2006-11-21

By Matt EldEr
The Rock Chalk Revue advisory

board announced the five groups of
fraternities and sororities that would
be performing in the annual variety
show this March.
Some of the students and
members of the KU greek commu-
nity couldnt contain their excite-
ment. Others fought back tears.
Its been a very emotional eve-
ning, said Erin Gregory, Leawood
junior and Rock Chalk promotions
assistant. Theres happy tears and
theres sad tears tonight. Gregory is
a member of Alpha Gamma Delta
sorority which, together with Theta
Chi fraternity, was selected to per-
form in the revue.
The five groups were selected
from 20 greek originations and a
University scholarship hall, all of
which have been developing their
shows since the beginning of the
semester. The Universitys Rock
Chalk Revue show is one of the larg-
est student-run philanthropies in the
United States.
The advisory board chose Hawk
Wild for this years theme, but left
interpretation open to participants
to encourage creativity. The board
consists of 23 students and three
University faculty members.
Jamie Lamb, Rock Chalk execu-
tive director, said this years event
would showcase the stone age, ball-
room dancing, phantoms and desert
island themes.
All of the applicants submitted
programs to the advisory board this
past weekend after three months
of preparation. Twelve judges were
brought in to make the shows final
selections, which included an inter-
view and skit samples, at Liberty
Hall on Monday night.
Being at Liberty Hall and utiliz-
ing the stage for the presentation
makes everyone feel like they are
part of a big deal and something
special, said Gregory.
The events proceeds are donat-
ed to the United Way. In the past,
between $30,000 and $50,000 has
been raised. The show has been a
tradition at the University since 1949
when Roy Wonder, a University busi-
ness student decided the University
needed a campus-wide variety show.
All members of the fraternities and
sororities were required to volunteer
at least one hour to charity work for
their chapters to be represented in
Rock Chalk Revue. Beginning next
semester, the five acts will begin
practicing for the event seven days
a week. Participants will be expected
to volunteer one hour each week-
day, and an hour-and-a-half each
Saturday and Sunday. Performances
begin at 7 p.m. March 8 at the Lied
Center.
Kansan staf writer Matt Elder can
be contacted at melder@kansan.
com.
Edited by Dianne Smith
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Saturday against Missouri
in Columbia
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business
Downtown store
calls it quits
Fields Gallery closes after
four decades, several
makeovers
By JacK WEinstEin
When owner Kim Kern and manager Sheila Wilkins were clean-
ing out Fields Gallery they found black light posters, Keep on
Truckin stickers and Christmas ornaments. Those were reminders
of how the store had evolved since it opened as Strawberry Fields in
1968. Now it is closing after 38 years of business in Lawrence.
At 712 Massachusetts St., Strawberry Fields began as a head-
shop, selling incense, Eastern-style fabrics with intricate patterns,
blue jeans, posters and records, among other things. The store had
a barbershop in the back and a bar next door. People lived in the
apartments above it.
Wilkins said Kerns store had gone through several changes,
from the headshop into a Pottery Barn-style store, a framing store,
a poster store and then a gallery.
Hes a creative person, Wilkins said of Kern. The stores been
a vehicle for expressing that. Hes continually reinvented himself
over the years and made this place interesting. I think it will be a
loss for Lawrence.
Photo right by Jared Gab/KaNSaN
Fields Gallery, 712
Massachusetts St. has
closed after 38 years and
many changes to its mode
of business. Lawrence
photographer Deb Slavin
described the gallerys
closing as a loss for
Lawrence.
Contributed by Shelia Fields
By david linhardt
A bouncer, a current KU baseball
player and a former KU baseball
player will be sent to court after a
late-night fight at a Lawrence bar.
Sophomore pitcher Andy Marks
and former pitcher Sean Land were
cited for battery after an alterca-
tion at The Cadillac Ranch, 2515
W. 6th St., and ordered to appear
in Lawrence Municipal Court. The
bouncer involved in the incident was
cited but not identified by
police.
The incident occurred
Saturday morning when
bouncers asked Marks and
a friend to leave the bar
after an argument, Kim
Murphree, Lawrence police
spokeswoman, said.
Police responded to
calls about 12:38 a.m. and
found two men and a bar employee
in an altercation in the parking lot,
Murphree said. No injuries were
reported.
Zach Owen, a bouncer
at The Ranch, said man-
agement told staff who
worked that night not to
talk about the fight to the
media.
These guys got out of
hand and things got bad
pretty quick, he said.
Marks could not be
immediately reached for comment
Monday.
Land said that as Marks and his
friend were leaving, bouncers were
putting their hands all over them.
He said Marks continued arguing
and one of them tackled Marks.
Land said he tried pull the bounc-
ers off Marks when four other men
grabbed him and pinned him to
the wall. An off-duty bouncer then
punched Land in the face, he said.
There was definitely excessive
force here, Land said.
Management at The Ranch
declined comment on the incident.
Land said the manager told him to
leave unless he wanted to be arrested
for battery. He said he and
Marks left the building and
a Ranch bouncer followed
them out to keep Marks
from leaving before police
arrived.
Land said he wanted to
stay until police came to
press charges against the
bouncers.
I was just trying to
break it off, he said. I didnt punch
anybody.
Associate athletics director Jim
Marchiony said he hadnt heard
about the incident, but that
he would look into it.
Baseball coach Ritch
Price was unavailable for
comment Monday.
Andrew Fennelly, an
on-duty bouncer that
night, didnt return calls
for comment.
Kansan staf writer david linhardt
can be contacted at dlinhardt@
kansan.com.
Edited by Nicole Kelley
Marks
Land
Crime
Bar altercation
involves Kansas
baseball player
Pitcher ordered to appear in court
By MarK viErthalEr
Police have identified the Kansas
State fan killed in an accident
Saturday as Shawnee resident John
Green and confirmed Chris Orr as
the man who was critically injured.
The accident occurred about
11:30 a.m. Saturday near the inter-
section of 15th and Iowa streets.
The two men were riding on the
Power Cat Bus, also known as
the Cat Tracker Bus. According
to a report released by the police
on Monday, the bus was traveling
north on Iowa with eight passen-
gers outside on the upper level of
the bus. As the bus passed under
the Irving Hill Street overpass, the
two men struck their heads along
the underside of the bridge.
Monday afternoon police named
Wamego resident Brent Simonsson
as the driver of the bus at the time
of the accident. Robert Pottroff was
named as the owner of the bus,
which had no official affiliation
with Kansas State University.
Sgt. Paul Fellers of the Lawrence
Police Department said the events
leading up to the accident were still
being investigated.
Orr, a former sports reporter for
The Salina Journal, is still listed in
critical condition at the University
of Kansas Medical Center.
His family declined comment.
Both lanes of traffic on North-
bound Iowa Street were closed as
police conducted interviews with
other riders of the bus to determine
the exact cause of the accident.
Kansan staf writer Mark vier-
thaler can be contacted at mvi-
erthaler@kansan.com.
Police name victim
of deadly bus wreck
aCCident
greek life
2007 Rock Chalk
Revue Shows
Till Dance Do Us Part - Kappa
Kappa Gamma & Beta Theta Pi
Set in Stone - Gamma Phi
Beta & Delta Upsilon
Phantom of the Library - Al-
pha Gamma Delta & Theta Chi
Little Prom on the Prairie
- Delta Gamma & Sigma Phi
Epsilon
Love Spell - Pi Beta Phi & Phi
Kappa Psi
Source: Rock Chalk Revue Advisory Board
Board announces Revue performers
Ryan McGeeney/KaNSaN
Megan Murphy, overland Park senior, hugs her cousin, Beth Bennedict, Lenexa sophomore,
after learning Monday night that the Delta Delta Delta sorority and Delta Chi fraternity teamwas not
selected to performin the event. We put everything we had into it,said Murphy.
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K-State on feld, of feld
The early ancestor of the
horse, the dawn horse, was the
size of a dog and had three toes
on its hind feet, four on its front.
It lived about 50 million years
ago.
Source: Canadian Museumof Nature
Other than being castrated,
things have gone quite well for
Funny Cide.
Sportscaster Kenny Mayne, talking about
the horse who won the Kentucky Derby in
2003.
A 19-year-old KU student
reported being battered in
the 1400 block of West 19th
Terrace. The incident occurred
Nov. 18 and the victim did not
know the person.
An 18-year-old KU student
reported an auto burglary and
theft of at least 60 CDs from a
vehicle parked near the 1800
block of West 25th Street. The
total value of the theft was
$945.
reported a home burglary and
the theft of a DVD player, 15
DVDs and more than 30 CDs
from the 2400 block of Red Bud
Lane. The incident occurred
Nov. 17 and the total value of
the theft was $893.
reported being battered in the
500 block of West 12th Street.
The incident occurred Nov.
18. The victim sufered minor
injuries and did not know the
person.
Top 10 Favorite Thanksgiving
Dishes:
1) Turkey
2) Stuf ng
3) Ham
4) Mashed Potatoes
5) Pumpkin Pie
6) Sweet potatoes/Yams
7) Dessert (non-specifc)
8) Cranberries/Cranberry sauce
9) Casseroles (other)
10) Vegetables (other)
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An article in Fridays The Uni-
versity Daily Kansan contained
an error. The article Professor
makes politics his life incor-
rectly listed the hometown of
senior Janae Hartmann. Her
hometown is Denver, Colo.
Tightwad bank to close,
drew millions in deposits
KANSAS CITY, Mo. A small-
town bank that drew $2.2 million
in deposits from around the coun-
try because of its unusual name
will close Jan. 31.
The Tightwad Bank opened on
a shoestring 22 years ago in the
small community along Missouri
7 halfway between Clinton and
Warsaw.
Now, UMB Bank Warsaw, which
operates the bank, is cutting costs
and has urged customers to do
their banking at its branches in
Clinton and Warsaw.
Of cials at UMB, a subsidiary
of UMB Financial Corp, would not
elaborate on the decision.
I dont like it at all, said Tight-
wad resident Linda Houk. Im not
sure Ill leave my accounts at UMB.
Two months after the Tightwad
Bank opened in May 1984, an ar-
ticle on it appeared in The Kansas
City Times. Word began to spread.
We were discovered, said
Gene Henry, a Clinton banker
who helped open the Tightwad
Bank. People would just mail us a
check, Tightwad Bank, Tightwad,
Missouri, sometimes with no ZIP
code, and the post of ce, to its
credit, found us.
Up to a dozen checks would
arrive daily, each with a note ask-
ing for an account and a batch of
Tightwad Bank checks, Henry said.
Kin Cheung/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Customers eat fried chicken as they watch three naked protesters fromthe People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) demonstrating outside a KFC restaurant in Hong Kong Monday. They were
protesting what they said was KFCs cruel treatment of chickens.
odd news
In two years, customers from near
and far gave the bank $2.2 million
in deposits.
The bank started as a branch of
a Windsor bank whose chairman
foresaw growth fueled by devel-
opment around the then-new Tru-
man Lake. Henry said some even
envisioned Tightwad as becoming
the next Branson.
But growth never came. Tight-
wad, population 63, has eight
more residents now than when
the bank opened.
Smelly towels ofend city
restroom patrons in Jackson
JACKSON, Wyo. Wet dog
and stinky feet.
Those are some of the words
being used to describe the odor
of some paper towels that were
stocked in restrooms across town.
An investigation by the Jackson
Hole News & Guide found the
malodorous product at six busi-
nesses and in most of the 20 Teton
County government buildings.
Melissa Shinkle, who works in
the county clerks of ce, said coun-
ty employees didnt talk about the
odor at frst but then it became
a topic of conversation.
It was like, Have you noticed?
When you wash your hands, they
should smell nice, but they smell
worse, Shinkle said. Its gross.
The source: High Country Linen,
a business owned by Mayor Mark
Barron, which distributed the
smelly towels around town in
September.
When we got the reports, we
dealt with them directly and im-
mediately, Barron said. We may
have had fve or six calls.
The companys manager, Eric
Vic, said the towels were manufac-
tured by SCA Tissue North America
in Neenah, Wis. The companys
vice president of manufacturing,
Ron Thirty, said in a statement that
odors in our products are a highly
unusual occurrence.
101-foot cigar to celebrate
cigar shops anniversary
TAMPA, Fla. Cigar makers
hope a 101-foot, 53-pound stogie
completed over the weekend is
headed for the record books.
Wallace and Margarita Reyes,
co-owners of Gonzalez Habano Ci-
gar Co., put the fnishing touches
on the $5,100 cigar at the Cigar
Heritage Festival on Saturday.
Cigar makers worked for about
75 hours over several weeks to
build it.
The Reyeses said the giant
stogie marks the 85th anniversary
of their cigar factory. They also
hoped to beat a record 66-foot
cigar made in Havana last year.
I wanted to do something spe-
cial,Wallace Reyes said. I wanted
to do something big.
Local of cials documented the
completed cigar so it can be sub-
mitted to Guinness World Records.
Free, clean restrooms open
at Times Square for holidays
NEW YORK Clean public
restrooms are scarce in New York.
Clean public anything is especially
scarce in Times Square.
But this holiday season, the
makers of Charmin toilet paper
have built pristine public rest-
rooms, which are set to open
Monday in the middle of one the
busiest intersections in the world.
And theyre free.
Even amid the fashing lights
and dizzying colors of Times
Square, the bathrooms are hard to
miss. Theres a huge glowing blue
sign with the word Restrooms
and an arrow. Take the escalators
upstairs to the lavish waiting room
with fat-screen TVs, a freplace, a
mini-dance foor for children, over-
size teddy bears to play with and
plush white couches.
About 30 workers will take
turns cleaning the stalls after each
use, of cials said.
Its going to be so clean, as
clean as your home, said Adam
Lisook, assistant brand manager
for Charmin at Cincinnati-based
Procter & Gamble Co. Its Char-
mins holiday gift to families who
are visiting, and who are from New
York.
The restrooms will be open
from 8 a.m. until 11 p.m. seven
days a week. They will be closed
on Christmas Day and must shut,
according to city rules, by Dec. 31.
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The Helping Unite Generations program places
volunteers at various retirement sites around
Lawrence. For more information come to the
Governors room in the 4th Floor of the Kansas
Union on Wednesday at 6pm.
By Mark vierthaler
Six months after research began
into a coordination between KU on
Wheels and the Lawrence Public
Transit systems, a rough draft of
the final recommendation has been
made available.
Dan Boyle and Associates will
present a pared-down version of
its final findings Nov. 28 and 29 in
public forums. Until then, Lawrence
residents can view the first draft
online.
All signs point to the recom-
mendation of a consolidated system
with a single governing body com-
posed of equal representation from
the University
and from the
city. Students
would make
up half of the
Uni ver s i t ys
representation.
The 55-page
report is avail-
able along with
the results of
the survey the
group admin-
istered to rid-
ers including a transition plan,
route profiles and public outreach
activities.
Cliff Galante, city public transit
administrator, said after Boyle pre-
sented his final recommendations to
the public, he would go before both
the Lawrence City Commission and
Provost Richard Lariviere with the
same information. Both the city
commission and the Provost would
then decide what to do with the rec-
ommendations. I really dont know
what will come out of it, he said.
The purpose of the coordination
would be to capitalize on what both
systems have.
Galante said he was interested in
seeing what the city and University
would do with the recommenda-
tions but that a large amount of
student input would be considered
before any decisions were made.
The most important factor to
keep in mind, he said, was that both
students and citizens were getting
a win-win situation. To do this,
he encouraged people to visit the
transit systems Web site to view the
reports.
D a n n y
Kaiser, assis-
tant director
of parking and
transit at the
University, said
it was impor-
tant to note
that the docu-
ment online
was only the
first draft. He
said the final
recommenda-
tions would be released at the pub-
lic meetings.
Nick Sterner, chairman of the
Student Senate transportation com-
mittee, said in a meeting Monday
evening that the commission would
discuss the final recommendation
at a later date. Sterner said the com-
mission would need adequate time
to study and discuss the final rec-
ommendation.
kansan staf writer Mark viertha-
ler can be contacted at mviertha-
ler@kansan.com.
Transit study
results released
TransporTaTion
First draft now available online
The purpose of the coordina-
tion would be to capitalize on
what both systems have.
Cliff Galante
City public transit administrator
Go to kansan.com/bus
to view the documents
accidenT
School bus crashes, kills three girls
By DeSiree hUNter
aSSociateD PreSS
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. A school
bus packed with high school stu-
dents smashed through a guard-
rail along an overpass Monday and
crashed nose-first 30 feet below, kill-
ing three teenage girls and injuring
at least 30 other people, some criti-
cally, authorities said.
A car driven by another high
school student apparently came
close to or struck the bus, causing it
to plow through the concrete rail on
the elevated section of Interstate 565
and crash onto Church Street below,
said Police Chief Rex Reynolds. Two
girls died at the scene, and a third
died at a hospital.
Students on the bus, which had
no seat belts, were screaming when
rescue workers arrived. They were
thrown all over the bus, said Fire
Chief Dusty Underwood. Some had
to be pulled from the crushed front
of the vehicle.
More than 30 students and the
bus driver were taken to Huntsville
Hospital, which became a hectic
trauma center with emergency phy-
sicians and staff called in to help as
ambulances brought in the severely
injured.
Christina Collier, 18, and Nicole
Ford, 17, died at
the scene, police
said. A third,
Tanesha Hill, 17,
died at the hos-
pital, a hospital
official said.
This is a
heart breaki ng
tragedy, Gov.
Bob Riley said in
a statement.
Frantic par-
ents went to
the scene, where some students sat
dazed or lay draped in white sheets,
or went to the hospital to find their
children.
Hospital officials said staff mem-
bers had trouble identifying some of
the more severely injured students
who were unable to talk and had no
identification on them.
Before help arrived, terrified stu-
dents tried to
climb from the
wreckage.
They were
falling on each
other. People
were screaming,
yelling, crying,
said LaWanda
Jefferson, 16,
whose left arm
was fractured
and face was
bruised. I was
scared, panicking and just getting
ready to cry.
Some children called their rela-
tives from cell phones shortly after
the bus hit the ground, Jefferson
among them.
All I could hear was screaming
in my ears, her grandmother, Doris
Harris, said. Screaming and crying
and her saying something about the
bus.
The bus was taking students from
Huntsvilles Lee High School to the
Center for Technology, where stu-
dents can receive special science and
math credits.
At least three survivors were in
critical condition, hospital officials
said.
The bus driver was in critical
condition, authorities said, though
the police chief said hospital workers
were able to speak with the driver.
A Toyota Celica driven by anoth-
er Lee High School student was
the only other vehicle involved,
and investigators had spoken with
the cars driver as well as witnesses,
police spokesman Wendell Johnson
said.
The damaged car was still at the
crash site Monday afternoon.
Jefferson told the AP that before
the crash, the passengers had been
talking, joking and laughing. Then
she saw a car speed by to the right,
and suddenly she was flying across
the bus, she said.
The bus went to the side, and I
guess it went over, she said. When
it was falling ... I was just glad when
it hit the ground.
She said that if there had been
seat belts on the bus, most folks
would not have gotten injured like
this.
The National Transportation
Safety Board is investigating the
wreck. The agency has said that
school buses are designed to protect
occupants without the need for seat
belts.
Driver, 30 students among injured following wreck in Alabama
Glenn Baeske/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mourners attend a prayer vigil Monday evening, Nov. 20, 2006, at Life Church International in Huntsville, Ala., for victims of the fatal school bus crash
in Huntsville earlier in the day. A school bus packed with high school students smashed through a guardrail along an overpass Monday and crashed nose-
frst 30 feet below, killing three teenage girls and injuring at least 30 other people, some critically, authorities said.
I was scared, panicking and just
getting ready to cry.
laWanda jefferson
student
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A touch of Irish in
downtown Lawrence
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BY BEN SMITH
The Kansas Arts Commission
chose Lawrence resident and
University of Kansas alumna Denise
Low as the states first female poet
laureate Nov. 15.
Low will become the states sec-
ond poet laureate beginning July
1. 2007. She received her bache-
lors, masters and doctoral degrees
in English from the University of
Kansas and a masters of fine arts in
creative writing from Wichita State
University,
She said the times at KU were
periods for meeting an eclectic
collection of poets such as Allen
Ginsberg and Robert Bly.
Growing up, Id always been
around poetry, said Low, interim
dean of the College of Humanities
and Arts at Haskell Indian Nations
University. My grandmother loved
poetry. When I was young, I would
come home to find her reading
Asian poems.
The mission of the poet laure-
ate is to develop a greater appre-
ciation for the writing and reading
of poetry. The two-year position
was created by the Kansas Arts
Commission.
Dr. Low is a wonderful selec-
tion for our new poet laureate,
said Governor Kathleen Sebelius in
a press release. I hope her exem-
plary work will inspire Kansans to
further explore Kansas poetry and
literature.
Roy Bird, director of the Kansas
Center for the Book, a division of
the Kansas State Library, was on the
panel that chose Low.
The most important part in the
judging, to me, were the candidates
plans to advance poetry in Kansas,
Bird said. She spelled out her plan
of carrying on the work of our first
poet laureate, Jonathan Holden, and
proposed some interesting projects
of her own.
Holden established a series of
readings and conversations by
and about Kansas poets called
Shoptalk.
Bird said the selection panel
scored the six nominees based on
their poetry excellence, profes-
sionalism and plans to bolster the
reading and writing of poetry in
Kansas.
Low said she thought Kansas was
a wonderful state with wonderful
poets.
I want to bring peoples atten-
tion to the myriad of Kansas poets,
Low said. There are so many fine
communities and writers, so many
native communities.
Low said it was a poets job to
synthesize culture in a specific
community.
Kansas poets, I think, are iso-
lated, subject to extreme weather
and they have an abiding sense
of fellowship, Low said. Someone
once told me that Kansans are the
best friends. They take their friend-
ships very seriously. Poetry is about
human relationships and in Kansas
those relationships are deep. When
you commit to a relationship its a
lifetime commitment.
Kansan staf writer Ben Smith can
be contacted at bsmith@kansan.
com.
From Denise Low; New and
Selected poems 1980-1999
Kansas Grasslands
for William Staford
Big bluestem around us quivers,
alive as horse manes seem alive in wind.
This is the grass Staford wrote
as though it were the sky of forever,
only this grass changes colors, mauve
by the Wakarusa River, and yellow,
and by roadside the bleached fox-tail grass.
Grass seed bundles brush against the sky,
their long-tied knots loose at last.
We track deer, not Oregon whales,
in these waves, but still we drown
under eight-foot stalks of bluestem.
Switchback grass, too, splays
fronds overhead, like eagle-feather fans.
This imperfect circle is Stafords horizon,
a curved line to keep stars from spilling,
a line through the air, a thatched edge-
the path he traveled skyward and back.
ARTS
Lawrence resident
named next Kansas
poet laureate
SPEAKER
Anna Faltermeier/KANSAN
Debra Davis, a transgender person, spoke to students Monday about accepting others. She said that everyone had closets they needed to come out of.
Transgender person addresses sexuality, acceptance
BY ANNA FALTERMEIER
David Nielsen left his job as a high
school librarian for the weekend and
returned the following Monday as
Debra Davis.
Davis, who has lived as a trans-
gender person for eight years, told
a group of about 75 KU students
Monday night that it was important
for everyone to accept peoples dif-
ferences.
Everyone has closets and life
becomes a whole lot easier when you
come out of those closets, she said.
Davis spoke in honor of
Transgender Day of Remembrance,
which was Monday. The day is held in
honor of a transgender woman who
was murdered in Boston in 1998.
Davis said about 400 transgender
people were murdered between 1971
and 2006.
Davis said she remembered play-
ing house with the girls and wanting
to wear girls clothing as a child. She
said she went through phases where
she wanted to get rid of womens
clothing and accessories and repress
thoughts of wanting to be a woman.
In college, she was president of
her fraternity. Davis said she went
out of her way to be explicitly male to
make up for the fact that she felt like a
female inside.
She worked in Minneapolis, Minn.,
as a high school librarian for 32 years
and was married to a woman, with
whom she had two children. After
more than two decades of marriage,
Davis decided to come out as a trans-
gender person.
She wont discuss whether shes had
surgery. She said its not important.
Whats important is whats in your
head.
She said her family was very
accepting. She remains friends with
her ex-wife, and her children under-
stood her change.
Davis said she had a completely
successful transition into life as a
transgender person.
I was blessed. The vast majority of
transgender people arent, she said.
Davis estimated there were at
least 300 transgender people at the
University of Kansas. She said a lot
of people confused transgender with
transsexual.
She said a transsexual person is
someone who gets surgery to physi-
cally change his or her sex and a
transgender person is someone who
feels conflicted about his or her gen-
der.
David Ta, events chair for KU
Queers and Allies, said transgender
people were discriminated against at
the University of Kansas.
Theyre discriminated against
even by gays, lesbians and bisexuals
in the KU community, he said.
Ta said he hoped Davis speech
would open eyes to what being trans-
gender was about.
KU Queers and Allies sponsored
the event.
Kansan staf writer Anna Falter-
meier can be contacted at afalter-
meier@kansan.com.
Editedby Aly Barland
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manufacture in murder case
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tenced a Bronson man to 13 years
in prison for his part in a drug
conspiracy at the house where
Greenwood County Sherif Matt
Samuels was fatally shot, the U.S.
Attorneys Of ce said.
Billy G. Nowell, 37, pleaded
guilty in August 2005 to one count
of conspiracy to manufacture
meth and one count of possessing
a frearm in furtherance of a drug
traf cking crime.
In his plea agreement, Nowell said
that he joined Scott Cheever, Mat-
thew Denny, Darrell Cooper and Be-
linda Cooper in making meth at the
Hilltop home on Jan. 19, 2005. Nowell
acknowledged he saw Cheever was
armed and talked to him about the
manner in which Cheever was bran-
dishing the weapon.
Samuels was shot as he was
about to go upstairs where the
meth lab was located.
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BY ERIN CASTANEDA
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius will focus
on energy during her second term
and named Mark Parkinson, lieuten-
ant governor-elect, the co-chairman
of the Kansas Energy Council to lead
the way.
Sebelius said she wanted to pro-
mote renewable energy production
and energy conservation.
Kansas has outstanding potential
to produce renewable energy, both
from wind farms and from biofuels
like ethanol and biodiesel. But the
progress weve seen these past few
years is only the beginning, Sebelius
said in a press release.
Sebelius established the council in
June 2004. KEC is responsible for the
states energy plan and makes recom-
mendations for long-term policies
to the governor, lieutenant governor,
legislature and Kansas Corporation
Commission.
Sebelius asked the KEC to make
biofuel production a top priority as it
seeks to promote energy production
and conservation in Kansas.
On Oct. 26, Sebelius asked Ken
Frahm, KEC co-chairman, to form
another standing committee that
would promote biofuel produc-
tion. He named Rep. Carl Holmes
(R-Liberal) as the new committees
chairman. Six legislators will serve
on the new committee.
Frahm said Kansas abundance
of agriculture production such as
grain, grain residue and animal
waste helped generate biofuels.
It gives us a competitive advan-
tage over other places, he said. We
hope to learn more about it and to
land that business.
But some experts arent so sure.
Scott White, Kansas Geological
Survey scientist, used to work on the
KEC. White said he quit working
for the KEC last December after the
council decided to employ outside
experts to conduct studies rather
than pay their original in-house
staff. He said there was a place for
biofuels, but his concern was that the
states aquifers were being depleted
because energy plants required irri-
gated crops. He also said he couldnt
imagine there was enough grain to
feed the 110-million-gallon plants
proposed for Dodge City.
According to the Kansas Energy
Information Network, in Kansas there
are seven existing ethanol plants, four
are under construction and 16 are
proposed for construction.
White said that the legislators
might have an agenda as they looked
out for their own districts, specifi-
cally in terms of jobs provided by the
plants, but that the outcome depend-
ed on who served on the committee.
Kansan staf writer Erin Castaneda
can be contacted at ecastaneda@
kansan.com.
Edited by Aly Barland
Sebelius emphasizes energy
STATE OF KANSAS
Wilkins said that the economic
downturn following Sept. 11 contrib-
uted to a drop in art sales and that
the art marketplace was altered by the
Internet because artists were starting
their own Web sites. The summer
construction on Massachusetts Street
was the last straw, she said, but more
than that, Kern wanted to devote time
to his own art at this point in his life.
Kern was unavailable for com-
ment.
Lawrence resident Sven Alstrom,
who graduated from the University
in 1975, frequented Strawberry
Fields. He said it was a popular place
among many college students, espe-
cially his group of friends.
Strawberry Fields was emblem-
atic of counterculture, he said.
Strawberry Fields meant that there
was another world out there besides
KU and suburbia.
The store was a physical embodi-
ment of what was going on at the
time, when Crosby, Stills and Nash
ruled. It was a slice of life, he said.
Alstrom described the experience
of shopping at Strawberry Fields as
an adventure. He described it as an
atmospheric place, referencing the
incense that caught customers atten-
tion as they walked through the door.
We went there because it was
alternative, he said It has to do
with what makes Lawrence great.
Lawrence has more tolerance for
novelty and diversity than the rest of
Kansas. Strawberry Fields early suc-
cess was recognition of that.
Lawrence artist Tim Forcade
also remembers the opening of
Strawberry Fields. He helped Kern
move into the space and lived in one
of the lofts located above the store.
It was my living room, he said of
Kerns store. He had a barber chair I
occupied on a regular basis.
Forcade began showing some of
his photographs at Fields about a
year ago after Kern asked him to.
Forcade said Kerns latest move
making Fields exclusively a gal-
lery was a courageous move in
Lawrence to give up profit in hopes
that the community would support it.
They dedicated themselves to
the notion of pure art, he said of
Kern and Wilkins. This community
clearly wasnt interested.
Forcade and his colleague, Deb
Stavin, another Lawrence photogra-
pher, are showing some of their work
at the restaurant Pachamamas, 800
New Hampshire St., a showcase that
Wilkins and Kern helped to organize
before Fields closed.
Slavin said the closing of Fields
was a loss for the city because it
helped make Lawrence a well-round-
ed community and helped define it.
Fields set a standard of showing art
in Lawrence, she said.
Forcade said Lawrence was losing
a place that everyone in Lawrence
had shopped at some point.
It was an institution, he said.
Its really sad theyre gone.
Kansan staf writer Jack Weinstein
can be contacted at jweinstein@
kansan.com.
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10 is the easiest day, 0 the most chal-
lenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 9
Its not quite time to go yet, although
youre getting impatient. Actually,
youve always been impatient. This
time, if you stay cool, you can make it
happen.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
You can aford to throw an expensive
celebration. Do have the party but
dont spend the money. Stash that
away in the bank.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is an 8
Yes, youre still busy enough for two or
three people. Dont let that scare you.
Get one person who will do what you
dont like to do, and youll be fne.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is an 8
Taking care of business today is more
fun than it is a burden. You do well
when your clients do well. Its a win-win
situation.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
Ideas are coming fast and furious but
not all of them are good. Some are
downright ridiculous. Wait until tomor-
row to decide which is which.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
There are a few things youd like to
change about your living conditions.
Get tough and get organized. And get
your family to help.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
The more you learn, the more ques-
tions you want to ask. This is good but
dont do everything the others suggest.
Use your own common sense.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Youre in line for a nice bonus. This
could be for work already done, since it
doesnt look like the jobs very dif cult
now.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
You dont even know how powerful
you are or what you can accomplish.
Make a wish list, and not just for
yourself.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
Push hard now, while you can. Condi-
tions are changing. You can relax after
then. Youll know when it happens be-
cause youll fall in an exhausted heap.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is an 8
Take time to run a survey of your group,
and all the others. Its always good to
know what they think, especially if you
intend to change it.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
You can pretty much write your own
ticket, and design your own career.
What would you like to be, do and
have? And who would you like to
serve?
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amid a storm of criticism
NEW YORK After a frestorm
of criticism, News. Corp. said
Monday that it had canceled the
O.J. Simpson book and TV special
If I Did It.
I and senior management agree
with the American public that this
was an ill-considered project, said
Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chair-
man. We are sorry for any pain
that this has caused the families of
Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown
Simpson.
A dozen Fox af liates had
already said they would not air the
two-part sweeps-month special,
planned for next week before the
Nov. 30 publication of the book by
ReganBooks. The publishing house
is a HarperCollins imprint owned
like the Fox network by News
Corp.
In both the book and show,
Simpson speaks in hypothetical
terms about how he would have
committed the 1994 slayings of
his ex-wife Nicole and her friend
Goldman.
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Kramer goes ballistic
during stand-up routine
LOS ANGELES A barrage of
racial epithets unleashed by former
Seinfeld star Michael Richards
during a stand-up comedy routine
drew condemnation from Richards
industry colleagues.
Comedian Paul Rodriguez,
who was at the Laugh Factory in
West Hollywood on Friday when
Richards responded to two black
hecklers with the n word and
profanities, said he was shocked by
Richards remarks.
Once the word comes out of
your mouth and you dont happen
to be African-American, then you
have a whole lot of explaining,
Rodriguez told CNN. Freedom
of speech has its limitations and I
think Michael Richards found those
limitations.
Jerry Seinfeld issued a state-
ment saying he was sick over this.
Im sure Michael is also sick
over this horrible, horrible mistake.
It is so extremely ofensive. I feel
terrible for all the people who
have been hurt, Seinfeld said of
Richards, 57, who played eccentric
Kramer on the hit 1989-98 sitcom
and whose major credit since was
the failed 2000 comedy series, The
Michael Richards Show.
Calls to Richards representatives
were not returned Monday.
His Laugh Factory tirade began
after the two clubgoers shouted at
him that he wasnt funny. A video-
tape of the incident was posted on
TMZ.com.
Richards retorted: Shut up! Fifty
years ago wed have you upside
down with a f------ fork up your a--.
He then paced across the stage
taunting the men for interrupting
his show, peppering his speech
with racial slurs and profanities.
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Mora
When Gen. John Abizaid, chief
of the U.S. Central Command,
visited the Senate last week, the
nominal purpose of his trip was
to answer questions of senators
and address the increasingly
strident public calls for with-
drawal from Iraq. Unfortunately
for him, Gen. Abizaid quickly
became the victim of the latest
round of semantic posturing by
members of both parties.
Since the Democratic victory
in the midterm elections, a war
of competing talking points has
erupted. The Democrats speak of
a new direction and a change in
course, while the Bush adminis-
tration claims it welcomes fresh
eyes but quickly denounces rival
ideas as nonstarters.
In the current atmosphere of
scrutinizing media, shortened
attention spans and wearisome
attacks, the Iraq debate has
devolved into little more than
linguistic theater. Both sides try
to stake out advantageous posi-
tions by designing ever more
simplified sound bites, while in
the interim Americans and Iraqis
continue to die in an increasingly
gruesome conflict.
How did it come to this?
When did political calculation
supplant genuine discourse?
When did the lives of Americans
fall behind future election pros-
pects in importance? We have
for some time seen political con-
cerns trump policy concerns, as
in the 1995 government shut-
down, but surely we have not
had an issue of such drastic and
mortal importance hanging in
the balance.
Now, students wonder if
we are the only ones who see
through this charade. The pun-
ditocracy invites party repre-
sentatives on to various news
shows, then sits idly by while the
guests avoid answering real ques-
tions by offering tired platitudes
about change and direction. The
media become complicit in this
political farce by pretending that
these debates are meaningful, by
ignoring the fact that the sena-
tors go straight to interviews
after the hearings to stake out
one more political edge. Could it
be that the cynicism of students,
for so long lamented by govern-
ment elites, has now become an
advantage? Our jaded view of
politics may be the very factor
that allows us to see through this
masquerade.
There is no more time for sham
debates or affected gravitas. The
period for political self-impor-
tance and profitable posturing is
over, and we now know that illu-
sionary debates cannot replace
actual progress. The war pres-
ents real problems that require
real solutions, and it is time that
our leaders abandon the slogan
war and focus on tangible, not
linguistic, victories. Two roads
diverged in Washington and our
leaders took the one less conse-
quential, and that has made all
the difference.
McKay Stangler for the edito-
rial board.
In response to those critics of
felling the goalposts, consider this:
Kansas is now eligible for a con-
secutive bowl game, the first ever in
KU football history. If that isnt rea-
son enough to warrant rushing the
field, consider this: After high hopes
of a great season ended after heart-
breaking losses to Toledo, Nebraska,
Okalahoma State and Texas A&M,
few of us really expected to win
three of the remaining four games
in order to meet bowl eligibility.
But then it happened. Todd Reesing
helped KU hang onto a fourth-
quarter lead against Colorado. We
rolled past the Cyclones. All that
was left was a victory over K-State.
And what a victory it was.
Certainly, rushing the field after
last years expected victory over
Mizzou was unnecessary, even
more so in light of our subsequent
victories over Nebraska and Iowa
State. However, tearing down the
goalposts to mark the end of one of
the longest losing streaks in college
football doesnt seem unreasonable,
nor does rushing following a late-
season overtime victory over Iowa
State, qualifying the Jayhawks for a
bowl game.
Tearing down the goalposts has
become an important part of the
KU football tradition following a
great victory. Who can honestly
say that Saturdays win over K-State
wasnt one of those victories?
Stephanie Hill
Shawnee sophomore
I have a few things to get off my
chest, none of which will fill an
entire column. So, here are some
ideas to chew on over Thanksgiving
break.
Its amazing how America
has changed since the day before
Election Day. Prior to Nov. 7,
American voters and particularly
Kansans, according to Thomas
Frank were too stupid to under-
stand how to vote for their own
general welfare. But since Election
Day, theyve been wise arbiters of
American policy, and theyve shown
their fine judgment by turning the
oppressive Republican Party out of
office.
Prior to Nov. 7, we were still
mourning the 2004 murder of
American democracy at the hands
of evil Republicans who had the gall
to win elections. Today, American
democracy has delivered a power-
ful victory to the heroic Democrats,
just as democracy should. Its amaz-
ing how preferred election results
can wipe clean the memories of for-
merly-indignant Democrats.
Speaking of the elections,
I do have a silver lining for the
Republicans on campus who are
still sad at the loss of both houses
of Congress: If Republicans had
managed to pull out victories in the
House and Senate, there would be
nothing to stop the anti-Republican
sentiments throughout the country.
Voters would have continued to dis-
like the Iraq war and other policies,
and it would have led to a defeat in
2008 with Republicans losing the
White House as well.
Now, Democrats have two years
to misinterpret this election as a
mandate for a liberal agenda and to
shut down the government, which
will remind voters why they dont
particularly care for Democrats.
The same thing happened in 1994
when a similar election put the
Republicans in power in both hous-
es of Congress. Republicans went
too far, and a previously unpopular
President Clinton was victorious
in 1996. I expect the same thing to
happen with this election. Losing in
2006 gives Republicans a much bet-
ter chance to win in 2008.
Most people now seem to
be in agreement that the minimum
wage needs to be raised, but far
too few people seem to understand
what the argument is about. People
see minimum wage increases as
simply a raise for people earn-
ing low hourly wages with no side
effects other than taking a few
bucks out of the business executives
pockets.
Its important to understand that
the issue, like every other issue, is a
trade-off. Increasing the minimum
wage decreases the demand for
labor, which increases unemploy-
ment. An employee whose value to
the company is less than the new
minimum wage will be fired. So
while the minimum wage might
help those who keep their jobs, it
has an even greater negative effect
on those who lose their jobs.
The effect the minimum wage
has on poverty is also questioned
because most minimum wage earn-
ers are between 16 and 24, and
almost 60 percent of minimum
wage workers live in families that
are more than 200 percent above
the poverty line. So the biggest ben-
eficiaries of raising the minimum
wage are teenagers from wealthy
families. Its much less of a poverty-
fighting tool than it seems.
Myers is an Olathe junior in eco-
nomics.
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By JOnATHAn KEALinG
kANSAN EDITOR
EDiToR@kansan.com
It seems like each semester Ive
been in a leadership position at The
University Daily Kansan, weve dis-
covered some instance of plagiarism
in this paper.
Unfortunately, this semester is no
different. Last Tuesday, as Jayplay
editors Carolyn Tharp and Becka
Cremer were preparing to send their
pages to print, Cremer discovered an
article with a passage lifted directly
from a public relations Web site.
While the passage was attributed in
a quote from a person, it made the
Jayplay editor and I nervous about
the rest of the article.
We reviewed the entire article,
line-for-line, by pasting sentences
into Google and searching for a
match. Another passage popped up
as matching word-for-word a por-
tion of an article in AOLs Cityguide.
The Jayplay editors pulled the article,
written by Beth Breitenstein, and her
personal essay, which was also slated
to run. Well past deadline, they rede-
signed the magazine to incorporate
those changes.
Wednesday morning, I asked
them to begin a line-by-line review
of all work Breitenstein has submit-
ted to Jayplay and that had already
been published. When that was com-
pleted, wed found two other pas-
sages taken from a Web site without
any attribution and another instance
of a passage taken word-for-word
from a Web site, but attributed to a
person.
After speaking with Breitenstein,
Tharp and I concluded that she
could no longer be a part of the
Kansan staff. Breitenstein apologized
for the information appearing in
both articles and said she did not
copy and paste the information. She
did not, however, have an expla-
nation for how the word-for-word
reproduction could have occurred,
except for pure chance.
Plagiarism is taken seriously
by The Kansan and the School of
Journalism. Its emphasized from the
minute students begin taking classes
and its something no one will toler-
ate. While I wish we could stop every
instance of it, I know that, for some
reason, students at this University
try it and think they can get away
with it.
Whether Breitenstein deliberately
took the material or not cant be
proven. The fact is, however, words
appeared under her byline that were
not her original idea and were not
attributed. The fact is, her work did
not comply with the standards of
journalism we expect all of our writ-
ers to adhere to.
For that reason, she can no longer
be a part of this staff.
While Id like to think this is
the last instance of plagiarism The
Kansan will face for some time, I
have a hard time believing that.
What I do believe, though, is that the
editors we have here will continue to
ferret out plagiarism and deal with it
when they find it.
Words are the currency of our
craft. We expect everyone who works
for The Kansan to know that, respect
that, and work within those rules.
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U.S. Mint Director Edmund C. Moy, right, and Louise Roseman, a representative of the Federal Reserve, left, unveil the designs for a newseries of Presidential dollar coins Monday during a
ceremony at the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery inWashington. The coins will enter circulation in 2007.
U.S. Mint releases new coin design
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
ASSoCIATEd PRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C. Can
George Washington and Thomas
Jefferson succeed where Susan B.
Anthony and Sacajawea failed? The
U.S. Mint is hoping Americas presi-
dents will win acceptance, finally,
for the maligned dollar coin.
The public will get the chance to
decide starting in February when
the first of the new coins, bearing
the image of the first president, is
introduced.
Washington, John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson and James
Madison are scheduled to grace
the coin in 2007, with a differ-
ent president appearing every three
months.
The series will honor four dif-
ferent presidents per year, in the
order they served in office. Each
president will appear on only one
coin, except for Grover Cleveland,
who will be on two because he was
the only president to serve noncon-
secutive terms. To be depicted on
a coin, a president must have been
dead for at least two years.
The idea of rotating designs bor-
rows from the highly successful
50-state quarter program. Since its
launch in 1999, this program has
featured five state designs each year
in the order the state joined the
union.
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widely successful, introducing mil-
lions of people to coin collecting
for the first time. The Mint hopes
the presidential program will enjoy
similar success, in part because of
the bold designs on the new coins.
Those designs were being made
public during a ceremony Monday
at the Smithsonian Institutions
National Portrait Gallery, home of
some of the famous paintings that
served as models for the coins.
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available to The Associated Press
in advance.
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and so eye-catching that a lot of
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politics
Brownback eyes
presidential nod,
shrugs of odds
Senator equates himself with Reagan
By SAM HANANEL
ASSoCIATEd PRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C. Sen.
Sam Brownback, who is consider-
ing a White House bid in 2008,
said Monday the Republican field
has room for a full-scale Ronald
Reagan conservative and pledged
to make a final decision next
month.
The Kansas senator said he was
not discouraged from running by
the Democrats
strong gains in
this months
midterm elec-
tions, includ-
ing assuming
majority control
of the House
and Senate.
It does not
make it less
likely, he said
in an interview.
I really believe that the basic con-
servative ideas and ideals were not
repudiated. Our execution was.
Name recognition poses a more
daunting challenge for Brownback.
Arizona Sen. John McCain and
former New York City mayor
Rudy Giuliani have set up presi-
dential exploratory committees.
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
and Senate Majority Leader Bill
Frist, R-Tenn., also are weighing
bids.
I think theres room for a full-
scale Ronald Reagan conservative in
the field, Brownback said. I fully
agree that other people have much
higher name identification than I
do. No question about that. But I
think what you have to look at is the
policy positions they get out once
you have an effective campaign.
Brownback, who was elected in
1996, is a forceful foe of abortion
and embryonic stem-cell research.
He also has taken a prominent role
in the fight against genocide in
Sudans Darfur region.
Brownback has made several
trips to Iowa, New Hampshire,
Michigan and other states that hold
early presidential nominating con-
tests. While national polls show
McCain and Giuliani running
strong, similar polls have shown
Brownback in the low single dig-
its.
He dismisses the early surveys.
Where are
my positions
and others ver-
sus the base of
the party? he
asked. I think
that is really the
key thing to look
at, particularly
at this point in
time where you
havent even
had a campaign
and all of that polling is based on
name ID.
Brownback downplayed the chal-
lenge of gaining national recognition
while representing a small popula-
tion state like Kansas.
Weve had three Republican
nominees from this state in the last
century, he said, listing former Sen.
Bob Dole, former Gov. Alf Landon
and Dwight Eisenhower. I dont
see that as being a negative in this
century.
Ken Ciboski, a professor of
political science at Wichita State
University, said Brownback hasnt yet
attained the kind of stature he needs
to gain a nationwide following.
He could do well in certain pock-
ets or Iowa and some other states,
but I dont see him having this wide
recognition as a Republican senator,
Ciboski said. I think it would be a
major uphill climb for him to try to
get the nomination.
I really believe that the basic
conservative ideas and
ideals were not repudiated. Our
execution was.
Sen. Sam BrownBack
republican from kansas
sports
The volleyball team will take
on No. 1 Nebraska, as well
as honor this years seniors.
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Football
Rivalry fuels game
Kansan fle photo
the Kansas Jayhawks will battle the Missouri Tigers during the historically heated Border Showdown this Saturday. The teams have always had a strong rivalry, and there will no exception this year.
By RyAn SchnEidER
Make no doubt about it, Kansas
will play its true rival this weekend.
Sure, the Kansas State game is
about in-state bragging rights. But
the Missouri game is about much
more.
Minutes after defeating K-State
Saturday, Kansas football coach
Mark Mangino dismissed talk about
a Wildcat rivalry.
Im not hung on this rivalry
thing, Mangino said. Were play-
ing our rival next week.
And just like that, Missouri week
officially began.
Kansas takes on Missouri 11
a.m. Saturday at Faurot Field in
Columbia, Mo., in both teams sea-
son finales. The game will be tele-
vised on ABC.
I think our fan base truly has
a passion for the border rivalry,
Mangino said during Mondays Big
12 Conference Football Coaches
Teleconference. Our fan base views
that as the No. 1 rivalry that we
have.
The rivalry hasnt been much of
one during the past few seasons.
Kansas has won three in a row in
the series by more than two touch-
downs.
After losing to the Jayhawks in
three straight seasons, Tigers coach
Gary Pinkel said that wouldnt be
his focus this week.
I think you just focus on this
year, Pinkel said. You cant focus
on the past, whether we won them
all or lost them all.
The rivalry between the two
schools has even spread into the
record books. The 1960 game, a
23-7 Jayhawk victory, is in dispute
because Kansas used an ineligible
player. Kansas Athletics continues
to cite the game as a victory, despite
objections from Missouri.
Jayhawks face of against long-
time enemy Missouri Saturday
Kansan fle photo
the Jayhawks get ready to take on the Tigers this weekend in their season fnale. The game will
be an intense showdown against the teamcoach Mark Mangino considers Kansas biggest rival.
Record breaking game
After his career game against
Kansas State Saturday, Jon
Cornish was named the Big 12
Conference Ofensive Player
of the Week. Kansas senior
running back fnished with 201
yards on 25 carries and two
touchdowns. On the season,
Cornish has 1,331 yards, good
for third all-time. He is just 111
yards shy of having the best
season of any Jayhawks rusher.
Cornish should break that
record this weekend against
Missouri. He is averaging 121
yards a game this season.
Ryan Schneider
Kansan fle photo
Kansas takes onTennessee State tonight at Allen Fieldhouse for its second game of the Las Vegas
Invitational. The Jayhawks have two more games in Las Vegas against Ball State and Florida.
mens basketball
Hawks seek
Vegas victory
Kansas cant overlook competition
By ShAwn ShRoyER
Editors note: Kansan mens basket-
ball writer Shawn Shroyer takes a look
at the three opponents the Jayhawks
will face during the holiday.
tennessee state
Kansas will look to start its first
winning streak of the season tonight
when it takes on the Tennessee State
Tigers.
Kansas bounced back from its
first loss of the season, beating
Towson in the first game of the Las
Vegas Invitational. Tonight will be
the Jayhawks final home game of
the tournament before taking off for
Las Vegas.
Kansas showed drastic improve-
ments against Towson. At halftime,
Kansas had 23 points from turnovers
to Towsons zero. The Jayhawks also
displayed better perimeter shooting,
making six of 12 three-point attempts
in the first half. The problem was
how those numbers dropped in the
second half.
Although Kansas starters didnt
play as much in the second half, the
Jayhawks added only 10 more points
from turnovers in the second half,
while giving up 14 to the Tigers. The
Jayhawks shot six more threes in the
second half, failing to sink any.
Another area of concern for
Kansas is that it still isnt winning
decisively in the rebounding battle.
Against a very small Towson squad,
Kansas had only two more rebounds
for the game. Dominating the
boards wont get any easier against
Tennessee State.
Despite losing its season and invi-
tational opener, 87-69, to Western
Kentucky, Tennessee State had more
rebounds, grabbing 18 offensive
boards in the process.
With 6-foot-11 center Larry
Turner, 6-9 center Rashad Armstrong
and 6-7 forward Clarence Matthews,
Tennessee States frontcourt could
prove troublesome for Kansas.
But dont count on Kansas over-
looking Tennessee State.
How in the world could you be
looking ahead after what happened
the other night? Kansas coach Bill
Self said in his press conference prior
to the invitational.
ball state
Ball State is off to a good start
under first-year coach Ronny
Thompson.
The Cardinals are 2-0 head-
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Jayhawks defensive energy wins game against Bluejays
By cASE KEEfER
A new starting lineup led Kansas
to a 60-47 victory against the
Creighton Bluejays on Tuesday.
Head coach Bonnie Henrickson
opted to begin the game with a
three-guard set. Both sophomore
guard Ivana Catic and freshman for-
ward Sade Morris stepped off of the
bench for the first time.
The groin injury Morris suffered
at the end of the last game didnt
affect her. She had a game-high 14
points and team-high six rebounds.
Catic had a rough time on the
offensive end with no points in 34
minutes on the floor but contributed
in other ways with a team-high three
steals. Henrickson saw the benefits
of both her overall teams and Catics
improved defensive play.
I thought our defensive ener-
gy was excellent tonight, she said,
Weve definitely matured there.
The Jayhawks held the Bluejays
to only a 25 percent shooting. The
team also forced 26 turnovers, which
translated into 22 transition points.
Kansas turned the ball over 18
times due to Creightons aggressive
full court defense. Thats not a num-
ber Henrickson was concerned with,
however, and actually said it could
help her team in the long run.
Theres a lot of good stuff to
learn from that 40 minutes of pure
press, she said. We hadnt seen that
yet this year.
Within the first minute of the
game, freshman guard Kelly Kohn
stole the ball from Creighton for-
ward Sara Cain and turned it into
two fast-break points.
Kohn continued to score 10
points in just over nine minutes to
begin the game. Her shooting led the
Jayhawks to a 24-4 lead with six min-
utes remaining in the first half.
Then, Creighton junior guard
Ally Thrall had eight points, includ-
ing two three-point shots, leading
the Bluejays into the half down 36-
18. Thrall is one of the nations best
shooters after making at least one
three-pointer in 33 straight games.
In a night full of positives,
one statistic was disheartening
to Henrickson. The Bluejays out-
rebounded the Jayhawks 44-29.
If you walk away really disap-
pointed about one thing, thats it,
she said.
For the most part though,
Henrickson was pleased with her
teams first win in Omaha since
1997 and offered insight into what
she was most thankful for this
Thanksgiving.
Im most thankful that we will
bear down and guard someone right
now, she said.
Kansan sportswriter case Keefer
can be contacted at ckeefer@kan-
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MENS GOLF
Team signs two players
to replace senior stars
Two players signed letters of
intent last week to play for the
Kansas mens golf team.
Nate Barbee from Dakota
Dunes, S.D., and Blake Groux
from Omaha, Neb., will be the
newest Jayhawk golfers in fall
2007.
Barbee has won twice on the
FCW Tour and once in a PGA
Junior Series event. He is ranked
in the top 10 in the American
Junior Golf Association rankings.
Groux has three high-school
state titles and a Collegiate
Preview Series victory under his
belt. Groux was the high-school
teammate of current player
Bobby Knowles.
Barbee and Groux will re-
place seniors Tyler Docking, Bar-
rett Martens, and Gary Wood-
land, who will not be eligible
after the spring season.
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athletics calendar
Foot injury sidelines former
Jayhawk Micah Downs
SPOKANE, Wash. Highly
touted transfer student Micah
Downs of Gonzaga
had a pin inserted in
his injured foot and
will miss the next six
to eight weeks, and
possibly the entire season, Gonzaga
of cials said Sunday.
He sufered a stress fracture on
one foot during preseason practice,
but recently had been playing well
on the foot, coach Mark Few said.
Louiville crack Top 25 for
frst time under new coach
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Louisville
achieved one of coach Tom Collens
goals: The Cardinals
fnally are a Top 25 team
in womens basketball.
They joined the AP
poll for the frst time
on Monday, breaking in at No. 24.
The Cardinals are of to a 4-0 start
and have won by an average of 33
points.
Soriano considers Chicago
for $136 million contract
CHICAGO Alfonso Soriano is
the latest benefciary of the Chi-
cago Cubs spending splurge.
Soriano and the Cubs reached a
preliminary agreement on an eight-
year contract worth about
$136 million, a major
league of cial told The As-
sociated Press on Sunday,
a deal that would be the
ffth-largest in baseball history.
The contract is contingent on
Soriano passing a physical, accord-
ing to the of cial, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because the
deal had not yet been announced.
Johnson avoids debris,
fnishes ahead in points
HOMESTEAD, Fla. Jimmie
Johnson cruised over every speed-
bump in his path, overcoming de-
bris in his grill, a missing roll of tape,
a loose lug nut, treacher-
ous traf c and his own
nerves to fnally win the
NASCAR championship.
Johnson, the per-
petual points leader for the past
three regular seasons who always
found a way to collapse in the
Chase, wrapped up the title with
a 9th-place fnish at Homestead-
Miami Speedway. He fnished 56
points better than Matt Kenseth.
Southern California could
earn spot in championship
COLUMBUS, Ohio Michigan-
Ohio State II could get canceled by
Southern California.
Michigan was impressive
enough in a 42-39 loss to the Buck-
eyes to retain second
place in the Bowl Cham-
pionship Series standings
released Sunday. But the
Wolverines margin is so
slim that itll be tough for
them to get another shot at Ohio
State in the national title game if
the Trojans keep winning.
British Colombia defeats
Montreal, wins CFL title
WINNIPEG, Manitoba Paul
McCallum kicked a Grey Cup re-
cord-tying six feld goals,
and the British Columbia
Lions defeated the Mon-
treal Alouettes 25-14
to win the Canadian
Football League championship on
Sunday night.
Associated Press
TODAY
Mens basketball vs. Ten-
nessee State, 7 p.m., Allen
Fieldhouse
Player to watch: Its a no-
brainer to keep an eye on
Darrell
Arthur
against
Tennes-
see State
and this
weekend
against
Ball State
and
Florida. The Dallas freshman
had game high scores of
26 against Towson and 22
against Oral Roberts.
WEDNESDAY
Volleyball vs. Nebraska, 7
p.m., Horejsi Family Athletics
Center
FRIDAY
Mens basketball vs. Ball
State, 7 p.m., Las Vegas Invi-
tational, Orleans Arena, Las
Vegas, Nev.
SATURDAY
Football at Missouri, 11
a.m., Columbia, Mo., ABC
Mens basketball vs.
Florida, 10:00 p.m., Las Vegas
Invitational, Orleans Arena,
Las Vegas, Nev.
Volleyball at Kansas State,
2 p.m., Manhattan
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BY JIM OCONNELL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The last time Wichita State was
in The Associated Press Top 25 its
star player was Xavier McDaniel,
and current coach Mark Turgeon
was still in high school.
The Shockers entered the rank-
ings Monday at No. 24, their first
appearance since Dec. 6, 1983. It
comes following a victory Sunday
against George Mason, their recent
big rival.
Its nice when you havent
been ranked in a long time. Its
good because Ive watched pro-
grams build themselves up and get
national exposure and be in the
Top 25, said Turgeon, the 41-year-
old coach who signed a 10-year
contract extension last April after
leading Wichita State to its first
NCAA appearance since 1988. Id
rather be in the Top 25 in February
as every coach says, but right now
were going off lasts years success
rather than an early season win
over George Mason.
The Shockers lost to George
Mason twice last season at home
in the regular season and then in
the round of 16 in the Patriots
run to the Final Four. On Sunday,
Wichita State (3-0) beat George
Mason 72-66, a win that drew
enough attention to move them
into the rankings.
We were a lot more fired up to
play them than they were to play
us since they beat us at home last
year and then in the NCAA tour-
nament, Turgeon said.
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After Kansas defeated Kansas
State, coach Mark Mangino told
reporters, We are going to play our
rival next Saturday.
But is Missouri really Kansas big-
gest rival? I dont think so.
On Saturday morning I woke up
to a mobile home parked outside my
window, blasting music and Kansas
State cheers. Lawrence was infested
with purple, much more so than the
small contingent of black and gold in
town during Missouri games.
Kansas State fans acted overly self-
confident after their school defeated
Texas, the Big 12s best football team
this year. They probably wondered,
How in the world could the Wildcats
possibly lose to the Jayhawks? First,
Kansas State isnt as good as they
hoped. Second, Kansas is a lot better
than they thought. And third, this
is a rivalry, one thats about to take
flight and surpass the Kansas vs.
Missouri hatred within five years.
My father, a KU alum, was in town
for the game and said Kansas vs.
Kansas State was as fierce a rivalry as
any in the country in the late 1960s.
He said the rivalry was nearly to the
level of Auburn vs. Alabama, and
made the Border Showdown seem
like a love fest.
On the night before Kansas played
Kansas State in football in 1970, my
dad was drinking at a bar in Aggieville
with a friend. A Kansas State fan yelled,
Anyone here for KU? and his friend
said, Yeah. The Kansas State fan
then punched my dads friend in the
face, skipping the trash talk and going
straight to violence for no reason other
than the fierceness of the rivalry.
But this fierceness took a nose-
dive in the 1990s because the out-
comes were predictable. Kansas State
dominated in football and Kansas
dominated in basketball. The games
were as easy to predict as KU stu-
dents tearing down the goalposts on
Saturday. But now, not so much.
Kansas football has won two out
of three against Kansas State, and
wouldve won three straight if its
offense had performed last season in
Manhattan. Kansas State cant take for
granted that Kansas will be terrible,
because thats just no longer the case.
And now, Kansas State is stepping
on the toes of Kansas basketball
supremacy in the state. Not only did
it defeat Kansas last season in Allen
Fieldhouse, but it hired big-name
coach Bob Huggins to turn its pro-
gram around. Huggins already has
recruited the nations No. 1 recruit-
ing class, according to Rivals.com.
It wont be long until a Kansas State
victory wont be shocking.
As soon as that happens, the rival-
ry will intensify to a level unknown
by younger KU fans. Why? Because
most in-state students and alumni
know more Kansas State fans than
they do Missouri fans.
Whether it is in football or bas-
ketball, the Wildcats will defeat the
Jayhawks again and it will be hard
to ignore because they live right
next door.
Kansan sportswriter Travis Robi-
nett can be contacted at trobi-
nett@kansan.com.
BY DREW DAVISON
The Kansas volleyball team will
play its final home game of the sea-
son against Nebraska, the best team
in the country, and Jana Correa
couldnt be happier.
You know what? Correa, senior
outside hitter, said. Thats the best
way to end out my career, to play the
No. 1 team in the country.
Nebraska (25-1, 17-1 Big 12)
comes in with reigning Big 12 Player
of the Week Sarah Pavan while
Kansas (10-17, 3-15) is currently
riding an eight-match losing streak.
First serve for the senior-night
match is set for 7 p.m. tomorrow at
the Horejsi Family Athletics Center.
While it seems like everything is
working against the Jayhawks, Correa
is eager to face the Huskers in her
last match at the Horejsi Center.
I dont want to play Baylor or
Iowa State, she said. I want to play
Nebraska. I want to play well, its my
senior night.
And Correa thinks the Jayhawks
can beat the Huskers with some help.
If they dont play well, we can
win some games against Nebraska,
Correa said. You never know when
the volleyball gods are on your side.
The volleyball gods were last on
Kansas side in 1975. Nebraska has
won every match since and have a
76-1-1 all-time series lead.
Before the match, the five seniors on
the roster Correa, Jamie Mathewson,
Megan Hill, Dani Wittman and Linsey
Morningstar will be honored.
Hill, a Lincoln, Neb., native, is
looking forward to playing Nebraska.
Im so excited for senior night,
Hill, outside hitter, said. I think
well give them a run for their
money. Nebraska is definitely beat-
able, nobody is perfect.
Nebraskas undefeated season
came to a halt two weeks ago when it
lost a five-game match at Colorado.
Kansas lost a four-game match
against rival Missouri Saturday, and
will try to get a victory for the first time
since Oct. 14 when it beat Baylor.
With eight straight losses and No. 1
Nebraska coming into town, it is not
an ideal situation for Kansas coach
Ray Bechard.
Were the only one to blame for
the second half, he said. Theres
three or four matches in there that
we thought we couldve, shouldve
won, but it is what it is.
Though the Jayhawks will not
make the NCAA tournament, the
senior class has put the program on
the map.
This years senior class is the only
class to make it to three consecutive
NCAA tournaments. Before 2004,
Kansas had never received an invita-
tion to the NCAA tournament.
Kansas closes out the season
against Kansas State (10-18, 2-16) on
Nov. 25 in Manhattan. The Jayhawks
beat the Wildcats in a four-game
match earlier this season at home.
Kansan sportswriter Drew Davi-
son can be contacted at ddavi-
son@kansan.com.
Kansas welcomes Nebraska challenge
VOLLEYBALL
K-State steps up as rival
HORN BORN, HAWK BRED
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT
KANSAN SPORTS COLUMNIST
TROBINETT@KANSAN.COM
CROSS COUNTRY
Season ends on low note
Despite overall standing, two runners make All-American
BY EVAN KAFARAKIS
The season came to an end
for the Kansas cross country
team on Monday at the NCAA
Championships in Terre Haute,
Ind. Two Jayhawks earned All-
American status, but the team as a
whole did not finish well.
On a muddy course, junior Colby
Wissel, the 2006 Big 12 champion,
led the way for the Jayhawks, fin-
ishing 26th overall.
Times proved to be slower
because more than five inches of
rain fell on the course in the week
leading up to the event.
It was hard to really set a goal
time for the race due to the condi-
tions, Wissel added.
Junior Paul Hefferon also earned
All-American status and placed
42nd overall.
Wissel ran the 10K race in
31:34.3 and Hefferon finished with
a time of 31:47.7.
Wissel and Hefferon were the
dynamic duo for the cross country
program this season finishing in
the top two consistently for the
Jayhawks squad.
We definitely owe each other
a lot, Wissel said. We make each
other better.
Also contributing to the team
were seniors Erik Sloan and Matt
French, whose cross-country
careers ended with the Jayhawks
this year.
Sloan finished in 164th place
with a time of 33:12.1 and French
ran in 33:35.5 for 188th place.
Rounding out the top five run-
ners for the Jayhawks was junior
Patrick McGowan, who ran the
10K race in 34:20.0, placing him in
250th place.
The times of the top five runners
for each team were calculated into
the final scores to determine its
placement.
The Jayhawks finished in 20th
place out of 31 teams competing.
Coach Stanley Redwine was
pleased for the most part with the
performances by his top finishers.
In the end, I am somewhat dis-
appointed with where we finished
as a team, but I think our seniors
had a good season and a great
career at Kansas, Redwine said.
Seniors Benson Chesang and
Tyler Kelly did not finish the race.
Specifics were not given, but inju-
ries seemed to be a factor.
Now that the cross-country
season is finished, the team will
prepare for the indoor track sea-
son.
Kansan sportswriter Evan Kafara-
kis can be contacted at ekafara-
kis@kansan.com.
Tom Strattman/ASSOCIATED PRESS
The KU cross country teamfnished in 20th place in the NCAA Division I Mens Cross Country Championships inTerre Haute, Ind., Monday. The
teams highest-ranking runner was junior Colby Wissel, who fnished 26th overall.
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sports 4B
ing into their second game of the
Invitational. Ball State beat Prairie
View A&M 65-48 Sunday night and
will play Tennessee-Chattanooga
tonight.
Ball State is a small team with
only one player over the height of 6-
5 who has played significant minutes
6-10 center Micah Rollin.
This thin frontcourt could allow
Kansas freshman forward Darrell
Arthur to have a field day. Arthur is
leading Kansas scoring 20 points
per game and is third on the
team with 6.3 rebounds per game. In
his most recent game, he scored 26
points in 27 minutes, nabbed eight
rebounds and blocked three shots.
The scary thing is, Arthurs team-
mates dont see a limit to how good
he can be.
The sky. Theres no ceiling for his
potential, Wright said.
Ball State doesnt rely on any single
player to do its scoring. Coming off
the bench, forward DAndre Peyton
is leading the team with 14 points
per game. Guards Steve Horton and
Jalon Perryman are tied for second
on the team, averaging 12 points per
game. Forward Anthony Newell is
the only other Cardinal averaging
double figures, scoring 11 per game.
Ball State has played good defense
thus far, holding opponents to 25
percent shooting from three-point
range. Kansas shot 50 percent from
the three line in the first half of its
last game, sparking the offense. It
will need to do the same on Friday.
Florida
Last week, Self stressed how
important it was for this Kansas
team to find an identity.
On Saturday, No. 10 Kansas will
get a good idea of what its up against
from defending national champion
Florida.
Weeks ago, Kansas might have
been favored to win this matchup,
but missing frontcourt players and
a loss to Oral Roberts have changed
the situation.
We havent earned what people
thought of us, Self said of preseason
predictions about his team. Weve
earned what they think of us now.
There was plenty of preseason
hype surrounding Florida as well,
and the Gators have lived up to it.
Ranked No. 1 in the nation, Florida
enters its game with Prairie View
A&M tonight at 4-0 and will play
Western Kentucky on Friday.
Coach Billy Donovans team
trounced Tennessee Chattanooga,
93-44, in the opening game of the
invitational and has dominated all of
its opponents this season.
Florida has been winning games
by an average margin of 37.2 points.
Kansas showed an improved defense
on Sunday, but it must continue to
rapidly improve to keep up with a
very deep Florida team.
Can we become great defensive-
ly? Absolutely, Self said.
The top six scorers for Florida are
averaging a combined 64.2 points
per game. Forward Al Horford, a 6-
10, 245-pound beast, leads the team
with 14.3 points per game. Center
Joakim Noah, Floridas 6-11 poster
child, is close behind, averaging 12.5
points per game.
Scoring isnt all the Gators can
do.
Florida has nearly two assists for
every turnover it commits, thanks
in part to guard Taurean Green, who
has 16 assists to four turnovers. On
average, the Gators are out-rebound-
ing opponents by 10 per game. Noah
alone averages nearly 10 per game.
Horford has been an intimidating
inside presence with 10 blocks on
the season, and Florida has 22 more
blocked shots than its opponents.
The Las Vegas Invitational finale
will come down to matchups. Junior
guard Russell Robinson and the rest
of the Kansas backcourt should be
able to contain Green and the rest of
the Florida backcourt. To Robinsons
credit, he has 18 assists to four turn-
overs and has twice as many steals
as Green.
But in the frontcourt, Florida has
far more size and depth than Kansas.
Arthur and Wright will have to cre-
ate mismatches and junior forward
Darnell Jackson will have to hold his
own against Horford.
For Kansas to find success against
Florida, it must retain the same men-
tality it had against Towson.
We had a lot of energy and focus,
and we just got back to having inten-
sity and paying attention to detail,
Wright said.
Kansan sportswriter Shawn Shroy-
er can be contacted at sshroyer@
kansan.com.
basketball (continued from 1b) FOOtball (continued from 1b)
A 1999 NCAA hearing backs
Kansas claim, saying the results
of games played by ineligible play-
ers stand as decided on the field.
Kansas leads the 114-game series
54-51-9.
W h i l e
Mangino said
the rivalry was
important to
fans, he and
his players
took a differ-
ent approach.
W e
approach all 12
games on the
schedule with
the same intensity and enthusiasm
in preparation and on the practice
field, Mangino said. Im a firm
believer that all 12 are important. If
they werent we wouldnt play 12.
Football Notes:
Disputed call:
A holding penalty that cost
Missouri a victory in this week-
ends loss at Iowa State shouldnt
have been called. Missouri coach
Gary Pinkel said he was told by Big
12 Conference staff Monday that
the holding call that brought back
a Missouri touchdown that would
have won the game was not hold-
ing. On the next play, Missouri
quar t er back
Chase Daniel
was sacked as
time ran out.
Rushing Title:
Senior run-
ning back Jon
Cornish is on
track to wrap
up the Big 12
Rushing title
Saturday at
Missouri. Cornish is averaging
121 yards a game. His chances for
winning the title greatly increased
with an injury to Oklahomas star
running back Adrian Peterson last
month. Cornishs average is good
for ninth in the nation.
Kansan senior sportswriter Ryan
Schneider can be contacted at
rschneider@kansan.com.
i think our fan base truly has a
passion for the border rivalry.
Mark Mangino
kansas football coach
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Ofense
Despite two interceptions, Kansas rode Saturday on the
back of running back Jon Cornish, who fnished with a ca-
reer-high 201 yards against K-State. Running Cornish al-
lowed Mangino to control the clock and set up the play ac-
tion pass for quarterback Kerry Meier. With Meier struggling
for accuracy, it might be best to let him run the football
more. The fake handof play to Cornish is usually good for at
least six yards. The same game plan should work against the
Tigers. If Kansas can run the football and control the clock,
the Jayhawks can clinch a tie for second in the North.
Defense
Kansas young secondary has grown up quickly. The
pass defense continues to improve as
the Jayhawks secondary gains ex-
perience. One big reason for their
success is the addition of Domi-
nic Roux. A former wide re-
ceiver, Roux switched
to defense and
has brought
i mp o r t a n t
exper i ence
at safety. He
also plays
corner, giv-
ing fresh-
man Anthony
Webb a rest. If
the defense can
continue to turn
turnovers into
points, the Jay-
hawks will be tough
to beat in Columbia.
Momentum
How quickly things have changed
for the Kansas football team. Just a month
ago after another fourth-quarter collapse at
Baylor, the teams season appeared to be fn-
ished. But now with three straight victories, the
Jayhawks have qualifed for back-to-back bowl
games for the frst time in program history. With
coach Mark Manginos recent success in the Bor-
der Showdown, Kansas should have as much
momentum as it has had all season heading
into Columbia Saturday. While the season has
been disappointing because of the number of
blown victories, a victory Saturday would make
this Manginos most successful season.
Whats the hallmark of a
Gary Pinkel-coached team? Hot
streak. Cold streak. Missouri is in
the middle of an ice cold streak
right now. After starting the sea-
son 6-0, Missouri has lost four of
its past fve games, standing at 7-
4, begging to go to any bowl but
the Independence Bowl. No one
likes Shreveport and Missouri
has been sentenced there twice
in the past two years. Missouri
will likely be steamed after losing
to Iowa State on a blown holding
call at the one-yard line. If Mis-
souri wins on Saturday, it will be
the Tigers frst victory against
the Jayhawks since 2002.
258.3 yards per game of to-
tal ofense for QB Chase Daniel,
good for a No. 7 overall national
ranking.
35 consecutive games Rim-
mington Award candidate
Adam Spieker has started. Hes
expected to hit 36 on Saturday.
24 turnovers Missouri has
forced, which is equal to the
number of turnovers Missouri
has given up to its opponents.
11 weeks Missouri was either
ranked or receiving votes in the
USA TODAY/Coaches poll
19 teams nationally that
played a tougher schedule than
Missouri this year.
Sophomore quarterback
Chase Daniel. As the replace-
ment for Brad Smith, Daniel has
exceeded most of Missouris ex-
pectations. He leads the Big 12
Conference
in total of-
fense and is
among the
tops in the
nation. Dan-
iel has com-
pleted nearly
t wo- t hi r ds
of his 345
passes and has thrown just 10
interceptions. Hes also found
the end zone 22 times through
the air. Daniel has efectively
stepped into the big shoes left
behind by Brad Smith.
The KanSaS FaCTOr Gary
Pinkel hasnt exactly had suc-
cess against Kansas. In his frst
season as coach at Toledo, in
1991, Pinkel lost to Kansas 30-7.
As Missouris coach, Pinkel is 2-
3 against Kansas. The game has
huge postseason implications
for both teams, but Missouri
would also like to end Kansas
recent dominance in the Border
Showdown.
Kansas enters Saturdays
game at Missouri on a sea-
son-high three-game winning
streak. After losing its frst four
Big 12 games, Kansas has now
won three in a row to become
bowl eligible. The Border Show-
down Series against Missouri
has become one-sided during
the past few years. Since losing
his frst meeting with the Tigers,
coach Mark Mangino has now
won three in a row against Mis-
souri. A victory Saturday would
guarantee the Jayhawks a bowl
game for the second straight
season. A loss and Kansas will
have to hope to be picked up as
an at-large team.
112 yards needed for Jon
Cornish to break KUs single-
season rushing record.
3 straight victories against
Missouri.
10 turnovers forced by the
Kansas defense in the past two
games.
116 all-time meetings be-
tween the Jayhawks and Tigers.
2 Kansas place in the North
Division with a victory.
Senior running back Jon
Cornish. The Big 12s leading
rusher needs just more than
100 yards to
break Kansas
si ngl e- sea-
son rushing
record. Cor-
nish rushed
for 201 yards
during Sat-
urdays vic-
tory against
Kansas State. He currently ranks
third on the schools all-time list,
behind June Henley and Tony
Sands. Considering the Tigers
give up more than 135 yards per
game, expect Cornish to easily
break the record.
Kerry Meier While Kan-
sas quarterback managed the
game against Kansas State just
fne, but turnovers in the red
zone continued to plague the
ofense. Meier had two inter-
ceptions against Kansas State,
including one in the end zone.
The problem with the intercep-
tions is Meier continues to stare
down his receivers. The passes
were telegraphed, making it
easy for a corner or safety to
read Meiers eyes.
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Missouri looks to snap losing streak
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Texas a&M (8-3, 4-3) at no. 11 Texas (9-2, 6-1)
Friday, 11 a.m., aBC
The Texas Longhorns look to clinch the Big 12 South Division with a vic-
tory in Austin Saturday. Texas has won its past six meetings with the Ag-
gies.
It was announced Monday that Texas quarterback Colt McCoy would
start Friday after sufering a stinger against Kansas State two weeks ago.
With McCoy in the lineup, the Longhorns were 8-1, with their only loss
coming to No. 1 Ohio State. Having McCoy back in the lineup should help
Texas against an A&M team that has lost two in a row.
Despite A&Ms strong rushing ofense, expect the Longhorns to roll at
home. Texas has too many weapons on ofense to expect A&M to keep
up.
Colorado (2-9, 2-5) at no. 23 nebraska (8-3, 5-2)
Friday, 2:30 p.m., aBC
After clinching the North Division two weeks ago, Nebraska looks for its
highest victory total since the 2003 season. It would also be the highest
victory total of the Bill Callahan era.
Nebraska should have no problem handling a Colorado team that has
struggled to score all season. The Bufaloes rank dead last in scoring of-
fense, averaging just 16 points per game. In contrast, Nebraska has fnally
taken to Callahans West Coast Ofense. The Huskers are scoring more than
33 points per game.
At home in Memorial Stadium, Nebraska should have the game wrapped
up by halftime. This one should be nothing more than a tune up for the Big
12 Championship game next week.
no. 13 Oklahoma at Oklahoma State
Saturday, 1:30 p.m., FSn
Oklahoma has a chance to clinch the South Division with a victory and a
Texas loss to Texas A&M. Kansas fans need an Oklahoma State loss to help
the Jayhawks bowl chances. With a Cowboys loss and a Jayhawks victory,
Kansas could sneak up to the Insight Bowl.
The Sooners have faired well without star running back Adrian Peter-
son. Oklahoma hasnt lost since a loss early last month to Texas in Dallas.
Although Oklahoma State has pulled for a few upsets in the Bedlam Series,
the Sooners have too much to play for.
With a chance at another division title on the line look for the Sooners
to sneak out of Stillwater with a close victory. A 10th victory should put
Oklahoma in a New Years Day Bowl.
Ofense
Sophomore quarterback Chase Daniel and junior run-
ning back Tony Temple provide the one-two punch for the
Missouri ofense. Daniel passed for 310 yards against Iowa
State last week the second time hes passed for more than
300 yards this season. Temple averages about 73 yards per
game, good for fourth-most in the Big 12 Conference. As
a team, Missouri is sixth in the conference in total ofense,
right in front of Kansas.
Gary Pinkel fnally seems to have found a quarterback
who fourishes in his system, and that makes him more dan-
gerous to Kansas than he ever was with Brad Smith leading
his ofense. Missouri has had success against quality oppo-
nents this season and will be prepared to face Kansas.
Defense
Missouri has had as much success
creating turnovers as its ofense
has had giving them up Missouri
has a zero turnover diferential.
More importantly, though,
Missouris defense has
done an outstanding job
of stopping opponents
from scoring. The Tigers
defense is second in the
Big 12 in terms of scor-
ing defense with 198
total points given
up this season,
an average of
only 18 points
per game. The
defense has al-
lowed the third-
fewest yards per
game, averaging about
308 yards per game. Missouri
ranks highly in most other
defensive statistical categories.
Leading the defensive unit is senior lineback-
er Marcus Bacon. He leads the team in tackles
with 88 and in turnovers with fve, including
three fumble recoveries and two interceptions.
The Missouri defensive unit is stout, having giv-
en up more than 25 points just twice all season.
Missouri is marginally more efective against
the run, but overall brings a balanced unit to
the feld.
Momentum
Missouri calls Saturdays match a blackout game
everyone whos attending the game for the Tigers is en-
couraged to deck themselves from head to toe in black.
That being said, the Tigers are sorely lacking in momen-
tum. Theyve lost four of their past fve games and have
a history of falling to the Jayhawks. Missouri lost a heart-
breaker to Iowa State last week, which may be a source of
inspiration for the Tigers. Failing that, this team will prac-
tically crawl into the game, rather than march into it with
pride in its accomplishments this season.

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