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KANSAN.COM/SPORTS | THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017
After 8 Kansas Relays, Bakers run last races
▶ SHAUN GOODWIN
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After racing in the Kansas Relays for eight consecutive years, twin sisters Nashia and Malika Baker found it difficult to turn their backs on the track for the last time.
"It feels very surreal," Malika said, with a sad tone to her voice.
Nashia and Malika, who originally lived in Fort Benning, Georgia, moved to Lansing at a young age and attended Lansing High School for all four years. Living just 45 minutes away from Law
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MILLENIALS ARE HAVING LESS SEX
▶ HAILEY DIXON
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Freaks in the sheets? In 2017, not so much.
According to a Springer Link study posted in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, millennials, in addition to other portions of the population, are engaging in less sex. In fact, in the early 2010s, American adults were participating in sexual acts nine times fewer than in the late 1990s, the study stated.
"From a historical perspective, people have always been having sex, and it's never going to stop," Newhard said. "A decrease probably is cultural and economic more than anything else, because this has happened before, particularly in times of great economic turmoil, such as the Panics of 1886, or the Great Depression itself in particular. People just stopped having children ... but, you can't make the same comparisons with millennials, because millennials are in
a world where birth control is widely available and they have things like Tinder and all the other dating apps, and the like."
"It doesn't really surprise me," Lawrence sex therapist Dennis Detweiler said. "I think it would fit with some trends I see in my work."
Adam Newhard, a graduate teaching assistant in the University's history department, said that a dip in sexual activity is not anything new to society.
Millennials having less sex can be chalked up to many reasons, both within married and unmarried couples, Detweiler said. These aspects may include yearning for a steady relationship, fear and anxiety surrounding sex, noncomprehensive sex education, unwanted pregnancies or STDs.
"It's becoming a lesser priority," Reeves said. "Or something that we don't spend as much time on ... it's set on a back burner."
"People are becoming more demanding of the quality of their relationships," Detweiler said. "They want more from their relationships, and they want more sense of connection and bondedness. And they're not willing to have sex as a way to get it."
Reeves said there is a lot of discussion on this subject within the LGBT+ community.
Adam Reeves, a senior from Pleasant Hill, Missouri, said millennials are not focusing on sex.
In addition, Omri Gillath, an associate professor of psychology, said in an email that individuals may be having less sex due to more self focus, specifically individuals concentrating on their careers.
"Whenever I go to larger meetings, and we have like talks about the states of like queer, queer culture and things like that, there's always seems to be this back and forth, ebb and flow, from this idea that we've too hypersexualized our culture," Reeves said. "And so there becomes this prudeness that comes into play."
Reeves said that within the communities of gay men and noncis men he is around,sex culture is
alive and well.
Unrealistic expectations of sex performance due to pornography, overuse of medication and too much emotional involvement from sex can also deter some from engaging in sexual activity, Gillath said.
But, there has been some change, with more time spent on school and academic obligations.
"I have seen a shift," he said. "In most cases, it's very school-related."
A focus on technology also detracts from individuals having sex, Gillath said.
At the University, in spring 2015, the American College Health Association and National College Health Assessment II posted a study on sexual behavior within the University community. It found that 52.5 percent of the respondents had participated in vaginal sex in the past 30 days, according to the study.
In regards to oral and
anal sex, 47.3 of the survey participants had engaged in oral sex in the past 30 days while only 5.8 percent of individuals had participated in anal intercourse.
Jenny McKee, program manager of Watkins Health Services, said that a survey is currently being conducted this semester on sexual activity at the University.
"It'll be interesting to see if our 2017 National College Assessment data does show a decrease," she said.
McKee said that those in long-term relationships do have more sex than those that wish to just
have sex casually, even though they may have more sexual partners.
In Lawrence, Detweiler said that he is not sure if residents follow the trend of the overall population engaging in less sexual intercourse.
"I don't know how Lawrence compares with the general population," he said. "We are a kind of a microcosm in some ways. And, in some ways, we are very unique."
Reeves said that overall, he believes society as a whole desires sex, even though there has been a decline in sexual engagement in recent years.
"I don't think that we are at all an asexual culture, in total," Reeves said.
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ply because they were better and more athletic.
But, of course, once that happened, the older kids would change a small rule to either give them a slight advantage or to hinder the play of my overly athletic friends.
Ridiculous, right? Just because the older kids were not as good at something they would change the rules.
I think about my days on the blacktop whenever I hear any analyst or even casual fan gripe about the "Hack-a-Shaq" rule, which more realistically has become "Hack-a-DeAndre" or "Hack-a-Roberson."
player who is getting fouled (imagine you're Andre Roberson and you see the Houston Rockets bench laughing at your back-to-back missed free throws in the playoffs, ouch), and it's utilized by fantastic coaches like Gregg Popovich and Terry Stotts.
Every time I hear Jeff Van Gundy whine and moan about this "hacking" rule, I cringe. Don't get me wrong, I don't like watching it, it slows down the game like crazy, but in the playoffs when winning is the only thing that matters, I'd love to see my team use it.
But, to say that they should change the rule is
happening to you? Get better at free throws.
It is your job as an NBA basketball player, and it's the second easiest shot behind the layup. I don't want to hear the "my hands are too big" excuse or the "he's great in practice, but it's different in a game."
It's not different; it's one repetitive motion that you have all day every single day to work on. Don't change the rule, get better.
In this case, absolutely hate the player (the one that's garbage at free throws that is, not the smart one fouling them), not the game.
ing ball magnet.
Other than the two free bases he was awarded, Karre also laced a single to center field that plated two additional runs, giving him a total of four RBIs in the game.
Another player who made the trip home was right-handed starting pitcher Sean Rackoski, who claims Chandler, Arizona, as his hometown.
Kansas coach
The 6-foot-7 hurler pitched five strong innings while allowing one earned run, although two additional runs crossed the plate as a result of Kansas errors. Rackoski was credited with the win, his fourth of the year.
Sophomore left fielder Devin Foyle and senior first baseman Marcus Wheeler were the other Kansas players with hometown fans in the bleachers. Foyle, from Fountain Hills, and Wheeler, from Phoenix, combined for
Sophomore right-hander Blake Goldsberry entered in relief to begin the sixth inning, and he locked down the Antelopes for the remainder of the game. He allowed just one run on two hits, but, perhaps more importantly, he saved Price from having to dig deep into his bullpen for a midweek matchup.
reounce. We had a chance to blow the game wide open and just left too many guys on base."
As of late, Kansas has been on a tear, as it has taken down both Big 12 and non-conference opponents with ease in the month of April. The Jayhawks began the month with a series win over the Texas Longhorns, and have been hot ever since. Currently, Kansas has won 10 of its last 15 games, including two consecutive Big 12 series wins.
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The Jayhawks continue their two-game midweek series against Grand Canyon on Wednesday at 3 p.m.
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