Volume 124 Issue 39
Monday, October 17, 2011
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I've got my sixth kid on the way. I need all the money I can for diapers and Cheerios."
Matt Birk, Baltimore Ravens center
FACT OF THE DAY
The NFL requires that every team must have at least two offensive lineman wired with a microphone for television broadcasts.
nbcsports.com
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q. Which Ivy League school did Birk attend?
A: Harvard University
—NFL.com
MORNING BREW
Fans need to support football team
This is now my sixth semester taking photos for the Kansan and Eve
seen a lot of things during this time. The two seasons before I started at the University of Kansas, we won the Orange Bowl and then the Insight Bowl. Kansas fans fell in love with football and thought we could run with the big dogs.
I do not see the love anymore.
I photographed the season opener of the 2009 season. When I arrived at the field, it was a feeling I'd never felt before. The stadium was packed with a record attendance and the atmosphere was alive. Fans cheered on every positive play for the Jayhawks, even if it was only a single yard.
The football program has changed since then. Kansas has transitioned to new players and new coaches.
Now Turner Gill is in his second season as coach. I was one of the
Things have not gone as well the past two seasons. I've shot nine home football games and attended the rest as a fan.
photographers to shoot the first game of this season, and I didn't have the same feeling I did back in 2009. Yes, the stands were full, but the enthusiasm was just not there.
In its most recent home game, Kansas jumped out to a 20-1 lead, but Texas Tech eventually made it a game. At halftime, the Jayhawks led 27-24 and the majority of the student section left the stadium. Texas Tech came out strong in the third quarter and won the game 45-34.
The fact that the students left with a lead in a close game is disrespectful, irresponsible and an awful showing of school pride. The players notice this and I can
tell you that it does not help. The outcome might have been different if fans had stuck around and cheered on the Jayhawks for the entire game.
Fans need to take the energy that they bring to Allen Fieldhouse and transfer it to Memorial Stadium. We have the loudest arena in college basketball for a reason. Yes, basketball games are more fun because the team is succession, but people need to stop being fairweather fans and support their team no matter what.
Football games are not as fun to shoot anymore, and it has nothing to do with winning or losing. It's because the
fans are not into the game. This makes us look like sore losers. Why even wear Kansas apparel if you aren't going to support your teams? Be a true fan. Go to the games, get loud, go crazy and stay, so I can take a worthwhile photo.
Edited by Josh Kantor
Lawrence Electronic Recycling Event
Rain or Shine
The City of Lawrence invites residents and small businesses
The City of Lawrence invites residents and small businesses to recycle unused or obsolete electronic equipment. Electronic recycling will be provided by Extreme Recycling, Inc. A recycling fee applies for computer monitors ($10) and televisions ($15). Check or cash only. There is no charge for other electronics. Items accepted for recycling: Computer Monitors, Desktops, Laptops, Keyboards, Other PenPerchals, Cables, Scanners, Fax Machines, Telephones, Hunt Hold Devices, Televisions, VHS/DVD Drives, Small Appliances (Microwave and Tosfer Ovens).
Saturday, October 15th,2011 9:00am to 1:00pm
Free State High School Parking Lot 4700 Overland Drive For further information call 832-3030
City of Lawrence
PUBLIC WORKS
WASTE REDUCTION & RECYCLING
For further information call 832-3030 or visit www.LawrenceRecycles.org
presents
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS UNIVERSITY THEATRE
A COMEDY BY KEN LUDWIG
7:30 P.M. OCTOBER 13, 14, 15 2:30 P.M. OCTOBER 16 CRAFTON-PREYER THEATRE
Reserved seat tickets are on sale in the KU ticket offices: University Theatre, 864-3982; Lied Center, 864-ARTS, and online at www.kutheatre.com. Tickets are $18 for the public, $17 for senior citizens and KU faculty and staff, and $10 for all students. All major credit cards are accepted. The University Theatre is partially funded by the KU Student Senate Activity Fee. The University Theatre's 2011-12 season is sponsored by the KU Credit Union.
TRAVIS YOUNG/KANSAN
Jason Phoenix explains different gestures for responses during the demonstrations held by protestors participating in Occupy Lawrence. The local movement has expressed solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. The group is working toward promoting change in local government ordinances.
The "Russian Jayhawk," as the small carving has come to be known, was a gift of gratitude from an unknown Russian prisoner of war to Conrad Hoffman, a Kansas alumnus working with the YMCA in Germany during World War I.
It's a symbol of the long-standing connection between the University and its students doing good in Russian and Eastern Europe, said Marc Greenberg, chairman of the department.
On Wednesday evening, he made another journey, this time to the offices of the department of Slavic languages and literatures in Wescoe Hall, where he'll live for one year in a glass display case.
"I want the carving to help draw attention to the things
Kansas; making his home first in Stauffer-Flint Hall — where he sat, forgotten, until 2009 — and then in the University Archives.
The YMCA post was "an important non-governmental service performing a moral and social function during the First World War," Greenberg wrote in his article "Hoffman's Hawk."
In 1913, Conrad Hoffman became the secretary of the YMCA at the University, leaving his position as a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin.
According to the article, the YMCA worked in prisoner-of-war camps in Germany, providing education and coordinating social and athletic activities for the prisoners. The YMCA also helped prisoners develop trades and hobbies by giving them tools and arranging exhibitions and sales of their artwork.
Hoffman went to Germany in 1915, and it was common for him to receive presents, said the article, from the thankful prisoners who he worked with.
According to a pencil inscription on his side, the Russian Jayhawk was given to Hoffman in 1917. He was probably carved by either
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