Bob Hentrich, pastor at Chillicothe

Christian Church in Chillicothe, Ill., said

the church would be providing overnight
housing and breakfast for Krupa. He said
he originally wanted to get involved in the
ROMPaTHON because he was a cyclist.
ROMP serves a segment of society
that is sometimes ignored or forgotten,
Hentrich said. This is a noble task.
The ride will end at Krupas home in
Chicago. After the ride, Krupa said, he
planned to volunteer in New Orleans
and then continue his education at the
University of Oregon. Krupa said he want-
ed to volunteer with an organization like
the Peace Corps and then go to graduate
school for non-profit management.
To follow his ride, visit: www.rompglob-
al.org/fundraising_gkrupa.php
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BY BRANDY ENTSMINGER
bentsminger@kansan.com
Greg Krupas volunteer work with
amputees in Central and South America
has taken him down an unexpected path.
At 5 a.m. today, Krupa, a former
University of Kansas student, will embark
on a 520-mile bike ride. He will ride from
Kansas City to Chicago in the first-ever
ROMPaTHON to raise money for the
Range of Motion Project, or ROMP. ROMP
is a non-profit organization that provides
prosthetics and orthotic braces for people
in Guatemala and Ecuador. Krupas goal
is to raise $10,000 for the organization by
collecting donations along the way. Hes
already raised more than $2,000.
Krupa studied political science and Latin
American studies at the University, but left
after his sophomore year to volunteer with
ROMP. He chose the group because his
brother was one of the founders.
I couldnt just go through school and
graduate, Krupa said. I had to go out and
get my hands dirty.
Krupa volunteered in Guatemala and
Ecuador from August 2007 to August
2008. He helped with prosthetic fabrica-
tion, patient care and physical therapy. He
also conducted research in Guatemala to
give the clinics more information about
patients.
Eric Neufeld, volunteer director and co-
founder of the Range of Motion Project,
said 7,000 amputees live in Guatemala.
Neufeld said the goal of the Range of
Motion Project was to help all 7,000. So
far, the organization has fitted 600 full
prosthetics and 2,000 orthotic braces in the
country, he said.
Krupa said patients at the clinic received
the same care they would in a first world
country. He said that the organizations
primary focus was on quality rather than
quantity and that people sometimes trav-
eled from other countries to receive care
from the clinics.
The Range of Motion Project recycles
prosthetic parts from the United States.
Krupa said many people donated old parts
because their insurance companies allowed
them to buy new ones every few years.
Krupa said he considered the Range of
Motion Project to be a social justice orga-
nization rather than a charity organization.
Many patients volunteer at the clinics after
they have received care.
You have to have the patient involved
at some level, Krupa said.
Krupa said the clinics helped five to
eight patients in an average week. Three or
four times a year, large groups of surgeons,
nurses and other volunteers came to help.
In those weeks, Krupa said, an average of
35 patients were treated.
In addition to working at the clinic,
Krupa taught English to business executives
for extra money and rode a bike every day.
He said riding in Ecuador and Guatemala
was good training for the upcoming ride,
because the elevation was so much higher
there than it is in the Midwest.
Krupa said his goal was to finish the
ROMPaTHON ride in eight or nine days.
He said it would be difficult because the
ride is 370 miles longer than the longest
ride he has biked so far the MS 150. The
lack of established rest stops for food and
water is another challenge Krupa will face.
Krupa plans to stop at eight churches along
the way to sleep.
Watkins Memorial Health Center
is installing a new electronic health
record system. The system will pro-
vide appointment reminders and make
checking in at Watkins easier and less
time-consuming for students.
Thomas A. Schreiber, professor of
psychology, was arrested after failing to
appear in court for two traffic violations.
Schreiber, who claims to have found the
cure for Parkinsons disease and alco-
holism, has been placed on involuntary
leave from the University.
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Senior linebacker Joe Mortensen hits FIU quarterback Paul McCall during Saturday's game at Memorial Stadium. A Memorial Stadium-record crowd saw Kansas defeat FIU 40-10. The Jayhawk defense held the Panthers to 139
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Watkins new system
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Greg Krupa, former KU student from Chicago, is ready to roll on his new bike at Sunfower Bike Shop, 804 Mas-
sachusetts St. Krupa is prepared to ride his bike from Kansas City to Chicago in order to raise awareness for people
with prosthetics in Guatemala and Ecuador.
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WHAT IS IT? orTHoTIc brAce
An orthotic brace supports or
corrects a musculoskeletal defor-
mity, allowing an individual with
a disability to maintain or restore
mobility.
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MSU grad student raps
about science, physics
EAST LANSING, Mich. Who
says science doesnt turn people
on?
Kate McAlpine is a rising star
on YouTube for her rap perfor-
mance about high-energy
particle physics.
Her performance has drawn
a half-million views so far on
YouTube.
The 23-year-old Michigan
State University graduate and
science writer raps about the
Large Hadron Collider, the
groundbreaking particle ac-
celerator that has been built in
a 17-mile circular tunnel at the
CERN laboratory near Geneva,
Switzerland.
McAlpine raps that when the
collider goes into operation on
Sept. 10, the things that it dis-
covers will rock you in the head.
The $3.8 billion machine will
collide two beams of protons
moving at close to the speed of
light so scientists can see what
particles appear in the resulting
debris.
Rap and physics are culturally
miles apart, McAlpine, a science
writer at CERN, wrote to the Lan-
sing State Journal in an e-mail
last week, and I fnd it amusing
to try and throw them together.
Others, including physicists,
also fnd it amusing.
We love the rap, and the
science is spot on, said CERN
spokesman James Gillies.
McAlpine received permission
to flm herself and friends danc-
ing in the caverns and tunnels
where the experiments will take
place.
I have to confess that I was
skeptical when Katie said she
wanted to do this, but when I
saw her previous science rapping
and the lyrics, I was convinced,
Gillies said.
I think youll fnd pretty close
to unanimity among physicists
that its great.
McAlpine honed her phys-
ics rapping skills at Michigan
States National Superconducting
Cyclotron Laboratory, where she
was part of a student research
program two years ago.
Passenger, pilot stranded
in trees after crash landing
EAST WINDSOR, Conn. A
1930s biplane glided to a crash
landing in the tops of a stand of
trees on Sunday, stranding the
pilot and his passenger amid the
branches for several hours.
No one was injured, said
Michael Koczera, manager of the
Skylark Airpark.
The single-engine de Havil-
land Tiger Moth apparently lost
power about 200 feet from the
runway after taking of from the
airport, said Jim Peters of the
Federal Aviation Administration.
Koczera said the plane came
to rest in the trees above 50 feet
above the ground.
When he ran out of airspace,
he landed on top of a tree,
Koczera said. Were not talking
about a big airplane. Its a fabric
(covered) plane, probably weighs
about 1,000 pounds.
A tree surgeon joined the
crew of a Coast Guard helicop-
ter and members of the local
fre department in rescuing the
stranded aviators, Koczera said.
The tree person was able
to climb the tree and set up
some kind of a pulley arrange-
ment where they could remove
the people by rope and tackle,
Koczera said.
The plane was expected to
remain in the trees until a crane
can be brought in on Tuesday,
he said.
The names of the pilot and
passenger were not released.
Koczera said both are members
of a club, Tiger Moth Drivers
LLC, that fies the biplane out of
Springfeld, Mass.
Video game love inspires
proposal, wedding theme
MORRISTOWN, N.J. He
reprogrammed her favorite video
game so a ring and a marriage
proposal would pop up when his
girlfriend reached a certain score.
And on Saturday, computer
programmer Bernie Peng mar-
ried Tammy Li in a New Jersey
ceremony and reception replete
with references to Lis favorite
game, Bejeweled.
PopCap Games, the games
creator, says the couples wed-
ding cake was in the shape of a
video game console. Guests were
given free copies of the game as
wedding favors.
In the popular game, players
score points by swapping gems
to form vertical and horizontal
chains.
Husband, wife sentenced
for fake death certifcate
LONDON As a dead man,
Ahmad Akhtary shouldnt have
needed a doctors appointment.
Akhtarys checkup, six months
after he allegedly died in Af-
ghanistan, scuttled his ex-wifes
attempt to collect the equivalent
of US$550,000 on a life insurance
policy.
At a court hearing last week
in Gloucester, a judge sentenced
34-year-old Akhtary to 60 hours
of community service and his
former wife, Anne Akhtary, to 40
hours of community service but
suspended prison sentences of
nine months each.
Anne Akhtary, 43, admitted
trying to claim the payout from
the Norwich Union insurance
company by using a forged
death certifcate from Afghani-
stan claiming that her husband
had died of brain trauma in an
accident.
Within weeks, however, Nor-
wich Union investigators were
tipped of about the doctors
appointment.
They were told that Mr.
Akhtarys GP had seen him at his
practice and he had attended
hospital, so it was not the most
sophisticated way of going about
making a false claim, said pros-
ecutor James Cranfeld.
Akhtary had continued to live
openly in Gloucester after his
supposed death, working and
paying taxes, Cranfeld said.
Passing sentence on Friday,
Judge Mark Horton said fake
insurance claims were serious,
but that the couple had been
less than sophisticated in their
attempt and that no money had
been lost.
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on the record
The workshop SPSS I: Getting
Started will begin at 10 a.m. in
the Budig PC Lab.
The lecture Russian Military
Intelligence, 1914 will begin at
noon in 318 Bailey Hall.
The workshop Blackboard
Strategies and Tools will begin
at 1:30 p.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
The governance meeting
FacEx will begin at 3 p.m. in
the Provost Conference Room
in Strong Hall.
The workshop Windows: Vista
will begin at 4 p.m. in the Com-
puter Center Auditorium.
On Sept. 1, the KU Public
Safety ofce reported that:
On Aug. 28, four separate
instances of criminal damage
were done to the cloth tops
of convertible vehicles parked
around the KU campus, caus-
ing $1,950 in total estimated
damage.
On Aug. 28, three separate
charges of criminal damage
stemmed from a single vehicle
break-in that resulted in $1,000
in damage.
On Aug. 28, a female suspect
bit a law enforcement ofcer
when the ofcer attempted to
apprehend her inside Hoglund
Baseball Park.
As of Sept. 1, the Lawrence
Police Department had not yet
reported any ofenses for the
weekend.
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HealtH
Watkins streamlines with Web
BY JOE PREINER
jpreiner@kansan.com
Waiting in line at Watkins
Memorial Health Center will be a
thing of the past when the instal-
lation of a new electronic health
record system is complete.
The system, called Point and
Click Solutions, will help make the
appointment process quicker for
both students and staff at Watkins.
While the transition from
the current paper system to an
electronic one will be slow, Joe
Gillespie, associate director of stu-
dent health services, said he hoped
to see the program fully functional
within a year.
One goal of the new system
will be to provide a Web portal
element through the Kyou portal.
The portal will allow new options
for students seeking medical care:
Students will be able to make
appointments online, request pre-
scription refills, view bills, com-
municate with doctors and receive
lab results on the secure network.
Student Health Services will
also be able to send appointment
reminders to students online.
Students have busy schedules,
Gillespie said. Youre writing
papers at 1 or 2 in the morning.
We can see how you could space
out on an appointment.
Gillespie said there were about
2,600 missed appointments at
Watkins each year and that each
missed appointment comes with
a $15 fee. That amounts to nearly
$40,000 collected from students
each year just for missed appoint-
ments. Gillespie said he hoped the
system would help reduce that
number because every missed
appointment meant someone
wasnt getting help.
Eventually, a self check-in kiosk
for students will allow students
to skip waiting in line. Instead
of checking in at the front desk,
students would swipe their KUIDs
and go directly to the waiting
area.
This would have helped Chris
Porto, Lawrence non-degree seek-
ing student, last week. Porto was
stuck in a two-person line for more
than 10 minutes. He said he was
skeptical about the benefits of the
new system.
I think it will really depend
on how well it works, Porto said.
It would definitely save me this
hassle. I guess Ill know when I
try it.
The system would notify doc-
tors when students were ready for
their appointments and automati-
cally match students with their
health records. Gillespie said the
check-in process would speed up
the entire process.
Patricia Denning, senior student
health physician at Watkins, is one
of several doctors currently using
the new systems. She said there
had already been more appoint-
ments than usual for the beginning
of the school year. Denning said
the increase, along with the transi-
tion between the old and new sys-
tem, was keeping the staff busy.
Gillespie said that people werent
always willing to change the way
they do things, but with the new
system that was not the case.
The staff is actually excit-
ed about this, Gillespie said.
Everyone here is ready for a
change.
Edited by Becka Cremer
Jessica Sain-Baird/KANSAN
Lannie Hubbel, administrative associate at Watkins Memorial Health Center, performs a check-in Aug. 26. The health center has
started using an electronic health systemfor doctors, nurses and administrators that simplifes its patient database, according to Mai Do,
marketing coordinator for Watkins. It took a year and a half for a committee to pick one electronic systemto use,Do said.
Campus
Warmer buildings
reduce utility costs
BY HALEY JONES
hjones@kansan.com
Rising energy prices arent just a
hot topic in the presidential cam-
paign they are a growing con-
cern for the University of Kansas.
As a result, Facilities Operations is
raising the temperature in build-
ings around campus.
Utility costs for the University
totaled more than $10 million in
2006. Don Steeples, senior vice
provost, said skyrocketing utility
rates could add almost $2 million
to expenses at the Lawrence cam-
pus next year.
Steeples said in an e-mail to
University pro-
fessors that fuel
surcharge rates
had increased to
3.9 and 4.1 cents
per kilowatt-
hour in July and
August, respec-
tively.
In an effort
to conserve
energy, Facilities
O p e r a t i o n s
adjusted ther-
mostats to 78 degrees between the
end of the summer semester and
last week.
Facilities Operations also set the
valves to stop the flow of cooled
water to air conditioners in vari-
ous buildings for 10 percent to 12
percent of each day.
A building typically will warm
up a few degrees in a few minutes,
but since its only a few minutes,
people dont notice the discom-
fort, Steeples said.
Steeples said he expected the
move to save the University at least
$3,000 a week in energy costs.
The increase in temperature left
some students and professors a
little too warm in their classrooms
last week when outdoor tempera-
tures reached 97 degrees.
Fraser was really hot last week,
I was sweating both days I was
in there, said David Mills, Rapid
City, S.D., junior.
Steeples said in the e-mail that
the demand for electricity is the
greatest on campus between the
first day of fall classes and the sec-
ond week in September, especially
between the hours of 11 a.m. and
7 p.m.
Jack Martin, deputy director
of University Communications,
said the recent increases in build-
ing temperature were designed to
address the high energy demand.
Theyre making these adjust-
ments, and theyre going to contin-
ue and monitor it and make sure
theres no spike in temperature,
Martin said.
Doug Riat,
director of
F a c i l i t i e s
Operat i ons,
said many
buildings on
campus had
a u t o ma t e d
control sys-
tems, which
r e g u l a t e d
temperature.
Riat said
most of the
automated systems were controlled
from the Facilities Operations
building on West Campus.
He said when people tampered
with the thermostat in buildings
controlled by an automated sys-
tem, it got the system out of cali-
bration or ruined it entirely.
Riat said if people contacted a
facilities technician when they felt
discomfort, problems and extra
costs could be avoided and time
could be saved.
Steeples said people were
welcome to contact Facilities
Operations if the temperature
in their building rose above 80
degrees.
Edited by Jennifer Torline
A building typically will warm
up a few degrees in a few
minutes, but since its only a few
minutes, people dont notice
the discomfort.
Don SteepleS
Senior vice provost
ASSOcIAtEd PRESS
BRUSSELS, Belgium
European Union leaders warned
Russia on Monday that talks on
a wide-ranging political and eco-
nomic agreement would be post-
poned unless Russian troops pull
back from positions in Georgia.
The threat to delay talks set for
this month on the partnership
and cooperation agreement with
Russia came after Britain and east-
ern European nations held out for
a tougher line. But Europes depen-
dence on Russian oil and natural
gas deterred stronger sanctions.
I think we found an excellent
compromise (by) not going back
to business as usual, but still mak-
ing clear that we want to maintain
contact with Russia, said German
Chancellor Angela Merkel.
At a four-hour meeting, the
leaders ordered EU bureaucrats to
study alternative energy sources
to reverse growing dependence on
Russia, which supplies a third of
the EUs oil and 40 percent of its
natural gas.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy
said he plans to travel to Moscow
next Monday for talks with the
Russian leadership. A cease-fire he
brokered to end fighting between
Russian and Georgia calls for forces
to be withdrawn to their positions
before the war.
The Bush administration wel-
comed the EUs move.
This extraordinary EU sum-
mit demonstrates that Europe and
the United States are united in
standing firm behind Georgias ter-
ritorial integrity, sovereignty and
reconstruction, White House press
secretary Dana Perino said in a
statement.
Earlier, Russia warned the West
against supporting Georgias lead-
ership, suggesting that the United
States delivered weapons as well as
aid to the former Soviet republic
and calling for an arms embargo.
If instead of choosing their
national interests and the inter-
ests of the Georgian people, the
United States and its allies choose
the Saakashvili regime, this will be
a mistake of truly historic propor-
tions, Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov said.
Hours after Lavrovs comments,
the spokesman for the Foreign
Ministry suggested U.S. ships
that carried humanitarian aid to
Georgias Black Sea coast may also
have delivered weapons.
Without naming a specific
country, Foreign Ministry spokes-
man Andrei Nesterenko said there
were suppositions that the cargo
of military ships bringing aid to
Georgia may also have included
military components that will
be used for the rearmament of
Georgias military. He provided no
evidence, but said such suspicions
were a reason for Russias call for an
arms embargo.
Lavrov reserved particular criti-
cism for the United States, which
has trained Georgian troops, say-
ing such aid had failed to give
Washington sufficient leverage to
restrain the Georgian government.
Instead, he said, It encouraged
the irresponsible and unpredictable
regime in its gambles.
Neither the State Department
nor the Pentagon had immediate
comment.
Human Rights Watch said
Monday that Georgia as well as
Russia dropped cluster bombs
during the conflict. The rights
group said Georgias government
has admitted it, while Russia con-
tinues with denials.
These indiscriminate attacks
violate international humanitarian
law, said Bonnie Docherty, arms
division researcher at the New
York-based body, who said the
casualty toll in only four Georgia
villages from cluster bombs and
was 14 dead and dozens wounded.
The revelation could provide
fuel for Russia, which has trad-
ed allegations with Georgia over
weapon usage, human rights viola-
tions and disinformation.
On Aug. 7, Georgian forces
attacked South Ossetia, hoping to
retake the province, which broke
away from Georgia in the early
1990s. Russian forces repelled the
offensive and pushed into Georgia.
Both sides signed a cease-fire deal
in mid-August, but Russia has
ignored its requirement for all forc-
es to return to prewar positions.
Moscow has insisted the cease-
fire accord lets it run checkpoints
in security zones of up to 4 miles
into Georgian territory.
EU leaders warn Russia of delayed talks
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili greets people at a rally against Russia on Monday
in Georgia. Huge crowds of Georgians surged into the capital's streets Monday to demonstrate
against Russia. People held hands to form"human chains" in an echo of the so-called Baltic Chain
of 1989, in which residents of then-Soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia stretched the length of
their homelands to protest Soviet occupation.
international
Fans line up, snag tickets
to see Oprah, Olympians
CHICAGo Fans began
lining up at 6 a.m. Saturday for
a chance to snag free tickets to
the oprah Winfrey Show sea-
son premiere featuring 150 U.S.
olympic athletes.
By noon, the line of Winfrey
fans and U.S. olympic supporters
stretched nearly six city blocks in
Chicagos Millennium park. the
show will air Sept. 8 and include
appearances by gold medalists
Michael phelps, nastia liukin
and Kobe Bryant.
tickets for the Winfreys tap-
ings are usually available only
by phone and nearly impossible
to get, so fans were itching for
the 2,000 seats up for grabs for
Wednesdays taping.
We do love oprah, said
20-year-old loyola University
student Grace Sutherland, who
left her apartment at 4 a.m. to
wait in line. But the olympic
athletes, they are real role mod-
els. this is the America we like
to see.
organizers began passing out
tickets at noon Saturday.
For those unable to get tickets
Saturday, approximately 7,000
festival-style lawn seats would
be available Wednesday, said
Monica Cebula, special events
coordinator for Millennium park.
Another 2,000 seats have been
set aside for the olympians
families and friends.
Winfreys Harpo productions
said the show is a welcome
home celebration for the
athletes and a chance to feature
Chicago in the citys bid for the
2016 Summer olympics.
the International olympic
Committee will choose the 2016
host next year.
Associated Press
One ,One Way
By LIZ SIDOTI
ASSOcIATeD PreSS
ST. PAUL, Minn. John
McCains running mate, Sarah
Palin, said Monday her 17-year-old,
unmarried daughter is five months
pregnant.
McCain aides said the announce-
ment was aimed at rebutting
Internet rumors that Palins young-
est son, born in April, was actually
her daughters.
The Republican national conven-
tion already had been relegated to a
distant second on TV to Hurricane
Gustav, in newspapers and on
Internet Web sites.
Mondays statement, attributed to
Sarah and Todd Palin and released
by the campaign, said that Bristol
Palin would keep her baby and
marry the childs father, identified
only as a young man named Levi.
The baby is due in late December.
Were proud of Bristols decision
to have her baby and even prouder
to become grandparents, Sarah and
Todd Palin said in their brief state-
ment.
The disclosure came on the open-
ing day of the Republican National
Convention and three days after
McCain named Palin as his vice-
presidential running mate.
Life happens, McCain adviser
Steve Schmidt said.
Palin told McCains team about
the pregnancy during lengthy dis-
cussions about her background, and
the senator knew about it when he
made her his surprise pick Saturday,
aides said. At several points dur-
ing the discussions, McCains team
warned Palin that the scrutiny into
her private life would be intense and
that there was nothing she could do
to prepare for it.
Prominent religious conserva-
tives, many of whom have been
lukewarm toward McCains candi-
dacy, predicted that the announce-
ment would not diminish conserva-
tive Christian enthusiasm for the
vice-presidential hopeful, who is a
staunch abortion opponent. In fact,
there was talk that it might help.
The convention opened on time,
though shortened out of concern
that the party did not want to be
seen whooping it up in St. Paul
while thousands of Americans along
the Gulf Coast were threatened by
the hurricane. From the convention
podium, GOP officials asked del-
egates to take out their cell phones
and text-message contributions to
help in the relief effort.
NEWS 4A Tuesday, sepTember 2, 2008
Campus
New courses talk politics
By JeSSe TrIMBLe
jtrimble@kansan.com
New classes designed to exam-
ine issues related to the 2008 elec-
tion season are popping up in a
variety of departments all over
campus this fall.
Many of the courses will only be
offered this semester.
David Perlmutter, professor at
the School of Journalism, teach-
es the New Media and Political
Communication for graduate stu-
dents, which is offered this semes-
ter only. The course focuses on the
way new media and communica-
tions have been used within Sen.
Barack Obamas (D-Ill.) and Sen.
John McCains (R-Ariz.) presiden-
tial campaigns.
I wanted to see how political
campaigns in general and the race
for presidency specifically were
changing with all these new inno-
vative technologies, Perlmutter
said. There are all of these new
ways of reaching out to potential
voters, including text messaging,
blogging and Facebook.
Perlmutter said the main focus
of his class of seven graduate stu-
dents is to look at how traditional
political campaigns are changing.
The communication studies and
political science departments offer
other classes geared toward politi-
cal campaigns.
Mary Banwart, associate pro-
fessor in communication stud-
ies, teaches Communications in
Political Campaigns. Students
taking the course examine politi-
cal communication as it evolves
through a political campaign,
which includes the influence of
mass media and the use of technol-
ogy to communicate the messages
of a campaign.
Banwart said a candidate must
be careful with how the message is
used and how it will affect the audi-
ence when using new technology
for political communication.
Several new forms of technology
have been used in campaigns this
election year, such as the Obama
campaigns use of text messaging.
2004 and 2006 were the years
where a lot of the innovations were
tried and experimented with,
Perlmutter said. So far, within
2008, rather than just one or two
people using these, weve seen tac-
tics used by campaigns regularly
and almost on a massive scale.
Although politicians have been
using new technology in recent
years, Banwart said they couldnt
forget the importance of traditional
communication.
Advertising drove the media
dialogue for campaigns and are
part of what still currently drive
them, Banwart said. Theres
always a message component
and its placed on interaction and
engagement with the audience.
Candidates want to know, How do
we get you to vote? How do we get
your friends to vote? And I think
thats whats interesting about what
new technology brings to us.
In addition to Perlmutters and
Banwarts courses, several courses
are also offered through the politi-
cal science department, includ-
ing the course Campaigns and
Elections, offered by Mark Joslyn,
associate professor of political sci-
ence.
Brandon Schwager, Lawrence
sophomore and political science
and economics major, said new
technology was a double-edged
sword.
It makes it easier for informa-
tion to be spread around whether
its true or not, Schwager said.
You can just go to Web sites and
look it up versus listening to every
single debate.
Banwart is excited to see how
her classes will unfold while close-
ly watching the elections this year.
Ive been talking to students
about what has sparked their inter-
ests in politics and I am seeing it
more and more, Banwart said.
Students are realizing that this
is a conversation they want and
need to be a part of and under-
stand whats taking place at this
level of communication. I think
thats very important. I want stu-
dents to be active and not passive
about these issues.

Edited by Andy Greenhaw
Political courses ofered this semester include:
eduCation
Law fair brings 70 schools to campus
By SAcHIKO MIyAKAWA
smiyakawa@kansan.com
Students interested in law
school can explore the offerings of
many universities at tomorrows
Pre-Law Day.
The annual event, sponsored
by the University of Kansas Pre-
Law Office and Phi Alpha Delta, a
co-ed law fraternity, will bring rep-
resentatives from 70 law schools
and 30 states to the University.
The law schools represented
will include local schools, such as
Washburn University, as well as
coastal schools, such as Columbia
University and the University of
Oregon.
Preston Nicholson, assistant
director and pre-law coordinator
at the University Advising Center,
said about 700 undergraduates at
the University showed interest in
going to law school after gradu-
ation. He said the fair would be
open to anybody, and encouraged
students of all ages to attend.
Attending this fair may open
their eyes to
schools that
they are not
aware of,
Ni c h o l s o n
said.
E a c h
school will
have an infor-
mation table
where stu-
dents can get
b r o c hu r e s ,
appl i cati ons
and other information from
recruiters.
Nicholson said students could
learn which schools offered spe-
cific law courses in which they
might be interested.
Rhianna Hoover, St. Louis
junior and director of public rela-
tions for Phi Alpha Delta, said
she wanted to study international
law after graduating from the
University. She said she hoped
representatives from schools at
the fair would provide informa-
tion such as the LSAT test score
needed for admission and the
study abroad programs available
at different schools. She said she
planned to ask recruiters at the
fair if their schools would help
students find summer intern-
ships.
A n n a
Kowal ewski,
Overland Park
law student at
the University,
said she
e nc our a ge d
students to
ask about the
cost of law
school when
they spoke to
recruiters. She
said financial packages, includ-
ing scholarships and loans, varied
depending on the school.
Kowalewski also said when
choosing a school that students
should consider where they would
want to work after getting a law
degree. She said employers were
often more familiar with schools
in the same region as their law
firms and it could be difficult for
students to find a job far from
their school.
Edited by Mary Sorrick
Pre-Law Day information
When: Sept. 3, 1 p.m. to
4:30 p.m.
Where: The Kansas Union
Ballroom
Attending this fair may open
their eyes to schools that they
are not aware of.
PreSTon nicholSon
Assistant director at the University
Advising center
HUrrIcANe GUSTAV
Republican convention
takes backseat to Gustav
ST. PAUl, Minn. First lady
laura Bush has told republican
national convention delegates
that Americas priority has shift-
ed to those in hurricane Gustavs
path, rather than politics.
Bush says such events are a
reminder that people are Ameri-
cans frst and that our shared
American ideals will always
transcend politics.
cindy Mccain, the wife of
GoP presidential candidate
John Mccain, also made a brief
appearance on the opening day
of a shortened convention. She
asked delegates to visit hurri-
cane-relief Web sites and donate
money.
Bush also introduced videos
by republican governors from
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
and louisiana who had to miss
the convention because of the
storm.
GOP urges public to help
Hurricane Gustav victims
ST. PAUl, Minn. The repub-
lican Party has kicked of its 2008
national convention, ready to
have Sen. John Mccain carry the
partys banner this fall against
Democrat Barack obama.
The party stuck with its plan
to proceed with the long-
planned convention despite the
distraction of hurricane Gustavs
strike along the Gulf coast earlier
Monday. President Bush, who
had been expected to appear at
the convention Monday night,
called that of so he could go
to Texas to monitor the storm
developments.
Party chairman robert
Duncan told delegates that
Mondays session would be
abbreviated and he urged them
and people watching at home
to help people whose lives have
been disrupted by the hurricane.
his frst formal word was an
explanation of how people can
make donations on their cellular
phones. Duncan said: Through
a simple text message, you can
give help to your countrymen.
Associated Press
eLeCtion
Palin announces daughters pregnancy
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bristol Palin, 17, holds her brother Trig during the campaign rally where Republican presiden-
tial candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., introduced Bristol andTrigs mom, Alaska Gov. Sarah
Palin, as his vice presidential running mate in Dayton, Ohio, Friday. Sarah Palin said Monday that
her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is fve months pregnant. With Bristol is, left to right, their
father Todd and sisters Piper andWillow.
J840 seminar: new media and political Communication
instructor: David Perlmutter, professor of Journalism
course Description: course will survey the interplay of new
media technologies in the elections of 2008. Focus on how
innovations such as weblogs, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube,
Twitter, text messaging and others are being used in
campaigns, candidates and media. Among the topics will be
the changes in: voter outreach, campaign communications,
campaign organization, message development, advertising
and fundraising.
Coms 553: Communications in political Campaigns
instructor: Mary Banwart, associate professor of communication
studies
course Description: course examines political communications
as it evolves throughout a political campaign and includes
such topics as theories and strategies, stages in political
campaigns, infuence of the mass media, television
advertising, candidate debates and the use of new
technologies in delivering campaign communications.
Selected examples from recent campaigns illustrate the
strategies and efects of political communication as students
examine how politicians persuade us to vote for them.
poLs 615: Campaigns and elections
instructor: Mark Joslyn, associate professor of political science
course Description: course examines the behavior of
candidates, campaigns and voters in the electoral process.
Topics will include the role of media, the impact of money,
the operations of political campaigns and the efect of
campaign laws.
Source: University course catalog
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CAMPUs
Psychology professor arrested
BY FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
fchambers@kansan.com
A University of Kansas professor
was arrested then placed on invol-
untary leave last week.
Thomas A. Schreiber, professor
of psychology, was arrested Friday
after failing to appear in court for
two traffic violations.
Schreiber is scheduled to have
his first court appearance this after-
noon, but he will be held at the
Douglas County Jail until his $375
bond is paid. His next court appear-
ance is Friday.
Greg Simpson, chairman of the
psychology department, declined to
comment on why Schreiber had
been placed on leave or when he
would come back.
However, Ernest Smith, a friend
of Schreibers, said Schreiber told
him that his office had been entirely
packed up and that a secretary at
the department said he would not
be coming back any time soon.
Schreiber said the leave was pos-
sibly a punishment for keeping his
cat, Persephone, in his office at
Fraser Hall and for having a disor-
ganized office.
Schreiber said he did not appear
in court on the designated day, Aug.
22, because he mistakenly appeared
on Aug. 21.
He said it was unlikely he would
be able to make bond soon because
of financial problems. He said he
had put all of his money into his
research.
Schreiber contacted The
University Daily Kansan on Aug.
13 claiming to have found the treat-
ment for several diseases includ-
ing Parkinsons and alcoholism.
Schreiber said his findings had
not yet been published because the
University refused to help him.
After several meetings with the
Universitys Center for Technology
Commercialization, Schreiber said
he was given a waiver from the
University that would require him
to give the University 70 percent of
the profit from his research.
Schreiber said he was also turned
away from University Relations this
summer.
Todd Cohen, director of
University Relations, said he was
familiar with Schreiber but could
not discuss the details of Schreibers
current situation.
Schreiber was scheduled to give
seminars about his research today
and Thursday at the Museum of
Anthropology, but they have been
canceled.
Katherine Leslie contributed to
this article.
Edited by Lauren Keith
food
High lunch prices will eat
into parents pocketbooks
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MILWAUKEE Kids may
be worried about homework,
teachers and that pesky bully this
school year. But parents? Theyre
leery about lunches.
With food prices rising and
p a c k a g e s
s h r i n k i ng ,
parents are
wond e r i ng
how theyll
stretch their
food budgets.
Children are
going to get
an unwit-
ting lesson
in econom-
ics, analysts
say, as parents
change their food-buying habits to
keep costs down.
Some kids will eat more hot
lunches this year. Some will carry
baggies full of snacks like home-
packed chips and crackers rather
than prepackaged ones. Maybe
there will be more peanut but-
ter, if it hasnt been banned in
school because of allergies, instead
of lunch meats, or cheaper items
like Spam.
This years lunchroom will be
less about convenience and more
about the bottom line, said Marcia
Mogelonsky, senior research ana-
lyst with Mintel International in
Chicago. Parents will be shop-
ping for deals but still wanting all
the basics fruits, veggies, pro-
teins and fun things like chips and
cookies. It wont be easy, she said.
Parents are sort of entering
this with trepidation, she said.
Its not how much it costs. Its
how much more it costs relative to
what theyre used to spending.
The costs for key ingredients
like corn, wheat, soybeans and
other items are high and eat-
ing into food companies profits.
So big names like Kraft Foods
Inc., Sara Lee Corp. and Hormel
Foods Corp. are passing along
price increases as they try to keep
making money.
Some companies are also
shrinking products or getting
rid of certain lines to lower their
costs. Skippy
peanut but-
ter, made by
Unilever, now
sells in 16.3
ounce jars that
look the same
size as the pre-
vious 18 ounce
jars because of
a larger inden-
tation at the
bottom. Kraft
is reducing the
number and in some cases the
size, of items in its Deli Selects
cheese line, for example. Sara Lee
has reduced the size of some of its
Hillshire Farm deli meat packages
from 10 ounces to 9 ounces. The
prices, for the most part, dont go
down.
S o m e
stores like
grocery store
chain Save-
A-Lot are
advising par-
ents on what
to buy. The
chain, which
targets bargain
shoppers, has a
new campaign
telling parents
how to make
meals like turkey slices wrapped
in tortillas that cost about a $1 a
serving.
In Los Altos, Calif., Hollis
Bischoff s two children have been
packing their own lunches for
years. It saves money because they
know what theyll eat, she said, and
it teaches them a lesson in how to
spend and save. Jordana, 12, and
Nate, 14, have never bought milk
because they think its too expen-
sive at school, she said, and they
ask teachers if they can use the
microwaves in their lounges when
they want hot food.
The kids also go and buy food
at the stores, or leave a list for their
parents if they run out always
with costs in mind, Bischoff said.
Theyve learned the meaning
of saving money and spending
money because theyve seen whats
happened during the years in the
stores, said Bischoff, 49, who
owns a yarn shop and works a full-
time job as a market analyst.
The cost of food is soaring. In
the U.S., retail food prices rose
an average of 6 percent this year.
Thats three times the normal infla-
tion rate. Prices are rising because
companies are paying more for
key ingredients, due to increased
demand around the world, the
weak U.S. dollar and weather that
destroyed crops.
The pinch consumers are feel-
ing is affecting their shopping
habits, said
Harry Balzer,
vice president
of consumer
research firm
NPD Group
and an expert
on American
eating pat-
terns.
T h e s e
rising food
costs have to
be paid for by
somebody, he said. The ques-
tion is how are you going to pay
for them? Are you going to pay
for them in keeping your out-of-
pocket cost constant by buying
smaller portions, or are you going
to be paying more for what you
paid last year?
Its not how much it costs.
Its how much more it costs
relative to what theyre used to
spending.
Marcia Mogelonsky
senior research analyst
Theyve learned the meaning
of saving money and spending
money because theyve seen
whats happened during the
years in the stores.
Hollis BiscHoff
Market analyst
THOMAS A. SCHREIBER
INTERNATIONAL
Another deadly quake
strikes on same fault line
BeiJing chinese rescue
teams carrying tents, quilts and
sacks of rice rushed to reach
survivors of an earthquake that
killed at least 32 people, turned
tens of thousands of homes into
rubble and cracked reservoirs.
The 6.1-magnitude quake
saturday struck sichuan province
along the same fault line as a
May 12 earthquake that killed
nearly 70,000 people.
saturdays quake killed 27
people in sichuan and fve in
the neighboring province of
yunnan, the ofcial Xinhua news
agency said early Monday, cit-
ing the Ministry of civil afairs.
The quake destroyed 258,000
homes, damaged major bridges
and cracked three reservoirs, the
agency said.
another 467 people were
injured after the earthquake hit
31 miles southeast of Panzhihua
city in the southwestern corner
of sichuan, the report said.
Dozens of evacuees had gath-
ered sunday at a primary school
feld in Panzhihua, state broad-
caster china central Television
showed. Wrapped in quilts, the
evacuees, including children and
the elderly, lay on plastic sheets
and mats on the ground.
about 152,000 people were
evacuated and relief eforts
were under way, despite being
hampered by heavy rains and the
regions rugged terrain, Xinhua
said. it said 6,200 tents, 3,500
quilts and 55,000 pounds of rice
had been sent to the quake zone.
since the 7.9-magnitude tem-
blor May 12, the region has been
hit by scores of aftershocks.
a woman who answered the
phone at the sichuan provincial
seismological bureau said the
region was hit by about 300
aftershocks on sunday morning.
she declined to give her name,
saying she was not authorized to
speak to the media.
The china earthquake admin-
istration recorded a 5.6-magni-
tude aftershock later sunday in
the same location as saturdays
quake.
Associated Press
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entertainment 6a TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
10 is the easiest day, 0 is the
most challenging.
HOROSCOPES
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
Youll have to stick to the
schedule to get all the work
done. To keep focused on the
job, schedule romance for later,
and then forget about it. Youll
remember when its time.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
The work youre doing now
will beneft your family later.
They may even appreciate your
efforts, and say so. They might
not, but they might. Dont hold
your breath.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is an 8
Dont get stressed by thinking
about something you still
dont have. Focus on what you
do have and dont worry. Be
happy.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
Get everybody to work
together on a creative project.
Theyll play nicely for hours.
Just dont let them leave you
with the mess.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 7
Speak your mind to a person
you love. Dont hold back your
opinion. That goes for approval
as well as criticism. What you
say matters.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
Talks cheap, but talking about
your money can get downright
expensive. Do keep track, but
dont broadcast the informa-
tion all over town.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Keep thinking; youll come up
with an idea that will solve the
problem. It probably wont be
the frst idea, however. Take
care.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
Insider information leads to a
windfall proft. This isnt illegal,
of course, just a way to get
ahead of the competition. Be-
ing early has its advantages.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21
Today is a 7
Dont let the boss catch you
yukking it up on company
time. Do what you do to make
sure the money keeps coming
in. You and your buddies are
thinking up lots of new ways to
spend it.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
Ignore a potential confronta-
tion. Accept a promise of pay-
ment. Get the latter in writing,
though, and dont spend it until
the check clears.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
Some of the things youre wor-
ried about are because of your
point of view. If you stand fur-
ther away, mentally, they wont
seem like such a big deal.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
Confer with your mate before
making any major purchases.
If you dont, youll never stop
hearing about it. And not in a
good way.
Nick McMullen
SEARCH FOR THE AGGRO CRAG
MOVIES
Thunder stays No. 1,
The Dark Knight breaks
another record
LOS ANGELES Tropic
Thunder hauled in $14.3 million
to stay on top of the box ofce
as Hollywoods solid summer
wound down sleepily, with
Hurricane Gustav contributing
to a slow Labor Day weekend at
theaters.
The DreamWorks-Paramount
comedy was the No. 1 fick for
the third-straight weekend,
raising its total to $86.6 million,
according to studio estimates
Monday.
Debuting at No. 2 with $12
million over the four-day week-
end was 20th Century Foxs sci-f
thriller Babylon A.D., starring
Vin Diesel as a mercenary smug-
gling a woman into New York
City in a post-apocalyptic future.
With coastal Louisiana nearly
deserted because of Gustav,
Hollywood business was virtu-
ally nonexistent in that region.
The theaters are closed.
There is just no business at all
down there, said Dan Fellman,
head of distribution at Warner
Bros., whose The Dark Knight
was No. 3 with $11 million.
Gustav made a slow weekend
even quieter. The top 12 movies
pulled in $93.4 million, down 23
percent from the same weekend
a year ago.
Still, Hollywood fnished a
fraction ahead of 2007s record
summer revenue. From the
frst weekend in May through
Labor Day, business totaled $4.2
billion, up from $4.18 billion
during summer 2007, according
to box-ofce tracker Media By
Numbers.
But accounting for higher
ticket prices, attendance was
down 3.5 percent.
Its record revenue, but
barely. Kind of an underwhelm-
ing end to a great summer, said
Paul Dergarabedian, president
of Media By Numbers.
Amid a rush of weak new-
comers, The Dark Knight held
up well, rising a notch from its
fourth-place rank the previous
weekend. The Batman sequel
became the second movie
in Hollywood history to top
half a billion dollars domesti-
cally, climbing to $504.7 million,
trailing only Titanic at $600.8
million.
Though The Dark Knight
crossed the $500 million mark
in record time of six weeks and
three days half the time it
took Titanic to reach that level
the studio expects it to top
out at about $530 million.
Titanic had a much slower
climb up the charts but it main-
tained momentum, holding on
to the No. 1 box-ofce slot for
months.
Factoring in infation, The
Dark Knight lags far behind Ti-
tanic in terms of actual admis-
sions. The Dark Knight would
need to take in about $900
million to match the number of
tickets sold by Titanic.
These are the estimated
ticket sales for Friday through
Monday at U.S. and Canadian
theaters, according to Media By
Numbers LLC. Final fgures will
be released Tuesday.
1. Tropic Thunder, $14.3
million.
2. Babylon A.D., $12 million.
3. The Dark Knight, $11
million.
4. The House Bunny, $10.2
million.
5. Traitor, $10 million.
6. Death Race, $8.2 million.
7. Disaster Movie, $6.9 mil-
lion.
8. Mamma Mia!, $5.8 million.
9. Pineapple Express, $4.5
million.
10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona,
$3.5 million.
Associated Press
ART AND MUSIC
Burning Man ends, enjoys
record attendance
RENO, Nev. The party is
drawing to a close at the an-
nual Burning Man festival on the
northern Nevada desert.
Participants in the eclectic art
and music event had planned to
burn more artwork Sunday night
before its Labor Day conclusion.
The celebration of radical
self-expression climaxed late
Saturday night with the torching
of its 40-foot signature efgy. A
dust storm prompted many par-
ticipants to leave the Black Rock
Desert before the fnale.
The crowd for the week long
celebration peaked Saturday at
a record 49,599, up from 47,097
last year.
U.S. Bureau of Land Manage-
ment ofcials said the festival ran
smoothly and no major problems
were reported. They made 11
arrests and issued 175 citations to
participants, most for drug viola-
tions, BLM ofcials said.
Burning Man began in 1986 at
San Franciscos Baker Beach and
was moved in 1990 to the Black
Rock Desert, about 110 miles
north of Reno.
Associated Press
ASSOCIATED PRESS
'The Man' explodes during the Burning
Man festival in the Black Rock Desert near
Gerlach, Nev., Saturday.
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TYLER DOEHRinG
Picture yourself in Smith Hall.
Youre in the basement, in room
seven. The air conditioner doesnt
work. Its a humid 96 degrees out-
side. The class is packed with 40 to
50 students. Youre trying to think
and learn. But all you can focus on
is the lingering body odor of every-
one in the room.
Right outside the window and
down the hill someone is sit-
ting in the brand new $33 mil-
lion Anderson Family Football
Complex enjoying air conditioning
and gigantic flat screen televisions.
Who is the University here to
serve?
"There's an important piece
of rhetoric we need to keep in
mind: The students come first,"
Chancellor Robert Hemenway
said in the Wichita Eagles article
Universities say jobs could be cut.
"Helping students work to a degree
has to be the first thing we do. If
the students aren't there, there's no
reason for us being there, he said.
But when I look around cam-
pus, I get the feeling that athletic
programs are what matter most to
the University.
The Board of Regents warned
Kansas universities that they might
face budget cuts next year. The cut
for the University would be 2 per-
cent, which is about $3.1 million,
according to an Aug. 28 story in the
University Daily Kansan. We could
lose up to 125 staff members from
the Lawrence campus alone.
A more recent article in the
Lawrence Journal-World caught
my attention about how Kansas
Athletics made $1.55 million more
than they had projected making off
royalties this past year, bringing the
departments total income to $2.55
million.
I spoke with Jim Marchiony,
associate athletics director, and he
filled me in on where the money
from royalties goes. He said
$700,000 is used for scholarships
for the general student body every
year. The rest is kept for scholar-
ships for athletes.
My thought is that we should
use that $1.55 million in unexpect-
ed profit to better the University or
fight against budget cuts that are
certain to come.
These cuts are called cut to
base as Lynn Bretz, director of
university communications, told
me, which means at least 2 percent
of the budget would be cut every
year. The state hasnt specified yet
if the budget cuts are a one-time
deal or if it would be cut to base.
The University said it is preparing
for the worst because Bretz said the
tendency is to cut to base.
A professor of mine told me
last week that she didnt much see
the point of being in college if you
dont try to change things that dont
work.
Does the athletics program have
an obligation to give money to the
University? No, but that doesnt
mean the University cant change
its stance and force it to do so.
We can install a $33 million
dollar football complex, but when
the state warns us of a budget cut,
staff members are the first to go. I
dont know about you, but to me
it doesnt sound like students and
education come first.
Stewart is a Wichita senior in
journalism.
Ross stEwARt
CAPITOL
POLITICS
Using broad sexual labels
erases valuable diferences
Am I a tranny?
Does my own identification as
a man not align with my physical
sex? Does my scruffy face or deep
voice reek of femininity?
My clearly scruffy face and deep
voice point make me surprisingly
manly, but my friend screaming
over the phone that a transgen-
dered person was going to be on
the next season of Americas Next
Top Model made me question
it. Was my friend calling because
hes also gay and figured I would
be interested or because he knows
I am a fan of the show? But I am
skeptical of a transgendered per-
son entering the public eye.
A transgendered person can be
of any sexual orientation. But I
was thrown off by this definition.
Who else was hiding under my gay
umbrella? Bisexuals? Pansexuals?
Intersex? Asexuals?
I am not a transgendered per-
son. I am gay. Gay has not become
an umbrella term for everyone
whos not heterosexual. And if it
has, it is being grossly misused.
Spencer Brown, known as Daisy
Buckt in drag, has his sexual iden-
tity confused on a daily basis. He
has been a professional drag queen
for two years. In bars and clubs in
Lawrence and Kansas City, his fans
call sometimes him a hot tranny
mess.
But Brown is not a transsexual.
He is a drag queen he said he did
it for the entertainment value and
the money, not for sexual stimula-
tion or because of personal gender
identity issues. Brown said he was
not bothered by this label confu-
sion, but understood that some,
including me, could be offended if
they were called by the wrong sex-
ual identity. I guess hearing, You
were a real drag tonight, Daisy,
could get old pretty fast.
Brown said he wasnt sure about
a solution to my gay umbrella prob-
lem. He did know that one way was
to attempt to educate the public on
different sexual identities, but how
to do that with so many terms and
identities was a mystery to him.
Lori Messinger, associate pro-
fessor of social welfare and expert
in gay and lesbian issues, did have
a solution, though: She uses the
word queer for anyone not het-
erosexual.
However, the word queer has
had a negative past. I can remember
fewer than five years ago the word
being used in a derogatory sense
for gay men. Recently, though,
Messinger said it has become a
term of empowerment.
But I dont think I can use that
term to describe myself. Im not a
big fan of its traditional definition
of odd or unusual. I also wont
regress back to homosexual, either.
It sounds too clinical and is too
cumbersome of a word.
When I came out to family and
friends, I told them I was gay,
meaning I was attracted to the
same sex nothing more, noth-
ing less.
So Ill be watching the new sea-
son of Americas Next Top Model
tomorrow. I hope to see the trans-
gendered contestant, Isis, come out
from under the gay umbrella and
successfully create her own trans-
gendered identity and just become
one of the girls.
Hirschfeld is an Augusta
senior in journalism.
mAtt hiRschfELD
FRUIT FOR
THOUGHT
Editors note: This was
originally published in the The
Daily Athenaeum at West Vir-
ginia University on Aug. 27.
Facebook is out of control.
This isnt a piece to ramble on
and on about how its taking over
peoples lives; its to identify the
dangers of the social network-
ing site.
Facebook announced a record
membership of 100 million mem-
bers on Aug. 26.
Thats 99,999,999 other peo-
ple who can find you on the
Internet.
Thats almost 100 million peo-
ple who can know your business:
who youre dating, who your
friends are and what youre inter-
ested in.
Facebook and MySpace
would be better off being called
StalkerBook or StalkerSpace.
At least people will know what
they are getting into.
Day after day you hear horror
stories about cyber bullying and
online predators. These social
networking sites are no different
than finding a naive somebody in
a chat room.
The site has also decreased
and nearly eliminated personal
interaction among peers and
generations.
Instead of calling someone
over the phone or visiting them
in person, Facebook has become
the quick-and-easy way to find
out whats going on in friends
lives and whats going on over the
weekend.
Facebook allows its users to
post pictures and their interests.
It has been reported that some
individuals looking for a job dont
get hired because of incriminat-
ing details on their Facebook or
MySpace accounts.
While this is a smart move
by employers to make sure they
hire quality individuals, its not a
smart move by Facebook users to
exploit themselves and some-
times others on these sites.
With society becoming more
and more technology-dependent,
its important for users of all ages
to be cognizant of the repercus-
sions of joining such a site.
If joining the Facebook or
MySpace community is a must,
its important to remember to
responsibly use the accounts.
Many are using the site today
merely for networking. Others
just want to keep in touch with
old friends.
It isnt a forum to see John
Does crazy weekend, nor is it the
place for account users to make
their personal vendettas known
by venting it on their statuses.
It is a site that shouldnt be
abused and overused.
It is important for individu-
als to know to be safe and only
friend people they know.
People need to remember the
best type of communication is
face to face not Facebook.
They need to know not to
embarrass themselves. Sometimes
there can be consequences to
posting that picture from that
crazy, drunken weekend two
years ago.
www.uwire.com
Dont abandon real
faces for Facebook
China should follow
last Olympic slogan
After overcoming the
Sichuan earthquake, China
closed the Beijing Olympics
safely without any major
disruptions to the Games.
China also displayed over-
whelming strength in the
race for gold medals. The
event must have greatly
boosted the confdence
among the Chinese.
But the Games also
refected a spate of serious
challenges facing China.
In the Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region, there
were repeated attacks
against police. The Tibet
Autonomous Region, the
site of clashes in March, is
still under heavy security.
Many foreign journal-
ists were hampered in
their attempt to cover the
attacks against police and
the situation in Tibet. Some
journalists were detained.
China ought to allow
the public to have more
freedom in its activities if
the country wants more
harmony.
We hope China will use
its new confdence as a
world power to contrib-
ute to the international
community. China should
be able to not only pursue
its own national interests,
but also play a huge role
in such issues as fghting
global warming.
The Beijing Olympics
had a slogan of "One World,
One Dream." Tackling
global warming while
expanding cooperation
with the international com-
munity is a way to turn that
slogan into reality.
The (Tokyo) Asahi Shimbun
Aug. 25 editorial
ASSOCiATED pRESS
It's an election year, so if
you don't like the political
debates in Free for All, don't
look at it until Nov. 5.
n n n
Here's an idea for all of you
Free for All political debaters:
Join one of the student orga-
nizations on campus. I'm sure
they'd love to have you.
n n n
Pessimistic? No. I'm a
Democrat.
n n n
I just had a $500 weekend.
n n n
Assuming the person
encouraging voter fraud is
a Republican, then it makes
perfect sense. See 2000 and
2004 elections.
n n n
I would give my left boob
to be in the marching band.
n n n
Did you see the picture of
Gov. Sarah Palin brandish-
ing an M16? She's like a sexy
terminator.
n n n
Dear Ignorant Obama Sup-
porters: You're in Kansas. Your
vote doesn't count. Contrary
to the skewed Lawrence
perspective, the rest of this
state votes Republican. If you
want your vote to matter,
you should register to vote
elsewhere.
n n n
The Dryer Gnome = Taker
of Socks.
n n n
I can't wait to move out of
Lawrence because of Sunfow-
er Broadband. Seriously.
n n n
Sen. John McCain is 23
years older than the state of
Alaska.
n n n
Hey 92, is that your num-
ber or your percent body fat?
n n n
I wish White Owl would just
suck it up and put on a pair
of khakis with a collared shirt
tucked in, white belt, white
shoes and realize that hes old.
n n n
If the Huskers win 10
games, I get my new TV for
free. Go Big Red!
n n n
Eight hot dogs tonight.
Thats the equation for sexy.
n n n
Lowering the drinking age
to 18 is possibly the stupidest
thing Ive ever heard. Yes, lets
give some of the most reck-
less drivers in America alcohol
rights.
n n n
A girl in my geography
class told me she didnt know
that New England was part of
the U.S. until last spring.
n n n
Vote for McCain and you
are a racist. Vote for Obama
and you are a sexist. Vote for
Nader and you are a dumbass.
terms defned
Transgender: considers
self neither gender, both
or a third gender. they do
not change their bodies
with hormones or surgery.
Transsexual: feeling that
one was born in the wrong
body. may be rectified with
hormones and surgery.
Pansexual: sexually attract-
ed to men, women, trans-
genders and transsexuals
Drag Queen/King: per-
formers who act out exag-
gerations of gender stereo-
types of the opposite sex.
NEWS 8A Tuesday, sepTember 2, 2008
Delegate describes convention
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION REpubLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
Students awarded free tickets
BY FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
fchambers@kansan.com

Clarissa Unger has spent count-
less hours and dollars campaigning
for presidential candidate Barack
Obama, and last week Ungers hard
work finally paid off.
Unger, Colby senior and state
president of Students for Barack
Obama, watched Obama accept the
Democratic Partys nomination for
president Thursday evening from
the floor of INVESCO Field in
Denver.
Unger, who has donated her time
to the Obama campaign during
school breaks in Iowa and Obamas
campaign headquarters in Chicago,
was a delegate to the Democratic
National Convention.
The convention, which began
Aug. 25 and ended Aug. 29, was the
hub of politics last week, featuring
speeches by top Democratic offi-
cials and late-night VIP parties.
But Ungers favorite memory
from the convention will be of
neither. Unger will mostly fondly
recall of the roll call vote when
Kansas delegates voted six to 37
to elect Obama as the Democratic
Partys presidential candidate. Six
delegates voted for Sen. Hillary
Clinton.
Unger could be seen on TV
during the broadcast of the vote
because she was seated directly
behind and to the left of Kansas
Democratic Party Chairman Larry
Gates when he announced Kansas
vote and gave a shoutout to the
University of Kansas.
Unger said it was incredible to
watch her party come together dur-
ing that moment as Kansas del-
egates who originally supported
Clinton changed their votes to
Obama.
Clinton later interrupted the
vote, putting it
to an end, and
Obama was
selected as the
candidate.
That was
the most excit-
ing moment of
my life, Unger
said.
Unger said
she also enjoyed
attending the
joint Students
for Barack Obama and College
Democrats meeting in Denver, in
addition to participating in the
first-ever delegate service day.
Unger said she thought the con-
vention itself ran smoothly and the
party successfully communicated
its message and goals to voters.
Everything that needed to hap-
pen happened. Everything that
needed to be said was said, Unger
said. We came together as a uni-
fied party. I dont think anyone can
argue that at this point.
She said she doubted the
GOP would be able to outdo the
Democrats convention.
I think its going to be hard for
them to show that especially
where our country is now and with
George Bush and Dick Cheney
there that its not more of the
same, she said. I dont know. I
really dont have a lot of hope for
them.
She also said it would be hard for
Republ i cans
to top the
De mo c r a t s
in attendance
numbers as
well. About
35,000 people
attended last
weeks conven-
tion.
This week,
Re publ i c a ns
are scheduled
to participate in
similar proceedings at their national
convention in Minneapolis, Minn.
However, the convention is on hold
because of Hurricane Gustav.
Unger said she was still inter-
ested in watching the Republican
National Conventions broadcast.
She said she especially wanted
to see Sen. John McCains wifes
speech.
She has nothing on Michelle
Obama, she said.
Edited by Lauren Keith
Francesca Chambers/KANSAN
Clarissa Unger, Colby senior, boxes medical supplies for Project C.U.R.E. as part of the frst-ever Delegate Service Day at the Democratic National
Convention. Unger said she was glad she had the opportunity to give back to the people of Denver in return their hospitality during the convention.
Everything that needed to hap-
pen happened. Everything that
needed to be said was said.
Clarissa unger
state president of
students for Barack Obama
BY FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
fchambers@kansan.com
MINNEAPOLIS Jack Connor
and Mike Conner will not have the
opportunity to eat hors doeuvres
and swim in the Westin Hotels
hot tub all week like Kansas del-
egates to the Republican National
Convention. But the two KU stu-
dents do not care. They feel lucky
to even be there.
The Federation of College
Republicans selected Connor,
Overland Park senior, and Conner,
Shawnee graduate student, to
receive credentials to the conven-
tion and free lodging at Concordia
College.
Connor was one of 40 mem-
bers of the organization who were
awarded tickets to the convention
based on participation in a com-
petition called STORM that asked
the College Republicans to create
and invite people to groups sup-
porting the partys platform.
Connor barely made the cut,
ranking 38th. Conner, who ranked
in the low forties, was barely invit-
ed as well receiving the spot
only after the state chairman of the
organization declined his invita-
tion.
George Weston, 2006 University
graduate and Kansas State gradu-
ate student, gave Conner his spot
when he was asked by the state
party to be a
delegate aide.
The aide posi-
tion will allow
Weston access
to the floor at
the conven-
tion a cov-
eted area few
c onv e nt i on
goers besides
delegates have
access to.
Weston said he was glad he was
able to give his seat to Conner
because it meant 20 percent of
the College Republicans attending
were from Kansas alone.
Neither Connor nor Conner
is involved in politics outside of
College Republicans.
Connor is an advertising major
in the School of Journalism. He
was in Student Senate for three
years but did not run for a seat in
last springs election.
Conner is pursing a doctorate
in biochemistry. He was a College
Republicans member his fresh-
man and sophomore years at the
University, but later quit. He said
he recently rejoined because he felt
Republicans did not have a large
enough presence on campus.
At KU theres only one side that
gets heard, he said. I think there
should be rational debate from
both sides.
In addition to the convention
activities, Connor and Conner will
participate in a College Republicans
c a m p a i g n
while in
Minneapolis.
Im just
glad I got a
way up here,
Connor said.
He said he
did not mind
staying at
Conc or di as
dorms because
they were near
the convention and public trans-
portation centers.
Connor and Conner were able
to live the high life of the delegates
for one evening, though. The two
stayed in Westons hotel room
Sunday in Edina, Minn.
While at the hotel, they saw
former presidential candidate Fred
Thompson and CNN anchor Wolf
Blitzer.
Conner said he had heard Al
Sharpton, members of the band
Styx and two other stars were stay-
ing at the hotel, but he was unable
to catch a glimpse of them.
The two hoped to see President
Bush for the first time in per-
son, but Bush may be unable to
attend the convention because of
Hurricane Gustav.
Bush and Vice President Dick
Cheney were scheduled to speak
during Mondays primetime televi-
sion coverage of the event, but the
conventions evening proceedings
were canceled.
Even though he was disappoint-
ed with the distraction, Connor
said the situation could work to
partys favor.
The party has already come
together behind our candidate, he
said. The only side drama here
will be with the hurricane, and that
is a show of putting the country
first.
Conner predicted that presi-
dential candidate John McCain
would not end up speaking at the
convention either, saying McCain
and Bush would probably give
televised speeches instead. He said
he still hoped the first lady would
speak even if her husband did not.
I think shes a really good
example of a first lady, Conner
said. Shes done a really good job
staying out of policy making, but
still being engaged.
Edited by Lauren Keith
Francesca Chambers/KANSAN
Jack Connor, Overland Park senior, Mike Conner, Shawnee graduate student, and George Weston, 2006 graduate, are attending
the Republican National Conventions welcome party with in front of a mock Air Force One. Connor and Conner won credentials to the convention
fromthe Federation of College Republicans. Weston is the state chairman of College Republicans.
Francesca Chambers/KANSAN
Jack Connor, Overland Park senior, and Mike Conner, Shawnee graduate student,
are attending the Republican National Conventions welcome party. Connor and Conner won
credentials to the convention fromthe Federation of College Republicans.
The party has already come
together behind our candidate.
The only side drama here will be
with the hurricane.
JaCk COnnOr
Overland Park senior
IN BRIEF
Republicans request aid
for hurricane refugees
sT. Paul, Minn. With their
plans for opening day of the
republican national Convention
dashed, First lady laura Bush and
Cindy McCain instead appealed
to gOP faithful to donate time
and money to those caught in
Hurricane gustav.
appearing at the podium, Bush
said america's priority has shifted
away from politics, but that the
hurricane ofered an opportunity
for a politically divided america
to come together. The efect of
Hurricane gustav is just now be-
ing measured. When such events
occur, we are reminded that frst,
we are all americans, and that
our shared american ideals will
always transcend political par-
ties and partisanship, she told
delegates.
McCain, the wife of gOP presi-
dential candidate John McCain
joined her there, asking delegates
to come together quickly to help.
"as John has been saying for
the last several days, this is a time
when we take of our republican
hats and put on our american
hats," Cindy McCain said.
Their brief addresses capped
a day in which the two sought
to emphasize volunteer service
rather than politics and the
joint appearance gave some a
bit of badly needed zip to the
convention proceedings.
Cindy McCain hopes to suc-
ceed laura Bush as frst lady. and
while the McCain campaign likely
wasn't too unhappy at President
Bush's decision to go to Texas to
keep an eye on the storm, given
Bush's relatively low popularity
standings these days, it couldn't
have minded having the com-
pany of the more popular laura
Bush here.
The two women visited earlier
Monday with volunteers setting
up a work space in the basement
of the Minneapolis Convention
Center, where delegates and
other volunteers were expected
to soon start making up care
packages for hurricane victims.
Minneapolis-based Target is
donating items such as tooth-
brushes, shampoo and non-per-
ishable food that will be pack-
aged and shipped by Fedex to the
gulf Coast, the McCain campaign
said.
Associated Press
WEATHER
Gulf residents watch from
afar as Gustav approaches
neW Orleans Hurricane
gustav charged toward the most-
ly deserted louisiana coast early
Monday morning and seemed
destined to make landfall west of
a city still recovering three years
after katrinas devastating blow.
Those who heeded the days
of warnings to get out watched
from shelters and hotel rooms
hundreds of miles away, praying
the powerful Category 3 storm
and its 115-mph winds would
pass without the same deadly toll.
Were nervous, but we just
have to keep trusting in god that
we dont get the water again, said
lyndon guidry, who hit the road
for Florida just a few months after
he was able to return to his home
in new Orleans.
The brutal memories of ka-
trina, which fooded 80 percent
of new Orleans and killed more
than 1,600 along the gulf Coast,
led ofcials to aggressively insist
that everyone in gustavs path
fee from shore. as the storm
grew near, the streets of the city
were empty save for national
guardsmen and just about every
ofcer on the citys police force
standing watch for looters.
nearly 2 million people left
louisiana, as did tens of thou-
sands from coastal Mississippi,
alabama and southeastern Texas.
even presidential politics took
a back seat to the storm, as the
republican Party scaled back its
convention plans in deference
to gustavs threat. Mindful of the
governments inept response to
katrina, President Bush planned
to head to Texas.
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BY B.J. RAINS
rains@kansan.com
All it took were two plays a 75-yard
punt return for a touchdown and a 47-yard
field goal - for Jayhawk nation to rest easy.
Two spots, punt returner and kicker,
had fans intrigued going into Saturdays
opener against FIU but after fans watched
Daymond Patterson and Alonzo Rojas
lead Kansas to a 40-10 victory against FIU,
intrigue became awe.
Patterson introduced himself to a
Memorial Stadium record 52,112 fans
by returning four punts for a total of 135
yards. After almost breaking free on his
first two, Patterson took his third return
75 yards into the end zone for his first col-
legiate touchdown hurdling over a fall-
ing Ashlyn Parker of FIU near the 30-yard
line.
I felt like I was going to get one,
Patterson said. The punt
return team was blocking
really well. I was running
and he fell and I ended up
jumping over him. I think
it was pretty cool.
At kicker, the Jayhawks
were welcomed by the
debut of Alonzo Rojas, who had been signed
to be the teams punter but has also taken
over kickoff and long-field-goal duties over
the past few weeks.
In addition to three punts that averaged
46 yards, Rojas hit two field goals, one of
which was a long 47-yard attempt early in
the second quarter that brought a big fist
pump from the Bowling Green transfer.
It felt good because going out there,
everyones expecting, Hes
probably not going to
make this. Hes a punter;
he just got the job, Rojas
said. I wanted the crowd
to know that Im here, and
Im here to help out the
team, and I felt like I hit
that ball pretty good.
Quarterback Todd Reesing attempted 52
passes, completing 37 of them for 256 yards
and three touchdowns.
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Freshman wide receiver Daymond Patterson dodges a tackle attempt by an FIU player during a punt return Saturday evening at Memorial Stadium. Patterson recorded 135
yards on four punt returns, including one 75-yard return for a touchdown.
N
ever mind it was his frst NCAA
snap. Never mind that he
nor any Kansas football play-
er suited up in front of a Memorial
Stadium crowd of 52,112 Jayhawk fans,
a number that broke the attendance
record and saw its high expectations
translate into a big win.
Junior college-transfer tailback
Jocques Crawford shook his nerves and
took of for a 15-yard gain one play afer
his counterpart, junior tailback Jake
Sharp, tacked on fve yards.
And later in the frst quarter, when
Crawford tore through FIUs front line
like a hell beast to score the seasons
frst points, Crawfords lofy goal of
2,000 yards didnt seem so ambitious.
Together, he and Sharp could at least
match or better that mark.
But on a day when two of the nations
top football programs had their scares
Ohio States Beanie Wells and Mizzous
Jeremy Maclin both lef their respective
games because of injuries Kansas
rush attack took a hit when Crawford
injured his ankle near the end of the
frst quarter.
He returned at the start of the second
quarter but wasnt the same. Afer aver-
aging 4.6 yards-per-carry and a score in
the frst quarter, Crawford had just fve
more carries two for a loss and
lef the game for good in the third quar-
ter when he tweaked his ankle again.
Crawfords total on the day: 11 rushes
for 36 yards, an average of 3.2 yards per
carry.
A healthy Sharp was more produc-
tive in the passing game seeing limited
rushing action. Junior quarterback Todd
Reesing found him for an 18-yard gain
in the frst quarter, but he fnished with
just eight carries for 27 yards, an average
of 3.3 yards-per-carry.
Coach Mark Mangino and ofensive
coordinator Ed Warriner rightly did not
want to take any chances with Crawford
afer he went down early and again later
in the game. But with a healthy Sharp
at their disposal, Kansas abandoned its
running game for the bulk of the game,
allowing FIUs defense to dictate that
Reesing attempt a career-high 52 passes,
even when the game was well in hand.
Crawford, who sports the number
3, and Sharp, wearing jersey number 1,
represent a one-three punch necessary
for success in a year when Reesing can
no longer sneak up on anyone.
Despite airing it out all day, Reesing
completed only one pass longer than
One-three
punch
needed
this season
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BY CASE KEEFER
ckeefer@kansan.com
OTTAWA, ONTARIO Tyshawn
Taylor wouldnt have minded staying in
Canada for an extra day to play another
exhibition game.
Taylor, a freshman guard, enjoyed the
frst three Kansas played in, especially the
way the team improved in each one. If the
Jayhawks played one last game, Taylor said
he thought they could have really disman-
tled an opponent.
Wed blow them out, Taylor said, by
like 100.
Kansas trip to the Great White North
built confdence for Taylor and his team-
mates. Te Jayhawks arrived in Canada
primarily as an amalgamation of highly
touted recruits and previously inexperi-
enced reserves. Te team lef a little closer
to being ready for the season, which begins
in two months.
Just ask coach Bill Self. He smiled a lot
this weekend because of the way his team
grew. He watched as the Jayhawks strug-
gled to beat McGill, a mediocre Canadian
team, 72-67 in their frst game Saturday.
He saw progress when Kansas outlasted
Carleton, which had won fve of the last six
Canadian national championships, 84-83,
later that night.
He high-fved players afer the 95-60
victory against the University of Ottawa
on Sunday night where he said it all came
together.
Tis was a perfect time for us to come,
Self said.
Self said he could only think of one way
the trip could have been better if fresh-
men Marcus and Markief Morris could
have joined the team. Self had to leave the
Morris twins at home because the NCAA
has yet to deem them academically eli-
gible.
But Self said most of the fve newcomers
who were in Ottawa pleased him.
He said freshman shooting guard Travis
Releford surprised him when he scored a
team-high 25 points against Carleton. Self
used the word fabulous when describing
Taylors potential. He called junior-college
transfer Mario Little a key to what Kansas
would try to do this season.
Self said as long as the young team was
open to his direction, it would be very
good this season.
Tis is Basketball 101, Self said. Weve
got some guys that, as soon as they realize
they dont know. Teyll have a chance to
learn.
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Freshman guard Tyshawn Taylor leaps for the basket during Saturday nights game against Carleton University in
Ottawa, Canada. The Jayhawks won the match, their second of the day, 84-83.
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Daymond Patterson followed
a wall of blockers and streaked
down the sideline 75 yards for
his frst collegiate touchdown.
The 5-foot-9 Patterson, who
thought his leap over a falling
FIU defender on his way to
the endzone was pretty cool,
has electric speed and will be
scoring several more punt return
touchdowns for Kansas in the
future.The score put Kansas up
24-0 midway through the second
quarter and the Jayhawks cruised
from there.
Player to remember
Dezmon Briscoe. The
sophomore had nine catches for
55 yards and three touchdowns,
the second time in his short
Kansas career that hes had three
touchdowns in a single game.
He has become quarterback
Todd Reesings favorite target
inside the redzone with his stellar
ability to get open. After scoring
a Kansas freshman record seven
touchdowns in 2007, Briscoe is on
pace for a breakout year in 2008.
Player to forget
FIUs Ashlyn Parker. Daymond
Patterson leaped over the FIU
defender on Pattersons 75-yard
punt return and later was injured
and had to be carted of the feld.
Coaches corner
They saw that we could
run the ball early and put extra
defenders in the box and said
youre going to have to throw it.
We wanted to dink and dunk a
little bit, spread the ball around
and work the short game. Thats
what they were giving us so thats
what we took.
Ofensive Coordinator Ed
Warinner on why Kansas had 52
passing plays to only 36 running
plays
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at South Florida
Sept. 20
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Oct. 4
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smontemayor@kansan.com
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Kansan.com.
Kansas footballs 40-10 thrashing
of FIU didnt seem much different
than any of the lopsided victories
the Jayhawks piled up last season.
But Kansas has changed for the bet-
ter in one very important depart-
ment: The 08 Jayhawks have some
serious talent at wide receiver.
Were not talking Mark Simmons
talent (steady but unspectacular),
Marcus Henry talent (uber-athletic
but inconsistent), or Brian Murph
talent (couldnt block worth a
darn). Were talking youth, excite-
ment, speed and a surplus of skill at
what is a crucial position in Kansas
spread offense.
Sophomore Dezmon Briscoe
hauled in nine passes, scored three
touchdowns and showed no hint
of the poor hands that plagued
him as a freshman. Senior Dexton
Fields, the groups even-keeled elder
statesman, caught a pass for the
25th consecutive game before leav-
ing with a leg injury. Sophomore
Johnathan Wilson enjoyed one heck
of a coming-out party by catching
five balls, and junior Kerry Meier
displayed his soft hands, recording
nine receptions.
The biggest winner among the
receivers was the smallest of them
all. 5-foot-9, 175-pound freshman
Daymond Patterson made a grand
debut, burning 75 yards down the
sideline to turn a punt return into
six points. His other punt returns
went for 11, 19 and 30 yards. That
isnt bad, considering Anthony
Webb tallied just 16 punt return
yards all of last season.
Patterson is the kind of player
Kansas couldnt have recruited early
in coach Mark Manginos tenure:
supremely talented, fast and, well,
fast. How a stud such as Patterson
escaped his home state of Texas
without being snatched up by Texas,
Texas Tech or Texas A&M is a mys-
tery and an epic victory for Kansas
football.
Louisiana Tech
Look ahead
Think Louisiana football, and
you tend to think about Louisiana
State University. But Louisiana
Tech, a school of about 10,000 stu-
dents in tiny Ruston, La., isnt short
on gridiron history.
Pro Football Hall of Fame quar-
terback Terry Bradshaw directed
the Louisiana Tech offense in the
late 1960s. More recently, quar-
terbacks Tim Rattay and Luke
McCown launched their less-than-
prolific pro careers after playing
at Louisiana Tech. Former Kansas
City Chiefs standout lineman Willie
Roaf also donned the Bulldog blue
in the early 1990s.
Other big-name alums include
former NBA star Karl Malone, USC
basketball coach Tim Floyd, and
fiery-yet-fashionable Baylor wom-
ens basketball coach Kim Mulkey.
anoTher year of
eLigibiLiTy, pLease
Kansas cross country coach
Stanley Redwine said last month
at media day that the graduation
of last years top two Jayhawk run-
ners would give his young team an
opportunity to step up.
After his teams season-opening
meet, Redwine might be wishing for
the return of his departed veterans.
The current Jayhawks fared well,
placing seven runners in the top 15,
but the Kansas Alumni team one-
upped the current team.
Paul Hefferon and Colby Wissel,
who graduated last spring, finished
first and third, respectively. The
best showing by a current Jayhawk
was freshman Don Wasingers fifth-
place finish.
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By ASHER FUSCO
afusco@kansan.com
Receivers steal show
during season opener
Kansas is ranked in the
Associated Press Top 25
football for the 11th straight
week, the longest streak in
school history.
We could have been sharper.
The frst game out some things
werent as crisp as we would
like them to be. Its a good
place to start and I thought we
executed fairly well. I would
like to see the running game
get going a little more. We
need to utilize Jocques (Craw-
ford) and Jake (Sharp) because
they both have a lot of talent
and we want the ball in their
hands a little bit more.
Kansas quarterback Todd Reesing
Q: How many current Kansas
football players were on the
feld when Kansas played
Louisiana Tech, its week two
opponent, in 2005?
A: Eight: Mike Rivera, Marcus
Herford, James Holt, Darrell
Stuckey, Tang Bacheyie, Joe
Mortensen, Raymond Brown
and Russell Brorsen.
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JimMays, Lansing freshman, does the wormin the endzone Saturday evening during the football game. Mays was awarded theFan of the
Gametitle and given a prize pack.
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Zambrano takes time
to rest tired arm before
fnal month of season
CHICAGO Cubs ace Carlos
Zambrano was scratched from his
start against the Phillies to give
him some time to rest his tired
arm.
Zambrano, a 13-game winner
this season, is 1-1 over his last fve
starts and twice failed to get out
of the ffth inning. He has seen a
drop-of at times in his velocity.
Leading the NL Central with
the best record in the majors, the
Cubs want a fresh Zambrano for
the fnal month. He went through
a similar tired arm period a year
ago when he was winless in
August before rebounding to go
4-1 in his fnal fve regular-season
starts.
Pitching coach Larry Rothschild
said Zambrano isnt in any pain
and his arm feels good.
Thome hits homer mark,
ties with Mantles record
BOSTON White Sox slugger
Jim Thome hit career homer No.
536 against the Boston Red Sox,
moving into a tie with Mickey
Mantle for 14th on the career list.
Thome hit a two-run shot with
two outs in the frst inning for his
29th homer of the season.
Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez
is 13th on the list. He connected
for career homer No. 547 Sunday
against the Toronto Blue Jays.
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Federer, Roddick move on
to U.S. Open fourth round
NEW YORK Four-time and
defending champion Roger
Federer cruised to a 6-3, 6-3, 6-2
victory over 28th-seeded Radek
Stepanek in the U.S. Opens third
round, sending a strong signal to
the rest of the feld that perhaps
hes still the man to beat.
For the frst time in a while,
Federer is not No. 1 in the
seedings for the hard-court Grand
Slam tournament or in the ATP
rankings. Those honors belong to
Rafael Nadal, who beat Federer
in the lopsided French Open and
epic Wimbledon fnals.
Andy Roddick also moved on,
beating No. 31 Andreas Seppi 6-2,
7-5, 7-6 (4). Roddick will play No.
11 Fernando Gonzalez for a spot
in the quarterfnals.
Federers next opponent is No.
23 Igor Andreev of Russia, who
beat No. 13 Fernando Verdasco
of Spain in straight sets. In other
mens third-round matches, No.
5 Nikolay Davydenko eliminated
No. 26 Dmitry Tursunov, qualifer
Gilles Muller upset No. 18 Nicolas
Almagro, and Australian Open
runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga lost
to No. 15 Tommy Robredo.
The women are a round ahead.
No. 2 Jelena Jankovic reached
the quarterfnals by beating No.
21 Caroline Wozniacki, and will
face No. 29 Sybille Bammer. Elena
Dementieva, who beat Li Na, now
faces No. 15 Patty Schnyder.
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At Rim Rock Farm on Saturday,
the mens cross country team had
stiff competition on their hands.
That competition was a group of
17 men dressed in pink shorts and
blue shirts with the word Alumni
stamped across their chests. They
were former KU cross country
runners and they showed up to
Saturdays race looking to win.
The KU alumni team was very
diverse, competing with some
former All-Americans and an
Olympian.
Its a good mix of guys who just
got out of eligibility to guys who
ran in the 90s, Paul Hefferon, one
of the new members of the alumni
team and the winner of the Mens
8k race, said.
Hefferon finished the race with a
time of 24:49.
Hefferon said he had been cross-
training during the summer and
would be competing in a club meet
in December. And as for running
in pink shorts, he called it a tribute
to the Jayhawk team of the past,
which wore blue and pink uniforms
until 1999.
Not far behind Hefferon was
fellow newcomer to the alumni
team Colby Wissel, who finished
third overall. Other members of
the alumni team included Patrick
McGowan, Chris Jones, DJ Hilding
and Charlie Gruber, who competed
in the 1500 meters at the 2004
Olympics in Athens.
Many of the alumni, including
Hilding, were glad to race at Rim
Rock with some of their former
teammates.
I forgot just how hard the hills
were, Hilding, a 2005 graduate,
said.
While the alumni team had two
members finish in the top three,
the current Jayhawk team also had
strong performances. Freshman
Don Wasinger finished first for the
current Jayhawks and fifth overall
with a time of 25:56. Also, six cur-
rent Jayhawk runners finished in
the top 20, including sophomore
Dan Van Orsdel, freshman Kaleb
Humphreys, and juniors Isaiah
Shirlen and Bret Imgrund.
Imgrund ran despite having a
chest cold that affected his breath-
ing. He edged out Gruber at the
finish line to take ninth place over-
all. It wasnt the first time the two
raced each other.
We raced in Race For the Cure
and I beat him by 15 seconds,
Imgrund said. It was nice to do
it again.
A lot of upperclassmen on the
current team were impressed with
the freshman runners.
The ones who wore the KU
jersey represented well, senior Levi
Huseman said. Its a great way to
start their season and their career.
The current team edged out the
alumni team by a score of 49 to
52, giving them first place overall.
Although it was close, both teams
had nothing but respect for each
other.
You have an Olympian, Colby,
Paul, and Patrick, Van Orsdel said.
Its good to add some excitement.
Hefferon said he saw potential
in the team.
Once the guys get together to
develop, a lot of good things can
happen. Its a rebuilding year, but
it can also be a successful year,
he said.
Meanwhile, the womens team
won their title more easily.
Junior Lauren Bonds finished
first overall with a time of 18:53.
Sophomore Amanda Miller finished
second with a time of 19:17. Bonds
led throughout the race and said
she was relaxed the whole time.
I treated it as a workout that
I got to wear my uniform in, she
said.
Miller said she also felt good
during the race.
After I got into second, I was
able to push my own pace. It was
more relaxing not running with a
lot of people, she said.
Four others on the womens
team finished in the top 10, includ-
ing senior Megan James, junior
Alison Knoll and freshmen Laura
Nightengale and Kara Windisch.
It was the second year in a row
that both the mens and womens
teams took first place. Though
there wasnt a womans alum-
ni team, some of the returning
women said they liked the idea.
I would love to see some of the
girls that I ran with when I was a
freshman, Bonds said. It wouldnt
be as funny as the guys though.
Bonds said she found the mens
alumni team comical.
It was funny seeing some of
the guys that I saw when I was
getting recruited, she said. Some
of them were out of shape. Some
were still in really good shape. It
was interesting seeing how that all
played out.
Next on the Jayhawks schedule
is the Missouri XC Challenge in
Columbia, Mo., on Sept. 13.
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sports 3b tuesday, september 2, 2008
Goal by Cressy clinches
second victory for Hawks
Weston White/KANSAN
Freshman forward Emily Cressy (back
left) and senior midfelder Jessica Bush
(back right) hug junior midfelder Monica
Dolinsky after she scored Kansas frst goal.
Kansas defeated Auburn 2-1 Sunday afternoon
and plays again this Friday.
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Freshman forward Emily Cressy spins to kick the game-winning goal with fewer than fve
minutes to play in the match, breaking a 1-1 tie. Kansas improved to 2-0 with the victory.
BY ANDREW WIEBE
awiebe@kansan.com
Coach Mark Francis isnt one to
gloss over his teams performances.
When the Jayhawks dont play well,
Francis is the first to point out his
squads shortcomings, win or lose.
Minutes after No. 25 Kansas
nipped Auburn 2-1 in a wild game
Sunday afternoon at the Jayhawk
Soccer Complex, Francis delivered
a typically frank evaluation of the
frantic 90 minutes of action.
They deserved to win the
game, Francis said. They had bet-
ter opportunities. They controlled
the tempo of the game more than
we did. Other than score two good
goals, I dont think we did a whole
lot right.
The Jayhawks did just enough
to survive a second-half barrage by
the Tigers, including a goal disal-
lowed by an offside call, and then
taking advantage of a late red card
to win consecutive games to start
the season for the first time since
2004 the last year the team made
the NCAA Tournament.
One year after scuffling to a
1-1 draw with Auburn in Hawaii,
Kansas made its few chances count,
despite being out shot 17 to 8 and
conceding six corner kicks without
creating any of its own. It was exact-
ly the type of game that seemed to
elude the Jayhawks grasp a year
ago when they lost seven of their
first nine.
Last year, we would have found
a way to lose that game, Francis
said. This season, we play a good
team, we play like absolute horse
crap and we still win, 2-1. As a
coach, youve got to say, Hey, you
know what? Were doing something
right. Were finding a way to win
the game. But I told the players, we
have to demand more out of our-
selves than what we did today.
Despite being outplayed for
most of the game, Kansas got off
to a dream start when junior mid-
fielder Monica Dolinsky scored six
minutes into the game. Dolinsky
picked up a loose ball in the mid-
field, pushed forward into the final
third and unleashed an unstoppable
drive into the bottom corner after
Auburn failed to step up defen-
sively.
Kansas weathered Auburns pres-
sure for the remainder of the first
half, but the visitors capitalized on
lackadaisical defending after half-
time.
The Tigers found their equalizer
in the 51st minute after pinning the
Jayhawks in their own half. Auburn
forward Becca Howell evaded
defender Lauren Jackson off the
dribble and beat goalkeeper Julie
Hanley with a dipping effort from
just outside the penalty area.
The tide seemed to turn com-
pletely in Auburns favor in the 84th
minute when forward Caitlin King
slotted a rebound past Hanley. But
the Tigers celebration was cut short
by the referees offside flag.
That was huge, Dolinsky said.
When they first scored, we kind of
let down. Then we saw the official
call it back. We just knew we got
lucky, so it was our turn to score.
Kansas scored two minutes later,
but not before some controversy
when an already physical game
took an ugly turn.
Dolinsky and Auburn midfielder
Chelsea Yauch each received yellow
cards while jockeying for midfield
position before a goal kick. On the
ensuing kick, Yauch took exception
to more contact from the Kansas
midfielder, threw a high elbow and
promptly received her second yel-
low card eight seconds after her
first one of five cards issued in a
10-minute span.
Freshman forward Emily Cressy
played hero 19 seconds later to
record her second goal in as many
games when defender Lauren
Jacksons free kick bounced favor-
ably into her path.
After deftly turning past her
defender, Cressy collected the ball
and calmly beat the Auburn goal-
keeper, sparking a fist pump from
Francis and celebration on the side-
line.
Emily is a goal-scorer, Francis
said. Im not sure anybody else on
the team could have finished that as
composed as she did.
Salazar getS look
UCLA transfer Sarah Salazar
saw her first action of the year
against Auburn. Salazar, sopho-
more midfielder, came on as a sub-
stiute for Monica Dolinsky. Salazar
did not play in Kansas opening
game Aug. 20 against Purdue.
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Weston White/KANSAN
Kansas alumni Paul Heferon starts to break loose of the pack at Saturday mornings race at
RimRock Farm. Heferon fnished frst overall with a time of 24:49 at the BobTimmons Classic.
SoCCer
CroSS Country
Runners, alums have
impressive showing
BY JAYSON JENKS
jjenks@kansan.com
Junior goalie Julie Hanleys
lunging stop not only saved a goal
but also kept the game tied.
And then, a moment later, an
Auburn players shot off Hanleys
rebound ripped through the back
of the net, seemingly giving the
Tigers a 2-1 lead. The key word,
though, is seemingly. Offsides
was called, disallowing the goal.
After I made the save, I was
really happy to see the linesman
holding his flag, Hanley said. I
looked over and saw it, and I was
pretty relieved.
It was a turning point in the
game. Hanleys save, combined
with the goal reversal, kick start-
ed the Jayhawks late-game surge
that led to a 2-1 victory.
They capitalized on that
momentum in the 85th minute
when freshman forward Emily
Cressy scored the game-winning
goal. But theyd have never been
in that position without Hanley.
Julie made some really good
saves, coach Mark Francis said.
She kept us in the game a couple
of times.
It was something Hanley and
the Jayhawks prepared for: The
scouting report on Auburn indi-
cated that lateral runs and play-
ers crashing around the net were
major facets of the Tigers offen-
sive strategy.
The scouting report said their
forwards were pretty much their
whole team, Hanley said. But
we were able to shut them down.
auburn orange
prominent at game
It was hard to miss the bright
orange shirts and cries of War
Eagle from the 30 members of
the Kansas City Auburn Club in
attendance at Sundays game.
Max Waddington of Leawood
spread word to Auburn alumni in
the greater Kansas City area.
We want to support all of our
Auburn teams, Waddington said.
But I have to admit, all three of
my kids went to Kansas.
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The Louisiana Superdome,
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an NFL regular-season opener
Sunday between the New Orleans
Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
appeared to be in good condi-
tion after the worst of Hurricane
Gustav had passed, the stadium's
operator said.
"We're in good shape," said
Doug Thornton, vice president of
SMG, the company that manages
the Superdome and neighboring
New Orleans Arena. "We've got
some exterior signs ripped and
things like that, downed fences
and light poles blown over, but
nothing major, nothing structural
or nothing that would affect the
interior condition of the build-
ing."
Thornton, who spearhead-
ed the ambitious $200 million,
eight-month renovation of the
Superdome following Hurricane
Katrina, remained in the stadi-
um with a handful of staff dur-
ing the storm Sunday night and
Monday.
Thornton said there was no
noticeable structural or interior
damage, but stressed that a more
thorough inspection still needed
to be done. The stadium had
yet to lose normal power as of
Monday afternoon, he said.
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good shape, whether or not the
Saints play there depends on sev-
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All three touchdowns went to
sophomore Dezmon Briscoe, who
had nine catches for 55 yards on the
night. It was the second time in his
brief Kansas career that he scored
three touchdowns in a single game,
matching the three he had in last
years 76-39 thrashing of Nebraska.
That is what Briscoe can bring
to the table for us, Reesing said.
He is a tremendous athlete, and he
has a great feel for going up and
catching the ball. Hes got a feel for
how to get open.
While the Kansas passing game
excelled, the running game strug-
gled. An ankle injury limited junior
Jocques Crawford to 32 yards and
a touchdown on 11 carries, and
junior Jake Sharp had only 29 yards
on nine carries. Angus Quigley,
who came in during the fourth
quarter when the game was out of
reach, ended up leading the team
in rushing with 47 yards on six car-
ries. He was stopped one yard short
of scoring a touchdown on the last
play of the game.
The Jayhawks defense allowed
FIUs offense to accumulate only
139 yards. FIUs leading rusher,
Amod Ned, had only 43 yards rush-
ing on 12 carries, and FIU had only
66 yards rushing on 26 carries.
FIU quarterback Paul McCall
completed only 10 of 28 passes for
73 yards andwas sackedthree times.
The Jayhawks defense allowed FIU
to complete only two of 14 third-
down conversions.
We were put in some situa-
tions in the red zone, and we held
them on some fourth downs, line-
backer Mike Rivera said. Thats
a good sight to see. We had our
backs against the wall, and we rose
to the occasion a few times. Thats
a good thing to see in these early
games. We gave up a field goal that
we really didnt want to but we will
learn from that and make it better
next week.
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By B.J. RAINS
rains@kansan.com
CRAWFORD INJURES
ANKLE
Jocques Crawfords frst game
as a Jayhawk didnt go exactly as
planned.
The 6-foot-1, 230-pound,
junior-college transfer was limited
to just 32 yards rushing on 11 car-
ries before leaving the game with
an injured ankle during the third
quarter.
Imjust kind of upset about the
fact of getting injured, Crawford
said Saturday night. Im happy
about the win, though. I didnt do
as good as I thought I was going
to do. It hurt a lot that I couldnt
get out there and do more, but you
know, it happens to everyone, and
when you go down, you just have
to get out there and support your
teammates.
Crawford, who had six carries
for 28 yards and a touchdown in
By TAyLOR BERN
tbern@kansan.com
He led his team out of the tun-
nel, gained six yards on the frst
play of the season, and when
junior quarterback Todd Reesing
needed someone to get open in the
end zone, he was there to close the
deal.
Sophomore wide receiver
Dezmon Briscoe stepped up every-
where Saturday night in Kansas
40-10 victory over FIU. Briscoe
caught nine passes and tied his
career-high with three touchdown-
receptions all inside the fve-
yard line.
With Briscoe as its star, the
Jayhawk receiving corps looked
like the only ready-for-primetime
player on ofense.
Te rushing game was incon-
sistent and slowed by an appar-
ent injury to junior running back
Jocques Crawford. Te ofensive
line broke-in two inexperienced
tackles that sufered through sev-
eral mental lapses. Reesings solid
numbers (37-of-52 completions for
256 yards) were more about crisp
route running than stellar throws.
Kansas converted 11-of-19 third
down attempts. Nine of those were
Reesing passes. Seven of those nine
were to receivers who gained what
was needed for a frst down or two
yards more.
We had a lot of plays where we
got just enough for the frst down,
and thats what were looking for,
Reesing said. We dont need to get
18 yards if we only need fve. We
just need to get the frst down and
keep the drive moving.
Junior wide receiver Kerry Meier
tied Briscoe for the lead with nine
catches, three of which were for
third-down conversions that were
just past the frst down marker.
When teams are getting a lot
of third-down conversions, I think
it really takes a toll on the defense
mentally as well as physically,
Meier said.
Offensive coordinator Ed
Warinner said getting past the
sticks was a focus for his receivers
during practice, and he was pleased
with Saturdays results.
Ten players caught at least one
pass and fve had three or more.
Sophomore wide reciever Jonathan
Wilson hauled in the longest recep-
tion of the night with a 24-yard
grab, but freshman receiver and
punt returner Daymond Patterson
stole the show in the big-play
department.
Patterson felded a punt in the
second quarter at his own 25.
Seventy-five yards, a few jukes
and one memorable hurdle later,
Patterson was celebrating his frst
collegiate touchdown in the north
end zone.
That just happened on the
spot, Patterson said of hurdling
FIUs Ashlyn Parker. I was run-
ning and he fell and I ended up
jumping him, but I think it was
pretty cool.
Wilson said he enjoyed the show
from the sidelines.
Briscoe and I were on the side-
lines, and we were just amazed,
Wilson said. He looks like a little
kid out there.
Not everything went according
to plan for the Jayhawk receivers.
In fact, things started rather hor-
ribly when Briscoe took a shot over
the middle from FIU linebacker
Scott Bryant and fumbled during
Kansas frst possession.
Getting your bell rung is bet-
ter sometimes than getting taught
how to do it because youll remem-
ber next time when you see zone
to sit down and split the diference
Wide receivers bring
A game to opener
COMMENTARY
FOOTBALL (continued from 1B)
Weston White/KANSAN
Sophomore defensive end Jake Laptad brings down FIU quarterback Paul McCall for a sack
Saturday. Laptad recorded three tackles and two sacks in the game.
Ryan Waggoner/KANSAN
Freshman wide receiver Daymond Patterson (28) celebrates with teammates after returning a punt 75 yards for a touchdown during the second quarter of Saturday's game. Kansas defeated FIU 40-10 in the season opener at Memorial Stadium.
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Sophomore punter Alonso Rojas celebrates after connecting on a 47-yard feld goal Saturday. Rojas hit both of his feld goal attempts in the
game.
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Senior linebacker James Holt fies through the hole to stop FIU running back A'mod Ned during the second half of the game Saturday. Holt recorded three tackles in the game.
Weston White/KANSAN
Junior running back Jake Sharp tries to break a tackle during Saturday's game. Sharp
rushed the ball nine times for 29 yards in the game.
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Junior running back Jocques Crawford makes a cut during the frst half of Saturday's game against FIU at Memorial Stadium. Crawford, who
rushed for 32 yards on 11 carries, had X-rays of his ankle taken after the game.
his 18-yarder to Sharp. Warriner
insisted Kansas wanted to run more
but it just didnt work out that way
when FIU started blitzing and put-
ting more defenders in the box
pretty much what any team does to
combat the run.
Te problemwas the FIU defense
isnt exactly a world beater. Eight
of FIUs defensive starters returned
from a unit that ranked 105th
against the run in 2007. FIU gave
up an average of 203.8 rushing yards
per game last season and more than
fve yards-per-carry. Te Jayhawks
rushing for Saturday: 36 carries for
128 yards an average of 3.6 yards-
per-carry.
Even those numbers are skewed
a bit. Tird stringer Angus Quigley
actually led the team in rushing,
mopping up the FIU defense for 71
yards in nine carries in garbage time.
His 7.8 average could have been sup-
plemented by a score if he had not
been tackled at the one-yard line to
close the game.
If Crawfords injury is worse than
he or his coaches let on, Quigley
should be the interim bruiser while
Sharp runs fnesse plays and catches
passes.
Either way, Kansas running backs
are going to have to be implemented
more in future contests or this sea-
son may take a turn for the worse.
Reesing may be one of the best quar-
terbacks to wear crimson and blue
but the competition he will face this
year has had more than 12 months to
study and prepare to make life a little
harder on him.
Since last seasons opener, on
only two occasions have Kansas
running backs had less yards than
they did Saturday: the Nov. 24 loss
to Missouri (42 rushing yards) and
their Jan. 3 Orange Bowl victory
against Virginia Tech.
Teyre two polar-opposite games,
but theres no Aqib Talib to run back
any picks this year so should Kansas
fail to establish its one-three punch,
Imbanking on tough times ahead.
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MONTeMAyOR (continued from 1B)
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FOOTBALL reWiND
See DuLy NOTeD ON PAGe 6B
Saturday:
duly noted
COMMENTARY
sports 6B Tuesday, sepTember 2, 2008
BY JOSH BOWE
jbowe@kansan.com
Coach Ray Bechard hopes that
for the rest of the year, the team
that showed up to play against NC
State this past weekend is the one
that shows up to every game. But
the team that played against VCU
not so much.
Te volleyball team split its two
matches at the VCU Invitational
this past weekend, falling to VCU
on Friday night in three sets, but
swept NC State Saturday morning
in three sets.
Although it was the teams frst
game of the year, Bechard said he
was disappointed by some of the
uncharacteristic things he usually
didnt see from the team.
Because of the rule change that
limits sets to 25 points instead of
30, Bechard said it was even hard-
er to come back afer a slow start.
Tat slow start, combined with a
home team that was excited for
its frst game and an opportuni-
ty to knock of a Big 12 school,
doomed the Jayhawks in their
frst match.
We just did not create enough
opportunities to be successful,
Bechard said. But I really felt we
learned from that and made some
adjusts for our approach (against
NC State).
In Saturdays sets, the Jayhawks
fnally looked like a team that
could rattle the Big 12. Displaying
a killer instinct and energetic
physical play, sophomore Karina
Garlington led Kansas with a
match-high 14 kills, along with
five service-acesa personal
record.
She was a little disappointed
in the quality of swings she had
last night (against VCU), Bechard
said. She checked in with herself.
She hit some very good shots.
Te lone bright spot in the
match against VCU was freshman
Allison Mayfelds match-high 11
kill performance.
Freshman setter Nicole Tate
had 23 assists for her debut as a
Jayhawk against VCU, and she
followed that with 29 against NC
State.
She was a little bit uneven on
Friday night, Bechard said. But I
thought today (against NC State)
she came back and took a huge
step forward, a huge responsibil-
ity for a kid
like that.
It was
no surprise
that Bechard
p r e a c h e d
the leader-
ship of senior
Natalie Uhart,
the Jayhawks
only pre-season Big 12 team
player.
She set the tone a little bit
for our team, Bechard said.
She made some demands in the
warm-up saying, Heres how we
need to play.
Te Jayhawks will need Uharts
leadership when they venture into
a tough Big 12 conference. But the
Jayhawks still have seven non-
conference games lef. Te next
two are against Utah Valley and
Oregon on Sept. 5.
Bechard said he needed his
team to work on what he calls
stages of the set, where the team
breaks in 0-10, 10-20 and then
20-25 points. Bechard said he
wanted his team to value each set
more.
You cant get too far behind
and expect to come back, he said,
and you cant relax when you
have a lead.
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duly noted (continued from 5B)
ReceiveRs
(continued from 5B)
between defenders, rather than
running through it and get-
ting your clock cleaned, coach
Mark Mangino said.
Briscoe admitted that he
made a wrong move on the
play.
I set myself up for that lick,
he said. It shook me up a little
bit, but my teammates on the
sideline encouraged me to get
out there and do what I do.
Briscoe muscled his way
to open space every time the
ofense marched into the red
zone.
On a fourth and goal from
the three-yard line in the third
quarter, Reesing evaded a pair of
defenders and lobbed a pass to
the back corner that looked as if
itd sail away and fall harmlessly
on the track. Ten Briscoe came
out of nowhere and leaped into
the air, clutching the foater as
he tiptoed back to earth for his
third touchdown of the night.
While they admit that any
one of them is capable of mak-
ing those plays when called
upon, Briscoes fellow receivers
couldnt help but be impressed
with his 2008 debut.
Hes great, Meier said. If
the balls anywhere in the area,
hes going to go up and get it.
Me personally? Wilson
asked. I think hes money. Its
six points every time hes in the
red zone.
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the frst quarter, injured his ankle
late in the frst quarter. Crawford
returned and had fve more carries
for only 4 yards before re-aggravat-
ing the ankle injury that ended his
night in the third quarter.
I went back in and pushed it
but I tweaked it again, Crawford
said. A guy tackled me and actu-
ally twisted my ankle when he
tackled me so he tweaked it a little
more than what it was. Tey said
it wasnt that bad at all. Ill be all
right.
Despite having to leave the game
early, Crawford indicated that he
hoped he wouldnt have to miss any
practice time.
He got dinged up a little bit,
said coach Mark Mangino. Its
nothing serious. We didnt want to
take any chance toward the end of
the game.
FIELDS HURT ALSO
Senior wide receiver Dexton
Fields did not practice Sunday afer
sustaining an injury of his own late
in the frst quarter on Saturday
night. Fields leaped for a pass but
landed awkwardly and injured
his ankle. He went into the locker
room and later returned on his
own. He was seen on the sideline
without a shoe on and didnt return
to the game.
I dont think its going to be
anything thats really long-term,
Mangino said. I hope not. Tats
just the preliminary evaluation. He
just got his foot caught in the turf,
but I think hes going to be OK.
HATCH ABSENT
Matt Darton started at right-
tackle in place of Jeremiah Hatch,
who missed the game for unspeci-
fed reasons but appeared to be
injured. Mangino wouldnt com-
ment on Hatch afer the game.
Darton started the Iowa State
game last year in place of Anthony
Collins and freshman Ben Lueken
saw time at right-tackle.
They played adequately
good enough to win, Mangino
said of the tackles on Mondays Big
12 Coaches Teleconference. But
they must improve and they will
because they are young. Teir per-
formance was good enough to win
but they must get better.
SURPRISE STARTERS
Mangino cautioned last Tuesday
that the recently released depth
chart could change before the ink
on the paper dried. He was right,
as sophomore Jamal Greene, who
was listed on the depth chart as
the second team defensive tackle,
started over Richard Johnson.
Sophomore Jonathan Wilson start-
ed at wide receiver alongside Fields
and Dezmon Briscoe and had fve
catches for 60 yards.
NO REDSHIRTS
Four freshmen played on
Saturday, eliminating any chance
they had of redshirting the 2008
season. Punt-returner and wide-
receiver Daymond Patterson, tight-
end Tim Biere, defensive-tackle
Darius Parish, and ofensive-tackle
Ben Lueken all saw action in the
season opener.
RECORD-SETTING
CROWD
Kansas set an all-time single
game attendance record with
a crowd of 52,112. The previ-
ous record was 51,912 against
Nebraska last season. Te total was
4,000 more than the top non-con-
ference game attendance of 48,112,
which was also last season against
Toledo.
POINT SPREAD
Gamblers around the coun-
try must have been screaming at
their computers late Saturday when
Angus Quigley was tackled at the
one-yard line on the last play of the
game. Various sports betting Web
sites listed the Jayhawks as 36-point
favorites, meaning that a Quigley
touchdown and an extra point
would have given the Jayhawks a
37 point win. Te Jayhawks instead
won by only 30, failing to cover the
spread.
Last year the Jayhawks started
the season going 10-0 against
the point spread before losing to
Missouri at Arrowhead Stadium.
Te odds of that happening were
1024-1.
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VOLLEYBALL
team stumbles
in opening sets
Mayfeld
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. The
Kansas City Chiefs will head to
New England with a raft of rook-
ies, a nine-game losing streak and,
they hope, a positive attitude.
Logically, it still shapes up as
the biggest mismatch of the NFL's
opening weekend.
"It's probably the best way
for us to start," head coach
Herm Edwards insisted Monday.
"Because you get a barometer of
where you're at right now. There's
no guessing. When the game's
over with, you say 'OK, here's
where we're at.'"
Oddsmakers say this one fig-
ures to be a runaway for a Patriots
team seeing its first regular-sea-
son action since the Super Bowl
loss to the Giants ruined their
historic perfect season.
As of Monday, the Patriots
were favored by 16 points,
making KC the only double-digit
underdog in the league.
"I'm pretty sure we're going
to be two-touchdown or three-
touchdown underdogs," said
cornerback Patrick Surtain. "But
that's what you've got to love
about this game. It's played on
the field."
The presumably angry and
frustrated Patriots will be facing
a Kansas City team in full and
unapologetic rebuilding mode,
winless in meaningful games
since Oct. 14.
After ending last year on a
nine-game losing streak, the
Chiefs purged veterans, loaded up
with youth and asked their fans
to please be patient. As a result,
the team Edwards takes to New
England will probably include 15
rookies among 22 new players.
"That's good for us," said
Edwards. "That's the direction we
wanted to head in and now we've
got to get them ready to play."
All 12 of last year's draftees
are still with the organization.
Nineteen players drafted in the
last three years remain with the
club. Eleven figure to start against
the experienced, big-game savvy
Patriots.
"We lost nine in a row last year.
I think the taste in our mouths
should be a little more sour than
theirs," said Surtain. "I think we're
ready. We have a young team. A
lot of new guys haven't experi-
enced what we went through last
year. It's a clean slate, a new year
and we're looking forward to it."
Surtain is a rare veteran in a
youthful defensive secondary that
includes rookie starter Brandon
Flowers at the other cornerback.
"It's going to be a tough task
but I think my young fellas back
there are ready. They're ready for
a challenge," Surtain said.
Another rookie starter could
be Branden Albert at left tackle,
who's been out since the second
week of training camp with an
injured foot and spent most of his
college career at guard.
Edwards refused to speculate
on whether Albert might start.
And he was not inclined to talk
about what sort of mind-set the
Patriots might bring to their first
regular-season game since the
bitterly disappointing Super Bowl
loss.
"I can't talk for those guys," he
said. "I can't talk for their team.
I've got my puppies that I'm tak-
ing up there. I've got to make
sure they're on the plane on time.
I can't worry about the Patriots'
state of mind."
But Surtain was willing to take
a shot.
"Revenge," he said. "They're
going to go into the game with
a chip on their shoulder, and so
are we. It's a first game. It's an
even slate. Everybody's 0-0. It's a
chance to go up there and knock
off a great team. And they are a
great team. Our main goal is to
go up there and get a win. We're
not going up there for any moral
victories. We really feel we have a
chance to win."
Also worrisome for Chiefs
fans is Edwards' recent history.
His first two Chiefs teams started
0-2.
But defensive tackle Glenn
Dorsey, another rookie starter,
figures going on the road and
facing a top Super Bowl contend-
er can only work to the young
Chiefs' advantage.
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NORTON, Mass. Vijay Singh
kept pouring in birdie putts, 35 feet
on one hole and 60 feet on the next,
as cheers turned from disbelief to
sheer amazement.
That might be the last bit of
excitement for this edition of the
FedEx Cup.
Despite a volatile new points sys-
tem designed to give more players
a chance, Singh took the suspense
out of the PGA Tour Playoffs with
an 8-under 63 on Monday to win
the Deutsche Bank Championship
in record fashion. It was his second
straight victory, giving him such a
large lead that he could wrap up
the $10 million prize before the
Tour Championship.
"Right now, my focus is going to
be next week, and see if I can wrap
it up," Singh said.
A year ago, Tiger Woods drained
the drama from the postseason by
tying for second at the TPC Boston,
then winning the final two events.
Singh has been even more
impressive.
He won The Barclays in a three-
man playoff last week, convincing
himself that he was the best putter
in golf. He made even more believ-
ers on a gorgeous Labor Day south
of Boston, making birdie putts of
35 feet, 60 feet and 35 feet on the
back nine to turn this into a run-
away.
"He played amazing. It was awe-
some," said Sergio Garcia, who
was paired with Singh and closed
with a 72. "I don't think you guys
are going to realize how good that
was, because you're aren't playing
and you don't know how tough the
course was playing. When Vijay
plays like that, it's hard to beat
him."
Tour officials said any of 24
players still have a mathematical
chance assuming Singh finishes
last in the final two tournaments,
and some of those guys win both
events.
Don't count on it.
"He's back to form," Ernie Els
said. "He's such a great player when
he gets on form. He's playing really
good golf, he's got some confidence
going. He's going to be a danger-
ous guy."
And a richer guy, at that.
Singh set tournament records
with a five-shot victory over Mike
Weir (71) finishing at 22-under
262, breaking by two shots the
record set by Adam Scott in 2003.
He collected $1.26 million, enough
to finally replace Woods atop the
money list at over $6.4 million.
Woods has not played since sea-
son-ending surgery after the U.S.
Open.
Singh won for the third time in
five weeks, and it should move him
to No. 3 in the world ranking.
Attribute this to the power of
positive thinking.
Singh, who has long struggled
with the putter, convinced himself
last week to stop reading negative
comments and consider himself as
good as anyone with the flat stick.
He has heard his share of psy-
cho-babble, but realized the most
important message came from
within.
"Whatever they can tell me, it
works briefly," he said. "But it has
to come from inside me, and that
was the biggest thing. I arrived last
week at Ridgewood with a great
attitude on the putting green and
just kind of felt like I belonged on
the greens. That was the biggest
thing."
Another test came on the 14th.
Singh took the lead when Weir
made double bogey on the ninth,
then the 45-year-old Fijian made
an 8-foot birdie on the 11th to
build his lead to two, and stretched
it with a 35-footer on the 13th.
He pulled his 9-iron approach
to the 14th, however, leaving him
60 feet away. That's the kind of putt
he usually hopes he can lag close
enough for an easy par. But not this
time.
Once on the green, he kept tell-
ing caddie Chad Reynolds, "I'm the
best putter in the world."
"And he said, 'You're damn right
you are, now go ahead and knock
it in,'" Singh said. "And I made it.
Instead of standing there and hop-
ing you're going to get up-and-
down in two, I was trying to make
those putts."
Weir dropped to 1-9 on the PGA
Tour when he has at least a share of
the 54-hole lead, unable to contend
with big hitters on a blustery day.
Even so, he moved up to No. 3 in
the standings behind Singh and
Garcia.
Els flew too many greens and
made too many bogeys to make a
charge, closing with a 70 to tie for
third with Camilo Villegas, who
shot a 73.
This was the final tournament
before U.S. captain Paul Azinger
makes four picks to fill out his
Ryder Cup team, and his job didn't
get any easier.
The top American was Tim
Herron, who shot 65 and tied for
fifth with Garcia at 13-under 271.
It was the first top 10 for Herron all
year. Chad Campbell made a late
push with a 69-66 weekend in the
toughest conditions of the tourna-
ment to tie for seventh with Justin
Leonard (67) and Jim Furyk (72),
who already have qualified.
Azinger was to announce his
picks Tuesday morning in New
York.
Too bad he can't claim Singh, a
good friend, as an American.
Singh has a 12,225-point lead
over Garcia. That means Singh is
assured of having the lead going
into the Tour Championship, and
another top finish might be enough
to wrap up the title if none of the
guys immediately behind him win
in St. Louis next week.
"I'm going to go out and play
really hard," Singh said. "If I have
another win, it will be icing on the
cake. But I don't take anything for
granted."
Herron's biggest week allowed
him to keep playing. The top 70 in
the FedEx Cup standings advance
to the third round of the playoffs
in St. Louis this week at the BMW
Championship. Herron started the
week at No. 99, but his tie for fifth
moved him all the way up to No.
48.
Singh wins for the second straight week
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vijay singh, from Fiji, hits a shot on the seventh hole during the fnal round of the Deutsche Bank Championship golf tournament Monday.
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sports 8B Tuesday, sepTember 2, 2008
Te exhibition games revealed
that the rookies will have a couple
of veterans to look up to in addi-
tion to Self. Sophomore center
Cole Aldrich served as a leader on
the court with his play as he aver-
aged 12 points, 10 rebounds and
three blocks per game.
Junior guard Sherron Collins,
whom Self said he was disappoint-
ed with a week ago for being out of
shape, acted as another coach on
the bench and ofen helped point
out things to Taylor.
Collins appeared in the
Carleton game, but he rested dur-
ing the other two games. He played
22 minutes against the Ravens
and scored 10 points. Self said he
thought Collins played well and
did a good job tutoring the young-
sters.
Sherrons attitude has been
absolutely stellar since hes been
back in school, Self said. I wish
his attitude was good, and he was
in shape.
Collins was as enthusiastic as
his coach was about the new set of
Jayhawk players. He even drew a
similarity to last seasons national
championship team.
I think its going to be not as
good as the team last year, but
something like that where we have
a bunch of diferent people who
can lead us in scoring, Collins
said.
Tat was the case in Canada.
Taylor led the team with 18 points
in the frst game against McGill.
Releford compiled 25 points
against Carleton, and Little was the
high-scorer with 21 points against
Ottawa.
Tis years team reminded Self
of a diferent squad than Collins
the 2005-2006 Jayhawks. Tey
struggled at the beginning of the
year before surging to a Big 12
Championship. Self thinks the
Jayhawks will peak at the end of
the year this season like that team
did.
And hell remember it all started
with a Labor Day trip to Canada.
Edited by Andy Greenhaw
BASKETBALL (continued from 1B)
Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
ABOVE: Sophomore center Cole Aldrich looks for an open passing lane fromunder the basket during Saturday mornings exhibition game
against McGill University in Ottawa, Canada. LEFT: Freshman guard Travis Releford squares ofagainst the Ottawa University defense in a
drive toward the basket during Sunday afternoons match, the last of three for the Jayhawks this weekend. The match against Ottawa was the most
decisive of the weekend, with the Jayhawks winning 95-60. BELOW: Sophomore guard Conner Teahan goes up against a Carleton University
defender for a basket during Saturday evenings game in the Scotia Bank Place arena in Ottawa, Canada.
de La rosa keeps eye on the ball
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER A month ago Jorge
De La Rosa was pitching his way
into the Colorado Rockies bullpen.
Monday he showed he could be
valuable if the Rockies are going to
make another September run.
De La Rosa pitched seven shut-
out innings and had an RBI single,
Willy Taveras stole three bases and
scored twice and Colorado beat
the San Francisco Giants 4-0 on
Monday.
De La Rosa (8-7) was sharp
for the ffh-straight start, allow-
ing four hits, striking out six and
walking one. He didn't allow a
runner past frst base and twice
erased leadof singles by inducing
double plays.
"He continues to take steps
forward," Rockies manager Clint
Hurdle said. "He's got momentum
going for him and confdence."
Te defending NL champion
Rockies began September six
games behind the Diamondbacks
in the NL West. Tey are hoping
for another spectacular finish,
afer going 20-8 last September.
Colorado has won 14 of their last
15 September games overall.
"We're not out of it," Hurdle
said. "As long as we stayed focused
on our own game, that what gives
me hope."
Outings like De La Rosa's on
Monday help fuel that hope.
MLB
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San Francisco Giants starter Jonathan Sanchez delivers a pitch to a Colorado Rockies
batter in the frst inning of a baseball game in Denver.
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