2008-03-28

BY PETER SOTO
psoto@kansan.com
This weekend, Margaret Hashinger Hall
Theater will play host to women discussing
their vaginas.
Volunteers associated with the
Commission on the Status of Women will
perform The Vagina Monologues, written
by Eve Ensler, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.
Proceeds from the show will go to orga-
nizations that provide services to women
affected by domestic violence in Douglas
County.
Lindsee Acton, Kansas City, Kan., senior
and director of the show, said that an annual
production of The Vagina Monologues
had become a tradition at the University in
previous years. This year the show, and in
turn the fundraising, almost didnt happen.
Acton said that graduate teaching assis-
tants in the Womens Sexuality and Gender
Studies Department normally organized
the performance to coincide with Womens
History Month, but this year there werent
returning GTAs who were prepared to take
on the responsibility.
Usually, production starts in December
and January, Acton said. Thats when we
came down to the wire, and no one was
planning it yet.
At that time, Acton and Lisa Moore,
Parsons senior and creative director, decid-
ed to take the responsibility upon them-
selves to organize the production. They
spread the word about the show and audi-
tions through signs posted around campus,
Facebook groups and word of mouth. At
the same time, they also prepared the light-
ing, constructed the set and prepared the
rehearsal schedule.
The Vagina Monologues is a collection
of monologues that are based on interviews
with thousands of women from different
walks of life concerning their vaginas and
womanhood.
Though Acton said the subject matter of
the show ranged from sad to empowering,
some cast members thought the content of
the show may be a bit too rough for certain
members of their family. Cast members said
reactions from their families ranged from
disgust to overwhelming support.
My family is fundamentally Catholic,
said Kiana Schneider, Atchison senior and
performer of the monologue My Angry
Vagina. I tried to tell my mom I was in
The Vagina Monologues and she complete-
ly freaked out. She got nervous and said, I
dont know why youre in that, and she cant
even say the word vagina.
Some of the actors thought the subjects
explored in the show would have been espe-
cially difficult for their fathers to handle.
Laura Kozak, Shawnee freshman and per-
former of Reclaiming Cunt, said that she
didnt ask her father to attend because she
didnt know if he would approve of his
daughter going up on stage and touching
herself and screaming cunt in front of a
bunch of people.
While some of the actors were cautious
about their fathers see-
ing the performance,
they agreed that men
can benefit from the
messages in the show.
Kozak said that typical-
ly men dont hear a lot
about women talking
about their vaginas.
Its just not some-
thing a woman would
go up to a man and
have a fluid conversa-
tion about. I think that
getting that kind of
information in a conversational way shows
that its OK to talk about this, Kozak said. I
think the entire play really takes a lot of the
mystery away from the concept of female
genitalia. That is probably the best part
about it. Its not scary.
Moore said that she asked her parents
to attend the performance and that she
thought her father could benefit from see-
ing the play.
I think it will be educational for him,
Moore said. My dads really conservative,
but my family looked the show up and they
know what its about and theyre excited
for me. They know how much Im for the
empowerment of women. Its going to be
shocking, but even if they feel uncom-
fortable, these are still
issues that women
face.
In addition to the
crowd benefiting from
the show, womens shel-
ters in Douglas County
will benefit financially
from the performance.
Womens Transitional
Care Services will
receive 45 percent of
the funds raised from
the show.
Acton said that the money will go into
a WTCS fund that is used to financially
support women who have been victims of
domestic abuse. Acton said this particular
fund provided help for victims of domestic
abuse to pay their rent, put down payments
on apartments and cover other financial
needs. When Acton and Moore tried to
decide which fund to donate to, they found
that this particular branch of WTCSs fund
was underfunded, and as a result could only
help a few women each year. They asked
that their donation be placed directly into
this fund to assist more women.
The actors said they were happy to help
WTCS and have volunteered their time
to participate in the show. Many of them
had seen the show previously and found it
exciting to portray roles that they enjoyed
in previous performances at other theaters.
Schneider said she saw the show before she
became a part of the performance and was
cast in her favorite role: the woman in My
Angry Vagina.
My scene is so true; there is a lot of
weird stuff that people do like douching
and I dont know all of its ridiculous,
Schneider said. I like that some of the
monologues have a humorous side instead
of just complaining.
There will also be an art exhibit on
display provided by WTCS. The exhibit is
known as The Clothesline Project and
provides survivors of domestic abuse, their
family and their friends with a way to tell
their stories and begin the road to recov-
ery. The project started with blank T-shirts
being donated to womens shelters across the
country and given to survivors of domestic
abuse. Survivors then used the shirts as a
diary. The basic T-shirts were converted
into works of art that showed the emotions
of the victims in the form of pictures, mes-
sages and stories describing the victims
experiences. The victims used the shirts as
a cathartic art project that others, who may
or may not have experiences with domestic
abuse, can view. Some of these shirts are
displayed around the country at events such
as The Vagina Monologues.
They are going to be displayed collec-
tively and they can be a very powerful mes-
sage, Acton said. One shirt in particular,
its this yellow shirt that I see it and I cant
look at it for very long, and it says, on the
front of the shirt, Momma Im sorry that
you had to die. Its obviously from the child
of a survivor, or rather, someone who didnt
survive.
The shirts will be on display before and
after the show.
While not everyone may agree with the
subject matter of the show, those involved
believe that they are doing something good
for women in need in Douglas County.
It makes me proud to be a womens stud-
ies major, Acton said. It makes me proud
to be a woman. It makes me proud to share
with others, especially the folks who might
not understand what its all about.
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THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
By WOMEN, fOR WOMEN
Annual show to
raise funds to assist
female victims of
domestic-violence
Photo Contributed By Jorge A. Basaure-Carrington
laura Kozak, Shawnee freshman, practices the monologueReclaiming Cunt. Kozak wasnt sure howher father would react to her role. I didnt knowif he would approve of
his daughter going up on stage and touching herself and screamingcunt in front of a bunch of people. The Vagina Monologueswill be performed Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.
Photo Contributed by Jorge A. Basaure-Carrington
The cast for The Vagina Monologues includes students associated with the Commission on the Status of
Women. Proceeds fromthe showwill go to womens organizations in Douglas County.
details
money goes to...
What: The Vagina Monologues
Where: Hashinger Hall Theater
When: Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.
Cost: $5
10% The V-Day Organization
45% Womens Transitional Care
Services
45% GaDuGi SafeCenter
I think the entire play really
takes a lot of the mystery away
from the concept of female
genitalia. Its not scary.
LAURA KOZAK
Shawnee freshman and performer
SCIENCE
Researchers to study
Filipino primate
Two University of Kansas researchers
have received a grant to study a unique
Filipino primate, called a tarsier.
The research will help determine how
many species of tarsiers exist in the
Philippines so scientists can devise a con-
servation plan for the primates.
see full story on page 8a
ENVIRONMENT
Students combat
climate change
Will Steger, an Arctic explorer, is
embarking on a 1,400-mile dogsled
expedition with five people ages 21 to 27
to raise awareness of climate change. KU
students are also advocating in support
of the environment in other ways.
SAfETy
Theft most common
crime at University
Capt. Shuyler Bailey said theft of
unattended items was probably the
most common form of crime that
occurred at the University of Kan-
sas. Professors as well as students
are at risk.
odd news
Illinois-shaped corn
fake to join exhibit
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. A
corn fake shaped like the state
of Illinois will join Jack Rubys
hat and Marilyn Monroes date-
book in a traveling exhibit.
An Internet trivia site submit-
ted a winning bid of $1,350 for
the famous fake, found by two
sisters and put up for auction.
The owner collects Americana
items to put in a planned travel-
ing museum.
Thats the most perfectly
Illinois-shaped corn fake Ive
ever seen,said Jon Wolf as he
accepted the fake, swaddled in
a cotton-lined jewelry box.
The curator of TriviaMania.
com few from Austin, Texas, to
take possession Tuesday of the
fake at the Ripleys Believe It or
Not Museum in Williamsburg.
The fake will join a col-
lection that includes Rubys
hat, worn the day he shot Lee
Harvey Oswald, the assassin of
President Kennedy; Ron Howards
letter jacket from Happy Days;
and Monroes datebook from the
year she died.
Ive got a guy who does mu-
seum-quality mounting,Wolf said
of the fakes future home.
Emily McIntire, 15, found the
fake in a box of Kelloggs Frosted
Flakes. Inspired, she and her sister,
Melissa McIntire, 23, of Chesa-
peake, Va., ofered it for sale as
The Great Illinois Corn Flake.
Australian mayor chosen in
trash-can drawing
CANBERRA, Australia For
Ed Warren, becoming mayor of
the Australian Outback town of
Winton was the luck of the draw
from a trash can.
The cattle farming town famous
as the birthplace of Australias un-
ofcial anthem Waltzing Matilda
chose its new mayor late Wednes-
day by drawing a name from a
trash can after local elections
ended in a draw.
Warren said Thursday he was
surprised by the unconventional
approach used to break the 423-
vote tie with rival candidate Butch
Lenton.
If I was prepared, I was going
to say well toss for it,Warren told
Australian Broadcasting Corp.
radio.
Queensland state electoral laws
allow for such ties to be decided
by either the drawing of a name
or tossing of a coin. Warren said
a draw was used to choose the
mayor in the city of Rockhampton
eight years ago.
But some opposition state
lawmakers argue the law should
be changed to remove any rafe
stigmafrom the ofce of mayor.
Rattlesnake found in suit-
case, bites coach
McLEAN, Va. A high school
coach emptying his luggage after
a team trip to South Carolina was
bitten by a small rattlesnake that
had somehow gotten into his bag,
authorities said.
Andy Bacas was released Tues-
day after an overnight hospital
stay.
Bacas, a rowing coach at Yor-
ktown High School in Arlington,
told authorities he felt a sharp
pain on his hand Monday when he
reached into his luggage after re-
turning from the road trip. He then
saw the nearly foot-long snake and
slammed the suitcase shut.
Fire and rescue workers took
the suitcase outside, opened it
and blasted the snake, a juvenile
canebrake rattler, with a carbon
dioxide fre extinguisher.
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many a kiss.
Mae West
The Food, Drug and
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cosmetics and their individual
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The Oral History Workshop
Learning to Hear the Stories
IX will take place all day in the
Ballroom in the Kansas Union.
The workshop Blackboard
Strategies and Tools will begin
at 9 a.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
Literary Studies and Envi-
ronmental Studies in Africa
will begin at 9 a.m. in the Ma-
lott and Kansas Rooms in the
Kansas Union.
The tennis team will com-
pete against Oklahoma at 11
a.m. at First Serve Tennis.
The baseball team will
compete against Texas A&M at
6 p.m. at Hoglund Ballpark.
Student Union Activities will
present Casino Night at 6:30
p.m. in Templin Hall.
The flm Friday Night at the
Kino will begin at 7 p.m. in 318
Bailey Hall.
Student Union Activities
will present Cosmic Bowling at
10 p.m. at the Jaybowl in the
Kansas Union.
A McCollum Hall resident
reported the theft of an X-box
controller and X-box games
and criminal damage of a dry
erase board on Monday. The
theft and damage occurred
between 3:15 p.m. on Fri.,
March 14 and 10:15 a.m. on
Monday.
Good luck to the mens bas-
ketball team tonight! Since the
tournament went to 64 teams
in 1985, there has never been
a Final Four made up of all four
#1 seeds. KU has played a role
in two of the three times that
the fnal four was made up of
three #1 seeds. In 1993, KU
was the only non-one seed in
the Final Four, and in 1997, KU
was the only No. 1 seed not in
the Final Four.
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Thursdays article Students
decide on transportation said
each student would pay $785
if all three proposals pass. If the
proposals pass, each student
would pay $810.40.
All dolled up with no place to go
Taylor Miller/KAnsAn
Alex Haynes, Overland Park senior, and Tosin Morohunfola, Overland Park sophomore, apply gender-reversal makeup in their theater
class Tuesday. The elective course also covers make up efects for wounds and gore, period, fantasy and old age.
politics
Obama, Clinton discuss economic issues
By deVLin BArrett
AssociAted Press
NEW YORK Democrat
Barack Obama said Thursday
a firmer government hand was
needed on Wall Street and a $30
billion stimulus was needed to res-
cue homeowners and the jobless.
Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton
called for a new job retraining pro-
gram to remedy what both candi-
dates derided as Republican indif-
ference to a sputtering economy.
Both Obama and Clinton
argued that Republican nominee-
in-waiting John McCain wasnt
ready or willing to handle an eco-
nomic emergency.
The phone is ringing, and he
would just let it ring and ring,
Clinton said, echoing the 3 a.m.
phone call TV ad she used earlier
to suggest she was more qualified
than Obama to handle a national
security crisis. Speaking in Raleigh,
N.C., she chastised McCain for
opposing government intervention
in the nations credit and mortgage
crisis.
Clinton focused on job inse-
curity and said the government
needed to take more responsibility
for helping displaced workers.
Our government is more
focused on how you lost your job
than how you can find a new one,
Clinton said. And while we have
been rightly focused on trying to
help people who are out of work,
theres been too little thought and
effort to help people gain new
skills while they still have their
existing jobs.
While many of the two
Democrats ideas on the econo-
my overlap, Obama laid out six
different areas where he would
stiffen regulations of the finan-
cial system. H e
proposed relief for homeowners
and the long-term unemployed as
part of an additional $30 billion
stimulus package, much like the
one Clinton offered last week.
He said outdated government
regulations have fallen dangerous-
ly behind the realities of modern
finance.
We do American business
and the American people no
favors when we turn a blind eye to
excessive leverage and dangerous
risks, Obama said.
The economic setbacks of
recent months, Obama argued,
show hardships long felt by middle
class Americans had now spread
everywhere.
Pain trickles up, he said.
AssOCIATed PRess
democratic presidential candidates sen. Hillary RodhamClinton, (d-n.Y), left, and
sen. Barack Obama, (d-Ill.), debated economic issues Thursday. Both argued that Republican
presidential candidate John McCain wasnt ready to handle an economic emergency.
news 3A friday, march 28, 2008
University to hold conference
multiculturalism
BY ANDREW WIEBE
awiebe@kansan.com
The Sabatini Multicultural
Resource Center will host its
first major regional conference
this weekend when around 400
delegates gather for the Midwest
Asian-American Students Union
Spring Conference.
Delegates from 24 schools
throughout the Midwest will come
to the University of Kansas from
March 28 to 30 to attend work-
shops, a career fair and banquets
in the recently completed 7,000
square foot facility.
The University earned the right
to host MAASUs major annual
conference last year when its
application was chosen. It is the
first time the organization held
its spring conference as far west
as Kansas. Grant Huang, St. Louis
senior and AASU external vice
president, said the organization
wanted to demonstrate to visiting
delegates that Kansas was more
than agriculture and flat land.
We want to show them KU
and that its a great school, Huang
said. We want to get out there that
KU is doing a lot of multicultural
things in the Midwest.
After a multicultural variety
show on Friday night, delegates
will attend four workshops on
Saturday on topics ranging from
stereotypes in the media, interra-
cial dating and voting in the Asian
community. The workshops will be
presented by a variety of speakers,
including actor Parry Shen and
local business people.
AASU President Susan Noh,
Overland Park senior, said the
group chose workshop topics that
would apply to both daily life as
an Asian-American and societal
issues related to being a minority
group.
Its better to have stronger
communities, more communica-
tion and have a bigger voice out
there, Noh said. So we do a lot of
workshops that deal with leader-
ship.
Noh said when she joined the
organization four years ago as a
freshman, she never could have
imagined it would have the chance
to host a conference of this mag-
nitude.
She said the group had steadily
grown from around 15 her fresh-
man year to between 30 and 40
active members today. Officials at
the MRC encouraged her group to
apply for the event, but she never
thought they would receive the
bid, Noh said.
This is almost like a dream,
Noh said. When we won, we were
like what just happened? We were
so shocked.
MRC program director Santos
Nez said the conference show-
cased the hard work and dedi-
cation shown by MAASU mem-
bers and other campus groups.
The MRC will also host the 2009
Big 12 Black Student Leadership
Conference.
I think that this is a great
opportunity to showcase the com-
mitment that KU has to its student
organizations, Nez said.
Huang said hosting the confer-
ence is a fitting end to his college
career. He said the experience of
attending his first MAASU spring
conference in Ann Arbor, Mich.,
along with Noh as a freshman was
the catalyst for his dedication to
the group over the last four years.
The group of 12 paid their
own way and despite arriving late
because of car trouble, the confer-
ence left a lasting impression and
began a commitment to improving
the Universitys chapter.
We met so many people, and it
was the first time I realized there
were so many Asian people in the
Midwest, Huang said. We talked
about different kinds of issues that
I never thought of and some stuff
that I knew but I learned more
about. Seeing how other Asian-
Americans do things can really
empower you and change things.
Edited by Samuel Lamb
Marla Keown/KANSAN
Sharon Beak, Shawnee senior, stufs packets put together by the Midwest Asian-American
Student Union (MAASU) Monday evening at the Multicultural Resource Center, located next to the
Kansas Union. MAASU is hosting this years three-day spring conference that opens with a variety
showtoday at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
Students lead advocacy
environment
Climate change addressed in Arctic, on campus
BY MARY SORRICK
msorrick@kansan.com
A 1,400-mile dogsled expedi-
tion through the Arctic begins
today to raise awareness of the
importance of student activism
in combating climate change.
Will Steger, an Arctic explorer
and environmental advocate, will
lead a team of five people ages
21 to 27 from Iqaluit, Canada, to
Ellesmere Island, 480 miles from
the North Pole.
The expedition, which will
last through June, strives to raise
awareness of endangered and
collapsed ice shelves from polar
melting in the arctic.
Steger held a conference call
two weeks ago with university
newspaper reporters across the
country to emphasize the role
of young people in the environ-
mental movement.
The primary objective for
the upcoming expedition is to
energize people, Steger said.
Especially people sitting on the
bench.
Studie Red Corn, Shawnee
senior, has a similar goal.
Red Corn, chair of the renew-
able energy subcommittee, said
students had a responsibil-
ity to help fight global warm-
ing because they were more
informed about the issues than
most members of society.
Students in college right now
have the most knowledge and
power to make a difference, he
said. This is the world were get-
ting handed and its not as good
as it could be.
Brian Sifton, Kansas City,
Mo., senior and president of KU
Environs, said student involve-
ment in environmental issues
was also a matter of self-educa-
tion.
A lot of stuff talked about
in Environs meetings isnt stuff
talked about in the general pub-
lic, Sifton said. So its important
to get involved or you wouldnt
hear those things otherwise.
One of KU Environs current
projects involves advocating that
local dairies alert consumers to
the presence of rBGH, a bovine
growth hormone, with specially
labeled milk bottles.
Other student-led environ-
mental projects on campus
include the Alternative Energy
Societys biodiesel lab and Delta
Forces advocacy that Chancellor
Robert Hemenway sign the
American College & University
Presidents Climate Change
Commitment, a pledge to reduce
a campus greenhouse gas emis-
sions over time.
Sifton said projects such as
these were significant because
college students have different
resources at their disposal while
in school than they would have
after graduation.
Steger, an environmental
activist for 40 years, said the stu-
dent-led environmentalist move-
ment had broken from the social
disengagement that often char-
acterized people after the 1960s.
Theres an energy there of
social interaction that Ive never
seen, he said. Its not right or
left, its like the whole force of
the middle.
For more information about
Stegers Arctic expeditions, visit
www.willsteger.com.
Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
Contributed photo by Will Steger Foundation
Sigrid Ekran, Will Steger, Sarah McNair-Landry, Ben Horton, Toby Thorleifsson and Eric McNair-Landry train in Ely, Minn., in
October for a dogsled expedition. The expedition, to be held through the Arctic, strives to advocate for student activismregarding climate
change.
Faculty, students victims of casual theft
crime
BY BRENNA HAWLEY
bhawley@kansan.com
Implementing a new enroll-
ment system and requiring pro-
fessors to give grades out at mid-
terms are part of an academic
platform for the United Students
senate coalition.
Adam McGonigle, Wichita
sophomore and United Students
presidential candidate, said the
program the University of Kansas
has now for enrollment was not
student-friendly and was a big-
ger hassle than it needed to be.
He said that when students
enrolled, they often needed a
course catalog, a brochure of
required classes for their major
and scrap paper to figure out the
classes they wanted and back-up
classes.
The amount of paper you
use to enroll is almost an envi-
ronmental issue, McGonigle
joked.
McGonigle wants to improve
the system at Enroll & Pay with
features like drag-and-drop class
scheduling, prerequisites listed
with classes and lists of classes
required for majors and text-
book prices. He said it wouldnt
require a new program.
Michael Gillaspie, Ashland
junior and vice presidential can-
didate for United Students, said
he wanted to get rid of the paper
shuffling during enrollment.
We want to create a one-stop
shop for enrollment, Gillaspie
said.
McGonigle said he wanted to
require professors to give out
grades at midterms so students
know where they stand in their
class. He said many professors
already provided grades, but
others didnt and students had
to bother teachers to see their
grades. He said there was no rule
that required professors to hand
out grades.
Bill Crowe, president of
University Senate, said that
McGonigle would have to bring
this proposal to University
Senate, where it would go up for
review.
Crowe said he thought many
professors would say that giving
out grades was their decision on
a case-by-case basis. He said that
with thousands of courses and
hundreds of instructors, they all
had different ways of teaching
their classes.
Nothing isnt discussable,
Crowe said.
Edited by Russell Davies
united students
Coalition seeks easier enrollment
BY FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
fchambers@kansan.com
When Carol Holstead, professor
of journalism, opened her office
door after class in March 2006,
she immediately noticed that her
laptop was no longer sitting on top
of her desk.
Holsteads door was closed, but
not locked. She also had her class
schedule and office hours posted
on the door. Holstead said the
theft was depressing because she
worked with college students and
did not want to think of theft as
part of their value system.
What happened to you grow-
ing up that makes you think
its okay to walk into someones
office and take their computer?
Holstead said.
Only 14 people reported hav-
ing items stolen from their back-
packs, classrooms or offices to the
Public Safety Office this semester.
However, Capt. Schuyler Bailey,
Public Safety Office, said theft of
unattended property was probably
the biggest crime committed on
campus, but he said the number of
thefts that occurred was low com-
pared with the number of students
and buildings at the University. He
also said the Public Safety Office
had no way of accounting for thefts
that occurred on campus that were
not reported to the office.
Holstead said because she has
worked in Stauffer-Flint Hall for
18 years, she started to feel like it
was home and took for granted the
security of her property. She also
said it was a hassle to lock her door
sometimes, for example, when she
was going to the restroom, which
is right across the hall from her
office.
Bailey said most thieves at the
University were opportunists. He
said anyone who simply happened
somewhere that items were left
unattended could be motivated to
become a thief because of the ease
in which unattended items could
be stolen.
Bailey said most thefts are
small items: iPods, books, calcula-
tors and unattended backpacks.
He said most of those things look
normal for a student to be carrying
and so bystanders are not aware a
theft has occurred.
Robert Osburn, a custodian at
Haworth Hall, said many items
are stolen from Haworth. He said
its because too many people have
keys to get in out of the building.
Osburn said many of the students
who work in the labs have keys
and if they lose their set, anyone
could find the keys and enter the
building.
Haworth is also supposed to be
locked by the Public Safety Office,
but Osburn said he knew of other
ways thieves could get into the
buildings without keys.
The security is just really lack-
ing, Osburn said.
Osburn said he expected that
people would eventually have to
use their KU IDs to gain entrance
into buildings like the ID based
system the residence halls began
using this year.
Osburn said many items
have been stolen from janitors
in Haworth before that were
not reported like mop buckets.
Recently a vacuum was reported
stolen from a janitors closet in
Haworth, but it was later found.
Mark Gottschall, supervisor of
the Journalism Resource Center,
said he thought most of the people
who stole items were not KU stu-
dents. He said he thought they
were homeless people.
Recently Gottschall reported the
theft of a projector from a Stauffer-
Flint classroom. Gottschall said
he thought the projector was sto-
len, not misplaced, because he
e-mailed all the professors who
taught at the school and whoever
stole the projector left the plug-in
cord, signifying that they were in
a hurry.
Youd think they would have
gone ahead and unplugged the
dang thing, Gottschall said.
Gottschall said the door was
locked and closed when he got
there, but he suspected that the
door had been left open the night
before by the last class that was in
the room. He said that was the only
way someone could have stolen the
projector from the room, unless
the thief had keys to the room.
Gottschall said on the weekends
he locked Stauffer-Flint, but on
the weekdays it was locked at 10
p.m. and unlocked at 7 a.m. by the
Public Safety Office.
Bailey said the Public Safety
Office locked most of the campus
the buildings at night, but some-
times students and other people
were still working in those build-
ings at that time. He said those
people often propped the doors
open so they could get in and
out when they were coming and
going.
Holsteads computer was also
returned. Holstead said the stu-
dent who stole her computer did
not wipe the computers hard drive
before he sold it on eBay. She said
a week after her computer was sto-
len she was contacted by the man
who had bought it and the com-
puter was returned to her within
the next week.
Holstead has taken her class
schedule off her door since her
computer was stolen, but she said
she felt at home enough in Stauffer-
Flint to leave her door unlocked
when she is not in her office.
Its unlocked right now and the
door is open, Holstead said.
Edited by Jared Duncan
CRIME
Authorities on alert
after Interstate gunfre
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
Gunfre that struck several
vehicles and injured two people
along a stretch of mountain
highway had motorists and
police on edge Thursday in a
region where memories of the
deadly Beltway snipers still
havent faded.
Authorities were seeking at
least two people suspected of
fring shots the night before
that hit two cars, a van, a trac-
tor-trailer and an unoccupied
dump truck on Interstate 64
West of Charlottesville. Two
people were injured.
Col. Steven Flaherty, the state
police superintendent called
the shooting random fring.
There were other diferences
from the sniper spree of nearly
six years ago, including the
fact that those attacks targeted
people who were standing
outside their cars.
Nevertheless, Flaherty
conceded the 2002 attacks, in
which 10 people were killed and
three wounded in Maryland, the
District of Columbia and north-
ern Virginia, were on investiga-
tors minds as they sought those
behind Thursdays spree.
It reminded us of a lot of
emergencies weve had,said
Flaherty, whose agency also
dealt with last Aprils Virginia
Tech shootings.
Police took a call from a
driver whose vehicle was hit
just after midnight. Three more
occupied vehicles headed
westbound were shot, one at an
on-ramp at Ivy, the others at an
overpass in the Afton area. An
unoccupied Virginia Depart-
ment of Transportation dump
truck was targeted later, farther
down the interstate.
The 20-mile stretch of I-64
between Waynesboro and
Charlottesville, home of the
University of Virginia, was
closed for nearly six hours while
police searched for suspects
and evidence.
Associated Press
NEWS 4A Friday, March 28, 2008
government
Funeral picketing bill
sent to governor Sebelius
TOPEKA A new funeral
picketing bill to replace a law in-
validated by the Kansas Supreme
Court was sent Thursday to Gov.
Kathleen Sebelius.
The Senates 40-0 vote to agree
with the House version passed
a day earlier sent the bill to the
governor rather than putting
it in a committee, as happens
with most House bills the Senate
receives.
After the March 11 ruling
invalidating the previous law,
legislators moved quickly to get
the restrictions back on the books
in the home state of the Rev. Fred
Phelps, whose followers regu-
larly protest services for soldiers,
saying U.S. combat deaths are
punishment for the nations toler-
ance of homosexuality. Those
protests have been the impetus
for laws restricting funeral picket-
ing by 37 states and the federal
government.
It is so disheartening that
anyone would disrupt the funeral
of a fallen service member, or
of any Kansan. We must protect
the privacy of Kansas families as
they mourn the loss of their loved
ones and I will sign this bill as
soon as I have the opportunity,
the governor said.
Court upholds former
Black Panthers execution
PHILADELPHIA Former Black
Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal can-
not be executed for murdering a
Philadelphia police ofcer unless a
new penalty hearing is held, a fed-
eral appeals court said Thursday.
The court upheld Abu-Jamals
conviction but said he should get
a new sentencing hearing be-
cause of fawed jury instructions. If
prosecutors dont give him a new
death penalty hearing, Abu-Jamal
would be sentenced automatically
to life in prison.
Abu-Jamals lead attorney,
Robert R. Bryan, said he was glad
the judges did not reinstate the
death sentence but added that he
wants the court to grant his client
a new trial.
Ive never seen a case as per-
meated and riddled with racism as
this one,Bryan said. I want a new
trial and I want him free. His con-
viction was a travesty of justice.
Abu-Jamal, 53, once a radio
reporter, has attracted a legion of
artists and activists during his 25
years on death row. A Philadel-
phia jury convicted him in 1982
of killing Ofcer Daniel Faulkner,
25, after the patrolman pulled
over Abu-Jamals brother in an
overnight trafc stop.
-AssociatedPress
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HOROSCOPES
ARiES (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
Do the preparation to mini-
mize your own worries. You
dont have time to let them
fog up your thinking. Having
a good team helps. Let them
know you appreciate their
eforts.
TAuRuS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 5
You can do the careful
calculations when you must.
Sequester yourself and go
over the numbers again, just
to make sure youre right.
GEMini (May 21-June 21)
Today is an 8
It may be difcult to express
exactly what you want, but it
is important. Do so as many
times as it takes to get the
message across. Ask ques-
tions to make sure you have.
CAnCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 6
In this situation, its your
eforts that will be rewarded.
Nobodys going to hand you
this prize. Youll have to go
and get it. Take care; you will
be tested.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
A stunning victory is fol-
lowed by a lot more work.
Nobody said it was going to
be easy, but you can make
it more fun. Anticipate set-
backs and plan for them.
ViRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
Now you can make those
long-wanted improvements
to your home and workplace.
The perfect things are avail-
able and afordable. Happy
shopping.
LibRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
The path to achieving your
objective is fraught with
peril. If you read up on these
dangers ahead of time, youll
be a lot safer.
SCORPiO (Oct. 23-nov. 21)
Today is a 6
After what seems like endless
confusion, a workable plan
is developed. Not everybody
is overjoyed, but you stay
within budget.
SAGiTTARiuS(nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
Theres no point in argu-
ing with a person who isnt
listening. Theres no use in
listening to a person whos
not making sense. Save the
conversation for another
time. Take a hike.
CAPRiCORn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 5
Be careful going through the
trash. Theres something of
great value mixed up in all
that stuf. Well, maybe not
great value, but it can be
sold.
AquARiuS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is an 8
Everything turns out well in
the end. You are proven to
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and admire you. It was worth
all the trouble.
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Today is a 5
You may be getting tired,
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THE ADVEnTuRES OF JESuS AnD JOE DiMAGGiO
Max Rinkel
MuSiC
Tupac story used false documents
AssociAted Press
LOS ANGELES The Los
Angeles Times apologized for
using apparently fabricated docu-
ments in a story implying that a
1994 assault on Tupac Shakur was
carried out by associates of Sean
Diddy Combs, and that he knew
about it ahead of time.
The bottom line is that the
documents we relied on should
not have been used, Editor Russ
Stanton said in a story posted
Wednesday night on the newspa-
pers Web site. We apologize both
to our readers and to those refer-
enced in the documents ... and in
the story.
Pulitzer-prize winning reporter
Chuck Philips,
who wrote
the story, and
his supervi-
sor, Deputy
M a n a g i n g
Editor Marc
Duvoisin, also
apologized.
The apolo-
gies followed
an investiga-
tion launched
by Stanton after The Smoking
Gun Web site reported earlier in
the day that the paper was conned
by a prisoner who doctored the
documents.
Combs denied that he had any
prior knowledge of or involve-
ment in the robbery and shooting
of Shakur at a New York recording
studio. He and other subjects of
the story claimed they had been
defamed by the newspaper.
T h e
Smoking Gun
said the docu-
ments seemed
phony because
they appeared
to be writ-
ten on a type-
writer instead
of a computer
and included
b l a c k e d - o u t
sections not
typically found in such docu-
ments, among other problems.
The Web site claimed the docu-
ments were fabricated by a prison
inmate with
a history of
exaggerat i ng
his place in
the rap music
world.
The Times
said its March
17 story was
based on FBI
records, inter-
views with
people at the
scene of the 1994 shooting, and
statements to the FBI by an infor-
mant.
None of the sources was
named.
Philips said Wednesday that a
former FBI agent examined the
documents in question for him
and said they appeared to be legit-
imate.
But Philips said he wished
he had done more to investigate
their authen-
ticity.
I now
believe the
truth here is
I got duped,
he said.
M a r c
L i c h t ma n ,
an attorney
r e p r e s e n t -
ing rap man-
ager James
Rosemond, one of two men the
story linked to the Shakur attack,
had earlier demanded an apol-
ogy.
I would suggest to Mr. Philips
and his editors that they imme-
diately print an apology and take
out their checkbooks or brace
themselves for an epic lawsuit,
Lichtman said Wednesday.
The shooting triggered a feud
between East and West Coast
rappers that led to the killings of
Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.
The story said associates hop-
ing to curry favor with Combs
who was overseeing B.I.G.s
white-hot career at the time
lured Shakur to the studio
because of his disrespect toward
them.
The story and related features
on latimes.com attracted nearly 1
million hits more viewers than
any other story on latimes.com
this year, the newspaper said.
I would suggest to Mr. Philips
and his editors that they im-
mediately print an apology.
MArcH LIcHTMAN
James rosemonds attorney
The bottom line is that the
documents we relied on should
not have been sold.
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Tyler Doehring
After watching George Carlins
recent HBO comedy special Its
Bad For Ya, I fully understood why
people try to shut me up.
One of Carlins finest moments
comes when he says, Bullshit is
the glue that holds society togeth-
er. Likewise, truth is what tears
it apart because it forces people
to recreate the worlds they live in.
People dont want to do this because
its too easy to flee to the comforts
of tradition and to surrender to the
sofa of conformity. Blind accep-
tance requires no thought.
In elementary school, I learned
people didnt want to hear the truth
unless it positively affected them.
I learned this lesson after getting
punched in the face several times.
Still though, I persisted on in
attempting to be as truthful as pos-
sible. I couldnt shake the Honesty
is the best policy, maxim.
Years later I began developing an
aversion to the sugar-coated land
of euphemisms. The sickness set
in during high school as political
correctness, manners and group-
think dominated the landscape. As
Carlin puts it, Its bullshit, folks.
Its all bullshit and its bad for ya.
People love phrases like God
bless America and Proud to be
an American. But they dont mean
anything. Carlin compares Proud
to be an American to phrases
like Proud to be Irish. He argues
that pride should come from your
accomplishments, not from some-
thing you were born with.
These phrases are vague feel-
good abstractions that people
crowd around because they cant
think of anything better or even
anything at all.
The tragedy here is that a come-
dian is the one airing these issues.
Life in this country has become so
absurd that the people making fun
of it are the most reasonable.
Americans dont question things
anymore. Try questioning anyone
or anything, and you will be brand-
ed radical, crazy or too critical. By
comparison, I am too critical.
But I fail to do my job if Im
not critical though. I must make
up for the hoards of people who
are not critical about anything. It
pisses people off, but my goal in
life is not to have everyone like me.
I am the fly on the horses back,
as Socrates said. I keep people
moving forward regardless of
whether they like it.
Socrates was assassinated. Truth
comes at a high price as is any-
thing that is scarce.
Toward the end of his special,
Carlin cuts to the core theme of
his routine. Without questioning,
there is no human progress.
As Carlin defines it, inventing
new toys or gadgets dont count as
progress. These things dont teach
us how to live a better life. They
dont make us freer. They dont
make our lives better. We can only
learn that from other people if
were willing to set our beliefs aside
and listen to the voice of reason.
Mangiaracina is a Lenexa
senior in journalism.
You cant tell from my skin, but
I got a wicked tan over the break.
I, along with 19 other students in
the University Scholars program,
traded sunscreen for business
suits to soak up the rays of justice
exuded by the Supreme Court. A
part our curriculum included a
trip to see the Court in session.
Our instructor, law professor
Steve McAllister, has clerked for
and argued in front of the Court.
He is, by all legal and societal
standards, a badass.
Using his awesomeness, he
secured us seats for the hottest
case of the year D.C. v. Heller.
This case explored the scope of
a handgun ban in the district
and relates directly to the 2nd
Amendment - the right to bear
arms. The outcome, which wont
come for months, could change
personal weaponry law all over
the nation, including on this cam-
pus. Onlookers and news teams
littered the Courts stone pavil-
ion like they were vying for tick-
ets at Allen Fieldhouse when we
arrived. People camped for days
to get a seat. We just waltzed
right past them into the back-
door entrance. For once, our real
IDs actually got us into the best
club in town.
If you can imagine ten elder-
ly people all playing Whack-a-
Mole, youve got the basic gist of
Supreme Court operations. The
Court seats no jury and hears
no witness testimony. The law-
yers just stand before the Court
and try to pop out points before
the Justices begin slamming them
with questions. These interroga-
tions remain critical, contradic-
tory, and surprisingly candid.
When attorney argued that some-
one could quickly load a trigger-
locked handgun during a home
intrusion, John Roberts respond-
ed cheekily, So, you turn on the
lamp and put on your reading
glasses, and then what?
After the case, we met Justices
Clarence Thomas and Ruth Badar
Ginsburg. His booming laugh and
her demure wit couldnt contrast
more, but they both share the
rare modesty of someone who
not only respects doing their job,
but what their job does. Thomas,
whom the media often polarizes,
told us of his duty to extract his
personal prejudices from his vote.
Being a Justice, he sees himself
as a civil servant to Americans.
Witnessing real patriotism like
this - not the hooky Old Navy
T-shirt variety but unbiased
dedication to a governments pur-
pose, knocked me right out of the
fancy ceremonial chair in which
I was sitting. As a voter chipped
fresh off of the electorate block,
I have been suckled on politi-
cal cynicism: Lewinski. 9/11. Abu
Ghrab. If these abuses of power
hadnt punctured my political
optimism, the Iraq Wars recent
5th year anniversary certainly
could. I hardly expect to find my
faith in democracy restored by
the cosmetically and politically
conservative Court.
Yet, seeing the purpose of the
founding documents equal jus-
tice under the law - beating at the
heart of a living, breathing person
made me forget every American
Idol episode and momentarily
proud to be a U.S. citizen. Maybe
the government is wire-tapping
our phones. Maybe the Electoral
College is a joke. But our
Constitutional liberty seemingly
muted these days by tyrannical
executive power and muddled
legislation still echoes through
the marble halls of the Court.
At least the Court is still for the
people and run by the people, the
most qualified ones, in fact. After
all, Clarence Thomas did pick
us to win his NCAA bracket. He
clearly knows whats best for this
country.
Katie Oberthaler is a Wichita
sophomore in English.
Ignorant word association
can be dangerous, deceptive
Guest CoLumn
Empty phrases invite conformity, exclude reason
Josh Anderson
nick MAngiArAcinA
Commentary
The Abe & Jakes ad girl
looks like shes snifng her
armpit. Its disturbing. Instead
the ad should be for Secret
deodorant.
n n n
To the white guy who
called his black girlfriend
chocolate: That is really of-
fensive, and you should learn
to respect other races.
n n n
Dear Matt Kleinmann, the
next time you visit my dorm,
can you please bring Sasha
with you?
n n n
Since when did the Stu-
dent Senate elections turn
into the parking commission
elections?
n n n
Is it pathetic that I go to
class early just to talk to this
guy? Yes!
n n n
One time my dog ate my
homework. You think I would
be kidding.
n n n
Are there designated
smoking areas on campus? I
tend to smoke where ever I
want.
n n n
I know the pole-dancing
girl on the Jayplay cover.
Whore.
n n n
Free For All, you cant beat
Ebaums World with post time
limits. Youve got to be ag-
gressive.
n n n
United Students parking
plan is a good start. Everyone
elses is non-existent.
n n n
Thank you to all the busi-
ness majors who stole our
parking spaces at the Union
last night. Im glad you didnt
get your extra credit.
n n n
Since when did the Stu-
dent Senate elections turn
into the parking commission
elections?
D.C. trip reafrms
students patriotism
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Twenty members of the University Scholars programtraveled to Washington, D.C.,
during Spring Break. They are pictured standing in front of the Supreme Court building.
The word illegal has been
drilled into the American psyche
in relation to Mexican Immigrants
so much that it now seems to
exclusively mean an immigrant
of Mexican origin. It is almost
as though Mexican should be
listed under illegal in the dic-
tionary. This abuse of language
fuels a broad racism that renders
any resident of a Latin American
background suspect by virtue of
their obvious association with a
burgeoning criminal class.
The mechanism by which
this phenomena occurs, either
inadvertently or on purpose (in
terms of policy and its reitera-
tion by the ever-ready echo of the
media), works in two manners:
By essentially linking the concept
of the criminal with that of the
Mexican, the qualifiers illegal,
immigrant and Mexican are
obliterated, leaving any person
bearing one or all of these traits
susceptible to the judgement that
should be reserved for actual ille-
gal immigrants. However, with
the repetition and emphasis on
the word illegal the image of a
Mexican immigrant, legal or not,
has somehow become synonymous
with that of a rapist, murderer or
terrorist. Because of this heavy-
handedness in our general view of
Mexican immigrants, as betrayed
by our language, a stereotype of
the worst kind is created, wherein
a diverse ethnic and economic
group is simplified and placed into
the bad category of people, if not
downright evil.
The question should arise, then:
what criminal act do these people
engage in that so vilifies them?
And what is so evil about it?
On a spectrum of criminal
severity, the act of sneaking into a
foreign country in search of work
falls somewhere between speed-
ing and not using a turn signal,
the major difference being that the
latter two are selfish acts, while the
former is an act of virtue. When an
immigrant risks his life in search of
a better future for himself and his
family, he is positively exuding the
characteristics of a true American.
This is precisely the grit and self-
determination our country was
built on, and yet this act is looked
on with scorn. Its as if the statue
of liberty should read: Give us
your tired, your poor, your hungry-
unless theyre Mexican.
Its bad enough that we lack the
ability to deal with the immigra-
tion problem, that we also have
to revert to inculcating our popu-
lation with a sense of racism to
smokescreen our ineptitude. Of
course this serves us in the long
run, as it has long been understood
that the capitalist model, in order
for one dog to stay on top, the
lesser dogs must be kept on the
bottom. Since the inception of
Mexican democracy our political
and economic policies have existed
to make sure that Mexico and her
citizens stay more than just geo-
graphically on the bottom, and we
continue to let this reality remain
unchallenged.
What is needed is a truly healthy
relationship with our downstairs
neighbors, one that fosters trust,
cooperation and mutual respect.
In order for this to happen, our atti-
tudes are going to have to change
from the ground up, because pol-
icy-makers will always be in the
service of the economy. Nowhere
but in their pocketbooks is it writ-
ten that this sort of economic and
racial inequality must exist.
Anderson is a Perry junior in
creative writing.
NEWS 8A friday, march 28, 2008
science
Researchers receive grant to study unique primate
BY MARY SORRICK
msorrick@kansan.com
National Geographic awarded
two University of Kansas research-
ers a $24,605 grant to study tarsiers,
one of the more unique primates in
Southeast Asia.
Jennifer Weghorst, adjunct
research assistant with the Natural
History Museum and Biodiversity
Research Center, and Rafe Brown,
assistant professor in the depart-
ment of biology and curator at
the Natural History Museum, will
travel to the southern Philippines
this spring for the first of several
trips to research tarsiers.
They are the coolest primates
in the world, Brown said. They
are little pocket-sized forest gob-
lins.
Weghorst and Brown will ana-
lyze tarsier calls and collect DNA
samples from populations on dif-
ferent Filipino islands to help pin-
point the number of different spe-
cies that may exist.
With that information, Weghorst
said scientists could begin forming
conservation strategies for tarsiers.
The small, nocturnal animals
weigh about 130 grams and reach a
foot in length when stretched out.
They are the
only exclusive-
ly carnivorous
primates, eat-
ing caterpillars,
beetles, frogs
and small liz-
ards. Tarsiers
are also easily
distinguishable
by their big,
round eyes,
Weghorst said.
Someone I
know has described them as look-
ing like Yoda, Weghorst said.
With a team of Filipino research-
ers, Weghorst and Brown will use
mist nets to catch tarsiers. After
photographing and weighing them,
the researchers will take blood and
tissue samples before releasing the
tarsiers back into the wild.
The researchers will also com-
pare tarsier calls among popula-
tions from different islands.
B e c a u s e
tarsiers live
on volcanic
islands that
have never
been in con-
tact with each
other, three to
six distinct spe-
cies of tarsiers
could exist in
the Philippines,
Brown said.
If we find
out that there are different spe-
cies limited to geographic areas,
conservation threats would be very
specific, he said.
Though tarsiers can survive
in changing habitats, Brown said
deforestation from commercial
and small-scale logging could still
be a threat to their survival.
He said he hoped the research
and conservation strategies for tar-
siers would lead to habitat protec-
tion in the Philippines through
the establishment of national parks
and reserves.
Weghorst and Browns tarsier
research will take two years to com-
plete. In the mean time, the team of
Filipino researchers will come to
the University to help analyze the
tarsier findings.
Weghorst said the research
could be an important element of
biodiversity conservation.
Population dynamics would
be out of whack if there were no
tarsiers, she said. And the world
would be such a boring place.
Edited by Jared Duncan
Contributed by Rafe Brown
This Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta) lives on the island of Bohol, Philippines. Its pupils
are so small because the photo was taken during the day; a photo of a tarsier at night would
showits large eyes almost completely flled by its pupils. Very large eyes are an adaptation for a
nocturnal lifestyle.
Philippines trip will be used to observe tarsiers, form conservation strategies
They are the coolest primates in
the world. They are little pocket-
sized forest goblins.
Rafe BRown
assistant professor in the
Department of Biology
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community service.
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name is Clifford Harris, must
complete at least 1,000 hours
of a total 1,500 hours of com-
munity service, talking to youth
groups about the pitfalls of
guns, gangs and drugs.
He will be sentenced to
serve about 12 months in
prison after completing the
community service, officials
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increased or reduced, depend-
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terms of the deal and good
behavior, they said.
Harris, 27, who was dressed
in a gray business suit, told the
judge he understands the terms
of the agreement.
He pleaded guilty to posses-
sion of unregistered machine
guns and silencers, unlawful
possession of machine guns
and possession of firearms by a
convicted felon.
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fore he was to headline the BeT
Hip-Hop awards in atlanta.
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session of unregistered machine
guns and silencers, as well as
possession of firearms by a
convicted felon.
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and silencers.
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sweetsixteen
BY MARK DENT
mdent@kansan.com
In most ways, a coach would be crazy if
he didnt want to be mentioned in the same
breath as John Chaney and Gene Keady.
Chaney, a former Temple coach, and Keady,
who used to be in charge at Purdue, won
more than 1,200 games combined.
Coach Bill Self cant wait until no one
associates him with those two men. Chaney
and Keady, for all their accomplishments,
are regarded as the best coaches to never
make a Final Four. Self hasnt made one
yet either.
Hes come close plenty of times. Self
has been to the Elite Eight with Tulsa and
Illinois and twice with Kansas. In three
out of four of those trips, his team was the
higher seed and failed to move on.
I hate to say it, graduate assistant
Michael Lee said about making the Final
Four, but it is a big deal for him.
If the Jayhawks win against Villanova
tonight, Self will be in the Elite Eight for the
fifth time. Kansas will be favored to win,
and you can bet that fans will blame him if
the Jayhawks lose. Theyll say Roy is better.
Theyll call the season a waste. Some may
call for his job.
Hes won more than 80 percent of his
games in four plus years as coach and
directed the team to four Big 12 regular
season titles and three Big 12 Tournament
championships. But Self hasnt made the
Final Four.
Our fans may not agree with this, Self
said, but were 33 and 3. Weve won the
league. Weve won the league tournament.
Were in the Sweet 16. Weve had a good
year.
But in order to make it a special year,
Self said, we need to play well this week-
end.
Self s been in search of that magical
weekend for years.

March 26, 2000
Tulsas Eric Coley was the typical Self
player: He cared about toughness and
defense. That season, his senior year, he
became the Western Athletic Conferences
all-time leader in steals.
He was a cowboy, then-Tulsa assistant
coach John Phillips said. He took pride
in the defensive end - similar to Brandon
Rush, minus the shot.
In the tournament, Coley helped
Year of coincidences?
It was March 27, 1988 when No. 6 seed
Kansas defeated No. 4 seed Kansas State 71-
58 advancing to the Final Four. The game
was held in the Pontiac Silverdome, located
in the suburbs of Detroit, in front of 31,632
fans. A crowd of that size at the time was
one of the highest attended NCAA regional
games.
Eight days later, Danny Manning and
the Miracles would go on to defeat No. 1
seed Oklahoma 83-79, giving Kansas its first
national championship since 1952.
Coincidentally, Kansas will play its first
NCAA tournament game in the Motor City
since 1988 tonight. Though this seasons
Jayhawks are 33-3 and the 1988 National
Championship team was 23-11 going into
the Sweet Sixteen, there are a number of
coincidences between these two teams.
Whether you are the superstitious type,
the gambling type or just like useless trivia,
there are too many coincidences to go
unnoticed.
Aside from playing in Michigan, the
Jayhawks will also be playing in a dome
tonight in front of a record crowd. With
55,000 of 72,818 tickets sold as of Sunday for
the Midwest Regional games this weekend,
the previous record of 42,519 has already
been broken.
Like the 1988 team, Kansas had to play
in the state of Nebraska in the first weekend
of the tournament. The Jayhawks defeated
No. 11 seed Xavier 85-72 in the first round
and No. 14 Murray State 61-58 in the sec-
ond round in Lincoln 20 years ago. Prior
to this years tournament, the 1988 team
was the only Jayhawk team to travel to
both Nebraska and Michigan in the same
regional.
As witnessed this past weekend, the
Midwest Regional had five higher seeds
upset by lower seeds. In 1988, a lower seed-
ed team defeated a higher seeded team five
times in the Midwest Regional including the
upset of No. 2 seed Pittsburg, the Big Easts
highest seeded team. This past Sunday,
the Big Easts highest seeded team, No. 2
Georgetown, lost.
Another coincidence that some Jayhawk
fans may have overlooked is Baylors tourna-
ment appearance. In 1988 Baylor made the
tournament as a No. 8 seed. Until this year
Baylor has not made another tournament
appearance.
In 1988, Larry Brown was in his fifth
year of coaching. Though the Jayhawks
struggled throughout the regular season that
season, this was solely Larry Browns team.
Brown did not have as balanced a team as
Bill Self does this season, he had then senior
Danny Manning and a recruiting class of his
own working together to win a string of six
games in the tournament. Similarly, Bill Self
is in his fifth year of coaching and has his
own recruiting class playing just the way he
wants them to going into this weekend.
Lastly, though the 2007-2008 Jayhawks
do not have Danny Manning in their lineup
averaging 24.8 points and 9 rebounds per
game as he did in the 1987-1988 season,
Manning is again with the team. In his first
year as an assistant coach, Manning has
helped with the improvement of Kansas big
men. Senior forward Darnell Jackson has
become a star for Kansas, while sophomore
Darrell Arthur has turned into Kansas lead-
ing scorer.
Every year, fans and media will question
whether this year will be the big year. Based
on similarities between 1988 and 2008, this
would certainly seem to be the year. All
things aside, these coincidences obviously
have no impact on what happens on the
court this weekend. With the Jayhawks in
Michigan just as they were 20 years ago,
Kansas fans are hoping for one more coinci-
dence: a national championship.
Edited by Russel Davies
BY TAYLOR MICHEL NYE
tnye@kansan.com
The spotlight was on Danielle Herrmann
as she represented the University on Kansas
swimming and diving team at the NCAA
championships during spring break.
Herrmann, a junior, was the Jayhawks
sole representative at the NCAA
Swimming and Diving
Championships in
Columbus, Ohio. She
earned the chance to
compete in the champi-
onships after breaking
a KU record and plac-
ing third in the Big 12
Championship earlier
this month in the 200-
yard individual medley.
Danielle had a great collegiate sea-
son, Coach Clark Campbell said. She is
well respected throughout the swimming
community because of how much she has
improved since high school.
Herrmann also competed in the 200-
yard breaststroke and the 100 breaststroke.
She came into her second NCAA meet
with a lot more confidence and she raced
a lot better than last year, Clark said. We
were especially happy with her 100-yard
breast time.
Herrmann improved her KU record
time in the 100 breaststroke, finishing 22nd
in that event. She finished 34th in the 200
individual medley and 39th in the 200
breaststroke.
It was a great way to finish my season,
Herrmann said. I started the season slow,
but I ended up right where I wanted to be.
After that Herrmann and junior
Maria Mayrovich swam in the Ohio State
Longcourse meet. Mayrovich scored per-
sonal bests in the 50- and 100-yard medley
events. Hermann picked up a personal best
in the 200 individual medley.
Several divers competed in the NCAA
Zone D Diving Championships at the
University of Houston campus before
spring break.
Freshman Erin Mertz led the Jayhawks
with her seventh place finishes in the
platform, one-meter and three-meter div-
ing events.
Erin finished her incredible season
with a wonderful meet, junior Hannah
McMacken said. It has been so much fun
watching her this season.
McMacken, sophomore Meghan Proehl
and senior Jenny Roberts also competed in
Houston. Proehls best finish was 14th in
the platform event while Roberts was 14th
on the three-meter board and McMacken
placed 14th on the one-meter board.
ESPN2 will air 90 minutes of tape-
delayed coverage of the swimming and
diving championships, today, at 1 p.m.
Edited by Patrick De Oliveira

BY BRYAN wHEELER
BwHEELER@KANsAN.COM
Coincidence too much to ignore
Team wraps up season
Herrmann
CAsH KRUTH
THE sTATE NEws
As the final buzzer sounded to signal
the end of the Kansas womens bas-
ketball teams season, it was a bitter-
sweet moment for senior forward Taylor
McIntosh.
On one hand, the 58-54 loss to host
Michigan State in the third round of the
WNIT ended her collegiate career. But,
on the other, the extra postseason games
gained her teammates experience for the
remainder of their careers.
I was disappointed because obviously
it wasnt our best performance, said
McIntosh, who grabbed 11 rebounds and
scored four points in her final game as a
Jayhawk. But, at the same time, a lot of
teams dont get to reach the postseason
so Im happy I got some postseason play,
and especially for my teammates so they
have some for next year.
The young Jayhawks gained plenty of
experience in Thursdays game against
the Spartans, and trailed Michigan State
by two heading into halftime.
The game remained close in the early
minutes of the second half, and got even
closer when sophomore guard Danielle
McCray drove to the lane for a lay-up
to put the Jayhawks up 43-42 with 7:30
remaining. McCray nearly recorded a
triple-double on the game, leading all
scorers with 18 points, while also grab-
bing nine rebounds and getting eight
steals.
McCrays basket was the last lead of
the game for the Jayhawks, who saw
things unravel from there. With 4:24
left, Michigan States Kalisha Keane
picked off a pass and found guard Mandy
Piechowski in the corner for a three-
pointer to give the Spartans a 47-43
lead.
After two successful Kansas free
throws, the Spartans again picked off a
Jayhawk pass, and this time Keane nailed
a three at the top of the key to expand the
lead to five.
In the second half it was our
turnovers, said head coach Bonnie
Henrickson of what caused the Spartans
to extend their lead. It had nothing to
do if it was a (man-to-man defense),
nothing to do if it was zone, they just
capitalized on our turnovers.
Kansas had 22 turnovers in the game,
and tried to make up for their ear-
lier mistakes as time was winding down.
With just over two minutes remaining,
McCray drove the lane and had her shot
blocked out of bounds with one second
left on the shot clock.
On the inbound pass, McCray got the
ball and was fouled and made both to
bring Kansas within three. Any momen-
tum that was gained was quickly lost, how-
ever, as an offensive foul on sophomore
forward Porscha Weddington turned the
ball back over to the Spartans.
The Spartans iced the game from the
free throw line, and despite a last-second
three-pointer by McCray, the Jayhawks
ended their season with a 17-16 record.
Freshman center Krysten Boogaard
had ten points for the Jayhawks, while
Michigan State was led by 16 points from
Allyssa DeHaan, and ten points a piece
from Brittney Thomas and Keane.
Henrickson and McIntosh both agreed
the extra practice time and workouts will
help the young Jayhawks, who have only
two seniors on the team, in the coming
years.
While Henrickson said, from a coach-
ing standpoint, it was nice to get the
extra practice time in, McIntosh said
the felling of being left out of the NCAA
Tournament should drive her team-
mates.
Physically, and maybe more so emo-
tionally too, said McIntosh of the posi-
tives of playing in the WNIT. Just to
know how it feels to not get where you
want to get, and to use that as motivation
for the offseason toward next year.
Hawks lose 58-54
woMens basketball
michiganstatepullsvictorydespitelast-minutegoalbyKansas
Jason Chiou/The State News
Michigan State guard Brittney Thomas guards sophomore forward danielle mcCray while seeking to pass
during the second half onthursday at breslin Center in east lansing, mich. the spartans defeated the Jayhawks 58-54
and has been eliminated fromthe wnit tournament.
Self strives to make
frst trip to Final Four
coMMentary swiMMing & diving
Mens basketball
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Kansas coach Bill Self acknowledges the Jayhawk fans after cutting the net down in celebration of the teams
big 12 tournament championship march 16. in fve years at Kansas, self has a 138-32 record but has yet to
advance past the elite eight.
Fourtripstoeliteeightleavecoachwithhigherhopes
SEE Self oN PAGE 3B
By BRIAN MAHONEy
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK Pat Riley cant
understand why Shaquille ONeal
keeps talking about the Miami
Heat.
Riley responded to ONeals
criticisms Wednesday with some
of his own, saying his former cen-
ter was wrong to disparage some
of his old teammates and trainers
in a Boston Globe story.
Its sad that he says those
things. We shared so much here,
together, for three years, good and
bad, 3 years, Riley said, refer-
ring specifically to the Heats 2006
NBA title. I just think its sad that
hes got to do that.
Riley dealt ONeal to Phoenix
before the trade deadline, allowing
the 36-year-old center the chance
to compete for another title instead
of sticking around Miami for a
last-place finish. ONeal made it
clear how much he prefers his new
teammates.
I love playing for this coach
and I love playing with these
guys, ONeal told the Globe. We
have professionals who know what
to do. No one is asking me to play
with Chris Quinn or Ricky Davis.
Im actually on a team again.
After Phoenixs loss to Boston,
ONeal elaborated, saying that
defenses would sag off of Quinn
and Davis and he wasnt able to
get the ball. Of Rileys comments,
ONeal said colorfully, I dont
(care) how he interpreted it.
Reminded that reporters
couldnt use the quote because of
the expletive, he said, Sure you
can. You can quote me, brother.
You can put an s, then the tic-tac-
toe, the at sign and then the other
symbols.
ONeal was critical about shots
as in, not getting enough of
them often during his tenure
with the Heat. This year, he
expressed those sentiments in
the days that followed a 110-
101 loss at Utah on Dec. 3 a
game where Quinn didnt play
and ONeal and Davis were on
court together for 16 minutes, 2
seconds.
He also complained about not
getting enough touches two days
after going 8-for-15 in a 120-99
loss against Orlando, another
game where he and Quinn never
were on the court at the same
time.
Riley said he doesnt have any-
thing but good feelings for Shaq
and wasnt bothered by any criti-
cism leveled at him. But he said
ONeal has no reason to blame
anyone else in the organization for
his unhappiness.
When youre 9-40, were all
frustrated. I mean everybodys at
fault, we all were. Everybody was
feeling bad and nobody wants
that, Riley said.
sports 2B friday, march 28, 2008
Q: Which fve college basket-
ball teams have lost the most
games in the NCAA Tourna-
ment?
A: Kentucky, North Carolina,
Kansas, Louisville and UCLA.
Kansas has lost a total of 35
games in the tournament, but
thats nine less than Kentucky,
which has the most losses with
44.
www.answers.com
Kansas State has the second
worst winning percentage of
any college basketball team in
the Final Four. The Wildcats are
1-7 in the Final Four. Louisiana
State is the only school with a
worse winning percentage as
they have travelled to the Final
Four fve times but have never
won a game.
www.answers.com
I think hes going to go, and
I think its the right thing to do,
because hes going to be the
top pick in the draft.
Kansas State coach
Frank Martin on Michael Beasley
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TODAY
Tennis vs. Oklahoma, 11
a.m., Lawrence
Baseball vs. Texas A&M,
4 p.m., Lawrence
Mens basketball vs. Vil-
lanova, 8:40 p.m., Detroit
SATURDAY
Softball vs. Texas Tech, 1
p.m., Lawrence
2 p.m., Lawrence
Womens golf, Mountain
View Collegiate, All day,
Tucson, Ariz.
Rowing vs. Texas, TBA,
Austin, Texas
SUNDAY
Tennis vs. Oklahoma
State, 11 a.m., Lawrence
Soccer vs. Nebraska, 11
a.m., Lincoln, Neb.
Softball vs. Texas Tech,
noon, Lawrence
Soccer vs. Minnesota, 1
p.m., Lincoln, Neb.
1 p.m., Lawrence
Mens basketball vs.
Wisconsin/Davidson,
TBA with Friday victory,
Detroit
Mens College Basket-
ball:
Friday:
NCAA Tournament
Sweet 16: Davidson vs. Wis-
consin and Stanford vs. Texas,
6:10 p.m., CBS
NCAA Tournament
Sweet 16: Villanova vs. Kan-
sas, 8:40 p.m., CBS
Saturday:
NCAA Division II Cham-
pionship Game, 2 p.m., CBS
NCAA Tournament Elite
Eight Teams TBD, 5:30 p.m.,
CBS
Eight Teams TBD, 8 p.m., CBS
Sunday:
Womens College Bas-
ketball:
Saturday:
NCAA Tournament
Sweet 16: Louisville vs. North
Carolina, 11 a.m., ESPN
NCAA Tournament
Sweet 16: LSU vs. Oklahoma
State, 1 p.m., ESPN
NCAA Division II
Championship Game, 5 p.m.,
ESPN2
NCAA Tournament
Sweet 16: Maryland vs. Van-
derbilt, 8 p.m., ESPN
NCAA Tournament
Sweet 16: Pittsburgh vs. Stan-
ford, 10:30 p.m., ESPN
Sunday:
NCAA Tournament
Sweet 16 Connecticut vs. Old
Dominion, 11:30 a.m., ESPN
NCAA Tournament
Sweet 16 George Washing-
ton vs. Rutgers, 2 p.m., ESPN
NCAA Tournament
Sweet 16 Notre Dame vs.
Tennessee, 8 p.m., ESPN2
NHL:
Friday:
St. Louis vs. Detroit, 6:30
p.m., FSN
Sunday:
New York Rangers at
Pittsburgh, 11:30 a.m., NBC
Major League Baseball:
Friday:
Chicago Cubs vs. Seattle
Exhibition Game, 9 p.m.,
WGN
Saturday:
Chicago Cubs vs. Seattle
Exhibition Game, 2 p.m.,
WGN
New York Mets vs.
Chicago White Sox Exhibition
Game, 4 p.m., ESPN
Sunday:
Atlanta at Washington,
7 p.m., ESPN
College Lacrosse:
Saturday:
Virginia at Maryland, 11
a.m., ESPN2
PGA Tour:
Saturday:
Zurich Classic, 2 p.m.,
NBC
Sunday:
Zurich Classic, 2 p.m.,
NBC
Arena Football:
Saturday:
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia,
1 p.m., ESPN2
San Diego at Kansas
City, 5 p.m., MyTV
Tennis:
Saturday:
Sony Ericsson Open,
Noon, FSN
Horse Racing:
Saturday:
Florida Derby, 4 p.m.,
ESPN2
College Baseball:
Saturday:
Nebraska vs. Texas, 6
p.m., FSN
Sunday:
Oklahoma State vs.
Kansas State, 1 p.m., FSN
NBA:
Saturday:
Milwuakee at Chicago, 8
p.m., WGN
Sunday:
Houston at San Antonio,
Noon, ABC
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A little help?
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Jeremy Case gets some help fromteammates on a dunk during practice at the NCAA Midwest Regional Basketball Tournament onThursday in
Detroit. Kansas plays Villanova in a regional semifnals tonight.
ROwINg
Team to compete in its frst
ofcial regatta of the season
The Kansas rowing team will
head to Texas for its frst ofcial
regatta of the spring season. On
March 22, they traveled to Tulsa,
Okla. for an exhibition. It contin-
ued the annual meetings between
the two teams, with both teams
last year gathering in a triangular
meet to take on Drake. That meet
was cancelled due to weather. The
regatta this year was considered an
exhibition and no ofcial times were
taken.
The rowing team hopes to con-
tinue the success it found in the fall
with its young team. They com-
peted in the Head of the Des Moines
in late September, their opening
regatta. Senior Kara Boston helped
the team by winning two gold med-
als and dominated the Collegiate
Single event, in which nine Jayhawk
rowers were present in the top 10.
They rode that momentum into
the Head of the Chattahooche
where their lightweight team won
their respective competition and
Elivisha Patterson brought home a
second place medal in the light-
weight single. In
the fnal match
of the fall, Kansas
lost the Sun-
fower Show-
down against
Kansas State.
The Wildcats
outscored them
16-9. However,
coach Rob Catloth saw the entire fall
play, compromised of long distance
races, as excellent practice for the
NCAA-qualifying spring. The races
in the spring are head-to-head
sprints.
The regatta on Saturday will be
held on Lady Bird Lake, where they
will compete varsity fours, varsity
eights, and novice eights against the
Longhorns. Texas has already com-
peted in the Fight Nutria 2008, the
Heart of Texas, and the Longhorn
Invitational in the spring, giving
them an experience advantage over
the young Jayhawks. After the Texas
regatta, Kansas will look forward to
its meet with Kansas State on April
12. It will go down as their only
home regatta of the year.
Ben Ashworth
Basketball notes
One weekend at a time
Kansas coach Bill Self has
his team approach each week-
end in the NCAA Tournament
as a separate tournament. The
frst and second round are one
tournament, the Sweet 16 and
Elite Eight are another tourna-
ment and the Final Four and
National Championship game
are one tournament.
Rodrick Stewart said this
strategy helped the team
focus.
Were not worried about
San Antonio, Stewart said.
Were looking at the next
opponent. We win that game
and it turns into a two game
tournament. As soon as you
start overlooking people thats
when you look up and its
over.
Same city; diferent team
KU fans likely remember
the city of Detroit because
of Kansas frst round loss to
Bradley there two years ago.
This year, the game is in a
diferent venue, Ford Field in-
stead of The Palace of Auburn
Hills, and its a diferent team
according to Self.
He said this years team was
more ready for the pressure of
the NCAA Tournament.
There hadnt been any
attention on that group, Self
said about the 2006 team.
They went from not being
ranked the whole year to
being a four seed. I think its
good to be ranked high and
being a one seed because
it puts pressure on you the
whole time. That team never
had that opportunity the
whole year.
Parallels with 1988
Kansas is back in Detroit
this weekend, the city where
it defeated Kansas State to
advance to the Final Four in
1988. Former Kansas guard
Scooter Barry was the Chevro-
let Player of the Game against
K-State, and twenty years later,
Barry still looks back fondly on
the game.
The parallels are kind of
scary, Barry said this week
from his home in Germany.
Barrys lived in Europe for the
past 17 years while playing
professionally in Europe.
They were in Omaha, we
were in Lincoln. We were both
in Detroit. Barry said. I was
thinking now they just got to
play the Finals in Kansas City
and well have it for sure.
Barry was back in Lawrence
in February for the 110 years
of Kansas basketball reunion.
He said he was impressed with
this years team.
When I saw the team
workout and I saw them play
their game against Colorado, it
was clear to see that they have
a bunch of thoroughbreds,
Barry said. Theres no ques-
tion they have the ability to
win it all. For me, the question
is about timing.
The Greatest thing about
the NCAA tournament is 64
teams are thrown out there
and if you have a bad night,
youre done, Barry said.
Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd
Patterson
Pat Riley responds to ONeals criticisms
OlyMPICS
Bush to attend Beijing
Games in August
WASHINGTON President
Bush is using the prestige of
his ofce on behalf of Tibetan
protesters, but his direct appeal to
Chinese President Hu Jintao lacks
a trump card.
Through a White House spokes-
woman last week, Bush made
plain he would attend the Olympic
Games in August in Beijing, the
crackdown on Tibetan protesters
aside.
Bush considers the games to be
about athletics and not necessar-
ily politics, spokeswoman Dana
Perino said. For the Chinese,
anxious to avert a public relations
disaster, the statement undoubt-
edly was received with relief.
In the meantime, leaders of
France and Belgium have warned
they might boycott the opening
ceremonies in Beijing to protest
the way the Chinese are dealing
with Tibetan protesters. But Bush
hasnt got that hole card to play
unless the crackdown intensifes
dramatically and gives him a cred-
ible reason to change his plans.
The Chinese already have suf-
fered embarrassment over their
treatment of Tibetan protesters
in Tibet and western China. They
look to hosting the Olympics as an
enormous boost to their prestige.
It didnt help that last week
the State Department advised
Americans planning to attend the
games to take care and be mindful
that they could be under surveil-
lance.
All hotel rooms and ofces are
considered to be subject to on-site
or remote technical monitoring
at all times, the departments
Bureau of Consular Afairs said.
Hotel rooms, residences and of-
fces may be accessed at any time
without the occupants consent or
knowledge.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry
called the U.S. warning irrespon-
sible.
Associated Press
NBA
2429 Iowa
shut down the guards of UNLV,
Cincinnati and Miami. The
Golden Hurricane, a seven seed,
had to defeat eighth-seeded North
Carolina to make the Final Four. .
Fouls prevented it from hap-
pening. Coley sat 10 minutes in the
first half because of foul trouble.
He picked up his fourth foul seven
minutes into the second half. Forte
scored 28 points, his career high.
Tulsa lost 59-55.
If our guys hadnt gotten into
foul trouble, Phillips said, it prob-
ably wouldve gone the other way.

March 25, 2001
One year later, Self got another
attempt at the Final Four. This
time, he was coaching Illinois.
Self, whod taken over for Lon
Kruger, molded an already rugged
bunch into a group of warriors
who wouldnt be out-toughed by
anybody. Frank Williams, a gritty
point guard, teamed with a front-
line of Sergio McClain, Brian Cook
and Marcus Griffin. Lucas Johnson,
who was so aggressive that he often
got accused of dirty play, came off
the bench.
Sean Harrington was a sopho-
more guard that season who led
the Big 10 in three-point field goal
percentage. He remembers how
Self taught the Illinois players that
the season was broken down into
four parts: the nonconference,
conference, conference tourna-
ment and NCAA Tournament. Self
wanted to win a championship in
all of those areas. Illinois did well in
nonconference play then won the
Big 10. The Illini also secured a No.
1 seed in the NCAA Tournament
and rolled to the Elite Eight.
There, it met Arizona, a team on
a mission. Arizona won 87-81.
It was just two great teams,
Harrington said, and Arizona was
just a little better.

March 28, 2004
Michael Lee, a junior guard at
the time, doesnt remember much
about the Georgia Tech Elite Eight
game. He just remembers that
Self prepared for it like any other
game.
It didnt matter that it was the
third time Self was there in five
years, he didnt feel like he had
anything to prove. Lee said Self just
showed them a lot of tape, worked
them through the shootaround and
didnt give any special speeches or
use motivational tactics. Self knew
they were prepared enough.
His team had more than enough
advantages: it was playing in St.
Louis, had Final Four experience
from the previous two seasons and
Techs leading scorer was injured.
The Jayhawks had them all. Except
one.
Kansas didnt count of Georgia
Techs Jarrett Jack. Jack, a sopho-
more guard for the three-seeded
Yellow Jackets, shot the four-seeded
Jayhawks out of the tournament.
He scored 29 points, and Tech won
in overtime 79-71. Kansas missed
16 of its first 18 shots, and star
players Keith Langford and Wayne
Simien made just eight of their 25
attempts.
Some people call it luck, Lee
said. Some call it preparation. It
depends on how you look at it.
Theres no special formula.

March 24, 2007
After close losses, Self often
laments that his team missed too
many bunnies, his word for close
shots.
Against UCLA in the Elite Eight
last season, the Jayhawks missed
plenty. More than 10 shots from
inside or layups didnt fall in for
the Jayhawks.
While they missed, UCLA
turned up its offense. The Bruins
made 58 percent of its shots in
the second half, including 75 per-
cent from long distance. Its defense
proved better than Kansas, which
had been regarded as one of the
best in the country.
It hurts, Self told the Kansan
after the game. I really felt like this
was our year.

March 30, 2008
Will this be the day? Will Self
finally get fans off his back and take
Kansas to the place he hasnt been
able to reach in four tries?
Everything has to be just right.
Self knows that already. Hes seen
Final Four dreams disappear
because of foul trouble against
North Carolina, an inspired team
with Arizona, a hot performer with
Georgia Tech and missed layups
against UCLA.
Coaches know theres an ele-
ment of intangibles out there that
some people catch breaks and
some people dont, Self said. All
we want to do is prepare our guys
to be the best they can be and
hope thats good enough. A lot of
factors go into playing well this
time of year that are unknown to
everyone elses eyes so I wont feel
the pressure.
Good fortune should be on
Self s side. If any team was built
for a run to the Final Four and
National Championship, this one
is it. Kansas has a myriad of scoring
options and five seniors and two
juniors who have seen just about
everything possible in their college
careers.
They were the ones who helped
build Self s team at Kansas, along
with sophomores Darrell Arthur
and Sherron Collins. They want
a Final Four and national title for
themselves and for their coach.
He loves us and we love him,
senior guard Jeremy Case said.
Were going to do everything we
can to get him that national cham-
pionship just like hes going to do
everything for us to get us that
national championship.
This group wont be around
forever. Seniors Russell Robinson,
Sasha Kaun and Darnell Jackson
are all gone after this season. Junior
Brandon Rush is a lock to enter the
NBA Draft, and Arthur will prob-
ably join him. Heck, Collins and
Mario Chalmers might even leave.
Kansas is two games away
from a Final Four berth, and the
Jayhawks will be favored in both.
Everyone will expect them to beat
Villanova tonight and Wisconsin
or Davidson on Sunday.
Its now or never for most of
the players, and it could be a while
before Self gets another team as
good as this one. Thats why Phillips
thinks this could be the year for his
former boss.
Hes watched the team and seen
how they play defense as good as
any Self team. They also have the
necessary focus, and Phillips knows
that Self always finds the perfect
playing style to suit his team dur-
ing the postseason even if it comes
at the expense of some sub-par
regular season games. More than
anything, Phillips is just confident
in Self s competitive nature.
Hes still a young man, Phillips
said. Hell get there. Theres
nobody I know that is more of a
competitor than Bill Self. He wants
to win at marbles, at ping-pong.
Desire on his part is there. Once he
breaks in, hell be there a lot.
EditedbyJessicaSain-Baird
BY ALEX DUFEK
adufek@kansan.com
A couple of dual meets versus
some Midwestern foes prevented
the Kansas tennis team (5-8) from
soaking up any sun during spring
break.
The Jayhawks suffered road
losses to Colorado and Missouri
as well as a home loss in their
nonconference finale against Iowa
over the break. After three tough
losses the team will be looking to
get back to its winning ways this
weekend as it faces off against a
pair of Oklahoma schools.
Despite the difficult losses,
coach Amy Hall-Holt said the team
was playing at a very competi-
tive level and was focused on this
weekends matches.
The girls are practicing hard.
Their level of competitiveness
increases every time I see them out
here. It was a disappointing loss
against Missouri and it got to us,
but I think the girls are bouncing
back, Hall-Holt said. I think the
girls see that were right there and
we just got to keep pushing.
Kansas ended its nonconference
schedule with a 4-3 loss to the
Iowa Hawkeyes on March 20. The
Jayhawks finished non-conference
play with a record of 4-6.
The Jayhawks record is impres-
sive considering the daunting
nonconference schedule laid out
for them. Seven out the Jayhawks
10 nonconference opponents are
ranked in the latest ITA collegiate
rankings. The only team to beat
Kansas this season and not be
named in the latest poll is the
University of Missouri.
With the heart of Big 12 play
approaching, the Jayhawks are not
likely to see a letdown in qual-
ity of the competition. The team
will play eight meets, four against
ranked opponents, over the next 23
days in preparation for the Big 12
championships in College Station,
Texas.
We definitely have a lot of tough
matches ahead of us, Hall-Holt
said. Oklahoma and Oklahoma
State who were playing this week-
end are always tough.
Senior Elizaveta Avdeeva knows
winning is important, especially
down the stretch, in order to keep
the teams morale high.
When you win, you dont think
if youre tired or not, but if you lose
it can get you down and then it can
get tougher to play, Avdeeva said.
Kansas will continue its five-
game home stand Friday when it
takes on the Oklahoma Sooners
and then again on Sunday when
the Jayhawks face-off against the
Cowboys of Oklahoma State. The
decision to play indoors or out-
doors will be determined based on
weather the day of each contest.
Hall-Holt said she believed
Lawrence acted as a comfort zone
for the team and gave the Jayhawks
an extra edge.
Its your territory. Its your
home court. Its where you prac-
tice, Hall-Holt. You get a crowd
behind you and it definitely helps.
Kansas to host two Oklahomas
tennis
self (continued from 1b)
college basketball
Tar Heels cruise past Cougars
college basketball
no. 13 Louisville defeats no. 5 tennessee 79-60
BY AARON BEARD
AssOciAtED PREss
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Roy
Williams never stopped pushing his
North Carolina team to play better
defense, not even as it piled up
lopsided wins and crowd-pleasing
offensive displays that few teams
can match.
The Tar Heels gave their Hall of
Fame coach what hes been asking
for in the East Regional semifinal
against Washington State and
it has them a game away from the
Final Four again.
Tyler Hansbrough scored 16 of
his 18 points in the second half
and the top-seeded Tar Heels
held Washington State to 32-per-
cent shooting in a 68-47 victory
Thursday night, sending North
Carolina back to the NCAA tour-
naments round of eight for the
second straight season.
Danny Green had 15 points to
help the Tar Heels (35-2) set a
school record for victories while
continuing their dominant tourna-
ment run. The No. 1 overall seed
won its first three NCAA games by
20 or more points for the first time
in program history as it chases a
record 17th trip to the Final Four.
North Carolina will play
Louisville winner Saturday with a
clear home-court advantage, play-
ing in an arena located about two
hours from its Chapel Hill campus.
On this night facing a team
that had completely shut down its
first two tournament foes every-
thing started with a defensive per-
formance that was the schools best
in the tournament since before
Williams was born.
We continued to talk about this
throughout the year, the fact that
were tired of hearing that North
Carolina cant play defense and
thats going to be our weak link,
junior Marcus Ginyard said. But
tonight, I think you see that this
team has the capability of buckling
down and being that great defen-
sive team.
There was no room to argue with
the Tar Heels vocal leader. Fourth-
seeded Washington State (26-9)
managed just 18 field goals for the
game while scoring 20 points below
its average. The Cougars also went
2-for-16 from 3-point range as the
Tar Heels pulled away.
The 47 points were the fewest
allowed by the Tar Heels in an
NCAA game since 1946.
Defensively we thought we
were really good, Williams said,
but yet lets be honest: they missed
some open shots.
North Carolina improved to
24-1 in NCAA games played in
its home state and is 7-0 all-time
in Charlotte Bobcats Arena. Now
they can focus on erasing the lin-
gering memories from last years
final game: a blown double-digit
lead late in the second half of an
overtime loss to Georgetown in the
regional finals.
We know what happened. We
know that feeling, Hansbrough
said. We dont want to have it
again. Thats kind of our attitude,
and thats the mentality we have.
For the first time in this tourna-
ment, the Tar Heels, the nations
second-highest scoring team, didnt
crack 100 points. It didnt matter.
Nor did it matter that Hansbrough
struggled much of the way. Instead,
facing a deliberate Washington
State team that had held Winthrop
and Notre Dame to a combined
81 points in the tournament, the
Tar Heels looked determined to
prove they could play some tough
defense, too.
Washington State missed shot
after shot sometimes open, more
often not while the Tar Heels kept
pushing forward with their slowed-
but-effective transition attack. The
Cougars got little from the perim-
eter, with Kyle Weaver and Taylor
Rochestie scoring a combined 12
points on 4-for-21 shooting.
AssOciAted Press
North carolinas tyler Hansbrough, right, shoots over Washington States Aron Baynes
during an NCAA East Regional basketball semifnal onThursday in Charlotte, N.C.
louisville 79,
tennessee 60
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Earl
Clark scored 17 points and had 12
rebounds, and coach Rick Pitinos
mix of defenses made life miser-
able for Tennessee and put the
third-seeded Cardinals in the East
Regional final.
After two blowout wins last
weekend, Pitinos signature zone
and pressure limited the high-scor-
ing Volunteers to 34-percent shoot-
ing. The veteran coach improved
to 8-0 in regional semifinals.
Terrence Williams and Andre
McGee each added 13 points and
David Padgett had 10 points and
eight rebounds for Louisville (27-
8), which nearly blew all of a 16-
point first half lead, only to take
control midway through the sec-
ond half and keep alive its hopes
for a second Final Four berth in
four years.
Chris Lofton scored 15 points
for Tennessee, but hit only 3 of 15
shots in his final game with the
second-seeded Volunteers (31-5),
who have never advanced beyond
the round of 16.
Xavier 79,
West virginia 75
PHOENIX Three-pointers
saved Xavier. Missed free throws
doomed West Virginia.
B.J. Raymond made two 3-
pointers in the last 1:18 of over-
time Thursday night and the
Musketeers advanced to the West
Regional final with a 79-75 vic-
tory over coach Bob Huggins
Mountaineers.
Third-seeded Xavier (30-6) will
seek its first Final Four appearance
when it plays top-seeded UCLA in
the regional final on Saturday.
Raymond, who had made only
one field goal all night, hit a 3-
pointer from the top of the key to
put the Musketeers ahead 75-74
with 1:18 to play. He then shook
loose on an inbounds play, took a
crosscourt pass and made a 3 with
the shot clock expiring with 30 sec-
onds to go for a 78-74 lead.
Josh Duncan scored a career-
high 26 points, despite foul trou-
ble, to lead Xavier. Joe Alexander
scored 18 and had 10 rebounds for
the Mountaineers (26-11).
West Virginia missed four of
six free throws in the overtime.
Alexander missed one with 14.2
seconds left in regulation that
would have given his team a 65-
64 lead.
ucla 88,
Western kentucky 78
PHOENIX With Kevin Love
scoring a career-high 29 points, the
Bruins nearly frittered away a 21-
point halftime lead and hung on to
defeat Western Kentucky.
The top-seeded Bruins (34-3)
are a win away from their third
consecutive trip to the Final Four.
Love also had 14 rebounds. He
hit 10-of-14 shots from the floor
and helped rescue the Bruins for
the second time in as many games.
James Keefe had 18 points and 12
rebounds, both career highs for
UCLA.
Tyrone Brazelton scored 31
points 25 in the second half
and Courtney Lee added 18
for 12th-seeded Western Kentucky
(29-7).
UCLA led 41-20 at halftime,
but the Hilltoppers began pressing
and whittled the lead to 61-57 with
6:50 to play. But then Love scored
from close range and Josh Shipp
hit a 3-pointer to push UCLAs lead
to 68-59.
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Order # Name Pos.
Bats/
Throws Year
Favorite
MLB team
Favorite
athlete
Favorite college
stadium
(other than
Hoglund Ballpark)
Signifcance of uniform
number
Baseball
superstitions
Memories from frst
baseball game with
dad
Baseball teams lineup felds questions
1
40 Nick Faunce CF Right Jr.
Steve
Prefontaine
Doug Kingsmore
Stadium at Clemson
It correlates the 40 days Jesus was
tempted in the desert by Satan
to my temptation for a hanging
curveball (but in reality I was just
given it).
Innumerable,
but a few are not
shaving (fear the
stache) and using
the same batting
gloves.
Leaning over the fence and
knocking the high arching
foul ball out of A-Rods glove
and soaking in the boos from
the fans.
2
37 Robby Price 2B
Bats left,
throws right
So. Chase Utley
UFCU Disch-Falk Field
at Texas or Olsen Field at
Texas A&M
San Diego
Padres
In honor
of Mike
Zagurski
Whatever is work-
ing for me at the
time.
N/A
3
3 John Allman LF Right Sr.
St. Louis
Cardinals
Albert
Pujols
Olsen Field at Texas A&M
Wanted six, but it was already
taken, because my brother was
number six and I grew up watch-
ing him play. My sister is also
number six on the University of
Maine volleyball team. Stan Musial
was number six. Three is half of
six.
LTFF.
I went to a Cardinals game at
the old Busch Stadium with
my dad and my grandpa. My
grandpa took me on the field
and in the locker room. I ran
out to center field and all I
remember was how big it was.
4 30 Buck Afenir C Right Jr.
San Diego
Padres
Mike
Scroggins
Doug Kingsmore
Stadium at Clemson
Thats what was given to me.
Repeat every-
thing after a good
game.
The Padres made light work
of the Giants, as usual.
5
11 Ryne Price
Bats left,
throws right
RF Sr.
San Francisco
Giants
Nick
Swisher
Olsen Field at Texas A&M Just like the number. None really.
Just going to games from high
school to college to the San
Jose Giants games all over the
San Jose area all the time.
6 10 Erik Morrison SS Right Sr.
San Diego
Padres
Peter
Wazlawick
Doug Kingsmore
Stadium at Clemson
The amount of times that I
have beaten Robby Price in PS2
MLB.
Showering with
green soap.
Not being able to stay in
the sack and complete the
race with Ryne Price at the
Beavers (Padres AA team)
game in Portland.
7
20 Preston Land 1B Right Jr.
Boston
Red Sox
Chuck
Liddell
Doug Kingsmore
Stadium at Clemson
Only one to choose from.
Same routine
before I get in the
box every time.
It was a Royals game. All dad
wanted to do was watch the
game and all I wanted was to
get more ice cream.
8
8
Tony
Thompson
3B Right Fr.
Oakland
Athletics
Eric
Chavez
Goodwin Field at
Cal State-Fullerton
Favorite number besides three.
Keep a guitar
pick in my bat
bag at all times.
I went to a Giants game
at Candlestick Park and
got yelled at by all the fans
because I wore a Dodgers hat
and jersey.
9
7 Jimmy Waters DH
Bats left,
throws right
Fr.
New York
Yankees
Alex
Rodriguez
and Cael
Sanderson
Johnny Rosenblatt
Stadium, home of the
CWS, and Boshamer
Stadium at North
Carolina
Have worn it since I
can remember.
I jump over the
foul lines and,
if I have a good
day, I do the same
thing. Have a bad
day and Ill do the
exact opposite.
We had the seats right by the
dugout at the College World
Series where I could actually
see and reach into the dugout.
Todd Helton was getting his
bat and I asked him for a ball.
He grabbed a ball, signed it,
then warmed up and hit a
home run that at-bat. I still
have the ball. It was great!
PGA
Wilson leads by one stroke in
frst round of Zurich Classic
AVONDALE, La. Refreshed
after a couple of weeks of, Dean
Wilson birdied three of the last
four holes in windy conditions
Thursday for a 6-under 66 and
a one-stroke lead after the frst
round of the Zurich Classic.
Ive struggled a little bit,
Wilson said. I took a couple weeks
of and just went home and tried
to clear my brain and just play
golf rather than maybe sit on the
range and fddle with my swing.
Twenty-fve players in the feld
this week have qualifed for the
Masters, including defending
Masters champion Zach Johnson
(72) and defending British Open
champion Padraig Harrington (71).
This is the third time the Zurich
Classic has been played on the
7,341-yard TPC Louisiana course.
Completed in time for the 2005
tournament, Hurricane Katrina
hit the Pete Dye-designed course
hard, fooding several holes and
knocking down nearly 2,000 trees.
It was closed for 10 months.
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Blake Stoufer
The second baseman has
struggled from behind the plate
this year with
his .213 average
and 17 strike-
outs. While the
Aggies bats
have been hot,
Stoufers has
not. Texas A&M
will need pro-
duction from
their second
basemen as he only accounts for
24 total base hits. The senior was
frst-team All-Big 12 as a junior
and hit .398, while having 6 RBIs
against the Jayhawks in 07. Being
named Louisville Slugger pre-
season All-America frst-team this
year, Stoufer will need to return
to his past form.
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Jayhawks take on aggies
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Texas A&M
(18-6, 3-3)
KAnSAS vs. texas a&M 4 p.m., hoglund Ballpark, Lawrence
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Well, the numbers arent pretty. Kansas has a 4.36 team ERA and
sophomore lefty Wally Marciel and junior lefties Nick Czyz and Sam
Freeman havent helped that fgure. Marciels 6.41 ERA, Czyzs 7.77
ERA and Freemans 5.04 ERA are the three highest among Kansas
pitchers with more than 10 innings pitched this season. However,
Marciel (2-3) was one of Kansas top starters before joining the
weekend rotation and, against Texas two weekends ago, Czyz (1-3)
and Freeman (4-0) allowed just four runs in 11 combined innings
while striking out six. The left-handed trio will have to pitch well
enough to go deep into games this weekend, limit walks and
control Texas A&Ms running game, which is second best in the Big
12 with 40 stolen bases this season. When the starters give the ball
to the bullpen, they leave the game in good hands. Senior right-
hander Andres Esquibel leads the Jayhawk bullpen with a 2.32 ERA,
which is 10th best in the Big 12. Junior right-handed closer Paul
Smyth leads Kansas with six saves.
Kansas is third in the Big 12 in runs with 195 and has shown no
signs of slowing down. The Jayhawks are averaging nine runs a
game over their last nine. Senior left felder John Allman can do
it all, leading the team with a .367 batting average and .479
on-base percentage to go along with a stellar .522 slug-
ging percentage. Kansas also packs some power potential
in the heart of its lineup with Allman, junior catcher Buck
Afenir, senior right felder Ryne Price and senior shortstop
Erik Morrison occupying the 3-6 spots in the order. Combined
they have 13 of Kansas 20 home runs with Prices six leading the
team. Moved to the seventh spot in the order this week, junior
frst baseman Preston Land is already hitting better, upping his
average from .250 to .271. The Kansas ofense will have to be
running on all cylinders this weekend in the event the Jayhawk
pitching staf cant keep the Aggies of the board.
Kansas defense ranks towards the middle of the
pack in the Big 12, but the Jayhawks must keep er-
rors to a minimum against the Aggies. Considering
the efciency with which Texas A&M steals bases,
Kansas cant aford to allow extra runners on bases.
The Kansas pitching staf will have a hard enough time
containing the Texas A&M ofense without giving the Ag-
gies extra outs. More pressure will also be placed on Afenir, who has
a .692 stolen bases against percentage. If the Aggies run too freely
on Afenir, he may be replaced behind the plate by Price, who has
the stronger arm of the two.
The Aggies enter Lawrence with two of the top freshman pitchers
in the nation. Texas A&M will start freshman Brooks Raley tonight,
who enters the series 3-0 and a 2.89 ERA. The Saturday starter will
be the other half of the freshman phenom duo, Barret Loux. While
getting of to a slow start, Loux comes to Lawrence with a 1-1 record
and a 3.76 ERA. Out of the bullpen, sophomore Travis Starling is 2-0
in 11 appearances with 5 saves and brings an impressive 0.69 ERA to
the table.
The Aggies have been a juggernaut from
behind the plate this year, outscoring their
opponents by 77 runs through the
season so far. Texas A&M features the
Big 12 leader in hitting this season, senior
third baseman Dane Carter. Carter is hitting
an astounding .457 and has a .772 slug-
ging percentage. The Aggies have three
other starters hitting above .300 in, .392
junior shortstop Jose Duran, .329
junior catcher Brian Ruggiano and
.326 junior designated hitter Luke
Anders. The Aggies are known to
put up a bunch of runs in clumps and
are a force to be reckoned with from behind
the dish.
While Texas A&M lights up
the scoreboard on ofense, their
defense often hampers them in
games they lose. While the left
side of the infeld produces power
on ofense, it is also often times
a headache for head coach Rob
Childress. Shortstop Jose Duran
enters the series with 11 errors
and third baseman Dane
Carter has seven of his
own. While the Aggies
boot the ball around at
times, they also get burnt on
the base paths. Catcher Brian Ruggiano
is 1-10 with runners stealing and back-up
freshman Kevin Gonzales allowed ten run-
ners to steal, while only throwing out three.
Morrison
Afenir
Allman
Carter
Thebeau
Stoufer
Lineup
C Buck Afenir
1B Preston Land
2B Robby Price
3B Tony Thompson
SS Erik Morrison
LF John Allman
CF Nick Faunce
RF Ryne Price
DH TBA
Rotation
Friday: LHP Wally Marciel
Saturday: LHP Nick Czyz
Sunday: LHP Sam Freeman
Lineup
C Kevin Gonzales
1B Ben Feltner
2B Blake Stoufer
3B Dane Carter
SS Jose Duran
LF Brian Ruggiano
CF Kyle Cooligan
RF Nick Fleece
DH Luke Anders
Rotation
Friday: Brooks Raley
Saturday: Barret Loux
Sunday: Scott Migl
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MLB
Japanese pitcher tries to
make comeback at 39
SURPRISE, Ariz. Hideo Nomo,
the legendary Japanese pitcher
who is trying to make a comeback
at 39, will make the trip with the
Kansas City Royals to Milwaukee
for a weekend series with the
Brewers.
Nomo is battling not only for
the fnal spot in the Royals bullpen,
but a groin strain, which occurred
when he was pitching Tuesday
against San Diego.
A plan for Nomo to throw of a
fat surface Thursday, the Royals
fnal day in Arizona, was scratched.
He still feels it today,Royals
manager Trey Hillman said. Its
not severe. ... Well see how the
fight afects it. Hell get a little bit
more rest on it instead of maybe
irritating it.
Hillman said he doesnt know
whether Nomo will pitch Saturday,
the fnal exhibition game, if he
throws on Friday.
Were not going to just put a
ball in his hands on fat ground and
let him play catch and then throw
him into a game,Hillman said.
But there is a chance, if he feels
really good on fat ground, that we
might let him get on the mound
and see how it feels in the bullpen.
If he feels nothing, then we could
progress him to the game.
Nomo, who has not pitched in
the majors since 2005 and only in
winter ball last year after elbow
surgery in 2006, is 1-0 with a 4.80
earned run average in seven
games. He has struck out 17 and
walked only three in 15 innings.
Royals center felder David
DeJesus has not played since
spraining his right ankle in his frst
at-bat Monday.
Im hesitant to play him tomor-
row,Hillman said. I might get him
in later, but I doubt if Ill start him.
I might put him in for a couple of
innings of defense at the end and
see how that goes and hope-
fully play him the second day in
Milwaukee.
Cleveland loses to tampa Bay
in their fnal spring game
The Cleveland Indians lost their
fnal spring game in Florida while
the New York Yankees dropped
one on their renamed Grapefruit
League feld. Boston didnt play
and Atlanta lost but both teams
got encouraging news about key
starting pitchers.
Carlos Pena hit one of Tampa
Bays three home runs and the Rays
beat Cleveland 9-7 in 10 innings
Thursday in the Indians fnal spring
game in Winter Haven, Fla.
Minor league infelder Andy
Gonzalez hit a grand slam for
the Indians, who extended their
16-year stay at Chain of Lakes Park
by 30 minutes with a ninth-inning
rally to tie it at 5.
Its always bittersweet to leave
a place, but times change,Indians
manager Eric Wedge said. Theres
a lot of memories here.
The Indians are moving to a
new $76 million spring training
complex in Goodyear, Ariz., in
2009.
This was no ordinary getaway
day. Moving vans replaced Cadil-
lacs in the players parking lot.
Fans pleaded with players to sign
one last autograph in the Florida
sunshine.

Tony Thompson
The No. 20 ranked Texas A&M
Aggies found themselves in a
dogfght with UTSA on the road.
Trailing throughout the game, the
Aggies put two runs on the board
in the seventh to put them up 4-3.
After allowing an eighth inning
run, the Aggies had to rely on a
two out base hit in the top of the
ninth by Brian Ruggiano to slam
the door. Texas A&M was once
again impressive from behind the
plate putting 11 hits on the board.
.457- Big 12 leader in hitting,
Dane Carters batting average.

169-92- The number of
runs the Aggies have scored this
year opposed to their opponents.
7-2- The Aggies record when
scoring in the frst inning.
8- The longest winning streak
of the year for Texas A&M
4- The starting time of the
frst game Friday, allowing fans
to attend the game before the
basketball games festivities.
Dane Carter
The third
baseman has
torched pitch-
ers from behind
the plate
this year and
become the Big
12s leading hit-
ter. Carter leads
the Aggies with
5 triples, 5 home runs and 22 RBIs.
kyle thebeau
The junior
pitcher has
been an anchor
out of the Ag-
gies bullpen
and is third on
the team with
25 strikeouts.
In his 8 appear-
ances out of
the bullpen,
Thebeau has a 1.12 ERA in 24
innings pitched. The Aggies will
need someone to close the gap
between their good starters and
closer, and Thebeau is that person.
erik Morrison
While Allmans average has
soared this
week, Morri-
sons has plum-
meted during
the same time
span. The se-
nior shortstop
is 2-for-18 with
a run and two
RBI in his last
four games. Batting .318 before
Sunday, Morrisons average has
dropped to .282.
Buck afenir
The junior catcher was 3-for-5
with two runs, fve RBI and a
home run in
his frst game
in the cleanup
spot Sunday.
However, since
that game, Afe-
nir is 0-for-4 in
the fourth spot
in the order.
He not only
needs to drive
in runs from the cleanup spot
this weekend, but hell also have
to contain Texas A&Ms running
game from behind the plate.
John allman
The senior
left felder is a
juggernaut of-
fensively lately.
In his last four
games, Allman
is 9-for-13 with
fve runs, eight
RBI and three
extra base hits.
.609 The percent of the
time baserunners successfully
steal bases against Kansas, which
is the fourth best percentage in
the Big 12.
4 The number of wins junior
left-hander Sam Freeman has,
which leads Kansas, despite a 5.04
ERA.
6 The number of wins
Kansas has at home against Texas
A&M in 15 games.
10 Senior right-hander
Andres Esquibels rank among Big
12 pitchers with a 2.32 ERA.
34 The number of runs
senior right felder Ryne Price has
driven in, which leads the team.
He had 31 RBI all of last season.
Kansas played three midweek
games two against Chicago
State and one with Benedictine.
The Jayhawks went 3-0 against
the Cougars and Ravens, outscor-
ing them by a combined score of
25-6. However, after facing pitch-
ers that throw below the radar
gun all week, Kansas will have to
readjust to better pitching today.
Can the Aggies ofense put up enough runs to overcome their
defensive blunders? The Aggies committed a staggering 32 errors this
season. Their powerful bats have made up for the bloopers, though.
Carter and Duran must continue with their current power streaks to
prevent the errors from aiding the Jayhawks cause.
The wild card of the series will be what Kansas can get from its
starting pitching. Left-handers Wally Marciel, Nick Czyz and Sam
Freeman have put on Jekyll and Hyde performances all year. Kansas
doesnt need this trio to be perfect this weekend, it just needs Mar-
ciel, Czyz and Freeman to go at least six innings in each of their starts
and leave the game with the score close. The bullpen and ofense
can take care of the rest.
Associated Press
Remember Villanovas game
against Connecticut in February
2007? Heres a refresher. Reynolds
scored a career-high 40 points as
a freshman. College basketball
fans know all about Reynolds,
Villanovas lead-
ing scorer at 16
points per game.
Casual fans, get
to know him.
Kansas guards
Mario Chalmers
and Sherron
Collins know all about Reynolds
also. Chalmers and Collins tried
out for the U.S. PanAm Games
team with Reynolds last summer.
Reynolds made the team, Chalm-
ers and Collins were both cut. Who
was the head coach of that team?
Villanovas Jay Wright. Chalmers
and Collins maintain they have
no hard feelings towards Reyn-
olds or Wright. But come on - You
think they wont be a little extra
motivated?
Corey Stokes, 6-foot-5 freshman guard,
A freshman averaging 6.4 points per game,
Stokes attended the same high school, St. Bene-
dicts, as former Kansas forward Alex Galindo. He
scored 20 points in the Wildcats second-round
victory against Siena.
Scottie Reynolds, 6-foot-2 sophomore guard,
Reynolds actually originally signed with Okla-
homa, but Sooners coach Kelvin Sampson left the
school, and Reynolds was released from his letter
of intent.
Antonio Pena, 6-foot-8 fresh-
man forward,
Russell Robinson said
he was familiar with Pena, a Brooklyn, NY, native.
Pena likes to play inside, but can step out on the
perimeter as well.
Dante Cunningham, 6-foot-8
junior forward,
One of the Wildcats most consistent
players, Cunningham is second on the team in
minutes played with 29.9 minutes per game. The
Wildcats leading rebounder is also second in scor-
ing with 10.4 points per game.
Dwayne Anderson, 6-foot-6
junior forward,
A 50 percent shooter from the feld, An-
derson is an efcient ofensive player who is relied
on more for defense and rebounding.
Corey Fisher , 6-foot-1 freshman guard,
Another freshman, Fisher once scored 37 points in
a victory against O.J. Mayos high school team.
Odds are that Robinson and
Chalmers will guard Scottie
Reynolds in the beginning.
If they cant stop him, Rush
might have
to take over.
Rushs size
might con-
fuse Reynolds
and make
him less
of a factor.
Ofensively,
expect
Rush to come out fring. He
did against Portland State last
week, attempting several early
shots. This the most motivated
Rush has been during his KU
career. He wants to make the
Final Four, and he wants to
move himself into the frst
round of the NBA Draft.
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KANSAS FACES OFF AGAINST VILLANOVA IN MOTOR CITY
Kansas vs. viLLanova 8:40 p.m., pontiac silverdome, detroit, CBs
Kansas
(33-3, 13-3)
Villanova
(22-12, 9-9)
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Ford Field will rock for KU if
The Jayhawks start the game on fre. They did against Port-
land State in the opening round but let UNLV dictate the
tempo in their second round matchup. Kansas is the superior
team and needs to prove it from the beginning. The Jayhawks
can do that if Darrell Arthur and Darnell Jackson establish
themselves against Villanovas front court. If not, the Wildcats
will hang around.
phog allen will roll over in over in his Grave if
Scottie Reynolds drops 40. Hes done it before. Last year
against Connecticut, Reynolds put together the best scoring
performance of any freshman in the country. He can shoot
from the outside and drive. Kansas might have the advantage
though. Robinson and Chalmers have defended D.J. Augustin
twice this season, a player who is comparable to Reynolds.
The Jayhawks are also used to guarding against Kansas State,
another team that relies heavily on one player.
84-72 Kansas
The Wildcats like to run, and the Jayhawks wont mind join-
ing them. This is going to be a fast-paced, fun game. Give Kan-
sas the edge for having more scoring options and more talent.
Player mins Fg-FgA 3Fg-3FgA Rebs Points
00 Arthur, Darrell 24.1 196-363 2-12 6.2 13.1
25 Rush, Brandon 29.1 154-362 75-171 5.0 13.0
15 Chalmers, Mario 29.7 146-278 65-138 3.1 12.6
32 Jackson, Darnell 24.4 157-252 2-6 6.7 11.5
04 Collins, Sherron 23.2 105-219 35-95 2.0 9.5
03 Robinson, Russell 27.6 77-182 31-99 2.8 7.4
24 Kaun, Sasha 17.4 96-157 0-0 3.9 7.1
45 Aldrich, Cole 8.4 41-79 0-0 3.1 2.9
05 Stewart, Rodrick 11.9 35-71 5-16 2.3 2.9
02 Teahan, Conner 3.4 16-27 12-20 0.5 2.4
14 Reed, Tyrel 6.9 18-35 11-24 0.5 2.2
10 Case, Jeremy 5.0 16-44 10-28 0.3 1.6
11 Bechard, Brennan 1.8 5-9 2-5 0.3 1.2
54 Kleinmann, Matt 2.4 3-7 0-0 0.7 0.4
40 Witherspoon, Brad 2.0 0-4 0-3 0.3 0.2
22 Buford, Chase 1.6 1-9 0-6 0.4 0.2
Player mins Fg-FgA 3Fg-3FgA Rebs Points
01 Reynolds, Scottie 32.4 160-385 77-202 3.1 16.0
33 Cunningham, Dante 29.9 139-253 0-0 6.4 10.4
11 Fisher, Corey 21.9 102-286 41-120 1.8 9.2
00 Pena, Antonio 19.6 86-179 2-6 4.3 7.0
20 Clark, Shane 22.2 74-170 16-55 2.5 7.0
24 Stokes, Corey 18.2 72-197 39-131 4.8 6.4
22 Anderson, Dwayne 20.7 69-136 21-63 0.8 6.4
03 Grant, Malcolm 12.7 46-118 34-73 4.5 5.6
05 Drummond, Casiem 13.2 43-82 0-0 2.6 4.9
15 Redding, Reggie 20.7 54-138 9-35 1.3 4.6
42 Tchuisi, Frank 1.6 1-6 0-0 0.8 0.4
04 Colenda, Jason 1.4 0.0 0-0 0.2 0.0
Russell Robinson, 6-foot-1 senior guard
Kansas got a major lift from Robinson against
UNLV when he scored 13 points. He doesnt need to
do that tonight. Robinson should expend all his en-
ergy on defense, where he has to fnd a way to stop
Scottie Reynolds.
mario Chalmers, 6-foot-1 junior guard
Chalmers is in a zone. Even when he
fell to the ground after a hard foul in
last Saturdays game, he made the
basket. His outside shooting touch
deserted him earlier that game,
and he still found a way to score
17.
Brandon Rush, 6-foot-6
junior guard
Rush is being slightly
more aggressive than
usual, but his scoring
numbers are really just
going up because hes making
shots. Against a guard-oriented
lineup, Rush should be able to get shots
near the basket, if he decides to leave the
perimeter.
Darnell Jackson, 6-foot-8 senior
forward
Give credit to Jackson for getting nine
rebounds, but thats about all he did
against UNLVs small lineup. KUs post
players all got into foul trouble in a game
where they could have dominated.
Darrell Arthur, 6-foot-9 sopho-
more forward
Arthur falls into the same category
as Jackson. He wasnt bad against the
Rebels, but he should have played better
against a small lineup. Arthur will get the
same opportunity tonight against the
small Wildcats.
Sherron Collins, 5-foot-11 sopho-
more guard
If Collins bruised knee is OK, the
Jayhawks are OK. No one can mix it
up for Kansas like Collins. He played
well in the second half last Saturday
and has been practicing all week. He
should be healthy.
Its a diferent feel. I think
guys just have a lot of con-
fdence. Last year gave us a
nice taste of what we want to
do. Guys are still hungry and
ready to eat a big plate this
time around. It was a tough
loss, but it wasnt bitter. It gave
us a good taste of what could
potentially happen. Now were
ready to go out and see exactly
what can happen. Its gonna
take us playing hard every
game.
Russell Robinson on the
experience fromlast years loss to UCLA
Bill Self maintains that
Kansas isnt lucky for get-
ting to play the 12-seeded
Wildcats instead of Clemson
or Vanderbilt. He might be
right. Villanova could prove
to be a tough test because
the Wildcats go through hot
stretches where they are
tough to beat. Kansas certainly
wont overlook Villanova. The
Jayhawks are focused. Theyre
still smarting from last seasons
Elite Eight loss and want to
make the Final Four. This team
is experienced and ready to do
something special.
Most didnt expect Kansas to
face Villanova in Detroit. Well,
here they are. The 12th seeded
Wildcats are 22-12, and fnished
tied for eighth in the Big East. But
Villanova coach Jay Wright and his
Wildcats are used to being here.
Nova has made the NCAA Sweet
Sixteen three out of the last four
years. The Wildcats have had a
nice run, but itll be interesting to
see if they have the juice to stay
with the Hawks.
Ive said this before. I think
the thing that stands out frst and
foremost is how hard they play
and how hard they compete. They
take great pride in getting 78 or
80% of the 50/50 balls. They steal
extra possessions for their team. I
think theyre not good defensively,
I think theyre great defensively
and theyre getting better.
Bill Self on Villanova,
Kansas Sweet 16 opponent
Teahan Three Point-o-meter
Will freshman walk-on Connor Teahan get the op-
portunity to play tonight? This meter tells all.
will this be another Kansas
choke job?
KU fans have been torment-
ed for years with losses before
the Final Four to teams that
seemed overmatched. There
was Arizona, UTEP and Virginia
to name a few. Villanova fts the
mold. The Wildcats, a 12 seed,
can get hot and put up a fght
against any team in the coun-
try. Theyre also a team that
the Jayhawks could overlook
because they are a Cinderella
team this year. Dont expect it
to happen though. Kansas is
too experienced to look past an
opponent at this point. If the
Wildcats win, it will be because
they play a better game.
Just how good is villanova?
We know they beat Clemson
in the frst and then polished of
Siena in the second, but its tough
to know what to make of a team
that fnished tied for eighth in
the Big East and barely made the
NCAA tournament. The Wildcats
sufered through a fve-game los-
ing streak in January and Febru-
ary, capped with an ugly 22-point
loss at Saint Josephs. After the
Clemson victory, Villanovas best
victory could be its 78-56 home
victory against West Virginia. But
looking to the past right now
might be foolish. Know this any
team with Scottie Reynolds is a
dangerous team, and Wright has
proven himself to be a rising star
in the coaching profession. How
good is Nova? Thats why they
play the games, right?

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