Volume 124 Issue 113
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
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PHOTO BY RACHEL CHEON
Short sleeve T-shirts are staples of the college wardrobe. In your closet, there's T-shirts for University of Kansas, T-shirts for sports teams, T-shirts for events, T-shirts for businesses, T-shirts for organizations, T-shirts for... you get my point. We see T-shirts everywhere; some are very clever, creative, funny, and bring out memories. My 2008 NCAA men's basketball championship T-shirt brings me back the memory of being in Allen Fieldhouse to watch games with my friends, storming the floor after the win, then joining the craziness on Massachusetts Street. T-shirts can be even more personal, creative, and commemorative by designing your own.
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Do This: Design Your Own T-Shirt // RACHEL CHEON
I walk into Acme T-Shirt Shop, 847 Massachusetts St. and am greeted by a colorful display of unique t-shirts that say things on them like "Graduating in four years is like leaving the party at 11," or a white t-shirt with red lifeguard cross saying "Wescoe Beach lifeguard," or a black t-shirt with giant white letters stating "Designated driver." Acme is a custom-design shop where you can design your own t-shirts and just purchase one, although you can do bulk orders as well. Caitlin Bubna, employee at Acme and KU graduate, says usually people come in and sit with the staff to talk about what idea they had in mind, pick out a font, pick out images, and have the staff print the shirt within an hour. "We have free design help so you can also just come in, go to the computer, look up images, fonts, and look up how they turn out," Bubna says.
You can design your own t-shirts on many kinds of styles and clothing brands. Printing on a basic Gildan white shortsleeve t-shirt costs $15.95, and printing your design on American Apparel brand sweatshirt can cost about $48. Nicholas Stahl, employee at Acme and also a KU graduate, says students come design t-shirts for many occasions ranging from sorority group t-shirts, birthdays, anniversaries, and inside jokes. "Everyone has awesome stories about their shirts," Stahl says.
You can also a bring file of the design on a flash drive, have staff help you design on their computer, or just buy one of the pre-designed t-shirts there. No reservation is necessary and Acme is open Mondays to Wednesdays 10a.m. to 7p.m., Thursdays to Saturdays 10a.m. to 8p.m., and Sundays from noon to 5p.m. Other places to custom-design T-shirts include AJ's Custom Signs & Graphics, 628 N. 2nd St., open Mondays to Saturdays 9a.m. to 6p.m., and MidWest Graphics Inc., 4811 Quail Crest Pl., open Mondays to Fridays 8a.m. to 5p.m.
--because they are more motivated and ravenous when they play teams that BCS schools.
--because they are more motivated and ravenous when they play teams that BCS schools.
It's hard for a big name program like Kansas to get motivated to play against a mid-major team even if it's for a trip to the Final Four, as fans saw last season. Not to discredit VCU's performance against Kansas, but Kansas played its worst game of the season, shooting 35.5 percent from the court, 9.5 percent from behind the arc and a paltry 53.6 percent from the free-throw line. Statistically, Kansas was awful, but the team's effort and energy was just as bad. The Jayhawks were simply flat and lethargic. They simply overlooked and undermined Cinderella.
If Kansas played against a BCS school instead of a mid-major in last year's Elite Eight game, I firmly believe that they would have played much better and advanced to the Final Four.
The Jayhawks have what it takes to go all the way, but they also did last year. Cinderella is waiting, and Jayhawk Nation hopes that her slipper won't fit this time around.
Edited by Tanvi Nimkar
on Kansas City and the Big 12 tournament.
"Going into the season, a lot of people didn't have faith in us because we lost so much last year," junior guard Travis Releford said Monday afternoon. "But if you think about it, all the guys that are playing, we've been here a while. We know what coach wants and we know how to run the system."
The Jayhawks earned the tournament's top seed for the ninth time in its 16-year existence and are looking to capture their 13th Big 12 tournament championship.
A head-scratching loss to Davidson in December made Bill Self question just how good his team was, but a 16-2 league record and eighth consecutive conference regular season championship re-assorted Kansas as the cream of the crop in the Big 12.
Releford said the team has had something to prove since the beginning of the season because of doubting fans.
The team is 19-2 since that loss to Davidson but Self thinks the team still has room for improvement heading into postseason play.
"I haven't been defending how I was at the start of the season and I feel that going into post-season that I can step it up a lot more." Releford said. "He knows that I can be that guy that can step up and stop someone on the opponent's team."
He's stressed the importance of finding a "defensive stopper" on numerous occasions and admitted his words were a message to a few players.
Self said great defense was all about a person's mindset, not something a team can just decide to practice one week and magically get better at. He thinks Leeford, junior guard Elijah Johnson and senior guard Tyshawn Taylor can all improve defensively.
But the month of March brings more than just on-court adjustments.
"I think distractions have
things I probably won't about more than anything else"
"It would be great," Self said. "Because that means we won two games."
In the short term, the biggest distraction might be the talks of a possible meeting between Kansas and Missouri in the tournament championship Saturday night.
Edited by Katie James
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Junior guard Travis Releford drives into the lane during the second half of a game against Missouri earlier this season. The Jayhawks could face the Tigers again in the Big 12 Tournaments.