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THURSDAY,OCTOBER 30,2008
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VOLUME 120 ISSUE 51
CAMPUS
Classmates on the other side of the world
Twenty students at Mogadishu University in Somalia are enrolled in "Political Science Methods of Inquiry," a class taught by video at the University of Kansas by John Kennedy, assistant professor of political science. Violence has created new problems for the students in Somalia as they try to make it to class and maintain communication with the students here.
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SPENCER MUSEUM
Fall student night features Korean toys, techno music
Students can partake in mask-making, pumpkin carving and costume contests while listening to Asian techno music at the Spencer Museum of Art's annual fall student night from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. tonight. The event is designed to promote an upcoming exhibit, "Toy Stories: Souvenirs from Korean Childhood."
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HALLOWEEN
Trick-or-treating ban lifted after Pa. town petition
Oil City, Pa., has not allowed trick-or-treating for the past 16 years. The town banned the activity after an 11-year-old girl was murdered on her way home from a pre-Halloween party. The city is lifting the ban because a fifth-grader petitioned for it.
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BY JOE PREINER
jpreiner@kansan.com
Emma Willis nearly fainted when she found herself face-to-face with Big Jay after the homecoming parade her freshman year.
She wasn't excited to see him. She was scared.
"I like watching them, because they do funny things." Willis said. "It's not like I hate them. I love our mascots — from a distance."
Willis, Oskaloosa senior and member of the KU Marching Jayahawks, has a phobia of mascots. She sits in the stands during football and basketball games, keeping a close eye on both Baby and Big Jay. The closer they come to the band, the more anxious she gets.
Willis is one of many people in the U.S. who are afflicted with a phobia. According to the Mayo Clinic, more than 12 percent of people in the U.S. will experience a phobia at some point in their lives.
Fears and phobias are the focus of the waning October month. With Halloween a day away, many people will be facing their fears in the form of costumes and superstitions.
Ruth Ann Atchley, associate professor of psychology, said
phobias were closely related with fears but weren't necessarily
the same. Fear is a basic, instinctual reaction, and a phobia is an intense, persistent and sometimes irrational fear.
Achley said fear stemmed from an evolutionary need to survive. Many fears come from stimuli in the environment that pose a potential threat. The filtering process the brain engages in is based on how salient the stimulus is. If something presents itself in a loud, glaring or startling way, it's more likely to be a source of threat, at least to the brain.
Achley said the things in our environment that caused those reactions were generally things of which we should be fearful.
Willis knows she shouldn't be afraid of the jayhawk mascot, but she can't control herself when Big Jay gets near. Willis describes the feeling as a sudden, urgent panic.
"It's like that feeling in your stomach when you think you've left something really valuable to you behind," Willis said. "Like in a gas station 50 miles away."
Many brain structures are involved with the feelings Willis experiences. Atchley said structures such as the thalamus, the brain's information relay station, drove the physiological responses associated with fear. Of these responses, the most common are an increased heart rate, rapid breathing and sweating.
emotional responses.
The second-ary emotion depends on the situation in which the fearful stimulus presents itself.
Atchley explained that a spider on the wall would evoke a different emotion than a friend with a mask jumping out from behind something would. The difference in the secondary emotions allows the human body to react accordingly, calming down if necessary or escaping from the threatening situation.
"It's the fight-or-flight response," Atchley said.
It's been three years since Willis first encountered the
It's been three Willis first KU mascots, and she still becomes uncomfortable in their presence. She has learned to be more com fortable around Baby Jay, but Big Jay and
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Illustration by Becka Cremer
ATHLETICS
Fans proud to represent rival schools on the 'wrong' campuses
BY B.J. RAINS
rains@kansan.com
Jeff Turek doesn't care that Jayhawk teams won the Orange Bowl and the NCAA men's basketball championship. He doesn't care that Kansas plays in one of the most storied and famed arenas in all of college basketball. He doesn't wave the wheat or sing the alma mater in the stands. In fact, Turek couldn't care less about the Jayhawks — he's a Wildcat fan.
Turek, Overland Park senior, faces the task of attending school at Kansas while being a lifelong fan of Kansas State. His wardrobe consists of mostly purple — which he isn't afraid to wear around his Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house or when he goes to class.
"Almost everything I own is K-State stuff," Turek said. "I couldn't make the switch after being a K-State fan my whole life. I have like two KU shirts but that's it.
The rest is K-State."
Turek attends Kana is close to home, but he still hates the layhawks. His family roots for Kansas and his parents have football season tickets, but Turek will never change his alliance. He grew up loving K-State football and watched the Wildcats had four straight 11-win seasons from 1997 to 2000. He's not afraid to show his purple pride but Kana.
go to K.State, so they give me crap"
The rest is K-State."
"Youk attends Kansas because the school
"I'll be tailgating or walking around before the game, and everybody just assumes that I go to K-State, so they give me crap."
JEFF TUREK
Overland Park senior
"The only time it's real hard is when K-State plays at KU, because of course I'm all decked out in my purple." Turek said. "I'll be tailgating or walking around before the game, and everybody just assumes that I
but knows he will be out-numbered come Saturday.
"The usher came up, and I gave him my KUID." Turek said. "He was like. All right."
is the KU-KSU football game two years ago in Lawrence when he sat in the student section wearing K-State purple. Students were complaining because the student section appeared full, and K-State fans were taking up seats.
While Turek struggles as a K-State fan in Lawrence, Joel Campbell has the opposite problem in Manhattan. The K-State senior bleeds crimson and blue and has been a Kansas fan his entire life.
you're fine, but what are you doing wearing purple?"
He attends K-State because both of his parents work there, but he won't allow himself to become a Wildcat fan.
"There was no way I was ever going to change over to Kansas State," Campbell said. "They are our rivals. I know we're the better team, and they know we're the better team. They just don't want to admit it."
Campbell's closet features almost all Jayhawk apparel. Rarely, he said, does he attend class
really have any room to talk anymore.'
But that hasn't stopped them from try-ing. Campbell said the K-State studen
"It's been real easy to be a KU fan these past few years. All the K-State fans don't really have any room to talk anymore."
without wearing something that's Kansas related.
JOEL CAMPBELL Kansas State senior
"People say stuff, but that's fine, because I just voice my opinion right back," Campbell said. "It's been real easy to be a KU fan these past few years. All the K-State fans don't
the K-State student newspaper. The Collegian, printed an article about the investigation into whether former KU basketball player Darrell Arthur received improper grade changes while in high school but did not print anything about Kansas winning the Orange Bowl or the basketball national championship.
Campbell said he found conversations about how good the Wildcats are amusing.
"I see everyone wearing their purple, and I hear them drinking the purple Gatorade
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