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STATES TO
JOIN NATO
Two ex-Soviet states want
to join the European alliance
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BY MARY SORRICK
msorrick@kansan.com
Lisa Ling, who has been correspon-
dent with The Oprah Winfrey Show and
National Geographics
Explorer, will visit the
University of Kansas
Thursday night to speak
about her experiences
as a journalist. Ling has
covered some of the
worlds most harrowing
stories, including issues
ranging from bride burning in India to
the civil war in Uganda to the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
She is also known for her turn as a co-
host on The View from 1999 to 2002.
Lings lecture will take place at 7 p.m.
at the Lied Center. It is part of the annual
Spring Student Lecture Series, sponsored by
Student Union Activities, Student Senate,
the Emily Taylor Womens Resource Center
and the Lied Center of Kansas.
Brittani Wilton, Buffalo Grove, Ill., junior,
and coordinator of the SUA social issues
committee, said the series was usually SUAs
largest speaking event of the year.
We try to bring hot topics or prominent
figures that students might not get to see
otherwise, Wilton said.
Briana Saunders, Vancouver Island,
British Columbia, junior, and member of
the SUAs social issues committee, said Lings
experience covering stories from places like
Cambodia and Darfur made her a good fit
for the lecture series.
She can provide an interesting perspec-
tive about these places and how they relate
to students, she said.
Wilton said SUA decided to feature a
female speaker this year because the series
had primarily featured men in recent years,
such as Robert S. Kennedy, Jr., in 2007, and
Mahdi Obeidi, author of The Bomb in My
Garden, in 2006.
SUA also wanted to connect this years
lecture series with Womens History Month,
which takes place in March.
Saunders said Ling was asked to come
to the University based on the results of a
student survey conducted in the fall.
Out of a list of five potential speakers,
she was among the top three, along with
Diane Sawyer and Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a
sex therapist.
Saunders said the issues Ling had cov-
ered were important to students and the
community.
Shes extremely well-versed on current
issues, Saunders said. She will bring a
diversity that we havent brought recently
to campus.
Tickets for Lisa Lings lecture are available
at the Lied Center and SUA box offices.
Edited by Matt Hirschfeld
details
Spring 2008 Student Lecture Series
Who: Lisa Ling
When: April 3, 7 p.m.
Where: Lied Center
Cost: Free to students with student
ID, $10 for general public
For more info: 785-864-SHOW,
suasocialissues@gmail.com
Ling
Journalist lisa ling to speak at lied Center
leCture
Jessie fetterling/KANSAN
Emily Travis, Overland Park freshman, dressed in a dog suit, hugs Rebecca Keene, Chicago freshman, onWescoe BeachTuesday afternoon. Travis gave out high-fves and hugs to students to promote AFTERdark at the Lied Center
Wednesday night. AFTERdark is a nationwide movement designed to give students hope and fnd a newdirection. For more on AFTERdark, see page 7A.
lAWreNCe
Commission
elects Dever
as mayor
OreAd iNN
Demolition
at hotel site
to begin soon
full story on page 3a
full story on page 3a
Michael Dever was unanimously voted
by the Lawrence City Commission as the
successor to former mayor Sue Hack last
night. Dever will serve until next years
election. Robert Chestnut also became
the new vice mayor of Lawrence.
Lawrence city commissioners offi-
cially approved the Oread Inn last night.
Paul Werner, an architect working on the
project, said the demolition of Yello Sub,
The Crossing and some other structures
located at 12
th
and Oread streets would
begin next week.
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ODD NEWS
Lack of citation leads to
plagiarized honor code
SAN ANTONIO Their goal
was an honor code that discour-
aged cheating and plagiarizing.
However, the wording in a
draft by students at the University
of Texas at San Antonio appears
to match another schools code
without proper attribution.
The student currently in
charge of the honor code project
said it was an oversight, but
cheating experts say it illustrates
a sloppiness among Internet-era
students who dont know how to
cite sources properly and think of
their computers as cut-and-paste
machines.
Thats the consequence of
the Internet and the availability
of things, said Daniel Wueste,
director of the Rutland Institute
for Ethics at Clemson University.
It doesnt feel like what would
be in a book. You Google it and
here it comes.
Student Akshay Thusu said
that when he took over the
project a month ago he inher-
ited a draft by earlier project
participants, including a group of
students who attended a confer-
ence fve years ago put on by The
Center for Academic Integrity at
Clemson.
Materials from the confer-
ence, which are used by many
universities, were probably the
main source of UTSAs proposed
code, Thusu said. Thats why parts
of the Texas draft match word-
for-word the online version of
Brigham Young Universitys code.
BYU credited the Center for
Academic Integrity, but the San
Antonio draft doesnt.
That will change, said Thusu,
who plans to include proper
citation and attribution when the
draft is submitted to the faculty
senate.
We dont want to have an
honor code that is stolen,Thusu
said.
Rep. pushes for mental
health plan after robbery
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. A 77-
year-old Illinois state representa-
tive is happy to be alive after a
man with a gun pushed his way
into her home and robbed her
of $7.
Wyvetter H. Younge was not
injured in the robbery that oc-
curred around noon Friday.
Younge said she thought her
son had knocked on her door
and opened it, but instead found
an armed man. He told her to get
on her hands and knees, then
grabbed her purse and ran.
Younge, a Democrat, said she
didnt recognize the man, who
wore a red hat and red jacket and
dark pants. She said shes going
to pray for him.
This robbery and whats hap-
pening to this community is the
result of a lack of a supportive
system for our youth. We need
jobs, she said. This happened in
broad daylight at noon. We need
a mental health support system.
This is further evidence of that.
Illinois State Police are inves-
tigating.
Bounced check leads man
to commit bank robbery
SPARTANBURG, S.C. Author-
ities say a man robbed a bank
in South Carolina after the $173
check he tried to cash bounced.
Police say the man gave a teller
the personal check on Monday
morning, but the teller couldnt
cash it because there wasnt
enough money in the account.
Authorities say the man told
the teller he had to have the
cash or someone was going to
kill him. Police say the teller gave
the man some money and he ran
away.
Post-drinking, man dis-
covered in trash bin
MUNCIE, Ind. William M.
Bowen woke up after a night of
drinking with friends and realized
he was inside a commercial trash-
collection truck full of waste.
The driver had just emptied
a commercial trash bin into his
truck and was about to activate
its compactor when he heard
Bowen screaming.
Bowen told police he had
been drinking with buddies at
a Muncie bar until about 3 a.m.
Thursday.
Associated Press
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VANCOUVER, Wash. A
recently discovered parachute could
not have been used by D.B. Cooper
in 1971, says the man who packed
the four chutes that were given to
the mysterious skyjacker.
The torn, tangled parachute
found about a month ago by chil-
dren along a dirt road near Amboy
was probably made around 1945,
said Earl Cossey, who examined the
chute for the FBI on Friday.
The FBI said the matter remained
under investigation.
A man who had given his name
as Cooper hijacked a Northwest
Orient flight from Portland, Ore.,
to Seattle in November 1971,
claiming he had a bomb. After the
plane landed at Seattle, he released
the passengers in exchange for
$200,000 and four parachutes and
asked to be flown to Mexico. He
then bailed out of the jet as it flew
somewhere near the Oregon line.
Some of the money given to
him was found in 1980 along the
Columbia River, but the fate of
Cooper remains unknown. Many
think he could not have survived
the jump.
Cossey, who sold parachutes at
a skydiving operation in Issaquah
in the 1970s, had provided the
chutes that the FBI gave Cooper.
He told The Columbian of
Vancouver that the newly found
chute absolutely, for sure could
not have been one of the four that
he provided.
The D.B. Cooper parachute was
made of nylon, he said. This 1945
parachute was made of silk.
FBI agent Roberta Burroughs in
Seattle said Monday that agents had
not ruled out the possibility that
the chute was from Cooper.
We havent made a determina-
tion one way or the other yet,
Burroughs said. Were still in the
process of finishing up what inves-
tigative steps we think are neces-
sary to feel certain about calling it
one way or the other.
The FBI had launched a public-
ity campaign last fall, hoping to
generate new tips to solve the 36-
year-old mystery.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FBI Special Agent Robbie Burroughs looks at the date on the parachute found in North Clark
County, Wash., onTuesday, March 25, in Seattle. The FBI is working to fnd out if it is linked to the
infamous D.B. Cooper case from1971.
Chute not linked
to 1971 skyjacking
diSCOvery ODD NEWS
Woman mistakes
police for drug dealer
LAKE CHARLES, La. Po-
lice ofcers suspected that
a car they had pulled over
was stolen, so they called the
registered owner and left a
message.
But when the owner called
back, ofcers say, she appar-
ently thought the message
was from a drug dealer, and
she was busted for allegedly
trying to buy crack cocaine.
Ofcers put in a lot of
energy to close a case, so we
never mind getting one on
sheer luck and stupidity, Lake
Charles police Sgt. Mark Kraus
said of last weeks arrest.
He said ofcers Hope
Kingery and George Miller
stopped a vehicle for a trafc
violation and the driver could
not produce identifcation or
a valid license. While waiting
to hear from the owner, they
determined the vehicle wasnt
stolen and allowed the driver
to leave, Kraus said.
About an hour later, Miller
got a call on his cell phone
from the apparent owner of
the car who stated that she
would like to buy $150 in
crack, Kraus said.
Associated Press
What do you think?
by KATIE GuINN
WhaT Do you ThINk aBouT ku goINg up agaINST uNC IN
The FINal Four?
MeliNdA rOBiNSON
Hutchison sophomore
I think its going to be really inter-
esting because Roy Williams is the
coach. I also think its going to be
really challenging game.
SHeHAN FerNANdO
Sri lanka sophomore
I think we will win. I think they
have a lot of teamwork and they
are really active when they are
playing.
KATe AUgUST
Chicago freshman
I think its going to be a good
game. I think KU is going to come
out on top. UNC has had it pretty
easy so far in the tournament.
AdAM lee
Seoul graduate student
I think we are going to win.
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news 3A Wednesday, april 2, 2008
BY ANDY GREENHAW
agreenhaw@kansan.com
Former Lawrence mayor Sue
Hack passed the torch on to the
new mayor, Michael Dever, at last
nights Lawrence City Commission
meeting as all five commissioners
voted to elect Dever as mayor and
Robert Chestnut as the new vice
mayor.
Chestnut said the three most
significant issues he and Dever
would focus on during their terms
were balancing the 2009 budget,
encouraging economic develop-
ment and improving the planning
process by making sure land-use
permits are processed more effi-
ciently.
Before stepping down as mayor,
Hack gave her state of the city
address in which she praised
Lawrences relationship with the
University of Kansas.
We must not fail to recog-
nize the millions of dollars that
flow into this community due to
the efforts of the research done
at KU, Hack said. Encouraging
individuals who called Lawrence
home for their college careers to
come back and invest in this com-
munity will be an added benefit of
our positive relationship with the
University.
Hack went on to discuss the
specific relationships between the
city and the University, such as
the possible merge between KU
on Wheels and the city transit
system something Dever had
been working on throughout his
one-year term as vice mayor.
I thank Vice Mayor Dever
for his efforts in working with
our staff and Kansas personnel to
move this effort forward, Hack
said.
She also praised two projects
the city and the University part-
nered in building: the new tennis
facility, First Serve, and the new
KU Boathouse, which is not yet
completed.
Hack continued her address
with what she thought would be
the biggest challenge facing city
commissioners in the upcoming
year: the 2009 budget.
We know that if we are lucky,
our revenues from sales tax and
property tax will be equal to what
they were last year, but there is a
strong possibility that they will be
less, Hack said.
She said she believed discon-
nect existed in much of Lawrence
between what people in the com-
munity expected from city ser-
vices and what it took to maintain
those services.
Lawrence has always prided
itself on being a community that
enjoys its parks, its bike paths, its
arts, its cultural heritage and its
downtown ... just to name a few,
Hack said. Maintaining these
important pieces of our commu-
nity takes money and when the
bulk of that money comes from
residential property taxes, we are
putting ourselves in a perilous
position.
Hack went on to express the
need for the city to look at add-
ing additional sites for industrial
development to expand the citys
economy.
Economic development has
traditionally been a political issue
that has divided Lawrence resi-
dents.
None of these decisions are
easy and none come without
a fair amount of angst on the
part of many citizens, but unless
Lawrence wants to drop further
and further into the bedroom
community situation, we simply
have to find a way to present to
companies additional industrial
sites, Hack said.
Dever received the most votes
in the previous city commission
election and Chestnut received
the second-most.
Traditionally, the two candi-
dates who receive the most votes
in a city commission election are
nominated as mayor and vice
mayor in the following mayoral
election, said Lisa Patterson, city
communications manager.
The Lawrence city commission
hasnt broken this tradition since
1989, according to the citys Web
site.
Dever and Chestnut will hold
their positions for a year.
Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
City commission elects Dever as mayor
LAWRENCE
Chestnut elected vice mayor; pair names balancing 2009 budget as key focus
BY ANDY GREENHAW
agreenhaw@kansan.com
Lawrence City Commission
voted unanimously last night
to officially approve the Oread
Redevelopment Project.
No one from the public spoke
out against the project.
Weve been very cautious
about the numbers and Im
excited about moving forward
so I strongly suggest we move
forward with this project, said
Commissioner Sue Hack.
The Oread
Inn project
will have to
invest $11
million into
the construc-
tion of an
underground
parking garage
and other
improvements
in the area
around the
12th Street
and Oread
Avenue intersection.
The Oread Inn will be reim-
bursed over a 20-year period
through tax incremental financ-
ing: new money the Oread Inn
brings to the city.
In other words, the city will
add a 1 percent sales tax to the
hotel. The money raised through
that tax will go toward reim-
bursing the Oread Inn for the
$11 million improvements its
required to provide to the area.
If the hotel doesnt earn enough
revenue to reimburse itself in
20 years, it will not be com-
pletely reimbursed, said Matthew
Gough, an attorney representing
the Oread Inn project.
The developers will pay all
the expenses and are hoping to
get back what they can from
the tax incremental financing,
Gough said. The applicant must
self-perform and only then will it
be reimbursed for its expenses.
Commissioner Mike Amyx
asked City Manager Dave Corliss
what would happen if the devel-
opers didnt follow through with
their side of the agreement.
If the developer defaults on
the agreement, we can terminate
the agreement and take them to
court, Corliss said. If the devel-
oper doesnt perform, they dont
get the incremental tax revenue.
On April 8, city commission-
ers will discuss the demolition
plans for the structures located
at 12th Street and Oread Avenue,
which include Yello Sub, The
Crossing and
three houses
on Indiana
Street.
P a u l
Werner, an
a r c h i t e c t
working on
the proj-
ect, said the
d e m o t i o n
phase should
begin April 9.
He said the
construction phase should begin
in the middle of May.
He hopes the hotel will be
completed by January 2010, but it
will probably take a little longer,
he said.
Katy Welsh, member of the
Lawrence Preservation Alliance,
provided the only public com-
ment about the Oread Inn
when she said the project was
an opportunity for Lawrence to
focus on the architectural aspect
of the project.
We realize this is a done deal,
but were hoping this project
opens up a great discussion about
architecture in our community,
she said. In that line of thinking,
there is an architecture presenta-
tion at KU this Saturday where
we will discuss the possible archi-
tectural look of the project.
Edited by Patrick De Oliveira
OREAd iNN
Tax to help finance redevelopment
Project approved
Nathan Gill/KANSAN
Michael Dever, left, will serve as the newmayor of Lawrence, after the city commission unanimously chose himfor the positionTuesday. He will
serve with Robert Chestnut, right, who was elected as vice mayor. They will hold their positions for a year.
The developers will pay all the
expenses and are hoping to get
back what they can from the tax
incremental fnance.
Matthew gough
oread Inn project attorney
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CINCINNATI A tip from
an Iraqi helped the U.S. military
find the remains of an Ohio sol-
dier captured in an ambush and
then shown on Arab television sur-
rounded by armed masked men
nearly four years ago, an Army
official said Monday.
The parents of Staff Sgt. Keith
Matthew Maupin, who lobbied at
the Pentagon and even met with
President Bush about their miss-
ing son, were told Sunday of the
discovery.
The military had received tips
through the years from several
sources as authorities continued
their search for Maupin.
This last one proved to be the
most accurate as we kept getting
closer and closer, said Maj. Mark
Cheadle, a spokesman for the
Baghdad area command. The tip
was first reported by the Dayton
Daily News.
The remains were found in
northwest Baghdad, Cheadle said,
but he could not provide any more
details about the tip or when it was
received.
The Army used DNA testing
to identify the remains, said Keith
Maupin, the soldiers father. The
discovery of a shirt worn by sol-
diers at the time Matt Maupin was
captured also helped the Army
focus its search.
On Monday, Defense Secretary
Robert Gates expressed sympathy
to Maupins family.
This has been especially diffi-
cult for the Maupin family because
of not knowing for almost exactly
four years. So I want to extend my
condolences, Gates said, speak-
ing to reporters aboard a flight to
Denmark.
The Department of Defense also
announced an official change in
status Monday for Maupin from
missing-captured to deceased.
Maupin was a 20-year-old pri-
vate first class when he was cap-
tured April 9, 2004, after his fuel
convoy, part of the Bartonville,
Ill.-based 724th Transportation
Company, was ambushed west of
Baghdad.
A week later, the Arab televi-
sion network Al-Jazeera aired a
videotape showing Maupin wear-
ing camouflage and a floppy desert
hat, sitting on the floor surrounded
by five masked men holding auto-
matic rifles.
That June, Al-Jazeera aired
another tape purporting to show
a U.S. soldier being shot. But the
dark and grainy tape showed only
the back of the victims head and
not the execution.
His father, Keith Maupin, still is
not convinced that was his son.
If that was Matt, I consid-
er thats what God wanted and
they couldnt hurt Matt for a long
time, Maupin said Sunday. It
just took them a long time to
find him.
A month after his capture, Matt
Maupin was promoted to the rank
of specialist. In August 2006, he
was promoted to staff sergeant.
A three-star general discussed
the discovery of the remains with
Maupins parents on Sunday in
Batavia, a Cincinnati suburb where
their son grew up.
Four U.S. service members
remain missing in Iraq: Capt.
Michael Speicher, a Navy pilot, has
been missing since the 1991 Persian
Gulf War; Sgt. Ahmed al-Taie, a
41-year-old Iraqi-born reserve sol-
dier from Ann Arbor, Mich., was
abducted while visiting his Iraqi
wife in October 2006 in Baghdad;
and Pfc. Byron Fouty and Sgt. Alex
Jimenez have been missing since
May 12, 2007.
Soldiers remains found four years after ambush
IRAQ WAR
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Carolyn and Keith Maupin, parents of U.S. Army Sgt. Keith MatthewMaupin, wave as they participate in the Opening Day Parade prior to the Cincinnati Reds game with the Arizona
Diamondbacks in Cincinnati on Monday. Sgt. Maupins remains were found last week in Iraq. He had been listed as missing since 2004.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Air
quality officials in Kansas City
say time is running out for Gov.
Matt Blunt to give the city a
waiver from a law requiring the
use of an ethanol blend of gaso-
line at most pumps in the state.
The ozone season started
Tuesday, and city officials say
the waiver must be granted soon
to prevent the new ethanol gaso-
line from worsening the citys air
pollution.
The governor has said he
will work with us, but he is not,
said James Joerke, Mid-America
Regional Councils air quality
program manager.
The issue centers on a new
state law that requires the use
of a 10 percent ethanol blend,
called E10. While the gasoline
is seen as a way to decrease the
countrys dependence on foreign
oil, it also creates more smog
than standard gasoline.
Kansas City officials want
a waiver because the city vio-
lated the federal Clean Air Act
three times last year. The num-
ber of violations is expected to
increase this summer because
the Environmental Protection
Agency will implement stricter
ozone rules.
In a nutshell, E10 is help-
ful in reduc-
ing petroleum
c o n s u m p -
tion, but it is
not helpful
in terms of
ground-l evel
ozone, said
Ed Peterson,
J o h n s o n
County com-
missioner and
co- chai r man
of MARCs Air Quality Forum.
It is the health concerns of the
community that we are working
to solve here.
The law allows the gover-
nor to waive the requirement.
Blunts spokeswoman, Nanci
Gonder, told The Kansas City
Star in an e-mail that the gover-
nor is considering Kansas Citys
request. St. Louis, which has had
ozone pollution problems, has
not requested a waiver, Gonder
said.
We have been working with
appropriate agencies, including
DNR (the Department of Natural
Resources), to finalize a deci-
sion before
the weather
becomes a
factor and a
decision will
be made in
ample time
to avoid
any poten-
tial nega-
tive impli-
c a t i o n s ,
Gonder said.
But the city needs to know
soon if it will get a waiver,
because it has to contract with
oil companies and refineries
for the low-volatility fuel blend
Kansas City has used since the
1990s to reduce emissions, offi-
cials said. The worst of the ozone
season starts around June 1.
Its getting too late, said
Susan Brown, a member of
MARCs Air Quality Forum,
which reviews regional air
quality issues and makes
policy recommendations to
Missouri and Kansas.
Mo. gov. slow to grant waiver
ENVIRONMENT
In a nutshell, E10 is helpful in
reducing petroleum consump-
tion, but it is not helpful in
terms of ground-level ozone.
ED PETERSON
Johnson County commissioner
City may opt-out of E10 gasoline requirement
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD Britain froze
plans Tuesday to withdraw about
1,500 soldiers this spring after
the faltering effort to drive Shiite
militias from Basra raised doubts
whether the Iraqis are capable of
maintaining security in oil-rich
southern Iraq.
The British decision was
announced in London one week
before the top U.S. commander in
Iraq appears before Congress to
offer his recommendation on how
fast America should draw down its
own forces.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates
said Monday in Copenhagen,
Denmark that last weeks violence
in Shiite areas had not changed
American plans to withdraw more
combat forces by July.
But second thoughts about
Iraqi security capabilities emerged
as Iraqs government reported a
50 percent rise in the number of
people killed in March over the
previous month.
Much of the increase was a
result of the fighting between
Iraqi government forces and
Shiite militiamen in the southern
city of Basra. The conflict quickly
spread, engulfing Baghdad and
major cities throughout the Shiite
south.
Britain had planned to drawn
down its 4,000-strong military
force in southern Iraq to 2,500
over the next few months, handing
over more security responsibility
to the Iraqis.
In the wake of the Basra fight-
ing, however, Defense Secretary
Des Browne told the House of
Commons that it is prudent that
we pause any further reductions
while the current situation is
unfolding.
At this stage we intend to keep
our forces at their current levels
of around 4,000 as we work with
our coalition partners and with
the Iraqis to assess future require-
ments, Browne said, promising
to update lawmakers later this
month.
Browne offered no criticism of
the Iraqi effort in Basra, launched
March 25 to regain control of the
countrys second-largest city from
Shiite militias and criminal gangs
which have effectively ruled the
streets for nearly three years.
Nonetheless, Iraqi officials have
acknowledged they underestimat-
ed the fury of the militia resistance,
which included rocket and mortar
attacks against the U.S.-controlled
Green Zone in Baghdad and armed
assaults against government and
political party offices throughout
the south.
Prime Minister Nouri al-
Maliki, a Shiite, flew to Basra last
week and took personal command
of the crackdown, promising he
would remain in the city for a
decisive and final battle to crush
the militias.
Fighting eased after anti-
American Shiite cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr called his fighters off
the streets Sunday under a deal
brokered by Iran. But al-Sadrs
fighters refused to surrender their
weapons a development which
left the cleric in a position of
power and al-Maliki politically
battered.
Al-Maliki returned Tuesday
to Baghdad, declaring the opera-
tion a success although several
Basra neighborhoods appeared
to remain under militia control.
Al-Sadr, meanwhile, thanked his
fighters for defending your peo-
ple, your land and your honor.
Figures tabulated by The
Associated Press from police and
U.S. military reports put the March
death toll as of Monday at 1,247
nearly double the February fig-
ure and the biggest monthly toll
since August, when 1,956 people
died violently.
Britain abandons withdrawal plan
IRAQ WAR
ASSOCIATED PRESS
An Iraqi man named Mohammed grieves on a cofn, carrying his brother Uday Ramadan, during a funeral ceremony in the Shiite holy city of
Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday. Ramadan and another four members of Mahdi Army militia were killed on Sunday
during clashes with Iraqi security forces in the city of Karbala.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe The
main opposition leader insisted
Tuesday he has won Zimbabwes
presidential election outright and
denied persistent reports he was
negotiating to ease out President
Robert Mugabe, who has led the
country from liberation to ruin.
In his first public comments
since Saturdays election, Morgan
Tsvangirai said he was waiting for
an official announcement of the
results from the Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission before he would enter
any talks with Mugabe.
A businessman close to the state
electoral commission and a lawyer
close to the opposition said earlier
the two mens aides were negotiat-
ing a graceful exit for Mugabe, the
countrys leader of 28 years. Both
sources spoke on condition of ano-
nymity because of the sensitivity
of the issue. Several diplomats said
they had heard similar reports of
secret negotiations but could not
confirm talks were under way.
There are no discussions,
Tsvangirai said. Lets wait for ZEC
to complete its work, then we can
discuss the circumstances that will
affect the people.
Deputy Information Minister
Bright Matonga also denied it, tell-
ing the British Broadcasting Corp.
There are no negotiations whatso-
ever, because we are waiting for the
presidential results, so why do we
need to hold any secret talks?
Tensions rose as people stayed
away from work to await results.
A senior police officer, Wayne
Bvudzijena, went on state radio
to say: Our forces are more than
ready to deal with perpetrators of
violence.
Paramilitary police have stepped
up patrols in Harare and Bulawayo,
the second-largest city, and sev-
eral roadblocks have been set up at
strategic entries to the capital. The
opposition has most of its support
in urban centers.
Tsvangirai said he had won more
than the 50 percent simple major-
ity needed for victory. Mugabe has
made no statement about the elec-
tion.
The businessman said Mugabe
has been told he is far behind
Tsvangirai in preliminary results
and that he might have to face a
runoff. He said the prospect was
too humiliating for the 84-year-
old Mugabe, and that was why the
president was considering ceding
power in this Montana-sized coun-
try in southern Africa.
The Zimbabwe Election
Support Network, a coalition of 38
Zimbabwe civil society organiza-
tions, said its random represen-
tative sample of polling stations
showed Tsvangirai won just over 49
percent of the vote and Mugabe 42
percent. Simba Makoni, a former
Mugabe loyalist, trailed at about 8
percent.
In Washington, Gordon
Johndroe, spokesman for the
National Security Council, said
its clear the people of Zimbabwe
have voted for change. Its time
for the Zimbabwean Electoral
Commission to confirm the results
we have all seen from the local poll-
ing stations and respected NGOs.
At his news conference,
Tsvangirai spoke as if he already
had been declared president:
For years we have trod a jour-
ney of hunger, pain, torture and
brutality, he said. Today we face
a new challenge of governing and
rehabilitating our beloved coun-
try, the challenge of giving birth
to a new Zimbabwe founded on
restoration not retribution, on love
not war.
The commission has offered no
results in the presidential race.
Zimbabweans still fear that
Mugabe may declare himself win-
ner, as he has in previous elections
that observers said were marked
by rigging, violence and intimida-
tion.
Free swim
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A hooded seal is released by the University of NewEnglands Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center in Biddeford, Maine, on Sunday. The center released fve seals that were treated after being found
stranded in February and March.
nation
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota
already has a comedian running
for Senate. So why not its most
famous former pro wrestler?
In an interview Monday with
The Associated Press, former
Reform Party Gov. Jesse Ventura
said theres nothing that could get
him back into politics. But then
he kept talking:
Ive learned after 56 years
you never say never. I have no
intention at
this point
in time, but
who knows,
that could
change. He
said that hes
watching the
Senate race
with inter-
est, and that
Im not very
pleased with
either candi-
date.
They would be Republican
Sen. Norm Coleman, who suf-
fered his only electoral defeat
when Ventura beat him for the
governorship in 1998, and Al
Franken, the former Saturday
Night Live comedian running as
a Democrat.
I would think we certainly
could do a whole lot better in the
state of Minnesota, Ventura said.
Ventura has been busy. He
called from Boulder, Colo., where
he just finished shooting an inde-
pendent movie, Woodshop, in
which he plays a shop teacher.
And the former pro wrestler and
one-term governor just wrote
Dont Start the Revolution
Without Me!
The book is constructed as a
loose travelogue of his and wife
Terrys drive from Minnesota to
Baja California, Mexico, where
they now spend more than half
their time, as Ventura put it, more
than an hour from pavement and
an hour from
electricity.
In the
book, Ventura
digresses into
his obsessions,
at one point
laying out a
scenario in
which he ends
up running
for president,
including a
c a m p a i g n
kickoff at a Wrestlemania event.
Am I going to run for presi-
dent this year? No, he said.
In between talking about leav-
ing the gold standard and the
virtues of Mexican property
taxes, Ventura declared him-
self the most powerful man in
America. Why? Because, he said,
Republicans and Democrats had
to work together to stop him
when he was governor.
Im the only one that could get
them in bed together, he said.
Ventura says he is
done with politics
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Then- Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura reacts to the projected shortfall expected to hit
$4.56 billion over the next two and a half years during a news conference on Dec. 4, 2002,
at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. In an interviewwithThe Associated Press on Monday,
the former ReformParty governor and professional wrestler said there was not anything that
could get himback into politics.
I would think we certainly
could do a whole lot better in
the state of Minnesota.
JESSE VENTURA
Former Minnesota governor
world
Opposition leader insists victory
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main opposition party in Zimbabwe, addresses a press conference in Harare, Tuesday. Tsvangirai said that
according to the results they collected throughout the country he had won the presidency and was waiting for the confrmation fromthe Zimbabwe
Electoral Commission. He was fanked by Thokozile Khupe, left, the partys deputy president andTendai Biti, Secretary General.
Ventura not pleased with either candidate
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON A fed-
eral judge has ordered Rep.
Jim McDermott to pay House
Minority Leader John Boehner
more than $1 million in legal fees
in a decade-long dispute over an
illegally taped telephone call.
Chief Judge Thomas Hogan of
the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia ordered
McDermott to pay Boehner $1.05
million in attorneys fees and
costs, plus about $40,000 in inter-
est. McDermott, a Washington
Democrat, also had to pay more
than $60,000 in fines and dam-
ages, as well as nearly $600,000 in
fees to his own
lawyers.
McDermott
said Tuesday he
would not appeal
the judges rul-
ing.
Its dead,
he said of the
10-year dispute
with Boehner, R-
Ohio. Were just
cleaning up after
the parade. We
saved the First Amendment, and
it costs a piece of change, but thats
life in the big leagues.
T h e
S u p r e me
Court ruled
last year that
McDermott
a c t e d
improperly
in giving
r e p or t e r s
access to an
audio tape
given to him
by a Florida
couple who
recorded a 1996 telephone call
involving then-House Speaker
Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and
other GOP leaders. McDermott,
at the time a senior member of
the House ethics committee,
leaked the tape to two newspa-
pers, which published articles
on the case in January 1997.
Boehner, one of the GOP
leaders heard on the call, sued
McDermott, and a federal court
found that McDermott had no
right to release the recording.
The Supreme Court decided
in December not to revisit the
case.
McDermott called the court
fight with Boehner a long and
costly battle, but said the mil-
lion-dollar judgment was a
small price to pay in defense
of so fundamental a princi-
ple, and freedom, as the First
Amendment.
Boehner said in a statement
that members of Congress have
a responsibility not only to obey
the law and congressional rules,
but also to defend the integrity
of those laws and rules when
they are violated.
Congressman McDermott
broke the law, and as a result,
he shattered the bonds of trust
between our institution and
the men and women we rep-
resent in the halls of Congress.
I remained committed to this
case in order to begin restoring
those bonds, and to uphold the
belief that no one not even
a member of Congress is
above the law, Boehner said.
McDermott has created a
legal defense trust fund to cover
expenses related to the lawsuit.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON The
Pentagon on Tuesday released
a now-defunct legal memo that
approved the use of harsh inter-
rogation techniques against ter-
ror suspects, saying that President
Bushs authority during wartime
trumps any international ban on
torture.
The Justice Department memo,
dated March 14, 2003, outlines
legal justification for military
interrogators to use harsh tac-
tics against al-Qaida and Taliban
detainees overseas so long as
they did not specifically intend to
torture their captors.
Even so, the memo noted, the
presidents wartime power as com-
mander in chief would not be
limited by the U.N. treaties against
torture.
Our previous opinions make
clear that customary international
law is not federal law and that
the president is free to override it
at his discretion, said the memo
written by John Yoo, who was then
deputy assistant attorney general
and headed the Office of Legal
Counsel.
The memo also offered a
defense in case any interrogator
was charged with violating U.S. or
international laws.
Finally, even if the crimi-
nal prohibitions outlined above
applied, and an interrogation
method might violate those pro-
hibitions, necessity or self-defense
could provide justifications for
any criminal liability, the memo
concluded.
The memo was rescinded in
December 2003, a mere nine
months after Yoo sent it to the
Pentagons top lawyer, William J.
Haynes. Though its existence has
been known for years, its release
Tuesday marked the first time its
contents in full have been made
public.
Haynes, the Defense
Departments longest-serving
general counsel, resigned in late
February to return to the private
sector. He has been hotly criti-
cized for his role in crafting Bush
administration policies for detain-
ing and trying suspected terrorists
that some argue led to prisoner
abuses at the detention center in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Yoos memo became part of
a debate among the Pentagons
civilian and military leaders about
what interrogation tactics to allow
at overseas facilities and whether
U.S. troops might face legal prob-
lems domestically or in interna-
tional courts.
Also of concern was whether
techniques used by U.S. interro-
gators might someday be used as
justification for harsh treatment
of Americans captured by oppos-
ing forces.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK Singing and
dancing scored again with view-
ers last week.
Foxs American Idol placed
first and second in the ratings,
according to Nielsen Media
Research, with ABCs two edi-
tions of Dancing With the
Stars right behind.
CBSs crime drama, CSI:
Miami, followed in fifth place.
But the weeks most-watched
shows were chiefly in the reality
area. ABCs Extreme Makeover:
Home Edition, Oprahs
Big Give and Primetime:
What Would You Do?, CBS
60 Minutes and an NCAA
championship basketball game
(Louisville vs. UNC), NBCs
Celebrity Apprentice and
Deal or No Deal, and Foxs
Moment of Truth all landed in
the Top 20.
Foxs legal drama,
Canterburys Law, premiered
in a puny 78th place, with just
4.74 million viewers welcom-
ing Julianna Margulies back to
series TV.
Overall, Fox won the week,
averaging 9.93 million viewers
(with a 5.9 rating and 10 share)
the networks 11th straight
weekly victory.
CBS was a close runner-up
with 9.47 million viewers (6.1
rating, 10 share), while ABC had
8.83 million viewers (5.7 rat-
ing, 9 share) and NBC had 7.69
million viewers (5.1 rating, 8
share). The CW had 2.30 mil-
lion viewers (1.5 rating, 2 share),
My Network TV had 1.30 mil-
lion viewers (0.8, 1) and ION
Television had 520,000 viewers
(0.3 rating, 1 share).
Among the Spanish-language
networks, Univision led with a
3.85 million viewer average (1.9
rating, 3 share), Telemundo had
1.02 million viewers (0.6 rating,
1 share), TeleFutura had 480,000
viewers (0.3, 0 share) and Azteca
had 190,000 viewers (0.1 rating,
0 share).
There was a tie in the night-
ly news race, with both ABCs
World News and NBCs
Nightly News averaging 8.41
million viewers. (World News
had a 5.8 rating and 12 share,
while Nightly News had a
5.7 rating and 12 share.) In its
customary third place, CBS
Evening News had 6.6 million
viewers (4.4 rating, 9 share).
A ratings point represents
1,128,000 households, or 1 per-
cent of the nations estimated
112.8 million TV homes. The
share is the percentage of in-
use televisions tuned to a given
show.
For the week of March 24-
30, the top 10 shows, their
networks and viewerships:
American Idol (Wednesday),
Fox, 25.74 million; American
Idol (Tuesday), Fox, 24.76 mil-
lion; Dancing With the Stars
(Monday), ABC, 20.52 mil-
lion; Dancing With the Stars
(Tuesday), ABC, 17.49 million;
CSI: Miami, CBS, 16.07 mil-
lion; NCAA Post-game Show,
CBS, 14.36 million; Two and a
Half Men, CBS, 14.24 million;
60 Minutes, CBS, 13.36 mil-
lion; Extreme Makeover: Home
Edition, ABC, 12.96 million;
Celebrity Apprentice, NBC,
12.13 million.
iraq war
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Protestors demonstrate the use of waterboarding on a volunteer in front of the Justice Department inWashington on Nov. 5, 2007. President
Bush said on March 8 that he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA fromusing harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break
suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks.
Expired memo proves harsh tactics
entertainment
Kinky octopuses kill for sex
Rep. ordered to pay legal fees
congress science
Violent and sneaky males, large females reproduce successfully
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO Marine
biologists studying wild octopus-
es have found a kinky and violent
society of jealous murders, gen-
der subterfuge and once-in-a-
lifetime sex.
The new study by researchers
from the University of California,
Berkeley, who journeyed off the
coast of Indonesia found that
wild octopuses are far from the
shy, unromantic loners their cap-
tive brethren appear to be.
The scientists watched the
Abdopus aculeatus octopus,
which are the size of an orange,
for several weeks and published
their findings recently in the
journal Marine Biology.
They witnessed picky, macho
males carefully select a mate,
then guard their newly domesti-
cated digs so jealously that they
would occasionally use their 8-
to-10-inch tentacles to strangle
a roman-
tic rival to
death.
T h e
res earcher s
also observed
s m a l l e r
s n e a k e r
male octo-
puses put
on feminine
airs, such as
s w i mmi n g
girlishly near
the bottom
and keeping their male brown
stripes hidden in order to win
unsuspecting conquests.
And size does matter but
not how youd think.
If youre going to spend time
guarding a female, you want to
go for the biggest female you
can find because shes going to
produce more eggs, said UC
Berkeley biol-
ogi st Roy
Caldwell, who
co-wrote the
study. Its basi-
cally an invest-
ment strategy.
Shortly after
the female gives
birth, about
a month after
c o n c e p t i o n ,
both the moth-
er and father
die, researchers
said.
Its not the sex that leads to
death, said Christine Huffard,
the studys lead author. Its just
that octopuses produce offspring
once during a very short lifespan
of a year.
Request for students release rejected
international
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROME A court has ordered
an American suspect and two
other suspects in the slaying of a
British student to remain jailed,
a defense lawyer said Tuesday.
The Court of Cassation reject-
ed a defense request for the release
of University of Washington stu-
dent Amanda Knox of Seattle;
her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele
Sollecito and Ivory Coast nation-
al Rudy Hermann Guede.
All three requests have been
rejected, said Marco Brusco, a
lawyer for Sollecito.
The three are being held in
connection with the death of
Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old
student from Leeds University in
England.
Kercher was enrolled for a
year of study in Perugia, about
110 miles north of Rome.
Kercher was found half-naked
in a pool of blood last November
in the apartment she shared
with Knox. She died from a stab
wound to the neck.
Prosecutors have said she was
killed resisting
sexual assault,
and they are
i nvesti gati ng
the three sus-
pects on sus-
picion of mur-
der and sexual
violence.
Knox, 20,
and Sollecito,
24, have been
jailed since
Nov. 6. Guede, 21, was arrested
in Germany and later extradited
to Italy.
He is believed to have fled
shortly after the slaying.
All three deny wrongdoing.
The Court of Cassation in
Rome did not examine evidence
but focused only on whether
proper procedures were followed
during the investigation, defense
lawyers said.
The courts prosecutor called
on the judg-
es to reject
the defenses
appeal, law-
yers said dur-
ing a break in
the proceed-
ings.
Judges in
Perugia have
already reject-
ed defense
requests to
release the three.
The Perugia judges have ruled
that the three could be held for
up to a year while the case is
investigated.
The suspects have not been
formally charged.
If youre going to spend time
guarding a female, you want to
go for the biggest female you
can fnd because shes going to
produce more eggs.
roy caldwell
Uc Berkeley biologist
We saved the First Amend-
ment, and it costs a piece of
change, but thats life in the big
leagues.
john Borhner
house Minority leader
All three requests have been
rejected.
Marco BrUSco
lawyer for rafaele Sollecito
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dominate ratings
news 7A wednesday, april 2, 2008
AFTERdark brings acts to campus
Event tours the nation to give hope, direction to college students in relatable manner
Jessie Fetterling/KANSAN
Armand Heyns, Topeka sophomore, lifts Emily Travis, Overland Park freshman, in a Pluto costume onWescoe Beach while handing out fiers and giving hugs and high-fves to students to promote AFTERdark Tuesday afternoon. AFTERdark is an
event traveling across the nation to help give hope and direction to students.
Lied Center
By Jason Baker
jbaker@kansan.com
Anna Toren and Armand
Heyns strolled Budig Hall during
Tuesday afternoon with fliers and
ready to approach students about
AFTERdark.
I think I probably have handed
out about 150 of these today alone,
Heyns, Topeka sophomore, said.
Toren, Shawnee sophomore, and
Heyns are two students who are
spreading the word about the free
event, which is Wednesday night at
8 at the Lied Center.
AFTERdark is a national event
that started 10 years ago and tours
college campuses, coupling con-
certs and presentations that trans-
late to college students in manner
they can relate to.
Evan Toren, Shawnee senior,
whos involved with on-campus
advertising, said the group had
held more than 100 events on
dozens of college campuses and
Wednesday is the groups third trip
to the University. The last time
AFTERdark came to campus was
in 2004.
Its got good entertainment,
positive environment and positive
message, Evan Toran said.
The concert will benefit Love,
Light & Melody, which is a non-
profit organization that helps bat-
tle the physical, emotional and
spiritual effects of extreme pov-
erty.
The event has brought many
musical acts to campuses, such as
Matt Wertz, Heather Headley, The
Afters and Switchfoot. Wednesday,
Braddigan and Sho Baraka are per-
forming at the Lied Center. Joe
White, founder of Kids Across
America in Branson, Mo., and a
speaker who has spoken to NFL,
MLB and collegiate athletes, will
also be presenting.
KU students involved with
AFTERdark have been on Wescoe
Beach since Monday handing out
fliers and spreading the word. A
couple students have even walked
on campus in a Pluto the dog and
a shark costume to get peoples
attention.
Its a good chance to go to
something thats free, entertain-
ing and fun to get a big group
together and have a good night,
Sarah Foil, Overland Park sopho-
more, said.
She and other students have
been on Wescoe Beach answer-
ing questions about the event and
informing students of the raffle
for a pair of lower level seats to the
Final Four in San Antonio.
I think this will be one of the
best memories of college for me,
Heyns said.
For more information visit,
www.whatsafterdark.com.
Edited by Matt Hirschfeld
assoCIaTeD Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. William
Moore, who took over as chief
executive offi-
cer of Westar
Energy Inc. in
July, received
compensati on
valued at $2.8
million in 2007,
the utility said in
a regulatory fil-
ing Tuesday.
Moore, who
replaced retiring
CEO Jim Haines
Jr. at the Topeka-
based company, was paid $525,000
in salary and $176,382 in other
compensation, including $96,903
for moving expenses and $68,442 to
cover the taxes on those expenses.
The bulk of his pay came in the
form of stock
and options,
which were
valued at $2.1
million on the
days they were
awarded.
By contrast,
Moore received
c o m p e n s a -
tion valued at
$411,532 in 2006,
when he served
as Westars chief operations officer.
That amount included $401,042 in
salary and $10,490 in other pay-
ments.
Moore also realized $892,375
in value from the vesting of stock
options. That amount isnt included
in his total compensation as it repre-
sents a personal finance decision.
Haines, who retired after serving
as CEO since late 2002, received
c o mp e n s a -
tion valued at
$508,976 in
2007, which
i n c l u d e d
$453,365 in sal-
ary and $55,611
in other pay-
ments. In 2006,
he received
compensation
valued at $2.8
million, includ-
ing $750,000 in salary, $11,200
in other payments and stock and
options valued at $2 million when
they were awarded.
The company said Haines had
to forfeit some of those shares and
options when
he stepped
down.
H a i n e s
did realize
$597,113 from
the vesting of
stock options
during the
year.
Westar, the
largest elec-
tric utility in
Kansas, reported earning $167.4
million, or $1.85 per share, in 2007,
compared with a profit of $164.3
million, or $1.88 per share, during
2006. The decline in per-share earn-
ings was caused as the company
increased the number of outstand-
ing shares during the year.
Annual revenue increased 7.5
percent to $1.73 billion.
The Associated Press calculations
of total pay include executives sal-
ary, bonus, incentives, perks, above-
market returns on deferred com-
pensation and the estimated value
of stock options and awards granted
during the year.
Westar reported earning
$167.4 million, or $1.85 per
share, in 2007, compared with a
proft of $164.3 million, or $1.88
per share, during 2006.
Westar Energy CEOs stock options,
compensation and salary in question
business
William Moore, who took over
as chief executive ofcer of
Westar Energy Inc., received
compensation valued at $2.8
million in 2007.
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NEWS 8A wednesday, april 2, 2008
BY HALEY JONES
editor@kansan.com
When Emily Johnsson opened
her mail one afternoon, the last
thing she expected to discover was
that her drivers license had been
revoked and there was a warrant out
for her arrest.
Johnsson, a 22-year-old recent
graduate of Z Cosmetology
Academy in Lawrence, called the
police and was told to come to the
station. She knew something was
wrong. After nearly being arrested
and taken into custody, the police
determined Johnsson was innocent.
Her old roommate had been using
Johnssons identity to commit cred-
it and check fraud with her bank
account and credit cards.
According to a Javelin Strategy
& Research Survey, 8.4 million
American adults were victims of
identity fraud in 2007, the fraud
amount totaling $49.3 billion. The
main cause was careless use of per-
sonal information online.
Were seeing an increase in spy-
ware and virus activities. There is
always an increase in the amount of
people trying to do social engineer-
ing and identity theft, said director
of Information Technology Security
Charles Crawford.
Through new staff positions,
security initiatives, an emergency
text message system and safety
awareness promotion, the IT depart-
ment is attempting to improve secu-
rity among KU network users.
We increased our staff and seg-
mented out duties to better focus on
specific issues, Crawford said.
The IT department added a new
staff position to its office in October
2006 to target outreach and aware-
ness. Julie Fugett plays the relative-
ly new role of IT systems analyst,
and is devoted completely to safety
awareness and outreach.
We did four to five different
evening events in residence halls,
talking about the importance of
protecting passwords and discuss-
ing what you put on Facebook and
what you dont, Fugett said.
In the past, the IT department
devoted one day in October to
canvassing KUs campus with note
cards and discussing cyber security.
This year, their approach was much
more thorough and focused.
In October, we decided to pig-
gyback on the national campaign
to promote awareness among our
student body, Fugett said.
Every day in October, the IT staff
posted daily blog entries on their
Web site, which provided students
with practical tips and advice for
staying safe and secure online.
The IT department has also part-
nered with the Student Involvement
and Leadership Center to reach the
greek community and student resi-
dence halls with identity theft pre-
sentations. Laura Bauer, program
director of fraternity and sorority
life, creates presentations that arm
students with practical tools they
need when using the Internet.
We try to give students a view
of what has gone wrong for others
and what they can do to help those
things with their own profiles in the
future, Bauer said.
The broad umbrella of the
Information Technology depart-
ment at KU covers a variety of
areas including personnel, software
applications, hardware and security
concerns.
As we continue to expand the
network and infrastructure with
more wireless and upgrading net-
work connections in buildings,
security is part of that increase,
said Director of Assessment and
Outreach Bill Myers.
During the last three years, secu-
rity has occupied a growing per-
centage of the general IT budget. In
2005, Internet security accounted
for 5.1 percent of the overall IT
budget. In 2006, it grew to 6.8 per-
cent and in 2007, constituted 8.2
percent of the budget. Although the
change is minor, Myers said it dem-
onstrated the growing importance
of securing KUs ever-expanding
network and all of its users.
In 2005, the IT departments
overall budget was $706,000. In
2006, it increased to $914,000 and in
2007 rose to a record of almost $1.2
million. Myers expects yet another
increase in state funding this year to
keep pace with the enhancements
to KUs network and security.
I think well continue to see
increases in the cost of maintaining
the existing infrastructure and con-
tinuing to build it to give people the
tools they need, Myers said.
The IT department is consid-
ering opportunities to spread the
word of safe information practices
even further. Bauer is working with
the IT department to include a pre-
sentation about online safety and
security in new student orienta-
tions.
For most students, these are
things they have created sitting in
their bedroom. We need to help
them understand that information
they post is not private - its on the
Web, Bauer said.
Almost two years after her iden-
tity was stolen, Johnsson is still
getting back on her feet and look-
ing for a job in Lawrence. Johnsson
cautioned against placing any pri-
vate information on the Web, saying
you just dont know whom you can
trust and whom you cant. With
the IT departments improvements
to security, fewer students will feel
the effect of those who cannot be
trusted.
Identity fraud, viruses prompt on-campus improvements
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BY RUSS BYNUM
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WAYCROSS, Ga. A group
of third-graders plotted to attack
their teacher, bringing a broken
steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape
and other items for the job and
assigning children tasks includ-
ing covering the windows and
cleaning up afterward, police said
Tuesday.
The plot by as many as nine boys
and girls at Center Elementary
School in south Georgia was a
serious threat, Waycross Police
Chief Tony Tanner said.
We did not hear anybody say
they intended to kill her, but could
they have accidentally killed her?
Absolutely, Tanner said. We feel
like if they werent interrupted,
there would have been an attempt.
Would they have been successful?
We dont know.
The children, ages 8 and 9,
were apparently mad at the teach-
er because she had scolded one
of them for standing on a chair,
Tanner said. A prosecutor said
they were too
young to be
charged with
a crime under
Georgia law.
School offi-
cials alerted
police Friday
after a pupil
tipped off a
teacher that
a girl had
brought a
weapon to school, Tanner said.
Police seized a broken steak
knife, handcuffs, duct tape, elec-
trical and transparent tape, rib-
bons and a crystal paperweight
from the students, who apparent-
ly intended to use them against
the teacher, Tanner said.
Nine children have been given
discipline up to and includ-
ing long-term suspension, said
Theresa Martin, spokeswoman
for the Ware
County school
system.
She would
not be more
specific but
said none of
the children
had been back
to school since
the case came
to light.
The pur-
ported target is a veteran educa-
tor who teaches third-grade stu-
dents with learning disabilities
including attention deficit dis-
order, delayed development and
hyperactivity, friends and parents
said.
We did not hear anybody say
they intended to kill her, but
could they have accidentally
killed her? Absolutely.
Tony Tanner
Waycross, Ga., Police Chief
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BY BRANDON SAYERS
editor@kansan.com
As vice president of the Oread
Neighborhood Association, there
are many things that make Candice
Davis proud to call this unique
area home. But these days, Davis
and other Oread residents are
upset about one
u n w e l c o me
thing that seems
to be finding its
way into their
neighborhood
at an alarming
rate: trash.
I walked up
Mississippi from
Ninth all the way
past Memorial
Stadium, Davis
said, and there
was trash almost all the way up the
sidewalk. Blue and red cups, beer
bottles, beer cans. Its just all over.
Davis and other association mem-
bers recently voiced their concerns
to city officials about the appear-
ance of their neighborhood during
a discussion with the Lawrence City
Commission. The city commission
has since researched the current
trash ordinance and is considering
modifications to the code that could
include a shorter period to cor-
rect violations and a more proactive
enforcement strategy.
For citizens such as Davis, who
are concerned about the buildup
of trash, any change to the existing
ordinance that could help clean up
their neighborhoods is welcome.
It really lowers the expecta-
tions of the entire neighborhood
when people see that there is
already trash everywhere, Davis
said. So then they arent as wor-
ried about their personal contri-
butions and the trash just begins
to accumulate.
THE ORDINANCE
Currently, any Lawrence resident
believed to be in violation of the
trash ordinance is first sent a cour-
tesy letter of notification. If the
resident has not corrected a viola-
tion after 15 days, they are sent a
notice outlining the violations and
notifying them that they have an
additional 15 days from the date
of the mailing
of the notice
to alleviate the
exterior yard
c ondi t i ons .
Any violations
involving large
structures are
given a longer
c o mp l i a n c e
period of 30
days.
During this
time, the owner
is allowed to appeal the violation
to the Neighborhood Resources
Advisory Committee. If a citizen
fails to correct the violations within
the 15 day deadline, the city will
then correct the mistake and assess
all charges to the person in viola-
tion.
The association, citing numer-
ous complaints regarding excessive
trash, recently asked the Lawrence
City Commission to consider short-
ening the time period allowed for
correction and implementing a
more proactive enforcement.
City officials told them that the
city would re-initiate review of the
existing trash ordinance and asked
its staff to research any alternatives
to the current ordinance.
Brian Jimenez, code enforcement
manager in Lawrence, prepared a
report on the
subject of trash
o r d i n a n c e s
for the City
Commission.
In this report,
Jimenez reiter-
ated many of
the same con-
cerns brought
up by citizens.
Dilapidated
structures and
exterior yard
violations have negative effects on
neighboring property values and
the integrity of the neighborhood,
the report stated.
Jimenez also recommended that
the trash ordinance be reconsidered
to determine if the city would like
to become more proactive through
a shorter compliance deadline and
more aggressive abatement enforce-
ment.
He suggest-
ed that the city
c ommi s s i on
eliminate the
courtesy letter
not i f i cat i on,
which is not
required but is
a department
policy. This
could shorten
the process by
about 15 days.
Jimenez said that a change in
the ordinance would likely require
an increase in the $5,000 budget
for deadline enforcement, but con-
cluded that a change may need to be
considered.
A compliance time frame of five
to 10 days would be much more
effective in addressing all exterior
yard violations including trash and
refuse, Jimenez said.
One city that has an effective
trash ordinance is Overland Park,
and Jimenez said he recommended
adding language to the code similar
to that of their
ordinance.
Ov e r l a n d
Park, which
is about 40
miles east of
Lawrence, has
a far differ-
ent ordinance
regarding trash.
Citizens of
Overland Park
are given only
24 to 48 hours
to correct violations depending on
whether they reside on the property
or not. Violations regarding struc-
tures are given a longer five-day
deadline.
Another difference between
the ordinances involves the com-
pliance time extensions and fines.
Shannon McGuire, an enforce-
ment specialist for the Overland
Park Community and Development
Services Department, said that their
judge rarely gave extension to com-
pliance times and that most citizens
in Overland Park chose to correct
their violations within the first 48
hours because the cost was clearly
identified on the violation notice.
This is quite different than the
common procedures in Lawrence,
where extensions of over six months
have been given in the past and
more often than not part of the fine
is suspended.
In these situations, it is very
frustrating to staff and even more
frustrating for the citizens who are
waiting to see the violation cor-
rected, Jimenez said, adding that a
shorter deadline period would elim-
inate these situations in which cases
slowly progress through court.
KEEPING LAWRENCE
CLEAN
For citizens such as Davis, who
are hoping to see a revised trash
ordinance, exactly how the code
changes is not all that important
just as long as it positively contrib-
utes to the appearance and cleanli-
ness of their neighborhoods.
In addition to pursuing a revised
ordinance, concerned residents par-
ticipate in Oread Neighborhood
Cleanup Days and are planning
to begin a
campaign to
post reminder
signs asking
citizens to take
their own trash
as they pass
through.
But without
a revised ordi-
nance, many
citizens feel the
trash problems
in their neigh-
borhood would only continue to
grow.
I dont know what it is about
young people but they seem to
throw their trash everywhere, Davis
said. There are trash receptacles all
over the community. I know they
wouldnt do this in their parents
neighborhoods so I dont know why
they choose to do it here.
But any possible changes to the
ordinance will have to eventually
come from the city commission,
and Jimenez has said that since he
prepared the report on the ordi-
nance there had been only brief
discussions.
It is real early in the process
right now, he said, adding that
further discussion would take place
in time.
Right now it is under review
with our legal department to make
sure that the options discussed
regarding possible changes could
reasonably be applied to our city,
Jimenez said.
David Corliss, Lawrence city
manager, confirmed this in a memo
that discussed the ordinance and
said that there were plans to con-
tinue a review of these neighbor-
hood integrity issues and present
possible amendments to City Code
provisions as they are further con-
sidered and drafted.
The trash ordinance will be
discussed in the city commission
meeting on April 29.
BY TERENCE HUNT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BUCHAREST, Romania
Unflinching from a fight,
President Bush said Tuesday he
fully supports proposals to put ex-
Soviet states Ukraine and Georgia
on the road toward joining NATO
despite French and German
qualms it would upset relations
with Moscow.
Bushs declaration laid the
groundwork for an uncomfortable
showdown when leaders of the 26-
member military alliance gather in
Bucharest for a summit Wednesday
to Friday. France refused to back
down under U.S. pressure.
France will not give its green
light to the entry of Ukraine and
Georgia, Prime Minister Francois
Fillon said. We are opposed to
Georgia and Ukraines entry
because we think that it is not the
correct response to the balance
of power in Europe, and between
Europe and Russia.
Bush turned up the heat on
allies by making a high-profile
visit to Ukraine before traveling to
Romania.
Soviet-era flags were carried in
the streets of Kiev on the eve of
Bushs arrival, the president noted.
More than half of Ukraines popu-
lation, most in the Russian-speak-
ing east and south, is deeply sus-
picious of the West and opposes
membership, polls show.
Ukraine and Georgia are seeking
a precursor to membership known
as a membership action plan that
spells out what they would have to
do to join the alliance. Such a plan
could take years to fulfill.
Im going to work as hard as
I can to see to it that Ukraine
and Georgia are accepted into
MAP, Bush said. I think its in
our interests as NATO members,
and I think its in Ukrainian and
Georgian interests, as well.
To emphasize Bushs case, the
White House released excerpts of a
speech he will deliver Wednesday
just hours before the summit
opens.
Granting Ukraine and Georgia
an action plan would send a sig-
nal to their citizens that if they
continue on the path of democracy
and reform, they will be welcomed
into the institutions of Europe,
according to the speech. And it
would send a signal throughout
the region that these two nations
are, and will remain, sovereign and
independent states.
There were backstage negotia-
tions to resolve an argument among
NATO partners about Ukraine and
Georgia; U.S. officials said they
were uncertain of the eventual out-
come. White House press secretary
Dana Perino said Bush was not
looking for a compromise.
We are working very hard to
talk with our allies and make the
case, Perino said. But it could be
a clarifying moment, and thats not
a bad thing, either.
LAWRENCE
Cleaning up the streets
Group lobbies for stricter guidelines in trash ordinance
A compliance time frame of
fve to 10 days would be much
more efective in addressing all
exterior yard violations including
trash and refuse.
Brian Jimenez
Code enforcement manager
Bush causes tension by urging
ex-Soviet states to join NATO
INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Bush shakes hands with Ukraines President Victor Yuschenko outside St. Sophias Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday.
Clinton plans to fnish
fght for nomination
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA Perhaps
the analogy was inevitable: Hillary
Rodham Clinton as Rocky Balboa,
the scrappy underdog boxer from
Philadelphia memorably depicted
in the 1976 Oscar-winning film.
Even if Rocky did lose his first big
fight.
Addressing a meeting of the
Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Tuesday,
the former first lady and New York
senator said that she, like Rocky,
wasnt a quitter.
Recalling a famous scene on the
steps of the Philadelphia Museum
of Art, Clinton said that ending her
presidential campaign now would
be as if Rocky Balboa had gotten
halfway up those art museum steps
and said, Well, I guess thats about
far enough.
Let me tell you something,
when it comes to finishing a fight,
Rocky and I have a lot in common.
I never quit. I never give up. And
neither do the American people,
Clinton said.
Clinton also warned the labor
audience that Democrats wont have
an easy time against Republican
nominee-in-waiting John McCain
in the general election, and implied
that her rival for the nomination,
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, may
not be up to the task.
The Republicans arent going
to give up without a fight, Clinton
said.
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I dont know what it is about
young people but they seem to
throw their trash everywhere.
CanDiCe DaViS
VP of Oread neighborhood assoc.
It really lowers the expecta-
tions of the entire neighborhood
when people see that there is
already trash everywhere.
CanDiCe DaViS
VP of Oread neighborhood assoc.
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The building is packed with
donated goods stacked on top of
one another, with shelves so crowd-
ed that the materials overflow
onto the floor. For store manager
Katherine Harris, employees and
volunteers, finding space to place
materials is becoming difficult.
There are times we cant even
walk there is so much stuff, Harris
said.
Harris manages the non-profit
Habitat for Humanity ReStore, 800
Comet Lane, as part of a solution to
get families out of substandardized
housing.
ReStore accepts donations of
reusable housing materials and
then resells them to the commu-
nity at discounted prices. A cus-
tomer does not have to be living in
low-income housing or be involved
with Habitat for Humanity to
shop there. The money earned by
ReStore helps fund construction
costs to build Habitat for Humanity
homes.
ReStore also serves as an affiliate
storage location for the volunteer
organization. The construction
side of Habitat for Humanity picks
up supplies from ReStore to help
build housing.
Harris said ReStore had run
out of space in its 9,000-square-
foot building, with hundreds of
donations crowded into its retail
space. She said ReStore needed
more customers and volunteers so
it could eventually relocate to a
larger building with a better loca-
tion. Harris said that if ReStore ful-
filled these needs and moved into a
new 20,000- to 25,000-square-foot
building, it could bring in more
donations and customer traffic.
This would increase the income,
which in return would help more
families get out of inadequate
housing.
The faster we make a profit, the
faster we get people out of substan-
dardized housing, Harris said.
According to Harris, when it
first opened in September 2005,
Restore brought in 200 custom-
ers a month. Now it brings 500
customers a moth. Restores busi-
est sales season runs from May to
September, with sales dropping off
during the winter months. Harris
said that if ReStore relocated into
a 20,000-square-foot building it
would triple its customer count.
A journalism class at the
University of Kansas recently
began researching and conduct-
ing interviews with customers at
ReStore. Based on the interviews,
students in the class, taught by
Robert Basow, associate professor
of journalism, will analyze ways to
help ReStore advertise and gener-
ate profit.
ReStore also needs volunteers
to help load and unload donations,
and to price and showcase them
in the store. Harris said ReStore
could use about 30 different volun-
teers each week who could prefer-
ably work four-hour shifts. She said
that volunteering at ReStore was a
good way for student organizations
to achieve their community service
hours.
We have so few volunteers that
we will take whoever for however
long they want to work, Harris
said.
With more customer traffic,
ReStore could increase its income.
ReStore has already increased its
monthly sales by nearly 50 percent
during 2007. Now it is about to sell
its 500th ton of material. When the
retailer first opened in September
2005 its monthly sales were $2,500.
Now it brings in about $15,000 in
monthly sales. ReStore is still not
generating a profit because of an
interest-free loan borrowed from
the Habitat organization that must
be paid off. However, in order to
even consider relocation ReStore
must break even this year, pay off
its debt and start generating a profit
next year.
For Clifford Lafrenze, a regular
customer, shopping at Restore an
average of two to three times a
month is not unusual.
I like it, Lafrenze said. Its a
chance to get some stuff cheaper
than you would normally from
somewhere else and its good stuff.
Lafrenze said that he and his
wife, Margie, bought a little bit
of everything from ReStore, from
sinks, light fixtures, stoves and
refrigerators to trim boards and
even tile.
I hate to throw things away that
still have good use left in them, he
said. Plus it saves on the landfill.
Habitat for Humanity hom-
eowner Serenity Walters picked out
the majority of her homes materials
from ReStore. Walters is a senior
administrative associate in human
resources at the University. Before
becoming a Habitat for Humanity
homeowner, Walters and her now
13-year-old son, Kainen Spooner,
lived in low-income housing in
Lawrence. One condition that
applied to her eligibility for a
Habitat home was a 200-hour sweat
equity, meaning she had to either
help build someone elses home or
volunteer at ReStore for 50 hours
and then help build her own home
for 150 hours. Walters chose to
volunteer her first 50 hours at the
ReStore.
While Walters helped build her
own home, she visited ReStore fre-
quently to purchase items such as
light fixtures, plumbing fixtures,
sinks and faucets.
You pick everything out from
the ReStore, Walters said. I love
it. You get to decide how you want
your house to look.
In addition to ReStores already
discounted prices, Habitat for
Humanity homeowners receive a
30 percent discount on their pur-
chases from ReStore. Walters said
that knowing that she could afford
to replace broken household mate-
rial was reassuring.
I think ReStore is the best
thing to ever happen to Habitat for
Humanity, Walters said.
Local business donors, such as
Electric Supply Lighting, contrib-
ute to ReStore. Electric Supply
Lighting schedules donation pick-
ups at least twice a year ranging
anywhere from three to 11 pallets
of materials that are old, slightly
scratched or dented, overstocked
or otherwise unmarketable. It also
gives a larger discount to ReStore
than it would to other builders.
Michelle Mailand, Electric Supply
Lighting store manager, said that
since ReStore opened its doors,
Electric Supply has donated thou-
sands of dollars in material goods.
The company also helps ReStore
with pricing and recommenda-
tions.
We do this because ReStore is
helping serve our community that
we live in and support, Mailand
said.
For now, Harris concentrates
primarily on getting more custom-
ers through the door. She hoped
that ReStore could generate enough
profit to relocate so that it would
be large enough to make a Habitat
compound where all Habitat busi-
ness could be conducted in one
location.
Restore hopes to increase all
the parts that make us run: dona-
tions of material, customers to buy
the material, and volunteers to help
get the materials ready to buy,
Harris said.
Overstocked store seeks expansion
lawrence
ReStore helps community by selling housing materials at discounted prices
april Fools fashion
AssOciAted Press
this group of locals wouldnt let the traditional April Fools Day die as they walked around
Breckenridge, Colo., Tuesday dressed in their fnest neon and one-piece ski wear. The Town
of Breckenridge decided against holding any ofcial April Fools Day celebrations this year as
they have in the past because of activities getting out of hand.
InTernaTIOnal
Sarkozy calls for
hostage release
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOGOTA, Colombia
Colombias president said Tuesday
he had approved a French mission
to try to meet with hostages held
by leftist rebels, including gravely
ill politician Ingrid Betancourt.
The mission would be to pro-
tect the deteriorating health of the
hostages, President Alvaro Uribe
said.
Betancourt, who holds both
French and Colombian nation-
ality, is being held along with
dozens of other hostages by the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia or FARC.
In Paris, President Nicolas
Sarkozy said he had called Uribe
to inform him France was sending
a humanitarian mission without
delay to contact the FARC and
obtain access to our compatriot,
his office said.
Uribe said once Colombias
military had the coordinates of the
location for any meeting between
the French delegation and the reb-
els, it would temporarily suspend
military operations in the zone.
Earlier Tuesday, Sarkozy
implored the rebels in a televised
message to free Betancourt, whom
he said was in danger of dying.
Betancourt, who has spent six
years in captivity, is said to be
suffering from Hepatitis B and a
skin disease.
In a televised message to rebel
leader Manuel Marulanda, Sarkozy
said the latest information about
the health of Betancourt is pro-
foundly alarming.
Ingrid is in danger of immi-
nent death, Sarkozy said. Since
only a decision from you to save
this woman from death is needed
... Take this decision. Free Ingrid
Betancourt, Sarkozy said.
The rebels want to swap
Betancourt and dozens of other
hostages, including three U.S.
defense contractors, for all FARC
rebels imprisoned in Colombia
and the United States.
France has a medically equipped
aircraft standing ready to fly to
Betancourts rescue, the presidents
office said over the weekend.
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Olympics
House members pressure
Bush to rethink decision
WASHINGTON Fifteen
House members, citing Chinas
human rights abuses, on Tuesday
urged President Bush to recon-
sider his decision to attend the
Olympic Games in Beijing this
summer.
It would be clearly inap-
propriate for you to attend the
Olympic Games in China, given
the increasingly repressive nature
of that countrys government,
the lawmakers wrote in a letter
organized by Rep. Maxine Waters,
D-Calif.
The letter was signed by 14
Democrats and Republican
Dana Rohrabacher of California,
a longtime critic of the Chinese
government.
The letter cited Chinas recent
crackdown of protests in Tibet,
the Beijing governments close
economic ties with the govern-
ment of Sudan and recent sup-
pression of religious and human
rights advocates. It noted that
French President Nicolas Sarkozy
had said he may not attend the
opening ceremonies because of
the situation in Tibet and that
leaders in other countries were
considering a boycott of the
opening ceremonies.
Speaker of the House Nancy
Pelosi, D-Calif., in an interview
with ABC Television, also told
Bush to consider staying away
the opening ceremonies as a
symbolic gesture against Chinas
actions in Tibet. She said she
did not support a boycott of the
games by athletes.
Bush has taken the position
that the Olympics are about
athletic competition, not politics,
but he sharply confronted Chinas
President Hu Jintao recently
about Beijings harsh crackdown
in Tibet.
entertainment
McCain, Letterman spar
in friendly late-night
quarrel
NEW YORK Republican
presidential candidate John
McCain good-naturedly sparred
with David Letterman on Tuesday
nights Late Show.
During his monologue, Let-
terman joked that the Arizona
senator reminded him of the guy
at the hardware store who makes
the keys and the guy who cant
stop talking about how well his
tomatoes are doing.
After Letterman added that
McCain looked like the guy who
points out the spots they missed
at the car wash, the senator ap-
peared on stage.
You think that stufs pretty
funny, dont you? McCain asked,
then added: Well, you look like
a guy whose laptop would be
seized by the authorities.
McCain also said the host
resembled the guy caught smug-
gling reptiles in his pants, to
which Letterman replied, Dont
knock it if you havent tried it.
The candidate also likened
Letterman to the manager of a
creepy motel, the guy who enjoys
watching his swim trunks infate
in a hot tub and the guy about
whom neighbors later say, He
mostly kept to himself.
Later in the show, the two
discussed more serious issues,
including the national credit
crisis, Iraqi casualties, the U.S.
prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
Bear Stearns and accusations that
McCains not a true conservative
Republican.
I think maybe some people
think that you ought to have ex-
actly the same position they have
on every issue, McCain said.
electiOn
Obama focuses on McCain,
ignores race with Clinton
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. Sen.
Barack Obama is talking about
the elephant in the room Re-
publican rival John McCain and
all but ignoring the Democrat
who stands between him and his
partys presidential nomination.
Even though Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton was campaign-
ing miles down the Northeast
Extension in Philadelphia, Obama
criticized the likely Republican
nominees policies on the U.S.
troop presence in Iraq, trade and
tax cuts. In his town-hall session
Tuesday, and in other campaign
appearances in recent days,
Obama has sought to frame the
race as a general election match-
up between him and McCain.
Of course, theres the little
matter of a Pennsylvania primary
on April 22, and Clintons double-
digit lead in recent state polls.
The extended presidential
nomination contest has resulted
in an odd political triangle, with
each candidate taking alternate
turns criticizing one or both of
their competitors.
Hes on a biography tour right
now, Obama said of McCain. My
argument with John McCain is
not with his biography, its with
his policies.
Democratic race should
run its course, Pelosi says
WASHINGTON House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the su-
perdelegates who may ultimately
decide the Democratic partys
presidential nominee have a right
to vote as they wish, and that
the drawn-out contest between
candidates Hillary Rodham Clin-
ton and Barack Obama should be
allowed to reach its conclusion.
These superdelegates have
the right to vote their conscience
and who they think would be the
better president, or who can win,
but they also then should get
involved in the campaigns and
make their power known there,
Pelosi said in an interview aired
Tuesday on ABCs Good Morning
America.
Pelosi recently drew objections
from Clinton backers when she
said she shared Obamas view
that superdelegates nearly
800 elected ofcials and party
leaders should be guided by
the vote for pledged delegates.
Obama leads Clinton in pledged
delegates earned in primaries
and caucuses, but Clinton leads
Obama in endorsements from su-
perdelegates. Overall, Obama has
1,632 delegates to Clintons 1,500,
according to the latest Associated
Press tally. It takes 2,024 delegates
to win the nomination.
Pelosi repeated her view that it
would it be harmful to the party
if superdelegates were perceived
to overturn the will of voters, but
made clear she was not suggest-
ing Clinton withdraw from the
race.
I think the election has to run
its course, Pelosi said. I think
that for all that I have said about
respecting the will of the people
that the inference to be drawn
from that is that we have to
continue the election in terms of
hearing from the people.
washingtOn
Rice keeps ball rolling
with morning workouts
WASHINGTON Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice says she
realizes few other people are will-
ing to rise at 4:30 a.m. to get in a
daily workout.
Thats my own particular
strangeness, says the gym rat
diplomat.
Actually, some days its 4 a.m.,
and she considers 40 minutes
on an elliptical exercise machine
a light cardio day. She adds a
tough regimen with weights on
those wimpy days, under the
tutelage of a hardbody trainer.
Like everybody, I get up some
mornings and think, I cant do it.
And then I think, Sure you can,
because you wont feel as alert if
you dont, Rice said in an inter-
view with Fitness magazine.
wOrld
Cubans less restricted
under new president
HAVANA Shoppers snapped
up DVD players, motorbikes and
pressure cookers Tuesday as a
slew of consumer products went
on sale to all Cuban citizens for
the frst time. Possibly more sig-
nifcant, Cuba announced it will
lend unproductive state land to
private farmers to boost agricul-
tural production.
Combined with other reforms
announced in recent days, the
measures suggested that sub-
stantial changes are being driven
by new President Raul Castro,
who vowed when he took over
from his brother Fidel to remove
some of the more irksome limita-
tions on the daily lives of Cubans.
Many shoppers mourned the
fact that the newly available
goods were unafordable on the
government salaries they earn.
But that didnt stop them from lin-
ing up to see electronic gadgets
previously sold only to foreigners
or companies.
Associated Press
BY TALES AZZONI
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAO PAULO, Brazil A reput-
ed Colombian drug lord whose car-
tel is accused of having shipped
hundreds of tons of cocaine to
the United States was sentenced
Tuesday to more than 30 years in
prison in Brazil for crimes com-
mmitted in that country.
Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia,
who was arrested last year in Brazil,
was found guilty of money launder-
ing, corruption, conspiracy and use
of false documents in this South
American country. Besides the sen-
tence, Ramirez Abadia must also
pay a fine worth $2.5 million.
It was proved that after July of
2004, Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia
has channeled his business in Brazil
mainly toward the acquisition of
properties, vehicles, and other
objects using the money resulting
from drug trafficking in Colombia,
Judge Fausto Martin de Sanctis said
in a statement.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva will have the final word on
whether he stays in Brazil to serve
his sentence or is extradited imme-
diately to the United States.
In his ruling, the judge advised
against extraditing Ramirez Abadia
until he has served his time in
Brazil.
Brazils Supreme Court has said
the United States must agree not to
sentence Ramirez Abadia to more
than 30 years in jail, the maxi-
mum allowed under Brazilian law,
in order for the extradition to take
place.
Ramirez Abadia claims he left
Colombia for Brazil because he
feared he might be killed by rival
drug gang members and said he
was not involved in drug trafficking
in Brazil.
BY RACHEL ZOLL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK Ted Turner,
who once called Christianity a
religion for losers, launched a
$200 million partnership Tuesday
with Lutherans and Methodists to
fight malaria in Africa, apologiz-
ing for his past criticism of religion
and calling faith a bright spot in
the world.
Turner, 69, said he had only
made a few disparaging comments
a long time ago and that he is
always developing his thinking
as he grows older.
I regret anything I said about
religion that was negative, he told
The Associated Press ahead of a
news con-
f e r e n c e
announci ng
the anti-malar-
ia program.
In the
1980s, the
CNN found-
er criticized
Chri st i anit y,
wrote his
own version
of the Ten
Commandments and in 2001
asked employees who commem-
orated Ash Wednesday whether
they were Jesus freaks, saying
they should work for Fox. He apol-
ogized at the time.
Turner now says he does not
consider himself agnostic or athe-
ist, as he had sometimes described
himself previously. He prays for
sick friends because it doesnt
hurt, he said, and maintains sev-
eral churches on his properties
for employees and others who live
nearby.
On Tuesday, Turners United
Nations Foundation, which he
started in 1997 with a $1 billion
donation, launched the anti-malar-
ia project with the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America, the
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
and the United Methodist Church.
The Protestant groups have been
working overseas to fight poverty
and prevent disease for more than
a century.
Religion is one of the bright
spots as far as Im concerned, even
though there are some areas, like
everything else, where theyve
gone over the top a little, in my
opinion, Turner said. But Im
sure God, wherever he is, wants to
see us get along with one another
and love one another.
The Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation also provided a $10
million grant that will help pro-
mote the
c a mp a i g n
in churches.
The Protestant
groups togeth-
er have more
than 15 mil-
lion U.S. mem-
bers.
Tu r n e r s
foundation had
been work-
ing with many
groups, including the Methodists,
on the Nothing But Nets cam-
paign, which provides insecticide-
treated bed nets in needy commu-
nities. Lutheran World Relief also
had been helping malaria-infected
cities and villages.
But their new joint project has
an even more ambitious goal: to
stop deaths from malaria, which
kills more than 1 million people
a year.
The United Methodist Church
will raise $100 million for the
project. The Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America and the
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod,
with their humanitarian arm
Lutheran World Relief, will raise
between $75 million and $100 mil-
lion.
This will be the largest
campaign of its type ever for
Lutherans, said the Rev. John
Nunes, president and chief exec-
utive of Lutheran World Relief.
Texas Bishop Janice Huie, presi-
dent of the Methodist Council of
Bishops, said the money will be
raised over several years.
The two denominations were
chosen because of their overseas
experience and their ability to
advocate for the project in the
U.S., said Elizabeth Gore, the
foundations executive director for
global alliances. The money will
be used for prevention, treatment
and improving health care in areas
at risk for the disease through
the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria.
BY H. JOSEF HEBERT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON Dont blame
us, oil industry chiefs told a skepti-
cal Congress.
Top executives of the countrys
five biggest oil companies said
Tuesday they know record fuel
prices are hurting people, but they
argued its not their fault and their
huge profits are in line with other
industries.
Appearing before a House com-
mittee, the executives were pressed
to explain why they should con-
tinue to get billions of dollars in
tax breaks when they made $123
billion last year and motorists are
paying record gasoline prices at
the pump.
On April Fools Day, the big-
gest joke of all is being played
on American families by Big Oil,
Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass.,
said, aiming his remarks at the
five executives sitting shoulder-to-
shoulder in a congressional hear-
ing room.
Our earnings, although high in
absolute terms, need to be viewed in
the context of the scale and cyclical,
long-term nature of our industry as
well as the huge investment require-
ments, said J.S. Simon, senior vice
president of Exxon Mobil Corp.,
which made a record $40 billion
last year.
We depend on high earnings
during the up cycle to sustain ...
investment over the long term,
including the down cycles, he con-
tinued.
Several lawmakers noted the ris-
ing price of gasoline at the pump,
now averaging $3.29 a gallon amid
talk of $4 a gallon this summer.
I heard what you are hearing.
Americans are very worried about
the rising price of energy, said John
Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil
Co., echoing remarks by the other
four executives including represen-
tatives of BP America Inc., Chevron
Corp. and ConocoPhillips.
While Democrats hammered
the executives for their profits and
demanded they do more to develop
alternative energy sources such as
wind, solar and biofuels, Republican
lawmakers called for opening more
areas for drilling to boost domestic
production of oil and gas.
What would bring lower prices?
asked Rep. James Sensenbrenner of
Wisconsin, the committees ranking
Republican
We need access to all kinds
of energy supply, replied Robert
Malone, chairman of BP America,
adding that 85 percent of the coun-
trys coastal waters are off limits to
drilling.
But Markey wanted to know
why the companies arent investing
more in energy projects other than
oil and gas or giving up some
tax breaks so the money could be
directed to promote renewable fuels
and conservation and take pressure
off oil and gas supplies.
Why is Exxon Mobil resisting
the renewable revolution, asked
Markey, noting that the other four
companies together have invest-
ed $3.5 billion in solar, wind and
biodiesel projects.
Exxon is spending $100 million
on research into climate change at
Stanford University, replied Simon,
but current alternative energy tech-
nologies just do not have an appre-
ciable impact in addressing the
challenge were trying to meet.
The appearance Tuesday before
the Select Committee on Energy
Independence and Global Warming
was not the first time that oil execu-
tives had faced the harsh words of
a lawmakers frustrated over their
inability to do anything about soar-
ing oil and gasoline costs.
Ted Turner partners with
churches to fght malaria
world
AssociATed Press
sean dickey with Pinnacle construction, installs a sign on a newfuel pump at a Chevron gas station in Anchorage, Alaska, onTuesday. The BP
building and fuel prices are seen in the background. Top executives of the countrys fve biggest oil companies saidTuesday they knowrecord fuel
prices are hurting people, but they argued its not their fault and said their huge profts are in line with other industries.
Oil chiefs dont want blame
economy
Democrats demand explanations for high costs, profits
AssociATed Press
Ted Turner, chairman of Turner
enterprises and the his United Nations
Foundation, speaks during a news confer-
ence Tuesday at United Nations headquarters.
Turner announced a $200 million partner-
ship with Lutherans and Methodists to fght
malaria as part of achieving the Millennium
Development Goals in conjunction with
the U.N.
This will be the largest
campaign of its type ever for
Lutherans.
Rev. John nunes
President of Lutheran World Relief
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NEW YORK Wall Street
began the second quarter with
a big rally Tuesday as investors
rushed back into stocks, optimistic
that the worst of the credit crisis
has passed and that the econo-
my is faring better than expected.
The Dow Jones industrials surged
nearly 400 points, and all the major
indexes were
up more than
3 percent.
Fi nanci al
stocks were
among the
big winners
after Lehman
B r o t h e r s
H o l d i n g s
Inc. and
Switzerlands
UBS AG
issued new
shares to help bolster their balance
sheets. With that upbeat news and
a fresh quarter ahead of them,
investors appear quite willing to
make some bets that the worst of
the damage from the nations credit
struggles has been felt. Moreover,
the banks moves buttressed the
view that financial services com-
panies are taking aggressive action
to improve their capital bases and
stave off the potential of a collapse
similar to Bear Stearns Cos.
Analysts believe there must be
a recovery in bank and brokerages
to lead major stock indexes higher.
Some of the biggest financial play-
ers had their sharpest moves of the
year Tuesday Citigroup Inc. shot
up 11 percent, JPMorgan Chase &
Co. rose 9 percent, and Lehman
surged 18 percent.
Investors have a difficult time
making decisions about the stock
market if they dont have confi-
dence in major financial institu-
tions, so theres
been a lot of
sideline cash,
said Richard
Cripps, chief
market strate-
gist for Stifel
Nicolaus. The
extreme condi-
tions that weve
seen here over
the past few
months has
been missing
that confidence ... but that appears
to be changing, and were seeing
the response.
Meanwhile, Wall Street got
another boost when the Institute
for Supply Management said its
March index of national manufac-
turing activity rose to a reading of
48.6 indicating a contraction,
but a slower one than in February
and tamer than many analysts
had predicted. Government data
on construction spending for
February also came in better than
expected.
The Dow rose 391.47, or 3.19
percent, to 12,654.36. It marked
the eighth-biggest point gain ever
for the Dow, and the third time
in two weeks it came close to or
surpassed 400 points.
Broader stock indicators also
gained sharply. The Standard &
Poors 500 index rose 47.48, or 3.59
percent, to 1,370.18 the indexs
best start to a second quarter since
1938. And, the Nasdaq composite
index rose 83.65, or 3.67 percent,
to 2,362.75.
The advance was in contrast to
a lackluster session on Monday,
where stocks managed a moder-
ate gain in the final session of a
dismal first quarter. Major indexes
ended the first three months of
2008 with massive losses, marking
the worst period since the third
quarter of 2002 when Wall Street
was approaching the lowest point
of a protracted bear market.
Renewed enthusiasm that the
credit crisis might be waning was
also felt in the Treasury market,
where government securities fell
as investors withdrew money to
take bets on stocks. The 10-year
Treasury notes yield, which moves
opposite its price, rose to 3.55 per-
cent from 3.43 percent late Monday.
The yield edged up to 3.56 percent
in after-hours trading.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO Oprah Winfrey
plans to dedicate a show investi-
gating abuses at puppy mills to her
cocker spaniel, Sophie, who died
last month from kidney failure.
Sophie gave me 13 years of
unconditional love. She was a true
love in my life, Winfrey says on the
broadcast scheduled to air Friday.
The show features special cor-
respondent Lisa Ling investigating
puppy mills, which Ling calls hor-
rific and haunting.
Winfrey says the show is for
anybody anywhere who loves a dog,
has ever loved a dog, or just cares
about their basic right to humane
treatment.
While Sophie was not a product
of a puppy mill, and Winfreys three
current dogs were adopted from
breeders, Winfrey says in the future
she would look to adopt from an
animal shelter.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON Under
growing pressure from voters to
do something about the nations
home fore-
closure crisis,
top Senate
leaders agreed
Tuesday to at
least start with
a plan that can
win the sup-
port of both
De mo c r a t s
a n d
Republicans.
The pact
between Majority Leader Harry
Reid, D-Nev., and Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,
ended weeks of partisan bicker-
ing over what to do about the
crisis in the housing market and
the toxic effect its having on the
economy.
There is considerable com-
mon ground on several steps
that can be taken to improve
the situation, but battles over
how to structure the debate had
threatened to produce gridlock.
Reid agreed not to bring up
a Democratic plan containing
a controversial provision
strongly opposed by Republicans
and President Bush to give
bankruptcy judges power to cut
interest rates and principal on
troubled mortgages. That plan
stalled a month ago.
Instead, Senate Banking
Commi t t ee Chai r man
Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.,
and the panels top Republican,
Richard Shelby of Alabama,
were instructed to forge a com-
promise by
We dne s day
afternoon.
The leg-
islation is
l i kel y to
draw on ele-
ments of the
Democr at i c
plan such as
letting states
issue $10
bil lion in
tax-exempt bonds to refinance
subprime loans and permitting
homebuilders and other money-
losing businesses to reclaim pre-
viously paid taxes.
Democrats also want to pro-
vide $4 billion to states to buy
up and refurbish foreclosed
homes, a plan that the adminis-
tration opposes as a bailout for
lenders and speculators.
Senators in both parties gave
the arrangement a 94-1 stamp of
approval on a previously sched-
uled procedural vote. Sen. Jim
Bunning, R-Ky., was the sole
nay vote.
The upcoming bill also is sure
to attract a GOP amendment by
Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia
to award $15,000 tax credits to
people who buy and move into
foreclosed homes. That would
sharply boost demand, Isakson
says. Lawmakers in both parties
support the idea.
The measure is also likely
to include a plan by Dodd
to have the Federal Housing
Administration guarantee per-
haps $400 billion worth of refi-
nanced loans if lenders reduce
loan amounts to reflect reduced
home values. The measure would
force banks to make less money
on the loans
but would
also reduce
their credit
exposure.
There is
also bipartisan
backing for
$200 million
in new money
for debt coun-
selors to help
homeowners negotiate with
lenders.
A floor battle still looms
over whether to change bank-
ruptcy laws to help borrowers
trapped in subprime mortgages
keep their homes. Sen. Richard
Durbin, D-Ill., is the top backer
of the idea, which has drawn
withering opposition from
banks, Republicans and a few
Democrats.
Durbin said more than 2 mil-
lion homeowners face foreclo-
sure by the end of 2009, many of
whom were duped into signing
mortgages with unfair terms.
The Center for Responsible
Lending, which combats preda-
tory lending practices, estimates
about 600,000 people would
keep their homes under Durbins
plan instead of ending up before
bankruptcy judges who arent
permitted to adjust mortgage
terms, regardless of how oner-
ous they are.
The hotly contested provision
rewriting the bankruptcy code,
opponents say, would allow bor-
rowers to
e f f e c t i v e l y
rewrite their
m o r t g a g e
c o n t r a c t s
and would
prompt lend-
ers to tighten
their stan-
dards and
raise interest
rates.
It would mean higher risk,
higher interest rates and higher
monthly payments, said Sen.
Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.
The mortgage bankers, God
bless them, say this is the end
of civilization as we know it ...
If these people go into court to
be able to stay in their homes ...
interest rates will go up all over
America, he said. Well, that
isnt the case at all.
Tuesdays developments dont
guarantee a successful result,
but both parties are under great
pressure to produce a bill that
can pass this year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON Older cor-
neas seem to transplant as well as
younger ones, says a major new
study that promises to expand the
age of cornea donation to 75.
It may sound surprising. After
all, when it comes to most types
of transplants, younger organs and
tissue are more coveted and
there has been controversy among
corneal surgeons about using older
eye tissue, too.
But government-funded
researchers randomly assigned cor-
nea recipients to get either younger
or older tissue and found the cor-
neas of both groups survived just as
well five years later. The study was
published Tuesday in the journal
Ophthalmology.
We now have scientific evidence
showing that older donors can be
used reliably in corneal transplan-
tation, said Dr. Edward Holland
of the University of Cincinnati and
one of the studys lead researchers.
The cornea is the clear cover-
ing for the front of the eye, crucial
for helping it focus light. More
than 39,000 corneal transplants
were performed last year, accord-
ing to the Eye Bank Association of
America.
The nation has had an adequate
supply so far. But specialists say
there are international shortages,
and eye banks fear U.S. supplies will
tighten as a result of tougher Food
and Drug Administration donor-
safety rules that began last summer,
increasing interest in older donors.
Transplant surgeons decide
how old a cornea theyll accept.
Some surgeons, Holland included,
have worked with eye banks that
accept corneas from donors older
than 65. Others banks set younger
limits, although age isnt the most
important factor. Donors must
be in good health, free of various
infections and the corneas must
contain enough of a particular cell
type, endothelial cells that balance
fluid to keep the cornea clear, not
cloudy.
To see whether age mattered, the
National Eye Institute funded the
new work at 80 medical centers.
Researchers recruited about 1,000
people who needed new corneas
because of two conditions a
swelling known as Fuchs dystrophy
and a complication of cataract sur-
gery that together account for
almost half of corneal transplants.
Most were in their 60s and 70s,
although 12 percent were in their
50s and 3 percent in their 40s.
Participants were divided into
two groups, getting corneas either
from donors ages 12 to 65 or from
those 66 to 75. Then researchers
tracked how often the transplant
failed, because the cornea was
rejected or turned cloudy. Five years
later, 86 percent of both groups still
had successful transplants.
There was a bias against older
tissue, said co-author Dr. Jonathan
Lass of University Hospitals Case
Medical Center in Cleveland. This
is going to change our view of
that.
There are two caveats:
The study focused on older
adults with conditions that put
them at medium risk of transplant
failure. But about 20 percent of
corneal transplants are in younger
adults with lower-risk conditions
whose transplants seldom fail. The
study doesnt address whether a
20-year-old would be OK with a
75-year-old cornea.
Holland, however, contended
the study results should apply to
all ages.
Also, Lass led a closer look at
the fate of those endothelial cells
that keep corneas clear. Those cells
normally die slowly with age, at
a rate of about half a percent a
year during adulthood, he said. For
unknown reasons, transplanted
corneas rapidly lose many of those
cells in the first year before the rate
of loss slows again.
Using a special camera to
count the cells, Lass found that
older transplanted corneas did
lose slightly more endothelial cells
75 percent loss in older corneas
over five years and 69 percent loss
in younger ones. The difference
wasnt statistically significant, nor
was there any difference in cloudi-
ness between the two groups, Lass
stressed. Still, the researchers will
track patients for five more years to
watch for late differences.
While there still are some ques-
tions about transplants in the young,
the study does provide strong sup-
port for wider use of older cor-
neas, said Dr. Thomas Steinemann,
a cornea specialist in Cleveland
and spokesman for the American
Academy of Ophthalmology.
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The mortgage bankers, God
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whamilton@kansan.com
Speechless. Thats all Dick Carson
could be as he stood next to coach Forrest
Phog Allens statue in front of Allen
Fieldhouse. It had been 62 years since he
had been back to the University of Kansas
and seen the coach.
Does it look like him, Dad? Jim
Lloyd, Carsons stepson-in-law, asked.
Carson could only shake his head in
amazement.
Carson was Phog Allens chartkeeper
during the 1946 season. Carson attend-
ed Washburn University for two years
before he came to the University as a
student. Carson played on the basketball
team that had beaten
Kansas. When he
came to Kansas, he
spoke with Allen
and told him he was
on the team that
beat Kansas. Allen
was intrigued and
asked him what
position he played.
Carson lowered his
head and muttered,
Benchwarmer.
The legendary coach still wanted to
give Carson something to do on the team
so he could feel like a part of it, and he
said, I got a place for you.
His job as the chartkeeper was to write
down each players number during a
game if he shot the ball, then if the shot
was good he would circle the number.
Not only did he keep score at all home
games, but he also went to every team
practice.
Even though he wasnt allowed to
travel to away games with the team, he
served as an assistant to Allen by giving
him the chart so Allen could see what the
team needed to improve on in practice or
at halftime.
Now 82 years old, Carson hadnt had a
chance to see Allen Fieldhouse, because
the team played in Hoch Auditorium
during his semester here. Still, Carson
had the opportunity to get to know coach
Allen, and his son, Bobby. His bash-
fulness when asked about memories of
Allen showed that Carson really looked
up to the coach and had very fond mem-
ories of him.
The game has changed since Carson
played. While watching Kansas thriller
against Davidson on Sunday, he said he
wasnt used to seeing so many players
get knocked down. In Carsons day, the
scores were lower, and the shorts were
shorter.
In his blue Allen Fieldhouse shirt that
said, Beware of the Phog on the back,
Carson walked around the Booth Family
Hall of Athletics. He reminisced with
his wife about the years gone by. As he
walked to the back wall that displayed
the greatest Kansas teams and athletes, he
searched for familiar faces and stopped
at Ralph Miller, a Kansas basketball and
football player that
had grown up two
houses down from
Carson. As children,
they would play
sandlot basketball in
their neighborhood
with each other.
Carson pointed at
Millers square pic-
ture and said, Ralph
Miller was Kansas
best athlete.
As Carson searched for other faces
to jog his memory, he came across Wilt
Chamberlain. He knew in an instant
who the long, limber body in the picture
belonged to. Although Carson left before
Chamberlain came to Kansas, they met
and reminisced about Kansas basketball
while Chamberlain was traveling with the
Harlem Globetrotters.
Carson came up to Wilt and said he
knew Allen, and from there the pair
shared stories about Kansas basketball.
They continued to see each other at
different events and chat about Kansas,
but Carson still said they were merely
acquaintances, even after years of bump-
ing into each other.
When he turned around to see a pho-
tograph of Allen Fieldhouse from a tele-
vision perspective, he said that this is
what I see on the television. He searched
for Allens name on the court and once he
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BY MARK DENT
mdent@kansan.com
A knit KU cap hung low over Sherron
Collins eyes in the locker room at Ford
Field in Detroit. His words were barely
audible, partially because of a quiet voice
and even more so because he rarely moved
his gaze from the ground.
That was Saturday. A day later, he smiled
and cheered with his teammates in celebra-
tion of their Final Four berth. Happiness
returned briefly, but Collins wants more.
A tournament thats been so success-
ful for Kansas has been sour most of the
time for Collins, a sophomore guard. The
Jayhawks have won 35 games and are two
victories away from a national champion-
ship, but Collins laments that he hasnt
been able to do as much as he wants for his
team because of injuries and most recently,
an illness that Bill Self said was tonsillitis.
I just dont feel like myself, Collins
said. I feel out of touch with myself.
The unhealthy Sherron story was sup-
posed to be on its final chapter two weeks
ago the one that ends with Collins
recovering from regular season injuries to
play a big role in the postseason. Everyone
expected that to happen after Collins fin-
ished the regular season earning Big 12
Player of the Week honors because of
his 13-point, seven-assist performance at
Texas A&M. Collins followed that game up
with a solid Big 12 Tournament.
Then, another injury returned. Two
days before Kansas first round game
against Portland State, he dove for a loose
ball at practice and collided with senior
guard Rodrick Stewart, bruising his knee.
Collins slogged through the first game
before erupting for 10 points in the second
half against UNLV. He was back, right?
Little did he know that more bad luck
struck earlier that day. Stewart had come
down with a bad case of tonsillitis and
missed Kansas second round game against
UNLV. Stewart holed up in his hotel room
for the day. No one was supposed to visit.
Collins did.
He didnt walk into the room, but he
came to the door.
You cool? Collins asked Stewart. You
feeling any better?
Stewart said Collins was the only player
who came by to see him while he was sick.
Collins came down with a similar illness
later the next week.
I dont know if I got him sick, Stewart
said. I hope not.
On Friday against Villanova, Collins
struggled again, going for four points and
three turnovers in 21 minutes. Self said
his player wasnt himself because of the
tonsillitis. Collins played more minutes on
Sunday but missed seven of his eight shots.
He was hurting from his sickness. Kansas,
though, might be hurting more without its
electric guard.
Few players can drive to the basket with
the same speed as Collins. Even with his
knee not at full strength against UNLV, he
still mustered a couple of his mind-blow-
ing offensive moves.
When hes not injured I feel like hes
a top-five point guard in the country,
sophomore guard Brady Morningstar said.
Hes only a sophomore and hes that good.
He can do so much with the ball, with his
quickness, but right now, his explosiveness
isnt the same.
If Collins tonsillitis still lingers against
North Carolina, Kansas could be in trouble.
Ty Lawson, a McDonalds All-American
from the same graduating class as Collins,
will provide a challenge for all the guards.
The Tar Heels will run, and no other
Jayhawk performs as well in fast-paced
games as Collins.
Before practice on Tuesday, Collins said
he was fully recovered from his bout with
tonsillitis, but that he didnt feel as good
as he has when hes been at his best this
season.
Whether he can be a force on Saturday is
unknown, but Collins is not lacking desire.
He sees everyone else healthy,
Morningstar said, and hes like man, If I
was healthy, winning these games, I know
we could win by so much more. It hurts
him, but I know deep down he knows hes
got to play for the team because we still
need him. Hes taking it all in stride.
Edited by Russell Davies
Collins eager to play
BY MARK DENT
mdent@kansan.com
The last time Kansas played in the
Final Four, in 2003, speculation centered
on whether Roy Williams would take the
vacant North Carolina coaching job. As
Kansas enters the Final Four this week,
theres talk again about its coach possibly
leaving for another school.
This time, Bill Self is being linked to
Oklahoma State, his alma mater. Sean
Sutton resigned as head coach of the
Cowboys on Tuesday, and Self gave his
thoughts about the vacant position.
I do care deeply about my alma mater,
Self said, but nobody from there has con-
tacted me. If they did, I would strongly
recommend that they move in a different
direction.
Self got a phone call late Tuesday morn-
ing from a fan who warned him that Sutton
might resign later in the day. Immediately
after he got the call, Self
said he went to speak
with Kansas Athletics
Director Lew Perkins.
They discussed the
possibility of Suttons
resignation and talked
about how they would
evaluate Self s con-
tract situation at the
end of the season, as
they had planned to
do throughout the
year.
Self doesnt think the
speculation about him
leaving for Oklahoma
State will cause a distraction this week for
himself or his players. He planned on dis-
cussing the situation with the team after
practice on Tuesday. Self pointed out that
Florida coach Billy
Donovan dealt with
rumors last season
about him leaving
to coach Kentucky,
and his team went
on to win the
national champion-
ship.
I bet Kentucky
wasnt talking to
Billy, Self said,
but it was a story.
The media made it
out to be a story
that didnt have
any legs, and I will
expect this to be the case.
Senior guard Jeremy Case was a
senior in high school when Williams
was linked to the North Carolina job
and then left after losing in the national
championship game. He said the rumors
about Williams didnt bother him then,
and he doesnt think these will bother
this team.
Were just focused on North Carolina
and the Final Four, Case said. Were not
focused on any other jobs or anything, just
the weekend.
Self played at Oklahoma State from
1981 to 1985 and worked as an assistant
coach under Leonard Hamilton and Eddie
Sutton for seven seasons before getting his
first head-coaching job at Oral Roberts in
1992.
62 years in the making
history mens basketball
mens basketball
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Sophomore guard Sherron Collins moves amid davidson players at the elite eight game in detroit. the Jayhawks clinched a victory 59-57 sending themto their third Final
Four in the last seven years on Sunday.
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Coach Bill Self thanks fans after victory against
Davidson on Sunday. Media whispers are linking Self
to the newly vacant head basketball coach position at
oklahoma State, his alma mater. Sean Sutton resigned
as coach of the cowboys tuesday.
Marla Keown/KANSAN
Dick Carson, 82, returns to allen Fieldhouse after 62 years. carson was the chartkeeper for Forrest phogallen
on the 1946 mens basketball team.
Self dispels rumor he will go to alma mater
Were just focused on North
Carolina and the Final Four.
Were not focused on any
other jobs or anything, just the
weekend.
JEREMY CASE
Senior guard
Lawrence, Kansas, made a
good impression on basketball
for a dinky town.
DiCk CARSon
Chartkeeper, 1946
chartkeeper for phog allen comes home
SEE Carson oN PAGE 3B
recurring injuries, illness prevent him from feeling 100 percent
sports 2B Wednesday, april 2, 2008
trivia of the day
fact of the day
Q: Who holds the record for
most points scored in an NCAA
basketball championship
game?
A: Bill Walton who scored
44 points as a UCLA Bruin in
the 1973 championship game
against Memphis. The Bruins
beat the Tigers 87-66 in the
game.
NCAA Final Four record book
Princetons Bill Bradley
holds the Final Four record for
most points scored in a game.
Bradley scored 58 points in a
1965 Final Four game against
Wichita State.
NCAA Final Four record book
quote of the day
So weve been runner-up
and semifnalist. Now we need
the other thing.
UCLA forward Kevin Love on the teams
Final Four failures the past two years
Tennis:
Sony Ericsson Open Quar-
terfnals, noon and 6 p.m., FSN
Soccer:
UEFA Champions League
A Quarterfnal, 2 p.m., ESPN2
NBA:
Indiana at Boston, 6 p.m.,
ESPN
Golden State at Dallas,
8:30 p.m., ESPN
MLB:
Toronto at New York
Yankees, 6 p.m., ESPN2
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p.m., Omaha
Softball vs. Creighton, 4
p.m., Omaha
Baseball vs. St. Mary, 6
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during the NCAA
tournament BY JEFF LATZKE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
OKLAHOMA CITY Even
with an injured shoulder, Candace
Parker was still able to lift Tennessee
into another Final Four.
Parker scored 26 points and
returned after dislocating her left
shoulder to lead the Lady Vols out of
a second-half deficit for a 53-45 win
over Texas A&M in the Oklahoma
City Regional final Tuesday night.
She twice left the game in the
first half with the injury and she
didnt return until about halfway
through the second half. She scored
six of the Lady Vols points in an
8-0 run as they overcame a 42-37
deficit, all while wearing a brace to
stabilize her left shoulder.
I was just going to play as hard
as I could and not to think about my
shoulder and my situation, Parker
said. I didnt want this to be the last
time that we played together.
She scored only eight points in
the second half, but it was enough
to push the Lady Vols (34-2) ahead
when combined with a sturdy
defensive effort that kept Texas
A&M (29-8) scoreless for a five-
minute stretch.
Even after returning from the
locker room with the shoulder
wrapped, she shot an airball on her
first jumper from the foul line and
then couldnt convert a layup off a
lob at the right block.
She turned a second alley-oop
attempt into a successful layup, and
that got the Lady Vols run going.
Shannon Bobbitt followed with two
free throws, and Parker hit two of
her own to put Tennessee ahead 43-
42 with 3:44 to play. She went 1-for-
2 on two successive trips to the foul
line to stretch the lead to three.
People, sometimes they see
Candace as more of a finesse player
but I think sometimes when you
see finesse players, you dont realize
just how mentally tough they are
until you see them fight through the
adversity that she fought through
tonight, Tennessee coach Pat
Summitt said.
After a free throw by the Aggies
Takia Starks, Parker lost the ball
in the lane but was able to recover
and pass to Alexis Hornbuckle for
a deep 3-pointer that gave the Lady
Vols a 48-43 edge with 48.8 seconds
left.
That was an interesting 3-ball,
Summitt said. The thing about
Alexis is she wants it so much.
Hornbuckle and Bobbitt each hit
two free throws in the final minute
to seal the win.
Top-seeded Tennessee advances
to the Final Four for the sixth time
in the past seven seasons, where it
will face Southeastern Conference
rival LSU. The teams split their
two meetings this season. The Lady
Tigers beat Tennessee during the
regular season, but lost in the SEC
tournament championship game.
The Lady Vols are seeking their
eighth national championship, and
their second straight.
The best season ever in Texas
A&M history concluded with
another rugged defensive perfor-
mance. The second-seeded Aggies
held Tennessee to its lowest point
total of the season.
Starks scored 12 to lead Texas
A&M, AQuonesia Franklin had 11
and Danielle Gant finished with 10.
WOMENS COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Tennessee enters Final Four
AssociAted Press
Tennessee forward Candace Parker is attended to by coach Pat Summitt, center, and a staf
member after Parker dislocated her left shoulder during the frst half of the NCAA womens bas-
ketball tournament Oklahoma City Regional fnal against Texas A&M, Tuesday in Oklahoma City.
TENNIS
Williams sisters may play
each other in semifnals
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. Ser-
ena Williams beat Kaia Kanepi
6-3, 6-3 and will next play top-
ranked Justine Henin, renew-
ing one of the best rivalries in
tennis.
The winner could meet Ve-
nus Williams in the semifnals.
Three-time champion Venus,
seeded sixth, advanced by
beating 17-year-old Caroline
Wozniacki 6-3, 6-3. Henin de-
feated Elena Vesnina 6-2, 6-2.
No. 1 Roger Federer and
newly engaged Andy Roddick
reached the fourth round on
the mens side. But Lindsay
Davenport hit a bump in her
career comeback when she lost
to Dinara Safna 6-3, 6-4.
Roddick, seeded sixth,
converted only two of nine
break-point chances but still
beat qualifer Ivo Minar 7-6 (4),
6-4. Afterward, he confrmed
he became engaged to swim-
suit model Brooklyn Decker in
early March.
Federer, still seeking his
frst tournament title this year,
advanced to the fourth round
when Robin Soderling retired
because of illness trailing 6-4,
3-0. Soderling lost the last fve
games and the fnal 10 points.
Kuznetsova defeated No. 16
Shahar Peer 7-6 (4), 6-3, and
Jankovic swept Zheng Jie 6-4,
7-5.
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sports 3b wednesday, april 2, 2008
BY DANNY NORDSTROM
dnordstrom@kansan.com
Freshman Iain Trimble came
into his first college meet with high
expectations. The javelin thrower
won his first meet and broke the
meet record at the Missouri Relays
last weekend. One throw also gave
him the fourth best javelin throw
in school history.
Trimble is just getting started.
Im not satisfied, he said. I
have some pretty lofty goals this
season.
The rest of the University of
Kansas Track & Field team has
some big goals as well. Last week-
end at a frigid and windy Missouri
Relays, eight Jayhawks took home
titles and three regionally qualified
to start off the outdoor season.
As a coaching staff, our goal
is to make each individual reach
their potential, head coach Stanley
Redwine said. I think weve been
doing that.
Senior sprinter Julius Jiles had
impressive showings in both the
400-meter and 110-meter hurdles.
He won both events, regionally
qualifying in the 110-meter hur-
dles with a time of 14.03 seconds.
It felt pretty good to still
regional qualify even though the
conditions were bad, he said.
Jiles commented on the positive
start to the outdoor season.
After all that, it says that our
team really should do something
this outdoor season, he said. Its
been said one too many times that
in indoor we didnt do what we
were supposed to do, but I think
now everybody is focused on what
we need to do.
Redwine agrees with Jiles and
feels that the outdoor season gives
the Jayhawks a fresh start after a
somewhat disappointing finish for
the men in the indoor season.
I think they are two different
seasons and we have to approach
them totally differently, he said.
Redwine elaborated on this,
saying that the outdoor season
brings new events with it and
allows more people to contribute
to the team. One such event is the
javelin. Trimbles impressive vic-
tory in the event is exactly what
the Jayhawks are looking for this
outdoor season.
Trimbles 68.04-meter meet
throw shattered the previous
record by about five feet. He com-
mented on his feelings going into
his first college meet.
Coming into this meet I knew
nobody, so I was like, Oh, my
God, does that kid throw farther
than me? he said. During my
first throw I thought my heart was
going to jump out of my chest.
In addition to Trimble and Jiles
domination, junior Zlata Tarasova
regionally qualified for the wom-
ens hammer toss with her throw
of 54.44 meters. She placed fourth
in the event.
Also claiming victories for the
Jayhawks were junior long jumper
Eric Fattig, sophomore pole-vault-
er Kirk Cooper, junior shot putter
Emily Reimer, sophomore sprinter
Lauren Bonds and junior sprint-
ers Victoria Howard and ShaRay
Butler.
Today, the Jayhawks travel to
Austin, Texas, for the Texas Relays.
Jiles is excited about the momen-
tum last weekends meet will give
the team.
It gave us a lot of momentum,
he said. To see everybodys times
throughout the past two weeks
and then for our team to go out
in those bad conditions and still
compete on the level that we did, it
really brings a lot to our team.
KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Julius Jiles, senior sprinter and hurdler, keeps pace with other runners during the mens 100-meter dash on April 21, 2007. Jiles won the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdles in the frst
outdoor track meet of the semester last weekend.
Kansas impressive in outdoor opener
Eight Jayhawks take titles, three regionally qualify in season-starting Missouri Relays
Carson
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TRACK & Field
came to it, a sparkle emerged from
his eye as he recognized the famil-
iar name. Before he could get too
lost in the moment, he started to
joke about the cheerleaders and
how the University of Southern
California preferred their cheer-
leaders to look like during his time
there.
Before he left the building,
Carson had one last treat. He
would be stepping onto the James
Naismith court where the Jayhawks
now play. As he slid through one of
the open doors entering the court,
he clapped his hands in disbelief.
The only light was a tiny gleam of
sunlight from the small windows
above the rafters.
The small lighting gave the court
a mystical feeling different than
when the fans were packed in like
sardines and a sea of blue cascaded
from every section.
Carson walked to the middle
of the court by himself as his fam-
ily stood back and watched his
reaction. Just like when he stared
up at Allens statue in front of the
fieldhouse in awe, the words for his
feelings couldnt escape his lips.
His eyes started to get misty as
his gaze wandered around the roof.
It seemed as if he were searching
for any remnants of the coach who
he had only known for a short
time, but who had impacted him
so much. The only thing he could
muster was, I could cry.
Although he was only here for
one semester before attending USC
for the remaining years of college,
he is still a Jayhawk basketball fan.
He might be a USC football fan,
but his heart will always belong to
the Jayhawks.
Lawrence, Kansas, made a
good impression on basketball for
a dinky town, Carson said.
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PHILADELPHIA Wilt
Chamberlains next enduring stamp
on basketball might come on the
upper right corner of an envelope
instead of a 100-point game. Wilt
the Stilt could become Wilt the
Stamp if a grass roots effort to get
the Hall of Famer and the only
NBA player to score 100 points
in a game on a commemorative
U.S postage stamp is approved by
postal officials.
Chamberlains image on a stamp
might be the only way the 7-foot-1
basketball icon could ever be cut
down to size.
Id be very proud if that hap-
pens and Im sure he would be,
too, if he was alive, said Selina
Gross, Chamberlains sister. I think
hed be very honored. He probably
wouldnt believe this could happen
to him.
The cause was started by
sports writer Donald Hunt of The
Philadelphia Tribune, a 123-year-
old newspaper that primarily tar-
gets the black community. Hunt,
who recalled as a child watching
in person Chamberlain play for
the 76ers against Oscar Robertson
and the Cincinnati Royals, believes
The Big Dipper has the creden-
tials to join Jackie Robinson, Babe
Ruth, Joe Louis and Jesse Owens
among the sports legends with
their own stamps.
The best way for Chamberlain,
who died in 1999, to earn a sticky
square is for supporters to write let-
ters to the Citizens Stamp Advisory
Committee. The committee reviews
proposals four times a year and
passes their recommendations on
to the postmaster general. The ear-
liest Chamberlain could appear on
a stamp is 2010, said Roy Betts, a
U.S. postal service spokesman.
The 76ers will lobby for
Chamberlain with a letter from
team president Ed Stefanski on
behalf of the organization, Comcast-
Spectacor spokesman Ike Richman
said Tuesday.
Chamberlain still has his fans
at the University of Kansas, where
his retired No. 13 jersey hangs in
the rafters of Allen Fieldhouse.
Jayhawks coach Bill Self said
Chamberlain deserved the recog-
nition. Anybody who can drop
100 in a game deserves something,
Self said. Still, to this day, you can
make a strong case that he is the
most dominant basketball player
of all time. And not only was he a
dominant basketball player, he was
maybe as good an athlete as theres
been, period.
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during an NBA game in March 1960. Chamberlain could appear on a commemorative U.S postage stamp as soon as 2010 if the idea is approved by
postal ofcials.
Cutler says Marshall
running out of chances
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. Jay
Cutler has had it with all the
drama and headlines surrounding
top target Brandon Marshall.
In his first offseason interview,
one sprinkled with unusually blunt
criticism, the Denver Broncos
quarterback called out his No. 1
receiver and fellow third-year star
who suffered a gash on his right
forearm while horsing around last
month.
Yeah, hes not my favorite
person right now, Cutler said.
I mean, I support him, but its
always something with him right
now.
With Jeremy Bates taking over
the Broncos passing game, Cutler
said Tuesday that it was impera-
tive for Marshall to participate
in all the offseason workouts, but
he wont be back in action until
training camp.
Marshall, who emerged as
Cutlers primary target during
a breakout 2007 season, said he
was horsing around with his older
brother at a resort in Orlando,
Fla., when he fell into a televi-
sion set, cutting an artery, a vein,
a nerve, two tendons and three
muscles in his right arm.
Marshall has found himself in
the news a lot lately. He faces a
DUI charge stemming from an
October incident and had a spat
with his girlfriend last year that
landed him in court. Ive talked
to him many times. I think a lot
of people have. ... He knows hes
running out of chances, Cutler
said. This wasnt like his DUI
and other stuff hes had. It was an
accident, but still, things like that
cant happen. He knows it.
Marshall said last week that
he realizes he has to grow up and
that his freak injury was a wake-
up call.
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BY MICHAEL MAROT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.
Indiana University will hire
Marquettes Tom Crean as its bas-
ketball coach and is expected to
introduce him at a news confer-
ence Wednesday.
University trustee Philip Eskew
confirmed the hiring. Eskew said
Crean had signed a letter-of-intent
with the university and was meet-
ing with his team Tuesday night.
Team spokesman J.D. Campbell
said a news conference had yet to
be scheduled.
The hiring comes near the end
of a tumultuous six-week period
in which former Hoosiers coach
Kelvin Sampson resigned amid an
NCAA scandal, interim coach Dan
Dakich replaced him and then lost
four of seven games.
Dakich also suspended guard
Jamarcus Ellis
for disciplinary
reasons for the
Hoosiers game
at Penn State,
and announced
Tuesday that
Ellis and guard
Armon Bassett
had been
kicked off the
team for miss-
ing two sched-
uled events.
Crean, who led Marquette to
the Final Four in 2003, will be
responsible for rebuilding not only
Indianas reputation as a national
power but also its sullied image as
a squeaky clean program.
I think hes a great choice,
Eskew said. He has a Big Ten
background, a Midwest back-
ground, hes recruited in the state
of Indiana and he has an impec-
cable record, so I think Indiana is
on the road to recovery.
Now the question is what kind
of team will Crean inherit.
Starting forwards D.J. White
and Lance Stemler both finished
their senior seasons, and its uncer-
tain whether Bassett and Ellis, two
of the starting guards, will return
after being punished for missing
an appointment last week. When
they didnt show up to run laps
the next day, Dakich decided to
dismiss them from the team.
On Monday, freshman Eric
Gordon is expected to announce
whether he will declare early for
the NBA. Most figure, hes leaving,
which would leave Indiana with-
out all five of its regular starters
from last season.
Outside the administration, the
decision was greeted warmly, too.
I think its a very good move,
said Jared Jeffries, a former Indiana
star now playing for the New York
Knicks. Hes proven himself to be
a successful college coach at this
level, a very
good recruit-
er, recognize
talent. Thats
who we need
at Indiana, we
need some-
body who is
going to be
stable, a foun-
dation for our
future.
K n i c k s
coach Isiah Thomas, who led
Indiana to the 1981 national title,
also endorsed the move.
Some thought Thomas might
be a candidate to take over at his
alma mater, but Thomas, who has
never coached at the college level,
said Sunday he was never con-
tacted by university officials.
Hes got a brilliant basketball
mind definitely a good hire for
Indiana I was very vocal about
Dan getting the job, but Tom is
definitely qualified and will do an
excellent job at Indiana, Thomas
said before his game in Milwaukee
on Tuesday. Any way that I can
help him, I definitely will.
Crean went 190-96 in nine
seasons at Marquette. He leaves
for a job that came open after
Sampsons latest alleged missteps
with the NCAA.
Sampson left in February amid
a phone-call scandal that brought
five allegations of major infrac-
tions from the NCAA. Dakichs
promotion to interim coach fueled
threats of a player boycott and the
Hoosiers (25-8) never recovered.
They lost four of their final seven
games, including a last-second
defeat against Minnesota in the
Big Ten tournament quarterfinals
and an 86-72 loss to Arkansas
in the first round of the NCAA
tournament.
Since firing Bob Knight in
September 2000, a move that
sharply divided Indiana fans,
the Hoosiers have failed to find
a suitable successor. Mike Davis,
who replaced Knight, never won
enough to satisfy Indianas rabid
fans, and it took Sampson, Davis
successor, less than two years to
stain the universitys once-impec-
cable reputation for playing by
the rules.
Sampson took the Indiana job in
March 2006 and two months later
was penalized by the NCAA for
making 577 impermissible phone
calls between 2000 and 2004 when
he was coaching Oklahoma.
The second wave of charg-
es emerged in October when a
university investigation found
Sampson and his staff made more
than 100 impermissible calls while
still under recruiting restrictions
and that Sampson participated in
at least 10 three-way calls, another
violation of the NCAAs punish-
ment.
Athletic director Rick
Greenspan called the violations
secondary, imposing a one-year
extension of the NCAAs recruit-
ing restrictions and pulling a
$500,000 raise. The Hoosiers also
took away one scholarship for the
2008-09 season.
However, an NCAA report
released Feb. 13 by Indiana
claimed Sampson provided false
and misleading information to
investigators from both the uni-
versity and the NCAA, failed to
meet the generally recognized
high standard of honesty expect-
ed in college sports and failed to
promote an atmosphere of com-
pliance within the program.
Sampson has denied intention-
ally providing investigators with
false information.
Indiana hires Marquettes Crean to rebuild
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Marquette basketball coachTomCrean watches a basketball game against Coppin State on Dec. 21, 2007, in Milwaukee. Indiana University will
hire Crean as its basketball coach and is expected to introduce himat a news conference Wednesday. University trustee Philip Eskewconfrmed the
hiring. Eskewsaid Crean had signed a letter-of-intent with the university and was meeting with his teamTuesday night.
Thats who we need at Indiana,
we need somebody who is go-
ing to be stable, a foundation for
our future.
Jared Jeffries
New York Knicks forward
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. If ever a
team was having a rebuilding year,
its the 2008 Kansas City Royals.
The whining of saws and the
rat-a-tat-tat of jackhammers in a
race against time will crank up at
6 oclock every morning all over
Kauffman Stadium. When the
Royals are home for night games,
workmen will pack up their equip-
ment and call it a day about four
hours before the first pitch.
A water truck will be standing
by to wet down dry areas, lest the
hot summer winds give fans raspy
throats and red, watery eyes.
For the entire season, Kauffman
will be a combination baseball sta-
dium and major construction zone.
Its all part of a $250 million renova-
tion that in many ways will almost
completely remake the 35-year-old
ballpark by the time everything is
finished around July 2009.
Great pains are being taken to
ensure comfort and safety, said
Kevin Uhlich, the Royals senior
vice president for business. As soon
as construction is halted every
game day, workers will be scurry-
ing around seeing to it that fans
will have no problem when they
start filing into their seats 90 min-
utes before game time.
Well clean everything up,
make sure weve got a safe environ-
ment, make sure weve got a clean
environment, Uhlich told about 25
media representatives who donned
hard hats and goggles for a tour of
the stadium on Tuesday, one week
before the home opener against the
New York Yankees.
They wont get hit with falling
mortar, Uhlich said. The build-
ing is safe.
Kauffmans reputation as one of
the prettiest parks in the major
leagues is going to take a major hit,
at least for a year. Mounds of dirt
are piled up behind left and right
field, and the front of the stadium
has been completely ripped up.
Weve tried to make it as
accommodating as possible for our
fans, said Bob Rice, the vice presi-
dent for ballpark operations and
development.
Kaufman Stadium renovation to last until July 2009
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sports 8B wednesday, april 2, 2008 sports 9B wednesday, april 2, 2008
BY SHAWN SHROYER
shroyer@kansan.com
If Kansas learned one thing
Tuesday night, it was the impor-
tance of leadoff men.
Five times Kansas pitchers
retired Wichita States leadoff hitter,
and the Shockers had just one run
from those innings. But four times
Wichita States leadoff men reached
base and the Shockers tallied six
runs. On the flip side, Kansas lead-
off men reached base just once.
Kansas inability to contain
Wichita States leadoff men and the
Jayhawks futility at the plate led to
a relatively smooth 7-3 victory for
the Shockers (21-3). Tuesdays vic-
tory at Hoglund Ballpark extended
Wichita States winning streak to
18 and marked its fourth straight
against Kansas. In dropping their
fourth straight game this season,
the Jayhawks (18-13) struck out 14
times.
We didnt do a very good job
of making an adjustment at the
plate, Kansas coach Ritch Price
said. One of the things that we
try to be is fastball efficient and
their guy was changeup, changeup,
changeup and we didnt do a very
good job of staying off the ball
down in the zone. When he did
throw his fastball, he was literally
in guys heads.
As meager as Kansas three runs
were, they were three more than the
Jayhawks technically should have
scored.
All three runs were unearned and
came after an error by Wichita State
second baseman Josh Workman.
Senior center fielder Casey Larson
reached on the error to lead off the
inning and scored on a single by
junior catcher Buck Afenir.
Senior right fielder Ryne Prices
seventh home run of the season
capped off Kansas scoring for the
first inning and the game.
For the next eight innings,
Wichita States pitching staff domi-
nated Kansas hitters, starting with
right-hander Tim Kelley (3-1). In
five innings, Kelley held Kansas to
three unearned runs on four hits
and struck out five.
He definitely did an outstand-
ing job of using his changeup and
we did a really poor job of adjust-
ing, obviously, Price said.
Kansas luck at the plate didnt
change when Wichita State turned
to its bullpen. Shocker left-hander
Logan Hoch struck out six Jayhawks
in 2.2 innings while right-hander
Tyler Fleming struck out three in
the final 1.1 innings of the game.
Making the Jayhawks 14 strike-
outs on offense even more appall-
ing was the fact that four of those
strikeouts came in one inning and
they didnt earn a single walk.
That was one of our worst
offensive performances of the year
after the first inning, Price said.
Sophomore left-hander Shaeffer
Hall got the start for Kansas and
held Wichita State at bay the first
two innings. However, Wichita
State knocked back-to-back doubles
off Hall to lead off the third and get
on the board.
After loading the bases, the
Shockers added two more runs in
the inning on RBI-ground outs to
tie the score, 3-3.
Sophomore right-hander Brett
Bollman (2-2) relieved Hall in the
top of the fifth and got into a simi-
lar jam. Before he recorded his first
out, the Shockers juiced the bases
on him.
Bollman displayed effective
damage control, though, holding
Wichita State to one run in the
inning. But that run was enough
to give the Shockers a lead they
wouldnt relinquish.
Its kind of our luck the last cou-
ple weeks, Hall said. Our pitching
hasnt been very good and our bats
have been pretty good and tonight
it was just kind of the other way
around. But, we have a good ball
club here and I think were going to
come together.
Kansas looks to rebound tonight
at 6 against Saint Mary (12-9) at
Hoglund Ballpark with sophomore
left-hander Wally Marciel (2-4)
starting for the Jayhawks.
Wichita State 7, Kansas 3
BY TYLER PASSMORE
tpassmore@kansan.com
As far as rivals go, most Jayhawk
fans immediately think of Kansas
State and Missouri.
For the baseball team, another
in-state rival traveled to Lawrence
Saturday night to do battle with
the Jayhawks. The Wichita State
Shockers brought a No. 8 rank-
ing to town, along with a 17-game
winning streak, and defeated the
Jayhawks 7-3 Tuesday night.
The Jayhawks, meanwhile, have
been on a three-game slide and
dropped to 1-5 in Big 12 play. Slow
starts have plagued the team, with
their pitchers giving up massive
amounts of runs.
So how did the Jayhawks remedy
this problem? They got a good
start.
Sophomore pitcher Shaeffer Hall
shocked the Shockers and threw
a shutout first inning by striking
out the side. The last time the
Jayhawks did that was six days ago,
when Hall graced the mound.
Hall entered Tuesdays game with
a 2-1 record and a 4.11 ERA. Halls
six starts this year tie with those
of other Big 12 leaders. Following
the first inning, not only did the
Shockers have zero runs, but the
Jayhawks were up three runs.
With run support, Hall went
on to throw another good inning
in the second and cruised into the
third unharmed.
Getting ahead was the main
reason I was successful, Hall said.
The first inning I had three strike-
outs and got the momentumon our
side. I was locating my fastball and
getting ahead of hitters.
With trouble lurking, the
Shockers finally found their stride
and managed to get three runs on
three hits in the top of the third.
Remaining poised, Hall went out
and retired Wichita State in order
to end the fourth. Finishing the
day with four strikeouts and giving
up three runs on three hits, Hall put
the Jayhawks in a good position.
The good start is something the
Jayhawks will need to build upon,
and the defeat by a top-10 team in
the nation may give the Jayhawks
the confidence they need.
We put a pitch limit on him
today so he can be ready to go this
weekend, coach Ritch Price said.
He could be in the ballgame early
this weekend, and the plan was for
him to go four innings with his
number of pitches.
The Jayhawks will challenge
Saint Mary at 6 p.m., and sopho-
more pitcher Wally Marciel will be
the next one to toe the rubber and
attempt a strong start.
Edited by Madeline Hyden
ShockerS defeat jayhawkS
Leadoff bats hurt
Hawks in 7-3 loss
weston white/kaNSaN
Sophomore second baseman robby Price turns a double play assisted by short stop Erik MorrisonTuesday night against Wichita State University. The Jayhawks lost 7-3 to the Shockers Tuesday,
giving up eight hits.
weston white/kaNSaN
Senior center felder casey Larson slides into home for the frst run of the game Tuesday. Larson reached frst on an error. Kansas lost 7-3 Tuesday night against Wichita State University.
weston white/kaNSaN
Senior shortstop erik Morrison (10) clashes arms with Ryne Price after Price hit a home run during the bottomof the frst inning putting Kansas up 3-0. Price
fnished 1-4 at bat with two RBI in a 7-3 loss to Wichita State University Tuesday night. Kansas faces Saint Marys today at 6 p.m.
weston white/kaNSaN
junior relief pitcher Paul Smyth throws a pitchTuesday night against Wichita State Univer-
sity. Smyth pitched three innings and gave up four hits and two runs against the Shockers in a 7-3
loss at Hoglund Ballpark. The Jayhawks face of today against Saint Mary at 6 p.m.
Kansas keeps
starting solid
weston white/kaNSaN
Sophomore pitcher Shaefer hall dives for a popped up bunt froma Wichita State batter,
but could not hold on to it for an out. The Jayhawks lost the game 7-3 Tuesday night against the
Shockers, dropping their record to 18-13 on the season.
weston white/kaNSaN
Sophomore pitcher Shaefer hall throws the frst pitch of the game Tuesday against Wichita State University. Hall gave up three hits and three
runs in four innings pitchedTuesday night. Kansas plays again today at 6 p.m. against Saint Marys.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
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Wichita State 0 0 3 0 1 1 1 0 1 7 8 1
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entertainment 10b wednesday, april 2, 2008
10 is the easiest day, 0 the
most challenging.
HOROSCOPES
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
Youve given the matter a lot of
thought. Its almost time to take
action. Something that once
seemed impossible is almost
within your grasp.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 6
Its easy for some to imagine
they can create a perfect world
simply by wishing it true. Help
them approach the objective
with a more solid plan.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is an 8
Youre not very shy when it
comes to expressing your feel-
ings, especially now. Until the
17th, youll tend to say what-
ever is on your mind. Caution is
advised.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 5
Resolve a fnancial issue thats
been bothering you. Find out
whats what in a situation that
has been uncomfortably vague.
Its better to know for sure.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
New information leads to new
possibilities. Keep listening and
learning, without making a
commitment yet.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 6
Start thinking about efciency.
Is your routine as streamlined as
it could be? When youre wast-
ing time, youre also wasting
money. You hate that.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
A fanciful conversation about
dreams for the future can turn
into a substantial commitment.
Youre always stronger when
working with a good partner.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
Youll fnd it a little easier, for
the next several weeks, to solve
job-related problems. Start a
list of things youd like to see
appear or disappear.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
For the next few weeks, your
sense of humor is awesome.
Youre always talented, but now
you really ought to take notes.
You could sell these jokes.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 6
The value of any item is partially
in the eye of the beholder. A
nice story can often raise the
selling price. Tell the truth, to
make it fair.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is an 8
Itll be easier to concentrate af-
ter you set priorities. Get a good
overview of the situation so you
can easily see what needs to be
done frst, second and third.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
Youll be thinking more about
money for the next few weeks.
Make up a list of things you
want to buy. Now, fnd more
cash.
ROFLCOPTER
Emily Rose Sheldon and Katie Henderson
CHICKEN STRIP
Charlie Hoogner
THE ADVENTURES OF JESUS AND JOE DIMAGGIO
Max Rinkel
SQUIRREL
Wes Benson
EntErtainmEnt
Ebert unable to speak
after surgery complications
CHICAGO Roger Ebert will
resume writing reviews later this
month, but will not rejoin his
syndicated TV show because hes
still unable to speak. In a letter
published in Tuesdays Chicago
Sun-Times, the Pulitzer Prize-win-
ning flm critic and co-host of TVs
Ebert & Roeper said surgery in
January ended in complications,
and his ability to speak was not
restored. He said the return of
speech would require another
surgery.
But I still have all my other
abilities, including the love of
viewing movies and writing about
them, Ebert said.
Ebert, 65, said he was looking
forward to his annual flm festival
starting April 23. I will resume
writing movie reviews shortly
thereafter, he said.
Ebert had surgery in 2006 to
remove a cancerous growth on
his salivary gland. He also had
emergency surgery that year
after a blood vessel burst near
the site of the operation. He had
undergone cancer surgery three
times before, once to remove a
malignant tumor on his thyroid
gland and twice on his salivary
gland the following year.
Ebert said he remains cancer-
free, and is not ready to think
about more surgery.
Associated Press
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Ross stewaRt
Once upon a time, a friend of
mine scored some sweet behind-
the-dugout tickets to a Royals
game. However, the seats did not
overlook our hometown heroes,
but the opposing bench.
I saw an opportunity.
Many see heckling as a nega-
tive thing. People say, Corban,
theyre just men putting in a
hard days work or Give them a
break, they have enough pressure
put on them as it is.
Frankly, hypothetical detrac-
tor, I dont buy it.
When I slap down $20 (and
in some cases, much more) to
see grown men make hefty pay-
checks for hitting small rawhide
balls and jogging lazily, I am also
purchasing my right to criticize
their every move.
Its in the Constitution.
Somewhere toward the end.
Miguel Tejada, the previous
years American League MVP,
strutted up to the plate and
immediately popped out in foul
territory a few baby steps left of
third base. As Tejada was slink-
ing back to the dugout, the very
dugout I was sitting atop like a
Supreme Court Justice, I hurled a
deliciously sly MVP! his way.
Let me put his response
this way: If they had aired the
exchange on TBS, Tejada wouldve
said, Flunk you, britches.
I dont know which was more
disturbing: the vitriolic eye con-
tact or the fact that a prominent,
supposedly professional athlete
couldnt handle a comment from
a freckled, lanky teenager whose
athletic prospects are minimal
at best.
I felt empowered.
Look back to the 1920s and
30s. Baseball was king. It was
our soccer before the whole
Champions League exploded.
Sure, many of the best play-
ers to have ever pulled on long,
ungodly uncomfortable wool
socks werent allowed to play, but
hey! Baseball still reigned until
the late 1960s.
Now we are a segmented
sports culture with too many
professional sports to consume.
Even at this University, we cant
handle two successful sports
teams at once.
Remember when our football
team was in the home stretch
of their historic season? Hardly
anyone went to the Kansas vs.
Arizona basketball game.
Heckling is the answer.
Sports fans, we pay outra-
geous sums just to attend sport-
ing events. Go to StubHub.com
or Ace Sports on 23rd, and youll
know what Im talking about.
Heckling, something that
has gone on since cavemen first
slammed rocks into other rocks,
can revive the great national
pastime of baseball by inject-
ing some solid, truly invasive
heckling.
My younger brother, Clark, is
a tremendous heckler. He has an
incredible knack for discovering
most obscure gaffes that many
Major Leaguers stuff into the far
recesses of their cranium.
Prom dates? Unbelievably rac-
ist MySpaces? All of these things
are fair game to him.
When heckling becomes our
greatest national sport, I will be
on the sidelines when Clark wins
the Golden Notepad at the first
Heckling National Tournament.
Last week I was in Las Vegas,
and I ran into Pete Rose, who
hangs out in Sin City a lot, appar-
ently (a presence that Im sure
helps his Hall of Fame chances).
He was signing baseballs for
the low, low price of $99 a pop.
I offered him $10 for a hug and
flashed me an eye-rolling gri-
mace. What a guy.
People say, Professional ath-
letes are just like us, but theyre
not.
Professional athletes have
been trained to act like this since
the first time they ever showed a
flash of prodigious talent. This
makes for some seriously imbal-
anced, eccentric people. The
generosity of Pete Rose. Michael
Vick. I once read that Andy
Roddick was scared to tears by a
guy wearing a bunny suit. Does
this sound normal to you?
Lets bring these Richie Riches
down to our level. Its democ-
racy!
Goble is a Mission Hills
senior in English.
coRBan GoBle
Columnist Josh Anderson wrote
a column addressing the underly-
ing issues behind the epidemic of
school shootings. The column was
admirable and its proposals com-
mendable.
To elaborate on the dialogue
begun, the full reasoning for the
massacres at Virginia Tech and
Northern Illinois needs to be
acknowledged because popular
media is not doing so.
After each tragic incident, issues
of our violent youth, access to fire-
arms, violent media and peer pres-
sure are all blamed or defended by
students and parents. One factor
continues to escape notice.
Men commit the overwhelming
majority of school shootings.
As Jackson Katz, one of the
foremost leaders in the anti-sex-
ism movement, said, What these
school shootings reveal is not a
crisis in youth culture or among
young people, but a crisis in mas-
culinity.
He notes that if the killers were
all female, the issue of gender
would be at the forefront of public
discussion. But now, these men
and their struggle with the rigid
guidelines of a masculine culture
go unnoticed.
Although all of the concerns
listed above are undoubtedly rel-
evant, if they were the primary
issue, as Katz puts it, then we
would see similar aggression in
women who are subject to the
same violent stimuli and exclusive
peer environments not only
in our high schools and colleges,
but also in society in the form of
assault, rape and violent crime.
The pressures unique to men
are built upon the construction of
the ideal male: strong, indepen-
dent, aggressive and heterosexual.
Men who do not conform to these
arbitrary guidelines are subject
to ridicule and humiliation by
their association with two groups:
women and homosexuals.
It is becoming apparent that
masculinity is not defined by what
it is, but rather by what it is not. As
a society, we need to ask ourselves,
do we really want notions of man-
hood to be so firmly rooted in sex-
ism and homophobia?
In cases of violence from
Columbine to Northern Illinois,
the perpetrators were subjected to
the extremes of masculine pres-
sure. How did they deal with this?
To be a true man, we are taught,
means to swallow our emotions,
toughen up and carry on. With no
viable outlet for frustration, isola-
tion and humiliation, these young
men tragically turned to the one
acceptable reaction for the genu-
inely masculine: violence.
For a solution, it is assuredly
appropriate to take Andersons
columns words to heart, What
is needed is a radical approach: a
counter-culture tearing down the
walls that an apathetic world forces
us to build. I would add that the
world is anything but apathetic.
Stereotypes and prejudice are
being actively if subtly built
into our lives and behaviors. We
need to vigorously deconstruct
false notions of acceptability and
open our minds to the unique
and valuable differences among
us. That means recognizing that
women are strong and indepen-
dent, men are vulnerable and inti-
mate, and sexual preference is no
more an indicator of individual
virtue than the color of skin.
Rehaan Shaffe is an
Overland Park senior in
creative writing.
Guns dont kill people;
recent House bill does
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Im sitting in the library and
I just watched a guy pick his
nose for three whole minutes,
look at it, and then eat it. I
cant decide which is more
disgusting: the fact that he
did that or that I watched it.
n n n
Dear Jon, its my birthday on
Friday. If you couldnt go to
the Final Four, I would have
gotten to go, and it would
have been the best birthday
weekend ever. But you killed
it because youre going to
San Antonio.
n n n
I had to drag my Ethernet
cord across the dorm room
to write this, which is exactly
why Im voting for United
Students.
n n n
Wireless in the dorms was
proposed two years ago by
Ignite. Its a pork project thats
unlikely to happen anytime
soon and nothing to get
excited about.
n n n
To the gorgeous door guy at
the Ranch on Thursdays, ask
me on a date already.
n n n
Hey basketball team, why
dont you win the national
championship so we dont
have to come to school on
Tuesday?
n n n
Wireless campus in the dorms
has been pitched by more
previous Senate coalitions
than I can count. Its a $15
million project. More fee in-
creases from United Students,
hooray.
n n n
Lisa Ling speaks on Thursday.
n n n
Please dont judge all gays
based on the fags on campus.
Not all of us love rainbows
and have lisps.
n n n
Michael Beasley is staying at
K-State. April fools!
n n n
To the person who wants to
litter: Thats dumb.
n n n
I want to have sex in the
stacks.
n n n
Jones Soda gets me through
these grueling times of
early morning classes and late
night trips to the library.
n n n
Im as happy as a clam at high
water.
n n n
The toilet paper in Watsons
bathrooms suck.
Heckling: Merican
as warm apple pie
What should Lawrence do
to fght global warming?
As the green movement
comes into more general ac-
ceptance, politicians are placing
higher importance on envi-
ronemntal issues.
But where does the responsi-
bility to take care of our planet
fall?
Even though global warm-
ing is an issue that will need
international solutions, where
should the fght start?
Send your thoughts to kan-
sanopdesk@gmail.com. Replies
to this weeks Talk Back topic
will be printed on Friday.
Want to legally own a sawed-off
shotgun or silencer for the mul-
tiple firearms you own? If your
answer is no, then call your state
legislator. If your answer is yes,
dont do anything because Im too
scared that youll shoot me.
A State House bill passed
March 28 that allows citizens to
legally own machine guns, sawed-
off shotguns and silencers. The
bill is an answer to a bill that went
through the Kansas Senate that
made it a felony to remove serial
numbers on a firearm. Usually Id
crack a joke of some sort, but I
find that terribly hard to do at
this time.
There are always the two sides
to gun control. No one will ever
be able to persuade one to the
other or vice versa. I could care
less about convincing gun nuts to
agree with me. My goal is merely
to crush this bill with the help
of other people who, like myself,
really dont want to be shot silently
or with a sawed-off shotgun.
None of these items are needed
in a normal individuals life. I can
understand the machine gun.
If you want to own a machine
gun, fine. You have rights. You
can blow a robber or possibly your
child away in the middle of the
night trying to protect your home.
Cool. Do it. Live it up.
But when it comes to sawed-off
shotguns and silencers, I take a
different stance. A normal citizen
needs neither of these items.
If you want to collect sawed-off
shotguns, Im sorry, but I draw the
line there. This is not the movie
Evil Dead. If you want to shoot
zombies up close, use a machine
gun or another gun. No one needs
a sawed-off shotgun.
The idea of legalizing silencers
makes no sense whatsoever.
Guns are loud and this is good
because people should know when
a gun is fired. Guns arent used
in everyday life for little things. I
dont cook a burrito for two min-
utes with a gun, like I do with a
microwave oven. People dont need
to know when I use a microwave
oven, because microwave ovens
arent made to kill people.
If guns cooked burritos and
didnt kill people, I could see the
necessity in making them quieter.
Gun enthusiasts are probably
calling me a leftist Castro wanna-
be, and thats fine.
Im sorry for impeding on your
rights. I just dont want someone
to shoot me. Is that too much to
ask?
If you agree with me, please
call your state representative or
senator. If you are registered in
Lawrence, your state representa-
tive is Barbara Ballard and your
state senator is Marci Francisco.
Their contact information can be
found on the Kansas Legislatures
Web site at www.kslegislature.org.
Stewart is a Wichita junior in
journalism.
pressures of masculinity drive
men to commit school shootings
Community corrections
curtail inmate increase
There is at least one top
ranking Kansans are happy
to hand of to another state
holding the most people
behind bars.
While it is easy to argue that
criminals deserve little sympa-
thy from taxpayers, it is not so
easy to fnd a black-and-white
answer on what to do with
convicts once they have paid
their debt to society.
It should be easy to agree
that surrounding ex-convicts
with dedicated people tasked
with helping them navigate
through society is a far better
solution than leaving them to
their own devices.
In Kansas, doing just that
has curtailed the need to build
additional prisons.
The Hutchinson News
March 25 editorial
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Connecticut sensation Maya
Moore became only the sec-
ond freshman selected to The
Associated Press womens All-
America team, an honor her
coach hoped would not prove a
burden during the NCAA tour-
nament.
Moore was joined on the squad
Tuesday by repeat All-Americans
Candace Parker of Tennessee
and Courtney Paris of Oklahoma
and first-timers Sylvia Fowles
of LSU and Candice Wiggins of
Stanford.
To avoid further pres-
sure, Connecticut coach Geno
Auriemma didnt want Moore
to know of her selection until
after the Huskies played Rutgers
in the Greensboro Regional final
Tuesday night.
I think given the circum-
stances, given the spotlight she
plays under, I just think shes
matured beyond her years and
I dont know if any kid has had
an impact on a team that shes
had, Auriemma said. I think
the term All-American back in
the day meant more than just a
player.
Moore helped lead the Huskies
to the Big East regular-season
and confer-
ence tourna-
ment titles.
She was the
first freshman
male or
female to
win confer-
ence player of
the year.
M o o r e
broke the con-
ference and
school fresh-
man scoring record and has aver-
aged 22 points and 10.3 rebounds
in the Huskies first three NCAA
tournament games.
If you look at what shes done
for this program, and how she
conducts herself, shes everyones
All-American, Auriemma said.
The only other freshman All-
American was Paris, a first-team-
er for the third straight season.
Paris is only the third player to
be a three-time All-American,
joining Chamique Holdsclaw of
Tennessee and Alana Beard of
Duke.
Wow, thats a special group to
be a part of, said Paris, a junior
who extended her double-double
streak to 92 games this season.
Its a huge honor.
Parker, also a junior, received
250 points and was the only unan-
imous first-team choice among
the 50-member national media
panel that votes in the weekly Top
25. The voting was done before
the start of the NCAA tourna-
ment.
Parker will be graduate in
May and most likely will be the
first pick in the WNBA draft on
April 9.
I feel like
I tried hard
to come back
and be better
this year, she
said.
Wi g g i n s
and Fowles
also will be
picked high
in the WNBA
draft.
The sec-
ond team
had an ACC flavor, with confer-
ence player of the year Crystal
Langhorne and Maryland team-
mate Kristi Toliver leading the
way. North Carolina senior Erlana
Larkins, Louisville junior Angel
McCoughtry and Oklahoma State
sophomore Andrea Riley com-
plete the second team.
The third team included
Connecticut teammates Tina
Charles and Renee Montgomery.
They were joined by Rutgers
Epiphanny Prince, Middle
Tennessee States Amber Holt, and
Utahs Leilani Mitchell.
The preseason All-America
team was Paris, Parker, Wiggins,
Fowles and Langhorne. Joining
Paris and Parker on last years
first team was Lindsey Harding
of Duke, Ivory Latta of North
Carolina and Jessica Davenport of
Ohio State.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK Alex Rodriguez
makes more this year than his
hometown Florida Marlins.
Boosted by his new deal with
the New York Yankees, A-Rod tops
the major league baseball salary
list at $28 million, according to
a study of contract terms by The
Associated Press. The 33 players
on the Marlins opening-day roster
and disabled list total $21.8 mil-
lion.
The Marlins? Its amazing,
Rodriguez said. And they still
seem to find a way to be very
competitive. They have a great
pool of talent; they made some
unbelievable trades, so they have
great personnel people. To win two
championships in 11 years, thats
really admirable, and Im very
proud of that organization, being
from Miami.
For the first time in baseball
history, the average salary topped
the $3 million mark. The 855 play-
ers on opening-day rosters and the
DL averaged $3.15 million, up 7.1
percent from last years starting
average of $2.94 million.
Floridas highest earner doesnt
even make the average. Pitcher
Kevin Gregg tops the Marlins at
$2.5 million.
My best friend came into town,
and he mentioned something
about Johan Santana making $15
million more than our five starters
combined, Marlins catcher Matt
Treanor said. Its something to
laugh at, but at the same time,
it is what it is. Those guys put
on the uniform like us. When it
comes time to start the game, it
doesnt matter how much money
the Yankees or whoever make.
Treanors friend was exaggerat-
ing a bit Santana makes $12 mil-
lion more than Floridas rotation.
Still, the Marlins payroll was less
than half that of the No. 29 team,
Tampa Bay ($43.8 million).
Theyve won a championship
more recently than we have as an
organization. So theres many dif-
ferent ways to skin a cat, said
Yankees general manager Brian
Cashman, whose team lost to
Florida in the 2003 World Series.
Alex earned that contract in the
negotiation. Right now, the Marlins
are in a different place. But theyve
got a stadium coming on board
and theyre going in the right direc-
tion, and I think theyve already
proven they know how to build
something.
The Yankees, not surprisingly,
topped the payroll list at $209.1
million, and A-Rod was No. 1 in
the majors for the eighth straight
year. New York first baseman Jason
Giambi was second at $23.4 mil-
lion, followed by Yankees shortstop
Derek Jeter ($21.6 million) and
Boston left fielder Manny Ramirez
($18.9 million).
Boosted by the acquisition of
Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle
Willis, Detroit shot up to second in
the major leagues at $138.7 million.
The Tigers payroll at the end of last
season was 12th at $98.5 million.
The New York Mets were third
at $138.3 million, up from $121
million at the end of 2007, and the
World Series champion Boston
Red Sox were fourth at $133.4
million.
The average salary usually
declines during the season as vet-
erans get released and are replaced
by young players.
The final 2007 average, as cal-
culated by the players association,
was $2.82 million.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NewYork Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez felds a ball during the second inning of a spring training baseball game against the Florida
Marlins at Dolphin Stadiumon Saturday in Miami. Rodriguez makes $2.8 million a year.
Freshman Moore named
to All-America team
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Connecticuts Maya Moore brings the
ball down the court during the second half
against Rutgers in a womens college bas-
ketball game in Hartford, Conn., on March 3.
Moore scored 19 points in the game, led the
Huskies to the Big East regular season and
tournament titles, andTuesday became only
the second freshman selected to The Associ-
ated Press womens All-America team.
Rodriguez tops salary list
If you look at what shes done
for this program, and how she
conducts herself, shes every-
ones All-American.
Geno AuriemmA
uConn womens basketball coach
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AssociAted press
Canadiens 2,
senators 0
WASHINGTON Alex
Ovechkin scored his league-lead-
ing 63rd goal and got all sorts of
help Tuesday night in Washingtons
4-1 victory over Carolina, a result
that left the teams tied atop the
Southeast Division at 90 points with
two games to go in the season.
Alexander Semin, Brooks Laich
and Matt Cooke scored before
Ovechkins insurance goal, Sergei
Fedorov and Mike Green con-
tributed two assists apiece, and
Cristobal Huet made 21 saves. Add
it all up, and the Capitals were
able to celebrate a five-game win-
ning streak for the first time since
March 2001. Theyve also won nine
of their past 10 games.
Washington ranked 30th of 30
NHL teams in late November, about
a quarter of the way through the
season, when minor league coach
Bruce Boudreau replaced the fired
Glen Hanlon. And Washington
still stood only 14th of 15 Eastern
Conference clubs at the seasons
halfway point.
Now, though, the Capitals have
a chance to reach the playoffs for
the first time since the 2002-03
season, sitting one point out of
eighth place in the East. If they
can pass the Hurricanes as of
now, Carolina holds the tiebreaker
advantage the Capitals would
win their first division champion-
ship since 2000-01.
devils 2,
islanders 1, ot
OTTAWA Carey Price made
32 saves for his third shutout and
Alex Kovalev scored his 35th goal
as Montreal claimed its first divi-
sion title in 16 years.
Mathieu Dandenault and Andrei
Kostitsyn also scored for Montreal,
which secured the Northeast
Division title with 100 points.
The Canadiens have as many
points as Pittsburgh, which leads
the Eastern Conference by vir-
tue of its 45 wins, one more than
Montreal.
The sixth-place Senators have
a one-point lead over Boston and
Philadelphia, who currently hold
the final two playoff spots in the
conference. Ottawa is also only
two points ahead of ninth-place
Washington.
Martin Gerber made his 15th
straight start for the Senators, stop-
ping 24 shots.
Predators 4, Blues 3
UNIONDALE, N.Y. Zach
Parise deflected in Johnny Oduyas
shot 29 seconds into overtime for
New Jersey, which clinched an
Eastern Conference playoff berth.
The Devils strengthened their
hold on fourth place in the East
and stayed alive in the race for the
Atlantic Division title. Anything
other than a win by New Jersey,
would have given the crown to the
Pittsburgh Penguins.
New Jersey trails Pittsburgh by
five points with three games to play,
and has a two-point edge over the
New York Rangers in the East.
Parise won it with the Devils
47th shot at Islanders third-string
goalie Joey MacDonald. Oduya also
had the primary assist on Patrik
Elias second-period goal that got
New Jersey even at 1.
Martin Brodeur stopped 21
shots for his 42nd victory over
the season, allowing only a goal to
Josef Vasicek in the first period.
saBres 4, MaPle leafs 3
ST. LOUIS Rich Peverley
scored 1:43 into overtime to com-
plete Nashvilles comeback from a
three-goal deficit.
Nashville also got goals from
Brandon Bochenski, Jordin Tootoo,
Vernon Fiddler after falling behind
3-0 early on.
AssociAted press
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.
The comparisons between Tiger
Woods and Lorena Ochoa are
inevitable, and mostly accurate.
Woods gave the PGA Tour a
two-week head start in Hawaii,
made his debut at the Buick
Invitational and won by eight
shots. Ochoa also skipped the first
two LPGA Tour events in Hawaii,
started in Singapore at the HSBC
Champions and won by 11.
Woods has won 18 times on
the PGA Tour since the start of
the 2006 season. Ochoa has 16
victories. They are No. 1 in their
respective world ranking by more
than double the margin of No. 2.
And over the next two weeks,
both are overwhelming favorites
to win the first major champion-
ship of the year.
But thats where the parallel
paths come to a fork in the road.
Woods has four green jackets
from the Masters, not to mention
a career full of positive vibes at the
majors. He captured the career
Grand Slam at age 24, before he
had completed four years on the
PGA Tour.
Despite her dominance, Ochoa
arrived at the Kraft Nabisco
Championship to face some
demons.
She loves Mission Hills, where
she first played as a teenager.
The affection she gets in the
California desert rivals that of
her native Mexico, with someone
waving a red, white and green
flag on just about every fairway.
Ochoa sheepishly mentioned
that she asked tournament offi-
cials for 100 tickets for her family
and friends, and she was willing
to pay for them.
I have great memories, and I
have a lot of support from people
that comes from Mexico and cheer
for me, Ochoa said Tuesday. Its
just someplace that feels good. Im
ready to have a good week. Ive
been close a few times, and hope-
fully, this is the year.
She is being modest about
close calls.
Ochoa should have won this
major by now.
Two years ago, she tied an
LPGA major record with a 10-
under 62 in the opening round
and still had a three-shot lead
going into Sunday until a melt-
down on the back nine. Ochoa
recovered with an eagle on the
final hole to get into a playoff
against Karrie Webb, who won on
the first extra hole.
Ochoa was tied for the lead
going into the weekend last year
and looked poised as ever until
she missed the par-3 17th green,
whiffed on a wedge, took three
putts once she got on the green
and took quadruple bogey that
effectively knocked her out of the
tournament.
Moments like that are what
makes winning even harder.
What might help this year is no
longer having to answer questions
about winning a major. Even after
she replaced Annika Sorenstam
at No. 1 in the world at the end
of the 2006 season, Ochoa had a
reputation of being unable to win
the big one.
There was the U.S. Womens
Open at Cherry Hills in 2005,
when she duck-hooked a tee
shot into the water on No. 18
and made 8. The two failures at
Mission Hills.
Last year at Pine Needles, she
again was poised to win the U.S.
Womens Open until she couldnt
find a fairway over the final five
holes.
But she has been a different
player since capturing her first
major in the Womens British
Open at St. Andrews, an historic
afternoon in so many ways. That
was the start of a stretch in which
Ochoa has won seven times in 12
starts, a winning percentage that
rivals Woods.
Comparing mens and womens
golf is about as practical as com-
paring generations, but there are
similarities worth noting.
Woods can finish a brilliant
season and spend the next few
months figuring out a way to get
better.
Ochoa worked harder than
ever during her long offsea-
son, especially on her putting.
And she is much longer off the
tee, even reaching the 310-yard
14th hole Sunday at the Safeway
International, which she won by
seven shots.
Youre never there, Woods
often says.
And when Ochoa was asked
where she could improve, she
mentioned everything from learn-
ing to rest to communicating with
her caddie. She finished at 22-
under par last week at Superstition
Mountain and was irritated by
three or four dumb bogeys.
But she was stumped when
asked what Woods had that she
wanted, besides power off the
tee and a $100 million annual
income.
I think we all want to know
what he has inside his head, she
said. It would be hard to find. But
Im happy for what I have.
What she could use are a few
more majors.
Particularly this one.
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