Volume 124 Issue 10
kansan.com
Thursday, September 1, 2011
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA MARIA
FREE FOR ALL
Text your FFA submissions to 785 - 289 - UDK1 (8351).
Saying the phrase "sorry i'm not sorry" automatically makes you a huge douche bag. Save yourself the embarrassment
I cannot wait for people to stop going to class. This traffic is getting ridiculous.
Silly freshman. Park & Ride stops by Daisy Hill after 5:30 ONLY if you pull the cord. Bwahaah...
Texting into the Free for All has already seen the grammatical correctness of the submissions plummet. Go back to e-mail, fools. It has spellcheck.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
Seriously, has no one heard about K-State's EcoKat? This is FFA gold here people!!
Hey ffa guy who said that people in the USA are stupid, you're not helping by having a spelling error in your post.
Hey guys, I need your help naming my boobs
Is it bad that I'm proud of myself for not spending all my money on dollar night, so that I can buy more drugs?...
TEXT IN FREE FOR ALLS
EDITORIAL
Home crowd support is key to victory
The pageantry of Kansas football is alive and well on game day
Crowds of Jayhawk fans exude the same mass excitement, wearing common crimson and blue with a fervent sense of pride. In Lawrence, you will undoubtedly find the streets of the student ghetto succumbed by fans, the competitive nature of recreational drinking games simulating football players' resolve, and the Rock Chalk chant upup and down the hill by students, staff and alumni alike.
But really, the point of poetry
is this; on game day, morale is at a peak and the whole town comes together to celebrate the game, regardless the spread predictions.
Let's be honest. It's no secret that basketball is our shining star in the realm of national collegiate sports, but to be a diehard Jayhawk means supporting football, soccer, tennis, volleyball, rowing, baseball, softball or whatever other athletic event is being played, no matter the predictions.
Despite the distressing Sports Illustrated forecast of our team's season, it's still important to show
up and support the players who put their bodies, limbs and heads on the line for you. Home crowd support is a key intangible in any football game. A raucus home crowd can will our team to victory and prove naysayers wrong. The University is consistently lauded for our school spirit and we should back that up with fanfare galore.
And if we want our team to climb from the bottom of the hill, let's help coach Turner Gill show future recruits that we have their backs. Let's show them we will
create a comfortable atmosphere that will support the team win or lose (but more if they win).
They say that when you win, you silence all the doubters, so let's look on the bright side. Jayhawk football was predicted to go 1-11 in our conference, so if that or anything better occurs, we should cheer like it's the damn BCS championship.
Cheer like there's no tomorrow.
Stefanie Penn for Kansan Editorial Board
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Instead of fake texting when I see someone I don't want to talk to... I will just text FFA!
A new year with new freshmen who dont understand the concept of moving back on the bus to make room for me. I will throw my physx book at you
Glad we sorted out the FFA issues. Now, what's the ETA on Wescoe Wit?
The Jayplay isn't Jayplay without Wescoe Wit
I don't submit FFA's often. But when i do they get in the paper.
-Most Interesting Man on Campus
I'm about to poop my pants because I'm so exited about Donald Glover.
I saw some sorority girl get hit in the face by a locust. She screamed and had a spaz attack. Made. My. Day.
The band apologizes in advance for how we will look on Saturday.
Another September 1 has come and gone and still no letter from Hogwarts
OMG this dude is wearing a hoodie and it is like 90 outside!
If one more person runnin on campus asks me to move outta the way so they can continue to weave in and out of ppl walkin to class, i'm gonna stick my foot out. Oops...
Screw the SEC! Lets just start our own Jayhawk nation conference!
white, 11 of the top 40 recruits will be playing football in Austin, Texas this season.
A&M is making a move that will put them in the lower echelon of the top football conference instead of remaining in the upper echelon of one of the top conferences (albeit a very unstable one).
Quite simply, this is Texas A&M giving the finger to Texas for being better than them in nearly every way, shape and form. Instead of beating the Longhorns head-to-head, they decided losing more games in a better conference would be the proper form of revenge.
So now it's the Big 12's turn, as they can say goodbye to Texas A&M. You can be sure they will take pleasure in watching them get "whooed" more often than not.
program joins the West Coast Conference.
Edited by Sarah McCabe
"firmly committed" to the Big 12 and that league officials knew Texas was pursuing a network deal.
Jan 19,2011
University of Texas president William Powers said Texas is
Aug 25. 2011
Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin sends a letter to Big
12 commissioner Dan Beebe explaining that Texas A&M is considering leaving the Big 12.
Aug 30,2011
only denies the ministry New York Times report that it notified the Big 12 of its intention to leave the athletic conference.
become the 17th member of the Big East conference after
leaving the Mountain West.
The Governors of Colorado and Utah deem June 30 'Pac-12 Day' as the Utah Utes and Colorado Buffaloes become official members
Jul 1, 2011
of Pac-12.
Aug 29, 2011
The New York times reports that President R. Bowen Loffin informed Big 12 Board Chairman Brady Deaton that the Agencies
will officially withdraw from the conference as early as Tuesday.
Aug 31,2011
Texas A&M officially notifies the Big 12 of its intention to withdraw from the conference.
Sara McClinton and Chelsea Albers may each be in their first season with the Jayhawks, but coach Ray Bechard is counting on both of them to contribute, and contribute early. McClinton started all three of the team's victories in the season-opening Georgia Bulldog Invitational over the weekend, and Albers started both of the Saturday sweeps.
"We're going to put the best six out there, and sometimes that's a bit of a stretch for freshmen to do that," Bechard said. "But we have a bunch of confidence in both of those young ladies."
work to achieve
McClinton finished the weekend with 11 kills, including seven in the finale against Georgia. To secure her role as a starter for the season's first three games, McClinton had to play catch-up with the upperclassmen who stayed over the summer.
work to achieve it. That was my goal, to come in and start, but I guess I wasn't expecting it so soon."
Albers had an impressive first start on Saturday morning, recording six kills in the sweep against Liberty. She may have ensured her spot as a starter through a decorated high school career at Papillion LaVista, where she notched a state-leading 487 kills in 2009 was named the Omaha World-Herald's Girl's 2010-11 Athlete of the Year her senior season.
"I knew we had a good opportunity to compete with some of the upperclassmen for the spots, but you can't come in and expect to start," McClinton said. "You have to
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"That is a tough call," Bechard said. "You need to kind of get a sense for where you think their progress will be within the first month and if this is a kid that can help us by mid-
Starting so early is an unexpected perk for Albers, but it is one she said she plans on working hard to maintain. Both freshmen had to work hard just to avoid being redshirted by Bechard, who said the decision to sit and develop a player for a year is a difficult one.
"They have worked hard to include us and not make us feel like freshmen." Albers said. "Speaking for myself, I feel like they treat us like volleyball players and not by our age."
training in Italy, the freshmen were not permitted to tag along. Still, the upperclassmen have tried to make the Nebraska' natives feel at home. Albers said.
Since Bechard was hired as the coach of the volleyball team 14 years ago, he has had a player from Nebraska on his roster every season. Albers and McClinton first met as opponents in the state's notoriously competitive high school volleyball circuit. They would later come to know each other better as teammates at the even more competitive club level.
"Growing up in Nebraska, I think it gave us a huge advantage," McClinton said. "High school volley
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