The stUdent vOice since 1904 MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2007 • WWW.KANSAN.COM • VOL. 117 • ISSUE 109 • PAGE 1A UNDISPUTED Russell Robinson and the Jayhawks claimed their third straight Big 12 Championship Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse. The victory gave Kansas its 50th conference championship and 1,900 program victory. Anna Faltermeier/KANSAN BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS The Texas Longhorns were moving the ball through pressure defense easily, and star freshman Kevin Durant was making highlight-reel shots from everywhere on the court. So KU what did coach Bill Self do? • He told his players to back off of Durant. • “We said to make UT Durant beat us, because everybody else was lighting us up,” he said. “Just try to keep the other guys under wraps.” • That, combined with a textbook example of the law of aver- ages, fueled a second-half comeback that led to a 90-86 Kansas victory. • The Longhorns shot 11-for-14 — 79 percent — from three-point range in the first half, including a per- fect 5-for-5 from Durant. That number plummeted to just 19 percent in the second half. Meanwhile, the Jayhawks never dropped below 50 percent from behind the arc, not pan- icking or rushing shots during the Longhorns’ hot streak. • “It’s a long game,” sophomore 90 guard Mario Chalmers said. “We just wanted to keep playing the way we were defensively.” 86 SEE BASKETBALL ON PAGE 8A index weather Classifieds 5A • Crossword 6A • Horoscopes 6A • Opinion 7A • Sports 1B • Sudoku 6A • All contents, unless stated otherwise, © 2007 The University Daily Kansan TODAY 59/29 Sunny • TUESDAY 59/32 Partly Cloudy • WEDNESDAY 53/36 Partly Cloudy 2A NEWS MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2007 on campus quote of the day The bell tolls for thee Check Tuesday’s The AAUP Book, Jacket, and “A high civilization is a sports section Journal Show will be held at 9 pyramid: It can stand only on a a.m. at 2505 Westbrooke Circle broad base; its primary prereq- for a reprint of at West Campus. uisite is a strong and soundly the poster from consolidated mediocrity.” John Finley, of the Medical — Friedrich Nietzsche Saturday’s Kansas- Center, will present the lecture “Research Mistakes: Learning Texas game. from History” at noon at the Big fact of the day 12 Room in the Kansas Union. ODD NEWS Marjorie Swann will present The Great Pyramids of Egypt the lecture “Vegetable Love: were constructed by as many Young girl saves mother, Botany and Sexuality in Early as 20,000 workers working in avoids car accident Modern England” at 3:30 p.m. shifts. At each construction site, CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Emily at the Seminar Room in Hall a small society was built includ- Lineberger missed her gymnas- Center. ing things like tents and even, tics class this week, but thanks in one instance, a bakery. to the 11-year-old’s heroics, she Tod Marshall will perform Source: PBS.org and her mother survived what a poetry reading at 4 p.m. at could have been a tragic car Oread Books in the Kansas wreck. Union. Emily was riding in the back seat of the family car Tuesday Michael Murray will present when her mother, Dayna Line- the seminar “The Economics of berger, started feeling light- Nuclear Terrorism” at 4 p.m. at headed. Ulcerative colitis had 2074 Malott Hall. daily KU info caused Lineberger to feel faint Rock Chalk Revue has been before, so she decided to get a KU staple for 58 years, and food at a nearby restaurant. in the last 15 years has raised odd news “Then it just hit me,” said more than a half million dollars Lineberger, 40. “The last thing I for the United Way. The show Dead shark found remember is screaming to her, takes place March 8, 9 and 10, `Tell me where to turn,’ because in freshwater river with tickets available through I couldn’t see...” LINZ, Austria — Just when the Lied Center box office or While heading into the res- you thought it was safe to go Web site. taurant parking lot, Lineberger’s back in the water — well, it is, actually. — Source: kuinfo.ku.edu head rolled back and she passed out, Emily said. A mystery triggered this She leaned forward and week by the bizarre discovery grabbed the wheel. Her of the carcass of a 3-foot-long et cetera mother’s foot was still on the shark in a freshwater river in northern Austria ended Satur- The University Daily Kansan gas pedal, but Emily steered to is the student newspaper of avoid a car before their car hit day when a man confessed he the University of Kansas. The a telephone pole and stopped had put it there as a joke. first copy is paid through the — unharmed. The prankster, an apprentice student activity fee. Additional chef working at a hotel in the copies of the Kansan are 25 Catch phrase aids in province of Upper Austria, told cents. Subscriptions can be pur- returning cockatoo the newspaper Oesterreich chased at the Kansan business SHREVEPORT, La. — Two that he put the dead shark in office, 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall, years after he was stolen, a talk- the river Voeckla after it began 1435 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, ing cockatoo is back home with to smell while he was thawing KS 66045. his owner. It was “I love you, it out for a buffet. The discov- The University Daily Kansan Corey” that brought him back. ery earlier this week caused (ISSN 0746-4962) is published Corey and four small dogs a stir, with Austrian experts daily during the school year that also belonged to breeder hard-pressed to explain what a except Saturday, Sunday, fall Diane Bagley all were stolen shark was doing in a freshwater break, spring break and exams. from her yard in June 2005. river in the landlocked alpine Weekly during the summer Bagley was talking about country. session excluding holidays. Corey to a visitor who recalled Thieves break into church; Periodical postage is paid in hearing a cockatoo say Corey’s Lawrence, KS 66044. Annual catch phrase at a mobile home Sarah Leonard/KANSAN return items next night subscriptions by mail are $120 park in Shreveport. Elizabeth Berghout, associate professor of music, plays the carillon in the Campanile. Berghout started playing the carillon after the tower was HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Bur- plus tax. Student subscriptions rededicated. “I came up here for a tour. It was amazing.” Berghout said. Berghout has been the University of Kansas carillonneur since 2000. glars who stole thousands of of are paid through the student — Associated Press activity fee. Postmaster: Send dollars of equipment from the address changes to The University Guyandotte United Method- Daily Kansan, 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall, ist Church apparently had a 1435 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE WAY THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS change of heart, breaking in the KS 66045 What do you think? HANDLES TRAFFIC DURING BASKETBALL GAMES? following night to return what they stole. The thieves stole BY FRANCESCA CHAMBERS about $5,000 worth of sound and office equipment, church media partners treasurer Rocky Fraizer said. “They taketh and the Lord giveth back,” Frazier said Friday. For more news, “It’s like there’s a higher power turn to at work.” KUJH- TV on The only thing not returned Sunflower Cablevision Channel 31 in Lawrence. was $22 in change. The student-produced news airs at — Associated Press 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. every Monday through Friday. Also, check out KUJH online at MARCO TUMANUT SARAH BLYTHE FRANCIS SCHEUERMAN ALLISON HALPIN tv.ku.edu. contact us Kansas City, Mo., senior Wichita graduate student Leawood freshman Lenexa sophomore “It could be better, but I don’t know “There is a big problem with the “I don’t have a car, so I don’t really “Its not good if you have classes Tell us your news Contact Gabriella Souza, KJHK is the student how to fix the problem. The block- parking for students and instruc- have to worry about it.” going on, because I’ve had night Nicole Kelley, Patrick voice in radio. 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Whether it’s 1435 Jayhawk Blvd. rock n’ roll or reggae, sports or spe- because campus was blocked off other things to do on campus.” Lawrence, KS 66045 cial events, KJHK 90.7 is for you. — and walking is for suckers.” (785) 864-4810 MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2007 NEWS 3A » POLITICS Clinton speaks in Manhattan Lecture focuses on stabilizing natural resources, conflict in Middle East, healthcare policy BY TYLER HARBERT affected a changing world. He said said, and the coliseum erupted into He said that 60 percent of an interdependence and sustainability applause. American’s income was spent on MANHATTAN — Former were always outcomes he tried to He then said that during times health care, and that no other President Bill Clinton said his lec- reach.