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Until the early 1940s, only unmarried women were admitted to Kansas' nursing school, and had to remain single until they completed the program.
LAWRENCE FORECAST James Inman KU Atmospheric Science students
Friday
HI: 71 Mostly clear skies.
LO: 42 winds out of the north/northwest.
B-e-a-u-tiful day.
Saturday
HI: 74 Clear skies with winds from the north to the northwest.
LO: 44
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Sunday
HI: 75
Partly cloudy skies.
LO: 45
Where's the sun?
Monday and Tuesday
HI: 70 Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms,
LO: 43 beginning to cool off to start the week.
Bring an umbrella.
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Mexican authorities on Thursday raised to six the death toll from Hurricane Jova, which hit along the Pacific coast as a Category 2 storm, and warned the storm's remnants could affect opening ceremonies of the Pan American Games.
The body of a man who apparently had been swept away by a river current was found covered with mud in the town of Ciuhlitan in Jalisco state, said civil protection spokesman Juan Pablo Vigueras. The games are scheduled to open in Jalisco on Friday.
The five other victims drowned, were killed by mudslides or died in a collapsed house.
Police in Colombia's capital have fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse riots after a mostly peaceful student protest against an education reform bill. Bopota police report 15 arrests.
Thousands of students had launched a national strike in major cities Wednesday, saying the bill would privatize higher education.
Government officials said that's not the case. They said the bill would allow tens of thousands more young people to go to university.
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Authorities in Colombia's western city of Cali said a 19-year-old former student died near student marches when explosives that he was carrying went off. It is unclear whether the incident was related to the student marches.
A pilot helping to investigate the crash of a Russian jet that killed 44, including an entire professional ice hockey team, said that a simulation points to pilot error as the cause.
The Yak-42 jet crashed into the banks of the Volga River moments after takeoff from Yaroslavl in western Russia on Sept. 7, wiping out the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, which included former NHL players and members of European national teams.
Test pilot Vasily Sevastyanov said Thursday on state Channel One television that the plane went into a spin because a pilot pulled it up too sharply following an abnormally slow run.
Officials have not yet announced the crash reason, but they already have said that all the plane's systems were functioning normally until impact.
BANGKOK
Workers hurriedly dredged canals and cut new waterways around Thailand's capital on Thursday in a desperate battle to protect the city from the country's worst floods in decades.
One jittery Cabinet official called for the evacuation of an area on Bangkok's northern outskirts, only to take back his warning 15 minutes later.
At least 283 people have been killed since late July by floods and mudslides that have devastated rice crops and shut dozens of factories.
Bangkok has been mostly spared so far, but some surrounding areas have been inundated and authorities fear that flood waters rushing from the north will combine with rains in the next few days to flood the city.
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a stand-up guy and a successful football coach don't always go hand in hand.
From what I witnessed first-hand last year and have heard this season, players love playing for Gill; they just haven't been able to win for him. Barring any monumental upsets, Gill will have six wins or fewer after two years on the job.
The one thing working in Gill's favor right now is his contract, which doesn't include a buyout. If he was fired, he would receive the remaining salary left on his five-year deal. At $2 million per year, he is set to receive $6 million more after this season.
It's common knowledge that most college football coaches need at least three seasons to get their affairs in order, and besides that, it's highly unlikely KU Athletic Director Sheahon Zenger has the resources to shell out around $10 million to dismiss Gill and his assistants as well as hire a completely new staff. But if enough angry, big-money donors bang on Zenger's door and open up their checkbooks — and that's a big 'if' — things could change quickly.
stayed for the final act of the Jayhawks' blowout loss to the Cowboys watched their team get out-scored in the fourth quarter to Kansas.
Sophomore cornerback Tyler Patmon pulls an Oklahoma State ball carrier to the ground near midfield during the first quarter of Saturday night's game at Boone Pickens Stadium. Patmon had four tackles against OSU along with a defensive pass interference while in the end zone during the second quarter.
CHRIS NEAL/KANSAN
Yes, it was against a mix of first, second and third string defenders that the Kansas offense faced in the fourth quarter, but the 14 points Kansas scored at the end of the game Saturday showed that the offense is resilient. The 28 total points Kansas scored helps put in perspective just how poorly this Kansas defense has been playing.
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Edited by Jonathan Shorman
Scoring 28 points against the No. 6 team in the nation, is no small accomplishment. Scoring 28 points would've been good enough to win 11 FBS games last week and tie two of them. Instead of being the 12th winning team in college football with 28-points or fewer, the Jayhawks lost by 42.
Kansas actually scored one more point than Oklahoma State has allowed on average all season. The biggest margin of victory the Cowboys had before
have put Kansas on track to win 20 games that week. Of every team that scored more than 34 points and lost in week five of the college football season, Kansas had the largest deficit, falling by 11 points.
Following the Oklahoma State game, coach Turner Gill broke down the defensive woes into two simple categories: "Our guys did not tackle quite as well, as far as early on," Gill said. "And the second thing is the guys were not doing what they were told to do in some cases."
Sophomore cornerback Tyler Patmon suggested Wednesday that there is only one way to fix the defenses' problem: practice.
By admitting that some players are not following their coaches' instructions on the field, Gill helps shed some light on the defense, which ranks 34 yards worse than any other FBS team.
It's a combination of a lack of athleticism, play-making and tackling that have led to the team's struggles, Gill said.
"When it comes down to it, it's
It appears that the Jayhawks got the message, Freshman linebacker Ben Heeney said a few of the players asked their teammates to pick up their performance on the practice field.
"The past two days, our
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consistency." Patmon said. "We have to go hard in practice no matter what."
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defensive practices have been 100-fold better than what it's been," Heeney said. "I just think we look a lot better even from last week to this week."
Gill said the team has practiced with more focus and energy the past two days. He said there is urgency with the team in practice, because they know
they have to be on all cylinders against No. 3 Oklahoma this Saturday.
If the play in practice has improved, the Jayhawks defensive performance this season has served as a wake up call.
Edited by Alexandra Esposito