THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2013
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Wayne Selden, Jr., and Perry Ellis huddle with teammates during the Champions Classic on Tuesday. The Jayhawks defeated the Duke Blue Devils 94-83.
Victory over Duke not indicative of future play
As Southwest flight 601 flew over the outskirts of Kansas City, Mo., a familiar tune came over the public address system. A fight song — the Jayhawk fight song to be exact — accompanied passengers as they glided back down to Earth.
Those who were sleeping were certain their experience was no dream. Kansas had defeated Duke in the Champions Classic, if the giddy faces of overly excited Jay-hawk fans weren't already telling of the fact.
A loss for Kansas wouldn't have meant much more than a tally mark in the "L" column; a win makes it seem like this is a team of destiny. Reality says it's just November, and no one will make much of Tuesday's outcome until Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Michigan State meet next year.
"The great thing about this is it matters, but in the big scheme of things it really doesn't," Self said after the 94-83 victory. "We want to play our best ball in February and March and the teams you saw tonight won't be the teams you see later on."
The game itself was more telling of what's to come than what was accomplished.
Some might have snucked when coach Bait Self said Perry Ellis could
By Blake Schuster bschuster@kansan.com
easily be the layhawks' leading scorer. There no laughnow later.
On a night when Andrew Wiggins was supposed to take down Jabari Parker it was Ellis - the least hyped stud for Kansas - who essentially matched Duke's star, point for point and board for board.
It was Brannen Greene who continued to knock down 3-pointers and Frank Mason who provided a spark off the bench.
It was Wiggins who skied for a dunk to put the jayhawks' lead out of reach, and in the most symbolic way possible. As Wiggins went up strong, Parker came in to contest the dunk from behind only to give
"I've been on Perry to be more aggressive," Self said. "He was the guy that kept us in the game and gave us a chance to win it late."
It was Wayne Selden Jr. who proved that he could handle playing point guard at this level and possibly beyond.
Kansas' freshman a shot at a 3-point play. Parker had fouled out, walking off the floor as Wiggins swished another free throw that could have been the dagger if it happened just a few moments earlier.
If it were up to Wiggins, he would've started guarding Parker off the opening tip, instead of taking on the challenge in the second half. The No. 1 overall recruit pleaded with Self to take on his media-annoted rival until he made the defensive switch on the floor himself. The result: Parker scored 11 less points in the final frame than he did in the first.
"I didn't put him on labari," Self said of Wiggins. "He just went to guard Jabari. I should have been listening to him the whole time."
That's one of the beauties of college, even the professors learn something new each day.
Kansas will continue learning, because that's what teams do in the early months of the season and at some point, they will likely fall. At least for a little while, Jayhawks fans were flying high above the hype on the ground.
If only the pilots on flight 601 would let them soar a little longer.
Edited by Ashleigh Tidwell
University of Illinois joins Kansas Kosher Movement
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Jewish student organization leader Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel has a hot dog at a kosher concession stand he set up during an Illinois football game on Oct. 19.
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CHAMPAIGN, III. — Aside from soft drinks, there isn't much at your typical college basketball arena that qualifies as kosher. Not the nachos, and certainly not the hot dogs.
"Whenever I went to a game up until now, the only thing I was able to buy was the soda," said Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel, a University of Illinois basketball fan who wears a "Jew of I t-shirt. "You can't bring food from the outside, and there's no place to go."
A panel of representatives from the Review Task Force will provide attendees with an overview of KU's progress on activities and practices related to accessibility.
So what are Jewish hoops fans to do? Starting this week, they can eat like anyone else while watching their favorite team at the State Farm Center.
The university's Chabad Jewish Center, run by Tiechtel, has opened its own stand this season and sells kosher dogs, candy and drinks. Students, Tiechtel and other volunteers will staff the stand most games, though they'll skip Friday nights and Saturday day games for religious reasons.
WHERE: Centennial Room of the Kansas Union
It appears to be a fairly unique concession among college arenas. The University of Kansas has one at Allen Fieldhouse, but half a dozen Big Ten schools, in response to inquiries by The Associated Press, said they did not have one.
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WHEN: Thursday November 14, 2013 from 3:30-5pm
Many pro sports arenas have added kosher food in recent years and some universities have kosher student meal-plan options, said John Lowenstein, vice president of student affairs at the American Jewish Federation in Chicago. But college sports venues would be a nice addition for fans like himself who are accustomed to doing without at games.
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On Sunday, opening night for the basketball stand, student and volunteers worked hard to pull in customers during a sparsely attended game. The pitch, repeated over and over as potential customers wandered by: "Would you like to try the best all-beef hot dog at the State Farm Center?"
"As someone who keeps kosher, you want to go to a ball game and eat and have fun," he said. "It's delightful to be able to get kosher."
About 3,500 of the Urba-
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The hot dogs sold at the stand come from Romanian Kosher Sausage Co., a well-known Chicago meat producer.
cheese or other dairy products. And only animals that have both split hooves and chew cud can be eaten, so pork, the most common type of hot dog, is not allowed.
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"They're excellent, just the taste of them," said Cory Coker, a policeman from nearby who works security at games. "They've got a good taste to them, good crispness, good stuff."
"We're the trend-setter here — after we do it, everyone will do it!" Dovid Tiechtel said enthusiastically. "I'm getting calls from other campuses on the East Coast saying 'What did you do and how did you arrange it'."
Kosher can be complicated, but, for the hot dog stand's purposes, a handful of restrictions are most important. For instance, meat and milk aren't mixed, so you won't find anything made with
to Tiechtel. His brother Zalman Tiechtel, also a rabbi, started the kosher stand last year at the Lawrence, Kan., school, which has a significant Jewish student population.
Tiechtel said they ran a kosher hot dog stand during a U of I football game, and were pleased to have a few Muslims among the customers.