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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2005
AGE 9A
VOL.116 ISSUE 73
FOOTBALL
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Postseason 'worth' wait
Bowl Bound
BY RYAN COLAIANNI
rcolaiani@kansan.com
KANSAN STAMP WRITER
Fort Worth Bowl, 7 p.m., Fri. Dec. 23, Amon G. Carter Stadium Televised nationally on ESPN, Sunflower Broadband Ch. 33
After two weeks of speculation, the Kansas football team received an invitation to play in the bowl that many fans and analysts expected would choose Kansas all along: the Fort Worth Bowl.
Kansas Jayhawks vs. Houston Cougars
(6-5, 3-5 Big 12) (6-5, 4-4 CUSA)
Tom Starr, executive director of the bowl, invited the Jayhawks to play in the Dec. 23 game against Houston, in a conference call Sunday heard at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
"We certainly have centered around the Jayhawks for the past few weeks here and we are so excited that it came through," Starr said.
Key Wins vs. Nebraska (40-15) vs. Iowa State (24-21 OT)
Key Wins at Tulsa (30-23)
Members of the team, coaches and Athletics Department officials surrounded Kansas football coach Mark Mangino when he made the phone call. The game will be nationally televised on ESPN.
Key Losses vs. Southern Methodist (29-24)
at Kansas State (12-3)
"We accept the invitation and we are looking forward to coming down to Fort Worth," Mangino told Starr. "We are excited to be a part of the Fort Worth Bowl and we want to give you a good game."
Mangino said he thought all along that the third annual Fort Worth Bowl would be where Kansas would play, but he was never completely sure. The game will match two 6-5 teams at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. Mangino said the location of the game would lead to a large contingent of Kansas fans at the game.
"We want to establish ourselves as a football program that will travel well to bowl games, and we know that our loyal fans will be there." Mangino said.
Kansas' Overall Record vs. Houston 1994 at Houston W(35-13) 1995 at Lawrence W(20-13) Source: www.fwbowl.com
A victory against Houston would give Kansas seven wins for the first time in a decade. Kansas went 10-2 in 1995. This will be a homecoming for senior defensive end Jermial Ashley, who is a Fort Worth native. Ashley is among 23
The bowl appearance for Kansas is its 10th bowl appearance all-time and its second in the past three seasons.
KU players from Texas.
"It means a lot to me because a lot of people didn't get to make the trip to Kansas due to different reasons," Ashley said. "I am back at home now so everybody can get the opportunity to come
watch me play in my last college game." This will be Ashley's first bowl game. He transferred to Kansas from Tyler Community College after his sophomore season.
Edited by Tricia Masenthin
Students score tickets to bowl game
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
rschnetider@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
KU students have something to celebrate in addition to the football team's 2005 Fort Worth Bowl appearance versus Houston: free tickets to the game.
Jim Marchiony, Kansas associate athletics director, said students could visit the Athletics Department ticket office, located at the southeast corner of Allen Fieldhouse, to complete the paperwork to receive tickets.
He said students would be able to pick them up at Amon G. Carter Stadium before the game.
Each student can receive one ticket.
Additional tickets can be purchased through the department's online ticket office, at www.kuathletics.com, for $40 each.
Students also received free tickets to the team's last bowl appearance in the 2003 Tangerine Bowl against North Carolina State in Orlando, Fla., when the lavhawks lost.
Kick-off is set for 7 p.m. Dec. 23, and will be televised nationally on ESPN.
— Edited by Tricia Masenthin
GREEK LIFE
Kelsey Schepmann studies the history hanging on the walls of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority house. She pays close attention to a 1915 photo of the founding women, 21 of them, in lace dresses and hair in neatly tied buns.
She circles the rows of composites lining the study room.
Row after row of fair-skinned women pass her by until she reaches the corner of the room where one face stands out among 151 women. It's Schepmann, the only African-American member in the chapter. The realization causes her to laugh without a smile.
"We are all of the human race. What's going on?" she asked. "We have come so far but we don't have diversity?"
Forty years after the University of Kansas' traditional Greek organizations removed clauses from their constitutions preventing African-American membership, University fraternities and sororities remain more than 99 percent white. Schepmann is one of only 13 African Americans among the 3,000 members of traditional Greek chapters.
The student body of 26,934 has 912 African Americans, or about 3.4 percent. The Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic organizations have 32 fraternities and sororities, and 22 have no black members.
While the organizations' once racially exclusive histories
SEE DIVIDE ON PAGE 4A
It's not just The Hawk
Three Lawrence bars are among the five that have been cited for violating Kansas alcohol laws most often.The other two are both now closed. PAGE2A
Starters don't rise to Self's challenge in victory Kansas bounced back from its loss against Nevada to rout Western Illinois 86-57 Saturday night, but a few of the starters watched the second half from the bench after an inbound turnover. PAGE 12A
Happy Christmakkah
With Christmas and Hanukkah falling on top of one another this year, students from multi-faith family backgrounds are preparing to celebrate more than one holiday when they return home for winter break. PAGE 3A
Index
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Classifieds. ... 9A
Crossword. ... 7A
Horoscopes. ... 7A
Opinion. ... 6A
Sports. ... 12A
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