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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, SEPT. 28, 2015 | VOLUME 130 ISSUE 11
NEWS ROUNDUP
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STUDENT SENATE FEE REVIEW COMMITTEE voted to rename the Student Union Renovation fee and raise it $5 per student per year. News >> PAGE 2
AN EVENING IN THE NUDE.
Reporter Jarret Rogers spent an evening with the Heartland Naturists nudist community. Read his story.
Arts & Culture >> 5
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BOOT CAMP and its emphasis on mental toughness as well as physical fitness. Sports >> PAGE 8
A LOOK AT BASKETBALL
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THE KANSAS RUGBY TEAM won 70-5 over Truman State on Sept.26, putting KU at 3-0 for the season. See photos from the win. >Kansan.com/sports
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TODAY ON THE HILL In the Kansan's new online feature, see where KU students come from and what they have to say. The Kansan will feature different students from across campus each week on >> Kansan. com/news
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Mosaic members Karen Chin, Lilimay Bangov, Mark Maiden and Marcus Pepperdine meet in Anschutz Library, on Sept. 25.
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Mosaic hopes to bring multicultural groups together by providing support
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When it comes to multicultural groups on campus, the University has a large number of distinct organizations like the Black Student Union, Hispanic American Leadership Organization and the Asian American Student Union.
Unfortunately, many of these organizations struggle because of a lack of resources and larger support system. That's
where Mosaic comes in.
Multicultural Organizations for Student Advocacy, Involvement and Community, or Mosaic, was created last spring by senior David Lam in an effort to provide support and cooperation between multicultural communities on campus. The group is comprised of representatives from different cultural groups who work together to make students more aware of the multicultural groups on campus. Lam, who is graduating in December, has
started to hand off responsibility to Assistant Director Karen Chin.
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She added: "My hope is that as a whole, as a group, we can show more support to each other, so we can allow our organizations to be full and to thrive."
Chin, a senior from San Francisco and president of the Asian American Student Union, said the idea for the group came after realizing how separated many groups on campus are.
Personally, for me, community is huge," Maiden said. "It's about being able to have a supportive community where we recognize each others differences and embrace each others differences so that we're able to work together towards a common goal of recognition and support. Having that kind of system is huge for any student group or marginalized
the thing is that some multicultural organizations and minority groups are small, and so it's more difficult for them to be active on campus."
"When you look at multicultural organizations on campus, a lot of us are very siloed and we're doing our own thing, and sometimes people don't notice us as much," Chin said. "And
Part of that support is creating a sense of community within the multicultural groups on campus, said Mark Maiden, a junior from Over-
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Modern Nomad wins startup competition
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Seats quickly filled and participants lined the walls at the second annual Lawrence Startup Weekend presentations on Sunday night. A quiet room with 36 empty chairs became a group of 45 as they began at the Bioscience and Technology Business Center.
Each of the four teams was given five minutes to present its ideas to a three-judge panel, competing teams and other attendees.
After little sleep, a crashing computer and accompanied laser burns, a new Lawrence startup was announced as the winner: Modern Nomad. The team, composed of two University students and two Lawrence residents, proposed the idea of selling modern, plywood furniture online.
Michael McCulley, a junior from Champaign, Ill., and co-owner of Modern Normad, said he fell in love with mid-century modern design at the age of 10.
"My grandpa had an Eames chair and a faux Eames chair and they were facing each other in his study, and he said that one is good design and that one's not," said McCulley. "I studied both the chairs to see what made them different and what was the good design and why it was bad, and
it just sparked a passion for furniture, mid-century and design."
As for jack Hoard, a junior from Topeka and fellow co-owner of Modern Nomad, he said he loved to build and draw things as a kid but never knew where that would go until his senior year of high school when he saw that design was an option. During his freshman year of college he found out how challenging design could be.
"I found out design was a thing that people actually did and it wasn't just a designer being attached to expensive things, and so I kind of got the trial by fire my freshman year," Hoard said.
This 54-hour event allowed University students and community members to pitch ideas and potentially walk away with a new business on Sunday night. The winning team receives six months of free space at the Bioscience and Technology Business Center and four hours of free accounting help. The team is also entered into KU Catalyst, a business accelerator.
McCulley and Hoard met through the industrial design program and began working together, eventually leading to Modern Nomad.
Hoard and McCulley started the weekend with sketches that developed into three-dimensional prototypes. Modern Nomad uses lasers to cut through plywood and form prototypes for their furniture.
Time became an enemy when the last model didn't completely cut through the plywood. With time running out, Hoard couldn't wait for the laser to trace the design one more time. Instead, he had to punch the design out of the plywood.
"It was unanimous when we talked to our target customers, they all said the same thing that putting together Idea furniture was so frustrating," said Kristin Scheurer, a Lawrence resident and marketer for Modern Nomad "And so when you recognize that point of pain in the marketplace that was where this product solves that."
CmCulley said the next step for Modern Nomad is to finalize the models and hopefully have a full-scale model in the next couple of weeks. They hope to have their business fully launched by the summer of 2016.
"I was speeding quite a bit with our last model being knocked out of the plywood that it didn't quite cut through five minutes before we are supposed to be meeting for presentations," Hoard said. "There was a little bit of stress, but it's also what happens every other Monday in our program."
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From left, Modern Nomad consists of Susan Cross, Michael McCulley, Jack Hoard and Kristin Scheurer. Modern Nomad is a startup that will sell modern, plywood furniture in an online storefront.
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MISSY MINEAR/KANSAN Senior outside hitter Tiana Dockery hits the ball over the net. The Jayhawks defeated TCU on Saturday to advance to 14-0 on the season.
No.15 Kansas defeats TCU in 3 sets on the road
No. 15 Kansas volleyball defeat TCU to bring home its 14th consecutive win. The Jayhawks swept the Horned Frogs in three sets (25-21, 25-18, 26-24).
The Jayhawks posted a total of 51 kills during the victory, and six players recorded at least three kills. Right side Kelsie Payne led the pack with 13 — two shy of her personal best (15).
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"It was an ebb-and-flow match," head coach Ray Bechard said in a news release. "Offensively we didn't play very well in the first set, but played great defense. Then we got the offense going in the second set and started the third set well."
Outside hitter Madison Rigdon followed close behind Payne, posting a total of 10 kills while adding 11 digs. That performance was her second double-double of the season.
Outside hitter Tiana Dockery and middle blocker Janae Hall each recorded nine kills. Dockery added 10 digs, leaving her just one kill short of a double-double.
Setter Ainise Havili added 42 assists — five short of the full team assist total. Libero Cassie Wait led the team in digs, with 14.
However, it wasn't all good for Kansas. The team almost let TCU back into the match in the third set after a couple of critical errors.
"There were just too many unforced errors in the third set, [which] let a good team back in it." Bechard said. "We were fortunate to close out the match in three sets."
Against Kansas — a defensive stronghold — TCU struggled to do much on the offensive end. The Horned Frogs finished with a .106 hitting percentage, which marked the 13th time out of 14 games that Kansas' opponents hit under .200.
Kansas now leads the all-time series with TCU 6-2, according to the news release.
Kansas' next match will be against West Virginia on Saturday, Oct. 3, at home. The Jayhawks will be looking to extend their winning streak to 15.
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