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A man injured in a fan-bus acci-
dent Nov. 18 has been upgraded
from serious to fair condition and
is now in the rehabilitation wing of
the University of Kansas Hospital in
Kansas City, Kan.
Christian Orr of Hays was injured
on the Cat Tracker bus before last
seasons Kansas vs. Kansas State
football game. The bus ran into the
Irving Hill Road overpass that con-
nects the Daisy Hill residence halls
to West Campus. John Green of
Shawnee was killed in the accident.
Orr was transported to the hospital
in critical condition.
The Douglas County District
Attorneys office is considering
whether charges will be filed in the
accident against the driver of the
bus. The driver, Brent Simonsson
of Salina, had a restricted drivers
license at the time of the acci-
dent. Simonssons license had been
restricted because of prior DUI con-
victions, and he was not licensed to
drive a commercial vehicle.
Cheryl Wright, assistant to the
district attorney, said no timeline
had been set for whether charges
would be filed. In early December,
Douglas County District Attorney
Charles Branson requested more
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J
ason Swanson stands self-consciously in a bathroom.
Hes not alone. An employee of Drug Free Sport, who
he just met, watches Swanson as he washes his
hands, drops his pants and urinates into a cup.
Less than a week later, Swanson, home in California for
Christmas, gets a phone call from team physician Larry
Magee. Swanson fears what comes next. About a week
before his random drug test, he smoked marijuana with
friends. Magee informs Swanson, then a junior quarter-
back for the 2004 Kansas football team, that he failed the
Athletics Departments drug test. He was relieved when
Magee recited the departments more lenient sanctions
imposed on first-time drug offenders.
a positive drug test with the nCaa
results in a one-year suspension. The
same at Kansas equals extra laps.
KU doesnt echo NCAAs tough stance on drugs
ArticlE By c.J. moorE
Photo illuStrAtion By AmAndA SEllErS
Its rehearsed. They tell you
youre going
to have to
do three or
four sessions
with some
kind of
counselor or
psychiatrist. They just sit there
and talk to you about drugs.
Its real elementary.
Jason swanson
Former football player
swanson
.
fgures
The most common
drugs that schools
test for are mari-
juana (98 percent),
cocaine (97 percent)
and amphetamine
(95 percent).
an average of 242
samples are sent to
the nCaa for annual
testing at an average
cost of $8,118.
Source: NCAA survey of institutions
with drug testing programs
Its rehearsed, Swanson said.
They tell you youre going to have to
do three or four sessions with some
kind of counselor or psychiatrist.
They just sit there and talk to you
about drugs. Its real elementary.
Swanson said he was retested
every 40 days and had to do extra
running time in the morning.
I didnt miss any playing time,
practice time, nothing, he said.
Had he failed a drug test admin-
istered by the NCAA, Swanson
would have been suspended from
the team for his entire senior year.
College drug testing is a puzzling
system of policies, procedures and
penalties wherein the discipline
dished out to an athlete depends
on who busted the offender. The
NCAA, conferences and individual
schools all test for banned drugs,
but each is free to impose wide-
ly varying penalties for identical
offenses. For example, the NCAA
suspends an athlete for one year
for marijuana use; Kansas requires
counseling, more drug screening
and extra running. The Big 12
Conference doesnt test for mari-
juana but instead focuses on per-
formance-enhancing drugs.
Testing is also more haphaz-
ard than random. Some Kansas
athletes said they were here four
years without ever being tested,
even though KU policy requires
all incoming athletes to be tested
when they arrive.
While the NCAA and confer-
ences come down hard on drug
use, individual schools try to deter
drug use with policies that the ath-
letes dont always take seriously.
It doesnt matter what the pun-
ishments are, people are going to
do what they do, Swanson said.
The punishment usually is just
running, which we do all the time
anyway.
KanSaS POLiCy
Athletes who test posi-
tive during an Athletics
Department-given drug
test arent suspended until
after their second ofense.
First ofenses often result in
extra running and manda-
tory counseling.
WHy THEy TEST
Kay Hawes, director of
media relations with Drug
Free Sport, said most col-
leges tested their athletes
to put a stop to drug use
before the NCAA found out.
Hawes didnt mention the
NCAAs stifer penalties.
WEaK PEnaLTiES
Former Kansas quar-
terback Jason Swanson
attended counseling ses-
sions after his positive test.
Swanson said the process
included information about
heroin and meth and was
real unnecessary.
Plans to distribute
The University
Daily Kansan off
campus stall in
the wake of a
dispute about the
legality of the
project.
campus
Four plays
written by
three
students
will
compete at a
regional festival in
Iowa next
week.
arts
The Athletics
Department will
celebrate National
Girls and Women
in Sports Day at
the KU womens
basketball game
tomorrow
night.
basketball
Ed Warinner
returns
to
Lawrence
as the
new offensive
coordinator
football
warinner
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For more on drug testing see Page 5a
Local Burger earns
national attention
LaWrEnCE On TV
By dAnAE dEShAzEr
Local Burger, a downtown
Lawrence restaurant, will be featured
in a new Sundance Channel series
for its commitment to providing
organic meals that are healthy and
fast. The Sundance Channel finished
filming Thursday on location and
will air the episode in February.
The networks upcoming series,
Big Ideas for a Small Planet, focus-
es on people that are concerned with
health and the environment.
Local Burger fits into this focus
because we serve local foods. When
you do that, you decrease fuel usage
and support the local economy.
People dont realize that they feel
bad after eating other foods because
of the additives or loss of nutritional
value. Our food is clean, no hor-
sarah leonard/kansan
Courtney Gray, Lawrence resident and assis-
tant manager at Local Burger, prepares soy
patties for frying during the busy lunch hour.
Local Burger is a fast-food restaurant that ofers
an all-organic menu with locally-raised meats.
see sundance on Page 3a
Sundance series focuses on environment
CaT TraCKEr aCCidEnT
Victims condition
improves to fair
Man injured in K-State
bus wreck moves to
rehabilitation wing
see cat tracker on Page 3a
Ice storm causes clean-up
Jon goering/kansan
Maintenance crews work hardThursday to remove the ice that had accumulated during the week.
Workers began Saturday to clear sidewalks and parking lots before students returned for classes.
WEaTHEr
By JoSEPh hunt
Facilities operations workers at
The University of Kansas were left
scrambling to clear off ice this week-
end because of the cold temperatures.
Workers began clearing snow and ice
Saturday as it continued to fall. Larry
Rawlings, assistant director of facili-
ties operations construction, said
clearing the ice was a tough job.
A good share of facilities opera-
tions has been involved, Rawlings
said. We use different equipment,
depending on whether the ice has
been treated first.
see weather on Page 3a
Last week it was Brandon Rush, Monday it was Sherron Collins.
Saturday against Texas Tech, whose turn is it?
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The play Leaves of Words
by Tim Macy, Topeka gradu-
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tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the
Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New
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First weekend back in Lawrence
and wondering what to do?
With one day of class behind
you, and a whole semester ahead,
blow of some steam this weekend
at these events.
Blackpool Lights and The Life
and Times
Hometown bands create a
hometown buzz with two local
concerts in one weekend. Black-
pool Lights and The Life and Times,
both from Kansas City, Mo., are
playing two shows this weekend.
The frst is at 9 tonight at The Hur-
ricane, 4048 Broadway, in Kansas
City, Mo. Both bands perform
again at 10 p.m. Saturday at The
Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire
Street. The show is all ages, and
costs $6. Blackpool Lights is an
indie rock band, which includes
member Jim Suptic, former
member of The Get Up Kids. A new
album was released in Summer
2006. Chris Tolle from the Belles is
opening both shows.
Monster Jam
The motor sports event begins
at 7:30 tonight in Kemper Arena in
Kansas City, Mo., 1800 Genessee. A
second show will be held at 2 p.m.
Saturday. Ticket prices range from
$13 to $23.
Lorin Maazel conducting Sym-
phonica Toscanini at the Lied
Center
At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, the To-
scanini Foundation will have a per-
formance celebrating the career
of Arturo Toscanini. January 2007
will be 50 years since his death.
The orchestra will be presenting
various works including Respighis
Fountains of Rome and Pines of
Rome. Tickets for KU students are
$20 for orchestra or balcony seats.
Tickets can be ordered online at
the Lied Centers Web site and by
phone at 864-2787.
Get ready for the
Beakend
Arctic motion
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A KU maintenance worker shovels the sidewalk in front of Stoufer Place. Facilities operations workers have been scrambling to clear of streets, parking lots and sidewalks since Saturday. Even with the
large task, Larry Rawlings, assistant director of facilities operations, said that most paths to campus buildings are expected to be cleared by today.
What iS youR oPinion on thE PRESidEntS nEW iRaq PoLicy?
What do you think?
By franCesCa ChamBers
DAviD ConTi
Senigallia, italy, doctoral
student
The war in Iraq is a big
mistake. They should plan
to send an international
force to peacekeep, though,
since the situation there is
not very good.
oLiver MeAD
Chicago graduate student
Its trying the same thing
that has not been working,
but I guess its his choice.
MADiSon LoughLin
Leawood freshman
There is already too
much distress in the United
States. Unless we see prog-
ress soon, its not worth it.
TAyLor BLue
olathe freshman
Its good something is
being done. We didnt have
enough troops over there
to end it before. We need to
send enough to fnish it or
pull out.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2007
NEWSPAPERS
Legal dispute halts Kansan of-campus distribution
By Ashlee Kieler
Proposed off-campus distribution
of The University Daily Kansan has
been postponed until distribution
issues between the newspaper and
the Lawrence Journal-World can be
resolved.
The proposed expansion of the
paper would include a number of
locations on Massachusetts Street.,
a few businesses on 23rd Street,
area grocery stores and a handful of
apartment complexes.
Malcolm Gibson, general manager
of The Kansan, said the availability of
The Kansan only on campus worked
for a time, however he said the nature
of the student had changed.
Were trying to reach out to the
students, Gibson said.
Students continue to limit their
visits to campus, while places such as
Massachusetts Street attract students
for shopping, eating and entertain-
ment. A drop in readership prompt-
ed the plans for distribution off cam-
pus, Gibson said.
Gibson estimated that each off-
campus distribution site would have
two to five papers.
The restriction of university
newspapers brings about freedom of
speech issues, said Adam Goldstein,
attorney advocate for the Student
Press Law Center.
Legally there is no reason for the
restriction of a campus newspaper,
as long as it is run by the students,
Goldstein said.
Goldstein said he saw no situation
in which a speech restriction could
be implemented based on unfair
competition because The Kansan
was a learning tool for students.
A similar situation occurred in
the late 1990s between the Iowa State
Daily and the Ames Tribune. The
Tribune sued the Daily because of
the Dailys off-campus distribution.
The issues were settled out of
court, with restrictions for off-cam-
pus distribution, but not a com-
plete ban, said Mark Witherspoon,
Editorial Advisor of the Daily.
The Kansan Board, including
professors, The Kansan staff and
representatives of the School of
Journalism, will discuss circulation
issues at a meeting Wednesday.
Kansan staf writer Ashlee Kieler
can be contacted at akieler@kan-
san.com.
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mones or pesticides, said Hilary
Brown, owner of Local Burger, 714
Vermont St.
Local Burger buys naturally raised
meat and vegetables from local farms,
most of which are located in a 20-
mile radius of Lawrence. Homespun
Hill Farm in Baldwin City sells grass-
finished beef and lamb to Local
Burger. Grass-finished cattle take 24
to 26 months to become fully grown
and are raised solely on grass, which
is high in vitamin E and Omega-3
fatty acids. This is double the time it
takes for commercially raised cattle.
Typically, cattle from commercial
providers are fed soy and corn, which
are high in fat and additives.
Its a niche market, but its a
growing market. It may not ever
become mainstream, but many peo-
ple with health concerns come to
change their diet. They want some-
thing lower in fat and lower in cho-
lesterol, said Debbie Yarnell, owner
of Homespun Hill Farm.
Thursday Local Burger started
filming another project, Localize
Me. It is a spin-off of the Morgan
Spurlock documentary, Super Size
Me. The documentary will follow
the journey of unhealthy and over-
weight 29-year-old Lawrence resi-
dent Daniel Fisher. He will eat all of
his meals at Local Burger for 30 days
to see if his health changes.
I go out to eat everyday out of
convenience. I hardly ever make my
own food. Now I am 300 pounds,
and I want to see that come down,
Fisher said. At the end of the day,
Im tired. I want to have more ener-
gy.
Two Lawrence doctors, David
Dunlap of First Med Physicians
Assistant and Farhang Khosh of
Natural Medical Care, examined
Fisher before he started the project
and will monitor his health through-
out the project.
We hope to see big changes. Its
a lower fat diet, so his cholesterol
should go down. Its a lower calorie
diet, so his weight should go down.
Its a lower salt diet, so his blood
pressure should go down, Dunlap
said. He will also have better energy
in general and more fuel to get him
going through the day.
Brown opened Local Burger in
Sept. 2005 after living a life of mul-
tiple food intolerances and aller-
gies. She was surprised at the impact
a change in diet could have on a
persons health.
I wanted to do something that
was accessible for everyone, not just
a fancy restaurant, but a restaurant
for the whole marketplace, from a
construction worker to a vegetarian,
Brown said.
Kansan staf writer Danae Deshaz-
er can be contacted at ddeshazer@
kansan.com.
Edited by Jyl Unruh
Sundance (continued from 1A)
Sarah Leonard/KanSan
Brian Johnson, a freelance audio mixer fromDenver, and ShawnWright, a freelance camera assitant fromKansas City, take a break at Local
Burger to chowdown on organic Hamburgers. The Sundance Channel is flming a spot at Local Burger for its newseries-Big Ideas for a Small Planet.
information before moving forward
in the process.
Were still waiting on investiga-
tion from the police department
before a decision is made, Wright
said.
Andy Stanton of Hays is a close
friend of Orr and said he hadnt
spoken to Orrs family recently and
didnt know specifics about his reha-
bilitation. However, Stanton con-
firmed that Orr had been moved to
a different location in the hospital.
Stanton set up a benefit fund for
Orrs family through the Lawrence
branch of Sunflower Bank, 4831
Quail Crest Place, in November
2006. Stanton said more than $3,000
had been donated when he last
checked the fund before Christmas.
Its amazing, the contribution
weve seen, Stanton said.
Donations to the fund can still
be made at any branch of Sunflower
Bank.
Kansan staf writer erick r.
schmidt can be contacted at es-
chmidt@kansan.com.
Edited by Ryan Schneider
cat tracKer (continued from 1A)
Before attempting to break the
ice, crews spread magnesium chlo-
ride over it in an attempt to melt it.
Clearing the ice is important to
students and it may affect whether
students come to class.
I wouldnt come to school in the
morning if they didnt clear the ice,
Leawood freshman, Max Hanger
said. I dont wanna fall, its just
another reason to stay in bed.
Parking lots on campus were also
treated to help clear the ice. Facilities
operations and the parking depart-
ment hoped that this, combined
with the sun, would melt most of
the ice in the parking lots.
Some students had to change
travel plans at the end of winter
break. Kari Trendle, St. Louis soph-
omore, drove home last Saturday
instead of Monday to avoid delays.
I didnt want to have to worry
about the roads being even worse
than they were, Trendle said. It
was scary because my windshield
wiper jets had frozen over.
Kansan staf writer Joseph hunt
can be contacted at jhunt@kan-
san.com.
Edited by James Pinick
Weather (continued from 1A)
NEWS 4A
friday, january 19, 2007
By Bethany Bunch
Three playwrights from the
University of Kansas have four plays
competing for
awards at a festi-
val next week in
Ames, Iowa.
Emily Laut,
2005 gradu-
ate, Tim Macy,
Topeka gradu-
ate student, and
Whitney Reece
Rowland, Olathe
junior, are the three playwrights
representing the University at the
Kennedy Center American College
Theater Festival.
Their productions will be consid-
ered for an all-expenses paid trip to
the national festival at the Kennedy
Center in Washington, D.C., this
spring.
Having a staged reading at
KCACTF will be exciting. I antici-
pate a great mixing and expanding
of ideas that will make me want to
write more, Laut said.
Paul Lim, professor of English,
founded the English Alternative
Theatre in 1989 to produce student
plays. Since then, 20 KU playwrights,
whose plays were presented by the
theater, have won awards at various
levels of competitions sponsored by
the festival.
Laut wrote her play, Painting the
Town, for Lims Playwriting I class.
Lim gives all of his students the
chance to submit their plays to the
festival.
He bends
over backwards
to help students
with the sub-
mission process
because he is
very excited to
show student-
written drama,
Laut said.
Lauts play and Rowlands Suicide
by Punchbowl are two of six 10-
minute plays chosen to be presented
as staged readings at the festival.
Macys Leaves of Words is based
on real events surrounding the dis-
appearance of Randy Leach who was
last seen at a pre-
graduation party
April 15, 1988,
in Linwood.
The play was
presented this
past October
by the English
A l t e r n a t i v e
Theatre. Lim
said Macys play
generated a lot of publicity going
into the festival.
Macy researched the event for a
year and spent six to eight months
writing the play. Lim said the play
was revised four or five times and
that Macy continued to edit while
the play was in rehearsal.
Leaves of Words is compet-
ing for the Michael Kanin National
Student Playwright Award and the
David Mark Cohen Playwriting
Award.
Lights Fade, Curtain, a
one-act play, also by Rowland,
is about a playwright returning
home to visit his dying mother,
while his family is concerned
that he has come back to use
them as characters in his next
play.
Macys Leaves of Words
will have a benefit performance
at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the
Lawrence Arts Center, 9th and
New Hampshire streets, before
leaving Sunday for Ames.
Were hoping people who
didnt get to see the play in
October will be able to before
we leave for the festival in Iowa,
Lim said.
Kansan staf writer Bethany
Bunch can be contacted at
bbunch@kansan.com.
Edited by Carissa Pedigo
By Kyle carter
The University of Kansas
Athletics Department plans to cel-
ebrate National Girls and Women
in Sports Day on Saturday. The
Athletics Department will hold a
field day at 5:30 p.m. at the Horejsi
Family Athletics Center before the
womens basketball game against
Iowa State, a luncheon for former
KU student athletes before the game
and a halftime ceremony for the for-
mer student athletes are planned.
According to Trena Anderson,
director of womens basketball oper-
ations, the field day is designed to
educate the elementary students
about the variety of opportunities
available to women in athletics.
The Athletics Department also
held an essay contest for local sixth-
grade students. The students were
required to write about a shero,
which was a woman who inspired
them to be active in sports and
positively impacted their lives. A
Schwegler Elementary student won
the contest and two students from
Hillcrest Elementary tied for sec-
ond. These students and their class-
mates were invited to participate in
the field day. Anderson said about
75 elementary students will par-
ticipate in the field day. It is used as
an opportunity for students to do
something they might not normally
do.
About 50 current student athletes
representing all 10 womens scholar-
ship sports will lead the field day,
Anderson said. The 10 scholarship
sports are basketball, cross country,
golf, rowing, soccer, softball, swim-
ming and diving, tennis, track and
field and volleyball. Elementary stu-
dents participating in the event will
be doing activities related to this
sports.
Kathy Rose-Mockry, program
director for the Emily Taylor Womens
Resource Center, helped publicize
the event. She said she hoped this
years events would encourage young
women to attend more games and
cheer on current women.
National Girls and Women in
Sports day began in 1987, but this was
only the second year the University
had recognized it. According to the
official National Girls and Women
in Sports Web site, it was started in
remembrance of Flo Hyman, a vol-
leyball player who died because of a
heart problem in 1986. Hyman was
a three-time All-American at the
University of Houston and captain of
the 1984 US Olympics team.
The day is celebrated nationally on
Feb. 7, but the Athletics Department
chose Saturday for the event because
it was the closest weekend home
game to the seventh. This would also
allow for more elementary students
to attend.
Kansan staf writer Kyle carter can
be contacted at kcarter@kansan.
com.
Edited by James Pinick
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Kansas policy
The NCAA doesnt require indi-
vidual institutions to test their ath-
letes, but most Division I institutions
have a testing program in place.
Even though the NCAA, Big 12
and Kansas employ the same Kansas
City, Mo., firm, Drug Free Sport,
to administer drug tests, the penal-
ties for the same offense uncovered
by the same company for violating
the same NCAA rules depends on
who paid for the test. NCAA rules
dont require member institutions to
report failed drug tests, and schools
set their own penalties. Penalties for
athletes who fail Kansas drug tests
vary depending on whether they are
a first-time or repeat offender.
For first-time offenders like
Swanson, the athletes coach, sport
supervisor, team physician, director
of sports medicine and staff ath-
letic trainer are notified, as well as
the athletes parents and/or spouse.
The athlete also enters a manda-
tory counseling and rehabilitation
program and is tested once every 40
days for the next year.
Second-time offenders face the
same penalties and are suspended
from 10 percent of scheduled games
or two games, whichever is less.
Third-time offenders are perma-
nently suspended and lose their ath-
letic scholarships and financial aid.
Almost everyones testing
According to a 2005 NCAA
survey, 91 percent of Division I-A
schools have their own drug-test-
ing program. The Kansas athletics
department began drug testing 10
years ago and has introduced chang-
es since then.
Magee said the department was
changing its program so athletes
were tested at least twice by their
junior year. The first test would be
given soon after they arrive on cam-
pus. Although these procedures are
already written into the policy, some
athletes slip through the cracks.
Matt Baty, a Kansas baseball play-
er who finished his eligibility last
season, said he was tested only once
during his four years at Kansas. His
test occurred soon after he arrived
on campus his freshman year.
Hassan Johnson, a former Kansas
football player, said he was never
tested. Johnson was in his fourth
year when he left the team before the
2006 season.
Magee said he was not surprised
some athletes had gone through
their careers without ever being test-
ed, but said that should not continue
to happen with the changes.
Why they test
Kay Hawes, director of media
relations with Drug Free Sport, said
most colleges tested their own ath-
letes to put a stop to drug use before
the NCAA found out.
One reason to do it is to avoid
the public embarrassment of having
somebody test positive in an NCAA
test, said Hawes, who didnt men-
tion the NCAAs stiffer penalties that
could sideline KU players.
Kansas athletes are subject to ran-
dom tests at any time during the aca-
demic year by the NCAA, the Big 12
or the department. Drug Free Sport
administers the test for all three
entities and charges $150 per test,
$175 if street drugs are included. The
NCAA now tests athletes during the
summer months, which started last
summer with football and baseball
players. Frank Uryasz, president of
Drug Free Sport, said more sports
would be tested this coming sum-
mer.
Magee said the NCAA and Big
12 usually tested athletes chosen at
random on campus two or three
times per year and during Big 12
championships and NCAA post-
season play. The NCAA only tests
for street drugs during champion-
ship competition but always tests
for performance-enhancing drugs.
During NCAA random drug testing,
a schools football team is always
tested and then another sport is
chosen based on the likelihood of
anabolic steroid use in that sport.
Who gets tested
Magee said the University tested
about 60 new athletes in the first few
months of the school year and about
15 to 20 athletes each month after
that. Drug Free Sport chooses which
athletes are tested using a number
generator that randomly selects ath-
letes from a squad list.
For Kansas drug test, athletes are
informed the day before. With the
NCAA, ath-
letes are called
early the same
day. If an ath-
lete does not
show for an
NCAA screen-
ing, it counts
as a failed drug
test.
During the
drug test, an
athlete is taken
to a bathroom
by a Drug Free Sport proctor and
must follow precise instructions
with the proctor watching.
If youve ever tried going to the
bathroom when somebody is watch-
ing, its kind of hard to do, Baty, the
baseball player, said.
Despite the presence of a proctor,
Swanson said hes had teammates
who told him they were able to cheat
the system.
Uryasz said athletes have tried to
cheat by bringing in someone elses
urine, manipulating the sample by
adding compounds to the urine to
make it difficult to test or by over-
hydrating and diluting the test.
Those attempts are not success-
ful if the validator is doing his job,
Uryasz said.
When athletes over-hydrate and
water down results, they have to stay
until they are able to provide a con-
centrated sample, Uryasz said.
Magee said the department had
never caught a KU athlete foiling a
drug test.
They understand its going to be
a situation where they really cant
cheat, he said.
The urine sample is screened for
all of the classes of drugs banned by
the NCAA during a KU drug test or
an NCAA championship drug test,
including stimulants such as meth-
amphetamine, cocaine, anabolic ste-
roids, diuretics, growth hormones
and street drugs, such as marijuana.
During a Big 12 or random NCAA
test, they test only for performance-
enhancing drugs such as steroids.
Drug Free Sport also screens for
urine manipulators and masking
agents used to skew drug testing
during all tests.
What athletes use
An athlete who
tests positive dur-
ing an NCAA-
given test is sus-
pended from com-
petition for one
year and a second
offense results in a
lifetime ban if the
drug is a perfor-
mance-enhancing
substance. A sec-
ond offense for a
recreational drug
brings another one-year suspension.
The Big 12 suspension is also one
year for any performance-enhanc-
ing drug.
According to the results of testing
during the 2004 NCAA champion-
ships, 17 student athletes tested posi-
tive for street drugs, 14 for stimu-
lants, three for diuretics or manipu-
lators and two for steroids.
The Athletics Department
declined to provide a similar sum-
mary of its drug testing results.
In a survey of student athletes by
the NCAA in 2005, only 1.2 percent
of the 8,543 Division I athletes sam-
pled admitted to using steroids. In
comparison, 17.3 percent said they
had used marijuana.
Swanson, Baty, Johnson and for-
mer baseball player Jared Schweitzer
said that they had not witnessed
steroid use by KU athletes.
Not here, Swanson said. The
guys are too little to be on steroids.
However, both Baty and
Schweitzer said they had teammates
from other schools on summer
teams who used steroids during the
summer months when they werent
being tested. Schweitzer said he was
never tempted to join in.
I just always played baseball and
was good at it and I never had to
take steroids to be good at it so why
would I start taking steroids? he
asked. I never got into it. Im not
that big of a guy to begin with. I
never got into taking steroids and
trying to get bigger.
If a Kansas athlete arrived on
steroids, he or she could still leave
with a clean slate. New student ath-
letes who test positive for any drugs
face the same penalties as any first-
time offenders, but that positive test
doesnt count as a strike against the
athlete. If that athlete tested posi-
tive again, it would count as a first
offense.
Magee said coaches were not
allowed to kick a player off the team
after a first drug offense, although
he said a player who violated other
team rules and tested positive for
drugs could be dismissed.
Weak penalties
Swanson tested positive during a
random drug test given by Kansas.
He said he was then tested 12 to 15
times during the next year. One of
those tests was an NCAA test that
Swanson and about 30 other team-
mates were randomly selected to
take before the Fort Worth Bowl.
Swanson was critical of the coun-
seling sessions he was required to
attend after a positive test. Swanson
said he had to fill out a drug aware-
ness packet, which included infor-
mation on heroin and meth.
Im like, I just smoked a blunt.
Thats all I did, he said. Its like real
unnecessary but its just what they
do. I understand. I did it without any
quarrel. I didnt put up a fight. I just
did it. It wasnt that bad.
It was, in fact, a slap on the
wrist for Swanson, who would have
missed his entire senior season had
the NCAA given the test. Until col-
leges have more comprehensive pro-
grams and stiffer penalties, Swanson
said athletes would continue to not
take drug tests seriously.
Itd be way different, he said.
Kansan senior staf writer C.J.
Moore can be contacted at cj-
moore@kansan.com.
Edited by Catherine Odson
Percentage of Division I athletes
who reported using drugs
Drug 1993 1997 2001 2005
Amphetamines 2.1 2.5 3.2 4.0
Anabolic steroids 1.9 1.2 1.6 1.2
Ephedrine N/A 3.0 2.4 2.4
Nutritional Supplements N/A N/A 46.0 33.4
Alcohol 86.3 79.2 80.5 74.7
Cocaine/crack 0.6 1.2 1.8 2.0
Marijuana/hashish 17.6 26.4 26.3 17.3
N/A indicates questions were not asked about that drug in a given year
Source: NCAA 2005 Survey of Member Institutions
Drug testing(continued from 1A)
Catherine Odson/Kansan
if youve ever tried going to
the bathroom when somebody
is watching, its kind of hard to
do.
Matt Baty
Former baseball player
Excess oil supply leads to lower prices
STAN CHOE
ASSOCiATEd PrESS
NEW YORK Oil prices briefly
fell below $50 per barrel Thursday
for the first time since May 25, 2005,
after the government reported larg-
er-than-expected jumps in crude oil
and gasoline inventories.
Oil has dropped 17 percent since
the end of 2006 amid weeks of mild
winter weather in the U.S. Northeast,
a key consumer of heating fuels, and
growing energy stockpiles.
Theres no doubt that this is sig-
nificant, said Phil Flynn of Alaron
Trading Corp. If youre a bull, the
only thing you can hold your hat on
is they didnt close below $50.
The price for a barrel of light,
sweet crude for February delivery
fell as low as $49.90 on the New York
Mercantile Exchange but spent only
a moment below the $50 threshold.
It settled at $50.48, down $1.76 from
Wednesdays settlement price.
Jim Ritterbusch, president
of Ritterbusch & Associates, said
prices could continue to fall toward
$47 in the next two weeks, unless
the Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries calls for a
meeting.
The market is still seeking a bot-
tom, he said, and we had another
bearish element tossed at it in the
form of these negative weekly sta-
tistics.
U.S. crude oil stocks rose by
6.8 million barrels to 321.5 mil-
lion, according to a report by the
Energy Information Administration.
Analysts had been expecting an
increase of just 325,000 barrels,
according to a Dow Jones Newswires
survey. The EIA said inventories are
above the upper end of the average
range for this time of year.
Gasoline inventories, meanwhile,
rose by 3.5 million barrels to 216.8
million, above analysts expectations
of a 2.6 million barrel rise. Distillate
fuel inventories, which include heat-
ing oil, rose by 900,000 barrels to
141.9 million barrels, compared with
analysts expectations of a 1.3 mil-
lion barrel rise.
The EIA said inventories for both
gasoline and distillate fuels are at or
above the upper end of the average
range for this time of year.
March Brent crude on Londons
ICE futures exchange fell $1.03 to
$51.75.
Heating oil lost 2.9 cents to
$1.4707 a gallon while natural gas
futures rose 9 cents to $6.324 per
1,000 cubic feet.
Gasoline prices fell 2.3 cents to
$1.3553 a gallon.
Earlier in the day, prices were
buffeted by a recent cold spell in
the Northeast U.S. and forecasts
of slow demand growth from the
International Energy Agency.
In lowering expectations for this
year as well revising last years fig-
ures downward, the Paris-based IEA
cited mild winter weather that has
crimped energy demand and weak-
er expectations for U.S. economic
growth.
In its closely watched monthly oil
market report, the energy watchdog
forecast global oil demand growth
this year of 85.77 million barrels a
day, down 160,000 barrels a day. And
it said oil demand growth last year
was 120,000 barrels a day lower.
Saudi oil minister Ali Naimi, who
earlier this week said he opposed
calls from other OPEC members for
new cuts in production, announced
Thursday his country planned to
increase its crude oil production
capacity nearly 40 percent by 2009
and double its refining size over the
next five years to keep pace.
Congress changes
ethics standards
JiM ABrAMS
ASSOCiATEd PrESS
WASHINGTON The Senate,
responding to voter frustra-
tion with corruption and special
interest influence in Washington,
on Thursday overwhelmingly
approved far-reaching ethics and
lobbying reform legislation.
Under the bill, passed 96-2,
senators will give up gifts and free
travel from lobbyists, pay more for
travel on corporate jets and make
themselves more accountable for
the pet projects they insert into
bills.
Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-
Nev., who made the bill his first
initiative as head of the Senate,
called it the most significant leg-
islation in ethics and lobbying
reform weve had in the history of
this country.
The Senate did reject the idea of
setting up an independent office to
investigate the ethical breaches of
members. But it said that spouses
of sitting members will no longer
be able to lobby the Senate and
lobbyists can no longer pay for
extravagant parties for members at
national conventions.
Passage of the bill came a day
after the measure appeared dead,
the victim of a test of will between
the two parties.
Republicans were angry they
could not get a vote on a proposal
giving the president, with congres-
sional approval, more power to kill
single spending items in larger bills.
So GOP senators voted against a
resolution needed to move the bill
to final passage.
On Thursday morning, both
sides accused the other of killing
the bill and betraying the trust of
voters who had demanded that
Congress clean up its act.
What this maneuver shows
is that the Republican leadership
hasnt learned the lessons of the
2006 election, said Sen. Charles
Schumer, D-N.Y.
The Democrat leadership does
not have to kill this legislation,
countered Republican leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky.
I believe that we owe it to the
voters as well as the institution to
come to a fair agreement and pass
this legislation.
idaho man charged
with murder of child
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JOHN MiLLEr
ASSOCiATEd PrESS
BOISE, Idaho A man con-
victed in the 2005 slayings of three
members of an Idaho family was
charged Thursday in U.S. District
Court with kidnapping the familys
two youngest children and killing
one of them.
The indictment against Joseph
Edward Duncan III, issued by a
federal grand jury in Coeur dAlene,
will allow the government to seek
the death penalty, U.S. Attorney
Tom Moss said.
The indictment accuses Duncan
of kidnapping Dylan Groene, 9, and
his sister Shasta, then 8 years old,
sexually abusing them both and
later killing Dylan in Montana.
Shasta was rescued as she and
Duncan ate at a Coeur dAlene,
Idaho, restaurant in July 2005,
about seven weeks after the abduc-
tion.
News of the indictment came
hours after authorities in California
said they were planning to charge
Duncan with the 1997 kidnapping
and murder of a 10-year-old boy
whose bound, nude body was bur-
ied under a rock pile in the desert.
Duncan is also considered the
prime suspect in the slayings of
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Among the charges against
Duncan, 43, in the Idaho case are
kidnapping resulting in death,
sexual abuse of both children and
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The grand jury alleged that
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Roger Peven, Duncans Idaho
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Associated Press late Thursday that
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ings of Brenda Groene, her fiance
and her 13-year-old son. Duncan
was sentenced to life for the kid-
napping counts but has not been
sentenced on the murder counts.
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friday, january 19, 2007
As college students we struggle
from time to time with thoughts
of the future. We know what we
want to do: be happy, have enough
money to be comfortable and have
a great family. We just dont know
how to get there.
This is difficult to explain to our
parents generation. According to
the National Center for Education
Statistics, less than half as many
people attended a postsecondary
institution a generation ago as do
today. So it makes sense that admit-
ting to a communications major
draws the inevitable: What are you
going to do
with that?
People
who ask this
question,
however, fail
to understand
what college
is about. The
University is
not and
should not be a vocational
school. The English department
should not replace Shakespeare
with business memos any more
than a vocational school should
trade engine
manuals for
a class on
Western civili-
zation.
A liberal
arts education
is not for
everyone.
A liberal
education sys-
tem does not make engineers or
doctors irrelevant. Doctors need
dense knowledge particular to their
field, knowledge no patient would
want them to lack.
Nor does the
need for voca-
tional degrees
signal the irrel-
evance of lib-
eral arts degrees.
Neither is better
than the other;
rather they com-
plement each
other.
Todays liberal education system
equips each student with a set of
intellectual tools and the knowledge
to use them. The skills to per-
form a particular task can always
be acquired;
the ability to
acquire these
skills, sometimes
independently, is
more important.
In a way, lib-
eral arts students
specialize in
being generalists.
A liberal educa-
tion creates proficient, well-rounded
and independent thinkers schooled
in critical thinking.
The importance of creating well-
rounded and independently think-
ing citizens goes beyond a pay-
check. Aristotle wrote in Politics
that there is a certain kind of edu-
cation that children must be given
not because it is useful or necessary
but because it is noble and suitable
for a free person. It is both a prod-
uct and prerequisite of a functional
democracy to possess a liberally
educated population.
Research demonstrates that col-
lege graduates are more likely to
participate in their communities
than non-graduates. The knowledge
acquired from a liberal arts educa-
tion, as well as improved civic par-
ticipation, is not a product solely of
ones class, but is a personal accom-
plishment.
Finally, liberal arts institutions
promote the progression of ideas.
Although not a physically use-
ful tool, the character V in V
for Vendetta was right when he
said there are not enough bul-
lets in the world to stop an idea.
The freedoms we possess today
are, after all, products of ideas. No
engineering feat or medical miracle
can create liberty or democracy.
Ideas, although not a replacement
for vocations, are just as important.
Thinking is powerful. And a liberal
arts education teaches students to
think.
So the next time someone asks
you what youre going to do with
your major, remind him or her
to thank liberal arts majors like
you for the liberties the arts have
created. Or just grin and remind
yourself that, according to the U.S.
Department of Education, those
with college degrees earn twice as
much as those without.
Lux is a Topeka sophomore in
German and economics.
It would only take Jack Bauer
one day to solve all of our prob-
lems in Iraq.
n
How many freaking handicap
spots does Wal-Mart need? Are
there really that many people in
wheelchairs driving to Wal-Mart?
Usually its people who are, like,
500 pounds who have the handi-
cap spots anyway.
n
To the guy who at two
oclock in the morning came
and helped us push our car out of
the snow: Thank you.
n
Real fans wear Kansas blue,
not white, not red, not orange,
not yellow. They wear blue!
n
So, Im coming back to Law-
rence and I realize Im fnally here
when I see a guy dressed up as
the Statue of Liberty aimlessly
waving. Gotta love it.
n
So, Im leaving the Mizzou
basketball game, which is great.
We won. And the guy in front of
me has a frickin Powercat on its
license plate. Seriously, where
does your loyalty lie?
n
Did anybody else notice the
MU players and coaches walking
of before the National Anthem?
Thats ridiculous and the NCAA
needs to suspend them or pun-
ish them somehow. That was
embarassing to watch.
As students return from winter
break, we are greeted with the dawn
of a new year that brings the aura
of promise and potential to our
nations capital. With the annual
reset of the calendar year, our
elected leaders gain a new chance
to set aside partisan concerns and
truly work for the betterment of
Americans.
Unfortunately, early indications
point to our leaders squandering
yet another opportunity to work
together, which is an especially
disappointing development in light
of the current military sacrifices.
Nancy Pelosi, the much-heralded
first female Speaker of the House,
has already devolved into a sad
caricature. Her ceremonial eleva-
tion to the post focused mostly on
surrounding her with dozens of
children in an attempt to burnish
her matronly credentials and dispel
the stigma of the San Francisco
Liberal Feminist.
If the Democrats put as much
effort into a coherent war policy
as they did into a publicity parade,
perhaps we could have more hope
for the upcoming legislative term.
The Democratic leadership has
already planned symbolic votes
on the Presidents Iraq policy,
which may be the very definition of
time wasted.
President Bush has done no
better with his second chance. In
a sickeningly sweet Wall Street
Journal column, the President
detailed his bipartisan hopes and
dreams for the upcoming year, and
began an early effort to shift expec-
tations across the aisle.
Not surprisingly, he soon
resumed his flippant posture and
declared an increase in troop levels
a move transparently described
as a surge to avoid comparisons to
Vietnam-era escalation essen-
tiallly a continual doubling of a bet
on a far more significant scale. In
choosing to override the voice of
the Iraq Study Group, his leading
generals and the American peoples
stunning rebuke of his policies in
November, the President signaled
that he is no more willing than
Speaker Pelosi to put political calcu-
lation on the back burner.
So who if anyone can
students look to for hope in
Washington before all attention
turns to the 2008 elections? The
answer may be Treasury Secretary
Henry Paulson, who was tapped by
the President to serve as biparti-
san ambassador-in-chief. Paulson,
who cultivated close contacts with
Democrats, private sector elites
and foreign governments during
his time leading investment bank
Goldman Sachs, is the ideal can-
didate for voice of the administra-
tion. His free-market training leads
him to instinctively find the best
and most efficient path to success,
regardless of partisan concerns.
Such skills will prove invalu-
able as Republicans and Democrats
attempt to tackle substantial policy
challenges in 2007. Students should
not hesitate to hold members of
both political parties accountable
for upcoming successes and failures.
McKay Stangler writing for
the editorial board
opinion
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or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
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editorial: democrats and republicans alike
should both be held accountable in new
Congressional season.
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Current politicians
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liberal arts lead to informed public
On Monday the heated rivalry
between the Kansas Jayhawks and
Missouri Tigers was reignited inside
Allen Fieldhouse. The gates opened
and the students poured in, decked
out in their crimson and blue, and
filled the highly-sought-after stu-
dent sections to the brim.
Meanwhile, in the 53-foot-long
high-definition production truck
for ESPNs first night of Student
Spirit Week, temperatures rose
beneath the collars of some of the
telecasts production personnel.
As has become the custom at the
University of Kansas, countless stu-
dents donned their royal blue Muck
Fizzou t-shirts, reflecting their
hatred for the Tigers. And, while
ESPN may be on cable, it still has
standards for what it will and will
not allow on the air. The T-shirts
did not make the cut. As is often
the case given the Fieldhouses
TV-unfriendly layout the school
wont change, so the network must.
The result: Director Ken Dennis
and his team of camera operators
must be constantly vigilant to keep
the shirts off the air. No matter how
brilliant the paint job is on your
face, if your torso is covered in a
Muck Fizzou shirt, dont count
on getting any air time. Because the
game is in high definition, Dennis
must be aware of the wider frame
that HD allows, and rule out even
more shots.
Think about it. ESPN comes to
one of the most storied arenas in
all of college basketball to kick off
a week dedicated to student spirit,
and it cant even show most of the
students in the crowd.
Reporter Holly Rowe had to ask
a student wearing one of the shirts
to move out of the shot before she
did an in-game report from the stu-
dent section. The Jayhawk faithful
go crazy when theyre on television.
Why, then, would students sabotage
their own efforts to be shown on
TV and, perhaps more importantly,
a directors attempts to capture the
tremendous atmosphere that epito-
mizes the very essence of Jayhawk
Basketball? As cameras panned Allen
Fieldhouse, Dennis said of one fan,
Youll never get on the air with that
t-shirt, Sparky! Maybe fans will
remember that the next time theyre
searching through their closets to
choose an outfit for the game.
Scott A. Winer
Atlanta junior
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Muck Fizzou T-shirts keep students of camera during coverage of KU vs. MU
No engineering feat or
medical miracle can create
liberty or democracy.
Grant Snider/KanSan
By lucAs lux
kANsAN COLUMNIsT
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sports
8B
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Saturday. Gameday will
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kansas vs. texas tech, 3 p.m., saturday
who
will
it be?
T
he Jayhawks grind-it-
out victory against Iowa
State last Saturday looked
nothing like Mondays shoot-
out against Missouri. And thats
exactly the way coach Bill Self
likes it.
The dif-
ferent styles
will make
the team bet-
ter, because
it makes
you prepare
for different
ways to play,
he said.
Hes also
seen differ-
ent players on his team step up.
Freshman guard Sherron Collins
busted Missouris zone defense,
finishing with a game-high 23
points.
In Ames, Iowa, it was soph-
omore forward Brandon Rush
providing big defensive stops and
then igniting the Jayhawk offense
during overtime.
It could be time for another
player to step into the spotlight
this weekend. The team begins
a week-
long trek
to the Lone
Star State
on Saturday
when it faces
Texas Tech at
3 p.m.
The Red
Raiders will
give the
J a y h a w k s
a new look with their motion
offense. Iowa State coach Bob
Knight runs a system that has
been imitated around the coun-
try, but never run exactly the way
Knights teams can.
His is a very, very detailed
offense that is designed to take
advantage of defensive break-
downs, Self said. Theyll be the
best offensive team weve played
this year in terms of execution.
The motion system tries to set
screens and move all five players
around the court in an attempt to
create an open shot. Self said that
when the system is executed well,
it is not designed to get the ball
to a particular spot, but it can be
moved anywhere on the court.
Three players have emerged
this year as scoring threats for the
Red Raiders. Senior guard Jarrius
Jackson and junior guard Martin
Zeno each come into the game
averaging double-digit points.
Theyve been joined recently by
senior forward Jon Plefka, who
started the season slow but has
scored 31 points in the last three
games.
No matter how many points
Jackson, Zeno and Plefka score,
the face of the program is coach
Bob Knight. Earlier this month,
Knight became the winningest
coach in the history of Division I
mens basketball.
Its an unbelievable accom-
plishment, Self said. Not only to
win that many games, but to stay
in the business that long.
Knight will have to come up
with an answer for Brandon
Rush. The sophomore forward
has been coming up big on both
offense and defense recently.
Since weve gone to Carolina,
Brandon has played probably as
well as anybody, Self said. Hes
been a force on both ends.
The Jayhawks will be
following up an 80-77 Border
Showdown victory against
Jayhawks look for
players to step
up in road battle
with Red Raiders
Theyll be the best ofensive
team weve played this year
in terms of execution.
Bill self
kansas coach
track and field
by tAylor bErn
The KU track and field team
understands that early in the
season, its more about individu-
al improvement than the teams
placement.
Saturday, each individual will
be looking to shine as the KU
team plays host at the Jayhawk
Invitational, its lone home meet of
the indoor season.
The all-day meet will be held at
Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Junior
captain Paul Hefferon said he
hopes the meet will act as a confi-
dence booster for the team.
To me, its like a celebration
of the beginning of the season,
Hefferon said. Performing in
front of a home crowd gives you
confidence, compared to other
meets where the crowd can be hos-
tile or apathetic toward you.
The team competed at the Illini
Classic on Jan. 13, its second meet
of the season. Junior jumper Libby
Harmon said the team impressed
with a slew of individual success-
es.
For the second meet in the
year, we did pretty well. We have
a very talented group this year
and were taking steps in the right
direction to having a very success-
ful season, Harmon said.
Freshman pole vaulter Britany
Parker vaulted a height of 12-11 1/2,
capturing first in the event and pro-
visionally qualifying herself for the
NCAA Indoor Meet. Sophomore
thrower Egor Agafonov also took
first place and met the NCAA pro-
visional requirement with a toss of
68-6 1/2 in the weight throw. Both
marks were new facility records.
Hefferon won the 3,000 meters
with a time of 8:21.32, while fresh-
man Jack Sachse earned first in the
800 meters at 1:53.28. Sophomore
Stephanie Horton took first place
for the second time this season
in the shot put, posting a 50 3/4
throw.
In two weeks, the team will face
off with other Big 12 Conference
contenders at the Husker
Invitational, but this weekend the
focus is still on themselves, said
senior throwing captain Cody
Roberts.
On Saturday were going to
have fun, Roberts said. Just make
it a competition within yourself
and within your teammates and
itll be great.
Kansan sportswriter taylor bern
can be contacted at tbern@kan
san.com.
Edited by Ashley Thompson
Jayhawk Invitational
kansas track and field
hosts the jayhawk
invitational
saturday
field events begin at
9 a.m., track events
begin at 10:30 a.m.
anschutz sports
pavilion
Hawks prepare for home meet
W
hile Bill Self s squad
plays its next game in
Lubbock, Texas, on
Saturday, a record-setting Jayhawk
will be involved in a different game in
Houston.
Jon Cornish, Kansas all-time
single-season leading rusher, will play
in the East-West Shrine Bowl. He was
the first Jayhawk invited since safety
Carl Nesmith went in 2000. Cornish
will compete for the West roster
coached by Dan Reeves. Cornish will
split time with fellow Big 12 running
backs Stevie Hicks of Iowa State and
Selvin Young of Texas. Jackie Battle of
Houston is the last running back for
the West squad.
The game will be televised on
ESPN2 at 6 p.m. Saturday.
More than half of the players in the
Shrine Bowl, 55 of 103, were drafted
last year and 312 Shrine Bowl alumni
were on an NFL roster at the begin-
ning of last season.
Right now, Cornish is expected to
be a late first-day to early second-day
draft pick.
Cornish, who runs the 40-yard
dash in 4.55 seconds, improved his
draft status with his ability to play
special teams. Most NFL draft Web
sites have Cornish in the No. 12 to 14
range. No KU players were drafted
last year, but Cornish is likely to be
picked this year.
While Cornish was the home run
player for the football team the past
two seasons, coach Mark Mangino
has signed other running backs simi-
lar to Cornish with Jake Sharp, Angus
Quigley, Carmen Boyd-Anderson and
Gary Green in the backfield.
Boyd-Anderson, a 6-foot-1, 200-
pound back from Jacksonville, Texas,
has the potential to become a play-
maker like Cornish, who is 6-0, 205,
for Manginos team. Boyd-Anderson,
who runs a 40-yard dash in 4.5 sec-
onds, should compete for playing
time next season.
Not to mention the offense will be
free of the shackles former offensive
coordinator Nick Quartaro put on
them. Hopefully that means no more
bubble screens or shovel passes. That
is nothing against the spread offense,
but Quartaro and the coaching staff
invented ways to blow 16-point
(Texas A&M), 17-point (Oklahoma
State) and 18-point (Baylor) leads last
season.
While the new offensive coordina-
tor, Ed Warinner, who last coached
the offensive line at Illinois, is not a
home-run hire, it will be hard to do
worse than Quartaro. Yes, Warinner
comes from the worst team in the
Big Ten, Illinois, which was 2-10. His
offensive line, however, led the No. 1
rushing team in the Big Ten and the
No. 10 team in the nation.
When Warinner was previously at
Kansas, he coached some of KUs bet-
ter offensive lineman of late such as
Joe Vaughn, Bob Whitaker and David
Ochoa. He was also at Kansas when
Cesar Rodriquez was a freshman.
Football season is still eight
months away, but there is room for
excitement with Cornishs promise of
an NFL career and a new offensive
coordinator.
Kansan columnist Drew Davison is
an overland Park senior in journal-
ism.
EditedbySharlaShivers
do the drew
Cornish
bound
for bowl
by DrEw DAvison
kansan columnist
ddavison@kansan.com
by MichAEl PhilliPs
photo Illustration by Amanda sellers/KANsAN
womens basketball
by cAsE KEEfEr
Shaquina Mosley did it all in
Wednesday nights win against
Sacramento State.
Mosley, a senior guard, had a
career-high 11 rebounds, a season-
high seven assists and ten points.
Her play elevated Kansas to snap
its seven-game losing streak. More
importantly, her career night provid-
ed the Jayhawks with some much-
needed momentum going into a
conference game against Iowa State
on Saturday.
Despite the victory, Kansas is 0-4
in Big 12 Conference play.
We ought to be the hungriest
team for a win in America, Coach
Bonnie Henrickson said.
The game at Allen Fieldhouse will
be Kansas second shot at winning
against the Cyclones. The Jayhawks
lost in Ames, Iowa, two weeks ago,
61-50.
In the defeat, Iowa State senior
guard Lyndsey Medders led the team
with 17 points and five assists. She
shouldnt make as big of an impact
this time around against Kansas
senior guard Sharita Smith.
Smith has started two games in
a row and has proven to be the
Jayhawks most reliable defender.
Sharitas defensive effort and
intensity have worked for us when
these young kids are floundering,
Henrickson said. Its good to have
senior leadership.
Kansas also gave up a combined
30 points to junior forward Toccara
Ross and sophomore forward Nicky
Weiben. If the Jayhawks are going to
stop the two forwards, they might
have to do it without sophomore
forward Marija Zinic.
Although medically cleared to
play, Zinic missed Wednesday nights
game because of a stress fracture in
her tibia.
Zinic will not play unless she feels
comfortable, Henrickson said.
In her absence, freshman forwards
Sade Morris, Porscha Weddington
and Danielle McCray will continue
to see more minutes in their rota-
tion. The three are confident they
can team up with junior forward
Taylor McIntosh to shut down the
talented Iowa State front court.
We just have to buckle down and
defend, Morris said. If our defense
leads our offense we will win the
game.
Last time the teams faced, fresh-
man guard Kelly Kohn shot 45 per-
cent and had a team-high 12 points.
Since then, Kohn has struggled with
her shooting and has made only 21
of 63 field goals.
Shes just throwing it up there,
Henrickson said. She has to calm
down and get her confidence back.
If Kohn, the teams leading scorer
with 11.2 points per game, contin-
ues to miss shots early against the
Cyclones, the offensive burden will
fall upon the shoulders of Mosley
and McCray.
McCray scored 27 points in
the Jayhawks last two games. On
Saturday, however, she will be play-
ing against one of the Big 12s best
defenders, Nicky Weiben. Weiben
has a total of 31 blocks this season.
Thanks to Mosleys burst of posi-
tive energy, the team is in good spir-
its and is confident about Saturday.
We know the game will be close,
Mosley said. We just have got to
keep fighting and pushing.
Kansan sportswriter case Keefer
can be contacted at ckeefer@kan-
san.com.
Jayhawks
hungry
for Iowa
State win
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The cold weather certainly hasnt hurt the Kansas
baseball team, thanks to its indoor practice
facility at Hoglund Ballpark.
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