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Voters to decide on stadium roofThe possibility of a roof over Kauffman and Arrowhead Stadiums will be voted on today. The new roof could bring new sporting events to Kansas City and promote tourism. PAGE 1B

The apple of intramural sport’s eyeThe intramural championships were held March 29 and I Like Apples defeated SEK Connection 61-59. They were led to the championship by one of the few freshmen on the team. PAGE 1B

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a pile of trees accumulated in the parking lot of Memo-rial Stadium after cleanup for the March 12 storm and will remain until a way of disposing them is devised. Trees and roofs were damaged across campus during the storm.

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gaTewayThe docking Family gateway will be at the intersection of 13th Street and Oread Avenue. KU will add a new traffic booth north of the gateway.

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goodbye, helloKU to tear down booth for new gateway

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Cleanup generates businessLocal companies

benefit from storm

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dolph Simons Jr., editor and publisher of the Lawrence Journal-world and chairman of The world Company, types on his1930s Royal typewriter.

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Citizen dolphA rare glimpse at the media mogul who dominatesthe local informationbusiness

“You can’t ever be in the hip pocket of a city manager, or a mayor, or

a chamber of commerce, or a football coach, or an athletic director or a chancellor. You need to be supportive and helpful, but you just can’t be in their hip pockets. That’s just not our business.”

Dolph Simons Jr.Chairman of The World Company

By Melinda Ricketts

mricketts@kansan.comKansan staff writer

Demolition of the traffic control booth in front of the Kansas Union at 13th Street and O r e a d Avenue begins today to make way for

a new gateway for the Univer-sity.

Greg Wade, a landscape architect for the University, said construction on the

Docking Family Gateway at the intersection wouldn’t start until the end of the week and should

be completed by the time classes resume next fall.

The gateway will be an island

in the street with a raised fountain area and a column, approximately 16 or 17 feet tall, that will have “University of Kansas” on it. It will be lighted at night.

The plan is that the materials in the gateway will blend with the buildings in the surround-ing area.

“It’s a mix of native limestone and brick, so it seems appropriate for that part of campus,” Wade said.

The gateway has an estimated budget of about $500,000, which was donated by the Docking family. The gateway will be important because it will let people know when they enter campus, said Warren Corman, University architect.

“It’s a sense of place,” Corman said. “Psycho-logically in architecture you don’t feel comfort-able unless you know where you are.”

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By Michael PhilliPs

mphillips@kansan.comKansan staff writer

Surveying the damage after the March 12 mi-croburst, Ross Dessert found plenty to deal with.

Dessert, who is in charge of facilities at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Cres-cent Road, said two of the Center’s four homes sustained roof damage, the church’s roof was dam-aged directly above the organ, and he found pieces of Templin Hall that blew across the street.

But he didn’t have to look hard to find a roofing company. Earlier in the year the Center had new

roofs put on a couple of the church properties.

“Those held up pretty well,” Dessert said, adding that the company, Alpha Roofing, came back out soon after the storm and made the necessary fixes.

Alpha Roofing’s Darin Lutz said that his company, like others around Law-rence, had seen an increase in customers since the storm as businesses and homeown-ers begin cleaning up.

For businesses, the hard-est-hit area was along 23rd Street, especially east of campus and on Massachu-setts Street.

Most cleanup work has not yet begun, because busi-nesses have to fill out paper-work with their insurance

companies and collect bids on the work.Sign companies have also been cashing in on

the storm.Kim Van Dame, Star Signs project assistant,

said that in the first week after the storm the com-pany made about 30 bids on jobs created by the storm, and work is still coming in as businesses continue to communicate with their insurance companies.

In the first days after the storm, the company held off on some of its current jobs and had employees devoted exclusively to the cleanup process.

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Most cleanup

work has not yet begun, because businesses have to fill out paperwork with their insurance companies and collect bids on the work.

A framed piece of pa-per hangs on the wall above a televi-sion broadcasting CNN in the office of Dolph Simons Jr., one of the few

people in Lawrence known largely by his first name.

In 1891, Dolph’s grandfather W.C. Si-mons scrawled in black ink on a small

note a record of his first day’s business. “Sold Papers,” it reads.

Dolph, twiddling his glasses with stout fingers, dark hair neatly combed straight back, explains, “I keep it up there as a re-minder — that shows that anybody can come to town and get into the business and you better be careful because if they work hard and you don’t, you’re in trouble.”

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Newspaper program to expandBy nicole kelley

nkelley@kansan.comKansan staff writer

The KU newspaper reader-ship program will expand to offer newspapers to students during the summer school ses-sion.

The program will put 800

newspapers on campus dur-ing the summer including The Kansas City Star, The Lawrence Journal-World, USA Today and The New York Times.

“I think students always have a curiosity and need to know what’s going on in the world,” said Molly Kocour, Lawrence senior and chairwoman of the

newspaper readership advisory board. “It’s a matter of conve-nience and a matter of educat-ing students.”

Kocour said that over the years there had been an excess amount in the readership pro-gram’s account that continued to accumulate.

Last year, part of that amount

was used to bring The Wall Street Journal into the program. The remaining funds will cover the summer program.

Each semester, students pay a $5 newspaper readership fee as part of their required campus fees.

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Sterner, student body president, said that the summer newspapers would become a perma-nent part of the readership program.

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news 2A The UniversiTy DAily KAnsAn TUesDAy, April 4, 2006

“Quoteof the

Day”A woman without a man is

like a fish without a bicycle. — Gloria Steinem

on campUSn Tetyana Boryak, visiting Ful-

bright student, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine, is giving a lecture entitled “Escaping Bolshe-vism: Refugees’ Exodus from Russia to Europe (1919-1939)” as part of the Brown Bag Dis-cussion Series at 12:30 p.m. today in 318 Bailey Hall.

n The University Career Center is sponsoring a workshop on “Resumes from Scratch for Juniors and Seniors” at 3:30 p.m. today in the Budig Computer Lab.

n Richard Jenkyns, Lady Mar-garet Hall Fellow, University of Oxford, is hosting a semi-nar on “God, Space, and Cities in the Roman Imagina-tion” at 4 p.m. today in the Seminar Room at the Hall Center for the Humanities.

n John Toohey, Dole Fellow, is hosting a seminar on “Poli-tics in an Age of Entertain-ment & Instant Information” at 4 p.m. today at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.

n Student Union Activities is showing the film “The Godfather” at 7 tonight in the Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.

n Earline Moulder is holding an Alumni Organ Recital at 7:30 tonight in the Bales Organ Recital Hall.

n The KU Choral Society is performing at 7:30 tonight at Lied Center.

By Benjamin Smith

editor@kansan.comkansan correspondent

Top 10 best first lines from novels, according to the american Book Review.

1. “Call me Ishmael.” — Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” (1851)

2. “It is a truth universally acknowl-edged, that a single man in pos-session of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” — Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” (1813)

3. “A screaming comes across the sky.” — Thomas Pynchon, “Gravity’s Rainbow” (1973)

4. “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aure-liano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” — Gabriel García Márquez, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (1967; trans. Gregory Rabassa)

5. “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.” — Vladimir Nabokov, “Lolita” (1955)

6. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” (1877; trans. Constance Garnett)

7. “Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vi-cus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. — James Joyce, “Finnegans Wake” (1939)

8. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” — George Orwell, “1984” (1949)

9. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of fool-ishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” — Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities” (1859)

10. “I am an invisible man.” — Ralph Ellison, “Invisible Man” (1952)

on THe RecoRDn A 22-year-old KU student

was charged with aggra-vated assault about 9 p.m. Saturday. The victim, an unidentified KU student, was assaulted with a stick near Watson Library.

Aftermath of a plane crash

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emergency crews respond to the scene of a c-5 cargo plane that crashed carrying 17 people, just short of a runway at Dover Air Force Base, Del,, Monday. The tail of the aircraft is in the field near by. The military cargo plane headed for Spain developed problems after takeoff and crashed trying to return to Dover Air Force Base early Monday, military officials said. All 17 people aboard survived, though several were injured.

Here’s a list of monday’s most e-mailed stories from

Kansan.com:1. Making college cheaper is

easy as one, two, three2. Kansas baseball takes

weekend series from Mis-souri

3. KU-MU Rankings4. Infielder makes return to

lineup, helps ‘Hawks to victory5. Editorial Board: University

deserves recognition for Peace Corps volunteers

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Here comes the bride, all dressed in tackle

BRETHREN, Mich. — A couple brought together by a passion for fishing was mar-ried at — where else? — a river’s boat ramp.

William Nickel read a short poem Friday before asking Vickie Wright to join him in the Manistee River during their wedding ceremony. They were dressed in fly fishing gear, with white flowers attached to their vests. Family members observed the ceremony from a dock rather than church pews.

Nickel had proposed to Wright a little over a year ago and asked her to meet him at the river for their wedding. He recalled introducing Wright to the sport of fishing — saying she has enjoyed it ever since.

“I taught her how to fly fish,” Nickel said. “She has been catching a lot more fish lately.”

While Nickel waited for the pastor to arrive for the cer-emony, he threw in a line and caught 10 small fish. He threw them back after kissing one of them for good luck at the request of his bride-to-be.

— The Associated Press

Upset father suescontentious coach

ARCADIA, Calif. — When Michael Oddenino’s teenage daughter complained that her softball coach was insulting her

teammates, he took the dispute off the diamond and into a court.

Oddenino, an attorney, filed a lawsuit in Superior Court claiming coach Don Riggio inflicted emotional distress on a player when he called her “a 2-year-old” and frequently called other players idiots.

The suit sought $3 million for intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, negligence, a civil rights viola-tion, and sex discrimination.

But Superior Court Judge Jan Pluim dismissed the case, writing in her March 14 decision that there is nothing wrong with “a coach push-ing an athlete to excel, and in so doing, using words that in another context would be considered rude, demeaning and even intimidating.”

The suit had alleged that Riggio “took advantage of his position of authority to engage in an abusive pattern of exces-sive intimidation and humili-ation of the female players, frequently calling them `idiots,’ and belittling them for minor errors.”

Said Riggio: “I’m just glad it’s over. Now we can move forward and do what we’re there for, and that’s to coach.”

— The Associated Press

man constructs home entirely of concrete

AUBURN, Maine — Termites wouldn’t like the house that Mike Mercier built.

Mercier built his house out of concrete — 85 yards of it. From the outside, the new 2,300-square-foot ranch-style home doesn’t look a lot dif-ferent from most. The base-ment and foot-thick exterior walls are made of concrete — but so are the floors, win-dowsills, counter tops and end tables.

Mercier and his wife are often asked if their bed is con-crete. It is not.

Mercier, who has run a concrete contracting business for three decades, said he got the idea of building a concrete house from an exhibit he visited at a World of Concrete conven-tion.

Construction involved no wood framing or plywood, just windows, siding and interior Sheetrock. Hollow foam blocks were stacked and angled in-side the walls before concrete was pumped around it. Even some of the furniture inside is molded concrete.

“The end tables are so cute,” said Sue Mercier.

The walls are so soundproof that the Merciers’ dog has a hard time hearing people come up the driveway now.

Such a home is energy efficient, because foam and concrete homes use less oil to heat, Mercier said. But a concrete home costs 10-15 percent more to build than a traditional wood-frame home, he added.

— The Associated Press

Iowa alumni erect school flag on capitol

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Some University of Iowa alums elected to show school pride in an odd way two weeks ago, hanging an Iowa flag atop a state building — in Illinois.

A construction crew in Springfield, Ill., apparently raised the University of Iowa’s Hawkeyes emblem while working on a historic building last week, unaware that only U.S. and state flags are typi-cally allowed to fly atop state buildings.

The rules apply to state buildings that are under construction as well, so state officials in Illinois ordered the Iowa flag taken down last weekend.

“Had we known their plan we could have told them be-fore it happened,” said David Blanchette, spokesman for the Illinois Capital Development Board.

Several workers for the project’s general contractor, Halverson Construction Co., attended the University of Iowa and apparently wanted to show pride in their alma mater.

The building in question is a train station that construc-tion crews are converting into a visitors center for the Abraham Lincoln Presiden-tial Library, a popular attrac-tion.

— The Associated Press

PLAY APRIL MADNESS:1ST ANNUAL KANSAN BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

Mens, Womens and Coeds 5 on 5 Tournament& 3 Point ContestApril 8-9 10am-6pm @ Robinson Gym$40 per Team and $10 for 3 Point Contest Entry helps: Boys and Girls Clubs of Lawrence

Bring your game for charity

MAD ABOUT MARCH?

Pick forms up at Stauffer-Flint room #119

coRRecTIonn Friday’s The University Daily

Kansan contained an error. The article “Bands to aid Tibetan projects,” incorrectly identified Deborah Peterson. Peterson is a lecturer of East Asian Studies.

tuesday, april 4, 2006 the university daily Kansan 3anews

THIS WEEKPAID FOR BY KU

ON CAMPUS April 4, 2006

Held At: Oldfather Studios (located at 9th and Avalon, right off of Iowa)Guidelines: 1) Must be 10 minutes or less 2) Must demonstrate both the theme and object of the festivalRules: NO RULESFilms Due By: Friday April 14th by 4:00 PM in Oldfather Studios at the front desk (DVD, MiniDV, VHS)Awards: Trophies are given to most original, viewers’ choice, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place* Snacks and drinks will be provided at the screening

For questions contact Taylor Sloan (movieswimmer@hotmail.com)

THEME: THIS IS THE END OBJECT: A TOWEL

FilmworksFilmFestival

April 23rd at 7:30 PM

Alternative Breaks Winter

SpringWeekend

Applications online at www.ku.edu/~albreaksApplications due to 428 Kansas Union on APRIL 14th

Tuesday, April 4, 4:00 pm Dole Institute of Politics

Guest: Alyssa Mastromonaco, Senior Advisor for Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)

Student Legislative Awareness Board

John Toohey’s

“Politics in an Age of Entertainment & Instant

Information”

Alan Cobb’s

“Citizens vs. The Man”

Wednesday, April 5, 4:00 pm Dole Institute of Politics

Guest: Wayne Flaherty, Citizens against Bi-State

THERE WILL BE FREE PIZZA AT ALAN’S STUDY GROUP!!

Student Legislative Awareness Board

ARE YOU A LEADER?DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF VOLUNTEERISM?DO YOU WANT TO HELP FELLOW KU STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE?

Apply to become an Alternative Breaks Core Member. Positions Available: Director (2),Winter Break Coordinator (2) Spring Break Coordinator (2),Weekend Break Coordinator (2)Public Relations Finance and Fundraising

Alternative Breaks sends more than 150 students to locations throughout the US to volunteer for non-profi t agencies on our winter, spring, and weekend-break programs.

Artists of all media needed for a progressive “woman artist/woman inspired” artwalk to be held April 28th.

Submit digital images to: comstwomen@ku.eduSubmission deadline is

April 21st.

(The F-Word is female/feminist)

Sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women

The Future of Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering

Michael Detamore, KU Assistant

Professor of Chemical and Petroleum

Engineering and Courtesy Professor

of Mechanical Engineering, will focus

on the results of his research and the

potential for practical application in the

future.

At the ECM, across from the Kansas Union Parking GarageApril 5th; 12-1pm is the lecture with a $3 lunch served at 11:30 or brownbag.

Shades of Africa4/710:00 AM to 4:00 PMStauffer-Flint Lawn

Shades of Africa

Questions? Contact kufi ght@gmail.com.

KU for Uganda is working with the African Students Association to put on Shades for Africa, a creative event to let students express what Africa means to them by painting on an enormous canvas outside. Stop by, grab a paintbrush, and take a minute to help create this provocative work of art.

for the F-WORD Artwalk

Call for Artists

Gatewaycontinued from page 1a

Corman said that the gate-way was one of five planned in the master landscape plan pub-lished in August of 2003. One other gateway, the Malott Gate-way, on 15th and Iowa streets, has already been completed. The other locations with planned gateways are 19th Street and Naismith Drive, 11th and Mis-sissippi streets, and 17th and Indiana streets. The remaining three gateways still need fund-ing before they can be built.

Construction of a permanent traffic control booth south at the intersection on 14th Street and Oread Avenue will begin shortly after graduation. There is now a

temporary booth at the intersec-tion. The KU Parking Department is funding the booth’s construc-tion. Donna Hultine, director of parking services, said that during construction of the gateway, the temporary traffic control booth would allow southbound traffic to come in, but northbound traffic would be diverted to 14th Street. Buses will still be allowed through. Hultine said that her only concern about the gateway moving the location of the traffic booth was leaving more of campus exposed.

“Because there’s so many bus-es in that area, I hope it doesn’t become a resting place for cars to stop and pick people up,” Hultine said.

— Edited by John Jordan

Newspaperscontinued from page 1a

Kocour said that this fee would not need to be increased to pay for the new summer pro-gram because the increase in en-rollment had given it the amount needed.

Nick Sterner, student body president, said the summer newspapers would become a permanent part of the reader-ship program.

He said the board would use this first year to get a better idea of the number of papers that would actually be read.

“We did what we could afford and what would work,” Sterner said. “We didn’t want to over do anything and that’s why it’s a

pretty small program.”He said there would be a lim-

ited number of locations for the newspapers during the summer because there were less students on campus each day.

The newspapers will be in newspaper stands at the Kan-sas Union, Fraser Hall, Green Hall, Learned Hall, Summer-field Hall, Watson Library and Anschutz Library.

— Edited by Vanessa Pearson

Cleanupcontinued from page 1a

Alpha Roofing did the same. Lutz said the company hired extra employees to help with the increase in business. He guessed that the re-pair work would continue through the summer, and potentially into the fall. That is not the case for lo-cal landscaping companies, who found themselves with cleanup work initially, but not much in the

way of long-term jobs.At one local company, Pre-

ferred Lawn Service, general man-ager Scott Waisner said that be-yond some work with the Kansas University Endowment Associa-tion, the company didn’t receive much of an increase in business. However, spring is a busy time for landscaping companies, meaning they will have a full load of work unrelated to the storm.

The final bill for the damage

is not yet in, but preliminary es-timates from the University indi-cate between $6 million and $7 million in repair costs associated with the storm. Douglas County as a whole fared slightly better. Governor Kathleen Sebelius asked the federal government for financial aid, citing $5 million in damage within the county, the hardest hit in Kansas.

— Edited by Vanessa Pearson

Joshua Bickel/KANSAN

A man reflected in a window walks by a newspaper stand outside Wescoe Hall Monday afternoon. Student Senate is increasing funds for the Newspaper Readership Program so it can continue during the summer.

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man transported from campus to hospital

Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical was dis-patched to Malott Hall in response to an unidentified 30-year-old male complaining of abdominal pain at 3:30 p.m. Monday.

The man was in visible pain as he was transferred to Lawrence Memorial Hos-pital.

— Mike Mostaffa

Student Senatecandidates to debate

There will be an informal debate between presidential and vice presidential candi-dates at noon Wednesday on Wescoe Beach.

Students will be given the opportunity to ask the candi-dates questions concerning their platforms and stances on campus issues.

Student Senate elections will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, April 11 and 12. The presidential and vice presidential candidates are Jason Boots and Mel Horen for Ignite and Studie Red Corn and Bridget Franklin for Delta Force.

— Nicole Kelley

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Fourth library dean candidate announced

The fourth of five candi-dates for the dean of libraries position will conduct a public forum from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday at Alderson Audito-rium in the Kansas Union.

The candidate, Jay Starratt, will visit campus Wednesday through Friday. Starratt is the associate vice chancellor for information technology at

Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. Before joining SIU, he worked in libraries at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and Emory. Additional information about each candi-date can be found at www.lib.ku.edu/dean.

The University hopes that the new dean will begin work in August. The new dean will replace Stella Bentley, the cur-rent dean, who is retiring this summer. The final candidate will be announced on April 10.

— Melinda Ricketts

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Softball reporter resigns, articles flagged

The University Daily Kan-san has accepted the resig-nation of softball reporter Jonathan Anderson.

On Sunday night, Ander-son filed a bylined story from Saturday’s game that was largely the same as a press release from the Kan-sas Athletics Department.

The story was not published, but the Kansan started an in-vestigation into his previously published stories.

Bylined stories on Feb. 11, 2006, and March 30, 2006, contained paragraphs that

were taken entirely from press releases or with only minor changes and not at-tributed to the Athletics De-partment.

Anderson’s explanation was that on Sunday he sub-mitted an incorrect version of the story, submitting notes instead of the final draft of the story.

The Kansan’s policy is that all published material is origi-nal, unless it is attributed. In this case, that standard was not met.

The Kansan, and Anderson, regret that this happened.

The Kansan is in the pro-cess of selecting a replace-ment.

— Jonathan Kealing

NATION

Strike slows Denver’s public transportation

DENVER — Commuters hitched rides with friends, used taxis and rented cars Monday when Denver-area transit workers went on strike for the first time in 24 years.

The Regional Transportation District used private contractors to keep about 45 percent of its bus routes running but closed light-rail operations and a shuttle service stretching along a downtown pedestrian mall.

Traffic flowed fairly smooth-ly across most highways during the morning rush, but commuters had mixed feelings about the strike.

“I can understand them

wanting more benefits and more money and though I sympathize with them, I’ll have to tell you, me and other riders are real upset,” said Sheen Ortega, 55.

The transit system aver-ages about 275,000 rides per weekday.

No new negotiations were scheduled, although Yvette Salazar, president of Amal-gamated Transit Union Local 1001 said the two sides met informally Monday. She said RTD declined the union’s sug-gestion to enter arbitration.

Scott Reed, RTD spokesman, said the agency would offer no additional money but was willing to restructure how it is distributed.

—The Associated Press

The newspapers will be in newspaper stands at the

Kansas union, Fraser Hall, Green Hall, Learned Hall, Sum-merfield Hall, Watson Library and Anschutz Library.

news4a The UniversiTy Daily Kansan TUesDay, april 4, 2006

By Catherine OdsOn

codson@kansan.comKansan staff writer

The Kansas State Board of Education’s “redefinition” of science spurred the inception of a new lecture series at the Uni-versity of Kansas that will dis-cuss the particulars of science in Kansas.

Lawrence Krauss, professor of physics at Case Western Re-serve University, will kick off the “Science, Education and the Public” series at 7:30 tonight at the Dole Institute of Politics.

The four-part lecture series was designed to thwart attacks on science in the state of Kan-sas, including the Kansas State Board of Education’s accep-tance of the intelligent design theory.

Hume Feldman, associate professor of physics, said he or-ganized the series in response to the Board of Education’s decision that the 500-year-old definition of science was not really sufficient.

The Board of Education sought supernatural explana-tions for natural phenomena, Feldman said, instead of ac-cepting scientific explanations. By doing such, they redefined science, despite not having the expertise to do such, he said.

The lecture series features four speakers who Feldman said could put “dangerous” Kansas issues in perspective. By includ-ing speakers from four separate disciplines — physics, philoso-phy, paleontology and chem-istry — audiences will get four different points of view.

Krauss’ lecture, “Science Under Attack, from the White House to the Classroom: Public Policy, Science Education and the Emperor’s New Clothes,” will provide potential solutions to attacks on science and spe-cifically address the debates on evolution in Kansas and Ohio. His books, including “The Phys-ics of Star Trek,” explain the laws of physics in relation to popular science fiction.

Krauss said he insisted sci-ence be taught in science class-rooms. Debates over the evo-lution theory, such as the one in Kansas, is a public relations battle distorting both science and religion that goes beyond the academic realm, he said.

Joseph Heppert, chair of the department of chemistry and director of the Center for Sci-ence Education, will complete the series with “Understanding ‘Alternatives’ to Evolution” on May 9. Heppert, the lone KU speaker, will discuss the debate on teaching intelligent design in Kansas schools.

He said that as a scientist, understanding “where the real-ity of the situation lies” was im-portant.

His lecture will review his study of the testimony from the May 2005 Board of Education hearings about intelligent design and science standards.

— Edited by Jodi Ann Holopirek

n The “Science, Education and the Public” lecture series will begin tonight. All lectures will take place at the Dole Institute of Politics.

n Lawrence Krauss, professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University. 7:30 tonight. “Science Under Attack, from the White House to the Classroom: Public Policy, Science Education and the Emperor’s New Clothes.”

n Barbara Forrest, professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. 7:30 p.m., April 19. “The Natural-ism of Science: The Only Way that Works.”

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You may not recognize his name, but Dolph Simons Jr., chairman of The World Com-pany and editor and publisher of the Lawrence Journal-World, may be the most influential man in Lawrence. It is almost certain that you subscribe to some medium that funnels your money into his company and his pockets — the Lawrence Journal-World, the city’s only commercial daily newspaper, or Sunflower Broadband, the only local cable TV service and the dominant high-speed Internet provider.

You may get phone service from him or help with your computers from his company’s Geeks on Wheels. The images you can see on computers or cable TV on campus are made possible by a fiber-optic con-nection linking the University of Kansas to Sunflower Broad-band. His company prints USA Today for this region, the Pitch and the newspaper you are read-ing right now — The University Daily Kansan. If you are a KU student, part of your student fees fund the Kansan, which pays his company more than $300,000 each year for printing the student paper.

Dolph intensely anticipates and worries about competi-tion even though some argue his news, cable and online op-erations constitute a local media monopoly.

Probe deeper and you find other contradictions.

He is a blue-suited conserva-tive, in politics and in lifestyle, in a city of jeans-clad Bohe-mians who cast their votes for John Kerry, Kathleen Sebelius and other liberal Democrats. He preaches civic involvement, especially in growth and devel-opment, yet local liberals say his paper and cable news chan-nel eschew involvement in their causes. He leads one of the most technologically sophisticated media operations in the world,

yet he types his Saturday col-umn on a 1930s Royal typewrit-er. His companies are staffed by numerous graduates of the KU School of Journalism, yet most of his donations go elsewhere in the University. He contributes millions to the University, yet bashes it regularly in his weekly column.

A Lawrence media dynasty: the Simons family

Dolph Simons, 76, grew up in Lawrence and graduated with a KU journalism degree. As a young man, he worked abroad at the Times of London and at the Johannesburg Star in South Africa. By 1978, he had suc-ceeded his father, Dolph senior, as publisher and editor of the Journal-World and as president of The World Company.

The company began when W.C. Simons traveled by horse and buggy from St. Joseph, Mo., to Lawrence in 1891 and bought one of seven competing news-papers for $50.

Today the company employs nearly 600 people in Lawrence. About 80 percent of the city’s households receive cable from Sunflower, which also offers cable in Eudora, Tonganoxie, Basehor and Piper. Nine out of 10 households in Lawrence receive information from the company’s newspapers, Internet editions or cable television each day.

Dolph’s daysDressed in a suit and tie,

Dolph arrives at The World Company headquarters, 609 New Hampshire St., at 7:30 each morning and strolls to the office guarded by a phalanx of receptionists.

He evaluates the morning paper in detail as he sits behind his desk, cluttered with stacks of paper, magazines, books and newspapers. He critiques all as-pects of the Journal-World, from how the stories are played and their quality to the advertise-ments and the quality of news-print.

He reads several other papers to see how they played the same news. The rest of his day in-volves meetings both inside and outside headquarters, which may include the KU Hall Cen-ter for the Humanities, Midwest Research Institute or the Kansas Bioscience Authority.

He also might meet with local legislators, school board mem-bers and superintendents or KU faculty and administrators.

“In most newspaper offices, that’s the name of the game,” Dolph said. “You’re supposed to be involved with the commu-nity.”

He usually forgoes lunch, opt-ing instead to munch on crack-ers in his office. He returns at 5 or 6 p.m. to his $1.2-million home near 23rd and Vermont streets surrounded by a large grass yard and flanked by tall trees, its porch adorned with an American flag. When he’s not working, he vacations at his lake cabin in Minnesota, fishing and spending time with family.

Dolph’s hand in the news At the Journal-World, he is all

business. Dolph meets with re-porters and editors in the news-room to discuss coverage, but avoids social gatherings with re-porters at bars that other editors might indulge in.

“Those of us in the business need to conduct ourselves in a manner that reflects well on the business,” Dolph said. “I don’t believe that a person should be a reporter and be known as a big gambler, or a boozer, or chasing skirts.”

Dolph’s influence on the con-tent of the paper is considerable, but mostly indirect.

One Journal-World staffer who asked not to be identified by name or gender said Dolph regularly used red grease pencils to write notes to staffers about stories in the Journal-World. The notes both praise and criti-cize and might suggest possible stories. On a rare occasion, re-porters and editors receive a typed note.

Dolph uses the notes because he doesn’t communicate by e-mail, the source said.

On rare occasions, Dolph’s influence on content may ex-ceed notes scrawled in red.

Two sources at the newspa-per, who asked that their names be withheld, said the Journal-World was preparing to publish a story about Jack Schreiner, a Free State High School teacher and basketball coach who was arrested Oct. 19 and charged with window-peeping. Ralph Gage, chief operating officer of The World Company for 36 years, ordered that the story be held, according to one source.

“A lot of people thought it was easily the most important story of the day,” one source said.

After complaints from mid-level editors, Gage said the story could be published but that it had to be brief, inside the paper and under a one-column head-line, one source said. When the story ran under a three-column headline on page 3B Oct. 26, Gage complained to city editor Mike Shields about the place-ment of the story in the paper, the two sources said. Shields quit in protest, but returned to work about a week later, the sources said.

“It got delayed and buried,” one source said. “It did get pub-lished though.”

Shields declined to be inter-viewed for this story.

Gage declined to discuss the newsroom controversy over the handling of the Schreiner story or whether Dolph was involved in it, and Dolph never respond-ed to repeated questions about it left by phone and in writing. Kathy Underwood, his recep-tionist, explained “They feel like they’ve given you enough of their time and they’re through.”

In an earlier e-mail interview, Gage explained that his role in the company was to carry out major policy decisions made by Dolph.

“He tells me what to do, not vice versa,” Gage said. “I craft suggestions, put forth ideas.

Then whatever’s decided, it’s my job to make it happen.”

Former staffers praised him as a person, but complained that depth reporting was dis-couraged.

Kendrick Blackwood, now a staff writer for the Pitch, worked as a reporter for two-and-a-half years in the late ’90s, when The World Company began to com-bine its print, television and online operations, but left the newspaper because he wanted to write longer articles, which he said were discouraged at the Journal-World.

Blackwood said he and other reporters were required to write one article per day and one for the weekend. The paper does well at daily news coverage, he said, but “I wished at the time we could have done more in-depth, longer enterprise articles.”

Tim Carpenter was a Journal-World reporter from 1988, when the newsroom didn’t have a fax machine, he said, to 2004 when the company was a leader in multimedia news. He left to take his current job as an investiga-tive reporter at the Topeka Cap-ital-Journal because he wanted to chase bigger stories, he said.

Carpenter called Dolph “a great guy,” while acknowledging that Dolph’s Saturday column and his politics “ruffled some feathers in Lawrence.”

“If they want to write edito-rials, they should start a paper,” he said of Dolph’s critics.

“Me and my typewriter know noth-ing about convergence.”

Dolph refuses to use e-mail and doesn’t use a personal com-puter. His secretaries handle his electronic correspondence, while he types his notes, his let-ters and his column on a shiny black 1930s Royal typewriter.

“I will admit I am stubborn to change,” he said.

Dan Simons, Dolph’s son and president of The World Company’s electronics division, smiles when talking about how his technologically-challenged father decided to go multime-

dia. He explained that his father reads a ton, notices trends and asks good questions.

“He ingrained in all of us, ‘never be complacent,’” Simons said. “He has a saying: ‘Drive with your bright lights on.’”

Dolph learned about cable television at newspaper publish-ers’ meetings in New York in the 1960s and when he returned home, he decided to plunge into the cable business, he said.

Dolph got into cable televi-sion even though people advised him against it.

“My idea was, I’d give it a try and find out it didn’t work, rath-er than sit on our fannies and not do it, than have someone come to town and think, ‘Why didn’t we do it when we had the chance?’” Dolph said.

At first, Dolph wanted the cable operation to be separate from the newspaper.

“I didn’t want people to think that they were getting fed out of the same spoon by the same company,” he said.

Ralph Gage said at first the newspaper and television station competed fiercely, but manage-ment began to see that both op-erations faced competition from newspapers and TV stations in Topeka and Kansas City.

“Those entities were being gobbled up by big organizations,” Gage said about Kansas City and Topeka media. “Big media com-panies — Knight Ridder, Mor-ris, you name it. It’s not like we woke up one morning, but over a short period of time, we certainly did recognize that our future de-pended on us changing.”

In 2001, the company com-bined its television, print and Internet news operations. Only 100 other media companies had adopted convergence at that time, Gage estimates.

That convergence bothers some, like David Burress, a re-tired research economist for the KU Policy Research Institute, who frequently writes critical letters to the newspaper.

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He complains that The World Company’s operations consti-tute a classical media monopoly in Lawrence. A few other in-formation sources exist in the city, such as the Kansan, but the student newspaper cannot com-pete in the general community, Burress says.

Because of The World Com-pany’s monopoly, businesses feel pressured to avoid placing advertisements in alternative papers, such as The Lawren-cian, he says. Burress cites the failures of a number of weeklies in Lawrence over the years.

Businesses “feel that if they advertise in weeklies, they are less likely to get free publicity in the Journal-World,” Burress said. “That’s a monopolistic practice.”

Similar to cable companies in most cities, Sunfl ower Broad-band is able to charge more money for its cable service be-cause it has little competition, he said.

“Cable prices are unreason-able everywhere — it’s a license to print money,” Burress said.

Dolph said major newspaper companies have tried to move into Lawrence.

“You’ve got Kansas City, with their new press coming up ... I know damn well they’re going to try to come here. Topeka tries to come in here,” Dolph said.

“Sure, I can appreciate and understand that somebody would say, ‘My God what a mo-nopoly.’ And in one sense, it would appear that way. And in one sense, it is. But that doesn’t mean that somebody else can’t come in here and start some-thing,” Dolph said.

Dolph said he already has competition in Lawrence, pointing to Internet service from AT&T (formerly SBC), newspa-pers in Topeka, Leavenworth and Ottawa, and radio and tele-vision stations in Kansas City and Topeka. Dolph even sees the Kansan as a local competi-tor for newspaper advertising. He refused to be photographed for this story, although he sat for one to accompany an article about him in The New York Times. The Kansan purchased that photo from the Times for this article.

Paul Jess, a retired KU jour-nalism professor who was gen-eral manager of the Kansan from 1980-1982, said he remembered when The Associated Press sud-

denly began charging the Kan-san the higher commercial rate instead of the university rate for wire stories and photos. The AP is a cooperative owned by the newspapers it serves — includ-ing the Kansan and the Journal-World.

Jess recalled that a student on the advertising side decided to expand Kansan circulation by placing boxes fi lled with Kan-sans throughout Lawrence. An AP employee called shortly after and told Jess that the Kansan would be charged the higher commercial rate for articles and photos.

While the AP didn’t tell Jess whether anyone had com-plained, the AP justifi ed its de-cision because the Kansan was “competing,” Jess said. Jess said it was a “valid assumption” that the complaint came from Dolph, the Kansan’s only local competitor.

Dolph denies that The World Company played a role in the price increase.

Tom Eblen, general manag-er of the Kansan from 1986 to 2001, said his relationship with Dolph was positive and that the printing quality of the Kan-san improved greatly when The

World Company began print-ing it — in color and not in just black and white.

Malcolm Gibson, current general manager of the Kansan and a member of the journal-ism faculty, said he didn’t know of a better relationship between a city and a college newspaper than the one between the Jour-nal-World and the Kansan.

Today the Kansan pays the lower university rate for AP articles and photos and Gib-son said he hoped the Kansan would soon circulate around town again.

“Everything I’ve sought to accomplish with the Journal-World, I have, with respect to the AP rules, too. And I expect to accomplish everything,” Gib-son said.

The University Ann Brill, dean of the KU

School of Journalism, converses with Dolph about once a month, she said. The World Company’s leadership in multimedia news perfectly complements the cur-riculum of the school, which is a national leader in multimedia news, she said.

Dolph and his two sons, Dan and Dolph III, president of the

company’s newspaper division who is known in the company as D-three, are members of the William Allen White Founda-tion board of trustees and the Dean’s Club, a group of donors who give $1,000 or more a year to the school.

Brill said Dolph has been generous to the school, but could not reveal exact amounts because of confi dentiality rules.

“I think his contributions to the school have been more in terms of resources,” she said.

Dolph supports the school by hiring students and provid-ing interns at the Journal-World with unpaid instruction from the paper’s staff, Brill explained. People have told her that Dolph speaks highly of the school as well, she said.

“Because he is a person of infl uence, much more beyond Lawrence than a lot of people realize, that helps that the local publisher thinks highly of what you’re doing,” Brill said.

Dolph declined to reveal the sum of his contributions, and the KU Endowment Associa-tion, a private entity, is not re-quired to provide that informa-tion unless donors agree, said spokeswoman Jen Humphrey.

Dolph and his family’s most recent contribution to the Uni-versity amounted to $2.125 mil-lion, part of an $8.5-million do-nation to the KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund, Humphrey said. She explained that another $2.125 million of that money went to the Douglas County Community Foundation. Endow-ment allows donors to designate charitable recipients outside the University. The Simons family will decide where the remaining $4.25 million will be distributed — either to the University or to the Douglas County Community Foundation, Humphrey said.

Dolph said that his donations had funded the Simons Media Center inside the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, the Dolph Simons Room inside the Wa-gnon Student Athlete Center, and that he had contributed to various schools on campus.

“It’s not designed so that we give more to one particular school, or to one particular program than to another one,” he said.

Despite his KU contributions, Dolph frequently criticizes KU administrators in his Saturday column in the Journal-World.

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Henceforth, no girls shall be allowed to buy

a drink that can stain your shirt. If you can’t be responsible with it,

you lose it.n

Today in our COMS class, our teacher was

talking about the impli-cations of having sex

with a cactus.n

I love Spencer. I love him. He’s my favorite.

n

Free-for-All, do you think it’s weird that I

like to get really, really, really high and watch the 700 Club with Pat

Robertson?n

Not that I like Delta Force or anything, but

is it just me or is it everything that Ignite

is promising absolutely impossible? I think they must all be freshmen.

n

Alright, Queers and Allies have this week, but next week we’re

going to have Straight Awareness Week. We’re

going to flaunt our straightness so every-

one is aware of it.

People that play the guitar and are really

good at the guitar are only that way because they couldn’t make the high school basketball

team.n

I’m going to need an editor’s note for this

one. I was just looking at the timetable for next year for classes, and are they really going to of-

fer a Dance Dance Revo-lution class next year at

KU? That’s ridiculous.(Editor’s note: It’s

true. I’m in the class this semester.)

n

Whoever picked up the digital audio record-

er outside of Murphy Hall on Friday, please, please, oh god, please turn it in to the Burge

bookstore or a music of-fice in Murphy Hall. Oh

god, please.n

I feel the need: the need for weed.

n

I don’t know what Del-ta Force is, but I know

they’re really good with sidewalk chalk.

n

Why were there people playing music

from Adult Swim out on Wescoe Beach today? It

confused me.n

Yeah, I have a ques-tion Free-for-All. What team does George Ma-

son play for? Thank you.n

I was wondering what the number to GSP/

Corbin was. I’m looking to get laid tonight.

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I always considered the most flattering term to describe myself to be “news junkie.” I took pride that I was the only one in my high school who watched “The Daily Show,” an experience that was considerably heightened by my compulsion to read every news-paper within reach. For a while, I subscribed to more than a dozen magazines, ranging from Vanity Fair to The Nation to ESPN to The Atlantic. All news was fair game, and I absorbed it as fast as I could.

That makes me a prime candi-date for an addiction to the Web-based media format commonly known as a blog. I have calculated that during a typical weekday I may spend up to two hours in front of my computer reading blogs and the articles they link to. They represent a variety of sources, such as Deadspin for sports headlines, Treehugger for eco-news, and Newsdesigner for developments in, well, newspaper design. But the vast majority of my time is spent reading — mostly liberal — politi-cal blogs, such as Eschaton, Politi-cal Animal, Think Progress, and Daily Kos.

I still read the more mainstream sources of news, but my bearings as to what is “news” has been shifted considerably by these blogs. For instance, the week before last, the blogosphere was embroiled in a matter of admit-tedly little significance when The Washington Post Web site hired a 24-year-old conservative writer, Ben Domenech, to start a new blog called “Red America.” The initial opponents regarded the seeming imbalance shown by the Post in not creating a similar blog for “Blue America.” But things took a turn after just a few days when the Daily Kos found the writer in question had engaged in a pattern of plagiarism extending from his college days through his time at other publications such as the National Review Online. The above-mentioned blogs, plus several others, kept writing about the matter for 24 hours until the writer resigned, less than a week into his job.

I tell you about this because for three days, I couldn’t read most of my blogs without seeing this man’s name, and yet, whenever I read CNN.com or The New York Times or even Yahoo! News, there would be no word of it. How could be there no word? This was a significant event. Otherwise why would all of these people, these bloggers, be talking about it?

What we are seeing is more than the creation of a new medium, but perhaps a revolution of media itself. Instead of letting newspa-pers or TV decide what we see, we actively choose what blogs we read and what filters we put on our knowledge. The unsettling ques-tion then becomes: If blogs altered my definition of news, what else have they done to me?

n Scarrow is a Humboldt senior in history.

Like the bright-yellow goalposts swallowed in the depths of Potter Lake, our school has a number of tradi-tions that have gotten lost over time. But one tradition that had gone by the way-side, only to reemerge once again after four years of ob-scurity, is Day on the Hill.

The SUA-sponsored event began in 1988 as a venue to attract nationally renowned bands that included Pearl Jam, They Might Be Giants, Son Venezuela and the Gin Blossoms. (Remember…they were cool at the time). In its halcyon days the event drew thousands of hacky sack en-thusiasts and music lovers.

Unfortunately, the only current students who previ-ously have been privy to this event are victory-lap seniors. The last Day on the Hill was held during the spring of 2002. Talent fees for the event had grown to the point where SUA could no longer afford it.

This year is a different story, however, thanks to the increase in student fees which SUA benefited from. It’s a good thing, too, because when else is there an event on campus that appeals to every KU student? Let’s be honest: A number of schools

respectively kick our ass in the Homecoming depart-ment, Hawk Week is a great mandatory list of events for incoming freshmen and do we even have a Greek Week? The University of Kansas needs an event like this for every student to take pride in and enjoy. The bands ap-pearing this year, like Spoon, Ghosty and Sharon Jones, are an eclectic enough mix that should appeal to music snobs and Top 40 lovers alike.

For too long KU students have missed out on a popu-lar school tradition. Now that is has returned, though, everyone should check it out when it starts at 2 p.m. this Saturday on the Lied Center Lawn. It’s free, it’s fun and it used to be popular. That’s more than you can say for a lot of things at the Univer-sity.

— Malinda Osborne for the editorial board

Dear KU,

Greetings from Nicaragua! I’m spending several weeks here and in Costa Rica teaching a high school biology course and doing dissertation research. The opportunity for my young stu-dents to learn about the natural world by experiencing it first-hand is absolutely irreplaceable. Every day, they’re coming across creatures they never could’ve imagined, and they’re asking questions and making connec-tions that no textbook could’ve prompted. For some students, this experience is transforma-tive — they now plan to study science in college when they hadn’t thought of doing so be-fore. For others, the experience is perhaps even more valuable — they won’t go on to be scien-tists, but they’ve had a first-hand look at what scientists do, and they’ve gained an indelible ap-preciation for how amazing life on earth can be. In either case, spending time learning outside of the classroom has changed these kids’ lives.

How are your classes go-ing? This late in the semester, I imagine you’re bogged down in the daily grind of keeping up with homework and cramming for exams that never seem to end. It’s amazing how, for all the studying we do, we really don’t remember all that much after the semester is done. Sure,

the basic concepts bounce around in our heads, but all the details seem to slip away. It makes you wonder how complete an education can be if it consists exclusively of taking notes in a lecture hall, follow-ing cookbook instructions in a lab, and pouring over hundreds of pages in books.

Have you considered stepping outside of the classroom before you graduate? I highly recom-mend it. The academic experi-ences I remember most from my undergraduate days are those that allowed me to teach myself, rather than those when someone else condensed and recounted what others had done in times past.

In one simple instance, I was assigned to watch some daisies in a campus garden with the task of recording a half hour’s worth of insect visitors. Com-paring my observations to those of my rose and coneflower-watching classmates drove home the point of pollinator specialization much better than hearing about it in a lecture hall. Soon thereafter, I spent two summers taking field courses

in northern Minnesota, where each day was filled with making observations or conducting experiments outside — rain or shine, mosquitoes guaranteed. I later sought out a professor back on campus to advise me while I designed and carried out three semesters of independent stud-ies on butterflies, which I had to work into my evenings and weekends around my already-full course load.

These experiences were a lot of work and certainly time-con-suming, but I wouldn’t trade them for the world. Not only was I able to see biological concepts in action, reinforcing things I had only read about be-fore, but I also came to realize that field ecology was the career for me. I entered grad school ready for the ups and downs of ongoing research. So now, several years later, I sit here in Nicaragua, continuing to teach myself while introducing others to the wonders of nature by get-ting them out of the monotony of the classroom. These hands-on experiences really round out an education, so I hope you also find yourself outside of the classroom soon.

Wishing you were here,Heather

n York is a graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology.

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continued from page 6aIn October, Dolph wrote

a column lambasting Provost David Shulenburger’s office as a “bottleneck” for new ideas proposed by KU faculty. Quot-ing anonymous sources, he la-mented what he called a nega-tive attitude toward change by Shulenburger.

“That wasn’t initiated by me necessarily, it was a number of faculty people who talked to me,” Dolph said. “Things were slow getting done, slow getting executed and the nickname for the provost’s office was ‘the no office.’”

The University is an excellent state-aided University, but it has failed to tell its story in the legis-lature and throughout the state, Dolph said.

Shulenburger declined to comment on the column. How-ever, he said Dolph held strong views on the University and his newspaper was a platform from which he could express those views.

The paper’s politicsCritics say the Journal-World’s

coverage of the business com-munity is soft and seldom nega-tive. It also provides little cover-age of peace and environmental groups, they say.

Tim Miller, religious studies professor at the University and columnist for The Lawrencian, a local alternative monthly paper, is a self-described Dolph critic. Miller has two main problems with Dolph: He owns the only paper in town, and he didn’t earn his position, he says.

Dolph acknowledges he got a head start from his grandfather and father. His father, however, told him there was no guarantee that he would get the job. If he had been a misfit, he wouldn’t have been able to fill the leader-ship position, he said.

The Journal World refuses to cover businesses in a negative light, Miller said. It supports what’s good for businesses and provides little coverage of labor, he said.

Dolph said he wished more business writers worked at the Journal-World. Journalists lack

training in business writing, he complained.

“I’ve talked to people in the journalism school and the busi-ness school. I wish that KU had some courses between journal-ism and business,” he said.

Kendrick Blackwood, the for-mer Journal-World reporter, said that to his knowledge, Dolph never required reporters to slant articles in a pro-business man-ner. Blackwood recalled that he wrote some “semi hard-hitting” articles about Doug Compton, who owns First Management Inc. and may be the largest real estate developer in Lawrence. Compton advertises in both the Journal-World and the Kansan.

Amber Fraley, editor of The Lawrencian, says the Journal-World tends to avoid stories important to local liberals. Jour-nal-World and Channel 6 news staffers may avoid the stories because they don’t know how interested people are in them, but the lack of coverage also has to do with a mindset that begins with Dolph, she says.

“I get the impression that he’s pro-business and politically conservative,” Fraley said. “He operates his paper with the as-sumption that everyone in Law-rence thinks that way, too.”

Even so, she says, the paper

has become more liberal in the past 20 years, perhaps for busi-ness rather than political rea-sons.

“It took a long time for Dolph and the company to realize the liberals are not just drugged-up hippies with no jobs,” Fraley said. “The liberals in this town have good-paying jobs. They spend money in the community and they want a voice as to what happens in the community. For financial reasons, they can’t con-tinue to shut out these people.”

Carey Maynard-Moody, vice chairwoman of the Lawrence chapter of the Kansas Sierra Club and resident of Lawrence for 25 years, says Dolph’s news operations provide scant envi-ronmental coverage. The busi-ness community is wary of the potential restriction of develop-ment that environmental con-cerns pose, she said.

“We all have our passions and business is his passion,” she said of Dolph.

Dolph describes himself as a “moderate, and more conserva-tive than liberal,” but he does not support any candidates fi-nancially, he said. In state elec-tions and in national elections, Dolph says he votes most often for Republicans.

“Historically in Kansas, the Republican party has been the majority party and has been able to field the strongest type of candidates,” he said. “There have been Democrats though, such as Bob Docking, who we supported editorially and per-sonally.”

The Journal-World runs opin-ion columns from socially con-servative syndicated columnists Cal Thomas and James Dobson, founder of Colorado Springs, Colorado-based Focus on the Family, but also carries such lib-

erals as Leonard Pitts and Ellen Goodman.

A newspaper should run con-servative columnists even if the publisher or owner is a “staunch, liberal Democrat,” Dolph said.

Like his father, Dolph has long been involved as a mem-ber and officer of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, the city’s most important advocate for business interests, and Jour-nal-World editorials have gener-ally supported proposed devel-opments or business expansion in the city.

Melinda Henderson, coordi-nator for Progressive Lawrence Campaign, an organization that she says believes in sensible growth, complained that Dolph writes that people in her orga-nization don’t want the city to grow at all.

“That’s my biggest complaint — That he says there’s a small group of no-growths,” Hender-son said. “A lot of his columns make total sense, but then he’ll try to paint the picture that peo-ple want to stop growth.”

Ann Gardner, editor of the Journal-World’s opinion page, is one of the chamber’s past presidents. Because the news-paper has editorialized about business and growth issues, that raises questions as to a conflict of interest. While the Journal-World doesn’t share its code of ethics with readers, The Kansas City Star’s code of ethics states, “editorial employees should not belong to organizations about which they must write or make editorial judgments.”

Gardner explains, “I’m not unilaterally forming editorial opinion for the Journal-World. I’d have to lead a pretty seques-tered life to not write anything and to not be involved in a com-munity this size.”

Dolph said he told Gardner she should make clear to the chamber that just because she served did not mean that she would support its position.

“It’s something that needs to be discussed,” he said. But the chamber and businesses are not “going to get a blank check from the Journal-World,” he said.

“You can’t ever be in the hip

pocket of a city manager, or a mayor, or a chamber of com-merce, or a football coach, or an athletic director or a chancel-lor,” Dolph said. “You need to be supportive and helpful, but you just can’t be in their hip pockets. That’s just not our business.”

Local politicians of both par-ties describe Dolph as involved in the community.

Mark Buhler, vice president and sales manager at Stephens Real Estate, says he used to speak with Dolph regularly when Buhler was a Republican in the Kansas Senate and a mem-ber of the board of the Chamber of Commerce. He and Dolph talked about growth, planning and real estate, he said.

“He’s a much easier person to talk to than people think he is,” Buhler said.

Paul Davis, an attorney and Democrat in the Kansas House of Representatives, says he talks with Dolph periodically about legislative, community and KU issues.

“He has his political opinions, as we all do,” Davis said. “It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat — he’s always willing to talk.”

The futureThe odds for keeping any

successful business in the family decrease with each generation, Dolph said, acknowledging that the number of independent media companies is shrink-ing, too. Tax laws, the increas-ing complexity of the informa-tion business and the future of newspapers are among his chief concerns. Though his two sons hold leadership positions in the company, he’s given permission to both his sons and his two daughters to sell the company. But he says he’s confident Dan and Dolph III can carry on The World Company.

Until then, despite what crit-ics say, Dolph will continue to lead his dominant World Com-pany the way he always has — supporting growth for both his business and his community, yet wary of potential competitors.

— Edited by Frank Tankard

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NEWBERN, Tenn. — Homes were shredded to their founda-tions in zigzagging lines of destruction that stretched for miles as wicked thunderstorms crashed across eight states, spinning off tornadoes, spit-ting out hail and killing at least 27 people.

The worst damage from Sunday night’s storms oc-curred along a 25-mile path through rural western Tennes-see, where raging wind tore off roofs, shattered buildings into splinters and knocked down solid brick homes.

“Most of the houses, you can’t count. They’re just gone,” said Roy Childress, who was part of a church relief crew that was delivering food and water to survivors Monday.

The brunt of the storms, some packing softball-sized hail, blasted an area between the small town of Newbern, about 80 miles northeast of Memphis, to Bradford. Twenty-seven people were killed, including an infant and the grandparents who had been baby-sitting him.

“I just feel lost. I’ve been numb ever since last night,” said Diane Wyrick, who lost the mobile home she had lived in since 1973. “I lost, but at least I didn’t lose my life and that’s a lot.”

State police sent teams with search dogs to the area Mon-day to check what remained of damaged homes and busi-nesses for anyone who might be trapped in the rubble. Many neighborhoods were blocked off to reporters.

Betty Sisk grabbed her son and daughter, ages 10 and 13, and took cover in a closet until the twister blew their house apart and threw them into the yard.

“By the time the sirens started going off, it was at our back door,” Sisk said Monday. “I didn’t hear a train sound, I heard a roaring.”

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Jackson County, Mo., voters will determine today whether the Truman Sports Complex in Kansas City, Mo., will add a roll-ing, retractable roof.

The possibility of a roof over Arrowhead and Kauffman Sta-diums pushed Kansas City to a possible site to hold a Super-bowl, an MLB All-Star game and an NCAA Final Four.

Tentatively, these events would happen between 2010 and 2015. A Final Four in Kansas City would provide local fans with an opportuni-ty to watch the Jayhawks play for a national championship.

Kansas City Mayor Kay

Barnes said a Final Four in 2013 could be a reality if the measure was approved.

The 1988 NCAA men’s bas-ketball championship was held at Kemper Arena. Danny Man-ning and the Jayhawks won that year’s championship, which was the 50th anniversary of the NCAA.

Ironically, 2013 would be the 75th anniversary of the NCAA, and a chance for the Jayhawks to repeat history as champions.

“That’s an exciting possibil-ity,” Barnes said.

Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said Kan-sas being the host school in 2013 had not been consid-ered yet.

Regardless, the University and the Athletics Department would benefit from a local Final Four.

Barnes said the roof would help launch Kansas City to a national sports symbol. The roof could bring future national

events, which compliment the Kansas Speedway.

“I would stack us against any city in America,” Barnes said. “I see nothing but positive rein-forcement.”

Barnes said sport and non-sport tourism in Kansas City would increase as well. She said there had been a positive eco-nomic flow from the raceway, and that trend would continue to increase with the roof’s pres-ence.

HOK, an architectural firm in Kansas City, Mo., will design the roof if the measure passes.

A rolling roof that moves from Kauffman to Arrowhead Stadium, or vice versa, has challenges in making the ap-pearances of the facilities look attractive.

Gina Leo, HOK spokes-woman, said the firm’s design-ers had a tough task making the roof appear natural in respect to the current architecture and design of the stadiums. She said it could be done, and with good success.

“Kansas City has been a major league town for 40-plus years,” Leo said. “If this bill passes we will make sure it stays that way for another 25 years.”

In order to fund the $202 million cost of the roof, a Jackson County, Mo., sales tax increase would be imposed.

In addition, the Kansas City Chiefs would cover some of the cost and whoever pur-chased the naming rights for the addition would cover the rest.

— Edited by Gabriella Souza

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By shawn shroyEr

sshroyer@kansan.comKansan sportswriter

Kansas is coming off its first Big 12 series victory of the sea-son and will try for its first sea-son sweep of Wichita State since 2000 on Wednesday at Eck Sta-dium. Kansas is eighth in the Big 12, but only a half game behind its weekend opponent, Texas Tech, which sits at sixth in the conference.

Senior outfielder and Wich-ita native Matt Baty missed 18 straight games because of spleen and kidney lacerations, but he is hopeful he will return at some point this week.

Senior closer Don Czyz has

the opportunity to break Big 12 and Kansas records this week. The next time Czyz takes the mound, he will tie the Big 12 career appearances record with 111. Czyz is also one save shy of tying the Kansas single sea-son record of 11 set by Jimmy Walker in 1993.

Freshman first baseman Preston Land owns an eight-game hit streak, but sopho-more outfielder John Allman swings the hottest bat. Allman recorded multiple hits in Kan-sas’ past four games and has hit safely in Kansas’ past five. He hit .526 during that span with five RBI.

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ckeefer@kansan.comKansan sportswriter

I Like Apples had a roster’s worth of upperclassmen this spring that were used to the competitive spirit of intramural basketball. It was the play of one of only three freshmen — Eli Ringel — that el-evated the team to a new level.

The team won the intramural basketball championship in the Men’s Open Bracket with a vic-tory against SEK Connection, 54-48, on March 29.

Ringel, a Fort Worth, Texas, native, has possessed a knack for hitting big shots and leading the team in scoring on the court. He has excelled at the position of small forward all year.

“Eli is a really great player and was definitely the leader of our team,” said Nick Hague, McPherson freshman and Rin-gel’s teammate.

Ringel said the team was brought together at the last min-ute when he and his brother combined players from each of their different squads.

“Our only goal was a champi-onship,” Ringel said.

This aspiration seemed to be in question when the team met DJ Wrinkle Finger in the semifinals, a team that Ringel called the most talented team in the league.

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Junior pitcher Sean Land throws against Missouri last Friday night at Ho-glund Ballpark. Kansas took two of three games in a series against Missouri this weekend. Land and the Jayhawks take on the Wichita Shockers at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in Eck Stadium in Wichita.

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Eli Ringel, Fort Worth, Texas, freshman, helped lead his intramural basketball team, I Like Apples, to the Men’s Open Bracket Champion-ship on March 29 in Allen Fieldhouse with a 54-48 victory against SEK Connection. Ringel led his team in scoring.

The day after the college bas-ketball season ends is a sad one. Many experience withdrawal when they come down from March’s high. The best way to deal is to reflect on good times.

On that note, let’s reflect on the Top 5 Kansas shots of the year. These shots were picked because they were either crucial or flat out impressive.

5. Playing for a share of the Big 12 regular season title at Kansas State, Kansas went into the half up by 15 points, thanks to a Brandon Rush banked-in, buzzer-beating three-point shot. Until then, the freshman guard had five points. That shot might have been what propelled Rush to 16 points in the second half. The Wildcats got within three points, but never caught up.

4. In the first round of the Big 12 Tournament, senior guard Jeff Hawkins rebounded a shot Oklahoma State missed with a little more than four seconds left on the clock, then took the ball the length of the court and made a layup. His basket made the difference, as the Jayhawks won by a single point.

That particular basket was more important than all the oth-ers in the game because Oklaho-ma State had the opportunity to run out the clock at the end of the half. The Cowboys shot too soon, giving Hawkins an oppor-tunity to score.

3. This next shot was the most impressive of the year not by a Kansas basketball player. At the Texas Tech game in Lawrence, George Regan, Shawnee junior, tried to have a little fun during a television time-out, so he decid-ed to make a paper airplane out of a three-point poster handed out before the game.

From the last row of the stu-dent section behind Kansas’ bench, Regan folded it, lined it up and tossed it with perfect form. The airplane slowly glided above the student section toward the baseline. It took a dramatic turn to the left, heading behind the basket, hitting the head of an innocent bystander. As the students around him laughed, Regan jumped up and down in celebration.

“I’ll never throw another, be-cause that was the greatest paper airplane of all time and I want to go out on top,” Regan said.

2. During the Texas game for the Big 12 Tournament title, Kan-sas had a number of great shots. The one that sticks out the most in my mind is freshman forward Julian Wright’s steal, fast break and dunk with a little less than six minutes left in the game. At the time, Kansas was up by two points, but Wright’s amazing play gave all the momentum to Kansas, which went on to win the game by 12 points.

1. The No. 1 shot of the year was freshman guard Ma-rio Chalmers’ game-winning floater with 20 seconds remain-ing to take a 59-58 lead against Oklahoma. That shot, on Feb. 5, completed Kansas’ 16-point comeback. It gave Kansas its first victory against a ranked op-ponent and established the Jay-hawks as contenders for the Big 12 regular season title.

After all this reminiscing, if you still don’t feel better, re-member college basketball starts a mere eight months from now.

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An HOK rendering of the rolling roof that would enclose Arrowhead and Kaufman stadium. Jackson County residents will vote today to determine if the roof will be created or not.

Improvement could bring increased tourism to KC

The possibility of a roof over Arrowhead and Kauff-man Stadiums pushed Kansas City to a possible

site to hold a Superbowl, an MLB All-Star game and an NCAA Final Four.

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By Antonio MendozA

amendoza@kansan.comkansan sportswriter

The Kansas tennis team will end the regular season with six matches and the Big 12 Tournament later this month. It will also mark the end of a KU collegiate tennis career for senior Christine Skoda.

Skoda, an Edmonton, Alber-ta, Canada, native, is the only senior on the Kansas roster. She is also one of three upperclass-men on the team’s roster of nine players and is the only upper-classman with a starting spot.

Skoda is having one of her best seasons since arriving at Kansas from Canada four years ago. Currently, she has a singles record of 10-7.

Skoda said she hoped the team looked up to her not only for se-nior leadership, but because she knew what it was like to be from outside the United States and play tennis at Kansas. Five of nine tennis players on the roster are from outside of the country.

“With these girls coming from different countries, I know what they are talking about and what they are feeling even though I am from Canada,” Skoda said. “It’s a lot further than an hour away, and I think they can relate to me that way.”

Kansas coach Amy Hall-Holt said she has noticed the players on the team looked at Skoda as a leader.

During spring break, Kansas played host to Saint Louis and UMKC. Skoda was moved up to the No. 2 spot on the team, her highest since the spring of 2005 when she spent time at both the No. 1 and No. 2 spots. She won both of her matches to help Kansas sweep both teams by a score of 7-0.

Skoda also had a notable vic-

tory when Kansas faced No. 72 Tulsa.

Kansas lost the doubles point and needed to win at least four singles matches to defeat Tulsa. Skoda’s match went into the third set — she won. It ultimate-ly helped Kansas win the match by a score of 4-3.

Skoda said her decision to play tennis in Lawrence came from the heavy recruitment that Kansas showed her.

“The coaches were recruiting me,” Skoda said. “I was looking at a couple of schools here and I liked KU the best.”

The Kansas tennis team has changed since Skoda arrived in Lawrence in the fall of 2002.

Hall-Holt was hired as coach in 2003. Skoda witnessed the coaching change and said the team camaraderie has been the same ever since.

“All four years the team has been awesome,” Skoda said. “We have all gotten along and that has been important to hav-ing a good team on the court.”

Skoda said her major was sports management. When she graduates she will make plans to attend graduate school.

Skoda will make her last trip to Lincoln, Neb., as a member of the Kansas tennis team on Wednesday at 2 p.m. when Kan-sas will face Nebraska.

— Edited by Gabriella Souza

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TODAYn Softball vs. Nebraska, 3 p.m., Ar-

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Player to watch: Ryne Price. The sophomore second baseman returned to the lineup against Missouri last weekend and went 2-for-3 with three RBI in Sunday’s 9-6 victory.

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Nebraska, 2 p.m., Lincoln, Neb.n Softball vs. Arkansas, 4 p.m.,

Fayetteville, Ark.n Softball vs. Arkansas, 6 p.m.,

Fayetteville, Ark.n Baseball vs. Wichita State, 7 p.m.,

Wichita

THURSDAYn Track at Texas Relays, all day,

Austin, Texas

FRIDAYn Baseball vs. Texas Tech, 6 p.m.,

Hoglund Ballparkn Track at Texas Relays, all day,

Austin, Texasn Men’s golf vs. North Carolina

State, all day, Cary, N.C.

SATURDAYn Softball vs. Baylor, 4 p.m., Waco,

Texasn Baseball vs. Texas Tech, 6 p.m.,

Hoglund Ballparkn Track at Texas Relays, all day,

Austin, Texasn Women’s rowing, Kansas Cup,

TBA, Lawrencen Men’s golf vs. North Carolina

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The Kansas baseball team climbed into the Baseball America poll at No. 24 on Monday.

This is the third time the Jayhawks have been ranked in the poll this season.

Kansas defeated then No. 13 Wichita State on March 29 and took two of three games against then No. 29 Missouri during the weekend.

Kansas is 20-11 overall and 4-5 in the Big 12 Conference. Its next game will be against Wichita State on Wednesday.

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Barkley and Wilkinsto enter Hall of Fame

INDIANAPOLIS — Charles Barkley and Dominique Wilkins grew up in the deep South, played in the South-eastern Conference and spent more than a decade as two of the NBA’s greatest forwards.

Now the men with the familiar nicknames and the formidable highlight reels will go into the Basketball Hall of Fame, fittingly, to-gether.

Barkley and Wilkins each got the required 18 votes from the honors committee and will join former Detroit Pistons guard Joe Dumars, Connecticut women’s coach Geno Auriemma, Italian coach Sandro Gamba and longtime contributor Dave Gavitt at September’s induc-tion in Springfield, Mass.

“Charles and I go back since college,” Wilkins said Monday after the announce-ment was made.

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Florida’s Chris Richard goes up for a basket against UCLA center Lorenzo Mata, right, in the first half of the Final Four national championship basketball game in Indianapolis Monday night. The Gators defeated the Bruins, 73-57.

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Gators nab national crownFlorida outduels UCLA defense to win first ever championship

By EddiE PElls

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

INDIANAPOLIS — Game, set, match — and a champion-ship, too — for Joakim Noah and the Florida Gators.

The tennis star’s son domi-nated UCLA with 16 points, nine rebounds and a record six blocks Monday night to key a 73-57 blowout for Florida’s first national title in basketball.

The championship for Billy Donovan’s team comes 10 years after Steve Spurrier led the Ga-tors to a title in that “other” sport. Spurrier is long gone, and

the days of Florida being only a football school appear to be, too.

For 40 lopsided minutes, the Gators (33-6) were too big, too long and too quick for UCLA, which came up a win short of its 12th national title on a night when legendary coach John Wooden watched from a hospi-tal bed in LA after being admit-ted for an undisclosed illness that was said not to be serious.

Florida and Noah won by putting on a thorough display of versatility and unselfishness, a trademark of this team all sea-son.

The Bruins (32-7) were on a defensive tear coming into the championship game, shutting down LSU’s Glen Davis in the semifinals and allowing a to-tal of 90 points in the last two games. Florida, though, was just too much to handle.

Noah capped it off with a monster dunk with 1:09 left. When the buzzer sounded, he laid flat on his back at halfcourt and let the confetti rain on him. His teammates were in a pile a few feet away and Donovan was sharing hugs with his longtime assistant Anthony Grant.

The Gators won this by tak-ing it right to UCLA early, look-ing to Noah, Corey Brewer and senior Adrian Moss down low, making the extra pass in the key and finishing with 21 assists, 10

of them from their frontcourtIt couldn’t have been what

Ben Howland’s team expected had he scouted Florida’s 73-58 win over George Mason in the semis, a game the Gators won from outside and that guard Lee Humphrey ended early in the second with three straight 3s.

The scrappy Humphrey, a ju-nior from Maryville, Tenn., and the only non-sophomore in the Gators’ starting five, did the honors again, spotting up for open looks against a collapsing defense early in the second half.

But there was no strategy to stop Noah. The 6-foot-11 son of tennis star Yannick Noah dunked, swatted shots and dominated the game, much like his dad did in his magical run to the French Open title in 1983.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ken-ny Rogers helped get Jim Ley-land a win in his first game as the Detroit Tigers manager.

Rogers combined with two relievers on a four-hitter, Chris Shelton homered twice and the Tigers began the season with a 3-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Monday.

Carlos Guillen also homered for the Tigers, and Fernando Rodney got the save in his first game as closer in place of in-jured Todd Jones.

Leyland, who replaced Alan Trammell after last season, man-aged in the major leagues for the first time since he quit the Colo-rado Rockies in 1999.

Leyland started his profes-sional baseball career in 1964 as a minor league catcher for the Tigers.

Rogers left Texas after a stormy season in which he was suspended for 13 games after shoving two television camera-men.

The 41-year-old left-hand-er gave up one run and three hits in six innings, struck out five and walked none in his first opening-day victory since 2000.

He faced the minimum nine batters through the first three innings, with a double play wiping out Angel Berroa’s third-inning infield single. Rog-ers gave up a tying, two-out RBI single to Reggie Sanders in the fourth.

Joel Zumaya made his major league debut when he relieved Rogers to start the seventh, giv-ing up a leadoff walk and Doug Mientkiewicz’s two-out single, but he escaped when he got Berroa to ground into a force-out.

Rodney worked a hitless ninth for his 13th career save.

Jones, who returned to Detroit during the offseason, aggravat-ed a hamstring injury last week-end and went on the disabled list.

Shelton hit two go-ahead solo homers off Scott Elarton, Shelton’s first career multi-homer game, and finished 3-for-4.

Only a leaping grab by sec-ond baseman Mark Grudziel-anek on Shelton’s eighth-in-ning liner kept him from going 4-for-4.

Shelton’s drive into the left-field stands in the fourth put the Tigers up 1-0, and he lined a pitch from Elarton just above the fence and just inside the right-field foul pole with two outs in the sixth to make it 2-1.

Guillen’s solo homer in the eighth against Andrew Sisco gave Detroit a 3-1 lead.

Elarton, Cleveland’s No. 5 starter a year ago, gave up two runs and seven hits in five 2-3 innings.

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St. Louis Cardinals Brad Thompson celebrates with Albert Pujols after they beat the Philadelphia Phillies 13-5 during the Phillies home opener baseball game Monday in Philadelphia. Pujols hit two home runs during the game.

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Royals center fielder David DeJesus climbs the wall only to watch the home run ball from Detroit Tigers Carlos Guillen. The Royals lost their opening day baseball game 3-1 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Monday.

Three home runs sink KC

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By roB Maaddi

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PHILADELPHIA — By the time Jimmy Rollins extended his hitting streak to 37 games, only half the crowd had stayed to see it.

Rollins kept up his pursuit of Joe DiMaggio’s major league re-cord 56-game hitting streak with a double in the eighth inning, but it was the lone bright spot for the Philadelphia Phillies in their season opener Monday.

Albert Pujols homered twice, Scott Rolen hit a grand slam and the St. Louis Cardinals potent offense pounded out 17 hits in a 13-5 victory.

Chris Carpenter pitched five effective innings for the win,

though he wasn’t as sharp as he was most of last season, when he went 21-5 and won the NL Cy Young Award. Car-penter allowed four runs and nine hits.

Rolen was 3-for-5 with four RBIs, Pujols was 2-for-2 with four RBIs and Aaron Miles had four hits, including two doubles and a triple. Every Cardinals starter, including Carpenter, had a hit by the time St. Louis completed an eight-run fourth inning.

Pat Burrell and Ryan How-ard homered for the Phillies, who ended up with their worst opening-day loss since the Brooklyn Dodgers’ 12-3 victory in 1935.

It was so ugly in Philadel-phia that even the mascot had

a bad day. The Phillie Phanat-ic’s four-wheeler briefly stalled near the third baseline in the sixth inning, forcing the teams to wait a bit before starting play.

Loser Jon Lieber picked up where he left off in spring train-ing, giving up eight runs and nine hits in three 1-3 innings.

Lieber finished 17-13 in his first season in Philadelphia, and was one of the league’s best pitchers over the final month when he was 5-1 with a 2.06 ERA in his last seven starts. But he allowed 12 runs and 19 hits in 10 innings in his last two starts this spring, and continued his struggles into his seventh opening day start.

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Kansas’ starting pitchers, ju-nior Sean Land and seniors Ricky Fairchild and Kodiak Quick, gave up only 15 hits and seven runs during the weekend in 18 com-bined innings pitched.

Here’s a look at what hap-pened elsewhere in the Big 12 in the past week. All rankings are new for week of April 3.No. 9 Texas at No. 28 Oklahoma

Texas 2, Oklahoma 0; Texas 9, Oklahoma 4; Oklahoma 12, Texas 7

Player of the series: Texas junior outfielder Drew Stubbs knocked his fifth and sixth home runs of the year, scored three runs and drove in five.

Pitcher of the series: Junior Kyle McCulloch started game one for Texas and pitched eight shutout innings, improving his record to 3-4.No. 6 Nebraska at Kansas State

Kansas State 11, Nebraska 5; Nebraska 5, Kansas State 4; Ne-braska 12, Kansas State 2

Player of the series: Junior out-fielder Luke Gorsett carried the Cornhuskers on offense. He hit his Big 12-leading 11th and 12th home runs of the year on Sunday and went 5-for-12 in the series with three runs and five RBI.

Pitcher of the series: Sophomore

Cornhusker Johnny Dorn got back on track with a vic-tory on Sunday, improving his re-cord to 4-2. In seven innings, he al-lowed just seven hits and one run.Baylor at No. 26 Texas Tech

Baylor 2, Texas Tech 1; Texas Tech 14, Baylor 4; Texas Tech 14, Baylor 1

Player of the series:Texas Tech freshman outfielder Roger Kieschnick was a force during the weekend. He went 5-for-11 with five runs, nine RBI and his fourth and fifth home runs.

Pitcher of the series: Junior Colt Hynes (3-0) remained perfect on the season with a win on Satur-day for Texas Tech. He pitched a complete game and allowed only four hits and three earned runs.Texas A&M at Oklahoma State

Oklahoma State 10, Texas A&M 9; Oklahoma State 4, Tex-as A&M 3, Oklahoma State 12, Texas A&M 11

Player of the series: Junior outfielder Ty Wright went 6-for-12 for Oklahoma State with three runs and five RBI.

Pitcher of the series: Oklaho-ma State senior Brae Wright was the only Cowboy starter to give up less than five runs. On Satur-day, he surrendered 11 hits and three runs, but struck out five and improved his record to 3-1.

—Edited By Vanessa Pearson

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I Like Apples won the game in overtime, 61-59. Ringel stepped up to hit the big shot that sent his team to the championship game in Allen Fieldhouse.

On the play, Ringel’s broth-er, Jordan Ringel, Fort Worth, Texas, junior, pulled down a rebound and spotted Eli on the right wing. Eli hit a three-pointer to give his team the lead.

As far as playing a leading role with his older teammates, Eli said it never created any problems. Eli said the chemistry with his older brother contribut-ed greatly to the team’s accom-plishments.

“We’ve played with each other before so it clicked, but we do yell at each other a lot and get in each other’s faces,” Eli said.

Despite this, the results of both brothers playing starting roles were positive.

“They pushed each other to play harder and made sure that each of them were doing every-thing necessary for the team to succeed,” said Shane Arnold, Milwaukee sophomore and teammate.

— Edited by Gabriella Souza

Non-conference Games

n Tuesday, March 28:

Baylor 10 vs. Texas Southern 4 Texas A&M 6 at Lamar 5 Northern Colorado 5 at Nebraska 2 Dallas Baptist 9 at Oklahoma 3 Kansas State 4 vs. Chicago State 0

n Wednesday, March 29:

Nebraska 9 vs. Northern Colorado 1Kansas State 8 vs. Chicago State 7Texas Tech 12 vs. Texas Wesleyan 11Baylor 9 vs. Sam Houston 6Southeast Missouri 3 vs. Missouri 2

Big 12 StandingsTexasNebraskaMissouriOklahoma StateOklahomaTexas TechBaylorKansasKansas StateTexas A&M

Source: Big12Sports.com

By Doug Tucker THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On the eve of a sales tax vote that could decide the fate of professional sports in Kansas City, George Brett and Buck O’Neil sat together under a tree and urged a crowd to vote yes.

Radio stations ran a taped message from NFL hall-of-famer Marcus Allen warning that the Chiefs could wind up in Los An-geles if the two proposals were not adopted.

Even Hollywood got into the

act.Shortly before the Detroit

Tigers and Kansas City Royals opened their season Monday in a full, festive stadium, actor Chris Cooper, a Kansas City na-tive and Academy Award win-ner, made his pitch for passage of the taxes.

In the meantime, a loosely organized cadre of opponents of the three-eighths of a cent sales tax and an accompany-ing use tax were feeling con-fident.

“We are very encouraged that supporters of these taxes have been conducting polls,” said

Richard Tolbert, a Democratic politician and small-business man. “The fact they have not announced the results of those polls tells me their side is los-ing.”

That the vote would be close was one thing they all agreed on.

The sales tax would raise $425 million over 25 years for renovating and refurbishing Arrowhead and Kauffman sta-diums, which opened in 1972 and ‘73.

An additional $50 million would come from the state. Roy-als owner David Glass would

kick in $25 million, and Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt would put in $100 million.

An accompanying use tax would raise an additional $200 million for a rolling roof, which would make both sta-diums climate-controlled and assure the city of the 2015 Su-per Bowl.

Baseball has promised an All-Star game if the stadiums are refurbished, and mayor Kay Barnes says she is optimistic the NCAA would grant a Final Four to its former host city if the rolling roof is fitted over Arrow-head.

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