colorado if he wants to. The Buf-
faloes cant guard him well enough
to take him out of the game.
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Russell Robinson, 6-foot-1 senior guard
He guarded D.J. Augustin well but forgot to
block out. Bill Self said the guards were as much
to blame for the rebounding problems on Mon-
day night as the big men.
mario Chalmers, 6-foot-1 junior guard
When all the other guards were hesitant
to shoot in the second half against Texas on
Monday, Chalmers fred away. It was good that
he was aggressive, but he didnt make enough
of his shots.
Brandon Rush, 6-foot-6 junior
guard
That whole talk about him being
aggressive for the rest of the
season obviously wasnt true.
Rush hasnt been shooting the
ball enough in the second half
of games.
darnell Jackson, 6-
foot-8 senior forward
Jackson only scored
two points in the second
half of the Texas game.
He needs to do more
than that if Kansas is going
to play at its highest level.
darrell Arthur, 6-
foot-9 sophomore
forward
If Arthur continues to rebound and
score like hes done the past two
games, hell be a frst team all-con-
ference pick and a tough sell to stick
around for another year instead of enter-
ing the NBA Draft.
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 sophomore
guard
So much for being all the way back. Collins
looked timid again Monday night against
Texas. When hes at his best, the Jayhawks are
too.
A game against Colorado in the
middle of Big 12 play may seem
meaningless, but the Jayhawks
have plenty to prove. First, they
have to show that the Bufaloes
got lucky when they played well
against them two weeks ago.
Kansas needs to jump on Colorado
from the beginning. Secondly, the
Hawks need to show they are over
Mondays loss and that they are
ready to rebound at a high level
and show more toughness. This
game should be a blowout if Kan-
sas is motivated like it should be.
will the shots start falling for
the Ku guards?
Its tough to say. Kansas shot the
ball from three-point range better
than any team for the frst half of
conference play. The struggles
are new. Self said all teams went
through lulls and would eventu-
ally snap out. Saturday could be a
good time for the missing to stop.
Colorado is a sub-par team, and
the Jayhawks should be able to get
open looks. Expect Kansas shoot-
ing to get back on track.
I think he has become a bet-
ter player. I have said it all along.
The ACL (injury) will allow him to
become a better basketball player
over time. This is where we should
see it. As he gets healthy and is real
close to 100 percent, the technique
things and the things that he has
done to get him to this position
will now allow him to be a better
player because he wont just rely
on athletic ability.
Bill Self on Brandon Rush

I dont know. Id have to say yes.
I do think Im a better overall player
as far as passing the ball, making
shots, getting to the hole, I do
think Im a better player. I always
understand the game pretty well- I
have always known the game.
Rush on whether he
thought he had become a better
player because of his injury
86-58 Kansas
This game wont even be close. The Jayhawks have to prove they are
still a dominant team and the team to beat in the Big 12.
Player mins Fg-FgA 3Fg-3FgA Rebs Pts
00 Arthur, Darrell 23.4 145-270 2-11 6.0 14.0
32 Jackson, Darnell 24.8 121-189 2-5 6.9 12.4
25 Rush, Brandon 27.7 100-230 45-109 5.1 12.3
15 Chalmers, Mario 29.2 95-183 38-86 2.9 12.1
04 Collins, Sherron 23.0 68-146 23-65 1.9 9.4
24 Kaun, Sasha 17.6 70-110 0-0 3.9 7.4
03 Robinson, Russell 27.6 51-127 23-73 2.6 7.4
05 Stewart, Rodrick 13.4 32-65 3-14 2.6 3.4
45 Aldrich, Cole 8.4 27-52 0-0 3.2 2.9
02 Teahan, Conner 3.5 15-25 11-18 0.6 2.9
14 Reed, Tyrel 7.2 15-30 9-21 0.5 2.3
10 Case, Jeremy 5.0 12-35 6-20 0.3 1.5
11 Bechard, Brennan 1.8 4-8 2-5 0.3 1.2
54 Kleinmann, Matt 2.3 2-6 0-0 0.6 0.4
22 Buford, Chase 1.8 1-9 0-6 0.5 0.2
40 Witherspoon, Brad 1.7 0-3 0-2 0.2 0.0
marcus hall, 6-foot-2 senior guard
The Houston native shot 3-of-6 from the three
point line and had 13 points in Colorado loss to
Kansas on Feb. 2.
Cory higgins, 6-foot-5 freshman guard
The Danville, Calif., freshman has started every
game, averaging 8.4 points per game. Higgins
father, Rod, is the General Manager of the NBAs
Charlotte Bobcats.
dwight Thorne ii, 6-foot-3 sophomore
guard
Thorne, the cousin of former Texas A&M
guard Acie Law IV, is playing 14.5 points
per game. He started his third game of the
season against Oklahoma last Saturday.
Richard Roby, 6-foot-6 senior
guard
Rogers is a former Kansas
recruit and a former high
school teammate of Darrell
Arthur. Hes also
Baylors only scor-
ing option in the
frontcourt.
marcus King-
Stockton, 6-foot-9 senior
forward
King-Stockton is
Colorados only starter
over 6-foot-6. The Denver
native was limited to three
points in Colorados frst game
against Kansas.
Xavier Silas, 6-foot-5 sopho-
more guard
Silas has started 19 games,
but came of the bench
against Oklahoma last Satur-
day, scoring six points in 20
minutes.
The Bufaloes surprised some
folks the last time they faced
Kansas. Colorado and Kansas
were tied up at halftime, 30-30,
before Kansas pulled away
for a 72-59 victory. Colorados
surprise performance against
might have been a much-
needed confdence booster. In
its last two games, Colorado
lost narrowly at Oklahoma State
64-63, and upset Oklahoma in
Boulder, Colo., 72-58. Senior
guard Richard Roby who
scored 22 points against Kansas
on Feb. 2 is averaging 17.8
points per game in his last fve
games. But will any of that
matter on Saturday? Colorado
hasnt won at Allen Fieldhouse
since 1983.
whos the worst team in
the conference?
The Bufs are sitting in
12th place in the Big 12 after
Oklahoma State upset Baylor
on Thursday. Colorado is also
the only team in the conference
with a losing record. First-year
coach Jef Bzdelik inherited a
downtrodden program, and
hes got the coaching skill to
turn Colorado around. But right
now, Colorado is living in last-
place-ville, population: one.
I really feel like Colorado,
when you look at their scores,
theyve played better at home,
but theyre one of the teams
that has gotten a lot better on
the road. They lose to Texas by
a basket, they lose to Oklahoma
State by one, theyve made
gradual improvement the
whole time. Even though we
won the game by 13 out there,
I dont think our players will
think that was easy, because
they made us play the entire 40
minutes.
Bill Self on playing
Colorado
allen fieldhouse will rock if
The old Jayhawks show up. You know, the team that toasted Okla-
homa and made a joke out of Miami and Ohio. Kansas looked like a
dominant team earlier this season. The last two weeks, the Jayhawks
havent played the same. Kansas needs to bring back the intensity and
toughness it played with earlier this season and turn this Colorado game
into a laugher early in the frst half.
Phog allen will roll over in over in his Grave if
Richard Roby puts on a show in his last game at Allen Fieldhouse. Hard
to believe but Roby will fnally be gone. He went from outstanding fresh-
man to super sophomore to forgotten upperclassmen. Hes still a good
player but like Russell Robinson said two weeks ago, Hes not as good as
he was his freshman year. Perhaps Roby will put on a fnal show and score
30 or more points. Its unlikely but not impossible. If he does, Colorado
might have a small chance to win.
Player mins Fg-FgA 3Fg-3FgA Rebs Pts
23 Roby, Richard 33.9 135-267 35-83 6.4 17.1
01 Hall, Marcus 36.8 109-233 39-99 3.9 12.9
13 Silas, Xavier 30.2 66-167 19-60 3.2 9.9
11 Higgins, Cory 32.7 68-148 21-58 4.1 8.4
24 Knutson, Levi 16.9 36-86 20-58 1.3 4.7
31 Jackson-Wilson, Jermey 18.6 44-93 0-2 4.2 4.5
12 Thorne II, Dwight 14.5 22-54 7-25 1.4 3.4
32 King-Stockton, Marcus 15.8 18-37 0-2 3.2 2.4
21 Patterson, Caleb 8.7 6-26 1-10 1.4 1.5
25 Zehnder, Andrew 2.8 2-3 1-1 0.0 1.3
44 Beckley, Trent 3.2 0-0 0-0 0.3 0.3
14 Coney, Javon 2.8 1-4 0-3 0.2 0.3
Kansas
(23-2, 8-2)