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CUNIRIBUILED BY ANDY GREENHAW
POLITICS
Rock Chalking at Occupy demonstration
JONATHAN SHORMAN
jshorman@kansan.com
It was the Rock Chalk Jayhawk heard 'round the Internet.
A video of a middle-aged man loudly proclaiming his support for Kansas at an Occupy demonstration in Denver went viral earlier this week, capturing attention from Yahoo!, the sports site Deadspin and others.
Dennis Greenhaw struts around in a blue sweatshirt and khaki shorts, holding a homemade sign that says "KU Basketball #1 Championships." There's also a giant crimson and blue foam finger on his right hand for emphasis.
"Bill Self for Federal Reserve Chairman," Greenhaw shouts several times. "Missouri has won no championships of any kind!"
While Greenhaw was the star, his son Andy, a 2009 University graduate and former Kansan staff member, helped plan and shoot the video.
"We were originally planning to use 'Bill Self for President,' but then, at the last minute, Andy wanted to switch it because of all the anti-Federal Reserve posters the protesters were carrying," Dennis wrote in an e-mail.
Dennis originally became a Jayhawk fan during high school in the late 60s and early 70s following Dave Robisch and Bud Stallworth. Although he never attended the
While the Greenhaw's were unavailable for a phone interview, they did respond to e-mail questions.
University (he graduated from Kansas Wesleyan University and went to graduate school in Wisconsin), Dennis began buying season football tickets when Andy began his time at the university.
He also said he tries to make it to a couple of games at Allen Fieldhouse every year in addition to the Big 12 tournament.
But last Saturday, Dennis was not in Lawrence or Independence, where he lives and also works at a local bank. He was in Denver helping Andy move into an apartment. The two found themselves in front of the Colorado state capitol, where an Occupy demonstration was taking place. More than 2,000 were present and two dozen were arrested, The Denver Post reported.
"Actually, my favorite part was doing something memorable with my son."
"Because my dad works for a bank, we thought it would be funny to take pictures of him standing in front of anti-bank signs pretending to shout angrily in suppo
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with his fist in the air," Andy wrote on his blog. "After the protestors got into an intense show-down with the Denver SWAT team.
Andy shot the video on his phone and posted it to YouTube. After tweeting a link at prominent Twitter users, such as KU Athletics and FakeJoeDooley, the video took off. As of early Thursday, the clip
we thought it would be even more hilarious if, amongst all the intense emotions, we staged a Jayhawk fan shouting equally as passionately about his love for the Kansas Jayhaws."
had more than 19,000 views.
Dennis wrote that Andy keeps him updated on how many hits the video has gotten as more people watch Dennis shout the lines about Bill Self and Missouri, which he said were his favorite parts of the video. But ultimately for Dennis, the laughs are secondary.
"Actually, my favorite part was doing something memorable with my son," Dennis wrote. "Because moving him to Denver was almost as tough as when he first went off to college."
Edited by Sarah Champ
VIEW THE VIDEO ONLINE
go to www.kansan.com to see the Greenhaws' video, "Jayhawk fan at Occupy protest in Denver."
WHAT PLAYER COULD SURPRISE FANS THIS SEASON?
I'll go with forward Kevin Young, the transfer from Loyola Marymount. Coach Bill Self said Young has a chance to be a starter, and he will have plenty of opportunities to prove himself this season. With forward Jamari Traylor ineligible, Young looks to be the third scholarship forward on the roster, garnering him plenty of playing time. Thomas Robinson will be consistent, somewhere around 12 points and eight rebounds a game. The rest of the production down low will have to come from Jeff Withey and Young. At Loyola in 2009, Young broke freshmen records in total rebounds (224) and rebounds per game (7.2). He's also played for the Puerto Rican under-19 team, so the experience is there.
Coach Bonnie Henrickson watches on as the one-on-one interviews progress at the 2011 Big 12 media day at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. This is Henrickson's eighth season as coach. The Jayhawks look to improve on their 21-13 record of last year.
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Coaches such as Oklahoma's Sherri Coale stressed the strength of the conference that sent seven of its 12
the moves were based on football, women's basketball was also affected by the changes.
KIM MULKEY
Baylor coach
"When you play in a league that has the strength that the women's basketball conference or the Big 12 Conference and women's basketball has, you don't want to see that broken up for any reason." Coale said. "And that's not good
teams to the NCAA tournament last season.
The Jayhawks feature seven players from Texas and one from Oklahoma. Henrickson said the additions of
petitive standpoint, it is even more challenging because of the strength that the southern part of the league has and how talented those teams are," Hendrickson said.
As the conference continues to change, the rivalries that have lasted through the existence of the conference will also be affected.
southern games would be more motivating for those athletes and would be a good opportunity for recruiting.
When asked about whether she
"Our rivalry belongs in the Big 12." Henrickson said.
Tensions were highest regarding the decision of Texas A&M to leave the Big 12 for the SEC. The Aggies are the defending national champions and are predicted to
would continue to schedule Missouri if the school left the conference, she caused and winked.
finish second in the conference despite the loss of two starters.
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Baylor coach Kim Mulkey compared the abandoned rivalry with Texas A&M to an ended marriage and admitted that she did not want to continue the competition beyond the conference.
“If a man wants to divorce me and says our relationship has no
value to him, and then he asks to sleep with me, the answer is: no," Mulkey said. "We are not going to play them anymore, because they decided that playing us was not important to them."
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