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The festival will also feature a childrens workshop at the Lawrence Arts Center. Kids can sign up to learn how bentsminger@kansan.com to mime, juggling, and make music and balloon animals Sword swallowers, fire eaters, jugglers, magicians and from the performers. Brian Wendling, professional juggler, said he would musicians will gather on Massachusetts Street for the first bring tennis balls, juggling scarves and plastic bags from a ever Busker Festival on Aug. 22-24. Rick Averill, drama program director at the Lawrence grocery store to help the kids learn the basics of juggling. There will be things flying in the air everywhere, Arts Center, said the idea for the festival originated Wendling said. with Richard Renner, owner Renner said most of the artists and director of Vodvill performing at the festival were proEntertainment Co., a compaBusker Festival Schedule fessionals from the Lawrence and ny that specializes in finding Kansas City area. Each performer work for street performers. Friday 8:15 p.m. to 10 p.m. will be paid a stipend of $100 to cover According to Renner, Saturday 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. expenses but will be relying on tips busker is the old English and 1:30 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. for profit. term for street performer. Sunday 2:15 p.m. to Renner said he was unable to Although this is the first bus5:45 p.m. attend the festival because he would ker festival in Lawrence, street be performing at the Kentucky State performers can be found in Fair. He said one of his biggest chalcities around the country. lenges was letting go of his role as Robert Wolf, professional director of the Busker Festival. sword swallower, said he learned many of his skills on Its like not being there for the birth, Renner said. Pearl Street in Boulder, Colo. Wolf will be performing at Jane Pennington, director of Downtown Lawrence, the festival with his wife, Valerie Wolf. Wolf s show is called The Wicked Liars, and includes Inc., an organization that promotes downtown business sword swallowing, fire eating, magic, juggling and bull- interests, worked with Renner and Averill to plan the event. She said it would be a good way to bring more whip cracking. Its fantastic that we get to kind of express ourselves in people downtown. I just think its going to make downtown buzz with our show, Wolf said. We can come up with anything good energy, Averill said. we want and stick it in. Wolf broke the world record for fire eating in 2002 Edited by Andy Greenhaw with 42 torches in 60 seconds, but he said his most dangerous skill was sword swallowing. To swallow a sword, Wolf said he must align his illustrations by body and pass the sword by the epiglottis in the back of catherine coquillette/KaNsaN the throat, through the esophagus and into his stomach. He said the sword passed behind his rib cage and could bump his heart. You have to be very conscious of your body and what the sword is doing, Wolf said.

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Student strikes pose to fight breast cancer

A Big 12 swimsuit calendar supporting breast cancer research will feature a student from the University of Kansas. The company, Campus Girls USA, made the calendar available for preorder on its Web site. The product will be available for purchase on campus during the coming weeks.

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Kami Brant spent more than 30 hours with dogs this summer, but she wasnt pet sitting. Brant, a Des Moines, Iowa, senior, was painting portraits of the six dogs to donate to Art Unleashed, a benefit for the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City.

Campus government to fix campaign annoyances

After last springs nearly three-month elections process, Student Senate is responding to student complaints. An elections reform committee is making changes that may mean campaigning that is less invasive to students.

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On August 14, the KU Public Safety Office reported that: Two digital cameras totaling $1,248 in value were stolen from Stauffer-Flint Hall. Someone threw a rock through the window of a vehicle parked in lot 115, causing $250 in damage. An Apple laptop computer, reported stolen from Staffer-Flint Hall on July 1, was recovered. Someone sprayed graffiti in three places on a concrete wall in the Mississippi Street parking garage, causing $150 in damage. The KU Public Safety Office has reported no crimes during the weekend as of Aug. 17.

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Domestic cats, no matter their breed, are all members of one species. Felis catus has had a very long relationship with humans. Ancient Egyptians may have first domesticated cats as early as 4,000 years ago. Plentiful rodents probably drew wild felines to human communities.
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TOPEKA The U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing nearly $22 million to 13 cities and rural water districts for projects. USDAs Rural Development division announced the funding Friday. The largest amount, nearly $7.1 million, will go to Burlington, in Coffey County. The money will allow the city to replace sewer pipes and replace or repair 111 manholes.

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DeGeneres ties the knot with four-year girlfriend

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Stray cats eat food given to them by women from the local charity Save A Gato, along a rocky shore in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Some say the cats are a tourist draw in the colonial district, just like the narrow cobblestone streets and fortresses overlooking the ocean. But many, including the Puerto Rican government, say the felines have become an unsightly nuisance, a health hazard and a blemish on the areas charm.

TOPEKA Kansas received mixed economic news from its July employment figures. The Kansas Department of Labor reported Friday that the states unemployment rate was 4.9 percent, up half a percentage point from June. And the rate for July was higher than the rate for July 2007, which was 4.5 percent. The jobless rate typically rises during the summer, as students flood the job market, and some of them are unable to find work.

Unemployment rises from June to July

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Pakistan president to be impeached

Charges against Pervez Musharraf could be filed if he fails to resign
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistans ruling coalition finalized impeachment charges against President Pervez Musharraf on Sunday and a government minister said they could be filed as early as this week if he does not resign first. Musharraf is holding out against intense pressure to quit from political foes who swept February elections and relegated the stalwart U.S. ally to the sidelines. With Musharraf s utility fading, the West appears less concerned with his ultimate fate than with how the crisis is affecting the new civilian governments halting efforts to fight terrorism and growing economic woes. A committee of Pakistans ruling coalition on Sunday finalized a list of impeachment charges against Musharraf after five days of talks, Information Minister aSSociaTEd PRESS Sherry Rehman said. If coalition leaders give a green light, we will be presenting (the list) as part of a resolution and charge sheet in the joint houses and, God willing, that should happen this week, Rehman said. The coalition is confident it will easily secure the required twothirds majority in a joint session of the upper and lower houses of parliament to oust Musharraf. They argue Musharraf should quit now to spare the nation from a divisive political showdown. The coalition officials released no details of the charges, but a senior coalition leader, Sen. Raza Rabbani, said the charges included a plethora of actions taken by Musharraf in gross violation of the constitution. He should tender his resignation, pack up his bags, and go, Rabbani told reporters after the committee meeting in Islamabad. Whatever little moral authority was left has now been completely eroded. ment in Wichita where the argument took place. Stables, who is also director of the University of Southern Californias debate squad, said the association was investigating. In the video, Fort Hays State University debate coach William Shanahan is shown arguing with Shanara Reid-Brinkley, debate coach at the University of Pittsburgh, during the competitions quarterfinals. The argument, which appears to be at least in part about race, is punctuated with frequent cursing and name-calling. Shanahan, who is white, and Reid-Brinkley, who is black, scream criticisms about one anothers body language during students debates. At one point Shanahan screams as he jumps up, then yanks his shorts down to his knees and points his rear end at Reid-Brinkley.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. There was much dancing: Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are married, according to reports. In the biggest celebrity union since California legalized same-sex marriage, DeGeneres, 50, and de Rossi, 35, wed Saturday night in an intimate ceremony at their Beverly Hills home, People and Us Magazine reported. A publicist for DeGeneres didnt immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press on Saturday. After the California Supreme Courts ruling in May, the talkshow host announced that she and de Rossi would wed after four years together. The ceremony was attended by 19 guests, including DeGeneress mom Betty and de Rossis mother Margaret Rogers, who flew in from Australia for the occasion, People.com reported Saturday night.

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Supporters of Pakistans religious party, Jamat-i-Islami, or Party of Islam, shout slogans against Pakistans President Pervez Musharraf as they take part in a demonstration in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday. Musharraf could be impeached as early as this week.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. An argument between two debate coaches that was caught on video was not the sharp-witted dialogue typically associated with college debate teams. Instead, the two traded profanity-laced barbs and one of them pulled down his shorts, exposing his underwear. An eight-minute segment of the argument, in which each cursed repeatedly and one student near the camera can be heard crying, was posted on YouTube on Aug. 2 and has garnered more than 100,000 hits. In 18 years of taking part in debates, I have never seen an incident like this one, said Gordon Stables, first vice president of the Cross Examination Debate Association, which sponsored the March tourna-

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WICHITA A Kansas burglar apparently likes to be clean but isnt so good about clean getaways. Police in Wichita say it appears a man broke into a house Friday night to wash his clothes but fled in boxers, with his jeans still in the washer. Heres what happened: A woman reported that she returned

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home, found her basement laundry room in disarray and went upstairs to call her husband. Thats when a man wearing only blue boxer shorts came upstairs, grabbed her purse and ran out the door. Police Sgt. Diane Varnell says the woman chased him and recovered her purse, but the burglar is still on the loose. Varnell says it appeared the man simply needed to wash his clothes.

LAKE FOREST, Calif. Presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain differed sharply on abortion Saturday, with McCain saying a babys human rights begin at conception, while Obama restated his support for legalized abortion. Appearing on the same stage for the first time in months, although they overlapped only briefly, the two men shared their views on a range of moral, foreign and domestic issues as they near their respective nominating conventions. Obama said he would limit abortions in the late stages of pregnancy if there are exceptions for the mothers health.

Obama, McCain disagree on abortion rights

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bjrains@kansan.com When basketball coach Bill Self agreed to a new 10-year, $30 million contract to remain at the University back in April, the school promised to improve housing for athletes at Jayhawker Towers. Diana Robertson, student housing director, said plans were already set to begin renovations of the Jayhawker Towers beginning Fall 2009, but because the Athletics Department wanted to expedite the process, the housing department was asked to make arrangements to move the renovations up and begin this fall instead. It took only three days for Robertson and her staff to reassign the 180 people living in Tower A, and plans were set to begin renovations of the tower this fall. When we were asked to do it, three days later we had the changes made and got that out to folks, Robertson said. It was really kind of a phenomenal process for our assignment staff. They worked very quickly because we knew some people would have anxiety about it. Tower A, which was for graduate students before this year, was chosen as the first tower to be renovated because it had the most year-round occupancy and had the least amount of renovations completed so far. When it reopens in Fall 2009, it will be co-ed and open to all traditional students. Robertson said that up to 50 percent of the students assigned there could be athletes. We approached the University because it was something that was high on our list, said Jim Marchiony, Associate Athletics Director for External Affairs. Whats good about it is that it not only helps athletics, but also other areas of the University. A lot of regular students live in that facility

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At the request of the KU athletics department, renovations to the Jayhawk Towers apartment buildings that were originally scheduled for fall 2009 will begin this fall. and I think it was a realization that we can help not only athletics but the rest of the University if we can put this on the fast track. All returning residents to the Jayhawker Towers were guaranteed spots in the towers again this fall, but new applicants were assigned to other residence halls on campus. Some took the new assignment, while others decided to forfeit the $300 deposit and look for housing elsewhere off-campus. We already had people assigned for this fall, Robertson said. Everyone who had contracted with us got reassigned throughout the complex. Some people who had applied to come into the complex, we started issuing residence hall contracts to them with the intentions that we could get them back into the complex and we did. Robertson said anyone who originally signed up to live in Jayhawker Towers but were moved somewhere else in April had been reassigned back to the towers, although not all were with the same roommate or building that they had requested. Some students, such as Marc Ruiz, were assigned new, unfamiliar roommates but decided to stay in the towers anyway after realizing that choices were limited. I thought about getting out, but there really arent many other options that are this close to campus, Ruiz, Lenexa senior, said. I would have liked to have at least known who my roommate was, being a senior who has lived in the towers for three years, but I guess thats just what happened. It wasnt really worth all of the trouble trying to find a new place at the last minute. The renovations will include a complete overhaul of the plumbing and electrical systems as well as new cabinets and flooring. Each tower will be closed for one school year, but the work itself wont take that long. Robertson hopes another tower can be renovated during 2009-2010 school year but said that it would probably be a few years before the other two towers would be renovated. Robertson said that plans were in place to renovate other residence halls in the near future, with the first being GSP in two years. Edited by Scott Toland

Committee suggests campain duration limits

By HaLEy JOnEs
hjones@kansan.com Student Senate is working to improve its elections process after students complained about the duration of last springs nearly three-month-long campaigning period. Student body president Adam McGonigle, Wichita junior, created an elections reform committee on July 16 to review and modify election rules for the spring 2009 Student Senate elections. Mason Heilman, student executive committee chairman and Lawrence junior, chairs the committee. One of the biggest concerns we had was the notion that students were feeling harassed, and candidates were feeling harassed having to harass them, Heilman said. He said the committee was trying to pare down the amount of time candidates had to approach students during campaigning while still giving candidates adequate time to give students their message if students wanted to hear it. The panel is comprised of senators who supported opposite coalitions during the 2008 elections. Heilman said the senators met several times during the summer to brainstorm various things they felt needed to be changed in elections. The committee plans to present a bill of elections rules at the first full senate meeting on Sept. 3. If approved, Heilman said the bill would lower the campaign spending limit and the time allowed to do campaign activities such as chalking and tabling at the Kansas Union. Heilman said students werent necessarily adverse to active campaigning, but they were turned off by nine weeks of campaign talk and then two full weeks of candidates approaching them. If students frequented Wescoe Beach during campaigning, they might be talked to multiple times every day for two weeks, Heilman said. Many students lost interest or faith in Student Senate and

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wouldnt vote. Heilman said the committee has been in agreement on most rules it would like to change, but has not come to a final decision on spending limits. Heilman said he would like the bill to be as unanimous as possible, but anything the committee couldnt agree on would be kept out of the bill and could be proposed as an amendment to the bill if it was passed. It is my hope that committee will have very significant bill, McGonigle said. We want to make sure we have a bill that is fair that all of Student Senate can agree on. Andy Haverkamp, engineering senator and Hoyt sophomore, said he thought the committee was something Student Senate needed for a long time. Right now students just think were annoying and that were not important, Haverkamp said. We definitely need to change the way we are broadcasted out there. Shortening the amount of time for campaigning will help that.

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Students perform tragedy Agamemnon in Greece

By Sachiko Miyakawa
smiyakawa@kansan.com Heat, the absence of microphones and acting with Greek lines were among the challenges theater students experienced when they performed a Greek tragedy outdoors in Greece this summer. The students were in Greece as part of a study abroad program. Dennis Christilles, associate professor of theater and film at the University, directed the play, Agamemnon, and said the Greek audience welcomed the performance. Christilles said the audience in Lawrence would also enjoy the performance. The students will bring their production of Agamemnon to the University this Saturday. The play will start at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 23, in Swarthout Recital Hall. It is free and open to the public. Thirteen students participated in the study abroad program in Katohi, a rural farm town in Greece, to perform in a Katohi summer theater festival. They learned Greek culture and modern Greek along with practicing the play. Agamemnon is a story about a mythic Greek hero and his wife, who planned to avenge their daughters death. Aeschylus wrote the play in the 5th century B.C. Christilles rewrote the story, combining English and modern Greek lines, which allowed speakers of both languages to understand and enjoy it. Spencer Lott, Lawrence junior, played Herald, a main character of the tragedy. He said the outdoor theater was physically demanding. He had to routinely deal with heat and mosquitos, and project his voice without microphones. But he said he enjoyed the environment of the theater because it was similar to acting in ancient times. The actors wore simple but bright costumes. The stage stood on the sand and relied on the natural light and shadows. We performed in an ancient amphitheater, Lott said. They just uncovered within past twenty years. The students performed the tragedy in front of an audience of 400, mostly residents of the village. Elizabeth Grim, Ames, Iowa, graduate student, said the audience was distracted at the beginning, but she noticed they became engaged in the story toward the climax and connected with the tragic characters. Grim said the live orchestra enhanced the tragedy.

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KU theater students rehearse the play Agamemnon in an ancient amphitheater in Katohi, Greece. Thirteen students traveled to Greece during July to perform in a summer theater festival as well as learn Greek culture and modern Greek. They will restage the play at 7:30 p.m. this Saturday in Swarthout Recital Hall. Christilles wrote the lines and Brian Bondari, Tifton, Ga., graduate student, composed the music for the the viola, clarinet, drum and voices. Music takes almost half of the play, Bondari said. It is a unique blend between theater and music. Christilles said Agamemnon was straightforward and anyone could follow the story without knowledge of ancient Greek theater. Jealousy, revenge, lost love and loneliness, he said. Same themes are living now as they were there.

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Weak dollar attracts students to U.S.

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bcutcliff@kansan.com currency units per us dollar 2000 australia Dollars 1.716 canada Dollars 1.482 euro 1.101 u.K. pounds 0.667 china yuan 8.278 u.s. Dollars 1.000

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Improving economy brings the Univerity visitors from abroad

Money value
The falling value of the dollar and the improvement of the economy abroad has opened the door for more international students to come to the University of Kansas. The low exchange rate, mixed with Chinas economic boom, has given students an opportunity to study abroad and become a Jayhawk. Peter Morgan, Hastings, England, junior, was one student who took advantage of the weak dollar. Now is the time to study abroad if you want more for your money, he said. This year saw the Universitys largest international orientation, said Katelyn McGill, coordinator of this years international student orientation. Approximately 300 international students enrolled directly at the University for the fall semester. While it is easier and less expensive for students around the world to come to the United States, there has been an influx of Chinese students eager to take advantage of the chance to learn in Americas capitalist environment. The Chinese economy is improving so parents have money units per us dollar 2008 1.150 1.062 0.671 0.53 6.861 1.000 Dollar Value percentage change -33 % -28.3% - 39% - 20.5% - 17% 0 is 67 cents to the euro, compared with 91 cents per euro in 2000, and 53.5 cents to the British pound, compared to $1.50 per pound in 2000, according to www.xe.com. Dani Snow, Sydney, Australia, junior, wouldnt have normally come to the United States to study abroad. I wouldve gone to the U.K., but it was more expensive than coming here, Snow said. Like U.S. students, many international students pay for school through student loans or through their parents. Richard Honey, Essex, England, junior, was paying for college himself and depended on the low dollar to study abroad. If it was one pound to the dollar, I wouldnt have come here, Honey said. In fact, I probably wouldnt have studied abroad at all. While studying in the United States, foreign students have been taking advantage of the exchange rate by traveling around the country. Popular sites include Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, where normally high prices dont break the bank for foreigners. Edited by Arthur Hur

University receives $10 million grant from health institute for medical research
ences, said the grant gave COBRE jpreiner@kansan.com the opportunity to hire experts in the protein research field that Bob Hanzlik, professor of would improve the centers effimedicinal chemistry, received ciency. He also said news about a $10 million grant from the the renewal helped improve his National Institutes of Health this outlook on research for the next few years. week. I was delighted of course and The NIH very pleased grant is a that our renewal of efforts were The NIH has recognized the a previous De grant awarded potential of these people and of not futile,said. Guzman to Hanzlik It also gave five years ago. the center. me the conThe Institutes fidence that awarded the BoB Hanzlik things will funding to the University Program director be tough, but doable. of Kansas D e to continue Guzman said development of its Center of Biomedical the center conducted cutting edge Research Excellence, located on research and complex work in the protein structure and function West Campus. Hanzlik said the center, which field. He said some of the money researchers refer to as the COBRE, would go to hiring specialists for focuses on two main initiatives. research machinery in COBRE. Kevin Boatright, director of The primary focus is to recruit, support and mentor new junior research communications, said faculty investigators. Most of the the amount of money awarded junior faculty members are assis- by the grant placed it among the tant professors from each of the 15 largest grants ever given to universities that COBRE works the University. He said the influx of early annual funding was an with, which indicator of also include the quality Kansas State, of research I was delighted of course and Wichita State t a k i n g and the KU very pleased that our efforts place at the School of University. Medicine. were not futile. Hazlik said The secwith constant ond focus of the center is RoBeRt De Guzman i n f l a t i o n , to select a sciassistant professor it was only natural to see entific theme the amount to dedicate for the grant research to. go up. For the COBRE, that theme is There was a time when this protein structure and function. With this research, the center would have been the largest grant hopes to discover or improve ever, Hanzlik said. They are just medications available to the pub- like track records though, inevitably they go down. lic. De Guzman said the renewal Hanzlik, who serves as the program director and principle of the grant would not change his investigator, said the renewal of level of motivation when it came to his work. Even with the guarthe grant is a good sign. I think it is recognition of the anteed funding, he said he did not quality of the faculty at this cen- feel any more at ease. I certainly dont feel more ter. Hanzlik said. The NIH has relaxed now than before, De recognized the potential of these Guzman said. But my relaxpeople and of the center. The grant covers costs and ation doesnt come from grants; it development within the center comes from the Robinson pool or the bike path at Clinton Lake. during the next five years. Roberto De Guzman, assistant Edited by Jennifer Torline professor in molecular biosci-

now to send their children to school sending her to the University. overseas, McGill said. Youyang Xu, Jilin, was also Students have come from rural enjoying the flourishing Chinese and urban areas all over China, economy and said she knew she studying everything from American wanted to study in the United States History to microbiology. Shangnan when her family could afford it. Lin came to the University from It is a better location for studySichuan to study English to further ing, Xu said. At home in Chinas her career goals. Jilin province, Xus family is enjoyI want to be a successful leader ing a bigger house and more luxin my familys company, Lin said. uries. She said everyday life has Lins family, which owns a steel improved now that her parents are comp any, making more has benefited money. greatly from But Chinese Now is the time to study the expanding exchange stuinfrastructure abroad if you want more for dents arent the in the southonly ones benyour money. central Sichuan efiting from the province. combination of Within the past overseas ecofew years, Lins nomic growth family moved PeteR moRGan and the falling into a bigger Hastings, england, junior dollar. Students house and was from Europe able to afford and Australia are also taking advantage of the opportunity to study here at nearly half the cost. According to the Universitys Web site, standard tuition for a nonresident for the 2008-2009 year is $16,800. The current exchange rate

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A love of art and canines

BY BRANDY ENTSMINGER
bentsminger@kansan.com Fine Arts student Kami Brant, Des Moines, Iowa, senior, is donating six pet portraits to Art Unleashed, an art auction benefiting the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City. Robin Rowland, director of development at the Humane Society, said she expected Brants work to be popular with the attendees. Im just so excited that this college student decided to get involved, Rowland said. It says a lot about her personality and character. Brant became interested in donating her work for a good cause while taking Painting III with Tanya Hartman, associate professor of art. Hartman said she encouraged Brant to use her love of animals in a service project because it would help to amplify the message of her work. It seemed right that she could use her artwork as a tool that would link both her interests, Hartman said. Brant used six dogs from the Humane Society as models for her work and included dedications to them on the back of the portraits.

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The most rewarding is knowShe also used her roommates adopted beagle as a model for one ing I helped raise money for each dog that I spent time with, Brant of the paintings. Brant said she chose the dogs said. Rowland said a group of because they seemed to stand out to her. The only dog she painted Hallmark artists put together the with a collar was her roommates first Art Unleashed auction in beagle because she said she wanted 1997. Since then, about half of the donated work has come from local to show he had found a home. She said she planned to spend and regional artists. Rowland said the Humane about 30 minutes getting to know Society expecteach dog ed to have 800 before paintattendees at ing, but ended Im just so excited that this the auction and up spending college student decided to get hoped to raise closer to five hours. involved. It says a lot about her $55,000. Last year the aucEach portrait tion featured took her 12 to personality and character. about 250 15 hours to finpieces from ish. She said Robin Rowland 150 artists and she planned Kansas City Humane Society raised $50,000. to donate 10 Rowland paintings, but changed the number to six after said Brant was the first student realizing how long each one was from the University of Kansas who donated artwork for the event. going to take. Hopefully she will inspire Brant said she would like to complete more portraits and possi- some other KU art students to get bly donate art projects from other involved next year, Rowland said. The auction will take place from classes next year. The Humane Society is a no- 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Aug. 22 at the kill shelter and Rowland said the Uptown Theater in Kansas City, money raised at the auction would Mo. be used for food, housing and Edited by Brieun Scott medical costs for the 140 animals living there.

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Kami Brant, Des Moines, Iowa, senior, displays two of her paintings that will be auctioned to benefit the Kansas City Humane Society. Brant said her project was inspired by her roommate, who worked to prevent euthanasia at the shelters.

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Wescoe Beach, at Mrs. Es Dining Hall and at various Panhellenic events with materials available for The KU Student Legislative students to register to vote. We want to hit the most diverse Awareness Board, or SLAB, is partnering with other campus organiza- amount of people we can and follow up on people who register, Gray tions to educate said. students on Ryan Lawler, voter registraBolingbrook, We want to hit the most dition this fall. Ill., senior and Michael verse amount of people we can vice president Gray, SLAB legof SLAB, said islative direc- and follow up on people who volunteers regtor and Buhler, register istered 500 to junior, said vol600 voters for unteers would the primary be in the Kansas Ryan lawleR election. He Union, on Slab legislative director said he had hjones@kansan.com

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high expectations for the number of voters SLAB could register this fall since the presidential election was this November. We feel there is even more interest this year and we believe we can also benefit as an organization and reach out to more students, Lawler said. Gray said SLAB received an outstanding response from organizations that wanted to participate in the outreach efforts. SLAB has secured interest from various Greek organizations, Students for Barack Obama, Students for Dennis Moore, Students for Slattery, College Democrats of Kansas and Young Democrats of Kansas. Gray said SLAB contacted College Republicans but hadnt heard back from them yet. When SLAB wanted to do this in the past, its been the same three or four motivated people and you cant do eight weeks of voter registration with that, Gray said. With these organizations, we can be out there as much as we want. Lawler said SLAB planned to send two e-mails to the entire student body this fall informing them of when and where students could register to vote. SLAB is also partnering with the Dole Student Advisory Board to register voters during Hawk Week, Aug. 17 to Aug. 23. Tom Cox, Shawnee graduate student and student assistant at the Dole Institute of Politics, said part of the reason the student advisory board wanted to focus on educating students about voting was because it was the most fundamental and important way people could be active in politics. Its the most valuable way for them to invest their time, Cox said. Gray said the small number of young people who voted was what motivated him to prompt more students to register. He said when a specific constituency didnt vote, politicians didnt have to worry about that groups concerns as much. Until people get out and vote, we wont see our benefits increased like financial aid, Gray said. We will be the ones politicians always cut from. Gray said he hoped registering students to vote would encourage them to go to the polls and change the trend. Hopefully on the KU campus we can do our part and local politicians will see our efforts and change accordingly, Gray said. Edited by Adam Mowder

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KU football games during the fall semester. Wood said the goal of the proA swimsuit calendar is a new gram was to raise money for breast ally for breast cancer research this cancer research. Campus Girls USA raised more than $12,000 since year. Laura Wood, Eden Prairie, the program began and this year, the company Minn., sophohopes to reach more, will be $120,000, featured in the Its a great cause and one the according to its Big 12 swimWeb site. Wood suit calendar girls can really get their arms said she hoped produced by around. Many of the girls have she could Campus Girls help the comUSA. The com- dealt with the disease on a pany achieve pany, which that goal and started the personal level. calendar as a jim debth looked forward sing le-s cho ol Senior VP of sales for Campus Girls to contributing. pilot program Ive never in 2006, now features students from 65 colleges done anything like this before, Wood said. So its great to be a across the country. The 16-month, $15 calendar part of something that is for such a is currently available for preorder great cause. Breast cancer is currently the online and includes the Big 12 footthird leading cause of cancer death ball conference schedule and an NCAA March Madness bracket. in the U.S. behind colon and lung Wood will sell the calendars on cancer, according to the American campus and during tailgating for Cancer Societys 2008 Cancer Facts & Figures Report. This year, according to the CONTRIBUTED PHOTO report, it is estimated that breast Samantha, a political science major from cancer will result in approximately 40,480 deaths and more than the University of Iowa, is featured as Miss July in the Campus Girls USA calendar. The goal 180,000 new cases will be diagnosed. of the calendar is to raise $120,000 for breast The numbers are proportioncancer research this year. ately similar within the state of Kansas. The report estimates 370 breast cancer deaths and 1,730 new jpreiner@kansan.com

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cases for this year. According to Campus Girls USAs Web site, there are two main strategies for fighting breast cancer. They included early detection and treatment and finding a cure through research. Roy Jensen, director of the University of Kansas Cancer Center, said funding for research was essential to finding a cure. Jensen said the most important factor to advance breast cancer research was to increase funding so more money was available for researchers to discover new ways to detect and treat the disease. Funding for research has become even more important in recent years. Erica Brown, senior coordinator of University relations at the KU Medical Center, said that in the past four years the National Cancer Institute lost 21 percent of its purchasing power because of rising costs within the biomedical field. Jim Debth, senior vice president of sales and business development for the Campus Girls USA, said the success of the program was a testament to the efforts of the girls involved. Its a great cause and one the girls can really get their arms around, Debth said. Many of the girls have dealt with the disease on a personal level, so they really look forward to the fundraising. Edited by Andy Greenhaw

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Russia agrees to pull out of Georgia

BY CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA
ASSOCIATEd PRESS GORI, Georgia Russias president said troops would begin pulling out of Georgia today, but he made no mention of leaving the separatist province at the heart of the conflict between the countries. A defiant Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said the former Soviet republic would not relinquish South Ossetia or Abkhazia both now overrun with Russian troops and abandoned by Georgian soldiers as Western leaders pushed for a swift Russian withdrawal from positions it has held for days of warfare. Georgia will never give up a square kilometer of its territory, Saakashvili told a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the latest Western leader to visit Tbilisi and offer support for a country that has become a proxy for conflict between an emboldened Russia and the West. In Washington, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the invasion of Georgia would require the U.S. to re-evaluate its relationship with Russia. I think that there is a real concern that Russia has turned the corner here and is headed back toward its past rather than toward its future, and my hope is that we will see actions in the weeks and months to come that provide us some reassurance, Gates said. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Russian President Dmitry Medvedev of failing to honor a promise to withdraw troops quickly from Georgia under terms of a cease-fire he signed Saturday. The EU-backed cease-fire agreement calls for Georgian and Russian troops to withdraw to the positions they held before fighting broke out Aug. 7. I hope this time hell keep his word, Rice said after Medvedevs announcement that Russian troops would withdraw beginning today.

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Student finds place as national democratic delegate

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jtrimble@kansan.com Clarissa Unger never dreamed she would be a national delegate for the state of Kansas. But next week she will be one of many supporting Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. She was one of five applicants out of a group of 70 to become a national Democratic delegate for Kansas. Unger, Colby senior, is one of the three youngest people in Kansas to be chosen as a national delegate. During the DNC, Unger and others will be able to formally vote for Obama as the Democratic nominee for president. Unger discovered a passion for Obamas campaign when she read his first book, Dreams from my Father, a couple of years ago over Christmas break. I just fell in love with his policies and his plans for our country. I was incredibly fascinated by his second book as well and waited for him to announce his decision to run for president, Unger said. Unger first got the chance to work with Obamas campaign in May 2007 with the KC Kickoff, where she helped prepare and set up for the event. After that she discovered an organization at the University of Kansas called Students for Barack Obama and immediately joined. She became the state coordinator and traveled to Iowa and New Hampshire last year to help with the campaign. Unger was surprised to receive a call from Obamas campaign staff offering her a position at Obamas campaign headquarters in Chicago. I dropped everything. I paid to get myself to Chicago and stay there for just over a month and Im also paying to drive to Denver for the convention and stay in a hotel there, Unger said. Chelsea Mertz, Topeka junior, will join Unger at the College and National conventions, held Aug. 22 and Aug. 25 through Aug. 28, respectively. Mertz wont cast a vote, but said it has always been her dream to be part of the campaign since she heard Obamas first speech in 2004. Ive worked with Clarissa and am part of Young Democrats on campus and have been very excited about the campaign this year, Mertz said. Diana Carlin, professor of communication studies, said she thought college students played a major role in the primaries and that they would continue to do so. A lot of things have happened within the past few years to have a huge impact on this generation. 9/11 had a tremendous impact as well as the 2000 and 2004 election years, Carlin said. Theyve shown that votes do actually matter. She added that many young people dont participate because they think their vote wont change anything. said a third party consultant would then conduct a formal study to determine how each group wanted to proceed with an expansion. McGonigle and Michael Gillaspie, Ashland senior and student body vice president, will then lead focus groups of students around campus to find out what students want from the recreation center and how much they would be

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Clarissa Unger, Colby senior, will be traveling to Denver for the 2008 Democratic National Convention as a representative delegate of Congressional District 3, which comprises the eastern portion of Lawrence. Unger was initially chosen to be a district delegate in February 2008 and later chosen as a convention delegate. The national convention will take place Aug. 25 to Aug. 28. Both of the current candidates resonate with students. Whether its environmental issues or foreign policy issues, students of this generation are listening, willing to pay for it. Were committed to making sure students have the final say and are being leaders and determining what happens at the rec center, McGonigle said. Once the Senate has a better understanding of what students want from a rec center expansion, a bill would most likely appear in the 2009 Student Senate elections. Carlin said. Carlin added that it had been a unique and exciting primary season. From T-shirts to other trends, Carlin said the outward display students were showing was important, because young people hadnt been connected to the political scene in a while. This will tie students in, Carlin Resource Center to increase campus safety. Gillaspie said he met with Kathy Rose-Mockry, head of the resource center, to review educational self-defense programs offered on campus and improve them. Because of recent things over the summer like deaths, rape and assault, we want to make sure that were doing our best to educate students and make sure our students are safe, Gillaspie said. Campus safety was one of former coalition United Students platforms during the spring 2008 elections. said. All of the crucial issues that matter to students will encourage them to show up and vote. Edited by Tara Smith universities to discover how they handle enrollment, textbooks and academic records in hopes of finding ways to improve the Universitys online Enroll & Pay system. An improved enrollment system was a platform McGonigle and Gillaspie were elected on. Gillaspie said he planned to present his report to the Provost, Chancellor and the department of information technology with ideas for how the Universitys system could be improved for students. It does what it needs to do, but were really working on making it easier and more educational as far as knowing what requirements they have and how those fit in with their degree, Gillaspie said.
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Student representatives from KU administration, recreational services and the athletics department will begin discussing a potential Student Recreation Fitness Center expansion early this fall. Adam McGonigle, Wichita junior and student body president,

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Mason Heilman, Lawrence junior and student executive committee chairman, said Student Senate had 100 wireless access points left to install from the KU wireless initiative that was approved in spring 2007. So far, the $2.6 million plan has added about 600 wireless access points to the 218 existing points in an effort to make all classrooms, labs and academic areas on campus wireless. The Senate will discuss where to put the remaining access points during the next meeting.

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Major bombings raise new fears

By PHILLIP ROBERTSON
ASSOcIATED PRESS TAL AFAR, Iraq A series of bombings in this small but strategic northwestern Iraqi city is stoking fears of a return to sectarian conflict here and raising questions about a strategy of handing urban security to Iraqi police. Since April, at least four major bombings have killed about 40 people and wounded nearly 150 on this city on the main route from Mosul to the east and the
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Syrian border 60 miles to the west. The deadliest was on Aug. 8, when a suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives in a vegetable market in a Shiite district, killing at least 20 people, police said. U.S. officials blamed the attack on al-Qaida in Iraq. The citys mayor, Najim Abdullah, fears that the removal of American troops from his city and the deployment of Iraqi army soldiers to nearby Mosul have left his overwhelmingly Turkoman community vulnerable.

The goal was to start sectarian violence with the car bombs, he said. There used to be a whole brigade here and now its less. Soon, these policies will backfire in Tal Afar and allow terrorists to come in. Those concerns have emerged even as insurgent attacks and sectarian bloodshed have ebbed over the past year throughout Iraq, and as the U.S. is considering a further reduction in the 145,000-member U.S. force following the July departure of the last of the troops sent here in 2007 to curb sectarian violence.

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Scholarship hall opens Friday as 12th on campus

Krehbiel Hall open to new residents after five years of development
bjrains@kansan.com When Phillip Schmitz moved into the new Floyd H. and Kathryn Krehbiel Scholarship Hall on Friday, he stepped into the building for the very first time. I saw some pictures on Facebook the other day and it looked pretty nice, said Schmitz, Marysville freshman. But when I moved in, it was the first time I saw it. Schmitz wasnt alone. Each of the 50 students who signed up to live in Krehbiel Hall had never seen the actual building until they moved in. They were told what it would look like and took a chance that it would be as nice as advertised. I was up in Lawrence during orientation but it was still under construction, Brian Smith, Wichita freshman, said. I had heard it was supposed to be pretty nice. I was anxious to see it. Krehbiel, a twin to Dennis E. Rieger Scholarship Hall, was constructed next door to Rieger at 13th and Ohio. It became the 12th scholarship hall to open on campus when its doors swung open on Friday morning and ended a

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plan that had been in the works for more than five years. Its a beautiful building, said Diana Robertson, director of student housing. Were looking forward to adding another unique option in terms of housing options for students here. Its an exciting time for us. Were really excited to get it open. Money for the building was donated by Carl Krehbiel, an alumnus of the University who lived in a scholarship hall during his time on campus. Students interested in living at the facility toured similar scholarship halls to get an idea as to what Krehbiel would look like, but didnt really know the final outcome until they moved in on Friday. Were the first ones to live here so we kind of get to help start the traditions and stuff, Smith said. All of the other ones have their own, but it will be cool because we will be the ones that started them here. Members of scholarship halls pay a cheaper housing fee than students in residence halls because they assist in the daily chores of the house. Those include cooking, cleaning and other jobs to keep the hall up and running.

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Floyd H. and Kathy Krehbiel Scholarship Hall is the newest of the 12 scholarship halls. The hall opened on Friday morning. All 50 people have to work together and everyone has to do their part to make it work, Schmitz said. Im excited. I got into it with my cousin and we wanted a scholarship hall and figured since they were building a new one that we should try to get it because it was probably going to be pretty nice. We were right, its great. A formal dedication ceremony of Krehbiel Scholarship Hall will take place at 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 20. Edited by Jennifer Torline

KU students, graduates work on supercollider project

By SAchIKO MIyAKAwA
smiyakawa@kansan.com The discovery of electrons or lasers opened a new field of scientific experiment and has benefitted millions of peoples lives. However, scientists wouldnt have realized their applications to computer technology or medicine when discovering them. The supercollider project of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) focuses on basic physics like particles, energy and mass. The projects findings will embrace potentials to change lives of future generations and to uncover the origin of the universe. of physics and astronomy, said 2500 KU students and spring gradu- staff from around the world worked ates participated in the supercol- for the project. He said the U.S. conlider project tribution to its in Switzerland operation was and France about $75 milThe most important goal is this summer. lion each year. They helped to study nature at the smallest The National two professors scale possible and to be ready S c i e n c e of physics and Foundation astronomy at for the unexpected. and the U.S. the University, Department pay who have been the cost. Michael Murray doing research The huge associate professor of physics supercollider, for CERN. C E R N Large Hadron approved the project in 1994. Collider (LHC), lies in a underMichael Murray, associate professor ground tunnel of 17-mile track across the Franco-Swiss border. Two beams of protons will travel in opposite directions on the ring during an experiment. They pass through detectors, which observe the movement of particles when the two beams collide. Murray and Alice Bean, professor of physics and astronomy, work on one of the two largest detectors, Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS). The most important goal is to study nature at the smallest scale possible and to be ready for the unexpected, Murray said. Some things we hope to learn are what is the origin of mass, if there are extra dimensions, what is the nature of the vacuum. Heidi LeSage, Plymouth, Minn., sophomore, is among the five students who participated in the research this summer. She helped Murray build the Zero Degree Calorimeter, which is part of the CMS and measures photons and neutrons when protons collide. Im very lucky to go there, LeSage said. I think this will revolutionize the way look at physics. Jennifer Sibille, Lafayette, La., graduate student, who helped Beans research, said she enjoyed working with different scientists from all over the world. Its basic research, Sibille said. Its hard to say, like if we figure this out, we can come up with this new gadgets or solutions to some other problems. But its more likely that you start realizing practical applications 50 years down the road. The first major experiment using the LHC will start next month. Murray said this project would run about 10 years and it was still at the beginning. In the later years the goals of the experiment will change because of the new knowledge that we will have gained by then, Murray said. At the moment we dont even know what the most important questions are to ask.

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Some Florida residents not in rush to evacuate

By BRIAN SKOLOFF
ASSOcIAted PReSS KEY WEST, Fla. A light stream of traffic headed out of Key West Sunday as officials urged visitors to leave the string of low-lying islands ahead of Tropical Storm Fay, which forecasters said could strengthen to a hurricane. Fay could start pelting parts of the Keys and South Florida late Monday or early Tuesday as a strong tropical storm or minimal hurricane. Keys officials issued a mandatory evacuation order for visitors starting at 8 a.m. Sunday and asked those who had not yet arrived to postpone their trips. We hate to inconvenience those visitors that had plans to be in the Keys the next few days, but their well-being is our top priority, said Monroe County Mayor Mario Di Gennaro, chairman of the Keys tourist development council. Officials said hotels and businesses wont be forced to remove visitors, but should use common sense. They also said schools in the Keys will be closed Monday and Tuesday. With the warnings, some Key West businesses began putting up hurricane shutters, but tourists and residents still strolled lazily through downtown, having coffee and eating breakfast. Weve been living in Florida now for 10 years, so we need to get some stuff together, but were not going to rush out of here, John Civette said as he strolled the shop-lined streets with his wife, Tonya. Civette said they would cut their vacation short and head home to the southwest Florida city of Bonita Springs to prepare their home for the storm. Paul and Sandy Dunko, of Naples, Fla., were having breakfast with their family Sunday morning before heading home to secure their boat and put up their hurricane shutters. Fay could reach that area late

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With all the talk about the Rev. Wright controversy I cant help but ask: what about the agents of intolerance (to use the words of the candidate formerly known as McCain) on the other side? Wrights comments that the government had intentionally introduced AIDS into the black community and that 9/11 was justified are of course ridiculous allegations, but compare them to the comments of pastor John Hagee who recently endorsed John McCain because he thinks we are in the final days and McCain would make the best apocalyptic president. While its offensive to suggest that the government was behind the spread of AIDS and that we deserved 9/11 because of the actions of our government, how much more offensive is it to suggest that it was in fact God who spread AIDS as a punishment to homosexuals and God who punished America on 9/11? sentiments which Hagee has repeated in no uncertain terms. Where is the John McCain of 2000 who called these people out for what they are? Even as an atheist Im more offended by Hagee than Wright! McCain has also welcomed the endorsement of the equally offensive televangelist Rod Parsley. Does it make a difference that Obama was a member of Wrights church for 20 years. Of course, but two questions: First, does this justify the fact that the Wright controversy blankets the news while the Hagee/Parsley should-be controversy is utterly absent? And second, isnt this analogous to the unsolicited endorsement of Obama by Farrakhan? And yet

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Obama/Clinton or Clinton/ Obama 08 would be fantastic, in the sense that it would be like a political sitcom. Think about it, youve got Obama, the young, fun type who always has friends over, living with Clinton, the older, more organized one who desperately wants to make sure her roomie doesnt mess up the big dinner party shes planning for that evening. Theyve got a lot of differences, but ultimately, they know theyd be sad without each other. In reality, if those two ran together, you could probably cut the tension in their campaign offices with a knife. The two spend so much time taking pot-shots at each other, one would almost think theres nobody else they are competing against. Maybe the best answer would be to let them run as candidates for co-president of the United States. They could still have a vicepresident along with them, which would be Bill Richardsons dream come true. With gasoline nearing $3.50 a gallon nationally, the average saving rate in the negatives, skyrocketing food prices and the collapse of the housing market, America is flirting with another depression. All signs show that Americans (at least those of us in the bottom 99 percent) are getting crushed. As well as this, consumer spending is down and job creation is lagging behind the number of people entering the workforce. The proposed solution has been more of the same thoughmore tax cuts on order of $600 or less to people who need help the most. This is yet again another short term solution to a long term problem. For another depression to be avoided, whoever wins in November will have to push for a more progressive taxation policy, investment in alternative energy sources and an end to combat operations in Iraq.

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This November, I am voting for a man who has throughout the years started a variety of non-profit organizations, all of which call into question the institutions that run our lives and are dominated by corporate interests. Ralph Nader has proven himself a loyal consumer advocate since the early sixties. Since then he has fought for not only our consumer rights, but for environmental and democratic ones as well. My favorite of his many issues (all available on his official Web site) include: Cut the wasteful military budget, aggressive crackdown on corporate crime and corporate welfare, adopt a carbon pollution tax, and open up the presidential debates. Dont ignore third party candidates like Nader. We equate running as an Independent as crazy and a waste of time, but if you give him some of yours you will find that he is an experienced politician and honest progressive who would show you more results and less tiptoeing than a democrat who still needs his or her pockets padded by multinational corporations. Even if you believe (falsely) that your vote for Nader would take away Democratic votes, ask yourself if you are exercising true freedom of choice and democracy. Two choices are not enough, and when third-party candidates can only even debate with 15 percent support in poles we dont get to see more options. Dont throw your vote away because you think Kansas will always vote Republican. Vote your conscience, not just whom you think has the better chance. I am, and Im voting for Ralph Nader.

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The pre election buzz has, as usual outweighed the real issues on the table for 2008. Major media outlets seem to be more concerned about what Obama bashing terminology Hillary spouted out this week than what she actually plans to do if elected. The way I see it, if the Democrats win, one of two social barriers will be shattered. The lingering issues our country has with either race or gender are sure to falter if theres a donkey in the White House. If to my horror I see another large, bourgeois, nearly balding elephant in the oval office come November, Ill know that we just havent gotten the hang of this democracy thing yet.

Apparently third party candidates are shunned like the plague these days. Im not sure how it happened, but the popular opinion on the aforementioned untouchables falls somewhere between traitor and egomaniac. Even more so than the legitimate contenders, who never think theyre better than anyone else or deceive us. Im going to vote 3rd party. Im not sure who yet, but there are a few to chose from. Of course the front runner would be Ralph Nader himself, the man who gave us seat-belts (Maniac! Traitor!). But I think Im going to cut to the chase and vote for Jackson Kirk Grimes, our resident Fascist candidate. At least with him in office we could feel good about being honest with ourselves.

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Lauren Keith is a Wichita junior in journalism and environmental studies. This is her fifth semester at the Kansan and the second semester listening to the crap you call in to Free For All. She is a devoted Slate.com reader. She aspires to be a combination of Al Gore and Dave Barry if you subtract a few hundred pounds.

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Patrick Luiz Sullivan de Oliveira is a Belo Horizonte, Brazil, senior in journalism and history. He moved to Kansas in 2005. He is taking another year to finish his requirements and plans on attending graduate school so he can further delay entering the real world. At opinion columnist. A 6-foot Leawood senior in English. This is his first semester at the Kansan. Give it up for Ryan Snyder! Zachary Graham is a Columbus, Ohio, graduate student in exercise physiology. He is writing about national politics. He cares about how far America has fallen on the global scale, caused by partisanship. Nick Mangiaracina is a Lenexa senior in journalism. This semester he will focus on energy issues. Upon graduation, Nick hopes to be employed, preferably in something he enjoys.

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Matt Hirschfeld is an Augusta senior in journalism. He is writing columns about the gay community. He cares about his gays, his friends and Lawrence. Caitlin Thornbrugh is a Lenexa junior in creative writing. She is writing about womens issues. She frequently listens to the maraca lady on Mass. Erin Brown is a Wichita sophomore in journalism and political science. Erin is writing about Student Senate. Adam Poole is a Wichita senior in political science and psychology. He will be writing the conservative take on the presidential election. Bryan Marvin is a Shawnee junior in English. His column will be about tech and electronics. Ross Stewart is a Wichita senior in journalism. He is covering state politics. He wanted to cover the bullshit beat, but it doesnt exist ... yet. He plays in a band called Russian Discussion. Ben Cohen is a Topeka senior in political science. This is his fifth semester on the Kansan because no one has kicked him out yet. He is writing about the left-leaning side of the presidential election. Grant Reichert is an Oberlin graduate student in law. He is the winner of the Good Hustle Award 1998. He is a Dillons Plus Card Holder. He has an unusual fondness for flags.

Katie Oberthaler is a Wichita junior in creative writing. She is covering the science beat. Katie is of Croatian descent, not making her any more exotic than the rest of the world, just whiter. She is also the author of many science jokes. Dan Thompson is a Topeka senior in economics and political science. He is writing about local politics. He hopes to broaden the student bodys awareness of city government and encourage greater interest and involvement in the Lawrence community. Joshua Anderson is a Perry junior in creative writing. He is a non-traditional student, having spent a decade attending various colleges and raising a family. He is writing about global politics. Sonya English is an Overland Park junior in journalism and economics. She will be writing about the environment. Yelling at my roommates to recycle has proven ineffective, so lets try a well-researched column instead.

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Ian Stanford is a Fairway senior majoring in English and political science who will probably end up graduating in 4.5 or 5 (being traditional is boring, right?). This is Ians second semester on the editorial board, and he focused primarily on campus politics.

Alex Doherty is a Kansas City junior in history. This is his second semester on the editorial board. He previously covered technology and campus politics. Jenny Hartz is a Stilwell senior in creative writing. This is her first semester on the editorial board but her fifth semester writing for the Kansan.

Ray Segebrecht is a Lawrence junior in journalism and Spanish. This is his first semester on the editorial board. His passions include writing, traveling and trying to make a positive difference in the world. Tyler Doehring is a Wichita senior in film. He is a returning editorial cartoonist for the Kansan for the second semester, but he has also worked for the Wichita State Sunflower.

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Student experiences preparations for Olympics

BY BETSY CUTCLIFF
bcutcliff@kansan.com Litter-free streets, shiny new glass buildings and a crackdown on pollution categorize the changes made during the past few years in Beijing, and international student Chenyang Zhao, 18, experienced this transformation first hand. Zhao, who comes from Chinas Sichuan province, is studying English at the University of Kansas. He spent 2006 to 2007 living and studying at Beijing Technology and Business University. It is a very beautiful city now, Zhao said. The Chinese government spent at least $40 billion tearing down and rebuilding the capital city in preparation for the Summer Olympic Games, according to the Associated Press. Beijing impressed the world with its transformation, and its coming-out party at the opening ceremony of the Olympic games sealed its debut as a global power. The Olympic Games and the citys transformation speak for the economic revolution and modernization in China, and the countrys emergence as a world power, Zhao said. Im very proud to be Chinese because China is developing fast. We have a higher rank in the world, he said, Now we are respected. The Olympic games are playing a large part in the Chinese desire to prove themselves to be a contesting world power. The Chinese men and womens gymnastic teams earning gold medals last week solidified Chinas position. According to the Chinese teams spokesperson, Zhang Peiwen, this win carried extra importantance for the country because of the prestige placed upon gymnasts. Peiwen told the China Daily that the Chinese were taught to compete against themselves, which, according to Zhao, is the mindset of the entire country. We all want to succeed and show ourselves that we can, Zhao said. As of Thursday, the Chinese had won 22 gold medals, eight silver and five bronze. Though the Olympics have shown the pride and determination of the Chinese, they have also brought out the strict nature of the country. To reduce pollution for the Olympics, a schedule was implemented for driving cars in the city, regulated by the last number on the license plate. Though Zhao rode the bus and wasnt affected personally, he said the streets were a lot less congested. Airport security was also tightened. Chinese exiting the country used to be allowed to bring liquids on the plane, but Zhao said that they were no longer allowed. Before boarding the plane to come to America last week, Zhao was patted down, checked and rechecked at least four times, he said. The foreigners had their own special line to get through security, and the ones who had passes for the Olympics had another line, he said. While he said the Olympics were very important for his people, Zhao said he wouldnt be watching most of the games because of new student orientation and the scramble to get ready for school. Edited by Jennifer Torline

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Women travel country on scooters for cancer awareness

BY JESSE TRIMBLE
jtrimble@kansan.com Linda Quinn of Wrightwood, Calif., and Karen Schneider of San Diego, arrived home after their 7,000 mile trek across the country on scooters just last week. The two started, Scootin for a Cure, a fundraiser focusing on breast cancer awareness by driving across the country on Vespa scooters. Quinn and Schneider began traveling at the beginning of July from Wrightwood, Calif., to Middletown, Va., and back. Using only back routes and small highways, it took the pair 25 days to complete the journey. According to Erica Brown, communications manager for the University of Kansas Cancer Center, the American Cancer Society releases a facts and figures report every year determining approximately how many people will die and be diagnosed from different types of cancers. For the year 2008, Brown says, the American Cancer Society has predicted 370 deaths from breast cancer alone in the state of Kansas, while it predicts up to 1,700 will be diagnosed. Breast cancer is the third leading cause of death relating to cancer in the state of Kansas, and in the United States as a whole. Lung cancer tops the list for both the nation and the state. Throughout the United States, 40,000 deaths relating to breast cancer will occur in this year alone and approximately 182,000 will be diagnosed. Ive had cancer in my family, Quinn said, and then a couple of my co-workers were diagnosed with breast cancer. In January I found a lump, and even though it was a

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Bug waste doesnt go to waste

Worms, lady bugs, bees keep Lawrence green with their organic fertilizer
BY LAUREN KEITH
lkeith@kansan.com Twas the night before Christmas and as Cassandra Ford would soon see, creatures were stirring, especially the pound of worms packaged under her Christmas tree. For Ford, who is in charge of composting for the city, getting worms for Christmas was like bringing her work home. Ford maintains the city of Lawrence Waste Reduction and Recycling Divisions set of worms that it uses for vermicomposting a process in which worms break down food scraps into organic fertilizer in addition to keeping her own vermicomposting worms at home. People thought I was crazy, Ford said. But now when my parents call, they always ask me how my worms are. Although people benefiting from bugs seems unusual, places such as the Waste Reduction and Recycling Division exploit the bugs natural processes for the businesses gain. Different bugs work different jobs, but all bug employers profit from the creepy-crawlies. The vermicomposting worms at the department eat their body weight in food scraps each week, which reduces the departments waste. The worms produce an organic fertilizer, called worm castings, after three months. Sometimes we dont have enough at the office to feed them, so some people will bring their food scraps from home, Ford said. The worms produce something else useful too: more worms. Ford said the department started with one pound of worms (about 1,000) a year ago, but worms produce offspring in just seven weeks.

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Karen Schneider of San Diego, and Linda Quinn of Wrightwood, Calif., pose with the scooters they rode across the country in support of breast cancer awareness. The group Scootin for a Cure raises money to participate in an upcoming cancer walk. benign tumor and I had it removed in March, I felt compelled to raise awareness for something that affects so many people. The journey started as a way for Quinn to raise money to enter the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Three-Day Walk in October, which costs $2,200. Overall, the riders made $3,210 in donations, but Quinns personal goal is $5,000. I want to challenge myself to raise this money, Quinn said. The foundation is putting the money in the right place, not just for medical and research purposes, but also for educational purposes. I think thats extremely important. During the three-day cancer walk, participants will walk 20 miles a day, a total of 60 miles. Quinn is walking daily in preparation for the event. Quinn said that she wouldnt do that long of a trip again if given the option. It reached 122 degrees at one point, Quinn said. That was by far the worst part of the trip. She also said that by driving 300 miles or more a day, she didnt get time to stop and smell the flowers. If given the opportunity, shell make the next trip shorter in order to enjoy the scenery more. Kevin Quinn, Lindas husband, said during the month the two women were on the road, they met and spoke with many people and heard all kinds of stories of people who have personally dealt with cancer. Lindas a really caring person, Kevin said. Shes a fourth grade school teacher, but this trip was really just about her giving back to other people. Aside from Scootin for a Cure, the Quinns belong to the group Royal Bastards Scooter Club, which is a fundraising group that the two use to help out with different causes. Quinns Web site, www.scootinforacure.com, includes photos and a daily blog of her travels. Edited by Ramsey Cox

Worms vermicompost food into organic fertilizer. Businesses such as the the Waste Reduction and Recycling Division use the fertilizer and profit from the organic compost. The worms will die eventually, but youll rarely have to buy worms again, she said. Youll have to take some worms out, if anything. About a mile down the street from the departments worm bin, other city employees are working in the old Union Pacific Depots flower beds. The city purchased these ladybugs to fight off the growing aphid infestation. From a natural standpoint, lady beetles are great for feeding on aphids, Jeff Whitworth, an extension entomologist with Kansas State University, said. When you have a large aphid population, they are like cows feeding on grass. Ladybugs are a natural predator of aphids, but they are the most transient of the bug employees. Ive seen too many people put ladybugs in their garden and then they are gone, Greg McDonald, owner of Sunrise Garden Center in Lawrence, said. But they leave because they didnt have anything to eat. Still, the bugs are popular gardening partners. McDonald said he has already sold out of ladybugs for the year. Every year, we never have any left over, he said. Unlike ladybugs that leave when the food is gone, other bugs bring the food with them and rely on the keeper to give them a house. Richard Bean, owner of Blossom Trail Bee Ranch, who has owned bees for more than 30 years, said he had seen an increased interest in beekeeping. Although no organization tracks the number of beekeepers in the United States, the number and size of beginner beekeeping classes has increased, confirming the trend. A national beekeeping conference that took place in California in January registered 1,200 participants, up from about 600 the previous year, according to the American Beekeeping Federation. Bean said he hoped to create a basic beekeeping class. I like to see more people get started, he said. There are getting to be a lot of beekeepers in Douglas County. A mysterious disease termed Colony Collapse Disorder may have sparked some of the recent interest in beekeeping. The number of honey-producing bee colonies has fallen from 5 million in the 1940s to 2.5 million now, according to the Department of Agriculture, causing some people to keep bees in an attempt to be saviors of the food supply. Whitworth said bees pollinate 80 percent of the crops in the United States. The cause of CCD is unknown, but some attribute it to climate change, mites or even electromagnetic radiation from cell phone towers. Bean said so far his 100,000 bees have not been affected by CCD. He said he expected about 100 pounds of honey this season, a larger-thanusual supply that he attributed to the tremendous amount of moisture and the cool spring. Like all bug employers, Beans business and some of his income is largely based on the temperature. Bean said a freeze last April was the worst climatic disaster he had ever seen. I had a big bee population and then nothing, he said. There was nothing for them to work with. Still, that didnt make Bean nervous. The bees are such overachievers that someone has to be there to take care of them, he said. Although people have relied on bugs to do work for them for centuries, people today have mostly swatted bugs away. We receive a lot of benefits that we dont realize, like the breaking down of dead organic matter, Whitworth said. Willfully or not, we have used insects or been the recipient of beneficial aspects of insects. We have been able to use them where we need to. Some bugs are little more than a click away. Now you can buy worms on eBay, Ford said. A few years ago, you would think, Who would do that? Now you can find them on the Internet and have them shipped to you overnight. Edited by Scott Toland

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Mannequin teaches students vital medical skills

Sim Man prepares students with real-life situations to apply in the classroom at KU Medical Center
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editor@kansan.com Enrique Hernandez is lying in his hospital bed. His mother at his side, the 10-year-old Enrique tells his nurse that he isnt feeling very well. Hes sweating and his breathing is becoming more shallow. Ten-year-old Enrique has Type 1 Diabetes, and his blood sugar levels have dropped he is becoming hypoglycemic. Enriques mother explains to the nurse that he didnt eat much of his dinner. The nurse needs to quickly treat his hypoglycemia before it becomes more severe. Except Enrique doesnt really have diabetes. He isnt even a 10-year-old boy. Enrique is a lifelike mannequin, built to accurately simulate many of the functions of a real human. And the nurse is still a nurse, albeit one still in school; the student and mannequin are in the simulation laboratory at the University of Kansas Medical Center. The School of Nursing at the center uses simulations to help teach its students useful skills. By creating as realistic of an environment as possible, the school hopes to prepare students for what they will see in the real world. Simulations and discussions help students apply what theyve learned in the classroom. The laboratory looks like any other patients hospital room. Monitors clustered around the bed. A computer terminal to search patient records. Cabinets and drawers containing supplies. Theres everything necessary to take care of any patient. But instead of an actual patient, the laboratory houses a Sim Man

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The Sim Man, named Enrique Hernandez, simulates real-life medical situations for students to react to before working on human patients. The students are not graded on their performance but do receive participation points. mannequin, a patient simulation mannequin made by Laerdal Medical. Sim Man is a realistic mannequin that contains several technologies designed to simulate the actions and bodily functions of human patients. From a computer station in the next room, lab instructors can change Sim Mans heart rate, blood pressure, and respiratory rate, among other things. His chest rises and falls with his breathing. Using a stethoscope, students can listen to Sim Mans heartbeat and breathing. His pulse can be felt through his wrist and neck. Breathing tubes can be inserted into Sim Mans mouth, and an IV can be inserted into his hand. Instructors can also communicate through Sim Man using a number of preprogrammed phrases, designed to help give feedback on how Sim Man is feeling. If more detail is required, a walkie-talkie projects an instructors voice from underneath the mannequins pillow. Here, professors and faculty create simulation programs, designed to reproduce real-world scenarios, for students to use as learning tools. Mary Meyer, director of the simulation lab, said the idea is to allow students to experience events that they may rarely or never see in years of clinical experience. She said that even with a lot of clinical experience, most emergencies are rare, and so it was important that the school exposed students to those events in a controlled setting. That way, when it occurs in real life, they will be better prepared to handle the problem, having already seen it in a simulation lab. Jennifer Ruck, Overland Park junior, said that she thought the simulations were a very valuable learning tool. She said she thought that the simulations would prepare her for situations she would eventually encounter with real clients. Because of the one-way mirror in the simulation lab, instructors can watch everything that happens within the lab. The simulation follows a script of what actions and cues need to happen, and at what times. Two video cameras record everything that happens. Meyer said that most simulations also placed a student observer in the room, whose only job during the simulation is to take notes of what happens. Many students fail in the simulation labs, Meyer said. They are not graded, but merely offered as participation points. Meyer said that in a recent lab, 40 groups participated, and all but two of them failed to make the best decision given the situation. However, Meyer said that it was the students who failed who often learned the most from the labs. Each simulation takes approximately 30 minutes to run, followed by a 30-minute discussion period. The real learning happens when we sit down and discuss what happened, Meyer said. She said that the student observer was one of the most helpful ways students could learn from what had happened during the simulation. Because the instructors have had so much more experience, it can be easy for them to be more critical of what students forgot in the simulation. However, a student observer has all the same knowledge as the other students. That way, the observers notes can serve as more accurate interpretation of what students should have done in the simulation. Because of the students limited knowledge, one of the biggest challenges of running the lab is creating simulations that the students can actually accomplish. The students should have learned all the skills necessary to complete a simulation prior to actually doing one. However, the instructors have to remember that the students dont know everything and are only capable of handling situations that theyve learned about in the classroom. You have to be really creative, Meyer said. The professors in the nursing school often met and discussed what types of simulations each class offered. If any hole was found, the instructors worked to fill it, so that the students would have a more complete learning experience while in the school. Again, Meyer stressed the importance of exposing the students to as many situations as possible, so that in a real-life situation they would know what to do.

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Coordinators observe students to help them learn. A one-way mirror is present in the room for Edited by Matt Hirschfeld coordinators to help students improve with medical techniques.

s a KU student, you can be a member of the KU Alumni Association and show your Jayhawk Pride! Tradition Keepers is a level of membership for current KU students. As a Tradition Keeper, you will enjoy many fun and helpful benefits throughout the school year. The 2008-2009 Tradition Keeper benefits include: A Hail to Old KU T-shirt (new design each year!) A collectible KU glass Access to the Hawk to Hawk Mentor Program Free dinner during finals (fall and spring) at the Adams Alumni Center Access to the online directory Calendar of fabulous campus scenes (for 2009) A monthly e-newsletter and other email updates Invitations to special events and networking activities Membership card Discounts at local businesses And much more Check it off Its not too late to join for the 2008-09 school year! You can still join at www.kualumni.org or stop by the Adams Alumni Center, 1266 Oread Avenue. The cost is just $20 for all of the benefits listed above.

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Candidate uses comic to connect with voters

Kansas Representative hopeful in 15th district discusses campaign life in online comic strip
BY JESSE TRIMBLE
jtrimble@kansan.com A state representative hopefuls comic strip has made its way around the Internet during the last few weeks and he has received feedback from Kansas to Finland. Sean Tevis is running for State Representative in district 15, the city of Olathe. A School of Journalism graduate, Tevis said he never thought hed receive so much feedback and attention from one comic strip. The comic can be found Tevis at Tevis Web site, along with many others, and depicts his story of what its like running for state representative. It took me 40 hours to create the comic: five hours to write a script and then I built the actual page and did a final, Tevis said. He posted it online for the first time on July 16 and from there it spread, popping up on Facebook. com, Digg.com and elsewhere. David Perlmutter, professor of journalism, said there were risks involved with such a strategy. Perlmutter said politicians wanted to create attention, but not serious attention, and they didnt want to be taken as a joke. Obviously, all forms of social interactive media like MySpace, Facebook and Twittering are good ways to go, Perlmutter said. 2008 is the year of trying everything in politics and media. He added that Tevis comic strip was a way to penetrate a very saturated market and that the comic was something fresh and different. Tevis said he originally thought of the comic strip from his own experiences of running for state representative. The best way to put it is running for office is absurd, Tevis said. I want to say its absurd because you should be out there giving speeches and figuring out local problems. What I found out instead is that during the first two to three months of my campaign involves going door to door and asking for donations. I thought that surely there must be a better way of for more money. doing this and figured why not use Politicians have learned that the Internet. you need to simplify and explain Mark Skoglund, Olathe senior, complicated concepts to their audisaid he saw the comic on Digg.com. ence, Perlmutter said. A cartoon He said he thought the comic strip is the best way to visually illustrate was a great way to bring attention and simplify a main point opposed to something not normally seen to a long speech. within this disAt the trict. beginning of Wit hout his campaign, I thought that surely there something that Tevis said he makes people must be a better way of doing never expected pay attention, a this and figured why not use the to get a $500 lot of the time donation from candidates go Internet. any one person, unnoticed and SeaN TeviS so as a joke he the underdogs Candidate for state representative posted on his are looked site that anyone over, Skoglund who donated said. $500 or more Skoglund, a would receive a DVD from his political science major, added that 60-year-old mother telling them it was unprecedented for a candi- how wonderful they were. date to receive so many donations His mother has had to make in such a small amount of time. three DVDs so far. Tevis said as of now, he had surTevis said he was ready to get passed $100,000, and many people back to going door to door and he have donated $8.34 or less. The was tired of the Internet for now. comic strip simplifies his strategy of reaching larger groups of people Edited by Elizabeth Cattell for less money, versus fewer people

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jpreiner@kansan.com Air quality in and around the Kansas City area has become an issue of recent concern among residents. A survey conducted by the

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Mid-America Regional Council released in February found 80 percent of people were concerned with Kansas Citys air quality. According to the survey, more than half of the participants said the air quality was getting worse.

Tom Gross, air monitoring and planning chief for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said the department worried about nitrous oxides and volatile organic compounds affecting the air quality. He said the most

common forms of these pollutants were gasoline and industrial emissions from power and manufacturing plants. To combat this, he said numerous community-organized environmental programs had been established throughout the state.

The Environmental Protection Agency recently imposed new 200 restrictions on air qualAccording to the Air ity control. The new limQuality Index Table, its require that cities and the Kansas City area industries reduce their rates in the healthy emissions and pollution range (0-50) at 39. from 80 parts per million The index provides to 75 parts per million, or the public with a day150 by 6.25 percent. to-day evaluation of Stan Loeb, environcurrent air conditions. mental specialist with the KU Department of Environmental Health the AQI. and Safety, said that the air The University has its pollution, or ozone, limit own air quality permit. 100 was lowered and the buffer Russell said the University around the previous limit currently emitted 60 perno longer existed. He said cent of the limit allotted to that meant that exceeding them. He said one thing the limit would now result that contributed to the in violations. schools air quality successMike Russell, KU es was the upgrades made director of environmental to the energy systems and 50 health and safety, said the equipment, which allowed new regulations had been Kansas City 39 them to burn fuel more enforced effectively. efficiently. Air quality is most Russell said activities commonly measured such as biking, carpooling through the Air Quality and riding the bus would index. The index does all contribute to air quality 0 not address long-term air improvement. quality trends, but it does Every little bit a perprovide the public with a son does helps, Russell day-to-day evaluation of said. If just a few more current conditions. According to people do these things every time the Mid-America Regional Councils itll keep getting better. Web site, the Kansas City area is usually within the healthy range for Edited by Elizabeth Cattell

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Voter registration goes online for easier access

New system was implemented in hopes of getting more registered voters, save money for voters
BY SCOTT TOLAND
stoland@kansan.com Douglas County citizens can now register to vote for upcoming elections without having to leave their homes. An online system was implemented to provide more accessibility for people in the county and could lead to an increase in registered voters. For the first time, citizens will be able to access voter registration forms online by accessing Douglas Countys Web site, which will allow them to save the time and effort of picking up a paper form. The system was implemented about a month ago. County Clerk Jamie Shew said that some people have already used the online method and that the system might result in more registered voters. It may, just for the pure fact that it provides more access to our office, Shew said. Shew said that accessibility was one of the main factors that went into the decision to add this new system. He also said that the system did not result in any additional expenses for the county. Because a signature is still required, the form must be printed and filled out before it is sent to the county clerks office. Forms can then be faxed, mailed or scanned and e-mailed to complete the process. If people choose to e-mail or fax their forms to the office, then they can save time and possibly money for gas by not having to mail their paperwork. We have a very transitory population in Douglas County with commuters and the large amount of students in town, Shew said. It gives them the chance to access our office without coming directly to our courthouse. Douglas County is not the first Kansas county to install such a system, but instead is following the lead of one of its neighbors. Johnson County began lobbying with the Kansas Secretary of States Office for an online voter registration system two years ago. Around the start of this year, the state decided to allow the system to be put into place. We like to think were the trailblazers, said Brian Newby, Johnson County Election Commissioner. When we got the yes, we were ready to go. Newby said that the online system is even more important for Johnson County than Douglas County because of the amount of people in the area. He also said that it allows his office to save time and money because the whole process can go much faster. Its a bigger deal for us than Douglas County, Newby said. We were probably more ready People demand it to be on the to do it because we were the ones Internet because its more accessible. asking them to do it. The process of accessing forms No official figures exist that document the number of Kansas online may become popular with counties that now have a similar students at the University of system in place, but one state offi- Kansas, who will not have to leave cial said he thought this number their dorm rooms or apartments to register in time to vote. was on the rise. Damon Lang, Oskaloosa junior, Brad Bryant, who is in charge of elections and legislative matters said that he thought it was a good idea and was at the Kansas certain that Secretary of States Office, It gives them the chance to ac- the system will lead to more said he defiregistered votnitely saw a cess our office without coming trend when ers. directly to our courthouse. it came to Im sure voter informait will, Lang tion available said. It will jamie shew online. He also make it a lot Douglas County clerk said voter regeasier. istration forms Bryant said can still be he was unsure obtained in every county in the just how many Kansas counties state. now offer forms online, but said Theres still a demand for that, voter information is now entered but everythings moving more onto computerized databases towards the Internet, Bryant said. instead of being filed in a catalog system. I think there are a number of other counties who have the registration card on the Web site, Bryant said. In recent years, everyone has moved to a computerized list. Although the online system has been met with success so far, paper forms are still available at many locations in Douglas County, including post offices and the Veterans Affairs Office. Newby said he thought the system was beneficial for both the public and his office and said that Johnson County has already been processing hundreds of forms each month. He said that the system requires a little extra effort for voters to get the form to the office, but said that it made it easier for both parties involved. Its really good for everybody, Newby said. Im glad to hear Lawrence is doing it too. Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird

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Summer bear attacks leave Anchorage residents fearful

BY MARY PEMBERTON
ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska Even in a city whose logo is Big Wild Life, the summer of 2008 is testing residents tolerance for large carnivores. The problem is bears, black bears and bigger grizzlies. So far this summer, three people have been mauled in the city. Some people say humans are to blame for the confrontations and insist that no bears should be killed because of the attacks. On the other side is a growing chorus of people like Devon Rees, who want something done about the big bruins. It is pretty much unsafe to walk around at night, he said. On one recent evening, Rees heard splashing in the creek near his Eagle River home and assumed it was salmon. Seconds later, however, a bear rushed at him from the woods and knocked him to the ground. I wasnt going to lay down and take it. The bear came and tried to fight me, said Rees, 18, who works in a meat store. I started punching it in the head, kicking it and elbowing it ... I was boxing him using one arm to defend, one arm to strike. Residents share the municipality covering more than 1 million acres and with more than 360,000 people with more than 300 black bears and 50 to 60 grizzlies. Aggravating the problem is that Alaskas largest city is snug up against the half-million-acre Chugach State Park, the third largest state park in the United States. Chugach State Park is a bear factory. It pumps out bears every year, said Rick Sinnott, the area biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. When those bears are hungry, they come into the city to feed on salmon in its many creeks and streams, and Sinnott said that is not likely to change. They are going to be cheek to jowl with us forever, he said. Sinnott said efforts are being made to expand the hunting of bears in Chugach. The state park was off limits to hunting grizzlies for 30 years. Last year, three permits were issued but hunters were unsuccessful. Killing all the bears is not a consideration, Sinnott said. It is a state park. People that use the state park, they want to see bears there, he said. People using the city parks need to practice some common sense, said Dave Parker, a 25-year-old resident of Wasilla, outside the municipality. The bears were here before we were, Parker said. You dont go swimming in shark-infested waters and dont expect to be bit. Alaska Fish and Game has received 500 to 600 bear complaint calls in Anchorage this summer, usually from people reporting a bear on their deck, in a neighbors garbage or running through yards. A week ago, runner Clivia Feliz was attacked by a sow with two cubs in Anchorages Far North Bicentennial Park. She had stopped to consider the orange sign with a bear silhouette that warns people way from Rovers Run trail, which follows a salmon-rich stream. But then she saw a bicyclist head down the trail, so she did, too. The sow found her and beat her up pretty good, Sinnott said.

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Alaska Fish and Game biologists Sean Farley, left, and Rick Sinnott walk past a warning sign as they look for a bear along a path in Far North Bicentennial Park in Anchorage, Alaska on Wednesday where a jogger and a bicyclist were attacked by a sow with two cubs this summer. The attacks happened on wilderness trails shared by humans and bears. Feliz was bitten on her head and neck and suffered a collapsed lung. Six weeks earlier, 15-year-old Petra Davis was attacked by a grizzly on the same trail at about 1:30 a.m. while competing in a 24-hour bike race. She was hospitalized and treated for a crushed trachea and partially severed carotid artery. Sinnott said he was surprised anyone thought it was a good idea to hold an all-night bike race in a park known to have bears and along a creek filled with salmon. I was kind of dumbfounded, he said. There have been at least four other close encounters within a half-mile in the park involving a sow with cubs, Sinnott said. The city closed Rovers Run trail on Tuesday. Sinnott said the sow will be killed if she can be found, not an easy task in the 4,000-acre park. Motion-sensitive cameras have been installed on the trail. If the sow is caught, the cubs are likely headed to a zoo. Most of the people who are attacked in town dont want the bear killed. They recognize she is a mom defending her cubs, Sinnott said. We just cant let her live there because she will attack again. The citys wildlife problem isnt limited to bears. Mike Vogel, a 51-year-old insurance agent, was stomped by a moose in 2003 on a popular city trail. A year later, a moose charged at him near the same location, so the 14-year resident of Anchorage shot and killed it. We need to kill some of these bears and we need to kill some of these moose, he said. Vogel accuses Fish and Game of catering to bunny huggers. I think the pecking order needs to be re-established with humans on top, he said. What other city in the world has pernicious wildlife running around in its city parks?

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U.S., Russian relations strained

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WASHINGTON Russia is showing signs of returning to its authoritarian past and its invasion of Georgia will require the U.S. to re-evaluate the strategic relationship between the superpowers, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday. Joining in the hard-line rhetoric, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Russian President Dmitry Medvedev of failing to honor a promise to withdraw troops quickly from Georgia under terms of a cease-fire he signed Saturday. I hope this time hell keep his word, Rice said after Medvedev announced the withdrawal would begin Monday. Shadows of the Cold War emerged as the Bush administration struggled for the appropriate response to Russias aggression against its smaller U.S.-backed neighbor, which Moscow ruled for most of the two centuries before the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. I think that there is a real concern that Russia has turned the corner here and is headed back toward its past rather than toward its future, and my hope is that we will see actions in the weeks and months to come that provide us some reassurance, Gates said. We obviously are going to have to re-evaluate the direction of the strategic relationship with Russia going forward, and again, that depends to a considerable extent on their behavior from this point forward. Rice said Medvedev had pledged that when Georgias president signed the cease-fire, Russian forces would begin to withdraw. But that did not happen. Russia currently is not in compliance with that cease-fire, Rice said. I dont have an explanation because I would think that when the Russian president says that a signed cease-fire accord will mean the withdrawal of Russian forces, that Russian forces would then withdraw. They did not. However, yet again, the Russian president has given his word, and this time, I hope hell honor it. Gates said that Vladimir Putin, the former Russian president who shifted to prime minister when Medvedev took over this year, clearly, as far as Im concerned, has the upper hand right now over Medvedev. I think we had seen them more as partners. And there had been a lot of signals from Putin that he was going to allow power to flow, to stay with the president, that Medvedev would be in charge, would be the person responsible for leading Russia going forward. The steps hes taken in the transition from president to prime minister in recent weeks, and now, certainly, in Georgia, at least in my opinion, bespeak more of Putin having his hand on the steering wheel than anybody else, Gates said. This looks frankly to me more like decisions made by the prime minister than by the president, he added. Fighting broke out after Georgia launched a massive barrage Aug. 7 to try to take control of the separatist province of South Ossetia. The Russian army quickly overwhelmed Georgias forces and drove deep into the country, raising fears of a long-term Russian occupation.

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A year after perfection, is there any magic left?

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odd Reesing wandered around the turf at Memorial Stadium the other day, slowly pacing between the hash marks. Reesing had nowhere to be, and he looked content strutting around his field like a happygo-lucky alpha dog admiring his lot. It was media day for the Kansas football program, and it was that awkward time when players are herded and dragged around like pet rocks, and they pose for photos, and they are asked the same questions 47 times. Two-hundred and fourteen days after Reesing led the Jayhawks to the biggest victory in Kansas football history Reesing found himself near the 45-yard line, huddled with Kansas quarterbacks, setting up another canned photo-op. But one quarterback was missing. Hey, Reesing yelled. Kale Pick, Kansas blue chip freshman quarterback from Dodge City was standing on the sideline, looking for a reprieve from the smothering July heat. Kale, what are you doing? Reesing joshed. Come on, rook. There are so many questions to ask as Kansas enters this football season. The Jayhawks are in the precarious position of being ranked No. 15 in the USA Today/Coaches poll, while seemingly being underrated and overrated all at the same time. Some think this seasons harder schedule will prove last year a fluke, while others are banking that Kansas will validate last season by beating the big boys of the Big 12 this year. But theres one question you really want to ask Reesing. Now what? Does the kid they call Sparky have any magic left in those stubby arms and legs? It all seemed so easy last year. Reesing made play after play. Kansas rode a hodgepodge crew of unheralded recruits to an Orange Bowl title. And three months later, Bill Self saw Mark Manginos Orange Bowl and raised him a national title.

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senior linebacker mike rivera (40) leads the defense at the beginning of open practice Friday morning at Memorial Stadium. Rivera and fellow seniors James Holt and Joe Mortensen return to anchor what may be one of the nations best defense teams. The Jayhawks lost only two players, Aqib Talib and James McClinton from the 2007 squad that finished ranked No. 12 nationally.

With a tough schedule ahead, Jayhawk football hopes to repeat last seasons success
bjrains@kansan.com How do you top the greatest year in school history? Thats the task facing coach Mark Mangino and the Kansas football team as they prepare to host Florida International in the season opener next Saturday. The Jayhawks will face a much tougher schedule in 2008 and also will be without several key players including Aqib Talib and Anthony Collins, who left school early for the NFL. Add in the hype and expectations surrounding a team coming off of a 12-1 record and an Orange Bowl Championship and it figures to be an almost impossible task for Mangino and the Jayhawks. Dont tell that to the players though, who seem to have an extra bounce in their step. We have that swagger, safety Darrell Stuckey said. And as the Jayhawks look to repeat the success of last years record-breaking year,

BY B.J. RAINS

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they are doing it with a different kind of again in 2008, they will have to find new swagger that hasnt been seen around this playmakers to step up and take over for the veteran group who departed after last town in a long time. We have a lot of confidence in our- season. In addition to Talib and Collins, selves, quarterback Todd Reesing said. second team All-American defensive tackle James McClinton Not that we lacked is gone, as is the confidence before, but teams leading rusher we really expect to be We have a lot of confidence in Brandon McAnderson on the big stage now. and leading receiver The Jayhawks will ourselves. Not that we lacked Marcus Henry. Tight definitely enter the big end Derrick Fine is stage this fall, starting confidence before, but we really the year ranked 13th in expect to be on the big stage now. now a member of the Buffalo Bills and kicker the USA Today Coaches Scott Webb and punter poll. ESPN2 has already picked the Jayhawks for TODD ReeSIng Kyle Tucker are both a nationally-televised Kansas quarterback missing as well. Nobodys absence, Friday night game at however, will be more No. 21 South Florida in visible than Talib, whose flashy play and week three of the season. Were excited by that, Reesing said. swagger on both sides of the ball helped To have the opportunity to play in big put Kansas on the national scene. The Jayhawks seem to be better pregames and play on national television, its exciting for us, because its somewhere that pared to fill the holes on defense, with only Talib and McClinton not returning from this program hasnt been in a while. But if the Jayhawks want to taste success a squad that finished 12th nationally in

total defense. All three linebackers Joe Mortensen, James Holt, and Mike Rivera are back and will anchor what should be one of the nations best defenses again in 2008. The challenge will be tougher on offense, where the Jayhawks must replace five starters including both tackles, a tight end, running back and wide receiver. More than 2,000 yards of offense, including more than 1,000 receiving yards from Henry and 1,000 rushing yards from McAnderson, must come from other players this fall. We have a lot of guys who played last year and made a lot of big plays for us, quarterback Todd Reesing said. Just because we lost a tight end and a receiver to the NFL, which were two huge players for us, we still have a lot of guys who can fill those voids. They might not be as good at certain things as those guys were but they are going to bring their own potential and capabilities to the table.

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Kansas national title is in no way tainted. Concerns arose at the end of May when a Dallas television station reported that former Kansas star Darrell Arthurs grades had been changed while in high school to keep him eligible to

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So far this offseason, Self has signed a contract to keep him at Kansas until 2018, Arthur was cleared of any high school eligibility issues, Case joined the coaching staff, and five Jayhawks were drafted by NBA teams.
play basketball. If the allegations made by Winford Ashmore, a math teacher at South Oak Cliff High in Dallas, were true, then Arthur wouldnt have passed high school or been eligible to play college basketball. But the Dallas Independent School District cleared Arthurs name last week when it released a statement saying no improprieties had occurred. The school district started an investigation into the allegations after the release of the story in May.

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Kansas Athletics Director Lew Perkins announced that Kansas coach Bill Self would lead the Jayhawks for years to come in an April press conference. He wasnt lying. Self signed a new contract to stay in Lawrence that runs through 2018. The details of the deal were released two weeks ago. The contract provides a financial boost too. Self will make $3 million per year, nearly doubling his old contract that paid him $1.6 million. He could make up to an additional $425,000 each year by reaching incentives. I have said many times I cannot imagine a better place to play, or to coach, than the University of Kansas, Self said.
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Junior guard Sherron Collins will have to wait seven more months before his legal troubles are settled. A civil lawsuit against Collins is set to be heard in April 2009. Jessica J. Brown, a former Jayhawker Towers employee, accused Collins of exposing himself and rubbing onto her in a complex elevator in May 2007. She filed a civil lawsuit against Collins three months ago. Collins never responded to the claim and a Douglas County judge ordered him to pay Brown more than $75,000 in a default ruling. The judge has since rescinded the default ruling. Criminal charges wont be filed as the county said it has insufficient evidence. I am 100 percent innocent of any inappropriate behavior, Collins said.

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When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.
Mark Spitz, former U.S. Olympic swimmer

THE OTHER OLYMPICS

BY MARK DENT
was live pigeon shooting. Whoever shot the most birds in a certain time won. Now, Im sure there are plenty of New Yorkers who wouldnt mind seeing this on the streets every day. But sadly, they havent done this event since the inaugural pigeon slaying. I wonder if one of the swimmers in 1900 pulled an Amanda Beard and posed nude to bring attention to the animal cruelty. Motor boating was another oneOlympic wonder. In 1908, people actually raced in motor boats. Sort of. They sped through the waters off Southampton in Britain at about 19 miles per hour. Other weird events throughout the years have included tug of war, rope climb and pistol dueling. Dont worry they shot at dummies with bullseyes on their chests, not at people. Those events all took place in the early 1900s, but with the 80s being the 80s, one very strange, almost scary, game started in 1984 and lasted until 1992. It was called solo synchronized swimming. One person would swim and tread water to a song. Judges awarded the highest scores to the swimmer who was the most in sync with the beat.

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Edwards sweeps week in Michigan

BY MIKE HARRIS
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fact of the day

Kansas senior wide receiver Dexton Fields, who has 109 career receptions, needs 47 receptions this season to pass former Jayhawk Mark Simmons as the career receptions leader at Kansas. Fields, a native of Dallas, had 63 catches in 2007. Simmons finished his career at Kansas in 2005.
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mdent@kansan.com Late-night hours provide the best times for Olympic viewing. Try it while you still can. Theres badminton sometimes. Maybe some trampoline jumping or fencing. None of that Michael Phelps or Redeem Team stuff, thats for sure. Yes, after about 1 a.m., MSNBC shows Olympic Obscurity. All the events people say shouldnt be events get to shine. Its just a shame MSNBC didnt exist about 100 years ago. Then we really wouldve gotten a treat in strange Olympic sports. Britains The Observer made a list of several of these ancient oddities. Well start with the 1900 Paris Olympics. There were only 19 events, yet these games lasted about five months. One of the events

took part in the first mondern Olympics in Athens, Greece, in 1896?

trivia of the day Q: How many nations A: 14

This column will be a new part of the Kansan sports section every day. Five different writers will give their takes on interesting information going on in the world of sports. If you like or dont like it or have a suggestion, story or maybe even a complaint about KU Athletics, wed like to know. Please send any questions or comments to morningbrew@kansan. com so we can tailor The Morning Brew to your liking. Edited by Luke Morris

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BROOKLYN, Mich. Look out Kyle Busch, here comes Carl Edwards. Edwards completed a weekend sweep at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday, beating NASCAR Sprint Cup points leader Busch off pit road on their last stops and driving off to his fifth Cup win of the season and second in the last three races. Busch, who has eight Cup wins, was just ahead of Edwards when they pitted under caution on lap 180 of the 200-lap 3M Performance 400, but Edwards beat the 23-yearold star out of the pits. David Ragan and June Michigan winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. had stayed on track and were running 1-2, but Edwards easily passed them on the restart on lap 183 to retake the lead, then held off Busch on another restart with

two laps to go and gave Roush Fenway Racing co-owner Jack Roush his 20th overall victory on the 2-mile Michigan oval. Edwards, who turned 29 on Friday, also won the Nationwide Series race Saturday, becoming only the second driver to win both races. Former Roush driver Mark Martin did it in 1993. The key was my crew today, Edwards said. My guys did an unbelievable job getting me off pit road. This is unbelievable. Were winning races. Were gearing up for the Chase. Im feeling stronger than ever. Were here to win championships. Thats what were shooting for. With just three races left until the start of the Chase for the championship, Edwards moved a little closer to Busch in the seeding process, which gives drivers making the 10-race postseason a 10-point bonus for each victory.

BEIJING The U.S. track and field team thought they had an opportunity to sweep the medals in the shot put. Instead, the only man to win a medal was a former Missouri Tiger. Christian Cantwell, a former University of Missouri athlete, won the silver medal in the shot put with a throw that went more than 69 feet. It was Cantwells first time at the Olympics. He failed to make the team in 2004. Polands Tomasz Majewski won the gold.

Former Tiger earns silver

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ing into Monument Park and the New York Yankees battered Brian Bannister and the Kansas City Royals 15-6 on Sunday to salvage a split of the season series. Cody Ransom added a tworun homer and Xavier Nady also went deep for the Yankees, who began the day six games behind Boston for the AL wildcard spot. Rodriguez finished 3-for-3 with five RBIs, and Derek Jeter went 4-for-4 and scored three times. Ross Gload hit a two-run homer and Billy Butler had a two-run double for the Royals, who wasted two chances over the weekend to win their first season series against New York since 1999. Instead, theyve lost nine of 11 after a modest threegame winning streak.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Brett Favre was having fun again. His tearful retirement and tumultuous offseason were tucked away in his memory. Favre was back where hes always been happiest: in the huddle with thousands of cheers providing a perfect soundtrack. Its like starting all over again, the New York Jets new quarterback said. I had some feelings that I havent felt in 17 years. After throwing a touchdown pass to cap his second series against Washington, Favre urged coach Eric Mangini to let him play some more. He said, Let me think about it, Favre said. As he turned away, he turned back and said, I thought about it.

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Colorado tries to find its way in improving North

The Buffs have plenty of work ahead to stay competitive in 2008.
By Taylor Bern
tbern@kansan.com Its easy to ignore the history of football success at Colorado. The Buffaloes went to four Big 12 championship games from 2001-05 and won the title in 2001. However, this occurred in the dark ages of the Big 12 North, a time that witnessed unprecedented mediocrity from its six teams. In fact, Colorado probably felt more like lambs being led to slaughter than title contenders in 04 and 05, when it lost to Oklahoma and then Texas by a combined score of 112-6. As for Colorados glory days in the early 90s? That was so long ago that its impossible for most fans today to imagine the Buffs as national champions, which they were in 1990. No, instead Colorado is the team often seen just hanging around that has little to say at the end of the year. The Big 12 North is no longer for bottom feeders, and coach Dan Hawkins, former head man at Boise State, understands the difficult situation he put himself in when he took over Colorado before the 2006 season. I just think there has to be a certain amount of reinvention in a person in being able to put yourself up against it and see what youre all about, Hawkins said. So as my dad told me when I came here, You asked for it, buddy, and you got it. Hawkins likened his opportunity with the Buffaloes to a gardener cleaning out the weeds and planting a new crop, but all he pulled in year one was a rotten welcome to the Big 12. Colorado lost its first six games and eventually finished the year at 2-10. Im not a very patient guy, and so I expected to win 10, 11 or 12 our first year out of the gate, Hawkins said. I took a lot of years off of my life in 06 I think. In an effort to reclaim some of those years, Dan tabbed his son Cody, a redshirt freshman, as the 2007 starting quarterback. This was no inside job as Cody was an Elite 11 quarterback coming out of high school and his teammates

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Colorado head coach Dan Hawkins: Im not a very patient guy, and so I expected to win 10, 11 or 12 our first year out of the gate. I took a lot of years off my life in 06 I think.

awarded him the Offensive Scout Award after the 06 season. Cody threw six interceptions in his first four games, but in his Big 12 debut the younger Hawkins threw two fourth quarter touchdowns to defeat No. 3 Oklahoma, 27-24. Buffalo fans flooded Folsom Field following one of the biggest upsets in school history, and Dan realized that his team was on its way. Colorado went on to play Kansas to a close loss at home and then won at Texas Tech and Nebraska. Hawkins squad finished the year 6-7, but he saw the makings of a much improved team. So much of life is made up of the details in the little things, Hawkins said. We were a scosche from winning 10 games a year and also a scosche from winning two, again, as horrific as it sounds. Colorados up-and-down season followed the uneasy arm of Cody, who threw for 22 touchdowns and 3,015 yards, but also fired 17 interceptions. His play should get better with experience, and also there to help will be incoming freshman running back Darrell Scott. Scott was the No. 1 rated running back in the nation, and on the last day to sign a letter of intent he opted for Colorado over Texas. Scott figures to get immediate playing time in Boulder and with some guidance, senior defensive tackle George Hypolite said he sees more than just that in his future. As seniors and leaders, we have to show him how to play football, Hypolite said. We have to show ASSOCIATED PRESS him how to prepare, how to work, Buffalo wide receiver Josh Smith pulls in a pass during football practice. He caught 23 passes for 451 yards in 2007. how to be a smart football player in practice and all those things. he will be a Heisman Trophy win- kind of chemistry and that kind of dominant teams of the early 90s. ASSOCIATED PRESS If we do that, say in three years, ner. magic and make (success) happen, Those teams may have been forgotColorado sophomore Cody Hawkins returns as Colorados starting quarterback this year. He is if Im worth my salt in doing that, Hypolite, senior safety Ryan Hawkins said. ten or overlooked, but the pride is the son of head coach Dan Hawkins. Walters and senior linebacker Brad Scotts unlikely to secure the back in Boulder and the Big 12 has Jones anchor the Colorado defense. Heisman his freshman season, but been put on notice. With that much experience on his Rashaan Salaam, Colorados 1994 Every team that plays us this Big 12 FootBall team, Hawkins isnt prepared to Heisman-winning running back, year, No. 1 is going to know what wait around for a break through has been put on notice. So has his Colorado football means, Hypolite season. former teammate, Buffalo quar- said. Were going to hit you hard, I really believe that if were terback Kordell Stewart, whose were going to play hard and were able to reach down in the hearts records arent safe with Cody con- going to die bleeding black and By JIM VerTUno of the top spot now, giving the the first time since 1993. and minds of young men and trolling the skies. gold. The Red Raiders could be the aSSoCIaTeD PreSS Sooners four votes for No. 1. push the right buttons and do the In fact, Hawkins 2008 squad has Missouri could be the team wild card. Their No. 12 preseason Edited by Luke Morris right things, you can develop that a lot in common with Colorados AUSTIN Oklahoma and to spoil all that. The Tigers have ranking is their highest since they Missouri are the favorites to meet quarterback Chase Daniel, who were No. 8 to start the 1977 seain the Big 12 title game at the was a finalist for the Heisman son. Tech returns 18 starters, 10 end of the season. Its only fitting Trophy this season, and a taste of theyre the highest ranked teams how close they came to success on coach Mike Leachs passlast season. The Sooners arent on happy offense that can pile up in the league before it starts. Oklahoma, last seasons Big the regular season schedule this huge points. Graham Harrell to 12 champion, is No. 4 in the year, but the Tigers season could Michael Crabtree is the most Associated Press preseason rank- hinge on a trip to Texas (Oct. dynamic pass-catch combination ings released Saturday. Missouri, 11) and their annual rivalry with in the country. The Red Raiders play host to the defending North division Kansas. Its the South division where Texas on Nov. 1 and travel to champion, debuts at No. 6. Oklahoma three weeks later. But Other Big 12 teams in the rank- the sparks could really fly. Oklahoma may be the highest the Red Raiders have never beaten ings are No. 11 Texas, No. 12 ranked team in the division, but both UT and OU in the same seaTexas Tech and No. 14 Kansas. For Oklahoma and coach Bob the annual match-up with Texas son under Leach. New this fall! Kansas went 12-1 last season, Stoops, the Sooners are aiming (Oct. 4) and against Texas Tech the Jayhawks only loss com1. Text 265010 for their sixth conference title. (Nov. 22) loom large again. The Longhorns are trying to ing against Missouri. They have They were the only team to beat 2. Start your message with Missouri twice last season, get over the 10-3 hump of the a much tougher road this year including a 38-17 victory in the last two seasons after an unde- with Oklahoma, Texas and Tech kulibr1: or kulibr2: feated national championship sea- three teams they didnt play last league title game. (normal texting charges apply) Win another Big 12 title and son in 2005. 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Mangino also announced that after a short battle with Kerry Meier, sophomore transfer Alonso Rojas will replace Kyle Tucker at punter. Rojas, who took a year off from football last year after playing a year at Bowling Green, booted several 50-yard punts during the open practice. Hes a little rusty but everyday he kicks it better and better, Mangino said. I think by the time were ready to go, he will be pretty smooth. I like what he does, he has a strong leg, he can turn the ball over. We think were going to be ok there with him.

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One of the biggest position battles coming into camp seems to have been decided. Coach Mark Mangino announced after Fridays practice that Jeremiah Hatch would start at right tackle and Jeff Spikes would start at left tackle. Hatch, a 6-3, 311-pound redshirt freshman from Dallas, Texas, came to Kansas as the 13th-ranked center nationally by ESPN.com in 2007 but beat out Matt Darton for the spot at right tackle. He replaces Cesar Rodriguez, who started more than 40 games during his career at Kansas before graduating. He is one of the hardest working and hardest playing guys we have on the team, Mangino said of Hatch. What he lacks in experience, hell make up with grit and toughness and hard work. Spikes has sat atop the depth chart at left tackle since the spring game and has stayed ahead of Ian Wolfe during fall camp. The 6-6, 314-pound redshirt freshman from Painesville, Ohio, was ranked as the seventh best lineman in the state of Ohio by Rivals.com coming out of high school in 2007 and will face the task of replacing first-team All American Anthony Collins, who left school early for the NFL after last season. Hes one of the most athletic linemen weve had here, Mangino said of Spikes. Of course hes young and has a lot to learn but hes coming along fine. He has a chance at the end of the day, when hes done here to be one of the better offensive line man weve had at Kansas.

Spikes, Hatch win battle at offensive tackle

Rojas named punter

The Jayhawks released their 2009 schedule last week and the nonconference schedule continues to get harder. Kansas will play host to Northern Colorado, Duke and Southern Mississippi and travel to UTEP during the teams first four games next fall. The Jayhawks will play the same conference schedule in the same order as this year, but all home and road games will be flipped. Kansas will end the season against Missouri for the fourth consecutive year.

2009 schedule released

Also going against the Jayhawks in 2008 is their schedule, which looks to be much tougher than a year ago. Many writers and broadcasters still question the difficulty of the Jayhawks schedule last season, with some openly questioning how good Kansas really was. The Jayhawks 2007 schedule was a topic at the Mountain West Conference Media Day a few weeks ago, when New Mexico coach Rocky Long openly took a stab at the quality of their opponents. I mean, who did Kansas play last year? Long said. How easily Long forgets that Kansas won a BCS bowl against national football power Virginia Tech and lost by just eight points to the No. 3-ranked team in the country in its lone defeat. It doesnt bother me at all, Mangino said of the schedule talk. Tell me when there was a time when Kansass football program could beat the likes of Nebraska, Texas A&M, Colorado and Virginia Tech and you have to sit and defend your schedule? As Mangino points out, a closer look will show that the Jayhawks

schedule wasnt nearly as bad as Jayhawks wont play the three worst advertised. The victories against south teams of Baylor, Oklahoma Colorado and Texas A&M both State and Texas A&M and will play came on the road on two con- the heavyweights Oklahoma, secutive Saturdays, and the 76 Texas and Texas Tech. The Jayhawks, who are a compoints that Kansas scored against Nebraska were the most ever scored bined 0-6 against the Sooners, against the Husker program. In all, Longhorns and Red Raiders during the Jayhawks played six teams that Manginos tenure, now have their chance to prove that last years sucwent on to play in a bowl game. cess was not a Im not result of a weak going to get schedule. into schedulWe want to be able to play We v e ing because always said I cant control against the best teams in our that we want that, said quarour program terback Todd league and be able to beat to be able to Reesing. I play them. thats the test for our compete with whoever is on the best teams the schedule program. and thats realMARK MANGINO in the league, Mangino said. ly all it comes Kansas coach The fact that down to. The we are picking only thing Ill say is we play in the Big 12 and up Oklahoma, Texas and Texas there are a lot of good teams, so it Tech is something that we look doesnt matter which three youre forward to. We want to be able to play against the best teams in our playing. This year, the three actually league and be able to beat them. may matter for Reesing and the Thats the test for our program. We Jayhawks. Because of the rotat- will never truly get over the hump, ing Big 12 South schedule, the in my eyes, until we are able to

defeat those teams as well. Kansas will play host to Texas and Texas Tech in Lawrence, a place where the Jayhawks are 18-2 since 2005, but the October 18 matchup against Oklahoma is in Norman and certain to be the Jayhawks toughest test in 2008. The schedule gets even harder with the week three road game at South Florida. And though Mangino said he wasnt in the business of making predictions for the upcoming season, he knows that it could be another special season for his squad. We think were going to have a pretty good football team again, Mangino said. A year after just wanting to get enough wins to make it to a bowl game, the Jayhawks and their fans have much higher goals this season. The thought of a Big 12 Championship or high-profile bowl game no longer seems like that much of a dream. Times have changed, havent they? Mangino said. Edited by Brenna Hawley

Kansas enters the preseason Associated Press Top 25 poll at No. 14, its second highest preseason ranking in school history. The Jayhawks are ranked 13th in the USA Today Coaches poll. AP Top 25 Team (1st place) 1. Georgia (22) 2. Ohio State (21) 3. Southern Cal (12) 4. Oklahoma (4) 5. Florida (6) 6. Missouri 7. LSU 8. West Virginia 9. Clemson 10. Auburn 11. Texas 12. Texas Tech 13. Wisconsin 14. Kansas 15. Arizona State 16. BYU 17. Virginia Tech 18. Tennessee 19. South Florida 20. Illinois 21. Oregon 22. Penn State 23. Wake Forest 24. Alabama 25. Pittsburgh 2007 Pts. 11-2 1528 11-2 1506 11-2 1490 11-3 1444 12-2 1266 12-2 1266 12-2 1135 11-2 1116 9-4 1105 9-4 968 10-3 966 9-4 786 9-4 771 12-1 707 10-3 631 11-2 590 11-3 578 10-4 509 9-4 496 9-4 483 9-4 366 9-4 293 9-4 227 7-6 89 5-7 85 B.J. Rains

Jayhawks in the polls

Hawks to have strong running back squad

By Taylor Bern
tbern@kansan.com As the 2007 National Junior College Offensive Player of the Year, Jocques Crawford came to Lawrence with a great deal of expectations. Whether hell ultimately live up to those remains to be seen, but after two weeks of practice Crawford appears ready to step in as the top running back. Crawford and junior Jake Sharp, who rushed for 821 yards and seven touchdowns in 2007, split the carries at practice when camp opened, but lately Crawford has taken more and more reps with the first-team offense. I think as hes learning the system here, he becomes more and more confident, coach Mark Mangino said. Hes a very talented guy and he runs the ball hard. Mangino said he instructed his defenders to get a firm grasp on Crawford because hes an expert at breaking tackles and then using his speed to get down the field. He has a lot of tools, and I think its just a matter of him continuing to learn and getting comfortable in the system, Mangino said. Last year Brandon McAnderson led the rushing attack with 190 carries for 1,125 yards and 16 touchdowns. That averaged out to 5.9 yards per carry. Sharp wasnt far behind, tallying 5.6 yards per attempt. That kind of production is hard to ignore and although Crawford seems to have a leg up right now, Sharp is definitely still in the conversation. I wouldnt look for any one guy to shoulder the load, Sharp said. I can do whatever Im asked to do.

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One of the other intriguing battles going into camp was at the punt returner position, where the Jayhawks struggled in 2007. Three players freshman Daymond Patterson, redshirt freshman Isiah Barfield, and senior Dexton Fields are in a heated competition for the right to return punts. They are all doing pretty well, Mangino said. We went from a situation where we struggled last year to a situation this year where we may have more than one capable returner. I feel pretty good about it. They all need repetitions and are getting better. Mangino was not ready to name a starter after Fridays practice but it appears that Patterson, who has impressed Mangino at wide receiver as well, has a slight lead on the other two.

Punt returner battle

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Junior running back Jake Sharp, left, looks on as Jocques Crawford trains with the KU football team. After being named the 2007 National College Offensive Player of the Year, Crawford may become one of the teams strongest running backs this year. The offense will break in two freshmen at offensive tackle but the three inside lineman center Ryan Cantrell and guards Adrian Mayes and Chet Hartley return and should help maintain a constant running attack. I think well be able to run the ball as much as we want, plus our pass game provides creases and opportunities to run the football, Mangino said. Joining Crawford and Sharp in the hunt for playing time is junior Angus Quigley. Quigley rushed for 98 yards and two touchdowns in spot action last year. Outside of those three the running back pond has dried up as two former Jayhawks transferred away last week. Sophomores Donte Bean and Carmon Boyd-Anderson each asked Mangino to be let out of their scholarships. Bean plans to join the Washburn University team while Boyd-Anderson is still undecided. Bean figured to get only a few carries late in games while coaches were considering redshirting Boyd-Anderson. Recently Mangino reacted after a practice when asked if he was concerned about his depth at running back. Why? Mangino said. You got two guys who hardly ever played. I dont have a problem with what we have, to tell you the truth. Theres no strength in numbers, its the quality of the players not the quantity. Fourth on the running back depth chart after the recent departures is redshirt freshman Rell Lewis. Lewis has a body size similar to Sharp and should get any carries that would have gone to Bean. Edited by Luke Morris

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Five Jayhawks drafted
Two months after winning the national championship, the Jayhawks made history one more time. Kansas became only the third team ever alongside the 2007 Florida Gators and the 2006 Connecticut Huskies to have five players selected in the NBA Draft. Brandon Rush was the first Jayhawk selected at No. 13 to the Portland Trailblazers, who promptly traded him to the Indiana Pacers. The one swap was nothing compared to what Darrell Arthur went through. He fell to No. 27 overall because of a question regarding his health and was traded four times. He wound up on the Memphis Grizzles. The Minnesota

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case joins staff; mario chalmers father resigns
Guard Jeremy Case was the oldest Jayhawk on last years championship team, as he had already spent five years in Lawrence. Now, Case will spend at least one more year at Kansas. Self announced that Case would serve as a graduate student manager for the team next season. Case wants to go into coaching, and the gig at Kansas could be invaluable to his future career. Jeremy has the potential to be an outstanding coach, Self said. This will hopefully jump-start his career in coaching. Case will replace Michael Lee, who held the job last season after graduating in 2005. The position is similar to the one Self had on former coach Larry Browns staff in 1985. Self will also have to find a new director of basketball operations. Ronnie Chalmers, father of Mario, resigned from his position last week to pursue other interests.

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Timberwolves drafted Mario Chalmers in the second round and traded him to the Miami Heat while Sasha Kaun and Darnell Jackson both were acquired by the Cleveland Cavaliers after trades. Kaun will play professional basketball in Russia next season for CSKA Moscow, but could return to the NBA after his contract is up in three years. Jackson is the only drafted Jayhawk who has not signed a contract yet.

With a squad full of new players, Self prepares for difficult season
BY CASE KEEFER
ckeefer@kansan.com Kansas coach Bill Self has to assemble an entirely new starting lineup and help seven newcomers adjust at the beginning of the season. And the Jayhawks schedule isnt going to make the process any simpler. Kansas will play seven teams that made the NCAA tournament in its nonconference schedule to open the season. Self called the schedule as daunting as any the Jayhawks have lined up in his five seasons in Lawrence. It will be a great test for one of the youngest teams in the country, Self said. Certainly, were going to have to grow up fast. Kansas first four games will be part of the OReilly Auto Parts CBE Classic. The Jayhawks will play two games at home, Nov. 16 and Nov. 18, as part of the tournament before traveling to the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., on Nov. 24 and Nov. 25 for two more games. In Kansas City, Kansas will face two of three teams Florida, Syracuse and Washington. Kansas will also play at the Sprint Center on Dec. 16 against Massachusetts, last years National Invitational Tournament runner-up. Other highlights of the nonconference slate include road contests against Arizona and Michigan State and home dates with Tennessee and Temple. And dont worry, watching the defending national champions shouldnt be a problem regardless of location. Twenty-four of the Jayhawks games will be televised nationally. The remaining seven will be aired locally. Kansas has always received great television exposure, Self said. But certainly after winning the NCAA title last year, it gives us a chance for even more TV exposure. Four of the nationally televised games will be a part of ESPNs Big Monday telecast with the first coming January 19 in a game with Texas A&M. The Big 12 Conference season begins the week before in a January 13 game against Kansas State in Allen Fieldhouse. The Jayhawks will also wrap up the conference season in Lawrence on March 7 with a meeting against Texas. Kansas will play four exhibition games. In addition to the traditional two at the start of November, the Jayhawks will travel to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada during Labor Day Weekend to play the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. Edited by Luke Morris

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Kansas basketball 2008 schedule

Date Tuesday Nov. 4th Tuesday Nov. 11th Sunday Nov. 16th Tuesday Nov. 18th Monday Nov. 24th Tuesday Nov. 25th Friday Nov. 28th Monday Dec. 1st Wednesday Dec. 3rd Saturday Dec. 6th Saturday Dec. 13th Saturday Dec. 20th Tuesday Dec. 23rd Tuesday Dec. 30th Saturday Jan. 3rd Tuesday Jan. 6th Saturday Jan. 10th Tuesday Jan. 13th Saturday Jan. 17th Monday Jan. 19th Saturday Jan. 24th Wednesday Jan. 28th Saturday Jan. 31st Monday Feb. 2nd Saturday Feb. 7th Monday Feb. 9th Saturday Feb. 14th Wednesday Feb. 18th Saturday Feb. 21st Monday Feb. 23rd Sunday March 1st Wednesday March 4th Saturday March 7th March 11th-14th Opponent Emporia State (exhibition) Washburn (exhibition) CBE Classic First Round (Lawrence) CBE Classic Second Round (Lawrence) CBE Classic Semifinal (Kansas City, Mo.) CBE Classic Consolation/Final Coppin State Kent State TBA Jackson State Massachusetts (Kansas City, Mo.) Temple at Arizona Albany Tennessee Siena at Michigan State Kansas State at Colorado Texas A&M at Iowa State at Nebraska Colorado at Baylor Oklahoma State at Missouri at Kansas State Iowa State Nebraska at Oklahoma Missouri at Texas Tech Texas Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship (Oklahoma City) Time 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 8 p.m. 9 p.m. 6:45/9:15 p.m. 7 p.m. 8 p.m. 7 p.m. 1 p.m. TBA TBA 9:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. TBA 7 p.m. 1 p.m. 7 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 8 p.m. 1 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 3 p.m. 8 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 8 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 3 p.m. 8 p.m. 1 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 3 p.m. TBA TV Jayhawk TV Jayhawk TV ESPNU ESPNU ESPN2 ESPNU/ESPN2 Jayhawk TV ESPNU Jayhawk TV Jayhawk TV ESPN ESPN2 FSN ESPNU ESPN Jayhawk TV CBS Big 12 Network ABC ESPN ESPN ESPN2 ESPNU ESPN ABC ESPN ABC Big 12 Network Big 12 Network ESPN CBS ESPN2 CBS ESPN

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Jayhawk Paul Pierce. What up, champ? Pierce says, smiling. Chalmers smiles back, a shy-kid smile. Chalmers walks backstage and sees Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens. Owens wants to talk about The Shot. Chalmers smiles again. A few feet away, Chalmers bumps into two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash. Nash congratulates Chalmers and asks where Chalmers is playing now. Miami, Chalmers says. Of course, all this happened during a pre-packaged backstage segment for ESPNs broadcast. But you get the feeling Mario deals with this a lot. All these people wanting to talk about The Shot. His life has changed a lot in the past four and a half months. Hes playing for the Miami Heat now. Hes hitting South Beach with new pal Michael Beasley. Hell make more than $2.5 million during the next three years. And thats why you want to talk to Chalmers. You want to ask him if hes tired of talking about The Shot yet. Is he worried that hell never be able to escape the legacy hes created for himself at age 22? Chalmers sat on that podium at the Final Four, just minutes after the shot that made him a college basketball immortal. He seemed so oblivious to history. It was just a lucky shot, he would say nonchalantly. So you want to ask him. How is he going to handle playing 10 minutes per game this season as an NBA rookie? How is he going to handle being known forever as the guy who made that shot? And how will we handle this basketball season? Kansas has seven newcomers. Five freshman and two transfers watched on television as Chalmers swished a three-pointer over the outstretched hand of Derrick Rose. How will we handle it when they struggle, when they make freshman mistakes, when they play timid? How will we handle it when the young kids wearing the uniforms of the defending champs post a double-digit loss season? n n n increased expectations. All of it. Fambrough lived it in 1969. Sure, Kansas lost Douglass, and a bunch of other players from the Orange Bowl team graduated and moved on. Still, Rodgers and Fambrough and rest of the coaching staff never anticipated what would happen in 1969. They had done so much the previous year. Theyd thumped Nebraska in Lincoln, theyd beat Missouri, who was ranked No. 13 at the time, and most thought they should have beat Penn State at the Orange Bowl. But when Kansas lost at Texas Tech in week one, something didnt feel right. They shut out Syracuse the next week 13-0. But after a week three loss at New Mexico, the Jayhawks could never find the magic from the previous year. They folded in close games, losing 26-22 to K-State and 21-17 at Nebraska in successive weeks. The losses kept mounting, and the season was punctuated with a humiliating 69-21 gut-punch from Missouri on the last day of the season. They finished the season 1-9 after an eight game losing streak. We went from the castle to the outhouse in a hurry, Fambrough says. There were plenty of reasons for the meltdown in 69. Coaches were overconfident, some players felt satisfied after 1968, and they just didnt have the weapons. We learned a great lesson, Fambrough says. In football, or anything else, when you stop working you go to the bottom. n n n title defense goes better than his. n n n football team and the 1989 basketball team are still lurking on Mt. Oread. Maybe itd be nice to see Mario Chalmers walking around campus, his hat slightly askew, just like it was at the Final Four. Maybe itd be nice see Aqib Talib lined up at cornerback in the football teams home opener on Aug. 30. But Marios in Miami, and Brandon, Darnell, Sasha, Darrell, and Russell are gone too. And Talibs in Tampa, playing in the NFL with Derek Fine, Marcus Henry and Anthony Collins. The best year ever is over. And all thats left are the T-shirts.

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Best year ever. At least, according to numerous t-shirts. It was a crimson and blue Christmas in January and February and March and April and so on. So now what? n n n So whats it all mean, all these little stories? Its tough defending NCAA championships. We all know that. Heck, its tough enough winning one. And sustaining football success at Kansas has never been easy either. Theres a reason the Jayhawks have never gone to bowl games in consecutive seasons. Maybe its that Kansas has such a poor history of following up championship seasons. Maybe the ghosts of the 1969

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Three years ago, Todd Reesing was just looking for a place to play. He had compiled outrageous passing numbers as a junior at Lake Travis High School in Texas. He flung the football around Texas high school stadiums like it was a Nerf Vortex, throwing for 40 touchdown passes. College coaches sighed. He didnt look like a Big 12 quarterback, and nobody wanted him. He did the same his senior year. Still, nobody wanted him. The kid was just too small. But he was smart too. He had good grades. He got some interest from academic powers Duke and Northwestern. But Duke and Northwestern play football like the French swim Olympic relays. And for a while it seemed like that was about as good as it would get. During that whole process, I was trying to get anyones attention, really, Reesing says. Luckily for Reesing and Kansas a highlight tape of Reesing ended up in front of Kansas coach Mark Mangino. As Mangino watched, he saw this little kid from Austin carving up defenses with his right arm and running circles around bigger, stronger defenders. He saw a football player. Thats why you want to talk to Reesing. The kid was an epiphany last season, and his numbers were equally sublime. Thirty-three touchdown passes and just seven interceptions. At one point, the kid threw 213 straight passes without an interception. How good is that? Kansas States junior quarterback Josh Freeman has averaged one interception for every 29 pass attempts during his first two seasons. So whats the problem? Reesing might have been too good. Like a band that releases a classic debut album, or an actor who wins an Oscar in his first movie, Reesing may have nowhere to go but down. So how will the kid handle a season where he throws only 25 touchdowns and wins only eight games? And how will we handle it? How will we handle the losses? How will we handle it when the rest of the country points their snobby fingers towards Lawrence and says, Told you so. Look what happened when Kansas played a tougher schedule. n n n

Maybe thats the problem. If last year was as good as it gets, then what do people have to look forward to? And that brings us back to Reesing, standing on that 45-yard line. Because people want to believe there is more to look forward to. People want to believe that theres more magic left. And right now basketball is months away, so people look toward Memorial Stadium, and they look to Reesing, Kansas quarterback funslinger. Hey Todd, youre up. Edited by Mark Dent

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Don Fambrough just got out of the hospital. His voice is scratchy and dried out. But he has a story to tell. Hes in his 80s now, and its been more than 25 years since Fambrough was the head coach of Kansas football program. But 40 years ago in 1968, Fambrough was on the sidelines as Kansas greats John Riggins and Bobby Douglass led the Jayhawks to the Orange Bowl for the first time. That team finished 9-3, tied for first in the Big Eight. They were one play away from beating Penn State in the Orange Bowl. Kansas coach Pepper Rodgers was doing the unthinkable. He was turning Kansas into a football school. We felt like we had it made, Fambrough, a line coach under Rogers at the time, now says. Fambrough knows what Reesing and the rest of his teammates are going through. The newfound respect. The

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How do you defend a title? How do you climb Mt. Everest two times in a row? How do you defend a title when your best player sprints off to the NBA? How do you defend a title when fans need to buy a program for the actual purpose of figuring out whos on the team? Scooter Barry may be able to answer those questions. Barry is 42 years old. He lives in California now. But in 1989, Barry was a starting guard on a Kansas team coming off a national championship. Barry thought his senior year would be about defending the title he helped win in 1988. But then the NCAA told Barry and his teammates they wouldnt be defending their title. They were getting banned from the NCAA tournament for recruiting violations, and it was all very confusing because nobody on the team had anything to do with any of it. Not the coach, not the players, not anybody. That 1989 team didnt really look anything like the 1988 championship team. All-American Danny Manning was gone, off to play in the NBA. Senior Chris Piper was gone too. And maybe the biggest change was the guy on the sideline. Larry Brown, the architect behind the NCAA title, had skated off to coach the San Antonio Spurs, and in his place was a dark-haired, fresh-faced assistant from North Carolina named Roy Williams. We had no idea what to expect, Barry now says. And things got real complicated when, just weeks after Williams replaced Brown, Barry found out Kansas was banned from the 1989 NCAA tournament because of some improper benefits given to former recruit Vincent Askew two years earlier. So Barry, a captain on the 89 team, was stuck trying to defend a championship he couldnt defend. But Williams rallied his team, and it won some games to start the season. But then came a rash of injuries, and it didnt help that Manning was gone, and Kansas finished 19-12. They missed the NCAA tournament, of course. They were the first defending champs to be banned from the tournament, and 89 was the last year Kansas didnt participate in the NCAA tournament. So Barry would like to answer the questions about defending a championship. But he cant really answer them. He never got the opportunity. But he can feel for the returning players on this years team. And the new ones. Theyre starting over and they have to carry the burden of a title, Barry says. Its a burden that will be thrust on a group of five freshman and two transfers. The new guys have to defend a title they didnt win. If nothing else, Barry hopes this

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Kansas grad student makes Olympic debut

Scott Russell will fulfill his Olympic dream and throw the javelin for the Canadian team on Wednesday in Beijing
BY RUSTIN DODD
dodd@kansan.com A dog barked for the second time, and Scott Russell apologized. Being an Olympian doesnt mean youre exempt from babysitting your pooch. Im sorry, Russell said. Im trying to let my dog outside. That was a month ago, when Russell was still in Lawrence. Hes in Beijing, China, now, or at least close to it. In two days, Russell will step into the Birds Nest the nickname for the Olympic Stadium in Beijing and try to throw a javelin higher and farther than he ever has before. Hell need to if he wants to win. Russell, graduate student and a former Kansas javelin thrower, has been thinking about this moment for years. He thought about it when he was a junior in high school in Windsor, Canada. He thought about it when he was named All-American during his career at the University of Kansas. And he thought about it when injuries kept him off the Canadian Olympic team in 2004. The time for thinking is done. Russells Olympic odyssey begins on Wednesday. The 6-foot-9, 270-pound Russell is about to step out on the biggest stage in the world. n n n

The throw that qualified Scott Russell for the Olympic Games in javelin is immortalized on YouTube albeit with a slight caveat. Through grainy home video, you can see Russell skipping down the javelin runup, reaching full stride and uncorking a violent throw punctuated with a grunt. The result? A throw of 83.20 meters, or 272.97 feet, and a throw long enough to give Russell the Olympic A standard. The translation? Russell had qualified for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. This is where the caveat comes in. In order to earn a spot on the Canadian Olympic team, Russell had to go through a little formality known as the Canadian Track and Field Olympic Trials. But because Russell was the only Canadian Javelin thrower to earn the Olympic A standard, he just needed to finish in the top four. I was the most relaxed Ive ever been for an Olympic Trials or for a national championship, Russell said. And it showed. In his hometown of Windsor, Ontario, in front of nearly 40 friends and family members, Russell finished first at the trials on July 5 with a throw of 74.74 meters. The pressure was being in front of my family and friends, Russell said.

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Scott Russell prepares to release the javelin during the final round of a competition in the Kansas Relays in 2007. Russell, a graduate student from Windsor, Ontario, will compete in the javelin throw in Beijing this Wednesday as a member of the Canadian Olympic team. Russell qualified for the team after finishing first in the Canadian Track and Field Olympic Trials for javelin throw with a throw of 83.20 meters, or 272.97 feet. One man in the Russell clan stood a little taller than the rest on that day in Windsor. And to understand all of Russells triumphs and failures, all his records and injuries, you have talk to his father, Dan Russell. n n n his Olympic dream. realized that his future was in track Dan had always steered his chil- and field and not on the basketball dren toward the basketball court. court. He had grown to love the game Russell started throwing javelin in high school in the ninth grade. But and went on to play basketI was the most relaxed Ive ever success wasnt immediate. ball in college. This isnt He coached been for an Olympic Trials or for my game, his children as a national championship. Russell told his they grew up dad. and up. Dans But at the Scott RuSSell son, Scott, would grow Former Kansas javelin thrower urging of his Dad, Russell to be 6-foot-9. stuck with it. Russell had Dan hoped the game, too. Hed make two all-city teams in high javelin would help his basketball. Youll get in the weight room school and he attracted interest from the University of Windsor and youll get stronger, Dan said and the University of Detroit- to his son. If you listen to Dan long enough, Mercy. But by that time, Russell had hell tell you all about his sons successes. Russell won the All-Ontario performances. javelin and discus titles during high With his funds dwindling, school. He was an All-American Russell nearly gave up on his dream. at Kansas. He set the Canadian But sitting out at dinner one night javelin record in in 2005, front of 45,000 Russells forCanadians in mer coach Its just a relief to finally accom- h a n d e d the 2001 World Championships plish a life-time dream. him a letin Edmonton. ter. Enclosed And hes won was a $2,500 Scott RuSSell check from seven of the last eight National Former Kansas javelin thrower an anonyCanadian javelin mous donor championships. who wanted But Dan talked to see Russell about the setbacks continue to too. There was the groin injury pursue his dream. that hampered Russells attempt at Other people cared enough qualifying for the 2004 Olympics about him and had enough confiin Athens, and the period in 2005, dence in him to do something like when Athletics Canada quit fund- that, Dan said. Imagine, what are ing Russell after a string of poor they thinking right now? A month after receiving the check, Russell set a new Canadian record of 84.41 meters or 276.94 feet. Russells funding returned and he began to look towards the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. n n n

His phone rang back in Windsor on June 15. The person on the other end said just one word and Dan knew exactly what had happened. Bangarang, Scott said from miles away in British Columbia. When he said bangarang, I knew exactly what he meant, Dan said. With the home camcorder recording, Russell had thrown the javelin 83.20 meters that day. He was that much closer to realizing

Russell walked into the Birds Nest on August 8 under the red and white Maple Leaf. Dan was thousands of miles away, in Canada. He had to choose between the Olympics and Scotts upcoming wedding. Hell follow the games from home, and if he wants to see his sons Olympic throws, he may have to upload another grainy YouTube video He says if his son makes top 12 in Beijing, the trip will have been a success. To do more than that, Dan says, his son may have to throw farther than he ever has. Possible? Maybe its possible, Dan said. Anything seems possible when your son is an Olympian. And as Russell says, Its just a relief to finally accomplish a lifetime dream. Edited by Brieun Scott
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Former Hawks looking for new homes in NBA

BY JESSE TEMPLE
jtemple@ku.edu Summer league games in the NBA certainly wont be confused with the leagues regular season contests that begin in late October. In the summer, the superstars are still at home. Rosters generally consist of rookies, other young players and basketball journeymen trying to make a team. And the rules are a bit lacking, too, as players are allotted 10 fouls instead of the usual six. That doesnt mean the Kansas hoopsters taken in the 2008 NBA Draft didnt get anything out of it. In fact, perhaps no player benefited more from participating in the summer league than former Jayhawk Mario Chalmers. This years version of the summer league was split into two sections. The first was a six-team league from July 7 to July 11 in Orlando, which included Chalmers Miami Heat team. The second was the bigger, 21-team field in Las Vegas, which concluded July 20. Both Darrell Arthur and Darnell Jackson played in Las Vegas for their respective franchises. Chalmers played so well for the Heat that he earned second-team all-league honors in Orlando for averaging 15.8 points and 5.4 assists in five games. He also was rewarded for his play with a three-year, $2.3 million contract, even though by getting selected in the NBA drafts second round, Chalmers was not guaranteed any money. Heat general manager Randy Pfund told The Kansan in July that the summer league played a pivotal role in determining Chalmers value. He kind of proved what we optimistically thought was good about Mario with his play in the Orlando Summer League, Pfund said. He handled the ball very well as a point guard, shot the ball well and defended very well against a couple guys drafted very high. Pfund was referring to Chalmers match-ups with No. 1 overall draft pick Derrick Rose and No. 4 pick Russell Westbrook. Against each player, Chalmers scored 11 points and averaged five assists. We already were very high on him, but it kind of validated the pick we made with Mario and led to us being convinced that doing a three-year contract with him made the most sense, Pfund said. Getting those five games under his belt was a great opportunity to get some experience under fire. Jackson made his pro debut at the Las Vegas Summer League for Cleveland. Selected No. 52 in on 4-of-9 shooting with eight the draft by Miami and traded rebounds. Arthur also made his profesto Cleveland, Jackson is expected to sign a two-year contract worth sional debut in Las Vegas, playabout $1.2 million. Cavaliers assis- ing for the Memphis Grizzlies. He tant general manager Chris Grant struggled mightily in his teams first three games, said the sumcommitting a mer league was a good We expect (Jackson) to compete whopping 26 fouls. Arthur opportunity b o u n c e d for Jackson at a high level, defend and be back, howto show what open to coaching. Its the first time ever, to score made him so 23 points with valuable while around the block. So were learnsix rebounds at Kansas. ing as much as theyre learning. in a later conWe expect CHRIS GRANT test, this time him to compete at a high level, Cleveland Cavaliers assistant GM picking up five fouls. defend and be Unlike the open to coaching, Grant said. Its the first time his former Jayhawk teammates, around the block. So were learning Brandon Rush, the No. 13 overall pick, didnt play in an NBA as much as theyre learning. In his first game with the summer league. Rushs Indiana Cavaliers, Jackson scored 10 points Pacers began the Orlando Summer League on July 7, but Rush who was traded from Portland to Indiana on draft night did not officially join the Pacers until July 9. Shortly after, Rush signed his contract, which will pay him more than $3.1 million during the next two seasons. Indiana president of basketball operations Larry Bird said he was certain that missing summer league wouldnt affect Rushs NBA readiness. As a lottery pick, Rush had much less to prove by attending the summer league than other KU players. With his talents, I think once real practice starts, hell get a better feel for it, Bird said. But hell be here most of the summer. Just having him here this summer, getting acclimated to the city, thats a major factor. Edited by Luke Morris

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Fresh faces with big experience fill young Jayhawk team

The top junior college prospect, a community college national champ and twin tower power forwards are a few of the next big things
BY CASE KEEFER Mario little
ckeefer@kansan.com forward Hometown: Chicago scouting report: Little could help ease the loss of Brandon Rush, playing the same position and possessing similar qualities. Little, the nations top junior college prospect, is considered an outstanding rebounder and defender. bill selfs take: Hes a very good scorer and he will bring an element of toughness to our program. scouting report: Appleton likes to win. He led Midland Community College to a national championship two years ago, and doesnt mind sacrificing his own statistics for the betterment of his team. Thats the profile of an ideal player for Self. selfs take: Tyrone has been well drilled and I am sure the transition will be smoothed with him coming into our system. caught the attention of all who have watched him play in scrimmages or the Kansas City Pro-Am League this summer. Taylor, a guard known for versatility, scored 47 points and recorded 17 rebounds in one of the Pro-Am league games. taylor speaks: Ive never been on a losing team in my life. I just cant do it. lethal from anywhere on the floor but hes also big enough to grind out points in the paint. He averaged 27 points per game in high school. selfs take: Marcus is a very skilled, do-everything wing when he has the ball. He is a tall perimeter player that can also go inside. ing. He averaged 15 rebounds per game as Marcus teammate at Prep Charter High School. selfs take: Markieff is a big forward that can play either spot on your front line. He is a very good low post player. Position: power forward/center Hometown: Philadelphia scouting report: Markieff Morris should add depth to the depleted Jayhawk frontcourt. Markieff may not be as skilled a scorer as Marcus, but is known for rebound-

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Jamaican sprinter breaks world record

Bolt wins gold as he surpasses his own fastest 100-m time
ASSocIAtED PrESS BEIJING Imagine if he had really tried. Pounding his chest, turning up the palms of his outstretched arms, mugging for the cameras before he even crossed the finish line, Usain Bolt rewrote the record books again and captured his first Olympic medal Saturday, toying with the field and running the 100-meter dash in a stunning 9.69 seconds. His left shoe was untied when he crossed the finish line. Not that it mattered much. He couldve walked across. It was a blowout, a rout, no contest, as the 21-year-old Jamaican took a huge lead halfway through the race and finished upright, looking to his right to find not a challenger but instead a bunch of photographers recording history. It wasnt planned, the newly crowned Worlds Fastest Man said of his running celebration. My aim was to come out and win. When I saw the time, Im celebrating. Im happy. He broke his own record, set in May in New York, by .03 seconds and became the first sprinter to set the world record in the Olympics since Donovan Bailey ran 9.84 at the 1996 Atlanta Games. No one will get near it, fellow Jamaican Michael Frater, the sixthplace finisher, said of Bolts record. Bolt beat Richard Thompson of Trinidad and Tobago by 0.2 second more than a body length while American Walter Dix was third. The race marked the first time six runners broke 10 seconds in the Olympics. There was no wind the reading was 0.0. Asafa Powell, the Jamaican who held the world record for three years before Bolt grabbed it, continued his string of disappointments in big races, fading to fifth for the second straight Olympics. American Tyson Gay, who was supposed to be the third part of a so-called dream race, didnt even make the final, eliminated with a fifth-place finish in his semi. Bolts specialty has been the 200 meters, and he will be a heavy favorite to win that one next week in what would be the first mens Olympic sprint double since Carl Lewis in 1988. But Bolt persuaded his coach 13 months ago to let him try the 100, too and what quick progress he has made. Usain was spectacular, Powell said. He was definitely untouchable tonight. He could have gone a lot faster if he had run straight through the line. Bolt is 6-foot-5, one reason he was never really pegged to run the 100 men that tall arent supposed to be able to get out of the starting blocks fast enough to win

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U.S. women dominate New Zealand in final pool-play game 96-60

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ASSocIAtED PrESS BEIJING Another game, another rout. Tina Thompson scored 10 of her 15 points during a 21-0 run in the second quarter and the U.S. womens basketball team beat New Zealand 96-60 on Sunday night. The U.S. closed out pool play in the same fashion as all its other games in the Olympics with a blowout. The Americans won the five games by an average of 43 points. With the exception of a rough first half against Spain and the first 3 minutes against the Czech Republic, the U.S. looked unbeatable. The U.S. will play South Korea in the quarterfinals Tuesday night. The South Koreans advanced to the next round by holding off Latvia 72-68 on Sunday. New Zealand was able to stay close with the U.S. for a quarter behind hot shooting. They were 8-for-16 in the first quarter and only trailed by five at the end of the period. The U.S. took over in the second quarter turning up their defensive intensity. Lisa Wallbuttons jumper with 7:29 left in the period cut New Zealands deficit to 29-22 before the Americans scored 21 straight points. Lisa Leslie started the run with a layup and then Thompson hit three layups and two jumpers over the next 5 minutes as the U.S. stretched out its lead. Delisha Milton-Jones reverse layup ended the run with 18 seconds left in the half and put the Americans up 50-22. New Zealand (1-4) finally

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New Zealands guard Kate McMeekenRuscoe defends Team USAs Cappie Pondexter during the second quarter of their womens preliminary basketball game at the Beijing Olympics Sunday. The U.S. team will play South Korea on Tuesday. scored on Jillian Harmons jumper from the corner just at the halftime buzzer. The Kiwis missed eight straight shots and had three turnovers during the drought. The U.S. extended its lead in the third quarter to 38 in the third quarter behind Katie Smith, who had eight of her 13 points in the period. Seimone Augustus added 12 points and Tamika Catchings had 11 for the U.S. Angela Marino led New Zealand with 17 points and Wallbutton added 14. The U.S. also held an incredible turnover margin over New Zealand. The Americans had only 10 compared with New Zealands 21. In other games Sunday, Australia defeated Russia 75-55, China beat the Czech Republic 79-63, Spain routed Mali 79-47, and Brazil topped Belarus 68-53.

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Jamaica's Usain Bolt crosses the finish line to win gold in the men's 100-meter final in the Beijing Olympics Saturday. He finished the race in a world-record time of 9.69 seconds, beating his previous world record of 9.72 set in May. the shortest sprint. Bolt actually skidded from the blocks in this one not perfect, but then again, he didnt really need to be. He needed 41 strides to cover the 100 meters and practically loped past the finish line, looking to his right but finding no other runners there. When he crossed, he kept running about halfway around the track. He did a hip-swiveling dance, blew kisses to the crowd, clowned around with arms out like a bird in flight, and held up the Jamaican flag. Later, he took off his golden spikes, which will, of course, look great next to his gold medal. Bolt had always seemed Olympic champion material in the 200 meters, and there was long and spirited debate between him and his coach, Glen Mills, about which other race to make part of his program. Mills liked the 400, thought Bolt was better built for that. Bolt didnt like that kind of work too grueling. So he committed to working on his starts, so important in these races. After less than a year of training in earnest, he lined up on Randalls Island in New York and routed Gay to set the world record at 9.72 seconds. Even then, Bolt and Mills played games about whether he would go for the double at the Olympics. They were just messing with everyone. A guy this fast doesnt say no when the chance is there. After he set the world record the first time, Bolt said he was happy to have it but wanted the Olympic gold as well. Records, he said, can be broken. Olympic golds last forever. Bolt, of course, has both but insists he was only going for the win this time. I didnt come here to run the world record, because I was the world record-holder, Bolt said. I came here to win.

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Romanian gymnast edges out Johnson for the gold

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in three years. The gold medalist at the last three world championships landed on her knees on her BEIJING Once more, the gold second attempt, leaving the commedal was within Shawn Johnsons petition wide open. North Koreas Hong Un Jong reach. Again, it stepped in was snatched with two solid away. I had a little bit of hope inside vaults and Two days clean landings after Nastia of me, but seeing how beautititle Liukin edged fully she executed her routine, I to win the first the Johnson for gymnastics the all-around knew. medal for her title, Romanias ShAwn JOhnSOn nation. Sandra Izbasa American gymnast The mens the very event finals last competiwere heres tor grabbed a shock the floor exercise gold that was almost in the dominated by China. Zou Kai won the floor exercise and Xiao Qin Americans hands. After Johnson went in the unen- took pommel horse, making the viable first spot Sunday night and hosts 4-for-4. Add in the womens saw her 15.50 stand up through six successes, and its been a medals other finalists, including Liukin, feast for the Chinese. And not at all disappointing for only Izbasa remained. But the Romanian wowed the judges with the U.S. women, who now have her soaring somersaults and solid five medals. Johnson and Liukin had a hand in all of them. landings, earning a 15.65. After the all-around, I was That left Johnson, the 2007 world champion, with three sil- excited to have made the floor finals and a ver medals in bronze medal Beijing, and feels great, gave Liukin, After the all-around I was Liukin said. who took Neither of bronze, one of excited to have made the floor them comeach. Not a bad finals and a bronze medal feels peted in vault, haul, with more where Cheng event finals to great. followed the come. best effort of Johnson, granASTIA LIukIn the night, a cious as always, American gymnast 16.075, with wore a bright her huge smile all night, error, ending and gave several competitors big hugs when they finished their rou- up with the bronze behind Oksana tines. She barely flinched when Chusovitina of Germany. Cheng Izbasas mark came up, and the also fell during her floor routine, 16-year-old American also had a then burst into tears as her coach tried to console her on the sidehug for the winner. I had a little bit of hope inside line. Chusovitina, competing for of me, Johnson said, but seeing how beautifully she executed her Germany for the first time but in her fifth Olympics, won silver. A routine, I knew. The biggest upset of the night native of Uzbekistan and now a came in womens vault, with Chinas German citizen, the 33-year-old Cheng Fei losing for the first time Chusovitina said she feels 18.

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Romanias gymnast sandra izbasa is kissed by her coach during the apparatus finals at the Olympics in Beijing Sunday. Izbasa won the gold medal.

Today I concentrated only on my moves, not the medals, she said. I felt that I had a very normal performance without surprises, and

The Chinese men just kept stepthat is why I got a silver medal. American Alicia Sacramone, ping all over the competition. Zou zipped through a series who has three world championof pretzel-like ship medals twists and in vault, felt I definitely had to pull myself lightningshe deserved a somermedal, but fintogether a little bit the last few quick to easily ished fourth. saults Im disap- days. Im sure someday Ill apbeat Spains pointed, espea io preciate what I did. I still have to G e r v ins the cially since Deferr third place get to that step. floor exerhad a fall and cises. The ALICIA SACRAMOnE I made both of Spaniard American gymnast mine, she said. took the silI cant change ver with a her score. The judges made up powerful series, then threw kisstheir minds. es to the crowd. Russias Anton Sacramone was hoping to atone Golotsutskov got the bronze. for her weak performance in the It is amazing to go to three team compeOlympics tition, when and get three I was struggling during those she fell off the medals, said balance beam, Deferr, the 10 minutes. I was worried that I 2000 and 2004 then struggled on floor as the wouldnt get the gold medal. vault winner. United States W o r l d finished second c h a m p i XIAO QIn on to China. Diego Chinese gymnast Hypolito of I definitely had to pull Brazil seemed myself together headed for a a little bit the medal until he last few days, Sacramone admit- fell on the landing of his final pass. ted. Im sure someday Ill appre- Hypolito then sat nearly in tears, ciate what I did. I still have to get shaking his head back and forth. to that step. Im sorry, Hypolito said,

before breaking down, his body shaking as he cried. Im sorry to all the Brazilians. Three-time world champ Marian Dragulescu of Romania fell on his second tumbling pass. On pommel horse, even though world champion Xiao had a break in form and was hardly overwhelming, his 15.875 easily beat the eight-man field. I was nervous when I was watching the other gymnasts competing after me, Xiao said. This is a competition, so two or three mistakes are pretty common. I was struggling during those 10 minutes. I was worried that I wouldnt get the gold medal. Filip Ude of Croatia won the silver. His 15.725 score tied with Britains Louis Smith, but Ude won the tiebreaker with a higher execution score, 9.325 to 9.025, earning Croatias first-ever gymnastics medal. Smith had a strong, clean routine to take the first Olympic gymnastics medal for his nation since a 1912 team bronze. All-around winner Yang Wei of China was fourth. China now has won the mens team, the all-around with Yang, the pommel horse and the floor exercise.

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Junior says U.S. Womens Open experience beneficial

BY CASE KEEFER
ckeefer@kansan.com the first hole and clinched a spot in the U.S. Womens Open. So thats the story she keeps telling not how she finished 153 out of 156 in the actual Open, alongside world-renowned golfers such as Annika Sorenstam and Se Ri Pak. Even though Im upset with how I played, being able to have that experience was good enough for me, Powers said. She also got to experience the Open, which was played at Interlachen Country Club, with two of her closest confidants by her side. Emilys father, Tim Powers, served as her caddie, and Kansas coach Erin ONeil traveled from Lawrence to watch her play. It was neat to see her in that atmosphere and just to see how she carried herself, ONeil said. It seemed like she fit right in. The problem the course presented to many golfers was its excessive length. At 6,789 yards, Interlachen Country Club is the longest course to ever play host to a U.S. Womens Open.

Emily Powers doesnt want to remember the golf she played in the U.S. Womens Open in Edina, Minn., in late June, but shell never forget what she went through to get there. The Kansas junior, who missed the cut at the tournament after finishing 19 over par, was one of the final golfers to qualify for the event in May. On May 18, Powers received an invitation to a sectional qualifying tournament that began at 7 a.m. the next day in West Bloomfield, Mich. nine hours away from her hometown, Quincy, Ill. The Powers family got to the qualifying course as fast as they could, but they arrived only minutes before the tournament began leaving no time for Powers to play a practice round. She didnt need it. Powers played 36 holes and posted scores of 76 and 78, adding her name to a nine-player playoff the next morning. Powers parred

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Emily Powers, Quincy, Ill., junior, lines up her shot at the Marilynn Smith-Sunflower Invitational ini 2007. Powers played in the U.S. Womens Open in Edina, Minn. in June. Both Emily Powers and ONeil agreed, however, that it didnt affect her game. They blamed her woes on poor course management. Powers hit only eight of 18 greens in her first round and took 36 putts in her second round. Powers would like to play in the LPGA full-time someday. Seeing the inner workings of a major tournament and how professionals handle themselves could be beneficial to reaching that goal. You get there and you say, Whoa, this is a major, Tim Powers said. This is one of the biggest tournaments for men or women its what everyone works for. Inbee Park, a 19-year-old, won the tournament with a 9-under par, becoming the youngest player to ever win the Open. Powers didnt stick around to watch the finish. She was ready to return home and work on her game. She played in two more tournaments this summer before returning to Lawrence to prepare for the Jayhawks upcoming season. Last season, Powers was the most consistent performer for Kansas with a team-best 75 stroke average. Powers said her goal for next season was to lead the Jayhawks to the national tournament. ONeil thinks Powers U.S. Womens Open experience will help with that ambition. It will be a good motivator for the rest of the team, ONeil said. They can see that they can do it too if they put their mind to it. Edited by Ramsey Cox

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Nadal wins gold for Spain; Williams sisters take doubles

BY STEVEN WINE
ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING As Rafael Nadal stood in front of the medal podium, his nations flag draped across his back like a cape, he looked a little like a Spanish Superman. In tennis, he is. Already assured of the No. 1 ranking, Nadal was No. 1 at the Olympics. He won a gold medal Sunday, overcoming two set points in the second set and holding every service game to beat Fernando Gonzalez of Chile 6-3, 7-6 (2), 6-3. The gold medal was the first ever for Spain in Olympic tennis, and another milestone in an astounding summer surge by Nadal, who will officially end Roger Federers 4-year reign atop the rankings Monday. Nadal has won 38 of his past 39 matches, including victories over Federer in the finals at the French Open and Wimbledon. Nowhere in my best dreams I can imagine something like what I did this year, Nadal said. I know how difficult it is to win these things, and especially here, because you only have one chance every four years. Elena Dementieva earned the gold in womens singles, taking advantage of 17 double-faults by fellow Russian Dinara Safina to win 3-6, 7-5, 6-3. In womens doubles, Venus and Serena Williams of the United States won the gold, beating Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain 6-2, 6-0. The sisters celebrated with shrieks, then shared a hug. The Williams sisters failed to medal in singles but found considerable consolation in doubles, improving their lifetime Olympic record as a team to 10-0. They won the doubles gold at Sydney but didnt play in Athens four years ago because Serena was hurt. It does mean more for me to win it with Serena, to share this kind of moment with your sister, Venus said. I mean, we are practically joined at the hip. Yan Zi and Zheng Jie of China beat Ukraines Alona and Kateryna Bondarenko for the bronze, 6-2, 6-2. Russia swept the medals in womens singles when Vera Zvonareva beat Li Na of China 6-0, 7-5 to win the bronze. That victory made Russia the first nation to win all three medals in one tennis event since Great Britain did so in the 1908 womens singles. Tennis was not a medal sport between 1924 and 1988. Mens singles has traditionally been an upset-filled event at the Olympics, and Nadal is the first player ranked in the top five to win the gold. He stayed in the athletes village and said the experience rejuvenated him. I arrived very tired, he said. The reason probably I won this title is because I have a fantastic time here enjoying a lot in the village. That was amazing experience for me. Always was a pleasure to know new people, no? He took charge against Gonzalez from the start, breaking serve in the second game. Nadal didnt face any break points until the 12th game of the second set, when he was down 5-6, 15-40. Gonzalez failed to convert the set points, pushing a volley wide and putting a forehand in the net. The Chilean made five unforced errors in the tiebreaker to give Nadal a commanding lead. Nadal ripped a backhand passing shot to break at love for a 3-1 lead in the final set, and erased two more break points to hold for 5-2. He needed four match points to close out the victory, ripping one last Olympian forehand that Gonzalez could barely reach. Nadal collapsed to his back in jubilation. I think I played almost perfect match, he said. Gonzalez settled for a silver medal after winning a gold in doubles and a bronze in singles four years ago in Athens. I have chances in the second set, and I didnt take it, Gonzalez said. After that, Rafa was dominating. He was make me run a lot. Hes a great champion, because he has been winning every important tournament in the past months. Another test is around the corner, and now expectations will be high. Even though Federer has won four consecutive U.S. Open titles, Nadal will be seeded No. 1 when the tournament begins Aug. 25. The No. 5-seeded Dementieva closed out her victory with a forehand winner, then fell to her knees before walking to net for a congratulatory hug from Safina. Safinas 15-match winning streak.

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Jamaicans win, U.S. disappoints in womens 100

By EDDIE PELLS
ASSOCIATED PRESS Torri Edwards last. Lee, the only one of that U.S. trio with another chance for an individual medal in the 200 said she thought there was a false start. Edwards said she thought she herself had false-started. The American team filed a protest, though it was swiftly rejected. It was a flagrant and a blatant false start that was not recalled and had tremendous impact on the race, said Lees coach, Vince Anderson, just before the rejection. But theyre not going to rerun the Olympic 100. Anyone who knows anything knows that. Williams didnt sound like someone who felt she had been cheated. Weve dominated for years, and now its their time, Williams said. Making it even more impressive is that the woman widely considered Jamaicas best at this distance, defending world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown, wasnt even in the field, after failing to qualify at the countrys Olympic trials. Her spot essentially went to Fraser, the least accomplished of the Jamaican sprinters at least until now. She is only 21 same age as Bolt and didnt have a time under 11 seconds before this year. The highlight on her resume before now was the silver medal she won as part of the Jamaican relay team at last years world championships. Speaking of relays its not hard to pick a favorite for that womens 400 relay. Simpson and Campbell were part of a gold-medal team in Athens four years ago, though it was hard to know whether Jamaica was truly the fastest team because Williams and Marion Jones botched their handoff and the traditionally strong American team didnt finish the race. The womens 100 wasnt the only U.S. disappointment at the Birds Nest on the third day of the Olympic track meet. In the mens 1,500, the American success story of Bernard Lagat, Leo Manzano and U.S. team flagbearer Lopez Lomong all naturalized citizens competing for their new country for the first time at the Olympics came to a sudden halt. All three failed to advance to the final. Lomong and Manzano each finished last in their semifinals. Lagat, the reigning world champion, finished sixth in his one place out of the final automatic spot and .02 second behind the final wild-card qualifier. It was a stunning setback for Lagat, who won a bronze and silver medal in the event at the last two Olympics for Kenya. He still has a chance in the 5,000, but his opportunity to become the first American to win both races at the Olympics is gone. There was a lot of boxing and a lot of pushing, said Lagat, never able to put on his trademark kick. I was worried about someone going down. I gave everything I had. In other preliminaries, Americans LoLo Jones, Dawn Harper and Damu Cherry also made it through the first round of womens 100-meter hurdles with Cherry overcoming flu-like symptoms to earn a wild-card spot and the other two making it by finishing in the top two. In the womens 400, three-time U.S. national champion Sanya Richards won her semifinal in 49.90 seconds to move into the finals, where shell go for an individual gold to go with the relay gold she won at the Athens Olympics. Americans Mary Wineberg and Dee Dee Trotter each failed to advance. The night also brought the second world record of the 10-day meet, when Gulnara GalkinaSamitova of Russia finished the first Olympic womens 3,000-meter steeplechase final in 8 minutes, 58.81 seconds to beat the mark she already held by nearly 3 seconds.

BEIJING When it comes to Olympic sprints, nobody does it better than the Jamaicans. Yeah, mon. The Caribbean island of 2.8 million people capped the first goldmedal sweep of mens and womens 100-meter dashes since 1912 with a rare 1-2-2 sweep of the womens race. After never winning Olympic gold in the 100, Jamaica got two in as many days. Shelly-Ann Fraser won the womens dash, pumping her fist as she was clocked in 10.78 seconds. Teammates Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart finished in a dead heat for the silver, 0.20 second back the same margin Jamaicas Usain Bolt won by when he hot-dogged to the finish in 9.69. Fraser knew she had won and smiled wide, showing those braces, and then went to pick up the green, yellow and black Jamaican flag. It was the widest margin of victory in an Olympic womens 100 final since 1988, when Florence GriffithJoyner set the world record. When I was thinking about it, I was getting ahead of myself, Fraser said about a gold medal. I was like, Calm down. First you need to go out there and do it. She did, and after she crossed the finish line more than a body length in the lead, reggae music played in the background during a three-minute delay while judges looked at the photo finish. There was no way to split the difference, so Jamaica got the top three spots and didnt even have to settle for a bronze. Its about time, Stewart said when asked what the sweep meant. Weve been waiting on this. So many great athletes have come so close. Jamaicas big win turned into a giant disappointment for the United States. Lauryn Williams finished fourth, Muna Lee fifth and

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Shelly-Ann Fraser of Jamaica jumps in celebration after winning the womens 100-meter dash during the Olympics in Beijing on Sunday. The Jamaicans victory marked a major disappointment for the American sprinters, who finished fourth, fifth and last in the race as Jamaica swept the top three spots. Jamaican runners won gold in both the mens and the womens 100 meters. In the nights final event, the mens 10,000 meters, Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia defended his title, finishing in an Olympic record 27 minutes, 1.17 seconds to beat countryman Sileshi Sihine. Haile Gebrselassie, the 1996 and 2000 champion, finished in sixth unable to cash in on his decision to skip the marathon because of Beijings pollution and focus on the shorter race.

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From left, Jamaicas Shelly-Ann Fraser, gold, and silver medal winners Kerron Stewart and Sherone Simpson celebrate after the womens 100-meter final during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing on Sunday. Stewart and Simpson tied for second place, finishing .20 seconds behind Fraser, who led Jamaica to its first 100 meters gold medal sweep. Usain Bolt won the mens race Saturday.

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Phelps sets record with eight

Michael Phelps surpasses Mark Spitzs 1972 Munich feat of seven gold medals; Australias Hackett fails to win third straight; Torres finishes with three silver medals
By PAUL NEWBERRy
ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING Michael Phelps locked arms with his three teammates, as though they were in a football huddle calling a play, then hugged each one of them. It took a team to make him the grandest of Olympic champions. And one last big push from Phelps himself. Going hard right to the end of a mesmerizing nine days in Beijing, Phelps helped the Americans come from behind Sunday in a race theyve never lost at the Olympics, cheering from the deck as Jason Lezak brought it home for a world record in the 400-meter medley relay. It was Phelps history-making eighth gold medal of these games. Everything was accomplished, he said. I will have the medals forever. Phelps sure did his part to win No. 8, eclipsing Mark Spitzs seven-gold performance at the 1972 Munich Games. Aaron Peirsol got the Americans off to the lead in the backstroke, but Brendan Hansen a major disappointment in this Olympic
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United States Michael Phelps swims the butterfly leg of the mens 4x100-meter medley relay final to win gold during the swimming competitions in the National Aquatics Center at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Sunday. year slowed them down with 3:30.04, also under the old world cheeks, her two daughters by her only the third-fastest breaststroke record of 3:30.68 set by the U.S. side. After getting his gold, Phelps in Athens four quickly found his family, climbing leg. years ago, through a horde of photographers By the time while Japan to give all three a kiss. Phelps dived I was thinking not to blow the held on for the Mom put her arm around his in for the butneck and gave him a little extra bronze. terfly, the U.S. lead. I was really nervous. Spitzs icon- hug. was trailing Her son sure earned it. ic performance Australia and The Beijing Olympics has witwas surpassed Japan. by a swimmer nessed the greatest Olympian of Thats when jASOn lEzAk fitting of this all time Michael Phelps of the he really went U.S. Olympic swimmer g e n e r a t i o n : USA, the announcer said as Phelps to work. a 23-year- posed with his teammates. With his The Americans still had to wait old from long arms Baltimore who a couple of tantalizing minutes for whirling across the water like propellers, Phelps loves hip-hop music, texting with the official results to be posted. caught the two guys ahead of him his buddies and wearing his cap Finally, it flashed on the board. World record. on the return lap and passed off to backward. Gold medal I dont even Lezak a lead of less than a second No. 8. for the freestyle. The Australians know what to Nothing countered with former world feel right now, Theres so much emotion going is impossible, record-holder Eamon Sullivan as Phelps said. said. Theres so their anchor. through my head and so much Phelpsso many With I was thinking not to blow much emotion the lead, Lezak said. I was really going through excitement. I kind of just want to people saying my head and nervous. it couldnt be see my mom. Sullivan tried to chase down so much excitedone, all it takes Lezak and appeared to be gain- ment. I kind of is an imaginaing as they came to the wall, but just want to see MIChAEl PhElPS tion, and thats Lezak finished in 3 minutes, 29.34 my mom. something I U.S. Olympic swimmer D e b b i e seconds Phelps seventh world learned and record in his personal Great Haul Phelps was sitsomething that ting in the stands at the Water helped me. of China. The Aussies took silver in Cube, tears streaming down her Phelps, who won three relays in

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Michael Phelps, right, Aaron Peirsol and Brendan Hansen, left, of the United States celebrate after winning the gold medal in the mens 4x100-meter medley relay final at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Sunday. had retired a second time after the Schipper and Libby Trickett 2000 Sydney Games, then got the took the gold with a world record urge to compete again after having of 3:52.69. The Americans claimed silver with the her first child second-fastest two years ago. time in hisTorres got Its like 90 yards of a touchtory, 3:53.30, off to a good while China start in the 50 down. It was so close, but I the and appeared to didnt have much of a response. took bronze. be leading midTorres was way through the joined on race, a frenetic grant hackett the U.S. team sprint from one australian Olympic swimmer by Natalie end of the pool Coughlin, to the other. Rebecca Soni As they came and Christine to the wall, Torres and Steffen were stroke Magnuson. Coughlin received her for stroke. The German reached sixth medal of the games, giving out with her left hand and Torres her 11 in her career. Hackett failed to become the stretched with her right. Steffens first man to win the same event at fingertip got there first. Completing a race for all three straight Olympics. The Aussie was upset in swimages, 16-year-old Australian Cate Campbell earned the bronze in mings version of the mile by Ous Mellouli, who won Tunisias 24.17. Australias relay women first Olympic gold at the pool in Emily Seebohm, Leisel Jones, Jess 14:40.84. Its like 90 yards of a touchdown. It was so close, but I didnt have much of a response, Hackett said. Its disappointing I didnt win. I have no regrets, it certainly was a close race. Mellouli held off Hackett in the closing meters of the grueling race. Hackett earned the silver in 14:41.53, well off his 7-year-old world record of 14:34.56. Hes never hung on like that in the past, Hackett said of the winner. He was the better competitor. Mellouli, who trains in Southern California, was coming off a suspension after testing positive for amphetamines. Ryan Cochrane of Canada took the bronze in 14:42.69. After receiving his eighth gold, Phelps received another award from FINA, the sports governing body, as the best swimmer of the meet. Make it the best ever.

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United States Michael Phelps celebrates winning his 8th gold medal after the mens 4x100-meter medley relay final during the swimming competitions in the National Aquatics Center at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Sunday. Beijing along with five individual last few years Ive never seen him second in the 50 freestyle. The 41-year-old Torres, a races, gave a shout-out to all his change. Back in five-time Olympian and the oldteammates for B a l t i m o r e , est American swimmer ever, also helping him some 10,000 anchored the American women take down Its been nothing but an upfans hung to a runner-up finish in the 400 Spitz. around after an medley relay. She got silver in all W i t h o u t wards rollercoaster and its been NFL preseason three of her races in Beijing, givthe help of my game to watch ing her 12 medals in a remarkable teammates this nothing but fun. the relay on the career that began at the 1984 Los isnt possible, stadiums big Angeles Games a year before he said. I was michael phelps screen. Phelps was even born. able to be a part U.s. Olympic swimmer I go home extremely thrilled, I think hes of three relays going to be a Torres said. and we were Germanys Britta Steffen legend forevable to put up er, Ravens fan nipped Torres at the wall to coma solid team plete a sweep of the womens effort and we came together as Ann Williams said. Phelps won some races by sprint events in Beijing. The midone unit. For the three Olympics Ive ridiculously large margins, others dle-aged American smiled, her been a part of, this is by far the with the closest of finishes most head dropping back, when she closest mens team that weve ever memorably, his seventh gold by saw a time of 24.07 just behind had. I didnt know everybody com- one-hundredth of a second over Steffens winning effort of 24.06. ing into this Olympics, but I feel Serbias Milorad Cavic in the 100 The German added to her gold in going out I know every single per- fly. Along the way, he became the the 100 free. Torres received her silver, then son very well. The team that we winningest Olympian ever and left hustled back China with 14 had is the difference. to the locker Phelps set seven world records career golds room to grab and one Olympic record, doing a five more than I go home extremely her cap and anyone else personal best time in every event. a pair of oldIt cant be described. Well with at least one thrilled. fashioned never, ever see it again, said more Olympics goggles that Australian distance king Grant to go. were probably Its been Hackett, who came up short in his dara tOrres older than bid to win a third straight 1,500 nothing but an U.s. Olympic swimmer some of her upwards rollerfreestyle title. teammates. Beforehand, Hackett figured coaster and its She was trailPhelps was likely to win six golds, been nothing ing as she took just as he did in Athens four years but fun, Phelps the anchor leg ago when the first attempt to beat said. Ditto for Dara Torres, who and couldnt catch Libby Trickett Spitzs record came up just short. Everything lined up for him capped her improbable comeback on a frantic sprint to the wall, incredibly, Hackett said. Hes a with two more silver medals, miss- with China claiming the bronze. nice guy, a good bloke, and the ing gold by one hundredth of a Still, not bad considering she

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awiebe@kansan.com Todd Reesing hogs the spotlight. Bill Self and Mark Mangino? Media darlings. You cant really blame them. When you win the Orange Bowl and the national championship, attention comes with the territory. But while Kansas Athletics Inc.s prized possessions bask in the glory of arguably the greatest seasons in University of Kansas football and basketball history, non-revenue athletes often find themselves overlooked and underappreciated. Need proof? Quick, who is Emily Powers? Does Nickesha Andersons name ring a bell? What about Brad Hopfinger and Katie Martincich? Nothing? You arent the only one. Powers, Anderson, Hopfinger and Martincich have something Reesing, Self and Mangino will never have in Lawrence. Relative anonymity. It doesnt have to stay that way. Take Powers for example. Just a junior this year, the All-Big 12 performer competed in the U.S. Womens Open in July as a 20-yearold amateur. Powers didnt make the cut after posting a 19-over-par 165 after two days, but competing face-to-face with the likes of world No. 1 Lorena Ochoa and Annika Sorenstam can only help the game of the Jayhawks most consistent performer from a year ago. An even younger athlete seized the reins of a rebuilding mens golf program during an incredible freshman campaign. Brad Hopfinger isnt a household name. He wasnt even the most decorated freshman to join coach Kit Groves team last year. But after finishing tied for seventh at the Big 12 Championship

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Katie Martincich, then-sophomore setter, goes for a dig during the volleyball match against Texas A&M on Nov. 6 at the Horejsi Family Athletics Center. Martincich was a Big 12 Sportspersons of the year in 2007. in April, the rest of the conference would be wise to monitor his progress. Hopfinger led the Jayhawks in scoring average by more than a stroke at 73.39. Along with fellow sophomore Nate Barbee, Kansas seems to have the young, talented nucleus in place to improve on its sixth place finish in last seasons Big 12 Championship its highest in eight years. While Powers and Hopfinger led Kansas on the links, Anderson dominated Big 12 womens sprinting like no other Kansas athlete before her. The Jamaican-born transfer from Missouri Baptist University hit the ground running in her first track season in crimson and blue. Anderson recorded seven first-place finishes in 2008 in the 60- and 200-meter dashes, and set Kansas records in both events. It was enough to earn her AllAmerican honors in both events. Anderson topped it all off with a Big 12 indoor title in the 60 meters, and she wasnt finished there. At the NCAA indoor track championship in Fayetteville, Ark., Anderson nearly walked away a national champion in the 200 meters. Only 22 hundredths of a second separated her from Kansas first ever national championship in the event. And then theres Martincich. Unlike most student-athletes, the Shawnee junior is more known for what she does off the volleyball court than on it. Thats not to say she isnt talented. After all, Martincich is the Kansas volleyball teams returning starting setter. But unlike Anderson, she is no All-American. Martincich received an even more prestigious honor last season. She was named the Big 12 Sportsperson of the year for her work with Habitat for Humanity and the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Powers, Hopfinger, Anderson and Martincich arent Orange Bowl champions or national champions. Odds are you wont find their faces emblazoned on magazine covers like Reesing. They wont ever sign multi-million dollar contracts like Self and Mangino. Thats fine. Revenue dollars cant buy respect. Their accomplishments speak for themselves. Edited by Luke Morris

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Leinart got off to a horrible start and was almost intercepted twice. AssOCiATED PREss But he wound up going 7-for-11 for KANSAS CITY, Mo. Matt 62 yards, including a 14-yard touchLeinart may be facing more com- down pass to Steve Breaston. You always want to try to get petition from Kurt Warner than a drive going and we stumbled a Arizona fans had thought. Coach Ken Whisenhunt raised a little bit, said Leinart. We couldnt few eyebrows Saturday night by giv- make some plays, myself included. ing Warner the start against Kansas I wanted to get a good drive in and City. And the 11-year veteran we did in the second half, a nice threw some nice passes, directing long drive, converted on third down a 78-yard touchdown drive in the and got a touchdown. Brodie Croyle directed the Chiefs Cardinals 27-17 victory over the (1-1) on a scoring drive on the punchless Chiefs. They both conducted drives that opening possession for the second scored, which I thought was impor- week in a row. But the offense of tant, said Whisenhunt, who didnt first-year coordinator Chan Gailey play Warner at all in last weeks produced only three field goals for game against New Orleans. On the first 59 minutes of Kansas Citys the surface, I would say they both first appearance in Arrowhead played well. The best thing about it Stadium since losing its last nine games of 2007. today is to win on the road. It was good to come out two Warner completed six of nine passes for 54 yards for the Cardinals weeks in a row and get a sustained (1-1) and directed a 13-play drive on drive and some third-down conversions, Croyle his second possaid. But we session, capped want touchby rookie Tim I felt pretty comfortable out downs. We H i g h t o w e r s there. I think overall I had a dont want field 4-yard touchgoals. Weve down run decent game. I can always get got to eliminate around right better. the three-andend. outs. Its been brandon flowers In the third awhile since Ive Kansas City Chiefs cornerback period, Brian played, said St. Pierre hit Warner. Just Tim Castille to manage the with a 24-yard game, to see things, to get comfortable in the pass against the Chiefs reserves pocket again, all those things. I felt following J.J. Arringtons 78-yard very good for the limited action I kickoff return. With less than 2 minutes to go, got. Its always fun when you get Dennis Keyes, a free agent rookout there. ie safety, intercepted a pass from Kansas City backup Tyler Thigpen and returned it 84 yards for a touchdown. The Chiefs two rookie cornerbacks, Brandon Flowers and Brandon Carr, both got a good workout from the Cardinals receivers. Carr, a fifth-round pick out of Grand Valley State, was practically twisted into the turf as Breaston turned a short pass into an 11-yard gain. Flowers, a third-round choice out of Virginia Tech whos already locked down the right cornerback job vacated by the retired Ty Law, made a nice play when he broke up a long pass intended for Anquan Bolton on Arizonas first possession. But Larry Fitzgerald juked him on a first-half play that went for a 9-yard gain. I thought he did good, Chiefs coach Herm Edwards said. The first play, we knew they were going to go deep on him. Hes a competitive guy. It wasnt too big for him. Flowers said he couldnt wait to get in the film room to study how hed done. I felt pretty comfortable out there. I think overall I had a decent game, he said. I can always get better. Hightower, a rookie from Richmond, made a good argument for himself with several impressive runs. Tim, every time hes gotten an opportunity, has shown to be a pretty strong runner, Whisenhunt said. I think hes got a good knack around the goal line of finding a way to get the ball in. Nick Novak may have separated himself a bit from rookie Connor Barth in the Chiefs battle for a job as place kicker. Novak hit field goals of 40 and 33 yards while Barth connected from 35 yards but had a 46-yarder hit the right crossbar. Thigpen got the Chiefs lone TD on a 14-yard TD pass to Sergio Joachim with less than 1 minute left, and Dantrell Savage ran in the 2-point conversion. Defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey, the Chiefs first-round draft pick who sprained a knee in the second week of camp, made his first appearance, playing one series. Savage, a rookie free agent running back from Oklahoma State, made a bid to win another job thats up for grabs when with a tackle-breaking 45-yard kickoff return after Leinarts TD pass.

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Riggle goes to China for Daily Show

By DAVID BAUDER
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Foreign correspondency on the fake news of The Daily Show usually amounts to someone standing in front of a video screen on the New York set, a few steps away from Jon Stewarts desk. But to coincide with the Olympics, the shows Rob Riggle, a KU graduate, went to China. Really. His skewed travelogue unfolded last week on the Comedy Central hit. Thats when they find out whether theyve created any international incidents. It was an opportunity to go over to China and do something that has probably not been done in the past go to China and do some comedy, said Riggle, a former U.S. Marine who served in Afghanistan and is still on reserve. Riggle, who last year traveled to Iraq for Operation Silent Thunder, started planning by applying in January for a journalists visa. With the intercession of MTV executives in China, he got the go-ahead less than 24 hours before his plane was due to leave on July 29. There were days when we got promising news and days when we got not-so-encouraging news, said Glenn Clements, field producer and Riggles traveling partner. But we decided to stick it out until the end, and it paid off. Trying to explain what The Daily Show did would have been the series. Even for an ex-Marine, the police state atmosphere was intimidating. There were moments where you were just being watched very closely, he said. We still did what we wanted to do, but I was hurrying it up, saying Come on, come on, lets go. It was a subconscious thing. Riggle also had the somewhat unexpected experience of being recognized on the street. Twice. One young Asian couple came up and said how much they enjoyed watching him on Stewarts show, leading him to wonder where they had seen it. His first segment, on Monday, was a mock up close and personal look at Riggle and his journey to the Olympics. They also took a tongue-in-cheek look at the exotic and mysterious places in China, hence the trips to 7-11 and malls. The team will also took some shots at the Chinese authoritarian government and a critical look at history, much the same way as The Daily Show satirizes the U.S. government, Clements said. The four segments, prepared over the weekend between bouts of jet lag, were called Rob Riggle: Chasing the Dragon. Jon always has a very good sense of whats in good taste and bad, he said, and well try to stay within the bounds of what we think is good taste. We didnt go in there to make fun of the Chinese people at all.

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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Senior Foreign Correspondent Rob Riggle rides a rickshaw in China while covering Olympic Games. difficult. They essentially delivered a list of places where they planned to do filming. They were able to film segments on the Great Wall of China and within Tiananmen Square, the latter historic site the focus of debates with Chinese authorities over access. Our motto was Lets just go until they tell us to stop, Riggle said. Riggle and his crew were followed almost everywhere by Chinese police, although only once was a hand placed over a camera lens cap and they were told to go away. It was a moment the comedy writers probably couldnt have made up: They were filming the outside of a 7-11 convenience store. Other times when police expressed concern about what the crew was doing Clements essentially hid behind the language barrier. When they stopped on the street to do some filming, crowds would immediately form around them, attracting more police. But anytime Clements crew tried turning the camera around and speaking to Chinese citizens, the crowds would scatter. They would literally turn and run away, Riggle said. As a result, only a foreign journalist and Chinese newscaster were interviewed for

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By KINNEy LITTLEFIELD
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TORRANCE, Calif. Gutter balls only, please! someone yells during a rehearsal at the Lucky Strike bowling alley for the CWs new series 90210. So co-stars Jessica Stroup and Shenae Grimes downplay their bowling skills. The spin-off on the fabled 90s teen drama premieres Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. If the show mimics the hot bodies, hip fashion and angst-ridden affluence of Beverly Hills, 90210, it will also play edgier and less preachy, says co-executive producer Gabe Sachs. Look, were not stupid, Sachs says. We know people are probably expecting a cheese-fest and thats just not what we do. Sachs and partner Jeff Judah cut their teeth as producers on the quirky yet short-lived teen series Freaks and Geeks and Life as We Know It. CW tapped the duo to produce its rich-kids reprise after Rob Thomas, creator of moody teen drama Veronica Mars, dropped the project. The truth is, Jeff and I write how we write, Sachs says. Everythings got to come out of real emotion. We want to deal with issues and show consequences, but not the issue of the week and pound you over the head.

But I can never ever knock the original 90210, Sachs says of the series that ran from 1990-2000, trading on youth issues from addiction to pregnancy and amping the fortunes of the fledgling Fox network. The original hooked a generation of viewers on trendy teen melodrama honed by creator Darren Star and executive producer Aaron Spelling. To help spin the spin-off, original cast members Shannen Doherty, Jason Priestley and Jennie Garth will reprise their roles as special guest stars on 90210. Joe E. Tata will return as Peach Pit cafe owner Nat. But despite her announced participation, Tori Spelling (yet another star in the original series as well as daughter of the late TV mogul) isnt expected back. Earlier in the summer we anticipated that she was going to appear in the show, but those plans were postponed for personal reasons on Ms. Spellings behalf, CW spokesman Paul McGuire. In June, Spelling gave birth to her second child with husband Dean McDermott. There currently are no plans for the 35-year-old actress to be part of the new series, according to McGuire and Spellings publicist, Meghan Prophet. Heading into its third season, CW is aiming 90210 straight at its advertiser-coveted target audience, cool-conscious female viewers from 18 to 34 who buzz about CWs Gossip Girl. Like the original, 90210 is a fish-out-of-water tale about a Midwestern family transplanted to Los Angeles, the land of freeway jams and perpetual tans. Although the original series core family, the Walshes, were from Minnesota, the Wilson clan hails with shades of Wizard of Ozian irony from Kansas. Like siblings Brenda and Brandon Walsh (Doherty and Priestley), Annie Wilson (Grimes) and adopted brother Dixon (Tristan Wilds of The Wire) are gorgeous, yet more grounded than their classmates at West Beverly

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Front row from left, Ryan Eggold as Ryan, Jessica Stroup as Silver, Michael Steger as Navid; middle row from left, Jessica Walter as Tabitha, Tristan Wilds as Dixon, AnnaLynne McCord as Naomi; and back row from left, Rob Estes as Harry, Lori Loughlin as Debbie, Shenae Grimes as Annie and Dustin Milligan as Ethan, make up the cast of CWs new series 90210, a spin-off from the popular 90s TV show Beverly Hills, 90210. Hills High School. Among Annie and Dixons new best friends are bad little rich girl Naomi (AnnaLynne McCord of Nip/Tuck) and top jock Ethan (Dustin Milligan). Theres Silver, a Gossip Girl type (Stroup), who produces her own tell-all video series on YouTube, and dirt-dishing, highschool newscaster Navid Shirazi (Michael Steger). The Wilson parents (Rob Estes and Lori Laughlin) seem hip and handsome in ways the Walsh parents (Carol Potter and James Eckhouse) were not. This has the glitz of an Aaron (Spelling) show, but at the same time Gabe and Jeff have taken it and given it a sense of humor they really flip it on its ear sometimes, says Estes, who starred on Spellings Melrose Place from 1993-1999. And theyre also like 12-yearolds, you know? Estes says. They completely understand the electronic world, like texting. The 90210 formula will also include product placement as long as it doesnt hit you over the head, Sachs says. I think its important to show what kids really use. But at the core of 90210, its all about fresh faces, and who will break big. Things can take a turn, and you can get a big head, or get jaded, says Stroup of the fame game. The next two weeks, were going to be unveiling more and more ads and everybody that we talk to is saying, Get ready, get ready. And were all like, Where are we going to hide?

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Grammy-award winner, Rock hall-of-famer Hayes paved the way for other singers, songwriters, actors in the 20th century
By WOODy BAIRD
AssOcIAteD PRess MEMPHIS, Tenn. Isaac Hayes apparently died of a stroke, officials with the sheriff s department said on Aug. 12. The deep-voiced soul singer died on Aug. 10 after he was found unconscious at his Memphis residence. No autopsy was performed, but paperwork filed by Hayes family physician, Dr. David Kraus, lists the cause of death as a stroke, sheriff s spokesman Steve Shular said last Tuesday. Deputies were among the emergency crews that responded after a 911 call, and sheriff s department detectives were looking into the death. Kraus told investigators that he had been treating Hayes, 65, for high blood pressure, Shular said. Family members found Hayes lying on the floor of his home beside a treadmill that was still switched on. Meanwhile, a memorial service will be today at Hope Presbyterian Church in Cordova from 11 a.m.

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In this 1971 picture, Isaac Hayes speaks during an interview in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles describing how he had lost $5 million to record pirates and hired ex-FBI agents to fight the practice. Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician, died in Memphis, Tenn., on Aug. 10, the Shelby County Sheriffs Office said. He was 65. to 2 p.m. His family issued a statement last Tuesday, saying: While he was an iconic figure to many, to us he was husband, father and friend. We will ever miss his love, wisdom, humor and the familiar comfort of his voice. The baldheaded crooner, who laid the groundwork for disco and whose Theme From Shaft won both Academy and Grammy awards, was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. He also acted in movies and provided the voice of Chef, the school cook, on the animated TV show South Park. He had recently finished work on the upcoming movie Soul Men, in which he played himself. The movie stars Samuel Jackson and Bernie Mac, who died on Aug. 9. Hayes was hospitalized in 2006 for treatment of exhaustion, family friends said at the time.

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Groups protest film Tropic Thunder

Organizations, including Special Olympics, angered by scenes which they say degrade mentally disabled
By DERRIK J. LANG
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LOS ANGELES Tropic Thunder is pushing the boundaries of good taste too far for groups representing the mentally disabled. Dozens of people from organizations such as the Special Olympics and the American Association of People with Disabilities protested the movie-industry spoof across the street from the films Los Angeles premiere at Manns Bruin Theatre on Monday. The protesters held up signs with slogans such as Call me by my name, not by my label and chanted phrases like Ban the movie, ban the word. I think its open to interpretation and thats the great thing, Robert Downey Jr., who stars in the film, told AP Television at the Monday night premiere. You know, if I want to protest something because it offends me thats my right as an American, and its also any artists right to say and do whatever they wanna do. The groups are outraged over scenes featuring the liberal usage of a disparaging term used to describe the mentally disabled. In the movie, director and co-star Ben Stiller plays a fame-hungry actor cast in a war movie who previously had a role as a mentally disabled character named Simple Jack. When I heard about it, I felt really hurt inside, said Special Olympics global messenger Dustin Plunkett. I cannot believe a writer could write something like that. Its the not the way that we want to be portrayed. We have feelings. We dont like the word retard. We are people.

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Timothy Shriver, right, Special Olympics chairman and chief executive officer, holds a sign criticizing the upcoming film Tropic Thunder across the street from the films premiere in Los Angeles on Aug. 11. Andrew J. Imparato, president of the American Association of People with Disabilities, said he and other advocacy groups met with DreamWorks co-chair Stacey Snider and watched a private screening of the film Monday morning. Imparato called the movie tasteless and said it was offensive start to finish. I have a sense of humor, said Imparato. There were parts of the movie where I laughed, but it seems to me that the movie tried really hard to go too far and then pull back on everything that was offensive except the issue of people with intellectual disabilities. I just think Ben Stiller and the people involved in this movie just didnt think it was going to be offensive. Following the original complaints from the advocacy groups, DreamWorks pulled some promotional materials, including a Web site that promoted the film-withina-film starring Stillers character which contained the tag line Once there was a retard. DreamWorks spokesman Chip Sullivan previously said in a statement that no changes or cuts to the film will be made. If you want to pick on people, as the old playground saying goes, pick on people your own size, said Timothy Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics, who is calling for a boycott of Tropic Thunder along with the other groups. This population struggles too much with the basics to have to struggle against Hollywood. Were sending a message that this hate speech is no longer acceptable.

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Duo settles past arguments to reunite for first time in more than 25 years
By EDWIN tAMARA
AssocIAtED PREss LOS ANGELES Their feud finally having gone up in smoke, Cheech and Chong say theyre eager to get back on the road for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years. We had such a legacy, such a history. We couldnt escape it, even if we tried, Tommy Chong told reporters at a news conference Wednesday at the Troubadour, the Los Angeles nightclub where the pair were discovered more than 35 years ago. The duo said their Light Up America tour would kick off Sept. 12 in Philadelphia. Its going to be very theatrical, said Cheech Marin. If Wednesdays news conference was an indication, it wont spare the pothead humor, either. Were definitely still smoking, Chong said when asked. I get transfusions now, quipped Marin. I like the taste, Chong said. Im old fashioned. Marin told AP Radio earlier this month that he and the 70-year-old Chong had recently decided that if ever they were to reunite the time was now because, Youre not getting any younger and neither am I. They tossed around some ideas and figured a comedy tour would be the most fun and the least hassle, the 62-year-old Marin said. Marin and Chong, who broke up amid creative differences, have tried to reunite before, but have always fought too much. During their original run, Marin and Chong released nine comedy albums between 1972 and 1985, were nominated for four Grammy Awards and won one. They also starred in eight feature films, almost always portraying a pair of comical stoners. Weve gotten to the age where we dont feel like fighting anymore, Marin said, because the end is a lot closer than the beginning.

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Cheech Marin, left, and Tommy Chong pose together at Sunset Strip Music Festival opening night tribute event in Los Angeles. Now that their feud is up in smoke, Cheech and Chong are high on plans to reunite for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years. Cheech Marin told AP Radio that he and Tommy Chong looked at each other going, If were ever going to do something it has to be now because youre not getting any younger and neither am I.

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By ROBERT BARR
AssOciATEd PREss LONDON Brian Epsteins copy of his management contract with The Beatles, a pact that proved to be worth millions, is being offered for sale in London next month. The four-page document, signed Oct. 1, 1962, by John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Richard Starkey Ringo Starrs real name carries an estimated price of $480,000. The Fame Bureau auction house said Tuesday it had scheduled the sale for Sept. 4 at the Idea Generation Gallery. The contract, also signed by Harold Hargreaves Harrison and James McCartney on behalf of their underage sons, gave Epstein a 25 percent cut of the bands earnings, provided they made more than $400 each per week. The word is that he made more money than the Beatles did during his period of time, said Ted Owen, managing director of The Fame Bureau. He said the contract was offered for sale by a northern England businessman and Beatles collector who has asked to remain anonymous. The contract marked the moment when all the pieces were in place for a global outbreak of Beatlemania. They were fresh, honest and had, what I thought, a sort of presence and star quality, whatever that is, Epstein later recalled. Epstein had been guiding the group since December 1961, and had secured a recording contract with EMI. With a nudge from producer George Martin, Epstein fired drummer Pete Best in August 1962 and brought Starr into the group, and their first big hit, Love Me Do, was ready for release. Brian put us in suits and all that and we made it very, very big, Lennon once said. But we sold out, you know. We were in a daydream till he came along. We had no idea what we were doing. Epstein died from a drug overdose in 1967, at age 32. According to the Brian Epstein Web site, http://www.brianepstein. com, a first, five-year contract was signed by the group on Jan. 24, 1962, but Epstein didnt sign it. Epstein managed several other successful acts from Liverpool, including Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas and Cilla Black. Also up for auction: a Bechstein grand piano that can be heard on The Beatles White Album and Hey Jude. Owen estimated the piano will sell for $570,000 or more.

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Brian Epsteins copy of his management contract with The Beatles, a pact that proved to be worth millions, is being offered for sale in London next month. The four-page document, signed on Oct. 1, 1962, by John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Richard Starkey Ringo Starrs real name not shown, carries an estimated price of 250,000 pounds (US$480,000). The Fame Bureau auction house said last Tuesday it had scheduled the sale for Sept. 4 at the Idea Generation Gallery. Epstein first heard of The Beatles when a customer went to his record store in Liverpool asking for My Bonnie, in which the group backed singer Tony Sheridan. After arranging to hear the group perform at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, Epstein was impressed.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to broaden its reach

By sARA KUGLER And JOE MiLiciA
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is going on the road to New York the city that spawned hip-hop and gave Bob Dylan and the Ramones their start. Mayor Michael Bloomberg was expected to announce Wednesday that the Cleveland-based museum is opening an annex in downtown Manhattan. It is the first of several planned outposts that will take its collection of artifacts to a wider audience, possibly as far as the Middle East. Billy Joel and Clive Davis were expected to join the mayor at the location in SoHo. The 25,000-square-foot annex will house Bruce Springsteens 1957 Chevy and will feature a number of different exhibits, including one with New York City sites that have musical significance. Museum officials are counting on the branches to provide new revenue streams, attract more philanthropy dollars and entice more people to visit the hall of fame in Cleveland. Another annex being planned for Las Vegas will be located on or near the Strip and will be less focused on rock artifacts and more entertainment oriented, according to Terry Stewart, president and CEO of the rock museum. A city has not been selected for the proposed Middle East branch. The annexes mark the museums first effort to build a presence outside of Cleveland. The concept follows a trend set by other museums like the Guggenheim and the Louvre, and comes in a year when the hall has announced some notable changes, including a major interior renovation of its lakefront museum and the return of the induction ceremony to Cleveland in 2009 after more than a decadelong absence. The New York annex will be open for a minimum of two years, longer if it proves successful. Its backed financially by Running Subway Productions, a New York-based entertainment company known for Bodies ... The Exhibition and the Broadway production of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Among the planned exhibits is New York Rocks, which is dedicated to Big Apple artists such as Joel and the Talking Heads David Byrne. The exhibit will feature an interactive map of musically significant Manhattan locations such as Studio 54 and the landmarked Chelsea Hotel, whose guests and residents have included many famous artists and musicians including the Sex Pistols Sid Vicious. The front awning and cash register of the recently closed club CBGB will be on display. A number of exhibits that appeared in Cleveland will also make their way to New York, beginning with the museums look at the Clash. Other exhibits will give visitors a sample of the halls collection and prod visitors to either visit the main museum or provide philanthropic support. For the most part, the rock halls induction ceremonies are held in New York City. Attendance at the rock hall was 451,000 in 2007, up 8 percent from 2006, but still way down from the 872,700 who visited in 1996, its first full year in operation. Admission at the New York annex will be $26 for adults. The Cleveland museum charges $22 for adult admission.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO Comedian Bernie Macs family had expected him to fully recover from the bout of pneumonia that put him in a hospital three weeks ago, his daughter said last Sunday. However, Jeniece Childress said that as time passed she and her mother braced for the possibility that he could die. Mac, 50, died Aug. 9 from what his publicist said were complications from pneumonia. Childress said Mac had been at Northwestern Memorial Hospital since the middle of July. Initially when he was hospitalized we expected him to come back home, but as the weeks went on, I kind of knew, Childress told The Associated Press. Mac also suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease, but he had said the condition went into remission in 2005. His publicist, Danica Smith, has said the pneumonia was unrelated to the sarcoidosis. Mac, born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough in Chicago, got his start doing standup as a child. His successful career included his own Fox television series, The Bernie Mac Show and starring roles in Oceans Eleven, Bad Santa, Charlies Angels: Full Throttle and Transformers. Childress said Mac was a loving father, husband and grandfather.

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Comedian Bernie Mac died at age 50 from complications of pneumonia. The award-winning Mac starred in his own TV series, The Bernie Mac Show, and several movies, including Oceans Eleven and Charlies Angels: Full Throttle. Childress, 30, is his only child, and has a 1-year-old daughter. She said her mother, Rhonda McCullough, and Mac were married for 32 years. He was a hard man and he made no apologies for that, Childress said. When it came to me and my mother and my daughter he was the softest. Recently, Macs brand of comedy caught him some flak when he joked about menopause, sexual infidelity and promiscuity at a July fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Obamas campaign later said the jokes were inappropriate. I kind of figured he was going to get a lot of backlash, Childress said. Telling that joke at that time probably wasnt the best idea, but thats him. Childress said there was always laughter in their home. I think he will always be remembered as one of the original kings of comedy, Childress said. I think what made him so special to people was that even though he was a celebrity he just seemed so down to earth and so much like a part of your family. She said funeral arrangements were pending.

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A graphic novel titled Presidential Material features cartoon cover artwork of presidential candidates Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama. Comic book biographies of McCain and Obama will hit shelves one month before the presidential election.

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By DAVID TWIDDy
AssocIATeD Press IDW will sell the books through lots, comic book biographies of John McCain and Barack Obama cell phones with the help of Kansas will hit book stores and be available City-based uClick, the digital arm of newspaper feature distributor for reading on cell phones. But dont expect Captain Universal Press Syndicate. uClick already sells a service America-versus-Superman hijinks or super-villains threatening the allowing customers to view comics electoral process. The books pur- over their phones but the presidenport to tell McCain and Obamas tial comics will be part of a push to true life stories, independently begin allowing customers to order researched and illustrated by a whole books over their phone, said team of veteran writers and artists. Jeff Webber, vice president of prodIDW Publishing in San Diego, uct development. Well be looking at how many better known for stories of robots (The Transformers) and vam- people download to phones versus pires (30 Days of Night), com- read them in print, which IDW missioned the books with no input should find interesting, as well as which (book) from either gets downloadcampaign. ed the most, Were not Were not in the business of Webber said. doing anything This is a great that is sensa- doing textbooks, but I think opportunity to tional here, comic books really do have the show people said IDW spethat there are cial projects great potential to inform and comics on the editor Scott teach. phone. Dunbier. Were SCOTT DUNBIER Customers sticking to the IDW special projects editor can pre-order facts. printed verComic book biographies have been written sions of the books, due out Oct. 8, before Marvel Comics had a online through IDW. The McCain book, with art best-seller in 1982 with a biography of Pope John Paul II. And by Stephen Thompson, is being books intended to be read on cell written by Andy Helfer, who phones have been gaining pop- helped develop the books that ularity worldwide this year and later became the movies Road to Perdition and A History of last. Dunbier said the company is Violence. He also wrote comicbreaking new ground getting out book biographies of Ronald fully researched comics on two Reagan and Malcolm X. Obamas biography is being writcandidates before Election Day. And the nontraditional storytelling ten by novelist Jeff Mariotte, who and visuals of comics may reach has done comics on Superman, some voters more effectively than Spider-Man and Star Trek, and artist Tom Morgan. other types of media can. J. Scott Campbell, who did both Were not in the business of doing textbooks, but I think comic covers, said it was inevitable they books really do have the great would generate controversy. Some potential to inform and teach, he online commenters already are saying the reddish tinge to the sky said. behind a smiling McCain looks ominous, while Obama followers are unhappy their candidates expression is stern. I was really trying to go out of my way to be extra sensitive to the fact that I didnt want anything like that (bias) to come across, Campbell said, saying he based his depiction of the candidates on photographs he found on the Internet. That wasnt the purpose of the book. Helfer and Mariotte said they consulted the candidates own books, books by others, news articles and other sources including a documentary on a disastrous fire aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in 1967, during the Vietnam War. Helfer said he couldnt help but be moved by McCains war experience, including being imprisoned by the Vietnamese. But he said he also included less-flattering experiences from McCains youth as well as political setbacks during his time in Congress. My objectivity is in finding support, multiple kinds of support, for whatever I state, he said, adding that both books will include a full section of annotations. Im trying to create as much as you can in 28 pages a portrait of a human being. I think its a balanced portrait of the guy. Mariotte said he too kept to specific scenes in Obamas life, although he said he sometimes touched on some of the rumors of Obamas past that continue to resonate among his critics. I think anyone who reads it will see its heavy on facts, light on opinion, he said. I did kind of glance off some of those rumors just to point out this happened and this didnt, but I didnt dwell on those.

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Former Mizzou guard stars in film

By R.B. FALLSTROM
ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. LOUIS All that drama during the Quin Snyder meltdown at Missouri must have rubbed off on Jimmy McKinney. The former guard and sometime scapegoat for the teams woes during those tumultuous years, while refusing to give up on his dream of someday making it to the NBA, has embarked on a second career in acting. Hes the star of a wellreceived independent film called Streetballers, in a role that plays to his strengths while somewhat mirroring his life as a kid who made it out of a rough inner-city upbringing. On the screen with a camera right in your face its totally different, said McKinney, a four-year starter at Missouri from 2003-06. But I can be more myself, so that makes it easier. The film took the second place jury prize at the recent Hollywood Black Film Festival, played to a receptive crowd at the Tivoli Theater in suburban St. Louis late last month and will be shown in September at the Urban World Film Festival in New York City. The story centers on two junior college basketball players coming from broken homes in St. Louis, one from the south side and one from the north side, both hoping to use sport as their escape. This could be any neighborhood in the U.S., said Matthew Krentz, the films writer, director and co-star opposite McKinney and Patrick Rooney. Theres hundreds of thousands of athletes who arent going pro, who are just trying to get scholarships and coping with life on a daily basis. And theres a lot of stuff in their environments that are holding them back. In one scene, McKinney lay on the court the night before the game while getting accustomed to surroundings, a feeling hell draw on during the pressure of the game. No lights on, not a soul in the place, McKinneys character says. When the game starts, I can always come back to the same place when I need to. You dig? McKinney, 24, was a standout at Vashon High School before coming to Missouri as a highly heralded do-it-all recruit. Though his college career was somewhat frustrating, hes been successful in three seasons playing professionally in Germany. McKinney averaged 19 points last season even after rupturing a ligament in his right wrist three months before the season ended. Hes needed each offseason to recover from an injury, hampering his NBA hopes, yet remains optimistic. Im one of the fortunate ones, McKinney said. Its a very slim chance, to make it. And Im still going to reach my goal. McKinney refuses to secondguess a Missouri career that after a promising start never seemed to take off. I dont regret anything, because I learned from it, McKinney said. I learned a lot from it. But I dont think of it as a great career, because my standards are real high. McKinney is part of an all-St. Louis cast in a two-hour movie that was wrapped up in a tidy 28 days but also is the culmination of a marathon effort, given that Krentz began writing five years ago. Krentz, 28, also is a former player at Rockhurst University in Kansas City. He was determined to film in familiar locations. It had to be very real and all the characters had to be believable, and thats a difficult thing to find, Krentz said. Im sure I wouldnt have found that in Los Angeles, and thats why I stayed in St. Louis to do it. Krentz is hoping positive exposure will attract a major distributor, although he plans a St. Louis release in any case. McKinney describes the gritty tale, which includes a street match fight and a near lynch-

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Missouris Jimmy McKinney screams in frustration after losing a ball out of bounds during Missouris 2005 loss to Sam Houston State. The former guard has embarked on a second career in acting as the star of Streetballers, an independent film that mirrors his inner-city upbringing. ing and in which Rooney plays Krentz alcoholic brother just out of jail after a drunk-driving accident that killed a child, as a 90 percent accurate depiction. Besides co-starring in the film, Rooney, 29, is one of the producers. And like Krentz, who pays the bills as a waiter, he has scraped to get by while following his dream, working as a delivery man and as a YMCA spinning instructor. We just get by, Rooney said. This is what I enjoy doing, being creative. Several rough spots were edited after the film was screened for several focus groups, and Krentz said he was able to address 95 percent of viewers concerns and suggestions. It got to the point where nothing was funny to me, nothing was cool, because Id seen it a thousand-plus times, Krentz said. But youve got to trust your instincts at some point. Now, if a studio wants to put up a bunch of money and change a little bit, that would be all right.

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Calif. officials debate paparazzi tactics

By THOMAS WATKINS
Associated Press LOS ANGELES The police chief says Britneys been behaving herself, Lindsay may be distracted by love and Paris is thank God, in his words out of town. Others say its the photographers, not their targets, who should calm down. During a marathon complaint session Thursday, those who blame the paparazzi from city officials to John Mayer began working on ways to tame them. They act like a pack of wolves, Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine said at a meeting he convened Thursday to discuss the issue. The behavior of the paparazzi is out of control, it needs to be reined in. Zine, a former Los Angeles police sergeant, is spearheading the attempt to regulate the paparazzi, a cause he took up when he learned it cost a reported $25,000 for police to accompany Britney Spears to the hospital when she had a breakdown earlier this year. The meeting came at a slow period for the paparazzi. Spears behavior has stabilized under the conservatorship of her father; Lindsay Lohan has been keeping a lower profile and spending considerable time with gal pal Samantha Ronson; and Paris Hilton told AP earlier this year that she was always traveling. Without the paps top targets in action, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton dismissed Zines efforts as a total waste of time. If you notice, since Britney started wearing clothes and behaving; Paris is out of town not bothering anybody anymore, thank God, and evidently, Lindsay Lohan has gone gay, we dont seem to have much of an issue, Bratton told KNBC-TV on Thursday. He later called a news conference outside police headquarters to clarify his position on the paparazzi. When asked about the Lohan remark which followed

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Los Angeles police chief William Bratton speaks at news conference following a hearing about paparazzi behavior July 31 in Los Angeles. Bratton called the hearing a farce. He told KNBC-TV that the city has had fewer problems with paparazzi since Britney Spears, in his words, started wearing clothes. months of tabloid speculation that Lohan and Ronson, a DJ, are dating Bratton said his sister is gay and he is a huge proponent of gay rights. Bratton and his wife recently donated money to Equality California, a group that aims to block a ballot measure seeking to ban same-sex marriages. The chief also took several jabs at Zine and said he was wrong that it cost $25,000 to take Spears to the hospital. There are currently on the books sufficient laws, rules and regulations, Bratton said. (Zine) doesnt know what the hell he is talking about. Across the street in City Hall, Zine led a more than three-hour session on the problems associated with the paparazzi. Speaking to an ad hoc panel of elected officials from area cities and the county sheriff, three entertainers spoke out about their experiences being followed by photographers. Singer-songwriter Mayer said late at night, cars without license plates frequently followed him to his house, not even stopping at red lights. You are in danger, Mayer said. Without know who is following you, you do not know why you are being followed, which brings about a very really possibility of suffering harm. Mayer was joined by actors Eric Roberts and Milo Ventimiglia, who also described negative encounters with the paparazzi. Ventimiglia likened some photographers to stalkers and said he had lost confidence in current laws. Roberts said he spent $100,000 defending a lawsuit filed against him by a paparazzo for what he said was a frivolous claim following a shove to the photographers lens outside a cinema. Mayer said photographers should be credentialed and regulated, and all paparazzi should be required to display a big white P on their vehicle license plate.

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Rapper performs more than crunk

Lil Jon expands genre repertoire; seeks new label for record release
By NeKesA MuMBi MooDy
AssociAteD press NEW YORK Lil Jon is known for crunk music, but hes hoping his upcoming album will show that he has a broader appeal. Its not just music for the United States; its world music, Lil Jon said of his new sound in an interview. Im touching so many different kinds of people on this album as well as keeping my core fan base at the same time. Lil Jon, a producer and rapper, best known for hits like Get Low, Ushers Yeah and Ciaras Goodies, is working on a new album following his release from his longtime label, TVT Records. TVT filed for bankruptcy earlier this year and its assets were purchased by the digital entertainment company The Orchard. The working title of the CD was Crunk Rock, but Lil Jon says hes thinking of changing the title to reflect the albums new direction and his new freedom. Its totally given me a new energy, a new everything, he said of his release. When you have a lot of stress and negativity around you, when you cut that away, you cleanse. Lil Jon, 37, said he was looking to incorporate different musical styles in his synth-rap sound, working with dance acts, soca musicians, rock stars and more. I want people to say its a breath of fresh air from everything thats out there, he said. Its still going to be me and what they know me for, but its still going to be newer. But Lil Jon is still searching for a new label to release his record. He said he was open exploring different ways to get his music out even a Radiohead-type deal in which he would put his music out on the Internet for a pay-whatyou-wish system but hes more interested in a bigger label. With my fan base being broader and larger now, he said. Im looking to somewhere where somebody can really take advanASSOCIATED PRESS tage of that and take it to the next Rapper Lil Jon arrives at the Samsung GLEAM Private Dinner and Party hosted by Pharrell in Las level. Vegas. Lil Jon hopes his new album will appeal to a wider range of listeners.

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Judge settles Hasselhoff dispute

Ex-wife wants home to sell for more; ruling released Tuesday

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LOS ANGELES The Hoff s house is for sale, but not for the price he preferred. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge settled a dispute between David Hasselhoff and ex-wife Pamela Bach, putting their house on the market for $5.95 million. Hasselhoff wanted it listed at less than $5 million; Bach thought it was worth nearly $8 million. The 10,000 square-foot spread, including two guest houses, sits on an acre and a half in Encino, Calif. Judge Robert A. Schniders ruling was publicly released on Aug. 12. Hasselhoff and Bach divorced in 2006 after 16 years of marriage. Bach had also been seeking to vacate her settlement with the former Baywatch star, arguing that he improperly allocated $1 million. Schnider dismissed that claim.

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Actor David Hasselhoff arrives at the premiere of the film Step Brothers in Los Angeles, Tuesday, July 15. Hasselhoffs home in Encino, Calif., is on the market for $5.95 million.

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Worldwide Entertainment Group Inc. filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Miami, alleging the 27-year-old model-actressheiress owes $75,000 in damages for not fulfilling promotional obligations. Hilton entered into an agreement in 2004 for the production and distribution of the movie National Lampoons Pledge This!, according to the lawsuit. Hilton starred in the film and received credit as an executive producer. The Miami-based concern said it paid Hilton and her company, Paris Hilton Entertainment Inc., $1 million for Hiltons acting services and for reasonable promotion and publicity for the movie, which was released in 2006 and featured Hilton as the president of an exclusive sorority. While most famous for her tabloid exploits and reality TV series The Simple Life,

Hilton has appeared in the films Bottoms Up, The Hottie & the Nottie and House of Wax. Shes slated to appear next in the movie musical Repo! The Genetic Opera and the tentatively titled MTV reality series Paris Hiltons My New BFF. Phone calls and e-mails to Hiltons manager, Jason Moore, were not immediately returned Aug 12.

SAN DIEGO Former Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus sued a father-and-son business Aug. 11, alleging they pocketed his investment in a venture to install automated checkout machines at McDonalds restaurants. The lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court says Ed Mitchell and

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Jeff Mitchell lined their pockets with more than $1.5 million. It alleges their company Missicom LLC of San Diego does not have any contracts to install the machines to take orders and collect payments at McDonalds or anywhere else. Hoppus, currently a member of the pop-punk band Plus-44, invested $600,000 in Missicom in October 2003, according to the complaint. The lawsuit says the Mitchells raised nearly $3.4 million and solicited millions of dollars from prominent, well-known figures. Hoppus attorney, Howard King, said in a news release that other investors included golfer Phil Mickelson and former Blink-182 members Tom Delonge and Travis Barker. After Blink-182 disbanded, Hoppus and Barker formed Plus-44. The lawsuit, alleging gross negligence and breach of fiduciary duty, seeks unspecified damages against Missicom and the Mitchells. It amends a complaint that Hoppus filed in 2006 against former business manager Louis Tommasino over the soured investment. That complaint is scheduled for trial Sept. 8. Attorneys for Missicom, the Mitchells and Tommasino did not immediately respond to phone messages.
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NEW YORK Britney Spears tells OK! magazine shes focused on family life these days, looking forward to her two sons meeting their new cousin, daughter of her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears. Shes going to come out here for the kids birthdays, Spears, who lives in Beverly Hills, Calif., says of Jamie Lynn in the Aug. 25 issue of OK! It will be the first time the cousins meet. Im sure the boys will be like big brothers to Maddie, who was born June 19. Spears, 26, flaunts her maternal side in photos with sons Sean Preston and Jayden James on the cover and inside pages of the magazine. There are shots of the family in Spears pool, including one showing the pop star enjoying a swim with her once-estranged mother, Lynne. After several years of custody battles, estrangements and highprofile meltdowns, Spears reports life with all family members is calm and pleasant. Her relationship with her mother, soon due out with a book about the familys life, is really, really good. I went through a stage when I was in high school when it wasnt so good, but now Im at a stage where I really appreciate her a lot more. She says shes also getting along with her father, James, whos been in control of her personal and professional matters as her legal conservator. As for being an aunt, it did take a little getting used to, says Spears, who was a little shocked while visiting her 17-year-old sister and actress Jamie Lynn in the hospital for the birth of her newborn daughter. That was special, but it was also strange because shes always been the baby, and now the baby was having a baby, Spears says. It was mind-boggling. I was shocked a little bit. Spears appears to have cleaned up her act in recent days. Last month, she settled a long-running custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline, which allows her additional visits with her children. She also appears fit and confident in promotional ads for the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards the opposite of her widely panned appearance at last years ceremony. MTV has said they are in talks to have the singer appear at this years Sept. 7 ceremony.

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Britney Spears and her sons Sean, left, and Jayden are shown on the cover of OK! Spears told the magazine shes focusing on her family these days.

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Cast of 1970s Dallas reunites

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DALLAS J.R., Bobby, Sue Ellen and other members of the Ewing clan are getting back together for a Dallas reunion party. Cast members of the popular prime-time soap opera that ran from 1978-91 will return to the Southfork Ranch north of Dallas on Nov. 8 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the show. Several key actors, including Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy, have confirmed they will attend. Hagman, who played central character J.R. Ewing, a scheming oil baron and cattle rancher, said he was looking forward to the event. I may not be able to do the 40th, said Hagman, 76, in an interview with The Dallas Morning News. Thirty years is pretty good, and the show is still very popular. The reunion, at the ranch in suburban Parker, north of Dallas, is open to the public. Tickets go on sale Aug. 22 and will cost between $100 and $1,000. The event will include fireworks, a country music concert, a question-and-answer session with the cast and tours of the mansion. The show is perhaps best known for the who shot J.R.? cliffhanger that concluded the 1979-1980 season in which Hagmans character was blasted within an inch of his life. Dallas featured the antics of a wealthy Texas clan that punched, slapped, drank, cavorted and schemed to gain control of the family fortune. The reunion promises to be tamer.

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Larry Hagman, is shown in 1981 in character as J.R. Ewing in the popular night-time drama, Dallas. Cast members of the prime-time soap opera will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the show in Southfork Ranch, north of Dallas, on Nov. 8.

LOS ANGELES A judge said a woman accused of stalking John Cusack was competent to stand trial, but could not represent herself. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Susan M. Speer made her ruling WednesCusack day afternoon based on a psychiatrists evaluation of Emily Leatherman. The 33-year-old was arrested earlier this year outside of the actors home. The judge made his ruling based on the recommendation of a court-appointed psychiatrist who evaluated Leatherman and said she was delusional and paranoid. Leatherman sobbed in court and repeatedly talked over Speer, prompting the judge to issue her several warnings. The judge appointed an attorney to represent Leatherman during her trial, which she says can begin Sept. 9.

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Monday

Todays highlight in history:

On Aug. 18, 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C. (However, the colony she was born into ended up mysteriously disappearing.)

On this date:
In 1838, the first marine expedition sponsored by the U.S. government set sail from Hampton Roads, Va.; the crews traveled the southern Pacific Ocean, gathering scientific information. In 1846, U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearny captured Santa Fe, N.M. In 1894, Congress established the Bureau of Immigration.

In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of all American women to vote, was ratified as Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it. In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King dedicated the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting the United States and Canada. In 1963, James Meredith became the first black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi. In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair ended in Sullivan County, N.Y., with a mid-morning set performed by Jimi Hendrix. In 1976, two U.S. Army officers were killed in Koreas demilitarized zone as a group of North Korean soldiers wielding axes and metal pikes attacked U.S. and South Korean soldiers.

In 1983, Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 21 dead and causing more than $1 billion worth of damage. Ten years ago: A day after his grand jury testimony, President Clinton left Washington on a vacation with his family. Meanwhile, some lawmakers called for Clinton to resign in the wake of his admissions concerning Monica Lewinsky, while a spokeswoman for Hillary Rodham Clinton said the first lady believes in this marriage. Five years ago: A senior French health official resigned after Frances health minister admitted that as many as 5,000 people might have died in a heat wave. The Liberian government and rebels signed a peace accord. Islamic extremists freed 14 European tourists six months after they were kidnapped by an al-Qaida-linked group in the Algerian desert.

One year ago: Alarmed tourists jammed Caribbean airports for flights out of Hurricane Deans path as the monster storm began sweeping past the Dominican Republic and Haiti. NASA, meanwhile, ordered space shuttle Endeavour back to Earth a day early out of fear Dean might disrupt flight operations. A seven-alarm fire ripped through an abandoned skyscraper next to ground zero in lower Manhattan, killing two firefighters who responded to the blaze. Michael K. Deaver, a close adviser to President Reagan, died in Bethesda, Md., at age 69. Todays birthdays: Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter is 81. Actor Robert Redford is 71. Actor Christopher Jones is 67. Actor Henry G. Sanders is 66. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sarah Dash (LaBelle) is 65. Actor-comedian Martin Mull is 65. Rock musician Dennis Elliott is 58. Come-

dian Elayne Boosler is 56. Actor Patrick Swayze is 56. Country singer Steve Wilkinson (The Wilkinsons) is 53. Actor Denis Leary is 51. Actress Madeleine Stowe is 50. News anchor Bob Woodruff is 47. Actor Craig Bierko is 43. Rock singer-musician Zac Maloy (The Nixons) is 40. Hip-hop artist Everlast is 39. Rapper Masta Killa (Wu-Tang Clan) is 39. Actor Christian Slater is 39. Actor Edward Norton is 39. Actor MalcolmJamal Warner is 38. Actress Kaitlin Olson is 33. Rock musician Dirk Lance is 32. Actor-comedian Andy Samberg (TV: Saturday Night Live) is 30. Actress Parker McKenna Posey is 13. Thought for today: New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke, English philosopher (1632-1704).

Tuesday

Todays highlight in history:

On Aug. 19, 1812, the USS Constitution defeated the British frigate Guerriere off Nova Scotia during the War of 1812.

On this date:
In 1807, Robert Fultons North River Steamboat arrived in Albany, two days after leaving New York. In 1918, Yip! Yip! Yaphank, a musical revue by Irving Berlin featuring Army recruits from Camp Upton in Yaphank, N.Y., opened on Broadway. In 1929, the radio comedy program Amos n Andy, starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, made its debut on the NBC Blue Network.

In 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler. In 1942, during World War II, about 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a disastrous raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France, suffering more than 50 percent casualties. In 1955, severe flooding in the northeastern U.S. claimed some 200 lives. In 1960, a tribunal in Moscow convicted American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage. In 1976, President Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the partys convention in Kansas City, Mo. In 1991, Soviet hard-liners announced to a shocked world that President Mikhail S. Gorbachev had been removed from power. (The coup collapsed two days later.)

Ten years ago: President Clinton spent a quiet 52nd birthday with his family on Marthas Vineyard, Mass., as controversy continued to swirl over his admissions to a grand jury concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Five years ago: A suicide truck bomb struck U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22, including the top U.N. envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello. A suicide bombing of a bus in Jerusalem killed 22 people. One year ago: Hurricane Dean, which had already killed eight people on its destructive march across the Caribbean, pummeled Jamaica with gusting winds and torrential rains as a Category 4 storm. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner paid an unannounced and highly symbolic visit to Baghdad the first by

a senior French official since the war started. Elvira Arellano, an illegal immigrant who had taken refuge in a Chicago church to avoid being separated from her U.S.-born son, was deported to Mexico. Todays birthdays: Actor L.Q. Jones is 81. Author Frank McCourt is 78. Actress Debra Paget is 75. Tennis coach Renee Richards is 74. Actress Diana Muldaur is 70. Rock singer Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) is 63. Former President Clinton is 62. Tipper Gore, wife of former Vice President Al Gore, is 60. Actor Gerald McRaney is 60. Rock musician John Deacon (Queen) is 57. Actor Jonathan Frakes is 56. Actor Peter Gallagher is 53. Actor Adam Arkin is 52. Singer-songwriter Gary Chapman is 51. Actor Martin Donovan is 51. Football Hall-of-Famer Anthony Munoz

is 50. Rhythm-and-blues singer Ivan Neville is 49. Actor Eric Lutes is 46. Actor John Stamos is 45. Actress Kyra Sedgwick is 43. Actor Kevin Dillon is 43. Country singer Lee Ann Womack is 42. TV reporter Tabitha Soren is 41. Country singer-songwriter Mark McGuinn is 40. Rapper Nate Dogg is 39. Actor Matthew Perry is 39. Country singer Clay Walker is 39. Rapper Fat Joe is 38. Olympic gold medal tennis player Mary Joe Fernandez is 37. Actress Tracie Thoms is 33. Country singer Rissi Palmer is 27. Actress Erika Christensen is 26. Country singer Karli Osborn (SHeDAISY) is 24. Actor J. Evan Bonifant is 23. Rapper Romeo is 19. Thought for today: One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. Elizabeth Bowen, Irish author (1899-1973).

Wednesday

Todays highlight in history:

On Aug. 20, 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

On this date:
In 1833, Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, months after fighting had stopped. In 1914, German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I. In 1920, pioneering American radio station 8MK in Detroit (later WWJ) began daily broadcasting.

In 1948, the United States ordered the expulsion of the Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin, accusing him of attempting to return two consular employees to the Soviet Union against their will. In 1964, President Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure. In 1977, the U.S. launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature. In 1986, postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a deadly rampage at a post office in Edmond, Okla., shooting 14 fellow workers to death before killing himself.

In 1988, eight British soldiers were killed by an Irish Republican Army land mine that destroyed a military bus near Omagh, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. Ten years ago: Retaliating 13 days after the deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, U.S. forces launched cruise missile strikes against alleged terrorist camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a chemical plant in Sudan. Monica Lewinsky went before a grand jury for a second round of explicit testimony about her White House encounters with President Clinton. Five years ago: The United States won the womens overall team gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, Calif.; Romania took the silver medal and Australia, the bronze.

One year ago: Tens of thousands of tourists fled the beaches of the Mayan Riviera as Hurricane Dean roared toward Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula. A roadside bomb killed the governor of the predominantly Shiite Muthanna province in Iraq. A China Airlines Boeing 737-800 exploded in a fireball at an airport gate in Okinawa seconds after all 157 passengers and eight crew had safely evacuated. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama expressed irritation with the Obama Girl Web video, saying it had upset his daughters. Hotel magnate Leona Helmsley died in Greenwich, Conn., at age 87. Todays birthdays: Writer-producer-director Walter Bernstein is 89. U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, is 73. Broadcast journalist Connie Chung is 62. Musician Jimmy Pankow (Chicago) is 61. Rock

singer Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) is 60. Rock singer Doug Fieger (The Knack) is 56. Country singer Rudy Gatlin is 56. Singer-songwriter John Hiatt is 56. Actor-director Peter Horton is 55. TV weatherman Al Roker is 54. Actor Jay Acovone is 53. Actress Joan Allen is 52. TV personality Asha Blake is 47. Actor James Marsters is 46. Rapper KRS-One is 43. Rock singer Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit) is 38. Rock musician Brad Avery is 37. Actor Jonathan Ke Quan is 37. Rock singer Monique Powell (Save Ferris) is 33. Thought for today: I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries Give, give! Abigail Adams, American first lady (1744-1818).

Thursday

Todays highlight in history:

In the early hours of Aug. 21, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring liberalization drive led by Alexander Dubcek.

On this date:
In 1831, former slave Nat Turner led a violent insurrection in Virginia. (He was later executed.) In 1858, the first of seven debates between Illinois senatorial contenders Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place. In 1878, the American Bar Association was founded in Saratoga, N.Y.

In 1911, Leonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. (The painting turned up two years later, in Italy.) In 1940, exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin the day before. In 1944, the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and China opened talks at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington that helped pave the way for establishment of the United Nations. In 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state as President Eisenhower signed an executive order, five months after hed signed the Hawaiian statehood bill.

In 1983, Philippine opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr., ending a self-imposed exile in the United States, was shot dead moments after stepping off a plane at Manila International Airport. In 1991, the hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris N. Yeltsin. Ten years ago: Samuel H. Bowers, a 73-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted in Hattiesburg, Miss., of ordering a 1966 firebombing that killed civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer. (Bowers died in prison in November 2006 at age 82.)

Five years ago: Alabamas top judge, Chief Justice Roy Moore, refused to back down in his fight to keep a Ten Commandments monument and lashed out at his colleagues whod ordered it removed from the rotunda of the state judicial building. Palestinian militants abandoned a two-month-old truce after Israel killed a Hamas leader in a missile attack. The French government acknowledged that as many as 10,000 people might have died in the countrys heat wave. Paul Hamm put together a near-perfect routine on the high bar to become the first American man to win the all-around gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championship. One year ago: Hurricane Dean struck Mexicos coast as a Category 5 storm. The postwar Iraqi tribunal trying former Saddam Hussein aides One year ago: President Bush, addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, Mo., offered a fresh endorsement of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, calling him a good guy, good man with a difficult job. A U.S. helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing 14 soldiers. Hurricane Dean slammed into Mexico for the second time in as many days. The Texas Rangers became the first team in 110 years to score 30 runs in a game, setting an American League record in a 30-3 rout of the Baltimore Orioles in the first game of a doubleheader. Todays birthdays: Author Ray Bradbury is 88. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Carl Yastrzemski is 69. Actress Valerie Harper is 68. Football coach Bill Parcells is 67. CBS newsman Steve Kroft is 63. Actress Cindy Williams is 61. Musician David Marks is 60. Country singer Holly Dunn is 51. Rock musician Vernon Reid is 50. Country sing-

opened its third proceeding, putting former Defense Minister Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali, and 14 other men on trial. Space shuttle Endeavour safely returned to Cape Canaveral, Fla. Todays birthdays: Actress Kim Cattrall is 52. Rock singer Serj Tankian (System of a Down) is 41. Actress Carrie-Anne Moss is 38. Rock musician Liam Howlett (Prodigy) is 37. Actress Alicia Witt is 33. Singer Kelis is 29. Singer Melissa Schuman is 24. Actor Cody Kasch is 21. Actress Hayden Panettiere is 19. Actor RJ Mitte (TV: Breaking Bad) is 16. Thought for today: Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues. Count Basie, American bandleader (born this day in 1904, died 1984). er Ricky Lynn Gregg is 49. Country singer Collin Raye is 48. Actress Regina Taylor is 48. Rock singer Roland Orzabal (Tears For Fears) is 47. Rock musician Debbi Peterson (The Bangles) is 47. Rock musician Gary Lee Conner (Screaming Trees) is 46. Singer Tori Amos is 45. Country singer Mila Mason is 45. Rhythm-and-blues musician James DeBarge is 45. Tennis player Mats Wilander is 44. Rapper GZA/The Genius is 42. Actor Ty Burrell is 41. Actor Rick Yune is 37. Rock musician Paul Doucette (Matchbox Twenty) is 36. Rap-reggae singer Beenie Man is 35. Singer Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) is 35. Actress Jenna Leigh Green is 34. Rock musician Jeff Stinco (Simple Plan) is 30. Actress Aya Sumika (TV: Numb3rs) is 28. Thought for today: If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. Logan Pearsall Smith, Anglo-American essayist (1865-1946).

Friday

Todays highlight in history:

On Aug. 22, 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to South America.

On this date:
In 1485, Englands King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses. In 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. In 1846, Gen. Stephen W. Kearny proclaimed all of New Mexico a territory of the United States. In 1851, the schooner America outraced more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that came to be known as the Americas Cup.

In 1904, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping was born in Sichuan province. In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained under Japanese colonial rule until 1945. In 1956, President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon were nominated for second terms in office by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. In 1978, President Jomo Kenyatta, a leading figure in Kenyas struggle for independence, died; Vice President Daniel arap Moi was sworn in as acting president. In 1985, 55 people died when fire broke out aboard a British Airtours charter jet on a runway at Manchester Airport in England. In 1989, Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, Calif. (Gunman Tyrone Robinson was later sentenced to 32 years to life in prison.)

Ten years ago: President Clinton, in his Saturday radio address, announced he had signed an executive order putting Osama bin Ladens Islamic Army and two of his main lieutenants on a list of terrorist groups. Five years ago: Alabamas chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse. Texas Gov. Rick Perry pardoned 35 people arrested in the 1999 Tulia drug busts and convicted on the testimony of a lone undercover agent. (The agent, Tom Coleman, was later found guilty of aggravated perjury and sentenced to 10 years probation hes been appealing his conviction.) In Brazil, a rocket exploded on its launch pad during tests just days before liftoff, killing 21 workers.

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