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Priceless Take One T HURSDAY VOLUME 17, N UMBER 50 T HURSDAY, M AY 14, 2009 W INNER OF THE K ANSAS G AS S ERVICE E XCELLENCE I N E DITORIAL W RITING 2006 K ANSAS P ROFESSIONAL C OMMUNICATORS P HOTO E SSAY AWARD Barleen Family Returns To Waterville John Currie told the Knoxville Business News last December that the best advice he had received was: “Never accept a job in a community where he couldn’t picture him self living happily for the rest of his career.” Manhattan does make a beautiful picture and Currie must be able to see himself in it. Sports Columnist Mark Janssen has learned that Currie will be named the next Athletic Director at Kansas State University. Currie is the number two man in the University of Tennessee where he has been accountable for the generation of $57.5 million in annual revenues. Currie earned a history degree fro Wake Forest University in WinstonSalem, N.C. in 1993. He also earned a master’s degree in sport management. He interned at Wake Forest and that led to a full-time position. In 2000 he was named UT’s assistant athletic director for development. Last year he was named to the number two post by University of Tennessee Athletic Director Mike Hamilton. As of press time Kansas State has not given a time for the announcement. Cheney’s Model Republican: More Limbaugh, Less Powell The Barleen family will return to this beautifully restored opera house. Pelosi: House Taking Up Health Care Before Recess Tax - Tax - Tax “Senators also are considering limiting — but not eliminating — the tax-free status of employerprovided health benefits.” Americans is the cornerstone of his promise to enact a larger overhaul of the health care system. Independent experts put the costs at about $1.5 trillion over 10 years. But turning that vision into reality remains the biggest challenge for the president and his backers, because hard cash — not just ideas — is required to cover upfront costs of expanding coverage. The final financing package is likely to include a mix of tax increases and spending cuts in federal health programs. Among the possibilities are tax increases on alcoholic beverages, tobacco products and sugary soft drinks, and restrictions on other health care-related tax breaks, such as flexible spending accounts. Senators also are considering limiting — but not eliminating — the tax-free status of employer-provided health benefits. Employer-provided health insurance technically is considered part of workers’ compensation, but unlike wages, it is not taxed. The forgone revenue to the federal government amounts to about $250 billion a year. So even if they’re lucky enough to avoid going to the doctor or hospital, and never use their job-based health insurance, some Americans may find themselves paying taxes on at least part of its value. Some taxes don’t seem to be on the table, such as a federal sales levy to pay for health care or a new payroll tax. On the question of taxing health benefits, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., who chaired a round table of senators on Tuesday, is staking out a position that could put him at odds with Obama. The president adamantly opposed such taxes during the campaign, arguing they would undermine jobbased coverage. Obama’s aides now say he’s open to suggestions from Congress, even if he criticized Republican presidential rival John McCain for proposing a sweeping version of the same basic idea. Baucus said he wants to modify the tax break, not abolish it. ‘’We are not going to repeal it,’‘ he said. Baucus suggested that the benefit could be limited by taxing health insurance provided to high-income individuals, although he did not specify at what income levels. He also said that plans offering rich benefits — for example, no co-payments or deductibles — might be taxed once their value exceeded a yet-tobe-determined threshold. Many experts say Congress won’t be able to come up with the kind of money needed to provide coverage for all unless limitations on the health care tax break are part of the mix. Marr Named District Chairman Charles (Chuck) Marr, a member of the local Manhattan chapter of the international organization known as the Barbershop Harmony Society, has been named the Central States District Chairman of the group’s Chapter Support and Leadership Training Program, according to Don Blank, Central States District President from McCook, NE. Blank announced the appointment today. The Central States District is made up of six states: South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Iowa. According to Dr. Blank, Chuck Marr, who has leader- W INNER OF THE K ANSAS P RESS A SSOCIATION A DVERTISING AWARD Kansas State To Announce John Currie As Athletic Director The Barleen family is returning to Waterville. At town they called home may years ago. The Barleen's Arizona Opry, Variety Entertainment at its Best, will perform on the stage of Waterville's historic, 1903, opera house. Saturday, May 30th, 2009 will be a dinner theater performance at 6:00 p.m. for $25. On Sunday, May 31st, there will be 2 performances at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. for $20. For tickets, please call 785-363-2515. This same weekend the Waterville Preservation Society will hold a Grand Opening of the historic, 1905 Weaver Hotel on May 23, 2009. Please join the Waterville community for a champagne and ribbon cutting ceremony at High Noon on the veranda of the hotel. The Weaver will host 10 lodging rooms, 2 party rooms and a 4 floor elevator. In addition, the hotel houses a gift shop and tourism center. The entire facility will be handicapped accessible. For more information, please log on to our website: weaverhotel.com and/or call 785363-2515 WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that her chamber would have a sweeping health care bill on the floor by the end of July, an announcement that President Barack Obama hailed. ‘’That’s the kind of urgency and determination that we need to achieve what I believe will be historic legislation,’‘ the president said at the White House, standing on the south driveway with Pelosi and Democratic leaders of the relevant House committees. ‘’Our health care system is broken,’‘ Obama said. ‘’We are not going to rest until we’ve delivered the kind of health care reform that’s going to bring down costs for families, improve quality, affordability, accessibility for all Americans.’‘ Pelosi, D-Calif., and other House Democrats had met with Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the Oval Office just before going outside to make their announcement. No Republicans were present, and neither were any senators. ‘’We promised him that we will have this important legislation on the floor of the House before the August break,’‘ Pelosi announced. ‘’Our goal is to have a healthier America.’‘ Neither the speaker nor the president offered details of how the legislation will look, the subject of ongoing debate on Capitol Hill. The White House is remaining mostly quiet as proposals emerge for discussion among lawmakers, preferring to let Congress come up with a plan and engage more on the specifics later on. Obama’s plan to provide coverage to some 50 million uninsured 2006 K ANSAS P ROFESSIONAL C OMMUNICATORS E DITORIAL AWARD ship and “people” skills which will serve him well in this new position, will begin immediately formulating plans for the next Leadership Academy to be held in St.Joseph, Missouri on February 5 and 6, 2010. The Leadership Academy is a twoday event full of skill training for chapter officers and other chapter leaders. It is specifically designed to provide a learning experience “ with lots of fun and singing” thrown in. Marr will also be responsible for organizing and facilitating the Central States CHAPTER SUPPORT PROGRAM which is designed to provide the 58 separate chapters located in cities and towns throughout the six states in the district with programs for individual chapter planning and leadership support. The Manhattan chapter and the Central States District are local and regional organizations within the framework of the Barbershop Harmony Society, headquartered in Nashville, TN. The Barbershop Harmony Society has over 800 chapters with 26,000 members worldwide. By JANIE LORBER WASHINGTON - AP - Former Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday that he preferred Rush Limbaugh’s brand of conservatism to former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell’s, saying Mr. Powell had abandoned the Republican Party when he endorsed Barack Obama for president last year. The latest on President Obama, the new administration and other news from Washington and around the nation. Join the discussion. More Politics News “Well, if I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I’d go with Rush Limbaugh, I think,” Mr. Cheney said in an interview on “Face the Nation” on CBS. “I think my take on it was Colin had already left the party. I didn’t know he was still a Republican.” Mr. Cheney said he “assumed” Mr. Powell’s support of Mr. Obama over Senator John McCain was “an indication of his loyalty and his interest.” The endorsement, in a carefully timed and deliberate statement after Mr. McCain chose Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate in a move to fire up the party’s conservative base, helped solidify Mr. Obama’s campaign. Mr. Powell, a retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, identified himself as a Republican only after retiring from the military. Last week, Mr. Powell said the Republican Party was in “deep trouble” and needed to find a way back to the middle of the political spectrum and away from polarizing leaders like Mr. Limbaugh and Ms. Palin. His view, if not a new one, came after Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania switched to the Democratic Party and as Republicans debated where the heart of the party lay. In response, Mr. Limbaugh suggested that the moderate Mr. Powell should leave the party. “What Colin Powell needs to do is close the loop and become a Democrat, instead of claiming to be a Republican interested in reforming the Republican Party,” Mr. Limbaugh said on his talk show. Mr. Cheney has been a particularly fierce critic of the Obama administration and a defiant defender against critics of the Bush administration, including President Obama. While his remarks have been striking, they are not unusually outspoken by comparison, for example, to former Vice President Al Gore’s condemnations of the Bush administration when it held office. Mr. Cheney said he did not want to drive moderates from the party, but did not want the party to move left. “I think there is room for moderates in the Republican Party,” he said. “I think partly it’s a semantic problem. I don’t think the party ought to move dramatically to the left, for example, in order to try to redefine its base. We are what we are.” Area Cafe To Get Spruced Up As Part Of Pilot Project Whiting Cafe will get a boost on June 26-27 as the pilot project for the Kansas Sampler Foundation’s “We Kan” Bank initiative. Designed to match rural community needs with those who can help is the essence of the “We Kan” Bank. Foundation director Marci Penner said, “The plan is to create accounts of community need and match them with accounts opened by individuals who want to offer services, materials, labor, or funding.” Rosa Thomas will celebrate the 25th year of her cafe in August. Penner said, “Anyone that can keep a cafe open for 25 years in a town of 200 with space for 25 people deserves recognition and support. Rosa didn’t ask for this kind of help. We came to her and have convinced her that it’s OK to be on the receiving end this time.” Kansas Sampler Foundation board member Gene Merry, Burlington, is in charge of the project. He has been to Whiting several times to assess the needs of the cafe and to plan materials and type of help needed. “We’ll replace windows, apply paint inside and out, fix some floor and ceiling tiles, scrub walls, and take care of some other odds and ends. Jim Stukey of Burlington has designed a mural that will be painted on an outside wall that will say “Food so great you’ll scrape your plate.” The public is invited to participate by coming to help or by making a tax-deductible donation. They should contact the Kansas Sampler Foundation at 620.585.2374 or [email protected]. Forty workers and donations of $5,000 are being sought. With help from several community members, Ms. Thomas plans to feed the workers out of the community center. The cafe will be closed those two days. The new Northeast Kansas Tourism Connections group will take a lead role in the project and president Bob Topping will be in charge of the work inside the building. The Jackson County Development Corporation has granted $1,000 towards the goal. More than $1,800 has already been raised. Penner said, “The model we are trying to establish is that if lots of people make a small donation or offer several hours of work then nobody has to do too much. But, in the end lots of people can feel like they contributed to helping keep a small town viable. Though this will directly impact the cafe, this is also intended to be a boost for the town of Whiting.” White House Challenges EPA Findings WASHINGTON (AP) — An Environmental Protection Agency proposal that could lead to regulating the gases blamed for global warming will prove costly for factories, small businesses and other institutions, according to a White House document. The nine-page memo, released Tuesday by Republican senators, is a compilation of opinions made by numerous federal agencies prior to the EPA determining in April that greenhouse gases pose dangers to public health and welfare. That finding set in motion the regulation of six heat-trapping gases from cars and trucks, factories and other sources under the Clean Air Act for the first time. The document, which is labeled ‘’Deliberative-Attorney Client Privilege,’‘ says that if the EPA proceeds with the regulation of heat-trapping gases, including carbon dioxide, factories, small businesses and institutions would be subject to costly regulation. ‘’Making the decision to regulate carbon dioxide ... for the first time is likely to have serious economic consequences for regulated entities throughout the U.S. economy, including small businesses and small communities,’‘ the document reads. Republicans and business groups immediately used the document to bolster their arguments that controlling greenhouse gases would harm the economy. They also highlighted parts of the document that find fault with how the EPA arrived at its conclusion that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, since the gases by themselves do not pose any harm. The memo says the EPA could have been ‘’more balanced’‘ in its analysis by also highlighting regions of the country that would benefit from global warming, such as Alaska, which would have warmer winters. ‘’It really appears to me that the decision was based more on political calculation than on scientific ones,’‘ said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., who called the document ‘’a smoking gun’‘ during a hearing Tuesday on the Obama administration’s proposed budget for EPA. ‘’The counsel in this administration repeatedly questions the lack of scientific support that you have for this proposed finding,’‘ he said. EPA administrator Lisa Jackson responded by saying that the finding by the EPA in April was required by law, stemming from a 2007 Supreme Court decision that said the EPA could classify greenhouse gases as pollutants. Jackson also said the agency’s determination was preliminary and would not necessarily result in regulation. The administration has said it prefers a new law that would limit greenhouse gases and put a price on climate-altering pollution. ‘’I have said over and over, as has the president, that we do understand that there are costs to the economy of addressing global warming emissions, and that the best way to address them is through a gradual move to a marketbased program like cap and trade,’‘ Jackson said. NEWS 2A MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2009 Obituaries Elnora Young ELNORA HUYCK YOUNG Elnora Huyck Young, born Elnora Jane Thomas on October 8, 1918, in Superior, Nebraska, died May 5, 2009, at Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan, Kansas, of pulmonary fibrosis complications. Among her life roles, Elnora was a daughter, friend, wife, mother, college teacher, college administrator, and church leader. Soon after graduating from Kansas State College in 1940, Elnora married J. Kenneth Huyck, a minister who served churches in Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Kansas (Manhattan), Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Iowa. Having completed a PhD in psychology at the University of Minnesota, Elnora Bill Trimmell Wamego- William “Bill” Glenn Trimmell, 90, of Wamego, Kansas, passed away Thursday, May 7, 2009 at Stormont-Vail Health Center of Topeka. Bill was born February 6, 1919 in Altoona, Kansas, the son of Ernest L and Maggie (Steenhoek) Trimmell. At an early age, he moved to Elk County, near Longton, Kansas. There, he attended a rural grade school, Hartford, and Longton High School. His family moved to Wilson County, near Coyville during his senior year, and he graduated from Coyville High School. He then attended and graduated from Pittsburg State, receiving his Bachelors and Masters Degree in School Administration in 1950. Michael Schmitt Michael S. Schmitt, age 28, of Manhattan, died May 7, 2009, at Mercy Regional Health Center as the result of a sudden illness. He was born October 9, 1980 in Manhattan, the son of Randall K. and Mary Jo (Helget) Schmitt. Mike graduated from Manhattan High School in 1999 and attended Manhattan Area Vo-Tech in building trades. He was the Assistant taught at Iowa State and Kansas State, retiring in 1983 from the position of Associate Dean of KSU’s College of Human Ecology. After her retirement, Elnora served terms as interim president of Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and as interim dean of Central Baptist Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. For a number of years she served as a director of the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board of American Baptist Churches. Elnora’s roots in Manhattan were deep. The great aunt with whom she lived as a K-State undergraduate was born on the way to Kansas in a covered wagon. Elnora knew her beloved physician, Diana Brightbill, since the doctor-to-be was two years old and Elnora was teaching with her father at K-State. Happily remarried twice, five years after Kenneth’s death in 1987 she married Alvin Porteous, a retired minister and seminary professor, and two years after Al’s death in 1999 she married Paul M. Young, a retired professor and university administrator, with whom she lived at Meadowlark Hills in Manhattan until her death. Elnora was preceded in death by her first husband and father of her children, J. Kenneth Huyck; by her second husband, Alvin Porteous; and by her son Warren A. Huyck. She is survived by her husband, Paul M. Young; by her son J. Randall Huyck, his former wife Marion E. Laetz, his partner Carol S. Lauhon, and his children, J. Matthew Huyck, David W. Huyck, and Edward (“Teddy”) Thomas Huyck; by Warren’s former wife Carol Fencl, his widow Andy Huyck, and Warren’s children, Cynthia Villacis and Janell Huyck; by her daughter Susan E. Huyck, her former husband John Dunn, and her children, Laila Crivea and Sean Dunn; and by her great-grandchildren Garrett Crivea and Kailyn Crivea (by Laila), Victor Villacis and Daisy Villacis (by Carol), J. Gabriel Huyck (by Matt), and Susanna Elnora Huyck (by David). A memorial service with reception to following was held at the First Congregational Church, 700 Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas, at 10:30am on Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Online condolences may be left for the family through the funeral home website at www.ymlfuneralhome.com. In honor of Elnora’s love of Bill taught school in Wilson County and was Superintendent at Coyville for several years before moving to Sedgwick, Kansas where he was Superintendent from 1950 to 1963. He was also the Principal and Superintendent in Anthony, Kansas from 1963 to 1967. He moved to Wamego and was the Wamego High School Principal from 1967 until 1974. In 1974, retired from the school administration and joined the Burgess Real Estate firm in Wamego, where he worked until retiring in 1984. He and his family also managed rental houses for many years in addition to managing their Wilson County farm. He was a long time member of the First United Methodist Church of Wamego, where he volunteered for several offices, and served on the Wamego Public Library board for several years. Bill was an active participant in the Senior Olympics, and the Kansas Sunflower State Games. He and Ellen traveled extensively for him to participate in the meets. In 1995, he qualified to compete in the national meets in Texas and Louisiana, placing second and third in the shot-put. He married Ellen Ridlon, September 10, 1949 in Girard, Kansas. She survives of the home. Bill is also survived by two sons, Roger Trimmell and his wife Vikki, of McPherson, Kansas, and Kent Trimmell and his wife Shannon, of Salina, Kansas; eight grandchildren, Emily, Allison, Joshua, Kate, Elle, Lauren, Luke, and Cole. He was preceded in death by his two brothers, John and Sidney, and his sister, Anna. Funeral services were held Monday, May11 at 10:00 a.m., at the First United Methodist Church of Wamego. Burial will be in the Wamego City Cemetery. Mr. Trimmell will lie in-state at the Stewart Funeral Home of Wamego beginning at 1:00 p.m. Sunday, where the family will greet friends during a visitation from 7:00 until 8:30 p.m. Memorial contributions are suggested to the Wamego First United Methodist Church Building Fund and may be left in care of the Stewart Funeral Home of Wamego, P.O. Box 48, Wamego, KS 66547. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.stewartfuneralhomes.com Superintendent for MW Builders of Texas currently working at Fort Riley. Mike was baptized at Seven Dolors Catholic Church. He was a member of Duck’s Unlimited. He was active with Boys Scouts as a child and FFA while in high school. He enjoyed playing softball. Survivors include his parents, Randy and Jo of Manhattan; two sisters: Tricia Lagabed and her husband Charles of Ogden, and Stacy Schmitt of the home; grandparents: Virgil Schmitt and his wife Hulda of Anthon, Iowa, and Leo and Joan Helget of Flush; and his niece, Kaitlyn Lagabed. Mike was preceded in death by his grandmother, Naomi Schmitt. Mass of the Christian Burial was held at 10:30 A.M. Tuesday at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church at Flush. Interment followed in St. Joseph’s Cemetery at Flush. The family will receive friends from 7:00 until 9:00 P.M. Monday at the Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral Home. Online condolences may be left for the family through the funeral home website at www.ymlfuneralhome.com. Memorial contributions may be made to American Heart Association. Contributions may be left in care of the Yorgensen-MeloanLondeen Funeral Home, 1616 Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, KS 66502. music, memorial gifts may be made to the organ restoration fund of that church. Contributions may be left in care of the Yorgensen-MeloanLondeen Funeral Home, 1616 Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, KS 66502. between public sector employees, where 37 percent belong to unions, compared to the private sector, where just 7.5 percent of workers carry union cards. He said federal, state and municipal employees face fewer barriers to organization, while managers in the private sector use ‘’every trick in the book’‘ to undermine unions. Biden said he and President Barack Obama would not consider their economic recovery efforts a success unless growth creates ‘’good, sustainable, livable jobs in the process.’‘ A key element, he said, is rebuilding the American labor movement, which has steadily declined since the 1950s. ‘’We will not consider it a success unless the middle class is growing, taking a piece of that productivity,’‘ Biden said. Biden chairs Obama’s middle class 328 Poyntz (Downtown) 539-8982 Manhattan Shoe Repair & ASSOCIATES, INC Repairing •Shoes • Boots • Purses •Luggage • Harnesses •Back Packs •Leather Coats (785)539-7576 Serving your insurance needs BEST Independent Insurance Agent 216 South 4th, Manhattan, Ks VFW Plaza 776-1193 Free Weight Loss Consultation Call Connie at 785-537-4447 Manhattan Free Press Reporting The Truth task force, which evaluate policies and recommend ways to boost middle-class families. 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Biden said it’s time to ‘’level the playing field’‘ for unions by passing a bill that would make it easier for workers to organize. ‘’You’ve got to climb up a hill with so many roadblocks on the way to organize that it’s just out of whack,’‘ Biden told a conference of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which has about 1.6 million members. ‘’If a union is what you want, then a union is what you should get,’‘ Biden said. The Employee Free Choice Act — also known as ‘’card check’‘ — is organized labor’s top priority this year, but business groups are adamantly opposed. It would allow a majority of workplace employees to sign cards to join a union instead of holding secret ballot elections. Senate lawmakers are working on a compromise version of the measure that will satisfy some moderate Democrats that have concerns about the bill. Democratic leaders need to garner 60 votes in the Senate to overcome an expected GOP attempt to filibuster. 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H and H carries the very same type of bows used by those Olympic archers. It represents one of Dan´s lifelong interests, which he has turned into his own business. Dan enjoyed hunting and fishing as a kid. He grew up in a rural area on a place between Berryton and Overbrook. Berryton is unincorporated and Overbrook is a town of 974 people. Now, that´s rural. Dan´s dad was a taxidermist and had his own shop. Dan learned to hunt and fish with his father, including bowhunting. Dan came to southeast Kansas to work in the oilfields and then worked for Cessna. He met and married Paulia, and they settled in her hometown of Sedan. Dan continued to hunt. In fact, he Ron Wilson and Paulia competed in a lot of 3-D archery competitions, where archers shoot at lifesize models of elk or deer or bear. Dan said, "I did pretty good, won some first place trophies, but my wife did really good - she stood out in the women´s competition." Dan ran an archery shop at home out of his garage as a hobby. Meanwhile, a sporting goods store in Sedan came up for sale. With support from the Quad County Enterprise Facilitation Group, a multi-county organization which supports entrepreneurs in southeast Kansas, the Huberts bought the store´s inventory and eventually the building. In July 2005, Dan and Paulia opened H and H Hunting Supplies. It is a full service hunting and fishing supply store, and much more. H and H offers guns, ammunition, black powder, scopes, binoculars, trail cameras, safes, knives, bows, arrows, rods, reels, lures, licenses, and all kinds of supplies for reloading, trapping, andfishing. Dan says, "Our fishing gear has been real well received by the customers." Perhaps a third of the shop is dedicated to archery. Dan said, "I thought long and hard about the type of bows which I would sell. When I was in competitions I would watch all the equipment to see which was the best, and I chose the Hoyt line. That company has been building bows for 79 years. Then when I saw the field archery event in the Olympics, I recognized several of the bows they were using. You could buy one of those here." Dan sells Easton arrows, which he fletches (adds the feathers) by hand. H and H sold 90 dozen of those arrows in 2008. H and H also sells Palmer Cap-Chur, which is a modified shotgun that shoots medicated darts at sick livestock. Then there are their special writing pens made by hand from deer antlers. Paulia selects the antlers, turns them on a lathe by hand, drills out a hole length-wise, adds a brass cylinder and an ink refill and creates a wonderful keepsake pen. She also makes centerpieces and candleholders. Many people are using these as one-of-a-kind gifts, perfect for an outdoorsman. H and H Hunting Supplies offers a product line that adjusts with the season. For example, fishing and turkey hunting products are busy in the spring. Dan says, "When deer season winds down, then trapping comes on strong." H and H serves local needs as well as many non-resident deer hunters. Their products have gone as far away as Dallas, Arkansas, and even New York. It is time to leave Beijing, China, where Hoyt bows are being used by the Olympic contestants in the field archery competition. That same line of bows is being offered by H and H Hunting Supplies halfway around the globe in Sedan, Kansas. We salute Dan and Paulia Hubert, Quad County Enterprise Facilitation Group, and all those involved with H and H Hunting Supplies for making a difference with entrepreneurship, which is helping rural Kansas stay on target. To The Editor Dear Editor We understand there were five in the car, one young man and four young ladies. It was a beautiful evening and they had a lot to do. During the mid-50’s there were many outhouses left in Blue Rapids and this was Halloween. It was easy. After dark they started a night of fun. One by one the old outhouses fell to the side. Some fell on their banks and some were pushed over on the door. Over time the number of displaced outhouses has been lost. It could have been five or a few more than ten. All in all it was fun. And then it happened…at the north end of Main Street the fun-loving five hit an outhouse in very good condition. One hard push and over it went. And that is when they heard the scream. It was total shock for the gang of five. Someone was inside the outhouse. And someone was mad, very mad. They raced to the car and made their get-a-way. But not fast enough, the Blue Rapids City Marshall’s wife, crawling out of the outhouse, saw the car. For the next two month five very meek pranksters were walking around Blue Rapids wondering if they were going to be taken to court. Town folks had a lot of fun telling and retelling the story. If you are a US To Borrow 46 Cents For Every Dollar Spent This Year By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The government will have to borrow nearly 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year, exploding the record federal deficit past $1.8 trillion under new White House estimates. Budget office figures released Monday would add $89 billion to the 2009 red ink — increasing it to more than four times last year’s all-time high as the government hands out billions more than expected for people who have lost jobs and takes in less tax revenue from people and companies making less money. The unprecedented deficit figures flow from the deep recession, the Wall Street bailout and the cost of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus bill — as well as a seemingly embedded structural imbalance between what the government spends and what it takes in. As the economy performs worse than expected, the deficit for the 2010 budget year beginning in October will worsen by $87 billion to $1.3 trillion, the White House says. The deterioration reflects lower tax revenues and higher costs for bank failures, unemployment benefits and food stamps. Just a few days ago, Obama touted an administration plan to cut $17 billion in wasteful or duplicative programs from the budget next year. The erosion in the deficit announced Monday is five times the size of those savings. For the current year, the government would borrow 46 cents for every dollar it takes to run the government under the administration’s plan. In 2010, it would borrow 35 cents for every dollar spent. ‘’The deficits ... are driven in large part by the economic crisis inherited by this administration,’‘ budget director Peter Orszag wrote in a blog entry on Monday. The developments come as the White House completes the official release of its $3.6 trillion budget for 2010, adding detail to some of its tax proposals and ideas for producing health care savings. The White House budget is a recommendation to Congress that represents Obama’s fiscal and policy vision for the next decade. Annual deficits would never dip below $500 billion and would total $7.1 trillion over 2010-2019. Even those dismal figures rely on economic projections that are significantly more optimistic — just a 1.2 percent decline in gross domestic product this year and a 3.2 percent growth rate for 2010 — than those of private sector economists and the Congressional Budget Office. As a percentage of the economy, the measure economists say is most important, the deficit would be 12.9 percent of GDP this year, the biggest since World War II. It would drop to 8.5 percent of GDP in 2010. In the past three decades, deficits in the range of 4 percent of GDP have caused Congress and previous administrations to launch efforts to narrow the gap. The White House predicts deficits equaling 2.9 percent of the economy within four years. Polling data suggest Americans are increasingly worried about mounting deficits and debt. An AP-GfK poll last month gave Obama relatively poor grades on the deficit, with just 49 percent of respondents approving of the president’s handling of the issue and 41 percent disapproving. By contrast, Obama’s overall approval rating was 64 percent, with just 30 percent disapproving. ‘’Even using their February economic assumptions — which now appear to be out of date and overly optimistic — the administration never puts us on a stable path,’‘ said Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan group that advocates budget discipline. ‘’The president ... understands the critical importance of fiscal discipline. Now we need to see some action.’‘ For the most part, Obama’s updated budget tracks the 134-page outline he submitted to lawmakers in February. His budget remains a bold but contentious document that proposes higher taxes for the wealthy, a hotly contested effort to combat global warming and the first steps toward guaranteed health care for all. Meanwhile, the congressional budget plan approved last month would not extend Obama’s signature $400 tax credit for most workers — $800 for couples — after it expires at the end of next year. Obama’s ‘’cap-and-trade’‘ proposal to curb heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions is also reeling from opposition from Democrats from coal-producing regions and states with concentrations of heavy industry. 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The clouds are puffy, the sky blue and the flight is smooth and scheduled to arrive early. All is peaceful and serene and no one is wearing a surgical mask. My seatmate, Melissa, is a pleasant and efficacious Bed and Breakfast entrepreneur with refreshing thoughts about individuality that merits serious consideration. Melissa is on her way home after living it up with her grandchildren in Colorado. Individuality knows no age limit, confirmed by the nostalgic and exciting sojourn upon which I am now engaged; a sojourn to North Carolina to celebrate the conferring of a Masters of Divinity degree upon my 76 year old sister, Lorena, who is chaplain for a retirement center with a population of about 500 retirees. The pomp and ceremony of Lorena’s graduation was exceeded only by the blessing of visiting with boyhood neighbors not seen for six decades. Lowell, one of eight children, brought us up to date and reminded us that “we were all poor as church mice” but didn’t know it because we were so rich in other ways. As we reminisced, we concluded the big difference between then and now is the diminished dedication to individual responsibility. We were part of a family, yet each one had specific chores. We were part of a community school, yet individually responsible for our own learning. We were part of a community church, yet individually responsible for our relationship to God. We each had an account at Brannon’s store, and we paid our own bills. We were taught that we have a great heritage, yet we are individually responsible for our own Dick Miller commitment to and defense of our Constitution. It is our commitment to individual responsibility and our love and respect for our Constitution, and the individual liberties it was designed to guarantee, which is generating the ground swell of protest to the rapid incursion of government that is eroding these liberties. This incursion comes in the form of reckless spending that puts us in slavery to exorbitant taxes and debt and erodes our liberty to use our resources as we choose. The incursion comes in the form of government seizure of private enterprises and transferring ownership to third parties. It comes in the form of invasion of privacy by compiling GPS data of each of our front doors. It comes in the form of multiple incursions into freedom of speech by the Fairness Doctrine and Hate Crime Bills that are aimed at silencing specific voices. The road out of this governmental morass requires each of us to take responsibility for our own welfare and turn from the indifference that permitted unconstitutional liberal policies to fill the vacuum created by large num- bers of citizens abdicating their personal responsibilities. George Bernard Shaw argued, “The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them.” Fortunately, thousands of citizens across the nation have become activated and the journey to reclaiming America has begun, signaled by thousands of Tea Parties. Locally, building upon the enthusiastic response at the Tea Party in Manhattan, future activities will include a Town Hall meeting May 19, 2009 at Pottroff Hall followed by a DDay celebration June 6, 2009, at a location to be determined soon. Numerous Washington, DC, protests are in the planning stages by various organizations. The purpose of the Town Hall meeting May 19th is to invite citizens of the Flint Hills area to come together to share personal concerns and provide constructive input to more effectively make our voices heard at the local, state and national level. Those who attend the Town Hall meeting will be invited to complete a survey, provide personal contact information and indicate their desire to share with the group by providing a brief synopsis of their comments. The Task Force will evaluate each synopsis and select as many to speak as time permits that are in consonance with the purpose of the meeting. George Washington wrote a letter in 1789 to the resident of Boston, home of the first Tea Party, which could just as appropriately be addressed to those who are speaking out for liberty today: “Your love of liberty - your respect for the laws - your habits of industry - and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.” Waxman-Markey Needs Critical Analysis By Ben Lieberman The Heritage Foundation The main focus of debate over the proposed Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 has been its cap and trade program. These global warming provisions have been targeted for good reason, as they amount to a massive energy tax that would cost this nation trillions of dollars and millions of manufacturing jobs in the years ahead. Nonetheless, there are other costly and anti-consumer measures in the proposal that also deserve attention--including a renewable electricity standard, a low carbon fuel standard, and appliance efficiency mandates. These measures provide additional reasons why the WaxmanMarkey proposal warrants critical analysis. The Renewable Electricity Standard The Waxman-Markey proposal requires that more electricity come from so-called renewable sources, chiefly wind energy but also others like biomass and solar. This renewable electricity standard (previous bills called it a renewable portfolio standard) is nothing more than a mandate for higher electricity bills. For many years, wind energy has been the beneficiary of generous tax credits and subsidies (American's pay for it both as taxpayers and as ratepayers), but it still provides less than 2 percent of America's electricity. By comparison, coal provides about 50 percent--and does so with considerably less favorable treatment than wind--while natural gas and nuclear energy account for about 20 percent each. Proponents of wind power believe the nation should use more of it and thus have called for a federal mandate in addition to all the handouts. The targets in the Waxman-Markey renewable electricity standard start with a tripling to 6 percent by 2012, increasing each year until it reaches 25 percent by 2025. Of course, the reason wind energy needs all this government help is that it is too expensive to catch on otherwise. By some measures it is over 50 percent costlier than conventional coal. The actual impact of Waxman-Markey on future energy bills is a matter of considerable speculation, as the renewable electricity provisions represent an unprecedented transformation of the American electricity supply and infrastructure. The Energy Information Administration optimistically projects cost increases of no more than 2.9 percent. But the actual experience in Spain--a nation that is already implementing a similar policy--suggests costs 10 times higher. One often-overlooked factor is wind's unreliability. Wind can stop blowing at any time, and it often does during hot summer days when electricity demand peaks. Since people need electricity 24/7, additional wind power would need to be backed up with conventional sources ready to carry the full load at any time, further raising costs and undercutting the rationale for this alternative. This is particularly true of the southeastern U.S. and some other areas where wind is particularly weak--a good reason why each state legislature should be able to decide for itself whether to impose such a mandate rather than having a one-size-fits-all national standard. The new transmission lines necessary to bring more wind from where it is produced to where it is needed is another substantial cost. By some estimates it could reach $80 billion. And like most other costs, it would be paid by the public. The Low Carbon Fuel Standard Though gasoline was above $4 a gallon as recently as last summer, WaxmanMarkey seeks to add costly new gasoline regulations in the form of a low carbon fuel standard. There are already convoluted federal Clean Air Act regulations dictating the recipe for gasoline. These requirements were designed to reduce tailpipe emissions, but they have proven to be unnecessarily costly and complex for the task. On top of that, the 2005 and 2007 energy bills required that renewable fuels (chiefly corn-based ethanol) be added to the gasoline supply. For 2009, 11 billion gallons must be used, going up to 36 billion in 2022. Ethanol costs more than gasoline, and the diversion of corn from food to fuel use has raised food prices, not only of corn itself but of related items such as corn-fed meat and dairy. Now, Waxman-Markey seeks to add a low carbon fuel standard, which purports to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emissions attributable to motor fuels. Among other things, the proposal would require the addition to the gasoline supply of supposedly lower-carbon alternatives such as cellulosic ethanol and biodiesel. The problem is that these alternatives are very expensive. One study estimates that the Waxman-Markey proposal would add 61 cents per gallon. The standard could also harm domestic oil production. Compared to some sources of imported oil, certain domestic sources either require more energy to extract, are of a lower grade that require more energy to refine, or both. Since the carbon used to produce and refine oil would be part of the low carbon fuel calculation, these domestic supplies would be at a comparative disadvantage. Further, a low carbon fuel standard would all but preclude promising domestic alternatives such as shale oil (because of its supposedly high carbon contribution) as well as oil currently being produced in Canada from tar sands] Thus, at the same time it would be jacking up the cost of driving, a low carbon fuel standard could also give a comparative advantage to oil imports from unfriendly regimes while reducing domestic production. Appliance Efficiency Standards Federal laws dictating how much ener- gy home appliances are allowed to use have frequently harmed consumers, but Waxman-Markey contains a host of new ones. Improved energy efficiency is a worthwhile goal, but not when Washington tries to mandate it with arbitrary requirements. Consumers who think the resultant energy-efficient appliances will save them money may be disappointed. These standards almost always raise the purchase price of appliances, in some cases to the point that the extra upfront costs are never recouped in the form of energy savings. For example, the Department of Energy conceded that its most recent airconditioner standard would be a money loser for many consumers, but went ahead with it anyway. Efficiency standards can also adversely affect product performance, features, and reliability. For example, Consumer Reports noted that several high-efficiency clothes washers meeting the latest federal standard "left our-stain soaked swatches nearly as dirty as they were before washing" and suggested that "for best results, you'll have to spend $900 or more." Some standards also restrict consumer choice. For example, the 2007 energy bill effectively phases out the traditional incandescent light bulb in favor of more efficient compact fluorescent bulbs. Compared to the old-fashioned but stillpopular incandescent lights, compact fluorescent bulbs are more expensive, have a light quality some find inferior, do not fit into certain fixtures, and contain small amounts of mercury, which can be a health and safety concern if the bulbs break. In any event, consumers are clearly better off when they have the choice between light bulb types, not when government steps in and decides what is best. The Waxman-Markey proposal contains a host of new standards for everything from household lamps to portable electric spas. It also makes it easier to set more stringent requirements for appliances like air-conditioners that are already regulated. The overall effect would be higher costs, compromised quality, and restricted choice for homeowners with a negligible impact on the environment. Ample Reason for Criticism The cap-and-trade provisions in Waxman-Markey are more than enough reason to be highly critical of this proposal. Nonetheless, the renewable electricity standard, low carbon fuel standard, and appliance efficiency mandates are truly terrible in their own right and would only heighten consumer anger if this misguided proposal ever becomes law. Ben Lieberman is Senior Policy Analyst in Energy and the Environment in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. PUBLISHED WEEKLY EVERY THURSDAY Manhattan Free Press WINNER OF THE KANSAS GAS SERVICE EXCELLENCE IN EDITORIAL WRITING AWARD Free Press Staff Jon A. and Linda L. Brake, Publishers Jon A. Brake, Editor Linda L. Brake, Advertising Manager Ben Brake, Sports Editor “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1787 Subscriptions: eFreePress subscriptions are Free Street Address: 103 North 3rd Street Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1191, Manhattan, Ks 66505 E-Mail: [email protected] or [email protected] 785-537-8953 T HURSDAY 5A VOLUM E 15, N UMBER 50 T HURSDAY, M AY 14, 2009 W INNER OF THE K ANSAS G AS S ERVICE E XCELLENCE I N E DITORIAL W RITING 2006 K ANSAS P ROFESSIONAL C OMMUNICATORS P HOTO E SSAY AWARD 2006 K ANSAS P ROFESSIONAL C OMMUNICATORS E DITORIAL AWARD W INNER OF THE K ANSAS P RESS A SSOCIATION A DVERTISING AWARD President-elect Schulz Closing In On New K-State AD By Mark Janssen The clock appears to be racing toward announcement day for the position of athletics director at Kansas State University. President-elect Kirk Schulz told The Manhattan Free Press that “certainly by June 1, and perhaps sooner than that,” a decision will be made. “Sooner” could mean in the next week so the new Wildcat AD could attend the upcoming annual Big 12 Conference spring meetings in Colorado Springs. “I would certainly love that,” Schulz admitted. “It would be nice to have a representative at the meetings.” But before that can happen, Schulzon-candidate interviews must be conducted, the negotiation of a contract finalized, and, making sure that the individual hired could work the meetings into his personal schedule. “But ideally, that would be great if it could happen,” Schulz said. He would add, however, “We are not going to rush the process.” The Free Press and KStateFans.com learned that an initial set of interviews did take place in Kansas City over the weekend of April 24-26, and that Schulz has been given a list of three names for consideration. It’s been confirmed that Marc Boehm, executive associate athletic director at Nebraska to AD Tom Osborne, and, John Currie, executive associate athletic director at Tennessee, are two of the three names on that abbreviated list. Boehm, a native of Topeka, is a 1983 graduate of Kansas State. Prior to Nebraska, he was on the athletic staff at the University of Pittsburgh (1997- Mark Janssen Special To The Free Press: See Page One For The Announcement Of The New AD Mark 2003), and prior to that the associate executive director of the Fiesta Bowl (1987-1991). Boehm led the search in the hire of Doc Sadler as NU’s basketball coach, and orchestrated the largest multi-media contract in college sports through IMG College Sports. Currie is in his 10th year with the Volunteers. He’s given much of the credit for the hire of Bruce Pearl as basketball coach, and has been saluted for heading a fundraising/marketing campaign of $70 million. In addition, he’s headed a $175 million renovation campaign for Tennessee’s 100,000-plus-seat football stadium, and a $37 million improvement on the Vol’s basketball facility. Talking in general and not about specific candidates, Schulz said, “We really want someone to energize our fan base. Number one, that is what I want to see. I want that person who can get out in western Kansas, and into Kansas City, to get our fan-base energized. That’s the number one thing. “All the people we’ve looked at have good fundraising backgrounds and at some point have made good hires,” Schulz said. “We want to go beyond that and find that individual who can come in and get people in the stands for all of our sports, and get our fans fired up.” And, Schulz said that goes beyond being a polished public speaker. “There are a lot of great public speakers, but after they’re done, they may go stand in the corner,” Schulz said. “They enjoy the speaking, but are uncomfortable visiting with everyone afterward.” Schulz understands that nothing can better the mood of the Wildcat Nation more than winning football games. But he adds, “We have to have football be successful, but we want a total department. With the success all of our teams Morris: (near) Prfect Season By Mark Janssen A.J. Morris - “Anthony Joseph ... my mom calls me that at times.” - grew up in Humble, Texas, a suburb of Houston. As a kid growing up, it was natural that he would cheer the heroics of Astro hurlers Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens. As Morris says, “Both were Texas boys and two of the greatest to ever play the game. Sure, I often said, ‘I want to be like them some day.’ “ But here’s the deal. Not even in their finest moment did the two Texas flame-throwers have a season like this 2009 spring of Mr. Morris. Heck, it’s a year that perhaps only Kansas City’s Zack Greinke can relate to! Oh, this past week the K-State righthander proved he was human when he suffered his first loss of the season when Texas Tech zapped the Wildcats, 6-0, but other than that blip to the season, Morris has been perfecto. Heading into a scheduled 6:30 p.m. start on Friday at KSU’s Tointon Family Stadium against the Kansas Jayhawks, Morris is 11-1 with a 1.67 ERA. Not only do those numbers lead the Big 12 Conference for the Wildcats, but the 11 wins, and miniscule ERA, are right at the top of any pitcher around the nation. “To a certain degree, you can’t explain something like this,” said Morris. “I always knew I had it in myself, it was just a matter of getting it out. But my record is a reflection of our team. I’m just lucky to be a part of it.” But Team K-State is lucky to have Morris toe the rubber once every week. Only fittingly, Morris’ perfect season ... well, nearly perfect ... started at Houston where he went six innings of six-hit baseball against the Cougars. He allowed two runs, neither earned, walked two and fanned eight in a 16-2 K-State win. The rest of the season? Ponder these numbers: * Morris has 13 starts. Aside from the loss to Tech, his only no-decision came against Missouri when he worked eight innings of two-run, sixhit baseball with no walks and six Ks. The bullpen was responsible for the 43 loss in the ninth. * Morris has three complete games and has pitched through the sixth inning 12 times. * With Morris on the mound, KState has won games by a combined score of 99-34, or 8-3. In Big 12 play, Morris/KSU has given up, 1, 1, 3, 4, 3, 2 and 3 runs, before the Tech game. * Morris has allowed just 25 runs, 17 earned, in his 92 2/3 inning pitched. He has averaged better than six strikeouts and fewer than two walks per game. * Batsmen are hitting a icy .201 against Morris. Morris said the turning point came on March 10 when he went 8 1/3 innings in a 4-0 victory at nationally ranked Arizona State that lowered his personal ERA to 0.68. “There was a big crowd against a great team, but the way our team played set the tone for the rest of the year,” Morris said. “It was proof that this team was ready to take the next step.” Today, Morris says of his confidence level, “It’s a 10. I have all the confidence in myself, but I have got to stay level headed and not get too high or too down.” And that’s the big difference from Morris, the 4-4 pitcher with a 6.04 ERA in 2008, to the chucker of today. “It wasn’t so much a lack of confidence last year, but a lack of focus. Or, the focus wasn’t on the right things,” Morris said. “If things went wrong ... and error or a bad call, I would take it to the next batter. I would focus on the past, and not the next hitter.” Morris would go on to say that last year was “... unacceptable .. it ate me up.” Pounded in a Big 12 Tournament championship game by Texas last spring, Morris began his turn-around with the Moses Lake Pirates (Washington) in the West Coast Collegiate Baseball league during the summer. The 6-foot-2 Morris beefed up 15 pounds to 200, and while committed to an 89- to 93-mile-per-hour fastball, it’s an 80- to 83-mile-per-hour slider that is his “out” pitch. Now the bad news ... at least for KState. An ultra-strong candidate for firstteam all-America honors, Morris has the scouts drooling over this pitcher that, basically, no one wanted out of high school. He was recruited by TCU and Sam Houston State, but not by Baylor, Texas Tech, Texas or his personal favorite team in Texas A&M. Oh, by the way, this year Morris pitched a 7-0 win over Baylor, a 6-4 victory over A&M, and a 10-0 whipping of the Longhorns. “You always want to perform well in your home state,” Morris admitted,” but to do something special, it takes beating more than the Texas schools.” As for his future, Morris says, “I try not to think about the draft. If the team is taking care of its goals, the team will take care of yours.” But he says, “Sure, I’ve talked to scouts, but I don’t press the issue of my status and where I might go. It’s just not important ... not at this point.” The important thing at this point is to complete KSU’s most successful season in school history, advance to the first Regional in school history, and of course, the first College World Series in school history. are having, that says a lot about the quality of the head coaches that we have right now. “Now we have to retain the quality coaches that we have because they’re going to be on the radar screen of other schools,” Schulz added. “We have to make sure that we keep them to have continued success.” Former K-Stater Don Bocchi confirmed that he was one of those interviewed in Kansas City, but has been told that he was not “one of three” finalists. Another known to have interviewed was former Kansas State track star Jeff Schemmel, who is currently the director of athletics at San Diego State. Like Bocchi, Schemmel is not a finalist. Bocchi said that there was a “huge focus” on fundraising, but other than that, the questioning was somewhat general. Knowing the Kansas State make-up from his stay in Manhattan, Bocchi said, “Kansas State fans are wonderful people, but they need a face to rally around. For many years, Ernie Barrett (former AD/fund raiser) was that face, who sup- ported the coaches, who could fundraise ... someone K-Staters could connect with as one of theirs.” Headed by Amy Button Renz, Schulz applauded the search committee for a “superb job,” adding, “The group did exactly what I wanted them to. 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The 2009 All-Big 12 first team selection finished her senior season as the Wildcats’ third-leading scorer at 10.7 points per game, the team’s top rebounder at 7.0 per game and the Big 12 leader and second in the nation in assists per game at 7.6 per contest. She is the first player in school history to record consecutive 200 point, 200 rebound and 200 assist seasons. Her 229 assists this season set a school record for assists in a season and set the Big 12 record for assists by a senior. She became the third player in Big 12 history to record consecutive 200 assist seasons. Lehning registered three tripledoubles during the 2008-09 season to set the Big 12 and school record for triple-doubles in a season. She also finished her career with five tripledoubles, which is tied for third in NCAA history for triple-doubles. Lehning was a candidate for a number of national All-American honors during the 2008-09 season including: a candidate for the Wade Trophy, a State Farm/WBCA AllAmerica finalist, a finalist for the Naismith Trophy, a finalist for the Wooden Award, a finalist for the Lieberman Award and a finalist for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award. The product of Sublette, Kan., garnered CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America third team honors this season and earned her third straight Academic All-Big 12 first team citation. She finished her career ranked first in school history and second in Big 12 history for career assists with 800, ranked first in school history for career minutes played with 4,271, ranked fourth in school history for career rebounds with 914 and 19th for career points with 1,189. She is the first player in Big 12 history to record 1,000 career points, 900 career rebounds and 800 career assists. Lehning is the eighth guard in school history to register 200 points in every season of her career and her final career point total is the 11th-highest by a guard in school history. In early April, Lehning was selected with the 25th overall pick during the second round of the 2009 WNBA Draft by the Atlanta Dream. Lehning is the sixth player in school history to be selected during the WNBA Draft and the eighth player overall to become a part of the league. For more information on the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, please visit wbhof.com. Lehning begins her WNBA career later this week, as training camp opens for the Atlanta Dream on May 15. in the discus with a regional qualifying throw of 155-06. Groves was not the only Wildcat to see success in the hammer and discus. Eric Thomas threw to a thirdplace finish in the men’s discus at 179-08 for a regional mark. The throw was a new personal best for Thomas and one inch short of passing her previous mark by two feet. Nate Brummet also posted a new personal best throw in the men’s hammer throw on his way to winning that event. Brummet’s throw of 18808 soared passed his previous best throw by 6-feet 8-inches and moved him into fifth all-time at K-State. Personal best throws was a theme Cats Remain Steady In National Polls Following its 3-2 record last week, Kansas State held steady in its rankings in all five national polls this week as the publications released their rankings on Monday. The Wildcats, who earned their first top-10 ranking in school history last week at No. 10 in Baseball America, fell just one spot to No. 11 in this week’s poll. K-State was ranked No. 18 in three other polls as the Cats retained their ranking in the Rivals.com Top 25 and the USA Today/ESPN Coaches’ Top 25 from a week ago. Collegiate Baseball placed Kansas State No. 18, a one-spot drop from last week, while the Cats fell two spots to No. 23 in the NCBWA Top 30. 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Combined events specialist Moritz Cleve got in on the personal best action improving his shot put mark by nearly 10 inches while preparing for the decathlon at next weeks’ Big 12 Championship. Cleve also posted a new outdoor personal best in the pole vault on Saturday. TiAra Walpool tallied another regional mark for the Wildcats in the field events while winning the women’s triple jump. Walpool leaped 41-05.00 for the win. And the personal bests did not just come in throwing and field events. Two more Wildcats improved their best times while winning their events along with a handful of other team- f&OLPDWHFRQWUROOHGXQLWV f59JDUDJHVZ[HDV\RSHQ UROOXSGRRUV f%RDWJDUDJHV f$XWRPRWLYHPRWRUF\FOHVWRUDJH f ,QVXODWHGEOGJVZLWKZLGHSDYHG DLVOHVIRUPRYLQJWUXFNV 4790 Skyway Drive, Manhattan, KS 66503 K-State Throws Way To Strong Finish The Kansas State track and field team closed its regular season schedule with a home meet on Saturday with much success. The Wildcats posted nine regional qualifying marks at the Ward Haylett Invitational, and saw the throwers power their way to a handful of those marks and personal bests. K-State was led by the throwers all day starting with women’s hammer in the morning and closing with women’s discus in the afternoon. Senior Loren Groves posted regional marks in both events for the Wildcats winning the hammer throw and breaking the 200-foot mark again at 200-04. She finished fourth 6A MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2009 1H[WWR0DQKDWWDQ$LUSRUWfZZZODQGPDUNVHOIVWRUDJHFRP mates who got faster on the track. Emilee Morris won the women’s 1,500 meters in 4:39.98 to cut into her personal best time, and Denise Baker tied her personal best 14.18 seconds in the 100 meter hurdles. Mantas Silkauskas sped to a 14.06 seconds in the 110 meter hurdles finishing second and cutting a quarter of a second off his time with the regional mark. In the 200 meters, Kim Haberman finished second with a new personal best time of 24.94 seconds improving by nearly half a second. Lekesha Pointer-Allen also set a personal record in the women’s 800 meters at 2:12.02 cutting more than four seconds off her time. Two men’s sprinters had strong showings as well for the Wildcats as Jason Coniglio finished third in the 100 meters at 10.72 seconds narrowly missing his personal best time, and Mike Myer tied his fastest time of the season in the 200 meters winning in 20.99 seconds. The Wildcats will travel to Lubbock, Texas, next week eyeing conference titles at the Big 12 Championship at R.P. Fuller Stadium where the action begins on Friday. 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They used the fabricated material, Fitzgerald said, even though administrators at the free online encyclopedia quickly caught the quote’s lack of attribution and removed it, but not quickly enough to keep some journalists from cutting and pasting it first. A full month went by and nobody noticed the editorial fraud. So Fitzgerald told several media outlets in an e-mail and the corrections began. ‘’I was really shocked at the results from the experiment,’‘ Fitzgerald, 22, said Monday in an interview a week after one newspaper at fault, The Guardian of Britain, became the first to admit its obituar- ist lifted material straight from Wikipedia. ‘’I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn’t come forward, that quote would have gone down in history as something Maurice Jarre said, instead of something I made up,’‘ he said. ‘’It would have become another example where, once anything is printed enough times in the media without challenge, it becomes fact.’‘ So far, The Guardian is the only publication to make a public mea culpa, while others have eliminated or amended their online obituaries without any reference to the original version — or in a few cases, still are citing Fitzgerald’s florid prose weeks after he pointed out its true origin. Russian-Lesbians Denied License By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW (AP) — Supporters considered it a historic moment: two radiant women applied for a marriage license in a Moscow government office, claiming to be the first same-sex female couple to try to marry in Russia. But a flustered-looking official denied their application Tuesday, a move that gay rights activists say symbolizes the refusal of many Russian officials to recognize the rights of the country’s gay and lesbian communities. Registry office director Svetlana Potamoshneva, seemingly embarrassed, handed them a written rejection and said Russian law recognizes only marriages between a man and a woman. Irina Fedotova and Irina Shipitko said they would not give up. ‘’We won’t stop in midstream,’‘ Fedotova told journalists later, saying she and her partner plan to get married in Canada. She said Russia recognizes marriages registered abroad, thus allowing the couple to formalize their relationship. The event was the first of two this week that will put the issue of gay rights — which many Russians regard as controversial — on the public stage in Moscow. Fedotova and Shepitko sought to marry ahead of a gay pride parade Saturday, scheduled to coincide with the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest. Gay rights activists hope the media covering the event also will focus on their cause. Radio Netherlands reported Monday that the Dutch singer Gordon would boycott the contest if parade is broken up violently. Moscow authorities have banned the march, and religious and nationalist groups said Tuesday they have asked for permission to hold a counter-demonstration in central Moscow. ‘’The gay parade is ... an act of spiritual terrorism,’‘ said Mikhail Nalimov, chairman of the Union of Orthodox Christian Youth. His deputy, Dmitry Terekhov, said the parade was in part aimed at converting people to homosexuality. ‘’This must be stopped by radical methods, but without violence naturally,’‘ he said. In some countries, gays have won increasing acceptance — including the right to marry — but in many nations of the former Communist bloc homophobia remains rampant. Decades of official persecution of Russian gays ended in 1993 with the decriminalization of homosexuality, but opposition to gay rights remains widespread. Russian spiritual leaders have claimed that homosexuality threatens the country’s traditional values. There are no official estimates of how many gays and lesbians live in Russia, and only a few big cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg have gay nightclubs and gyms. Russian gay rights movement leader Nikolai Alexeyev said several gay male couples have attempted to wed since the mid-1990s, but officials rejected those efforts. In 2006, gay activists trying to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier just outside the Kremlin wall were arrested by riot police and harangued by religious and ultranationalist group members. Last year, at least one gay rights activist was assaulted during a small protest in Moscow while uniformed police officers stood by and watched. Dancer and singer Boris Moiseyev, one of Russia’s few openly gay pop stars, said in March he received death threats from Muslim activists. His extravagant shows have been banned in several Russian cities, and the Orthodox Church condemned him for ‘’propagating sodomy and sin.’‘ Meanwhile, despite their rejection of a marriage license in Moscow on Tuesday, Fedotova and Shepitko — wearing suits and bow ties and holding flowers — held hands and kissed. They said they would continue to fight for recognition of gay rights in Russia. 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His private concern was that, under pressure to produce news instantly, media outlets were increasingly relying on Internet sources — none more ubiquitous than the publicly edited Wikipedia. When he saw British 24-hour news channels reporting the death of the triple Oscar-winning composer, Fitzgerald sensed what he called ‘’a golden opportunity’‘ for an experiment on media use of Wikipedia. He said it took him less than 15 minutes to fabricate and place a quote calculated to appeal to obituary writers without distorting Jarre’s actual life experiences. If anything, Fitzgerald said, he expected newspapers to avoid his quote because it had no link to a source — and even might trigger alarms as ‘’too good to be true.’‘ But many blogs and several newspapers used the quotes at the start or finish of their obituaries. Wikipedia spokesman Jay Walsh said he appreciated the Dublin student’s point, and said he agreed it was ‘’distressing so see how quickly journalists would descend on that information without double-checking it.’‘ ‘’We always tell people: If you see that quote on Wikipedia, find it somewhere else too. He’s identified a flaw,’‘ Walsh said in a telephone interview from Wikipedia’s San Francisco base. But Walsh said there were more responsible ways to measure journalists’ use of Wikipedia than through well-timed sabotage of one of the site’s 12 million listings. ‘’Our network of volunteer editors do thankless work trying to provide the highest-quality information. They will be rightly perturbed and irritated about this,’‘ he said. Fitzgerald stressed that Wikipedia’s system requiring about 1,500 volunteer ‘’administrators’‘ and the wider public to spot bogus additions did its job, removing the quote three times within minutes or hours. It was journalists eager for a quick, pithy quote that was the problem. He said the Guardian was the only publication to respond to him in detail and with remorse at its own editorial failing. Others, he said, treated him as a vandal. ‘’The moral of this story is not that journalists should avoid Wikipedia, but that they shouldn’t use information they find there if it can’t be traced back to a reliable primary source,’‘ said the readers’ editor at the Guardian, Siobhain Butterworth, in the May 4 column that revealed Fitzgerald as the quote author. Broker-Appraiser-Inspector APPRAISALS, SALES, PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Suspenseful, values-packed discoveries await you in the town of Odyssey-where something new and exciting is always going on. Whit, Connie and the gang manage to get into all kinds of interesting predicaments, and learn unforgettable biblically based lessons along the way. Your family will be on the edge of their seats as they tune in to each fascinating adventure. 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The Kansas State University football team and Fort Riley have built a bond of trust and friendship, thanks in part to the team’s relationship with the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment. This outreach gives support to both the college students and the Soldiers of the Big Red One. “It feels really good,” said Spc. Steven Saracco of the 1st Infantry Division Commanding General’s Mounted Color Guard. “It feels like I’m letting them know and sharing my experiences with the color guard and everything I do. So I enjoy doing it a lot.” Soldiers from Fort Riley brought out some of their vehicles to the stadium as well, allowing visitors to get an inside look at what troops use while deployed overseas. Children looked inside Stryker armored carriers and Humvees, while others met the horses and Soldiers of the Mounted Color Guard. “Any opportunity where we can get the Soldiers and equipment out into the public and let them see it is just another opportunity for civilians to gain awareness of what Fort Riley Soldiers do,” said Maj. Aaron Welch of the 1st Infantry Division’s operations staff. “It’s all about continuing to build this strong relationship between Fort Riley and the surrounding communities.” As the game began, the 1st Bn., 28th Inf. Regt. Black Lions took to the field with the National Flag, the State Flag and their unit’s colors for More fun at the Spring Game. the National Anthem. Afterward, the 1st Inf. Div. Command Sgt. Maj. Jim Champagne and Chief of Staff Col. Ricky Gibbs walked out to midfield for the coin toss. The team was split between the first string, wearing purple, and the second string, wearing white. Kidding Around Soldiers Get Workout Supporting Schools By Gary Skidmore DUTY FIRST! MAGAZINE Sgts. Jonathan Reinegger, James Kinney and Jeffrey Walters, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment received enough physical training April 29, to last them a week after playing with students from Westwood Elementary School in Junction City. They ran, jumped, were crawled on, carried kids, and were the subject of dog piles for several hours during the afternoon. Supporting the school’s “Schools in Review” program, several members of the battalion visited the classrooms, ate lunch and went to the playground with the students. Kinney has been married for three years but doesn’t have children and said he loved his day with the kids. “My wife is a student teacher on Fort Riley so I thought it’d be a good opportunity for me to experience what she deals with everyday,” said Kinney. “I don’t think she goes through a lot of dog piles like I just did, but she enjoys the job. I’m still out of breath from the dog pile.” Sgt. 1st Class Richard Dukes said he thought the partnership they have with the school, a part of the recent Army Community Covenant program, was great. “One of the good things about this particular program is there’s a lot of children with parents in the military and with deployments being what they are, it gives kids a connection while their military parents are deployed. It’s also great for our involvement in the community. We do a lot with Junction City and Grandview Plaza and it helps strengthen our bonds,” he said. Purple took an early lead, scoring 17 points in the first half. As the second half began, even a switch in jersey colors couldn’t stop purple from scoring 28 points, ending the game with Purple 28, White 17. The game marks the first game since Bill Snyder’s return as head coach of the Wildcat football team, which gives the team plenty of time before the Wildcats are scheduled to play again Sept. 5. Student Support Monitor Jerry Williams, a retired Soldier from Fort Riley, knows the importance of having Soldiers interact with students. “It’s terribly important for the kids to see uniforms here,” Williams said. “Most are comfortable with Soldiers and since so many parents are deployed, it gives our students a reassurance and a connection when the battalion comes.” Still breathing heavily 10 minutes after their run and dog piles, Reinegger, Kinney, Walters and Dukes said there was no doubt they’d be back if asked. “I’m not too sure about carrying so many kids the next time we race,” Reinnegger said, “And I probably won’t have that many kids dog pile me next time,” Kinney said, “And I know I won’t try to run as fast as I did with all those kids hanging on me,” Walters said, “but we’ll be back,” Dukes said.