Volume 124 Issue 31
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Monday, October 3, 2011
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Jayhawks have third-quarter blues Three interceptions blow a 20-0 lead PAGES 6-7
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Texas A&M will get an early taste of what SEC play will feel like next season when it takes on Arkansas, its longtime rival dating back to their days together in the Southwest Conference. With both teams coming off a loss, the winner will renew its chances of receiving a BCS Bowl birth, while the loser will almost certainly be eliminated from that race.
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PLAYER TO WATCH
Texas & AM running back Cyrus Gray. After running the ball 21 and 29 times in the Aggies first two games, Gray only run the ball 13 times in the Aggies' loss to Oklahoma State last week. They will need a big day from Gray to take the pressure off Ryan Tannehill and the passing game.
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Kansas State has momentum after its thrilling road victory against Miami(FL) last week, but its seventh ranked defense will face a much tougher task trying to control the Baylor offense led by Robert Griffin III. This is as much of a strength vs. strength matchup as they come and the winner will be determined by whichever team budges first.
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PLAYER TO WATCH
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Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III. Griffin has put up good enough stats to thrust him to the forefront of the Heisman discussion. If he continues his success, Baylor will emerge victorious; if he struggles, it will open the door for a Wildcat upset.
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In a matchup of undefeated teams, the winner will be labeled a contender and the loser a pretender. Texas is looking to avenge its loss last season when the Cyclones defeated the Longhorns in Austin. It was the first time that Iowa State ever defeated Texas. This year, the Longhorns will be led by a new quarterback with a familiar name, as Case McCoy makes his second career start for the Longhorns.
PLAYER TO WATCH
lowa State quarterback Steele Jantz. Jantz has thrown three interceptions this season, but is at his best when the game is on the line in the fourth quarter, including a game tying touchdown pass with 1:17 left in the Cyclones' win over Iowa and a game winning touchdown run with 40 seconds left in its win over Northern Iowa. Jantz will need to pull out another heroic fourth quarter for the Cyclones to defeat Texas.
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Realistically, Ball State shouldn't provide too much of a challenge for the second ranked Sooners. But if the Sooners take them lightly, Ball State could sneak up on them and provide a slight challenge. They do have a convincing win against Army, but also lost at South Florida 37-7. Expect the Sooner starters to put in three quarters of good work before they put in the younger guys to get some experience. If the Sooners truly deserve their number two ranking, they'll take care of Ball State at home with ease.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones. Jones has completed 72 percent of his passes for 1,022 yards, but what may concern Sooner fans about their offensive leader is his 5-4 touchdown to interception ratio. Ball State provides Jones with an opportunity to pad his stats before the Sooners take on Texas next week.
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Student authors offer insight, advice on amateur publishing
KELSEY CIPOLLA
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.
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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."
J-WOC teamed up with KU
"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."
After months of editing and revising, Held's book was finally ready for publication. The Print-
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.
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"It shows that it's achievable, to achieve that balance and achieve
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"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."
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Although the novel was published last April, Held is still shocked to have actually published a book.
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
that dream." Honn said. "That's what everybody who writes does it for, that I hope somebody reads this someday."
student writers about students' writing experiences.
Edited by Josh Kantor
Student Author Reading Jason Held will read from and discuss his new novel The Wrote Message."
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