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BY BETSY CUTCLIFF
bcutclif@kansan.com
The inauguration of Pakistans first
civilian president in nine years and
the effect it will have on the country
were the main topics discussed at KU
International Programs Pakistan Panel
on Aug. 5.
The panels three speakers were
William Lambert, a retired army offi-
cer and assistant professor at the Army
Command and General Staff College in
Fort Leavenworth, Phil Schrodt, profes-
sor of political science, and Rauf Arif,
Pakistani graduate student in journal-
ism. They shared views on hot-button
issues such as Pakistans flounder-
ing economy and its security prob-
lems on the northwestern border with
Afghanistan.
The panel was held in anticipation
of Tuesdays Pakistan presidential elec-
tion of Asif Ali Zardari widower of
former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto,
who was assassinated after leaving a
political rally in 2007.
One recurring theme was the rela-
tionship between Pakistan and the
United States in regards to U.S. military
operations in Afghanistan.
You cannot understand the equa-
tion of whats going on in Afghanistan
unless you understand Pakistan,
Lambert said.
According to the Pentagon, the
tribal areas along Pakistans northwest-
ern border is a known stronghold for
Taliban and al-Qaida militants who
evaded coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Lambert said one of the puzzling
concepts was how Pakistans military-
ruled government failed to control the
insurgent areas even with a pricey
allowance of $80 million per month
from the U.S. government.
Lambert said the money given to
Pakistan to curb insurgent violence
was being misused on things such as
upgrading F-15 Eagle Jet aircraft instead
of rebuilding the countrys infrastruc-
ture, and improving local police forces
and border controls.
Insurgents are walking across the
border while a patrolman looks the
other way for $50, he said. He isnt
necessarily against the U.S. or for al-
Qaida or the Taliban, but he has to put
food on the table.
All three of the speakers agreed the
failing economy was one of Pakistans
biggest problems. Inflation in Pakistan
is at 25 percent, according to the BBC.
Arif said the soaring inflation and a
lack of food were making life for the
Pakistani people worse.
We are losing our foreign invest-
ment and foreign reserves quickly,
he said. There is no local investment
or foreign investments coming in the
country and we have a fragile legal sys-
tem.
Professor Schrodt said the poverty
could prompt the poor to turn to insur-
gencies.
If you are a young, very poor man
and you have no prospect, commonly
the only places that will open the door
for you are the mosque or a militant
Islamic movement such as al-Qaida,
he said. He said it was much more
appealing for young Pakistanis to join
InternAtIonAl
sEE pakistan On pAgE 4A
Panel debates
US-Pakistan
relations amid
new elections
Pakistan elects Bhuttos
widower as president
Todays Wellness Fair will allow stu-
dents to relax with a free massage and get
information on various student health
topics. The fair runs from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. in front of Stong Hall.
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Professors 75-foot sculpture
selected for display in KCMO
Matthew Burke, associate professor of
art, is one of six artists selected to partici-
pate in the Avenue of the Arts, a program
that showcases regional artists in down-
town Kansas City, Mo. He will install a
massive kinetic sculpture on the wall of
Bartle Hall, suspended 20 feet above the
ground, by the end of the month.
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On Sept. 3, one KU student
reported an instance of
identity theft and illegal use
of his name, address and
social security number, while
another student reported
being criminally restrained
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that the door to her bedroom
had been tied shut from the
outside.
On Sept. 7, a KU student
reported being the victim of
aggravated battery.
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number, and a third KU
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Lieberman distances self
from Democrats again
WASHINGTON Democrat-
turned-independent Joe Lieber-
man skipped Senate Democrats
weekly caucus luncheon Tuesday
and will not attend them for a
while after angering many Demo-
crats by criticizing their presiden-
tial nominee, Sen. Barack Obama.
The Connecticut senator was
Democrat Al Gores vice presi-
dential running mate in 2000, but
he endorsed Republican John
McCain in this years contest.
Lieberman said through
a spokesman that he had an
informal policy of skipping
the lunches when presidential
politics or the Iraq war would be
discussed.
September is likely a month
where presidential politics will be
discussed, so its likely he wont be
attending, spokesman Marshall
Wittmann said.
Democrats last week hinted
that payback could be in store for
Lieberman, who in a prime-time
address last week at the Repub-
lican National Convention called
Obama an untested candidate
beholden to Democratic interest
groups.
Tuesdays luncheon was the
frst for Senate Democrats since
their partys convention in late
August.
iNterNatioNal
Kim Jong Ils health under
scrutiny from ofcials
WASHINGTON Western of-
fcials are closely watching signs
that North Koreas unpredict-
able dictator Kim Jong Il may be
gravely ill.
Incapacity of the man North
Koreans call the Dear Leader
would have serious implications
for the international efort to get
North Korea to abandon nuclear
weapons.
There was no sign of Kim at a
closely watched parade Tuesday
marking the 60th anniversary
of North Koreas founding, and
the countrys state media was
silent about his absence. His last
reported public appearance was
in mid-August.
There is reason to believe
Kim Jong Il has sufered a serious
health setback, possibly a stroke,
a Western intelligence ofcial
said, speaking on condition of
anonymity to describe sensitive
intelligence gathering.
Another ofcial said rumors
and reports of a possible health
setback were based in part on
intelligence gathered by other
nations.
White House press secretary
Dana Perino said Tuesday that the
Bush administration was watch-
ing the situation, but, Theres
nothing I can provide for you
now.
odd News
Freshman moves into
his dads old dorm room
EAST LANSING, Mich. Follow-
ing in your fathers footsteps by
attending the same university is
one thing. But moving into the
same dorm room as your dad?
Mike Robell has found himself
in B310 in Emmons Hall at Michi-
gan State University the very
same room occupied by his father
Allison Richardson/KANSAN
AdamMeyer, Overland Park senior, plays his guitar on the lawn of Staufer-Flint Hall onTuesday afternoon. Meyer said he had been playing the guitar for two years and hoped to get outside to
practice more often. Tuesday was a perfect afternoon for himto be on campus playing. Temperatures hovered around the mid-60s, and the sun shined.
in 1978.
What are the odds? The East
Lansing university has about 8,000
rooms.
The freshmans father, Rich Ro-
bell, 50, said he suspected it was
his old room. It has the same foor
and same wall color.
The phone number is the
same, too. The same broken
window latch ofered some key
evidence.
The proof came from a univer-
sity archivist, who located a 1978
student directory.
Housing complex manager Tim
Knight says its the frst time in his
37-year tenure that hes aware of a
parent and child having the same
room by chance.
I guess it was meant to be,
said Rich Robell.
Giant mechanical gorilla
kidnapped, held for ransom
EAST MACHIAS, Maine An
8-foot-tall mechanical gorilla
that was swiped in broad day-
light from its longtime location
outside a store has turned up
several hundred miles away
with an apologetic ransom
demand.
The arm-waving primate
disappeared during the Labor
Day weekend and store owner
Lowell Miller and his wife, Sandy,
marveled at how such a big ape
on a heavy base could have been
taken without attracting atten-
tion.
The gorillas creator, Ken Booth
of the Gorilla Robot Factory in
Akron, Ohio, helped out by post-
ing a YouTube video seeking the
gorillas return and ofering a
reward.
Then another video turned up
on YouTube, showing a hooded
person demanding a $1 million
ransom apologizing for causing
a fap.
I didnt know itd be such a big
deal, the hooded abductor said.
Now the gorilla named
Seemore, as in See More at
Sandys Sales has turned up in
a cornfeld at Swanton, Vt.
Sandy Miller intends to press
charges.
What really upset me was the
YouTube video. He was so noncha-
lant, she said Tuesday. You dont
steal other peoples property and
take it out of state.
She said her husbands old
truck is in no shape to make the
750-mile roundtrip to St. Albans,
Vt., where the gorilla is being held
by state police.
But she said ofers were pour-
ing in from people willing to
assist.
Associated Press
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA Scientists will
launch an experiment in a tun-
nel deep beneath the French-Swiss
border Wednesday, hoping to find
evidence of
extra dimen-
sions, invisible
dark matter,
and an elusive
particle called
the Higgs
boson.
A n d
although lead-
ing physicists
such as Stephen Hawking say the
atom-smashing experiment will be
absolutely safe, some skeptics fear
the proton collisions could unleash
microscopic black holes that would
eventually doom the Earth.
The most powerful atom-smash-
er ever built will produce collisions
of protons traveling at nearly the
speed of light in the circular tun-
nel, giving off showers of particles
that will provide more clues as to
how everything in the universe is
made.
In the $10 billion project the
most extensive physics experiment
in history the Large Hadron
Collider will come ever closer to
re-enacting the big bang, the the-
ory that a colossal explosion cre-
ated the cosmos. The project, orga-
nized by the 20 member nations
of the European Organization for
Nuclear Research known by
its French initials CERN has
attracted researchers of 80 nation-
alities. Some 1,200 are from the
United States, an observer country
that contributed $531 million.
The collider is designed to push
the proton beam close to the speed
of light, moving around the 17-mile
tunnel at 11,000 times a second
at full power. Ramping up to full
power is probably a year away.
Smaller colliders have been
used for decades to study the atom.
Scientists once thought protons
and neutrons were the smallest
components of an atoms nucleus,
but experiments have shown they
were made of still smaller quarks
and gluons, and that there were
other forces and particles.
The CERN experiments could
reveal more
about dark
matter, anti-
matter and
possibly hid-
den dimen-
sions of space
and time. It
could also find
evidence of
the hypotheti-
cal particle the Higgs boson
which is sometimes called the
God particle. It is believed to
give mass to all other particles, and
thus to matter that makes up the
universe.
The two beams of protons will
travel in two tubes about the width
of fire hoses, speeding through a
vacuum that is colder and emp-
tier than outer space. Their trajec-
tory will be curved by supercooled
magnets to guide the beams.
The paths of these beams will cross,
and a few protons will collide. The
two largest detectors essential-
ly huge digital cameras weighing
thousands of tons are capable
of taking millions of snapshots a
second.
Some skeptics have said the col-
lisions could result in tiny black
holes subatomic versions of col-
lapsed stars whose gravity is so
strong they can suck in planets and
other stars.
Micro black holes produced by a
collider, the critics theorize, would
move more slowly and might be
trapped inside the Earths grav-
itational field and eventually
threaten the planet.
Its nonsense, said CERN chief
spokesman James Gillies.
John Ellis, a British theoretical
physicist at CERN, said doomsay-
ers assume that the collider will
create micro black holes in the
first place, which he called unlikely.
And even if they appeared, he said,
they would instantly evaporate, as
predicted by Hawking.
Gillies told The Associated
Press that the most dangerous
thing that could happen would
be if a beam at full power were to
go out of control, and that would
only damage the collider itself and
burrow into the rock around the
tunnel. to share the load among
dozens of leading computing cen-
ters worldwide.
news 3A wednesday, september 10, 2008
BY JOE PREINER
jpreiner@kansan.com
The Universitys Student
Health Services is sponsoring
its first Wellness Fair of the year
today, in an attempt to start
students down the right path to
healthy lifestyles.
The fair, which will take place
on Strong Halls front lawn from
10 a.m. to
2 p.m., will
feature free
ma s s a g e s
and health
information
booths for
students.
A m b e r
Long, coor-
d i n a t o r
of fitness for KU Recreation
Services, said the Ambler Student
Recreation Fitness Center would
be one of the health services
represented at the fair.
She said it would offer free
KU Fit class passes for popular
exercise programs.
Long said the recreation cen-
ter currently offered more than
50 fitness-based classes. She said
the number of students enrolled
in popular classes such as Butts
and Guts and Zoomba, a Latin
dance class, had increased.
We not only want to see
enrollment keep increasing, but
we also want to see diversity in
the people that are enrolling and
getting involved, Long said. We
have seen a lot of new faces.
Ken Sarber, health educa-
tor for Student Health Services,
said numerous other health top-
ics would be addressed at the
fair. He said students could find
information on smoking cessa-
tion programs, such as the on-
campus KanUquit, which he said
would also include a program
showing students what they
would look like after 50 years of
smoking.
He also said the fair would
provide students with informa-
tion on topics such as cold and
flu prevention, womens health
issues, birth control, proper
nutrition and the consequences
of unhealthy drinking habits.
S t u d e nt s
dont have to
stop by for very
long, Sarber
said. Even if
its only for five
minutes they
can get a lot of
information in
a short time,
which can help
them choose a healthier path for
the school year.
The Wellness Fair used to be
an annual event, but Patricia
Denning, physician and chief
of staff at Watkins Memorial
Health Center, said the format
had changed this year. Instead of
offering one large fair, Student
Health Services will be sponsor-
ing three or four smaller fairs
throughout the year.
Denning said the idea was
to keep each event focused on
timely health topics, such as the
coming flu season. She also said
the fairs would be held at dif-
ferent locations around campus
so more students could have the
chance to attend one.
Student fees help pay for
Student Health Services events,
such as the Wellness Fair.
Denning said students who
attended the fair generally got
the most value for their money.
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It could also fnd evidence of the
hypothetical particle the
Higgs boson which is some-
times called the God particle.

Instead of ofering one large fair,
Student Health Services will be
sponsoring three or four smaller
fairs throughout the year.
Critics fear project will cause microscopic, Earth-dooming black holes
Students can get info about fitness,
flu prevention, nutrition, birth control
Worlds largest physics experiment to begin
Wellness Fair lands
on Strong Hall lawn
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Complete an application and get a petition with 50 signatures from the
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Interviews with the Replacement Committee (made up of current
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announced shortly after and conrmed in full Senate on October 1st.
KU American Business Women's Association Meeting
Tuesday, September 16 @ 7-8 p.m.
Courtside Room (Burge Union)
Dress business casual
Speaker: C.H. Robinson
Topic: Resumes & Interviews
Come hear what an employer recruiting at KU looks for in
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NEWS 4A wednesday, september 10, 2008
Robinson was a member when
he attended the University and
lived in the same house as Bales
at 1425 Tennessee. Bales said
Robinson was always excited to
talk about his memories from life
in the house.
I want that to
be important in
my life as well,
Bales said.
Bales said
Robinson also
enj oyed KU
sports. Bales
said his grand-
mother worried
that Robinson became too intense
during the KU championship game
last April.
If I was thrilled, then he was
ecstatic, Bales said.
Bales, a pre-business major,
said he was still not sure about his
career path after graduation.
Im using my undergradu-
ate years to determine that, Bales
said.
Bales said he also would like to
spend some time volunteering for
children. He said he used to volun-
teer to help children who needed
extra support in an inner city area
of Kansas City.
I was in a class with 20 kids
with a lot of energy, Bales said.
Its a little overwhelming. But here
and there, I like to do it. I think
people really appreciate having
a role model somebody to be
there and helpful.
Jason Sneegas
Jason Sneegas, Lawrence fresh-
man, played football in high school.
He was following a family tradition
of athleticism. He was also follow-
ing a family tradition of attending
the University, being the fifth gen-
eration in his family to do so.
His grandfather, Donald
Sneegas, won the javelin throw at
the Kansas Relays in 1954 and 1955
and at the Texas Relays in 1954,
and he took first place at the Big
Seven in 1954.
His great-great grandfather,
A.R. Bert Kennedy, was captain
of the KU football team in 1887,
121 years before Sneegas graduated
from high school and decided to
follow his family members to the
University.
Jason said he chose the
University because it offered a
good education and because many
of his high school friends came to
the University.
Ive lived here all my life,
Sneegas said. I
knew I was going
to be a Jayhawk.
Jasons parents
and both sets of
g r a ndpa r e nt s
graduated from
the University.
However, Ruth
Anne Sneegas,
Jasons mother
and a fourth-generation Jayhawk,
said she never pushed him to attend
the University. Jasons older brother
goes to Western Illinois University
and plays baseball.
The generation thing just hap-
pened, Ruth Anne said. We want
what is best for Jason.
Until recently, Jason didnt know
much about the generations before
his grandparents. He found out
about Kennedy, the first generation
Jayhawk in his family, during the
last years football season.
Kennedy was the head foot-
ball coach at the University in
the 1900s. After seven seasons,
his record was 53-9-4. The 1905
Jayhawker yearbook said the Fall
1904 team was one of the best
and Kennedy should be attributed
for that. In that single season, the
Jayhawks scored 179 total points to
opponents combined 38.
Ruth Anne said Kennedy
coached the undefeated team of
1908, which continued to win until
1909. She said his emphasis on
team play and the harmony of the
team differentiated him from other
coaches at the time.
Ruth Anne recalled that her
grandmother, Kennedys daughter,
often talked about Kennedys team
play. Ruth Anne said she always
enjoyed the small talk between dif-
ferent generations when the family
learned about itself.
Ruth Anne said when she went
to the University in the 80s, fans
wore Jayhawk shirts and supported
the KU teams, just like now, when
Jason and the Sneegas family enjoy
seasonal sports every year.
But she said Baby Jay was more
popular then than now, and more
people wore crimson shirts along
with blue.
She said that while Lawrence
had expanded west and changed
its landscape during the past few
decades, the campus and downtown
area carried the same atmosphere.
The character of campus and
students have never changed, she
said.
Danielle Adam
Danielle Adam, Overland Park
freshman, also became the fifth
generation in her family to attend
the University this fall.
Adam said she always wanted to
study at the University because of
its nursing program and her family
tie to the school.
Jokingly, they are always like,
We are Jayhawks, Adam said. I
knew I was coming here for a long
time and I really didnt want to go
to anywhere else.
Adam said that though she had
been at the University for only a
few weeks, she already liked the
experience of a big school and
enjoyed the diversity, especially in
meeting different people.
I dont think I could go to a
small college, Adam said.
Because many of her fam-
ily members graduated from the
University, they were involved
in different aspects of campus.
Her family donated to the KU
Endowment Association campaign
and that helped build Eaton Hall,
which was dedicated in 2003 as
part of the engineering complex.
When the football team played
in the Orange Bowl last winter,
her grandparents bought seats on
a charter plane to Miami and game
tickets for the family.
It was one of the best experi-
ences Ive ever had, Adam said.
Adam started rowing for the club
team at the University this semes-
ter. She said she had participated
in sports since she was young and
had played soccer in high school.
She said she suffered many inju-
ries in the sport but always wanted
to participate in team sports at the
University, so she chose rowing as
the next step in her athletic career.
What I really need is a team,
Adam said. Ive been playing soc-
cer since I was 5. Being on a team
is part of my life.
Adam is also following an ath-
letic family tradition. Her great
grandfather Paul James Adam
played football at the University in
1929 and her great uncle Jim Mills
played for the team in 1960.
Adams first regatta, or boat race,
is scheduled for Oct. 11 in Moline,
Ill. She said she eventually wanted
to be on the Universitys NCAA
varsity team.
The other three fifth-generation
students are Katherine Barnes,
Prairie Village freshman, Jordan
Fee, Hutchinson freshman, and
Christopher Galle, Overland Park
freshman.
Edited by Brenna Hawley
generations (continued from 1A)
aBoVe: Jon goering/Kansan
LeFt: Contributed Photo
aBoVe: Jason sneegas,
Lawrence freshman,
became the ffth genera-
tion in his family to attend
the University this fall. He
said until this year he did
not know how far back
his family history at the
University went.
LeFt: sneegas great
great grandfather a.r.
Bert Kennedy started
for two years on the KU foot-
ball team in the 1880s. He
later returned to the school
to coach the team, leading
the team to an undefeated
season in 1908.
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TBILISI, Georgia Russia
announced Tuesday it would keep
7,600 troops in Abkhazia and South
Ossetia for the foreseeable future,
asserting power in the breakaway
regions even as it began a pullout
from positions deeper in Georgia.
The Kremlins plans for a heavy
military footprint in the enclaves
mock Georgias hopes that a revised
peace agreement will lead to a com-
plete Russian withdrawal from the
fractured country at the heart of
a bitter fray between Moscow and
the West. The deal that emerged
from a day of frantic French diplo-
macy Monday may defuse tension
by removing Russian forces from
positions they hold in Georgia
weeks after last months war. But it
left serious questions unanswered.
After hours of talks with French
President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev prom-
ised to withdraw all Russian forces
from positions outside Abkhazia
and South Ossetia within about a
month.
Medvedevs pledge seemed like a
startling concession from Moscow,
which had adamantly claimed to
have met its obligations under the
cease-fire brokered by Sarkozy
last month. As recently as Sunday,
Georgia said Russia was reinforc-
ing its positions around a key port.
But even as it promises to pull
back from positions outside South
Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russia is
strengthening its grip on the sep-
aratist regions themselves. That
runs counter to Western demands
that they remain a part of Georgia
and casts a shadow over President
Mikhail Saakashvilis hopes of unit-
ing the nation.
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internAtionAl
russian
troops stay
put during
negotiations
an insurgency because of the large
funding leaders of these move-
ments had.
Chris Blackstone, St. Louis
senior, said students should be
more interested and concerned
with whats happening.
Pakistan isnt given a high
enough role, he said. Iraq has
taken most of the attention.
Schrodt said the war in
Afghanistan is different from con-
ventional wars of the past.
The world where we could
take on countries that would be
willing to fight us with the sort
of weapons that we have more of
than they do and once theyre
beat they stay beat, like Japan and
Germany stayed beat that just
isnt the case anymore. Schrodt
said.
The U.S. has been fighting
in Afghanistan since it invaded
in 2002. U.S. casualties reached
514 on Monday, according to
The Associated Press. President
George W. Bush has announced
he will redeploy 4,500 troops to
Afghanistan by January.
Chelsea Stieb, Springfield, Mo.,
freshman, said she attended the
forum because of the importance
surrounding the current events.
I feel like I need to know more
about it because of the upcoming
elections and the importance of
whats going on over there, she
said.
Edited by Andy Greenhaw
PaKistan (continued from 1A)
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COLUMBIA, S.C Attention,
amorous guys: Killarneys an
Australian cutie, but woo her with
care.
The feisty gal once swatted at a
beau who got a little close, and gave
another poor fellow the cold shoul-
der during their introduction.
Undaunted, Killarneys friends
keep updating her online profile in
the hope of finding her Mr. Right.
Like many of her contemporaries,
the koala might find her dream
date waiting somewhere in the files
of a computerized matchmaking
service, keepers at the Riverbanks
Zoo theorize.
Just like the digital dating ser-
vices that pair up people, so-called
studbooks are used to match most
animals held in captivity. The
databases containing information
on sex, age and weight not
so much about favorite comfort
foods or long walks on the beach
are used by more than 200 zoos
nationally and some internation-
ally. Theyre practically taking the
place of Mother Nature in the not-
so wild world of captive animal
breeding.
Now, new software is going to
the Web, promising more easily
accessible data, faster matches and
in a page out of the most particu-
lar of human dating sites details
on an animals personality to ease
what can be a testy process.
Zoos wont be required to
document the turn-ons and turn-
offs of each animal in Zoological
Information Management Systems,
a collaboration between about 150
zoos and aquariums thats a year or
two away from wide distribution.
At the very least, though, the
software will give zookeepers bet-
ter access to species-level details
currently found only in zoo hus-
bandry manuals that now are
mostly e-mailed back and forth,
said Bob Wiese, director of collec-
tions for the Zoological Society of
San Diego.
While theres no candlelight or
Marvin Gaye being played in the
back rooms of zoos, there are end-
less tricks used to get the animals
in the mood, said Wiese, widely
considered the authority on ZIMS.
In China, breeding experts have
claimed success putting giant pan-
das in the mood by showing them
images of other pandas mating
panda porn, as its been called.
There are some frogs that you
have to simulate rain for or they
wont come out and breed, Wiese
said. Other frogs, they just need
to hear the sound of rain and the
sound of lightning and thunder.
Thats what sets off their hor-
mones.
Around since the 1980s in
paperback form, most of todays
studbooks are in computerized
databases. Basic information such
as family tree, medical history, age
and weight are entered by stud-
book keepers, then sent to a central
location where the data is analyzed
and converted into a master plan
for breeding.
But the databases have their
limitations. They arent updated
quickly and dont include the extra
information from the dog-eared
husbandry manuals on setting the
optimal conditions for an animals
breeding.
So zookeepers who rely on the
databases might not know, for
instance, that satanic leaf-tailed
geckos like group sex, that fighting
equals foreplay for giant leaf-tailed
geckos or that expectant gecko
moms should eat snails.
That could mean the difference
between a sustainable population
and extinction of a species, said
Ed Diebold, director of animal col-
lections at Riverbanks Zoo, one of
the only zoos to successfully breed
several species of geckos.
Big populations out in the wild
breed randomly, Diebold said. In
captivity, usually these popula-
tions are considerably smaller than
wild populations, which is why
you cant afford to allow animals
to inbreed or breed along closely
related lines. Thats why you have
the studbooks.
Careful planning among zoos
may take some of the wild out of
the wild thing but it also ensures
that the most genetically diverse
animals breed, said Steve Feldman,
spokesman for the Association of
Zoos and Aquarium, which over-
sees the majority of studbooks for
exotic species in the U.S.
To paraphrase an old Jeff
Foxworthy joke, its important that
your family tree forks, Feldman
said. This way we can have a
genetically diverse population.
The Columbia zoo is one of
about 20 chosen to test the ZIMS
software once it becomes available.
Walt Disney World, which man-
ages one of the largest collections
of studbooks in the U.S., will be
another test site.
Studbooks are the key to our
long-term breeding plans, said
John Lehnhardt, animal opera-
tions director at Disneys Animal
Kingdom in Orlando, Fla. We
want to ensure that these endan-
gered species are here for the
future and thats really what the
studbooks are all about. What were
trying to do is maintain a savings
account in species.
Disney manages about 27 stud-
books, like the one for the African
elephant. It also holds one of the
nations largest herds of elephants,
which includes a female elephant
recently sent to Disney World
from Riverbanks Zoo. Keepers
remain hopeful that Tumpe is a
good match for the young bull
thats already fathered a few calves
through artificial insemination.
She is now cohabitating with
a very handsome young male,
Lehnhardt said. We have put these
two together in the hopes that well
have some success.
Its not exactly animals find-
ing love online, but experts say
matchmaking software for zoos is
bringing together the single most
important factor in ensuring the
survival of animals people.
Its really about us gathering
the best scientific information we
can get to make the best decisions
about the long-term viability of our
populations, Wiese said.
news 5A Wednesday, september 10, 2008
ASSOCIATED PRESS
John Davis, curator of mammals at Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, S.C., uses a nationwide computerized matchmaking studbook, which will eventually connect Oz, a baby koala,
to a future mate when he is ready.
Dating service hooks up potential animal mates
Digital studbooks used by more
than 200 zoos around the world
WILDLIFE
HURRICANE IKE
Ofcials discuss mandatory evacuation as Ike approaches
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Melanie Ortiz loads up on water in Corpus Christi, Texas, onTuesday in preparation for Hurricane Ike. She lives on Padre Island and said she would
leave if it looked like the hurricane would hit Corpus Christi or nearby, but she said she wanted to be prepared with food and water just in case the
electricity went out at some point. Ofcials have not yet declared a mandatory evacuation.
AssociAted Press
McALLEN, Texas With
Hurricane Ike steaming into the
Gulf of Mexico, Texas emergency
officials Tuesday stood ready to
order 1 million people evacuated
from the impoverished Rio Grande
Valley and tried to convince tens
of thousands of illegal immigrants
that they have less to fear from
the Border Patrol than from the
storm.
Emergency planning officials
were meeting all day to decide if
and when to announce a mandato-
ry evacuation for coastal counties
close to the Mexican border.
With forecasts showing Ike
blowing ashore this weekend,
authorities lined up nearly 1,000
buses in case they are needed to
move out the many poor and elder-
ly people who have no cars.
Federal authorities gave assur-
ances they would not check peo-
ples immigration status at evacua-
tion loading zones or inland check-
points. But residents were skepti-
cal, and there were worries that
many illegal immigrants would
refuse to board buses and go to
shelters for fear of getting arrested
and deported.
People are nervous, said the
Rev. Michael Seifert, a Roman
Catholic priest and immigrant
advocate. The message that was
given to me was that its going to be
a real problem.
One reason for the skepticism:
Back in May, Homeland Security
Secretary Michael Chertoff said the
Border Patrol would do nothing to
impede an evacuation in the event
of a hurricane. But when Hurricane
Dolly struck the Rio Grande Valley
in late July, no mandatory evacu-
ation was ordered, and as a result
the Border Patrol kept its check-
points open. Agents soon caught a
van load of illegal immigrants.
It would be the first mandatory
large-scale evacuation in South
Texas history. State and county
officials let people decide for them-
selves whether to leave a hurricane
area until just before Hurricane
Rita struck the Gulf Coast in 2005.
Now county officials can order
people out of harms way.
Hidalgo County Judge J.D.
Salinas said if an evacuation is
ordered this time, county officials
will visit immigrant neighbor-
hoods and forcefully urge people
to clear out.
After Hurricanes Katrina and
Gustav, there were a lot of immi-
grants who said, Im not going to
go, said Salinas, the countys top
elected official. Its going to be
hard.
In Washington, Rear Adm. W.
Craig Vanderwagen, assistant U.S.
health secretary for preparedness
and response, told reporters: In
storm events, if people are trapped
it doesnt particularly matter to
those of us in the humanitarian
assistance world which side of that
border they come from. We will
do what we need to do to evacuate
the people who need to be evacu-
ated.
At 5 p.m. EDT, Ike was about 90
miles southwest of Havana, Cuba,
moving northwest at 10 mph with
sustained winds near 75 mph. It
was expected to cross the Gulf
of Mexico, strengthening to a
Category 3 with winds of up to
130 mph.
Forecasters said that it could hit
on Saturday morning just about
anywhere along the Texas coast,
with the most likely spot close to
the Corpus Christi area.
Areas from Matagorda Bay
to Corpus Christi and south to
Brownsville about 250 miles of
coastline were told to prepare
for possible mandatory evacua-
tion.
On Tuesday, Ike roared across
Cuba, ravaging homes, killing at
least four people and forcing 1.2
million to evacuate.
The Rio Grande Valley is still
soggy from Dolly, which flooded
the region, damaging hundreds of
homes but killing no one. Many
homes still have blue tarps on their
roofs.
The Rio Grande Valleys residents
are among those least equipped to
handle hurricane flooding. It is one
of the poorest parts of the country,
with one-third of all families living
below the poverty line, compared
with 10 percent nationally.
Colonias, or ramshackle com-
munities often lacking sewer sys-
tems and paved streets, dot the
Valley. Even an ordinary rainstorm
can fill yards with disease-ridden
sewage from flooded septic tanks.
Many of the poor lack health insur-
ance.
Mexican officials said more than
a dozen dams in the northern state
of Chihuahua were at capacity or
spilling over, heightening fears of
flooding on the American side of
the border.
Gov. Rick Perry declared 88
coastal counties disaster areas
Monday to start the flow of state
aid, and began preparing for an
evacuation, lining up buses rather
than body bags.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area
sheltered about 3,000 Hurricane
Gustav evacuees last week and is
prepared for up to about 20,000
people this time, said Steve Griggs,
a county official. The downtown
convention center would again
serve as the main shelter.
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10 is the easiest day, 0 the
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HOROSCOPES
ARiES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 5
Theres a lot of work involved,
but not very much cash. But
youll get to be a hero. Status
is as important as money, as
you well know; sometimes its
more important.
TAuRuS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 10
A long shot hits dead center.
Try something you thought
you couldnt do. This time,
odds are good youll be suc-
cessful beyond your wildest
dreams.
GEMini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
Money is available for house-
hold projects. A structural im-
provement would be a good
investment. Do the research to
get the best deal.
CAnCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is an 8
A surprising suggestion makes
you aware of possibilities youd
never noticed. Isnt that great?
Enjoy the intellectual exercise.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 5
You should be doing pretty
well with work and money.
The trick is to save some of the
latter, without spending it all.
Its possible.
ViRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
Youre lucky. Go ahead and
follow a hunch. This is not a
reasoned decision, by the way.
Those wont work out as well.
LibRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 6
A household job has been
nagging you. Dont avoid it
any longer. You still may not
feel like doing it, but thats a
pitiful excuse. Tough it out.
SCORPiO (Oct. 23-nov. 21)
Today is an 8
You have a lot of informa-
tion to memorize, so dont
be a slacker. You can make a
fabulous impression on an
important person. Or you can
mess up big time. Nah, you
wont do that.

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Invest in fxing up your place,
as in updating technology.
You ought to be able to fnd a
good deal on a gadget youve
been wanting. Reward your-
self for your patience.
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Youre fnding the answers
youre seeking. If that hasnt
quite happened yet, keep
reading. After you learn whats
required, read the stuf they
dont want you to know.
AquARiuS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 5
Just when youre about to give
up, you have a great idea. Ei-
ther that, or you stumble onto
the buried treasure. Either way,
keep digging.
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Others admire your imagina-
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Some of them even suspect
youre a genius. Keep on smil-
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RALEIGH, N.C. Most of for-
mer professional wrestler Ric Flairs
fights were scripted. But Chapel
Hill, N.C., police didnt find any-
thing fake about the blood and
bruises on the Nature Boy after a
fight with his daughters 22-year-
old boyfriend.
Neither man was charged, but
Flairs daughter, Ashley Elizabeth
Fliehr, was charged for resisting
police after the 22-year-old became
belligerent and kicked an officer,
Chapel Hill police Lt. Kevin Gunter
said Tuesday.
Neighbors called police about
2:30 a.m. Friday about a fight at an
apartment in the city about 30 miles
northwest of Raleigh. The fight was
over, but officers followed a trail of
blood to Fliehrs apartment.
She told police the men had
fought but it was over and things
were fine. Officers found the
59-year-old Flair, whose real name
is Richard Fliehr, on a bed in the
back room. The boyfriend was in
another part of the apartment.
Flair admitted fighting with the
boyfriend but he didnt want to
press charges, Gunter said. Gunter
refused to give the boyfriends
name because he was not charged.
He was kind of elusive, Gunter
said of Flair. He said everything
was fine. Officers said he had a no
problems here kind of attitude. He
just wanted everything forgotten.
Flair, known for his fur-lined
robes and signature Wooooo!
catchphrase, retired earlier this
year after a 36-year career. He
had wrestled for several big-name
organizations, including World
Championship Wrestling and
World Wrestling Entertainment.
CELEbRiTy
Wrestler has unscripted fght
The administrations decision
to kill a tradition, only to bring it
back from the dead after outcries
from alumni, exposes a lack of
leadership.
University officials said in an
interview Wednesday with The
Kansan, that the whistle would not
sound again. Senior Vice Provost
Don Steeples called this the
final decision. Yet two days later,
Chancellor Robert Hemenway
said the whistle would be back
after complaints from every cor-
ner of Jayhawk Nation.
The University must latch onto
innovation to bring itself out of
trouble. With a little foresight, the
whistle could have been a fund-
raising triumph.
Administration put forward
the issues it has with the whistle,
pointing out that it is wasteful to
blow $3,000 to $7,000 a year on
steam. This should be a challenge
for alumni and students to step
forward with funding, and more
importantly, new ways to blow
the whistle.
Originally, the whistle
was a way to connect a
university that did not
have the luxury of emer-
gency text messaging or
e-mail, but now it can
become our response to main-
taining old traditions in environ-
mentally friendly ways.
The University burns natural
gas to boil water to produce steam
for the whistle. Admittedly, this is
a wasteful process. Comments on
The Kansans and Journal-Worlds
stories show widespread interest
in the problem. The University
could turn to engineering stu-
dents who could develop new
plans for the whistle as a class
project. It will cost money, time,
patience and vision to devise a
new way of making that whistle
blow, but for whom it blows, it is
worth it.
The administrations initial
silence shows that it lacks rela-
tions skills. Sending
out leaders who offer
up quotes like Im
not one of the major
fans of the whistle
only spark the fire.
Impartiality in admin-
istrative decision-making also
disappears quickly when you
have officials complaining about
how a tradition interrupts their
meetings, while on video, like the
Steeples did in the interview with
the Journal-World.
The University should work on
something people are concerned
with. Continued oversights might
not be corrected as easily as just
turning the steam back on.
Alex Doherty for the
editorial board
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Graphic images force us
to confront abortion
Rarely is the cost of a
destructive choice brought to
light as efectively as it was last
week in front of Strong Hall.
The graphic displays depicting
the actual results of abortion
generated much controversy
among the student body. Yet,
these pictures must be viewed
for they bring what is a distant,
mostly rhetorical debate to a
human level.
If these pictures jar us, ask
why. The pro-abortion faction
seems especially to object to
this mere advertisement of the
abortion industry. But isn't an
abortion just a medical proce-
dure, like removing a malignant
cancer? If a child in the womb
is a human being, then the
legalization of abortion is the
condoning of murder. If it is just
a medical procedure, then these
pictures do nothing more than
show what an efective treat-
ment it is.
The horrifc pictures of the
ruins and disfgured people of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki led
many people to reconsider the
morality of atomic warfare.
Would this reassessment have
come about if the horrors were
nothing more than words? If
the government killed as many
people yearly with the atomic
bomb as it permits with abor-
tions, would the opposition to
depictions of said actions be as
vehement as the pro-abortion-
ists' was? Tragically, it seems
true that people view the death
of one person a tragedy, and
the death of millions of unborn
children a statistic.
Everyone needs to know the
reality of the largest social, if
not human crisis in our history.
Ignoring justice is not an option
for anyone, but especially for
the people of this nation, which
is founded on principles liberty
and justice for all.
Daniel Obermeier is an Olathe freshman
Somewhere between the glow-
ing fast food menu and driving up
to Window Two to make sure they
gave you extra ketchup packets,
Americans forgot what and how to
eat. Eating seems simple enough,
until you realize what people are
willing to eat nowadays.
Feces, for example.
Ive eaten many things in my
life. Ive eaten food off the floor
well past the five-second rule, and
Ive been duped into eating crea-
tures that were still alive.
Despite my adventures, I draw
the line at feces.
Im going to assume you do, too.
However, Whole Foods learned
the public has a distaste for feces.
On Aug. 8, Whole Foods recalled
ground beef sold over the past
two months that may have been
contaminated with E. coli.
The type of E. coli toxic to
humans lives in the intestines of
animals such as cattle. In order for
E. coli to contaminate your food, it
must be defecated.
Occasionally when a cow is
slaughtered, some of its feces get
into your burger, chili cheese fries
or taco meat. Puts a new spin on
the term cow patties, doesnt it?
As nauseating as it sounds, a
little feces doesnt seem to disgust
the major meat suppliers, which
control 80 percent of the market.
What does disgust them is the
price tag of running a clean opera-
tion that minimizes the risk of
toxic bacteria getting into your
meat.
Shouldnt the USDA be regu-
lating and scrutinizing the entire
meat processing system? Yes, but
it isnt. Meat recalls are volun-
tary, not mandatory. According to
Marion Nestle, author of What to
Eat, the USDA doesnt track food
poisoning outbreaks either. The
USDA backs down when the meat
industry expresses its discontent
with policy.
Fortunately, the Center for
Science in the Public Interest has
stepped in to protect consumers
while the USDA is busy licking the
meat industrys boots. According
to the Centers reports, since 1990
there have been 30,000 people who
sat down to dinner, took a bite
and ended up consuming toxic
bacteria.
Meat packers dont care about
those 30,000 people, though,
because to them, those 30,000
people lack the common sense to
cook their food properly. They
think that by slapping a label on
their products that tells you to
cook your meat thoroughly before
consuming theyve passed the
responsibility on to you. Its not
their problem there are feces and
toxins in our food they say its
your problem that you didnt cook
the feces enough so that it wont
harm you.
It would be really easy to just
tell you to go vegetarian. For a
lot of people, not eating meat is a
great way to avoid harming their
bodies and to not support the meat
industry. But not eating meat is a
huge step for most people, espe-
cially Americans, who would lose
the centerpiece of their meals if
meat were off the menu.
Instead, look to local meat sup-
pliers. The community holds local
businesses accountable, which is
a far more than what the USDA
claims to do.
But heres the rub: Just because
its local doesnt necessarily mean
its safer. It just means that you
know just where it came from, and
the closer you are to the source,
the easier it is to make sure theyre
keeping it clean.
The meat industry and the
USDA are not looking out for you.
If this matters to you, the least you
can do is pull your money out of
the major meat market until it
cleans up its act.
Until the USDA and the meat
industry make sure business is
done well, youll have to make sure
your next burger is well done.
McConnell is a Dallas junior
in English.
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POLITICS
Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), the
nations longest serving Republican
senator, has been indicted on seven
charges of failure to disclose some
$250,000 worth of gifts and ser-
vices from an oil consulting firm.
The Associated Press reports that
Stevens sent a note to a supporter
saying he paid $130,000 in bills
forwarded to him, but thats still
$120,000 off.
Seeing as I believe that all poli-
ticians are corrupt, lying vermin,
this doesnt really strike me as
surprising, especially in Alaska
(Google corruption Alaska, and
youll see).
But what is most disturbing to
me is Alaskans actually voted him
through their senatorial primary.
Either someone has spiked Alaskas
drinking water with psilocybin, or
there is a problem with the system.
Im pretty sure its the latter.
I understand that people are
innocent until proven guilty, but
politicians should be the excep-
tion. Should people working on
the behalf of the people even put
themselves close to a situation
such as bribery? No.
Here are some steps that will
control wayward practices by peo-
ple who work for the public and
help fix the system.
1. No longer will the indicted
be allowed to use campaign money
to fund their legal fees. The rea-
son for this is it hits these bas-
tards where it hurts the most: their
bank account. Itll make them
think twice when accepting those
briefcases in dark parking garages
when your donors cant battle your
misdeeds.
2. When indicted, they must
repay all donors. If they cant, then
they must serve an hour per dol-
lar given to them as that donors
butler.
3. If indicted, they must spend
the entire duration leading up to
the trial as a waiter in their dis-
tricts busiest coffee shop. That way
theyll have to meet and see and
interact with the very people they
were supposed to serve while
wearing a sandwich board that
reads, I AM CORRUPT! Picture
Sen. Sam Brownback at La Prima
Tazza struggling to get the espres-
so machine to work and bumbling
around the cash register.
4. They will no longer be on
public salary. Imagine a senator
trying to make ends meet on a
baristas wage. Maybe then theyll
see that there are people that make
a living without Range Rovers and
$600 haircuts and that life can be
ruthless sometimes.
While the above scenarios prob-
ably wont happen soon, its far bet-
ter than two years in a resort class
prison. The best way to prevent
illegal actions by politicians is to
make certain they know that if
they do, they will be embarrassed,
humbled and punished by their
own constituents, instead of the
other way around.
Graham is a Columbus, Ohio,
graduate student in exercise
physiology.
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Sugars, you mean the world to
me, and if this gets published
then I beyond know that we
are meant to be. What do you
say, Free for All?
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When did we give KU permis-
sion to sell our e-mail ad-
dresses to spammers? Guess
I missed that when I signed
over a check for $14,000 a
couple weeks ago.
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The guy whining about the
bicycle path: you could slow
down and merge into trafc
like the rules of the road dic-
tate. You don't need to break
the law and veer into trafc.
n n n
Im single. I live in Lawrence,
and I'm not a sex-obsessed
slut.
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What is the deal with the KU
vs. MU game only having
3,000 student tickets and be-
ing sold out by 10?
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You act surprised that we got
screwed over on tickets. Did
you already forget what hap-
pened last year?
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Free for All, who would win in
this royal rumble: Jackie Chan,
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Van
Damme, Stallone, Mr. T, Steven
Seagal, Jet Li or Bruce Willis as
John McClane?
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Tyson would attempt to bite
Mr. T's ear of. Mr. T would bite
Mike Tyson's head of. Once
again, PKO.
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I would love to see T vs. T. Mr.
T. vs. Tyson!
n n n
Ive decided that Im the
only gay guy on this campus
who is not an uptight, prissy
whore.
n n n
Non-prissy gay guy, I salute
you!
n n n
Mr. T would pity every last one
of them into nothingness. He
wins by PKO.
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Youre the most gorgeous
man Ive ever laid my eyes on.
n n n
To the kid with the red hat: Do
you seriously have to wear it
every day?
n n n
I wear a blue hat every day. Is
that bad too?
n n n
To the girl that is so happy
on the McCollum bus today:
I dont know what was funny
but keep smiling. It works for
you.
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I heard the whistle today.
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bentsminger@kansan.com
Matthew Burke, associate pro-
fessor of art, will install his 75-foot-
long kinetic sculpture 20 feet above
the ground in Kansas City, Mo., by
the end of the month.
Burke was one of six artists
selected for the 2008 Avenue of the
Arts, a program that places artwork
along a section of Central Street
in downtown Kansas City every
year. The piece, called Hoops and
Birds, will be attached to the side
of Bartle Hall Convention Center,
the building in Kansas City with
four art deco pylons that jut into
the citys skyline.
Burke said he applied for Avenue
of the Arts because he wanted to
share his work on a local level and
also because he applied last year
and wasnt selected.
Kansas City is a very vital, real-
ly vibrant city and has an incredible
art scene, Burke said. Through
this, I wanted to be a part of that
art scene.
Porter Arneill, director and
public art administrator with the
Municipal Art Commission of
Kansas City, said about 30 artists
applied for the Avenue of the Arts
this year. The six who were selected
were provided with $5,000 to bring
their proposals to life.
B u r k e s
piece, which
will be dis-
played from
September to
May of next
year, features
three gold,
hi gh-densit y
foam birds
encircled by
20 hardwood
hoops that
range in diam-
eter from three to six feet. Burke
called the work a kinetic sculpture
because the hoops and birds rotate
around a large pole sticking out of
Bartle Hall.
He said his inspiration for the
piece was the passage of time
the hoops represent days, weeks or
moments, and the birds represent
travelers through time.
The sculpture is a larger version
of a piece Burke had already cre-
ated, which measures about 14 feet
in length and is designed to hang
on a wall.
Burke said the scale of this
sculpture was his biggest challenge.
With the original, smaller sculpture
he was able to
rearrange the
component s
easily. But the
placement of
the compo-
nents on the
new piece
must be deter-
mined before
installation.
Hoops and
Birds is the
largest sus-
pended work Burke has ever cre-
ated. He said he hired a structural
engineer, Eric Graham, to make
sure the piece would be installed
properly.
Graham said the piece would
be difficult to install because he
was not allowed to drill new holes
in the outside wall of Bartle Hall.
Instead, he will have to use pre-
existing holes that measure two
inches wide and two inches deep.
Graham usually works on build-
ings, and he said this project was
unique because it was something
that hadnt been done before and
probably wouldnt be done again.
Its a little bit of a challenge
because theres just not a real text-
book way to do it, Graham said.
Burke said the majority of his
artwork was slightly larger than
life-size, and that he had been
working primarily with wood for
the past 10 years. But his past work
didnt limit what he could do, he
said.
Youre able to kind of expand
your artistic vocabulary when the
situation arises, he said.
Burke said he used the money
for labor, materials, hardware and
rental of a scissor lift for installa-
tion. Burke has created only one
other large piece: a 100-foot snake
for the Smoky Hill River Festival
in Salina this summer. He said
he created the basic shape of the
snake from wire and then invit-
ed community members to help
weave thin strips of wood onto the
frame.
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MatthewBurke, assistant professor of art, works on his sculpture for Avenue of the Arts on
Tuesday afternoon. Burke wore gloves while gluing together pieces of wood because the type of
glue he used was strong enough to bond to his skin and stay there for up to three weeks.
art
More than 9,000 charges fled against meatpacking plant
Professors sculpture wins recognition
Kansas City is a very vital, really
vibrant city and has an incredible
art scene. Through this, I wanted
to be a part of that art scene.
Matthew burke
associate professor of art
This was not one mistake, two
mistakes, three mistakes, but
many, many mistakes.
sonia parras konrad
attorney
national
Matthew Burkes oversized kinetic art to be installed in downtown KCMO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DES MOINES, Iowa The
owner and managers of the nations
largest kosher meatpacking plant
were charged Tuesday with more
than 9,000 misdemeanors alleging
they hired minors and had chil-
dren younger than 16 handle dan-
gerous equipment such as circular
saws, meat grinders and power
shears.
They are the first criminal
charges against operators of the
Agriprocessors plant in Postville,
where nearly 400 illegal immi-
grants working at the facility were
arrested in May in one of the larg-
est single-site immigration raids
in U.S. history.
The complaint filed by the
Iowa attorney generals office
said the violations involved 32
illegal-immigrant children under
age 18. Aside from handling dan-
gerous equipment, the complaint
also said children were exposed to
dangerous chemicals such as chlo-
rine solutions and dry ice.
The attorney generals office
said the violations occurred from
Sept. 9, 2007, to May 12, 2008,
when the plant was raided by
immigration agents.
Charged are the company itself,
Agriprocessors Inc., plant owner
Abraham Aaron Rubashkin;
former plant manager Sholom
Rubashkin; human resources
manager Elizabeth Billmeyer;
and Laura Althouse and Karina
Freund, management employees
in the companys human resources
division.
Each defendant faces 9,311
individual counts one for each
day a particular violation is alleged
for each worker. Iowa Attorney
General Tom Miller said at a news
conference on Tuesday that he
would not elaborate on what evi-
dence led to the indictment.
All of the named individu-
al defendants possessed shared
knowledge that Agriprocessors
employed undocumented aliens.
It was likewise shared knowledge
among the defendants that many
of those workers were minors, the
affidavit said.
The charges are simple misde-
meanors, each carrying a maxi-
mum penalty of 30 days in jail and
a fine of $65 to $625.
Miller said
the case was
the largest of its
type hed han-
dled in his 26
years as attor-
ney general.
C h a i m
Abrams, a
manager at the
plant, said in a
statement that
Agriprocessors
v e he me nt l y
denies the allegations. He said
the underage workers not the
company were to blame.
All of the minors at issue lied
about their age in order to gain
employment at the company, he
said. At the time of hiring, all of
the minors, like all job applicants,
presented and signed documents
stating that they were over 18.
They knew that, if they told the
truth about their age, they would
not be hired.
Abrams said the state wouldnt
be able to back up its case.
In order to convict, the state
is going to have to prove that the
defendants willfully violated the
child labor laws, he said. ... The
state will not be able to carry this
burden of proof. Agriprocessors
acted in good faith on the child
labor issue. We look forward to
our day in court.
Sonia Parras Konrad, an attor-
ney representing more than 20 of
the children, said her clients were
as young as 14 when they started
working at
the plant.
We dont
need to see
any papers to
see that some-
one is a child,
she said. This
was not one
mistake, two
mistakes, three
mistakes, but
many, many
mistakes.
Parras Konrad said minors in
the plant were treated the same
as adults and often worked in the
same conditions.
They were hungry all the time,
it was freezing cold or burning
hot, Parras Konrad said the chil-
dren told her.
The attorney generals office
said the company encouraged job
applicants to submit forged iden-
tification documents that were
known to contain false informa-
tion about their resident status,
age and identity.
Each defendant ... hired chil-
dren, retained the employment
of children observed working
throughout the plant, and/or par-
ticipated in efforts to conceal chil-
dren, the affidavit said.
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Fields to miss
Fridays game
Wide receivers foot was injured in opening game,
but he is expected back soon. FootBall2B
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Kansas wants to prove it belongs among the
countrys best against No. 19 South Florida in
the seasons frst nationally televised KU game
BY B.J. RAINS
rains@kansan.com
Coach Mark Mangino may not want to
say it, but several of his players will.
Friday nights game at No. 19 South
Florida has all of the makings of a game
that could make or break their 2008 sea-
son.
Win, and silence the critics and build
momentum for another successful sea-
son. Lose, and stir more whispers that
last years success was the result of a weak
schedule.
Thats exactly whats going to hap-
pen, said wide receiver Dezmon
Briscoe. If we win, we will have people
jumping on the bandwagon. If we lose,
then they are going to jump off and say
how bad we were and how we didnt
play anybody.
As cornerback Chris Harris said, Tis
game sets a tone for the rest of the sea-
son.
Harris and the Jayhawks know whats
being said. Tey know that some still
doubt last years success and wonder
whether Kansas is for real. A nationally
televised game on ESPN2 Friday night on
the road against a ranked team what
better way to prove the doubters wrong
once and for all?
Everybody always says we play cup-
cakes and stuf, Harris said. Tis is a
respect game for us. We want to prove
that we should be ranked even higher.
As one of only three matchups this
week between ranked teams, the Kansas-
USF game is arguably the biggest of the
weekend. No. 1 USC plays No. 5 Ohio
State on Saturday, but all eyes will be on
ESPN2 and Raymond James Stadium on
Friday.
Its going to be fun playing on a Friday
night again, Briscoe said. Being on the
national scene is always something that
pumps you up for the week, but with two
nationally ranked opponents, everybody
is going to be amped.
Tis will be the second Friday night
game since Mangino arrived at Kansas
they lost 37-31 in double overtime
at Toledo in 2006 and Mangino said
that though he preferred not to play on
Friday nights, the added national tele-
vision exposure was too hard to turn
down.
We have to take opportunities as
they come, Mangino said. Tere was no
talk about the game being televised on
Saturday, so our options were Tursday
or Friday and I said that Id prefer not
to have to travel in that short of a week
to a road trip on the east coast. I didnt
think that was in the best interest of our
program at all, so we were able to work it
out with South Florida and ESPN that it
would be played on Friday night.
With the game being a day earlier
than usual, schedules and routines have
been altered. Te Jayhawks practiced on
Monday, their usual day of, but had only
a light practice on Tuesday. Te teams
normal Tursday practice, arguably the
most important for establishing the game
plan, will be today instead. Te Jayhawks
will have a short practice Tursday before
boarding a charter plane for Tampa that
evening.
Players have said this game will be key
to their success in 2008, but Mangino dis-
agreed.
In no way am I trying to downplay
this game. No way. Were going there to
play well and do the best we can to get a
win, Mangino said. But this early in the
season, if we beat South Florida, I cant
tell you afer the game that were going
to cruise through the rest of the season.
If we dont, I cant tell you that the rest
of the season is going to be a failure,
because it will not be. Its too early to
say that this is a huge game and we have
to win it.
While Mangino tries to downplay the
importance, players know its not just
another game. Its an opportunity to prove
on national television against a ranked
team that the Jayhawks are for real.
Were playing in Tampa Bay, on
ESPN, in an NFL stadium, Harris said.
Its like a bowl game. Tats how big this
game is.
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W
ith great power there
must also come great
responsibility.
As fans of KU football, we, like Peter
Parker, have been handed a certain
amount of privilege that no one has had
before us. Afer all, it wasnt so long ago
that running back David Winbush
was the best player the Jayhawks had.
It wasnt so long ago that a victory
over Louisiana Tech was far from a sure
thing.
Te point is, weve been given a beau-
tiful gif. We may not have been bitten
by a radioactive spider, but we do have
a football team thats capable of beating
anyone on a given Saturday (or Friday,
in this weeks case). With that, I think
its time that Kansas football fans take
seriously the advice of Spider-man and
start using their newfound powers more
responsibly.
If thats to be the case, several things
need to change.
First of all, Memorial Stadium is not
the home of the Chiefs. I know, I know,
they hung with the (Tom Brady-less)
New England Patriots to open the year.
But lets be honest, KC wont be very
good this year. Te ofensive line still
cant open holes for Larry Johnson to
run through, and Brodie Croyle still
cant stay on the feld. A young second-
ary and a defensive line that lacks the
pro-bowl presence of Jared Allen make
it unlikely that the Chiefs will be able
to become an elite defensive unit. And
oh yeah, Herm Edwards is still the head
coach. Is that the team you want to iden-
tify with on Saturdays? Kansas will win
about twice as many games as the Chiefs
will, and will do so with an ofense that
wont put you to sleep.
I can hear it now: I have the right to
say whatever I want! Tis is America.
But having the right to do something is
not sufcient justifcation for doing it.
Tat same principle applies to much
of the taunting that goes on during the
games. Im all for yelling things at the
opposing teams bench. But once again,
use that power responsibly. Dont tell an
ofensive lineman he needs to lose some
weight. Being hefy is part of the job
description, afer all.
But even if you are guilty of those two
ofenses, youre at least making noise.
Tose who leave early make no noise
at all. Tey return Memorial Stadium
to the days of former quarterback and
BY Alex BeecheR
abeecher@kansan.com
commentary
Football fans could learn
from wisdom of Spider-man
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senior middle blockers savannah Noyes and Natalie uhart block a kill attempt by a UMKC hitter during
Tuesdays game at the Horejsi Family Athletics Facility. The Jayhawks beat the Kangaroos 3-1.
VolleyBall
Freshmen lead team to 3-1 victory
Absence of coach does not distract team when assistant coach steps in
see volleyball oN page 6B
BY JOSh BOWe
jbowe@kansan.com
For what seemed like an ordinary non-
conference match on paper, the Jayhawk
volleyball teams victory against University
of Missouri-Kansas City turned out to be
anything but.
The Jayhawks rolled in four sets against
the Kangaroos, pushing them to a sea-
son-high two games over .500 with a 4-2
record.
But it was the career highs set within
the game that told the story of how the
Jayhawks cruised and how difficult the
match could have been if a major distrac-
tion from earlier in the week clouded the
Jayhawks minds.
That distraction was the untimely death
of Coach Ray Bechards brother Don from
pleomorphic liposarcoma cancer last
Friday before the Jayhawk Invitational. He
will return for the next game on Friday.
Assistant coach Christi Posey stepped
in and the Jayhawks didnt seem to lose a
beat.
He was certainly on our minds tonight
as we prepared, Posey said. The kids real-
ly want to perform well for him.
The players all made sure to honor their
absent coach by making sure this didnt
prevent them from losing their focus.
This seemed like it might be a possibility
through a disastrous third set.
Emily Cressy and Kortney
Clifton are just freshmen, but dont
let that fool you.
Neither is the typical first-year
player seven goals combined
through four games indicates
that much. But then, coach Mark
Francis doesnt recruit the typical
freshman. The duo is the most
recent in a line of talented young-
uns to grace Francis lineup the
past three seasons. In fact, its
become almost a given that the
Jayhawks will find at least a starter
or two from each years freshman
class.
In 2005, then-freshmen Missy
Geha, Jessica Bush and Jenny
Mu r t a u g h ,
now seniors,
stepped in
to start all
20 games in
their first
year. One year
later, Monica
D o l i n s k y ,
S h a n n o n
McCabe and Estelle Johnson
started nearly every game for a
young squad. Last season, Katie
Williams adjusted to the college
game on the fly.
For many coaches, a reliance on
freshmen to contribute significant
minutes would be a reason for
concern. For Francis, its just the
reality of recruiting.
That means we are getting good
players and in some cases better
than the players that started the
year before, Francis said. Thats
why you recruit.
Francis builds his team by pay-
ing dividends this season as the
precocious freshman duo drives
the offense, and long-term starters
like Bush and Johnson hold down
the rest of the field.
Through four games, the
Jayhawks are rolling behind Cressy
and Cliftons quick adjustment to
the college game.
The Kansas soccer team heads
into the weekend undefeated
and has two winnable games this
weekend at Missouri State and
then back at home against Loyola
Chicago.
If Kansas starts 6-0, it would
be the first time since 2004
when it won the Big 12 title, the
year before the current crop of
seniors found their way to the
University.
U.S. faceS Trinidad
and Tobago TonighT
The second round of World Cup
qualifiers this week ends today
after 42 games have been played
between nations from six conti-
nents in the buildup to the 2010
games in South Africa.
The United States national team
returns to American soil for the
first time in the semifinal round
after slipping past Guatemala and
Cuba by one-goal margins for the
ideal start.
Trinidad and Tobago repre-
sents a significant jump in talent,
but if history is any indication,
Bob Bradleys U.S. team should
waltz.
The Americans are unbeaten
at home since September 2001.
During that time, they have com-
piled a 37-0-10 record against
teams from North America
while outscoring their opponents
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quote of the day
trivia of the day
fact of the day
Chelsea is lucky. This boy
needs some serious counseling.
He has been badly advised.
Brazilian legend Pele on Robinhos failed
transfer to Chelsea that saw the forward
sign with Manchester City
Real Madrid sold Brazil-
ian superstar Robinho to the
Barclays Premier Leagues
Manchester City on Sept. 1 for
a British transfer record sum of
32.5 million. That translates to
$57.4 million for the 24-year-old
forward.
Q: What is the all-time
record transfer fee for soccer
players?
a: Real Madrid bought
French midfelder Zinedine
Zidane for 47 million in 2001.
That is equivalent to about $83
million.
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Fields to sit out Friday
because of foot injury
Coach Mark Mangino an-
nounced Tuesday that wide
receiver Dexton Fields would
miss this Fridays game against
South Florida because of a foot
injury.
Fields was injured late in the
frst quarter of the teams open-
ing game against FIU. He did not
play against Louisiana Tech last
week.
Dextons not going to play
this week, Mangino said. Weve
tried, and thats not going to
happen. We expect him back
pretty soon though.
Mangino also said that
cornerback Kendrick Harper,
who was carted of of the feld
on a stretcher and taken to the
hospital during the Louisiana
Tech game Saturday, was doing
better and that he should make a
full recovery.
The medical people tell me
that he can get back and play
here in due time, Mangino said.
Were not going to rush it, and
we will see how he progresses.
B.J. Rains
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NEW YORK Billy Wagner is
out for the rest of this season and
likely all of next.
The New York Mets closer
will have surgery after an MRI
on Monday showed a torn medial
collateral ligament in his pitch-
ing elbow has gotten worse during
more than a month of rehabilita-
tion. His injury could send the
Mets into the free-agent market
for a top reliever this winter, per-
haps prompting them to pursue
Francisco Rodriguez.
It does change your thinking,
general manager Omar Minaya
said. Any guy that we run out
there is not going to be a proven
guy. So, you know, until you have
a proven guy, you cant say youre
comfortable.
A five-time All-Star, Wagner
also has a torn flexor pronator,
which is a muscle in the forearm.
When he tested his arm Sunday at
Shea Stadium by facing teammate
Gustavo Molina, Wagner hit the
reserve catcher on the left foot with
his 13th pitch,
then walked
off the field.
The tear is
now big enough
that the doc-
tors are recom-
mending so-
called Tommy
John surgery,
Minaya said. If
all goes well, he
will be able to
return to pitch
in about a years time following the
surgery.
The left-hander has converted
101 of 118 regular-season save
chances since signing with New
York before the 2006 season, but
has not pitched since Aug. 2.
When the Mets put Wagner on
the disabled list three days later,
they described
the injury
as a strained
left forearm.
Minaya said
Monday that
an MRI that
day revealed
the tear but
that Wagner
and the team
thought there
was a chance
he could pitch
through it.
Theres a lot of guys that pitch
with tears, especially when youre
37 years old, Minaya said. The
question is how these tears hold up
and in what areas. But if you were
to take an MRI of a lot of 37-year-
old pitchers, theyll be showing you
tears.
Wagner is owed $10.5 million
next year, the final guaranteed sea-
son of a $43 million, four-year
contract with the Mets, and the
team holds an $8 million option
for 2010 with a $1 million buyout.
Minaya thought there was a chance
Wagner might return to the mound
next September.
While Minaya mentioned that
the Mets could go with internal
options, the best available closer
on the market will be K-Rod, who
began Monday with 55 saves for
the Los Angeles Angels. He could
get a four- or five-year contract in
excess of the $15 million average
Mariano Rivera is making with the
Yankees.
You have certain allotted dol-
lars that youre going to invest in
putting the team together, Minaya
said. That was an area that I was
not expecting that I was going to
need to have to have a lot of dol-
lars.
Before Monday nights home
game against the New York Yankees,
Rodriguez didnt want to comment
on the Mets situation.
I dont want to answer that
question. Right now I only want
to talk about todays game. I dont
know whats going to happen in the
future, he said.
While Wagner has repeatedly
said he intends to retire when this
contract concludes, Minaya wasnt
certain that would be the case,
cautioning: How many guys have
said, That will be my last year, and
then come back?
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The tear is now big enough
that the doctors are recom-
mending so-called Tommy John
surgery.
OMAR MINAYA
Mets general manager
Francis
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAS VEGAS With other pro-
spective jurors listening, a woman
lectured O.J. Simpson on his
behavior as a celebrity Tuesday and
declared, I felt he got away with
murder.
Like others questioned for ser-
vice in Simpsons robbery-kidnap
trial, the woman said she would try
to be fair. But she became increas-
ingly adamant, disclosing the dis-
enchantment of someone familiar
with Simpsons triumphs and dis-
appointed in his fall from glory.
Im very opinionated, said the
woman. I dont have any problem
giving my opinion and sticking
to it.
The exchanges on the second
day of jury selection showed the
enduring influence of Simpsons
1995 acquittal on charges of mur-
dering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown
Simpson, and friend Ronald
Goldman.
Since Monday, 20 of 248 pro-
spective jurors have been dismissed
for various reasons.
Simpson, the 61-year-old for-
mer University of Southern
California and pro football star
is now accused, along with co-
defendant Clarence C.J. Stewart,
54, of kidnapping, armed robbery
and several other crimes for alleg-
edly stealing items from two sports
memorabilia dealers in a confron-
tation in a hotel room last year.
They have pleaded not guilty.
Under questioning by District
Attorney David Roger, the pro-
spective juror recalled Simpsons
impact on her life.
I have seven brothers, she said.
Mr. Simpson has been around my
life. Hes always been there. I dont
know what team he played for but
I know about the Heisman Trophy.
Im from Southern California. My
husband loved him.
Looking at Simpson, she said
she thinks celebrities need to watch
their behavior in public.
I think he chose to be a celebrity,
she said. He chose to put himself
in the public eye. Everyone is aware
of it. He should be a little more self-
conscious of his actions. Its different
than it would be for me.
Asked whether she was going to
treat the case differently because of
Simpsons past, the woman said, I
think as far as the first trial, I felt he
got away with murder.
Roger asked if she could put
aside those feelings and judge the
current case on its own terms.
At first, she said she could. But,
questioned by
defense attor-
ney Gabriel
Grasso, she
said, I cant
be 100 percent
sure.
He asked
to remove the
juror and Clark
County District
Judge Jackie
Glass allowed
Roger to try to
retain the woman.
Then the judge addressed her.
You said
you hope your
personal feel-
ings dont
interfere, the
judge said. Is
there some
smidgen in the
back of your
mind that you
think that it
might?
Theres a
smidgen, the
woman said, prompting a dismissal.
One woman rejected the idea
that Simpson had a special aura
of privilege but recalled once
sitting behind him at a football
game. Another woman said she
had expected a guilty verdict in
Simpsons murder trial, but insist-
ed, His past has nothing to do
with this case.
sports 3b wednesday, september 10, 2008
H
eres how the weekend
action in the NFL will
affect your fantasy rosters
in the upcoming weeks.
Beantown Blowout
The biggest news came out of
New England when the Patriots
lost quarterback Tom Brady for
the season. A handful of fantasy
owners are now kicking them-
selves for reaching to take Brady as
high as they did.
We can thank Patriots wide
receiver Randy Moss for the
foot-in-mouth moment of the
weekend.
After the game, Moss accused
Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard of
making a dirty play that caused
Bradys injury and said he had
never been a dirty player himself.
Accusations aside, the Patriots
will most likely shift focus to rely
on the running game in the next
few weeks as backup quarterback
Matt Cassel gets acclimated as the
starter.
RetuRn of the Mac
Philadelphia quarterback
Donovan McNabb was in prime
form against St. Louis on Sunday.
McNabb has been plagued by
injuries throughout his career, but
he looked as if had reverted to his
Super Bowl form in the opening
game of the season.
Two years ago McNabb was on
track for the best year of his career
and was anchoring fantasy rosters.
If McNabb can play half as well
next Monday against the Cowboys,
he may prove he can be the No. 1
quarterback in fantasy football.
ScoReleSS in Seattle
Seattle has won the NFC West
the past few years by default, it
seems, because the rest of the
competition in the division has
been sub-par. The Seahawks
looked like they were sub-par
competition Sunday, though, after
getting stomped by the Bills 34-10.
Matt Hasselbecks performance
was poor, and injuries to Nate
Burleson, who is out for the sea-
son, and Maurice Morris will slow
the offense even further in the
upcoming weeks.
The defense was in the middle
of the pack last season but looked
awful against a Bills offense that
was 30th in total yardage a year
ago. Seattle has a lot of issues to
deal with in the next few weeks of
the season.
a nice foRte
Chicago running back Matt
Fortes stock rose rapidly as the
NFL Draft approached last April.
The Bears, after letting Thomas
Jones get away last season and see-
ing Cedric Benson struggle, didnt
waste any time grabbing Forte in
the second round.
Forte earned the starting
spotting on Chicagos roster and
showed his big play potential
against a tough Indianapolis team
in the first game of the season.
Forte gained more than 100
rushing yards and had a 50-yard
touchdown run. In smaller leagues
of eight or fewer teams, Forte may
still be available, so you should
pick him up while you can.
Rookie wideoutS
A few unexpected rookie
receivers had huge effects on their
respective offenses. The Redskins
took a lot of receivers in the draft,
the Steelers took Limas Sweed
and the Bills took James Hardy,
but none of those players had
the impact that DeSean Jackson
and Eddie Royal had in their first
games.
Jackson started for the Eagles
because of injury problems in
the receiving corps and made the
most of his time. Jackson finished
the game with six catches for 106
yards.
But Royal was the more impres-
sive performer, and the Broncos
rookie made the most of his
starting time while fellow Denver
receiver Brandon Marshall was
serving a one-game suspension.
Denver quarterback Jay Cutler
used Royal as his primary target,
and Royal ended the game with
nine catches for 146 yards and one
touchdown.
Jackson and Royal are players
to watch and potentially add to
your fantasy roster as the season
goes on.
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game against the St. Louis Rams on Sunday in Philadelphia. The Eagles won 38-3. With the NewEngland PatriotsTomBrady sidelined, McNabb may
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the public eye. ... He should be a
little more self-conscious of his
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SAN DIEGO Star outside
linebacker Shawne Merriman
pulled the plug on his 2008 season
on Tuesday when he told the San
Diego Chargers hell have surgery
on the two torn ligaments in his
left knee.
The loss of Merriman, whose
hard hits earned him the nick-
name Lights Out, is a big one
for a team that has Super Bowl
expectations.
Merrimans decision came two
days after he barely resembled the
player who had an NFL-high 39
1/2 sacks in the past three seasons
and played in three straight Pro
Bowls.
Shawne informed me he did
not feel right and thought it best
to shut it down, Chargers general
manager A.J. Smith said in a state-
ment. Shawne is a great player
and an inspirational leader. He
will be missed.
Merriman had only two tack-
les in a shocking 26-24 loss to
Carolina at home on Sunday. Even
though Merriman appeared to be
a non-factor, coach Norv Turner
said he thought the linebacker
looked explosive and very physi-
cal.
Late in training camp,
Merriman said that the posterior
cruciate and lateral collateral liga-
ments in his left knee were torn.
He spent several days get-
ting opinions from four doctors
from outside the organization,
all of whom recommended he
have surgery. But on Aug. 27, he
announced that he was going to
play, saying, If you give a foot-
ball player a decision to play, you
know, Im going to play.
Merriman has said hes had
pain in the knee since late in the
2006 season. He also injured the
knee during a game at Tennessee
on Dec. 9. He sat out the follow-
ing Sunday, but played in the
last three regular-season games
and the Chargers three playoff
games, including a loss to New
England in the AFC champion-
ship game. He also played in the
Pro Bowl.
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BY BEN ASHWORTH
bashworth@kansan.com
The KU club softball team will
play its inaugural game today
against Haskell Indian Nations
University.
The club was created last spring
and was officially approved for play
this fall.
Playing a Division I sport
requires a substantial amount of
time and energy. Katy Saunders
didnt have that kind of time.
I just played intramural softball
for two years, said Saunders, a
Tappahannock, Va., junior. And
that just wasnt enough.
It was after that realization that
Saunders decided to look into
playing club softball. But she ran
into a problem. The university had
no club softball team. However,
Saunders had a solution to her set-
back: form a new team.
Although Saunders knew many
others shared her situation, filling
a new squad with new faces posed
difficulties.
Starting a new team wasnt
easy, Saunders said. I had to draft
at least 10 different copies of the
team constitution before it got
approved.
After Saunders got the green
light, she was faced with the prob-
lem of completing a roster. She set
up tables in the Ambler Student
Recreation Fitness Center to help
garner interest and found 50 people
interested in club softball.
Only 12 showed up to our first
practice though, Saunders said.
From those 12, Saunders formed
her roster. Saunders said she tried
to keep the commitment manage-
able for all those involved. The
team practices three times a week
for two hours in preparation for its
games, which will take place for a
little more than a month.
Meanwhile, the school-spon-
sored softball team begins its fall
season in late September, play-
ing for two weekends in the Fall
Invitational and the Hawkeye
Classic, and playing the regular
season from February until the
middle of May.
The club softball team will travel
down 23rd Street to face Haskells
varsity softball team today. Other
teams on the schedule include
Ottawa University, Iowa Central,
Crowder College and UMKC. The
team will then travel to Manhattan
to face Kansas States and Nebraskas
club teams in a mini-Big 12 tourna-
ment.
Edited by Scott Toland
BY ELIOT METZ
emetz@kansan.com
Tempers flared on the field
Tuesday as Phi Kappa Psi 4 defeat-
ed Sigma Alpha Epsilon 2 in a 22-0
blowout during flag football.
Both teams started slowly in the
first half, with each going three-
and-out on their first drives. On Phi
Psi 4s second drive, it found the end
zone with a touchdown reception by
Gary Tankard, Dallas freshman. But
the play was called back because of
a flag-guarding penalty.
Regardless, Tankard proved to
be Phi Psi 4s most valuable player
on offense, throwing for two touch-
downs.
On defense it was all about the
secondary. Both teams came away
with interceptions in the game,
including two by Phi Psi 4s Rex
Redlingshafer, Fairway freshman.
SAE 2 and Phi Psi 4 both
focused on covering all possible
receivers instead of putting heavy
pressure on the quarterback. Only
two sacks were recorded in the
game.
The game became heated in the
second half, when trash talk on
the field occurred after nearly every
play. Things came to a head when
an SAE 2 defender tackled Tankard
around his neck, neglecting his
flags completely. The defender was
quickly taken out of the game, leav-
ing SAE 2 down another player.
Another major factor in the
game was the lack of players for
SAE 2. They played with only six
men from the start, one less than
the usual seven. Then, after the
ejection in the second half, they
were forced to play with only five.
According to SAE 2s quarter-
back, Jonathan Nehring, LeRoy
sophomore, the fact that they start-
ed the game a man down contrib-
uted to the tempers on the field.
Being undermanned, we got
tired. When you get tired tempers
flare, he said. But through it all,
both teams did a good job of keep-
ing their composure, shaking hands
and exchanging kind words after
the game.
Were all out here to have a
good time, Nehring said. Its not a
life-or-death matter to us.
Edited by Brieun Scott
BY NIKKI SCHENFELD
nschenfeld@kansan.com
Phi Kappa Psi 1 defeated Sigma
Alpha Epsilon 1 39-12 in an epic
quarterback battle.
The game didnt start well for
SAE 1 as quarterback Andrew
Trompeter, Atchison sophomore,
threw an interception to Brian
Tagg of Phi Psi 1 to start the game.
Steve Blumhardt, Leawood junior,
stepped in as quarterback on the
first possession for Phi Psi 1 and,
after two attempts, quickly threw
a touchdown pass to Richard
Zahner, Fairway junior.
Phi Psi 1 went for a successful
one-point conversion, also caught
by Zahner. The score was quickly
7-0 in Phi Psi 1s favor.
A small player stepped up
big today, Blumhardt said about
Zahner.
Trompeter was quick to respond
and ran for two first downs before
Tagg intercepted the ball again.
Jon Teel, the other quarterback for
Phi Psi 1, stepped in after Taggs
interception.
Teel quickly threw the ball to
Blumhardt, who ran the ball to
within inches from the goal line.
Teel threw a successful touch-
down pass to Blumhardt on first
down. Once again, Zahner made
the one-point conversion a suc-
cess, extending Phi Psis lead to
14-0.
Trompeter refused to give up
and ran the ball for as many first
downs as he could but was not
successful, and SAE 1 ran out of
downs.
SAE 1 punted the ball with one
minute left in the first half and
it landed in Blumhardts hands.
After an offensive penalty and a
five-yard loss, Teel threw a suc-
cessful pass to Blumhardt for
another Phi Psi 1 touchdown.
After they added the one-point
conversion, the score at halftime
was 21-0.
With his team trailing 27-0
in the second half, Paul Dundee
stepped in as quarterback for SAE
1. His second pass was caught by
Nick Kormann, who was stopped
near the end zone. Dundee fol-
lowed that up with a touchdown
pass to Chaz Rumage, bringing
the score to 27-6.
After Kormann intercepted a
Phi Psi pass, Dundee went back
into action. He ran the ball in for
a touchdown, making the score
27-12.
Thats all SAE 1 could mus-
ter. With its dominating offense,
Phi Psi 1 scored two more times,
extending its lead to 39-12 on the
last play of the game.
Edited by Andy Greenhaw
ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman gestures to the crowd during the
fourth quarter of a loss to the Carolina Panthers on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008 in San Diego. Merri-
man played with a knee injury that game but will miss the rest of the season.
Team will see first action against Haskell varsity today
Lights Out has to say goodnight
Club softball to play frst game
Aerial battle rages on feld
Heated game ends in rout
Intramurals
Intramurals
nfl
Club sports
Phi Psi 4 outnumbers Sigma Alpha Epsilon 2, wins game
Surgery forces Chargers star linebacker to end season
Phi Kappa Psi 1 rocks Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1 in flag football
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AUSTIN, Texas Lance
Armstrong is getting back on his
bike, determined to win an eighth
Tour de France.
Armstrongs return from can-
cer to win the Tour a record seven
consecutive times made him a
hero to cancer patients worldwide
and elevated cycling to an unprec-
edented level in America.
The 36-year-old Armstrong
told Vanity Fair in an exclusive
interview posted on its Web site
Tuesday that he was inspired to
return after finishing second last
month in the Leadville 100, a
lung-searing 100-mile mountain
bike race through the Colorado
Rockies.
This kind of obscure bike race,
totally kick-started my engine,
he told the magazine. Im going
to try and win an eighth Tour de
France.
The sport and particularly the
Tour have missed his star power,
even though skeptics refused
to believe he could win 7 Tours
without the help of illegal perfor-
mance-enhancing drugs.
The 2009 Tour is the inten-
tion, Armstrongs spokesman
Mark Higgins told The Associated
Press, but weve got some home-
work to do over there.
Tour director Christian
Prudhomme did not return
messages seeking comment on
Armstrongs decision. His staff
said he would not comment before
Wednesday morning, if at all.
Armstrongs close friend and
longtime team director, Johan
Bruyneel, now with team Astana,
sent a text message to an AP
reporter in Paris saying he did not
want to comment now.
In a video statement on his
foundations Web site, Armstrong
said details such as a team and
schedule would be announced
Sept. 24 at the Clinton Global
Initiative in New York City.
I am happy to announce
that after talking with my chil-
dren, my family and my closest
friends, I have decided to return
to professional cycling in order
to raise awareness of the global
cancer burden, Armstrong said
in a statement released to The
Associated Press. This year
alone, nearly eight million people
will die of cancer worldwide. ...
Its now time to address cancer on
a global level.
In the Vanity Fair interview,
Armstrong told the magazine he
was 100 percent sure he was going
to compete in the Tour next sum-
mer.
Were not going to try to win
second place, Bill Stapleton,
Armstrongs lawyer and longtime
confidant, told the AP.
I think its great, said long-
time teammate George Hincapie,
who added he spoke to Armstrong
on Tuesday morning. Like I said
earlier today, without Lance half
the teams in this race probably
wouldnt be around. Hes done
more than anyone for the sport
especially in America and around
the world.
On a personal note, I like that
hes going to be back in the pelo-
ton. Hes a great friend of mine,
and I also think for the sport its
good, too.
Armstrong noted in the maga-
zine interview that other athletes
in his age range were compet-
ing at a high level, specifically
41-year-old Olympic medal-
ist swimmer Dara Torres and
38-year-old Olympic womens
marathon champion Constantina
Tomescu-Dita, of Romania.
Older athletes are performing
well, he said. Ask serious sports
physiologists and theyll tell you
age is a wives tale.
Age will be an issue for
Armstrong in the Tour de France.
Hell be 37 next week, ancient
for such a grueling competition.
Only one rider older than 34 has
ever won the Tour 36-year-old
Firmin Lambot in 1922.
On Monday, the cycling jour-
nal VeloNews reported on its
Web site that Armstrong would
compete with the Astana team,
led by Bruyneel, in the Tour
and four other road races the
Amgen Tour of California, Paris-
Nice, the Tour de Georgia and the
Dauphine-Libere.
But there are no guarantees
Astana would be allowed to race
in the 2009 Tour. Race officials
kept the team out of the 2008
Tour because of previous doping
violations.
If Armstrong and his team
arent invited in 2009, he plans to
appeal directly to French President
Nicolas Sarkozy.
Ive already put a call in to
him, he told Vanity Fair.
Armstrongs return to competi-
tion raises the question of wheth-
er he risks damaging his athletic
legacy. And his own words likely
will cause some to wonder if hell
approach his return with the same
steely-eyed determination and
passion.
In an interview published in the
October issue of Mens Journal,
Armstrong said, Im glad Im
not cycling anymore ... It was fun
while it lasted, and I liked it, but
Im so focused on other things
now that I never think about it.
Hes certainly thinking about it
now.
With his riveting victories over
cancer and opponents on the bike,
to his work for cancer aware-
ness and gossip-page romances,
Armstrong has become a mod-
ern-day American icon.
It was a little bit of a distrac-
tion just knowing what hes going
through, sophomore outside hit-
ter Karina Garlington said. We
just wanted to come out tonight
and play for the Bechard family.
The rough third set, which saw
the Jayhawks fall 25-16, not only
ended the bid
for a sweep
of the match
but also gave
the Kangaroos
their first set
win against the
Jayhawks since
2001.
I thought
they really
picked up their
game, Posey
said. Were still
working out the kinks, but sure
Im disappointed that we didnt
play well all the way through.
A key aspect after losing that
third set was how the Jayhawks
responded. Garlington and
freshman outside hitter Allison
Mayfield tallied their career highs
in kills with 18 and 12, respective-
ly. They held off a Kangaroo rally
that had them within one point
at 11-10 in the fourth set before
the Jayhawks put their foot on
the accelerator, finishing off the
match 25-14.
Its always fun to play at home,
and play my best, Garlington said.
Its been working out.
Garlington said freshman set-
ter Nicole Tate, who also had the
Jayhawks first double-double of
the season with 12 digs and 42
assists, was the reason she hasnt
had to experience a sophomore
slump.
I was making really good con-
nections with Nicole, Garlington
said. She plays like shes really
experienced.
Its freshmen like Tate and
Mayfield who have gone above
and beyond the typical expecta-
tions for a freshman. With junior
middle blocker Brittany Williams
having one of the worst nights of
her career, their combined total of
17 kills helped fill in the void.
Im pretty
excited. The
coaches are
c ons t a nt l y
going after
me, trying to
make be play
better, Tate
said. So I
guess so far
so good.
As an
outside hit-
ter, Mayfield
expects to be put into these situa-
tions and rack up the kills, setting
her career high on Tuesday.
This night also saw senior mid-
dle blocker Natalie Uhart have an
off-day with as many kills as hit-
ting errors, with six each.
We have more opportunities
to get kills, Mayfield said. I dont
know if its added pressure, we just
have more opportunities and we
should capitalize on them.
Once again the Jayhawks
number one nemesis, inconsis-
tency, reared its ugly head as the
Jayhawks hitting percentage low-
ered considerably with each set,
not including the fourth and final
set.
Coach Posey said he under-
stood that it was a problem and
one that was being worked on, so
the Jayhawks could continue to
improve for the imposing Big 12
schedule.
I dont know if we have ever
put together the perfect three
game match thus far, Posey said.
Any time you drop a set, theres a
little vulnerability, and like blood
in the water you dont want the
sharks circling around it.
Edited by Brenna Hawley
sometimes safety Zack Dyer, when
football season was useful only for
killing time until Late Night in the
Phog. Maybe Im being a bit too
harsh. Maybe all those students
have good reasons. Maybe theyre
hockey fans and think games last
only three periods. Maybe they
worked out a deal with the athlet-
ics department that allows them
to pay for only three quarters of a
ticket, provided that they leave at
that point of the game. Or maybe
those students just cant wait to get
tanked. Ill give you one guess as
to which answer is the correct one.
Your liver is your liver. But cant
you wait just a little while to ruin
it? Te booze will still be there
when you arrive.
You expect the football team to
provide four quarters of efort and
entertainment. Most of all, you
expect them to win. Lately, theyve
been living up to their end of the
bargain. So please, do use your
powers of fanhood responsibly.
Edited by Mary Sorrick
sports 6B wednesday, september 10, 2008
beecher (continued from 1B)
CYCLING
Armstrong determined to capture
eighth consecutive tour de france
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Lance Armstrong holds the winners trophy after winning his seventh straight Tour de France
cycling race in 2005. Armstrong is determined to win an eighth Tour de France. The Tour is the
intention,Armstrongs spokesman Mark Higgins said, but weve got some homework to do.
vOLLeybALL (continued from 1B)
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A UMKc player watches as a spike by junior middle blocker Paige Mazour sails out of bounds duringTuesdays match. The teamwas playing
in the absence of coach Ray Bechard and was coached for the night by assistant Christi Posey. Bechard will be back for Fridays game.
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Senior middle blocker Natalie Uhart laughs with teammates duringTuesdays win
against UMKC. Uhart had six kills in the game.
im pretty excited. the coaches
are constantly going after me,
trying to make me play better.
So i guess so far so good.
Nicole tate
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