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BY CALEB SOMMERVILLE
csommerville@kansan.com
When Brendan Staunton, San Diego fresh-
man, came back from winter break, his com-
puter had crashed. He took it to ResNet and
called Dell several times before taking it to Geek
Squad, the technical support group at Best Buy.
Staunton said the first thing the Geek
Squad employee asked him was whether or
not he lived in the residence halls and had
Sophos Antivirus installed on his computer.
When KU students sign up for Internet
access from the residence halls and other on-
campus housing, they are required to install
Sophos Antivirus in order to connect.
According to ResNets Web site, the
University uses the Sophos program because
ResNet volunteers are trained in dealing
with it, and can therefore offer free techni-
cal support, and because it updates with the
latest virus information.
According to Sophos Web site, 1.5 mil-
lion faculty, staff, and students use their
software in an American university setting.
Jennifer Torode, public relations man-
ager for Sophos Plc., said the University
reported a 99 percent installation and use
success rate with Sophos users. She said that
occasionally glitches happened.
Torode also encouraged students having
problems to talk to ResNet.
Bill Myers, director of assessment and
outreach for information services, said that
ResNet only knew of three Sophos-related
problems out of around 4,000 subscribers.
He said that fewer than one percent of
ResNet users have report-
ed problems with Sophos.
Myers also said that the
University has been using
Sophos for about five years.
He said the reasons for the
University picking Sophos
was that it ran better in
tests against other antivirus
programs like Norton and
McAfee, detected some
viruses that other programs
didnt and took up less space
than other programs.
He also emphasized the importance of
having an anti-virus program.
Requiring a standard anti-virus package
helps ensure the security of the network for
everyone, Myers said.
Not all students are impressed with
Sophos, though.
Staunton said that even the person he
talked to at ResNet said Sophos was a bad
program. He wanted to install another anti-
virus program like Norton Anti-Virus, but
ResNet would not allow multiple anti-virus
programs to run.
I dont know everything about comput-
ers, but I was a little shocked when I took
it in to get it fixed and even the people
who were working for
ResNet were saying
that it is a huge prob-
lem, Staunton said.
Tim Taylor, Chicago
freshman, still does not
have Internet access on
his computer.
After taking it to
ResNet several times,
Taylor said that he
could download
Sophos, but it wouldnt
complete the checks
required to actually complete the installation.
I think that they should find some other
way to make it easier for us to get Internet,
Taylor said.
Amber Nelson, Denver freshman, said
that a lot of her friends, including Taylor and
Staunton, have had problems with ResNet.
After she and her friends went to Geek
Squad twice, she got a surprising answer.
I asked if Sophos was bad and he gasped
because I guess it is that bad, Nelson said.
Staunton said that when he took his
computer in to Geek Squad, they immedi-
ately guessed that Sophos was the problem,
and said that they got computers that crash
because of Sophos all the time.
They shouldnt make us do Sophos, its
ridiculous, Taylor said.
Ryan Zindorf, an employee of Geek
Squad, said that Sophos does not offer full
protection against virus.
Zindorf said that Sophos watches what
youre doing and warns you if something
is trying to install, but doesnt scan files or
remove existing viruses.
The best way to protect against viruses,
Zindorf said, was to install a licensed copy of
an anti-virus program like Norton and pair
it with a spyware remover like SpySweeper.
Those programs watch, protect, and remove
harmful things.
Students should always watch what they
download, and where they download from,
Zindorf said. Peer-to-peer file sharing pro-
grams like Limewire and Morpheus can be
dangerous, since you dont always know where
the files are coming from or what they are.
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KU student Stephanie Meehan wont
spend her summer like most students this
year. She has decided to bike across the
country to raise awareness the affordable
housing. Meehan will bike more than 3,000
miles with 30 people, stopping to help build
homes along the way.
Punch cards for Better Bites entrees
will be available for students on campus
this semester.
The cards award students with a free
Better Bites entree and free water bottle
after the purchase of five Better Bites
entrees from KU cafeterias.
Electro-sexual trio Chow Nasty
will perform this Monday at the Replay
Lounge as part of the tour promoting
its new album. The band boasts driving
bass rhythms with a high-energy stage
presence.
Pizza and Politics has seen a rise in its
attendance after a student changed the way
the program worked. Pizza and Politics offers
free pizza and a political speaker on a specific
topic that appeals to students. Todays speaker
is Geoff Earle, a New York Post correspondent
who covers Hillary Clintons campaign.
A new study abroad program is being offered
at the University of Kansas, and a large scholar-
ship is being offered for students who partici-
pate. The program is for chemistry majors and
offers the possibility for a dual degree.
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I asked if Sophos was bad and
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By Ashley BArforoush
abarforoush@kansan.com
Hes second in command to
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and
most students dont even know his
name.
Who is the provost anyway?
Anna Czarnecki, Overland Park
freshman, said.
He has a soft
voice and strong
ideas. He can
speak three lan-
guages fluently,
four with some
difficulty. He
has written three
books in Sanskrit
and has just
returned from his annual trip to
India.
Richard Lariviere, provost and
executive vice chancellor, came to
the University in 2006 leaving his
position as the Dean of the College
of Liberal Arts at the University
of Texas. Now the deans report to
him.
This student body is much
smaller than Texas so theres a more
personal feel here, Lariviere said.
He is the chief academic offi-
cer, responsible for implement-
ing the academic mission of the
University: superior education.
Basically, this means frequent
traveling and constant meetings.
His day is divided among stu-
dents, facility, donors, alumni and
legislators, business that starts at
7:30 a.m. and doesnt end until 8
p.m. However, his list of duties
doesnt stop there.
At KU, the provost is also the
chief operating officer which means
I have to make sure the side walks
are shoveled, Lariviere said.
Lariviere said the best part of
his job is serving the students.
Recently the provost office cre-
ated an online advising kit sav-
ing students and faculty valuable
time. Now an advisor can look up
students appointment histories so
when a student arrives, they can
dive right into business.
I think my favorite, no, I know
my favorite part is when something
that the provost office does makes
it easier for the faculty and the stu-
dents to do what they are here to do,
Lariviere said.
He said if he could have things
his way, there would be more
money, more space, more facul-
ty and better weather. Lariviere
is also hopeful for Americans to
open up their eyes. He travels to
India on business and is fasci-
nated by the dynamic economy in
that region. He finds it discourag-
ing that so many students con-
sider India inferior to the United
States.
Thats a mistake. Its one of the
issues we need to work on in higher
education in America the level of
ignorance of not just our students
but the population in general of
whats really happening in the rest of
the world, Lariviere said.
Hes always been interested in
how law and religion work together
to shape society. Fluent in French
and Hindi, if theres one person that
is aware, its Lariviere.
He really understands the
world, which is tremendously help-
ful when it comes to education,
Lynn Bretz Director of University
Communications said.
Lariviere is able to read half a
dozen different languages and write
published works in the Indian lan-
guage Sanskrit, which can be found
in the Watson Library. He cant recite
all the places hes been without stop-
ping for air.
Ive been to all the countries of
Europe, most countries of Asia and
South America, Nepal, India, Sri
Lanka, Pakistan, Northern Africa
and Texas, Lariviere said.
With such worldly experience
he is able to see the University
through a unique perspective.
Lariviere said he has a definite
vision for the University that he
wants to achieve.
KU is a really good institution
its a lot better than the rest of the
world knows, its even better than
members of community under-
stand, Lariviere said. I would like
to see KU take its rightful place in
that pantheon of institutions that
everybody instinctively thinks of
when they think of great educa-
tion.
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To me, Judo is like a ballet,
except theres no music, no
choreography and the dancers
knock each other down.
Jack Handey
Founded in 1882 by Jigoro
Kano, Judo is a refnement
of the ancient martial art of
Jujutsu.
www.judoinfo.com
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at 8:30 p.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
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take place between 9 a.m. and
8 p.m. in the Watson Library.
The workshop Blackboard Strat-
egies and Toolswill begin at 9
a.m. in room 6 of Budig Hall.
The Journalism Career Fair will
begin at 10 a.m. in the Kansas
Room in the Kansas Union.
The Max Falkenstien Book Sign-
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Bookstore in the Kansas Union.
The workshop Endnote: Librar-
ies and Databases will begin
at 12:30 p.m. in the Anschutz
Library Instruction Center.
Tea Time will begin at 3 p.m.
in the Traditions Area in the
Kansas Union.
The workshop Choosing your
Major will begin at 3:30 p.m. in
149 Burge.
The Rock Chalk Revue will be-
gin at 7 p.m. in the Lied Center
Twelfth Night by William
Shakespeare will begin at 7:30
p.m. in the Crafton-Preyer The-
atre in Murphy Hall.
The panel discussion Straight
From the Trail: Part Two with Politi-
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p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
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By helen MuBArAk
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Founded in 1962, the Judo Club
allows students of all skill levels to
learn the combat techniques of Judo
and show off their skills in tourna-
ments.
Judo is a modernized version
of the ancient martial art, Jujutsu,
which was used in feudal Japan. The
sport involves specialized pins, con-
trol holds and arm locks, as well as
throwing and choking techniques.
Club president Chad Steele,
Lawrence senior, began learning
Judo five years ago.
The thing I like most about Judo
is the aggressive and physical style it
has compared to other martial arts,
which are weak and boring, Steele
said.
He said, during meetings, mem-
bers begin by stretching and con-
ditioning because Judo emphasizes
safety. After warming up, the mem-
bers practice throws and ground
attacks before sparring.
Chris Coen, Prairie Village soph-
omore, joined the club after taking
Judo as an elective.
(Judo) is a great thing to know,
Coen said. Its a fun way to exercise
and learn some techniques that are
applicable.
In addition to the exercise aspect
of the sport, Judo is also a method
of self-defense. Practices involve
uchikomi, which is partnered stand-
ing practice, and randori, controlled
sparring.
Judo is a great way to get exercise
while choking people, Steele said.
Despite the aggressive nature of
the sport, however, attitudes at Judo
tournaments are not hostile. Club
member Tim Bogner, Kansas State
University graduate from Winfield,
said the goal of tournaments is to
practice Judo and build friend-
ships around the sport. He said he
has noticed camaraderie develop
not only between members of the
Judo Club at the University, but
also between members of different
teams.
We still play competitively, but
it isnt as though were out to hurt
each other, Bogner said. Even if, for
instance, a member of my club is in a
bout with a member of another club
and the other guy manages to throw
our guy, well probably still applaud
him if it was a very well-executed
technique.
To join the club, each member
must pay a $25 fee, which goes
toward traveling for tournaments and
entrance fees. Funding from Student
Senate subsidizes these costs.
Its well worth the money, espe-
cially because we travel a lot, Steele
said.
Bogner started practicing Judo
through the club last year. He said
he has noticed major improvements
since his first tournament.
I would definitely recommend
the club to other people, Bogner
said.
No level of skill is necessary
to join. The club meets Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Sundays from 5
p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Martial Arts
Room of the Student Recreation and
Fitness Center. Those interested in
joining can send an email to judo@
ku.edu.
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on
Organizations
Judo
Club
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Two Judo combatants spar on Aug. 19, 2007. Judo Club lets students practice a modernized ver-
sion of the ancient martial art of Jujutsu.
Whos
Who
KU
at
Provost Richard Lariviere
CoNTRibUTed PhoTo
in addition to being the provost, Richard Lariviere speaks three languages, has published
three books in Sanskrit and has taken annual trips to India.
Lariviere
daily KU info
Almost 50 years ago, the KU
mens basketball team beat
Nebraska by 56 points. That was
KUs most lopsided conference
victory until Mondays 58 point
win over Texas Tech.
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senate notebook
Student plans 3,500-mile bike trip
BY BRENNA HAWLEY
bhawley@kansan.com
This summer, Stephanie Meehan
wont be working a job, complet-
ing an internship or going on a
beach vacation. Instead, she will
bike more than 3,500 miles across
the country to raise awareness for
affordable housing.
Meehan, Topeka senior, said she
wanted to take the summer off
after graduating and before going
to graduate school in the fall. Then,
a friend at another university men-
tioned the Bike and Build program
and Meehan decided to become an
activist.
Affordable housing is not
a cause I ever really thought of
before, Meehan said. It doesnt
cross peoples minds enough.
Bike and Build started in 2002
to raise awareness for affordable
housing. According to the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 12 million people
pay more than 50 percent of their
yearly income on their home,
which leaves many unable to afford
other living expenses. For Bike and
Build, riders bike across the coun-
try during a summer, averaging 70
miles a day. Every few days, bikers
stop at a building site of organiza-
tions like Habitat for Humanity
and help build affordable houses.
Meehan and her friend chose
the Boston to Santa Barbara, Calif.,
route because Meehan had never
been to the east coast before. Then
they started preparing for the long
fundraising and training journey
ahead.
Activism in Action
Meehan has to raise $4,000 to
go on the ride, as required by the
program. She has $600, but said
if she didnt raise the money, she
didnt get to go on the trip. She
said most of the money went back
into the organizations the program
collaborates.
Bikers must also get eight hours
of experience on a building job site
before going on the trip.
We arent actually raising
money to send somewhere, but we
actually get to see and do, Meehan
said.
She said that part of the draw
for the program was to spread
awareness, and that bikers give a
presentation at each stop of the
two-month-long trip.
This is genuine, Meehan said.
If you didnt want to do it you
wouldnt bike across the country.
The group isnt hard to miss
because all 30 bikers in the group
wear the same jersey. They also
bike near each other.
trAining for the trip
Meehan said she was naturally
an athletic person, so her friends
werent surprised she decided to
go on the trip. Meehan said that in
high school she was on the swim
team. Now she swims up to three
times a week, runs often and does
40-minute bike rides.
Its all about being fit enough,
she said.
Last summer, Meehan completed
two triathlons and still regularly
rides to campus when the weather
is nice. However, two triathlons of
bike-riding dont equal the 3,656
miles shell ride this summer. When
the weather improves, she said
she would ride with the Lawrence
Bicycle Club.
Meehans friend Allie Kassoy was
on the swim team with Meehan in
high school. Though graduating,
she said she was burnt out academi-
cally. She also said she was really
passionate about sports, so biking
across the country with a friend
sounded like fun. She said nostalgia
about her own childhood home led
her to want to help people without
their own.
Grinnell (college) and my par-
ents have taught me the importance
of giving back to others, Kossoy
said.
The cross-country trip will keep
a structured schedule, with the
usual wake-up call at 6 a.m. Riders
will sleep at churches, host homes,
or wherever the trip coordinator
can find. By 7:30 a.m., the group
will leave. They can stop along the
way for meals, pictures or sightsee-
ing. They dont have to stay together
as a group, because some members
cycle faster than others. Meehan
said they would shower when they
can, and go without when a shower
is not available. She said riders got
only 4,500 cubic inches of space for
their luggage and everything they
need must fit there.

Building AwAreness
Brendan Newman, Bike and
Build program director, said the
goal of the program was to get
college-aged people involved with
issues and to keep them involved.
It worked for Newman. He com-
pleted the program in the summer
of 2006 and liked it so much that
he decided to work for the pro-
gram.
You pretty much fall in love
with it, Newman said.
The program started in 2002
with two routes and has been full
every year since then. This sum-
mer, the program will offer seven
separate routes, each with about
30 riders.
Newman said he started receiv-
ing applications in September, and
some 18 to 25 year-olds come back
for second or third trips. Others,
he said, werent as experienced.
Some people have never ridden
a bike in their life, Newman said.
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donate
Stephanie Meehan is biking
across the country to help
give people better homes, but
must raise $4,000 to go on the
trip. Heres how to help.
VISIT www.bikeandbuild.
org
CLICK on the blue Donate
button
SELECT Meehans name
as the rider you would like to
sponsor
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ductible
Taylor Miller/KANSAN
Stephanie Meehan is riding across the country to raise awareness for the afordable housing; she
has to do fundraising and train to bike. Meehan said she liked to train on the bike paths between
Southwind Plaza and Clinton Lake.
Student Senate commit-
tees met last night at the
Burge Union. Bills that pass
both committees that they go
through will head to full Sen-
ate next Wednesday.
Multicultural fund put
under Senate rules
Both the finance commit-
tee and student rights
committee passed legisla-
tion to move the Multicul-
tural Education Fund Board
under the authority of
Student Senate Rules and
Regulations. The board is
in Appendix N of Student
Senate Rules and Regula-
tions, which is not subject
to Senate oversight.
Students chose through
referendum to pay $1.50
per semester to the board,
which equals about
$80,000. The board then
helps fund multicultural
events and groups. The
board is classified as a
funding board, which is
not subject to a fee review
every three years like other
boards are.
Brian Hardouin, law
senator, said moving the
board would increase ac-
countability for student
fees. He also said that
moving the board would
make fees subject to Stu-
dent Executive Committee
review.
Nancy Hoch, chair of the
Multicultural Education
Fund Board, said she agreed
the board needed some
kind of review, but did not
agree that Studex should
be the body that reviews.
She suggested instead that
a new appeals board be
created to review all groups
like the board.
I dont think Senate
appeals to Studex through
process should be directed
solely at MEF, Hoch said.
Creation of a National
Latino Fraternity seat
The student rights
committee unanimously
passed legislation to create
a Senate seat to represent
the National Association of
Latino Fraternal Organiza-
tion, or NAFLO. The three
other Greek organizations
have representatives on
Senate.
Jason Oruch, off-campus
senator who wrote the bill,
said the Universitys NAFLO
was one of two in the entire
nation. He said creating a
seat for the organization
would set a precedent for
other schools around the
country.
Oruch said members of
Latino fraternities and so-
rorities created NAFLO this
year after being asked to
leave the National Pan-Hel-
lenic Council, an organiza-
tion of black fraternities
and sororities. The Latino
organizations were not one
of the nine nationally-ap-
proved NPHC members, so
the national organization
told the Lawrence chapter
to remove them.
Expansion of KJHK
The fnance committee
passed legislation to fund
the $75,000 KJHK 90.7 FM
expansion project. The bill
was passed last semester in
students right committee but
tabled in fnance. Funds from
the project will come from
the Student Senate Reserve
Account if passed in full
Senate.
Brenna Hawley
NEWS 4A Thursday, March 6, 2008
EvEnt
Dole Institute program pairs politics with pepperoni
BY BRENNA HAWLEY
bhawley@kansan.com
Today, a correspondent for the
New York Post will speak to stu-
dents about what its like to ride in
Hillary Clintons personal jet and
report her campaigns every move.
He, along with a man elected to
the Kansas legislature at 22 years-
old and the woman responsible for
overseeing more than 1,700 insur-
ance companies in Kansas, are part
of the revamped Pizza and Politics
program.
The Robert J. Dole Institute of
Politics, which plays co-host to the
events with the University of Kansas
Alumni Association, said that atten-
dance had doubled this year com-
pared to 2004, the year the program
started.
Tom Cox, Shawnee senior and
organizer of the event, said the pro-
gram, which is held during lunch-
time and offers free pizza and a
political discussion, averaged 60 stu-
dents per event. Cox works for the
Dole Institute.
Cox said this year he wanted to
find speakers who would appeal
to more students. Cox said that he
chose speakers and then organized
a discussion based on the speakers
area of expertise.
My goal was to get students
whod never heard about Pizza and
Politics to hear about it, Cox said.
If nothing else, theyre interested in
a free lunch.
Cox coordinated a lunch last
fall that brought in Josh Svaty (D
Ellsworth) and Kevin Yoder (R
Overland Park), two Kansas legisla-
tors who were less than 30 years old.
Svaty was 22 when he was elected to
the State House of Representatives,
which made him the second-young-
est elected representative ever in
Kansas. Yoder was a former KU
student body president, so Cox said
many students came to the event
because it related to them.
Svaty said he liked talking to
the students because they were so
interested and engaged in politics
already and because it was a fun
atmosphere.
We stayed quite a while after-
ward to talk, Svaty said.
Cox, who said he researched for
this event and others, said he walked
out more informed each time.
Its difficult to walk out knowing
the same amount as when you went
in, Cox said.
Amanda Applegate, Wichita
junior, said she had been going to
Pizza and Politics for about a year.
She is now the chairwoman of the
subcommittee for Pizza and Politics,
and even as a pharmacy major, she
said politics were important.
Politics affect everybody whether
they like it or not, Applegate said.
Applegate said she pushed to
bring in Sandy Praeger, Kansas
Insurance Commissioner, as a guest.
Praeger will talk about health care
reform and the presidential candi-
dates health insurance plans, which
Applegate said should appeal to
pharmacy and pre-med majors as
well as political science majors.
Politics affect how we will prac-
tice, Applegate said.
Jonathan Earle, interim director of
the Dole Institute, started Pizza and
Politics in fall 2004 as an idea bor-
rowed from the Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University.
He said it was a way to attract people
who wouldnt normally go to West
Campus to Dole Institute events. In
summer 2006, a student took over
the program and now a student-run
board monitors it.
Earle said the guests often spoke
at other Dole Institute events but he
asked them to come early for Pizza
and Politics. He said he paid speak-
ers for their travel costs but nothing
else, and the students in charge orga-
nized all lunches and helped choose
the speakers.
I tell them to put me into bank-
ruptcy with how many pizzas we
have to buy, Earle said.
Earle said the event was even
advertised by Marc Langston,
Wichita senior and three-year Pizza
and Politics veteran, who put on a
pizza slice costume.
Ill never forget introducing
myself to Senator Dole in his law
office in Washington, D.C. as he
remarked I think I saw a picture of
you as a pizza, Langston said.
Todays speaker, Geoff Earle, is
the Washington, D.C. correspondent
for the New York Post and is cover-
ing Clintons presidential campaign.
Earle travels with Clinton on her
personal jet and stays in the same
hotels, so he is close to the politics
and can tell students what it is really
like on the campaign trail. The event
will be from 12:15 to 1:45 p.m. at the
Adams Alumni Center.
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upcoming pizza and politics
Geof Earle, new York Post
reporter who covers Clinton
campaign
Thursday, March 6 at 12:20 pm
at the Alumni Association
Sandy Praeger, Kansas Insur-
ance Commissioner
Tuesday, March 25 at 12:20 pm
at the Alumni Association
Other speakers will be confrmed
later
PolItICS
Tension escalates as Venezuela stations troops on Colombian border
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CARACAS, Venezuela
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
portrayed himself as a man of peace
Wednesday, even as he moved tanks
and soldiers to the Colombian bor-
der in a growing crisis set off by
Colombias weekend attack on leftist
rebels hiding in Ecuadorean terri-
tory.
Most of the 9,000 soldiers mobi-
lized by Chavez have reached the
frontier and are ready to defend the
sacred sovereignty of the homeland
if necessary against Colombias U.S.-
supported military, the defense min-
istry said. Ecuador said it sent 3,200
soldiers to its border with Colombia
on Monday.
Chavez blamed the crisis on the
U.S. empire and its lackeys
Colombias conservative government
saying they pose a constant threat
of war in the region, not Venezuela
or Ecuador. We are peace. We are
the path to peace, the leftist leader
said in a televised speech.
Chavez and his ally, Ecuadorean
President Rafael Correa, have been
seeking international condemnation
of Colombia for the commando raid
on Ecuadorean soil that killed a key
Colombian rebel leader and other
guerrillas Saturday.
They scored a victory of sorts in
Washington on Wednesday, where
the Organization of American States
approved a resolution drafted jointly
by Ecuador and Colombia declaring
the attack a violation of Ecuadors
sovereignty. The resolution also
called for OAS Secretary-General
Jose Miguel Insulza to lead a delega-
tion to both countries to help ease
tensions.
The United States was the only
OAS nation offering Colombia
unqualified support. Many other
countries worried openly about the
attack inside Ecuador, which along
with Venezuela has been accused by
Colombian officials of providing ref-
uge to leftist Colombian guerrillas.
Correa called Colombian
President Alvaro Uribe a liar who
wanted war, and warned that if the
attack went unpunished, the region
will be in danger, because the next
victim could be Peru. It could be
Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, any one of
our countries.
Uribe, whose decision to attack
the rebel camp reflected his frustra-
tion over the ability of guerrillas to
find refuge across poorly patrolled
jungle borders, said he would not
mobilize troops or allow his nation
to be drawn into war with his neigh-
bors.
Ecuadors security minister,
Gustavo Larrea, conceded that prob-
lem. The FARC had promised not
to operate inside Ecuador, and the
attack showed the rebels did not
keep their promise, he said. Correa
suggested Colombias attack was
carried out to sabotage efforts by
Venezuela and Ecuador to persuade
the rebels to release more hostages.
The attack killed two dozen rebels,
including Raul Reyes, the public face
of the Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia, who was involved in
the hostage negotiations.
Colombias government says its
commandos recovered a laptop
computer full of documents that it
alleges show FARC has ties to both
Chavez and Correa.
In Washington, a top U.S. diplo-
mat said American experts would
soon examine the computers hard
drive. This is the first time that
weve stumbled across something
coming from the FARC drawing
such a straight line between the reb-
els and Chavez, Assistant Secretary
of State Thomas A. Shannon said.
In his speech, Chavez did not
refer to Colombian allegations that
he had given $300 million to the
FARC and conspired with the reb-
els to embarrass Colombias govern-
ment. Venezuela earlier denied the
charges.
Other documents released by
Colombia suggest Reyes was secretly
negotiating with representatives of
France, Venezuela, Ecuador, the U.S.
and other nations on freeing hos-
tages, including French-Colombian
politician Ingrid Betancourt and
three American defense contractors.
Those representatives were said
to include Larrea, Ecuadors security
minister, who said he didnt rule out
the possibility the rebels still might
release Betancourt.
We think an adequate response,
in this critical moment for the
Andean region, is that they free the
hostages, he said.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM The moderate
Palestinian leadership agreed under
heavy U.S. pressure Wednesday to
resume peace talks with Israel, drop-
ping a demand that Israel first reach
a truce with Islamic Hamas militants
acting as spoilers.
The announcement gave Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice a modest
accomplishment for a brief trouble-
shooting mission. It left open the
question of how both sides will even-
tually confront Hamas militants in
charge of the 1.4 million Palestinians
nearly half the population liv-
ing in the sealed-off Gaza Strip.
The peace process is a strate-
gic choice and we have the inten-
tion of resuming the peace process,
Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas said. He did not say when
talks would restart, but U.S. and
other officials predicted it would be
in about a week.
Rice said Abbas had assured her
he will return to talks. Doing so is
a political risk for Abbas, who had
broken off negotiations last weekend
to protest an especially deadly Israeli
military incursion into Gaza. More
than 120 Palestinians were killed,
along with three Israelis, over a week
of heightened violence.
If Israeli-Palestinian talks resume
as pledged it will essentially restore
the precarious balance in place since
President Bush announced last fall
that the two sides would resume
full negotiations for the first time
in seven years. The talks are
supposed to frame a deal for a
Palestinian state this year.
Israeli and West Bank
Palestinian negotiators had been
meeting regularly, and keeping
their discussions secret, before
Abbas pulled out. The talks had
produced nothing in public, and
were undermined on the one hand
by continued Israeli housing activ-
ity on land the Palestinians claim
and on the other by the inability of
Palestinian security forces to control
militants.
Earlier Wednesday, Abbas had
said he would not restart negotia-
tions until Israel declared a truce in
Hamas-controlled Gaza.
Although he holds no authority
in Gaza since Hamas violent take-
over there last June, a Gaza truce
could benefit Abbas. Israeli military
action is so unpopular in both ter-
ritories, and across the Arab world,
that it undermines Abbas authority
and makes it politically difficult for
him to negotiate with Israel.
Israel and the United States fear
that negotiations for a cease-fire
would give Hamas a political legiti-
macy it does not deserve.
Abbas backed down after Rice
called him in alarm just before an
afternoon press conference with
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni,
where Rice planned to announce an
agreement reached that morning to
revive talks.
Gaza, and the deep Palestinian
leadership split it represents, hangs
over the discussions. Israel and the
United States have pinned peace
hopes on Abbas moderate-led gov-
ernment in the West Bank while
refusing contact with Hamas, which
they call a terrorist organization.
Israel has also tried to punish the
militants for indiscriminate rocket
attacks from Gaza into southern
Israel by closing borders with Gaza
and cutting utilities.
news 5A Thursday, March 6, 2008
study abroad
Chemistry majors fnd
formula for success
CONTRIBUTED PHTO
Students enjoy participating in study abroad activities. The EU Atlantis programis a joint efort
between two American and two European universities. It is funded by the federal FIPSE program.
Atlantis to whisk students away
BY CALEB SOMMERVILLE
csommerville@kansan.com
The University of Kansas is
offering a study abroad program in
Germany and Ireland, but its not for
architecture or art.
Its for chemistry.
Last year, the KU chemistry
department started the EU Atlantis
Program, a study abroad program
with the University of Arkansas,
Dublin City University in Ireland,
and the University of Regensburg in
Germany.
There are six slots available, and a
$12,000 scholarship will be given to
all students that participate.
The program is split between
Dublin and Regensburg and is for a
full school year.
This is really the first year that
were really advertising broadly, said
Jeffrey Aube, professor of medicinal
chemistry.
Last year, the University was busy
making arrangements.
The $12,000 scholarship is fund-
ed by a part of the Department of
Education and the European Union.
Funds for the Improvement of
Post-Secondary Education, or FIPSE,
provided the funding.
Aube said that this program was
unique, because there werent as
many chemistry study abroad pro-
grams as others.
Students who participate in the
program will be taking the same
kind of courses they would at the
University, as well as studying
German.
Students who complete the
program will be eligible for a
Bachelor of Science chemistry
degree from the University of
Kansas and the University of
Regensburg.
The deadline for the fall semester
is March 17 and the deadline for
spring is Oct. 1. Students who are
currently working toward a degree
in chemistry are eligible to apply.
Edited by SamLamb
Live Music
Band combines genres, creates beat
BY ANDREW WIEBE
awiebe@kansan.com
San Francisco based Chow
Nasty wants everyone who attends
its shows to come away with some-
thing. As such, the electro-sex-
ual trios music and stage act are
intended to appeal, above all, to a
live audience.
We try to get everybody, bass
player Joey Enos said. Even the
drunk, pissed-off guy at the end of
the bar. If we can get him listening
and tapping his foot then weve
done our job.
On Monday at the Replay
Lounge, Chow Nasty will perform
in Lawrence for the first time as
part of the tour promoting its sec-
ond full album, Super (Electrical)
Recordings. Lead vocalist and
guitar player Damon Harris said
Chow Nasty combines electronica,
funk, R&B and soul into a dance
beat heavy mixture thats primal
nature is especially conducive to
live performances.
We love playing live, said
Harris, who includes James Brown,
Tom Petty and the Beach Boys as
some of his musical influences. Its
the cornerstone of our thing.
Percussion expert Zac Hewitt
said the bands high energy music
and stage presence have been get-
ting audiences to hit the dance
floor since the bands beginnings
in Chicago. Chow Nasty eventually
moved onto the West Coast.
We put on a show that they
couldnt have expected at all,
Hewitt said. You see them and
theyre all riled up and had a good
time.
Chow Nastys driving bass is a
result of the drum machines and
synthesizers it uses in place of a
human drummer, Harris said. The
band got its start playing ware-
house parties, but its current tour
includes stops in smaller, more
intimate venues. Harris said the
trio was originally scheduled
to perform in Lawrence at the
Jackpot, but a mix up moved the
performance to the Replay.
Although Chow Nasty has never
performed in Kansas, Enos said
they were looking forward to per-
forming in front of people who
may have never heard of them or
their music. Harris agreed. He said
the band takes pride in making
everyone in the venue comfortable,
involved and moving to the beat.
We really try to not have any
pretension or judgment in the
room, Harris said. Just something
where people can really feel free.
Edited by Jared Duncan
who, when, where
Who: Deamend, Kid Dakota
and Chow Nasty
When: 10:30 p.m. to close,
Monday, March 10
Where: The Replay Lounge
cost: $2
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Fromleft, Joey Enos, Damon Harris and Zac Hewitt make up the San Fransisco-based band Chow
Nasty. They will be performing Monday at the Replay Lounge, marking their frst showin Kansas.
internationaL
Palestine agrees to peace talks with Israel
ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, speaks during her joint press conference
with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, right, in a Jerusalemhotel, Wednesday. Rice said that the
Palestinians and Israel plan to return to the negotiating table.
internationaL
Bull breeder hopes
to clone prize fghter
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GUADALIX DE LA SIERRA,
Spain Alcalde, a hulking black bull,
is quite the stud. He sires up to 40
calves a year, most of them top-grade
fighters, even though in human terms
he would be almost 80 years old and
is nearing the end of his life.
Victoriano del Rio, a fifth-genera-
tion breeder of fighting bulls, cringes
at the thought of losing an animal
with such good genes. So he is going
to clone him an unprecedented
marriage of modern technology and
the Spanish-speaking worlds ancient,
beloved pastime.
I am extremely fond of this bull,
del Rio said at his ranch in this town
outside Madrid, watching 16-year-old
Alcalde graze with some of his latest
offspring. He has given us tremen-
dous satisfaction.
While a bull in its prime can sire
as many as 80 calves a year, Alcaldes
record is exceptional for an animal
of his advanced age, del Rio said.
The Spaniard is not alone in the
adventure. Rancher Jose Manuel
Fernandez in Mexico plans to rep-
licate Zalamero, another aging bull
that achieved the rare feat of dodging
death in the ring: In 1994, Zalamero
put up such a relentless fight one
autumn day that judges spared his
life. Since then he has been a price-
less stud.
While Alcalde never fought in the
ring, he comes from a prestigious
bloodline and has proved to be a pro-
ducer of champions.
Fernandez is so bullish on clon-
ing he envisions a future in which
an afternoon at the arena usually
three matadors taking on two bulls
each might involve six genetically
identical twins created from the same
beast.
What I am looking for is a path
toward innovation in bullfighting,
Fernandez said from Mexico City.
We are trying to give the show great-
er quality.
If all goes as planned, Zalamero
II or several of them, because
Fernandez is trying for four or five
will be born in November or
December. Alcaldes clone would be
born in May or June of 2009.
Both breeders have hired ViaGen,
a cloning company based in Austin,
Texas, to do the job. The technique is
essentially the same one used in 1996
to copy the sheep Dolly, the worlds
first cloned mammal.
It involves inserting the nucleus of
a somatic cell from the bull any cell
that is not a sperm cell into a cow
egg cell that has been stripped of its
nucleus. The egg undergoes electrical
and chemical stimulation to make it
divide and grow into an embryo. This
is then implanted in a surrogate cow
to be carried to term.
ViaGen spokesman Ben Carlson
confirmed the orders from del Rio
and Fernandez, but would not com-
ment on pregnancies or expected birth
dates. Carlson said the breeders would
pay standard cattle cloning prices:
$17,500 for the first calf, $15,000 for
the second, $12,500 for the third and
$10,000 for the fourth and beyond.
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10 is the easiest day, 0 the most
challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
A friends comment inspires you
to consider alternatives. What
works may include some things
you have rejected before. Re-
evaluate and reconsider.
TAurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
Gather a few close advisors
together to knock some ideas
around. The combination of your
diverse talents could produce a
stroke of genius.
GeMini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 5
You do best when youre pushed
to come up with new ideas. Its
kind of stressful at frst, but youll
do very well under this pressure.
CAnCer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
Take yourself out for a special
treat, to celebrate a recent win. If
you cant think of one, make one
up. Youre in charge of this game.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 6
You and your partner need to
work out your shopping lists.
Therell be enough for all you
need if you plan this out together.
VirGo (Aug. 23-sept. 22)
Today is an 8
A lot of your communication now
is the non-verbal kind. You can let
people know what you like, and
dont like, without saying a word.
LibrA (sept. 23-oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Work becomes top priority again,
in a good way. Use your imagina-
tion, and discover hidden paths
to success. Youre surrounded by
them.
sCorpio (oct. 23-nov. 21)
Today is an 8
You dont have to express yourself
in words to get your meaning
across. Use another way that you
and your loved one understand.
sAGiTTArius (nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 6
Its perfectly OK to hide out in the
security of your own home and
do something you really enjoy.
Hobbies save our mental health.
CApriCorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
Pay of old debts and make sure
you have enough put away for
the future. Dont expect anyone
to do it for you. Youll be more
satisfed anyway, if you do it for
yourself.
AquArius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
Money is not your greatest
motivator, by any means. Its nice
to have, however. No need to
turn it down, if you come about it
honestly.
pisCes (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
Youre more confdent now, and
very creative. Begin a project
youve been thinking about.
Therell be a few problems, but
youll emerge triumphant.
HorosCopes
rAnDoM THouGHTs
JAYMES AND SARAH LOGAN
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KAREN OHMES
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Poems are like drugseasy to get
hooked on and readily available. This
is something I have discovered in my
first poetry class.
Poetry isnt just for love-sick girls
waiting for Lloyd Dobbler to show
up with a boom-box outside their
window or chain-smoking English
majors who think theyre the next
Shakespeare.
Poetry is change. Poetry is music.
Poetry is gleaming walls of Orangina
bottles. (According to Harryette
Mullen).
Poetry is something different
for every individual, something
you should take the opportunity to
explore.
Last week, as part of An Actual
Kansas Reading Series run by Robert
Baumann and Anne Boyer, Tao
Lin and faculty member Deb Olin
Unferth read at the 6 Gallery down-
town. Lins fictional story of Dakota
Fanning and Haley Joel Osmonds
suicide partnership and Unferths
vivid description of what happens
when you leave a prostitute in your
apartment were certainly original
ideas which made for one of the
more entertaining readings Ive been
to.
Also, this past week Paul Muldoon
gave a lecture called The Eternity of
the Poem as part of the Humanities
Lecture Series. The Times Literary
Supplement described him as the
most significant English-language
poet born since the second World
War. He was described by my poetry
professor as quite possibly one of the
highest regarded living poets today.
As I sat between two of my class-
mates at his lecture, myriad thoughts
crossed my mind such as I never
knew there were so many poems
about snails and I wonder if he uses
hair products? (Those of you who
have seen his wonderfully unique
hair lately will understand that one).
I know you must be pretty
bummed you missed out on hookers,
snails and questionable hair product,
but not to fear. Today Lyn Hejinian is
reading at the Spencer Art Museum
at 4 p.m. and then speaking about
poetry at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas
Union.
For further opportunites become a
frequenter of anactualblogspot.com.
Want to actually write a poem and
read it to people? Try Aimees open
mic night the second and fourth
Tuesday of every month at 8 p.m.
For those of you who only think
you can handle poetry with a lit-
tle alcohol in your system, try the
Jazzhauss Fresh Ink Spoken Word
and Poetry. The next one is April 2.
As Muldoon said last week One
of the great things about poetry is
that for the most part it doesnt go on
for too long. So with that in mind,
read a poem. You know you can read
since youve made it this far in the
column, and thats pretty much all
the skill it takes. Walt Whitman said
To have great poets, there must be
great audiences. He means you.
Thornburgh is a Lenexa sopho-
more in womens studies and
creative writing.
Im driving down the road bump-
ing Kanye Wests Graduation cd and
applying lip gloss. That that dont
kill me, can only make me strong...
BAM!
I smear lip gloss on my cheek
and my CD player cuts out for about
three seconds. Was it because my
NASCAR-like driving skills during
multi-tasking caused a wreck?
Or was it a squirrel?
It was none of them actually.
Rather, it was an all to familiar
encounter for me and my car with
one of Lawrences most notorious
street characteristics: potholes.
Weve all taken that corner too
sharply while not paying particular
attention until one of our front tires
slams into a mini-gorge in the road,
then we curse the free world.
Although the city has a report-
ed $5.3 to $5.4 million budget, it
may appear to most that not much
of that budget is actually going to
street repair. According to Dena
Mezger, the city assistant for public
works, a major part of that money is
used on in-house materials and the
major contracted projects every year,
which include concrete and curb
replacement.
I believe our cars can testify to
the effectiveness of those replace-
ments.
Potholes work likes this: Ice
expands and when moisture gets
under the concrete turning into ice,
during the freeze-thaw cycle during
expansion, it pops the pavement up.
Growing up in Kansas, Ive been
well aware of the versatile range of
weather we experience here. These
past couple years have been colder
and harsher than usual.
I may be a country girl with
little knowledge regarding the con-
crete and pavement business that
big city men are involved in, but Im
just curious why there hasnt been a
more effective process implemented
to prevent the extreme rise of pot-
holes during the winter months.
Areas around campus especially
have treacherous potholes littered up
and down the streets. I found certain
areas in particular that appear to
do the most wear and tear on a car.
Go south down Mississippi street
away from 9th street and there are
at least six noticeable chunks of road
missing. Jayhawk Boulevard by the
Union is screaming to be filled in.
Continue south on Mississippi
Street and curve around on Memorial
Drive by Potter Lake and it gets even
bumpier with the road uneven and
baby potholes loudly making their
presence known.
The Jayhawk Bookstore at the
top of the hill was surrounded by a
couple of massive potholes on the
corner of Naismith Drive. Theyve
been filled, however, for now. Not
paying attention going around that
corner made me cringe; the loud
thud it made sounded as if it did
irreparable damage.
By Allen Fieldhouse and the
SRFC, the roads arent too bad, for
on campus. But farther outside of
campus, around the student ghetto,
the roads almost get worse. I have
to go down Ohio between 13th and
14th streets every day, and my car
sounds like its going to poop out
on me every time for subjecting
it to those painful blows from the
potholes.
The city says it seals cracks every
year, but my behind is still feeling
the bump. Its cold. I know, and weve
only had a few warm days in which
those wonderful city men can get out
and save our cars from the agony,
but is there no way end this annual
cycle? Perhaps the city could take the
millions of dollars that it is asking
for to build the Oread Inn and use it
to re-pave our streets.
McNaughton is a Topeka junior
in journalism.
Commentary
caitlin thornburgh
Senate relationship compromises constituents interests
editoriaL board
angelique Mcnaughton
Commentary
Lawrence drivers break for pot holes, honk for better roads
Athletics needs
our money!
Poetry still
breathing
despite
archaic-
sounding
rhythm
If Hillary gets elected this coun-
try is going to suck so bad.
n n n
Screw you Clinton supporters!
n n n
OK so I am not a fan of the
opinion page. It's just a bunch
of people complaining over the
same crap every damn day.
n n n

He is so cute! I wonder if he
wants to fuck me as bad as I
want to fuck him?
n n n

Something corporate is not
that talented.
n n n
Today I took a career aptitude
test and it said I'd be most
comfortable in a "conventional"
job, meaning I'm the next Pam
Beasely. What I'm wondering is
where's my Jim Halpert?
n n n
Free For All, I'd really like a
boyfriend. Can you make that
happen?
n n n
Free For All, I think I'm becom-
ing a man whore. Strangely
that doesn't bother me as
much as I thought it would.
n n n

Im short enough that when I
stand next to Cole I can stand
on my own two feet and be
able to blow his mind.
n n n
I'm a liberal, but I'm exhuberant
that McCain got the nomina-
tion. Why? No more fucking
Ron Paul people on Wescoe
Beach!
n n n
Im not crazy. I'm just disgust-
ing.
n n n
Its only Tuesday, and Im com-
pletely drained.
n n n
To the boy who ate by himself
Tuesday night at King Bufet,
please fnd me.
n n n
I wish the long-winded princess
next to me at Spahr would get
of her phone already.
Student Senate needs to stop
accepting gifts from Kansas Athletics
Inc. because doing so presents a con-
flict of interest between the Athletics
Department and those whom the
Senate is supposed to serve the
student body.
For at least the past five years,
the student body president and
vice-president have enjoyed unlim-
ited access to a Memorial Stadium
suite to watch home football games,
courtesy of Kansas Athletics Inc.
They have also been flown by the
Athletics Department to another
university to attend an away KU
football game. This past season,
President Hannah Love and Vice
President Ray Wittlinger accompa-
nied the football team and athletics
brass to College Station, Texas to see
the Jayhawks take on Texas A&M.
Associate Athletics Director Jim
Marchiony said giving students
access to the suit gives them valu-
able exposure to politicians, the
media and other KU administrators,
broadening their horizens and mak-
ing them better leaders. As for the
trip to college station, Marchiony
said it provides the student repre-
sentitives with chances to see other
Big 12 schools and how they works.
Wittlinger wrote in an e-mail
response that this opportunity
allows us to better understand the
time commitment and experience
of student athletes as they balance
academics and athletics. He added
that they also met with the members
of the Texas A&M student Senate to
swap various program ideas.
Collaborating with other univer-
sity Senates is a great idea, which
is why there are at least two stu-
dent governing conferences per
year where executive boards of Big
12 schools get together and talk
campus politics. Expenses for these
events come out of the Senate reserve
fund. The fall conference this past
semester was at the University of
Texas, only one week after Love and
Wittlinger visited Texas A&M.
Learning about the competitive
process and coming home with
governing ideas that couldve been
exchanged just a week later isnt
worth creating a future situation
where Senate has to choose between
those who have hooked them up and
the students they are charged with
serving.
Love and Wittlinger are entrusted
by students with the monumentally
important responsibility of presiding
over $18 million paid by students.
They, along with their Senate, must
allocate this money in a way that
best serves the students. The current
Senate has failed the students (and
Senates own rules) by not passing
a bill that would eliminate the $40
per semester womens and non-rev-
enue Sports fee, which sends $1.8
million annually to fund Athletics
Department projects that arent open
to all KU students.
This, along with accepting free-
bies from Kansas Athletics Inc.,
invites questions about who Senate
is really answering to.
Kansas Athletics Inc., which is
not technically affiliated with the
University, receives more of Senates
attention than most University enti-
ties. The $40 athletics fee is the
second most expensive student fee,
second only to the $105.75 Student
Health Fee, which provides all stu-
dents with a number of free medical
services.
Some senators agree that the ath-
letics fee is excessive.
I think its vital for student Senate
to have a relationship with athletics,
said Michael Wade Smith, freshman
senator. But not a $1.8 million rela-
tionship.
Student-athletes deserve to be
heard just as much as any other
student group. But Senate needs to
rethink handing out our money to a
third party that generated $100 mil-
lion in revenue during the 2006-2007
academic year.
To ensure Senate transparency,
this discussion with the athletics
department needs to come on neu-
tral ground, not on a Boeing 747.
Ian Stanford for the Editorial
Board
NEWS 8A Thursday, March 6, 2008
INsuraNce
Forum teaches students about American health system
By Jessica Wicks
jwicks@kansan.com
Jennifer Thomas, Scott City
junior, pays $950 a month in private
family insurance because she has a
son with a disability. Amy Lindgren,
Houston junior, doesnt have per-
sonal health insurance at all.
I could pay the $340 a month, but
it doesnt make any sense, Lindgren
said. I just go to Watkins.
Thomas and Lindgren attended a
forum at the Ecumenical Christian
Ministries Center Wednesday, which
addressed the American health care
system and privatized insurance.
David Goering, a physician at
Lawrence Memorial Hospital and
president of Kansas Health Care for
All, said that Lindgren was among
many Americans who risk living
without insurance, but overall,
Americans paid heavily for these
risks.
Compared to other industrialized
nations, the United States ranks the
lowest in life expectancy and the
highest in infant mortality, Goering
said.
He said he worked with the unin-
sured patients daily and could see
the crisis in its trenches, right here
in Lawrence.
This is not only a crisis at the
poverty level, Goering said, but it
has really hit the middle class.
Goering said that more than 47
million Americans lacked health
care coverage and that about 80 per-
cent of those uninsured people were
employed.
The problem, he said, was that
private insurance companies were
using Americas health problems
as an opportunity for profit rather
than caring about individual peo-
ple. Goering said people should ask
whether health care was a human
right or a privilege.
Thomas said that she would like
to find a cheaper plan, but her son
just doesnt qualify for any.
When they find out he has a dis-
ability, they immediately deny the
application, Thomas said.
Thomas said that a few years ago
she was denied personal insurance
because she was classified as obese.
Obese was described as weigh-
ing more than 135 pounds for her
height, about 5-foot-5. According
to the Center for Disease Control,
Thomas insurance providers stan-
dard for obesity rates a 22.5 on the
body mass index. The CDC recom-
mends that a body mass of 24.9 is
still within the healthy limits of an
adult. While Americans like Thomas
continue to be denied basic cover-
age, CEOs from insurance compa-
nies continue to benefit.
Individuals attending the talk
gasped when they learned how much
money insurance company CEOs
earned while middle class families
were being denied basic health care.
In 2005, United Health CEO
William McGuire made upward of
$37 million annually. He resigned in
2006 because of stock fraud, but his
exit compensation was $1.1 billion.
Lindgren said that individu-
als without private health insur-
ance ended up having to pay more
because the insurance companies get
bargains from health care providers
that the individuals cant get.
I actually tried to negotiate once.
I told them I would pay what the
insurance companies get to pay,
Lindgren said. They looked at me
like I was crazy.
Thomas said she couldnt believe
that the government has let insur-
ance companies take advantage of
Americans for this long.
She said that when her mother
had surgery, her mother was covered
by Blue Cross Blue Shield. After
the procedure, Blue Cross said her
mother was not covered completely
because her physician did not have
a contract with them. The operation
cost $65,000. Blue Cross cut her a
check for only $6,000 because that
was how much Blue Cross would
have negotiated to pay the physi-
cian.
Making a change in how the
American system works is not an
easy process, Goering said. The
Clinton administration tried and
failed in the early 90s to imple-
ment a national health care system.
Meanwhile, the cost of insurance
has risen exponentially, according
to Physicians for a National Health
Program.
Goering said that the cost of
insurance was mostly administra-
tive. Insurance companies have hired
2,500 percent more administrators
since 1970, while the number of phy-
sicians has only grown 160 percent.
So Americans are paying nearly 40
percent in insurance administrative
costs before they even start pay-
ing for actual medical procedures,
Goering said. He said that health
care should not be a for-profit busi-
ness. Goering said with a national
health care plan, the government
could not discriminate who they
gave coverage to, and since it would
be non-profit, people would not pay
more than necessary.
Physicians would no longer
focus on what the patient can afford,
but what they need for the long run,
Goering said.
Goering said that government
health care would allow people to
take care of health issues at the first
sign instead of waiting until it gets
so serious that they cannot ignore
it. Americans are not inclined to
take on a health care system like
Canada or Great Britain, Goering
said, because many Americans
believe it is not the governments
responsibility.
Referring to other nations
health care systems, Goering said,
No other industrial nation has
decided to adopt a national system
and then switched back.
Edited by Mandy Earles
Salaries of health insurance company CEOs, in millions
William McGuire United Health 37.7
Dale Wolf Coventry 22.8
John Rowe Aetna 19.7
Anthony Marlon Sierra 19.3
Edward Hanaway Cigna 17.7
Larry Glasscock Wellpoint 16.3
Graphics by Jessica Wicks
research
Photo uncovered showing Helen Keller with teacher
assOciaTeD PRess
BOSTON Researchers have
uncovered a rare photograph of a
young Helen Keller with her teacher
Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after
it was taken on Cape Cod and tucked
inside a family album.
The photograph, shot in July 1888
in Brewster, shows an 8-year-old
Helen sitting outside in a light-colored
dress, holding Sullivans hand and
cradling one of her beloved dolls.
Experts on Kellers life believe it
could be the earliest photo of the
two women together and the only
one showing the blind and deaf child
with a doll the first word Sullivan
spelled for Keller after they met in
1887 according to the New England
Historic Genealogical Society, which
now has the photo.
For more than a century, the pho-
tograph was hidden in an album that
belonged to the family of Thaxter
Spencer, an 87-year-old man in
Waltham.
Spencers mother, Hope Thaxter
Parks, often stayed at the Elijah Cobb
House on Cape Cod during the sum-
mer as a child. In July 1888, she
played with Keller, whose family had
traveled from Tuscumbia, Ala., to
vacation in Massachusetts.
Spencer, who doesnt know which
of his relatives took the picture, told
the society that his mother, four years
younger than Helen, remembered
Helen exploring her face with her
hands.
In June, Spencer donated a large
collection of photo albums, letters,
diaries and other heirlooms to the
genealogical society, which preserves
artifacts from New England families
for future research.
It wasnt until recently that staff at
the society realized the photographs
significance.
D. Brenton Simons, the societys
president and CEO, said the photo-
graph offers a glimpse of what was a
very important time in Kellers life.
Sullivan was hired in 1887 to teach
Keller, who had been left blind and
deaf after an illness at the age of one-
and-a-half. With her new teacher,
Keller learned language from words
spelled manually into her hand. Not
quite seven, the girl went from an
angry, frustrated child without a way
to communicate to an eager scholar.
While doll was the first word
spelled into her hand, Helen finally
comprehended the meaning of lan-
guage a few weeks later with the word
water, as famously depicted in the
film The Miracle Worker. Sullivan
stayed at her side until her death in
1936, and Keller became a world-
famous author and humanitarian.
She died in 1968.
Jan Seymour-Ford, a research
librarian at the Perkins School for
the Blind in Watertown, which both
Sullivan and Keller attended, said
she was moved to see how deeply
connected the women were, even in
1888.
The way Anne is gazing so intent-
ly at Helen, I think its a beautiful
portrait of the devotion that lasted
between these two women all of
Annes life, Seymour-Ford said.
ASSOCiAtEd PrESS
this 1888 photo released by the NewEngland Historic Genealogical Society in Boston shows
Helen Keller when she was eight years old, holding hands with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, during a
summer vacation to Brewster, Mass., on Cape Cod.
cRime
Former sailor convicted
of supporting terrorists
NEW HAVEN, Conn. A
former Navy sailor has been
convicted of leaking details
about his ships movements
to suspected terrorism sup-
porters.
Jurors were in their second
day of deliberations when
they convicted Hassan
Abu-Jihaad of Phoenix of
providing material support
to terrorists and disclosing
classifed national defense
information.
Federal prosecutors said
the 32-year-old sympathized
with the enemy and admitted
disclosing military intelli-
gence.
But his attorney said an
investigation failed to turn
up proof that Abu-Jihaad had
leaked information.
Associated Press
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD The Iraqi gov-
ernment is refusing to execute the
Saddam Hussein henchman and
cousin known as Chemical Ali
unless the death sentences of two
other Saddam-era officials also are
approved.
The dispute pits the government
of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
against the three-member presiden-
tial council, which moved last week
to block the two other executions in
what was seen as a possible attempt
to appease minority Sunni Arabs.
The standoff underscores the
often unclear lines of authority in
Iraq and is another blow to Iraqs
beleaguered judicial system.
Already on Wednesday, two for-
mer Health Ministry officials were
released after being cleared on
charges that they helped Shiite death
squads operate by giving them access
to hospitals and ambulances. There
are widespread allegations of witness
intimidation in those proceedings.
In the case of the executions,
government spokesman Ali al-
Dabbagh said in a telephone inter-
view that al-Malikis administration
would not take custody of al-Majid
alone and that it wanted all three
men.
The U.S. has custody of al-Majid
as well as the two others, Hussein
Rashid Mohammed, the former
deputy director of operations for
the Iraqi armed forces, and former
defense minister Sultan Hashim al-
Taie. U.S. military spokesman Maj.
Gen. Kevin Bergner said Wednesday
that no request had yet been made to
turn al-Majid over to Iraqi authori-
ties.
Last Friday, Iraqs three-member
presidential council President
Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, along with
the Sunni and Shiite vice presidents
endorsed the death sentence of
al-Majid, who earned the grim nick-
name Chemical Ali for gassing
Kurd civilians during a brutal crack-
down on their region in the 1980s.
The endorsement was thought
to be the last step before carrying
out al-Majids sentence death by
hanging within a month.
He and the two other Saddam dep-
uties were condemned in June after
being convicted of genocide, war
crimes and crimes against humanity
for their part in the Kurdish cam-
paign, known as Operation Anfal.
Al-Majid won little sympathy
when his sentence was handed
down, but al-Taie and Mohammed
were seen by some as career soldiers
who were just following orders.
Many Sunni Arabs thought al-
Taies sentence was evidence that
Shiite and Kurdish officials were
persecuting the nations once-domi-
nant minority. Saddam and many of
his closest advisers were Sunnis.
Sunni leaders, including Vice
President Tariq al-Hashemi,
launched a campaign to spare al-
Taie, and the presidential council last
week agreed not to execute either
him or Mohammed.
Al-Maliki, a Shiite, finds that
unacceptable.
The prime minister refuses to
split the death sentences issued by
the Iraqi High Tribunal, al-Dabbagh
said.
He wants them to be carried
out together. He believes that the
death sentences issued by the
High Tribunal are irreversible and
unchangeable and the (tribunals) do
not need the approval of the presi-
dency council, which has no right to
change the sentences.
It was not immediately clear what
will happen if al-Majid is not execut-
ed within the month his sentence is
supposed to be carried out, or if the
presidential council will revisit the
two other cases.
Al-Majid would be the fifth
former regime official hanged for
alleged atrocities during Saddams
nearly three-decade rule.
Nearly five years after Saddam
was toppled in the U.S.-led invasion
of Iraq, sectarian and insurgent vio-
lence persists.
But the bloodshed has been great-
ly reduced since early last year, and
more attention is shifting to rebuild-
ing and reconciliation even in
northern Iraq provinces where al-
Qaida in Iraq retains its strongest
presence.
On Wednesday, local governors
from Iraqs seven northern prov-
inces aired out their complaints to
Cabinet ministers in a rare meet-
ing, held at a U.S. military base
outside of Saddams hometown of
Tikrit.
Strained connections between
Iraqs national government and
provinces have long kept the two at
odds. Local authorities often gripe
that Baghdads bureaucracy and
political procrastination have stalled
economic growth.
Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling, the
top U.S. commander in northern
Iraq, said the timing of the effort is
key: To sustain the security gains in
Iraq, jobs must be created.
I think we have six months to
make a difference. This today is the
starting point, Hertling said.
He gave a grim prediction if prog-
ress is not made. Im going to see
more soldiers hurt and killed, and
were not going to be able to reduce
the number of forces over here ...
because there will be more people
out there planting bombs and shoot-
ing at people.
During the meeting, Raad Rashid
al-Tamimi, the governor of Diyala
province listed his concerns: finishing
a fuel distribution plant in Baqouba,
increasing electricity capacity and
digging irrigation canals.
We want to use the land but its
destroyed, al-Tamimi said of his
fertile but sectarian and tribal vio-
lence-stricken province. We want
Diyala to return to being the coun-
trys breadbasket.
Other governors complained that
security issues still made it difficult
for their banks to get cash from the
central banks, food ration cards are
not delivered on time and corrup-
tion at all levels keeps tankers from
delivering fuel.
news 9A Thursday, March 6, 2008
Its all Greek to me
ASSOCIATED PRESS
People wave Greek fags during a rally against a compromise on a dispute with Macedonia, in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki onWednesday. The two Balkan countries are engaged in UN-mediated
talks over Macedonias name. Greece argues that its northern neighbors use of the name Macedonia could imply territorial claims on the Greek province of Macedonia. The leader of a nationalist party and the
citys Orthodox bishop will address the rallies.
Global warmInG
Report predicts
irreversible damage
ASSOCIATED PRESS
OSLO, Norway The world
must deal with climate change
now or pay a much high-
er price later, the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and
Development said Wednesday.
In two decades, unchecked
environmental damage could
leave half the worlds popula-
tion without adequate drinking
water, the OECDs secretary gen-
eral, Angel
Gurria, said
Wednesday.
Cl i ma t e
change is
ma n k i n d s
most impor-
tant challenge.
We know the
enemy: It is
named car-
bon, he said.
An OECD
report on the environmental out-
look to 2030, part of a series of
reports compiled every five years,
concentrates on climate change,
water shortages, energy needs,
biodiversity loss, transportation,
agriculture and fisheries.
Without more ambitious pol-
icies, increasing pressures on the
environment could cause irre-
versible damage within the next
few decades, the report said.
The cost of inaction is high,
while ambitious actions to pro-
tect the environment are afford-
able and can go hand in hand
with economic growth.
The report also stressed the
need for a global response.
Gurria urged the United States
and developing countries with
booming economies such as
China and India to accept a bind-
ing international commitment to
reduce global-warming gases.
It involves that everyone par-
ticipates. This is very important.
We cant have anybody do a free
ride, he said.
By 2030, the worlds popula-
tion currently about 6.5 billion
people is expected to hit 8.2
billion, and the global economy
could double in size, largely due
to growth in countries such as
Brazil, Russia, China and India,
the report said.
Unchecked, growth in energy
consumption in those countries
could be 72 percent by 2030,
compared to 29 percent for all
30 of the OECDs European
nations.
That would lead to a 38 per-
cent increase in carbon dioxide
emissions by 2050. However, if
Brazil, Russia, China and India
take the same step in 2020, and
are followed by the rest of the
world in 2030, emissions could
be held at 2000 levels, it said.
If no steps
are taken,
world gross
d o m e s t i c
product will
grow 99 per-
cent between
2005 and 2030,
with severe
environmen-
tal conse-
quences, the
report said.
With measures, growth would be
nearly the same, 97 percent, but
with a much healthier environ-
ment.
The report said governments
must create such policies as
green taxes to encourage sound
technologies and practices, and
that the rich world must help
poor countries develop without
spewing pollution by providing
technology and expertise.
It also said ecological advanc-
es bring multiple benefits. For
example, cutting motor vehicles
greenhouse gas emissions would
improve air quality in cities or
better insulated homes that cut
power bills for consumers while
reducing power plant emis-
sions.
OECDs report identi-
fies critical environmental
issues facing our country and
countries around the world,
Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.),
chairman of the House of
Representatives science and
technology committee, said in
a statement from Washington.
The OECD report provides a
good roadmap for evaluating
environmental challenges and
the economic impacts we face
if no action is taken.
The OECD, made up of 30
European nations, focuses on
economic and social policies.
Climate change is mankinds
most important challenge. We
know the enemy: It is named
carbon.
ANGEL GURRIA
OECDs secretary general
ForeIGn aFFaIrs
Iraqi government negotiates executions
ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, left, BarhamSalih, Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, and commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq,
Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling, right, take part in a conference to strengthen the relationship between the leadership in the northern provinces and the
government of Iraq inTikrit, Iraq, Wednesday.
HEADER
Clinton suggests sharing
presidency with Obama
WASHINGTON Hillary
Rodham Clinton is hinting at
the possibility of sharing the
Democratic presidential ticket
with Barack Obama, but says
voters still have to decide the
party nominee.
Clinton says: That may
be where this is headed, but
of course we have to decide
who is on the top of ticket. I
think the people of Ohio very
clearly said that it should be
me.
Obama is playing down his
losses Tuesday in three out of
four primaries, including the
battlegrounds of Texas and
Ohio. He stresses that he is
still ahead of Clinton in the
delegate count.
In appearances on the
morning talk shows, both
Democrats say they have the
credentials to go head to
head with Republican nomi-
nee-in-waiting John McCain.
Associated Press
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NEWS 10A thursday, march 6, 2008
BY MARY SORRICK
msorrick@kansan.com
Dining Services has teamed up
with Better Bites to reward stu-
dents for healthy eating with new
Better Bites punch cards.
Students who buy five Better
Bites entrees at retail cafeterias
on campus can get the sixth
item for free with the punch
cards. Filled punch cards also
earn students a free water bottle
from Watkins Memorial Health
Center.
Ann Chapman, coordinator
of Nutritional Services, said she
developed the cards to promote
healthy eating among students.
The punch cards, distribut-
ed in January, apply to Better
Bites entrees bought at The
Market, The Underground and
The Crimson Caf. Better Bites
entrees contain fewer than 600
calories and 24 grams of fat, in
accordance with American Heart
Association standards, Chapman
said.
Chapman and H.O.M.E.B.A.S.E.,
an organization through Student
Health Services that focuses on
body acceptance, healthy eating
and physical fitness, introduced the
Better Bites program to retail and
residential cafeterias on campus
in 2003.
Shant Thomas, marketing man-
ager for Dining Services at the
University, said the Better Bites
program took off because of an
increased interest in nutritional
food.
Far and away student tastes
have changed, Thomas said.
Alecia Stultz, assistant direc-
tor of retail for Dining Services,
said Grab n Go refrigerators
in campus cafeterias reflect stu-
dents interest in healthier food.
She said 20 percent of the 15,000
Grab n Go sandwiches made
since Jan. 1 have been Better
Bites items.
Pre-made entres, such as the
Better Bites Grab n Go sand-
wiches, are among the items that
qualify for the punch card. Stultz
also said many items not desig-
nated as Better Bites items, such
as sandwiches from Brellas, could
be made into Better Bites entrees
if students order them without the
sauce or cheese.
She said KU Dining Services
had not done a good job educating
students about the different ways
to make an entree fit Better Bites
criteria.
A marketing push for the Better
Bites punch cards will include fly-
ers and signs that explain how stu-
dents can customize an order to
qualify as a Better Bites item, Stoltz
said.
The Market, The Underground
and The Crimson Cafe are current-
ly out of punch cards, but Thomas,
who oversees marketing for Dining
Services, said the supply of cards
would be replenished soon.
Edited by Madeline Hyden
Photos by Mindy Ricketts/KANSAN
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one free food itemafter flling up a Better Bites
punch card. Dining Services worked with Better
Bites to create the punch cards.
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The universiTy daily kansan www.kansan.com Thursday, march 6, 2008 page 1B
Women doWn K-State
in duel match
PAGE 3B
2009 football
Schedule Set
PAGE 2B
shawn shroyer
sshroyer@kansan.com
A week ago Kansas was just trying to
avoid being shut out. Suddenly the Jayhawks
are finding a knack for knocking teams out
of ballgames early.
Already up 4-0 in the bottom of the third,
Kansas senior catcher Ryne Price put an end
to any thoughts of a Le Moyne (2-7) come-
back. Facing Le Moyne left-hander Corey
Nelson with the bases loaded, Price brought
everybody home with a shot over the right
field fence.
The grand slam put Kansas up, 8-0, pro-
longing the inevitable, which was a 13-2
home-opening victory. Back to .500 for the
first time since their second game of the
season, Kansas (5-5) is riding a three-game
winning streak. In the first three innings
of their last two games, the Jayhawks have
scored 16 runs.
It is good to see those guys break out and
obviously we took advantage of the wind,
Kansas coach Ritch Price said of the winds
that gusted over 25 miles per hour during the
game. That helped us a little bit, but it was a
good, solid performance
offensively, especially in
these conditions.
But before Ryne put
the game out of reach,
his brother, sophomore
second baseman Robby
Price, got the rally started
with a walk to lead off the
inning. Senior outfielder
John Allman followed
with a single to right field
and junior first baseman
Preston Land loaded the bases with a walk.
While no stranger to hitting home runs,
Price had never hit a grand slam at Kansas
until Wednesday. It marked Prices second
home run in as many games and, more
importantly, moved him just three home
runs behind Travis Metcalf for the Kansas
career home run record of 29. However, he
hasnt been swinging for the fences.
No, I havent had much success this year
with runners in scoring
position, Ryne said. I
was just looking to try to
square something up for
once and drive in some
runs.
And thats just what
Price did with seven RBI
for the afternoon.
In addition to Prices
big day at the plate, fel-
low senior Allman also
broke out for his first big
game of the season. Allman, who entered
the game batting .172, went off for three
hits, coming just a triple shy of hitting for
the cycle.
Womens basketball
Woes continue for womens team
Marla Keown/KANSAN
Second baseman, Robby Price, hits in an Rbi Wednesday afternoon at hoglund ballpark. Price was at bat two times
and scored two runs while playing against le moyne college out of Syracuse, n.Y. Ku beat le moyne, 13 to 2.
The bats were awesome today.
Our hitters are coming along.
Johnny had a good game and
Ryne had a good game.
WALLY MARCIEL
Kansas left-handed pitcher
SEE baseball oN PAGE 6B
Kansas defeats Le Moyne in home-opening victory
baseball
Jayhawks roll to 13-2 victory on three-game winning streak
By TayLor Bern
tbern@kansan.com
Ever since a thrilling 62-61 victory against
Nebraska on Feb. 17, Kansas has gone into a
tailspin, losing four games along the way.
The Jayhawks desperately tried to pick up
a victory before the Big 12 tournament begins
on Tuesday. They went on a 7-0 run late in
Wednesday nights game to pull within two
of the No. 19 Wildcats. Then, like every time
since that last victory, the game slipped through
Kansas fingers and Kansas State cruised to a
61-50 victory, celebrating a share of the Big 12
crown on James Naismith Court.
Guard Shalee Lehning torched the Kansas
defense for a career high 29 points and also
recorded 17 rebounds. However, the biggest
shot in the game belonged to guard Kimberly
Dietz.
After sophomore guard LaChelda Jacobs
made her third straight shot to pull the score
to 52-50, Kansas State coach Deb Patterson
called timeout. Out of the break the Wildcats
set a play for Dietz, and the senior drilled a
deep, high-arching three-pointer from the top
of the key.
That was a big shot off of what should have
been a relatively easy defensive play, Coach
Bonnie Henrickson said. We dont get the
switch to deny and she hits a big three and then
Lehning comes down and hits another layup.
That kid tore us up.
That sequence killed any momentum the
Jayhawks (15-14, 4-12) had as they failed to
score the remainder of the game.
Jacobs made her first start of the season
with a solid 14 points offensively, but her
defensive assignment was to guard Lehning.
The box score told that story.
Its very, very frustrating to know that I
played a big part in that, Jacobs said. In a way,
I feel this loss is some part my fault, (actually)
all part my fault. I take the total blame for not
getting the seniors a win tonight.
Kansas States domination of the boards was
another factor. The Wildcats out-rebounded
the Jayhawks 37-28 and used 10 offensive
rebounds to get 12 second chance points.
Kansas committed only 13 turnovers, but
Henrickson has grown tired of searching for
moral victories in her teams losses.
At the end of the day its, Did you win?
Henrickson said. Were doing some good
things at times, but not enough to win.
After a fifth straight loss, Kansas dropped to
the No. 11 seed in the conference tournament.
That means the Jayhawks will square-off
with the No. 6 seed Cornhuskers who they beat
in February. Senior forward Taylor McIntosh
intends to extend her career beyond the first
round of the tournament and she thinks the
key to doing that is in creating a clean slate.
It would have been nice to have some
momentum going into the Big 12 tourna-
ment, but we just have to use this, fix it and
move on, McIntosh said. We cant dwell on
this loss.
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Senior forward Jamie Boyd hugs trena anderson, director of basketball operations, during a ceremony for the seniors following Kansas 61-50 loss to Kansas State Wednesday night. boyd and senior forwardtaylor mcintosh were honored after
playing their fnal game at allen fieldhouse.
the Jayhawks
drop to 11th after
losing to K-State
SEE basketball oN PAGE 10B
By anDrew wIeBe
awiebe@kansan.com
After exceptional college careers both on
the court and in the classroom, Wednesday
nights 61-50 loss to in-state rival Kansas
State was a bittersweet ending for senior for-
wards Taylor McIntosh and Jamie Boyd.
What was supposed to be a triumphant
senior night in honor of the duos four-year
careers in crimson and blue, ended with the
Wildcats celebrating at least a share of the
Big 12 Championship on Naismith Court.
Theyre getting the Big 12 Championship
trophy in their locker room right about now,
Boyd said. We could have stopped that.
Although there was no fairy tale ending,
dwelling on Kansas disappointment would be
a dishonor to two players who have meant so
much to fellow teammates, coaches and fans
throughout their four years in Lawrence.
McIntosh and Boyd are Coach Bonnie
Henricksons first recruiting class to gradu-
ate. She said both define what it means to be
a student athlete and would have a special
place in her memories.
Those two deserve to get a win tonight,
Henrickson said. I just hate it for them. Ive
never coached two better seniors, better kids
than those two.
Though spoiling Kansas States championship
aspirations would have been an ideal way to close
out the season, McIntosh said the loss couldnt take
anything away from her experiences and the rela-
tionships she had built while in Lawrence. She said
she would continue to support Henrickson and the
program whenever and wherever she was needed.
I just have so much respect for Bonnie
and admire her so much, McIntosh said.
Boyd, who started for the second time this
season, said it was one of the greatest honors of her
life to be a Jayhawk for four years. She said that she
had learned so much about herself during her four
years in Lawrence that she had no doubt she can
handle whatever obstacles the future holds.
These coaches mean a lot to me, Boyd
said. My teammates mean a lot to me. Its
hard to talk about, but these people will stay
with me the rest of my life.

Jon Goering/KANSAN
Sophomore guard LaChelda Jacobs holds her head in her hands as Wednesdays game against Kansas State comes
to an end. Jacobs scored the last fve Kansas points and brought the hawks within two, 52-50 with just more than four
minutes to go. Jacobs fnished with 14 points in 36 minutes.
Seniors cherish final game,
despite loss to Kansas State
SEE seniors oN PAGE 10B
sports 2B thursday, march 6, 2008
fact of the day
quote of the day
trivia of the day
on tv tonight
Mens College Basketball:
Connecticut at Providence,
6 p.m., ESPN
Clemson at Georgia Tech, 6
p.m., ESPN2
Missouri Valley Tournament:
Wichita State vs. Indiana State, 6
p.m., Metro Sports
Xavier at St. Josephs, 8 p.m.,
ESPN
Michigan State at Illinois, 8
p.m., ESPN2
Missouri Valley Tournament:
Evansville vs. Missouri State, 8:30
p.m., Metro Sports
Stanford at UCLA, 10 p.m.,
FSN
Womens College Basketball:
Oklahoma at Texas A&M,
7:30 p.m., FSN
NBA:
Cleveland at Chicago, 6
p.m., TNT
Houston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.,
TNT
Q: How many major
league pitchers threw no-
hitters last year and who
were they?
A: Three by Mark Bueh-
rle of the Chicago White
Sox, Justin Verlander of
the Detroit Tigers and
Clay Buchholz of the
Boston Red Sox. It was the
frst time since 2001 that
three pitchers threw a no-
hitter in the same season.
retrosheet.org
The most no-hitters
in one season came in
1884 when eight major
league pitchers accom-
plished the feat. The last
one came on Oct. 4 when
Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher
Sam Kimber pitched 10
no-hit innings against the
Toledo Blue Stockings.
Although Kimber received
a no-hitter for his efort,
he did not get a win. The
game was cancelled in
the 11th Inning with the
score tied 0-0 because of
darkness.
Dodger Encyclopedia
Im sort of still in a
fantasy world right now.
It was a great day for me,
and hopefully more to
come.
Clay Buchholz after throwing
a no-hitter last season
This is no Wimbledon
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Satoko Suetsuna, at the All England Badminton Championships in the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, England, Wednesday.
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FRIDAY
Baseball vs. North Dakota State, 3 p.m., Lawrence
sports
Nonconference football
schedule set for 2009
Earlier this week, the Kansas
Athletics Department confrmed
nonconference games for its 2009
and 2010 football seasons. Kansas
agreed to a home-and-home
series with Southern Mississippi in
2009 and 2010 and a home meet-
ing against New Mexico State in
2010. Southern Mississippi will
visit Lawrence in September 2009,
and the Jayhawks will travel to
Southern Mississippi the following
September. The New Mexico State
match-up is slated for September
2010. Kansas will also face Duke in
a home-and-home series begin-
ning in 2009 at Duke.

Asher Fusco
football
Kansas football future
non-conference schedules
with 2007 records:
2008
8/30 Florida Interna-
tional (1-11)
9/6 Louisiana Tech (5-7)
9/13 at South Florida
(9-4)
9/20 Sam Houston
State* (7-4)
2009
9/5 TBA
9/12 TBA
9/19 at Duke (1-11)
9/26 Southern Missis-
sippi (7-6)
2010
9/4 Duke (1-11)
9/11 Rice (3-9)
9/18 at Southern Missis-
sippi (7-6)
9/25 New Mexico State
(4-9)
*Denotes FCS opponent
ST. LOUIS The St. Louis Rams
complete a staff reorganization by
naming Terry Shea quarterbacks
coach, Bob Saunders offensive assis-
tant and assistant wide receivers
coach, and Chuck Faucette assistant
strength and conditioning coach.
Shea was quarterbacks coach with
the Dolphins the last two seasons
and coached quarterbacks for the
Chiefs the two seasons before that
and from 2001-03. He was offensive
coordinator for the Bears in 2004.
He was head coach at Rutgers
from 1996-2000.
Saunders is the son of new offen-
sive coordinator Al Saunders. He
was an offensive assistant with the
Redskins in 2006 and 2007.
Faucette previously was head
strength and conditioning coach at
Southern Methodist, and assistant
strength and conditioning coach at
Texas. He played for the Chargers in
1987 through 1989.
Associated Press
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New staff joins after working with professional, college teams
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sports 3b thursday, march 6, 2008
I
was disappointed Monday
night when I was not asked
to give a speech with the
other seniors on Senior Night.
After giving my heart and soul to
the University of Kansas for four
years just as Russell Robinson
and the others had done, I was
excited and prepared to take
the microphone from Max
Falkenstein and tell everyone just
how proud I was to be a Jayhawk.
OK, so I knew I wasnt going
to get to give a speech and that
nobody would have listened if I
did, but as I talked with friends
before the Texas Tech game, it
dawned on me that a special
and unforgettable portion of my
life was coming to an end. Even
though I plan on graduating in
December, Monday night was
the end of an era. It was probably
the last night I will cover a game
in Allen Fieldhouse as a member
of the media.
Working for the Associated
Press, I had the privilege of sit-
ting in the best seats in the house
for every home
game for the
past three
years. My job
was to give
statistics and
notes to my
boss and then
to interview
the opposing
teams coach
and players
after the game.
Whether it was
irritating Bobby Knight two years
ago for bringing up KUs big
rebounding margin, or being told
by Kelvin Sampson to ask a better
question, I had the thrill of inter-
viewing some of the best sports
figures of our time.
As a boy growing up in St.
Louis, I always knew that I
wanted to be a Jayhawk. But
little did I know that choosing
Kansas over Mizzou would wind
up being one of the best deci-
sions of my life. As members of
the media, we are supposed to be
un-biased and not root or cheer
for a certain team. And as much
as I bleed crimson and blue, not
cheering was harder than you
might think. After a Sasha Kaun
lay-up and foul against Texas last
year, I pumped my fist into the
air on press row out of instinct
before quickly realizing it and
acting as if I was scratching
my head so that nobody would
notice.
While
my friends
camped out
for hours and
hours just to
see the games,
I was eating
free food and
sitting two
seats to the left
of Dick Vitale.
Lou Gehrig
once said in
his famous
speech that he considered himself
the luckiest man on the face of
the earth, but after my time here
at the University of Kansas, I
dont know how he could be any
luckier than me.
For four years, I watched game
after game and moment after
moment as my team, the Kansas
Jayhawks, battled in historic
Allen Fieldhouse. I try to explain
to my friends and family just how
amazing the passion and tradition
of Kansas basketball is, but unless
you see it for yourself, you dont
really know.
There are hundreds of memo-
ries that I made during my time
in Allen Fieldhouse that I will
never forget, but the best may
have been during the pre-game
video for the Kansas State game
last Saturday. As the student
section jumped up and down
and fans yelled and screamed,
goosebumps surfaced all over
my body. As the music from
the movie 300 glared over the
loud speakers, for one of the few
times in my life, I literally had
chills. At that moment, I real-
ized that I truly was going to
miss being in Allen Fieldhouse
for the rest of my life. And I
made a promise to myself that
night, that I will come back for a
game at least once every season,
because the passion and tradi-
tion that was instilled in me by
this town and this university is
something that I just cant elimi-
nate from my life.
As the final buzzer sounded
following KUs thrashing of Texas
Tech, I realized that it was the
last time I would ever be sitting
in that seat again. As I listened
to the players speak about what
being a student at the University
of Kansas meant to them, I did
what any unbiased media mem-
ber would do. I shed a tear.
And not because I was sad
it was over, but because I was
thankful that it happened.
Anyone that has spent time in
Allen Fieldhouse knows just how
special of a place it is. Its not just
a place where you go to watch a
basketball game. Its a place that
changes your life.
Edited by Madeline Hyden
Goodbye is the hardest part
commentary
Kansan columnist reflects on his final game in Fieldhouse
By B.J. Rains
kansan columnist
bjrains@kansan.com
By alex dufek
adufek@kansan.com
Senior Lauren Hommell won
the decisive match in Wednesdays
Sunflower Showdown to lead the
Kansas tennis team past the 67th
ranked Kansas State Wildcats.
After dropping the first set,
Hommell fought back to win the
next two and defeat the Wildcats
Olga Klimova 5-7, 6-4, 6-2. Hommell
said that her experience, along with
the support of her team, helped her
fight off nerves down the stretch.
I think it definitely does have to
do with experience. My freshman
year I played in the same position
and I kind of went back on that and
just tried to make balls, Hommell
said. I had my whole team yell for
me after every point and the support
from them really helped too.
The 4-3 victory against the
Wildcats is the Jayhawks first against
Kansas State since March 17, 2004.
Along with their first victory in a
Big 12 opener, Wednesdays game
marks Kansas first dual match vic-
tory against a ranked opponent this
season since the 2003-2004 cam-
paign.
Ever since I have been here we
havent beaten K-State so beating
them my senior year is pretty big,
Hommell said. Now were 1-0 in the
Big 12 so hopefully we can take it
from there.
The Jayhawks fell behind early,
dropping two out of the three dou-
bles matches. Junior Yuliana Svistun
and freshman Magdalena Tokarczyk
defeated the
Kansas State tan-
dem of Vanessa
Cottin and
Pauline Guemas
8-3, to give
Kansas its lone
doubles victory.
In need of a
comeback, the
Jayhawks didnt
crack under
pressure. Kansas
u p p e r c l a s s -
men leadership shone as the team
received victories from two seniors
and two juniors in singles play.
Senior Elizaveta Avdeeva, junior
Edina Horvath and junior Yuliana
Svistun all won in straight sets to
help lift the Jayhawks.
I felt like the girls really came
out with a lot of energy in singles,
Coach Amy Hall-Holt said. The
whole team stepped up. Not only the
ones that were playing, but also the
ones who were off to the side cheer-
ing them on.
All of the Jayhawks losses this
season, except for Illinois, have been
to ranked competition. Coach Hall-
Holt believes getting this first victory
over a ranked opponent could push
Kansas over the
hill they have
been struggling
to climb.
What Ive
told the girls is
that weve been
there, were
almost there,
were getting
there and this
is the edge that
we needed to
take us that next
step, Hall-Holt said. Pulling this
one out tonight I think its just going
to create a great atmosphere in a
positive way for all the girls.
The Jayhawks look to keep roll-
ing in Sundays game against the
University of New Mexico. The match
is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m.
Edited by Madeline Hyden
I had my whole team yell
for me after every point and
the support from them really
helped.
Lauren HommeLL
senior
Jayhawks defeat Wildcats
after four-year drought
tennis
As I listened to the players speak
about what being a student at
the University of Kansas meant
to them, I did what any
unbiased media member would
do. I shed a tear.
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BOSTON Kevin Garnett
scored a season-high 31 points to
lead Boston to a bruising 90-78 vic-
tory over Detroit on Wednesday
night as the Celtics became the first
team in the NBA to clinch a playoff
berth and also earned the home-
court tie-breaker over their closest
competitor.
Boston won its sixth consecu-
tive game and took a four-game
lead over Detroit in the Eastern
Conference standings. Should
the Pistons catch the Celtics in
the standings and meet them in
the playoffs, Boston would have
the home-court advantage by vir-
tue of a 2-1 edge in the season
series.
Kendrick Perkins had a career-
high 20 rebounds to go with his 10
points for the Celtics.
Chauncey Billups scored 23
points, making 14-of-15 foul shots
in the game, and Rasheed Wallace
also scored 23 for Detroit.
The Pistons never led, falling
behind 17-3 off the opening tip
and working their way back to
a 69-69 tie on Tayshaun Princes
putback for the first basket of
the fourth quarter. But Garnett
scored the next five points and,
after Detroit cut it to 78-77, the
Celtics scored 12 of the last 13
points.
It was an anticlimactic ending
to a hard-fought game, with three
technical fouls handed out along
with hard fouls that sent players
to the floor. Ray Allen drew the
first T with a clearing elbow to
Richard Hamiltons sternum in the
first quarter; in the third, Jason
Maxiell clobbered Rajon Rondo
to the parquet after a breakaway
layup.
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March 5th vs. Le
Moyne coLLege
With a brisk 37-degree tempera-
ture at game time, the Jayhawk
baseball teams bats heated up
Hoglund ballpark on Wednesday.
While White Owl kept the first
base side bleachers warm with his
dance moves, it was the four-run
first inning and the six-run third
inning that lit the fire for the team.
Fueling the charge in the early stag-
es of the game was senior catcher
Ryne Prices grand slam and his
shot to right field that ended in a
triple and two RBI. With a good fan
turnout of 609 for a frozen home
opener, the Hawks did not disap-
point. After a lead-off single and a
shaky first inning, sophomore start-
ing pitcher Wally Marciel slammed
the door on the Le Moyne College
Dolphins giving up only 6 hits and
2 earned runs in 5 innings. Marciel
improved to 2-1 on the year and
brought his strikeout total to 10.
While the temperature was low,
head coach Ritch Price needed to
make an adjustment to Marciels
pitch count. We originally had
planed on him throwing around
75 pitches. Price said. Once we
got a big lead, we kept him in there
for his 5 innings so he could get
the win he had earned. Although
the coachs approach changed,
Marciel kept the same approach.
The only difference is I wore
sleeves today. Marciel said. I
normally dont like to wear sleeves,
but the coaches made sure I had
them on today. The Jayhawks have
not been accustomed to the cold
weather this season, as they started
the season off in Hawaii before
traveling to Fayetteville, Ark., and
Nashville, Tenn. The cold weather
may have been the element the
Jayhawks needed to start out the
season opener with a victory for the
sixth time under head coach Ritch
Price. Coach Price attributes the
Jayhawks success to their prepara-
tion in the cold elements. One of
the things we do is we practice in
it, Price said. Around here, some
of the teams will go inside and not
even try to bear the conditions, but
if theres no snow on the ground we
are going outside. We realize we are
a Midwest team and we have to be
prepared to play in it. Also torch-
ing the Dolphins from behind the
plate was red shirt senior left fielder
John Allman. Allman was chasing
the cycle, as he was 3-3 with a HR,
double and single, improving his
average to .250. With the theory of
the cold weather being a helpful tool
for the Hawks, Allman has another.
I would like to thank the fighting
Samurai spirits we had going on
today. Allman said. Former player
Ryotaro Hayakawa from Japan gave
us a Samurai figure and it led us to
victory. With the Kansas weather
not looking to warm up anytime
soon, the Jayhawks will play host
to North Dakota State this weekend
and try to remain on fire as they are
1-0 in games under 40 degrees.
Edited by Samuel Lamb
sports 6B thursday, march 6, 2008
After hitting a double in the first
and a single in the third, Allman
capped off his day with a home run
to right-center field, his first of the
season.
The other starters in the Kansas
outfield continued to swing hot
bats. Junior Nick Faunce and senior
Casey Larson, who went 9-for-16
the last two games of the Music
City Classic, each recorded two hits
against the Dolphins.
While the Kansas offense dished
out plenty of punishment, no Le
Moyne pitcher suffered more than
Nelson (0-1), who got the start. In
3.1 innings, Nelson surrendered 10
runs on eight hits and five walks.
Opposite Nelson, Kansas start-
ing pitcher, sophomore left-hander
Wally Marciel (2-1) fared far better.
In five innings, Marciel allowed just
two runs on six hits while striking
out four.
Considering how Marciel didnt
receive a single run of support in
his start last Wednesday against
Arkansas, the 10 runs of support
he got Wednesday were a welcome
site.
The bats were awesome today,
Marciel said. Our hitters are com-
ing along. Johnny had a good game
and Ryne had a good game. I just
want them to continue hitting.
gaMe notes:
Injury updates
Junior catcher Buck Afenir was
out of the Kansas lineup for the
third straight game with a pulled
hamstring, but coach Price said he
hoped Afenir would be available
for Saturdays double-header with
North Dakota State.
Junior left-hander Andy Marks,
who is recovering from a torn
labrum in his throwing shoulder,
finished his bullpen session on
Tuesday. The session was Marks
first since last week, when he
was unable to finish a session.
Price said the team trainer Ken
Wainwright told him Marks latest
bullpen session was his best one
so far.
In attendance
Of the 609 people listed in atten-
dance for Wednesdays home open-
er, former Jayhawk Sean Land was
among them. Land, who is now
in the Minnesota Twins system
and is the older brother of current
Jayhawk Preston Land, pitched at
Kansas from 2004-2006.
Edited by Jared Duncan
baseball (continued from 1A)
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Wednesday afternoon. Owl attends as many sporting events as he can and calls himself the adopted
mascot. I love it,said Owl of the University of Kansas.
basebaLL
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JUPITER, Fla. John Lannan
turned in his second straight strong
performance, pitching three score-
less innings in Washingtons 6-5 win
over a St. Louis Cardinals split squad
Wednesday.
Lannan, the Nationals reigning
minor league pitcher of the year,
allowed three hits, walked two and
struck out three, extending his
scoreless streak to five innings this
spring.
My mechanics felt good, Lannan
said. Its always good when you go
out there and not always have your
best stuff and prove that you can
battle.
The 23-year-old Lannan made his
major league debut on July 26 and
went 2-2 with a 4.15 ERA in six
starts last season.
St. Louis has lost five straight
spring games after winning its first
two.
Ryan Ludwig and Brian Barton,
two outfielders trying to make the
Cardinals roster, each had a big day.
Barton went 4-for-5 with a home run
and Ludwig had three hits and also
went deep.
Im sure they feel better right
now, St. Louis manager Tony La
Russa said.
Ludwig said he felt lost at the
plate before Wednesday. He said he
has spent extra time in the batting
cage working on his swing and men-
tal approach.
Mike Parisi made his first spring
start for St. Louis and allowed three
runs in the first inning before pitch-
ing a scoreless second and third.
Shortstop Cesar Izturis error, his
second of the spring, accounted for
one of the runs.
Parisi allowed four hits.
I thought he did a very good job
of keeping his composure, La Russa
said. He ended up having a good
outing.
Pete Orr hit a two-run homer in
the seventh inning for Washington.
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despite temperature
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER Two of the top teams
at the Beijing Olympics in August,
the United States and China, are stag-
ing woe-is-me routines that would
put former Notre Dame coach Lou
Holtz the king of the sandbaggers
to shame.
The latest came Wednesday from
Chinas Deputy Sports Minister Cui
Dalin: Weve got to take a pretty
sober, objective view toward this, he
said. Overall, were not a big sport-
ing nation.
China, a country of 1.3 billion, a
country spending $40 billion to put
on the biggest sports extravaganza
in the world, is not a big sporting
nation? Sounds almost as ridiculous
as saying America, easy winner of
the medal count in the last three
Olympics, heads to Beijing as an
underdog.
But thats what theyve been say-
ing over and over at the U.S.
Olympic Committee.
Just 10 days ago, chief execu-
tive Jim Scherr and chairman Peter
Ueberroth reasserted the mantra
theyve been preaching for more
than a year now.
We have no illusions, Scherr
said. This will be a very difficult
competition.
A quick reality check:
The United States won 102 med-
als at the Athens Olympics, 20 more
than second-place Russia and 39
more than third-place China. In the
gold medal count, which is more
important to almost every coun-
try outside America, it was United
States 34, China 32.
The Athens Olympics marked the
third straight time the United States
eased to the medals victory at the
Summer Games, dating to 1996, the
first time the athletes comprising the
former Soviet Union didnt compete
as a unified team. In fact, U.S. vic-
tories became so routine that the
USOC delegations task became not
so much to predict victory, but only
how many medals it expected.
Surely, the landscape has changed
since the last Olympics, with China
preparing to host the games and in
no mood to be beaten on its home
turf.
But measuring the changes is an
inexact science. In 2006, China did
very well at several world champion-
ships, in some cases at the United
States expense. Then, last year,
things shifted.
At key world championships last
year, the United States won four
of six gold med-
als in womens
gymnastics (a
record), 20 in
swimming (best
in 29 years) and
14 more in track
(nine more than
s e c ond - pl a c e
Kenya).
Granted, none
of those competi-
tions were held in
China, and track
and swimming
are not sports
China normally excels in. But they
were among the biggest, and the fact
that no other countries chipped into
Americas dominance seems to be a
good sign for the United States.
Ueberroth doesnt buy it.
In most sports, we sent the
same competitors in 06 and 07, he
said. China had teams that blitzed
through all sports they competed
in in 06, then they did well again
in 07 with different people. They
could send two teams to most of
these events. Theyre going to do
very well.
Cui insists, In the competition
altogether, the United States and
Russia are still well above our level.
Despite his objections, there are
many reasons to believe China will
do well this year maybe even top
the medal chart.
The Chinese have enjoyed almost
exponential improvement, going
from five to 32 gold medals from
1988 to 2004.
Dating to 1996, Summer Olympics
hosts have experienced an 8 percent
increase in medals over the previous
Olympics. Australia enjoyed a 41
percent increase from 1996 to 2000.
Some of the improvement can be
attributed to home crowds and home
cooking from judges. As much or
more can be credited to the ramp-
up in resources
a country on the
verge of hosting
an Olympics
will pump into
its sports pro-
grams.
Nobody is
ramping things
up more than
China.
According to
a recent report
from a Chinese
sports scientist,
the country has
195 state-run training departments
involving nearly 20,000 elite and
emerging elite athletes. USOC chief
of sport performance Steve Roush
has spent ample time at Chinese ath-
letic performance centers, watching
the athletes of tomorrow train.
You see a lot of things happening
in their favor. Well be a competitive
team. Were not yielding to them, but
it is an uphill battle, Roush said.
Never before has the rest of the
Olympic competition been so deep.
Russia, a power even after the break-
up of the Soviet Union, has made
little secret of its desire to return to
the top.
Meanwhile, a number of the
countries four through 10 in the
last medal standings Australia,
Germany, Japan, France, Italy,
South Korea, Britain have added
resources and money to their efforts.
That means they could win med-
als that once would have been pre-
sumed to go to the United States,
Russia or China.
In talking about Chinas medal
expectations, Cui cites everything
from rules changes to limited medals
in sports like badminton and table
tennis, where China often domi-
nates.
Two other sports where China is
traditionally solid gymnastics and
diving have more to do with poise
and controlling adrenaline than dis-
plays of raw speed or power.
Among the few outspoken opti-
mists on the American side has been
USA Gymnastics president Steve
Penny, who knows he has good
teams but is also aware of the pros
and cons of competing at home.
Either you accept the challenges
and use the advantages to have your
best day, or that can end up pro-
viding a great deal of pressure and
stress, Penny said.
But Penny certainly isnt speaking
the USOCs party line, which so far
is to promise less and maybe sur-
prise some people if the American
athletes deliver more.
Thats the same direction the
Chinese seem to be going, too. Cui
demurred when asked to predict
Chinas medal haul.
The beautiful thing about ath-
letic competition, he said, is that
you never know the result until the
competition is over.
China prepares for games on home turf
olympics
ASSOCIATED PRESS
United States Olympic Committee chief executive JimScherr speaks during a news conference at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens. At the U.S. Olympic Committee recently, Scherr and
Uerberroth discussed the challenges the U.S. and China will face at the Beijing Olympics in August.
You see a lot of things hap-
pening in their favor. Well be
a competitive team. Were not
yielding to them, but it is an
uphill battle.
Steve RouSh
uSoC Chief of Sport Performance
NFl
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Before free agency started a
week ago, Tennessee general man-
ager Mike Reinfeldt suggested
that in a market filled mostly with
midlevel players, the best strategy
would be to sit back and let things
settle down.
After the Titans lost five play-
ers and signed tight end Alge
Crumpler, defensive tackle Albert
Haynesworth begged to differ.
We are not doing anything.
We are really just making our-
selves worse the way I look at
it, Haynesworth, protected as the
Titans franchise player, told The
Tennessean. It doesnt look like
were trying to get better.
Haynesworth, like countless
impatient fans around the country,
might be better off heeding his
GMs words and waiting. Because,
for the most part, the first week
of free agency has been marked
by teams overpaying players who
are average,
slightly better
than that or
over the hill.
E x h i b i t
A: The New
York Jets, who
are trying to
compete in
their division
with New
England and
in their region
with the Super
Bowl champion Giants.
They guaranteed $21 million
to G Alan Faneca; $20 million to
DE/LB Calvin Pace; and signed
OL Damien Woody to a five-year,
$25 million deal. They also traded
for DT Kris Jenkins, an overweight
underachiever in Carolina the
past two seasons and renegotiated
his deal to give him $20 million
straight up.
Finally, they traded LB
Jonathan Vilma, a Pro Bowler
just two seasons ago, to New
Orleans for just a fourth-round
pick and left DT Dewayne
Robertson, the fourth over-
all pick in the 2003 draft, in
limbo because neither fits Eric
Manginis 3-4 defense.
Exhibit B: Cincinnati, Arizona
and St. Louis. Those three clubs
threw $91 million at three of
Haynesworths ex-teammates
DEs Antwan Odom and Travis
LaBoy and G Jacob Bell. OK play-
ers all, but just OK Odom and
LaBoy benefited by playing on a
line with Haynesworth and Kyle
Vanden Bosch.
Exhibit C: San Francisco, which
apparently didnt learn after sign-
ing CB Nate Clements to an $80
million deal last year and finishing
5-11. This time they guaranteed
$20 million to pass rusher Justin
Smith, the fourth overall pick in
the 2001 draft, but a guy who had
just 43 sacks in seven seasons
with the Bengals.
Those teams should consider
that the Giants, Colts, Steelers and
Patriots, the last four Super Bowl
winners, have been moderate free-
agent players at best.
Last year the Giants signed
just one, linebacker Kawika
Mitchell, for $1 million for one
year. He played well, but so did
six of the eight draft choices
who made the team, including
fifth-round TE Kevin Boss and
seventh-round
RB Ahmad
Bradshaw, who
along with CB
Aaron Ross,
WR St eve
Smith and DT
Jay Alford all
had big plays
in the Super
Bowl.
Mitchell was
allowed to leave
for Buffalo this
year, in part because the Giants
think LB Gerris Wilkinson, a
third-rounder in 2006, has long-
term potential. New York also
lost S Gibril Wilson to Oakland
for $16 million in guaranteed
money and replaced him with
veteran Sammy Knight for about
$14.5 million less, figuring the
on-field difference isnt that
great for a short-term fix with
youngster Michael Johnson in
the wings.
The Giants have spent for pro-
ductive free agents: WR Plaxico
Burress, LB Antonio Pierce, C
Shaun OHara and OT Kareem
McKenzie.
But all came for reasonable
amounts and most of the time
New York prefers to pay its own
players.
Big deals delivered
early in ofseason
Giants cut $60 million in deals
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AssociAted PRess
COLUMBUS, Ohio After a
season of nothing going right, Ohio
State could do no wrong for one
night. The Buckeyes put things
together just in time to knock Purdue
out of the Big Ten lead.
Jamar Butler scored 23 of his
25 points in the second half and
Othello Hunter, a 56 percent free
throw shooter, hit two foul shots
and made a big defensive play in
overtime to lead the Buckeyes to an
80-77 victory over No. 15 Purdue
80-77 on Tuesday.
The loss dropped the Boilermakers
(23-7, 14-3), a half game behind
first-place Wisconsin in the Big
Ten. The 10th-ranked Badgers host
Penn State on Wednesday and play
at Northwestern on Saturday. The
Boilermakers finish at Michigan on
Sunday.
Its frustrating, but its one game,
Purdue coach Matt Painter said. We
controlled our
own destiny, and
now we dont.
The Buckeyes
(18-12, 9-8), who
lost their last four
all winnable
games with a
series of mishaps,
finally made all
the right moves.
It feels good.
It feels like some things finally went
our way for once, Butler said. All
season it seemed like we were always
on the other end. We just couldnt
make the plays down the stretch.
Today we stepped up and made big
plays toward the end of the game
and came away with a win.
In other games involving ranked
teams on Tuesday, it was: No. 1
North Carolina 90, Florida State 77;
No. 9 Texas 70, Nebraska 66; and
No. 21 Marquette 67, Florida Gulf
Coast 37.
Butler missed
his only shot in
the first half and
had two points.
In the second
half, he was 6-
of-7 from the
field and made
all five of his 3-
point attempts.
If you let
someone like
Jamar Butler shoot a couple of 3s you
can actually play good defense on
him and hes still going to hit some
shots, Painter said.
Hunter, averaging 9.3 points a
game, had 15, as did Evan Turner.
ETwaun Moore had 16 points for
the Boilermakers, who had won 13
of 14, while Scott Martin had 14 and
Robbie Hummel added 12 points
and 10 rebounds.
With the score tied at 72 and 1:28
left in overtime, Hunter was fouled
on a dunk attempt. He had hit three
of six free throws for the game, but
stepped to the line and made both
foul shots.
He then got a hand on an inbounds
pass under the Purdue basket that
Butler was able to intercept.
The teams traded possessions
until Turner hit a leaner with 25.8
seconds left to put Ohio State ahead
76-72.
Hummels 3 cut the gap to a point,
but Butler one of the nations top
free throw shooters at 93 percent
was fouled and hit both with 16.7
seconds left for a 78-75 lead.
Moore missed a 3 with 12 seconds
left and Turner rebounded and was
fouled. He hit both shots to seal it
and drop Purdue to 5-5 on the road.
College basketball
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ohio States Evan Turner drives to the basket as Purdues Keaton Grant, left, defends during the second half of their basketball game Tuesday in
Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State won in overtime 80-77.
Ohio State victory puts Wisconsin in control of conference
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Players on the Purdue bench react with seconds left on the clock during their basketball game
against Ohio State onTuesday in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State won in overtime 80-77.
Its frustrating, but its one
game. We controlled our own
destiny, and now we dont.
Matt painter
purdue coach
AssociAted PRess
WASHINGTON A
Democratic congressman asked
the FBI on Wednesday to drop
its investigation of Roger Clemens
because the pitching great had suf-
fered enough from the probe into
steroid use.
Rep. Anthony Weiner, a can-
didate for New York mayor in
2009, said the FBI is too busy with
more important crimes to spend
time trying to determine if the ex-
Yankees pitcher lied to Congress
about taking performance enhanc-
ing substances.
Roger Clemens has been
shamed. I think the public record is
replete with examples of how he did
not likely tell the truth. What is the
public benefit of continuing with an
FBI investigation? Weiner said.
Weiner also suggested his fellow
lawmakers had gone far enough
with inquiries into steroids use by
professional athletes and should let
professional sports leagues handle
the matter.
The real incentive to clean up
this mess is not a governmental
one, said Weiner, a Mets fan whose
district includes parts of Queens
and Brooklyn.
The FBI took over the Clemens
case after Congress asked the Justice
Department to look into Clemens
testimony at a Feb. 5 deposition and
a Feb. 13 hearing. Weiner is not a
member of the House Oversight
and Government Committee,
which heard from Clemens.
Clemens testified he never used
steroids or human growth hor-
mone; his former trainer testified
he injected Clemens with such sub-
stances at least 16 times from 1998
to 2001.
If investigators conclude
Clemens lied on critical details, he
could face charges of perjury, mak-
ing false statements or obstruction
of justice.
In a letter to Attorney General
Michael Mukasey, Weiner wrote:
Whether or not Roger Clemens
may have committed perjury should
not compete with real national
security threats for the FBIs time,
attention and resources.
There was no immediate com-
ment from the Justice Department
on Wednesday.
Purdue loses Big Ten lead
steroids
AssociAted PRess
Joey Harrington is the latest vic-
tim of the Atlanta Falcons purge.
The third overall pick in the 2002
draft by Detroit, the quarterback
who started 10 of Atlantas games
last season was cut Wednesday.
Running back Warrick Dunn was
released on Monday by Atlanta,
which last month cut tight end Alge
Crumpler, offensive tackle Wayne
Gandy and quarterback Byron
Leftwich.
The move leaves Atlanta, which
was 4-12 last season, with only two
quarterbacks on the roster Chris
Redman, who has been re-signed to
a two-year deal, and D.J. Shockley,
who missed all of last season with
a knee injury. They are likely to
pick a quarterback in Aprils draft,
perhaps Boston Colleges Matt Ryan
with the third pick.
Harrington, who was trad-
ed from Detroit to Miami and
released by the Dolphins, was the
primary replacement for Michael
Vick sentenced to 23 months
in prison for his involvement in
dogfighting.
A more renowned quarter-
back than Harrington, Brett Favre,
scheduled a news conference for
Thursday to discuss his retirement.
The Packers announced Tuesday
that the 38-year-old star is retiring.
Oakland, which has been on a
spending spree, made an agreement
with wide receiver Javon Walker,
who had been released by Denver,
and former San Francisco offensive
tackle Kwame Harris.
New England re-signed wide
receiver Jabar Gaffney, who had
36 receptions for 449 yards and a
career high five touchdowns last
season.
NFl
Congressman excuses Clemens
Falcons retool lineup post-Vick
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By DOUG FERGUSON
AP GOlF WRitER
PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) _
A bead of sweat dripped off Ernie
Els brow when he stopped for a
five-minute chat Wednesday before
his pro-am round at the PODS
Championship.
The hard part is over for the Big
Easy. The hard work is not.
Els ended an 0-for-47 stretch
on the PGA Tour when he won
the Honda Classic, an astounding
drought given his considerable tal-
ent. He is among four active players
with at least three major champion-
ships, but none of the others has
gone more than a year without win-
ning on the worlds toughest golf
circuit.
It took a few days for his victory
to sink it, and it was really driven
home on the range at Innisbrook.
The guys are congratulating
you, he said. Theyre not saying
hard luck or bad luck or whatever
that is.
Els would not have imagined win-
ning this way.
He failed to make a birdie over the
final 11 holes at PGA National and
played them in 1 over. That proved
to be enough, however, when the
hard luck fell to Mark Calcavecchia,
whose bunker shot inexplicably
rolled through the green and into
a hazard; and bad luck sided with
Luke Donald,
whose chip to
force a playoff
stopped inches
short.
Thats what
had been hap-
pening to Els
lately, whether it
was Boo Weekley
chipping in twice
to beat him at
Hilton Head last
year, or Els hit-
ting a tee shot out of bounds on the
18th hole at Kapalua, a fairway wide
enough to land a jumbo jet.
The losses kept piling up.
He couldnt keep up with Tiger
Woods at Royal Liverpool in 2006
and started too far behind him at
Southern Hills a year later. The latest
blow had come last month at Dubai,
when Els missed two short putts that
forced him to go for broke on the
par-5 18th at Dubai, only to hit a
fairway metal into the water on the
last hole.
When youre around long enough
like me, you know youre going to
have losses, Els
said. Losses are
tough. You play
to win every
week. When you
get close, you
expect to win. I
had many, many
times I couldnt
close the deal. So
its really nice to
get this one, and
hopefully, this is
a fresh start for
the next couple of years.
If nothing else, its a good start
with the Masters looming a month
away.
Els has changed his worldwide
travel schedule slightly to spend
more chunks of time in the United
States, and he signed up for the
entire Florida swing. The hope was
to build a foundation, make some
progress before getting to Augusta
National.
The victory should pay loads of
dividends.
Els has enough ability to con-
tend at majors even when his confi-
dence is shaky. He was paired in the
final group with Woods in the third
round of the 2006 British Open,
where he finished third. He was one
shot out of the lead at Carnoustie a
year later until dropping shots down
the stretch and tying for fourth.
And after a brief run at the 2007
PGA Championship, he wound up
third.
Ending that nasty three- and a
half-year drought on the PGA Tour
should only help.
It does matter, Els said. I really
put my sights onto playing a solid
Florida stretch because I needed to
get some confidence going before
Augusta, he said. Obviously, it was
a great start.
But he is far from satisfied.
Els said his driving has been sus-
pect under pressure over the last
couple of years, and he has not
been able to make the putts that
mattered most down the stretch.
Even though he won, hes not
convinced those problems are
behind him.
And that explains why this week
is no time to celebrate.
Even last week, the final nine
(holes) of the tournament, I had
a lot of chances, but I still didnt
quite hole out, Els said. Im still
working on that. If Tiger or Phil
(Mickelson) or other players were
there, maybe they would have beat-
en me.
Woods and Mickelson are not at
Innisbrook; that reunion takes place
next week at the Arnold Palmer
Invitational.
Els, who has returned to Big
Three status in the world ranking
at the moment, still faces a stern
test at Innisbrook, regarded by most
players as one of the strongest tour
courses on Florida without having to
change its par to a 70.
The Copperhead course does not
have a Florida look to it. There are
changes in elevation, rare in a state
where an ant pile can pass as a
mountain. Most fairways are lined
with trees, giving it a traditional
look, and forcing players to think
off the tee.
The only issue at the moment
is sponsorship. PODS signed on as
the title sponsor last year, but the
company is for sale, and the tour is
looking for another sponsor to keep
Tampa Bays spot on the PGA Tour
rotation.
Els is part of a field that includes
defending champion Calcavecchia,
Steve Stricker, Justin Rose of England,
two-time U.S. Open champion Retief
Goosen and Davis Love III.
PGA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ernie Els, fromWentworth, England, blasts out of a sand trap on the 11th fairway during the Honda Classic golf tournament in PalmBeach Gardens, Fla. Thursday, Feb. 28.
Els ends losing streak, wins Honda Classic
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Englands Ernie Els went home with the victory at the Honda Classic golf tournament Sunday
with a score of six-under par.
I had many, many times I
couldnt close the deal. So its
really nice to get this one, and
hopefully, this is a fresh start for
the next couple of years.
ErniE Els
PGA Golfer
ASSOciAtED PRESS
Welcome back, Sid and Pete.
Former MVPs Sidney Crosby
and Peter Forsberg successfully
returned to the NHL Tuesday
night. Crosby, the reign-
ing Hart Trophy winner, came
off the injured list and helped
the Pittsburgh Penguins beat
Tampa Bay 2-0. Forsberg, the
2003 league most valuable play-
er, made his season debut with
Colorado in a 2-1 victory over
Vancouver.
In a dazzling return after miss-
ing 6 weeks with a high ankle
sprain, Crosby set up Maxime
Talbot for the games first goal
with only 2:47 remaining. He cre-
ated numerous scoring opportuni-
ties with his speed and stickhan-
dling as the Penguins took over
the Eastern Conference lead with
about a month remaining in the
regular season.
Its good to get it over with and
get that feel and get that timing
back, but its still not there, Crosby
said. I had some great chances
that I would have loved to put in.
It didnt happen. Sometimes thats
the way it goes. Im a little rusty.
Forsberg showed little rust
despite being out for nearly a year
mending a foot problem.
I was just happy I was out
there, Forsberg said. I felt OK,
not bad, not good.
Its been a long time since I
played a real game. Its going to be a
real struggle here in the beginning,
the first couple of games. I hope
people understand that.
John-Michael Liles scored his
first goal in nearly four months
and the Avalanche won their fourth
straight.
Elsewhere, it was: Florida 1,
Boston 0; Calgary 1, Columbus 0;
New Jersey 4, Toronto 1; the New
York Islanders 4, the New York
Rangers 3 in a shootout; Nashville 5,
Edmonton 1; Chicago 4, Minnesota
2; Buffalo 5, Philadelphia 2; and St.
Louis 3, Los Angeles 2.
PenGuins 2,
LiGhtninG 0
At Tampa, Fla., Marc-Andre
Fleury made only his second start
following his own extended injury
layoff with an injured ankle and
turned aside 35 shots in his first
shutout since Nov. 24 and third of
the season.
Evgeni Malkin, edging to within
a point of the NHL scoring lead,
scored into an empty net with 5
seconds remaining.
But it was Crosbys night. The
reigning NHL scoring champion
appeared as if he had been off only
a few days rather than since Jan. 18
with a high ankle sprain.
Hes the best player in the
league, Fleury said. Having
him on our side is always a big
help.
nhL
MVPs return to
teams afer injuries
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Fans photograph Pittsburgh Penguins Sidney Crosby as he warms up prior to an NHL hockey
game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, Tuesday, inTampa, Florida. It was Crosbys frst game
back after an injury earlier this season.
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SENIOR SEND-OFF
Seniors Taylor McIntosh and Jamie
Boyd were honored before and after
Wednesday nights game for their four-
year contributions to Kansas basketball.
Jayhawk fans stayed in the stands
after the final buzzer for a presenta-
tion to each player at half court. Coach
Bonnie Henrickson greeted the play-
ers with a framed jersey, cheerleaders
tossed roses and every player came out
to thank McIntosh and Boyd.
THE STARTING LINE
Coach Bonnie Henrickson decided
to shake up her starting line-up for the
last regular season game of the year.
On senior night, senior forward
Jamie Boyd made her second start
of the season and sixth of her career,
while sophomore guard LaChelda
Jacobs made her first start of the year
and also sixth of her career.
Jacobs got the nod ahead of junior
guard Ivana Catic and thats the first
time all season Catics come off the
bench. As a result, sophomore guard
Sade Morris was the only Jayhawk to
start all 29 regular season games.
ROAD COURT ADVANTAGE
The game may have been played
in Allen Fieldhouse, but at times it felt
more like Bramlage Coliseum East.
Purple power was in full effect as
the Wildcat faithful filled nearly half
the Fieldhouse. The Kansas State fans
erupted after every good play from
their team of which there were more
than a few and seemed to eliminate
any home court advantage for Kansas.
HEAD OF THE CLASS
The Big 12 announced its Academic
all-conference teams on Wednesday
and three Jayhawks were named to the
first team, which requires a GPA of 3.2
or better.
Senior Taylor McIntosh, junior
Ivana Catic and sophomore Kelly
Kohn were all honored for their work
in the classroom.
Kansas State led all Big 12 schools
with eight selections, seven on the first
team and one on the second. The sec-
ond team requires a GPA of 3.0-3.2.
Edited by Nick Mangiaracina
Though senior night is over, McIntosh
and Boyd may not have played their
final game in Allen Fieldhouse. The
Jayhawks have a legitimate chance
of being selected for the WNIT, in
which case the opening game would
most likely be played in Lawrence.
Henrickson said regardless of the
way Kansas finished the season, the
senior duo will be remembered for
what they contributed to the program,
and the way each lead by example.
Those two kids are shining
stars in the Athletics Department,
she said. You walk down the halls
with them, people love those two.
They know who they are and what
they stand for.
Edited by Madeline Hyden
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(above) senior forward taylor Mcintosh gives hugs to her teammaters during a ceremony for the seniors following the game. McIntosh fnished
with six points and six boards in her fnal appearance at Allen Fieldhouse.
(right) sophomore guard sade Morris shoots against K-State forward Marlies Gipson at Allen Fieldhouse Wednesday night. The Wildcats beat the
Jayhawks 61-50.
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