In a decision made by The Kansan student management team, its advisers and The Kansan Board, the University Daily Kansan will print two days per week instead of four, beginning in fall 2015.
Currently, The Kansan prints four days per week: Monday through Thursday. Once the printing schedule is modified in the fall, the print edition will come out Mondays and Thursdays.
After analyzing years of data and readership statistics — both at the University and on
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While the production of the printed paper will be reduced by half, The Kansan will not cover only half the news. Without the stress and pres-sure of producing content for four print editions per week, The Kansan staff will focus its resources on breaking news,
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A bill proposed by Student Senate’s Graduate Affairs Di-rector Angela Murphy and senior Emma Halling that pro-tects off-campus sexual assault victims passed through rights committee of Student Senate on Wednesday.
The bill is a product of the University’s Sexual Assault Task Force. It gives the University jurisdiction to pursue sexual assault cases that involve people affiliated with the University, but don’t occur on campus.
The bill, which will change the code of student rights and responsibilities, is an attempt to clarify the existing code and bring the University into com-pliance with Title IX.
Murphy said this bill is import-ant because the original law did not apply to intimate-partner vi-olence that occurred off campus.
“As co-chair of the task force, I am charged with finding solu-
tions to the problem of sexual assault, and the major problem the University claimed we had was jurisdiction,” Murphy said. “Emma and I, and the rest of the task force members, realized we could make the language and code (of the bill) more specif-
ic. It also doesn’t apply to inti-mate-partner violence, which is key to protect students of all gen-ders and classifications.”
Murphy and Halling draft-ed the bill over winter break, and they solicited sponsors last Wednesday.
According to Halling, the hope is that this new bill will also pro-tect students studying abroad.
“So long as that student is a student here, we are obligated under law to protect them,” Hal-ling said.
Murphy also announced there will be a sexual Assault Task Force meeting Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the chancel-lor’s suite.
Another bill that passed through the rights committee is the approval of an ROTC student senator position.
Sophomore Garrett Farlow from Tecumseh authored the bill because he felt the ROTC mem-bers were underrepresented.
“This is something I’ve wanted to do since I was ... a freshman here and not even in the pro-gram yet,” Farlow said. “It’s im-portant everyone on this campus is represented fairly. And right now, ROTC students don’t have that unifying senator.”
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The University’s Depart-ment of Student Housing is considering a new propos-al that would prohibit all smoking paraphernalia from scholarship halls, Jayhawker Towers and residence halls.
If the policy is enacted, students would be unable to enter any on-campus hous-ing with items including, but not limited to bowls, pipes, bongs, hookahs, rolling pa-pers, etc., said Daniel Skin-ner, a Student Housing Advi-sory Board (SHAB) member.
Housing’s Associate Direc-tor for Student Life Jennifer Wamelink said this proposal does not include cigarettes.
“Residents could have them in their bag or their purse in-side the residence halls,” she said.
As it stands now, students living in on-campus hous-ing cannot smoke tradition-al cigarettes in the building, but electronic cigarettes or vaping devices are allowed. In addition to the proposed ban on tobacco parapherna-lia, the SHAB has also talked about prohibiting the smok-ing of electronic cigarettes and vaping devices.
“We have had several fire alarm situations related to vapor,” Wamelink said. “So, independent of the tobac-co-free conversation, we’ve been saying that we proba-bly need to take the step of prohibiting cigarettes and vaping devices in Student Housing.”
Wamelink said the SHAB, composed of representatives from the different student governing bodies, as well as faculty members, was encouraged by the cam-pus-wide initiative to go to-bacco-free.
“With the [tobacco-free initiative],” Wamelink said, “our student leaders have been invited to some prelim-inary conversation and we’re thinking about what would it look like for KU Student Housing to go completely tobacco-free. Should we
wait for the campus to do it, or should we go ahead and make that step? That’s one of the conversations that we’ve been having.”
Currently, the draft poli-cy proposed by the tobac-co-free initiative does not apply to Student Housing, said Ola Faucher, the direc-tor of human resources and a member of the tobacco-free steering committee. If the policy were to go into effect, all facilities operated by Stu-dent Housing would be ex-empt.
Both policies are currently being discussed by residents of on-campus housing, es-pecially within the residence organizations like the Asso-ciation of University Res-idence Halls (AURH), All Scholarship Hall Council (ASHC), and the Jayhawker Towers Tenants Committee.
Skinner, who is also the president of ASHC, said most of the people he’s spo-ken with don’t have a prob-lem with the ban on elec-tronic cigarettes, but do take issue with the ban on tobac-co paraphernalia.
“In terms of parapherna-lia, most of the opinions I’ve been hearing, especially from students who live in the scholarship halls, is that they aren’t very much in favor of banning the paraphernalia,” said Skinner, a senior from Wichita. “Most of that is because a lot of people aren’t sure that it’s enforceable; a lot of them aren’t sure that it’s necessary.”
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““We have had several fire alarm situations related to vapor. So ... we’ve been saying that we probably need to take the step of prohib-iting cigarettes and vaping devices in Student Housing.”
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AARON GROENE/KANSANEmma Halling (left) and Angela Murphy address questions concerning a bill that would give the University jurisdiction in off-campus sexual assault cases that involve University-affiliated people.
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HARSHREALITY“The Hereditary Estate” andthe dark side of family life
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Daniel Coburn, assistant professor of photo media at the University, cre-ated a recently published book called “The Hereditary Estate.” The book provides a look into the imperfect na-ture of families, based on events from Coburn’s own family. “The Heredi-tary Estate” is a collection of images that represent domestic violence and suicide, consisting of Coburn’s orig-inal photography, photos gathered from yard sales and contributed es-says. Tim Hossler, assistant professor of design, was the graphic designer
for the project. Coburn comments on his work and how it has af-
fected him.
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University alumnus and NBC News correspondent Bob Dotson will receive the William Allen White Foundation National Citation on April 23 at the University.
The William Allen White Foundation award is a medal meant for journalists who represent “outstanding journalistic service,” according to the School of Journalism’s website. The inscription on the back of the award reads, “An American journalist who exemplifies William Allen White ideals in service to his profession and his community.”
“I’ve won a few awards in my life, but never anything like this,” Dotson said.
Dotson added the award is particularly special to him because his grandfather, Paul Bailey, lived in Hiawatha and was the first on either side of his family to earn a college degree and graduate from KU Law in 1910.
Dotson graduated from the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications in 1968 and received a
master’s degree in film from Syracuse. He is best known for his ongoing series “The American Story with Bob Dotson,” which focuses on ordinary Americans and each of their unique stories.
He said journalists are in the business of storytelling, and the story is always about the subject.
“I found that it was more interesting not to just [cover] politics and hot issues, but interesting people who look like us and talk like us,” Dotson said.
After graduating, Dotson spent two years working in Oklahoma City at WKY-TV, currently known as KFOR, where he began “The American Story.” He then started working for NBC News, where he has been for 40 years. Dotson realized that instead of mindlessly going out and getting a story to bring back, it needed to be solely about the individual being interviewed.
A humble Philadelphia police officer, Bill Sample, is an example one of these stories.
Sample made a habit of going to a local children’s hospital and would ask chronically ill, physically
challenged and abused children to tell him of a dream they’ve always had. He would then make those dreams come true. Dotson said Sample started out dressing up as Batman and having snowball fights. Eventually, he was able to take children to Disney World.
“I looked for the universal traits that unified all of us,” Dotson said. “Their stories were fascinating; immediately, everyone watching realized they were exactly like us.”
Dotson kickstarted his career in journalism by producing a documentary entitled “Through the Looking Glass, Darkly,” a film about black history during a time when it was not discussed, or even acknowledged, by media.
Through that, he discovered that audience could closely relate to the stories of other average Americans.
Dotson is also a New York Times bestselling author with his book, “American Story: A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things,” which is similar to his “American Story” series.
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Student denied entry to Obama’s speech Junior Freddy Gipp from
Lawrence was fortunate enough to be nominated by two different groups to stand on the risers for President Obama’s speech two weeks ago, but he didn’t even end up attending the event.
First, the Office of Multicultural Affairs nominated Gipp to attend Obama’s speech, followed by a nomination from the William Allen White School of Journalism. The Sunday before Obama’s speech, Gipp was notified that he had been selected among 11 other students to represent OMA.
Three days later, just one day before the speech, OMA Director Blaine Harding called Gipp and told him that after the mandatory background check, his name came up as a red flag, despite his perfectly clean record.
Gipp said Harding was notified by the Office of Public Affairs.
“All I was told is that something came up as a red flag,” Harding said. “I would assume the University doesn’t know what determined it either, because Secret Service made the call, and they don’t have to give up the reason.”
Gipp was perplexed, especially since it was referred to as a national security issue.
“It was so quick, and there was nothing,” Gipp said. “No word or indication of why I
wasn’t chosen — I never even saw anything in writing.”
Gipp said he went to talk to Dan McCarthy, academic adviser in the School of Journalism.
“He was shocked, too,” Gipp said. “He tried his best to find out what happened, but [he] and Blaine were on the same boat, [because] the Secret Service wouldn’t release any information.”
Gipp only grew more confused; he had never been in trouble with the law and had passed background checks before. Additionally, both of his parents work for the government.
Gipp is also involved here on campus. Just this past December, he received the Man of Merit award. He’s a member of Alpha Tau Omega, and has served as both vice president and president of the First Nations Student Association, where he eventually set up a panel to obtain education equality for Native Americans.
“This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Gipp said. “To sit behind the standing president and listen to him speak is something you can tell your future kids, friends, and family about; then, all of a sudden, [it was] taken away.”
Although Gipp still wants to know the reason behind why he was denied attending the speech, there is an even bigger problem that remains. Harding said he believes he should let the speech incident go and focus on the bigger issue: his future.
“My main question is, what if I want to work for the government some day?” Gipp said.
“Freddy has done so many
things with the Native community,” Harding said. “If he wants a federal job, is this going to stop him? There’s only so much digging
he can do when it comes to the Secret Service,” Harding said.
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This semester, the Dole Institute of Politics will hold a study group that will discuss and learn about the divergence of culture and politics, hosted by a man who has plenty of experience with the subject.
Jimmy LaSalvia is a Dole fellow who will lead the group this semester. As a gay ,conservative political activist, he struggled to figure out how he fit into politics. It took many years of unique experiences for him come to terms with his place in the political world.
LaSalvia was politically
active in college and, shortly afterward, as he was coming to terms with his sexual orientation, took himself out of politics and accepted a job at an opera house.
“I was a gay conservative from a red state,” he said. “A traditional path in politics certainly wasn’t available to me. I wasn’t going to get elected to anything or any high-level management position, so I built a life in Louisville, Ky.”
In 2004, LaSalvia re-entered politics in a different role. When Bush’s re-election campaign wanted to place anti-gay marriage laws on the state ballots, he became re-engaged in politics.
Upon his re-entry, LaSalvia served in an organization called Log Cabin Republicans as grassroots outreach director, then director of programs and policy.
Soon after, he founded GOProud, an organization that advocates for gay, conservative republicans.
“Being a national voice for gay conservatives and being ‘Gay for Mitt’ in the last campaign showed me a lot about how politics is impacted by cultural issues and the political realities of it. It also showed me how elections and parties and our politics are impacted by cultural realities,” he said. “Political realities
and cultural realities are very intertwined.”
Currently, LaSalvia spends his time talking about cultural issues and his views as a conservative gay man. When he’s not hosting the Dole study
group, he will be working on a book about his experiences in the political world.
Students, staff and community members can speak with LaSalvia in the Dole study group, “All Politics is Personal—A Gay Conservative Looks at the Culture Wars.”
“LaSalvia brings a very unique perspective, not only as a gay conservative activist, but as someone who has had experience on the campaign trails and in elections and a real political climate,” said Eric Pahls, a research assistant and study groups coordinator at the Dole Institute.
Starting Feb. 18 and
continuing every Wednesday for the next six weeks, the study group will talk and learn about cultural issues including gay rights, gender, religion, media, partisanship and more.
To give participants a good perspective on each week’s issue, LaSalvia will invite guests from in or around the political system who can speak on their experiences.
The group, which will be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Dole Institute of Politics, is open to staff, students and community members of all political affiliations.
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Gay political activist to lead Dole study group
Anti-Common Core bill hits state Legislature
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A bill proposing to ban the current Common Core teaching standards was reintroduced to the Kansas legislature this session.
The proposed bill raises questions of the standards’ effectiveness and the possible repercussions for teachers’ education methods. This is the third time a bill fighting Common Core has been introduced in Kansas. Many of the other 43 states that adopted the standards have similar bills regarding the dismantling of Common Core.
The Common Core is defined on the official Common Core Standards Initiative website as “a set of
clear college- and career-ready standards for kindergarten through 12th grade in English language arts/literacy and mathematics.”
Sen. Forrest Knox (R-Altoona) wants to ban Common Core standards in Kansas, claiming the Common Core grants the federal government too much control in the classroom, according to The Topeka Capital-Journal.
Jim Ellis, associate professor in the School of Education and former president of the Kansas Association of Science Teachers, said there are many misconceptions about Common Core.
The standards do not dictate curriculum, but “are a description of what
we are looking for as far as knowledge and ability,” he said.
Because the standards were adopted in 2010, a majority of the student body at the University graduated from high schools that were in the process of implementing the Common Core, although the students were most likely not aware of it.
Ellis said although the Kansas State Department of Education is conducting workshops to assist districts in meeting the standards, local districts and teachers still control what is taught in their classrooms. The new standards are more concerned with the outcome.
“These standards call for a much higher bar than past
standards have, and that’s a good thing,” he said.
As part of that effort, students in the University’s School of Education are given information about the Common Core in their courses. Students are taught how to create units and lessons to develop their future students, Ellis said.
Emily Kerr, a junior from Leawood, is a teaching student at the University.
“You get to base curriculum off of (Common Core),” she said. “You get to create it.”
The recent controversy over Common Core standards has not affected the way she has learned to teach, and she doesn’t expect it to in the future.
“The teachers said we are
going to be fine,” Kerr said. “We have nothing to compare it to, because it’s all we’ve known.”
Though teachers and unions have debated the merits of Common Core, Ellis said overall there is not much controversy among teaching professionals.
Lisa Pinamonti Kress, director of Undergraduate Admissions, said the issue has become political because of the different assessments and expectations that are “put out there.”
“There’s a variety of different ways to teach, and they all accomplish the same goals,” she said. “There’s more than one way to do it.”
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When the sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird”
was announced for its July release, literary lovers rejoiced. However, despite the hysteria and jubilation surrounding the announce-ment, audiences should real-ize the publication of Harper Lee’s next novel might not be central to the author’s true desires. The motives be-hind the work’s publication should be further investigat-ed before its release.
Lee is one of the most obscure figures in American literature to date. After the publication of her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” in 1960, she faded into the background, doing every-thing she could to avoid the spotlight. She never published another novel and has seldom granted requests for public appearances or interviews. She is reputed to have remarked to a cousin that after “Mockingbird” had reached high success, there would be nowhere for her to go but down.
However, on Feb. 3, fans reveled in anticipation when publisher HarperCollins an-nounced that a sequel, “Go Set a Watchman,” would be released this July. The sequel was written before “Mock-ingbird,” but was put aside
and forgotten until recently, and many are asking why the manuscript didn’t surface until now. The legitimacy of its publication 55 years later may be questionable.
Lee has long held that she does not want to go through the publicity surround-ing the publication of a novel again. The immediate success of “Mockingbird” was unimaginable to her and caused her to disappear from the public eye. She quietly retired to New York City after its publication, where she spent much of her adult life. It seems unusual she would decide to publish another work now.
This becomes even stranger considering Lee suffered a stroke in 2007. According to close friend Rev. Dr. Thomas Lane Butts and The Atlan-tic, the traumatic event left her 95 percent blind and somewhat deaf, with a faulty short-term memory. Wheth-er these assessments of the severity are accurate, the fact remains that she has resided in an assisted-living facility back in her hometown of Monroeville, Ala., since the stroke. Those against the release of the sequel suggest that Lee’s state compromis-es her ability to give full consent on publishing the sequel.
Oddly enough, the news of the sequel’s publication comes only three months af-ter Lee’s sister, Alice, passed
away, according to The Washington Post. Alice was responsible for her sister’s legal and financial affairs for much of her life. Keeping this in mind, the timing of the announcement seems
somewhat questionable, as Lee is now more vulnera-ble to those who may not necessarily consider her best interest.
Granted, a fair number of these developments may be
coincidental. Lee has said in a statement that she is “humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years,” accord-ing to the Guardian. The difficulty lies in assessing how much of her statement is representative of what she really wants, given her condition.
Undoubtedly, this is a time for celebration within the literary community. The publication of “Mocking-bird” had such a deep and profound effect on America, shaping the way society viewed race relations. As such, Lee became one of the most celebrated authors in American literature for the admirable voice she claimed when writing about such a difficult topic.
A new novel from Harper Lee would be of the utmost importance in the American literary tradition and would be quintessential in provok-ing discussion and new ideas among readers. It would be a shame for such a valuable work of history to remain unknown to the public, but it is important to preserve Lee’s wishes by verifying that she does truly support the novel’s publication.
Matthew Clough is a sophomore from Wichita
studying English and journalism
Students should receive more than three credit hours for classes that
require a large amount of out-of-class work. Aside from the standard amount of homework and studying, classes that require students to participate in research on campus, work in a campus organization or do com-munity service should earn more credit hours.
According to an article posted by College Parents of America, full-time students should spend roughly 30 hours per week studying.
Add this to time spent in class and students are practi-cally working full-time jobs by going to school.
Students may also work part-time jobs. Students who are required to participate in demanding out-of-class requirements can feel over-whelmed, especially if they have to add part-time jobs to their schedules as well.
For several liberal arts and science and educa-tion courses, participating in research on campus is mandatory. Psychology 104 requires students to have 11 research participation points to pass the class. Depending on the study, participation can take up to an hour. Al-though students can become aware of research on campus this way, they should receive an extra credit hour as com-pensation.
Along with research par-ticipation, any course that
requires students to work in an on-campus organization should receive an additional hourly credit for time spent. For example, some journal-ism classes require students to work shifts at KUJH-TV or the University Daily Kansan.
These types of organiza-tions can take up a lot of a student’s time, acting like part-time jobs, yet these stu-dents aren’t being paid to do the work. By participating in organizations like these, students gain real-world ex-perience; however, students should also receive addition-al hourly credits, depending on the amount of time spent helping these organizations.
Certain applied behav-ioral science courses, like 310: Building Healthy Com-munities, require students to participate in community service to pass the class. This is a great way to get involved
outside of the University; however, students shouldn’t be required to do so unless they will receive additional credit.
If these types of classes were designated four credit hours, students would have a better understanding of the amount of work they have to put in to pass the class. They could plan their schedules accordingly.
When it comes down to it, everyone could benefit from this change. Professors could expect students to under-stand class requirements be-fore enrolling in the course, and students may be much more willing to participate in research or in a campus organization if they received the benefit of an additional credit hour.
Madeline Umali is a sophomore from St. Louis
studying journalism
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The elevator in Wescoe makes me fear for my life. Taking
the stairs from now on.
Jake Thede’s pipes are golden.
Male assault is as real as female assault. Men have a right to be more human than sexualized
monsters. #feminism
Can SUA bring a comedy hypnotist to KU again?
I just toasted a poptart in front of my space heater.
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I wish we could post pictures we send to the FFA.
Nick Offerman is coming back to Lawrence?? What yes I love you.
Dear sick fish parent, what kind of fish do you have?
Pretty sure I was once Rapunzel in my past life. #thishairtho
I don’t know what everyone is talking about. I thought this
year’s Super Bowl commercials were fantastic!
You know you’re lazy when you finally force yourself to buy toilet
paper because you ran out.
Life goal: Have a home movie theatre.
I’m pumped for Fifty Shades of Grey ... I don’t care what anyone
says! Just accept it.
I wish KC, MO had a bus that commuted to KU campus…
Would save me a ton of gas money.
I don’t understand how pop is so addicting to people.
That sh*t nasty.
I CAN’T stand people who smack and slurp. You need to learn
some manners, lady. Don’t come to the library. Ugh!
“Time of My Life” by Pitbull/Ne-Yo is seriously the catchiest song
ever “oooooooooh give me the time of my life!”
Going to go get your girl because I heard she likes Martini night.
It’s Thursday and I’m thirsty for more than one reason.
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ROB CARR/ASSOCIATED PRESSHarper Lee, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill a Mocking-bird,” smiles during a ceremony honoring the four new members of the Alabama Academy of Honor at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. Publisher HarperCollins announced Tuesday that “Go Set a Watchman,” a novel Lee completed in the 1950s and put aside, will be released July 14. It will be her second published book.
Classes that require a lot of outside work warrant more than 3 credits
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DO YOU THINK CERTAIN CLASSES SHOULD RECEIVE EXTRA HOURLY CREDITS FOR REQUIRED OUTSIDE WORK?
“I have had a lot of those classes that require research requirements, and it takes more time and effort than classes that don’t have as many outside assignments.”
— Kate HemmerSophomore from Salina
“I agree that it should be four credit hours because we put a lot more time in our classes than a normal three hour course.”
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Overland Park
“I definitely think that if you’re doing way more work outside the class than inside the class, you deserve more credit hours. Some classes require so much more extra work and [students] deserve extra credit.”
— Sarah CellJunior from Chicago
“I agree with that, especially for psychology classes. Like Psychology 104, it only meets for one hour a week, but you still don’t get credit for the amount of work you put in.”
— Brooke ZielinskiFreshman from Chicago
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THE PLACEWith the competitive na-
ture of Massachusetts Street comes a constantly evolv-ing lineup of restaurants in downtown Lawrence, making it easy for new restaurants to fly under the radar. If you haven’t been downtown for a bite to eat in a while, a new restaurant called KC Smoke Burgers has opened, located at 1008 Massachusetts Street.
This is the second location for the adolescent burger franchise, the first of which is located in Kansas City, Mo. I dined in at the Law-rence location around 6 p.m. Monday night; the restau-rant was busy, but I was seat-ed within minutes.
The moment you step through the door you un-derstand the name of the establishment due to the strong aroma of smoke. The venue is relatively small with limited seating but spacious enough you don’t feel like you are eating shoulder to shoulder with another party.
Eating on a Monday, I was able to enjoy one of the es-tablishment’s generous daily deals — Mondays are buy one get one free burgers — and I had more than 20 burger options.
THE MEALFor an appetizer I started
with “Breaded Half-Moon Mozzarella Cheese.” I wasn’t sure what to expect, but knew I love just about any-thing breaded and anything with mozzarella cheese. When the appetizer was de-livered to the table, I was a
bit disappointed to see my “Breaded Half-Moon Moz-zarella Cheese” was essen-tially just flattened mozza-rella sticks. That being said, they were very good mozza-
rella sticks. The cheese was completely melted and the seasoned breading was salt-ed to perfection. My friend and I decided to indulge in the Monday special and split
two burgers. We ordered the Bacon Cheese Smoke Burger and the Fire Cheese Smoke Burger. The Bacon Cheese Smoke Burger has American cheese and bacon while the
Fire Cheese Smoke Burger had pepper jack cheese and jalapeños, both of which came with fries. The burgers were delivered to the table still inside the individual
smokers used to cook them, which was a nice touch. The burgers are half-pound patties served with lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles and mayo in addition to the spe-cialty toppings available. Both burgers had a strong smoke flavor and were quite juicy. The American cheese and bacon on the Bacon Cheese Smoke burger were sadly a bit overshadowed by the intense smoky flavor of the patty, but were nice, subtle additions to a good burger. The Fire Cheese Smoke Burger had a more distinct flavor due to the nature of spicy peppers. I would classify the spici-ness of the burger as mild
to moderate. Both burgers were quite tasty and very filling. The fries were ex-ceptionally good — gold-en-brown and crispy.
THE FINAL OPINIONOverall, the dining expe-
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Thirty years ago when Ed-die Murphy was king of the box office and a jean jacket with an assortment of but-tons pinned on was a sign of coolness, “We Are The World” was released. The song spins a story of hope, togetherness and charity for those in need.
“We Are The World” was, in actuality, a historic ven-ture of great artists coming together to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. Singers and performers getting together under a collective group name to re-cord music to benefit those in need was an idea that had been slowly growing in popularity in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.
Few times in history have we seen congregations of characters and heroes join forces as they did in “We Are The World.” The bill boasts iconic names such as Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Tina Turner and Billy Joel — and those are all just within the opening verse.
The name of the group was “USA for Africa,” and it successfully raised more than $50 million for human-itarian aid in one year. The song topped the U.S. charts and was a wild commercial success, inspiring listeners to become involved in the cause on a massive scale.
Aside from funds raised and messages sent, an un-derlying takeaway for this event was that the genres of rock ‘n’ roll and pop music were not merely tools of a young generation to have fun and party. They could also be a driving force for good in the world. In the same decade, massive con-cert events such as Farm Aid and Live Aid raised millions of dollars for their respective charities.
The legacy of “We Are The World” is that its important to realize when you buy a CD or a single on iTunes, you can oftentimes make a difference. Although you may not often see where the proceeds from CD sales are going, it’s important to remember how much power you as the listener and con-sumer of music have.
In a time of selfies and celebrity gossip, “We Are The World” is remembered as a decent song with a great message, sung by people motivated by human need rather than individual fame.
— Edited by Mackenzie Clark
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KANSAN: Can you elaborate on your inspiration for “The He-reditary Estate”? COBURN: It was kind of an in-spiration that’s happened over the course of about five or six years. Basically, my work and research revolves around the family photo album. [It] is one component of this infrastruc-ture that supports the Ameri-can dream. What got me inter-ested in this is my own family. When I was a … teenager, these truths about my family history started to come out — stories from my parents, from my mother, from my father. My mother, her sister and my grandmother were victims of extreme domestic violence. I didn’t know this until I was a teenager. Also, my father had a brother [who] committed suicide. There was this kind of generational, cyclical al-coholism that had happened through my family history. It was interesting to me because that never appeared in my own family photo album. What I saw in my own family photo album was a series of happy moments. So I guess you’d say that a lot of my work is about creating a supplement to the family photo album that tells a more complete story about the sometimes-troubling nature of family. KANSAN: Because you never experienced these issues until you were a teenager, how has this book affected you? COBURN: Making these pho-tographs has become very cathartic. It’s been very thera-peutic. All of the photographs that I made for the book are staged recreations of memories and fantasies that I had on my journey to adulthood. Some of them are memories that my parents may have had that they’ve relayed to me, some of them are my own childhood memories. So I’m restaging these events, and I’m having to do that in concert with my par-ents and my immediate family.
I’m working with them very closely in this act of theater, this moment that we’re recre-ating. During that process, dis-cussions happen, conversation happens, we talk about things that we’ve maybe never talked about before. In that sense, it’s been a very positive thing. It is about my family, but I hope that it’s ac-cessible. I want it to be accessi-ble to most people. In an ideal world, I would think of these as somehow referencing this kind of universal experience, something that everyone can identify with.
KANSAN: Can you describe the catharsis that you’ve experi-enced?
COBURN: It’s really more about communication, and I think that there was a lack of com-munication. I think through the act of just being honest with each other about the things that have happened in their past, and how that has affected us [is helpful]. I think that there is this passing of val-ues from generation to genera-tion. If we can confront those things and stop them, then that’s a good thing; that’s a pos-itive thing.
KANSAN: Did you have a specific process to create your photo-graphs?
COBURN: Yeah, they’re all dif-ferent. I think my work has be-come more and more abstract over time. I originally started by making very direct portraits of my parents and my brother and his children, but I’ve al-lowed myself to take some lib-erties with some abstraction. For instance, I’ll photograph a landscape that, for me, rep-resents a certain psychological state. Or I’ll maybe photograph someone else that’s in my life, maybe a significant other, and that person becomes a meta-phor for maybe my grandpar-ent or something like that. I’m interested in making photo-graphs that can become icons or symbols of the human ex-istence.
KANSAN: One of the photos was of a blurred woman, leaning back in a rocking chair. Can you tell me about that photo?
COBURN: Sure, that’s my mom. The blurring that happens in that image, and in other im-ages where I make a double exposure, I want the work to be about my family, but I also want it to be about the medium of photography. I really think it’s important for photogra-phers to engage with the histo-ry of the medium. For me, that work is also about spirituality. There’s this history of photog-raphy and spirituality. For instance, late-19th-centu-ry photographers were actually
con men [who] would con-vince people that they could actually take pictures of ghosts or their deceased relatives. So that blurring that happens, I think, references that history of spiritualism in photography. KANSAN: Has your experience from this book had any affect on how you teach your stu-dents? COBURN: I think it’s important that no matter what type of cre-ative you are — whether you’re a writer or artist or photogra-pher — that it’s important to see the value in documenting the things that are close to you, because those are the things
that you know intimately and you understand very intimate-ly. Sometimes, I think it’s easy to discount personal issues as not being important. But in actuality, I think [discounting personal issues] is very im-portant, and sometimes it’s al-most disingenuous to remove yourself from your immediate environment and not show the world what’s important to you, personally. I encourage my stu-dents to remain true to them-selves and to have some sort of integrity in what they choose to photograph and choose to make.
— Edited by Mitch Raznick
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Imagine a delicious future. Don’t inaugurate a new trick or fall for a tall tale. Complete a project that’s been slow. You’re especially powerful this next month with Venus in Pisces. Group and public activities boost your career.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)Today is a 7
Follow an expert’s plans. Increase your area of influence this week. Take on more responsibility over the next month with Venus in Pisces. Watch for career opportunities. Assume authority.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)Today is an 8
Stand up for what you love. Financially it could get tense. No need to overdo. Create a detailed budget. Travel, explore and study this next month with Venus in Pisces. Set goals, and plan your next adventure.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is an 8
Review shared finances this month with Venus in Pisces, and discover ways to save. Increase your assets. Reaffirm a commitment. There may be a conflict anyway. Take calm authority, and persuade co-workers.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is an 8
Partnerships flow with greater ease this next month with Venus in Pisces. Collaborate on creative projects. Nobody understands your work better than you. Fix something before it breaks. Persuade loved ones to defer gratification, too.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is a 7
Everything seems possible. There’s more work coming in over the next month with Venus in Pisces, and it’s the kind you like. Keep costs down anyway. What you learn benefits many. Get into a fun work phase. Provide exceptional results.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is an 8
Do something nice for your partner (or someone you’d like to know better). You’re luckier in love this month with Venus in Pisces. Explore new ways to create beauty. Play and practice hobbies, passions and talents. Share love.
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JUPITER ASCENDING/VILLAGE ROADSHOW PICTURESJupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) hangs onto Caine (Channing Tatum) while being chased by aliens through Chicago.
‘Jupiter Ascending’ is a long-winded dazzler
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Whatever narrative problems the Wachowskis
(“The Matrix” trilogy, “Speed Racer,” “Cloud Atlas”) some-times stumble through, there’s no denying their visual style pops right off the screen with impressive special effects and thrilling action. Their space opera, “Jupiter Ascending,” suffers some issues in the story department too, but man, what a spectacle-filled feast for the eyes.
Mainly there’s too much royal intrigue coupled with explain-ing the mythology of the film’s world, primarily during the less engaging second act, as well as one plot of betrayal after another. The exposition about this sci-fi universe is interesting enough, but a family of pre-tentious nobility being entitled pricks doesn’t make for particu-larly compelling villainy amidst the action and adventure.
As it turns out, Earth is just a crop of humans waiting to be harvested by its owners. The Abrasax family owns Earth and many other civilized planets, all inherited by the three royal children following the queen’s death. However, Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), a poor girl cleaning toilets in Chicago, is the genetic reincarnation of the queen and thus rightful heir to the Abrasax throne.
When the strongest Abrasax, Balem (Eddie Redmayne), learns of this challenge to his power, he orders her death before she is discovered. In
comes Channing Tatum as hu-man-wolf hybrid hunter Caine, hired to save her and take her to the other Abrasax brother, Titus (Douglas Booth).
It’s clear from Caine’s intro-ductory scene, when he tracks Jupiter and gets into a firefight with the opposing mercenaries while flying around on his gravity-surfing boots, that the action mechanics in this movie are designed in seriously cool ways that deliver the awesome-ness. Unfortunately, the movie hits its peak early on as Jupiter and Caine air-surf around the Chicago skyline under fire from alien ships, until he commandeers one and must outmaneuver and take down the others.
This is one of those truly exhilarating, edge-of-your-seat sequences that leaves a blazing imprint in your memory. Maybe the feverish pace and recognizable setting getting torn up make it so effective, but no subsequent set piece reaches such intense heights, probably because they get a little bogged down cross-cutting between multiple characters in different struggles.
The Wachowskis’ screenplay hits a number of cheesy beats throughout, but their direction manages to keep them from sticking out most of the time. There’s a lower degree of some “The Fifth Ele-ment”-like humor and oddity, primarily in a scene going through a galactic equivalent of the DMV, and frequently messy exposition. The first act excites tremendously (outside of the cliché opening), but the second act loses momentum as they get off Earth and get tangled up in the Abrasax clan’s schemes. The final act steps back up to bat with a sol-id swing at the fences, hitting a lively space battle that drives forward to a charged final
confrontation, which grows exhausting.
As gorgeous and charming as Kunis is, she doesn’t quite offer depth or substantial emotion. Tatum makes the most of his silly, almost elvish, look, and pulls off an honorable and intimidating warrior with verve. Redmayne, fresh off his Oscar-nominated performance as Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” totally lacks subtlety as he overacts, trying to chew scenery with angry whispering and tantrum shouting.
Still, “Jupiter Ascending” is a big, bold and original piece of extravagant science fiction full of weird creatures, advanced technology, vivid environ-ments, explosive space battles and awesome set pieces within a detailed world of its own, refreshing to watch despite its faults. The Wachowskis inject it with some philosophical ideas as well, but those lack the kind of thought-provoking weight the duo is known for. At least they can paint it all with a shining gleam of refined, colorful fun.
— Edited by Callie Byrnes
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WICHITA — A self-proclaimed seer convinced young mothers to leave their families and join him in a communal lifestyle where they lived off the insurance payouts from its dead members, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday.
Opening statements in the trial of Daniel U. Perez outlined the group’s wanderings over a 15-year span that crossed several states, and even Mexico, marked by sexual violence and the deaths of six people.
Perez, 55, is charged with first-degree premeditated murder in the 2003 drowning death of 26-year-old Patricia Hughes at Angels’ Landing, the group’s compound in the Wichita suburb of Valley Center. He also is charged with rape, sodomy, criminal threat, lying on life insurance applications, making false statements on credit applications and sexual exploitation of a child.
Deputy District Attorney Kim Parker told jurors Perez convinced young mothers that he could see the future. He claimed he was 100 years old and had survived because of sexual relations with young girls.
“These girls feared him and believed his stories about his age, his seer capabilities,” Parker said. “Because when in fact he said to them, ‘If I want somebody dead, they will be,’ — in their observations that is exactly what happened.”
Perez is charged only in Hughes’ death, but prosecutors laid out a pattern of seemingly accidental deaths whenever the group — which lived a lavish communal lifestyle — was running low on funds. The dead members left large
insurance policies naming others in the group as beneficiaries; Hughes had a $1.25 million policy.
Among the other deaths was a 2001 plane crash that killed a group member, her boyfriend and her 12-year-old daughter. Hughes’ husband was killed in 2006 when a carjack failed and he was crushed. A 2008 traffic accident killed another group member who had legal custody of Hughes’ orphaned daughter.
Defense attorney Alice Osburn told jurors Perez did not kill Hughes and that the other deaths of commune members were coincidental and thoroughly investigated. She noted the group shared as a family the $4 million in insurance payments, and Perez did “not get a dime” as beneficiary.
She portrayed the commune as an “open home” where people had the freedom to do what they wanted to do.
Hughes and Perez were best friends who had known each other since they were little, Osburn said. Hughes moved in with him in 1996 and helped him after Perez fled before sentencing in a child sex case in Beesville, Texas, which his attorney contends he did not commit.
“Patricia was the matriarch of this group, she got it started,” Osburn said. “She befriended the women. She is the catalyst for everything.”
Investigators initially believed Hughes drowned while trying to rescue her 2-year-old daughter from a swimming pool.
But in 2011, a woman who had been 12 years old at the time of Hughes’ death told investigators the drowning had been staged. She said during a pretrial hearing that Hughes kissed her daughter goodbye
and reassured another child that she would return from the dead.
The woman, whom The Associated Press isn’t identifying because she says she is a victim of sexual assault, has said Perez and Hughes told her to wait with Hughes’ daughter. She said she heard a splash and a scream, and that Perez’s forearms were wet and he was out of breath. He told her to wait 20 minutes before going to the pool and getting into it with the toddler.
The woman also said he told her to then call the police and tell investigators Hughes fell and hit her head while trying to rescue her daughter.
Osburn tried to cast doubt on the claims of group members, saying they didn’t come forward with accusations until authorities began investigating the group.
Wichita commune leader’s murder trial beginsROXANA HEGEMANAssociated Press
TRAVIS HEYING/ASSOCIATED PRESSDaniel Perez enters a Sedgwick County courtroom during the first day of his murder trial Wednesday in Wichita. Perez, 55, is charged with first-degree premeditated murder in the 2003 drowning death of 26-year-old Patricia Hughes at Angels’ Landing, the group’s compound in the Wichita suburb of Valley Center. He is also is charged with lying on life insurance applications, rape, sodomy, criminal threat, making false statements on credit applications and sexual exploitation of a child.
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The Jayhawks will start their season off on Friday, Feb. 6 in the Florida Atlantic Tourna-ment in Boca Raton, Fla. The tournament will run through Sunday. Kansas will play against LIU-Brooklyn and Georgia Tech on Friday, Ar-kansas and Florida Atlantic on Saturday and will close out the weekend playing Penn State on Sunday.
GAME ONE: FIU-BROOKLYNKansas will get a literal early
start to the new season by play-ing against the LIU-Brooklyn Blackbirds at 9 a.m. Eastern time on Friday, Feb. 6. in the first game of the tournament. The Blackbirds are coming off a 22-34 season, making an appearance in the Northeast Conference championship game. Coach Roy Kortmann, who coached LIU-Brooklyn to 10 regular-season North-east Conference titles during his tenure, leads the Black-birds.
The Blackbirds return one graduate student, three se-niors, five juniors, six soph-omores and welcome only two freshmen. Junior out-fielder Whitney West led the team in 2014 with 60 hits, 17 stolen bases and four triples while scoring 29 runs. West
was named to Second Team All-Northeast Conference honors in 2014. Graduate stu-dent shortstop Lauren Morizi led the Blackbirds with a .335 batting average.
GAME TWO: GEORGIA TECHThe second game of Fri-
day’s doubleheader will be played at 11:15 a.m. Eastern time against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Second-year coach Shelly Hoerner, who coached the Yellow Jackets to a 23-24 record and an eighth-place finish in the ACC in 2014, leads Georgia Tech. In 2014, Georgia Tech led the ACC with 1.38 stolen bases per game.
On the field, Georgia Tech is led by 2014 All-ACC First Team junior infielder Maddie Lionberger, who had a bat-ting average of .325 with four home runs, three triples and 31 RBIs.
GAME THREE: ARKANSASThe Jayhawks will face off
against the Arkansas Ra-zorbacks in the first of two games on Saturday, Feb. 7. This one will be played at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time. Fifth-year coach Mike Larabee, who led the team to a 27-28 record in 2014, leads the Razorbacks. In 2014, the team set numerous school offensive records. As a team, the Razorbacks com-
piled a batting average of .304, scored 359 runs, hit 325 RBIs, registered 231 walks and hit 14 triples.
This is a young team, how-ever, with 13 freshmen and only three seniors on the 2015 roster. Senior utility player Devon Wallace led the team in 2014 with 12 home runs and 53 runs scored, earning All-SEC Second Team honors.
GAME FOUR: FLORIDA ATLANTICThe Jayhawks will play host
team Florida Atlantic Owls for the second game on Saturday, Feb. 7, which is slated for a 6
p.m. Eastern time start. Coach Joan Joyce leads the Owls for her 21st year. Joyce led FAU to a 33-22 record in 2014, which was the first winning season for the Owls since 2011.
Junior infielder Melissa Martinez, who earned First Team All Conference USA honors in 2014, leads the Owls on the field. In 2014, she recorded 38 hits, 10 doubles, three home runs and 24 RBIs on a .241 batting average.
GAME FIVE: PENN STATE The Jayhawks will close out
the Florida Atlantic Tourna-
ment against the Penn State Nittany Lions at 9 a.m. East-ern time on Sunday, Feb. 8. Second year coach Amanda Lehotak leads Penn State. Le-hotak led the Nittany Lions to a 14-35 record in 2014.
Junior outfielder Lexi Knief leads the Nittany Lions on the field. Knief earned All-Big Ten Second Team honors in 2014 with a .382 batting average, 58 hits and 37 runs scored.
— Edited by Callie Byrnes
Volume 128 Issue 73 kansan.com Thursday, February 5, 2015
COMMENTARYSuper Bowl dis-
played everything to love, hate
As the red, white and blue confetti settled on the University of
Phoenix Stadium field after Sun-day’s Super Bowl, it signaled the final glimpse of the tumultuous season which had preceded it. But speckled throughout the Glendale, Ariz. arena, some of the 70,000 spectators remained quiet and patiently waited.
They wanted one more game-winning drive from quarterback Tom Brady. One more catch from Seahawks receiver Jermaine Kearse. One more Cinderella story, just as prominent as that of the Patriots’ Malcolm Butler. Some would even settle for one more fight as the final seconds on the season ticked down.
In many ways, the game itself represented what was a tumul-tuous season for the league. The NFL was put into the limelight for its mishandling of player’s off-field conduct this year, especially in domestic violence cases. League commissioner Roger Goodell made an effort to increase player safety with new policies, which ultimately failed in multiple instances in 2014.
The Super Bowl placed the immaculate receptions, the big hits and the scandals on center stage, which enthralled fans, but it also displayed the side of the sport which we despise.
In the two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, the NFL again made national headlines for the Patriots’ mishandling of game balls, in what is now being called “Deflategate.” Though investiga-tion is ongoing, Patriots coach Bill Belichick and Tom Brady became the men responsible for the under-inflated balls.
On Sunday, Belichick held up his fourth Lombardi trophy, tying Chuck Noll for most by a NFL head coach. Brady scooped up a handful of Super Bowl records — most completions, touchdowns and third Most Valuable Player award — while also leading his team back from a 10-point deficit on two exhila-rating touchdown drives in the fourth-quarter.
Deflategate forgotten.In the first half, Seahawks
defensive end Cliff Avril was sent off the field and was diagnosed with a concussion; he didn’t re-turn. Good progress for the NFL on head injuries on the national stage, right? Wrong.
In the fourth quarter, Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman took a shot from Kam Chancel-lor after a 21-yard catch on 3rd-and-14. It was a crucial catch, but the millions of viewers saw it: Edelman appeared to be con-cussed. He kept playing. A few plays later, he came down with the game-winning touchdown, finishing with 109 yards.
Player safety forgotten.Despite all of it, the Super
Bowl became the most-watched television program of all-time, according to NBC.
Good or bad, people are watch-ing football, regardless of any dis-dain viewers might have with the league — on-or-off the gridiron. That’s how the NFL rolls, and we can’t get enough of it.
— Edited by Laura Kubicki
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SSWIM AND DIVE Kansas to host final meet before championship season beings | PAGE 3B
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TEXAS TOAST16-point run surges Kansas to victory over Texas Tech
Softball heads to Florida to kick off seasonDEREK SKILLETT@derek_skillett
AMI JUST/KANSANSenior infielder Ashley Newman bunts to lead off for the Jayhawks. The team will start off its season in Boca Raton, Fla., on Friday.
Kansas did not need a last-second shot like in Lubbock, Texas, two weeks ago. The Jayhawks used a 16-0 run, over a 6:45 period in the second half after trailing 53-46, that led Kansas (13-10, 4-6) to a 71-67 win against Texas Tech (13-9, 3-7) Wednesday night in Allen Fieldhouse.
The Jayhawks have won four of their past five games and fourth straight game against Texas Tech in the series.
Both teams would go back and forth in the first half, as Texas Tech guard Amber Battle got things going with a three-pointer. Kansas would then go on a 5-0 run to lead 5-3 but Texas Tech would answer with another three-pointer by forward Dayo Olabode.
Kansas would then lead by seven points in the first half before Texas Tech took a brief 33-32 lead, but layups by senior guard Asia Boyd and freshman guard Lauren Aldridge put Kansas up 36-33 at the half.
“It was a tough game and we battled for it,” Texas Tech coach Candi Whitaker said.
Texas Tech would make a charge at Kansas in the second half, going on a 12-0 run and leading 53-46 with 10:35 remaining as coach Bonnie Henrickson would call a timeout. A three-pointer by freshman guard Chayla Cheadle would get the run going for Kansas. Senior forward Chelsea Gardner would then score the next eight points to continue the run.
“They made a run, we made a run, but we forced tough two-pointers,” Henrickson said. “Give them credit. Battle
didn’t shoot it last year. It was a dogfight tonight.”
The Red Raiders would get within four points within the last minute of the game, but key Kansas free throws sealed the season sweep against Texas Tech.
“I just came in and focused in practice to get this win,” Gardner said.
Kansas shot 23 of 47 from the field for 49 percent, seven of 17 from beyond the arc for 41 percent and were 18-of-23 at the free-throw line for 78 percent. Kansas was 12-of-14 from the line in the second half.
“Coach Henrickson just wanted us to be more
aggressive and have more energy,” Boyd said.
Four players in double-figures for Kansas led by Gardner’s 19 points. Cheadle added 13 points, senior guard Natalie Knight had 12 points and Aldridge and Boyd each had 10.
Texas Tech was led by sophomore guard Ivonne CookTaylor with a game-high 22 points.
Kansas is now in a four-way tie for fifth in the conference standings with Texas, West Virginia and Kansas State. Kansas will host Oklahoma State at 7 p.m. Saturday.
— Edited by Mackenzie Clark
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JILL STIVERSON/KANSANWomen’s basketball players cheer on the bench after a teammate makes a basket. The Jayhawks defeated Texas Tech 71-67.
ALI DOVER/KANSANFreshman Lauren Aldridge escapes a half court trap in the game against Texas Tech on Wednesday.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2015 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSANPAGE 2B
In a pinch, Beaty finds speed and length in TexasDAN HARMSEN@UDK_Dan
Any team that fires its head coach in late September of the previous season and ultimate-ly finishes (3-9, 1-8) has holes to fill.
It’s just that Kansas’ holes might be even bigger than most, given the recent hap-penings within the program.
With the graduation of 21 seniors off last year’s roster, running back Brandon Bour-bon transferring to nearby Washburn, and wide receiver Nigel King throwing his name into the 2015 NFL Draft, new head coach David Beaty — hired Dec. 5 — had a day shy of two months to get cracking.
“You’re drinking from a fire-hose for a while there,” Beaty said of the chaotic 61-day stretch in which he accepted the coaching position, hired
his entire staff and scrambled to solidify 24 letters of intent from often mercurial 18- to 20-year-olds. “You’re manag-ing a lot of things.”
So in a bit of pinch at a Kansas football program that doesn’t exactly recruit itself in a coaching limbo, Beaty and his burgeoning staff did what they did best: recruit the homeland.
“I think probably the biggest thing for us was familiarity of players,” Beaty said. “Most of these (coaches) have a back-ground in the state of Texas.”
The funny thing, though, was as desperate as Beaty and staff may have seemed in the moment, thanks to his deep-rooted Texas ties, the phone worked both ways.
“The relationships in the state (helped),” Beaty said. “Guys just picking up and calling.”
On one end of the phone a high-school coach connect-ed to Beaty — or one of his staff members — and would call with the name of an over-looked recruit. Beaty would answer with two conditions.
“We said we needed to im-prove our profile from a length perspective as well as speed perspective,” Beaty said Wednesday as he announced his 2015 recruiting class. “It’s a long, fast league now.”
“We can’t make them tall-er,” he continued, “but we can make them bigger.”
One of those late-stage addi-tions that was both long and fast and Texan, a Jan. 31 com-mitment, came kudos to assis-tant coach Klint Kubiak.
“I got to take my hat off to coach Klint Kubiak,” Beaty
Kansas hopes to continue winning streak in StillwaterBEN FELDERSTEIN@Ben_Felderstein
BEN BRODSKY/KANSANCoach David Beaty explains the talent KU football signed for this upcoming season. The Jayhawks landed 24 letters of intent on Wednesday.
After a huge win against Iowa State on Big Monday, the Jay-hawks travel to Oklahoma State to take on the Cowboys. Kansas defeated Oklahoma State 67-57 earlier this season.
Kansas now sits atop the Big 12 by two games in front of both West Virginia and Iowa State. The Cowboys are 14-7 on the season with a 4-5 Big 12 record.
Phil Forte leads the Cowboys with 17.3 points per game, adding 49 steals on the season. Forte’s ability to knock down the open jumper has given the Jayhawks trouble in recent memory as he scored 18 points in their last matchup.
Le’Bryan Nash is second on the team in scoring with 16.9 points per game, averaging 5.7 rebounds per game. Oklaho-ma State has dropped four of their past six games.
Forte has led the Cowboys in scoring, in their previous three games. Leyton Hammonds is the only Cowboy to lead the team in scoring other than Forte or Nash this season.
The Cowboys have given the Jayhawks the most trouble over the past seasons, splitting the season series over the pre-vious two seasons. Sophomore Brannen Greene leads the Jay-hawks with a 51 percent field goal percentage from behind the three-point line.
Greene averages 6.2 points
per game and is shooting 62.5 percent from behind the arc in Big 12 play this season. Fellow sophomore Frank Mason III has scored ten points and re-corded two plus assists for 19 straight games this season.
Oklahoma State ranks sev-enth in the Big 12, allowing only 59.6 points per contest,
while scoring 68.2 points per game which ranks eighth amongst the conference. While sitting atop the con-ference standings, Kansas is eighth in the conference with a 7.9-scoring margin.
The Jayhawks lead the Big 12 in three-point field goal percentage, shooting 40 per-cent from the behind the line.
Oklahoma State comes in at number seven, shooting 33.5 percent.
Sophomore Wayne Selden Jr. is coming off of his sec-ond 20-point performance of the season, putting up 20 on 7-12 shooting from the field. Selden’s shooting from the field has improved as of late.
Kansas leads Oklahoma State by four games in the Big 12 and seem to be well on their way to an 11th straight Big 12 title. Undefeated at home, Kansas is on a current five
game win-streak. Next up for Kansas, the Jayhawks travel to Lubbock, Texas to take on Texas Tech on Tuesday, Feb. 10.
— Edited by Laura Kubicki
BEN BRODSKY/KANSANKelly Oubre Jr slams one down early in the first half against Kansas State. The Jayhawks defeated the Wildcats 68-57.
BEN BRODSKY/KANSANFrank Mason III cuts to the rim against Kansas State on Jan. 31. The Jayhawks will take on the Cowboys on Saturday.
SEE BEATY PAGE 4B
““It’s always tough to take your team out of conference”
— Bill Self
?TRIVIA OF THE DAY
THE MORNING BREW
Q: Who did KU beat in this year’s Challenge?
A: Florida— KU Athletics
!FACT OF THE DAYBig 12 is 13-7 over SEC in previous challenges
— Big 12 website
Big 12/SEC Challenge is not in Kansas’ best interest
QUOTE OF THE DAY
According to CBS and ESPN, the for-mat for the Big 12/SEC Challenge will be juristically altered for the 2016 sea-son. Due to maximum exposure to the event, which usually takes place in late November or early December, games will now be played and both confer-ences have been told to leave an open date in their schedules for late January or early February.
Why the change? Two reasons. One is TV ratings. This “challenge” is
played the same week as the Big Ten/ACC Challenge and both the SEC and Big 12 think they’ve lost viewership when two more popular conferences square off in prime time.
Two, having these games in late Jan-uary or early February puts them in prime time position on TV so what-ever day it is on, that game will be the day’s attraction.
Now, many coaches from both con-ferences have voiced their opinions and are not happy.
They have every right to be upset. With the placement of this format, games will occur in the middle of each conference season. That means each Big 12/ SEC coach will have to game-plan out of conference when they nor-
mally wouldn’t.There are negative scenari-
os that could occur with this change. A team, like Kansas, has to travel mid Big 12 sea-son down to Gainesville, Fla., or Athens, Ga., they would have to return two days later to Allen Fieldhouse to play their next Big 12 opponent. Why would anyone want to do that to any team mid conference season? Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has said it’s always hard to take your team’s focus on their rival opponent and have them change it to focus on an entirely differ-ent conference.
The only way this works out in the long run is having the top teams play on their home courts. Have Kansas play in Allen Fieldhouse against a clos-er opponent in Missouri. There should
be no reason why Kansas or any oth-
er midwest Big 12 team like Iowa State
should have to travel down south. It mess-
es with a team’s daily routine as well as their
overall psyche. Unless the new Big 12/
SEC challenge format con-sists of close proximity games like Kansas-Mizzou, there is no other rea-son to switch it, TV exposure aside. The Kansas-Florida game in this year’s Challenge was off the charts, but only time will tell if the Challenge will re-turn to its old ways after next season’s experiment with changing dates.
— Edited by Callie Byrnes
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Kansas hosts final dual meet before championship season
Kansas swim and dive hosts Iowa State this weekend for its final dual of the season.
It’s a two-day meet, with Friday’s session starting at 6 p.m. and Saturday’s session starting at 10 a.m.
AT HOME/ON THE ROAD
Kansas is 4-2 in its own pool.Iowa State is 1-2 on the road.
FAST FACTSKansas and Iowa State
competed against each other in the Kansas Classic last semester. Kansas won the meet and Iowa State finished second.
Kansas swimming has faced just one Big 12 opponent this season, TCU, and won 172-124.
Iowa State swimming has competed against TCU and West Virginia this season,
beating both teams by the same score of 157-143.
JAYHAWKS VS. CYCLONES
The last time the two teams met, Iowa State narrowly defeated Kansas 161.5-138.5.
Since the inception of the Big 12, Kansas leads the all-time duals record at 13-5.
SIMILAR OPPONENTS
Kansas and Iowa State have faced two similar opponents:
TCU and Illinois.Iowa State lost to Illinois
(168-132) and defeated TCU (157-143).
Kansas defeated Illinois (154-146) and TCU (172-124).
STAR COMPARISONS
Kansas’ Hannah Driscoll and Iowa State’s Alex Flatness have times within .04 of each other in the 100-yard freestyle. Driscoll (51.22) and Flatness (51.26) should make for a good
race if the two are swimming that event this weekend.
Kansas’ Bryce Hinde and Iowa State’s Kasey Roberts have times within .05 of each other in the 100-yard breaststroke. Hinde swam a 1:02.24 at the U.S. Winter Nationals and Kasey Roberts posted a time of 1:02.19 at Iowa State’s annual dual with Iowa.
— Edited by Mitch Raznick
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ANNA WENNER/KANSANNadia Khechfe, a freshman from Lincoln, NE, does the 1-meter dive.
ANNA WENNER/KANSANKansas swim and dive will host Iowa State on Friday for its season-ending dual. Kansas is 4-2 at home and 2-1 away.
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The Atlanta Hawks put together one of the most impressive
win streaks in recent NBA history beside the Miami Heat’s 27-game win streak in 2012-13. The Hawks’ 19-game win streak was snapped Monday night, losing to the
New Orleans Pelicans 115-100. Anthony Davis was too much to handle, with 29 points and 13 rebounds.
At 40-9, there is no denying that the Hawks are good — very good. However, this is not a team built to win a champi-onship. They have a starting lineup that works well together, but have no single player that puts up the majority of the points.
The biggest issue for the Hawks is they don’t have a “go-to” player for clutch moments in the playoffs. Say, if they play the Cleveland Cavaliers in the
Eastern Conference semi-fi-nals, it could be assumed that Kyle Korver would run off a screen if a three were needed. Unfortunately, you can bet LeBron James will be checking him. So, what do you do? Run Paul Milsap off a screen?
It’s hard for me to picture the Hawks defeating the Chica-go Bulls, Cavs, Washington Wizards or Toronto Raptors four times in a series. All those
teams are strong defensively and have something the Hawks don’t — a star. John Wall, De-Mar DeRozan, Derrick Rose, LeBron James or Kyrie Irving can all score on their own when a basket is needed. The only player for the Hawks who can create their own outside shot is Jeff Teague, who only shoots 33 percent from behind the arc.
Another issue to note for the Hawks is that six of their nine losses have come on the road. And in the playoffs, teams have to win on the road in a noisy environment if they have
hopes for a championship. The Wizards, Bulls and Cavs all have shut down defenders.
Now, let’s talk about the Cavs. In the past 28 games with LeBron playing, they are 23-5, including their current 11-game win streak. The Hawks couldn’t defend the best player in the world, Lebron James, and Kyrie Irving. The Cavs are improving, and fast. When they reach full form, nobody in the Eastern Conference will stand a chance.
The Eastern Conference is already weak as it is. Both the seven and eight seeds have negative records. The eight seed and the one seed are 18.5 games apart, while the one seed and the eight seed in the Western Conference are 11.5 games apart. The Phoenix Suns are 28-22 as the eight seed; this would put them as the five seed in the East. The reigning champion San Antonio Spurs are the seven seed at 30-18, to put perspective on how good the West is compared with the East.
The Hawks went on an im-pressive hot streak, but do they have a real shot at the title? I don’t see it. Don’t expect them make it out of the East.
— Edited by Mitch Raznick
Think about everything that’s happened since Christmas. One thing
that hasn’t happened until Monday night was the Atlanta Hawks losing a basketball game. While their 19-game winning streak was ended by the New Orleans Pelicans in a rather decisive fashion, the Hawks are still very much the real deal.
The winning streak catapult-ed the Hawks from being one game out of first place to being seven games ahead of everyone else in the Eastern Conference. The team was playing with unmatched efficiency in the Eastern Conference, averaging 105 points, while holding oppo-nents to just over 93 points per game. The Hawks streak was as fun as it was impressive. The team was hitting 40 percent of its three-point attempts for the duration of the streak.
The Hawks’ remaining schedule is incredibly difficult right before the All-Star break, including matchups with Wash-ington, Golden State, Memphis and Minnesota. The Hawks will be lucky to escape those four matchups with three wins.
For the Hawks to maintain
their victorious ways, they’re going to have to rebound better than they did Monday night against New Orleans. The Peli-cans out-rebounded the Hawks by 20, which is the biggest rebounding deficit the Hawks have had all season long. Let’s be honest, though; the Hawks won’t be going up against Anthony Davis every night. They should be able to rebound better than they did Monday.
Another reason why the Hawks are the real deal is the fact that the Eastern Conference is comically weak right now. The Hawks are pretty much guaranteed a playoff spot at this point in the season with 40 wins.
Once they get to the play-offs, they’ve shown they can string together wins and get hot, which sometimes is all it takes to determine a postsea-son champion. They’re also following a philosophy proven to work by last season’s cham-pions, the San Antonio Spurs. Like the Spurs, the Hawks share
the ball effectively, as evidenced by the fact that they’re leading the league in assists (19.8 per game), while having fewer turn-overs than half the league (13.5 per game). Additionally, the Hawks have been shooting well. Their shooting percentage is fourth-best in the league behind the Golden State Warriors, the Los Angeles Clippers and the Washington Wizards.
As previously stated, the
Eastern Conference is weak, so the team from the Western Conference should destroy whoever the Eastern Confer-ence champion is in the NBA Finals, right? Wrong. During the 19-game winning streak, Atlanta also won 12 straight matchups against Western Conference foes, until they ran into New Orleans. This team showed they could handle just about anybody during those 19 games, and I think they have a real chance to hoist up the Larry O’Brien Trophy this summer.
— Edited by Mitch Raznick
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said of the Denzel Feaster signing. “He found a guy that had been playing quarterback his entire career, except for his last five games.”
Quite possibly, Feaster may have never played a down of Division 1 football as quar-terback. Because of that, he slipped through the recruiting cracks.
But at a school like Kansas, a swift position change can maximize untapped abili-ties in a player like Feaster. It worked for Kerry Meier, Brandon McAnderson, and Toben Opurum, just to name a few.
“This guy has instincts,” Beaty said of Feaster. “He will come downhill and he will knock the fire out of you. He puts his head on the ball. He doesn’t even know what he’s doing there yet.”
Feaster will most likely play somewhere in the secondary. There, he will be joined by six other 2015 defensive backs, one from Georgia, one from Michigan, the rest from Texas
— just one of them, Marnez Ogletree, measuring in at sub-six-foot (5-foot-10).“All of these corners that
are coming in here, they have arms that are extremely long,” Beaty said as he splayed his arms wide of his body towards opposite ends of the Ander-son Family Football Complex. “We want them to be able to touch the walls as they stand in this room.”
The theme of length re-curred on the offensive side of the ball, highlighted by 6-foot-4 wide receiver Chase Harrell from Huffman, Texas.
“I’ve known him since he was a pup,” Beaty said of Har-rell. “Had a guy at Texas A&M
that Chase reminds me, re-minds me of Mike Evans. He has a lot of similar qualities in the way he’s built, the way he moves at a young age.”
Although Kansas didn’t sign a player ranked higher than three stars according to any recruiting database — not that that matters, according to CBS sports — the Jayhawks stuck with what was right for the program and didn’t devi-ate from the long-term plan.
“The thing I am most proud of is that our coaches did not let athletic ability get in the way of just taking a guy be-cause he’s that good,” Beaty said. “He had to be good and he had to be a Kansas guy.”
Even if he’s from Texas like Feaster is.
“When we offered him the scholarship, he shed a tear,” Beaty said of Feaster — Kan-sas his lone Power 5 offer.
“He wants to be here.”And by all accounts on
Wednesday, so does David Beaty.
— Edited by Mackenzie Clark
BEATY FROM PAGE 2B
““This guy (Denzel Feaster) has instincts. He will come downhill and he will knock the fire out of you. ”
DAVID BEATYKansas football coach
Baylor has 5 double-figure scorers to beat TCU 77-57STEPHEN HAWKINSAssociated Press
WACO, Texas — Ken-ny Chery had 13 points, starting the game with a three-pointer and a three-point play to put No. 19 Baylor ahead to stay in a 77-57 victory over TCU on Wednesday night.
The Bears (17-5, 5-4 Big 12), who had five players scoring in double figures, led throughout after scoring the game's first eight points.
TCU (14-8, 1-8) was within 45-39 with just over 15 min-utes left before Royce O'Ne-ale converted a three-point play and hit a three-pointer from the left wing after a pass from Chery. The Bears pushed in front 58-39 when Rico Gathers made a layup with 12:45 left.
Gathers finished with 14 points and 17 rebounds. Chery also had six assists and five rebounds.
O'Neale scored 12 points, Taurean Prince 11 and Les-ter Medford 10.
Amric Fields had 14 points on 6-of-7 shooting to lead TCU. Trey Zeigler and Ken-rich Williams had 11 points each.
After the pass to O'Ne-ale for the three in Baylor's big second-half run, Chery had another assist when he crossed midcourt and passed ahead to Al Free-man. The freshman point guard took a stutter-step without traveling or putting the ball on the floor to get around defender Kyan An-derson for a layup. Freeman had a three-pointer for the next Baylor points.
The Bears have won 17 of their last 18 home games, the lone loss in that span by one point to No. 12 Kansas a month ago.
TIP-INSTCU: Zeigler had his
fourth straight double-fig-ure scoring game for the Horned Frogs, and 10th this season. ... Since becoming a Big 12 member, TCU is 0-8 against Baylor. ... The 14 points by Fields were a sea-son high for the senior, well below the injury-plagued forward's career high of 26 he set as a freshman in De-cember 2010.
Baylor: When the Bears won in overtime at TCU on Jan. 10, they shot 29.8 per-cent from the field — their worst ever in a win under 12th-year coach Scott Drew. This time, they shot 49 per-cent (26 of 53). ... Baylor is 31-4 against in-state teams since the start of the 2011-12 season.
UP NEXTTCU is home Saturday
against No. 21 Oklahoma.
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Jeff Newberry, junior, guardNewberry keeps relatively quiet for a starting guard. He aver-ages just over 18 minutes per game, 5.6 points, 1.1 assists and one turnover. Last time out against Kansas, Newberry
scored four points, added one assist, two rebounds, and had three turnovers.
★★✩✩✩
Phil Forte III, junior, guardForte has transformed his game from a former sharp-shooter to an all-around guard who can drive the lane. He leads the
league in minutes played, steals, and is second in three-point percentage and scoring (17.3 ppg). He has scored in
double-figures in all but one game this season, including 18 against Kansas.
★★★★★
Anthony Hickey Jr., senior, guard
The five-foot-eleven Hickey is second to Forte on the team and in the league in steals (2.05). He averages 8.6 points per game and 3.7 assists to 1.6, good for the league’s fourth best
assist-to-turnover ratio (2.29). Hickey went for five points against Kansas.
★★★✩✩
Le’Bryan Nash, senior, forwardNash is the third highest scorer in the Big 12 with 16.9 per game, and the eighth highest field-goal percentage
(46.7 percent). Nash ranks fifth in the league in defensive rebounds (4.60) and tenth in minutes played (30.60). Nash has scored in double-figures in every game he has played
this season, including 21 against Kansas in January. ★★★★★
Michael Cobbins, senior, forwardCobbins is the biggest presence in the Cowboy’s starting
lineup. The senior ranks thirteenth in the league in rebounds per game (5.9) and second in blocked shots (2.28). His
season-high rebounding effort (11) came in the win over No. 20 Baylor. In the game against Kansas, Cobbins contributed six
points, two rebounds, and fouled out.
★★★✩✩
Coach Bill Self said this Kansas team isn’t a talented bunch of kids, but they find a way to win. The Iowa State win inched Kansas closer to where it wants to be, but the Jayhawks need to find a way to put two halves together. Self called his team “Sybil” because of its lack of consistency and its strug-gled to keep leads this season. The Jayhawks have won five in a row but haven’t won in Stillwater since 2013.
Brannen Greene, sophomore, guard
Greene has been able to boost Kansas with well-timed three-pointers, as dis-played when Kansas was down seven against Iowa State. He averages al-most two three-pointers per game but has hit three or more three-pointers in four games this season.
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Oklahoma State is vying for a win to further solidify its bid for the NCAA tournament. The Cowboys have won most of the games they should have, but out of eight ranked opponents as they’ve played this year, they’ve only defeated three. Kansas already defeated the Cowboys by 10 in Allen Fieldhouse earlier this year. Revenge should be on Oklahoma State’s mind Saturday.
Tavarius Shine, freshman,guard
He’s only averaged 12.9 minutes per game this season, but he gives the Cowpokes a lift from behind the three-point line. In a 64-53 win over No. 20 Baylor, Shine hit all three of his three-point attempts and fin-ished the night with 11 points.
How does Kansas handle the Oklahoma State pressure?
It’ll be a watered down version of the pressure Kansas will see against West Virginia later this season, but surely Oklahoma State will bring the heat on its home floor. The Cowboys rank second in the conference in steals (8.62), with guards Phil Forte III and Anthony Hickey leading the way with over two per game apiece.
59.6The Cowboys allow the third fewest
points per game in the Big 12
68.2Oklahoma State scores the third
fewest points per game in the Big 12
+.3The Cowboys have the worst rebound-ing margin in the conference. Kansas
has a +5.5 margin (fourth)
Somebody other than Phil Forte III or Le’Bryan Nash gets loose. In the first matchup, Forte was loud in the first half; Nash in the second. The two lacked synchronicity, and nobody else seemed to step up. The narrative remains the same this time in Stillwater, Okla. If Kansas can keep Forte and Nash relatively contained and lock down the other three players on the court, it should be business as usual. But if a third wheel gets rolling, look out.
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?Can Selden stay consistent?
Wayne Selden Jr. has struggled to stay consistent on the offensive end. Every game, Kansas knows it’s get-ting a hard-nosed defender out of Selden, but doesn’t know which side of Selden will show up on offense. Selden has taken 88 three-pointer attempts this season and only 51 free throw attempts, which means Selden isn’t attacking the basket. Even against Iowa State, 15 of his 20 points came from three-point range.
39Kansas leads the Big 12 with a 39
percent three-point percentage
3 Sophomore Devonte Graham has
three turnovers since the start of Big 12 play
143The Jayhawks rank 143 in field goal
percentage, shooting 44 percent
The Jayhawks hold Oklahoma State guard Phil Forte III to fewer than four three-pointers. Forte is the Cowboys’ best shooter, and Kansas can’t let him find open looks. Oklahoma State gains mo-mentum through its three-point-ers, and if Kansas allows Forte to gain confidence, the Jayhawks could be in trouble. In the last three Cowboy wins, Forte hit four or more three-pointers.
Wayne Selden Jr., sophomore, guardSelden was the star on Monday, scoring a team high of 20 points and hitting five of his seven three-point attempts. While the sophomore
still hasn’t put a full game together this season, Selden scored 19 of his 20 points against Iowa State in the second half. Coach Self said Selden’s big game against Iowa State should help his confidence.
★★★★★
Frank Mason III, sophomore, guardThis sophomore is the reason Kansas has such a great conference record. Mason is Kansas’ most valuable player because he barely
leaves the court and doesn’t turn the ball over. His 19-game double digits scoring streak is active and is top 10 in the Big 12, scoring
over 12 points per game.
★★★★✩
Kelly Oubre Jr., freshman, guard Since recovering from the flu, Oubre has been in attack mode. Against Texas and TCU, Oubre scored a combined eight points. After TCU, the only starting freshman has averaged 12 points and seven rebounds. He’s shot over 44 percent from the field
and averaged over one steal per game.
★★★★✩
Perry Ellis, junior, forward Coach Self calls Ellis the go-to man and says the Kansas of-
fense runs around the junior. He’s the lead scorer and rebound-er on the team. Ellis, a prototypical postman, has expanded his game this season, shooting more three-pointers. Last season,
Ellis only made eight three-pointers, but this season, he’s already at 12. Ellis gives the Jayhawks another outside threat
opponents have to worry about.
★★★★★
Jamari Traylor, junior, forwardTraylor is known as the hustle player on the team, and he said he
wants to be known for his hustle plays. Traylor is always flying around and chasing down loose balls, but his offensive game still struggles this season. Traylor has adapted more post moves, but takes too many jump shots and doesn’t play enough to generate
double-figure points.
★★★✩✩
After a dramatic 71-67 win against Texas Tech on Wednesday, Kansas (13-10, 4-6) will host Oklahoma State on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Since starting 0-5 in con-ference play, Kansas has won four of its past five games, with its only loss coming against Baylor last Sunday.
Oklahoma State (13-8, 3-7) is currently tied with Texas Tech for ninth place in the Big 12, only a half game back of Kansas, West Virginia, Kansas State and Texas for fifth place.
Oklahoma State was de-feated by No. 3 Baylor on Wednesday, 69-52 in Stillwa-ter, Okla. The Cowgirls have won two of their past seven games going into Saturday’s matchup with Kansas, which includes a five game losing streak through mid-January
with losses coming against West Virginia, Oklahoma, TCU and Kansas State. Okla-homa State and Kansas have both gone to Iowa State and have come out of Ames, Iowa with wins.
The Cowgirls have four play-ers who average 11 plus points per game led by junior guard Brittney Martin who averages 12.5 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. Martin received honorable mention All-Big 12 last season as a sophomore.
“Martin can score and they have others that can score as well,” coach Bonnie Henrick-son said. “We will have our hands full, but it’ll be a great opportunity to have.”
Saturday’s meeting will be the first time the two teams will matchup this season. The two teams will meet in Still-water, Okla. just two weeks later on Feb. 21.
“They are a good team, and we’ve got to be ready and fo-cused,” senior guard Asia Boyd said.
Kansas has lost its last five games against the Cowgirls, with its last win coming on Jan. 18, 2012. The Cowgirls swept last season’s meeting 64-56 on Jan. 22, 2014 in Lawrence and 76-74 on Feb. 5, 2014 in Still-water, Okla.
— Edited by Laura Kubicki
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Kansas will head to Las Ve-gas this weekend for three nonconference matches. The Jayhawks will face UNLV on Feb. 6, Pacific on Feb. 7 and New Mexico State on Feb. 8.
The team looks to rebound
after a pair of losses in Albu-querque, N.M., where it fell to New Mexico and 23rd-ranked South Carolina.
Kansas turns once again to its upperclassmen to lead the way as senior Maria Belen Ludueña and junior Maria Jose Cardona are two of just three returning players for the
Jayhawks.The pair of upperclass-
men anchored the team in its opening weekend, despite the two losses. The two won their doubles matchup against New Mexico and played close matchups in singles losses to South Carolina.
The Jayhawks will need con-
tributions from their young players who are looking to build momentum after an opening weekend that saw many firsts for the youthful roster.
Freshmen Madison Harrison and Smith Hinton were able to secure the doubles point in the opening weekend with
their first doubles win of the season against New Mexico. Fellow freshman Rachel Mc-Neely won her singles match-up against New Mexico and paired with Summer Collins for a doubles victory against South Carolina.
The Jayhawks will need these many contributing freshmen to continue their success on their Las Vegas trip.
Kansas’ first opponent, UNLV, comes off consecutive 6-1 losses against Oregon and at UC Santa Barbara. The Reb-els were only able to avoid a sweep in singles play thanks to a win from freshman Mer-cedes Lopez Valez, 7-5, 3-6,
1-0 (10-8).The Pacific Tigers, the Jay-
hawks’ second opponent, have played a lone match in their spring season, a 4-3 win at UC Davis. The match was tightly contested as Pacific dropped the doubles point but rallied behind its top four singles spots.
Meanwhile, New Mexico State will enter the weekend 1-1 after splitting its first two matches. The Aggies dropped their season opening match against Arizona 7-0 but re-bounded nicely with a 5-2 win against Texas State.
— Edited by Mackenzie Clark
FRANK WEIRICH/KANSANKansas senior Paulina Los (left) serves in a pairs match against UMKC last season. The tennis team will travel to Las Vegas for three nonconference matches over the weekend.
ALI DOVER/KANSANSenior Natalie Knight looks for an open pass in the game against Texas Tech on Wednesday. The Jayhawks knocked off the Raiders 71-67.
““They (Oklahoma State) are a good team, and we’ve got to be ready and focused.”
ASIA BOYDSenior guard
Nine wins, nine losses.Nearly halfway through the
season, the Kansas women’s bas-ketball team just couldn’t seem to buy a win. After a strong 7-2 start, the team just didn’t look the same — at least until the end of winter break, when the Jayhawks started to turn things around.
The same could be said of the game the Jayhawks played on Wednesday, as the team jumped on top early, leading 32-25 with four minutes to go in the first half. However, Kansas allowed Texas Tech to go on an extended 12-4 run to take the lead, and the team started to fade. With 10:35 remaining, the Red Raiders led by seven points, and they were in the midst of a 12-2 run; coach Bonnie Henrickson called a tim-eout. Guess the “winter break” portion of the game ended after that.
“We got stuck [early on],” said Henrickson after the game. “Once we finally forced more tough twos and got some tough rebounds, [we] got the opportu-nity to go in transition.”
The Jayhawks rattled off a 16-0 run of their own to go ahead by nine, and the team was as fired
up as it had been all year. Senior Asia Boyd really embodied that energy as she took a charge late in the game, pumping her fist
and letting out an emphatic roar. The team wasn’t about to roll over.
After holding on for the win,
the Jayhawks improved to 13-10 on the year, with four victories in their last five games, keeping them in the hunt to make the NCAA Tournament. Two sea-sons ago, when the team was last an entrant in March Madness, the Jayhawks entered the Big 12 Tournament at 17-12. It is very possible that they could match that record this time around, with only one ranked opponent on the schedule the rest of the way.
“[There’s] a great opportunity for us to continue our run here,” Henrickson said. “We’ll have our hands full, [but] we’ve played with more energy [as of late].”
Currently, the Jayhawks are just one game out of a tie for third place in the Big 12, and in fact, it seems as though the odds are starting to fall in their favor. The two teams sitting be-tween them and third place still have a game to play against the league-leading Baylor Bears,
which should help even things out.
Additionally, two of the Jay-hawks’ last three games will be home contests, one of which will come against the Iowa State Cyclones, whom Kansas beat in Ames earlier this year. The other one will come against the Kansas State Wildcats, who have gone just 1-5 on the road this season.
— Edited by Mackenzie Clark
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The Kansas track and field team will travel up to Lincoln, Neb., to compete in the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational hosted by the University of Nebraska.
Kansas is coming off a suc-cessful performance in the Jayhawk Classic last week. The Jayhawks won 14 events in the meet. It was their last home meet of the indoor season.
Of the 14 first-place finish-es, the Jayhawks swept the top four spots in the men's 1,000 meters and 3,000 meters. This is the second straight meet Kansas has taken at least the top three spots in the 3,000 meters.
Senior James Wilson was the first of the four Jayhawks to cross the finish line, with a time of 8:11.53. Wilson said the team put in a lot of work over winter break in prepara-tion for the final stretch of the indoor season, in particular, the Big 12 Conference Cham-pionships.
“I just think we have a real-ly good group of guys coming together,” Wilson said. “I think everyone has a pretty common goal of wanting to do well.”
Wilson said sometimes a lot of the competition they face in meets can come from each
other, in addition to practice.“It’s nice knowing you can
put in a bunch of miles with these guys,” Wilson said. “You can go out on the starting line on the track and trust them to push you in a race as well as practice.”
Wilson will not be partici-pating in the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational. He will be taking the meet off to better prepare for the ISU Classic in Ames, Iowa, on Feb. 14.
Notable teams competing in the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational include: Auburn, Iowa, Maryland, Alabama and USC; in addition to Kansas and Nebraska.
Similar to the Jayhawk Clas-
sic last week, the majority of heptathlon and pentathlon events will be taking place Fri-day, the first day of the event.
The heptathlon 60-meter dash will start the competition off at noon. Friday will end with the men’s and women’s 400-meter dash finals, fol-lowed by 5,000-meter run at 9:05 p.m.
The events will begin Sat-urday with the heptathlon 60-meter hurdles and pole vault at 10 a.m and 10:45 a.m., respectively. The meet will conclude with the 4x400 relay at 4:50 p.m., which will be sep-arated into two heats.
— Edited by Andrew Collins
AARON GROENE/KANSANA Kansas track runner rests after running a heat last season. The track and field team will be heading to Lincoln, Neb., to compete in the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational this weekend.
AARON GROENE/KANSANA Kansas runner leads the pack at a track and field meet last season. The team is heading to Lincoln, Neb., to com-pete in a two-day competition. Teams competing include Nebraska, USC, Alabama, Maryland, Iowa and Auburn.
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JILL STIVERSON/KANSANSenior guard Natalie Knight seraches to pass the ball against Texas Tech on Wednesday night. The Jayhawks won 71-67.
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