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Put loss in the past and aim for uniformity
Before we start pointing fingers at Kansas' less than stellar performance against North Dakota State last Saturday, let's remember one
thing: Coach Turner Gill never said things would be pretty. Heck, he never said this team would even win, let alone accomplish that feat in a beautiful mind-altering fashion. However, none of us had expected the high rate of errors and overall lack of consistency that bore in its season opener.
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Introduced as Mark Mangino's successor last December, Gill landed in Lawrence with expectations loftier than most, expectations that now seem to be deemed unrealistic. Maybe it was the way Gill wooed a fan-base that had been left in shambles after the 2009 debacle that was the Todd Reesing and friends' farewell tour. Or perchance it was Jayhawk fans expecting a refocused and more team-oriented approach.
Whatever our reasoning for placing optimistically high hopes upon Gill and his newly reformed roster, those hopes were unfortunately shattered when the team took the field without surnames on their uniforms, a first since 1981. The idea was to show a
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team that was "program first." Unfortunately, Big Jay was the only Jayhawk that actually decided to show up this season.
For most of the first half Kansas fans found themselves watching an entirely different team than Mangino's star-studded, pass-first attack. Instead, fans observed a Division I football team struggle to grasp the concept of having eleven players on the field for special teams and a team that struggled all evening to simply catch the ball.
Saturday night Kale Pick became the first man not named Reesing to start at quarterback since Kerry Meier back in 2006. Pick showed his inexperience early on. Not only did he appear unprepared, he at times looked confused by the defensive packages the Bison were throwing at him, and unsure of himself.
The Jayhawk offensive line, perhaps the most highly touted facet returning this season, allowed a
frustrating four sacks by game's end. It also struggled to keep North Dakota States' pass-rushers from maneuvering into the backfield and hurrying the aforementioned Pick. This caused throws to go too wide or miss altogether, never allowing Pick and the rest of his offensive line to get in any kind of rhythm
Looking forward to this week's game against Georgia Tech it's easy to sit back and harp on the mishaps that occurred against NDSU.
The real challenge will be continuing to support Gill and his staff as they change the atmosphere of this program. With Joshua Nesbitt and Georgia Tech visiting this week, Gill's and the rest of Jayhawk's best bet is to forget last week's misfortunes and attempt to find a method of team uniformity by season end. After all, without Reeing and friends roaming the sidelines, it's the only way this program will succeed.
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Junior right end Tim Biere reaches to make a catch near the goal line during the fourth quarter. Biere dropped the ball, forcing the Jahwahs to try a game-tying field goal, which missed. Kansas went on to lose the game 6-3.
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Club will celebrate Indian festival for Hindi god this week in Lawrence.
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Artist-in-Residence, Dan Periwojki, works on his exhibit in the Spencer Museum of Arts Central Court Friday afternoon. Romanian-born Periwojki will be at KU until Sept. 17th. 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 Perjovschi said. "These are my words, and I recombine them into new phrases."
Periovschi 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.
Periwoschi 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."
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.
Perjovski said living in communist Romania was a life of restrictions. The government controlled all sources of information, blocking what Perjovski starved for. He said he survived some of the worst dictatorial regimes of communist Romania where there
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"It was a culture of missing," Periowski 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.
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 Perlvowski studied painting.
"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."
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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
Dan Perjovschi's "Central Court" exhibit will officially open Thursday night. Perjovschi will speak at 5 p.m. at the SMA Auditorium inside the museum.
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The exhibit will run from Thursday to Feb.6,2011.
showings in his loft in Bucharest.
Then, in 1990, Perjovsch 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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