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Chancellor discusses athletics with board
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR smontemayor@kansan.com
The Kansas Board of Regents applauded Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little's handling of numerous athletics department issues when she presented them with an update Thursday.
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"She's taken problems created before she came and addressed them."
them, Gary Scherrer,
regents chairman,
said.
The chanceller told regents during the second and final day of
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Gray-Little
monthly meetings that she will unveil the search committee for the new athletics director soon. She previously announced she would name a committee of
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GAMEDAY | 8A Preview of Southern Miss. game
Jayhawks look to freshman leadership to help win tonight's game on national television.
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Howard Ting/KAN From left to right, Janet Getz, a graduate employee from Florissant, Mo., Ryan Jacobs, a graduate student from Leawood, and Whitney Jones, a junior from Hutchinson, design improvement projects for buildings across campus. Jones helped design the plans for The Underground expansion.
Students design for campus
Architecture and engineering students get real-world experience before leaving school
BY MICHAEL HOLTZ mholtz@kansan.com
Jones spent the remainder of the summer preparing three design options. She presented them to the KU Memorial Board
Whitney Jones spent most of her summer designing labs and classrooms before she picked up a request for The Underground expansion from her supervisor's desk in late June.
always see these problems and wish you could do something about them."
the group overseeing the project. Earlier this month, the board tentatively decided on her second option, a 139-seat expansion.
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Though Iones has several modifications to make to the approved design — the board requested more bar seating — her work on The Underground expansion is nearly complete. Her next project: waterproofing Lindley Hall's foundation.
Never mind the $500,000 price tag for the proposed expansion or that Jones is not a licensed professional. For the third-year architecture student from Hutchinson, The Underground was just another job.
"I was excited about it because I knew there was a problem with seating there," Jones said. "As an architecture student you
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To view photos of student architecture projects visit kansan.com/photogalleries
Chris Neal/KANSAS Tiffany Lau, a senior from: Wichita, jumps over a wall as she trains for the Next Level Games competition this Saturday. Lau is one of a few KU students competing in the competition that consists of an obstacle course, a strong man prompter and a prowler challenge.
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Students to compete in 'Strongman' games
BY GARTH SEARS
gsears@kansan.com
Need a tow truck? For Skyler Farley, a junior from Lawrence, pulling a truck with his bare hands is a big deal.
That's why he'll be at Watson Park on Saturday, participating in the 2nd Annual Next Level Games, which include the "Strongman Challenge", the "Prowler Challenge" and an obstacle course. The competition will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
"It's like, 'Oh, I just pushed a truck or I flipped this tire,' Farley
The "Strongman Challenge" involves pulling a truck, flipping a 450-pound tractor tire end-over-end and a "farmer's walk" of hauling heavy items through a course.
Farley said he participated in an internship at the University of South Florida during the summer, where he worked out with a group of people training for "strong man" events. Now he incorporates it into his regular workouts, and said it helped him with normal weightlifting.
said. "Everything seems easier after that."
"Your time can be completely screwed up if you keep putting your hands in the wrong spot," he said.
While he said the truck pull didn't require much attention to mechanics or timing — "it's pure effort" — the tire flip does.
With the technical complexity or simply flipping a tractor tire, it isn't surprising that there are "strong man" classes offered locally.
Chris Dellasega, a second-year graduate student from Pittsburg, is a strength coach for Next Level Fitness — the company hosting the competition — and has instructed a "strongman" group. He'll be helping run the event Saturday.
He said that it could be difficult to train for a "strongman" event because many weight lifting techniques pinpoint one thing, while tire flips and truck pulls use multiple muscle groups in different ways.
To put it differently, flipping a tire is a three-dimensional effort, compared with bench pressing
something up and down.
Dellasega suggests mimicking the event as closely as possible in training.
"One of the best ways of getting good at flipping a tractor tire is to flip a tractor tire," he said.
The "Prowler Challenge" requires competitors to push a weighted sled, similar to what a football team uses for practice, and an obstacle course that focuses on agility.
Although the "Strongman Challenge" is the most unusual part of the Next Level Games, the two other stages are designed to give the competition some balance.
She said about 40 people had signed up so far this year, compared with about 50 last year.
"We're not just looking for big, bulky people or bodybuilders who aren't functional," said Laura Richards, who co-owns Next Level Fitness with her husband.
A team of three University of Kansas track athletes will also be competing Saturday, despite not
New coach will create stability
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The club appointed a coach who is familiar with the club and will help to move them in the right direction.
KU student to appear in court
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NME | 3A Teen accused of rape begins legal process and will learn the date for his first hearing.
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