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Volume 128 Issue 86
Monday, March 2, 2015
Kansan.com
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The student voice since 1904
SWING, SWING
Police seek public's help finding shooting suspects
KELLY CORDINGLEY
@kellycordingley
The Lawrence Police Department is asking for assistance in finding Rachel Ann Hampton, a student at the University, and Robert Alan Long, two of the three suspects involved in the Feb. 8 shooting near the University's campus, according to a press release from the department.
The suspects are wanted
Department at 785-832-7509 or Douglas County CrimeStoppers at 785-843-TIPS(8477). Calls made to CrimeStoppers may be made anonymously and callers providing information that leads to an arrest may qualify for a reward of up to $1,000.
The suspects allegedly shot and wounded three individuals Feb. 8, two of which are University students. All victims have since been
Rachael Ann Hampton
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Falkenstien reminisces on all of the games he has witnessed in Allen Fieldhouse. Falkenstien was a sports radio announcer from 1946-2006
AMIE JUST
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AMIE JUST
@AMIE_JUST
Max Falkenstien has seen it all.
He's been there for the euphoria of celebrations and for the agony of defeats.
It has been nearly 70 years since Falkenstien started his announcing career. He has thousands of memories that surround Allen Fieldhouse, but one overarching theme sticks out the most.
He was close with Forrest "Phog" Allen and many coaches, players and staff members who have been through the Kansas basketball program since then.
"Allen Fieldhouse is the site of so many great memories and so many great athletes and the relationships that I've built up with so many guys over the years," Falkenstien said.
"When they come back, like Nick Collison the other night, Kenny Gregory earlier in the season, and to see Joel Embid come up with a big smile on his face and give me a hug, those are the great feelings that I treasure."
The storied sports radio announcer called approximately 1,775 games for Kansas basketball and 850 games for Kansas football.
"It turned out to be Kansas versus Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State) in 1946 in the NCAA Tournament in Kansas City," Falkenstien said. "They had one of the first of the seven-footers, Bob Kurland, playing for them and they beat Kansas. The next Monday I went back
Falkenstien said he had just returned from World War II when he called his first game.
to school here at KU and my mathematics professor said, 'We listened to the game the other night and you made us feel like we were there.'"
In 1950, Kansas State unveiled Ahearn Field House, but Allen wanted something even more impressive for the University.
For the first several years of Falkenstein's career, Kansas basketball played in Hoch Auditoria (now Budig Hall), which could seat about 3,000 people. Students could only go to every other game because it was so small.
"He, of course, put pressure on the Kansas Legislature to give Kansas an even bigger arena than Kansas State," Falkenstein said. "After a
THE EARLY DAYS OF "THE PHQG"
long construction period in March of 1955, Allen Fieldhouse was opened."
The first game in Allen Fieldhouse had a lot riding on it. It was a rivalry game against Kansas State, and Kansas hadn't performed well at home that season.
It was the final conference home game for Kansas, and 17,288 people showed up. Falkenstien said.
"It had a dirt floor when it opened up," Falkenstien said. "The court was elevated and the players had to step up onto the court. Sometimes in their quest to dive for a loose ball they would even slide off the edge of the court. It didn't have any of the
Kansas won 77-67.
The legendary home-court advantage of Allen Fieldhouse had begun.
In those days, Allen Fieldhouse looked nothing like it does today.
grandeur that it has today. It was dusty and kind of dirty, but it was still kind of a grandiose place to move into after playing in Hoch Auditoria."
The following season, 1955-56, was Allen's last season.
"We always called him Doc," Falkenstien said of Allen.
Falkenstien's father was the Kansas Athletics business manager, and he grew up knowing Allen. Their close relationship continued when he became a broadcaster.
The "Phog" nickname hadn't come about yet, but Falkenstien remembered where it came from.
"The nickname 'Phog' came from when he umpired softball or baseball," Falkenstien said. "He would blare out the balls and strikes in a foghorn-like voice."
"He was a very nice man and was very inspirational," Falkenstien said. "He was one of the [greatest] public speakers of all time."
WILT THE STILT
WILL THE SKY
Allen's last season as coach was also Wilt Chamberlain's freshman debut.
"We have a lot of seven-footers now, but they don't have the size that Wilt had to go along with it," Falkenstien said. "In those days, a seven-footer really was a rarity."
Back then, freshmen weren't allowed to play with the varsity team, but they could play against them.
Falkenstien said Chamberlain scored 52 points against the varsity team in its scrimmage. The freshmen won.
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foresight
GABBY OLIVAREZ Senior from Olathe
The man, who is no longer a student at the University, is set to stand trial in May for aggravated sexual battery and criminal restraint in connection with a Nov. 10 incident.
more.
in the music school in some capacity without being affected by it"
Frish said she hopes the campus can take this incident and factor it into a larger conversation that needs to happen, but she doesn't know exactly what that conversation will look like. One thing Frish noted was the difficulty of determining what's going to be a bad situation, especially when they involve people you know.
"There's a general sense of 'don't be stupid'; if you weren't
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There was a very informal men's team on campus at this time as well, and the site said the two teams would often play together. According to the men's team's Facebook page, its name, the Horror Zontals, came about in 1980
in 1986 and went on to win the National Collegeate Women's Championship the following year, becoming the first women's college champions, according to the Betty's official website.
betty's co-captain and favorite part of Ultimate is the people in the community and how welcoming they are.
"Ultimate has a ton of cultural history and it's not super well known yet, so at KU there's a really tight knit community of the Bettys and the Horror Zontals," Corcoran said. "That has given me a family at KU."
WOMEN'S TEAM - THE BETTYS The Bettys are in the midst
that hadn't happened in a very long time, sophomore player Mimi Mechache from Hopkins, Minn said.
"We had a really great season last year," Mechache said. "It was really exciting and was a change for the women's Ultimate Frisbee program here at Kansas."
This year's team of 27 players,including 13 first-year players,practices twice a week and competes in
in January, a tournament the Betts walked away from as the winners.
If the Bettys can pull through again and make it to nationals for a second time, its season will continue into late May, when the championship tournament will be held in Milwaukee.
Corcoran's goal for the team is to continue to build and get
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