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Quarterback leads Baylor to big win
By Chris Derrett
The Lariat
The Floyd Casey Stadium crowd may never again be happier to see quarterback Robert Griffin hit the turf, rise up and continue playing. The more than 42,000 Baylor faithful in attendance knew what it meant in the Bears' 34-3 win over Sam Houston State; Griffin is back to prime form.
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President Ken Starr runs with the Baylor Line before the game.
"I knew it was going to come, and I bounced up just like I said I would," Griffin said.
"It felt so good to be back in the atmosphere of a football game."
Baylor's quarterback Robert Griffin throws for a short pass over San Houston State's Chuck Obi during an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 4, in Waco, Texas.
In the first quarter Griffin dashed to the right side for 15 yards before being brought down, rising back up to the crowd's ovation. He finished that same drive with a 30-yard scamper into the end zone, pushing Baylor ahead 14-0.
Griffin completed 19 of 36 pass attempts for 242 yards, and the defense held the Bearkats scoreless for three quarters as the Bears began their season on a winning note.
While the offense struck early, the Bears defensive effort proved equally effective and kept Sam Houston State from breaching midfield until three minutes remained in the first quarter.
Plugging running lanes and shutting down receivers has become easier for the Bears in 2010, especially considering the speed added to the depth chart.
"I couldn't get any tackles tonight. Every play I got a good break, I was trying to get downhill, but I couldn't get there because our [defensive ends] are so fast," senior safety Tim Attimison said.
Redshirt freshman defensive end Tevin Elliot led all Baylor tacklers with 7.5 tackles.
Despite several Baylor chances late in the game, the Bearkats kept the Bears out of the end zone for the final 27 minutes.
Griffin and head coach Art Bries both admitted the offense struggled for much of the third and fourth quarter, but both remained confident in the Bears' ability to execute its future game plans.
"As the game progressed a little bit ... I think we had some stuff we knew we should be getting and did not get, and then consequently we just needed to relax a little bit and play and be a little more patient," Briles said.
Briles had more looks planned for his offense, but Sam Houston State prevented them after winning the possession battle
with more than 35 minutes of offense
After reviewing film, Briles also said he felt the team lacked running production. The final score read 200 yards on 25 rushes, but four of those attempts went for more than 20 yards each.
"Sometimes it is frustrating because you know the game plan changes when they load the box like that," said running back Jared Salubi.
"But with the talented running back crew that we do have, we kind of like a challenge like that."
Overall, the game allowed the Bears to continue working on its on-field cohesion as the team faces more difficult upcoming opponents.
While Buffalo looks to consistently use fewer players in the box than Sam Houston State, the change in strength will further challenge Baylor.
"It is hard to feel challenged sometimes in football games, and that is the good part about this week." Briles said. "We will feel challenged, we will be challenged and we will have to step our game up to come out with a 'W'."
OKLAHOMA STATE COWBOYS
Cowboys still have high expectations
By Alec Schimke The Daily O'Collegian
Last August, former players Zac Robinson and Andrew Lewis graced the cover of Sports Illustrated.
The seventh-ranked Cowboys were pegged as BCS contenders heading into the 2009 season and lofty expectations brought national attention, setting Stillwater abuzz when No.15 Georgia came to town for the season opener.
Led by a veteran core, experts foresaw the Cowboys as a legitimate threat to Big 12 powerhouses, Texas and Oklahoma, for conference supremacy.
Last year's team was not short on big name players either. Running back Kendall Hunter, wide receiver Dez Bryant, offensive tackle Russell Okung and defensive back Perrish Cox were popular preseason All-American picks.
Fast forward to this season and uncertainty is the main headline hovering around Boone Pickens Stadium as opening weekend approaches.
Only Hunter returns from the group above and after losing a conference-high 15 starters, the national media has labeled the Cowboys as underdogs in 2010. The team's expectations remain high nonetheless.
"We won nine games last year and we want to win nine or more games this year," quarterback Brandon Weeden said.
Weeden, 26, enters his fourth year in the program, after seeing limited action behind Robinson last season.
Like many other new starters this year, Weeden will have big shoes to fill. One of the experienced players on defense is senior defensive back Andrew McGee, who recorded 32 tackles last season, which ranks second among returning players.
"People look down on us because we are young, but we don't," he said.
Coach Mike Gundy is also optimistic regarding the team's new look.
"These guys have paid a price." Gundy said. "They have worked extremely hard. They worked hard in the spring and they worked very hard in the summer on their own. We have had good practices in the preseason, so they have earned the right to win."
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Artist-in-Residence, Dan Pervagoski, works on his exhibit in the Spencer Museum of Arts Central Court Friday afternoon. Romanian-born Pervagoski will be at KU until Sept. 16th, While here, he will share his art and reflections with students and the community through his exhibit and artist talks.
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Simple drawings, complex ideas
Exhibit at Spencer illuminates artist's social philosophies
BY NICOLAS ROESLER
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A man with a thick black and gray beard stands 20-feet high on a cherry picker in the Spencer Museum of Art, drawing on the walls. He wears a green fly-fishing jacket, which holds everything he needs — a few markers and a notebook.
His arms move quickly and deliberately, like a teacher at a chalkboard. He draws simple figurines, as if the walls were just a giant comic strip. Somehow, a clear message comes through.
"I have my own language," Dan Perjovski said. "These are my words, and I recombine them into new phrases."
Periiovschi is the artist-in-residence at the Spencer Museum of Art. He has been drawing in the central court of the museum for almost two weeks now, creating walls of statements and observations through cartoon-looking, graffiti-style art. His exhibit, Dan Periovschi Central Court, will officially open Thursday and run until Feb. 6, 2011. His artwork will stay on the walls until the end of the exhibit.
Perijovschi mixes political messages with simple observations of life. One of his favorite and recurring drawings depicts a man in a business suit pointing and yelling at a young skateboarder. The speech bubble coming from the man in the business suit reads "I was at Woodstock".
"It's not conventional art," Rachel
Schmidt, a freshman from Paola, said as she looked up at the walls of the Spencer. "It's just true, he puts things in a way that can relate to."
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It is that connection that Dan looks for. He said that everything he writes or draws, we have all thought about at some point. He said he has just trained himself to capture those thoughts in his notebook.
Walls have always been a part of Perjovski's life. He was born in 1961 in the city of Sibiu, Romania, the same year the Berlin Wall was erected.
Perjovschi said living in communist Romania was a life of restrictions. The government controlled all sources of information, blocking what Perjovschi starved for. He said he survived some of the worst dictatorial regimes of communist Romania where there
"It was a culture of missing," Periwojschi said.
was no freedom to travel or read certain books.
While there, he started a sort of underground art project with his wife, Lia, whom he met at a special art school when they were 10 years old.
"It is new all the time," Lia said. "We had a common idea to do what we want, a kind of ambition to contribute to our context."
There would be periods where his family had no milk or bread. His working-class parents somehow managed to send all three of their children to universities, where Periwschi studied painting.
Because of censorship in Romania, each of Dan's art shows went through three different censorship committees before the public could see it. So, he began private
CENTRAL COURT
Dan Perivoschi's "Central Court" exhibit will officially open Thursday night. Perivoschi will speak at 5 p.m. at the SMA Auditorium inside the museum.
The exhibit will run from Thursday to Feb. 6, 2011.
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showings in his loft in Bucharest.
Then, in 1990, Perjovschi helped begin and run the first independent magazine in Romania called "Revista 22," named after a key date in the Romanian revolution: Dec. 22, 1989.
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