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South struggles in Phog
The KU mens basketball
team may have had its
31-game home victory
streak against K-State
snapped this season, but
the team has now won
29 straight home games
against the entire Big 12
South. PAGE 10A
Election nears, commission begins work
The Student Senate elections commission will
commence on Wednesday. Its mission is to enforce
ethical behavior during the election. PAGE 3A
Womens basketball tournament predictions
Columnist Ryan Schneider predicts Oklahoma and
Baylor to finish strong and where all of the Big
12 teams will finish based on past performances.
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t crime
Shooting victim named
By Mike Mostaffa
mmostaffa@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence Police Depart-
ment released the name of the
second victim in the Sunday
morning shooting outside of the
Granada.
The 22-year-old has been
identifed as Pierre Burnette of
Kansas City, Kan., Police Chief
Ron Olin said at a Monday
morning press briefng. Bur-
nettes condition remains un-
known, as well as what hospital
he was taken to. Olin said that
Burnette was able to respond to
preliminary questions and that
the department was planning a
follow-up interview.
Police will have to rely heav-
ily on the information Burnette
provided because many of the
main witnesses have failed to
provide much information.
It is very frustrating to
know we have as many as a
dozen witnesses in the com-
munity who are not talking to
us, Olin said.
According to a written state-
ment from Sgt. Dan Ward, a
Lawrence police offcer who
was nearby heard gun shots and
notifed the emergency dispatch.
Five offcers arrived at 2:12 a.m.,
minutes after the shots were
fred, Ward said.
The shooting occurred after
a rap concert at the Granada,
1020 Massachusetts St. About
two dozen people had gath-
ered outside to determine the
location of an after-hours party
with some of the performing
artists, when an altercation
broke out between six people,
Olin said.
Police said they thought they
knew what caused the altercation
but declined to release details yet.
Police said they didnt know
who shot and killed 46-year-
old Robert Earl Williams of
Topeka and seriously injured
Burnette.
Information the police
released Sunday about the
suspect leaving the scene in
a tan 1990s General Motors
vehicle may not be accurate,
Olin said.
While Sunday mornings shoot-
ing was the frst Lawrence homi-
cide of 2006, it was not the frst time
police have responded to a call of
shots being fred downtown.
On Jan. 1, police responded
to gunfre in the 700 block of
New Hampshire Street, Ward
said. Since that time police
have recovered handguns from
people in at least six separate
incidents in the downtown area,
Ward said.
Edited by Frank Tankard
After the shooting outside the Granada Sunday morning,
how safe will you feel going out to the bars at night?
1. Just as safe as before: 53%, 36 votes
2. Somewhat as safe: 35%, 24 votes
3. Not nearly as safe: 12%, 8 votes
Total: 68 votes
Source: www.kansan.com
poll results
t speaker t technology
Among college towns, Lawrence is a wireless Internet users
dream. Lawrence ranked second in a nationwide directory of
college towns with free wireless Internet.
MetroFreeFi.com lists 24 free Wi-Fi hotspots in Lawrence,
second only to Boulder, Colo., which had 34. College towns
were classifed in the directory as having a population under
100,000. Lawrence is listed in the top 100 cities nationally. The
listings are submitted by users, so the list is not all-inclusive of
every site in Lawrence.
Lawrences hotspots include cafes, libraries and even repair
shops. Steve Aldrich, store manager at Greggs Tires, 4661 W.
6th St., said the store got wireless Internet two years ago as a
customer convenience, and now customers can keep working
while their cars are being repaired.
The people that come in and use it, love it, he said.
The service, provided by Sunfower Broadband, has always
been free to customers, he said.
Joe Ryan, director of sales and support for Sunfower Broad-
band, said the company provided wireless Internet access to
36 registered hotspots in the Lawrence area. Businesses pay
normal business rates, which begin at $44.95 a month. The
company also provides free Internet service to city and gov-
ernment buildings, like the Lawrence Public Library and the
Douglas County Courthouse.
Many businesses have enough bandwidth to support public
access from the same signal as their offce Internet, Ryan said.
The only additional cost to those businesses is a one-time cost
for networking, which can run from $150 to $500.
Ryan said the incremental cost of networking usually cov-
ered necessary upgrades. In return, the businesses increase
their customer appeal.
Sarah Burns, manager at Java Break, 17 Seventh St., said
the store had as many as fve or six wireless users at a time.
She said the beneft was wireless customers becoming regular
customers.
People come in for wireless one night and come in with
friends to study another night, she said. Ill see the same
people over and over again.
Burns said the business beneftted because customers that
spent more time in the shop tended to buy more. Anyone us-
ing wireless Internet at Java Break must purchase at least one
item, she said.
Denis Hiller, communications director for MetroFreeFi.
com, said that, although the Web site was user-built, the list-
ings tended to correct themselves. He said the prominence of
free wireless Internet in college communities was not surpris-
ing.
College towns are a lot more wireless than equivalent
towns, Hiller said. The logical conclusion here is that col-
lege students are not willing to pay for wireless Internet.
Dan Morris, Tonganoxie junior, said he wouldnt pay for
wireless Internet, but he liked what he got for free. The best
part, he said, was that it got him out of the house.
Sometimes a change of atmosphere is all you need to get
the juices fowing again, he said.
At Henrys, 11 E. Eighth St., Morris used Internet defni-
tions to supplement information given in his human anatomy
textbook while answering questions for class on Saturday.
I can just click it up on the Internet, do a little research and
write a better response, he said.
And when hes done studying, or just ready for a break, dis-
traction is only a click away.
Edited by Vanessa Pearson
Lawrence hot with Wi-Fi spots
By Catherine Odson FKansan Staff Writer
By anne WeltMer
aweltmer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The United
States has al-
ways had men
in the offce of
commander
in chief. But
this coming
election might
change that.
Its only a matter of time before
the United States has a woman
chief executive, said Bill Lacy, di-
rector of the Robert J. Dole Institute of
Politics. Thats why the Dole Insti-
tute decided to dedicate this years
presidential lecture series to how a
woman could become president.
The title of the lecture series is
The First Woman President and
features several prominent women,
including Carol Mosley-Braun,
herself a presidential candidate.
Burdett Loomis, professor of po-
litical science, said it could happen
in the next two and a half years.
He said that Hillary Rodham Clin-
ton had spent more time in public
offce than President George W.
Bush, and she could probably get
the democratic nomination.
Loomis said until recently, there
have been few women senators and
governors, who are the usual presi-
dential candidates. Now that those
numbers have increased, there is a
larger base of eligible women.
He said Clinton had both the
money and the name recognition
to receive the nomination.
Ann Cudd, director of womens
studies and professor of philoso-
phy, said women had another ob-
stacle to face. Many people have
a problem accepting a woman as
the commander in chief of the U.S.
Armed Forces, she said.
Cudd said that along with Clin-
ton, Condoleezza Rice was an-
other possibility to become the frst
woman president.
Jonathan Earle, assistant direc-
tor of the Robert J. Dole Institute
of Politics, said that countries on
every continent, including Chile,
Pakistan, Great Britain, Israel, Ger-
many and India, have had female
heads of states.
I thought we were supposed
to be a progressive country, Earle
said. Were kind of lagging behind
here.
Edited by Gabriella Souza
Women
to lecture
on politics
For a
complete
schedule
of speakers
check out
Kansan.
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TUESDAY
top
10
Top 10 Places
to sleep on campus:
1. Watson Library, ffth foor quiet zone. Wonderful for
you, but distracting to those who study if you happen
to be of the snoring persuasion.
2. Kansas Union, third foor common area. A bit louder
than most places, but the chairs and couches can be
divine for a snooze on the go.
3. Anschutz Library, lower levels. Secluded and quiet
with a shortage of comfortable chairs, but always
nice in a pinch.
4. Budig Hall, front entrance, side common area. Again,
a shortage of chairs, but the foor is nice and car-
peted, and large classes make for excellent wake up
calls if your phone alarm is on the fritz.
5. Spahr Engineering Library. A bit out of the way
for those non-engineering majors, but still there
for those who like those really nice chairs and
couches.
6. The green in front of Fraser Hall. A bit of a sea-
sonal napping area, but nice on clear days when
the wind is up from the gulf and the Frisbee play-
ers are out to add to the tranquility of your nap-
ping atmosphere.
7. Under the shade of the trees by Potter Lake. Again, a
seasonal retreat, but still nice if you have someone
nice who is willing to lend you a lap for a pillow.
8. Wescoe Hall, fourth foor. High traffc and no chairs,
but there are some nice little niches created behind
the benches built into the foors in front of class-
rooms.
9. The multimedia resource center, second foor of
Stauffer-Flint Hall. A bit exclusive to journalism stu-
dents if you ask this humble, sleeping giant, but still
just as nice as any library youll fnd in the campus
directory.
10. On the bus. A bit shaky, a bit loud, a bit crowded
at times but still it can be done by those of us who
are suffering from extreme sleep deprivation. If you
try hard enough you can even sleep standing up
between the hours of 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. when the
busses are jam packed. Careful of the sharp elbows
and the sudden stops, sharp turns could lead to an
injury or a rude awakening.
Good luck with your picks for places of slumber. Be sure
to try not to miss your classes and always pop a Tic Tac
afterwards to save everyone from your midday morning
breath.
Edited by Vanessa Pearson
Q
uote
of the
Day
Fact of
the day
Karate is a form of martial arts
in which people who have had
years and years of training can,
using only their hands and feet,
make some of the worst movies
in the history of the world.
Dave Barry, in his book Dave Barry
is Not Taking This Sitting Down
Thenewfve-bladeFusionrazor by Gillette
was developedat aslightly lower cost than
theMach3, whichcost anastounding$680
milliontodevelop.
Bonus fact: Bothrazors werepredictedby
thecomedy world. Thefrst Saturday Night
Live broadcast hadafakecommercial
about three-bladerazors andthesatire
newspaper TheOnionrananopinionpiece
by Gilletteentitled, (Expletive) everything,
weredoingfveblades.
Source: Business Week Online
Want to know what people are talking
about? Heres a list of Mondays most e-
mailed stories from Kansan.com:
1. Please send your resum and a link to your Facebook profle
2. Uno Chicago Grill unexpectedly shuts down
3. Sundays big game all about Hawks
4. KU battles back for improbable win
5. School of Journalism receives honorable ranking
t administration
Third provost fnalist visits
By melinda RickettS
mricketts@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Richard Lariviere is the
only provost candidate who
can boast serving as an expert
witness in a wrongful circum-
cision case makes up part of
his professional background.
Lariviere, who is in consid-
eration for the office of pro-
vost, brings an eclectic back-
ground with his resum. He
is a professor of Sanskrit, an
expert in Hindu personal law,
which entitled him to testify
in the circumcision case, and
has been active in the busi-
ness world.
Despite his forays outside
of academia, education re-
mains his first priority.
I realized that if I had a
great day as a business per-
son I would have a little more
money in my pocket, but I also
realized that if I had a great
day as a university person,
some kid would get a better
education, and they just dont
compare, he said.
Lariviere is the third of
four candidates for KU Pro-
vost. He gave a short public
address at the Dole Institute
of Politics Monday about his
personal background and the
role of higher education re-
search institutes.
When addressing the role
of universities in research,
he briefly referenced Thom-
as Friedmans The World is
Flat, the main topic of the
speech given last week by
Jack Burns, the second can-
didate for the provost posi-
tion.
Lariviere said that univer-
sities faced greater pressure
because of the decline of re-
search in the major indus-
tries, but said he took a less
dire view of the cutbacks ef-
fect on university research.
We are still so far ahead
of the rest of the world that
were still safe and secure,
but its not a birthright, he
said.
Lariviere said that he took
students seriously and valued
their input, citing a student
governing board he created in
Texas as an example.
He said KU students seemed
to have more input into daily
decisions than students at
most large public universities.
Its something he would try to
continue if he were to come
to the University, he said.
Charles Decedue, execu-
tive director of the Higuchi
Biosciences Center on West
Campus, described Lariviere
as a very impressive candi-
date.
I think he has a good grasp
of all of the issues of running
a modern, large-scale research
university, Decedue said.
The public address was
part of the interview process
to replace David Shulenburg-
er, who is stepping down from
the provost position after 13
years, effective this summer.
Shulenburger will assume
the position of vice president
for academic affairs with the
National Association of State
Universities and Land Grant
Colleges after he leaves the
University.
The Provost Search Com-
mittee announced Lariviere,
56, as the third candidate last
Thursday.
He is the current dean of
the College of Liberal Arts
at the University of Texas at
Austin.
The fourth and final candi-
date, Karen Gould, will speak
at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Dole
Institute.
Edited by Jodi Ann Holopirek
Megan True/KANSAN
Wichita sophomore Liz Winter and Hutchinson freshman Jessica Shannon bread chicken for dinner at Douthart
Scholarship Hall Monday afternoon. Winter and Shannon have the Monday shift to cook for the women of Douthart.
Shannon said it was fun to cook because she got to try out different recipes.
Creating group cuisine
people
NEW YORK Madonna
says shes more stubborn than
a terrorist at least when it
comes to her music career.
Whats the difference be-
tween a pop star and a terror-
ist? You can negotiate with a ter-
rorist, jokes Madonna, poking
fun at her diva reputation in the
March issue of Harpers Bazaar,
which hits newsstands Feb. 21.
Madonna, 47, also reveals
that she and her husband of
fve years, 37-year-old flm-
maker Guy Ritchie, often dont
agree on vacation destinations.
Hes got to start doing
more of the holidays I like to
do, she said.
Madonna, a devout practi-
tioner of Kabbalah, a sect of
Judaism, released her latest
album, Confessions on a
Dance Floor, last year. Shell
open Wednesdays Grammys
performing with the Gorillaz.
The Associated Press
I think he has a good
grasp of all of the issues of
running a modern, large-scale
research university.
Charles Decedue
Executive director,
Higuchi Biosciences Center
Madonna jokes about
diva image, marriage
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Tuesday, 7th
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A Woman President:
If Not Now, When?
Tuesday, February 7 | 8:00 p.m. at the Dole Institute
Carol Moseley-Braun
2004 Presidential contender,
Former U.S. Ambassador and
U.S. Senator (D-IL)
Tuesday, 7th
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Wednesday, 8th
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Te Promise and Perils of Education in Kansas
Robert Corkins, Kansas Commissioner of Educa-
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education and present his vision of how it might
best be developed.
Feb 8th
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February 25, 2006
Cost: $10
Due Monday February 20th
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You can pick up an application in the Emily Taylor Womens
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KU women students with leadership potential and experience
are encouraged to participate in this interactive, participatory
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Having a VIEW features activities, round table discussions, and
panels involving prominent women leaders and offers opportuni-
ties to meet and hear the opinions of other women on campus.
campus
The fourth and fnal can-
didate in the provost search,
Karen L. Gould, was announced
Monday.
Initially, there were fve can-
didates for the provost position,
but one of the unannounced
candidates withdrew.
Gould, 57, is the dean of the
McMicken College of Arts and
Sciences at the University of
Cincinnati. She is also a profes-
sor of French and Francophone
studies.
Gould will give a public pre-
sentation from 4 to 5 p.m. Thurs-
day at the Robert J. Dole Institute
of Politics. It will be followed by a
public reception.
MelindaRicketts
By Nicole Kelley
nkelley@kansan.com
Kansanstaff writer
Slanderous comments and vi-
cious accusations are things com-
monly heard during most election
campaigns as candidates fght their
way into power.
As Student Senate elections get
closer, this years Senate elections
commission will form and begin
meeting weekly to address issues of
unethical behavior, to enforce rules
and ensure that all candidates are
treated fairly.
On Wednesday, the group will
choose a commissioner who will
oversee all commission operations.
Jonathan Steele, elections commis-
sion chairman, said that the group
would look at making changes to
the election code. He said there
would only be small changes this
year because the system had proven
to work well in enforcing the rules
and making sure that everyone gets
a fair hearing.
Jessica Sullivan, Westwood se-
nior and member of this years elec-
tions commission, said, The most
important thing is to have a good
commissioner that will be able
to be fair, not favor one side and
stress that everyone should act civil
towards each other.
During last springs elections,
the commission charged Student
Voice with four election violations
and KUnited with one. This lead to
allegations of bias within the com-
mission.
Dennis Chanay, Paola sopho-
more and last years presidential
candidate for Student Voice, said
the members of the commission
had too many close ties to the rul-
ing power and was using them un-
justly.
It allowed them to be very se-
lective with who they chose to
come down on, Chanay said. It
was very vague. The election code
is too open to interpretation, and
their interpretation is based on
who they liked and who they did
not.
Steele said that this year the
commission had a diverse collec-
tion of people who would be fair to
all candidates.
Our commission will be com-
pletely impartial to any coali-
tion, he said. Anyone who has
a violation and comes before the
commission will all be treated
equally and all receive the same
process.
Chanay said the reason the
commission would continue to
be biased was because its mem-
bers were chosen by the ruling
power within Student Senate.
He said he would like to have
the selections handled by a fac-
ulty member who has an interest
in Student Senate.
Steele said he didnt expect
there would be any wild instances
of outrageous fnes this year. He
said the members of the commis-
sion would do what they thought
was right concerning specifc viola-
tions laid out in the Senate election
code.
Hopefully everyone will fol-
low the rules and it wont get
messy and hateful and spiteful,
Steele said, and we can just have
a fair election about what the
candidates consider pertinent is-
sues.
Edited by Gabriella Souza
On campus
F Eric Hanley, professor of soci-
ology, will be giving a lecture
entitledSurvival Strategies
in Contemporary Russia: A
Comparison of Urban and
Rural Households as part of
the Brown Bag Discussion
Series at 12:30 p.m. today in
318 Bailey Hall.
F The University Career Fair is
from 12:30 to 5 p.m. today at
the Kansas Union Ballroom.
F Pauletta Otis, senior fellow
in religion and international
affairs at the Pew Forum on
Religion and Public Life, is
giving a lecture on religion
and violence at 3 p.m. today at
the Pine Room of the Kansas
Union.
F Saul Williams, poet, will per-
form at 7 p.m. today at Wood-
ruff Auditorium in the Kansas
Union. Tickets are $2.
On the recOrd
FA KU student reported keys
and a key fob stolen Friday at
11:27 a.m. from room 448 in
Murphy Hall. The keys were
valued at $35.
FA 45-year-old male was ar-
rested at 1345 West Campus
Road for inappropriately using
his hands in a public place
Friday between 10:30 a.m. and
11:14 a.m.
FAn article in Mondays The Uni-
versity Daily Kansan contained
an error. The article, Illegal sub-
leasing common, misspelled
the name of Kelli Scheuerman,
community manager for The
Reserve apartment complex.
cOrrectiOns
FAn article in Fridays The Uni-
versity Daily Kansan contained
an error. The article, Online
store opens shop downtown,
incorrectly stated when Max
Falkenstien would be signing
T-shirts at Joe-College.com.
Falkenstien will be present Feb.
16 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and
Feb. 19 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The Museum Studies Program
will host a discussion panel
concerning the differences and
similarities between the arts and
sciences. The panel will be held
at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 15 at the Hall
Center for the Humanities.
The discussion will be
moderated by Marjorie Swann,
associate professor of English,
and John Simmons, collection
manager at the Natural History
Museum, and will include seven
other participants from various
areas of study.
I think that now more than
ever we are the battleground of
evolution, Swann said. I think
that Kansas in particular and stu-
dents at the University of Kansas
should be interested in the ways
in which cultural ideas inform us
of how we think of science.
The panel discussion, entitled
Art & Science: Two Cultures, is
devoted to thinking about the dif-
ferent ways art and science view
the world and will go along with
the collection of works by artist
Tracy Hicks on display through
the end of February at the Hall
Center.
NicoleKelley
Karen L. Gould named
fnal provost candidate
Public talk to examine
contrast in art, science
t Student Senate
Commission to begin work
Panel aims to maintain
elections fairness, ethics
Horses killed in barn fre
Mike Hutmacher/THE WICHITA EAGLE
Horse trainer Glen Melson watches fre investigators examine the remains of a horse barn at the Eureka
Downs horse track in Eureka on Monday. A fre swept through the barn Sunday and killed about 40 quarter
horses, many of them 2 years old and training to race.
natiOn
COLUMBUS, Ohio At
least 14 states are rushing to
pass bills to regulate protests
at funerals. The quickly-mov-
ing legislation is a response
to members of the Westboro
Baptist church who protested
at the funerals of soldiers, Ma-
rines and miners killed in the
Sago Mine disaster. The church
has about 75 members, most
of them extended family of its
pastor, the Rev. Fred Phelps.
The members protested that
God struck down the soldiers
because they were fghting
for a country with homosexu-
als and adulterers. Its just
inhuman for a group that says
its coming in the name of the
Lord to protest a funeral, said
state Delegate Jeff Eldridge, a
co-sponsor of the West Virginia
bill.
TheAssociatedPress
New laws may stop
funeral protests
4A The UniversiTy DAily KAnsAn TUesDAy, febrUAry 7, 2006 news
By Michael liedtke
The AssociATed Press
SAN FRANCISCO Online
search engine leader Google
Inc. is wedding its instant mes-
saging and e-mail services in
the same Web browser, hoping
the convenience will lure users
from the larger communications
networks operated by its chief
rivals.
The new chat feature to be
unveiled Tuesday will provide
users of Googles Gmail service
with a list of contacts drawn
from past e-mail exchanges and
then signal whos available for
online conversations.
Automatic status reports
about the online availability of
friends, family and co-workers
have been a hallmark of instant
messaging services for years.
Google hopes to make it even
simpler to connect with an on-
line contact by allowing users
to initiate an electronic con-
versation within the same Web
browser showing an e-mailbox,
bypassing the need to switch to
a separate instant messaging ap-
plication.
The new chat feature will be-
gin to show up in some Gmail
accounts Tuesday and should
reach all users within the next
few weeks, said Salar Kaman-
gar, Googles vice president of
product management.
We didnt think it made
sense for there to be this arti-
fcial separation that currently
exists between e-mailing and
chatting, he said. People dont
want to have to have two sepa-
rate contact lists for e-mail and
instant messaging.
The new chat feature only
will work if both users have
Gmail accounts or already be-
long to a service compatible
with Googles instant messag-
ing service. Besides Googles
own services, the network also
includes EarthLink, Jabber.
org, Sipphones Gizmo Proj-
ect, Chikka in the Philippines,
Singapores MediaRing, Italys
Tiscali and Chinas Netease.
By errin haines
The AssociATed Press
ATLANTA Thousands of
mourners fled past the casket of
Coretta Scott King on Monday,
paying their respects to the frst
lady of the civil rights move-
ment at the historic church
where her husband shared his
dream for racial equality in the
1960s.
People lined up for blocks
outside Ebenezer Baptist
Church, waiting for hours in
freezing rain for a moment to
bid farewell to the widow of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Across the street, an estimated
1,700 people flled the churchs
newer facility for a musical trib-
ute, including Oprah Winfrey
and other entertainers such as
Gladys Knight.
For me, she embodied roy-
alty. She was the queen, Win-
frey said. You knew she was a
force.
Winfrey laughed as she de-
scribed persuading King to get
a new hairdo on her TV show.
And she became emotional
when she told how King, in
the week before her death, sent
her a handmade quilt that her
husbands mother had passed
down.
She leaves us all a better
America than the America of
her childhood, Winfrey said.
King, 78, died Jan. 30 at an
alternative medicine clinic in
Mexico, where doctors said she
was battling advanced ovarian
cancer. She also had been re-
covering from a stroke and heart
attack.
As the service concluded,
Kings eldest daughter, Yolan-
da King, told the gathering,
I know it is the prayers of
so many of you, and from all
over the world, that carried
her safely home. We knew
firsthand the enduring power
of love.
Inside the silent sanctuary,
mourners fled slowly past the
casket, some lingering a mo-
ment before moving on. Many
walked away dabbing their
eyes at the sight of Kings body,
which was dressed in a pink
suit, with a shroud of fowers
blanketing the lower half of
the casket. She lay directly be-
low the pulpit where her hus-
band preached from 1960 until
1968.
First in line was Jackie Treen,
51, who few from Severn, Md.,
to Atlanta just to see Kings body.
Im an African-American
woman married to a white man
for 30 years, Treen said. I have
to be here. Martin and Coretta
made it possible for me to have
what I have.
John Bazemore/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, reacts during a prayer service for Coretta
Scott King at the new Ebenezer Church on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta on
Monday. Ebenezer Pastor Raphael Warnock is to the far left.
t INTERNET
Google to mix e-mail and chat
t NATION
Thousands line up for King
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COMMENTARY OUR OPINION
Encourage diversity;
dont require it
Avoid fast food; super foods
improve your body, budget
Its pretty sad when the drive-
thru employees at McDonalds
get to know you on a rst name
basis. Although you may think
youre saving money or time by
speeding through the drive-thru,
you can actually make healthy
meals and snacks for less than
what you pay for fast food.
My favorite book, Super-
foods Rx, by Steven Pratt and
Kathy Matthews, lets you in on
fourteen foods that are readily
available, affordable and help
increase your quality of life.
Who knew that tea could play a
role in preventing sunlight dam-
age to the skin (wrinkles and
skin cancer)? Not only that,
but its antiviral, anti-inamma-
tory, anti-cavity and anti-allergy.
Blueberries are an excel-
lent source of antioxidants.
One serving produces as many
antioxidants as ve servings
of carrots, apples, broccoli or
squash, according to Pratt and
Matthews. You can buy them
frozen or fresh. My favorite
breakfast is 1 cup of oatmeal,
1 cup of water and 1 cup of
blueberries mixed on the stove.
Once the blueberries have
warmed up, I mix in a little
honey and top it off with a
splash of soy milk. Yum!
Tomatoes, which have
lycopene, help reduce the risk
of prostate cancer. They also
help increase the skins sun
protector. You should try to get
processed tomatoes, such as
ketchup and tomato sauces, in
your body as well because they
break down lycopene. Hey, its
an excuse to eat pizza.
Wild salmon and other fresh
sh can give you omega-3 fatty
acids that are probably miss-
ing from your diet. Dry skin,
fatigue, frequent colds and
depression can all result from
a lack of omega-3 fatty acids,
partly because your brain is
more than 60 percent fat.
Turkey, is a superfood that
many people already include in
their diets. Turkey helps build
up your immune system. You
can use deli turkey, ground
turkey or even turkey cutlets.
Try adding ground turkey into
whole-wheat spaghetti and pas-
ta sauce (hey, more lycopene).
When I do choose to eat
out, my favorite restaurant
in Lawrence is Zen Zero on
Massachusetts Street. It has
a phenomenal Vietnamese
spring roll salad. Its lled
with fresh vegetables, chicken,
shrimp and a light soy vin-
aigrette dressing. I have yet
to nd someone who doesnt
like it.
Carter is a Shawnee sopho-
more in Health, Sport and
Exercise Science.
The University of Missouri is
offering an optional diversity class
this semester and hopes to create
a mandatory class on diversity for
students. The University of Texas
already has a mandatory diversity
class.
The class taught in Columbia is
called Experiencing Cultural Di-
versity in the United States. Now
theres a broad subject area.
Diversity is a good thing. Real-
izing that there are different types
of people and then learning about
and acknowledging that is some-
thing everyone should do. College
is also a great time to do it because
students are exposed to more
people from more places than
most of them will ever be again.
But forcing students to take a
mandatory class isnt doing any-
one a favor. First of all, diversity in
general is such a broad subject. It
is used so broadly that it has lost
some of its meaning.
The word just means the fact of
being different.
Looking at diversity by itself
does no good. Diversity works
best when applied to a spe-
cic subject. The University offers
courses that do just that.
The School of Journalism of-
fers a diversity in the media class.
The School of Business offered
a course in the past that dealt
with the skills needed to address
working with diverse groups in the
business world.
Theres a womens studies
department and an African-Ameri-
can studies department in the col-
lege of liberal arts and sciences.
The University offers a range of
services through the Multicultural
Resource Center that address di-
versity. The center has a Diversity
Training Institute that offers train-
ing to KU faculty and staff. There
are Brown Bag Diversity Discus-
sions at noon every Wednesday at
the center. Every month there are
Diversity Dialogues.
Any student interested can
learn about diversity through pro-
grams or classes, and the classes
are tailored to the needs and
interests of the school or group
involved. Also, every student get-
ting a bachelors of arts must take a
non-Western culture class.
But one course devoted exclu-
sively to diversity wouldnt have
the appeal or the practicality of
programs the University already
offers.
Another problem with the idea
is forcing students to take the class
makes diversity a drag, something
they have to learn about, not
something they get to learn about.
No one likes being told what
classes to take. Making such a
class mandatory would make
some students resent the course.
With a subject like diversity tossed
around so much at universities,
having students resent it is a step
in the wrong direction.
Also, if every undergraduate
had to take the class, it would be
so large that students with real in-
terest in diversity would be paired
with indifferent students.
The programs the University
has now specic and voluntary
courses may not contain as
many students as a mandatory
class, but what they lack in quan-
tity they make up for in quality.
And thats the way it should stay.
John Jordan for the editorial
board
ABBY CARTER
opinion@kansan.com
When America tuned in to
watch President Bush give his
annual State of the Union ad-
dress on Jan. 31, most people
expected the president to
simply go through his usual
agenda of the war on terror and
his dreams of a peaceful future
in Iraq. Bushs main objective,
however, was a shocking goal
that has caused an interna-
tional uproar: To reduce our oil
imports from the Middle East
by 75 percent by the year 2025
and make our dependence on
Middle Eastern oil a thing of
the past.
But, wait, wasnt that the
only reason we were in Iraq?
The whole point was to secure
a strong economic future for
the oil industry by conquering
areas that could supply our
country with oil for years to
come. This was supposed to be
a war for oil, and nothing else.
At least, thats what protestors
and skeptics have been labeling
it as the war has dragged on. So
why would Bush go through all
the trouble of invading Iraq if
he wanted to cut down on the
use of oil?
According to Bushs
speech, his administration
has been looking into alter-
native energy sources from
the beginning. Since he took
over in 2001, we have spent
about $10 billion looking into
alternative forms of energy,
ranging from zero-emission
coal plants to hydrogen-
powered cars. In his address,
Bush said that we were on
the threshold of incredible
advances. He announced his
Advanced Energy Initiative,
through which he will expand
his clean-energy research
program by 22 percent. The
programs first goal is to make
new forms of ethanol pow-
ered cars competitive and
available within six years.
So lets get back to the
question at hand. If Bush has
planned to cut down on oil
dependence from the begin-
ning, why would he invade
Iraq in the rst place? Could
Bush really have gone into Iraq
to combat terrorism and save
the people of Iraq from an op-
pressive dictatorship? It seems
to be a more and more likely
possibility that the presidents
main impetus for going to
war was the people, here and
overseas, that he felt obligated
to protect.
In his speech, the president
talked a lot about Americas
constant battle against tyranny.
He spoke about how we have
constantly come to the aid of
those in need and have fought
for democracy around the
globe. This constant involve-
ment has always been contro-
versial, and we have taken our
fair share of worldwide criti-
cism for it. As Bush stated in
his address, In a complex and
challenging time, the road of
isolationism and protectionism
may seem broad and invit-
ing, yet it ends in danger and
decline.
When the president pre-
sented these issues to the na-
tion, his approval ratings were
the lowest of any second term
president since Nixon, accord-
ing to The Kansas City Star. If
he sticks by his words, all of
that will change. Through his
speech, the president has re-
vealed that this is indeed not a
war for oil. It is a war for those
in need, and a war necessary
to protect us from dangerous
forces.
In a time of testing, we can-
not nd security by abandoning
our commitments and retreat-
ing within our borders, Bush
said in his address. There is a
difference between responsible
criticism that aims for success
and defeatism that refuses to
acknowledge anything but
failure. Hindsight alone is not
wisdom. And second-guessing
is not a strategy.
We should stand united
behind our president, and
place our faith in him that he
will nish what he started fol-
lowing the attacks of 9/11. We
must do that, or else everything
we have accomplished up until
now will have been in vain.
Wittler is a Wichita fresh-
man in political science and
journalism.
Presidents speech should compel support
COMMENTARY
JACOB WITTLER
opinion@kansan.com
Vagina. Not a word com-
monly viewed on the pages
of a newspaper, but making
a grand appearance in this
article a total of seven times.
For those curiosity piqued
readers who are still Virgins
in terms of V-Day and the
Vagina monologues history,
the Vagina monologues are a
collection of humorous and
poignant monologues written
by award winning playwright,
performer and activist Eve
Ensler. These monologues are
translated into more than 35
languages and are preformed
in more than 76 countries
world wide. Additionally, V-
Day is considered one of the
100 Best Charities by Worth
Magazine and has raised over
25 million dollars in seven
years alone.
The University is a partici-
pant in the 2006 monologues.
The performances here on
campus will be at 7 p.m. on
Feb. 9 to 11, in Alderson
Auditorium of the Kansas
Union. The 2006 KU pro-
duction is student directed,
crewed and acted, involving
participation by women of
all majors, years in school,
religions, sexual orientations
and propensities for dark
chocolate.
The goal of these mono-
logues is not only to enter-
tain the public with their
blatant honesty and humor-
ous narrations, but addition-
ally to educate the public on
pertinent womens issues.
Some performers ex-
pressed their anxieties about
how the monologues were
viewed by the community.
Lauren Bornstein, a Vagina
monologue performer, said
she was concerned about
some of the stereotypes that
people often tack on to the
Vagina monologues.
Itd be nice for people to
come and see this without
thinking, Damn feminist, or
making some sexist comment
about women, Bornstein
said.
I dont understand what
educating people on the
vagina has to do with being
gay or a feminist. It seems
like women who open their
mouths are considered a
danger. So with the vagina
monologues, were opening
our mouths wide to let every-
one know how wonderful it
was to do this and how much
they have to learn.
Bornsteins statement is a
reminder to never judge or as-
sume anything until first hav-
ing a complete understand-
ing and an actual encounter
with the topic. As students,
we must always remember to
be open-minded and not to
make assumptions.
The Vagina monologues
are intended to educate the
audience on world issues
relevant to women while
engaging the viewer. What-
ever our sexual orientation,
genetic color pigment, geni-
tal endowment or opinion
of Brokeback Mountain,
keeping ourselves informed
of worldly issues is impor-
tant. Additionally, enjoying
an evening of entertainment
is also a perk.
Lavinia Roberts is a Par-
sons sophomore in English
and theatre and film.
V-Day educates masses about women
COMMENTARY
Post this: Rush the Reliable.

This is to the cheerleader

who spanked Brandon
Rushs butt at the Oklaho-
ma game. We all saw it.

I would like to thank

everyone who went to the
Oklahoma basketball game
for staying in your seats
after we won. I was worried
we were going to rush the
court. Now lets see if we
can stay in our seats at
football games.

The reason we pulled it out

was because Renegades of
Funk was played during ev-
ery time out. And also, Baby
Shaq is Darnell Jackson.

Um, 59-58, Im pretty

sure we totally kicked Okla-
homas ass. Yeah, KU rocks.
Freshmen, I love you!

Julian Wright is my hero.

Will you marry me, Julian?

So I live in the dorms,

and the game just got out,
so I cant get back to the
dorms until everybodys
left, and thats ridiculous.
KU basketball should not
affect when I can and
cannot go home.

My friend wants to give

Troy Polamalu pigtails.

Wait, so its four blades

in a razor now? But now
theres ve? Whats the
world coming to?

No one wants to see

80-year-old men try to sing
and dance. Screw Super
Bowl half time.

So in an unseemly ges-
ture, we decided to leave
our leftover breadsticks on
our next-door neighbors
porch. So they decided to
return them, and what do
they do? They take a dump
in the box, and give it back.
What should we do next,
Free-For-All?

Free-For-All, you have

been denied your pants
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BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
rschneider@kansan.com
KANSANSENIOR SPORTSWRITER
Editors note: Ryan Schneider
ranks the Big 12 Conference.
1. Oklahoma (19-4, 9-0 Big 12)
Best victory: At No. 8 Baylor, 73-70
Worst loss: At Illinois, 86-75
Tournament chances: The Soon-
ers are a lock for the
NCAA tournament,
currently sitting atop
the Big 12. Oklahoma
has rolled through
conference play, de-
feating conference opponents by
nearly 20 points per contest. If the
Sooners can carry the momentum,
they have an opportunity to dance
their way to the Final Four.
2. Baylor (16-4, 6-3 Big 12)
Best victory: No. 8 Georgia, 84-72
Worst loss: At No. 3 LSU, 88-57
Tournament chances: Barring a col-
lapse by Oklahoma, Baylor has
no chance of winning the Big 12.
Despite the rout at LSU, the Bears
are still ranked in the top 10 and
should be considered a threat to
defend their national title.
3. Texas A&M (17-5, 6-3 Big 12)
Best victory: Missouri, 72-52
Worst loss: At Hawaii, 68-66
Tournament chances: Texas A&M
coach Gary Blair and his team ap-
pear primed for the tournament.
The Aggies have two tournament
resum builders ahead next week
against Oklahoma and Baylor. If
Texas A&M can win either of those
two games, look for it to be a tour-
nament lock.
4. Missouri (16-5, 6-3 Big 12)
Best victory: No. 4 Baylor, 64-61
Worst loss: At Arkansas State 70-67
Tournament chances: Missouri might
be the Big 12s most surprising
team this season. The Tigers were
picked to nish seventh in the Big
12 Preseason coaches poll, yet they
appear ready to lock up a top ve
nish.
5. Kansas State (16-
5, 6-4 Big 12)
Best victory: Loui-
siana Tech, 77-66
Worst loss: St. Josephs, 78-68
Tournament chances: Despite sitting
at fth in the conference, Kansas
State coach Deb Patterson and
her team still lack a signature vic-
tory this season. The Wildcats have
a chance to greatly improve their
tournament seed, with their last
two home games coming against
Oklahoma and Baylor. Right
now, a winning conference record
should get them in the tournament
for the fth straight season.
6. Texas (12-8, 6-4 Big 12)
Best victory: No. 24 Missouri, 63-54
Worst loss: At Kansas, 70-61
Tournament chances: Texas has
dropped numer-
ous opportunities
this season to get
quality victories
against ranked teams. The Long-
horns 1-5 mark against ranked
teams wont sit well with the tour-
nament selection committee. They
could be a bubble team in March.
7. Texas Tech (10-10, 5-4 Big 12)
Best victory: No. 5 Baylor, 64-62
Worst loss: At Mississippi, 72-69
Tournament chances: If the tourna-
ment began today, the Red Raiders
would nd themselves out of the
eld of 64 for the rst time in 16
years. Texas Tech must nd a way
to get above .500 to even be con-
sidered a bubble team.
8. Nebraska (12-8, 4-5 Big 12)
Best victory: Kansas, 73-61
Worst loss: South Dakota State, 68-
49
Tournament chances: If the Corn-
huskers can keep their overall
record above .500, the team will
make a third appearance in the
WNIT. Nebraska might be the con-
ferences most disappointing team;
they were picked to nish fth in a
coaches preseason poll.
9. Kansas (14-6, 3-6 Big 12)
Best victory: No. 23 Texas, 70-61
Worst loss: At Colorado, 74-65
Tournament chances: Kansas razor-
thin tournament hopes rest on its
next two games
road games
against Oklaho-
ma and Missouri.
If Kansas fails to
make the tourna-
ment, coach Bonnie Henrickson
can point to two losses to Colo-
rado as the reason. It is more likely
the Jayhawks will make their rst
WNIT appearance since 1991.
10. Iowa State (12-8, 3-6 Big 12)
Best victory: Nebraska, 79-57
Worst loss: N.C. State, 81-59
Tournament chances: Iowa State
appears headed for its rst trip to
the WNIT since the 2004 season.
An ankle injury to junior guard
Lyndsey Medders forced the teams
leading scorer out of the last two
games. 11. Colorado (7-15, 2-8 Big 12)
Best victory: Kansas, 74-65
Worst loss: Texas, 69-64
Tournament chances: Colorado has
struggled mightily under rst year
coach Kathy McConnell-Miller.
The Buffaloes are on track for their
second season near the bottom.
12. Oklahoma State (6-15, 0-10 Big 12)
Best victory: Memphis, 91-42
Worst loss: At No. 5 Baylor, 57-26
Tournament chances: Oklahoma
State has been building for the fu-
ture since the beginning of the sea-
son. First year coach Kurt Budke
leads one of the nations youngest
teams. The Cowgirls appear head-
ed toward being winless in confer-
ence play.
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F Track, Tyson Invitational, all day,
Fayetteville, Ark.
F Track, ISU Classic, all day,
Ames, Iowa
F Mens golf at Hawaii-Hilo, all
day, Waikoloa, Hawaii
SATURDAY
F Softball vs. Texas A&M-Corpus
Christi, Wilson/DeMarini Tour-
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F Softball vs. Houston, Wilson/
DeMarini Tournament, 4 p.m.,
Houston
F Mens basketball vs. Iowa State,
3 p.m., Allen Fieldhouse
F Womens basketball at Mis-
souri, 3 p.m., Columbia, Mo.
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mens basKetball
For the second week in a
row, the Phillips 66 Big 12
Rookie of the week is a Kansas
mens basketball player.
Garnering the honor for
last weeks performances was
freshman guard Brandon Rush.
Freshman guard Mario
Chalmers was the previous
weeks winner.
Rushs victory is his second
of the season. He averaged 21
points and seven rebounds
last week. Rush will join for-
mer players Jeff Boschee and
Nick Collison as the only other
Jayhawks to win Rookie of
Week twice in one season.
This is also the frst time Kan-
sas received three Rookie of the
Week awards in one season.
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The University of Kansas
Chancellors Student Awards Committee
is accepting nominations and applications for the following graduating senior awards:
The Agnes Wright Strickland Award
The Class of 1913 Award
*The Rusty Leffel Concerned Student Award
*The Leffel Award is not limited to graduating seniors
The Donald K. Alderson Memorial Award
The Alexis F. Dillard Student Involvement Award
The Caryl K. Smith Student Leader Award
Nomination and application forms are online at: http://www.vpss.ku.edu/awards
Nominations must be received by Friday, February 17, 2006, at 5:00 p.m.
Applications must be received by Friday, March 3, 2006, at 5:00 p.m.
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t horn born, hawk bred
Forget Hines Ward. The real
MVP on Super Bowl Sunday was
the Allen Fieldhouse crowd.
Kansas and Oklahoma felt the
power of the crowds electricity in
the games fnal 7 and a half min-
utes. It recharged the Jayhawks
and shocked the Sooners.
Oklahoma senior forward
Kevin Bookout said the crowd
especially helped Kansas in the
last 7 or 8 minutes of the game.
Their younger guys got really
energized by that and got rolling,
Bookout said.
Oklahoma coach Kelvin
Sampson also said that his team
just could not handle the crowd.
The game changed with
freshman guard Brandon
Rushs three-point basket at
the 7:31 mark. The fans wind
was knocked out of them one
possession earlier when Okla-
homa missed three straight
shots, grabbed three offensive
rebounds and hit a three-point
shot to take a 53-38 lead.
Kansas students sat down with
their heads in their hands after
that frustrating possession, but
not one left the feldhouse. They
knew a comeback was possible,
but needed something to give
them a second wind.
Then, Rush got open and hit
the shot. That was all it took. The
students could sense what was
about to happen, and the noise
level stayed high the rest of the
game. They jumped up and down
and screamed and gave each oth-
er high fves and hugs after every
break Kansas received.
Oklahoma proceeded to com-
mit four turnovers and miss 13
of its next 15 shots. Kansas took
advantage of the crowds intensity
and won by one point.
Allen Fieldhouse is known for
its immense home court advan-
tage, thanks to noisy, but knowl-
edgeable fans.
Ive seen some great crowds
since I came to Kansas in the
fall of 2003, but Sundays was
the best better than Michi-
gan State in 2003 and Georgia
Tech and Oklahoma State last
season.
Kansas was not only playing
for respect, but for the Big 12 title.
With the victory, Kansas stayed
within one game of Texas and
pushed Oklahoma another game
down in the standings. If Kan-
sas wins the rest of this season,
it could earn a sixth conference
championship.
A victory came with so many
good things for the Jayhawks. A
loss would have put them back
in the same inconsistent position
KU fans have seen them in all
year. No wonder the crowd gave
110 percent.
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junior in journalism. He is
Kansan correspondent editor.
Travis robineTT
trobinett@kansan.com
Crowd spurs
team to win
Rush again receives
Rookie of the Week
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Welcome to Allen Fieldhouse
Jayhawks Big 12 South
phogs
Big 12 South teams prove inept in feldhouse
t big 12 basketball
W
hen Oklahoma
guard Michael
Neal missed the
potential game-
winning shot Sunday afternoon,
he did more than secure a vic-
tory for the Kansas basketball
team.
He also secured Kansas per-
fect all-time record against Big
12 South teams in Allen Field-
house, which has reached 29
games.
The victory also marked the
eighth straight time Kansas has
beaten Oklahoma in Lawrence
and kept coach Kelvin Sampson
winless in the feldhouse.
Kansas coach Bill Self said
during Mondays Big 12 coaches
teleconference that the crowd
played a large part in Kansas
comeback.
Whether youre playing
Northern Colorado or Okla-
homa, youre going to have a
full house, Self said. It can get
quite loud. They hung in there
Sunday and helped us win the
game.
Since Self arrived at Kansas
three seasons ago, Kansas has
lost just two home games to
league opponents one last
season to Iowa State and the
other this season to Kansas
State.
The crowd was instrumental
in Kansas comeback Sunday
and forced Sampson to call mul-
tiple timeouts late in the second
half. After freshman guard Ma-
rio Chalmers drove to the bas-
ket and hit a shot that cut the
lead to four, Sampson called his
second-to-last timeout.
The crowd continued to get
louder.
Oklahoma forward Kevin
Bookout said he thought the
crowd played a factor in the out-
come of the game as well.
This arena has a lot of histo-
ry, but it cant play against you,
Bookout said. The crowd can
only do so much. It was loud,
right up there with Gallagher
Iba Arena, but they got into it
there in the last seven or eight
minutes, and I thought that
helped them out.
By its standards, Kansas had
struggled at home this season,
losing its second game in the
feldhouse to Kansas State after
suffering a 2-point loss to Ne-
vada in December. If Oklahoma
would have beaten Kansas, it
would have marked the frst
time since the 1998-1999 sea-
son that Kansas lost three home
games in a season.
Weve lost some close, tough
games at home, Self said. Cer-
tainly it wasnt because the fans
didnt do their job.
In Selfs four losses in Allen
Fieldhouse over the past three
seasons, the 4-point loss to
Kansas State was by the larg-
est margin. The others came
against Richmond, which was a
1-point loss, and against Iowa
State and Nevada, both 2-point
losses.
The victory against Oklaho-
ma also secured Kansas 23rd
straight season of winning at
least 10 games in Allen Field-
house.
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t Mens basketball
By Ryan Colaianni
rcolaianni@kansan.com
kansan senior sportswriter
Coming off of fve straight
victories and winning 12 of its
past 14 games, Kansas is a little
disappointed with its lack of na-
tional publicity.
The Jayhawks were once
again omitted from the latest
Associated Press poll, released
Monday and have yet to be
ranked this season.
The Jayhawks received 88
votes in the poll, two spots out-
side of the top 25.
Kansas coach Bill Self said
after the victory Sunday that he
would have been surprised if his
team entered the rankings. The
team is just starting to get respect
nationally, he said, even though
it has won 12 of its last 14.
Following Kansas one-point
victory against Oklahoma on
Sunday, freshman guard Bran-
don Rush said he expected the
team to be ranked this week. But
rankings are not all that mat-
ter, he said, because it is just a
number in front of a team.
Rush averaged 21 points a
game last week and was named
Big 12 Newcomer of the week
for his play against Oklahoma
and Texas Tech. It was the sec-
ond time this season that Rush
has received the award. Last
week, freshman guard Mario
Chalmers was named New-
comer of the week. Rush leads
all Big 12 freshmen in scoring,
averaging 14.8 points per game.
Despite Rushs efforts and the
victory against a ranked Oklaho-
ma team, the Jayhawks couldnt
crack the rankings. The team in
some ways has been playing un-
derneath the radar for the major-
ity of this season, Self said.
Sophomore center CJ Giles
said he thought the victory
against the Sooners earned the
team respect.
We have a lot more big
games to play, Giles said. We
just need to focus on our next
couple of games.
The victory put Kansas in
sole possession of second place
in the Big 12 conference and
just a game behind Texas. Texas
and Kansas will meet in Austin,
Texas, later this month.
We are in the game. These
next eight days will probably
determine if we are in the game
down the stretch, Self said.
Kansas will have two rematch-
es with teams that it had beat al-
ready this season when it faces
Nebraska Wednesday in Lincoln,
Neb., and Iowa State on Satur-
day at Allen Fieldhouse. If Kan-
sas can win both those games it
may enter the top 25 next week
for the frst time all season.
Edited by Gabriella Souza
Jayhawks frustrated
with rankings snub
t woMens basketball
Big 12 rocky on road
By MiChael PhilliPs
mphillips@kansan.com
kansan staff writer
In Big 12 Conference wom-
ens basketball, there is no
place like home.
Kansas will hit the road
this week for a game against
No. 9 Oklahoma Wednesday
and one against Missouri on
Saturday.
They will enter both games
as the underdog.
Across the conference this
season, the road team has won
only 20 of 56 league games.
Earlier this season, Kansas
coach Bonnie Henrickson
called the conference a dog-
fight.
Everybodys got to play on
the road in this league, and
weve got to find a way to
win, she said.
That will be especially hard
to do in Oklahoma.
The Sooners have emerged as
the team to beat in the Big 12
with an undefeated 9-0 record.
Oklahoma is led by fresh-
man forward Courtney Paris,
who was named to the midsea-
son list of 20 candidates for the
Wooden award, given to the
best player in the country.
Paris is featured in this
weeks Sports Illustrated
along with her twin sister,
Ashley, who also plays for the
Sooners.
Everyone is going to write
about and talk about Court-
ney, and rightly so, Okla-
homa coach Sherri Coale
said after Saturdays victory
against Missouri. Id write
about her a lot, too.
Oklahoma will enjoy a par-
ticularly large home-court ad-
vantage.
The team has been averag-
ing 6,394 fans a game, com-
pared to the Jayhawks aver-
age of 2,808.
Oklahoma has almost sold
out its 12,000-seat arena for
Saturdays game against de-
fending national champion
Baylor.
From Norman, Okla., Kan-
sas will travel to Columbia,
Mo., for a Saturday afternoon
game against archrival Mis-
souri.
The Tigers are the second-
hottest team in the confer-
ence behind Oklahoma, win-
ning seven of their last 10.
Defense has been the Ti-
gers strength.
They have held opponents
to 38 percent shooting this
season.
It will be an interesting
match-up for Kansas, which
has won games with offense
and tried to play catch-up on
defense.
After chiding her team for
a lack of intensity in a 77-
71 home loss to Colorado
last Wednesday, Henrickson
was impressed with the Jay-
hawks effort in a 65-64 vic-
tory against Iowa State last
Saturday.
That victory helped the
team break a three-game los-
ing streak, but Henrickson
acknowledged it wouldnt
mean anything Wednesday
night against Oklahoma.
You just dont have a lot of
time to be excited, she said.
You have to have a short-
term memory.
Womens basketball notes:
Big 12 celebrates 10th an-
niversary
The Big 12 is giving fans
the opportunity to vote for
the Big 12 10th Anniversary
Team. Voting is available on-
line at big12sports.com.
The list of 36 candidates
includes two former Kansas
players, guard Tamecka Dix-
on and guard/forward Lynn
Pride.
The school with the most nom-
inees is Texas Tech, with six.
Saturdays game televised,
Wednesdays not
The Kansas-Oklahoma
game Wednesday night in
Norman, Okla., will not be
televised. Oklahoma is offer-
ing an Internet video broad-
cast of the game for a fee on
its Web site, soonersports.
com.
Saturdays game against
Missouri in Columbia, Mo.,
will be televised locally on
Metro Sports.
Tip-off is at 3 p.m., which
coincides with the Kansas
mens basketball home game
against Iowa State.
Edited by Frank Tankard
Season conference records
Team Home Away
Oklahoma 4-0 5-0
Baylor 4-1 2-2
TexasA&M 4-1 2-2
Missouri 4-1 2-2
KansasState 4-1 2-3
Texas 4-0 2-4
TexasTech 4-0 1-4
Nebraska 3-2 1-3
Kansas 3-2 0-4
IowaState 1-2 2-3
Colorado 1-4 1-4
OklahomaState 0-5 0-5
Source: big12sports.com
big 12 women
phorce?
By Daniel BeRk
dberk@kansan.com
kansan senior sportswriter
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Jayhawks, 0-4 on the road,
to face Sooners, Tigers
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