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Joining high speed and hybrid
Students redesign 2009 Formula car as a hybrid
BY KELLY STRODA kstroda@kansan.com
The brilliant yellow body of the 2009 Formula SAE race car sits in the Jayhawk Motorsports lab in Learned Hall. Decals of Jayhaws and sponsors adorn the sides of the body, or the chassis. There's no doubt about it — the car looks slick.
But that doesn't mean the paint is still wet. It's been nearly two years ago, since the car earned third place in the annual Formula
SAE California competition in
Jayhawk Motorsports is competing in the new Formula Hybrid competition as well as the Formula SAE competitions that the team has participated in since 1994.
The group will compete at the New Hampshire International Speedway on May 1-4,2011.
Fontana, Calif.
Formula SAE and Formula Hybrid are student competitions hosted by SAE International, which was formerly the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Now it's time for a makeover, which comes just in time for a a new competition in town or rather in Loudon, N.H.
Students from chemical, industrial mechanical
In May, the first SAE Collegiate Design Formula Hybrid competition will be held in New Hampshire. There, the Jayhawk Motorsports hybrid race car will compete against teams from across the world, said Abby Rimel, a senior from Aurora, Colo., and Jayhawk Motorsports team leader.
and electrical engineering work together to design, manufacture, build and race Formula vehicles.
The Formula Hybrid competition is unique because teams are allowed to retrofit old SAE cars instead of building an entirely new chassis.
Emily Dellwig, a junior from Overland Park, is the team leader for the hybrid car.
She said the idea behind the new competition is to introduce hybrid and electrical technology to students while they're still in college, which could help students after graduation.
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"That industry is growing right now." Dellwig said.
The Formula Hybrid car will be like any other hybrid and run on both electricity and gasoline. There will be both
an AC, or alternating current, engine and an IC, or internal combustion, engine.
Dellwig said designing a hybrid car from scratch requires the team to ask a lot of questions and come up with answers.
"How much current will I use? How much capacity do I need for my batteries? What torque range am I shooting for so I can be competitive in this competition?" she said are some examples.
For now, the hybrid team is still in its design stage. SolidWorks Sustainability is the computer-aided drafting program the team is using to help them make decisions about materials.
Steven Heger, a senior from Wichita and manufacturing lead, said the program measures the sustainability of various materials and the affect those materials have on the environment. Heger
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Mechanical engineering students are revamping two formula race cars this year, one of which is to be hybrid. KU's formula racing students are still building the 2011 Formula SAE in addition to the Formula Hybrid and expect them to be ready for racing in their three big races in May and June.
STUDENT LIFE
First comes marriage, then comes college graduation
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As a kicker for KU football, Jacob Branstetter is used to working with teammates. Still, he said that didn't entirely prepare him for the new challenges he faced in married life.
According to the University of Kansas, marriage classifies a student as non-traditional. There are more than 5,000 non-traditional students, making up more than 25 percent of the student body. Similar to the Branstetters, 39 percent of non-traditional students are 24 years old or younger.
"Despite all of my experience in athletics, marriage is more about teamwork than I ever would have imagined," said Branstetter, a senior from Lawton, Okla., who wed last July.
Although they are in among a minority group of students, Branstetter said he wasn't phased by entering marriage.
"Our families are supportive," Branstetter said. "My parents got
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THE UNIVERSITY CLASSIFIES STUDENTS AS NONTRADITIONAL IF THEY:
- Are three or more years older than classmates (for example, a 21+ year-old freshman or a 24+ year-old senior)
- Are married
- Are veterans
- Commute 10 or more miles to campus from home or work
- Are a parent of dependent children
- Nontraditional students make up more than 25 percent of the student body at the University.
The majority of nontraditional students are not married and do not have children.
Source: http://www.silc.ku.edu/nontrads/faq.shtml
HEALTH
Education helps AIDS protection
BY JUSTINE PATTON jpatton@kansan.com
One out of every 500 college students are infected with HIV. That may not sound like a lot, but here's the catch: 25 percent of individuals infected with the virus have no idea they have it, and odds are neither do their partners.
Today is World AIDS Day, which offers a reason for KU students to educate themselves about HIV and AIDS.
Monica Saha, the peer health education diversity coordinator at the Wellness Resource Center, said she thought some college students didn't realize the AIDS epidemic affects them as well.
Saha, a junior from Overland Park, said she thought that college students often engage in high-risk activities, such as having unprotected sex with multiple partners or not using a condom correctly, which could put them at risk for contracting the virus.
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"It just takes one person to
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Kansas aims for 700th win
The Jayhawks will defend their perfect record against Maine with a landmark on the line.
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A few tips on preparing a car for winter
Drivers can be safe and save money by following some basic advice. It's necessary to maintain tires, wipers and windshields.
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Long-time rivals share the pages of new book
KU alumnus' heated feelings for Missouri drove him to write a book about the second-oldest football rivalry in the U.S.
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The Academic Achievement and Access Center is presenting a workshop about preparing for finals from 5 to 5:30 p.m. in Wescoe Hall, room 4008.
The Student Involvement and Leadership Center is hosting an international internship fair from 6 to 8 p.m. in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union.
THURSDAY
December 2
Student Union Activities is hosting a holiday open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union.
The KU Libraries' department of instructional services is presenting a workshop on making charts and graphics with Excel 2007 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Anschutz Library instruction center.
SUNDAY December 5
KU School of Music will present a Holiday Vespers concert from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Lied Center.
FRIDAY December 3
The KU Department of Dance will present "New Dance Concert" at 7:30 p.m. in Robinson Center, Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Theatre, Studio 240.
- Student Union Activities will host a showing of the movie Eat, Pray, Love' from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium, level 5.
MONDAY
December 6
There will be an informational session about the Peace Corps from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
The KU School of Music will present a Percussion Ensemble from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall at Murphy Hall.
SATURDAY December 4
The Department of Visual Art will host an open drawing workshop from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Art and Design Building room 405.
Student Union Activities will host free cosmic bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Jaybowl, 1st floor of the Kansas Union.
TUESDAY
December 7
■ Ellie Woods makes her way to Lawrence as the popular "Legally Blonde" film moves to the stage at the Lied Center. The show is from 7:30-10 p.m. Student tickets range from 21 to 24 dollars, available by calling 785-864-2787.
Examine the Stages of Stress, the dangers of it in our daily lives and how to easily reduce it. The session, held from 9:00a.m. to noon in room 204 at Joseph Pearson Hall, will help show methods to lower stress levels while enforcing a healthy lifestyle.
GOVERNMENT
Ban puts pressure on Republicans
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WASHINGTON — Gay troops can serve openly in the armed forces without harming the military's ability to fight, the Pentagon's top leaders said Tuesday, declaring the 17-year-old "don't ask, don't tell law" should be scrapped and pointing to a new survey to show most troops won't mind.
President Barack Obama, citing the troop poll, urged the Senate to repeal the ban before adjourning in the next few weeks, but there is still no indication GOP objections can be overcome with just a few weeks left in the postelection lame-duck session. Still, the survey did put new pressure on Republican opponents, led by Sen. John McCain, who say efforts to repeal the law are politically motivated and dangerous at a time of two wars.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the ban on openly gay military service "requires people to lie," and he called for quick Senate action.
"We spend a lot of time in the military talking about integrity and honor and values. Telling the truth is a pretty important value in that scale." Gates said as he released the Pentagon study showing that most people currently in uniform don't care about the ban.
Senate Democrats plan to force a vote in December. Senate Republicans were generally silent following release of the Pentagon recommendations for repealing the ban.
Although historic, Tuesday's recommendation that the military for the first time allow openly gay people came with a caveat that also frustrates many supporters of
repeal. Gates wants an indefinite grace period while the Pentagon prepares for the policy change and phases it in.
"It would be unwise to push ahead with full implementation of repeal before more can be done to prepare the force, in particular those ground combat specialties and units, for what could be a disruptive and disorienting change," Gates said.
Critics led by McCain say the Pentagon's report doesn't address risks to morale and fighting mettle. Gates countered: "I obviously have a lot of admiration and respect for Senator McCain, but in this respect I think that he's mistaken."
Obama has called it a top priority to repeal the 1993 law that bans openly gay service. But gay rights groups have complained that he and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have
A defense policy bill that would overturn the law — pending certification by the Pentagon and the president that doing so wouldn't hurt the military's ability to fight — has languished in the Senate since it passed the House this spring.
In the meantime, a federal judge ordered the Pentagon to stop enforcing the law because it was unconstitutional. The Obama administration is appealing that decision.
"Given the present circumstances, those that choose not to act legislatively are rolling the dice that this policy will not be abruptly
gays if they were allowed to serve openly.
"We spend a lot of time in the military talking about integrity and honor and values."
done too little to see it through, focusing their postelection efforts instead on tax cuts and a nuclear arms treaty with Russia before Republicans gain congressional strength when lawmakers return in January.
In the report, the study's cochairs, Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson and Army Gen. Carter Ham, wrote, "We are both convinced that our military can do this, even during this time of war."
Gates said he didn't think the Pentagon would have to rewrite its regulations on housing, benefits or fraternization to accommodate
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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said repealing the ban was discussed during a two-hour meeting Tuesday. h o t w e e p
Adam, Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday he agreed with Gates that "this is a policy change that we can make and we can do it in a relatively low-risk fashion," given time to prepare forces and leaders for new rules and expectations.
Obama and lawmakers and was the sole focus of a session Monday with the military service chiefs. He declined to provide more details.
Advocates for repeal said Congress was running out of excuses to change the law before
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"For senators who were on the fence — Republicans as well as Democrats — this report should address most if not all the concerns that they have raised," said Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a pro-repeal advocacy group.
The Pentagon survey found that some two-thirds of troops don't care if the ban is lifted. Of the 30 percent who objected, most of them were in combat units.
Opposition was strongest among combat troops, with at least 40 percent saying repeal would be a bad idea. That number climbed to 58 percent among Marines serving in combat roles.
A summary of the report said 69 percent of respondents believed they had already served alongside a gay person.
In its decision, the Court said it would issue an opinion on the interpretation of Rules and Regulations later this week.
STUDENT SENATE
"It fits the description with what we were planning on doing anyways," said Megan Ritter, student body vice president.
Senate will need to be moved into committee as a whole, a lengthy procedural tactic, to draft the bill tonight. Moving into committee as a whole would allow Senate to vote on the bill immediately after its drafted.
Bill drafted to reform Exec Staff
The Court of Appeals unanimously decided not to issue an injunction that would have prevented Student Senate from drafting a proposed bill tonight.
The bill outlines a plan to restructure the Student Senate Executive Staff.
The Court did, however enjoin Student Body President Michael Wade Smith from combining, adding or changing the names of executive staff positions without formal legislation.
According to Smith's interpretation of Senate's Rules and Regulations, the student body president is allowed to change the job descriptions of executive staff members as he or she sees fit.
"The various interpretations still stand and I think that's an issue that needs to be taken care of soon," said Harris.
Aarron Harris, a non-traditional senator who requested the injunction, said the student body president was only allowed to make short-term changes to executive staff. He said legislation was required for the types of permanent changes Smith wanted to implement.
after the court announced its decision. Smith did not attend the hearing.
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Slippery roads, temperatures below zero and extreme wind chills are on the way. Despite the treacherous conditions, we still must hop in our vehicles and go about our lives. Preparing your car for winter can prevent accidents and relieve you of future stress.
You may think your car is ready to take on severe winter storms yet again, but there are a few things that can make facing the wintery conditions easier for both you and your vehicle.
TIP #1: TAKE CARE OF YOUR TIRES
Check your tire pressure
Check your pressure Richard Haig, owner of the Westside 66 & Carwash, said it's a good idea to check the pressure on all your tires and fill them a few pounds higher than they call for. Many mechanic shops will try to charge you to put nitrogen air in your tires, but Haig advises against that and says the normal air is just fine.
"Eighty-three percent of the air we breathe in the U.S. is nitrogen anyways," he said. "There is no difference between that and regular air, but they will try to sell you it anyways."
Put winter tires on your vehicle
If you drive a performance vehicle such as a Mustang, Haig recommends switching from the stock performance tires to winter tires. Winter tires have more treads and deeper grooves to help the car "grip" the road better in slippery conditions. Also, all-season tires harden at temperatures below 45 degrees Fahrenheit. Winter tires however, are made with a different rubber, which stays more flexible even in below zero conditions. This flexibility improves traction.
TIP #2: TAKE CARE OF YOUR WIPERS AND WINDSHIELD
Keep ice from building up on your winers
When you park for the night and head inside, a good practice is to pull your windshield wipers up and away from the windshield. This keeps the wipers from freezing and sticking to the car. Haig suggests switching your windshield wipers to winter blades which cost anywhere from 12-20 dollars. Winter blades feature a rubber "boot" which helps keep snow and ice from building up
within the blade.
Be careful trying to get ice off your windshield
If your windshield is frozen over with ice, it is important to be patient. The wipers alone are not strong enough to remove the ice and running wipers over a frozen windshield will wear down the blades almost immediately. Haig's advice is to turn the car on and let it run for a few minutes. He warns not to pour hot water on the windshield as this could crack your windshield all together. According to Haig, many people purchase anti-freeze to speed up the defrost process. In his opinion, anti-freeze it is a waste of money. Just buy yourself a window scraper. Some scrapers even have built in gloves to keep your hands warm while you scrape off the ice.
"I walk to campus a lot and rarely have to drive, so i just forget about my care so my wipers are always frozen to the windshield and it always hard to get them going." said Steve Ryan, a sophomore from Hinsdale, Ill.
TIP #3: KEEP JUMPER CABLES WITH YOU
If you do not use your car often then it is crucial to keep jumper
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said the software tells information like where in the world materials come from and how many greenhouse gas emissions the materials create.
"Being able to reuse parts allows us more time for testing," she said.
Dellwag said she thought revamping the 2009 car would benefit the Jayhawk Motorsports team in competition.
Testing allows the members to discover potential problems that could hinder performance in competition, Rimel said.
The members of Jayhawk Motorsports affectionately call
their lab "the shop" but it's more than that.
"We're not fixing brake pads changing oil filters," Rime. "We're literally engineering es."
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married in high school, so if you think we are young, look at them."
This connection also helped them maintain their relationship despite rigorous schedules.
Branstetter said a passion for sports helped bring him close to his wife, Kolby, a senior from Round Rock, Texas and an infield player on the softball team.
"As soon as I met her and we had that connection, it was easy for me to decide this was the person I wanted to be with," said Branstetter. "We could connect on every level of life."
"We got married right before the football season started," Branstetter said. "But it never changed me as an athlete. We both have the same desire to win and be successful, so we just understand each other."
Unlike Branstetter, Joshua Anderson, a senior from Perry, said his life has moved in reverse. He met his wife to-be, Rachel. He got married. He worked blue-collar jobs driving trucks and building houses. He had two children. Only after that did he go to college.
"At the time we met, I was just sort of drifting." Anderson said. "I didn't have any ideas one way or the other about when I should marry, it just happened."
After the wedding, though.
Rachel Brashear-Anderson said the couple's priorities changed.
"When you are married, there is no attitude of 'Oh my gosh, this is so hard, let's party,' she said. "You are spending your own money in hopes of improving the future for your family."
In addition to a full course load, Anderson also works part time as a shop tech in the Art Department. Brashear-Anderson works as a Doula, or a birth assistant. She also makes money as a piano teacher and musician to make ends meet.
"I was too young to have very developed expectations," Anderson said. "Marriage for me was maybe the only natural decision of my life. Everything becomes more difficult when you get married, and going to school full time makes it even harder."
"With children, you either pay tons of money for childcare or one parent stays at home." Brashear-Anderson said. "If Josh had gone to school before we had kids, I would have been able to pursue my career in my own time. It puts a strain on finances, and also relationships."
Anderson said he relies on his wife's support to get through school.
Brashear-Anderson explained that school comes with sacrifices.
"You have an impetus to succeed, and you have someone who is there for you," Anderson said. "Making everything work for everyone is very difficult and requires a lot of sacrifices."
Anderson said school has also challenged the couple.
"I imagine life after school will be great," Anderson said. "Because in a lot of ways, being in school has been like putting our relationship through the wringer."
Branstetter said the biggest change he has felt since getting married is his mind-set.
"I stopped thinking about me and what I wanted to do," Branstetter said. "Now it's about her and what she needs to do and what we want to do together. I don't think we ever expected how dependent you become on each other."
Anderson said despite all of its challenges, being married and a college student provides a concrete partnership.
"You have someone there for you," Anderson said. "Your life is so different from other students in a way they could never understand. You are never alone."
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cables on hand. Jumper cables are vital to getting your car started if your battery dies. Just remember positive-to-positive and negative-to-negative. If you do not know how to jump a car, wait for someone who does because it can be extremely dangerous.
"Living in the dorms last year, I wouldn't drive too much. The jumper cables came in handy pretty often, for me and people on my floor," recalls Charlie Herr, a sophomore from Chicago.
Cold weather tire problems can be alleviated by checking pressure and switching to winter tires. All-season tires can harden at temperatures below 45 degrees Fahrenheit.
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TIP #4: DON'T SLAM ON YOUR BRAKES IF YOU HIT ICE
but at a much faster rate than humanly possible. Eventually, with steady pressure, the brakes will re-grip.
If you have the unfortunate experience of hitting ice and skidding, it is important to keep steady pressure on the brakes. Many people try to keep padding the break on and off, however the ABS break system is designed to do just that
"Give yourself a little extra time to get wherever you are going."
Haig said. "And if you don't have to go somewhere, maybe just wait till conditions are better to go."
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10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
Your dreams are stirring up your desire for change. Put together a well thought out plan for what you envision. Small steps make big progress.
Social activities cement relationships, as you meet unusual individuals. Don't try to imitate their glamorous style. Instead, invent your own.
Use all the facts at your disposal as you create a plan for change. Maintain workflow at the same time. Decide how much time to spend on each task.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Todav is a 6
Great ideas flow between you and key associates. You agree that a persuasive message is needed, and have a variety of ways to make that happen.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 6
Financial questions cause you to question a basic premise. Can you afford the renovations you'd planned? It's more attainable if you break it into manageable stages.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 6
Concentrate your energy on practical, creative ways to solve a household issue. Family members may disagree at first but respond to the logic.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 9
Your practical thinking makes life run smoothly now. Challenges at work become opportunities when viewed anew. Personal responsibilities benefit from logic.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 6
Today is a 6
Take time for personal attire and appearance today. Visit your neighborhood salon and try something new and different.
Take a calculated risk.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 9
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.19)
Today is a 7
A new person on the scene asks key questions. To answer them, think about it well. Take time to consider creative options. Then present choices to the team.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7*You're on familiar ground with group activities now. Consider the needs of individuals and coworkers as you challenge old concepts. You'll know just what to say.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
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Moreover, West has seemingly sidestepped conventional logic and controversy every step of the way. After nearly a year of silence following the public outcry that accompanied West's interruption of Taylor Swift's 2009 MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech — including abandoning a co-headlining tour with Lady Gaga — he spearheaded his own promo initiative by giving away alternate and non-album tracks from "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" on his blog at KanyeWest.com. The performer spurned the overwhelming majority of interview requests — the notable exceptions
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Kanye West uses Twitter to develop his own image
The upshot: "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" was on track to sell more than 550,000 copies in its first week on the market, according to a senior staff member at his label Universal Music Group who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly on behalf of the company.
LOS ANGELES — Early this fall, before any kind of promotional push for Kanye West's new album, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy," had begun in earnest, the Grammy-winning rapper-producer took to his widely read Twitter account to vent. Even for a creative firebrand whose career has in many ways been defined by outrageous behavior and controversial statements, West's remarks stood as a defiant dismissal of every rule in the major label marketing playbook. Call it a tweet as mission statement.
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And so began a campaign of nearly unprecedented, self-styled image control and media spin that culminated Nov. 22 with the album's release. Even in an era when social networking tools allow artists ever greater freedoms to communicate directly with fans, the so-called Louis Vuitton Don has taken the notion of personally generating his own hype to further extremes than just about anyone in popular culture.
"Man I love Twitter," West posted on Sept. 4. "I've always been at the mercy of the press but no more."
being an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and a stint "guest editing" XXL magazine (in which he basically interviewed himself) _ and took to Twitter to lambaste various reporters and media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times (for what West decried as a "soulless" review of his short film "Runaway") and "Today" show host Matt Lauer.
In the process, the performer has won critical props from a constellation of recording stars and past collaborators - even a powerhouse TV producer whose show West dissed on a single from the new album.
To hear it from multiplatinum-selling R&B crooner John Legend, who is signed to West's G.O.D.O. Music imprint, appears on "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" and is currently working on an album to be released in 2011 with West, "all this wacky stuff and this controversy" does more than generate publicity. It sets West apart as a sort of endangered species, an artistic loner in an age of mannered shock value and carefully laid-out viral marketing initiatives.
release and West's star persona, yet in a depressed climate in which labels are eager to talk about any success, multiple requests over the last two weeks to speak to representatives of Universal's Island Def Jam imprint were met with notable silence.
Instead, West has largely been a one-man show. Online, he has been the comedian — "Don't you hate it when you say bye to someone then yall get on the elevator together," he tweeted in August — as well as the victim — "I can't be everybody's hero and villain savior and sinner Christian and anti Christ!" he noted in November.
Clearly, he does things that are provocative," Legend said. "That's cool. That's a part of what makes him interesting as an artist. He puts it all out there in every way — musically and with his personality. It's all out there. I think that throws people off."
Unsurprisingly, efforts to reach West were unsuccessful. When his publicist, Gabe Tesiorio, was asked via e-mail about West's interview availability on a scale of 1 to 10 — with one being "not a chance" and 10 being a sure thing — Tesiorio responded with a numerical one, accompanied by a frowny-face emoticon.
"Man I love Twitter. I've always been at the mercy of the press but no more."
"Outlets like Twitter," said suave R&B star Ne-Yo, allow West the opportunity to "vent to the world."
Likewise, executives at Universal Music Group declined to comment. "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" is no doubt a priority for the label, given its holiday-timed
"I think it said, "a beautiful thing."
Ne-Yo said. "By now, you know who Kanye is. If he feels like he was disrespected, he's not only going to say it, he's going to stand on a chair and
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scream it. That's who he is. He's a master of PR. He knows what he is doing."
But does anyone else? The answer remains unclear. For instance, West tweeted that his intended album art for "Mv
Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" had been "banned in the USA," adding that he didn't think about Wal-Mart when picking art. The retailer issued a statement, saying it had never been shown the sexually graphic image, and multiple Universal Music Group staffers contacted by the Times were unaware of any such banning.
With West, unfiltered, perhaps, would be an understatement. His artistic peers admire it, even if they wouldn't take a similar approach. Justin Timberlake is a fairly regular Twitter presence with nearly 4 million followers. Unlike West, however, the pop icon and freshly minted movie star neither uses the platform to promote a personal agenda nor to provide an up-close slice of his life.
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Minaj didn't see career in music
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LOS ANGELES — Nicki Minaj never envisioned herself as hip-hop's reigning "it" girl. The question alone makes her giggle as she offers an answer nowhere near as cocky as her saucy rhymes.
"When I was growing up I thought I'd be a famous actress," she says. "Acting came very natural to me. I didn't imagine all this music stuff happening."
Minaj is harnessing those drama skills, which she honed at LaGuardia High School in New York City, by assuming the identity of one of the many animated alter egos she's masterfully crafted in lyrics: There's Roman Zolanski, her gay male counterpart; Nicki the Lewinsky, the sex kitten; Nicki the Ninja, a spotlight stealer; Nicki the Boss, who runs her own empire; and Nicki the Harajuku Barbie — the over-the-top doll who doesn't hesitate to sign the breasts of her adoring female fans.
With those razor-sharp bangs, a penchant for colorful wigs, vibrant, body-hugging attire and brazen guest verses, she's been on a lot of people's lips of late. Like Lady Gaga, much of her appeal hinges on her image, and Minaj's quirky, charismatic presence seems to have arrived fully formed. The
masses — including her more than 1.5 million Twitter followers — have gobbled it up.
But somewhere within the caricature resides Onika Tanya Maraj, the 26-year-old Queens mastermind behind the hype who recently made chart history after her Annie Lennox-sampling single, "Your Love," became the first female hiphop No. 1 to hit Billboard's rap singles chart since Miss Elliott's "Work It" in 2002. She's also the female rapper with the most chart entries in one year on Billboard's 100 — she's had eight — all before the release of her debut album, "Pink Friday," last week.
On a recent afternoon she is doing what she does best: playing dress-up for the camera. After a photo session, she is shuttled to a Santa Monica studio for another shoot. Wearing a blue and black bob, bubblegum pink bomber jacket, hip-hugging jeans and pink hightop sneakers, Minaj might look like she's channeling one of her alter egos, but her sheepish grin and demure demeanor suggest that the real Onika is coming to surface.
The buxom rapper got her break when mentor Lil Wayne spotted her remake of Notorious B.I.G.'s "Warning" on a street DVD.
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--also getting married later, men averaging about 28 and women about 26. This might indicate that people take more time to find the right person and are more careful not to marry the wrong one. Not wanting to cloud the great outlook, but Americans divorce still more often than people in most European countries.
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--also getting married later, men averaging about 28 and women about 26. This might indicate that people take more time to find the right person and are more careful not to marry the wrong one. Not wanting to cloud the great outlook, but Americans divorce still more often than people in most European countries.
I'm feeling like Johnny Cash today.
The best part of my Tuesdays and Thursdays are getting to talk to you on the bus.
--also getting married later, men averaging about 28 and women about 26. This might indicate that people take more time to find the right person and are more careful not to marry the wrong one. Not wanting to cloud the great outlook, but Americans divorce still more often than people in most European countries.
Reunited with my boyfriend after Thanksgiving break. He for sure read Sex on The Hill. Thanks, Jayplay!
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My Five Hour Energy shot sure helped me Facebook creep for five hours,but when it was time to do my paper,it began to wear off.
--also getting married later, men averaging about 28 and women about 26. This might indicate that people take more time to find the right person and are more careful not to marry the wrong one. Not wanting to cloud the great outlook, but Americans divorce still more often than people in most European countries.
Senioritis, you're killing me
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--also getting married later, men averaging about 28 and women about 26. This might indicate that people take more time to find the right person and are more careful not to marry the wrong one. Not wanting to cloud the great outlook, but Americans divorce still more often than people in most European countries.
I remember when you showed up to my house in a bikini ... and it was snowing.
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Disney's Hercules is totally mythologically inaccurate.
Why, Disney? WHY!?
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--also getting married later, men averaging about 28 and women about 26. This might indicate that people take more time to find the right person and are more careful not to marry the wrong one. Not wanting to cloud the great outlook, but Americans divorce still more often than people in most European countries.
I'm fiscally responsible but sexually out of control.
That's odd, because I'm sexually responsible and fiscally out of control.
--also getting married later, men averaging about 28 and women about 26. This might indicate that people take more time to find the right person and are more careful not to marry the wrong one. Not wanting to cloud the great outlook, but Americans divorce still more often than people in most European countries.
--also getting married later, men averaging about 28 and women about 26. This might indicate that people take more time to find the right person and are more careful not to marry the wrong one. Not wanting to cloud the great outlook, but Americans divorce still more often than people in most European countries.
If LeBron were to do a remake of Space Jam he would probably switch over to the monsters halfway through the movie.
Why does it always have to be about Christmas? There are other winter holidays too you know!
--also getting married later, men averaging about 28 and women about 26. This might indicate that people take more time to find the right person and are more careful not to marry the wrong one. Not wanting to cloud the great outlook, but Americans divorce still more often than people in most European countries.
Taylor Swift should totally come to the KU vs. K-State basketball game. And sing the national anthem, just
--also getting married later, men averaging about 28 and women about 26. This might indicate that people take more time to find the right person and are more careful not to marry the wrong one. Not wanting to cloud the great outlook, but Americans divorce still more often than people in most European countries.
Surely you can't be serious? I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
--also getting married later, men averaging about 28 and women about 26. This might indicate that people take more time to find the right person and are more careful not to marry the wrong one. Not wanting to cloud the great outlook, but Americans divorce still more often than people in most European countries.
Thanksgiving Break = gateway to complete unmotivation for every college student.
--also getting married later, men averaging about 28 and women about 26. This might indicate that people take more time to find the right person and are more careful not to marry the wrong one. Not wanting to cloud the great outlook, but Americans divorce still more often than people in most European countries.
I should probably do my homework instead of sitting around thinking about how hot my boyfriend is. Did I mention he's pretty hot?
--also getting married later, men averaging about 28 and women about 26. This might indicate that people take more time to find the right person and are more careful not to marry the wrong one. Not wanting to cloud the great outlook, but Americans divorce still more often than people in most European countries.
I am totally convinced my roomates are the laziest and worst roomates ever.
--also getting married later, men averaging about 28 and women about 26. This might indicate that people take more time to find the right person and are more careful not to marry the wrong one. Not wanting to cloud the great outlook, but Americans divorce still more often than people in most European countries.
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Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton recently announced their engagement. The wedding is scheduled for April.
Despite decline, marriage still popular among couples
In yet another provocative cover story headline, TIME Magazine asked in last week's issue: "Who needs marriage?"
Amid debates about who's cheating now, who's finally divorcing or who's finally marrying (William and Kate, save the date), the magazine chose a good moment to take a breath and recap what marriage actually means to us today. The poll, conducted by TIME and the Pew Research Center, asked Americans about their attitudes towards marriage and relationships.
Despite a steep decline of married people from about 70 percent in the 1960s to about 50 percent today, marriage is still favored by most instead of a long-term relationship without the label, especially by college graduates. The poll shows that 64 percent of college graduates are married, compared to 48 percent of those without higher education. But why do we still want to get married anyway?
It's not like we need it anymore. More women than men are graduating from college today and women's career chances have gone uphill for decades, so we can eliminate the financial reason.
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Our society today also doesn't look down on unmarried couples living together or having sex as it did earlier in the last century. So where's the draw?
Children. According to the poll, 77 percent of Americans think it's easier to raise children when married. Somehow it may be easier, but long-term relationships are no different from marriages, except the label. Both are living together and see themselves as a couple. They don't intend to break up anytime soon, or ever. They're just happy together. We should accept that there are different types of relationships now. There are parents without the ring, gay relationships and second marriages. As society changes, our perspective changes.
At least the numbers show that we're smarter about marriage today. The divorce rate has steadily fallen since the 1960s, but so has the marriage rate. We're
As for me, I definitely want to get married someday. I'm not a hypocrite here, but I have my own interpretation of marriage. For me, marriage brings a couple even closer together. They wear the same ring every day as a symbol for their unity. They vow to each other in front of their family and friends that they love and will always care for each other. And divorce is a lot more complicated than a break-up, so each partner is more willing to work on the relationship before finally ending it. But that's just my opinion. If someone's happy without ever marrying, I'm happy for him or her. Let's just hope my future husband shares my opinion.
Bledowski is a graduate student from Cracow, Poland, in journalism.
GUEST COLUMN
People, not products, make holidays special occasion
If there one thing I've learned from my time working in retail, it's this: Santa Claus is the anti-Christ.
While many students were at home spending Thanksgiving with their families, I was still in Lincoln, 400 miles from home. I do have some family here, so I wasn't alone, but it's kind of like dancing with someone else's wife; it works OK, but it's just not the same. In three and a half years at college, it's the first time I've experienced even a hint of homesickness.
And why was I here? Because I had to be to work at 6:45 Friday morning so people could save a few bucks on crap that isn't worth buying anyway. One of my co-workers summed it up pretty well when he greeted me on Friday by saying, "Happy screwed-up American priorities day." It's enough to make我 want to punt a baby penguin.
And these were the sane ones. I was fortunate enough to work at a place that didn't open until 7. I feel sorry for the people who work at places like Wal-Mart or Target and had to be to work ridiculously early. Have people lost their minds?
But it's not like this is anything new. Christmas has been completely stripped of its meaning for years in favor of rampant consumerism. The real significance of the holiday is pushed aside and, for the most part, just gets lip service. People may put up a nativity set in their homes, but then they become preoccupied with what they need to buy.
I don't fault the stores. They're just trying to make money to get into the black for the year. Major sales are simply a way to reach that goal. It's the consumers who
I fail to see how spending money faster than the Obama administration honors a humble carpenter who was born in a stable and never in his life cared about wealth or material possessions. A fat man in a red suit can hardly measure up to the gifts given to us by a child lying in a manger. Christmas isn't about packages wrapped in paper; it's about a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes.
are the problem. Do these people really think they have nothing better to do than stand in line the night of Thanksgiving so they can buy a new TV? Personally, I consider sleep to be much more important. I guess I'm just weird.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily saying people should just stop buying stuff for Christmas.
The economy would be in even bigger trouble if people completely stopped spending money at the time of year that often makes or
breaks retail businesses. But that should be a secondary concern. Spending time with the people you love is far more important.
If you don't get someone the perfect gift, it isn't the end of the world. Their feelings about you shouldn't be swayed by that. My best friend is taking me to an Avalanche/Red Wings game two days after Christmas. It's a great gift and will be my first NHL game, but I'm not looking forward to it because I want to go to a hockey game. I'm looking forward to it because I'll be spending that time with her. That's a far greater gift than anything someone could buy for me.
Stop worrying so much about buying presents, and worry more about the only thing people can give each other that actually matters: love. Family, friends, spouses, significant others. These are the things that matter, not that 40-inch plasma TV you trampled three people and punched an old lady to get for half price. Those are the things I'll be thinking about while I'm at work for a pointless extra hour when there won't be any customers anyway.
From UWIRE. Andrew Lacy for The Daily Nebraskan at The University of Nebraska.
HUMOR
Sandwich-growing trees how do those work?
Sunday evening, I tried to make some popcorn my roommate brought back from Wichita (like your sexual ity, you shouldn't label your food!).
I pushed the popcorn button on the microwave, and stood there and waited like the pissed off popcorn bag told me to in ALL CAPS and bold. It was a smaller bag of popcorn that told我 vaguely that it would take sometime between one and two minutes to cook – kind of like a teenager when asked what time their party is gonna end by some friend's parent ("I dunno. Like, when your kid leaves?"). I waited by the microwave, as instructed, and listened to the pops. And like the fat guy I am, I waited until the last second to pull that bitch out. It was burnt.
"What's your point, Chance?" you may be asking like so many of my friends have asked me in the middle of a story before. Well, my point is: Dammit, genetically modified and engineered food companies. Seriously, if you're gonna waltz around and break my liberal art by destroying nature and making glow-in-the-dark rave-hamsters, make me some popcorn that doesn't burn. Because I deserve it. As a human being in the 21st century.
I mean, recently you guys made those apples that don't turn brown after you cut them and leave them out in the air for a bit. Can you imagine a world in which you can cut an apple that stays eerily white days after you cut it into slices AND you can microwave popcorn for 3 hours, if you so please, and eat that crud like it was in there the perfect time? I mean, either go big or go home, GM foods. If you're going to destroy nature, do it in style. I have fashioned
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BY CHANCE CARMICHAEL ccarmichael@kansan.com
a list of other GM food ideas for you. Yeah, that's right. It's a list column. Deal with it, baby boomers. Eat it up, millennials.
1. Splice together some of those giant centipedes, Goliath bird-eating tarantulas, that stung ray thing that killed Steve Irwin (and the scientist inside all of us, let's be honest), and those owls that sound like a woman screaming bloody murder. You know, for the metalheads. You can breed them and sell them as pets. There's nothing more exciting than only being a small glass tank away from being hunted, poisoned, and devoured!
2. Make me a plant that grows sandwiches. This is pretty self-explanatory. It sounds like a Futurama joke or something, but admit it, a tree in your backyard that grew ham and cheese sandwiches would be beautiful and delicious.
3. I want hollow pumpkins.
Who wants to pull all of that goop out of the pumpkin? No one. Goofpights are a thing of the past, beige goo-hating prudes of the world. Then again, if you're a beige goo-hating prude you're probably reading a Jane Austen novel or something and not carving pumpkins.
Those are some fantastic ideas, GM foods! Get with it already, because nature isn't going to destroy itself.
Carmichael is a junior from Mulvane in film and media studies and journalism.
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Besides, KU v Mizzou is not a good rivalry anymore. Mizzou will continue winning in football, and KU in basketball. Calling it a rivalry is like calling USC v UCLA a rivalry.
And I agree, KU will be one of the first booted from the Big 12, and one of the last picked up by a smaller conference. Basketball alone is not going to get the Jayhaws to a bigger conference."
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New book explores an old rivalry
Alumnus writes about KU-MU football history
Sean Greene's "Border War Football 1891-2009" details the long-time KU-MU football rivalry.
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When it comes to Missouri residents, Shawn Buchanan Greene has his own opinion about the Show-Me-Staters.
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"Missouri people really love
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to hate other people," said Greene, a St. Louis native and author of the recently released book,
"Border War Football 1891-2009."
"Not in a mean way," he said. "They just really like to dislike people for being from a different place."
The heated feelings this KU alumnus has toward Missouri are what drove him to create "Border War Football 1891-2009", a 276-page book that gives a decade-by-decade overview of the Kansas-Missouri football rivalry. The book was released last month and features team photos, scores and takes an in-depth look at both the well- and lesser-known stories of the eras.
"He was very thorough and went back and looked at all the yearbooks, all the newspaper accounts just to find a photo for every year," said Lisa Eitner, an event coordinator for the KU Bookstore. "He really put together something that I don't think many people could do
because not everything is available to the public"
One story that struck Greene was that of Tommy Johnson. Johnson was the first Kansas athlete to be captain of both the football and basketball teams. During a 1909 football game against Missouri, Johnson suffered a severe concussion. Johnson's coach Bert Kennedy ignored the advice of the trainers however, and told Johnson to stay on the field and finish the game.
"That was the only game they lost that season," Greene said. "The injuries Johnson got were so severe that he was in the hospital for a year after that and died during the week of the next KU-MU football game."
Store officials said they hope stories like this one will attract Kansas fans to buy the book and help them see that there's more to Kansas football than this year's losing season.
"I don't think that people will not go out to buy the book because of this season," said Julie Evnen, a senior from Lincoln, Neb. "The team is young, we have a new coach — there's always a chance next season."
For Greene, it was this summer's current events that made publishing the book this year ideal.
Big 12 Conference and all of this attention turned to the KU-MU rivalry and what would happen to it if the schools were in separate conferences."
"This year just made sense because it finished out the decade," Greene said. "Plus you had all of this crazy stuff happening with the
Luckily for Greene and the Jayhawk nation alike, the teams remain in the same conference and continue one of the oldest rivalries in the United States.
interesting," said Adam Magargee, a senior from McKinney, Texas. "It's the second-oldest football rival in the U.S. and there's a lot of history to that."
"I think the rivalry is very
After a slow start, book sales for "Border War Football 1891-2009 are increasing. Interested fans can purchase the book for $39.95.
— Edited by Kelsey Nill
Obama team unveils plan to reduce the deficit
WASHINGTON — In advance of a public unveiling Wednesday, the co-chairmen of President Barack Obama's deficit commission Tuesday promised that they haven't watered down their plan to cut the deficit by almost $4 trillion over the coming decade.
Simpson acknowledged the plan faces an uphill slog with the deficit commission members who'll vote on it later this week. Only Bowles and Simpson are guaranteed to support the plan when the panel votes on Friday.
It would take a supermajority vote of 14 of the 18 panel members to approve recommendations for a possible vote in the lame duck
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session of Congress. That seems out of reach, but Bowles says it's just as important to have jumpstarted a national debate on what it'll really take to bring the deficit under control.
"Our goal in this whole process has been really simple." Bowles said. "It's basically been to start an adult conversation here in Washington about the dangers of this debt and
Added Bowles: "The era of deficit denial in Washington is over."
the deficits we are running."
Portions of the plan released by Bowles and Simpson earlier this month would have — among its many politically explosive proposals — curbed future increases in Social Security benefits and raised the program's retirement age.
have one contact with an infectious person," McKee said.
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She said these conversations were very important for couples to have while their clothes were still on. That way, they can make choices, such as whether or not to use protection, when they aren't in the heat of the moment. McKee suggested discussing how many people your partner has slept with in the past, whether or not they used protection, and also whether or not they have been tested for STIs, or sexually transmitted infections, a category that includes HIV.
HIV is transmitted through breast milk, blood, vaginal secretions and semen. Although Avert, an international charity that works to prevent the spread of HIV, advises use of a condom, McKee said one of the main ways to prevent HIV is to have a conversation with intimate partners.
"It really goes back to the principle that you sleep with every person your partner has slept with," McKee said. "It scary, but it's also true."
"It's not a very sexy thing to talk about," McKee said. "But you should care enough about yourself and them to ask those questions."
McKee also suggested not engaging in sexual activities while under the influence.
"If two people are drinking, it's really easy to get carried away," McKee said. "The last thing you're going to think to ask is whether or not they've had an STI test."
McKee also encouraged individuals to watch out for their friends.
However, McKee said detecting whether or not someone has become infected with HIV could be tricky. The virus only causes a few symptoms in its earlier stages, such as fever, headache, sore throat and swollen lymph nodes.
McKee said intravenous drug users were also susceptible to contracting the virus, because they often share dirty needles to shoot drugs into their veins.
McKee said an HIV diagnosis today is not a death sentence. She said individuals could lead normal lives for many years if they receive treatment in the earlier stages of the illness.
In addition, Saha said research shows that as HIV progresses to AIDS, it happens slower among college students. So, it might take 10 years or more to feel the more severe symptoms.
"If they want to go home with someone they don't know very well, tell them if they're still thinking about him tomorrow morning to give him a call." McKee said. "But tonight, they just need to come home with you, because you just don't know."
McKee said getting tested for the virus was the best method, of detection, and she suggested, individuals get tested between partners, even if they have only engaged in protected sex in the past.
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Honeybees turn honey cherry red
NEW YORK — A bunch of Brooklyn bees have been coming home looking flushed.
New York City beekeeper Cerise Mayo was puzzled when her bees started showing up with mysterious red coloring. Their honey also turned as red as cough syrup. She tells The New York Times a friend joked that the bees were imbibing the runoff at Dell's Maraschino Cherries Company, in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Mayo
— whose first name means "cherry" in French — raises bees in that neighborhood and across the water on Governor's Island.
Tests confirmed the bees were riddled with Red Dye No. 40 — the same food coloring found in the cherry juice. Bee expert Andrew Cote tells the newspaper that bees had been creating a big nuisance at the factory.
The solution? Put up screens or provide a closer source of sweet nectar.
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Ohio State's standouts lead a win against Florida State
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Jon Diebler scored 12 points and Jared Sullinger notched his third double-double of the season Tuesday night to lead No. 2 Ohio State to a 58-44 victory over Florida State in an ACC/Big Ten Challenge game.
Sullinger, a 6-foot-9 freshman from Columbus, Ohio, finished with 11 points and 13 rebounds while David Lightly added 10 points for the Buckeyes (6-0).
Ohio State jumped to a 7-0 lead and never trailed, building its biggest lead at 40-23 on William Buford's jumper with 15:45 left in the game.
Florida State (5-2) closed within 49-42 on Deividas Dulky's only three-pointer with 4:30 left.
Freshman Ian Miller led Florida State with 11 points and Derwin Kitchen added 10 for the Seminoles, who shot 35.4 for cent and committed 22 turnovers, including 14 in the second half. Florida State shot 33 percent in a 55-51 loss to
Florida on Sunday.
Both teams shot poorly in the early going, but Ohio State's domination of the backboards allowed the Buckeyes to keep a comfortable lead on their way to a 28-17 halftime lead.
Florida State shot just 26.1 percent in the first half while Ohio State was slightly better at 36.7 percent but enjoyed a 25-14 rebound advantage.
After winning its first five games against weaker opponents, Florida State struggled against the Buckeyes as it had Sunday against 18th-ranked Gators.
Ohio State is 6-0 against Florida State, including consecutive victories in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The Buckeyes won 77-64 in last year's game at Columbus.
Chris Singleton, Florida State's leading scorer, had a second straight cold-shooting game, making just 2 of 9 from the field on the heels of a 2-for-12 showing in Sunday's loss.
During a first-half timeout, Florida State football coach limbo
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jason Clark hit three 3-pointers in overtime, lifting No. 16 Georgetown to a bruising 111-102 victory Tuesday night over No. 9 Missouri, which erased an 18-point halftime deficit but faltered at the free throw line
Tigers take first fall against the Hoyas
Michael Dixon hit only one of two foul shots with 14 seconds left to give Missouri a 94-91 lead, Chris Wright's 3-pointer tied the matchup of unbeatens at 94-all.
Missouri (5-1) trailed throughout the game until Marcus Denmon canned a 3-pointer for a 77-75 lead that had the crowd in Kansas City's Sprint Center roaring.
Denmon had 27 points for Missouri, which missed three of four free throws in the final 19 seconds of regulation. The Hoyas were 18 of 18 from the line.
Fisher was presented the trophy for winning the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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Austin Freeman had 31 points for the Hoyas (7-0), who have won their first seven games for the second consecutive season.
The Tigers had five players in double figures, including English with 11 and Bowers with 10. Sims had 10 for the Hoyas.
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With 10 wins, Gundy is voted top coach in Big 12
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OKLAHOMA CITY - For Mike Gundy, part of becoming a better coach was learning to let go.
During the week, Gundy could pop into any meeting instead of always meeting with quarterbacks.
Defensive players feel his influence more than ever before, and Gundy said he may have spent more time with defensive players than the offense this season for a change. He also had more time to spend on recruiting and during games, he was even more in tune with clock management and injuries.
Once he yielded control of his offense and defense to his coordinators, he found himself better able to deal with all the day-to-day decisions that come with being the man in charge of a major college football program.
"I really am OK with it because I think it helped our team and it makes my life much easier and gives me more patience," Gundy said. "I'm not always on edge in dealing with recruits, meeting with administration and just everything that's important."
With first-year offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen leading what would become the nation's third-highest scoring offense and Bill Young in charge of a defense that created 30 turnovers, Gundy was able to see the big picture and add his influence wherever his experienced Cowboys needed it.
The result: the first 10-win regular season in school history and Gundy's selection Tuesday as The Associated Press' Big 12 coach of the year.
"I'm humbled by it and I think that it's an award for our coaching staff," Gundy said in a telephone interview. "They've had a great year."
The 16th-ranked Cowboys (10-2, 6-2 Big 12) were picked to finish fifth in the Big 12 South after losing their starting quarterback, two NFL first-round draft
Gundy also credited the Cowboys' unexpected success to the development of a new batch of playmakers — including Justin Blackmon, Brandon Weeden, Shaun Lewis, Brodrick Brown and Joseph Randle — and strong returns from serious injuries by Orie Lemon and Andrew McGee.
In his sixth year as Oklahoma State's head coach, Gundy said he now fits better into the role. A former offensive coordinator, he had previously been heavily involved in the offense and play-calling. But when he brought in Holgorsen, he gave it up — for the better.
picks and numerous starters but instead shared the division title with Oklahoma and Texas &M.
Gundy received 12 of 20 first-place votes from the AP panel. Texas A&M's Mike Sherman got seven votes after a turnaround helped the Aggies win their final six games. Art Briles received the remaining vote after leading Baylor to bowl eligibility for the first time since 1994.
Gundy was also named the Big 12 coach of the year in voting by the league's coaches. It's the first time he has received both honors.
"I think it had a huge role in just me coaching attitude, player development, body language and time management," Gundy said. "I allowed Dana and Bill, of course, to do their jobs and my presence on the sideline was much more calming because I wasn't having to get so involved in the play of an offensive lineman or receivers or quarterbacks and chew on them about something
they did wrong."
"When you tie all that together, you end up with 10 wins and a season that everybody will look back on and say obviously it was the most wins we've ever had here in the regular season," he said.
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exposed is the right word, but he is going to put numbers on just about anybody."
While all three Kansas post players that saw major minutes against Arizona — Marcus and Markieff Morris and Thomas Robinson — have the ability to drive from outside, Self said they
are too keen to take jump shots,
even if they are going in.
"Why settle?" Self said. "Derrick Williams didn't settle. He drove it every chance he got. And Thomas is so good at that, why settle and not put the other team's post guys in foul-prone situations?"
When Williams was put into
"foul-prone situations," fouling out with 2:27 left in the game, Kansas was able to close out the victory. The Jayhawks will need to do the same with Reeves Nelson for the win Thursday night.
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Sophomore linebacker Toben Opurum sacks Missouri's junior quarterback Jarrell Harrison during the second half of the Border Showdown.The Jayhawks had four total sacks against the Tigers but lost 35-7 in the season finale at Arrowhead Stadium.
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Freshman quarterback Jordan Webb is congratulated by fans following Kansas' 28-25 upset victory over Georgia Tech Saturday afternoon. Following the game, fans rushed the field to celebrate with the team.
Defense
Early struggles and injuries forced defensive lineups to change nearly every week. Freshman safety Keeston Terry was injured in the week three loss to Southern Mississippi and missed the rest of the season. Terry would have started the rest of the year if healthy, and should open 2011 as a starter. Former running back Toben Opurum started the year at linebacker but was getting limited reps before being moved to defensive end midway through the
year. Opurum, a sophomore, proved to be one of the two or three best players on the depleted Kansas defense. Sophomore Bradley McDougald's move from receiver to safety seems like a smart move going forward as well. McDougald was recruited by Ohio State, among others, as a safety out of high school and should team with Terry to anchor the Kansas secondary the next two seasons.
Offense
The carousel of quarterbacks all season did no favors for a Kansas offense that averaged 17.1 points a game and finished at 113th in the country in total offense.The running game was better, but the inexperienced offensive line struggled to block for its young running backs.With six offensive linemen recruits committed for next year according to Rivals.com,the coaches are looking to improve the line.Freshman running back James Sims will likely be the starter heading into next year.Sims led the team with nine touchdowns and 742 rushing yards this season.
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Junior wide receiver Daymond Patterson breaks away from several Georgia Tech defenders before going on to score a touchdown. The score gave Kansas a 28-17 lead and Kansas won 28-25.
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Play of the Year
After a terrible loss to North Dakota State in week one, the Jayhawks led Georgia Tech 21-17 going into the fourth quarter the following week. On first down from the Yellow Jacket 32 yard line, Jordan Webb threw a quick pass to Daymond Patterson, who seemed to be stopped at the line of scrimmage. After bouncing off four defenders like a blue pinball, Patterson scampered into the endzone, giving Kansas the 28- 17 lead and sealing the upset.
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Sophomore D.J. Beshears was stellar all year, averaging 25 yards per kick return on 36 attempts. He also led the team in all-purpose yards, getting more than 1200 for the season while being named to the Honorable Mention All-Big 12 Conference team, along with senior punter Alonso Rojas and senior defensive end Jake Laptad.
Freshman quarterback Jordan Webb gets sacked in the third quarter against Southern Miss. Webb was sacked four times in the 31-16 loss in Hattiesburg, Miss.
Biggest Disappointment
The offensive line
Junior Jeff Spikes' injury before the year led to changes across the board for the unit. Senior Brad Thorson was forced to right tackle, where he wasn't nearly as effective as his usual position of center or guard. Even before the injury, the offensive line was simply undermanned and inexperienced.
What to Look Forward to
James Sims:
The freshman running back exceeded expectations all year, and was a rare bright spot for the offense.
Zack Stoudt:
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With quarterback problems hurting the offense in 2010, Kansas is
courting Stoudt, a junior college quarterback from Iowa. He threw for 1,800 yards and 18 touchdowns this season, and recently told the Lawrence Journal World that "Kansas is my favorite. Those other schools are going to have to beat them out." Stoudt will have a great shot at starting if he commits to Kansas.
Stoudt will have a great shot at starting if he commits to Kansas.
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"I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures."
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
—14th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren
FACT OF THE DAY
Q: How many NFL teams are within first place of their respective divisions?
Dwayne Bowe and Jamaal Charles are the first teammates to each have 170 rushing and receiving yards combined in the same regular-season game. Against Seattle on Sunday, Bowe caught for 170 yards and Charles ran for 173.
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A: 19, the most teams in history after 12 weeks.
Three Jayhawks get conference honors
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FOOTBALL
After a disappointing 3-9 season, three Jayhawks were named to the Big 12 All-Honorable mention team, KU Athletics announced Tuesday.
D. J. Beshears earned a sport as a return man, Alonso Rojas at punter, and Jake Laptad at defensive end.
Beshears, only a sophomore, set Kansas records with 35 kick returns for a combined 922 yards. Laptad finished his Jayhawk career with 21 sacks, putting him in second all-time in school history, while Rojas ended his career averaging 41.5 yards per punt.
— Kory Carpenter
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Huskies roll as Walker scores 30 once again
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STORRS, Conn. — Kemba Walker scored 30 points and No. 7 Connecticut returned from its triumphant trip to Hawaii with a harder-than-expected 62-55 victory over New Hampshire on Tuesday night.
Shabazz Napier added 11 points for Connecticut (6-0) which was not ranked before beating Michigan State and Kentucky last week in the Maui Invitational.
The Huskies trailed the Wildcats 24-23 at halftime, and didn't take the lead for good until six minutes into the second half, in what was a close game throughout.
UConn went on a late 9-2 run to expand a 49-48 lead to 58-50.
The Huskies came into the season picked by the Big East coaches to finish 10th in the conference.
They opened some eyes when they beat Wichita State, then No. 2 Michigan State and then No. 8 Kentucky to win the Maui Invitational.
UConi hasn't lost a game in Storrs before January in 97 games, since falling 91-85 to Holy Cross in December 1973.
With the win, Connecticut improved to 113-4 against non-conference opponents from New England in the Calhoun era.
Soccer's best thrill, entertain
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Acrossissant to the French is nothing more than buttered bread to the American. Put a televised soccer match in front of a European and you've got eyes glued to the screen. Do the same to an American (non-World Cup) and most are reaching for the remote.
Living in Paris this semester, I've been able to watch some of the greatest European teams during prime-time hours. Perhaps nothing I've seen was more impressive than FC Barcelona's 5-0 slaughtering against Real Madrid on Monday.
The match featured two of the most iconic names in the soccer world. There was Cristiano Ronaldo for Real Madrid, the flamboyant Portuguese striker with a carousel of both girlfriends and jukes. And there was Lionel Messi, the Argentine striker/forward who is widely regarded as the best player alive. There were several fights, 11 yellow cards and one red card. Coaches shoved. Middle fingers elevated. Cheap shots all around.
Like a spider spinning its web, Messi the wizard and his Barcelona teammates weaved the bright yellow ball through Madrid defenders with robotic precision. No movement wasted. Concise use of space and time.
"Cest dingue!" (This is crazy!) said Jacques, my host-father who was also amazed at the premier level of play.
During the match I kept asking myself: Why is it difficult for most Americans to appreciate a game that is so undeniably impressive? Why is the World Cup most Americans' only exposure to the most popular game in the world? It has to be internationally popular for a reason, right? This list had to be made.
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REASONS WHY AMERICANS DON'T LOVE SOCCER
We're not the best in the world: With our three most popular sports, football, basketball and baseball, America dominates any other country. This is also most likely why we don't match up with soccer. All of our best, most freakish athletes reside on the football field, basketball court or baseball diamond. We don't raise our best young talent as soccer players, so they don't become Messi or Ronaldo. They become Lebron James or Larry Fitzgerald as we know them today.
Time zone differential/lack of airtime:
Because we're not the best in the world, many of the premier matches available for our viewing pleasure occur at night in Europe, but right in the middle of our work/ school days in the States. We can't watch them live, so we don't watch them at all.
Patriotism: Who the heck wants to root for a bunch of Europeans or South Americans anyways? (I'm kidding here, but is the rest of the United States?)
We can't use our hands: Most of us don't watch it, because most of us don't play it. And why don't we play it? Because we can't use our beloved paws. We eat just about everything with our hands, type on our computers and text our friends with our hands, and play every other sport with our
hands. This omission is too much for the average American to bear.
average American to bear.
Lack of history: Every major sport has heroic tales of the past. Examples: Wilt vs. Russell or Magic vs. Bird in basketball. Vince Lombardi or Walter "Sweetness" Payton in football. Babe Ruth or Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round The World" in baseball. What does U.S. soccer history have? Outside of Mia Hamm's championship teams, mostly disappointment.
Verdict: Though qualifications in recent World Cups have inspired some enthusiasm for soccer in the States, it seems as if our historical playing woes and lack of widespread fan interest has no instant cure. I propose that ESPN replays UEFA (European League Soccer) matches at night. It won't feel like a replay because no one checks soccer scores (yet). Throw the NBA games with no visible defense to ESPN2 and expose the best of the best. Who knows? Maybe the next great American athlete will grow up watching UEFA on ESPN and trade in his basketball shoes for some cleats and shin guards. He'll grow up wanting to be Messi instead of Lebron. And he just might save American soccer from its current state.
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No.10 Kentucky hammers Boston University
Brandon Knight scored 23 as the Wildcats bounced back from a loss
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Brandon Knight scored 23 points and No. 10 Kentucky bounced back from its first loss of the season with a 91-57 win over Boston University on Tuesday night.
Terrence Jones added 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Wildcats (5-1), who shot 59 percent from the field and overwhelmed the Terriers (4-4) over the final 20 minutes.
Kentucky led by just seven points at halftime before opening the second half on an 18-3 run to break things open.
He urged them to communicate better on defense and share the ball on offense.
John Holland led the Terriers with 20 points but Boston U. shot just 29 percent and had no answer after the Wildcats shook off a sluggish first half with perhaps their best basketball of the season.
Kentucky coach John Calipari was on the sideline two days after the passing of his mother, Donna, who died on Sunday following a lengthy battle with cancer.
Calipari thanked everyone for their support before the game via his Twitter and Facebook accounts, saying he was sure his mother was watching from "the luxury boxes with a whole crew of UK luminaries cheering right along with her."
Calipari called his team too "selfish" following an 84-67 loss to Connecticut in the finals of the Maui Invitational, a game in which the Wildcats were dominated from nearly the opening tip.
They did that after perhaps shaking off some late jet lag from
The players honored her by sporting black socks, while Kentucky's assistants donned black suits and some fans — particularly in the student section
wore black T-shirts.
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Kentucky led just 40-33 at halftime as Boston hung around by attacking the offensive boards and harassing the Wildcats into careless turnovers.
Any hopes of pulling the upset and giving Kentucky its first losing streak under Calipari, however, evaporated during a blistering opening eight minutes to the second half.
The run started slowly with two free throws by Jones before the Wildcats really heated up. Doron Lamb hit a runner in the lane, DeAndre Liggins knocked down a three-pointer and Knight followed with a pullup jumper following a steal by Lamb.
Knight drilled a three-pointer on Kentucky's next trip before a layup by Jones and a three-pointer by Darius Miller mushroomed the lead to 57-36. Boston U. coach Patrick Chambers then received a technical foul and Jones hit a free throw, but the Wildcats were just getting started.
Kentucky's Brandon Knight shoots over Boston University's Matt Griffin Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. Knight had 23 points in the 91-57 Kentucky win
Josh Harrellson tipped in a miss by Jones then added a layup off a nifty no-look pass from Jones. Miller and Lamb added three-pointers and by the time Miller converted an alley-oop the Wildcats were up 70-40 and could start thinking about a showdown at North Carolina on Saturday.
It was more than enough to fend off the Terriers, who came in with notable wins over Nevada, Cornell and George Washington but were no match when Kentucky hit the gas after halftime.
A week after Calipari blasted his team for being "me first," the Wildcats had 21 assists on 32 field goals, including six by Knight.
Harrellson finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds and Lamb wound up with 13 as Kentucky knocked down 10 of 16 three-pointers.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tobias Harris scored 21 points and
Scotty Hopson had 19 as No.13 Tennessee cruised to an 86-56 victory over Middle Tennessee State on Tuesday night.
The Vols (6-0) opened with an 8-0 run and trailed only once as Middle Tennessee (3-4) responded with a 10-0 run while shutting down the paint on the defensive end.
That's when Pearl put in a defensive lineup with John Fields, Steven Pearl and Renaldo Woolridge to pressure the Blue
Raiders' shooters, and the only basket for three minutes was a three-pointer by Hopson. Middle Tennessee wouldn't score for eight minutes.
When the Vols' shooters returned to the court they went on
a 21-0 run with five of six straight baskets coming from behind the arc. The last of the five, a shot by Trae Golden with 7:21 left in the first half, made it 29-10.
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LUCKY NO.700
Jayhawks go for landmark win
BY KATHLEEN GIER kgier@kansan.com
As sophomore guard Angel Goodrich is confined to the bench, plagued by knee problems that have shortened her last two seasons, she is still able to sit in as an inspiration for freshman guard Keena Mays.
"Obviously, she knows what it is like and I look up to her," Mays said. "And anything she has to say I know it is up for my best interest and so I just trust her whenever she tells me something."
As one of five guards in the current rotation and one of five freshmen. Mays has been forced to mature into her role quickly.
"I think I was prepared for it, during practice we all work hard and go at game speed and everything, and my team is always there for me, especially Angel," Mays said. "She is always talking to me in my ear and letting me know that she is there for me whenever I need help."
After a couple games Mays embraced her new role as a leader, averaging 11 points per game during the Basketball Travelers Inc. Tip-Off Classic.
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"I am comfortable, but we can't wait to have Angel back." Mays said.
Mays took the starting point
Kansas the game. With seven seconds left in regulation Mays fouled a Fordham player while the game was tied and sent the opposition to the line for a one-and-one. Fordham missed the free throw leading to an overtime victory for Kansas.
starting point guard position for the tournament, and was able to lead the lahaywhats to three more wins in their 6-0 season.
"Keena made a mistake, clearly she was confused, and that is why it is so important and I will take that, if that was not clear enough I will own that," Henrickson said. "You can create situations like that in practice, but you can't create how that feels."
"It's the same as it used to be, she has to play-make, she needs to take care of the ball and now
This success has not come without struggle, especially for Mays.
Another feeling that cannot be replicated is the emotions surrounding the first starting job of a freshman athlete. But this tournament saw the advance of Mays and Harper in the point guard positions. Henrickson said that Mays' job moving forward is pretty similar to what it has been up to this juncture.
After a refreshingly successful game against Memphis, Mays made an embarrassing mistake against Fordham, which could have cost
"I am comfortable, but we can't wait to have Angel back."
"It is good motivation for the rest of the season, we are undefeated and we have to keep going strong," Mays said.
"What I love about her is she attacks in the press when someone comes after her, but I told her 'you can't go for the jugular every single time, be opportunistic,' coach Bonnie Henrickson said. "Run good half-court offense for about three or four minutes and then try to drive the ball."
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she is just start-
she is just starting and playing a lot more" Henrickson said. "It is great experience for her, and also great experience for CeCe at the point."
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the light of freshman guard Marisha Brown's and Goodrich's absences. Harper credited Henrickson with helping her adjust.
"She is teaching me to be more focused so I can be effective on the court," Harper said. "Everyone has to step up with Angel's loss and Marisha's loss also."
The Jayhawks will take the court again to face the 1-4 Maine Black Bears at 7 p.m. and defend their undefeated record. Kansas will also be looking for the program's 700th win.
"We just have to be more consistent and take what we did wrong in this game, fix it and beat Maine," Mays said.
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Freshman quard Keena Mays drives for a layup against Fordham. The Jayhawks won in overtime,the 699th victory in program history.
Jayhawks to face another dangerous forward
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Junior forward Marcus Morris and sophomore center Jeff Withey jump to block the shot of Arizona forward Derrick Williams. Williams had 27 points in the game, and Kansas will face a similarly talented player in UCLA sophomore forward Reeves Nelson on Thursday night in Lawrence.
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Williams, a 6-foot-8 forward who dominated offensively both outside and inside, may wind up being the best player the Jayhawks face all year.
"He's a great player," Kansas' Thomas Robinson said after the Jayhawks escaped with a win Saturday. "I take my hat off to him."
When coach Bill Self addressed the media Monday, everybody still wanted to talk about Arizona's Derrick Williams. Of course, when a player goes for 27 points and eight rebounds, it's hard to forget very quickly.
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UCLA sophomore forward Reeves Nelson is most remembered by Kansas fans as the guy who took a Marcus Morris finger to the eye and stayed in the game despite his right eye being swollen shut during last year's Dec. 6 match between the two teams.
"There are some similarities; they have similar body types," Self said of Nelson and Williams. "Reeves has expanded his game, he can shoot the three now, and he can certainly drive it. So I do see some similarities. They are both undersized power forwards by the prototypical definition."
Or maybe just until Thursday.
"The only thing I remember about him," Morris said, "is that I kind of poked his eye a little and messed his eye up. I felt bad about that after the game."
Williams showed the holes in Kansas' post defense with his ability to drive the ball and take the outside shot. He was 2-for-3 from three-point range and got to the free throw line nine times by drawing foul after foul out of the Morris twins (both finished with four).
Just like Williams, Nelson doesn't have ideal size for a power forward, but he's a bruiser when he needs to be (take all of last season as an example) and has the ability play on the wing like both Williams and Morris.
Since then, Nelson, who finished that game with nine points and nine rebounds, has developed into an All-Pac-10 candidate.
It may be a good thing Morris doesn't remember too much about
Nelson, because the Bruins forward has uncovered a different game over the last season. His role has progressed from an enforcer on an undersized team to the team's top scorer and rebounder.
"He faced them off the block," Self said of Williams. "When that happened, he didn't bail them out by taking a jump shot. He either shot an uncontested three or he got to the paint, and he did a great job of driving it and forcing contact.
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Reasons to hope for Hawks
PETER FARRIGAN
BY NICOLAS ROESLER
nroesler@kansan.com
There were falls, there were Hail Mary balls, there were bad coaching calls and now there is waiting for a future that will clarify it all.
Coach Turner Gill's first season at Kansas is complete, and, despite the losses, observers of the Kansas football team should feel optimistic.
"I now know a whole lot more about our football team at this point in time," Gill said after the Missouri game.
And so the fans should too.
Kansas found its running back for the next three years in freshman James Sims, a young man whose potential might be as high as his flat top. Let's just hope he doesn't buzz it off.
The team found an offensive rhythm in the Colorado game that provided glimpses of what the team could be if they develop some consistency in the off season.
And the team found playmaking defenders in sophomore cornerback Greg Brown, sophomore defensive end Toben Opurum and freshman cornerback Tyler Patmon.
The offense started out crawling, but after the Georgia Tech upset win, the offense found more of a groove producing three games of 200 yards rushing or more. Sims ended the season with an impressive 749 yards for a freshman who broke out of nowhere in the Georgia Tech game. Oh, and nine touchdowns, which came in impressive fashion while bullong over top Big 12 defenders.
Shutdown Greg Brown showed the ability to play the ball in the air, batting the ball out of the air on two occasions when Blackmon looked like he could score. Brown also made one of the interceptions against Missouri to stop their momentum in the first half. He gives hope for a respectable pass defense next season.
Against Oklahoma State, which earned a share of the Big 12 Conference's South division title, he was able to lower his pads and pound out 86 yards and a hard-earned touchdown. It seemed that as the season went on, nobody could knock him backward. Hopefully, that power can become a metaphor for the offense as a whole next season, nothing but forward progress.
Another surprise stand out that rose to an Oklahoma State challenge was Brown. He was appointed to the job of covering the best wide receiver in the country in Justin Blackmon. Although not many people can stop him, Brown slowed him down impressively for a Kansas pass defense which gave up more than 2,000 pass yards this season.
"I saw them get a lot more experience this season." Gill said of both his young and veteran players after the Missouri game, "and then they're going to come back with a lot more confidence in what we want and how we want it done, and they'll be able to make more plays for us"
Despite the doubts in Gill's coaching after all of the Big 12 losses, and despite the shuffle board that was the Kansas depth chart, the future is nothing but bright after relatively as strong a finish as could have been expected from the rebuilding Jayhawks.
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Concern over head trauma increases
Doctors say higher number of reported concussions is actually a good thing
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR
smontemayor@kansan.com
Twenty-four years ago the quarterback of the Canadian Football League's Montreal Concordes dropped back to pass, was hit as he threw and had to be removed from the field in an ambulance.
It was his third conclusion that year and his second in two games. At 23 years old, he would never play again.
Today, 'Turner Gill has just finished his first season as coach of the Kansas Jayhawks, and the injury that ended his playing career is as big a factor as it ever was. We have learned that concussions are no more likely in the young or the old, and we are still learning about the long-term affects on the brains of the afflicted. It's being talked about more than it ever has. Some offer solutions. Many concede there is still much to learn.
"I am always in communication with our medical staff on updates." Gill wrote in an e-mail last month.
That staff is stationed on the lower level on the Anderson Family Football Complex. Inside Sports Medicine Director Murphy Grant's office, weights can be heard — no, felt
seemingly crashing through the wall. The Border War's in a few days and the team is conditioning a few rooms over to prepare for what will be a one-sided loss to Missouri. During the game, wide receiver Jonathan Wilson would get rocked by two defenders and taken off the field in a daze. Quarterback Jordan Webb would be removed from the game when a block on a Missouri interception return left him with a concussion.
A few feet from Grant's desk is a copy of a handout the NCAA instructed its programs to give to athletes before playing this year — "CONCUSSION: A FACT SHEET FOR STUDENT-ATHLETES." It is one of many attempts to address something that threatens the game and those who play it.
"I DON'T THINK ANYBODY TOOK CONCUSSIONS SERIOUS"
But concussions were an issue long before NCAA policies were written and enforced.
John Novotny, a walk-on player in 1956 and the program's first full-time academic coach, said
he doesn't remember ever seeing a doctor on the field during his playing days.
"I don't think anybody took concussions serious. Novotny said.
Before he graduated, James Holt led the team with 105 tackles and 10 sacks in his senior season in 2008. Against Kansas State that year, Holt had what he said was his only concussion. After making a tackle that forced a fumble and gave his opponent a concussion, he recovered the ball but didn't realize it was in his hands until moments later.
Holt, who now plays for the San Diego Chargers and lives with Darrell Stuckey, another Charger who once played at Kansas, said the football program under Mark Mangino followed strict concussion protocol before the NCAA required a policy.
His coach certainly wanted to win, he said, but if a player couldn't shake the symptoms of a hit, Mangino wouldn't keep them in the game.
"WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE TAKING CARE OF THEM"
Grant said he remembered returning to play shortly after sustaining his only concussion as a defensive back at Quincy College, a junior college in Massachusetts. That was a little more than 10 years ago. Now, to "get your bell rung" is no longer a phrase easily dismissed.
The NCAA this year, in addition to providing mandatory fact sheets, required athletic programs to put in writing a policy outlining how concussions will be treated and when to allow athletes to return to play.
Grant, in his fifth season with Athletics, drafted Kansas' six-page policy. One of the first steps, he said, is performing a computer-based neurocognitive baseline test and a second test measuring memory and concentration. The tests, part of the screening process for incoming athletes, are retaken when an athlete has a concussion and compared with the original results.
Whether during practice or a game, players who experience a concussion or concussion-like symptoms (such as headaches, nausea, amnesia and loss of consciousness) can expect to see the team's head physician, Lawrence Magge, or an assistant immediately for testing.
Grant said athletes can also be sent to Lawrence neurologist Dr. Paul Morte for further testing. Morte has been in Lawrence for 16 years and has seen KU athletes for eight years.
There is no formal time frame for returning to play after a concussion. Morte said athletes should be symptom free for at least a week before resuming activity. That period becomes two weeks for severe cases, he said.
There were 16,277 total concussions reported by NCAA football programs in 2009. On average, a player with a concussion missed six days of practice and/or competition.
Return sooner, Morte said, and the risk of second-impact syndrome skyrockets.
Those with concussions immediately experience a heightened likelihood of a second concussion. If that second concussion occurs before the symptoms of the first have cleared, it can result in brain bleeding, swelling and
SEE CONCUSSIONS ON PAGE 3A
Cognitive symptoms: memory loss (amnesia, attention disorders, reading difficulties, slowed reaction times)
SYMPTOMS OF CONCUSSIONS
Physical symptoms: headache, vision difficulties, nausea, dizziness, balance difficulties, sensitivity to light, fatigue, loss of consciousness, amnesia
Emotional symptoms: irritability, sadness, nervousness, sleep disturbances
Source: Kansas Athletics Concussion Assessment Management, and Return to Play Guidelines
For more information on concussions, visit kansan.com/
TIMELINE OF MODERN-DAY NCAA FOOTBALL RULES CHANGES
- 1976: The head and face is eliminated as a primary and initial contact area for blocking and tackling.
- 1997: Modifications of permissible equipment and contact in spring football are introduced to reduce injury risk.
- 2005: Spearing and head-down contact is eliminated. NCAA focuses on educating student athletes, coaches, officials and administrators regarding prevention of head and neck injury.
- 2008: Horse-collar tackling made illegal. Emphasis placed on eliminating hits on defenseless players and blows to the head. No player is permitted to initiate contact and target opponents with crown of the helmet and no player is permitted to initiate contact and target defenseless players above the shoulders.
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- 2009: A rule is added to allow for conference review and sanctions on fouls related to targeting and initiating contact to players.
- 2010: NCAA mandates that its athletics programs distribute fact sheets to players and coaches before they are allowed to compete. The creation of a concussion management plan is also mandated.
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Resolution condemns bullying on campus
BY MICHAEL HOLTZ mholtz@kansan.com
Bullying gained national attention in September after a stream of suicides occurred as a result of alleged bullying among high school and college students. Many of those victims were LGBT. Most prominent was the suicide of a freshman at Rutgers University following alleged cyberbullying by his roommate and another student.
Student Senate passed a resolution to condemn bullying in schools during its last session of the semester Wednesday night.
"Considering that has been
Universities nationwide have enacted similar resolutions, including Iowa State in the Big 12. Authors of the resolution said they often referred to those resolutions during the drafting process.
getting national attention, I feel like this is a great opportunity for KU to make stand on it," said Rachel Gadd-Nelson, one of the resolution's co-authors.
The lengthy resolution includes a list of statistics relating to the negative effects of bullying, including suicide. "Both victims and perpetrators of bullying are found to be significantly more likely to attempt or
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Student Union Activities is hosting a holiday open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union.
The KU Libraries' department of instructional services is presenting a workshop on making charts and graphics with Excel 2007 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Anschutz Library instruction center.
FRIDAY December 3
The KU Department of Dance will present "New Dance Concert" at 7:30 p.m. in Robinson Center, Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Theatre, Studio 240.
Student Union Activities will host a showing of the movie "Eat, Pray, Love" from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Kansas University, Woodruff Auditorium, level 5.
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There will be an informational session about the Peace Corps from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
- The KU School of Music will present a Percussion Ensemble from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall at Murphy Hall.
The Department of Visual Art will host an open drawing workshop from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Art and Design Building room 405.
Student Union Activities will host free cosmic bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Jaybowl, first floor of the Kansas Union.
TUESDAY December 7
■ Elle Woods makes her way to Lawrence as the popular "Legally Blonde" film moves to the stage at the Lied Center. The show is from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Student tickets range from $21 to $24, available by calling 785-864-2787.
Examine the Stages of Stress, the dangers of it in our daily lives and how to easily reduce it. The session, held from 9 a.m. to noon in room 204 at Joseph R. Pearson Hall, will help show methods to lower stress levels while enforcing a healthy lifestyle.
SUNDAY December 5
KU School of Music will present a Holiday Vespers concert from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Lied Center.
WEDNESDAY December 8
The Department of Visual Arts clubs will be holding a holiday art sale from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
The Chancellor's holiday reception will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Adams Alumni Center.
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Google considers acquiring coupon site
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The deal would help Google expand its role in local advertising — and plant its flag at the intersection between social media and consumer spending,
analysts said Tuesday.
Google dominates the market for advertising tied to Internet searches. But hugely popular social media sites like Facebook, with their ability to target ads to users' preferences and network of friends, have emerged as a growing threat.
Google and Facebook are waging a war for "Web supremacy," said Wedbush Securities analyst Lou Kerner, who added in a research report that online local
ads are likely to be the next big battleground in that contest.
Since its launch just two years ago, Chicago-based Groupon has signed up more than 33 million subscribers looking for daily bargains in their hometowns — from massages in New York to restaurant meals in Boston and even guided tours of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf.
Groupon subscribers receive alerts when a merchant agrees to offer a product or service at a
discount, which typically becomes available when a certain number of shoppers opt in to the deal. The discounts help merchants bring in extra business, while Groupon keeps up to half the new revenue that its partners garner from each coupon.
A number of startups offer similar access to local discounts, but Groupon is the market leader in what analysts say is a fast-growing new category of Internet business.
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"It ISN'T JUST A LITTLE DING, IT MAKES ITS MARK ON THE BRAIN"
Last week, Rev. Tom Thomas and Rev. Kathy Brearly had their first Thanksgiving without their son.
Owen Thomas was 21 years old and a captain on the University of Pennsylvania's football team when he took his own life in April. His parents called his death impulsive
- they never noticed any signs of depression, nor do they recall Owen complaining of so much as a headache during his football career.
Thomas said his son was someone who pushed himself to the limit academically and athletically and cared deeply for others.
"He just enjoyed life in so many different ways," said Thomas, who himself played football at Penn.
Breaarly said she was surprised when researchers from Boston University called just hours after Owen's death, asking it they could examine his brain for signs of damage from head injuries.
Owen's parents consented — Thomas said he has since volunteered his brain for research — but insisted researchers would not find anything. Months later, they were told Owen's brain showed
early signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease found in athletes with a history of repeated concussions.
The disease associated with
Owen's case is the earliest known appearance of CTE. The impulsive behavior his parents believe led to his suicide is consistent with the disease's symptoms. And while he didn't exhibit signs of a concussion during his career, Owen's CTE could be the result of a series of small concussions over time.
"I can't tell if Owen is the tip of the iceberg as far as these sub-concussions are concerned or were we particularly unlucky?" Brearly asked.
Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz at the University of North Carolina has been recording head impacts for the past six seasons using accelerometers implanted inside the team's football helmets. In that time, he has recorded about 250,000 impacts using what is called HITS (Head Impact Telemetry System)
aging boxes since the 1920s, began cropping up in brain autopsies of former professional football players in recent decades. A July 2009 study written by several of the same doctors who looked at Owen Thomas' brain looked at five former professional players whose autopsies revealed CTE. All died suddenly at middle age. Of the five, two committed suicide, one was killed in a head-on collision during a high speed police chase and one was shot in the head while cleaning his gun.
— a program now owned by the helmet company Riddell.
Surprisingly, he said, UNC's Sports Concussion Research Program found that concussions occur at unpredictable levels of impact. Guskiewicz also found that players experience the same symptoms from concussions regardless of the force of impact.
"The big hits don't necessarily equate to the worst clinical outcomes," Guskiewicz said.
"The big hits don't necessarily equate to the worst clinical outcomes."
DR. KEVIN GUSKIEWICZ UNC concussion researcher
From years of reviewing video of injuries at the University of Kansas, Grant said he noticed many concussions occurred not when a player was hit hard, but when their head bounced
off the ground after impact.
So far HITS has recorded 25 concussions at the University of North Carolina and found that the average starter in college football can expect to receive 950 hits to the head each season, give or take 100.
When one of those hits causes a concussion, Morte said, the brain smacks against the skull and can tear the fibers connected to nerve cells. The damage done to these fibers — and the contusions and blood clots in the brain that can also occur — won't appear on a
CAT scan or MRI, he said.
Morte said players often don't report concussions. When this happens, he said, more injuries will follow with accumulative damage.
"The blows to the head are much more severe than we realized." Morte said. "When somebody gets knocked out, it isn't just a little ding. It makes its mark on the brain."
"SOMETHING BETTER BE DONE NOW OR THEY'RE GOING TO DO AWAY WITH THE GAME"
Novotny and his former coach, Don Fambrough, remember when the most common injury to the head in football was a broken nose. That was when helmets were nowhere near as bulky as they are today and a face mask typically meant a single bar.
"It's night and day," Novotny said. "That thing weighs a ton."
When talking about concussions, Fambrough repeatedly taps his cane on a helmet Mark Mangino signed for him years ago.
"It's a weapon when they come together," Fambrough said. "I can understand why that would cause an injury of some kind."
Fambrough said he thinks today's helmets also lead to risks players from his era would have been reluctant to attempt.
When solutions to address head injuries in the sport are discussed, helmets are often brought up. Most of the Kansas football team wears Riddell, which introduced a new model called the Revolution in 2002.
The helmet is billed by the company to be 31 percent more effective against concussions than previous models. However, Dr. Robert Cantu of Boston University told The New York Times in October that the statistic represented a comparison between brand new Revolution helmets and helmets of unknown age and condition.
The oversight of how helmets are tested for safety has also been questioned. Nearly all helmets have a label on their backsides saying they meet NOCSAE standards. NOCSAE (National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment), is a nonprofit corporation formed in 1969 to test football helmets and its testing procedures have not changed much since the 1970s.
"Our number one goal when developing new helmet technology is not to meet a test standard but to exceed the protection standards," Riddell's vice president of research and development, Thad Ide, said in an e-mail.
Helmet manufacturers test their own helmets during production and there is no independent force to oversee these tests. During the tests a helmet is mounted on a synthetic head model and dropped on a foam rubber pad from different locations and varying temperatures.
Holt said he sticks with the original model and even said since his high school introduced the Revolution helmet two years ago, it has actually seen a spike in concussions.
Not all place blame squarely on the helmet. Guskiewicz said he has been impressed with improvements in helmet technology. However, he said he wasn't sure the answer
dropped to 2.4 per 1,000 in 2005 and has ranged no higher than 2.8 in the last three seasons.
The National Football League gained attention in October when it began fining and threatening suspension for helmet-to-helmet contact. Holt, who is in his second season with San Diego, said the measures won't prevent what is "just part of the game."
"It's like telling a boxer not to hit someone in the head because they're going to not be able to walk later on in their life," he said. "It's just not going to happen."
Holt said he was always taught to lead with his nose, keeping his head up as he tackled. Sometimes, however, he said helmet-to-helmet contact is inevitable. To him, it's just how the game is.
"I just don't see how it's becoming such a shock to people that there's all these concussions and
to concussions is in the helmet.
"It's like telling a boxer not to hit someone in the head ... It's just not going to happen."
JAMES HOLT San Diego Chargers linebacker
"The problem is we sort of want our cake and eat it too." Guskiewicz said.
He said helmets were designed to prevent catastrophic head injuries, such as skull fractures, and not necessarily concussions. Instead, he said the issue is better addressed by focusing on style of play and the game's rules.
In 1976 the NCAA eliminated the head and face as a primary and initial contact area for blocking and tackling. In 2005 the NCAA changed rules to address "spearing" and head-down contact. A ban on hitting opponents with the crown of one's helmet was also introduced shortly thereafter. After the 2005 rules changes, reported concussions decreased slightly. The NCAA's Injury Surveillance Program reported that in 2004, 3.4 out of every 1,000 football players suffered a concussion. That
stuff messing up these players' lives," Holt said.
equipment. Fambrough is afraid if something isn't done soon, the sport that treated him so well may be done away with altogether.
Fambrough is conflicted.
He said the sport is getting out of hand.
Maybe kickoffs should be erased.
Maybe it's the
Yet at the same time, the sport's becoming hard to watch for the old coach as officials, with pressure to crack down on crunching hits, throw more penalty flags than Fambro recalls ever seeing.
"They've got to stop calling all of these damn penalties," he said. "The games last way too long and people get bored."
Holt thinks penalties, fines and suspensions will only hurt defenses. He said defensive players don't know what to do in the NFL when one misstep might cost them tens of thousands of dollars.
"I'm waiting for them to put a belt around their waists and we'll just start playing flag football," Holt said.
"IF REPORTED INCIDENTS ARE ON THE RISE, THAT'S A GOOD THING"
On Thanksgiving morning, Kathy Brearly dressed her son's grave with Christmas decorations as she talked to him. Anything for a little comfort while getting used to having someone so alive in her life one day and gone the next.
She said she checked in on a family that also lost a loved one to suicide. Since Owen's death, Brearly has contacted parents of suicide victims, many who once suffered from concussions. She was amazed to discover the level of misunderstanding even some physicians had about CTE and its effects. She recently received an e-mail from a woman whose husband killed himself shortly after being discharged from the hospital that treated his concussion. The couple had received no instructions to look for suicidal tendencies or other side effects.
"How can that happen?" she
shed. "It's just amazing to me."
What's difficult to deny, though, is the heightened level of discourse about concussions in football. We may have only scratched the surface of what can be known about the injury and its lasting effects, but we're looking at an issue once dismissed as someone being "punch drunk."
"At the beginning of the season the announcers would talk about having your bell rung," Thomas said. "They don't use those terms anymore."
Guskiewicz warned against interpreting the increased attention as signaling an increase in concussions over previous years. Instead, with more awareness come more diagnoses. With a better knowledge of symptoms and effects come more effective response plans. And with more dialogue comes more disclosure from players who may have previously stayed on the field with fatal consequences as a real possibility.
"If the reported incidents of concussions is on the rise then that's actually a good thing," Guskiewicz said. "The word 'reported' there is a key word."
Edited by Tim Dwyer
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commit suicide," the resolution cites from the "International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health."
"I hope this is the beginning on a larger initiative that the University can take to make sure something like that doesn't happen at KU or in our community," said Diane Genther, LGBT Resource Center coordinator and sponsor of the resolution.
Some senators said the bill focused too heavily on the LGBT community and was not inclusive enough. Despite their initial concerns, the resolution passed 40 to one. One additional senator abstained from voting.
The resolution encourages students to know the warning signs of bullying and suicide and encourages the University to engage in research on bullying. It also supports the formation of a taskforce that would address the issue of bullying on school campuses.
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"I think the formation of a task-force is a very excellent start," said Alex Earles, legislative director and one of the resolutions co-authors. "But that's just what it is — a start."
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Bruno Mars' original game plan was like many aspiring singers': Move to California, get discovered, get signed, release a record, tour the world.
The Honolulu native eventually got the record deal and tour, but they didn't come about the way he wanted. Before he was able to step out with his debut album "Doo-Wops & Hooligans," he first had to prove his mettle producing and writing songs for others.
He co-wrote and can be heard on Bo.B.O's "Nothin" on You" and Travie McCoy's "Billionaire," two espe
"I was frustrated, waiting around to work with producers and writers. Then I said, 'I can do that. I don't need anybody else', so I started writing and producing tracks."
"I said that was my art — my music. They offered me 20 grand. That's all it cost to sell out," he says of the song titled "Lost," which he says went "double plastic. It wasn't a great song. I wrote it when I was
Another label impressed by his songs approached him and wanted one of his productions for boy group Menudo.
"It's easier when you understand more about what you're doing. It's like a football player knowing the rule book in and out and knowing the sizes of the pads you wear when you go into the field," he says. "You have to know every detail about your craft, and when I was younger I didn't know. And I'm still learning every day."
cially ubiquitous songs this year, and also lent a hand to Cee-Los "Forget You."
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Noon came Monday and I was sitting in my room, surfing the Internet. Monday at noon also happens to be the time for my Western Civilization lecture.
As much as it is sometimes tempting to skip this class on Monday mornings, I didn't skip. My reason for not attending is much simpler, and much more sad.
I simply forgot.
I wasn't watching some awesome YouTube video, or pouring over that day's Wikileaks documents (which you all should, by the way) that caused me to forget. I wasn't doing anything amazing at all. The fact that I had this class simply escaped my mind.
It's a bit odd that this would happen on the second to last week of class. I've been going to this class for at least three months now. I've never forgotten before.
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So what happened? Break happened.
Thanksgiving break was a wonderful, glorious time. Reconnecting with old friends,
BY JONATHAN SHORMAN
But there's also a dark side to breaks like these, a downside not realized until you try to return to your daily rhythm. Thanksgiving break gives you just enough time — five days — to start to get comfortable in your old digs. It's just enough time to settle into an old routine filled with old friends and familiar locales reminiscent of summer.
Normally, that's great. I am fond of my summers and generally enjoy spending time back home (despite the neverending lack of
“things to do”). But when a break gives you just enough time to reacclimate and then rips you out of your warm bed and back into bitter-cold Lawrence mornings, only pain can result.
Not to get all psycho-analytical, but I think subconsciously I'm still on break. My mind deep down doesn't really want to be here. It's all I really want to think about, too. I actually paused from writing a paper that's due tomorrow to write this column (yeah, weird study break, I know, but that's my point)
These last three weeks are the twilight zone of the semester. Your mind's wandering away but your body's still here. The trick is to either reconcile the two or figure out a way to get your stuff done while disconnected.
That's the trick I'm still pondering. If you have it figured out, let me know.
Shorman, the opinion editor, is a junior from McPherson in journalism.
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U.S. should not ignore North Korean threat
American humorist Will Rogers once said, "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie,' until you can find a rock." In the case of North Korea, the United States is dealing with a crazy pit bull and has few rocks left to throw.
The North's recent shelling of a South Korean city, an attack that killed four and injured 16, opens the door for the United Nations to represent the international community by standing with the U.S. and South Korea to oppose North Korean aggression. When the U.S. invaded Iraq seven years ago, it made the U.N. politically irrelevant on the international stage. But the status quo of today is not the status quo of 2003. Today, the U.S. cannot afford to become unilaterally embroiled in another foreign conflict if the Korean situation worsens. Only with the help of an active, supportive U.N. can North Korea be held accountable for further aggression, which at this point could mean war.
To continue with Rogers' metaphor, let us consider a neighborhood that America must defend against vicious dogs. Ten years ago, the neighborhood was pretty nice. America had a lot of rocks and there were not a whole lot of dogs. The neighborhood had been safe ever since that Russian terrier up and died without a single rock being thrown. But then came 9/11, and a new breed of animal came into the neighborhood. It was some kind of stray. No one knew where it came from or who owned it, but some of the worst neighbors on the block were said to feed it scraps. America remembered seeing it years before, when it used the stray to attack that old Samoyed. After the stray wounded the beast, America had patted its head and left it alone. America thought the stray would just go away and die — or something like
that.
Then came 9/11, and America realized how dangerous that stray actually was. The neighborhood came together, gathered up all of its stones and hurled them at the snarling stray. But the stray disappeared and nobody could find it. America decided to take the offensive and identify any other possible strays in the neighborhood. It wrote up a list and identified three: the mean Iraqi mongrel, the Iranian wolf and the vicious North Korean pit bull. Against the advice of its weaker neighbors, America picked up its stones and hurled them at the mongrel, knocking it dead. Feeling slighted and a little embarrassed that they couldn't throw as well, the other neighbors gathered all their stones and refused to let America have any more.
Now, the North Korean pit bull has attacked an innocent ally, South Korea, and the United States is low on rocks. Logically, the neighborhood (the international community working through the United Nations) needs to collect their rocks (their combined military and diplomatic power), join America and get behind their wounded ally. If the North attacks again — possibly even harder this time — and the international community does nothing, the civilized world effectively tells North Korea and other brutal, violent regimes that they can go so far as to physically attack neighboring countries and no one will stop them.
The situation in the Koreas is tense and uncertain. The U.S. and South Korea are engaged in war games, which the North has hypocritically warned may cause "full-blown war." While diplomats scramble, North Korea continues to move towards a nuclear future. Yesterday, the North announced that it is currently operating a uranium enrichment
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In the worst-case scenario, which recent events have revealed to be quite possible, North Korea develops a nuclear weapon and, in another act of paranoid aggression, nukes the South. If that happens, the U.S. would probably launch a joint airstrike with South Korea against the North's capital, Pyongyang, and bear the price for whatever goes wrong.
A better alternative is for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (himself a South Korean) to offer the U.N.'s unflinching support for the South Korean government in anticipation of an attack, and urge the U.S., Britain, France, Germany and other allied nations to offer military support if the North escalates the conflict. If the North goes ahead and bombs South Korea, the allied nations would then rally together under the UN flag and invade while a missile strike hits Pyongyang.
There is hope for the U.N. in this stage of international politics. Even though the UN has been damaged by the United States' unilateral action against Iraq, inaction in Rwanda and Darfur and its own internal corruption (e.g. the 2000s oil-for-food scandal), it still has the power to provide greater legitimacy to a military strike. In doing so, it can rise out of the ashes and return to global significance. But if the U.N. just sits back and lets individual nations take the lead against North Korea, it cements its own diplomatic irrelevancy and leaves America to deal with the neighborhood dogs once again.
plant powered by "thousands of centrifuges." Siegfried Hecker, a Stanford University scientist who has visited the facility,says it could be quickly converted to produce highly-enriched uranium for nuclear bombs.
- From UWIRE. Arragon Perronefor The Daily Campus at Connecticut University
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
Tenure poor reason to retain incompetent educators
I'm guessing that everyone has had their bad share of teachers in public schools. When a thermometer broke in chemistry lab, my old teacher told a student to simply clean it up. A day later, the student was in the hospital because of mercury poisoning. Sadly, even with this act of negligence, my old teacher is most likely still teaching high school chemistry.
If I were the principal, I would have immediately fired him and any other teachers who proved to be incompetent. The reason many bad teachers are never fired is because of tenure, which basically guarantees a teacher his or her job. Another teacher teachers never get fired is because teacher unions make the process expensive and time-consuming.
An article in The New York Daily News reported that in the New York area, "over the past three years [2007-2010], just 88 out of some 80,000 city schoolteachers have lost their jobs for poor performance." An article in Newsweek reported that in Chicago, "0.1 percent of teachers were dismissed for performance-related reasons between 2005 and 2008." There are examples of this all over the country.
The problem with tenure is that a teacher's performance in the classroom has no effect on their employment. For example, if a teacher is completely dedicated to helping students learn in the classroom, that teacher will stay employed and receive additional benefits. If a teacher behaves unprofessionally, texts during class, and is being disruptive to the learning environment in school, that teacher will also stay employed and receive the same benefits as good teachers.
How is this morally correct? Regardless of performance, these teachers
Seth's Scoop
BY SETH ROBINSON
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stay employed and receive benefits. Consequently, this reduces the incentives for teachers to do their very best at teaching students. It's no wonder that high school students collectively and consistently score low on math and science tests. Out of thirty countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development being tested on math, an Associated Press article reports that U.S. teens have an "average score that was lower than the average in 23 of the other leading industrialized countries." This makes it almost impossible for our graduates to compete on a global level, and the blame mostly goes to these incompetent teachers.
There are a few exceptions, however. In some cases, the blame should go to parents for not teaching their kids the importance of a good education. Teachers who do a great job should not be blamed if the student refuses to take learning seriously.
There must be an education reform that can make the process of firing inefficient teachers easier. Legislation to reform tenure laws were passed in Michigan two weeks ago, which is a good start.
If we simply fired bad teachers and rewarded good teachers (which is the way it should be), we could begin to see improvements in students' educations.
Robinson is a senior from Houston in civil engineering.
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"I wouldn't say that fans or students are at fault for the no-show at all. I blame poor scheduling and even worse incentive. To go to the game this weekend would have cost me money for traveling, for the ticket and parking, and for any food/extras while I was at the game. The fact that the game was over Thanksgiving break at 11am also hurts. Fans would have had to make trip to Kansas City at nearly 9am, especially students. There was no reason to fans to "tailgate" because it was too early in the day. The fact that it is a "shopping holiday" also led to many people making the trip to Oak Park Mall or other places instead of to a game that they knew were lopsided. Another factor that helps keep the stands empty is the way fans have been at KU games all year, leaving before halftime and barely cheering on the team, even when they are less than 10 points behind.
— "MeowMix" in response to "Fans no-show for Saturday's Border Showdown" on Nov. 28.
"I know that the weak-willed will not recognize the threats facing our country. They belittle the attempts to defend freedom and mock anyone who supports America's right to exist.
"The fact people confuse us with progressive Democrats is good," From the Communist Party in the US website.
If you are Left of moderate, you stand a good chance of supporting communist agendas to eliminate freedom, increase government monopolies and kill entrepreneurship. Those who produce threaten those who steal for a living.
It is just that simple. Line up your terms, but it comes down to "Do you seek to produce or do you seek to steal?" Cue the ad hominem attacks."
— "Metacognition" in response to "Iowa Supreme Court judged on specific decisions not capabilities" on Nov. 27.
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University requirements under review
BY STEPHEN GRAY
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In response to the findings of Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little's retention and graduation task force from earlier this year, fundamental changes to the University's undergraduate curriculum could be on the way.
Currently, the University requires 30 percent to 50 percent more general education credit hours than neighboring universities. As a result, nearly one in five students who have met the goals of their majors are deemed ineligible for graduation each spring because they have not satisfied general education coursework.
To respond to this issue and others, a work group has been instituted by Provost Jeff Vitter to complete the first major update of the University's general education requirements in more than two decades to put it more in line with the needs of students today.
Ann Cudd, professor of philosophy and the co-chairwoman of the Energizing the Education Environment work group, said the current curriculum is an
obstacle to University efforts to retain students at a higher level and to maintain timely graduation. She said she thinks renewing it will only help students going forward.
"We're trying to streamline the process for students," Cudd said. But we want to do it in a way that still achieves the learning outcomes that are important and
essential for a KU graduate to have."
While the University requires between 71 and 72 hours for general education, schools like the University of Missouri.
"What is western civilization going to do for me in meteorology?"
MICHAEL WHISLER freshman from Andover
Iowa State University and the University of Oklahoma all require less than 50 credit hours. This situation leaves little flexibility for students as they pursue their major requirements, affording students with few opportunities to explore electives.
One of the suggestions from
the task force that the work group will consider is reducing the number of credit hours to something closer to 30 to 45 hours, the range typical of other universities that have recently revamped their general education requirements.
Michael Whisler, a freshman from Andover majoring in meteorology, said any reduction would be a good change.
"More classes based on our majors would be beneficial." Whisler said. "What is western civilization going to do for me in meteorology?
Christopher Hauffer, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and co-chair of the group, said such a high number of requirements could also negatively affect recruitment.
"If potential students are comparing KU to other institutions and seeing greater flexibility from other universities, that could be a deciding factor", Haulfer said.
Hauffer said the group is currently working on determining
what the new goals of general education should be through surveys, focus groups and discussions with faculty, staff and students. So far, critical thinking and written and oral communication have emerged as the most important by a wide margin.
Once this information is gathered and the new goals are determined, a new curriculum can be matched with student needs and put into place. For now, the provost has set a deadline for March on what the group's key strategic initiatives will be, so any major changes to the curriculum may still be a few years down the road.
Cudd said making this curriculum change is important for student success in more ways than one.
"Ultimately, we hope to improve the intellectual environment," Cudd said. We want to make it easier to navigate our system so students are more engaged in their classes and the expectations on them become clearer."
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Book club fosters discussion of race and social equality
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The Black Student Union will kick off a new tradition tonight when it hosts its first official book club meeting.
The first meeting, which begins tonight at 6 p.m. in the Multicultural Resource Center, will focus on Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play "A Raisin in the Sun." The literary classic will provide students with the opportunity to openly discuss issues of race and social equality present in the world today.
"The reason why we chose to read 'Raisin in the Sun' is that it proved to be a book that we could get a lot of meaning from," said Vincent Cunigan, a junior from Chicago and vice president of the Black Student Union. "It kind of was a book that was easy to read and that a lot of people had already read which we thought would make it easier for them to participate."
The play tells the story of the Youngers, a black family living in Chicago in 1959. The family has recently come into some money, and decides to use it to move into a house in a white community. This move forces the Youngers to confront racism
and discrimination from their white neighbors, as well as deal with conflicts within the family.
While they do not deny that racism exists today, many members of the Black Student Union feel that racial inequality has decreased since the play was first published.
"Since it's an older book not all aspects of it are applicable to my life," said Amber Jackson, a junior from Kansas City, Kan. and president of the Black Student Union. "But it is applicable to the history of African Americans and that's what I like about it."
The book club's formation was fueled by the organization's desire to create programs with more substance and educational themes.
"It's open to anyone even if you haven't read the book or seen the movie, anyone is welcome to come out," Kameron Mack, a junior from Wichita and program chairman for the Black Student Union, said. "You can relate a lot of things from the book to today's society so if anyone wants to come give any input or just listen — it's perfectly fine to come and just be an audience member."
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Senior guard Marshia Brown and sophomore forward Carolyn Davis celebrate after defeating Maine 126-63. The win was the Jayhawks' 700th win in school history and the most points scored in a Kansas women's basketball game. Mike Gumney/Knn.
Kansas scored a school-record 126 points in the win
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Sophomore forward Carolyn Davis started the game strong with three shots in the paint and a set of free throws to give her eight points in the first two minutes of game time and set Kansas on a 25-4 run. This success continued for the Jayhawks.
The Kansas Jayhawks dominated the Maine Black Bears for a decisive 126-63 victory, the 700th for the program.
"You look up in the banners and you are part of that." Henrickson said. "You are representing all of those. This is for everyone who has come before us."
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"We talked a little bit about it before the game in the shoot around the opportunity to be a part of history and how much respect we have for the coaches in the past who have racked up a bunch of these wins and the players in the history of the program who have won a lot of the games, and how special it is to be a part of something historic," coach Bonnie Henrickson said.
The Jayhawks also broke the school scoring record in an exciting and record-breaking night.
Kansas led 69-26 at the half, marking its highest scoring half this season and its largest half-time lead. The Jayhawks shot 66.7 percent from the field in the first half and scored 38 points in the paint. The dominant frontcourt effort — Kansas outscored the Black Bears 74-24 in the paint on the night — was led by Davis, who had 25 points and seven rebounds.
we got them in transition, we got good looks in the zone and made the most of those," Henrickson said.
Henrickson said.
The Jawhaws were quick and aggressive on fast break opportunities as well, recording 22 fast break points and 37 off of turnovers.
Even with a 63-point lead during part of the game, the layhawks stayed focused and aggressive.
"Right before the game coach told me I needed to dominate from the start and that was my mindset," Davis said. "I knew we needed to jump out to a big lead and so that what I wanted to do for my team."
Every player who saw court time played for at least 20 minutes.
"We stayed aggressive, we didn't get sloppy, we only had two turnovers in the first half off all of those possessions and that is important,"
"We got high percentage shots,
"I thought the kids played unselfishly, I thought they played hard I think we made two bad shots in all those possessions and I am really excited for the kids to be a part of it and I know they are proud of it too," Henrickson said.
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"I think that helps us a lot because everyone will have experience going into the big time games, you won't be putting someone in who hasn't played very much," Jelniker said. "Everyone knows their role on the team and can come in and contribute."
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Almost a year ago to the day, when Kansas last played UCLA at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, Markieff Morris was the best player on the floor. He finished with 19 points, then a career high.
"We got the ball to me a lot early," Morris said Monday about that game. "They were double-teaming Cole and my brother, and they didn't really expect me to do what I did."
The development of Morris has been no secret in the early going this season. He's scored in double figures in all but one game and trails only his brother on the team with 12.3 points per game. His 9.5 rebounds per game leads the team, and he's doing it all in only 20 minutes per game — foul trouble has plagued him for the majority of the season.
Will they expect it now?
"Definitely."
"Our guys are going to foul," coach Billy Self said. "You just can't
Regardless, the Morris twins have become a legitimate threat that the Bruins must find a way to stop. But for Markieff to follow-up as the best player on the floor, he'll have to play out both his teammates and the much-improved Bruins, who have already taken one top-10 team to the wire.
The silly one to start the second half that Self referenced was Morris' third in the Arizona. His brother Marcus also picked up his third early in the second half, and the Jayhawks were forced to guard Derrick Williams predominantly with undersized Mario Little.
commit the silly ones that give you three to start the second half?
Sophomore small forward Tyler Honeycutt played his first minutes of the season against Kansas last year after sitting out with an injury for the first six games. Now Honeycutt presents a matchup problem for Kansas as a 6-foot-8 wing. Brady Morningstar, who has started the last four games on the wing for Kansas, doesn't have the length to contain Honeycutt.
It may be up to Travis Releford, who at 6-5 is at least comparable to the lanky Honeycutt, to do the defensive stopping.
"They have their main players back from last year, plus they have added some nice pieces to the puzzle," Self said. "Reeves Nelson and Honeycutt are off to a great start. If I'm not mistaken, I think that may have been Honeycutt's last game back when we played them last year. He is going to be a really good player, and certainly they are getting better guard play."
The Bruins, too, know that they have a challenge waiting for them in Kansas.
"This game coming up against Kansas is a huge challenge," Howland said. "They're a very good team. I think they've won 61 games in a row at home."
Sixty-three, a media member corrected him.
"Sixty-three? That's a lot of wins in a row at home."
Edited by David Cawthon
COMMENTARY
Conference lineup changes rattle fans
BY KORY CARPENTER kcarpenter@kansan.com
DANIEL HAYES
The spring of 2010 was building up to be the biggest conference shake-up in history
Rumors swirled around the college sports world with stories changing everyday. Everyone from internet bloggers to radio personalities had "sources" telling them this or that, with expectations of huge changes to the NCAA landscape. The tension built up as each story grew more extensive, but what actually occurred was rather uneventful.
The Big 10 now has 12 schools. The Big 12 has 10. Maybe they should swap names? I propose the Big 12 light.
A few naming problems wasn't the only head scratcher, though.
I'm envisioning the huge basketball rivalry beginning to brew between TCU and St. Johns.
Okay, maybe not.
TCU, located in Fort Worth,
Texas, has joined the Big East.
There is nothing "big" or "east"
about a school in Fort Worth,
Texas.
The old Big 8 conference was shaken up as well. Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa State, Missouri, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State have played in the same conference since 1958. First in the Big 8, then in the Big I, beginning in 1996.
"I'm not going to say anything bad about the Big 12, but when you compare Oklahoma State to Northwestern, when you compare Texas Tech to Wisconsin, I mean, you begin looking at educational possibilities that are worth looking at," Nixon said in a dallasnews.com article last December.
With Colorado's departure to the Pac-10 (they'll have no problem changing the name to Pac-12, Good luck commissioner, Beebe) and Nebraska leaving for the Big 10, the marriage is over after 52 years.
Texas considered the idea of joining the Pac-10 this spring. Texas A&M publicly campaigned for a spot in the SEC, with Aggie fans printing shirts reading, "SECCede." Even Missouri governor Jay Nixon added his two cents on Big 10 expansion.
This is where I'm supposed to berate the Huskers. They gave up 52 years of history for money. Oh yeah, and more television coverage. And better football from top to bottom. And better academics. And the potential for much better rivalries (matchups with Ohio State Michigan, Wisconsin, and Penn State will be huge).
Both the Pac 10 and Big 10 are very stable conferences with a bright future. The Big 12 hasn't looked stable during the last year. Why anyone would blame these schools for leaving is strange.
And for Colorado, they've been eyeing the Pac-10 for years. This summer's Cold War-esque arms race for realignment was the perfect opportunity for the Buffs to slide into the Pac-10.
Missouri's governor wanted Mizzou to leave. Texas A&M wanted to leave. Even Kansas officials were rumored to have talked to Big East officials early in the summer, trying to find a life raft on the sinking ship that was the Big 12.
The ship didn't sink. It was repaired with bubble gum and duct tape.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"They were going through some stuff last year at that particular time and I think they're a lot better team this year."
— Coach Bill Self on UCLA
FACT OF THE DAY
UCLA leads the all-time series against Kansas 10-5.
— Kansas Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Of the 15 matchups, how many have been in tournament play?
A: Five, with UCLA winning every game.
Kansas Athletics
NFL
Chiefs cut LB Cole, sign CB Richardson
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs have signed free agent cornerback Mike Richardson. He attended camp with Kansas City this year but was released prior to the start of the regular season.
To make room, the Chiefs released linebacker Justin Cole, who was inactive for the first 1.1 games.
Richardson has recorded 20 tackles and 20 special teams tackles in action with the New England Patriots and Chiefs.
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
MJ's son scores 18 in upset of Florida
ORLANDO, Fla. — Marcus Jordan scored 18 points, Keith Clanton hit two free throws in the final seconds and Central Florida upset No. 18 Florida 57-54 on Wednesday night.
The Gators, ranked ninth in The Associated Press pre-season poll, lost to the Knights for the first time in 10 meetings and could drop from the rankings after another lackcluster effort.
Michael Jordan's son had a lot to do with this one.
Jordan was 6 of 11 from the field and played tight defense, creating all kinds of problems for the Gators (5-2).
His biggest shots came at the free throw line.
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MORNING BREW
Stand up for the right to smile
Derek Anderson just wanted to smile. He was having a pretty bad day as the quarterback of the Arizona
Cardinals. Hed been playing pretty terrible and his team was on its way to a sixth straight loss.
So he sat down on the bench next to his buddy, teammate Deuce Lutui, probably wishing he could disappear into the ground. His buddy feels bad for him, so he tries to lighten an otherwise dreary mood with a humorous comment — because that's what friends do. Anderson chuckles for a minute, glad for the distraction, and then returns to thinking about the game.
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Next, all he can get out is "It's fine. It's fine! It's fine. It's fine! It'S fine," likely setting a record for consecutive "It's fine" utterances in an NFL press conference (although that hasn't been confirmed).
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Then he just overcompensates: "It's not funny, nothing's funny to me!"
Whoa, Derek. I'm sure he was quite upset and caught up in the heat of the moment, but in this instance, he really should have taken a stand for his right to chuckle instead of declaring that he was incapable of humor.
In the wake of all this lies a heated national debate that could change the course of basic human rights in this country: Should individuals be allowed to express happiness while getting beaten in a game?
Now, in Anderson's case, the reporter who prodded him about his smile does have an excuse: the reporter told ESPN that he was getting "bombared" with messages from fans demanding an explanation for why he dared to muddy the grand Cardinal legacy by appearing jovial for six seconds during a loss. He wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't bring up Anderson's bold break from utter depression.
So the fault here really lies with the fans. Don't get me wrong, I know what it's like to have your heart sunk by a pitiful performance by your favorite team — I'm a Denver Broncos fan, after all. But does that mean that athletes must cast themselves into pure sorrow every time they're not playing a game very well?
THE MORNING BREW
If anything, fans should glean hope from the instant of pearly white cheer that Anderson showed. After all, as he said during his tirade, "I take this (expletive) serious. Real serious." So if Angry Anderson, who knows his poor performance could cost him his job anytime, can find something to smile about, maybe it's time for those in the crowd to take this (expletive) a little less serious.
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Newton can play in SEC title game
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AUBURN, Ala. The NCAA concluded that a violation of amateurism rules occurred during Cam Newton's recruitment last year, but the quarterback's eligibility was immediately reinstated with no conditions, Auburn announced Wednesday.
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NCAA vice president for academic and membership affairs Kevin Lennon said the decision was "based on information available to the
"restatement staff at this time."
"We do not have sufficient evidence that Cam Newton or anyone from Auburn was aware of this activity, which led to his restatement," Lennon said.
The NCAA's investigation determined that Newton's father, Cecil, and the owner of a scouting service worked together to actively market the quarterback as part of a pay-for-play scheme in return for Newton's commitment to Mississippi State.
NCAA rules do not allow individuals or entities to represent prospective student-athletes in order to gain compensation from a school.
As a result of the discovery, Auburn declared Newton ineligible Tuesday but immediately sought reinstatement from the NCAA national office staff, which can
include conditions such as suspension or repayment of benefits. Newton was reinstated without any conditions.
"We are pleased that the NCAA has agreed with our position that Cam Newton has been and continues to be eligible to play football at Auburn University," Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs said. "We appreciate the diligence and professionalism of the NCAA and its handling of this matter."
As part of the decision, Auburn has limited access Newton's father has to the athletics program. Mississippi State has also disassociated the scouting service member, presumably former Bulldogs player Kenny Rogers.
"The conduct of Cam Newton's father and the involved individual is unacceptable and has no place in the SEC or in intercollegiate athletics," SEC commissioner Mike Slive said. "The actions taken by Auburn University and Mississippi State University make it clear this behavior will not be tolerated in the SEC."
The NCAA said reinstatement decisions are independent of the NCAA enforcement process and typically are made once the facts of the student-athlete's involvement are determined.
The reinstatement process is likely to conclude prior to the close of an investigation. It is NCAA policy not to comment on current, pending or potential investigations.
Auburn had no further comment.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Chizik hopes having undefeated experience helps vs. Gamecocks
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — There aren't many areas where Gene Chizik's resume can compare with Steve Spurrier's.
However, Auburn's head coach can boast one thing Spurrier cannot. Chizik has been part of two undefeated seasons — Auburn's 2004 season and 'Texas' 2005 season. Both times, Chizik was the team's defensive coordinator.
Spurrier has six SEC titles and a national championship, but he has never had an undefeated season in 30 years of coaching, including his five years as an assistant. Chizik is hoping having experienced two undefeated seasons will help him Saturday when he tries to guide his No. 2 Tigers to 13-0 against South Carolina in the SEC title game.
pionship game.
"Ithashelped me because as we all know, it's extremely difficult to do," Chizik said. "Just being blessed enough to have gone through it
rankings and one win away from a spot in the national championship game in Chizik's second season, which has to be considered a surprise even to the people who supported his hiring in 2009. There weren't a ton of those people. In the two seasons prior to taking over Auburn's program, Chizik compiled a 5-19 record as Iowa State's head coach.
That resume got a lukewarm reception from most of the Auburn fan base when Chizik was hired. A YouTube video of an Auburn fan greeting Tigers athletic director Jay Jacobs at the airport when he returned from a meeting with Chizik has received more than 650,000 views and came to represent the Auburn people's frustration with the hire.
The reality wasn't like that at all,
"We can't control everybody's opinion, and we don't try to."
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two other times, there are things that I'm able to pull to help our coaches and team understand at that point in time, what in my opinion, are the important things to keep you undefeated."
Chizik said this week.
"We can't control everybody's opinion, and we don't try to," he said. "Our fan-base has been great for the most part. The majority of our fans
have been great since the day my family and I came back to Auburn after spending three previous years here."
Chizik, who was the Tigers' defensive coordinator from 2002-2004, isn't concerned with
whether this season has proved his doubters wrong, he said.
"No," he said. "I just know that we have a very important game coming up Saturday, and we have to win it. That's what we'll do every week as long as I'm the head coach here. There's no vindication in my world. That's not how I live, that's not what's important to me."
Chizik has a history that South Carolina fans can easily hate. He graduated from Florida, where he was a reserve linebacker, and earned a master's degree from Clemson, where he got his first collegiate coaching job as a graduate assistant in 1988 and 1989. From there, he went from Middle Tennessee State to Stephen F. Austin to Central Florida before being hired by Tommy Tuberville at Auburn in 2002.
Chizik walks a fine line between taskmaster and confidant, his players say.
"He's going to get everything out of you, every living thing," defensive back Demond Washington said. "He just wants everything perfect."
Still, tight end Philip Lutzenkirchen said, Chizik has a soft touch with his players off the field.
"He's a real players' coach," Lutzenkirchen said.
Both players added that Chizik has leaned heavily on his experience from those previous two undefeated seasons to guide them through the potential pitfalls.
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Jayhawks win program's 700th in dominant style
BY MEGAN RUPP
mrupp@kansan.com
When freshman guard Brooke Jelniker stepped up to the line with less than 10 minutes left in the game, she not only scored the team's 100th point, but also added to her eight-point career-high.
"It itt good after they told me it was the 100th point," Jelniker said. "It was awesome, but it was also really cool to get the 700th win as a team."
Jelniker was not the only Jayhawk to reach career-high scoring. In a blowout game, like Kansas' 126-63 win against Maine in Allen Fieldhouse on Wednesday night, each possession seems to blur into the next. But the Jayhawks' victory over the Black Bears was nothing short of history in the making.
Senior forward Krysten Boogaard added 33 points, a season-record for her. Recovering from a minor knee injury, Boogaard saw more floor time against Maine than she has been able to contribute in recent games, which allowed her to also grab eight rebounds. She also made the shot to break the school record of points scored in a single game, but she said she tried not to think about it during the game.
"It was in the back of my mind, but I was trying to just think about the game," Boogaard said. "But we really worked together as a team to get the great win that we did. The 700th win is a milestone, but I think we need to keep pushing."
Boogaard's strong performance didn't stifle sophomore forward Carolyn Davis' ability to also get points on the board. Davis started the game strong and never ceased to attack hard. She ended the game
with 25 points and seven rebounds. She said it felt good, but she and the rest of the team would need to stay focused and not be satisfied.
Getting the ball inside to the post players seemed easy for the Jayhawk guards, who utilized their in-and-out offensive ability to exploit the Black Bears' defense. Largely responsible for achieving that task was freshman Keena Mays' constant attention to rewarding Davis and Boogaard's hard work inside. Each time she saw her forwards post up and seal their advantageous position, Mays got them the ball, helping her break her own assist record. Mays ended the game with a career-high 14 points and nine assists.
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"I felt a lot better after this game," Mays said. "But I think most of us did."
The victory over the Black Bears earned the program its 700th win, but more importantly, it earned this Jayhawk squad a 7-0 record. The last time KU went 7-0 was in the 2005-06 season, before Boogaard, the oldest player, joined the team. The Jayhawks also picked up 32 assists, tying the school record.
Coach Bonnie Henrickson was proud of her team, but modest about her own achievements, despite the fact that she improved her own record and reached 103-95 as head coach at KU. She was more proud of the team playing unselfishly and hard.
"We talked about how special it is to be a part of something historic and then at the end of it to be able to break a scoring record and tying an assist record?" Henrickson said. "I'm really excited for the kids to be able to be a part of it and I know they're really proud of it."
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Junior forward Aishah Sutherland shoots over a Maine defender in Kansas' victory Wednesday night. Sutherland finished the game with 17 points on 8-of-10 shooting.
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Stat of the game
126 Kansas set the all time school scoring record with their 126-63 performance.
Quote of the game
"We have a game goal to make the officials yell at us to sit down twice a game," coach Bonnie Henrickson said. "We got that twice in the first five minutes. You can't fake that. They are genuinely excited about each other's success."
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
they were going through some stuff last year at that particular time and I think they're a lot better team this year."
— Coach Bill Self on UCLA
FACT OF THE DAY
UCLA leads the all-time series against Kansas 10-5.
— Kansas Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Of the 15 matchups, how many have been in tournament play?
A: Five, with UCLA winning every game.
— Kansas Athletics
NFL
Chiefs cut LB Cole, sign CB Richardson
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs have signed free agent cornerback Mike Richardson. He attended camp with Kansas City this year but was released prior to the start of the regular season.
To make room, the Chiefs released linebacker Justin Cole, who was inactive for the first 11 games.
Richardson has recorded 20 tackles and 20 special teams tackles in action with the New England Patriots and Chiefs.
Associated Press
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
MJ's son scores 18 in upset of Florida
ORLANDO, Fla. — Marcus Jordan scored 18 points, Keith Clinton hit two free throws in the final seconds and Central Florida upset No. 18 Florida 57 54 on Wednesday night.
The Gators, ranked ninth in The Associated Press preseason poll, lost to the Knights for the first time in 10 meetings and could drop from the rankings after another lackluster effort.
Michael Jordan's son had a lot to do with this one.
Jordan was 6 of 11 from the field and played tight defense, creating all kinds of problems for the Gators (5-2).
His biggest shots came at the free throw line.
Associated Press
Stand up for the right to smile
MORNING BREW
Derek Anderson just wanted to smile. He was having a pretty bad day as the quarterback of the Arizona
Cardinals. Hed been playing pretty terrible and his team was on its way to a sixth straight loss.
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So he sat down on the bench next to his buddy, teammate Deuce Lutui, probably wishing he could disappear into the ground. His buddy feels bad for him, so he tries to lighten an otherwise dreary mood with a humorous comment — because that's what friends do. Anderson chuckles for a minute, glad for the distraction, and then returns to thinking about the game.
Next thing he knows, he's in a press conference, getting questioned by a reporter as to what could possibly be funny on the losing side of a blowout in the NFL. The poor quarterback suddenly gets very angry and defensive about his right to laugh while playing sports and lets loose on a tirade that became an instant classic on SportsCenter, YouTube and anywhere else you can find amusing videos.
He isn't the most eloquent in his defense of merriment, first claiming that "what me and Deuce talk about is nobody's business."
Next, all he can get out is "It's fine. It's fine! It's fine, It's fine! It'S fine," likely setting a record for consecutive "It's fine" utterances in an NFL press conference (although that hasn't been confirmed).
BY JOEL PETTERSON
joetterson@kansan.com
Then he just overcompensates: "It's not funny, nothing's funny to me!"
Whoa, Derek. I'm sure he was quite upset and caught up in the heat of the moment, but in this instance, he really should have taken a stand for his right to chuckle instead of declaring that he was incapable of humor.
In the wake of all this lies a heated national debate that could change the course of basic human rights in this country: Should individuals be allowed to express happiness while getting beaten in a game?
Now, in Anderson's case, the reporter who prodded him about his smile does have an excuse: the reporter told ESPN that he was getting "bombared" with messages from fans demanding an explanation for why he dared to muddy the grand Cardinal legacy by appearing jovial for six seconds during a loss. He wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't bring up Anderson's bold break from utter depression.
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If anything, fans should glean hope from the instant of pearly white cheer that Anderson showed. After all, as he said during his tirade, "I take this (expletive) serious. Real serious." So if Angry Anderson, who knows his poor performance could cost him his job anytime, can find something to smile about, maybe it's time for those in the crowd to take this (expletive) a little less serious.
So the fault here really lies with the fans. Don't get me wrong, I know what it's like to have your heart sunk by a pitiful performance by your favorite team — I'm a Denver Broncos fan, after all. But does that mean that athletes must cast themselves into pure sorrow every time they're not playing a game very well?
— Edited by David Cawthon
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Newton can play in SEC title game
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
AUBURN, Ala. The NCAA concluded that a violation of amateurism rules occurred during Cam Newton's recruitment last year, but the quarterback's eligibility was immediately reinstated with no conditions. Auburn announced Wednesday.
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reinstatement staff at this time."
NCAA vice president for academic and membership affairs Kevin Lennon said the decision was "based on information available to the
"We do not have sufficient evidence that Cam Newton or anyone from Auburn was aware of this activity, which led to his restatement," Lennon said.
The NCAA's investigation determined that Newton's father, Cecil, and the owner of a scouting service worked together to actively market the quarterback as part of a pay-for-play scheme in return for Newton's commitment to Mississippi State.
NCAA rules do not allow individuals or entities to represent prospective student-athletes in order to gain compensation from a school.
As a result of the discovery, Auburn declared Newton ineligible Tuesday but immediately sought reinstatement from the NCAA national office staff, which can
include conditions such as suspension or repayment of benefits. Newton was reinstated without any conditions.
"We are pleased that the NCAA has agreed with our position that Cam Newton has been and continues to be eligible to play football at Auburn University," Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs said. "We appreciate the diligence and professionalism of the NCAA and its handling of this matter."
As part of the decision, Auburn has limited access Newton's father has to the athletics program. Mississippi State has also disassociated the scouting service member, presumably former Bulldogs player Kenny Rogers.
"The conduct of Cam Newton's father and the involved individual is unacceptable and has no place in the SEC or in intercollegiate athletics," SEC commissioner Mike Slive said. "The actions taken by Auburn University and Mississippi State University make it clear this behavior will not be tolerated in the SEC."
The NCAA said reinstatement decisions are independent of the NCAA enforcement process and typically are made once the facts of the student-athlete's involvement are determined.
The reinstatement process is likely to conclude prior to the close of an investigation. It is NCAA policy not to comment on current, pending or potential investigations.
Auburn had no further comment.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Chizik hopes having undefeated experience helps vs. Gamecocks
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
COLUMBIA, S.C. — There aren't many areas where Gene Chizik's resume can compare with Steve Spurrier's.
However, Auburn's head coach can boast one thing Spurrier cannot. Chizik has been part of two undefeated seasons — Auburn's 2004 season and Texas' 2005 season. Both times, Chizik was the team's defensive coordinator.
Spurrier has six SEC titles and a national championship, but he has never had an undefeated season in 30 years of coaching, including his five years as an assistant. Chizik is hoping have experienced two undefeated seasons will help him Saturday when he tries to guide his No. 2 Tigers to 13-0 against South Carolina in
the SEC championship game.
"Ithashelped me because as we all know, it's extremely difficult to do," Chizik said. "Just being blessed enough to have gone through it
rankings and one win away from a spot in the national championship game in Chizik's second season, which has to be considered a surprise even to the people who supported his hiring in 2009. There weren't a ton of those people. In the two seasons prior to taking over Auburn's program, Chizik compiled a 5-19 record as Iowa State's head coach.
That resume got a lukewarm reception from most of the Auburn fan base when Chizik was hired. A YouTube video of an Auburn fan greeting Tigers athletic director Jay Jacobs at the airport when he returned from a meeting with Chizik has received more than 650,000 views and came to represent the Auburn people's frustration with the hire.
The reality wasn't like that at all,
"We can't control everybody's opinion, and we don't try to."
GENE CHIZIK Auburn head coach
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two other times, there are things that I'm able to pull to help our coaches and team understand at that point in time, what in my opinion, are the important things to keep you undefeated."
Chizik said this week.
"We can't control everybody's opinion, and we don't try to," he said. "Our fan-base has been great for the most part. The majority of our fans
have been great since the day my family and I came back to Auburn after spending three previous years here."
Chizik, who was the Tigers' defensive coordinator from 2002-2004, isn't concerned with
"No," he said. "I just know that we have a very important game coming up Saturday, and we have to win it. That's what we'll do every week as long as I'm the head coach here. There's no vindication in my world. That's not how I live, that's not what's important to me."
whether this season has proved his doubters wrong,he said.
Chizik has a history that South Carolina fans can easily hate. He graduated from Florida, where he was a reserve linebacker, and earned a master's degree from Clemson, where he got his first collegiate coaching job as a graduate assistant in 1988 and 1989. From there, he went from Middle Tennessee State to Stephen F. Austin to Central Florida before being hired by Tommy Tuberville at Auburn in 2002.
Chizik walks a fine line between taskmaster and confidant, his players say.
"He's going to get everything out of you, every living thing," defensive back Demond Washington said. "He just wants everything perfect."
Still, tight end Philip Lutzenkirchen said, Chizik has a soft touch with his players off the field.
"He's a real players' coach," Lutzenkirchen said.
both players added that Chizik has leaned heavily on his experience from those previous two undefeated seasons to guide them through the potential pitfalls.
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL REWIND
Jayhawks win program's 700th in dominant style
BY MEGAN RUPP
mrupp@kansan.com
When freshman guard Brooke Jenliker stepped up to the line with less than 10 minutes left in the game, she not only scored the team's 100th point, but also added to her eight-point career-high.
"It itted good after they told me it was the 100th point," Jelniker said. "It was awesome, but it was also really cool to get the 700th win as a team."
Senior forward Krysten Boogaard added 33 points, a season-record for her. Recovering from a minor knee injury, Boogaard saw more floor time against Maine than she has been able to contribute in recent games, which allowed her to also grab eight rebounds. She also made the shot to break the school record of points scored in a single game, but she said she tried not to think about it during the game.
Jelniker was not the only Jayhawk to reach career-high scoring. In a blowout game, like Kansas' 126-63 win against Maine in Allen Fieldhouse on Wednesday night, each possession seems to blur into the next. But the Jayhawks' victory over the Black Bears was nothing short of history in the making.
"It was in the back of my mind, but I was trying to just think about the game." Boogaard said. "But we really worked together as a team to get the great win that we did. The 700th win is a milestone, but I think we need to keep pushing."
Boogaard's strong performance didn't stile sophomore forward Carolyn Davis' ability to also get points on the board. Davis started the game strong and never ceased to attack hard. She ended the game
with 25 points and seven rebounds. She said it felt good, but she and the rest of the team would need to stay focused and not be satisfied.
Getting the ball inside to the post players seemed easy for the Jayhawk guards, who utilized their in-and-out offensive ability to exploit the Black Bears' defense. Largely responsible for achieving that task was freshman Keena Mays' constant attention to rewarding Davis and Boogaard's hard work inside. Each time she saw her forwards post up and seal their advantageous position, Mays got them the ball, helping her break her own assist record. Mays ended the game with a career-high 14 points and nine assists.
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"I felt a lot better after this game," Mays said. "But I think most of us did."
The victory over the Black Bears earned the program its 700th win, but more importantly, it earned this Jayhawk squad a 7-0 record. The last time KU went 7-0 was in the 2005-06 season, before Boogaard, the oldest player, joined the team. The Jayhawks also picked up 32 assists, tying the school record.
Coach Bonnie Henrickson was proud of her team, but modest about her own achievements, despite the fact that she improved her own record and reached 103-95 as head coach at KU. She was more proud of the team playing unselfishly and hard.
"We talked about how special it is to be a part of something historic and then at the end of it to be able to break a scoring record and tying an assist record." Henrickson said. "I'm really excited for the kids to be able to be a part of it and I know they're really proud of it."
Junior forward Aishah Sutherland shoots over a Maine defender in Kansas' victory Wednesday night. Sutherland finished the game with 17 points on 8-of-10 shooting.
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Player of the game
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Krysten Boogaard
Boogaard returned from knee complications and had a breakout game playing over 20 minutes for the first time this season. She finished the game with 33 points shooting 14-16 from the field and grabbing eight rebounds.
Stat of the game
126 Kansas set the all time school scoring record with their 126-63 performance.
Quote of the game
"We have a game goal to make the officials yell at us to sit down twice a game," coach Bonnie Henrickson said. "We got that twice in the first five minutes. You can't fake that. They are genuinely excited about each other's success."
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BIG 12 FOOTBALL
Blackmon named Big 12 offensive player of the year
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Sophomore cornerback Greg Brown breaks up a pass to Oklahoma State wide receiver Justin Blackmon earlier this season at Memorial Stadium. Blackmon had 10 receptions for 130 yards.
OKLAHOMA CITY Justin Blackmon was named the Big 12's offensive player of the year Wednesday after a breakthrough season in which he went from a relative unknown to the nation's most productive wide receiver for No. 16 Oklahoma State.
Blackmon became the first receiver to win the honor after leading the nation with 1,665 yards receiving and 18 touchdown catches. Just a sophomore, he ends a streak of 11 straight years with quarterbacks as the Big 12's top offensive player, and before that running backs Troy Davis and Ricky Williams combined to win the first three awards.
"He's pretty amazing," Cowboys coach Mike Gundy said. "He'll have a good chance to win the Biletnikoff as the No. 1 receiver in the nation, so we felt like that he was the player of the year in this league. I never really talk much about that. In my opinion, (Auburn quarterback) Cam Newton is the Heisman Trophy winner. He is the best player in the country.
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"Well, I believe Justin Blackmon is the best player in the league this year"
Blackmon received 16 of the 20 votes from The Associated Press' panel in a clean sweep by Oklahoma State, which is second
in the nation in total offense. Running back Kendall Hunter received three votes and quarterback Brandon Weeden got the other one. Blackmon also received the same honor from the league's coaches on Tuesday.
Oklahoma defensive end Jeremy Beal was picked as the defensive player of the year in the closest balloting for this year's awards. He received nine votes, Nebraska's Lavonte David got six, Texas A&M's Von Miller got four and Cornhuskers cornerback Prince Amukamara — the coaches' pick for defensive player of the year — had one.
Nebraska swept the honors for newcomers, with quarterback Taylor Martinez winning on offense and David on defense.
Blackmon practically came out of nowhere after making only 20 catches last season as a freshman. With star Dez Bryant moving on to become a first-round NFL draft pick and new offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen bringing in a pass-heavy offense, Blackmon seized an opportunity to become Oklahoma State's go-to receiver.
"We knew he was going to be a good player. We didn't know about his durability and his ability to handle pressure and just all the accolades that he received during the season, and he's done a really good job with that," Gundy said.
the year that he's had."
"I'm still somewhat stunned at
Blackmon has tied an NCAA record with 11 consecutive games with at least 100 yards receiving and a touchdown, the last one coming as he played through a sprained ankle last week in a
47-41 loss to Oklahoma. Gundy said Blackmon did not practice all week before that game and will be in a cast for about two weeks as the Cowboys prepare to play in their bowl game.
Blackmon has not been allowed
to speak to reporters since Oct. 27, when he apologized for being arrested on a driving under the influence charge.
His yardage total this season ranks 16th in Bowl Subdivision history with an opportunity to
still move up.
"From about Week 3 on, he's getting tons of bracket coverage and he still managed to get big-time numbers," Gundy said. "It's just surprising that he was able to do that."
CONFERENCE (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
When Nebraska and Colorado pledged to terminate their contracts and leave next July, they paid a combined $20 million in penalties to the remaining schools. That sounds great, except the four schools remaining in the north — Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State and Missouri — "volunteered" to give their share of the cash to Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma. As reported in a
chron.com article from June, the four schols "didn't want to be left on their own." Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe added. "They wanted to ensure that those institutions stayed with them."
After Texas spoke of leaving the Big 12 in shambles and jumping to another conference, they took the north schools' payment as a "thank you" for deciding to stay. So they threatened to leave, then
took extra money for staying. Sounds like a great deal if you can get away with it.
But pardon me if I don't blame the Buffaloes or Huskers for running into the arms of stable conferences and bigger paychecks. The remaining fans will be left waiting for the Longhorns' next move, hoping their school is in good shape. Contrary to what conference officials might say, few
diehair fans believe the Big 12 is stable.
According to a recent ESPN, com poll of over 143,000 people, 70 percent of voters don't believe the Big 12 will be a viable conference in three years.
And if you can't trust an ESPN.
com poll, what can you trust?
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Jeff Green added a career-high 37 points as the Thunder outlasted New Jersey in a game in which the Nets blew leads of six points in the first overtime and three points with 4.6 seconds.
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TIPOFF
AT A GLANCE
On the surface, it looks like UCLA is in the midst of another down year. Don't let the 3-2 record fool you, though. In truth, the Bruins are well on the way back to Pac-10 contention and have a shot at stealing the title as soon as this year. The Bruins have already put up a fight against one top-10 opponent (losing 82-70 to Villanova) and the same should be expected Thursday, Tyler Honeycutt, who debuted against the Jayhawks last year, has blossomed into a dangerous wing with NBA size, and Reeves Nelson is one of the Pac-10's best.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Scouts in Las Vegas were talking about Releford's defensive and transition skills. At 6-foot-5,
Travis Releford
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Releford has the length to lock down on most college wings and the athleticism to stick with the guards. He's also shooting the ball
better than anyone, including the coaches, expected. He does have to be careful not to fall in love with his jumper. He's too good at driving to the basket to settle for outside shots.
QUESTION MARK
Can the Morris twins stay out of foul trouble?
When either Marcus or Markieff goes down with foul trouble, the Jayhawks can manage. Thomas Robinson can almost seamlessly fill the gap. When both go down, though, trouble begins to brew for Kansas, like it did against Arizona. The Wildcats built a four-point lead after being down by as many as 15 with the twins largely confined to the bench. Mario Little doesn't have the size to play against most power forwards, and Jeff Withey lacks the athleticism to hang with hybrid forwards like Arizona's Derrick Williams and UCLA's Reeves Nelson.
COUNTDOWN TO TIPOFF GAME DAY
HEAR YE, HEAR YE
"It's a good or bad shot when it leaves your hand. That's what we tell our players. As coaches, if it counts for two points it doesn't bother us as much, but you can't tell a player it's a bad shot if he misses it and then tell him it's a good shot if it goes in. You're sending him mixed messages. Against Ohio, Marcus, as soon as he checked back in, made a threepointer. I said it was an awful shot. You should never shoot the ball when you first come down the court."
A HINT OF HOLLYWOOD
KANSAS VS. UCLA 8 p.m., ALLEN FIELDHOUSE, Lawrence, ESPN2
The storied UCLA Bruins come to the Phog
Taylor
PETER HUNTER
KANSAS
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STARTERS
Reed
Tyshawn Taylor, guard
Taylor hasn't shot the ball nearly as much as was expected early in the season, especially after he tallied 17 points in the opener. His improved passing, decision making and defense have scouts raving, though. Kansas would love to have Taylor score 10 points per game, but his 43 assists are fifth in the nation, and that's good enough for the Jayhawks to be 6-0.
PETER BROWN
Morningstar
★★★★
Tvrel Reed. guard
Morris
Reed is shooting just 28.6 percent from outside this season, but he's finally putting his otherworldly athleticism to other use in the Jayhawks offense. Reed had 13 points and two assists in the Jayhawks '87-79 victory over Arizona, despite going 0-for-4 from three-point land.
★★★☆☆
Brady Morningstar, guard
Morningstar has to start contributing offensively. Plain and simple. Morningstar's passing and ball-handling and defense are nice, no question, but Bill Self's starting guards are all averaging less than 10 points per game, and Morningstar's 5.5 are bringing up the rear by a wide margin. The scoring load cannot be put exclusively on the front-court, especially when foul trouble remains an issue.
★★☆☆★
Morris
PETER J. KINGLE
Marcus Morris, forward
Against Arizona, for the first time this season, Morris wasn't the best player on the floor. Arizona's Derrick Williams plays a similar game to Morris, but was more aggressive with the ball in his hands. If Morris develops Williams' assertiveness, he has the footwork to become the best post in college basketball.
★★★★
Markieff Morris. forward
Bill Self
PETER MCKINNEY
Morris was the best player in the game the last time Kansas and UCLA played, with 19 points and six boards. His own teammates aside, Morris will have a greater challenge waiting for him for that title this year. Reeves Nelson is putting up all-conference numbers for the Bruins, and the two will spend time guarding each other Thursday.
★★★★☆
Robinson
SIXTH MAN
Thomas Robinson, forward
Johnson was solid Friday night in his first game back from a season-opening suspension. He'll primarily serve as the backup to Tyshawn Taylor at the point, and Taylor's foul trouble thrust Johnson into a larger role against the Mean Green. He responded with 11 points and zero turnovers, but dished out only one assist.
★★★★
Tim Dwyer
UCLA
3-2 (0-0)
STARTERS
Malcom Lee, guard
Lee doesn't really stand out. He's a very similar player to Tyrel Reed or Brady Morningstar, in that he can shoot from deep. He is shooting 41.7 percent from the field and from three and is averaging 11.5 points per game. He doesn't get into the paint too often on the defensive end. He is only averaging 3.3 rebounds per game.
1980
Lee
★★☆☆★
Lazeric Jones. guard
Jones leads the team in assists with five per game. He is a quick guard that has decent ball control, but he is averaging 2.8 turnovers a game. Jones will provide a good match-up to the Kansas guards. He is averaging 12.6 points per game and plays almost 30 minutes. Getting to the free-throw line isn't a strength, but he is 8-8 from the line on the season.
★★★☆☆
Tyler Honeycutt, forward
Honeycutt is averaging the most minutes per game for the Bruins, 34.2. He is another big body on the low block that can post his man up or spread it out on the wings, similar to the Morris twins. He is averaging 14.5 points per game, good for second, and is shooting 40 percent from three. He has also taken the most three's with 20. He doesn't draw that many fouls, but he is 7-10 from the line this season.
★★★☆☆
Jones
JONATHAN MURRAY
Nelson has a similar body to Arizona's Derrick Williams, who torched the Jayhawks for 27 points before fouling out. Nelson is leading UCLA in points, 17.6 per game, and rebounds, 10.4 per game. He is only averaging two fouls per game, but he hasn't seen matchups like the Morris twins or Thomas Robinson.
★★★★☆
Honeycutt
Joshua Smith, center
Smith is the only starter not averaging double-digit points per game (7.4). Smith is the tallest player along with David and Travis Wear, who are sitting out this season after transferring from North Carolina. Smith, who is averaging four fouls per game, will need to stay out of foul trouble to give the Bruins length on the interior. At 305 pounds, he has enough body to post up the Morris twins, Thomas Robinson and especially Withey, but he doesn't have the athleticism those four have, averaging just 16 minutes per game.
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Nelson
★★☆☆
M
SIXTH MAN
Brendan Lane, forward
Lane adds another big body down low. He is averaging five rebounds per game. He has been the most efficient three-point shooter at 75 percent, but he has only attempted four. He's averaging 5.6 points per game while shooting 56.3 percent from the field. He leads UCLA with two blocks per game.
Smith
★★☆★★
LAKEWOOD
UCLA TIPOFF
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Mike Lavieri
UCLA is currently on a two-game losing streak, losing both away from Pauley Pavilion. The Bruins would love to get things turned around, especially on the road in Allen Fieldhouse, after Kansas knocked off UCLA in Los Angeles last season. The program had a down year last season, but that doesn't mean it isn't an elite program. The Bruins are a very young team. They don't have any seniors, but they don't have one specific class that is heavy either. UCLA has seven juniors, five sophomores and six freshmen, which will allow them to be potent for next season.
PLAYERTOWATCH
Reeves Nelson
Nelson is going to provide fits for the Jayhawks tonight. If he watched any of the game tape of
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Kansas against Arizona, he realizes will need to take it straight at the Morris twins. In order for UCLA to have a chance at winning, he will need to
Nelson
stay out of foul trouble, but will need to get the Morris twins in foul trouble. Bill Self said after the Arizona game that Kansas is better with the Morris twins on the floor. Nelson has a great ability to get to the basket, leading the Bruins with 10 dunks.
QUESTION MARK
Can UCLA limit Kansas's scoring?
UCLA is holding opponents to 66.8 points per game, but it gave up 89 points out last game to a potent VCU offense. The Jayhawks are averaging 92 points per game. The Bruins only allow 9.6 assists per game while forcing 14.4 turnovers. Kansas is averaging 22 assists per game, which leads the nation. Kansas is very good at distributing the ball and can get out in transition. UCLA has only given up four dunks on the season and that number should go up tonight. Kansas has nine players that are scoring more than five points per game. UCLA will have a difficult time defending all five players on the floor.
HEARYE, HEARYF
"We got off to a poor start fueled by some really bad shots. We were fighting uphill the whole way. We had it with a chance to take the lead the beginning of the second half and missed two foul shots. We did a better job in the second half of rebounding the ball. They shot extremely well from the 3, but most of those 3s were open."
UCLA coach Ben Howland after the Bruins
89-85 loss to Vus Novi on 26.
BIG 12 SCHEDULE
Thursday, Dec. 2 Time (CT) TV Channel
Baylor vs. Arizona State 6 p.m. ESPN2
Texas A&M vs. Stephen F. Austin 7 p.m. FSSW
Oregon vs. Missouri 10 p.m. FSN
Friday, Dec. 3
Washington State vs. Kansas State 10 p.m. FSN
XII BIG 12 CONFERENCE
ALLEN FIELDHOUSE WILL ROCK IF ...
The Bruins show up. The Kansas faithful have been desperate for a challenge to come into Allen Fieldhouse. A little more than 4,000 Jayhawks made the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas a Jayhawk homecourt in a battle with Arizona. Imagine what 16,000 could do.
JAMES NAISMITH WILL ROLL IN HIS GRAVE IF ...
Tyler Honeycutt plays through the defense of Brady Morningstar. Kansas lacks the offensive wing threat to counter the 6-foot-8 Honeycutt, who is averaging over 14 points per game for UCLA. If Honeycutt stars, UCLA could pull off the upset.
SCHEDULE
Prediction:
Kansas 84, UCLA 68
Date Opponent TV Channel Time
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Dec. 18 USC ESPN 11 a.m.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Former Super Bowl winner Gruden won't take Miami job
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
MIAMI — It appears Jon Gruden isn't as interested in the University of Miami as the school's
fans and boosters are in him.
Miami athletic director Kirby Hocutt met with Gruden in Tampa early Wednesday morning. But according to several Miami sources, a job offer was not made.
It was purely an exploratory conversation.
According to a Miami Board of Trustee member, "Gruden was cordial, he listened to everything UM had to say but no offer was
made. He said he didn't want to go further because he is keeping all his options open, including the NFL.
"He didn't say yes. He didn't so no. But in effect, it's probably a no
because it will take months before the NFL jobs come open and UM can't wait that long"
The search continues. Sources told The Miami Herald other candidates will be interviewed, some possibly as late as next week.
Hurricanes hire the former Texas Tech coach to replace Randy Shannon.
Trump neatly wrote the note on the front page of The Palm Beach Post's Sunday sports section, writing it over the newspaper's story about Shannon's firing.
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Chelsea Freeman, a freshman from Wichita, helps children from the Boys and Girls Club create handmade ornaments during the Mentors in the Lives of Kids (M.L.L.K.) annual holiday party in the ballroom of the Kansas Union. M.I.L.K. formed a new group, Girls Club, that promotes social and financial independence for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. The curriculum is designed to empower young girls and teach them that a man isn't necessary for a successful life. The group begins its lessons in January. M.I.L.K. is run by two coordinators, senior Laura Davis and sophomore Carlyle Yanker.
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If you want to get involved with the Mentors in the Lives of Kids, e-mail: milk@ku.edu.
Devon Cantwell, a junior from Topeka and a member of M.I.L.K., said at the end of the program the young girls will hold a bake sale to use their newly learned skills. She said the bake sale would teach the
The 10-week curriculum addresses issues like stereotypes and how the girls view themselves, how women are viewed in advertisements, spending, credit cards, sales tax, budgeting and savings. The program will start next semester in January.
A group of University of Kansas students thinks that elementary school girls can benefit from a more practical kind of education, specifically geared toward young females.
Carlyle Yanker, a sophomore from St. Louis and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said she thought it would be easier to work with all
She said she believed it was important to target girls at an early age to address these issues and the truth surrounding the expectations and stereotypes, which was why a large section of the curriculum was devoted to self-image.
"They are constantly inundated with imagery of women that they are expected to look like or act like." Davis said.
The on-campus student group Mentors in the Lives of Kids, or M.I.L.K., created a new program, the Girls Club, this year to teach life skills and promote economic self-sufficiency for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. M.I.L.K. is run through the Center for Community Outreach. The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence provides affordable after-school care for about 1,200 children. Laura Davis, a senior from Lawrence and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said the group often worked with the Boys and Girls Club and thought the new program would work well with the children there.
nay have
girls because successful college women would be running the program.
"They can be part of a cool, exclusive girls club." Yanker said.
Davis said stereotypes and expectations of the "perfect woman" often cause young girls to become self-conscious.
"The man doesn't always have to make the money," Cantwell said.
Davis said she hoped to provide mentorship during the "awkward period" and help girls become individually stronger.
girls that they don't need a man in their lives to be successful.
"Any girl or woman who is confident and independent is bound to have a much brighter future," Davis said. "It will be the future that she chooses to have, whatever that may be."
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Report: Number of international students increasing at University
Students should also take care of their mental and physical wellbeing to succeed with finals. Student Success has launched a new website with schedules for stress-busting events and exercise classes to help students out with this stressful time of year.
International students, who come mainly from China, Saudi Arabia Indonesia and the Republic of Korea, now make up 7 percent of the nearly 30,000-person student body.
ago — White silk was driving not car to the shop for an oil change and tuneup.
"I'm used to hitting potholes
No luck. The mechanics told Strusz, a senior from Republic, Mo., that her rim was cracked and bent. A new one cost her $150.
"As a poor college student, you cross your fingers that this one didn't pop your tire or bend your rim," Strusz said.
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But search "Lawrence, KS
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With my December graduation quickly approaching, I have somewhat unwillingly been forced to reminisce over the last three and a half years of my life spent walking the KU campus. And after reading Jon's story on page 10 about the various sculptures scattered all around campus, I began to think about my first memories of the landmarks lining Jayhawk Boulevard that helped me get my bearings as a clueless freshman.
My senior year of high school was one of the first times I really remember being on campus. My parents (both KU grads themselves) walked with me along Jayhawk Boulevard for my first official tour of campus. We made our way from the Union towards the Chi Omega fountain. But first, we made a stop I'll never forget: Dyche Hall. When the tour guide said the name, all I could do was shoot a glance at my mom, eyebrow raised. Without warning, we both erupted into giggles. And now, every time someone mentions Dyche Hall, I can't contain myself. It's not because of my reigning immaturity (although that might have something to do
with it), but more because I remember that inappropriate mother/daughter giggle fest.
On the same campus tour, we passed the Jayhawk in front of Strong Hall, and, for the first time, I heard the legend behind this seemingly unsuspicious bird. We stood, listening to the tour guide, and my dad leaned in close and said, "You know the story about this one, don't you?" I didn't. My dad laughed, refusing to tell me until the tour began moving again. Once it did, he was still laughing too hard to say anything. Finally, my mom said, "Supposedly, when a virgin walks by, the bird flies away." And my dad, face red from laughing, said, "It's still here!"
while these things may have seemed inconsequential and silly at the time, they are examples of what has helped me navigate this campus from the beginning. I have a very clear image in my head of all the bizarre statues and landmarks littered throughout the campus: the campanile towering over campus, the pioneer by Frasar I walked by everyday for three years on my way to class, the fountain sitting behind the Chancellor's house, the two men in front of Lippencott. And that's what I'll remember above all when I leave in here in two weeks and my time as a student expires.
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Chelsea Freeman, a freshman from Wichita, helps children from the Boys and Girls Club create handmade ornaments during the Mentors in the Lives of Kids (M.I.L.K.) annual holiday party in the ballroom of the Kansas Union. M.I.L.K. formed a new group, Girls Club, that promotes social and financial independence for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. The curriculum is designed to empower young girls and teach them that a man isn't necessary for a successful life. The group begins its lessons in January. M.I.L.K. is run by two coordinators, senior Laura Davis and sophomore Carlye Yanker.
A group of University of Kansas students thinks that elementary school girls can benefit from a more practical kind of education, specifically geared toward young females.
The on-campus student group Mentors in the Lives of Kids, or M.I.L.K., created a new program, the Girls Club, this year to teach life skills and promote economic self-sufficiency for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. M.I.L.K. is run through the Center for Community Outreach. The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence provides affordable after-school care for about 1,200 children. Laura Davis, a senior from Lawrence and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said the group often worked with the Boys and Girls Club and thought the new program would work well with the children there.
The 10-week curriculum addresses issues like stereotypes and how the girls view themselves, how women are viewed in advertisements, spending, credit cards, sales tax, budgeting and savings. The program will start next semester in January.
Carlyle Yanker, a sophomore from St. Louis and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said she thought it would be easier to work with all
If you want to get involved with the Mentors in the Lives of Kids, e-mail: milk@ku.edu.
girls because successful college women would be running the program.
She said she believed it was important to target girls at an early age to address these issues and the truth surrounding the expectations and stereotypes, which was why a large section of the curriculum was devoted to self-image.
Devon Cantwell, a junior from Topeka and a member of M.I.L.K., said at the end of the program the young girls will hold a bake sale to use their newly learned skills. She said the bake sale would teach the
"They can be part of a cool, exclusive girls club," Yanker said.
Davis said stereotypes and expectations of the "perfect woman" often cause young girls to become self-conscious.
"Any girl or woman who is confident and independent is bound to have a much brighter future," Davis said. "It will be the future that she chooses to have, whatever that may be."
Report: Number of international students increasing at University
"They are constantly inundated with imagery of women that they are expected to look like or act like," Davis said.
Davis said she hoped to provide mentorship during the "awkward period" and help girls become individually stronger.
girls that they don't need a man in their lives to be successful.
International students, who come mainly from China, Saudi Arabia Indonesia and the Republic of Korea, now make up 7 percent of the nearly 30,000-person student body.
CAMPUS | 3A
"The man doesn't always have to make the money," Cantwell said.
FINALS|3A
Students should also take care of their mental and physical well-being to succeed with finals. Student Success has launched a new website with schedules for stress-busting events and exercise classes to help students out with this stressful time of year.
For an'A, do more than study
ago - While she was driving not car to the shop for an oil change and tuneup.
"As a poor college student, you cross your fingers that this one didn't pop your tire or bend your rim," Strusz said.
No luck. The mechanics told Strusz, a senior from Republic, Mo., that her rim was cracked and bent. A new one cost her $150.
"I'm used to hitting potholes
"Notorious"
10A
If you search "Eudora, KS potholes" on Google, you get 1,500 results. For Topeka, there are 15,000 results. Going east down K-10, DeSoto has 21,000, Olathe has 19,000 and Overland Park has 37,000 Google results.
But search "Lawrence, KS
Kansas lucks out with late foul call
SEE POTHOLES ON PAGE 3A
KU beat out UCLA in the final second after a cortroversial call sent Mario Little to the free throw line with the game tied at 76 and 0.7 seconds left Check out our post-game coverage.
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Cryptoquips. ...4A
Opinion. ...5A
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> Two people. Five questions. See how they stack up. | BECCA HARSCH |
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> LAURA WILLIAMS IS A LAWRENCE JUNIOR MAJORING IN
I don't tweet. I haven't really tried Twitter because I generally use Facebook. I don't feel the need to have multiple social media pages so I just stick to one.
My most recent role as Helen in The Trojan Women. The whole experience was amazing.I studied abroad in Greece this summer,and we got to perform this show in an ancient Greek theatre.
I don't spend a lot of time getting ready. If I am in a play, it could take up to an hour to get ready. That all depends on the character though. I'm very conscious about taking care of my skin, and I try to eat healthy.
Who doesn't like to watch Glee? I think it's a pretty entertaining show. I have to admit it can be a little ridiculous in the way it portrays high school. I suppose that's the fun of it.
My worst audition was probably my freshman year. It was in front of a lot of directors that I didn't know. I completely blanked in the middle of a monologue and it felt like forever before I could remember the rest of it.
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TIA MOWRY WILL BE REPRISING HER ROLE AS MELANIE BARNETT ON THE FOURTH SEASON OF "THE GAME" ON BET. SHE IS ALSO KNOWN FOR ROLE AS TIA ON THE POPULAR SIGMET, "SISTER, SISTER."
I'm obsessed with Twitter. My husband said I will turn into a bird if I keep tweeting. He got a Twitter account and now he's the bird. It's great to interact with fans through the internet.
Melanie Barnett, the one I'm currently playing. Melanie is a doctor who is married to an NFL football star. She's smart, relatable and multifaceted. She's a challenge to play. I don't like to be bored with characters.
I drink lots of water to keep my skin and body hydrated. It makes me feel alive. I like to stick with organic products and avoid chemicals on the skin. I also work out and do yoga.
I haven't seen the show at all because I've been so busy working. I've known Naya Rivera (Glee's Santana Lopez) since she was nine. I am so in awe and proud to see her on such a popular show.
The worst was for a movie audition that I had to cry for. I rehearsed crying at home and with my acting coach, but as soon as I got into the auditioning room I couldn't get my tears out. It was horrible.
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Q. Can you please explain why all women date jerks?
A. First of all, let's not say all women like jerks. Second, there are various levels of jerkiness. I can provide three reasons why this seems to be the case.
1. Socialization: It is considered normal for women to date jerks — it's almost expected. People have friends who date jerks and they think to themselves, "I'll try it," or "he'll be different."
2. A lot of women like the chase, and jerks can be the ultimate prize because they have a carefree attitude. Jerks, unlike nice guys, don't work very hard to get someone's affection. They're confident and let you chase them, rather than the other way around. That is very attractive to a lot of women.
3. Jerks often manage the tension between routine and spontaneity better than the average guy. And because they are jerks, whenever they do anything spontaneous or nice, it means so much more. Some women have lower esteem, or lower expectations, on what a romantic partner is supposed to do or say. These women often date jerks.
It's not that women don't like dating nice guys—they don't like dating weak guys, guys with no confidence, opinions, or ambition. All too often those guys get lumped into the "nice guy" category. You can still be nice and date beautiful, intelligent women — you just have to use spontaneity better, and express your strengths and confidence.
MIKE ANDERSON
HOW WE MET // KATHERINE DOKKO & PAUL SPECKIN
INTERESTS & HOBBIES: Singing in the shower or in my car (Disney music is my specialty), traveling, raging, shopping online, sushi, running, raging, my sorority, and my dog, Daisy.
CATCH OF THE WEEK // MEG RUGGIERI
TURN OFFS: The sense of humor of a piece of cardboard, Affliction t-shirts, pants with creatures such as whales or lobsters on them, rudeness, stage five clinger types and mouth-breathers.
> Our weekly peek at a fish in the KU sea.
NOTICES FIRST IN A POTENTIAL
PARTNER: Well that probably depends how many drinks I have had and what time of night it is ... Truthfully though, I would probably just say hair. I mean no hair gel, no receding hairline, no comb-over, no I-clearly-just-spent-60-minutes doing-my-hair-in-themirror. Just naturally good hair. Oh and also a nice smile.
TURN ONS: An appreciation for sarcasm, making me laugh, spontaneity, and a little chivalry here and there doesn't hurt.
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MAJOR: Journalism
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INTERESTED IN: Men
Dokko, Shawnee sophomore, was exiting the men's restroom in Oliver Hall, when she bumped into Paul Speckin, Overland Park sophomore. Speckin and his friend were heading to his dorm room. Confused on what room she was supposed to be meeting her friends at, Speckin asked Dokko if she would like to join him and his friend. "At first I was like, uh no. But then I thought, what the heck," Dokko says. The two watched a movie and talked for the majority of the night. "At first she shot me down, but then she decided to come along." Speckin says. "Ever since then we just started hanging out more and I eventually asked her to be my girlfriend and she said yes."
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The couple has been going strong since last May and enjoy doing a variety of things together. "Eating Chipotle is definitely up there with stuff we enjoy doing," Speckin says. Dokko and Speckin also enjoy watching movies and TV.
When duty calls: Katherine Dokko had a run-in with her future boyfriend while she was exiting the men's restroom at Oliver Hall.
Katherine Dokko first met her boyfriend while she was leaving the bathroom — the men's bathroom.
> All great relationships had to start somewhere.
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Chelsea Freeman, a freshman from Wichita, helps children from the Boys and Girls Club create handmade ornaments during the Mentors in the Lives of Kids' (M.I.L.K.) annual holiday party in the ballroom of the Kansas Union. M.I.L.K. formed a new group, Girls Club, that promotes social and financial independence for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. The curriculum is designed to empower young girls and teach them that a man isn't necessary for a successful life. The group begins its lessons in January. M.I.L.K. is run by two coordinators, senior Laura Davis and sophomore Carlye Yanker.
BY SAMANTHA COLLINS
Chris Bronson/KANSAN
scollins@kansan.com
A group of University of Kansas students thinks that elementary school girls can benefit from a more practical kind of education, specifically geared toward young females.
The on-campus student group Mentors in the Lives of Kids, or M.I.L.K., created a new program, the Girls Club, this year to teach life skills and promote economic self-sufficiency for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. M.I.L.K. is run through the Center for Community Outreach. The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence provides affordable after-school care for about 1,200 children. Laura Davis, a senior from Lawrence and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said the group often worked with the Boys and Girls Club and thought the new program would work well with the children there.
The 10-week curriculum addresses issues like stereotypes and how the girls view themselves, how women are viewed in advertisements, spending, credit cards, sales tax, budgeting and savings. The program will start next semester in January.
If you want to get involved with the Mentors in the Lives of Kids, e-mail: milk@ku.edu.
Carlye Yanker, a sophomore from St. Louis and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said she thought it would be easier to work with all
She said she believed it was important to target girls at an early age to address these issues and the truth surrounding the expectations and stereotypes, which was why a large section of the curriculum was devoted to self-image.
Devon Cantwell, a junior from Topeka and a member of M.I.L.K., said at the end of the program the young girls will hold a bake sale to use their newly learned skills. She said the bake sale would teach the
Davis said stereotypes and expectations of the "perfect woman" often cause young girls to become self-conscious.
girls because successful college women would be running the program.
"They can be part of a cool, exclusive girls club." Yanker said.
"They are constantly inundated with imagery of women that they are expected to look like or act like," Davis said.
Report: Number of international students increasing at University
"Any girl or woman who is confident and independent is bound to have a much brighter future," Davis said. "It will be the future that she chooses to have, whatever that may be."
Davis said she hoped to provide mentorship during the "awkward period" and help girls become individually stronger.
"The man doesn't always have to make the money," Cantwell said.
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girls that they don't need a man in their lives to be successful.
International students, who come mainly from China, Saudi Arabia Indonesia and the Republic of Korea, now make up 7 percent of the nearly 30,000-person student body.
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For an'A,' do more than study
Students should also take care of their mental and physical wellbeing to succeed with finals. Student Success has launched a new website with schedules for stress-busting events and exercise classes to help students out with this stressful time of year.
ago - While she was driving, car to the shop for an oil change and tuneup.
"As a poor college student, you cross your fingers that this one didn't pop your tire or bend your rim," Strusz said.
No luck. The mechanics told Strusz, a senior from Republic, Mo., that her rim was cracked and bent. A new one cost her $150.
"I'm used to hitting potholes
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"Notorious"
But search "Lawrence, KS
If you search "Eudora, KS potholes" on Google, you get 1,500 results. For Topeka, there are 15,000 results. Going east down K-10, DeSoto has 21,000, Olathe has 19,000 and Overland Park has 37,000 Google results.
SEE POTHOLES ON PAGE 3A
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KU beat out UCLA in the final second after a controversial call sent Mario Little to the free throw line with the game tied at 76 and 0.7 seconds left. Check out our post-game coverage.
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> Sometimes it's hard to tell.
High-fiber diets are all the rage, but are you getting enough of what you actually need? Melissa Goucher, Olathe senior, says she sees cereals, granola bars and breads labeled as "fortified with fiber" more now than ever, but still has no idea what it means. She says she assumes fortified fiber is good for you, but doesn't make it a priority in her diet because "there seems to always be some new health trend."
Experts say Goucher may be on to something.
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hunger, but few people know that there are two different kinds of fiber. Keri Glassman, a nutritionist and contributing author to Women's Health, says men need 30 to 38 grams of fiber a day while women need 25 to 30. She says most people consume insoluble fiber, rather than its counterpart.
Insoluble fiber, found in high-fiber cereal, whole wheat bread and vegetables, has recently become the additive companies use to enhance fiber grams in food. Because it cannot be digested, it runs through your body without adding calories, but doesn't have the same nutritional benefits of soluble fiber.
To add fiber to your diet without resorting to "fortified with fiber" products, Glassman suggests eating raspberries (8 g in 1 cup), black beans (15 g in 1 cup) and oatmeal (6 g in 1 cup). Glassman says foods with fiber additives aren't bad for you, but getting fiber from whole foods can be more beneficial for your diet.
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GOOD FOR YOU BAD FOR YOU // GUM
> Sometimes it's hard to tell.
Becca Walker pops in a piece of Spearmint-flavored Trident gum after every meal to freshen her breath and clean her teeth. "I am addicted," says Walker, Topeka freshman. "I am the go-to girl when my friends need a piece because they know I always have it on me. I would feel naked without my gum."
But for some, chewing gum can actually worsen oral health conditions. "If somebody has jaw-joint problems, chomping up and down on a piece of gum would be like banging away at their jaws with a little nail and hammer," says Charles Kincaid, a dentist at Associates in Dentistry, 306 E. 23rd St. For those who don't have jaw problems, Kincaid says chewing gum can be a good thing.
Chewing gum helps produce saliva, which removes food debris from your teeth and helps prevent cavities. "Anything that helps you produce more spit is a good thing," Kincaid says.
To get the benefits from your gum, Kincaid says you must chew it until the flavor is gone. "Don't pop in a new piece of gum once that
sugary flavor goes away or you will be bathing your teeth in all kinds of sugar again, which is counterproductive." To avoid this problem, Kincaid suggests chewing sugar-free gums made with Xylitol. Xylitol is a non-fermenting sugar alcohol used as a sugar substitute in some brands of gum. It has been shown to reduce cavities and bacteria, making it a healthy choice for your teeth.
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Blowing bubbles: Popping in a piece of gum can be beneficial for your mouth. The gum helps produce saliva, keeping your teeth clean and preventing cavities.
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> It's not all about fast food and beer pong.
The Multicultural Theatre Initiative (MTI) opens the stage for diverse plays and student opportunities. The group started at KU in 2008 and has performed subject matter ranging from puppets to teen violence.
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The point of multicultural theater is to involve everyone, says Jackie Koester, group member and Hoisington senior. "If it only had a pool of theater majors, it wouldn't exemplify campus. I've seen computer programmers and engineers who can act."
Not only does the group involve outside majors, but members take on diverse roles. Performing in the puppet act last year, Jenny Curatola, Lansing sophomore, takes on leadership, co-directing their upcoming show, Plains. "It doesn't matter if you have no experience. I'd never directed," she says.
MTI steps away from well-known plots, reading and developing original scripts. Plains, which was written by Harry Meech from Wainuiomata, New Zealand, and received the New Zealand Young Playwright award in 2009, is about the post apocalypse and what people
do with their lives. Meech, who co-directs with Curatola, steps out of the writer role to develop the characters from his script.
Plains will be performed for the first time by the MTI On Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 4 at 8 p.m. The free play will be in the William Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall.
"Why pass up free entertainment that applies to your life?" Curatola says.
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Actors all around: The goal of the Multicultural Theatre Initiative is to include members of all backgrounds, even those who aren't used to reading scripts. The group performs Plains this weekend in Murphy Hall.
It's not enough to have tickets to KU basketball games. For good seats, you have to camp.
> In case of emergency, read quickly.
Since the 2005-2006 season, Mark Pacey, Manhattan graduate student, has been in charge of basketball camping. "Camping is mostly habit to me now, and I like my seat."
When you arrive, find Pacey, put your name down and wait for your turn to pick a numbered poker chip. Each group can have a maximum of 30 members. For each five members who show up to lottery, you get one number. So if you have 30 members, you'll get six tries for your number. Your place in line is determined by the highest number you draw. Pacey posts the order on the doors at Allen Fieldhouse. If you don't have five members or miss camping, you can add your name to the bottom of the list.
The first step to getting good seats is to organize a camping group of students. To get on the list, your group needs to go to lottery in Allen Fieldhouse at 6 a.m. the day after every home game.
ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILLS // BASKETBALL CAMPING
Once you have a spot,you camp. Camping
takes place from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. during the week, and 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the weekends. Someone from your group should be present for roll call at all times. If not, you'll be crossed off the list. Out of a group of 30, Jimmy Caprio, Carmel, Calif., junior, only trusts four members for the 6 a.m. role call. "I'm going to be real mad if we get crossed off, and they get kicked out of the group. I have a zero tolerance policy," he says.
After camping, the groups do a final roll call 30 minutes before doors open for the game, and the groups get their place in line. "I've been in the first couple rows 10 times, and in the front five or six times," Caprio says. "It pays off."
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BY SAMANTHA COLLINS scollins@kansan.com
The on-campus student group Mentors in the Lives of Kids, or M.I.L.K., created a new program, the Girls Club, this year to teach life skills and promote economic self-sufficiency for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. M.I.L.K. is run through the Center for Community Outreach. The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence provides affordable after-school care for about 1,200 children. Laura Davis, a senior from Lawrence and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said the group often worked with the Boys and Girls Club and thought the new program would work well with the children there.
if you want to get involved with the Mentors in the Lives of Kids, e-mail: milk@ku.edu.
A group of University of Kansas students thinks that elementary school girls can benefit from a more practical kind of education, specifically geared toward young females.
The 10-week curriculum addresses issues like stereotypes and how the girls view themselves, how women are viewed in advertisements, spending, credit cards, sales tax, budgeting and savings. The program will start next semester in January.
Carlye Yanker, a sophomore from St. Louis and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said she thought it would be easier to work with all
Devon Cantwell, a junior from Topeka and a member of M.I.L.K., said at the end of the program the young girls will hold a bake sale to use their newly learned skills. She said the bake sale would teach the
She said she believed it was important to target girls at an early age to address these issues and the truth surrounding the expectations and stereotypes, which was why a large section of the curriculum was devoted to self-image.
Davis said stereotypes and expectations of the "perfect woman" often cause young girls to become self-conscious.
"Any girl or woman who is confident and independent is bound to have a much brighter future," Davis said. "It will be the future that she chooses to have, whatever that may be."
"They are constantly inundated with imagery of women that they are expected to look like or act like." Davis said.
girls because successful college women would be running the program.
"They can be part of a cool, exclusive girls club," Yanker said.
Davis said she hoped to provide mentorship during the "awkward period" and help girls become individually stronger.
girls that they don't need a man in their lives to be successful.
"The man doesn't always have to make the money," Cantwell said.
Report: Number of international students increasing at University
CAMPUS | 3A
International students, who come mainly from China, Saudi Arabia Indonesia and the Republic of Korea, now make up 7 percent of the nearly 30,000-person student body.
For an'A,' do more than study
Students should also take care of their mental and physical well-being to succeed with finals. Student Success has launched a new website with schedules for stress-busting events and exercise classes to help students out with this stressful time of year.
age - while she was driving her car to the shop for an oil change and tuneup.
"As a poor college student, you cross your fingers that this one didn't pop your tire or bend your rim." Strusz said.
No luck. The mechanics told Strusz, a senior from Republic, Mo., that her rim was cracked and bent. A new one cost her $150.
"I'm used to hitting potholes
10A
But search "Lawrence, KS
If you search "Eudora, KS potholes" on Google, you get 1,500 results. For Topeka, there are 15,000 results. Going east down K-10, DeSoto has 21,000, Olathe has 19,000 and Overland Park has 37,000 Google results.
"Notorious"
SEE POTHOLES ON PAGE 3A
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Crossword. ...4A
Cryptoquips. ...4A
Opinion. ...5A
Sports. ...10A
Sudoku. ...4A
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ART AND CAMPUS A HISTORICAL LOOK AT STUDENT INTERACTIONS WITH KU'S PUBLIC ART
BY | JON HERMES
"Public art helps people to understand the collective humanity that we share." Ted Johnson, former Professor Emeritus of French and Italian and guide of a stop day walking tour that examines the monuments on campus, says. "Each work of art on campus is fascinating because it represents the idea of the knowledge that has accumulated over thousands of years of human history."
Walking across the University of Kansas's campus is like taking a step back in time. The public art on campus tells the story of each generation that has walked across Mount Oread. "Public art, in the context of campus, challenges us," Saralyn Reece Hardy, Director of Spencer Museum of Art, says. "It interrupts our days in a good way. It's always there to visit and interact with. We interact with these works every day, sometimes without even thinking about it." These are the stories behind a few monuments we walk by every day.
On a leisurely walk through campus, two students stop to look at the grotesques lining the façade of Dyche Hall, home to the Natural History Museum. The year was 1913 and Mount Oread only had a few buildings lining what would eventually become Jayhawk Blvd. Dyche Hall, which had only been completed a decade earlier, overlooked the endless Kansas landscape. One of the girls turned to her friend and asked what the statues on the building were. Legend has it that her friend, Helen Rhoda Hoopes, replied, "Oh, they are something like a sore throat, but I forget just what." Hoopes later became a popular professor at KU, a published Kansas poet, and the first woman editor for The University Daily Kansan.
"It's interesting that people always establish different conclusions to the meanings of the grotesques," Ted Johnson says. "Some like them, some don't. Each grotesque involved a lot of thought. They are Chimera, a combination of several different animals."
Joseph Robaldo Frazee and his son Vitruvius, Italian stone carvers who lived in Lawrence at the turn of the century, carved twelve grotesques between 1901 and 1902. Grotesques, unlike gargoyles, which were used as gothic drainage systems on buildings, serve only aesthetic purposes. The twelve grotesques were placed on the building, four on each side. These statues watched over campus until 1962 when four were removed to make way for a new wing of Dyche Hall.
During Spring of 1902, two KU students, Antonio Tommasini and Fred Pickett, frequently stopped by Fowler shops, where the Frazees were carving the grotesques. Enamored by the carving process, Tommasini and Pickett were allowed to work in the shop dressing tools and watch the grotesques take shape. Joseph Robaldo Frazze even allowed the two students, under his supervision, to help carve one of the grotesques, an early representation of the Jayhawk, with Pickett carving one half and Tommasini finishing the rest.
Tommasini describes the process in a letter dated March 14, 1941, to Walter Salathiel, a former classmate of Tommasini's;
"No models were used for the figures a stone was set up on a block, a few (to me) meaningless marks were made on it and then the mallet and chisel in Mr. Frazee's hands started at the top and worked down, to free the figure from its encasing stone."
The University's chant, which became the official school yell in 1873, is carved into three of the grotesques. This was the first time a school's chant had been immortalized in sculpture. If you look closely you can see "Rock Chalk" on the breast of a grotesque on the Southwest side of the building with an engraving of 1873 below it, which marks the first graduating class at KU. "JHawk?" is engraved in the breast of a grotesque but the question mark remains a mystery. "Any other school that carves their yell will not be as venerable as ours," Johnson says.
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Historical photos courtesy of the Spencer Research Library Way back when: The statue of James Wood Green and a student was the subject of pranks and the center of rivalry between the law and engineering schools. It still stands by Lippincott Hall.
The workers are feeding the lion statues.
A grotesque image: Between 1901 and 1902, Joseph Robaldo Frazee and his son carved twelve "grotesques" that were placed along each side of Dyche Hall. They were moved in 1962, and some are still present today, sitting above the entryway to the building.
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Tommasini and Pickett represent early student fascination with campus art and were lucky enough to witness and participate in the creation of the Dyche Hall grotesques. But KU's history of "public art" really began in 1904 when Simeon Bell, a physician, donated "The Pioneer," then known as "The Corn Planter," to the University. "The Pioneer" was the first ground sculpture on KU's campus. However, the University stored the statue in Dyche Hall for 12 years before it was finally placed in front of Spooner Hall in 1916. Since its first public display, it has had several location changes, including the space that Chi Omega Fountain now occupies.
"The Pioneer," now located south of Fraser Hall on the main campus of KU, is roughly a life-size depiction of a man leaning on a shovel, planting corn seeds. There are two ears of corn at his feet. The concrete base was a gift from the class of 1920. It was during that year the name of the statue was changed to "The Pioneer" to better suit the idea of Kansas's early settlers and America's westward expansion.
"The Pioneer' deals with our history," Elizabeth Kowalchuk, associate dean for the school of the arts and a member of the Art
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and Campus Committee, says. "Because the Oregon trail might have passed near the site, renaming the statue, right or wrong, was probably an attempt to make the sculpture fit with early campus ideals."
A different time: "The Pioneer," now standing on the south side of Fraser Hall, was a gift from the class of 1920. It has had many homes on the KU campus, including where the Chi Omega fountain stands today.
Bell once said that "The Pioneer" represents the difficulties and determination of the early settlers of Kansas. Bell hoped that "succeeding generations might understand the difficulties and handicaps early Kansans encountered." However, the mythology of "The Pioneer" has changed over time. By the 1960s, Bell's idea was replaced by amused college students who said that "The Pioneer" shoveled dirt whenever a virgin walked by.
"The Pioneer" held the honor of being the subject of many student paintings until the statue of "Uncle Jimmy" Green was erected.
On a spring day in 1967, Frank Kirk, a third-year law student, eagerly walked to his last class in old Green Hall, now Lippincott Hall. He made the familiar trek down Jayhawk Blvd., the same route he had taken daily over the last three years. He was known to have never missed a day of class while attending KU. According to a 1974 Lawrence Journal World article, several of his classmates handcuffed him to the leg of the "Uncle Jimmy" Green
PIONER
statue in an attempt to break his attendance record. However, James K. Logan, the dean of the law school, heard of Kirk's predicament and moved class outside, saving Kirk's perfect record.
The statue of James Wood Green mentoring a student may be the most popular and beloved statue on campus, Kowalchuk says. Green, lovingly referred to by his students as "Uncle Jimmy," was the dean of the School of Law from 1879 until his death in 1919.
The statue, carved by renowned sculptor Daniel Chester French, who also carved Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., depicts "Uncle Jimmy" with his arm around a student. It continues to represent the idea of mentor and student and the passing of knowledge from one generation to the next. Chester French, a widely sought after sculptor, initially declined to carve the statue but was convinced to visit Lawrence by alumni who wrote him relentlessly. Legend has it that he decided to accept the task because he had "never known a person except Abraham Lincoln who was beloved by the people that knew him."
The statue was erected in 1924 with funds raised by the KU students and faculty who held a World War I memorial drive, known as the Million Dollar drive, which also raised funds for the first union and football stadium.
The unknown student in the sculpture has been the subject of much debate over the past century. Many people claim the student is Alfred C. Alford, though there is no clear indication that this is true. Whether true or not, Alford is historically important to KU. He graduated with a law degree in 1897. He was the first KU student killed while fighting in the Philippines during the Spanish-American war. His mother, Susan, was one of 26 women to attend KU on the first day of classes in 1866. The "Rock Chalk" chant was created on his grandfather's farm, where students and faculty often spent leisure time.
Much like the experience of James Kirk, "Uncle Jimmy" has also been the subject of many pranks and the center of the rivalry between the law and engineering schools. The rivalry was usually centered on football game days and St. Patrick's Day, when the engineering school painted "Uncle Jimmy" green.
Controversy erupted in 1974 when the law school relocated across campus and tried to move "Uncle Jimmy" with it. After student protests, it was decided that the man who
started the KU law school in 1878 would remain on Jayhawk Blvd.
A recent example of a student interacting with campus art happened during winter 2009, when former student Matthew Farley, the artist who created the "Frozen Assets" installation in the Chi Omega Fountain in 2008, visited "Salina Piece" on campus west. Realizing the 35-foot tall abstract steel structure resembled a waffle iron, Farley set to work making a snow waffle underneath its 90 degree angled waffle-like grid.
"This was a creative response to public art," Susan Earle, curator of European and American Art for the Spencer Museum of Art, says. "It was an irreverent take on a forbidding work of art."
"Salina Piece" started controversy when its pieces were first spread out near a residential area south of campus. Originally it was supposed to be located on the triangular piece of land at 16th and Indiana St., but many people were outraged at the thought of having the enormous structure within view of their homes. "Public art will offend, that's the sensitive issue," Jeff Weinberg, assistant to the Chancellor and member of the Art and Campus Committee, says.
The outrage began before the work was ever put together. According to a 1981 University Daily Kansan article, "Salina Piece" remained in pieces for nearly six months and was the target for vandals who spray-painted, "Ugly Junk," and "First Place Bad Taste" on the sculpture. There was also a failed attempt at raising the sculpture but it fell to the ground further convincing neighbors that it was a safety hazard as well as an eye sore.
After KU alumni threatened to begin an advertising campaign opposing the work, the University decided to move the sculpture to its new location on campus west near Youngsberg Hall and the KU endowment center, a spot that Weinberg says is spectacular. It has safely remained in that spot since 1984.
Though only five works were mentioned in this article, there are hidden gems all across campus that are worth exploring and taking the time to notice. Thinking about these works and why they are present on the campus is important to understanding where KU has been and where it is headed. JP
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BY SAMANTHA COLLINS
scollins@kansan.com
The 10-week curriculum addresses issues like stereotypes and how the girls view themselves, how women are viewed in advertisements, spending, credit cards, sales tax, budgeting and savings. The program will start next semester in January.
Carlye Yanker, a sophomore from St. Louis and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said she thought it would be easier to work with all
A group of University of Kansas students thinks that elementary school girls can benefit from a more practical kind of education, specifically geared toward young females.
If you want to get involved with the Mentors in the Lives of Kids, e-mail: milk@ku.edu.
The on-campus student group Mentors in the Lives of Kids, or M.I.L.K., created a new program, the Girls Club, this year to teach life skills and promote economic self-sufficiency for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. M.I.L.K. is run through the Center for Community Outreach. The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence provides affordable after-school care for about 1,200 children. Laura Davis, a senior from Lawrence and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said the group often worked with the Boys and Girls Club and thought the new program would work well with the children there.
Devon Cantwell, a junior from Topeka and a member of M.I.L.K., said at the end of the program the young girls will hold a bake sale to use their newly learned skills. She said the bake sale would teach the
She said she believed it was important to target girls at an early age to address these issues and the truth surrounding the expectations and stereotypes, which was why a large section of the curriculum was devoted to self-image.
Davis said stereotypes and expectations of the "perfect woman" often cause young girls to become self-conscious.
"They are constantly inundated with imagery of women that they are expected to look like or act like," Davis said.
"They can be part of a cool exclusive girls club," Yanker said.
girls because successful college women would be running the program.
"Any girl or woman who is confident and independent is bound to have a much brighter future," Davis said. "It will be the future that she chooses to have, whatever that may be."
Report: Number of international students increasing at University
Davis said she hoped to provide mentorship during the "awkward period" and help girls become individually stronger.
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"The man doesn't always have to make the money," Cantwell said.
girls that they don't need a man in their lives to be successful.
International students, who come mainly from China, Saudi Arabia Indonesia and the Republic of Korea, now make up 7 percent of the nearly 30,000-person student body.
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For an'A,' do more than study
Students should also take care of their mental and physical well-being to succeed with finals. Student Success has launched a new website with schedules for stress-busting events and exercise classes to help students out with this stressful time of year.
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"I'm used to hitting potholes
"As a poor college student, you cross your fingers that this one didn't pop your tire or bend your rim," Strusz said.
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But search "Lawrence, KS
If you search "Eudora, KS potholes" on Google, you get 1,500 results. For Topeka, there are 15,000 results. Going east down K-10, DeSoto has 21,000, Olathe has 19,000 and Overland Park has 37,000 Google results.
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KU beat out UCLA in the final second after a controversial call sent Mario Little to the free throw line with the game tied at 76 and 0.7 seconds left. Check out our post-game coverage.
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After ego Eric Frederic uses a social persona of Ricky Reed to address societal issues like consumerism and culture. His snyth, pop beats are the result of using auto-tune technology, a technique that began in the early millennium and has currently taken the pop world by storm.
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Wallpaper, began with Eric Frederic and a computer in 2005. Frederic sang over his beats using auto-tune — an odd vocal effect previously used only by Cher in her song, "Believe." Since then, Auto-Tune has taken pop music by storm and Wallpaper. has dropped the effect. Frederic's solo project is now a full-blown band, joined by drummer Arjun Singh and Frederic's sleezy, booze-mongering stage persona, Ricky Reed. On stage, Reed and Wallpaper. bring an all-out party of pop beats and excess while satirizing all-out partying, pop beats and excess.
Frederic dialed in with Jayplay to talk about satire, Ricky Reed and the best of Kansas City barbecue.
Jayplay:
What role does satire play in Wallpaper.?
Eric Frederic:
When I started Wallpaper., it [satire] was addressing issues I had with pop music and the music industry and even had some political sensibilities. Now, "Ricky Reed" is a device used to talk about things like sociological issues, both good and bad, the direction American consumer culture is going and where we're going to end up in this digital age.
JP: Is being Ricky Reed an easier way to talk about society and consumerism?
EF: I think it's easy when you have a dude like Ricky Reed singing. All you have to do is personify these issues. It would be challenging to put together some super smart political discourse juxtaposed with funky beats, but it's much easier to embody them.
JP: Does Ricky Reed do interviews?
JP: Does Ricky Reed do interviews?
EF: We don't do them very often because it weirds out and alienates journalists.
He's just kind of rude and irreverent. A
journalist has to be able to handle an extreme level of awkwardness. He and Arjun, our drummer, were interviewed together. Ricky was talking shit to Arjun and Arjun was looking confused. The interviewer froze up uncomfortably and ended it. Ricky is generally reckless and irresponsible. As much of a cool front he puts up, he drinks too much and deep down he feels insecure with the people around him.
JP: Does the audience realize the satire
occurs onstage and in the novel?
EF: I think the people that do get it aren't standing still going "Oh, well this is thoughtful." I hope what people do understand they apply to their day-to-day life, but when they're at the show, the bottom line is having fun.
JP: Is the band still as much a response to pop music today as it was in 2005? What do you see as the state of pop today?
EF: The focus definitely changed. We're more of a band now. I was using auto-tune before it was "the thing," but now that it's
come and gone I'm way done with that shit. I think the overall goal of the project is still the same — get people up and having a good time while injecting it with the same commentary we've had since day one.
JP: How was the live experience conceived and how has it evolved?
EF: It's become easy to tour with just vocals and drums and tracks. I think drumming is the most visceral musical element you can put into the show, so live drumming is reflected in our recordings, too. I'm a sucker for electronic drums, but live drums are the shit.
JP: What kind of gear do you travel with?
EF: We tour with a very small amount of actual gear. Our tracks run off an iPod in a really nice road case I have. We don't have a lot of keyboards or laptops like every other band in the universe. We have a really clean thing so Ricky has free run of the stage.
JP: How did your time at Berkeley School of Music influence your sound?
EF: I studied West African percussion at Berkeley. You can hear the influences running through the music. My degree was in classical and jazz composition. One of our songs is fully based on traditional West African rhythm. At the beginning I apologize for kind of taking something sacred and bastardizing it in my song.
JP: A key component of Wallpaper. is the band's viral presence online. How have you stayed on top of Web 2.0 to make it do your musical bidding?
EF: That stuff has come naturally. As these different technologies develop we can tell which ones makes sense to use and which ones don't. There are technologies that pop up where I'm like "Wow, that has no relevancy to us and will die a slow death." But some are really basic. YouTube and the concept of video blogging just make so much sense. It's one-on-one modern fan interaction.
JP: So in a way, you're having your cake and eating it too, leveraging the internet while commenting on an internet- obsessed culture, partying on stage while satirizing a party-obsessed culture, and so on.
EF: That's exactly what I was talking about — the inner conflict issues. We're using these devices to comment on them. I don't have a personal Twitter account or my own foursquare account — I try to keep separated. But I make sure the Wallpaper ones are updated and current. I spend more time than I'm comfortable with on that shit.
JP: Anthony Bordain's favorite barbeque place, Oklahoma Joes, is just east of Lawrence in KC.
EF: Dude, I know. We rushed around town to find it but it was Sunday and they were closed. I was so pissed. Hopefully on this coming tour we'll be able to stop by. Three people at our KC show told us to try the Z-Man sandwich. Any other recommendations?
JP: Their fries are supposed to be the best in KC. And the burnt ends are pretty great.
FF: Burnt ends? What are those?
EF: Burnt ends? What are those?
JP: They're the end part of a brisket, a kind of a delicacy in KC barbecue. We'll trade you some in exchange for some west coast beats.
EF: Oh totally. I got that those beats bottled up in my pocket. They ain't going nowhere.
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BY SAMANTHA COLLINS
scollins@kansan.com
A group of University of Kansas students thinks that elementary school girls can benefit from a more practical kind of education, specifically geared toward young females.
The on-campus student group Mentors in the Lives of Kids, or M.I.L.K., created a new program, the Girls Club, this year to teach life skills and promote economic self-sufficiency for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. M.I.L.K. is run through the Center for Community Outreach. The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence provides affordable after-school care for about 1,200 children. Laura Davis, a senior from Lawrence and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said the group often worked with the Boys and Girls Club and thought the new program would work well with the children there.
The 10-week curriculum addresses issues like stereotypes and how the girls view themselves, how women are viewed in advertisements, spending, credit cards, sales tax, budgeting and savings. The program will start next semester in January.
Carlye Yanker, a sophomore from St. Louis and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said she thought it would be easier to work with all
If you want to get involved with the Mentors in the Lives of Kids, e-mail: milk@ku.edu.
Devon Cantwell, a junior from Topeka and a member of M.I.L.K., said at the end of the program the young girls will hold a bake sale to use their newly learned skills. She said the bake sale would teach the
She said she believed it was important to target girls at an early age to address these issues and the truth surrounding the expectations and stereotypes, which was why a large section of the curriculum was devoted to self-image.
girls because successful college women would be running the program.
Davis said stereotypes and expectations of the "perfect woman" often cause young girls to become self-conscious.
"They are constantly inundated with imagery of women that they are expected to look like or act like." Davis said.
"They can be part of a cool, exclusive girls club," Yanker said.
"Any girl or woman who is confident and independent is bound to have a much brighter future," Davis said. "It will be the future that she chooses to have, whatever that may be."
Davis said she hoped to provide mentorship during the "awkward period" and help girls become individually stronger.
Report: Number of international students increasing at University
"The man doesn't always have to make the money", Cantwell said.
girls that they don't need a man in their lives to be successful.
CAMPUS|3A
International students, who come mainly from China, Saudi Arabia Indonesia and the Republic of Korea, now make up 7 percent of the nearly 30,000-person student body.
FINALS | 3A
For an'A,do more than study
Students should also take care of their mental and physical well-being to succeed with finals. Student Success has launched a new website with schedules for stress-busting events and exercise classes to help students out with this stressful time of year.
ago - When she was driving her car to the shop for an oil change and tuneup.
"As a poor college student, you cross your fingers that this one didn't pop your tire or bend your rim," Strusz said.
No luck. The mechanics told Strusz, a senior from Republic, Mo., that her rim was cracked and bent. A new one cost her $150.
If you search "Eudora, KS potholes" on Google, you get 1,500 results. For Topeka, there are 15,000 results. Going east down K-10, DeSoto has 21,000, Olathe has 19,000 and Overland Park has 37,000 Google results.
KU beat out UCLA in the final second after a controversial call sent Mario Little to the free throw line with the game tied at 76 and 0.7 seconds left Check out our post-game coverage.
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Contributed photo Home grown talent: Members of The Will Nots won Lawrence's local music competition, Farmer's Ball, and have their sights set on taking their sounds bicoastal.
On Oct. 22, members of The Will Nots achieved a life goal: They won Farmer's Ball — KJHK's annual music competition. "Competing in Farmer's Ball was on our list of things to do," Tyler Francis says. "Getting to cross it off as winners felt great."
The five-man band has only been together
for six short months, yet they have already accomplished a collective childhood dream. All five members — Tyler Francis, Adrian Rees, Braden Young, Hugh Naughtin and Vincent Williams — grew up in Lawrence. Francis says in middle school he remembers looking up to the artists who competed in Farmer's Ball.
Achieving this local goal has the band set on more national sights — Francis says he wants to take the band on the road.
He says no matter where they end up, the band wants to represent Kansas to the fullest because growing up here helped shape the band's core.
The Will Nots, who are not signed to a record label, are currently in the works of producing their first single, "Windows," which will be available on iTunes in late December.
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> Local musicians. Feel free to swoon
Loud. Fast. Hard. That's how the five members of My Brother, The Vulture like to play. The band, whose name was chosen from suggestions via Twitter, was born in September, but their hardcore/metal sound is already unmistakable.
Drummer Quinn Brabender says they're working on a new type of music revival, so it's hard to compare themselves to modern bands. However, the Lawrence junior guarantees they are not an indie band.
"We definitely aren't the cookie cutter Lawrence band," Brabender says. "The majority of people aren't looking for our music."
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Outside the lines; Quinn Brabender, dunner of My Brother. The Vulture, says the band steers clear of the indie music genre commonly associated with Lawrence bands.
He says their tunes are rooted in rock, inspired by progressive rock band As Cities Burn and metal, grunge band Every Time I Die. Guitarist Jon Marzette adds rapper Drake to their list of musical influences.
Drake is living the thug life. My Brother, The Vulture is living the gig-life, says guitarist Cameron Birdsall, the Kansas City, Kan. sophomore commonly known as "Boats." My Brother, The Vulture will perform at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., on Dec. 3, but are making music all the time.
"We actually wrote a song today," Birdsall says. "And it's going to make you want to get down."
Even if it doesn't, you'll still like watching the band perform. The boys play with passion. They scream. They sing. They jump up and down with their limbs flying everywhere.
"I've got some pretty long arms," says Brabender, the drummer. "That's a sight in itself."
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SCENE AND HEARD // LAWRENCE FAIR TRADE
> New places. New faces.
Life isn't always fair — but your holiday purchases can be. The Lawrence Fair Trade Coalition is hosting its 19th annual Fair Trade Holiday Market at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 1204 Oread Ave., from Dec. 2 (11 a.m. to 6 p.m.) through Dec. 5 (8 a.m. to 7 p.m.).
Climb the stairs just inside the front entrance and find rows of handmade products from all over the world: an apron from Uganda, ornaments from India, statues from Tanzania and organic baby toys from Egypt. Thirty-five different countries are represented this year and the majority of items range from $1 to $25. You can pay knowing your pennies are going straight to the source.
"You're cutting out the middle man so it's fair. The money will go the artisans," says Whittney Kinnamon, Lawrence senior. Kinnamon is a member of Lawrence Fair Trade, a community and student organization dedicated to raising awareness of global economic injustice. The Fair Trade movement guarantees the rights of the artisans with two main goals: safe working conditions and fair pay.
Alicia Erickson has been a member for four
Contributed Photo Multicultural crafts: The Lawrence Fair Trade Coalition brings you gifts from Africa and Asia, and ensures fair payment to the artisans.
years and explains how Fair Trade works within the current trade system, placing value not just on profit, but on people and the planet as well. She says every high-quality craft, textile and piece of clothing at the market has a story.
"Being able to give something with such a powerful story — like a bag from Calcutta that was handmade by a young woman, giving her a job and a life broken free from forced prostitution — is so different from what you find at the typical craft fair," Erickson says.
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The KU campus is a beautiful place, offering a stunning vista of the Lawrence landscape and an array of beautiful trees, flowerbeds and sculptures. But some treasures on campus aren't as visible, and there's only way to hunt those treasures down — by geocaching.
Geocaching is described as a "high-tech treasure hunting game," according to www. geocaching.com, where those seeking unseen treasures can log onto the website to find the longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates of hidden caches. Caches are containers that include a logbook inside for guests to sign, and possibly small items. According to the website, there are 1,277,030 geocaches in the world, more than 800 of which are in Lawrence. And with an increasing number of smartphones gracing the palms of students, geocaching is more accessible than ever.
Geocachers can find caches by plugging the coordinates into a GPS or smartphone application. Once they locate the cache, which can sometimes be as small as a film canister, they simply sign the logbook with their names and the date and put it back where they found it. Depending on the cache, geocachers can also take a small item, like a sticker or a toy, out of the container if they put an item of similar value back.
At first, geocaching seemed more of a hassle than a pastime for Amy Burgess, an avid geocacher from Overland Park. Burgess says she watched her stepfather do it as she was growing up and never considered doing it herself. But after purchasing a smartphone and seeing the geocaching application, which shows users various locations of nearby caches, she was intrigued by all of the hidden caches around her house in Overland Park. She gave it a shot, and soon, it became one of her favorite activities. Burgess says she now searches with friends and coworkers on her days off, and the hidden caches have led her to places she may never have paid attention to otherwise, like scenic overlooks near Clinton Lake. "You're the mouse and it's the cheese," Burgess says. It's the thrill of the find."
Burgess, who may never have admired the adventure of geocaching were it not for her smartphone, says its one of the best free activities she's found to do, and the geocaching application makes it even easier.
"It's a way to baby step into it," she says. "If you've already spent the money on your phone and it has the app, it's not as accurate as the GPS but it's easier to use and a lot more accessible, so I think it's growing in popularity."
Dawn Kirchner, senior museum educator, says the caches on campus are some of the easiest to find, but just as geocaching is for people of any age, it can also be as easy or as difficult as geocachers desire. Some of the more extreme caches across the world, Kirchner says, are hidden so that geocachers have to scuba dive or repel off of a cliff to uncover. But she says even the easy ones in public places are thrilling to find.
"It's just a lot of fun. You can do it going to the grocery store. It puts a sense of adventure into everyday things," Kirchner says.
Just as campus is more than meets the eye, Mass Street also contains more than shops and restaurants, but only if you know where to look. Alli Butler, Overland Park senior, says geocaching is fun because it's a goal-oriented activity, and it's caused her to spend more time noticing the details of her surroundings.
"Before I geocached, I walked up and down Mass Street hundreds of times and never knew that right around the corner from me there was a little geocache," Butler says. "If you don't remove them, over time, they're little pieces of history." Jp
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Buried treasure: For the adventurer in you, check out the geocaching apps available on your phone. You could uncover hidden gems on Mass Street, behind your house or even on campus. Just be sure to play by the rules, and put back an item if you take one.
Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned geocacher, it helps to know the geocaching lingo. These and other terms used to describe the activity can be found at www.geocaching.com.
Geocache - A hidden container that contains a logbook to sign and, depending on the size of the cache, various items left behind by geocachers.
Geocaching - An activity that geocachers partake in all around the world, where caches are hidden and found by other geocachers using GPS or smartphone technology.
Geocoin - A geocoin is a trackable item left behind in a cache. Geocachers can then log on to the website and see where the item has been and where it goes.
GPS - GPS, which stands for Global Positioning System, is a system of satellites that receive signals from a GPS receiver to determine its exact location.
Ground Zero - When a geocacher's GPS or smartphone tells them they are at the cache location, he or she is at ground zero and it's time to start looking for the hidden cache.
Muggie - A non-geocacher, often someone who looks at a geocacher strangely when they're rummaging around in bushes in the park.
Signature Item — A unique item left behind by a geocacher at every cache he or she visits.
Spoiler — Information that gives away the location or presence of a cache, thereby ruining it for potential geocachers — something this article tried carefully not to do!
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Chelsea Freeman, a freshman from Wichita, helps children from the Boys and Girls Club create handmade ornaments during the Mentors in the Lives of Kids' (M.I.L.K.) annual holiday party in the ballroom of the Kansas Union. M.I.L.K. formed a new group, Girls Club, that promotes social and financial independence for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. The curriculum is designed to empower young girls and teach them that a man isn't necessary for a successful life. The group begins its lessons in January. M.I.L.K. is run by two coordinators, senior Laura Davis and sophomore Carlye Yanker.
Devon Cantwell, a junior from Topeka and a member of M.I.L.K., said at the end of the program the young girls will hold a bake sale to use their newly learned skills. She said the bake sale would teach the
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Carlye Yanker, a sophomore from St. Louis and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said she thought it would be easier to work with all
The on-campus student group Mentors in the Lives of Kids, or M.I.L.K., created a new program, the Girls Club, this year to teach life skills and promote economic self-sufficiency for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. M.I.L.K. is run through the Center for Community Outreach. The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence provides affordable after-school care for about 1,200 children. Laura Davis, a senior from Lawrence and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said the group often worked with the Boys and Girls Club and thought the new program would work well with the children there.
The 10-week curriculum addresses issues like stereotypes and how the girls view themselves, how women are viewed in advertisements, spending, credit cards, sales tax, budgeting and savings. The program will start next semester in January.
If you want to get involved with the Mentors in the Lives of Kids, e-mail: milk@ku.edu.
"They are constantly inundated with imagery of women that they are expected to look like or act like," Davis said.
She said she believed it was important to target girls at an early age to address these issues and the truth surrounding the expectations and stereotypes, which was why a large section of the curriculum was devoted to self-image.
Davis said she hoped to provide mentorship during the "awkward period" and help girls become individually stronger.
Students should also take care of their mental and physical well-being to succeed with finals. Student Success has launched a new website with schedules for stress-busting events and exercise classes to help students out with this stressful time of year.
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No luck. The mechanics told Strusz, a senior from Republic, Mo., that her rim was cracked and bent. A new one cost her $150.
If you search "Eudora, KS pothes" on Google, you get 1,500 results. For Topeka, there are 15,000 results. Going east down K-10, DeSoto has 21,000, Olathe has 19,000 and Overland Park has 37,000 Google results.
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Maserati, like the Italian luxury car of the same name, is sleek, fast and exotic. Pyramid of the Sun is the band's fifth full-length album since its 2001 debut, 37:29:24. This new album brings a nearly danceable style of progressive space-rock.
The opener, "Who Can Find The Beast?" begins with a heavily processed and sinister synthesizer beat that descends into feedback and distorted voice echoes. The track builds triumphantly before abruptly tapering off into the title track, a brisk change of pace from the short intro. "Pyramid Of The Sun" is an immediate attention-grabber — it's both heavy and catchy as jagged guitars and grainy bass intertwine on top of keyboards. The occasional double-kick drum action is tasteful and not too over-the-top. "We Got The System To Fight The System," is an example of Maserati's use of highly technical syncopation and counter-rhythms — like Battles' style but more metallic. The bass often repeats a solid groove while precisely picked guitars wail furiously. It's similar to the intense, prog-dance brand of rock that !!! and LCD Soundsystem
do so well, but Pyramid Of The Sun is an almost wholly instrumental album with a darker vision.
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"Ruins" trudges along with loud, damaged drums and oscillating guitar feedback for nearly three minutes. It's experimental, somewhat abrasive and without much of a hook or melody to follow. The next track, "They'll No More Suffer From Hunger," finds the band suddenly resurfacing out of the murk with a heavy bass/drum/synth medley à la Nine Inch Nails. The song eventually shrinks to a simple hi-hat beat that bleeds into "Oaxaca," which is softer, sweeter and the album's longest track at eight minutes.
Maserati's style is unique and varied, but I found myself wishing some of the synth parts had been left out — the guitars, bass and drums are enough and the keys sometimes make it hard to focus on any one instrument. However, I recommend the record to anyone into dance, space or math rock (ideally all three).
MOVIE REVIEW // A MAN WITHIN
> Hollywood hits, indie flicks and everything in between.
How does one even begin to describe the living conundrum that was William S. Burroughs? Writer, artist, cat lover, homosexual, junkie, gun enthusiast, godfather of punk rock — yet he never really fit into those molds either. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within attempts to answer these questions, and although it offers insight into who Burroughs was, it focuses too much on the legend and less on the man himself.
Which isn't to say we learn nothing about Burroughs — interviews with some of Burroughs' friends discuss his aloof approach to counter-culture, his homosexuality, his
A Man Within covers virtually every facet of Burroughs' long and fascinating life and the influence he had over everything: poetry, prose, art, music, film, culture, society and life. Yet by documenting Burroughs' effect on these things, the film barely scratches the surface of Burroughs himself, who is far more interesting a topic than anything he influenced.
peers and his love of cats and guns, all of which provide an enthralling insight into such a bizarre, literary mind.
The film boasts an eclectic number of interviewees — some are good while others do little but bolster the running time. Of the best is John Waters, who talks about Burroughs and his work, and amongst the worst is Patti Smith, who tells stories about herself, leaving Burroughs in the background.
Films like William S. Burroughs: A Man Within often cater to the legend that follows their subject, rather than the other way around. The film tends to lose itself from time to time, keeping up with Burroughs' long, eventful life and reputation, but is ambitious and passionate enough to keep audiences interested.
★★★ | B.S HADLAND |
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I had graduated high school in the spring of 2007, clueless about my future. Unwilling to pigeonhole myself into a major, much less the concept of college, I decided to take a semester off. My pastor told me about a nonprofit ministry that traveled the country, distributing free groceries to those in need. I figured giving the first fruits of my new adult life to serve others might open me to hear God and feel out what vocation I had in life, if any. At least it would make a good semester-off story if I eventually did attend college, so I signed on.
TAKING LIFE ONE STEP AT A TIME, IN FAITH
I woke up swaying, lying in a houseboat, docked at a place previously described to me as the meth capital of America. Rockaway Beach, Missouri, was once a popular fishing and boating getaway for vacationers, until the White River it sits upon was dammed. Only cold bottom water flowed through now, making the river, and eventually the town, unbearable. Today, boarded-up arcades and ice cream parlors line the town's riverside road that leads past its three main attractions: a gas station, a small bank and a giant billboard that reads "JESUS IS LORD." And across from that billboard, behind the gas station, is the marina where I awoke in a houseboat, seriously questioning the course of my life.
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With support and some cash from my parents, I set off that August for Springfield, Missouri. I met Don, the sweet, silvery-haired man
California who started the organization years back. I also met Brian, whom I'd work with. He was a soft-spoken, serious man pushing 30 and as unsure about life's next step as I was. Three months prior, Briun had a white-collar job with Motorola in Kansas City. But it wasn't fulfilling, and he wanted to serve God, so he quit. Don took us toward the back of the office building to show Brian and me where we'd be请ing. "I know it's not much, but here she is," he said, opening the door to a huge, chunky gold and white Winnebago RV, with at least as many years on her as I had.
Brian and I were given the Winnebago keys and hit the road. Our maiden stop was Rockaway Beach. The town had no place to hook up an RV for power and water, but Don had a small houseboat docked there that we could stay in. Brian parked the Winnie in a gravel lot, under the shadow of the "JESUS IS LORD" sign. I lugged my belongings and waddled across the street, down swaying marina docks to the
Don explained our assignment for the next five months, which was pretty much exactly like MTV's Road Rules, but without the money, TV cameras, or girls — we would travel in the Winnebago, meet with a partnering church and organize a "food drop," whereby a semitruck full of donated groceries would arrive, its contents distributed and a worship service held afterward.
houseboat and found my bed. I felt heavy and the day felt long, so I slept.
I opened my eyes, disoriented. I wasn't used to waking up in houseboats or RVs. I rolled over and looked out the window to total fog. During summer, the intense morning heat would hit the river's icy water, producing an eerie fog. Yet through the fog I could hear footsteps and talking. Brian was up, pacing the dock and talking on his phone.
"So what do we do then? We don't have a contact at the church anymore," he said.
More dock pacing.
"So that's two hours west then? We'll get packed. Okay."
No more dock oacino.
Brian stepped through the boat's hatch with a change of plans. The food drop at Rockaway had fallen through.
"Don's got a church contact a couple hours west in Neosho who'd love to have us. We'll head there tomorrow."
"So what now?" I asked.
I sat in a houseboat in Rockaway Beach, Missouri, surrounded by fog, with nothing on my hands but time, which is always toxic. I thought of friends who'd filled fall schedules last spring, who were moving into dorms and making new friends, drinking shitty beer and falling in love. Did I make a terrible mistake? How did I get here? When I decided to take a semester off, I thought God would have me doing something cooler than this, like delivering bread to orphans, who also had diseases. Or really anything at all. But somehow I was here, doing nothing, in the fog.
That night I crept out to an empty nearby field. If there was anything good about Rockaway, it was the stars. I gazed into the deep, black night bespeckled with white and cried out to God. I paced and I shouted. I pissed and I moaned. My soul felt heavy. With knees buried deep in the grass, I looked into the sky for my answer. It was vast, deep and bright. It stood still in peace, the kind I thought might swallow me if I waited long enough. So I did. I eventually walked back to the boat and my bed, satisfied, if not understanding.
That night I had a dream. In it was Jesus, the white, Sunday school Jesus, with matching robe and blue sash — the one I prayed to as a child. He sat on a rock in front of a river. I sensed his gentleness. It's odd that as much as I'd read and thought about Jesus, as much as I saw him on billboards and greeting cards and everything else, he'd never invaded my dreamscape. And yet there he was, still, almost glowing. Suddenly he opened his mouth and spoke:
"You can be peace, or you can fall to pieces."
His words reverberated and rested before me.
And then, I awoke.
"What's going on now?"
I didn't know what to make of it. I kind of wanted to pretend it didn't happen. So I scribbled every detail into my journal, shut it, and went about my morning. Soon Brian was once again pacing on the deck on his phone, once again in fog. I tried to ready myself for the worst. I failed.
"There was a shooting in Neosho this morning." Brian said, his voice trailing off as he processed. "A gunman came into a church, held the crowd hostage and shot eight people. He killed the pastor."
National headlines confirmed the gunman as Eikan Eilam Siamon. He was 52 and, before injuring five people and killing three on Aug.11, 2007, he worked in a poultry factory. Neosho, a small community of about 10,000, was shocked. And in the midst of this tragedy, we were coming to offer some groceries. Somehow I felt unprepared.
On the drive, I sat silently in the passenger seat, rolling over the dream in my mind: You can be peace, or you can fall to pieces. I struggled with the dream. I struggled with its message. I struggled with being in a hot, busted Winnebago instead of pinning my Ramones poster on a dorm room wall. We rattled up to Meadowlark Church that afternoon and went in to meet the pastor. I walked in, rounded the corner and froze, losing breath and step.
There on the wall was Sunday school Jesus, just as he appeared in the dream. The painting showed him on the rock, white robe, blue sash and all. I stood there dumbfounded, studying him in silence before backing up and slowly turning around. Then I saw a banner on the opposite wall, with big embroidered script: "Let there be peace." I gulped, and a pinprick in my soul told me there was nowhere else I could possibly be besides here, now, in Neosho, Missouri. I would not be falling to pieces on this day. In the next week, Brian and I were able do more than deliver groceries to needy folks in Neosho. We also mourned with them. We cried with them, prayed and sang hymns with them. We broke day-old bread in communion. Peace, in ways big and small, felt near.
Three years later, I'm finally in my last year of college. Professors and relatives often ask about my post-graduation plans, and I tell them I don't know — that it's like a wall of fog two feet before me. But I have no doubt that come May, I'll take a blind step forward, open my eyes, and find that the fog has cleared. I'll be where I'm supposed to be. I just pray it's not Rockaway Beach, Missouri.
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The 10-week curriculum addresses issues like stereotypes and how the girls view themselves, how women are viewed in advertisements, spending, credit cards, sales tax, budgeting and savings. The program will start next semester in January.
If you want to get involved with the Mentors in the Lives of Kids, e-mail: milk@ku.edu.
Devon Cantwell, a junior from Topeka and a member of M.I.L.K., said at the end of the program the young girls will hold a bake sale to use their newly learned skills. She said the bake sale would teach the
Davis said stereotypes and expectations of the "perfect woman" often cause young girls to become self-conscious.
girls because successful college women would be running the program.
"They are constantly inundated with imagery of women that they are expected to look like or act like," Davis said.
She said she believed it was important to target girls at an early age to address these issues and the truth surrounding the expectations and stereotypes, which was why a large section of the curriculum was devoted to self-image.
"Any girl or woman who is confident and independent is bound to have a much brighter future," Davis said. "It will be the future that she chooses to have, whatever that may be."
"They can be part of a cool, exclusive girls club." Yanker said.
Davis said she hoped to provide mentorship during the "awkward period" and help girls become individually stronger.
girls that they don't need a man in their lives to be successful.
Report: Number of international students increasing at University
"The man doesn't always have to make the money," Cantwell said.
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Students should also take care of their mental and physical well-being to succeed with finals. Student Success has launched a new website with schedules for stress-busting events and exercise classes to help students out with this stressful time of year.
age to the shop for an oil change and tuneup.
"I'm used to hitting potholes
No luck. The mechanics told Strusz, a senior from Republic, Mo., that her rim was cracked and bent. A new one cost her $150.
"As a poor college student, you cross your fingers that this one didn't pop your tire or bend your rim," Strusz said.
If you search "Eudora, KS pothes" on Google, you get 1,500 results. For Topeka, there are 15,000 results. Going east down K-10, DeSoto has 21,000, Olathe has 19,000 and Overland Park has 37,000 Google results.
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Andy Lawin, a senior from Los Angeles, screams in celebration after Kansas scored during the second half of their game against UCLA Thursday night at Allen Fieldhouse. The game featured nine ties and 12 lead changes, as Kansas' Mario Little hit a free throw with 0.7 seconds left in the game to seal a 77-76 victory for the Jayhawks. Kansas improved to 7-0 on the season, and will play the nationally ranked Memphis Tigers at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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Chelsea Freeman, a freshman from Wichita, helps children from the Boys and Girls Club create handmade ornaments during the Mentors in the Lives of Kids' (M.L.I.K.) annual holiday party in the ballroom of the Kansas Union. M.L.I.K. formed a new group, Girls Club, that promotes social and financial independence for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. The curriculum is designed to empower young girls and teach them that a man isn't necessary for a successful life. The group begins its lessons in January. M.L.I.K. is run by two coordinators, senior Laura Davis and sophomore Carlye Yanker.
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A group of University of Kansas students thinks that elementary school girls can benefit from a more practical kind of education, specifically geared toward young females.
The on-campus student group Mentors in the Lives of Kids, or M.I.L.K., created a new program, the Girls Club, this year to teach life skills and promote economic self-sufficiency for fifth- and sixth-grade girls. M.I.L.K. is run through the Center for Community Outreach. The Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence provides affordable after-school care for about 1,200 children. Laura Davis, a senior from Lawrence and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said the group often worked with the Boys and Girls Club and thought the new program would work well with the children there.
The 10-week curriculum addresses issues like stereotypes and how the girls view themselves, how women are viewed in advertisements, spending, credit cards, sales tax, budgeting and savings. The program will start next semester in January.
Carlyle Yanker, a sophomore from St. Louis and co-coordinator of M.I.L.K., said she thought it would be easier to work with all
If you want to get involved with the Mentors in the Lives of Kids, e-mail: milk@ku.edu.
girls because successful college women would be running the program.
She said she believed it was important to target girls at an early age to address these issues and the truth surrounding the expectations and stereotypes, which was why a large section of the curriculum was devoted to self-image.
"They can be part of a cool, exclusive girls club." Yanker said.
Davis said stereotypes and expectations of the "perfect woman" often cause young girls to become self-conscious.
"They are constantly inundated with imagery of women that they are expected to look like or act like." Davis said.
Devon Cantwell, a junior from Topeka and a member of M.I.L.K., said at the end of the program the young girls will hold a bake sale to use their newly learned skills. She said the bake learning would teach them
"The man doesn't always have to make the money," Cantwell said.
Davis said she hoped to provide mentorship during the "awkward period" and help girls become individually stronger.
girls that they don't need a man in their lives to be successful.
"Any girl or woman who is confident and independent is bound to have a much brighter future," Davis said. "It will be the future that she chooses to have, whatever that may be."
Report: Number of international students increasing at University
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International students, who come mainly from China, Saudi Arabia Indonesia and the Republic of Korea, now make up 7 percent of the nearly 30,000-person student body.
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Students should also take care of their mental and physical well-being to succeed with finals. Student Success has launched a new website with schedules for stress-busting events and exercise classes to help students out with this stressful time of year.
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Committee's decision on AD not finalized
BY STEPHEN
MONTEMAYOR
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Amid speculation that the University was going to announce its next athletic director by week's end, the search committee's leader said a decision has not yet been made.
Ray Evans, the search committee leader, said the pool of candidates has been pared down but would not name finalists for the position. The search is "well past the early stages," Evans said.
"We've got a little ways to go still," said Evans, who is a KU alumnus and founder of Pegasus Capital Management, a Kansas City-based firm.
Earlier this week there had been speculation that a new athletics director would be named by Friday. University of Tulsa Athletic Director Lawrence "Bubba" Cunningham is said to be a candidate. A plane from Oklahoma was scheduled to land at Lawrence Municipal Airport on Thursday afternoon. Reporters from several local media outlets went to the airport because of rumors, which turned out to be
The committee is searching for a replacement for Lew Perkins, who retired ahead of schedule in September. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little previously said she hoped to have a new athletic director by the spring semester.
Evans is also a member of the KU Alumni Association's Board of Directors and KU Endowment's Board of Trustees. Among the 10-person board's considerations, Evans said, is finding someone with a successful background in football. Evans said conference realignment and a possible playoff in the sport's future highlight the sport's revenue generating possibilities.
false, that Cunningham may have been on the plane.
Evans said the committee has visited with "several dozen" candidates through teleconferences and face-to-face meetings. He said the committee won't name candidates because it doesn't want to dissuade those already in high profile positions.
"We're getting closer and closer", Evans said.
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"As a poor college student, you cross your fingers that this one didn't pop your tire or bend your rim," Strusz said.
Irony can be expensive. Emily Strusz hit a "ginormous" pothole on Iowa Street two weeks ago — while she was driving her car to the shop for an oil change and tuneup.
No luck. The mechanics told Strusz, a senior from Republic, Mo., that her rim was cracked and bent. A new one cost her $150.
"I'm used to hitting potholes
"Notorious"
in this town," she said. "Lawrence is notorious for potholes and bumps in the road."
But Lawrence may now have a solution to its annual pothole problem — a long-lasting fix for any time of the year.
If you search "Eudora, KS potholes" on Google, you get 1,500 results. For Topeka, there are 15,000 results. Going east down K-10, DeSoto has 21,000, Olathe has 19,000 and Overland Park has 37,000 Google results.
But search "Lawrence, KS
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FRIDAY December 3
SATURDAY December 4
The KU Department of Dance will present "New Dance Concert" at 7:30 p.m. in Robinson Center, Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Theatre, Studio 240.
Student Union Activities will host a showing of the movie "Eat, Pray, Love" from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium, level 5.
The Department of Visual Art will host an open drawing workshop from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Art and Design Building room 405.
Student Union Activies will host free cosmic bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. In Jaybowl, first floor of the Kansas Union.
SUNDAY December 5
■ Elle Woods makes her way to Lawrence as the popular "Legally Blonde" film; moves to the stage at the Lied Center. The show is from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Student tickets range from $21 to $24, available by calling 785-864-2787.
December 7
TUESDAY
December 7
KU School of Music will present a Holiday Vespers concert from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Lied Center.
WEDNESDAY December 8
The Department of Visual Arts clubs will be holding a holiday art sale from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
The Chancellor's holiday reception will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Adams Alumni Center.
MONDAY December 6
There will be an informational session about the Peace Corps from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
The KU School of Music will present a Percussion Ensemble from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall at Murphy Hall.
THURSDAY December 9
Student Union Activities will host a late-night winter bash from 9 p.m. to midnight in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
What is on your iPod?
BY SARA SNEATH
Jahmal Clemons Wichita junior Dolly Parton — "I Will Always Love You"
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Carrah Haley Casper, Wyo., graduate student Hanson — "Mmm Bop"
I am happy to share my passion for music with you. I love playing the guitar and singing. I'm a musician who loves creating beautiful music. I enjoy playing music with friends and family. I love being able to express myself through music. I want to be a music teacher or a music therapist. I am looking forward to working with others to create more amazing music.
Emily Powers
Quincy, ill., graduate student
Spice Girls — multiple tracks,
including "Wannabe"
I am a graduate of the University of California. I majored in Physics and Economics and obtained my Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. I have been a professor at UC Davis since 2010. My research interests include cosmology, gravitational physics, and the evolution of the universe.
Stanislav Sinitsym
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Right Said Fred — "I'm Too Sexy"
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Tanya Reazayazi
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Cat Dolls - "lal Ho"
Pussy Cat Dolls — "Jai Ho"
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Cashier lifts wallet from mayor-elect
WASHINGTON — A cashier at a drug store in Washington, D.C., is accused of stealing the mayor-elect's wallet on Thanksgiving Day and using his credit card to buy cigarettes and liquor.
Tamika Garris used Gray's credit card to buy cigarettes for $13 and forging the mayor-elect's signature for $25 in liquor.
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iowa prison makes its own toilet paper
DES MOINES, Iowa There probably won't be any squeeze tests involved, but Iowa prisons could soon be stocking prisonmade toilet paper to save taxpayers money and provide jobs to inmates.
The Des Moines Register reported on Thursday that inmates at two Iowa prisons are testing a single-ply tissue processed at a Missouri prison. Roger Baysden, director of Iowa Prison Industries, says Iowa inmates could start processing their own toilet paper next year — if the Legislature supports the idea.
lowa prisons use about 900,000 rolls of toilet paper annually. Processing it in-house would save about $100,000 a year and would create jobs.
Al Reiter, the associate warden at the prison in Anamosa, Iowa says the paper is not fluffy but the state says it's an acceptable roll.
Associated Press
SUV crashes into barber shop front
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Talk about a close shave. An SUV crashed into an Anchorage barber shop, narrowly missing shop owner Heng Song and his two customers.
But Song wasn't about to let the horrifying moment get in the way of a good haircut.
He was momentarily stunned yes, when the vehicle burst through a door and window Wednesday afternoon as he was clipping a customer's hair.
"Half a haircut and kaboom!" is how the 53-year-old native of South Korea described it Thursday, after the shop had been cleared of debris and the gaping hole was boarded with plywood.
PETA approves the NYPD's mousetraps
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department has been commended for a new method to catch mice with spring-loaded mousetraps.
The drama was caught by a security camera, and footage shows the SUV land fully inside the shop, where Song stood behind a man in the barber's chair and another customer sat waiting on a sofa in the corner.
The department had been using glue traps, where mice get stuck and can live up to 24 hours, to get rid of the rodent problem at 1 Police Plaza. On Oct. 12, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals received an anonymous complaint about the traps
The department responded in November. Chief NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Thursday that the traps were replaced with two types of professional-grade traps PETA recommended, created to kill mice instantly.
"We immediately conveyed our concerns to Police Commissioner (Raymond) Kelly and asked that they ban glue trap usage," Martin Mersereau, the director of PETA's emergency response division, said Thursday.
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Hate group creates 'offensive to the senses' snowman in Idaho
Kootenai County sheriff's deputies told Mark Eliseuson Wednesday that he could be charged with a crime because the 10-foot-tall snowman was holding what appeared to be a noose. Deputies were called by neighbors who were appalled by the pointy-headed snowman with two dark eyes.
Eliseuson could have been charged with creating a public nuisance. Idaho law defines such a nuisance as anything "offensive to the senses" or that interferes with the comfort of an entire neighborhood. Eliseuson removed the noose and toppled the snowman after he talked with officers.
HAYDEN, Idaho — A white separatist drew complaints from neighbors and a visit from law enforcement officers after building a snowman shaped like a member of the Ku Klux Klan on his front lawn.
Hayden for decades earned notoriety for being near the former rural compound of the Aryan Nations.
Elseuson told KXLY-TV of Spokane that he sees nothing wrong with the snowman. But
"It's such a message of hate," said Amber Caldwell, who saw the snowman while visiting her cousin in the neighborhood. "My kids asked me about it and I had to explain what that symbol means."
other people did.
Eliseuse has angered neighbors in the past by flying Aryan Nations flags at his home. At Halloween he passed out bullet casings after he said he ran out of candy.
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The discovery "does show that in other planetary environments organisms might be able to use other elements to drive biochemistry and that the 'standard' set of elements we think are absolutely necessary for life might not be so fixed," commented Charles Cockell, professor at the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, Open University, in Milton Keynes, Britain. Cockell was not part of the research team.
"This organism has dual capability. It can grow with either phosphorous or arsenic. That makes it very peculiar, though it falls short of being some form of truly 'alien' life", commented Paul C. W. Davies of Arizona State University, a co-author of the report appearing in Thursday's
Bacteria has life beyond earth
While researchers discovered the unusual bacteria here on Earth, they say it shows that life has possibilities beyond the major elements that have been considered essential.
The find is important in the search for life beyond Earth because researchers need to be able to recognize life, to know what life looks like, Anbar said.
found on Earth. However, the announcement of a news conference to discuss it, which did not disclose details of the find, generated widespread speculation on the Internet that the report would disclose the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
Six major elements have long been considered essential for life — carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.
But the researchers found that the bacteria, discovered in Mono Lake, California, is able to continue to grow after substituting arsenic for phosphorous.
WASHINGTON — The discovery of a strange bacteria that can use arsenic as one of its nutrients widens the scope for finding new forms of life on Earth and possibly beyond.
"It makes you wonder what else is possible," said Ariel D. Anbar of Arizona State University, a co-author of the report.
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Number of international students rises
BY ANGELIQUE
MCNAUGHTON
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Throughout the past few years, the University of Kansas' international student enrollment has increased, mimicking the national trend.
The International Institute of Education, or IHE, released its 2010 Open Doors Report, representing data from the 2009-2010 academic year. The data reports 2009-2010 enrollment figures for international student enrollment at colleges and universities within the United States.
The University saw a 10.7 percent increase from 1,740 international students in the fall of 2008 to 1,926 international students in the fall of 2009. The Open Doors Report says overall Kansas experienced a 2.9 percent state increase, close to the national average of 3 percent which represents a record high number of international students in the United States, according to the IIE press release. This year, international student enrollment increased 10.9 percent, admissions officials said — an increase of more than 200 students from last year. Out of a student population of about 30,000, a little more than 7 percent are considered
international.
Kansas is ranked No. 22 in number of international students. In Missouri, international student presence increased 18 percent, ranking the state of Missouri 16th in attracting foreign students.
Daphne Johnston, the associate director of International Student and Scholar Services, said the increase is important and says a lot about the University.
Johnston said the quality of a school is evaluated by so many factors and to have a strong international student population adds to the quality of the programs that are available to students.
Hodgie Bricke is the assistant vice provost for International Programs and chairwoman of the International Recruitment Advisory Committee, or IRAC. The committee is responsible for the University's strategies and recruitment efforts for international students.
Bricke said the committee has three main goals: keep international numbers somewhere between 7 and 10 percent, maintain high numbers from specific countries but also recruit other places, and foster a healthy international student population to benefit domestic students.
vide, particularly Kansas students, an opportunity to interact and get to know students from all over the world," Bricke said.
Those friendships and relationships are important in breaking down stereotypes and increasing understanding, Johnston said.
While IRAC seeks to recruit internationally to benefit students' exposure and the quality of the University, Bricke acknowledged there is also a financial component that can't be overlooked.
The Open Doors Report said foreign students and their dependents spent $186 million in Kansas during the 2009-2010 academic year. This $186 million helps feed Kansas' economy.
The majority of students studying at the University come from China, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and the Republic of Korea.
The number of students from China increased from 642 in the fall of 2009, to 866 this fall.
David Chu, a first-year graduate student from Hong Kong, came to the University in 2004 and said he feels like American culture is slowly changing with the increasing international presence.
"I don't feel like I am in the US no, I feel like I'm back home!"
Chu said.
Chu is also suprised about the ease with which international students are admitted.
"it's really easy for them to get in," Chu said. "My friend and I were talking that even a monkey can get it."
Bricke said Chu's inference is a false assumption because international students have to demonstrate an understanding and proficiency in the English language, in addition to standard undergraduate admission requirements.
Sebastian Sanchez, a sophomore from Santa Cruz de la Sierra,Bolivia, said his decision to come to the University was based off of the reputation of higher education in the U.S.
"In my country, higher education is not as good as here," Sanchez said.
Sanchez said he is satisfied with his decision to come to the U.S. because he has met so many people from around the world.
Johnston said the value of those relationships is immeasurable.
"Some of the relationships established on for a lifetime," Johnston said. "We have an extended network of Jayhawks that spans the globe and that is great for KU."
Edited by David Cawthon
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More students complete required alcohol course
BY ALLYSON SHAW ashaw@kansan.com
It's one of the University's most unique classes. It's online, it's mandatory and it's all about booze. This fall a new wave of students graduated from the AlcoholEdu online course. The class is in its second year at the University of Kansas, and so far 94 percent of students required to take the course had completed it.
As of 2010, the class is required for all degree-seeking students coming to the University under the age of 22. The class provides information using quizzes and videos to combat binge drinking in college. In 2006, KU conducted a study to assess the drinking problem at the University. The study found that 56 percent of students reported binge drinking in a two-week period, and 24 percent reported using alcohol 10 to 29 days out each month. In 2008, the University formed an alcohol priority group made up of student leaders, faculty and staff members, and mandatory alcohol education
was one of the suggestions from that group, said Carol Seager, the director of student health services.
This year, completion of the course increased, as in November 2009, 905 students who were required to take the course had not completed it. This year that number has dropped to 259 students. Those who don't complete the course have a hold placed on his or her enrollment.
"The last thing we want to do is block the enrollment process," Seager said.
This year the University shortened the window during which students could finish the first part of the course from four weeks to two, and sent students four e-mail reminders before placing the hold.
Although nearly every KU freshman and sophomore has completed the class, not every student benefited from it.
"I already had my views on alcohol, and I already knew my limits," said Amanda Loner, a sophomore from Overland Park. "I treated it like
an assignment that I needed to get done, and I tried to get it over with as quickly as possible"
Loner suggested that the course could be improved by shortening it. The first part of the course takes approximately two hours. Maggie Young, a sophomore from Overland Park, said the course had some important and helpful information, but she also felt it was too long.
"I was annoyed I had to spend so much time on it," Young said. "It didn't change my drinking habits at all," said Young.
But for some freshmen the information provided in the course changed the way they party. Matt Sugar, a freshman from Sugar Land, Texas, said he didn't know what to expect about the drinking culture at the University. He said he was most surprised to learn through the course that not everybody drinks in college.
Sugar said he considers what he learned through the course when he goes out.
"It's limited the amount that 1
drink, and I learned not to drink in mass," Sugar said. "Also, I'm more aware of the symptoms of alcohol poisoning."
The Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice published a study of the effectiveness of the AlcoholEdu course. The study found that students who completed it experienced a 50 percent reduction in negative academic and personal consequences related to drinking. She said Student Health Services hadn't received any calls complaining about the policy, but did receive a few regarding how to work through the course.
Whether or not the course will affect the drinking habits of the student population remains to be seen, but Seager said the University is committed to continuing the program for at least two more years.
Edited by Abby Davenport
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Students should do more than study to prepare for final tests
BY JUSTINE PATTON jpatton@kansan.com
Next week many students will be spending long hours agonizing over lectures, notes and previous assignment. But those students who aren't keen on studying might be relieved to know there are other ways to prepare for a successful finals week. Frank DeSalvo, the associate vice provost for Student Success, said many students wouldn't do as well if they only prepared academically for finals week, which is why Student Success launched a new website to help students prepare mentally and physically for finals.
The website, www.finish.强.ku.edu, is part of Student
Finish Strong Campaign and provides students with resources to help them in four areas: academic, mental, physical and environmental.
For yoga class schedules stress workshops and other events to help you prepare for finals week, check out www.finish strong.ku.edu.
"I feel like exercising helps relieve stress when you're freaking out about tests," Guthrie said.
DeSalvo said to think of it like a savings account at the bank. If students prepare adequately throughout the semester, particularly during the last few weeks, it's like depositing
"Your brain is like a sponge, and you can only squeeze it for so long."
PATRICIA DENNING Chief of staff
"Certainly there is academic preparation like getting all of your notes together and starting to review, but there is also the mental approach to test taking as well as being prepared physically," DeSalvo said.
Students who visit the website will find a schedule of events for each category. If students click on the "physical" page, for example, they will find a schedule of KU Fit Classes, such as Power Yoga and Yoga Chi, or if they click on the "mental" page they will find a schedule of stress busting workshops.
Caitlin Guthrie, a senior from Chicago, said being physically prepared for finals week as well as academically prepared was helpful. Guthrie said she took advantage of the free classes at the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center during finals week.
$100 dollars per class into the savings account. During finals week, students want to withdraw the full $100, but if they aren't both mentally and physically
prepared, they may only be able to withdraw $60.
Patricia Denning, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, agreed that students needed to be more than just intellectually prepared to do well on their finals.
"Your brain is like a sponge, and you can only squeeze it for so long," Denning said. "To give any good performance you have to be healthy both mentally and physically."
The Finish Strong website will operate at other times during the school year as well.
Edited by Lisa Curran
SCIENCE
Proving sibling stereotypes
B MEG LOWRY mlowry@kansan.com
If you are the firstborn child in your family, you are smarter, taller and wealthier than your siblings.
Or at least that is what birth-order studies, such as a report published last month by the Association for Psychological Science, claim.
On average, firstborn children are one inch taller than the next born children and have an IQ score of three points higher. Youngest children are more outgoing and confident.
"When I look at the stereotypes, I feel that my brother and I basically fit
every single one" said Elise Bruns, a senior from Topeka and the youngest child in her family.
Elise's brother, Nate, also attends KU and is the oldest child in their family.
Cassidy Carpenter, a junior from Topeka, is a child psychology major who works with Child and Family Services Clinic Center in the children's language lab at KU and also taught at Hillop Childcare Center. She says the older children are easy to spot.
children are natural-born leaders. Twenty-two of America's presidents, more than half, have been firstborn children, and 21 of the 23 first astronauts in space were firstborns.
"The oldest children in the family tend to stand out right away," said Carpenter. "They are more dominant, and sometimes bossy."
Researchers say that youngest children will be more driven to compete with their siblings, as demonstrated by the Elise's description of herself.
My brother's smarter, but I am smart also," saud Elise. "I would say he cares more about learning, whereas I care more about getting good grades."
"Mv brother is
Psychologists explain this by
"Being the oldest, or the oldest son, there is always a lot of pressure that comes along with it," said Nate. "You have a lot of expectations from your parents about school and careers and everything."
"Being the oldest,or the oldest son, there is always a lot of pressure that comes along with it."
NATE BRUNS Topeka senior
"It's definitely easier to be the youngest, because you can just look at all
pointing out that at some point, firstborn children were the focus of all of their parents attention and energy.
According to the study, firstborn
Youngest children, however, are more social and eager to overcome a challenge. Researchers say they gain confidence from viewing their older sibling's mistakes and experiences.
Elise says she experienced this while attending the same high school and college as her brother.
your older sibling's experiences and mistakes and take those and learn from them," said Nate.
"We went to the same schools, and both played the same sports," Elise said. "It's really hard when everyone just sees you as the little sister."
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Nate agrees, but says the pressure to set an example is more difficult than the pressure to stick out.
"Some only children really are spoiled," said Mandy Felt, a junior from Wichita and an only child. "But mostly, they are independent. You have to learn to be on your own and entertain yourself."
In the midst of studies centered around first and last-borns, middle and only children can be a scientific wild card.
"She may be worried about making her own name," said Nate, "But I am worried about making sure she has a good name to live up to."
Only-children often are given a bad reputation for being self-centered and self-righteous.
Felt says that only-children and firstborns inherit the same pressures to excel or succeed.
"I've learned in psychology that birth order doesn't have a true influence on personality, it's more situational," said Carpenter. "Just because you are affected by that family dynamic as a child doesn't mean that's who you will be forever."
"You are the focus of your parents world," said Felt. "All of their goals and aspirations are focused on you, and it's hard because there are no other kids to count on."
Despite the behavioral influences birth order may have. Carpenter says that she doesn't think sibling order is something that will shape a person's life.
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POTHOLES (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
potholes” and there are 80,000 results. Only Wichita has more Internet pothole buzz with 240,000 results.
Lawrence is infamous for its special winter crop, the pothele, that pops up when winter weather and snow pulls apart asphalt's structure. That reputation has been cemented in recent years when city crews were unable to make long-lasting patches.
"People got frustrated because they saw guys throwing asphalt in a hole, driving over it and pulling away," said Mark Thiel, assistant public works director.
They did that because they only had a cold mix blend of asphalt available, which fixed the pothole for a day or two before it needed repair again. The hot mix asphalt — which is the blend for permanent fixes — can't be used in cold months.
In addition to its two-day lifespan, the cold mix is also limited by road conditions: It can't be used if the ground is too wet or cold.
Thiel said that during last winter — which was particularly snowy and harsh — city crews were patching up as many as 400 to 500 holes a day with the temporary mix.
A new fix
But now the city has a new machine that allows city crews to apply a permanent fix in any month.
It's called spray-injection patching, and it works like this: the crew clears the hole of debris, sprays oil into the hole, fills it with oily rocks, then regular rocks, and then rakes over it to
Not just a bump in the road
D&D Tire, 1000 Vermont St., receives customers with small and big pothole problems. Jason Climer, the shop foreman, said the immediate impact of driving over a pothole can result in a damaged tire, broken rim or problems with the car's allignment.
But there can be long-term effects also. If a driver allows bad alignment to go untreated, then the tires will prematurely wear out and there might be lingering steering problems.
If a driver hits a pothole hard enough, the car's tie-rods end can break or take damage. Climer said, meaning safety issues for the driver.
Report a pothole to the city at:
http://lawrenceks.org/public_works/pothole_report_form or (785) 832-3456
Instead of hours, Thiel expected the spray-injection patches to last months, if not years.
The new machine cost $168,000, which Thiel said was closely comparable to the price tag of the traditional machines the city could have bought.
It can be applied while snow is still on the ground. The wetness doesn't matter, Thiel said, only that the asphalt is above freezing temperatures.
"It was an easy decision." Thiel said.
try to even it out. You can tell a patch is from the new machine if it has reddish-brown rocks.
Thiel said the city would continue to use its older cold mix
Thiel said the traditional process could take five workers 30 minutes to fill a hole, while the new machine takes two workers five minutes, "with the same — if not better — results."
"It's only one machine and we've got 800 miles of roadway to take care of," Thiel said. "We obviously can't be everywhere right away."
technology after storms and whenever the city gets into pothole "crunch time." The old fixes would be needed after storms to provide temporary relief until the new machine can stop by.
But the idea is to reduce the overall amount of potholes "that pop back up after a storm," he said, which should mean easier maintenance and quicker responses.
The city bought the machine in September and has used it since, filling up potholes across town.
"We're trying to get ahead of the winter," Thiel said, like a football coach talking about an old rival.
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HOROSCOPES
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
Creative ideas abound today. You get new concepts from everyone you meet. Challenge yourself to move some of these ideas into action now.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 9
Stick to your schedule today.
Draw the threads together and approach completion on a project. Wrap this one up, and save creative ideas for later.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
New possibilities for creative thoughts and action abound. Luck is with you as you make decisions, even though you can't explain how you did it.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 6
You attract change like a magnet. To handle the ramifications, keep an open, creative mind, and allow others to control their own destiny.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 6
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
Your talents suggest different ways to solve problems. Think it through logically, and develop options before you begin. Then share the plan with the team.
Think up fun ways to grow relationships. A few chores may sneak onto the list, but not too many. Devote time to simply enjoy time together.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 8
You're learning with great enthusiasm. Intelligent activity revolves around your ability to recreate what you've learned in words others can use.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Someone in the house could use some tender loving care. As you provide it, create optimism and pass out single-player games. Time for rest is essential.
Today is a 9
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21)
Someone outside the family arrives on the doorstep, needing assistance. Although unexpected, you can dance with the circumstance. Give them what they need.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
Pay extra attention to physical activities today. To avoid injury, pay attention to the terrain. That said, today can be wildly fun and even creative.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 6
Your mind goes in several directions to implement fanciful ideas for group activities. Enthusiasm draws everyone into the design process. Have fun with it!
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 7
Mary Poppins said,"a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down." You see her wisdom, as you try to handle difficult news. Express compassion in private.
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Aronofsky's 'Black Swan' over the top ballet drama
MOVIES
The director here is the earnest Darren Aronofsky, and his trademark sledgehammer style makes any kind of enjoyment difficult. As he showed in "The Wrestler" and earlier, this is someone who believes in bludgeoning audiences into submission. When you experience ballet the Aronofsky way, you count yourself lucky that the dancers don't have easy access to staple guns.
LOS ANGELES — You won't be having a lot of fun at "Black Swan," but the less seriously you take this wildly melodramatic, unashamedly pulpy look at the blood sport that is New York City ballet, the better your chances are of enjoying yourself even a little.
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
In fact, the only problem with calling "Black Swan" sensationalistic and over the top is that it makes this shameless shotgun marriage of "The Red Shoes" and Roger Corman sound like more fun than it is.
This tale of feathered ambition starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as dueling ballerinas is not just any kind of trash, it's high-art trash, a kind of "When Tuo Goes Psycho" that so prizes hysteria over sanity that it's worth your life to tell when its characters are hallucinating and when they're not.
Not that ballerina Nina Sayers (Portman) would know what to do with a staple gun even if she had one. As presented in the screenplay by Mark Heyman, Andrew Heinz and John McLaughlin, Nina is supposed to be a Goody Two Shoes, a virginal drone who devoted her life to dance and labored for years in the corps de ballet without a peep of protest.
Nina is such doesn't seem to mind living with her hovering, possessive, over-solicitous mother, Erica (Barbara Hershey), a former ballerina herself who worries that her deserving
Nina is such a timid soul she
But wait, there's a catch. Actually, two catches, the first being a flesh-and-blood rival named Lily (Kunis), a hot new dancer who shows up at rehearsal literally "straight off the plane" from where else but California.
Not to worry, Mom, Thomas Leroy (French star Vincent Cassel), the ballet's imperious artistic director (is there any other kind?), has his mind on change. With a big production of "Swan Lake" coming up, he deep-sixes aging prima ballerina Beth Macintyre (Winona Ryder at her most psychotic) and tells Nisa she just might be in line for the starring role and the chance to play the ballet's white and black swans.
Not for nothing does Lily hail from San Francisco and not Sheboygan. Geography is destiny here, and we are meant to understand that Lily is a sensual free
daughter's chances for stardom are dribbling away.
When you experience ballet the Aronofsky way,you count yourself lucky that the dancers don't have easy access to staple guns.
paint, someone who gleefully breaks any rule she can get her hands on. She even has a tattoo!
The idea behind "Black Swan," in as much as it has an idea beyond
the presentation of sensation, is that the quest for perfection can unhinge the unwary. It's a plausible notion, but the problem is that Aronofsky in his deterministic zeal can't help but stack that deck.
What that means is that Nina is a walking nervous breakdown from the moment we see her. This lack of subtlety in Nina's predicament means that there is nowhere of sustained interest for her character to go.
Key Ozzy Osbourne facts
MUSIC
out and say it — the greatest heavy rock riff of all time. Ozzy told us: "Black Sabbath didn't write so much songs as rock passages. What we would do is get a good riff going. ... Whereas a lot of my solo stuff, it's kind of formulated — a verse, chorus, verse, chorus, middle 8, solo."
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
HIS BEST SOLO SONG: "Flying High Again." This melodic 1981 hit has everything — naughty Ozzy ("I've been a bad, bad boy!"), a Randy Rhoads guitar riff that can slice through logs and two Rhoads solos that are almost as good.
Ozzy Osbourne may be the Prince of Darkness and the strangest father figure in TV history, but the British rocker who founded Black Sabbath in the late 1960s is turning into a twisted Renaissance Man. He put out an album and an autobiography this year, he writes an "advice" column in Rolling Stone, and last summer he headlined the annual metal extravaganza Ozzzfest, as usual.
Some key things to know about
Ozzy:
HIS BEST SONG: "Supernaut" by Black Sabbath. We'll just come
ANIMAL APPETITES: Ozzy
Darling, I am afraid you look more worn out than a college boy's drinking wrist on Sunday morning.
truly did bite the head off a bat — and a dove. In the early '80s, Ozzy picked up what he thought was a toy rubber bat that a fan had thrown onstage, and bit into its neck. He also bit the head off a live dove at a CBS Records meeting; we're told grizzled label observers were less shocked than sort of weirded out.
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9 Prescription safety org.
12 Make minor adjustments
13 Honest politician
14 Botanical bristle
15 Hidden store
16 Fastened a seat belt
18 Persian Gulf land
20 Capri or Wight
21 Cowboy's sweetie
23 Resort
24 Undoes deles
25 News-paper page
27 Cove
29 Enact
31 Ms. Franklin
35 Possibly could
37 Apprehen
38 Macho type
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43 Book- keeper (Abbr.)
44 "Oh, woe!"
45 Man with all the answers?
47 Drunk
49 Swelling
52 Sch. group
53 Pink-slip
54 Oft- dunked treats
55 Ever- green type
56 Peak (Abbr.)
57 13- Across' in-laws
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21 Sticky stuff
22 Auto financing abbr.
24 Sun. speech
26 Reversible fabric
28 Coffee-house order
30 "There's no team"
32 Took on
33 With it
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36 Solidify
38 Glad
39 Upper crust
40 Colorful parrot
42 Monk's superior
45 Libretto
46 Modern-day money
48 Felon's flight
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MOVIES
Sundance slate mixes indie, mainstream films
A day after the Sundance Film Festival revealed its 2011 competition lineup — a slate that deliberately favored unfamiliar filmmakers working with little-known actors — the nation's top showcase for movies made outside the studio system revealed its premiere slate, and a lot of A-listers will be headed to Park City, Utah, come lan. 20.
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — There will be stars after all.
The dramatic premiere roster includes new films starring Greg Kinnear ("The Convincer"),
("The Details"),
Kevin Spacey ("Margin Call"),
Paul Rudd ("My Idiot Brother"),
Ewan McGregor ("Perfect Sense") and Pierce Brosnan ("Salvation Boulevard"). Among the
Holmes and Amy Ryan.
In a surprising twist, only two of the dramatic premieres already have distribution deals.
women in leading and supporting roles: Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Julia Ormond, Zooey Deschanel, Eva Green, Jennifer Connelly, Marisa Tomei, Katie
With Sony Pictures pulling Gus Van Sant's "Restless" out of the festival at the last minute (following the film's release-date change from January to later next year), that means a dozen of the premiere titles will arrive in Utah with no distributor, assuming no deals are
In a surprising twist, only two of the dramatic premiers already have distribution deals. Fox Searchlight will be represented with two new movies: "Cedar Rapids," directed by Miguel Artela and starring Ed Helms, and writer-director Tom McCarthy's "Win Win" starring Paul Giamatti.
struck in the next month and a half.
"A lot of companies aren't making that much," said festival director John Cooper in explaining why so few premiere titles already
have distribution.
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Cooper also said he was launch-ing a new documentary premiere section, which will feature eight new works from more established nonfiction directors.
Opinion
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Coffee is good anytime of the day.
Is it wrong that I hate that my girlfriend tries to decide if God wants her to do something or not before she does it?
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My new phone lets me be even more of a Facebook creeper. I love it!
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I swear some people at this school must be majoring in ponies! GO TO CLASS!
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Where the hell is Quartar?
editor's note: So many issues here. Too little time.
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The best part of wakin' up is chocolate milk in your cup!
Beware my purple fuzzy hat of doom. If you annoy me you will get hit with a pom
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It's probably a bad thing that I don't remember the last time I drank water.
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Girl: Let's have sex in the Watson stacks. Guy: I would, but this is a dry campus.
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Fort Hays State has as much chance of beating our basketball team than LeBron James getting a standing ovation when he returns to Cleveland.
Downing 5 Hour Energy.
I'll be up all night. Wish it came with motivation, there ain't any in sight. All I need is to get these five pages right, but it would be easier turning dark to light.
--compromise should reign. It belongs in sports, where innocent bystanders don't get hurt.
I don't even think we're each others type. Oh well, I never said I wanted serious!
--compromise should reign. It belongs in sports, where innocent bystanders don't get hurt.
FYI boys ... no-shave November ended today. so get off your lazy butts and shave. Thanks.
--compromise should reign. It belongs in sports, where innocent bystanders don't get hurt.
Ride 'em cowboy.
--compromise should reign. It belongs in sports, where innocent bystanders don't get hurt.
I really wish we had thicker walls so I didn't have to listen to you have phone sex. It's disturbing.
--compromise should reign. It belongs in sports, where innocent bystanders don't get hurt.
Why did I have to fall for a girl from K-State? And I don't even know what she thinks after seven months. How lame is that.
Whoa now!
--compromise should reign. It belongs in sports, where innocent bystanders don't get hurt.
--compromise should reign. It belongs in sports, where innocent bystanders don't get hurt.
POLITICS
For Washington and Miami talent can only get you so far
Some want to see the president fail. I'd rather see the Big Three in Miami fail.
Last month, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
Now, we understand why when the president says "white," McConnell says "black." When the president says "up," McConnell says "down," and when Obama says "Let's cut our nuclear warhead stockpile a bit," McConnell says "Let's wait."
The 2010 New Start Treaty is a no-brainer. The treaty would reduce Russia's and America's nuclear arsenals and also resume inspections of both countries' nuclear facilities. Currently we have more than 9,000 warheads, and Russia has more than 12,000. We have more than enough nukes to blow the world up many times, when a couple hundred would do the same trick.
He's simply disagreeable.
Granted, this treaty is more about diplomacy than making the world safer, a side effect surely we can all agree is a good thing. Obama desperately needs to get his diplomatic swagger back not just for his political future but also for the good of our country
At this point, he's lucky if his wife passes him the salt.
Republican obstruction of this treaty symbolizes what's wrong with McConnell's goal. Creating a safer world, even in name only, has historically been a bipartisan endeavor. Republicans are not offering any kind of alternative or reason for their obstruction.
This sort of unreasonableness does not belong in politics, where debate, negotiation and
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BY D.M. SCOTT
dscott@kansan.com
In sports, we watch two of life's biggest themes play out in real time: victory and defeat — without pesky consequences. We can live and die with the rise and fall of our favorite teams without actually living and dying with our teams. Our hearts, the most malleable organ in our body, withstands, to our dismay, an unimaginable amount of pain. In sports, we can enjoy these highs and lowsat a safe distance.
It's OK to naively hope for a winning season when the Royals are 0-0, to sturdily carry the pain of a home loss against the Raiders in '99 and blindly support our slumping franchises for no other reason but because they're our home teams.
It's also OK to boo. Sometimes, it's even therapeutic. And it's what LeBron James heard a lot of last night as he played his former team, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
James, A.K.A. "King James," is arguably the best player in the NBA, despite not winning a championship. He made the decision to leave Cleveland, a city not far from his hometown of Akron, Ohio, and took his talents to South Beach. The decision was announced during "The Decision," an hour-long television special, which revealed that although James may be the king of the
court, he's a jester when it comes to public relations.
This move culminated in the creation of the Big Three, formerly known as the Miami Heat. The team signed two more all-star free agents, eager to play with King James: Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh — a hoops coup. Instead of earning a championship the old fashion way, the Big Three conspired to buy one instead. Instead of beating the best, King James decided he rather play with the best.
Before the season began, one sport prognosticator doubted the Big Three would lose two games in a row all season, and he predicted they would set a record for most wins in a season.
To the surprise and joy of every sport fan except those in South Beach, the Big Three are a royal underachievement. Instead of casually watching the NBA, I intently tune-in just to see whom the Big Three will lose to next.
In witnessing this debacle, we learn a great lesson. Talent can only take you so far. Success stems from working well and playing nicely with others — team chemistry. Something Congress doesn't have but needs to get quickly if it is to address the people's business, such as determining taxes, setting the and balancing the budget.
I want to see the King and his two subjects fail badly.
How badly does McConnell hope our president fails?
I think we would be better off booing the former and rooting for the latter.
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Scott is a junior from Overland Park in journalism.
December 9...
Teacher Student
MARIAM SAIFAN
Chocolate milk—the miracle drink?
GUEST COLUMN
Chocolate milk, a beverage commonly consumed by children is now being used as a sports recovery drink for people of all ages. Karp, Johnston, Tecklenburg, Mickleborough, Fly and Stager established that it can help to rehydrate the body and rebuild muscles during and after workouts or athletic events. Maybe that is not surprising, because the contents of chocolate milk include carbohydrates, protein, vitamin A, vitamin D and calcium, all of which contribute to rebuilding muscle. Also present are sodium and sugar, which help stabilize and restore the body's electrolyte balance.
By contrast, energy drinks, which are popular among youth contain large amounts of caffeine and sugar, along with ingredients such as taurine, guarana, ginseng green tea and vitamins.
Thomas, Morris and Stevenson showed the difference between chocolate milk and two other replacement drinks (fluid and carbohydrate energy drinks) when consumed by nine well-trained male bicyclists before and during low to moderate exercise. In the study, "participants cycled 51 percent and 43 percent longer after ingesting chocolate milk than after ingesting carbohydrate replacement drink and fluid replacement drink, respectively."
So, which is better for refueling the body after a workout: chocolate milk or energy drinks?
Pritchett, Bishop, Pritchett, Green and Katica compared chocolate milk and a similar carbohydrate replacement beverage among 10 well-trained male bicyclists before and during high intensity exercise. The only significant difference they found was a higher creatine kinase level in the carbohydrate replacement drink from the beginning to end of the trials, while the creatine kinase levels of chocolate milk remained about the same throughout.
Creatine kinase is an enzyme present in muscles and the brain that uses adenosine triphosphate or ATP. ATP is the main energy source for cells of the body, while adenosine diphosphate is the main energy source for muscles and the brain. In other words, the consumption of a carbohydrate replacement drink required more energy, which depleted the athletes' muscles more quickly and slightly increased their level of exhaustion.
While the jury is not in entirely these two small preliminary studies suggest that chocolate milk appears better at refueling the body after workouts compared to energy drinks. Clearly, though, additional studies using more diverse and longer samples are warranted.
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HUMOR
As economy recovers,knickknacks a great investment
A is my fifth semester as a Kansan columnist draws to a close. I have realized
to a close, I have realized one thing: humor simply does not sell. People just don't want to laugh anymore! And I can see why not. We live in dangerous times. North Korea is attacking South Korea. WikiLeaks is continuing to reveal the dirty underbelly of international diplomacy. The Situation is making $5 million per year
Yes, it's a terrifying world, and for that reason I have decided to actually do something meaningful.I want to use my incredible intelligence and wide-ranging expertise to make a real impact on the world.I want to help people,not make them interrupt class with raucous laughter as they read yet another of my hilarious opinion-page gems.
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Kansas 77 42-35 UCLA 76 39-37
WILLIAMS BREWING
Jayhawk Stat Leaders
Points
BROOKLYN
COUNTY
BOSTON
JEWELS
Markieff Morris 16
Rebounds
A. D. BURKE
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Marcus Morris
BETWEEN
SCHOOLS
BETWEEN
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Tyshawn Taylor 7
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
Tyshawn Taylor 4-6 0-0 0 7 10
Brady Morningstar 0-2 0-2 3 2 2
Tyrel Reed 4-10 0-4 1 2 13
Markleff Morris 7-12 1-2 3 0 15
Marcus Morris 4-8 2-2 9 0 16
Thomas Robinson 5-7 0-0 3 1 14
Jeff Withey 0-0 0-0 2 0 0
Elijah Johnson 1-3 0-1 1 2 2
Mario Little 2-3 0-0 4 0 5
Travis Releford 4-6 2-3 4 1 10
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
Lamont Jones 4-9 0-2 1 0 11
Derrick Williams 9-15 2-3 8 0 27
Brendon Lavender 0-2 0-2 4 1 0
Jamelle Horne 2-5 2-5 6 3 6
Solomon Hill 3-9 1-2 5 4 9
Kyryl Natyazhko 1-1 0-0 4 1 2
Kevin Parrom 0-3 0-2 4 1 0
Jordin Mayes 2-4 1-3 0 1 6
Kyle Fogg 6-12 4-8 2 1 18
Totals 27-60 10-27 37 12 79
Arizona
Schedule
*all games in bold are at home
Date Opponent Result/Time
Nov. 2 WASHBURN W, 92-62
Nov. 9 EMPORIA STATE W, 90-59
Nov. 12 LONGWOOD W, 113-75
Nov. 15 VALPARALSO W, 79-44
Nov. 19 NORTH TEXAS W, 93-60
Nov. 23 TEXAS A&M CORPUS CHRISTI W, 82-41
Nov. 26 OHIO W, 98-41
Nov. 27 ARIZONA W, 87-79
Dec. 2 UCLA W, 77-76
Dec. 7 MEMPHIS 6 p.m.
Dec. 11 COLORADO STATE 5:30 p.m.
Dec. 18 USC 11 a.m.
Dec. 22 CALIFORNIA 10 p.m.
Dec. 29 UT ARLINGTON 8 p.m.
Jan. 1 MIAMI 5 p.m.
Jan. 5 UMKC 7 p.m.
Jan. 9 MICHIGAN TBA
Jan. 12 IOWA STATE 8 p.m.
Jan. 15 NEBRASKA 1 p.m.
Jan. 17 BAYLOR 8:30 p.m.
Jan. 22 TEXAS 3 p.m.
Jan. 25 COLORADO 7 p.m.
Jan. 29 KANSAS STATE 6 p.m.
Feb. 1 TEXAS TECH 8 p.m.
Feb. 5 NEBRASKA 3 p.m.
Feb. 7 MISSOURI 8 p.m.
Feb. 12 IOWA STATE 3 p.m.
Feb. 14 KANSAS STATE 8 p.m.
Feb. 19 COLORADO 1 p.m.
Feb. 21 OKLAHOMA STATE 8 p.m.
Feb. 26 OKLAHOMA 3 p.m.
March 2 TEXAS A&M 8 p.m.
March 5 MISSOURI 11 a.m.
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Refs key to narrow victory
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BY MIKE LAVIERI
Kansas seemed to have brought some of the Vegas luck back to Lawrence on Thursday. Kansas made some careless mistakes, not just with the basketball, but also on the defensive end and shooting.
Senior guard Mario Little sank the first of two free throws to give Kansas the one-point edge with 0.7 seconds showing on the clock.
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"We did not play good and it was an ugly win for us, but they played very good." Little said. "We both wanted the win, but they put in a little more effort than us throughout the game."
The referees seemed to have hailed Kansas out Thursday night, who made careless mistakes that led to UCLA baskets or free throw shots.
The Jayhawks rushed shots because they thought they needed to score quickly instead of setting up the offense and breaking down the defense for 35 seconds to get the shot they wanted.
"I love coaching this team, don't get me wrong, but we stop our self, we guard our self," Self said. "When we miss shots it puts so much pressure on your defense because basically your defense had to shut them out when we didn't play well offensively. And now its like our offense needs to bail our defense out."
Little was immediately yanked for
junior guard Tyshawn Taylor with 8:43 left because of a missed three pointer.
"I felt better with him on the line in that situation than the four shots he shot prior to that," Self said.
throws than get beat on toughness plays." Self said about his team's offensive rebounding. "And to me those are toughness plays. I thought UCLA was tougher on the glass than us. One thing about basketball is you can't control shooting every night. You can't control that but you can control toughness plays and things like that."
Self also was not particularly fond of the play on the boards. Kansas was outrebounded 37-32 and UCLA pulled down 12 offensive rebounds, eight by freshman center Josh Smith.
On more than one occasion, a Kansas post would block a shot from Smith in the paint, but it would
go right back to Smith, who would eventually get fouled.
$ ^{a} $I would much rather miss free
"I thought Josh played very well." Self said. "If I was coaching against us, I would attack our post players every possession. I'm going to put it out there because everybody can see it. It does not take a guy who studies a ton of tape to realize that, it's that our big guys don't guard very well. We have to get a lot better at that."
Edited by Tim Dwyer
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Junior center Markieff Morris pulls down an offensive rebound during the first half. UCLA had a stronger presence throughout the game, out-rebounding the Jayhawks 37-32.
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Junior forward Marcus Morris soars over UCLA guard Lazeric Jones during a breakaway in the second half. Morris was one of three jahwhays to score in double figures, netting 16 points, and also had six rebounds in Kansas' 77-76 victory over UCLA on Thursday night.
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Jerry Wang/KANSAN
president guard Mario Little applies pressure on UCLA forward Reeves Nelson as Nelson catches a pass. Little finished with nine points, eight rebounds and scored the game-winning free throw in the 77-76 victory over UCLA on Thursday night at Allen Fieldhouse.
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BALLREWIND
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Senior guard Tyrel Reed puts up a three pointer during the first half. Reed led the team with a career high 17 points, hitting three-of-four from behind the arc.
Prime plays
FIRST HALF
18:40: Arizona coach Sean Miller calls timeout after a breakaway layup by Tyshawn Taylor. The Jayhawks started the game 3-3 from the field. (6-0)
13:44: Marcus Morris buries a three and Sean Miller calls his second timeout. Kansas fans are making Orleans Arena sound like Allen Fieldhouse. (18-12)
7:31: During a media timeout, KU fans drown out Arizona fans with a "Let's go Jayhawks" chant. (33-26)
4:54: Jeff Withey checks in for the first time against his former school, which he didn't play a single minute for. (38-30)
0:44.Tyrel Reed takes it coast-to-coast after a steal and gets the Kansas fans on their feet. (44-36)
SECOND HALF
13:28: Kansas regains the lead after a Mario Little layup. (54-52)
4:40: Tyshawn Taylor lobs one up for Thomas Robinson, who throws down the ally-ool with one hand. (71-65)
3:17: Another beautiful pass from Taylor, this time coming after a drive in the lane, he wraps around his man and finds Robinson for a two handed slam. (75-68)
2:27: Markieff Morris hangs and hits a layup while drawing a foul on Arizona's Derrick Williams, his fifth. (77-72)
0:43: Kansas fans can finally breathe a sigh of relief as the Rock Chalk chant rings out at Orleans Arena. (83-75)
Game to remember
Travis Releford
Bill Self said he was going to start paring down his traditional eight-man rotation with the Arizona game. If that's true, Releford forced his way into the eight with an all-tournament team performance. His 10 points and four rebounds in 18 minutes off the bench were crucial in Saturday's 87-79 victory.
Game to forget
Brady Morningstar
Bill Self loves Morningstar on the floor, and the senior guard contributes with all the intangibles. But there's just not enough of an offensive presence to his game to warrant him getting 29 minutes in a game where the Jayhawks needed scorers. Morningstar finished with two points on 0-of-2 shooting and two assists.
Quote of the game
"I don't think there's any way we play with just eight guys for the rest of the year."
Notes
— Sophomore guard Travis Releford
Kansas won its second Las Vegas Invitational in as many tries. Its last title came in 2006.
Junior Markieff Morris and sophomore Travis Releford were named to the all-tournament team, while junior Marcus Morris was named tournament MVP
Kansas moved to 8-4 overall against Arizona.
For the first time this season, KU had six players score 10 or more points.
Key stats
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Arizona's Derrick Williams got his fifth and final foul with a little more than two minutes left. It finalized the Jayhawks win.
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Six Jayhawks scored in double figures Saturday night.
Tyshawn Taylor had four turnovers,but zero of them came in the last 18:41 of play.
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Weekend marks debut for any athletes
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Anschutz Sports Pavilion will be filled with indoor track and field athletes from the Midwest on Saturday. This will be the first college meet for many Kansas track athletes. "This is the first opportunity for some of the freshmen to wear Kansas so they are really
Freshman spinter Diamond Dixon is one of those excited young faces. She came to Kansas from Houston.
"I am new here so I am just trying to stay focused and compete well."
FRANCINE SIMPSON
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"It is a big change from high school. I wouldn't say that it has been easy. It has been sort of a challenge but I have gotten used to it." Dixon said.
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"I think that I am going to drop a good time down." Dixon said.
The throwers have been hard at work in the offseason to improve technique,
This will be her first meet for Kansas.
She has been training hard since her arrival in Lawrence and has high hopes for this weekend and the season. Saturday she will be making her debut as a part of the women's 4x400 team.
"I am new here so I am just trying to stay focused and compete well. Hopefully I can get a good mark so I can qualify for the NCAA," Simpson said.
Nick Canton, a junior from Fowler, is a returning high jumper. At the Big 12 outdoor competition last season he said he was not able to finish as well as he had liked because of the rain. This season brings more opportunities after an additional offseason of training.
"I have been going to the weight room every day to get strong and I have been trying to come up with a good approach all while continuing to work hard," Canton said.
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strength and distance.
M a s o n
Finley, a
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He finished eighth in both shot
put and discuss at the 2010 USA National Track and Field Championships in June. Saturday's meet will give him an opportunity to experiment with the indoor hammer.
"I haven't had much experience with it. Last year I threw 50 feet so I would like to throw farther than 50," Finley said.
Heather Bergmann, a sophomore thrower from Concordia, will be competing in the shot put on Saturday.
"I am a little nervous just because I haven't practiced shot put on a whole lot, but I am excited because to get into competition is always a great feeling," Bergmann said.
Demi Payne, a freshman from Corpus Christi, Texas, will be wearing her Kansas uniform for the first time as she competes in the pole vault.
"I want to keep my focus and keep my nerves down," Payne said. "I never did that much running, and now that I am working out really hard I am getting a lot of speed and it is really helping my vault come together"
Even with all of the nerves and
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Senior long-distance runner Isaiah Shirlen competes in the Bob Timmons Classic last December. The track and field team will compete in their first indoor meet this season.
excitement both the coaches and players appear to be prepared for competition.
"We had a really young team
last year and now they are much improved and we are ready to see them out there. We want to win everything that we are in and I
do not want to settle for less"
Redwine said.
Edited by Lisa Curran
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But the Cougars (5-0) have yet to face a top opponent.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington State is the only remaining undefeated team in the Pac-10 and boasts two of the league's top three scorers in Klay Thompson and newcomer Faisal Aden.
That changes Friday, when No. 5 Kansas State (6-1) comes to Pullman and gives the Cougars a chance to show if they are for real: The Wildcats' only loss of the season is to No. 1 Duke.
"We have not played an opponent like Kansas State this year," WSU coach Ken Bone said. "I am anxious for Friday night to be able to gauge, where we are as a team."
The Cougars were in much the same position last season when Kansas State built a big early lead to run away with an 86-69 victory. Jacob Pullen and Denis Clemente did much of the damage for the Wildcats.
Bone is counting on his returning players to remember that loss.
"Last year we didn't go in there and really compete," Bone said. "At least we won't be surprised in what's coming Friday night."
Pullen leads Kansas State with 16 points a game. Rodney McGruder is adding 14 points and 6.6 rebounds.
Pullen is a multiple threat, Bone said.
"He can shoot it from the perimeter. He has a good mid-range game, and gets to the rim," Bone said. "His assist-to-turnover ratio is impressive."
Washington State's victories this season have come against Sacramento State, Southern, Idaho, Portland and Fresno State.
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FACT OF THE DAY
The 126 points scored by the women's basketball team is the most in team history.
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WASHINGTON President Barack Obama says FIFA made the "wrong decision" in awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar over the United States.
Obama disappointed by World Cup choices
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FIFA
The U.S. Soccer Federation spent millions of dollars on its bid. Former President Bill Clinton was highly involved in the process and participated in the closing presentation. Those pushing the U.S. bid hoped that bringing the World Cup back to America for the first time since 1994 would boost the slow but steady growth of soccer in the U.S.
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A subdural hematoma is a bleeding between two layers of tissue between the brain and the skull.
Michael Handler, deputy Johnson County coroner, told The Kansas City Star that Spring Hill football player Nathan Stiles died from a rebleed of a subdural hematoma he sustained in a game earlier in the season.
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Can't count how many times I heard Kansas fans say, "Well, basketball season is just around the corner," this football season.
To me that's no consolation. Football is my sport. I enjoy basketball and probably get into the game as much as any other Kansas-worshipping student, but football is where my passion lies.
Kansas doesn't have a quarterback. Our former- starting quarterback — Kale Pick — now plays wide receiver. And one of our wide receivers — Bradley McDougald — now plays on defense. We have two players — Quinn Mecham and Jordan Webb — with strengths and weaknesses, neither quite ready to fill the shoes of a college quarterback for a season.
That's why this year's season, for me, was so heart-breaking. Kansas won only three games and while there may have been some positives, from a fan's perspective, I'm heading into next season with a lot of unanswered questions.
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The person most fans are going to blame for all of this is coach Turn Gill. But is that really fair? He's only been here a year and he has a strong enough track record that he deserves a few more years.
He turned around a really bad team in Buffalo. Gill coached that team to its first winning season ever in his third year with them. In addition, in 2008, the school won its first conference championship and went to its first bowl game. Sure the Mid-American Conference was down that year, but I don't think that should take away from what Gill
BY SAMANTHA ANDERSON
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was able to accomplish.
It's not only that, however; Gill has surrounded himself with a great coaching staff. Have they all forgotten how to coach, too?
Chuck Long, the offensive coordinator and quarterback coach, was a Heisman trophy runner-up and spent seven years in the NFL. But does that transfer to being a good coach? He spent three years as Iowa State's special teams coach. In 1999, he went to Oklahoma, where he spent two years as a quarterback coach, and in 2002, he was promoted to offensive coordinator. While he was with Oklahoma, the team won a national championship and went to a bowl game every year, winning the Rose Bowl and the Cotton Bowl.
While defensive coordinator Carl Torbush's history is a little different, it's impressive all the same. His coaching career began at Carter High School in Knoxville, Tenn. His first college coaching job was from 1976-1979 at Southeastern Louisiana. He's had experience as a head coach and defensive coordinator. In 1996, while he was with North Carolina, he
So what is it that the football team needs? Kansas fans everywhere hope that the answer is simple: time. And maybe that's it. Gill was hired to recruit and he will need time to do that. The question is whether or not Gill will even get the chance. There will be a lot of pressure on him when the new athletics director is selected. That director could want to put his own football program in place. And while getting rid of Gill would be expensive for the school, it is still a possibility.
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was named defensive coordinator of the year. He's been a part of 11 bowl teams and While he was at Alabama, his defense was ranked thid in the NCAA.
1, for one, still think Gill deserves a chance at Kansas.
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LPGA
Unlikely leaders steal the spotlight
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Two South Koreans atop the leaderboard at the LPGA Tour Championship came as no surprise. They just weren't the two everybody expected.
Stealing the spotlight from two others vying for a historic player of the year honor. Amy Yang and Seon Hwa Lee each shot a 5-under 67 on Thursday to share the clubhouse lead when the opening round was called for darkness.
No pressure on them
"This week is good," Hwa Lee said, smiling.
The bigger challenge falls on their two more acclaimed countrywomen.
Jiyai Shin and Na Yeon Choi are in contention to become the first South Korean to take home the LPGA's player of the year award, a huge honor in a golf-crazed country that sent swarms of media to cover them this week. But Shin (77) and Choi (73) each got off to a disappointing start, leaving them well off the pace.
Julieta Granada finished two shots off the lead on a chilly day at Grand Cypress Golf Club that had many players wearing earmuffs and winter hats with temperatures dipping into the
low 40s just before dawn.
There were four players three shots off the pace.
"I just tried to make par every hole because the fairways, the rough
Choi and Shin also are the only players in the running for the money title. So far Choi has earned $1,814,558 for a $34,790 lead over Shin.
The chilly conditions, by Florida standards, made greens firm and fast. But it was the course, a Jack Nicklaus-design that was renovated between 2007-08 with more undulating greens, that really made things difficult.
American Cristie Kerr (71), Yani Tseng (75) of Taiwan and Ai Miyazato (80) of Japan — the only others who could win the player of the year award — all struggled in the conditions. Choi was 4 under through 12 holes, but she gave back five shots over the next three holes.
the year now that they are retired.
That leaves five in the field with an opportunity to take home the tour's top honor and — along with Suzann Pettersen — perhaps the No. 1 world ranking.
"I don't think it was one bad shot," Choi said. "I feel like I left some shots out there. Luckily, we're all so close and still have a chance."
Even some of the more seasoned pros couldn't believe the course bears Nicklaus' name.
are longer and thicker, and the greens are fast and slope a lot," Yang said. "I just tried to play safely."
This year's season-ending event doesn't have the usual script.
So far, none of them has seized the moment.
For the first time in a decade,
Lorena Ochoa and Annika
Sorenstam won't win player of
"He must have been having
AMY YANG South Korean golfer
"I just tried to make par every hole because the fairways, the rough are longer and thicker ..."
a very bad day," quipped Laura Davies, who shot an opening 70. "Someone went mental on the greens."
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The LPGA Tour Championship is applying the same format it used last season, cutting to the lowest 70 scores and ties after 36 holes and an additional cut after 54 holes to the lowest 30 players and ties. That makes the margin for error even slimmer.
much time to make a push.
The field doesn't have
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BIG 12 FOOTBALL
Cornhuskers and Cowboys have six each on All-Big 12 team
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IRVING, Texas — Nebraska and Oklahoma State dominated the All-Big 12 team released Thursday by The Associated Press with six players each.
Oklahoma State quarterback Brandon Weeden, receiver Justin Blackmon, running back Kendall Hunter and lineman Levy
For No. 10 Nebraska, lineman Jared Crick, linebacker Lavonte David and defensive backs Prince Amukamara and Eric Hagg were chosen from a defense that's fifth-best in the country, allowing 291.2 yards per game. The Cornhuskers have the nation's second-best defense against the pass.
Adcock were selected from an Oklahoma State offense that's averaging 537.6 yards per game, second-best in the country.
sen.
The Cornhuskers will face No. 13 Oklahoma in the conference championship Saturday night at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Crick and David were unanimous picks. Offensive line man Ricky Henry and kicker Alex Henery also were chosen from Nebraska,
Blackmon Hunter and Adcock were
unanimous selections. Blackmon leads the nation in receiving with 154.8 yards per game and Hunter is sixth in rushing at 126.3.
Weeden, a 27-year-old former minor-league baseball player, is second in the country in yards passing per game with 336.4. He's 16th in passer rating, tops in the conference.
The Cornhuskers will face No. 13 Oklahoma in the conference championship Saturday night at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Oklahoma tied Oklahoma State and No. 19 Texas A&M for the South title, and advanced on a tiebreaker based on the BCS standings.
Linebacker Orie Lemon and punter Quinn Sharp round out the honorees from No. 16 Oklahoma State. Lemon was unanimous; Sharp and Blackmon were the only sophomores cho-
The Sooners had four first-teamers — two on offense, two on defense.
the North division champions.
James' performance silences Cleveland
NBA
CLEVELAND — Suddenly, the boos were gone, the chants forgot. LeBron James took the ball hard to the basket on a fast break
Everyone was braced for Cleveland spilling hate at ' James and on the Heat on Thursday night. And they tried in the Heat's easy 118-90 win. Signs, Boos. Chants. A group of eight fans wearing T-shirts that spelled, "B-e-t-r-a-y e-d"
— how many times had that move started fireworks for these fans?
— and threw it down. And was fouled.
But now, as James sank the foul shot in what would be his 24-point third quarter, another, stranger noise came from these fans. One, if not of tribute, then of defeat.
As the night moved on, as the score tilted as much as 38 points in favor of the Heat, as the chants and boos faded to nothing by the end, the storyline changed from how excited Cleveland fans were to hate their lost hero to how well the Heat answered this big night.
How about that moment of
It sat there in the dead arena air, not moving, as the Heat celebrated their way to an easy victory.
silence Cleveland gave LeBron,
huh?
Cleveland couldn't score, couldn't rebound and certainly couldn't defend James (38 points through three quarters) or Dwyane Wade (22 points through three quartes).
The Cleveland fans? They slumped out into the winter air.
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS ATHLETICS
TODAY
FRIDAY
1.
体育
Swimming & Diving
Georgia Invitational
All Day
Athens, Ga.
Volleyball
NCAA First and Second
Rounds
TBA
Campus Sites
SATURDAY
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Women's Basketball SMU 2 p.m. Dallas, Texas
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Volleyball NCAA First and Second Rounds TBA Campus Sites
Swimming & Diving Georgia Invitational All day Athens, Ga.
Track & Field
Bob Timmons Challenge
All day
Lawrence
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1.
Swimming & Diving Georgia Invitational All day Athens, Ga.
TUESDAY
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Men's Basketball
Memphis
6 p.m.
Madison Square Garden,
New York
THURSDAY
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Michigan
6 p.m.
Ann Arbor, Mich.
体育
ROWING
Team announces four new members
Kansas rowing released the names of four new student-athletes yesterday. Erin Brogan, Angelica Flores, Andrea Joyce and Abbie Watson will all join the rowing program for the 2011-12 season, according to a press release.
"We are very excited to welcome these outstanding young women to the KU rowing team and the Jayhawk family," said coach Rob Catloth in the release. They will play a critical role in the future success of our program."
Brogan began her rowing career with the junior crew at Haddonfield Memorial High School in New Jersey. She played multiple sports and her size and strength she's 6-foot-1 should make her an asset on the team.
Flores is from Santiago Mexico. In high school, she competed as a member of the Mexican junior national team.
Joyce was a standout rower at Holland High School in Tulsa, Okla. She also played basketball.
Watson attended Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and participated for the past five years in the Atomic Rowing Club. With her strong fundamental rowing skills, she has the potential to be an immediate team factor.
— Lauren Newman
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2010
The men's and women's teams have been preparing all summer and fall for the first indoor meet on Saturday. It will be the debut for many freshmen and transfer students as Kansas athletes.
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A LITTLE LUCK
Revised call leads to last-second free throw
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Senior guard Mario Little is fouled as he shoots by UCLA guard Malcolm Lee with 0.7 seconds left in the second half and the game tied at 76.Little then went to the free throw line where he made one of two free throws, winning the game for Kansas 77-76.Little scored nine points and had eight rebounds, and the Jayhawks improved to 7-0 on the season.
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Kansas couldn't hit a free throw to save its life for 39 minutes and 59 seconds.
But a bizarre foul call with the game tied with 0.7 seconds left on the clock gave Mario Little a chance to send the sins from earlier in the game to the wayside.
Little knocked down the first before a timeout.
Miss the second and let the loose ball run the clock out. Exhale. At least, that was the plan for Kansas fans. Little wasn't even breathing hard, or so he said.
"Nah," Little said, when he was asked if nerves were an issue. "I wasn't playing real good, so I was just trying to do something out there. Maybe it was a state-of-mind thing. It was free throws. We've been practicing free throws all week."
sink the first one and let them deal with it" Little said.
"Certainly, if we made some free throws," Kansas coach Bill Self said, "it wouldn't have come down to the last possession."
It didn't show, as Kansas shot 53 percent from the line, and in turn gave the Bruins the ball with a chance to tie with 29 seconds left on the clock and the score 76-73 in the Jayhawks' favor. Lazeric Jones missed a free throw for the Bruins, but Tyrel Reed turned the ball over before the Jayhawks had a chance to put the game on ice.
It should have been overtime, but Malcolm Lee fouled Little on a loose ball for a chance to win the game.
"It was just a loose ball and I was going for it," Lee said. "I barely heard a whistle, but I looked at the ref and he signaled a foul and I was just shocked."
"Really, really a poor way to end a game," UCLA coach Ben Howland said. "Not a foul that's usually called."
The controversial call essentially gave the Jayhawks the win, and Lee and UCLA coach Ben Howland were understandably less than thrilled.
Lee made no secret of the fact that he was upset about the call.
of a tacky foul and then free throws at the end, that's kind of hard. You might as well lose by 30, because that's just crazy. But credit them,
did get fouled at the end," Self said
"But that was very fortunate."
"They outplayed us, that's evident. We were fortunate, and I havent seen the play yet but Mario said he
because I guess they played a better game."
that there was actually a foul.
"When you just lose a game off
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Self said he hadn't looked at the tapes yet, but was taking Little's word
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Kansas wins tournament, looks to next game
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Freshman guard Brooke Jelniker is fouled while bringing down a rebound Wednesday. Kansas outrebounded Maine 45 to 25 in the Jayhawk victory.
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"We were focused from the start right after the tournament and knew that we had to get in and play a good Maine team
The Jayhawks have not had many open days in the past week, with tournament games Friday, Saturday and Sunday and a game this Wednesday.
so we couldn't really worry about the tournament; we had to keep moving on," freshman guard Keena Mavs said.
Sophomore
f o r w a r d
Carolyn Davis
found this
schedule difficult
"It is tough," Davis said. "This past weekend was tough playing those three games. We were really tired, but we took care of ourselves."
"I think we work really well as a team and that can only get better as we play more games."
Senior forward Carolyn Davis was honored to be involved with the record-breaking night but knows how important it will be to keep moving forward.
"It is good to have a big win like this, but we cannot dwell on it," Davis said.
BROOKE JELNIKER Freshman guard
Kansas won the last game against Maine while setting a school record for scoring and getting the program's 700th victory.
Kansas will travel to Dallas and face Southern Methodist University on Saturday at 2 p.m. Henrickson noted that there are
excited on a Wednesday night that people wanted to come out and share that with us," coach Bonnie Henrickson said.
"We have played a lot of games in a short period of time. I was
some players on the SMU team who were recruited but not offered scholarships by Kansas which will make the game difficult as well.
"We talked in the locker room after the game about recognizing the hornet's nest you will walk into at SMU," Henrickson said. "All those kids are there to prove that they deserve to play in the Big 12."
While only eight players
Freshman guard Brooke Jelniker talked about how well the team works together and how they will improve.
"I think we work really well as a team and that can only get better as we play more games," Jelmiker said.
suited up for the game against Maine, all eight scored and played at least 20 minutes, giving the rotation more experience as it heads forward in the season.
Freshman guard Keena Mays talked about the biggest strength of the team right now being the play of the forwards.
"I would say our depth and our post players, they aren't like average post players, and they can get out and run," Mays said.
Mays also credited the other guards. Regarding the victory, Mays has high hopes for the continuing the season.
COMMENTARY
"I wanna go out and break it again." Mays said with a smile.
— Edited by Abby Davenport
Bruins fall to dominant Fieldhouse atmosphere
BYNICOLAS ROESLER
nroesler@kansan.com
There is a concrete feeling of nostalgia whenever the sky-blue-and-gold UCLA Bruins face the crimson-and-blue Kansas lavhawks.
Even for those who have only seen the last 20 years of the 52-year-old storied history between the schools, there always seems to be a battle when the two shades of blue clash. Example: last night.
Despite Kansas' long distance shooting finally touching nylon, the lack of rebounds and postgame passivity made the last-second finish worthy of a shoulder shrug to luck.
"We were very,very fortunate," coach Bill Self said after the game. "I think that they controlled the game and certainly outplayed us."
That groove was found down low with the Morris twins and a stick of dynamite named Thomas Robinson. But throughout Kansas' seven-game win streak this season, the long-range attack has never caught fire.
UCLA came into Allen Fieldhouse unranked, already having lost two games and facing a Jayhawk team that seemed to finally have found a groove in the Las Vegas tournament over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Playing a rival, who Kansas has seen five times in the NCAA National Tournament, proved the perfect time to hit more than 45 percent from three-point range. And that may have saved the game this time around for Kansas because there was virtually no support coming from the usually dominant Morris twins.
Of Reed's career high 17 points last night, fifteen of them came in the first half. Nine of those points came off of big threes to send daggers into the occasional momentum UCLA built with its consistent scoring.
Although Reed said after the game that his shot percentage this season hasn't bothered him because of his confidence in the shots eventually falling, his performance in last night's first half must've made him think more of its importance.
Self knew this was a lucky win, but it was a valuable lesson for his players.
"I think we learn a lot more by playing teams that are certainly capable of beating us." Self said.
"He carried us the first half," Self said of Reed.
Teams will beat Kansas if the offense has to rely on only its guards for over half of its points. The Kansas guards outscored the UCLA's guards by 29 points last night with a total of 50. Yet UCLA took the game down to the wire with the play of its big men.
In these historic games, which include two teams with incredible winning traditions, there is usually an x-factor. This time, it wasn't wearing a sky blue jersey or one with the classic, circuslike font of Kansas.
"The crowd won the game for us." Self said.
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PILLOWTALK
Score As by getting plenty of ZZZs
BY JUSTINE PATTON jpatton@kansan.com
Michelle Hansen, a senior from Victoria, said she planned to rely on two things to survive finals week: coffee and studying. In other words, sleep would not be a priority, as she is reserving only about four hours for sleep each night.
"That's all I'll have time for," Hansen said.
However, Jenny McKee, a health educator at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said sleep would be crucial during finals week if students wanted to reach their full potential. McKee said many students thought they were the most productive when they pull all-nighters to study. However, McKee
said research shows students who get more sleep typically get higher grades. Here's why: The human body commits most facts to memory when it's asleep, and that memory formation can only happen at a certain time of the sleep cycle. McKee said. Alternatively, if students don't get adequate amounts of sleep, they wouldn't be able to file facts away properly.
"If you get an inadequate amount of sleep, you might be able to remember something, but it might be difficult for your body to recall it quickly, or it might only remember part of the answer," McKee said.
What's more, McKee said an individual's mood is directly affected by sleep. If students get adequate sleep, which means about seven
hours, then they would feel energized and alert.
A bad mood, though, might do more damage than just make students seem grumpy. McKee said sour attitudes make it unlikely that students would be able to focus on anything, much less studying.
"When we're cranky, every molehill feels like a mountain, and every mountain seems like the Himalayas," McKee said. "It's best to meet basic needs first, and then it'll be easier to tackle those bigger things inch by inch rather than vard by vard."
Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said it takes only a few minutes of planning each day to avoid sleep deprivation. McKee suggested that students make a
manageable to do list at the beginning of each day. Then, at the end of the day, students could catch some uninterrupted z's without worrying about things they forgot to do.
Quinlan said she knows that some students find themselves unprepared during finals week and have no choice other than to pull all-nighters. For these people, she had some advice: Take 20-minute power naps.
"Even if you don't fall asleep in those 20 minutes, you still helped your body reenergize, and it will make a big difference," Quinlan said.
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Getting regular sleep during finals week is very important. By getting adequate sleep, a person is more energized, alert and communicates better. This can help students to get better results on tests.
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Surprise!
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Recording artist Jason Mraz performs an impromptu concert on the main floor of the Kansas Union on Friday night. Mraz contacted Student Union Activities on Thursday and told them to keep the visit a surprise. "This was just arranged yesterday," Mraz told the crowd. "Surprise! My managers even asked me if I was stopping anywhere, and I was like, 'nope.' Mraz said he wanted word of mouth to be the only advertising to let students know of his performance. Even so, nearly 100 students showed up to see him perform."
ATHLETICS
Rumors, but no announcement, about new AD
BY STEPHEN
MONTEMAYOR
smontemayor@kansan.com
The leader of Kansas' athletics director search committee said Sunday he had "no idea" whether University of Tulsa athletic director Bubba Cunningham was in Lawrence as speculated.
Ray Evans, who leads the
10-person committee, said the committee is closer to making a selection but is still unsure on when that announcement will occur.
One of those candidates is said to be Cunningham, who was thought to have been en route to Lawrence on Thursday, but a
"A lot of this isn't just our time line but who we're talking to," Evans said.
didates, has pared the field down to about three. Evans said the committee is at a sensitive point in its search and cannot disclose much, and said any speculation on how many candidates remain or who they are would still be a guess.
plane from Tulsa actually carried fans attending the night's men's basketball game against UCLA.
SportsByBrooks.com, a national sports blog, tweeted Saturday that Cunningham was in Lawrence with his family. "Likely his call if he wants the job," the tweet continued. Evans said it would be fair to guess that the committee, once said to have met or talked with several dozen can-
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CAMPUS | 3A
Jewish community celebrates
The Chabad Jewish Center gathered in South Park Sunday night to light a nine-foot menorah in celebration of Hanukkah. The annual holiday celebrates people's right to practice their religion of choice.
Journalists from all over the world streamed in live on Skype on Saturday with associate professor Simran Sethi's Diversity in the Media class to discuss media-related topics.
Diversity class hosts summit
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL | 10A
Road game against SMU ends in 73-65 win for Kansas
MEDIA | 6A
The Jayhawks are 8-0 and one step closer to their goal of being undefeated in non-conference play. After last game's record-breaking high score, SMU was was more of a challenge.
TECHNOLOGY
Additional funding will help initiatives to improve Internet
Students complained about login queues lasting up to 15 minutes throughout the fall semester. IT implemented minor changes to base images about a month ago. A computer's base image runs its operating system and applications.
Despite the improvements, students most likely didn't notice faster login times, said Ann Ermey, director of service management and delivery at IT Services. She said IT couldn't do more during the semester without being too intrusive.
IT officials to fix wireless and login problems
Students can expect to see computer login times faster by about three and a half minutes on campus libraries after winter break, information technology officials said.
Ermey said IT would continue working on base images during winter break. She said technicians would replace Windows XP with Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system released last October, on every computer in Anschutz and Watson libraries.
IT will also upgrade wireless Internet in Anschutz during winter break as part the Learning Studio project. Ermey said IT was still on schedule to have those improvements completed before classes started on Jan. 21. The upgrades would improve wireless access throughout the libraries.
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Smith also said he met with IT and University officials about creating an IT student advisory board next semester. The board would help decide how to spend money raised by a $10 per credit hour technology fee implemented this semester.
The additional money would be used to further improve wireless access in Anschutz, said Student Body President Michael Wade Smith. He said those improvements would be completed during winter break in addition to the ones scheduled as part of the Learning Studio project.
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Goddard said the fee was originally collected to pay back the Provost Office for half its initial investment in wireless improvement projects. The Provost Office initially spent $2 million on the projects.
"Wireless technology has evolved tremendously since the original infrastructure has been in place," Goddard said in an e-mail. "This additional allocation will simply allow us to move forward more quickly with the end result being very positive."
The Provost Office will allocate $868,152 to help fund additional wireless Internet projects on campus, said Diane Goddard, vice provost for administration and finance and interim chief information officer. That money was raised as part of a $5 wireless fee paid for by students each semester since fall 2006. The fee is set to raise $1 million before it expires in 2011.
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There will be an informational session about the Peace Corps from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
- The KU School of Music will present a Percussion Ensemble from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall at Murphy Hall.
TUESDAY
December 7
December 7
■ Ellie Wood makes her way to Lawrence as the popular "Legally Blonde" film moves to the stage at the Lied Center. The show is from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Student tickets range from $21 to $24, available by calling 785-864-2787.
WEDNESDAY December 8
FRIDAY
The Department of Visual Arts clubs will be holding a holiday art sale from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
The Chancellor's holiday reception will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Adams Alumni Center.
December 10
Stop Day — no classes.
SATURDAY
December 11
The School of Engineering is having its recognition for the fall 2010 engineering graduates in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
THURSDAY
December 9
Student Union Activities will host a late-night winter bash from 9 p.m. to midnight in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
SUNDAY December 12
KU School of Music Bassoon Studio Recital at Sawarthout Recruit Hall in Murphy Hall.
- Student Union Activities hosts Late Night Breakfast at Mrs. E's from 10 p.m. to midnight.
ODD NEWS
Secret Santas give $100 to strangers
"Secret Santas" are roaming the streets of North Carolina, handing out $100 handshakes.
The Charlotte Observer reported that crew of donors, who insist on anonymity, handed out the C-notes Friday to anyone who looked like they could use it.
Felicia Adams was handed $100 while she was working at a Goodwill outlet store. She said the money will help her get to
New York to visit her father who is dying of cancer.
The donors take thousands of dollars from their own bank accounts to hand out. It's the fourth year the random acts of kindness have been done in Charlotte. This year, a half-dozen volunteers from the Charlotte police and fire departments tagged along, guiding the group through the city and suggesting people they could help.
Associated Press
ODD NEWS
Two teens steal 17 calves for farm
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Two teenage boys from central Minnesota are accused of stealing at least 17 calves to start their own dairy farm.
Authorities this week arrested a 19-year-old from Rothsay and a 16-year-old from Barnesville.
Stearns County Sheriff John Sanner says deputies received a tip that led them to 17 calves and eventually the teens. The calves are believed to have been
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Investigators say the teens told them they wanted to start their own dairy farm. They say the teens planned to keep the heifers and sell the bulls, splitting the profits.
The calves have been returned to their owners. The case is being forwarded to prosecutors for possible theft and burglary charges.
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LINCOLN, Mont. — A 1.4-acre parcel of land in western Montana that was once owned by Unabomber Ted Kaczynski is on the market for $69,500.
The listing — by John Pistelak Realty of Lincoln — offers potential buyers a chance to own a piece of "infamous U.S. history."
"This is a one of a kind property and is obviously very secluded," the listing says. It doesn't say who owns the property.
Kaczynski is serving a life sentence for killing three people and injuring 23 during a nationwide bombing spree between 1978 and 1995. The Harvard-trained mathematician railed against the effects of advanced technology and led authorities on the nation's longest and costliest manhunt before his brother tipped off law enforcement in 1996.
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Last night, members of the Chabad Jewish Center and the Lawrence community braved the cold temperatures to gather together in South Park and light a giant nine-foot balloon menorah.
The event marked the fifth day of Hanukkah, an eight-day holiday dedicated to the miracle of a single jar of pure oil that kept a menorah lit for eight days amidst the Ancient Greeks' religious persecution of the Jewish community.
"The message of Hanukkah is that every person has the freedom to express their religion," said Tiechtel. "No one can take that away."
Last night's celebration wrapped up a week filled with events that included a menorah lighting at the Kansas Union, Naismith Hall and even at the Plaza in Kansas City, Mo. The occasion included a crafts table and balloon man for kids, traditional Hanukkah foods like potato latkes and donuts and featured a special performance by members of the KU Marching Band.
"It was a great event," said Kim Davidson, a junior from Austin, Texas, and member of the University's marching band. "Everyone was participating and it was nice to see so many people active in their faith."
The event was so popular that some people came from outside of the city limits to participate.
"It's a good opportunity to meet other people in the Jewish community," said David Gerstmann, a Eudora resident. "My family and I have been coming for four or five years now and it's just a fun way to celebrate the holiday."
Some Lawrence residents attended yesterday's event for the opportunity to learn more about the Jewish faith.
"Rabbi Zalman came into my store the other day and was talking about the event," said Cindy Broackersturm who brought her two young daughters Daphne and Sophia to the event. "I feel like sometimes Hanukkah gets overshadowed by Christmas and it seemed like a neat opportunity to experience."
Students interested in getting involved in the Chabad Center can attend its watch party of the Kansas men's basketball game against Memphis this Tuesday at 6 p.m.
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A nine-foot menorah constructed of crimson and blue balloons lights up the darkness Sunday night celebrating the ending of Chabad Center's week-long Hanukkah celebration. The celebration included balloon making, speeches from city officials, and live music from the KU band. Food and hot cider was provided for meals as well as crafts for the children.
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They're found in dumpsters, ditches and on the side of the road. Cold, hungry and barely alive, hundreds of animals flood the Lawrence Humane Society at the end of each semester, as students move on and leave their pets behind.
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"Students come in here highly emotional," Kemberling said. "And then once they make the rounds, see all the animals, they've got those deer-in-headlight eyes. They often want to take home a pet without thinking if it's the right decision."
Grinstead said the people who most often return pets to the shelter are female freshman students who have adopted a dog.
"All of a sudden, they're on their own for the first time," Grinstead said. "They have this attitude like,' I
As winter break approaches, students prepare to move to different apartments or to move out of Lawrence. If the new apartment doesn't take pets, or if it demands a large pet deposit, students will often drop off their pets at the humane society or simply leave them to ford for themselves, said Midge Grinstead, executive director of the Lawrence Humane Society.
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Kemberling said many people give up their animals because they are unprepared for the demands of a pet. Others, mostly longtime Lawrence residents, are just "cruel people," she said.
"While we see more abandoned pets coming in at the end of the spring semester, it affects us more when we see pets in dumpsters during the holidays, because it's supposed to mean something," Grinstead said.
Grinstead said the humane society can hold up to 1,200 animals, but when that happens, "it's ready to burst." Usually the humane society has 600 animals. Of course, this number increases by the hundreds as students leave for winter and summer breaks — one summer day in particular the shelter took in 287 animals.
Humane society employee Ramona Kemberling remembered a cat that was brought to the shelter in the winter a few years ago. The woman who brought the cat said shed been driving behind a man who threw the cat out of his moving truck into a ditch.
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Eliza Gale, a senior from Leawood, said owning a pet is a lot of work. She adopted her cat, Winston, the summer before her sophomore year. She said pet ownership is not for people who aren't home a lot.
"When I have a long night of studying and I'm out of the house I just feel terrible." Gale said.
Winston sits by the faucet and waits for Gale to turn it on when he wants a drink of water. When Gale isn't at home, she worries that Winston isn't getting enough to drink.
"He absolutely will not drink out of a bowl." Gale said.
Gale said she feels that she has enough time to take care of Winston, but that a dog would be too much. At home in Leawood, Gale's parents have a Rottweiler puppy. Although Gale has considered adopting a dog for her home in Lawrence, she realized she does not have the time to care for one.
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Grinstead said students often lie, or they give a friend's phone number instead of the real building owner's number.
Gale said she and her roommates saw a dog walking around their neighborhood recently. They called and texted the owners for hours with no response.
Fifty to 60 percent of students who apply for adoption are turned down, Grinstead said. Even so, too many students who shouldn't own pets do.
Gale and Grinstead agree that it's extremely important to have the funds to support a pet before adopting. Grinstead said it would probably cost $30 to $50 a month just
"College students can be very irresponsible," Gale said. "Some people just don't care."
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He says so, quite plainly, in Sunday's premiere episode of A&E's "The Hasselholffs". He's speaking to his daughter Hayley, who is just about to get her big break as pretty girl Amber on ABC Family's "Huge". But as he spends much of the rest of the episode trying to persuade his younger daughter, Taylor-Ann, to stay in school "for at least a year or two" instead of pursuing a career in a rock band, a certain moral balance is achieved.
show, there is also none for it, save perhaps inevitability. The Hoff's recent renaissance began ignominiously three years ago with a much-circulated video of him drunkenly attempting to eat a cheeseburger while Taylor-Ann, who was filming it, pleaded with him to stop drinking so he wouldn't lose his job. Although played for laughs on YouTube, it is one of the more heart-rending bits of video available and led, mercifully, to Hasselhoff's sobriety and, less mercifully, to a much-touched roast on Comedy Central as well as a just-ended gig with "Dancing With the Stars."
and strangely empty houses that people with Hollywood money are encouraged to buy. His hair is the golden brown of his youth, his face has many areas of taut immobility and he walks with the stiffly correct posture of a man who has spent at least 10 years holding his gut in.
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Which of course raises the question — just exactly how good has it been to him? Hasselhoff lives in one of those enormous
Given the limits of his talents, reality was his only option. And Hasselhoff does have that air of self-mockery going for him. He struts and preens but with an air of self-infulent irony that can be endearing. If only the actual action in "The Hasselhoffs" weren't so stagy, that tension between delusion and self-awareness might be interesting. Instead, we are treated to many conversations about the girls devoting themselves to their band and Hasselhoff addressing, for reasons that remain Absolutely Unclear, a psychology class at the University of Arizona in which he addresses the cheeseburger video
Indeed, the only moment worth watching in the whole pilot is when Hasselhoff and Taylor-Ann discuss the video. For one brief moment, the show becomes less about the banal vagaries of fame and touches on the pain of the alcoholic family. But soon we're back in the big shiny house talking about showbiz. Again.
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When Jason Mraz left St. Louis, he had to find some place to stop and jam a little. Lawrence seemed like a nice place because he hadn't been there in a while. He came in with a guitar and microphone then gave a light-hearted jam session that surprised everyone.
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And like in his songs and his causes, there was a lesson in this: Spontaneity is a magical thing.
"Today, I just wanted to share some insights and celebrate the moment," he said after the show.
As much as we like to think that life is a complicated mess, it really isn't. Mraz preaches and exemplifies what is tattooed on his right arm, "Be Love." As he put it, it's about choosing kindness instead of doing what's right.
We all put a cap on what the term "love" is and what conditions are needed to fulfill it. Instead of trying to find the source, be the source. Unconditional and free.
Mraz didn't have to come to campus. But he followed through with that mantra of "being love" and now a couple hundred or so students know what kind of joy that can bring.
No artist has had a greater influence on me than Jason Mraz. It was maybe three years ago he became my top one or two favorite
BY COREY THIBODEAUX cthibodeaux@kansan.com
In his dialogue between songs at the Union, he showed there's so much to be grateful for and so many ways to express it.
Mraz was fascinated by the Bedazzler on campus. Hardly
This wasn't a paying gig for Mraz, it wasn't advertised and it wasn't in a huge arena. But it didn't matter. That wasn't the point of all this.
anyone knows what that is,but it's the tree-branch-looking house just a little ways down from the Union. We pass by it all the time, but do we really take the time to appreciate it?
If you are in any kind or relationship, don't put a limit on it. Only like blondes? You've already eliminated millions of potential suitors. In fact, put that no-limit policy on everything you do. Dive in with the highest expectations for all you do.
Mraz's performance Friday night was a small little miracle that will mostly go unnoticed in most media outlets. I hope those who got to see it are truly grateful for that splendid treat.
And share some gratitude with some one else while you're at it.
Call a grandma you haven't spoken to in a while and wish her happy holidays. High-five passers-by when you jog. Weed out any worry you have, because "worry" is just a mindset you crafted yourself.
"It was about let's just have a happening," he said. "Let's just do it."
Thibodeaux is The Kansan's sports editor and a senior from Overland Park in journalism.
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Wikileaks' revelations dangerous to United States' interests, foreign policy
Julian Assange, the editor of WikiLeaks, has irrevocably changed the course of international affairs for the rest of our lifetimes, if not for generations to come and not for the better. Recently, the New York Times, along with four other international news outlets, published details of leaked U.S. government documents obtained by the WikiLeaks website from U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning—currently under court-martial —in a highly publicized issue of transparency in government. Among the nearly 260,000 released documents are several thousand classified and secret U.S. diplomatic cables with messages written with surprising proximity to international power and inside information.
While greater transparency would be beneficial for the health of our democracy, this objective must be accomplished through traditional investigative journalism
— not through an extreme, illegal, unassigned release of classified documents. There are very good reasons why some of these diplomatic communications were classified. Revealing their contents for everyday Americans — and, more significantly, everybody in the world with a computer and an Internet connection — is far from the national interest. The release of such documents will endanger our precious relationships with our allies, inhibit our efforts in the war on terrorism, and further alienate our enemies.
notifying the corrupt Afghan officials that we are aware of their duplicity, we risk jeopardizing our entire relationship with them and sacrifice years of invested effort. By demonstrating our desire to incentivize nations into taking on Guantanamo detainees in exchange for aid or diplomacy, we risk being labeled hypocritical. The list goes on and on, spanning nearly every ally and enemy of our nation, on every continent save Antarctica, from 1966 to 2008. Such methods are better left to be practiced under the table, absent from the public sphere.
Specifically, this leak might alienate our fellow nations when the leaked diplomatic cablediscuss the U.S. suspicions of corruption in the Afghan government and the bargaining to empty the Guantanamo Bay prison. By
The New York Times justified its decision to publish the documents online by arguing that Americans have the right to "know what is being done in their name." This argument, simply put, cannot possibly be universalized. Americans do have a right to know what their government is doing
that they go to be a being — but only to a certain extent. Once we elect our representatives, we are entrusting them to act in accordance with the oath they swear, and to do what they believe is best for the nation. Because each of us cannot directly make decisions for our country of over 330 million people, we delegate this responsibility to the trustees we elect to the Congress and the White House, and by extension to the bureaucrats and diplomats in the executive branch and specifically the Foreign Service. Their judgment, while certainly flawed at many times in our nation's history, must prevail at this critical juncture for U.S. foreign policy – for these cables are forever in the public realm, no matter how dire the consequences. The New York Times should not have taken part in the distribution of these
cables, and the foreign publications that collaborated with WikiLeaks — Germany's Der Spiegel, Spain's El Pais, France's Le Monde, and the UK's Guardian - should be aware that they are engaging in a tactless assault against American diplomatic sovereignty.
transparency has its place, and open government is a great thing for the citizenry of our democratic republic — but all of this ends when national security is threatened. When we sacrifice our national security or knowingly give up much of our diplomatic power for the sake of transparency, we have crossed the line. At a time when the Obama Administration is rebuilding America's global image, we simply can't afford to waste any of our international political capital. President Obama's political capital is already quickly declining on the domestic front, and now, in the name of transparency, it is plummeting in the foreign policy arena as well. Thus, Pfc. Manning is right to be court-martialed for his disloyal and seditious behavior. Julian Assange's actions and decision to distribute these leaked cables have grave consequences for the national security and the future well being of our nation. Though an Australian national with unknown whereabouts, we must attempt to find him and extradite him for prosecution – and hopefully our allies will assist us in this endeavor, understanding that America's internal diplomatic matters have no place on the world stage. For our country's sake, let's hope we can address these concerns before the clock runs out.
— From UWIRE, Rajiv Tarigopula for The Harvard Political Review at Harvard University
HEALTH
Fluoride in water supply presents harmful effects
Somebody's poisoned the waterhole," as Woody would say.
Proponent(s) (including the Center for Disease Control, CDC, and the American Dental Association, ADA) argue that adding fluoride into the water supply will decrease tooth decay by up to 40 percent. The ADA claims to have the support of "the overwhelming weight of peer-reviewed, credible scientific evidence." This however, can be a deceiving statement.
Fluoride is a known poison, used in pesticides, rat poison and nuclear weapons, yet many U.S. cities, including Lawrence, add fluoride into the city's water supply.
It's true that a majority of studies have shown fluoride to be beneficial when applied topically, however, swallowing fluoride can have serious health repercussions.
According to Paul Connett, a chemistry professor at St. Lawrence University, in New York, fluoridated toothpaste is required to include a warning stating, "If your child swallows more than the recommended amount, contact a poison control center." According to Dr. Connett, the recommended amount is a pea-sized glob of fluoridated toothpaste equivalent to one glass of fluoridated water.
The discrepancy is because the FDA doesn't currently regulate drinking water, whereas it does toothpaste.
Fluoride toxicity can cause a vast array of health problems, according to the Fluoride Action Network, FAN (a nonprofit international organization made up of scientists, doctors and citizens against the fluoridation of public water). The effects don't come over night, but rather are due to long term ingestion of too much fluoride (e.g., fluoride in drinking water). Problems can range from joint pain and gastrointestinal symptoms to thyroid disease and cancer.
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There is one thing that both sides can agree upon: Fluoridated tap water should not be used to mix infant formula, as fluoride is extremely dangerous for infants and toddlers. According to FAN, only 200 mg (less than a teaspoon) can (and has) kill a baby.
There are far safer methods to prevent tooth decay than fluoridating the public water supply. If an individual wants to use fluoride he or she can use fluoridated toothpaste, for example. It isn't ethical to force a person to consume fluoride against his or her will; those against fluoride shouldn't have to spend additional money to try to remove fluoride from water that their tax dollars are paying for. No doctor would (or could) force an individual to take a medication against his or her*will, but that's exactly what's being done with fluoride.
Bregman is a sophomore from Lindsborg in journalism and international studies.
Proponents argue that dental fluorosis is a "cosmetic effect," but these symptoms are mimicking tooth decay — the very thing fluoride is meant to prevent!
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Local bars account for lesser alcohol sales
BY NICOLAS ROESLER
nroesler@kansan.com
It used to be that Britt McKeever, a bartender at The Bottleneck, the Grenada and Crossroads in Kansas City, Mo., could work three nights a week and make around $800.
Not anymore. Now he works four or five nights to make $600.
The tough economy has affected not just the consumers of alcohol, but also the people who sell it. According to a study by research and consulting firm Technomic, bars and restaurants have been selling less and less alcohol for the last three years. The forecast for alcohol sales for 2010 at on-premise drinking locations like bars was that 2.5 percent less alcohol would be bought.
Not only have McKeever's tips gone down, but his nightly sales reports are decreasing too. He said that people used to average spending around $10 on drinks per night. Now the average is between six and seven dollars, he said.
Andrew Wallace (far right) and Todd Stuke (center), Lawrence residents, watch Sunday Night Football and enjoy a drink at Louise's, 1009 Massachusetts St. Lawrence bars like Louise's have had to adjust for a decrease in alcohol sales during the last three years.
"Being a student, you know where the deals are," Coder said. "That's what you base your nightly
Some students have also become a breed of "special-chasers" said McKeever. It doesn't matter what bar they're going to — these students just follow around the cheap drink specials. James Coder, a senior from Topeka is one of these students.
decisions on."
"People are not as inclined to start buying their friends shots," McKeever said. "They all buy their own shots."
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McKeever couldn't comment about the profits or losses the bars he works at are seeing, but he said the economy has had a big effect on everything and sometimes specials don't make a difference. Some bars have felt the effects worse than others.
Rob Farha, owner of The Wheel,
507 W. 14th St., said his sales have
declined 20 to 25 percent this year.
"It's just a sign of the overall economy," Farha said. "These students get money from their parents and their parents are cutting back and not sending that soft dollar just to go out all the time."
He said his bar is hard to compare to national bars because of its specific clientele of college students and alumni. As the owner for 14 years, Farha said the bar usually goes through three-year cycles, and this is the low third year. He said his best year by far was the 2007-2008 school year. He attributes that to the success of the Kansas football and basketball teams that year.
Farha said people don't notice the small stresses the tough economy puts on a bar. The small plastic cups that get filled with the daily special of beer have gone up in price from one cent each to seven.
"As a customer, you're just looking at what you're paying for," Farha said. "But you got rent, taxes, property tax. All those things on the outside people don't see keep going up and up and up."
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He said he has not changed anything as far as pricing goes to adjust for his losses. He doesn't think adding more specials on drinks will draw more people to his bar.
Some bars have added specials to bring more costumers in on specific nights throughout the week. The Barrel House, which opened in April 2009, has broken the national trend in its first two years."Because we're a different kind of bar, we keep seeing increases," said Emily Akers, a 2009 KU graduate and coowner of The Barrel House.
She said her bar has had to get used to what she calls the cycles of people that visit and leave her bar. She said many students go to one bar for a short time, then move on to another to meet their friends. This means that they spend less time at her bar and spend less money — but the constant influx of different cycles throughout the night make up for it. Sometimes, charging a cover is the way to do that.
But charging an entrance fee can also turn away costumers, Akers said, so she tries to limit the nights the bar has a cover charge.
Kayla Nelson, a senior from Olathe, said she often won't go to a bar if it has any cover.
"If there are a bunch of bars that my friends and I want to go to, but they all have covers, we'll either just go to one and spend most of the night there, or think of other options without covers," Nelson said.
The recent success of The Barrel House has also been matched by one of the oldest mainstays on Massachusetts Street, the Red Lyon Tavern, which does not charge a
cover any night.
Trina Baker, a manager at the Red Lyon Tavern, said the bar has seen a constant profit over the last three years. And like The Wheel, they have not made up specials to bring in bigger crowds.
"People want to come here because they want to come here, not because we have $2 Bud Light bottles," said Baker, who has worked at the Tavern for 16 years.
noticed a slight dwindling of the tips filling their tip jars. She said people have been more frugal in the last five years with their money than in years past.
Baker, similar to McKeever, has
Whatever the formula is for bars and restaurants to make it through the country's recession, the Technomic report expects an improvement in alcohol sales. It expects alcohol sold in bars, restaurants and other on-premise establishments to grow by 1.1 percent
in 2011. The report said that it will take two to three years to bring the amount of alcohol sales back to a relative normal.
as a roller-coaster ride," Farha said about the fluctuations in his sales. "You get some good years, you get some bad years. I'm hoping this has just been one of our two down years."
— Edited by Roshni Oommen
LOCAL
Professor teaches inmates poetry
BY KELLY MORGAN kmorgan@kansan.com
In a place where time is the enemy and the word freedom is synonymous with a release date, assistant professor Brian Daldorph wants to make a difference.
Every Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m., Daldorph leaves the University of Kansas' campus and takes the 15-minute drive over to the Douglas County Correctional Facility where he teaches a poetry class to the jail's male inmates.
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On Thursday, the class consisted of nine inmates but has had as many as 22. Wearing uniforms of bright orange pants, dark grey t-shirts and black sneakers
every single one of them walked into the room with a red, identification band wrapped around their left wrists.
"They're in here for a variety of reasons." Daldorph said. "A lot of small crimes that are drug-related or that deal with substance abuse and mental health."
The rules for the class are simple. The poems that the inmates write cannot: snitch on a fellow inmate, complain about the jail's policies, contain any hard or soft-core porn and cannot describe a violent scenario. Profanity is acceptable but only if it's important to the story.
"We've had three fights break out in the course of the class' 11 years," said Mike Carron, the Programs Director of the Douglas County Correctional Facility. "A lot of times it's because someone tattled on another person through their writings and that eventually led to a confrontation after class."
Despite these three fights, the class has found great success in the prison.
"Going to the class gets my feelings on paper and out of me," said one of the inmates. "It's a good way to express stress."
The course was not initially intended to be a poetry class. When it was first formed by associate professor Anna Neill and then-KU professor Kirk Branch, the purpose of the course was to help inmates acquire their GEDs. However, when it became apparent that the inmates were not interested in the course, Branch and Neill shifted their focus to poetry and creative writing.
"It sort of evolved into the class it is today," Neill said. "Many of the students connected various conventions of their lives to relevant readings we introduced them to and found some peace through writing."
Under the instruction of Daldorph since he substituted for class nine years ago, the group always begins by reading poems written during the previous class. On Thursday, these poems consisted of many topics, ranging from a sub sandwich to
feelings on love and betrayal.
"To some extent just being in jail, you do have to be real with yourself," Daldorph said. "People in here are really trying to understand who they are."
While writing down their feelings can be therapeutic for the inmates, it doesn't necessarily make them law-abiding citizens.
"I don't think there is a kind of arrow that points from self expression to reform." Neill said. "It's just a way of allowing reflection upon circumstances and arriving at a different place.
Carron echoes Neill's statement and adds that for some of the inmates, Daldorph's class is the first time they're getting positive recognition for any work.
"It can help to boost their selfesteem and give them credit for creating something of value," Carron said.
Recently, Daldorph and Carron chose to collect some of these poems and created an anthology entitled Douglas County Jail Blues. The anthology features the poetry and drawings of more than 20 inmates and is being sold at the Raven Bookstore for $10.
One of the guys told me when we were walking back that he had told his mother that his poems were going to be published," Daldorph said. "Nothing like this has ever happened for him and it was a very proud moment for him."
MEDIA
Diversity class hosts digital summit
BY SAMANTHA COLLINS
collins@samanthacollins.com
scollins@kansan.com
Journalists from around the world visited the University on Saturday - without evensetting foot in Kansas.
The journalists, along with about 200 others who streamed in to watch, used Skype to enter room 100 in Stauffer-Flint Hall on Saturday to participate in "Telling Stories of Diversity in the Digital Age", the first digital diversity summit held at the University. The summit was hosted by the Diversity in the Media class, which is taught by associate professor Simran Sethi.
Sethi said multicultural communities use social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and even blogs, at higher numbers compared to Caucasians. She said this was because although many underprivileged people don't have access to a desktop computer or laptop, they use their phones to access social media. This idea, she said, planted the seed from which the digital summit grew.
"And the students just went with it." Sethi said.
The summit focused on four main topics that looked at various aspects of American communities and its relation with social media, women in the media, the
rote of social media in a global context and how new social technology helps the disabled communicate. It was the students' responsibility to organize the discussion and unite both journalists and non-journalists to tell their stories on various social groups using social media. Nick Valencia, CNN reporter, and Vicky Lu, a University journalism school graduate, were two of the more well-known guest speakers.
"It gives them a voice," Siegle said. "It's as simple as that."
playing field in the United States and anyone could make a blog or create a Facebook.
"I didn't want talking heads," Sethi said. "I wanted them to make the invisible visible."
Throughout the semester, it was the students' job to learn how to give a voice to all communities. Siegele said most multicultural groups are underrepresented in the media. She said journalists often have a general idea of what the world consists of and
Lindsay Siegey, a graduate student from Lansing. Mich., helped organized the
Journalists from around the world streamed in via Skype to discuss four main topics that related to diversity in the media.
discussion focused on women in the new media. She said contacting the speakers was the biggest struggle. The group contacted about 15 people, and out of those, four people participated in the summit. She said it was important for all the speakers to have a common thread, which, for them, was new media. She said women have a strong voice in new media such as blogs. She said social media provides a level
they overlook most minority groups.
Aaron Cornett, a graduate student from Lansing, said people often didn't realize that minority people were voiceless in
the media. He said the summit showed that there was an unlimited amount of unheard voices out there that social media and technology can unveil.
"It can be a very powerful thing;" Cornett said.
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Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Tamba Hali recovers a fumble after sacking Denver Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton during the fourth quarter Sunday in Kansas City, Mo. The Chiefs won the game 10-6.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chiefs coach Todd Haley shook hands and embraced Broncos coach Josh McDaniels after this game.
Three weeks after refusing to shake hands with McDaniels and then saying he was sorry for the snub, Haley and Kansas City survived a series of blunders and emerged with a 10-6 victory on Sunday.
Haley even gave the beleaguered McDaniels an affectionate pat on the head before heading for the locker room with a 6-0 home record to stay in first place in the
AFC West.
Jamaal Charles rushed for 116 yards and Matt Cassel threw a 3-yard pass to Leonard Pope for the only touchdown for the Chiefs (8-4).
Knowshon Moreno rushed for 161 yards for the Broncos (3-9), who are enduring one of their worst stretches in decades, losing 17 of their past 22 games under McDaniels.
Dwayne Bowe, who had caught a touchdown pass in a team-record seven straight games, was held without a catch by Denver cornerback Champ Bailey.
Bowe came in leading the NFL with 14 touchdown catches and
Matt Prater's 25-yard field goal made it 7-3 before Caledar led KC
had 49 catches for 733 yards and 13 TDs in his past seven games. He caught one ball, but was out of bounds. Then he made what would have been a first-down catch only to draw a penalty for pushing off on Bailey.
The Broncos, with one of the league's poorest rushing games, had only 12 yards on the ground in the first quarter but finally started creating holes for Moreno in the second. Moreno had gains of 13, 10 and 8 yards on successive carries. Then on third-and-12 from the Denver 40, Kyle Orton threw to Eric Decker for 28 yards.
44 yards in eight plays in the final seconds of the half to set up Ryan Succup's 47-vard field goal.
Cassel, after missing his first three passes, was 4 for 4 in an 11-play drive in the first quarter that spanned 70 yards and was ended by his 3-yard TD pass to a wide open Pope in the end zone.
Thomas Jones set up the touchdown by taking a pass in the right flat and weaving 20 yards to the 5.
The Chiefs hurt themselves with a series of blunders in a scoreless, zany third quarter.
First, an illegal formation penalty negated Charles' 2-yard touchdown run.
Two plays later on third-and
goal from the 2, lineman Barry Richardson was called for a false start and became infuriated when he was pulled from the field.
On the next down, he started to run back toward the huddle but was followed onto the field by special teams coach Steve Hoffman and told to come back to the bench. Richardson then turned around and started back, but put his hand on Hoffman's chest and shoved him roughly.
The Chiefs failed to score on the drive when Mario Haggan sacked Cassel for a big loss on fourth down.
On their next possession, a holding call on Terrance W copper wiped
out Dexter McCluster's 57-yard run. Then the Broncos appeared to recover a fumble by Cassel and returned it almost to the end zone but the Chiefs caught a huge break when Cassel was called for intentional grounding, giving them a chance to punt.
McCluster's fumble was followed by Moreno's 23-yard run in the fourth quarter, setting up Prater's 41-yard field goal
Orton, who came in leading the NFL in yards passing, was 9 for 28 for 117 yards. Cassel was 17 for 31 for 196 yards.
NFL
Manning throws four INTs in loss
INDIANAPOLIS — Peyton Manning keeps making mistakes and the Indianapolis Colts just keep losing.
On Sunday, Manning had two of his four interceptions returned for touchdowns and the last one set up David Buehler's 38-yard field goal in overtime to give Dallas a 38-35 victory at Indianapolis.
It's the third straight loss for the Colts (6-6), and it dropped Indianapolis out of the AFC South lead.
Manning has thrown 11 interceptions in those games — a career high for any three-week period in his 13-year career — and had four of those returned for scores. Reggie Wayne finished with 14 catches for 200 yards and a touchdown.
But it was Manning's last interception that proved the most costly.
When the four-time league MVP tried to hook up with Jacob Tamme on a third-and-1 play, Mike Jenkins got his left hand on the ball and tipped it to linebacker Sean Lee, who grabbed his second pick of the day and ran it back 13 yards to the Indy 36.
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Jones-Drew carries Jaquars in win
Maurice Jones-Drew ran for 186 yards to topple Tennessee
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Jacksonville Jaguars are hoping to run their way to an AFC South title.
Maurice Jones-Drew turned in the NFL's second-best rushing effort of the season with 186 yards on 31 carries, and Rashad Jennings and quarterback David Garrard
each ran for a touchdown in the Jaguars' 17-6 victory over the Tennessee Titans on Sunday.
Houston's Arian Foster has the top rushing game this season with 231 points.
ground from the start on a cold, windy day. They scored on their opening drive by running through and over the Titans to split the season series. Jennings scored on an 11-yard run to cap the 12-play, 77-yard drive.
Tennessee (5-7) started veteran Kerry Collins at quarterback, but the Titans were unable to avoid their fifth straight loss. The Titans have now gone 13 quarters without an offensive touchdown.
The win allowed the Jaguars (7-5) to take over first place in the AFC South, a game ahead of the Colts...
Indianapolis on Sept. 12.
Jacksonville held the ball for more than 21 minutes in the first half and scored the first 17 points.
The win allowed the Jaguars (7-5) to take over first-place in the AFC South, a game ahead of the Colts, who lost later Sunday.
The Jaguars took control on the
The Jaguars have a tough schedule ahead, with their final divi
Against the Titans, the Jaguars out-gained Chris Johnson and the Titans 258-57 on the
sional games on the road a g a i n s t Indianapolis and Houston.
The Titans had three AFC South opponents lined up at home, and a win would have helped their playoff chances. But their best scoring
ground, and intercepted Collins twice with one sack.
threats ended when Randy Moss couldn't pull in a low throw near the goal line, and Bo Scaife tried to run before catching a pass near the end zone.
Jacksonville ran on 15 of its first 17 plays, picking up 86 yards. The Jaguars' opening drive consisted of 11 running plays and one pass. Jones-Drew ran seven times for 44 yards, and Jennings added 27 yards on four carries — his 11-yard score came on a fourth-hand-1 play.
The Jaguars didn't worry about passing.
The Titans were so ineffective that Cortland Finnegan, ejected from last week's game for fighting with the Texans' Andre Johnson, was bowled over more than once trying to tackle Jones-Drew.
Tennessee showed some life in the third quarter, forcing Jacksonville to punt on its first drive when sacking Garrard on third down. They nearly ended their TD drought with their best drive of the game before Scaife's drop.
Garrard padded the lead as he beat Titans safety Chris Hope in running in for a 4-yard TD in the second quarter. Josh Scobee added a field goal just before halftime for a 17-0 lead.
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Favre hurt, Jackson rallies Vikings to win
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MINNEAPOLIS — Brett Favre's consecutive games played streak could be in trouble again, with his unparalleled 20-year career probably down to the final four weeks.
The NFLs all-time iron man sprained his throwing shoulder
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transferring, while fullback Stephen Foster and safety Ryan Murphy will be graduating in the summer. Turner Gill announced at Friday's press conference.
linemen from Blue Valley West, is expected to be named first-team All-State for the second consecutive season.
"Dylan has all the tools needed to develop into a solid football player here at the University of Kansas." Gill told kuathletics.com on Friday.
Weighing only 265 pounds, look for Admire to put on weight this offseason to compete for playing time in 2011. Darrian Miller is
the nation's 23rd best running back according to Rivals.com, and is expected to compete for carries as early as next season. Miller ran for
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Position changes were a common theme for Kansas this season, as former running back Toben Opurum eventually landed at defensive end, grabbing a sack to go along with his 21 tackles.
Gill was confident in Opurum's potential on defense and he is
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McDougald's departure from
the receiving corps opened up a spot for former quarterback Kale Pick, who switched to receiver late in the year after being buried on the quarterback depth chart. Pick saw limited action, catching only three balls for 18 yards, but any production from him going forward should be seen as a bonus for the staff. Pick was rumored as a possible transfer candidate, but it now looks like he'll battle it out with receivers for playing time heading into spring practices.
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return to the field in 2011 after missing all of 2010 with a foot injury. Tharp's injury was a huge blow to an already thin linebacking corps for the Jayhawks.
With the off-season just beginning and the annual spring game over four months away, there's still plenty of time for things to change at the Anderson Family Football Complex as Gill continues to evaluate his players and coaches after a rough first year on the job.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Tiger Woods delivered a vintage moment, dropping an 8-iron from the sky on the final hole Sunday inside 3 feet for what looked to be a sure victory.
The clutch shots and happy endings belonged to U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell.
Just not this year.
McDowell capped off his greatest season with the biggest comeback ever against Woods. He rallied from a four-shot deficit in the Chevron World Challenge, then staged Woods at his own tournament.
McDowell holed a 20-foot birdie putt to force a playoff, then beat Woods on the first extra hole with another birdie from a little bit longer.
Woods might have known what to expect, considering how his year has gone.
Without a trophy for the first time since he can remember, Woods appeared ready to embark on a new chapter after a year of personal turmoil and shocking scores. A four-shot lead turned into a two-shot deficit. He rallied to tie McDowell, then watched the U.S. Open champion deliver the winning shots.
And it was the first time anyone could recall Woods feeling good after a loss.
It was the first time Woods has lost a tournament when leading by at least three shots going into the final round.
"It was a great week, even though I didn't win." Woods said.
Woods lost his big lead with a pair of three-putt bogeys, imploded with a double bogey on the par-5 13th to see his one-shot lead turn into a two-shot deficit, then got new life when McDowell made a couple of mistakes down the stretch.
McDowell won with two birdies on the 18th, but he might have won the tournament with a bogey. With a one-shot lead on the par-3 17th, he pulled his 8-iron into grass so high that he took a penalty drop on the 18th tee and pitched over the trees to 7 feet. Woods missed his birdie putt, and McDowell made his putt to stay even with Woods going to the final hole.
It was only the fourth time in 15 years that Woods has lost in a playoff.
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Everything I need to know about geography, I learned from sports. It's why I know that Ohio — with Xavier and Dayton in the Atlantic 10 and Cincinnati in the Big East — is somewhere on the Eastern seaboard. Columbus, the capital city, is a big time port, I think. That's why the airport is called Port Columbus International, right? Of course, with Ohio University in the Mid-American conference, you can't discount the Midwestern presence of the state. The breadth of the state makes it the largest in the United States, I'm pretty sure. But don't quote me on that.
Sports map of U.S. a bit flawed
Sports also recently taught me that Texas could basically decide where it wants to be in the country, Strange. I thought moving landmasses were strictly the stuff of Emmy-winning television shows (I'm looking at you, "Lost"). But the Longhorns and Aggies were this close to joining the Pac-10 and sending the Lone Star State to the Left Coast, and Texas Christian has now accepted a bid to join the Big East, Maybe Texas will share a border with Ohio. At least we can all take comfort in the fact that, with Houston in Conference USA, there's no real chance of Texas seceding from the union any time soon.
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largest city in the world. After all, DePaul University in Chicago is in the Big East, while Chicago State University is in the Great West Conference. And that's just a city! I wonder what the commute is like for people that live near Chicago State but work near DePaul. Must be a bitch.
Also in the Great West Conference is New Jersey Institute of Technology, which decided that the Jersey Coast wasn't nerdy enough and annexed San Diego, home of Comic-Con, and moved out to what was once one of California's finest cities. Or something like that.
Of course, the Pacific coast has seen some serious upheaval. Or will soon. I always thought the only states bordering the Pacific Ocean were California, Oregon, Washington and, of course, Arizona. In 2011, Utah and Colorado will
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I don't know where Kansas City, Mo., is. I thought I'd been there several times, but apparently it's in the mountains. Thanks for that lesson, Summit League member UMKC.
But my geographical education isn't complete without knowing where the heroes are. Army and Navy, fittingly, reside in the Patriot League.
And so does American University.
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Rams give Cardinals eighth-straight loss
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — The St. Louis Rams didn't need a great offensive performance to end their eight-game losing streak to Arizona.
Not against a Cardinals team that can't muster a touchdown.
Steven Jackson rushed for 102 yards, including 27 on the game's lone TD, and St. Louis sent Arizona to its seventh loss in a row 19-6 on Sunday.
The Rams (6-6) won consecutive road games for the first time since Nov.18,2007,and remained in a first-place tie with Seattle in the weak NFC West.
Josh Brown kicked four field
goals for St. Louis.
Rookie quarterback John Skelton made his NFL debut for Arizona (3-9) in the fourth quarter after Derek Anderson was benched and backup Max Hall went out with a dislocated left shoulder.
After the game, coach Ken Whisenhunt said Anderson "didn't seem right" after taking several hard hits in the first half. He said Anderson would be checked out for a possible concussion.
The Cardinals didn't score a touchdown for the second game in a row and have just one in their last three contests — on the final play of a 31-13 loss at
St. Louis scored 19 consecutive points after Jay Feely's first-quarter field goals of 45 and 41 yards put Arizona up 6-0.
Arizona's Tim Hightower gained 81 yards in 15 carries, but had just 14 yards in six attempts in the second half. Anderson completed seven of 20 passes for 93 yards with one interception.
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Brown's field goals of 28 and 52 yards tied it at 6, and the Cardinals had third-and-10 at the St. Louis 31 when Anderson's pass over the middle went right
into the arms of safety Craig Dahl. He returned the interception 23 yards to the Rams 33. St. Louis drove to the Arizona 2, but the Cardinals, whose red-zone defense has been one of the few bright spots for the team, held the Rams out.
St. Louis went 85 yards in 10 plays in the third quarter for the game's lone TD.
The Rams went without a huddle and Jackson broke free down the sidelines for the 27-yard score that made it 16-6.
Brown's 20-yard field goal with 4 seconds left put the Rams up 9-6 at the half.
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SAN ANTONIO — Tony Parker scored 19 points and the San Antonio Spurs beat the sliding New Orleans Hornets for the second time in a week, 109-84 on Sundav night.
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Matt Bonner added 14 points, hitting four of five 3-point attempts, and the Spurs improved their NBA-best record to 17-3 and matched their best start through 20 games since the 2007-08 season.
First-year Hornets coach Monty Williams said before the game that the potential sale wouldn't be a distraction.
Chris Paul had 16 points for the Hornets, who have lost four of five and were blown out from the start. They trailed by 38 and lately look nothing like the team that opened 8-0.
But this pummeling will likely be overshadowed by news Sunday that Hornets owner George Shinn has agreed to sell the club to the NBA. A person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press the deal could be completed within days.
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David West scored 13 points for the Hornets after coming back from a stomach bug that kept him out on Friday night. West was 6 of 11 from the field and played 30 minutes.
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TAMPA, Fla. — Matty ice came to the rescue again.
Matt Ryan threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to Michael Jenkins with 4:31 remaining Sunday as the Atlanta Falcons put together another fourth-quarter rally to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 28-24 on Sunday for their sixth straight victory.
The Falcons have won five straight in the intense division rivalry, with four of the games decided by six points or less. Atlanta won an earlier meeting this season 27-21.
Eric Weems got the comeback from a 10-point deficit started by scoring on a 102-yard kickoff return. Brent Grimes sealed the win with an interception that stopped Tampa Bay's final possession deep in Falcons territory.
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KU swaps leads with SMU but buckles down for a road win
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Thanks to the Kansas bench, the Jayhawks maintain their perfect record at 8-0.
The reserves outscored those of SMU 17-8 in the 73-65 victory on Saturday.
"For me it is really exciting," sophomore guard Monica
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Engelman led the Jayhawks with 16 points and eight rebounds. Engelman shot 7-14 from the field and 2-4 from behind the arch. She also added four assists and a steal.
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T h e e Jayhawks were in double figures including senior forward Aishah Sutherland, freshman guard Keena Mays and Engelman. Every Kansas player who got into the game scored for the third game this season.
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The Jayhawks led for a majority of the game after they fought back from their eight-point deficit and swapped leads several times. After last game's record-breaking high score, a closer game was more of a challenge for the Jayhawks.
"We gained strength from us being able to pull through," Engelman said. "We were down and we pulled back and knowing we can do that gives us strength."
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"I can honestly say that when they stepped up on us, we were able to stay focused and keep our heads up," Engelman said.
To stay in the game and come back from a 10-0 run by the Mustangs the Jayhawks buckled down, got a couple good stops and went down and scored.
"It was a one possession game most of the game," Engelman said. "It required you to compete at a different level and you have to pay more attention and make better passes."
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During Saturday's annual Bob Timmons Challenge indoor track meet, the Jayhawks made a strong impression.
Sophomore Andrea Guebelie crosses the finish line in the 200-meter dash Saturday during the Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion.. Guebelie finished third in the event with a time of 25.48
"I thought it was a really good meet. There were a lot of really good performances on both men and women. We had freshman winning events, which was also exciting," coach Stanley Redwine said.
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Sophomore Mason Finley improved on his weight throw results from last year throwing 56.29-feet, which earned him third place.
"It was good. I PR-ed from last year by six feet so I think it was good." Finley said.
The women's pole vaulters swept the medals with first, second and third place finishen. Freshman Demi Payne managed her first collegiate win at 3.9 meters, just short of the 4-meter qualifying mark for the NCAA. Senior Jaci Perryman and junior Julia Cummings came in at 3.8-meters and 3.7-meters, respectively.
Sophomore Rebecca Neville came in first in the 60-meter hurdles race with a time of 8.93.
"It was an OK start to the seas son it was a way faster start than last year. We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together," Neville said.
Transfer sophomore Francine KimoneSimpson's debut for Kansas was solid as she finished behind sophomore Denesha Morris in the 60-meter dash. Sophomore Andrea Geubelle rounded out the top three.
"That was pretty amazing," Simpson said. "It was pretty good to know that all three of us were in the top three."
Geubelle followed Simpson in third at 25.48. Both times are just above the NCAA qualifying times.
Simpson also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a
want to but this year it was a good start."
man Nikolos Giancana, finished third also at twoometer, which was ultimately a four-way tie.
Another young face for the Jayhawks was 800-
For the men,
senior Keron
Toussaint took
Experience paid off for junior Nick Canton who won high jump by clearing the two-meter mark on his first try. His teammate, fresh-
meter winner, freshman Dalen Fink. This was his first experience running on an indoor track; however he took right to it.
"It was my first race in college so I was really nervous and anxious coming into it," Fink said. "I want to keep dropping my times
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here."
"We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together."
first in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:13.03.
The second flight of the women's 4x400 had the Jayhawk team flying around the track for a final time of 3:44:75. The team was composed of freshman Diamond Dixon, sophomore Taylor Washington, junior
"It is a good way to start off the season," Toussaint said. "Normally I do not start out as good as I
Sophomore Sean Proehl won the 1000-meter race by edging
REBECCA NEVILLE Sophomore hurdler
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
and staying competitive trying to keep up. We have a great group of guys we are all going to look to push ourselves."
and staying
out a competitor and getting a time of 2:35.20.
"It was good to catch him right at the end. I almost didn't think I was going to," Proehl said.
Shayla Wilson and sophomore Denesha Morris. All four of the women sped around the track for the entire race and almost lapped the last place competition.
"Even though
they are young it is a great team because they are all really fast and motivated in practice,"Wilson said. "I don't think age has anything to do with it because they are all really good runners."
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here," Redwine said. "We need to make sure that our athletes train over the Christmas holidays and then we will see where we are again."
The men's 4x400 placed second with a time of 3:21.56.
Redwine said it was a good start to the season, but also leaves room for improvement.
The next meet will be in Lawrence on Jan. 8, 2011, for the Bill Easton Classic.
- Edited by Emily McCoy
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Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Freshman middle distance runner Dalen Fink pushes past freshman middle distance teammate Nick Seckfort in the 800 meter run at Saturday's Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Fink captured the win with a team of 1:56:49 while Seckfort was right on his heels finishing in fourth at 1:57:02.
COMMENTARY
Sooners' victory is one for the Big 12
OU beats soon-to-be Big Ten Cornhuskers
BY ETHAN PADWAY
epadway@kansan.com
10
Thankfully, Stoops changed the moniker (he has lost his last five BCS Bowl games and lost to Mizzou as the number one team in the nation), and did it coming back from a 17 to nothing deficit in the early second quarter.
The man known as Big Game Boob due to his lack of success in big games finally came through, and the timing couldn't have been better. In the final Big 12 Championship game Bob Stoops led the Sooners past the Cornhuskers. This is good news for all people involved in the conference formerly known as the Big 12.
The ten members of the Big 12 who will remain in the conference can head into the bowl season resting easy, knowing that they won't have to watch Nebraska bring the Big 12 trophy with them to a different conference. Instead they can focus on improving the reputation of the Big 12 by winning as many bowl games as possible.
When Nebraska decided to bolt for the Big Ten, the college football world was flipped upside down. By leaving they cut ties with opponents that they have played against for decades, and in Kansas' case over a century. Even worse they have done so without showing the slightest hint of sentimentality or respect for the longstanding series.
Had Nebraska won and gone on to receive the Big 12's automatic BCS bid it would've been the ultimate insult to the Big 12 in what is already perceived to be a down year for the conference. Pundits would claim how it's more like the Big Ten has three teams playing in the BCS, and continue to throw the remaining Big 12 teams under the bus as underachievers in a down year for the conference because of the struggles of Texas.
That is why Bob Stoops' victory was not just a victory for Oklahoma, but also a victory for the Big 12 conference as a whole. The team that effectively destroyed the championship doesn't get to win the last one. And this year the Cornhuskers can't blame their loss on officiating like last year's loss to Texas. If they want to blame anyone, they can look at themselves and their inability to hold onto the football.
And fans of the school's will be happy to know that next season, even though there will not be a Big 12 Championship game, there will be a defending champion to try and unseat.
Edited by Anna Nordling
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BY JUSTINE PATTON jpatton@kansan.com
— and others that will only make them wish for bedtime.
Finals Week and late-night studying often go hand in-hand. There are some nighttime snacks that will actually help sleep-deprived students study hard late into the night
Ann Chapman, the dietitian at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said students are tempted to snack during stressful times, especially finals week, because food can be soothing.
"How do you feel when you put a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth? It's instant gratification," Chapman said. "All the measures of stress are reduced slightly."
However, Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins, said foods high in sugar and fat are the last thing students should be eating while studying. Quinlan said the fast foods and comfort foods students often turn to would only slow them down.
"That cookie, that doughnut, they are just not helpful to push through finals week," Quinlan said. "They're going to make you feel more lethargic and decrease your concentration."
Instead, Chapman suggested munching on foods high in protein and carbohydrates, like cheese and crackers. Chapman said the carbohydrates in the crackers would boost blood sugar quickly and give students a little burst of energy. The body breaks carbohydrates down quickly, which is where the cheese comes into play. The protein in cheese takes longer to digest, so it's going to provide students with energy for about three to four hours.
Barbara Bell, a sophomore from Lancaster, Texas, said she usually doesn't eat when she is stressed.
"I guess I do the opposite of everyone else," Bell said.
"Studies prove that students in the classroom perform better when they've had breakfast." Denning said. "If you're going to spend all this time and effort, I think it's worth setting your alarm 10 to 15 minutes early to get a healthy breakfast."
"Just like a car needs gasoline, the body needs glucose," Chapman said. "Your glucose level drops below what it needs to be if you go without food for three to four hours."
Patricia Denning, the chief of staff at Watkins, said breakfast was especially important during finals week.
However, Chapman suggested students put food in their systems about every four hours.
Chapman warred students to avoid "stress-eating" while they study. Chapman said students often
Chapman said when students snack during finals week, they should take a break from studying and simply focus on the food they're eating. Then, when they go back to studying, they can concentrate and won't be shoveling in extra calories in the process.
"Students often eat while they're studying because they're nervous about flanking exams," Chapman said. "So then they eat constantly, which is really unhealthy. Those are calories you don't need."
eat as a means of procrastination or stress relief.
If students do find that they can't study without eating, Chapman recommended they leave their apartment and go to the library, so food would be out of sight and out of mind. She suggested students take a 100-calorie snack with them in case they do get hungry.
Edited by Leslie Kinsman
Defense is weakness
The Louisiana Street Band will compete for recording time in Los Angeles January 15.
Local band will compete
Energy-boosting snacks
- Low fat string cheese with seven Triscuits
- 8 oz. yogurt with 1/2 cup cereal
*100-calorie snack pack of nuts or popcorn
MUSIC|6A
- Hot cocoa and six vanilla wafers
- MEN'S BASKETBALL | 1B
- One cup of whole grain cereal with one cup of low-fat milk
- Half of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
Bill Self points out the defense as the basektball team's weakness. The team will be tested in tonight's game against Memphis.
Malott scare quickly addressed
CAMPUS|6A
An unknown chemical smell in Malott Hall on Monday afternoon led to a building-wide evacuation. By the evening, the building was cleared for re-entry.
INDEX
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Crossword...4A
Cryptoquips...4A
Opinion...5A
Sports...1B
Sudoku...4A
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2010
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Gill explores recruiting options
Incoming freshman Darrian Miller and Dylan Admire will graduate high school in December and join the team for spring practice in an effort to compete for immediate playing time.
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL—ROAD RALLY
Jayhawks remain undefeated
PAGE 10A
KU swaps leads with SMU but buckles down for a road win
BY KATHLEEN GIER kgier@kansan.com
Thanks to the Kansas bench, the Jayhawks maintain their perfect record at 8-0.
The reserves outscored those of SMU 17-8 in the 73-65 victory on Saturday.
"For me it is really exciting," sophomore Monica
Engelman said. "We are 8-0 and we are closer to our goal of being undefeated in non-conference. When we are playing harder games it
KANSAI
Engelman
gives us even more confidence."
Engelman led the Jayhawks with 16 points and eight rebounds. Engelman shot 7-14 from the field and 2-4 from behind the arch. She also added four assists and a steal.
"I wouldn't say I was the only one leading, but when it is kind of hectic, it is important to have at
least one person who can step up and lead"
Three Jayhawks were in double figures including senior forward Aishah Sutherland, freshman guard Keena Mays and Engelman. Every Kansas player who got into the game scored for the third game this season.
KANSAS
Sutherland
KANSAS
Mays
This was the second close road game that the Jayhawks have played in this year, but in both games they came out on top.
The Jayhawks led for a majority of the game after they fought back from their eight-point deficit and swapped leads several times. After last game's record-breaking high score, a closer game was more of a challenge for the Jayhawks.
"We gained strength from us being able to pull through," Engelman said. "We were down and we pulled back and knowing we can do that gives us strength."
Kansas shot 41.7 percent from the field though they struggled
early going down 10-2.
"I can honestly say that when they stepped up on us, we were able to stay focused and keep our heads up," Engelman said.
To stay in the game and come back from a 10-0 run by the Mustangs the Jayhawks buckled down, got a couple good stops and went down and scored.
"It was a one possession game most of the game," Engelman said. "It required you to compete at a different level and you have to pay more attention and make better passes."
— Edited by Kelsey Nill
Freshmen lead strong start to season
TRACK & FIELD
KANS 3
Indoor season kicks off with strong results
BY HANNAH WISE hwise@kansan.com
During Saturday's annual Bob Timmons Challenge indoor track meet, the Jayhawks made a strong impression.
Sophomore Andrea Guebelle crosses the finish line in the 200-meter dash Saturday during the Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavillion. Guebelle finished third in the event with a time of 25.48.
"I thought it was a really good meet. There were a lot of really good performances on both men and women. We had freshman winning events, which was also exciting," coach Stanley Redwine said.
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Sophomore Mason Finley improved on his weight throw results from last year throwing 56.29-feet, which earned him third place.
"It was good. I PR-ed from last year by six feet so I think it was good," Finley said.
The women's pole vaulters swept the medals with first, second and third place finishen. Freshman Demi Payne managed her first collegiate win at 3.9 meters, just short of the 4-meter qualifying mark for the NCAA. Senior Jaci Perryman and junior Julia Cummings came in at 3.8-meters and 3.7-meters, respectively.
Sophomore Rebecca Neville came in first in the 60-meter hurdles race with a time of 8.93.
"It was an OK start to the season it was a way faster start than last year. We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together," Neville said.
Transfer sophomore Francine Kimone Simpson's debut for Kansas was solid as she finished behind sophomore Denesha Morris in the 60-meter dash. Sophomore Andrea Geubelle rounded out the top three.
"That was pretty amazing," Simpson said. "It was pretty good to know that all three of us were in the top three."
Simpson also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a
Geubelle followed Simpson in third at 25.48. Both times are just above the NCAA qualifying times.
want to but this year it was a good start."
Experience paid off for junior Nick Canton who won high jump by clearing the two-meter mark on his first try. His teammate, freshman Nikolos Giancana, finished third also at two meter, which was ultimately a four-way tie.
Another young face for the Jayhawks was 800-
For the men, senior Keron Toussaint took
"It was my first race in college so I was really nervous and anxious coming into it," Fink said. "I want to keep dropping my times
first in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:13.03.
meter winner, freshman Dalen Fink. This was his first experience running on an indoor track; however he took right to it.
"It is a good way to start off the season," Toussaint said. "Normally I do not start out as good as I
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here."
"We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together."
The second flight of the women's 4x400 had the Jayhawk team flying around the track for a final time of 3:44:75. The team was composed of freshman Diamond Dixon, sophomore Tavlor Washington, junior
REBECCA NEVILLE
Sophomore hurdler
Sophomore Sean Proehl won the 1000-meter race by edging
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
and staying competitive trying to keep up. We have a great group of guys we are all going to look to push ourselves."
and staying
"It was good to catch him right at the end. I almost didn't think I was going to." Proehl said.
out a competitor and getting a time of 2:35.20.
Shayla Wilson and sophomore Denesha Morris. All four of the women sped around the track for the entire race and almost lapped the last place competition.
"Even though
they are young it is a great team because they are all really fast and motivated in practice." Wilson said. "I don't think age has anything to do with it because they are all really good runners."
The men's 4x400 placed second with a time of 3:21.56.
Redwine said it was a good start to the season, but also leaves room for improvement.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here." Redwine said. "We need to make sure that our athletes train over the Christmas holidays and then we will see where we are again."
The next meet will be in Lawrence on Jan. 8, 2011, for the Bill Easton Classic.
Edited by Emily McCoy
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
KANSAS 3
Freshman middle distance runner Dalen Fink pushes past freshman middle distance teammate Nick Seckfort in the 800 meter run at Saturday's Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Fink captured the win with a team of 1:56:49 while Seckfort was right on his heels finishing in fourth at 1:57:02.
COMMENTARY
BY ETHAN PADWAY
epadway@kansan.com
OU beats soon-to-be Big Ten Cornhuskers
[Name]
Sooners' victory is one for the Big 12
The man known as Big Game Boob due to his lack of success in big
games finally came through, and the timing couldn't have been better. In the final Big 12 Championship game Bob Stoops led the Sooners past the Cornhuskers. This is good news for all people involved in the conference formerly known as the Big 12.
Thankfully, Stoops changed the moniker (he has lost his last five BCS Bowl games and lost to Mizzou as the number one team in the nation), and did it coming back from a 17 to nothing deficit in the early second quarter.
Had Nebraska won and gone on to receive the Big 12's automatic BCS bid it would've been the ultimate insult to the Big 12 in what is already perceived to be a down year for the conference. Pundits would claim how it's more like the Big Ten has three teams playing in the BCS, and continue to throw the remaining Big 12 teams under the bus as underachievers in a down year for the conference because of the struggles of Texas.
The ten members of the Big 12 who will remain in the conference can head into the bowl season resting easy, knowing that they won't have to watch Nebraska bring the Big 12 trophy with them to a different conference. Instead they can focus on improving the reputation of the Big 12 by winning as many bowl games as possible.
When Nebraska decided to bolt for the Big Ten, the college football world was flipped upside down. By leaving they cut ties with opponents that they have played against for decades, and in Kansas' case over a century. Even worse they have done so without showing the slightest hint of sentimentality or respect for the longstanding series.
And fans of the school's will be happy to know that next season, even though there will not be a Big 12 Championship game, there will be a defending champion to try and unseat.
That is why Bob Stoops' victory was not just a victory for Oklahoma, but also a victory for the Big 12 conference as a whole. The team that effectively destroyed the championship doesn't get to win the last one. And this year the Cornhuskers can't blame their loss on officiating like last year's loss to Texas. If they want to blame anyone, they can look at themselves and their inability to hold onto the football.
—Edited by Anna Nordling
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Experts deem energy-filled snacks beneficial for finals
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EXTRA CRUNCH
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Instead of sugar-heavy foods, experts say to grab for protein and carbohydrated-filled snacks. Foods like cheese and crackers can help keep you more awake and alert for studying.
BY JUSTINE PATTON
jpatton@kansan.com
Evan Palmer/KANSAN
- Finals Week and late-night studying often go hand in-hand. There are some nighttime snacks that will actually help sleep-deprived students study hard late into the night
— and others that will only make them wish for bedtime.
Ann Chapman, the dietitian at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said students are tempted to snack during stressful times, especially finals week, because food can be soothing.
"How do you feel when you put a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth? It's instant gratification," Chapman said. "All the measures of stress are reduced slightly."
However, Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins, said foods high in sugar and fat are the last thing students should be eating while studying. Quinlan said the fast foods and comfort foods students often turn to would only slow them down.
"That cookie, that doughnut, they're just not helpful to push through finals week," Quinlan said. "They're going to make you feel more lethargic and decrease your concentration."
Instead, Chapman suggested munching on foods high in protein and carbohydrates, like cheese and crackers. Chapman said the carbohydrates in the crackers would boost blood sugar quickly and give students a little burst of energy. The body breaks carbohydrates down quickly, which is where the cheese comes into play. The protein in cheese takes longer to digest, so it's going to provide students with energy.
gy for about three to four hours.
go there to four hours.
Barbara Bell, a sophomore from Lancaster, Texas, said she usually doesn't eat when she is stressed.
"Just like a car needs gasoline, the body needs glucose." Chapman said. "Your glucose level drops below what it needs to be if you go without food for three to four hours."
Patricia Denning, the chief of staff at Watkins, said breakfast was especially important during finals week.
"Studies prove that students in the classroom perform better when they've had breakfast," Denning said. "If you're going to spend all this time and effort, I think it's worth setting your alarm 10 to 15 minutes early to get a healthy breakfast."
However, Chapman suggested students put food in their systems about every four hours.
"I guess I do the opposite of everyone else." Bell said.
Chapman warned students to avoid "stress-eating" while they study. Chapman said students often
Chapman said when students snack during finals week, they should take a break from studying and simply focus on the food they're eating. Then, when they go back to studying, they can concentrate and won't be shoveling in extra calories in the process.
"Students often eat while they're studying because they're nervous about flunking exams," Chapman said. "So then they eat constantly, which is really unhealthy. Those are calories you don't need."
If students do find that they can't study without eating, Chapman recommended they leave their apartment and go to the library, so food would be out of sight and out of mind. She suggested students take a 100-calorie snack with them in case they do get hungry.
eat as a means of procrastination or stress relief.
Edited by Leslie Kinsman
MEN'S BASKETBALL | 1B
Defense is weakness
Energy-boosting snacks
Local band will compete
- Low fat string cheese with seven Triscuits
The Louisiana Street Band will compete for recording time in Los Angeles January 15.
MUSIC|6A
Bill Self points out the defense as the basekball team's weakness. The team will be tested in tonight's game against Memphis.
-100-calorie snack pack of nuts or popcorn
- 8 oz. yogurt with 1/2 cup cereal
- Hot cocoa and six vanilla wafers
- One cup of whole grain cereal with one cup of low-fat milk
Half of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
Malott scare quickly addressed
An unknown chemical smell in Malott Hall on Monday afternoon led to a building-wide evacuation. By the evening, the building was cleared for re-entry.
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I have lived in Lawrence since I was three, so sometimes I forget how great we have it here. My Thanksgiving trip reminded me that many cities don't have the amenities I'm used to. Sure, they have restaurants, but I keep weird hours. You can't get a pizza delivered at 1 am. in Wichita.
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"It was good. I PR-ed from last year by six feet so I think it was good." Finley said.
Sophomore Mason Finley improved on his weight throw results from last year throwing 56.29-feet, which earned him third place.
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Sophomore Andrea Guebelie crosses the finish line in the 200-meter dash Saturday during the Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Guebelie finished third in the event with a time of 25.48.
The women's pole vaulters swept the medals with first, second and third place finishen. Freshman Demi Payne managed her first collegiate win at 3.9 meters, just short of the 4-meter qualifying mark for the NCAA. Senior Jaci Perryman and junior Julia Cummings came in at 3.8-meters and 3.7-meters, respectively.
Sophomore Rebecca Neville came in first in the 60-meter hurdles race with a time of 8.93.
"It was an OK start to the season it was a way faster start than last year. We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together," Neville said.
Transfer sophomore Francine KimoneSimpson's debut for Kansas was solid as she finished behind sophomore Denesha Morris in the 60-meter dash. Sophomore Andrea Geubelle rounded out the top three.
"That was pretty amazing," Simpson said. "It was pretty good to know that all three of us were in the top three."
Geubelle followed Simpson in third at 25.48. Both times are just above the NCAA qualifying times.
Simpson also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a
For the men,
senior Keron
Toussaint took
want to but this year it was a good start."
Experience paid off for junior Nick Canton who won high jump by clearing the two-meter mark on his first try. His teammate, freshman Nikolos Giancana, finished third also at two-meter, which was ultimately a four-way tie.
An other young face for the Jayhawks was 800-
"It was my first race in college so I was really nervous and anxious coming into it," Fink said. "I want to keep dropping my times
"It is a good way to start off the season," Toussaint said. "Normally I do not start out as good as I
"We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together."
first in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:13.03.
meter winner, freshman Dalen Fink. This was his first experience running on an indoor track; however he took right to it.
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
REBECCA NEVILLE Sophomore hurdler
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here."
The second flight of the women's 4x400 had the Jayhawk team flying around the track for a final time of 3:44:75. The team was composed of freshman Diamond Dixon, sophomore Taylor Washington, junior
and staying competitive trying to keep up. We have a great group of guys we are all going to look to push ourselves."
Sophomore Sean Proehl won the 1000-meter race by edging
out a competitor and getting a time of 2:35.20.
and staving
"It was good to catch him right at the end. I almost didn't think I was going to." Proohel said.
Shayla Wilson and sophomore Denesha Morris. All four of the women sped around the track for the entire race and almost lapped the last place competition.
"Even though
they are young it is a great team because they are all really fast and motivated in practice."Wilson said. "I don't think age has anything to do with it because they are all really good runners."
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here," Redwine said. "We need to make sure that our athletes train over the Christmas holidays and then we will see where we are again."
The men's 4x400 placed second with a time of 3:21.56.
Redwine said it was a good start to the season, but also leaves room for improvement.
The next meet will be in Lawrence on Jan. 8, 2011, for the Bill Easton Classic.
Edited by Emily McCoy
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Freshman middle distance runner Dalen Fink pushes past freshman middle distance teammate Nick Seckfort in the 800 meter run at Saturday's Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Fink captured the win with a team of 1:56:49 while Seckfort was right on his heels finishing in fourth at 1:57:02.
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Had Nebraska won and gone on to receive the Big 12's automatic BCS bid it would've been the ultimate insult to the Big 12 in what is already perceived to be a down year for the conference. Pundits would claim how it's more like the Big Ten has three teams playing in the BCS, and continue to throw the remaining Big 12 teams under the bus as underachievers in a down year for the conference because of the struggles of Texas.
That is why Bob Stoops' victory was not just a victory for Oklahoma, but also a victory for the Big 12 conference as a whole. The team that effectively destroyed the championship doesn't get to win the last one. And this year the Cornhuskers can't blame their loss on officiating like last year's loss to Texas. If they want to blame anyone, they can look at themselves and their inability to hold onto the football.
The ten members of the Big 12 who will remain in the conference can head into the bowl season resting easy, knowing that they won't have to watch Nebraska bring the Big 12 trophy with them to a different conference. Instead they can focus on improving the reputation of the Big 12 by winning as many bowl games as possible.
Thankfully, Stoops changed the moniker (he has lost his last five BCS Bowl games and lost to Mizzou as the number one team in the nation), and did it coming back from a 17 to nothing deficit in the early second quarter.
And fans of the school's will be happy to know that next season, even though there will not be a Big 12 Championship game, there will be a defending champion to try and unseat.
C
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Instead of sugar-heavy foods, experts say to grab for protein and carbohydrated-filled snacks. Foods like cheese and crackers can help keep you more awake and alert for studying.
Finals Week and late-night studying often go hand-in-hand. There are some nighttime snacks that will actually help sleep-deprived students study hard late into the night — and others that will only make them wish for bedtime.
Ann Chapman, the dietitian at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said students are tempted to snack during stressful times, especially finals week, because food can be soothing.
"How do you feel when you put a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth? It's instant gratification," Chapman said. "All the measures of stress are reduced slightly."
However, Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins, said foods high in sugar and fat are the last thing students should be eating while studying. Quinlan said the fast foods and comfort food students often turn to would only slow them down.
"That cookie, that doughnut, they are just not helpful to push through finals week," Quinlan said. "They're going to make you feel more lethargic and decrease your concentration."
Instead, Chapman suggested munching on foods high in protein and carbohydrates, like cheese and crackers. Chapman said the carbohydrates in the crackers would boost blood sugar quickly and give students a little burst of energy. The body breaks carbohydrates down quickly, which is where the cheese comes into play. The protein in cheese takes longer to digest, so it's going to provide students with energy for about three to four hours.
you go ahead three to four hours.
Barbara Bell, a sophomore from Lancaster, Texas, said she usually doesn't eat when she is stressed.
"Just like a car needs gasoline, the body needs glucose," Chapman said. "Your glucose level drops below what it needs to be if you go without food for three to four hours."
"Studies prove that students in the classroom perform better when they've had breakfast." Denning said. "If you're going to spend all this time and effort, I think it's worth setting your alarm 10 to 15 minutes early to get a healthy breakfast."
Patricia Denning, the chief of staff at Watkins, said breakfast was especially important during finals week.
However, Chapman suggested students put food in their systems about every four hours.
Chapman warned students to avoid "stress-eating" while they study. Chapman said students often
Chapman said when students snack during finals week, they should take a break from studying and simply focus on the food they're eating. Then, when they go back to studying, they can concentrate and won't be shoveling in extra calories in the process.
eat as a means of procrastination or stress relief.
"Students often eat while they restudying because they're nervous about flunking exams," Chapman said. "So then they eat constantly, which is really unhealthy. Those are calories you don't need."
If students do find that they can't study without eating. Chapman recommended they leave their apartment and go to the library, so food would be out of sight and out of mind. She suggested students take a 100-calorie snack with them in case they do get hungry.
— Edited by Leslie Kinsman
MEN'S BASKETBALL | 1B
Defense is weakness
Bill Self points out the defense as the basketball team's weakness. The team will be tested in tonight's game against Memphis.
Local band will compete
MUSIC|6A
The Louisiana Street Band will compete for recording time in Los Angeles January 15.
Energy-boosting snacks
- Low fat string cheese with seven Triscuits
- 8 oz. yogurt with 1/2 cup cereal
- 100-calorie snack pack of nuts or popcorn
- Hot cocoa and six vanilla wafers
- One cup of whole grain cereal with one cup of low-fat milk
- Half of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
CAMPUS | 6A
Malott scare quickly addressed
An unknown chemical smell in Malott Hall on Monday afternoon led to a building-wide evacuation. By the evening, the building was cleared for re-entry.
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Sophomore Andrea Guebelle crosses the finish line in the 200-meter dash Saturday during the Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Guebelle finished third in the event with a time of 25.48.
Sophomore Mason Finley improved on his weight throw results from last year throwing 56.29-feet, which earned him third place.
"It was good. I PR-ed from last year by six feet so I think it was good," Finley said.
The women's pole vaulters swept the medals with first, second and third place finished. Freshman Demi Payne managed her first collegiate win at 3.9 meters, just short of the 4-meter qualifying mark for the NCAA. Senior Jaci Perryman and junior Julia Cummings came in at 3.8-meters and 3.7-meters, respectively.
Sophomore Rebecca Neville came in first in the 60-meter hurdles race with a time of 8.93.
"It was an OK start to the season it was a way faster start than last year. We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together," Neville said.
Transfer sophomore Francine Kimone Simpson's debut for Kansas was solid as she finished behind sophomore Denesha Morris in the 60-meter dash. Sophomore Andrea Geubelle rounded out the top three.
"That was pretty amazing," Simpson said. "It was pretty good to know that all three of us were in the top three."
Geubelle followed Simpson in third at 25.48. Both times are just above the NCAA qualifying times.
Simpson also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a
For the men,
senior Keron
impresst took
want to but this year it was a good start."
man Nikolos Giancana, finished third also at two oatier, which was ultimately a four-way tie.
Another young face for the Jayhawks was 800-
Experience paid off for junior Nick Canton who won high jump by clearing the two-meter mark on his first try. His teammate, fresh-
meter winner, freshman Dalen Fink. This was his first experience running on an indoor track; however he took right to it.
"It was my first race in college so I was really nervous and anxious coming into it," Fink said. "I want to keep dropping my times
"We know that I can run way faster.I am definitely going to put the race together."
first in the 600-yard run with a time of 1.13.03.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here."
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
REBECCA NEVILLE
Sophomore hurdler
"It is a good way to start off the season," Toussaint said. "Normally I do not start out as good as I
The second flight of the women's 4x400 had the jayhawk team flying around the track for a final time of 3:44:75. The队 was composed of freshman Diamond Dixon, sophomore Taylor Washington, junior
staying competitive trying to keep up. We have a great group of guys we are all going to look to push ourselves."
Sophomore Sean Proehl won the 1000-meter race by edging
and staying
out a competitor and getting a time of 2.35.20.
"Even though
"It was good to catch him right at the end. I almost didn't think I was going to." Proehl said.
Shayla Wilson and sophomore Denesha Morris. All four of the women sped around the track for the entire race and almost lapped the last place competition.
they are young it is a great team because they are all really fast and motivated in practice." Wilson said. "I don't think age has anything to do with it because they are all really good runners"
Redwine said it was a good start to the season, but also leaves room for improvement.
The men's 4x400 placed second with a time of 3:21.56.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here." Redwine said. "We need to make sure that our athletes train over the Christmas holidays and then we will see where we are again."
The next meet will be in Lawrence on Jan. 8, 2011, for the Bill Easton Classic.
— Edited by Emily McCoy
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Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Freshman middle distance runner Dalen Fink pushes past freshman middle distance teammate Nick Seckfort in the 800 meter run at Saturday's Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Fink captured the win with a team of 1:56:49 while Seckfort was right on his heels finishing in fourth at 1:57:02.
Thankfully, Stoops changed the moniker (he has lost his last five BCS Bowl games and lost to Mizzou as the number one team in the nation), and did it coming back from a 17 to nothing deficit in the early second quarter.
The ten members of the Big 12 who will remain in the conference can head into the bowl season resting easy, knowing that they won't have to watch Nebraska bring the Big 12 trophy with them to a different conference. Instead they can focus on improving the reputation of the Big 12 by winning as many bowl games as possible.
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Had Nebraska won and gone on to receive the Big 12's automatic BCS bid it would've been the ultimate insult to the Big 12 in what is already perceived to be a down year for the conference. Pundits would claim how it's more like the Big Ten has three teams playing in the BCS, and continue to throw the remaining Big 12 teams under the bus as underachievers in a down year for the conference because of the struggles of Texas.
That is why Bob Stoops' victory was not just a victory for Oklahoma, but also a victory for the Big 12 conference as a whole. The team that effectively destroyed the championship doesn't get to win the last one. And this year the Cornhuskers can't blame their loss on officiating like last year's loss to Texas. If they want to blame anyone, they can look at themselves and their inability to hold onto the football.
And fans of the school's will be happy to know that next season, even though there will not be a Big 12 Championship game, there will be a defending champion to try and unseat.
Edited by Anna Nordling
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Instead of sugar-heavy foods, experts say to grab for protein and carbohydrated-filled snacks. Foods like cheese and crackers can help keep you more awake and alert for studying.
Finals Week and late-night studying often go hand-in-hand. There are some nighttime snacks that will actually help sleep-deprived students study hard late into the night — and others that will only make them wish for bedtime.
Ann Chapman, the dietitian at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said students are tempted to snack during stressful times, especially finals week, because food can be soothing.
"How do you feel when you put a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth? It's instant gratification," Chapman said. "All the measures of stress are reduced slightly."
However, Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins, said foods high in sugar and fat are the last thing students should be eating while studying. Quinlan said the fast foods and comfort foods students often turn to would only slow them down.
"That cookie, that doughnut, they're just not helpful to push through finals week." Quinlan said. "They're going to make you feel more lethargic and decrease your concentration."
Instead, Chapman suggested munching on foods high in protein and carbohydrates, like cheese and crackers. Chapman said the carbohydrates in the crackers would boost blood sugar quickly and give students a little burst of energy. The body breaks carbohydrates down quickly, which is where the cheese comes into play. The protein in cheese takes longer to digest, so it's going to provide students with energy for about three to four hours.
"Just like a car needs gasoline, the body needs glucose." Chapman said. "Your glucose level drops below what it needs to be if you go without food for three to four hours."
Barbara Bell, a sophomore from Lancaster, Texas, said she usually doesn't eat when she is stressed.
Patricia Denning, the chief of staff at Watkins, said breakfast was especially important during finals week.
"I guess I do the opposite of everyone else," Bell said.
"Studies prove that students in the classroom perform better when they've had breakfast," Denning said. "If you're going to spend all this time and effort, I think it's worth setting your alarm 10 to 15 minutes early to get a healthy breakfast."
However, Chapman suggested students put food in their systems about every four hours.
Chapman warned students to avoid "stress-eating" while they study. Chapman said students often
Chapman said when students snack during finals week, they should take a break from studying and simply focus on the food they're eating. Then, when they go back to studying, they can concentrate and won't be shoveling in extra calories in the process.
"Students often eat while they're studying because they're nervous about flunking exams," Chapman said. "So then they eat constantly, which is really unhealthy. Those are calories you don't need."
If students do find that they can't study without eating, Chapman recommended they leave their apartment and go to the library, so food would be out of sight and out of mind. She suggested students take a 100-calorie snack with them in case they do get hungry.
eat as a means of procrastination or stress relief.
Edited by Leslie Kinsman
Defense is weakness
The Louisiana Street Band will compete for recording time in Los Angeles January 15.
Local band will compete
MUSIC|6A
MEN'S BASKETBALL | 1B
Energy-boosting snacks
Bill Self points out the defense as the baseketball team's weakness. The team will be tested in tonight's game against Memphis.
- Low fat string cheese with seven Triscuits
- 8 oz. yogurt with 1/2 cup cereal
- -100-calorie snack pack of nuts or popcorn
- Hot cocoa and six vanilla wafers
- One cup of whole grain cereal with one cup of low-fat milk
- Half of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
Malott scare quickly addressed
CAMPUS | 6A
An unknown chemical smell in Malott Hall on Monday afternoon led to a building-wide evacuation. By the evening, the building was cleared for re-entry.
Classifieds. ...8A
Crossword. ...4A
Cryptoquips. ...4A
Opinion. ...5A
Sports. ...1B
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Sophomore Andrea Guebelie crosses the finish line in the 200-meter dash Saturday during the Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Guebelie finished third in the event with a time of 25.48.
Sophomore Mason Finley improved on his weight throw results from last year throwing 56.29-feet, which earned him third place.
"It was good. I PR-ed from last year by six feet so I think it was good." Finley said.
The women's pole vaulters swept the medals with first, second and third place finishen. Freshman Demi Payne managed her first collegiate win at 3.9 meters, just short of the 4-meter qualifying mark for the NCAA. Senior Jaci Perryman and junior Julia Cummings came in at 3.8-meters and 3.7-meters, respectively.
Sophomore Rebecca Neville came in first in the 60-meter hurdles race with a time of 8.93.
"It was an OK start to the season it was a way faster start than last year. We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together," Neville said.
Transfer sophomore Francine Kimone Simpson's debut for Kansas was solid as she finished behind sophomore Denesha Morris in the 60-meter dash. Sophomore Andrea Geubelle rounded out the top three.
"That was pretty amazing," Simpson said. "It was pretty good to know that all three of us were in the top three."
Simpson also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a
time of 25.14.
Geubelle followed Simpson in third at 25.48. Both times are just above the NCAA qualifying times.
For the men,
senior Keron
Toussaint took
want to but this year it was a good start."
Experience paid off for junior Nick Canton who won high jump by clearing the two-meter mark on his first try. His teammate, fresh-
Another young face for the Jayhawks was 800-
Niobium Giancana,
finished third also at two wom-
which, was ultimately a four-way tie.
meter winner, freshman Dalen Fink. This was his first experience running on an indoor track; however he took right to it.
first in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:13.03.
"We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together."
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here."
"It was my first race in college so I was really nervous and anxious coming into it," Fink said. "I want to keep dropping my times
"It is a good way to start off the season," Toussaint said. "Normally I do not start out as good as I
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
REBECCA NEVILLE
Sophomore hurdler
The second flight of the women's 4x400 had the Jayhawk team flying around the track for a final time of 3:44:75. The team was composed of freshman Diamond Dixon, sophomore Taylor Washington, junior
and staying competitive trying to keep up. We have a great group of guys we are all going to look to push ourselves."
and staying
Sophomore Sean Proehl won the 1000-meter race by edging
out a competitor and getting a time of 2:35.20.
"Even though
Shayla Wilson and sophomore Denesha Morris. All four of the women sped around the track for the entire race and almost lapped the last place competition.
"It was good to catch him right at the end. I almost didn't think I was going to," Proehl said.
they are young it is a great team because they are all really fast and motivated in practice," Wilson said. "I don't think age has anything to do with it because they are all really good runners."
Redwine said it was a good start to the season, but also leaves room for improvement.
The men's 4x400 placed second with a time of 3:21.56.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here." Redwine said. "We need to make sure that our athletes train over the Christmas holidays and then we will see where we are again."
The next meet will be in Lawrence on Jan. 8, 2011, for the Bill Easton Classic.
Edited by Emily McCoy
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
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Freshman middle distance runner Dalen Fink pushes past freshman middle distance teammate Nick Seckfort in the 800 meter run at Saturday's Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Fink captured the win with a team of 1:56:49 while Seckfort was right on his heels finishing in fourth at 1:57:02.
Thankfully, Stoops changed the moniker (he has lost his last five BCS Bowl games and lost to Mizzou as the number one team in the nation), and did it coming back from a 17 to nothing deficit in the early second quarter.
The ten members of the Big 12 who will remain in the conference can head into the bowl season resting easy, knowing that they won't have to watch Nebraska bring the Big 12 trophy with them to a different conference. Instead they can focus on improving the reputation of the Big 12 by winning as many bowl games as possible.
Had Nebraska won and gone on to receive the Big 12's automatic BCS bid it would've been the ultimate insult to the Big 12 in what is already perceived to be a down year for the conference. Pundits would claim how it's more like the Big Ten has three teams playing in the BCS, and continue to throw the remaining Big 12 teams under the bus as underachievers in a down year for the conference because of the struggles of Texas.
tory was not just a victory for Oklahoma, but also a victory for the Big 12 conference as a whole. The team that effectively destroyed the championship doesn't get to win the last one. And this year the Cornhuskers can't blame their loss on officiating like last year's loss to Texas. If they want to blame anyone, they can look at themselves and their inability to hold onto the football.
And fans of the school's will be happy to know that next season, even though there will not be a Big 12 Championship game, there will be a defending champion to try and unseat.
Edited by Anna Nordlina
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BY JUSTINE PATTON jpatton@kansan.com
Finals Week and late-night studying often go hand-in-hand. There are some nighttime snacks that will actually help sleep-deprived students study hard late into the night — and others that will only make them wish for bedtime.
Ann Chapman, the dietitian at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said students are tempted to snack during stressful times, especially finals week, because food can be soothing.
"How do you feel when you put a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth? It's instant gratification." Chapman said. "All the measures of stress are reduced slightly."
However, Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins, said foods high in sugar and fat are the last thing students should be eating while studying. Quinlan said the fast foods and comfort food students often turn to would only slow them down.
Instead, Chapman suggested munching on foods high in protein and carbohydrates, like cheese and crackers. Chapman said the carbohydrates in the crackers would boost blood sugar quickly and give students a little burst of energy. The body breaks carbohydrates down quickly, which is where the cheese comes into play. The protein in cheese takes longer to digest, so it's going to provide students with energy for about three to four hours.
"That cookie, that doughnut, they're just not helpful to push through finals week," Quinlan said. "They're going to make you feel more lethargie and decrease your concentration."
gy for about three to four hours. Barbara Bell a sophomore from Lancaster, Texas, said she usually doesn't eat when she is stressed.
"Just like a car needs gasoline, the body needs glucose," Chapman said. "Your glucose level drops below what it needs to be if you go without food for three to four hours."
"I guess I do the opposite of everyone else," Bell said.
However, Chapman suggested students put food in their systems about every four hours.
"Studies prove that students in the classroom perform better when they've had breakfast." Denning said. "If you're going to spend all this time and effort, I think it's worth setting your alarm 10 to 15 minutes early to get a healthy breakfast."
Patricia Denning, the chief of staff at Watkins, said breakfast was especially important during finals week.
Chapman warned students to avoid "stress-eating" while they study. Chapman said students often
Chapman said when students snack during finals week, they should take a break from studying and simply focus on the food they're eating. Then, when they go back to studying, they can concentrate and won't be shoveling in extra calories in the process.
If students do find that they can't study without eating, Chapman recommended they leave their apartment and go to the library, so food would be out of sight and out of mind. She suggested students take a 100-calorie snack with them in case they do get hungry.
"Students often eat while they're studying because they're nervous about flunking exams," Chapman said. "So then they eat constantly, which is really unhealthy. Those are calories you don't need."
eat as a means of procrastination or stress relief.
Edited by Leslie Kinsman
Local band will compete
Energy-boosting snacks
The Louisiana Street Band will compete for recording time in Los Angeles January 15.
- Low fat string cheese with seven Triscuits
- 8 oz. yogurt with 1/2 cup cereal
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-100-calorie snack pack of nuts or popcorn
Defense is weakness
MUSIC | 6A
- Hot cocoa and six vanilla wafers
- One cup of whole grain cereal with one cup of low-fat milk
- Bill Self points out the defense as the basekball team's weakness. The team will be tested in tonight's game against Memphis.
- Half of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
Malott scare quickly addressed
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An unknown chemical smell in Malott Hall on Monday afternoon led to a building-wide evacuation. By the evening, the building was cleared for re-entry.
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Sophomore Mason Finley improved on his weight throw results from last year throwing 56.29-feet, which earned him third place.
Sophomore Andrea Guebelle crosses the finish line in the 200-meter dash Saturday during the Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Guebelle finished third in the event with a time of 25.48.
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
"It was good. I PR-ed from last year by six feet so I think it was good." Finley said.
The women's pole vaulters swept the medals with first, second and third place finishen. Freshman Demi Payne managed her first collegiate win at 3.9 meters, just short of the 4-meter qualifying mark for the NCAA. Senior Jaci Perryman and junior Julia Cummings came in at 3.8-meters and 3.7-meters, respectively.
Sophomore Rebecca Neville came in first in the 60-meter hurdles race with a time of 8.93.
"It was an OK start to the season it was a way faster start than last year. We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together," Neville said.
Transfer sophomore Francine Kimone Simpson's debut for Kansas was solid as she finished behind sophomore Denesha Morris in the 60-meter dash. Sophomore Andrea Geubelle rounded out the top three.
"That was pretty amazing," Simpson said. "It was pretty good to know that all three of us were in the top three."
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man Nikolos Giancana, finished third also at twoometer, which was ultimately a four-way tie.
For the men, senior Keron Toussain took
Another young face for the Jayhawks was 800.
want to but this year it was a good start."
Experience paid off for junior Nick Canton who won high jump by clearing the two-meter mark on his first try. His teammate, fresh-
"We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together."
meter winner, freshman Daten Fink. This was his first experience running on an indoor track; however he took right to it.
"It was my first race in college so I was really nervous and anxious coming into it," Fink said. "I want to keep dropping my times
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here."
first in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:13.03.
"It is a good way to start off the season," Toussaint said. "Normally 1 do not start as good as 1
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
The second flight of the women's 4x400 had the Jayhawk team flying around the track for a final time of 3:44:75. The team was composed of freshman Diamond Dixon, sophomore Taylor Washington, junior
REBECCA NEVILLE Sophomore hurdler
Sophomore Sean Proehl won the 1000-meter race by edging
competitive trying to keep up. We have a great group of guys we are all going to look to push ourselves."
and staying
out a competitor and getting a time of 2:35.20.
"It was good to catch him right at the end. I almost didn't think I was going to," Proehl said.
Shayla Wilson and sophomore Denesha Morris. All four of the women sped around the track for the entire race and almost lapped the last place competition.
"Even though
Even though they are young it is a great team because they are all really fast and motivated in practice," Wilson said. "I don't think age has anything to do with it because they are all really good runners."
The men's 4x400 placed second with a time of 3:21.56.
Redwine said it was a good start to the season, but also leaves room for improvement.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here," Redwine said. "We need to make sure that our athletes train over the Christmas holidays and then we will see where we are again."
The next meet will be in Lawrence on Jan. 8,2011,for the Bill Easton Classic.
Edited by Emily McCoy
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
KANSAS 3
Freshman middle distance runner Dalen Fink pushes past freshman middle distance teammate Nick Seckfort in the 800 meter run at Saturday's Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Fink captured the win with a team of 1:56:49 while Seckfort was right on his heels finishing in fourth at 1:57:02.
The ten members of the Big 12 who will remain in the conference can head into the bowl season resting easy, knowing that they won't have to watch Nebraska bring the Big 12 trophy with them to a different conference. Instead they can focus on improving the reputation of the Big 12 by winning as many bowl games as possible.
Thankfully, Stoops changed the moniker (he has lost his last five BCS Bowl games and lost to Mizzou as the number one team in the nation), and did it coming back from a 17 to nothing deficit in the early second quarter.
Had Nebraska won and gone on to receive the Big 12's automatic BCS bid it would've been the ultimate insult to the Big 12 in what is already perceived to be a down year for the conference. Pundits would claim how it's more like the Big Ten has three teams playing in the BCS, and continue to throw the remaining Big 12 teams under the bus as underachievers in a down year for the conference because of the struggles of Texas.
tory was not just a victory for Oklahoma, but also a victory for the Big 12 conference as a whole. The team that effectively destroyed the championship doesn't get to win the last one. And this year the Cornhuskers can't blame their loss on officiating like last year's loss to Texas. If they want to blame anyone, they can look at themselves and their inability to hold onto the football.
And fans of the school's will be happy to know that next season, even though there will not be a Big 12 Championship game, there will be a defending champion to try and unseat.
—Edited by Anna Nordling
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BY JUSTINE PATTON jpatton@kansan.com
Finals Week and late-night studying often go hand-in-hand. There are some nighttime snacks that will actually help sleep-deprived students study hard late into the night
— and others that will only make them wish for bedtime.
Ann Chapman, the dietitian at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said students are tempted to snack during stressful times, especially finals week, because food can be soothing.
"How do you feel when you put a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth? It's instant gratification," Chapman said. "All the measures of stress are reduced slightly."
However, Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins, said foods high in sugar and fat are the last thing students should be eating while studying. Quinlan said the fast foods and comfort foods students often turn to would only slow them down.
"That cookie, that doughnut, they just not helpful to push through finals week," Quinlan said. "They're going to make you feel more lethargic and decrease your concentration."
Instead, Chapman suggested munching on foods high in protein and carbohydrates, like cheese and crackers. Chapman said the carbohydrates in the crackers would boost blood sugar quickly and give students a little burst of energy. The body breaks carbohydrates down quickly, which is where the cheese comes into play. The protein in cheese takes longer to digest, so it's going to provide students with energy for about three to four hours.
Barbara Bell, a sophomore from Lancaster, Texas, said she usually doesn't eat when she is stressed.
"Just like a car needs gasoline, the body needs glucose," Chapman said. "Your glucose level drops below what it needs to be if you go without food for three to four hours."
"I guess I do the opposite of everyone else." Bell said.
"Studies prove that students in the classroom perform better when they've had breakfast." Denning said. "If you're going to spend all this time and effort, I think it's worth setting your alarm 10 to 15 minutes early to get a healthy breakfast."
However, Chapman suggested students put food in their systems about every four hours.
Patricia Denning, the chief of staff at Watkins, said breakfast was especially important during finals week.
Chapman warned students to avoid "stress-eating" while they study. Chapman said students often
Chapman said when students snack during finals week, they should take a break from studying and simply focus on the food they're eating. Then, when they go back to studying, they can concentrate and won't be shoveling in extra calories in the process.
"Students often eat while they're studying because they're nervous about flunking exams," Chapman said. "So then they eat constantly, which is really unhealthy. Those are calories you don't need."
eat as a means of procrastination or stress relief.
If students do find that they can't study without eating, Chapman recommended they leave their apartment and go to the library, so food would be out of sight and out of mind. She suggested students take a 100-calorie snack with them in case they do get hungry.
- Edited by Leslie Kinsman
Defense is weakness
MEN'S BASKETBALL | 1B
MUSIC|6A
The Louisiana Street Band will compete for recording time in Los Angeles January 15.
Local band will compete
Bill Self points out the defense as the baseball team's weakness. The team will be tested in tonight's game against Memphis.
Energy-boosting snacks
- 8 oz. yogurt with 1/2 cup cereal
- Low fat string cheese with seven Triscuits
- -100-calorie snack pack of nuts or popcorn
- One cup of whole grain cereal with one cup of low-fat milk
- Hot cocoa and six vanilla wafers
- Half of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
Malott scare quickly addressed
CAMPUS | 6A
An unknown chemical smell in Malott Hall on Monday afternoon led to a building-wide evacuation. By the evening, the building was cleared for re-entry.
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Opinion...5A
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Sophomore Andrea Guebelie crosses the finish line in the 200-meter dash Saturday during the Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion.. Guebelie finished third in the event with a time of 25.48.
Sophomore Mason Finley improved on his weight throw results from last year throwing 56.29-feet, which earned him third place.
"It was good. I PR-ed from last year by six feet so I think it was good," Finley said.
The women's pole vaulters swept the medals with first, second and third place finishen. Freshman Demi Payne managed her first collegiate win at 3.9 meters, just short of the 4-meter qualifying mark for the NCAA. Senior Jaci Perryman and junior Julia Cummings came in at 3.8-meters and 3.7-meters, respectively.
Sophomore Rebecca Neville came in first in the 60-meter hurdles race with a time of 8.93.
"It was an OK start to the season it was a way faster start than last year. We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together," Neville said.
Transfer sophomore Francine Kimone Simpson's debut for Kansas was solid as she finished behind sophomore Denesha Morris in the 60-meter dash. Sophomore Andrea Geubelle rounded out the top three.
"That was pretty amazing," Simpson said. "It was pretty good to know that all three of us were in the top three."
time of 15.34
Geu bellel followed Simpson in third at 25.48.
Both times are just above the NCAA qualifying times.
Simpson also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a
For the men,
senior Keron
Toussain took
want to but this year it was a good start."
Experience paid off for junior Nick Canton who won high jump by clearing the two-meter mark on his first try. His teammate, fresh-
Another young face for the Jayhawks was 800-
first in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:13.03.
man Nikolos Giancano,
finished third also at two-
meter, which was ultimat-
ely a four-way tie.
meter winner, freshman Dalen Fink. This was his first experience running on an indoor track; however he took right to it.
"We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together."
"It was my first race in college so I was really nervous and anxious coming into it," Fink said. "I want to keep dropping my times
"It is a good way to start off the season," Toussaint said. "Normally I do not start as good as 1
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here."
The second flight of the women's 4x400 had the Jayhawk team flying around the track for a final time of 3:44:75. The team was composed of freshman Diamond Dixon, sophomore Taylor Washington, junior
Sophomore Sean Proehl won the 1000-meter race by edging
REBECCA NEVILLE Sophomore hurdler
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
and staying competitive trying to keep up. We have a great group of guys we are all going to look to push ourselves."
out a competitor and getting a time of 2.35.20.
"It was good to catch him right at the end. I almost didn't think I was going to," Proehl said.
Shayla Wilson and sophomore Denesha Morris. All four of the women sped around the track for the entire race and almost lapped the last place competition.
"Even though
Even though they are young it is a great team because they are all really fast and motivated in practice," Wilson said. "I don't think age has anything to do with it because they are all really good runners."
Redwine said it was a good start to the season, but also leaves room for improvement.
The men's 4x400 placed second with a time of 3:21.56.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here." Redwine said. "We need to make sure that our athletes train over the Christmas holidays and then we will see where we are again."
The next meet will be in Lawrence on Jan. 8, 2011, for the Bill Easton Classic.
Edited by Emily McCoy
KANSAS 3
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Freshman middle distance runner Dalen Fink pushes past freshman middle distance teammate Nick Seckfort in the 800 meter run at Saturday's Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Fink captured the win with a team of 1:56:49 while Seckfort was right on his heels finishing in fourth at 1:57:02.
Had Nebraska won and gone on to receive the Big 12's automatic BCS bid it would've been the ultimate insult to the Big 12 in what is already perceived to be a down year for the conference. Pundits would claim how it's more like the Big Ten has three teams playing in the BCS, and continue to throw the remaining Big 12 teams under the bus as underachievers in a down year for the conference because of the struggles of Texas.
tory was not just a victory for Oklahoma, but also a victory for the Big 12 conference as a whole. The team that effectively destroyed the championship doesn't get to win the last one. And this year the Cornhuskers can't blame their loss on officiating like last year's loss to Texas. If they want to blame anyone, they can look at themselves and their inability to hold onto the football.
Thankfully, Stoops changed the moniker (he has lost his last five BCS Bowl games and lost to Mizzou as the number one team in the nation), and did it coming back from a 17 to nothing deficit in the early second quarter.
The ten members of the Big 12 who will remain in the conference can head into the bowl season resting easy, knowing that they won't have to watch Nebraska bring the Big 12 trophy with them to a different conference. Instead they can focus on improving the reputation of the Big 12 by winning as many bowl games as possible.
And fans of the school's will be happy to know that next season, even though there will not be a Big 12 Championship game, there will be a defending champion to try and unseat.
Edited by Anna Nordling
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— and others that will only make them wish for bedtime.
Finals Week and late-night studying often go hand-in-hand. There are some nighttime snacks that will actually help sleep deprived students study hard late into the night
Ann Chapman, the dietitian at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said students are tempted to snack during stressful times, especially finals week, because food can be soothing.
"How do you feel when you put a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth? It's instant gratification," Chapman said. "All the measures of stress are reduced slightly."
However, Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins, said foods high in sugar and fat are the last thing students should be eating while studying. Quinlan said the fast foods and comfort foods students often turn to would only slow them down.
"That cookie, that doughnut, they just not helpful to push through finals week," Quinlan said. "They're going to make you feel more lethargic and decrease your concentration."
Instead, Chapman suggested munching on foods high in protein and carbohydrates, like cheese and crackers. Chapman said the carbohydrates in the crackers would boost blood sugar quickly and give students a little burst of energy. The body breaks carbohydrates down quickly, which is where the cheese comes into play. The protein in cheese takes longer to digest, so it's going to provide students with energy for about three to four hours.
n three to four hours.
Barbara Bell, a sophomore from Lancaster, Texas, said she usually doesn't eat when she is stressed.
"I guess I do the opposite of everyone else," Bell said.
"Just like a car needs gasoline, the body needs glucose." Chapman said. "Your glucose level drops below what it needs to be if you go without food for three or four hours."
"Studies prove that students in the classroom perform better when they've had breakfast." Denning said. "If you're going to spend all this time and effort, I think its worth setting your alarm 10 to 15 minutes early to get a healthy breakfast."
However, Chapman suggested students put food in their systems about every four hours.
Patricia Denning, the chief of staff at Watkins, said breakfast was especially important during finals week.
Chapman warned students to avoid "stress-eating" while they study. Chapman said students often
Chapman said when students snack during finals week, they should take a break from studying and simply focus on the food they're eating. Then, when they go back to studying, they can concentrate and won't be shoveling in extra calories in the process.
"Students often eat while they're studying because they're nervous about flunking exams," Chapman said. "So then they eat constantly, which is really unhealthy. Those are calories you don't need."
If students do find that they can't study without eating, Chapman recommended they leave their apartment and go to the library, so food would be out of sight and out of mind. She suggested students take a 100-calorie snack with them in case they do get hungry.
eat as a means of procrastination or stress relief.
Edited by Leslie Kinsman
Defense is weakness
Local band will compete
The Louisiana Street Band will compete for recording time in Los Angeles January 15.
Energy-boosting snacks
MUSIC | 6A
- Low fat string cheese with seven Triscuits
- *100-calorie snack pack of nuts or popcorn
- 8 oz. yogurt with 1/2 cup cereal
- Hot cocoa and six vanilla wafers
- One cup of whole grain cereal with one cup of low-fat milk
MEN'S BASKETBALL|1B
Bill Self points out the defense as the baseketball team's weakness. The team will be tested in tonight's game against Memphis.
- Half of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
Malott scare quickly addressed
An unknown chemical smell in Malott Hall on Monday afternoon led to a building-wide evacuation. By the evening, the building was cleared for re-entry.
CAMPUS|6A
INDEX
Classifieds...8A
Crossword...4A
Cryptoquips...4A
Opinion...5A
Sports...1B
Sudoku...4A
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BEST BURGER
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A unique take on an old classic
editor@kansan.com
BY VICTORIA PITCHER
BURGER UNIVS
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SAMUEL ADAMS
Chris Hoffman swiftly clears a table after two satisfied customers leave. Before finally sitting down, he offers me something to drink; it is right after lunch hour, and he seems to be taking a break for the first time since he began his shift. Hoffman is the general manager at The Burger Stand, 803 Massachusetts St., which was voted Top of the Hill's Best Burger.
The Burger Stand started out as a separate business inside Dempsey's Irish Pub on Vermont Street. "It was just a bar with a kitchen that needed fixed up," Hoffman said. Owners Simon and Codi Bates and Robert and Molly Krause moved in and sold their first burger on Feb. 4, 2009 in the back corner of Dempsey's.
Michelle Wilson, a sophomore from Lawrence, has been a loyal customer to The Burger Stand since it began inside Dempsey's. Wilson and her boyfriend ate at The Burger Stand on their first date, and eating there has since become a weekly tradition for them. "The burgers are absolutely amazing, and they are all really unique," Wilson said. "You can't find a burger made that way anywhere else."
What started out as a business, with a staff of only four, quickly began to outgrow its small corner at Dempseys. Customers were catching on to these unique burgers and soon enough The Burger Stand landed a prime location on Massachusetts Street.
Unique may be the exact reason The Burger Stand was voted best burger in Lawrence. With items on the menu like the Fire Burger, the Black and Blue, and even a vegetarian burger, the Falafel, the Burger Stand gives customers
more flavor and variety.
What some people may not know is that the food at The Burger Stand is almost completely natural and handmade. Everything except for the fries and onion rings are either made from scratch or bought locally. According to Hoffman, the burgers contain few preservatives and are topped with healthy options such as micro greens instead of lettuce. However, portions are in plenty; every burger is a half-pound. "The biggest bang you are getting for your buck is portion. No one leaves here hungry," Hoffman said.
It can be intimidating when you first order at The Burger Stand. All items are à la carte. A wide range of food is offered other than burgers such as HawtDawggs, salads, fried pickles, beer-battered onion rings and fries. Hoffman recommends to first times trying the truffle fries. They are made with truffle butter and sprinkled with parmesan. "Every other fry will not taste the same again. You can thank me
later." Hoffman said.
The Burger Stand is not only a restaurant; it is also a bar. They serve several microbrews such as Boulevard Wheat and Odell IPA as well as a large selection of domestic and imported bottles. They are open until 2 a.m. There is never a cover at the Burger Stand and burgers are sold until last call Wednesday through Saturday every week. KU games play on their 65-inch screen at the bar as well as their two 50-inch screens in the restaurant. Tuesdays are jazz nights and Wednesdays are karaoke nights.
— Edited by David Cawthon
Excellent service and a comfortable environment play another factor in the Burger Stand's success. "It's just a feel good place to be," Wilson said. Hoffman says friendliness and building customer loyalty are key to his success. "People come in here and talk about this place like it's been here 15 years." Hoffman said.
2nd — Five Guys
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3rd - Jefferson's 743 Massachusetts Street
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BEST OVERALL BAR
1st — The Hawk 1340 Ohio St.
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2nd — Quinton's
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3rd — Sandbar
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Sophomore Mason Finley improved on his weight throw results from last year throwing 56.29-feet, which earned him third place.
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"It was good. I PR-ed from last year by six feet so I think it was good." Finley said.
Sophomore Andrea Guebelle crosses the finish line in the 200-meter dash Saturday during the Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Guebelle finished third in the event with a time of 25.48.
The women's pole vaulters swept the medals with first, second and third place finishen. Freshman Demi Payne managed her first collegiate win at 3.9 meters, just short of the 4-meter qualifying mark for the NCAA. Senior Jaci Perryman and junior Julia Cummings came in at 3.8-meters and 3.7-meters, respectively.
Sophomore Rebecca Neville came in first in the 60-meter hurdles race with a time of 8.93.
"It was an OK start to the season it was a way faster start than last year. We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together," Neville said.
Transfer sophomore Francine Kimone Simpson's debut for Kansas was solid as she finished behind sophomore Denesha Morris in the 60-meter dash. Sophomore Andrea Geubelle rounded out the top three.
"That was pretty amazing," Simpson said. "It was pretty good to know that all three of us were in the top three."
Geu belle followed Simpson in third at 25.48. Both times are just above the NCAA qualifying times.
Simpson also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a
For the men,
senior Keron
Toussaint took
Another young face for the Jayhawks was 800-
want to but this year it was a good start."
Experience paid off for junior Nick Canton who won high jump by clearing the two-meter mark on his first try. His teammate, freshman Nikolos Giancana, finished third also at two-meter, which was ultimately a four-way tie.
"We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together."
meter winner, freshman Dalen Fink. This was his first experience running on an indoor track; however he took right to it.
"It was my first race in college so I was really nervous and anxious coming into it," Fink said. "I want to keep dropping my times
first in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:13.03.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here."
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
The second flight of the women's 4x400 had the Jayhawk team flying around the track for a final time of 3:44:75. The team was composed of freshman Diamond Dixon, sophomore Taylor Washington, junior
"It is a good way to start off the season," Toussaint said. "Normally I do not start out as good as I
REBECCA NEVILLE Sophomore hurdler
competitive trying to keep up. We have a great group of guys we are all going to look to push ourselves."
Sophomore Sean Proehl won the 1000-meter race by edging
and staying
out a competitor and getting a time of 2:35,20.
Shayla Wilson and sophomore Denesha Morris. All four of the women sped around the track for the entire race and almost lapped the last place competition.
"It was good to catch him right at the end. I almost didn't think I was going to," Proehl said.
"Even though
Even though they are young it is a great team because they are all really fast and motivated in practice," Wilson said. "I don't think age has anything to do with it because they are all really good runners."
The men's 4x400 placed second with a time of 3:21.56.
Redwine said it was a good start to the season, but also leaves room for improvement.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here," Redwine said. "We need to make sure that our athletes train over the Christmas holidays and then we will see where we are again."
The next meet will be in Lawrence on Jan. 8,2011,for the Bill Easton Classic.
Edited by Emily McCoy
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Freshman middle distance runner Dalen Fink pushes past freshman middle distance teammate Nick Seckfort in the 800 meter run at Saturday's Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Fink captured the win with a team of 1:56:49 while Seckfort was right on his heels finishing in fourth at 1:57:02.
Thankfully, Stoops changed the moniker (he has lost his last five BCS Bowl games and lost to Mizzou as the number one team in the nation), and did it coming back from a 17 to nothing deficit in the early second quarter.
The ten members of the Big 12 who will remain in the conference can head into the bowl season resting easy, knowing that they won't have to watch Nebraska bring the Big 12 trophy with them to a different conference. Instead they can focus on improving the reputation of the Big 12 by winning as many bowl games as possible.
Had Nebraska won and gone on to receive the Big 12's automatic BCS bid it would've been the ultimate insult to the Big 12 in what is already perceived to be a down year for the conference. Pundits would claim how it's more like the Big Ten has three teams playing in the BCS, and continue to throw the remaining Big 12 teams under the bus as underachievers in a down year for the conference because of the struggles of Texas.
And fans of the school's will be happy to know that next season, even though there will not be a Big 12 Championship game, there will be a defending champion to try and unseat.
history was not just a victory for Oklahoma, but also a victory for the Big 12 conference as a whole. The team that effectively destroyed the championship doesn't get to win the last one. And this year the Cornhuskers can't blame their loss on officiating like last year's loss to Texas. If they want to blame anyone, they can look at themselves and their inability to hold onto the football.
Edited by Anna Nordling
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BEST BEER SELECTION 1st Free State Brewing Co. 636 Massachusetts St.
1st — Free State Brewing Co.
636 Massachusetts St.
FREE STATE BREWING CO.
42%
Free State keeps variety of locally brewed beers on tap
SARA SNEATH editor@kansan.com
It's Friday night and the beer is flowing at Free State Brewing Company. The partisans are dressed in their finest KU paraphernalia as they sip on one of the eight available selections. The beer is cold and the KU basketball team is winning — all is well.
This year, the majority of KU students voted Free State as having the best beer selection in town. With eight to 10 home-brewed beer choices on tap at a time, Free State offers something for everyone. In addition, the friendly staff makes the microbrewery selections slightly less intimidating for the inexperienced beer drinkers.
Free State has four standard beers — Ad Astra Ale, Copperhead Pale Ale, Oatmeal Stout and Wheat State Golden. These beers are always available on tap and are the only beers bottled and sold in liquor stores. Free State also produces several specialty and seasonal beers. According to Free State manager Debby Fey, we can expect to see Santa's Helper, Josiah Miller, C-4 Imperial IPA and Old Backus Barley Wine during this holiday season.
Among the Friday night crowd, Kayla
Bennett, a senior from Lawrence, can be found enjoying her favorite brew — Ad Astra Ale.
"To be honest, I haven't tried all of them, but it's my favorite of those I have had," Bennett said. Ad Astra is currently among the six ales offered at Free State. Traditionally, beer is classified into three categories: ale, lager and mixed style. In addition to the six ales on tap, there is also one lager and one mixed style.
For Lawrence resident Sage Warren, John Brown Ale is better than the rest. Warren and her coworkers meet every other Friday to "talk shop and drink good beer." When not at Free State, Warren remains faithful to Free State products. Customers such as Warren can find Free State brews on tap at several locations in Kansas. Fey indicates that the market may spill over to Missouri as soon as spring 2011.
After Free State Brewing Company, KU students voted 23rd Street Brewery and Old Chicago as having the second and third best beer selection, respectively. 23rd Street Brewery sall 11 bottled beers and has nine of its own brewed beers available on tap. Old Chicago has 30 beers on tap at all times and sells 100 bottled selections.
- Edited by Lisa Curran
2nd — 23rd Street Brewery 3512 Clinton Parkway
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3rd — Old Chicago 2329 Iowa St.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Instead of sugar-heavy foods, experts say to grab for protein and carbohydrated-filled snacks. Foods like cheese and crackers can help keep you more awake and alert for studying.
BY JUSTINE PATTON jpatton@kansan.com
Evan Palmer/KANSAN
Finals Week and late-night studying often go hand-in-hand. There are some nighttime snacks that will actually help sleep-deprived students study hard late into the night
— and others that will only make them wish for bedtime.
Ann Chapman, the dietitian at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said students are tempted to snack during stressful times, especially finals week, because food can be soothing.
"How do you feel when you put a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth? It's instant gratification," Chapman said. "All the measures of stress are reduced slightly."
However, Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins, said foods high in sugar and fat are the last thing students should be eating while studying. Quinlan said the fast foods and comfort foods students often turn to would only slow them down.
"That cookie, that doughnut, they just not helpful to push through finals week," Quinlan said. "They're going to make you feel more lethargic and decrease your concentration."
Instead, Chapman suggested munching on foods high in protein and carbohydrates, like cheese and crackers. Chapman said the carbohydrates in the crackers would boost blood sugar quickly and give students a little burst of energy. The body breaks carbohydrates down quickly, which is where the cheese comes into play. The protein in cheese takes longer to digest, so it's going to provide students with energy for about three to four hours.
"I guess I do the opposite of everyone else," Bell said.
gy for about three to four hours.
Barbara Bell, a sophomore from Lancaster, Texas, said she usually doesn't eat when she is stressed.
"Just like a car needs gasoline, the body needs glucose," Chapman said. "Your glucose level drops below what it needs to be if you go without food for three to four hours."
"Studies prove that students in the classroom perform better when they've had breakfast," Denning said. "If you're going to spend all this time and effort, I think it's worth setting your alarm 10 to 15 minutes early to get a healthy breakfast."
However, Chapman suggested students put food in their systems about every four hours.
Patricia Denning, the chief of staff at Watkins, said breakfast was especially important during finals week.
Chapman warned students to avoid "stress-eating" while they study. Chapman said students often
Chapman said when students snack during finals week, they should take a break from studying and simply focus on the food they're eating. Then, when they go back to studying, they can concentrate and won't be shoveling in extra calories in the process.
"Students often eat while they're studying because they're nervous about flunking exams," Chapman said. "So then they eat constantly, which is really unhealthy. Those are calories you don't need."
eat as a means of procrastination or stress relief.
If students do find that they can't study without eating, Chapman recommended they leave their apartment and go to the library, so food would be out of sight and out of mind. She suggested students take a 100-calorie snack with them in case they do get hungry.
Edited by Leslie Kinsman
The Louisiana Street Band will compete for recording time in Los Angeles January 15.
Local band will compete
Energy-boosting snacks
Defense is weakness
MEN'S BASKETBALL | 1B
- 8 oz. yogurt with 1/2 cup cereal
- Low fat string cheese with seven Triscuits
MUSIC | 6A
-100-calorie snack pack of nuts or popcorn
Bill Self points out the defense as the basekball team's weakness. The team will be tested in tonight's game against Memphis.
- Hot cocoa and six vanilla wafers
- One cup of whole grain cereal with one cup of low-fat milk
- Half of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
Malott scare quickly addressed
An unknown chemical smell in Malott Hall on Monday afternoon led to a building-wide evacuation. By the evening, the building was cleared for re-entry.
CAMPUS|6A
INDEX
Classifieds...8A
Crossword...4A
Cryptoquips...4A
Opinion...5A
Sports...1B
Sudoku...4A
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Sophomore Mason Finley improved on his weight throw results from last year throwing 56.29-feet, which earned him third place.
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Sophomore Andrea Guebelle crosses the finish line in the 200-meter dash Saturday during the Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Guebelle finished third in the event with a time of 25.48.
"It was good. I PR-ed from last year by six feet so I think it was good," Finley said.
The women's pole vaulters swept the medals with first, second and third place finishen. Freshman Demi Payne managed her first collegiate win at 3.9 meters, just short of the 4-meter qualifying mark for the NCAA. Senior Jaci Perryman and junior Julia Cummings came in at 3.8-meters and 3.7-meters, respectively.
Sophomore Rebecca Neville came in first in the 60-meter hurdles race with a time of 8.93.
"It was an OK start to the season it was a way faster start than last year. We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together," Neville said.
Transfer sophomore Francine Kimone Simpson's debut for Kansas was solid as she finished behind sophomore Denesha Morris in the 60-meter dash. Sophomore Andrea Geubelle rounded out the top three.
"That was pretty amazing," Simpson said. "It was pretty good to know that all three of us were in the top three."
time of 25.14.
Geubelle followed Simpson in third at 25.48. Both times are just above the NCAA qualifying times.
Simpson also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a
For the men,
senior Keron
Toussaint took
Another young face for the Jayhawks was 800-
want to but this year it was a good start."
man Nikolos Giancana, finished third also at two-meter, which was ultimately a four-way tie.
Experience paid off for junior Nick Canton who won high jump by clearing the two-meter mark on his first try. His teammate, fresh-
meter winner, freshman Dalen Fink. This was his first experience running on an indoor track; however he took right to it.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here."
first in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:13.03.
"We know that I can run way faster.I am definitely going to put the race together."
"It was my first race in college so I was really nervous and anxious coming into it," Fink said. "I want to keep dropping my times
STANLEY REDWINE
Coach
The second flight of the women's 4x400 had the Jayhawk team flying around the track for a final time of 3:44:75. The team was composed of freshman Diamond Dixon, sophomore Taylor Washington, junior
"It is a good way to start off the season," Toussaint said. "Normally I do not start out as good as 1
REBECCA NEVILLE Sophomore hurdler
and staying
competitive trying to keep up. We have a great group of guys we are all going to look to push ourselves."
out a competitor and getting a time of 2:35.20.
Sophomore Sean Proehl won the 1000-meter race by edging
"It was good to catch him right at the end. I almost didn't think I was going to," Proehl said.
Shayla Wilson and sophomore Denesha Morris. All four of the women speed around the track for the entire race and almost lapped the last place competition.
"Even though
though they are young it is a great team because they are all really fast and motivated in practice."Wilson said. "I don't think age has anything to do with it because they are all really good runners."
Redwine said it was a good start to the season, but also leaves room for improvement.
The men's 4x400 placed second with a time of 3:21.56.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here." Redwine said. "We need to make sure that our athletes train over the Christmas holidays and then we will see where we are again."
The next meet will be in Lawrence on Jan. 8, 2011, for the Bill Easton Classic.
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
KANSAS 3
— Edited by Emily McCoy
Freshman middle distance runner Dalen Fink pushes past freshman middle distance teammate Nick Seckfort in the 800 meter run at Saturday's Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Fink captured the win with a team of 1:56:49 while Seckfort was right on his heels finishing in fourth at 1:57:02.
The ten members of the Big 12 who will remain in the conference can head into the bowl season resting easy, knowing that they won't have to watch Nebraska bring the Big 12 trophy with them to a different conference. Instead they can focus on improving the reputation of the Big 12 by winning as many bowl games as possible.
Thankfully, Stoops changed the moniker (he has lost his last five BCS Bowl games and lost to Mizzou as the number one team in the nation), and did it coming back from a 17 to nothing deficit in the early second quarter.
Had Nebraska won and gone on to receive the Big 12's automatic BCS bid it would've been the ultimate insult to the Big 12 in what is already perceived to be a down year for the conference. Pundits would claim how it's more like the Big Ten has three teams playing in the BCS, and continue to throw the remaining Big 12 teams under the bus as underachievers in a down year for the conference because of the struggles of Texas.
And fans of the school's will be happy to know that next season, even though there will not be a Big 12 Championship game, there will be a defending champion to try and unseat.
history was not just a victory for Oklahoma, but also a victory for the Big 12 conference as a whole. The team that effectively destroyed the championship doesn't get to win the last one. And this year the Cornhuskers can't blame their loss on officiating like last year's loss to Texas. If they want to blame anyone, they can look at themselves and their inability to hold onto the football.
Edited by Anna Nordling
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Instead of sugar-heavy foods, experts say to grab for protein and carbohydrated-filled snacks. Foods like cheese and crackers can help keep you more awake and alert for studying.
Evan Palmer/KANSAN
BY JUSTINE PATTON jpatton@kansan.com
— and others that will only make them wish for bedtime.
Finals Week and late-night studying often go hand in-hand. There are some nighttime snacks that will actually help sleep-deprived students study hard late into the night
Ann Chapman, the dietitian at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said students are tempted to snack during stressful times, especially finals week, because food can be soothing.
"How do you feel when you put a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth? It's instant gratification," Chapman said. "All the measures of stress are reduced slightly."
However, Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins, said foods high in sugar and fat are the last thing students should be eating while studying. Quinlan said the fast foods and comfort foods students often turn to would only slow them down.
"That cookie, that doughnut, they are just not helpful to push through finals week," Quinlan said. "They're going to make you feel more lethargic and decrease your concentration."
Instead, Chapman suggested munching on foods high in protein and carbohydrates, like cheese and crackers. Chapman said the carbohydrates in the crackers would boost blood sugar quickly and give students a little burst of energy. The body breaks carbohydrates down quickly, which is where the cheese comes into play. The protein in cheese takes longer to digest, so it's going to provide students with energy for about three to four hours.
for kook up three to four hours.
Barbara Bell, a sophomore from Lancaster, Texas, said she usually doesn't eat when she is stressed.
"Just like a car needs gasoline, the body needs glucose." Chapman said. "Your glucose level drops below what it needs to be if you go without food for three to four hours."
"I guess I do the opposite of everyone else," Bell said.
"Studies prove that students in the classroom perform better when they've had breakfast." Denning said. "If you're going to spend all this time and effort, I think it's worth setting your alarm 10 to 15 minutes early to get a healthy breakfast."
Patricia Denning, the chief of staff at Watkins, said breakfast was especially important during finals week.
However, Chapman suggested students put food in their systems about every four hours.
Chapman warned students to avoid "stress-eating" while they study. Chapman said students often
"Students often eat while they're studying because they're nervous about flunking exams," Chapman said. "So then they eat constantly, which is really unhealthy. Those are calories you don't need."
Chapman said when students snack during finals week, they should take a break from studying and simply focus on the food they're eating. Then, when they go back to studying, they can concentrate and won't be shoveling in extra calories in the process.
If students do find that they can't study without eating, Chapman recommended they leave their apartment and go to the library, so food would be out of sight and out of mind. She suggested students take a 100-calorie snack with them in case they do get hungry.
eat as a means of procrastination or stress relief.
Edited by Leslie Kinsman
The Louisiana Street Band will compete for recording time in Los Angeles January 15.
Local band will compete
Energy-boosting snacks
- Low fat string cheese with seven Triscuits
- 8 oz. yogurt with 1/2 cup cereal
-100-calorie snack pack of nuts or popcorn
Defense is weakness
- Hot cocoa and six vanilla wafers
MEN'S BASKETBALL | 1B
MUSIC|6A
- One cup of whole grain cereal with one cup of low-fat milk
- Bill Self points out the defense as the basekball team's weakness. The team will be tested in tonight's game against Memphis.
- Half of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
Malott scare quickly addressed
An unknown chemical smell in Malott Hall on Monday afternoon led to a building-wide evacuation. By the evening, the building was cleared for re-entry.
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Sophomore Mason Finley improved on his weight throw results from last year throwing 56.29-feet, which earned him third place.
"It was good. I PR-ed from last year by six feet so I think it was good," Finley said.
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Sophomore Andrea Guebelie crosses the finish line in the 200-meter dash Saturday during the Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Guebelie finished third in the event with a time of 25.48.
The women's pole vaulters swept the medals with first, second and third place finishen. Freshman Demi Payne managed her first collegiate win at 3.9 meters, just short of the 4-meter qualifying mark for the NCAA. Senior Jaci Perryman and junior Julia Cummings came in at 3.8-meters and 3.7-meters, respectively.
Sophomore Rebecca Neville came in first in the 60-meter hurdles race with a time of 8.93.
"It was an OK start to the season it was a way faster start than last year. We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together," Neville said.
Transfer sophomore Francine Kimone Simpson's debut for Kansas was solid as she finished behind sophomore Denesha Morris in the 60-meter dash. Sophomore Andrea Gebelle rounded out the top three.
"That was pretty amazing," Simpson said. "It was pretty good to know that all three of us were in the top three."
time of 25.14. Geubelle followed Simpson in third at 25.48. Both times are just above the NCAA qualifying times.
Simpson also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a
For the men, senior Keron Toussaint took
want to but this year it was a good start."
Another young face for the Jayhawks was 800-
meter winner, freshman Dalen Fink. This was his first experience running on an indoor track; however he took right to it.
Experience paid off for junior Nick Canton who won high jump by clearing the two-meter mark on his first try. His teammate, freshman Nikolos Giancana, finished third also at two meter, which was ultimately a four-way tie.
"We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together."
"It is a good way to start off the season," Toussaint said. "Normally I do not start out as good as I
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here."
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
first in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:13.03.
"It was my first race in college so I was really nervous and anxious coming into it," Fink said. "I want to keep dropping my times
REBECCA NEVILLE Sophomore hurdler
The second flight of the women' 4x400 had the Jayhawk team flying around the track for a final time of 3:44:75. The team was composed of freshman Diamond Dixon, sophomore Taylor Washington, junior
competitive trying to keep up. We have a great group of guys we are all going to look to push ourselves."
and staying
Sophomore Sean Proehl won the 1000-meter race by edging
out a competitor and getting a time of 2:35.20.
"It was good to catch him right at the end. I almost didn't think I was going to," Proehl said.
Shayla Wilson and sophomore Denesha Morris. All four of the women sped around the track for the entire race and almost lapped the last place competition.
"Even though
they are young it is a great team because they are all really fast and motivated in practice," Wilson said. "I don't think age has anything to do with it because they are all really good runners."
The men's 4x400 placed second with a time of 3:21.56.
Redwine said it was a good start to the season, but also leaves room for improvement.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here," Redwine said. "We need to make sure that our athletes train over the Christmas holidays and then we will see where we are again."
The next meet will be in Lawrence on Jan. 8, 2011, for the Bill Easton Classic.
Edited by Emily McCoy
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
KANSAS 3
Freshman middle distance runner Dalen Fink pushes past freshman middle distance teammate Nick Seckfort in the 800 meter run at Saturday's Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Fink captured the win with a team of 1:56:49 while Seckfort was right on his heels finishing in fourth at 1:57:02.
Thankfully, Stoops changed the moniker (he has lost his last five BCS Bowl games and lost to Mizzou as the number one team in the nation), and did it coming back from a 17 to nothing deficit in the early second quarter.
The ten members of the Big 12 who will remain in the conference can head into the bowl season resting easy, knowing that they won't have to watch Nebraska bring the Big 12 trophy with them to a different conference. Instead they can focus on improving the reputation of the Big 12 by winning as many bowl games as possible.
Had Nebraska won and gone on to receive the Big 12's automatic BCS bid it would've been the ultimate insult to the Big 12 in what is already perceived to be a down year for the conference. Pundits would claim how it's more like the Big Ten has three teams playing in the BCS, and continue to throw the remaining Big 12 teams under the bus as underachievers in a down year for the conference because of the struggles of Texas.
And fans of the school's will be happy to know that next season, even though there will not be a Big 12 Championship game, there will be a defending champion to try and unseat.
tory was not just a victory for Oklahoma, but also a victory for the Big 12 conference as a whole. The team that effectively destroyed the championship doesn't get to win the last one. And this year the Cornhuskers can't blame their loss on officiating like last year's loss to Texas. If they want to blame anyone, they can look at themselves and their inability to hold onto the football.
-Edited by Anna Nordling
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Experts deem energy-filled snacks beneficial for finals
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Instead of sugar-heavy foods, experts say to grab for protein and carbohydrated-filled snacks. Foods like cheese and crackers can help keep you more awake and alert for studying.
BY JUSTINE PATTON
jpatton@kansan.com
Evan Palmer/KANSAN
— and others that will only make them wish for bedtime.
Finals Week and late-night studying often go hand-in-hand. There are some nighttime snacks that will actually help sleep-deprived students study hard late into the night
Ann Chapman, the dietitian at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said students are tempted to snack during stressful times, especially finals week, because food can be soothing.
"How do you feel when you put a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth? It's instant gratification," Chapman said. "All the measures of stress are reduced slightly."
However, Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins, said foods high in sugar and fat are the last thing students should be eating while studying. Quinlan said the fast foods and comfort foods students often turn to would only slow them down.
"That cookie, that doughnut, they just not helpful to push through finals week," Quinlan said. "They're going to make you feel more lethargic and decrease your concentration."
Instead, Chapman suggested munching on foods high in protein and carbohydrates, like cheese and crackers. Chapman said the carbohydrates in the crackers would boost blood sugar quickly and give students a little burst of energy. The body breaks carbohydrates down quickly, which is where the cheese comes into play. The protein in cheese takes longer to digest, so it's going to provide students with energy for about three to four hours.
Barbara Bell, a sophomore from Lancaster, Texas, said she usually doesn't eat when she is stressed.
"Just like a car needs gasoline, the body needs glucose." Chapman said. "Your glucose level drops below what it needs to be if you go without food for three to four hours."
"I guess I do the opposite of everyone else," Bell said.
"Studies prove that students in the classroom perform better when they've had breakfast." Denning said. "If you're going to spend all this time and effort, I think it's worth setting your alarm 10 to 15 minutes early to get a healthy breakfast."
However, Chapman suggested students put food in their systems about every four hours.
Patricia Denning, the chief of staff at Watkins, said breakfast was especially important during finals week.
Chapman warned students to avoid "stress-eating" while they study. Chapman said students often
Chapman said when students snack during finals week, they should take a break from studying and simply focus on the food they're eating. Then, when they go back to studying, they can concentrate and won't be shoveling in extra calories in the process.
If students do find that they can't study without eating, Chapman recommended they leave their apartment and go to the library, so food would be out of sight and out of mind. She suggested students take a 100-calorie snack with them in case they do get hungry.
"Students often eat while they're studying because they're nervous about flunking exams," Chapman said. "So then they eat constantly, which is really unhealthy. Those are calories you don't need."
eat as a means of procrastination or stress relief.
— Edited by Leslie Kinsman
MEN'S BASKETBALL | 1B
The Louisiana Street Band will compete for recording time in Los Angeles January 15.
Local band will compete
Defense is weakness
Energy-boosting snacks
- Low fat string cheese with seven Triscuits
MUSIC|6A
- 8 oz. yogurt with 1/2 cup cereal
- 100-calorie snack pack of nuts or popcorn
- Bill Self points out the defense as the basetball team's weakness. The team will be tested in tonight's game against Memphis.
- Hot cocoa and six vanilla wafers
- One cup of whole grain cereal with one cup of low-fat milk
- Half of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
CAMPUS | 6A
An unknown chemical smell in Malott Hall on Monday afternoon led to a building wide evacuation. By the evening, the building was cleared for re-entry.
Malott scare quickly addressed
INDEX
Classifieds ...8A
Crossword ...4A
Cryptoquips ...4A
Opinion ...5A
Sports ...1B
Sudoku ...4A
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Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Sophomore Andrea Guebelie crosses the finish line in the 200-meter dash Saturday during the Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Guebelie finished third in the event with a time of 25.48.
Sophomore Mason Finley improved on his weight throw results from last year throwing 56.29-feet, which earned him third place.
"It was good. I PR-ed from last year by six feet so I think it was good." Finley said.
The women's pole vaulters swept the medals with first, second and third place finishen. Freshman Demi Payne managed her first collegiate win at 3.9 meters, just short of the 4-meter qualifying mark for the NCAA. Senior Jaci Perryman and junior Julia Cummings came in at 3.8-meters and 3.7-meters, respectively.
Sophomore Rebecca Neville came in first in the 60-meter hurdles race with a time of 8.93.
"It was an OK start to the season it was a way faster start than last year. We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together," Neville said.
Transfer sophomore Francine Kimone Simpson's debut for Kansas was solid as she finished behind sophomore Denesha Morris in the 60-meter dash. Sophomore Andrea Geubelle rounded out the top three.
"That was pretty amazing," Simpson said. "It was pretty good to know that all three of us were in the top three."
time of 25.14.
Geubelle followed Simpson in third at 25.48.
Both times are just above the NCAA qualifying times.
Simpson also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a
For the men,
senior Keron
Toussaint took
want to but this year it was a good start."
Experience paid off for junior Nick Canton who won high jump by clearing the two-meter mark on his first try. His teammate, freshman Nikolos Giancana, finished third also at two-meter, which was ultimately a four-way tie.
Another young face for the Jayhawks was 800-
first in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:13.03.
meter winner, freshman Dalen Fink. This was his first experience running on an indoor track; however he took right to it.
"We know that I can run way faster.I am definitely going to put the race together."
"It was my first race in college so I was really nervous and anxious coming into it," Fink said. "I want to keep dropping my times
"It is a good way to start off the season," Toussaint said. "Normally I do not start out as good as I
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here."
REBECCA NEVILLE
Sophomore hurdler
The second flight of the women's 4x400 had the Jayhawk team flying around the track for a final time of 3:44:75. The team was composed of freshman Diamond Dixon, sophomore Taylor Washington, junior
competitive trying to keep up. We have a great group of guys we are all going to look to push ourselves."
out a competitor and getting a time of 2:35.20.
and staying
Sophomore Sean Proehl won the 1000-meter race by edging
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
"It was good to catch him right at the end. I almost didn't think I was going to," Proehl said.
Shayla Wilson and sophomore Denesha Morris. All four of the women sped around the track for the entire race and almost lapped the last place competition.
"Even though
they are young it is a great team because they are all really fast and motivated in practice,"Wilson said. "I don't think age has anything to do with it because they are all really good runners."
The men's 4x400 placed second with a time of 3:21.56.
Redwine said it was a good start to the season, but also leaves room for improvement.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here," Redwine said. "We need to make sure that our athletes train over the Christmas holidays and then we will see where we are again."
The next meet will be in Lawrence on Jan. 8, 2011, for the Bill Easton Classic.
- Edited by Emily McCoy
KANSAS
3
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Freshman middle distance runner Dalen Fink pushes past freshman middle distance teammate Nick Seckfort in the 800 meter run at Saturday's Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Fink captured the win with a team of 1:56:49 while Seckfort was right on his heels finishing in fourth at 1:57:02.
Had Nebraska won and gone on to receive the Big 12's automatic BCS bid it would've been the ultimate insult to the Big 12 in what is already perceived to be a down year for the conference. Pundits would claim how it's more like the Big Ten has three teams playing in the BCS, and continue to throw the remaining Big 12 teams under the bus as underachievers in a down year for the conference because of the struggles of Texas.
Thankfully, Stoops changed the moniker (he has lost his last five BCS Bowl games and lost to Mizzou as the number one team in the nation), and did it coming back from a 17 to nothing deficit in the early second quarter.
tory was not just a victory for Oklahoma, but also a victory for the Big 12 conference as a whole. The team that effectively destroyed the championship doesn't get to win the last one. And this year the Cornhuskers can't blame their loss on officiating like last year's loss to Texas. If they want to blame anyone, they can look at themselves and their inability to hold onto the football.
The ten members of the Big 12 who will remain in the conference can head into the bowl season resting easy, knowing that they won't have to watch Nebraska bring the Big 12 trophy with them to a different conference. Instead they can focus on improving the reputation of the Big 12 by winning as many bowl games as possible.
And fans of the school's will be happy to know that next season, even though there will not be a Big 12 Championship game, there will be a defending champion to try and unseat.
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Experts deem energy-filled snacks beneficial for finals
cuit NOPOR INAL Va Jil EXTRA CRUNCH PEANUT BURRITA
Instead of sugar-heavy foods, experts say to grab for protein and carbohydrated-filled snacks. Foods like cheese and crackers can help keep you more awake and alert for studying.
BY JUSTINE PATTON jpatton@kansan.com
Evan Palmer/KANSAN
Finals Week and late-night studying often go hand-in-hand. There are some nighttime snacks that will actually help sleep-deprived students study hard late into the night — and others that will only make them wish for bedtime.
Ann Chapman, the dietitian at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said students are tempted to snack during stressful times, especially finals week, because food can be soothing.
"How do you feel when you put a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth? It's instant gratification," Chapman said. "All the measures of stress are reduced slightly."
However, Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins, said foods high in sugar and fat are the last thing students should be eating while studying. Quinlan said the fast foods and comfort foods students often turn to would only slow them down.
"That cookie, that doughnut, they're just not helpful to push through finals week," Quinlan said. "They're going to make you feel more lethargic and decrease your concentration."
Instead, Chapman suggested munching on foods high in protein and carbohydrates, like cheese and crackers. Chapman said the carbohydrates in the crackers would boost blood sugar quickly and give students a little burst of energy. The body breaks carbohydrates down quickly, which is where the cheese comes into play. The protein in cheese takes longer to digest, so it's going to provide students with energy for about three to four hours.
Barbara Bell, a sophomore from Lancaster, Texas, said she usually doesn't eat when she is stressed.
"Just like a car needs gasoline, the body needs glucose." Chapman said. "Your glucose level drops below what it needs to be if you go without food for three to four hours."
However, Chapman suggested students put food in their systems about every four hours.
"Studies prove that students in the classroom perform better when they've had breakfast," Denning said. "If you're going to spend all this time and effort, I think it's worth setting your alarm 10 to 15 minutes early to get a healthy breakfast."
Patricia Denning, the chief of staff at Watkins, said breakfast was especially important during finals week.
Chapman warned students to avoid "stress-eating" while they study. Chapman said students often
Chapman said when students snack during finals week, they should take a break from studying and simply focus on the food they're eating. Then, when they go back to studying, they can concentrate and won't be shoveling in extra calories in the process.
"Students often eat while they're studying because they're nervous about flanking exams," Chapman said. "So then they eat constantly, which is really unhealthy. Those are calories you don't need."
eat as a means of procrastination or stress relief.
If students do find that they can't study without eating, Chapman recommended they leave their apartment and go to the library, so food would be out of sight and out of mind. She suggested students take a 100-calorie snack with them in case they do get hungry.
Edited by Leslie Kinsman
Local band will compete
The Louisiana Street Band will compete for recording time in Los Angeles January 15.
Energy-boosting snacks
- 8 oz. yogurt with 1/2 cup cereal
MEN'S BASKETBALL|1B
*100-calorie snack pack of nuts or popcorn
Defense is weakness
- Low fat string cheese with seven Triscuits
- Hot cocoa and six vanilla wafers
MUSIC|6A
- One cup of whole grain cereal with one cup of low-fat milk
- Bill Self points out the defense as the baseball team's weakness. The team will be tested in tonight's game against Memphis.
- Half of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
Malott scare quickly addressed
An unknown chemical smell in Malott Hall on Monday afternoon led to a building-wide evacuation. By the evening, the building was cleared for re-entry.
CAMPUS | 6A
Classifieds...8A
Crossword...4A
Cryptoquips...4A
Opinion...5A
Sports...1B
Sudoku...4A
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Lawrence plays host to great live venues Those venues offer many types of events
BEST LIVE MUSIC VENUE
BY HANNAH WISE editor@kansan.com
Swaying in the crowd to the beat of the music. The stage is feet away. The speakers are blasting the musical magnificence as performed by the evening's act. These are experiences that students may find at this year's Top of the Hill best live music venues. The Granada is located at 1020 Massachusetts and promotes itself as general interest venue.
"We try to book all kinds of events. We want to be a general venue. We want to be able to have people walk in and see something different every night," said Granada marketing manager Rob Shulte.
The Granada has played host to plays, fashion shows, comedy acts, spoken-word
fashion shows, comedy dots performances and art shows. These are all on top of what it is mostly known for amongst students, being a music venue.
"I've seen shows at The Granada but now I get to be on the stage there. It is so cool!" Salavitch said .
The Granada was originally built in 1928 as a movie theater. Since then it has been renovated and repurposed into the live venue that students know today. The building is oriented so that the audience is close to the performers to create a sense of being a part of the show.
The management at the Granada is proud to be recognized by students as being part of Top of the Hill.
The Granada has been a place for student bands to start. Chris Salavitch, a freshman from Lansing, Kansas, is looking forward to his band's first performance at the Granada in the Next Big Thing Tour.
"I feel like between myself, my boss Mike Logan, night manager Cameron Lauer, we put
"You get to be that much closer to the band. It is just a much more intimate setting," said Alex Freeze, a sophomore from Phoenix, Arizona.
in a lot of work and energy. Sometimes we don't know if people do anything but come to the shows, so to be voted Top of the Hill feels pretty awesome," said Shulte.
Liberty Hall is different than the Granada in that it has weekend movie showings on top of other events. It also offers a full time video rental store.
"We want to be the place that people think of when they can't find a movie on Netflix or at Blockbuster," said Douglas Redding, Liberty Hall Video Store manager.
"We try to book all kinds of events. ... We want to be able to have people walk in and see something different every night."
ROB SHULTE
Granada marketing manager
Besides offering blockbuster movies, Liberty Hall also has a wide selection of alternative and older film genres to choose from.
"It is really the only place in Lawrence you can get alternative films to see and also to rent," said Molly Fister, a freshman from
Lawrence.
Not only does she go to Liberty Hall to see films, she attends live events as well. She prefers to go to local venues like Liberty Hall because they do not just have local bands.
"Its really cool. It has headlining shows with people that I know. I went to Sarah
Bareilles a couple of weeks ago, "Fister said.
Liberty Hall also has deep roots in Lawrence history. It was built in 1912 and has been providing live venue services under different names since then.
"We have a good intimate setting. There is not a bad seat in the house," said Redding.
Lawrence's live venues are working to bring events for all interests. This semester brought acts such as Tech N9ne, Matt & Kim, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists and local music sensation Louisiana Street Band to the stage. The Granada is preparing for their next semester line-un.
"We are not allowed to say who yet, but next semester will be huge," said Shulte.
Edited by David Cawthon
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2010
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Sophomore Mason Finley improved on his weight throw results from last year throwing 56.29-feet, which earned him third place.
"It was good. I PR-ed from last year by six feet so I think it was good." Finley said.
The women's pole vaulters swept the medals with first, second and third place finished. Freshman Demi Payne managed her first collegiate win at 3.9 meters, just short of the 4-meter qualifying mark for the NCAA. Senior Jaci Perryman and junior Julia Cummings came in at 3.8-meters and 3.7-meters, respectively.
Sophomore Andrea Guebelie crosses the finish line in the 200-meter dash Saturday during the Bobby Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Guebelie finished third in the event with a time of 25.48.
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Sophomore Rebecca Neville came in first in the 60-meter hurdles race with a time of 8.93.
"It was an OK start to the season it was a way faster start than last year. We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together," Neville said.
Transfer sophomore Francine Kimone Simpson's debut for Kansas was solid as she finished behind sophomore Denesha Morris in the 60-meter dash. Sophomore Andrea Geubelle rounded out the top three.
"That was pretty amazing," Simpson said. "It was pretty good to know that all three of us were in the top three."
time of 25.14.
Geubelle
followed
Simpson in
third at 25.48.
Both times are
just above the
NCAA qualifying
times.
Simpson also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a
For the men,
senior Keron
Toussaint took
want to but this year it was a good start."
man Nikolos Giancano,
finished third also at two-
ometer, which was ultimately a four-way tie.
Experience paid off for junior Nick Canton who won high jump by clearing the two-meter mark on his first try. His teammate, fresh-
Another young face for the Jayhawks was 800-
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here."
first in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:13.03.
"We know that I can run way faster.I am definitely going to put the race together."
meter winner, freshman Dalen Fink. This was his first experience running on an indoor track; however he took right to it.
"It is a good way to start off the season," Toussaint said. "Normally I do not start out as good as I
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
REBECCA NEVILLE Sophomore hurdler
"It was my first race in college so I was really nervous and anxious coming into it," Fink said. "I want to keep dropping my times
The second flight of the women's 4x400 had the Jayhawk team flying around the track for a final time of 3:44:75. The队 was composed of freshman Diamond Dixon, sophomore Taylor Washington, junior
and staying competitive trying to keep up. We have a great group of guys we are all going to look to push ourselves."
Sophomore Sean Proehl won the 1000-meter race by edging
and staving
out a competitor and getting a time of 2:35.20.
"It was good to catch him right at the end. I almost didn't think I was going to," Proehl said.
"Even though
Shayla Wilson and sophomore Denesha Morris. All four of the women speed around the track for the entire race and almost lapped the last place competition.
Even though they are young it is a great team because they are all really fast and motivated in practice." Wilson said. "I don't think age has anything to do with it because they are all really good runners."
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here," Redwine said. "We need to make sure that our athletes train over the Christmas holidays and then we will see where we are again."
Redwine said it was a good start to the season, but also leaves room for improvement.
The men's 4x400 placed second with a time of 3:21.56.
The next meet will be in Lawrence on Jan. 8, 2011, for the Bill Easton Classic.
Edited bv Emilv McCov
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Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Freshman middle distance runner Dalen Fink pushes past freshman middle distance teammate Nick Seckfort in the 800 meter run at Saturday's Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Fink captured the win with a team of 1:56:49 while Seckfort was right on his heels finishing in fourth at 1:57:02.
Thankfully, Stoops changed the moniker (he has lost his last five BCS Bowl games and lost to Mizzou as the number one team in the nation), and did it coming back from a 17 to nothing deficit in the early second quarter.
The ten members of the Big 12 who will remain in the conference can head into the bowl season resting easy, knowing that they won't have to watch Nebraska bring the Big 12 trophy with them to a different conference. Instead they can focus on improving the reputation of the Big 12 by winning as many bowl games as possible.
1
that it only does辜 the victory was not just a victory for Oklahoma, but also a victory for the Big 12 conference as a whole. The team that effectively destroyed the championship doesn't get to win the last one. And this year the Cornhuskers can't blame their loss on officiating like last year's loss to Texas. If they want to blame anyone, they can look at themselves and their inability to hold onto the football.
Had Nebraska won and gone on to receive the Big 12's automatic BCS bid it would've been the ultimate insult to the Big 12 in what is already perceived to be a down year for the conference. Pundits would claim how it's more like the Big Ten has three teams playing in the BCS, and continue to throw the remaining Big 12 teams under the bus as underachievers in a down year for the conference because of the struggles of Texas.
And fans of the school's will be happy to know that next season, even though there will not be a Big 12 Championship game, there will be a defending champion to try and unseat.
Edited by Anna Nordling
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Instead of sugar-heavy foods, experts say to grab for protein and carbohydrated-filled snacks. Foods like cheese and crackers can help keep you more awake and alert for studying.
Finals Week and late-night studying often go hand-in-hand. There are some nighttime snacks that will actually help sleep-deprived students study hard late into the night — and others that will only make them wish for bedtime.
Ann Chapman, the dietitian at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said students are tempted to snack during stressful times, especially finals week, because food can be soothing.
"How do you feel when you put a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth? It's instant gratification," Chapman said. "All the measures of stress are reduced slightly."
However, Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins, said foods high in sugar and fat are the last thing students should be eating while studying. Quinlan said the fast foods and comfort foods students often turn to would only slow them down.
Instead, Chapman suggested munching on foods high in protein and carbohydrates, like cheese and crackers. Chapman said the carbohydrates in the crackers would boost blood sugar quickly and give students a little burst of energy. The body breaks carbohydrates down quickly, which is where the cheese comes into play. The protein in cheese takes longer to digest, so it's going to provide students with energy for about three to four hours.
"That cookie, that doughnut, they're just not helpful to push through finals week," Quinlan said. "They're going to make you feel more lethargic and decrease your concentration."
Barbara Bell, a sophomore from Lancaster, Texas, said she usually doesn't eat when she is stressed.
"I guess I do the opposite of everyone else," Bell said.
"Just like a car needs gasoline, the body needs glucose." Chapman said. "Your glucose level drops below what it needs to be if you go without food for three to four hours."
"Studies prove that students in the classroom perform better when they've had breakfast." Denning said. "If you're going to spend all this time and effort, I think it's worth setting your alarm 10 to 15 minutes early to get a healthy breakfast."
However, Chapman suggested students put food in their systems about every four hours.
Patricia Denning, the chief of staff at Watkins, said breakfast was especially important during finals week.
Chapman warned students to avoid "stress-eating" while they study. Chapman said students often
Chapman said when students snack during finals week, they should take a break from studying and simply focus on the food they're eating. Then, when they go back to studying, they can concentrate and won't be shoveling in extra calories in the process.
"Students often eat while they're studying because they're nervous about flunking exams," Chapman said. "So then they eat constantly, which is really unhealthy. Those are calories you don't need."
eat as a means of procrastination or stress relief.
If students do find that they can't study without eating, Chapman recommended they leave their apartment and go to the library, so food would be out of sight and out of mind. She suggested students take a 100-calorie snack with them in case they do get hungry.
— Edited by Leslie Kinsman
MEN'S BASKETBALL | 1B
Defense is weakness
Local band will compete
The Louisiana Street Band will compete for recording time in Los Angeles January 15.
MUSIC|6A
Energy-boosting snacks
Bill Self points out the defense as the basekball team's weakness. The team will be tested in tonight's game against Memphis.
- Low fat string cheese with seven Triscuits
- 8 oz. yogurt with 1/2 cup cereal
- -100-calorie snack pack of nuts or popcorn
- Hot cocoa and six vanilla wafers
- One cup of whole grain cereal with one cup of low-fat milk
- Half of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
Malott scare quickly addressed
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Malott scare quickly addressed
An unknown chemical smell in Malott Hall on Monday afternoon led to a building-wide evacuation. By the evening, the building was cleared for re-entry.
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Sophomore Mason Finley improved on his weight throw results from last year throwing 56.29-feet, which earned him third place.
Sophomore Andrea Guebelle crosses the finish line in the 200-meter dash Saturday during the Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Guebelle finished third in the event with a time of 25.48.
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"It was good. I PR-ed from last year by six feet so I think it was good," Finley said.
The women's pole vaulters swept the medals with first, second and third place finishen. Freshman Demi Payne managed her first collegiate win at 3.9 meters, just short of the 4-meter qualifying mark for the NCAA. Senior Jaci Perryman and junior Julia Cummings came in at 3.8-meters and 3.7-meters, respectively.
Sophomore Rebecca Neville came in first in the 60-meter hurdles race with a time of 8.93.
"It was an OK start to the season it was a way faster start than last year. We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together," Neville said.
Transfer sophomore Francine Kimone Simpson's debut for Kansas was solid as she finished behind sophomore Denesha Morris in the 60-meter dash. Sophomore Andrea Geubelle rounded out the top three.
"That was pretty amazing," Simpson said. "It was pretty good to know that all three of us were in the top three."
Simpson also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a
Geubelle followed Simpson in third at 25.48. Both times are just above the NCAA qualifying times.
For the men, senior Keron Toussaint took
want to but this year it was a good start."
Experience paid off for junior Nick Canton who won high jump by clearing the two-meter mark on his first try. His teammate, freshman Nikolos Giancana, finished third also at two meter, which was ultimately a four-way tie.
Another young face for the Jayhawks was 800-
first in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:13.03.
"It was my first race in college so I was really nervous and anxious coming into it," Fink said. "I want to keep dropping my times
meter winner, freshman Dalen Fink. This was his first experience running on an indoor track; however he took right to it.
"We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together."
"It is a good way to start off the season," Toussaint said. "Normally I do not start out as good as I
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here."
RBEECCA NEVILLE
Sophomore hurdler
The second flight of the women's 4x400 had the Jayhawk team flying around the track for a final time of 3:44:75. The team was composed of freshman Diamond Dixon, sophomore Taylor Washington, junior
Sophomore Sean Proehl won the 1000-meter race by edging
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
and staying competitive trying to keep up. We have a great group of guys we are all going to look to push ourselves."
out a competitor and getting a time of 2:35.20.
"It was good to catch him right at the end. I almost didn't think I was going to," Proehl said.
"Even though
Shayla Wilson and sophomore Denesha Morris. All four of the women sped around the track for the entire race and almost lapped the last place competition.
Even though they are young it is a great team because they are all really fast and motivated in practice," Wilson said. "I don't think age has anything to do with it because they are all really good runners."
The men's 4x400 placed second with a time of 3:21.56.
Redwine said it was a good start to the season, but also leaves room for improvement.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here," Redwine said. "We need to make sure that our athletes train over the Christmas holidays and then we will see where we are again."
The next meet will be in Lawrence on Jan. 8, 2011, for the Bill Easton Classic.
Edited by Emily McCoy
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Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Freshman middle distance runner Dalen Fink pushes past freshman middle distance teammate Nick Seckfort in the 800 meter run at Saturday's Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Fink captured the win with a team of 1:56:49 while Seckfort was right on his heels finishing in fourth at 1:57:02.
Thankfully, Stoops changed the moniker (he has lost his last five BCS Bowl games and lost to Mizzou as the number one team in the nation), and did it coming back from a 17 to nothing deficit in the early second quarter.
The ten members of the Big 12 who will remain in the conference can head into the bowl season resting easy, knowing that they won't have to watch Nebraska bring the Big 12 trophy with them to a different conference. Instead they can focus on improving the reputation of the Big 12 by winning as many bowl games as possible.
And fans of the school's will be happy to know that next season, even though there will not be a Big 12 Championship game, there will be a defending champion to try and unseat.
Had Nebraska won and gone on to receive the Big 12's automatic BCS bid it would've been the ultimate insult to the Big 12 in what is already perceived to be a down year for the conference. Pundits would claim how it's more like the Big Ten has three teams playing in the BCS, and continue to throw the remaining Big 12 teams under the bus as underachievers in a down year for the conference because of the struggles of Texas.
Tory was not just a victory for Oklahoma, but also a victory for the Big 12 conference as a whole. The team that effectively destroyed the championship doesn't get to win the last one. And this year the Cornhuskers can't blame their loss on officiating like last year's loss to Texas. If they want to blame anyone, they can look at themselves and their inability to hold onto the football.
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Instead of sugar-heavy foods, experts say to grab for protein and carbohydrated-filled snacks. Foods like cheese and crackers can help keep you more awake and alert for studying.
BY JUSTINE PATTON jpatton@kansan.com
Finals Week and late-night studying often go hand-in-hand. There are some nighttime snacks that will actually help sleep-deprived students study hard late into the night — and others that will only make them wish for bedtime.
Ann Chapman, the dietitian at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said students are tempted to snack during stressful times, especially finals week, because food can be soothing.
"How do you feel when you put a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth? It's instant gratification," Chapman said. "All the measures of stress are reduced slightly."
However, Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins, said foods high in sugar and fat are the last thing students should be eating while studying. Quinlan said the fast foods and comfort foods students often turn to would only slow them down.
"That cookie, that doughnut, they just not helpful to push through finals week," Quinlan said. "They're going to make you feel more lethargic and decrease your concentration."
Instead, Chapman suggested munching on foods high in protein and carbohydrates, like cheese and crackers. Chapman said the carbohydrates in the crackers would boost blood sugar quickly and give students a little burst of energy. The body breaks carbohydrates down quickly, which is where the cheese comes into play. The protein in cheese takes longer to digest, so it's going to provide students with energy for about three to four hours.
for baby three to four hours.
Barbara Bell, a sophomore from Lancaster, Texas, said she usually doesn't eat when she is stressed.
"Just like a car needs gasoline, the body needs glucose," Chapman said. "Your glucose level drops below what it needs to be if you go without food for three to four hours."
However, Chapman suggested students put food in their systems about every four hours.
"Studies prove that students in the classroom perform better when they've had breakfast." Denning said. "If you're going to spend all this time and effort, I think it's worth setting your alarm 10 to 15 minutes early to get a healthy breakfast."
Patricia Denning, the chief of staff at Watkins, said breakfast was especially important during finals week.
Chapman said when students snack during finals week, they should take a break from studying and simply focus on the food they're eating. Then, when they go back to studying, they can concentrate and won't be shoveling in extra calories in the process.
Chapman warned students to avoid "stress-eating" while they study. Chapman said students often
"Students often eat while they're studying because they're nervous about flunking exams," Chapman said. "So then they eat constantly, which is really unhealthy. Those are calories you don't need."
eat as a means of procrastination or stress relief.
If students do find that they can't study without eating, Chapman recommended they leave their apartment and go to the library, so food would be out of sight and out of mind. She suggested students take a 100-calorie snack with them in case they do get hungry.
Edited by Leslie Kinsman
Defense is weakness
MEN'S BASKETBALL | 1B
MUSIC|6A
Local band will compete
Bill Self points out the defense as the basekball team's weakness. The team will be tested in tonight's game against Memphis.
The Louisiana Street Band will compete for recording time in Los Angeles January 15.
Energy-boosting snacks
- Low fat string cheese with seven Triscuits
- 8 oz. yogurt with 1/2 cup cereal
- *100-calorie snack pack of nuts or popcorn
- Hot cocoa and six vanilla wafers
- One cup of whole grain cereal with one cup of low-fat milk
- Half of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
Malott scare quickly addressed
CAMPUS | 6A
Malott scare quickly addressed
An unknown chemical smell in Malott Hall on Monday afternoon led to a building-wide evacuation. By the evening, the building was cleared for re-entry.
INDEX
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Sophomore Andrea Guebelie crosses the finish line in the 200-meter dash Saturday during the Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Guebelie finished third in the event with a time of 25.48.
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Sophomore Mason Finley improved on his weight throw results from last year throwing 56.29-feet, which earned him third place.
"It was good. I PR-ed from last year by six feet so I think it was good." Finley said.
The women's pole vaulters swept the medals with first, second and third place finishen. Freshman Demi Payne managed her first collegiate win at 3.9 meters, just short of the 4-meter qualifying mark for the NCAA. Senior Jaci Perryman and junior Julia Cummings came in at 3.8-meters and 3.7-meters, respectively.
Sophomore Rebecca Neville came in first in the 60-meter hurdles race with a time of 8.93.
"It was an OK start to the season it was a way faster start than last year. We know that I can run way faster. I am definitely going to put the race together," Neville said.
Transfer sophomore Francine Kimone Simpson's debut for Kansas was solid as she finished behind sophomore Denesha Morris in the 60-meter dash. Sophomore Andrea Geubelle rounded out the top three.
"That was pretty amazing," Simpson said. "It was pretty good to know that all three of us were in the top three."
Simpson also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a
time of 25.14.
G eu belle followed Simpson in third at 25.48.
Both times are just above the NCAA qualifying times.
For the men, senior Keron Toussaint took
want to but this year it was a good start."
Experience paid off for junior Nick Canton who won high jump by clearing the two-meter mark on his first try. His teammate, freshman Nikolos Giancana, finished third also at two-meter, which was ultimately a four-way tie.
first in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:13.03.
"It is a good way to start off the season," Toussaint said. "Normally I do not start out as good as I
Another young face for the Jayhawks was 800-
"We know that I can run way faster.I am definitely going to put the race together."
meter winner, freshman Dalen Fink. This was his first experience running on an indoor track; however he took right to it.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here."
"It was my first race in college so I was really nervous and anxious coming into it," Fink said. "I want to keep dropping my times
REBECCA NEVILLE
Sophomore hurdler
STANLEY REDWINE Coach
Sophomore Sean Proehl won the 1000-meter race by edging
and staying competitive trying to keep up. We have a great group of guys we are all going to look to push ourselves."
The second flight of the women's 4x400 had the Jayhawk team flying around the track for a final time of 3:44:75. The team was composed of freshman Diamond Dixon, sophomore Taylor Washington, junior
out a competitor and getting a time of 2:35.20.
"It was good to catch him right at the end. I almost didn't think I was going to." Proebl said.
"Even though
Shayla Wilson and sophomore Denesha Morris. All four of the women sped around the track for the entire race and almost lapped the last place competition.
they are young it is a great team because they are all really fast and motivated in practice." Wilson said. "I don't think age has anything to do with it because they are all really good runners."
The men's 4x400 placed second with a time of 3:21.56.
Redwine said it was a good start to the season, but also leaves room for improvement.
"At the next meet we are just going to have to get better from here," Redwine said. "We need to make sure that our athletes train over the Christmas holidays and then we will see where we are again."
The next meet will be in Lawrence on Jan. 8, 2011, for the Bill Easton Classic.
Edited by Emily McCoy
KANSAS 3
Karlie Brown/KAN'SAN
Freshman middle distance runner Dalen Fink pushes past freshman middle distance teammate Nick Seckfort in the 800 meter run at Saturday's Bob Timmons Challenge hosted in Anshutz Sports Pavilion. Fink captured the win with a team of 1:56:49 while Seckfort was right on his heels finishing in fourth at 1:57:02.
1
The ten members of the Big 12 who will remain in the conference can head into the bowl season resting easy, knowing that they won't have to watch Nebraska bring the Big 12 trophy with them to a different conference. Instead they can focus on improving the reputation of the Big 12 by winning as many bowl games as possible.
Thankfully, Stoops changed the moniker (he has lost his last five BCS Bowl games and lost to Mizzou as the number one team in the nation), and did it coming back from a 17 to nothing deficit in the early second quarter.
And fans of the school's will be happy to know that next season, even though there will not be a Big 12 Championship game, there will be a defending champion to try and unseat.
What a tiny loss of victories tory was not just a victory for Oklahoma, but also a victory for the Big 12 conference as a whole. The team that effectively destroyed the championship doesn't get to win the last one. And this year the Cornhuskers can't blame their loss on officiating like last year's loss to Texas. If they want to blame anyone, they can look at themselves and their inability to hold onto the football.
Had Nebraska won and gone on to receive the Big 12's automatic BCS bid it would've been the ultimate insult to the Big 12 in what is already perceived to be a down year for the conference. Pundits would claim how it's more like the Big Ten has three teams playing in the BCS, and continue to throw the remaining Big 12 teams under the bus as underachievers in a down year for the conference because of the struggles of Texas.
—Edited by Anna Nordling
---
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A STRONG FOUNDATION
University architect builds KU legacy
BY KELLY STRODA kstroda@kansan.com
Warren Corman strolls down Jayhawk Boulevard on a sunny autumn morning, a chilly breeze at his back.
Wisps of his grayish-white hair peek out from beneath his navy blue ball cap — the front reading "We fight, we build" in bold yellow embroidery.
He's wearing khakis with a blue windbreaker over a navy button-down shirt — buttoned to the top button, but no tie — that brings out his soft, blue eyes. He has a gentle chuckle that can put anone at ease.
Each building, in turn, helps define Warren Corman.
Each building he passes, from Bailey Hall with its facade of Oread limestone to Strong Hall and its glazed, stain-resistant terracotta, helps define the University's character.
Corman has had a hand in the design or development of nearly every building project at the University in the last half century. From Allen Fieldhouse in 1955 to the dorms on Daisy Hill in the 1960s to Wescoe Hall in 1974 to the School of Pharmacy that opened this August.
Corman himself is an institution: 84 years old, the University architect and special assistant to the Chancellor, designer of the Santa Fe Depot in north Lawrence, husband to his wife Mary for nearly 30 years, father of six, grandfather of 22, great-grandfather of six and World War II veteran.
On Thursday, he'll add one more descriptive note to his long list of accomplishments, incredible as that may seem.
After 63 years as the king of design and architecture at the University and across Kansas, Warren Corman will retire.
He'll climb into his silver 2008 Honda coupe in parking space 002 behind Strong Hall and make a trip past the elegant and striking buildings on campus and drive into the sunset.
As he travels down Bob Billings toward his house two miles away, he'll see Fraser Hall in his rearview mirror marking the top of Mount Oread.
He'll leave behind more than just a job. He'll leave a storied career and tales about how campus came to be.
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Instead of sugar-heavy foods, experts say to grab for protein and carbohydrated-filled snacks. Foods like cheese and crackers can help keep you more awake and alert for studying.
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Finals Week and late-night studying often go hand-in-hand. There are some nighttime snacks that will actually help sleep-deprived students study hard late into the night
— and others that will only make them wish for bedtime.
Ann Chapman, the dietitian at the Wellness Resource Center at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said students are tempted to snack during stressful times, especially finals week, because food can be soothing.
"How do you feel when you put a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth? It's instant gratification," Chapman said. "All the measures of stress are reduced slightly."
However, Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins, said foods high in sugar and fat are the last thing students should be eating while studying. Quinlan said the fast foods and comfort foods students often turn to would only slow them down.
"That cookie, that doughnut, they're just not helpful to push through finals week," Quinlan said. "They're going to make you feel more lethargic and decrease your concentration."
Instead, Chapman suggested munching on foods high in protein and carbohydrates, like cheese and crackers. Chapman said the carbohydrates in the crackers would boost blood sugar quickly and give students a little burst of energy. The body breaks carbohydrates down quickly, which is where the cheese comes into play. The protein in cheese takes longer to digest, so it's going to provide students with energy for about three to four hours.
"Just like a car needs gasoline, the body needs glucose." Chapman said. "Your glucose level drops below what it needs to be if you go without food for three to four hours."
Barbara Bell, a sophomore from Lancaster, Texas, said she usually doesn't eat when she is stressed.
"I guess I do the opposite of everyone else," Bell said.
However, Chapman suggested students put food in their systems about every four hours.
Patricia Denning, the chief of staff at Watkins, said breakfast was especially important during finals week.
"Studies prove that students in the classroom perform better when they've had breakfast," Denning said. "If you're going to spend all this time and effort, I think it's worth setting your alarm 10 to 15 minutes early to get a healthy breakfast."
Chapman warned students to avoid "stress-eating" while they study. Chapman said students often
Chapman said when students snack during finals week, they should take a break from studying and simply focus on the food they're eating. Then, when they go back to studying, they can concentrate and won't be shoveling in extra calories in the process.
"Students often eat while they're studying because they're nervous about flunking exams," Chapman said. "So then they eat constantly, which is really unhealthy. Those are calories you don't need."
eat as a means of procrastination or stress relief.
If students do find that they can't study without eating, Chapman recommended they leave their apartment and go to the library, so food would be out of sight and out of mind. She suggested students take a 100-calorie snack with them in case they do get hungry.
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Local band will compete
The Louisiana Street Band will compete for recording time in Los Angeles January 15.
Energy-boosting snacks
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- 8 oz. yogurt with 1/2 cup cereal
- Low fat string cheese with seven Triscuits
- *100-calorie snack pack of nuts or popcorn
- Hot cocoa and six vanilla wafers
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- One cup of whole grain cereal with one cup of low-fat milk
- Bill Self points out the defense as the basektball team's weakness. The team will be tested in tonight's game against Memphis.
- Half of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter
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An unknown chemical smell in Malott Hall on Monday afternoon led to a building-wide evacuation. By the evening, the building was cleared for re-entry.
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Elle Woods makes her way to Lawrence as the popular "Legally Blonde" film moves to the stage at the Lied Center. The show is from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Student tickets range from $21 to $24, available by calling 785-864-2787.
WEDNESDAY December 8
Islamic New Year
There will be a holiday art sale in the Kansas Union from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- The Department of Visual Arts clubs will hold a holiday art sale from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
THURSDAY December 9
The Chancellor's holiday reception will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Adams Alumni Center.
The Dole Institute of Politics will have its "2010 Elections Study Group with Dole Fellow Peter Fenn" from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the institute.
December 9
FRIDAY December 10
Student Union Activities will host a late-night winter bash from 9 p.m. to midnight in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
Stop Day — no classes.
Last day of classes.
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The School of Engineering is having its recognition for the fall 2010 engineering graduates in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
SUNDAY
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Student Union Activities hosts Late Night Breakfast at Mrs. E's from 10 p.m. to midnight.
KU School of Journalism graduation ceremonies will be held at 1 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union
MONDAY
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Finals week begins.
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Lottery spokesman David Workman says other winners have taken precautions, but the Flint family may be the first to arrive in lobby of the Idaho Lottery headquarters with a safe in tow.
Family hides lottery ticket in their safe
BOISE, Idaho — A family holding an Idaho Lottery ticket worth $1 million wasn't taking any chances while traveling from their home in Brigham City, Utah, to claim their winnings in Boise.
The women claimed their prize Monday.
Sisters Cindy Flint and Carol Olsen, along with their mother Donna Flint, made the nearly 300-mile trip to Idaho with their ticket locked in a fireproof safe.
Cindy Flint says she went a step further, and slept with the safe in her hotel bed.
The women bought their ticket at a store in Franklin, Idaho, near the state border of Utah.
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Sunday River says 250 skiers and snowboarders signed up for its 11th annual Santa Sunday event, with registration filling up in 12 minutes.
NEWRY, Maine — Hundreds of skiing Santas were dashing through the snow at a Maine ski
For the event, skiers got a free lift ticket if they came dressed as Santa and donated $10 or more to the Bethel Rotary Club's annual drive to provide gifts for the area's children in need. They also got an additional lift ticket valid through Dec. 18.
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The 1950s skyline of the University's campus is quite different from the skyline today. Lindley Hall was the building farthest to the west. The early Kansas Union (not shown) was the farthest to the east.
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BEGINNING A LEGACY
Corman has acted as University architect since 1997. He spent 31 years as Kansas Board of Regents chief architect and a stint in private practice before that.
His relationship with the University goes back further, though. He studied architecture at the University from 1946 to 1950.
Corman's Jayhawk roots run deep. His father graduated from the University with an architecture degree in 1925.
A 5-foot wide and 3-foot tall poster of the Master Landscape Plan — one of his first projects as University architect — hangs on the wall behind him. A white hard hat with KU decals on each side and "Corman" on the front rests on the table.
Sketches and drawings of buildings across campus cover the walls of his office. Even more sketches are rolled up and standing on end in boxes next to his desk.
Slowly, Corman is moving boxes of belongings out of his office. He guesses he's moved 30 boxes full of papers, awards and other belongings. A few weeks ago, he took home a lamp he made out of a Japanese mortar shell from World War II.
Corman spent two years as a Seabee — a member of the Construction Battalion — in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946.
After fighting in the Battle of Okinawa, the last and bloodiest battle of World War II, Corman came back home to the United States. He came home on Mother's Day 1946. It happened more than 60 years ago, but talking about it still brings tears to his eyes.
$300 million in design and construction on campus.
The development of West Campus can be especially credited to his hard work.
That's one of the reasons former Chancellor Robert Hemenway hired Corman in 1997.
"He always seems to find a way to solve problems," Hemenway said. "Then he moves on to the next challenge."
When Hemenway began his career as Chancellor, West Campus was a mere three buildings: the Simons, Higuchi and Smissman labs.
It was one of Hemenway's goals to expand West Campus in order to propel the University toward research success and recognition.
Corman was part of that plan.
"He's been at the center of all of that." Hemenway said.
Now, West Campus encompasses a myriad of facilities including the Multidisciplinary Research Building, Park and Ride and the new School of Pharmacy.
"That's one of Warren's great talents," Hemenway said.
Hemenway appreciates Corman's regard for moving forward in the construction process even under tight timelines. Corman's consistent forward thinking has been crucial to the development of buildings and renovations.
During Corman's career, he's been connected to nearly every building on campus.
The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics on West Campus was built for Robert Dole, a former U.S. senator from Kansas. The building is the nation's largest congressional archive.
in western Kansas and as you come more toward the front it becomes more like Washington, D.C., with a lagoon and smooth stone and monuments" Corman said. "That was our idea."
One of his favorite projects, though, is the Hall Center for Humanities. The old power plant from the 1880s was transformed into a reservoir of ideas and research about humanities and creative works acting as a home for faculty with Hall fellowships.
Nine white and yellow limestone arches in front of the building are the oldest surviving structures on the University's campus.
Don Steeples, distinguished professor of geology and former senior vice provost for scholarly support, said he considers Corman to be one of his best friends.
Steeples said Corman's continual sharpness and intelligence radiates when he talks about buildings on campus and the history.
"You don't want to criticize any old buildings around here," Steeples joked. "Chances are Warren had something to do with it."
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Warren Corman, retiring university architect, poses with Big Jay, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, his wife Mary, Sean Lester and Baby Jay, at Allen Fieldhouse last week when Kansas faced UCLA. Corman is retiring Thursday.
"It's hard to talk about," he says.
Corman's personal history ties to the growth and development of the University in more ways than one.
When Corman and other soldiers came back from World War II in 1946, enrollment jumped from 3,412 to 8,846 students. When he was a student, campus didn't cover the 870 acres it does now. West Campus wouldn't be designed for nearly 50 years, when Corman would start his career as University architect.
- Iowa Street wasn't Iowa Street. It was just US-59. It was just a two-lane highway west of town.
Campus had only about 20 buildings
"Lashawk Boulevard," he said.
The early Kansas Union was the farthest building to the east. Lindley Hall was the farthest building to the west.
Beyond that, there wasn't much — mostly cornfields and farmhouses. The future spot of Allen Fieldhouse was just a golden cornfield south of campus.
Lawrence was a lazy river town with a total population of about 23,000 people. (For the record.
When Corman graduated from the University in 1950 with a B.S. in Architectural Engineering, his first job paid $260 a month.
Back then campus was just a string of buildings on the edge of town.
26,266 students are enrolled at the Lawrence campus this year.)
"I thought 'My gosh, what am I going to do with all of that money?'" he said.
The University has changed and expanded in his time. In his first five years as University architect, he worked with
WITH EVERY BUILDING COMES A STORY
He sees memories. Buildings mean stories.
"There's so much work that goes into it that's on paper. And you throw it away."
"There's so much work that goes into it that's on paper," he said. "And you throw it away."
As an architect, Corman sees more than bricks and mortar when he looks at a building. He sees the steel frame of Allen Fieldhouse. Beyond the porous, cast-concrete shell on Wescoe, Corman can see the lack of money that prevented the building from being 25 stories like Chancellor Clarke Wescoe hoped.
Carrith O'Leary, Wilt the Stilt.
he sees Carruth-O'Leary, he
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doesn't see the administrative offices. He recalls when the building was a men's dormitory in the 1950s. He sees 7"1" Wilt "the Stilt" Chamberlain ducking through its standard 6'8" doorways.
In the early 2000s, Corman was in charge of building the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. The building needed to be completed before Dole's 80th birthday in July 2003. Inside, the institute harbors the world's largest congressional archive. But the outside of the building was designed to represent Dole himself.
1971. Nunemaker was a 1922 graduate of the University and went on to become an executive at Avon, a cosmetics company. Nunemaker Center on Daisy Hill was built with the money.
He remembers when Irene Nunemaker gave the University $15,000 ir
"The back is rough stone, like post rock
FREDERICKSBURG, CALIF. A SINGLE-STORY BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD.
Photo courtesy of the Spencer Research Library
Corman helped design it
LOUDEST FIELDHOUSE IN AMERICA
One of the most prominent of those buildings might be Allen Fieldhouse.
When Corman walks through Allen Fieldhouse, he knows the names of almost everyone he runs into.
Allen Fieldhouse was built in a cornfield "way out southwest" of campus in the 1950s. Corman helped design the fieldhouse and additions since.
From Debbie Van Saun, associate athletic director and senior women's administrator, to Scott Ward, associate athletic director for academic and career counseling, to Susan Wachter, the chief financial officer for KU Athletics.
He addresses almost everybody — matter her age — as "kid" or "guy".
"This guy knows all about the fieldhouse. Van Saun says, grinning.
He sure does.
3,000 seats available, so students could only go to every third game (some things don't change).
In the early 1950s, Corman worked in the state architect's office in Topeka. Back then, state laws required the office to design any buildings built by the state.
That included the fieldhouse
He was the youngest architect on the project and is the only surviving member. Drawings for the fieldhouse were done by hand using ink on starched linen.
"People said 'Well, that's not even on the campus,'" Corman said. "Students won't even know where that is."
Before Allen Fieldhouse was built, basketball games were played in Hoch Auditoria, where Budig Hall is now. There were only
They built it anwav.
Steel was hard to come by because of the Korean War. A few older architects on the project who served as officers in World War II traveled to Washington, D.C., dressed in their uniforms to add leverage to their case of trying to get steel. After some negotiating, they got the steel they needed, but had to rename the building, adding "Physical Education Building and Armory" and design a room where guns could be stored.
Of course, no guns were actually stored there, he said.
Upon its completion in 1955, the building was renamed Allen Fieldhouse.
Corman had no idea he was helping design the "loudest basketball arena in America."
"Now it has a lot of tradition and everybody thinks it's really important," he said. "It was just a big barn to house about 17,000 students. That was it."
He remembers the first game played in Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas took on Kansas State in the inaugural game. Phog Allen was the coach. The Jayhawks won 77-67.
That's not his favorite game in the fieldhouse, though.
"I think that's an easy one," Corman said. On Dec. 9, 1989, the Roy Williams faced the Kentucky Wildcats. Roy Williams was in his second year as head coach. (A few months before Williams was hired, the Jayhawks won the 1988 National Championship.) Rick Pintino, Kentucky's swaggering, young first-year coach, promised to throttle the Jayhawks.
The Jayhawks were ranked No. 2 and Kentucky wanted a win.
"They were coming to just beat the heck out of us," Corman said.
Kansas was playing extra well that day. Kentucky said they could beat Kansas on the fast breaks. They couldn't keep up.
Kansas was way ahead at halftime. Williams tried persuading Pintino to slow down the pace of the game and save Kentucky from embarrassment.
Kansas won 150-95.
Pintino wouldn't have
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"It was the craziest game I think I'd ever been to," Corman said.
Corman has seen a lot of craziness, but enthusiasm for his job and his life has a spill-over effect. Sometimes, others even start thinking like him.
WHATWOULD WARREN SAY?
Corman first started working in the state architect's office in 1947 while he was still a student. Plans were being drawn up for Ahern Fieldhouse at Kansas State University then. One afternoon, the state architect called Corman into his office.
"I thought, 'Boy, I'm in trouble now?' He said, 'Warren, are you having fun?' and I didn't know. This was 60 years ago. I wasn't sure if I was allowed to have fun.
"Before I could think up an answer, he said, 'Warren, if you're not having fun in your job every day, you're in the wrong
gotten that. He believed it. He believed it and he made me believe it."
He still reflects back to that moment, and it shows.
David Mucci noticed Corman's enjoyment from the start.
"This place is going to be so much less vivid and
at the University, Mucci said.
This year though, the Chancellor's Luncheon will retire, too.
Mucci said he thought it was altogether fitting. The luncheons wouldn't be the same without Corman.
Corman's enthusiasm reflected the love he had for his job and the University.
Mucci describes Corman as being "fiercely protective" of the University - to the point of almost giving a voice to the University,
in other instances though, Mucci said,
Corman didn't even need to be there for his
voice to be heard.
"It wasn't a job for him," he said. "He lived KU."
"You always felt the Warren Corman presence." Mucci said.
Mucci, director of Kansas Memorial Unions, has worked with Corman for the last 11 years. Mucci said Corman played an instrumental role in building The Underground in 2005, among other projects.
At any given time, Corman was usually overseeing 100 or so projects ranging from renovations to new buildings.
At the annual Chancellor's Luncheon for graduating seniors, Corman always greeted seniors first with a charismatic smile and handshake. For students and families that was one of the most friendly embraces and memories they could have in their final days
Steeps said when the Multidisciplinary Research Building, or "Mr. B," on West Campus was under construction, about 20 people were huddled into the J.E. Dunn construction trailer.
The building was supposed to be finished in four months, Steeples said, but things weren't going as planned.
vital when Warren Corman leaves the campus" he said.
When projects weren't going well, Corman had a way of putting the situation in perspective.
"Tempers were getting short," Steeples said. "People were pointing fingers."
"It's fun to take on challenges and solve them. I guess that's what it's all about."
Steeples vividly remembers what Corman said in that moment:
Steeples said there was a moment of silence.
"Well, fellas, I was in World War II in the Battle of Okinawa and this isn't as bad as that."
Working on Mr. B turned out to be one of
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Corman's favorite projects.
Corman likes challenges.
When he was a Seabee in the Navy, they had a saying: "If it's difficult, we do it immediately. If it's impossible, it may take a week."
"That was really something," Corman said.
Mr. B wasn't going to be an easy project. The building needed to be finished quickly. Construction started in December. Everybody said they could never do it because the ground would freeze or snow would fall hindering construction. They moved in 15 months later.
"It's fun to take on challenges and solve them," he said. "I guess that's what it's all about."
The building was the largest building in record time that the state's ever done in history, Corman said.
RETIREMENT
Most don't seem to be surprised that Corman waited until the age of 84 to retire. His age is masked by constant dedication to the University and genuine love of life.
"He's an amazing specimen for someone in his 80s." Steeples said.
Corman likes to stay active. He runs three miles a day, rain or shine, around his neighborhood near Alvamar Golf Course.
Corman said he's not sure what he'll do when he's not working anymore. He likes woodworking. He jokes that maybe he'll start playing golf.
He'll still be a loyal KU
fan and plans to attend football and basketball games. He and his wife, Mary, are already planning on going to the 2011 EA Sports Maui Invitational to watch Kansas play basketball.
He said maybe he and Mary would do some other traveling too. They have plenty of places to visit. Their family is scattered across the country in Alaska, Alabama, Arizona and Topeka.
When Corman wakes up Friday morning, he won't need to get to campus to get to the office.
For Corman, Stop Day will be more than the end of the semester — it will be the end of his extensive and impressive career.
Jayhawk Boulevard will lack the bustle that day, but his work and legacy will still stand tall.
Corman's mark isn't going anywhere.
Edited by Roshni Oommen
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LOS ANGELES — Moviegoers will see all sorts of miracles in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," including a painting that springs to life, a star that becomes incarnate, and a book that conjures up spells. The companies behind the latest big-screen adaptation from C.S. Lewis' classic book series hope the film will perform a different kind of miracle: revive a stalled franchise.
Producers Walden Media and 20th Century Fox believe that the third "Narnia" picture, which opens Friday, can reclaim the fans who embraced 2005's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"but who were turned off by the darker 2008 sequel Prince Caspian," whose comparatively poor performance raised serious doubts about the series' future.
"We strayed from our core audience," said Mark Johnson, who has produced all three "Narnia" movies. In trying — and largely failing — to attract more teens, he said, the "Prince Caspian" movie might have alienated families.
The producers hope the 3-D "Dawn Treader" will win them back.
The story for "Dawn Treader," which is the name of the Caspian's sailing ship, centers on the adventures of siblings Edmund and Lucy Pevensie and their ill-tempered cousin, Eustace. The trio are transported back to the mythical land of Narnia, where they join Caspian on a voyage to mysterious islands.
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ACROSS
1 Actress Turner
5 Possessed
8 Heart of the matter
12 Chopping tools
13 Have a debt
14 Pol base
15 A Great Lake
17 Quite some time
18 Request
19 Comic Romano
20 Penniless
21 Martini ingredient
22 Belushi of "The Defenders"
23 Book of maps
26 Least inclined to do anything
30 Slay
31 Howl at the moon
32 Profit
33 Los Angeles team
35 Intimidate
36 Meadow
12/07
37 Coop occupant
38 Raise trivial objections
41 Gullet
42 Chaps
45 Sandwich cookie
46 Olympian cupbearer
48 Property claim
49 Conclusion
50 One
51 Revelille's opposite
52 Myrna of Hollywood
53 Courage
3 Head-
shoulders
connector
4 Blond
shade
5 Paul who
played
Crocodile
Dundee
6 Vacation-
ing
7 Hideaway
8 Variety of
grouse
9 "Othello"
villain
10 "Star —"
11 Gardening
aid
16 Rainbow
20 Occupa-
tion,
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short
21 Masses o
nerve
tissue
Solution time: 21 mins.
SOLUTIONS
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S O F T   K I D   A L F A
K N E E   E K E   Y A R N
Y A W S   S E W   N O D
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22 Big name in late-night TV
23 Toss in
24 As well
25 Cover
26 Part of UNLV
27 Water (Fr.)
28 Sermon subject
29 Potent stick
31 Bikini top
34 Moray, for one
35 Like a lawn at dawn
37 Convenient
38 Future stallion
39 Met melody
40 Joe Biden, e.g.
41 Hand (Sp.)
42 Options list
43 Fix a manuscript
44 Trawler equipment
46 Solidify
47 Beer container
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HOROSCOPES
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ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 6
Focus attention on public or social activities. Get out and meet people to take advantage of multiple opportunities. Anticipate career openings.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 9
Multiple long-distance contacts provide your partner with everything necessary to complete a change. Take off on your own and allow others to work.
Associates have gathered the financial information needed to make a decision. Work together and the desired changes fall into place effortlessly.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Today is a 6
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 7
Close relationships provide opportunities for practical action. Whether it's work or play, enthusiasm increases and imagination carries you forward.
LEO (July 23-Aug.22)
Today is a 7
A new person enters the workspace, bringing new opportunities and possibly some tension. Everything works out if you don't push too hard. Use finesse rather than force.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 6
A female's desire for changes inspires everyone to take a chance on creative elements. The pieces come together on a practical level with great results.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
Healing potential expands now. This could involve yourself or family members. Love and compassion work wonders. Pour your energy into each act.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
Dress up your style and message today. Even the most practical concepts can use a bit of marketing. Don't be afraid to sing your own praises, with compassion.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 9
Pay your own way today. That way, you maintain as many possibilities as possible, while enjoying great company. Stay close to home rather than traveling far.
Ideas come together today in unusual ways. What appear to be very different directions actually arrive at the same place. If one fails, try another.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is a 6
Private gatherings take advantage of multiple possibilities. Each group member can pursue an idea independently and then bring it to the table for consensus.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
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MOVIES
'Waste Land' depicts collaborative artist
Traveling with the Brooklyn-based, Brazilian-born artist Vik Muniz — an energetic figure whose large-
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Darling, Yes, one time I did have the urge to study,but I took a nap and quickly got over it.
On one level, "Waste Land" is a film about our planet and how humankind continues to abuse it.
scale photography and portraiture incorporates nontraditional materials (food, wire, metal) — Lucy Walker sets down with her small crew in Rio de Janeiro and watches a truly transformative project take shape.
Muniz goes to Jardim Gramacho, one of the largest landfills in the world, to shoot portraits of the catadores — pickers who sift through the towering hills of detritus, looking for recyclables to redeem for cash. These people stoop over the land, collecting, reaping a harvest.
But in more insightful, inspiring ways, "Waste Land" — one of 15 documentaries recently short-listed for Academy Awards consideration — is about what happens when an artist invites his subjects into a collaborative relationship. There's a cook who sells food at the dump. There's a young woman who has worked collecting garbage since she was 7. A spry, leathery old gent reflects on his past with wisdom and humor. Another man recounts with pride how he started a library for the pickers from the discarded books.
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--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
A fellow student of mine got up and taught my math class drunk. #epic
I think the horoscope is biased against me. Today is a 5 when everyone else is having a fantastic day.
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
I stretched today before getting on my bike to come to campus, just so that I could procrastinate an extra minute or two.
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
I like Viki and she likes me back! And, she showed me her boobies, and I like them tooil
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
You know how long it takes a monkey to eat a banana without peeling it first?
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
Last night there was a long conversation in my room over all the orgasms we've had. I love my roommates.
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
Gimme your tots!
Ain't no party like a Liz
Lemon party, cause a Liz
Lemon party is mandatory!!
These new facebook pages make it more difficult to creep. WHAT THE HELL!
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
If the moon were made of spare ribs, would ya eat it?
Screw the freshman 15, I made it to the freshman 40.
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
There may or may not be a monster in me trying to eat its way out alien style ... just saving
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
The sign of a good night:
You wake up the next day
looking like Kesha.
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
Just bought glow-in-the-dark stars for my room. Be jealous!
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
But someone will steal my shoes
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
The call number on the Bob Marley biographies in the KU library system is 420. How ironic is that?
--despite numerous complaints by student residents. McColum
If I ever see the guy from the State Farm commercials, I'm going to punch him square in the mouth.
EDITORIAL
McCollum Hall problems not getting any better for students
Hall remains in less-than-pristine condition, with no chance of renovations until the year 2013.
In October, one of the worst incidents in McCollum Hall was reported to The University Daily Kansan regarding a resident who opened his door to find water flowing out from the ceiling in his dorm room. In that case, only a few of the resident's belongings were found to be salvageable.
While this circumstance seems to be the one of the worst accounts, other residents have reported similar issues. Many residents have said that because
of the building's consistent leaky pipes, mold has grown in their dorm rooms. One resident who found mold in their room said the maintenance staff fixed the moldy pipes by placing duct tape on the pipe, putting a foam insulator over it and painting the insulator white. Once the pipe continued to leak, maintenance placed a bucket under the leak. Now, possibly as a result of breathing in the constant mold, the student has suffered from respiratory infections that the student's doctor said might have been brought on by the mold and bacteria.
More consideration definitely needs to be paid to these problems, but unfortunately, McCollum Hall is the last residence hall to be renovated on Daisy Hill. In the meantime, we call on the Department of Student Housing to allow a third party to perform an environmental/health inspection and to release the results to the public.
More particular attention should be made to the largest dorm, which houses up to 900 KU students. Fixing the dire problems and investing in repairs for such a large portion of the student community is a necessary step student housing should take very soon.
Stefanie Penn for the Kansas Editorial Board
CARTOON
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SKEPTICISM
MARIAM SAIFAN
Science not always used for good
In 1893, among the hundreds of exhibits at the World's Fair in Chicago, were
exhibit dedicated to the study of anthropometry, the physical measurement of humans.
The exhibit detailed a method used to identify criminals from a witness' account based on body dimensions — things like height, finger length, and shoulder width — that at the time proved an effective method for obtaining more accurate detail of perpetrators than what before had only been a vague description. Photos of criminals were grouped according to their physical characteristics, allowing a better system of cataloging their record
The system was useful in the identification of previous offenders and cleared the name of many falsely accused men; there was, however, a more insidious quality to anthropometry.
The scientific basis for claims like Morton's is completely unfounded, but the purpose of such studies was not truly for the sake of scientific inquiry and to better understand the natural biology of humans; rather, they were performed by one group of people to justify the mistreatment of other human beings by demeaning them biologically inferior.
Although the display at the World's Fair concerned the measurements of a single person that were restricted to that individual, anthropologists as early as the 1770s had used differences in the size and shapes of skulls to identify and catalog people of different races. In the mid-19th century, Samuel George Morton hypothesized that the skulls of white Europeans had the largest interior capacity and could therefore contain bigger brains, supposedly lending caucasians the greatest intelligence of all races.
If it had been found that an entire spectrum of people was somehow naturally less equipped intellectually to make appropriate decisions for themselves, then
by the researchers' opinion, it would only make sense that those who were well equipped should have authority over them.
Good Science,
Bad Science
In Morton's time, establishing a scientific basis for superiority made it much easier to defend the obviously immoral policies of colonialization and slavery that had both begun to come under serious ethical opposition as the 19th century progressed. Scientific racism continued to be an area of serious study even into the 1930s and '40s when Nazi Germany used pseudoscientific rhetoric to employ and rationalize the heinous atrocities committed against those groups deemed inferior to the regime's ideal racial standards.
BY ANDREW HOLTZEN
Even the 1990s saw the publishing of two highly inflammatory books dealing with IQ and race: "The Bell Curve" and "The g Factor: General Intelligence and Its Implications." The "g Factor," written by Chris Bran, proposed that general intelligence (the "g" in "g Factor") was strongly influenced by genetic factors and was lower than average in certain groups (particularly blacks). The book was widely discredited upon its release in the UK due to the author's documented racial biases and support of eugenics, but, most importantly, unsound scientific reasoning. "The Bell Curve," which is often compared to and generally regarded as a better piece of scholarship than g Factor, presented as part of its thesis that genetics and its habitability played a large role in the difference between IQ scores among ethnic groups in the U.S. (black Americans usually score lower than white Americans, while Asian Americans usually score higher than whites). Much of the criticism of "The Bell Curve"
relates to critics',
like Steven Jay
Gould, opinion
that the book
violates the
logical fallacy
of correlation
without causation;
that is, although
race correlates
with IQ, it does
not mean that a
lower IQ score is due to a group's biological difference from another, but could be caused by any number of social factors.
Other critics like Robert T. Carroll, assert that too much is vested in IQ altogether, and that something as complicated as intelligence is difficult to quantitate accurately. The proposed relationship between human physical classification and intelligence has proven a perfect example of the possibility of science to be used beneficially or detrimentally.
In one instance, being able to classify a person based on physical characteristics proved useful as in the example of anthropometry of criminals, but when the genetically determined physical characteristics of an entire group of people are extended to include something intangible like intelligence and permit the assertion of dominance, the misuse of science becomes apparent.
In the United States, where minorities experience disproportionate economic woes, a falsely perceived racial connection to low IQ scores and the poverty that strongly correlates with them would allow the unscrupulous to remove responsibility from society and place it on nature.
In the words of Charles Darwin,
"If the misery of our poor be
caused not by the laws of nature,
but by our institution, great is our
sin."
Holtzen is a junior from Fayetteville, Ark., in chemistry and Spanish.
PERSONAL RIGHTS
TSA trying wrong techniques to protect passengers safety
The time around Thanksgiving is the busiest travel time in the
country. After hearing about the new TSA "pat-down" procedures, I was a little scared about traveling. Luckily, I just walked through the machine. A TSA agent explained to a man behind me that he would be feeling the inside of his thighs and sensitive areas with the back of his hand. This is completely unnecessary, unconstitutional and doesn't keep people any safer.
I don't know about you, but I certainly wouldn't want to be sexually assaulted by anyone, let alone a TSA agent. And why should you? The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution protects us against unreasonable searches and seizures. In a CNN article, CNN employee Rosemary Fitzpatrick was randomly picked for the pat-down. She explained that "a female screener ran her hands around her breasts, over her stomach, buttocks and her inner thighs, and briefly touched her crotch."
The problem here is that she, and every other traveller, cannot do anything about it if they want to fly. If this behavior were done anywhere else, it would constitute being thrown in jail. This new TSA rule legitimizes sexual assault. The last time I checked, a pat-down didn't involve being inappropriately touched.
Each passenger of El Al Airlines is individually interviewed and scrutinized by highly trained security officers. They are trained to specifically
If anyone condones this behavior claiming that it is for security reasons, then they are absolutely out of tune with reality. Consider how the safest airline in the world, Israel's El Al Airlines, conducts its security measures.
Seth's Scoop
BY SETH ROBINSON
robinson@kansan.com
read body language and analyze a passenger's intentions by asking sets of questions. This interview process can be lengthy or short. If necessary, they will go entirely through a passenger's bag. There are also air marshals on every flight that are disguised as normal passengers, yet they have guns to use in case of a terrorist attack on the flight. They are the safest airline in the world, and they don't require passengers to be sexually assaulted before getting on a plane.
President Obama agrees that these new "pat-down" procedures are necessary for our security. He even told Barbara Walters in an interview that, "If there was an explosion in the air that killed a couple of hundred people ... and it turned out that we could have prevented it possibly ... that would be something that would be pretty upsetting to most of us — including me." If this were sincerely the case, then we should try doing what El Al Airlines does. I guarantee that if President Obama, the First Lady, or Nancy Pelosi had to follow these same procedures, the new "pat-down" procedures would be quickly eliminated. These new procedures don't apply to them, so everything is great and dandy.
Here it is, the grope and change we wanted!
Robinson is a civil engineering major from Houston.
Responses to the news of the week on Kansan.com
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"I find it interesting that Big 12 fans (mostly in the North division) have no real resentment towards Missouri (for starting the whole "leaving the Big 12" thing in the first place) or for Colorado, who actually left first. No, it's just "Blame Nebraska." They're the big jerks that killed the Big 12. So, then, just why is it that it's no big deal for a Missouri or a Colorado team to leave, but it's practically the end of the world ifNU does?"
—“lwrennie212” in response to “Sooners' victory one for the Big 12” on Dec. 6.
However, there may be a link between smoking in bars and money spent on booze.
"So can you tell me what qualifies the current resident in the white house? If not then your whole article is a mistake."
When there is a toxic amount of fumes in the air, one needs more libation to provide relief to a throat which is being ripped up. All that hacking and coughing means the body needs more liquid to quench an artificially induced thirst.
"I support public smoking bans. I didn't buy the arguments that it would force bars to close.
Maybe bars should clean carpets (you know with a beating stick) to foul the air.
Oh wait, dust is toxic according to the EPA. Point retracted. Sorry to waste your time."
— "Conserve" in response to "Show doesn't qualify Palin for presidency" on Dec. 5.
—"Metacognition" in response to "Local bars adjust sales tactics" on Dec. 5.
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CAMPUS
Malott's scare was secured
BY SAMANTHA FOSTER AND KELLY STRODA sfoster@kansan.com, kstroda@kansan.com
At 4:20 p.m. Monday, KU Public Safety received a call reporting an unknown chemical smell on the fifth floor of Malott Hall. The building was then evacuated.
Jill Jess, spokeswoman for University Relations, said at about 7 p.m. that the source of the smell was still undetermined but that it had disseminated. Malott was reopened except for one room on the fifth floor that was still being investigated as the source of the smell.
Two University employees complained of headaches from the smell, jess said. One employee was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Another employee was treated at the scene.
Around 4:55 p.m., two firefighters escorted a man out of the north side of Malott Hall. The man later got into an ambulance in the parking lot behind Haworth Hall.
Justin Douglas is the director of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Core Lab, which is housed in Malott. He came to work after the building was evacuated and said that in his experience evacuations of chemical buildings should be taken seriously.
Douglas said alarms like this one happened all the time when he was attending grad school but not as often here at the University.
"Here, when it happens, it seems legitimate," he said. "You just never know. It could be something serious or it could just be a bad tuna fish sandwich."
Malott Hall houses the chemistry, physics and astronomy departments.
There were also two chemical spills on campus this semester. There was a spill in Malot Hall on Oct. 29 and a spill in Haworth Hall on Aug. 26.
Edited by Emily McCoy
Local band to compete for recording time
MUSIC
Jimmy Carr, Brian Henshaw, Robert Meyer, Mark Kruske, and Jared Miller.
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The Louisiana Street Band practices Sunday night in lead guitarist Evan Epperson's garage. The Louisiana Street Band includes Epperson, a senior from Wichita (second to the right), saxophonist Scott Marks, a senior from Lawrence (second to the left), keyboardist Austin Quick, a senior from Shawnea (back), rhythm guitarist John Marc Skook, a senior from Hastings, Neb. (bear), Brad Feagan, a sophomore from Oswego (far left) and drummer Nathan Deel (not pictured). The band, who will be performing in Lawrence on December 2nd at the Granada, is finalists in the General Mills Battle for the Band Contest being held on college campuses nationwide.
BY NICOLAS ROESLER
proesler@kansan.com
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The Louisiana Street Band is headed to Los Angeles to compete for recording time in the famous Firehouse Recording Studio.
Members include lead guitarist Evan Epperson, a senior from Wichita; saxophonist Scott Marks, a senior from Wichita; keyboardist Austin Quick, a senior from Shawnee; rhythm guitarist John Marc Skoch, a senior from Hastings, Neb.; Brad Feagan, a sophomore from Oswego; and drummer Nathan Deel. Baldwin City resident.
The band placed in the top three of a national competition
sponsored by General Mills called U Rock! Battle for the Best. When interviewed in November with two weeks left in the competition, The Louisiana Street Band had twice as many votes as the second-place band.
Originally a strictly blues band that started in Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall on Louisiana Street, the band has evolved to play everything from Cajun style music to classic rock.
Joining the local band in Los Angeles will be The Jerry Olea Trio from Cal State San Marcos in California, and The Acree Brothers from Longwood University in Virginia.
General Mills provides all three
bands airfare to Los Angeles as well as $100 spending money for the trip. The total value of the trip itself is approximately $2,000, all provided by General Mills.
The battle of the bands competition there will be judged by stage presence, interaction with and reaction from the crowd, originality, and overall entertainment value.
ARTS
"We hope to just keep going with it as high and as long as we can," Quick said in an interview in November.
Now they can. The national competition performance in Los Angeles will be held January 15.
'Legally Blonde'takes stage at Lied Center in its musical form
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THEATER SCHOOL OF CINEMAS
BY NICOLAS ROESLER
nroesler@kansan.com
The hit 2001 film "Legally Blonde" is making its way to the Lied Center Theatre in form of a Tony-nominated musical tonight at 7:30 p.m.
Actress Nikki Bohne plays Elle Woods in the musical adaptation of "Legally Blonde." The Broadway musical debuted in 2007 and has been nominated for several Tony Awards.
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The story follows Elle Woods, played by Nikki Bohne, on a journey of self-discovery trying to win her ex-boyfriend back by going to law school along with her sidekick, Chiahuahua named Bruiser.
"Legally Blonde The Musical is following a current trend in the production of musical theatre on Broadway, the 'Moviecal', said John Staniunas, University of Kansas associate professor and chair of theatre, in a press release.
The Broadway adaptation of the popular movie starring Reese Witherspoon received seven Tony Award nominations after its first year on Broadway in 2007. The show also won three Touring Broadway awards and was considered one of the year's best new musicals.
"She is great role model to play; I learn something new from her every time I perform," Bohne said. "She is completely selfless with a huge heart, which is why I think people connect with her so well."
Bohne said that one of the best behind-the-scenes stories is that of her dog Bruiser, played by both Roxie and Chico the Chihuahuas. She said both dogs are rescue dogs, and Chico is the dog from the original Broadway show.
"He is such a pro" Bohne said of her canine sidekick.
A memorable moment in the movie is when Elle Woods learns how to "bend and snap" to attract
the attention of her man. The Lied Center made this popular move into a competition for two free tickets to the show and a chance to meet the cast. People submitted videos to the
Lied Center of themselves doing bend and snap. Andrea Romero, a graduate student from Miami, and Vaughn Lower, a senior from Wichita, were those two talented bend and snappers.
"My technique is just one quick swift movement," Romero said.
She said she was completely surprised when she received the e-mail saying that she had won and was looking forward to meeting the cast.
Despite audience's attachment
"I've never talked to anyone who has been in a Broadway play before so that is kind of cool," Romero said.
to certain moments from the Hollywood film, some had to be altered to fit musical parameters.
"The interesting aspect of watching a 'Moviecal' is having the chance to study the film before you go so you can see first-hand the changes and addition of songs to the structure of the original work." Staniunas said.
One scene that changed is how Elle Woods applied to Harvard Law. Instead of sending in a video tape of her bragging about her assortment of skills, she brings
a marching band from UCLA to invade the Harvard Campus and perform a huge musical number to gain entry.
Bohne said this musical fits in perfectly with the college town atmosphere because most of it takes place at Harvard.
"It's a great time in their lives where kids find themselves and develop their passions." Bohne said, "This musical just looks at that in a unique and really fun way."
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Sitting among his peers from Outlaws and Allies in the Burge Union, Joseph Jarvis intently watched the opening oral arguments of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a same-sex-marriage case based in California.
Jarvis, a third year law student from Lenexa, was interested in the case not because he worried about it showing up later on an exam. Rather, he knew that the ruling had the potential to affect his life.
"As one half of a same-sex relationship, the case is of course very important to me," Jarvis said.
The most recent rulings are only chapters in an already extensive debate about same-sex marriage in California. In May 2008, California legalized same-sex marriage. The following November, Proposition 8 was passed and outlawed same-sex marriage.
Today, three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals began the second trial regarding the legislation, which means that the case may have effects on the
rest of the country.
"Up to now, all of the challenges have been under state law," Jarvis said. "California has won under the state, so now the debate will be at a federal level."
Although the law has a lot at stake, Ryan Rash, a law student from Tahlequah, Okla., and the
president of Outlaws and Allies, was optimistic.
"This would be huge if upheld," Rash said. "It would give all couples the federal rights that only opposite-sex couples have now
"But it could go the other way, also."
"It would give all couples the federal rights that only opposite-sex couples have now."
The central issue in the debate today was that of the constitutional right to marry. The defense attorneys argued that marriage is an individual liberty, given by the Constitution. He compared outlawing same-sex marriages with outlawing interracial marriages.
"In the most absolute scenario, the court would allow the same federal rights and benefits to all couples in every state," Rash said.
Rash points out that the court could overturn the previous decision, and uphold the California voters' decision to outlaw same-sex marriages.
"This is the fundamental question," Charles Cooper, a defense
RYAN RASH Law student
attorney in the case, said during the trial. "Whether the definition of marriage is one for the people to resolve through democratic process, or whether it takes that out
of the hands and decides it for them."
Regardless of the ruling, Jarvis said that it is likely the case would likely be appealed and taken to the Supreme Court.
"It has the potential to be the Roe v. Wade of our time," Jarvis said. "It was like watching history in the making."
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Duke, Kansas hold positions in AP poll
the Blue Devils earned the No. 1 spot with a unanimous vote for the second straight week in a row.
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Junior forward Marcus Morris and junior guard Tyshawn Taylor try to stop UCLA guard Tyler Lamb during the first half of the Jayhawks' game against the Bruins last week at Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas will face off against the nationally-ranked Memphis Tigers tonight at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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Jayhawk weakness lies in defense
BY TIM DWYER
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Bill Self knows his team has a weakness. Anybody who's watched the last two games knows, as a matter of fact.
Find a long, athletic wing, get him the ball, and have him either take an uncontested three or drive straight at the Morris twins, or whoever happens to be playing post for Kansas.
"I if I was coaching against us," Self said, "I would attack our bigs every position. I'm just going to put that out there because everybody can see it."
That plan of attack worked brilliantly for Arizona's Derrick Williams and UCLA's Tyler
Honeycutt, who knocked down threes when Kansas' typically stellar perimeter defense failed, and barring that forced Kansas' bigs, notably Marcus and Markieff Morris, into four trouble. Williams finished with 27 in Arizona's loss, while Honeycutt finished with 33.
"It doesn't take a guy who studies a ton of tape to know, 'just throw it to the big guys,' because our big guys don't guard very well," Self said. "If I was scouting us right now, I would say throw it at Marcus' and Markieff's and Thomas' man every possession."
fouled out in just 19 minutes of action. Marcus has been better, but in the last two games has picked up his fourth foul with the game still on the line.
Five times this year Markieff has been limited to less than 20 minutes in a game because of foul trouble, including both of the last two games. Against UCLA, he
"I thought about 'what if we had these guys in when the game was tough?' junior guard Tyshawn Taylor said. "They have to play with their hands up so they can be aggressive without fouling."
Memphis lacks the big-bodied post that UCLA had in Josh Smith (the 305-pounder finished with 17 points and 13 boards against Kansas), but has two prime candidates to do what Williams and Honeycutt had such great success doing.
Wesley Witherspoon, a 6-foot- 2 swinger who leads the Tigers
with 13.7 points per game, has the same ability to either stretch the floor with his outside game or put the ball on the floor and attack the paint.
The second option will be 6-6 freshman guard Will Barton, Rivals' No.1 player in the class of 2010. Barton scored just five total points in the Tigers' first two games, but he's scored 20 or more in three of five games since.
Self's faith rests mostly in Brady Morningstar defensively (he said Morningstar did a nice job against Honeycutt, while the others didn't guard him "worth a flip"). Morningstar, at 6-foot-4, is the tallest of the Jayhawks' trio of starting guards, but he still gives five inches to the length
Witherspoon.
Self has said several times that the Jayhawks' third in-the-nation scoring offense was partially to blame for the lax defense.
"When you start hitting shots," Self said, "the tendency is to relax on defense."
But the jayhawks may finally be facing an opponent that they can't outscore.
"These two games have helped us moving forward, I think," Self said after the UCLA game. "But we'll need to play a lot better against Memphis on a neutral court on Tuesday.
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VOLLEYBALL
Departures and arrivals will change next season
Freshman libero Brianne Riley digs the ball against Colorado Saturday. Riley led the team with 18 digs in the 3-0 victory.
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BY IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
Junior outside hitter Allison Mayfield has seen this before.
The layhawks, left out of this year's NCAA tournament, are already beginning to prepare for the 2011-2012 season. In the meantime, the team will be transformed by departures and new arrivals that change the equations of both the offense and defense.
"It's always a drastic change," Mavfield said.
2010
2010 wasn't a bad year for the Jayhawks. They started off undefeated for the first seven matches, and the 17 wins they recorded was their best since 2004. Kansas scored victories over five of the teams that are in the tournament now.
Coach Ray Bechard said making or not making the tournament came down to a narrow margin this year. One or two road games in the first half of the season, or a couple of home games later on, he said, could've made the difference.
Mayfield said one lesson the team could draw from the season was that every match was important.
Mayfield said she thought, over
"You can't overlook anyone," she said.
"We had some big wins; we also lost some games we didn't think wed lose," she said.
all, the season went well.
DEPARTURES, ARRIVALS
Among the four outgoing seniors are two outside hitters — Karina Garlington and Jenna Kaiser — who played important roles in the Jayhawk offense over the past season. Another — Mel Townsend — is one of the team's top defensive specialists. But Kansas has also signed two new freshmen.
Garlington led the team in kills in 21 matches in 2010, and her career total of 1,309 kills is the second highest in program history. This year, her season average of 3.51 kills per set was No. 8 in the conference. The league named Garlingen to the All-Big 12 Honorable Mention Team at
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COMMENTARY
Memphis brings the heat
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BY MAX VOSBURGH
mvosburgh@kansan.com
For the third time in four years, Kansas will face Memphis tonight when the two teams tip-off in one of the grandest basketball arenas in the world. Madison Square Garden in New York.
Of course, it was Memphis that Kansas defeated to win the National Championship in 2008. Although there are still players left who were on the roster for that game, no one who played in that game is left from either team.
Last year,the two teams faced off in the first 2008 National Championship rematch. The game featured a Memphis team that was almost completely different than the team that the Jayhawks had faced two years prior. Coach John Calipari was gone, replaced by his assistant coach Josh Pastner, and the majority of the stars who helped Memphis reach the title game in 2008 had also moved on.
Six-foot-eight forwards Derrick Williams and Tyler Honeycutt both scored 33 and 27 points respectively, against the Jayhawks. Honeycutt, who made 11 of 15 field goals including five of six threepointers, was held in check two nights ago by Montana. He scored 11 points on three of 12 shooting in a game at UCLA.
This year, a Memphis team that is more experienced and is currently undefeated at 7-0 and ranked in the top 15 in the country should again be able to compete and give Kansas a close game.
Six-foot-nine forward/guard Wesley Witherspoon averages 13.7 points per game, who leads the Tigers who as a team average 85.3 points per game. This type of player has given the Jayhawks trouble the last two games.
Consequently, last year Memphis was a young team with a new, young coach. That didn't stop the Tigers from looking to avenge their school's title loss, showing up ready to compete. Cole Aldrich led the Jayhawks with 18 points and the 2008 National Champions were able to win a close game in St. Louis, 59-57. In fact, Kansas and Memphis have historically played close games. Kansas leads the all-time series 5-2 and every game but one has been decided by a score of five points or less, or has gone to overtime.
So in what could be the best team Kansas faces in the non-conference season this year, look for the Jayhawks to attempt to fend off the Tigers in what could be another close game between the two schools.
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CAMPUS
Malott's scare was secured
BY SAMANTHA FOSTER AND KELLY STRODA
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kstrda@kansan.com
At 4:20 p.m. Monday, KU Public Safety received a call reporting an unknown chemical smell on the fifth floor of Malot Hall. The building was then evacuated.
Jill Jess, spokeswoman for University Relations, said at about 7 p.m. that the source of the smell was still undetermined but that it had disseminated. Malott was reopened except for one room on the fifth floor that was still being investigated as the source of the smell.
Two University employees complained of headaches from the smell, Jess said. One employee was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Another employee was treated at the scene.
Around 4:55 p.m., two firefighters escorted a man out of the north side of Malot Hall. The man later got into an ambulance in the parking lot behind Haworth Hall.
justin Douglas is the director of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Core Lab, which is housed in Malott. He came to work after the building was evacuated and said that in his experience evacuations of chemical buildings should be taken seriously.
Douglas said alarms like this one happened all the time when he was attending grad school but not as often here at the University.
"Here, when it happens, it seems legitimate," he said. "You just never know. It could be something serious or it could just be a bad tuna fish sandwich."
Malott Hall houses the chemistry, physics and astronomy departments.
There were also two chemical spills on campus this semester. There was a spill in Malot Hall on Oct. 29 and a spill in Haworth Hall on Aug. 26.
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Local band to compete for recording time
MUSIC
JAMES PARKER
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The Louisiana Street Band practices Sunday night in lead guitar Evan Epperson's garage. The Louisiana Street Band includes Epperson, a senior from Wichita (second to the right), saxophonist Scott Marks, a senior from Lawrence (second to the left), keyboardist Austin Quick, a senior from Shawnee back), rhythm guitarist JohnMarc Scroll, a senior from Hastings, Neb. (far right), Brad Feagan, a sophomore from Oswego (far left) and drummer Nathan Deel (not pictured). The band, who will be performing in Lawrence on December 2nd at the Granada, is finalists in the General Mills Battle for the Band Contest being held on college campuses nationwide.
BY NICOLAS ROESLER
nroesler@kansan.com
The Louisiana Street Band is headed to Los Angeles to compete for recording time in the famous Firehouse Recording Studio.
Members include lead guitarist Evan Epperson, a senior from Wichita; saxophonist Scott Marks, a senior from Wichita; keyboardist Austin Quick, a senior from Shawnee; rhythm guitarist John Marc Skoch, a senior from Hastings, Neb.; Brad Feagan, a sophomore from Oswego; and drummer Nathan Deel. Baldwin City resident.
The band placed in the top three of a national competition
sponsored by General Mills called U Rock! Battle for the Best. When interviewed in November with two weeks left in the competition, The Louisiana Street Band had twice as many votes as the second-place band.
Originally a stricly blues band that started in Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall on Louisiana Street, the band has evolved to play everything from Cajun style music to classic rock.
Joining the local band in Los Angeles will be The Jerry Olea Trio from Cal State San Marcos in California, and The Acree Brothers from Longwood University in Virginia.
General Mills provides all three
bands airfare to Los Angeles as well as $100 spending money for the trip. The total value of the trip itself is approximately $2,000, all provided by General Mills.
The battle of the bands competition there will be judged by stage presence, interaction with and reaction from the crowd, originality, and overall entertainment value.
ARTS
"We hope to just keep going with it as high and as long as we can," Quick said in an interview in November.
Now they can. The national competition performance in Los Angeles will be held January 15.
'Legally Blonde'takes stage at Lied Center in its musical form
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BY NICOLAS ROESLER nroesler@kansan.com
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Actress Nikki Bohne plays Elle Woods in the musical adaptation of "Legally Blonde." The Broadway musical debuted in 2007 and has been nominated for several Tony Awards.
The hit 2001 film "Legally Blonde" is making its way to the Lied Center Theatre in form of a Tony-nominated musical tonight at 7:30 p.m.
The story follows Elle Woods, played by Nikki Bohne, on a journey of self-discovery trying to win her ex-boyfriend back by going to law school along with her sidekick, Cihuhua named Bruiser.
"Legally Blonde The Musical' is following a current trend in the production of musical theatre on Broadway, the 'Moviecal', said John Staniunas, University of Kansas associate professor and chair of theatre, in a press release.
"She is great role model to play; I learn something new from her every time I perform," Bohne said. "She is completely selfless with a huge heart, which is why I think people connect with her so well."
The Broadway adaptation of the popular movie starring Reese Witherspoon received seven Tony Award nominations after its first year on Broadway in 2007. The show also won three Touring Broadway awards and was considered one of the year's best new musicals.
Bohne said that one of the best behind-the-scenes stories is that of her dog Bruiser, played by both Roxie and Chico the Chihuahuas. She said both dogs are rescue dogs, and Chico is the dog from the original Broadway show.
"He is such a pro" Bohne said of her canine sidekick.
the attention of her man. The Lied Center made this popular move into a competition for two free tickets to the show and a chance to meet the cast. People submitted videos to the
A memorable moment in the movie is when Elle Woods learns how to "bend and snap" to attract
Lied Center of themselves doing bend and snap. Andrea Romero, a graduate student from Miami, and Vaughn Lower, a senior from Wichita, were those two talented bend and snappers.
"My technique is just one quick swift movement," Romero said.
She said she was completely surprised when she received the e-mail saying that she had won and was looking forward to meeting the cast.
Despite audience's attachment
"I've never talked to anyone who has been in a Broadway play before so that is kind of cool," Romero said.
to certain moments from the Hollywood film, some had to be altered to fit musical parameters.
"The interesting aspect of watching a 'Moviecal' is having the chance to study the film before you go so you can see first-hand the changes and addition of songs to the structure of the original work." Staniunas said.
One scene that changed is how Ellie Woods applied to Harvard Law. Instead of sending in a video tape of her bragging about her assortment of skills, she brings
a marching band from UCLA to invade the Harvard Campus and perform a huge musical number to gain entry.
Bohne said this musical fits in perfectly with the college town atmosphere because most of it takes place at Harvard.
"It's a great time in their lives where kids find themselves and develop their passions." Bohne said, "This musical just looks at that in a unique and really fun way."
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California case carries real stakes for some law students
Sitting among his peers from Outlaws and Allies in the Burge Union, Joseph Jarvis intently watched the opening oral arguments of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a same-sex-marriage case based in California.
Jarvis, a third year law student from Lenexa, was interested in the case not because he worried about it showing up later on an exam. Rather, he knew that the ruling had the potential to affect his life.
BY MEG LOWRY
mlowry@kansan.com
"As one half of a same-sex relationship, the case is of course very important to me," Jarvis said.
The most recent rulings are only chapters in an already extensive debate about same-sex marriage in California. In May 2008, California legalized same-sex marriage. The following November, Proposition 8 was passed and outlawed same-sex marriage.
Today, three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals began the second trial regarding the legislation, which means that the case may have effects on the
"Up to now, all of the challenges have been under state law," Jarvis said. "California has won under the state, so now the debate will be at a federal level."
Although the law has a lot at stake, Ryan Rash, a law student from Tahlequah, Okla., and the
rest of the country.
president of Outlaws and Allies, was optimistic.
“This would be huge if upheld,” Rash said. “It would give all couples the federal rights that only opposite-sex couples have now.”
"But it could go the other way, also"
"It would give all couples the federal rights that only opposite-sex couples have now."
The central issue in the debate today was that of the constitutional right to marry. The defense attorneys argued that marriage is an individual liberty, given by the Constitution. He compared outlawing same-sex marriages with outlawing interracial marriages.
Rash points out that the court could overturn the previous decision, and uphold the California voters' decision to outlaw same-sex marriages.
"In the most absolute scenario, the court would allow the same federal rights and benefits to all couples in every state," Rash said.
"This is the fundamental question." Charles Cooper, a defense
RYAN RASH Law student
attorney in the case, said during the trial. "Whether the definition of marriage is one for the people to resolve through democratic process, or whether it takes that out
of the hands and decides it for them."
Regardless of the ruling, Jarvis said that it is likely the case would likely be appealed and taken to the Supreme Court.
"It has the potential to be the Roe v. Wade of our time," Jarvis said. "It was like watching history in the making."
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Elizabeth Edwards, who has battled cancer publicly since 2005, said in a statement Monday that doctors have no hope that further treatment will ward off her cancer.
Edwards, who is separated from former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, is resting at home with her family.
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NCAA BASKETBALL | 2B Duke, Kansas hold positions in AP poll The Blue Devils earned the No.1 spot with a unanimous vote for the second straight week in a row.
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Junior forward Marcus Morris and junior guard Tyshawn Taylor try to stop UCLA guard Tyler Lamb during the first half of the Jayhawks' game against the Bruins last week at Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas will face off against the nationally-ranked Memphis Tigers tonight at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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Jayhawk weakness lies in defense
BY TIM DWYER
tdwyer@kansan.com
Bill Seil knows his team has a weakness. Anybody who's watched the last two games knows, as a matter of fact.
Find a long, athletic wing, get him the ball, and have him either take an uncontested three or drive straight at the Morris twins, or whoever happens to be playing post for Kansas.
"If I was coaching against us," Self said, "I would attack our bigs every position. I'm just going to put that out there because everybody can see it."
That plan of attack worked brilliantly for Arizona's Derrick Williams and UCLA's Tyler
Honeycutt, who knocked down threes when Kansas's typically stellar perimeter defense failed, and barring that forced Kansas' bigs, notably Marcus and Markieff Morris, into foul trouble. Williams finished with 27 in Arizona's loss, while Honeycutt finished with 33.
"It doesn't take a guy who studies a ton of tape to know, 'just throw it to the big guys', because our big guys don't guard very well," Self said. "If I was scouting us right now, I would say throw it at Marcus' and Markieff's and Thomas' man every possession."
"I thought about 'what if we had these guys in when the game was tough?' junior guard Tyshawn Taylor said. "They have to play with their hands up so they can be aggressive without fouling."
fouled out in just 19 minutes of action. Marcus has been better, but in the last two games has picked up his fourth foul with the game still on the line.
Memphis lacks the big-bodied post that UCLA had in Josh Smith (the 305-pounder finished with 17 points and 13 boards against Kansas), but has two prime candidates to do what Williams and Honeycutt had such great success doing.
Wesley Witherspoon, a 6-foot-9 swinger who led the Tigers
Five times this year Markieff has been limited to less than 20 minutes in a game because of foul trouble, including both of the last two games. Against UCLA, he
with 13.7 points per game, has the same ability to either stretch the floor with his outside game or put the ball on the floor and attack the paint.
The second option will be 6-6 freshman guard Will Barton, Rivals' No.1 player in the class of 2010. Barton scored just five total points in the Tigers' first two games, but he's scored 20 or more in three of five games since.
Self's faith rests mostly in Brady Morningstar defensively (he said Morningstar did a nice job against Honeycutt, while the others didn't guard him "worth a flip"). Morningstar, at 6-foot-4, is the tallest of the Jayhawks' trio of starting guards, but he still gives five inches to the lengthy
Witherspoon.
Self has said several times that the Jayhawks' third-in-the-nation scoring offense was partially to blame for the lax defense.
"When you start hitting shots," Self said. "the tendency is to relax on defense."
But the lajwhaks may finally be facing an opponent that they can't outscore.
"These two games have helped us moving forward, I think." Self said after the UCLA game. "But we'll need to play a lot better against Memphis on a neutral court on Tuesday.
— Edited by Roshni Oommen
Departures and arrivals will change next season
VOLLEYBALL
Freshman libero
Brianne Riley digs
the ball against
Colorado Saturday.
Riley led the team
with 18 digs in the
3-0 victory.
KANSAS 10
The Jayhawks, left out of this year's NCAA tournament, are already beginning to prepare for the 2011-2012 season. In the meantime, the team will be transformed by departures and new arrivals that change the equations of both the offense and defense.
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Junior outside hitter Allison Mayfield has seen this before.
BY IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
"It's always a drastic change." Mayfield said.
2010
2010 wasn't a bad year for the Jayhawks. They started off undefeated for the first seven matches, and the 17 wins they recorded was their best since 2004. Kansas scored victories over five of the teams that are in the tournament now.
Coach Ray Bechard said making or not making the tournament came down to a narrow margin this year. One or two road games in the first half of the season, or a couple of home games later on, he said, could've made the difference.
Mayfield said one lesson the team could draw from the season was that every match was important.
"You can't overlook anyone," she said.
"We had some big wins; we also lost some games we didn't think wed lose," she said.
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Mayfield said she thought, over
all, the season went well.
Among the four outgoing seniors are two outside hitters — Karina Garlington and Jenna Kaiser — who played important roles in the Jayhawk offense over the past season. Another — Mel Townsend — is one of the team's top defensive specialists. But Kansas has also signed two new freshmen.
Garlington led the team in kills in 21 matches in 2010, and her career total of 1,309 kills is the second highest in program history. This year, her season average of 3.51 kills per set was No. 8 in the conference. The league named Garlington to the All-Big 12 Honorable Mention Team at
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COMMENTARY
Memphis brings the heat
BY MAX VOSBURGH
mvosburgh@kansan.com
For the third time in four years, Kansas will face Memphis tonight when the two teams tip-off in one of the grandest basketball arenas in the world. Madison Square Garden in New York.
Of course, it was Memphis that Kansas defeated to win the National Championship in 2008. Although there are still players left who were on the roster for that game, no one who played in that game is left from either team.
Six-foot-nine forward/guard Wesley Witherspoon averages 13.7 points per game, who leads the Tigers who as a team average 85.3 points per game. This type of player has given the Jayhawks trouble the last two games.
Six-foot-eight forwards Derrick Williams and Tyler Honeycutt both scored 33 and 27 points respectively, against the Jayhawks. Honeycutt, who made 11 of 15 field goals including five of six three-pointers, was held in check two nights ago by Montana. He scored 11 points on three of 12 shooting in a game at UCLA.
Last year, the two teams faced off in the first 2008 National Championship rematch. The game featured a Memphis team that was almost completely different than the team that the Jayhawks had faced two years prior. Coach John Calipari was gone, replaced by his assistant coach Josh Pastner, and the majority of the stars who helped Memphis reach the title game in 2008 had also moved on.
Consequently, last year Memphis was a young team with a new, young coach. That didn't stop the Tigers from looking to avenge their school's title loss, showing up ready to compete. Cole Aldrich led the Jayhawks with 18 points and the 2008 National Champions were able to win a close game in St. Louis, 59-57. In fact, Kansas and Memphis have historically played close games. Kansas leads the all-time series 5-2 and every game but one has been decided by a score of five points or less, or has gone to overtime.
So in what could be the best team Kansas faces in the non-conference season this year, look for the Jayhawks to attempt to fend off the Tigers in what could be another close game between the two schools.
This year, a Memphis team that is more experienced and is currently undefeated at 7-0 and ranked in the top 15 in the country should again be able to compete and give Kansas a close game.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
now, it's almost like our offense needs to bail our defense out. We need to do a role reversal."
—Bill Self
FACT OF THE DAY
Kansas is 0-2 in the Jimmy V Classic, an event that raises funds and awareness for cancer research. No.4 Kansas will play No.14 Memphis in the Jimmy V Classic tonight on ESPN.
— Kansas Athletics
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many of the six games against Memphis have been within five points or decided in overtime?
A: All but one.
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Game provides useful lessons
MORNING BREW
As if I need another distraction from schoolwork in these last few weeks before break, I have recently taken up yet another hobby courtesy of ESPN. After spending hours honing my fantasy football team, I thought nothing could come close to rivaling that.
That is when I learned of ESPN's Beat the Streak. This game doesn't have an entry fee, but offers one lucky/wise sports fan a chance to win $100,000 each month. The game is easy; make the right picks regarding different sporting events and accumulate the longest streak of correct picks. At the end of the月 $100,000 is given to the player who had the longest win streak at any point in the month. (For more rules check out streak.espn.go.com)
BY JACKSON DELAY
jdelay@kansan.com
I realize that the chance of me having the longest streak is slim to none. However, the prize is so enticing that I stay glued to ESPN, checking the scores of games I would never have known about had it not been for this fantasy game. How many other people knew of Sunday's soccer game in which Newcastle United lost 3-1 to West Bromwich? I know, I didn't think West Bromwich had it in them either.
Since the game makes me focus more on
sports, I wonder if I would pay more attention to certain things in my life if there was a Streak for Cash everyday edition.
Items up for bet will include things such as how many phones my journalism teacher will take from students in class today. Or perhaps how many times my friend Kevin twitches and falls; or barely avoids injury.
I could even bet on things that involved me, such as my performance on tests.
THE
MORNING
BREW
I have found it true that turning sports into fantasy games makes them even more exciting to watch. Why wouldn't this be true in life as well?
The other night I was watching the game cast of the Detroit Red Wings overtime
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Cowboys legend dies of brain hemorrhage
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Don Meredith, both an original Dallas Cowboy and an original member of the "Monday Night Football" cast, died Sunday at 72 after suffering a brain hemorrhage.
"He was the best there was" his wife, Susan, told The Associated Press. "We lost a good one."
Many fans of the old Monday night telecast would agree. Meredith was the funny, folksy counterpoint to brash New Yorker Howard Cosell on a show that became a pop culture phenomenon.
The two began with play-by-play man Keith Jackson in 1970, then were joined by Frank Gifford from 1971-73. Meredith left for three years but returned from 1977-84, retiring one year after Cosell did.
In the quarter century since, Meredith had maintained a low public profile, rarely granting interviews and living in Santa Fe, N.M.
But he never was forgotten by football fans who grew up with a telecast that was unlike anything that had been seen before on sports television.
As ESPN's Chris Berman put
it in a statement issued by the network Monday: "Don Meredith was a television pioneer who made pro football real, even for non-football fans."
Steve Hirdt, executive vice president of Elias Sports Bureau, worked with Meredith in the early 1980s and said, "I had enjoyed him as a viewer for years, but it wasn't until I started working on the show that I learned that he was a whole lot smarter than he liked to portray himself on television."
Meredith, widely known as "Dandy Don," was a key figure in the development of two iconic brands of his era, because he was
an early star of the Cowboys, even though he never led them to a championship and was booed at times.
Craig James, a fellow Texan and fellow former SMU star, said Monday, "He was a guy I grew up idolizing as a Cowboys fan."
Meredith abruptly retired before the 1969 season despite being only 31 and coming off three straight Pro Bowl seasons. (He was the losing quarterback in the 1967 "Ice Bowl" NFL Championship Game against the Packers.) Frank Gifford suggested he speak to ABC Sports' Roone Arledge about a new prime-time football series
set to debut in 1970.
By 1971, Meredith and Gifford were in the booth together, helping remake sports TV history.
"He occasionally would try his hand as an actor," Gifford said in a statement issued by the Giants, "but it wasn't long before he realized that for millions of football fans, he would always be the one who 'topped' Howard Cosell with one-liners or a simple, 'Come on, Howard.'
Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote on his Twitter page, "Don Meredith was one of the most colorful characters in NFL history."
COLLEGE B BASKETBALL
Duke remains on top after series of victories
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Another Duke victory over a top 10 team and the Blue Devils' win in a rematch of last season's
national championship game had them a unanimous No.1 for a second straight week.
The Blue Devils capped a tough two-week stretch by beating Michigan State and Butler, and
that meant they again got all 65 first-place votes from the national media panel on Monday.
Duke (8-0) was No.1 in the preseason poll and has stayed there for the first four polls of the regular season.
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Michigan State, Syracuse, Getorgetown and Baylor rounded out the top 10.
It is the first-ever appearance in the top 10 for Baylor, which was 11th last week and moved up with wins over Prairie View
Washington Minnesota Notre Dame Louisville and Texas rounded out the Top 25.
Florida (6-2) lost to Central Florida last week and dropped out from 18th. The Gators, whose other loss was to Ohio State, were No. 9 in the preseason poll.
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they are the first member of that top 10 to fall out of the rankings.
A&M and Arizona State.
Tennessee jumped two spots to lead the second 10 and was followed by Villanova, Memphis, San Diego State, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, BYU, Purdue and UNLV.
Another Duke victory... had them a unanimous No.1 for a second straight week.
time this season. The Cardinals' biggest win was over then—No. 16 Butler in the opening game at their new downtown arena. In 2008-09 they were in the Top 25 all season, reaching No. 1 for the first time in school history in the
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The Heat went through the early stages of the season torched by opposing point guards; the Lakers remain unable to contain dribble penetration.
The Heat had LeBron James bemoaning his big minutes early; Lakers coach Phil Jackson is now lamenting the big minutes being force fed to forward-turned-center Gasol.
For weeks this past summer, there was no shortage when it came to comparing the Miami Heat to the Los Angeles Lakers. The reigning champions and the would-be champions.
The Heat has had Erik Spoelstra feverishly waving his arms as his players all too often walk the ball up court; Bryant has said of his Lakers, "It looks like we're running in quicksand."
The Heat went into the season lacking quality front-line bulks the Lakers joined the Heat in that predicament with Theo Ratliff joining Andrew Bynum on the sidelines.
Then something rather curious happened last week. Comparisons began in the other direction, with the Lakers emulating the Heat's mid-November slide by coming up with their own losses to the Utah Jazz, Indiana Pacers and Memphis Grizzlies.
L.A. Lakers struggle to stay afloat
The Heat, amid their struggles, all too often relied on James and Dwyane Wade forcing the action, running little in the way of a system; the Lakers have become less triangle and more high-volume Kobe.
When the Heat slipped to 8-7 a week ago in Orlando, forward Chris Bosh spoke of how the truest lessons come through failure, and that it was better than opening 15-0 but with a flawed approach that would be exposed later in the season.
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Kaiser, recovering from last year's injuries, had a slower start in 2010 but emerged later in the season as a major offensive force. She led the Jayhawks with better than 3.48 kills per set in the last six matches and finished the season-closing victory over Oklahoma with a team-best 14 kills.
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With the Jayhawks losing Garlington and Kaiser, junior
setter Nicole Tate said the two new freshmen, both outside hitters, might help fill out the team's offense.
"Hopefully, they can step up and help us out," Tate said.
Incoming freshman outside hitters Chelsea Albers and Sara McClinton — both Nebraska natives — will join the team in the 2011-2012 academic year.
Albers helped Papillon La Vista High School to two state titles and two district championships and
leads the state of Nebraska in kills, carrying a 4.6 kills per set average. McClinton took district titles in 2008 and 2010 with Millard North High School and was twice an all-state honorable mention.
But Tate pointed out that the defense, as well as the offense, was in for an annual shakeup.
"We're also going to need some help with the back row," she said.
One of the departing seniors is defensive specialist Melissa Manda. She is the program's all-time digs leader and was recognized by the
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"How quickly can they adapt to the speed of Big 12 volleyball?" Bechard said.
With Garlington gone, Mayfield will be the senior outside hitter and the team's top scorer of kills. She and Tate will have the most experience on the court when it comes to organizing next year's offense.
"We're hoping that the spring goes well," she said.
"It'll be a whole new role."
Mayfield said. As to how things
Bechard said that the team would also see several important players return next year. He counted three quality setters and two returning starters, and said freshman middle blocker Jessie Allen had made improvements. As to the incoming freshman, Bechard said it remained to be seen how quickly they would influence the team.
will work out, she said it was too soon to tell.
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Sarkisian puts Washington football back on track
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SEATTLE — Two years to the day after he was announced as Washington's football coach, Steve Sarkisian began planning for a Holiday Bowl rematch with Nebraska.
And as he took a break from those duties to talk to reporters on Monday, Sarkisian said the bowl berth is tangible evidence the rebuilding process that started when he was hired on Dec. 6, 2008 is on track.
"I think that for our players and for this program this is another step in the right direction," he said. "There have been a lot of
things accomplished here in two years, whether it's road wins, wins in Los Angeles, Pac-10 wins to break streaks, as we've moved along. This is another one of those milestones"
Agreeing with that sentiment is Sarkisian's boss, Washington athletic director Scott Woodward. It was Woodward who hired Sarkisian as his first significant move after being named permanent AD.
"My philosophy is that I want a solid base foundation of building this program and I think we made a very, very good step forward in achieving postseason play," Woodward said. "He inherited an
0-12 season with a lot of unrest and Steve did a hell of a job last year to turning that around to a 5-7, very competitive football team. And this year we achieved that next step, which is postseason play. So from that standpoint I couldn't be more pleased.
"Do you want more wins? Of course you do. But we want this to be built on a solid foundation, which means solid coaching and solid character kids and great recruiting, and I see all of those things happening. And they need to continue happening going forward."
Woodward said he felt the same way when UW was 3-6 a
month ago, a time when some national observers were including the Huskies on their lists of most disappointing teams, and some Huskies fans were questioning the progress of Sarkisian's program.
"I had no doubts in my mind, even at 3-6," Woodward said, saying that even after disappointing losses "you have to look at the big picture." And that, he said, has been moving in the right path since day one, citing improved recruiting and the fact that "our kids were believing in what they were doing."
He said the comeback from 3-6 to a bowl berth "is a testament to the kids and the coaching job that
coach Sarkisian and his staff did."
Sarkisian signed a five-year contract when he was hired, which runs through the 2013 season, and Woodward said it is possible that deal will be extended after the season. He said "sure," when asked if he would be amenable to giving Sarkisian an extension, but said that has not been discussed. "He and I will have that discussion at the appropriate time," Woodward said.
On Monday, Sarkisian was more concerned with figuring out a way to beat the Cornhuskers, whose 56-21 win over the Huskies in Seattle on Sept. 18 was one of the low points of the season.
Sarkisian said the Huskies are embracing the opportunity to have another shot at the Cornhuskers and said, "I'd just like to go out and put our best foot forward."
Sarkisian said the bowl game was a proper reward for a senior class that he said had done all that was asked of it to help turn the program around, saying "this is a very special time" for them.
But he also said the work is far from done, "We are going there to play a football game and to win the game," he said. "This isn't a vacation."
WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Connecticut stays on top of women's AP basketball poll
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Connecticut remained the unanimous choice at No.1, while Michigan State shot up the Top 25.
The Huskies have won an NCAA women's basketball-record 86 straight games and received all 40 first-place votes in The Associated Press Top 25 poll Monday. It was the 48th straight week they sat atop the poll.
UConn will host Marquette on Thursday before going on break for meals. The Huskies will try for their 88th straight — which would match the record set by the UCLA men's basketball team — on Dec. 19 against No. 6 Ohio State at Madison Square Garden.
Baylor, Stanford, Xavier and Duke followed UConn for the second consecutive week to round out the first five. The Blue Devils will face No. 7 Texas A&M on Monday night in the Jimmy V Classic.
Michigan State made the biggest jump in the poll, climbing 10 spots to No. 15 after beating Florida State and Texas. It's one of the biggest leaps in the Top 25 since Rutgers climbed 10 spots in consecutive weeks during the 2004-05 season.
The Spartans beat then-No. 15 Florida State before topping 17th-ranked Texas.
Tennessee, West Virginia, and UCLA rounded out the top 10.
Georgetown and North Carolina were 11th and 12th, passing Oklahoma, which fell to 13th after its loss to Ohio State on Sunday.
Kentucky dropped six places to 14th following a blowout loss at Louisville on Sunday.
The Spartans were followed by Iowa State, Florida State, Notre Dame, Iowa, and St. John's.
Texas, Maryland, Wisconsin-Green Bay, DePaul, and Georgia round out the poll. The Longhorns dropped four places after their loss
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"We want to be in the Top 25 all the time," DePaul coach Doug Bruno said. "What we've learned through the years is that you have to earn your way in. Once you're in, it takes a lot of work and effort and stay in."
DePaul opens its Big East season Tuesday night in Pittsburgh. The Blue Demons will play five games in the next 10 days, culminating with a visit from No.2 Stanford on Dec.16.
"We're in the midst of a tough stretch," Bruno added. "Throw in the two locals we have on our schedule and every game is going to be a battle."
Nebraska fell out of the Top 25 a week after entering. Vanderbilt also dropped out of the rankings.
NFL
MRI shows sprain in Favre's shoulder, ending starting streak
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Logic says Brett Favre might have suffered the injury that will end his record streak of consecutive starts.
A magnetic resonance imaging exam Monday confirmed Favre sprained the sternoclavicular joint in his throwing shoulder on his first pass attempt Sunday. He wasn't able to return to the Vikings' 38-14 victory over Buffalo and later admitted he couldn't have even thrown a football.
This type of damage to a quarterback's throwing arm ordinarily would qualify as grim news. It looks even more bleak when that player is 41.
But we learned long ago that logic does not apply when it comes to Favre and injuries. Perhaps that's why Vikings interim coach
Leslie Frazier did not hesitate to answer when he was asked if he expected that Favre would be able to make his 298th consecutive NFL start Sunday against the visiting Giants.
"No question," Frazier said. "Someone asked me that same question yesterday. I really thought hed come back in the game (against Buffalo), just knowing Brett. As hard as I saw him get hit, I've seen him take harder hits and bounce back and come back and play. There's nobody tougher than Brett Favre to ever play the quarterback position. I was a little surprised he wasn't able to make it back, and I'd be surprised if he's not able to play this weekend."
Frazier said the injury is "not something that can surgically be attended to," and added that doctors did not give him any type of degree on a sprain that affects
Favre's neck and sternum area. Favre made a brief appearance in the Vikings locker room Monday but declined to comment about how the shoulder was feeling. He then ducked into the training room to receive treatment.
"If the doctors say he is fine and he is functional and not at risk and Brett feels good about it, it won't be a hard decision," Frazier said. "The only thing that makes it difficult is if the doctors say he is fine and he says, 'I'm not ready to go.' ... Between the two, between what the medical people tell me and what Brett tells me, we will make a decision based on that."
Favre will spend much of this week receiving treatment, and Frazier acknowledged rest will be a key, so it's likely Favre will do little to no work in practice.
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Kansas has been torn apart defensively in its last two games by a long, athletic wing. Memphis has that piece to the puzzle, and a much better supporting cast than Arizona and UCLA. If the Jayhawks have found a way to stop the bleeding over the last four days, they should be able to hold off the Tigers. If Wesley Witherspoon or Will Barton becomes the third straight opponent to go for 25-plus, the Jayhawks will be staring down their first loss of the season. Memphis has too many offensive weapons for the right-now sloppy Kansas defense to handle.
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Morningstar is the key to everything the Jayhawks do defensively. He almost always draws the assignment of guarding the opponent's best offensive threat. That means Tuesday he'll have the unenviable task of guarding either Wesley Witherspoon, who leads the Tigers with 13.7 points per game, or Will Barton, who has three games of 20-plus scoring in his seven-game old career. If Morningstar can keep his man to single digits, the Jayhawks chances would take a huge boost.
QUESTION MARK
Who can stop (slow) Wesley Witherspoon?
Witherspoon is a matchup nightmare for the Jayhawks. He's listed at 6-foot-9, which makes him taller than all but one of the Jayhawks starters (Markieff Morris). That wouldn't be a problem, but Witherspoon plays the three for the Tigers, which means, unless Self trots out a new starting five (which I wouldn't rule out after the last two games) either Taylor, Reed or Morningstar will have to handle the primary duties on Wither-spoon. Taylor and Reed are 6-foot-3. Morningstar is the tallest of the bunch at 6-foot-4. Six inches (or five) is a whole lot to be giving up, and Witherspoon would be able to post whichever Kansas guard drew the defensive assignment.
HEARYE, HEARYE
"I actually thought Brady did a nice job on him. I don't think anybody else that guarded him guarded him worth a flip."
-- Bill Self on the team's defensive effort against Tyler Honeycutt
COUNTDOWN TO TIPOFF GAME DAY
KANSAS VS. MEMPHIS 6 p.m., MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York City
Taylor
A. F. M.
KANSAS
7-0
STARTERS
Taylor was one of the few bright spots for the Jayhawks in last Thursday's heart-stopping 77-76 victory over UCLA. His 17 points were his most since the season opener, and he carried the reeling Jayhawks during a crucial second half stretch. He needs to cut back on the turnovers, though.
Tyshawn Taylor,guard
YUAN JIANG
Reed
★★★★
Tyrel Reed, guard
Reed remembered how to knock down threes, which, even though he wouldn't admit it after the game, must have felt nice after a rocky start to the season for Reed. He also kept up his surprisingly effective dribble-drive game, which if he continues to hit outside shots could make him lethal offensively.
Morningstar
Bernard A. Greenberg
★★★☆☆
Brady Morningstar, guard
Morris
Morris
Self said Morningstar did the best job against UCLAS Tyler Honeycutt Thursday night. Of course, Honeycutt poured in 33 points, so even the guy doing the best wasn't doing very well. The 6-foot-4 Morningstar will have to overcome a size mismatch once again Tuesday, facing either 6-6 Will Barton or 6-9 Wesley Witherspoon
PETER THOMAS
TAYLOR BROWN
★★★☆☆
Like his brother, Markieff still has some work to do to be a bona fide star for Kansas. The biggest flaw in his game? He can't stay on the floor. Five times this year he's been limited to 20 minutes or less because of foul trouble. In the two games he's played more than 20 minutes, he's averaged 12.5 boards. In the others, he's averaged just 7.8.
Teleford only played nine minutes against UCLA, but was one of the victims in the defensive effort that got lit up by the Bruins' Tyler Honeycutt. With his length and athleticism, Teleford has the potential to become a lockdown defender in the mold of Brandon Rush, but he has to get better, and in a hurry.
Marcus Morris, forward
Releford
MEMPHIS
★★★☆
Markieff Morris, forward
7-0
Morris needs to become a better rebounder for the Jayhawks. He's had two games where he hasn't pulled down a single defensive rebound, and he (and the rest of the Kansas bigs) were feasted on by Josh Smith, UCLA's 305-pound freshman. He's been the offensive force the Jayhawks need, but he needs to develop defensively to be a top-flight NBA prospect.
SIXTH MAN
Carmouche is in his first season with the Tigers. He is eligible to play this season as a result of New Orleans athletics moving from NCAA Division I to Division III. He is averaging 7.6 points per game and leads the team with 15 steals. Carmouche has started every game this season.
Travis Releford, guard
CITY OF CHICAGO
STARTERS
Charles Carmouche, guard
★★★★
★★☆★★
★★★★
Carmouche
Jackson is one of four freshmen from Memphis, Tenn., and is one of seven freshmen overall. Jackson is second on the team in points. 12.1 per game. He leads the team with 4.2 assists per game, on a team that averages 17.2 per game. Jackson, however, is quite reckless with the ball, which is understandable as a freshman. He averages 3.5 turnovers a game, which is a 1.2 assist-to-turnover ratio.
Jackson
Crawford, along with Will Barton, is the team's primary three-point shooter. They have taken 33 and 34 shots, respectively. He leads the team with 12 three pointers made. Crawford is another one of coach Pastner's homegrown recruits. Crawford is averaging eight points per game and 3.4 rebounds. Crawford has made 4 starts through seven games.
Joe Jackson, guard
Chris Crawford, guard
★★★★
Crawford
Will Coleman, forward
Coleman is the only senior on Memphis this season. Coleman is a shot blocker, but does not lead the team this year. He has seven shot blocks behind Tarik Black's 10. Coleman is only averaging 5.6 points per game, but has been the most efficient, shooting 65.2 percent from the field.
Mohammad Ahmed Shah
★★★☆☆
Coleman
Wesley Witherspoon,guard
Witherspoon comes into tonight's matchup leading almost every statistical category for Memphis. He is the team's leading scorer and rebounder, 13.7 points and five rebounds per game. Long like the Morris twins, Witherspoon can shoot from the outside, where he is 5-8 on the season.
★★★☆★
P
SIXTH MAN
Barton has only made one start in seven games for Memphis, but he is averaging 11.9 points per game in his role. He is shooting 12.5 percent from the field and 32.4 percent from three. Barton is averaging 24.9 minutes and should see that number increase against a Jayhawk team that loves to run.
Witherspoon
★★★☆★
Will Barton,guard
CARLOTTE MCKINNEY
Barton
★ ★ ☆ ☆
MEMPHIS
TIPOFF
AT A GLANCE
Memphis comes into tonight's game ranked 13th in the Associated Press Poll and 14th in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. Its 7-0 ranking should be taken with a grain of salt. The only quality win to date is against Miami, a 72-68 victory on Nov. 15 at home. Last week Memphis saw an 18-point first-half lead become a 78-71 overtime victory against now 1-6 Arkansas State.The Tigers can get up and down the court.Tonight's game at Madison Square Garden will only be the second time for the Tigers being outside of Memphis this year. Their only other game was in Tupeelo, Miss., a 70-61 victory against LSU on Nov. 21.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Watt leads the team in scoring and rebounding. He is 23-38 from the field.(605) without attempting a three-point shot. He is a low-post player that will be difficult to guard. Kansas's defenders will want to get Watt as far away from the basket as possible to make it uncomfortable for him. Once he has the ball in the post, he can make a strong move to the basket or if he is double-teamed, he will be able to find his open teammates, who are shooting over 45 percent from the field on the season. He has a young, inexperienced backcourt getting him the ball, but it does not seem to be a problem so far this season.
WESLEY WITHERSPOON
QUESTION MARK
Is the third time a charm?
The 2008 National Championship game is still probably fresh in the Tiger's mind as opposed to last year's 57-55 loss. Memphis comes in scoring 85.3 points per game, which is 9th in the nation, while giving up 65.7. Kansas scores 89.9 points per game, third in the nation. Kansas also does a better job of handling the ball, leading the nation with 21.1 assists per game. The Jayhawks also are leading the nation in shooting percentage. .569. Memphis hasn't faced a team like Kansas that takes care of the ball as well as it does and forces as many turnovers as it does. Memphis has a 1.07 assist-to-turnover ratio, a recipe for disaster in the Big Apple.
HEARYE, HEARYE
"This is my second year as head coach. I have never been more disappointed in a group of guys and the way they played. Absolutely disappointed in them. We got outplayed in Arkansas State, and we were fortunate to get the W."
— Mike Lavieri
— Memphis coach Josh Pastner after the Tiger's 78-71 overtime victory over Arkansas State on Dec. 1.甩 ESPN
BIG 12 SCHEDULE
Tim Dwyer
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Wed. Dec. 8 Time (CT) TV Channel
Alcorn State at Nebraska 7:00 p.m.
Oklahoma State at Tulsa 7:00 p.m. CBSCS
TCU at Texas Tech 7:00 p.m.
Prairie View at Texas A&M 7:00 p.m. FSSW
RIG 12 CONFERENCE
THE ROCK CHALK CHANT WILL SOUND IN THE GARDEN IF...
SYLVESTER WILL CATCH TWEETY BIRD IF...
The Jayhawks don't have the defensive answers. Kansas can score. That's not the question. The Jayhawks are third in the nation in points per game. But Memphis (ninth in the country in points per game) can score, too. So it will fall on the shoulders of Kansas' defense. Valparaiso and Ohio were gimmes. Arizona and UCLA? Whole different story.
SCHEDULE
The Jayhawks can hold two of the trio of Joe Jackson, Wesley Witherspoon and Will Barton to fewer than 15 points. If the Jayhawks can keep a duo from going off, the should be able to subdue the Tigers' offense enough to top them.
Prediction:
Kansas 81, Memphis 73
Date Opponent TV Channel Time
Date Opponent TV Channel Time
Dec. 11 Colorado St. ESPN2 5:30 p.m.
Dec. 18 USC ESPN 2 11 a.m.
Dec. 22 Cal FSN 10 p.m.
Dec. 29 UT-Arlighton ESPNU 8 p.m.
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BRAIN POWER
Hit the gym, then hit the books
Memory increases with daily exercise
Editor's Note: This is the third part of a three-part series on good finals habits. Check out kansan.com for information on sleeping and eating during finals.
BY JUSTINE PATTON jpatton@kansan.com
During finals week, swivel chairs and computer desks replace stationary bikes and treadmills as students ditch exercise for more study time.
Amber Long, the fitness coordinator for the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center, said these students might be neglect-
mg their grade
point averages
along with
their muscles.
Long said exercise, especially cardiovascular exercise like running, actually helped memory formation.
HOLLYWOOD
"I think a lot of times we get caught up in thinking we need to exercise for a whole hour. That's not the case."
Increased heart rate and blood flow to the brain helps people build up memory connections, Long said. So, when students are studying, they will remember the facts more efficiently if they have exercised first.
Long said exercise released hormones like serotonin that helped students feel happy and motivated.
Laura Webb, a graduate student and KU Fit instructor at the Ambler recreation center, agreed that students would feel refreshed after they exercised.
"I just feel better after I work out. My whole attitude has changed after I am at the gym," Webb said. "Even if I'm not all that excited about going to the Rec one day, usually if I go I never regret it."
Patty Quinlan, the nursing supervisor at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said exercise could
Exercise can also help students stay motivated while studying.
"I think a lot of times we get caught up in thinking we need to exercise for a whole hour," Long said. "That's not the case. We just need to work harder in the 20 or 30 minutes that we do have."
Long said students didn't have to spend hours running on the treadmill. She said they could reap these benefits by exercising for as little as 20 minutes a day.
AMBER LONG Fitness coordinator
also help students fight sickness, another finals week foe.
"It helps the blood system and circulatory system work faster, so any toxins or builds in our body can be filtered
out quickly," Quinlan said. "Then, if we are met with bacteria or viruses, our immune system can take care of us."
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Long said if students had not exercised on a regular basis throughout the semester, finals week was a great time to start.
"Typically students think they can't spare an hour or 30 minutes to go exercise, because they want to study," Long said. "That's great, but I have a feeling that if they took those 30 minutes to refocus and get some needed energy, they'd probably be more efficient and focused in their studies."
Edited by Dana Meredith
Natalie Pak, a sophomore from Springfield, Mo., catches up on some reading while she pedals away on the second floor of the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center. According to Amber Long, the fitness coordinator for the Ambler Recreation Center, cardiovascular exercise incerases blood flow to the brain, which helps build up memory connections.
MEN'S BASKETBALL | 1B
Despite sloppy play, Jayhawks win 81-68 in New York City
KANSAS
14
Kansas turned the ball over 22 times facing Memphis' pressure defense, but rode a balanced scoring attack to pull away late.
CAMPUS | 3A
Fan caused Malott evacuation
Malott Hall was evacuated Monday after a report of a chemical smell on the fifth floor. An overheated exhaust fan was the source.
INDEX
Classifieds...6B
Crossword...4A
Cryptoquips...4A
Opinion...5A
Sports...1B
Sudoku...4A
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ACADEMICS
Students learn about crimes in accounting
BY GARTH SEARS gsears@kansan.com
Maybe next time Mason will think twice before he turns his students into crooks, teaching them how to wash checks, steal credit card information, even swindle the elderly.
Callie Reber, a master's student from McPherson, is in Mason's "Fraud Examination and Forensic Accounting" class. Her group did a presentation on surveillance, and couldn't think of a better target than Mason.
To his surprise, Paul Mason saw himself on the screen. Someone had videotaped him getting his morning coffee at Panaer Bread and driving to the School of Business.
They always saw him with a Panera cup in the morning, and they asked an administrative assistant near his office what time he usually got in. She said 7 a.m., so by 6:30 they were waiting at Panera, 520 W. 23rd St.
"It made me think about how I follow the same routine every day," Reber said. "He thought it was a good way to show a real-life example of a class concept."
The class, ACCT 741, is a graduate level class designed for people who will work with auditing. For some like Reber, who will be doing auditing for a firm in Kansas City next year, that might be a career as
SEE FRAUD ON PAGE 6A
CAMPUS
Cellphone use in class an increasing problem
Most students text in lectures
BY ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON
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On any given day, Tyler Smith pulls out his phone to check texts during class.
Smith, a junior from Hutchinson, said it wasn't really about being bored, but maintaining communication.
In their survey, Deborah Tindell and Robert Bohlder found that 95 percent of students brought their phones to class every day and 91 percent had used their phones to text message during class.
"i just text family or friends and work a lot." Smith said.
The prevalence of texting during class inspired two Wilkes University psychologists from New York to conduct an anonymous survey of 269 students.
According to the study, almost half of all respondents said it was easy to text in class without their instructor knowing. And 62 percent said they should be allowed to text in class as long as they didn't disturb their classmates.
Bailey Young, a sophomore from Winfield, sometimes uses her phone during class to text or check the time.
"I'm not a huge texter." Young said. "I don't just text to text."
Normally, she is responding to a text rather than initiating one, Young said.
SEE TEXTING ON PAGE 6A
BY THE NUMBERS
- 95 percent of students bring their phones to class every day.
- 91 percent have used their phones to text message during class
- About 50 percent said it is easy to text in class without their instructor knowing
- 99 percent of students indicated that they believe they should be allowed to keep their cell phones in class
- 62 percent said they should be allowed to text in class if they don't disturb classmates
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December 8
What's going on?
The chancellor's holiday reception will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Adams Alumni Center.
The Department of Visual Arts clubs will hold a holiday art sale from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
THURSDAY
December 9
Student Union Activities will host a late-night winter bash from 9 p.m. to midnight in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
Last day of classes.
FRIDAY December 10
SUNDAY
Stop Day. No classes.
December 12
Student Union Activities will host its Late Night Breakfast at Mrs. E's from 10 p.m. to midnight.
The School of Journalism will hold its graduation ceremony at 1 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union
MONDAY December 13
Finals week begins.
SATURDAY December 11
The School of Engineering will recognize fall 2010 engineering graduates at 9 a.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
TUESDAY December 14
CORRECTION
The Dec. 6 story "Professor teaches inmates poetry" misidentified the man who is the program director for the Douglas County Correctional Facility. His name is Mike Caron.
ODD NEWS
Truck with cream strikes L.A. home
LOS ANGELES — Mark Leon lives in a sweet spot for big rigs in Los Angeles County.
Authorities say the truck, driven by an unlicensed 16-year-old, was stopped by a stand of trees and a chain link fence just off Interstate 210.Three people had minor injuries.
Nine years after a truck hauling chocolate syrup crashed into his mobile home park, another rig hauling 36,000 pounds of whipped cream and sour cream crashed Tuesday just feet from his house.
WikiLeaks' founder sent to jail, faces extradition
Associated Press
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LONDON — A British judge sent Julian Assange to jail on Tuesday, denying bail to the WikiLeaks founder after Assange vowed to fight efforts to be extradited to Sweden in a sex-crimes investigation.
Despite Assange's legal troubles, a WikiLeaks spokesman insisted the flow of secret U.S. diplomatic cables would not be affected. He also downplayed efforts to constrict the group's finances after both Visa and MasterCard cut off key funding methods Tuesday.
"This will not change our operation," spokesman Kristinn Hrafinn Hrafinnson told The Associated Press. As if to underline the point, WikiLeaks released a dozen new diplomatic cables, its first publication in more than 24 hours, including the details of a NATO defense plan for Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that prompted an indignant response from the Russian envoy to the alliance.
Assange turned himself in to Scotland Yard on Tuesday morning, and was sent to the City of
Westminster Magistrates' Court in the early afternoon. He showed no reaction as Judge Howard Riddle denied him bail and sent him to jail until his next extradition hearing on Dec. 14.
U. S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, visiting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. troops in Afghanistan, was pleased to hear that Assange had been arrested.
"That sounds like good news to me," he said Tuesday.
Riddle asked the 39-year-old Australian whether he understood that he could agree to be extradited to Sweden. Assange, dressed in a navy blue suit, cleared his throat and said: "I understand that and I do not consent."
The judge said he had grounds to believe that the former computer hacker — a self-described homeless refugee — might not show up to his next hearing if he were granted bail.
Arguments during the hour-long hearing detailed the sex accusations against Assange, all of which he has denied.
Attorney Gemma Lindfield,
acting on behalf of the Swedish authorities, outlined one allegation of rape, two allegations of molestation and one of unlawful coercion stemming from Assange's separate sexual encounters in August with two women in Sweden.
Lindfield said one woman accused Assange of pinning her down and refusing to use a condom on the night of Aug. 14 in Stockholm. That woman also accused of Assange of molesting her in a way "designed to violate her sexual integrity" several days later.
A second woman accused Assange of having sex with her without a condom while she was asleep at her Stockholm home.
Assange's lawyers have claimed the accusations stem from a "dispute over consensual but unprotected sex" and say the women only made the claims after finding out about each other's relationships with Assange. WikiLeaks lawyer Mark Stephens says the case has taken on political overtones — a claim Swedish officials have rejected.
Legally, there is a good chance Assange will be heading to Sweden. Experts say European arrest warrants like the one issued by Sweden can be tough to beat, barring mental
Assange's Swedish lawyer Bjorn
or physical incapacity. Even if the warrant were defeated on a technicality, Sweden could simply issue a new one.
Hurtig said it was difficult to say how long the extradition process in Britain would take, but it could be anywhere from a week to two months.
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LAWRENCE
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City considers new plans for trash disposal
BY GARTH SEARS gsears@kansan.com
If you're trying to rile up someone from Lawrence — you figure talking about recycling, unemployment and parking downtown ought to do it — then bring up the city's new discussion on trash collection.
In early September, the city council told city staff to come up with a menu of options for the future of the city's trash collection. In late November, the staff sent the council a memo with three main choices. Now, it's up to the city council and neighborhood associations across the city to weigh in.
"We weren't trying to generate the solution' or 'the right answer," said Tammy Bennett, assistant public works director. "We want it to serve as the basis of discussion moving forward."
The first option is to maintain the status quo, the rear-loaded trucks that require a crew of two or three people with no requirement for citizens to rent a cart.
But the other two options propose buying new technology, such as fully automated trucks with
arms to pick up carts, which typically only require a one-person crew. That means fewer trash collectors, less wages and less workers' compensation the city has to pay out.
One of the options calls for mostly new, fully automated trucks, while the second calls for a mix of those and status quo semi-automated trucks, which would mean crews of one and sometimes two.
The new trucks also touch on a topic that's important in Lawrence: the environment. Any move to fully automated trucks would require residents to rent a cart from the city. The carts would be available in different sizes — 35, 65 and 95 gallons — and would require people to pay more for throwing more away. That's a positive for the green community.
Bennett said the city heard from residents who wanted the price of disposal to be related to the amount of waste, even measured by trash collectors at the curb.
"That's really challenging from the technical perspective," Bennett said. "Not to mention that there's a real risk of increasing illegal dumping."
Bennett said the cart system is more "doable" and that other cities have gone to a similar system.
Even beyond the trash collection aspect, the city staff included possible recycling options and goals for reducing waste in the memo, which will spur debate about how the city will handle recycling.
Britten Kuckelman, a junior from Wichita, said the carts might help the environment a little, but the city should be focusing on recycling.
She said the city of Wichita collected both trash and recycle bins, and her family began throwing away more things in the recycle bin than the trash.
"People will do what's convenient," Kuckelman said. "Right now, recycling in Lawrence isn't convenient."
Also, buying the shiny new trucks comes with a catch. They need space to stick out that arm and pick up the trash, so parking zones might change, especially in the tighter streets around town.
Bennett said the city could never have only fully automated trucks,
because the current rear-loaded option is the only way to collect trash in areas like downtown.
Consider the 'student ghetto', the area between campus and downtown Massachusetts Street. It has older, more narrow streets with dense parking.
Caroline Kraft, a junior from Tulsa, Okla., used to live in an apartment near 14th and Tennessee streets. She said parking around there is already strained by a lack of parking space.
"It's a big problem already." Kraft said. "The last thing we need is to reduce parking."
She said regardless of what the city decides to do, it can't change parking in that tight area without making things worse.
While a fully automated truck could cost as much as $230,000
"That would be one place that may always have to have rear-loaded service," Bennett said.
- $30,000 more than the truck the city uses now - it would save money in the long term by saving on wages and workers' compensation for trash collectors.
average cost of workers' compensation for Lawrence trash collectors was more than $215,000 per year, according to the memo from city staff.
Bennett said most customers probably wouldn't notice much difference in service between a fully automated and semi-automated trash truck. The required carts and altered parking, however, might be a different story.
It's now up to the city to decide if it wants to start buying the new fully automated trucks, and how many it wants to buy. Neighborhood associations and concerned citizens have a chance to voice their opinion in the coming months. The city commission meets every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
From 2005 to 2010 so far, the
Bennett stressed that the three options laid out aren't final, or even exclusive. The city's choice might be a mix of all three, or something entirely else.
"There are tons of options out there," Bennett said. "This is just a starting point, a first step."
- Edited by Alex Tretbar
CAMPUS
Fan motor caused suspicious smell
ADMINISTRATION
The reported chemical smell that led to the evacuation of Malott Hall Monday was actually caused by an overheating exhaust fan motor from a fume hood, said Jill Jess, University spokeswoman.
KU Public Safety received a call reporting an unknown chemical smell on the fifth floor of Malott at 4:20 p.m. Monday. The building remained evacuated until about 6:45 p.m., when the smell dispersed enough for the air quality to be safe. The fifth-floor lab where the smell came from remained closed.
Two University employees had complained of headaches from the smell. One employee was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and the other was treated at the scene.
Jess said the fan motor was being fixed and the lab was back open for moderate use.
Provost launches discussion board
As part of University Provost Jeff Vitter's ongoing strategic planning process, an online discussion board will become operational today.
The board will allow students, faculty, staff and other members of the KU community to provide suggestions to improve the University's academic experience.
Earlier this semester, the provost established three work groups to strengthen the educational environment, drive research and innovation, and engage scholarship with public service. These groups are overseeing issues that range from improving the University's reputation as a research institution to altering its general education requirements to better fit student needs.
"It's important to get a broad sampling of people's thoughts,
Steve Warren, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies and co-chair of the Driving Discovery and Innovation work group that is providing the discussion board, said the ideas that result from these blog discussions will have a major impact on the work groups plans.
— Samantha Foster
ideas and proposals about these issues,"Warren said."If the whole university is as engaged in this as possible, it will lead to a stronger plan that's more likely to be adopted and used as a tool by administration."
Changing the University's outdated general education requirements and creating more research engagement would have a wide range of benefits, including better recruitment of both students and faculty.
"Students are attracted to universities that are as strong as they can be in terms of research and scholarship." Warren said.
Kristin Bowman-James, professor of chemistry and the other co-chair of the group, said this discussion board will take advantage of the many people not in administration that still have very good ideas and insight on these issues.
"We hope this results in changes that everyone in the KU community feels they were a part of," Bowman-James said.
To become a part of the discussion, go to http://www.provost.ku.edu/planning/school-emphases/discussion-board.shtml.
— Stephen Gray
Doctor dressed as Elvis performs CPR
It wasn't blue suede shoes but a pair of sneakers that led a San Francisco doctor dressed as Elvis Presley to a woman who passed out at a Las Vegas restaurant after a marathon.
Claudio Palma tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal he was dressed as the King after Sunday's Las Vegas Rock'n' Roll half-marathon when he performed CPR and resuscitated another runner at the Burger Bar at Mandalay Place.
The 36-year-old was clad in a jumpsuit, sideburns and scarf for the race and may have looked like Presley, but in real life, he's an anesthesiologist.
Palma says paramedics then arrived,and the woman gave him a weird look and told him she was OK.
ODD NEWS
He says the incident wasn't the only heart-stopping one that day; he also got married at a run-thru chapel during the race.
Pilot drops toilet paper from plane A North Jersey pilot who alarmed people on the
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He pleaded guilty to dropping objects from an aircraft in a populated area. He'll write a letter to the town's mayor apologizing.
The Record of Woodland Park reports that 60-year-old Warren Saunders of Westwood entered into the plea agreement Monday with the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office.
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ground when he tossed rolls of toilet paper from a small plane has been placed on probation and will have to write a letter of apology.
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HOROSCOPES
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
Seek balance today between independent study and group effort. The combination creates a practical blend. Persuade others to follow your lead.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 9
An associate fuses over financial details. You may feel an independent impulse and go off on your own. But you get better results if you work together.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
One team member feels stressed because an idea doesn't mesh with the plan. Take time to soothe any hurt feelings. Then make it fair later.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 6
Your project requires some changes. Use a very delicate touch and a slight mental readjustment to avoid damage. Then step back and admire.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 6
Early in the day, your attention shifts from work matters to a relationship based on fun. Cworkers can manage details while you pursue a recreational activity. Go play!
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 6
Productivity could be tricky, with your mind on romance. Imagination carries you far from practical considerations, yet those ideas get the job done.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Your attention focuses on household matters today. To resolve a difficulty, first establish a balanced perspective. Then create options and choices.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
The best foundation for today's effort is creativity. You don't need to finish anything, but you do need to get a good start. Allow emotions to flow.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 9
Produce and direct your own drama today. You won't need much to get fired up. A shortcut limits potential less than you'd imagined and gets you there faster.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 6
You feel self-contained in your plans and ideas today. Creative thinking becomes action, easily Stick to practical means and minimal budget. Then go.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is a 7
Totally
To surprise someone special, maintain an outer appearance of busy activity. You can even ask questions to divert attention.
Develop your act ahead of time.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
Most of your attention is on other people now. Research facts and listen to intuition, rather than following blindly. Protect personal assets, and then choose.
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[Illustration of a black lion in a rampage pose].
"It's about getting a large number of people to play." Smedley said. "It's a huge notch above current-generation shooters."
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
GAMES
This week, exceedingly popular computer game World of Warcraft undergoes a cataclysm, reshaping not just the game's landscape but how you play in the game.
The year kicked off with the launch of MAG on the Playstation 3. The first-person shooter created by the folks behind popular shooter series SOCOM supports rolling battles of up to 256 players at a time. And there is no way to play the game offline.
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games, once the home of fantasy, magic and swordplay, are increasingly diversifying to include not only new themes and settings to explore, but also new takes on what it means to roleplay and how players interact.
"I think something very big is happening in online play in general," said John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, the company behind DC Universe Online, Free Realms and EverQuest.
But World of Warcraft's reboot is nothing compared to the turmoil the entire genre is undergoing.
At first blush MAG may seem like a standard military shooter, but the game shares a lot of elements with traditional MMOs, it has gamers choose from one of three factions to play in and then tracks each player's progress, allowing them to level up their character and unlock talents.
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Answer to previous puzzle
Darling, I am afraid you look more worn out than a college boy's drinking wrist on Sunday morning.
And MAG isn't the only game to combine the popularity of firstperson shooters with the addictive nature of online role-playing.
The largest MMO shooter in the world was created in Korea. Crossfire hit the United States last year and makes all of its money by charging players for premium weapons.
game he currently plays most right now, Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops, didn't create an MMO of its own soon
Smedley added that he wouldn't be surprised if the maker of the
"I think the lines for what you call a massively multiplayer online
Smedley says The Agency, which is now due out in the second half of next year, needed a lot of work, so it was delayed.
And Sony Online Entertainment is also keeping a foot planted in the realm of big budget games. DC Universe Online is currently in beta, preparing to go live soon. And spy versus spy MMO The Agency is still in the works despite significant delays.
"There was a moment in time in our company where we looked at our own stuff with a clear eye and saw we have to do better," he said of the delay. "DC Universe was held for a year-and-a-half from when we wanted to launch it and now I'm very happy with it."
game are being blurred," he said. "Now an MMO just needs to be a game where a large number of people can interact. It doesn't mean it needs a subscription or to have micro transactions."
While Sony Online Entertainment works to develop both pay to play and free to play massively online games, they also keep an eye out on the less traditional forms of massive online games, especially those made by smaller, indie developers.
"I think something very big is happening in online play in general."
Smedley says that Sony Online Entertainment are starting to invest more heavily in the freeto-play model. Kid-friendly Free Realms and Clone Wars Adventures are both doing well and SOE just launched a new Facebook game called Wild Life Refuge. The publisher is also gearing up to launch a new Facebook game based on James Patterson's books that will have players hunting down a killer.
JOHN SMEDLEY
Sony Online Ent. president
League of Legends, which has players controlling heroes as they try to
take down an enemy's fortress,
isn't really massive. Less than a
dozen gamers can play in a single
match at a time. But Smedley says
that the number of people playing
matches at any given time is staggering, something that reminds him that the massive in massively multiplayer doesn't necessarily have to be in a single game. It can instead by a mammoth community built around a single game.
"These guys are doing amazing numbers," he said. "Is it an MMO? It's definitely not an MMO but they are rivaling MMO concurrency numbers."
Smedley points to Minecraft as another surprising success of a game that bridges the gap between traditional MMO and traditional single-player titles. Minecraft, which was launched after a week of development by one person and has since been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, remains in a constant state of upgrading and beta testing.
"Great games," Smedley said,
"attract a lot of people."
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MOVIES
Hollywood lacks Christmas flicks
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — This year, the role of Grinch will be played by Hollywood.
The release of new Christmas movies has been as much a tradition of the season as the annual late-night TV showing of "It's a Wonderful Life" and shoppers stamped stores on Black Friday.
But this year, there's hardly a holiday movie in sight.
Instead of playing offtime-tested and universal plot lines such as a return home for the holidays or trotting out Christmas icons such as Santa Claus, Tinseltown is foregoing the usual, uh, tinsel. The lone Christmas movie, "The Nutcracker in 3D," has received tepid reviews and is appearing in only a token number of theaters.
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In past seasons, there have been as many as half a dozen holiday movies jostling one another in theaters in the closing weeks of the year.
The scarcity of Christmas movies reflects a change in traditional Hollywood thinking. Family films are as popular as ever, industry executives note — indeed, the year's biggest-grossing picture is the kid-friendly "Toy Story 3" — but the film world thinks Yuletide themes are getting a bit long in the whis-
"The way to do a big-budget film these days is to take stories that everyone in the world knows and take them in a new direction," said Joe Roth, a producer and former chairman of Walt Disney Studios. "But no one's come up with a fresh way to do a holiday movie, so we're all doing it with other kinds of stories."
Roth should know: He helped create the Christmas blockbuster, overseeing two holiday-oriented "Home Alone" movies at Fox and the first release in Disney's "Santa Clause" trilogy. But this year he's not readying any Christmas films, instead concentrating on new takes on the "Snow White" and "Wizard of Oz" stories.
Those hoping Hollywood's Kringle-less Christmas is an aberration will be disappointed. There is only one known holiday movie in the development pipeline for 2011.
For decades, Christmas films have been the closest you can get to an old chestnut in Hollywood. No fewer than 57 holiday movies have been released since MGM debuted "A Christmas Carol" in 1938 (the first of six adaptations of the Charles Dickens classic, including one starring the Muppets).
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--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
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--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
The worst part about being a foreign language major is that when you get sick you have to write e-mails to your professors in three different languages.
--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
5 Hour Energy may have just saved my grade, but it might put me in the hospital for sleep deprivation. At least I'll be remembered as the girl who didn't fail the class.
--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
Let's just say I'm a wild child and leave it at that.
--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
I made it from one end of Massachusetts to the other with all green lights. I raised my arms in victory when I got to Sixth
--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
What the hell, the FFA has turned into Dr. Phil.
The new Facebook profile is terrible ... must not be any KU graduates on Facebook's development team.
How do you get into KU without knowing where the state of Iowa is?
--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
Chocolate chip waffles and wine for dinner. Oh how I love college life.
--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
Stupid is as stupid does.
--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
My roommate can do Morse code with her boobs.
If you put "the" and "IRS together it spells "theirs."
--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
Do we have class Friday?
--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
Dear Professor, I'm sorry for falling asleep in class with you staring at me the entire time. You weren't boring, my eyes just didn't want to stay
Pun o' the day: Swiffer just released a new type of broom.It's sweeping the nation
--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
I love going to the library to "study" when I know I'm going to run into the same guy every Monday and Wednesday. EYE CANDY!
--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
If I were Rapunzel you know what I would do? I'd whip my hair back and forth!
--eating disorder." I love brownies and I don't have a problem with the idea of "holiday food." But I do have a problem with a way of eating that turns food into the enemy and inspires self-loathing. What if we could eat a doughnut on Hanukkah or a gingerbread cookie on Christmas, stop before we made ourselves sick and then, come Jan. 1, continue to eat food we enjoy, including the occasional dessert? Wouldn't that be a more sane way to celebrate?
HUMOR
Power outage tests nerves only to suddenly disappear
On Monday afternoon parts of Lawrence lost power for about an hour. Here's one columnist's take on the power outage as it happened.
The power is out. Again, I have no idea why. As far as I know, this happens a lot in East Lawrence. It's already happened twice this year – and only once during an actual storm. I decided I would chronicle how I spent my power outage. 1:30 p.m.
Realize the power is out. There's some red box in my apartment building's lobby (I live in an old house) that beeps incessantly to, I don't know, let us know the power is out, or something? It's kind of like when your girl friends complains to you about boys ("Oh my god, guys are sooooo dumb! Why are guys sooooo dumb? I wish someone make guys not sooooo dumb! BEEP BEEP BEEP!"). I realize this time, at least, my laptop has battery power. I try the Internet. Internet is down.
1:40 p.m.
I turn on my Zune music library. I turn it to shuffle. Kimya Dawson's "Tire Swing" plays. I skip it. My Chemical Romance plays. I skip it. Some instrumental crap from The Corpse Bride plays. I skip it. I wonder why I haven't deleted a bunch of this stuff. 1:50 p.m.
Oddities
I begin watching the intersection of Mississippi and 11th streets. Pray for a fender bender.I miss you, television. 1:52 p.m.
My sister tells me her power is out. I begin to wonder if this is an alien conspiracy. Suddenly that episode of Twilight Zone, "The Monsters of Maple Street" — I don't think I've ever seen it, but we were assigned to read the teleplay for it in seventh grade for some odd reason — seems too real. I mean, she lives only like two blocks away, but still.
1:57 p.m.
I watch a squirrel climbing a tree for five minutes. I feel very Thoreau right now. Or, you know, booooored out of my skull.
2:02 p.m.
Without any distractions, and despite having listened to this song a billion times, I discover verse in Gogol Bordellos" Start Wearing Purple" that is sung in a different language. I'm like Columbus, except waaaay stupid, not racist, and on a much smaller scale.
2:05 p.m.
My roommate arrives! He comes from the world of electricity. He instantly begins crying and clutching his Xbox 360 when he enters.
2:10 p.m.
I turn off my music. I don't need you, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I can listen to rhythmic footsteps, weird bowling ball dropping sounds and doorslams of my neighbors.
2:15 p.m.
I make a list of Christmas present ideas for family and friends. All of the gift ideas involve electricity. I get nostalgic and cry a little bit too.
2:17 p.m.
I lose all hope. What is life? But a series of disappointing moments. I DON'T CARE IF SOMEBODY ALREADY SAID THAT.
2:20 p.m.
Power returns. Thank God, I don't have to be alone with my perverted thoughts anymore. Now, where was I in that that Dan Aykroyd Saturday Night Live rerun from 2003? Boy, Chris Parnell and Will Forte were funny!
And so, normalcy returns for The Jolly Jayhawk! Happy Holidays, folks. I'll see you next semester (hopefully).
Carmichael is a junior from Mulvane in creative writing.
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VP-REALITY! IN MY CHAIR AGAIN!"
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GUEST COLUMN
Enjoy your holiday food
It starts with Thanksgiving. Eating until you are comfortably full is not an option on Thanksgiving — if you don't eat yourself into a
Then, for college students,
comes the last week of school and
finals. And when that last test is
finally over and it's time to relax, the
holiday parties begin. Every night
is a celebration, so we go out and
eat cake, cookies, brownies and
chocolate mints, and wash them
down with champagne.
— if you don't eat yourself into a coma, you're a spoil-sport.
On New Year's Eve, this season of excess goes out with a bang. Grown-ups have permission to drink like college students, so most of us take things a few steps further. It's a holiday and it's fun
And the next morning, it's over. We feel hungover, sick to our stomachs and guilty. So, we make resolutions. The nation goes on a collective diet. We give up sugar, fat and carbs and promise to stay under 1,500 calories a day. We go to the gym. And oh yeah, we promise to quit smoking and stop procrastinating on our homework. This year will be different.
It's a nationally sanctioned binge-and-purge ritual, and it's a symptom of what food journalist Michael Pollan calls "our national
Don't worry. This is not an article on how to survive the holiday season without gaining weight. They tell you to "set ground rules" or "use a small plate" or simply "limit sweets." Unfortunately, this advice often feeds into the unhealthy relationship that most of us have with food. We feel guiltier, we restrict ourselves more when we're not celebrating, and then the temptation to go too far is that much stronger.
So I'm only going to offer one piece of advice: Enjoy your food. Think about how good it's going to taste before you put it into your mouth. Then chew, taste and savor every bite. Whether it's braised broccoli or peppermint fudge, if it's going into your body, it better
satisfy your taste buds first.
If you're eating something and you can't enjoy it because you feel too guilty about eating it, you have two choices: Either stop eating or make the decision to go ahead and eat without guilt. In my experience, the worst over-eating comes from mindless eating. As it turns out, demanding enjoyment out of your food is not such a novel idea. In fact, it's a practice embraced by most of the world. Take the French: Yes, they eat cheese and croissants and chocolate and cream puffs. But they always eat together. They eat almost painfully slowly. They don't go back for seconds. And they enjoy every last bite.
The French have a culture that supports a healthy way of thinking about food. We don't. Simply pledging to enjoy your food isn't going to change that, but it's a start, and it might influence others positively, too. And if, come Jan. 1, you make your resolutions with a little bit less guilt, I think that's a good thing.
-From UWIRE. Kate Clabby for The Daily Texan at the University of Texas.
LIFE LESSONS
Valvano provides moral encouragement today
In recognition of ESPN's Jimmy V week, I'm urging anyone looking for some sort of moral direction or sense of hope to take 11 minutes and 15 seconds out of their busy lives and watch Jimmy Valvano's famous 1993 ESPY speech.
For those who haven't seen it, in his last few months of life Jimmy Valvano used his acceptance speech time to encourage the world to stop, look around and enjoy life, something the modern media continuously fail to do.
For those who have seen it, watch it again. I've probably seen it over 50 times, and each time different words of inspiration hit me harder and each time I get something different out of it.
And this week, Jimmy V week and also the week of the 13th anniversary of my brother's death, I received a different message of importance from the speech.
In his speech, Valvano gives the world three things to do every day to make each person's life more enthusiastic, enjoyable and fulfilled: Laugh, Think, Cry.
In today's world, society does a decent job of encouraging us to think and laugh. School makes us think. Media make us laugh. But we fail to recognize the importance of tears and are seldom encouraged to cry.
Now I've mentioned my brother's death in a column a few months ago, but to clarify my brother died of brain complications suddenly when I was seven and he was nine. We were abnormally close for siblings and his death sent me into an emotional whirlwind.
Years after his death, my youthful brain was in a constant emotional self-battle. From what I understood, even as a little girl, tears represented weakness and holding it in represented strength. So for a very long time, I battled to resist all thoughts of him, mentally defending his memory from draining my psyche.
But as I got older, I realized his memory was inescapable. It became like a painful beating in the back of my brain, numbing my entire emotions and restricting me from happiness.
And finally about a year ago, I swallowed my pride and admitted to my mom that I had never dealt with my brother's death and I needed to talk to someone. The psychologist I saw didn't help much, but she did allow me to open up his
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memories and start getting more comfortable talking, laughing and crying about the life and death of my brother.
Ironically, at the same time, a friend of mine told me to read "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom. And in all honesty, that book alone helped me cope with the emotions of my brother's death far more than the psychologist did.
In the book, Morrie Schwartz, a professor months away from his death, shares life's most crucial lessons with the author. Like Valvano, Morrie encourages people to let all emotions, negative and positive, penetrate them fully.
In my favorite passage, Morrie proudly mourns the loss of his mother who died when he was eight years old and explains that it is natural to still mourn a tragedy of that type, even 70 years later.
After reading that, something clicked. I learned that it was OK to set the emotions of a loved one free, and I engulfed myself with thoughts of my brother. When I would think of him I would speak of him to my friends or write to him, sharing any memories I thought of with friends and family who knew him and those who didn't.
I spent a good portion of last December recalling the memories that I had blocked out for so long. And it felt damn good. I made a fool of myself crying or laughing in strange places where people probably mistook me for a freak, but for the first time. I didn't care
After diving into dark memories and thoughts so emotionally soaked, I finally felt free to really laugh, smile, and enjoy life. Sure, it was temporarily painful, but now knowing that I can still keep him alive is continuously satisfying.
With that said, listen to Jimmy Valvano and don't hesitate to get your emotions going through laughter, thought and even tears.
Matney is a junior from Shawnee in journalism.
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U.N. may have caused epidemic
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A contingent of U.N. peacekeepers is the likely source of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed at least 2,000 people, a French scientist said in a report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
Epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux concluded that the cholera originated in a tributary of Haiti's Artibonite river, next to a U.N. base outside the town of Mirebalais. He was sent by the French government to assist Haitian health officials in determining the source of the outbreak, a French Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday.
"No other hypothesis could be found to explain the outbreak of a cholera epidemic in this village ... not affected by the earthquake earlier this year and located dozens of kilometers from the coast and (tent) camps," he wrote in a report that has not been publicly released.
The report also calls for a further investigation of the outbreak, improved medical surveillance and sanitation procedures for U.N.
peacekeeping troops and better support for Haitian health authorities.
The AP obtained a copy of the report from an official who released it on condition of anonymy-
U. N. spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters in New York that there is still no conclusive evidence that its base was the source of the outbreak. He said the organization "remains very receptive to any scientific debate or investigation on this."
The report's revelation comes on a day of high tensions in Haiti, as people anxiously await the results of the disputed Nov. 28 presidential election and potential resulting violence.
Piarroux could not prove there was cholera inside the base or among the soldiers, a point the U.N. has repeatedly used to deny its soldiers brought the disease to Haiti or that its sanitation procedures were responsible for releasing it into the environment. He writes that military doctors said there were no instances of cholera within the unit.
But he also hinted strongly at a cover-up.
"It can not be ruled out that steps have been taken to remove the suspected fecal matter and to erase the traces of an epidemic of cholera among the soldiers," he
wrote.
"No other hypothesis could be found to explain the outbreak of a cholera epidemic in this village."
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Epidemiologist
ity. Piarroux confirmed he had authored the report but declined in an e-mail interview to discuss his findings. Copies were sent to U.N. and Haitian officials, the foreign ministry confirmed.
The report also notes that septic tanks and pipes that would have helped to confirm sanitation problems and the presence of the bacteria were no longer
at the base when he visited.
Nepalese troops earlier confirmed they had replaced a leaking pipe, between two visits by an AP reporter in October.
Young said she thought phone use and texting in class could be a distraction but didn't see a way to control it.
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Economics professor Sasha Lugovskyy, on the other hand, attempts to do just that — control phone use during his class.
Lugovskyy strictly prohibits phone use during class and clearly states this at the beginning of the semester.
In an Associated Press article, Tindell said, "Students these days are so used to multitask ... they believe they are able to process information just as effectively when they are texting as when they are not"
But Lugovskvy isn't buying it.
"I don't believe in multitasking." Lugovsky said. "Rather they skip from one thing to another very quickly and that's why I feel if people use their phone during class it is only a distraction."
tractions during class.
For his current policy, Lugovskyy adopted professor Bernard Cornet's unique way to deal with phone dis-
When the first phone goes off, the class receives a warning. The next time a phone goes off, the person is required to sing a song to remain in the class. The song is the student's choice and the policy also applies to the professor.
"I haven't had to sing, but I still bring the phone to class," Lugovsky said.
He said the borrowed policy was effective and he hadn't had any significant problems. Lugovskyy said he allowed other things in class, such as eating and drinking, but phone use was something he would not budge on.
Although students haven't protested the policy, Lugovskyy said some felt as though he was taking away their personal freedoms.
"Students are really feeling its their right to use a cell phone," Lueovsky said.
following the study, Tindell and Bohlander advised professors to have clear, written policies on texting, to circulate around the classroom and make frequent eye contact, and to avoid focusing all
of their attention on their lecture notes or Power Point presentations.
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Not all students text during class, however.
Leah Charles, a junior from Wichita, said she never used her phone during class.
"I'm the type that, if you are in front of me, then you have my attention," Charles said.
Charles said texting and using the phone during class was disrespectful. Eric Rath, a professor of history, sees it that way too.
Rath does not allow computers, phones, crosswords or other homework during his classes.
Rath's syllabus states that "The use of computers, phones, and other electronic devices is prohibited in this class; use of these during an exam will mean a failing grade for the course and punishment for academic misconduct."
In an e-mail, Rath said using electronic devices and reading in class was academic misconduct
that polluted the learning environment, disturbing the instructor and other students. Rath said he would ask students who broke his rules to leave the room and would count them absent, while he would drop repeat offenders from the course.
"It is the instructor's view that students who waste his time and theirs by engaging in these activities do not belong in his class," Rath said in the e-mail.
Smith said while he had never been asked to leave class, one time he forgot to turn the ringer off and his phone rang. Luckily, when the professor answered it, the caller was just his mom.
While phone use distracts, Smith said, there have been times when it has been needed, especially with work.
"There's times that it's more important to run out of class for five minutes and make a phone call if you really need to," Smith said. "For emergency purposes it's good, but I know there's a lot of times you're just screwing around."
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an auditor for a big company. But fraud is becoming more commonplace. Mason said detecting fraud "is becoming part of the accountant's toolkit."
"It takes a thief to train a thief to catch a thief," Mason said. "We teach them the things that crooks do."
From Jan. 1 to Sept. 30 in 2010 about nine months there were 282 counts of counterfeiting or forgery in Lawrence, according to the Lawrence police website. There were 52 counts of false pretenses or swindling, 501 counts of credit card or ATM fraud, 33 counts of impersonation, and nine counts of embezzlement.
On campus last year, there was one reported forgery and no embezzlement — better than 2001, when there were nine counts of forgery and 11 of embezzlement. And there were six cases of fraud last year on campus.
The class trained students broadly. It started with an overview of fraud, talking about why people steal and the art of deception. From there, it moved on to specific methods of fraud. Finally, the class broke into groups, each of which mastered a method of fraud.
Mason said forensic accounting was one of the hottest jobs in accounting. But while it's a problem everywhere, even rearing its head here on campus, Kansas City "is not a hotbed" for the job, with many big companies basing their fraud detection in big cities such as Los Angeles and New York City.
The groups are giving presentations this week about the type of fraud they researched, on varying topics: surveillance, fraud gadgets, identity theft, mortgage fraud and even check washing.
"These criminals, they spend all day perfecting these techniques",
Mason said. "We arm our students with the ability to identify them."
Katie Cox, a master's student from St. Louis who plans to work as an audit associate for a public accounting firm, is in the class too. Her group did its presentation on health care fraud.
"I keep feeling like my grandma needs to take this class," she said.
Her group researched ways of swindling the elderly, such as through Medicare or by providing services that people don't need.
"It's made me a little less naive," Cox said. "I had several 'aha' moments."
In addition to preparing students to spot signs of fraud, Mason set up the presentations in an executive format to give students practice at presenting their research professionally. He encouraged students to connect to their audience.
So Cox and her group decided to start their presentation with a class.
stic scene from "Happy Gilmore," where an old woman complains of pain before Ben Stiller's character responds that her back will hurt too because she "just pulled landscaping duty."
There isn't any doubt that the class was interesting for its students and taught them different methods of fraud. But the question remains whether it was more interesting or terrifying.
"It was the one of the most interesting classes I've ever had," Cox said.
But now Mason will have to keep checking his rearview mirror for students with videocameras. And Reber, whose group did the spying, said the class made her more suspicious, too.
"I asked for a shredder from my parents for Christmas," Reber said.
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Syracuse (9-0) knocked off No. 7 Michigan State (7-3) behind Jackson's big game and Scoop Jardine's 19-point effort.
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Junior guard Tyshawn Taylor leaps over a Memphis defender as he shoots Thursday night in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden. Taylor had 14 points in the 81-68 win against Memphis.
BY TIM DWYER
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NEW YORK — The Jayhawks watched the New York Knicks play at Madison Square Garden a day before taking the legendary court for their own game.
Apparently, the No. 4 Jayhawks failed to take notes. They picked up a solid 81-68 victory against No. 14 Memphis, but it was one of Kansas' sloppiest games of the year.
The layhawks committed a season-high 22 turnovers, 12 of them coming in an ain't-got-no-alibi ugly first half.
"Our whole team was ridiculously careless tonight," coach Bill Self said. "But that was the first time we faced any pressure."
The Memphis pressure had plenty to do with Kansas' errors — the Tigers are by far the most athletic team Kansas has faced this year — and it fell largely on the shoulders of point guard Iyshawn Taylor to figure it out.
"He started out really nervous, but he made some really big plays," Self said.
Taylor's nervous start was noticeable throughout the team. Self said the team had a different kind of
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Kansas continues to win in the non-conference portion of its season, moving to 8-0 Tuesday
BASKETBALL REWIND
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Scrimmage players relish playing in the Phog
BY CARLO RAMIREZ
cramirez@kansan.com
Seeing 16,300 people all in one place is something Zack Muskin, a senior from Omaha, Neb., still gets butterflies thinking about.
him in almost the pace of his heartbeat. Each shot he took during the scrimmage at Late Night in the Phog against the women's basketball team seemed to hang in the air for an eternity. The crowd and noise would fade as he lifted his frame off the ground to send a prayer toward the rim. Time has never gone slower for Muskin, and he has never felt better than when one of his shots pierced through the net.
The Dream Team, assembled from students enrolled full-time in classes, were asked to scrimmage against the women's team during Late Night. The women's team uses five to six male players each practice to give the ladies stronger, more physical opponents. The guys play the role of "scout team," running the plays and executing the tendencies of the team's upcoming competition. They allow starters and backups time to rest their legs and grasp the opposing team's tendencies. Freshman guard Diara Moore said she believed the players make a big difference preparing her for competition.
"Definitely up there with the coolest things I've got to experience," he said.
The practice players rotate each day depending on their class schedules and practice for a few hours. Players like Muskin see the practices as an opportunity to stay in shape and play in Allen Fieldhouse a few times a week.
"The guards are so quick off the dribble, it really helps my defense and they always play hard which helps a lot," Moore said.
Dannielle Campbell, a first-year graduate assistant in charge of coordinating the players, looks for skill set, worth ethic and selflessness when choosing a practice player.
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Beside the perks of playing in the Fieldhouse, "committed" players receive Kansas athletic clothing, an occasional free meal and the opportunity to release some anxiety and go play basketball for a few hours a week. The players know it is a rare opportunity to play in one of college basketball's best venues.
"As long as they are about the girls and know its not about them," Campbell said. "The purpose is to make the girls better."
"Playing in the Fieldhouse never gets old," Muskin said with a smile.
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Senior center Krysten Boogaard attempts to shoot over practice player Jeremy Vitt, a senior from Hiawatha, at Late Night. Boogaard finished with a team high six points as the women's team defeated the practice souad 22-14.
COMMENTARY
Gill scores early in recruiting
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BY NICOLAS ROESLER
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Guys — or girls — next time you are out at a bar trying to find a girl/boy to talk to, think of what Turner Gill is going through this offseason. Recruiting follows the same basic steps.
You begin by talking and getting to know the person. You find out what their talents and interests are and where they would like to be in two years. Do the flashing lights of a bowl game intrigue them?
More than likely, if you are talking to a beautiful girl who stands out above other prospects at the bar, girls will be interrupting you left and right to try to get her attention. Some, in order to gain added time with the girl, will offer her a drink.
They are the cheaters.
In order for Miller to become a star, he needs an offensive line to open up running lanes. Already on cue, Gill has shown his chivalry by wooping that needed big man to campus.
They will be the ones on the news being sued for offering illegal incentives.Not to mention,high school recruits aren't of age to drink.
Dylan Admire from Blue Valley West High School in Overland Park has been named to the Kansas All-State team for two years. He could be a prize catch for Gill if he bulks up from his current 265-pound frame.
Coach Gill is in the biggest imaginable bar, the United States, and he is already pulling in recruits with only a three-win season as his wing man. Somehow, this early into the offseason, the equivalent of 10 p.m. on a Friday night, Gill has two recruits committed to come to Kansas in the spring.
However, the team has already found a running back, freshman James Sims. He has shown the speed and the power necessary for a back taking the majority of the carries per game. Behind him is a shifty guy just like the incoming Miller, sophomore DJ Beshears. Even further down the depth chart is another main recruit from this year's freshman class, Brandon Bourbon. If Gill stays out at the clubs any longer, his players at home might become a little jealous
Miller will have to find a way to fit in without being a home wrecker. His high school tapes show his capability to become a star. He runs sideways nearly as fast as he runs forward with a 20-yard shuttle time of 4.23.
Darrian Miller, a running back from Blue Springs, Mo., is the only player on Kansas' wish list with a four-star rating from Rivals.com. With a nod of the head to Gill, he has signed a letter of intentto Kansas. Ranked as the 23rd-best running back in the country by Rivals, Miller could bring more of an attraction factor to Kansas' recruiting prowess next season, like an added wing man for Gill going forward.
The offseason is just beginning and the night still young. In Kansas football's line of sight is a bar full of three-star recruits, but some could prove to be diamonds in the rough.
Gill is proving why Kansas began its love affair with him before this season started — because he was rumored to be able to recruit stars no matter what night he goes out. Now all he needs is a trophy quarterback, and junior college transfer Zack Stoudt could be that star.
Reel 'em in Gill. Reel 'em in
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120%, but if one guy is out of position then someone's running through the line of scrimmage and he's going to gain a bunch of yards."
New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick
FACT OF THE DAY
The New England Patriots are the first team in NFL history to score 30-plus points in four straight games without a turnover.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: What is the first NFL team that can clinch a playoff spot with a win this week?
A: The Patriots.
Winter meetings heating up
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In the bitter cold of winter, all I can think about right now is Major League Baseball.
With the winter meetings beginning this week in Orlando, there's a good reason to keep an eye on the proceedings. Traditionally, the 30 general managers of each team meet for three and a half days - most of which are filled with rampant rumors of free-agent signings and trades. GMs also decide on possible rule changes brought up in these meetings. During the 2007 winter session, a 25-5 vote approved the use of replay to judge home-run disputes. With all of these happening in half a week, the "hot stove" atmosphere is definitely heating up in Florida.
BY CHRISTIAN LUCERO clucero@kansan.com
A lot of big names have already inked with a team while others are biding their time. Jayson Werth's seven-year, $126 million dollar contract to play outfield for the Washington Nationals is the third-highest contract ever for an outfielder. Some people believe Adrian Gonzalez's new contract with the Red Sox could reach $154 million to spread over seven years. And, yes, the Yankees wised up and signed their captain Derek Jeter for three years and $51 million
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dollars, with a fourth-year option if Jeter wants to use it.
Meanwhile, Cliff Lee will most likely be the biggest benefactor of the offseason.
the biggest beneficiaries of the Lee, who has played for four different teams in a two-year span, is being courted by many teams including the Rangers, Yankees and Nationals. The bottom line is that Cliff Lee will be a very rich man and can basically pick his team - most likely a contender if he signs with any of the aforementioned teams. Carl Crawford's services are also being sought by suitors like the Yankees, Angels and Tigers, and it's not a stretch to think Crawford could get a Werth-like contract from one of those
teams.
There's still many moves to be made at the 2010 version of the winter meetings, including a hopefully quick move out of the hospital for Rockies manager Jim Tracy, who collapsed at a hotel in Orlando and is resting comfortably as of press time. A useful tool to stay abreast of the offseason is mltraderumors.com, a site compiling each and every rumor of transactions as they come from the people who cover each team.
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Ware scored all 21 of his points
Ware's seventh three-pointer gives Georgia 73-72 victory
ATLANTA — Dustin Ware hit his seventh 3-pointer of the game with 15.3 seconds remaining, leading Georgia to a 73-72 win over Georgia Tech on Tuesday night.
Robinson missed a pair of free
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from outside the arc, missing only twice from long range. With the game tied at 70, Gerald Robinson drove toward the lane, luring the defense away from Ware, then kicked it back out to the 5-foot-11 junior standing all alone at the stripe.
Even with Mfon Udofia desperately running at him, Ware swished the shot to give the Builddogs (6-2) a 73-70 lead. Georgia Tech (4-4) passed up a chance at a tying 3, settling for Glen Rice's uncontested layup with 6.8 seconds remaining.
throws, giving the Yellow Jackets one last chance. But a long heave from the baseline was picked off in front of the Georgia basket by Travis Leslie, sealing the win for the road team.
Trey Thompkins also had 21 points for the Bulldogs. Iman
Shumpert led Georgia Tech with 18 points but appeared to be struggling with cramps, forcing him to the bench in the critical final minutes, though senior Maurice Miller did a good job filling in.
The Yellow Jackets appeared to be in control when Miller made a
slick move around Jeremy Price, dumping off a pass to Daniel Miller for a dunk that made it 70-65 with 2:14 remaining. But that would be Georgia Tech's final basket until Rice's layup near the end.
LAWRENCE
Schools looking for basketball coaches
The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department needs volunteer coaches for the seventh grade boys and girls' junior high intramural basketball program.
connections with students and parents.
The program is six weeks long and practices begin Jan. 24. Practices and games will be held at the junior high school gyms. Coaches are required to hold one or two practices a week and coach each Saturday game. Games will be from Feb.5 through March 12. Jamie Reed, recreation center programmer, said she saw coaching as a unique opportunity to help out with the community and build
James Polk, a recent graduate from Shawnee, credits coaching youth sports as his escape from work and falling into a routine.
"Once you graduate and get a job, its easy to become old real fast," Polk said. "Coaching keeps me young and gives me something to look forward to."
Interested students can pick up applications at Holcom Park Recreation Center, 2700 W. 27th St. Applicants should possess basketball knowledge, enjoy junior high-aged kids and be available for the required practices and games. Applicants will also go through a background check.
A majority of the coaches in the past have been KU students and parents. Reed said she believed a good coach was a fundamental part of learning not only basketball but life skills as well.
"A good coach is a role model," Reed said. "The kids learn valuable skills and how to participate in a team."
— Carlo Ramirez
All of the children who are participating are Lawrence junior high students. Anyone interested in becoming a coach can contact Duane Peterson at 785-832-7949 or by e-mail at dpeterson@lawrencecks.org.
MLB
LA Dodgers may have two owners
A spokesman for Jamie McCourt says a judge has ruled that a postnuptial marital agreement that gives sole ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers to Frank McCourt is not valid.
Mark Fabiani told The Associated Press the decision means the Dodgers could be shared under California's community property law.
Fabiani says he has seen the ruling that was shared with attorneys Tuesday but has yet to review the entire document.
Associated Press
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Player found dead in his dorm room
Garden City police say a college student and football player found dead in his dorm room was the son of Colorado assistant coach Darian Hagan.
Authorities on Monday said 19-year old DeVaughn C. Levy, of Englewood, Colo., was found dead Saturday in his Garden City Community College room.
Garden City police say no foul play is suspected. An official cause of death has not been announced.
The Garden City Telegram reports that Levy is the son of Darian Hagan.
Associated Press
AUTO RACING
Salina OKs permit to reopen speedway
The Saline County Planning Commission has approved a permit needed to reopen the Salina Speedway to auto racing.
The commission voted Monday to issue a conditional use permit to Topeka businessman Tommy Hendrickson and track owner Chuck Fairchild. The track closed in 2006 after operating nearly continuously since opening in 1969. It is on 38 acres near the Salina Municipal Airport.
Hendrickson told the commission that he's heard a lot of support for reopening the track. No one spoke in opposition.
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Marquette wins big in Texas, but Fulce suffers knee injury
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MILWAUKEE — Marquette players didn't feel much like celebrating a big win after losing one of their big men to an injury.
Freshman guard Vander Blue scored 21 to lead Marquette to an 86-59 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Tuesday, but the night was marred by what appeared to be a significant left knee injury to senior forward Joseph Fulce.
Fulce, who missed time earlier in the season with an injury to the same knee, fell to the court with just over 13 minutes left. He was down and clearly in pain for several minutes before being helped off.
Marquette coach Buzz Williams said he and the players were headed to the hospital to visit Fulce.
"He's got a shot knee," Williams said. "It been shot. I would say it's completely shot. That's all I know."
Jimmy Butler and Jae Crowder had 15 points each for the Golden
Eagles (7-2), who took a 25-4 lead to start the game. Butler also had nine rebounds.
Crowder said it was difficult to listen to Fulce scream in pain as the crowd fell silent.
"I knew it was the same knee that he just came back from," Crowder said. "I knew it was serious. Then the screaming that I heard and everybody else heard really shut me down."
Guard Reggie Smith said it was hard to celebrate the victory.
"We weren't really excited about the win," Smith said. "We were more concerned about Joe. After our huddle, we said 'Joe' on three. He's a really important part of our team. If he can't play, of course we have to move on, but it's a big loss for us."
Blue was the Golden Eagles' biggest bright spot. He got off to a hot start, scoring nine of the Golden Eagles' first 14 points.
It's a big week for Blue, a fresh
man from Madison, Wiss., who will face in-state rival Wisconsin — the school he originally committed to — on Saturday at the Bradley Center.
"He's just so active," Williams said. "His activity on both ends of the floor leads to good things. I think he's beginning to have more comfort in using his aggressiveness within how we want to play on both ends, and that's really positive. And I think he's even going to get better."
Williams was less impressed with the play of freshman forward Davante Gardner, one of the players who would likely have to pick up the slack if Fulce is lost for an extended period.
"I thought he was really bad," Williams said. "He picked up two fouls in the first half, reaching in on a ball screen. I didn't think he was very good. I was glad he got to play, because he's going to have to play, especially if Joe's out."
NBA
Cleveland continues losing streak, drops game on road at Philadelphia
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PHILADELPHIA — Thaddeus Young had a season-high 26 points and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the struggling Cleveland Cavaliers 117-97 on Tuesday night for their fourth win in five games.
Lou Williams scored 13 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter for Philadelphia, which placed seven players in double figures in its highest scoring output of the season. Jodie Meeks and Jrue Holiday had 16 points apiece, Andre Iguodala scored 13 and Elton Brand finished
with 12.
J. J. Hickson had 18 points for Cleveland, which has lost five consecutive games by an average of 22.2 points. Daniel Gibson scored 16 and Mo Williams added 15.
Young made 11 of 12 shots from the field and also had 11 rebounds as the Sixers bettered their previous scoring high set in a 123-116 loss to the Cavaliers on Nov. 3. He scored 17 of Philadelphia's 66 first-half points, a team high for any half this season.
Cleveland has dropped nine of 11 overall, surrendering at least 100
points in each of those losses
After a slow early start, Philadelphia (7-14) found its shooting touch against one of the league's worst defenses, shooting 26 of 46 from the floor and 11 of 15 from the free-throw line to build a 66-54 lead at halftime.
Cleveland (7-14) stumbled in the third quarter and Spencer Hawes made a 3-pointer with 2:27 left to increase Philadelphia's lead to 89-66. The Cavaliers pulled within 11 early in the fourth quarter on Gibson's 3-pointer, but the Sixers responded with a 14-4 run.
NBA
Charlotte beats Denver by two; Karl still one shy of 1,000 wins
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Stephen Jackson scored 23 points and the Charlotte Bobcats held off Denver 100-98 on Tuesday night to deny Nuggets coach George Karl his 1,000th NBA win.
Returning to North Carolina where he played in college and going up against his longtime friend and fellow former Tar Heel Larry Brown, Karl had hoped to become the seventh coach of the 1,000-win club in Charlotte.
The Nuggets nearly rallied from eight points down with 90 seconds left, but Chaucey Billups missed a tying jumper in the corner as time expired.
Billups scored 25 points and Carmelo Anthony added 22
points and seven rebounds for the Nuggets, who had won seven straight.
Jackson scored nine points in the fourth quarter, including consecutive 3-pointers to put Charlotte ahead 95-88 with 3:23 left. Boris Dlaw's bucket with 1:35 left made it 99-91.
But the Nuggets stormed back, and after Jackson failed to hit the rim on a 3-point attempt, the Nuggets had a chance to tie. Billups dribbled the ball into the right corner, but his fadeaway bounced off the rim at the buzzer.
It left the 59-year-old Karl stuck at 999 wins heading into a game at Boston on Wednesday.
Back in North Carolina where he helped lead the Tar Heels to the 1972 Final Four, Karl understood
the significance of going for 1,000 wins here while coaching against Brown.
"I've talked about the karma of being here," said Karl, in his 23rd NBA season. "And of course Larry was probably the first guy that helped me be a coach."
But Karl had a quick replay when asked before the game if it was the "perfect storm" to reach the milestone,
"Or the perfect storm to get your (butt) kicked," Karl said. "One or the other."
Despite a near meltdown late, Brown beat his friend for his 1,326th win in the NBA and ABA, leaving him 10 shy of Don Nelson's record.
Brown had the upper hand on this night, giving Charlotte only its third win in eight games.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120%, but if one guy is out of position then someone's running through the line of scrimmage and he's going to gain a bunch of yards."
- New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick
FACT OF THE DAY
The New England Patriots are the first team in NFL history to score 30-plus points in four straight games without a turnover.
www.nfl.com
Q: What is the first NFL team that can clinch a playoff spot with a win this week?
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
A: The Patriots.
Winter meetings heating up
MORNING BREW
In the bitter cold of winter, all I can think about right now is Major League Baseball.
With the winter meetings beginning this week in Orlando, there's a good reason to keep an eye on the proceedings. Traditionally, the 30 general managers of each team meet for three and a half days - most of which are filled with rampant rumors of free-agent signings and trades. GMs also decide on possible rule changes brought up in these meetings. During the 2007 winter session, a 25-5 vote approved the use of replay to judge home-run disputes. With all of these happening in half a week, the "hot stove" atmosphere is definitely heating up in Florida.
A lot of big names have already inked with a team while others are biding their time. Jayson Werth's seven-year, $126 million dollar contract to play outfield for the Washington Nationals is the third-highest contract ever for an outfielder. Some people believe Adrian Gonzalez's new contract with the Red Sox could reach $154 million to spread over seven years. And, yes, the Yankees wised up and signed their captain Derek Jeter for three years and $51 million
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dollars, with a fourth-year option if Jeter wants to use it.
Meanwhile, Cliff Lee will most likely be the biggest hosteffect of the offseason
Lee, who has played for four different teams in a two-year span, is being courted by many teams including the Rangers, Yankees and Nationals. The bottom line is that Cliff Lee will be a very rich man and can basically pick his team – most likely a contender if he signs with any of the aforementioned teams. Carl Crawford's services are also being sought by suitors like the Yankees, Angels and Tigers, and it's not a stretch to think Crawford could get a Werth-like contract from one of those
teams.
There's still many moves to be made at the 2010 version of the winter meetings, including a hopefully quick move out of the hospital for Rockies manager Jim Tracy, who collapsed at a hotel in Orlando and is resting comfortably as of press time. A useful tool to stay abreast of the offseason is mlbtraderumors.com, a site compiling each and every rumor of transactions as they come from the people who cover each team.
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SUNDAY
Ware's seventh three-pointer gives Georgia 73-72 victory
ATLANTA — Dustin Ware hit his seventh 3-pointer of the game with 15.3 seconds remaining, leading Georgia to a 73-72 win over Georgia Tech on Tuesday night.
Ware scored all 21 of his points
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from outside the arc, missing only twice from long range. With the game tied at 70, Gerald Robinson drove toward the lane, luring the defense away from Ware, then kicked it back out to the 5-foot-11 junior standing all alone at the stripe.
Even with Mfon Udofia desperately running at him, Ware swished the shot to give the Bulldogs (6-2) a 73-70 lead. Georgia Tech (4-4) passed up a chance at a tying 3, settling for Glen Rice's uncontested layup with 6.8 seconds remaining.
Robinson missed a pair of free
throws, giving the Yellow jackets one last chance. But a long heave from the baseline was picked off in front of the Georgia basket by Travis Leslie, sealing the win for the road team.
Trey Thompkins also had 21 points for the Bulldogs. Iman
Shumpert led Georgia Tech with 18 points but appeared to be struggling with cramps, forcing him to the bench in the critical final minutes, though senior Maurice Miller did a good job filling in.
The Yellow Jackets appeared to be in control when Miller made a
slick move around Jeremy Price, dumping off a pass to Daniel Miller for a dunk that made it 70-65 with 2:14 remaining. But that would be Georgia Tech's final basket until Rice's layup near the end.
LAWRENCE
Schools looking for basketball coaches
The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department needs volunteer coaches for the seventh grade boys and girls' junior high intramural basketball program.
The program is six weeks long and practices begin Jan. 24. Practices and games will be held at the junior high school gyms. Coaches are required to hold one or two practices a week and coach each Saturday game. Games will be from Feb.5 through March 12. Jamie Reed, recreation center programmer, said she saw coaching as a unique opportunity to help out with the community and build
connections with students and parents.
"Once you graduate and get a job, its easy to become old real fast," Polk said. "Coaching keeps me young and gives me something to look forward to."
Interested students can pick up applications at Holcom Park Recreation Center, 2700 W. 27th St. Applicants should possess basketball knowledge, enjoy junior high-aged kids and be available for the required practices and games. Applicants will also go through a background check.
A majority of the coaches in the past have been KU students and parents. Reed said she believed a good coach was a fundamental part of learning not only basketball but life skills as well.
"A good coach is a role model," Reed said. "The kids learn valuable skills and how to participate in a team."
All of the children who are participating are Lawrence junior high students. Anyone interested in becoming a coach can contact Duane Peterson at 785-832-7949 or by e-mail at dpeterson@lawrenceeks.org.
— Carlo Ramirez
MLB
LA Dodgers may have two owners
A spokesman for Jamie McCourt says a judge has ruled that a postnuptial marital agreement that gives sole ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers to Frank McCourt is not valid.
Mark Fabiani told The Associated Press the decision means the Dodgers could be shared under California's community property law.
Fabiani says he has seen the ruling that was shared with attorneys Tuesday but has yet to review the entire document.
Associated Press
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Player found dead in his dorm room
Garden City police say a college student and football player found dead in his dorm room was the son of Colorado assistant coach Darian Haqan.
Authorities on Monday said 19-year-old DeVaughn C. Levy, of Englewood, Colo., was found dead Saturday in his Garden City Community College room.
Garden City police say no foul play is suspected. An official cause of death has not been announced.
The Garden City Telegram reports that Levy is the son of Darian Hagan.
Associated Press
AUTO RACING
Salina OKs permit to reopen speedway
The Saline County Planning Commission has approved a permit needed to reopen the Salina Speedway to auto racing.
The commission voted Monday to issue a conditional use permit to Topeka businessman Tommy Hendrickson and track owner Chuck Fairchild. The track closed in 2006 after operating nearly continuously since opening in 1969. It is on 38 acres near the Salina Municipal Airport.
Hendrickson told the commission that he's heard a lot of support for reopening the track. No one spoke in opposition.
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Marquette wins big in Texas, but Fulce suffers knee injury
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Freshman guard Vander Blue scored 21 to lead Marquette to an 86-50 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Tuesday, but the night was marred by what appeared to be a significant left knee injury to senior forward Joseph Fulce.
MILWAUKEE — Marquette players didn't feel much like celebrating a big win after losing one of their big men to an injury.
"He's got a shot knee," Williams said. "It's been shot. I would say it's completely shot. That's all I know."
Marquette coach Buzz Williams said he and the players were headed to the hospital to visit Fulce.
Fulce, who missed time earlier in the season with an injury to the same knee, fell to the court with just over 13 minutes left. He was down and clearly in pain for several minutes before being helped off.
Jimmy Butler and Jae Crowder had 15 points each for the Golden
Crowder said it was difficult to listen to Fulce scream in pain as the crowd fell silent.
Eagles (7-2), who took a 25-4 lead to start the game. Butler also had nine rebounds.
"I knew it was the same knee that he just came back from," Crowder said. "I knew it was serious. Then the screaming that I heard and everybody else heard really shut me down."
Guard Reggie Smith said it was hard to celebrate the victory.
"We weren't really excited about the win," Smith said. "We were more concerned about Joe. After our huddle, we said 'Joe' on three. He's a really important part of our team. If he can't play, of course we have to move on, but it's a big loss for us."
Blue was the Golden Eagles' biggest bright spot. He got off to a hot start, scoring nine of the Golden Eagles' first 14 points.
It's a big week for Blue, a freshman from Madison, Wis., who will face in-state rival Wisconsin — the school he originally committed to — on Saturday at the Bradley Center.
“He's just so active,” Williams said. “His activity on both ends of the floor leads to good things. I think he's beginning to have more comfort in using his aggressiveness within how we want to play on both ends, and that's really positive. And I think he's even going to get better.”
Williams was less impressed with the play of freshman forward Davante Gardner, one of the players who would likely have to pick up the slack if Fulce is lost for an extended period.
"I thought he was really bad, Williams said. "He picked up two fouls in the first half, reaching in on a ball screen. I didn't think he was very good. I was glad he got to play, because he's going to have to play, especially if Joe's out."
NBA
Cleveland continues losing streak, drops game on road at Philadelphia
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA — Thaddeus Young had a season-high 26 points and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the struggling Cleveland Cavaliers 117-97 on Tuesday night for their fourth win in five games.
Lou Williams scored 13 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter for Philadelphia, which placed seven players in double figures in its highest scoring output of the season. Jodie Meeks and Jrue Holiday had 16 points apiece, Andre Iguodala scored 13 and Elton Brand finished
I. J. Hickson had 18 points for Cleveland, which has lost five consecutive games by an average of 22.2 points. Daniel Gibson scored 16 and Mo Williams added 15.
with 12.
Young made 11 of 12 shots from the field and also had 11 rebounds as the Sixers bettered their previous scoring high set in a 123-116 loss to the Cavaliers on Nov. 3. He scored 17 of Philadelphia's 66 first-half points, a team high for any half this season.
After a slow early start, Philadelphia (7-14) found its shooting touch against one of the league's worst defenses, shooting 26 of 46 from the floor and 11 of 15 from the free-throw line to build a 66-54 lead at halftime.
points in each of those losses.
Cleveland has dropped nine or 11 overall, surrendering at least 100
Cleveland (7-14) stumbled in the third quarter and Spencer Hawes made a 3-pointer with 2:27 left to increase Philadelphia's lead to 89-66. The Cavaliers pulled within 11 early in the fourth quarter on Gibson's 3-pointer, but the Sixers responded with a 14-4 run.
Charlotte beats Denver by two; Karl still one shy of 1,000 wins
NBA
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Stephen Jackson scored 23 points and the Charlotte Bobcats held off Denver 100-98 on Tuesday night to deny Nuggets coach George Karl his 1,000th NBA win.
Returning to North Carolina where he played in college and going up against his longtime friend and fellow former Tar Heel Larry Brown, Karl had hoped to become the seventh coach of the 1,000-win club in Charlotte.
The Nuggets nearly rallied from eight points down with 90 seconds left, but Chauncey Billups missed a tying jumper in the corner as time expired.
Billups scored 25 points and Carmelo Anthony added 22
points and seven rebounds for the Nuggets, who had won seven straight.
Jackson scored nine points in the fourth quarter, including consecutive 3-pointers to put Charlotte ahead 95-88 with 3:23 left. Boris Diaw's bucket with 1:35 left made it 99-91.
But the Nuggets stormed back, and after Jackson failed to hit the rim on a 3-point attempt, the Nuggets had a chance to tie. Billups dribbled the ball into the right corner, but his fadeaway bounced off the rim at the buzzer.
It left the 59-year-old Karl stuck at 999 wins heading into a game at Boston on Wednesday.
Back in North Carolina where he helped lead the Tar Heels to the 1972 Final Four, Karl understood
the significance of going for 1,000 wins here while coaching against Brown.
"I've talked about the karma of being here," said Karl, in his 23rd NBA season. "And of course Larry was probably the first guy that helped me be a coach."
But Karl had a quick replay when asked before the game if it was the "perfect storm" to reach the milestone.
"Or the perfect storm to get your (butt) kicked," Karl said. "One or the other."
Despite a near meltdown late, Brown beat his friend for his 1,326th win in the NBA and ABA, leaving him 10 shy of Don Nelson's record.
Brown had the upper hand on this night, giving Charlotte only its third win in eight games.
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Kansas 37 | 44 - 81
Memphis 35 | 33 - 68
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Jayhawk Stat Leaders
Points
Markieff Morris 16
Rebounds
Thomas Robinson
10
Assists
PETER MORRISON
Marcus Morris
5
Kansas
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
Marcus Morris 6-11 1-4 8 5 14
Markieff Morris 8-11 0-1 7 2 16
Tyshawn Taylor 4-8 0-0 4 4 13
Brady Morningstar 2-2 2-2 3 1 6
Tyrel Reed 2-6 2-3 3 1 8
Thomas Robinson 5-11 0-0 10 2 10
Jeff Withey 0-1 0-0 1 0 1
Elijah Johnson 3-3 1-1 1 3 7
Mario Little 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
Travis Releford 2-3 0-0 2 0 6
Team Totals 32-56 6-11 44 19 81
Memphis
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
Tarik Black 3-9 0-0 4 0 8
Wesley Witherspoon 3-11 2-4 2 2 8
Joe Jackson 0-3 0-2 3 2 1
Charles Carmouche 5-9 1-3 1 1 12
Will Barton 7-17 0-2 7 2 16
Will Coleman 3-6 0-0 3 1 6
Antonio Barton 1-5 0-0 3 1 2
Chris Crawford 5-10 3-7 2 1 15
Drew Barham 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
D.J. Stephens 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Angel Garcia 0-3 0-1 1 0 0
Team Totals 27-73 6-19 31 10 68
Schedule
*all games in bold are at home
Date Opponent Result/Time
Nov. 2 WASHBURN W, 92-62
Nov. 9 EMPORIA STATE W, 90-59
Nov. 12 LONGWOOD W, 113-75
Nov. 15 VALPARALSO W, 79-44
Nov. 19 NORTH TEXAS W, 93-60
Nov. 23 TEXAS A&M CORPUS CHRISTI W, 82-41
Nov. 26 OHIO W, 98-41
Nov. 27 ARIZONA W, 87-79
Dec. 2 UCLA W, 77-76
Dec. 7 MEMPHIS W, 81-68
Dec. 11 COLORADO STATE 5:30 p.m.
Dec. 18 USC 11 a.m.
Dec. 22 CALIFORNIA 10 p.m.
Dec. 29 UT ARLINGTON 8 p.m.
Jan. 1 MIAMI 5 p.m.
Jan. 5 UMKC 7 p.m.
Jan. 9 MICHIGAN TBA
Jan. 12 IOWA STATE 8 p.m.
Jan. 15 NEBRASKA 1 p.m.
Jan. 17 BAYLOR 8:30 p.m.
Jan. 22 TEXAS 3 p.m.
Jan. 25 COLORADO 7 p.m.
Jan. 29 KANSAS STATE 6 p.m.
Feb. 1 TEXAS TECH 8 p.m.
Feb. 5 NEBRASKA 3 p.m.
Feb. 7 MISSOURI 8 p.m.
Feb. 12 IOWA STATE 3 p.m.
Feb. 14 KANSAS STATE 8 p.m.
Feb. 19 COLORADO 1 p.m.
Feb. 21 OKLAHOMA STATE 8 p.m.
Feb. 26 OKLAHOMA 3 p.m.
March 2 TEXAS A&M 8 p.m.
March 5 MISSOURI 11 a.m.
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Junior center Markieff Morris puts up a shot over Memphis forward Tarik Black during the second half. Morris led the Jayhawks with 16 points, adding seven rebounds and a block in Kansas' 81-68 victory over Memphis Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden.
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Senior guard Tyrel Reel makes a pass over Memphis guard Charles Carmouche late in Kansas' 81-68 victory Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden. Kansas broke a streak of three straight losses in the Garden with the win Tuesday night and improved to 8-0 in the season.
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"He's our most valuable player to date." Self said, "because he's our primary handler. Without him breaking pressure down or being the athlete on the perimeter, this team would be deficient."
energy getting ready to play in the Garden, but the sloppiness had plenty to do with Taylor, whose influence on the team can hardly be understated through the young season. As Taylor goes, in terms of staying under control, so go the Jayhaws.
Self described the team, led by Taylor, as a fun team, but wild. Taylor said he had it spot on.
Johnson never got too worried though.
"We were in control. We controlled the game. Even when we weren't 'in control', we were controlling the game mentally," Johnson said.
It seems like circular logic, but there may be some wisdom there. The Jayhawks may need to play close to the edge in order to be at their best.
"We had a little too much fun," Johnson said. "We got a little loose at one point."
"Maybe that's just us, I guess," Taylor said. "I don't know. Maybe that's what we'll hang our coat on."
to control the game, and Tyshawn does a good job of that, slowing us down and controlling us."
But even though Memphis is one of the few teams that Kansas can't out-athlete, it didn't stop the Jayhawks from trying. When the Jayhawks were building their lead, they were playing controlled offensive basketball. Once the lead was built, though, Kansas started flying on both ends of the floor, and Memphis found its way back into contention.
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"We're a fast-paced team," Morris said. "At other times, we just need
Markieff Morris said the wild pace Taylor sets is something the Jayhawks sometimes need. With the number of outstanding athletes on the Jayhawks roster, a frenetic tempo can overwhelm teams that favor a slower style of play.
"I think that's exactly what it is. It's just the dumb stuff that we do," Taylor said. "We make careless turnovers and mental lapes on defenses. We do some dumb stuff, but I think he likes us because we play hard for the most part. I think we're a pretty good team."
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Senior guard Tyrel Reed tries to get a shot off between two Memphis defenders. Kansas shot 57 percent from the field to Memphis' 37 percent in the Jayhawks' 81-68 victory Tuesday, defeating a ranked opponent for the first time this season.
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Junior guard Tyshawn Taylor soars for a dunk on a breakaway during the first half. Taylor was one of four Jayhawks to score in double figures Tuesday night as Kansas defeated Memphis 81-68 in New York.
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Bench provides options at post position in NYC
Sophomore forward Thomas Robinson puts up a shot infront of Memphis forward Tarik Black during the second half. Robinson recorded a double with 10 points and 10 rebounds as the Jayhawks defeated the Tigers 81-68. Ryan Waggoner/KANSAN
BY MIKE LAVIERI
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NEW YORK — Madison Square Garden may be considered the world's biggest basketball stage. On Tuesday night, Kansas had the opportunity to play on that big stage on national television.
The Jayhawks were in the Big Apple for the annual Jimmy V Classic. The four Jayhawks from the east coast didn't want to disappoint the family and friends that were in town to watch the game. Three of them make up the low post presence for the Jayhawks: sophomore forward Thomas Robinson and junior forwards Marcus and Markieff Morris.
"You probably wouldn't say unbelievable in certain areas, but you look at it and they get 30 points and 15 rebounds in 56 minutes and that's pretty good for your post players," coach Bill Self said.
Self said earlier this year that it is important for the team, especially those three, to stay out of foul trouble. On Tuesday night, two of them did — Robinson and Marcus Morris.
"You can play maybe without one of the three, but its hard to play without two of the three, so that was important," Self said.
Marcus played the most minutes he's played all season with 32. To put it into perspective, he is averaging a little more than 26 on the season.
"It's very important, but we have some guys on the bench that can really play," Marcus said. "But it was very important that I stay out of foul trouble, so I could be on the court with my teammates."
Markieff might have led the team with 16 points, but he was only on the floor for 24 minutes because he had a team-high four fouls.
"Markieff will score a lot more points and get more rebounds if he
plays more than seven minutes a half." Self said.
When Self had to take him out, he was replaced with either Robinson, senior forward Mario Little or sophomore center Jeff Withey.
"We have two more," Self said. "Rio can play upfront and Jeff Withey will give us more minutes as we move forward."
Withey only gave the Jayhawks
two minutes with one rebound and one point. It was a lackluster performance from him, and Self pulled him for Robinson when he let his man hit a wide-open three-pointer.
"I would say Thomas was our best performer tonight," Self said. "I thought he played really well. He played smart and was under control."
Robinson recorded a double-dou
ble with 10 points and 10 rebounds in 15 minutes of work.
"We need to try and keep Markieff on the floor," Robinson said. "Knowing that you have me on the bench to come in and back it up wherever we have foul trouble is a good thing."
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Junior forward Marcus Morris gets a shot past Memphis forward Angel Garcia during Kansas' 81-68 victory over Memphis Tuesday. Morris was the Jayhawks' second leading scorer with 14 points and added eight rebounds, five assists and two blocks. Kansas improved to 8-0 on the season and defeated a ranked opponent for the first time this year. Ryan Waggoner/KANSAN
Game to remember
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Robinson
Bill Self said Thomas Robinson was the best player in the game for the Jayhawks, and you don't have to look hard at the stat sheet to see why. Robinson was the only Jayhawk to finish with a double-double and absolutely dominated the Tigers on the glass. "He played really well, played smart, and was under control," If Robinson continues to play as well as he's shown he can, there's no reason he won't compete for Markieff Morris' starting spot as the season progresses.
Sophomore forward Thomas Robinson
Little
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Game to forget
making the eight-man rotation Self usually uses when conference play starts.
Quotes of the night
Little was nonexistent in the second half, that's because he didn't play. He played eight minutes in the first half tallying one assist, zero points and two fouls. Coach Self has raved about how Little is a scorer and how he does a good job in the low post, but there aren't any results to show for it this season.
Little will need to assert himself in the next few games if he wants to have any chance of making the eight-man rotation Self usually use once play starts.
Senior guard Mario Little
Johnson
"When you don't say something and then you have media and different people coming to you and asking you, it doesn't make sense at all. It seems like you're the last one to find out about it, it can be confusing and irritating. I'm a Jayhawk. I'm going to be here until they kick me out, and I don't think they're going to kick me out anytime soon. So I've got another two-and-a-half years."
Elijah Johnson, addressing false rumors that he would be transferring
"Josh is wild, too. So he's going to fit in great."
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— Bill Sett on how Josh Selby will change the team's offensive makeup
Self
Prime plays
FIRST HALF (SCORE AFTER PLAY)
19:46 ---Tyrel Reed starts the game off with a three from the corner. Tyshawn Taylor did a nice job of pulling the defense into the paint with a drive from the opposite corner prior to kicking it out to Reed. (3-0)
11:02 — Tsyshawn Taylor gets an outlet pass from Markieff Morris with nobody in front of him and he slams it down with authority. (16-14)
14:40 — Thomas Robinson throws a baseball pass to Elijah Johnson who slams down a dunk with nobody in front of him. (23-20)
3:31 — Brady Morningstar gives Kansas its biggest lead with a three pointer and looks to have put the game on ice. (74-59)
SECOND HALF
10:10 — Marcus Morris throws Elijah Johnson a pretty ally-oop, but it was set up by a Markieff Morris pick of Johnson's man. (60-48)
16:08 —Kansas is on a 9-0 run in a 14:54 span after Tyrel Reed knocks down a three from the corner forcing Josh Pastner to take a time-out to try to take Kansas out of rhythm. (48-39)
2:00 — Rock Chalk chant sounds in Madison Square Garden. (76-63)
14:55 —Elijah Johnson throws a perfect lob on the backdoor ally-oop to Markieff Morris. (60-48)
Notes
- Kansas is 3-0 in its last three games against Memphis.
- Kansas improved to 1-2 all-time in the Jimmy V Classic
- Robinson's double-double was his first of the season and second of his career.
Key stats
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The Jayhawks turned the ball over 22 times in their first test against real defensive pressure.
6-11 The Jayhawks early season shooting woes have gone by the wayside. They hit 6-of-11 threes.
44-31 A game after losing the rebounding battle for the first time, the Jayhawks outrebound the Tigers 44-31.
19,391 Madison Square Garden sold all 19,391 seats for the game.
10,10 Thomas Robinson finished with 10 points and 10 rebounds. It's his third double-double this season.
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Elijah Johnson finished with zero assists in 21 minutes.
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Moore's 23 points help Purdue win
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VALPARAISO, Ind. — E"Twaun Moore scored 23 points to help No. 19 Purdue beat Valparaiso 76-58 on Tuesday night.
Jaluan Johnson had 13 points, eight rebounds and four blocks, Kelsey Barlow scored 13 points and Lewis Jackson added 11 points, four assists and four steals for the Boilermakers (8-1), who won their third straight.
It was Purdue's first game without John Hart. The team's No. 3 scorer is expected to miss at least a month with a stress fracture in his right foot.
Purdue led 30-28 at halftime before shooting 57 percent from the field after the break.
Brandon Wood scored 20 points for Valparaiso (6-3), but he had just two in the second half. Wood made 7 of 11 shots from the field, but his teammates made just 13 of 41.
The Crusaders had averaged 76 points per game, but they shot 39 percent had committed 16 turnovers.
Purdue's last on-court loss to its intrastate rival had come in 1965, but the Boilermakers struggled early.
Wood's 3-pointer with 5 minutes left in the first half gave the Crusaders a 25-23 lead and got the capacity crowd into a frenzy.
Purdue hung tough, and a bank shot by Johnson gave the Boilermakers a two-point lead at halftime. The preseason All-American had five points, four rebounds and four turnovers at the break while struggling against Valparaiso's double teams.
Wood made his first seven shots and scored 18 points in the first half.
Moore hit a 3-pointer from the right wing, then made a jumper from inside the arc to give the Boilermakers a 38-34 lead three minutes into the second half. A 3-pointer by Ryne Smith put the finishing touch on an 8-0 run.
Valparaiso closed within four before the Boilermakers began pulling away. Moore tipped in his own miss to put the Boilermakers up 53-40, and Purdue led by double digits the rest of the way.
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No.8 Syracuse takes down Mich. St.
NEW YORK — Rick Jackson matched his season-high with 17 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to lead No. 8 Syracuse to a 72-58 victory over No. 7 Michigan State on Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden.
Scoop Jardine had 19 points and Kris Joseph added 14 for the Orange (9-0), who took the lead $4\frac{1}{2}$ minutes into the game and never relinquished it in front of a sellout crowd of 19,391 which was solidly behind the team from upstate New York.
With the 6-foot-9, 240-pound Jackson leading the way, Syracuse dominated inside finishing with a 42-24 advantage on points in the paint and outrebounding the Spartans 38-30. Michigan State led the nation the last two seasons in rebound margin.
The Orange won for the first time in three appearances in this event which has helped raise over $100 million for the V Foundation, a fundraising effort for cancer research started by the late Jim Valvano.
for Michigan State (6-3).
All of the Spartan losses have been to teams ranked in the top 10 as they lost to Connecticut in the Maui Invitational and top-ranked Duke.
The Spartans, who won their first two appearances in the Jimmy Classic, committed 20 turnovers in the loss to the Blue Devils and didn't help themselves against Syracuse, finishing with 17. They also hurt themselves by going 9 of 16 at the free throw line.
Michigan State got within 50-47 on a free throw by Dramray Green with 12:24 to play. Dion Waters hit a 3 just one of Syracuse's 2 in 11 attempts and Jardine followed nine empty possessions by both teams with a three-point play and the Spartans were never closer than six points the rest of the way.
Korie Lucious had 10 points for the Spartans, while Kalin Lucas had eight on 3-for-9 shooting as he continues his recovery from the Achilles' tendon injury he suffered during the NCAA tournament.
Summer was 4 of 9 from 3-point range.
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Syracuse's Kris Joseph drives past Michigan State's Delovin Roe in the first half of Syracuse's 72-58 victory against Michigan State during the Jimmy V Class tournament on Tuesday in New York.
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Scola's 35-point, 12-rebound night ruins McGrady's return to Houston
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HOUSTON — Luis Scola had 35 points and 12 rebounds Tuesday night to lead the Rockets to a 97-83 win over the Detroit Pistons, ruining Tracy McGrady's return to Houston.
McGrady hit a 3-pointer with about eight minutes left to get the Pistons within one, but Houston scored the next seven points to
stretch the lead to 85-77 with six minutes remaining. Scola made the last basket of that run and added six of Houston's next eight points as the Rockets built a 93-79 lead.
with the Rockets, finished with 11 points. He got his fourth and fifth fouls shortly after his 3-pointer and went to the bench for good.
McGrady, who spent $ 5 \frac{1}{2} $ seasons
Rodney Stuckey had 18 points and five assists for Detroit.
Kyle Lowry added 22 points and 12 assists for Houston, and Kevin Martin had 21 points.
Detroit scored the first eight points of the fourth quarter, capped by a dunk by Greg Monroe, to
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Singer centers life on music
Despite sacrifices, Ryan King keeps the songs flowing
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Ryan King entered the auditorium to do the lighting and sound check while the other members of Genuine Imitation warmed up next door. Unsure about the right switch, King randomly went for one and succeeded in illuminating the stage.
Dressed in all black and standing at the microphone under the now bright lights, King smiled from behind his black-framed glasses and looked out to the growing audience in Woodruff Auditorium.
"Testing, testing." King said.
He repeated those words twice more at the other microphones.
King, a senior from Lawrence, is the business manager and co-director of the University of Kansas' contemporary a cappella group, Genuine Imitation. Students formed the group in 2003 and they perform songs by artists such as 311, Ke$ha and Weezer.
A bass singer and vocal performance major, King was making his third appearance of the day at last Wednesday's winter concert.
Earlier in the day, King performed the National
Anthem at the women's basketball game and a song with his fiancée, Laura Gibson, at the student's Composer's Guild.
The Composer's Guild allows composition music students to premier some of their works during the recital and a mutual friend wrote a song cycle for King and Gibson, a senior from Talmage and pianist.
Looking back on the busy day Saturday afternoon, King said Wednesday was crazy. But taking on too much in the name of music is not uncommon, he acknowledged.
From a very young age, King participated in anything and everything music related, and it's no surprise once you learn that his father was a music teacher.
"I was so exposed to it at such a young age that I always loved music," King said.
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Yuchong Zhao, a freshman from Shanghai, China, enjoys the night off from studies playing his guitar in his room in McCollum. According to a new housing policy, if 15 students request to stay in their room over breaks, they won't have to stay in McCollum.
New housing policy offers students multiple options
BY MICHAEL HOLTZ mholtz@kansan.com
McCollum Hall will once again be the only residence hall open during winter break, according to Diana Robertson, director of student housing.
A new policy required that a minimum of 15 residents register for any of the four smaller halls on Daisy Hill to remain open. In previous semesters, student housing's policy was that all scholarship halls and residence halls except McCollum were to remain closed during Thanksgiving, winter and spring breaks.
Student Housing attempted the new policy to provide better services to residents who choose to stay put during breaks.
GSP, Corbin and Oliver halls and all scholarships hallis will close as scheduled.
"Our numbers at break periods are not high," Robertson said. "But maybe that's because students don't want the inconvenience of moving down to McCollium if they're living in another hall."
The new policy was first attempted during Thanksgiving break, but none of the four eligible residence halls met the 15-resident minimum. Eighty-nine
residents stayed in McCollum. 22 of whom were from other buildings.
The Studio, a food court in Hashinger Hall, and Mrs. E's, the main dining hall, will remain open on Daisy Hill during winter break. Though Mrs. E's regularly stays open, this is the first semester that KU Dining will keep The Studio in operation.
Yan Huo, a freshman from Luoyang, China, lives in GSP Hall. With no options other than moving into McCollum for Thanksgiving break, Huo decided to take a road trip to Chicago with her friends. She had registered for break housing but said she changed her mind the day before break.
The new policy requires students already living in McCollum to pay for break housing for the first time. Winter break housing costs $512.
Huo said she was flying to Virginia during winter break to stay with one of her mother's friends.
"I don't think McCollum is worth $80 to stay there," she said. "I think it's better to go on a trip than stay in McCollum."
Robertson said the decision to charge students in McCollum was made while looking into leaving
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"It became apparent that the break housing service has real costs associated with it and that all students who stay over break periods should be assessed for this service," she said in an e-mail. Those costs include staffing, custodial services and utilities.
Some international students said they disagreed with the new fee. Takuya Kikuchi, a junior from Yokohama, Japan, lives in McCollum. He plans to visit his host family in California during the break, though he considers himself lucky to have that option.
- Residence halls close at 11 p.m. on Dec. 17
- Residence halls re-open at 8 a.m. on Jan.18
"International students don't have a home here in the States," Kikuchi said. He said he thought it wasn't fair to charge them to stay in McCollum during breaks.
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The fifth official, Kassie Liebsch, did not appear. Liebsch was granted a change of plea hearing by U.S. District Court Judge Wesley Brown for Jan. 21 at 10:30 a.m., a spokesman said.
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Four of five former Kansas Athletics officials indicted last month entered not guilty pleas Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Wichita.
The other four — Tom and Charlotte Blubaugh, Rodney Jones and Ben Kirtland — were released pending trial. Cross said they cannot leave the state without first informing the court. He said they also surrendered their passports.
The five former officials were charged Nov. 18 with the misappropriation of tickets valued from $3 million to $5 million. Liebsch actually remained with Athletics as director of ticket operations until the indictment. The other four had been named in the ticket scandal unveiled last spring.
Jim Cross, a spokesman for Kansas' U.S. Attorney's office, said a change of plea hearing is scheduled by the judge for the purpose of pleading guilty.
Each defendant faces a maximum of 30 years in federal prison and a fine up to $1 million.
The Nov. 18 indictment charges Charlotte Blubaugh with stealing, converting and taking by fraud, individual and season tickets for Athletics events and providing them to Simmons, Jeffries, Kirtland, Jones and Liebsch to sell to third parties in violation of University policies.
The result was illegal proceeds of more than $3 million at the University's expense. The defendants are also charged with paying kickbacks to third parties and entering false information in a computer system devised to detect theft.
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THURSDAY
December 9
What's going on?
Student Union Activities will host a late-night winter bash from 9 p.m. to midnight in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
FRIDAY December 10
Last day of classes.
Stop Day. No classes.
SATURDAY December 11
MONDAY December 13
December 11
The School of Engineering will recognize fall 2010 engineering graduates at 9 a.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
- Finals week begins.
TUESDAY
December 14
The Spencer Museum of Art Student Advisory Board will host a study night from 4 p.m. to midnight in the Central Court of the Spencer Museum of Art. They will provide free bagels, Coca-Cola products and Wi-Fi.
SUNDAY December 12
Student Union Activities will host its Late Night Breakfast at Mrs. E's from 10 p.m. to midnight.
The School of Journalism will hold its graduation ceremony at 1 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union
WEDNESDAY
December 15
Students from Metalsmithing/Jewelry Design are having their first annual student holiday sale and fundraiser. They will present an exhibition and sale of their work from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Jewelry by Design Gallery in Prairie Village. A portion of sales will be donated to the Salvation Army. Address is 7608 State Line Road, Prairie Village, KS 66208.
Board approves funds for lighted path
BY MICHAEL HOLTZ
mholtz@kansan.com
The Campus Safety Advisory Board (CSAB) approved $100,000 for the Oread Neighborhood lighted pathway on Wednesday night.
The $531,000 project has faced severe funding shortfalls since it was started last fall. It was delayed when the Kansas Department of Transportation turned down a $174,345 grant the City of Lawrence had applied for to help fund the project.
"We've proven our support for this project and said, 'This is really something students want,' said Libby Johnson, chairwoman of CSAB.
Construction on the pathway's primary route started after Thanksgiving. The primary route costs $263,380 and will run down the sidewalks on the north side of 12th Street between Vermont Street and Jayhawk Boulevard and across South Park to its northeast corner.
The additional funding from CSAB was originally allocated
for lighting and other on-campus projects that were never started or received funding from outside sources.
CSAB has more than $230,000 in unallocated funds.
The funding for the lighted pathway is contingent on the commitment of the City of Lawrence, Johnson said. So far the city has contributed $50,000. Student Senate contributed an additional $20,000 to the project last year.
The city reapplied for a community development block grant earlier this month. Last year it was
awarded a $60,000 grant for the project. The grant was restricted to funding the pathway through South Park, which costs $30,000.
Johnson said the city reapplied for the grant with the hope of freeing the rest of the money and receiving additional funding. Grants are in the spring. Johnson sounded confident that the city's application would be approved.
"Because of our commitment there's a lot higher likelihood that the development grant will go through," Johnson said.
—Edited by Tim Dwyer
ODD NEWS
Woman returns 74-year-old rental
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California woman is proving it's never too late to make things right.
Ninety-five-year-old Hazel Severson of Sacramento says a friend found a book that Severson's late husband had borrowed from an Amador County library in 1936 while sorting through things for a garage sale.
She knew what she had to do:
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Cat returns after five years missing
BILOXI, Miss. — Five years after wandering away in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, a gray and white cat named Scrub has been reunited with his Mississippi family
The Humane Society of South Mississippi says Scrub was identified by an implanted microchip. The 7-year-old cat was brought to the shelter by a Gulfport woman who'd fed him as a stray the past couple of months.
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Lawrence men don heels for a charity
Next semester, men from around Lawrence will kick off their loafers and trade them in for a pair of shiny red high heels for the "Walk A Mile in Her Shoes" event on May 6. Some University men are getting a head start.
The Willow Domestic Violence Center is selling calendars with photos of prominent Lawrence men wearing red high heels to promote the national event. The calendars cost $20,with all proceeds going to The Willow. Audra Fullerton, director of community engagement at The Willow, said the calendar provided an easy way for men in the community to get involved with the event and issue.
"This is a fun, goofy way to get their voices out," she said. "Now men can stand up and say, 'You know what, this isn't OK.'"
Kansas coach Bill Self, Danny Anderson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
Shade Little, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little's husband, Rick Ginsberg, dean of the school of education, and John Nalbandian professor of public administration, were among the University men involved with the calendar.
Sally Hare-Schriner, a member of The Willow's board, said The Willow was targeting students to participate in the "Walk A Mile in Her Shoes" event to further promote awareness of the issue.
"You have to wear someone else's shoes to understand the issue," she said.
Fullerton said students should become involved in the event because they were members of the community and many students have dealt with domestic violence.
"The world doesn't stop at the end of campus," she said.
Students can purchase a calendar at the Kansas Union Bookstore. Students can also sign up in March for the event.
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From left to right: Shade Little, husband of Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little; Danny Anderson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Rick Ginserg, dean of the School of Education; and John Nalbandian, professor of public administration.
MUSIC (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
Lisa King, Ryan's mother, said music was always playing in the house, whether on a radio or CD player.
As a toddler, Lisa said her son would sing along with the radio in his car seat while she was driving.
One time in particular, she had to change the station when he started to belt out "Highway to Hell."
Even with his love of music, King held on to the desire to be an astronaut until high school when his bad eyesight and lack of intelligence, as he put it, steered him toward a career in music.
In high school, King stretched himself thin and even won an award for it. He received and inspired the "Renaissance Man" senior award for his participation in every Lawrence High musical performance and ensemble. King said his younger brother is working toward becoming the second King, and only other person, to win the award this year.
The constant singing and exposure to music in the King household may account for two children with music degrees and one with a music minor.
King entered the University with a desire to enter music education, but after taking voice lessons and at the recommendation of
his instructor, King auditioned for the voice performance degree. Following King's audition, he received a scholarship, and after falling in love with performance, King dropped music education.
The adrenaline and nerves that come with live performances help King maintain his passion.
"That's part of the fun, being a little bit freaked out the first time you go on, and I hope that I never get over that," King said. "If I get over that, I think it's probably time to stop, because why are you doing it at that point?"
For a couple of years, King was really "gung - ho about going and moving to New York, auditioning every where and really making it big."
married, but if you get married it makes it almost next to impossible to lead a career in performance because its kind of a rough lifestyle and it came down to do I want to be a performer or do I want to get married?" King said. "And she won."
Now King doesn't allow the two loves of his life to compete.
But then " laura
Gibson is a piano major and King said music is just one more thing the pair have in common.
The two perform together from time to time, like at the Composer's Guild, and King said a musician
"I would be miserable if I didn't have music in my life. So I refuse to give up on that."
"Not that I didn't want to get
happened." King and Laura Gibson began dating in high school, but after becoming engaged over the summer, King said he had an internal struggle with the decision to marry or pursue his dream of being a performer.
RYAN KING Lawrence senior
King is his own worst critic, but Gibson is the most accurate. She is not afraid to be honest with him, she knows what she is talking about and she is King's biggest fan.
Aside from a July 31, 2011
King said.
wedding, the future remains unknown for the couple.
In King's ideal world, he is a Grammy award winning opera singer with a huge house, a wife and one-and-a-half kids with not a care in the world.
"That would be cool, but realistically I don't know," King said.
King's mom said she is positive he will always have some connection with music.
But regardless of what reality will entail, it will most likely involve music.
Gibson's ideal world doesn't differ greatly from King's. She sees the pair living in California and while King basks in his fame, she charges $100 and hour for piano lessons with their border collie at her feet.
"I would be miserable if I didn't have music in my life," King said. "So I refuse to give up on that."
After teaching music and with the onset of a family, King's father retired from music education for more stability and pay. While the decision was the right one, he still sings all the time and King doesn't want to have to make that sacrifice.
"I hope that doesn't happen with me because I think that's one too many compromises." King
said. "I've already started making compromises because I'm not going to go into voice performance to get married."
King corrected himself and said it wasn't a compromise to get married — just a different path.
Gibson said she was selfishly happy with his decision but doesn't want him to give up on music.
"Music is very personal, especially for him," Gibson said.
For King, a day without music is not a good day. He knows there are a lot of people who aren't fortunate to do what they love and King strives to avoid becoming that kind of person.
But who knows? The way he feels changes every week, he said.
"I hope I'm not put in a position to have to abandon music because then what have I been doing for the past four years?" King said. "I would be really disappointed in myself if I gave up on and I can't imagine a scenario in which I would decide that I don't want to do it anymore because it is more important to me than that."
- Edited by David Cawthon
While the future lurks around every corner, King's opted to just keep singing until they are forced to run into one another.
ODD NEWS
Golden Christmas for Salvation Army
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The Salvation Army red kettles are coming up golden in Indiana.
The charity says anonymous donors have left gold coins in kettles in Mishawaka and Kokomo.
The South Bend Tribune reports that someone dropped a 1-ounce U.S. gold coin worth $1,400 in a kettle outside a Sam's Club in Mishawaka.The coin was wrapped in a $100 bill and a small note thinking the organization for "doing God's work."
Anatomy lesson gets too personal
KENNESAW, Ga.  — Students in a Kennesaw State University business class got an anatomy lesson
Campus police say a parttime instructor took his clothes off while teaching a class at the suburban Atlanta college late last month. Police arrested 57-year-old Raymond Devaughn Taylor of Kennesaw on Monday and charged him with public indecence after a student reported what happened to university officials.
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University hopes to broaden student life through diversity
BY STEPHEN GRAY sgray@kansan.com
Some may think that diversity is simply a human resources issue or that it's a word that designates specific measures and quotas throughout society. In a way that's true. More than anything, though, it's a state of mind.
In order to maintain its commitment to this mentality on campus, the University of Kansas has implemented a new statement on diversity and inclusion for the community to follow.
Fred Rodriguez, interim associate vice provost for diversity and equity, said that he decided to push for an official statement when he realized that a guideline like this was something that the University could use.
"The statement represents the value and the importance of a diverse and inclusive campus community." Rodriguez said. "Too often we assume this is just understood but with a formal statement — this reflects and states unequivocally our commitment."
The statement's formation began early last summer when Rodriguez formed a small group of faculty, staff and administration members to discuss ideas. Using similar statements from other universities as models, the group then formulated a draft to send to administrators. After some minor changes in wording the statement was approved earlier this semester by faculty and student governance
organizations.
"When programs and departments throughout the University are setting goals for their own organizations, they'll know diversity and inclusion should be a part of their work," Smith said. "That
Michael Wade Smith, student body president, said although it's not directly attached to measures of diversity and inclusion, the statement is important because it serves as a basis of commitment to those principles.
language becomes a part of our university"
To build on the new statement, the Office of Diversity
"The opportunity to discuss ideas, perspectives and experiences different from one's own challenges that individual and promotes their growth and knowledge," she said.
In addition to the completion of the new statement on diversity and inclusion, the office also announced last month that a Spring Symposium on the Scholarship of Diversity has been set for March 14 to 15, 2011, on the Lawrence campus. Details haven't been fully
"People who think alike make the same mistakes."
MARY ELLEN KONDRAT Dean of the School of Social Welfare
and Equity has established a work group to assess the current diversity policies at the University and to identify areas for either enhancement or initiation. From this framework, a Diversity Advisory Council will then be established over the next two years.
Karen Hester, director of diversity and inclusion for the School of Law and a member of the work group, said the statement sends a clear message that diversity and inclusion are priorities at the University. She also stressed diversity's importance to achieving a thriving and engaging learning community at the university.
determined yet, but the office plans to host two prominent national leaders who will present lectures.
Mary Ellen Kondrat, dean of the School of Social Welfare
and a member of the planning committee for the event, said the Symposium will exemplify the aim of the statement and promote diversity's role in the university community. For her, it's essential to encourage various perspectives and a diversity of thought on campus.
"People who think alike make the same mistakes." Kondrat said. "We need the best minds from the most diverse perspectives if we're going to solve some of the complex problems of society."
- Edited by Leslie Kinsman
KU STATEMENT ON DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
As a premier international research university, the University of Kansas is committed to an open, diverse and inclusive learning and working environment that nurtures the growth and development of all. KU holds steadfast in the belief that an array of values, interests, experiences, and intellectual and cultural viewpoints enrich learning and our workplace. The promotion of and support for a diverse and inclusive community of mutual respect require the engagement of the entire university.
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Chesney's No.1 single is most meaningful to him
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — He has recorded dozens of songs written by other people, but none has touched Kenny Chesney like "The Boys of Fall," his most recent No. 1 single.
The song, co-written by Casey Beathard and Dave Turnbull, is an ode to football, especially high school football teams, the men who coach them and the small towns that embrace them.
"It has been one of the best journeys of my life," Chesney said during a telephone interview last week, "to be able to spend a major part of the last year interviewing all kinds of people who have touched a lot of lives on and off the field"
That journey was the making of the documentary "The Boys of Fall," inspired by the video to the song. The documentary first aired on ESPN in August. Since mid-November, it has been available on DVD at Walmart.
Chesney spent much of his year away from touring, working on the documentary. He will return to the concert circuit next year with the Zac Brown Band and others.
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Chesney interviewed players and coaches like Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Joe Namath, Bill Parcels, University of Texas coach Mack Brown and Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, all of whom discuss the game and what it has meant to them
But for now, he's talking about the video, which has nearly 4.5 million YouTube views. It opens with New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton addressing the football team at Naperville (III.) Central High School, his alma mater. His sermon is about relishing the present and appreciating the blessings and rituals that will soon be gone, specifically the thrill of Friday night football games.
For Chenesey, football was a life-style, almost a religion, as it is in so many small towns. A lyric from the song goes: "In little towns like mine, that's all they got / Newspaper clippings fill the coffee shops.
"I grew up in an area where the town leans on the football team," said Chesney, who was raised in Luttrell, Tenn., and played football at Gibbs High School. "That's how it was in east Tennessee. Football was all we had."
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2 Perfectly
3 Fairy tale baddie
4 Fifth President
5 Choir member
6 Story of a lifetime?
7 Screw up
8 Florida city
9 Accumulated
10 Informed about
11 Deuce beater
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43 Tackles' team-mates
44 Brewer's kiln
45 Entreaty
46 Vivacity
49 "You've got mail co."
16 Gender
20 Early bird?
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23 TV host Carey
24 Gun the engine
25 Exist
26 Noted steel tycoon
27 Stuff
29 Eggs
30 Prized possession
35 Clear the tables
37 Heart lines?
39 Sill
40 Rapa — (Easter Island)
41 Snare
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MUSIC
'Nothing' holds meaning for Janet
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LOS ANGELES — Janet Jackson's hit single "Nothing" — the theme song from Tyler Perry's "Why Did I Get Married Too?" — is generating almost as much Oscar buzz as it feels riddled with grief. Jackson learned of her brother Michael's death while filming the movie in Atlanta, before she had recorded the song.
Even though Jackson says "Nothing" is not about her brother, whom she won't talk about much these days, the song's melancholy and emotional grit leads one to wonder. It's no stretch to think that Jackson, who's known for having a particularly strong work ethic and occasionally losing herself in creative projects during turbulent times, was channeling the fallout of her personal tragedy into her music.
Which may be why "Nothing," her third film song to date, is resonating so deeply with fans. The song went straight to No. 4 on iTunes when it was released in March. After her appearance on the finale of "American Idol," where she performed a medley that included "Nothing," the single shot to No. 1. The song is now featured on Jackson's album "Icons," which showcases 11 of her 35 hit singles. It's a touching, melodic ballad about truth, trust and relationships.
"Even though it sounds like a sad song, it's hopeful," says Jackson. "When you really listen to it, it's really hopeful. I didn't know if I wanted to call the song 'Trust in Me' or 'Nothing'. It's really about the characters (in the movie) and pulling as much as I could from each relationship."
Darling, a cereal malt beverage is really a breakfast drink.
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This edition of Free For All is so epic, you might want to consider some music. Recommended reading music includes the 1812 Overture, Teach Me How to Dougie and the Inception soundtrack.
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Stop Day: my favorite KU tradition since 2008.
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Someone just asked if there would be a word bank on our final. This is college, so no.
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Does anyone else automatically think of the Weasleys when they see tall red heads on campus? I do!
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To the guy that was in a Santa hat on Wescoe with the boombox playing Christmas music, you made my day. Thanks!
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Rudolph should know his nose is as red as his eyes. Hopefully he's okay to drive his sleigh this year, because we won't get anything if he dies.
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If you wanted to woo your teacher you should've started earlier in the semester. They'll know something's up now.
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If I would have known I would receive chocolate for perfect attendance, I wouldn't have missed that one class period.
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I want to pop the moon bounce!
I love the number game!
People send a number to your inbox, and then they respond to that number (instead of your name) and tell you what they think of you!
You talk in a monotone all semester long and on that last day of class you start cracking jokes? Where was this four months ago??!
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Budig may be a 1000-person lecture ... but its still not safe to pick your nose and examine your boogers unnoticed.
PROcrastination, if it wasn't good for you they would have called it CONcrastination right?
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People who wear velvet clothing scare me.Really bad.
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I'm to the point where I don't know if I should worry more about finals, or how many meal plans i have left.
Quit sippin' on that hater-aid!
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I'm so tired that I just slid my debit card about five times to get into my hall.
So I just had to tell my foreign roommate the bird and bees
I don't visit McCollum unless I get tested afterwards. That place is across.
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To the girl wearing reindeer antlers in my health class; I'm judging you
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SCHNAPP'S DAY is coming!!!
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Cinnamon Toast Crunch is the perfect 3:30 am snack.
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But I heard Big Jay say, as he flew out of sight, "Rock Chalk to all, and to all a good night!"
Does it look like my name is Judge Joe Brown? NO it does
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RIP John Lennon.
Santa: climbin'in yo chimneys, snatchin'yo cookies up.
The best way to defining the relationship, "I don't want none!"
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Come to find out the warm, yellow soap in Anschutz was not a new invention.
I watched South Park in my religions class today. Get on our
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I've yet to determine if all these people are staring at me because I'm unbelievably attractive or fascinatingly ugly. For the sake of my self esteem, I pretend it's the former.
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Hi I'm Christopher Columbus.
What do you say you let me
discover those south undies?
It's embarrassing how little money is in my bank account.
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EDITORIAL
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It's embarrassing how little semen is in my sperm bank.
Dear parents, why couldn't you have conceived me a week earlier or a week later? My birthday is during finals week EVERY year ... sincerely, disgruntled daughter.
Academic improvements stand out against semester's disappointments
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There's too much blood in my caffeine system!!
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We're finally here. The last day of classes has come; the end of the semester is at hand
It's been a long semester at the University. Much has happened. Some of it positive, some of it negative.
The football team, under Turner Gill's coaching, had a disastrous season, winning few games. The weekly pounding became tiring and was capped in a final defeat by Missouri during Thanksgiving break.
But there were some bright spots. KU's victory against Georgia Tech gave hope early in the season and the incredible come-from-behind victory against Colorado was spectacular to watch. I hope
In September, Lew Perkins announced his sudden retirement
Later in the
have yet to play out in court, it is disturbing that even during the height of the Jayhawk's athletic successes, corruption may have been present in the athletics
semester, five former and current Kansas Athletics employees were charged with federal crimes related to the ticket scandal that resulted in the diversion of thousands of tickets and the loss of million of dollars. While these charges
Semester in Review
system.
There have been positive developments at the University, however. It may be little things, such as a surprise Friday.
evening concert by Jason Mraz at the Union last week. Or it could be academic improvements, like the addition of a doctoral program for the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
CARTOON
toward goals that may be realized in the future, such as raising admission standards.
Substantive steps were also taken
Jonathan Shorman for The Kansan Editorial Board.
An Admissions Task Force created by the Kansas Board of Regents has proposed changes to the Regents' high school curriculum that would up the ante for students wishing to apply to admission to state universities in Kansas. Any action on these proposals should be watched closely.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Wikileaks rant full of authoritarianism
MARIAM SAIFAN
Rajiv Tarigopula's article
Rajiv Tariqopula's article "Wikileaks' revelations dangerous to United States' interests, foreign policy" constitutes nothing more than an authoritarian diatribe against a well informed populace. Tariqopula says that increased transparency "would be beneficial for the health of our democracy,[but] this objective must be accomplished through traditional investigative journalism, not through an extreme, illegal, unsanctioned release of classified documents." This statement, though it may seem sensible, conveniently ignores the state of our press. The fact is that the press has become just another subsidiary of major American corporations. News media owned by corporations have no interest in revealing information that may upend the status quo because of the vested interests of such corporations in military/government contracts. What Assange represents is the purest form of press. If we fail to support people willing to risk everything to further freedom of information, then we are, in effect, condemning ourselves to
ignorance.
Tarigopula then appeals to the reader to trust in our elected officials "to act in accordance with the oath they swear." On what planet is he living that the public should take their representatives' integrity for granted? Has he not heard of Watergate? The Monica Lewinski Affair? Valerie Plame's outing? The Pentagon Papers? After the Citizens United decision we have less reason than ever to trust them. Tarigopula's argument is not only an appeal to embrace ignorance, but naivety as well.
The fact is that money, the language of corporations, speaks louder than the language of the people. The U.S. government is supposed to be of, for, and by "The People." However, without all the facts at our disposal, We The People, and by proxy our elected representatives, become powerless to the whims of would-be corporate puppet-masters both foreign and domestic.
Joe Nelson is a freshman in sociology from Smolan.
Good luck on finals and have a great break!
In response to Seth Robinson's article on tenure:
Regulation of tenure key to teacher reform
Your concern is valid; incompetent teachers regularly fail students and the nation, but your criticism is focused on the wrong target. What you are describing is more accurately attributed to overactive teachers unions, not tenure as a whole. Poor unions, who act to protect teachers without regard for education, make for tragic situations like the ones we see in Philadelphia, New York and several other major U.S. cities.
Modern tenure is not invincible such as you portray; poor teachers can still be fired, it is simply more difficult. What tenure does do is protect the freedom of teachers to do their jobs without government censure, as was common in history and is present around the world today. Without tenure, teachers would be completely at the mercy of administrators and government legislators, forcing educators to simply deliver canned speeches without the freedom to teach what they believe to be truth is a grim figure lurking in the future of this country as much as this specter of educational incompetence. I find it astounding and frightening that we are so enthusiastic about casting aside everyone who doesn't quite match up to embryonic standards without thinking about the enormous loss that we would incur if educators could not teach or research freely and overcome the ignorance that is all to common even to this day. If nothing else, if tenure dies in public schools, it is likely that it will also perish in the university system, endangering the freedom of thought which is essential.
Increasing effort toward evaluation, vetting before granting tenure and public awareness has already done much to open this system, but regulating what already exists is the key, not elimination.
—Russell E. Schloemer is a first year Sociology Master's Student from Indiana, Penn.
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Mentors teach kids to play music
BY SAMANTHA COLLINS scollins@kansan.com
The sound of little fingers playing the piano fills an auditorium in Murphy Hall. It doesn't matter if they miss a key, because without the KU Music Mentors, the children wouldn't even know how to play the instrument.
For almost 10 years, the oncampus group Music Mentors has served financially underprivileged children ages to five to 15 by providing free private music lessons. With more than 50 student volunteers, about 65 Lawrence children get the chance to learn to play an instrument.
Rebecca Lo, a senior from Coffeyville and co-coordinator of Music Mentors, said music provided her with a way to creatively express herself. She said she taught herself how to play the piano, guitar and flute. As a child, Lo said, she was shy around large groups of people. Being able to play an instrument gave her a confidence boost, which was one reason she wanted to teach other children how to play an instrument — to give them confidence in themselves.
"Music really helped me." Lo said. "I want to give others that same confidence."
HOW TO GET INVOLVED WITH MUSIC MENTORS
Confidence isn't the only benefit children receive from playing music. Stephanie Jian, a junior from Lawrence and a co-coordinator of Music Mentors, said music helped children learn how to multitask and could even improve math skills. She plays and teaches piano. She said it also teaches the children about dedication. For her, music has been a constant activity in her life.
You can help out the Music Mentors by donating old music books or old instruments. They can be dropped off at the Center for Community Outreach office in the Student Involvement Leadership Center. The group will provide a form to make your donation tax-deductible.
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"It's something I'll always be able to do," Jian said. "My skills will always come in hand."
However, even with about 65 Lawrence students participating in the program, there are about 40
children on a waiting list to be paired up with a music mentor. Jian said KU students don't have to be classically trained in order to teach. Any experience in music will do because she said the program wasn't just about teaching music, but it was also about building relationships.
"It's sort of like a Big Brothers Big Sisters but with music," Jian said.
Katie Oliver, a junior from Leavenworth and a co-coordinator of Music Mentors, said a KU student can benefit from participating as a mentor because he or she can make a difference in a young child's life. She said that not only does the child feel good about himself or herself, but also the KU student will feel good because he or she can make a difference in the child's life.
"It's an odd feeling because I am just a college kid," Oliver said. "It's the most rewarding experience."
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Former chancellor may be recognized
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BY ROSHNI OOMMEN roommen@kansan.com
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When he died Nov. 24, 2009,
E. Laurence Chalmers left behind a strong history at the University.
Chalmers, who served as University chancellor from 1969 to 1972,
was an advocate for students during a time of great political unrest.
Yet despite his strong history at the University, Chalmers is the only former University chancellor without a building named in his honor.
He said he realized after reading it that Chalmers had served as a voice for KU students.
Seyool Oh proposed a resolution to Student Senate in November to support naming building after Chalmers. Oh, the Stouffer Neighborhood Association Senator, it was appropriate to honor Chalmers, especially given his relationship with students while he was at the University.
Last year Oh, a graduate student from Jinhae, South Korea, read a Kansan article about Chalmers, "Former chancellor remembered."
E. Laurence Chalmers is the only chancellor without a building named in his honor.
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After the Kansas Union fire in 1970, the city of Lawrence enacted a curfew for its residents. Students reacted with protests. As state, city and University authorities were punishing students for their actions, Chalmers served as an advocate for them.
"Many students and faculty believe his decisions helped quell further violence," Oh said in his presentation to Senate. "However, across the state, legislators, parents and the Board of Regents believed he was far too lenient on the student activists."
The Kansas Board of Regents voted to fire Chalmers from the role of chancellor because of his leniency with students, but the vote was not passed. Soon after the vote, Chalmers resigned from the University and accepted a job at the Chicago Art Institute.
"He followed the rules; he just
also supported the students," Oh said.
Once Oh realized that Chalmers was the only former University chancellor without a building, he began researching the options. Even former Chancellor Hemenway, who retired from the University in 2009, has a building at the KU Medical Center named in honor of him. On Dec. 1, Student
Senate passed Oh's resolution.
Now that Senate has approved the resolution, it's up to the Board of Regents to take next step.
"I know he's passed away," Oh said. "But now it's time to reconcile the Kansas Board of Regents to Chalmers."
Edited by Sarah Kelly
DOWNTOWN
Retail Task Force hopes to increase 'pull factor'
BY ALLYSON SHAW ashaw@kansan.com
It is always a chore to find a parking spot on Massachusetts street. Lawrence's downtown area seems to be thriving, despite the economic recession. But the City Hall 2010 Retail Market Report was full of troubling numbers that suggest Lawrence may not be as booming as it seems.
The report was conducted by the city's Retail Task Force, headed by City Commissioner Rob Chestnut. The report said that for nearly 10 years the city's sales tax collections have failed to keep up with the rate of inflation.
anything."
"We're very concerned," Chestnut said. "I've been in meetings talking about this for nine months now, if that says
From 2005 to 2009, the city's sales tax collections fell by an average of 0.9 percent per year. From 1995 to 2000 adjusted sales tax collections grew by 2.1 percent per year and by 3.7 percent per year from 1990 to 1995.
But that's not the only problem. The report also talks about the city's "pull factor" — its ability to draw in shoppers from out of town. In 2006, the city's per capita retail spending was 12 percent higher than the statewide average. In 2009, it had fallen to 1 percent below the statewide average.
Chestnut said the Retail Task Force wants to hire consultants to study the Lawrence economy and makesuggestionsforimprovement. He said he hopes to see more building and improvement in the area around downtown.
Kirk McClure,anurbanplanning professor at the University,said the city is going about fixing these problems the wrong way. He said the area outside of downtown is
overbuilt and the shopping areas at Sixth and Wakarusa streets and the south side of Iowa street are hurting the city.
"There is only so much spending to spread around," McClure said. "Our population is not growing rapidly and wages in Lawrence are falling behind the growth rate in Kansas."
McClure argues that to increase the pull factor, the city should encourage new vendors to open shop downtown.
"Nobody is going to drive to Lawrence to shop at Sixth and Wakarusa; it's just an ordinary strip mall." McClure said.
But it's a difficult balancing act because without developing areas outside of downtown to include stores like Victoria's Secret and Dick's Sporting Goods, Lawrence loses that business to surrounding cities.
Jackie McDonald, a sophomore from Colorado Springs, Co., said she sometimes visits the Oak Park Mall in Overland Park to shop at
Nordstrom. She said she wishes Lawrence also had a Victoria's Secret.
"I have to buy all of my makeup out of town because no one in Lawrence sells MAC," McDonald said.
But keeping downtown Lawrence locally owned is one of the priorities of Downtown Lawrence Inc. Director Jane Pennington said around 65 to 70 percent of the stores on Massachusetts street are locally owned, and that is something that keeps customers coming back.
"When you go into a shop and the owner is at the counter serving you, you know you're going to get good service," Pennington said.
Pennington said she often sees out-of-town license plates on Massachusetts street. She expects that the street will continue to grow, but that it will literally grow up. She said Massachusetts street businesses will have to expand upward in the future, using upper levels of buildings for retail space.
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Junior forward Aishah Sutherland puts up a field goal on Saturday night against Memphis. Sutherland scored 14 points Saturday, leading the Jayhawks a 90-58 victory.
"Coming home after away games we get that home feel and going out onto another away game we have to keep the same energy as last time," freshman guard Keena Mavs said.
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As a freshman, traveling is a change for Mays, but she enjoys being on the road.
"I like it, personally." Mays said "Just being with my team outside of the Lawrence setting and the Towers"
For the first time since 2005, the Jayhawks are perfect through eight games. Wednesday they take their 8-0 record on the road against Michigan.
As the end of the semester nears the Jayhawks are keeping up with tutoring and finishing work before they leave for road games.
"As far as travel we try to make an environment that is supportive and encouraging, but it is their responsibility to put the time in," Henrickson said.
Kansas is one of 14 teams that are undefeated in the nation at this point in the season.
"From a confidence stand point it is great," Henrickson said. "They understand it is as much about how they play and this is the outcome we want, but it keeps us focused on every game."
At 6 p.m. tonight, Kansas will play its second straight road game. The Jayhawks enter the game with an 8-0 record.
"We are just really excited and
we want to keep it going".Mays said.
"We are just really excited and we want to keep it going."
Mays' goals are pretty simple for this game against Michigan.
"Getting a win, and staying undefeated" Mays said.
The Jayhawks have three athletes averaging double figures in scoring: junior forward Aishah Sutherland sophomore forward Carolyn Davis and sophomore guard Monica Engelman.
"This group has been unselfish," Henrickson said. "They will look for a girl that is more open and in that aspect they are unselfish."
The Jayhawks have a 12.5 rebounds per game advantage over their opponents, led by Sutherland's 9.8 boards per game.
"We are expecting a lot of different play in the post than we are
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used to, so our forwards are going to need to come out to play and we need to feed it to them," Mays said.
Kansas will have advantages facing Michigan
"There is a size advantage but also a speed advantage with high percentage shots by everybody in transition," Henrickson said. "We have to get to the free throw line and attack and take advantage of opportunities to go inside."
Michigan enters the game with a 4-4 record after losing their most recent game to Iowa State. The Blue are led by Veronica Hicks who averages 10.9 points per game and 4.5 rebounds per game.
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Freshman guard Josh Selby dribbles between junior guard Tyshawn Taylor and junior forward Markief Morris during a 20-minute scrimmage at Late Night in the Phog. Selby, the highest rated recruit in the country, scored six points in the scrimmage.
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Expectation will be set high for his return on Dec.18
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But this is not a debut that has come quietly, or quickly, and the delay and the hype and the questions after every game about a player that isn't even eligible to suit up yet have only added on to the colossal expectations that await Josh Selby.
In nine days, a freshman will play his first game as a Kansas Jayhawk. In the very barest sense of the event, that's all there is to it. A freshman will debut.
"Expectations will be a little ridiculous for him, starting out," Self said, "just because everybody's been waiting and questioning. Our USC home game will be as anticipated a home game as we've had maybe in years there in Allen."
"If you look at our team, who breaks down pressure?" Self said. "Obviously, you need a second guy that can do that. Josh is the only guy in our program that you can run really bad offense and come away with two or three points, and every team needs a guy like that."
he couldn't help but praise his playmaking ability. And Self is not one to give out undeserved praise.
But even as Self attempted to temper expectations for Selby,
It does not help temper the expectations that the high praise is heaped on him by teammates at every opportunity.
"He's just like us, he doesn't want to lose," sophomore forward Thomas Robinson said. "He has that killer instinct also, that we need added to the team. He's going to help a lot."
Selby could start as early as his first game, Dec. 18 against USC, likely replacing either Tyrel Reed or Brady Morningstar in the starting five. Self has said several times that Selby will have to win a spot
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Follow this ranking of the bowl games and your college football worries will be forgotten faster than Boise State's national title hopes.
FROM WORST TO FIRST
35. New Mexico Bowl: BYU (6-6) vs. UTEP (6-6), Dec. 18: Neither team has a winning record, but BYU running back JJ Di Luigi wins the award for coolest name on a bowl team.
34. Little Caesar's Bowl: Florida International (6-6) vs. Toledo (8-4), Dec. 26: Florida International fans were probably excited to play in a bowl game this year, only to find out they're going to Detroit in December.
33. GoDaddy.com bowl: Miami, Ohio (9-4) vs. Middle Tennessee (6-6), Jan. 6: This game loses points for having a terrible name and being played in January. Unless you are a BCS-caliber bowl, you have no business playing on or after New Year's.
28. Military Bowl: Maryland (8-4) vs. East Carolina (6-6), Dec. 29: This game loses points because any bowl with the word "military" in it should not have Maryland playing East Carolina. It just shouldn't happen.
32. New Orleans Bowl: Ohio (8-4) vs. Troy (7-5), Dec. 18: This game is only this high because it's in New Orleans, so the hundreds of fans making the trip can at least enjoy a cocktail on Bourbon St. after the game.
31. Meineke Car Care Bowl: Clemson (6-6) vs. South Florida (7-5), Dec. 31: When the casual fan has zero ties to either team playing, up-tempo offenses can provide enough entertainment. Unfortunately, neither Clemson nor South Florida has an offense.
27. Hawaii Bowl; Tulsa (9-3)
vs. Hawaii (10-3), Dec. 24: Well,
at least Tulsa fans get to travel to
Hawaii on Christmas Eve.
26. Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl: Nevada (12-1) vs. Boston College (7-5), Jan. 9: Another terribly named bowl is played after New Year's. The only positive thing this bowl can accomplish is somehow living up to its namesake.
30. BBVA Compass Bowl: Pittsburgh (7-5) vs. Kentucky (6-6), Jan. 6: Compass Bowl official obviously didn't read my "playing after New Year's" rules and regulations.
29. Holiday Bowl: Nebraska (10-3) vs. Washington (6-6), Dec.
30: Something tells me Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe didn't want a Nebraska/ Iowa Insight bowl with Big 10 preview talks smothering the headlines, so he forced the Holiday Bowl to take the Huskers. Who knows? Certainly not me. I don't even get paid for this.
25. Humanitarian Bowl: Northern Illinois (10-3) vs. Fresno St. (8-4), Dec. 18: I'm not sure if playing this game on the blue Smurf Turf in Boise, Idaho hurts or helps the ranking here. I honestly can't decide.
24. Armed Forces Bowl: Army (6-5) vs. SMU (7-6) Dec. 30: Congratulations to Armed Forces Bowl officials for getting it right and selecting Army. Take notes, Military
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Gators football coach Urban Meyer stepped down on Wednesday after his worst season as a head coach.
"I have been a Division I football coach for the last 25 years and, during that time, my primary focus has been making a difference in the lives of the young men I have been so fortunate to have coached and building championship programs," Meyer said in a statement. "At this time in my life, however, I fully grasp the sacrifices my 24/7 profession has demanded of me, and I know it is time to put my focus on my family and life away from the field.
"The decision to step down was a difficult one. But, after spending more than two decades motivating and celebrating the young men I've been so proud to coach, I relish the opportunity to cheer for my three terrific kids as they compete in their own respective sports. I know how fortunate I am to be in a position to make this choice and to have a family that is as loving and supportive as my amazing wife and children have always been.
"My family has shared both the commitment and the sacrifice required to coach at this level for so long and I would not have enjoyed the success I have had without their support."
Meyer will coach the Gators in the Outback Bowl on Jan.1.
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In response to the British Parliament's Stamp Act of 1765, founding father Samuel Adams said: "If our trade be taxed, why not our lands, or produce ... in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation."
You can basically envision Benjamin Franklin jumping and shouting "ohhh!" (perhaps later influencing fans of And1 streetball) after hearing that one.
Then there were the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.
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In more recent times, New York MCs Nas and Jay-Z have feuded over post-Biggie Smalls supremacy.
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Soon after, he concluded his argument saying: "My friends, that ends the chapter. The Judge can take his half-hour."
Jay-Z sampled Nas' voice from "The World Is Yours" into his own song "Dead Presidents." Jay-Z later referred to his reasoning on the song "Takeover:" "So yeah I sampled your voice, you was usin' it wrong/ You made it a hot line, I made it a hot song." All three songs are great, but nonetheless fueled a feud of words that aren't so, well, mother approved.
The crowd must have been partying like it was 1776 after that one.
In today's internet-centric world, the rationale of Adams and Lincoln has been replaced with vicious and often unfounded exchange. You've seen it all over YouTube. One commenter makes a bold statement and is immediately
scorned by the next gagillion commenters. I'll spare you of verbatim with some alternatives. The commenter is incompetent and a nickname for Richard. The commenter should consider ending his life. The commenter may resemble a donkey, a cat or a female dog (and no these aren't cute and cozy animals here).
These online commenters, with their verbal fists miles, states or even countries away from the next commenter, also exist in the world of sports.
Boston Globe sports writer Dan Shaughnessy, nicknamed "Curly Haired Boyfriend" by spit-in-the-umpire's-face Carl Everett, seems to receive more hatred than appreciation for his work.
After boldly suggesting that the Red Sox should sign Derek Jeter (who has since rejoined the Yankees), commenters went off on the CHB.
One comment: "Dan Shaughnessy reminds me of an obnoxious little eight-year-old kid that spouts out anything that comes to mind just to hear his own voice and draw attention to himself. (I used to be that kid but I grew up)
Another: "It's official... the Geri-Curl activator has seeped into Dan's brain and has caused irreparable dammage!"
On KUSports.com, football reporter Matt Tait acknowledges that after the Missouri loss, the Jayhawks were outscored 103-24 in their final three games of the season
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(against No. 9 Nebraska, No. 12 Oklahoma State and No. 15 Missouri). Tait argues that this was an improvement, considering that the Jayhawks were outscored 159-24 in the first three games of Big 12 play against lesser opponents (Baylor, Kansas State and Texas A&M). But forget Tait's accurate analysis or even giving Turner Gill time to build his own team. The article's very first commenter was ready to move on (despite an irrational claim and poor grammar).
He stated, "103-24 not that shows great improvement over the course of the season. Fire this clown now!"
Maybe it's because we're not in a boxing ring and instead in front of a computer screen. Maybe it's because it's easier to naysay and point fingers than logically defend. Either way, many readers of the internet world must grasp this concept: the commenting section is for insight, response and yes, even rebuttal. But show some class and explain your stance. Don't simply blurt profanities without reason or go off name-calling like a child.
These are mild examples, people. The Internet is littered with nonsensical, bigoted and vulgar comments.
Be thankful that Sammy Adams didn't just flip the British Parliament the bird.
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Taller Panthers dominate,70-42
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PITTSBURGH — Reserve Dante Taylor scored a career-high 14 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for his first career double-double and led No. 3 Pittsburgh to a 70-42 victory over Delaware State on Wednesday night.
Taylor played just 15 minutes as coach Jamie Dixon went to his bench early. J.J. Moore, another reserve, scored 10 points. Ashton Gibbs had nine points as 11 players scored for the Panthers, who used their size to outbound the Hornets 41-18.
Pitt (10-0) has won 10 consecutive games to start the season for the seventh time in the past eight seasons. The Panthers have won 45 of their past 46 home games and are 82-1 against non-conference opponents at Petersen Events Center.
Jordan Lawson had 11 points for Delaware State (4-4), which had won its last two games. Desi Washington scored all nine of his points in the first half.
Pitt plays No. 11 Tennessee on Saturday at downtown Pittsburgh's
Consol Energy Center, which is considered a neutral site, in the SEC/Big East Invitational.
Taylor had nine points and seven rebounds in the first half as Pitt built a 34-19 lead by dominating the boards. Pitt's height advantage resulted in a 26-9 rebounding edge in the half when the Panthers took control after a sluggish opening five minutes.
The Hornets tied the score 7-7 about 4 minutes in but Delaware State missed its next 10 shots and shot 29.2 percent for the half. The drought enabled Pitt to take control with a 13-0 run over the next 8:45. The spurt began with a dunk by Taylor and featured several lay-ins and putbacks as Pitt dominated inside.
Delaware State, whose tallest player is 6-foot-7, had no match for the 6-9 Taylor, 6-9 Talib Zanna and 6-11 center Gary McGhee.
When Chad Wilson's 3-pointer pulled Delaware State within 23-16 with 3:44 left in the half, Dixon called a timeout. The Panthers regrouped and went on an 11-3 run to close the half.
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St. John's cruises to 71-52 victory
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NEW YORK — Eugenia McPherson scored a career-high 20 points to lead No. 20 St. John's to a 71-52 win over Seton Hall on Wednesday night in the Big East opener for both teams.
Shenneika Smith added 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Red Storm.
Trailing 5-4 early on, St. John's went on a 21-6 run over the next 8 minutes to take a 16-point lead with 6:27 left in the half. McPherson had eight points during the spurt, including consecutive 3-pointers that made it 23-11.
Nadirah McKenith followed those up with back-to-back steals. She threw a nifty bounce pass through three people to a streaking Smith, who converted it for an easy layup. McKenith then took the second steal the length of a floor for her own layup that gave St. John's a 27-11 advantage.
Centhya Hart had 12 points, making all six of her shots for the Red Storm.
nine the rest of the game
The Red Storm (8-1, 1-0) led by 12 at the half and Seton Hall (5-5, 0-1) could only get within
Seton Hall closed to 36-27 early in the second half, but St. John's scored six straight points to restore the double-digit lead and put the game away.
McPherson, who was only making 26 percent from behind the arc this season, hit her first four 3-pointers before finally missing one with just under 2 minutes left.
Terry Green scored 11 points and Taijay Ashmeade added 10 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Pirates, who are guided by first-year coach Anne Donovan. The Hall of Famer led the New York Liberty to the WNBA Eastern Conference finals this past year before taking over Seton Hall.
Pirates leading scorer Kandice Green, who had 31 points and 23 rebounds against William and Mary on Sunday, was held to just four points on 1-for-12 shooting.
It was the Red Storm's seventh straight victory over the Pirates.
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Jayhawks to play in "Champions Classic"
The Kansas men's basketball team, along with Kentucky, Michigan State and Duke will be participants in the Champions Classic for the next three seasons.
All games will be televised on ESPN, which announced the event Wednesday. The classic will run in a double-header format.
"I thought it was a great idea and I think it's great playing on neutral sites," coach Bill Self said in a release. "To come back to Madison Square Garden will be great with three other unbelievable programs. I'll bet each of these programs will sell whatever ticket allotment they have — four to 5,000."
Kansas' first game is against Kentucky on Nov. 15, 2011 and will be played in the same arena they just played Memphis in: Madison Square Garden in New York. Michigan plays Duke. Kansas plays Michigan State the following year on Nov. 13 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta and finishes out the classic against Duke on Nov. 12, 2013, in Chicago's United Center.
— Corey Thibodeaux
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Fredette scores 28 BYU cruises to victory
GLENS FALLS, N.Y. — Hometown hero Jimmer Fredette scored 26 points to lift No.18 BYU past Vermont 86-58 on Wednesday night.
A senior guard and AP preseason All-America who starred at Glens Falls High School, Fredette made his first three shots and led the Cougars in scoring for the eighth time in their nine victories to open the season.
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Junior forward Markieff Morris needs to stay out of foul trouble for the Jayhawks to be successful. He's averaging 3.5 fouls per game in 20.5 minutes.
AT A GLANCE
This is Colorado State's third road game, but the first outside the state of Colorado. The other two games were in Denver and Boulder.
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AT A GLANCE
Kansas comes home from New York still undefeated. The Jayhawks don't have another game until Southern California on Dec. 18. Kansas will be able to and should leave everything on the court on Saturday.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Junior forward Markieff Morris
It is imperative for Morris to stay out of foul trouble. Morris leads the team with 3.5 fouls per game and is only averaging 20.5 minutes. Coach Self says the Jayhawks are a better team with both twins on the floor. With conference season just a month away, this game will be a good test, not just for Morris, but for all the big men because Colorado State has size on the interior.
Morris
QUESTION MARK
Will Kansas become victim of Kansas/Missouri schools losing at the Sprint Center this season?
Missouri lost to Georgetown in overtime on Nov. 30. Kansas State defeated Marquette on Nov. 22, but in its biggest game of the season so far on Nov. 23 against Duke, they failed to show up. Kansas shouldn't have a problem with Colorado State, who hasn't had a difficult schedule to date. This is considered a home game, so fans should pack the arena like in the past and give Kansas that home advantage.
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The Rams are averaging 81 points per game, but their schedule hasn't been too difficult. This will be a good test for Colorado State's two leading scorers, senior forwards Andy Ogide (17.6 points per game) and Travis Franklin (15.6 points per game). The two are the only ones averaging double figures, but their points come from the interior and the free-throw line. Bill Self said after the UCLA game that teams should take it to Kansas' bigs.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Sophomore guard Dorian Green
The Rams have a scoring presence on the inside along with five players shooting better than 38 percent from the three-point line. The Rams have three players taller than 6-foot-9, which will be a good matchup for the Morris twins, Thomas Robinson and Jeff Withey.
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AT A GLANCE
The Jayhawks have started a solid season with an 8-0 record. The team has followed sophomore forward Carolyn Davis' lead, who has already scored 20 or more points four times this season. While she contributes an average of 19 points per game, eight other players have stepped up to average 5.7 or more points a game. Kansas is hitting 49.2 percent of its field goals, and six Jayhawks are shooting better than 45 percent. Senior center Krysten Boogaard is leading the league at 70 percent.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Aishah Sutherland
Sutherland finally seems to finding her niche and doing it well. She showed early promise, followed by inconsistency last season, but has managed to leave that weakness behind. She now averages 12.9 points per game and ranks first in the Big 12 in rebounding with a 9.8 average. Alongside teammate Carolyn Davis, she leads the team in blocks with 1.6 per game. If Sutherland decides to show-up, which she's proven she can do, the Jayhawks will have a good shot.
Sutherland
QUESTION MARK
When can we expect to see sophomore guard Angel Goodrich back on the floor?
As a team, Kansas has averaged 17.8 assists per game, but may miss Goodrich's playmaking efforts. Unfortunately, she has missed the last five games with yet another injury. The team could use her energy, leadership and speed on the floor, not to mention the 2.3 steals she averaged, but she is still listed as day-to-day until healthy.
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AT A GLANCE
Michigan comes into tonight's game with a 4-4 overall record. Kansas will be the third Big 12 team the Wolverines face this season, the most they've ever faced in a single season. In each of their eight games of the season, the team has been out-rebounded, only averaging 30.7 rebounds per game. The Wolverines are able to convert high-percentage shots, but show significant weakness in mid-range accuracy. In their face-off with Iowa Sate Sunday, the team attempted 50 shots from the field, hitting only 19. Though they rely heavily on points earned in the paint, they only average 7.7 offensive rebounds.
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Senior guard Veronica Hicks
Hicks leads the team with 10.9 points.As the team's second highest rebounder, she averages 4.5 boards a game, but grabbed a team-best of nine against Iowa State.
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QUESTION MARK
How can the Jayhawks keep the Wolverines from scoring?
Keep the ball out of the paint. Plain and simple, that's where the Wolverines are at their best. Taking away this option leaves little room for high-scoring potential. Even in their 60-47 loss to Iowa State, the Wolverines were able to hold a 16-10 lead in the paint for the first half.
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from an entrenched starter, but if he really is "as talented as anybody we have" it would be, presumably, very hard to keep him out of the starting lineup for long.
mirror what Kansas is doing now — good and bad.
But the real question is whether or not Selby can live up to the massive hype. Fans expect him to cure all of the Jayhaws woes, but at a glance, Selby's game seems to
a pure point. He's a combo guard.
Kansas committed 22 turnovers Tuesday night at Memphis, a number Self harped on post game. But can Selby — a freshman, remember — actually improve the team's already solid 1.6-to-1 assist-to-turnover rate? Selby, like most of the guards on Kansas' roster, is not
"Josh is wild, too." Self said. "So he'll fit right in."
Of course, it really only matters if one person is concerned about the weight of the expectations that lie on him. Selby himself. Is he wary of the hype?
"Nope," he said. "Not at all."
"Nope," he said. "Not at all." Good thing. Because the hype —
it's not going away.
he's going away.
"He's definitely better than what people rate him at," Robinson said.
Better?
"Better."
He was rated No. 1.
"He's better."
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PHILADELPHIA — Devoe Joseph scored 19 points, including a three-pointer to start a key second-half stretch, and No. 22 Minnesota beat Saint Joseph's 83-73 on Wednesday night.
Blake Hoffarber added 14 points for the Gophers (8-1), who were playing their first road game in the United States Minnesota's only other games off campus were in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off.
Trevor Mbakwe had 12 points and 16 rebounds for Minnesota.
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Bowl
23. Liberty Bowl: Georgia (6-6) vs. Central Florida (10-3), Dec. 31: Georgia is bowling for the 14th straight season. It's the fourth best streak in the country, tied with Georgia Tech, who was formerly coached by current Central Florida head coach George O'Leary. Oh, the story lines unfolding in this one.
22. Independence Bowl: Air Force (8-4) vs. Georgia Tech (6-6)
Dec. 27: There's no way Air Force is losing in a bowl with this name.
21. Beef 'O' Brady's St. Petersburg Bowl: Southern Miss (8-4) vs. Louisville (6-6), Dec. 21: This matchup is so-so, but it wins the award for best name by a bowl game, and quite easily at that.
20. Texas Bowl: Illinois (6-6) vs. Baylor (7-5), Dec. 29: When fans think of prime time Big 10 vs. Big 12 match ups, who doesn't think of Baylor or Illinois? I sure do.
18. TicketCity Bowl: Texas Tech (7-5) vs. Northwestern (7-5), Jan. 1: The TicketCity Bowl should not be played on New Year's Day. 'Nuff said.
19. Pinstripe Bowl: Kansas State (7-5) vs. Syracuse (7-5), Dec.
30: This game's biggest appeal is its location: the new Yankee Stadium, which has never hosted a bowl game.
17. Music City Bowl: Tennessee (6-6) vs. North Carolina (7-5), Dec. 30: Earlier this year, Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton canceled a two-game series with the Tar Heels set to begin next season. Now they have no choice but to play North Carolina, whose players will almost certainly use Tennessee's cancellation to play an inspired game, one of which the likes we've probably never seen. It
would be good for ratings, at least.
16. Champs Sports Bowl:
West Virginia (9-3) vs. NC State
(8-4), Dec 28: The Mountaineers' defense, which only gives up 12 points a game, should push them past the Wolfpack.
15. San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl: Navy (8-3) vs. San Diego St. (8-4), Dec. 23. Second place only to the Beef 'O' Brady St. Petersburg Bowl for best name.
14. Chick-fil-A Bowl: South Carolina (9-4) vs. Florida St. (9-4), Dec. 31: Steve Spurrier's Gamecocks were utterly destroyed last weekend in Atlanta by Auburn, 56-21. But then again, Auburn has been doing that to SEC foes all season.
13. Insight Bowl: Missouri (10-2) vs. Iowa (7-5). Dec. 28: Missouri fans wanted to move to the Big 10 last summer. Now let's see how they handle a very average Big 10 team in Tempe.
12. Fiesta Bowl: Oklahoma (11-2) vs. UConn (8-4), Jan. 1: Head coach Bob Stoops has lost five straight BCS games, giving Husky fans hope in this one.
11. Gator Bowl: Michigan (7-5) vs. Mississippi St. (8-4), Jan. 1: Where would the Bulldogs of Mississippi St. be if they ponied up the money for a certain quarterback?
10. Outback Bowl: Florida (7-5) vs. Penn St. (7-5), Jan. 1: Joe Paterno has been coaching at Penn State since the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.
9. Las Vegas Bowl: Boise St.
(11-1) vs. Utah (10-2), Dec. 22:
In two weeks, Boise St. went from playing in the Rose Bowl to playing Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl.
Karma for playing on blue turf? I
think so.
8. Sun Bowl: Miami (7-5) vs. Notre Dame (7-5), Dec. 31: There haven't been many traditional powers who have struggled the last decade more than these two schools.
7. Alamo Bowl: Oklahoma St.
(10-2) vs. Arizona (7-5), Dec. 29:
Oklahoma St head coach Mike
Gundy is the Big 12's Coach of
the Year (He's also still a man, and
43 now.)
6. Cotton Bowl: Texas A&M (9-3) vs. LSU (10-2), Jan. 7; Look for both fan bases to make the short trips to Dallas and fill up Cowboys Stadium.
5. Capital One Bowl: Alabama (9-3) vs. Michigan St. (11-1), Jan.
1: The Crimson Tide eyed back-to-back national titles. Now they aren't even in a BCS game.
4. Orange Bowl: Virginia Tech (11-2) vs. Stanford (11-1), Jan. 3: Don't expect Coach coach Jim Harbaugh to be there much longer. The NFL will come calling soon.
3. Sugar Bowl: Arkansas (10-2) vs. Ohio St. (11-1), Jan. 4: Two of the nation's best quarterbacks: Ryan Mallett facing Terrelle Prvor.
2. Rose Bowl: TCU (12-0) vs. Wisconsin (11-1), Jan. 1: If TCU can stop one of the Big 10's best offenses in years, they might be considered the best non-BCS conference school of all time.
1. National Championship: Oregon (12-0) vs.Auburn (13-0) Jan. 10: The game everyone has been looking forward to. Two of the nation's best offenses colliding after dominating opponents all season. The punters can stay home in this one.
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KEEPING IT CASUAL
THE BEST OF WESCOE WIT
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THURS | DEC 9TH
COCKTAILS & CAROLS AT THE ELDRIDGE The Eldrige, 7 p.m.
KU JAZZ VESPERS
Lied Center, 7:30 p.m.
9:30 p.m. $5-$7
LIVE DUELING PIANOS
Barrel House, 8 p.m.-2
a.m., $2-$3, 21+
MUSCLE WORSHIP/
MOUSE POINT
COLONY COLLAPSE/EVS
Replay Lounge,
10 p.m.
THEOLOGY ON TAP
Henry's On Eighth, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m., free, all ages
TRIVIA CLASH
RECORD BAR, 6:45
P.M., $5, 21+
FRI | DEC 10TH
FREE PLAY AT THE REPLAY, REPLAY LOUNGE 3 p.m.-6 p.m., free, all ages
FREEKY FRIDAY'S AT
DUFFY'S WITH DJ BIZ
Duffy's, 8 p.m.-2 a.m.
free, 21+
THE SNOW QUEEN
Lawrence Arts Center,
7 p.m., $12-$17, 3+
RETRO DANCE PARTY
Wilde's Chateau 24,
9 p.m.-2 a.m., $3-$5,
18+
TRUCKSTOP
TRUCKSTOP
HONEYMOON / ORANGE
MARMALADE
Jackpot Music Hall,
10 p.m., $8, all ages
THE LEPERS
Replay Lunge, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., $3, 21+
SAT | DEC 11TH
THE SNOW QUEEN
Lawrence Arts
Center, 7 p.m., $12-
$17, 3+
NOISE FOR TOYS Bottleneck, 8 p.m.
A BIG BAND CHRISTMAS Liberty Hall, 8 p.m.-11 p.m., $10, all ages
OPEN JAM
Duffy's, 9 p.m., free,
21+
LIVE DUELEING PIANOS
Barrel House, 8 p.m.-2 a.m., $2-$3, 21+
JIM BRICKMAN
SMACKDOWNI
Bottleneck, 7:30 p.m.
free-$5
Lied Center, 7:30 p.m., $20-$40, all ages
SUN | DEC 12TH
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THE SNOW QUEEN
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HONKY TONK SUPPER CLUB Record Bar, 7 p.m. free, 21+
WED | DEC 15TH
ALIENS
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ANIMAL HOUSE:
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Jackpot Music Hall,
7 p.m.
PRIDE NIGHT
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CONROY'S TRIVIA
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Usually, there's a formula for writing these editor's notes. We editors are supposed to use an anecdote from our lives to relate to a story in the issue, prompting you, the reader, to "check it out on page ___." So, if I were doing that for this issue, I'd write about the first time I bit into a slice of cream cheese pizza from Pizza Shuttle (page 8), or how I can't stand the vegetable and vodka drink known as a Bloody Mary (page 13).
But, I'm not going to do that this time. I've written 15 editor's notes, each relating to an individual story. I don't have a go-to time and place for my creative inspiration: I write them in cursive handwriting on notebook paper in class, or on my computer, sitting in bed on Monday nights I don't feel like doing homework (like right now), and I've even written one directly on the computer screen, a few hours before the looming send-off deadline.
I dread writing them and I love writing them because of the opportunity to reveal a piece about myself. I've written about my study abroad adventures in England,
my relationship with my mom, my athletic tendencies, my sixth grade Valentine's Day (which remains my absolute favorite), and much more.
Compiling all of my notes could, in fact, create a decent self-portrait, but it only scratches the surface of my writing.
When it came time to pick a major in college, I didn't think about money. I didn't think about getting a job after I graduated. I thought about what I wanted to do. And what I wanted and still want to do is write. Jayplay helped me continue this passion, and after three hard semesters of reporting, writing and editing, I am done.
The page with my editor's note is always the last to be sent. No matter how many times I've read over, rewritten and overanalyzed the note, I sit in front of the screen dissecting every sentence. I think about every implication of my words, then Anna, the associate editor, tells me to stop being ridiculous and type "G0" beneath the page. After that, there's no turning back.
So, as I send off my final page as editor, I pass the torch. I wish the new editors the best of luck, and I hope you readers got as much out of Jayplay as I did this semester. It's been an amazing learning experience, and I have my wonderful writers, designers, associate editor and adviser to thank for that. Thank you.
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Mike Anderson, Dellwood, Minn. graduate student, is the host of Kansas in Heat, a talk show about sex and relationships that airs Wednesdays at 11 p.m. on KJHK, 90.71m and at kjhk.org.
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0. What happened to casual dating? It's ridiculous for women to assume we're exclusive after one or two dates.
A. There is absolutely nothing wrong with dating more than one person at a time. In fact, it's not a bad idea. The more people you date, the more experienced you are. That experience can translate into more knowledge of romantic relationships, or give you a better idea of what you want in a relationship and suitor. Within the first couple months of dating someone it is reasonable to expect that the other person might be seeing other people. As long as you are honest about your intentions or your other relationships, I see nothing wrong with casual dating. For example, anyone who dates online knows that both of you are probably seeing other people online. But when a single person meets someone at the bar on Friday, and another person on Saturday, we call that person promiscuous.
The decision to become exclusive in a relationship is a major decision, and it should be. But until that point, you and your partner should realize what the situation is: a getting-to-know you period where you spend time together to see if you want a future with that person. If I can't go on a different date after I meet someone once, then I lose out on a lot of potential suitors and experiences.
You are at the age where casual dating until the point of exclusiveness should be the norm. It seems unreasonable to get angry at someone you just met for the fact that they are dating other people they just met. That is casual dating — something I see as being potentially healthy.
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INTERESTS & HOBBIES: I love to run, but I love dancing more. The thing I love to do most is joke around with my friends. Making people laugh and have a good time is the best thing in the world! I also can't be without music. Adam Lambert is a huge idol because he is an openly gay musician. Lady Gaga is an idol because of her amazing music and support for gay rights. Plus, both of these artists' songs usually have amazing dance beats.
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PARTNER: The things I notice in a guy are his smile, eyes and hair. A guy with well-kept hair shows they care about their appearance and hygiene. I look for someone who is happy, smart, outgoing and loves to have fun.
TURN-ONS: White teeth, good fashion, guys who are taller than 5'6", cuddling and blue eyes. To me, good fashion consists a lot with how clothes fit a guy. If you have a good body, you should showcase it with great-fitting clothes. I absolutely hate when guys wear
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WHY I'M A CATCH: I'm a very happy person. I thrive off of making people smile and laugh. When I walk into a room, I light it up with my bubbly personality.
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Danon Williamson was dressed like a priest the night he met Natalie Meyer. They met on Halloween night of 2008. Meyer says she was embarrassed by her costume: an old-school mob girl.
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junior from Wichita, says, in reference to their costumes.
Williamson, whom Meyer calls Danny looked her up and down and said she was worth the highest dollar in his pocket. Williamson, a senior from McPherson, says he thought Meyer was a cool girl and knew he wanted to get to know her more. They began spending time together the next month when Williamson went to Meyer's hometown during Thanksgiving break and took her out to dinner at Sumo Japanese Grill.
Williamson and Meyer celebrated their two year anniversary on December 1. "They're like a married couple and you can tell they're really comfortable around each other," Emily Gnefkow, Meyer's roommate and junior from Wichita, says. The couple, who live separately at the same apartment complex, enjoys going to the movies and spending time with their dogs at the dog park.
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GUY 1: Christian Bale.
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> Because we have questions. Celebrities have answers.
I first heard of Sam Adams after my brother attended his performance at K-State's Lambda Ch fraternity in September. He told me Adams' show lasted about 30 minutes before police arrived Adams thought he had a noise permit — the police thought Adams was inciting a riot. Both were partially wrong. Still, Adams was arrested onstage during his song "Driving Me Crazy," and shaky cell phone footage quickly hit the web, landing on sites like BroBible.com, where one commenter assured, "If SIGMA CHI threw this shit down, it wouldn't have went down like that [sic]." Regardless, shit did go down like that, and my brother couldn't have been happier. He brought our Mom's SUV up to Lawrence last month, filled with five friends, to see Adams' show at the Granada, to their rave reviews.
Between (allegedly) riotous live shows and iTunes chart-topping singles, 23-year-old Adams has garnered buzz on the college party circuit quicker than most. He phoned in with Jayplay while picking up drive-thru quesadillas to talk about the college scene, Four Loko and what exactly college-scene rappers rap about when they're past college age. JD
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I want to start with kind of a controversial question. Four Loko: blackout in a can, heaven in a can, or both?
Blackout in a can. I'm not a huge advocate of Four Loko, but I will drink it every once in a while.
You gained a lot of popularity on YouTube with "I Hate College,"a remix of Asher Roth's song. What's your experience been like with higher education?
I went to Trinity College in Connecticut, but I'm not in school now. I guess you could say I'm a dropout. I have a couple credits I'll finish in the future, probably.
As someone who rhymes about college parties a lot and, I assume, has participated in a few, what's your beer of choice?
My beer of choice is Landshark. It's light. It's refreshing. A nice Landshark always makes my day a little bit better. I also call cops Landsharks.
Speaking of cops, why are you playing through Lawrence instead of Manhattan on this tour? [Adams was arrested during a performance at K-State's Lambda Chi fraternity in September.] I knew that question would come up. I think we have more fans at KU. The arrest was a pretty bizarre situation and I was definitely confused as to why I was getting cuffed. They arrested me onstage for civil disobedience. They said I started a riot, which was absolute horseshit. I think it's safe to say I won't ever step foot in Manhattan again.
Have you played any fraternity shows since?
I had to finish up the tour I was on. A lot of those were Greek shows, but we're on to the big shows now — Oh hold on, I'm actually ordering food right now. [DRIVE-THROUGH SPEAKER NOISE]
Uh yeah, get me two steak quesadillas — my bad, dude. I'm totally ADD right now. What was the next question?
I've seen a lot of interviews where you attribute your success to "the college scene." What role has it played in pushing your music the past year?
There's a lot of stuff that I try to relate to, keeping positive, witty music that's laughable. I think having a college kid in the industry is appealing to kids. They think, 'Hey, this kid is doing what he wants.'
Do you normally tour college towns? I noticed this tour you're going from Lawrence to cities like Chicago, New York and Philadelphia.
This is more of my first national tour. It's the first time I get to sell out major venues and what not, which is great. We're trying to cater to all markets, so obviously the college market is still important, but we're done playing those.
You've said you're carving your path in the industry differently than similar artists. What have you done differently?
I didn't sign on a label the first chance I got. I waited. No one has dropped a number one album without being signed like I did. I think it shocked some people, but I wouldn't have signed anyways. Having no team around you in the industry can be hard because people hate on you pretty hard, but now it's been amazing to slowly make contacts and assemble my own team. We're going to tour super hard in 2011,
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like 300 days in a year. I'm super stoked to get in the studio to record a new album.
Where do you see your music's audience and subject matter going as you age?
It's a good question. I don't know. I try to keep my music as coherent and direct to my lifestyle and experiences as I get older and go though shit in life and the industry.
Who or what would you say are your biggest lyrical influences?
Any old rock: The Beatles, The Eagles, everyone from The Beach Boys and those bands to Big El (who makes me laugh everytime) I love music that's entertaining to listen to. I like hardcore rappers even though I'm not gangster. Lyrically, I just write everything down — notes all the time going through airports, funny stuff that happens. When you have a melody, it just turns into lyrics.
Outside of hooks, how significant is the subject of a song versus the dance-ability of a song? I think people pay attention to the beat more than anything, which is unfortunate because you lose a little bit artistically. But that's what sells. Finding a balance between the two is a recipe for hit makers because you have to get people to move and dance.
Who are your biggest non-musical influences? Beavis and Butthead. There's so many funny lines in that movie you can put into lyrics, like 'I got more slots than Vegas.' I didn't even have a TV when I was little, so I'd go watch it at a friend's. I would also come over and just play your Playstation because I didn't have one. I wouldn't hang out — just play your Playstation.
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Deep dish: When in doubt for dinner, pick up a pizza. With delivery, carry-out and by-the-slice options, students have endless ways to eat their favorite slice while cramming for finals or capping off a night out at the bars.
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"Thin, doughy, strong, gummy, yummy, chewy, salty pizza paradise. On top, there is a sweet tomato sauce that foams up all bubbly and creamy when it melts the fresh buffalo mozzarella, and the one sprig of basil in the middle of the whole deal somehow infuses the entire pizza with herbal radiance."
This is how Elizabeth Gilbert describes the pizza found at L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele in the book, Eat, Pray, Love. The restaurant is said to have the best pizza in the world, and is found in the city where pizza began: Naples, Italy. Since Americans introduced the tomato to Europe in the 18th century, pizza has taken the world by storm.
Italian pizza today is much different than American pizza. Italian pizza has a thin, floppy
crust and uses brick oven-baking methods. Though the main ingredients used in most pizzas are similar, like dough, sauce, cheese and toppings,the taste can be vastly different even among pizzas in the same city.
Today Americans eat approximately 350 slices per second, and pizza accounts for more than 10 percent of all foodservice sales, according to the National Association of Pizza Operators.
It would take a lot of time and money to sample every single pizza place in Lawrence,
Lawrence has more than 15 pizza places, the majority of which are local. Each boasts having the "best pizza in town," but it's always best to decide for yourself. In a recent survey of 50 randomly selected KU students, students said cost, taste and speed were the most important factors in choosing a favorite pizza place. Toppings offered, convenient hours and taste of crust were also important.
so knowing where to start and what each place offers will help you narrow your selection to the very best.
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With daily specials and student coupons, there is no doubt that Pizza Shuttle has the best prices in town. KU students surveyed voted Pizza Shuttle as their number one choice because of low prices, which they say was the most important factor when choosing a pizza place. Pizza Shuttle's "two-fers," "three-fers," "four-fers" and "big-fers" deals are perfect for a group wanting to satisfy a late-night pizza craving.
"The pizza you need to try is the cream cheese pizza with extra cheese," says Independence, junior Kelsie Froebe. Pizza Shuttle's best deal is the "Party 10,"which features 10-inch, one-topping pizzas for 40 dollars. If you don't mind
a drive to 23rd between Ousdahl and Naismith, Pizza Shuttle also offers a carryout special of $4.75 for a small and $8.75 for a medium pie.
THE WHEEL
Students voted The Wheel as their second favorite Lawrence pizza place. Owned by Pizza Pete, the cash-only pizza is offered by the slice, and is conveniently located next to nightlife and campus. "The pizza is cheap and it is always packed at 2 a.m. after people dance the night away at the Hawk," says Ariana Cohen, San Diego, Cal. senior. The Wheel also features a bar, with drink specials throughout the week, and is a great place to hang out and watch the game. Cohen says the pizza is soft with a thick crust. She says the best part is the dipping sauces (rach or honey) and the parmesan cheese.
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FAT FREDDY's
If you have late-night hunger pangs or are in the mood for some cheesy pokey sticks, Fat Freddy's is the place to call. Formerly Gumby's, Fat Freddy's reopened its doors this past summer, and has kept the same location, phone number, and original Hokey Pokey Sticks. Without a delivery charge, Fat Freddy's is also the only pizza place in Lawrence open until 4 a.m. There are also deals on chicken wings and pizza combos, featuring a 20-inch "Big Ass" cheese pizza for only $14.99.
The pizza is made from homemade dough, sauce, fresh hand-cut vegetables, whole milk mozzarella and high-quality meats. Owner Fat Freddy's favorite pizza is the Kansas City Carnage. It is a spicy pizza topped with pepperoni, Italian sausage, red onions, sliced jalapenos, chopped garlic, crushed oregano and grated Romano.
PAPA KENOS
Whether you're shopping or just out for a stroll, it's easy to make a quick stop in Papa Kenos. Located on Mass. Street, Papa Kenos is in the heart of the hustle and bustle of downtown Lawrence, offering slices of pizza "as big as your face." Assistant manager Jim Barnes says to try the Mama Keno pizza, which is topped with Roma tomatoes, spinach, feta, Romano and roasted garlic. Everything at Papa Kenos is made to order and has a thin crust. In addition to traditional ingredients, you can also add sun-dried tomatoes, almonds and roasted garlic toppings to your slice.
HEAT STATE PIZZA
Few places in Lawrence offer gourmet-style pizza, and even fewer offer a wheat crust. Wheat State Pizza, named for its wheat-based crust, has nine sauces, and more than 40 toppings that keep customers coming back for more. The thin-crust pizzas have no sugar added and are diabetic friendly. Wheat State strives for quality and consistency. "All of our ingredients are always made fresh every day, and we make sure we stay consistent with Wheat State's standards," says Nolan Beck, general manager. Wheat State names the pizza types after the Kansas community, offering the Hawk 'n Cheese and The Farmer. Beck says the best vegetarian pizza is the Veggie Dream, which has a pesto sauce, spinach, portabella mushrooms, red bell peppers, garlic, sun-dried tomatoes and artichoke hearts, and is a Wheat State original.
If you want a delicious gourmet pizza from a local Lawrence shop, Rudy's Pizzeria is the place to go. Rudy's Pizzeria has been open for 21 years, and prides itself on using top-quality ingredients. The pizza has a spicy red wine sauce, a large assortment of toppings to choose from, and is always made to order. Rudy's hand-shreds cheeses, makes fresh dough throughout the day and cuts their own
RUDY's PIZZERIA
vegetables. Owner Chad Glazer says Rudy's taco pizza rivals competitors,' and recommends the Papa Rudy pizza: an all-meat pizza topped with hamburger, sausage, pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Italian sausage and extra cheese.
With two locations, Pyramid Pizza is conscious of what students want. "We focus a lot on cost, and just started accepting Beak 'em Bucks and giving discounts to student groups," says Erin Weigl, the day manager. Pyramid pizza doesn't use salt in the dough, instead featuring a garlic butter crust. Pyramid offers dine-in, carry-out and delivery options, as well as pizza by the slice. There are also appetizers, oven-baked sandwiches, specialty and create-your own style pizza. Weigl recommends students try Pyramid's BBQ chicken pizza. It piles on the toppings, and the BBQ chicken pizza is loaded with white chicken breast, onions and green peppers that have been marinated in its signature barbecue sauce. JP
PYRAMID PIZZA
A slice of heaven: Pyramid Pizza offers pizza by the slice, created with your favorite toppings and a garlic butter crust. Pyramid, located at 704 Massachusetts St., is open as late as 3 a.m. If you need a late-night fix, stop by and try a slice, or check out their appetizers and sandwiches.
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FAT FREDDY'S
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Weekend Hours: open until 4am
Small: $6.99
Medium: $8.99
Large: $14.99
PAPA KENO'S
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Weekend Hours: 11am to 11pm
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Large: $15.99
WHEAT STATE
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Weekend Hours: 11am to 3am
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Medium: $12.99
Large: $15.99
RUDY'S PIZZERIA
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704 Massachusetts St.
Weekend Hours: 11am to 11pm
Small: $6.50
Medium: $9.25
Large: $15.70
PYRAMID PIZZA
785.842.3232
1029 Massachusetts St.
Weekend Hours: 11am to 3am
Small: $6.99
Medium: $8.99
Large: $12.99
THE WHEEL
785.749.4335
14th and Ohio streets
Weekend Hours: 5pm to 2am
Slice: $3
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> It's not all about fast food and beer pong.
Just in time for the holidays, the Lied Center hosts Jim Brickman, a Grammy-nominated and platinum-selling recording artist. Brickman will play holiday favorites for his 15th Anniversary Holiday Concert this Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Brickman began performing his now annual concert after his Christmas music became popular. "I decided to put my own twist on the holiday classics," Brickman says. "The concerts provide a wide range of emotions and the special guests I've brought along fill out the sound and give the show a theatrical element."
Vocalist Anne Cochran and electric violinist Tracy Silverman will join Brickman onstage. Brickman says Silverman adds a rock 'n' roll element to the music. "It's a bit like Black Sabbath meets Christmas music," he says.
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Brickman, who began playing piano at the age of 5, has gained a following since the release of his first album, No Words, in 1994. Brickman's music is emotional, romantic and comfortable, which, he says, is a good fit for Christmas music. Along with Christmas classics, Brickman will play material spanning his career, including songs from his new album Home.
Contributed photo Jingle Bell Rock: With a twist of his own on the Christmas classics, Grammy-nominated Jim Brickman will play a holiday concert at the Lied Center on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
"Brickman plays the kind of music that is perfect for the Christmas season," Tim Van Leer, executive director of the Lied Center, says. "The show will provide a diverse mix of tunes that will add to people's enjoyment of the show."
Tickets are on sale at the Lied Center Ticket Office: $40 for adults and $20 for students and youth.
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>Local musicians, feel free to swoon.
The boys are back in town. The boys of The Noise FM, that is, who haven't returned to Lawrence since their move to Chicago in August. This fun-loving, indie-rock band will be back Dec.11 to play the second annual Noise for Toys benefit show.
Vocalist and guitarist Alex Ward says the band members relocated to Chicago to leave their comfort zone and find new challenges. But he says they look forward to reconnecting with the small-town feel of the Lawrence music scene.
Ward and his bandmates, Austin Ward and Oliver Mosier, came up with the idea for the Noise for Toys benefit show last year. All of the proceeds from the show, which drew a crowd of more than 250 people, went directly to Douglas County Toys for Tots, who then spent the money on toys for children in the community.
"Everyone is willing to collaborate and support each other, and that's something that we were very proud to be a part of," Ward says.
This year, Ward says he wants the show to
be even bigger and better, complete with prize giveaways and an ugly holiday sweater contest. Local artists Hawley Shoffner, Cowboy Indian Bear, Quiet Corral and The ACB's will join the Noise FM for this all ages benefit show, and the cost is only $3 for those who bring an unopened toy donation.
"We just want everybody to have a really good time. It's a big Christmas party with really good bands, and all of it's for a really good cause," Ward says.
Noise for Toys will be at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11 at the Bottleneck.
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A homecoming for a cause! After leaving for Chicago in August, the Noise FM returns to play in the second annual benefit concert for the Toys for Tots program in Lawrence.
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Ask someone what he or she thinks of Bloody Marys and you are sure to receive a variety of responses. They can range from grimaces at the thought of mixing vodka with tomato juice to adoration from diehard fans who swear by Bloody Marys, like Alex Bergin, a senior from Leawood who loves them because of their interesting and savory flavor. But Bloody Marys aren't just tomato juice and voda — this cocktail can pack a punch and include upwards of 15 ingredients, ranging from more commonly-found additions like Tabasco sauce or celery salt, to oddities like beer or beef jerky. It all depends on how you like yours. Some, like Bergin, like theirs hot, and some like theirs mild, but no matter how you like your 'Mary, you can find one that fits your taste in Lawrence.
LOUISE'S WEST
Alex Krantz, a first-year law student from Overland Park, loves Bloody Marys and has tried creating his own at home, but has yet to find the perfect ratio. When he craves a Bloody Mary, Krantz heads to Louise's West for one of their specialty drinks. Kyle Reynolds, a bartender who has been mixing 'Marys at Louise's for two and a half years, says he thinks the variety of spices that goes into their signature Greek seasoning, a blend that the bartenders at Louise's have been using for at least 10 years, is what makes them so good. Bergin and his girlfriend Leigh Nelson, a senior from Leawood, frequent this local favorite to appease their cravings for Bloody Marys, both agreeing that Louise's has mastered its recipe.
Reynolds won't divulge all of the ingredients that go into one of the cocktails, but he says you can expect to taste Tabasco, pepper and a variety of steak seasonings in your first sip.
Craving one of Louise's Bloody Marys now? They are regularly $3.50, but if you go on a Sunday they are on special for $2.50. LOCATED AT: 1307 W. Seventh Street
THE BOURGEOIS PIG
Affectionately referred to as "The Pig" by regulars, The Bourgeois Pig also has its own, unique formula for Bloody Marys. Ann Iverson, a bartender and 2006 graduate, says
she thinks the fact that each Bloody Mary is tailored specifically to what the drinker likes is what makes their version of the cocktail so great. Kendall Mackey, a graduate from Prairie Village, loves their Bloody Marys because she can have hers as spicy as she likes it. She also thinks they have the best ingredients.
Iverson says the typical Bloody Mary at The Pig includes their house-infused hot pepper vodka, five different spices, fresh lime, Tabasco, Worcestershire sauce, horseradish, some tomato juice and a dab of Old Rasputin Imperial Stout. Iverson says she thinks the house vodka, which infuses for two weeks, and the dash of beer is what makes a Bloody Mary at The Pig so special.
They are regularly $6.25 but you can get one on Sundays for $4.75.
LOCATED AT: 6 E. Ninth Street
PACHAMAMA'S
Parashant Patel says when you order a Bloody Mary at Pachamama's, you can expect one that is above and beyond your expectations. Patel, a bartender, says when it comes to Bloody Marys, it's not about the ingredients so much as it is about the proportions of the ingredients. There is definitely a chemistry in creating the perfect Bloody Mary, and Patel says that at Pachamama's, one Bloody Mary can include celery salt, peppers, horseradish, Worcestershire sauce, lime, Jamaican Pic-aPepper, Tabasco, olive juice, pickled pepper juice and a garnish consisting on a heart of celery, cornishon pickle and olives. Not to mention the tomato juice and, of course, vodka. Patel recommends using a medium-quality vodka and says you don't need a premium because the vodka is already fighting all of the different flavors.
Want to try Pachamama's take on a Bloody Mary? They are $5 every Tuesday through Saturday.
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WHERE TO FIND SOME OF LAWRENCE'S MOST POPULAR SPICY DRINKS
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**Spice it up:** The Bloody Mary is not for the faint of heart. It contains a large variety of strange ingredients, including Worcestershire sauce and tomato juice, and is served in bars all over Lawrence. To try one of the many takes on the spicy drink, visit Louise's West, The Bourgeois Pig or Pachamamas.
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6 dashes Tabasco sauce
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>> Pour vodka, juices, sauce and ice into a shaker, adding salt and pepper to your preference. Shake. Strain over clean ice cubes into a highball glass and add lime wedge.
*For a Virgin Mary, don't include the vodka.
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Santa definitely came early this year for any bass lovers, reggae fans or hip hop heads looking for something new and sick. The illustrious UK rapper Rodney Smith, under the name Roots Manuva, has released another album of remixes of his previous work and new tracks, all spun together with the help of fellow UK producer Wrongtom to give it a fresher sound. Above all else, *Duppy Writer* is a prime example of how classic reggae continues to have a strong impact on the current music scene. This album easily mixes reggae and dub beats, as well as mashing up rapping and more traditional reggae vocals.
Most of the tracks on this album are very chill, but include some heavy hitters like "Proper Tings Juggled" that is a remix of "Juggle Tings Proper." This song starts with a slick dub bass line and slide into smooth lyrics that combine a mix of Jamaican slang and European style. This song is a catchy track that still hits hard and has the best mix of reggae and hip hop out of all the tracks on the album. One of the tracks that displays the prowess of this team's production
skills is "Dutty Rut," which makes listeners get up and groove.
Some people don't know about the current influence that reggae greats such as Bob Marley, Black Uhuru, or others throughout history that have continued to influence the music people love to hear. Roots Manuva clearly takes creative power and tried to come up with something as influential to young people today as reggae was in Marley's prime.
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Walt Disney brings to the screen its 50th feature-length cartoon in Tangled, the classic fairy tale story of Rapunzel, the girl with the long flowing blond hair. But this isn't your average Disney princess. Locked away in a tower for her entire life, all she longs for is an adventure outside of the tower. Forget the damsel in distress, this girl is out to take on the world and doesn't want to hold anything back.
Disney takes to life a classic tale and transforms it into a beautiful film with just the right mixture of genuine romance and intriguing adventure. Rapunzel(Mandy Moore) was born into royalty but was soon stolen from her kingdom because of her magical blond hair. Whisked away into her high tower and never being allowed out is all she has known. Rapunzel hasn't truly experienced the life she longs for.
Every year on her birthday, Rapunzel looks out of her window and sees "magical floating lights" and feels that these were made just for her. On the eve of her 18th birthday she gets a surprise visit from the notorious bandit, Flynn Ryder (Zachary
Levi). She then forces him to take her to the kingdom to see these lights. This begins the entertaining quest that they take on together.
Rapunzel is a hero that we can relate to. Her youthful, sassy spunk draws us in and the visual wonderment of the film keeps us holding on til the very end. If you are a fan of The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, or even The Princess and the Frog, then this movie should be on your top list of must-sees.
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La Vita Dolce: When Amanda spent a semester abroad in Venice, Italy, she had doubts that the new culture would welcome her. However, after an "uncomfortable encounter" and three months of being immersed in the Italian way of life, she not only found a home away from home, but discovered a different side of herself, as well.
"The captain has just turned on the faster seatbelts sign, and we will be starting our descent to the Marco Polo airport shortly. The time is 9:05 a.m. on Sunday, the 17th of January. All of us here on Air Italia hope you enjoyed your flight." The flight attendant's announcement roused me from a dead sleep. I had finally arrived in Venice, Italy, after 24 hours of layovers and flights. It was hard to grasp that I had just left Kansas yesterday at 6 a.m., and arrived at what was going to be my new home for the next four months. I was studying abroad in the CIMBA journalism program in Paderno del Grappa, Italy, and I came a day early to get my bearings on this new country and see the city.
I could feel the butterflies in my stomach stir with each step I took on the jetway taking me closer to Venice. This was the first time I had ever been to Europe. A vast number of conflicting emotions raced through my body: I was excited to finally be here, yet nervous for being away from home for so long. I was tired from the long plane ride, and downright terrified because I knew nothing about the culture and never studied Italian. But no matter how I felt, I knew it would all be worth it in the end.
I found the other 16 students I was traveling with, and after picking up our luggage we were ready to head to our hotel. It was a slow-moving struggle for each of us to pull our 100 pounds of luggage to the two water taxis that were waiting for us "only eight minutes away" according to the travel information desk. Twenty minutes and many rest stops later, we finally arrived, panting, at the speedboats ready to drop us off right in front of our hotel. We piled our 40 bags
into them and began the ride to the island.
As the boat sliced through the choppy water, the brisk January-morning air and salt-water spray hit my face, while the hundreds of seagulls that flew overhead called loudly. About half an hour later I started to see the outline of shapes on the horizon through the fog. As we drew closer I was greeted with five-story white-and peach buildings topped with bright red-tile roofs. We traveled through the vibrant Grand Canal bustling with locals and boats. Gondolas were everywhere and tourists crowded the bridges. I strained my neck trying to take in all the sights of this new world.
We traveled under low bridges and through tight alleyways. Potted plants graced the windowsills and the water splashed up over algae growing on the side of the weathered buildings that had been slowly stripped of their paint.
We pulled up to a huge dock off Piazza San Marco. After we were completely unloaded and the taxis drove away, I turned around. Facing rows of old buildings and the flurry of the morning crowd, I noticed every cart vendor and local in the square was staring at us. I glanced back to see what intrigued them. There we were, 17 young Americans, exhausted from a long plane ride, standing on one of the busiest docks in Italy, looking dumbfounded, and with a pile of luggage about 20-feet wide by 4-feet tall — what a sight we must have been.
We started walking toward our hotel, very slowly, through tight alleys lined with tiny shops full of Murano glass and Carnevale masks, and tratorias, pizzerias and ristorantes. Dragging my suitcases up some stairs, I crossed over a short
canal, and back down more stairs, ending up right in front of our hotel, Casa Verardo. After checking in and completely filling the entire lobby with luggage, the concierge screamed up to the maids, "The Americans are here!" This was only the beginning of the self-consciousness I felt as an ignorant American tourist. One-by-one we took the tiny elevator up to the minuscule rooms, and finished settling in.
Two of the other students and I headed out to explore the city. We wandered aimlessly over bridges and through small alleys. When we got hungry, we started to look for somewhere to eat. I checked one of the many menus stationed outside the restaurants and we decided to try one. We stood in the doorway of the silent, empty room awkwardly, and couldn't see any waiters. We turned to leave, but someone came out from the back, so we quickly sat down. We sat patiently for awhile, chatting and looking at the menu. A short time later after discussing how we were supposed to order food, we motioned for our waiter and she promptly walked over. We ordered an 8.50-euro pizza to split and two 3.50-euro bottles of water.
She placed a simple pepperoni pizza down in front of us. We were expecting some amazing Italian cuisine, but for my first Italian pizza, it tasted very American. I had heard they topped their pizzas with tomatoes and never used sauce. We joked they gave us regular sauce because we were American. I imagined them all in the back laughing and saying "zay are American, give zem ze special sauce!"
We finished as quickly as we could, wondering the whole time if we were doing it wrong
and were supposed to eat the pizza with the fork and knife next to the plate, or our hands. I felt like a child who didn't know what to do. I was already overwhelmed by culture shock only hours after stepping off the plane, and briefly thought, what did I get myself into? I can't do this.
But it turns out I could do it. I learned to adapt to a culture I knew absolutely nothing about. Three months later when the program ended I realized I had grown so much since my first uncomfortable encounter, and experienced more complex aspects of life in Italy than I had in the past 10 years. I was staying an extra two weeks to travel around Italy by myself, and after having visited eight different countries and cultures, I knew I wouldn't be nervous.
Seeing a different city every day and staying in hostels at night, I was able to experience the Italian culture first-hand and interact with the locals in a language that was not my own. Halfway through my solitary two-week journey, I sat alone in a small restaurant in Bologna. I felt right at home, knowing what to order and the etiquette on how to eat it. What I couldn't imagine being able to do before, I had done. I now know that no matter how difficult something may seem to be at first, I will have the strength to get through it.
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This week, I'm taking final exams for the last time. They're my final finals. After three and a half years at the University and another misguided year at Arizona State, I'm finally graduating.
I know it sounds crazy, but Finals Week is my easiest week of the semester. Without class and work, I can finally focus on the studying I've been neglecting for months. It's the only time of year when I drink coffee, and the only time I feel like a good student. You, too, can enjoy Finals Week zen. Just use my mantra: "It's only a test."
Finals Week alway makes me wonder if I did everything I could have. The looming end of my college career compounds that nagging doubt. Have I made the most of my time here?
In August, I made a KU bucket list. See a comedian perform live: check (Aziz Ansart). Write a Morning Brew column for The Kansan: check.
I took pictures with my friends on Kivisto Field when Kansas beat Georgia Tech. I saw Cole Aldrich and Nick Collison play against LeBron James. And, after multiple trips to the bustling metropolis of Medicine Lodge, I finally mastered highway driving (a little late, I know). I scored free concert tickets, attended my first
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I still haven't been to The Bull or joined a basketball camping group or seen the KU Bar Band play, but I have a few months left in Lawrence.
So don't freak out. All you can do is roll up your sleeves, get to work, and hope for the best. Go learn and create and have a blast. Hurry. Every second counts.
If you get to the end of your time at the University and you miss it as much as I do, you'll know you did it right.
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Many distractions can present themselves when it comes time to study for finals. The Academic Achievement and Access center advises that students find an environment that limits distractions, and to plan out their studying time.
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BY VICTORIA PITCHER editor@kansan.com
Finals Week consists of cramming, late nights, and excluding yourself from the world for hours on end to pull off a passing grade for the semester — if you can minimize your distractions.
Taylor Huhn, a freshman from Overland Park, says his biggest distraction is Facebook.
"It's a disease," Huhn said. "I'll check my newsfeed every couple of minutes. [Facebook] is always open ... Always."
According to the Facebook press room, there are more than 500 million active Facebook users, making it an easy way to get off task for almost everyone.
However, John Stratton, an associate
librarian for business and economics, sees students come and go in Anschutz Library and believes Facebook is not only for social networking.
With finals coming up, this popular past time may be something to worry about when it comes time to study. Whether or not you use Facebook, it is still hard to keep on task while studying. "The biggest problem is getting focused in the first place," Huhn said.
"It's an informative tool," Stratton said. "I think a lot of people are using Facebook for other kinds of things as well as socially."
Kristin Scott, the director of the Academic Achievement and Access Center, advises students that environment is important to studying.
"Ideally, you want to study in a place where
you have the least amount of distractions," Scott said. "The atmosphere is very crucial to your being efficient and productive in studying, you need to find that place whether it's a library on campus or a study room in a residence hall."
Scott recommends turning off your cell phone while studying and to choose a place where if you do not need a computer so it is not there to distract you.
"My hall's living room is quiet and comfortable," Huhn said, "It's a good atmosphere for studying."
Students can also reserve rooms in Anschutz or find "quiet zones" within the library.
Scott also advises that students create a study plan to avoid spending too much time on Facebook. Allow time for social networking sites such as Facebook, but keep it in balance
with everything else in the plan.
The Academic Achievement and Access Center offers workshops every semester around finals time to help students prepare. These workshops help students develop a study plan. Students can also schedule an individual appointment with the AAAC. These appointments are free and last one hour.
Another thing for students to remember is to maintain a support system. If you have a roommate, hold each other accountable. It can also be helpful to study in groups.
Most importantly, students must remember to get enough sleep, eat well and exercise in order to maintain their health and lower stress.
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Staying up all night to study may do more harm than good. Experts say the brain needs at least six hours of sleep to retain new information.
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Many college students prepare for Finals Week by spending hours in a campus library frantically cramming in one last attempt to boost, salvage or maintain a grade. While students may feel it is tradition to stay up all night studying for finals, depriving oneself of sleep to study more is not a beneficial practice.
"Benefits of a good night's rest include alertness, being cognitively sharp, as well as the ability to concentrate, remember, make critical and creative decisions and be productive," said Jenny McKee, Health Educator at the Wellness Resource Center, via e-mail. "All of these qualities are important for test taking. If an individual has had a full night's sleep they will be much more likely to be able to perform optimally on their test."
Collin Stephens, a sophomore from Overland Park, said that although he tends to study in the afternoon, he pulled three all-nighters last year when studying for finals. He noted the effects that losing sleep had on his body.
"It hurt my sleep pattern and energy level," Stephens said, "But it didn't kill me. I can survive pulling all-nighters."
By sticking to a set sleeping schedule students allow their memory to better retain information the student has studied even though it means sacrificing late night study hours. The later into the night that a student studies, however, the less information the brain digests. According to McKee, staying up to cram for a test would be counterproductive.
"It would not work because our memory of newly learned stuff improves only after sleeping at least six hours. The brain needs time to file new information and skills away in the proper slots so that it can be retrieved later," McKee said. "Without enough sleep to do all this 'filing', the new information does not get properly encoded into the brain's memory circuits."
Stephens took a different perspective from McKee, however.
"For me, it's different studying all night than it is staying up to write a paper," he said.
Students who stay up late to study can improve their chances of retaining information by napping during the day, but only if
they dream.
In a study conducted by Robert Stickgold, director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, 99 college students were asked to memorize an intricate maze. Stickgold inserted the students into a virtual representation of the maze, and the students were instructed to navigate through the virtual maze. After this, half of the students took a 90-minute nap, while the other participants were kept awake. Five hours later, all the participants were given the maze again. The students who had napped navigated the maze better than the students who stayed awake, and the nappers who dreamt fared about ten times better than those who did not dream.
"When you dream, your brain is trying to look at connections that you might not think of or notice when awake," Stickgold wrote in the study. Applying this to studying, by napping after studying during the day, your mind stays refreshed and is not taxed by late night studying, and it works to process information on a deeper level than when one is awake.
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"The sleeping brain seems to be processing information on one level, but on a higher level it helps evolve your memory network." Michael Breus, the clinical director of Arrowhead Health's sleep division, told CNN Health.
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In Spring 2009, Uzma Fardeen, a senior from Lenexa, was struck by the devastating news that her father had passed away.
"He died of a heart attack," Fardeen said. "He was in the hospital for about three weeks, and came home for four days, then passed away. So it was pretty sudden."
After missing three days of school to mourn her loss, Fardeen returned less than two weeks before her final exams. Ill-prepared and unmotivated, she was willing to risk the grade and take her finals anyway. As a last resort she e-mailed her Biology 152 professor, Tara Marriage.
To Fardeen's surprise, her professor offered several alternatives to simply failing the course. The most fitting seemed to be an incomplete.
"I would've failed my finals if I didn't take incompletes." Fardeen said.
This would allow her to receive an "I," rather than a letter grade, until she retook the course. The retake had to be within a year of the original incomplete, but could have set the deadline closer than that. If another grade was never recorded to replace the incomplete, then she
would receive an "F" at graduation.
Fardeen was lucky enough to be granted an incomplete for her special circumstance, but many students may not be offered the same option.
"A student not passing a class is not grounds for an incomplete," said Kim McNeley, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences assistant dean for student academic services. "It's not to be used as an avoidance of a failing grade. It should be something that prevented the student from meeting the expectations of the course."
If a professor does not believe that a student is deserving of any lenience, the student would have only two options: drop or fail the course.
Fortunately, the University takes into account the fact that students make mistakes.
"We realize that adjusting to the rigor of academics is sometimes a challenge," McNeley said.
Such was the case with Amanda Peters, a sophomore from Wamego.
"I never had to study in high school, so I didn't study on the tests, and it definitely showed." Peters said.
Peters, referring to her freshman year psychology class, feels that it was her own lack of
preparation that led to her less than desirable grade. Both because a passing grade in that course is required for admission into the School of Education (where she will be pursuing an exercise science degree), and because it dropped her GPA significantly, she decided to retake the class this semester.
"Transitioning to a large university like KU sometimes presents some challenge, and we wanted to have a policy that encourages students to build a strong foundation, even if they've struggled with it the first time through," McNeley said.
1 his policy allows a student to replace a "D" or an "F" with a passing grade if they retake the class. This must be a course taken originally before the fall of 2001, and be at the 100 or 200 level. There is a five time limit on these replacements.
"If they wanted to they could apply it over, and over, and over to the same course until they completed it, or five different courses," McNeley said.
The initial letter grade will still appear on the transcript, but will not be calculated into the GPA. Some feel that this is not the best approach.
"I think it should be on your cumulative GPA," graduate teaching assistant Jennifer Hackett said. "For your graduating GPA I guess if you failed a class you'd have to retake it, but it should be on your cumulative because if you failed the class, it should say it on there."
"Graduate schools get to set their own weight to evaluate GPA," McNeley said. "Typically graduate schools are looking at an overall GPA, and, in my experience, more specialized junior/senior coursework. If it's an extremely competitive program they may look more closely at a student's earlier point in their career, they may recalculate the GPA putting all those courses in. It's at their discretion."
Some graduate schools may feel that way, and end up recalculating GPAs adding in the failing grades.
The alternative to having a failing grade on a transcript is to withdraw from the course altogether. This must be done by the deadline, which is generally sometime in mid-November. Although these Ws do not calculate into the GPA, they may also have some bearing on how a graduate school views a student.
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--would receive an "F" at graduation.
In Spring 2009, Uzma Fardeen, a senior from Lenexa, was struck by the devastating news that her father had passed away.
"He died of a heart attack," Fardeen said. "He was in the hospital for about three weeks, and came home for four days, then passed away. So it was pretty sudden."
After missing three days of school to mourn her loss, Fardeen returned less than two weeks before her final exams. Ill-prepared and unmotivated, she was willing to risk the grade and take her finals anyway. As a last resort she e-mailed her Biology 152 professor, Tara Marriage.
To Fardeen's surprise, her professor offered several alternatives to simply failing the course. The most fitting seemed to be an incomplete.
"I would've failed my finals if I didn't take incompletes." Farden said.
This would allow her to receive an "I," rather than a letter grade, until she retook the course. The retake had to be within a year of the original incomplete, but could have set the deadline closer than that. If another grade was never recorded to replace the incomplete, then she
Fardeen was lucky enough to be granted an incomplete for her special circumstance, but many students may not be offered the same option.
"A student not passing a class is not grounds for an incomplete," said Kim McNeley, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences assistant dean for student academic services. "It's not to be used as an avoidance of a failing grade. It should be something that prevented the student from meeting the expectations of the course."
If a professor does not believe that a student is deserving of any lenience, the student would have only two options: drop or fail the course
Fortunately, the University takes into account the fact that students make mistakes.
"We realize that adjusting to the rigor of academics is sometimes a challenge." McNeley said.
Such was the case with Amanda Peters, a sophomore from Wamego.
"I never had to study in high school, so I didn't study on the tests, and it definitely showed." Peters said.
Peters, referring to her freshman year psychology class, feels that it was her own lack of
preparation that led to her less than desirable grade. Both because a passing grade in that course is required for admission into the School of Education (where she will be pursuing an exercise science degree), and because it dropped her GPA significantly, she decided to retake the class this semester.
"Transitioning to a large university like KU sometimes presents some challenge, and we wanted to have a policy that encourages students to build a strong foundation, even if they've struggled with it the first time through," McNeley said.
This policy allows a student to replace a "D" or an "F" with a passing grade if they retake the class. This must be a course taken originally before the fall of 2001, and be at the 100 or 200 level. There is a five time limit on these replacements.
"If they wanted to they could apply it over, and over, and over to the same course until they completed it, or five different courses," McNeley said.
The initial letter grade will still appear on the transcript, but will not be calculated into the GPA. Some feel that this is not the best approach.
"I think it should be on your cumulative GPA," graduate teaching assistant Jennifer Hackett said. "For your graduating GPA I guess if you failed a class you'd have to retake it, but it should be on your cumulative because if you failed the class, it should say it on there."
Some graduate schools may feel that way, and end up recalculating GPAs adding in the failing grades.
"Graduate schools get to set their own weight to evaluate GPA," McNeley said. "Typically graduate schools are looking at an overall GPA, and, in my experience, more specialized junior/senior coursework. If it's an extremely competitive program they may look more closely at a student's earlier point in their career, they may recalculate the GPA putting all those courses in. It's at their discretion."
The alternative to having a failing grade on a transcript is to withdraw from the course altogether. This must be done by the deadline, which is generally sometime in mid-November. Although these Ws do not calculate into the GPA, they may also have some bearing on how a graduate school views a student.
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won't help you when you're trying to study."
Foods high in protein are the best types of food for your study session. Caffeine should be consumed in moderation so that your mind will be ready to rest.
Chapman suggested planning snack times to prevent cravings for unhealthy foods and to control portion sizes.
"Building in a study break with a pre-portioned snack is a good idea," she said. "The best snack is one with a combination of protein and carbs, which can be eaten before, during, or after study."
Eating fresh foods is best, Chapman said, but snacks such as whole grain cereal, pretzels or popcorn are also good choices.
For those looking for a "super food" to help them study better, Chapman said that no foods have been proven to increase mental aptitude, concentration or performance, but certain foods can still help students.
Many students also consume caffeine while they study. Sear and Hadjis, like many college students, drink Diet Coke while staying up late to study.
"I live off caffeine during the school year,
even though I know it's probably bad," Hadjis said.
Chapman said that drinking caffeine is an acceptable way to help a student study if it's consumed in moderation.
"Small amounts of caffeine can help you feel more alert, but too much can be counter-productive. Instead of helping you study, drinking too much caffeine can give you headaches or prevent you from falling asleep when you're
ready to rest," she said.
Chapman said to practice healthy eating and drinking habits and be sure to get enough sleep to maximize performance on exams.
For more information on healthy eating visit Watkins Health Center's Wellness Resource Center or go to hawkhealth.ku.edu.
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In Spring 2009, Uzma Fardeen, a senior Lenexa, was struck by the devastating new her father had passed away.
"He died of a heart attack," Fardeen said was in the hospital for about three weeks came home for four days, then passed away it was pretty sudden."
After missing three days of school to her loss, Fardeen returned less than two weeks before her final exams. Ill-prepared and unvited, she was willing to risk the grade and her final anyway. As a last resort she e-m her Biology 152 professor, Tara Marriage.
To Fardeen's surprise, her professor of several alternatives to simply failing the co The most fitting seemed to be an incomple
"I would've failed my finals if I didn't incompletes," Fardeen said.
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As exams and papers grow closer to their due dates, many students find themselves working and studying for hours at a time, which often changes their eating and drinking habits.
Leslie Sear, a junior from Overland Park, said she tends to eat and drink the same things every finals week.
"I eat pancakes three times a day for all five days. I'm not even kidding," she said.
Sear says her habits during finals week aren't very healthy but have become a tradition.
"Pancakes are easy to make and I love them," she said. "When I get back from a bad final I can eat delicious pancakes and my day is better."
On the other side of the food spectrum, Kristen Hadjis, a sophomore from Colorado Springs, Colo., said that during finals week she likes to eat healthy foods.
"During finals week I eat a lot of hummus, eggs, peanut butter, bananas and pasta. I stray away from candy and junk food because I know that just gives you a sugar crash and doesn't help you retain information," Hadjis said.
Ann Chapman, coordinator of nutritional services at Watkins Memorial Health Center agrees that eating foods high in sugar and fat which are common "cramming" foods, may not help with mental performance during finals time.
"Those aren't healthy choices, whether you're studying or not," she said. "They may make you feel more sluggish and drowsy, which won't help you when you're trying to study."
Chapman suggested planning snack times to prevent cravings for unhealthy foods and to control portion sizes.
"Building in a study break with a pre-portioned snack is a good idea," she said. "The best snack is one with a combination of protein and carbs, which can be eaten before, during, or after study."
Eating fresh foods is best, Chapman said, but snacks such as whole grain cereal, pretzels or popcorn are also good choices.
For those looking for a "super food" to help them study better, Chapman said that no foods have been proven to increase mental aptitude concentration or performance, but certain foods can still help students.
Many students also consume caffeine while they study. Sear and Hadjis, like many college students, drink Diet Coke while staying up late to study.
"I live off caffeine during the school year,
even though I know it's probably bad," Hadjis said.
Chapman said that drinking caffeine is an acceptable way to help a student study if it's consumed in moderation.
"Small amounts of caffeine can help you feel more alert, but too much can be counter-productive. Instead of helping you study, drinking too much caffeine can give you headaches or prevent you from falling asleep when you're
ready to rest," she said.
Chapman said to practice healthy eating and drinking habits and be sure to get enough sleep to maximize performance on exams.
For more information on healthy eating visit Watkins Health Center's Wellness Resource Center or go to hawkhealth.ku.edu.
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