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Posted by Terry Rombeck on December 20, 2007 at 9:40 a.m.

Budig says baseball will survive

Gene Budig, the former KU chancellor and president of Major League Baseball's American League, says the sport will survive following last week's report by George Mitchell on steroids in baseball. Budig is quoted in the [Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier][1]."America loves baseball. The Mitchell Report has not changed that," he said in the wake of last week's revelations of extensive steroid use by some of baseball's biggest names. "I will predict that Major League Baseball will draw more than 80 million people next year. That will be another record for the game." [1]: http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/dec/20/budig_says_baseball_will_survive25452/

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Posted by Terry Rombeck on December 19, 2007 at 9:37 a.m.

Local PR man featured in Wall Street Journal

¢ Todd Brabender, a Lawrence resident and public relations professional, is the subject of a feature in the [Wall Street Journal][1] today.He's Todd Brabender - whose clients include the SummerSled (it works on grass) and Litecubes (the glowing ice cubes). His latest PR pitch, for the Fish 'n Flush toilet fish tank, begins: "It's a unique new product whose decorative appeal could turn the bathroom into the most talked about room in the house."_Mr. Brabender, who is 41 years old and a former media person himself, is the kind of PR guy journalists hate to love - but love nevertheless, according to the WSJ. An old-fashioned press agent with newfangled powers, he blasts emails far and wide from the basement of his flagstoned mid-American home. Media elites may fume over coverups and spin, but for reporters with holiday news holes to fill, a bulletin about guppies in the toilet is cause for elation.¢ A Lawrence resident was arrested in Horn Lake, Miss., for armed robbery of a Domino's Pizza driver, according to the [Nashville Commercial Appeal][2]. Raymond Paul Stilley, 19, was in custody with a $100,000 bond.¢ The Healthier Haskell program at Haskell Indian Nations University is featured in [Indian Country Today][3]._When Linda Sue Warner said she was passionate about making Haskell Indian Nations University one of the healthiest colleges in the country, she wasn't kidding. Warner's challenge to students and staff to ''walk around the world'' at the beginning of the school year didn't prepare her for just how contagious the idea would become as it traveled across Indian country. [1]: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119800161598537205.html?mod=hpp_us_inside_today [2]: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/dec/19/horn-lake-officers-arrest-3-after-pair-of/ [3]: http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096416255

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Posted by Terry Rombeck on December 17, 2007 at 1:54 p.m.

Lawrence native quoted on Iraqi police officers

A Lawrence native is quoted by the [Black Anthem News Service][1] about an Iraqi drive to hire more police officers."They want jobs," 1st Lt. Matthew Nicholl, platoon leader and native of Lawrence, Kan., with Company D, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment. "The biggest thing we are going to do for this muhallah (neighborhood) is give 75 guys jobs; because if they're not working for us, they're working for other guys." [1]: http://www.blackanthem.com/News/iraqi-freedom/Iraqis-step-up-at-volunteer-drive12712.shtml

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Posted by Terry Rombeck on December 3, 2007 at 8:50 a.m.

Phelps documentary to air nationally

¢ "Fall from Grace," the documentary directed by a Kansas University graduate student about Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, is getting national media attention as its national TV debut approaches.The film, which depicts the anti-gay beliefs and demonstrations of the group led by Fred Phelps, airs at 9 p.m. Tuesday on Showtime, with several repeat showings planned. It was directed by K. Ryan Jones.A [Bloomberg News][1] reviewer offers this take on the film:The 70-minute documentary marks the filmmaking debut of K. Ryan Jones, a student at the University of Kansas who interviewed Phelps and several of his 13 children. Most appear to have inherited the loony gene; one or two have also succumbed to the temptations of the deep-fat fryer.Yet they do have one profound talent: spewing hatred._¢ George Frederickson, a KU professor of public administration, was recently flown to Glendale, Ariz., and paid $5,500 to help the City Council there talk about their ethics rules._Frederickson said Glendale must be a "gift-and-favor heaven," thanks to its sports venues and mega-events.Council members agreed they do see gifts but opted against adopting stricter limits than state law mandates. [1]: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=afPspybrJx0A&refer=muse

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Posted by Terry Rombeck on November 28, 2007 at 10:06 a.m.

Scott Bloch investigated for computer issues

Scott Bloch, the former Lawrence attorney who now is director of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, is facing allegations that he improperly deleted computer files, according to the [Washington Post][1].Recently, investigators learned that Mr. Bloch erased all the files on his office personal computer late last year. They are now trying to determine whether the deletions were improper or part of a cover-up, lawyers close to the case said.__Bypassing his agency's computer technicians, Mr. Bloch phoned 1-800-905-GEEKS for Geeks on Call, the mobile PC-help service. It dispatched a technician in one of its signature PT Cruiser wagons. In an interview, the 49-year-old former labor-law litigator from Lawrence, Kan., confirmed that he contacted Geeks on Call but said he was trying to eradicate a virus that had seized control of his computer. [1]: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119621772122306160.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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Posted by Terry Rombeck on November 20, 2007 at 9:08 a.m.

Border War edition

The KU-Mizzou showdown - and long-time rivalry - are getting the attention of news outlets across the country this week. The [Wall Street Journal][1] gets in on the action today.Fans "go back to the history books and start calling people names for things that started 150 years ago," says Kevin Worley, a Kansas City-based documentary filmmaker who isn't immune to that tendency himself. A die-hard Missouri fan, Mr. Worley suspects that "there's this ancestral hatred of Kansas bred in me" by a lineage traceable to soldiers who marched with Confederate general Jo Shelby._The [Waco Tribune][2] offers this take:_Since Mark Mangino spent eight years at Kansas State in his climb up the coaching ladder, he just naturally assumed that Kansas' biggest rival would be the in-state Wildcats.Wrong."When I first arrived at Kansas, they were taking me around to meet various people," said Mangino, who was hired as the Jayhawks' head coach in December 2001. "And a lot of the fans would say, 'I don't care what you do all year as long as you beat Missouri.' The Missouri game is very important to the Kansas fan base, and they reminded me of it, too."_The [Austin American-Statesman][3] quotes Al Bohl, the former KU athletic director, in its story."I don't think anybody could have predicted that here we are, at the end of the season, and Kansas has a chance at a football national championship," Al Bohl said.Bohl, now a novelist, served as Kansas' athletic director from 2001 to 2003 and jump-started the Jayhawks' program by hiring Coach Mark Mangino from Bob Stoops' staff at Oklahoma. In six seasons, Mangino has built the team from winless in the Big 12 to college football's main stage.And there, KU will face its Border War rival in a 116-year-old series in which the animosity ranks with Michigan-Ohio State or Alabama-Auburn. The animosity dates to 1863 when Confederate crazy William Quantrill led a band of raiders from Missouri into Lawrence. There, they slaughtered more than 150 innocents and burned homes and landmarks ._"It's been contentious since the Civil War," Bohl said. "The Missouri people and the Kansas people have a lot of reason not to like each other." [1]: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119552143273498638.html?mod=googlenews_wsj [2]: http://www.wacotrib.com/sports/content/sports/college/2007/11/20/11202007wacbig12football.html [3]: http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/other/11/20/1120kansasmizzou.html

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Posted by Terry Rombeck on November 13, 2007 at 10:03 a.m.

New Mizzou shirts invoke image of Quantrill’s Raid

First, KU fans wore "Muck Fizzou" T-shirts as a thinly veiled attempt to speak their minds about the collegiate rival.Now, some Missouri fans are fighting back with a T-shirt of their own, as the two teams prepare for a Nov. 24 football matchup at Arrowhead Stadium, with the winner likely taking the Big 12 North.[This post on AOL Sports][1] shows the new Mizzou T-shirts, which show Lawrence burning to the ground after the famous Civil War-era attack by William Quantrill.Under the picture is the word "Scoreboard," and under that is the Missouri Tiger logo. On the back, according to the post, is Quantrill's slogan: "Raise the black flag and ride hard, boys. Our cause is just and our enemies many."Author Nathan Fowler writes: "You can have your Ohio State v. Michigan or Alabama v. Auburn, but the last time I checked nobody from Columbus ever went to Ann Arbor and systematically executed every man they could find while burning the town to the ground. And certainly nobody made t-shirts later celebrating that fact."Fowler also notes a new KU shirt on the market, as KU officials and some student groups are trying to get students to stop wearing the "Muck Fizzou" shirts.The new shirts show a picture of abolitionist John Brown, with the words: "Kansas: Keeping America safe from Missouri since 1854." [1]: http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/11/12/we-burned-your-town-to-the-ground/

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Posted by Terry Rombeck on November 9, 2007 at 10:28 a.m.

Lawrence vs. Columbia rivalry taken to streets

Here's a new measuring stick to compare Lawrence with rival Columbia, Mo. - street sign theft.The [Columbia Missourian][1] reports that the Public Works Department in Columbia replaced more than 1,600 street signs last year at a cost of about $100 each. Some of the most commonly stolen signs are for streets that share their names with beers, such as Corona Road and Rolling Rock Drive, or common last names, such as Smith Street.An interesting comparison can be drawn between Columbia and the similarly sized city of Lawrence, Kan., home of the University of Kansas. (Public Works spokeswoman Jill) Stedem said Lawrence has no budget for replacing street signs because there is simply no problem with theft. One possible reason: the city simply doesn't name streets after beer brands. [1]: http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2007/11/08/street-sign-theft-costly-problem/

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Posted by Terry Rombeck on November 2, 2007 at 9:45 a.m.

KU profs talk about Phelps, Bush

¢ KU journalism professor Rick Musser tells the [Baltimore Sun][1] the Westboro Baptist Church lost its shock value in Topeka, and that's why "they took their show on the road."Musser wrote a chapter about the church in the 1999 book "Culture Wars & Local Politics."All of which the church just lapped up. With almost all of founder Fred Phelps' 13 children having law degrees -Phelps himself is a disbarred attorney - they could take on all comers at little expense."They don't accrue legal costs," Musser said. "They know how to string things out."Eventually, they lost much of the power to shock in Topeka, Musser said. Their fliers, their faxes, their name-calling became routine around town, he said, so "they took their show on the road.""They've always looked for ways to heighten their profile," he said.¢ Diana Carlin, a communications professor at KU, tells the [Los Angeles Times][2] says President Bush's decision to preview a speech to reporters in an informal setting is a way to endear himself to the media.In a story today, she says Bush "doesn't have a lot of time to salvage his administration, and the media is the conduit for how the rest of us view him." [1]: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.marbella02nov02,0,7481552.column [2]: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bush2nov02,1,4490167.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

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Posted by Terry Rombeck on October 29, 2007 at 9:37 a.m.

KU medical pioneer to be honored in Boston

¢ A KU graduate who developed a key test for syphilis in the 1920s will be honored by the Boston History & Innovation Collaborative next month. Dr. William Augustus Hinton entered KU's premedical program at KU when he was 16.When Dr. William Augustus Hinton developed his test for syphilis in 1927, the disease was on the rise in the United States. Much like AIDS in the 1980s, it was a scourge to be feared, sometimes resulting in blindness, heart disease, paralysis, and madness. Poor, black communities were struck particularly hard.The Hinton test was more accurate and less expensive than its predecessors, and it spared untold numbers from long, painful, and risky courses of treatment. The test was endorsed by the US Public Health Service and adopted by hospitals around the country. Yet Hinton kept a low profile, refusing an award on at least one occasion and opting not to attend meetings of the American Microbiological Association, of which he was a member."He didn't want notoriety," said his grandson, Charles Jones. A modest man, Hinton was black, and he feared that his peers would take his work less seriously if they knew.

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