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University deciding which sexual assault task force recommendations to implement
The University has implemented one of the Sexual Assault Task Force's recommendations, which clarifies the student code. Other suggestions included creating an on-campus sexual assault response team and multiple sexual assault prevention and education programs.
The University plans to consider implementing those and other ideas that the task force recommended in their report in May to improve the campus response to sexual assault. The recommendations are meant to improve current policies and procedures or create solutions that the existing framework doesn't offer.
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So far the only recommendation that has been implemented was a clarification in the student code that the University has jurisdiction over off-campus sexual violence and harassment cases. However, the code has not been clarified to reflect that the University has off-campus jurisdiction regarding domestic violence.
Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, director of news and media relations, said administrators were now deciding which recommendations to implement.
the University had mishandled complaints of sexual assault. The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights is currently investigating two Title IX complaints at the University.
support would be easily accessible for students.
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"I'd like to see continued focus on the issue, not only in terms of administration but also in terms of students," Doan said. "I'd like to see the University be a leader on sexual assault prevention on college campuses."
"Since the report came out,
The recommendations are divided into four categories: policy and procedure improvement; prevention practices; support and advocacy for student victims of crime; and evaluation of code of student rights and responsibilities. They include both long-term and short-term ideas.
University administrators are looking at which ones will be integrated into the work that is already going on to address sexual assault," Barcomb-Peterson said.
Some recommendations are meant to make the reporting and adjudicating process less confusing, such as outlining the procedure for reporting. Others focus on providing resources for victims.
The task force finalized the recommendations after consulting more than 20 campus and community partners and current research on preventing and addressing sexual assault.
Alesha Doan, the former co-chair of the task force, said the University could feasibly begin implementing short- and long-term steps this academic year, including drafting a memorandum of understanding, or MOU, with GaDGi SafeCenter and the Willow Domestic Violence Center, or looking into evidence-based prevention programs. The MOU would create a formal partnership with the centers so that victim
Efforts to address sexual
"I'd like to see continued focus on the issue, not only in terms of administration but also in terms of students."
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Former co-chair of the task force
Barcomb-Peterson said she didn't know when administrators would decide on the recommendations and begin implementing them.
assault so far include hiring a CARE coordinator to help students throughout the process of reporting an assault, making sexual assault prevention training mandatory and continuing to educate students about sexual
WHAT'S HAPPENED SO FAR:
assault prevention.
Sept. 2, 2014 Huffington Post publishes article about sexual assault at the University.
Sept.11,2014 Chancellor establishes Sexual Assault Task Force, reaffirms mandated sexual assault training.
Oct.1,2014 Kappa Sigma fraternity suspended for sexual assault allegations.
Oct.8,2014
Oct. 8,2014 Complaints to the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access of sexual harassment rise.
Oct.27,2014 Campus Assistance Resource and Education (CARE) Coordinator begins work at University.
Nov. 24, 2014
Chancellor approves student code clarification about jurisdiction over
off-campus assaults.
Dec. 17, 2014 Kappa Sigma fraternity placed on two-year probation.
Feb. 6, 2015 University releases sanctions in all IOA investigations for sexual harassment
Feb. 25, 2015 Student Senate passes bill supporting transcript notations for non-academic misconduct, including sexual assault.
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Demand grows for mental health services
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When Marcela Cuestas started sixth grade, she developed an eating disorder.
The sophomore from Wichita began to feel isolated, and self-conscience. Throughout middle school, she lived with feelings of self-judgment and an incessant desire to be perfect.
"Sometimes I couldn't do my homework because I felt like if I couldn't do it perfectly I couldn't do it at all." Cuestas said.
"I just kept putting off life."
"I just kept putting off life."
As she entered high school, Cuestas' eating disorder continued, developing into anxiety and further isolation. Cuestas admitted she was scared to tell others about her problem, for fear of being treated differently.
"I thought something was wrong with me and I didn't deserve to be happy," Cuestas said.
Cuestas said she didn't hide her illness completely, before she told her mom about her eating disorder, she confided in her close friends. Although Cuestas' friends were accepting, she said there were still feelings of uncertainty.
At the end of her freshman year of high school, Cuestas finally told her mom about her eating disorder and feelings of anxiety. She began going to therapy and taking medication.
"A lot of my friends were supportive," Cuestas said, "But I noticed that they really didn't know what to do, and a lot of people wouldn't really know what to do in those instances."
When Cuestas came to KU last year, she heard about the group Active Minds, a student group dedicated to ending the stigma around mental health on college campuses. Cuestas
started going to meetings.
Everyone was so open and willing to talk about things that were bothering you." Cuestas said, "It was just a really supportive group of people and I felt really safe." Now Cuestas is the vice president of the KU chapter of Active Minds. The group holds events and informational sessions designed to get people to talk about mental health. The national organization the Kansas chapter is under started in 2004 and the community has since grown to include 400 chapters in college campuses around the country.
"There's a significant amount of evidence at this point that universities have more and more students that need mental health services," said Sarah Kirk, director of the University's Psychological Clinic.
Mental illness can play a big factor in a student's overall performance said Pam Bottos, associate director University's Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS).
"The kinds of challenges that college students face and feelings that they have about them, the distress that they feel, can certainly affect how efficiently they can function as students," Botts said.
Currently, CAPS is the main resource for students seeking help for mental illness. Last year, Student Senate met with CAPS director Michael Maestas to discuss better ways to handle the high volume of patients.
Wait time for an appointment varied from one to two weeks, Botts said. Since meeting with the director last year, the student senate has established a CAPS Board, which will meet with directors this fall to discuss services.
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Climate study to assess diversity, inclusion among students, faculty, staff
An upcoming diversity climate study will help the University to better address issues relating to campus diversity, like inclusion.
The study, led by Nate Thomas, the vice provost for diversity and equity, will gather statistics from students, faculty and staff about whether they feel valued by the University.
"We are taking steps to make sure that no one feels excluded or unsafe on campus due to their race, religion or sexual orientation." Thomas said.
anonymous feedback.
"This is looking at how people feel valued across the board broken into
The climate study will also gather information about the current social climate on campus, including issues of campus safety and inclusion. In the past, many have felt
uncomfortable voicing their opinions, Thomas said, but the survey will allow for anonymous
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subcategories based on things from ethnicity, religion, to veterans, and how to work around the groups that don't feel included." Thomas said. "It's taking data from the study to develop strategic actions to deal with climate."
This fall, Thomas's office will host focus groups to develop questions for the survey. The survey will be available by summer 2016, and all students faculty and staff will be encouraged to participate.
Thomas led a diversity climate study at the University of South Florida that focused on how students felt about
Last year, a Student Senate task force created a report about recruitment and retention rates of minorities at the University. The study found that the retention rate of minority students was much lower than white students. But this climate study is the first to look at students, faculty and staff on all campuses, including the Edwards Campus in Overland Park and the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., Thomas said.
issues of race, ethnicity and safety on campus. This time he'll have the help of a team, including Mike Rounds, the interim associate vice provost of human resource management. Rounds will serve as chair of the diversity task force committee.
"This study will show how the University needs to advance diversity on campus," he said.
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"Mental health is a continuing conversation," Student Body President Jessie Pringle said. "The counseling and psychological services board will look and address items that can improve services provided this year."
CAPS is not the only location students can go to seek professional help. The University is also home to three training clinics: the Psychological Clinic, Child and Family Services Clinic and the Center for Psychoeducational Services.
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The Child and Family Services Clinic focuses on family and child health. Both the Psychological Clinic and the Center for Psychoeducational Services are open to KU students as well as the general public.
Kirk, who operates the Psychological Clinic, said they have on average 20 to 25 graduate students who are able to provide services to those in need. The clinic sees anywhere from 100 to 140
students in an average year, Kirk said. However, the clinic doesn't take on the volume of students CAPS does. Because the number of students who go to CAPS is so inconsistent, it's difficult to assign a figure that properly represents how many student CAPS sees per year. Kirk said during the busiest time of the year
usually towards the end of semester
the student-run clinic has a waitlist of 2-3 months. The clinic doesn't prescribe medication and sometimes refers patients to CAPS for treatment.
Declining state funding is one of the main issues getting help for students who suffer from mental illness, Botts said.
"For us here, we've been very fortunate and managed well," Botts said. "We have several sources of funding even though some of the state funds are much less, and student senate has been very generous."
Although some students might feel uncomfortable helping help it not as a
"Stigma is much less than it used to be," Botts said. "Students now are much more comfortable with not only seeking help, but [also] being fairly open about it with their peers."
intimidating as it once was, Botts said.
Shrinking the stigma is due in part to on-campus action groups, Botts said. Organizations, such as Active Minds, are formed to encourage healthy conversation on campus and end stereotype about mental illness.
"Mental health is an issue that lots of people feel embarrassed or ashamed talking about," Cuestas said. "There is absolutely no shame in talking about mental illness."
Students who need help can contact CAPS for an appointment or walk in for immediate care if the situation is urgent. The student-run Psychological Clinic is also accepting appointments and walk-ins. The CAPS website also has online resources to help students recognize symptoms.
Cuestas said Active Minds is working with CAPS Director Michael Maestas to develop an online mental health education course similar to Alcohol Education that incoming freshman take before enrollment. The course would educate students on how to talk to friends and family members about mental illness and how to get treatment. The goal is to have the program in place by next year. Cuestas said.
rne Student Senate board will be continuing to look at the needs on-campus and make improvements, Botts said.
As for the students, Cuestas said Active Minds will continue to work to provide a place where people can feel open about sharing their issues.
"We want to provide a safer environment," Cuestas said.
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May 3, 2015 Sexual Assault task force releases policy recommendations
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KU under second investigation for possible Title IX violations
According to an article published by Huffington Post, the University of Kansas has been placed under a second investigation by the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.
The University has been under another Department of Education investigation since last July for alleged mishandling of complaints of sexual assault. The first investigation is still ongoing though OCR tries to complete investigations within 180 days of opening.According to the article, the new investigation was launched last month.
According to the article, OCR has 150 investigations open at universities. Erinn Barcomb-Peterson,
director of news and media relations, said in an email the University is complying with OCR.
"Working cooperatively with OCR is part of KU's ongoing effort to combat sexual violence, as were 'The Hunting Ground' screening and discussion in April; the MOU (memorandum of understanding) between campus and city law enforcement signed last spring; and the chancellor's sexual assault task force recommendations," she said. "As I clarified with the Huffington Post reporter, OCR has indicated that its investigation of the university is not a compliance review or systemic investigation; instead, it is an individual complaint. The university has openly addressed its close cooperation with OCR, including in this message from the chancellor in September 2014."
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Social justice talks in program lineup for Multicultural Affairs
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The Office of Multicultural Affairs is creating campus-wide programs to engage students in conversations about social justice.
Precious Porras, the interim director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, plans to get students involved in both learning about social justice
promoting social, economic and political equality and educating their peers.
These programs, like the OMA's group conversations, will give students an opportunity to participate in social justice discussions on campus. Students who choose to participate in the monthly group conversations will discuss topics like gender, ethnicity and sexuality.
"Last year a lot of things
happened on campus and nationally that led to student unrest," Porras said. "We are taking steps this year to be proactive about these things."
At these programs, students will be encouraged to openly
"Last year a lot of things happened on campus and nationally that led to student unrest. We are taking steps to be proactive about these things."
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express their opinions on social justice topics on camp
"We realize students want to have these conversations so we have created community conversations that take place once a month throughout the year so we can be proactive
and have a space for them," Porras said.
Porras said. OMA is also starting a peer education program.The peer educators will present to campus organizations and students in residence halls about social justice.The educators will also speak to fraternity members,students in residence halls and groups that have questions about social justice.
Porras said she also hoped to increase access to higher education for underrepresented populations, including first-generation students and students of color. OMA wants to improve retention rates by encouraging first-generation students move in a week earlier to adjust to campus life.
developing a plan to fix this," Porras said.
Porras has also worked with admissions to encourage diversifying recruiting.
"The retention rates of minorities at KU are low, so we are collaborating with admissions on recruiting and
"We have presented to them before about retention rates and diversifying where we are recruiting students from," Porras said.
Emily Gullickson, a project coordinator for OMA, works closely with Porras on programs throughout the year and encourages students to join the peer educator team. Advertising for the positions will begin the first week of classes, and job listings will be on the KU job portal in September. The team will be made up of eight to 10 students.
"They will be going into organizations, residence halls, and engaging students on an informal and formal basis on a peer-to-peer level," she said.
Senate works to create free airport shuttle
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When most students were thinking about how much turkey they would devour during Thanksgiving break, Samantha Orender, then a freshman from Burbank, Calif., spent her week in Lawrence because of the hassle and expense of driving to the Kansas City International Airport from campus.
Student Senate has set its sights on resolving that issue issue this fall. Student Senate executive staff members are working to implement a free shuttle service between Lawrence and the airport.
The shuttle system has been in the works since last year, said Isaac Bahney, the communications director for Senate, but the current executive staff ran on a platform that fully intended to finally carry out the plan.
The Student Senate chief of staff, Adam Moon, who is in charge of planning the shuttle service, said the free system would give any student a convenient way to travel to and from the airport during breaks.
"It's a real problem for international students to get to and from campus to the airport, and having the security and knowing there's a service associated with the University would be something nice we could do." Moon said.
Senate doesn't yet know how much the vehicle would cost. Bahney, Development Director Tomas Green and Student Body Vice President Zach George collected data
to find whether there is sufficient demand for the shuttle.
So far, Senate has distributed surveys to freshman at orientation, which asked if they would use the shuttle service. The survey results have not been counted yet. By fall, Moon said he hoped to have had focus groups and testimony that established a need for the shuttle.
When Eleanor Gorton, an international student from Manchester, decided to study at the University, she didn't realize how difficult it would be to get to and from the airport during breaks.
"It was easy to book a taxi or a shuttle, but that was very expensive for me, and people were-obviously reluctant to take me to the airport when it clashed with their classes or it was a very early flight," she said.
For Orender, a free shuttle service would mean more breaks spent at home and a much cheaper way to travel.
"I think I would consider not even having a car if there was a shuttle because the only reason I have a car is to get to the airport," Orender said. "Including gas and the cost of leaving my car at the airport, I spent at least $350 this year."
Without a University-sponsored transportation system, some students have resorted to using other methods of transportation to and from the airport, including a ride-share Facebook group, which has more than 1,000 members.
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The 2016 presidential is approaching quickly, with less than a year before the primary elections. Everyone has their eyes and ears on candidates who will be moving through the party caucuses and primaries of each state, paying close attention to the candidates' vastly different platforms.
ine Democratic Party's approach to college affordability requires more action and government resources than that of the Republican contenders. The two major Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, both have said that they have comprehensive plans to start eradicating college debt and lowering tuition.
One major issue that all college students should be concerned about is the affordability of college education.
Clinton's plan to decrease
college costs requires about $350 billion worth of government resources, both state and federal, over the course of 10 years, according to The New York Times. A huge chunk of the money — about $175 billion - would be allocated to making tuition at public colleges and universities free for the students attending them. The rest of it would go toward easing debt by lowering interest rates on private student loans and allowing g, aduates to refinance them. However, Clinton's plan is meant to ensure that families of students will still be making contributions, albeit more reasonable contributions.
Sanders's plan, which he proposed to Congress in May, requires significantly less money from students and their families — in fact, his plan is to eliminate tuition from draining the pockets of students completely. His plan would be primarily funded by taxes paid to the federal
government, with about 33 percent coming from state governments, according to USA Today College.
The states must meet certain requirements in order to receive federal grants for their higher education spending; they must ensure that the institutions under their jurisdiction are " [maintaining] or [increasing] expenditures on students each year, maintaining or increasing operation expenditures each year and guaranteeing that after five years on this program, at least 75 percent of instruction is taught by tenured or tenure-track professors," as reported by USA Today College.
Conservative candidates have also proposed solutions, but unlike the plans of their opponents, they lean toward restructuring the traditional four-year degree. In response to Clinton's plan, Marco Rubio has proposed to allow a student to get a degree based off
the amount of knowledge they gather during their education rather than how many hours they spend in the classroom.
Rubio "argued that more competition and greater flexibility is needed for working-class people to get the kinds of degrees they need," according to an article in The New York Times.
The Republican candidate Jeb Bush has criticized Clinton's plan for lowering college costs, calling it "fiscally irresponsible." According to his campaign website, Bush has said he believes that there should be policy changes that would give institutions incentives to create more choice and "individualization" for students pursuing a degree. Although his plan to achieve this is pretty vague, he states that those policies would "drive down overall costs, and improve the value of a college degree."
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increase in taxes for everyone. However, as college becomes less affordable for a greater number of people, continuing to increase tuition and loan interest rates and hoping that affordability will improve in the future just doesn't cut it.
While both Sanders's and Clinton's plans will undoubtedly have repercussions, the candidates appear to be the best of the presidential hopefuls in terms of coming up with a quicker solution to an increasingly difficult problem. And between the two plans, the best one would depend on how much Americans are willing to have the government involved with funding higher education in order to make it a universal right instead of a privilege for those who can afford it.
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In addition to being the best season for weather, food and fashion, fall is the start of the academic year, and it sets that standard of how you're going to work and succeed. Whether you're a freshman, senior or transfer, it's a new beginning. There are more people to meet than the year
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before, a new schedule and a new group or club to join.
Maybe last semester — or even the whole year — you didn't do well in classes or lost the friends you once had. This fall is a time to focus on yourself and do better. Hear about tutoring services for a class you had to retake? Use them. Find a group of people who like the same music as you and just happen to be your
same major? Take advantage of that new experience.
There are so many things to look forward to this semester: Hawk Week and making new friends in class, "waving the wheat" at football games, Late Night in the Phog, throwing newspaper shreds in Allen Fieldhouse, FFAs in The Kansas, seeing what the FreeFoodATKU Twitter account has to offer or even what's happening
on Wescoe Beach.
This is my senior year, and it's important to make this the best one yet. Hopefully, others will see it the same way and use fall as a fresh start.As the saying goes, "Out with the old and in with the new."
Jessica Gomez is a senior studying journalism and global studies.
Taking chances leads to personal growth
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Whether you're beginning your college adventure as an incoming freshman, transfer student or this is your last "first day" of college, start the semester with an important thing in mind: Take chances while you are here.
The school supplies are ready, the car is loaded and the end of summer is here. The University of Kansas is the next and final stop.
Consider 'joining a club, Greek organization, or get involved with an intramural sports team or internship during your college career. You can take a class unrelated to your major — like astronomy, religion, ballet or even bowling — simply because
it interests you. Explore new things and take chances, and if you change your major because your interest have changed, you will always be in good company.
is one of the best times for students to try things that are totally new to them. No matter what you may be interested in, college is the place to find out what you like and broaden your horizons.
Taking chances during your time in college is not only beneficial to your academic career, but it also helps you grow as a person. College is about learning, but it's also about discovering who you are and opening your mind. Each chance that you take helps to build confidence that
Along with the freedom and excitement of being on your own comes numerous opportunities offered at college. This
On my first day at the University, I was nervous and overwhelmed just like everyone else because of the new environment, people and expectations. But I soon realized the value of taking chances and making the most of my college experience. Coming to college is taking a chance in itself, but usually it is one of the best ones you will take.
is critical for the future.
No matter where you end up after college, employers look for that person who isn't afraid to take chances and have the confidence to continue to grow. By taking advantage of new opportunities now, you'll learn how much you're capable of and find out what you're passionate about.
Vanessa Asmussen is a junior studying journalism and sociology.
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KU Public Safety adds cameras to bolster reporting
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Since the KU Public Safety Office added 14 new body cameras in January, officers lawyers and the department have been using the footage to assist in putting together police reports.
Captain James Anguiano of Public Safety said the goal of the cameras was to have a convenient and accurate record of situations.
"We looked at [body cameras] because our officers, a lot of times, are out on foot, in buildings and having contact with individuals in different locations and it was an easy, accessible tool for the officer to utilize." Anguiano said.
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The Student Safety Advisory Board funded the new cameras.
Officers on duty are required to wear the cameras and start recording whenever they approach a situation where a crime or conflict might be occurring, Anguiano said.
"When an officer was out there doing their job, before we had the body cameras, you might go in a situation to where you're not going to write a report," Anguiano said. "So this is the same type of thing and the same kind of training."
If officers do a daily patrol of a residence hall and stop to talk with people at the front desk, then they wouldn't record, but the camera would be activated if a fight broke out in the lobby, Anguiano said.
The cameras also record the minute before the camera is activated, which can help determine causes or add context. The officers can consult the footage when writing reports. Footage has also been used by prosecutors and defense attorneys in court, Anguiano said.
KU Public Safety Officer RJ Blevins displays a body camera at the KU Public Safety Office.
"It kind of helps the court process in that everyone can see the same thing because before when you wrote a report it was based on information the officer is giving you and then the interpretation by somebody," Anguiano said. "Now you get to see what the officer, suspect or victim is saying or doing."
The cameras download recorded video to the Public Safety database, where it is saved for about 30 days, unless the video is used as evidence
in a case. Then it is saved until the case is closed, Anguiano said.
Public Safety uses some of the footage for training its officers.
"There may be videos that an officer has that we deem an officer safety issue, or it could be how to respond to a certain incident and we can utilize that with our officers," Anguiano said. "Instead of talking about it we can show them."
The department also uses the footage if someone makes a complaint against an officer, but Anguiano said he didn't think that the cameras changed the officers' actions.
Garrett Farlow, the former chair of the SSAB, said the board funded the cameras so that Public Safety could be best equipped to serve the community.
"We wanted to be able to give our law enforcement officers the tools to succeed and we though the body cameras were the best way to do that," Farlow said.
The Associated Press reported that the Kansas Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight was planning to discuss requiring body cameras in 2016 for all Kansas police departments. Currently, neither the Lawrence Police Department nor the Douglas County Sheriff's Office use body cameras, but both have in-car cameras. Body cameras to outfit the LPD would cost $150,000, according to an article in the Lawrence Journal-World.
Concordia Unified School District 333 Twin Valley USD240 Smoky Valley USD400 Haven USD31 Skyline USD438 Shawnee Heights USD450
Districts that closed early in Spring 2015:
Districts that don't require a teaching certificate:
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Schools facing budget cuts struggle to keep teachers
Schmidt was a student teacher in the Kansas City, Kan., school district this spring, where she said teachers were having to pay for classroom supplies out of pocket without reimbursement. This year, Schmidt said teachers at her school in Missouri were given a budget of $100 for classroom supplies. That, she said, is something most Kansas school teachers don't get.
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"There are a lot of benefits that come with being a teacher in Missouri that Kansas doesn't have," Schmidt said. "A lot of young teachers aren't thinking about retiring yet, but Missouri's retirement program has a built in security blanket, and Kansas doesn't give that."
As education spending in Kansas declines, it may prove difficult to retain Kansas teachers.
More than 3,000 teachers left the state of Kansas at the end of the spring semester according to the Kansas State Department of Education. As the school year approaches, there are 73 open teaching positions in Kansas school districts, according to the Kansas Education Employment Board, or KEEB, a free service that recruits teachers to Kansas schools.
The Kansas City, Kan., school district could lose up to $10.8 million, according to FOX KC.
Paige Schmidt, a teacher in Oak Grove, Mo., graduated from the School of Education last year. She accepted a job in Missouri to be closer to her family and because the benefits in the Missouri district are more appealing than in Kansas, she said.
"It's not fair to the kids. That's what bothers me the most," she said. "It's not their fault this is happening, and they shouldn't have to suffer because of it."
It's common for schools to have a tight budget at the end of the school year, Schmidt said, but it is a problem when schools have to close early.
"There are not enough students gradulating from Kansas universities and colleges to fill that void."
Joseph Novak, a professor in the School of Education, said he believed the cuts and the loss of tenure in Kansas were forcing teachers to leave for other states.
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Last year, 740 teachers retired, and 654 teachers left the state in search of better teaching opportunities, according to the Kansas State Board of Education.
"There are not enough students graduating from Kansas universities and colleges to fill that void," Novak said.
According to the KEEB coordinator, Julie Wilson, fewer applicants are applying for teaching jobs in Kansas.
"It used to be that an elementary posting would have anywhere from 30 to 60 applicants for one posting, and now a district might see around 10." Wilson said.
She said, however, it was hard to say if recruiting had gotten more difficult for school districts. She said it was typically easier for school districts near university schools of education to
recruit.
Some districts are adjusting their requirements in order to find teachers. Six districts in Kansas no longer require teachers to be certified after the state Board of Education made an exemption in July. Schmidt worries that this will affect the learning environments for students.
"Some people are an expert in their concentration, but that doesn't always mean they're good at teaching it," Schmidt said. "That's why the teaching certificate is important."
Novak said school districts have had to eliminate several support positions, including library assistants, teacher aides, custodians and lunch workers. Sometimes teachers are not replaced when they leave or retire. he said.
Fewer teaching jobs mean class sizes become larger. Joe Hornback, a principal at Bonner Springs High School, said that was detrimental to the learning environment.
"Some of these kids don't have a lot of help outside of school, so it's our job to do everything we can to help them while they're at school." Hornback said. "We can't do that to the best of our ability when we don't have enough resources."
Hornback said he has seen significant cuts to his school. He was a teacher for 11 years and has been a principal for nine years. Hornback said he has witnessed the changes in his school district and was afraid the recent changes would become the new normal.
"When the cuts get big and the numbers go down, you can only save so much money on copies and pencils," he said. "When the numbers get to where they are now, the
only thing left to cut is the people."
Bonner Springs High School is projecting that about 60 more students will enroll this school year than last year. Hornback said that kind of increase would mean hiring one or two teachers, but that's not a possibility.
"We've trimmed down all the fat and we're down to the bone," Hornback said. "We're looking at the long-term effects here. If you go through your entire school career experiencing 30 to 35 students in your classes, and there's less attention for the kids, systematically it's going to affect your whole school. It's going to affect test scores and kids going to college."
There are currently 58 fulltime teachers and 75 total people in the faculty at the high school. Currently, 800 students are enrolled.
"I am very proud of what educators have done and continue to do in spite of these dramatic changes," he said. "While teachers hold the fort for now, I am very concerned about the long-term impacts over the next five to 10 years."
"I just hope that the state of Kansas can get back to where they were," Schmidt said. "They were innovative, and developing and progressive. They were leading the way for a lot of educational programs in the US, and I don't see them returning to that level of prestige if schools don't have the funding they need."
Schmidt said it was difficult to see school districts struggling. She said she believed that the districts had so much potential to be national leaders in education, but budgetary changes were holding them back.
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In its first year, the board will focus on reaching out to the 90 percent of students who are not involved in a campus organization, said the board director, Chance Maginness.
In an effort to improve relationships between students and student senators, Student Senate is creating an outreach board, which will work to help Senate better represent all students.
"We haven't been able to reach out to that 90 percent for so long, and we've been caught up in internal debates for so long" Maginness said. "We really want to make sure we're governing for the students, and part of that is making sure they knew we're there for them."
Student Senate created the board partly to complement the new communications director position, held by Isaac Bahney. That position was formed by combining the positions of secretary and outreach director.
With the goal of reaching students uninvolved in an organization, Senate will focus on strengthening the connections it already has, including a tie to the Greek system, Maginness said.
"We are going to work to make sure those who already work with senate know their voices are still heard, and make sure those connections are secure," Maginess said.
The board also wants to re-establish some relationships, including one between Senate and Athletics, which Maginness said needed repairing after Senate cut the nonrevenue sports fee in May 2014 from the required student fees.
Maginness said the student body also lost confidence in Senate when the spring 2014
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"We really want to make sure we're governing for the students, and part of that is making sure they know we're there for them."
Maginness said the outreach
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board would work to regain the trust of the student body. Members of the board plan to use social media to reach out to students, as well as tabling on campus, working with news outlets and holding open forums for students. The start dates for those campaigns have not been set yet.
Bahney said he was confident that the board would be able to improve communication and relationships throughout campus.
"Going out into the community, hearing what students have to say, their concerns
and ideas and bridging that gap between senate and students, that's the goal," Bahney said.
Between 10 and 13 members will serve on the board, including three students who are not senators. Maginness said that those board members were meant to add a better student perspective. There will also be two or three permanent seats for senators from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences because the school has more students than others on campus.
However, the seats for College students and non-senior will be the only permanent ones. Other members will cycle through each year by applying for a seat on the board. Student Body President Jessie Pringle will choose who will serve on the board, but the seats are not chosen yet.
Students who are interested in applying for a seat as a non-senator can contact sbp@ku.edu.
"As far as the outreach board goes, we are looking for people with all different perspectives that can really help us see all sides of things on campus and help us reach out to as many people as possible," Pringle said.
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As Kansas prepares to join seven other states that allow guns on campus, the Kansas Board of Regents, the University administration and University Senate are working to address the possible safety concern.
Universities have been exempt from a 2012 law, which allows people to carry concealed guns into public buildings, but the exemption expires in July 2017. Between now and then, the University has said it will create a plan to abide by the law while maintaining student safety.
Earlier this year, Governor Sam Brownback signed a law, which went into effect July 1, that eliminated the need for training or permits to carry concealed weapons.
implement that security, anyone would be able to bring a concealed gun into any University building at any time.
The law would allow the University to secure the campus against guns by using metal detectors and guards, but it would cost more than $20 million to secure all 237 campus buildings, according to a 2013 report that the University gave to the Board of Regents.
"Right now it's a combination of the General Counsel's office, campus security and administration working together," said Joe Monaco, associate director of strategic communications.
If the University did not
However, the University is unsure of when it will have a completed plan, Monaco said.
The goal is to keep the environment on campus conducive to learning, according to the University Senate President, Michael Williams.
"The purpose of the university environment is to exchange controversial ideas," Williams said. "Interjecting weapons into that creates a different environment. There's extra concern to keep it open to the kind of dialogue the university should be about."
said. "We want to make sure that all of the rational voices are heard. We're not going to debate the second amendment. Our primary charge is to find a way to maintain a safe and secure learning environment."
The University Senate set up a task force to educate the campus on dealing with the changes, Williams said.
The task force includes three members each from Faculty Senate, Student Senate and Staff Senate. Williams said the task force was working closely with the Provost's Office as well.
"A lot of what we are doing this fall is to raise awareness and get the feedback of the University," Williams
"We'll discuss what it will mean for the University and how to best deal with the situations that may arise so that no one calls 911 every time they see a gun because we can't learn and work in those conditions," Williams said.
Gun regulations on college campuses in the U.S.
One of the Board of Regents' goals this year will be campus safety, according to Breeze Richardson, director of communications for the regents. The board may choose to address the issue with a task force or a consultant, or by requesting the reports from the universities, Richardson said.
States that allow guns States that ban guns States that let colleges choose Wash. Mont. N.D. Minn. Ore. Idaho S.D. Wisc. N.Y. R.I. Conn. Nev. Wyo. Neb. Iowa Ohio Penn. Utah Colo. Kan. III. Ind Va. Del. Calif. Ariz. N.M. Okla. Ark. Tenn. N.C. S.C. Texas Miss La. Ga. Alaska Hawaii
"We are identifying our current resources and looking at what other states are doing."
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Richardson said.
There are eight states that allow for concealed carry on college campuses: Texas, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah and
Wisconsin. There and 19 states that ban guns on campuses, including California, Florida, Georgia and Illinois. The other 23 states allow individual campuses to decide
whether to allow guns in their buildings.
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Group advocates transparency in donations to KU
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ALEX ROBINSON/KANSAN The UnKoch KU founder, Schuyler Kraus,a senior from Allen, Texas, speaks with members of the organization at an event on Aug.15.
A student group that spent the last year looking into Charles and David Koch's influence at the University is now pushing for donation transparency at the University. The group, Students for a Sustainable Future, is now looking past the Kochs for other large donors and how donations may affect academia at the University.
The group, led by Schuyler Kraus, a senior from Allen, Texas, has requested documents and contracts between the Kochs and the University, including emails from Art Hall, a lecturer in the School of Business who previously worked for the Kochs.
Kraus wants to create an online database where documents and contracts for public universities are made available for the public. This database would serve as a way to oversee donations made to universities by holding donors and universities accountable, Kraus said.
The Koch brothers have donated $1.4 million to the University's School of Business, which went to hiring a former Koch employee, Art Hall, as a lecturer. The funds also helped in establishing the Center for Applied Economics, which Hall also runs. Students for
a Sustainable Future started questioning the leanings of the CAE and Hall's research last year. The students filed a records request for documents and contracts to see if any strings were attached with the donation and Hall's employment.
Students for a Sustainable Future teamed up with Un-
Koch My Campus, a national organization that reviews contract stipulations at colleges and universities to which the Koch brothers donate.
ers] issue."
The Students for a Sustainable Future petition reads, "We have requested that KU give us access to specific contracts and other documents that will shed light on [the Koch broth-
Obtaining these documents cost the organization $1,800, according to an opinion column written by Kraus that appeared in the Lawrence Journal-World. The group paid this fee last September, and received a portion of the documents before Thanksgiving break, Kraus said.
The documents include information surrounding the hiring of Hall and two other economics professors. The students only received a portion of the documents because Hall filed a lawsuit against the University to prevent the release of the documents. The lawsuit is open.
Hall said the University, as a public agency, had a duty to respond to the request, however Hall argued that these documents were not public records.
Explaining the lawsuit, Hall said he wore three hats, each with a different role and title. He said he saw himself first as a lecturer for the School of Business, second as a director for the CAE and third as a private person. The judge will determine what "hat" Hall wears and then decide whether the documents are considered public. The records that students are requesting are Hall's emails. Hall said he was a "private person" when writing them.
In June, students requested full access to documents regarding Hall's hiring, but were denied by the judge due to the ongoing lawsuit. With the lawsuit still in place, the requested documents remain private until the judge determines if Hall is considered a private person or public employee when the requested documents and
emails were written.
Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, director of news and media relations at KU, said in an email that nothing had changed since the judge denied the request from students in June. If no resolution is made, a trial is scheduled for November.
"There is a privacy and academic freedom issue here," Hall said. "[The lawsuit] has nothing to do with me hiding, just misuse of the law."
Hall also said that the documents showed no evidence of anything mysterious going on with the money donated by the Kochs.
The students said that this was only an example, and the real issue was making sure public universities such as KU were transparent when it accepted money for donors who may have a specific interest in using money to guide academic programs.
"The Koch brothers were our starting point to show corporate entities can come in and give money to universities," Kraus said. "It is an issue for liberals and conservatives alike."
Kraus added: "Really once you have an understanding of what is really happening you see the issue. Ultimately, we don't need to point any more fingers. We need to come together for a solution."
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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.
About one-third of incoming freshmen, transfer and current students will be affected by a 3.6 percent tuition rate increase at state schools, decided June 18. But students with fixed tuition, which is about two-thirds of the student population, will not see an increase this fall.
The increase in tuition and fees will cost undergraduate students up to several hundred dollars per semester. For example, an out-of-state undergraduate tuition would increase by $413.25, and instate by $158.25, according to the Regents tuition and fees report for 2015-16.
"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
"There will, I'm sure, be consequences [for] what had been envisioned for [the University of Kansas] next year," said Breeze Richardson, the director of communications for the Kansas Board of Regents. "They will not be able to bring in that much revenue."
Compared with the other regents schools, tuition at the University of Kansas and University of Kansas Medical Center is already the most expensive. However, the limit ensures that the extra money paid helps the state rebound from its multimillion-dollar budget deficit.
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"There will, I'm sure, be consequences [for] what had been envisioned for [the] University of Kansas] next year."
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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."
Each year, every Regents university submits a detailed tuition and fees proposal that goes 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
The tuition compact, also known as guaranteed tuition, was signed in 2012 and means tuition is fixed for first-time freshmen for four years. The limit approved by legislators and the Regents makes sure that tuition and fees cannot exceed an increase of more than 3.6 percent for all students who do not have guaranteed tuition, whether residents or nonresidents, this academic year.
kept down, the projected enrollment and where adjustments are proposed.
The legislature and Regents focused on six campuses over two days of session and there was "a lot of conversation," 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 original proposed tuition increase was 3.8 percent for both out-of-state and in-state undergraduate and graduate students, and a $ ^{0} $6 percent increase for
in-state and out-of-state KU Med students. For instate University of Kansas students, that increase would have also increased the total tuition and fee amount up to 4.9 percent.
But legislators decided the 3.6 percent limited increase should include both tuition and fees.
Tuition has been increasing
substantially, 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 2014 academic year, tuition rose to $4,639, including required fees.
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Overview
Sorority women — 2,162 (as of spring)
Women registered for recruitment -933
Number of chapters - 12
Number of recruitment counselors - 97
Registration price - $124
Maximum time spent in events -15.75 hours (if a woman has a full schedule every day)
Maximum number of conversations - 75 (based on average conversations each day)
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Total conversations - 24 (2 per chapter)
Sunday — Open House Events 7:30 - 9:05 p.m.
Length of events - 25 minutes
Number of conversations - 2 per chapter
Monday - Open House Events 9 a.m. to 8:35 p.m.
Number of events — 11
Length of events - 25 minutes
Number of conversations - 2 per chapter
First Invitational Events - Tuesday 9 a.m. to 8:35 p.m.
Total conversations - 27 (three per chapter)
Length of events - 25 minutes
Second Invitational Events - Wednesday 10 a.m. to 8:35 p.m.
Total events - 7, women go to max of 6
Length of events - 40 minutes
Total conversations - 18 (three per chapter)
Preference Round Events - Thursday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Total events — 4, with potential for 5th. Women go to max of 3 Length of events — 1 hour
Total conversations - 6 (two per chapter)
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Opting out of tuition compact a financial gamble for students
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Some first-time freshmen have until Monday to choose to opt into the four-year tuition compact, a payment option that keeps tuition prices steady for four years.
Students who decide to opt in to the compact will start out paying a higher price than those who don't, but the compact serves as a safeguard against rising tuition. So students who choose the compact are guaranteed steady tuition, but those who opt out could save money if tuition rises slowly and does not reach the higher price guaranteed in the compact. If tuition increases sharply, they could end up paying more money.
This year tuition is $9,891 for in-state students with the compact or $9,123 without it. For out-of-state students, tuition with the compact costs $25,727 and $23,774 without it.
Only first-time college students can choose to use the compact. The deadline to opt in depends on when a first-year student attended his or her orientation session. Students who attended orientation in June and July had until Aug. 1 to opt in, and those who attended orientation in August must opt in by Aug. 24, according to the University Registrar
website.
Since 2013, the compact has been saving students less and less money, according to University tuition and fees tables. For an in-state student graduating in May who entered into the compact in 2012, tuition will have been $836 more over the course of their education. The compact was more expensive for the classes of 2015 and 2014, too. The class of 2013, which entered into the compact in 2009, saved $391.50.
Students will now be able to choose between security and potentially saving money in the event of small tuition increases.
The the four-year tuition compact gives student sand parents more options when budgeting for college expenses, according to Lisa Pinamonti Kress, director of Office of Admissions.
"By offering the t ion compact as a choice the University is giving students and parents more options to finance a KU education," Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, director for news and media relations at the University, said in an email.
"It is a positive change for recruitment efforts," Pinamonti Kress said in an email. "It provides students and families an option on their tuition choices."
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School districts' requests for aid outstrip funds
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1OPEKA, Kan. — Thirty-eight Kansas school districts are seeking a total of $14.8 million in additional aid from the state to address local budget issues.
The requests submitted to the state Department of Education by Monday's deadline outstrip the available funds by nearly 21 percent. Those applying for extra dollars represent more than 13 percent of the state's 286 districts.
Gov. Sam Brownback and legislative leaders plan to meet next Monday to consider the requests.
The state has $12.3 million in extra funds available.
A majority of districts are asking the state to make up for unexpected drops in property tax revenues. Others have enrollment increases.
The Wichita district is seeking $980,000 to hire teachers, counselors and classroom assistants to deal with an unexpected influx of refugee children from Burma, Congo and Somalia.
What you need to know about Student Senate
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What to look for this semester by executive board member position:
As students make their return to campus for the fall 2015 semester, the Student Senate executive board has been writing legislation, coordinating new committees and preparing over the summer.
Who: Jessie Pringle, a senior from Chanute
STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT
What she's working on this year. As chair of the Kansas Board of Regents Students' Advisory Committee, Pringle will be working with student body presidents at other KBOR schools. Their goal is to look at policy that affects the higher education institutions and advocate for legislation
that will allow universities to work together with the state legislator.
"I think we have a real opportunity to stop complaining about legislators and how they affect higher education by really getting involved with how and why they make their decisions," Pringle said.
Pringle is also working on collecting student opinions on the Kansas law that will allow anyone to bring a concealed weapon into campus buildings. The University is working to create a plan to maintain safety on campus and Pringle hopes to incorporate the data.
STUDENT BODY
Who: Zach George, a senior from Ottawa
What he's working on this year: George is working on publishing course evaluations. If it is successful, students
would be able to access part of the information that comes from the end of semester evaluations. George has already begun working with Development Director Tomas Green to develop a bill that they will propose to the Senate. George said publishing course evaluations is a growing national trend, as many of them can warn students of expensive textbooks for specific classes.
"With the expense of higher education, we think publishing course evaluations will allow students to have more control over their education and get more bang for their buck," George said. "This will be quite a mountain to climb, because it is a very contentious issue with faculty members."
CHIEF OF STAFF Who: Adam Moon, a senior from Mission
What he's working on this
year: In addition to his administrative duties, Moon will lay the groundwork for an inexpensive airport shuttle system between campus and Kansas City International Airport. So far, the project is in its planning stages. Student Senate has collected data and information regarding the project through surveys and focus groups.
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
Who: Isaac Bahney, a junior from Terre Haute, Ind.
Who: Tomas Green, a junior from Seattle, Wash.
What he's working on this year: Bahney will be in charge of creating open forums on campus, one of the platforms of Advance KU, the winning coalition from the spring election. The forum, which would take place a couple of times each semester, would allow students to voice opinions, concerns and ideas to administrators and student leaders.
"The whole purpose is to have a conversation" of some of the issues from last year, around the nation and even sexual assault on campus," Bahney said. "Last year, a lot of students didn't feel like they could talk directly to administrators.
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what he's working on: To push Student Senate's sustainability platform Green said he is coordinating with a number of institutions on campus like KU Facilities Management to get the best value and use with a small carbon footprint. Senate will use unallocated money to fund several projects, including air dryers and LED lighting equipped with motion sensors. Green is also reaching out to alumni and KU Endowment for help
"My hope is to work within our internal structure to draft a timeline of investments we want to make in the next five to 10 years; to plan for and invest in things over a long period of time." Green said.
DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Who: Omar Rana, a senior from Tulsa, Okla.
What he's working on: During the summer, Rana partnered with Mary Morningstar, an associate professor in the department of special education, to write a special education grant to develop a program for students with intellectual disabilities. Rana is currently waiting for the results of the grant request.
Rana is the second senator to hold the position after it was created in January.
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More students prefer parents' healthcare plans than KU's
477 domestic undergraduate students (16.9%)
994 graduate students (35.3%) 1,344 international students required to purchase plan (47.7%)
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University of Kansas students $ ^{*} $ enrolled in student healthcare package
*Total of 2,815 students
In the year since the Affordable Care Act was implemented at the University, 32 student employees have qualified for healthcare plans. This means that they qualify for the plan offered to all state employees, said Ola Faucher, director of Human Resources.
The reason for this may be that the student health insurance plans are sufficient enough for many students, Faucher said. However, some students may choose to stay on their parents'plans rather than look into employee or student plans.
The student healthcare package, which international students are required to purchase and graduate student employees are offered at a discount, is offered to all college students in Kansas through the Board of Regents. For an annual plan not including dependents, a student would pay $1,489.
Source; Kansas Board of Regents
Of these 32, two have opted to enroll in the plan.
At the end of May, 2,815 University students were enrolled in the student healthcare package, according to information provided by Breeze Richardson, director of communications for the Kansas Board of Regents. Of those, 1,344 were international students required to purchase the plan and 994 were graduate students, whose premiums are covered up to 75 percent by the University. That means 477 domestic undergraduates were enrolled in the plan.
As of May 2014, 2,731 students were enrolled in the plan, including 938 graduate students, Richardson said. At that time, domestic and international undergraduates were not broken up in reporting, but a total of 1,793 undergraduates were enrolled.
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Richardson said that any change in the numbers could not be exclusively attributed to ACA. Another provision of ACA dictates that young adults can stay on a parent's plan until they turn 26 years old.
"I may have been offered it when I was hired on at the library a year ago, but my dad's ex-military, so I do healthcare through the government that way," Cox said. "I just chose to do it that way because it was going to be more affordable for me, since I pay for my own stuff. I get that until I'm 26 as long as I'm enrolled in school."
Michael Cox, a sophomore from Augusta, works at the Anschutz Library circulation desk. He said he wasn't sure whether the University had offered him health care because he knew he already had health insurance.
no idea whether she'd been offered health care, but she knew she didn't take it.
Emma Bean, a junior from Colorado Springs, Colo., agreed. Bean, who works at the College' of Liberal Arts and Science's reception desk in Strong Hall, said she had
"It honestly never occurred to me to look at what the University was offering me," Bean said. "I've just been on my mom's plan forever, so it was just so much easier."
Under ACA, this may hold true for many undergraduates. ACA states that if an insurance plan covers children, it will cover them until they turn 26 years old. According to the University's Office of Institutional Research and Planning, only 1,471 undergraduates, or 7.8 percent, were 26 or older in the fall.
der ACA.
Although not all undergraduates, even if they are 26 or younger, are eligible to be covered under a parental plan, many now have the option un-
In an effort to implement the ACA and minimize costs to the University, Human Resources set hour restrictions for students. Each on-campus undergraduate employee will only be allowed to 20 hours per week during the school year and 40 hours per week in the summer.
Faucher said the limits were because of the University's implementation of ACA. Any employee working more than 30 hours over an extended period of time should be offered benefits by his or her employer, according to one provision of ACA.
In the coming year, Faucher said these restrictions will be more strictly enforced.
KU Student Expenses
Total expenses - $4,116
Books - $1,040
Transportation - $1,906
Personal expenses - $1,170, including All Sports Combo ($175) and parking pass.
($260 for the year or $150 for a semester)
Source: Financial Aid and Scholarships
Expenses for first-year students are inevitable, but planning and being conscious of spending can help students adjust to the costs of college living.
Planning can help students save money
First-year students at KU can expect to spend around $4,116 per year not including room and board, tuition and required campus fees, according to Financial Aid and Scholarships.
The University advises students to budget $1,040 on books, $1,906 for transportation and $1,170 for personal expenses each year, which includes furnishing a dorm, a parking pass and the all sports combo in addition to other small expenses.
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Students and faculty can book one-on-one appointments with Student Money Management Services, a free service the University offers to help with budgeting, to help save money. The office also provides workshops.
Student Money Management Services focus on five pillars of student finance: income and financial aid, checking and savings, cash management, credit cards and credit history. Those who work in SMMS use the pillars during one-on-one appointments to help the student or faculty member understand how and where to spend money.
Jeffrey Heppler, a fifth-year senior from Kansas City,
Kan., who works at Money Management Services, advises first-year students to be conscious of spending money and going out. This means budgeting how much money to spend when going out to eat and attending other social activities.
"We encourage students to use their meal plans because they have already paid for that," Heppler said.
When scheduling an appointment with SMMS, the student will sit down with a financial advisor to look over the students inflow and outflow then compare the two, said Heppler. SMMS uses the two to create a budget for the student.
Another resource advised by Student Money Management Services is Cash Course, an online money guide helping students with finances and assignments by providing financial tools and advice. With a free account, students can access financial tools, like a budget wizard or financial calculator along with financial videos and glossaries. Students also find advice on the "Financial Expert's Wall", which answers popular questions about budgeting, credit, identity theft, savings and student loans.
Student Money Management Services is located on the third level of the Kansas Union, or students can email a financial expert with specific questions about budgeting.
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Board blocks effort to unionize college athletes
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Northwestern football players at practice. The National Labor Relations Board on Monday overturned a historic ruling that gave Northwestern University football players the go-ahead to form the nation's first college athletes' union, saying the prospect of union and non-union teams could throw off the competitive balance in college football.
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CHICAGO — The National Labor Relations Board on Monday blocked a historic bid by Northwestern University football players to form the nation's first college athletes' union, dealing a blow to a labor movement that could have transformed amateur sports.
In a unanimous decision, the board said the prospect of union and nonunion teams in college could lead to different standards at different schools
— from how much money players receive to how much time they practice — and create competitive imbalances on the field.
The new ruling annuls a 2014 decision by a regional NLRB director in Chicago who said scholarship football players are employees under U.S. law and thus entitled to organize. But Monday's decision did not directly address the question of whether the players are employees.
"This puts the nail in the coffin of organizing college players," said Ronald Meisburg, a former attorney for the NLRB and onetime board member.
Some observers said the ruling effectively ends any chance to establish labor unions in college athletics.
Tim Waters, of the United Steelworkers union, which helped bankroll the union drive, disagreed.
The face of the union-building effort, former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter, also expressed disappointment. But he said the push for unionization had already pressured the NCAA to take athletes' grievances more seriously.
"It is a bump in the road," Waters said.
The labor dispute goes to the heart of American college sports, where universities and conferences reap billions of dollars by relying on amateurs who are not paid. In other countries, college sports are small-time club affairs, while elite youth athletes often turn pro as teens.
"It turned out to be the right thing to do, and I don't regret it." Colter said.
The biggest factor in how it ruled, the board said, was the NLRB's jurisdiction, which extends only to private schools like Northwestern, the sole private institution in the Big Ten.
NLRB rules do not offer the losing side the option to appeal. But Ramogi Huma, a former linebacker at UCLA who worked closely with Colter, said he has not given up on bringing unions to college football.
The board repeatedly cited the need for standardization of rules and policies in sports and said giving the green light to just one team to collectively bargain would disrupt that uniformity.
The board seemed to leave open the possibly of taking up the unionization issue again if it involved other schools or if conditions change for Northwestern football.
"The door's not closed," he said.
But Meisburg said the way
Northwestern became the focal point of the labor fight in January 2014, when Colter announced plans to form the first U.S. labor union for college athletes. He appeared at a news conference for the College Athletes Players Association.
the ruling highlights the challenges of organizing sports at private and state schools means the board is unlikely to consider another union petition from a college team.
"I don't see those institutional problems going away," Meisburg said.
Three months later, regional NLRB Director Peter Sung Ohr issued his decision, saying Northwestern football players should be able to unionize. A month later, players cast secret
ballots on whether to unionize. Those ballots were sealed during the appeal and will now be destroyed without being counted.
While NLRB decisions sometimes split along party lines, the three Democrats and two Republicans on the board all agreed.
Under U.S. law, an employee is regarded as someone who receives compensation for a service and is under the direct control of managers. In Northwestern's case, Ohr concluded coaches are the equivalent of business managers and scholarships are a form of pay.
On Monday, Waters criticized the NLRB for sidestepping the most sensitive question: Are scholarship players employees?
The board's decision was welcomed by the NCAA, which has been fighting lawsuits from former athletes over everything from head injuries to revenue earned from their likenesses in video games.
Northwestern's vice president for university relations, Alan Cubbage, also welcomed the ruling. And he applauded pro-union players "for bringing national attention to these important issues."
"It's like they had a hot potato tossed into their laps, and they took a year and a half of deliberations and said, 'We're going to toss it back,'" he said.
The NCAA recently cleared the way for the five biggest conferences, including the Big Ten, to add player stipends to help athletes defray some of their expenses.
"This ruling allows us to continue to make progress ... without risking the instability to college sports that the NLRB recognized might occur," it said.
Northwestern, the Big Ten and the NCAA all argued against the unionization effort, saying that lumping college athletes into the same category as factory workers would change amateur athletics for the worse.
In a statement, the Indianapolis-based NCAA portrayed the board's ruling as recognition that it's trying to improve conditions for athletes.
The specific goals of prounion players included guaranteeing coverage of sports-related medical expenses for current and former players and reducing head injuries.
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Attorney Jim Flaherty, left, and Timothy McKee, during a hearing on an agreement that would allow Westar Energy to raise its electric rates by $78 million a year. Flaherty represents the Frontier El Dorado Refining Co.; McKee represents the Wichita public school district; both are Westar customers
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JOHN HANNA/ASSOCIATED PRESS Kansas Corporation Commission Chairwoman Shari Feist Albrecht, left, discusses issues related to Kansas City Power & Light Co.'s rates, as Pat Apple, a commissioner, watches. The two disagree over how much to increase the utility's rates.
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TOPEKA, Kan. — An agreement that would allow Kansas' largest electric company to increase its rates about 4 percent is reasonable for customers while covering the cost of power plant upgrades, attorneys for the utility and other parties told state regulators Monday.
The rate-setting Kansas Corporation Commission had a 90-minute hearing on the proposed deal struck by Westar Energy Inc. with the commission's staff, a state consumer advocacy agency and some of the utility's largest customers. The company's annual rates would rise by $78 million about half of what it wanted and most households would see their bills increase between $5 and $7 a month.
Attorneys representing the parties to the agreement said it was comprehensive and complicated and urged the three-member commission not to change any of its terms. State law gives the KCC until Oct. 28 to issue an order revising Westar's rates, and several attorneys noted that the law encourages settlements, particularly agreements like Westar's where no party formally objects.
"This was frankly amazing, that all these parties were able to come to the table as they did," said Commissioner Jay Emler, a former state Senate major leader and attorney. "It's very encouraging."
Westar, based in Topeka, has nearly 700,000 customers, and it initially proposed increasing its annual rates by $152 million. The utility sought to recover costs already incurred for improvements mandated by federal air pollution standards, primarily at its coal-fired power plant near LaCygne in eastern Kansas, and for upgrades at the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant about 55 miles south of Topeka.
The company also proposed a five-year, $220 million plan for upgrading its electrical grid and a 10 percent annual profit for its stockholders. The agreement allows grid improvements of $50 million between now and early 2017; it doesn't specifically set a maximum profit, but it's expected to be 9.35 percent.
"This settlement is a balance of diverse interests which, taken together, uphold the public interest," Westar attorney Cathy Dinges told commissioners during the hearing.
"Adjusting it this way or that will throw off that balance."
The KCC's staff and the Citizens' Utility Ratepayers Board, a state agency representing residential customers and small businesses, argued for an annual rate increase of less than $56 million. David Springe, the ratepayer board's chief attorney, said there was no question Westar's rates would rise to cover power plant upgrades.
Spring said of the agreement, "On balance, I think it's good for customers."
The agreement also postpones any decision on a proposal from Westar to revise special rates for customers who install solar panels, which drew strong opposition from solar energy advocates. If the KCC accepts the deal, it would consider such issues in a separate case.
Westar had said the 300 customers with existing solar panels would not be affected by its proposed changes. The utility said it wanted to ensure that solar users pay their fair share for Westar's system, so that other customers don't subsidize them.
But green energy advocates said Westar's proposed changes would have eliminated incentives to install solar panels and killed the solar industry in Kansas. Solar energy advocates ultimately did not object to the agreement.
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Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, right, with her attorney Roger Gannam. The county turned away gay couples who sought marriage licenses, defying a federal judge's order that beliefs don't excuse officials from following the law.
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MOREHEAD, Ky. — A federal judge on Monday gave a Kentucky county clerk room to continue denying marriage licenses to gays and lesbians while she takes her religious objections case to an appellate court.
U. S. District Judge David Bunning ordered Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis last week to issue licenses to two gay couples, and ruled Monday that she is not entitled to any more delays. But because "emotions are running high on both sides of this debate," he also stayed his decision while she takes her case to the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal.
Attorneys on both sides disagreed about the implications. Dan Canon, representing the gay couples, said Davis remains under the judge's order. But Mat Staver, who represents Davis and is the founder of Florida-based Liberty Counsel, said the convoluted order essentially grants her request for more time.
What is clear is that Davis will continue refusing to issue marriage licenses to anyone in this county of about 23,000 people, home to Morehead State University in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Kentucky. Until the case is resolved, no new wedding can be legally recognized in Rowan County unless the couple obtains a marriage license somewhere else.
"This is not something I decided because of this decision that came down," Davis testified in federal court last month. "It was thought-out and, you know, I sought God on it."
Clerking has been a family business in Rowan County. Davis worked for her mother for 27 years before replacing her in the elected post this year, and her son Nathan now works for her. He personally turned away a gay couple last
week.
Around the U.S., most opponents of gay and lesbian marriage rights are complying with the high court. Some other objectors in Kentucky submitted to the legal authorities after Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear told them to begin issuing licenses to same-sex couples, or resign.
Kim Davis is one of the last holdouts, and apparently the first to be challenged in federal court, putting her and tiny Rowan County in the r.riddle of one of the country's largest social upheavals.
Davis wants Kentucky lawmakers to allow county clerks to opt out of issuing marriage licenses for religious reasons. But the governor has declined to call a special session. Davis faces fines and possible jail time for contempt of court if
she loses her challenge and still refuses to issue licenses. But she can only be impeached from her $80,000 a year job by the legislature, and impeachment proceedings are unlikely even after the lawmakers reconvene in January.
Davis' lawyers compare her to other religious objectors, such as a nurse being forced to perform an abortion, a non-combatant ordered to fire on an enemy soldier, or a state official forced to participate in a convicted prisoner's execution.
Bunning disagreed. Davis is "free to believe that marriage is a union between one man and one woman, as many Americans do. However, her religious convictions cannot excuse her from performing the duties that she took an oath to perform as Rowan County
Clerk," he wrote last week.
Nevertheless, the judge's convoluted ruling on Monday effectively imposes more delays, not only on the couples suing Davis, but on anyone else in Rowan County who wants to get licensed to marry in the place where they live, work and pay taxes.
Davis said it would violate her Christian beliefs to issue a license to a same-sex couple that has her name on it, and she has her supporters for standing firm.
"If she was to say 'Well, you know, I need my job, I'm going to do what they say do,' she would be letting down her faith," said Joe Riley, an evangelist who says he attended church with Davis at Morehead First Apostolic Church.
Acquaintances describe her as easy-going but reserved. She hid behind her attorneys to avoid being photographed in a courthouse hallway and had to be told to speak up from the witness stand.
Davis, through her attorney,
declined to be interviewed.
Beneath her quiet nature lies a steadfast resolve not to compromise, even after a video of her refusing to issue a license to a gay couple, David Ermold and David Moore, generated more than a million views online.
Shortly after she took office in January, she said she wrote every state lawmaker she could and pleaded to change the law, to no avail. So, on June 26th -- the day the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide -- Davis told her staff not to process any more licenses until further notice, no matter who asks.
Under Kentucky law, marriages must be licensed by a county clerk, who first determines if the couple meets all legal requirements — such as being unmarried, and old enough. And because every license issued in Rowan County is under her authority, she feels she can't delegate the job to a non-objector.
"If I say that I authorize that, I'm saying I agree with it, and I can't," Davis told the court.
Rowan County Judge Executive Walter Blevins can issue marriage licenses if the clerk is "absent," but the term is undefined in state law. Both Blevins and Bunning decided Davis not issuing licenses for religious reasons does not mean she is absent. That leaves Davis, for now, firmly in control.
Davis said her beliefs on sin are shaped by "God's holy word" in the Bible, and that she attends church "every time the doors are open." She also leads a weekly women's Bible study at the county jail.
"I love them. They're the best part of my Monday," Davis said.
Davis testified that the Bible teaches that marriage is between one man and one woman and that sex outside of marriage is a sin. Court records indicate Davis herself married when she was 18 in 1984, filed for divorce 10 years later, and then filed for divorce again, from another husband, in 2006.
Many Christians believe divorce also is a sin, and an attorney for the same-sex couples repeatedly questioned her about this in court. Asked if she would religiously object to issuing a marriage license to someone who has been divorced, she said "That's between them and God."
Davis has not said how she would react should she lose her appeal.
"I'll deal with that when the time comes," she said.
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Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., of Aurora, Mo., could get the death penalty if he', convicted of capital murder. The 74-year-old has admitted to the media and during pretrial hearings that he drove to Overland Park, Kansas, on April 13, 2014, with the intent to kill Jews. All three of the victims were Christian.
Miller, who is representing himself, showed up in court dressed in a jacket and tie and with his hair neatly combed.
He has chronic emphysema and has said he doesn't think he has long to live, and he has attended hearings since his arrest using a wheelchair equipped with an oxygen tank.
Miller, who is also known as Frazier Glenn Cross, is accused of gunning down Dr. William Lewis Corporon, 69, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, in the parking lot of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City before killing Terri La-Manno, 53, outside of a nearby Jewish retirement home.
Two-hundred prospective jurors were being questioned Monday to determine which of them would be able to serve. Those not excused due to hardship will return Tuesday to be questioned by Miller and prosecutors. The judge said jury selection could take most of the week and the trial could las three to four weeks more.
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OMAHA, Neb. — A new study suggests that nitrates may play a key role in increasing uranium contamination in groundwater.
The researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln estimate that nearly 2 million people in California and the Great Plains live over groundwater that has been contaminated with uranium, which can cause health problems.
The study found that 78 percent of the groundwater samples that showed unsafe levels of uranium were from areas with high levels of nitrates, which typically come from nitrogen fertilizers and animal waste.
"If the problem is this widespread, more research needs to be done," said UNL assistant professor Karrie Weber, who
led the research.
Environmental Protection Agency rules say that uranium shouldn't exceed 30 micrograms per liter in drinking water. Weber's research found examples in California well above that threshold.
Prolonged exposure to high levels of uranium in water has been linked to kidney problems and increased cancer risk.
Some studies have also suggested that uranium might accumulate in certain crops if they are irrigated with contaminated water.
Weber said groundwater samples aren't always tested for uranium making it harder to study. She said the lack of testing also raises safety concerns because smaller communities and rural families often use well water without treating it.
Weber said the nitrates moving through the soil can convert uranium from a solid state
to a soluble form that can contaminate groundwater.
"As nitrates come into the system, they are increasing the concentration of uranium in the water," Weber said.
Data from roughly 275,000 samples from two of the nation's largest aquifers — the High Plains aquifer and the Central Valley aquifer in California — were examined for the study. Those two underground stockpiles supply water for irrigation and many communities rely on the aquifers for drinking water.
The High Plains Aquifer stretches underneath some 174,000 square miles in parts of South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas.
The study was published in the August edition of the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters.
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A worker adjusts the irrigation system that borders the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge in Calipatria, Calif. A study claims that much of the water in California and Great Plains aquifers could be contaminated by uranium.
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HUTCHINSON, Kan. The Hutchinson Correctional Facility's decision to end a program that lets inmates train service dogs will likely mean an even longer wait for people who need such dogs, according to the director of a dog-training organization.
"We had to make a choice," Moss said. "We had to pull that position back into security."
People who need service dogs already wait about 18
At full employment, the Hutchinson Correctional Facility has 365 uniformed security officers. About 40 of those positions were open in early August, Moss said.
Staffing shortages prompted The Hutchinson Correctional Facility to end its service-dog program as of Aug. 1, spokesman Dirk Moss said. The prison had one full-time officer overseeing the program and that person had to be moved back into a security job, The Wichita Eagle reported.
months, and the end of the Hutchinson program could stretch that to two years, said Sarah Holbert, executive director of the organization that oversees the dogs' training. About 125 people are already on the program's waiting list.
Canine Assistance Rehabilitation Education and Services sends dogs for basic training to prisons throughout the Midwest before bringing the dogs back to its Concordia headquarters for specialized training that fits the needs of the person who will get a dog.
Dogs that would have been sent to Hutchinson will now go to either Ellsworth Correctional Facility, the only Kansas prison still operating a CARES program, or an out-of-state prison.
Hutchinson began working with CARES in 2009 and trained 12 to 15 dogs at any one time, Holbert said. Newer programs train about half that number. Since the program began at Hutchinson, about 125 inmates have trained at least 245 dogs,
Moss said.
"One of the things we found, we don't have data, but we noticed that inmates participating in the program are considerably less troublesome than some of the other inmates," Moss said. "For some of them, it's the first time in their life that they have a positive bond with another living being."
The El Dorado Correctional Facility ended its affiliation with the CARES program about three years ago. Holbert said that prison determined that most of its inmates did not have the personality needed to train dogs because they had committed violent crimes or had mental health issues.
Moss said it was possible that the program would someday return to the Hutchinson Correctional Facility.
"That'd be one of the first things we'd look at if staffing numbers go back up," Moss said.
Trump, on a campaign break, reports for jury duty
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NEW YORK — Donald Trump pulled up in a long black limousine and gave a very presidential wave as he made his way into the building. Then the billionaire promptly found himself seated next to ordinary, wage-earning, subway-riding New Yorkers, forced to wait — and wait some more — for the wheels of justice to turn.
The Republican presidential candidate reported for jury duty in Manhattan on Monday and spent much of the day like everyone else, filling out forms and wondering whether he would get picked.
Donald Trump arrives for jury duty in New York on Monday. The front-runner said last week before a rally in New Hampshire that he would willingly take a break from the campaign trail to answer the summons.
By late afternoon, he was released without getting selected for a trial, his civic obligation fulfilled.
Inside, a lawyer posed for a selfie with him, a sketch artist presented him with a drawing to sign, and a bystander exhorted him to "save this country!"
The businessman's limo arrived in the morning at the foot of the courthouse steps familiar to viewers of TV's "Law & Order," and he was met by a throng of camera crews, reporters and onlookers. Some booed, while others greeted him with fist bumps and books for him to sign.
A murmur went through the 75 or so other prospective jurors when Trump walked in. But they largely kept a respectful distance from the real estate mogul, reality TV star and GOP front-runner.
Trump had high praise for the public servants at the courthouse, saying: "The people in the court system are really professional. It was an honor to see how it worked."
"He makes it a little more bearable," said Christian Johnson, 21, a University at Albany student doing jury duty for the
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first time. "He's giving me a lot of material for my Snapchat."
Another juror, retiree Renee Shapiro, said: "I'm looking at him and I'm saying, 'Are my eyes deceiving me?' She said he looked taller than she expected.
The civic duty was somewhat overdue for Trump, who had been summoned but didn't appear five times before. His campaign explained that Trump never got those summonses because they had been sent to the wrong address.
After filing through security, Trump was escorted to a front-row seat in a juror waiting room to fill out a questionnaire about biographical basics, hobbies, experiences with crime and the courts, and occupation. Trump said he listed real estate, "only because I refuse to say 'politician."
Jury assembly supervisor Irene Laracuenta told the prospective jurors that celebrities are entitled to the same privacy and face the same selection process — as anyone else.
"No one — no one — gets special treatment," she said.
Still, from a security standpoint, Trump wasn't treated entirely like everyone else.
A special team of uniformed and plainclothes officers shadowed him to make sure he could get around the court-house easily, as is standard when high-profile people come to court, court officers' union leader Dennis Quirk said. Trump also brought his own, unarmed bodyguard.
"It's a system, and we go through it. And it's a great system. It's a system that works," Trump said at midday. "They do a fantastic job, and I met some wonderful people."
After sitting silently through much of the morning, Trump returned from a lunch break with copies of The New York Times, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. Not
bringing reading material earlier "was a mistake," he said.
Trump said he hadn't asked for a postponement, because serving jury duty is "the right thing to do." But asked whether he hoped to get cut loose after only one day, he said: "I hope so."
Over the years, many celebrities, including Madonna, Spike Lee and Woody Allen, have been called for jury duty in New York. Indeed, "Saturday Night Live" cast member Bobby Moynihan was in the jury pool with Trump. Moynihan had no comment.
While it was once de rigueur for doctors, lawyers, various other professionals and elected officials to get out of jury duty, the state eliminated their exemptions in 1996.
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Donald Trump gives a fist bump to a pedestrian as he arrives for jury duty. By late afternoon on Monday, he was released without getting selected for a trial.
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The construction of Self and Oswald Halls, the new residence halls on Daisy Hill, enabled the creation of a quadrangle capable of hosting events and gatherin
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One of the biggest changes to campus landscape this year is the opening of two freshman-only dorms, Oswald and Self Halls. Other summer projects included an update to the School of Engineering and construction on Jayhawk Boulevard and 15th Street.
OSWALD AND SELF HALLS
This fall, students will move into the newly-constructed Self and Oswald residence halls instead of McColum Hall for the first time.
the new Daisy Hill Commons building connects the two new dorms, creating a central point on Daisy Hill. The building includes a living
The halls are named after Charles Oswald and Al and Lila Self, who have donated to the University. The halls can each fit 350 students in either four-person suites or two-person suits with bathrooms. Self and Oswald halls are the only residence halls on campus that offer a two-person private room, which consists of two separate bedrooms, a shared living room and a bathroom, according to the Housing website.
"We want [Daisy Hill Commons] to be what unites the six halls on campus," said Diana Robertson, the director of Housing. "The focus of these halls is on layers of community. The four-person suite provides a living room area that promotes community within that room, while the two-person rooms encourage getting out and meeting people."
room, full-service kitchen and conference room. The new academic service center, which is open to all students living in residence halls, includes study rooms and academic advisers.
Robertson said many of the features in the new halls came
from student focus groups.
"Students wanted more green space to interact outdoors, which is not something we have had on campus previously," she said.
Plans for new dorms were approved by the Kansas Board of Regents in 2012, and construction began in March 2014. The project cost $47.8 million, according to the Housing website, and will be reimbursed through the residents' housing costs. The cost of the project also includes the demolition of McCollum, which is scheduled for November.
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The building will also feature an information technology help desk, which Robertson said was moved from its previous location in the Burge Union.
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"It is hard to pinpoint what caused [the process] to be behind," Graves said. "Any time there is concrete being poured, there are a whole slew of factors that have to be in place, from the weather being acceptable, the concrete plant being available, the proper forms being in place, and having people to do the finishing."
The newest expansion of the School of Engineering is now open to students.
The latest improvements included replacing deteriorated underground utilities, pouring new pavement and sidewalks, relocating the traffic control booth to the west side of Lilac Lane and equipping the street lamps with LED lighting, Barcomb-Peterson said.
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The reconstruction of Jayhawk Boulevard between Watson Library and the Kansas Union was completed on Aug. 14, Graves said. That section is the third of four phases of reconstruction that began in 2013. A portion is completed each summer, with the last portion projected to be finished by August 2016, according to Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, director of news and media relations.
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Construction on 15th Street began in May and was originally scheduled to be completed on Aug.16. Heavy rain put construction behind, but roads will open to cars on Aug.20, according to Paul Graves, deputy director of design and construction management. He said the delays would not affect the cost of the project, and the surrounding buildings were still accessible.
The second phase of the Learned Engineering Expansion connects the building with two existing engineering buildings: Measurement, Materials & Sustainable Environment Center (M2SEC); and Spahr Engineering Library. The new structure also connects to Learned Hall.
Cody Howard, the interim public relations director for the School of Engineering, said the facility would serve as the new front door for the engineering department.
Barcomb-Peterson said the third phase of reconstruction cost $3.6 million, with donors covering any additional costs that arose during construction as well as the costs to reestablish the tree canopy. Graves
"Key features of this project include state-of-the-art active learning classrooms that enhance access to cutting-edge curriculum, teaching and research laboratories that allow students to apply what they learn and push the boundaries, numerous collaboration and study spaces, which are critical for students to hone their teamwork and communication skills while building their technical expertise," Howard said.
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The project also included a complete renovation of Spahr Library to include more group study rooms, more space for student organizations and a small café, Howard said.
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During construction, sidewalks along 15th Street were scheduled to be replaced, and Graves said previously planned underground work
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Obama vacation: golf, books and private beach
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President Barack Obama smiles as he sits in a cart while golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club, in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard. So far one rainy day is the only thing that has dampened President Barack Obama's two-week summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard.
CHILMARK, Mass. — Lots of golf, a family outing on a private beach and a stack of books. President Barack Obama's two-week vacation on Martha's Vineyard is shaping up as a pretty low-key retreat.
What a difference a year makes. At this point last year, domestic and foreign affairs forced Obama to interrupt the vacation and make separate appearances before the news media to react to developments in Iraq and in Ferguson, Missouri, after the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old unarmed black man by a white police officer.
Obama also returned to the White House halfway through his 2014 vacation to attend some meetings and appeared in the White House press briefing room to comment further on the Missouri unrest before returning to Martha's Vineyard.
This year, the reporters who accompanied Obama on the trip have barely seen him.
And that's just how the president likes it.
AT HIS LEISURE
Obama arrived late on Aug. 7 and has had six golf outings in 10 full days on the pricey Massachusetts island.
His partners have ranged from former President Bill Clinton, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and Democratic adviser Vernon Jordan to past and present NBA players Alonzo Mourning and the father-son team of Dell Curry and Steph Curry, the latter of the 2015 championship Golden State Warriors.
Obama spent a day with his family at a private beach and has taken his wife, Michelle, and daughter Malia on separate walks on a trail near his secluded vacation rental.
The president is also getting in some of the socializing he's often criticized for doing so little of in Washington.
He followed a solo dinner
out with the first lady with a couples' dinner with national security adviser Susan Rice, former Attorney General Eric Holder and former U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and their spouses at an Edgartown restaurant.
Heavy rain last Tuesday kept Obama at his rental home for the day.
PARTY HEARTY
Except for the walk with Malia, Obama also spent Sunday at his rental home after jamming at Jordan's 80th birthday party the previous night.
The Obama family spent about three hours at the party, mingling among the 200 or so guests that included actor Morgan Freeman, American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault and Harvard scholar
Henry Louis Gates. Reportors were kept outside but could hear strains of the dance hit "Uptown Funk" from inside the venue.
Obama offered a toast praising Jordan for his wisdom, kindness and generosity, the White House said, adding that the couples have been friends for more than 20 years.
The Jordans spend summers on the island. Obama attended a party for Jordan's wife, Ann last year.
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Obama is staying at the same secluded vacation property he rented last year, way up a lengthy dirt road in Chilmark, on the western part of the island.
The sprawling home has seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms, according to The Martha's Vineyard Times, plenty of space for the Obama family of four and dogs Bo and Sunny to hang out.
The 8,100-square-foot house sits on a 10-acre lot and features a total of 17 rooms, some of which offer sweeping views of Vineyard Sound. There's also an infinity pool, hot tub and a dual tennis-basketball court.
READING LISTS
It isn't exactly quick beach reading.
The White House said Obama brought six books, including "Between the World and Me," a New York Times best-seller by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent for The Atlantic. The Times described
Coates' book as a "searing meditation on what it means to be black in America today." The other titles in Obama's summer book bag are:
— "Washington: A Life," a biography of America's first president, by Ron Cernow.
— "The Lowland," a family saga set in India and the U.S., by Jhumpa Lahiri.
— "All That Is" by James Salter, about a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change.
— "All the Light We Cannot See," an intimate World War II novel that won author Anthony Doerr this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
— "The Sixth Extinction," an exploration by New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert of human behavior's impact on the natural world that won this year's Pulitzer for general nonfiction.
Obama also released his summer playlists on the popular music streaming service Spotify.
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Because a president is on vacation in name only, Obama is still handling business from the island.
He flew in with a small group of aides, including national security staff, a deputy White House chief of staff and several press aides. Scores of Secret Service agents, who provide security for Obama's family, also invaded the roughly 100-square-mile island.
Obama gets a national security briefing daily.
He returns to Washington on Aug. 23.
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What you need to know for your first days on campus
Terms and places
Some commonly used terms on campus:
R-School = Business School
B-School = Business School
J-School = Journalism Schoo
TA = Teaching Assistant
GTA = Graduate Teaching Assistant
Watkins = Health Center located on Schwegler Drive, across from the Rec Center OMA = Office of Multicultural Affairs, next to the Kansas Union
Javhawk Boulevard = Main street through campus
Kansas Union = Student union that houses organizations' officers, a food court, the Bookstore and other quick dining options
Places to know
Annie Matheis, a senior and orientation assistant from Overland Park, said she was confused the first time she heard someone refer to the space in front of Wescoe Hall as Wescoe Beach.
"When I first came to campus, I know that I wish I would have known what exactly Wescoe Beach is," she said. "Instead of sand like an actual beach, it's cement benches and definitely a very popular hangout spot."
Wescoe Beach's name comes from when it was used for sand volleyball games during past Hawk Weeks.
The Underground, on the first floor of Wescoe, includes a cafeteria, coffee shop, convenience store and meeting areas.
Massachusetts Street, also known as Mass Street, is a main street near campus with restaurants, bars and shops. Downtown Hawks, an event on Aug. 29 and 30, allows students with a KU ID to get deals at some locations.
Matheis said Encore Cafe, one of her favorite restaurants on Mass Street is a must for parents and students.
It's "a very necessary place for parents and students to try during move-in weekend or just in general," she said.
Logan Welch, a sophomore, said if he had to suggest a restaurant, it would be Fuzzy's Tacos, located at 11th and Massachusetts Streets.
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Massachusetts Street, one of Lawrence's main streets, is home to many restaurants, bars and shops familiar to students. Some locations will have deals on Aug. 29 and 30.
Living in the dorms
What to expect for the dorm layout:
Typical dorm rooms in the residence halls on campus have twin beds, a desk and closet space. Other than the typical setup, there are options to get away from the monotony of the dorm room. Study areas in each hall offer an escape from a loud room to work on midterm papers or study for an exam.
How resident assistants help students academically:
An important component of on-campus living is having the support of resident assistants, or RAs. Once the school year begins, it is beneficial to start on a good note. There are many opportunities to stay ahead academically that can begin in the residence halls. The RAs assist students by creating an academic plan to begin the year.
An RA's job is to "build rapport and develop relationships with residents" as well as respond to residents' concerns and conflicts, according to the Housing website.
How to stay involved while living in the residence halls:
One benefit of living in the residence halls is the sense of community they provide, said Alvysa Denneler, a third-year resident assistant in Corbin Hall.
"In the residence halls, we love to do things together as a floor," Denneler said. "I've done everything from basketball to nail painting with my residents, and we always try to make a point of supporting each other by attending things like concerts or research presentations. We have more scheduled activities as well, but I find the off-schedule ones are especially meaningful."
How to handle roommate conflicts:
Conflicts inevitably surface when living in such close quarters, which will sometimes require a mediator. It's important to be honest and communicate with RAs when needed.
"When it comes to roommate conflicts I really like to make sure both residents have a voice," Denneler said. "It's great to give them advice so they can feel more comfortable in their space. I definitely help mediate but generally they can work it out for themselves when given the right resources to do so."
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Campus libraries
Important things to know about the libraries:
Jill Becker, head of KU Libraries' Center for Undergraduate Initiatives and Engagement: "The most important thing for incoming freshmen to know is that libraries are here to help. We care very much about your academic success and can assist you in every step of the research process. Not only can we provide in-person research assistance, you can also contact us online through 'Ask A Librarian.'"
Research assistance:
Becker: "Ask a Librarian' is a great place to start with your research questions. You can also search all of our databases online 24 hours a day from anywhere in the world. A good starting point for your research are our subject and course guides. And of course, in-person research assistance is always welcome."
Assignment help:
Kyle Chapman, a graduate reference specialist: "Many students do not realize just how many databases and materials KU has access to either electronically or through what is called InterLibrary Loan. ILL is a system that enables KU students to gain access to materials that KU does not actually have access to. We do this by essentially borrowing things from other universities and libraries. This is all free to students."
Study spaces:
Chapman: "The libraries also provide lots of good study space including areas for groups and rooms that can be reserved which can be very helpful during midterms and finals."
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The Southwind Women's Center in Wichita. Wichita police say a man is in custody after a security officer inspected the backpack that the man brought into the clinic on Monday and found knives and the explosive device. The building was evacuated and no injuries or damage were reported.
Police: Man with gunpowder at abortion clinic meant no harm
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A homeless man who showed up for a job interview at a Wichita abortion clinic with a small bottle of gunpowder and a wick in his backpack didn't mean any harm, police said Tuesday.
The 19-year-old man had everything he owned in the backpack when he arrived for his interview Monday at the South Wind Women's Center.
Wichita police spokesman James Espinosa said. Although the device could have blown off someone's fingers had it exploded in their hand, it was too small to damage the clinic, he added.
"It was just him having all his personal items," Espinosa said.
A security officer at the clinic, one of three in Kansas that provide abortions, searched the backpack and called police after finding knives and the bottle with
"It was a very bad decision on his part, obviously," he said.
gunpowder. The building was briefly evacuated.
The clinic opened in 2013 in the building where Dr. George Tiller provided abortions until an anti-abortion zealot shot and killed Tiller in his church in 2009.
Espinosa said the man and his friend made the device for fun and had planned to set it off in the next day or so.
That building has long been the site of anti-abortion violence. An abortion rights opponent shot and wounded Tiller in both arms there in 1993, and his clinic sustained heavy damage when it was bombed in 1996.
The man was arrested on suspicion of unlawful possession of an explosive device and the case will be presented to the Sedgwick County district attorney's office for possible charges.
TV report: Subway pitchman to admit to child-porn charges
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Longtime Subway pitman Jared Fogle is expected to plead guilty to child-pornography charges, an Indiana television station reported Tuesday.
The report on Fox59 comes six weeks after authorities seized electronics and other items from Fogle's home in Zionsville, an affluent Indianapolis suburb.
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Citing sources it did not identify, the station said Fogle would enter a plea Wednesday. It also said the U.S. Attorney's Office in Indianapolis planned to hold a news conference Wednesday.
The 37-year-old Fogle became a Subway pitchman more than 15 years ago after shedding more than 200 pounds as a college student, in part by eating the chain's sandwiches<sup>2</sup>
Ron Elberger, an Indianapolis attorney who represents Fogle, said Tuesday via email that he had no comment on the reports.
Subway suspended its relationship with Fogle after the raid. The company declined to comment Tuesday, saying only that the chain had "already ended our relationship with Jared."
Tim Horty, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Indianapolis, said he could not comment on the report.
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Two months before Fogle's home was raided, authorities arrested the then-executive director of Fogle's foundation on child-porn charges. Russell Taylor, 43, ran the Jared Foundation, which sought to raise awareness about childhood obesity. He was charged with seven counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
Investigators said they discovered a cache of sexually explicit photos and videos Taylor allegedly produced by secretly filming minor children at his home.
Though Fogle has not been front-and-center in Subway's advertising recently, he had still been acting as a Subway spokesman and appearing at events on the company's behalf.
After those charges were filed, Fogle issued a statement saying he was shocked by the allegations and was severing all ties with Taylor.
Fogle's history with Subway reaches back to when he was a student at Indiana University. The college paper published a story on his weight loss that was then picked up by national media.
MICHAEL CONROY/ASSOCIATED PRESS The Subway restaurant spokesman Jared Fogle walks to a waiting car as he leaves his home in Zionsville, Ind. The Fox 59 television station reported on Tuesday that the Subway pitchman was expected to plead guilty to child-pornography charges, citing sources it did not identify.
Soon after, Subway's advertising agency reached out to Fogle and asked if he wanted to be in a TV commercial. The ensuing ad campaign resonated in part because Fogle seemed like such a regular guy, which made weight loss seem simple and achievable.
Of course, Fogle wasn't the only reason for Subway's growth over the years. Its $5 footlong deals were popular with people looking to save money, and many customers liked that they could have their sandwiches made to order.
In 1999, the year before Fogle appeared in his first Subway commercial, Subway had about 14,000 stores worldwide, according to Technomic. As of last year, that figure had tripled to about 43,000, making Subway the world's largest restaurant chain by locations.
In 2013, Subway celebrated the 15-year anniversary of Fogle's famous diet by featuring him in a Super Bowl ad and making him available to news organizations for interviews. At the time, Fogle said he still traveled regularly throughout the year on behalf of Subway. He also said he had a Subway "black card" that let him eat at the chain for free.
Still, Fogle was instrumental in Subway's success over the years.
The company, based in Milford. Connecticut, has declined to provide details on its financial arrangements with Fogle.
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The former President Jimmy Carter speaking during a forum in Boston in November 2014. On Aug. 12, Carter announced he has cancer and will undergo treatment at an Atlanta hospital.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter plans to discuss his recent cancer diagnosis, making his first comments since revealing he has the disease last week.
The Carter Center on Tuesday said Carter will hold a press conference Thursday morning at its offices in Atlanta. The event will be closed to the general public, the statement said.
His initial statement said further information would be provided when more facts are known.
Carter, 90, announced Aug. 12 that liver surgery found cancer that has spread to other parts of his body. That brief written statement indicated that the cancer has spread, but did not identify its type or say where it originated.
Carter said he would rearrange his schedule for treatment at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, where a spokesman wouldn't comment.
Carter attended a Sunday School class and worshipped
at Maranatha Baptist Church on Sunday in his hometown of Plains, Ga. Church officials have said that Carter and his wife Rosalynn attend whenever they are not at the center's offices in Atlanta or traveling elsewhere.
Carter was the nation's 39th president, defeating Gerald Ford in 1976. Ronald Reagan succeeded him in 1980 after a landslide victory, but Carter didn't go quietly into retirement.
He founded the Carter Center and became a global humanitarian, focusing on health care and democracy. He helped defuse nuclear tension between the Koreas and monitored the first Palestinian elections. In 2002, he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Carter's father, brother and two sisters died of pancreatic cancer. His mother also developed the disease.
The church also has announced that the former president will teach a Sunday School class as planned this weekend. Carter has been leading the classes for more than 25 years.
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Earthquake near San Francisco Bay Area jolts residents
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A short, sharp earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area early Monday, breaking picture frames and cracking plaster without prompting reports of injuries or major damage.
The magnitude-4.0 quake struck at 6:49 a.m. and was centered just north of Piedmont, near Berkeley, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was felt in downtown San Francisco, along the peninsula and in the East Bay.
"This was a fairly small one but we should be prepared for them at all times," USGS spokeswoman Leslie Gordon said.
The shallow quake produced a sharp jolt followed by gentle rolls. People on social media reported broken clocks and picture frames.
"I was eating breakfast when the whole house shook and several picture frames propped on our mantle and on a side table in the dining room crashed to the floor," Adam Van de Water of Oakland said in an email to The Associated Press. "My heart rate spiked
The Hayward fault runs from the cities of San Pablo Bay to Fremont and passes through Berkeley, Oakland and Hayward.
There are several hundred known faults in the state and others that are not known, said Lucy Jones, a seismologist with the USGS. About 200 are considered potentially hazardous.
Monday's quake came just one week before the one year anniversary of the magnitude-6.0 earthquake that caused millions of dollars in damage and injured hundreds of people in California wine country.
The quake struck on the Hayward Fault at a depth of about 3.4 miles, according to the USGS.
He said a neighborhood visitor from Australia thought a bomb had gone off.
and stayed elevated for a few minutes until it was clear it was over."
Bay Area Rapid Transit held commuter trains for about five minutes and there were minor delays as crews checked the tracks. No damage was reported.
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Steve Hetro, a junior from Overland Park, explains the advantages of joining Hawks Nest to inquiring students at the Hawk Week Block Party last year.
Annual Hawk Week kick-off revives Campus Carnival event
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Orientation is a whirlwind for newcomers to the University, from swift tours through campus to numerous information sessions. But however crazy orientation week is, the week before classes begin is possibly even crazier — packing into Memorial Stadium to learn how to "wave the wheat," pushing through a crowded Union to grab freebies and, this year, spinning around on carnival rides are all a part of Hawk Week Hawk Week is the annual kick-off to the new academic year, tailored for students new to the University. Weeklong activities include "Signature Events" Traditions Night, Union Fest and Hawk Fest, among others as well as smaller events across campus starting Thursday, Aug. 20.
No matter the size, all of the events serve to accomplish the same goal: connecting students to their campus in as many ways as possible.
"It's really critical for students to make connections on campus, connecting to their peers; getting to know other people that might be living around them in their residence hall," said Katie Treadwell, associate director for orientation programs at the University's Office of First Year Experience. "It really helps to build that foundation of relationships that can support their success at KU." Treadwell, who has been a part of the Office for two years, works with a team to determine which events become a part of Hawk Week. Events are submitted to the team by partners in May, and the Office reviews the submissions for certain stipulations.
"We make sure the events fit within the program goals: making those connections both socially and academically, starting classes the right way". Treadwell said. "We want to make sure the events are about welcoming and engaging students, that they prepare students for involvement both in their classes and co-curricular involvement, and then helping students to explore opportunities on campus."
The Office doesn't plan the events of Hawk Week, but does support those partners and organizations that do, Treadwell said.
This year's Hawk Week brings back an old classic: the Campus Carnival, which is put on by Student Union Activities.
"We wanted to have a big international welcome and a big welcome back for students that was open for
everyone, including faculty and staff", said Hannah Hall,
SUA vice president of alumni and faculty relations. "We wanted to have this carnival to kind of unify everyone at the beginning of the year
"We want students to have an amazing first week on campus and to feel like they made the right decision by coming to KU."
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KATIE TREADWELL Associate Director, Orientation Programs
and to have just a really fun, unifying experience with the whole campus."
The carnival has been absent for two years, but a fee review process by Student Senate made it possible for the event to be brought back this fall. At 5 p.m. on Aug. 29 in the Lied Center parking lot.
anyone with a KU student ID will be able to ride full-size carnival rides, eat typical fairstyle food and explore booths with games, a fortuneteller and a tattoo artists. Each person will receive 10 free tickets for use at the carnival.
"Hawk Week is a great way to bring everyone on campus together," Hall said. "Obviously, it's great for the freshmen to all mingle with each other right before school starts and get to know each other[...] but one thing that I'm excited about with the carnival is that it's open to anyone with a KU 1D. It's a way for the whole campus, essentially, to just get together and start off the year on a great note, which I think is really awesome."
The 2015 convocation marks the 150th anniversary of the University's founding, and Treadwell said several former chancellors plan to
return for convocation and participate in Hawk Week activities such as discussions of the Common Book — "A Farewell to Arms." However, she couldn't name specific chancellors as details were still being worked out at the time of press.
Treadwell works closely with students throughout their recruitment and admission process. She said she appreciates Hawk Week's ability to make the students she has grown to know more comfortable with their transition to college.
"We want students to have an amazing first week on campus and to feel like they made the right decision by coming to KU and feel really comforted and at home here," Treadwell said. "Also, to start classes successfully because we know that's the most important thing and that's why people are here."
Avoiding a 'freshman 15' with healthy lifestyle habits
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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY VICKY DIAZ-CAMACHO/KANSAN In 2013, almost half of KU students reported trying to lose weight during college, according to the National College Health Assessment.
The dreaded so-called freshman 15 — or extra 15 pounds gained after a student's first year at college — has haunted incoming college freshmen for years. And, according to recent studies, the myth has some truth to it.
Kelsey Fortin, a health educator for Watkins, said that weight gain was common during freshman year, and there was research to back it up. She said that the weight gain might not always be 15 pounds, but was typically closer to five to seven pounds, with a few more added during sophomore year.
"I think it is important for students to make the mind-body connection," Fortin said. "It is so important to take care of your physical health in order to excel in an academic world"
Kirsti Rooks, a junior from Overland Park, said she experienced the freshman 15.
"I gained my freshman 15 and a little more," Rooks said. "It was mainly going out and coming back with my friends and getting like pizza or Burger Stand, and it all added up." Rocks said the freshman 15 was part of the college experience, and said others should not get discouraged.
"It's comforting to know you're not the only one going through it," she said.
"As a young adult coming to college, this is a crucial developmental phase for lifestyle habits."
KELSEY FORTIN Health Educator at Watkins
After her freshman year. Rooks said she added vegetables to her diet to combat the weight gain. She also started a workout regimen that she could do by herself or with her roommate, which included taking walks and using the recreation center on campus.
"My advice would be to mon
itor your portions, and add vegetables," she said. "I think I would've been OK if I had watched what I was eating; I kind of went crazy."
In 2013, almost half of KU students reported trying to lose weight during college, according to the National College Health Assessment. Additionally, only 6 percent of KU students said they consumed five or more servings of fruits or vegetables a day
"Being a freshman may be a lifestyle, but it doesn't harbor gaining weight, and there are
The Obesity Prevention Source website at Harvard states that poor food choices like fast food and sweetened beverages contribute to weight gain.
ways to avoid it," said Conner Brown, a senior from Pleasanton, Calif.
Brown said he wasn't worried about the freshman 15 in his first year at college. He said he grew up eating healthy, on a vegetarian diet, and played sports. He said he wanted to stay healthy while in college and utilized the resources to do so.
Fortin said that having the self control to make healthy choices was one of the biggest challenges for students. She said students in residence halls with a dining plan had access to an all-you-can-eat buffet for every meal.
A healthy lifestyle "just makes sense," he said. "People stigmatize it like they have to try hard, but if you just make it a habit, being healthy really benefits you more than just like eating well and feeling good. It carries throughout the rest of your life."
"There are healthy options available, but it takes the knowledge base and willingness to engage in healthy habits to choose them," Fortin said.
For Brown, it was a no-brainer to eat the healthier options. He had a dining plan but ate nutritious foods and went to the Rec Center or was active with friends.
The University has several initiatives to help students eat better and be healthier, like the Eat Well Live Well
Eat Well Live Well is a six-week-long weight management program where students meet with her one-on-one. Each week, they discuss a new topic area and develop two goals for the student, she said.
program implemented in fall 2013 at Watkins.
Fortin said students could choose to take measurements, including weight and blood pressure, to track progress throughout the program.
Another program, Cook Well Live Well, is a monthly nutrition and cooking class at the Health Center. Fortin said KU Dining did a lot on campus by
The overall key to avoiding the freshman 15 and leading a healthy lifestyle for college students is to take control of their body and health, and to be proactive.
providing healthy options in the residence halls and across campus, like foods labeled "Better Bites" that can help a student identify healthier options.
"As a young adult coming to college, this is a crucial developmental phase for lifestyle habits," Fortin said. As a student, "[I] am able to create a healthy routine now, and stick with it, that will have
"You're going out into the world and being responsible for yourself, and gaining weight may be one consequence of not taking care of yourself," he said. "No one is going to tell you to go to the gym: friends might encourage you and that's good, but you really have to take the step yourself."
Brown agrees. He said living a healthy lifestyle, whether by working out regularly or eating healthy, was part of becoming an adult in college.
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City Comission plans downtown cultural district
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After Lawrence City Commissioners' meetings over the last several months, which included debates with residents, the city will have a defined cultural district.
The proposed Ninth Street Arts Corridor will be at Ninth Street between Delaware and Massachusetts Streets. The corridor will be supported by a $500,000 ArtPlace grant that was awarded last June to the Lawrence Arts Center.
"About two years ago, the city embarked on an effort to define a cultural district in Lawrence," said Porter Arneill, the director of arts and culture in Lawrence. "The ArtPlace Grant allows inclusion and integration of art at various levels for our project."
The debate with residents
have been about what kinds of art will be publicly displayed and how artists will be selected. The idea is to transform the designated location into an accessible public art space with the help of civil engineers and urban designers, according to the Lawrence Arts Center website.
The project calls for a new design for the corridor that will feature both temporary and permanent works of art. The city plans to upgrade the area to highlight the artistic culture of the area and improve pedestrian safety. Improvements will include renovations such as repairing brick streets, making sidewalks more pedestrian-friendly and adding more lighting.
The city may begin construction on the project next summer.
"I'm excited to see this plan come to fruition," Arneill said. "We have eight artists who are going to engage in this project
in a couple exciting, different ways"
Susan Tate, the Lawrence Arts Center chief executive, said artists would be invited to apply for three different tiers of commission, which will be selected by a group of people from the city, the Arts Center, Citizens Advisory Board, artists and Cultural Arts Commission representatives.
Ninth Street Arts Corridor will run between Massachusetts and Delaware Streets
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When a nationwide call for participants was sent out two weeks ago, some residents said they were wary of letting outside influences define the city's culture.
A group of residents told city commissioners in July that they wanted half of the artists to be from East Lawrence for the proposed corridor.
"We had 24 people who responded and we went through a lengthy two-day review of the artists with a panel," Arneill said. "Those we chose all have some sort of tie to the area."
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Five of the artists are from Lawrence, two are from Kansas City, Mo., and one is from New York City, but spent many years in the Kansas City area.
"Bringing in these artists really allows us to start a whole new conversation on the street-scapping that we couldn't have otherwise had," meill said. "We get a new and fresh perspective that will ultimately enrich the area."
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1900 Barker, a bakery and cafe,a product of brothers' partnership
KELLY CORDINGLEY
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Nearly two months ago, the brothers turned a laundromat located at 1900 Barker Ave., into their ideal neighborhood bakery.
At 21 and 23 years old, the Petrehn brothers could be average college students trudging up the hill to their 9 a.m. classes. Instead, they're up before the sun in their bakery and coffee shop.
Taylor and Reagan Petrehn opened their bakery, called 1900 Barker, in early June, and have seen fairly steady traffic since.
"The neighborhood has been really supportive," Taylor said. "It's been fun to meet new people and see new people in their community environment instead of a downtown strip. We were really busy right away, and I feel like we're starting to hit stride now."
Taylor, 23, graduated from Johnson County Community College's culinary program in 2010. He's worked in the restaurant industry for years but said he began baking professionally three years ago, roughly the same time
he moved to Lawrence with a group of friends.
"I loved [Lawrence], and decided to call it home," Taylor said. "It had been a dream for a long time. I walked by this place all the time, and I was like, What would it be like if there was a bakery in this neighborhood?"
The brothers are from Paola, and said they've been foodies for years. About four years ago, Taylor built a pizza oven at their family's home. He said they would bring in a guest bartender for the evening and enjoy great pizza together.
"We've almost always done food together," Taylor said.
“It's great. We have 20-plus years of experience communicating with each other, so it's really easy to communicate, and you don't get that with any other business partner,” Reagan said. “I know my ideas will be understood immediately. I don’t have to worry.”
Working with his brother came naturally to Reagan, he said.
Last week 1900 Barker extended its hours to include Wednesday and Thursday. The cafe is currently open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday
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"Pastries usually sell out pretty quickly," Taylor said. "We see a lull around 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. or so, and as bread comes out of the oven people start showing back up and then they'll grab an espresso on their way home from work."
through Saturday. The brothers serve coffee all day but cycle through different food options. Pastries come out of the oven at 7 a.m., and in the afternoon the Petrehns focus on their breads.
Of the wheat used in their breads, 25 percent comes from a local farm, and all the wheat they use is certified organic. The coffee they use will change every few months as they switch roasteries.
Since the cafe has not been open long, Taylor said they still had room to grow. They're planning to offer more lunch options as well as host neighborhood block parties.
"Every quarter we plan to rotate two new coffee roasters," Taylor said. "We're really searching for the best in the industry."
"Our hope is to really serve the community around us and provide great bread and coffee for people," Taylor said.
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Benjamin Waller produced an 80-minute film called "The Hardest Thing to Earn" for an honors project. It premieres on Wednesday at Liberty Hall.
It's a classic story: Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy loses girl. But Benjamin Waller, a recent graduate from Alton, Ill., wanted to portray something different with his final film as a University student.
"It's a relationship movie at the core," Waller said. "It's guy meets girl, strike 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 80-minute feature film 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," Waller said. "I refer to the film as a dark romantic dramedy."
The film involved a cast largely 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 in July 2014.
"I wanted to make something that I could make, first of all," he said. "For this, I needed to write something that logically [I could] 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 assaults involving alcohol — didn't cross his mind when he first wrote the script. As the story developed, he said he realized how important the film could be.
"[Sexual assault] is such a huge issue globally, especially
"I've always been attracted to social issues when writing. ... I just wanted to approach it on a personal level with a character-driven film."
BENJAMIN WALLER 2015 University Graduate
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."
film's message, in the lead role was a key moment for Waller.
Casting Cox, who carries the
"What attracted me to Jordyn was that she looked the part and nailed the audition, but she has a very vulnerable quality about her," he said.
Waller and Cox both said the cast and crew bonded over the nine-month production process; they said those were their favorite memories.
"Making a feature film is hard," Waller 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."
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 in 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." The film premieres at 7:30 p.m. on the Wednesday at Liberty Hall. After that, Waller hopes his work will make the film festival circuit.
"Hopefully we can get it into some respected film festivals and get it seen and get our name out there. That's really the goal," Waller said. "We're taking on a controversial issue that a lot of people want to turn a blind eye to. I kind of lay it all out there and show you exactly what these victims go through. It's not easy to watch at times, but hopefully it can change people's hearts and minds."
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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Strengthen your infrastructure. Don't go for a far-out suggestion. Rely on personal experience. Patiently consider other opinions. New perspectives illuminate unknown options. Get into the flow. Wait to see what develops before choosing your direction.
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The future looks bright for a group of local musicians who, through poise and persistence, has landed a record deal.
Lawrence-based pop-punk band Four Arm Shiver, which originally got its start in Emporia, came together when the members — the bassist Logan Herrera, the guitarist Joel Austin and the drummer Ryan Schlotterbeck — met while attending Emporia High School.
The trio recently announced its plans to sign with Smash My Records, a Kansas record label located in Chanute. They will release their second full-length album titled "Something About My 20s" this fall. The record's release is set for this September and will be available in CD and vinyl.
Herrera said the band has really enjoyed working with their new producer at Smash My Records
"We are very thankful to be a part of the Smash My Records
'team and can't wait to grow with them,' Herrera said.
The band has headlined concerts in nearby Colorado, Nebraska and Oklahoma, while building a solid local following. Schlotterbeck said the band is currently scheduling fall and spring mini-tours to promote its upcoming record.
All three members share vocal responsibilities on stage and describe their music as pop-punk. The group cited various musical influences but could not put a finger on one in particular.
"We're a little more on the punk-rock side of pop punk," Herrera said. "We all have a very wide range of influences."
Four Arm Shiver was recently part of a full slate of music this past July in the basement of the Eighth Street Taproom. The band has played the venue twice before but performed there for the first time in 2015 with Fools Rush and Something and the Whatevers.
"Playing live is always an exhilarating experience," Schlot-
terbeck said. "I try to focus any nervousness into playing with more feeling. When I'm really in tune, I can totally lose myself while still carrying the song."
Four Arm Shiver has two albums available on its Band-camp page, a streaming website for artists to post their music. The band's site is the main way it distributes music to fans.
The band's first album, a nine-song self-titled release, was recorded in the summer of 2013 at their parents' houses and released in late July 2014.
The band was also featured on "Lawrence Kansas Punk Rock Vol. 1," a 24-track compilation album recorded at Revealed Studios, which is owned and operated by Smash My Records. The album was a collaborative effort with Lawrence punk-rockers The Rackatees and The Sluts, among others.
The members of Four Arm Shiver came together as a group of high school students
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Four Arm Shiver, a trio from Emporia that is now based in Lawrence, said they will release their second full-length album, "Something About My 20s," in September.
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"I feel liberated when we're playing. Liberated from the real world, our responsibilities and our flaws," Herrera said. "I guess that's the romantic way of looking at it, because we're really just three friends participating in makeshift therapy."
For Austin, the best part of performing is the people he does it with.
"You've got the friendship level where you get to hang out with your best friends, doing things you love and going places," he said. "Then, of course, music. It's powerful. It's fun. Even if we're playing to an empty room or something it's still just a great time for all of us."
During the last eight years of playing music together, Four Arm Shiver has evolved into a working class band ready for the next step in the music industry. In addition to growing stronger as a unit, the individual members have also learned a lot about themselves.
"Iused to be a scrummy little punk who didn't care about much, let alone many other people," Austin said. "The
band has given me friends, family and the best time ever. It forced me to become responsible for myself."
Four Arm Shiver will open for Albuquerque band Russian Girlfriends Aug. 31 at 9 p.m. with Lawrence-based band The Hemorrhoids at Jackpot Music Hall at 943 Massachusetts St. Tickets are $5.
The band will also play at 9 p.m. Sept. 9 at Frank's North Star Tavern at 508 Locust St. in north Lawrence. The band will join locals Chess Club in support of the Atlanta-based band Seagulls. Tickets are $3.
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The chili dog at Leeway Franks is made with a beef frankfurter, spritzed with yellow mustard, topped with Texas red chili and a bit more yellow mustard on a poppy seed bun. The order includes a side of fries or tater tots. The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.
For owner of hot dog shop, a focus on natural
KELLY CORDINGLEY @kellycordingley
The small sausage and hotdog restaurant, Leeway Franks, at 935 Iowa St., is more than another storefront in a strip mall to owner Lee Meisel. It's built on a foundation of memories combined with a desire to bring food back to a more natural state.
"My wife and I have a cabin up in Michigan; our annual trips are very, very special to me," Meisel said. "You get up there and there's funny little snack stands all around. That's kind of the inspiration, and this is really all wrapped up in memories."
Meisel said that since he opened the doors to Leeway Franks on July 17, people have flooded in.
"It's been a little overwhelming. We've been really busy. We're pretty much running out
of product," he said. "This has exceeded my expectations by quite a bit. I expected it'd be pretty steady, maybe serve 60 to 70 people at the beginning then ramp up to 100 to 120 — we're already there."
Meisel, a 2008 Haskell University graduate, said he has always loved working with food. He worked as a butcher at 715 Restaurant on Massachusetts Street for three years as well as at the Merc.
"After being in fine dining for years and it being all intricate, I wanted to strip everything down and make it really approachable," Meisel said.
With so much traffic in only the first week, Meisel said he attributed the success to social media and word of mouth.
"Social media is really the main way [we got the word out] and just being connected in the food scene in town," Meisel said. "This little neighborhood is really cool, lots of people coming and going. They tell their friends about it and our neighbors and the barber shop down the road." Martin Watson of Watson's Barber Shop, located just a few doors down from Leeway Franks, said Lee delivered menus and food samples to attract more customers. It worked.
"Everyone had some, and we really liked it, and we've been here every day since," Watson said. "We're spreading the word."
Watson attributes part of the large crowd to the high quality of the food.
“It's going to go really well for them because it's quick service and good food,” Watson said. “That goes a long way. It's not about a quantity, it's the quality. I look at them being around here. If they leave, it's only because they got a bigger spot.”
All of Lee's meats are free of antibiotics, and he doesn't use
LEE MEISEL
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"After being in fine dining for years and it being all intricate, I wanted to strip everything down and make it really approachable."
fillers, he said. He butchers the pigs on Mondays and handmakes nearly 600 sausages by himself.
"It's all my recipes I've developed over the years," he said. "Each individual one looks different than the rest. They're in natural casings, so they have snaps, and some people are divided on it. Some people have never had natural casing, and sometimes the texture is too much."
The natural casings are made of washed pork intestines. Meisel said that making his meat the most natural way possible was important to him because of where he comes from and where he has worked.
"There's no mystery to what I do. I don't ever want it to become a big manufacturer's process," he said. "My background is in butchering. I grew up in a small town in North Dakota — Mandan — and that's where I learned how to grind meat properly."
Meisel said the Classic Coney was one of the most popular items on the menu. It's a beef frankfurter with brown mustard, sauteed onions and sauerkraut on a poppyseed bun. The restaurant tries to avoid using ketchup, he said.
"We try to stay away from ketchup unless your kid still has training wheels on his bike, he can have it, and we don't argue with pregnant women, so they can do that," Meisel said. Leeway Franks is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Meisel employs two people; he worked with one for years at 715 Restaurant, but he said he had thought about bringing others on.
“[I'm] looking at maybe bringing on a couple part-time employees so I can get back to focusing on the sausages, especially if my production increases,” he said. “Right now, between being open for eight hours then being here between eight and 10 hours extra every day, I can do it fine for now, but I don't want to do that forever.”
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Downtown treat stand a twist on late-night bites
KELLY CORDINGLEY
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Whether they're in Qatar, Dubai or Germany, the Chahines wake up every morning to get a taste of the local crepe scene. As they stroll the streets at night of any given city across the world, they stop at a Belgian fry stand to grab a cone of their favorite late-night treat.
But on May 1, Bassem Chahine and his wife, Elizabeth Chahine, opened Crepes and Taters at 1016 Massachusetts St.
"We travel everywhere, and my wife always came with me and her hobby was that she loved to buy crepes in every country we went to. Literally every morning she would drag me to go have breakfast and have crepes because she loved them," he said. "When she saw the opportunity over here, she was like, 'Lawrence doesn't have a crepe store, so let's do one'."
Crepes and Taters, previously Lebanese Flower, which was owned by Bassem's father, operates in the kitchen of Fatso's. When Lebanese Flower closed, Elizabeth saw the opportunity to bring her love of crepes and Belgian fries to
Lawrence.
"Those are the two things we really like to do, especially when we travel," Bassem said. "Belgian fry stands in Europe are like hot dog stands in New York. At night time when we're out strolling and having fun and we got hungry, wed go for the Belgian fries and mornings were for crepes, so that's why we have the two together."
Brooke Magdaleno, the general manager at Crepes and Taters, said she has loved crepes since she began working at IHOP at 16 years old and loved the idea of a crepes-specific place on Massachusetts Street.
"I think it's a really unique thing, definitely meant for a city-type area," Magdaleno said. "If we tried to open this outside of Mass Street, I don't think it would do as well. When we first opened, it was the last week of school so we had a lot of nighttime traffic. Right now we're bringing in a lot of couples and families."
Crepes and Taters offers sweet and savory crepes as well as Belgian fries with numerous dipping sauces. Bassem said the variety of options makes the new business even more exciting.
"It's not any crepe; it's gourmet. It's not just jam or Nutella on a crepe," he said. "This is very local, so we need to let the lunchtime and breakfast people know we exist. Its crepes; everyone loves crepes." Bassem and Magdaleno said they anticipated late night traffic to pick back up when University students come back for the fall semester.
"With summer it kind of died, but when the locals came that's what saved us in the summer," he said. "Right now, we're aiming at the whole population here, whether you're out partying and want to sober up and have a Belgian fry at 2 a.m., or the working people who come to get a crepe in the morning."
Bassem said he thought part of what drew people to Crepes and Taters is the unique name and off-the-wall combination of crepes and Belgian fries. "It's a catchy name; it's something very random," he said. "I hope it's helped business. I think the people who come here are in shock every time, but they love it."
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Franchise malaise has set in after a summer blockbuster season overstuffed with sequels. So the upcoming originals of the fall are welcomed with open arms, especially the new offerings from some powerhouse directors. Just be cause summer is over doesn't mean you should be going to the movies less.
BLACK MASS SEPT.18
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt does a literal high-wire act in this true story of the Frenchman who came to New York to cross between the Twin Towers in 1974.
Using no safety measures, the illegal stunt has been called the "artistic crime of the century" Shown from above, "The Walk" guarantees a suspenseful time. Now that "Forrest Gump" director Robert Zemeckis is over his strange motion capture CGI phase and the moralizing of "Flight," this looks like his return to form.
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OCT.2
Ridley Scott returned to his
sci-fi roots with the spectacular "Prometheus," and this more grounded story looks like a keen combination of his visual splendor within the genre and a satisfying narrative of the human spirit's strength for survival. On a mission to Mars, one of the astronauts (Matt Damon) gets left behind on the red planet, presumed dead, and must figure out how to keep himself alive and signal Earth, prompting his crew to plan a daring return for his rescue.
STEVE JOBS
OCT.9
Sure, there was that mediocre Steve Jobs biopic with Ashton Kutcher that only covered until the new millennium, but that's like an old PC compared to this Mac version
of his life. Michael Fassbender embodies the cutthroat brilliance of the man behind Apple while Seth Rogen leans more dramatic than usual as his partner, Steve Wozniak.
Written by the politically punchy and quick-witted Aaron Sorkin, and directed by the electrifyingly creative Danny Boyle, this fierce film gives the technology visionary his cinematic due.
CRIMSON PEAK OCT.16
Guillermo del Toro's best work lies within the realm of fantasy horror, like his early films and "Pan's Labyrinth", so this original Victorian ghost story looks particularly promising for wildly creative creepiness.
Mia Wasikowska joins Tom Hiddleston and Jessica
Chastain in a mansion filled with dark secrets and restless spirits, many of which are sure to leave a haunting impression with their weirdly scary design.
BRIDGE OF SPIES OCT.16
Steven Spielberg directed Tom Hanks through the frontline in World War II, and now takes him to the frontline of the Cold War in this true story of a lawyer the CIA sent to Berlin to negotiate the return swap of an American spy pilot for a Soviet Union spv.
Add to that a script co-written by the Coen brothers and you've got another tense, impressive Spielberg Oscar-contender about an important piece of history that should hit with audiences, too.
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Tom Hanks, right, and Mark Rylance in a scene from "Bridge of Spies." Steven Spielberg's Cold War thriller will premiere at the 53rd New York Film Festival. The 17-day festival, which kicks off Sept. 25, will also include the debut of Laura Israel's documentary of photographer Robert Frank," Don't Blink: Robert Frank."
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Lindsey Yankey
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Lindsey Yankey, an author and illustrator from Lawrence, made the 2015 Kansas Notable Books List for her children's book "Bluebird." The book tells the story of a bluebird attempting to fly for the first time without the wind.
Author and illustrator lands on Kansas Notable Books list
MADI SCHULZ
@Mad_Dawgg
Growing up in Leon in a creative family — both her brother and sister went to art school, her father is a ceramicist and draws and her mother often wove baskets — Lindsey Yankey, an author and illustrator from Lawrence, spent her time playing outside, painting and playing sports.
"It was a solid background for kind of establishing that love of creating and making," Yankey said.
That love for creating paid off; this year, Yankey, a 2009 graduate, landed on the Kansas Notable Books list with her children's book "Bluebird."
"Bluebird" follows a small bird as she attempts to fly for the first time without the wind. The little bluebird sets out to find the wind and also finds her confidence along the way.
When she was younger, Yankey loved children's books but always gravitated to a particular illustration style, namely the work of the American author Jan Brett, which Yankey said featured a main illustration but had a "more than meets the eye" style in the details around the border of the page.
"I had an affinity for the books that had lots and lots of detail and the ones where you can keep findings every time you read it," she said.
Yankey's creative interest waned as a teenager, when she participated in sports.
"Our school didn't really have an art program and so I kind of checked out for a while, but when I got to KU I started to show more interest," Yankee said. "Underlying was a lot of want to keep making things."
Yankey began school at Hutchinson Community College on a softball scholarship. She transferred to the University in her second year after she began to feel "antsy with a desire for something more."
While initially interested in elementary education, Yankey switched to art education, where she found herself in the studio as a part of the requirement for the major. With story ideas already in mind, she knew she wanted to make books and switched her major to illustration.
The idea for her first children's book, "Sun and Moon," came about in a simple way.
"I was walking home from class one day and thought, 'Wow, this is such a beautiful day.' It was springtime and beautiful and I thought, 'The sun gets to see everything cool! Then I was thinking, 'The moon's missing out,' she said.
"Bluebird,"her second book and the one on the Kansas Notable Books List, came from a simple, one-line idea about a bird missing the wind.
"I had an affinity for the books that had lots and lots of detail and the ones where you can keep finding details every time you read it."
LINDSEY YANKEY
Author and illustrator
"I was thinking about a bird looking for the wind; well, then you have questions," Yankey said. "Why is she looking for the wind? Where would she look for the wind? What is the wind and the bird's relationship? How do they know each other? How did that even start?"
focuses on doing something for the first time without a friend or someone you depend on, Yankey said.
After college, Yankey traveled to England for a few months and started working on posters for an art collaborative group. When the group started putting her work in its mailing list, she got in touch with the Shakespeare and Co. bookstore in Paris and began making bags, posters and signs for the store.
In 2014 she traveled to the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy to try to find publishers for her books. She found one in Simply Read Books, which published "Sun and Moon" and "Bluebird."
"She plans her books out quite carefully and has great attention to detail." Mitchell Cranfield said. "Working with her gave me a lot of insight into how illustrators experience working with a graphic designer, and I brought some of that experience into my teaching."
Through Simply Read Books, Yankey worked closely with Robin Mitchell Cranfield, principal of Hundreds and Thousands Book Design and Illustrations, as well as a visiting professor in the publishing department at Simon Fraser University in Canada.
After the books were published in 2014, Yankey participated in library and bookstore readings and received positive feedback from her audience.
“It’s exciting. I got recognized by two little kids on the street,” she said. “I had a reading at the Raven [Book Store] a couple weeks ago. It had just happened so I think it was really fresh on their minds.”
Yankey also makes cards and prints in Lawrence, which are sold at Au Marché, a European foods and gifts store on Massachusetts Street, and Essential Goods, which sells prints,
cards and other gifts but focuses on local artists.
"We first saw Lindsey's work at WheatFields [Bakery] and immediately knew she was really talented," said Molly Crook, the owner of Essential Goods. "I got in touch with her and we kind of went back and forth and now she sells her cards in the store."
For Yankey, the cards are little ways to experiment with her designs. Although her go to is oil paint, she often experiments in different mediums for her cards and prints.
Last fall, Yankey glued leaves onto paper, and she said they eventually formed into characters, which she made into a print. For another print that appears in "Sun and Moont" she made intricate slices in linoleum to make a stamp of fireworks to illustrate a page.
"I think that a lot of my style comes from keeping my options open with materials" she said. "That's something that really helps free me up to illustrate however [the piece] would be the best illustrated."
Throughout her life, Yankey said she had always been a creative person, an artist. Art matters because it is a part of what "makes us human," she said.
Yankey has two stories in the works. This summer, she read her stories for an audience at the Lawrence Public Library and the Toy Store.
— Edited by Emma LeGault
“[Art] is our celebration, our filter, our vent, our questioning, our understanding, our exploration, our play.” Yankey said. “Everyone is born creative and continuing to encourage creativity throughout our lives is enriching for everyone.”
August shows to see for under $10
Varma Cross with Red Francis and Narkalark
When: Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 10 p.m.
Price: $3(21+)
The established groups Varma Cross and Narkalark will team up with the band Red Francis, based in Chicago, for a Wednesday at Replay. Signed to Wet Lettuce Records, Red Francis has been on a month-long North American tour that will conclude at the end of August.
Where: The Bottleneck
Tyler Gregory with Rolling Foliage
When: Friday, Aug. 28 at 9 p.m.
Where: The Bottleneck
Price: $8 (18+)
Kansas-born singer-songwriter Tyler Gregory & The Bootleg Band will return to the Bottleneck on Friday for a performance. Founded in 2010, Tyler Gregory & The Bootleg Band blends country, roots and blues music. Rolling Foliage, featuring the violinist Paul Coleman of The Bootleg Band, will also play.
Field Division with PLAINS
Price: $3(21+)
When: Friday, Aug. 28 at 10 p.m.
Where: Replay Lounge
Hailing from Des Moines, Iowa, and signed to Station 1 Records, Field Division is a folkwave duo of Evelyn Taylor and Nicholas Frampton.
Pink Royal with Not A Planet and La Guerre
Guerre
When: Saturday, Aug. 29 at 9 p.m
Where: The Bottleneck
Price: $6 / $4 with KU ID (All Ages)
Price: $6 / $4 with KU ID (All Ages) The experimental groove-pop group Pink Royal will return to the Bottleneck on Saturday night for this back-to-school show. Pink Royal will be joined by Not A Planet, based in Kansas City, and the Lawrence act Katlyn Conroy, formerly of Cowboy Indian Bear, who performs under the moniker La Guerre.
Russian Girlfriends with Four Arm Shiver and The Hemorrhoids When: Monday, Aug. 31 at 9 p.m. Where: Jackpot Music Hall Price: $7 / $5 if 21+ Fellow Lawrence punk bands Four Arm Shiver and The Hemorrhoids — dubbed "The Best Worst Band in Kansas" — will be joined by the five-piece band Russian Girlfriends, based in Albuquerque, at Jackpot. Russian Girlfriends describes itself as "aggressive adult contemporary."
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University selects "A Farewell to Arms" as 2015 Common Book
A University committee
A university committee made up of faculty, staff and students selected "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway as this year's Common Book.
Each year, the University gives incoming students a book at orientation to spur discussion, critical thought and reflection, according to the Office of First-Year Experience website.
The University hosts forums and activities throughout the year for students, staff and faculty
to discuss the Common Book.
Facts about the author: Hemingway won a Pulitzer prize for his short story "The Old Man and the Sea." Before that, he worked as a reporter for The Kansas City Star after he graduated from high school and later wrote a series of short stories that launched his career. He also lived in Paris with an expatriate group of artists and writers, according to Biography.com.
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Liberty Hall embraces history to break from norm
JARRET ROGERS
@jerogers
In Lawrence's art house, Liberty Hall, there might be only two inescapable facts: It's old, and it's got a whole lot of history for you to see hear and feel
for you to see, hear and see
A movie theater, concert venue,
video store and coffee shop in one building, Liberty Hall offers a unique experience for those who walk in.
Liberty Hall was built on ground that was first occupied in the 1850s by The Herald Freedom, Kansas' first abolitionist newspaper. The current building was constructed in 1912 by the politician J.D. Bowersock. Since then, it has been used as theaters and nightclubs until 1986 when it became Liberty Hall.
For bands that come through the venue, it can be a change of pace after streaks of playing in more contemporary rooms. In some other venues, you'll find nothing more than a main floor with a bar. At Liberty Hall there's far more than just a place to perform.
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"The interior of building and the layout, I think, is really intriguing to people. There's something about the facility that makes people want to ask
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questions and want to know more," said Dean Edington, Liberty Hall's general manager. "A lot of bands are playing more modern facilities. They're playing places that, for lack of a better term, don't have as much character."
Liberty Hall's video store includes VHS tapes for rental.
Dean Edington is the general manager of the Liberty Hall theatre in downtown Lawrence
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The dim lighting from the vintage chandeliers in the foyer hint at the theater's earlier days. Inside the two movie rooms are rows of velvet seats, wooden banners and the theater's original architecture highlighted by murals painted on the ceilings.
Because it's a multifaceted building, management limits the concert schedule, prioritizing films. As a result, the theater cultivates a schedule that the managers believe brings in the best talents possible.
"Liberty Hall is never going to be that place where you can go see a concert every night of the week," Edington said. "But it will always be that place where the highest caliber of talent is going to come to play."
Liberty Hall typically 'shows the latest indie films in both the main theater and little theater. On weekends, classic films frequent the projectors. Curators at the theater want the experience at Liberty Hall to be as close as possible to the first time the film was screened. There are no gimmicks, sing-alongs or quote-alongs — just a classic movie in a classic theater.
"If you want to hear the entire theater talking during the movie, there are plenty of places to go do that," Edington said. "If you want to go see something like you're actually seeing it in the theater for the first time, this is your spot."
rents out not only Blu-Rays and DVDs, but VHS tapes as well. Movie titles range from "The Avengers" to Criterion collection films for the local cinephiles.
Liberty Hall's offerings go beyond the confines of its theaters. There's also a video store inside the attached building to the right of the theater that
The adjoining coffee shop, La Prima Tazza, is perfect for those hankering for a cup of local coffee, tea or pastries.
"It's cool to be working in such a multifaceted place," said Spencer Brown, who has been an employee for the last two years. "We have a diverse range of regulars and it's a lot
of fun to be making coffee one day and talking movies with someone the next"
Edington said he and his staff care for the historic building because the theater is a cultural cornerstone within the community.
"There is literally something here for everyone," Edington said. "We are an inclusive place for all people."
- Edited by Leah Sitz
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Nick Fredrickson, Garrett Marsh and John McCain are members of Real Adults, a band that formed two months ago in Lawrence. Not pictured is the keyboardist, Eric Davis.
A chain of musical connections links 'Real Adults'
RYAN WRIGHT
@ryanwayneright
Lawrence is seemingly the mecca of Kansas music. Many artists come from all over the state to collaborate and perform with other musicians. In the middle of this melting pot is Real Adults.
Real Adults is a local band that formed two months ago in Lawrence, but contains members from several different cities in Kansas. The singer-songwriter Garrett Marsh, 20, grew up in Chanute and started writing music out of boredom.
"Being a musician from a small town, I had little to noone to play music with," Marsh said. "This caused me to write all of my music alone, thus forcing me to focus more on an individual sound, rather than building with anyone else during my construction period as a musician."
When Marsh turned 18 he moved to Lawrence, and once he arrived, his goal was to see
as many local shows as possible. The first band he saw was Psychic Heat, and right away, he was thoroughly impressed.
"From there we both started writing together and eventually I joined him in Middle Twin," Marsh said. "Once I joined Middle Twin I met everyone that I know now in the music scene."
After seeing the Psychic Heat show, Marsh continued to become a part of the Lawrence music scene. One day, Eric Davis, the keyboardist for the band Hembree, walked into Marsh's workplace. Marsh noticed the Psychic Heat button on Davis' jacket, which sparked a conversation. The two hit it off, and through his relationship with Davis, Marsh joined the local band Middle Twin.
He met the band's bassist,
John McCain, through his
roommate, a mutual friend.
"Through that I got to know [McCain] and that he was a beautiful bass player," Marsh
said.
"I was never a musical child, but my sister was a singer," McCain said. "I didn't think I was interested in music until I was about 13. I've constantly played in bands since then."
McCain, a sophomore from Lawrence, started playing music when he was 13. He is also a member of the local band Paper Buffalo.
Marsh met Nick Fredrickson, a drummer, at a No Cave show, and the two eventually fostered a musical relationship.
Fredrickson, a Topeka native, was raised in a household of musicians. His father played guitar, and the first band that Fredrickson was a member of was one with his father and siblings.
The band's keyboardist, Joel Martin, has a relatively familiar story. Martin is from Baldwin City, and, like Marsh, decided to write music because he felt he had nothing better to do.
The band formed rather
spontaneously.
"We didn't really have a name and we were at practice one day and John brought up that he had an idea for a name," Marsh said. "And that's how we got the name, Real Adults." McCain said the band's sound was "dreamy math pop."
"The guitar playing is really mathy and the effects of what Joel does on synths adds a dreamy element," McCain said.
"The guitar playing is really mathy and the effects of what Joel does on synths adds a dream element."
"I write wherever an idea
JOHN McCAIN Bassist for Real Adults
The band's creative process usually begins with a concept from Marsh, who said he could be inspired anywhere.
comes to mind," he said. "Anywhere from my bedroom to the passenger seat of a car."
After the songs are written, the other members of the band collaborate to create the music. The band's demo, "Take", is an example of their collaborative process.
It's hard for the band to organize times to record or perform because Marsh lives in Kansas City while everyone else lives in Lawrence. For that reason, the young band hasn't had many performances, although it did play a show in late July at the Roasterie in Hashinger Hall.
"Joel and I were working on an idea and we started writing together a little bit," Marsh said. "Later we started adding the synths. Then we thought to ourselves, why not produce it and make it a full product?"
hear well, but it was a good show"
"I'm not used to playing a coffee shop environment [but] it was cool that people showed up to listen," Marsh said. "The sound was off and we couldn't
During live performances. Marsh and Fredrickson are energetic while Martin and McCain are calm and focused, which creates an interesting dynamic.
Real Adults is taking a break from live shows as it finishes its debut project. The band's next show is on Sept. 28 with Buffalo Rodeo and Dream Girl at The RecordBar at 1020 Westport Road in Kansas City, Mo. Tickets are still available and cost $7. For more information visit therecordbar.com.
- Edited by Scott Chasen
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Pink Royal and Phantastics to play Hawk Week
KATE HARTLAND
@katschats77
Live music has always been a staple for the University's annual Hawk Week, and this year is no different. Pink Royal will perform on Aug. 21 and the Phantastics on Aug. 25.
PINK ROYAL
With its mellow rock feel and easy beats, audiences will find themselves grooving
right along with Pink Royal at UnionFest on Aug. 21. Based in Lawrence, the band has cultivated its unique blend of hip hop and thoughtful lyrics, or self-proclaimed "experimental groove-pop," since 2012. The band's tunes feel similar to Young the Giant, and its song "Please Please Please" will be sure to hype up students for a new academic year.
Dylan Guthrie, lead vocalist for Pink Royal, said his favorite thing about Lawrence was the sense of community he feels, especially as a musician. He was introduced to other people who had similar thoughts and ideas during his freshman year when he lived in Hashinger.
"There's nothing better we can think of as an opportunity than a bunch of people who don't know anything about Lawrence and the first introduction they get is our music,
essentially," Guthrie said. Pink Royal will play two sets at UnionFest on Aug.21 in the Kansas Union. UnionFest runs from 7 p.m.to 10 p.m.
THE PHANTASTICS If you want something irresistible to get down to, the Phantastics are the dance-music makers for you. Dubbed "masters of funk" by The Pitch, a weekly publication covering Kansas City, the Phantastics unleash a collaboration of soul, rap, rock and funk wherever they play. The seven-member collaboration was so successful in Kansas City that it branched out to Lawrence.
Leigh Gibbs, vocalist for the Phantastics, said she enjoyed all energetic crowds, but especially liked how open college students are to different types of music.
"That really personifies the atmosphere of Lawrence to me: 'Hey weird music, where
are you?" she said.
Gibbs's favorite song to perform live is currently "Get Up," which she describes as "kind of James Brown-esque." The song is not on their album "Closer", so audiences will have to catch it at the performance.
Tunes at Night, where the band will jive, starts at 9 p.m. on Aug. 25 at the Lied Center.
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Karaoke nights, despite changes, attract returners
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Sadie Barbie, from Lawrence, sings Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady" at the Burger Stand on a Wednesday night.
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KATE MILLER
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It's 10:15 p.m. on a Wednesday at the Burger Stand at the Casbah, and it looks pretty much like expected — a few people taking advantage of $5 late-night burgers, others finishing up their last rounds at the bar.
But as the clock ticks closer to 10:30 p.m., an entirely new crowd starts to trickle in, making its way past the bar and up the stairs to the second floor. The regular crowd is a mix of high schoolers, college students, recent college graduates and established townies. They're all here to do one thing: sing their hearts out for karaoke night.
Karaoke culture is a staple in Lawrence, with karaoke nights across town six times a week at various locations. Many people who attend karaoke night at the Burger Stand, at 803 Massachusetts St., also attend other karaoke nights during the week, and the Burger Stand's karaoke night draws from 35 to 150 people a week.
"Karaoke is sort of a common language," said Chris Hoffman, a host of the Burger Stand's karaoke night. "A lot of people come out to laugh with people and laugh at them as well."
Hoffman was one of the first hosts who started karaoke night at the Burger Stand five years ago. The hosts purchased their own karaoke equipment, still used today, to bring once a week.
However, while the equipment has stayed the same, the people haven't. A good deal of the business is driven by college students during the year, and Hoffman said it was like a "rite of passage" to see so many come through the doors and eventually graduate over the years.
The attendees aren't the only ones who have changed. The Burger Stand almost closed down its karaoke night recently when the original hosts quit the program. Hoffman said he came back to resume the program and "struck a deal to get it back on track."
Now, the karaoke night is
back in full swing, with some singers and groups returning every week.
One of these groups is a few high school students who come to karaoke night after an evening of theater rehearsal at the Lawrence Arts Center.
"I just love that I can sing with all of my friends and have fun and not care about whether I'm hitting the notes right," said Joaquín Dorado, one of the students. "If I mess up, I can just laugh it off."
Even though two of the songs that Dorado sang were released before he was born, he was comfortable with the older music performed during the night. Oldies were a go-to for many performers on that evening, and audience members sang along, contributing to a feeling of community and support.
It's this positive environment that keeps people like Will Chaffield-Taylor, a 2015 graduate who attended karaoke for four and a half years, coming back.
"I had a group of friends who originally got me to come out
"Karaoke is sort of a common
"Karaoke is sort of a common language. A lot of the people come out to laugh with people and laugh at them as well."
CHRIS HOFFMAN
Burger Stand Karaoke Night Host
On a recent Wednesday night, he sang "Flagpole Sitta" with Hoffman — the pair's signature song.
and start singing with them, and when they eventually stopped coming, I just came back here to socialize," Chattfield-Taylor said.
Hoffman, both a host and a performer on that night, put into words why the event was, and continues to be, so popular.
"It makes people feel like they're the lead singer of the band," he said.
- Edited by James Hoyt
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Stylish spectacle tends to be the main draw of spy movies, but "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," based off the series from the 1960s, instead excels in the hilarious dynamic between the partnered American operative and Russian agent leads. All the other standard spy movie elements amount to decent entertainment, but the snappy humor and the contentious one-upmanship of the stars drive this lighthearted movie about a Cold War mission.
Henry Cavill trades the earnest seriousness he embodies in Superman for buoyant, quick-witted charm as the debonair Napoleon Solo, a sly former thief who now uses his talents to easily become the most effective agent of the U.S.
In the playful opening sequence, he leads beautiful German car mechanic Gaby (Alicia Vikander) on a dashing escape over the Berlin Wall while hulking KGB spy Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) matches him move for move, feisty and frustrated as he nearly stops them.
So when the Russian and American agencies set up a joint operation that teams these two arrogant spies, they don't exactly play nice with each other. Their frivolous back and forth liveness up their routine mission to locate Gaby's long-gone scientist father and retrieve his atomic bomb design plans from the bad guys.
But while Solo gets to indulge his smooth charisma and playboy antics, Illya must calm his temper and not blow his cover as Gaby's architect fiancé This creates a comical tension as he's pushed around and disrespected, especially
funny when Solo is the one teasing him like a little brother. Hammer nails the comedic timing here as he speaks in a thick Russian accent and clearly relishes this lively, memorable role that helps him stand out as more than the Winklevoss twins from "The Social Network."
The co-writer and director Guy Ritchie brings his distinct visual style to the Italian-set narrative and puts together several inventive montages of the two agents in action. However, "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." feels paired down from his usual fast cutting and kinetic energy. That works both for and against it, as the action sequences are a bit underwhelming, especially considering his high-impact set pieces in both "Sherlock Holmes" films. A final chase takes on tricky terrain but loses steam pretty quickly. However, the rhythm Ritchie
sets the actors on is even more fun than Holmes and Watson squabbling. And several of the best, laugh-out-loud moments come from slowing down a frenzied moment and watching the action play out hilariously in the background. Solo enjoys a sandwich off to the side as illya dodges gunfire in a boat chase. Later on a character's hysterically brutal demise occurs behind the agents without them noticing until way too late.
"The Man from U.N.C.L.E. works better as a comedy than spy movie. It leaves something to be desired from the secret agent thrills but succeeds in a much more surprisingly amusing mission. Cavill and Hammer are delightfully funny together, and that chemistry carries it throughout.
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From left: Alicia Vikander as Gaby; Armie Hammer as Illya Kuryakin; and Henry Cavill as Napoleon Solo in the actionadventure film "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", a Warner Bros. Pictures release. The movie, about a Cold War spy mission, was based on the series of the same name from the 1960s.
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'Compton' soars at box office
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From left: Aldis Hodge as MC Ren; Neil Brown Jr. as DJ Yella; Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E; O'Shea Jackson Jr. as Ice Cube; and Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre in the film "Straight Outta Compton."
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LOS ANGELES — The boys from Compton smashed opening weekend expectations, while the stylist "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." struggled to find its footing.
Universal's N.W.A. biopic earned an astonishing $56.1 million in its debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Director F. Gary Gray's well-received film charts the formation and rise of the influential rap group. It cost just $29 million to produce.
N. W.A. members Dr. Dre and Ice Cube served as producers on the film, which has Ice Cube's real son O'Shea Jackson Jr. playing his father. Dr. Dre also released the companion piece "Compton,"—his first new album in 16 years.
Nick Carpou, Universal's president of domestic distribution, said they were "elated" with the results. Universal had previously predicted a very conservative $25 to $30 million opening.
"It really struck a chord with audiences. It's a story that is resonating right now," said Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak's senior media analyst. "It was one of those records that was an important work and a
Beyond the fandom around N.W.A. and the timeliness of the themes, Universal also launched a clever marketing campaign around the film, "Straight Outta Somewhere," which allows social media users to insert photos in the iconic "Straight Outta Compton" album cover and write in a hometown of their choosing.
very important expression of a particular viewpoint. To this day, that album has so much power."
There have been over 5.4 million downloads to date and it trended No. 1 across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for two days in a row.
"We've got the best marketers in the business and they understand their audiences," Carpou said. "The good news here is it attaches to a product that we're exceedingly proud of."
According to exit polls, audiences for the R-rated film were evenly divided between genders, 51 percent were under the age of 30,46 percent were African-American and 23 percent Caucasian.
Meanwhile, Warner Bros. PG-13-rated adaptation of the 1960s television series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." debuted in third place, behind "Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation," with a sluggish $13.5 million.
"(Director) Guy Ritchie made an original and fun movie. Eighty-six percent of our audience was over 25 and 39 percent are over 50," he said. "Older audiences, we all know, don't rush out opening weekend."
"The Man From U.N.C.L.E." stars Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer as a pair of American and Russian agents in the fashionable Cold War-era film.
"I was hoping for a little higher number, quite frankly," said Jeff Goldstein, executive vice president of domestic distribution for Warner Bros. The goal had been a modest $15 million. The period spy thriller will have an uphill battle to make up its $80 million production budget.
Goldstein noted that they weren't able to attract a significant younger audience, who are likely not familiar with the source material. The 7 percent who did turn out gave the film a favorable A- CinemaScore, and Goldstein hopes that word-of-mouth will spread in the coming weeks.
But it's Universal's weekend
Fox's "Fantastic Four" plummeted to $8 million to take the fourth place spot, while "The Gift" took fifth with $6.5 million.
to celebrate once more in what has become a banner year for the studio. Universal crossed the $2 billion mark domestically on Saturday — four months ahead of previous record-holder Warner Bros.
"Straight Outta Compton" is Universal's sixth film to open over $50 million in 2015 and broke the August record for an R-rated opening.
"If you were to create a blueprint for how to perfectly execute a box office year, they've done it," said Dergarabedian.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
TOP-GROSSING MOVIES
1. "Straight Outta Compton," $56.1 million.
2. "Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation," $17 million.
3. "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," $13.5 million.
4. "Fantastic Four," $8 million.
5. "The Gift," $6.5 million.
6. "Ant-Man," $5.5 million.
7. "Vacation," $5.3 million.
8. "Minions," $5.2 million.
9. "Ricki and the Flash," $4.6 million.
10. "Trainwreck," $3.8 million.
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Every month, Lowkey Listens showcases five tracks to listen to from five different artists. For August, read about and listen to Brockhampton, Chance the Rapper, Lil B, Lund, Yung Lean and Duke Jordan.
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I've never understood all the Lil B love, but this beat — produced by Nate Fox — is too hot to pass on. This track is the last (and also the best) off of "Free," the mixtape that the duo recently dropped, which is composed of freestyles. Though I didn't love the tape as a whole, this last track has me wanting more. The two rap over an absolute banger of a beat, while Chance the Rapper comes through with a catchy hook between the "whoop" and "based god" of Lil B.
With Chance and the based god rapping about why they're "rare," this is play-loud-in-your-car-with-the-windows-down music. Just trust me.
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Best line: "The reason why we rare is 'cause everybody's beautiful." — Chance the Rapper
I was put onto the Brockhampton collective this summer, and it basically owned the rest of my summer. Kevin Abstract is the lead man of the collective, but there are contributions from Matt Champion, Ameer Van, Joba, Poofie and Merlyn Wood on this track. It's not often that we get a six-minute song in hip-hop that is enjoyable all the way through, but this is one of those tracks. Right when you think it's starting to cool down around the four-minute mark, Wood comes in and throws some hard bars over some sharp bass about 90 seconds later.
Keep your eye out for this collective: This track has over 145,000 views on SoundCloud, the group has a cult-like following and it recently won the "VFILES LOUD!" competition — a talent search conducted by VFiles. The group is quickly on the rise, and you shouldn't be surprised if you hear more about it soon.
Best line: "She don't smoke weed to get high/She only smoke dope' cause her friends do it." — Kevin Abstract
"Tokyo Drift" - Yung Lean (featuring MonyHorse, PETZ, Bladee and Junkman)
Yung Lean is hit or miss, and with this track, he hit it hard. But I'm not going to give the credit to Lean on this one; that all goes to the producer, Chaki Zulu, who I knew little about before this track dropped. Zulu is a Japanese producer who has just over 5,000 followers on Twitter. Lean dug deep for this one. We even get to see a verse (albeit, a subpar verse) from Bladee on this track, which is something we don't get every day.
"Alone"—Lund
Best line: "Lean Doer, I'm exhausted, I be coughin' in that coffin." — Yung Lean
I know absolutely nothing about this guy Lund other than this song will get you in your feels. Usually, Lund will remix or use samples heavily in his music. Here, he's doing it all by himself, and from what I've heard, it's his most impressive work yet. It's a piano-heavy song on the hook, but when the verses come in, Lund spruces things up with some drums and hi-hats. It's a masterpiece which deserves a lot more attention than it's getting. I'll try to keep my eye on this guy, but he is very low-key — just how we like them.
Best line:"Addicted to love, and you're my supplier."
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Best line: "Forget my loving touch, cause now we're nothing." — Lexi Gaudill
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Former Kansas basketball player Christian Garrett, who played at Kansas for four years, trades high fives with the bench on March 3, 2015.
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I remember my first days at the University of Kansas like they were yesterday. And really, I have vivid memories of the last five or so years of my life. To me, it all went by too fast.
When I look back, it feels as if one day, I'm a high-school student about to begin my last semester at IMG Academy in Florida, and the next day, I'm a freshman at the University, getting lost on my way to Smith Hall for an English class.
One day, I'm practicing against high school kids, and the next, against Tyshawn Taylor and the Morris twins.
One day, I'm in sunny Florida, and the next, a blizzard — something I had never experienced before.
And it goes on and on. In what felt like a matter of days, I went from being a high school senior to an underclassman, to
to Los Angeles, Las Vegas to Miami. This has been one of the most enjoyable summers of my life, and I made huge strides as a player and as a person.
There are amazing places that have so much to do and experience, but there's something special that stands out about Lawrence no matter where you go.
And while you're in college, there are plenty of memories that will be made. Many of those memories will happen in the Fieldhouse. Mine certainly did.
Every year, every team, every late night and every Big 12 Championship was absolutely incredible. The Missouri game is one I'll never forget, and I hope this year you all make the Kentucky game one to remember.
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a junior and then a senior. Before long it was time to graduate. My four years at the University were done in the blink of an eve.
My time as a student and an athlete at Kansas really prepared me for what I am doing next with my life: playing basketball professionally. I plan to play overseas this year and see where God takes me. And to do that, I had to leave right after graduating and begin this next journey. There was no time for me to stick around and reminisce.
Since then, I've been all around the country, training, doing workouts for coaches and taking part in different events for different leagues around the world. I've been everywhere from Houston
And whether it's standing on the court of Allen Fieldhouse, or bumping into some alumni sitting in a hotel lobby, the love from the fans really is special.
You make that place what it is.
I have a lot of friends who play at other big time Division I programs, and they never experience what you all have given us basketball players, past and present. You have no idea how special it is to us, especially after we're gone.
There are countless stories like this, but this summer, I had happened to bump into some fans in a hotel in Las Vegas. Tarik Black, Mario Little and I were in leaving the hotel lobby when a family came up to us. They called out to us by name, adding "Rock Chalk."
Even the little things like that mean so much. It's a true blessing to be a part of something bigger than yourself, and that's what Kansas basketball is.
Every year my teammates and I looked forward to going to as many games as we could, especially volleyball and football. Landen Lucas in particular was extremely dedicated. You would find him at every sport, even the swim meets.
Really, it's Kansas Athletics as a whole.
And for me, it was a bit of a different experience. I never went to traditions night, so my first football game was where I became immersed the Jayhawk culture, sitting in Memorial Stadium alongside T-Rob, Jeff Withey and Niko Roberts.
It was in 2011, when we were playing McNeese State. The stadium was pretty packed it was actually my first time ever in a football stadium.
That atmosphere was special.
That atmosphere was special. And it may shock you to hear this, but many of the former and current basketball players will tell you: Not all of our greatest memories and experiences came from the Fieldhouse. It just goes to show how special college is, whether you are the one dribbling the ball or not.
That game against McNeese State was one of those memories for me.
I remember how after the first touchdown, people started waving their hands in the air, and I had no idea what was going on. At that game, I learned all about the football traditions like dangling keys during kickoff and waving the wheat after scores.
In my time at the University, I didn't get to go to as many games as I wanted, but what I did experience will stick with me for life. It's all the little things that truly make college as special as it is, and I want to encourage you to check out all the different teams here. You won't be disappointed.
At KU, everyone is family.
Things are just different here. Even within the programs there's a level of comfort here. It's the things people don't see that really mean the most.
I would go into the office and talk with Coach Self about anything, whether it was basketball-related or something more. Most people can't get that experience from a hall-offame coach and program, but at Kansas, it happens all the time.
The coaches weren't just concerned with us on the court
They'd give us pep talks on our grades; we'd respond by reminding them that we were student-athletes — students first. Really, that term carries some weight.
"It's a true blessing to be a part of something bigger than yourself, and that's what Kansas basketball is."
During classes, I met some of the coolest people I've ever known. To me, the interactions were some of the best parts of college. If after my four years here I could offer one piece of advice to the students, it'd be as simple as this: Be social.
It goes by fast. It certainly did for me.
Senior night ended, I graduated and I was headed to Houston on a plane to begin my career as a professional athlete. It's been about three months since then, but I recently had some time to return to Lawrence.
Being back here was really the first time I felt like, "Wow. I'm really going to miss college."
If you're still in college, be sure to enjoy every bit of it. You'll share a connection that will last the rest of your life with the people you meet. And the choices you make will help build a foundation for how you are going to live your life.
I've loved my first few months in the "real world," and I'm truly excited for the rest of my life. However, what excites me more is that, no matter where I go, Kansas will always be a part of it.
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Stewart emerges as the defense's quiet leader
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Cornerback Brandon Stewart runs a coverage drill in a practice session on Monday, Aug. 17.
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On an April afternoon, Brandon Stewart sat down to talk to media at the University of Kansas for the first time. Fielding questions left and right. Stewart started the answer to every question almost the same.
"Yes, sir," Stewart answered to one. "No, sir," he started answering the next. It's the way he starts almost every response — his answers typically are short and careful.
Though he speaks softly, the Kansas cornerback isn't shy or afraid to look at whoever questions him. It's just the way he's been taught. His dad, Kevin Stewart, served as an officer in the Air Force and learned the importance of respect from his family, passing it on to Brandon.
"He taught me everything I know," Brandon said of his dad. "The 'yes, sir, no, sir' comes from my parents. It's just being respectful, being responsible. I have to thank them for everything that I know."
Brandon started playing football when he was in fifth grade while his dad was stationed at Fort Huachuca in Arizona. He was hooked immediately.
He started carrying a football everywhere, he said. Hed throw it around in the house, take it to school, to the bathroom, to the dinner table until Kevin asked him to set it on the ground while the family ate — anywhere and everywhere.
A year later, in sixth grade, Brandon told his father he wanted to play in the NFL and Kevin told him he could do it. Brandon played in Arizona until his junior year of high school and, for his senior year, moved to the high school football mecca: Texas. Kevin
allowed Brandon to choose the school; Brandon chose Cedar Hill, where he settled in at cornerback instead of his former position of wide receiver.
Brandon stayed focused on football and learned his new position, eventually earning a second-team All-State nomination in his first year at cornerback. But he never lost sight of his family and why he came to Texas in the first place.
"When we moved into the [Dallas] area we thought he would want to hang out with the guys (on the team), and those kind of things," Kevin said. "He hung out with some of the guys a couple times and just noticed some things that were not acceptable as far as our family was concerned."
Under the guidance of his parents, Brandon would keep his head straight, focusing on football instead, and keep getting better. The season would end up being bigger than he would know, at least until a few years down the road.
--remaining schools.
"When I got up [to Kansas], [the coaches] really knew me before I knew them. They're like my family, and they just welcomed me in."
Kansas' co-defensive coordinator Kenny Perry got a look at Brandon in 2011, although
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Perry was on an opposing sideline as head coach of Bowie High School. Now-Kansas head coach David Beaty — another Texan — was friends with Brandon's coach and had recruited Brandon when he was a coach at Texas A&M.
After Brandon played two seasons at Trinity Valley Community College from 2012 to 2014, redshirting in 2013, Beaty came in with an offer late, adding to the pile of recruitment offers Brandon already had. It wasn't an easy decision for Brandon, who planned on going to the University of California before he found his grades weren't up to standards. To help Brandon decide, his father told him to make a pros and cons list of the
That's one way of making a good decision," Kevin said. "I guess he did that, because he came back sometime later, and said, 'OK, I've made up my mind... I'm going to go to Kansas.'"
"When I got up [to Kansas], [the coaches] really knew me before I knew them. They're like my family, and they just welcomed me in," Brandon said. "They're coaching me on the field, and they're going to have my back off the field. That's really why I came to KU"
Before he ever stepped on the field, Brandon fit in well at Kansas — especially with the coaches.
In the spring, however, Per
ry's coaching methods broke Brandon down. Every day before practice, he sat in his room, preparing for Perry's cut-throat criticisms, which came often during practice. But Brandon learned to deal with it, eventually adjusting to Perry's coaching methods for the better.
In fall camp, the 6-foot corner is No.1 at the position.
"Brandon has come along just like I thought he would," Perry said. "I knew it was going to be a deal of breaking some of his bad habits that he had coming in ... He was all over the place with his eyes and his hands and he was just so twitchy.
"It took him about four days, and he went in the tank on me," he continued. "You've got to break him down and you've got to build him up ... He's learned to play with a lot more patience."
When Kevin asked if Brandon was coming home for the summer, he remembered Brandon replying, "No, Dad, I got goals. I have work that I have to do. I'm going to stay here and stay focused."
Brandon did just that. Now, coming into the fall, he's in better shape than ever, taking one more step towards reaching his sixth-grade goal of playing in the NFL.
If Brandon follows in the footsteps of past Jayhawk top corners, he'll be there in no time. Kevin said it wasn't if, but "when" he goes pro, but you wouldn't be hearing about it from him.
"I felt like I was putting my social life before my football life, so I decided to deactivate [my Twitter]," Brandon said. "I just don't like all the attention. I just try to take it day-by-day until I reach my goals.
"Success isn't really a set point; it's like a ladder. I'm just going to keep climbing until I become successful."
What happened this summer for Kansas football
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May 20 — Fifth-round draft pick Ben Heeney officially signs with the Raiders. Heeney recorded a team-high eight tackles in his first preseason game with Oakland.
June 9 - Running back Corey Avery and wide receiver Rodriguez Coleman are officially dismissed from the team after violating team rules. Both players were considered the top returners at their respective positions and will be away from the team indefinitely.
June 9 - Kansas football linebacker Jake Love retires from football for health reasons. "We are going miss his leadership and tenacity on the field, but we will also miss having a guy out there with the experience he has playing in the Big 12," Beaty said in a press release.
June 11- Wide receiver Quincy Perdue announced his intentions to transfer to Kansas from the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Perdue is 6-foot-3 and 210 pounds. He showed up in time for fall camp and will compete for a starting spot.
July 9 - Defensive lineman Andrew Bolton leaves the Kansas football team, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. Bolton played in 11 games in 2014 and was considered one of the team's top returning players.
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While his teammates were set to take on Oklahoma in Norman, Okla., last November, Kansas running back DeAndre Mann was taking on his own challenge. It wasn't one based on wins or losses, but a matter of life or death.
After driving to a Topeka hospital, De'Andre would hold his newborn son, Alijah De'Andre Mann, in a single hand. Born two months and two weeks premature, Alijah weighed a mere two pounds as the effect of preeclampsia, a disease De'Andre's wife Olivia dealt with throughout her pregnancy.
Preeclampsia can prevent the placenta from receiving enough blood, causing the baby to be born very small. The disease isn't curable, but it can be managed if it's caught early. Luckily for Olivia, it was.
"I made it to Topeka in 45 minutes," DeAndre said. "I was so nervous for my wife and son driving back [to Topeka]. But she fought through and I got to see the birth of my son; that was really cool."
Now, DeAndre spends the majority of his days under the beating sun during the grind of fall camp. He studies the latest playbook, implemented by the new coaching staff, for hours. The running back meeting room almost becomes a second home.
After taking a battering at the hands of the Jayhawks' defense, he goes home and takes on even more. From the moment he steps in the door, De'Andre has no chance to relax on the couch; nine-month-old Alijah makes sure of that.
"I let him just jump on me," DeAndre said. "He's a ball of energy. All he likes to do is eat, and then he wants to jump and play."
Although Alijah seems healthy now, the newest Jay-
hawk in the Mann family faced a barrage of medical issues last winter.
"I knew it was going to be a battle for them, so I just prayed," DeAndre said of his wife and son. "They both fought. It's been inspiring to me to see the development of my son. He's 21 pounds now."
DeAndre's other family — the Kansas running backs — has been a part of Alijah's life as well. DeAndre constantly finds himself asking Reggie Mitchell, the running backs' coach, for not only football advice but family advice as well.
Alijah has become accustomed to visits from K'eaun Kinner, a junior running back, and Taylor Cox, a senior running back who has redshirted twice. Cox said he was determined that Alijah was going to be an athlete — a much better one than Alijah's father.
"That boy loves to jump," Cox said. "He's going to be able to dunk by the time he is 12."
Kinner said that he had a soothing effect on Alijah.
"Usually when I'm over and I'm holding him, he's calm," Kinner said. "I do stuff to make him laugh. I've never seen him cry. AliJah is something else."
On the football field, DeAndre, as a senior, is set for one last ride on the Kansas team. Even with the depth at the running back position, DeAndre is expected to get his fair share of carries.
At the moment, Mitchell and De'Andre himself both say he's in great shape. Though the offense may be tabbed "Air Raid," it's evident by the abundance of backs that Kansas is going to need to run the ball, and De'Andre will get carries in a crowded backfield.
Last year was his first with the Jayhawks after spending two years at Hartnell College, and he came through with 85 carries for 399 yards — a 4.7 yards per carry average — in nine games. DeAndre's veteran experience at the collegiate level has led him to a leadership role in the running back meeting room.
But perhaps the main reason for that has less to do with his ability on the field and more with his maturity off of it.
"I like how mature and grown [DeAndre] is," Kinner said. "I like seeing how good he is with Aljiah and that's inspiring."
That maturity came from struggle. During spring ball, De'Andre would only get an hour or two of sleep most
nights between class, football and his new family.
"I look old now," DeAndre said, "but in the spring, I was looking really old."
The challenges of the upcoming season don't seem so intimidating for DeAndre. He says he believes that, after a strenuous and rewarding nine months, it's nothing he won't be able to overcome.
If at any point doubt seems to have crept into the back of his mind, however, all he needs to do is look up into the stands of Memorial Stadium and see his two biggest fans watching him do what he loves best.
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Predicting the Big 12 rankings for football
The Kansas football beat writers ranked every team in the Big 12. The Kansan writers have TCU and Baylor finishing one-two again. Oklahoma comes in at three, despite some offensive uncertainty. Oklahoma State rose to four after the program's first sub...500 season in conference play since 2006. Kansas State dropped to five after last season's third place finish in the Big 12. Texas was the most controversial, with
each writer ranking it differently. Kansas dropped to the bottom of the rankings after finishing ninth in 2014. Shane, Riggs and Peterson predict the Jayhawks at 1-11, while Hardy had them finish winless.
| | Christian Hardy | Evan Riggs | Shane Jackson | Kirsten Peterson | Average rank |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| TCU | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1.3 |
| Baylor | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1.8 |
| Oklahoma | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Oklahoma State | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Kansas State | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5.8 |
| West Virginia | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 |
| Texas | 8 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6.5 |
| Texas Tech | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7.8 |
| Iowa State | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Kansas | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Introducing the 2015 Kansas recruiting class
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Football coach David Beaty watches his team practice on Aug. 13. The coaching staff visited nearly 500 schools across the state in preparation for the season.
David Beaty isn't the only thing new about Kansas football this year. Because over 20 seniors graduated from last year's roster and a handful of players left the program for a variety of reasons, this year's roster is full of fresh new faces.
Beaty has been on the recruiting trail from the moment he stepped on campus. His Texas roots as a former high school football coach, plus a recruiter and receivers coach at Texas A&M, have led to an abundance of Texas recruits — 18 to be exact.
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Beaty stressed the importance of getting homegrown talent. More often than not the Jayhawks have fell short in acquiring DI talent from their home state. The Kansas State Wildcats have been winning that battle here recently.
Ryan Willis — 6-foot-4.
Bishop Miege High School.
Willis was the highest ranked
recruit from the freshman class.
But under Beaty's orders, "Kansas Blast" was in full force this offseason. The coaching staff visited nearly 500 schools in the state, some of which didn't even have a high school football team. Beaty wanted to lay down a foundation for what he hopes to be a very profitable investment down the road.
QUARTERBACK
No position receives as much attention as the quarterback position, and that's even the case for Kansas. Beaty brought in two highly-touted freshmen in this year's class.
Taylor Martin — 5-foot-10. Dunbar (Texas) High School. Martin ran the ball 170 times for 1,543 yards and 25 touchdowns and ran the 100-meter in track.
Carter Stanley — 6-foot-2.
Vero Beach (Fla.) High School.
Stanley ran the air raid offense
where he threw for 3,070 yards
and 40 touchdowns.
RUNNING BACK
WIDE RECIEVERS
When an offense is tabbed "air raid," it implies that the running game will be a non-factor. However, that's not the case at Kansas. In fact, running backs coach Reggie Mitchell believes the running game will be even better as Kansas spreads it out and opens the running lanes even more.
Keaun Kinner — 5-foot-9.
Little Elm (Texas) High School and a transfer from Navarro Junior College. He was the NJ-CAA Offensive Player of the Year in 2014 and finished third all-time in rushing yards with 1,918 yards.
The Javhawks must replace 93 percent of last year's production from the receiving unit — which means the wide receivers will feature a vast majority of new faces.
Jeremiah Booker — 6-foot-
2. College Station (Texas) High
School. Booker will be out a
few weeks due to a shoulder
injury he sustained at the
beginning of fall camp.
Chase Harrell — 6-foot-4. Harrell was rated three-stars out of Hargrave High School in Huffman, Texas. He enrolled a semester early to compete in spring and is a favorite to see some immediate playing time as a freshman.
Emmanuel Moore — 6-foot. Northwest (Texas) High School. His speed and agility give him a chance to see some snaps out of the slot immediately.
Steven Sims, Jr. — 5-foot-10.
Travis (Texas) High School.
Jace Sternberger (tight end)
— 6-foot-4. Kingfisher (Okla.)
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D'Andre Banks — 6-foot-4. Killeen (Texas) High School and Trinity Valley Community College. He should start at guard to begin the season.
Terman (Texas) High School.
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Aaron Garza — 6-foot-3
Sherman (Texas) High School
Jayson Rhodes — 6-foot-4. Deer Park (Texas) High School and Blinn College. He started at defensive lineman before moving to the offensive side of the ball.
Will Smith 6-foot-3. Shawnee Mission Northwest High School and Butler Community College. Smith is a converted offensive lineman after starting on the defensive line in high school.
DEFENSIVE LINEMEN
The defensive line is considered the deepest position on the defense. Stacked with veterans and younger guys with
Dorance Armstrong — Defensive end. 6-foot-4. North Shore (Texas) High School. Armstrong had plenty of offers from other DI programs including Iowa State because of his ability to get after the quarterback.
untapped potential. Kansas will have no problem getting to the quarterback.
Jacky Dezir 6-foot-1.
Bowen (Ill.) High School and
College of Dupree.
LINEBACKERS
Gone is arguably the best linebacker to ever put on a Kansas uniform — Ben Heeney. Wearing Heeney's historic number is the lone linebacker recruit, freshman Osase Oggebor.
Osaze Ogbebor — 6-foot-1.
Heritage (Texas) High School.
Ogbebor is more suited for an outside linebacker spot based off size and experience.
DEFENSIVE BACKS
Beaty and Bowen netted six defensive backs from the class:
Last year's secondary was very good, which has become almost a tradition with Kansas football. But like other positions, the team's talented secondary from last year is now depleted, and because of that, the secondary was the most recruited in the offseason.
Bazie Bates IV, Denzel Feaster, Tyrone Miller Jr., Marnez Ogletree, Shaquille Richmond and Brandon Stewart.
Bazie Bates IV — 6-foot-
1. Allen (Texas) High School
and Trinity Valley Community
College. Bates is expected to
start right off the bat next to
Fish Smithson.
Brandon Stewart 6-foot Cedar Hill (Texas) High School and Trinity Valley Community College. Stewart is an athletic corner who is expected to be a key piece in the secondary in 2015. He will start right off the bat.
Tyrone Miller — 6-foot. Saline (Mich.) High School. What he lacks in size, he makes up for his quickness and the important specific ability to rotate his hips at the break of a route.
Denzel Feaster 6-foot-3. Manor (Texas) High School. Feaster is another all-around athlete with experience on the offensive side of the ball.
Marnez Ogletree — 5-foot-10. Shiloh (Ga.) High School and Fullerton College.
Shaquille Richmond — 6-foot. Mansfield (Texas) Timberview High School. Richmond is another athletic corner that can keep up with quick receivers.
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KIRSTEN PETERSON
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DATE OF GAME:
Sept. 5
LAST SEASON: 9-5 (5-3 MVC)
AT-A-GLANCE
South Dakota State was rated second in its conference for total offense in 2014, and comes into 2015 as a top 25
FCS team. However, the Jackrabbits' defense is somewhat lacking. Kansas needs to focus on controlling the clock and taking advantage of South Dakota's defense.
UP IN THE AIR
Will sophomore running back Brad Mengarelli become a good fit replacing Zach Zenner at RB? It's safe to consider
Zenner — who has now gone pro — a legend at South Dakota State. Zenner had a total of 2,019 rushing yards along with a staggering 22 touchdowns. Anyone filling Zenner's shoes is going to have some issues at first, until they gain the trust of the offensive coordinator, and quarterback Zach Lujan. Mengarelli didn't start in any games last year, but he played
in all 14, had 14 receptions and rushed 332 yards and a touchdown.
KEY ADDITIONS
RB Mikey Daniel, QB Taryn
Christion
RB Zach Zenner, WR Jason Schneider, CB Jimmie Forsythe, S Melvin Taveras
KEY LOSSES
KEY RETURNERS
LB T.J. Lally, WR Jake Wieneke, QB Zach Lujan
Grade:
D+
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SHANE JACKSON
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DATE OF GAME:
Sept. 12
LAST SEASON: 10-3 (7-1 AAC)
AT-A-GLANCE
seems to be especially daunting as well. Unlike past years, a second win isn't guaranteed before conference play, thanks to a very competitive Memphis program coming to Lawrence. The Tigers are coming off their first 10-win season since 1938, while returning many key offensive players.
Year after year, Kansas' conference schedule poses a significant challenge, but this year, the non-conference schedule
UP IN THE AIR
Did the defense lose too much?
KEY LOSSES
Much like Kansas, Memphis will be rebuilding from the ground up on the defensive side of the ball. The Tigers must replace eight starters on a unit that was one of the league's best. In addition to players no longer with the team, Memphis lost its defensive coordinator Barry Odom, who left for his alma mater, the University of Missouri. The Tigers would like to get back to postseason play, but that may be easier said than done if they can't get a quick turnaround from their defense.
KEY ADDITIONS
RB Brandon Hayes, LB Tank Jakes, LB Martin Ifedi
DE Mike Edwards, S Tyler Charrette, OT Keenen Davis
KEY RETURNERS
KEY RETURNERS
QB Paxton Lynch, WR Mose
Frazier, LB Jackson Dillon
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Sept. 26
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RUTGERS
C+
LAST SEASON: 8-5
(3-5 Big 10)
terback job will have to put up a lot of points to support a defense that ranked near the bottom of the Big 10 in every meaningful statistic. That said, this is a Rutgers team that is leaps and bounds above Kansas.
AT-A-GLANCE
riened defense that struggled last season? The quarterback competition is down to redshirt sophomore Chris Laviano and another redshirt sophomore, Hayden Rettig, a transfer from LSU. Whoever wins the job will have an experienced backfield and Leonte Carroo at receiver to help them along. Rutgers has enough talent to win games,
UP IN THE AIR
The quarterback position is a huge question mark with the loss of four-year starter Gary Nova. Whoever wins the quar-
but their defense will struggle, and they will struggle to make a bowl game out of the Big 10.
Can the offense score enough points to cover for an inexpe-
KEY ADDITIONS
KEY LOSSES
QB Hayden Rettig, CB Blessaun Austin, S Kiy Hester
KEY RETURNERS
QB Gary Nova, WR Andrew Turzilli, OG Keith Johnson
WR Leonte Carroo, DT Darius Hamilton, CB Quentin Gause
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DATE OF GAME:
Oct. 3
LAST SEASON: 2-10
(0-9 Big 12)
AT-A-GLANCE
Kansas' best shot to win a conference game comes in the form of the Cyclones, who the Jayhawks beat in Memorial Stadium last season. But that came with stud quarterback Sam B. Richardson, who
is returning as one of the most experienced offensive weapons in the Big 12. Combine Richardson with a strong receiving corps led by D'vario Montgomery and another year under offensive coordinator Mark Mangino, the offense that finished 89th in college football last year should take a big step forward in 2015. That'll leave it up to the defense, which made some big additions in the offseason, but ultimately was the downfall of
this team in 2014.
UP IN THE AIR
Can the defense hold its own in today's high-powered Big 12? The answer to this question could decide coach Paul Rhoads' future with the team. The defense was 125th in the nation last year — that's not very good. Most of the team is returning, including a solid secondary led by cornerback Kamari Cotton-Moya, but there's little-to-no depth on
the front seven, which was lacking last season. That front will be the key to Iowa State's success; the Cyclones need to pressure the quarterback and take pressure off their defensive backs.
KEY ADDITIONS
NG Desmond Tucker, OT
Julian Good-Jones, DE Jarnor
Jones, TD Bobby Leath.
KEY LOSSES
RB Aaron Wimberly, C Tom
Farniok, DE Cory Morrissey, RB DeVondrick Nealy.
KEY RETURNERS
QB Sam B. Richardson, WR Quenton Bundrage, WR Allen Lazard, DE Dale Pierson, CB Kamari Cotton-Moya.
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LAST SEASON: 11-2
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AT-A-GLANCE
The Bears are looking to take their third straight Big 12 title going into the 2015-16 season. Baylor has been known for its tradition of having stellar quarterbacks coming out of college and going into the NFL, but that leaves a lot of questions with the position when there are only a few that can step in and play. Returning receiver Corey Coleman and running back Shock林Linwood are perfect fits for quarterback Seth Russell — they will give him that extra comfort and help under pressure. If Russell can carry on the legacy of great quarterbacks then the Bears are looking to clinch their third straight title.
UP IN THE AIR
Can Baylor clinch its third straight Big 12 title? The Bears have been known for the past couple years as conference victors, but can they make
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their way to another championship without both of the Bryces? All-American linebacker Bryce Hager finished his college career with 202 solo tackles and 322 total tackles. Quarterback Bryce Petty was Baylor's two-year starter that carried Baylord's high-powered offense to two consecutive Big 12 titles. The roster is still stacked, but can the new starters live up to expectations, or will they struggle with their chemistry?
KEY ADDITIONS
KEY RETURNERS
KEY LOSSES
LB Bryce Hager, QB Bryce Petty
REP ADDITIONS
QB Jarrett Stidham, WR
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KEY RETURNERS
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SHANE JACKSON
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DATE OF GAME:
Oct.17
LAST SEASON: 4-8 (2-7 Big 12)
AT-A-GLANCE
The Red Raiders are coming off a disappointing 2014 campaign and things don't look much better for 2015. Points
won't be hard to come by in Lubbock, but it's the defense that remains the biggest question mark. If new defensive coordinator David Gibbs can turn around a defense that gave up 41.3 point per game last year, Tech might be able to make a bowl game, but it'll be tough in the Big 12. Add that to the fact that the Red Raiders don't have a bye week until Nov. 21 doesn't exactly help
Who will start at quarterback? Texas Tech enters the 2015 seasons with a two-way battle for starting quarterback between Junior Davis Webb and sophomore Patrick Mahomes. Webb threw for 2,539 yards in eight games before being sidelined by a shoulder
their chances.
UP IN THE AIR
in injury. Mahomes dazzled in limited time, including a Big-12 freshman record 598 yards in the finale against Baylor. Either way, it's unlikely either starts every game in 2015.
KEY ADDITIONS
OT Justin Murphy, WR J.F. Thomas, DT Breiden Fehoko
KEY LOSSES
OT Reshod Fortenberry, WR Bradley Marquez, LB Sam Guavevo
KEY RETURNERS
RB DeAndre Washington,
WR Jakeem Grant, DE Pete Robertson
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EVAN RIGGS
@evanriggs15
DATE OF GAME:
Oct.24
LAST SEASON: 7-6 (4-5 Big 12)
AT-A-GLANCE
Mike Gundy's third season as coach. But when Gundy was forced to burn the redshirt of quarterback Mason Rudolph last year, the future of the team change. Rudolph officially took the reigns in Stillwater, and the Cowboys have a chance to jump to the top of the Big 12 standings.
UP IN THE AIR
Last season, the Cowboys won fewer than eight games for the first time since 2007.
What will Gundy do about the running game? The Cowboys lost their two leading rushers in Desmond Roland and Tyreek Hill last season. Gundy went the JUCO route and brought in Chris Carson to pair with redshirt freshman Sione Palelei. With almost every receiver returning, a good
running game could put this offense over the top and help the Cowboys compete for the Big 12 title.
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WR Tyreek Hill, RB Desmond Roland, S Josh Furman
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KEY RETURNERS
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Jimmy Bean, LB Ryan Simmons
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DATE OF GAME:
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LAST SEASON: 8-5 (5-4 Big 12)
left for the draft after the 2009 season. This year, it'll be Trevor Knight and Baker Mayfield under center with the hopes new offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley can catapult one of these two into the driver's seat, but that seems unlikely at this point. The Sooners' best bet is to rely on their running backs, who averaged 261.2 rushing yards per game in 2014.
UP IN THE AIR
AT-A-GLANCE
Can the Sooners find a quarterback? Does it really matter if they do? Let's not hide it: Samaje Perine is this team's offense. Whoever ends up winning the quarterback battle will simply have the main job of handing the ball over to Perine and watching him do his thing. Although Baker Mayfield should win the job — he has past experience in the spread offense
The Sooners' biggest problem comes in the form of quarterback. The team hasn't been able to find consistency at the QB position since Sam Bradford
KEY ADDITIONS
WR Dede Westbrook, OG Jamal Danley, CB William Johnson, OT Bobby Evans
— his talents won't be able to hush Perine, who gashed every defense he faced last year.
Grissom
KEY LOSSES
TE Blake Bell, OG Daryl Williams, DT Jordan Phillies, DE Chuka Ndulue, OB Geneo
KEY LOSSES
KEY RETURNERS
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DATE OF GAME:
Nov. 7
LAST SEASON: 6-7 (5-4 Big 12)
AT-A-GLANCE
Like the Jayhawks, the Longhorns have had troubles with their quarterbacks. For the past five seasons they have been lacking solid team leaders and a strong offensive line. The defense is the only thing Texas should feel secure with;
the unit is solid overall. Texas is really going to have to pick up its slack in the offense or it has no chance to beat out higher contenders in the Big 12, such as Baylor. Most notably, on the defensive end, it has to fill the massive gap that defensive tackle Malcom Brown has left. That will be the task of defensive tackle Poona Ford, who sat from the sideline and watched Brown dominate in 2014. If the defense can hold it down, it'll give running back Johnathan Gray a chance to
really show why he was the top-rated back coming out of high school in 2015, as this is the first year the running back job is all his.
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How well can Texas do with a team filled with newcomers? The Longhorns have a total of 29 newcomers for the 2015 season, which means coach Charlie Strong will have a lot cut out for him. Strong will need to mold these new players into stars if he wants to
have any chance of a winning record in conference. Jerrod Heard is a redshirt freshman and has apparently closed the gap on junior Tyrone Swoopes for the quarterback position; maybe this newcomer is what the Longhorns have needed all along.
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KEY LOSSES
QB Jerrod Heard, LB Malik Jefferson, LB Anthony Wheeler
DT Malcom Brown, LB Jordan Hicks, S Mykkke Thompson, CB Quandre Diggs
KEY RETURNERS
KEY RETURNERS
DT Hassan, Ridgeway, RB
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DATE OF GAME:
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LAST SEASON: 12-1
(8-1 Big 12)
The Horned Frogs go from the hunter to the hunted as 2015 begins for the Big 12 favorite. Last year TCU took the conference by storm with a 10-2 finish, just barely missing out on the inaugural College
AT-A-GLANCE
Stacking up the schedule, from Page 7C
Football Playoff. If the Horned Frogs hope to crack the final four this year, they will need to do so behind Heisman candidate Trevone Boykin and a high-octane offense. The defense remains the biggest question with only five starters returning, but the offense might just be good enough to carry them though a weaker schedule.
their defense?
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and if they can get near that level again, it may lead to uncharted territory. However, if they aren't able to perform as consistently on that end, they may be dethroned in the Big 12.
Can they get enough from
It's easy to feel comfortable about the offense led by a Heisman candidate. But the Horned Frogs have no chance of getting into the playoffs if they can't get production out of their defensive unit. From last year to this one, TCU lost its top defensive tackle, two linebackers, a cornerback, and two safeties - Five received Big-12 honors. The Horned Frogs allowed a Big-12 best 19 points per game last season,
KEY ADDITIONS
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DE Breylin Mitchell, and LB
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KEY LOSSES
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KEY RETURNERS
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Grade:
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DATE OF GAME:
November 21
LAST SEASON: 7-6 (5-4 Big 12)
AT-A-GLANCE
West Virginia will have a new starting quarterback, a young offensive line and receiving
corps in 2015, but coach Dana Holgorsen almost always produces a good offense. It will be the defense who determines how high West Virginia can finish in the Big 12, because the potential for an explosive season is all there on one side of the ball.
Will the defense, which struggled last season, improve enough to vault West Virginia to the top half of the Big 12 standings? The defense started to turn the corner when they held Baylor to a season low 27 points, and essentially every contributor is back. The most experienced defense in the Big 12 now has confidence going
UP IN THE AIR
into the 2015 season, but it remains to be seen whether or not they can put it all together on a week to week basis.
KEY ADDITIONS
KEY ADDITIONS
WR Jevonte Durante, WR
KaRaun White, DE Larry Jefferson
KEY LOSSES
KEY RETURNERS
KEY LOSSES WR Kevin White, QB Clint Trickett, WR Mario Alford
KEY RETURNERS
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in a cown year. They're going to need all of the magic Snyder has this year. The offense has been depleted at almost every skill position, and the defense lost a lot of its front. The Wildcats have a handful of guys who could get a shot to replace Jake Waters, who threw for 3,501 yards before graduating, but Joe Hubener, a junior walk-on who has never started a game under-center, seems to be considered the favorite. Whoever it is, they have massive shoes to fill. But if we
know one thing about Snyder,
it's that his nose for walk-on
and junior college talent is
keen. If Snyder trusts whoever
is under center, you probably
should too.
LAST SEASON: 9-4 (7-2 Big 12)
AT-A-GLANCE
Who will emerge as a weapon on offense? This exact question is why junior college transfer Jonathan Banks could win the quarterback job — he's a multi-treat play-caller who can be that weapon. If he can't win the job, he's expected to be
There are a lot of people down on Kansas State this year, and rightfully so: they lost some big time pieces. But those people have forgot about one integral piece: coach Bill Snyder, whose team always seems to stay in the hunt, even
the back-up and the eventual starter. Burton could be that play-maker, but so could running back Charles Jones, who had 13 rushing touchdowns last year. It's up for grabs, but there's a few names that definitely have some intrigue.
UP IN THE AIR
KEY ADDITIONS
DT Bryce English, RB Alex Barnes, CB Duke Shelley
ett, WR Curry Sexton, C B.J. Finney, DE Ryan Mueller, LB Jonathan Truman, CB Randall Evans
KEY LOSSES
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KEY RETURNERS
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KIRSTEN PETERSON
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Coach Beaty will end the stigma surrounding Kansas football
In recent years, Kansas fans have been able to ignore the football team's unsuccessful record, instead choosing to focus on the continued success of the men's basketball program. Kansas has needed an experienced and energetic person to lead this football program and shape the team into something fans can believe in. Coach David Beaty should be able to step in and make that change.
Beaty has been an assistant coach at the University of Kansas two previous times, including a stint as the wide receiver coach in 2008, when the Jayhawks went to the Insight Bowl. With his energy, he's reinvigorated the program and has a chance to bring it back to where it was those seven years ago.
A freshman quarterback will start over Cozart
Carter Stanley, a 6-foot-2. 188-pound quarterback from
Montell Cozart has been nothing but a disappointment, especially after a huge build up after his first year. Now there's two freshmen out to replace the junior Cozart.
Vero Beach, Fla. led his high school team in rushing yards and threw more than 3,000 yards and 40 touchdowns, and will be one candidate to compete with Cozart. But Cozart's real competition is Ryan Willis, a 6-foot-4, 205-pound quarterback
In the spring, he called himself the fastest player on this
Cozart should be familiar with Willis—the two are both Bishop Miege alumni. Offensive coordinator Rob Likens and Cozart himself have been raving about Willis' quick release and big arm. If Willis can handle the pressure of the Big 12, then he is sure to make Kansas fans proud throughout his career at Kansas.
Between the two, one is poised to take the starting job from Cozart before the end of the year.
KeAun Kinner will be top 5 in all purpose yards in the Big 12
roster, and has a better potential to be a dual-threat out of the backfield than anyone else, which makes him a perfect fit for the Jayhawks' fast-paced offense. Kansas needs Kinner as the featured back following last year's leading rusher Corey Avery's departure via suspension.
One huge surprise has been 5-foot-9 All-American running back, KeAun Kinner. Kinner rushed at Navarro Junior College for 1,696 yards and 22 touchdowns last season and won the NJCAA Offensive Player of the Year award. Kinner won the starting running back spot between spring and summer workouts and has been the rave of fall camp.
Ben Johnson will lead the team in receptions
The Jayhawks' tight end situation is an interesting one. The team lost Jimmy Mundine and his team-leading 45 receptions to the NFL, in the spring, and it'll likely be Ben Johnson's job to replace that production. Johnson, a 6-foot-5, 235-pound tight end who originally played offensive tackle, was one of the players selected to represent Kansas at Big 12 Media Day, and he has been a clear leader of the offense through both spring and fall camp.
If Johnson doesn't lead the team, transfer tight end Kent Taylor will probably be the reason. Taylor was a four-star tight end that followed Charlie Weis to the University of Florida, and then to Kansas. Weis was fired and left Beaty to mold the 6-foot-5, 230-pound phenom. If he's polished enough, he could take the job from Johnson and dominate in the Big 12.
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Kansas middle blocker Taylor Soucie attempts to hit over the head of a TCU defender on October 18, 2014.
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The Kansas volleyball squad took to Europe to gear up for the upcoming season this summer.
The Jayhawks trained in Italy, France and Spain for 13 days and played matches against the Italian National Team (0-3), Italian Federation Youth Team (3-2), LPM Mondavi (3-1), Normac AVB Genoa (3-0), French Federation Youth Team (3-0), (3-2) and Voleibol Barcelona CVB Barca (3-0).
The team finished its European training trip with a 6-1 record.
"We play(ed) seven matches in 12 days, which is more professional-league style" coach Ray Bechard said in a press release after the final match. "We would've liked to have played that first match (against the Italian National Team) maybe somewhere in the middle of the trip when we were a little bit more adjusted. I just told the team that I'm very proud of how they represented Kansas with every opponent they played."
Official statistics were not kept in the European matches, but associate athletic director Jim Marchiony kept some statistics from the sideline for team use.
Junior libero Cassie Wait recorded at least two aces against the Italian Federation Youth Team. Sophomore outside hitter Kelsie Payne knocked down at least nine kills and sophomore outside hitter Madison Rigdon added at least four kills against LPM Mondavi. Payne paced the offense against Norman AVB Genoa with an unofficial 21 kills in three sets.
A look at the new players
Kansas has two incoming freshmen to fill the vacancy
graduating seniors Chelsea Albers and Sara McClinton leave: outside hitters Ashley Smith and Patricia Montero.
Smith comes to Lawrence from Las Vegas and was named conference MVP her senior season. She led Shadow Ridge High School to its first state championship in school history.
Montero is from Ponce, Puerto Rico, where she played for the Puerto Rican National Team. Despite being 5-foot-10, Montero was the fourth best scorer at the U18 Pan American Cup in 2013.
Aside from the two freshmen, the Jayhawks added two transfers: Anna Church, a senior libero/defensive specialist from Saint Louis University, and Ashlyn Driskill, a senior outside hitter from Wichita
Church was on the floor in all 31 matches for SLU last season, posting 1,073 career digs and 75 career aces during her time as a Billiken.
State. Church's transfer was announced in January, while Driskill's was announced in June.
Driskill, on the other hand,
started in 16 matches for the
Shockers last season, racking
up 713 career kills and 165
career blocks.
Kansas volleyball starts the season on the road at the Arkansas Tournament in Fayetteville, Ark. The Jayhawks first match is set for August 28 against Army, at 4 p.m.
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Skylar Rolstad
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As the United States heads toward World Cup qualifying, one of the biggest questions on the mind of Kansas City fans pertains to whether or not Sporting Kansas City midfielder Benny Feilhaber should make the team.
Although the center mid-fielder has already doubled his goal and assists totals from 2014, posting eight goals and 13 assists this year, you will not see him in a national team kit ever again, and it's no secret as to why: national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann will never select him.
Simply put, the ship has sailed on Feilhaber's chances to ever play again for the United States Men's National Team.
Feilhaber was controversially not selected for the preliminary 35-man Gold Cup roster last June, although he had already won April's Major League Soccer Player of the Month. At 30 years old, Feilhaber's international career is over, but it's already been solid. He made three substitute appearances in the 2010 World Cup, among 41 total appearances.
While the decision to keep Feilhaber out of the team is baffling, it is no secret; nor has it ever been. Feilhaber has constantly been pessimistic about his national team chances, and, for that reason, he chooses to focus on his career in Kansas City.
"As unfortunate as it is for me to not get that opportunity, because I'd love to have it, you know it's probably not going to happen," Feilhaber said after Sporting Kansas City's 2-1 win over the Montreal Impact. "I don't pay too much attention to it. It still fun to watch those games, but [playing for the national team] is not something that I realistically look at as an opportunity."
At this point, it's apparent that Klinsmann does not hold Feilhaber in the highest regard. In fact, in late July, Klinsmann even told mlsoccer.com "there are other [players] ahead of" him when it came to who would be called up.
However, Klinsmann isn't necessarily wrong, considering the players currently on the team.
Fellahber is a center midfielder, which just happens to be the deepest position for the team. The team has three more-than-capable players who all can hold down that position in Michael Bradley, Jermaine Jones and Clint Dempsey. It's also where 18-year-old rising star Gedion Zelalem will inevitably play when he is ready for the senior national team.
One could argue that Feilhaber could slide in and replace Mix Disketud, a 24-year-old midfielder for NYCFC who is having a down year. But even that doesn't really make sense when it comes to Klinsmann's history.
Klinsmann is a coach who constantly tries to push young players to their potential with playing time, rather than play a more experienced player who's best at the moment. This is especially evident when looking at his decision to play a Gold Cup back line of John Brooks and Ventura Alvarado — 22 and 23, respectively — instead of Matt Besler and Omar Gonzalez, who are 28 and 26 respectively.
At the end of the day, there are only two people that aren't too optimistic about Benny Feilhaber's national team chances: Feilhaber and Jurgen Klinmann.
So, really, it's time to quit the Feilhaber-to-national-team conservation. It's an overdone argument. It's not happening,
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World University Games: How KU fared
SCOTT CHASEN
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Over the summer, the Kansas Jayhawks took to the court, but this time there was a different name on the front of their jerseys.
The Jayhawks were chosen to represent Team USA in the World University Games following a disappointing 2013 campaign where a Doug-McDermott-led U.S. squad finished ninth. And with a few players unavailable to the team due to either having non-U.S. nationality or injury, Kansas coach Bill Self and company turned to the famed Kansas coaching tree, adding players from SMU and Florida Gulf Coast University — colleges that have head coaches, Larry Brown and Joe Dooley, respectively, who were once a part of the Kansas basketball program.
EXHIBITIONS IN KC
Before the Jayhawks left for South Korea, they had their first chance to play with their new roster at Sprint Center, and they did not disappoint. The Jayhawks won both games against Canada, which set the tone for the World
University games, especially for one player in particular: Frank Mason III.
In the first exhibition game, Mason took over the game down the stretch, scoring 17 of the team's 25 fourth-quarter points, putting on a performance for the ages. There would be no letup in game two, as Mason posted 15 points and 11 assists, adding five rebounds and four steals in 35 minutes.
Additionally, Mason's backcourt teammate Wayne Selden Jr. showed out as well. Selden posted 22 points and 10 rebounds in the second game and would certainly make his fair share of highlight plays as the games carried on into July. Even though they were playing without Brannen Greene, Devonte' Graham, Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk and Cheick Diallo, the Jayhawks still had more than enough talent to go toe-to-toe with any other team, and that was apparent early on.
Pool play was up next for the Jayhawks, as they faced Turkey, Brazil, Chile, Serbia and Switzerland to determine whether or not they would
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be moving on to the quarterfinals of the medal rounds, which the 2013 USA World University Games team had failed to do.
Kansas got off to a shaky start in its first game against Turkey, as it fell behind 18-7 right away. However, Mason and company battled back again, as they proceeded to rattle off a 50-29 extended run. The layhawks would go on to win by nine, thanks in part to 24 points, eight assists and six rebounds from Mason. Ellis and Selden chipped in a combined 36 points, and the team was off and running.
That momentum would carry over throughout pool play. In the next game against Brazil, it would be Selden who carried the load with 23 points, while Hunter Mickelson held down the paint with 11 points and eight boards.
The emergence of Selden and Mickelson would be recurring themes throughout the tournament, as Self went to them time and time again. The duo would combine to score 91 points in the team's remaining three games of the group stage, as the Jayhawks finished 5-0 heading into the medal rounds.
MEDAL ROUNDS
In the quarterfinals, the Jayhawks squared off against Lithuania in what was a close game until the fourth quarter, as the Jayhawks outscored their adversaries 25-6 in the last period. For Mason, it was another dominating performance, as he led the team in points (18), assists (4) and field goal percentage, adding seven rebounds; only Landen Lucas had more (9).
The semifinal matchup was equally as close, at least through three quarters. However, 23 points from Perry Ellis and 22 from Selden were more than enough to get the job done, as the Jayhawks withstood a 20-point outburst from Russia's Ivan Strebkov to grab the victory.
However, the finals were a completely different story for the Jayhawks.
The layhawks jumped out in front of Germany right away, but with Mason in some early foul trouble, the lead slowly slipped away. It would eventually take not one, but two overtime periods for the Jayhawks to get the win. Mason hit game-tying shots at the end of regulation and the first
overtime period to keep the team alive, while Selden finished the Germans off with a huge three-pointer in the second overtime.
SMU's Nic Moore, who joined the team as a replacement, also made a couple of crucial plays down the stretch, especially on defense. His final stat line wasn't pretty, but it didn't need to be, given that Mason, Selden and Ellis combined for 59 points and 28 rebounds.
On the other side, four German players reached double figures in scoring, but with both teams gassed, the shooting numbers were not pretty. The Germans shot just 38.0 percent from the field and 37.0 percent from three, while the Jayhawks actually fared worse, shooting just 31.8 percent and 21.7 percent in those categories respectively. However, the Jayhawks were able to make up the difference by committing seven fewer turnovers and grabbing 20 offensive rebounds, compared to eight for the Germans.
After the tournament, Frank Mason III was named the MVP of the Games.
Busy summer spent in recruiting circuit
EVAN RIGGS @EvanRiggs15
The competition for the best recruits keeps coaches busy during the offseason months. Despite only receiving two commitments, the Kansas basketball team was all over the place on the summer recruiting circuit.
In late May, LaGerald Vick committed to Kansas and played for the Jayhawks in the World University Games. The guard from Memphis, Tenn., may struggle to find playing time this season with the Jayhawks' depth, but he will be a valuable asset moving forward.
Dwight Coleby, a transfer from Ole Miss who will be eligible for the 2016-2017 season, was the Jayhawk's second commitment. The forward will likely see a big role with Hunter Mickelson, Perry Ellis and Jamari Trayler all graduating and the possibility that Cheick Diallo will leave after his freshman season.
Even though the Jayhawks haven't received any commitments in the class of 2016 or 2017 from incoming freshmen, the coaching staff put in a lot of work on summer recruiting circuit.
2016
Josh Jackson, Terrance Ferguson and Marques Bolden are the three prospects that have been recruited the hardest and longest by the Kansas coaching staff, although one of them, Ferguson, is now off the board.
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According to Rivals.com, Jackson is the top prospect in the 2016 class, and the talented wing recently told Zagsblog.com Arizona and Kansas were recruiting him the hardest. Jackson also told Zagsblog.com he loves Self and the way the Jayhawks play. There have been rumors of Jackson taking his talents overseas, but he has denied those rumors. All indications point to Jackson waiting until the late signing period before he makes a decision.
Ferguson, who is ranked 11th on Rivals.com, was also a top priority for the Kansas coaching staff. Alabama, who was considered the Jayhawk's biggest threat in landing him, eventually received a commitment from the recruit on Aug. 17. Ferguson was upbeat after a visit to Tuscaloosa early August, but was still supposed to attend Late Night in the Phog. However, it appears that will no longer be the case.
Due to the potential loss of four big men next year, Kansas will also need post players in the 2016 class. Marques Bolden, the 14th ranked player on Rivals.com, has been one of the coaching staff's top priorities. Bolden will make an official visit to Duke in September according to ESPN.com. The center from Dallas visited Late Night in the Phog last season and will take an official visit in Lawrence sometime during the school year.
Bolden is also considering Alabama, Baylor, Florida, Louisville, Texas and others. If Bolden visits Late Night in the Phog, he will be joined by Braxton Blackwell, a wing ranked 38th by Rivals.com.
Wenyen Gabriel, another big prospect Kansas is recruiting, is currently ranked 84th on
LaGerald Vick at Team USA's first exhibition game against Team Canada at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., on June 23. Team USA won 91-83.
Other big men the Jayhawks are in on include T.J. Leaf, who decommitted from Arizona at the beginning of August, Thon Maker, Udoka Azubuike, Kassoum Yakwe and Isaac Humphries. They're all in Rivals.com's top 60.
Rivals.com but is expected to take a big leap forward given all the offers he has received from other blue bloods of college basketball such as Duke and Kentucky.
Gabriel is 6-foot-9 with guard skills and said he patterns his game after NBA star Kevin Durant.
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The Jayhawks are also looking at Rawle Alkins, a Rivals, com top 20 guard, and DeAaron Fox, a Rivals.com top 10 point guard. However, the Jayhawks aren't considered favorites for either player.
2017
It seems far too soon to start talking about the 2017 recruiting class, and it's definitely too soon to know who most of the top guys are favoring. However, at the moment, one thing is certain; the layhawks are definitely in the mix for some of the most talented high school prospects in the country.
DeAndre Ayton is considered the top high school prospect regardless of class. The Jayhawk coaching staff saw a lot of the 6-foot-11 big man this summer, and he certainly impressed. Ayton's athletic ability, coupled with his elite footwork, makes him a can't-miss prospect.
Michael Porter Jr. has made a strong case to pass Ayton up over the last couple of months. Porter is a 6-foot-10 and lanky, a small forward
who can do everything on the basketball court.
He and Trae Young, a 6-foot-1 point guard, will both attend Late Night in the Phog. They have expressed their desire to be a package deal and attend the same college. Young told si.com that there's an 80-85 percent chance that it will happen.
"We fit each other's games perfectly," Young added.
The Jayhawks are also recruiting seven other players in the Rivals.com top 10: Wendell Carter, Mohamed Bamba, Trevon Duval, Billy Preston.
Troy Brown, Jarred Vanderbilt and Gary Trent Jr.
With the potential for a lot of players to leave the program over the next two seasons, the next two recruiting classes are both extremely important. That means a lot of work for the coaches, but they appear to be off to a strong start.
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Kansas swimming reloads, adding to stacked roster
AMIE JUST
@Amie_Just
Despite losing Deanna Marks and Caroline Patterson to graduation, the Kansas swim and dive team is in good shape.
Excluding Marks, every swimmer who placed at the Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships from last season returns to the Jayhawk squad, including senior Chelsei Miller.
[Image of a swimmer in the pool]
Miller, Kansas' only individual Big 12 champion, currently holds five school records and recently swam an Olympic Trials cut. The other current Kansas record holder is senior Bryce Hinde.
holder in the 50-meter backstroke and 100-meter backstroke.
Analyzing newcomers
Three others, Yulduz Kuch-karova, Hannah Angell and Lydia D犯isk, swam their way onto the all-time top-five charts in five different events last season. Kuchkarova is not only close to holding records at Kansas but is the current Uzbekistani national record
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Chelsie Miller, a junior, takes a breath during the breaststroke leg of the 200-yard individual medley on Feb. 7. Miller won the event and was one of three Jayhawks to place in the top six. Kansas beat Iowa State 169-131 in its two-day duel in Lawrence.
With every new season comes new faces, and this year is no different, as Kansas adds five freshmen and one sophomore to the roster.
Breonna Barker, a freshman sprint freestyle, comes to Kansas from Broken Arrow, Okla. She earned four straight state titles in the 100-yard freestyle throughout her four seasons and won three straight state titles in the 50-yard freestyle during her last three seasons.
Haley Bishop, a freshman jack-of-all-trades, is from Apex, N.C. She's the current record holder at Panther Creek High School in the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard individual medley and the 200-yard freestyle relay.
Cassaundra Pino, a freshman freestyle and butterfly
specialist from Albuquerque, N.M., won three straight state championships in the 100-yard butterfly, setting the New Mexico statewide high school record in that event her senior year. She also won the 200-yard freestyle at the state meet during her junior season.
The other two freshmen are Taylor Sieperda and Libby Walker. Sieperda, a medley
swimmer from Spirit Lake, Iowa, holds records in the 100-yard backstroke and 200-yard medley at Spencer High School in Iowa, whereas, Walker, who is from Columbia, Mo., is a two-time sectional champion in the 1,650-yard freestyle and won the distance high-point award three times at sectionals.
In Walker's sectionals division, she swam against athletes from Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin. This summer, Walker swam a time fast enough for her to compete at the Olympic Trials in Omaha, Neb., next summer. Fidelity, Nebraska.
Finally, Kansas added sophomore transfer Briana Bal-
sough from San Diego State. In high school, Balsough was named the Top Female Athlete at West Linn High School in West Linn, Ore., and holds both high school and conference records in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard breaststroke.
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Women's soccer coach disappointed with preseason
SKYLAR ROLSTAD
@SkyRolNews
After his team finished the preseason with a 2-2 draw against North Dakota State at Rock Chalk Park on Sunday, the Kansas soccer coach Mark Francis wanted more. The Jayhawks recorded 33 shots over the course of the game with 11 on target but were only able to find the back of the net twice.
“[When] you have 33 shots, youd think you would score more than 2 goals,” Francis
said. "I think we learned some things about the players today — about who needs to be in there and who doesn't need to be in there as much, but that's why you have exhibition games."
As he looked forward to the team's regular season, which begins Friday, Aug. 21 against Nebraska, Francis said he was concerned by his team's lack of efficiency, given the shot attempts are all but certain to decrease.
"I think some of the chances that we created were really good, but we're probably not going to get 33 shots next Friday [against Nebraska]," Francis said. "We have to be a bit more efficient with the shots we get."
Apart from the negatives, however, Francis said the freshman talent coming into the team would be key to the team's success this season. Parker Roberts, a freshman, scored two goals in the previous exhibition game, a 5-0 win against Drake, and started
against North Dakota State. A two-goal performance from the freshman Grace Hagan demonstrated her ability on Sunday as well.
Hagan had never played forward before but started and played 70 minutes up top on Sunday. She credited the leadership of her junior and senior teammates for her smooth transition, much to the delight of her coach.
"I'm really blessed to come into the team like this," Hagan said. "They've been really nice
helping me out to learn the position."
Francis added: "Grace has been unbelievable. When we lose the ball, she's the first one chasing and pressuring the ball. She's going to be dangerous. We're glad she is on our team."
Francis said Hagan's presence in training during the summer had been a big part of the reason she is impressing early in the year.
hawks also have a strong returning cast. Midfielder Liana Salazar enters her senior year as a MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List player and junior forward Ashley Williams returns to the team after being the team's second-leading scoreer in 2014; behind Salazar. Williams scored two goals and added an assist in the Aug. 12 exhibition win over Drake.
Along with the freshman class, the 23rd-ranked Jay-
Daniel helps lift Chiefs over Cardinals
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They excelled in the first preseason game, too.
BOB BAUM Associated Press
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Carson Palmer and Tyrann Mathieu have probably been the most impressive players in the Arizona Cardinals' training camp.
So did Kansas City backup quarterback Chase Daniel.
In his first game since tearing an ACL last Nov. 9, Palmer was 4 for 4 for 77 yards, directing a seven-play, 80-yard touchdown drive to start the game before sitting down for the night. Palmer, who said he never took a single hit, threw over the middle to Andre Ellington on a 57-play to highlight the seven-play, 80-yard
Palmer was flawless in a brief appearance, Daniel threw for three touchdowns and the Chiefs beat the Cardinals 34-19 on Saturday night.
drive.
"It's great to be back and play on this grass again in front of our fans and in our stadium." Palmer said. "It's been a long time coming. It's been a lot of days since I saw this day in the future."
Arizona's Tyrann Mathieu intercepted Alex Smith's pass on the Chiefs' first possession to set up a field goal to put Arizona up 10-0. The Kansas City reserves scored the next 31 points.
Daniel was 17 for 29 for 189 yards in two quarters of play.
"The ones could have been sharper. ... The two and threes played tremendous and they moved the ball," Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. "Chase did a nice job with that group."
On the big play, Palmer found Ellington through a tight window. Ellington, who nursed a foot injury most of last season and has missed most of training camp with a hamstring injury, scored on a 2-yard run on third-and-goal.
On Kansas City's first possession, Smith was under pressure when he threw the pass intended for open Jason Avant. The pass was well behind the intended receiver and Mathieu, who was slowed noticeably last season after coming off knee surgery, easily picked it off.
"Luckily, the quarterback threw the ball right to me so I didn't really have to break and get a good route to the receiver," Mathieu said. "He kind of just threw it right to me."
Smith said he had a defender "screaming in my face" and he sailed the ball behind the receiver.
Arizona coach Bruce Arians said he was "very, very pleased with the way our starters came out, displeased with our young guys."
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Will KU football pass its over/under of 1.5 projected wins?
Chris Sitek
@ChrisSitek
Yes
New faces, a new recruiting class and a new year could bring success to the Kansas football team this fall. Coming off another losing season, Kansas (3-9) decided to make a coaching change in hopes of taking the program to the next level by hiring Texas A&M wide receivers coach David Beaty.
Beaty contributed to a Texas A&M team that ran the spread offense, an offense predicated on players using athleticism and speed at every offensive position, especially wide receiver. Texas A&M ranked 13th in team receiving among all FBS college teams in 2014 and has featured players such as Mike Evans, who had 68 receptions for 1,051 yards in the NFL last season.
Beaty will use position athleticism to improve a Kansas offense that ranked 118th out of 128 total FBS teams last year. After all, one of Kansas football's biggest problems was team scoring. The Kansas offense accounted for a mere 17.8 points per game last season, whereas
Texas A&M ranked 28th in the nation with 35.4 points per game.
Kansas football has already seen its athleticism and speed increase through its recruiting. Beaty inherits a class of 19 three-star recruits, highlighted by the 50th ranked defensive end Dorance Armstrong and the 19th ranked cornerback Brandon Stewart. On the offensive side, Kansas has two big wide receivers in Jeremiah Booker and Emmanuel Moore, both of whom are three-star Texas signees. These players should be able to make an immediate impact to both the team and its success this coming fall.
Beaty also returns plenty of players from last season, although perhaps not as many as he would've liked after a couple of dismissals. Offensively, this includes dual-threat quarterback Montell Cozart, wide receiver Tre' Parmalee, running backs De'Andre Mann and Taylor Cox — who missed all of last season — and tight end Ben Johnson.
tackles.
Defensively, the line appear to be the backbone, starting with defensive linemen Ben Goodman Jr. and T.J. Semke. Goodman finished last season with one sack, while Semke racked up 21 total
Weak-side linebacker Courtney Arnick is the most experienced player in the linebacking core, coming off a season where he posted 45 tackles. In the secondary, the cornerback position will be led by transfer Brandon Stewart, who had a strong offseason. Meanwhile Fish Smithson and Bazie Bates IV will hold down the strong and free safety positions.
With the mixture of new talent and returning starters, Kansas football could, and should, win more than the 1.5 wins set as the over/under by many Vegas sports books this year.
Last season, Kansas finished 1-8 in the Big 12, only ahead of Iowa State in the basement of the league, but this record can be deceiving; three games — Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and TCU — were decided by just a mere two touchdowns or less.
If the jayhawks can learn to close out games, they could do something they haven't done since the likes of coach Mark Mangino in 2008: become bowl-eligible. However, the team isn't quite there yet. The first step is getting those first few wins together.
Derek Skillett
@derek_skillett
No
With the fall semester getting underway, the new-look Kansas football team is less than a month away from kicking off its season against South Dakota State. Unfortunately, Jayhawks fans should expect another long and painful season as new head coach David Beaty begins the long and arduous process of rebuilding the Kansas football program.
The Jahwahws lost an incredible amount of talent following the 2014 season. The program lost star linebacker Ben Heeney and corners Dexter McDonald and JaCorey Shepherd to the 2015 NFL Draft.
A number of former Jayhawks, including wide receivers Nigel King and Nick Harwell; defenders Michael Reynolds, Cassius Sendish and Victor Simmons; running back Tony Pierson; punter Trevor Pardula and tight end Jimmy Mundine have also gone on to the next level to try and make an NFL squad.
Replacing that much talent is not easy, but that isn't the end of it. The rebuild gets even more challenging with the departures of safety Isaiah
Johnson (transfer), running back Corey Avery (dismissal) and wide receiver Rodriguez Coleman (dismissal).
Avery would have been the Jayhawks' best returning running back after contributing 848 yards of total offense and six total touchdowns in 2014. Coleman only contributed 245 yards and one touchdown in his two-year career at Kansas but was expected to have a breakout junior year under Beaty, who famously coached former Texas A&M wide receiver Mike Evans into a first round NFL Draft pick in 2014.
The Jayhawks currently have only 64 scholarship players for the 2015 season. The NCAA maximum for scholarships-per-year is 85. During the Jayhawks' annual spring game scrimmage earlier this spring, redshirt senior quarterback Michael Cummings injured his knee. Later, we all found out he would be lost for an unspecified amount of time in the 2015 season.
Cummings was set to build on a fairly strong 2014 season for the Jayhawks, where he threw for 1,715 yards and recorded 13 total touchdowns over the final seven games of the season. In his best game, he posted 332 passing yards and three touchdowns, as Kansas nearly pulled off one of the most shocking upsets in
recent history over No. 4 TCU. And still, it doesn't stop there.
The Jayhawks are also faced with an absolutely brutal schedule this upcoming season, with tough matchups against Memphis, Rutgers, Baylor, Oklahoma, Texas, TCU and Kansas State. The easier games will come against Iowa State, Texas Tech, West Virginia and Oklahoma State, but even those will be difficult.
The Jayhawks have not won on the road since 2009 when they defeated UTEP, which basically means Kansas has not won a road game in six years. That is unlikely to change this season, with road games against Rutgers, Iowa State, Oklahoma State, Texas and National Championship contender TCU.
Even the season-opening game against South Dakota State is not necessarily a surewin. The Jackrabbits went 9-5 last season and advanced to the second game in the FCS Playoffs. South Dakota State is also ranked No. 15 in the FCS preseason polls.
Unless the jayhawks luck into some close victories, there is a high possibility of a winless season this fall, and that's why I'm taking the under when it comes to whether they will win at least 1.5 games.
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Much of Kansas' defensive core has graduated, such as fifth-round NFL draft pick Ben Heeney.
Top performers return to cross country squads
G.J. MELIA
@gjmelia
Limited eligibility for athletes can make consistency a challenge for cross country teams. However, that won't be a problem for Kansas' cross country programs. Both the men's and women's teams enter the year with their top 2014 performers.
Senior Jacob Morgan will lead the men's squad, coming off a successful year that included a fifth-place finish at the Big 12 Championships and a sixth-place finish in the Midwest Regional. Morgan was also the only Jayhawk to qualify for the NCAA Championships, where he earned a
The men's team will also be anchored by senior Evan Landes. Landes missed all of 2014 because of an injury. Landes' 2013 season was comparable to Morgan's 2014 season, earning All-Big 12 and All-Region honors.
top-100 finish, coming in 91st.
He was the first Kansas athlete to do so in seven years.
The women's team returns junior Nashia Baker, who was the top finisher in five Kansas meets last year. Meanwhile, junior Hannah Richardson is coming off a strong 2015 track season and will look to continue the success into the fall cross country season. She missed the 2014 season with an undisclosed injury.
Kansas will host two regular season meets this year, both at Rim Rock Farm. The first is the Bob Timmons Classic on Sept. 1, and second is the Rim Rock Classic, which will fall a month later on Oct. 3. The Midwest Regional meet is also set to be hosted by Kansas at Rim Rock Farm, and will be held on Nov. 13.
Other notable meets include the Wildcat Invitational, hosted by Kansas State on Sept. 19. Kansas will be traveling to the Pre-Nationals in Louisville, Ky. on Oct. 17. Louisiana will also play host to the NCAA Division 1 championships on November 21.
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The men's cross country team at a race in November 2014p. This year, the men's team will be anchored partly by senior Evan Landes, who missed all of 2014 because of an injury.
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Lawrence Kansas City share a love of sports
On a cool October night in 2014, the streets of Lawrence were surprisingly calm. On Massachusetts Street, bars were filled with Kansas City Royals fans willing their team on to a victory in an electric Game 7 of the World Series.
Derek Skillett
@derek_skleitt
Although the Royals ended up losing that game, there was an undeniable feeling of passion in Lawrence that night. Fans cheered when the Royals began to score runs. They groaned when San Francisco Giants ace pitcher Madison Bumgarner trotted onto the field.
The fan response to the 2014 World Series proved that Lawrence is not only a stronghold of college sports but also a town that shows a large amount of support towards Kansas City's professional sports teams.
Amanda Pittman, a recent graduate from Archie, Mo., is a die-hard Royals fan that has supported the team throughout college. While attending the University she was a regular at the bar The Wagon Wheel.
"The Wheel has a great game day atmosphere and a lot of my friends went there," Pittman said. "It's fun to watch games around a lot of people who cheer for the same team."
Lawrence businesses like Johnny's Tavern West and Buffalo Wild Wings are also popular places to watch Kansas City professional teams play.
Jason Hoffman, general manager of Johnny's Tavern West, said the restaurant has become a popular place to watch Royals games, especially given the amount of success that the Royals have achieved this past season.
"We get more and more customers as the season goes on. More and more people hear about the first-place standings and like to come out and cheer along," Hoffman said. "[When] we have the Royals game on, people tend to stick around a little longer. It becomes a more game-day-like atmosphere."
"It's definitely a lot busier here than Mass Street was," Herrera said. "From opening day, we were packed with people coming in and watching the games."
Maria Herrera, manager of Buffalo Wild Wings, echoed these sentiments. Buffalo Wild Wings recently moved from its location on Massachusetts Street to a new spot on Iowa Street.
Both restaurants should also experience increased business as Lawrence residents become excited for the beginning of the new season for the Kansas City Chiefs, who look to be much improved after a 9-7 2014 campaign.
And then there's Sporting KC, Kansas City's Major League Soccer team, which also has a place in the heart of students and residents alike.
Red Lyon Tavern and Dempsey's Burger Pub are some of the most popular places in Lawrence to watch soccer matches.
"If there's a word to describe it, it's 'wild,'" said Bryan Love II, the manager of Red Lyon. "Almost every table is taken; every seat at the bar is taken; we are three-deep with people standing up. It's definitely electric. It's infectious."
From football to futbol baseball to college basketball, the sports season never really ends in Lawrence. And no matter what sport you love, there's a place in Lawrence to enjoy it.
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U.S. set to take on Mexico in playoff for 2017 Confederations Cup
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DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/ASSOCIATED PRESS Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Nabil Bentaleb, right, pursues forward Clint Dempsey, center, of the Seattle Sounders, in the MLS All-Star game on July 29.
MATT HOFFMANN
@MattHoffmannUDK
The U.S. Men's National Team is set to take on rival Mexico in a game on Oct. 9 that goes well beyond that of the typical rivalry. The contest will be a one-game playoff to determine CONCACAF's representative in the 2017 Confederations Cup.
And for both teams, it's as simple as this: On Oct. 9 win, and you're in.
While the U.S. has seemed the superior team as of late, a poor Gold Cup performance coupled with Mexico's extremely good luck at the same venue, sets the table for a potentially decisive match-up that could determine the ultimate balance of power in the region heading into 2018 World Cup qualifying round.
After a poor run of play during the 2015 Gold Cup, the fall matchup could also determine the fate of USMNT coach Jurgen Klinsmann, who could face the chopping block should his team fall, despite claims by U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gunati. In 2013 former U.S. manager Bob Bradley was fired after a poor Gold Cup campaign, ominously
dismissed after a 4-2 defeat at the hands of Mexico, which happens to be Klinsmann's next, and possibly last, opponent.
Jurgen's players were knocked out of the Gold Cup after a shocking 2-1 defeat by Jamaica. The U.S. also fell in the third place match to Panama on penalty kicks.
Even the earlier victories were too close for comfort. In the group stage, the U.S. only narrowly defeated Honduras and Haiti, which set the tone for the rest of the stale campaign.
may be in a worse position. The Mexican Soccer Federation fired head coach Miguel Herrera despite winning the 2015 Gold Cup and are now searching for a replacement just two months before the playoff match.
However, while the U.S. team isn't exactly sitting on a solid foundation, Mexico
Herrera allegedly struck a journalist prior to his dismissal, but Mexico's poor performance in the Gold Cup, regardless of the result, most likely was a factor.
Mexico defeated both Costa Rica and Panama due to possibly questionable referee decisions in the closing moments of the tournament, prompting the respective federations to call for a
corruption investigation.
Mexico penalty-taker Andres Guardado even considered missing his spot kick against Panama intentionally but ended up sending his team to the final with the conversion.
Despite the dubious calls in prior games, Mexico did defeat Jamaica in convincing fashion 3-1 to take the title, setting up a clash of CONCACAF's perennial giants in October.
The United States are 21-14-35 all time against Mexico, but are 3-0-2 in the last five head-to-head matches and 4-3-3 in the last ten matches. The Confederations Cup playoff is set at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, a venue that should provide a fairly even supporter base between the two teams. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. local time, or 8:30 p.m. CT. Fox Sports will presumably carry over the TV rights from the Gold Cup and televise the match in English, while Univision will have coverage in Spanish.
The Confederations Cup is scheduled to run from June 17 to July 2, 2017. Held in Russia, the cup serves as a warm-up for the 2018 World Cup and will feature many top contenders a year out from soccer's grandest stage.
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The Confederations Cup playoff is the first of its kind, pitting the 2013 Gold Cup champion. The United States against the 2015 champion, Mexico, for a berth in the 2017 Confederations Cup.
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"We don't make judgements based on one thing. Progress is not linear for anyone. There are bumps along the way. This is clearly a bump... but that's the norm for everyone because you don't go through and win all your games."
U. S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati on Jurgen Klinsmann, SI.com
Important dates to remember this fall
September 1
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September 4-5
KU volleyball hosts first home tournament
September 5
Kansas football begins season vs. South Dakota State Time: 11. a.m.
September 7-8
Women's golf kicks off season in the Marilynn Smith-Sunflower Invitational
September 12-14
October 2
KU tennis kicks off season in the Midland Invitational
October 2
KU swimming starts season with intrasquad meet
October 9
Men's golf kicks off season in Rod Myers Invitational
September 12-13
KU soccer begins conference play against Texas. Time: 7 p.m.
Late Night in the Phog. Time: TBA
November 17
November 28
November 13
NCAA Midwest Regional Championships (Cross Country)
KU basketball takes on Michigan State in the Champions Classic: Time: 9 p.m.
November 4
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December 4-5
KU basketball's first exhibition vs. Pittsburg State. Time: TBA
KU swimming hosts Jayhawk Open
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Reds' late error sends Royals to 3-1 win
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CINCINNATI — Ben Zobrist tied the game with a homer in the ninth inning, Jarrod Dyson scored the tie-breaking run from first base on pitcher Ryan Mattheus' throwing error and the Kansas City Royals went on to a 3-1, 13-inning victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night.
Dyson led off the 13th with a single and scored when Matteus (1-4) threw a sacrifice bunt by Kris Medlen (1-0) down the right field line.
COLIN E. BRALEY/ASSOCIATED PRESS Kansas City Royals' Ben Zobrist is congratulated in the dugout after scoring against the Los Angeles Angels at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., on Sunday.
Greg Holland finished for his 27th save.
Zobrist stunned the crowd of 28,719 by leading off the ninth against Aroldis Chapman with his 10th homer of the season. Chapman had converted 56 consecutive save opportunities at home since blowing one against Houston on Sept. 7, 2012.
Lorenzo Cain followed with a single and stole second and third while Eric Hosmer was striking out. Cain was ruled safe on the rundown that started with Salvador Perez's grounder to second baseman
Brandon Phillips, but Cain was ruled out after a replay review that lasted just under 3 1-2 minutes.
Reds starter Raisel Iglesias allowed one runner past second base while scattering three hits and a walk with three strikeouts over seven innings. He extended his streak of consecutive scoreless innings to 12, dating to the first inning of his last start on Aug. 12 in San Diego.
Eugenio Suarez homered off Kansas City right-hander Edison Volquez with one out in the first, giving Cincinnati a 1-0 lead with his eighth home run of the season.
voiquez, who played for the Reds, allowed four hits and one walk with seven strikeouts in six innings.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Royals: Manager Ned Yost scratched INF Omar Infante from Kansas City's original starting lineup after Infante developed back spasms. Zobrist was moved from left field to second base and left fielder Dyson got the start in Infante's slot. Infante is day-to-day, Yost said.
Reds: LHP Sean Marshall is
still throwing off a mound every third day as he continues his comeback from shoulder problems, but he's mixing in breaking balls, manager Bryan Price said. "He still has some work ahead of him, but that's a good sign." he said.
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Reds: RHP Keyvius Sampson (2-1, 3.18) will take a two-start winning streak into his first career interleague appearance on Wednesday.
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The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Hancock Ballroom at the Oread at 1200 Oread Ave. Limited tickets are still available for $99, and the price includes a photo with Riggle, hors d'oeuvres and live music by Sugar Britches and Garrett Childers and Caroline. This event will also have a cash bar run by Riggle's Loaded Vodka company. For tickets, call the Oread at (785) 830-3927.
The event will honor the late James "Jim Bob" Clarke, a 10-year line cook at the Oread and Eldridge hotels, and the money raised will go toward a scholarship fund for his two young children.
On Monday, the Oread Hotel will host a meet-and-greet and scholarship fundraiser with actor and alumnus Rob Riggle.
Clarke died unexpectedly this summer and left behind two children, ages one and three, said Nancy Longhurst, general manager of the Oread.
during his numerous stays there, Longhurst said. She said Riggle was more than willing to help out when approached by staff members.
Clarke spent the last five years working at the Oread after spending five years at its sister hotel, the Eldridge.
"We just thought it would be really helpful to their family to provide and to set up some kind of a scholarship fund for the kids since they are so young and since he had worked for us for so long and was such a part of our lives," Longhurst said. "We wanted to do something for the family."
- Edited by Chandler Boese
Riggle has starred in movies such as "The Hangover," "21 Jump Street" and "The Lorax." Riggle, who grew up in Overland Park, befriended some staff members at the Oread
Who: Rob Riggle, host
What: A scholarship fundraiser where attendees can take a photo with Riggle, eat hors d'oeuvres and listen to live music by
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- The Office of Study Abroad offers a wide variety of programs with courses taught in English.
- The Office of Study Abroad provides scholarships ranging from $500 - $10,000 per student
- Students receive individualized advising for programs and financial aid.
- We offer programs over spring break, winter break & the summer, as well as semester and year programs.
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Get international exposure without leaving campus! Jayhawks Without Borders (JWB) was founded in Fall 2014 to bring together KU students interested in: African Studies, East Asian Studies, Global and International Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, and Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies. JWB meets every week during the academic semester for entertaining cultural activities and informative lectures that help increase global awareness and action. JWB was nominated for a SP 2015 Jayhawk Choice Award for Best New Student Organization of the Year. The club has over 70 active student members and 5 officers.
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This new semester or year-long program offers courses taught in English in Madrid. Courses are available in a wide variety of disciplines, including business, computer science, engineering, GIST Spanish, psychology, education, and political science.
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INTERNSHIP
Multiple locations
Students can intern over the summer in Sydney, London, Dublin Madrid, Shanghai, Germany, Kazakhstan, Prague, Hong Kong, and more. International internships are open to any major. Students live in apartments and gain real work experience abroad.
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Located just outside of Stockholm, Uppsala is the oldest university in Scandinavia. The university is world-renowned for research especially in the natural sciences. It has a wide variety of courses in English and offers a college town atmosphere.
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Students spend a semester or year in Hong Kong, taking a wide variety of classes taught in English. HKU is a premier international university. It is on slopes of Hong Kong Island overlooking Victoria Harbor and is close to Hong Kong's bustling financial district.
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Learn About Your Options Attend the Study Abroad Fair on Wednesday Sept. 9 in the Kansas Union Stop by the Study Abroad Info Center in Lippincott Hall Room 105 Talk to an academic advisor about your plans
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Meet with a program coordinator in our office to talk about your options and the application process Apply to your program (and for study abroad scholarships) online
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University alumnus and actor Rob Riggle before speaking to a crowd at the Kansas football homecoming game on Sept. 27, 2014. Riggle is hosting a scholarship fundraiser at The Bread hotel at 7 p.m. on Monday.
The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Hancock Ballroom at the Oread at 1200 Oread Ave. Limited tickets are still available for $99, and the price includes a photo with Riggle, hors doeuvres and live music by Sugar Britches and Garrett Childers and Caroline. This event will also have a cash bar run by Riggle's Loaded Vodka company. For tickets, call the Oread at (785) 830-3927.
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On Monday, the Oread Hotel will host a meet-and-greet and scholarship fundraiser with actor and alumnus Rob Riggle.
The event will honor the late James "Jim Bob" Clarke, a 10-year line cook at the Oread and Eldridge hotels, and the money raised will go toward a scholarship fund for his two young children.
Clarke died unexpectedly this summer and left behind two children, ages one and three, said Nancy Longhurst, general manager of the Oread.
Clarke spent the last five years working at the Oread after spending five years at its sister hotel, the Eldridge.
during his numerous stays there, Longhurst said. She said Riggle was more than willing to help out when approached by staff members.
"We just thought it would be really helpful to their family to provide and to set up some kind of a scholarship fund for the kids since they are so young and since he had worked for us for so long and was such a part of our lives," Longhurst said. "We wanted to do something for the family."
Riggle has starred in movies such as "The Hangover," "21 Jump Street" and "The Lorax." Riggle, who grew up in Overland Park, befriended staff members at the Oread
Edited by Chandler Boese
Who: Rob Riggle, host
What: A scholarship fundraiser where attendees can take a photo with Riggle, eat hors d'oeuvres and listen to live music by
Sugar Britches and Garrett Childers and Caroline. This event will also have a cash bar run by Riggle's Loaded Vodka company.
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Global Partners is an exciting way to meet people from all over the world and make life-long friends at the University of Kansas. International and domestic students are matched and placed into semester-long groups of four, giving students an opportunity to get to know other cultures on a person level. The groups are formed based on members' interests, academic majors, and languages. Students meet with their group
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Global Partners is an exciting and unique way to build friendships, expand your global knowledge, and partake in service opportunities to make KU and the entire world better. The program also counts for the Global Awareness Program Certification.
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The Global Awareness Program recognizes students who demonstrate growth in cultural knowledge, expansion of international perspectives, and development of cross-cultural communications skills that prepare them to work and lead in today's interconnected world. The program consists of three components: Academic, Co-curricular, and International Experience. Complete two components to earn your certificate, and all three to earn the certificate with distinction. See component requirements below and go to gap.ku.edu to learn more and register today!
GLOBAL AWARENESS PROGRAM
GAP is open to all undergraduate students. Once complete, the certificate is notated on your transcript and is an excellent addition to your resume. Whether for personal enrichment or improving future job prospects, the Global Awareness Program certificate can help you achieve your goals, stay connected to KU's rich international community, and distinguish you as a Jayhawk ready to lead in a global society. Join over 2,500 students who have earned their GAP certificate since 2004.
Component A: Academic - Take 2 foreign language courses and 3 courses with an international focus.
With over 1500 international courses offered at KU, the hardest part can be figuring out which courses apply! You can automatically search the courses that apply through your Degree Progress Report. Otherwise, you can find out which courses apply through our website. U.S. students complete a minimum of 2 semesters of a modern foreign language and 3 courses with an international focus.
International students must pass the English Proficiency Exam or receive an English requirement waiver. Native English-speakers still need to pass two semesters of a foreign language. International students also need to take two courses with a modern international focus and one CLAS or social science course.
Co-curricular Activities - Engage in 20 hours of cultural activities at KU.
Component B:
It's simple - earn credit for engaging in international activities!
There are hundreds of international and cultural activities, performances clubs, exhibits, lectures and events happening each semester. The four main categories are: clubs and organizations, events, volunteer activities, and language tables.
Component C: International Experience - Study, intern, volunteer or work abroad during your KU career and reflect on your experiences!
U. S. students can complete this component by participating in any KU Study Abroad Program
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International students automatically complete this component by studying in the U.S. and need only respond to reflection questions on your experience in the U.S.
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University alumnus and actor Rob Riggle before speaking to a crowd at the kansas football homecoming game on Sept. 27, 2014. Riggle is hosting a scholarship fundraiser at The Dread hotel at 7 p.m. on Monday.
The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Hancock Ballroom at the Oread at 1200 Oread Ave. Limited tickets are still available for $99, and the price includes a photo with Riggle, hors doeuvres and live music by Sugar Britches and Garrett Childers and Caroline. This event will also have a cash bar run by Riggle's Loaded Vodka company. For tickets, call the Oread at (785) 830-3927.
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The event will honor the late James "Jim Bob" Clarke, a 10-year line cook at the Oread and Eldridge hotels, and the money raised will go toward a scholarship fund for his two young children.
Clarke died unexpectedly this summer and left behind two children, ages one and three, said Nancy Longhurst, general manager of the Oread.
On Monday, the Oread Hotel will host a meet-and-greet and scholarship fundraiser with actor and alumnus Rob Riggle.
during his numerous stays there, Longhurst said. She said Riggle was more than willing to help out when approached by staff members.
"We just thought it would be really helpful to their family to provide and to set up some kind of a scholarship fund for the kids since they are so young and since he had worked for us for so long and was such a part of our lives," Longhurst said. "We wanted to do something for the family."
Riggle has starred in movies such as "The Hanger," "21 Jump Street" and "The Lorax." Riggle, who grew up in Overland Park, befriended some staff members at the Oread
Clarke spent the last five years working at the Oread after spending five years at its sister hotel, the Eldridge.
Edited by Chandler Boese
Who: Rob Riggle, host
What: A scholarship fundraiser where attendees can take a photo with Riggle, eat hors d'oeuvres and listen to live music by
Sugar Britches and Garrett Childers and Caroline. This event will also have a cash bar run by Riggle's Loaded Vodka company.
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Each year, 15 sophomores receive a $1,000 study abroad scholarship through KU Global Scholars. The program selects highly motivated students with an interest in global studies. Global Scholars emphasizes intercultural learning and faculty-mentored research in preparing Scholars to become innovative leaders and thoughtful global citizens.
The program is open to:
- Students beginning their second year of college.
- Students with a 3.75 GPA or higher (those with a slightly lower GPA may apply as well).
- Scholars must enroll in an interdisciplinary honors seminar during the spring semester of their sophomore year.
Important Information:
- Global Scholars are chosen based on their application and interview.
- The Global Scholars Program runs the same semester as the University Scholars Program. Students may apply to one, but not both of these programs.
Online applications open on Monday, August 24th. The deadline to apply is Thursday, September 24th. For more information go to: international.ku.edu/globalscholars or email mmward@ku.edu.
DID YOU KNOW?
1. More than 2,400 international students and scholars attend and conduct research at KU
2. KU has exchange agreements with more than 160 international universities & cities
3. KU offers more than 1,000 language classes or other classes with an international focus
4. The International House offers short-term lodging to visiting international scholars
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KU's Passport Services is located in Strong Hall, Room 300. Students faculty, staff, and community members are all welcome to apply for or renew their passports here.
The first step in taking advantage of international opportunities at KU is getting a passport. Passports can take up to 3 months to process. Apply for yours now so you are prepared to go abroad!
- Passport photos can be taken on site in Strong 300
- If you already have a passport, check the expiration date!
- Appointments are encouraged, but not required
- Paper applications are available in Strong 300. Applications are also available online.
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YOUR EDUCATION CAN TAKE YOU PLACES
Be proud. The University of Kansas is a globally-engaged university with hundreds of internationally-focused opportunities for students, faculty, and staff.
As a Jayhawk, you can take regionallyfocused area studies courses taught by our five different area studies centers, study more than 40 foreign languages, interact with more than 2.400 international students (or, if you are an international student, Join Global Partners to engage with U.S. students), attend the lectures of world-renowned visiting scholars, and study abroad in more than 70 countries. Plus, you can earn a Global Awareness Certificate that recognizes your global engagement.
KU has a long tradition of being an internationally-focused institution. The first KU student studied abroad in 1949. KU's Applied English Center, which helps students whose first language is not English, opened in 1964. The first Area Studies center at KU, the Center for East Asian Studies, was established in 1959, followed in 1961 by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, in 1965 by the Center for Russian, East
European, and Eurasian Studies, in 1992 by the Kansas African Studies Center, and in 2009 by the Center for Global and International Studies. In 2005, the University of Kansas was nationally recognized as a leader in international education when we received a Simon Award for Campus Internationalization.
We're still innovating. In the fall of 2014, the Office of Study Abroad launched the Mapping Study Abroad to the Major Curriculum Integration initiative, which aligns study abroad opportunities to academic majors. This fall, KU's many foreign language departments will come together as the new School of Languages Literatures, and Cultures.
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today, almost 25% of KU undergraduates study abroad, and KU is currently ranked 26th in the nation among public universities for undergraduate participation in study abroad. KU also has the longest running exchange partnership in the Western Hemisphere with the Universidad de Costa Rica.
Be a part of the KU tradition, and embrace the many globally-minded and international opportunities that are key to a Jayhawk education.
UPCOMING EVENTS
School of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures Inaugural Convocation September 1, 3:30 PM Kansas Union Alderson Auditorium
International Opportunities
Jayhawks Without Borders Icebreaker September 4,11 AM Bailey Hall 318
Study Abroad Fair September 9,10:30-3:30 4th Floor, Kansas Union
Global Partners Launch Party September 11,5-7 PM Kansas Union, Kansas Room
SeptemberFest September 23,12-3 PM Kansas Union Plaza
Study Abroad Scholarship & Program Application Deadline October 1
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University alumnus and actor Rob Riggle before speaking to a crowd at the Kansas football homecoming game on Sept. 27, 2014. Riggle is hosting a scholarship fundraiser at The Dread hotel at 7 p.m. on Monday.
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On Monday, the Oread Hotel will host a meet-and-greet and scholarship fundraiser with actor and alumnus Rob Riggle.
actor and adamus R.Koggie. The event will honor the late James "Jim Bob" Clarke, a 10-year line cook at the Oread and Eldridge hotels, and the money raised will go toward a scholarship fund for his two young children.
The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Hancock Ballroom at the Oread at 1200 Oread Ave. Limited tickets are still available for $99, and the price includes a photo with Riggle, hors doeuvres and live music by Sugar Britches and Garrett Childers and Caroline. This event will also have a cash bar run by Riggle's Loaded Vodka company. For tickets, call the Oread at (785) 830-3927.
Clarke died unexpectedly this summer and left behind two children, ages one and three, said Nancy Longhurst, general manager of the Oread.
Clarke spent the last five years working at the Oread after spending five years at its sister hotel, the Eldridge.
"We just thought it would be really helpful to their family to provide and to set up some kind of a scholarship fund for the kids since they are so young and since he had worked for us for so long and was such a part of our lives." Longhurst said. "We wanted to do something for the family."
Riggle has starred in movies such as "The Hangover," "21 Jump Street" and "The Lorax." Riggle, who grew up in Overland Park, befriended some staff members at the Oread
during his numerous stays there, Longhurst said. She said Riggle was more than willing to help out when approached by staff members.
— Edited by Chandler Boese
Who: Rob Riggle, host
What: A scholarship fundraiser where attendees can take a photo with Riggle, eat hors d'oeuvres and listen to live music by
Sugar Britches and Garrett Childers and Caroline. This event will also have a cash bar run by Riggle's Loaded Vodka company.
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Lawrence is brimming with fashion-savvy people, sporting styles that range from experimental to vintage. Being stylish doesn't necessarily mean wearing heels 24/7, which is reflected in the styles
Fahrlander, a University student. Both had a common inspiration for styling their wardrobe: a comfortable feel with a touch of old-school, classic pieces. The duo encompass two different looks with
wearing heels 24/7, which is reflected in the styles of the two featured fashionistas. For this issue, the Kansan focused on two ladies in Lawrence — Siena Vance, a waitress at the Roost, and Addie
effortless spunk and a breezy attitude
It also helps that Vance, who has lived in Lawrence for most of her life, and Fahrlander, who is from Overland Park, are good friends. The pair met two years ago at Arizona Trading Company, a clothing store on Massachusetts Street that buys and sells
gently used and vintage clothing.
senior from Overland Park majoring in film studies and minoring in English at the University
What she's wearing:
Abercrombie black tank,
pleated and plaid skirt with
Mickey Mouse on the front
left corner.
Inspiration: She said she
She accessorised with a raccoon jaw necklace wrapped in gold metal that made by a Lawrence jewelry maker, an opal and gold ring gifted to her by her aunt and set of silver rings with a purple stone.
had been told by her coworker Lindsay that her style is a mix of Los Angeles '80s hair metal and Brooklyn '90s rap. "It's perfect because I love Guns 'n' Roses as well as Wu Tang Clan," she said. "I'm really into '90s fashion right now and health goth. My coworkers are always an influence on me; they keep me from buying things I don't really need. Sometimes they'll put silly things on my holds at work."
Music style: St. Vincent,
Talking Heads, A Tribe Called
Quest, Gorillaz and Mac
Demarco.
Go-to shoes: She said she bought her white sneakers at Arizona Trading Company, where she works.
"I'm not a huge sandal person, and I love pairing them with high socks and a skater skirt," she said.
"Anything that I can dance to or sing with," she said. Favorite trends: "I like seeing things I wore when I was little coming back in style."
Favorite colors: "I love black and neutral colors, but also fun patterns."
Who she'd love to have
coffee with:"I would get coffee with Danny Devito. I'd love to discuss the making of Matilda with him."
Siena Vance, a waitress at the Roost from Lawrence
What she's wearing: Old American Eagle denim shorts, a tank top from Gap, her mom's old flannel and Minnetonka moccasins. She accessorised with a silver chakra pendant she got as a gift and a Third Eye Pinecone necklace she was given for her
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On Monday, the Oread Hotel will host a meet-and-greet and scholarship fundraiser with actor and alumnus Rob Riggle.
Clarke spent the last five years working at the Oread after spending five years at its sister hotel, the Eldridge.
"We just thought it would be really helpful to their family to provide and to set up some kind of a scholarship fund for the kids since they are so young and since he had worked for us for so long and was such a part of our lives," Longhurst said. "We wanted to do something for the family."
Riggle has starred in movies such as "The Hangover," "21 Jump Street" and "The Lorax." Riggle, who grew up in Overland Park, befriended some staff members at the Oread
during his numerous stays there, Longhurst said. She said Riggle was more than willing to help out when approached by staff members.
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The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Hancock Ballroom at the Oread at 1200 Oread Ave. Limited tickets are still available for $99, and the price includes a photo with Riggle, hors doeuvres and live music by Sugar Britches and Garrett Childers and Caroline. This event will also have a cash bar run by Riggle's Loaded Vodka company. For tickets, call the Oread at (785) 830-3927.
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University alumnus and actor Rob Riggle before speaking to a crowd at the Kansas football homecoming game on Sept. 27, 2014. Riggle is hosting a scholarship fundraiser at The Dread hotel at 7 p.m. on Monday.
during his numerous stays there, Longhurst said. She said Riggle was more than willing to help out when approached by staff members.
FILE PHOTO/KANSAN
On Monday, the Oread Hotel will host a meet-and-greet and scholarship fundraiser with actor and alumnus Rob Riggle.
The event will honor the late James "Jim Bob" Clarke, a 10-year line cook at the Oread and Eldridge hotels, and the money raised will go toward a scholarship fund for his two young children.
Clarke died unexpectedly this summer and left behind two children, ages one and three, said Nancy Longhurst, general manager of the Oread.
Edited by Chandler Boese
Clarke spent the last five years working at the Oread after spending five years at its sister hotel, the Eldridge.
Riggle has starred in movies such as "The Hanger," "21 Jump Street" and "The Lorax." Riggle, who grew up in Overland Park, befriended some staff members at the Oread
"We just thought it would be really helpful to their family to provide and to set up some kind of a scholarship fund for the kids since they are so young and since he worked for us for so long and was such a part of our lives," Longhurst said. "We wanted to do something for the family."
Who: Rob Riggle, host
What: A scholarship fundraiser where attendees can take a photo with Riggle, eat hors d'oeuvres and listen to live music by
Sugar Britches and Garrett Childers and Caroline. This event will also have a cash bar run by Riggle's Loaded Vodka company.
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FILE PHOTO/KANSAN University alumnus and actor Rob Riggle before speaking to a crowd at the Kansas football homecoming game on Sept. 27, 2014. Riggle is hosting a scholarship fundraiser at The Oread hotel at 7 p.m. on Monday.
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On Monday, the Oread Hotel will host a meet-and-greet and scholarship fundraiser with actor and alumnus Rob Riggle.
Clarke died unexpectedly this summer and left behind two children, ages one and three, said Nancy Longhurst, general manager of the Oread.
The event will honor the late James "Jim Bob" Clarke, a 10-year line cook at the Oread and Eldridge hotels, and the money raised will go toward a scholarship fund for his two young children.
Clarke spent the last five years working at the Oread after spending five years at its sister hotel, the Eldridge.
"We just thought it would be really helpful to their family to provide and to set up some kind of a scholarship fund for the kids since they are so young and since he had worked for us for so long and was such a part of our lives." Longhurst said. "We wanted to do something for the family."
Riggle has starred in movies such as "The Hangover," "21 Jump Street" and "The Lorax." Riggle, who grew up in Overland Park, befriended some staff members at the Oread
during his numerous stays there, Longhurst said. She said Riggle was more than willing to help out when approached by staff members.
The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Hancock Ballroom at the Oread at 1200 Oread Ave. Limited tickets are still available for $99, and the price includes a photo with Riggle, hors d'oeuvres and live music by Sugar Britches and Garrett Childers and Caroline. This event will also have a cash bar run by Riggle's Loaded Vodka company. For tickets, call the Oread at (785) 830-3927.
— Edited by Chandler Boese
Who: Rob Riggle, host
What: A scholarship fundraiser where attendees can take a photo with Riggle, eat hors d'oeuvres and listen to live music by
Sugar Britches and Garrett Childers and Caroline. This event will also have a cash bar run by Riggle's Loaded Vodka company.
Where: Hancock Ballroom
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The 1970s had its moment, and someone at the top of the fashion ladder thought it was time to bring it back.
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How does this translate into everyday clothing? Ribbed everything, light denim, mock necks and denim skirts. The decade's basics have been reinvented with a twist, so you probably can't get away with wearing something straight from your mom's closet or your seventh-grade jean skirt. Here's what you can do: Incorporate a ribbed crop tank into your closet to wear with high-waisted jeans or a button-up denim mini. And for an easy transition into the cooler months, add a pair of light wash skinny jeans to your rotation.
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This color could fall under 1970s but is so abundant that it deserves its own paragraph. Mustard yellow is an incredibly tricky color to master and is usually best in small doses. Try it as an accent color with accessories like headbands and scarves, or layered under a shirt or jacket. This rich color looks best paired with neutrals like cream, denim or gray.
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Recently, menswear has swept the ladies off their feet. Collars, hues of blue and straight silhouettes made an especially lasting impression, especially in the spring. The influence it will leave in the next few months is on silhouettes. Keep an eye open for longer lengths, boxy cuts and unique shapes. This can be a fun way to try something different while sticking with a safe color or fabric.
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Okay, so maybe a little prepy or formal, but oxfordes are the shoe for the fall, and it's kind of awesome. What would you rather walk up and down the hill in, flip-flops or chic sneakers? The beauty of oxfordes is the wide array of styles, colors and heel heights. Choose what speaks to you. Go buy a pair of penny loafers from Forever 21 or the oxford version of Doc Martens. Either way, you'll be on trend while still keeping in tune with your own style.
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On Monday, the Oread Hotel will host a meet-and-greet and scholarship fundraiser with actor and alumnus Rob Riggle.
The event will honor the late James "Jim Bob" Clarke, a 10-year line cook at the Oread and Eldridge hotels, and the money raised will go toward a scholarship fund for his two young children.
Clarke died unexpectedly this summer and left behind two children, ages one and three, said Nancy Longhurst, general manager of the Oread.
Clarke spent the last five years working at the Oread after spending five years at its sister hotel, the Eldridge.
"We just thought it would be really helpful to their family to provide and to set up some kind of a scholarship fund for the kids since they are so young and since he had worked for us for so long and was such a part of our lives." Longhurst said. "We wanted to do something for the family."
Riggle has starred in movies such as "The Hangover," "21 Jump Street" and "The Lorax." Riggle, who grew up in Overland Park, befriended some staff members at the Oread
during his numerous stays there, Longhurst said. She said Riggle was more than willing to help out when approached by staff members.
The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Hancock Ballroom at the Oread at 1200 Oread Ave. Limited tickets are still available for $99, and the price includes a photo with Riggle, hors doeuvres and live music by Sugar Britches and Garrett Childers and Caroline. This event will also have a cash bar run by Riggle's Loaded Vodka company. For tickets, call the Oread at (785) 830-3927.
— Edited by Chandler Boese
Who: Rob Riggle, host
What: A scholarship fundraiser where attendees can take a photo with Riggie, eat hors d'oeuvres and listen to live music by
Sugar Britches and Garrett Childers and Caroline. This event will also have a cash bar run by Riggle's Loaded Vodka company.
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Kevin Hart speaks to Antonia Miller, a 5K participant, after the run. A group of more than 1,000 runners were led by Hart across Brush Creek Greenway Park on Saturday
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Kevin Hart's pop-up 5K run was one in a series of events he has organized to raise awareness for a healthy lifestyle. Hart led a group of more than 1,000 runners across Kansas City's Brush Creek Greenway Park on Saturday morning.
Hart has partnered with the Nike Run Club, a global branch of Nike focused on training for all types of athletes, to encourage living healthy. He has organized eight events with Nike in cities where he performs his stand-up comedy show, "What Now"
"Kevin approached us with the idea," said Lisa Beachy, the communications manager at Nike. "He had done these spontaneous 5Ks before and didn't want them to be a one-and-done event. This was one of our best runs yet, and, for some, this was their first run ever, but we also had some amazing times from some amazing athletes."
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Skylar Johnson, a senior from Kansas City, Mo., who participated in the race, said the event encouraged her to place more emphasis on her health
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"There was a lot of energy and excitement on the part of the staff," she said. "It has motivated me to do more 5Ks. After [Hart's] speech about his health, I realized it was a great way to push myself and get serious about my health."
Hart spoke after the event to the group of runners about the importance of keeping up a physically active lifestyle.
"It's not a race," he said. "It's about starting something as a group and finishing as a group. For those who don't do it, it's the first day of a possible new beginning."
Jacques Green, a Kansas City, Mo., resident, participated in the race with a group of 12 runners from an organization called Black Men Run. The organization, which competes in different races nationwide, focuses on raising health awareness, Green said.
"Black Men Run encourages people to get active instead of watching TV," Green said. "You have a feeling of accomplishment when you run a 5K.
it's a burst of energy that is different than after you watch the third hour of a TV show"
Andrew Adelmann, a coach of a Nike Run Club based in Chicago, also helped organize the event and said he was impressed with the spirit of Kansas City runners, including those who came on Saturday for the first time.
"Everybody is an athlete, and we feel passionate about that core belief," he said. "I was part of a special pop up event in Kansas City last year, and I left that event with a renewed sense of excitement. Hearing that there were so many first time runners, it was a super inspiring performance. I was really impressed with the hunger of the Kansas City running community."
Hart has organized similar events in Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Chicago. Toronto, Atlanta and two in Boston, according to his official Twitter page.
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University alumnus and actor Rob Riggle before speaking to a crowd at the Kansas football homecoming game on Sept. 27, 2014. Riggle is hosting a scholarship fundraiser at The Dread hotel at 7 p.m. on Monday.
Actor and KU alumnus Rob Riggle to host a scholarship fundraiser
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The event will honor the late James "Jim Bob" Clarke, a 10-year line cook at the Oread and Eldridge hotels, and the money raised will go toward a scholarship fund for his two young children.
On Monday, the Oread Hotel will host a meet-and-greet and scholarship fundraiser with actor and alumnus Rob Riggle.
Clarke died unexpectedly this summer and left behind two children, ages one and three, said Nancy Longhurst, general manager of the Oread.
"We just thought it would be really helpful to their family to provide and to set up some kind of a scholarship fund for the kids since they are so young and since he had worked for us for so long and was such a part of our lives." Longhurst said. "We wanted to do something for the family."
The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Hancock Ballroom at the Oread at 1200 Oread Ave. Limited tickets are still available for $99, and the price includes a photo with Riggle, hors doeuvres and live music by Sugar Britches and Garrett Childers and Caroline. This event will also have a cash bar run by Riggle's Loaded Vodka company. For tickets, call the Oread at (785) 830-3927.
Riggle has starred in movies such as "The Hangover," "21 Jump Street" and "The Lorax." Riggle, who grew up in Overland Park, befriended some staff members at the Oread
during his numerous stays there, Longhurst said. She said Riggle was more than willing to help out when approached by staff members.
Clarke spent the last five years working at the Oread after spending five years at its sister hotel, the Eldridge.
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KU receives grant of $2 million for scholarships for migrant students
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Financing an education at the University was a difficult task that left Alejandra Hernandez, an alumna and the child of two migrant farmers from Hugoton, feeling out of place. As a migrant student, she did not have much direction when it came to paying for college.
"Nobody ever told me what the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) was," Hernandez said. "So, for the first year of college, I'm paying with credit cards because nobody told me about the FAFSA. Nobody told me I was eligible for scholarships or grants or any of that stuff or loans."
During her time at the University, Hernandez became a student assistant for the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP), which works with the Center for Educational Opportunity Program (CEOP) on campus. The program helped connect Hernandez with resources and opportunities the University had to offer.
The U.S. Department of Education gave the University and three other colleges a $1.9 million grant over five years, from 2015 to 2020, to help mi-
"It was really tough for me coming to a campus that is predominantly white, and I was first generation, a person of color and also low income, so I felt kind of out of place," Hernandez said. "I loved my experience at KU, but I felt like I didn't really have a lot of direction. I just did what I could with what I knew."
Stacy Mendez, director of Heartland CAMP, said the grant would help 35 students at four schools every year, a total of 175 students over five years. The scholarship pays for up to six credit hours each semester and gives the student a monthly stipend for living expenses, Mendez said. Once the students are in the CAMP program, they have access to free tutoring and advising until they graduate.
The University received the grant from 2001 to 2005, but it was not funded again until 2015, Mendez said. Between 2005 and 2015, CAMP worked with the CEOP to provide the support that Hernandez benefited from.
"Anyone can be migrant, regardless of race, ethnicity, country of origin, or immigration status. To qualify as migrant, a person must move to work in seasonal or temporary agricultural work."
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Mendez and Hernandez said they had recruited three scholars at the University so far, but are looking to recruit five scholars this year.
"Although you don't have to be from diverse backgrounds, in reality a lot of the students that we serve are from diverse backgrounds, so I think it does have the ability to help increase diverse populations here on campus," Mendez said. The grant will be disbursed through scholarships to the University, Donnellly College in Kansas City, Kan., Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Neb., and Western Iowa Technical College in Sioux City, Iowa.
Analyzing categories of drunken behaviors, specified in University of Missouri study, at the University
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Drunken behaviors vary widely among students, according to a 2015 study from the University of Missouri's Department of Psychological Sciences.
The study grouped college-age drinkers into four categories based on their intellect, conscientiousness and extraversion while sober and intoxicated.
Students categorized as "Hemingway" were found to be slightly less conscientiousness and to have lowered intellect while intoxicated. However, these changes in their temperaments were smaller than the average drinker.
The second group, called "Mary Poppins," included people who were especially friendly while sober, and they increased more than average in extraversion while drunk. They also decreased in conscientiousness and intellect while intoxicated.
In the last group, "The Nutty Professor," individuals were introverted when sober, but became significantly more extraverted while drunk. "The Nutty Professor" subjects were less conscientious when drunk.
"Mr. Hyde" was the third group, and included the largest decreases in conscientiousness and intellect and increases in extraversion while intoxicated.
"I feel they did a pretty good job categorizing a limited number of behaviors for intoxicated individuals," McKee said.
Mckee often meets with students for an alcohol education courses, for students who violated policy for alcohol or made poor choices involving
Behaviors of intoxicated people may be nuanced, but Jenny McKee, a health educator for Watkins Health Center, said the categories were true.
alcohol, including how they used alcohol and what they did after drinking.
She said she meets students very frequently who talk about how their behaviors change when they drink. But she said she rarely saw students in her program who fit the "Mary Poppins" or "Nutty Professor" categories.
"I get to work with students who may have done something out of character compared to if they were sober," McKee said. "I definitely meet with the 'Mr. Hyde' individual."
"It's something else in their life," she said. "Because they're already anxious, or overwhelmed, those feelings they are having leads them up to experience being intoxicated differently."
Mckee said alcohol was not the main problem for lot of the students she meets with.
According to the 2013 National College Health Assessment, 80 percent of KU students felt overwhelmed over the previous 12 months, 74 percent often felt exhausted, and 49 percent felt overwhelming anxiety.
"I feel like a lot of media today gives, the impression that college is a really great four-to-six-year party, and that's not really the case." JENNY MCKEE Health Educator, Watkins
"How you feel, what you're experiencing makes a huge impact on a situation where you're using alcohol," McKee said. "There are nights where it won't be the best decision for you."
She said one of the main issues on campus regarding alcohol was misinformation students receive about alcohol use during college.
"I feel like a lot of media today gives our students the impression that college is a really great four-to-six-year party, and that's not really the case," she said.
The results of the 2013 assessment showed that students thought 94 percent of their peers drank alcohol. However, the research data showed that only 74 percent of students said they had a drink in the previous 30 days. The survey involved staff visiting large lecture classes to obtain random samples from student participants.
Mckee said she tried to give students realistic protective behaviors so students stay safe drinking.
"This is real life with training wheels," she said. "There are a lot of folks on campus who can help individuals through less than optimal situations. Here at KU, I feel like we have some great safety nets to help you learn from that experience."
Mckee's advice for students is to engage in more protective behaviors to stay safe, like those on the University's Buddy System website.
Some behaviors include being a good bystander by diverting intoxicated students' attention or offering them water.
"Sometimes, instead of offering drinks, ask how they are, gauge the mood of that friend," McKee said. "We know that when an individual drinks when they feel upset, or lonely, or frustrated, they are more likely to experience those negative consequences."
McKee said going out with friends and having fun goes hand in hand with practicing safe behaviors.
"Its totally possible to have a good time and to be responsible and safe at the same time;" she said.
- Edited by Chandler Boese
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In addition to its normal services, the Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity will be focusing on sexual harassment and masculinity in its new location in Wescoe Hall.
The Emily Taylor Center relocated to Wescoe because of a reorganization last January. The center was previously in the Union in the Student Involvement and Leadership Center. It is now within the Office of Diversity and Equity.
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The center began as an informal place for career guidance and has grown into a multidimensional gender equity center. In addition to workshops, symposiums and lectures, the center offers guidance and advice when it comes to gender-related issues.
Emily Taylor Center moves to Wescoe and adds services for gender equity
"I think sometimes people just don't know where to start, and we can clarify from a gender-perspective some of the issues and identify places people can go to get the range of support they need," said Kathy Rose-Mockry, the executive director of the center. Students who come to the center are encouraged to get "informed, involved and empowered."
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This year, the Emily Taylor Center will be focusing on domestic violence and sexual harassment.
To educate students on these topics, the center will host events including Sexual Awareness Week, a free self-defense workshop and a guest speaker, Leslie Morgan Steiner, who is a domestic violence survivor.
"We expect to continue to provide important education and services for our students and our staff and faculty on sexual violence related topics and healthy relationships," Rose-Mockry said.
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"It helps students navigate through the campus system," Rose-Mockry said. "In instances of sexual harassment, a CARE Coordinator would sit down with someone, [find] out what they need and what felt uncomfortable and [assist] in helping that individual take further action."
A new position, the CARE coordinator, was introduced last year to help combat sexual harassment on campus. When students experience something that is uncomfortable or harmful, the CARE Coordinator can help that person identify the situation and get help.
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT
Rose-Mockry said student involvement is key in increasing awareness about gender equity issues. Students can get
involved in the Emily Taylor Center and Students United for Reproductive and Gender Equity, or SURGE, which is a student group that works toward social and political equality throughout the gender and sexuality spectrum.
Liz Stuewe, who graduated in 2009, worked with both the Center and SURGE when it was called Commission on the Status of Women.
Rose-Mockry said the Center is hoping to increase participation rates among male students. In the past, men have served as co-presidents of SURGE — previously called Commission on the Status of Women — and sat as board members for the Emily Taylor Center.
"Ive seen the Center in action, teaching professional skills," Stuewe said. "I can think of so many women who, because of the Center, have been propelled into really interesting and fulfilling careers for them."
"That's a very important aspect of our service as gender affects anyone, men and women, and all in between," Rose-Mockry said.
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“it's about internalizing these issues and not just taking an action, but taking an action to increase your awareness."
Rose-Mockry said the center's programming uses specific language in order to include those who might not identify as male or female. Many times when discussing issues of gender equity, trans people are excluded.
"It's important to have a discussion about people who identify specifically in a particular subgroup, we have some generalized workshops that are important for all genders, no matter how you identify yourself," Rose-Mockry said.
"It's about internalizing these issues and not just taking an action, but taking an action to increase your awareness," Rose-Mockry said. "It's about making a difference in the world."
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As the new school year begins, Rose-Mockry said she wanted all students to take a step to get informed, get involved and get empowered when dealing with gendered issues on campus.
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City commission gives $100,000 to housing authority to help the homeless in county
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An increase in the 2016 city budget could mean fewer families living at the Lawrence Community Shelter and more living in their own home.
On Aug.4, Stuart Boley, a city commissioner, and Shannon Oury, a representative for the Lawrence Housing Authority, requested an increase to the 2016 budget to assist homeless families in Lawrence.
City commissioners approved a $100,000 increase in city contributions to the Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority. This money will come from the city's general operating fund, according to Assistant City Manager Casey Toomay.
"The idea is that because the shelter has come to us and asked for emergency funds from this year, I think one of the ways we could help out would be to allocate some money for 2016 to try to reduce some of the population at the shelter," Boley said at the Aug. 4 City Commission meeting.
With this increase, Boley and Oury have proposed a program for families in the Lawrence Community Shelter. The proposed program is similar to the transitional housing program, but would focus on helping families rather than individuals.
The transitional housing program would pay part of the individual or family's rent based on their income for two years, Oury said during the meeting. At the end of two years, the person is responsible for rent without the voucher program. According to Oury, there are currently 48 people on the waiting list for the program.
"It is going to enable us to get folks into housing more quickly" said Trey Meyer, director of operations at the Lawrence Community Shelter. "And once the program has been in
place for a while I do think it will help decrease the homeless population in Lawrence."
Meyer said the transitional housing program currently in place was one of the primary options for getting people out of the shelter.
The budget increase could allow the shelter to help more individuals and families, meaning University students who volunteer there can also help more people. On average, the Lawrence Community Shelter has four students volunteering each week during the summer. That number increases when classes start, Meyer said.
Justice Matters has also requested $100,000 from the city housing fund to address affordable housing. The money requested from Justice Matters will not affect the 2016 budget because the housing fund had been set aside for Justice Matters until the group was ready to address affordable living.
Toomay said there were two groups working to assist the Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority: Boley and Oury are one, the other is Justice Matters.
The request from Boley and Oury will be taken from the city's general operating funds which comes from property taxes, sales taxes, franchise fees, charges for service, licenses, permits and fines, according to Toomay.
The two groups will be working toward affordable housing in Lawrence and Douglas County with a total of $200,000 from two different funds, Toomay said.
The city housing fund has a little over $100,000 and has been set aside for the Justice Matters group, Toomay said. Justice Matters does not yet have a plan for how the money would be used to change affordable housing in Lawrence and Douglas County, Toomay said.
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Brandon Gardner, a firefighter with Snohomish County Fire District 7, pulls a water hose into position while helping prevent a wildfire from spreading to a nearby homeowner's property near Okanogan, Wash., on Saturday.
As air quality improves in Washington state officials say wildfires may become erratic
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OKANOGAN, Wash. — The massive cloud of smoke is expected to lift over Washington wildfires on Sunday. But as air quality improves, the fire's behavior could become more erratic and intense, fire officials said.
"It's like a flue opening in a fireplace," said Susanne Flory, spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service and the Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team. "Smoke serves as a cap on the fire."
The Okanogan Complex of wildfires was measured at 374 square miles Sunday morning, after growing more than 100 miles larger Saturday in what fire officials said was a relatively calm fire day.
Sunday was expected to be a different story. Once the smoke lifts, humidity drops, heat rises and fires flare up.
The complex of fires was estimated to be about 10 percent contained as of Sunday morning, fire spokesman Dan
Omdal said.
Containment does not mean the fire has stopped burning. It means it has run out of fuel to burn in that area, either because it has hit a man-made fire line, a drop from airplanes of fire retardant, a road or a lake.
The good news for Sunday is that less smoke means restrictions on air travel will be lifted and more fire tankers can drop water and chemical retardant, Flory said.
Air quality, which has been dangerously bad, will also improve when the smoke cloud lifts, but firefighters won't be able to take a breather. "We tell firefighters, if you see blue sky, heads up," Flory said.
Some of the land within the fire lines is still burning, but other sections have burned out.
"We call it a wildfire, but much of the fire has been tamed," Omdal said. "We are making progress."
Meanwhile, local officials have downgraded some evacuation notices, allowing some people to return to their homes. Thousands remain under evacuation notices.
Sarah Miller, a spokeswoman with Okanogan County Emergency Management, said residents have been warned to stay ready to leave at any time and to not drive around looking at the fires.
Steve Surgeon, a mechanic and scrap-metal seller who lost everything he owns except for his home on the outskirts of Okanogan, said he was just happy to be alive.
"People driving around are getting in the way of fire operations." Miller said.
raced over a ridge and barreled down toward his home, flames lapping just feet from his back porch.
Heaps of twisted and charred metal litter his land where the fire burned through. Surgeon estimates he lost more than $100,000 worth of property, including his shop, his motorcycle, several cars, a travel trailer and all of his tools.
He stayed in place as the fire
"I'm alive," he said with a sigh Sunday. "I shouldn't be, but I am — and that's what matters."
"But I have my life and I have my home," he said. "Everything else can be replaced."
Surgeon didn't have any insurance to help cover the cost of what he lost and was hoping the federal government would eventually offer assistance.
"But all my titles to everything were in the shop, and that's burned to the ground," he said. "I guess I'm just going to stay and just try to slowly rebuild."
being set up at Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane to help fight wildfires in Washington state. The base will be the staging area for 20 large fire engines and 10 water takers and will be run by a team from San Diego.
Meanwhile, a new firefighting mobilization center is
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The new fire engines are coming from Utah, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado, Inslee's office said.
Sixteen large wildfires are burning across central and eastern Washington, covering more than 920 square miles. More than 200 homes have been destroyed and more than 12,000 homes and thousands of other structures remain threatened.
More than 1,000 people were fighting just the Okanogan Complex of fires on Sunday.
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Good communication is key to roommate relationships
Jessica Gomez
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Moving to college is one of the biggest steps we make in our lives. It's an exciting time when we get to start a new chapter. And unless you have the option to get a studio or one-bedroom apartment, one of the things you have to adapt to during the journey is having a new roommate.
During my college experience I've had a variety of roommates: a best friend, an enemy, a boyfriend and other random people I had never met before in my life. With
each roommate I learned different things throughout our time living together, but the one thing I learned that I will keep forever is the importance of communicating with them.
When you have a roommate there are two types of boundaries: ethical and personal. In order for those boundaries to be established, roommates must communicate about likes and dislikes, what is appropriate, and even simpler things, like if you accidentally ate or threw away the food that was in the mini fridge.
was introduce themselves on move-in day, and the rest was history.
According to a study by the Department of Psychology at Pacific University, called "Should I Stay or Should I Go," the two biggest roommate conflicts are sleep cycles and communication styles. As a student, you should know how precious sleep is — especially around midterms or finals. You have to work it out so you know when to be quiet and when to give them their space. It'll make a difference.
I've witnessed and heard about roommate horror stories because all they did
But without good communication, things can turn sour fast. Not only will it affect your
moods and time inside your living space, but it can affect your academic performance
According to an article in the Huffington Post, roommate conflict is actually one of the top five reasons students drop out. There will be conflict some days; even the best of friends have a few feuds, and if you make the mistake of watching "The Roommate" with Leighton Meester right before move-in, it probably doesn't calm your fear. This is why colleges use surveys or online roommate matching services, which, according to the same article, have reduced conflict by 65 percent, and left
48 percent of those conflicts "less severe."
Not all roommates will become a disaster; there are a lot of times you will relate, and they'll become your best friend or someone you hang out with from time to time after you share a tiny bedroom and close together. How that semester or year turns out depends on how each of you communicate and treat each other, and talk it out.
Jessica Gomez is a senior from Baldwin City studying journalism and global and international studies.
Help stop the next wave of antibiotic-resistant superbugs
Abby Petrulis
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Antibiotic resistance is one of those topics that you hear about almost constantly — like global warming, wars, drug abuse, the same old topics about how the world is going downhill, it's our fault, and we're doomed. I think because solutions to these problems seem so far away from us, or so far out of our control, that we categorize them into things we can do nothing about and go on our merry way.
But, much like global warming, education and action can help prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance, a truly massive problem.
First, some background: Antibiotics are only effective against bacteria — they can either kill them (bactericidal) or simply stop their growth and let your immune system slowly flush them out (bacteriostatic). A reason why bacteria can develop resistance to these drugs that we once saw as a miracle cure is simple: Antibiotics come from bacteria.
These naturally occurring antibiotics, some which are still used today, developed as a natural evolutionary tool.
If any given bacteria can produce a chemical that kills different bacteria, then it will have more space to grow and spread its own genetic data. Of course, those chemicals can only work locally — the killing effect of the antibiotic produced decreases the farther away it is from a bacterial target.
When the bacteria that are farther away are exposed to only low levels of an antibiotic, they can evolve to develop resistance mechanisms and overcome that other kind of bacteria.
It's not that antibiotic resistance would never happen. It's that the way humanity is abusing antibiotics is speeding up the process. When resistance increases faster than we can develop, test and implement new antibiotics, we have a problem.
Most people don't realize how often antibiotics are used. Of course, there's the typical patient with a bad cold who goes to the doctor and demands antibiotics, even though the common cold is a virus which can't be treated with antibiotics. Sometimes, the doctor will do it because what's the harm?
Dermatologists put many patients on once-daily antibiotics to treat acne, which can last for months. This not only can harm the good bacteria in your gut that help you digest food, but can make the bacteria in your natural environment stronger. This treatment for acne is only useful while you are taking the medication. As soon as you stop, the bacteria will return.
In many cases, patients have outgrown the hormonal stage of their life that causes their face to be oily or attractive to bacteria, but mistake the antibiotic treatment as the reason for a permanent cure.
Antibiotics simply don't work for preventative use. If you take antibiotics to prevent any kind of infection, it won't stop you from getting that infection — it just means that if you do get an infection, it will likely already be resistant to the antibiotics to which you've exposed it. That's why patients in hospitals are at risk for these so-called superbugs like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
medicine, many large farms and livestock companies treat their animals with antibiotics. Not only does that expose the bacteria in the environment to low levels of antibiotics that they can then develop resistance to, but it exposes you to a low level of antibiotic as well.
Because hospitals are extremely sterile environments, the bacteria that are somehow able to survive there are the greatest and strongest, and they're ready to infect.
Even though antibiotics are ineffective as preventative
It's self-defeating — farmers use these drugs to prevent an infection from wiping out a whole herd, but what they're really doing is making that very infection even stronger by giving it a steady stream of antibiotic that it can overcome. Bacteria are ubiquitous
- they are everywhere, and they will usually find a way to overcome.
1. Don't buy meat from farmers who use antibiotics. The chicken company Tyson has recently announced that their chickens will be completely antibiotic free by 2016.
So what can you do? You have some options.
2. Cool it with the hand sanitizer. Your immune system needs to fight off the little bugs to be strong enough to fight off the big infections. That being said, basic hygiene is still important and you should definitely wash your hands and use hand sanitizer to prevent the spread of
infection. You just don't need to be medical-grade sterile all of the time.
3. When you are prescribed antibiotics for a legitimate bacterial infection, take all of them. Even if you start to feel better, it doesn't mean that the infection is gone. If you stop taking them in the middle of treatment, not all of the bacteria will be killed, and the ones that were only weakened will evolve resistance to the antibiotic you first took. A couple of weeks later, you'll be back at the doctor begging for a stronger antibiotic.
4. Finally, if you have a cold or the flu, don't beg your doctor for antibiotics. They won't solve your problem, but will just contribute to making the bacteria in your environment stronger.
If we can stop the over-prescription of antibiotics and its use in livestock populations that only are currently experiencing outbreaks, and take a full course of antibiotics when prescribed, then we will have more time develop the next generation of antibiotics, and reduce overall cases of antibiotic resistant superbugs.
Abby Petrulis is a senior from Olathe in the School of Pharmacy.
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Anissa Fritz
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Whether you are a senior ready to graduate or an incoming freshman, every student hits bumps in the college road.
You may have seen my name appear last semester in this same section, writing opinion pieces or giving advice. Just to refresh your memory, my
Just like classes are handing out syllabuses this week to introduce students to the material, I thought I should do the same. This section is an advice column for students at the University.
name is Anissa Fritz, I am a journalism major with a prelaw emphasis, a junior, and straight out of Dallas, Texas.
You are probably looking at this and thinking, "I don't have any crazy, life-altering
problems,I'm fine." But this advice column is for questions and problems both big and small,a column in which students can text in their issues,including school or relationship troubles,and receive advice.
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"Every city offers its own unique experience, and I expect that Lawrence will be the same." Meet the two artists in residency at the Lawrence Arts Center
"Accumulation" is a piece by Lawrence Arts Center artist-in-residence Christy Witmer. Whitmer, 41, is from Mansfield, Ohio, and specializes in sculpting and ceramics.
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This August, the Lawrence Arts Center welcomed Christy Whitmer and Amanda Macuiba to its year-long residency program.
Whitmer, 41, is from Mansfield, Ohio, and specializes in sculpting and ceramics. She said she has always been a creative person and decided to pursue art as a career when she took a ceramics class in high school.
"When I started taking ceramics I felt right at home," Whitmer said. "I experiment and observe, and I thought being in ceramics legitimized that as an artistic experience."
"I had to stop, for a year and a half, making anything with clay. I was able to get back into it gradually but I don't have the strength that I once had." Whitmer said. "I guess as I age, I'm concerned about my strength."
During her career, Whitmer developed an inflammatory joint disorder in one of her wrists, which made it difficult for her to continue.
After recovering from her injury, Whitmer returned to ceramics and earned her master's degree at the University of Cincinnati. While there, she met Katie Parker, one of Whitmer's professors who she identifies as one of her biggest role models.
"She takes advantage of every
opportunity," Whitmer said. "She has come to her success because she is just constantly making work and helping other people make their work. She just says yes to everything."
Before coming to Lawrence, Whitmer did residencies in cities across the world including Berlin and Jingdezhen, China. She said each city had nuances that made it interesting to create her art.
A lot of Whitmer's work comes from experimentation, she said. She likes to take several different materials and create sculptures that are delicately balanced between
"Every city offers its own unique experience, and I expect that Lawrence will be the same." Whitmer said.
handmade and manufactured materials.
Amanda Macuiba, a printmaker from Buffalo, N.Y., also joined the Lawrence Arts Center. Like Whitmer, she became interested in art as a child, which turned from a hobby to a deeper interest that eventually led her to pursue it as a career.
She's currently working on a collaborative piece with fellow artist Julia Sebastian, based on things they found during their time in China. After that, she plans to begin working on a new installation.
Macuia, 28, earned her bachelor's degree in visual studies from the University of Buffalo in 2009 and her master's degree in printmaking
"You begin to see how we make these unsustainable decisions to the environment and it became really apparent when I moved to the Midwest," Macuiba said. "Climate change is huge in my work, especially how we ignore it."
from the University of Iowa in 2015.
A lot of Macuiba's work revolves around the environment and how the audience interacts with it. Her interest in the environment was spurred when she moved from the urban sprawl of New York to the prairies of the Midwest.
Macuiba's work is also inspired by her experiences. Right now she doesn't have a specific project she's working on, she said. She's researching
Lawrence and the surrounding area for inspiration for pieces that she'll create at the arts center.
"My work is a direct response to the things that I experience," Macuila said. "The actual artwork is not about my personal life but making them interesting to a wider audience."
Both artists' work will be displayed at the Lawrence Arts Center throughout their residencies, which began Aug. 1 and will end on July 31. The artists will also share their professional experiences with Lawrence Art Center students and local artists.
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Rogers: The 2015 'song of summer' wasn't a song - it was an artist
JARRET ROGERS
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The arrival of the school year means the informal end of summer. There are a few more weeks to quench your thirst for UV rays, but hey, you'll probably be in the library.
Accompanying the end of the season on the thermometer is the end of the summer jam season on the radio waves. If you're anything like me, the end of the summer jam season is comparable to going back to school. The new experiences will be great, but letting go of the past three months will be more arduous than expected.
As an optimist, it's hard to see the fall being a letdown in what has been the best year in music since 2010. Releases from Kurt Vile, CHVRCHES and Neon Indian are just a few reasons to look forward to the next few months.
Now, we have to answer the most pressing question: What has been the song of the summer? Since 2012 — when Carly Rae Jepsen dominated with "Call Me Maybe" — the summer soundtracks have been relatively weak. If we could have just listened to Daft Punk and Pharrrell in 2013 and left Iggy Azaela off the mic in 2014, things might have been
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different, but instead we had two humdrum summers leaving the door open for 2015 to be the best in recent times.
As classes kick off, it comes down to which song comes to mind thinking about the music scene between June and August. It doesn't matter what the "best" was or which song had the most complex rhythm; what matters is if it had the energy to get you singing and dancing.
Songs that might usually have been something to turn away from (I'm looking at you, "Cheerleader") have charm that songs in 2013 and 2014 were missing. This was such a welcome surprise because as ubiquitous as the big hits can be, hearing the same song that makes you think of nails on a chalkboard takes away from the energy that summer should have.
The best song of the summer, one 1 rushed to time and time again, was the Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face." The 25-year-old Canadian singer blasts lyrics of drugs and sex — staying true to his script — but, rather than feeling like a song that's better after experiencing at least one of his favorite topics, producer Max Martin turns the song into a pop hit that feels like it could have worked in 1985 or in 2015.
The lesser-known music of 2015 was some of the best in years, as well. Vince Staples' hauntingly real "Summertime '06" demands to be closely listened to. The songs are filled with stories of a childhood growing up in Long Beach, Calif. Vince aggressively rhymes on beats that cover wide ranges of pace and sound while being quick and concise with his words. Staples doesn't waste his listeners' time.
So we've talked songs that charm, the best song and something you may have missed. But we still don't have our song of the summer. And, at this point, I can be honest with you: There is no song of the summer. There is an artist of the summer.
This year will forever be the summer of Fetty Wap. With "My Way," "Trap Queen" and, most recently, "Again" and "679," Fetty brings everything to the table. He has the charisma you want, makes great music and came out of nowhere. Now he has graced the same stage as Taylor Swift—the most 2015 thing of 2015.
Acey!
Fetty's collection will live past the end of summer. When the snow falls down in February, "Trap Queen" will come on and, for a moment, numb tues from walking up a snow-covered hill will be irrelevant.
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Thousands of new students practice waving the wheat at the Office of First Year Experience's annual Traditions Night in Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 22
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The "Not So Late Show" host Mike Anderson interviews Kansas coaches Brandon Schneider, David Beatty and Bill Self on Kwisto Field on Saturday. Anderson hosted the annual Traditions Night, an event the Office of First Year Experience puts on each year to get new students acquainted with the University and its traditions.
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Dylan Guthrie, lead singer of Pink Royal, performs at the Union Plaza on Friday. The Lawrence band and The Phantastics, a band based in Kansas City, Mo., played at the annual Student Union Activities Unionfest event.
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In her speech at this year's Convocation, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said recent problems in today's society exemplified long-running challenges regarding race and equality that were prevalent when the University was founded in 1866.
She asked students to begin addressing these challenges among themselves, from wealth disparity to climate change, even though it might
make them uncomfortable.
"That's precisely why you're here: to be challenged, to experience intellectual discomfort, to have the opportunity to learn and to test new ideas," she said.
Congressman Kevin Yoder, a former University class president, said the key to unlocking the University's potential was becoming immersed in the campus.
The Convocation ceremony marks the start of the academic year. This year is the University's 150 anniversary.
"KU will provide you with world-class education if you reach for it," he said.
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Kansas City Royals' Mike Moustakas follows through on a two-run double against the Boston Red Sox during the ninth inning in Boston on Sunday. Moustakas also had a solo homer and another RBI double in the game.
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BOSTON — Mike Moustakas' two-run double capped a four-run ninth inning that carried the AL Central-leading Kansas City Royals to an 8-6 comeback victory over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday.
Moustakas also had a solo homer and RBI double for Kansas City, which salvaged a split of the four-game series.
Boston led 6-4 going into the ninth. After left fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. threw out Omar Infante trying for an inside-the-park homer for the first out, Kansas City rallied with four hits against Junichi Tazawa (2-6), tying it on Eric Hosmer's two-run single. Moustakas hit a bases-dloaded right to right.
Chris Young (9-6) retired one batter and Wade Davis got the final three outs for his 11th save.
Bradley Jr. had two RBI doubles and a single for the Red Sox, who went 6-4 on a 10-game homestand — all under interim manager Torey Lovullo, who took over for John Farrell on Aug. 14. Farrell took a medical leave for the rest of the season to deal with Stage 1 Lymphoma.
Boston trailed 4-2, but scored twice in both the sixth and seventh.
Ryan Hanigan opened the seventh with a single against starter Edinson Volquez and Bradley Jr. hit a grounder inside the first-base bag. He
scored on Pablo Sandoval's infield hit off on a dribbler in front of the plate.
Boston had tied it at 4 when David Ortiz had a sacrifice fly and Rusney Castillo an RBI single.
Volquez gave up six runs in 6.2 innings.
Trailing 2-1 in the fourth, the Royals scored twice, taking advantage of two errors on one play. Second baseman Josh Rutledge booted a grounder and center fielder Mookie Betts' throw bounced into the Royals' 'dugout for the first run. Moustakas followed with his RBI double. He also
homered into the Green Monster seats in the sixth inning.
Boston starter Eduardo Rodriguez allowed four runs — two earned — in six innings.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Royals: C Salvador Perez had the day off. He took a hard foul tip off the mask and one off the right leg Saturday night, but was feeling fine.
Red Sox: Utility infielder Brock Holt was out of the lineup again Sunday. He was set to play Saturday, but was taken out of lineup after batting practice with a strained left oblique. OF Hanley Ramirez
had the day off.
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Royals: RHP Kris Medlen (1-0) makes his first start since returning from Tommy John surgery Monday when the Royals host the Baltimore Orioles. RHP Ubaldo Jimenez (9-7) is set to start for the Orioles in the first meeting since the Royals swept the ALCS.
Red Sox: Joe Kelly (6-6) looks to win his fifth straight start as Boston faces RHP Jeff Samardzja (8-9) on Monday in the opener of a three-game series at the Chicago White Sox i.
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Kansas City Royals' Mike Moustakas, center, is congratulated by Lorenzo Cain (6) after hitting a game winning two-run double during the ninth inning of their 8-6 win over the Boston Red Sox in a game on Sunday.
Ohio State ranked No.1 in AP preseason poll, edging out TCU and Baylor
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Ohio State is the first unanimous preseason No.1 in The Associated Press college football poll.
The defending national champion Buckeyes received all 61 first-place votes from the media panel in the rankings released Sunday.
TCU is No.2, followed by Alabama, Baylor and Michigan State.
The Buckeyes won the first College Football Playoff championship last season and are trying to become the 12th team to win consecutive AP titles since the poll began in 1936.
Preseason rankings date back
6 - Pac 12 has six teams ranked in the preseason poll for the second straight year.
8 - it is the eighth time Ohio State is ranked No. 1 in preseason. Only Oklahoma has been rated the top preseason team more times, with 10.
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6 - Pac 12 has six teams ranked in the preseason poll for the second straight year
2 - The last two times the Buckeyes opened the season at No.1 [1998 and 2006], they finished No.2.
The rest of this year's preseason top 10 is Auburn, Oregon, Southern California, Georgia and Florida State.
8 - SEC has eight teams ranked for the third time, the most by any conference. SEC set the record in 2011 and had eight teams ranked last year.
10 — Ten times the preseason No. 1 has gone on to win the national title. Only twice, Florida State in 1999 and Southern California in 2004, has the top-ranked team in the preseason poll gone wire-to-wire as No. 1.
27 - Ohio State has appeared in the preseason poll for 27 consecutive years, the longest current streak and the fourth longest all-time. Oklahoma has the second longest current streak at 16 years.
had won two straight championships, received 58 of 60 first-place votes and defending champion Florida did the same in 2009. Neither finished
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to 1950. Since then no team had received more than 97 percent of the first-place votes in a preseason poll.
In 2013, Alabama, which
You might have heard that TCU and Baylor shared the Big 12 championship last year. It was sort of a big deal. Well, the second-ranked Horned Frogs and No.4 Bears are close again and both have their best preseason rankings.
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- ICU's previous best preseason ranking was No. 6 in 2010.
- Baylor's previous best was No. 7 in 1957.
No. 3 Alabama is preseason top-five for the seventh consecutive season. It is the third longest streak of preseason top-five rankings in the history of the poll. Florida State did it 11 straight times from 1990-2000 and Oklahoma had eight straight preseason top-five rankings from 1974-81.
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No. 5 Michigan State has its best preseason ranking since 1967 when it started No. 3
No. 22 Arizona is ranked in the preseason for the first time since 1999. The Wildcats and rival Arizona State, ranked 15th, are both preseason ranked for just the fifth time (1974,'89,'98 and '99).
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football players watching the Kansas volleyball alumni game erupt after a score by former player Catherine Carmichael. Carmichael now works as the football team's assistant director of recruiting.
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Set two of the Kansas volleyball scrimmage had just been put in the books when Catherine Carmichael saw the entire football team stroll into the Horese Center.
Carmichael, the current assistant director of football recruiting and former Kansas volleyball player, knew her players were coming to watch her in her element, as she had talked with coach David Beaty beforehand.
"I told [Beaty] about the alumni match a week ago because I wanted to know what we were doing (today)." Carmichael said. "That turned into, Oh, you have an alumni scrimmage, maybe we can bring the football team."
During Carmichael's playing days from 2010-13, she saw time in 234 sets and registered 562 kills, 26 solo blocks, 93 assisted blocks and 103 digs.
The decibel level in Horejsi most likely doubled after the team walked in, as every football player in the building was cheering for Carmichael.
"Let's go No. 20!" was yelled
"It was nice to have a cheering section. I work with them every day, so it was nice to see them in a different environment."
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repeatedly by the players, as they cheered for Carmichael. The reigning Miss Kansas World and the rest of the volleyball girls were excited to have the football players watch the match.
"It was nice to have a cheering section," Carmichael said. "I work with them every day, so it was nice to see them in a different environment."
Beaty said the football players enjoyed coming to the match and cheering on Carmichael and the rest of the Jayhawks. Carmichael finished the day with seven kills, five digs and three blocking assists, and Beaty kept track.
"I think she had seven kills up there, which was good, but, we're going to make fun of her Monday because we could tell she was not in her playing shape." Beaty said jokingly. "But she did really good and we're proud of her."
She admitted she wasn't in near the shape she was during her playing career.
"[Taylor Tolefree] and I came in and hit a couple balls, but really that was about it," Carmichael said. "Today was the first time I jumped and hit, so I'll let you guys know tomorrow how I feel."
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kansas soccer was believed by most to have had a tremendous 2014 season. The team was ranked as high as ninth in the nation last year and was a favorite for the Big 12 title.
Jayhawks coach Mark Francis, however, pointed out that most of the Jayhawks' winning was done early in the year, then results started to slide in the other teams' favor.
Kansas ended up finishing third in the Big 12 after three losses in the last four games of the regular season. Then the Jayhawks bowed out of the NCAA tournament with a
"I think most, aside from [the players,] would say that last season was a huge improvement, but we were first place in the Big XII with about two weeks to go." Francis said at the team's media day press conference.
3-1 loss to Missouri in the first round.
"We didn't feel like we achieved what we could have done," Francis said. "We started it really well last year and we've got to finish it."
"A bounce of the ball our way earlier didn't go our way later on."
That's why Francis is making several changes to the team. These include implementing a new playing style and getting freshmen incorporated into the starting lineup.
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and drew 2-2 against North Dakota a State, Francis kept three players in the midfield just as last season but played Salazar as an attacking midfielder with two forwards, freshman Grace Hagan and senior Ashley Williams.
in the team's two preseason exhibition games, which the Jayhawks won 5-0 over Drake
Among seven starters returning for Kansas is senior midfielder Liana Salazar. Francis said his changes to the team this season put a lot of emphasis on magnifying Salazar's impact on the game.
"You're going to see a lot more offense than we did last year just in terms of the setup of the formation," Francis said.
portance of recruiting the best players from the state of Kansas.
The most important thing for Francis and Salazar was that the freshman class is competent for starting positions going into the season.
"It's great for us we're getting the best players from the local area," Francis said. "If you've got kids in your own backyard that are good enough to
Hagan, who came to Kansas from Wichita, and freshman
play for us and make us better, you've got to get them."
Francis also noted the difference new venue Rock Chalk Park made in his recruiting ability. He said the difference from the team's former playing field to the new one was "night
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Who is the top free agent the Royals should pursue this offseason?
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David Price
The Royals' addition of Johnny Cueto for the rest of the season was a great move to solidify the team's place in the postseason. Unfortunately, there's a significant chance that Cueto will sign elsewhere next season as a free agent.
With that said, the 2016 Royals rotation still has the chance to resemble the same group that brought the Royals to the World Series just last season, even without Cuo.
Although there are one or two contenders for the star of the team, the Royals could solidify themselves as the future American League Central favorites with an addition of a clear No. 1 starter. The best possible option would be current Blue Jays pitcher David Price.
The last two years had James Shields and Cueo headlining the rotation in Kansas City. Throw David Price's name into that mix and he becomes the best pitcher the Royals have had in years.
Price's career 3.10 ERA is an improvement on both Shields and Cueto, and his ability to strike batters out is among the best in baseball. In terms of accolades, Price has been an All-Star in four of the last five seasons. He won the American League Cy Young award in 2012 and has been one of the best pitchers in baseball since.
As exciting as all of that is, signing Price will come at a
high cost. Being the best pitcher in free agency will drive his asking price up but being possibly the best player available this offseason will make it even higher.
Last year, the Royals weren't shy about spending the money on Alex Rios (a one-year, $11 million deal) and Edinson Volquez (a two-year, $20 million deal). That's encouraging, although Price's value might be a tier above what the Royals have recently dished out to free agents. But if any position is worth the money, it's starting pitcher.
If the Royals can keep their offense intact for the most part, breaking the bank for someone like Price is a great
idea. It's not the most likely of scenarios but the alternatives won't bring the same level of success that someone like Price could.
The Royals have one of the best offenses in baseball this year, and most of that should carry over to next year. While affordable offensive upgrades may seem tempting, focusing on pitching can ensure the Royals are back in the playoffs next year.
With a solid offense, a healthy pitching staff and the addition of David Price, the Royals would once again be a World Series favorite in 2016.
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Fortunately, the Royals picked up all-around stud Ben Zobrist earlier this year through a trade. Zobrist gives manager Ned Yost more depth and an eventual replacement for Infante at second base.
Yoenis Cespedes
Disappointing at the plate constantly, the Kansas City Royals' Alex Rios and Omar Infante continue to separate themselves from a stacked Royals roster in the most negative fashion. As of Saturday night, Infante has gone up to the plate 31 times straight without a hit.
This leaves Rios, lowering the team's batting average significantly, in right field. To solve the batting issues, as well as give more power to a low home-run hitting lineup, the Royals should pick up outfielder Yoenis Cespedes.
Batting at around .300 all season along with 23 homers and 77 RBIs, Cespedes would provide the perfect amount of power to put the Royals lineup at the highest level.
Along with the offensive firepower that Cespedes would bring to the Royals, they wouldn't be losing much in the field. Cespedes has a strong arm in the outfield and has racked up 10 outfield assists this season. Rios, on the other hand, has only three assists on the year. With Alex Gordon returning to the lineup in a mere couple of weeks, Cespedes would complete a near perfect outfield along with All-Star center fielder Lorenzo Cain.
Rios has had a let-down year all around, batting in the .230 to .240 ranges for the entire season and seemingly losing speed after 11 years in the MLB. Instead of having Rios batting at the end of the lineup, the Royals should sign Cespedes for a couple of years
and bring in the first true power hitter the Royals have seen in many years.
After picking up ace starting pitcher Johnny Cueto, the Royals rotation is set for the rest of the year. Although another pitcher would be a luxury, it isn't needed because Yordano Ventura is catching his feet and starting to perform to his high expectations. Along with Ventura, the Royals have Edinson Volquez, who has proved to be a top pitcher for the Royals, giving them depth at the starting position.
Speed and fines have been the story for the Royals offense in the past year, and replacing Rios with a young, powerful hitter would prove to be a monumental decision, especially come playoff time. With hitters like Alcides Escobar, Eric Hosmer and Lorenzo Cain that get on base so consistently, Cespedes could bring in some serious runs.
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Women's basketball coach Brandon Schneider holds golf tournament and benefit
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Women's basketball coach Brandon Schneider held a golf tournament on Saturday at Alvamar Golf and Country Club in Lawrence. It was the team's 10th annual golf tournament, but the first under Schneider.
Nearly 40 four-person teams participated in the tournament. Attendees could interact with the team and coaches and bid on multiple items up for the live and silent auctions. Some items included a round of golf with Schneider, dinner for eight with Schneider, and a trip to travel with the team to a Big 12 game.
Proceeds from the tournament went to the team and the Lawrence Memorial Hospital Breast Center. All coaches and players were on hand to help out with the cause and bond with boosters and fans.
"I think there's an enthusiasm and excitement level, the support you get from all those around you is pretty obvious," Schneider said. "I can't take credit for any of this."
Schneider added that he was grateful to all of the support staff and the golf tournament committee for all they had done to put on this event benefiting the cause.
Sophomore guard Lauren Aldridge, who helped out on Saturday, said her brother would take her to play golf occasionally.
"It's fun, I love coach Brandon and all the other coaching staff." Aldridge said. "Being able to do something for him is also benefiting our program and is really helpful."
Junior forward Caelynn Manning-Allen said a bigger role was expected from her new coach.
"I've been trying to focus on getting better for my teammates," Manning-Allen said. "A lot more is expected out of me this upcoming season and next season following. I want to leave here being able to make my mark and leading my team as best as I can."
The team has already been working hard this summer with the strength and conditioning program, which Schneider said he hopes will help the team's performance after last year's 15-17 season. The players, who spent most of the summer in Lawrence preparing for the season, just recently returned after a three-week vacation.
With the schedule released and a little over two months
"I think there's an enthusiasm and excitement level, the support you get from all those around you is pretty obvious."
BRANDON SCHNEIDER Women's Basketball Coach
"Even with our exhibitions, they've got to be ready to compete and play at a high level every time we take the court," he said.
before games start, Schneider says there will be no nights off.
The women's team will join the men's team to start its season with Late Night in the Phog on Oct. 9.
— Edited by Chandler Boese
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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Chris Conley (17) escapes a tackle by Seattle Seahawks linebacker Tyrell Adams (53) during the second half of a preseason NFL football game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., on Friday. The Chiefs defeated the Seahawks 14-13.
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Chiefs hold off Seahawks 14-13 in second preseason game
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Seahawks coach Pete Carroll? He remains decidedly noncommittal about his own.
Alex Smith threw for 81 yards and a touchdown behind a hodgepodge bunch of blockers — and also tossed an interception that was returned for a touchdown — as Kansas City beat Seattle 14-13 in their preseason game Friday night.
"You know what? For being a makeshift group, I thought they were OK," Reid said of his line, which was missing left tackle Eric Fisher to an ankle injury and right guard Jeff Allen to a knee sprain. "They tightened up a little bit and got better."
Meanwhile, the Seahawks turned over three of their five starters on the offensive line from their preseason loss to Denver, and the result was
Chase Daniel led the Chiefs (2-0) on an 86-yard go-ahead drive to open the second half, hitting tight end James O'Shaughnessy from 1 yard for the score. The backup QB has been sharp in preseason games, throwing four TD passes without an interception.
R. J. Archer played better than he did last week for the Seahawks (0-2), who lost regular backup Tarvaris Jackson to a high ankle sprain in a loss to Denver. But Archer was unable to move his team into range of a winning field goal
"I just sat back and read his eyes," said Wagner, who scored his first touchdown since he was a high school tight end. "I've never had a pick-six in my life. It felt amazing."
some patchy protection for Russell Wilson. He finished 9 of 15 for 78 yards, most of that coming on three completions to Jimmy Graham.
The play of the game from Seattle's perspective was Bobby Wagner's interception, which he returned 25 yards for a touchdown that gave the Seahawks a 10-7 halftime lead.
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in the final minutes Friday night.
"I was pleased with the intensity of the running and the hitting across the board," Carroll said.
Seahawks: C Drew Nowak, LG Justin Britt and RT Garry Gilliam were new to the lineup from the preseason opener, joining LT Russell Okung and RG J.R. Sweezy. They performed better as the game wore on, though Gilliam had his hands full with All-Pro pass rusher Justin Houston. "I heard he was pretty good," Gilliam said, "so I thought it was going to be a pretty steep learning curve."
Chiefs: LT Eric Fisher (high ankle sprain) and RG Jeff Allen (knee sprain) did not dress, nor did their replacements fare well. Paul Fanaika started at tackle and was consistently pushed off the line of scrimmage, and Laurent Duvernay-Tardiff was manhandled at his guard spot.
Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch made the trip but did
Chiefs. CB Marcus Peters, the No. 18 overall pick, had a solid home debut. C Mitch Morse, drafted in the second round, struggled to deal with Seattle's starting interior line.
Seahawks: WR Tyler Lockett made a nice catch while working with the first team, but was bottled up in the return game. Lockett played at Kansas State, a short drive down Interstate 70.
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not play, while S Kam Chancellor was again absent as his holdout continues. The Chiefs used RB Jamaal Charles sparingly as they try to keep his workload down.
Seahawks: CB Earl Thomas, who had shoulder surgery in February, was among many Seahawks who did not dress for the game. Thomas returned to practice Tuesday.
Chiefs: LB Dee Ford was leveled by Seahawks RB Christine Michael in the second quarter. Reid said after the game that Ford may have a fractured rib.
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Kansas soccer lost 3-0 to Nebraska in Lincoln, Neb., on Friday after giving up three first-half goals. The team then tied Minnesota 0-0 after overtime on Sunday in St. Paul.
"We were obviously very slow to get going at the start of the game," said Kansas Coach Mark Francis after the Nebraska game in the team's press release. "Our speed of play was way too slow in the first 15 minutes and we couldn't get into any kind of rhythm. I thought there were some good things that we did, but we need to come out ready to play from the first whistle. We have to learn from today and move
forward."
Francis, however, was more pleased with his team's performance against Minnesota.
"We settled into the game pretty quickly and had the better (play) for sure," Francis said. "We had more clear-cut opportunities and they didn't really have a good chance until right at the end, which we defended very well. I was really happy with how we competed today."
On Friday, the Jayhawks started slowly in the first regular season game of the year. Within 38 minutes, the game was already decided as Nebraska's Jaylyn Odermann scored from the penalty spot to extend the team's lead to 3-0. That goal was Odermann's
second; Katie Krautner also scored for the Cornhuskers.
The score may not have told the entire story of that game, however. The Jayhawks still came out in the second half playing well and outshot the Cornhuskers eight-to-one in the final 45 minutes.
Not a single score could separate Kansas and another Big Ten opponent, the Minnesota Golden Gophers, on Sunday. Kansas seemed to be the better team in the first half with eight shots to Minnesota's two, but the second half was more even as Minnesota recorded four shots to Kansas' two. Kansas took one shot in each of the two 10-minute overtime periods while Minnesota took two.
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"We had more clear-cut opportunities and they didn't really have a good chance until right at the end, which we defended very well."
MARK FRANCIS Women's Soccer Coach
Freshman forward Grace Hagan led Kansas in shots with four against Minnesota. Liana Salazar and Parker Roberts led the team in shooting with three each against Nebraska.
The game was hardly a midfield battle, although it was scoreless, as the teams totaled 22 corner kicks. Minnesota goalkeeper Tarah Hobbs recorded eight saves. Freshman Maddie Dobyns started in goal for the Jayhawks and recorded three saves. Against Nebraska, Dobyns also played and made three saves.
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The Kansan football staff gives its impressions of the depth chart after fall camp
Bobby Hartzog Jr., a sophmore wide receiver from Houston, Texas, makes a play during the spring practice on Thursday, Aug. 20.
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DEFENSE
Defensive End
Ben Goodman — Can be the face of the defense. Has plenty of experience from last year.
Damani Mosby — Edge rusher who redshirted last year.
T. J. Semke — A high-energy, high-motor player who should feature on two downs.
Dorance Armstrong, Jr. Three-star prospect who can contribute on third down pass pushing situations right away.
Defensive Tackle
Daniel Wise — Redshirted last year. Very athletic tackle who played some end in high school.
Corey King — Transfer from Miami who was recently cleared to play at Kansas.
Kapil Fletcher — Posted four tackles in his first year at Kansas.
Jacky Dezir — Fourth spot up for grabs in a weak, undersized position, but Dezir is our favorite.
Weakside Linebacker
Courtney Arnick — Started five games last year. Totaled 45 tackles.
Kyron Watson — Can also play MLB. Just depth at the position who can play special teams.
Marcquis Roberts — Late addition from South Carolina who will fill the role of Ben Heeney.
Middle Linebacker
Schyler Miles — He played
in 10 games in 2013, then redshirted last year. Got plenty of first-team reps as Roberts eased in this fall.
Tevin Shaw — Started at nickelback for eight games last year. Is the perfect fit in the position.
Nickelback
Cornerback
Tyrone Miller Jr. — Speedy
Brandon Stewart — Quick handed corner who will be the No.1 option for Kansas.
freshman corner who will be asked to step up right away.
Matthew Boateng — Played in eight games last year and recorded five pass breakups.
Ronnie Davis - Played mostly special teams last year. Will step in and fill holes in secondary.
Free Safety
Bazie Bates IV — Transfer that stood out in spring. Led team in tackles in spring game.
Greg Allen — Can also play nickelback and some corner.
Sure to be an asset when someone does down on the defensive end.
Fish Smithson - A candidate to be captain. Played in every game last year and is the top returning tackler.
Michael Glatczak — Senior walk-on who hurt quarterback Michael Cummings, but has been a constant force in fall practices.
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Greg Allen
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Fish Smithson
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Tevin Shaw
MLB
Marcquis Roberts
Schyler Miles
WLB
Courtney Arnick
Kyron Watson
CB
Tyrone Miller Jr.
Ronnie Davis
RDE
Damani Mosby
T.J. Semke
Dorance Armstrong, Jr.
DT
Daniel Wise
Corey King
Jacky Dezir
DT
Kapil Fletcher
Corey King
Jacky Dezir
LDE
Ben Goodman
T.J. Semke
Dorance Armstrong, Jr.
CB
Brandon Stewart
Matthew Boateng
WR #2
Tre' Parmalee
Quincy Perdue
Bobby Hartzog, Jr.
LT
Jordan Shelley-Smith
Clyde Mccaulley
LG
Jacob Bragg
Bryan Peters
Jayson Rhodes
C
Joe Gibson
Keyon Haughton
RG
D'Andre Banks
Will Smith
Jayson Rhodes
RT
Larry Mazyck
Jayson Rhodes
WR #1
Joshua Stanford
Chase Harrell
SLOT
Steven Sims, Jr.
Shakiem Barbel
Derrick Neal
QB
Montell Cozart
Deondre Ford
Ryan Willis
TE
Ben Johnson
Kent Taylor
P
Eric Kahn
Ruben Guzman
RB
Ke'aun Kinner
De'Andre Mann
Taylor Cox
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OFFENSE
Quarterback
Montell Cozart — Has the inside edge because he's the only guy with experience.
Doundre Ford — Has backed up Cozart down the stretch of camp. He's more comparable to Cozart than Ryan Willis or Carter Stanley.
Ryan Willis — Strong-armed freshman who performed beyond his years at fall camp.
Carter Stanley - Another freshman.
Ke'aun Kinner — Darren Sproles-like back who absolutely dominated at the junior college level last year. Will
Runningback
most likely lead the team in all-purpose yards.
De'Andre Mann - Led all returning running backs with 399 yards last season.
Taylor Cox — A six-year runner who will be an asset as a blocker.
Joshua Stanford — Added to the roster the night before camp began. Best wide receiver throughout camp.
Taylor Martin — Two-start freshman who has spent time with the 2's in camp.
Wide Reciever #1
Chase Harrell — Talented freshman who has progressed a lot since spring ball.
Wide Reciever #2
Tre' Parmalee — Leads all returning receivers in yards. Came into fall camp as the top receiver and had an impressive fall.
Slot Wide Reciever
Steven Sims, Jr. — A freshman that Beaty has worked with closely and should get some starts.
Quincy Perdue — New addition from UAB who will slide in when needed.
Shakiem Barbel — Senior who saw time against Duke, but posted no statistics.
Derrick Neal or Darious Crawley — Young, speedy receivers who should see action out of the slot.
Tight End
Ben Johnson — Expected to lead the team in targets this year.
Kent Taylor — 6-foot-5 hybrid tight end who can block and catch. Could lineup outside some.
Left Tackle
Jordan Shelley-Smith — Athletic lineman who fits well in the new air raid scheme.
Left Guard
Clyde McCaulley — Freshman who has been roughed up in camp, but has improved with reps.
Center
Bryan Peters — Very well could win this job in his fifth year with the Jayhawks.
Jacob Bragg — Redshirt freshman who received a four-star ranking out of high school.
Jayson Rhodes — Can play across the OL, but fits best at OG, where he played before transferring.
Joe Gibson or Keyon Haughton — Gibson started for a stint last year. However, Haughton has taken plenty of first-team reps in fall camp and closed out last year.
D'Andre Banks — Transferred from Trinity Valley Community College and has this spot locked down.
Right Guard
Will Smith — Transfer from Butler Community College who didn't play last year.
Right Tackle
Larry Mazzyk — Made nine starts at right tackle last season. 6-foot-8, 343 pounds. Will struggle to fit into a fast paced scheme.
Kicker
Matthew Wyman — You know it's rough when a kicker is one of the team's best returners, that's when you know it's rough.
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Volleyball notebook: Strong schedule, transfers and outside hitters
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The unprecedented streak continues for Kansas volleyball as it serves up the 2015 season. Kansas has qualified for the NCAA tournament in the last three seasons. If the jayhawks qualify again this season, it will be the first time in team history that they will advance to the tournament four years in a row.
The women spent their summer training, learning and forming chemistry as a team to prepare for the upcoming season.
SUMMER TRAINING
The team spent two weeks in Europe, spending their time training and learning about the international culture of volleyball.
"We got to play everybody all the time," Coach Ray Bechard said during media day. "There were matches against the Italian National Team, which that's one of the top 10 teams in the world, and all the way down to a couple other club teams."
Aside from training in Europe, senior outside hitter Tiana Dockery, sophomore setter Ainise Havili and sophomore outside hitter Kelsie Payne were invited to train at the United States Collegiate National Team program in New Orleans.
"They invited 36 collegiate kids to train with great coaches and three of those happen to be from Kansas," Bechard said. "They represented us in a great way. Any time you get 10 days of training, you play against high-level competition, the expectation is that you conduct yourself, you play hard
and play with some purpose, it's going to do nothing but help them and their personal brand, but also help the brand that is Kansas volleyball."
TEACHING POINTS
Last season ended abruptly after Kansas lost to Arkansas-Little Rock in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Bechard said he has mentioned the loss a couple times as a teaching point.
"Some things broke down in
that match," Bechard said. "[It was] one and done. The mentality of how that feels [isn't fun]."
"There were opportunities to go up 1-0 in that match and we didn't take advantage of it," Bechard added. "The longer you let a team hang around in that scenario and the longer they feel they have life, they start to build another life of their own and the confidence begins to build."
LOSS OF ALBERS AND MCGLINTON
LOSS OF ALBERS AND MUCINITON Chelsea Albers and Sara McClinton were integral for Kansas volleyball for the last four seasons. Filling their shoes isn't going to be an easy task. "They both had big numbers over their career," Bechard said. "If you look at big wins last year, a lot of times McClinton was getting big numbers. Albens was getting a big defensive play. From a physicality standpoint, they were huge.
That's going to force us to play at a little different tempo, a little quicker. We have enough volleyball talent to do what we want to do, but certain it would be remiss if we didn't appreciate the efforts they've given us the last four years."
INCOMING TRANSFERS
Ashlynn Driskill and Anna Church are two incoming transfers that bring a lot to the table for the team. They both have three years of starting
experience playing Division I volleyball. Bechard said he was excited to see what they can do while wearing the Jayhawk uniform.
“[Driskill] was actually on that team that beat us in Allen Fieldhouse in 2012,” Bechard said. “She's played high-level volleyball for three years. She understands that. We didn't know what we were getting in a teammate and work ethic. She's been an outstanding addition in those two areas too… She's going to be somebody that can add depth to a lot of positions and probably go out and get a lot of big numbers for us.
"Anna Church is the same thing. We were able to get her this spring and have her on the foreign trip. She's been in that mix before. She actually played in the Fieldhouse in 2012 for Saint Louis and saw the other side of it."
SCHEDULE STRENGTH
Not only does the men's basketball team boast a strong nonconference schedule; the volleyball team will take on a tough slate as well.
Bechard said he felt that Arkansas would be a top 25 team at some point this season, along with Duke, and he mentioned that the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Northern Colorado, Gonzaga and Missouri State all have a chance to win their respective conferences.
Overall, Kansas faces seven teams that played in the NCAA tournament last season (Marquette, Texas, Iowa State, Kansas State, Duke, Oklahoma and Northern Colorado).
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As football fall camp wraps up, receiving corps come into focus
Quarterback Monteil Cozart makes his read before he passes against Iowa State on Nov. 7, 2014. Cozart did not start for much of last season, but has landed the job in the absence of senior Michael Cummings.
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Kansas football wrapped up the portion of fall camp that is open to the media on Friday. The hour-and-a-half practice that head coach David Beaty gave access to churned out some interesting nuggets.
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The wide receiver corps is coming into shape. Beaty named three players when asked who had separated themselves in fall camp at the receiver position: transfer junior Joshua Stanford, freshman Steven Sims, Jr., and senior Tre' Parmalee. Those three were also on the first team offense and will likely be the receivers when the Jayhawks go with three-wide receiver sets to start the season
— Stanford and Sims outside, with Parmalee slotted inside. Freshman wide receiver Jeremiah Booker might be able to get into the mix soon too, but he's sidelined for now with a cracked collarbone. Beaty is hoping to have him back in a few weeks.
Beaty loves Sims. He's been playing the outside, but at 5-foot-10, 165 pounds, the freshman can step into the slot as well. Three times during practice on Friday, Beaty pulled Sims aside and talked to him one-on-one. That teaching style is definitely Beaty's thing, but to pull Sims aside that often says something about his relationship with him. "There's just a lot of things he doesn't know, a lot of little technique things that we're giving him right now that I'm seeing him just digest every day," Beaty said after practice. He's very smooth and methodic in his route running, and has had a very good camp. Don't be surprised if you see
Sims start a lot of games this year as a true freshman.
Kent Taylor is a monster. The 6-foot-5 tight end sat out last year because of transfer rules after following Charlie Weis to Kansas. Now the redshirt sophomore is expected to get snaps, and he was showcased a bit with the first team on Friday with the starting tight end Ben Johnson resting during 7-on-7. Towering over defenders, Taylor was a consistent target for quarterback Montell Cozart. He's going to be an asset for the jayhawks going across the middle and up the seam, but he won't stay inline to block that often, so he'll lose snaps that way. Taylor was on the list that Beaty named of players who have stood out through camp.
Montell Cozart is "the guy" at quarterback for Kansas. Beaty said after practice that this offense lends itself to having a quarterback take the keys to the offense and run with the job with confidence that it is theirs. That quarterback looks like it will be Cozart, although Beaty hasn't announced that yet. "We have to give that guy some rope to be able to toss him the keys and let him play a little bit," Beaty said. "We don't want robots at that position." We know how robots at the quarterbacks position ends — look at Cozart in Charlie Weis' system last year. If Cozart wants any chance of being a Big 12-caliber starter, he's going to have to be able to run with the job, and it looks like that's Beaty's plan.
David Beaty said these players have stood out in camp on the defensive, then offensive sides: S Tevin Shaw, DE T.J. Smoke, CB Brandon Stewart, CB Tyrone Miller, LB Keith Loneker, Jr., LB Macquis
Roberts, QB Montell Cozart,
WR Tre' Parmalee, OT Jordan
Shelley-Smith, OG D'Andre
Banks, TE Kent Taylor, RB
DeAndre Mann.
Quick Beaty presser notes: Defensive backs coach Kenny Perry took wide receiver Eric Rivers and moved him to cornerbacks over the last few days. Perry coached Rivers in high school at Bowie High School, so he knows what he can do. He logged eight tackles in his first day at corner this week. ... Defensive end Dorance Armstrong is expected to feature as a third-down rusher this year. ... Beaty has had to make do with the tackle depth he has, as it's one of the weakest positions on the roster when it comes to depth. Offensive guard Jayson Rhodes has played some tackle, and so has freshman Clyde McCauley III, who Beaty says has improved by getting "bodied" by
defensive end Damani Mosby.
... Beaty moved up practice from the evening to 10 a.m.
to prepare for the team's first game against South Dakota State, which has an 11 a.m. kick time. The scrimmage on Saturday was at 10 a.m., too.
Quick practice notes: Cozart is the starting quarterback, but transfer Deondre Ford is right behind him. Ford took all the second team reps on Friday, with Ryan Willis and Carter Stanley running 7-on-7 on the other half of the field. This was the first time I've seen Cozart with some designated runs, including the read option. That's probably his strength. ... Bobby Hartzog, Jr. dropped five balls in the 90 minutes of practice which was open to media. It wasn't pretty, but he hasn't been running with the first team since spring anyways. ... Freshman Taylor Martin was running
as the second team running back, while Ke'Aun Kinner was with the No. 1s. Some vets were getting rest during 7-on-
7, so that's probably why Martin was so high, but it doesn't mean he won't see some reps at running back this season.
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With students returning to town, the Lawrence Police Department is increasing the number of officers patrolling on weekend nights.
As part of what the LPD calls its fall safety initiative, eight to nine additional Lawrence police officers were sent out to monitor alcohol-related incidents the Friday and Saturday before school started.
McKinley said the main purpose of this extra detail is to prevent situations where an intoxicated person's safety is compromised.
"In the past, individuals often target people who are intoxicated and rob them as they are walking home from parties or from bars." McKinley said, "We are trying to reduce those numbers of robberies."
"By having those officers there, we are trying to be proactive," McKinley said. "If we can get to them within the first minute, we can reduce any injuries."
The police will also try to cut down on cases of alcohol-related batteries. McKinley said that in the past they've seen altercations in bars and houses turn violent quickly.
This past Saturday the Lawrence Police Department issued 150 citations, according to a report issued by the Lawrence Municipal Court. There were three accounts of operating a vehicle under the influence, six for public liquor possession and seven reports of minors in possession of alcohol.
McKinley said that the initial exposure to a college atmosphere could be dangerous for freshman because of the ease of access to alcohol and drugs.
"Individuals that feel a newfound sense of freedom and are away from home and supervision may elect to consider it a free-for-all and may go out and experience alcohol and drugs, and they don't know how to handle that," McKinley said.
McKinley said bystanders are often reluctant to seek help for friends who are affected by alcohol poisoning for fear of getting in trouble.
McKinley said over the past weekend, the police received several calls for alcohol poisoning, a major issue among underclassmen.
"Many of them are younger and might not have consumed alcohol much in their life, so when they get more freedom and access to alcohol and they over-consume and get to a place that's medically dangerous for them," McKinley said.
"The hospital has had people who dump off friends outside the hospital to avoid getting in trouble," McKinley said. "At that point, we have no idea who they are, what they've been drinking or what drugs are in their system."
When it comes to working with the police, McKinley said cooperation is key. If a person sees another who is dangerously intoxicated, the best thing they can do is call 911.
"I don't care about trying to arrest anyone at that point," McKinley said. "What I care about is being able to tell the doctor which drugs and alcohol they've been consuming. There are plenty of narcotics that can be easily solved by an injection."
The University has an amnesty policy in place for situations like the one McKinley described. Instituted in 2009 by the Department of Student Affairs, the policy states that students seeking immediate medical assistance on behalf of people experiencing alcohol-related emergencies will not be sanctioned by the University or by Housing for violations of KU's alcohol policy.
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Meet Brooks Brown: 17-year-old songwriter drops album
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He's a multi-instrumentalist who plays drums, bass and guitar. He's also a producer, musician and songwriter who has collaborated with about 15 other songwriters from Kansas to California.
This summer, he dropped his first album — and he's only 17. Brooks Brown, a high school student at Blue Valley North in Overland Park, said he first learned how to play guitar from his grandpa at nine years old, which spurred Brooks' interest in playing and creating music. Since then, his dream was to become a "rock star," he said.
But after his dad died of complications from back surgery in 2009, music became more than a dream; it became his motivation.
"After that happened, I had to man up and take a leadership role," he said. "I always wonder what my father would think of
what I'm doing today."
When Brooks was younger, his parents, Rob and Ashley Brown, blared "any genre of music" and he'd bob his head along, his mom said. Brooks and his dad shared a love for music, airplanes, legos, machines, technology, skateboards, rockets, space and history. Hed spend hours on end with his dad and his grandpa.
His mom, Ashley, said she always noticed he was "wise beyond his years," and his maturity showed especially in his reaction to his father's death. Brooks had just finished fifth grade and was starting middle school the summer his dad died.
"Brooks and Rob were best buddies," his mom said. "I think Brooks thought his dad would live forever ..."
"After we realized Rob was gone, Brooks said, 'Well at least he is not in pain anymore, mommy'. Pretty deep stuff for an 11-year-old." Ashley said.
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"I feel like the past six years, my work ethic has increased because I've been motivated by that, pushed to chase [that dream]."
"Even though I was 11, my mind was widened a little bit," he said. "Those things happen and you have to take it full force."
teen musician didn't stop playing or writing music. Instead he buried himself in it.
Ashley said Brooks told her hed DJ to earn money, so she bought him the equipment he needed and the calls kept coming in. She said that small idea blossomed into a business that is still going today.
Brooks is soft-spoken and said he was reserved as a child. He also said he'd consider himself observant.
The teen still has other priorities, such as balancing high school and being a DJ, but his music was the best way he could provide for his brother and mom, he said.
"I'm the kind of kid whol sleepwalk," he said. "I have an active mind, always thinking of what to do [and] what I need to accomplish. I talk less, listen more."
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"Brooks is very similar [to
his dad] in the way that he approaches life with a tempered, thoughtful perspective," Ashley said.
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Mayor Jeremy Farmer's resignation: What's the deal?
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Former mayor Jeremy Farmer's chair sits empty next to city commissioner Leslie Soden at a Lawrence City Commission meeting.
WHY DID FORMER CITY OF LAWRENCE MAYOR JEREMY FARMER DESIGN?
Farmer resigned amid allegations of credit card charges on the city's purchasing card and unpaid payroll tax problems, Diane Stoddard, interim city manager, said in an email on Sunday.
"Staff was working with Jeremy Farmer regarding a series of what appeared to be irregular charges made on the city's purchasing card during the month of July 2015." Stodard said in the email. "We
were seeking an explanation from him of the charges and following up with him on the receipts for the charges."
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On Aug. 12.
WHAT DID HE SAY?
"This is a note to let you know that my July 2015 VISA statement had several personal expenditures on it," Farmer wrote in a memo to the City Commission on Aug. 11. "When I was in Washington, D.C., my personal card was compromised, and I had no other means to pay for anything. The amounts are
below, and I have reimbursed the City."
WHY DID HE RESIGN
WHY DID HE RESIGN AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF JUST FOOD, THE PRIMARY FOOD BANK IN
DOUGLAS COUNTY? Kristi Henderson, president of the Just Food board of directors, said in a statement on Monday that Just Food had recently learned about unpaid tax problems and the discontinuation of the organization's accounting services without board approval.
"As reported in the media, the board of Just Food
recently learned about unpaid federal payroll taxes and an unfinalized tax document that was submitted to the United Way by our former executive director, Jeremy Farmer," Henderson wrote. "At the same time we learned of these serious financial issues, the Board also discovered that Mr. Farmer unilaterally discontinued our organization's outside accounting services some time ago without board consideration or knowledge, and misrepresented an ongoing relationship."
WHEN DID FARMER
RESIGN FROM JUST
FOOD?
On Aug.10
IS THERE AN INVESTIGATION?
No, not with the City of Lawrence or with Just Food. Just Food is working with an outside firm to resolve the unpaid taxes and resubmit the incorrect tax documents to United Way.
WHO IS THE NEW MAYOR?
On Aug. 18, the City Commission elected City Commissioner Mike Amyx as mayor.
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A guide to this semester's changes in University parking
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LOT CHANGES
Between lot changes and electronic passes, students may have noticed a few changes to parking on campus this year.
Students with yellow passes have an extra 161 parking spots total, but most gains were made off the main campus. Yellow spots in some of the more popular main campus lots, like the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center and the Burge Union, have decreased, according to the Parking and Transit Office. The lots at Illinois Street and Sunnyside Avenue as well as JRP Hall are no longer yellow zones.
"Not every student will be in the same place at the same time, so parking permits are oversold," said Donna Hultine, director of parking. "This is to ensure that we aren't left with half empty lots everywhere from not selling enough parking passes."
"This software looks for the licenses plate and registers if they are in the right zone or not," Hultine said. "If the vehicle is not in an authorized zone for its registered license plate, a
Some students on Daisy Hill are waiting to find out if they can get residence hall parking permits. About 800 students were granted permits through a lottery system this summer, but 140 remain on the waiting list, according to Hultine.
Students can only buy passes for residence hall lots, scholarship hall lots, yellow lots and the Mississippi Street parking garage by the Kansas Union.
ELECTRONIC PASSES Parking and Transit has gone from sticker permits to electronic passes, or license plate recognition. The recognition technology works by first registering a license plate online when someone buys a parking pass. The electronic pass is then linked to a student's license plate, which officers can check in the lot.
ticket is issued. Because Parking and Transit is self-sufficient, the money obtained from these tickets and permits goes back to the office itself to pay expenses like the salaries of the 19 full-time employees, or to build more parking areas, Hultine said.
WHEN STUDENTS GET A TICKET
The office created a ticket forgiveness quiz in the spring of 2014 at the request of Student Senate. Students who have received their first minor violation can take a short quiz over parking policies within 10 days after the ticket is issued. After passing the quiz, the fine is removed. This quiz can be accessed here.
PASSES FOR STUDENTS
Yellow — allows students to park in yellow lots scattered across campus.
Gold — allows faculty to park in any red, yellow, blue, gold or housing lot. Any employee's age and years of service must total 70, and their office must be in the central core of campus.
Residence halls — allows students to park at their residence hall
Blue — allows faculty to park in any red, yellow, blue or housing lot. An employee's age and years of service must total 62.
Faculty members cannot park in Alumni Place parking by the scholarship halls.
PASSES FOR FACULTY
Staff yellow all allows faculty to park in any yellow lot
Red - allows faculty to park in any red, yellow or housing lot
Information from Parking and Transit website
Allison Kite contributed to this report.
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After years of success at its location in Wescoe's Underground on the University campus, Chick-fil-A will open a standalone location at 2735 Iowa St. on Sept. 2.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m. and is projected to end at 9:30 a.m., according to the Lawrence Chamber website.
Those who are committed to being at the grand opening can camp out for a "First 100" ticket, which enters a person into a drawing to win a grand prize of one Chick-fil-A meal
per week for a year. Official rules can be found online.
"I missed having a real Chick-fil-A close by ... I got really excited that I could go back to having my chicken sandwiches all the time."
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Richie Hernandez, a junior, said he has mixed emotions about the new Chick-fil-A, mainly because he loves their food, but disagrees with their politics.
"I do plan on being at the grand opening, just to see what will be going on from a political standpoint," Hernandez said. "One of my majors is political science, and I just want to get a real world perspective on how the protesting goes on if there is any." So far, there have been no official reports that protesters will be attending the opening. Cameron Fife, a Lawrence resident, said he grew up eating Chick-fil-A and couldn't wait for one to be close by. "I grew up in Georgia where Chick-fil-A originated, so I grew up eating it all the time," Fife said. "When I moved to Lawrence, I missed having a
"I feel like it'll be really good from a revenue standpoint because so many people eat Chick-fil-A at the Underground and love it, but now you just have to go down Iowa Street and drive through," he said.
Hernandez said he thinks the new location will add convenience for those trying to grab some chicken nuggets.
real Chick-fil-A close by, so once I knew they were putting one in, I got really excited that I could go back to having my chicken sandwiches all the time."
Chick-fil-A will also be collecting children's books to donate to local organizations.
Hoverboarding on KU campus is legal, but riders must follow laws
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Students are allowed to hoverboard on campus and on city sidewalks without receiving citations, according to the KU Public Safety Office and the Lawrence Police Department. Hoverboards are hands-free motorized skateboards, popularized by movies like the "Back to the Future" series. Captain James Anguiano said that under state traffic ordinances the hoverboards could be considered electronic personal assistance devices, like a segway, that are not banned from sidewalk use.
"It's kind of like a pedestrian on wheels," Anguiano said. People on hoverboards will
have to follow pedestrian traffic laws, including using crosswalks. Police can issue a citation for not following those laws.
The city ordinances prohibit skateboards, rollerblades and bikes, which must follow traffic laws, on the sidewalk. Trent McKinley, a spokesman for the Lawrence Police Department, said the department would not be issuing citations for hoverboards right now because the ordinance does not cover them.
Hoverboards have been cropping up on campus and in Lawrence, most recently in an Instagram video from men's basketball point guard Devonte Graham.
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It isn't uncommon in college to come across a fake ID. Whether you have your own or have never even touched one, you at least know what they are or have friends who have them.
At first, an ID that can give an 18-year-old the ability to go to bars and order drinks, or even purchase their own alcohol, may seem like innocent fun, but the consequences of using false identification
Fake IDs come in all different styles and qualities. These illegal documents can qualify as anything that falsely identifies who you are and what your age is. Depending on the state, the consequences of being caught with and using a fake ID can differ.
are more serious than many choose to believe.
and drink illegally.
Being able to purchase alcohol and go to bars is fun, but it will be even more fun if you do it for the first time on your 21st birthday. For now, if you are still a minor and aren't quite to the legal age, there are other ways for you and your friends to have fun on the weekends without risking the consequences of possessing a fake ID.
According to the City of Lawrence Legal Services Department, in Kansas, if a person is under 18, they can be fined a large amount of money or have their real
driver's license suspended. If you are 18 or older and are convicted of using a fake ID, you can be fined, required to perform community service hours, and even spend up to a year in jail.
for a college student, with some running past $100. That money can always be used for something else, like food.
Even if you get lucky and don't get in trouble with the law, it can be even more embarrassing to be turned away at the door of a bar and to have your seemingly invincible fake ID confiscated in front of all your friends. Not to mention that fake IDs can be expensive, especially
While using a fake ID seems to be popular among college students, having one can create a constant fear that each night you go out and use it will be the night that you'll caught.
Pretending that underage people don't have fakes is absurd, but not everyone has them. There are plenty of people who would rather watch Netflix in sweats than go out
Vanessa Asmussen is a junior from Neodesha studying journalism and sociology.
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A: The first few weeks of freshman year tend to be the most exciting, stressful and emotional weeks of your young adulthood. Sometimes I wish this advice column was about my freshman year because I struggled with this going into college as well.
I am an out-of-state student, I only knew two people when I first came to Kansas and I felt like everything wasn't actually bigger in Texas because of how small I felt on campus. Luckily for me, I wasn't the only one who felt that way, and that was my ticket into making my mark at Kansas.
Whether you live in a scholarship hall, Jayhawker Towers, residence halls or Greek life housing, there are people near you who are experiencing the same emotions. I remember feeling awkward and alone my first few days at college, but when I took a moment to actually observe everyone else around me, it was clear that I wasn't alone in my fears.
As weird as it sounds, having feelings of loneliness or not belonging are actually common. Start with the people you see on a daily basis, like those who live with or near you. From my experience, everyone is nervous and eager to make friends. So the odds of someone rejecting your friendship are relatively low.
Joining a club or an organization allows you to do something you love while surrounding yourself with people that share common interests or activities. It's surprising how friendships can grow from just one common characteristic between two people. Just ask my best friend, who shares my love for "Bob's Burgers."
The biggest difference between high school and college is that there are few cliques or social ranks. Everyone is trying to graduate and walk down the hill with their sanity still in tact. The fear of not belonging is what tends to keep people from branching out therefore causing them to end up feeling lonely. As Hilary Duff once said, "Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."
Next; I would recommend identifying something that you enjoy doing. Find an outlet that allows you to do something you love during your time here besides just going to class.
Once you have made a community with the people you're around and see on a daily basis, you will start to feel like you belong. My roommates have this superpower to turn any bad day I've had into a good one, and it makes coming back to my small apartment feel like home.
"All you care about is your iP- hone, you couldn't live without those little gadgets you have now."
Marriage: a show of sanctity, or just overblown and unnecessary?
Symbols and rituals have the power to unite a lot of people under one idea. One of the symbols that tends to get overlooked and misused is marriage.
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The symbol of love in the form of a promise is to remain faithful to another individual. It's a beautifully idealistic sentiment in theory, but the reality of arguments and stress can to overwhelm the idea over time.
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Marriage is technically a legally binding contract to represent love — one of the most peculiar in the spectrum of emotions. It is a tradition of showing one's unyielding affection.
In today's society, it seems as if marriage has turned into a contest of "look at me and our love" to everyone you invite to the wedding and in the Facebook albums that bombard news feeds. The social expectations that have been placed on marriage have created an atmosphere where you are a terrible person if you don't marry her, and you obviously must not love her.
marriage represents love. This is what Hallmark and jewelers advertise to keep sales up and buy that new addition to their house. It can symbolize a trust in another person, but why leverage half of your money and belongings for a symbol? Can you not make this promise without bringing the government into your love life?
Many people believe that
Spending an insane amount of your money or worse, parents' money for a ceremony that is only used to garner attention from family and friends — while bringing the government into your personal business of love and a relationship — does not prove your love to another person. What makes love real are the emotions, not the material items that are attained through it.
People make the argument that marriage is merely for the tax breaks, but, as Doug Stanhope, a stand-up comedian, said, "If you want tax breaks, incorporate."
Love shouldn't require a diamond and reciting prewritten words in front of family and friends in a huge church. Love is about building trust and a future together, no validation needed.
A symbol such as marriage
A symbol such as marriage
is not a substitute for an actual emotion. Love should never be owed or expected. It is each person's sovereign emotion and must be given freely. This also allows for the possibility of it being taken away in the event of a change in dynamics or trust between the two individuals.
Much like when you were forced to eat everything on your plate before you could leave the table, people naturally resist when an expectation is placed upon them. It no longer becomes a willful act. No agency is given to the individual, but only an expectation.
Love for another individual should not be dictated by social expectations and the reality of the government dipping its hands into your personal life, should you both part ways. Marriage has nothing to do with love, it is merely the desire to receive validation of your emotions from your friends/family, or worse each other. The best summation I have ever read for the perfect relationship was a quote by Walt Whitman: "We were together, I forget the rest".
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JESSICA GOMEZ
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Millennials should be praised for advancing technology,not chided
Generalizations have been commonly thrown at our generation, ranging from the most serious of things to the most ridiculous.
"All you care about is your iPhone," is one of the most popular ones. "You couldn't live without those little gadgets you have now," is another. But the older generations also say that we are lazy, and they don't realize that our upbringing was completely different than theirs.
Although I believe a child in middle school should not be getting an iPhone 6 as their first phone and should play outside more often. I do not agree that this generation's "laziness" is such a bad thing. Becoming "lazy" has allowed us to think in an entirely different way to advance society by making items, software and information more accessible to people all over the world. Another thing that often gets overlooked is that this generation grew up with the constant advancement of technology. The iPhone, which debuted in 2007, was designed in such a way where we can do almost everything in one little square phone. In my experience as a journalist, it has helped me be able to catch videos or snap a quick picture, write a brief and send it in immediately before anyone else gets to it. Better yet, once it's done, it's up for anyone with Internet access to see. And with social media added to that process more people can share that information.
There are even smaller technologies within the phone like maps, which can help us get anywhere around the world, and financial apps for people who are into business matters. The problem is that our generation is judged for utilizing what advancements we have made instead of being lauded for what we can create. Because of our "laziness," there are apps being created so that we can learn, read or utilize with the touch of a finger. Instead of thinking about
what will help us right now, we think about what will help us in 10 years so we can advance quicker.
There are things like solar power, which could possibly be the source for the world's energy in 20 years, according to Big Think. And if we can make them small enough, robots may be able to be installed into bodies and repair damaged or aged tissue — all thanks to nanotechnology.
In every generation, there will be truly lazy people who don't want to do anything but sit. However, calling a generation lazy because of their knowledge of technology from growing up with it, or even because of them trying to advance it, it doesn't make sense.
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Jessica Gomez is a senior from Baldwin City, studying journalism and global studies.
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Bill Murray, one of America's beloved comic actors, has touched fans' hearts throughout his career, from his iconic role in the blockbuster "Ghost-busters" to his appearance as himself in the post-apocalyptic "Zombieland."
For some, the man is synonymous with humor, and for Leo Hayden, an artist based in Lawrence, "he's possibly the coolest man on Earth."
That sentiment was one of the driving forces behind Hayden's newest series of paintings he's affectionately titled "Kill Bill... Murray." The portraits of the acclaimed actor feature Bill Murray in what are considered some of the most notable pop culture scenes. Some paintings show Murray posing as Da Vinci's Mona Lisa — in another he's portrayed as the Godfather.
Hayden said he was excited to make art for himself when
he finally had some time after working on mainly commissioned work.
"You get to a point where you just want to do your own thing," Hayden said. "The 'Kill Bill'-Murray' series is just that — me having fun painting." Hayden's goal was just to make some people laugh, including himself.
"The idea spawned from an inside joke I had with a former roommate of mine." Hayden said. "We were working at a bar where Bill Murray had shown up for either his college or high school reunion. He ordered some cheese sticks from my roommate and never payed for them. We thought it was hilarious, and she always joked that she was going to 'kill Bill Murray.' So I guess the idea just sort of stuck with me."
That doesn't mean Hayden doesn't respect the actor, he said. Rather, it is quite the opposite.
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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/LEO HAYDEN "Dance You Son Of A Bitch," from the movie "Jaws," painted by Leo Hayden.
that would be the ultimate," Hayden said. "I'd even buy the appetizers."
Hayden got involved with the Lawrence Arts Center, where the 'Kill Bill...Murray' series is currently shown, after moving to Lawrence from Colorado in 2007. After his introduction to the art scene in Lawrence, Hayden decided to stick around and bring his talent of "taking two or more unlikely subjects and melding them together in some amusing way" to the area, he said.
When Hayden was younger, he considered himself something of a "human photocopier" able to recreate images with whatever medium he had laying about. After working on a few murals for friends, Hayden was commissioned for more.
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Hayden's imaginative artwork is on display at the Lawrence Arts Center, at 721 E. 9th St., until this Friday, Aug. 28. They can be seen between 5 and 9 p.m.
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That's just what he did. In 2013, Brooks participated in the Music Revolution Project, a program by the Grammy Museum that debuted in Kansas City, Mo., in 2012. The education director, Kate Stuebner, took notice of Brooks and told him about Grammy Camp, a summer music education program.
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music. A lot of people are trying to do that, attempting to get out there but Brooks has just shined."
She said Brooks still mentions his dad during interviews, stating that he is his momentum for pursuing music.
"Even when we aren't working on music, he'll bring up memories," she said. "Pieces and elements [of his music] are so nostalgic; if his dad was here it would definitely make
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of other applicants and became one of the youngest finalists at 14-years-old in the 2012 Grammy camp. After that first camp, Brooks went on to apply for and attended the 2013 Grammy Camp in New York as well as the 2014 Grammy Camp held in Los Angeles. These camps are a four-week program that selects a small group of about 20 to 30 high school students involved in the music and arts scenes.
"I'm a teenager, [but] I'm my own worst critic - always trying to perfect."
There, he honed his skills, learned to network and booked gigs around the U.S. He played at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, where he met his future producer whod connect him with a publicist. During camp, he reconnected with a fellow songwriter-turned-best-friend, Madi Walsh, a 16-year-old from Temecula, Calif.
Before camp, he messaged Walsh on Twitter solely based on how much he enjoyed her music. Then, their friendship kicked off at the camp and almost immediately after, they started vibing and collaborated on a song included in Brooks' debut EP. Sidetracked.
"It was an instant click," Walsh said. "We both wanted to do this mellow electronic
him proud."
The two plan on collaborating more in the future, but for now they're partaking in high school duties. This year, he flew out to California to take her to prom.
"Iimagine this: handsome Kansas boy escorts stunning California Valley girl to the party of the year on the U.S.S. Midway, aircraft carrier in the San Diego harbor. Once on board, their single 'Sidetracked' is blasted throughout the ship. Doesn't get much better than that, huh?" his mom said.
And with his mom's help, someone who he considers his personal cheerleader and biggest support, and his producer and publicist, his album got more than 18,400 plays and almost 500 "loves" on Sound-cloud.
sounds of future R&B, traditional sound writing and technicality."
When it comes to his sound, he said his style inspiration began with "90s hip-hop with bands such as TLC, a band held listen to often when he was eight. Brooks also said today's current artists, naming off Drake, help him curate what sounds he creates in his own mixes. His sounds are an amalgamation of, in his own words, "future bass vibe, innovative of
"It becomes a spontaneous thing hear something in my head, build something off," Brooks said of his writing process. "I'll write something and it'll evolve later. In those kind of moments, it's also hardest to be consistent."
However, he makes it a point to sit down every day, focus and write.
"On average I spend, per session, an hour and a half [to] two hours, take a break and think," he said. "My production is where my pride is.
"I'm a teenager, [but] I'm my own worst critic — always trying to perfect."
His mom agrees, beaming with pride. Not yet a high school senior, Brooks is still a teen with a mission.
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Wilson drops his gee-whiz persona real quick, switching from a jokey dad in a foreign land to a father running on survival instinct, trying to protect his family from the bloodthirsty rebels all around them. And because the movie presents this transformation in such a lean, thrillingly immediate and realistic (enough) package, we follow right behind him.
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A funny scene between Jack and a street vendor who speaks no English comically illustrates the fish-out-of-water dynamic, right before riot police and an angry mob suddenly appear on both sides of him, both marching toward an ugly confrontation. This jaw-dropping turning point sets the tension rocketing off with a rapid escalation of violence and danger, as Jack frantically navigates his way
All that really matters is to continue moving to stay alive, as the attackers are always on the tail of Jack and his family, savagely killing everyone who is like them. That focus on survival, and doing whatever it takes, maintains the intensity of the captivating journey — even in the sequence destined for Internet memes, where Jack throws his kids off the hotel roof to his wife on a neighboring roof.
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out of the market and back to the hotel. It's much worse there, as those from his company and all other westerners are being targeted like fish in a barrel.
In this Fourth World city, the natives are pissed at all the white people staying in the nicest place in town. That's all the explanation for motivation needed to get on board with this thriller.
At its core, this is a chase
After Vince Vaughn and Wilson showed that they weren't crashing weddings anymore with the misfire "The Internship." Vaughn impressively switched it up as an anti-hero gangster in "True Detective" season two. Wilson's big move here also strongly satisfies and comes off far more naturally.
And as great as Owen Wilson will be returning as Hansel in "Zoolander 2," hopefully he gets out of his comfort zone more often too, because, surprisingly, he can effectively carry an energetic thriller, not just deliver laughs.
Filmmakers have a hard time escaping the horror genre after succeeding within it, but the Dowdle brothers prove themselves even better at visceral action thrillers. Hopefully this won't be their only project in that realm.
film, keeping the narrative extremely simple so viewers' pulses are pounding as constantly as the characters' adrenaline is flowing. There's just enough characterization to grasp onto and hold tight through the brutal experience, but not so much that the momentum ever slows. Pierce Brosnan's role as a sort-of sex tourist who helps the Dwyers out of some danger feels a little cheesy and is the only element to pull you out of the moment slightly, but he's enjoyable nonetheless.
The duo of brothers behind "No Escape," John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, made their bones on several guilty pleasure horror flicks with clever conceits ("Quarantine," "As Above So Below"). That background shows in this assured jump to the next level marking their best movie yet.
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"It's a safety measure to have students seek assistance for a friend or person they're with who might need assistance," said Jane Tuttle, assistant vice provost for the Department of Student Affairs.
A similar measure headed by students from numerous Kansas universities was introduced at the State Legislature. Dubbed Lifeline 911, Senate Bill 133 passed the Kansas Senate and was sent to a House Committee. This bill would grant state-level amnesty to people under 21 years of age who called 911 for themselves or on behalf of another individual in need of medical assistance.
The University policy covers situations involving alcohol as well as drug-related emergencies.
"If a student calls for help, by golly, we're going to help them," Tuttle said.
The National College Health Assessment, a survey issued every two years, reported that in 2013.52 percent of students reported binge-drinking habits. Seventy-four percent of University of Kansas students reported they had drunk within the last 30 days, and about 85 percent reported that they drank the last time they socialized.
The University's amnesty policy was a part of increased alcohol safety measures taken in
2009. The measures were taken in response to three local alcohol-related deaths. Student Affairs now oversees all student conduct policies, including those regarding alcohol and drugs, as well as the alcohol education course.
"We're about education and safety." Tuttle said.
When it comes to being safe, McKinley has one simple piece of advice for KU students: "Use common sense."
McKinley said having a designated sober friend was one of the most helpful things for those who choose to drink. A sober friend can help avoid over-consuming and public-intoxication citations.
Student Affairs' Buddy System initiative, also started in
2009 as an effort to keep students safe in situations involving alcohol and drugs.
"That includes sexual assault," McKinley said. "That's what the buddy system was born out of, making sure there's someone there to keep an eye on them."
Both the McKinley and Tuttle wanted to emphasize that their main goal for students is not incrimination, but safety.
"We want you to graduate with a degree, not a diversion," said McKinley.
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Fired reporter of WDBJ station in central Virginia kills 2 former coworkers on live TV
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MONETA, Va. (AP) — He planned it all so carefully — a choreographed execution of two former colleagues, broadcast live to a horrified television audience. Hours later, he shared his own recording of the killing worldwide on social media.
Vester Lee Flanagan's video shows him approaching WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, gun in hand, as they conduct an interview. He points the gun at Parker and then at Ward, but he waits patiently to shoot until he knows Parker is on camera, so she will be gunned down on air.
TV viewers heard about the first eight of 15 shots. They saw Parker scream and run, and heard her crying "Oh my God!" as she fell. Ward fell, too, and the camera he had been holding on his shoulder captured a fleeting image of the suspect holding a handgun.
That man, authorities said, was Flanagan — a former staffer who used the on-air name of Bryce Williams and was fired by WDBJ, a man who always was looking for reasons to take offense, colleagues recalled. He fled the scene but then video his own 56-second video of the murders on Twitter and Facebook. He later ran off a highway while being pursued hundreds of miles away and was captured; he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Wednesday's on-air murdersverberated far from central Virginia because that's just what the killer wanted — not just to avenge perceived wrongs, but to gain maximum, viral exposure. He used his insider's knowledge of TV journalism against his victims - a 24-year-old reporter who was a rising star and a 27-year-old cameraman engaged to a producer who watched the slaughter live from the control room.
Flanagan's planning may have started weeks ago when, ABC News said, a man claiming to be Bryce Williams called repeatedly, saying he wanted to pitch a story and needed fax information. He sent ABC's newsroom a 23-page fax two hours after the 6:45 a.m. shooting that was part-manifesto, part-suicide note — calling himself a gay black man who had been mistreated by people of all races, and saying he bought the gun two days after nine black people were killed in a June 17 shooting at a Charleston church. The fax also included admiration for the gunmen in mass killings at places like Virginia Tech and Columbine High School in Colorado.
He described himself as a "human powder keeg," that was "just waiting to go BOOM!!!!"
Parker and Ward were a regular team, providing stories for the station's "Mornin" show on everything from breaking news to feature stories on subjects like child abuse. Their live spot Wednesday was nothing out of the ordinary. They were interviewing a local official at an outdoor shopping mall for a tourism story before the shots rang out.
As Parker screamed and Ward collapsed, Ward's camera kept rolling, capturing the image of the suspect pointing the gun. WDBJ quickly switched to the anchor back at the station, clearly shocked, who told viewers, "OK, not sure what happened there."
Parker and Ward died at the scene. Their interview subject, Vicki Gardner, also was shot, but emerged from surgery later Wednesday in stable condition. Flanagan, 41, who was fired from WDBJ in 2013, was described by the station's president and general manager, Jeffrey Marks, as an "an unhappy man" and "difficult to work with," always "looking out for
people to say things he could take offense to."
"Eventually after many incidents of his anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him. He did not take that well," Marks said. He recalled that police had to escort Flanagan out of the building because he refused to leave when he was fired.
Tweets posted Wednesday on the gunman's Twitter account — since suspended — described workplace conflicts with both victims. He said he filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Parker, and that Ward had reported
"Our sympathy goes to the entire staff here, but also the parents and family of Alison Parker and Adam Ward, who were just out doing their job." JEFFREY MARKS WDBJ General Manager
him to human resources
Marks said Flanagan alleged that other employees made racially tinged comments to him, but that his EEOC claim was dismissed and none of his allegations could be corroborated.
"We think they were fabricated" the station manager said.
we think they were labranced," the station manager said. Dan Dennison, now a state government spokesman in Hawaii, was the WDBJ news director who hired Flanagan in 2012 and fired him in 2013, largely for performance issues, he said.
"We did a thorough investigation and could find no evidence that anyone had racially discriminated against this man," Dennison said. "You just never know when you're going to work how a potentially unhinged or unsettled person might impact your life in such a tragic way."
Court records and recollections from former colleagues at a half-dozen other small-market stations where he bounced around indicate Flanagan was quick to file complaints. He was fired at least twice after managers said he was causing problems with other employees.
Both Parker and Ward grew up in the Roanoke area, attended high school there and later interned at the station. After Parker's internship, she moved to a smaller market in Jacksonville, North Carolina, before returning to WDBJ. She was dating Chris Hurst, an anchor at the station and had just moved in with him.
"We were together almost nine months," Hurst posted on Facebook. "It was the best nine months of our lives. We wanted to get married. We just celebrated her 24th birthday. She was the most radiant woman I ever met."
Ward, who played high school football, was a devoted fan of his alma mater, Virginia Tech. His colleagues said he rarely, if ever, missed a game. They called him a "happy-go-lucky guy" — even during the early morning hours that are the proving ground for so many beginning journalists.
Ward's fiancee, station producer Melissa Ott, was in the control room marking her last day on the job when the shots rang out. Ward had planned to follow her to her new job in Charlotte. North Carolina.
Marks helped lead the live coverage Wednesday after the station confirmed its two employees were dead. He said he and his staff covered the story despite their grief, to honor their slain colleagues.
"Our sympathy goes to the entire staff here, but also the parents and family of Alison Parker and Adam Ward, who were just out doing their job today."
Kansas judge allows voters to continue suit over citizenship rule
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge is allowing two voters to continue pursuing a lawsuit challenging how Secretary of State Kris Kobach is enforcing a proof-of-citizenship requirement for registering to vote.
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But Shawnee County District Court Judge Franklin Theis isn't blocking Kobach from enforcing the requirement as he has for more than a year. Kobach told county election officials in June 2014 that the relative handful of people who use a federal form to register to vote are eligible to cast ballots only in presidential, U.S. Senate and congressional races, not state and local ones.
Kobach is the architect of the state's proof-of-citizenship law, which took effect in 2013 and requires people registering in Kansas for the first time or after living in another state to provide a birth certificate, passport or other documentation of U.S. citizenship. The federal registration form requires only that people affirm that they are citizens, without requiring additional papers.
Theis last week rejected Kobach's request to have the case decided in his favor before a trial, and the judge said in his 67-page order that the secretary of state is exceeding his authority by "proclaiming" a policy "which does not exist" in state law — and contradicts other statutes.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit in 2013 on behalf of voters Aaron Belenky of Overland Park and Scott Jones of Lawrence, as well as Equality Kansas, the state's leading gay-rights group.
Theis granted Kobach's request to dismiss Equality Kansas from the lawsuit, agreeing that the group had no standing to sue.
Kobach declined to respond to 'Theis' comments because the case is ongoing. But Kobach said the ruling is "very early" in the case.
"We're still, I think, a ways from a final decision," he said. Kobach championed the proof-of-citizenship requirement as a way to prevent non-citizens from voting, particularly immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Critics contend the requirement suppresses turnout, with nearly 32,000 registrations suspended as of Wednesday because the prospective voters haven't documented their citizenship.
Theis also said Kansas law requires a "unified" ballot that includes all races, so that voters who registered with a federal form now have their ballots set aside and examined later — potentially invading their privacy. The judge said the Legislature could have specifically authorized a dual voter registration system in 2014 or earlier this year but did not.
Belenky's and Jones' registrations were suspended for months in 2013 and 2014 for the same reason, but both men separately provided passports when obtaining driver's licenses. Kobach's office checked for such records last year — with the lawsuit pending — and had local election officials update their voter registration records for them.
Kobach then argued that the lawsuit should be decided in his favor because the issues causing Belenky and Jones to sue were resolved for them. But Theis compared Kobach's actions to supporters of a runner's opponent dragging the runner across the finish line to ensure his disqualification.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chris Davis, Manny Machado and Jonathan Schoop each hit a two-run homer off Johnny Cueto, and the Baltimore Orioles totaled five long balls in all Wednesday night to power their way to an 8-5 victory over the Kansas City Royals that snapped a six-game skid.
Wei-Yin Chen (8-6) allowed three runs for the Orioles while scattering nine hits over six innings. The losing pitcher against the Royals in Game 3 of last year's AL Championship Series, he has now gone seven straight starts without a defeat. Cueto (9-9) labored through five innings for Kansas City, allowing 10 hits and a walk. It was his second consecutive shoddy start after yielding a career-high 13 hits in a loss at Boston.
Steve Pearce made it 7-3 with a solo shot in the eighth for Baltimore. Mike Moustakas kept the Royals close with a two-run
homer off Brian Matusz in the bottom half of the inning, but Ryan Flaherty answered with the Orioles fifth homer leading off the ninth.
Zach Britton got three outs for his 30th save.
The Orioles had lost nine straight to the Royals, and appeared to be in trouble again when they failed to score with runners on the corners and nobody out in the second innings.
In the bottom half, Moustakas hit a sacrifice fly and Salvador Perez an RBI double to stake Kansas City to a 2-0 advantage that could have been more substantial. The inning ended when Omar Infante ran past Paulo Orlando on a flyout, resulting in infante also being called out.
Moments later, the Orioles started to showcase their power.
Baltimore tied the game in the third on Machado's two-run shot, then pulled ahead in the fourth when Schoop clobbered his two-run homer an estimated 427 feet to left field.
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Kansas City clawed back with a run in the sixth when Kendrys Morales hit an RBI single, but Chen calmly retired Moustakas and Perez to prevent more damage.
When the Orioles tacked on a couple more home runs in the final two innings, the Royals were headed to only their third loss in 15 games at Kauffman Stadium.
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Orioles: After another rough start Tuesday night, manager Buck Showalter was asked whether RHP Miguel Gonzalez is fully recovered from a groin injury. "Yeah," Showalter replied. "Far as I know."
Royals: Manager Ned Yost has given reliever Ryan Madson and closer Greg Holland some rest due to sore arms, though Holland has been available the past two nights.
Orioles: RHP Chris Tillman took a tough-luck loss in his last outing against Minnesota, but is 3-0 with a 2.50 ERA over his past six starts.
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You have to earn it.
That's the phrase that Kansas football coach David Beaty has found himself saying over and over again. Telling his players they have to earn playing time. No roster spots are given, no matter how old someone is.
I don't know if I have "Earned It" by Beaty standards, or the people upstairs just felt sorry for me. But I am very pleased to welcome you to the inaugural Kansas football mailbag.
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I was very impressed with the turnout for the first mail-bag. Despite the low bar for Kansas this year, there does seem to be a level of energy and optimism about this program. Maybe it's Beaty's enthusiasm, maybe it's just not having Charlie Weis, or maybe it's just you all being awesome fans. (Let's go with the latter.)
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Football go to a bowl game before or after the 2018 season?
Sam Davis: Does KU
That's the question isn't it?
I must reiterate, Kansas does not have high expectations this year. Losing about two dozen seniors from last year's 3-8 team does not bode well for a rookie head coach.
That being said, I do like the direction this program is going. This may sound like a broken record for Jayhawk fans, but this team is going to be pretty good in a few years.
Beaty understood the tall task he had as a first time head coach, so he surrounded himself with very good assistants. In football, if a team has good coaches, in time that will translate into success.
Call me foolish, but I believe in this coaching staff, and I would choose to bet this team is bow eligible by 2018. Feel free to hold this over my head in a few years if I am wrong.
Amie Just: What's your season prediction? 0-12?
1-11? 2-10? Why?
First of all, let's admire the hashtag. I petitioned my editors to make this a thing, but alas, I was denied. Something about a much better column with a similar hashtag by a lady named Anissa. Seriously, check it out, it's good.
I digress. In the season predictions in our fall preview, I picked 1-11. My fellow football beat writers Evan Riggs and Kirsten Peterson agreed with me. However Christian Hardy, another football writer, predicted the dreaded 0-12.
thing; This will be a tough year. However, I choose to believe that in front of a presumably full stadium with so much energy, Kansas will be able to knock off Football Championship Subdivision opponent South Dakota State. Granted, crazier things have happened, and the Jayhawks struggled in the opener last year. I stand by 1-11.
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John Morgan: Do you believe we will get our first road game win this year?
No. I predict 1-11 and that one win coming in the opener at home. It would seem that a road losing streak will last for another year. The jayhawks are not a good football team, and there are just not any cupcakes on the schedule. Rutgers is a very competitive team, and Iowa State is the next best chance and they have a returning senior quarterback, something only one other team in the Big 12 can say.
Farzin Vousoughian: Will #kufball fans storm the field for beating another terrible Big 12 team?!
Well, for one, I don't foresee a conference victory. However, if Kansas is able to knock off a Big 12 team, I tend to have faith that the fans would not storm the field. The only exception would be a ranked team or Kansas State.
The real question is, if this team goes 0-12 this year, do the fans storm the field when they knock off an FCS team in the 2016 opener? Again I choose to believe fans won't
do something that silly, but it's a serious debate. Kansas was favored last year against Iowa State and fans still stormed the field.
Derek Skillett: Biggest breakout player. Offense & defense?
On the offensive side of the ball, it will be junior running back Ke'aun Kinner. Kinner, a 5-foot-9 back out of Navarro Junior College and the reigning National Junior College Athletic Association Offensive Player of the Year.
Even with a crowded backfield, Kinner has stormed onto the scene and is expected to be the starting running back. Running backs coach Reggie Mitchell says Kinner has the ability to go to the NFL, something Kansas hasn't had in a running back in quite some time.
On the defensive side of the ball it's a little trickier. Ben Goodinan could be a candidate despite being a returning starter. However, I'm going to go with junior defensive end Damani Mosby.
Mosby redshirted last year in his first season at Kansas after transferring from Mesa Community College. As a sophomore at Mesa he finished with 35 tackles and 7.5 sacks. Similar to the running back position, the defensive line has a lot of depth and is arguably the strongest group on that side of the ball. With so many pass rushers creating pressure; expect less double teams and Mosby will be able to thrive.
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If you are asking about a newcomer, I'd take the junior college transfers Ke'aun Kinner and defensive back Brandon Stewart. But you're asking about freshmen, which makes it much tougher, since they are so hard to project
a star by any means, but he certainly has the chance to be a backup. Jake Heaps was recently the third-string for the New York Jets, and I fully believe Willis will be better than Heaps.
You can obviously tell by the video that he is freakishly athletic — arguably more athletic than anyone else on the team. I am curious to find out if he chose not to join the team or if Beaty cut him at some point
Quick story: Wilson tried out for the team in the spring as a walk-on and was even on the roster at the end of the spring. When I checked the roster in the middle of the summer he was not on the roster.
Andrew Joseph: Was DeVonte Wilson's plan all along to leverage his athleticism to get people excited about #KUfball then not be on the team?
Beaty has admitted that in college football it's much easier for freshmen to come in and play right away at positions like receiver or defensive than the quarterback. This is part because the quarterback has so much to learn in just a short amount of time.
I'm choosing to go with Willis because I think he has a chance to be a three-year starter in a very favorable offensive scheme. This doesn't mean I think he's going to be
The reason I say that is because I am going with a quarterback Ryan Willis out of Bishop Miege. I really like what I see out of Willis; he stands at 6-foot-4 and has a strong arm. It would be easy to go with a defensive back because Kansas has the track record of sending corners to the pros.
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Scrutiny over Baylor football transfer prompts Big 12 to create rule
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With Baylor facing scrutiny for allowing a football player with a troubled past to transfer to the school, the Big 12 is crafting a new policy that will require more diligence when looking into athletes' past disciplinary issues.
Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby told The Associated Press on Wednesday he expects the new rule to be structured like the one implemented by the Southeastern Conference. The SEC prevents schools from accepting transfers who have been dismissed from another team for "serious misconduct," defined as sexual assault, domestic violence or
other forms of sexual violence.
other forms of sexual violence
Bowlsy said he expects the Big 12 rule to "cast a broad net" with its transfer policy and for schools to consider more than just violent acts. He added that decisions on transfers should involve more than just coaches, but the league office won't be making the call on whether a player should be accepted.
"I think institutions will perform that due diligence and they'll make their own decisions and I think that would include things like academic fraud. They'll include problems that (an athlete) may have had in high school. Violence against women, certainly that was the initiative that put us in this position," Bowllsby said. "I think it's a broader net than that. I think it's a responsibility to do the work so that you know who you are bringing to campus."
Baylor and football coach Art Briles have been questioned for allowing a player who was later convicted of sexual assault to transfer to the school from Boise State.
Big 12 athletic directors on Tuesday unanimously supported creating a rule that would prohibit accepting athletes who have had discipline problems at previous schools. The rule would also apply to recruits.
Sam Ukwuachu, 22, was sentenced to six months in jail last week for the 2013 sexual assault of a Baylor women's soccer player. Ukwuachu, from Pearland, Texas, played at Boise State as a freshman in 2012,
but was dismissed from the team in the spring of 2013 for unspecified disciplinary reasons. He transferred to Baylor but never played.
Ukwuachu's former girlfriend at Boise State testified during his trial in Texas that he hit and choked her. Boise State has said those allegations were never reported to school officials and did not have anything to do with his dismissal from the team. Briles has said he spoke with then-Boise State coach Chris Petersen about Ukwuachu, but was never told the player had committed acts of violence against women. Petersen, now at Washington, has said only that he "thoroughly apprised" Briles of Ukuwuchu's disciplinary record and dismissal.
Having the SEC rule — which was implemented after Alabama accepted a football player transfer from Georgia who had been charged with domestic violence while with the Bulldogs — may not have prevented Ukwuachu from transferring to Baylor. But the Big 12 plans to be more expansive and place the onus on schools to be more aware.
"Nothing is going to completely solve the problem because every instance is different," Bowlby said. "What our rule will do is mandate due diligence. If you go through the right processes you're likely to come across the things that you want to discover before a decision is made."
Bowlsby declined to comment on whether Baylor had
done due diligence with Ukwuachu.
He did say that decisions on transfer are best not left solely to coaches and he expects these types of transfer rules to become a national trend.
The other Power Five conferences, the Big Ten, Pac-12 and Atlantic Coast Conference, have not had formal conference-level discussions about prohibiting schools from accepting athletes with a history of disciplinary problems.
The Big 12 hopes to have its new policy approved by its presidents by the end of October, but Bowlsby said he expects members are already changing their procedures regarding transfers.
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The teams will compete in two regular season meets at Rim Rock Farm. The first is the season opener, the Bob Timmons Classic, on Sept. 1, and the second is the Rim Rock Classic on Oct. 3. Rim Rock Farm will also host the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships on Nov.13.
According to coach Stanley Redwine, the home meets are an advantage for the teams because the course is familiar to the runners.
"Our athletes will know [Rim Rock] well, and they'll know when to move [and] how to move compared to the competition," Redwine said. "We just have to focus on the things that we do best as a team, and that is running as a pack."
Redwine said that hosting the regional meet would also bring
a higher level of notoriety to the program. He said former coach Bob Timmons, who passed away earlier this year, had a vision for the program to host larger-scale meets like the Regionals.
The University will also host the outdoor track Midwest Regionals at Rock Chalk Park in May.
"I think [hosting the regional meet] is really good for the status of our program," Redwine said. "We want to continue [Timmon's] vision and
to make sure we have teams that can produce there. Once recruits start seeing this, it's really good because even the people we lost in recruiting were still talking about Rock Chalk Park. And so that's as big of a recruiting advantage as anything else."
The 2015 men's and women's teams will be led by senior Jacob Morgan and junior Hannah Richardson. Morgan finished 91st at last year's national meet, while an injury kept Richardson out for the entire
season. Both will be looking to build off of the spring's success.
Richardson agrees with Redwine that the home meets at Rim Rock will help the team throughout the season.
"We work out on it, we really have experience with this course, and so to have Regionals here is awesome," she said.
Morgan transferred to the program last year from Colorado State. He said the expectations were much higher this year because of his impressive
2014 season.
"I always want to build off of what I want to do before," Morgan said. "Last year was a lot better than I would have expected, just coming in not knowing too much about the program or what was expected of me. And now, I am kind of finding myself knowing what I'm expected to do for the team."
Edited by Maddy Mikinski
For KU volleyball, a summer of bonding, culture and gelato in Europe
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Nothing screams Italian desert like gelato, and the Kansas volleyball players ate their fair share during their summer Europe tour.
"There were a couple kids who surprised me with the amount of gelato you can eat on one trip," coach Ray Bechard said jokingly. "I'm not going to point any of those people out, though."
During their stay, they absorbed all parts of the Spanish, French and Italian cultures, including food. But going to Europe did more for the Jayhawks than expose their palates to foreign cuisines.
Learning about the European culture of volleyball was one of Cassie Wait's favorite things.
“[The trip] was incredible for so many reasons,” Wait, a junior libero, said. “First, just to see the culture of volleyball, being a world thing is super important for us. It shows us that there are opportunities after college to play overseas.”
But although the culture of volleyball in Europe is strong, the arenas that the team played in during the trip didn't compare to the grandeur of Horejsi Family Athletics Center and Allen Fieldhouse. Even so, Wait said the commitment and dedication of the European players was something she looks up to.
"They have two-a days all the time," Wait said. "They play every single day all year."
While in France, the Jayhawks became close to the French team they sparred against.
"When we played in France, we had to communicate over Google Translate on our phones," said Tayler Souci, a junior outside hitter. "It was fun to try to communicate that way. They were so energetic. We traded jerseys at the end when we left France and they gave us big hugs. They were so excited and thought that it was the coolest thing."
Not only did the Jayhawks build relationships with some of their opponents, they also became more of a tight-knit team.
The girls spent every moment of every day during the trip together. The only alone time the girls had was while they were sleeping.
["Europe] ignited our team chemistry," Soucie said. "We became so close over that trip."
Senior outside hitter Tiana Dockery agreed, saying that Europe brought the entire team together both off and on the court.
"We had to learn about each other", Dockery said. "We were on the bus here, there, wherever learning each other's personalities. It gave us the opportunities to hang out with one another and learn what each other liked. Once we started playing on the court, we were able to learn how each other plays and build up our chemistry."
Looking back on the experience, the word that Wait, Soucie and Dockery continued to use was blessed.
"It shows me how we're blessed," Soucie said. "It all makes me feel so blessed."
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Kansas volleyball enters the 2015 season on the brink of doing something that they've never done before; compete in four straight NCAA tournaments. Sustained excellence for that long takes a strong foundation, a strong coach and, most importantly, a team that's constantly improving.
The layhawks will have to make major improvements to top a 22-9 season, which saw them go 10-6 in an exceptionally tough Big 12 conference in order to go over their win mark from last year. But the youth on the team only got stronger while the experience on the squad will lead the youngsters. Not only is Kansas poised to top their 22-win mark from last season, the team is on pace to make its fourth straight
NCAA tournament and,
possibly, get that coveted
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This summer, four Jayhawks attended the United States National Team tryouts at the Olympic Center in Colorado, and all four will suit up in the Crimson and Blue this year. Cassie Wait and Ainise Havili highlight the star power on coach Ray Bechard's squad. Havili, who is entering her second year with the program, is considered one of the top talents in the country.
Of the players who played in over 100 sets last season, just two of them are departing. Havili, who made the Big 12 All-Freshmen team last year, adds another year of experience and training on to her superior athleticism and talent. She'll be setting up the big Kansas hitters who helped the Jayhawks to average 13.8 kills per set, 2.3 more than their opponents averaged.
Tiana Dockery and Tayler Soucie will step into the voids
left by big hitters Chelsea Albers and Sara McClinton. The latter duo combined for over 400 kills last season and averaged 4.4 kills per set combined. Havili will help smooth that gap. The now-sophomore was ranked 19th in the country in assists per set in 2014 with 11.3; she was the only freshman in the top 20 in "hat category."
"The death, grit and athleticism returning really makes me believe this team definitely has the potential to advance into the NCAA Tournament," Derek Johnson, the voice of KU Volleyball, said.
Bechard has said this team is going to play quicker and faster after losing two of his top net players, and the team has rallied around that new identity. Despite the changes they went through, the Jayhawks have not only given themselves a new identity, they're improved and are on track to set records in 2015.
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The Kansas team celebrates after scoring against Texas Tech on Oct. 25, 2014.
After finishing the 2014 season with a record of 22-9 (10-6 in the Big 12), and being picked fourth on the Big 12 preseason poll for the 2015 season, Kansas volleyball has some fairly high expectations to live up to. Trailing only Texas, Iowa State and Oklahoma in the poll, Kansas finds itself in a good position to mark its fourth consecutive 20-win season.
But does this year's squad have what it's going to take to achieve that goal? That's a major question mark.
While there is some returning talent in players, such as Tiana Dockery, Ainise Havili, and Madison Rigdon, Kansas also finds itself without last year's offensive leaders: Sara McClinton and Chelsea
Albers, both of which were two-time Big-Big 12 First Team players. Those two players from last year's squad who averaged over three points per set (Albers at 3.44 and McClinton at 3.08). Kansas is going to miss their strong offensive punch.
Along with the departure of Albers and McClinton, Kansas volleyball will also start their season with a tough schedule.
Kansas opens up its season on Aug. 28 in the Arkansas Invitational, where it will face a rising team in Army, followed by Arkansas, who Bechard described as a "Top 25队". Also, before conference play starts, Kansas will host Duke — ranked 25 in American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) preseason poll, followed by both Gonzaga and Missouri State, both of which are front runners in their respective conferences.
Reminder, this is all before conference play begins, where Kansas will need to compete with teams like Texas, Iowa State and Oklahoma, all of which are expected to finish above Kansas in the Big 12 standings.
Kansas volleyball has really made a name for themselves over the past three years. Finishing 22-9 last year while completing their third consecutive 20-win season since the early 1980s at the same time, Kansas has proven that they are a team able to compete.
But without the return of their two strongest offensive weapons against a schedule like the one they have, the 2015 Kansas volleyball team has to be on its absolute A-game from the very beginning of the season, or they won't be able to repeat their 22-win season just a year ago.
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Evan Riggs says that Kansas and Iowa State will share a room this season: the Big 12's cellar.
Texas Tech, Iowa State and KU expected to notch last-place spots
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With just a week before the start of the college football season, Kansan writer Evan Riggs broke down every Big 12 team and predicted which games each队 would lose.
The ten team profiles will be posted in tiers — the worst, two middle tiers, and the best of the best. The final set of rankings will reveal who Riggs believes will win the Big 12.
8. Texas Tech
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The Red Raiders are the team hurt the most by the competitiveness of the Big 12. They return all but two members of a team that had the talent for a bowl game, but not the discipline. They are talented enough to make a bowl game, but the talent in the conference will make it difficult.
Sophomore quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who played the final four games of the season, has the lead for the starting spot. Last year, the offense was inconsistent and turnover-prone, but they have eight starters back who can build off of last season. The offensive line returns four veteran starters, including all-conference left tackle Le'Raven Clark, and running back DeAndre Washington will rack up plenty of yards behind them. The offense will go as far as their quarterbacks and receivers take them.
Like its offense, the Texas Tech defense has been focused on turnovers this offseason. Led by a new defensive coordinator, David Gibbs, they hope to create more turnovers this season. The defensive ends will be a strength, with Big 12 sack leader Pete Robertson (12 sacks in 2014) and Branden Jackson on the other end. They have holes to fill at defensive tackle and linebacker if they want to make a bowl game.
Predicted Losses: at Arkansas vs. TCU, vs. Baylor, at Oklahoma, vs. Oklahoma State, at West Virginia, vs. Kansas
Predicted Record: 4-8 (2-7 Big 12). The Red Raiders would make a bowl game in just about any other conference, but just aren't good enough to win four conference games.
State, at Texas.
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9. Iowa State
After a 2-10 season in 2014, coach Paul Rhoads is officially on the hot seat and will have to live up to his reputation of doing more with less if he's going to hang on to his job. They went winless in the Big 12 last season, which included a 20-point drubbing to Kansas. The Cyclones will almost assuredly be better, but not much.
Iowa State ranked 89th in the nation in total offense last season in Mark Mangino's first season. With Sam E. Richardson back at quarterback and a group of receivers that could be one of the Big 12's best, the Cyclones will have an exciting offense. Quenton Bundrage, who tied the school record with nine touchdown receptions in 2013, is back after a torn ACL cost him the 2014 season. He is surrounded by giant outside threats in D'Vario Montgery (6-foot-6, 236 pounds) and Allen Lazard (6-foot-5, 218 pounds), who both showed flashes in 2014. However, uncertainty at running back and offensive line will be a problem
The defense, which ranked 125th in college football last season, won't be much better this season. The defensive line will be improved, but is still very thin. Linebacker Jevohin Miller, who led the team in tackles before he got injured last year, is gone, and Luke Knott can't stay healthy.
throughout the year.
The Cyclones have a talented secondary with both starting cornerbacks Sam E. Richardson and Nigel Tribune returning. The Cyclones leading tackler, strong safety T.J. Mutcherson, was dismissed from the team, which will put immense pressure on the reigning Big 12 Freshman Defensive Player of the Year Kamari Cotton-Moya at free safety.
Predicted Record: 3-9 (1-8 Big 12). The Cyclones offense will be good enough to make things interesting with most Big 12. The defense will be improved, but not nearly enough to slow down Big 12 offenses.
Predicted Losses: vs. Iowa, at Texas Tech, vs. TCU, at Baylor, vs. Texas, at Oklahoma, vs. Oklahoma State, at Kansas State, at West Virginia.
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10. Kansas
The good news for Kansas is it has finally found the right coach to turn the program around. Coach David Beaty is known as a recruiter, and the Jayhawks desperately need to bring in more talent. The bad news is that with just five starters back, it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Michael Cummings was slated to be the starting quarterback for the layhawks this fall until he tore his ACL in the 2015 spring game. Montell Cozart, who started five games last season, will start the season at quarterback with two freshmen, Carter Stanley and Ryan Willis, breathing down his neck.
With the dismissal of Corey Avery and Rod Coleman, the Jayhawks will need newcomers Joshua Stanford and Ke'aun Kinner to contribute right away.
Beaty said early in the spring that one of the strengths of his team was its defensive line. Ben Goodman will be the leader, and T.J. Semke is another guy who will contribute. Andrew Bolton was supposed to provide a run stopper at defensive tackle, but he left the team in July.
The Jayhawks lost almost all of their production at linebacker with Ben Heeney graduating and Jake Love retiring because of health concerns. In the secondary, the Jayhawks lost all four starters, leaving Greg Allen and Fish Smithson as the leaders.
Predicted Record: 1-11 (0-9 Big 12). Jayhawk fans will have to be patient with Beaty, because it will take him a few years to recruit talent that can start to change results on the field.
Predicted Losses: vs. Memphis, at Rutgers, at Iowa State, vs. Baylor, vs. Texas Tech, at Oklahoma State, vs. Oklahoma, at Texas at TCU, vs. West Virginia, vs. Kansas State.
Edited by Amber Vandegrift
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Freshman quarterback Carter Stanley participates in a passing drill on Aug. 17. Stanley, junior Deondre Ford and freshman Ryan Willis are all in line after junior Montell Cozart in the quarterback position.
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Although Kansas football head coach David Beaty announced on Monday that junior Montell Cozart would be the starting quarterback, the backup spot is still wide open. And Beaty quickly made that clear in his press conference.
"There were some talented guys in this field," Beaty said. "It was not an easy job to win. Any of those guys could have done the job for us, and they can do the iob."
The backup spot for Cozart, who was benched after four games in 2014, will come down to three quarterbacks: junior transfer Deondre Ford or freshmen Ryan Willis or Carter Stanley.
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"We've seen them go through fall camp, we've seen them play against our coverages and our fronts, but now that they're trying to prepare for another opponent," Beaty said. "That's a different type of deal."
Though the trio won't face an actual defense, they will get a taste of a new defensive scheme and the preparation that they will have to go through each week. How they react to that could decide who will own the backup position.
"With his experience and where his fall camp came out, you feel really good that if Montell got nicked up or dinged up in the middle of the series, you feel really good about
Beaty said the decision on the backup might come this weekend, but Ford is expected to get the position. He has run behind Cozart through the back end of fall camp and poses a threat that neither Willis or Stanley do.
might become a bit easier.
Willis will likely come in at third on the depth chart. Beaty said on Monday that the freshman may have had better accuracy in camp than Cozart, though Cozart had a better full body of work. Willis is a pocket passer who could be the future of Kansas football if he continues to improve as much as he did in the fall.
Beaty is hoping he can keep a redshirt on either Willis or Stanley, though with the lack of depth, he acknowledged that might not be possible. If Cozart goes down, it's possible the redshirt would have to be burned.
him being available for you," Beaty continued, "which is really why he's here."
"I'm not sure we're going to have that luxury," Beaty said. You'd hope that you can keep the shirt on at least one of them."
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Senior defensive lineman T.J. Semke launches himself at the Texas offense on Sept. 27, 2014. Semke is projected to be a leader on the team this season.
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Football Notebook: Jayhawks look to find leaders and finalize roster before taking on South Dakota State in season opener
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Football season is nearing. Though a starting quarterback has been named, there have been plenty of other developments as preseason practice comes to a close. Here are some quick notes to recap what's happening with the program.
Finding the leaders
Beaty says his players will vote on captains on Friday after a "leadership council" was elected on Tuesday. Although quarterback Montell Cozart is a likely candidate on the offensive end, senior defensive end T.J. Semke seems to have already placed himself into one of those positions.
For the first time this year
that I have seen — a player called out the warm-ups and stretches to start practice. That player was Semke. It was interesting to see someone step up and get everyone in sync. Semke is a high-motor, high-energy player who is expected to start opposite of Ben Goodman on the defensive line this year.
"Senior DE T.J. Semke is calling out warm ups in the middle of the field. First time I've seen that. #KUfball."
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One more body
On Tuesday, Beaty added some depth to defensive end, a position that already has a lot of bodies. Timmy Hamilton, a product of Wichita Kapaun Mount Carmel and Coffeyville
Community College, announced that he is transferring to Kansas from the University of Arizona, where he signed in February and had started fall camp.
"You're where God wants u to be at this very moment. Every experience is part of his plan. Thank God for the new home."
- Timmy Hamilton II
Hamilton was a three-star recruit who made a name for himself at Coffeyville after failing to pick up any significant offers out of high school. The 6-foot-4 strong-side defensive end will be able to practice with the team right away as a walk-on, but will have to sit out games until 2016, when he will have a chance to earn a scholarship.
Preparing for South Dakota State
The Jayhwaks have had two weeks to prepare for their first opponent of the season. Beaty made it clear even though SDSU is an FCS team and lost five games in 2015, coming out with a win won't be an easy task. Two of SDSU's 2014 losses came against the eventual national champions, another was to the runner-up, another to Missouri, and a three-point lost to Youngstown State. Essentially, SDSU is no slouch.
Beaty has tried to put his team into high-stress situations as the game approaches, running them through even the most unlikely game situations such as onside kicks.
"We're preparing for everything," Beaty said, adding that wet footballs would be used in practice on Wednesday. "We
put them in those situations now, they know how to react. Then they aren't there for the first time out there on the big field.'
Beaty has stressed uncomfortable situations, and said he hopes that will pay off for a large portion of his squad that has never played at the Division I level before.
Not to be confused...
DeVonte Wilson, who was called a Kansas running back by ESPN and some others who shared his Instagram videos, is not with the team.
Wilson only had a single workout with the Jayhawks in the spring, which is why he was included on the spring roster, but he didn't make the cut. Wilson hardly played any high school football and is raw and unpolished as a football
player.
Beaty said that the running back/pure athlete could return at some point, but also offered some advice to the sophomore, who still attends the University: "You've got to be careful with all the cone work."
Update on Booker
Beaty said that he would be "shocked" if wide receiver Jeremiah Booker has not returned by the time the team plays Rutgers. Booker, as previously reported, has a slight crack in his collarbone, but he's expected to fight for a starting spot when he returns if he's up to speed on the offense. If he's not back by the Rutgers game, Beaty all but guaranteed him to be there for Big 12 play, which starts with Iowa State on Oct. 3.
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Kansas volleyball senior Tiana Dockery honors best friend's memory through collegiate career
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Four days before Christmas 2011, Tiana Dockery received a call that would change her life forever.
One of her best friends,
Fatima Barrie, was stabbed to death.
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Dockery and Barrie were teammates on their high school track team. Dockery, then a freshman, and Barrie, a senior, were on the same 4-x-400 and 4-x-200 meter relays.
"It hit me really hard," Dockery said with tears in her eyes. "She was the one person I wanted to do well for."
Nearly four years later, Dockery strives to do her best to memorialize her best friend. She's on track to be the first Kansas volleyball player to play in four-straight NCAA tournaments, and coach Ray Bechard has made sure she's well aware.
"Coach B has made it very right there in my face." Dockery said of how often her appearance in the tournament comes up in conversations. "I think it's awesome. Just being here makes you feel like you can do anything."
Dockery never dreamed of being at Kansas. Before Bechard started recruiting her, she knew nothing about Kansas — not even its storied basketball success. But since her arrival, she's been all in, and it's all because of Barrie.
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"Everything is more to me than just playing," Dockery said. "It's a passion from my heart.
Straight outta Richmond, Texas, Dockery broke onto the scene at KU in 2012. As a freshman, she started in 20 matches and saw time in all but two. Halfway through the season, she was tabbed as Big 12 Rookie of the Week.
Senior Tiana Dockery, attempts to tip over alumni players Taylor Tolefire and Sara McClinton. Dockery recorded nine kills and four dings against the alumni players on Aug. 22.
She played in 94 sets and had 132 kills, 4 aces, 177 digs and 56 total blocks. It came as no surprise when she was named to the 2012 All-Big 12 Freshman Team.
She added: "Thinking of Fatima, watching her run, she [dominated] every race. It didn't matter what it was, every practice, every race, everything. Her mindset is so wonderful. I wanted to do that. I felt like I could do that."
Dockery takes her mind off of her intense schedule by hanging out with fellow volleyball player Janae Hall. Dockery said Hall keeps her in the pop culture loop by taking her to movies and concerts. Recently, the two went to see "Straight Outta Compton."
That 2012 season was Kansas'
She said it was one of her favorite movies.
Her momentum from her freshman season carried into her sophomore campaign. Dockery hammered down 37 kills during the Inntowner Invitational against Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Bowling Green, and was named to the Inntowner Invitational All-Tournament Team. Shortly after, she was named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week after she had 14 kills against Georgia during the Kansas Invitational.
"Everything is more to me than just playing. It's a passion from my heart."
first appearance in the NCAA tournament since 2005. Dockery appeared in three of the four sets in Kansas' loss against Wichita State. Statistics from the first round against Cleveland State were unavailable.
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That season, Dockery amassed 196 kills, 81 digs and 40 total blocks, including 18 kills, 5 digs and 2 blocks in Kansas' first ever run to the Sweet 16.
"It was a great opportunity for us." Dockery said, looking back. "We were so determined
to get there. When we did, it was a shock."
Last season, Dockery saw game time in every match and started in 21 of them. During her junior campaign, Dockery was awarded with another Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week award for her individual performance against Texas Tech. In those four sets, she amassed 20 kills and 13 digs.
During that season, Dockery compiled a stat ledger of 229 kills, 159 digs and 63 total blocks in total, which boosted her to earn the All-Big 12 Honorable Mention accolade.
Dockery isn't exactly ready to start her final season, she said, but she hasn't given it much thought either.
"Everyone has four years, some have five," Dockery said. "It's kind of exciting. I haven't thought about it that much, because we still have an entire season to worry about. Senior night is when it will really hit everyone."
Dockery tries not to feel old, even though there is a moderate age gap between her and the majority of the team. Before senior transfers Anna Church and Ashlyn Driskill came in, there were four juniors on the squad, the rest of which were sophomores.
Sometimes though, she says she feels like a mother figure — similar to how Barrie was
- similar to how Barrie was
to her — especially when she watches the younger players excel.
Dockery, along with Kelsie Payne and Ainise Havili, were invited to train with the Collegiate National Team this summer. Dockery said she watched both Payne and Havili when she had some down time.
"[Seeing them play] was just awesome," she said. "They're so much younger and are so talented. Watching them was definitely a parent moment."
Even though Dockery has one more season left, she's already thinking about her future.
After her playing days are over, she wants to coach, and she believes she has what it
In retrospect, Dockery feels accomplished knowing how far she's come with volleyball and in her everyday life.
"I was between if I wanted to be a college coach or not," Dockery said. "I think that I can be. It's not too late to think about it now."
takes to coach at the collegiate level.
"I have tried to take whatever Fatima taught me and instill it in myself and put that out to everyone else," Dockery said. "She's had a big impact on my life, she's the motivation behind it all."
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Nearly five months ago, black smoke billowed out the front door of Ladybird Diner, but on Aug. 13, Meg Heriford, Lawrence's self-proclaimed resident pie and diner lady, was back in action — and this time she had more recipes up her sleeve.
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Much like the first opening back in August 2014, the reopening drew flocks of people seeking out Heriford's specialty — pie. She worried that while her restaurant was closed, the customers shed grown to know and love
would find another favorite restaurant, but they returned when the doors reopened.
"It doesn't take long for people to change a habit, so I was concerned a lot of people who used to come in had established other habits by then," Heriford said. "I think this town really wants its entrepreneurs to succeed. They like the idea of keeping it local, and they're very patient and very generous."
During the months the diner was closed, Ladybird, at 721 Massachusetts St., leased the Pachamamas' kitchen, which closed recently. While it wasn't serving customers, that's where Heriford said she
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was able to perfect her menu, play with flavors and create the ideal donut.
"It was a great place to get in and test recipes and fine tune really every aspect," she said. "I just worked on donuts, trying to get those recipes right where I wanted them to be — not greasy and not too fluffy. I wanted something that mattered and something that felt substantial."
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Before opening Ladybird, Heriford was a waitress at 715, a European bistro-style restaurant on Massachusetts Street, and when one of the owners asked her to make a pie for the evening dessert, she jumped at the opportunity.
Her pies started gaining traction in the community, and when Buffalo Bob's announced last year it was closing its doors, the 715 ownership approached Heriford about opening a diner.
"I'm a diner girl, and I love
diners," Heriford said. "Lawrence didn't really have a proper diner."
Heriford said she knew pie would be popular among customers, but never expected how fast it would fly out the door.
"This place is remarkable in that everyone gets pie," she said. "I've never worked at a restaurant where everyone orders dessert at lunch or breakfast even. Here, it's pie, pie, pie, everyone wants pie. It's worth having dessert at lunch."
She's always loved making desserts, but Heriford said there's something special
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Art Hall is the executive director of the Center for Applied Economics in the University's School of Business.
What's going on with the open records suit?
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up, a professor and the University?
Yes, a student group requested records surrounding the Koch brothers' influence at the University, which prompted a lawsuit between Art Hall, a professor in the business school, the University and the Students for a Sustainable Future.
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In exchange, the group received some documents from the original request filed last fall.
According to a University announcement, Kraus will withdraw her Kansas Open Records Act request for correspondence between Hall, who is also the director of the Center for Applied Economics, and the University about funding for the center.
document request by the student group.
What got released and why?
Hall and the University will provide Kraus with documents including the "correspondence between Hall and other parties identified in the request that discuss the KU Center for Applied Economics" use of funds provided by those parties," according to the announcement.
Hall will also give Kraus a funding agreement related to the creation of the Center for Applied Economics, according to the announcement.
The University released the settlement agreement along with documents relating to the funding for the Center for
"The whole lawsuit was really about what is a legitimate public record that should be produced and what is a private correspondence," Hall said.
Hall said the original request made by the student group was too broad and requested Hall's emails going back to 1995, before Hall worked for the University. According to Hall, this request was "unacceptable" and opens a privacy and academic freedom issue.
This agreement ends all litigation in the lawsuit between Hall and the University.
Why was the student group requesting these records?
Applied Economics. However, correspondence between Hall and two other professors mentioned in the KORA request, George Bittlingmayer and Koleman Strumpf, will not be released.
The group filed the records request last fall after reading about the Koch brothers' influence at other universities. The members decided to
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Big 12 rankings: A champion is crowned in TCU
Treveon Boykin is back, and he should be better than ever after one year of experience in the air raid offense. The secondary and linebacker corps are concerns, but coach Gary Patterson's brilliant defensive mind will help with the personnel losses.
After just missing out on the first ever College Football Playoffs last season, the Horned Frogs are poised for a run at a National Championship in 2015.
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Along with Boykin, receiver Josh Doctson, who is the school record holder for receiving yards and touchdowns, is back for another year, along with Kolby Listenbee, who emerged as a strong vertical receiver.
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Running back Aaron Green, who ran for almost 1,000 yards last year, also returns; he will run behind an offensive line that returns four starters. The only questions with the team are on the other side of the ball.
Patterson will need to perform his magic on this defensive rebuild to offset the losses of defensive tackle Chucky Hunter, linebacker Paul Dawson and defensive backs Sam Carter, Kevin White and Chris Hackett.
Predicted Record: 13-0 (9-0 Big 12). TCU has the benefit of hosting Baylor this season, which will go a long way for it in terms of staying on top of the conference standings. Its defense is a bit of a question mark, but the offense is simply too good for anybody in the Big 12 to match.
Losses: None
Baylor has officially become a powerhouse in the Big 12 conference, recording at least 10 wins in three of the last four seasons. Led by Art Briles, the Bears are looking to win at least a share of the conference title for the third consecutive year. Seth Russell will have the task of replacing Bryce Petty, who was one of the top quarterbacks in the country over the last two seasons.
Although Russell is a new starter, he isn't new to the Baylor system. He redshirted as a true freshman in 2012 but played 15 games as Petty's backup in 2013 and 2014. Last season he turned heads, starting in place of an injured Petty against Northwestern State on Sept. 6; he went 16-of-25 for 438 yards with six total touchdowns in the first half alone.
Russell will also benefit from three explosive weapons returning at receiver: Jay Lee, Corey Coleman and KD Cannon. The offensive line is slated to return all five starters after left tackle Spencer Drango held the NFL Draft off for another year and returned to Waco for his senior season.
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Baylor's defense was not a strength last season, but it only lost two starters. Additionally, defensive end Shawn Oakman is back and ready to wreak havoc after recording 11 sacks last season, in addition to becoming one of college football's most meme-worthy players.
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The students received some of the records last fall, including documents surrounding the hiring of Hall, Bittlingmayer and Strumpf. The three teach economics in the business school.
LAST FALL - Students for a Sustainable Future began looking into the Koch's influence at the University, filing a Kansas Open Records request for documents concerning donations, associated restrictions and communications involving
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Spotlight on Center for Sustainability How can campus be more eco-friendly?
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What does the Center for Sustainability do?
A few of the initiatives through the Center for Sustainability include promoting energy efficiency, biking and landscaping, said Kim Criner, the Education & Outreach Coordinator for the center. There are options the center provides to improve the wellness of the University and the individuals within it.
"While the energy offices are working on energy conservation of the infrastructure, we work with the behavior specialists on building users," Criner said. "So, the people of the building, and what their particular behaviors are, whether they're leaving things on or whether they're opening windows while the air conditioning is on."
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What are a few of its initiatives?
They include techniques to become more aware of surroundings while keeping campus clean.
Biking:
Biking on campus minimizes pollution and toxins released into the air, according to the center. The center added efforts to increase convenience for students and other bikers. It heads a bicycle advisory committee with people from
across campus, like construction management, housing and other bike enthusiasts.
"We have efforts from that for improving infrastructure for bikers, more safety for bikers — whether that's through bikers' own habits or road conditions, things like that," Criner said. "Then it's just encouraging people to think about biking as their mode of transportation."
Preserving land:
Preserving land. A group of students reserved a spot of land over a century ago at the bottom of Sunflower Road on campus, and since then it has remained an unaffected part of pure land, according to Criner.
"We are working on a long-term restoration plan with grounds keeping, with biology professors, [and] environmental studies, so you kind of see the pattern." Criner said. "We don't operate in isolation. We try to pull in as many experts on the physical campus — employees — to spread our efforts."
Although the intention of the land is to remain only affected by nature itself, there are issues keeping the structure around it from deteriorating.
Students have the chance to take part in environmental preservation, too.
What else is the University doing?
tion manager for the Center for Sustainability and KU Recycling, said the center sponsors events giving students, faculty and staff the ability to better understand the role of the campus in the environment.
Eric Nelson, the waste reduc-
"Every year the Center for Sustainability sponsors numerous events — the Re-Plant Mount Oread project, work in the campus rain garden and a variety of environmentally themed presentations on campus are a few examples," he said.
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"Some people said that we shouldn't come back. Some people said that we couldn't come back," said New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu "Yet 10 years later here we are. Still standing."
NEW ORLEANS - The Gulf Coast and New Orleans observed the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of deadliest storms in American history, in ways both devout and festive. Church bells rang and brass bands played as people across the storm-ravaged coast remembered the past and looked to the future.
The storm killed more than 1,800 people and caused $151 billion in damage, in one of the country's deadliest and most costly natural disasters. Many of the dead come in New Orleans when fires protecting the city burst, emerging 80 percent of the Crescent City in water.
The dead and those who still struggle to rebuild were not far from anyone's thoughts Saturday, from Mississippi where church bells rang out to mark when the storm made landfall to a commoration at the New Orleans memorial containing bodies of people never claimed or never identified.
As the church bells rang, 80-year-old Eloise Allen wept softly into a tissue as she leaned against her rusting
vidual creates," he said. "This includes carrying reusable water bottles and coffee cups, taking reusable bags on shopping trips and eliminating single use cutlery and plates from events or gatherings."
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"I feel guilty," said Allen, whose house in Bay St. Louis was damaged but inhabitable after the storm. "I didn't go through what all the other people did."
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Saturday was a day to remember what "all the other people" went through. Those who were lifted from rooftops by helicopters, those who came home to find only concrete steps as evidence of where their house used to be.
those bodies were neved after the storm. mourning Saturday balanced by a celebration of how far the region has come.
At the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, thousands of people gathered to take part in an evening of prayer, music and speeches including by former President Bill Clinton. He had helped raise money for Katrina victims.
bage outside or reusing a dish, the smallest contributions can make a big difference on campus and the community, Nelson said.
"Specific to waste, the best thing you can do for the environment is to minimize the amount of waste that an indi-
He weighed into a debate that has bubbled up during the Katrina anniversary about whether New Orleans' post-Katrina story is one of a city resurrected or of people left behind. Tourism in the Crescent City is booming, real estate prices have skyrocketed and the city's population continues to grow after Katrina. But the recovery has been uneven with many neighborhoods — especially African-American ones — still struggling. Clinton said the city should be happy and
"Have a good time New Orleans. You earned it," Clinton said. "And tomorrow wake up and say 'Look at what we did. I bet we can do the rest too.'"
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The "live" section focuses on transportation healthy living for all ages while preserving the historic value of Lawrence.
"Work" focuses on investment and networking in a diverse, growing population. It is also focused on "thriving creative arts and entrepreneurial communities."
"Learn" specifies the importance of weaving the University community into the local community. It also says it will work to ensure access to high-quality lifelong learning opportunities.
"Play" emphasizes the need for "a thriving mix of activity centers, schools and parks/trails within walking and biking distance of residential uses". It also focuses on preserving the historic aspects of downtown and cultural heritage.
What's Horizon 2020?
Horizon 2020 is a comprehensive plan for Lawrence and unincorporated Douglas County created to make sure city plans are in line with community wants and needs. The plan values affordability, creativity, education, health, innovation, jobs, livability, quality design and sustainability.
What is it going to change?
The goals in the action report target improvements throughout the city,including employment,building,retail,natural resources and housing.
Some of the points in the action report include:
- Maintain a strong and stable downtown
- Create quality neighboards for all people
- Create quality neigh borhoods for all ages
- Create employment opportunities
- Enhance agricultural uses and rural character in Douglas County
- Enhance sidewalks, trails and walking paths
- Enhance bicycle and pedestrian safety
- Enhance the transportation network
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- Add policies to protect natural resources
community see changes?
If the issue action report is approved, changes will be seen
in January 2016, according to Jeff Crick, Planner II for Horizon 2020. He said the Steering Committee, which helps guide the process, will recommend the Board of County Commissioners, Planning Commission and City Commission accept the report Aug. 31.
Once the report is approved, the Steering Committee will develop a draft with revised policies to present to the community, said Scott McCullough, Director of Planning and Development Services.
What has the city been doing until now?
Until now, the Steering Committee has been gathering information about Lawrence and Douglas-County, including community wants and needs population, employment trends, land use and development patterns.
Who's on the committee?
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IOA adds position to ease process of reporting
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The Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access, which investigates reports of sexual assault, has hired an interim measures coordinator and will hire three new investigators for the upcoming semester.
Michael McRill, the interim measures coordinator, will help make sure students involved in the reporting or investigating process are still able to attend class and stay on top of assignments. So, if a student is assaulted and doesn't go to class the next day, McRill can contact the professor and get the classwork for that stud-
McRill is also available for students, faculty and staff who request interim measures or students who don't want to pursue an investigation but still want interim measures.
“[The position] ensures that everybody has access to educational opportunities during the process,” McRill said. “Another way of thinking about interim measures would be for people who maybe aren't going to pursue a case but still need some kind of accommodation. The reason I mention that is just to highlight how broad [the measures] can be in terms of offering student services that would help them maintain
their safety on campus but also their ability to continue accessing opportunities on campus."
IOA investigates all reports related to Title IX, including discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual assault.
"The primary function of Title IX is to guarantee that gender discrimination in the
"[The position] ensures that everybody has access to educational opportunities during the process,"
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form of sexual harassment or sexual violence doesn't impede educational opportunities," said lane McQueeny, executive director of IOA. "Our primary role is to make sure that the impact is diminished and that we're doing everything we can to make sure people are still going to class and getting the programmatic benefits of attending the University."
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The three new investigators will replace the vacancies left by former IOA employees. Investigators handle student reports to IOA by talking with the student, the respondent and witnesses. McQueeney said she hoped the spots would be filled by mid-September at the
McQueeny said IOA was able to finish investigating most of the cases reported last academic year and during the summer.
Over the summer, McRill said he focused on making the IOA website more student-friendly. He also conducted focus groups on student attitudes regarding sexual violence and suggestions for IOA.
"You kind of figure out where people are and the different stages in terms of understanding." McRill said.
ing process before, McQueeny said.
This year, McRill said he would be creating and working with students on individual solutions for each case.
IOA plans to conduct more focus groups this year including some with people who have been through the report-
"Individuals would say what they're needing, and we would think creatively about how we can put those into place most effectively," McRill said.
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Thankfully, it is not all doom and gloom. A solution to these problems exists, and it comes in the form of two words that anybody should be able to spell, regardless of international test scores: school choice.
Students and their parents should be free to choose any school in their area. Currently students are assigned to go to certain schools throughout their K-12 years based on their address.
The problem is that students are forced to go to these schools no matter how terrible the education may be. Why should we condemn students to a failing school? If wealthy people can choose schools by either opting for a private school or moving, why not give underprivileged students the same sort of opportunity?
The answers to these questions seem obvious. No child should be coerced into a poor education, and every student should have equal access to quality schooling. So how can this be done? The answer is simple — every child should be given a voucher to attend any school of their choice.
This sort of system could vastly improve our standards of education through the forces of competition. Schools would have to compete for students and their vouchers by offering higher quality and innovative programs for lower prices than their competitors Underperforming schools would lose students to better schools, and eventually go out of business, while superior schools would attract students and expand.
This would not spell the end of public education. After all, the government would still be free to run schools. However, in order to get students through their doors, they would have to offer a service they should have been offering all along: a higher quality education.
Public employees may be concerned that their jobs are at stake, but the fact of the matter is they have nothing to worry about if their schools are performing well and can attract students. Moreover, studies have shown public schools actually benefit from voucher programs.
How could these vouchers be paid for? States would convert tax dollars that are currently used to fund poorly run government schools. Chances are that this would be even
cheaper for states, which is pertinent in an era of budget tightening, as studies have shown competitive schools have been able to offer better education for the fraction of the cost of traditional schooling.
A quality education is vital to individual and societal well-being. Education provides numerous opportunities to improve productivity, propel groups up social ladders and grow the economy as a whole. Forcing a child from an underprivileged background to attend a lousy school simply because the birth lottery landed them in a poor neighborhood is a travesty.
Families should be free to attend quality schools regardless of their status, and the government should not prevent them from doing so. We should fight for an education system that enhances prospects, rather than one that oppresses those who can least afford it. It is time to turn this national embarrassment into something we can be proud of.
You can find out more about school choice at the Friedman Institute for Educational Choice.
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Between class, jobs, clubs, volunteer work and more, most students often don't have a lot of time for themselves.
But when they end up having a few hours of free time to binge watch Netflix or take a nap, they often feel guilty. Especially in college, it seems like there's social pressure to always be committed to something. After all, you've only got four years to beef up your resume before heading out into the "real world." It's easy to feel like you're wasting time when everyone around you seems to be constantly involved in new endeavors. This perception of free time is hurting us more than it's helping. People shouldn't feel guilty for not constantly being involved with something even though it may seem their peers are constantly busy.
Tim Kreider of the New York Times calls this "the 'busy' trap." He argues that busyness is a phenomenon of our society and that ambition, anxiety, and other factors are driving
us toward constant activity. The busier people around us are, the busier we feel we should be. Collectively, society isn't taking the time to relax anymore. We need to readjust the way we view free time - not as a luxury, but a necessity.
When considering the effects overcommitment can have on mental health, it becomes clear just how essential free time can be. According to a survey conducted by the American Psychological Association in 2010, 70 percent of people attributed somewhat to very significant levels of stress to the busyness of work. Overcommitment isn't just an issue in scheduling. It's negatively impacting our health, particularly when we're overcommitted for extended periods of time. Taking time to relax isn't a sign of laziness or a lack of ambition, it's simply healthy.
Often when people are constantly busy, they're not operating at their full potential because it's easier for fatigue to set in. Other countries around the world have recognized this truth; Austria and Portugal both
grant its employees 22 days of paid vacation each year. Factoring in public holidays, employees in these countries receive upwards of a month off work every year. The U.S. has no laws regulating time off, so many businesses don't offer any paid vacation days. If the U.S. were to install such regulations, employees would likely be more well-rested, focused, and productive
It's not necessarily a bad thing to keep yourself busy with class, work and other activities. But instead of feeling obligated to partake in extra activities that can boost your resume or match the schedule of your peers, allow yourself to take some time off.
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Q&A: Albert Hammond Jr. on his new album and life as a singer-songwriter
It's been two years since his last album, "AHJ" — following 2006's "Yours to Keep" and 2008's "Como Te Llama?" — but Albert Hammond Jr. is back.
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The singer-songwriter and Strokes guitarist released "Momentary Masters" on Vagrant Records this summer, and the hype is justified. This album is something fresh, something different, but still very AHJ, and he sounded stoked about the writing process.
UDK: Which album would you show an alien that best represents Albert Hammond Jr.?
Albert Hammond Jr.: "Momentary Masters," or the EP if they have a short attention span.
UDK: How would you compare Albert Hammond Jr. in "Yours To Keep" versus Albert Hammond Jr. in "Momentary Masters"?
AHJ: They're just different people making music. I was 26 when I was making "Yours To Keep." Back then, I had been in a back, and it was my first time
exploring finishing songs and decided to making something I liked. Now, I'm a little more confident in what I'm doing.
UDK: "Momentary Masters" has a kind of unity to it. Is this something that was planned out, or did the uniformity emerge as you were writing the record?
AHJ: I don't think you could accidentally do that. I would have been extremely lucky. I grew up with that kind of melodic rhythmic rock-and-roll that was exciting and had structure with unique sounds, melodies and songs. The songs are the biggest thing.
UDK: At various points throughout the record, it sounds like you're having a dialogue with someone. In "Coming To Getcha," for instance, you say, "Someday soon, you'll have to leave. Someday soon, you'll have to excuse me." Elsewhere, you say "I forgave you long before I met you for the things that you were bound to do." Who are you talking to?
AHJ: It's hard to explain. When I'm working on songs, I'm trying to find words to fit with the music as well as a stoo-
ry. That line in "Touché" was taken from Sarah Jones who I dedicated the record to who passed away. It was one of her lines of poetry. I saw the other lyric as a story about myself. But, you can see it however you want to. Someone might relate it to something they've experienced. Emotions are universal. In fact, some melodies might even cause certain feelings. I don't think it matters what the truth is, really — as long as it has some effect on you.
UDK: I caught your show back in Albuquerque a few years ago. In a live setting, it was great singing and participating one on one. How does it feel playing some of these songs live?
AHJ: These songs were made for playing live. It's a real live record.
UDK: The producer Gus Oberg worked with you on your previous record, what was his role in crafting "Momentary Masters?"
AHI: Gus Oberg has done everything with me. I met him when I was recording "Yours To Keep." He produced "Como Te Llama." We spent a month doing demos at my house of all
the songs.
UDK: There seems to be a certain chemistry between you and Gus Oberg.
AHJ: Very much so. There's a huge chemistry there, which is why we worked together. We even produced The Views' next record, which comes out in September. There's definitely a sense that we trust each other. We push each other.
UDK: Can you elaborate a bit more on what you mean by "pushing each other?" And, would you say it's important to have that interaction?
AHJ: It's very important. It's important in life to have enough ego to have confidence, but enough self-doubt to not be an asshole.It's okay to question,but,at the same time,you don't want to have too much of that because you'll never finish anything. It's a tough line.
AHJ: Yeah, exactly. It helps having those relationships. In the band, we're constantly working to make the songs
UDK: Self-criticism is important, but too much of that can be a bad thing.
sound better.
UDK: So, in a sense, seeing AHJ on the cover of your record can be misleading, right? It's easy to forget that there's a whole process that goes into crafting a record, a process involving other people.
AHJ: Sure. There are very few things anyone does without other people. Even when you think you're doing something by yourself, you still have people. That's part of the fun, to share and to start something and get other people to believe in it, too.
UDK: I'm really looking forward to purchasing your record at the show.
AHJ: I'm looking forward to the show too. It's so soon; I feel like it's only been a week. I can't wait.
The album is currently streaming on Soundcloud, "Momentary Masters" is available for purchase on iTunes. Albert Hammond Jr. will perform at The Bottleneck on Sept. 13. Tickets are $15.
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With so much uncertainty for the Jayhawks heading into the 2015 college football season, it's difficult to know what to expect when they take the field this Saturday against the South Dakota State Jackrabbits.
As a result, the jayhawks are just five-point favorites over their FCS foe, according to the sportsbook Twitter account @5Dimes.
According to @5Dimes, KU a 5-point favorite over SDSU. Using that line, KU is -64% to win the game. Jesse Newell
Generally, home-field advantage is worth three points in the point spread, meaning the Jayhawks would be just two-point favorites on a neutral field.
Junior Montell Cozart, who was benched midway through last season, will start at quarterback. Last season, it appeared he was thinking too much rather than playing with his instincts as he totaled just five touchdowns to seven interceptions last season.
Coach David Beaty's air raid offense should make life easier on Cozart because he will have to make fewer decisions, but the result won't be known until he faces a live, foreign defense.
The layhawks need Cozart to be a leader because he's one of the only experienced players
one of those players remains on the roster.
Over the summer, Beaty brought in some transfers that are immediately eligible, including senior defensive tackle Corey King (Miami, Fla.), junior linebacker Marquis Roberts (South Carolina) and junior wide receiver Joshua Stanford (Virginia Tech).
However, even that host of transfers didn't offset the expected top returning defenders vanishing from the roster. Senior safety Isaiah Johnson transferred to South Carolina this offseason, and linebacker Jake Love — the top returning tackler — retired for health reasons.
South Dakota State doesn't have the same reputation as four-time FCS defending national champion North Dakota State, but they are a formidable opponent. Last season the Jackrabbits went 9-5 and earned a playoff bid for the fifth consecutive year.
Heading into the season, Kansas has just 64 players on scholarship, which falls well below the FBS limit of 85. However, the FCS limit it 63, meaning the season opener is the only time Kansas will be almost equal to its opponent in scholarships.
In less than a week, the Jayhawks will enter Memorial Stadium full of new faces, both on the sidelines and on the field. The Jackrabbits will have a lot of the same players as last
But even though the Jackrabbits have far more stability, the Jayhawks still have better athletes and talent, which is enough to make them a slight favorite.
on the roster.
EVAN RIGGS
Kansas returns just four starters from last season — by far the fewest of any school in a power five conference. It's rare for such a small spread between a FBS and FCS school, but, with almost no big names returning from last season, a new coaching staff and new system, it's almost impossible to know what to expect.
Thanks to former coach Charlie Weis's risky recruiting strategy and some bad luck, Kansas has a major numbers crisis that will take Beaty years to overcome.
During his first season, Weis dismissed 29 players from the program and signed 16 junior college players. This season,
season, but they also have stability off the field in their head coaching position.
John Stiegelmeier is entering his 18th season on the job, which gives the Jackrabbits an advantage over a Jayhawk squad that has gone through five different coaches since their last winning season.
But even though the Jackrabbits have far more stability, the Jayhawks still have better athletes and talent, which is enough to make them a slight favorite.
Being favored by just five points over an FCS school may not be ideal, but considering the gap in stability between the two programs, it's probably deserved.
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Quarterback Montell Cozart reads the Southeast Missouri State defense on Sept. 6, 2015. SEMO is in the FCS.
Volleyball starts season with 3 wins at Arkansas Tournament
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AMIE JUST
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Ainise Havili sets the ball on Oct. 5, 2014
Three matches, three wins, and the Kansas volleyball team is off to its hottest start since 2011.
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Kansas defeated both Army and McNeese State in its first two matches of the season. In the third and final match, the Jayhawks dropped the first set to Arkansas, then bounced back to beat the Razorbacks in four sets to recap the weekend at the Arkansas Tournament.
Kansas swept Army in three sets (25-14, 25-14, 25-20) on Friday. Senior outside hitter Tiana Dockery led the team in offensive production with 15 kills, and sophomore right-side hitter Kelsie Payne hammered out 11 more. Sophomore setter Ainise Havili registered 33 assists during the match, while junior libero Cassie Wait registered 16 digs.
"I was really happy with the way we came out first and foremost in the first set," coach Ray Bechard said on the KUAthletics postgame radio show. "The first two sets were really clean. Third set got a little bit like volleyball does, some unpredictable bounces, calls don't quite go your way. We got a nice stretch there late in the third game to put it away."
On Saturday, the team carried over its momentum from defeating Army and annihilated McNeele State in three sets (25-9, 25-14, 25-10).
"The first set, we really came out and pass and served well — but we were really dominant at the net," coach Ray Bechard said in a news release. "This was a match where our team, who saw them play last night, could have overlooked them a little bit going into the Arkansas match tonight, but they did
not. I thought they played at a high level."
Payne paced the Jayhawks on offense with 11 kills, and Dockery came in right behind with nine. On defense, Cassie Wait recorded 32 assists and added eight digs.
Kansas won the team's final match of the weekend, but not as easily as the first two. The Jayhawks dropped the first set against the Razorbacks, but bounced back to win the final three to win the tournament (21-25, 27-25, 25-15, 25-15).
Four Jayhawks earned tournament honors over the weekend. Havili walked away as MVP of the tournament. During the tournament, Havili notched 113 assists and 31 digs. Against Arkansas, Havili came up with 14 digs, a new
career high, and recorded her 15th career double double (14 digs, 48 assists).
The Jayhawks offensive brigade of Payne, junior middle blocker Tayler Soucie and outside hitter Madison Ridgon all threw down double digit kills. Payne recorded 19 kills, a new personal career record. Soucie finished the match with 15 kills, and Ridgon amassed 13.
"My team did really well to make me look good," Havili said after winning the honor.
Wait earned the Outstanding
"My team did really well to make me look good."
AINISE HAVILI
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Libero award for the tournament. Over the three matches, Wait tallied 48 digs.
Dockery and Payne were tabbed to the All-Tournament Team. Payne registered 41 kills over the weekend — 13.7 kills per match. Her performance of 19 kills against Arkansas was a career high. She had another personal record breaking
performance against Army, as she shattered her previous career record of digs (3) with 8.
Dockery posted 31 kills in the tournament. This is the second time Dockery appeared on an All-Tournament Team. In 2013, Dockery was named to the Inntowner Invitational All-Tournament Team.
The three wins over the weekend inch coach Ray Bechard closer to 300 wins at Kansas. Going into the Kansas Invitational, he sits at 298 wins.
Beachard already is the winningest coach in Kansas volleyball.
Kansas hosts the Kansas Invitational on Sept. 4 and 5 against Western Illinois, No. 25 Duke and UMKC.
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Kansas soccer beats SMU and North Texas to grab first wins
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Kansas soccer recorded its first two wins of the season over the weekend, topping North Texas and Southern Methodist University, both by a score of 2-1.
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Kansas beat North Texas on Sunday afternoon after freshman Anna Courtney came off the bench and scored her first career goal in the 76th minute to make the score 2-1.
Senior forward Ashley Williams gets ready to shoot against Missouri on Nov. 15, 2014.
Senior midfielder Liana Salazar scored in the 35th minute as well. Both goals were assisted by sophomore defender Lois Heuchan.
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"I didn't think we played great (Friday) to be honest," said coach Mark Francis in a news release after the game against SMU. "I challenged them at halftime and we came out with more energy."
Freshmen Grace Hagan and Parker Roberts were the scorers on Friday for Kansas, as SMU pulled a goal back with a penalty kick late in the game. Freshmen have scored in the last three games for Kansas.
The Jayhawks escaped the game ahead in shots, 13 to 11, with each goalkeeper — Maddie Dobyns for Kansas and Shannon Moroney for SMU —
However, after the game on Sunday, Salazar said her team played "how we should play all the time."
tallying four saves. The Mustangs threatened the Jayhawks' goal with nine corner kicks, including a pair in the final minutes.
After an away loss and tie to begin the season, the Jayhawks have since improved with their second win in a row.
Kansas overwhelmed North Texas in the shots category, 22 to 10. Salazar led the team in shots with four. North Texas goalkeeper Jackie Kerestine was forced into six saves, but Dobyns made five saves.
"I'm really proud of the kids," Francis said in a news release after the game on Sunday. "Coming into this weekend I was hoping we could pick it up in terms of our finishing. Offensively, this weekend was a big step forward for us."
Salazar added: "We kept the ball a lot and we played our game. With our speed, we dominated the game."
The goal for Salazar was her first of the season. At this point last season, Salazar had scored five times. Kansas, however, had scored 12 goals last season at this point compared with four scored so far in 2015.
"I've been waiting for this
moment since the start of the season," Salazar said. "I'm happy for having the opportunity to score today. I wasn't able to do a lot of things, sometimes you have to wait for the right moment and I guess it was the moment for me to score."
Just after halftime, Salazar's goal was equalized as North Texas tied the game up with a goal from Rachel Holden in the 47th minute. The goal came against the run of play, as Kansas had recorded two shots in the first four minutes of the second half.
Courtney's goal, which would ultimately be the game-winner, came off a Heuchan pass into the six-yard box. Courtney put it into the back of the net with ease to give the Jayhawks a 2-1 lead that stuck.
The Jayhawks will return to Rock Chalk Park on Friday, Sept. 4, to play Santa Clara at 5 p.m. in the team's regular season home opener.
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10,886 students and faculty were surveyed about their opinions on conceal and carry laws on campus. Source: Kansas Board of Regents Employee Gun Survey and Kansas Board of Regents Student Advisory Committee Gun Survey.
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Results from two recent Kansas Board of Regents' gun surveys show the majority of University of Kansas employees and students opposed concealed carry on campus.
These results come amidst discussions of how to handle guns in buildings on campus if no changes are made to the current law, which will allow concealed carry in University buildings beginning July 1, 2017.
"I think the best thing that we can hope for out of this is that it gives us a little bit more evidence to say what we've pretty much already known, that a majority of the faculty are very much against it," said University Senate President Mike Williams.
The Kansas Board of Regents Employee Gun survey and Kansas Board of Regents Student Advisory Committee Gun survey were both prepared by the Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University and sent to faculty and students across the state.
In 2013, the Kansas State Legislature passed the Personal and Family Protection Act, which stated licensed gun owners could not be prohibited from bringing a gun into a state or municipal building. Colleges and universities were given an exemption to that law, which expires July 1, 2017.
The faculty and student
surveys gauged the sentiments regarding concealed carry of guns on university campuses. Williams said the faculty survey results as a whole provide more evidence against having guns on campuses to present to legislators.
"They see it's going to change how they teach, and it very well may drive away some of the faculty to go other places to work," he said.
Gary Brinker, director of the Docking Institute at Fort Hays State, said the survey was developed with the goal of encompassing all issues surrounding gun policy that were relevant for faculty and staff.
"We thought about all the aspects of gun use, possession and storage policy that we could," he said. "The clients, the faculty staff senators, sort of honed that and they may have cut out some questions that we suggested. I know for a fact they added several on there."
Roughly 10,886 responses were recorded from employees at the University, as well as Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Pittsburg State University, Emporia State University and Fort Hays State University. According to the survey results. The survey returned a response rate of 54 percent, with 70 percent of total respondents saying they want the current law amended so guns are not allowed on campuses.
Brinker said the response rate was much higher than anticipated as Internet surveys typically generate a response rate of around 10 to 15 percent.
"It told me this is a topic that the faculty and staff were very concerned with, and it does speak for the validity of the data," Brinker said. "You can be confident the survey results reflect even the ones that didn't take it."
Employees at the University responded with the highest opposition to concealed carry,with 82 percent saying they would prefer an amendment to the current law so guns are not allowed on campuses.Over 60 percent of University employees said they would
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Newly appointed OMA director Precious Porras to hire additional faculty and increase training capacity
▶ LARA KORTE
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Becoming a social justice educator and activist has been a lifelong journey for Precious Porras.
After moving to a rural Missouri community in middle school, where she was the only person of color. Porras said she experienced a series of racial incidents. For almost a month during seventh grade, she said she was consistently called racial slurs on her way to the bus. Later that same year, her mailbox was vandalized.
Those experiences left a lasting impression on Porras that led her to a life of activism and education.
"I was like, 'I don't want anyone else to go through this,' Porras said.
"I definitely have goals that I aspire to and places I want to see the office move, and our office goal is to be the best in the state, region and nation eventually," Porras said.
Porras was recently named the new director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, where she said she's focused on making the OMA the best it can be.
She said her activism was kick-started in college, when she realized there were others who were also experiencing discrimination.
During her first semester at Northwest Missouri State University, Porras attended a candlelight vigil for murdered gay college student Matthew Shepard and decided something
needed to change.
"I knew that these things had happened to people, because they had happened to me. But to also hear that they had happened to people who are LGBT, and then it was happening to my friends, because at the vigil my friends were talking, I was sort of just like, "This needs to stop. This needs to be the end." Porras then.
Porras, a first-generation college student, got her bachelor's degree in Psychology and Sociology from Northwest Missouri State University before obtaining her masters in Counselor Education from Emporia State University. After working in foster care for a year after grad school, Porras came onto campus as a HawkLink specialist in 2005. Since then, Porras has held several positions at the OMA, including assistant director of diversity education and associate director of diversity education and social justice programming. She is currently in the last stages of obtaining her doctorate degree from the University.
After the vigil Porras said she got involved in all the organizations she could on campus, including the LGBTQ group, Hispanic American Leader Organization, Black Student Union, and especially, the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
"I practically lived at the OMA," Porras said.
For the past year, Porras was Interim Director of the OMA. Now, as permanent director, she said she's ready to take her experiences and knowledge of the campus to help move the OMA forward.
"The biggest change now is that I can say, 'Yes, we're going to do that,'" Porras said.
The first tasks on Porras' agenda is to hire an associate director by the end of the semester, as well as a cultural competency coordinator. The coordinator would work on assessing the diversity needs of students and faculty in various departments.
Apart from staff hires, Porras said the big items will be working with the student group Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk and increasing the OMA's capacity for trainings.
The OMA offers trainings to any group of students, faculty or administrators who are open to understanding their identities and the privileges that go along with them. Porras said they've seen a major influx of training requests in the past year. During the fall semester, they trained about 8,000 students and faculty.
Porras said the OMA is currently "at capacity" for training sessions, and plans on training more trainers in the upcoming months in order to meet the demand.
Vice Provost for the Office of Diversity and Equity Nate Thomas said when it came down to the final three candidates for the director position, Porras showed a number of outstanding strengths, including her knowledge of the field, her awareness and knowledge of the issues on campus, her knowledge around social justice, LGBTQ+ students, first generation students and low income
"I think her knowledge there is very good, and so I think understanding the strategies that are needed to help us move forward are critical to help us be successful," Thomas said.
For now, the new director wants to make the office a place where anyone can come in with an idea.
"I'm open to exploring other people's ideas and perspectives because I know what I know, but I also don't know what I'm missing," Porras said, "I will always make time for anyone to have a conversation about how the office can be successful and help others in their success."
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In the first Student Senate Committees meeting on Wednesday three bills passed, one was tabled and one failed.
The committees met to consider five pieces of legislation that addressed funding for student organizations, recognition of individuals and organizations for contributions to the University community as well as a request for a third-party study of Kansas' Secure and Fair Elections Act.
In Rights Committee, Chance Maginness, a freshman/sophomore College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator said the bill that allows Senate to present public praise to individuals or student groups was harmful
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The commendations bill failed unanimously in Rights Committee, and also failed in the University Affairs Committee.
create substantive action in the University."
The Rights Committee and Multicultural Affairs Committee voted to pass legislation asking for an independent, third-party study of the Secure and Fair Elections Act (SAFE). The Kansas Legislature enacted the SAFE Act in 2011, which requires Kansas voters to show a photo identification when voting in person.
Tomas Green, bill author and Senate Policy and Development Director, said the bill only requested for the study to be completed and allocated no funding towards its completion.
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Approximately 54 percent of survey respondents said if the current law isn't amended, they want their respective universities to invest in "adequate security measures." Williams said adequate security measures are defined as walk-through metal detectors or electronic wands typically used at airports.
He said the cost of installing proper security at the University would prove problematic.
cost."
"We already know that the cost is prohibitive," he said. "The numbers that KU has been using for estimates that is over $30 million for the installation of the device...That also includes the cost of the personnel to manage those stations. A significant ongoing cost for that would be the personnel
Williams said security measures would likely be put in place at Allen Fieldhouse and Memorial Stadium for sporting events, though they would be temporary and moved in and out on an event-to-event basis.
In the student survey, only 23 percent of University students said they were willing to pay a fee to install adequate security measures across campus. Thirty-seven percent of students said it would depend on the amount of the fee.
Another concern regarding security measures at the University is the logistics of moving large numbers of students through the security devices in the amount of time between scheduled classes.
"There's no way you're going to pass 2,000 people through metal detectors in
10 minutes, the usual time we have between classes," Williams said. "So, even if we put metal detectors in every doorway, which we're not likely to do, the reality is that will so completely mess up the scheduling of classes... The logistics of that are just outrageous, and there is no way that is going to happen."
The student survey, which was administered to 76.559 students at the University, as well as Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Pittsburg State University and Washburn University, registered about a 26.9 percent response rate.
Overall, 55 percent of respondents to the student survey said they want the current law amended so guns are not allowed on campus, however, a majority of survey respondents at Kansas State, Fort Hays State and Pittsburg State responded in favor of keeping the current law and allowing the exemption to expire, or keeping the current law but extending the exemption for colleges and universities past July of 2017. Seventy percent of University students said they wanted the law amended so guns were not allowed on campuses.
Williams, who also chairs the Weapons on Campus Committee, said he and committee members will be generating a survey specifically for University staff and faculty that better addresses concerns related to specific positions beyond teaching. He said questions in the Docking Institute survey were applicable mainly to professors, and could not be applied appropriately to all staff positions.
"We had a lot of feedback from KU staff that they didn't think the survey that came out from the Fort Hays people did an adequate job of really questioning the concerns that staff people had both here and over at Edwards Campus," he said.
At the conclusion of the spring semester, the University should have a definitive plan of the official policies that will be in place regarding guns on campus, Williams said.
"The important thing that we are working with, is that by the end of this semester, the [Weapons on Campus Committee's] recommendation will be merged with what is coming and being discussed at the administration level," he said. "By the first of summer of this year, we should have an idea of what kinds of procedures are going to be in place if nothing else changes with the law."
Williams added that the policies will likely go into effect before the exemption to the Personal and Family Protection Act expires in 2017 to allow the University time to adjust to new security measures.
"We have to plan on entering the fall of 2016 as if it will be like 2017. The intention is that we'll have our policies and procedures ready to go, and we'll start to implement them that far ahead of when the actual exemption will expire..." he said. "I think it would be terribly optimistic to think that this particular legislative session will produce any dramatic changes [to the law]."
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US Supreme Court reinstates death penalty cases to Kansas
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The U.S. Supreme Court sided Wednesday with Kansas officials seeking to reinstate death penalty sentences for three men, sending their cases back to the state's highest court.
The justices ruled 8-1 that the Kansas Supreme Court was wrong to overturn the sentences of Jonathan and Reginald Carr, and Sidney Gleason, who was convicted in a separate case.
The Carr brothers broke into a Wichita home and forced the three men and two women there to have sex with each other and withdraw money from ATMs. The women
were raped before all five were taken to a snow-covered soccer field and shot in the head. One woman survived a gunshot wound to the head. Gleason killed a Great Bend woman and her boyfriend in 2004 after the woman witnessed a robbery.
Wednesday's ruling reignited criticism that the Kansas Supreme Court has shown it simply opposes capital punishment. Its decision to overturn the Carrs' sentences in 2014 prompted a campaign endorsed by Gov. Sam Brownback and the state GOP chairman by victims' family members that came close to removing two justices that year.
Here are reactions to Wednesday's decision:
"We're glad that the U.S. Supreme Court actually made their ruling but very disappointed in the Kansas Supreme Court with the fumbling of the case and creating delays and additional expenses for the courts and the state of Kansas." Larry Heyka, father of Carrs' victim, Brad Heyka.
"I am concerned that this is now going to go back to the court, (which has shown) they
don't like death penalty. They tried to pick the case apart, so I do have concerns. I am worried. I am not sure what they are going to do with it. I don't have a lot of faith in that court, so that is where my concern lies." Amy James, girlfriend of Brad Heyka.
"I am pleased the victims and families no longer face the horror of reliving these terrible acts through a retrial." Brownback.
eral Derek Schmidt.
"Disheartening." Sarah Johnson, an appellate attorney representing Gleason and Jonathan Carr.
"Justice was served today in the United States Supreme Court." Kansas Attorney Gen-
"Obviously pleased for the victims for them to have to go through this again would be difficult." Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett.
"This is further evidence that the Kansas Supreme Court has lost its way as once
again the U.S. Supreme Court rejects its arguments and conclusions." Kansas Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, a Republican.
"I continue to be dismayed at how the Kansas Supreme Court places its political agenda above the rule of law." U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, a Republican.
"The Kansas Supreme Court will review the U.S. Supreme Court's decision and determine what is the next appropriate step." Lisa Taylor, high court spokeswoman.
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If no one sees me for a few weeks, it's probably because I'm still waiting in the textbook line.
do you ever wonder how much chapstick you would have if you never lost chapstick?
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Having a seating chart in a class in an auditorium is bad practice.
I'm glad you think your class is important. I'm not spending $500 on textbooks for it.
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My math professor says "Ok, guys. Do you get this? You really need to get this" after nearly every sentence. I feel this getting irritating already
I'm a senior in my math class. We had to go over how to use Blackboard for a good ten minutes today. Dear god
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Is it spring break yet?
Senior year means parking in different color coded parking lots every day to avoid the $200 plus I've racked up.
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The High School Musical reunion makes me feel like I'm soaring, flying.
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Why do people decide to sit directly next to me when the bus is empty? Let me zone out in peace.
directed, self-regulating laptop use beneficial in classrooms
Only fell three times today. New personal best.
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In recent years, some professors have opted to ban laptops from their classrooms, citing studies that claim laptop usage distracts students from lectures and discussions. However, these professors ignore the potential benefits of laptops in the classroom.
To begin, there are several advantages of laptop usage in class, like making note-taking more efficient, removing the need to bring physical copies of reading materials to class and allowing more engaging opportunities for collaborative group work.
The answer is a cautious yes. Research by Dr. Weiyu Zhang performed at the National University of Singapore and published in the journal Computers & Education asserts that laptop usage in class, under the right conditions, can be a powerful learning aid for students.
So, do these factors outweigh the potential for laptops to distract students in class? After all, we've all seen some classmates spend more time browsing Facebook and Amazon than truly paying attention, and taking notes.
In his study based on 176 surveyed college students, Zhang
found that promoting self-regulation among students discourages multitasking and increases attentiveness in class. Further, he notes that student senses of self-efficacy and academic purpose strongly encourage self-regulation of one's own behavior, promoting better overall academic performance.
Zhang concludes "educators and parents need to encourage students' self-regulation of laptop multitasking behaviors through building students' senses of self-efficacy and learning motivations (or employing strategies where laptops are used deliberately as part of class), instead of simply banning laptops in classrooms."
In addition to Zhang's findings, research from the University of Michigan suggests deliberately engaging laptops in class improves attentiveness and engagement, especially in large, Budig-style lecture halls. Through programs like Kahoot and LectureTools, professors can create a way for their students to actively engage with material, rather than just passively absorbing it.
Beyond the question of whether laptop use promotes learning in class,
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we also have to consider the value of students' personal choices. College students are adults paying large sums of money to attend classes in order to further their education. Presumably, they know themselves and they know how they most effectively learn in the classroom.
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Just as they will be required to find which lifestyle and career best suit them, students should be allowed the freedom to decide whether a laptop harms or helps their academic performance.
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Jesse Burbank is a junior from Quinter, studying history and political science.
Laptop usage can be a powerful asset in promoting learning. Through embracing opportunities for students to better engage with their class material and promoting self-efficacy, professors can more effectively impart information and respect students' learning preferences.
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Individual professors should decide whether or not to allow students to use computers during their classes. To enhance the learning experience of both teachers and students, classrooms should be technology-free zones and students should hand-write their notes.
laptops should not be allowed during class
RACHEL GONZALES @KansanNews
The primary reason that students should not be allowed to use computers in the classroom is that technology is a distraction. It is almost impossible to escape the distraction of technology in everyday life, and the classroom is one of the few settings in which this can be controlled.
Students are often overconfident in their ability to multi-task. While they may think they can listen to the professor and retain information at the same time they are writing an email, focusing attention is a sure way to learn more in class. A study done by Stanford University found that people who are regularly emerged in several streams of
While students can take notes on computers, the number of other distractions on computers is endless. Whether it's chatting with friends, surfing social media, playing games, doing work for other classes, or checking their email, students are often doing anything but taking notes behind the safety of their screens.
electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory or switch from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time.
It is impossible for teachers to monitor whether computers are being used for notes or not, and therefore the only way to avoid these unnecessary distractions is to insist that computers not be used. It is hard enough to get students to pay attention in class, the last thing teachers need to give students is the opportunity to cyber-stalk their ex or watch cat videos all class period.
A study done by Cornell University in 2003, entitled "The Laptop and the Lecture," divided a class in half and allowed only one half to use laptops during lecture. The study found that the students who were disconnected from technology performed significantly better on a post-lecture quiz then those students who used laptops.
Not only are computers distracting to students who use them in class, but to students around them not using computers as well. Too often lectures are filled with open screens, distractingly visible to people in seats farther back. Besides just students, teachers can also be distracted by students staring at computer screens instead of having their eyes up front.
While many students prefer to type notes on computers, hand-writing notes is, for several reasons, more beneficial to their learning. According to Lifehacker, "One of the most effective ways to study and retain new information is to rewrite your notes by hand. This is because putting ink to paper stimulates a part of the brain called the Reticular Activating System, or RAS." Likewise, hand-writing notes forces students to slow down and think more about the notes that they are taking.
Allowing students to use technology in the classroom also gives an unfair advantage to students who are financially better-off than others. Not everyone can afford a laptop, and not everyone is able to take notes as quickly as those who type them. It is important to treat all students equally and allow them all the same opportunities while in the classroom.
Ultimately, using computers in class is distracting and unfair. Technology takes away the amount a student is able to learn and a teacher is able to teach.
Rachel Gonzales is a Junior from Fort Collins, CO, studying journalism and sociology.
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Professor Dylan Bassett has been all over the world to study percussion. When he thinks of his travels, there's one trip to Western Africa he said he remembers fondly, even though it may not sound like a dream vacation.
"Once I spent six hours traveling to a festival in a remote area of Senegal with a group of drummers. Eight of us were crammed into a Toyota Corolla," Bassett said. "Several times we realized that we had taken a wrong turn when the road disappeared. It was totally worth the trip. The festival was a blast to play for."
Bassett is the director and founder of the University's African Drum Ensemble (ADEKU). ADEKU is a student organization that works "to provide a venue for KU and the greater Lawrence community to create a drumming community and learn to play traditional West African rhythms," according to its page on Rock Chalk Central.
Founded in 2007 through the African Studies Center, ADEKU plays shows at various events around campus, such as last month's annual Dance Marathon fundraiser for the Children's Miracle Network, which Bassett admitted is his favorite event of the year.
Somewhere between 20-30 members rehearse Thursday evenings for 21/2 hours. No prior experience is necessary to join.
The ensemble's repertoire includes music from the ancient Mali Empire, today encompassing parts of Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Cote D'Ivoire and Burkina Faso. The group uses instruments
such as the djembe, dunun and dijabara.
The syncopated, layered music of Western Africa is responsible for the creation of much of the popular music in the Western Hemisphere, particularly blues, jazz and rock.
"Music is used to bring people together. Music is used to celebrate and rejoice," Bassett said. "This is very similar to how we use music in the U.S. One thing that is different is the bands that are made up solely of drummers. People will drum and dance for hours at festivals, and many songs will be sung, all without any pitched instruments. That certainly is not a familiar scene in the U.S."
Sophomore jazz studies major Donovan Miller joined ADEKU last semester at Bassett's suggestion. Unfamiliar with West African percussion, Miller said he's enjoyed learning about the music of other cultures and the skills it has brought to his own playing.
"We're playing all kinds of different instruments that I've never really played before so it's just a lot of fun to learn a different type of style," Miller said. "Plus, it really has transferred to playing on the drum set, which is really fun for me because I can do so many other things on the kit that I wasn't able to do before."
An older brother, who is also a percussionist, taught Bassett basic drumming skills when he was a child in Boulder, Colo. Bassett began to pursue drumming more persistently after he attended a music festival during a trip to New Orleans, continuing to play in various groups throughout junior high and high school.
But his interests until college were mostly focused on Western drumming
styles, particularly rock and jazz. His tastes expanded when a professor played him a track by musician Mustapha Tettey Addy and he "loved the sound."
"World percussion styles along with my drum set, became my primary interest," Rossett said.
Bassett was first hired by the University in 2007 to direct ADEKU and has been a lecturer since 2011 after receiving a Master of Arts in Global and International Studies with emphasis in West African percussion from the University.
He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Missouri State. Bassett has also attended numerous workshops and seminars in Western Africa under respected percussionists such as Mamady Keita and Mustapha Tettey Addy.
"One thing that has really stood out is the kindness of the master percussionists that I have been lucky enough to study with," Bassett said. "They have shared their music openly, very happy that I was going to share it with others as well. One of my favorite teachers said that 'music knows no borders.' That, for me, is one of the most beautiful things about music."
In addition to his work with ADEKU, Bassett offers private lessons on a variety of percussion instruments, and he drums in various bands in Lawrence. His group SUNU just released an album titled "Food, Inc.," available for download.
SUNU will also perform at Lawrence's Jazzhaus Feb. 6. Anyone interested in joining the African Drum Ensemble may do so during the first two weeks of the semester and contact Bassett for more information at dbassett@ku.edu.
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KU professor's "Strawberry Fields" opens this weekend
SAMANTHA SEXTON
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The University opera "Strawberry Fields" will open in Murphy Hall this weekend based on a memorial for the fallen Beatles member John Lennon.
It is inspired by a certain place in Central Park, situated directly across from the Dakota Apartments,
where John Lennon lived and was murdered. Lennon's partner Yoko Ono bought that space and named it Strawberry Fields.
In the University opera, the curtains open with an elderly lady entering the scene, who envisions the people around her as players in an opera.
Suddenly, the woman is swept up in the drama as
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While the drama plays out, the old woman, happy to have been a part of the performance, dies contented. This is the story of Strawberry Fields. It's the very story that Joyce Castle, opera singer and University professor, has decided to tell at her Distinguished Professor's Inaugural Lecture on Jan. 21. Castle is also directing and starring in both of the School of Music's productions of "Strawberry Fields" on Jan. 22 and Jan. 24.
"I was asked to give a lecture, so what's an opera singer going to do? Sing," Castle said. "I had this opera that I had done before and was around 35 minutes so I thought it would work perfectly."
Castle has a first-hand knowledge of the opera having performed the piece when it was first produced in 1999 with the Glimmerglass Opera Company in upstate New York.
her son and daughter come with a nurse to take her to a nursing home. Their efforts come to a halt when a student intervenes, pleading that the woman be left to enjoy her day.
"I love the role, the music, the story," Castle said. "It's such a real story and very relatable as well."
Graduate students Jessica Wagner and Clark Weyrauch agree that the opera, which deals with dementia and the taboo subject of
"I think it's really interesting because it takes place in a location that anyone can go to and a lot of people have been, so it's easy to believe that this story could happen unlike other operas where you're sitting there going, 'this is ridiculous,'" Wagner, a student in Castle's studio, said.
Weyrauch's character, the student who comes to the aid of the elderly woman, said this could happen to anyone.
perform at the same time again."
what to do with one's relatives in their advancing years, can be very relatable.
"On a more practical note: The opera is in English," Weyrauch said. "There's a John Lennon song, and we have a guitarist, so it is very easy to get into."
It may be easy to get into, but given the timeframe of about 35 minutes, there is no time for any lulls to the flow.
"Because it is so short there is a lot going on. There's a lot of action and movement and no room to stop," Wagner said. "That does make it a little more difficult because there are so many people wandering around."
With 20 students in the production, animated scenes and a director playing the lead, one might be worried, but Castle seems eager to play the role again though she did say she would, "never direct and
Castle has welcomed the original composer, Michael Torke, to work with the composition himself. Torke is expected to be in attendance for the first two performances.
"It's really neat that the composer will be here with us," Weyrauch said. "Most composers we work on are dead so it's a nice change of pace."
Overall the production has reportedly gone smoothly without a hitch with the students expressing joy while working with Castle.
"One thing that's very exciting would be getting to do something with Joyce (Castle) on stage," Weyrauch said. "Not a lot of people probably know that Joyce (Castle) has been singing for 46 years and it's the same as a chemistry major would love to work with someone who's known in their field for doing amazing things."
Castle's inaugural lecture will be at 6 p.m. at the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall on Jan. 21. Admission is free and open to the public. "Strawberry Fields" has performances on Jan. 22 and 24, also at the Crafton-Preyer Theatre. Both performances begin at 7:30 p.m.Tickets are $5 for students. For more info, visit music.ku.edu.
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1. "Mad Max: Fury Road"
At the age of 70, writer/director George Miller revamped the apocalyptic wasteland he created over 35 years ago, maxing it out on rip-roaring style and detailed, idiosyncratic world-building to deliver one of the craziest, most kinetic and blazingly awesome action movies ever. He artfully uses the whacked-out cast of characters like an orchestra, conducting a symphonic, punk-rock ballet of violence that includes a bad guy shredding a flame-throwing guitar and invigoratingly has the titular anti-hero playing second fiddle to the empowered heroine Furiosa.
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The beauty and brutality of the American frontier has never been so viscerally and mesmerizingly captured as in "The Revenant." There's a constant, captivating clash between the elegance and indiscriminate force of nature, and the violence of man and his powerful drive for survival, that grabs hold in the intense opening minutes and doesn't let go until long after the film ends.
For director Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman" was just a warm-up act to this exhausting, remarkably-ambitious project that transcends the regular boundaries of cinema. That's true for director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki as well, who insisted on using only natural light and pushes the envelope even further with his
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It's not time to panic just yet, but the Jayhawks have been struggling as of late. And much of that seems to be due to the lack of energy the team is exhibiting on the court. The Jayhawks are the favorite to beat Texas, and should be expected to win, but with another lifeless performance, the game may be a little too close for comfort.
AT A GLANCE
TEXAS LONGHORNS (4-2)
After missing the last game with a knee injury, Greene should be crucial for the Jayhawks, who have not shot the ball well at all in their last two games. Greene can also use this game to establish himself as the first wing off the bench, as sophomore wing Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk has started to find more and more time on the floor.
QUESTION MARK
PLAYER TO WATCH
Which Kansas team shows up?
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Brannen Greene junior, guard
Earlier this year the Jayhawks were blowing opponents away. The team was dominant and, quite frankly, looked like the No. 1 team in the nation. However, since the Oklahoma game, Kansas hasn't looked the part of the nation's best team. Kansas coach Bill Self has cited energy as a big reason as to why, but shooting has been problematic as well. And when shooting hasn't been the culprit, it's been turnover issues that have hurt the team.
27. 3 - The Jayhawks shot just 27.3 percent from three against Oklahoma State, hoisting up 22 attempts and making only six.
BY THE NUMBERS
60 - The Jayhawks have shot worse than 60 percent from the free throw line in two of their last three games.
16 — Frank Mason III has committed 16 turnovers in his last five games. He committed 16 turnovers total in his first 12 games this year.
BIG JAY WILL CHEER IF..
The team responds to its second loss in three games by reminding everyone who has won the Big 12 each of the last 11 years. Kansas fans should also look for the freshman to play a lot of minutes, as they continue to develop on the court. Recently, Carlton Bragg Jr. has looked solid, and, with a big lead, he could - and should - see a lot of time at the power forward spot.
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Frank Mason III, junior, guard
Mason hasn't looked like himself in the last week. He's had some poor shooting performances, and just looks tired out on the court. However, he's still one of the Jayhawks' best players, and one of the top point guards in the Big 12. In the midst of the slump, Mason has scored in double figures in eight straight games, and minus the game against TCU, he's shooting over 50 percent from three in his last four.
★★★★★
JOHN RUSSELL
Devonte' Graham, sophomore, guard
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Like Mason, Graham comes into this game not playing his best basketball of the year. While he has scored double digits in back-to-back outings, he's committed as many turnovers in his last five games as he had the rest of the year, which is certainly a mark he'll want to see change.
★★★★
Wayne Selden Jr., junior, guard
Wayne Selden Jr. has very quietly come back down to earth since the Oklahoma game. In the first part of the season, through the Oklahoma game, Selden had shot at least 50 percent from the field in nearly 90 percent of his games. Since that time, however, he's shot worse than 45 percent in every game and worse than 40 percent twice. He's also shooting just 6-of-21 from three in that stretch.
★★★☆
Perry Ellis, senior, power forward
In the Jayhawks' last game, Ellis moved ahead of Wilt Chamberlain in the Kausas all-time scoring list. However, it hasn't been all-good for Ellis. In his last two games, he's shooting just 7-of-19 from the field and 0-of-5 from three. After recording his first two double doubles of the year, he's scored at least 15 points in just one of his last three games.
★★★★★
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Cheick Diallo, freshman, center
Diallo has the potential to be a very good player, and he has the potential to be the best big man on the team outside of Ellis, but right now, he's still learning through his mistakes. The mistakes on the floor — usually involving positioning on both offense and defense — are what's mainly holding him back, but they should hopefully start to fade as time goes on.
★★☆☆
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Isaiah Taylor,junior,guard
Isaiah Taylor is the focal point of this Texas team. The junior guard has started in all 77 games he has played in in a Longhorns uniform. Last year he earned All-Big 12 third team honors by leading the team in scoring with 13 points per contest. This year Taylor is making a case for first team honors, with a team leading 17.2 points per contest.
★★★★★
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Javan Felix, senior, guard
It wasn't that long ago when Javan Felix was selected to the All-Big 12 Honorable Mention by the coaches as a sophomore. But then Felix had a disappointing junior campaign, starting in just four games. As a senior, he has started in all but two games. Midway through his senior campaign, Felix is averaging 10.8 points per game.
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Kendal Yancy was named the team's most improved player last season. After averaging 3.1 points per contest in 10 starts as a freshman, Yancy averaged 6.3 points per game in 18 starts (34 games) his sophomore season. He is a versatile guard who can play anywhere in the backcourt. He won't be a huge offensive threat through, as he has attempted just 28 shots on the year.
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Connor Lammert, senior, forward
Connor Lammert is the only other Longhorn to have started in every contest this season. Lammert has shown to be durable as he has yet to miss a game in his four-year career. He is not a huge interior scoring threat as he averages just 6.1 points per contest. However, Lammert is second on the team in rebounding with six boards a game average.
★★★☆
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Prince Ibeh, senior, Center
Standing 6-foot-10, Prince Ibeh is an established rim protector. Ibeh ranked eighth in program history in blocks through three seasons with 148. He has done his part this season to move up on that list, as he currently has 25 blocks on the year. He likely won't be much of a factor on the offensive end, but will make Kansas players think twice when attacking the rim on Saturday.
AT A GLANCE
★★☆☆
Under first-year head coach Shaka Smart, the expectations for Texas weren't all too high. Very few expect the Longhorns to be in the first tier of teams competing for a conference championship. However, it is reasonable to expect Texas to be the best of the next tier of teams. The Longhorns currently post a 4-2 record in conference play with both losses coming on the road.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Demarcus Holland senior,guard
Texas' three time Most Outstanding Defensive Player will be a key factor on Saturday. Though it is likely he will be coming off the bench, Holland will be a primary defensive option for the Longhorns. In 16 games this season, Holland is averaging 17.1 minutes per game. On Saturday, he will likely be tabbed with the job of keeping a slumping Wayne Selden Jr. quiet.
QUESTION MARK
Can Taylor take over the game?
An upset over Kansas in Allen Fieldhouse seems farfetched. Currently, the Jayhawks are in a rut, coming off a disappointing road loss against Oklahoma State. Kansas will be desperate for a bounce-back victory with Iowa State and Kentucky around the corner. If Kansas' junior guard Frank Mason III continues to look sluggish, Taylor may be able to exploit him on Saturday. Even with that, the chance of upset are slim but the Longhorns could make it much closer than expected.
8 - Isaiah Taylor has led the team in scoring eight times. He has had scored 20 or more points in four games this season.
50 - Texas has held opposing teams under 50 percent shooting in three of its last four games.
BY THE NUMBERS
74. 8 - The Longhorns average 74.8 points per game but have actually scored less than 70 five times.
BIG JAY WILL CRY IF...
Taylor can take advantage of a hurt Mason and take over on Saturday. Taylor won't shoot a ton of threes as he has just 32 attempts on the year, so if he is going to go for 20-plus he will have to attack and create off the dribble. The three-ball typically helps with an upset but as West Virginia and Oklahoma State have exploited, Kansas is very susceptible to get beat off the dribble.
prediction: Kansas, 85-74
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is, the Rams would not have made it to the 1999 Super Bowl, and while it's easy for Rams fans to be shortsighted and angry, history will always credit the St. Louis Rams — not the Los Angeles Rams — with a Super Bowl ring.
St. Louis residents knew for awhile that Rams owner Stan Kroenke wanted to move their beloved team to Los Angeles, but when it became final on Jan. 12, it was still a stab
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AP PHOTO Rams fans cheer for their NFL football team at a news conference at the Forum in Inglewood, California.
Being a sports fan is about more than geography. If you're a Rams fan, it's perfectly acceptable to be upset at owner Stan Kroenke and the NFL for tearing the team from St. Louis and transplanting them into the entertainment-rich market of LA, but that does not mean you should stop supporting the team.
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Perhaps now more than ever the Rams need your support. In an already sports-rich market dominated by the NBA's LA Lakers and Clippers, along with the NHL's LA Kings and two MLS franchises, the Rams will be desperately fighting for relevance. Convincing Californians (who also have the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders) to bake in the hot LA sun inside of an NFL stadium instead of hitting the beach or touring Hollywood is no small task.
That's where "absentee fans come in.
a DirecTV commercial, you've heard them touting the ability to watch games out of market. This means two things.
Just like voting for your hometown mayor in college, the Rams are going to need your support from afar. If you've ever seen
So Rams fans; be mad,
1. Americans are gluttons for punishment.
2. "Absentee" fans are everywhere.
St. Louis, it's time to upgrade those television sets; DirecTV is expensive.
The Rams are not the first team in the history of the NFL to move cities and they certainly will not be the last. The NFL has Vikings fans from Kansas, Steelers fans from Seattle and Dolphins fans from Philly.
There will be Los Angeles Rams fans from St. Louis. It's time to honor the past and look toward the future.
Rams fans should not forget about the history made in the Edward Jones Dome. Legends like Marshall Faulk and Kurt Warner should not be forgotten by the city of St. Louis because the Rams decided to move the house. Without the support of St. Lou-
Both the city of St. Louis and the state of Missouri offered to provide millions of dollars to a new riverfront stadium, even though they still owe
in the back to the city and fans that had worked so hard to keep the team.
and get angry; let out those frustrations, but, at the end of the day, realize the St. Louis Rams are forever in the history books, even as the "Greatest Show on Turf" takes its talents to the City of Angels.
approximately $100 million on the Edward Jones Dome.
In a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay claimed he had never met Kroenke, although he had been mayor since 2001, a year before the Rams first began talks of stadium upgrades.
Kroenke never cared about St. Louis, the Rams, or their fans; he only cared about the money the Rams could make him. As former Cardinal Lance Berkman once said, "No matter what people say, it's always about the money."
It is shocking that in the last 14 years an owner has never met the mayor of the city his franchise calls home, but maybe it isn't as surprising because Kroenke also owns four other sports franchises.
As backstabbing as Kroenke's proposal to move the Rams was, even the most dedicated Rams fan can't deny that the team had been failing St.
Louis for years.
The Rams last made the playoffs in 2004, and since then, they have only finished one season with a .500 record or better. From 2007-2011, the Rams had the worst five-year in the history of the league (15-65).
The glory days of Super Bowls and the "Greatest Show on Turf" are long gone. It has been over ten years since the likes of Kurt Warner and Marshall Faulk last roamed the Dome and the Rams stood a chance of being competitive.
Despite being horrible for years, the Rams still drew thousands of fans every Sunday, proving that the fans hadn't given up on them. St. Louis loved the Rams, but sometimes we have to give up things we love.
After years of supporting sub-.500 teams and an owner who couldn't have cared less about the fans, it's time to say goodbye. Move on, Rams fans.
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Since the moment he stepped on campus, there has been an abnormal amount of buzz around freshman center Cheick Diallo. Since he was officially cleared to play in the non-conference season, fans have been calling for the freshman center to be inserted in the starting lineup, despite how raw he seems at times on the court.
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Kansas forward Cheick Diallo (13) shoots over Oklahoma State guard Leyton Hammonds (23) in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016.
On Tuesday, fans got their wish. Kansas coach Bill Self penciled Diallo into the starting lineup at Oklahoma State. But even in Diallo's highly-anticipated debut, the Cowboys routed the Jayhawks, 86-67. It was the third consecutive loss for Self against his alma mater in Gallagher-Iba Arena.
In his first collegiate start, Diallo scored four points on 2-of-3 shooting. He hauled in a pair of rebounds and recorded one steal. He logged just 13 minutes in the game.
However, it didn't come as much of a surprise that Diallo made the start, especially after Self's comments following the previous game. After the win over TCU, Self said he would try to find more minutes for Diallo, along with fellow freshman Carlton Bragg Jr.
"Those guys did some good things and earned some more minutes," Self said after the last game
in the University release. "They're getting better ... I think Cheick's attitude has been good even when he hasn't played."
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Previously, senior big man Hunter Mickelson had held the starting position down, at least for the last 10 games. However, he has now failed to log more than five minutes in the last three contests, getting buried behind the Kansas frontcourt. In fact, Mickelson had not recorded double-digit minutes since Kansas' home victory against Baylor on January 2.
Diallo finally forced Self's hand in Saturday's home victory over TCU. The freshman had arguably his best game of his young Kansas career. He was one point and one rebound shy of a double-double, and he added five blocks, which was both a game-high and career-high mark.
However, on Tuesday, the towering 6-foot-9 center wasted no time showing how up-and-down it can be starting a freshman on the road in a conference game.
Early in the game, there was good, and there was bad.
scored the putback from about six feet away.
Early on in Stillwater, the freshman big was energetic but also a bit erratic.
first half. The Jayhawks went into the intermission down 43-38. As a team, Kansas was shooting 43 percent from the floor.
Diallo was called for goaltending with 16:33 to go in the first half allowing Oklahoma State to cut the deficit to two. On the very next possession, Diallo made up for it by catching a shot by Mason that fell short of the rim. He turned around and
Through the first six minutes, he hit one of two shots, hauled in a pair of rebounds and turned it over twice. As a result, Diallo headed to the bench.
But Diallo wasn't the only one that struggled in the
Without junior guard Brannen Greene (knee), the nation's leading three-point shooting team hit just 2-of-10 shots from beyond the perimeter.
Meanwhile, Oklahoma State, who came in shooting
just over 30 percent from long range on the year, was 7-of-13 from three. That shooting would carry over into the second half, as the three-point barrage continued.
"They had seven different guys make a 3-pointer. It was their night," Self said in the University release, "we contributed to it, but what went wrong is they were far better than us tonight."
As the Cowboys ended their four-game losing streaking, they also managed to knock down a season-high 11 three-pointers, while shooting over 50 percent from distance.
On the other side, Kansas was ineffective and inefficient from three, hitting just 6-of-22 from behind the arc. Really, the Jayhawks struggled to find the bottom of the net from all over the floor, hitting just 42 percent of their shots.
Even the team's leading scorer, junior guard Frank Mason III, shot just 4-of-12 in a 14-point performance. Senior forward Perry Ellis scored 13 on 3-of-10 shooting. He would, however, make some history, passing Wilt Chamberlain on the Kansas all-time scoring list. He moved up to 23rd in points in program history.
And this was not the only good news Ellis received on the day. Earlier in the day, he was named as one of the 30 Senior CLASS Award candidates - along with
three other Big 12 players, including Oklahoma guard Buddy Hield. However, nothing he did Tuesday night really showcased that ability, as there was even a near-15-minute stretch where he was held scoreless.
Regardless, on Tuesday, it was all about the freshman, though not quite the one you might expect.
Diallo received much of the hype because he was in the starting lineup. However, his freshman teammate, Carlton Bragg Jr., outplayed him. Bragg finished with eight points on 4-of-4 shooting. He also hauled in four rebounds.
It remains to be seen if Self will stick with Diallo going forward or call on his other freshman big man. Certainly, Diallo isn't the sole reason for the disappointing road loss, but, as a team, the Jayhawks may need a jolt.
Kansas has consecutive games against Iowa State and Kentucky around the corner that could prove to be fatal, at least in terms of getting a one-seed come March.
But before that two-game stand, Kansas will have one more chance to figure things out, returning home to take on Texas on Saturday. Tip between the teams will be at 1 p.m.
KU women's basketball drops ninth straight game to K-State
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When playing your instate rival, there's always some extra motivation to get a win. Often times there's a different atmosphere; there's more energy and more electricity.
On an eight-game losing streak, the Kansas women's basketball team hosted its in-state rival, Kansas State, on Wednesday night in Allen Fieldhouse.
First quarter woes made a huge difference in the ballgame, as Kansas State picked up its first win of the Sunflower Showdown this season, 59-46. It was Kansas State's fourth consecutive win in the series, while Kansas lost its last nine games on the season.
Kansas was out-of-sync in the first quarter, scoring only one field goal in the first five minutes. Freshman forward Tyler Johnson ended the long scoring drought.
"Our Achilles' heel has been our offense," Kansas coach Brandon Schneider said. "Our inability to make shots just puts too much pressure on every part of our game."
However, this wasn't a surprise to Schneider. He has seen this lack of offense consistently from his young team as of late.
"We missed a couple of layups and open threes," Schneider said. "When you are not performing at a great level — a high-level offensively — [there's no] execution and the biggest part is missing shots."
However, Kansas State coach Jeff Mitte said he thought the Jayhawks could make a run, which they would, late in the game, to make things closer.
"Well they've got good speed and good athletes at the guard spot," Mittie said. "They knocked some shots down — nine threes. It's a team that's got some weapons, and we saw them
hit more shots as the game went on."
One of the key factors of this edition of the Sunflower Showdown was Kansas State junior forward Breanna Lewis. Lewis had 23 points and 13 rebounds. The Wildcats outscored the Jayhawks 34-6 in the paint, with 20 of those points coming from Lewis.
"I feel like I'm a big help for my team defensively and offensively. That's what I try to do." Lewis said.
The Jayhawks did see much improvement in the second half. They actually outscored Kansas State by a single point, 33-32. However, Schneider said he didn't think that second half was the best Kansas has played all year.
"There's been quarters where I've been happy with how we've played," Schneider said. "I thought we did a lot of good things against Baylor. That was our best defensive game."
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Redshirt-Junior Timeka O'Neal led Kansas in scoring with nine points on three three-point baskets. Sophomore guard Chayla Cheadle had eight points, while Johnson had eight points and four rebounds.
Kansas (5-13, 0-7) will host Oklahoma State on Superhero Day Sunday at 2 p.m. in Allen Fieldhouse. The Cowgirls took both wins away from Kansas last season, winning by eight points in Lawrence and four points in Stillwater, Okla.
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After finishing last season fifth in the Big 12, the Jayhawks begin their 2016 preseason selected to finish fourth in the conference.
According to a KU Athletics press release, this ties the Jayhawks' highest projected conference finish for a third time, in addition to 2002 and
2014.
The last time Kansas finished in fourth place in the regular season was the 2012-13 season. The team finished 41-16 overall and was 9-8 in Big 12 play.
The teams projected ahead of Kansas in the rankings are defending Big 12 champion Oklahoma, Baylor and Texas. Kansas will play all three teams away from Lawrence
this season.
Despite having a 32-5 record outside the Big 12 last year, Kansas was only 8-10 in conference play. Kansas was swept by both Baylor and Texas but managed to come away with one win in the three game series against Oklahoma.
Last year, five different Jayhawks won Big 12 awards, including now senior shortstop
Chaley Brickey, who made the All-Big 12 First Team, and sophomores Daniella Chavez and Jessie Roane, who were named to the Big 12 Freshmen team.
"It's way more intense now than in the fall," Williams
Kansas also welcomes six freshman to the team. Pitcher Ania Williams is one of the six that may have a chance at playing time this year.
said in the press release. "What the coaches expect from you is much higher than in the fall. With me being a freshman, I didn't know what to expect."
Along with the freshman class, the Jayhawks also welcome transfers Andie Formby from Virginia and Jordan Zolman from Missouri. Formby struck out 102 batters in 33 appearances as a
freshman and Zolman batted 346 as a sophomore.
This season, Kansas begins Big 12 play against Oklahoma on April 1 and then takes on Texas Tech on April 15 in Lawrence. However, the non-conference schedule starts Feb. 2 against North Carolina State in the Jacksonville Tournament.
Junior Kyron Watson transfers from Kansas to Southern Illinois
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After recording six tackles in his first two years at Kansas, junior linebacker Kyron Watson announced on Twitter last Sunday that he would transfer for the 2016 season.
On Wednesday, his landing spot was determined: Southern Illinois announced that Watson would join the team for the upcoming season. He will have two years of eligibility left with the Salukis.
Excited to welcome Kyron Watson to the Saluki Football family! 4-star LB will have two years of eligibility at SIU.
After being recruited by former head coach Charlie Weis, Watson played in 15 games in his two seasons with the Jayhawks. He played almost exclusively on special teams during his freshman season and only sparingly in his four games during his sophomore year. His production, to an extent, was disappointing, considering he was given four stars by ESPN.com out of high school and three stars from Rivals.com and Scout.com. He also had offers from Michigan, California, Missouri and TCU, among others.
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When Watson announced he would transfer, it was expected that he would
move closer to his daughter and his hometown of East St. Louis, Illinois. With the move to SIU, Watson will be just two hours from East St. Louis.
coordinator at Northern Illinois earlier this month. Next year, the Jayhawks should be led by junior Joe Dineen Jr., senior Marcquis Roberts in the middle, with senior Courtney Arnick and sophomore Kendall Duckworth making contributions as well.
As for Kansas, the main core of linebackers from 2015 should stay mostly intact, save for linebackers coach Kevin Kane, who was hired as the defensive
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University of Kansas Student Senate Fall 2015 Review
Student Senate is comprised of 105 elected and appointed senators and 12 executive staff members. Below is a list of accomplishments made by Student Senate during the Fall 2015 semester.
- Student Senate provided $5,000 to fund printing services for graduate students in Watson Library after other departments' decision to defund the service.
- The Native American Advisory Board, proposed by Student Senate, began meeting this semester to discuss the board's structure and mission for improving recruitment and retention of Native-American students at the University of Kansas.
- Student Senate voted for a fee increase of $4.90 to construct a new building to replace the existing Burge Union in the Central District project.The new Union will be 33,500-square-feet and will feature a ballroom, reflection room,and office space for the Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center, Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity and Legal Services for Students.
- Student Body President Jessie Pringle established four ad hoc committees:Veterans Service Committee,Student Senate Overview Committee, Election Reevaluation Committee and Retention and Recruitment Committee. These committees will report their findings and give legislative recommendations to Student Senate in March.
- Student Body President Jessie Pringle and Government Relations Director Stephonn Alcorn worked with city officials to establish a city liaison intern. This internship, paid for by the city of Lawrence, will serve to better connect the city, University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University.
- Student Senate updated the senate accountability and outreach policies for Student Senate.
- The Student Senate appointed a full Court of Appeals which includes two newly approved Law Students.
- The Committee on the Status of Minorities met multiple times this semester to formulate their annual report. This report will be presented to full senate by Director of Diversity & Inclusion Omar Rana and Multicultural Affairs Chair Bahar Barani on January 27th.Additionally,a president's roundtable with leaders in the multicultural community was re-instituted this semester.
- A University Conversation was hosted by Senate and SUA on November 5th..The topic addressed sexual assault on campus and hearing from campus administrators from Student Affairs, IOA, and the Emily Taylor Center about changes and improvements in campus policy.
- Student Senate conducted Outreach Week from November 2nd to 6th, held tabling events during Hawk Week and Finals Week. Due to outreach efforts, an unprecedented 40 candidates ran for freshmen elections.
- Amendments to Student Senate Rules and Regulations include: gender-neutral language required throughout SSRR and all legislation an increase in maximum amount allotted for travel in the Multicultural Education Fund, an appointed seat for the International Student Association and giving the Diversity & Inclusion Director voting rights in Student Senate Executive Committee.
- Resolutions were passed by Student Senate supporting the establishment of an Intellectual Disability Program at KU, Invisible Hawk and their 15 demands, bringing a wheelchair basketball team to the university, opposing Brownback's executive actions on the Syrian refugee crisis and opposing the SafeCampus Act.
- Student Senate Executive Staff received Sex Trafficking Awareness Training. Development Director,Tomas Green collaborated with the Willow Domestic Violence Center to expand trainings to Watkins Health Center, International Student Services and CAPS.
- 100 student organizations received over $185,000 for events and general funding needs.
For more information on these initiatives or general questions/feedback, please contact us at senate@ ku.edu. If you're interested in getting involved in Senate for the Spring 2016 semester, contact Chief of Staff Adam Moon at senatecos@ku.edu.
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▶ MIKE MAICKE
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After a 70-63 victory over TCU, it seemed as though the Kansas Jayhawks were back to their winning ways. The game was more one-sided than the final margin would show, but there were bright spots throughout the contest.
There really isn't a set rotation, even at this point in the season. After the game, Kansas coach Bill Self acknowledged the issue. He talked about playing his freshmen more, saying they earned extra minutes.
Kansas had another impressive performance from the front court personnel, outscoring TCU 30 to 16 in the paint, showcasing the variety of skilled interior players the team has at its disposal. However, that impressive outing also highlighted a problem — and it's been a problem all year.
The problem is, and has been, the list of big men on the team.
This year, returning Kansas forwards and centers Perry Ellis, Hunter Mickelson, Jamari Traylor and Landen Lucas are now joined by talented freshmen Carlton Bragg Jr. and Cheick Diallo.
Simply put, that's a long list. That's too long a list.
While it's considered by many to be a "good problem to have," it is still a problem. The Jayhawks have too many players receiving minutes, and that's something that needs to be worked out sooner rather than later.
After all, lineups need continuity. Players need time to build strong chemistry between established lineups and rotations. This can be difficult to do when the talented freshman rim protector Cheick Diallo goes from playing a combined 18 minutes in the first four Big 12 games to 21 minutes against TCU.
And that lack of chemistry carried over into the next game.
In his first start against Oklahoma State Diallo found himself out of position on multiple plays. On a few more occasions, he screwed up one of Kansas' most common plays until finally he was pulled from the game and would not return, at least until the game was basically over.
However, you have to take the bad with the good. Self needs to keep Diallo in the starting lineup, and he needs to keep Diallo's minutes in the double-digits, even if he's not getting 21 minutes every night. Really, the latter part of that is more important than anything else: he needs to learn on the court.
The potential downside exists, and it would be foolish to ignore it. The Big 12 is tough. The result of this might — keyword, might — be an extra loss or two, but that shouldn't matter in the end. The Big 12 winner will likely end up with four or five losses, which is something Kansas could still absolutely outperform, even with an unexperienced Diallo in the mix.
Still, I understand the arguments to the contrary.
Yes, there are situations where a player has a lot of momentum or when a certain big man matches up against a certain defense or player better than another one — like Lucas against a large post-threat or Traylor
against a quicker and smaller team — but consistency is still key. And Self needs to start finding a lot more of it with his frontcourt rotations.
At this point in the season, it's time to go all in. The starting lineup needs to have Cheick Diallo in it, and that can't change.
Before the TCU game, Self had elected to utilize, for the most part, Hunter Mickelson, Landen Lucas and Jamari Taylor as the primary centers, even though as a defensive big man, they each didn't really match up.
What's more is Diallo has recorded more blocks in league play than the three previously-mentioned frontcourt players, despite seeing substantially less court time.
To simplify it: Yes, Diallo's game is raw, but it just takes one look at his athleticism and length to know what he could be. His ceiling is by far the highest among all the KU big men, even when the flaws show on the court.
And even while he learns, it's not like Diallo is going to be a complete liability. In addition to the defense he can provide, Diallo runs the floor well, and his jumper — though ill-advised on occasion — can be enough to keep his defender honest, which can create space for Ellis and the guards when they drive in the paint.
Right now, there have been flashes — flashes of solid, potentially lethal, low post moves from Diallo, but those flashes need to turn into consistent play. What it will take for that to happen is time on the court.
And with more and more time, those flaws should be further and fewer between.
Stay with it. The flashes are there, and soon, they'll be more than just flashes.
But no matter the argument you make, it all comes back to one thing. Diallo needs to be putting the finishing touches on his game by March for the Jayhawks to succeed in the postseason. That won't happen by averaging eight or nine minutes in Big 12 play.
Self is on the right track. He recognized Diallo needs more minutes, and now he's trying to change that. However, against Oklahoma State, he fell back into old habits.
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Junior forward Perry Ellis throws the ball down during the first half of the Jayhawk's game against Texas. Ellis scored a game high 28 points and had 13 rebounds to complete the double-double Sauridy in Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas rallied from down six to win 69-64.
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After a 13-game winning streak spanning from November to January, the Kansas Jayhawks have lost two of their last three games and are limping into a matchup with the Texas Longhorns this weekend.
"I don't think we're playing with near as much energy as we did a week ago," head coach Bill Self said after Kansas defeated TCU 70-63 last Saturday.
In Tuesday's loss to Oklahoma State, Self opted to start freshman forward Cheick Diallo, although it was fellow freshman Carlton Bragg Jr. who had the better game, making the starting center position for Saturday's contest murky.
But the Jayhawks' other four starters are set in stone, and they have been one of the most balanced starting units in the country. Senior forward Perry Ellis, junior guards Wayne Selden Jr. and Frank Mason III, along with sophomore Devonte' Graham are all averaging double figures this
season.
Although the year-long starters have each had good moments over the last four games, none of those guys have played consistently well on offense, and the rest of the team has followed suit.
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On Saturday, the Jayhawks will have the luxury of returning to Allen Fieldhouse, where they're currently riding a 33-game winning streak, and an 11-1 series edge over the Longhorns. The Jayhawks are 15-3 (4-2) while the Longhorns are 12-6 (4-2).
However, Texas has shown the ability to knock off some of the nations top teams, with wins over No.1 North Carolina in December and No.17 Iowa State earlier this month. That carried over against the No.6 West Virginia Mountaineers, as the Longhorns pulled off the upset in Morgantown, West.Va.
The Longhorns will still be without senior center Cameron Ridley, who they lost in December to a broken foot. The Longhorns are just 4-3 without their center who averaged 12.7 points and a team-high 10 rebounds per game before his injury.
But the Longhorns will still feature a few familiar faces on Saturday afternoon. They are led by junior point guard Isaiah Taylor, who is averaging 17.2 points per game and 4.8 assists per game this season, both of which lead the Longhorns.
Last year, Taylor had success against the Jayhawks, averaging 20 points per game in the teams' two meetings. Senior guard Javan Felix is averaging 10.8 points per game, and together the Longhorns backcourt should provide a stiff test for Mason and Graham.
Saturday will also be Texas head coach Shaka Smart's first trip to Allen Fieldhouse. Last time Smart coached against Kansas, he led Virginia Commonwealth to an improbable 71-61 victory over the Kansas Jayhawks in the Elite Eight of the 2011 NCAA Tournament.
That VCU team employed a full court press and played at a very quick pace. This year, Smart has Texas playing a similar style, and made it perfectly clear last April he was not worried about how it would translate to the Big 12.
Shaka asked how his style fits the Big 12. "It translated pretty well a few years ago in San Antonio" Ouch. First shot across Kansas' bow.
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But despite the Smart against Kansas narrative, this matchup is more about Kansas finding its groove again.
In addition to the lack of energy, the Jayhawks also haven't shot well over the last three games. During that stretch, they have shot just 31 percent from beyond the arc, which is 13 percent below their season average.
Fortunately for the Jayhawks, who haven't lost a home game after a road loss since February 2004, if there's one place that can cure struggles, it's Allen Fieldhouse.
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Schneider looks for positives and the right fit for Kansas women's basketball
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After each Kansas women's basketball game this season, coach Brandon Schneider has always been the first one to find the positives in his team's
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"I think you have to," Schneider said. "The biggest positive I can tell you is I really think if you walked into our practice, you wouldn't have any idea if we were 0-7 or 7-0 and that's the biggest compliment that I can give our players is they show up every day they continue to work extremely hard and make improvements."
performance.
Kansas is now 0-7 in Big 12 play after a 59-46 loss to Kansas State Wednesday night at Allen Fieldhouse. However, he strives to focus on ways to grow even when results aren't going his team's way.
Lately finding the positives is getting more difficult as his team hasn't won a game in five weeks, since a 61-54 home win over Navy in overtime on Dec. 13.
"We're trying to win," Timeka O'Neal, a junior guard for Kansas, said after the loss to Kansas State. "That's the main goal right now. Our record is unacceptable and we know we're better than that."
Schneider claims no moral victories or says his team deserves more than it gets. That, however, doesn't make losing any easier.
After the game, Schneider denied Kansas' performance
"I don't know that we've played a best game, [there have] been quarters where I've been happy with how we've played," Schneider said. "If you've played a best game, you'd have a win. I think for us you can find our best quarters, but I'm not going to say we've had a best game when we haven't won a game in the league."
against Kansas State was the best it has had so far this season in conference play. The 13-point margin was the smallest Kansas has been defeated by so far in conference play.
"Timeka [O'Neal] has been somebody that we've inserted and were just looking for a little bit more offense out of her and fewer turnovers from that position," Schneider said. "That's why she's there. Caelynn [Manning-Allen] and Tyler [Johnson at forward] have kind of been
In recent games, the Jayhawks have lacked offense. While Schneider was happy with the team's defensive effort, he said lackluster offense "puts pressure on every other part of our game."
The substandard productivity on offense has caused Schneider to shake up his starting lineup. In each of the team's last three games, a different starting five has taken the floor.
"Unless you're really playing well as a team there's going to be some inconsistencies in the starting lineup," Schneider said.
Another silver lining that Schneider could take in after the game was the attendance. The team drew 2,529 to the Fieldhouse for the in-state rivalry. Schneider admitted he appreciated the fact that the fans had not given up on the team after nine losses in a row.
Manning-Allen currently leads Kansas in rebounding with 6.3 per game, but Tyler Johnson leads the team in field goal percentage in less minutes played. Johnson averages 15 minutes per game while Manning-Allen averages 24.4.
"I can't compliment our fan base and our community enough because I understand that it would be very easy for them to not come and support us just based on our record," Schneider said. "I do think our players, hopefully, play in a manner that deserves their support."
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Faculty from the School of Social Welfare spent Friday morning in a classroom at the Office of Multicultural Affairs to help their students by learning about themselves.
The group discussed privilege and oppression in society for three hours as well as how to handle difficult dialogues on different topics. The faculty were at a microaggression training hosted by the educators at the OMA.
The School of Social Welfare is one of many groups on campus who have sought diversity training at the OMA recently.
"What was really helpful for me was hearing my faculty members' perspectives, what they had experienced in trying to facilitate difficult issues in class and then working out some potential strategies for how we might be able to handle those difficult dialogues in the future," Smokowski said.
Director of the OMA Precious Porras said the office has seen an uptick in training requests the past few months. Last fall the office trained 7,400 people, compared to 6,100 in Fall 2014.
Paul Smokowski, Dean of the School of Social Welfare, said the training was divided into two parts - a facilitated conversation and a lecture-oriented session on microaggressions.
The idea of introspection is
at the center of OMA trainings. Porras said the trainings, which are designed to educate people on issues of social justice, are geared towards trying to get individuals to acknowledge their identities and the privileges or oppressions that go along with them. This way, Porras said, people are able to explore how their previous dispositions affect how they interact with others.
"Let's go a little bit deeper and talk about what is your story, what does that mean to you and how does that show up and impact your Jayhawk experience." Porras said.
Right now, there is no mandatory training at the University. Director of the Office of Diversity and Equity Nate Thomas said the office will be focusing on ways to bring
Porras said people are generally used to identifying themselves by profession or hometown, but when it comes to training, Porras said the OMA tries to go further.
Diversity and inclusion training has been on the minds of many at the University over the past few months. In November, the student group Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk, listed mandatory, intense "inclusion and belonging" training for all levels of students, staff, faculty and administration in its 15 demands.
Porras also said once someone is aware of their privileges, it can create a more inclusive environment.
training to more people at the University, particularly instructors and educators.
"We're going to continue to enhance how we look at providing training to the campus, because that's one of our priorities this year, working with CTE, the Center for Teaching Excellence, working with HR." Thomas said. "We're already having discussions around that."
Porras said having educators who are aware of their identities is important for creating an inclusive and accepting classroom.
"If you weren't aware before that you're micro-aggressing students with the language you use in the classroom or you're forcing trans students to out themselves when you call their names on the roster even though they go by a different name, those are things you don't know if you're blind to that privilege that you have," Porras said.
Although training can offer many useful tips for educators, Porras said they do train a large amount of students as well to help develop inclusive leadership skills. One of the other focuses of the training, Porras said, is making sure to establish a common language when it comes to issues of diversity, such as introducing yourself with your personal pronouns.
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mon language so that we're all sharing this common vernacular on inclusion on campus education, "Porras said.
The OMA has been doing diversity training for many years but Porras said over the past five years the focus has shifted from issues revolving around race to a broader spectrum of issues.
"That focus has moved to a social justice focus, really looking at diversity issues on campus and how we can try and address them," Porras said.
The OMA has been working with the Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equality as well as the Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity to look at areas where different identities and privileges intersect. Porras said that, although race is important and it is discussed in training, it is no longer the sole focus.
"We're also talking about other identities, how they intersect and what they look like," Porras said.
Training can last anywhere from one to five hours, depending on the group's preference. Porras said she likes to do at least a two-hour session to cover all the bases.
While the conversation
usually out from a common place of recognizing privilege and identities, the training can be finetuned to meet the specific needs of the unit undergoing the process. Porras said the School of Social Welfare focused on microaggressions, but other groups might work with different aspects of social justice.
"The pieces that make it specific to the unit are centered around what's going around their unit and what things they want to work on," Porras said.
Porras said she hopes the training can help participants approach uncomfortable issues that might have seemed ominous or foreboding in the past. Porras said that, although it might not be easy, conversation centered around privilege, identity and oppression is important to an overall better campus.
"We need to be uncomfortable and have that dialogue so we're having some conversation, saying these are ways you can have that conversation in a safer experience," Porras said. "These are ways that we can try and broach the topic so that everyone's voice is heard."
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KU students discuss complaints at diversity and inclusion meeting Thursday
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At a meeting on diversity and inclusion on Thursday, Jeffery Durbin, a fifth-year senior from Fort Scott, Kan., said he has been hearing complaints from students for over two years.
The complaints were that the admissions process was vague and inconsistent.
To apply, the program requires a student to submit their GPA, ACT score, two essays, and a resume detailing extracurricular involvement. Although there is no minimum GPA or ACT requirement, several students said they were discouraged from even applying upon seeing the average scores of honors students, which are listed at the top of the application
"A number of students, both present and former, had expressed a lack of understanding as to why their application process had been rejected," Durbin said. "It was unclear what [the students'] voice was in that application."
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students who were confused and frustrated with the requirements for the program. During his time on student senate as a junior, Durbin said he drafted a resolution for structural change to the admissions process The resolution ultimately failed.
Durbin said students who did not have outstanding test scores should be able to advocate for themselves and have a voice in the application process.
"A lot more than your academic metrics factor into how successful you are," Durbin said.
Durbin and many others voiced their concerns during a "think tank" meet-
Bryan Young, director of the program and a professor of civil and environmental engineering, said the purpose of the meeting was to provide the faculty with "input, feedback, comments and concerns that we can work with to work on a continued and sustained effort to improve the honors program and services that we provide to the students at the University of Kansas."
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Durbin said this kind of metric standard could be discouraging to students who come from marginalized backgrounds where opportunities for test prep and advanced courses were not available.
"How does a student, who is coming to KU without any kind of resources, or coming from a high school that didn't have AP or IB curriculum, how do they get access and preparation for college and how do we expect them to walk into KU and get a 3.8 GPA and still receive a message from the University that says 'we value you, we want you to succeed, we don't just want to retain you, we want you to succeed," Durbin said.
Omara Rana, a senior from Tulsa, Okla., said the honors program should take everything into consideration when looking at admissions.
"One thing the Honors school needs to think about is what students are facing," Rana said, "like what happened in high school that maybe either caused their GPA to not be as high as you want or the ACT or SAT scores not as high as you want."
Rana said he wants to know if the honors program has considered taking a more holistic approach to admission by looking at community service and engagement.
"I feel like what makes an honors student or makes a great student at KU goes a lot beyond how academically successful you are," Rana said.
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Tom Markus of Iowa City named new Lawrence city manager
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Broadening relations between the City of Lawrence and its universities and improving affordable housing are on the top of Tom Markus' list when he begins his new position as Lawrence's City Manager March 21. Markus, who is currently the city manager for Iowa City, said he looks forward to working in another university town.
Markus said he has been involved in city government for over 40 years, recently in a city similar to Lawrence. "I really enjoy university towns because the communities as a whole are a lot more involved than other types of cities I've seen," Markus said.
Lawrence Mayor Mike Amyx said the time Markus spent in Iowa City set him apart from other candidates.
"The years that he's been
a city manager in the Midwest, most recently Iowa City with the University of Iowa, made him the best choice for the job. He has a pretty good understanding of how issues that affect university towns work," Amyx said.
Markus' time in Iowa City provided an opportunity to explore and understand issues a university town faces.
"There's a sort of nexus between the issues, and you have to focus on lifting everything, not just one part," Markus said. "Recognizing that students, faculty and staff are part of a major economic engine for the city is key to finding a balance between city issues and university issues and concerns."
One of the issues that Markus intends to explore upon arrival is affordable housing, an issue of importance to both students and the community. He said housing has become an issue across the country, and has shifted to local government.
"Understanding the relationship between administration of the University and the city is very important when you consider the services that the city is responsible for, like maintaining the streets, water and other basic services the city provides."
"There is a strong connection between economic development and public policy trying to create more affordable housing and better paying jobs," Markus said. "Places like Lawrence and Iowa City are very interested in issues like these. I recognized this in Iowa City and I know that
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this is an issue I will likely face in Lawrence."
Markus said he wants to increase relationships between the city and the universities, as well as getting students more involved in local politics.
"Relationships like this obviously already exist, but they are constantly evolving and changing so we need to keep looking for ways to collaborate more efficiently." Markus said. "The students, faculty and staff having their views and concerns recognized by the city is a crucial part of the relationships that need to exist."
When Markus was in Iowa City, two members of the Iowa University Student Senate sat on the city council, something he said he'd like to see in Lawrence.
"One of the things that I think he can help with is maintaining town and gown relationships," Amyx said, "Understanding the
relationship between administration of the University and the city is very important when you consider the services that the city is responsible for, like maintaining the streets, water and other basic services the city provides."
While he said he is looking forward to getting started as the new city manager, he said he's also excited to watch KU basketball.
"I've always liked the Kansas teams, I don't know that they're America's team exactly, but they've always been a hard working group that is fun to watch." Markus said."My family and I are really looking forward to being in Lawrence and Kansas."
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Kansas Humanities Council gives $3,500 grant to Kickapoo tribe photo project
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KU Endowment received a $3,500 grant from the Kansas Humanities Council to support a photography project directed by a doctoral candidate in the University's School of Social Welfare.
Felicia Mitchell, the doctoral candidate, will direct "Water is Life: The Significance of Water Among the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas," which highlights the struggle for drinking water on the Kickapoo of Kansas reservation in Brown County in Northeast Kansas. It will explore the water shortages the Kickapoo are facing through a photo exhibition, according to a University news release.
The project was done in collaboration with the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas in an effort to show how members of the Tribe handle the water shortages on
the Tribe's reservation. The project is expected to be on exhibition sometime in 2016, according to the news release.
Residents are unable to access ground water, because of a rock formation under the reservation, according to the Tribe's website. The website also reports that the Tribe's four-decade-old water plant is no longer able to keep up with the water needs of reservation residents.
"We were excited to see something that both discusses the issue of water in Kansas, and the specific issue that this tribe faces," said Murl Riedel, director of grants for the Kansas Humanities Council. "Felicia Mitchell, the project director, had a very specific project that she wanted to explore and she had an interesting way to go about it, using a photo documentary format."
The project will feature photos taken on the reservation, as well as stories from tribe members discussing the water issues they've faced for over 40 years.
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"I'm hopeful that this project will offer a tribal perspective on what it's like to live on the reservation and have these concerns
about water, and be able to share this with a broader community who might be able to come together with resources and support to help address these issues," Mitchell said.
The project, which Mitchell is conducting as her dissertation, is one of a few instances in which she has worked with Native American groups. She's worked in reservation communities before, helping with issues like water security.
"I've always been very interested in issues connected to health and well-being in tribal communities," Mitchell said.
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Vice Chancellor looks forward to building relationships and learning about KU
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The new Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer Leisa Julian was drawn to the University because of its high standing in education and research.
She said the changing role of higher education at colleges and universities across the country also affected her decision to accept her new position at the University.
Julian said the University environment is evolving and that it is multifaceted, including areas from community service to research opportunities.
"So KU in particular attracted me because of its stature as a major teaching and research institution and an economic engine in the state," said Julian.
Julian will replace Theresa Gordzica, who will retire after 34 years, according to a University release.
The CFO position reports to Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, according to the release, and "provides leadership for KU's finances and business operations on the Lawrence and KU Medical Center campuses."
Julian said her first goal upon arriving on campus will be to build relationships and learn about "the KUway."
"Learning about how the institution manages its financial processes and budgets is going to be different from what I'm familiar with, so there will be a period of time getting acclimated to the institution and the folks," she said. "I think key to all of that is getting to know people and build relationships."
In addition to her role as CFO, Julian will serve as vice chancellor and she will be a member of the Chancellor's cabinet.
"I will have a role that is expanded to a certain degree from what Theresa had, and I will also be responsible for risk management, internal audit, and airport operations, as well as the overall strategic financial and business planning," she said.
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"She presented a portrait to us of someone who has competency around the work [she will be doing]," Robinson said. "She presented to us a personal style that is accessible as a person, professional, collaborative, and who would seem to have the range of attributes to deal with the variety of stakeholders you have to deal with in the CFO role."
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An associate professor of social welfare at the University found a strengths-based approach to treat mental healths issues in children, according to a University press release.
The professor, Amy Mendenhall, is also director of the Center for Children and Families. Her research was done in an effort to implement a formal model to how researchers and case managers treat children with mental health illnesses and said she thinks it may have a more positive effect than traditional models.
The strengths-based model is one that focuses on what the individual is good at and what his or
her unique strengths are, rather than focusing on the illness," Mend enhall said. "We believe that
when the focus is put on what is going wrong and all the negative in the individual's life, that he or she is more likely to focus on the illness rather than the positives."
After surveying different focus groups, Mendenhall and her team found that there was a lack of structure to how the situations were being handled in case management. Instead, a more crisis-management approach was being used, putting out fires from week-to-week as they appeared.
"We wanted to implement a formal model," Mendenhall said. "And once they knew about this model that focused on building goals and skills and empowering the individual, they were very exciting to start focusing on more positive strengths so they didn't have to always be in a crisis."
The Strengths Model is not a wholly new concept, having been developed in the mid 1980s and now being used by mental health professionals across Kansas, according to the press release. It has only been used to treat adult patients rather than children and adolescents
as seen in Mendenhall's research, the release said.
Mendenhall and Whitney Grube, the project coordinator and a graduate student at the University's School of Social Welfare, were faced with the challenge of adapting the model to best suit the needs of younger patients.
"In the first year of the adaptation, we had to think about how the youth is cognitively in a very different place than adults," Mendenhall said. "We had to take into consideration the individual's developmental process, where they were emotionally, and how they processed their identity."
In both models, goal development is an imperative part of the process and with the adults, the focus may be put on careers or something specific in the workforce. To meet the goals of children and adolescents, the focus is moved to include sports, after-school activities or any constructive focus best for the individual.
"We also had to include a focus on the family," Mendenhall said. "When working with adults you don't have to include the family unit but when you're working with kids, that's not an option; when you're working with kids, you're working with a family.
She added: "Of course we want to focus on the individual and say that this is about your life and your treatment and your goals but we also need to figure out how that fits in with
"The strengths-based model is one that focuses on what the individual is good at and what his or her unique strengths are, rather than focusing on the illness."
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what parents want out of the treatment and helping the parents become apart of the process as well."
The third change to the model was how the individual fit into his or her system. School is a large part of what children have to go through and is a system wholly unique to their demographic.
"There are a few systems that are very different between the adult and child world," Mendenhall said. "We have to account for the welfare system if the child is
in a family in the Welfare system and of course even within the mental health system there is a wide divide between how adults and children are treated so we have to figure out how the adaptive model works within each system."
After making the changes, the team began its research by measuring the children's grades, school attendance, socialization and overall health. In a few months, the team found the students were performing at higher levels in each field and more so than if they had been working within the parameters of another model.
"We want to focus on what the child can do to help their situation rather than what the situation is," Mendenhall said. "What do you want to get out of this process? How can you be more fulfilled in your life and what do you already have that we can expand upon?"
While the children seem to be having a positive reaction to the model, the case workers have also been benefitted by the change.
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Mendenhall said she feels the model would work outside of Kansas and could eventually be integrated into other youth systems, as the model doesn't only work for one illness or a handful of situations. It is an approach she said she hopes could be used within the welfare system and even child delinquency programs.
"Adolescents who go to mental health treatments see a very 'problem-focused' approach by the professionals, focusing on negative symptoms and behaviors," Mendenhall said. "We want people to feel empowered, feel as though they are going to succeed, and point them on the way to recovery."
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Cornelius Baker, a senior from Wichita, said he had negative experiences with a high school program that discouraged him from joining the University honors
program. However, during the two University honors courses that he did take, Baker said he felt tokenized because he is a black male.
"I took [the classes] to get closer to professors so I could get I could research with them in the future, and I felt like most of that time, for me, wasn't spent
Although Baker said tokenization is something that is present across all classes, he said he feels it is more pronounced in honors classes because, as far as students of color, he said
discussing these topics or learning more, it was spent educating other people," Baker said.
it's usually just him.
The meeting wrapped up after an hour and a half of discussion and suggestions. The group plans to establish core members and continue meeting to develop a plan to address the issues
"And it's not really an environment people want to be in,"Baker added.
presented.
Young said he hopes over time, the group can make some concrete changes that make the program more welcoming to all students.
"I want every student to feel like they're welcome in this space and to feel that they have access to the honors program," Young said.
"For a student who has demonstrated merit, I want them to feel very welcome regardless of background, race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation."
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Mikinski: We should encourage women to pursue leadership as much as their male counterparts
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My stint as opinion editor almost never happened. Despite people telling me to apply, I would laugh it off, thinking that I could never possibly do a good job. This semester, I finally took the plunge and applied. My confidence in my ability to get the job was low, so I never told anyone that I applied. After some research, I found that I wasn't the only one who lacked the confidence to achieve more in the workplace.
According to a 2015 study by KPMG, almost 70 percent of women feel they need more support to build the confidence necessary to become leaders in their own workplaces. Additionally, six in 10 women reported they have a hard time seeing themselves as leaders.
Women's lack of confidence in their professional leadership abilities could be one of the reasons the percentage of female executives in this country is so low. A study done by The Center for American Progress (CAP) found only 14.6 percent of women in the workforce are executive officers, and more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies have no women of color as board directors. The same research found that though women account for 80 percent of consumer spending, only 3 percent are creative directors in advertising. These low numbers don't square with the data from KMPG that 64 percent of women want positions as senior leaders. They especially don't confirm large companies' assertions that they are working to diversify their upper-levels. Clearly, there is a disconnect somewhere.
The Harvard Business Review suggests that companies' well-intentioned attempts to bring women to executive positions are actually continuing to hold them back. According to the Harvard publication, these companies accidentally sabotage their diversification work "when they advise women to proactively seek leadership roles without addressing policies and practices that communicate a mismatch between how women are seen and the qualities and experiences people tend to associate with leaders". Companies encourage their female employees to climb to the top, yet the environment is still unfavorable to female leadership. A 2013 Gallup poll found that 35 percent of
Americans preferred male bosses while only 23 percent would choose a female boss.
Practices that inhibit promotion and professional success aren't just the domain of large companies. Even some of our government representatives take part in such protocol. Last year, National Journal published an investigation into why some of our nation's representatives and senators didn't allow solo meetings—or even car rides—with female staffers for fear of their constituents getting the wrong idea. Sarah Mimms writes, "for these women, the lack of access meant an additional hurdle in their attempts to do their jobs, much less further their careers." The article names Kansas representative Tim Huelskamp as one such congressman who has altered his office's protocol to ensure that he gets by without even a whiff of scandal.
Further research shows women are not trained to take the initiative and point out unfair practices. KMPG found 76 percent of women wish they had learned more leadership skills during childhood. Eighty-six percent of women said that seeing other women in leadership
roles encourages them to be leaders themselves. As women aren't prepared for leadership roles at a young age and are systematically overlooked for promotions, fewer achieve places in the top ranks of their companies. This lack of promotion leads to lower confidence in other women workers, which discourages them from aiming towards higher-level (and higher-paying) jobs. This all contributes to a dangerous cycle.
Breaking this cycle will mean massive changes. We must encourage women of all ages to aspire to executive positions within their companies and we must also encourage them to be confident in their leadership abilities. We must work to break company and government policy that prevents women from ascending to higher levels of power and success.
It is time we understand that lack of female leadership in professional settings is an epidemic, but not an incurable one.
Maddy Mikinski is a senior from Linwood studying English and journalism.
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Issawi: Trump's hate-filled rhetoric only helps ISIS
DANYA ISSAWI
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The Arab Spring catapulted the Middle East into a cataclysmic state of turmoil. Countries such as Egypt, Tunisia and Libya all fell victim to vehement protests, riots and political unrest during various attempts at executing successful coups.
Syria, and the deadly civil war that has ensued within its borders, has made headlines. With an estimated death toll of 240,381 in a country nearly the size of Maine and an increase in militant forces associated with ISIS, all eyes have turned to the United States with the hope that the political superpower would intervene or lend a helping hand to Syrian refugees.
Despite President Obama's continued support of granting asylum to refugees and having called for current Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad to step down, Obama has softened his role in the conflict and taken a backseat approach. With no resolution in sight, this
At a recent rally, Trump laid out a plan for how he would handle the crisis. His ideas included barring any and all future asylum-seekers from entering the United States, kicking out all Syrian refugees currently located in the U.S. and creating a database of all Muslims living in the country. This plan has been paralleled to Hitler's use of the yellow star to identify Jews during the Holocaust.
has left Obama's successor with the responsibility of handling the conflict and all of its retributions, making the topic popular in recent presidential debates.
Beyond singlehandedly promoting intolerance and Islamaphobia, from a political standpoint, his hateful rhetoric regarding the Middle East could be more detrimental to the United
Several Republican candidates, such as Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, have already expressed their dissent in allowing Syrian refugees onto American soil. Trump, though, seems to have made sure to go the extra mile, as he tends to do.
By telling these refugees that they are, in fact, not welcome in the United States, he is giving these people, who are already desperately looking for a sense of belonging, confirmation that they do not belong. He is giving them confirmation that the incriminating rhetoric that ISIS spews about the West is correct, allowing the terrorist group the perfect opportunity to provide anyone who is desperate enough a place of perceived belonging, or at least an ideal segue to persuade them to agree with their radical ideals.
States than granting Syrian refugees asylum could ever be. In fact, Trump's words are not only practically perfect ISIS propaganda material, they also play into the ideals the terrorist group is looking to promote.
What Trump seems to forget is that a majority of these people are refugees because of the role ISIS has played in the Syrian conflict, and that there is a stark distinction between those fleeing the violence and the ones perpetuating
it. Rather than lumping the two together, Obama's successor needs to clearly label ISIS as a common enemy of the United States and embrace the vast majority of Muslims in the Middle East who have an unfavorable view of ISIS.
These refugees are an unattapped asset in gaining insight about the plight of political unrest currently overwhelming the Middle East. And even beyond the realm of politics, Trump's tactics essentially extinguish the humanity and tolerance that is usually synonymous with American ideals, ultimately tarnishing our name on a global scale.
With the world in such a volatile state, it might be best to minimize our list of enemies while maximizing our number of allies, and Trump's sharp words and outlandish proposed policies seem incapable of doing so.
Danya Issawi is a sophomore from Kansas City studying journalism.
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The grant, funded by the Ethel and Raymond Rice Foundation, will allow the Spencer Museum of Art to provide audio descriptions for people who are blind or visually impaired.
"The need for information doesn't go away just because you've lost your vision or your vision is diminishing."
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The University Audio-Reader Network and the Spencer Museum of Art will enrich the art museum experience for people who are blind or visually impaired.
The network received a $9,324 grant from the Ethel and Raymond Rice Foundation on Jan. 14. The grant will help fund an audio description training by KU Audio-Reader at the Spencer Museum of Art, according to a news release. The grant will also help the Audio-Reader Network expand on its audio description services.
"We want to make everything available to people with vision loss so that they can continue to participate and be active members of their community," said Lori Kesinger, Audio Reader's outreach coordinator.
The descriptions will describe the visual elements of works of art in the Spencer Art Museum. The Audio-Reader program
also provides services that include its free 24-hour FM radio service that reads newspapers, magazines and books.
Celka Straughn, Director of Academic Programs, at the art museum said this new audio description program would make things more visible for other audiences of the museum as well.
Straughn said the audio description can provide an alternative way for visitors to understand each element of the art.
"People quickly glance at the art, and sometimes you are not aware of what you are taking in," Straughn said.
Audio description will start with the permanent collection at the museum. Descriptions used in the museum won't be as simple as regurgitating the description next to the art on the walls of the museum. Rather than interpreting the art for guest, the descriptions will guide visitors through what is there and allow people with different levels of vision to interpret art works for themselves.
"It creates a lot more independence for people to be able to enjoy the arts independently," Kesinger said.
Erin Bolton, former multicultural coordinator at the art museum, was volunteering at Audio-Reader when she suggested the idea and initiated the move to connect staffs from both the museum and the Audio Reader network in order to make the collaboration real
Kesinger said the descriptions will always be available for blind and print-disabled people and they won't have to wait for somebody to help them.
"It is a great opportunity to increase access of art to visually impaired people and more diverse audiences," Bolton said. "I love the fact that this program will increase the outreach to a new set of audiences especially for those who are losing their sight and yet still want to
access artwork."
The grant will help staff bring a trainer from the Audio Description Associates to Lawrence for description training. Kesigner said this could be an opportunity to invite and train people from other museum in the area as well.
Even though the audio description training program is still in its beginning stage, staffs at both organizations are confident the program will open up the museum to a completely different audience who may shy away from going to the museum because of blindness or vision impairment.
"Just because you are unable to see or have difficulty seeing, you shouldn't be kept from doing other things," Kesinger said. "The need for information doesn't go away just because you've lost your vision or your vision is diminishing."
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Junior Crystal Bradshaw started writing her book, "Eliza: A Generational Journey," when she was 16.
Trying to write a book is never easy, but when that is paired with research that dates back to the 1800s, Crystal Bradshaw, a junior at the University from Jetmore, Kan. only has one word to describe the process: Frustrating.
Meredith Wiggins, a co-worker and mentor of Bradshaw's, said she thinks the book will impact readers because it sheds light on an aspect of African American history and literature that isn't the first subject when talking about such issues.
Bradshaw, majoring in creative-writing, recently released her book, "Eliza: A Generational Journey" through self-publishing and just ordered a second printing of the book. The book, a historical fiction novel, tells the story of Bradshaw's great grandmother, Eliza.
Wiggins is an administrative associate at the KU School of Law Office of Career Services, but Bradshaw and Wiggins met while they were both working for the University's project on the history of black writing.
"It talks about the exoduster movement, which is former slaves moving to the Midwest, particularly Kansas, and
it's amazing to think this is her [Bradshaw] family," Bradshaw said.
After Eliza and her family moved to Jetmore, her husband Louis, died months later and she was left to take care of their five children on her own; her two youngest children died later on.
The book follows Eliza's life during the 1800s when she was a slave in Kentucky. Around 1865, Eliza and her family were emancipated and traveled to Jetmore where the Bradshaw family has lived for over 134 years.
"Her persistence and courage to keep going on no matter what is what impressed me the most," Bradshaw said. "I think that's a lesson most young people can really take to heart. If she can push through that then I can too."
"It was embarrassing for me because I didn't know any of my family history and I barely knew anything about my great-grandparents so it pushed me to find out about them," Bradshaw said.
The book, which was released in early December took about five years to write, Bradshaw said.
"I really started writing not knowing what I was doing," Bradshaw said. "I wrote the first pages when I was 16 and I was experimenting with the writing style and dialogue, plus I was going to school and had work."
Bradshaw said the most interesting part about Eliza was how strong and persistent she was.
Bradshaw started researching Eliza because of a project she in high school where she had to research her family history.
"She was the daughter of her mother and her mother's master, then at the age of 7 she was sold to a different plantation, and again at the age of 17," Bradshaw said.
Wiggins said one of the parts about the book that stood out the most was Bradshaw's ability to write in a child's voice.
"I have never read a book that has gotten the voice of a child better and I mean that as the highest compliment because I think writing as a child is one of the hardest things to do," Wiggins said.
Bradshaw self-published her book, so the complete publishing process took a little longer. The editing process took about one year and then she had to work on getting it printed, which took about three to four months. The publishing process was difficult because she had to do everything herself, such as formatting the size of the book, making the dedication and afterword page, and designing her own cover.
"I didn't really want to hire someone to do that for me plus I figured
those skills would be very beneficial to me in the future," she said.
Right now, Bradshaw is selling her book herself but is working on
getting it put into stores around Lawrence. She also plans on putting in a third order of about 300 copies.
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You have successfully left your fans - and many Spotify playlists - dying for just a little bit of Yeezus.
It's been a while since we've heard you, Mr. West.
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"If Kanye West were a smoothie..."
"G.O.O.D Fridays," as West likes to refer them, is a recent revival of his weekly drops that in 2010 led up to his album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy."
It has become a thirst, Mr.West, and that left me with one conclusion. It's probably born of delusion in the current Sahara of a hip-hip industry, but it is an epiphany that struck my mind harder than the jarring intro to "Black Skinhead."
With his soon-to-be released album "Swish," West has brought them back into the fray but this time with a little more panache and a pinch less coherency.
And that pinch, actually, gets right to the core of my quandary.
West, throughout his diverse catalogue of music, has given us an assortment of emotionally-charged "ingredients," and with that, he has allowed his listeners to aggregate a specific palate that in itself warrants its own flavor at The Roasterie.
Still, he is a maestro, so picking him apart to tear him down is not my intention; I don't want to be dropped senseless like Kris Humphries with his little cameo in "Cold," a.k.a. "Theraflu."
But what exactly is in a "Kanye West?" Would it even be good? Would a mere drop to the tongue of this concoction necessitate rehabilitation? If you were to go up tomorrow and order a large "Ye' with warm milk and a booster," what wild, unimaginable components to the juice would be even possible?
Instead, just like how Mr.West shuts himself in a room and cranks out his blissful, primal bellowing... .. I'm going to shut myself in this room and crank out some sweet, rich nectar from the flowers of "The College Dropout" to
"Yeezus" is as out there as you can possibly get in hip-hop. Whether he is truly God's vessel or the next Picasso is still up for debate.
his recent seedlings with his "G.O.O.D Fridays" platform — all in order to dissect just how much of a pumpkin spice latte potential a "Kanye West" really has.
FACTS - Released Jan. 1 Much like the last time we last heard West with his album "Yeezus," "Facts"
— the first track released under the 2016 "G.O.O.D Fridays" umbrella — enjoys a soothing, choir-like loop sprinkled throughout West's bars, something "Bound 2" did with West's 2013 release. However, unlike "Bound 2," which used its airtime to proclaim that West's transition into adult courtship is more than just a fantasy, "Facts" uses a seething vitriol to indict Nike and the Jordan brand for presumably looking over his established name-value.
It has a bravado that, at least for the moment, gives me a gaudy aftertaste similar to his 2006 album release "Late Registration," which in itself broke away from the usual inner-reflection in West's earlier music. However, hints of a thematic underpinned makes it somewhat satisfying as an opening statement to his fans, as the chorus would explain how disgusted he is with all the cheating and stealing going on in his life, something that he will touch on in greater detail later.
This is a track that has all of Havoc, BOI-1da, and Frank Dukes to thank, and it is the sort of exploration into Kanye West's fame that we haven't seen yet — and it's kind of scary.
As such, it is easy to assume that powdered ginger is a crucial element to constructing the perfect "Kanye West." Not only will the juice wake you up with a little spicy kick, but it also manages to make you feel like you were just hit with one of those patented Kanye death glares.
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Unapologetically, it includes thick, chewy rhymes about a cousin that stole his laptop, a digestible beat that comes and goes with ease, and it has hip-hop artist Ty Dolla Sign answering seemingly-rhetorical questions from Kanye during the hook.
If "FACTS" is the ginger to the essential "Kanye West," then the second track from "G.O.O.D Fridays," "Real Friends," can rightfully be the bacon bits.
Just imagine the first
"Real Friends," for all of those vegetarian listeners out there, might be one you stay away from.
time you watched one of those documentaries that explained what disgusting and putrid conditions major food companies make their meat in.
"Real Friends" plays out just like that. It exposes you to things you've never wanted to see, made you want to cry a few times and maybe even kept you vegan for a couple days.
But, just like Kanye West gifts, meat is just too good. The latest installment of "G.O.O.D Fridays," as was teased at the end of "Real Friends" the week before, is his duo track with Kendrick Lamar, "No More Parties in L.A."
And man, this immediately-enshrined banger in my Spotify playlist is some of the rarest cookie dough I have ever seen.
Starting with a sample of Johnny "Guitar" Watson's 1977 ballad "Give Me My Love," this hyper-stimulating journey through the seemingly-lavish life a Hollywood persona is excellently splattered across the wall with honest retellings of drawbacks and inherent fiascos that comes with the business — an anguish that finally forces West to plead for no more parties in L.A. towards the last hook.
The song in a way invites you to bake something delicious with it, to glean some of its lyrics and to make what your heart desires.
And there you have it: three secret ingredients that go into making a quenching "Kanye West" smoothie.
However, don't let the absurdity of these components fool you. Just like West's music, if you take time to strip away the slight bit of insanity, there is a sweet center that satisfies even the most particular of senses.
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Also, there is still a lot more to uncover — more "G.O.O.D Fridays" coming up to try to decipher.
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On Saturday afternoon the swim team geared up for a meet against three opponents: William Jewell College, Tabor College and Morningside College. This season, the Jayhawks have not lost a complete meet at Robinson Natatorium, although they did split their first double dual meet on October 24.
The bleachers were filled to capacity thanks to the support of spectators from
all four schools.
It was a longer meet than usual, as racing began at 10 a.m. and did not end until approximately 1:45 p.m., with two breaks of a combined 25 minutes. This was mainly because there were 14 women's events, as well as 14 men's events that featured William Jewell, Tabor and Morningside competing against each other.
Right from the start, Kansas controlled the women's portion of the meet. In fact,the team won all 14 events.
Junior Pia Pavlic won the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:03.88. She won another event as a member of the A relay team that won the second heat of the 400-yard medley relay. Pavlic, along with freshman Haley Bishop, junior Yulia Kuchkarova and senior Bryce Hinde, recorded a time of 3:50.08.
Bishop also won a pair of events, the 200-yard butterfly and the 100-yard freestyle. Her butterfly time was 2:04.84. The time for her freestyle win was 53.68 seconds.
"I was really surprised because I don't do a lot of 200 races. I was very relaxed because I knew that there was no pressure," Pavlic said.
"I'm really happy how I'm doing. My body hurts, and we're at that point in the season where we're all hurting. I actually did better than I thought," Bishop said.
The win was much needed, as Kansas had lost 28 of 32 events in Florida between Jan. 8 and 9.
"We didn't perform as well in Miami as we wanted to, so we trained really hard this week and we knew that we were all dead," Bishop said. "Us winning is confidence, and that's all we need at this point in the season."
Kansas defeated Tabor by a score of 130-55 and Morningside by a score of 130-92. The team decided not to have a score against William Jewell. With the win, Kansas has now won three consecutive meets at home.
Kansas' next meet will be this Saturday at Robinson Natatorium against Nebraska-Omaha. It will be the final home meet of the season for Kansas, as well as the final home meet in the careers of seniors Hinde, Laura Bilsborrow, Chelsie Miller, and Haley Molden. It is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.
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Beaty and Kansas football net pair of two-star recruits
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There has been little to cheer about regarding Kansas football as of late. Coming off an 0-12 campaign, the Jayhawks just missed out on a local sensation. On Friday, Amani Bledsoe, a four-star defensive end from Lawrence, chose Oklahoma over Kansas.
However, just hours after Bledsoe turned down his hometown team, the Jayhawks netted a pair of two-star prospects. Running back Khalil Herbert and cornerback Julian Chandler both verbally committed
to Kansas. Both announcements were made by the prospects via Twitter after official visits over the weekend.
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and Mississippi State. One factor that led to him choosing Kansas over other programs is the fact he trained with former Kansas standout Tony Sands.
Running back coach Reggie Mitchell has heavily recruited Herbert. He is a 5-foot-10, 190-pound back from Heritage High in Plantation Florida. Herbert ran the ball 118 times for 861 yards and nine touchdowns in his senior campaign.
Herbert is the nation's 37th ranked running back in the 2016 class. He was ranked as the 75th best prospect in Florida. He had offers from programs such as Florida International
Kansas' other verbal commit came from Chandler, who was a former Louisiana Tech commit. Chandler, a 6-foot, 170-pound defensive back from Hightower High in Texas, announced Saturday night on Twitter he was attending Kansas in the fall.
Missy Minear/Kansan Kansas coach David Beaty looks out over Jack Trice stadium. Over the weekend, Beaty and the KU football team received verbal commitments from two two-star recruits.
The Jayhawks' backfield has a few holes in it after losing seniors De'Andre Mann and Taylor Cox to graduation. Kansas still returns its leading rusher Ke'aun Kinner who had 134 carries for 601 yards and five touchdowns in his first year with Kansas in his junior campaign.
Earlier in the week, Chandler decommitted from Louisiana Tech. He chose Kansas over offers from Nevada and New Mexico. He was a two-time all-district selection at Hightower High.
Though he is a defensive back, his relationship with defensive line coach Calvin Thibodeaux led to his decision to become a Jayhawk. Thibodeaux had been on the recruiting trail for Chandler
even when he had committed to Louisiana Tech.
With the two latest additions to the Jayhawks family, the 2016 recruiting class is coming into form. Kansas will be able to officially ink its two newest recruits
come National Signing Day on Wednesday, February 3.
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With perhaps the most anticipated game in years around the corner, the Jayhawks have the test of not only taking on a very good Iowa State team in Ames, Iowa, but also blocking out the noise of the upcoming Kentucky game as well.
In league play, there's always the possibility of players looking ahead to other games, as ranked opponents are seemingly around every corner. But this year, all of that is amplified.
This makes the challenge very clear: Focus. Prepare. Execute.
"You can't look ahead," sophomore point guard Devonte' Graham said. "We've just got to get mentally prepared."
Right now, the Jayhawks sit in first in the Big 12, though they're tied with Oklahoma, Baylor and West Virginia at 5-2. With a four-way tie at the top, it seems as though the league is as competitive as it's ever been, which makes every game difficult, let alone a road contest against the No.19 Cyclones.
"They score as easy as anyone in our league [...] They can run bad offense and come away with three points," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "They're a great team, and of course it's a huge game every time we go to Hilton [Coliseum]. It'll be a jacked atmosphere."
As of late, the Jayhawks haven't done all that well entering a hostile environment. The team has lost its last two road games and really hasn't played that well in a road test since the start of conference play.
However, Self has said the road struggles aren't
just a function of how KU has dealt with the pressure; they also speak to the quality of the league and how the other teams have really closed the proverbial gap.
"The thing I wish the media would really grasp is how good our league is," Self said. "I think the [Big 12] teams are better the last two years."
However, the other teams aren't the only ones improving. After KU hit a midseason snag, senior forward Perry Ellis said he felt the team has its confidence back, agreeing with Self that the win over Texas was the biggest of the year.
"Definitely. We were just trying to get our feel back," Ellis said. "It was
definitely a big win."
For Kansas, it would be an even bigger win if the team could steal a game from the Cyclones, who came into the season ranked in the top 10. However, it isn't completely a must-win game. After all, Self noted that going 5-4 — or even 4-5 — on the road in conference play could be enough for a team to win the Big 12, especially if it wins all its home games in conference like its "supposed" to do.
For that, the game is even bigger for Iowa State.
Already with three losses, Iowa State can't afford to lose at home. Additionally, a home game against Kansas is
pretty much a perfect opportunity to make up ground in the race for the Big 12, and it's something they can't afford to waste.
However, before getting a shot against the Jayhawks, the Cyclones still had to face the TCU Horned Frogs. Some expected the Cyclones to be looking ahead, and even saw the game as a potential trap game, with the Cyclones being on the road, but that was not the case. The team won by double-digits, and, after the game, Iowa State coach Steve Prohm confirmed that none of his players had anything on their mind other than the task at hand.
"I haven't heard the
players talk about Kansas all week," Prohm told Randy Peterson of the Des Moines Register.
Looking ahead to the game, the Cyclones are led by senior Georges Niang, who has a history of big performances against the Jayhawks.
Niang is averaging 21.5 points per game in his last two outings against Kansas, and he's posted a combined 48 points in his last two Allen Fieldhouse appearances.
And this year, the importance of his performances has only been amplified, as the team lacks any real depth, in part due to injury. That means if Kansas can tee off on the Cyclones big
man, in addition to junior point guard Monte Morris, play with energy and keep Iowa State from getting down the floor in transition, a win should be in the cards.
But Self knows it's never as easy as it sounds.
"We're not as equipped to recover from certain things [as years past]," Self said. "You can play pretty good and get your butt beat. Our league is that good. And the separation between us and whoever else is minimal. It's less than it's ever been."
- Edited by Matthew Clough
Kansas freshmen taking advantage of playing time during down season
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Everyone has a superhero they like. Whether it's a classic like Wonder Woman, Batman or Spiderman, or one of the lesser known heroes,
On Kansas women's basketball's annual Superhero Day, two KU freshmen were looking to play the role of the hero, or at the very least tried to vanquish their nemeses — the Oklaho-
people want someone to look up to.
Freshman guard Kylee Kopatich and freshman forward Tyler Johnson led the charge for the team, although their performances would not be enough, as Kansas lost its tenth game in a row.
ma State Cowgirls.
However, Kansas coach Brandon Schneider continued to see the positives in his team's performance. Those positives came in the form of getting experience for the freshmen, something the Kansas men's basketball team has struggled to find with its freshmen: Cheick Diallo, Carlton Bragg Jr. and, to some extent, though certainly not as much as the others, Lagerald Vick.
"I think Tyler's been finishing plays and shooting the ball well," Schneider said. "We just need to get that six number (Johnson's number of field goal attempts) up more. I thought there were more times in the game where we could've played to her, but we didn't, especially right after her making a basket."
Johnson, who started her third game of the season, had nine points and four rebounds, while Kopatich had 14 points, three rebounds and two steals. Both freshmen said they understand their respective roles are
While starting has been a more recent development for Johnson, it's been that way for Kopatich for all-but one game this year, which came against Texas a few weeks back.
Even though she's been a regular in the lineup, she said she still realizes each start is an opportunity to put her mark on the games.
"I say I'm trying to take more of an advantage," Johnson said. "I just want to do anything I can do to make my team successful."
With both Kopatich and Johnson earning big minutes for a very young Kansas team, success is soon to be around the corner when both players are upperclassmen. That isn't just apparent to the Kansas coaches.
Oklahoma State coach Jim Littell said he knows what this young Kansas team is going through right now. In the postgame press conference,
going to continue to increase, even as both are, at least at the moment, in a starting role.
"He's going to get it done here and going to do some special things here," Littell said. "My first year at Oklahoma State, we were 0-16 [conference play]. And it takes time to turn around a program, but there's no doubt in my mind that guy will do it. Kansas is going to see good things in the future."
With both Kopatich and Johnson learning early, the results this season may not be what the team wants, but with a long-term perspective, it will only make the Jayhawks better. As freshmen, the two will work out the kinks in their games, and will learn what it's like to battle back from adversity.
From there, who knows what the future holds.
Littell spoke about his first games at Oklahoma State, back in 2011.
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There are students who take a gap year, and then there are students like Brooklynne Mosley, who take a gap decade.
Mosely, 31, is not the average undergraduate student; she's what most called non-traditional. Before enrolling for fall of 2013, Mosley spent 10 years serving in the Air Force, working as a pilot on Operation Iraqi Freedom. Now, she's one of almost 1.000 student veterans at the University who have made the adjustment from military life to college. "All of our experiences are very unique," Mosley said. "And student veterans, they come to KU and they just want to learn and get done, learn and finish school."
There are certain, unique struggles that come with being a student veteran. For Mosley, one of the biggest challenges was figuring out how to manage all her free time.
"The procrastination game was pretty strong when I got out of the military," Mosley said.
Despite adjusting to a more leisurely schedule, Mosley said her transition into college life was pretty painless. When she was living in California, she was contacted by a University representative who walked her through the specifics of her enrollment. She admitted it made her transition
"I was in a very unique position," Mosley said. "I was active duty. I was on terminal leave, which is the leave towards your end, and was still able to start classes, so she was able to help me with my unique situation."
as a veteran easier.
Having faculty and advisers that understand veterans can make a difference in a non-traditional student's college experience, said Mike Denning, director of the Office of Graduate Military Programs.
The University currently offers different resources for veterans who need help adjusting to college life. One of the most useful tools, Denning said, is a University 101 class specifically targeted toward veterans.
"It's an orientation course to make sure that transition from the previous life to their life as a student is successful," Denning said.
The center will be located on the third floor of Summerfield Hall, pending the relocation of the business school in the summer. Denning said the center would be a place that could provide "dedicated student veteran services."
The University is looking to centralize resources for these students in a new Student Veteran Center, planned to open in January 2017.
and fall of 2016. The center will be around 3,000 square feet,including a lounge and six office spaces.
Renovations to Summerfield Hall will take place throughout the summer
The center will help with every aspect of student life unique to veterans including recruitment, admissions, Counseling and Psychological Services, academics and career searching.
Denning said the center's staff seeks to provide support with targeted resources for student veterans that help with veterans' unique needs.
"And [...] we're hoping to increase the utilization of all those resources, because they're going to be offered in a place where they feel very comfortable," Denning said.
Right now there is no formal staff for the center, although a search is in process for a director. Greg Freix, a professor in the School of Business and an Air Force veteran, is chair of the director search committee. Freix said they're looking for someone who can bring background experience and strong interpersonal skills to the University's student veterans.
"We want someone who is going to be a wonderful team player," Freix said. "With an organization like this, it is not going to have a higher number of director-report type aspects.
fective relationships with colleagues all around campus."
Freix added: "This director's going to need to be able to establish very ef-
The committee narrowed the pool of prospective directors down from 70 applicants to four final candidates. The first candidate, Lora Rimmer, gave her presentation on Monday. The second candidate is Randy Masten, assistant director of Graduate Studies at the University. Masten will present on Wednesday and the other two candidates, who have yet to be announced, will present next week.
Once a director is selected, Denning said they will be responsible for organizing the resources in the center. Although there is the possibility of additional hires, the center will likely pull from existing University resources to provide services to veterans.
Denning hopes that, in addition to providing academic direction, the center will be a place where student veterans can gather, socialize and ultimately feel at home.
"They've left an environment in which there was a lot of camaraderie, friendship, support and they all held the same ethos and morals and values — or at least had some experience of that," Dennings said. "So this student veteran center is an opportunity to have a place where they can add back onto that camaraderie."
Three takeaways from Jan. 27 Full Senate meeting
Almost two months ago, the Student Executive Committee called for impeachment against Student Body President Jessie Pringle,Student Body Vice President Zach George and Chief of Staff Adam Moon. Allegations centered on inaction regarding multicultural issues.
▶ CONNOR MITCHELL @ConnerMitchell0
Three takeaways from last night's Full Senate meeting:
Wednesday night members of Student Senate voted against continuing the impeachment process for Pringle, George and Moon.
Student Senators voted by secret ballot whether to continue with the impeachment process, and a simple majority was needed to continue the proceedings for each of the accused. Voting numbers were unavailable as of Wednesday night.
Student Senators were unclear on impeachment procedures. There was confusion among Senators on when to ask questions about the impeachment findings.
After Impeachment Committee Chair Tyler Childress presented the committee's findings against Pringle, Senators waited to ask questions until after Pringle spoke on why she should not be impeached. Per Senate Rules and Regulations, Senators are only allowed to ask questions about the Impeachment findings to the chair at this stage of the process.
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CAPS advisory board will push for increased funding to alleviate under-staffing and scheduling issues
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A potential campus fee increase may help the Counseling and Psychological Services meet the needs of more students and align CAPS with national standards of care.
Members of the CAPS Advisory Board will recommend a $10.60 increase per student for the Required Campus Fee when the Student Senate Fee Review Committee starts meeting in February.
Of the $455.50 total Required Campus Fee, $18.40 is given to CAPS to pay staff salaries, according to the Comprehensive Fee Schedule from the Office of the Registrar. The proposed increase will go toward funding the salaries of six new therapists, as well as repaying Bert Nash, the mental health care provider of Douglas County, for uncompensated care it has provided to University students, CAPS Advisory Board Chair
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Baker said $1.60 of the total fee increase would go toward compensating. Bert Nash to recoup those losses.
The remaining $9 of the proposed increase will be put toward the salaries of six new therapists. CAPS director Michael Maestas said the current student-to-therapist ratio at CAPS is close to 2200-to-one. Baker said the increase would bring CAPS closer to the nationally recommended ratio of 1,000-1,500 students
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Maestas said the increase will serve mainly to provide CAPS with more staff members to better serve the student population.
Currently, CAPS receives $330,000 from the state of Kansas to fund salaries for licensed staff, which Maestas said accounts for the salaries of two administrative associates, three psychologists and a clinical social worker. All other positions are funded by the Required Campus Fee and the CAPS
fee-for-service revenue.
"The way it will change things is it will allow us to have more staff," he said. "Right now, all of the required campus fee funds go directly to pay exclusively for the salaries and fringes of a few of our staff. Our fee-for-service revenue takes care of any offsets we have, any shortfalls in required campus fee revenue."
Potentially hiring six new staff members would alleviate many of the scheduling issues CAPS is facing. Maestas said. In addition to a large increase in urgent care requests, he said CAPS is currently operating at red-line capacity.
"There aren't anymore nooks and crannies where we can fit students into our schedule. You just reach an operating
increase to any fee, especially this large of an amount, but I think based on the increase in visibility in care for mental illness and also just the general consensus of the [Student] Senate as a whole, I don't think there will be as much push-back as a lot of people may think," he said.
limit because we do have to spend time programming and putting things out there about mental health issues for the campus community. That takes away from
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"The way it will change things is it will allow us to have more staff,"
If the funding increase is approved by the Fee Review Committee, Maestas said it still has to be approved by Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and the Kansas Board of Regents before it could take effect at the beginning of the next fiscal year.
being able to spend time with students. It sort of has a cascading effect," he said.
Baker said while he expects the reaction to a potential increase to be mainly positive, there will be some who don't support it.
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The Y chromosome in the classroom - or lack thereof
▶ MADELINE FARBER
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The teacher shortage in the U.S. isn't exactly breaking news.In fact,college seniors across the country with education degrees probably see it as good news,as they are soon to be on the job-hunt.
A more muted problem, however, is the lack of men in public education. Men accounted for only 23.8 percent of all teachers in 2014, according to statistics from the National Education Association. Kansas and Oregon boasted the highest numbers of male teachers at 33 percent and 31 percent, respectively. Virginia had the lowest percentage at 17 percent.
Despite this, only five percent of University elementary education students are male, compared to 30 percent in secondary education, according to data provided by the School of Education.
Rick Ginsberg, dean of the School of Education, said this statistic is not shocking.
Ginsberg's opinion also reflects the 2014 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data that reports 2,218 men were employed in the field of education, training and library occupations compared to 6,371 women.
"Both historically and professionally, women are seen more as the caregivers for younger kids, so the dominance of females at the elementary level is not a new phenomena," Ginsberg said. "However, impacting the shortage are things like relatively low wages and job prestige."
Kezar, a senior from Derby, said the low wages in elementary education, which have changed -3.5 percent in the last decade according to the National Education Association, were a deterrent for him at first. Regardless, he said, teaching is something that, "I just realized I needed to do."
Part of the five percent at the University is Alex Kezar and Travis Kesinger, two male students in elementary education who seek to beat the odds.
"Men are in the mindset that they need to be the caretaker, and on an elementary salary, can't always be," Kezar said. "It's a stereotype. Men can be just as nurturing and caring as women. Perhaps people are scared of change, and don't want a man taking care of their child. But if more men start doing this, this attitude
may change."
Kesinger, a junior from Topeka, said his path to becoming an elementary education major wasn't typical. After changing his major three times, Kesinger said he was inspired to go into education after interacting with children as a lifeguard the past three summers. He was also inspired after working with an organization that raises awareness for the local Children's Miracle Network.
He said he chose elementary education because of what he described as "raw enthusiasm" for learning in elementary-aged children. Kezar also said he chose that age group to teach because he has the ability to continue to mold that enthusiasm.
Kesinger said that, in his opinion, many men have never been in a space where they are a minority with regards to sex and gender, which he said he thinks is an obstacle.
"The innate gender roles within education certainly factor into the current statistics at hand," Kesinger said. "I hope more men join this field. A positive male role model can be so pivotal in the lives of our students."
As from being one of the few, if not the only, males in his classes, Kesinger said he has often felt different, but that this has served as a great learning experience for him.
"I think being male will be an asset to me during my job search," Kesinger said. "In a female dominated space, I want to utilize this difference in the [utmost] positive way possible."
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Katie Oliver started at the University in 2008, an election year. She was asked numerous times if she had registered to vote, but every time, Oliver said "No." This is because Oliver started at the University when she was 17.
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Oliver was given the choice to take full-time college classes as a senior or graduate a year early. She felt unchallenged in high school, and thought the University offered more engaging classes. Oliver decided to graduate early and study pharmacy.
Oliver, a 2014 graduate, is not alone in starting college earlier than most. In December, Alina Zheng became the first student to graduate at 16 since 1995, said Andy Hyland, assistant director of strategic communications at the University. Hyland said the University has an average of three full-time students under the age of 16 each semester.
During high school,
"For once, I felt challenged and just had so many new opportunities to get involved on campus," Oliver said.
was what it was. I graduated from high school and it was time to go to college," Templin said. "I just happened to be younger than the average student."
Students have been coming to the University at an early age for decades.
Katie Oliver came to KU at age 17, earlier than most.
Mitra Templin started at the University in 1986, two days before she turned 17. Templin, like Oliver, also graduated early from high school.
"I don't think that my early age was necessarily helpful or unhelpful; it
Templin said that coming to the University early did have it's own challenges, however, and she felt that the University did not help her adjust to college life.
"They absolutely gave no support," she said. "I don't even think they knew I was younger than my peers."
Being under 18 can also make paperwork challenging. Grant Earwood, who started at the University in 2014 at the age of 17, was unable to sign documents like his housing agreements without the signature of his parents.
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"Technically I wasn't an adult so I couldn't legally sign for myself," Earwood said. "That was kind of a challenge, but it wasn't too bad. It only happened once or twice."
Now, Oliver works at a pharmacy, and said she's glad she started college at a younger age.
"I became extremely independent maybe a little bit earlier. [It] ultimately helped make the transition after college a lot easier," Oliver said. "It taught me a lot."
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Former KU GTA Orion Mark Graf transferred to state custody to serve prison sentence
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VICKY DIAZ-CAMACHO/KANSAN Former University graduate teaching assistant Orion Mark Graf at a hearing this summer to withdraw his no contest plea to charges of rape. The prosecutor told Judge Pokorny that Graf had still been sending letters to the alleged victim in the case.
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Former University graduate teaching assistant Orion Mark Graf was officially released Tuesday morning from the custody of Douglas County and transferred to state custody where he will serve his prison sentence, said Kristen Dymacek, public information officer for the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
Graf, 39, was sentenced to 18 years in pris
on last week for attempted rape and attempted aggravated criminal sodomy, according to Douglas County court records.
In June of 2014, Graf was sentenced to probation for two counts of breach of privacy after he hid cameras in dressing rooms of downtown Lawrence department stores, according to official complaints filed with Senior Assistant District Attorney Amy McGowan.
counts of attempted rape and attempted aggraviated criminal sodomy. In July, he withdrew his no-contest plea. Graf was sentenced Jan. 15.
Upon release, he will spend 36 months under supervision and will register as a sex offender for the remainder of his life.
Then, in May 2015 he pled no contest to
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As I planned my course schedule for this semester, I found myself in a predicament. I couldn't make room in my schedule for Geology 101 because another course I was enrolled in was scheduled for the same time and only one section was available. Luckily for me, the University offered a comparable course, Geology 105, online.
For students who have rigid schedules due to selective courses or extracurricular activities, it can be difficult to find courses that fit their schedule. Taking online courses can help alleviate this issue.
Online courses allow students to complete work whenever they have time in their schedules and wherever they may be, giving students more flexibility than the traditional in-class courses.
Additionally, professors are assigned to monitor online courses, so students can utilize office hours and get additional help should they require it. In this regard,
it is similar to a large lecture class because students are not necessarily interacting directly with the professor during the course and must seek any additional help outside of the class period.
Participation in an online course requires greater accountability on the student's end, but this should be considered a benefit rather than a downfall. In college, students are supposed to learn independence and responsibility; online courses integrate learning with these other life skills.
Students should not avoid taking a course if they are only able to take the online version. They should, however understand that taking one of these courses will require organization on their part.
Ryan Liston is a freshman from Lawrence studying journalism.
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Online courses cannot replicate the benefits traditional classrooms provide
▶ MATTHEW CLOUGH
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The value and validity of online courses have been greatly disputed since the format was first introduced into educational systems. A Babson research study indicates that although 5.2 million students took at least one online course in 2014, the 3.7 percent enrollment growth rate from 2013 was the smallest increase over the past 13 years. Clearly, there are increasingly mixed responses to the effectiveness of online learning.
Although online courses may be more convenient, especially for nontraditional students, they simply aren't as beneficial as classes completed in typical classroom settings. Not only do physical classroom spaces allow students to engage closely with the material and their peers, they also offer personal connection to faculty and professors for a more personalized learning experience.
While interaction with other classmates is still possible in online classes, discussion typically has to be carried out via discussion board postings. These exchanges are often forced, insincere, and simply viewed as an obligation necessary to earn points or credit. Conversations are
inorganic and not given the chance to grow, which is futile to the process of grasping course material (especially in humanities courses).
Perhaps this is part of the reason only 28 percent of universities in the Babson study reported that their faculty accept the "value and legitimacy of online education." It can be difficult to assess a student's growth when the only sources of judgment available are written work and test results.
Many online courses are self-paced, meaning that students get to choose when to complete their work so long as it's finished by a certain date. In theory, this seems beneficial for the busy college student, but it can actually create a lot of problems.
In 2013, San Jose State University monitored student success in its massive open online courses, and found that completion rates and grades were lower than those of students enrolled in traditional classes. These sorts of classes require a great deal of self-motivation to ensure everything is completed on time.
Even if a self-paced online class isn't huge, saving assignments until the last moment can still become an issue for students. The question also
emerges of how valid education becomes at this point if students are just "cramming" to finish everything, retention of information won't be very high.
The issues of technology and reliability are always important when analyzing the effectiveness of online learning. Students may be subject to Internet connectivity problems, or sometimes entire lessons or course modules may go down for extended periods of time. Until technology platforms and online course structures become extremely organized and reliable, online learning just can't measure up to in-person education.
Despite the convenience and flexibility of online courses, traditional classroom environments are still the most beneficial means of obtaining an education. The flexibility of online courses can even become a hindrance if students procrastinate, and nothing can beat personal, in-person interactions with peers and professors.
Matthew Clough is a junior from Wichita, studying English and journalism.
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Gonzales: Minority groups should become more active in the voting process
▶ RACHEL GONZALES
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Voting is a fundamental building block of democracy.. Civic engagement is best exemplified by voting and relies on an informed and engaged citizenry. Although democracy depends on it, minorities and poor Americans often don't vote. Involvement by these groups in the voting process is crucial though for the country to operate as a fair and equal society.
Of citizens that are most likely to not vote, 43 percent were Hispanic, African-American or other minorities, according to a study done by the Pew Research Center.
The best example of the impact a high minority turnout can have was in the 2012 presidential election.
While there are different theories about why certain groups of people are less likely to vote than others, studies conclude that minorities and the working poor do not think that their vote matters. Politicians seldom discuss issues that minorities care about and
That year was the first time since 1968 in which black voter turnout was higher than that of non-Hispanic Whites, according to a survey of population characteristics done by the U.S. Census Bureau. William H. Frey, senior fellow of the Metropolitan Policy Program, concluded the high turnout of minorities had drastic effects on the outcome of the election. It's likely that Obama would not have been elected had it not been for the high minority voter turnout.
fail to capture their attention. Sam Fulwood III, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and Director of the CAP Leadership Institute, said capturing the attention of and giving hope to minority voters made all the difference for Obama. Obama's campaign literally centered around the word "hope" and capitalized on the hope he created for minorities. When there is hope that change is possible, people are more likely to think their vote matters.
Additionally, voting is a learned process, with education about politics playing a major role in the decision to vote or not. Minorities and the poor are typically under-educated about voting, pushing them toward not voting. Obstacles to vote also affect this decision. Things such as long waits, strict ID laws and increased use of provisional ballots tend to discourage people from voting.
Minorities must vote to push issues that important to them, but lack of politicians' attention only further stratifies minorities. As Danielle C. Belton puts it in her article for the Roost, "The reason politicians ignore so many of the working poor is because they don't vote. And the reason so many of the working poor don't vote is because certain politicians have made sure it's as inconvenient as possible for them." However difficult it is for these people to vote, if enough of them actually do, change is always possible.
For these groups to go
out of their way to vote is worthwhile. This right to vote is a privilege that Americans sometimes take for granted. We have fought wars for the right to have a say in how the government operates. It is up to individual citizens to recognize and take advantage of this opportunity. Reaching out to minority, poor and young peoples and encouraging them to vote will strengthen the country's democracy, ensuring a more fair and inclusive citizenry.
Rachel Gonzales is a junior from Fort Collins, Colo., studying journalism and sociology.
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KU graduate, founder of local band Your Friend, talks inspiration ahead of debut album release
▶ BRIANNA CHILDERS
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Before going to college, Taryn Miller, a 2013 graduate, had always planned on being an athlete. But then things changed.
In high school, Miller had a class near the choir rehearsal room and would often sneak in to watch the singers rehearse. One night during one show's intermission, one of her friends, a performer in the show, came down and told her she should do the last half with them.
Miller, who then joined the choir, said she became totally smitten and started looking at ways to continue singing.
"So I did, and they had filmed it, and the director saw me and knew I wasn't in choir and was like. You know this means you have to try out now, right?" Miller said.
"Irealized it was something I wanted to devote my time to, and it really moved me."
Miller said. "That's when I really understood what a passion was because though it was risky to change my focus, there was no other way I would be happy if I didn't.
Inspired by that interest, Miller began performing as Your Friend. She's having an album release party for her new album, "Gumption," on Thursday at Liberty Hall. The album will be released to the public on Friday.
"My boss jokingly said I have this appreciation for the avant garde so I try to implement that when I can," Miller said. "It's kind of ambient folk but a little experimental, but also kind of lush in that way."
Besides singing, Miller plays guitar, piano and percussion. Nicholas Stahl, drummer for Your Friend, met Miller during her first show and said he was blown
away by how raw and honest the music was.
"She is really protective of her art because it is so personal, and that's what attracted me to it," Stahl said. "It is so honest and personal, and she was still kind of exploring her music and art and to 'bring other people into that before you feel comfortable is often difficult."
Stahl said he has been able to watch Miller grow as an artist over the years and that she has developed a level of confidence that doesn't overshadow the vulnerability of the music.
"She has grown into her own, and she believes in what she is doing but also has this level of honesty," Stahl said.
The album was recorded in March of 2015 and Miller said she started writing the songs for it in September of 2014. The title of the album, "Gumption," is a word that Miller was really drawn to.
"I do think kind of in a conceptual way just for my own direction," Miller said. "Having this inertia, this force behind what you are doing. It's kind of like having the guts to do something."
"I realized [singing] was something I wanted to devote my time to, and it really moved me. That's when I really understood what a passion was..."
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Miller said when it comes to writing songs, she pays a lot of attention to scores and cues in films for the sound purpose of the song. For lyrics, she reads a lot of fiction and pulls inspiration from that. She said this record is a lot different from her EP — "Jekyll/Hyde." released April of 2014 — in that the EP was very autobiographical.
"This record came from the
opposite way of looking in," Miller said. "I was projecting what I was feeling or thinking on the first, but this was one about the bigger picture. I think that happens when you start growing up and your life starts changing."
Miller said she hopes the audience listening to her music gains whatever they need from it.
"It's very cathartic for me, but there is no higher honor than when it helps, moves or does something for someone else and they tell you that," she said. "Or if they don't like it, that's okay because there is so much music out there."
Tickets for Your Friend's album release party can be found at libertyhall.net, and the doors open at 7 p.m. with the show starting at 8 p.m. You can pre-order Your Friend's album on iTunes, though the album can be streamed on Soundcloud.
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Spencer Museum of Art to receive $487,000 grant for fellowships
The Spencer Museum of Art has had a goal of supporting interdisciplinary research among faculty and students on campus, and it just received a grant that will make this possible. On Monday, the art museum announced that it has won a $487,000 four-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
"Our goal is to make the museum central to research and learning," said Cellka Straughn, the Andrews W. Mellon director of academic programs at the art museum. "From biology to law, we want to work with faculty and students to engage in research and bringing the arts and creative processes into collaborative, interdisciplinary research."
The grant will allow the art museum to open up fellowships for faculty, graduates and undergraduates to work with the museum's staff. These fellowships may result in anything from publications to wholly new works of art. One project which may be considered is an exhibition entitled "Big Botany," which looks at the relationship between humans and the plant world as understood through art. The project has already proven to be highly collaborative,
which is exactly what the museum is looking for with this grant, said Straughn.
"We want ideas generated from a variety of perspectives," Straughn said. "You never know what ideas will come up so we left opportunities open to see what is brought to our attention or what we may find. We do want there to be a connection with the arts in the research, but not necessarily a connection with our own
collection."
The museum will start the first of the fellowships this summer, because it is currently still closed for renovations. It will also welcome a new assistant curator this summer for the next four years, who will help oversee projects created due to the grant.
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Rogers: YouTube and the experience of human interaction
▶ JARRET ROGERS
@JarretRogers
During my senior year of high school, I hit a little bit of a mental rough patch. I didn't have a desire to attend school because I didn't really have any friends or desire to reach out to people because they seemed inaccessible.
In times like these, it's common to find a sort of album, movie or show that was their sort of lifeline, their escape from reality. It's a way to forget what was happening in the real world and a means of hope, no matter how small it might be.
What I found, though, was hard to find in music. There's plenty of honest music in the world. In fact I'd argue almost all of it is honest in some way or another, but listening to music can be in-
ing, I needed to unplug from my headphone jack and turn to YouTube.
deeply about what they do.
becomes the listeners seamlessly. You don't have to fight through lyrics to find yourself in the middle of them; the music does that for you.
YouTube, as a medium, is the most honest, real place that I visit daily. Casey Neistat, for example, is a daily vlogger living in New York City where he works as the co-founder of a new social media app, Beme. Everyday around 8 a.m. Eastern Stan-
The common theme in all of these channels is the difference between being spoken to and spoken with. All of the best people on YouTube make it a place where the goal is to converse not to lecture. They might be talking into a camera to thousands upon thousands of viewers but when watching, it feels
I had those things in my life at the time. Bleachers' "Strange Desire" will ever be a record that coexists since I listened to at my lowest points in life. I also listened to the album as soon as I caught on to some hope that those low points were slowly evaporating.
The reason "Strange Desire" was able to have that sort of effect and universal emotion is because it comes from a deeply honest, human point of view. The band's songwriter Jack Antonoff writes in a way that the song
credibly isolating and lonely. The ability to have a voice in what is going on when you put your headphones in feels nonexistent.
For some, this is probably the therapy they seek. It's probably nice to just listen, tired of having to work so hard to be heard. But, when I was desperate for human interaction where I could feel more a part of a conversation and find a sense of belong-
The less personal but equally refreshing crew at Kinda Funny covers everything from video games to movies to stories about their favorite memories of childhood. The Vlogbrothers John and Hank Green seek to educate and generally uplift their community of viewers in a way that shows they clearly care
dard Time, his video goes live and you always get an unfiltered version of his life.
like the video was made solely for the individual viewer. It's like they emailed a file only one person received.
But, the great thing is outside of the video that feels intimate and personal there are great communities that support creators. There are always going to be awful people who do and say horrible things anywhere, but comment sections and message boards that surround
honest, kind creators tend to follow suit. There is value to perspectives people have and these communities don't take that lightly.
All of these attributes can be found in other places, in some sort of capacity, but there's just something to the experience on YouTube and the growing closer to creators that works. The honesty and transparency people are willing to speak with cannot be overstated or overdone. In times when I feel lonely or sad or anything, I find myself craving vlogs and Internet video more than anything else.
Honest, well-made videos that are made with a purpose of being good, not only in quality, but also in the humane sense of the word, provide an escape into places that can take you away from whatever bad place you find yourself. These videos also welcome you with open arms into a world that wants you and all of the baggage you bring.
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The Academy Awards heads to its 88th annual ceremony to commend this year's best films. The selection committee has attempted to recognize diverse talent in the film industry.
It was one of the first in the world to begin integrating foreign films into their consideration, with Honorary Awards beginning in the post-World-War-II era. Sidney Poitier was the first African-American actor to win an Oscar in 1964 for his role in "Lillies of the Field." However, with social inequalities still hauntingly present during today's Academy nominations, it has questioned whether the Oscar's have built the progressive mantra out of their own action or out of
reaction.
For the second year in a row, an all-white acting ballot has been presented before us, underlying the diversity problem in an even darker, alarming shade. While race is an issue, other issues have bubbled up with the Academy over the last few years as well. To help unpack all that is happening, University film professors offered their insight.
Kevin Willmott, associate KU film professor and screenwriter for Spike Lee's "CHI-RAQ":
"Obviously, it's disappointing. [...] Just to be honest with you, the Oscars aren't all that important on one level but where they are important is to give a film a lot more attention.
The bigger issue of discrimination is just that, it's very difficult to get financing for
a film that deals with any of the real problems in American life. You're far more likely to get financing from overseas to deal with American history or American problems than you are from American studies.
That's the real kind of discrimination that goes on in Hollywood. They're just not interested in a lot of things that really are important in American life, and that's really the crime."
Matthew Jacobson, associate KU film professor;
"The issue of lack of diversity in awards goes back further than the voters on those awards. It really goes back to the people who greenlight films, and cast those films with no real push towards diversity in roles that don't require an actor of a specific race or gender.
Unfortunately, Hollywood is built on the idea of 'playing it safe.' Most of the mainstream films that are made, are created for consumption by a mostly-white audience that the studios have decided, don't like change.
I've been lucky enough to work with Kansas filmmaker Kevin Willmott for the last sixteen years. [...] Part of the reason we've been able to do this is we are working outside the Hollywood system — no one is telling us who we have to write for, or who we should cast in any role. I am proud of our work, precisely because it's controversial.
This is the attitude we are trying to teach to our students right now. [...] I'd like to encourage more filmmakers, including my students, to look past racial or gender stereotypes when
casting. That's how we can start real change - from the bottom up."
Jon Niccum, KU professor and film critic at the Kansas City Star:
"People who are mad about it are right, but in another aspect its kind of a bad year for that.
Personally, I didn't need Will Smith to get nominated because I thought his film was not good. I noticed it more last year when David Oyelowo [in Selma] didn't get nominated because I thought that was one of the best performances of the year.
I thought, 'Wow he didn't get nominated?' I think that made people a little touchy already, and then this year, when it was across the board, it made people angry and I understand that. I just wish there would have been
better movies to point out to that were excluded. [...] It's clear Hollywood has problems with this stuff, but to me I always thought of it as a way more sexist industry than racist. Every year the nominees come out, the most under represented branch is unattractive females, because if you're not beautiful you're not getting a nomination. It's nothing but gorgeous women constantly being nominated and yet, that doesn't apply to the men? Again, Hollywood has a lot of problems, but I think that sexism is in some respects is worse than racism at this point, and they have to clear that up."
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Home sweet home: Kansas hosts Kentucky in battle of college basketball's top programs
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There's no place like home.
Kansas (16-4, 5-3) found that out the hard way after dropping its third consecutive road game in an 85-72 loss to Iowa State in Ames, Iowa. With the loss, the Jayhawks fell to fourth in the Big 12 standings, and their chances at a 12th straight conference title took somewhat of a hit.
But come Saturday, all the buzz about Oklahoma sitting in the driver's seat for this year's conference race grows silent. At least for a day. All 10 teams will have a buffer this weekend from the Big 12 gauntlet, as the Big 12/SEC Challenge takes all the headlines.
For the Jayhawks, that buffer does not mean a tune-up to fix some of their recent struggles. Instead, the reigning Big 12 champions get arguably the toughest matchup of the Challenge. Kansas will host Kentucky (16-4, 6-2) in the battle of two historic basketball programs in the "mecca of college basketball" — Allen Fieldhouse.
Although the Jayhawks are slumping as of late, a
home meeting against a blue blood program may be exactly what this team needs to get back on track. It's no secret that Kansas plays better at home; the team's 34-game winning streak would more than justify that assertion.
But there's more to it.
The Jayhawks have lost their last three road games, all by double digits. That's the first time that has happened for Kansas since the 1905-06 team that was directed by James Naismith, the only coach in Kansas history to post a losing record, although that's perhaps forgivable considering he literally invented the sport itself.
Road woes have plagued Kansas since the core of the team — senior forward Perry Ellis and junior guards Frank Mason III and Wayne Selden Jr. — have been on campus.
From 2007 to 2013, Kansas was 45-13 on the road in Big 12 play but from 2014-present, Kansas is just 10-12.
Another aspect of Saturday's game that the core has specifically experienced is that it comes as a much-anticipated rematch from last
year's demoralizing loss. In just the second game of the season, the Wildcats slaughtered the Jayhawks by 32 in the Champions Classic.
Though most of the players on that Kentucky team have since gone to the NBA, the game still has a lingering effect on the Kansas players. Most players admitted before this year's Champions Classic that they did not want a repeat of last year.
However, both teams look drastically different from their last matchup. Last year, Kentucky stormed through the regular season unscathed to a No.1 overall ranking in the NCAA Tournament. This year the Wildcats have already suffered four losses, including two in conference play. They are averaging 77.4 points per game, which ranks them 94th in the nation.
Kentucky has just two players averaging double digits, led by freshman guard Jamal Murray, who is scoring 17.8 points per contest. Sophomore guard Tyler Ulis is averaging 15.3 points and six assists per game, and will be a focal
point for Kansas defensively.
Offensively, Kansas is much more balanced, with four players averaging double digits through the first 20 games of the season. Ellis is the go-to player for the team, averaging 16.7 points per game. He has scored 49 points combined in his last two games.
But after that, the Jayhawks have several different players that put the ball through the hoop. Selden is averaging 14.6 points per game and shooting 47 percent from three-point range. As a team, the Jayhawks are shooting 43 percent from the long range, good for fifth in the nation.
In fact, part of the reason Kansas collapsed in the second half of the Iowa State game was due to the inability to hit the threeball. The Jayhawks were 0-of-6 from beyond the arc in the second half after hitting 5-of-11 in the first half. It's not a coincidence that, despite the loss, they led by seven going into the break.
The Jayhawks have a tendency to shoot much better from downtown when shooting in familiar territory, which allows
them to look more like the team that once was ranked No. 1 in all of college basketball. That came after the Jayhawks defeated the Oklahoma Sooners in Allen Fieldhouse in a triple overtime classic.
And come Saturday, Kansas fans may be in store for yet another epic college basketball game. And Allen Fieldhouse, as usual, will be rocking.
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Looking at the Big 12 Player of the Year candidates
MIKE MAICKE It's late January and conference play is well underway. The Big 12 has seen countless upsets and fantastic individual performances from players on a wide variety of teams. However, in a conference with unprecedented parity and top talent, a few players have risen above the rest.
Here is your update on potential Big 12 Player of the Year candidates
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Buddy Hield
Guard | Oklahoma
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Buddy Hield has certainly become a household name. The senior guard has been on an absolute tear in Big 12 play this season, highlighted by a 46-point outing in a triple overtime loss to the Kansas Jayhawks at Allen Fieldhouse.
With Hield, the stats are outstanding. He is averaging a conference leading 25.7 points per game, adding a more than respectable 5.8 rebounds per game, especially considering he plays the two spot for Oklahoma.
Hield is the undisputed leader of the Oklahoma Sooners and carries himself as professionally as anyone in the country. His constant "we got this" demeanor, even in late game situations, seems to be contagious and reassuring to the rest of his team. He appears to never get rattled, and will run back on defense rather than complain to officials about a call.
But what really stands out about Buddy Hield are the intangibles.
Hield is a professional in every sense of the word. Not only is he the best player in the Big 12 conference, but you'd also be hard pressed to find a better one in the entire country.
Perry Ellis Forward | Kansas
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Perry Ellis has been the quiet leader of the Jayhawks team for the last three years. His 16.3 points per game does not necessarily blow anyone away, but what is very impressive is Ellis' efficiency. The senior forward is shooting 49.8 percent from the field and 46.9 percent from beyond the arc.
Ellis is also a very underrated defender for the Jayhawks. He is quick enough to close out on stretch fours, yet still strong enough to hold his own in the post against some of the biggest forwards in the league. But the best part about Ellis' defense is that he guards and contests without fouling.
Ellis plays nearly 30 minutes per game and is averaging only 1.6 personal fouls per contest. That is so impressive considering that Ellis typically defends close to the basket and collegiate referees allow very little contact from defenders in the paint.
Jawun Evans
Guard | Oklahoma State
Jawun Evans is the best player in the Big 12 that you've never heard of. Evans is only a freshman on a very bad Oklahoma State team, however, his play so far in conference deserves recognition.
Evans is averaging 5.7 assists in conference play at this point, which might sound unimpressive, but let me ask you: Do you understand just how difficult it is to get an assist on this Oklahoma State team? The Cowboys are ninth in the Big 12 in scoring averaging 71.1 points per game. Aside from Evans, there is only one other player on Oklahoma State averaging double digit scoring at 11.5 points per game.
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Evans scored 42 points with 7 rebounds and 6 assists against in state rival Oklahoma and then went off for 22 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists in a victory against Kansas.
What really stands out about Evans is his ability to rise to the occasion. So far in Big 12 play the freshman guard has had his best performances against the highest competition.
He will most likely not be named Big 12 player of the year this year, but the future is very bright and promising for Jawun Evans.
Georges Niang Forward | Iowa State
Senior Georges Niang has made a significant impact for the Cyclones since his freshman year. He's one of the best scorers in the nation, and he has been one of the best — at least in league play — for quite some time.
Niang has averaged double-digit points per game all four years and is currently boasting a career best 6.4 rebounds per game. But this year, he's at another level.
In the 2015-16 season, Niang is currently putting up an impressive 19.3 points per contest and a career high 84 percent free throw percentage.
The stats are consistent and impressive, but what's not to be overlooked is that he is having his best year even after a coaching change at Iowa State.
Niang has been an NBA prospect for the last two years, and, with a new coach and a new system coming in, it would have been easy for the senior to mentally check out and coast to the draft.
That's not what Niang has done, and he's keeping Iowa State near the top of a very competitive conference.
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Six a.m.
2,500 students, many of which went without sleep the night before, drudge into Anschutz Sports Pavilion one by one. Just about everyone is tired, hungry, annoyed and ready to go back to bed.
As students file into the line, the KU Camping Leadership - a group of students in charge of camping and the lottery process - unsuccessfully attempt to give out instructions over a megaphone. However, as the students continue to stand around and let the instructions float by as background noise, one member of the Leadership group yells into his megaphone to quiet the building.
"Shut the [expletive] up."
At Kansas, lottery is something that takes place following each home game. The students have to be in the building — usually Allen Fieldhouse — by 6 a.m. if it's a weekday and 8 a.m. if it's a weekend. However, due to scheduling conflicts, the lottery for the Kentucky game was moved to 6 a.m. Sunday at the Anschutz Sports Pavilion, where President Barack Obama actually spoke one year and two days earlier.
According to the Leadership group, Sunday's lottery was the biggest crowd drawn since the Missouri game. The 117 individual groups that showed up at lottery was also one of the largest marks in recent memory. As of Wednesday night, that list had increased to over 140 groups.
Students are taking the game against Kentucky more seriously than some of the past games this season, and really, there's a different buzz with this game than those in the past.
"We got in; We were group number 115 [to pull a number]," said Hayden Balduf, a freshman from Illinois. "This was my first lottery. My group had done it before, but I joined them for this one. I actually didn't sleep the night before."
For Balduf, spending his first all-nighter of college in a packed building led to simply a place on the camping list, but for others, the draw was far more favorable.
Cassidy Dixon, a junior from Wichita, is a member of the camping group "Cheick The Weather There's a 100% Chance of Wayne." After pulling the No.1 chip at lottery, her group was vaulted to the front of the line, assuming none of the members of her group miss their camping shifts throughout the
week.
She said she's excited for the game and thinks it will definitely provide the biggest atmosphere in a while, as well as the most riled-up Kansas crowd.
"The atmosphere in Allen Fieldhouse is going to be insane," Dixon said. "The SEC/Big 12 challenge is a big thing; GameDay is coming, and that'll be exciting too."
Dixon said there was a difference in how much fans generally felt in regards to Kentucky, as compared to other opponents, using another group's name that called Kentucky coach John Calipari an obscenity as evidence. She added one of the suggestions for her group name was "John Calipari sucks" but said they opted to go in a different direction.
For the students, camping isn't something to be taken lightly. Many of the groups have rules that force students to be at the 6 a.m. or 8 a.m. lotteries to attend the game, while others have similar policies about missing a camping shift.
Zoë Theobald, a freshman from Iowa, said her group is "extremely" strict with how it enforces rules. She said the group previously kicked off one member for missing shifts, adding the rules of the group are clearly outlined and that it's not acceptable to break them.
"You can't just not show up for your shift," Theo bald said. "Then there's some people that don't take shifts, and [they] expect to get into the game [...] They don't get to do that."
Theobald said she noticed new groups and people while she was camping. She acknowledged the bigger crowd but said the number of students camping also disappointed her in some ways.
"I thought there'd be more people here," Theo bald said.
It seems as though this game has been hyped up to be a historic clash in a way it can't possibly live up to. And while it might have been even bigger in year's past, this year the game doesn't have its entire luster.
Both Kansas and Kentucky have already lost four games this season, while Kentucky is clinging to its top-20 status after a 6-2 start in SEC play.
er-one" programs in the NCAA — along with Duke.
However, some of the hype is valid. And it's not just coming from inside the University.
He said the home-game element only adds to the game and went as far as to say it will be a bigger game than when Kansas faced then-sophomore guard Marcus Smart and Oklahoma State in Allen Fieldhouse one year after losing in the same venue.
Carrington Harrison, who co-hosts The Drive on 610 Sports Radio in Kansas City, said what makes the game special is that Kentucky and Kansas are two of the three clear, "ti-
"I think this is the biggest game at Allen Fieldhouse since Missouri last played there," Harrison said. "It's one of those once-in-a-decade kind of games because these kind of games don't happen. Kentucky doesn't go to Allen. Kansas doesn't go to Rupp Arena. They always play at neutral sites."
Self and Calipari have met twice in a National Championship setting, as each walked away with one victory. There's the storyline of how the Wildcats throttled the Jayhawks last year at the Champions Classic, prompting the nation to ask if they might even be able to beat an NBA team.
As Kansas prepares to take on Kentucky, there are several storylines that would be easy to latch on to.
But above all else, Kansas vs. Kentucky is about two of college basketball's elite programs squaring off in one of the most respected and celebrated venues in all of college basketball.
Come Saturday at 6 p.m., a new chapter of history will be written.
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"I think this is the biggest game at Allen Fieldhouse since Missouri last played there [...] It's one of those once-in-a-decade kind of games because these kind of games don't happen. Kentucky doesn't go to Allen Kansas doesn't go to Rupp Arena. They always play at neutral sites."
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▶ EVAN·RIGGS
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AT A GLANCE
This is the most anticipated game on the regular season schedule for both Kansas and Kentucky. It will also be a big opportunity for Kansas to bounce back after the road loss at Iowa State. Kentucky is a talented team, but like most of John Calipari's teams, they are incredibly young. If the Jayhawks can jump out to a big lead, the atmosphere in Allen Fieldhouse may overwhelm the young Wildcats.
▶ SCOTT CHASEN
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PLAYER TO WATCH
Carlton Bragg Jr.
freshman, forward
In Kansas' loss Monday at Iowa State, Bragg was the only player on the bench who didn't looked shocked in the second half. Besides that, the freshman has played at a high level in his limited minutes in conference play. Lucas isn't quick enough to deal with the Kentucky frontcourt, and senior forward Jamari Traylor isn't big enough. Since it appears Self doesn't trust freshman forward Cheick Diallo, Bragg is the likely candidate for Self to call upon.
QUESTION MARK
Will the backcourt show up?
Over the last six games, Ellis has been the lone consistent player on a team that needs its guards to be successful. There's been so much attention on how Self has handled the big man rotation, the backcourt's struggles have been a bit under the radar. Selden has struggled with his shot. Graham hasn't played well on defense and Mason's assist to turnover ratio has taken a bit of a hit. The Jayhawks will need their backcourt to revert back to its early season form against Kentucky's young but very talented backcourt.
BY THE NUMBERS
3 - Kansas has lost its last three meetings to Kentucky.
10-0 The Jayhawk's record when Selden scores 15 or more points.
1 - The amount of games Ellis has failed to score in double figures this season.
BIG JAY WILL CHEER IF...
The Jayhawks can play like they did in the first half at Armes. The Jayhawks are almost impossible to stop on offense when they move the ball like they did Monday, and they will need that ball movement against the Wildcats, who hold their opponents to just 40 percent shooting. If the Jayhawks play with good movement and patience on offense, the Wildcats will have to be more disciplined on defense than they have all season.
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Frank Mason III,junior,guard
KENTUCKY
In what has been considered a down stretch for Mason, he's still been one of the Jayhawks' most productive players. He's scored in double figures in the Jayhawk's last 10 games. Mason will have a tough challenge Saturday when he faces another elite point guard in Kentucky sophomore point guard Tyler Ulis. If Mason makes life tough for Ulis on both ends of the floor, it may be a long day for Kentucky.
★★★★
Devonte' Graham, sophomore, guard
Since the start of Big 12 play, Graham has been up and down on offense and hasn't played well on defense. Graham has all the tools to be a consistent lockdown defender, and the Jayhawks certainly need him to do just that. After another road loss, it's clear the Jayhawks need their most outspoken and emotional player to help set the tone Saturday.
★★★☆
PARKS
Wayne Selden Jr., junior, guard
After a scorching-hot start behind the arc, Selden is shooting just 31 percent from three over the last six games. Even though Selden is a much better player than last season, he still doesn't do much else offensively if he isn't making three-pointers. The Jayhawks haven't shot well from beyond the arc lately, and that was a big reason for their early success. That could change very quickly if Selden can find his stroke again.
★★★☆
ALFRED BORGEY
Perry Ellis, senior, power forward
During the Jayhawks' inconsistent play, the one constant has been Ellis, who has played exceptionally on the offensive end of the court. He's coming off a 23-point effort at Iowa State where he showed off his entire offensive repertoire. Teams in the Big 12 have taken notice of how well Ellis is playing, but if he can have a good game in front of a national audience Saturday night, he'll start to receive the national recognition his play deserves.
ALEXANDRA CUNNINGHAM
★★★★★
Landen Lucas, junior, Forward
It's entirely possible that head coach Bill Self will opt to go with another player at this position, but it seems like it will likely be Lucas. He's very limited on offense, but he's given the Jayhawks a major boost on the glass by grabbing 19 rebounds in the last two games. Kentucky has one of the biggest front lines Kansas will see this year, so Lucas will be a big key on the glass.
★★★☆☆
PROJECTED STARTERS
A. M. BROWN
Tyler Ulis, sophomore, guard
In his sophomore campaign, Ulis has emerged as one of the leaders on the team and as one of its best players. He has multiple 20-point outings this year, and he has been the driving force behind several key victories this year. Ulis is one of the nation's best free throw shooters, which should be noted as there are 120 different teams averaging less fouls per game than the Jayhawks this year.
JOHN DAVIS
★★★★
Brisco is one of the best rebounding guards in the SEC, and he can also take over a game with his passing, which is an underrated aspect of how he plays. Similar to Selden, Brisco is often crucial to Kentucky's success; in the team's four losses, he has scored in double figures just one time.
Isaiah Briscoe, freshman, guard
★★★★☆
Jamal Murray, freshman, guard
Coming into the year, most assumed Murray would be solid, but he has surprised everyone by being the real star freshman of this Kentucky team (instead of Skal Labissiere). Murray leads the team in points and held goal attempts, and he even has a 33-point game this year, albeit one that came in a loss.
★★★★
Alex Poythress, senior, forward
AT A GLANCE
Like several players on Kentucky, Poythress has had his bouts with inconsistent play this year. Likewise, Kentucky is undefeated when he scores in double-figures. However, perhaps the most frustrating part of his game is his propensity to shoot threes despite shooting worse than eight percent on the year. He's averaging right around one attempt per game, which is essentially just a wasted possession.
★★★★☆
BERTO SANTA CRUZ
Derek Willis, junior, forward
Willis is the weak link in the starting five, and he probably won't play as many minutes as some of the guys on the bench. He's actually a pretty solid shooter from distance, and he hasn't missed a free throw since the second game of his college career.
★★★☆☆
The Wildcats have been relatively disappointing this year, coming into the season with top-five expectations. Freshman big man Skal Labissiere in particular has failed to live up to the hype, as post play continues to be an issue for the team. However, they're still dangerous and gunning for the upset, especially after dominating the Jayhawks last year on a neutral site.
PLAYER TO WATCH
JOHNSON
Marcus Lee junior, forward
Marcus Lee isn't going to blow anyone away with his numbers, but he's a presence inside, and he actually plays a fair amount. With Kansas' veteran big men in the game, the junior from California may be the team's best option, and he can probably exploit the lapses from the freshmen big men as well. It will be interesting, however, to see how much Calipari opts to use his freshman, Skal Labissiere, considering that the Jayhawks will almost certainly have a more experienced group on the floor at all times.
QUESTION MARK
Which Ulis shows up?
While Ulis has been impressive throughout the year, he's also had games where he's been fairly mediocre, which has left UK upset-prone. Against Ohio State, Ulis managed just 11 points on 4-of-12 shooting, with just four assists to three turnovers. Against UCLA, he was just 2-of-12 from the floor and bricked four of his five three-point attempts. If he's off his game, the Wildcats' chances in this one will be hurt.
BY THE NUMBERS
0 - Through 19 games, the Wildcats have scored more than more than 90 points in a game zero times.
283 — Kentucky is one of the worst three-point shooting teams in the nation, ranking outside the top 280 and falling behind Eastern, Western and Northern Kentucky.
88 — Shooting over 88 percent from the free throw line, Tyler Ulis ranks in the top 25 in the nation in that stat.
BABY JAY WILL CRY IF...
The Wildcats rain down
three-pointers and Tyler Ulis has a big day. Mason has struggled as of late, and he'll need to be locked in for Kansas to compete. This may also be a game where the freshmen big men match up, which should be a lot of fun for those watching at home.
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Which is more impressive: UK's four Final Fours in five years or KU's Big 12 streak?
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Four Final Fours in five years
▶ MIKE MAICKE
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Historic college basketball programs are set to collide Saturday when the Kentucky Wildcats come to one of the most revered venues in sports to face the Kansas Jayhawks.
The clash between two of college basketball's most successful programs is part of the annual Big 12/SEC Challenge, but this pairing seems hardly coincidental.
Both teams have experienced great success in recent years, and there are a few numbers to really show this. The Jayhawks have won 11 straight Big 12 regular season titles. This is especially impressive because of the increased parity in the modern era of college basketball, not to mention the Big 12 consistently features many tournament teams.
Kentucky has been to the Final Four four times in the last five years. That's an absolutely remarkable accomplishment.
I'll one-up that Jayhawk streak.
Yes, Kentucky typically gets top talent, but that also means they are getting a new batch of freshmen every year. What that means is that coach John Calipari has the difficult
job of preparing multiple incoming freshmen to be tournament ready by March. These are freshmen that come into Kentucky used to being "the man." so to speak, on their respective AAU and high school teams, so it can be very difficult to establish rotations and chemistry.
Don't get me wrong; Kansas,' Big 12 title streak is impressive, but it does not even compare to Kentucky's recent postseason success.
It is impossible to recover from a tournament loss and still make it to the Final Four that year, while Kansas has lost as many as three conference games in a row before and still claimed the title of best in the Big 12. Losses in conference are expected and built on; losses in the postseason are season-ending and disappointing.
"True success is measured in the postseason.
Quite frankly the Jayhawks have not been successful for the last two years, and if they think they have been, that's part of the problem. It is almost as if winning the Big 12 has been a crutch for pathetic postseason play recently.
True success is measured in the postseason.
Kansas has lost to teams such as Stanford and Wichita State in the tournament.
"But hey, at least we've got the Big 12!"
It's time to stop using this title streak as an excuse to come up short in
March over and over again. Sure, it's a fun stat and an impressive run, but honestly, who wouldn't trade these conference titles for postseason success?
I encourage all Jayhawks fans to take a look at what they're been doing over in Lexington, Ken. It's a whole lot more impressive.
Former player Ben McLemore cuts off a piece of the net after winning the championship game of the Big 12 Tournament at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. on Saturday March 14, where the Jayhawks defeated the Kansas State Wildcats 70-54.
11-consecutive Big 12 titles
▶ SKYLAR ROLSTAD
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The best programs in college basketball rose to their levels of prestige with sustained success over long periods of time. For Kansas, 11 straight conference titles represents a recent dominance that no team in the nation can currently match.
The Jayhawks are on their way to making history with this streak. If the team can go two more years with conference titles, it will tie UCLA's 13-title streak from 1967 to 1979. The John Wooden-coached Bruins also won seven national titles in a row from 1966 to 1973.
The fact the longest streak of conference championships was achieved by a team that strung seven consecutive national titles together suggests how remarkable Kansas' run has
been. Meaning if Kansas were able to get these next two Big 12 championships, and tie UCLA's beloved conference streak, it would put the program in an elite category.
Although the Kentucky Wildcats have been impressive over the last five seasons with four Final Four appearances, it only signifies the Wildcats' ability to get hot at the right time. Since 2000, Kentucky has only won the SEC regular season crown seven times. What makes 11-straight even more impressive for Kansas is that the Big 12 has historically been much more competitive than the SEC.
In order to make these Final Four runs, Kentucky relied on its distinct recruiting edge that has been established by head coach John Calinari.
To say Kentucky has sustained success under Calipari over a long period of time would be a lie. Calipari is only in his seventh season as coach, arriving at Kentucky after jumping around from job to job in both college and the NBA. It may be only a matter of time before Calipari again chooses to jump shin.
2012-13 season, the year after Calipari's only national title. Kentucky failed to even make the NCAA tournament and settled for a first round exit in the National Invitational Tournament.
When Calipari did not have the recruits, his teams performed terribly. In the
There is a fine line between a fortunate postseason run and a lackluster season. With an 11-loss season in the 2013-14 season, Kentucky was runner-up in the NCAA tournament. The year before, the Wildcats lost in the NIT First Round with a 12-loss regular season.
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Bill Self, on the other hand, has stayed loyal to Kansas and continues to steadily build the program. After coaching at Illinois and taking over for Roy Williams at Kansas in 2003, Self won a national title just five years into his tenure as Kansas coach and has made the NCAA tournament in each of the 12 seasons he has coached the Jayhawks. Missing the tournament for a Bill Self-coached team would be unheard of, but for Calipari it has been settled for.
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EVAN RIGGS @EvanRigasUDK
With the Kansas Jayhawks getting set to host the Kentucky Wildcats, it's been a few years since the teams have played at either's home venue. When these teams met last season, Kentucky dominated on a neutral floor, with a resounding 72-40 win in the Champions Classic.
But the last time Kentucky had to face Kansas in Allen Fieldhouse, it was Kansas who won in very similar fashion.
On Jan. 7, 2006, the Jayhawks ran the Wildcats out of the gym 73-46 in a game they weren't even supposed to win.
The Wildcats entered the game with a 10-3 record. They were ranked 19th in the AP Poll and were led by then-sophomore Rajon Rondo, who had a good season and would end up leaving school early for the NBA Draft. The Jayhawks came into the game with an 8-4 record, but they had won five straight after starting just 3-4.
The Jayhawks were talented, but they were also one of the youngest teams in the country. Freshmen Mario Chalmers, Julian Wright and Brandon Rush all saw significant playing time, as well as sophomores C.J. Giles, Russell Robinson, Sasha Kaun and Darnell Jackson.
Rush had one of the best games of his Jayhawk career with 24 points and 12 rebounds. Robinson added 12 points, while Giles was the third double-digit scorer with 10 points. Those three alone combined for 46 points, which matched the Wildcats' total for the entire game.
Even though the Jayhawks shot 50 percent from the field and played well offensively, their defense was the story of the game. They held the Wildcats to just 24 percent shooting and 12 percent from three. They also outrebounded the Wildcats 45-35, had 14
assists to their five and had eight blocked shots compared to just one for the Wildcats.
For the young Jayhawks, it was the first time they put together a complete game in that season.
"Today, we did a good job of showing the fans we can do it," Robinson told ESPN after the game. "We played a good game against a good team. Now, we've got to keep it up."
When Kansas pummeled Kentucky in Allen Fieldhouse 10 years ago, it gave the young group of players confidence. Those players took that confidence and turned it into a share of the Big 12 title.
Now, a different, more-veteran Kansas team comes into the game lacking confidence in many ways. The team has been struggling, losing three of its last five games, and needs a boost.
Recent history says the Jayhawks will get it.
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Jackson: Saturday is about more than a win, it's about recruiting potential for Kansas
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▶ SHANE JACKSON
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In the most anticipated game of the year, much will be made about the players on the court when Kansas hosts Kentucky on Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse.
2016 recruit Josh Jackson watches the Jayhawks in Allen Fieldhouse
Fans will be wondering if senior forward Perry Ellis can continue to be the hot hand of the offense, after scoring 49 points in his last two games. National media will be waiting to see if Kentucky freshman guard Jamal Murray can continue to live up to the hype. He's averaged 17.8 points per game in the year, but now has to show it in Allen Fieldhouse, one of the toughest atmospheres in college basketball.
But what may be almost as important — and may very likely go unnoticed — is not the players on the court responsible for the highlight-worthy dunks, but rather the people behind the bench. I'm talking about the high school basketball players who go by a different name when they're in attendance of one of the nation's top programs: Recruits.
Kentucky and Kansas are two of the most successful programs in the history of college
basketball. Kentucky has been to the Final Four in four of the last five seasons; Kansas has won 11-straight conference championships and reached two Final Fours in the last 11 years.
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This sustained success is credit to both coaches' ability to recruit the best talent. Nowadays, with one-and-done players, coaches have to be able to recruit in order to keep up with the roster turnover from year to year. Both Kentucky coach John Calipari and Kansas coach Bill Self have done just that.
No official recruits have been announced, but there are expected to be a few players on unofficial visits, including Michael Porter Jr., the No. 3 ranked recruit in the 2017 class.
And that's what makes Saturday's game that much more important. A majority of the top recruits in each class have both Kansas and Kentucky on the top of their list of potential schools. This weekend's primetime matchup in Allen Fieldhouse may be the deciding factor in one of the most important decisions of their lives.
season and has both Kansas and Kentucky on his list of potential schools. Both programs have offered him a scholarship, meaning Saturday could be a chance to stack up the two programs.
Of course, the fear for fans is that Porter and the other potential recruits may not like what they see firsthand on Saturday. In the thick of conference play, Self has turned to his veterans as opposed to his highly touted freshman.
Freshman center Cheick Diallo was picked this preseason to be the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. Instead, he's averaging 9.4 minutes per game, and he's only played a combined four minutes in the last two contests. In fact, last Saturday against Texas, Diallo did not see the court for even a second.
And in that game — behind the Kansas bench, watching Diallo ride the pine in-person — was the top ranked recruit in the 2016 class, Josh Jackson. However, that still isn't
the focus for Self, who has said he doesn't think the freshmen are ready for major roles on the team, which is why they average a combined 20.8 minutes per game. The three Jayhawks have accumulated 408 minutes this season.
To put that in comparison, Kentucky has six freshmen with a combined 1,830 minutes played this season. The six of them have a combined minutes per game average of 104.9. Leading the charge is Murray with 34.1 minutes per contest.
Now by no means is playing time the deciding factor. It could just be a factor for potential recruits watching the two historic programs Saturday night. Perhaps the deciding factor is who wins the game, or which coach is the most passionate on the floor - maybe even which style fits their skills.
Either way, Saturday is an important game, and not just because of the players on the court. Keep an eye on the ones on the sideline as well.
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Ahead of Saturday's game against Kentucky, the Kansan caught up with Kentucky Kernel sports editor Josh Ellis to talk about the upcoming game, the chances of Kentucky coach John Calipari leaving for the NBA and why Kentucky has struggled so much at times this year.
University Daily Kansan: Kansas vs. Kentucky. How big is this game?
Josh Ellis, Kentucky Kernel sports editor: "This is the biggest game on UK's schedule this year. Probably before the season started you would've said [the biggest would be against] Duke or Kansas, or maybe Louisville — we didn't know how good they were going to be. It's especially big that it's in Kansas. I can't really remember how long it's been since UK played in Lawrence, but I think the fact that it's in Lawrence makes the stage even bigger, especially with Kansas doing so well this year — although I know they lost the other night to Iowa State.
"But the fact that it's at Kansas just hypes it up even more. And the fact that UK has basically been struggling to find an identity [does too]. They haven't really had consistent post play this year, but the guards have done pretty well — Ulis has had seven 20-point games this year."
UDK: Ulis has been solid, but the team has struggled. In a season where Kentucky comes in ranked in the top five, what's been the most notable absence?
JE: "One of the biggest curveballs, one of the biggest things that isn't working this year, is Skal Labissiere. He was up there with (LSU)'s) Ben Simmons as the talk for the No. 1 draft pick this year, and he really just hasn't produced. The second game of the season, he had 26 points, but other than that he just hasn't really met expectations at the least. [Calipari] really didn't expect him to play as bad as he has been playing.
"(Forward) Alex Poythress is a senior this year, and I think the post play is probably the biggest thing that's hurt UK this year. They don't know on a night-in, night-out basis how well [the big men will play]. Marcus Lee has been out of the starting lineup. I think really just overall the frontcourt has been the biggest surprise in the negative way for UK right now — especially Skal."
UDK: How have the expectations changed for UK through that disappointment?
Knight, Josh Harrellson and Doron Lamb went to the final four. They didn't have that good of a year to begin with. They had some slumps in SEC play. Right now, for expectations though, I still think a Final Four is doable, just because of how well Cal coaches his team late in the year. You saw that two years ago when they played Wichita State and they were the eight-seed.[That year] they went all the way to the National Championship.
"I think [with] how good Cal is in March and April I think fans still expect at least a Final Four or maybe an Elite Eight, but [the expectations] have been tempered just because of the shocking losses like at Auburn and LSU."
UDK: The confidence in Cal seems to be strong, but how strong does BBN feel about him staying? After Cavaliers coach David Blatt was fired, was there ever a split second where fans were worried he might leave?
viously always a chance, but I didn't think it was a serious threat for him to leave. He's always been so quick to shoot down any rumors. He's really quick at responding with that, and I think his path is just kind of solidified that he's going to be at UK this season and then probably for years after that."
JE: "I think they've been tempered a little bit, especially after the Auburn loss. I don't think very many people at all would've expected that Auburn loss. I think by far that was the worst loss of the year.
"This is almost like the 2011 team when Brandon
UDK: Staying with the NBA theme, how much of a boost does it provide seeing John Wall, Anthony Davis and all these great players in the NBA?
"I think before, if you had asked me this question after the UK, U of [Louisville] game, which W won by two points, I would've said, 'Yeah, I think UK still has a pretty good chance to run the table in the SEC.' But as you can see they've had clear problems that haven't really been there for the past few teams.
JE: "I think it helps [recruiting]. I think it helps it a lot. If you go in the UK basketball practice facility, they actually have a picture of all the UK players
JE: "It's funny that you ask that. It's almost like anytime there's ever an NBA job open, the first name that automatically comes from anybody is Calipari. It's like the Nets almost wanted him. He coached the Nets previously; they almost wanted him [again]. The Kings have been asking him. He had chances to go other places. Now, [coaching] the Cavs [is] probably the hottest job in the NBA, as you get to coach the best player in the world.
"Cal's name definitely did come up but just knowing how Cal has dealt with it in the past — there's ob-
in the NBA on the wall. It's a huge, huge, huge recruiting tool because when they bring these high school kids in and they see 20 NBA players all that went to Kentucky, they're thinking, What other college programs have this many players in the NBA?'
"And not only do they have that many players in the NBA, but they also have that many significant or important players - players that matter basically; they don't come off the bench.
"UK still has a good amount of D-League players but [with] players like John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins — he's been going off lately and Anthony Davis, — these players are starting to be franchise players and All-Stars. I think it really
helps the program. It's a really great recruiting tool that Cal has, and it's good for BBN because Kentucky doesn't have an NBA team, but they can cheat for almost any NBA team with just about any UK player on it."
UDK: In a down year, how does Calipari keep that NBA talent coming? How does he get the program to bounce back?
JE: "Assuming Cal stays, this year, I don't know how far [the team can go]. It'll depend on the front court, how consistent they play...
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GameDay returns to Allen Fieldhouse
The University announced Saturday that ESPN College GameDay will be making its seventh stop all-time in
Lawrence for the men's basketball game against Kentucky on January 30. Doors will open for the event at Allen Fieldhouse at 6:30 a.m.
stands will be open for the event, per the University.
Per the University, the event is free and no tickets are required. The actual show will begin at 10 a.m. and will be broadcast on ESPN. Some concession
The expected crew for the show will be: Rece Davis, Jay Bilas, Seth Greenberg and Jay Williams.
This will be the seventh straight year that Kansas has been featured on GameDay as either the home or the road team. The
last time Kansas was the home team for GameDay by itself was in 2013; the University was a host of a split show in February of 2015.
Kentucky fanfare
Saturday, the University also announced there will 'be a T-shirt giveaway for
fans in attendance. There will be red, white and blue shirts given away, and they will be placed on the seats inside the stadium, similar to the Oklahoma State game in January of 2014.
The Jayhawks won that game in 2014 by two, as then-freshman Frank Mason III blocked a potential
game-winning shot at the buzzer.
Like in that game, the University will be taking an "ultra-high-resolution 360-degree photo," so fans can go back later and find themselves in the crowd. The photo will be available online Monday, February 1.
KELCIE MATOUSEK/Kansun Wayne Selden Jr., junior guard, drives the ball around Texas player Connor Lammert and towards the basket. Selden scored a total of 19 points during the Texas game.
Mini: Wayne Selden Jr.'s unpredictability evident through Big 12 Conference play
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When Wayne Selden Jr. arrived in Lawrence in 2013, big things were expected of him. As part of the most impressive Kansas recruiting class in recent history, Selden was thrust into the starting role alongside current NBA guard Andrew Wiggins. They would eventually be joined by another freshman in the starting five: eventual NBA Draft Lottery selection Joel Embiid.
At 6-foot-5 and 230 pounds, Selden was a wrecking ball that fans expected to fill the role of slasher on a Kansas team loaded with young talent. However, it took until just this year for Selden to really find his niche.
But even in his best games, Selden has never actually become the slasher that fans looked for him to be. The 2016 incarnation of Selden has now morphed into a three-point shooter with the ability to drive to the basket if needed, but he's at his best when it comes to catch-and-shoot.
And it took a bit of luck for that success to even happen.
When Kelly Oubre Jr. left for the NBA Draft last year, Kansas needed a starter at the small forward position.
Kansas coach Bill Self decided to move sophomore point guard Devonte' Graham into the starting five, pushing Selden to that small forward spot.
After dominating at the World University Games over the summer, Selden has continued to be one of the leaders for the team, and he has helped lead the
No one could've predicted the result.
Jayhawks to a few big wins.
Jayhawks to a new big wins.
Against No. 19 Vanderbilt,
Selden scored 25 points on
8-for-11 shooting. He added
seven rebounds in Kansas'
win.
Then, early in conference play against Baylor and Oklahoma, Selden dropped 24 and 21 points respectively. It seemed like Kansas, on the shoulders of the 6-foot-5 guard, would be propelled to another Big 12
regular season title.
Then came the struggles. Not just for Selden but for the Jayhawks as a whole, as they've dropped their last three road contests.
In the three losses, Selden scored a combined 29 points with ten turnovers. He hit three of his 15 three-point attempts in those games, shooting 31 percent from the floor.
Is there an answer to
Selden's recent troubles? How is it that after scoring 21 points against one of the top teams in the country in Oklahoma, the follow-up performance is nine points against Texas Tech?
Since his freshman year, Selden has become this sort of enigma. Just when it seems like he has cracked the code, he hasn't. It seems like everything is fixed, and then he goes and scores just
seven points in 29 minutes against Oklahoma State.
But through the inconsistency, there's been progress. This is undoubtedly the top season of his career, and Bill Self needs to continue to put his faith in him.
Even in the panic after a few early conference struggles, the Jayhawks are still in a good place with Selden as a key contributor.
And it's also hard to completely fault Selden for the fluctuating scoring when senior forward Perry Ellis and junior guard Frank Mason III are also capable of scoring in bunches. Expecting all three or even just two of them to have huge games on the same night might be a little much to ask at this point.
Whether or not Selden will be able to replicate his success against teams like Vanderbilt and Oklahoma will be a large factor in how far Kansas will go come March. If he can make a similar jump from last year to this year and bring that with him to the postseason, Kansas has something to be excited about. However, at this point, it's still hard to know which Selden is going to show up.
And until that's solved, the same problems — the same losses — are going to keep happening.
Edited by Ryan Wright
Taking a look at the Jayhawks' remaining Class of 2016 recruiting prospects
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This Saturday, the Kansas Jayhawks host the Kentucky Wildcats in one of the most anticipated games in college basketball this season. Normally for a game of this magnitude, a lot of elite recruits would be visiting. However, most of the Jayhawks' top targets have already taken their official visit to the University, so the visitors will be from the 2017 and 2018 recruiting class on unofficial visits.
Although there won't be any 2016 recruits on campus this weekend, the Jayhawks are still going after several men in the recruiting class. So far, the Jayhawks have signed Mitch Lightfoot, a four-star forward from Tuscon, Ariz. They will have at least one more scholarship to give and perhaps more if anyone currently on the team enters the NBA Draft.
Here is a list of players the Jayhawks are actively recruiting based on who could be the most beneficial to the team.
Jarrett Allen power forward Austin, Texas 247 Sports rank: 22
Josh Jackson shooting guard Detroit, Mich. 247 Sports rank:1
Allen isn't a low post player, but he has the potential to be because of his footwork. He's a long power forward that can run the floor and finish above the rim. His length allows him to be a good rebounder and shot blocker.
★★★★★
Marques Bolden center DeSoto, Texas 247 Sports rank: 19
★★★★★
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Recruits look up at the big screen at Late Night in the Phoq.
The Jayhawks don't really need any more wing depth, unless junior guard Wayne Selden Jr. leaves for the NBA Draft. But even with the team's depth, Jackson would come in and play right away. He's an athletic wing that can impact the game in a lot of different ways. Wing certainly isn't a position the Jayhawks need, but Jackson's impact would be too great not to have him high on the list.
★★★★★
Thon Maker power forward Ontario, Canada 247 Sports rank:10
Bolden would be a perfect fit in coach Bill Self's offense. He has great touch for his size and knows how to get position in the post. Bolden could be the low post scorer that the Jayhawks have been lacking the last few years. For a Kansas team that will be without at least three big men next year, there really isn't much to hate.
★★★★★
Udoka Azubuike center Jacksonville, Fla. 247 Sports rank: 28
★★★☆
Maker is definitely the most talented big guy that the Jayhawks are recruiting. He can score on the perimeter and in the post, and at 7-foot, he can also be a rim protector. He isn't higher on this list because the odds of the Jayhawks signing him are very slim. Maker has shown strong interest in Arizona State, and his guardian is a very close friend of one of their assistant coaches.
Deshawn Corprew
small forward.
Hampton, Va.
247 Sports rank: 116
★★★☆
At 6-foot-11 and 265 pounds, Azubuike would be able to make an immediate impact because of his height and weight. He's a good athlete especially for his size, and he doesn't really need as refined and developed post moves because he can overpower other centers. With multiple Kansas big men leaving after this year, Azubuike might not be the best fit, but his talent would be too great for the Jayhawks to pass up.
Corprew is an athienc slashing wing that would fit in well at Kansas. But he isn't near the talent that Jackson is, so there isn't much chance he would see the court next year. Corprew is likely insurance in the event that Selden goes pro and Jackson commits elsewhere. Even if he is just insurance, he would still provide important depth for the Jayhawks, because he would most likely be one injury away from seeing some playing time.
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