Volume 124 Issue 31
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Monday, October 3, 2011
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
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Ready for redemption after back-to-back losses
VOLLEYBALL
CHRIS BRONSON/KANSAN
Sophomore middle blocker Caroline Jamroc and sophomore setter Kara Wehrs celebrate with the rest of their team after a kill in the second set of Wednesday night's game against Iowa State. Jamroc contributed nine kills and two blocked shots in the Jayhawks defeat. KU is now 11-3 for the season and 0-2 in Big 12 play.
CHRIS BRONSON/KANSAN
Sophomore outside hitter Catherine Carmichael drives an attack past the Iowa State defenders in the final set of Wednesday night's game at Horejsi Athletic Center. Carmichael had five kills and two digs in the Jayhawks 22-25, 17-25, and 15-25 defeat.
CALENDAR
10/01 at Baylor
7:00 p.m. CT
MATT GALLOWAY
mgalloway@kansan.com
Freshman outside hitter Sara McClinton has been sidelined after an injury on Sept. 10. If she can't go against Baylor, sophomore Catherine Carmichael is expected to see significant time at the position.
All three of the Jayhawks' defeats this season have come against ranked opponents, including two losses to No. 8 Texas and No. 16 Iowa State within the last week. The team has not won a set since it swept DePaul on Sept. 17.
The Kansas volleyball team heads back to Texas tomorrow for a contest between two teams hoping to stop the bleeding caused by conference play.
Carmichael said it is important the team put the home loss to Iowa State on Wednesday behind them.
10/04 vs. Nebraska Omaha 6:30 p.m. CT
The jayhawks (11-3) will face Baylor (11-6) at 7 p.m. in Waco with both schools looking for their first win in Big 12 play.
"When we face Baylor, we just have to come out and have confidence in ourselfs," Carmichael said. "We have to come out with a new mindset."
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10/08 vs. Texas A&M
6:30 p.m. CT
10/12 at Missouri 6:30 p.m. CT
10/15 at Oklahoma 7:00 p.m. CT
10/19 vs. Kansas State 6:30 p.m. CT
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Student authors offer insight, advice on amateur publishing
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
While some students refused to shave or looked forward to celebrating the holidays last November, Jason Held, a senior from Minneapolis, wrote a novel. For writers across the country November is National Novel Writing Month, an online contest that challenges participants to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
Held initially had no intention of participating, but other members of the Jayhawk-Writers on Campus group, or J-WOC, convinced him to participate in the arduous contest.
His book, "The Write Message," follows a 15-year-old boy who hires a literary agent and pursues a publishing deal while trying to balance high school, the challenges of the industry and familial loss. Select chapters of the protagonist's own writing are also included.
"You have to go in there knowing what your book is going to be about," Held said. "I didn't have a complete outline for it, but I knew what it was about."
"We teamed up with Hewlett-Packard a year ago to start this project and they gave us grant money to come up with ideas to encourage printing on campus," said Rachel Barnes, the KU Bookstores custom material specialist. "What we came up with was the book contest."
J-WOC teamed up with KU
After months of editing and revising. Held's book was finally ready for publication. The Print-
"It shows that it's achievable, to achieve that balance and achieve
Bookstores to incentivize competing in the contest. Participants who met the 50,000 word minimum would have a chance to publish their book.
On-Demand center, which allows students, faculty, and community members to print and bind their own works, helped produce "The Write Message."
"We were serving as a small scale publisher for him," said Barnes. The bookstore also coordinated selling the book in the store and through Amazon.
Julie Honn, outreach and communications officer for J-WOC and a senior from Lenexa, said Held's success is encouraging to other student writers.
that dream" Honn said. "That's what everybody who writes does it for, that I hope somebody reads this someday."
Although the novel was published last April, Held is still shocked to have actually published a book.
"It's a really strange feeling," he said. "I almost couldn't believe it, but I knew it was my story, I knew I wrote it. I had spent months on it."
Held will discuss his book today at 5 p.m. at Jayhawk Ink inside the Kansas Union. There will also be a panel discussion with other
Edited by Josh Kantor
Student Author Reading Jason Field will read from and discuss his new novel "The Write Message."
Monday October 3, 201
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Ticket Cost: Free
CLASSIFIEDS 11
CROSSWORD 4
CRYPTOQUIPS 4
OPINION 5
student writers about students' writing experiences.
SPORTS 12
SUDOKU 4
All contents, unless stated otherwise, © 2011 The University Daily Kansan
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