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Enrollment change A longer enrollment period has resulted in fewer Add/Drop requests, but some students are still having trouble getting the courses they need. PAGE 3A
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SenEx wants to join the University of Missouri in discussing potential athletics department reforms in the Big 12 Conference. PAGE 3A
Fort Hays looks for victory
Fort Hays looks for victory The undefeated Fort Hays State Tigers want to continue their winning ways tonight against the Jayhawks. They play at Allen Fieldhouse at 7 p.m. PAGE 12A
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After sitting on the sidelines during the Sooners' 2001 bowl victory, Gabe Toomey is prepared to take the field in the Tangerine Bowl. PAGE 12A
Announcing retirement
Howard Hill the voice of Kansas football and basketball for more than 20 years,will
retire once the Athletics Department finds his replacement. PAGE12A
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KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Vol.114 Issue No.75
Graphic by Zach Stinson
Athletes make use of sport psychology
Rachel Gilfillan was told to snap negative thoughts out of her mind.
Literally—the Cottage Grove, Minn., junior and forward on the Kansas soccer team, kept a rubber band on her wrist to keep herself focused on the game.
"Every time I caught myself in practice, or even throughout my day, thinking negatively about a past experience that is over with and that can't be changed now, I'd just give it a big old snap." Gifillan said.
What may sound like a strange technique has become typical of a team making use of a mental conditioning coach. Athletes from high school to professionals use mental conditioning coaches and sport psychologists to improve their performance.
Gilfillan was a little skeptical when
"One specific thing that I struggle with is past mistakes affecting my present play or my attitude."
Rachel Gilfillan Kansas soccer forward
she heard the team would be using a mental conditioning coach to help resolve mental mistakes. But she quickly accented the idea.
Kansas soccer coach Mark Francis decided to bring Angus-Mugford in to work with the team as a mental conditioning coach. Mugford met with the soccer team as a group once a week, and
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also held individual sessions with players seeking more training.
After working with Mugford, Gilfillan started to recognize some of the mental setbacks that kept her from performing to the best of her ability. In addition to the weekly team meetings, she decided to see Mugford on a one-on-one basis.
"One specific thing that I struggle with is past mistakes affecting my present play or my attitude," Gillfillan said.
Mugford suggested she put a rubber band on her wrist.
She said the visualization and a little pain reminded her that the mistake was over and that it should be snapped out of her mind.
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The University of Kansas yellow bike program has not been as well received as originally hoped. Many of the bikes are being left unattended and unused.
Lack of interest, use deflates bike program
By Zack Hemenway
zhemwenway@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The yellow bike program, which began in the spring, has had some growing pains this semester. But the program's founders think it has a future at the University of Kansas.
During the spring semester, the Student Senate passed a bill which funded a trial yellow bike program. The program, which was allocated $6,945, would choose students to participate in a test run to see if a community bicycle program was feasible for the University as a whole.
Twenty to 30 students signed up, paying a $10 entry fee to receive a key which would unlock the bikes' locks. The program's advocates said the lock/key system would provide greater security for the program.
Kyle Johnson, Wichita senior, and a student senator when the bill was passed, was president of Your Elected Leaders Lending Out Wheels, or YELLOW, a club that promoted the program
in the Student Senate. He was director of the program, supervising the spending of the allocated funds.
Johnson said the group spent most of the money on bikes, and a smaller amount on advertising. The group set aside $1,000 for maintenance, to be performed by Sunflower Bike Shop, 802 Massachusetts St.
Johnson said the program was successful in the spring, but that it had not been as effective for students during the fall semester. He attributed the decline to his and other YELLOW members' busier schedules this semester.
Johnson said the main deficiencies created by the lack of activity concerned bike maintenance. During the spring, Johnson and other members of the group would collect bikes that needed repairs and take them in to Sunflower.
This fall, without program personnel taking the bikes in, problems like flat fires have been left to individual dues-paying users of the program.
Union safety rules to stay same after late-night fight
KJ Memorial Unions' policies regarding late-night functions will not change after a fight broke out during a party Saturday night at the Burge Union.
A meeting was held yesterday at the Kansas Union to discuss the fight and the policies designed to handle such incidents.
The meeting was attended by representatives from the KU Public Safety Office, Center for Campus Life, the KU Memorial Unions and Mark Dupree, Kansas City Kan., senior, said Lisa Kring, conference coordinator for the Unions. Dupree was at the event this weekend when the fight broke out.
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The meeting consensus was that the rules do not need to be changed, Kring said.
Rules include having student IDs checked before they can enter the event, having metal detectors at building entrances, having Union employees present at events and having Public Safety Office employees present.
Amber Byarley
New hall stickers not holding up
By Abby Mills almills@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
University of Kansas residence halls may be facing a peeling problem.
The stickers are designed to alert residence hall staff members if a screen has been removed from a window. If the sticker is torn or removed, the resident who leases the room would face a $125 fine.
Latisha Storey said she had never tried to remove the sticker on her window. Yet one of the two yellow stickers on the Mound City freshman's window is loose and beginning to peel along the edges.
Some of the stickers the Department of Student Housing affixed to window screens in late October and early November have started to peel.
Storey said she thought the fine deterred students from taking their screens off, but the stickers were not put on well.
A Kansas City, Kan., freshman, who declined to give his name because he did not want a fine, said he regularly removed his screen to dump water out the window rather than walk down the hall to the bathroom. He said if he used a blow-dryer, the stickers came off without tearing.
"You can always glue it back on," he said.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said he was not aware that the stickers were loose, but said the glue had probably not had enough time to fully affix.
"It probably has to do with the speed we put them on," he said. "We didn't go back to dry them on."
The stickers are stopping some residents, such as Nick Perry, who took of their screens in the past.
"It scared me enough not to take it off," the St. Mary's freshman said about his window screen. "That would be pretty stupid, if you think about it."
Stoner said winter break would be the first time staff would check the stickers as part of the regular inspection of the room.
Stoner said the stickers were just like bumper stickers. Before they will completely adhere, they need a few weeks to bake on.
Resident assistants will also check stickers this year and assess a fine to any room with a damaged sticker. Stoner said if the department found stickers that were peeling on their own, it would deal with those on a case-by case basis and would try to find out how to make them stick better.
The stickers were put in residence halls that have ledges in response to the Sept. 12 death of Eric Wellhausen. The Mount Prospect, Ill., freshman died after falling from the seventh floor of Oliver Hall. He had removed his screen and climbed onto the ledge below his room to smoke a cigarette.
Resident assistants check rooms at the beginning of winter and spring break when halls are closed to make sure windows are closed, appliances are turned off and other safety requirements have been met.
Edited by JJ Hensley
The weather outside is frightful
Kit Lafiller/Kansas
Allison Covault, Shawnee freshman, walked home to Douthart Hall through the snow and ice yesterday. Covault braved the inclement weather to attend a chemistry test.
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