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VOLUME 123 ISSUE 33
BAYLOR 55, KANSAS 7
More than one can 'bear'
Freshman quarterback Jordan Webb threw two interceptions and Kansas lost big on Saturday
Freshman quarterback Jordan Webb loses control of the ball as he is sacked by a Baylor defender in the third quarter of Kansas Big 12 Conference opener against Baylor on Saturday afternoon at Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco, Texas. Kansas recov ered the fumble, however, it did turn the ball over a season-high three times in the 55-7 loss to Baylor. Ryan Waggoner/KANSAN
FOOTBALL|1B
Kansas unable to stop pass attack
Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin accounted for four touchdowns and the Bears racked up 678 yards Saturday.
SEE MORE COVERAGE IN THE FOOTBALL REWIND ON PAGES 4-5B
ACADEMICS | 6A
Freshmen score high GPA and ACT
The freshman class has the distinction of being the most academically talented class in University of Kansas history. The class of 2014 has an average ACT composite score of 24.9.
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Opinion...5A
Sports...1B
Sudoku...4A
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LOCAL
City project aims to clear game-day traffic
Remote-controlled traffic lights will help problem areas
BY GARTH SEARS
gsears@kansan.com
Game days at Memorial Stadium are filled with traditions: tailgating, waving the wheat, parties and bumper-to-bumper traffic.
With around 50,000 people descending on Memorial Stadium each home game, traffic jams are inevitable.
"It's beyond the capacity of any road system," city engineer Shoeb Uddin said. "That's just the reality of it."
But the city is starting a $500,000 project this fall that will help alleviate game day traffic jams and allow the city to respond to traffic issues quicker in problem areas.
On Sixth Street, the cable will start at Massachusetts Street and go west to Iowa Street. There, the cable turns south, and every light on Iowa Street between Sixth and 23rd streets will be changed, too. In all, about a dozen lights will become remote-controlled.
The city will be installing fiberoptic cable along Sixth Street and Iowa Street and making the street lights there remote-controlled by the end of March.
Right now, the only way for the city to adjust the timing of a light is to send someone to change the timer at the intersection. After the project, the city will be able to control those lights from anywhere, even from an engineer's home late at night.
When there is an accident or a major change from normal traffic - 50,000 people attending a football game, for instance - the city will adjust the timers on the traffic lights to decrease congestion.
There will initially be six cameras installed at some of the intersees
Graphic by Nick Gerik/KANSAN
"We can monitor those from our office on a large screen on the wall," Uddin said. There won't, however, be someone sitting at a desk constantly watching and adjusting traffic.
tions so the city can monitor the traffic in real time.
After games at Memorial Stadium, 50,000 people leave in all directions. The campus cradles the stadium all along the south, making traffic escape that way difficult.
Many cars move southwest with the eventual goal of getting to Iowa Street. For those cars, the light at 15th and Iowa streets would be
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Traffic can also move north, where a large portion of the crowd walks and parks for a game. The "state streets" — Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Maine and Missouri streets — are the only direct path for someone at the stadium to get to Ninth Street for escape. For those cars, the lights further north along Sixth Street and the one at Ninth and Iowa streets would be remote-controlled.
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Chris Keary, the University's
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ATHLETICS
Dalton Gomez/KANSAN
Forensic auditor for Kansas Athletics, Inc. Brenda Muirhead, started her position Sept. 13. The new position is designed to keep tabs on decisions in the department. She is paid by the department but reports to internal audit, which then reports to the chancellor.
Chancellor adds job to Athletics Department
New forensic auditor position created to increase transparency
For one, she says, the term evokes "C.S.I." comparisons and she's quick to preface that Kansas Athletics — the department she is tasked with analyzing — is not a crime scene.
"I'm very used to people taking the word 'auditor' and being afraid of that and kind of being shut down to that," she said. "So part of my job is to educate people on what I do and what I can do for you."
Brenda Muirhead is careful when discussing her new job title, forensic auditor.
Muirhead began the job Sept. 13 — three days after leaving the Legislative Post Audit, the audit agency of the Kansas government. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little created the position as one of her steps toward increasing transparency of the Athletics Department after a year of unsavory headlines.
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR smontemayor@kansan.com
"I think it's a very high standard to have and I think it's a good one," said Gary Scherrer, chair of the Kansas Board of Regents. Scherrer was receptive of the chancellor's changes to the department in her presentation to the board in September.
The position will be funded by the department but Muirhead will report to Don Holland, the director of Internal Audit, who then reports to the chancellor. Holland said the department is the first of Muirhead's projects as forensic auditor and is expected to span about a year, after which her focus will turn to other areas on campus.
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Muirhead's job description has her performing fraud investigations and data analytics to identify correlations or patterns in large fields of data. Holland said what sets forensic auditing apart from other positions in the field
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