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SUSPENSIONS
GONE...'TIL WHEN?
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Junior guard Tyshawn Taylor looks on during the team warm-up before the game against Oklahoma State. Taylor was suspended indefinitely by Coach Seish for an unspecified violation of team rules..
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Taylor, Brown violated team rules, suspended
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BY TIM DWYER AND KATHLEEN GIER
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qkier@kansan.com
Tyshawn Taylor, who has started 26 of 27 games at point guard for Kansas this year, was suspended indefinitely by coach Bill Self for an unspecified violation of team policies.
Suspensions fell on both the men's and women's basketball teams on Monday.
"Although we are disappointed in Tyshawn," Self said in a statement, "he will remain a member of our team
and practice with our team until he is reinstated for competition."
Taylor
Taylor averages 8.8 points and is third in the conference with 4.7 assists per game. This
is Taylor's first suspension, but he has had off-the-court issues centered around social media and was an instigator in last year's fights with the football team.
Kansas women's basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson also announced
guard Marisa Brown is suspended indefinitely for violating team rules.
of our team
Brown
"Marisha will remain a member of our team
Henrickson said.
and continue to practice until she is reinstated for competition, however, we are very disappointed in her"
Brown previously missed eight games after breaking her foot earlier in the season. Lately though, she has
found her stride joining the starting line-up and scoring a career-high 10 points against Texas A&M two games ago. Brown averages 4 points and 2.4
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rebounds per game.
KUJH
Basketball Rewind
For more coverage of this story, check out KUJH's newscast today at 4 p.m.
Marcus Morris led the Jayhawks with 27 points as they trampled Oklahoma State on Monday, 92-65.
POLITICS
OA with congressman Kevin Yoder
The University Daily Kansan:
What experience or skill that you learned at KU has been the best help to you so far in Congress (or in politics in general)?
Kevin
Yoder: My
KU experience really
set me on a pathway to leadership. I
can certainly
say that if it wasn't for
coming to KU and getting involved in all the activities and elections here, I would have not ever run for congress or ever be in this position. I attribute a lot of what I have developed as leadership skills from experiences in small student
Congressman Kevin Yoder has a conversation with Megan Ritter junior from Overland Park, Alex Earlels, senior from Salina, and Aaron Dullinger, a senior from Leawood, before his lecture in the Traditions Area on the 4th Floor of the Kansas Union. Yoder was at the Union from 11:30 to 1:00 p.m. Students enjoyed free pizza and asked Congressman Yoder questions after his lecture.
Kansan: What issue do you think students should be paying more attention to?
Yoder
groups here on campus.
**Yoder:** Well certainly the debt and the yearly deficit. You know, we're also at a point where when you add up Medicare, social security and Medicaid, that within 30 years, those three programs will take up every dollar the federal government spends, leaving no money for education, no money for research, no money for transportation, no money for defense, no money for anything. It gonna take some heavy lifting by the next generation. We're gonna have to figure out what we can live without. Will the next generation have all of the same entitlement benefits that the current generation has? I don't know. I think students are gonna have to decide now, if I'm 21 years old, what kind of country I want to live in 30 years from now and
start changing things to fix things down the road. If we wait until our generation is at the retirement age, it will be too late.
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EDUCATION
Pell Grant Proposal could cut funding
Last week, both president Obama and congressional Republicans included cuts to federal Pell Grants in their respective budget proposals. This graphic shows how their proposals differ and what the effect would on KU students.
$6000
Maximum Grant for 2011-2012 School Year
$5000
$2000 -
$3000 -
$1000-
Obama's Proposal
Republican Proposal
Since 2009, students could apply for a second Pell Grant to pay for year round classes. Obama's proposal would end these supplemental Pell Grants, starting in summer 2012.
7,220,000 Students Received Pell Grants in 2009-2010
650 KU students received a supplemental Pell Grant last year
Of those students, about 800,000 students recieved supplemental Pell Grants and risk losing them under Obama's plan
The Republican proposal would also reduce the number of students who get Pelan't Grants. This is because the maximum grant is also the EAC (Expected Family Contribution) cut off level for eligibility. For example, a student with an EAC of 5000 would be eligible under a Damas's plan but not under the Rebublican's.
About 23% or 1.7 million students would lose their eligibility for any grants under the Republican proposal
How many KU students receive Pell Grants?
2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
In the 2009-2010 school year, 4284 students at the University of Kansas received Pell Grants
"I am definitely counting on the money for summer school. If the money is cut, I'd have to get a part-time job, apply for scholarships, anything I can get extra income."
Student reactions
Brittney Raybern Lawrence Senior
"I don't like it. I already don't get that much financial aid as it is now, so that was kinda helped me out. So that's kind of a bummer."
- Danesha Ridley
Chicago Junior
"I'm going to have to work harder. Apply for scholarships, probably continue to work and ase that money toward school."
- Dawney Pearl
Kansas City, Mo. Junior
Costs to the Federal Government (in billions)
Without Changes
—Source: Fastweb.com, about.com, and the New Anaconda Foodiet
Obama's Proposal
Republican Proposal
Graphic by Clayton Arbley/RAMS