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By DArlA sliPkE
What sets Leonard Pitts, a Pulitzer
Prize-winning columnist, apart from the
rest of the field? His editor, Shelley Acoca,
said it was his drive to learn and develop
as a thinker and a writer.
He is a wonder-
fully creative writer who
always pushes himself to
turn corners and find new
places with his writing,
Acoca said. Hes never
comfortable.
Pitts is known for tack-
ling publicly-disputed issues, from 9/11 to
the death penalty, in his bi-weekly column
in the Miami Herald. He won a Pulitzer
Prize for his commentary in 2004.
Tonight at 7:30 at the Lied Center, Pitts
will address the changing face of civil
liberties in the United States. Students can
react to his opinions during a question
and answer session after his lecture.
By DAviD linhArDt
Experienced workers across the
Kansas economy will begin retiring dur-
ing the next 5 to 10 years, which will
open up highly skilled jobs to recent col-
lege graduates, according to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics and Kansas Population
Center.
More than 70 million baby boomers
those born between 1946 and 1964
will leave the workforce between now
and 2020. The much smaller Generations
X and Y will have a chance to fill posi-
tions in education, engineering and man-
agement, according to the bureau.
Local companies must plan to market
those open positions to students, said
Beth Johnson, vice president of economic
development at the Lawrence Chamber
of Commerce.
Its huge to think about filling those
positions, Johnson said. Our focus
becomes figuring out the skills of the
students who are graduating.
Johnson said Lawrence paralleled
the national trend in terms of the types
of jobs that would become available.
Teachers in primary and secondary edu-
cation will be highly demanded, as will
accountants and managers, and mechan-
ics and engineers at local manufacturers,
she said.
One key to keeping KU graduates in
the local job economy is offering com-
petitive wages and keeping property taxes
reasonable, Johnson said.
Laszlo Kulcsar, director of the Kansas
Population Center, said metro areas in
Kansas would likely maintain the best and
most diverse job opportunities. Vacancies
in agricultural towns like Dodge City or
Garden City will be harder to fill as
college graduates look for more glamor-
ous or higher-paying jobs in Topeka,
Overland Park and Wichita, he said.
With its business-friendly tax breaks,
the Kansas City area could become a
corporate haven in the next few years,
Kulcsar said. He said the migration of
young people from the western half
of Kansas created an intrastate brain
drain.
Some Kansas communities arent
prepared to face this trend, he said.
Proportionally, aging is more traumatic
to rural areas.
Jose Gonzalez always arrived to work early,
greeting his colleagues with a smile and a good
morning as they walked through the door. His
death was a loss to a big part of the company.
FAMILY MAN LOST
Part 3: Co-workers recall man who made them smile
oNLINe
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FrIday
The family and
friends of nicole
Bingham have
endured a year since
the ku student died
in the apartment fre.
FrIday
within days of the
fre, Jason a. Rose of
lawrence had been
charged with com-
mitting the fre. His
trial is in February.
FrIday
many of the factors
that led to Board-
walks quick demise
are common factors in
many other lawrence
apartment complexes.
boardwalk
remembered
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Betty Kaspar, Wichita sophomore and Kansan stafmember, right, and Kimgoodwin, denver freshman, work on a homecoming foat at Triangle Fraternity. Members
of Delta Delta Delta andTriangle have been preparing for this weeks homecoming parade for two weeks.
see retirees on page 4a see pitts on page 4a
Freshman quarterback kerry
Meier has been medically
cleared to play in saturdays
game. kansas football coach
Mark Mangino said despite
the clearance, he still wasnt
ready to announce
a starter for the game
against texas A&M.
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Boomers pass
jobs to recent
graduates
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Math, science
sufer teacher
defcit nationally
Pitts
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winner to speak
about liberties
By DArlA sliPkE
Jose Gonzalez was always one of the first members of his crew to arrive
for work at Quality Electric Inc. He sat out back on a role of wire in the
shop where the workers met each morning before going to the work site and
greeted his co-workers as they filtered in. Most of the workers were tired
and groggy, but hearing Gonzalez say good morning put a smile on their
faces. Something about his pleasant greeting was contagious. One year after a
fire engulfed Gonzalezs apartment in the Boardwalk apartment complex and
killed him, his former co-workers remember him fondly, but with a pained
heart. Dale Wolford, project manager at Quality Electric Inc., still visits the
black slab of concrete near the entrance of Mount Cavalry Cemetery that
marks the grave of his former employee and friend. Gonzalez worked for
Quality Electric as an apprentice, where he did electrical wiring work for
residential houses.
By DAnny luPPino
The United States is facing a short-
age of teachers in science and math, and
Provost Richard Lariviere wants to make
combatting that shortage a priority.
Lariviere said the University of Kansas,
as well as all other American colleges and
universities, needed to find a way to
produce more quality teachers in those
subjects.
There is a crisis on our hands now
its no longer looming in specific fields
like science and math where theres not
enough teachers to meet the demand,
Lariviere said. This is a component in
the educational continuum that is very
important for Americas future.
Lariviere said American schools gen-
erally performed well compared to other
see teachers on page 4a
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Students raise money for
breast cancer research
A student-run public relations
frm is raising money for breast
cancer research as part of the Lee
National Denim Day campaign.
Jayhawk Communications
will accept donations today and
Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on
the Staufer-Flint lawn, just west of
Watson Library.
Eric Williams, Jayhawk Com-
munications assistant director,
said more than $300 has been
raised during the past two days.
The groups goal this year is $1,500.
Williams said Jayhawk Communi-
cations had also talked to depart-
ments to raise money.
The week-long campaign will
end Friday, which is Lee National
Denim Day, with a discussion panel
7 p.m. at Alderson Auditorium in
the Kansas Union. The panel will
feature three breast cancer survi-
vors: Kathy Guth, Donna Neuner
and Julie Cowdin. Students will
also collect donations Friday night.
Catherine Odson
Nebraska has the only
single-house state legislature,
or unicameral legislature, in the
nation. Nebraskans commonly
refer to it as the unicameral.
Source: nebraska.gov
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outpace infation
3. Cartoon sparks discussion,
confict
4. Foreign students adjust to
culture clash
5. Jorgensen: Revenge for a
cheatin heart
Nebraska must be the most
unexciting of all the states.
Compared with it, Iowa is
paradise.
British author Bill Bryson,
from his book The Lost Con-
tinent: Travels in Small Town
America.
I dont
know if its a
Homecoming
event, but I
saw Kathy Grif-
fn (Tuesday)
night, and that
was pretty
cool.
Matt Greeno
Hoyt sophomore
Mines the
football game.
I enjoy the
football, I enjoy
watching the
games, but
its a diferent
atmosphere.
Its a chance to see people you
havent seen in a while. Its a
good excuse to get my friends
to come back to Lawrence for
the weekend.
JereMy Clarkson
Tonganoxie graduate student
I couldnt
care less. I
dont care
about sports,
frats or sorori-
ties. I have a
least favorite
event: I think
they should get rid of the hot
dog eating contest.
Dorrie younG
Wichita sophomore
The game.
Its fun. Its
more exciting
than any of
the other
games.
linDsay
Hull
Overland Park junior
Getting
drunk after the
game. Thats
why they start
the game
at 11 in the
morning: to
maximize your
chance to celebrate the victory.
Mike GriMMett
Lawrence senior
Dog owners fle law suit
against L.A. company
LOS ANGELES Owners of a
Rottweiler and other dogs have
sued a company called Hol-
lywood Paws for failing to help
turn their pooches into stars.
More than a dozen pet
owners contend the company
collected tens of thousands of
dollars but never delivered on
promises to get flm and televi-
sion auditions for their pets.
I lost a lot of money, said
Rachel Armstrong, owner of
Goliath the Rottweiler.
Armstrong said she believed
her dog had the cool factor
that would get him into music
videos and paid nearly $2,000
to Hollywood Paws LLC for
training.
All she got was a rejection
from The Tyra Banks Show.
Attorney Cynthia Mulvihill
fled the suit in Superior Court
last month.
Hollywood Paws owner Larry
Lionetti contends he never
promised acting jobs, although
he said several animals had
won spots in commercials.
Everybody knows down in
your town that there are actors
and actresses waiting on tables
until a part comes along, he
said. Who in L.A. doesnt know
this?
Thrill ride cord breaks,
leaves man dangling
TULSA, Okla. A bungee cord
on a thrill ride broke, leaving a
man dangling 25 feet of the
ground for a half-hour until he
was rescued by frefghters.
Steve Alan Stone, 48, was
not seriously hurt in the inci-
dent Monday at the Tulsa State
Fair. A ride worker also was
helped down by rescuers.
The ride, called the Ejection
Seat, consists of a two-seat
chair that is suspended from
two towers by bungee cords.
Passengers are propelled
as much as 200 feet high at
speeds of about 60 mph.
Shortly after Stone was
launched, one of the cords
broke, leaving the seat dan-
gling sideways near one of the
towers, Tulsa County Sherifs
Capt. Fred Cotton said.
Vandals send money
to pay for their damage
KEENE, N.H. These sign
vandals have a conscience.
Two weeks ago, when about
100 stop signs in Keene were
tagged with anti-war stickers,
Public Works Director Kurt
Blomquist estimated it cost
$110 to clean them.
Tuesday morning, the
culprits paid up sending a
letter claiming responsibility
and a money order to the city
via The Keene Sentinel.
We are responsible culprits
and we dont want to cost
the city money as we wage
peace, read the letter to the
newspaper, which contained
no names and was signed:
Respectful culprits.
on the record
KU Public Safety ofcers ar-
rested 23-year-old Nicholas Brown
for operating a vehicle under the
infuence of alcohol. In addition,
Brown had allegedly been driving
at night without headlights and
had no proof of insurance. The in-
cident occurred in the 1100 block
of Indiana street.
An 18-year-old KU student
reported the theft of a Toshiba
laptop from Oliver Hall. The inci-
dent occurred between Sept. 30
and Oct. 3, and the total value of
the stolen item was $1,500.
An 18-year-old KU student
reported criminal damage to a
2002 Saturn automobile parked
between Ellsworth and McCol-
lum Halls. Someone allegedly
scratched the left side and hood
of the car. The incident occurred
between Sept. 29 and Oct. 3.
correction
An article in Wednesdays
contained an error. The article
Med students go entirely digi-
tal should have said Ali Waits
hometown was Sublette.
Garvey Scott/The Kansas City Star
TimMcCready strolls along with his four-year-old triplets, fromleft, Connor, Maggie and Corey onWednesday morning, in Overland Park, as part of
national walk your kids to school day.
odd news Family bonding goes to school
What is yOur favOrite
hOMeCOMing event?
what do you
think?
By matt
Erickson
nation
Sex scandal threatens GOP
re-election campaigns
WASHINGTON House
Speaker Dennis Hasterts political
support showed signs of cracking
on Wednesday as Republicans
fed an election-year scandal
spawned by steamy computer
messages from former Rep. Mark
Foley to teenage male pages.
At the same time, Foleys
former chief of staf said in an As-
sociated Press interview that he
frst warned Hasterts aides more
than three years ago that Foleys
behavior toward pages was
troublesome. That was long be-
fore GOP leaders acknowledged
learning of the problem.
Kirk Fordham, who was Foleys
top aide until January 2004, said
he had more than one conver-
sation with senior staf at the
highest level of the House of
Representatives asking them to
intervene several years ago.
Fordham resigned Wednesday
as staf chief for another law-
maker caught up in the scandal,
New York Rep. Thomas Reynolds,
the House GOP campaign chief
who says he alerted Hastert to
concerns about Foley last spring.
Republican Rep. Ron Lewis of
Kentucky, in a tougher-than-ex-
pected re-election race, abruptly
canceled an invitation for Hastert
to join him at a fundraiser next
week.
Im taking the speakers words
at face value, Lewis told the AP.
I have no reason to doubt him.
But until this is cleared up, I want
to know the facts. If anyone in
our leadership has done anything
wrong, then I will be the frst in
line to condemn it.
Ron Bonjean, Hasterts spokes-
man, said the matter had been
referred to the House ethics
committee. We fully expect that
the bipartisan panel will do what
it needs to do to investigate this
matter and protect the integrity
of the House, he added.
House Democratic leader
Nancy Pelosi went one step fur-
ther, saying that Hastert and the
rest of the GOP leadership should
be immediately questioned
under oath....
Foley, 52, a Florida Republican,
resigned last Friday after he was
confronted with sexually explicit
electronic messages he had sent
teenage male pages. He has since
entered an alcohol rehabilita-
tion facility at an undisclosed
location. Through his lawyer, he
has said he is gay but denied any
sexual contact with minors.
Fordham said that more than
three years ago, he repeatedly
asked GOP stafers to intervene
with Foley, his boss at the time.
Fordham also disputed al-
legations that he covered up any
misdeeds by Foley.
The Justice Department or-
dered House ofcials to preserve
all records related to Foleys
electronic correspondence with
teenagers, and one law enforce-
ment ofcial said FBI agents have
begun interviewing participants
in the House page program. It
was not clear whether those
questioned were current or
former pages, or both.
Rep. Deborah Pryce, who
chairs the House Republican
caucus, asked the House clerk to
investigate what she described as
rumors that Foley, while intoxi-
cated, had once tried to enter the
page residence hall but was
stopped by Capitol Police.
David Roth, Foleys attorney,
would not comment Wednesday
night.
Separately, the Florida Depart-
ment of Law Enforcement has
begun a preliminary inquiry.
The Republicans, who already
had been struggling to retain
their majority in adverse political
circumstances and now must
contend with the questions
about Hasterts actions.
Even a Republican from
Hasterts home state of Illinois
expressed reservations about
asking the speaker for campaign
help.
We still take the position that
we want all the facts, said Ryan
McLaughlin, a spokesman for
state Sen. Peter Roskam, who is
running for an open seat now in
Republican hands.
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By Courtney Farr
Two witches, formerly of the
downtown area, said they found
a new and welcoming home in
North Lawrence this summer.
Kasey Carlson and Kerry
Johnson, former proprietors of 9th
Path and Mystic Realms, opened
a new store, called Village Witch,
at 311 N. Second St. A fire closed
their previous stores on Oct. 9
last year.
We should have done this three
years ago, said Carlson. It would
have taken a fire to get us out of
our old place. We loved it.
Carlson said the new store gen-
erated more walk-in traffic and
seemed more noticeable than
the old stores, which sat at the
northwest corner of Vermont and
Eighth streets.
About half of their shoppers are
new faces, Carlson said.
The name also captures peo-
ples attention, Carlson said. She
was nervous to use Village Witch
because of possible negative con-
notations, but Johnson pushed for
it. Johnson said the name better
fit the services and items the shop
offered.
Carlson said Were not the only
village witches in town. Were just
the only ones hanging a sign up.
Everybody says you have to be
on Massachusetts or 23rd Street,
Carlson said. We believed it and
bought that as much as anybody. I
think North Lawrence, this stretch
right here, is ripe for a local busi-
ness district.
The shop resides in the last
building before a driver would
cross the bridge from North
Lawrence to downtown.
Even though Village Witch car-
ries the same inventory as the
old stores, some products sell
better now. Feng shui items that
had not sold well at the previous
stores have become popular items,
Carlson said. Feng shui is the
Chinese art of arranging objects
in buildings or rooms to promote
positive effects.
Stuff that would have sat on
shelves for ages is selling here,
she said.
Village Witch also sells oils,
crystals, stones, candles, incense,
books and other tools for witch-
craft and metaphysics.
Eight months passed before the
pair could open their new shop.
They had to restock inventory lost
to fire and smoke damage.
Carlson lost virtually all of
her merchandise while Kerry lost
about 75 percent, Carlson said.
A lot of what we have, we
make, Carlson said. It makes it
more affordable to start but its
more labor intensive.
Last week workers hauled debris
out of the old stores and appeared
to be cleaning and renovating the
space. The awning still displayed
the Mystic Realms sign.
Rich Barr, Douglas County
fire marshal, said an investigator
determined that the fire was elec-
trical and accidental. Workers are
now preparing the building to be
an annex for the Eldridge Hotel at
Seventh and Massachusetts streets,
he said.
Thomas Fritzel, the buildings
owner, did not return calls to con-
firm these plans.
Kansan correspondent Courtney
Farr can be contacted at editor@
kansan.com.
Edited by Travis Robinett
Business
Witchcraft store earns
more at new location
North Lawrence better site than downtown
Apple mishandles stock options
Business
CEO Steve Jobs apologizes for scandal; chief financial officer resigns; share values fall
Stanford professor wins chemistry Nobel
science
NEW YORK Nearly a half-
century after his father was awarded
a Nobel Prize, a Stanford University
professor won his own Wednesday
for groundbreaking research into
how cells read their genes, funda-
mental work that could help lead to
new therapies.
Discoveries by Roger D.
Kornberg, 59, have helped set the
stage for developing drugs to fight
cancer, heart disease and other ill-
nesses, experts said.
At a press conference, Kornberg
said the immediate application of
his work is in making better antibi-
otics for diseases such as tuberculo-
sis. There will be specific cures for
several diseases in the next decade,
he said.
He said several pharmaceutical
companies are developing drugs
based on his research, but he
declined to be more specific other
than to mention cancer therapy.
Kornbergs $1.4 million award,
following the Nobels for medicine
and physics earlier this week, com-
pletes the first American sweep
of the Nobel science prizes since
1983.
Americans have won or shared
in all the chemistry Nobels since
1992. The last time the chemistry
prize was given to just one person
was in 1999.
The Kornbergs are the sixth
father and son to both win Nobel
Prizes. One father and daughter
Pierre Curie and Irne Joliot-Curie
won Nobel Prizes in physics
and chemistry, respectively. Marie
Curie Irnes mother and Pierres
wife won two Nobel prizes, for
chemistry and physics.
Roger Kornbergs prize-winning
work produced a detailed picture
of what scientists call transcription
in eukaryotes, the group of organ-
isms that includes humans and
other mammals, the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences said in its
citation.
Transcription lets genes spec-
ify what proteins a cell produces.
In this process, information from
genes is used to create molecules
called messenger RNA. These mol-
ecules shuttle the information to the
cells protein-making machinery.
Proteins, in turn, serve as building
blocks and workhorses of cells, vital
to structure and functions.
Since 2000, Kornberg has pro-
duced extremely detailed pictures
of messenger RNA molecules being
created.
In an ingenious manner
Kornberg has managed to freeze
the construction process of RNA
half-way through, the Nobel com-
mittee said. That let him capture
the process of transcription in full
flow, which is truly revolutionary,
the committee said.
Americans sweep science prizes for first time since 1983, research could lead to new therapies
By May WonG
assoCiated press
SAN JOSE, Calif. Apple
Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs
apologized Wednesday for the com-
panys past stock-option practices
after an internal investigation found
accounting irregularities between
1997 and 2002 and showed Jobs was
aware of some options backdating.
The iPod and Macintosh maker
said its three-month investigation
also prompted the resignation of
former Chief Financial Officer
Fred Anderson from the companys
board of directors.
The company said Jobs knew
that some grants had been given
favorable dates in a few instances,
but he did not benefit from them
and was not aware of the account-
ing implications.
Apple said it will likely have to
restate some earnings. The looming
restatements threaten to wipe out
some of the profit generated dur-
ing the most prosperous stretch in
Apples 30-year history. Apple has
reported a total of $3.1 billion in
profit in the past four years.
Shares of Apple shed 58 cents
to $74.80 in aftermarket trading
on the Nasdaq Stock Market on
Wednesday.
Apple, one of the most prominent
companies caught in the nationwide
stock options mishandling scandal,
said its investigation into the matter
did not uncover any misconduct
by any member of Apples current
management team, but that it did
raise serious concerns regarding
the actions of two former officers.
The company did not name the
two officers but announced that
Anderson, who served as the com-
panys chief financial officer from
1996 until 2004, had resigned from
the company board.
The probe found irregularities in
the recording of stock option grants
made between 1997 and 2002, with
the last one involving a January
2002 grant, the company said. The
grants had dates that preceded the
approval of those grants.
The companys special committee
conducting the investigation exam-
ined more than 650,000 e-mails and
documents, and interviewed more
than 40 current and former employ-
ees, directors and advisers.
Apple initiated the stock-options
investigation in June after prob-
lems at other companies began to
unravel.
More than 100 other companies
nationwide are entangled in similar
stock-option trouble. In most of
those instances, companies have
traced their problems to backdat-
ing issues.
If the revised financial results
are significant, it could dent Apples
stock, said IDC analyst Richard
Shim.
The company is certainly firing
on all cylinders so investors may be
willing to forgive them, Shim said.
But its something that will linger
in the backs of their minds.
NEWS 4A
Judy Smith, Pitts assistant,
said people had a wide variety of
responses to his columns.
There are a lot of people who
say you said exactly what I think,
and a lot of people who say I
couldnt disagree with you more, in
not such a nice way, Smith said.
Pitts gets an average of 100 to
150 e-mails per day in response to
his columns.
His visit is funded by the
English Department, the School of
Journalism and the Dole Institute
of Politics. The English department
asked the School of Journalism to
split the $5,000 cost to bring Pitts to
campus. The School of Journalism
then asked Pitts to speak to students
in classes. During the following
negotiations, $500 was added to
the fee.
William J. Harris, professor of
English, said that Pitts was ini-
tially invited to speak at the
University because of his writing
talent, but that the lecture should
appeal to a broad spectrum of
students because of the issues
about which Pitts routinely writes.
Hes able to speak to an incredible
cross-section of people about chal-
lenging issues, Harris said. Its for
people who care whats happening
in our country now.
David Guth, associate dean of
journalism, said the chance to have
one of the nations leading colum-
nists visit the school was too good
an opportunity to let slip away. He
said it was important for students to
listen to a diversity of opinions on
todays critical issues.
Thats the essence of free
expression, Guth said. Something
our school values.
Kansan staf writer Darla Slipke
can be contacted at dslipke@
kansan.com.
Vince Barker, associate profes-
sor of journalism, said by 2017
recent KU graduates could also
face an increasing burden to sup-
port retired baby boomers. Thats
when Social Security could start
running a deficit, becoming an
emergency issue for tens of mil-
lions of seniors.
Nobody in the federal govern-
ment seems to have the political
guts to do anything about the situ-
ation, Barker said. Its a no-win
scenario where the cure is likely to
cause political fall-out.
Kansan staf writer David Lin-
hardt can be contacted at dlin-
hardt@kansan.com.
Edited by Derek Korte
countries through the fourth grade,
after which there was a significant
drop-off. He said data showed a
lack of teachers as the cause of that
drop.
Lariviere said he didnt yet know
how to produce more teachers. He
compared the situation to the nurs-
ing shortage in Kansas and said
the state needed to recognize this
problem similarly.
We have
to address
the shortage
as a society,
Lariviere said.
It is a problem
that can be rem-
edied.
As for action
from the School
of Education,
Sally Roberts,
associate dean
for teacher edu-
cation, said pro-
grams had been
implemented to
encourage teacher training, espe-
cially in urban areas.
One of these programs,
Transition to Teaching, gives
on-the-job training to people with
math and science degrees by giv-
ing them teaching jobs in inner-
city schools. People in the program
earn their teaching degrees while
they work.
Roberts said getting teachers to
inner-city and rural schools was
as big a problem as training more
math and science teachers.
Jim Ellis, professor of education,
who teaches classes in science edu-
cation, said other measures were
being taken to encourage students
to pursue teaching math and sci-
ence. Among those measures are a
proposed math and science section
of introductory teaching classes,
plans to provide students with
more information on math and
science careers
and continued
offers of scholar-
ships for students
who pursue such
careers.
Were hop-
ing that through
additional incen-
tives and support
we can get more
people interested
in a career teach-
ing math and sci-
ence, Ellis said.
Still, Ellis said
his experience
teaching science education classes
did not bode well for the future of
the shortage.
The students in my classes
are very enthusiastic about what
theyre doing, Ellis said. But Im
seeing a decline in applicants.
Kansan staf writer Danny Lup-
pino can be contacted at dlup-
pino@kansan.com.
Edited by Natalie Johnson
Gonzalez always brought a laid-
back, good-natured attitude to the
workplace. Duane Boor, foreman
for Quality Electric, worked with
Gonzalez for eight months and also
spent time with Gonzalez outside of
work. The two used to go out for a
couple beers and to shoot pool.
Working with him was like
working with a friend, Boor said.
It made the day better.
One time after work, Boor had
trouble with his vehicle and needed
to pick his daughter up from the
babysitter. Gonzalez went with Boor
to get his daughters car seat from
his car and drove Boor to the sitter,
despite being in a hurry.
If you needed something, hed
do everything he could to help you
out, Boor said. Hed give you the
shirt off his back if thats what it
took.
Wolford said Gonzalez was very
family-orientated. He lived alone
but had seven siblings. Gonzalezs
family did not wish to speak for this
story, choosing instead to pass the
anniversary privately.
Wolford said morale among the
workers declined and the atmo-
sphere of the workplace was somber
after Gonzalezs death.
We lost a big part of our com-
pany when he was taken in the fire
because of his personality, Wolford
said. Everybody still talks about
him today.
Boor agreed that things werent
the same without Gonzalez. When
he died, a part of the soul of the
company went with him, Boor
said.
The men said Gonzalez enjoyed
life and his work, which always
showed in his attitude.
They miss their friend who
brightened their days each morning
with a simple Hello.
Kansan staf writer Darla Slipke
can be contacted at dslipke@kan-
san.com.
retirees (continued from 1A)
teachers (continued from 1A)
pitts (continued from 1A)
gonzalez (continued from 1A)
there is a crisis on our hands
now its no longer looming
in specific fields like
science and math where theres
not enough teachers to meet
the demand.
richard lariviere
Provost
Celebrity aCtivism
By RAPHAEL TENTHANI
ASSocIATED PRESS
BLANTYRE, Malawi
Madonna plans to adopt a child in
Malawi, government officials said
Wednesday, as the pop star arrived
in the southern African nation on a
mission to help AIDS orphans.
She told us she is looking for a
baby boy, said Andrina Mchiela, a
senior official with Malawis Ministry
for Gender and Chile Welfare. Her
team has identified a few, but the
choice is hers.
Mchiela also said the pop star
planned to launch six projects to
help underprivileged children dur-
ing her stay.
Madonnas publicist, Liz
Rosenberg, confirmed that the
singer was in Malawi on a private
visit and said she had not adopted
a baby.
She is building an orphanage and
child care center and is involved in
other initiatives geared toward help-
ing children orphaned by Aids thru
the Raising Malawi organization.
She has not adopted a baby despite
reports that she has, Rosenberg told
Us Weekly.
Rosenberg did not immediately
return e-mails from the AP asking
about the reported adoption plans.
Mchiela told The Associated
Press that Madonna and her hus-
band, director Guy Ritchie, would
be subject to a probation period
required of all prospective adoptive
parents.
After her husband and her fill in
the papers, well allow them to take
him away, not as adoptive parents
but foster parents until after the 18-
24 months when the government of
Malawi will assess whether they are
a suitable family, she said. This is
a legal requirement that cannot be
fast-tracked.
Madonna and Ritchie have a son,
Rocco, 5, and the singer also has a
daughter, Lourdes, 9.
Benston Kilimbe, director of
social welfare in the government,
said Madonna was expected to file
the adoption papers on Thursday.
The 48-year-old star joins a grow-
ing list of entertainer-activists who
have focused on Africa.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt,
whose child was born in Namibia
earlier this year, recently announced
they would donate $1 million each
to two humanitarian organiza-
tions active on the continent. They
also have two adopted children
one from Ethiopia and one from
Cambodia.
Actor and director George
Clooney also has campaigned pas-
sionately for the victims of the vio-
lence in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Madonna and her entourage
landed on a private plane in the
capital, Lilongwe, on Wednesday
morning, Mchiela said.
The star was to travel Thursday
to Mphandula, a village about 30
miles from the capital, where she
wants to set up a center for children
orphaned by the AIDS epidemic.
Malawi is among the poorest
countries in the world, trapped in
a seemingly endless cycle of hunger
and disease. Just over 14 percent of
the 12 million population are infect-
ed with HIV, the virus that causes
AIDS, and an estimated 1 million
children have been orphaned.
In villages like Mphandula, many
orphans are cared for either by sib-
lings or grandparents, who struggle
to find food for the extended family.
The village has no electricity and the
inhabitants live in mud and thatched
huts.
Televisions are nonexistent and
radios are rare, meaning that most
of the villagers have never even
heard Madonna sing.
Madonnas project, called Raising
Malawi, aims to set up an orphan
care center to provide food, educa-
tion and shelter for up to 4,000 chil-
dren. It will have projects based on
Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism that has
gained popularity in recent years.
Madonna to adopt African child, build orphanage
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im a little hacked of. i won the
pie eating contest last year, but
there is none this year.
n
tom: im sorry i called you dur-
ing class. Your instructor sounded
pissed.
n
im pretty sure that half the
people became Jewish for Yom
kippur so they didnt have to go
to class.
n
somebody said yesterday that
people who ride scooters are awe-
some. that is not true.
n
i bet penguins really love mor-
gan Freeman.
n
my pants are at least fve inches
too long.
n
This week is supposed to be
different from other weeks. The
crimson and blue should be
flowing out of your veins. The
enthusiasm on campus should
be bubbling. This week everyone
should feel proud that they are a
Jayhawk because its homecom-
ing week.
Do you feel that? We certainly
dont. A week with festivities has
now turned into just your aver-
age week for most students. Its a
week where sororities and frater-
nities get together and have an
excuse to party. The week brings
in alumni to the football game
for the big parade, but for the
average student its just another
week in the long fall semester.
The days of excitement dur-
ing homecoming week are gone.
Student Union Activities has
tried to revive the week with
a big-time performer, but its
done little. If you were to sur-
vey students on Wescoe Beach,
we would venture to say most
would not realize its homecom-
ing week.
You can only do Can-struction
and Jayhawk Idol for so many
years before you get tired of the
tradition. Week-long events do
little to raise the enthusiasm and
pride of being a Jayhawk. The
spectacle and pageantry that
once was homecoming has lost
its luster.
Floats are still built by greek
houses and other student orga-
nizations, but it doesnt seem
like they are as important as
they were when homecoming
included all students.
Over the past two years the
University has tried to bring
excitement to the week but it
has done very little. From hav-
ing a block party in South Park
to the new Spirit Sprint 5K run,
little has been done to include
not only the alumni but students
as well.
Now homecoming is marked
by the special shirts made by the
greek chapters to represent the
week. Its about alumni returning
to the football game and walk-
ing through campus to reflect
on the good times. But for the
students, its just marked as the
week before fall break.
Louis Mora for the editorial
board.
As reported in the Kansan on
Tuesday (Graduate students no
longer have vote, 10/3), I am dis-
appointed by Provost Larivieres
decision to forbid graduate student
from voting on faculty hires. I am
even further disturbed by the clari-
fication printed in the Kansan on
Wednesday, October 4, suggesting
that the Provosts decision is a rein-
terpretation of existing policy.
I have read the relevant section
of Senate Code Section XIX. That
section is designed to protect stu-
dent involvement by requiring their
participation on policy-making
committees. Specifically, the code
says that students are not necessar-
ily included in committees which
are concerned with the application
of policies to specific individuals or
situations, yet says nothing about
forbidding students from such com-
mittees (19.2.3). I do not see how
the Provosts office could interpret
it as such.
So, from my perspective, the
Kansan got it right the first time.
With all due respect, what the
administration sees as mere rein-
terpretation appears to us as disen-
franchisement and denial.
Andrew Ledbetter
President, Communication
Studies Graduate Student
Organization
Lawrence doctoral candidate
Thank you for writing a story
that showed the Daily Nebraskan
point of view on the controversial
cartoon. (Daily Nebraskan comic
sparks discussion, criticism, 10/4)
I am from Kansas and it embar-
rassed me to see ignorant Kansans
writing to the DN to express their
disdain for the cartoon. If they
would have been at the game, they
would have known that the DN was
commenting on the lack of atten-
tion Nebraska fans showed (doing
the wave) while Eric Washington
was hurt.
The fat joke about Mangino is
no mystery, especially with the KU
shirts that read, Our coach could
eat your coach. Its not the first
time a newspaper has poked fun at
him. Jason Whitlock makes fun of
Mangino constantly in his Kansas
City Star column. I am glad to hear
that Washington has recovered and
I think Kansas fans need to know
the facts before throwing a fit.
Thank you again for writing the
facts, letting people make their own
opinions, and not sensationalizing
the story (unlike the Omaha TV
station).

Eric Siders
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
sophomore
The recent decision by Provost
Richard Lariviere revoking student
votes in the choice of new faculty
members will not endear him to
antediluvian KU Faculty of the
Late 60s like myself. First appoint-
ed during unprecedented growth at
the University, two-thirds of us are
retired or retiring; one-third remain
full-time. We chose to stay at KU.
It took a lot of sweat to adopt a
University Senate Code with clause
10.4.2 that secured the right of
student voting representation. We
risked not getting tenure by fighting
for justice inside the University.
A recent stint (2003-2006) as an
elected member of the Faculty and
University Councils convinced me,
to my great regret, that not only
10.4.2, but also University gover-
nance as a whole by faculty and stu-
dents has been seriously attenuated
since the l970s.
The fault lies with the entrench-
ment of a professional class of
University administrators, far
removed from the needs of teach-
ers and students in the trenches,
and with our own indifference
and timidity. Preoccupied with
grade point averages and annual
faculty evaluations, we have been
blind-sided and disenfranchised by
those who see themselves not as as
servants of the community but as
provosts.
Gerald Mikkelson, professor of
Russian, East European, and
Eurasian studies
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
According to a fashion magazine
that I idly perused some days ago in
a waiting room, large, sultry lips are
a fabulous feature in 2006. Long legs
spell success. Plentiful bosoms have
replaced small boyish frames. And
very invasive, below-the-belt proce-
dures to make females appear more
like the ladies in professional porn
are on the rise. Yes, the appearance
of virtually every feminine body
part has become a fashion state-
ment.
Thanks to the obsessive and
unlimited beautification of media,
advertisements, the idea of suc-
cess for women, and boyfriends
beloved pornography collections,
the National Organization of
Women finds that at least 80 per-
cent of all women are unsatisfied
with the appearance of their bodies.
Not surprisingly, the vast major-
ity of individuals who go under
the knife for cosmetic procedure
are also female. And the ideal
image hidden behind a plethora
of stylists, editors, technology and
airbrushes is not even feasibly
attainable.
Obviously, cosmetic procedures
are painful and sometimes risky.
They are also expensive, unless paid
for by parents or significant others
in a heartwarming effort to make
their sweetheart feel valued. But the
increasing popularity of cosmetic
surgery is unjust for a more signifi-
cant reason: By consenting to the
idea that cosmetic surgery is neces-
sary for relationships or careers,
women undermine their intellec-
tual capabilities and their value as
human beings. They succumb to
the idea that women are only valu-
able in the world as aesthetically-
pleasing creatures.
This idea is particularly harm-
ful to the status of gender equality,
which is far from realized in the
United States. In 2005 the Census
Bureau reported that women earn
54-60 cents for every dollar that a
man earns in management, profes-
sional, scientific and technical ser-
vices. The U.S. also has an abysmal
record of gender equality in politics.
More than five dozen countries
(including developing nations such
as Rwanda, Uganda, Argentina,
South Africa and Mozambique)
have considerably greater percent-
ages of women in government than
does the U.S. These statistics seem
to be easily forgotten in our nation.
Women are clearly as capable as
their male counterparts. Studies
have shown that the sexes differ
slightly in types of cognitive abil-
ity, but the average man is no more
intelligent than the average woman.
Additional research suggests that
gender differences are primarily
influenced by cultural standards.
For instance, because little girls are
generally encouraged to be com-
municative and conscientious, they
are more likely than males to com-
municate well and to be conscien-
tious about obtaining good grades,
but less likely to pursue manly
disciplines related to math or sci-
ence. Whether womens strengths
are culturally learned or not, how-
ever, women have proven that they
can be capable leaders and brilliant
mathematicians and scientists.
Alas, it is unlikely that gender
equality will be achieved in America
if all women aspire to join the porn
industry.
Almost fifty years ago women
protested their societal status by
tossing symbols of oppression in the
can Cosmo and Playboy maga-
zines included but women today
continue to value their manipula-
tive sex appeal over their intellec-
tual capabilities. The power of the
female body may be intoxicating,
but it is easily abused. At our own
University, an academic institution,
the most recognized female students
are cheerleaders in miniskirts, babes
in swimsuit calendars, and, now,
Playboy bunnies. It is no wonder
that women complain about a lack
of respect; many women have barely
begun to respect themselves as any-
thing more than eye candy.
It is past time that all women
learn to value themselves as diverse
and capable human beings. Women
were never intended to conform to
a status-quo image to please man-
kind. In fact, men will continue to
love women in all shapes and all
sizes. When more women begin to
truly respect themselves, more men
might even begin to take women
seriously.
This month, on Wednesday
the 18th, is Love Your Body Day.
Ladies, start a revolution. Its time
to trash the beauty magazines.
Kieler is a Lenexa senior in politi-
cal science and International stud-
ies.
By ALISON KIELER
kANsAN COLUMNIsT
opinion@kansan.com
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Asking the question What would
Jesus do? is an excellent method to
reflect on the ethics of ones actions.
That question came to mind when
I read about how Attorney General
Phill Kline was going to various
churches to further his reelection
campaign. His own campaign memo
states that one objective for attend-
ing these worship services would
be to meet money people for the
purpose of getting large campaign
contributions.
Every Gospel in the New
Testament tells of the wrath of Jesus
against those who were misusing His
temple to gain wealth and power.
The Gospel according to St. John
states: Making a whip of cords, he
drove all of them out of the temple.
(chapter 2, verse 15). The answer
is obvious what Jesus would have
done to Phill Kline because of his
repugnant abuse of Gods house. It is
equally obvious what voters must do.
They must vote him out of office.
Tim Peterson
Monument, Kan.
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DENVER The man who took
six girls hostage at a Colorado high
school last week was shot four times
as the standoff ended, once by his
own gun and three times by SWAT
officers, according to autopsy results
released Wednesday by state offi-
cials.
Authorities were awaiting more
information to determine wheth-
er Duane
Morrison died
from the self-
inflicted gun-
shot wound
or the officers
shots, said
Lance Clem,
spokesman for
the Colorado
Bureau of
Investigation.
Morri s on,
a 53-year-
old drifter,
had taken six
girls hostage at Platte Canyon High
School Sept. 27. He released four of
them before SWAT officers blasted
their way into Room 206, when
authorities said he shot 16-year-
old Emily Keyes before shooting
himself.
Clem said autopsy results showed
that Morrison killed Keyes with a
single gunshot to the back of the
head. She and the other five girls
had been sexually assaulted, Sheriff
Fred Wegener has said.
Tests show that Morrison had
no drugs or alcohol in his system,
Clem said.
Clem also said school surveil-
lance tapes showed Morrisons yel-
low Jeep in the parking lot of the
school near Bailey, about 40 miles
southwest of Denver, the day before
the shooting. District superinten-
dent Jim Walpole said officials do
not know what Morrison had been
doing at the school then.
The shooting, one of several at
schools across the country in the
last several days, was similar to a
slaying Monday
at an Amish
schoolhouse in
Pennsylvania, in
which a man tied
up 10 young girls
and shot them,
killing five, before
killing himself.
During a fund-
raiser Wednesday
in Denver for
GOP guberna-
torial candidate
Bob Beauprez,
President Bush said he had asked
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
and Education Secretary Margaret
Spellings to lead a meeting of experts
to determine how the federal gov-
ernment can help state and local
officials deal with school shootings.
We want to make it certain
around the country that the school-
house is a safe place for children to
learn, Bush said. May God bless
Emilys family.
Students and parents were
allowed to return to Platte Canyon
High for the first time Wednesday
to pick up belongings left behind
when the building was evacuated
last week. Classes were to resume
Thursday.
Room 206 will be sealed off for
the rest of the school year, Walpole
said Tuesday. He said additional
security officers have been hired
and adult visitors will be required to
wear name tags in the school.
Several hundred students, parents
and Bailey-area residents attended
a football game Tuesday, the first
organized event since the shooting.
The game was dedicated to Emily.
By ANtONiO CAStANEdA
ASSOCiAtEd PRESS
HADITHA, Iraq Word spread
quickly: A Marine search dog had
escaped and was roaming the streets
attacking children. But the Marines
didnt have any dogs in Haditha at
the time.
Nevertheless, Marines found
themselves having to quash yet
another of the baseless rumors that
often sweep this city of about 50,000
people, most of them Sunni Arabs
wary of U.S. intentions in Iraq.
Rumors most of them malign-
ing U.S. troops are a staple of life
in the embattled, isolated cities of
Anbar province, a region that is a
center of the Sunni Arab-led insur-
gency and where telephones dont
work and newspapers rarely appear.
Many residents are afraid to visit
other parts of the country such as
Baghdad, 140 miles to the southeast,
for fear theyll run afoul of Shiite
death squads.
In their isolation, most people
rely on Arab television networks
such as Al-Jazeera for news of the
outside world. For local news, the
main medium is word of mouth.
No one is sure how the dog rumor
started but soon, terrified people
were complaining to tribal leaders
about a violent animal on the loose.
The director of the city hospital even
told reporters that seven children
had been bitten.
The Americans must be to blame,
many people concluded.
We heard this from the people
about dogs roaming the street, the
market, that have bitten 20 people,
one tribal leader was overheard
complaining to a Marine officer.
Well, theyre not our dogs. Wed
know if they were ours, replied Capt.
Andy Lynch of Chicago, a company
commander in the 3rd Battalion, 3rd
Marine Regiment.
That didnt satisfy the sheik, who
insisted: Our dogs dont bite.
Lynch told him the Marines didnt
have any search dogs in Haditha.
And if they had any, he added, they
would have searchers out in force if
one got loose. Military search dogs
cost more to train than a Marine,
he joked.
The sheik was eventually con-
vinced that if there were dogs on the
prowl, they were probably packs of
strays that regularly roam the city.
Earlier this year, Marines acci-
dentally started fires in two fields in
Haditha by shooting warning flares
at approaching cars. But insurgents
or skeptical residents inflated the
story into something much differ-
ent.
The people were talking about
how the Marines were going and
setting peoples crops on fire, Lynch
said. Then we had to go out and
explain the whole thing.
The citys sectarian makeup makes
it a fertile ground for anti-American
rumors.
Haditha and most of Anbar is
dominated by Sunni Arabs, whose
minority was long dominant in Iraq
but fell from power with the toppling
of Saddam Hussein. Now their long-
time rivals in the Shiite majority lead
the government and military.
Some of the hostility may also
stem from the Marines own actions.
Marines based in Haditha last year
allegedly killed 24 civilians after one
of their comrades died in a roadside
bombing. The Marine Corps is still
investigating and no charges have
been filed.
Local people are more likely to
believe their fellow Sunnis even
those in the insurgency than
strangers like Marines.
I think theres definitely more
of a burden (on Marines) that were
telling the truth, compared to the
guy whos on the street spreading
rumors, because were not from
here, Lynch said.
Regardless of the reasons, rumors
and misinformation make it harder
for the Marines to win trust and
cooperation of Sunni civilians.
crime
Questions remain regarding death of Colorado gunman
David Zalubowski/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Members of the Colorado Springs Christian School, back, join the players of Platte Canyon High School in a prayer before the teams take part in a Class 2A regular-season football game Tuesday in
Bailey, Colo. The prayer was for Platte Canyon student Emily Keyes, who was killed by a gunman who entered the school last Wednesday. The game was the frst for Platte Canyon since the shooting incident.
We want to make it certain around
the country that the schoolhouse
is a safe place for children to learn.
May God bless Emilys family.
GeorGe W. Bush
President of the united states
iraq war
Unfounded rumors about U.S. troops cause hostile feelings among Iraqi locals
sports
NASCAR will debut a new
car in 2007 that is designed
to improve safety and
maintain performance
8B 2B
Columnists from texas A&M and
Missouri weigh in on last
weekends game.
www.kansan.com
sports
PAGE 1B
By shAwn shroyEr
Two games into the 2005 sea-
son, Russell Brorsen found out he
belonged on defense.
As a freshman last season, he
earned his first career start at tight
end in the game against Appalachian
State. However, all Brorsen remem-
bered from the game was dropping
a pass in the end zone from quar-
terback Brian Luke on a two-point
conversion attempt.
It was the only pass to come his
way all season. Now a sophomore,
Brorsen is back to his natural posi-
tion at defensive end. He earned his
first career start on defense last week
and proved he could disrupt the
oppositions passing game.
Brorsen had appeared in Kansas
first four games as a backup, but
in that limited time was only able
to hit the quarterback once. As
the Nebraska game approached, a
starting spot opened up for him
in place of senior defensive end
Rodney Allen. Kansas coach Mark
Mangino said Allen was banged up,
and Brorsen had shown he was com-
fortable enough in the defensive to
start.
It was pretty exciting to finally get
my first start, and being at Nebraska
made it even better, Brorsen said.
Despite making the start on the
road in front of more than 85,000
raucous fans, he said he wasnt intim-
idated or overwhelmed. Instead, fac-
ing a starting offensive line that aver-
aged 305 pounds, the 240-pound
Brorsen couldnt be stopped.
Against the Cornhuskers, he
recorded six tackles one shy of
tying for the team lead recovered
a fumble, and forced another when
he sacked Zac Taylor. Three of the
tackles were solo and one was for
a loss.
Those numbers were reminis-
cent of the ones Brorsen put up at
Stillwater High School in Stillwater,
Okla. There he was named first-team
all-state and amassed 287 tackles
and 34 sacks in his career. However,
a thin depth chart at tight end last
season put Brorsens defensive career
on hold.
He appeared in 11 games last
season at tight end and on special
teams, starting two, and was one
of only three true freshmen to see
action during the season.
When Kansas added more depth
at tight end this season, Brorsen was
able to move back to defensive end,
but he had to completely relearn the
position.
It took me a little while to make
the switch back, because on offense
you have to be a little more con-
trolled and your stance is different,
Brorsen said. On defense, you get a
lot more freedom.
In addition, he had to correct
some bad habits that he acquired
in high school. As a result, Brorsen
didnt even appear on Kansas pre-
season depth chart.
To ascend the depth chart,
Brorsen said he remained confident
in himself and worked hard to learn
the system and get the feel for play-
ing defensive end again.
With Kansas preparing for
its matchup against Texas A&M,
Mangino wouldnt rule out the pos-
sibility of Brorsen cracking the start-
ing lineup again.
I know that hell play significant
time, Mangino said. Whether were
going to start him or not, I think
thats premature. Probably not, but
dont hold me to it.
Kansan sportswriter shawn shroy-
er can be contacted at sshroyer@
kansan.com.
Congratulations, Ron Prince.
You have brought nothing but
losing and a lack of class to the
Wildcats in recent weeks.
On Sunday, following Kansas
States 17-3 loss to Baylor, Prince
told the media that true freshman
Josh Freeman would start in place
of senior Dylan Meier. The prob-
lem: Prince forgot to tell Meier.
When Meier spoke with reporters
following the game, he was sur-
prised to find out he was no longer
the starter.
Princes actions were completely
disrespectful to Meier. He likely
alienated his players for the rest of
his tenure at Kansas State and sent
a message to players and future
recruits that the coach could not be
trusted.
Were not trying to send a mes-
sage to anybody. Its just a matter of
performance, Prince said.
Freeman has completed fewer
than 30 percent of his passes this
season.
Prince must be talking about
performance in practice or about
Freemans play in high school
because Freeman has not looked
like a quarterback who is ready to
play in the Big 12 so far this season.
He has thrown four interceptions
and zero touchdowns. Freeman is
expected to resurrect an offense
that has averaged fewer than 300
total yards per game and was the
first Big 12 team since the incep-
tion of the conference to not score
a touchdown against Baylor.
Meier and Freeman are the only
two quarterbacks on the Kansas
State roster after Prince ran three
other quarterbacks from the
program before the season even
started.
According to the Kansas State
depth chart, true freshman Leon
Patton replaced Thomas Clayton as
the Wildcats starting running back.
Clayton is not even listed among
the teams backups, but he has been
Kansas States most reliable weapon,
averaging nearly five yards per
carry.
the rant
Kansas State coach betrays player, team with decision
By ryAn colAiAnni
kansan sports columnist
rcolaianni@kansan.com
see COLAIANNI on pAge 2B
KAnsAn FILe pHoto
Russell Brorsen, sophomore, defensive end has made a smooth transition from the ofensive side of the ball to the defensive. Brorsen made an immedate impact in his frst career start against
nebraska. Brorsen should continue to play signifcant minutes on defense the rest of the season.
football
Former tight end shines in defense spot
Russell Brorsen proves himself back in the position that brought him first-team all-state years ago
football brief
Meier cleared to play
saturday against A&M
Freshman quarterback
kerry meier has been cleared
to play in saturdays game
against Texas a&m by kansas
medical staf.
But thats not a guarantee
that hell play.
kansas coach mark mangi-
no said he still must deem
meier ready to play before any
ofcial announcement on a
starter would be made.
He has to feel good, he
said after wednesday nights
practice. He has to function
in every facet of the game and
thats what were working on
here in the last couple of days.
meier was cleared before
Tuesday afternoons practice.
He has seen what mangino
described as a reasonable
amount of snaps in practice
this week. Because he has not
seen any serious repetitions
during the past few weeks,
mangino said meier was deal-
ing with some fatigue.
If meier is able to play,
mangino said he was unsure
whether meier would start or
come in at some point during
the game.
If meier is not cleared by
mangino, senior adam Bar-
mann will start his third con-
secutive game.
meier injured his right arm
during a loss to Toledo three
weeks ago. During the game,
meier had the worst perfor-
mance of his career, throwing
four interceptions.
mangino said meier told him
after the loss to Toledo that the
injury to his right arm occurred
early in the fourth quarter of
that game. meier was running
the ball when his right arm
was driven into the turf.
Before the injury, meier had
thrown two touchdowns and
two interceptions. after the in-
jury, meier threw an intercep-
tion during the fourth quarter
and during overtime. He also
mishandled a handof to run-
ning back Jon cornish.
Ryan Schneider
Volleyball
By DrEw DAvison
The Kansas volleyball team
continued its midseason slump
after being swept at Missouri
last night.
It was the Jayhawks fourth
straight Big 12 loss of the sea-
son. Last year, Kansas had an
eight-game losing streak, but
was able to bounce back and
make the postseason. The team
went through similar streaks in
2003 and 2004.
Weve kind of made it our
style to go through ruts like
that, Emily Brown, junior right
side hitter, said. Were going to
need to work hard and keep the
morale up because we just keep
piling up loss after loss, and
youre like Oh my gosh.
Kansas (8-8, 1-6 Big 12
Conference) lost to No. 17
Missouri (12-4, 6-1), 19-30, 26-
30 and 18-30 at the Hearnes
Center in Columbia, Mo.
The Tigers dominated the
Jayhawks with 10 service aces,
which came mainly from the
jump serve.
It comes in fast, and some-
times you think it is going out,
but they drop
in, Jana Correa,
senior outside hit-
ter, said. At the
last minute they
drop on the line.
Kansas coach
Ray Bechard said
Missouris aggressive serving
consistently took his team out of
its offensive system. He said the
team also struggled with pass-
ing, which tended to break down
the entire offense.
Kansas was unable to hit effi-
ciently Missouri posted a .421
hitting percentage compared
with Kansas .187.
Weve got to play extremely
clean, fundamental volleyball to
win, Bechard said.
With the game tied at 14,
Missouri got on a roll to rout
see VOLLEYBALL on pAge 2B
Loss to Tigers
perpetuates
losing streak
for Jayhawks
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Kansas state coach ron prince disputes a pass interference call during the second quarter of a
football game against Illinois State on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006, in Manhattan, Kan.
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It looks like Prince is hoping to
build younger players for the future
rather than win games. Kansas State
will struggle to
win one confer-
ence game this
season.
Jayhawk
fans shouldnt
complain about
what Prince
is doing. His
actions make it
easier to make
fun of Kansas
State football. Kansas State will
most likely finish in last place in the
Big 12 north for the third-straight
season. All the work that Bill Snyder
did to bring Kansas State into
the national
spotlight was
squandered in
Snyders final
two seasons and
Price continues
to run the pro-
gram into the
ground.
Princes
actions should
not come as any
surprise, considering he did not
have any experience as a head coach
and he ran an average offense at
Virginia his last two seasons there.
He is looking like a rookie coach
and now he is turning to rookie
players, a plan that rarely works at
this level. Starting two true fresh-
men in the backfield is asking for
disaster.
Freeman will start his first career
game on Saturday at home against
Oklahoma State. Prince said he
knew what needed to be done
for Freeman to be successful on
Saturday against a team that has had
two weeks to prepare for this game.
We want to make sure that we
have good support around him.
Everybody around him has to play
a clean game, Prince said at his
weekly press conference on Tuesday.
The Wildcats will have difficulty
providing good support for Freeman
considering the offense will start
five freshmen on Saturday. Kansas
State and Prince will drop to 0-2 in
conference play on Saturday and
the teams two losses will be against
the two worst teams in the Big 12
South. Imagine who Prince throws
under the bus after Saturdays loss.
Stay classy, Ron Prince.
Colaianni is a McLean, Va., senior
in journalism and political sci-
ence.
COLAIANNI (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
athletics calendar
FRIDAY
Womens swimming, Intrasquad, 4 p.m., Rob-
inson Center
Player to watch: Senior team captain Jenny Short
placed in three diferent events at last seasons
Big 12 Championship meet. She set personal
bests in the 100 back (55.58, sixth place), 200
back (2:00.85, ninth), and 50 (23.91, 16th).
Soccer vs. Texas, 4 p.m., Jayhawk Soccer Complex
Womens tennis, Indiana Tournament, all day, Bloomington,
Ind.
SATURDAY
Football vs. Texas A&M, 11 a.m., Memorial Stadium
Volleyball at Oklahoma, 7 p.m., Norman, Okla.
Softball, Big Red Fall Classic, 2:30 and 4:45 p.m., Lincoln, Neb.
Tennis, Indiana Tournament, all day, Bloomington, Ind.
SUNDAY
Soccer vs. Texas A&M, 1 p.m., Jayhawk Soccer Complex
Mens golf, Windon Memorial Classic, TBA, Skokie Country
Club, Glencoe, Ill.
Softball, Big Red Fall Classic, 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., Lincoln,
Neb.
Tennis, Indiana Tournament, all day, Bloomington, Ind.
Short
BY JEFF DETERS
A new car, set to debut in 2007,
will be the latest development for
NASCAR, a sport that has evolved
from its early days of racing on the
beaches in Daytona, Fla. to roar-
ing down the backstretch of new
state-of-the-art track like the Kansas
Speedway.
The Car of Tomorrow is the
culmination of a five-year program
led by NASCARs Research and
Development Center. The new cars
primary goal is to increase driver
safety without diminishing per-
formance. The car will include a
more upright windshield, stronger
steel-plated leftside door panels and
materials that absorb force to lessen
impact on the driver. The driver will
also sit closer to the center of the car,
farther away from the impact during
a crash.
Brett Bodine, a former NASCAR
driver and owner, played a major
role in the development of the car.
NASCAR now has a lot more
tools in its toolbox to govern the
sport, Bodine said. The results of
that are safer cars, leveler playing
fields, better competition. The car
will be more box-like in shape as
opposed to the sleekly designed cars
of today.
NASCAR driver Jeff Burton test
drove the car and had some suspi-
cions about the its set-up. When
you look at it, it looks so radically
different youd think it would drive
radically different, Burton said.
However, they dont.
Even though the car doesnt drive
all that differently, Burton said it still
presented problems for drivers.
Aerodynamically, its quite a bit
different, Buron said. But it its still
a race car. Its still a car that makes
the same amount of horsepower, has
the same kind of tires.
Bodine said he was pleased with
NASCARs technological progress
during the last 50 years.
It makes me very proud to work
for NASCAR and be part of this proj-
ect, Bodine said. I am very proud
to have been part of the growth
spurt of our sport for 17 years.
Kansan sportswriter Jef Deters
can be contacted at jdeters@kan-
san.com.
NASCAR
NASCAR to debut new racecar in 07
Organization hopes new car will increase drivers safety, preserve performance
Reed Hofmann/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tony Stewart coasts across the fnish line out of gas to win the Banquet 400 NASCAR race on Sunday, October 1, 2006, in Kansas City, Kan. Second-place fnisher Casey Mears also coasted across out of gas,
as the race fnished in a game of who could avoid one fnal pit stop.
Kansas in game one. On their 16-
5 run to end the game, the Tigers
used a five-point unanswered and
a six-point unanswered run to
crush the Jayhawks by 11.
Missouri dominated Kansas on
the stat sheet too. The Tigers had
a .438 hitting efficiency compared
with the Jayhawks match-low
.074.
In game two, the Jayhawks gave
a better effort but came up short.
The Tigers committed just one
error in the game, leading them to
a four-point victory. Missouri had
a more efficient hitting ratio with a
.395 hitting percentage compared
to Kansas .283.
Missouri never trailed Kansas
in the final game. The Tigers had
a match-high 19 kills and used an
11-2 run to take the lead 26-14 en
route to victory.
Kansas Correa led the team
with a match-high 16 kills and
Brown notched 10 kills, hitting
double digits as well. Brown also
led the defense with a match-high
17 digs.
With the victory, Missouri
picked up the first event of the
2006-07 Border Showdown against
Kansas.
The Jayhawks will continue their
road circuit at No. 25 Oklahoma
(12-3, 4-1) this Saturday. Kansas
returns home Oct. 11 to take on
Kansas State.

Game Note:
Last nights match in Columbia
had the fifth-largest crowd in
Missouri history with 3,031 fans.
Kansan sportswriter Drew Davi-
son can be contacted at ddavi-
son@kansan.com.
Edited by Patrick Ross
VOLLEYBALL (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
Jayhawk fans shouldnt com-
plain about what Prince is
doing. His actions make it easier
to make fun of Kansas State
football.
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LSU investigates whether
players received discounts
BATON ROUGE, La.
Louisiana State
University is conducting
an investigation into
the practice of baseball
players receiving special
rent rates or discounts, Athletics
Director Skip Bertman confrmed
Tuesday.
Senior Associate Director of Ath-
letics Herb Vincent would not give
further details of the investigation.
Former members of the baseball
team said they were familiar with
special programs in which players
would receive rent discounts at the
Tiger Plaza apartment complex,
which is owned by R.W. Day and
Associates, in Tiger Land.
It wasnt just like pick up a leaf,
and you get the money, former
LSU pitcher Edgar Ramirez said.
We had to document everything.
Ramirez said the program
was not only ofered to student
athletes.
I worked to lower my rent,
Ramirez said. It wasnt just us. It
was the people who lived there
also.
When asked if Tiger Plaza was
the apartment complex giving the
rates, Ramirez said, Thats the only
place I ever lived.
The NCAA prohibits special
benefts arranged by a university
employee or representative that
are ofered to athletes if the pro-
grams are not also available to all
students at a university, including
free or reduced-cost housing.
The Daily Reveille
Select Montana coaches
ofered longer contracts
MISSOULA, Mont.
University of Montana
Athletic Director Jim
ODays job just got a
whole lot easier.
Last week, the Board
of Regents approved a measure to
allow the University of Montana
and Montana State University to
ofer three-year contracts to the
head coaches of football and mens
and womens basketball.
Its defnitely a positive to
recruit coaches when they see
the commitment youve made to
them, ODay said. Its hard to visit
with a lot of coaches when you say
youve got a one-year contract.
ODay said the University of
Montana can fnally be on the
same playing feld as other univer-
sities that ofer multi-year deals.
Montana was one of the few states
in the country that only ofered
one-year contracts to collegiate
coaches.
Right now I dont know of any
others that are doing the one-year
contract, ODay said. Weve pretty
much been a dinosaur in that fact.
Weve moved out of the dark ages.
Montana Kaimin
Columbia hockey team
gets suspension reversed
NEW YORK After
meeting with team rep-
resentatives on Monday
and Tuesday, the Colum-
bia University Athletics
Department reversed
its decision to suspend the mens
ice hockey club until next spring,
according to a source close to the
situation.
The hockey team will be rein-
stated and will receive another
punishment in place of the suspen-
sion, according to the source. The
teams willingness to take respon-
sibility for its actions strongly
infuenced the reversal.
The Athletics Departments
original decision to suspend the
team and put it on a two-year
probation came after the team
posted recruiting fiers considered
by some students to be ofensive;
the fiers included the phrase, Stop
being a p----.
The controversy gained the
attention of the Foundation for
Individual Rights in Education and
the New York Civil Rights Coali-
tion, who both wrote to University
President Lee Bollinger last week to
back the hockey teams freedom of
expression.
Columbia Daily Spectator
Marlins manager fred,
replacement quickly hired
MIAMI Once the
runner-up to Joe Girardi
for the job of managing
the Florida Marlins, Fredi
Gonzalez became his
successor.
The Marlins fred
Girardi, and fve hours later an-
nounced that hell be replaced by
Gonzalez, third-base coach for the
Atlanta Braves the past four years.
Girardis departure after only one
season had been expected after
his rift with owner Jefrey Loria
boiled over in an on-feld confron-
tation two months ago.
Gonzalez, 42, interviewed with
the Marlins a year ago after Jack
McKeon resigned. Instead they
hired Girardi, but his relationship
with Loria and general manager
Larry Beinfest soon soured.
Associated Press
Indians exercise contract
options after bad season
CLEVELAND The
Cleveland Indians
quickly took care of
some business following
a disappointing season
by exercising contract
options for 2007 on steady starter
Jake Westbrook and utilityman
Casey Blake on.
The club also declined a mutual
option with third baseman Aaron
Boone, making him eligible for free
agency.
Westbrook and Blake were
consistent in a season when the
Indians won 15 fewer games than
in 2005 and missed the playofs for
the ffth straight year.
The Associated Press
Los Angeles Lakers coach
receives hip replacement
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.
Los Angeles Lakers
coach Phil Jackson had
right hip replacement
surgery.
Team spokesman
John Black said there is
no timetable for the 61-year-old
coachs return to training camp,
which opened with assistant coach
Kurt Rambis running the drills.
The 45-minute operation was
performed at the Centinela Hospi-
tal Medical Center. Jackson, who
will be re-evaluated next week,
said Monday at the teams media
day that he plans to be ready when
the Lakers open the season Oct. 31
against Phoenix.
Associated Press
Clint Dempsey chosen
player of the year
Clint Dempsey was
chosen the U.S. soc-
cer player of the year,
honored for his scoring
prowess this season.
He had four goals
in nine games for the
United States this year, including
one in the World Cup, and fnished
tied for the team lead in goals.
Dempsey, who made his debut
with the national team at the end
of 2004, has scored six goals in his
23 career matches.
The 23-year-old midfelder is
in his third season with the New
England Revolution. He was the
MLS rookie of the year in 2004 with
seven goals in 24 games.
Associated Press
Salary cap relief allows
team a few new players
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
Devils leading scorer
Brian Gionta and four
other veterans signed
with New Jersey after
the NHL gave the team
$3.5 million in salary cap relief by
placing veteran forward Alexander
Mogilny on the long-term injury
exception list.
Defensemen Paul Martin and
Dave Hale, backup goaltender
Scott Clemmensen and center
Erik Rasmussen signed one-year
contracts as the Devils fnalized
their roster without violating the
leagues $44 million salary cap.
Just last week it appeared that
the Devils might have to trade
some key players to get under
the cap, but general manager Lou
Lamoriello removed $7.1 million
from the cap in the past three days
by trading defenseman Vladimir
Malakhov ($3.6 million) to San
Jose and getting Mogilny and his
$3.5 million salary qualifed for the
exception because of a hip injury.
Gionta, who set a team record
with 48 goals last season, and
Martin were the main benefciaries
of the new money.
Associated Press
NBA chooses new ball,
Shaq says its too slippery
NEW YORK Some
of the NBAs biggest
stars say the new game
ball is too sticky when
dry, too slippery when
wet, and too well, not
the old one.
The league is convinced its
better, no matter what the likes of
Shaquille ONeal, Dwyane Wade or
Steve Nash have to say about it.
Sure, you hear some com-
ments that arent as positive as the
overwhelming majority of people
that we tested the ball with, Stu
Jackson, executive vice president
of basketball operations, said
Tuesday. Thats going to happen.
Everyone that handles the ball
loves the grip and the feel of the
ball.
Not Shaq, who said the ball
feels like one of those cheap
balls that you buy at the toy store,
indoor-outdoor balls.
The NBAs old leather balls are
being replaced this season by a
microfber composite model, the
leagues frst change in 35 years.
Both ONeal and Wade griped
about the balls slick grip when
wet, and two-time reigning MVP
Steve Nash said the ball has a
tacky feel that makes shooting
and certain types of passes tricky.
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By DAVE CAMPBELL
AssoCiAtED PrEss
MINNEAPOLIS Playing it
safe? Not Torii Hunters style. Thats
why he has five Gold Gloves.
Trying to make a tough catch
right after his Minnesota teammates
tied the game with back-to-back
home runs, Hunter missed and
Oakland took advantage.
Mark Kotsay circled the bases
for a two-run, inside-the-park
homer after Hunters ill-advised
dive for a sinking line drive, lifting
the Athletics over the Twins 5-2 on
Wednesday for a 2-0 lead in their
first-round playoff series.
It was the worst feeling in the
world. You cant do anything about
it, said Hunter, who blamed himself
for the defeat.
The As handled the Boof
Bonser, that is and heres the truth:
Oakland has arrived at yet another
elimination game. The perennial
playoff underperformers are 0-9 in
those since 2000, losing four straight
first-round series.
This team knows what to do,
said Eric Chavez, a regular on all
four of those clubs. Were hard-
nosed baseball players that like to
play the game. I dont think anybody
here, regardless if theyve been in
this position, is going to take Game
3 lightly.
The series shifts west Friday, with
Twins right-hander Brad Radke tak-
ing his broken shoulder socket to the
mound for possible the final appear-
ance of his 12-year career.
Dan Haren, in his first postseason
start, will pitch for Oakland which
beat Cy Young Award favorite Johan
Santana in Game 1 and now gets two
chances to close it out at home.
Weve won two games. OK.
Congratulations. Good job. But its
not over yet, said Nick Swisher, who
doubled against Juan Rincon and
scored on Joe Nathans wild pitch in
the ninth.
The As had one mishap in the
ninth, however. Second baseman
Mark Ellis broke his right index
finger swinging at a high, inside
pitch, and Oakland said it would
update his condition at Thursdays
workout.
For the Twins, its certainly not
over, considering they came from
12 1/2 games back to win the AL
Central. Plus, theres the recent his-
tory of these As, even though Chavez
and Barry Zito are the only play-
ers remaining from 2000 and just a
handful are left from 2003.
Weve been backed up before,
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire
said. Weve been told, youre done
before. Thats not something that
this team takes too lightly. Well
come out and battle. Well give them
everything we have.
Oakland starter Esteban Loaiza
slipped in the sixth inning, sur-
rendering consecutive solo hom-
ers to Michael Cuddyer and Justin
Morneau that evened the game at 2.
But with Jason Kendall on first,
two outs in the seventh and reliev-
er Dennys Reyes pitching, Kotsay
hit what should have been a single.
Hunter, bothered by a sore left foot
this season, charged forward.
The ball sliced to Hunters left,
and his reach wasnt long enough to
get near it.
Theres only one person in this
league that can make that catch,
and its Torii, said Cuddyer, who
watched from right field. Although
its as close as you come, hes not
Superman.
Added Gardenhire: When he
goes after a ball, I dont second-guess
him. Ever.
Kotsay, also a center fielder, felt
bad for Hunter.
Once you commit, youre kind
of in no-mans land, and its best
to go, Kotsay said. He went, and
for his sake, unfortunately, the ball
took off.
Bonser struck out three in six
innings, giving up two runs and
seven hits. Sidearmer Pat Neshek,
who took the loss, started the sev-
enth before yielding to Reyes.
Marco Scutaro hit an RBI double
for the second straight game, and
Huston Street worked the ninth for
his second save in as many days after
blowing 11 chances during the regu-
lar season. Street gave up a single
to Jason Bartlett and a walk to Luis
Castillo, but he retired Nick Punto
on a popup on a 3-2 pitch with bat-
ting champion Joe Mauer on deck.
We came here and did the
unthinkable in most peoples eyes,
Swisher said.
After Scutaro drove him Swisher
with a double, Kendalls one-out RBI
single gave the As a 2-0 lead.
Loaiza, who had an up-and-down
year marked by a trip to the dis-
abled list in May, a drunken-driving
arrest in June and an outstanding
August, scattered six singles over the
first five innings and had flawless
defense behind him from Swisher
at first base, Scutaro at shortstop
and Chavez at third. He was looking
strong until he left a 3-2 pitch over
the plate for Cuddyer to crush into
the seats.
Morneau came next, sending a
1-2 delivery soaring into the upper
deck. Suddenly, the game was tied
and Loaiza was leaving the mound,
replaced by Kiko Calero who got
three outs and, eventually, the win.
MiKE FitZPAtriCK
AssoCiAtED PrEss
NEW YORK Minus two top
starters, the New York Mets got
dynamic postseason debuts from
Carlos Delgado and David Wright to
jump ahead of the Dodgers.
Back in the playoffs for the first
time since losing the 2000 Subway
Series, the Mets capitalized on a wild
baserunning blunder by Los Angeles
and a perfectly respectable perfor-
mance from emergency starter John
Maine in a 6-5 victory Wednesday.
Billy Wagner closed it for his first
postseason save, fanning Nomar
Garciaparra with a runner on second
for the final out.
Playing in the first playoff game
of his 14-year career, Delgado had
four hits, a mammoth homer and the
go-ahead RBI in the seventh inning.
Wright drove in three runs, helping
the Mets take a 1-0 lead in the best-
of-five series.
Game 2 is Thursday night, with
rookie left-hander Hong-Chih Kuo
on the mound for the Dodgers against
290-game winner Tom Glavine. Kuo
pitched six shutout innings at Shea
Stadium on Sept. 8 for his only major
league win.
The Mets started a rookie of their
own in the opener after Orlando
Hernandez tore a muscle in his right
calf while jogging in the outfield
Tuesday. He is expected to miss the
entire postseason.
Already without injured ace
Pedro Martinez, New York scram-
bled Tuesday night to find a healthy,
rested starter and picked Maine, an
afterthought in the offseason trade
that sent Kris Benson to Baltimore
for reliever Jorge Julio.
Julio was shipped to Arizona
in May for Hernandez, but Maine
became a surprising success. The
25-year-old right-hander went 6-5
with a 3.60 ERA for the NL East
champions, who tied the crosstown
Yankees for the best record in base-
ball at 97-65.
Yet he probably would have
been left out of the playoff rotation
altogether if Martinez hadnt gone
down.
Maine, lifted with a 2-1 lead in the
fifth after throwing 80 pitches, got
a break on a bizarre play when the
Dodgers had two runners cut down
at home plate in the second.
With two on and none out, rookie
Russell Martin hit an opposite-field
drive off the base of the right-field
wall. But Jeff Kent hesitated at sec-
ond base, apparently thinking the
ball might be caught, and got an
extremely late jump.
That left J.D. Drew, who was on
first, practically running up Kents
back as coach Rich Donnelly waved
one or both around third.
A quick, accurate relay from right
fielder Shawn Green to second base-
man Jose Valentin to catcher Paul Lo
Duca nailed Kent, who attempted a
headfirst dive into the plate.
Drew was left in no-mans land,
trapped about halfway between third
and home. But Lo Duca, who got
spun around on the play at the plate,
didnt realize that at first as he strug-
gled to his feet.
With Lo Duca unaware for a
moment, Drew tried to sneak his
way in. But Maine pointed at Lo
Duca, alerting him that another run-
ner was coming. The catcher turned
his head, suddenly noticed Drew
bearing down on him and applied
a second tag as Drew also tried a
headfirst dive.
It was the kind of sequence you
often see in a Hollywood movie, but
rarely on a major league field.
Marlon Anderson followed with
an RBI double down the third base
line for a 1-0 lead, but that was
all the Dodgers got after running
themselves out of a potentially big
inning.
Aaron Heilman worked a per-
fect eighth for New York, which
plans to rely heavily on its deep
bullpen all series. Wagner allowed an
RBI double to pinch-hitter Ramon
Martinez in the ninth before striking
out Garciaparra.
Henny Ray Abrams/ASSOCIATED PRESS
NewYork Mets frst baseman Carlos Delgado struggles to catch a foul ball hit by Los Angeles
Dodgers Nomar Garciaparra in the frst inning of the frst game of the National League Division Series
at Shea Stadiumin NewYork onWednesday. Delgado did not make the play. The Mets won the game
6-5.
MLB
New York Mets beat Dodgers, 6-5, in playof game opener
MLB
Twins fall to the Athletics in Game 2 of series
Richard Marshall/ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
Minnesotas Nick Punto slides head-frst into frst base, just after Oaklands Nick Swisher caught the ball for a ground-out during the third inning of Game 2 of the American League Divisional Series at the
Metrodome in Minneapolis, Wednesday.
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10 is the easiest day, 0 the most
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aries (march 21-april 19)
today is a 7
Its good to work with another
person who has diferent qualities.
This time, you need somebody
whos good at schmoozing, which
youre not.
taurus (april 20-may 20)
today is a 7
Of course you care what others
think, but you cant let them stop
you from doing what you have
already decided really needs to be
done. And be efcient about it.
Gemini (may 21-June 21)
today is an 8
Keep moving, and keep yourself
headed in the right direction. Your
natural agility is very useful now.
cancer (June 22-July 22)
today is a 6
Be fexible. Things dont turn out
exactly as youve planned. Some
developments, however, are bet-
ter than you hoped. It all balances
out.
leo (July 23-aug. 22)
today is a 7
You have a good idea of what
youd like to achieve. Now get
down to the real numbers and
make it happen.
virGo (aug. 23-sept. 22)
today is a 7
Youre getting some interesting
suggestions but some of them
wont work. Listen and take notes
but do more research before you
decide.
libra (sept. 23-oct. 22)
today is an 8
A new idea still needs some work.
Dont go public with it until youve
found all the problems. Thatll
take a few days.
scorpio (oct. 23-nov. 21)
today is a 7
A word here, a gesture there make
sure they get the message. If you
dont show disapproval, theyll
spend all your money.
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today is a 6
Changes in the routine cause dis-
ruptions that make simple tasks
take longer. Theres an increased
risk of accidents, too. Take care
during renovation.
capricorn (dec. 22-Jan. 19)
today is a 6
Youre smart and getting smarter
every day. Danger still lurks ahead.
Use it to your advantage.
aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
today is a 7
The money is pouring in. Dont try
to catch it in a sieve. The danger of
spillage is very high, so hold onto
every drop.
pisces (Feb. 19-march 20)
today is a 7
Let people know what you want.
Theyll be happy to lend you a
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talking about other things. Stay
on track.
hollywood
Paris Hilton fghts former
Blink 182s drummers ex
LOS ANGELES Can Travis Bark-
er really have this efect on women?
His estranged wife, Shanna Moakler,
was involved in a nightclub fracas
with Paris Hilton early Wednesday
morning.
Barker, the drummer for Blink-
182, fled for divorce in August from
Moakler, a former beauty queen
who was recently voted of Danc-
ing With the Stars. In September,
Barker was apparently videotaped
kissing Hilton, who needs no intro-
duction.
Then Hilton encountered Moak-
ler at the Hyde club in Hollywood
last night. The following reenact-
ment is based on reports by police,
publicists for both women, but un-
fortunately no pugilistic experts:
Hilton says Moakler walked up to
her, used the most vile of language
and then punched her in her jaw.
Moakler contends she ex-
changed mere profanities with Hil-
ton, at which point Hiltons ex-boy-
friend Stavros Niarchos emerged
from the entourage, bent Moaklers
wrists, poured a drink on her and
shoved her down some stairs.
Hilton, 25, and Moakler, 31, both
fled police reports alleging battery.
Ofcer Karen Smith said police took
pictures of Moakler and Hilton at
the station, and that police planned
to speak with witnesses at the club
as part of their investigation.
TMZ.com posted what it said
was video of Barker and Hilton
making out in a New York nightclub
last month. But Hiltons publicist,
Elliot Mintz, said the two are just
friends.
Associated Press
nevada
Las Vegas Walk of Stars
honors Siegfried, Roy
LAS VEGAS Three years to the
day after being critically injured on
stage by a tiger, Roy Horn was in-
ducted into the Las Vegas Walk of
Stars along with his longtime show-
biz partner Siegfried Fischbacher.
The ceremony took place Tues-
day in front of The Mirage hotel,
home of the duos act from 1990
until Oct. 3, 2003, when Horn was
attacked.
Horn was in critical condition for
several weeks after the attack, and
was said to have sufered a stroke
and partial paralysis. He was walk-
ing a bit slower Tuesday, and his
speech was sluggish at times.
The German-born performers
were given police escorts to the
Walk of Stars ceremony, waving
to fans through a sun roof. Dozens
of fans cheered when Horn ap-
proached a podium.
Good afternoon, everybody,
my name is Roy, Horn said to ap-
plause.
Fischbacher thanked fans.
Associated Press
sports
7b
By BOB BAUM
AssOciAted press
TEMPE, Ariz. The starting
call has come earlier than expected
for Matt Leinart, who went through
his first practice as an NFL first-
string quarterback on Wednesday.
Leinart capped the session with
a little extra work on the field with
Edgerrin James, then pronounced
himself confident for his first start
for Arizona on Sunday against the
Kansas City Chiefs, although he
acknowledged, Theyre probably
licking their chops with a rookie
quarterback coming in.
With costly mistakes plaguing
Kurt Warner and the sputtering
offense, coach Dennis Green decid-
ed to switch to Leinart, who was
supposed to spend the entire sea-
son learning as a backup.
This was not our intention. Its
not what we wanted, Green said,
but were 1-3 and just so many
turnovers have brought it on.
Leinart has impressed coaches
and teammates since he came to the
Cardinals after a surprising drop to
the No. 10 pick in the draft.
I think youve got to under-
stand who Matt Leinart is, Green
said. As far as college football is
concerned, I dont know if theres
a quarterback in the history of the
game who has had as much success
on that level.
USC was 37-2 with Leinart at
quarterback, earning two nation-
al championships and winning a
Heisman Trophy for him in 2004.
But that was not the NFL, and it
wasnt the downtrodden Cardinals,
who are off to a 1-3 start for the
fourth year in a row and have one
winning season since 1984.
What I want to try to do is not
cram everything in and try to do
too much, he said. Im comfort-
able with what Im doing. Really,
football is obviously studying your
opponent and knowing what youre
going to do, but really just playing,
just going out there thinking and
playing football.
He will operate behind a suspect
offensive line that drew a public
berating by Green this week. On his
weekly radio show, the coach said it
was time for the line to stop whin-
ing and work harder.
`I think theyre going to be fine,
Leinart said.
nfl
New QB
starting
for Arizona
Sunday
Big 12 footBall
Two players from Texas show
strengths from high school
By Betsy BLANey
AssOciAted press
LUBBOCK, Texas Their
nearly flawless Texas high school
careers behind them, Graham
Harrell and Chase Daniel are just
beginning to make their marks at
Big 12 schools.
Harrell, Texas Techs quarter-
back, and Daniel, who leads No.
23 Missouri, went a combined 72-
4 at Ennis and Southlake Carroll,
a pair of Dallas-area schools. But
the sophomores never played one
another, making Saturdays match-
up the first one-stop glimpse at
two of the states most prolific high
school passers.
Theyre bringing a little momen-
tum into an important conference
game. Harrell threw a last-minute
touchdown pass to give Tech (4-1,
1-0 Big 12) a 31-27 victory at Texas
A&M last week, and Daniel has
Missouri (5-0, 1-0) vying for its
first 6-0 start in 33 years.
Both are in the top 10 in total
offense nationally. Harrell is fourth,
averaging 310 yards per game.
Daniel isnt far behind at No. 10,
averaging 281 yards per game.
One of their high school coach-
es believes both quarterbacks are
gaining valuable experience early in
their college careers.
To me, theres not a whole
lot replacing getting to play, said
Graham Harrells father and high
school coach, Sam Harrell, who
kept an eye on Daniels schoolboy
career. Thats the best teacher of
all.
In 2001, the year before Southlake
Carroll moved up from Class 4A
to 5A, Harrell led Ennis past the
Dragons 49-17 in the semifinals en
route a state title. But Daniel was a
ninth-grader and did not play until
the following year, when he was a
receiver. He started at quarterback
his last two years.
Harrell, a year ahead of Daniel,
was a two-time 4A player of the
year at Ennis, where he was 41-3
as a three-year starter. Daniel, who
turns 20 Saturday, was twice named
the 5A player of the year and had a
two-year record of 31-1. Each won
a state title.
I think successful people are
going to be
s u c c e s s f u l
no matter
what level it
is, Graham
Harrell said.
Being suc-
cessful in high
school helped
prepare us,
and we want
to win. I think
thats why
theyre 5-0 and
were 4-1.
From 2000-
03 at Ennis,
Harrell threw
for 12,532
yards the
most in Texas high school history
and 167 TDs.
Daniel generated 11,252 yards in
two seasons 8,289 with 91 touch-
downs throwing and 2,954 with 39
more scores rushing.
Like he did in high school,
Daniel is using his arm and his legs.
He has 1,273 passing yards with 13
touchdowns and just four inter-
ceptions and another 130 rushing
yards. That mobility is why Daniel
fits where he landed, Sam Harrell
said.
Thats their philosophy, he
said. Theyre looking for quarter-
backs who are a dual threat, and
they found them a good one in
him. Hes really making them roll
right now.
Harrells teammates know his
history and trust him.
We always talk about how
young he is, but he has played the
last six or seven years, counting
high school, Tech receiver Jarrett
Hicks said. So, I guess it is to the
point that nothing amazes me now.
I know he is going to make the pass.
I guess it falls on
our shoulders to
make the play
now.
Mi s s o u r i
coach Gary
Pinkel echoed
Hicks.
( Gr a ham)
Harrell, at quar-
terback, is play-
ing outstand-
ing, he said.
They score
a lot points ...
and have one of
the best passing
games in the
country.
But as much
as he admires Harrell, Pinkel makes
no secret of his respect for Daniel.
You can coach poise and some
guys develop it, but hes just got it,
Pinkel said. He knows what hes
doing, and hes a smart, intelligent
guy.
Itd be easy to make the Red
Raiders-Tigers game a showdown
between their high school pro-
grams.
Maybe in (Dallas-Fort Worth)
... some people might, Harrell said.
But high schools high school.
Were in college now. Its Missouri
versus Texas Tech, not Ennis versus
Southlake.
ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart looks for a receiver as he takes over from
quarterback Kurt Warner in the second half in the football game against the Atlanta Falcons at
the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Oct. 1.
I think successful people are
going to be successful no matter
what level it is. Being successful
in high school helped prepare
us, and we want to win. I think
thats why theyre 5-0 and were
4-1.
Graham harrell
Texas Tech quarterback
sports 8b
Texas A&M lost to Texas Tech
after a last-minute drive gave the
Red Raiders the game-winning
touchdown. In Tuesdays issue of The
Battalion, Ryan Mulligan wrote that
new NCAA rules governing the clock
may have been a factor in the game.
Texas A&M heads to Lawrence
this weekend to face Kansas in the
Jayhawks Homecoming game.
It was only a
matter of time
before the new
clock rules
became a dis-
advantage for
the Aggies.
In June, the
NCAA Football Rules Committee
came out with its annual list of rule
changes. Among those were rule
3-2-5 and rule 3-2-5e. The former
says that the clock will start on the
kick-off when the ball is kicked
and the latter says that when a
change of pos-
session takes
place the clock
will start on the
ready-for-play
signal.
Before the
2006 season,
the clock did
not run until
a free-kick hit
the ground. In
addition, after
a change of
possession the
clock did not
start until the
start of the next
play.
John Adams,
secretary-rules editor for the
Football Rules Committee, defend-
ed the changes when they were
released in August.
I think this is a tremendously
important change in our game,
Adams said. This was placed in
the rule book to cut down on the
length of the games.
Many prominent NCAA
Division I coaches, including
Texas A&M head coach Dennis
Franchione, have come out against
the committees decisions.
I dont care whether we get
done quicker or shorter or what
TV does, Franchione said. Right
now I dont have a very good taste
for this rule.
Adams said the new rules were
intended to cut approximately 30
plays from last years average of 166
plays per game. This intention is
exactly what most coaches disagree
with, because a shorter game lim-
its the amount of possessions and
eliminates scoring opportunities.
I hate the new clock rule and
that is one of the stupidest pieces
of legislation
ever, said
Texas Tech
head coach
Mike Leach.
This season
really kind
of needs an
asterisk beside
it because
it changes
the entire
d y n a m i c s
of the game.
Quite frankly,
I dont even
respect the
people who
disagree with
me on it.
Saturday, there were 26 seconds
left on the clock before Texas Tech
kicked off to A&M with a four-
point lead. But the time lost due to
the balls flight in the air and the
time between the ready for play
signal and the snap could have
amounted to an extra play or two
for the Aggies, possibly resulting in
a go-ahead score.
If this time loss is considered
throughout the game, each team
could have had two more posses-
sions, which could have drastically
affected the outcome, considering
A&M had momentum going into
the final minute.
It probably cost us two touch-
downs, Leach said. It probably
cost them some points too.
The new rules are certainly not
the only factor worth blaming for
A&Ms loss, but there is no doubt
their effects were felt and they need
to be reconsidered.
Columnists discuss Tigers victory, Aggies loss
Guest columns
Missouri starts out strong, shows
promise for Big 12 championship
David J. Phillip/ASSOCATED PRESS
Texas A&Ms Chad Schroeder sits on the ground after being tackled on the last play of the
game, as Texas Techs Brandon Carter celebrates with teammates at the end of a football game
Saturday in College Station, Texas. Texas Tech beat Texas A&M31-27.
Two new rules that cut down game time also cut down on possessions
for both Texas Tech and Texas A&M, changing the game dramatically
The Missouri Tigers defeated
Coloado 28-13 on Saturday and
moved to the top of the Big 12
North. In Tuesdays edition of
The Maneater, columnist Shawn
Garrison wrote that Missouri had
made big strides under head coach
Gary Pinkel.
The Missouri
football team
has officially
passed its
first test of the
season. For the
first under coach Gary Pinkel, the
Tigers have not dropped a game
in the opening five games of the
season.
It might seem a little disheart-
ening that it has taken more than
three years for the Tigers to win the
games that theyre supposed to, but
theres no denying that this team
is showing a level of maturity that
was nowhere to be found during
the past four seasons.
That maturity was never more
evident than on Saturday as
Missouri pulled out a 28-13 victory
against Colorado. The Buffaloes
were hanging with the Tigers at
the start of the second half when
Colorado quarterback Bernard
Jackson completed a 63-yard pass
to Dusty Sprague and two plays
later punched the ball into the end
zone to make the score 21-13.
The Tigers followed with a hor-
rendous drive that stalled after a
series of questionable play calls,
including a trick pass play to
Chase Daniel; a kneel-down after
it appeared that Daniel mistakenly
thought there was an offside pen-
alty, but the play was never blown
dead and a fake field goal on con-
secutive plays.
Colorado had the ball with good
field position, putting Missouri
against the ropes.
In years past, this was the cue for
the Tigers to lose their composure,
fall apart and suffer a devastating
loss. But not this team. The Tiger
defense forced a quick three-and-
out, and the offense followed that
with a touchdown drive to make
the score 28-13 and regain control.
A series of eerily similar events
occurred three weeks ago at the
start of the second half of the
Tigers game against Ole Miss that
produced the same results.
And that, Tiger fans, is why
there is reason to believe this team
is legitimate. The ability to take a
punch, to have things not go their
way and still keep their compo-
sure leads me to believe that we
could be seeing the Tigers playing
for a Big 12 championship come
December.
Thats not to say that everything
is perfect on Faurot Field. The past
three victories have all been ugly.
Missouris top-ranked defense gave
up 373 yards to the worst team in
the Big 12 on Saturday. As good
as Daniel has been, he still tends
to stare down his receivers from
time to time and needs to learn
when to cut his losses and take a
sack. And the best team the Tigers
defeated won a total of three games
last season.
But the Tigers are 5-0 for the
first time since 1981. That Pinkel
was able to lead his team through
the first five games without stum-
bling has to rank the victory
against Colorado on Saturday as
one of the biggest during his tenure
at Missouri.
Now the Tigers travel to
Lubbock, Texas, to face Texas Tech
The game will be nationally tele-
vised Saturday night on TBS, and
the real test will begin.
I hate the new clock rule
and that is one of the
stupidest pieces of
legislation ever.
Mike Leach
Texas Tech football coach

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