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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSA
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2009
WWW.KANSAN.COM
VOLUME 120 ISSUE 91
GARNERING FAME FROM ANOTHER'NET
Teahan's spoof draws 57,000 views
Video plays off sophomore's similarity to Zac Efron
BY ADAM SAMSON asamson@kansan.com
A wink, lip synching and looks similar to Zac Efron were all it took for Conner Teahan to become a YouTube sensation. "Jayhawk Musical."
of "High School Musical" starring Teahan, has been viewed 56,000 times to date on YouTube, not to mention it was featured on Sportsillustrated. com's "Hot Clicks" section.
"It's just more people have seen this video, making me kind of look like the High School Musical man."
Te a h a n
After coming up with the high School Musical idea for the skit, Martincicch and her teammates sought help from Teahan and his teammates. Martincicch said she
CONNER TEAHAN Kansas guard
Leawood sophomore and men's basketball player, had heard plenty of times that he was a Zac Efron look-alike, but his performance in the layRock skit added to the comparisons.
went to high school with had seen it because they had heard about it from someone else."
JayRock is an annual variety show put on by student athletes. This is the fourth year the show has run.
Volleyball player Katie Martinicich, another in the skit, thought the video would be viewed only by friends and family.
thought it would only be funny if Teahan was involved because of the Zac Efron comparisons.
"It was fun to actually see other people's reactions," Martincich, Shawnee junior, said. "People 1
TyrellReed, Teahan's teammate, who was also in the skit, said Teahan received some teasing because of his part in the skit.
Just one week after JayRock coordinator Matt Baysinger loaded the video onto YouTube, the video attracted more than 50,000 viewers and 30 comments.
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Graphic courtesy of YouTube
"He's gotten quite a bit of flak from us because he does look like the character Zae Efron", Reed, Burlington sophomore, said.
he thought that it should be the other way around. Teahari took credit for having his long, shaggy hair before the High School Musical movies came out.
but you know he did it all out of fun and he can have a sense of humor about it."
graphic courtesy of YouTube Kansas basketball player Conner Teahan performs part of his dance from the "High School Musical" spoof "Jayhawk Musical" The video has received more than 50,000 views in just a few days.
Jimmy Traina, senior producer for Sportsillustrated.com, receives reader e-mails with pop culture references and decides what to put on his "Hot Clicks" section. Traina will feature an item in his section if it is unique. Like the Kansas video.
Teahan thought no one would find out about the skit, so he said he didn't think his participation was going to be a big deal
"It's just more people have seen this video, making me kind of look like the High School Musical man," Teahan said.
Instead of people comparing Teahan to Zac Efron, Teahn said
Traina said he thought this type of video made fans realize athletes were human and had a personality off the playing field.
"More athletes should be aware of that," Traina said. "Fans really want to embrace athletes. We got into this mode where you can't have any contact with fans."
Tranna said he saw a trend of athletes creating blogs and doing
"You know he did it all out of fun and he can have a sense of humor about it."
TYREL REED Kansas guard
things outside their sports that made them seem more approachable and more than just athletes.
Teahan said he saw the importance of activities like this outside of his sport.
that people really don't get to see that often." Teahan said. "I think that's good for people to understand that we do have a different side."
- Edited by Casey Miles
It kind of shows a different side of us
look-alike comparison
Conner Teahan's favorites:
Corner Teenan's favorites:
TV Show: South Park
Movie: 300
Musician: Lil' Wayne
Food: Taco Bell
Athlete: Lebron James
Zac Efron's favorites: TV Shows: American Idol, World Series Of Poker
Movies: Dumb and Dumber,
Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old
Virgin
Musicians:The Postal Service, The Shins, The Gorillaz, John Mayer Food: Orange Chicken from Panda Athlete: Kobe Bryant
Source:TV.com
Efron
HEALTH
Health experts recommend students receive immunizations
Flu season begins late
Mai Do, marketing coordinator for the Watkins Health Center, gets a flu shot from Patty Quinlan, the supervisor of nursing. Employees of the health clinic get free flu shots and are highly encouraged to get them.
Tyler Waugh/KANSAN
BY LAUREN HENDRICK
lhendrick@kansan.com
In her 20 years of working at Watkins Memorial Health Center, physician Patricia Denning has never seen such a long delay in the influenza season. Last week was the first time during the 2008-2009 school year that a student went to Watkins and tested positive for it. Normally, Watkins sees cases in late October and mid-November.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, influenza reaches its peak in January and February, but most states report the flu as early as September. On its Web site, the CDC also reported that five percent to 20 percent of the U.S. population is infected with the flu each year.
The spreading of certain viruses causes influenza, commonly called the flu. It is a highly contagious respiratory illness, often contracted when infected people cough, sneeze and don't wash their hands.
"Unfortunately an average of 36,000 people die every year," said Alieen Porcell, CDC spokeswoman. Additionally, an average of 200,000 people are hospitalized each year and thousands of people
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BY ALEXANDRA GARRY
agarry@kansan.com
Graphic design, drawing, creating and recording music; these are a few of Ryan Wing's favorite things. He puts a lot of passion into his creative endeavors — and into studying economics.
Chance Dibben/KANSAN
Using examples from scientific journals and newspaper articles, Professor Beverly Mack shows students of the "Creative Impulse" Honors Commons course examples of non-traditional creativity in Spooner Hall Monday afternoon. The new course seeks to broadly examine creativity in all facets of experiences and disciplines.
Wing, San Jose, Calif., junior, grew up with a passion for visual art and pursued a career in music recording before deciding to follow his interest in sustainability issues into a degree in economics.
The merger of creativity and fields such as economics will be one topic discussed in a new lecture series sponsored by the University Honors Program, which starts tonight. With the lecture series and a corresponding class, the University Honors Program is working to explore where ideas and innovation come from and to promote interdisciplinary discussion and transfer of ideas.
Wing said creative and technical pursuits were often seen as separate things to be done by separate people, but said scientists needed arts just as much as artists needed science.
"But if you're creative but you can't come up with a market for your creations, you're not going to be creative for very long — you'll be broke."
"Too often, our knee-jerk response is to assume 'creativity' is only in the fine arts, but there is creativity in every field." Mack said.
Beverly Mack, professor of African and African-American studies and the instructor of the lecture series' corresponding course, said creativity and economics merge.
Sarah Crawford-Parker, associate director of the Honors Program, said now was a better time than ever to discuss creativity as a way to promote new solutions to the country's economic and political challenges.
Sarah Frazelle, lecturer of economics; is researching creativity in economics at the University (or the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Frazelle said entrepreneurship was a crucial part of economic erowth and was a big part of her
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