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The Kansas legislature passed a bill preventing furloughs in the nick of time Saturday night, and the Senate passed its tax plan and the House's budget plan on Sunday night, making it possible to end the session on day 109 when the House reconvenes.
On Saturday, the legislature passed Senate Bill 11, a bill that deemed all state employees "essential," and prevented thousands of state workers, including University employees, from being forced to take time off without pay.
The budget bill passed last week by the House passed the Senate Sunday night 23-11. Sunday evening, the Senate passed a tax plan 21-17.
The new tax bill the House will take up today increases the sales tax to 6.55 percent, but it would drop the sales tax on food to 4.96 percent starting July 2016. The sales tax would now apply to things such as utility bills and prescription medications. Also, while it freezes the
income tax rates, it moved the deadline for income tax up, thus making it an increase in income taxes. It also doesn't tax the income of the 338,000 businesses in Kansas.
"It's a bunch of different things, but the most significant thing is it would repeal all sales tax exemptions in 2018, every entity would have to reapply for their exemption," Sen. Laura Kelly (D-Topeka) said. "That's huge. That's one to watch. If that goes through, I think Kansas businesses will move to get away from what is a chaotic and inconsistent tax environment, and it would make it difficult for businesses to trust Kansas."
Today marks day 109 of what usually is a 90-day session. This session is now the longest in history, surpassing 2002's session which lasted 107 days. Sen. David Haley (D-Kansas City) said he's never seen a session like this.
"I don't see where the middle ground is yet, and I don't know if anyone else does," Haley said. "This
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Gov. Sam Brownback signs the "Uber" bill into effect, bringing Uber back into Kansas immediately.
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Costs: $602,000 Chancellor Bernadette Gray- Little releases a statement about the possible furloughs, and emphasizes every employee at the University is essential. The Democratic caucus holds a press conference to announce a bill that would prevent furloughs for all state employees. June 3 Day 104
Costs: $688,000. HR sends out emails informing University employees whether they're classified as "essential." June 5 Day 106
June 5 Day 106
May 16 Day 90
May 16 Day 90 This should have been the last day of the session. All support staff is sent home, saving the Kansas legislature roughly $17,000 a day.
Costs: $774,000 This session has now made history as the longest session of the Kansas legislature. June 7 Day 108
June 7 Day 108
May 29 Day 99
Costs: $387,000
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Every additional day the legislature is in session costs taxpayers roughly $43,000.
June 4 Day 105 Costs:$645,000 The House passes a budget without the Senate having a tax plan to pay for it. University department heads are required to submit a list of essential personnel to Human Resources by noon.
June 6 Day 107
Costs: $731,000.
Ties with 2002 for the longest session in state history. The House and Senate vote on Senate Bill 11 to deem all state workers "essential." It is sent to Brownback to sign, which he does.
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After almost two decades underground, the 17-year periodical eicada emerged this spring to feed, grow mate, lay eggs and die all in four to six weeks.
The Biology of Cicadas class at the University has spent the last three weeks learning about these insects and observing them in the field before the cicadas go back underground for the next 17 years.
Since May 19, the class has been spending its time at the University's Field Station researching, observing and talking about the insects.
The class spent most of its time in the field, Kaleah Ault, a senior from Lawrence said. The students collected shells, marked borrowing holes and looked for different species of
cicadas.
Because of the cicadas' burrowing patterns, the opportunity to study them this closely is a rare one, Kristen Manion, a junior from Kansas City, Mo., said.
"How often do you get to take a class on cicadas? Only once every 17 years," Manion said.
The class got to look beyond just the typical facts about the insects, such as their life cycles or diets. For example, Manion said cicadas can contract a sexually transmitted fungus that causes their stomachs to break off from their bodies.
Tim Eberhart, a senior from Topeka, said he finds the cicadas' burrowing patterns to be the most interesting part of them.
When they are underground, the cicadas survive on the xylem of tree roots,the part that helps the tree
absorb water from the soil a it, Eberhart said. Then, when sense it's time to emerge, th their way up through the soil.
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Students respond to coming hour restrictions
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Undergrads working more than 20 hours per week this summer at an on-campus job will have to look elsewhere in the fall to maintain their current income.
In response to benefit requirements the Affordable Care Act created, Human Resources will restrict undergraduate students to 20 hours per week at an on-campus job starting in August. For those currently working more than that this summer, the reduction will be an inconvenient adjustment.
"A lot of students depend on that income, and myself included," Hernandez said. "That's the only job I have because that's the only job I have time for."
Richie Hernandez, a junior from Kansas City, Kan., currently works an average of 27 hours per week at Student Housing this summer. Although the HR limit for undergrads is 40 hours during the summer,Hernandez said the Student Housing department limits his hours to 30 per week — and he's already starting to feel the pinch.
20 for the former, 40 for the latter which works out to an average of 29 hours, said Ola Faucher, director of HR.
While graduate students can work up to 29 hours during the fall and spring, hours for undergrads were determined by a balance between fall and spring and summer hours
"You have to look at it in terms of a year-long period," Faucher said. "It's also the fact that a lot of other schools nationally, for academic reasons, already limit their student hourlys to 20 hours a week."
However, although the University maximum is 20 hours in the fall for undergraduates, each department can set its own maximums based on its fiscal budget.
Garrett Ness, a senior from Wichita, works at Rock Chalk Recycle this summer and starts a second job at the Applied English Center this week. Currently, he tries to maintain 28 hours per week at his recycling technician job and hopes to pick up 10 hours at his new job for a total of 38 hours a week this summer.
However, starting in the fall, Ness will be reduced to 13 hours a week between the two jobs -eight for Rock Chalk Recycle and five for the Applied English Center. He worries about what might come in the fall with such a drastic drop in pay.
["The summer cut] means that I just don't get extra opportunities to work and make money, which is pretty unfortunate considering this is really the only time of the year I can do so," Ness said. "The one thing I can do is maybe borrow money from my parents, but being a senior in college, that's kind of embarrassing."
With the 2014-15 academic year a transition year, HR has been accepting suggestions and complaints prior to the implementation of the new hours policy this August with the start of the fall semester. However, without any legal changes made to the benefits policy of the Affordable Care Act, the restrictions will remain the policy in use at the University.
Hernandez, who lives on campus, said the proximity of an on-campus job, as well as the costs saved in gas and parking, will keep him working at Student Housing in the fall. These same conveniences will deter him from getting another job off-campus to pay his bills, but he said he could see himself working off-campus if the pay cut becomes too much to handle.
Unions employs hundreds of students at on-campus jobs, according to its website.
"I'm just going to have to sit down and budget really hard every week to make sure I don't go over how much my paycheck is," Hernandez said.
Hernandez is not the only student in this situation. KU Memorial
Students working part-time as sales associates at the Burge and Kansas Union, food service workers at the dining halls and cafeterias are currently paid $9.22 an hour for a starting wage, according to job postings and the department's website.
A student working 40 hours a week at this wage this summer would earn $358.84 a week after an income tax rate of 2.7 percent for the first $15,000 taxable income
With only 20 hours a week, a student would earn $179.42 per week, and $717.68 per month.
— $1,435.36 per month on a bimonthly pay schedule.
The average contracted monthly cost of an apartment in Lawrence is $361.70, according to data compiled by Walk Score. The cheapest dorm room available on campus runs $4,372 — or $437 a month during the official school year. Scholarship halls are cheaper, but not by much
- $3,872 a year, or $387 a month. These average rent costs, whether off-campus or on-campus, for a student working 20 hours is more than half of a month's paychecks.
In addition, for a double-major such as Ness taking 17 credit hours, the flexibility of an on-campus job allows for more focus on studies
"The flexibility of working for KU as a recycling technician is invaluable," Ness said. "[... The program] is really tied to the needs of the students."
Faucher couldn't say if the University would be able to hire more student workers because of the cap on student hours. Individual departments have their own fiscal budgets and they control how that money is spent, not HR.
She said she does not anticipate a reduction in the number of students who work on campus because of the new hour restrictions.
"Even as we look back historically, there were very few — and I can't give you a number — there were not a lot of student hourly people who worked over 20 hours," she said.
Ness said he recognizes the difficult position the University is in regarding student hour cuts, but wishes the needs of the students were taken more into account.
"I honestly don't know how much of it is the HR department's fault. Everything that is at play - I know this is a very complex issue that goes beyond the University," he said. "[...] In the end, this hurts the students. [...] It's just unfortunate that I feel, to some degree, that I'm being punished by these outside forces that I have no control over."
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Haley said it's ridiculous it's taken this long to have these discussions of the budget.
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is my 21st year and it's never been this bad.
"A sad thing is these discussion are being had in June when in 2014 we knew there was going to be a shortage," he said. "The governor decided the wealthiest sector of Kansans should pay fewer or no taxes. It's sad, but a fair and accurate statement."
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"I find that an afront," she said. "So, people earlier got to have an excused absence, and I can't? This should have been taken care of long ago. I'm not taking pay, that's not what the issue is for me; it's the point of I should be excused, and other people, too."
thus every legislator must be present. Rep. Barbara Bollier (R-Mission Hills), who is in Arizona caring for her dying father, said the announcement was cruel.
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'Dad bod' trend popularizes harmful ideas
Sydney Shepherd
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Today there is a new phenomenon that is trending not only on social
media, but also in the appearance and preference of the young male population. This phenomenon is best known as "the dad bod."
Mackenzie Pearson, a student at Clemson University, gave the world the definition of "The Dad Bod" in a post on The Odyssey. Pearson defines it as "a nice balance between a beer gut and working out. It's not an overweight guy, but it isn't one with washboard abs, either."
Pearson says it's not only the most popular body type to date for the 18-to-22 female demographic, but it's also the best because of the sweet and funny personality type
associated with it.
As a member of the female demographic I can vouch for her claim dad bod is indeed a trending body type for female college students to pursue.
The issue however, does not lie within the definition or Pearson's claim that dad bod is popular, but in the terminology and logic Pearson employs in explaining why so many women in college are choosing guys that look like Chris Pratt when he was the pudgier character Andy Dwyer in "Parks and Recreation" instead of the body type he came to have for the role of Peter Quill in "Guardians of the Galaxy."
Referring to this trending body type as "dad bod" is almost incestuous. Why is a term that sexualizes fathers so popular? I understand that men with dad bods are usually
accredited with a certain sweet and laid-back personality type. But I don't care if your father is Chris Pratt in either of the aforementioned roles — he's still your dad nonetheless.
Let's not also forget the assumed personality type associated with the dad bod not the guys that fit the stereotype, but more specifically society's automatic assumption that a guy with a small gut is automatically going to be a nicer kind of guy than the guy who never misses a day at the gym. Assuming that any body type correlates with a personality type is wrong.
Finally, the last problem with the dad bod: sexism.
Why can't women be celebrated for having a "mom bod" — because that's actually something worth celebrating — instead of having to
keep up with society's standards? Why are they pushed to becoming "momshells" — the expectation for a woman to not only get back to her old body, but become better if she can, after having a baby?
These types of double standards aren't acceptable.
Let's stop referring to a whole generation of girls' tendency to pick less fit men as a reflection of inappropriate love for fathers, as well as giving both men and women the chance to be seen as attractive even if they may sport a torso that is not composed of abs of steel.
Sydney Shepherd is a junior from Bonner Springs studying journalism and English.
Emotional abuse hides in relationships
Anissa Fritz
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As we get older, life tends to get more complicated. Relationships are no
exception.
Relationships evolve from forehead kisses and holding hands to meeting the parents and going on trips together. In this evolution of romantic feelings, there will be disagreements between the two
involved. Somewhere along the way, lines between simply arguing and emotional abuse become blurred.
In both my observation and personal experience, once the relationship between a couple is no longer new, the two parties involved tend to get aggravated at small tendencies that didn't bother them before.
The cute way she eats her food has now become annoying and squirrellike, and his innocent love for videogames has turned into laziness
and immaturity. With this slow, yet evident shift, arguments are likely to arise. Because a couple may get into a verbal spat does not mean they are destined to fail or one of the individuals is emotionally abusing the other.
In an article in "Best Health" magazine, Kevin VanDerZwet Stafford, clinical fellow and approved supervisor with the Ontario and American Associations for Marriage and Family Therapy, said he believed "it can be healthy for couples to disagree."
Couples getting into arguments is inevitable, yet emotional abuse does not happen in every relationship. This is because emotional abuse does not stem from arguments, but the way in which the two individuals involved handle the argument.
Even if your significant other never lays a harmful finger on you,
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it does not mean they are incapable of abusing you. The only difference is the scars are emotional, and oftentimes emotional scars take longer to heal than physical ones.
A person who claims to care about someone deeply should never refer to that person in derogatory or negative terms. The words "I really want to hurt you right now" should never be spoken. Phrases such as, "I have a bad temper," "I've just had a bad week" or "I was
just really angry" are nothing but excuses to validate the harmful words that had been spoken 20 minutes before.
Emotional abuse is real, and it should not be taken lightly. According to Healthy Place, an online resources about mental health issues, if emotional abuse continues long enough, it can lead to depression, underachievement, the inability to trust and more.
that their abusive situation will improve or being unaware that they have the right to leave the relationship. Again, someone does not have to physically hurt you for you to be able to walk away from a relationship. Cruel words and aggressive arguing that make a person feel unsafe is more than enough reason to leave.
either left by the one they are hurting, or until they see the person they love crying on the bathroom floor.
I have found that many women who stay in these relationships do so for various reasons, including the belief
If you are in an emotionally abusive relationship, allow your significant other the chance to change their ways because you were the person who left, not the one crying on the floor.
I do believe people are capable of changing, but a person who emotionally abuses someone they love may not get to the point of changing their ways until they are
Anissa Fritz is a junior from Dallas studying journalism and sociology.
Political furloughs: Taking action
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Sabrina Cushing @ssabbyccatt
The political climate in Kansas is appalling. Every year, our
This year, they have run over their limit by 19 days now, costing taxpayers over $700,000. The fact that 165 legislators and our governor refuse to cooperate for the benefit of all Kansans is disgusting
A step in the right direction was made on Saturday when SB 11 was passed, which classifies all state employees as essential, meaning the furloughs will not go into effect — at least for the time being. This bill allows the government to continue working on the budget until June 30 without furloughing thousands of state employees.
Unfortunately, SB 11 has as many cons as it does pros. Extending the deadline certainly prevents the loss of jobs (assuming they get a budget passed in the next three weeks), but it doesn't address the fact that our government is failing us.
Before SB 11 was passed, as many as 30,000 workers in Kansas were facing furloughs. Meanwhile,the legislators are making money for every day they've worked overtime, and until Saturday, they didn't seem to care about those who elected them.
This is, in my opinion, the exact opposite of what should happen. If our government cannot agree upon a budget in time, they should not get paid to continue arguing amongst themselves. Rather than the impending threat of furloughs on Kansas state employees, why not furlough the legislators? It's their fault that we are even in this mess.
Punish those who cannot compromise,not the citizens who are depending upon their government.
Every single year, the Kansas legislature moves closer and closer to failing to meet its budget deadline. This year's legislative session has been the longest and most costly in the history of our state, which is unacceptable.
After the federal government shutdown of 2013, citizens were assured this would never again happen. Unfortunately, this assurance obviously only applies at the federal level.
Why has nobody in Washington, D.C., addressed the problem in Kansas? And more importantly, why are our legislators being paid overtime to bicker when state employees who elected those officials were threatened with furlough?
The threat of furlough occurs all too often. This year's SB 11 was a small step in the right
direction to prevent future furloughs, but there is still an incredible amount of room for improvement.
Only through banding together and voicing our opinions can we, the citizens, make our voices heard. We voted the legislators in, and they work for us. It is time for all Kansans to actively participate in the political atmosphere of our state.
Passive complaints will only do so much. If you want something accomplished, take action. Writing an e-mail to your senators and representatives takes five minutes. Our generation has the power to change things, but we must take action. The time for sitting by apathetically has passed.
Sabrina Cushing is a senior from Osage City studying creative writing.
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Jennifer Mays, Nancy Nail, Sara Carolynn Kennedy, Vanessa Severo and Anthony Gasbarre rehearse for "MotherFreakingHood!" "MotherFreakingHood!" is a play written by alumnae Julie Dunlap and Sara Stotts.
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Once in a while, a story is written that depicts life honestly and uncensored. This one was produced for the stage by two University alumnae who have little background experience in theatre and music.
Julie Dunlap, class of 1994, and Sara Stotts, class of 1993, never thought they would be co-playrights of one of Kansas City's newest summer plays. The musical, "MotherFreakingHood! (Maternal Discretion Advised)," has been in production for the past two years, but has finally been released and is showing at the Goppert Theatre at Avila University until Sunday, June 14.
The play focuses on three main characters, all mothers, and how each of them handle the experience in their own way. It's an uncensored look at all things motherhood — from diapers to prom — through a comedic lens.
"It's very graphic, but nobody dies or gets divorced or gets cancer," Dunlap said. "Nothing is sad in this show; it's either funny or touching. And it isn't a male-bashing show — celebrating the baby-daddies was really important to us."
Dunlap majored in human biology and Stotts earned a degree in exercise science, but the two science students came together to write and produce the full-fledged musical.
"I always liked writing and creating and theatre, and I wish I hadn't listened to my parents and majored in theatre instead of others things that smart kids major in," Dunlap said.
Stotts agreed.
"I always had a love for musicals and comedy," she said.
It was when Dunlap and Stotts were paired together by their sororities for Rock Chalk Revue, an annual philanthropic production, that the two were able to discover their creative sides.
"We were paired up together to make this pretty awful show, but we had so much fun," Dunlap said. "If it hadn't been for that opportunity a biology major and an exercise therapy major getting into musical theater — this all would never have happened."
After graduation, Stotts found herself in Chicago with her own physical therapy practice while she studied comedy and improv on the side. Dunlap married her college sweetheart whom she had also met at Rock Chalk Review, and the two friends started their own families in the real world.
At Stotts' birthday party 17 years after graduation, the pair became inspired by a comedy group and began writing silly songs about motherhood, a new experience they shared.
The notion of turning a few songs into a musical was conceived shortly after. The two began writing songs in March 2011, meeting in Lawrence and Chicago and uploading song ideas to their private YouTube account when they couldn't meet
"I honestly thought at the time that we'd write a couple songs,we'd laugh about it and maybe we would get together with our friends and entertain them and that would be it," Dunlap said.
face-to-face.
The two friends-turned-playwrights found a producer in Seth Eckelman, founder of Moonshine Variety Co., in 2013. With Eckelman's assistance, the simple melodies recorded on cell phones were given facelifts and turned into performance pieces after being introduced to the play's music director, Daniel Doss.
The play has been well-received by the The Kansas City Star and BroadwayWorld.com.
"Every time there are mothers clapping at the end of the show, I realize that the reason they enjoy it is because they see themselves in it," Dunlap said. "You are an awesome
mom; you do not suck even if you do something wrong."
Both women, as mothers, wanted to share their experiences and express that there's no perfect mother.
"Even though we have our own unique experience, everyone's going through it with you," Stotts said.
Given that this is their first project in the theater world, the women were baffled by its success.
"I didn't think anyone would like it; maybe our family, but they're obligated to like it," Stotts said. "I especially didn't think that men would enjoy it."
Despite having two careers and six children between them, the co-playwrights said there could be more
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From juggling fire on a plank seven feet off the ground to jump-roping on a unicycle, Bekah Smith certainly took a different path than her degree in accounting from Kansas State University would have suggested.
"I just taught myself to juggle three balls because college was really stressful for me, and it was a good way for me to cool off," she said.
Smith, a juggler and circus entertainer from Denver, performed at the Busker Festival last year as well as this year and said it is one of many ways she gets her name out.
After graduating from Kansas State University, Smith moved to Denver where she became immersed in a circus and juggling group.
"I had way too much energy to sit in a cubicle," she said.
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She said if she had known how difficult following her passion would be, she might have reconsidered.
"It's really, really hard work, and I think all things worth doing are really hard," she said. "I think knowing things you have to work really hard for are worth it would be helpful to someone who wants to do this."
During her performance, she told one of her child volunteers to follow her dreams of being a veterinarian and do what makes her happy. Smith said regardless of if it's a career choice or a hobby, everyone should pursue a passion.
"Whether you make your career out of something or not, I think that's great," she said. "It's just as amazing as me being up here doing what I love. That's what I mean when I say do what you love; it doesn't necessarily mean do what you love to make money, but have a passion and do something cool with it."
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Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby announced Wednesday that the conference will begin imposing punishments for schools whose fans display poor conduct during games.
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"We are certainly most interested in the safety of our participants," Bowlsby said. "[And that] would include home team, visiting team, officials, table crew and the like."
As far as punishments are concerned, Bowlsby said he would first consult with conference officials on a case-by-case basis, but ultimately the final decision would be his.
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a video review. That conduct is not limited to anything in particular, but looks to eliminate offensive chants and offensive language from the crowd during games.
This could affect the University of Kansas, during home football games in particular.
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The phrase contains an obscenity, which would place it under the criteria for potential disciplinary action.
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CHEICK DIALLO ESPN100: No.7 Ranked Recruit No.3 Power Forward
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Diallo is a top-tier recruit who earned MVP honors at both the McDonald's All-American Game and the Jordan Brand Classic. At the former, the 6-foot-9,225 lbs. big man posted 18 points and 10 rebounds whereas at the latter, Diallo went for 26 points on 12-of-16 shooting, adding 11 rebounds.
Diallo is the highest-ranked Jayhawk in the 2015 class, and he is the third top-five Jayhawk recruit since 2013, according to Rivals.com. Diallo's biggest strengths to this point are his motor, rebounding and shot-blocking abilities, although he needs to polish off his skills on the offensive side of the ball.
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Diallo has a chance to start at the center spot right away because of his aforementioned rebounding and shot-blocking abilities. However, regardless of whether he starts or not, Diallo should have his fingerprints all over the team.After all,Diallo's impressive motor and high-energy style are things that coach Bill Self certainly values in his players,and that should be enough to keep him out on the court to develop against top competition.
Diallo is also likely the lone Jayhawk with a chance to leave after one year and be selected in the first round of the NBA Draft, which would make it four straight years that a Jayhawk has been a one-anddone and been selected in the first round of the NBA Draft, assuming that either Kelly Oubre Jr. or Cliff Alexander is selected in the first round of this year's NBA Draft.
CARLTON BRAGG ESPN100: No.21 Ranked Recruit No.5 Power Forward
Who is he?
Bragg became the first member of the Jayhawks' 2015 recruiting class when he committed to Kansas back in January. It wasn't the smoothest of commitments, as Bragg accidentally said "Kentucky" while putting on a Kansas hat, but in the end, it counted the same as any other.
Regardless, Bragg is one of the more intriguing recruits in this year's class. At 6-foot-9,220 lbs., Brown has big-man size, but he's more of a finesse player than a typical post. Bragg possesses a solid jumper, which extends all the way out behind the three-point line. He has some solid dribble moves although he may struggle to find a whole lot of minutes right away given how deep Kansas will be in the frontcourt this year.
How will he impact the team?
There is definitely a chance Bragg's impact will be diluted thanks to the several talented big men that are already on Kansas' roster, three of which are seniors. It's also worth noting Self has been known to go with experience over potential talent a good amount of the time.
Unless one of the power forwards is able to make a move to the small forward position, it seems quite unlikely that Bragg will begin the year as a starter, although there will certainly be much greater opportunities for him as a sophomore, barring a dramatic and unforeseen rise up the NBA Draft boards. That said, Bragg's potential difficulties in cracking the lineup would not reflect on his own ability, as much as the depth of Kansas, which is expected to start the year highly ranked.
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Starting Aug. 1, additional parking lots on campus will be restricted to faculty only, and new technology will make it easier for officers to issue tickets.
Lot 34, east of the Computer Services Facility, and Lots 50 and 52 behind Joseph R. Pearson Hall, will become staff-only parking.
Donna Hultine, director of Parking and Transit, said there is "plenty of parking with only 70 percent occupancy at peak time." Most of the open parking spots are by the stadium and west campus, and expanding staff parking will move students to these low-occupancy lots
Parking passes will also increase 15 percent in cost because the department is self-funding the new equipment. The yellow pass cost $225 during the 2014-15 year and will cost $260 during the 2015-16 school year.
The Parking and Transit Department will also implement a digital parking pass system on Aug. 1. Hultine said the department has purchased license plate reading software and two mobile License Plate Recognition enforcement bundles.
The new software, which costs $75,800, will interpret the image of license plates on parked cars and pull up the image in the parking officer's car to read if it is registered for that lot.
Tickets will also be emailed to reduce the number of misplaced tickets, and paper tickets will be given to cars that are not registered.
In the past, Hultine said, the department was reluctant to increase pass costs because of higher costs of living and tuition increases at the University. However, she said over time this digital process is believed to save money and allow the parking system to run smoothly.
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"We looked closely at Texas Tech University who implemented [License Plate Recognition] passes several years ago, and they had good success reading the plates with no mistakes," Hultine said.
Jessica Larson, a junior from Lincoln, Neb., said she believes the new parking system and the increase in price will deter students from purchasing passes.
The department consistently deals with lost, stolen or traded passes, but this new system should eliminate all of these problems, Hultine said. She said it should also hopefully increase the number of passes bought and decrease the number of parking tickets in the future.
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The department will continue to offer its parking ticket forgiveness plan for students. Students can
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Students and staff can register their license plates online through their myKU accounts to be assigned a pass to a certain lot, Hultine said.
take a quiz online under the appeals section of the department's website and certain tickets will be removed from their accounts, Hultine said.
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Farmers set up shop at the Lawrence Farmers' Market on Saturday taking advantage of the only-partly cloudy weather. Still, effects of the recent rainfall which have caused problems statewide were apparent.
Patrons of the Lawrence Farmers' Market have had fewer options to buy crops that are more sensitive to moisture, said Amy Johnson, the Farmers' Market assistant.
"The variety that the market offers has suffered," Johnson said. "There are so many greens on the table, not very much of anything else. Very few tomatoes or strawberries they didn't do very well in the rain."
At Saturday's market, many of the farmers present said the rain had been both helpful and harmful for them. All the water has allowed many of the plants to grow more, and allowed the farmers to water less.
However, the rain has also caused quite a few issues, from delayed harvest to rotting crops to stalled planting. Despite everything, though, the vendors said they have managed to keep their market prices consistent.
The market as a whole hasn't exactly had booming business in the last few weeks, though. Johnson said the rain has cut down on the market's number of clients and vendors. "People are just less likely to come out on a Saturday morning when they see that it's raining," she said.
The rainy market days have Jack Wilson, the owner of Wington Creek Lavender Farm products his family makes ol lavender can't get wet, so com the market to sell them has beficult.
"We can't harvest because wet, we can't plant because wet, but we can't complain the water because we've bee drought for the past couple he said.
A couple of weeks ago, Wils to dig up about 500 plants th died. Mud made it nearly imp to dig and move the plants, an the rain filled the holes righ in. He said he won't be able to the field or replant anything least another month, even if
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Because of all the mud and rain, he had to cancel the farm's open house last weekend.
"We had to buy TV and radio time just to tell people it was cancelled," he said.
Farmers all over Kansas have been having issues with planting and crops, said Jude Kastens, a research assistant professor from the Kansas Biological Survey. He said crops such as winter wheat and soybeans have suffered the most from the rain.
Winter wheat is a couple weeks away from harvest, he estimated, but the crop is especially sensitive to moisture, so the rain poses a threat.
"Rains need to shut off or we'll see some loss," Kastens said.
Soybeans are especially in danger because of their delayed planting and slow emergence. As of last Sunday, only 31 percent of expected harvest in Kansas had been planted, according to the USDA Crop Progress Report.
"Even if they were [planted], they might not be emerging like they should," Kastens said. "Soybeans don't like to have their roots saturated."
The USDA backs this up, reporting that about a fifth of the planted crop has emerged. Kastens estimated that it should be closer to half at this point.
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Every summer, the Lawrence Humane Society sees an increase in the number of animals in its shelters. This summer is no exception, and the organization is in the swing of the busy season.
There are various factors that contribute to the larger number of animals during the summer.
"Normally cats would go through one kitten season until a few years ago now we're seeing them go through two and even three," said Jamie Straley community outreach manager for the Lawrence Humane Society.
Although kitten season may seem like a cute, fun time filled with an overload of baby animals to play with, it can cause problems because of the large amount of kittens being born at once.
The Fourth of July is also a notorious time for spooked and scared animals to run away because of all the commotion from parties and fireworks.
"A lot of shelters will do microchip clinics in the days preceding Fourth of July," Straley said. "There are pets that may get out and there's a much greater percentage of owners and pets being reunited if they're micro-chipped or have a collar and tag."
One way the Humane Society copes with the variant amount of animals coming in is through a foster program — when a family or person temporarily adopts an animal until it is ready for a permanent home. For different animals this could mean different things. A kitten, for example, has to be at least 8 weeks old and weigh 2 pounds to be placed in a permanent home.
The greatest need for fosters is from April through October, generally with kittens, but finding the right family is more difficult than simply reaching out to volunteers.
"We've had a lot of interest,but matching up the right people with
the right kittens and having the resources to do all the training we have to do has been the hardest part for this program," said KT Sessler, who is in charge of placing animals and training the foster families.
With dogs or cats, there are also certain challenges that come with trying to find a proper home that outweigh a volunteer's desire to foster.
"The hardest to place are the neonatal kittens that have to be bottle-fed every three hours because people have jobs that won't let them leave that often," Sessler said. "It has to be a quiet home if it's for a behavior animal. If it's a dog that needs foster care it helps to have another dog that's good with other dogs that they can learn from."
The foster program can be mutually beneficial. The animal gets to grow up in a quiet, safe place and gets used to various stimuli to be ready for adoption, while the foster family or person gets to have the experience of taking care of an animal without actually having the commitment of being an owner. The Humane Society also pays for the
animal's food, supplies or vet bills.
"We're pretty open to anyone [who wants to foster]," Sessler said. "[...] I think those dogs and cats being raised with children and other pets make for a good pet that is able to adapt more easily when they're finally adopted."
Recently, the number of returning foster families and new ones has been changing. Before, there were more returning fosters but now the Humane Society has seen an uptick in new volunteers.
"I think that's because I've been doing some new things with the volunteer program, and communication is a big part of it now," Straley said. "I think that my requests for fosters are being answered. And they were out there before, but there have just been some different avenues to get the word out that I've been using."
Another resource the Humane Society uses to alleviate the pressure is their relationship with off-site pet stores, such as Petco and PetSmart.
"Our off-site partners allow us to have help with kitten season, and it allows us to have those adoption events and have some more spaces
so the shelter isn't completed inundated at any given time. Straley said.
link at any given time," Straley said. Along with its partnership with large chain pet stores, the Humane Society's relationship with Pet World proved beneficial until a fire on Memorial Day weekend closed the store. Before the fire, the organization opened a "kitten pit" in the pet store and asked for volunteers to help run it. They saw a positive response to this program, with almost all of the kittens being adopted. The Humane Society directors plan to restart that program when Pet World reopens for business.
There are also public events, but the resources to attend them are not always available.
"We get a lot of requests to do more events than we have the staff to do or the volunteers to do," Straley said. "We have to make sure whenever we agree to do an event that's in the future that we let the planner know that it's all subject to what we have population- and pet-wise. Two weeks from now we might not have any dogs that are appropriate to take to a children's event."
Consequences of leaving animals in hot cars:
It can take less than 15 minutes for a vehicle to heat up to 99 degrees, even on an 80 degree day. Rolling the windows down has little effect on the temperature of the car.
An animal left in a hot car may suffer these effects:
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"Things can happen, and what you think will just be a minute can turn into five or 10 minutes, and that can be very dangerous not only for pets but for children as well."
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Lawrence Humane Society
Executive Director
If you see an animal left in a hot car, officials urge you to call the police.
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Sources: Humane Society of the United States; Lawrence Humane Society Executive Director Kate Meghji
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Top: Society for Creative Anachronism member John Brooks stands with Quicksilver, his deer falcon. Falcons can be trained to take down other birds such as ducks.
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Bottom: Jerry Harder's dogs Freya, Kira and Axel work to spin a barrel of tanned leather. Harder's shop is part of an SCA event known as the War of the Lilies, an annual war lasting nine days, held in the Kingdom of Calontir (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Northern Arkansas).
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Once a year, the Smithville Lake campground in Smithville, Mo., is overtaken by people dressed in medieval garb hauling bows and arrows, pavilion-sized tents and bearing household and kingdom arms all ready for a week of celebration called the War of the Lilies.
This is the Society for Creative Anachronism, a non-profit organization dedicated to recreating medieval culture from pre-17th century Europe. A worldwide organization, more than 30,000 members are involved across 20 different kingdoms.
Lawrence is known as the Shire of Carlsby and sits within the Kingdom of Calontir, which has hosted the annual War of the Lilies for 29 years. This year's event runs for nine days, serving as the longest event for the Calontir King-
"There are experiences here that you can't have in any other context."
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dom during the year. The Kingdom expects 1,200 members to attend this week's event.
"Since I've grown up with it, my family are these people," Lewis-Neff said. "I have my direct family, but these are people I've know all my life. These are my best friends and I really enjoy spending time with them. This hobby gives me the opportunity to spend a week straight with these people and go on vacation without costing thousands of dollars."
Lewis-Neff, who graduated from the University in 2011, has been part of the SCA since birth. Like many others in the organization, the tradition has been passed down through her family. Young children run freely around the campground, learning how to safely handle medi-
"We are historical- and educationbased," said Miranda Lewis-Neff, event steward. "We want to do research and find out what they would have actually done and try to recreate that in a period fashion. We do this for ourselves and not for other people; unlike the Renaissance festivals, we don't try to make money off of what we are doing."
Safety and family are two of the biggest values for SCA members. In reenactments of battles, all participants are covered in heavy armor with no skin left uncovered. Nonmember guests to SCA events are
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ushered through by tour guides and watched closely. The magic word "hold" is ingrained into every member's brain. The word calls for everyone to freeze until safety issues
have been resolved.
Battles are only half of the story, though. The site also includes a food court and market area, allowing members to sell their goods although the barter system is more common. Members trade their goods among one another rather than exchanging currency, said tour guide Tola Rufusdoger.
But that's not her real name. Upon joining, members get to choose their own SCA name, and many only know their fellow SCA members by these medieval names.
Members also pick household colors and devices to display upon their coat of arms. Purple and gold, the Calontir coat of arms, flies from
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The SCA group in Lawrence has close ties to the University: the founder of the Lawrence group, Larry Brow, is a current archivist and library assistant at the Spencer Research Library. Brow founded the group after he moved to Lawrence his senior year of high school and brought his past SCA experiences with him. A self-professed history geek, he uses his time at SCA to live out the subjects he researches as well as create works for sale with his Master's in pottery.
"I've been doing this for 41 years, and I have friends from all over the world who do this," he said. "There are experiences here that you can't have in any other context."
Brow works with current graduate student and teaching assistant Carla Tilghman to create and sell
pottery at SCA events. Tilghman founded the SCA group in Manhattan when she was in high school.
"There's an emphasis on fighting, on the arts and on service," she said. "There's a nod to the romanticized version of chivalry, which is fun.
"We don't have plagues; it's a selective recreation of the Middle Ages," she laughed.
The SCA emphasizes an inclusion of everyone, no matter their background. In the "mundane" world, members can be everything from a law enforcement officer to a factory worker, but all of that goes out the window when they put on pre-17th century clothes.
"It's the enacting version of being a history nerd," Brow said. "It's a lot more fun when it's not just from books."
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Elsa Rhae Pageler, a beauty vlogger popular for her Youtube creations, dons the disguise of a White Walker from the show "Game of Thrones." Pageler, a 2013 graduate, is a finalist in the NYX FACE Awards.
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Pageler, who has just over two years of experience face painting first became interested after taking a class at the University. She signed up for a class on stage makeup her senior year to meet one last requirement to graduate.
Since then, she's recreated countless characters from television, comic books and video games including Batman's The Joker, Harley Quinn and Two-Face, Captain Planet, Groot from "Guardians of the Galaxy", a gruesome White Walker from "Game of Thrones," multiple Mortal Kombat characters such as Mileena and Baraka and a few of her own original looks.
Pagerer's White Walker video, which has more than 291,500 views on YouTube, remains one of her most popular.
The contest is based on popular vote. It features the best beauty vlog.
Now she's found herself on a new adventure. Pageler, who sits in her studio in an unfinished basement in Overland Park, learned just days before that she made it to the top 20 of the Face Fine Artistry of Cosmetic Elites Award Contest, commonly known as the NYX Face Awards.
gers from North America. The vloggers are competing to win $25,000, a trip to Los Angeles for the top six to compete live and the chance at the No.1 Beauty Vlogger of the Year title.
Pagerel said she learned about the NYX Face Awards after seeing Instagram photos mentioning the competition and entries from other contestants online. She then decided that this year she should enter too.
In years past she watched as other YouTubers gained exposure from the competition, so she took out her paints and put together an elegant black and white design that featured some of her most meticulous doodles around her eyes and on her chest, which she turned in on the May 8 deadline.
A few days later, Pageler received a phone call from NYX officials telling her she had made it into the competition's starting top 30 and to be on the lookout for an email with details and a box of NYX supplies.
"It was awesome," Pageler said. "Just super rad. I had seen in the past the boxes that they would send for the competition, and it's insane, so I was stoked just to get this box."
Pageler was at first ecstatic to have made it in, but once she realized whom she was up against, she said she felt defeated. Other contestants in the competition were extremely talented women Pageler said she had been following on YouTube for years.
Pageler is up against contenders, some of whom are professionals, who bring with them an army of Youtube subscribers. Mykie, also known as Glam&Gore, has more than 438,000 subscribers. Patrick-Starrr, a freelancer from Orlando,
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Spend a little. Explain the need for frugality to a loved one.
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When Sarah Trowbridge-Alford first discovered yoga during a class at the University, she experienced something that she never had before; a quieted mind.
"That was the first time my brain ever just shut up, and I was just like, 'Where has this been all my life?' " she said.
From this first positive experience came the inspiration to continue on and teach yoga — and perhaps even help others to reach that same moment of peace.
Now, once a month, Trowbridge-Alford, a 2003 graduate, teaches a free yoga class at the Lawrence Public Library for those of all ages and skill levels. Held in the auditorium and various meeting rooms, the class sizes vary each month.
"Honestly, I'm always a little nervous at the beginning of each class," she said. "When I focus on my breathing and become mindful of my intention, which at its very base is to transform the suffering of others, my anxiety fades."
For Trowbridge-Alford, it was important to have a free class where her
students could try yoga because that was how she started.
"Because it was paid for in my campus fee, that's what kind of got me going," she said. "So that's one of the reasons I'm so adamant about making sure that I can offer a free class."
She earned her yoga certification in 2014 through a 200-hour course from Westside Yoga in Lawrence under teacher Gopi Sandal.
Now, Trowbridge-Alford teaches Hatha yoga involving sun salutations and a dancing warrior sequence. By mixing basic moves that beginners can master and some challenging balance exercises, she said she keeps her students on their toes while also adhering to their needs as students who want to learn.
Kim Heck of Lawrence has participated in the free class three times and said she comes to the sessions to relax. Another participant from Lawrence, Lauren Krivoshia, has found that yoga is "the best way [she has] found to relax, and it's also a great way to keep [her] body engaged and active and feeling better."
In each of her classes, Trowbridge Alford hands out information on other free yoga classes in Lawrence acting as an advocate for her students to find good teachers and classes that will work for them.
Trowbridge-Alford also works in the Teen Zone at the library five days a week. She finds the Teen Zone helpful as a place for kids to hang out and socialize without their little brothers and sisters or their parents. As a teen growing up in Lawrence, she remembers having limited places to hang out at night that her parents felt were safe.
Now, with the Teen Zone in the library and with her yoga, she said there's an opportunity to connect and help with the issues young people can have.
Whether it has been teaching at the Boys and Girls Club or at one of her free classes at the library, Trowbridge-Alford has been able to share her love of yoga, and help her students get rid of "monkey-mind" a yoga term that refers to the chatter that can clutter minds — the chatter that was silenced on her first day trying yoga.
"All of the conditions for my happiness are present in [yoga]." Trowbridge-Alford said. "I have no reason to be unhappy. I'm supported, I'm warm, I'm well-fed. I just feel so much gratitude when I'm doing it."
'Love & Mercy' biopic honest, refreshing
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"Love & Mercy," the biopic on Beach Boys' frontman Brian Wilson, artistically showed the inner workings of the mind behind the sunny sounds of the Beach Boys. Its star-studded cast shreds through the mysteries and drama of becoming a billboard sensation. Viewers also get to see the hidden truths of music production in the 1960s.
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film opens with bright, colorful scenes, there's a somber undertone.
When the camera focuses on a young Wilson (played by Paul Dano, known for films such as "Little Miss Sunshine" and most recently, "12 Years a Slave"), viewers get an inside look at a distraught and damaged individual. His father's verbal and physical abuse echoes throughout Wilson's adult life (played by John Cusack).
Even though he has a supportive wife, family and band mates, Wilson detaches himself to escape reality and entertain the songs swimming in his mind. Here, the camerawork and sound editing express Wilson's momentary madness, which flux throughout the film一a rhythmic, mysterious bunch of good and bad vibrations.
Dano's performance as the young Wilson is compelling. We're enveloped in a world where the Beach Boys' music is an escape for listeners, yet its mastermind troubled with what we can only understand as mental illness. He is swallowed by social anxiety and—as we see early on in the film —the voices in his head. No spoilers here, but Dano sells the part of a mysterious songwriter battling his demons and his past.
So does Cusack. As an older Wilson, Cusack leaves his sweet rom-com box and lends his acting chops in the dramatic territory. We're able to empathize with a talented, yet stifled, songwriter who wants a normal life but who's dictated by an opportunist doctor, Dr. Eugene Landy (played by Paul Giamatti).
Wilson's love interest, Melinda Ledbetter (played by Elizabeth Banks), acts as the compassionate, persistent savior.
For a musical biopic, "Love & Mercy" was refreshing and dynamic. Viewers are exposed to the raw method behind the madness, which is beautifully curated and steered by director Bill Pohlad.
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Regardless, Pageler is just excited to be in the competition, noting that whatever she's doing must be working because she made it through the first challenge: Timeless Beauty.
Pageler and the other contestants had two weeks to brainstorm ideas and create a look, followed by just over a week for viewers to vote.
Pageler said for the first few days when deciding on her look she had "500 million thousand and two" ideas floating around in her head.
"I wanted to do futuristic and I wanted to do something 70s, like a flower child, like a futuristic flower child, but that ended up being weird, and I had friends tell me that that's not timeless," Pageler said.
Since she had so few followers compared to other contestants, Pageler said she knew she would have to do something that was much
more than makeup.
Pagerler practiced her look every day for two weeks, sometimes multiple times a day. Whenever she practiced, she found a new element. Her final version featured a classic '60s style mod eye, a soft cheek and lip paired with a mix of a psychedelic sun and bright colors that appear to melt down her chest and stomach.
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"I just wanted to die," Pageler said. "I was so excited that I got into this next round."
Challenge two voting begins June 26 and ends July 3, when the top 20 will become the top 12. Voting for challenge three begins July 24 and will determine the top six entrants. They will fly to Los Angeles in August to compete live in the Nokia Theatre for the top spot.
Participants are currently working on their entries for the second challenge, which they learned last Friday should be their interpretation of paranormal activity.
Pageler said she's already met her own personal goal, though.
"Getting to the top 20, where I'm at right now was my goal, but top 12 is extra credit, and then I think I'll just collapse if I make anything higher," Pageler said.
"Even if I don't win, I've already gotten a lot of traffic on my channel and stuff, and that's cool, but what's pretty crazy is that I got to connect with a ton of people and I've been doing collabs with other people and just totally growing my own circle of people," she said. "It's been really cool to be able to learn from everyone and learn from practicing."
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Senior track star Michael Stigler took the 400-meter hurdles crown at the NCAA Outdoor Championships on Friday. Stigler ran a time of 48.84 seconds in the final race. He is the Kansas men's first NCAA Outdoor champion since 2010 and the first in a racing event since 2003.
The 5-foot-10 senior from Canyon, Texas, ran a 48.90 in the semifinal round on Wednesday. Stigler had the fastest time in the semifinal round and was undefeated in the 400-meter hurdles all season, making him the favorite on Friday. Stigler took care of business, winning the final by four-tenths of a second.
"It feels so good to finally be number one," Stigler said in the team's press release. "As soon as I crossed that finish line, I couldn't do anything but thank God and give thanks to my coach and my family. To finally get that win and get over that hump, it just means so much to me, and I'm so happy all that hard work finally paid off."
Stigler's win capped a phenomenal career at the University. In his four years of outdoor competition, Stigler was First Team All-American and Big 12 Champion every year. In 2013 and 2014, Stigler finished in the runner-up spot of the NCAA Outdoors. Finally, in his senior season, Stigler is a national champion.
Stigler has exhausted his eligibility at Kansas but will compete in the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships from June 25-28. Stigler is currently ranked fourth among 400-meter hurdlers in the world. Three 400-meter hurdles spots are on the line for the U.S. in the World Championships in July.
ing during the four days. The men's team finished in 19th place of 81 teams with 10 points. The women's team finished in 32nd place of 71 teams with seven points.
All of the events during the four days took place at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Kansas had a total of 11 track and field athletes compet-
Senior Michael Stigler reacts after winning the men's 400-meter hurdles during the NCAA track and field National Championships in Eugene, Ore., Friday, June 12.
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Kansas started the week strong. Besides Stigler's semifinal performance, junior Jake Albright and sophomore Nick Meyer both earned NCAA Second Team All-America honors in the pole vault. 2013 National Champion and senior Lindsey Vollmer had the strongest first day of her career in the heptathlon.
Vollmer competed in a Kansas uniform for the final time on day two. She was unable to record a mark in the long jump, her first event of the day. Just like that, Vollmer's dreams of winning another title and going out on top were crushed. This year was the only year Vollmer failed to earn any type of All-American standing at the NCAA Outdoors.
Vollmer leaves the University as the only woman in team history to win an individual title at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Two other Jayhawks struggled on Thursday in racing events, while juniors Daina Levy (hammer throw) and Sydney Conley (long jump) earned First Team All-American honors in field events.
"I can't be upset at all about my performance," Conley said Thursday in the team's press release. "Being an All-American for the third time is a huge honor, so I'm definitely pleased with what I did."
Stigler took over the show on Friday at the NCAA Outdoors. Three more Jayhawks competed in the final two days, but the hype continued to surround the serenade of champion Michael Stigler.
Stigler's 400-meter hurdles victory is Kansas' first in the event since
1960. His accomplishment is a rare feat. He did more than defeat the competition; he conquered history.
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The University hired Brandon Schneider, former head coach at Emporia State, to be the next women's basketball coach for the upcoming season. "I've always wanted an opportunity to coach at a school like this," he said.
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If you asked women's basketball coach Brandon·Schneider what his dream job is,you might think it would be coaching at a powerhouse program. The Kansas women's bascketball team might not be the first to come to mind.
For Schneider, however, it's living the dream.
"I've always wanted an opportunity to coach at a school like this," said Schneider, who has coached at Emporia State and Stephen F. Austin State University. "I feel blessed to be here."
Schneider got the call from Kansas administrators asking if he was interested in the Kansas job in March. He said he jumped at the opportunity.
"I really liked that Dr. [Sheahon] Zenger, [director of KU Athletics], and staff did what I call a traditional search, not using an outside firm," he said. "I ultimately wanted to coach somewhere where I can recruit in Texas as well as in-state in Kansas."
On the job since April 21, Schneider has already done some key things for Kansas, including bringing in two new staff members, A'Quonesia Franklin as associate head coach and Damitria Buchanan as assistant coach, and keeping current assistant Katie O'Connor. He also had his first recruit commit for the class of 2015 in Chelsea Lott, a center from Houston.
Schneider first experienced Allen Fieldhouse as a first-year assistant coach for Emporia State in an exhibition game against the Jayhawks in 1995. He became an immediate fan.
"I began to feel it," Schneider said. "There's an appreciation of how basketball is at the University of Kansas, whether it's on the men's side or the women's side. The history and tradition of this place is well known."
Coaching basketball certainly runs in Schneider's veins. His father, Bob, who won more than 1,000 games in
his career as a women's basketball coach, greatly impacted his son's coaching career.
"He's been a tremendous help — being a role model and [me] observing him in practices and games," Schneider said. "The big thing I took away from him was that he was a teacher of the fundamentals and places a good deal on being fundamentally sound and playing the right way."
The coaching lessons paid off but maybe came back to haunt the patriarch. The elder Schneider's last game in 2006 pitted him against his son as West Texas A&M faced Emporia State in the NCAA Division II South Central Regional. The progeny won.
"It was one of those monumental games of my career," Schneider said. "We didn't even know that he was going to retire afterwards."
Schneider put Emporia State on the map after winning the Division II National Title in 2010. The team is still a powerhouse with coach Jory Collins, who was an assistant under Schneider.
Collins started out as a volunteer assistant for the Hornets while attending school. In 2006, Schneider hired him full-time as an assistant coach.
"He gave me the opportunity that I wanted," Collins said, "I could've followed him to Stephen F. Austin, but I decided I needed some head coaching experience."
Collins said Schneider's terrific attention to detail was a main part of how he coached the game. Collins mentioned the 2010 National Championship team — how that team started grinding out games and starting rolling on to a quest at a national championship - as an
example of Schneider's skill.
One of Schneider's former players, Carolyn Lee (then Carolyn Dorsey), walked on at Emporia State and had to earn her spot on the Hornet roster. For her, Schneider's coaching skills were instrumental in the team's success.
Emporia State Athletic Director Kent Weiser said he saw Schneider as a man of few words but knew his women's basketball program was in good hands.
"He challenged his players and high results applied to each other," Lee said. "He pushed everyone and it made anyone dangerous."
"Everyone got on the same page and everything went from there," Weiser said.
Although quiet, Schneider was a reliable and easy person to get along with at Emporia State, said Greg Rahe, the "Voice of the Hornets" for
KVOE/KFFX radio in Emporia
In his 12 years at Emporia State, Schneider led the Hornets to 11 NCAA Tournament appearances.
"Sometimes it just takes time for him to talk," Rahe said. "He always expects his team to be in the NCAA Tournament. He wants his team to do the little things well and to do it right."
Now that he is back in Kansas after a five-year stint at Stephen F. Austin, Schneider can use his relationships to rebuild the Kansas women's basketball program after the team finished below .500 in back-to-back seasons.
"My goal is to make progress every day," Schneider said. "I told [the team], 'Let's focus on winning basketball games and show them what wins and losses mean at another time."
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Southern Methodist University point guard Nic Moore would be in summer practices right now with former Kansas coach Larry Brown getting better for next season.
Instead, Moore is on Kansas' upcoming University World Games roster. Bill Self wanted the 2015 American Athletic Conference Player of the Year to join the team, and Brown agreed to loan his player out. Moore averaged 14.5 points, 5.1 assists and 1.3 steals a game last season at SMU.
"It's an honor to be around the Kansas locker room, Coach Self and the tradition here — to be a part of it," Moore said.
Moore said he sees himself as a leader out on the floor, even though
he's only been here since Friday.
He sees Self as a similar image to both Brown and current SMU associate head coach Tim Jankovich.
"I like the way [Self] coaches, fast-tempo," Moore said. "What he says is second nature to me, because it's what I hear everyday from Coach Brown and Coach Janks."
Senior Perry Ellis said he sees practice going well, with the new guys getting to know the system quickly. Ellis added Moore is already vocal while on the court, even though Moore has practiced with the team just once since arriving in Lawrence.
"We've got a lot of guards, and it's really going to help us with pressure
"He moves the ball real well and he can score as well," Ellis said. "The vocal he has is a huge addition to us." Moore adds depth at the point guard spot, standing at 5-foot-9.
situations and how we can play with that," Ellis added.
The first action for the team is right around the corner, starting next Tuesday with the first of two exhibition games at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., against Team Canada. Moore can begin to learn what the current Kansas team and coaches want out of him so he can bring what he has to offer to the table.
"Overall, practice has been going smooth and everybody is competing," Ellis said.
Kansas will continue practicing this week, while holding the second session of Self's basketball camp. Campers will be able to see Moore and the team practice during a scrimmage on Wednesday.
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Some students at state universities in Kansas, including the University of Kansas, face a tuition increase that could cost them anywhere between $150 to $400 per semester.
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About one thirtiefreshmen, transfer and current students will be affected by a 3.6 percent tuition rate increase at state schools decided Thursday. But students with fixed tuition, which is about two-thirds of the student population, will not see an increase this fall.
After the initial proposal on Wednesday to hike up tuition rates, the new plan limits increases at state schools effective this fall. This summer's tuition is not affected.
The hike in tuition and fees will cost undergraduate students up to several hundred dollars per semester. For example, an out-of-state undergraduate's tuition would increase by $413.25, or 3.6 percent of $11,473.50 cost per semester, and in-state by $158.25, according to the Regents tuition and fees report for 2015-16.
communications. "They will not be able to bring in that much revenue."
"There will, I'm sure, be consequences [for] what had been envisioned for [the University of Kansas] next year."
Compared to the other regents schools, tuition at the University of Kansas and University of Kansas Medical Center is already the most expensive. However, the limit makes sure the extra money paid helps the
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state rebound from its $406 million budget deficit.
The limit on the tuition hike means it won't affect some students.
"Because of the four year tuition compact that [the Kansas Board
of Regents] signed into motion in 2012, [the tuition increase] hasn't affected me at all," said Haley Becker, a senior majoring in unified early childhood education from Springfield, Mo. "Without the guarantee that my tuition would not be raised, assuming I graduate in the traditional four years, I would have not been able to afford going to KU."
The tuition compact, also known as guaranteed tuition, was signed in 2012 and means the tuition is fixed for first-time freshmen all four years they are at a university. The limit approved by legislators and regents makes sure tuition and fees cannot exceed an increase of more than 3.6 percent for all students not under compact tuition, whether resident
or nonresident, this coming academic year.
Per protocol, each year every Regents university submits a detailed tuition and fees proposal that lasts through a review process that lasts almost the entire year. In that time, Richardson said the Board of Regents looks at what programs need what resources, the financial aid the University wants to provide, where costs are kept down, the projected enrollment and where adjustments are proposed.
"That process had begun earlier this year, so the proposals, it's fair to say, were originally drafted before the legislature took action," Richardson said.
"The Regents, especially those who work on committee, spend a lot of time to know what the need is and are in a better position to determine tuition rates than the legislature is," she said. "The spirit was to hold this to a lesser increase. That's what was done."
The legislature and regents focused on six campuses over two days of session and there was "a lot of conversation," Richardson said.
The original proposed tuition increase was 3.8 percent for both out-of-state and in-state undergraduate and graduate students and a 6 percent increase for in-state and out-ofstate KU Medical School students. For in-state University of Kansas students, that increase would have also hiked the total tuition and fee amount pay up to 4.9 percent.
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But legislators decided the 3.6 percent limited increase should include both tuition and fees.
In the past, tuition has substantially increased, according to the Kansas Board of Regents data report from 2014. Tuition has risen approximately 35.5 percent since 2009. The average tuition at the University in 2009 was $3,521 with required fees. In the academic year 2014, tuition rose to $4,639, also including required fees.
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Monarch Watch aims to conserve pollinator population
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KELLY CORDINGLEY
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Founder and Director of Monarch Watch Chip Taylor evaluates new monarch eggs. The female monarch butterflies have small tags on their wings to identify their sex.
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Each winter, thousands of acres in Mexico are taken over by the Monarch butterflies that migrate from all over North America to the warmer climate. The spectacle carries on roughly four months, and when winter is over, they'll all have a 1,500 mile or more trip home. However, over the last decade, the number of monarch butterflies making the annual migration has dwindled.
Chip Taylor, professor in the ecology and evolutionary biology departments, is the founder and director of Monarch Watch - a nonprofit education, conservation and research program located on West Campus. He said the beauty of the migration is something you'd have to see to fully comprehend.
"This is a spectacular migration, one of the most spectacular on the planet," Taylor said. "You would have to almost walk into that forest down in Mexico where you have 25 million butterflies in every acre. It's one of our most mysterious but interesting phenomena on the planet."
Part of the education aspect of Monarch Watch involves hosting
educational programs for children as well as hosting open houses for the public. Travis Martin, a fifth-year physics major from Wichita, said whether people know about the plight of the monarchs or not, they're
all very receptive when they learn the monarchs' numbers are dwindling.
"When little kids come to [the open houses] and you get to teach them about everything, that's really fun," Martin said. "People who aren't familiar are really receptive to what we do when we tell them we're losing our pollinators, and that's
going to impact our food sources. There are countless reasons why they should care; they're generally very receptive."
Taylor said the problem lies not only with the decline of monarchs but of all pollinators.
"Pollinators are essential," Taylor said. "They pollinate about 70 percent of the vegetation out there. If you take them out of the system, plants will disappear. That's why monarchs are important; they represent every other pollinator out there."
Removing pollinators from the ecosystem would be tragic, Taylor said.
"If we pull apart the ecosystem, we create less stable ecosystems," he said. "Biodiversity and complexity leads to stability."
Taylor began Monarch Watch in 1992 with an emphasis on education and research. He previously studied bees, but when he knew his funding was soon to be revoked and diverted elsewhere, he opened Monarch Watch. The team there studies migration patterns and tags the butterflies in the fall to track their path.
"[Monarch migration] is one of our most mysterious but interesting phenomena on the planet."
"We built an organization based on the idea more research was needed
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on the monarchs, and we needed public interest, and then we always thought conservation was important, but we didn't know how important it'd really become," Tay-
In the early 2000s, herbicides and $ ^{*} $ weed-resistant plants were heavily implemented in farming, thus destroying the monarchs' food supply of milkweed — the weed on which they feed exclusively. Milkweed is commonly found among corn and soybean crops. When the monarch population began to drop, Taylor
began a conservation effort in 2005 and later a "Bring Back the Monarchs" program.
In 2007, President George W. Bush signed a Renewable Fuels Standard designed to convert corn to ethanol, and because of that, there was a massive boom of corn being planted and produced. Since many crops have been modified and made weed-resistant, milkweed hasn't been able to thrive in these new crop fields as it once would have.
"In the five years following that program, we saw 28 million acres converted to corn and soybeans," Taylor said. "They took all sorts of habitats and that contributed to the decline of the Monarchs."
In 2014, President Barack Obama brought together 60 specialists to discuss what could be done to prevent even more deterioration of the species. Taylor was one of those 60.
A few months later, Obama came out with a memorandum instructing the 14 federal agencies to move forward toward making any of their landholding a safe habitat for pollinators.
"We need to bring industry together with government agencies to rectify and make habitat for monarchs and pollinators," Taylor said. "I'm getting calls virtually every week on these kinds of things."
Monarch Watch, along with striving to rectify the monarch problem, employs students, most of whom are hired in September. Martin became involved when his sister began volunteering two years ago.
"After graduation, I'll still come back here from time to time because I like this place, but it won't be my career," Martin said. "I'm a physics major so it doesn't really line up with what I want to do, but I really
like being here."
Martin said this job is unlike any other he's had because he feels like he's making a difference in the world.
"With everything we do with education and conservation programs, I really feel like I'm contributing to help save the monarch butterflies," he said. "I feel like I'm making a difference."
Although there is much work to be done and it's too soon to tell if the president's memorandum has worked, Taylor said individuals have the opportunity and obligation to improve the ecosystem.
"We have to recognize what keeps the system together, and we have to decrease the amount of mowing we do,the amount of herbicides we use," he said. "Value those marginal areas. Let the creatures live out there."
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View faith as a relationship, not a religion
Anissa Fritz
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Before I came to college, I went to church every Sunday. Throughout my childhood I went to youth group, and I even spent a few years working in my church's childcare facility. But when I went to college eight hours away from home, in a different state, and only knowing two other people, my habits of being involved in a church began to fade.
I am sure that others have gone through the same struggle: the difficult balancing act of school and a social life along with keeping true to your faith. But as Miley Cyrus said, "Going out doesn't make you a bad person. Just like going to church doesn't make you a good person." Just because you don't go to church or pray every night before you go to bed does not mean that you are straying from your beliefs. When trying to decide how to act out our faith on a daily basis, we should look at it as a relationship, not a religion.
When I began to look at my religion as a relationship with God, things started to change. I looked at Him as a friend, rather than some high-up figure in the sky who would strike me with lightning if I didn't
church. Regardless of your res beliefs, think of your higher as you would your childhood end. If you talked to your the same way every day and from the same things, your re- p would lack depth and be if you saw them only once a Sunday for two hours and had so much to share with you, you just sat there and focused not falling asleep, that would art any friend's feelings. Both of these things apply to how we pray or spend time with the higher being that we believe in.
Once you make the ideological shift from looking at your faith as a religion and instead looking at it as a relationship, you also tend to care more about how you live out your beliefs. Going to church no
longer seemed like a chore; when I could go, I was excited. Praying was no longer something I did before every meal, but throughout the day whenever I needed to vent or ask for help. Because that's what friends are for, right?
I have nothing against churches or organized religion. But I do believe that in order to strengthen and fully embrace the hope and love that religion offers to millions of people, we must look at it as a relationship rather than a chore. When this change occurs, what was once a god that condemned you when you forgot to tithe becomes your ultimate best friend.
Anissa Fritz is a junior from Dallas studying journalism and sociology.
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Do black lives matter at KU?
Cassandra Osei
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Do black lives matter at the University of Kansas? This is a question I have routinely asked this past year. I have demanded an answer from the chancellor, the provost, Student Senate, the University Daily Kansan, KU Athletics, the University Honors Program, the Undergraduate Advising Center, friends who are no longer friends and fellow peers. I never get straight "yes" or "no" answers. Instead, I receive "suggestions" that are non-verbalized "no's."
Today, I received another negative suggestion. As the Office of Multicultural Affairs is one of the few spaces endowed with integrity on campus, they were the sole University entity to issue a statement on the June 17 Charleston terrorist attacks. Typically, they are the only University entity to state any kind of concern or solidarity for marginalized students on campus. They are always the first and the last to issue statements on police brutality and state-sanctioned violence against black people. The OMA was also the sole University center that offered its space to all Universityaffiliated individuals to come for
support, dialogue, and community discussion over the Charleston terrorist attacks. Non-OMA affiliated groups on campus usually applaud the OMA for their efforts in providing safer spaces for their marginalized students on campus. I also applaud the OMA staff; their names are Precious Porras, Cody Charles, Mauricio Gomez, Camille Clark,
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and Melody Henning. They are exceptional people with integrity.
"To be exceptional," however, "is often to be lonely." I would also say that it is a health hazard when an environment is toxic. Before preparing for the discussion, I saw these same exceptional, brilliant people teary-eyed, fatigued, anxious, and depressed. In addition to finding a way to "get it together" in time for the forum, they also had to put on their brave faces as orientation facilitators. They smile and laugh through the pain as predominantly white freshmen and their families smile and laugh with them, clueless and unassuming of their lives beyond that particular moment. Imagine how damaging it is to routinely be alone in your fight for equity and inclusion, ignored or reprimanded by your boss and peers for doing the right thing, and still expected to go about your day as if nothing has happened. You are in the twilight zone, routinely asking yourself, 'Am I crazy?'
On top of asking if "black lives matter" at KU, I also asked myself if I was crazy. How is it that the
majority are not affected by seeing black people be murdered every week? How am I expected to attend class, study and ace exams when I'm constantly reminded that I can be murdered for eating Skittles, wearing hoodies, swimming, driving, asking for help, playing in the park, breathing, shopping, minding my own business or going to church? Is it normal for me and other affected students to greet each other with weary faces, tense nerves, and cynical comments about how we're next? Where do I look for support, if my natural allies themselves are too weary, if my administrators are too afraid of political fallout, if my professors and University employees are intimidated by potential backlash or accusations of "favoritism"? What if this stress is building off of unaddressed trauma, from being kicked out of a historically white fraternity house for not being a "pretty white girl" to seeing resident assistants laugh and do nothing when I see "f** n***ers, feed n***ers, and kill n***ers" on a floormate's calendar in the dorms? When I'm expressing my fears and concerns, why are they dismissed by demanding that I remember that
"Jayhawks come from all different backgrounds and some of them have never interacted with black people before coming to KU"? Why are those threatening that I be lynched on YikYak never told "racism is not tolerated here"? How am I supposed to feel when I hear rumors that an administrator supposedly shot down a suggestion for increasing black student enrollment by claiming an increased presence would drive "white Johnson County students away"? All of these are suggestions that affirm that indeed "black lives don't matter" here.
Chancellor Gray-Little has expressed that we seek help through counseling services at Watkins to get through our stress. Under-resourced, underpaid, and hyper-stressed staff do not make it an ideal space for all Jayhawks, but the lack of ethnic and racial diversity makes it especially daunting for students of color to seek services to discuss mental health, racism and trauma. When I brought this up to the Chancellor, she noted that if a white psychologist can do their job competently, they should be able to work with any student regardless of race and ethnicity. This is no solace
for the many students of color who have already been dismissed by their professors, staff members, peers, and administrators; why should they be forced to automatically put their faith in folks who may not have specific training in addressing trauma from racism? If the University community chiseled through that trust PR disaster after PR disaster, from #rockchalkinvisiblehawk to #imnotpaco, how can we consider presenting our most vulnerable presents to those who may chisel at what is left of us? Will my campus, its black students and their allies drop dead from stress, killing us with its own handcrafted bullet?
I don't know how many black students KU lost this year due to its failure to address anti-black racism within and outside its campus, and following that, our collective mental health. After #rockchalkinvisiblehawk and #imnotpaco, the PR threat pushed KU administrators to act. This op-ed may encourage action, or it may be ignored — another suggestion that affirms "black lives don't matter."
To those who want to prevent KU from depleting its black student population, and people of color at
large, I encourage you to give your stressed peers a hand. Address injustice on campus wherever you see it; do not leave the aggrieved population to be the sole group pained by police brutality, xenophobia, Islamophobia and transphobia; and motivate your respective departments and centers to push forward reform from within. Write your statements of support to students, facilitate your own workshops or forums, and reach out to campus community members in your own spaces. Visibly and vocally maintain that we matter, put your support behind efforts to increase funding for psychological services and retention programs, and treat us like we exist, rather than invisible exotic monsters. That lends to a more productive, healthy campus community and the that, yes, "bla
Cassandra Osei is a 2015 graduate from Shawnee majoring in history and Latin American and Caribbean studies. She is also a recipient of the Rusty Leffel Concerned Student Award.
Women need to practice strength training
Jessica Gomez
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Whether we want to admit it or not, bikini season is here. It came out of nowhere and hit us like a truck, leaving us with regret over the decision to hit the sheets with Netflix
instead of the gym.
Luckily, there are multiple types of workouts one can choose from between cardio and strength to help solve this problem. But many women stay away from lifting weights because they think doing so will give them a bulkier build. This is entirely a myth.
Only about 20 percent of women practice strength training every week even though lifting just twice a week can reduce body fat by 3 percent in 10 weeks, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Strength training burns more calories because they will continue to burn off after the workout.
A study by the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found that if you do an hour of strength training,you burn an additional 100 calories the following day.
An article on Healthline explains how adding weights to your exercise routines benefits you in a variety of ways. Strength training creates and preserves muscle mass. As women grow older, their percentage of body fat increases if they don't keep creating muscle. Lifting reduces the risk of many issues, such as osteoporosis and future injuries. Making lifting weights a routine slows down bone deterioration and makes them stronger while increasing your
balance and coordination, which is crucial as you age.
According to the Women's Heart Foundation, because women have high levels of estrogen it is difficult to become overly muscular. Something that often gets overlooked is the importance and impact of diet. The word "diet" doesn't necessarily mean juicing or no carbs; it relates more to your eating habits and schedule. Consuming higher levels of protein is what builds muscle.
An article on Breaking Muscle states protein is the most important factor in maintaining lean muscle mass. Eating on a college budget is difficult but can be done. I know
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The idea that lifting weights will automatically make women bulky is a lie, so grab some dumbbells and work toward a healthier lifestyle without the fear of looking like the Hulk in a few weeks.
- Jessica Gomez is a senior from Baldwin City studying journalism and global studies.
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Boulevardia kicked off last weekend in Kansas City's West Bottoms with music, vendors, food and, of course, beer.
The festival, named for Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Mo., featured a wide range of Boulevard's choice beer lineup as well as other brands, including the Lawrence-based Free State Brewing Company.
This year's festivities brought a renewed focus to recycling and a plan to have a zero-waste event by 2018, meaning that all waste is planned for reuse, compost or recycling to some extent. For example, next year
vendors are required to use compostable napkins, plates and utensils at the festival.
As part of its push for sustainability, Boulevardia dubbed a section of the festival "Greenville." Greenville featured stands displaying visual and interactive displays about recycling and minimizing environmental impact. Volunteers stood at the 20 waste, recycling, and compost stations throughout the entire event to ensure materials made it in the right bins. Various sustainability agencies in the Kansas City area, such as Habitat for Humanity and Better Block KC, lent a hand to the sustainability efforts and provided further information about their agencies.
A festival with so much emphasis on the environment was bound to bring in equally passionate volunteers. Volunteer Cristian Miranda
said he wanted a cleaner world by doing rather than just talking.
"I just want to be a part of the solution," Miranda said.
David Johnson and Leanne Breiby, who graduated from the University in 1995 and 2006, respectively represented Better Block, a nationwide movement looking to improve neighborhoods block-by-block. Recently, Better Block has worked on integrating more protected bike lanes in Kansas City.
Johnson and Breiby handed out chalk and encouraged festival-goers to write on the large blackboards behind them that read "What would make your block better?" Responses ranged from light-hearted to serious. Ideas such as "more ping-pong parties" focused on fun, while comments like "less judgement" concentrated on underlying issues.
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Top: Brittany Keegan, one of the museum's curators, shows off her favorite artifact, a 1950s x-ray that measured feet and shoe size in shoe stores.
Bottom: Cole Finley, collections assistant, explains how to retrieve a basketball from a peachbasket used in the original versions of basketball. The artifacts are on display at Watkins Museum.
Alumni tell Lawrence history through work at Watkins Museum
KATE MILLER
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On the northwest corner of Massachusetts and 11th Streets, the big red building has stood since 1888, a tribute to Lawrence's rich history. Fittingly enough, it houses an homage to that very history — the Watkins Museum.
Exhibiting history and artifacts from as early as the 1850s, the Watkins Museum turns 40 this year. While multitudes of University students have explored the Museum during a walk along Massachusetts Street, some of them wandered in and never left.
Brittany Keegan and Cole Finley are just two among a plentiful staff of University alumni and students within the museum. Both began as volunteers while studying toward their bachelor's degrees in history, deciding to stay with the museum after graduating.
"With a job like this, you would think it's a day after day kind of thing, but it's not," said Finley, a collections assistant and 2014 graduate. "You never know what to expect." Whether it be planning and implementing new exhibits, categorizing collections and new donations or answering questions from researchers, the museum keeps the two of them busy.
"It seems like all the time we're looking for something," Finley said. "That's always something to look forward to — the surprises that come along."
Keegan and Finley both emphasized the storytelling of history as their main interest. History is always
changing despite its age, Keegan said, and the fluidity of those stories intrigues her.
"History is stories about people in the past," said Keegan, a curator and collections manager and a 2010 graduate. "I think it gets taught as very abstract or lesson-based things you see — good guys and bad guys but it's not that.
"It's very much people making the same decisions we make today in a different time period with different technologies or for different reasons. It's as complex as people are," she said.
The Watkins' exhibits are far from abstract, as the staff aims to continually bring in new audiences to the museum. The permanent exhibit displaying Kansas' history through the Civil War and beyond incorporates several multimedia elements. An exhibit that celebrates John Brown includes an audio recording of "John Brown's Body"; visitors can follow along with General William Quantrill's 1863 raid on the city with an interactive touchscreen map.
But the museum also features traditional artifacts. Keegan's favorite is a 1950s X-ray machine used for measuring feet and shoes in shoe stores, and Finley's is a collection of artifacts from veterans in World War II—his favorite era of history.
"Picturing those objects is my basic time portal to the past," Finley said. "I can hold an object and it's a hundred years old and that connects me to that time. You have actual stories of those people who went through those events. That, I think, is the best way to learn about history."
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Exhibits about the University are commonplace in the museum; with the history of Lawrence tied so closely to that of the University's, a great deal of the artifacts have some connection to the University.
"We try to tell Lawrence's story," Keegan said. "Lawrence is many things — it's KU, but it's also outside of KU; it's Lawrence, but it's Douglas County as well — and we try to tie a lot of those things together." The museum features original hardwood from when basketball was played in Hoch Auditoria, newspapers from championship basketball years, and a desk that once belonged to James Naismith — which Finley likes to believe was what the original rules of basketball were written on. For all the exhibits on display in the museum, there are hundreds more hidden away in storage in the attic, as well as off-site. The staff tries to rotate temporary exhibits out every three to six months to display artifacts buried in the back of the attic. The most recent exhibit, one that Keegan helped to develop during her time at the University, celebrates the 150th anniversary of emancipation by exploring the Underground Railroad.
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The Watkins Museum of History is located on the corner of 11th and Massasschusetts Streets in downtown Lawrence. Originally, the building was a bank and city hall until 1975 when the museum first opened. This year marks the 40th year of ongoing exhibits at the museum.
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side of the Underground Railroad story in Lawrence and beyond.
"We've seen sort of a change in the way the history is being told for the Underground Railroad," she said. "When I was younger, it focused on the white people involved. But it's really changed to focus a lot more on the people that were escaping. This is the opportunity to really share that story, show that it's not the story of the conductors, but of the people bringing themselves to safety."
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Both Keegan and Finley said their studies at the University impact how they do their work today.More than anything, their time in the history department taught them how to properly research — and tell the truth above all else.
The Underground Railroad exhibit will be displayed until Wednesday. Next up is an exhibit on the 1939 National Cornhusking Contest, which was held in Lawrence and attracted 130,000 people.
"We want to make sure that there's complexity, and that we're not characterizing things as good guys and bad guys," Keegan said. "We know there's lot of different stories and that we're getting a range of those stories."
As a historian, Finley said he has to put aside his school pride, especially when it comes to the Civil War.
"We have to find the absolute truth, whether you agree with it or not. You have to forget about the Missouri hatred as a KU grad," he laughed.
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Boyer works alongside Sam Sivagnanam and their "instructorin-training," Isaac Bird. Boyer and Sivagnanam have been teaching parkour in Lawrence for five years and have taught more than 100 people, including Bird.
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The parkour students at the Lawrence Gymnastics Academy (LGA) on Sunday nights vault over and roll under gymnastic beams, jump over multi-colored foam blocks and work on their form for rolling under obstacles. They're not there for gymnastics; they're there to practice parkour.
"Parkour, in its simplest form, is discipline for flight," said Jason Boyer, one of the instructors at LGA.
Bird has been learning parkour under Boyer and Sivagnanam for four years. He began as a gymnast and
when he heard about the class,he decided it was something he wanted to try.
"I really got into the free flowing aspect and spiritual sense of it," Bird said. "It's the most efficient way to get from Point A to Point B."
Boyer got started doing parkour when he was attending college at Columbia University in New York City.
"The first introduction to it was so inviting and that really launched me into a love of parkour," Boyer said.
Sivagnanam started practicing parkour after she met Boyer. They would train together on the University's campus where she was finishing up school. Today, Boyer and Sivagnanam have 40 students, ages 8 through 18. Sivagnanam said people don't need to sign up for a whole semester worth of class and sometimes people drop in and out because of school sports schedules.
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PITCH PERFECT 2
Currently the highest-grossing musical comedy film of all time, "Pitch Perfect 2." meets back up with the Barden Bellas after they've been suspended from performing. Now Beca (Anna Kendrick) and the rest of the Bellas must win the Worlds a capella tournament. With the same ensemble cast as before, this film is sure to be a family favorite this summer. In theaters now.
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George Miller's dystopian epic is a must-see for summer vacation. The breathtaking action sequences, amazing practical effects and gripping tale of oppression amidst a post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland come together to create an over-the-top, but hugely entertaining action flick. In theaters now.
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This action-packed comedy film written and directed by Paul Feig stars Melissa McCarthy as an unassuming CIA analyst who becomes a field agent after a mission with her partner (Jude Law) goes bad. With a phenomenal supporting cast and witty dialogue, this movie looks to be an exciting thriller, but also something the whole family could enjoy. In theaters now.
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This up-and-coming film stars Shameik Moore as Malcolm, a nerdy high school senior who finds himself in possession of a stash of ecstasy and on the run from a drug dealer. Despite the serious subject matter, this movie looks to have a very upbeat, endearing attitude and has already started turning heads at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. In theaters now.
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Seth MacFarlane reprises his role as Ted, the talking teddy bear, this summer. Alongside his best friend John (Mark Wahlberg), Ted must fight to prove he is a real person in order to have a baby with his new wife Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth). This sequel is sure to provide the same hilarious tongue-in-cheek, dialogue-driven comedy that is MacFarlane's specialty. In theaters June 26.
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"Self/less" stars Ben Kingsley alongside Ryan Reynolds as a wealthy, dying man who attempts to achieve immortality by transferring his mind to another body. With what looks to be amazing performances from both, as well as supporting actors Matthew Goode and Natalie Martinez, "Self/less" has the potential to be one of the best films this summer. In theaters July 10.
MINIONS
In this prequel to the "Despicable Me" franchise, three minions travel the country looking for a villain to serve. Kevin, Stuart and Bob end up attempting to work for Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock), the world's first female villain. The third, but likely not final, addition to the "Despicable Me" story is sure to provide laughs for the whole family. In theaters July 10.
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Amy Schumer stars as a commitment-phobic magazine writer in "Trainwreck." Having lived a life of one-night stands and flings due to her father's cynicism, the character Amy is surprised when she finds herself falling for the subject (Bill Hader) of a sports story she is assigned. With two hilarious leads and an ensemble cast, this move is sure to leave audiences laughing. In theaters July 17.
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Jake Gyllenhaal portrays Billy Hope, a famous boxer, at the height of his career. Before Hope can retire, however, his world is torn apart, and he has no choice but to return to boxing. Gyllenhaal will no doubt deliver another knockout performance alongside Rachel McAdams in this upcoming film. In theaters July 24.
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"The End of the Tour" is a dramatized adaptation of David Lipsky's account of his time spent with David Foster Wallace at the cusp of his fame. Jason Segel portrays Wallace in an uncharacteristically serious role; however, he will no doubt deliver an outstanding performance. Aspiring writers and fans of Wallace's work should not miss this movie. In theaters July 31.
FANTASTIC 4
One of the most anticipated superhero movies of the summer, "Fantastic Four" stars Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell as four humans who travel to another dimension and gain superhuman abilities. This film is sure to be another great installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In theaters Aug. 7.
In this dramatized biopic about the legendary rap group, a cast of relatively unknown actors portray the emergence and rise of N.W.A in the 1980s. From the director of "Law Abiding Citizen" and "The Italian Job," "Straight Outta Compton" is not only highly relevant in today's rap-obsessed culture but has the potential to be a fantastic dramatic film. In theaters Aug.14.
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In his first film since "Man of Steel," Henry Cavill stars alongside Armie Hammer in the film adaptation of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Set in the 1960s, a CIA agent and KGB operative must队 up to stop a secret organization working toward the proliferation of nuclear weapons. With comedy-infused action, this film looks to have something everyone can enjoy. In theaters Aug. 14.
AMERICAN ULTRA
In what can only be described as a stoner's take on the Bourne series, Jesse Eisenberg stars alongside Kristen Stewart in the upcoming comedy "American Ultra." Small-town stoner Mike realizes there are parts of his past he doesn't remember as government agents are sent to kill him. This film is sure to be a hit amongst college students everywhere. In theaters Aug. 21.
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When detective Bruce Kenner (Ethan Hawke) gets John Gray (David Dencik) to admit to a crime he doesn't remember committing against his own daughter (Emma Watson), a psychologist (David Thewlis) is brought in to investigate. "Regression" has a small but remarkable cast and looks to have the potential to be a chilling, thought-provoking film. In theaters Aug. 28.
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Locals made their way to Lawrence Free State High School for the 7th annual Rock Chalk Roundball Classic on Thursday to benefit local kids fighting cancer and their families.
Former Kansas basketball athletes and coaches separated into two teams for an action-packed charity game. The red team, coached by Kansas basketball legend Isaac "Bud" Stallworth, led 50-36 at half-time. It shrunk to a two-point game in the last two minutes, but late three-pointers by 2011 alumnus guard Tyrel Reed allowed the red
team a 102-91 win over the blue team, coached by 1986 alumnus forward Calvin Thompson.
"It's always good to win, but we like doing it for the kids," Stallworth said.
Another 2011 alumnus guard, Mario Little, led the way with 36 points for the red team. Ben McLemore led the blue team with 33 points.
For event director Brian Hanni, there were some special moments in this year's event, including the pregame concert from Topeka band Race Bandit. The program honored other local kids battling cancer as well, with several kids given the opportunity to be honorary coaches
for each team.
Beneficiaries Levi Ross, 18, and Dade Cannon, 11, were in attendance at the event.
"Both of them celebrated the night as the true stars," Hanni said.
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The two are going to go to Colorado, Mount Rushmore, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and driving down the Pacific Coast Highway, stopping in Baja, Calif., and making a stop in Las Vegas, said Kelly Potter, Ross's sister.
Tyshawn Taylor comes up against Cole Aldrich as he dribbles down the court in the Roundball Classic game Thursday, June 18.
McLemore gave his signed, gameworn shoe from the charity game to Cannon, who said he really liked meeting the players after the event. Cannon's other favorite player to meet was Danni Boatwright, because of her sense of humor and how she liked to have fun, he said.
"Most of the players played for entertainment and not just winning or losing," he said.
"Every year it gets better," Aldrich said. "It's awesome coming back and
Aldrich said he appreciated the fans coming out for him and other players, even though he's been away from Lawrence for five years now. This is his fourth roundball classic.
Former Kansas players Cole Aldrich and Tyshawn Taylor both donated their court-worn shoes from the game to a quick auction during the final timeout of the game. The shoes brought a total of $500.
"It was an impromptu thing that Cole and Tyshawn wanted to do and that's rewarding to see," Hanni said.
[seeing] what Brian [Hanni] and his crew do for this event every year."
Former Jayhawk and current coach of the University of San Francisco men's basketball team Rex Walters said he liked participating in this year's game.
"It's great to be asked [to participate]," he said. "Bud gave me the start and we ended up getting the win."
Christy Cannon, Dade's mother, said she was pleased with the turnout for the event.
"We are very grateful and thankful that the gym was standing room only," she said.
Overall, Hanni said this was the best event of the last six years. The organization surprised him with a plaque at haltime honoring him for the work he has put into the event.
"I was surprised," Hanni said. "It meant the world to me to receive that honor."
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Kansas prepares for World University Games
DYLAN SHERWOOD @dmantheman2011
Kansas basketball is less than a week from seeing its first action in the World University Games.
Before the team leaves for Ghwangju, South Korea, on June 28, the team will play two exhibition games against Team Canada on Tuesday and Friday at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.
The Jayhawks are missing starting sophomore guard Devonte' Graham for the tournament. Graham was ruled out due to a partially torn quad tendon suffered during a scrimmage for Bill Self Basketball Camp last week. No surgery is required, but
Kansas found another guard quickly to fill Graham's spot. On Saturday, Kansas announced Florida Gulf Coast senior guard Julian DeBose will replace Graham on the roster for the games. DeBose arrived in Lawrence on Saturday and started practicing with the team on Sunday.
Graham will not play in South Korea and may not travel with the team.
"Joe [Dooley, Florida Gulf Coast men's basketball coach] had talked to us about Julian," Self said in a team release on Saturday. "I called Joe after Devonte's injury, and Julian was able to take the next 25 days off on three days notice."
Self said DeBose is similar to former Kansas guard Travis Releford.
DeBose averaged 11.9 points and 3.9 rebounds for Florida Gulf Coast last season.
SMU guard Nic Moore will have a bigger role in the tournament because of Graham's absence. Kansas already lost junior guard Brannen Greene for the summer as he is rehabilitating from his hip surgery in April.
Kansas' opponent for the two exhibition games is the Canadian development men's national team. Barnaby Craddock, coach of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, coaches the team. The Canadians will practice in Lawrence on Friday before leaving for South Korea on June 27.
The Jayhawks are using their practices to adjust to the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) rules and a 24-second shot clock for the international tournament.
"Practices are going pretty good," senior forward Hunter Mickelson said. "We are getting better as the summer goes on."
Last August Mickelson traveled to Estonia and Finland with the USA East Coast Basketball Team for the Four Nations Cup, making this his second trip overseas for collegiate basketball.
Junior forward Landen Lucas also played overseas last summer with the Athletes in Action, a sports ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ,
in the six-game Baltic Tour of Estonia last summer. Lucas said he's familiar with spending time outside the U.S.
"I kind of understand the cultural difference and it's going to be an experience for all of us, but we will get through it together," Lucas said.
In addition to the two games in the Sprint Center, Kansas will also scrimmage Canada several times next week while both teams practice in Lawrence.
The exhibition games on Tuesday and Friday will tip at 7 p.m. in Kansas City, Mo.
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Bright future ahead for track star Michael Stigler
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Former Kansas track star Michael Stigler exhausted his collegiate eligibility after the NCAA Outdoor Championships last week. He immediately goes from top dog at the NCAA level to the new guy as he transitions to the professional level.
Stigler's first endeavors beyond the University begin on June 25 at the USA Championships.
Now back in Kansas, Stigler is preparing for the 2015 USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships. He opted to return to Lawrence instead of staying in Eugene, Ore., where both the NCAA and USA Outdoors are held this year.
"As long as [sprints and hurdles] coach [Elisha] Brewer is here, I'm going to be here," Stigler said. "I trust my coaching staff here. We have a great coaching staff here with Coach [Stanley] Redwine and Coach Brewer."
Stigler will enter the USA Outdoor Championships as a bit of an underdog. Bershawn Jackson (48.09 seconds), Johnny Dutch (48.13 seconds) and Michael Tinsley (48.34 seconds) have all recorded better times in the 400-meter hurdles this year than Stigler's 48.44 seconds.
Stigler needs to finish in the top
three to guarantee a spot at the World Championships in Beijing. Tinsley has an automatic bid, so if Stigler finishes fourth with Tinsley ahead of him, Stigler would still go to Beijing.
However, Stigler won't settle for squeaking into the World Championships.
"I know that I'm ready to run with these guys, and I'm sure they know it as well," Stigler said. "I know they're waiting for me. When the day comes, we'll be lacing them up and ready to go."
Stigler finished second in the USA Championships in 2014 behind Johnny Dutch. His first run this year takes place June 25. The semifinals and finals kick off on June 26 and 27, respectively.
The next year and a half for track includes two USA Outdoor Championships, the 2015 World Championships, the Olympic Trials and the 2016 Olympics. Stigler, fresh off a national championship, is already back at work.
"I'll be here year-round," he said. "My training pretty much is going to stay the same — continue lifting and coming out here on the track busting my tail off to try and make this world team."
Stigler's personal best of 48.44 seconds at the Texas Relays does not
guarantee him a spot on the Olympic team in 2016. Although his time gives him the fourth best in the world, Stigler must compete with the three ahead of him for limited spots on the U.S. Track and Field squad.
The 2020 Olympics provide a strong backup option for Stigler. He would get extra time to bulk up and prepare as a professional. But making the 2016 Olympics is still the goal.
"Personally, I don't think he has to wait four more years," Brewer said. "I really think he has a great opportunity and a great chance to make that team next year."
Transitioning to professional life is tougher for Stigler this year. His competition consists of experienced professionals, who have the benefit of being in the middle of track season. Stigler just finished his collegiate track year and must now begin a new season.
Jackson, a four-time USA Outdoor Champion, is helping Stigler bridge the gap between the collegiate and professional life.
"[Jackson's] been a mentor for me. I met him right after high school," Stigler said. "He's really a guy that I looked up to and a guy who's going to help me transition and adjust to the professional life."
Stigler plans to graduate from the University in December with a major in communications. Brewer said Stigler will most likely be an undergraduate coach in the fall and a volunteer coach post-graduation.
Not only will Stigler get to train in Lawrence after graduation, but he
will also learn about a career he is interested in pursuing after track.
"He wants to go into coaching," Brewer said. "I think this gives him an opportunity to not only train underneath me but also work with me as well, to kind of learn the other side."
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Caitlin Jonesler was cautiously hopeful as she peeked at the news on her phone during her Friday morning meeting.
Then the flood of joy hit her.
She had to fight back tears texting her wife, Keirsten Jonesler, to tell her their marriage would finally be recognized as legal in all 50 states.
Keirsten cried tears of joy all day after hearing the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal in America. Caitlin, who attended the University from 2002-05, said they received congratulatory text messages from
"We've been joking about 'happy gay marriage day,' but then I was like, Wait a minute, it's just happy marriage day," like we're normal people," Caitlin said.
family and friends throughout the day on June 26 as the pair revealed in their excitement.
Although the women were married in Lawrence last October in front of their family and friends, their marriage certificate is from Hawaii, where same-sex marriage has been legal since 2013. A couple days before the two married in Lawrence, Chief District Judge Kevin Moriarty
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The largest tax hike in Kansas history is set to go into effect Wednesday, raising sales tax from 6.15 percent to 6.55 percent. The legislature decided on a tax plan to fund the budget on day 113 — 23 days past the end of regular session.
Sen. David Haley (D-Kansas City) said all the tax hikes, including those on food, will hurt working Kansans.
"Make no mistake, this recent legislation increases the tax liability for average and lower-income Kansans, while continuing to reduce if not eliminate tax liabilities for wealthiest
He said Gov. Sam Brownback and many conservative legislators intended to burden the poor most.
Kansans and corporations," Haley said.
"It's to shift the cost of government from the wealthy to the poor," he said.
Rep. Barbara Bollier (R-Mission Hills) said the governor's statement that the tax plan "continues our transition from taxes on productivity to consumption-based taxes and provides a mechanism for reducing income tax rates for all our citizens" is misleading because while there is less tax money coming into the
During the economic crisis in 2010, Kansas and other states raised sales tax, but Bollier said the hike was unnecessary this time around.
state, it's because businesses and the upper-economic group pay little to no tax.
"It's very unfortunate because it puts a higher burden on the poor," she said. "Now, the governor can say they're not paying income tax, but we researched it, and they're paying more in food and sales tax. We don't have a crisis now that everyone else had; we have a self-induced one."
Haley referred to the tax plan as "the Robin Hood effect."
pay period when you're wondering why you're shortchanged."
One major sticking point Bollier said wasn't addressed was the elimination of income tax, something she said is poor policy.
"The number one thing for me is that it didn't address the long term failing of this plan, the plan being to eliminate income tax," Bollier said. "It continues down a policy road that in my opinion won't be appropriate for our state."
She said she doesn't believe the majority of Kansans and Kansas businesses are in favor of this plan.
legislature spent too much time on issues that were less significant than passing the budget and tax plan.
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"It's bad policy, even the businesses admit it, they're willing to pay some tax," she said. "I still can't figure it out. The majority of the state doesn't want this plan. It was bullied forward."
With this session being the longest in Kansas history, Haley said the
"Their priorities were on issues that were less important than finding revenue to offset the governor's Robin-Hood-in-reverse failed experiment," Haley said.
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Activists stand in the ilius Davis Park in Kansas City, Mo., prior to a rally sponsored by LGBT advocacy group Equality Kansas on Friday. The rally was organized in celebration of the United States Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage nationwide in Obergefell v. Hodges.
of Johnson County ordered marriage licenses be given to same-sex couples. They had already applied for their marriage license in Hawaii.
"We got our marriage application and about 30 minutes after we picked it up, they came back and said 'No, it's not actually legal.'" Caitlin said. "We had family members asking if they would get arrested coming to our wedding, and it's like, 'No, just because it's not legal doesn't mean it's illegal."
Instead of dealing with hyphenations or figuring out which last name to use, Caitlin and Keirsten decided to combine their last names. Caitlin's last name was previously Wisler and Keirsten's was previously Jones. From that they came up with Jonesler.
"It started out as a joke, and I really loved it, so it just stuck," Caitlin said. "I've heard of a few couples that have done it. It was harder for her because she just added a couple of letters to her last name, but it worked out."
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage 5-4 on Friday, June 26. The case originally came to the Supreme Court after numerous states overturned bans on gay marriage. Fourteen couples and two widowers brought the case. Lead plaintiff Jim Obergefell lost his husband John Arthur to Lou Gehrig's disease nearly two years ago. He fought to be recognized as Arthur's spouse on the death certificate.
When the Supreme Court decision was released, crowds of people flocked to the Planting Peace Equality House in Topeka. Director of Operations at Planting Peace David Hammet said people were hugging and crying together, many in disbelief.
“五 years ago they would tell you 'Maybe in my lifetime we'll have marriage equality.' Now it's recognized as part of the constitution; it's an undeniable right," he said. "It's
incredible; it's amazing and exciting. It means something unique to everyone."
Hammet said this is a victory, but there's still a long way to go towards ending homophobia. He compared it to the civil rights movement of the '60s.
"A lot of people threw their hands up, and said 'We dealt with racism, it's over,' but we know all too well that we have not broken down racism," Hammet said. "This is a great moment, but there's so much more to come. Anytime we move forward, people resist it."
Gov. Sam Brownback issued a statement after the Supreme Court ruling.
"Activist courts should not overrule the people of this state, who have clearly supported the Kansas Constitution's definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman," Brownback said in the statement. "We will review the ruling carefully to understand its effects on the people of Kansas."
Richard Levy, J.B. Smith distinguished professor of constitutional law at the University, said although some elected officials may not be pleased with the high court's decision, the Supreme Court's ruling must be followed.
"The United States Constitution is the highest and most fundamental law in the country and it supersedes anything in Kansas law, so the ruling is binding on the state of Kansas," Levy said. "The state must grant marriage licenses and recognize marriage licenses granted by other states."
Hammet said it's unfortunate when elected leaders live and think in the past. In 2005, Kansas passed an amendment clarifying that in the state marriage is defined as being between a man and a woman.
"We know the majority of people in every state are for marriage equality," Hammet said. "It's unfortunate we have elected leaders living in the
"I am a little nervous about fanatic people out there," she said. "I heard an interview on NPR, and this guy is saying his soul is devastated, and it's like, 'My life has nothing to do with you and your devastated soul.'"
past, living in a hateful bigoted past." According to a Gallup poll, 60 percent of Americans believe same-sex marriages should be recognized as valid. While that is up 23 percent from 2005, Caitlin said the disdain for same-sex marriage is still ever present in society.
Levy said he's noticed a dramatic change in public opinion of same-sex marriage, and the court's decision reflects the public's opinion.
"Courts move slowly, and given the prevailing attitudes about homosexuality, courts were partial about
culture," Levy said. "In my lifetime, there's been a dramatic change in cultural attitudes."
Hammet said he thinks there will be an uptick in violence against LGBT individuals by people angered at the ruling. He also worries about individuals being fired from their jobs or being denied housing. In some states, including Kansas, it is legal to fire state employees for their sexual orientation. In February, Brownback repealed protections for LGBT state workers.
Caitlin said the possibility of someone reacting to the ruling violently has crossed her mind. She and Keirsten talked about attending a celebratory rally the Friday night but decided against it.
"It crossed my mind that this is a
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gathering of a lot of homosexuals, and there could be that person that gets after them," she said. "I have a fear still sometimes when my wife and I are walking around. For example we just went to Tennessee, and we had to ask each other 'How things are here,' and 'Can we get away with holding hands?'"
While the public eagerly awaited a vote, Caitlin said she's glad the court took time before voting because it would have been much worse if it had voted to uphold bans on same-sex marriage.
"I was hopeful, but I was scared of it. Everyone just wanted them to go ahead and vote, but we gained more by their waiting," she said. "It's really exciting and amazing."
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With little more than a year until the 2016 presidential elections, Republican, Democratic and Independent candidates alike have announced their intentions to run. Between studies, work and other responsibilities, it can sometimes
be difficult for college students to find time to engage with local and national politics or even find time to vote. However, in an age when voter turnout for older demographics is much higher than that of younger demographics, it's important for college-aged voters to exercise their right to representation.
According to an analysis from civicyouth.org, only 21.5 percent of eligible voters aged 18 to 29 cast a ballot in the 2014 midterm elections. Although voter turnout as a whole decreases during primaries and local elections, the outcomes of these elections can affect young students and citizens just as much as national government.
In February, Gov. Sam Brownback cut education funding to help balance the state budget. Those cuts were felt by both K-12 and state universities because they had to cope with the lost funding immediately. Those cuts have also resulted in a 3.6 percent increase in tuition for University students. The legislature recently voted to increase the sales tax from 6.15 percent to 6.55 percent, which is the largest in Kansas history.
This is precisely why the upcoming year is going to be an important one for our voting demographic. Both the presidential and local elections will happen next November so we have a huge chance to let our
voices be heard and vote in politicians who will represent the issues and stances that matter most to us.
If you aren't registered to vote or if you want to find information on currently elected officials, usa.gov has all that info in one convenient place.
If young eligible voters educate themselves on the issues and the candidates running for elections and vote, our demographic will be more fairly represented and issues that affect us directly might not be ignored.
Ross Lubratovic is a senior from Overland Park studying creative writing.
Norm of catcalling women should no longer be tolerated
Anissa Fritz
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If you are a woman, odds are it's been done to you. If you're a man, it is very likely that you have either seen it or done it yourself. "Catcalling" is well known and common, but this degrading act toward women that has become the norm needs to stop.
show how disrespectful it is to do this to a woman, or any human being. By catcalling, men are taking the humanity from these women. The men who yell phrases such as "nice breasts" across empty parking lots view women as animals, as the name "catcalling" implies. Like summoning a dog, these men are summoning women.
The term "catcalling" alone should
The major injustice of catcalling is the disrespect and discomfort that these catcallers are placing on their victims. These men do not have the decent respect to walk up to a woman and address her, as though she is not even worth the 15 steps it would take to look her in the eye and introduce themselves. Catcalling is nothing short of cowardly.
I can recount a few times when a man has yelled "charming" things to me from across streets, parking lots or even as I walked by. The first few times, I said nothing. I was so in shock that a complete stranger, in broad daylight would have the audacity to say the words "you're looking good, baby" to me.
I did not say anything, and neither did anyone around me. If and when I do summon the courage to make a remark letting the catcaller know that what he did was not OK, I am immediately overcome with fear. Thoughts such as "Will he follow me? Will he yell at me again?" echo in my mind as I find myself walking faster in the opposite direction. For those who may want to argue
that I was in a tight dress and 8-inch heels while these incidents have happened, I was not. Athletic shorts and a T-shirt are usually my outfit of choice.
Regardless of what you wear, where you are or if you are alone, no one should have to fear being disrespected and dehumanized. And for those who partake in the activity of catcalling, your words and glares that you mean as fun and games, strike fear and guilt into the women whom you call "sexy."
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Students must take steps toward understanding social justice issues
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Before moving to Kansas, I lived in the south. I never had a problem fitting in or having people ask me where I was from because of my last name, Gomez, which is often automatically associated with Mexican descent.
When I moved to Kansas there were kids at my school who'd always tease me for being Mexican and being a "Gomez." But I'm not Mexican — I'm Spanish as well as English. Spanish and Mexican descents are
from different countries and different continents. Just because I'm not considered "white" or a majority, neither I, nor any other person, should be teased. Maybe the problem is that people don't know any better because they've never been taught about cultures besides their own.
We don't realize it, but creating our own truths, scenarios or automatic opinions can end up being harmful or offensive to another person. Another problem is that most of the time, our own truths are not the full truth.
We need to be more aware of the issues within social justice and the potential harm of them. What we need is cultural competency understanding other cultures and types of people by looking through a different lens than the normal one we use every day.
Students usually want to feel a
sense of belonging and presence on their university campus and not have to worry about what people will think of them based on cultural or ideological differences. They come to college to seek those lifelong friendships they've heard about and to create memories with those people. When we get to campus, sometimes we look at people too closely rather than critically.
For example, two people are walking on Jayhawk Boulevard to class one man, one woman. In your mind you may ask yourself: "Are they a couple? Are they just friends? Are they going to study together for a class?" In your head, you've already constructed your own story of their relationship. (or even strangership) because you don't see through multiple lenses.
The argument is diversity versus social justice — and equality versus equity. Equality is where everyone
gets the same thing: for example, everyone gets a pair of shoes that are the same type and same size. The problem is, not everyone needs the same thing — what they need is their own shoe for their own size, because not everyone is the same.
That's where equity comes in. Equity is the quality of being fair and just. Since everyone isn't in need of the same thing, we must adapt to their needs and find their access to them.
Diversity is being aware, tolerating, celebrating and accepting different things. But social justice should be the focus. Social justice contains the privilege versus oppression theory, where we base things automatically off the answers to questions like the following: Where'd you come from?
- What high school did you go to?
- What was your motivation and obligation to do what you do?
- What was your household type?
- What activities did you participate in?
But the thing is, why do the answers to these questions matter?
The truth is, they shouldn't. Who we are is who we are, and how we got there isn't important. Our privileges are unasked for, unearned and invisible. We'll never understand our own privilege because we always have them.
We need to be reminded of the importance of thinking critically and to always stop and think, "What's missing?" KU is such a large, diverse university, and that should be embraced.
Jessica Gomez is a senior from Baldwin City majoring in journalism and global studies.
Ask Anissa: Do I follow my parents' rules when they seem unreasonable?
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Q: I'm a sophomore, and I live under my parents' ruling. This year I wanted to get an apartment instead of living in the dorms, but they told me if I did they'd stop paying for my college and possibly take away my car, all because they're afraid I'm going to have my boyfriend in my room. This summer, I haven't been able to see him much because they don't want us getting "too comfortable." What do I do?
A: College is the perfect breeding ground for developing a complicated relationship with the humans we call "mom and dad." You're on your own in college, doing what you want, on your own time, with whomever you want. But for the most part, parents still pay for food, gas, housing and sometimes even our fun stuff like that Wheel pizza that you "absolutely needed to have or else you would die" at 1 in the
morning.
On the other hand, boyfriends provide cuddles, forehead kisses and oftentimes free meals that come with an excuse to get dressed up. But through personal experience, boyfriends may come and go, but your parents have been there for you since day one. If your boyfriend can fully support you and all of your financial needs, then you can live wherever you want. Until then, respect your parents' decision.
Life is better when you are on good terms with your parents. Like I said, whether we want to admit it or not, most students wouldn't even
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be at the University if it wasn't for the financial and emotional support our "parentals" provide. Once the semester starts back up and you have your freedom back, you and your boyfriend can see each other whenever you please. Plus, if you two really care about each other, it shouldn't matter where your spend time together, but that you are together at all.
The summer right before my freshman year of college, my parents made the executive decision to not allow me to take my car. Their reasoning was that I would be seven hours from home, and everything
I needed was on campus anyway.
I was livid — I had been driving for almost three years at that point. How could they possibly make me go back to the stone age of walking and asking for rides? But after going through my freshman year of college without a car, I ended up thanking them. There were times where a car would have been nice, but in the big picture, not having one was what was best for me.
'That's the cool, yet also annoying, thing about parents: oftentimes they can see what is better for us way before we can. Bite the bullet and follow your parents' rules. No
Anissa Fritz is a junior from Dallas studying journalism and sociology.
guy is worth risking losing your tuition, your car and your parents' trust. And if he is the right guy for you, I'm sure he will understand and support you respecting your parents.
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The West Nile virus hit Kansas this month, according to a Kansas Department of Health and Environment news release. So far, one Kansas woman has been severely infected.
The KDHE confirmed the first person to be infected with the virus in Kansas this year on June 10. Currently, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma are the only four states where humans have been infected this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's updated report.
In 2013 there were 92 cases of West Nile virus in the state of Kansas. That number fell to 54 in 2014, the KHDE report shows. So far in 2015, there's just one: Mary Powell from Ash Grove.
Powell works in agriculture and most of her work is done outside, which made her more susceptible to the West Nile virus. Today, she's forced to rest because of muscle aches
and fatigue.
"My recovery is much slower as I have to avoid the heat, making my job more difficult. I am only working part days, and it is hard for me to do that," Powell said. "The fatigue is awful; I just can hardly keep going, and I have to rest a lot or I get real shaky. I am very stiff and my muscles ache a lot."
She has had three IVs for dehydration so far, lost her appetite and her blood pressure has drastically fluctuated. Before her diagnosis, she felt weak and fainted. It took several blood tests to determine it was the mosquito-spread virus.
"This virus is wicked, and I've never had to fight this hard to get well before," Powell said.
She said day-to-day activities are difficult to handle, and her doctor recently ordered bed rest for a month. It's been almost six weeks since she was infected, but the symptoms have progressed. The CDC reports that less than 1 percent of infected people develop a "serious, sometimes fatal, neurologic illness."
"When you hear that West Nile virus is around, people don't really see the concern," said Savannah Abbott, a fifth-year senior at the University majoring in public administration and policy.
That all changed for her when her mother, Georgia Abbott, almost died from the virus a few years ago. Before then, she didn't think of how severe it could be, she said.
In February about three years ago, doctors quarantined Georgia because they couldn't find the cause of her symptoms.
Even though Georgia contracted West Nile years ago, the virus has had long-term effects. Some individuals with a mild infection feel fatigued with muscle aches while others, like Georgia, get worse symptoms, the CDC reports.
"Because of the West Nile [virus], she got acute seizures, lymph node issues with her throat, and I guess the doctors say it's because her immune system was shot," Savannah said. "They said it was good she was
[40 when she was infected] because she could fight it. But if she had had a weak heart, she probably wouldn't have made it."
At the time, Georgia was hospitalized for three weeks. Today, she needs to take prescription medication to keep her immune system strong for her thyroid and vertigo when symptoms arise. She also suffers sleep apnea.
"It's just sad now she will still have to deal with the aftermath of what made her so sick," Savannah said. "Now she has to get all the pharmaceuticals for the rest of her life because of the bug bite."
This June, the Kansas Biological Survey saw a spike in a mosquito type that carries West Nile around Sedgwick County, said Aimee Rosenow, public information officer at the KDHE.
"We saw this early on because we were doing research," Rosenow said.
Prevalence of West Nile virus by state, Jan. - June 2015
No WNV Activity
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Most people infected with the virus, about 70 to 80 percent, have no symptoms, according to the CDC.
Powell recalled feeling dizzy and what she described as "heart flutterings."
Rosenow said there was an uptick in a certain type of mosquito population known for spreading the virus. However, none of the mosquitos in their collection have tested positive yet, Rosenow said. Researchers with the biological survey capture, test and report mosquitoes from nine sites in and around the Wichita area weekly.
"It's really hard to predict year-toear how many cases we will have," Rosenow said.
For now, health officials advise those who work outdoors to remain covered with long-sleeved shirts and pants, wear insect repellent and contact their doctors if any symptoms occur.
"West Nile virus itself isn't forever, but [it's] the other things that became problematic," Savannah said.
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Benjamin Waller, who graduated this May, created a feature film entitled "The Hardest Thing to Earn," which deals with sexual assault.
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It's a classic story: boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy loses girl. But recent graduate Benjamin Waller, from Alton, Ill., wanted to portray something different with his final film at the University.
"It's a relationship movie at the core," Waller said. "It's guy meets girl, strikes up relationship, and things pretty much go bad. Both these characters are very flawed; their relationship never really connects because of miscommunication. That's one of the core themes of the film."
The film, "The Hardest Thing to Earn," was created for Waller's honors project. The feature film runs 80 minutes long and is one of the longest to be produced by a student within the Department of Film and Media Studies.
Waller, who wrote the script, produced, directed and edited the film, chose the title from one of his favorite quotes: "Love is the most beautiful thing to have, the hardest thing to earn, and most painful thing to lose."
"It's a drama with some awkwardly comic moments; it's a bit of a genre blend," he said. "I refer to the film as a dark romantic dramedy."
The film involved a cast largely comprised of students within the film and media studies department. All cast and crew members volunteered their time to work on the film, which began shooting last October.
Waller started writing the script last July.
"I wanted to make something that I could make, first of all," he said. "For this, I needed to write something that logically you were able to actually make the film on a low budget."
Although the film deals with issues of sexual assault, Waller said the prevalence of sexual assault on high school and college campuses — especially involving alcohol — didn't cross his mind when he first wrote the script. As the story began to develop, he realized how important the film could be.
“[Sexual assault] is such a huge issue globally, especially overseas, and it's not only accepted, but condoned," he said. "It's just an issue that's very personal to me. I've always been attracted to social issues when writing. It's just impossible to take on such a huge subject in such a short period of time. I just wanted to approach it on a personal level with a character-driven film."
Jordyn Cox, a recent graduate from Wichita, plays the lead role of the girlfriend. "The Hardest Thing to Earn" is her first feature film appearance.
"It was a challenge at times," Cox said. "I've always really enjoyed roles that have a lot of depth to them, where you can explore not only the character's past but the character's emotions, their dreams, their fears. It was really great to have a character who is incredibly complex."
With the production process lasting nine months, Waller and Cox both said the cast and crew of the film created strong bonds — their favorite memories from the process.
As the actor who carries the film's message, the casting of Cox in the lead role was a key moment for Waller.
"Making a feature film is hard," he said. "It's the camaraderie that really kept us going. There were lots of long days and long nights. None of us were getting paid; I've sunk thousands of dollars of my own money into it."
"What attracted me to Jordyn was that she looked the part and nailed the audition, but she has a very vulnerable quality about her," Waller said.
For Cox, the message of the film stands out more than anything else.
"It's really been an amazing opportunity that we've been able to work as a team and make this movie about an issue that is so important," Cox said. "The hope with the film is to bring light to this issue and to have people realize this is a problem — something does need to be done about this. We really hope this film will be a way to spark that conversation."
The crew shot the film at various locations around and outside the city, including the abandoned high school in Lecompton. The assistance from the Lawrence community was instrumental in the success of the film, Waller said.
"I really learned that you need the help of the community to get a film made on a low budget," he said. "Without them, it couldn't have been possible; the community was awesome. We got all these cool locations."
Waller plans to premiere the film at Liberty Hall late in July. After that, he hopes the film will make the film
festival circuit.
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In a study of undergraduate women, nearly 1 in 5 women (19 percent) experienced attempted or completed sexual assault since entering college, according to a report published by the CDC in 2012.
According to the same report, 1 in 71 men reported experiencing rape at some point in their lives. This leaves questions about the resources available to survivors as they wade through the process of filing complaints and reports, attending therapy and seeking justice.
The Kansan sat down with the Lawrence Police Department, the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access, the KU Public Safety Office, Lawrence Memorial Hospital and Student Affairs to try to answer a question that college-aged students continue to ask themselves:
"I think I've been sexually assaulted. What options do I have?"
The following is all information, resources and procedures available to the Lawrence and University community.
Editor's note: The Kansan strives to be a resource to all in our community. During our continued efforts to report on this topic fairly and accurately, we realized the need to create an online resource center where survivors can go and learn what options they have. The page will be live and continually updated at Kansan.com for anyone to use. The Kansan also recognizes that this guide is optional, and each survivor must choose for themselves what they want to do after sexual violence. This guide is an attempt to make the decision easier for survivors by listing their options.
A note on language:
Kathy Rose-Mockry, executive director of the Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity, said the vocabulary currently used when referring to those involved in sexual assault crimes is "complainant," the one who reports the crime, and "respondent," the one who is allegedly accused; however, when describing situations where the crime was not reported or hasn't yet been reported it is best to use "survivor" and "alleged perpetrator." The word "victim," while commonly used, is actually a medical and criminal term and can often come across as alienating to a survivor. The Kansan also understands some prefer the term "victim" or even "victim-survivor." We understand that those who have experienced sexual trauma, like all individuals, have the right to label themselves, and we respect that right.
What to expect at a Sexual Assault Forensic Exam
This information is from Terri Woodson, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) coordinator at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Woodson has 38 years of experience in the emergency/trauma department.
A note on language:
These exams and kits are known by a variety of names including rape kit, SAFE exams (Sexual Assault Forensic Exam) and Sexual Assault Evidence kit. LMH tries to use the term "SAFE exam" most of the time Survivors are generally referred to as patients in the hospital setting.
How the exam works
- Evidence collected is much more than just an exam of genitalia. It includes your whole body — for example, skin samples and hair samples from all over the body.
- The evidence collection kit will be sealed after the nurse finishes the exam. Should you choose to pursue criminal charges, it will not be opened again until the trial, when the Kansas Bureau of Investigation's lab will test the samples. KBI is the state equivalent of the FBI.
- The only evidence from the rape kit that IOA can use is the documentation that is included in the written part of the exam, specifically anything showing or describing your injuries; however, this can be a crucial piece of evidence.
- Janice Early, vice president of marketing and communications at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said survivors can request a SANE exam even if they are not going to file a police report or a report with IOA.
- The patient will never have to wait in the waiting room because workers don't want them to feel like everyone is looking at them and want to give them as much privacy as possible.
- Most of the time patients come in through the emergency room and once the patient registers, they will immediately be brought back to a room, either the protocol area or the family area.
- All rooms in the LMH emergency room are private rooms.
- Next, paperwork begins. The patient will visit with the primary nurse and then the SANE nurse will be called in.
- LMH will always have a SANE nurse on-call. They currently have 13 trained SANE nurses who have gone through training including a 40-hour class, orientation at LMH and training for the photography portion of the SAFE exam.
- SANE nurses have 30 minutes to get to the hospital. During this same time, an advocate from GaDuGi is called and the patient can choose to have them go through the process with them. Often the patient does want the advocate there because they can help with the process once the patient leaves the hospital as well as supporting them during the exam.
- Whether you've brought a friend, family member or use the advocate service, if there are any uncomfortable parts of the exam the patient can ask them to step out, or if the nurse sees the patient is uncomfortable, they may ask whoever is with the patient to step out.
- LMH has a separate SANE room for SAFE exams. They have had this room for about six years.
- The evidence collection kits are distributed by KBI out of Topeka. Each state has a different kit and the kits in Douglas County are paid for by the district attorney.
- There are two versions of the kit: reported, meaning you're reporting to the police, and non-reported.
- The hospital prefers that the patient report because then the kit is more thorough, but they won't pressure the patient to report if they don't want to.
- Non-reported kits will not include blood, urine or drug testing samples because KBI can't store those things for five years. Non-reported kits consist mostly of swabs, hairs, photos and paperwork.
- Inside the kit are a number of things: lots of information for the patient including information on crime victim support, information on how they will feel, what they're going through and resources. This is also the time when the nurse will give the patient their case number.
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- Next, the patient will sign a consent form. There are separate forms for non-reporting and reporting, the difference being with non-reporting, the patient will sign a form saying they do not want LMH to give the evidence to the police; instead they want to send the kit to KBI and have them hold it for up to five years during which they can decide to report at any time.
- The evidence kit is driven strictly by what the patient wants.
- Nurses will ask the patient to describe what happened starting with the time the incident occurred. They do this to make sure they know what evidence to collect — for instance, bruising, cuts or scrapes. Woodson said describing what happened is one of the hardest parts of the process.
- SAFE Exams generally take two to four hours depending on what the patient has gone through.
- Woodson said when she does exams she explains to the patient every thing she does and why she might need to collect pubic hair,
blood samples, fingernail scrapings or swabs. Not every patient will have every type of sample taken. It depends on what happened in their situation.
- Woodson said it's rare, but when they do have patients come in wearing the clothes the sexual violence happened in, they have clothing for them to change into and supplies for them to shower, brush their teeth, etc. In cases like this they will also collect clothing for evidence.
- Woodson said another difficult part of the process is photographing the injuries. For each area they
need to photograph they must take three photos: a distant shot, a closer shot and a close-up shot with a ruler. This is so if the photos ever end up in court for a trial, it's easy to identify that it's the patient's elbow, leg, etc.
- LMH uploads the photos to a secure computer program. If the photos are sent to the district attorney, they are transferred online through the program and the district attorney must have an access key to download the photos. There's a specific consent form for photography that requires the patient's permission to send the photos anywhere.
- Woodson said it's important that
the patient always know that this is their kit, not the police's kit or the hospital's kit.
- During the exam the nurse will also give medication for STDs, which the patient does not have to pay for, and the nurse will test to see if the patient is pregnant. If the patient is pregnant they will be offered Plan B, also at no charge.
- The nurse will then advise the patient to have a follow-up exam at a later date.
What if my sexual assault happened a year ago and I didn't get a rape kit? Should I still report?
Yes. You can still go to the hospital and get STD medication and counseling. You can also still report to the police. The hospital won't collect evidence, but it's still a good idea to see what resources they have available.
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- The Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access' process, from when the complaint comes in to their recommendations to Student Affairs
- Student Affairs' process, from IOA's recommendation to sanctioning
- The Lawrence Police Department's and KU Public-Safety Office's step-by-step investigations
- Definitions of the terminology
Tips for ensuring maximum evidence collection after sexual violence occurs:
- Do not shower or brush your teeth.
- Leave on the clothes in which the sexual assault occurred and go to LPD, KU PSO or a survivors' organization like the Emily Taylor Center. KU PSO will also pick you up and take you to the hospital. The important thing is to go somewhere you feel safe.
- If you feel comfortable, take a friend or family member for support. The hospital will also have an advocate there to support you and go through the process with you from start to finish if you'd like.
- If you choose to go to LPD or KU PSO, the police will help you change into different clothes, but doing this at the police station will allow them to collect evidence that may fall off your clothing.
- If you absolutely must take your clothes off to change, store them in a clean bag (one that has not been used before). A clean bag will also help if you are not yet comfortable going to the police. If you cannot go to the police for at least a few days, make sure to use a paper bag to avoid mold growth on the clothes. Your clothes can still be used for evidence, but mold growth will interfere. If you can, though, police urge you to go to the police station wearing the clothes you wore when the sexual violence occurred.
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Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity
emilytaylorcenter@ku.edu 785-864-3552
What it offers:
The Emily Taylor Center can help individuals connect with all the additional resources on campus and explain to individuals what avenues might be best for them to look into for example, counseling, help from IOA or setting up a time to meet with the University Campus Assistance, Resources, Education and Engagement (CARE) Coordinator.
The Emily Taylor Center employees can also provide assistance to individuals who want to help or get involved with organizations on and off campus who deal with issues of sexual violence. The Emily Taylor Center can also help individuals who would like someone to come and talk to their sorority, fraternity or organization when things on campus might be upsetting members and they may need someone to talk to.
Are employees here mandated reporters?*
Yes.
GaDuGi Safecenter Rape Victim Support Services
785-843-8985 (24-hour hotline)
What it offers:
RESOURCES
GaDuGi Safecenter offers a number of services including a 24-hour hotline, comprehensive advocacy for assistance with personal safety planning, medical evidence exams, interviews with law enforcement and court proceedings. It also offers therapy services and a connection to the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) that coordinates responses to sexual assaults in Douglas County.
When individuals contact GaDuGi, its first response is to make sure individuals are safe and to then begin the advocacy process. GaDuGi will try to reflect on what individuals might be feeling and assure individuals that it's not their fault. It will then either help the individual discover their options or help the individual pursue whatever decision they have made for example, if they want to file a police report. GaDuGi can not only walk you through each process but also be there as a support system every step of the way. GaDuGi said sometimes it's not always about accessing a service; sometimes it's about something as simple as helping the individual talk to a friend about what happened or tell their parents.
The Willow Domestic Violence Center Women's Care Service
785-841-2345 (24-hour hotline)
What it offers:
The Willow Domestic Violence Center offers free, confidential, 24-hour services to anyone who has experienced any sort of intimate violence, including sexual assault. It is most commonly known for its 24-hour hotline and its shelter, which was the first domestic violence shelter to open in the state of Kansas back in the early '70s.
Willow also offers support services and works with people from start to finish making sure it's helping individuals to get what they need, whether that's support, legal services or referrals, medical services or explaining what happens in each of these processes. It also offers safety planning services for immediate use and revisit safety options as situations unfold.
The Willow Center is also a resource equipped with services for children, work programs, human trafficking situations, community presentations, workshops and prevention education. Willow's Safety and Awareness For Everyone program offers prevention education working with children as young as five, teaching them what it's like to be a good friend, and goes all the way up through college, where Willow offers education on healthy relationships and dating violence.
University of Kansas Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)
785-864-4121
What it offers:
CAPS offers counseling in the form of individual sessions,couples sessions and group sessions, as well as, psychiatric services. It has two staff psychiatrists who can prescribe medication as needed and provide assessments as well.
In order for couples to have sessions together, both people must be KU students.
What if you need to see someone right away?
CAPS offers emergency appointments, for which you can either walk in during office hours and let the receptionist know you need to see someone right away, or call and say the same thing. CAPS always has someone available to take care of situations like this who will work with you to get you in on the same day you call or walk in.
Are CAPS therapists or psychologists mandated reporters?*
No, not for sexual assault. Psychologists and social workers licensed in the state of Kansas are mandated to report if you tell them a minor, an elder or a disabled person is being abused, or if someone is threatening to kill himself or herself or someone else.
Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center
785-843-9192 (24-hour hotline)
What it offers:
Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center offers education, consultation and outreach services. It offers services treating all kinds of mental health issues including people who have suffered sexual abuse and might need therapy, which it specializes in.
Oftentimes survivors have already had the benefit of a specialized service before coming to Bert Nash, but the Center can treat survivors at any stage. Therapy services offered include focused therapy, which is usually three to five sessions, or ongoing therapy for persistent issues.
*A mandated reporter is someone who is required by law to report reasonable suspicions of abuse. According to the National Association of College and University Attorneys, a responsible employee includes any employee who has the authority to take action to redress sexual violence, who has been given the duty of reporting incidents to the Title IX coordinator or designee, or whom a student could reasonably believe has this authority or duty. Campuses must make clear to the campus community which staff members are responsible employees.
This includes anyone paid by the University who represents it, including employees of the Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity but not CAPS therapists or psychologists. As of June 29, 2015, the CARE Coordinator is also a mandated reporter, but Kathy Rose-Mockry of the Emily Taylor Center said there are discussions of changing that.
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Kansas took on Canada in two exhibition games Tuesday, June 23, and Friday, June 26, at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. This week, the team is traveling to Gwangju, South Korea, to represent the United States in the World University Games. The Jayhawks abroad will open the pool play portion of the tournament in a game against Turkey on July 3.
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Frank Mason took over in the fourth quarter in the first exhibition game. Mason was responsible for all points scored in the fourth quarter as he scored every basket except for a Perry Ellis jumper when he was credited with the assist. He finished with 28 points, 16 of which came in the fourth quarter.
Wayne Selden tried to one-up his teammate Mason in the final exhibition game in the Sprint Center. Selden dropped 22 points making 6 of his 11 shots from the floor and 7 of his 8 free throws. He also hauled in 10 rebounds.
"Now that he is our third ball handler, he can crash the glass more, which adds so much to his offensive game," Self said.
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"Hopefully there are games where we don't have to play Frank or Wayne 20-plus minutes," Self said. "It's going to be hard if every game is as hard as these two."
Only time will tell if Self stays true to his word, but not having key pieces in the backcourt certainly hurts this team's depth.
Mason's taxed minutes
Mason was on the floor 84 percent of the time in the two games, averaging just less than 34 minutes per contest.
Looking forward: Possibility of a Big 3
The World University Games and, more than likely, the 2015-16 season will depend on the production of key players Mason and Ellis. But with the recent emergence of Selden, Kansas fans may see the beginning of a Big 3 forming in Lawrence.
"From the outside looking in, it might look that way," Selden said. "But there can never be a Big 3, especially in a college basketball situation."
However, the three players accumulated a combined 96 minutes of action in game two and scored 55 of the team's 87 points. In the two games combined,the big three scored 113 points in 181 combined minutes.
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Despite being projected as a late first round or early second round pick for much of the last few months, Cliff Alexander made it all the way through the NBA draft without being selected. Alexander was certainly disappointed, though he did say on Twitter that he would use it as motivation.
"Started from the bottom before," Alexander tweeted.
Since the 2010 NBA draft, the Jayhawks haven't had too many players go undrafted and still make an impact in the NBA, although that certainly wasn't the case for big man Tarik Black last year. Black was able to make the Houston Rockets' roster, and ended up playing the full season, although he did finish the year on the Los Angeles Lakers.
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In fact, Oubre was the latest Jayhawk first round selection since Darrell Arthur went 27 to the New Orleans Hornets back in 2008, following a year in which the Jayhawks won a National Championship.
Oubre was chosen by the Hawks, but shortly after he was traded to the Washington Wizards, who could have an opening at the small forward position should former Jayhawk Paul Pierce leave in the offseason.
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Long before he averaged 15 points and five rebounds as the star of Kansas basketball's 2012-13 squad, Ben McLemore lived in poverty in St. Louis, Mo. Wanting to provide the resources he lacked in childhood to others, he hosted his second annual Ben McLemore Youth Basketball Camp last week.
"I never had a guy like me come back to my community to teach me the game of basketball, work with me, take me to camps, things like that," McLemore said. "Having the opportunity to get back to St. Louis and Kansas and Sacramento — it's nice to have the type of team to be able to teach the kids."
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McLemore's camp, sponsored by
Ben McLemore plays with the camp participants during his skills camp at the Sports Pavilion in Lawrence last Wednesday. McLemore played for the Jayhawks during the 2012-13 season.
a youth sports camp organization called iSG Camps, welcomed about 80 kids to the Anschutz Sports Pavilion, many of whom came to the camp courtesy of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
The camps pair children from organizations like the Boys and Girls Club with professional athletes across America in three-day camps where the athletes interact with the kids and help them learn about sports.
Marcus Stewart, one of the camp volunteer coaches, said iSG Camps played a major role in pairing the athletes with the camps and getting all the participants together.
"Most everybody that does the iSG Camps are from Ohio," Stewart said. "We travel to different places and the flights, details, everything comes
out of there. We just run a good show and make sure the athletes are comfortable and the kids are comfortable and do the best that we can."
McLemore spent his time at the camp leading drills with the participants and demonstrating his dunking ability to the eager campers.
"I had a good opportunity to interact with [the kids], teach them different things, going around to different stages and stuff like that," McLemore said. "They're having fun and enjoying their time here and learning the game of basketball and working on their game."
"I always tell myself that I wish I
Although this camp was exclusive to Lawrence, McLemore participates in camps in his hometown of St. Louis, Mo., and in Sacramento, Calif.
had this and that, but now I'm the one who's here and having the opportunity to do so," McLemore said.
"I want to provide the best way I can for these kids.I'm really happy that I have this opportunity."
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Stigler finishes just short of qualifying for World Championships
DEREK JOHNSON @DJohnson1510
Michael Stigler finished fourth in the 400-meter hurdles at the USA Championships on Saturday. The top three runners qualified for the World Championships, meaning Stigler missed qualifying by one spot. His time of 48.96 seconds put him behind a trio of former USA Outdoor Champions in Bershawn Jackson, Johnny Dutch and Kerron Clement.
Stigler's season-best time of 48.44 seconds would have tied him for third and put him just one-hundredth of a second away from second place. After finishing with the top time in the preliminary round and the third best time in the semifinals, Stigler could not overcome the competition.
This was not the first time Stigler has suffered a gut-wrenching loss. He suffered back-to-back runner-up finishes at the NCAA Championships in 2013 and 2014.
"I know that track and field is something that I can be great at and it just lakes patience."
MICHAEL STIGLER
2015 NCAA Champion,
400-meter hurdles
"Last year, I knew it was really, really tough on him," track and field assistant coach Elisha Brewer said prior to the USA Championships. "Michael was very disappointed."
Stigler bounced back from the adversity and won the 2015 National Championship. Recently, he was
announced as a semifinalist for the Bowerman award, which is essentially track and field's Heisman Trophy.
"It showed me that I have drive and dedication within myself," Stigler said before the USA Championships. "I know that track and field is something that I can be great at and it just takes patience."
Stigler will spend the next year competing in various events. He will work as a graduate assistant coach at
Now Stigler will get more familiar with his patience and strong work ethic. He should be familiar with his clothing, too, as he's now sponsored by Adidas, the same company that sponsors the University's athletic gear, as announced yesterday.
After losing for the first time in 2015, Stigler will move on again with newfound motivation. His next racing event is undetermined at the moment, but he plans on making a big splash in 2016.
The future looks bright for Stigler. Jackson, the 2015 USA Outdoor Champion, is 32 years old. If Stigler plans to compete until he's 32, he has a decade ahead of him as a professional. He still has a lot of time to figure things out.
"What happened in the past is in the past," Stigler said. "If you dwell on the past you're still going to do it in the present."
Now, at track's highest level, he will look to become one of the best runners in the world.
the University while training for the Olympic trials and finishing up his degree.
Three finalists will be announced for the Bowerman award on July 8. The winner will be announced Dec. 18, the same day the fall semester ends and Stigler plans to graduate.
Stigler's tribulations have culminated in success so far in his career.
SEE MORE kansan.com Go online for coverage of Stigler's journey from the NCAA Championships to the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships.
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NATALIE KNIGHT MAKESTHE TRANSITION FROM PLAYER TO COACH
DEREK SKILLETT
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After a successful collegiate basketball career, Natalie Knight will step into a new role starting this fall — from player to coach.
Knight, who totalled 1,081 points during her four-year college career, will join new coach Brandon Schneider's staff as a graduate assistant coach this upcoming season.
"I've really been trying to learn as much as I can," Knight said. "I've been talking to all the coaches and the administration side of it, just trying to figure out what everybody's role is and what their jobs are and learning what my role is and what I'm supposed to be doing."
Knight, who averaged 12.2 points, 5.4 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game during her senior year for the Jayhawks, said it feels different to be taking on a new role for next fall's squad.
"It feels good to be able to be on a different side of things," she said. "Playing for four years takes kind of
a little toll on your body, so being able to just kind of help the girls and being able to understand that and kind of relate to them helps."
At the end of the 2014-15 season, the University fired coach Bonnie Henrickson. Schneider, who had previously coached Stephen F. Austin to the 2014 and 2015 Southland Conference regular-season titles, has taken over head coaching duties for the Jayhawks.
"[Schneider]'s a great guy. He's funny; he's fun to be around," Knight said. "All the girls love him and I think he fits really well with the program. He's going to make a lot of good changes, and I'm looking forward to seeing what he does for the rest of the season."
"Natalie had a tremendous career at Kansas as a student-athlete and we're glad that she has decided to make the transition from player to coach with our program," Schneider said. "She has been an outstanding
Schneider said he is excited to work with Knight during the upcoming season.
member of the KU community and we're thrilled she will continue to be part of it."
Although Henrickson is now the head coach at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Knight said she has kept in touch with her former coach.
"Coach Bonnie is the reason why I'm in this role," Knight said. "She's helped me a lot along the way and I continue to reach out to her and she reaches out to all the four seniors that just graduated. It's really nice to have that relationship."
Despite the role change, Knight said her teammates have responded well to the different job that she will undertake in the new season.
"They're not any different that they were before. They know I'm the same person; it's just I'm in a different working area," Knight said. "Our relationship will definitely be different, as far as not hanging out everyday, but as far as a personal relationship, I'll still talk to them the same and they can always come to me if they need anything."
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