Can’t get over TechThe men’s basketballteam couldn’t bounceback after the loss toTexas Tech. The travel-ing call on Aaron Milesand Texas Tech game-winning shot sent theJayhawks’ season downa losing road. PAGE 6B
Pure agonyAfter the first round lossin the NCAA Tournamentlast week, the heartbreakof Kansas players andfans was written on theirfaces. Shock and disbeliefmarked the end of theJayhawks’ season. PAGE6A
A schoolyard favorite The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department isstarting an adult dodgeball league. The depart-ment plans to have coed teams. PAGE 3A
Big 12 BaseballThe Kansas baseball team won the first game of itsBig 12 Conference opener against Nebraska thisweekend at Hoglund Ballpark. But the Huskerscame back and won games two and three. PAGE 1B
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Seniors deflated in defeat For the first time in their col-
lege careers, Kansas basketballplayers actually got to take aweek off for spring break.
Not that they were toopleased about it.
Two weeks ago, when theJayhawks were placed in theSyracuse region of the NCAATournament, the team envi-sioned its spring break wouldentail a trip to New York for theSweet Sixteen and — if thingswent well — a match-up withan old coach named Roy.
Instead of Syracuse, KeithLangford went to Fort Worth,Texas, and Mike Lee headed toPortland, Ore. Instead of head-ing east, J.R. Giddens andDarnell Jackson headed southand returned to Oklahoma City,the place where the Jayhawks’tournament run was cut short —before it could ever get started.
Bucknell 64 Kansas 63The teams’ opening round
loss was Kansas’ first since 1978and one of the most disappoint-ing in school history. The factthat the four seniors’ careersended on Wayne Simien’smissed 16-foot turnaroundjump shot at the buzzer addedto the devastation.
“That is the toughest gameI’ve ever been a part of,” Kansascoach Bill Self said. “I don’tknow how to feel. I’m a littlemad. I’m a little hurt. I feel badfor the players. I’m a little frus-trated. It’s a mixture of a lot ofthings.”
It was all over TV and newspa-pers the next day. Everyone sawtheir tears; everyone saw AaronMiles hunched against a wall inthe Kansas locker room and sawthe disappointment on Self’s face.
What wasn’t seen was Giddensembrace Miles after all of thereporters left the locker room.The cameras didn’t capture theJayhawks in the dining room oftheir hotel after the game. Therewas food there but nobody ate —they were too nauseated.
“I can’t believe it’s over,”Miles said after the game. “Ican’t believe this is how my timeat Kansas ended. Gettingthrough the first round, thatshould be nothing.”
The next morning, as the play-ers loaded their bags onto theteam bus, two young fansapproached Miles. He looked bet-ter than he had the night beforebut still seemed dejected and sad.
One of the little boys handedMiles a sharpie and turnedaround so his idol could signthe back of his T-shirt.
“You the man Aaron,” the lit-tle boy said.
“Thanks man, I appreciateit,” Miles responded.
Miles’ face brightened just a lit-tle for the first time since the loss.
Moving onAfter arriving back in
Lawrence last Saturday after-noon, Self made a point ofmeeting with all of the under-classmen before they went theirseparate ways for break. Hetalked to them about the lossand disappointment. Self saidtheir attitudes were good.
Talking to the seniors though,was hard. He met extensivelywith Miles and Simien lastMonday. Langford and Lee hadalready gone home.
“They spent a lot of time inhere,” Self said of Miles andSimien. “We talked about the dis-appointment. Talked about howthis is going to sting for a while.They all handled it pretty well.”
Self said he also talked tothem about helping the youngerguys make it through. Most, ifnot all, of whom are expected tobe back on next year’s roster.
Talk that Giddens wouldjump to the NBA quieted afterhe told reporters he would return for his junior season.Rumors have swirled that one of the freshmen, such as NewYork native Russell Robinson,would transfer to a school clos-er to home. Self said he didn’tknow exactly what would hap-pen but he seemed optimisticabout all of the underclassmenreturning for next season.
“I’m not going to say posi-tively this will happen or thatwill happen,” Self said. “But allthe meetings were positive.”
Their legacySimien, Lee, Langford, Miles,
they were all asked if this gamewould tarnish the legacy theybuilt at Kansas.
All said that it shouldn’t, thatlegacies shouldn’t be defined by
Nearly a year after the citypassed the smoking band, citycommission candidates are stillconcerned with the ordinance.Although some candidates saidthey would consider changes tothe ban, it is unlikely that anycombination of commissionerswill overturn the ban.
Three city commissioner seatsare open for the April 5 election.Four of the five candidates favorthe smoking ban. Only SueHack, an incumbent commis-
sioner running for re-election,opposes the ban. Hack was theonly commissioner to voteagainst the ban last July.
Mayor Mike Rundle and vicemayor Dennis Highberger bothvoted in favor of the ban.
Although a shift in the com-mission’s stance on the banseems unlikely, several of thecandidates would consideramendments to the ordinance.A change to the city’s require-ments for sidewalk dininglicenses is the most prominentidea among candidates.
Business owners in down-town Lawrence currently haveto make 70 percent of their rev-enue from food sales to get alicense that allows customers toeat and drink on the city’s side-walk. A proposed exception tothe ordinance would allow busi-
nesses established before thesmoking ban to obtain a
Senior guard Keith Langford answers reporters’ questions in the locker room. Langford’s final game as aJayhawk ended with an opening-round defeat against Bucknell, 64-63, March 18 in the Ford Center inOklahoma City. Langford scored six points in 26 minutes of play.
Katie McKeever,8-year-oldNebraskan, looksthrough herEaster eggs afterthe Easter egghunt at HoglundPark yesterdayafternoon. Thehunt followed theKansas baseballgame againstNebraska.Children searchedfor hidden eggs inthe baseballstands and surrounding area,and the EasterBunny greetedchildren duringand after thegame.
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MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2005
Business owners indowntown Lawrencecurrently have tomake 70 percent oftheir revenue fromfood sales to get alicense that allowscustomers to eat anddrink on the city’ssidewalks.
SEE ELECTION ON PAGE 4A
SEE DEFEAT ON PAGE 6A
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Senior guard Aaron Miles signs an autograph for 12-year-old MasonVarner last Saturday morning before the team left from their hotel inOklahoma City to go to the airport after the team’s loss to Bucknell.
Before the end of 2005, scientistswill see the University of Kansasenhance its research in style.
The KU Center for Research hasfinanced the $40 million multidisci-plinary research building, which isexpected to be completed on WestCampus by December.
Architects designed the triangle-shaped 160,000 square foot building toenhance interactive research among itsoccupants, George Wilson, associatevice provost for research, said.
Occupants were not limited to anyspecific college or department at theUniversity.
All faculty offices will be located inone of the building’s corners so facul-ty members can interact easily.
“If you go walk through Malott,you’ll say ‘Well where can this hap-pen?’” he said. “The idea of puttingpeople in one place interacting is thekind of interacting we need today.”
The assistance between researchersmakes constant interaction a require-ment, Wilson said.
The quick completion demon-strated the University’s commitment toenhancing its research as efficiently aspossible, Wilson said. The $40 millioncame from bonds and will be paid offduring the next 20 years, BarbaraArmbrister, vice provost of research,said.
Wilson said he hoped the researchin this building would create prod-ucts that would enhance theUniversity’s economic developmentin the rest of the state.
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The smoking ban may still be a source of disagreement among bar patrons and owners,but four of the five candidates for city commission say it’s a moot question. Bars mightget to accommodate smokers if a proposed change to another city law passes. PAGE 1A
Research facility to be completed in DecemberA $40 million research facility will house KU research departments. The triangular-shapedbuilding may house researchers in engineering, pharmacy, chemistry and geology. PAGE 2A
Dodgeball league coming to LawrenceThe Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department is starting an adult dodgeball league.The department plans to have leagues for male, female and coed teams. PAGE 3A
Baseball team loses momentum after victory Kansas defeated Nebraska in the first game of itsBig 12 Conference season opener this weekend atHoglund Ballpark. But the Jayhawks could not fendthe Huskers off for long, and Nebraska won thenext two games. PAGE 1B
In pictures: Loss to Bucknell leaves deep woundsKansas players hang their heads after they were defeated 64-63 in the first round of theNCAA Tournament. Players, coaches and fans stood in disbelief as the Jayhawks endedtheir season March 18. PAGE 6A
Column: Judgeship appointment laws best left unhamperedThere’s an effort under way to ease the difficulty in appointing judges from districtcourts on up to Supreme Courts. Devin Sikes explains how this would threaten the sanc-tity of the Constitution and the nation’s laws. PAGE 5A
Column: Give a student organization a tryKyle Timmermeyer explains how joining the Japanese Student Association gives him anopportunity to get involved. PAGE 5A
Editorial: Solicitors need to change methodsLast week it was the religious folk invading campus begging us to join their cause, andthis week it will be Student Senate. PAGE 5A
The Jayhawks weren’t alone among teams that performed below expectation in theNCAA Tournament. The Jayhawks’ biggest problem was peaking too early in the season.PAGE 1B
Momentum missing in tournament for Kansas and others
The first-round defeat for the Jayhawks was hard for everyone to take, but for four par-ticular players it was devastating. The seniors plan to look back on positives as the restof the team works on moving on. PAGE 1A
Seniors do not want loss to define legacies
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Construction of a multidisciplinary research building continues to take place onWest Campus although the site was free of workers on Easter Sunday. The buildingis in the shape of a triangle, and it will cover 160,000 square feet when completed.Completion of the building is scheduled for December. Once finished it will not belimited to any specific college or department.
Column: Loss hard to take in; expectations of coach unrealistic Ryan Colaianni tells why fans shouldn’t be overly critical of coach Bill Self about theJayhawks’ first-round defeat. PAGE 1B
Victories build team’s confidenceThe women’s tennis team is fairing well in the Big 12 Conference after defeatingOklahoma State March 19 and Oklahoma the day before. PAGE 2B
Track and field duels to success in Tulsa Jayhawks Sheldon Battle, Brooklyn Hann and Paul Hefferon placed first in four differentevents Saturday at the Tulsa Duel Meet. Other team members qualified for regionals,making the team’s performance a good start to the outdoor season. PAGE 2B
Women’s rowing team loses to Texas but remains determinedThe women’s rowing team lost all of its races against No. 15 Texas on Saturday. CoachRob Catloth and team members are still determined to improve and succeed. PAGE 1B
Men’s golf wins tournament by biggest margin in historyThe Jayhawks took the title at the Stevinson Ranch Invitational on March 22 for the sec-ond year in a row. PAGE 3B
Tournament holds meaning for coach Men’s golf coach Ross Randall still holds a record in the 59th Western Intercollegiate,where the Jayhawks will be competing today. PAGE 3B
Kansas never recovered from Texas Tech gameAfter going into the Texas Tech game 20-1, the Jayhawks weren’t expecting a last sec-ond shot by Darryl Dora to put the Red Raiders ahead. PAGE 6B
Incomes vary by race, gender
WASHINGTON — Black andAsian women with bachelor’s degreesearn slightly more than similarly edu-cated white women, and white menwith four-year degrees make morethan anyone else.
A white woman with a bachelor’sdegree typically earned nearly $37,800in 2003, compared with nearly$43,700 for a college-educated Asianwoman and $41,100 for a college-edu-cated black woman, according to databeing released today by the CensusBureau. Hispanic women took homeslightly less at $37,600 a year.
The bureau did not say why the dif-ferences exist. Economists and sociol-ogists suggest possible factors: the ten-dency of minority women, especiallyblacks, to more often hold more thanone job or work more than 40 hours aweek, and the tendency of black pro-
fessional women who take time off tohave a child to return to the workforce sooner than others.
Employers in some fields may giveextra financial incentives to youngblack women, who graduate from col-lege at higher rates than young blackmen, said Roderick Harrison, aresearcher at the Joint Center forPolitical and Economic Studies, athink tank that studies minority issues.
“Given the relative scarcity, if youare a woman in the sciences — if youare a black woman — you would be arare commodity,” Harrison said.
Because study in the area was limit-ed, it was hard to pinpoint specific rea-sons, said Barbara Gault, researchdirector at the Washington-basedInstitute for Women’s Policy Research.
“It could be the fields that educatedblack women are choosing,” she said.“It also could be related to the impor-tant role that black women play in thetotal family income in African-
American families.Notions that black women are
struggling financially as much as othergroups are should not be dismissed,Gault added.
For instance, nearly 39 percent offamilies headed by a single blackwoman were in poverty, comparedwith 21 percent of comparable whitewomen, according to census estimatesreleased last year.
A white male with a college diplo-ma earns far more than any similarlyeducated man or woman — in excessof $66,000 a year, according to theCensus Bureau. Among men withbachelor’s degrees, Asians earnedmore than $52,000 a year, Hispanicsearned $49,000 and blacks earnedmore than $45,000.
Workplace discrimination and thecontinuing difficulties of minorities toget into higher-paying managementpositions could help explain the dis-parities among men, experts say.
BY GENARO C. ARMASTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ON THE RECORD
✦ A 20-year-old KU student reported her checkbook and driver’slicense stolen to Lawrence police sometime between noonMarch 10 and 10 a.m. March 21 from the 1300 block of W. 24thStreet.
✦ A 19-year-old KU student reported graffiti written on his car toLawrence police between 7 p.m. March 21 and 6:30 p.m. March23 in the 900 block of Arkansas Street. The damage is estimat-ed at $50.
CAMPUS
Electronic award letters on their wayBeginning this week, students won’t have to wait by their mail-
boxes to receive their financial aid notification.The Office of Student Financial Aid will send out its award let-
ters to students via e-mail.“Students can access the information from the comfort of their
residence,” said Stephanie Covington, associate director of finan-cial aid.
Students will receive the e-mail notification later this month iftheir financial aid files are complete. The e-mail message will pro-vide a link to the KU Enroll & Pay Web site to accept or declinetheir awards within 30 days.
Another benefit of the online access is that students could viewtheir “to do” lists on Enroll & Pay, Covington said.
If students need to complete additional information to receivefinancial aid, they can view the status under their “to do” lists.Financial aid would also send out paper mail notification, shesaid.
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CRIME
Suspect charged in KU student’s death The youth suspect in the murder of a KU graduate student was
charged last Monday as an adult in the juvenile division ofJohnson County District Court, according to a Kansas City Star.article.
Andrew Ellmaker, who turned 18 Saturday, was arrested inAugust in Overland Park after police found Teri Zenner’s body inEllmaker’s Overland Park house.
Zenner was on a routine visit at Ellmaker’s home for JohnsonCounty Mental Health Center, where she worked.
Ellmaker had been arrested before and was charged with carry-ing a concealed weapon in 2002, and a misdemeanor drug pos-session in 2004.
— Kansan staff report
ON CAMPUS
✦ The Department of Designwill sponsor a HallmarkSymposium lecture bygraphic designer MartinVenezky at 6 tonight in theSpencer Museum of Art audi-torium. Call 864-4710 formore information.
✦ The Center for Russian andEast European Studies willsponsor a Laird Brown Baglecture on “Whodunit? TheMystery of Pushkin’s Death”by Gerald Mikkelson of SlavicLanguages and Literatures.The lecture will take placefrom noon to 1 tomorrow atroom 318 in Bailey Hall. Call864-4236 for more informa-tion.
✦ The Kansas African StudiesCenter will sponsor a semi-nar by Glenn Adams on“The Role of Religion inInterpersonal Relationshipsin West Africa:Management of PotentialEnemies” from 3:30 to 5p.m. tomorrow at Alcove Ein the Kansas Union. Call864-3745 for more informa-tion.
✦ Student Union Activities willscreen the Spanish film “TheAge of Beauty” at 7 p.m.tomorrow at WoodruffAuditorium in the KansasUnion. Admission is $2 orfree with SUA Movie Card.Call 864-SHOW for moreinformation.
✦ University ChristianFellowship will offer Biblestudy and worship at 7:30p.m. tomorrow at EcumenicalChristian Ministries, 1204Oread Ave. Contact Rick Clockat 841-3148 for more informa-tion.
✦ Ecumenical ChristianMinistries will sponsor aUniversity Forum featuringRichard Gwin of theLawrence Journal-World,who will share stories andphotos of Cuba beginning at12:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
Adult dodgeball leagueto begin in Lawrence
After several school districtsin Texas and Virginia banneddodgeball for its violence, it hasmade a comeback as a recre-ational sport for adults whoyearn to hurl balls as hard aspossible at one another.
The Lawrence Parks andRecreation Department isstarting a dodgeball leagueApril 6.
“We did kickball last year,and during the course of put-ting that on, we got a lot ofinquiries about dodgeball,”said Tim Laurent, staff mem-ber at Lawrence Parks andRecreation. “So we just wentwith it.”
With the success of dodge-ball programs in nearby citiesand requests for it from thepublic, Laurent said he hadgood reason to be confidentthat Lawrence could field aleague.
The parks and recreationdepartment in Lee’s Summit,Mo., has a league with 18teams, and Topeka’s RiceCommunity Center has threeleagues.
Despite its blood sport repu-tation, dodgeball is relativelysafe.
None of the interviewedleagues had any serious injuriesduring their games, and allexcept the Rice CommunityCenter league use NationalAmateur Dodgeball Associationapproved balls.
None of the leagues allowhead shots as well.
Modern dodgeball is lesspainful than it used to bethanks to softer balls.
The National AmateurDodgeball Association guide-lines specify that soft, rubber-coated foam balls measuring 8inches should be used instead
of the playground balls com-monly associated with thesport. But not everyone ishappy with the new balls.
Many players remembertheir days in gym class playingdodgeball with stiff, heavyplayground balls that could bethrown hard and stung theskin of slothful players.
Doug Thomson of the BlueSprings, Mo., Parks andRecreation Department saidthat some of the players in hisleague wanted to use the tradi-tional rubber balls, andLaurent of Lawrence Parksand Recreation said players forthe new league had also
requested to use traditionalballs.
But the new ball style hasn’tdeterred players from fillingleagues, and the LawrenceParks and RecreationDepartment plans on havingleagues for male, female andcoed teams.
Laurent said he was fairlyconfident that enough teamswould sign up to form at least amen’s league.
“It’s not uncommon, espe-cially in adult sports, for it to allcome pouring in during the lastweek or two,” Laurent said.
Tim Bartlett, 18-year-old Topeka resident, prepares to throw theball at a league dodgeball game at the Rice Community Center inTopeka on March 20. Barlett is part of the Sunday night dodgeballleague in Topeka, which consists of eight teams. Lawrence will have itsown dodgeball league through the Lawrence Parks and RecreationDepartment in April.
DavidSchauner,incumbentcommissioner
In favor ofthe city’ssmokingban?Yes.
Would you consider amend-ments to the smoking ban?No dramatic changes. Peopleseem to be adapting.
Is the smoking ban effective?Yes. There are still some minorviolations, but it’s working.
Other concerns about thesmoking ban?
It might cause more neighbor-hood house parties. This maybe an area of future concern.Creating outdoor smoking patiovenues is a bad idea. It willchange the appearance of down-town drastically. Permitting barsthat do not sell the requiredamount of food to move ontothe sidewalk will create an unat-tractive, uninviting downtown.
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CITY COMMISSIONElectionCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A
sidewalk dining license withoutmeeting the 70 percent require-ment.
Candidates Hack, JimCarpenter, Tom Bracciano andMike Amyx said they wouldconsider such an amendment.David Schauner said he wouldnot favor making this excep-tion.
Schauner said he was con-cerned such an exceptionwould change the aestheticvalue of downtown. The ordi-nance just needs time to set in,he said.
“If it’s not broke, don’t fix it,”Schauner said. “And it’s notbroken at this point.”
Some candidates are con-cerned with other aspects of theban.
Amyx said he worried aboutthe way the city fined bar andrestaurant owners if patronswere caught smoking in theirbusinesses.
“If a business has done every-thing to prevent people fromsmoking, they shouldn’t befined,” said Amyx, a downtownbarber.
Hack, an incumbent commis-sioner, said she was still con-cerned with the ban’s effect onbusinesses.
“The ordinance is not with-out controversy,” Hack said.“My concern is that it radicallychanged the way small busi-nesses do business. I’m not pro-smoking, but I want more of acompromise.”
But some candidates warnthat the commission must bewary of changing the ordinancetoo much.
“There is little room forexceptions,” Carpenter said.
The commission should notmake exceptions that wouldgive new businesses an unfairadvantage over established busi-nesses, Carpenter said.
City commission electionswill be held April 5.
— Edited by Jesse Truesdale
JimCarpenter, attorney
In favor ofthe city’ssmokingban?Yes.
Would consider amend-ments to the smoking ban?No, not now. Supports lookinginto outdoor seating options.
Is the smoking ban effective?Yes.
Other concerns about thesmoking ban?No, not right now. Lettingestablished businesses haveoutdoor seating should nothave an adverse impact on theordinance’s purpose.
MikeAmyx, downtownbarber
In favor ofthe city’ssmokingban?Yes.
Would consider amend-
ments to the smoking ban?Commission needs to reconsid-er the penalty phase of the ordi-nance. He does not think thatbusiness owners should befined if they follow the require-ments to stop people fromsmoking in their business.
Is the smoking ban effective?Yes.
Other concerns about thesmoking ban?Supports the city commissionlooking at ways to help bars bymaking an exception to therequirements for a sidewalkdining license. But the commis-sion must be careful not toallow businesses to obstruct thepathway of pedestrians. Thecommission needs to be carefulwhen granting exceptions.
TomBracciano, schooladministrator
In favor ofthe city’ssmokingban?Yes.
Would consider amend-
ments to the smoking ban?No, but city commission needsto be flexible when workingwith businesses and the ban.
Is the smoking ban effective?Yes.
Other concerns about thesmoking ban?Disappointed in the state and fed-eral government for not enforc-
ing second-hand smoke as ahealth issue. It’s bad for busi-nesses when there is unevenenforcement throughout thestate. If a smoking ban wasenforced statewide, it would nothurt businesses so much.But the state has taxed smokingso heavily that it will be difficultfor the state to implementsmoking ban laws because ofrevenue costs.
Sue Hack,incumbentcommissioner
In favor ofthe city’ssmoking ban?No.
Would con-sider amendments to the
smoking ban?Approves of lighter require-ments for established busi-nesses to obtain a sidewalk din-ing license. Hack voted in mid-March for an exception to theordinance, allowing HallmarkCards, Inc. to have a ventilatedemployee break room for smok-ing. The exception passed 5-0.Is the smoking ban effective?
The ban has benefited employeehealth, but employee’s financialhealth has been hurt in someplaces because of lost business.
Other concerns about thesmoking ban?The city needs to continuemonitoring what downtownlooks like if more businessesget sidewalk dining licenses.
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It’s amazing how ungrateful KU basketball fans are. BillSelf leads the team to the Elite Eight last year and gets agreat recruiting class and everyone loves him. Fast for-ward to now and they lose to Bucknell and peopledemand that he gets fired? Unbeliveable.
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How will I be able to pacify myself now that the KU bas-ketball season is over?
My dog just beat up my roommate’sdog.
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The person or group of people whojust TPed my front yard, let me askyou, ‘How were you able to get incollege before the age of 18?’
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I hate to say it, but Villanova was the last chance tokeep a ring off Roy Williams’ finger.
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Religion should not be sold. Survey-takers were scattered around
campus a few weeks ago, asking students ifthey had a minute to answer a few ques-tions. The students who obliged may havebeen surprised to find out that they weren’ttaking a real survey at all, but that theywere part of an advertising campaign.
The “survey” consisted of questionsregarding religious beliefs and practices.
The volunteers conducting the surveywere dressed just likethe students them-selves, backpacksand all.
So it might havebeen a surprise thatthe first questionasked was “Howwould you describeGod? Good, evil, or acombination ofboth?” and that theresponse didn’t reallymatter.
It seems like a fairquestion, but the wayit was posed was any-thing but fair.
It was a loadedquestion whose onlyreal purpose was toget a response that the surveyors couldwork with to push their own ideas. Thiswas a dishonest means to an end, the endbeing an opportunity to pressure studentsinto going to church.
People don’t want to be bothered. Askmost students how they feel about walkingacross Wescoe Beach during StudentSenate election season.
The endless barrage of flyers, buttons,and, “Are you going to vote?” is enoughto make one cross the street to avoid thecircus. Unfortunately, the church groupinvolved with the survey wasn’t so easy toavoid.
They were placed strategically at seem-ingly every intersection between AnshutzLibrary and Robinson Gymnasium. Ofcourse, students always had the option torefuse the survey altogether. But it should-n’t have to be that way.
If groups wanted to make an impressionon students, they would make more of aneffort to actually show the benefits of whatthey’re advertising.
Rather that handing out fliers that moststudents drop in thenearest receptacle,Student Senate groupsshould make them-selves more visible oncampus with servicesthat students are likelyto see.
People are moreinclined to identifywith a group if they cansee the positive resultsof the group’s actions.
This does not includecovering Universitybuildings with chalk.
When companiesgive out free samples atthe grocery store, theyare providing a service.
Whether or not cus-tomers end up buying the product, at leastthey’ve seen what the company has to offer.
From that sample, the customer is able todecide for themselves using an example ofthe service. It does not do the church anyservice to simply get in the way of a studentand feed them propaganda.
If they wanted to make a real differenceand a real impact, they would take a stepback and look at what they’re doing. Thebest way to teach is to lead by example, notto deceive and overload and barrage withopinion.
✦ Erick R. Schmidt writing for the editorial board.
Sinners, and anyone else oncampus, might have some-
thing else to be afraid of, and itmight be worse than hell. It’speople who make othersuncomfortable by badgering stu-dents with flyers, informationand other requests. Such pro-moters should approach peoplein a more reasonable, less intrusive manner.
With the so-called “nuclear option” beingdeliberated before Congress, the future of ourcountry appears to lie within the hands of ourelected officials. The nuclear option would lowerthe standards for the confirmation of federaljudges, including Supreme Court Justices. Thisposes a threat not only to our immediate well-being as a whole, but also to the rule of law in thefuture of our country.
The president of the United States, with theapproval of the Senate, appoints federal judges.Article III judges, which include the SupremeCourt, the Federal Court of Appeals, districtcourts and the U.S. Court of International Trade,are the federal judges appointed by the President.
Currently, the Senate must approve a judicialappointment with a majority vote, which equals60 votes. With the proposed nuclear option, how-ever, this is lowered to 51 percent, or 51 votes.Thus, the confirmation of judges could becomesubject to the tyranny of a slight political majori-ty, Republican or Democratic, in the Senate.
In an ideal society, judges are to be free of polit-ical will and/or influence. Traditionalists arguethat elected officials, such as senators and repre-sentatives, should respond to the political will ofsociety, endorsing and rejecting laws according tothe attitude of the citizens of their respectiveregion. However, judges should be free of thisinfluence for an array of reasons.
Judges are seen as the experts of the law whodecide how the content of any given law may beinterpreted. If judges were to be swayed by polit-ical influence, laws could become subordinate tothe desires or whims of a political, economic,ethnic and/or religious majority. Let it be knownI am not naively denying that this sort of politi-cal bias exists within our judicial system.However, I am arguing that lowering the stan-dards of judicial nominations will surely aug-ment this problem.
The clause that determines the nominationprocess of federal judges lies within the greatestsocial contract of all, the U.S. Constitution.Brilliantly recognizing its own imperfection, theConstitution contains amendments, whichallow for the alteration and or addition of rightsto this document, according to the changingpolitical desires of the agents within the com-munity.
Yet unlawful modification of the document canlead to instability and the inability to recognizethe rule of law.
In the beginning of “Meditation XVII,” JohnDonne makes an eternal and altruistic statementregarding his ideas for the relations betweenhuman agents:
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every manis a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if aclod be washed away by the sea, Europe is theless...any man’s death diminishes me, because Iam involved in mankind...”
Dismissing the threat of the nuclear optionwould be to disregard the equality of all individu-als under the law. Individuals should concernthemselves with the equality for all individualsunder the law, including the rights and privilegesany social contract grants these agents. It isimportant to remember that our system of lawdoes not ensure substantive justice for all; rather,it does its best in preserving the equality of rightsand privileges for each individual under the law.Yet ignoring the legal injustices surrounding anypolitical environment would be turning a blindeye to the political death of an individual, as itwere, within the aforesaid community.
✦ Sikes is a Wichita senior in Spanish and philosophy.
I recently committed myself to the ambitiousgoal of finding a way to work in Japan for thesummer. Specific problems aside about how to getthere and what I’ll be doing, I knew that I needcultural experience, advice and encouragement.
So, I got active in the Japanese StudentAssociation. Now that I’ve been to more meetingsand become more involved, my shallow inten-tions that were once centered solely on Japanhave gradually spread into deep understanding.
All the members of JSA have been wonderful:open, welcoming, friendly and genuinely apprecia-tive of my efforts. I first thought that this was prima-rily due to the politeness I find inherent in Japaneseculture, but I have found deeper meaning the fartherout I have swum in the global community.
I am now certain that a significant part of theorganization’s welcoming attitude comes fromJSA’s recognition that the group and each of itsmembers are members, in turn, of the global com-munity, at the University of Kansas and beyond.
JSA, as a group and through each of its mem-bers, is a strong proponent of diversity and cross-cultural understanding. Take the president, forexample. Three years ago, current JSA presidentKengo Terada took office with the goal of increas-ing diversity in the organization, whose member-ship, overall, was small and unenthusiastic.
“I’d like to change the situation,” he decided.Kengo recognized that there was much to be
gained by making an effort to reach out to themassive non-Japanese population at theUniversity. In the effort to attract a larger mem-bership, Kengo knew that he would be spreadingthe Japanese culture and promoting cross-cultur-al understanding at the same time. To add extraemphasis to this, the president of JSA joined theexecutive board of the International StudentAssociation.
From then on, JSA has worked in tandem withISA and the many other international studentgroups, such as the Asian-American StudentUnion, to help students from backgrounds thatare worlds apart to come together to learn andgrow by sharing the best that their cultures haveto offer. In this way, ISA acts as the avenuethrough which the specific organizations, includ-ing JSA and AASU, share their region-specificfocuses with the larger group. For example,Kengo uses his position on ISA’s executive boardto spread the word about Japanese culturalevents, such as JSA’s upcoming Japan Festival.
The more that I get involved in JSA, the more Iget involved in the global community. The morethat I consider the importance of the InternationalStudent Association at the University, the more Idiscover the importance of the international stu-dent association which exists, informally, world-wide.
The more that I meet people who are different,the more I understand that we all are, on some deeplevel, the same. The more I think about the shal-lowness of my original ambitions, the deeper I wantto swim into the ocean of the global community.
As I have learned through my cross-culturalexperiences, just as we can all benefit from shar-ing our unique qualities, we can all benefit fromsharing what we find in common.
As I have benefited from meeting with studentsfrom across the globe, I am sure that there areanalogous benefits for anyone who has theopportunity to do the same.
I would encourage anyone who has nothingmore than a passing interest in some student organ-ization, especially an international organization, totest the waters of the global community and see justhow wide and deep the possibilities are.
✦ Timmermeyer is a Derby senior in English.
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Above: Freshman guard Russell Robinson hangs his head in the locker room after the defeat. Robinson didn’t play inKansas’ opening round loss against Bucknell on March 18. Left: Jenny Jaimes, Overland Park junior and pep band member,fans herself as she tries to stop her tears after Kansas’ defeat in the Ford Center in Oklahoma City.
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Freshman for-ward C.J. Gilesstares in disbelief nextto assistantcoach KurtisTownsend.Giles saw sevenminutes ofplaying timeduring Kansas’first opening-round loss in22 first roundgames.
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one game. But Simien knows bet-ter than anyone: at Kansas, peopledon’t take first-round losses well.
“It may,” Simien said of thelosses effect on his class’s legacy.“Personally I still feel great aboutthis group of guys ... this shouldby no means erase the things wehave done in the past. But, for alot of people it will be the mainthing they remember.”
In several years, when peopletalk about these four seniors, willthey be remembered for their 110-28 overall record, their two FinalFours and one Elite Eight, or theirloss to Bucknell in the first roundof their final NCAA Tournament?
“We did everything we couldwhen we stepped out on thecourt,” Lee said. “Me, Wayne, andKeith and Aaron, we always want-ed to win and we always played towin. So one loss messes that up ...I don’t see why it should.”
Self said he told the seniors thesame thing after the game andagain in their meetings lastMonday.
“I don’t think you definecareers or seasons based on onegame even though it was a biggame,” Self said.
Taking a breakA week later the devastation
still hasn’t worn off. Self said itwon’t wear off until the tourna-ment is over.
“Every time you watch some-one else play you are thinking youwish that were you,” Self said.
After all of the loose ends weretied up, the players had beentalked to and he had replayed thegame over and over again in hishead, Self left for a break of hisown. Last Wednesday he took hisfamily on a short vacation.
“Nobody likes going throughthis,” Self said. “No coach likesthis, fans don’t like it, families ofcoaches hurt. We all hurt, but wecan learn from this.”
“You’ve got to have a prettytough hide about yourself. Incoaching you understand that thesethings can happen, but you neverthink they will happen to you.”
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Seasonnot totalfailure
It’s time to lay this Bucknellloss to rest.
Yes it hurt. It was a bad loss,simple as that.
But some fans’ commentsafter the game calling for BillSelf’s head were ridiculous.Jayhawk fans need to give himthe opportunity to get players herecruited into his system, andthen judge his accomplish-ments.
Self didn’t want to lose thatgame — no coach would. Hewanted to win just as much asthe Jayhawk faithful did. He feltterrible that the four terrific sen-iors finished their collegiatecareers in such an un-terrificway.
“Fans don’t like losing toBucknell in the first round.Players certainly hurt. Families,coaches and players, we allhurt,” Self said at a press confer-ence last week.
It’s obvious that he feels badfor the entire team. He wantedto deliver everything that thefans wanted. While many fansstill cringe at the thought of re-watching that season-endingloss, Self feels the same way.
“It won’t wear off until thetournament is over. It hurts alot. Every waking moment thoseare your thoughts,” Self said.”
This year’s team was supposedto win a national championship.There were some terrific basket-ball games. The victory on NewYear’s Day against Georgia Techwas stirring, followed by thethrilling take-down at Kentucky.Both games were played withoutsenior forward Wayne Simien.
North Carolina can run a teamto death; Illinois has provenalmost as capable of running asthe Tar Heels. The Jayhawks werenot this type of team, they playeda simple half-court offense, andrelied on getting the ball inside toSimien to be successful.
But the future does not lookbleak. Self will have one of themost talented teams in the Big12 next season, despite the factthat the team will be run bymainly freshmen and sopho-mores. Just look at what Self isbringing in next season.
He has three McDonald’s All-Americans. These are playerswho will make an immediateimpact. While these players havethe potential to be superstars inthe coming years — or even asfreshman — Self does not wantthe expectations to be too high.
“They are three good playersthat have a chance to be goodcollege players,” Self said. “Wethink all three will have a bigimpact right off the bat. I hopethey’re not unrealistic. But Ialso hope the expectationsshould be that they are going tobe good.”
Self is the country’s bestrecruiter. Look at the studs thatare leading Illinois, all recruited bySelf. Since Bruce Weber took overthe coaching job at Illinois, theIllini have struggled on the recruit-ing trail. While the Jayhawkrecruits are all McDonald’s All-Americans, none of the three Illinirecruits are even ranked in the top150 by Rivals.com.
This year’s team consisted ofplayers that were not intendedto be a part of Self’s system.Before fans go out and start mak-ing crazy allegations against Self,he should be given enough timeto establish himself. It will allwork out in the end.✦ Colaianni is a McLean, Va.,
Senior Jake Kauzlarich, designated hitter, rounds third base after his fourth home run of the season yesterday afternoon. Junior outfielder GusMilner also hit a home run that afternoon, but it wasn’t enough to bring the Jayhawks a victory. They fell to Nebraska, 9-4.
where are calling the 2005 NCAATournament one of the biggestCinderella stories in recent history.
Cinderella put on her dancingshoes March 18 when No. 14Bucknell knocked off No. 3 Kansas,and No. 13 Vermont defeated No. 4Syracuse.
From there, top seeds were eliminat-ed like Donald Trump’s apprentices.Boston College, Connecticut andWake Forest, like Kansas, all failed tomove on past the first weekend.
All were defeated by teams thatwere hot. Momentum is the key toadvancing in the NCAA Tournament.Teams have to be talented, butmomentum pulls off upsets.
No. 10 seed North Carolina State
finished with a losing record in theAtlantic Coast Conference butknocked off Wake Forrest in the ACCTournament to advance to the cham-pionship game. They defeated UConnin the second round in the NCAATournament.
West Virginia finished fifth in theBig East Conference, but defeatedBoston College and Villanova in theBig East Tournament to advance to thetournament finals. West Virginiapounded Wake Forest and fell just sec-onds short of a trip to the Final Four.
In losing five out of their last eightgames, the Jayhawks didn’t have thatmomentum. Kansas peaked at thewrong time this season.
When he looks back on it, Kansascoach Bill Self points to victoriesagainst Georgia Tech and at Kentuckyas landmarks of the season. Both ofthose victories took place in the first10 days of January. He reminds peo-
ple that the Jayhawks did win theleague — although they dropped fourof their final six conference games toallow Oklahoma a share of the title.
“If you go 10-1 in the nonconfer-ence with Wayne out and you beatGeorgia Tech and Kentucky and youwin the league championship,” Selfpaused. “I would say this was a reallygreat season with a really, really badending.”
The stinging 64-63 loss to Bucknellwas one of the most embarrassing inschool history. But the Jayhawks’ playin that game was not inconsistentwith the way they had performed inlast few regular season games.
The Bucknell game was close forall 40 minutes. Kansas trailed at halfand turned the ball over 13 times.
The kicker though: Kansas wentscoreless in the final 8 minutes and 44
Kansas starts strong, loses edgeMore than 1,000 fans and one
big bunny were in attendance forthe Big 12 Conference openerbetween Kansas (21-10) and No.9 Nebraska (21-3) this Easterweekend at Hoglund Ballpark.
The series did not end as wellas it began, with the Jayhawkswinning the first game 7-6, beforefalling 9-3 and 9-4. This markedthe first Big 12 Conference open-ing-game victory for coach RitchPrice since his arrival in 2003.
But the momentum could nothold for Kansas.
“I think that we showed thatwe are capable of playing withanyone in the country,” Pricesaid. “This was a great opportu-nity for us to win the first oneon Friday and then have anopportunity to beat the No. 9team in the country.”
In game one, which wasplayed as part of a Saturdaydoubleheader, sophomore right-hander Joba Chamberlainentered the contest with a 4-0record and a .83 ERA forNebraska. He left the game witha 1.72 ERA.
None of his statistics could getChamberlain anything more thana no-decision against Kansas onSaturday. Although the right-han-der held the Jayhawks hitlessuntil the fifth inning, they grabbedfour runs on only one hit.
Chamberlain, who enteredthe game with only one hit bat-ter, hit four and walked fourmore.
Senior lefty Mike Zagurski (4-2) also recorded a no-decision.Although he tallied seven strike-outs, Zagurski surrendered fiveruns on six hits in his 6.1 inningappearance.
Junior closer Don Czyz (2-1)struck out three en route to the
The women’s rowing team lostto No. 15 Texas on Saturday, butcoach Rob Catloth was stillpleased with the the team’sefforts.
The Longhorns won all fourof the races in the match, butthe Jayhawks’ first boat lost byonly 10 seconds in the VarsityEight race.
“We had our fastest time ever
at this point in the season,”Catloth said.
This was senior rower KristyHainer’s fourth race againstTexas, and she said it was theteam’s best performance in anyrace.
“We had power all the waydown the race course,” Hainersaid. “It’s the best we’ve everstarted.”
Part of the confidence camefrom the race against SouthernMethodist on March 24, therowing team’s first of the
spring season. Kansas sweptall of its races against SMUexcept one.
“We had a really good race,”Hainer said. “We executed ourrace plan, which made us reallyexcited for our next race.”
Texas started its season beforethe matchup with Kansas.Because Texas was only Kansas’second match, the Kansas teamwent in with realistic expecta-tions.
“It just makes us excited torace them again in the Big 12,”
assistant coach Jennifer Myerssaid.
Hainer and junior rower JenEbel said the team would con-tinue to get ready for Texas andother upcoming races.
“We’re constantly improvingour technique and constantlyincreasing our fitness level,”Ebel said.
Ebel and Hainer said it was agreat way to start the season butsaid there was definitely roomfor improvement.
In reference to the Novice
team, which is the beginners’rowing team, Myers said theeffort was always there inraces.
“We now build from this racefor every weekend,” she said.
The women race again April2 in Lawrence against Tulsa andDrake.
“We’re going to keep on doingwhat we’ve been doing,” shesaid. “We’re headed in the rightdirection.”
Coach Bill Self bites his lip in frustration at the endof the first round loss in Oklahoma City. The loss toa 14-seed, Bucknell, was the first in school history.
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The Kansas track and field team set the pacefor the season at the Tulsa Duel meet on Saturday.
Twelve Jayhawks finished in first place, andthree of them qualified for regional competition.Kansas opened up the outdoor season with com-petition against Missouri, Oklahoma State, OralRoberts and Tulsa, the host.
The Jayhawks thrived in the rough weather,with occasional wind chills of 30 degrees.
The team came off two weeks of rest sincecompeting at the National IndoorChampionships.
“Competitors find a way to compete and that iswhat we did today,” coach Stanley Redwine said.“I thought it was awesome to do what we did inthese conditions.”
Fresh out of nationals, Brooklyn Hann andSheldon Battle turned out a combined threefirst-place finishes. Hann, senior, won the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.65, quick enoughto qualify for regionals.
Battle regionally qualified in the discus and thehammer throw. The junior finished first in thediscus by throwing 183 feet. He threw 184 feet, 7inches, in the hammer throw.
Sophomore Gavin Ball finished just behindBattle in both events.
He recorded two second-place finishes, andwon the men’s shot put with a throw of 56 feet,4.50 inches.
“Our freshmen, and our newcomers as well,
really stepped up,” Redwine said.Outstanding freshman performances included
Paul Hefferon’s first place finish in the men’s3000-meter race. Hefferon, freshman, finished in8:30.97.
“He did a great job,” Redwine said. “Fromthe word ‘go,’ he went out on a mission to dowell.”
Other freshmen made their debuts in stunningfashion. Freshman Julius Jiles regionally qualifiedin the 110-meter hurdles, with a time of 14.21.
Crystal Manning, freshman, qualified forregionals with a distance of 40 feet, 9 inches, inthe triple jump.
“I just went out there to try my best, and I feltreally comfortable out there,” Manning said.
Denita Miller, junior, won the javelin with athrow of 151 feet.
“All I can say is that it’s a starting point,” Millersaid. “I hope I can be one of those that step upthis season.”
After transferring from Tennessee, Miller saidthe inclement weather would not be an obstacle.
“It was windy and cold, but it didn’t impair me alot,” she said. “It paired with the training I’ve beendoing.”
Kansas City, Mo., sophomore Janiece Gatsonstarted off the outdoor season with a victory inthe 400-meter run.
“It felt good for the first meet,” said Gatson,who ran 1:03.26. “This season is going to be great.Hopefully with more competition it will make mebetter.”
Kansas scores three victoriesagainst Western Illinois
The Jayhawks swept the Western IllinoisLeathernecks at home in three games during thefirst weekend of spring break.
Freshman third baseman Erik Morrison hit thefirst two home runs of his collegiate career andknocked in seven RBI in the process. NoJayhawk has scored that many runs this season.
Junior first baseman Jared Schweitzer added tothe home run rally. Paired with Morrison, the duohomered with only one batter between them.
The Jayhawks picked up their second last-at-bat victory of the season, 7-6.
Junior outfielder Gus Milner drove in juniorshortstop Ritchie Price for the victory.
Milner went 3-4 with two RBI to lead the offen-sive effort for Kansas. Senior catcher SeanRichardson recorded his third home run of theseason. Kansas baseball extended its winningstreak to seven as it picked up the final game ofthe three game series against Western Illinois, 3-2.
Milner grabbed a small piece of history in thebottom of the second, stealing home. The lasttime a Jayhawk stole home was when RitchiePrice did it on April 21, 2003.
Kansas’ game against Southwest MissouriState last Wednesday in Springfield, Mo., wasrained out, but it was rescheduled for May 11.
— Alissa Bauer
Today✦ Men’s golf vs. San Jose State, all day, Santa Cruz, Calif.Tomorrow✦ Men’s golf vs. San Jose State, all day, Santa Cruz, Calif.Wednesday✦ Softball vs. Nebraska, 3 p.m., Arrocha BallparkThursday✦ Softball vs. Wichita State, 3 p.m., Wichita
✦ Softball vs. Wichita State, 5 p.m., WichitaFriday ✦ Baseball vs. Texas A&M, 7 p.m., College Station, Texas
✦ Track, all day, TBA
✦ Women’s swimming World Championship Trials, all day,
Indianapolis
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Kansas’ undefeated conferenceroad streak continued as thewomen’s tennis team (4-9 overall, 3-2 Big 12 Conference) defeatedOklahoma State, 4-3, in Stillwater,Okla., on March 19.
The Jayhawks are 3-0 in the Big 12Conference on the road this year.
Kansas swept the doubles compe-tition against Oklahoma State win-ning all three matches.
“I thought we competed well andI am very proud of our team,” coachAmy Hall-Holt said.
In the No. 1 doubles slot, sopho-more Brittany Brown and freshmanLauren Hommell won their matchby default against Oklahoma Statefreshmen Iryna Tkachenko and JanaKubicikova, 1-4.
Kansas duo junior Christine Skodaand sophomore Ashley Filberth con-tinued their solid play, knocking offsophomore Lauren Simmons andfreshman Jessica Collins, 8-3.
Together, Skoda and Filberth havewon five of nine matches this season.
Rounding out the doubles sweep,freshman Elizaveta Avdeeva andjunior Luiza Loureiro ousted ZanaMasnic and Sandra Blajer, 9-7.
Skoda, who was named Big 12Conference Player of the Week for lastweek, added to her singles victorytotal by defeating junior Zana Masnicin straight sets, 6-4, 6-2. Skoda is rid-ing a four-match win streak.
Freshman Stephanie Smith defeat-ed junior Sandra Blajer, 7-6 (4), 6-2.
Hommell delivered the final vic-tory and secured the Jayhawks over-all team victory by defeating fresh-man Jessica Collins, 6-3, 2-6, 6-3.
“After winning two in a row, ourconfidence is up a lot and we knowthat we can compete against teamsin the Big 12,” Hall-Holt said.
The day before, versus nationallyranked Oklahoma, the Jayhawksdropped all three doubles matchesbut rallied to defeat the Sooners, 4-3, in Norman, Okla.
Kansas won four of six singlesmatches, propelling the Jayhawks tovictory. Avdeeva needed three sets totake out senior Heather Saluri, 3-6,6-3, 6-4. Skoda and Brown all con-tributed with straight set wins, whileSmith helped Kansas with the over-all victory by defeating freshmanChelsea Orr, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5.
“This is what we have been work-ing for all season,” Hall-Holt said. “Iam confident that we will continueto compete at this level of play.”
The Jayhawks will face No. 15Baylor in Waco, Texas, on Saturday.
Sophomore tennis player Brittany Brown strikes a forehand return during adoubles match against Nebraska at Robinson Courts on March 12. The tennisteam has won three matches in a row on the road including two against Big 12opponents Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
“Ithought we competed well and I amvery proud of our team.”
Amy Hall-HoltTennis coach
SOFTBALL
Rain-outs plague Jayhawksduring spring break travels
Kansas was supposed to travel around thecountry and play 11 games over spring break.
Instead, the team went 1-1 in two games tostart the trip before having seven consecutivecancelations, and then one more loss.
The trip started with the team in Sacramento,Calif., where Kansas lost to Minnesota 2-1,before taking the second game, against UtahValley State, 8-0. The next four games were can-celed because of heavy rains.
Kansas came home to face Indiana State, onlyto have the rain follow.
Three days later, the rain drowned out theteam’s doubleheader at Southwest MissouriState.
After seven straight cancelations, Kansasheaded for its Big 12 Conference opener againstTexas. The team dropped the first game, 4-1.
The rains weren’t over for the Jayhawks.While camped out in the dugout during a raindelay in the second match, the bench in theTexas dugout gave way. Kansas players and staffrushed over to the Texas dugout and helpedmove players to safety.
The Texas team suffered only minor injuries,but the game was canceled.
— Kansan Staff Reports
WOMEN’S GOLF
Jayhawks improve strokes,play season’s best golf
The women’s golf team finished ninth in afield of 15, with a score of 892, in Tucson, Ariz.,at the seventh annual Mountain View Collegiate.
“I saw a lot of improvement in this tournament,”coach Erin O’Neil said. “It was a good confidencebooster for us and hopefully we can use this as abuilding block for the rest of the season.”
Individually, freshman Annie Giangrosso fin-ished tied for 15th after shooting a total score of220. Sophomore Amanda Costner shot twostrokes worse and finished tied for 23rd.
The Jayhawks have one tournament remain-ing before the Big 12 Championship in Austin,Texas. They next play in West Lafayette, Ind., atthe Lady Boilermaker Invitational on April 9.
—Travis Robinett
WOMEN’S SWIMMING
Jayhawk swimmers competeat Indiana NCAA title meet
On March 17, swimmers Amy Gruber andJenny Short traveled to West Lafayette, Ind., tocompete in the NCAA Swimming and DivingChampionships.
On the first day of competition, Gruber com-peted in the 50-yard freestyle and finished 30thwith a time of 23.06, and 18th in the 100-yardbutterfly with a time of 54.07. Coach ClarkCampbell said that Gruber’s finish was the bestin her four appearances at the NCAAChampionships. Short clocked in at 55.90 in the100-yard backstroke, earning 36th place.
Short earned 45th place with 2:02.34 in the200-yard backstroke and Gruber took 22nd in the100-yard freestyle with 49.74.
—Kelly Reynolds
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victory. He held the Nebraskalineup scoreless in 1.2 innings ofwork in relief of junior right-hander Kodiak Quick (7-2).
Junior closer Brett Jensen (1-1) took the loss for the Huskers.
For the third time this season,the Jayhawks used a walk-off hitto seal a victory. For the secondtime, the hit came off the bat ofjunior outfielder Gus Milner.
Junior outfielder Matt Batyled off the bottom of the ninthwith an infield single. Baty, whohas moved to second base while
freshman starter Ryne Price hasbeen sidelined with an ankleinjury, scored the winning runafter Milner drove a Jensenpitch to the right field wall.
But the Cornhuskers did notgo quietly. Junior third basemanAlex Gordon hit two homers intwo attempts. He collected threeRBI in game one and waswalked five times in the series.
Nebraska was able to record a9-3 victory.
Gordon hit his second homerun of the day in the nightcap.
Sophomore left-hander SeanLand (2-2) took the loss afterlasting only 2.2 innings andallowing four runs on five hits.
“I really thought we had somegreat momentum going into thesecond and third,” Czyz said.“We played well, they just playeda little bit better.”
Junior pitcher Zach Kroenke(3-0) sealed the deal for theHuskers. In six innings Kroenkeallowed three runs on three hits.
Junior left-hander BrianDuensing held the Jayhawksscoreless until the eighth inningin the Easter Sunday 9-4 loss.Down 7-0 entering the eighth,Kansas batters found a way toavoid the shutout.
Erik Morrison, freshman thirdbaseman, hit the first home run forthe Jayhawks in the series (3).
“It’s hard when everyone’splaying well,” Morrison said.“We’re starting to play well as ateam, and we’re still getting beat.”
Milner also added a home runin the bottom of the ninth.
Quick had a solid outing forKansas, but Price said he felt asif the starter may have been leftin a little too long. Directly aftera two-inning appearance onSaturday, Quick gave up fiveruns on five hits, taking the loss.
The Jayhawks finished theweekend at 1-2 in the Big 12.
Kansas continues play nextweekend against Texas A&M.
— Edited by Azita Tafreshi
Kansas victory sets recordThe Kansas men’s golf team
again took home the title at theStevinson Ranch Invitational inStevinson, Calif., on March 22.
The Jayhawks won the tour-nament for the second straightyear, and the sixth time in sevenyears. The victory marked thesecond tournament champi-onship for the team this spring.
The Jayhawks shot a finalround 299 and a three-roundtotal of 872, which won thetournament by 20 stokes, thebiggest margin by any team inthe history of the event. KansasState and Nebraska finished thetournament in a tie for secondwith team scores of 892.
Senior Kevin Ward won thetournament as an individual.With a final round 76, Wardfired a tournament total eight-under-par 208. Ward opened the
tournament with a first round68 and a second round 64. Histotal score of 208 won the tour-nament by six strokes.
“It’s been kind of an up anddown spring for me,” Ward said.“I was finally able to drive theball in the fairway, make someputts and put things together.”
Sophomore Tyler Dockingplayed with a sore back as he fin-ished the tournament in fourthplace with a total score of 216,good for even par. Sophomore
Gary Woodland finished in a tiefor 13th with a total score of 221.Junior Luke Trammell finishedthe tournament in a tie for 23rdwith a 227, and junior PeteKrsnich fired a 244. FreshmanJohn Newcomer, who played asan individual, also shot a 244 forthe tournament.
The Jayhawks play today atthe 59th Western Intercollegiatein Santa Cruz, Calif.
The Kansas men’s golf teamwill begin play today at the 59thWestern Intercollegiate at thePasatiempo Golf Club in SantaCruz, Calif. The event is the old-est tournament west of theMississippi River.
The difficult 18-team fieldincludes some of college golf’sbest programs. UCLA, Stanford,California and Oregon will allbe competing this week.
The Jayhawks are one of onlytwo teams playing in the eventnot from the west coast. UTEPis the only other school compet-ing not from the west.
Coach Ross Randall’s west
coast connections are one of thereasons that the Jayhawks areinvited to play in the event everyyear. Randall played golf at SanJose State in the mid 1960s.Randall won the tournament asa freshman in 1964. To this day,Randall is the only freshman toever win the WesternIntercollegiate.
Randall said that the Westernis always one of the biggest tour-naments of the season for histeam.
“This tournament is the granddaddy of western college golftournaments,” Randall said. “It’sone of the best tournaments incollege golf, and Pasatiempo isone of the greatest golf coursesin the country.”
The par 70 Pasatiempo Golf
Club is a short, tight golf coursethat measures 6,700 yards. Thecourse is almost the exact oppo-site of what the Jayhawks sawlast week at Stevinson, which isa long course with wide fair-ways.
The Pasatiempo Golf Club isconsistently one of GolfMagazine’s Top 25 courses inAmerica.
Senior Kevin Ward will leadthe Jayhawks into the eventtoday, coming off of his best per-formance of the season lastweek. He finished first atStevinson Ranch on March 22,firing a tournament total ofeight under. Ward said that he isready to build off of his per-formance last week.
“This is a fun golf course, and
it’s fun to play here every year,”said Ward. “Even though thiscourse doesn’t really suit a lot ofour games that well, I think itwill be a good test. I feel like Ican go out there and do prettywell this week.”
Kansas will be without seniorAndrew Price for the secondstraight week. Price has a partial-ly torn ligament in his left hand,and will not be able to play for aminimum of four weeks. TheJayhawks are hopeful that Pricewill be ready to play in time forthe Big 12 ConferenceChampionship at the end ofApril. Junior Luke Trammell willbe filling in for Price for the sec-ond straight week.
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5 p.m, Tuesday, March 29,in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Memorial Union
All current and previous student and faculty initiatesin Phi Kappa Phi are invited to attend.
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After all, Kansas was 20-1going into that game. The teamwas ranked No. 2 in nationalpolls, and sole possession ofthe Big 12 Conference regularseason title seemed to be alock.
Kansas played well at TexasTech and Dora’s game winnercame only after senior guardAaron Miles was questionablycalled for traveling, while TexasTech players frantically tried tofoul him.
Kansas coach Bill Self saidthe game ended in the worstway possible. Because theJayhawks played well enough towin, none of the players putstock in the loss and insteadchose to blame the loss on offi-cials.
If the officials had called afoul on the Red Raiders, or ifDora had missed his shot fromthe top of the key, the seasoncould have ended differently.But as Self said, that was the dif-ference between winning andlosing.
The setback in Lubbock,
Texas, was followed by a homeloss to Iowa State, which Selflater said his team had notcome fired up for. The losingstreak hit three games when theteam traveled to Oklahoma.Kansas rebounded with a winagainst Oklahoma State, butfinished the year losing six ofnine.
After Kansas fell toBucknell in the first round ofthe NCAA Tournament, Selfsaid he had tried his best toglue things together down thestretch, but everything seemedto change after losing to TexasTech.
“I thought it fit together pret-ty well until we had the three-game losing streak in February,”Self said. “We were 20-1. I didn’tthink it didn’t fit, but we didn’tfinish the season on a note thatwe were capable of finishing theseason on.”
Before that game, theJayhawks battled past injuriesand adversity. They found a wayto win every close game, andeven when senior forwardWayne Simien missed action,the team defeated Georgia Techand Kentucky.
After the Texas Tech game,things changed. Kansas sus-tained new injuries, and failedto respond in the same way itdid earlier in the year.
“We had our frustratingmoments,” senior guard MikeLee said. “We lost some games
down the stretch, and evenwhen we were winning weweren’t playing well.”
Junior forward ChristianMoody missed a few games afterhe suffered a floor burn atLubbock, which turned into astaph infection.
Senior guard Keith Langfordsat out two games after heseverely sprained his ankle, andthen came down with the stom-ach flu. He played againstBucknell, but Self said he wasnowhere near full strength.
Self refused to use thoseinjuries as excuses, but did callthem bad luck.
“We’ve dealt with a lot ofcrap,” he said. “We’ve dealtwith some injuries and stuffthat a lot of other teams didn’thave to deal with. Late in theseason it was seriously splicedtogether.”
Hard to imagine that a team’sfortunes could change so dras-tically on a single play, but ifyou ask any of the playersthey’ll tell you that’s what hap-pened.
Langford was asked whyKansas fell apart after losing toTexas Tech and all he could dowas shake his head and shrug.
“You can go back and makeup a lot of things, but nobodyreally knows,” Langford said.“There’s just no explanation forwhy teams lose.”
season losses, the Jayhawks fellby a combined 15 points. Inthree of those games, theJayhawks trailed at halftime.They turned the ball over at least12 times in each of those games,which led to lengthy scoringdroughts.
On paper, this Kansas teamhad all of the ingredients of acapable tournament team: theAll-American candidate thatwas good for a double-doubleeach game, the leadership, theexperience, the depth.Momentum and energy don’tshow up on paper though.
Finishing the season 2-4 andlosing senior guard KeithLangford, the team’s secondleading scorer, hurt theJayhawks’ momentum.
Self was asked if he thought theJayhawks suffered from fatigue.
“I don’t buy that,” Self said.“But I think we played like that,and I think injuries make youlook tired.”
The Jayhawks finished theseason 23-7, won the Big 12 titleand earned a No. 3 seed in theSyracuse region.
NC State finished 7-9 in theACC and were a No. 10 seed inSyracuse. But when theWolfpack look back on the2004-05 season, they will con-sider it a success. They reachedthe Sweet Sixteen for the firsttime since 1989.
Self said he was proud of theJayhawks’ season. But he knowswhy this year will not be ranked
among Kansas’ best. “I don’t think you can have a
great year unless you play well inMarch,” Self said.
“Sorry coach Flannery”Some of the Kansas players
were so stunned after their first-round loss to Bucknell, they for-got to shake the hands of theBucknell players.
Self was unaware of the slightuntil after the game, addressedthe team and placed a personalphone call to Bucknell coachPat Flannery.
“I called Pat Flannery andsaid ‘I haven’t even talked toplayers about this.’ I don’t knowexactly how it played out,” Selfsaid. “Pat told me ‘don’t sweatthis because our players were onthe court celebrating like theywon a championship, so don’tworry about waiting for us tostop running around.’”
What did he say?In the locker room after the
Jayhawks’ loss to Bucknell,Langford said something thatraised a few eyebrows.Granted, the senior guard hassaid many of those things in hiscareer, but this comment’s tim-ing earned some extra atten-tion: “Now I can sit down andexpress myself and say what Ireally want to, let people knowhow I really feel, get a lot ofthings off my chest,” Langfordsaid.
Self said he didn’t find outabout the comment until a cou-ple of days after the game. Whenhe heard it, he wanted to knowwhat Langford meant by thecomment.
“I called him and I called hismother, because I was unable torun him down, and asked him
to clue me in on what thismeant,” Self said. “It wouldlead me to believe he was goingto say something about hisunhappiness the last couple ofyears.
“He told me, and he wasemphatic about this, he said,‘No, that’s not what I meant atall. I don’t have any problemswith anything with the basket-ball program. There are somethings I wish people knew.’”
Self said Langford could havebeen talking about a number ofissues, but he suspected it washealth problems, which haveplagued Langford during the lasttwo NCAA Tournaments.
Time to beef upAdd this year’s recruiting class
— Mario Chalmers, JulianWright and Micah Downs — tothe Jayhawks’ five freshmen thisseason and the Jayhawks willhave eight young players nextseason.
Self said the team will beginworking out immediately afterspring break to add some massto those young bodies.Somebody is going to have to fillin for senior forward WayneSimien’s 20 points and 10rebounds.
“We need to get in the weightroom and get bigger andstronger,” Self said.
Self said the current freshmenalong with the incoming fresh-men are going to have to workhard to develop into replace-ments for the graduating seniors.
“We have to have one or twodevelop into all-league type per-formers,” Self said. “If you dothat, all of the sudden, you haveyourself quite a team.”
— Edited by Laura Francoviglia
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