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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOV. 5, 2015 | VOLUME 130 ISSUE 21
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Kansas strength and conditioning coach Andrea Hudy watches as senior forward Perry Ellis performs a weight exercise in the Anschutz Sports Pavilion on Oct. 16.
Where Andrea Hudy goes, success follows
Senior Hunter Mickelson prepares to perform a strength exercise.
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Hudy, who stands at a little more than average height, looks up to 6-foot-8 Jamari Traylor, instructing him as he lifts. She yells over loud music and player conversation across the room at Clay Young about positioning.
As Andrea Hudy walks around the weight room during the basketball workout session, she surveys the Kansas men's basketball team. Players lift weights, stretch the muscles and stand to the side waiting for their turn — all under her watchful eye.
"I've told you before," Hudy said. "Don't touch your foot." The players idolized and admired by countless Kansas fans may rule the school, but in this room, Hudy is the boss.
Most collegiate basketball programs can't boast their numerous professional athletes, 11 consecutive conference championships and impressive NCAA tournament appearances, but Kansas can. Bill Self may get a lot of the credit when it comes to the men's team's
success, but someone else sets Kansas apart aside from Allen Fieldhouse.
In 2004, Kansas wanted to add a new strength and conditioning coach. Bill Self had just coached his first year at Kansas, and Oklahoma State won the Big 12. The Connecticut Huskies won the national championship behind Emeka Okafor's 24 points. The championship solidified the choice, and Kansas' search came to an end with the hiring of Hudy, the UConn strength coach at the time.
Since then, Hudy has become a well-known contributor to the Kansas men's basketball team, earning praise from the Associated Press and ESPN, as well as winning the 2012 Strength Coach of the Year award the same year the Jayhawks reached the national championship.
In hindsight, that's probably not a coincidence. So what makes her so successful?
"I don't know if I could answer, that," said Hudy. "It's also [that] I work with some really great athletes; I've been at two really good schools. Coach Self is a good coach to work for."
Kansas fans remember the
stories of players Thomas Robinson, Jeff Withey and now Perry Ellis — players who came in with limited roles and, over time, developed under the tutelage of Self and Hudy. Her ability to turn teenagers into NBA-level talent is a recurring storyline with Kansas basketball.
"I can make or break a millionaire, and I can make or break a healthy athlete," Hudy said with a smile on her face.
But Hudy isn't your typical strength coach. She said she doesn't even consider herself a coach.
"There's teaching. This is my classroom," she said. "I'm a teacher, I'm not a coach — I don't get wins and losses. I think the attention to detail [is important] because strength is in the details. Anybody can go over there and muscle whatever they can; it doesn't mean they're getting more skillful in their movement."
Hudy's intelligence goes beyond strength and conditioning. The knowledge she instills with the basketball team goes
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Students see issues in new harassment prevention training
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Students are voicing concerns about the new sexual harassment and sexual assault prevention training from the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access, which is a year in the making.
After students voiced frustration with the training last fall, which was a PowerPoint presentation, the office began working on a new, interactive training.
But students say the training could still be improved. Student members of the Title IX Round-table have taken issue with the language used in the consent video, the wording of the quiz, the number of times students can take the quiz, and how the training addressed graduate students.
This year, all University students are required to complete the mandatory training, which consists of six videos and a quiz 10 questions for undergraduate students and 16 for graduate students.
If students do not complete the training by Dec. 5, a hold will be placed on their account preventing them from enrolling in the fall 2016 semester. If they have not yet enrolled for the spring of 2016, the hold will prevent that as well.
IOA had received feedback from about 40 to 45 students on the training as of Oct.22, Joshua Jones, interim director of IOA, said at a Title IX roundtable meeting.
One issue with the current training is the wording of consent topics. Part of the consent video reads, "You've placed yourself at risk of being accused of rape."
This statement should explain to students that at this point they have committed sexual assault, not that they have the possibility of "being accused," said Harrison Baker, a junior from Topeka and student representative for the Title IX Roundtable.
"It's terrible," said Angela Murphy, graduate affairs director for Student Senate and graduate co-chair for the Title IX Roundtable. "That is rape culture, in all caps, is what happened in that video. [It is] inappropriate to begin with, and then we just sent that out and required all 20-something-thousand students in our population to read that sentence which reinforces that idea. Not a good way to start."
Some students are concerned with logistical issues in the quiz. One question reads: "At what point can consent be withdrawn? Choose all that apply." The two correct answers are "before anything physical has happened," and "at any time." The correct response is to select both choices.
The goal of the quiz is to test students' knowledge of sexual assault and sexual harassment. They can take the quiz multiple times but are shown the correct answers after taking the quiz once. Baker said this is a problem because students can go back and select the correct answers without learning the material.
Baker said this question caused confusion because most students chose "at any time," but didn't select both answers. Baker said he has received feedback from about four people and has seen two or three Facebook posts about the training.
Students who do not complete this training by December will receive a hold on their account for enrollment.
“It’s not bad if you accidentally make a mistake or you legitimately didn't know an answer — that’s good — but just to give out the free answers is not very useful,” Baker said. “You’re not actually going to teach anyone anything, especially since the videos are not required.”
From a graduate student perspective, Murphy said she was disappointed because the training did not address sexual assault or harassment for graduate students in a meaningful way.
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The part of the training targeted toward graduate students was about knowing how to be compliant with Title IX in their interactions with their colleagues and undergraduate students. The training didn't satisfactorily address what to do if a graduate student is experiencing harassment or assault, she said.
Murphy said she doesn't think IOA is the appropriate organization to handle prevention.
"They are a compliance body and an investigative body. They, in my view, are not a prevention body," Murphy said. "They can be a part of those conversations and can be called in by those doing the prevention to talk about their role, but their role should not be prevention."
IOA has been unavailable for comment on the student concerns because it has been focusing on sexual harassment
investigations, Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, a University spokeswoman, said in an email.
"josh [Jones] said IOA is prioritizing investigations, and he won't be able to really dig into the feedback and what it might mean in regard to any potential changes until later in the semester," Barcomb-Peterson said. "But I can tell you that online training began in 2012, and the module has undergone changes over the past year. The online training provides an understanding of the issue that the many training opportunities done in-person reinforce. The new Sexual Assault Prevention
and Education Center will coordinate these training opportunities."
IOA began developing the training last year to replace the PowerPoint training, Jane McQueeny, the former director of IOA who left in October, was in charge of creating the training. Faculty and staff will also be required to take the training, but that version has not yet been released.
Edited by Rebecca Dowd
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