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3-6 BR Houses, 1-3 BR Apts, Rooms all
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3-6 BR, nice houses for Aug. 1. Most
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parking. $895-2385/mo. Call anytime
841-3633.
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$1050/mo. Call 785-218-8893
3BR 1BA at 1037 Tennessee, Available
August 1st. $1300/mo. 1 yr lease. W/D,
off-st parking, no smoking.
785-842-3510.
3BR 2.5BA avail. Aug. 1 @ Williams
Pointe Townhomes $1050 cable & inter-
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3BR 2BA apartment. 5th & Colorado.
Close to campus, W/D. $750/mo. Patio,
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3BR 2BA Duplex, 1 car garage, W/D
hookups, avail. August 1st. 804
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4 BR 2 BA large duplex, 3928 Overland
Dr. 2 car garage, all appliances, avail.
Aug. 1. $1050/month. Call
785-766-9823.
4 BR 2 BA, Sweet house, big backyard.
$1400 a month. 3rd and Minnesota. Call
John at (816) 589-2577.
4 BR 3BA avail. June 1 & Aug 1 @
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WThF 3-7 & Sat 11-2, internet & cable
paid, W/D, new appliances, freshly
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No pets. $2600 749-6084. eresrental.
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Well maintained town homes in west
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furnished. Visit our website for ad-
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785-749-4010
Split level, 3 BR town house (near Kasold
& 6th) w/ 2 living areas, freplace, 2 car
garage, W/D. No pets. Seen by appt only.
$1150/mo. Jessie 469-667-6867.
Close to Allen Fieldhouse, 3 BR 2 BA,
1822 Maine or 1820 Alabama. W/D, A/C,
$1260/month. Avail. Aug. 3.
760-840-0487
House for rent, adjacent to the Rec Cen-
ter. Avail. Aug. 5 for male grad students.
3BR 1BA. Off-street parking. Part base-
ment. Seen by appointment only.
$900/mo. for information 785-528-4876
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new fridge and water heater, private patio,
etc. Call 620-340-7742 & leave mes-
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NEWS 8A Monday, MaRCH 31, 2008
national
Grant program overpays Katrina victims
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS Imagine that
your home was reduced to mold
and wood framing by Hurricane
Katrina.
Desperate for money to rebuild,
you engage in a frustrating bureau-
cratic process, and after months of
living in a government-provided
trailer tainted with formaldehyde
you finally win a federal grant.
Then a collector calls with the
staggering news that you have to
pay back thousands of dollars.
Thousands of Katrina victims
may be in that situation.
A private contractor under
investigation for the compensation
it received to run the Road Home
grant program for Katrina victims
said that in the rush to deliver aid
to homeowners in need some peo-
ple got too much. Now it wants to
hire a separate company to collect
millions in grant overpayments.
The contractor, ICF International
of Fairfax, Va., revealed the extent
of the overpayments when it
issued a March 11 request for bids
from companies willing to han-
dle approximately 1,000 to 5,000
cases that will necessitate collection
effort.
The bid invitation said: The
average amount to be collected
is estimated to be approximately
$35,000, but in some cases may be
as high as $100,000 to $150,000.
The biggest grant amount
allowed by the Road Home pro-
gram is $150,000, so ICF believes it
paid some recipients the maximum
when they should not have received
a penny. If ICFs highest estimate of
5,000 collection cases overpaid
by an average of $35,000 proves
to be true, that means applicants
will have to pay back a total of $175
million.
One-third of qualified applicants
for Road Home help had yet to
receive any rebuilding check as of
this past week. The program, which
has come to symbolize the lurching
Katrina recovery effort, is financed
by $11 billion in federal funds.
ICF spokeswoman Gentry
Brann said in an e-mail Friday that
the overpayments are the inevi-
table result of the Road Home grant
being recalculated to account for
insurance money and government
aid given to Katrina victims.
Brann said there was a sense
of urgency in paying Road Home
applicants, and ICF and the state
knew applicants would have to
return some money.
The choice was either to pro-
cess grants immediately or wait
until the March 2008 deadline (for
submitting Road Home applica-
tions) before disbursing any funds,
Brann said in her e-mail.
Brann pointed out that 5,000
collections cases would represent a
four percent error rate for the Road
Home that is quite good for large
federal programs.
Frank Silvestri, co-chair of the
Citizens Road Home Action Team,
a group that formed out of frustra-
tions with ICF, sees it far differ-
ently.
They want people to pay for
their incompetence and their mis-
takes. What they need to be is
aggressive about finding the under-
payments, he said. People relied,
to their detriment, on their (ICFs)
expertise and rebuilt their houses
and now they want to squeeze this
money back out of them.
The prospect of Road Home
grant collections comes less than
two weeks after the Louisiana
inspector general and the legislative
auditor said they were investigating
why former Gov. Kathleen Blanco
paid ICF an extra $156 million
in her waning days in office to
administer the program. With the
increase, ICF stands to earn $912
million to run Road Home, a con-
tract that also sweetened its initial
public stock offering, and helped
it buy out four other companies.
It now reaches into government
contracting sectors that include
national defense and the environ-
ment.
Paul Rainwater, executive direc-
tor of the Louisiana Recovery
Authority, the state body that asked
for the Blanco-ICF investigations,
acknowledged the collections could
be painful for applicants, many of
whom have used up their nest eggs
to rebuild.
The state must walk a fine line
of treating homeowners who have
been overpaid with fairness and
compassion and ensuring that all
federal funds are used for their
intended purpose, said Rainwater,
an appointee of new Gov. Bobby
Jindal.
Upon receiving money from
Road Home, grantees sign a batch
of forms, including one that says
they must refund any overpay-
ments.
Melanie Ehrlich, co-chair of
Citizens Road Home Action Team,
which has documented Road Home
cases that appear littered with mis-
takes, said she had no confidence
that ICF had correctly calculated
overpayments. She charged that the
company was more likely using
collections as retribution against
people who had appealed their
award amounts in effort to get the
aid they deserved.
I think they are looking for ways
to decrease awards and thats part
of dissuading people, she said.
Brann said applicants are told
an appeal could boost or diminish
their award. She called Ehrlichs
charge a totally unfounded asser-
tion.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NewOrleans City Council members, fromleft, Shelley Midura, Stacey Head Arnie Fielkowand Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco listen
to Cynthia Hedge-Morrell, right, before the start of a news conference opening the Road Home ofce in NewOrleans Aug. 22, 2006. The private con-
tractor under investigation for the compensation it received to run the Road Home grant programfor Katrina victims says that in the rush to deliver
aid to homeowners in need some people got too much. Nowit wants to hire a separate company to collect millions in grant overpayments.
Hired contractors to require aid recipients to repay funds provided for hurricane relief
ElECTIOnS
Complex printing process
causes shortage of ballots
Its a simple question with no
simple answer: Why do poll-
ing places across America keep
running out of ballots when its
no secret that this contentious
primary season keeps breaking
voter turnout records?
For one, even the best-made
plans have gone awry; ofcials
in state after state have ordered
more ballots, only to see turnouts
exceed their most ambitious
estimates.
Some states California, for
example extended registration
deadlines, in part to give would-be
voters more time to sign up for
the frst Democratic presidential
nomination race between a black
man and a woman.
But some election ofcials say
those extensions have necessitat-
ed a form of fortune telling when
it comes to deciding how many
ballots to order.
Not helping is the fact that
ballot printing is a highly special-
ized feld with a limited number of
companies willing to take on the
heavily monitored and time-con-
suming burden of producing and
delivering voting cards. Price per
ballot can range from 20 cents to
more than $1, depending on com-
plexity. Lead times for printing
can range from months to weeks
to days, depending on circum-
stances, including the proximity of
Election Day.
So with Pennsylvanias impor-
tant April 22 primary looming,
and nine other state nominating
contests scheduled for May, elec-
tion activists wonder if even more
voters could be subject to huge
lines and disenfranchisement
caused by an insufcient supply
of ballots.
Were going to keep having
this problem, said Doug Lewis,
director of the Election Center,
which represents voting ofcials
across the country. Running an
election sounds pretty simple until
you try to do it. Folks just dont
understand how much advance
planning goes into setting this up.
Associated Press
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LOS ANGELES Movie-go-
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high roller with a $23.7 million
debut, according to studio
estimates Sunday.
Starring Kevin Spacey, Kate
Bosworth and Jim Sturgess
as math geniuses who make
a killing at Vegas blackjack
tables, Sonys 21 bumped
of Dr. Seuss Horton Hears a
Who!, which had been No. 1
the previous two weekends.
Horton Hears a Who,
distributed by 20th Century
Fox, slipped to second place
with $17.4 million, raising its
total to $117.3 million. It is the
frst movie this year to pass the
$100 million mark.
Despite solid holdover
crowds for Horton, overall
business continued to dip.
The top 12 movies took in $90
million, down 23 percent from
the same weekend last year,
when Blades of Glory was No.
1 with $33 million.
Hollywood started 2008
with a strong uptick in January,
but revenues have trailed of
steadily since. Movie admis-
sions had been up as much as
10 percent in early February
but now are 2.6 percent behind
2007s, according to box-ofce
tracker Media By Numbers.
By this time last year, Hol-
lywood already had churned
out a blockbuster with 300,
which eventually topped $200
million, and other hits that in-
cluded Wild Hogs and Meet
the Robinsons.
Last year was very, very
strong at this point. Its made
comparisons very tough, said
Paul Dergarabedian, president
of Media By Numbers. Were
not that far into the year, so ev-
ery down weekend has a huge
impact on the bottom line.
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NEW YORK Dith Pran, the
Cambodian-born journalist whose
harrowing tale of enslavement and
eventual escape from that coun-
trys murderous Khmer Rouge rev-
olutionaries in 1979 became the
subject of the award-winning film
The Killing Fields, died Sunday.
He was 65.
Dith died at a New Jersey hos-
pital Sunday morning of pancre-
atic cancer, according to Sydney
Schanberg, his former colleague
at The New York Times. Dith
had been diagnosed almost three
months ago.
Dith was working as an inter-
preter and assistant for Schanberg
in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian
capital, when the Vietnam War
reached its chaotic end in April
1975 and both countries were
taken over by Communist forces.
Schanberg helped Diths family
get out but was forced to leave his
friend behind after the capital fell;
they were not reunited until Dith
escaped four and a half years later.
Eventually, Dith resettled in the
United States and went to work as
a photographer for the Times.
It was Dith himself who coined
the term killing fields for the
horrifying clusters of corpses and
skeletal remains of victims he
encountered on his desperate jour-
ney to freedom.
The regime of Pol Pot, bent
on turning Cambodia back into
a strictly agrarian society, and his
Communist zealots were blamed
for the deaths of nearly 2 million of
Cambodias 7 million people.
That was the phrase he used
from the very first day, during our
wondrous reunion in the refugee
camp, Schanberg said later.
With thousands being execut-
ed simply for manifesting signs
of intellect or Western influ-
ence even wearing glasses or
wristwatches Dith survived by
masquerading as an uneducated
peasant, toiling in the fields and
subsisting on as little as a mouthful
of rice a day, and whatever small
animals he could catch.
After Dith moved to the U.S.,
he became a goodwill ambassa-
dor for the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees and
founded the Dith Pran Holocaust
Awareness Project, dedicated to
educating people on the history of
the Khmer Rouge regime.
He was a journalist and hero,
New York Times executive editor
Bill Keller said in a letter to the
staff Sunday. He added: that last
word is not one I use lightly.
He was the most patriotic
American photographer Ive ever
met, always talking about how he
loves America, said Associated
Press photographer Paul Sakuma,
who knew Dith through their
work with the Asian American
Journalists Association.
Schanberg described Diths
ordeal and salvation in a 1980
magazine article titled The Death
and Life of Dith Pran. Schanbergs
reporting from Phnom Penh had
earned him a Pulitzer Prize in
1976.
Pran was a true reporter, a
fighter for the truth and for his
people, Schanberg said. When
cancer struck, he fought for his
life again.
news 9A MONday, MaRCH 31, 2008
election
Females may hold partys fate
BY BETH FOUHY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ALBANY, Ind. Debra
Starks has heard the calls for Hillary
Rodham Clinton to quit the presi-
dential race, and shes not happy
about it.
The 53-year-old Wal-Mart clerk,
so bedecked with Clinton campaign
buttons most days that friends call
her Button Lady, thinks sexism is
playing a role in efforts to push the
New York senator from the race.
Starks wants Clinton to push back.
The way I look at it, shes a
strong woman and she needs to stay
in there, Starks said at a Clinton
rally. She needs to fight. If you
want to be president, you have to
fight for what you want. If she stays
in there and does what shes sup-
posed to do, I think shell be on her
way.
A m i d
m o u n t i n g
calls from top
Democrats for
Clinton to step
aside and clear
the path for
rival Barack
Obama, strate-
gists are warn-
ing of damage
to the partys
chances in November if women
who make up the majority of
Democratic voters nationwide, but
especially the older, white working-
class women whove long formed
the former first ladys base sense
a mostly male party establishment
is unfairly muscling Clinton out of
the race.
Women will indeed be upset
if it appears people are trying to
push Hillary Clinton out of the
way, said Carol Fowler, the South
Carolina Democratic Party chair
who is backing Obama. If you are
going to ask her to withdraw, youd
better be making a strong case for
it both to the candidate and the
public.
Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy
last week became the first lead-
ing Democrat to openly call on
Clinton to abandon her bid and
back Obama, a sentiment shared
by many activists worried that a
drawn-out nominating contest only
bolsters Republican nominee-in-
waiting John McCain.
Other Obama supporters have
echoed that view while stopping
short of asking Clinton to with-
draw.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson
on Sunday called Obamas lead
all but insurmountable, while
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry said
the contest would be reaching a
point of judgment very soon.
I dont think its up to our
campaign or any individual to tell
Hillary Clinton or their campaign
when that is, Kerry, the 2004
Democratic nominee, said on ABCs
This Week on Sunday. But there
will be, I think, a consensus about it,
and I think its going to occur over
these next weeks.
To be sure, Clinton campaign
officials concede her path to win-
ning the nomination is not at all
clear.
She almost certainly will end the
primary season narrowly trailing
Obama in the popular vote and
among pledged delegates unless the
nullified primaries in Florida and
Michigan are counted an unlike-
ly scenario at best. But Obama is
unlikely to end the race with the
2,024 pledged delegates needed to
win outright either, meaning the
nominee will
be determined
by roughly 800
s u p e r d e l e -
gates elect-
ed officials and
party insiders
who can back
whichever can-
didate they
want.
Most observ-
ers believe the
superdelegates are unlikely to risk an
intraparty uproar not to mention
the ire of black voters thrilled to sup-
port a black candidate by siding
with Clinton if Obama maintains his
lead among pledged delegates.
But Clinton advisers believe many
superdelegates remain at least per-
suadable, due in no small part to the
influence of women voters on the
party and in the general election.
My e-mail is bursting with
women who are furious, and its
grown in the last week, said Ann
Lewis, Clintons director of womens
outreach and a longtime Democratic
activist.
T h e s e
women are the
volunteer infra-
structure of the
De mo c r a t i c
Party whove
been proud
to support
De mo c r a t i c
officials for what
they believe
and stand for, Lewis said. They
are very angry that people theyve
worked for so hard would be so dis-
missive of Hillary and, by extension,
of them and what they value.
Indeed, the gender gap in most
of the primaries thus far has been
stark.
In California, Clinton bested
Obama by a margin of 59 percent to
36 percent among women. She beat
him by 54 percent to 45 percent
among women in Ohio, an impor-
tant general election battleground
state.
Obama, in turn, has walloped
Clinton among men in nearly every
state. But hes prevailed among
women in just a handful of places,
including his home state of Illinois
and states with large black popula-
tions.
For his part, the Illinois sena-
tor whose seemingly disre-
spectful crack of Youre likable
enough, Hillary during a debate
with Clinton may have cost him the
New Hampshire primary said
Saturday he did not believe Clinton
should end her campaign.
My attitude is Senator Clinton
can run as long as she wants,
Obama said in Pennsylvania, which
holds its primary April 22.
Nine more primaries follow, end-
ing June 3.
Clinton insists shes in it to the
end, saying a spirited contest is
good for the party and ultimately
will produce a stronger nominee.
There are millions of reasons
to continue this race: people in
Pennsylvania, Indiana and North
Carolina, and all of the contests
yet to come, she told reporters
Friday in Hammond, Ind. This is a
very close race and clearly I believe
strongly that everyone should have
their voices heard and their votes
counted.
Campaigning across the state
Saturday, Clinton was greeted by
large, heavily female crowds that
shouted You go, sister! and Weve
got your back! in support of her
pioneering candidacy. Indiana votes
May 6.
Marie Wilson, president of the
White House Project that trains
women to run for office, noted that
women typically have rallied around
Clinton when shes appeared most
v u l n e r a b l e
from the
revelations of
her husbands
dalliance with
White House
intern Monica
Lewinsky to
Januarys New
Hampshire pri-
mary after the
bruising loss to
Obama in Iowa.
Women have always been asked
to step aside if it was somehow
for the greater good. In this case,
Clinton, and a lot of her female
supporters, clearly feel that she
would make the better president
and that it would not be for the
greater good for her to step aside,
Wilson said.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary RodhamClinton, D-N.Y., campaigns at Saras Diner in Fort Wayne, Ind., Friday. With women
the majority of Democratic voters nationwide, strategists warn of damage to the partys chances in November if female voters sense Clinton was
unfairly muscled out by a mostly male party establishment.
Women will indeed be upset if
it appears people are trying to
push Hillary Clinton out of the
way.
Carol Fowler
South Carolina
Democratic Party Chairwoman
Women have always been
asked to step aside if it was
somehow for the greater good.
Marie wilSon
white House project president
Lights out for Earth Hour
enViRonMent
BY CARYN ROUSSEAU
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO From the Sydney
Opera House to Romes Colosseum
to the Sears Towers famous anten-
nas in Chicago, floodlit icons of
civilization went dark Saturday for
Earth Hour, a worldwide campaign
to highlight the threat of climate
change.
The environmental group WWF
urged governments, businesses and
households to turn back to candle
power for at least 60 minutes start-
ing at 8 p.m. wherever they were.
The campaign began last year
in Australia, and traveled this year
from the South Pacific to Europe
to North America in cadence with
the setting of the sun.
Whats amazing is that its tran-
scending political boundaries and
happening in places like China,
Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, said
Andy Ridley, executive director of
Earth Hour. It really seems to
have resonated with anybody and
everybody.
Earth Hour officials hoped 100
million people would turn off their
nonessential lights and electron-
ic goods for the hour. Electricity
plants produce greenhouse gases
that fuel climate change.
In Chicago, lights on more than
200 downtown buildings were
dimmed Saturday night, including
the stripe of white light around the
top of the John Hancock Center.
The red-and-white marquee out-
side Wrigley Field also went dark.
Theres a widespread belief that
somehow people in the United
States dont understand that this
is a problem that were lazy and
wedded to our lifestyles. (Earth
Hour) demonstrates that that is
wrong, Richard Moss, a mem-
ber of the Nobel Peace Prize-win-
ning Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change and the climate
change vice president for WWF,
said in Chicago on Saturday.
Workers in Phoenix turned out
the lights in all downtown city-
owned buildings for one hour.
Darkened restaurants glowed
with candlelight in San Francisco
while the Golden Gate Bridge, Coit
Tower and other landmarks extin-
guished lights for an hour.
New Zealand and Fiji were first
out of the starting blocks this year.
And in Sydney, Australia where
an estimated 2.2 million observed
the blackout last year the citys
two architectural icons, the Opera
House and Harbour Bridge, faded
to black against a dramatic back-
drop of a lightning storm.
Lights also went out at the
famed Wat Arun Buddhist temple
in Bangkok, Thailand; shopping
and cultural centers in Manila,
Philippines; several castles in
Sweden and Denmark; the par-
liament building in Budapest,
Hungary; a string of landmarks
in Warsaw, Poland; and both
London City Hall and Canterbury
Cathedral in England.
Greece, an hour ahead of most
of Europe, was the first on the
continent to mark Earth Hour. On
the isle of Aegina, near Athens,
much of its population marched
by candlelight to the port. Parts of
Athens itself, including the floodlit
city hall, also turned to black.
In Ireland, where environ-
mentalists are part of the coali-
tion government, lights-out orders
went out for scores of government
buildings, bridges and monuments
in more than a dozen cities and
towns.
But the international banks and
brokerages of Dublins financial
district blazed away with light, illu-
minating floor after empty floor of
desks and idling computers.
The banks should have
embraced this wholeheartedly and
they didnt. But its a start. Maybe
next year, said Cathy Flanagan, an
Earth Hour organizer in Dublin.
Irelands more than 7,000 pubs
elected not to take part in part
because of the risk that Saturday
night revelers could end up smash-
ing glasses, falling down stairs,
or setting themselves on fire with
candles.
Likewise, much of Europe
including France, Germany, Spain
and European Union institutions
planned nothing to mark Earth
Hour.
Internet search engine Google
lent its support to Earth Hour
by blackening its normally white
home page and challenging visi-
tors: Weve turned the lights out.
Now its your turn.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Montreal skyline is seen a couple of minutes after 8 p.m. on Saturday. The environmen-
tal groupWWF urged governments, businesses and households to turn back to candle power
for at least 60 minutes wherever they were during a worldwide campaign to highlight the
waste of electricity and the threat of climate change.
DeAtH
New York Times journalist dies
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NewYork Times journalist Dith Pran
died Sunday. The Cambodian-born journalist
whose harrowing tale of enslavement and
eventual escape fromthat countrys murder-
ous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979
became the subject of the award-winning
flmThe Killing Fields,died Sunday. He
was 65.
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BY CALEB SOMMERVILLE
csommerville@kansan.com
Stouffer Place Apartments played
host to a program this weekend to
benefit the Jubilee Caf, located
in First United Methodist Church,
946 Vermont St., which provides
breakfast for the homeless.
On Saturday, Stouffer residents
painted ceramic bowls and will sell
them in front of Wescoe Hall.
Empty Bowls, a program
based in Burnsville, N.C., sponsors
events that help combat hunger
around the world.
Don Claus, a Stouffer resident
assistant, said the Jayhawker Towers
Tenants Association bought about
20 bowls from Sunfire Ceramics,
1002 New Hampshire St.
David Jones, JTTA president,
encouraged Jayhawker Towers and
Stouffer RAs to use extra budget
money to offer charitable activities
for residents.
Each bowl will be sold for $6 on
Wescoe Beach, but Claus did not
know when Sunfire would have all
the bowls fired and ready for sale.
Pedro Mateo, a graduate stu-
dent from Guatemala, and his son
Lwin painted bowls because Mateo
thought it would be fun for his son,
and to contribute to Jubilee Cafe.
Mateo and Lwin painted a detailed
pattern on their bowls, and Mateo
said they were trying to paint the
typical cloth from Guatemala.
Claus said he had the program
because there are a lot of children liv-
ing in Stouffer. If it were only adults at
the program, Claus said, it would be
obvious that the bowls were painted
by adults. He liked the spontaneous
creativity that children had.
I was hoping that they would
bring a nice little variety, Claus said.
Edited by Daniel Reyes
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Sale to beneft Jubilee Cafe
Empty Bowls program helps combat worldwide hunger
Caleb Sommerville/KANSAN
Clark Zhu, 5, left, and Runzhe Cui, 4, showoftheir painted bowls at the Empty Bowls
programat Stoufer Place on Saturday. The bowls will be sold in front of Wescoe Hall, but resident
assistant Don Claus doesnt knowwhen.
Caleb Sommerville/KANSAN
Finished bowls will be fred and then sold onWescoe Beach for $6. The proceeds will go to the
Jubilee Cafe, First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont.
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Police chief recounts shooting
Five students died in Northern Illinois University tragedy
BY MICHAEL TARM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DEKALB, Ill. The police chief
at Northern Illinois University
replays the chaos over and over
in his mind: sprinting, pistol in
hand and reading glasses still on,
through waves of screaming stu-
dents at a lecture hall.
Donald Grady remembers
kneeling over the wounded and
dying as the gunmans body lay on
stage, dead of a gunshot wound.
And he still wonders weeks later:
could he have done more to prevent
the deaths of five students when a
former student opened fire in the
crowded hall on Valentines Day?
I know intuitively theres noth-
ing I could have done to protect
them, he told The Associated
Press in a recent interview. But
it doesnt change the fact that,
inside, I feel like I wanted to be
able to do something.
Grady has SWAT team training
and has advised governments and
militaries in war-torn countries,
but the shooting, he said, was the
ugliest test of his career.
On the day of the shooting,
the 6-foot-5 Grady ran into the
mayhem, scanning hands in the
crowds for an escaping gunman.
It took 90 seconds for the former
star sprinter to cover the 400 yards
between his office and the red-
bricked lecture complex.
At the entrance to Auditorium
101, Grady took point, two offi-
cers on his flank, one at his back,
in diamond formation. He pulled
open the door.
The shooter, Steven
Kazmierczak, already was dead of
a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Criminology major Maria
Ruiz-Santana, 20, had wounds to
her chest, head and neck from
a shotgun blast. She said Grady
arrived and held her hand, talking
to her to keep her from slipping
into unconsciousness.
If he didnt get there right
away, I might well be dead, she
said.
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DETROIT One little piece of net
wasnt enough.
Russell Robinson and Sherron Collins
got their first true taste of NCAA
Tournament glory with one net-cut-
ting ceremony, but they wanted more.
Robinson, walking off the court in his
Final Four hat and shirt after KUs 59-57
clinching victory against Davidson, told
an administration member he wanted the
net that was still hanging from the other
basket.
Russell, you should get that whole
thing, Collins shouted.
Finally, the other net came down.
Robinson took half of
it, and Collins took the
rest. They wore their
prizes around their
necks in the locker
room.
Looks real good,
Robinson said.
He just sat and
smiled. Collins bragged
about how he had
received 35 congratula-
tory text messages. No
KU player or coach could hide his excite-
ment, and why not? Theyd earned a spot
in the Final Four the first for all the
players, who had gone through two first
round losses and an Elite Eight disaster
last season, and the first for Kansas coach
Bill Self after coming so close four other
times.
All that negative talk he had in the
past, Darnell Jackson said about Self,
now we made it. Now we have a chance
to make something happen.
Self climbed the ladder to the net after
all the players and pumped his fists toward
the crowd out of joy and out of relief. All
the criticism from the first round losses
and the failures in the
Elite Eight had worn
on him and his family.
Players could tell Self
had been stressing out
since Friday night. He
never thought he had
to make the Final Four
to validate himself as
a great coach, but he
wanted it badly.
Weve been so close so many times,
Self said. Even though were always going
to get good players at Kansas, this was the
year this needed to happen for the imme-
diate future.
Funny how the postgame atmosphere
couldve been so different. Davidson gave
the Jayhawks everything they expected
after they watched tape of the Wildcats
rolling past higher seeds Georgetown
and Wisconsin. With 16 seconds left and
Kansas clinging to a 59-57 lead, Davidson
had the ball and an opportunity to win or
tie the game.
Self had one main instruction for his
players in the huddle: dont let Stephen
Curry take a three-pointer. Hed rather
they force Curry, the star of the tourna-
ment, to shoot a two or even foul him
hard. Curry had the ball in his hands for
most of the possession until Collins, Mario
Chalmers and Brandon Rush collapsed on
him. He dumped it to Jason Richards, who
missed an off-balanced three with Collins
in his face.
When he got rid of it, Self said, I was
happy.
Curry missed nine
of 13 shots in the sec-
ond half after scoring
15 points in the first
20 minutes. He started
to struggle when the
Jayhawks switched to a
box and one and used
Rush to defend Curry.
It was good for
Kansas that its defense
shut down Davidson.
Otherwise, the game
couldve been plenty
different. Outside of Sasha Kaun, who
played the role of unlikely hero with 13
points on six of six shooting, the Jayhawks
never really got into a flow on offense
because of Davidsons double teams, pres-
sure and an inability to force turnovers.
Jackson said they were trying too hard.
We wanted it so bad, he said. There
were a lot of guys so sped up.
Kansas wanted to win a sloppy one.
Before the season started, Robinson said
the coaches often talked about the impor-
tance of winning when they dont play at
a high level. Earlier round games against
Portland State, UNLV and Villanova pro-
vided few challenges,
and the Jayhawks
rolled.
They didnt in this
one, and it should
help them in the Final
Four against North
Carolina.
To win it all, dont
you have to win one
like this? Self said.
Everybody has to go through this.
The hollering and smiling continued
until the locker room closed. All the play-
ers felt satisfied but acknowledged that
theres still plenty more to accomplish.
This Saturdays game should provide
a bigger challenge and certainly more
drama because of the presence of Tar
Heels coach Roy Williams. The Jayhawks
will be ready for it.
After Robinson took down his first clip
of the net, Athletics Director Lew Perkins
greeted him with a bear hug near the
three-point line.
Thats a powerful hug, Robinson told
him.
Perkins has been telling Robinson
throughout the tournament that he needs
to step up and be the best leader possible.
This time, Perkins whispered a reminder
to Robinson that he and his teammates are
not done yet.
Eighty more minutes, Perkins said.
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BY KELLY BRECKUNITCH
kbreckunitch@kansan.com
They call it March Madness for a rea-
son. For the third time this season, the
University of Kansas softball team had to
deal with cold weather that changed the
weekend game schedule.
Were tired of playing in the cold,
coach Tracy Bunge said.
She said that if you talked to baseball
coach Rich Price, you would probably
get the same response from him about
the weather. Bunge said it hurt the atten-
dance, but the team had still been playing
well in the poor weather.
The team had no problem getting
through the weekend with a sweep of
Texas Tech. Junior pitcher Valerie George
carried the team in the first game of the
doubleheader. George collected her fifth
shutout of the season, and junior third
baseman Val Chapple drove in the only
run with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of
the first inning.
Bunge was happy that George got
the shutout, especially on a day when it
seemed like she didnt have her best stuff.
She got herself into trouble in a couple
of different innings with runners in scor-
ing position, Bunge said. Yet she pitched
really tough in those situations and thats
what you like to see.
George scattered three Texas Tech hits
over seven innings, including two dou-
bles to Texas Tech senior first baseman
Jennifer Corkin. The
Jayhawks gathered five
hits and capitalized on
a Texas Tech throwing
error to earn their one
run.
Bunge said the team
did just enough to win
the ball game. She
said that she was not
extremely happy with
the offensive output
but that she was glad that the team is
coming through in close games.
Were doing the things it takes to win
close ball games right now, Bunge said.
The second game was a much more
offensive affair. The Jayhawks scored 12
runs on 12 hits and held on for a 12-7
victory. Senior left fielder Betsy Wilson
continued her impressive season with
a perfect four-for-four day at the plate,
including a double, six RBI and her third
home run of the season. Junior center
fielder Dougie McCaulley and sophomore
second baseman Sara Ramirez also had
multiple hits, and seven Jayhawks total
got a hit in the game.
Bunge was pleased to see Wilsons con-
tinued success on the field.
Shes having the
best year of her career
since shes been at KU
this year, Bunge said.
She said she was
happy not only to see
Wilson perform, but
to also see the produc-
tion that she sparked
with the rest of the
Jayhawks at the bot-
tom of the line-up.
Bunge said the team definitely need-
ed these two games against Texas Tech
to gain momentum in the Big 12. The
Jayhawks play at Creighton on Wednesday
and will not play at home again until April
12 against Texas. Bunge looks forward
to another road test in Nebraska. Right
now, the bottom line is the teams just
playing with a lot of confidence, Bunge
said.
Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
SportS
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BaseBall loses
weekend series
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Tennis downs
oU 4-3, osU 6-1
ROCK CHALK RIVER WALK
FINAL FOUR
Kansas wins against Texas Tech
Weston White/KANSAN
Junior pitcher Valerie George throws to frst after felding a ground ball. kansas defeatedTexas Tech 1-0 saturday
afternoon at arrocha Ballpark.
SOFtbALL
Were doing the things it takes
to win close ball games right
now.
TRACY BUNGE
Coach
seven Jayhawks get a hit in game; weather doesnt affect victory
Jon Goering/KANSAN
Kansas coach Bill Self cuts the last strand of the net in celebration of kansas victory over davidson sunday evening at Ford Field in detroit. self and the Jayhawks head to the
Final Four in san antonio, Texas, where they will face north Carolina. The trip to the Final Four is the frst for self.
kansas beats davidson 59-57, prepares to face former coach williams; self avenges critics with first trip to Final Four
Even though were always
going to get good players at
Kansas, this was the year this
needed to happen for the
immediate future.
BILL SELF
Kansas coach
This Saturdays game should
provide a bigger challenge and
certainly more drama because of
the presence of Tar Heels coach
Roy Williams.
CONTINUED COVERAGE ON 4B
sports 2B monday, march 31, 2008
Q: When was the last time the
Final Four was held in San Antonio
and what teams made it there?
A: 2004. Georgia Tech, Oklaho-
ma State, Connecticut and Duke
played at the Alamodome. The
Huskies beat the Yellow Jackets
82-73 in the National Champion-
ship behind a combined 45 points
from Ben Gordon and Emeka
Okafor.
espn.com
MLB:
Toronto at New York Yankees,
Noon, ESPN
Milwuakee at Chicago Cubs,
1:00 p.m., WGN and ESPN2
San Francisco at Los Angeles
Dodgers, 3:00 p.m., ESPN
Los Angeles Angels at Minne-
sota, 6:00 p.m., ESPN2
Houston at San Diego, 9:00
p.m., ESPN2
Womens College Basketball:
Elite Eight, 6:00 p.m., ESPN
Elite Eight, 8:30 p.m., ESPN
Tennis:
Sony Ericcson Open, Noon, FSN
Kansas will wrap up its spring
practice season by playing its
spring football game at 1 p.m.
Saturday April 12 at Memo-
rial Stadium. Admission to
the scrimmage will be free. At
halftime, Kansas coach Mark
Mangino will accept the Sport-
ing News coach of the year
trophy, and players will sign
autographs after the game.
The public scrimmage will be
the last of the Jayhawks 15
spring practices. Kansas will
hold an open practice at 3:30
p.m. Friday on the felds west of
Hoglund Ballpark.
Asher Fusco
sports trivia of the day
sports fact of the day
quote of the day
on tv tonight
Ten Final Fours have been in
Kansas City, which is the most of
any city. New York City has the
second most with seven but hasnt
had the event since 1950.
fanbay.net
I will never play the Uni-
versity of Kansas in a regular
season game. It will have to
be some type of tournament
- whether its NCAA or a holiday
tournament. But nobody in the
world could have more love or
tried to give more to that place
than I did for 15 years.
North Carolina coach Roy Williams
calendar
TUESDAY
Baseball vs. Wichita State, 7
p.m., Lawrence
WEDNESDAY
Softball vs. Creighton, 2
p.m., Omaha
Softball vs. Creighton, 4
p.m., Omaha
Baseball vs. St. Mary, 6
p.m., Lawrence
Track, Texas Relays, All day,
Austin, Texas
football note
Get your dot out of my way
BY AARON BEARD
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Tyler
Hansbrough always found a way for
North Carolina, whether it was car-
rying the Tar Heels when they lost
their point guard or making a shot
despite every defender knowing the
ball would end up in his hands.
Now, with his relentless drive and
unyielding will, Hansbrough has the
Tar Heels back in the Final Four.
Hansbrough had 28 points and
13 rebounds Saturday night to help
the Tar Heels hold off Louisville
83-73 in the East Regional final
and reach the national semifinals
for the first time since winning the
championship in 2005.
The Tar Heels (36-2) advanced
to play the Kansas-Davidson win-
ner next Saturday at San Antonio,
setting up a potential matchup
between Hall of Fame coach Roy
Williams and the Jayhawks program
he left behind when he returned to
his alma mater in 2003.
On this night, however, the focus
was squarely on the Atlantic Coast
Conferences player of the year.
Battling in a physical contest
inside, Hansbrough finished 12-for-
17 from the floor in 38 minutes
and was named regional MVP. That
included a pair of clutch jumpers
over 6-11 center David Padgett as
the Tar Heels desperately tried to
hold their tenuous second-half lead
in the final minutes.
He is the most driven, focused
player Ive ever seen in my life,
Williams said. He wants to be the
best player he can be and win.
For Hansbrough and his team-
mates, it was a reversal from last
years second-half collapse against
Georgetown in the NCAA tourna-
ments round of eight.
The Tar Heels have won all four
of their games in this tournament
by double digits. All four victo-
ries came in their home state, too,
allowing them to celebrate in front
of plenty of blue-clad fans Saturday.
Ty Lawson added 11 points
including a key 3-pointer with
about 5 minutes left for North
Carolina, which blew a 12-point
halftime lead, then broke away from
a tie at 59 to earn their 17th trip to
the Final Four.
Last year, nobody could hit a
shot when the Tar Heels needed one
most against the Hoyas in a loss that
had stayed with them all season. But
this time, the Tar Heels played with
steady poise when the third-seeded
Cardinals (27-9) erased the margin
and traded baskets with them in the
anxious final minutes.
First, with the Tar Heels cling-
ing to a 68-64 lead, Lawson came
around the baseline and knocked
down a 3 from the corner in front of
his bench that pushed the margin to
seven. Then, after a basket from Earl
Clark inside, Hansbrough knocked
down a straightaway jumper over
Padgett to make it 73-66 with 2:27
to play.
Hansbrough essentially closed
the door on Louisville on the next
possession. The 6-9 junior got the
ball on the left wing with the shot
clock winding down, then pump-
faked to get Clark up in the air and
step in for another jumper over
Padgett. The ball swished cleanly
through while Hansbrough was
knocked to the ground, pushing the
lead to 75-66 with 1:33 left.
Ive been playing with him my
whole college career, said junior
Danny Green, who had 11 points
despite needing four stitches to close
a cut above his left eye late in the first
half. A lot of shots that he takes and
makes, it still shocks me to this day.
Im like, How did he get that off and
how did he make it? Hes been doing
it his whole career.
The baskets left Louisvilles play-
ers in similar disbelief.
You see the guy as a junior and
hes getting his jersey retired and
youre like, Why? said Terrence
Williams, who had 14 points for
Louisville. Then you play against
him and you say, Thats why. Hell
go through the floor just to get a
rebound. Hes a great player.
The Tar Heels went 8-for-8 at the
foul line to seal it in the final min-
ute. That steady hand was a from
change last years loss to the Hoyas,
in which they missed 22 of 23 shots
and let an 11-point lead slip away in
the 96-84 overtime loss.
Jerry Smith scored 17 points to
lead Louisville, which shot 53 per-
cent and gave the Tar Heels all they
could handle after halftime.
We played exactly the style of
play we needed to win, Louisville
coach Rick Pitino said. (Its) very
difficult sometimes for people to
admit when the other team is bet-
ter. But were a very good basketball
team this year, very good, and they
were better tonight.
Lawson back at full speed after
spraining his left ankle in February
had nine assists while operating
as a one-man press break against
the Cardinals full-court defense all
night.
The Tar Heels shot 53 percent
to become the first team to shoot
better than 50 percent against
the Cardinals. The win allowed
Williams to move past Pitino and
Bob Knight and into a tie with
Kentuckys Adolph Rupp and
Louisvilles Denny Crum with six
Final Four appearances, which is
fourth most all-time.
The game came hours after
the Louisville and North Carolina
womens teams played in the NCAA
round of 16 in New Orleans. In that
game, the top-seeded Tar Heels ral-
lied from an 18-point deficit to beat
the fourth-seeded Cardinals 78-74.
Weston White/KANSAN
Three lucky Jayhawk faithful sprint the bases during thedot runSaturday afternoon during the Kansas vs Texas A&Mbaseball game. The blue dot won the race and a Kansas baseball prize
pack. Kansas lost the game 9-6 in ten innings.
ELiTE EiGhT
Hansbrough leads North Carolina past Louisville 83-73
ASSOCIATED PRESS
North Carolina head coach Roy Williams
talks withTyler Hansbrough following the
NCAA East Regional fnal basketball game
against Louisville, Saturday, in Charlotte, N.C.
North Carolina won 83-73 to advance to the
Final Four.
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