As Student Senate continues

into its third wave of platform

initiatives, here is a look at what
has happened so far this semes-
ter and what is happening with
programs that have already been
established.

SPANISH MINOR
The full Senate passed a resolu-
tion at the beginning of October
in support of the creation of a
Spanish minor with a vote of
68-3-0. Senate submitted the reso-
lution to Chancellor Bernadette
Gray-Little on Oct. 5, and the
Spanish and Portuguese depart-
ment is currently working on a
proposal that will be forwarded
to the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences by the end of November.
It has to go through a lot of
different steps, but the first step
has to be the Spanish department
sending that proposal through,
said Hannah Bolton, student body
president. Weve done everything
we can on the student side.
Bolton said that if plans to
implement a Spanish minor were
approved, the minor program
would most likely be put into
effect the next school year.
Bolton and student body vice
president Brandon Woodard
spent the summer semester doing
research and speaking with pro-
fessors in the department, as well
as Stuart Day, chair of the depart-
ment, and Danny Anderson, Dean
of CLAS.
The University is the only
school in the Big 12 and the
Kansas Board of Regents that does
not offer a Spanish minor.
KU always emphasizes how
strong our academics are, and
we make a name for ourselves
in being a leader in many areas,
Bolton said. The Spanish minor
was one of those things that we
need to get up to speed on.
STUDENT BODY ADDRESS
During homecoming week,
Bolton gave the first-ever student
body address.
This was an idea Woodard
brought up when he served as
Senate outreach director last year,
and it is part of a focus to create
more video content for student
engagement with Senate.
The address jump-started the
video production schedule; Alek
Joyce, the current outreach direc-
tor, will be creating videos for
every legislative cycle. Now, Joyce
is working on a video to introduce
the committee process, which is
open to all students.
Joyce said he hopes the stu-
dent body address will become an
annual tradition.
Id love to see it continue with
more people from year to year
to year, Joyce said. Ill tell the
next outreach director that this is
something to keep on the radar.
In the address, Bolton dis-
cussed several senate initiatives
that are underway, including
the construction of cell phone
charging stations, the Responsible
Refreshments initiative and
Recycle and Blue KU.


RESPONSIBLE REFRESH-
MENTS
This week, several local bars
and restaurants will receive plas-
tic wristbands inscribed with the
Student Senate and Responsible
Refreshments logos.
Bar-goers who identify them-
selves as designated drivers will
be given these wristbands, which
are tickets to receive free food,
nonalcoholic beverages and/or
cover from the venue.
The initiative is a result of a
partnership between Senate, the
Jayhawk Buddy System and the
participating venues throughout
Lawrence.
Woodard said a lot of the most-
frequented bars in town are part
of the initiative. Participating ven-
ues include: the Hawk, the Wheel,
Tonic, the Ranch, the Yacht Club,
Johnnys Tavern, Louises West,
the Cave and Tapas.
We wanted to make sure we
provided some resource besides
Saferide and Safebus, Bolton said.
Those are obviously key resourc-
es for safety on campus, but this
gives students another route, too.
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Four More Years
Two forms of ID needed
for some students at polls
For some students, it may be
easier to get into a bar underage
than it was to vote on Election
Day.
After Kansas joined the 33 states
in the nation to pass voter ID
laws, senior Vanessa Phillips, from
Wichita, remembered her drivers
license when she showed up to the
polls. But when she tried to get her
ballot, she was told she didnt look
enough like her picture. To prove
her identity, Phillips provided a
second form of identification.
I was just so frustrated. I threw
down my KU student ID and asked,
Is this enough? she said.
There were 221 incidents of
voter fraud reported in Kansas
from 1997 to 2010, and voter IDs
are strictly regulated.
Brittany Bezler, a sophomore
from Kansas City, Kan., had a simi-
lar problem. A poll worker scru-
tinized her ID for several minutes
until giving Bezler her ballot, but
after she cast her vote, the poll
worker asked to look at her ID
once more.
It made me feel like a criminal.
Everyone else passed right through
the line, and I was held up, said
Bezler. Im 20 years old. Why
would I lie to vote?
It is illegal to intentionally vote
under a false identification. The
2011 Kansas voting law, which
requires registered voters to show
photographic identification, aims
to combat voter fraud. Critics of
the law claim it disenfranchises
certain groups of voters. Attorney
Rich Benson, who helped address
reports of possible voter suppres-
sion on Election Day, said young
voters are likely to be hurt by the
law.
Its a student issue because
young people change so much at
this point in their lives, from their
appearance to their address, he
said.
Even though she was inconve-
nienced, Bezler said she is still glad
she got the chance to vote.
It was my first presidential elec-
tion, she said. Nothing can take
that feeling away.
Edited by Allison Kohn
AMERICAS VOTING RESULTS
PAGE 6
ELECTION VER
NIkkI wENTLING
nwentling@kansan.com
TRAVIS yOUNG/ kANSAN
students react to poll results early in the election watch party. The election watch party was held by student union activities on the fourth foor of the Kansas union
last night.
About 50 students gathered in the
lobby of the Kansas Union to watch
as Barack Obama was announced
the winner of the 2012 Presidential
Election last night.
When Obama reached 270 elec-
toral votes and Wolf Blitzer of CNN
announced that he was re-elected,
cheers erupted
from many of the
students in atten-
dance.
I voted for
president Obama,
said David Gier, a
sophomore from
Overland Park. Its
looking like Demo-
crats will have majority in Senate, so
well see how he will be able to enact
his agenda, but Im hopeful. He ac-
complished a lot in his frst term.
Giers friends, Chris Rice, a soph-
omore from Overland Park and Sa-
mantha Brunker, a sophomore from
Kansas City, Mo., agreed.
Im really happy with how the
results turned out, Rice said. We
sort of expected him to win. We
did a lot of research and mapped it
out.
Brunker said she would like to
see Obama focus more on social is-
sues in his second term.
Id like to see more social chang-
es, especially for abortion rights and
birth control, she said. But I think
it will be tough with the Congress.
As state results were announced
throughout the night, attendees let
out cheers or booed the screen.
Swing states like Iowa and Ohio
elicited the most reactions, as did
California, which gave Obama 55
electoral votes.
Students stood up and applauded
when Ohio went to Obama at about
10:20 p.m.
When it was announced that
Obama was projected to win the
state and its 20 electoral votes,
it brought him to 274 electoral
votes with Romney trailing at
201.
A few watch party attendees,
like Hannah Boyd, a freshman
from Derby, shook their heads in
exasperation and lef worried.
I feel a little nervous. Im not
sure what Obamas agenda is for the
next four years, Boyd said. Im not
sure what our country will be like in
the next four years. Im anxious to
see what he has planned.
Boyd said she does not afliate
with a political party, but she sup-
ported Romney because she be-
lieves he would be better for the
country economically.
Student Union Activities hosted
the watch party. Students began ar-
riving at 5 p.m.
Tey waited in line to grab re-
freshments and crowded around
the screen located at the west end of
the fourth foor.
Edited by Brian Sisk
students cheer
and jeer after
election results
elecTion
CAITLIN DOORNbAS
cdoornbas@kansan.com
senate initiatives includes safety, spanish minor
caMpus
NIkkI wENTLING
nwentling@kansan.com
The spanish minor was
one of those things that
we need to get up to speed
on.
HannaH BolTon
student body president
Obama
Id like to see more social changes,
especially for abortion rights and
birth control.
Samantha Brunker
sophomore
Information based on the Douglas
County Sheriffs Offce booking recap.
A 57-year-old Lawrence man was
arrested Tuesday at 1:16 a.m. on mile
marker fve of Kansas Highway 10 on
suspicion of no proof of liability insur-
ance and driving while suspended, third
offense. Bond was set at $1,750. He was
released.
A 35-year-old Lawrence man was
arrested Monday at 8:42 p.m. on the
2900 block of west Sixth Street on suspi-
cion of theft of service. Bond was set at
$100. He was released.
A 20-year-old Lawrence woman was
arrested Monday at 7:40 p.m. on the 500
block of California Street on suspicion of
battery. Bond was not set.
A 24-year-old Lawrence man was
arrested Monday at 6:49 p.m. on the
2500 block of Iowa on suspicion of culti-
vating or contributing a controlled sub-
stance, no tax stamp, obstructing the le-
gal process and possessing a controlled
substance. Bond was not set.
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Saturday Thursday Friday
Wednesday, Nov. 7 Thursday, Nov. 8
calEndar
Friday, Nov. 9
WHAT: Printmaking Workshop
WHERE: Kansas Union
WHEN: 2-4 p.m.
ABOUT: Channel your inner artist with this
workshop offered by the Lawrence Arts Center
and Student Union Activities.
WHAT: 2012 Education Career Fair
WHERE: Kansas Union, 5th foor
WHEN: 12:30-3:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Learn more about employment
opportunities in PK-12 education. More than
60 school districts from Kansas and Missouri
will be represented.
WHAT: NaNoWriMo Write-In
WHERE: Lawrence Public Library
WHEN: 6-9 p.m.
ABOUT: Participating in National Novel
Writing Month? Stop by the library for snacks
and writing prompts.
Saturday, Nov. 10
PoLICE REPoRTS
Strong, early voter
turnout in Kansas
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TOPEKA, Kan. Voter turn-
out early Tuesday in Republican-
leaning Kansas seemed heavier
than expected, as Democrats
scrambled to staunch the GOP-
dominated Legislatures push to
the right and allies of conservative
Gov. Sam Brownback sought to
shore up their gains.
With no U.S. Senate race this
year and Republicans expected to
comfortably win re-election to all
four of the states U.S. House seats,
the most closely watched races as
voters filed into polling stations
Tuesday were for the Legislature.
Republican Mitt Romney was
expected to carry the state in the
presidential race, as every GOP
nominee has done since 1964.
Secretary of State Kris Kobach
toured polling locations in
Wyandotte and Johnson counties
Tuesday morning and said poll
workers were reporting a strong
turnout. Kobach had predicted that
68 percent of eligible voters would
weigh in, but he said Tuesday that
his estimate may have been too
low. He said a polling site in Lenexa
had a long line before the polls
opened at 7 a.m., but voters man-
aged to get in and out in less than
30 minutes.
Well see if it turns out to be
just heavy voting in the morning. I
think there is just a lot of interest in
this election, Kobach said.
President Barack Obama had a
relatively strong showing in Kansas
in 2008, grabbing nearly 42 percent
of the vote. But there were signs
early Tuesday that any momentum
the president had created for state
Democrats was fading.
Im just ready for a change,
said Jim Clark, a 42-year-old com-
puter administrator from Topeka.
Hes a registered Republican who
voted for Obama last time, seeking
change, but voted for Romney this
year. Clark lost a full-time job two
years ago and has worked tempo-
rary assignments since then.
Its tougher for me, personally,
Clark said. The economy has not
improved.
Marianne Moore, a 47-year-
old human resources director at
a Wichita long-term care facility,
said she voted only for Obama
and other Democrats and skipped
races where Republicans were run-
ning unopposed. She also said that
through her job, she encounters a
lot of people without health insur-
ance, and she believes Obamas
health care overhaul will help fix
this.
I go back to health care reform
no matter which party you
have, you have to have health care
reform, Moore said.
Kansas elections officials had
been expecting about 1.2 million
registered voters to cast ballots on
Tuesday. More than 330,000 people
voted early, either by mail or in
person at election offices.
Legislative races were intense
because Democrats have worked
with moderate Republicans lead-
ing the Senate to stall some of
Brownbacks agenda, even though
the GOP had majorities of 32-8 in
the Senate and 92-33 in the House.
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Buses on campus remind students to vote for the presidential elec-
tions on Tuesday, Nov. 6.
A FRIENDLY REmINDER
whAt: Wreath-laying ceremonies and
memorial walking tour, World War II Memorial
Campanile
whERE: Memorial Drive, World War II
Memorial Campanile
whEN: 3 p.m.
AboUt: Join the Arnold Air Society and
Collegiate Veterans Association on a tour of
the memorials on campus.
WHAT: Campus Movie Series: The Dark Knight
Rises
WHERE: Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium
WHEN: 8-11 p.m.
ABOUT: Christian Bale reprises his role as
the caped crusader in the third installment of
Christopher Nolans Batman revamp.
WHAT: Quixotic Fusion - open master class
WHERE: Robinson Center, room 240
WHEN: 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
ABOUT: Learn modern dance techniques from
the Kansas City-based Quixotic performers
before they demonstrate their skill at the Lied
Center on Friday night.
WHAT: Tea at Three
WHERE: Kansas Union, Level 4 lobby
WHEN: 3-4 p.m.
ABOUT: There is no better way to celebrate a
Thursday afternoon than by enjoying free tea,
punch and cookies.
WHAT: 237th U.S. Marine Corps Birthday Cake
Cutting Ceremony
WHERE: Dole Institute of Politics
WHEN: 10-11:30 a.m.
ABOUT: Join Lawrence residents, Marines and
veterans celebrating the Marine Corps 237th
birthday.
WHAT: Quixotic
WHERE: Lied Center
WHEN: 7:30-9:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Come watch a performance fusing
technology, live music, movement and
expressive emotion.
WICHITA, Kan. A small
plane crash near Wichitas Mid-
Continent Airport killed the pilot.
The Sedgwick County Sheriff s
Office says the Cessna Caravan
struck a tree row Tuesday. The
pilot, 52-year-old Brian P. Quinn
of Lawrence, was the only person
on board.
Tony Molinaro, spokes-
man for the Federal Aviation
Administration, says the pilot
reported engine trouble shortly
after taking off. Molinaro says the
pilot was trying to return to the
Wichita airport when the crash
occurred about two miles from the
airport. The plane was headed to
Garden City.
FAA records show the plane was
registered to Fed Ex Corp. Fed Ex
spokesperson Shea Leordeanu said
in a statement the company extend-
ed its thoughts and prayers to those
affected by the crash. She referred
questions to Barron Aviation,
which operated the plane.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand
Te spade-toothed beaked
whale is so rare that nobody has
seen one alive, but scientists have
proof the species still exists.
Two skeletons were identifed
as belonging to the species af-
ter a 17-foot whale and her calf
beached themselves in New Zea-
land in 2010. Scientists hope the
discovery will provide insights
into the species and into ocean
ecosystems.
It was almost a missed opportu-
nity, however, since conservation
workers misidentifed the carcass-
es as a much more common type
of whale and buried them.
In a paper published Tuesday in
the journal Current Biology, re-
searchers from New Zealand and
the United States say of their dis-
covery: For the frst time we have
a description of the worlds rarest
and perhaps most enigmatic ma-
rine mammal.
Previously only three skull
fragments of the species had been
found: in New Zealand in 1872
and in the 1950s and the last one
26 years ago on an island of the
coast of Chile. Te males have
broad blade-like tusk teeth that
give the species its name. Both
males and females have beaks
which make them resemble dol-
phins.
Tis is pretty fantastic, said
Ewan Fordyce, a geology profes-
sor at the University of Otago
who specializes in the evolution of
whales but who was not involved
in the research. Tere would be
few, if any, mammalian species
in the world that would be rarer.
And we know much more about
panda bears and other iconic, rare
animals.
Te beached whales, an adult
and her 11-foot male calf, were
discovered on Opape Beach on the
North Island on New Years Eve
in 2010. Conservation workers
thought they were Grays beaked
whales and took tissue samples
before burying them about nine
feet under the sand.
Tose samples ended up at the
University of Auckland where
scientists did routine tests about
six months later. Rochelle Con-
stantine, a co-author of the paper,
said she and her colleague Kirsten
Tompson couldnt believe it
when the results showed the pair
to be the rarest of whales.
Kirsten and I went quiet. We
were pretty stunned, she said.
Further tests confrmed the
discovery. Constantine said they
then retested about 160 samples
taken from other stranded Grays
whales but didnt fnd any more
that had been misidentifed.
Tis year, researchers returned
to the beach to exhume the skel-
etons.
Anton van Helden, who man-
ages the marine mammals collec-
tion for New Zealands national
museum Te Papa, said it wasnt a
straightforward task to fnd the
remains afer so long and that the
mothers skull, which was buried
shallower than the rest of the re-
mains, washed out to sea. But they
were able to recover the rest of the
skeletons.
Its a hugely signifcant fnd,
said van Helden, a co-author of
the paper.
He said its impossible to know
why the whales came ashore al-
though whales ofen beach them-
selves when they become ill. He
said almost nothing is known
about the species except they live
in the South Pacifc Ocean and eat
primarily squid.
Fordyce said it may be possible
to use the skeletons of the rare
whales to reconstruct their mus-
cles and tissues and to fnd out
more about how they live and die
and why they are so reclusive.
Te scientists say the discov-
ery could also provide broader
insights into the oceans complex
ecosystems.
Tis is good reminder, said
Constantine, of how large the
oceans are, and of how little we
know about them.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Puer-
to Ricans were facing a fundamental
question on Election Day: Should
they change their ties with the Unit-
ed States?
Citizens in the U.S. island terri-
tory cannot vote in the U.S. presi-
dential election, but many were ex-
cited to participate in a referendum
that could push the territory toward
statehood, greater autonomy or in-
dependence.
Car horns blared and party fags
waved as voters headed to polling
stations, many carrying umbrellas
against the blistering tropical sun
as temperatures neared 90 degrees
Fahrenheit (31 degrees centigrade).
Te two-part referendum frst
asks voters if they want to change
Puerto Ricos 114-year relationship
with the United States. A second
question gives voters three alter-
natives if they do want a change:
become the 51st U.S. state, inde-
pendence, or sovereign free associ-
ation, a designation that would give
more autonomy for the territory of 4
million people.
Puerto Rico has to be a state.
Tere is no other option, said
25-year-old Jerome Lefebre, who
picked up his grandfather before
driving to the polls. Were doing
OK, but we could do better. We
would receive more benefts, a lot
more fnancial help.
But 42-year-old Ramon Lopez de
Azua said he favors the current sys-
tem, which grants U.S. citizenship
but prevents Puerto Ricans from
voting for president unless they live
in the United States, and gives those
on the island only limited represen-
tation in Congress.
Puerto Ricos problem is not its
political status, he said. I think that
the United States is the best country
in the world, but I am Puerto Rican
frst.
Both President Barack Obama
and rival Mitt Romney have said
they supported the referendum,
with Obama pledging to respect the
will of the people if there is a clear
majority. Any change would require
approval by the U.S. Congress.
Pro-statehooders say Puerto Rico
would beneft from becoming a
state because it would receive an ad-
ditional $20 billion a year in federal
funds to boost the local economy
and combat crime.
JOHANNESBURG New South
African banknotes featuring the im-
age of former president and anti-
apartheid icon Nelson Mandela are
going into circulation.
Reserve Bank Governor Gill
Marcus made the frst purchase us-
ing the new rand notes at a small
shop in Pretoria on Tuesday. She
says the country tries to upgrade its
notes every seven years for security
reasons as technologies change.
Te new 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200
rand banknotes feature Mandelas
image on one side and the other
side maintains the Big Five animals
already on the bills.
Marcus said Mandela was shown
the new banknotes and that he was
delighted.
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Puerto Rico decides its fate
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A poster showing safety features of a bank note bearing the image of former presi-
dent and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela at a press launch in Pretoria, South
Africa, on Tuesday.
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A supporter of Alejandro Garcia Padilla, candidate for governor of the pro-commonwealth Popular Democratic Party, cheers
during his closing campaign rally in San Juan, Puerto rico, on Sunday.
AuSTrAliA
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A rare female spade-toothed beaked whale lies dead on Opape beach, in New
Zealand. The spade-toothed beaked whale is so rare, nobody has seen one alive.
but scientists are sure it exists.
Spade-toothed whale exists
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for your support.
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with conservation. Set long-range
goals. Youre gaining the lasting re-
spect of your peers.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Confrm what youve learned with
others. Continue to increase your
area of infuence this week. Make the
frst move. Choose the jobs you want
to do. Document the results.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
Take charge. Calm down someone
whos getting agitated. You may fnd
your responsibilities rise this week.
Love spurs you to action. Leave rou-
tine chores for another day.
Sagittarius
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 7
Gather up as much as you can,
and beware of hidden expenses. Get
rid of unnecessary stuff. Others vie
for your attention; your teammate
scores. Strive for perfection.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 5
New income sources come to your
attention. Be cautious with money
now. A bond gets renewed. Delegate,
and inspire action. Continue to in-
crease your search parameters, and
proft.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
Theres money coming in, and you
can get more if you act quickly. The
work is hard, but proftable. If you
dont know how, study. Share your
info and sources.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
Provide information. Passion is
part of the picture. Pare the superfu-
ous to increase effciency. Build team
relationships with enthusiasm. Get
projects fnished and out the door.
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FILM
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Remember that feeling the origi-
nal Toy Story evoked? It gave
children a look inside a world
theyd always imagined, made even
more exciting by all the recogniz-
able real toys it featured. Disneys
Wreck-It Ralph provides a similar
experience, except with what kids
move on to after their toys: video
games.
Behind the glass screens of
arcade machines, the game charac-
ters have lives of their own. Wreck-
It Ralph opens with the title char-
acter (voiced by John C. Reilly) at a
meeting of Bad Guys Anonymous,
with the likes of a Pac-Man ghost,
Dr. Eggman, Bowser and other var-
ious villains.
After 30 years wrecking build-
ings while the hero of his game,
Fix-It Felix Jr. (Jack McBrayer),
repairs them and saves the day,
Ralph is tired of being an outcast
of society and wants to play the
hero for once. So he breaks game
world rules and jumps into an alien
first-person shooter to acquire a
winners medal.
But his clumsiness winds up
landing him in a Mario Kartlike
game where he must help a little
girl (Sarah Silverman) become a
racer in order to reclaim his medal.
All the while, Felix and the FPS
leader (Jane Lynch) must track him
down before Ralphs absence ends
his own game.
Much of the fun in Wreck-It
Ralph comes from the fully real-
ized world of the movie, which is
full of references and characters
from all over the video game realm.
The send-ups of gaming culture
start on a wider scale at first, rang-
ing everywhere from Q*bert
to Street Fighter to Root Beer
Tapper. Then the subtextual jokes
focus in more on specific aspects
of gaming as the story progresses,
like characters not moving fluidly,
glitches and the programming code
of a game.
The first half is more entertain-
ing for this reason, particularly for
those who recognize all the ref-
erences to other games. But the
second half makes up for the lack
of game-jumping with a surpris-
ing emotional core as Reilly and
Silverman comically play off each
other and even bring a few tears
to the eye.
The inspired sense of creativity
throughout stands out above all
else. Director Rich Moore has a
nostalgic reverence for the beloved
characters featured and for the
tropes of video games, and it shows
in the cleverly hilarious humor.
Several subtly-implemented twists
especially elevate the final act and
tie everything together in a very
satisfying manner.
For any video game fan, this is a
must see. But Wreck-It Ralph at
its heart is a story about two out-
siders searching for acceptance. So
even for all non-gamers, this still
holds up as one of Disneys more
unique animated films, absolutely
worth playing.
Edited by Megan Hinman
alex lamb
alamb@kansan.com
mumford & sons refect
on newest alum, babel
LOS ANGELES Describing
the latest album from his band
Mumford & Sons, Ben Lovett side-
steps much of the language artists
ofen use to talk about their music.
Te 26-year-old keyboardist says
that the record was forced out of
this internal desire to prove that we
have many more songs in us.
In October Babel entered Bill-
boards album chart at No. 1, scor-
ing what was then the years biggest
sales week. with more than 600,000
copies sold, according to Nielsen
SoundScan.
To date Babel has sold 992,000
albums, while Sigh No More is at
2.54 million; right now both discs
which together have yielded a
string of hit singles, beginning with
Little Lion Man and extending
through the new albums I Will
Wait sit in the top 25 of the Bill-
board 200.
Associated Press
By Alex Lamb
alamb@kansan.com
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of the Cuban missile crisis, when war
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kingdom.
Dr. No released the following May
in the United States, and starring Sean
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with a license to kill, dispatched to
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On Friday, Skyfall, the 23rd 007
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turn as the British intelligence operative,
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of the formidable franchise. To date, the
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character, says Craig, who has followed
in the footsteps and the tailored suits
of Connery, George Lazenby (an Aussie,
and the forgotten Bond, appearing only
in 1969s On Her Majestys Secret Ser-
vice), Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and
Pierce Brosnan. Theres this internal
confict in the way Fleming wrote Bond,
Craig said in an interview.
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RADICAL SOMETHING
L
ast week, one of Lawrences
most beloved bars was the
scene of widespread contro-
versy. Long story short, two people
were caught in the middle of some-
thing that some people unfortu-
nately choose to engage in while
drunk and riled up on the dance
foor. If you dont know what Im
talking about, use your imagina-
tion.
Its not just any dance foor,
though. Its the Boom Boom Room
at the Jayhawk Caf.
If you havent heard, both par-
ties handled it in completely difer-
ent ways and are going to continue
to deal with the consequences for
quite some time. For most people,
though, its old news already.
Now that weve had a week to
mull everything over, theres still
a discussion to be had about the
controversy and its sticky-foored,
dimly-lit setting.
Once the lions share of campus
got wind of it, everyone took to
Twitter and other forms of social
media to crack jokes and pass judg-
ment on the involved parties. Ev-
eryone from the girl in your COMS
class to @FakeJefWithey and Afen-
tra of 96.5 Te Buzz stuck their
nose in and ofered their takes,
which generally consisted of wise-
cracks and various ways of shaming
those involved.
I couldnt help myself and of-
fered my own jokes too, but I never
called anyone a slut or whore.
Tough a strong argument could
be made for the use of those words,
theyre completely unnecessary.
Why? Because this all happened
in the Boom Boom Room.
If youre one of the people whos
lived in Lawrence for years without
losing your Boom Boom Room vir-
ginity, youre probably more whole-
some and morally sound than the
lot of us. Anyone who has been
past that huge metal door into the
steamy, sticky basement of 1340
Ohio St. knows that the contro-
versy that unfolded is nothing new
someone just got a picture of it.
Te Boom Boom Room is essen-
tially a small room that serves as a
promiscuous, hedonistic getaway
from the morally and politically-
correct real world. Te drinks are
cheap, the music is loud and the
inhibitions are low. Lawrences
drunkest patrons take to the dance
foor and seemingly lose control of
their hands, subsequently leading to
some sexually explicit behavior in
public. Te lights are low, though,
but if you take a good look around
as the strobe lights ficker on, youll
see what Im talking about.
Sure, its ridiculous and a lot of
people think its disgusting. Teyre
not wrong, but at the same time,
they arent the key demographic
for such a room. Had this incident
taken place on campus in broad
daylight, it would have been dra-
matically worse. It didnt, though
it happened in the Boom Boom
Room. If I was given the scenario
and you asked me to take a stab at
where it went down, thats the frst
place Id guess.
You cant help but feel kind of
sorry for the involved parties be-
cause they were just the frst to get
caught on camera while doing what
people have been rumored to have
done in the Boom Boom Room for
years. Id argue that these types of
incidents arent common, per se,
but they certainly arent unheard
of.
Te public ridicule may have
been both justifed and over-the-
line at times, but what people have
failed to grasp is that this isnt any-
thing groundbreaking. Consensual
debauchery is the name of the game
in that basement, and its something
that has its place in a college town.
Its your choice whether or not you
participate, but theres no sense in
hammering away at those who opt
to make their own bad decisions
there.
All is fair in love and the Boom
Boom Room.
Barbosa is a junior majoring in
journalism from Leawood. For more
hilarity, follow him on Twitter
@AJBARBROSA.
E
ven though there has gen-
erally always been a clear
political divide throughout
the course of American politics,
the current high-stakes economy
has exacerbated the diferences
between the political parties and
makes bipartisanship look like a
breakup gone horribly awry. And
with ballots having been casted
yesterday, the politics of some re-
lationships here at the University
have sometimes been difcult to
ignore.
Even halfway across the coun-
try from Washington, some stu-
dents on our own campus believe
politics can make a diference in
dating, myself included. Just a few
years ago when a guy I liked made
an anti-gay comment in front of a
group of people, the phrase Tats
a dealbreaker, ladies suddenly
fashed across my mind.
I vetoed any chances of dating
him because he doesnt support
equal LGBQT rights. I fgured that
said enough about him that I
needed to hear, and the degree to
which I considered him likable
plummeted. I was so turned of
by his conservatism, and I rarely
saw him again.
My memory of that instance
and my own politics made me
ask this election cycle how much
pull politics have when it comes
to the politics of dating. So with
that I went searching for the an-
swer in the one place on campus
that no matter what would be flled
to capacity at any given time: the
Underground at Wescoe.
According to my survey of Uni-
versity students late last month, 60
Democrats, Republicans, and In-
dependents alike can fnally agree
on one thing: that politics dont
at all or at least dont necessarily
derail a new relationship before
it starts. Te results were surpris-
ingly bipartisan with only fve stu-
dents answering that politics do
make a diference in dating.
And though only a single-digit
percent of students surveyed said
that politics are defnitely a deal-
breaker, as it turns out, senior Tan-
ya Martinez is one of them.
Te Arabic and Islamic studies
major said, Political afliation is a
huge deal breaker for me because I
am a very outspoken person when
it comes to politics. Its usually one
of the frst things I bring up in
conversation. Martinez went on
to say that she cares about having
a choice when it comes to womens
sexual health, unequal pay, and
taxes.
Martinez, currently engaged,
also said politics played a role
in choosing her fanc. She said,
I remember when I barely met
him, I mentioned something very
political that was important to
me, and he agreed with me. From
there I started asking more ques-
tions and realized how similar we
were ideologically. I saw that we
thought alike, so I knew we were
meant to be.
She fnally concluded that she
thinks students at the University
should understand that despite
her refusal to date a Republican,
politics are not the center of her
universe.
I do have friends who think
completely diferent than I do,
Martinez said. I use political afl-
iation to determine who Im going
to spend the rest of my life with.
If hes joining me in my shouting
matches at Ann Coulter and Rush
Limbaugh, then thats real love.
Finally, while most students
surveyed said that political aflia-
tion isnt necessarily a deal break-
er, students should meanwhile be
sure not to undermine what the
way someone votes says about that
person. A vote is not just a matter
of flling in bubbles on a ballot.
Rather, its a refection of who we
are as thinkers.
And when it comes to dating,
political afliation is more than
just a shiny object. It represents
what we value and what kind of
outlook we have on life in general.
So maybe we shouldnt neces-
sarily think that political afliation
is an end-all, be-all dealbreaker,
but it should at least be taken into
consideration when we start dating
someone new. And regardless of
whether its an election year or not,
we all need to choose our leaders
and our partners wisely.

Rachel Keith is a graduate student in
education from Wichita. Follow her
on Twitter @Rachel_UDKeith.
E
ven though Kansas is a
traditionally red state,
residents werent free from
some of the commotion election
season caused. Im all for being
loud and proud about politics;
however, since the early primary
season until now, Ive become
just plain tired of hearing about
politics. And really, I think some-
times we all need some things to
look forward to.
So afer the polling places
closed last night and news outlets
announced the president for 2013
to 2017, there are a few things ev-
eryone can go back to enjoying.
Te frst, and my favorite, is the
return of news coverage on actual
issues. No ofense to Big Bird and
binders full of women or com-
placent Obama and his running
mate, boisterous Biden, but I like
hearing more about things that
dont involve speech technicali-
ties, strategies, body languages
or political gafes. Why not ex-
plain whats going on with the
Pakistani girl who was shot for
standing up for her education?
Why not look at the impending
clif when we reach the debt ceil-
ing again? Even Hurricane Sandy
was spun to include Obama and
Romney. Tings that moved to
the back burner during the elec-
tion can return. Finally.
Media outlets werent the only
ones fooding Kansans with po-
litical noise. Checking Facebook
and Twitter was almost unbear-
able. Dont get me wrong, po-
litically inclined friends are good
friends to have. Te downside to
that was wading through the po-
litical mumbo-jumbo they post.
What used to be a nice study
break had become a source of
frustration. Wont it be nice to
return to a friendly Facebook? I
cant wait to see what itll look like
without political memes or party
bashing. Even with timeline,
those days are hard to remember.
You know what else we can
look forward to? Clean yards.
In the next few days, or weeks,
people will start to remove the
lawn signs supporting diferent
politicians. Te local candidates
seemed to pepper just about ev-
ery neighborhood, particularly in
small towns. With the beautiful
landscapes and a pretty fall this
season, itll be nice to see them in
their natural state instead of cor-
rupted by a slew of politicians.
And fnally, we can avoid that
awkward side-stepping of politi-
cal conversation. Before you know
some friends political opinions
and youre talking about cur-
rent events or Saturday Night
Live and youre really careful
because you dont know which
side you can joke about with-
out ofending them? Yeah, that
can be avoided for a few years.
Ah, the peace.
Ten again, election season
ofered a variety of good enter-
tainment. If you watched SNL
you saw plenty, but TV wasnt
where it stopped. You could eas-
ily sit on Wescoe, in the Under-
ground or a library and fnd con-
versations with good arguments
and conversations with bad ones
for and against the Republican
and Democrat presidential can-
didates. And each one would be
as heated as the next.
But really, Im the most thank-
ful for simply being able to say
that I voted. Today, when Ameri-
cans can expect their normal TV
programming instead of a debate,
we can be thankful that we have
the opportunity to do that. And
if we didnt get the president we
want this time around, we have
about three years of peace to stew
it over before the process begins
again.
Hawkins is a junior majoring in
journalism from Scranton.
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Politics dont make or break couples
relationships
Kansas basketball
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night. How do you
feel about last nights
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politiCs night liFe
Ready for the election to end Boom Boom room
photo causes a stir
By AJ Barbosa
abarbosa@kansan.com
By Angela Hawkins
ahawkins@kansan.com
What do you mean phog isnt
recognized as a word? im pretty sure
thats a sin apple...
saw someone on the bus who looks
remarkably like Dwight schrute.
scholarly articles should be written in
hieroglyphics. they would be easier
to read.
KU should start a support group for
victims of squirrel attacks.
appropriately using your turn signals
is super sexy.
stop the woo. respect the phog.
i bet the cop who walks Bill self out
pretends all the cheering is for him.
its funny how my voice has dropped
an octave by the time second half
gets here.
Maybe he isnt a selby 2.0 but its too
early to tell if hes a Xavier henry 2.0.
thats the longest i ever want to
partake in no shave november!
i should be allowed to punch smokers.
self defense.
i got attacked by a squirrel before it
was cool.
remember star Wars fans, Disney
made the avengers.
Bad game: after being chased youll
realize the cops on campus are
actually fast.
that awesome moment when the cop
that pulls you over looks like seth
rogen. oh yes offcer, ive been super
bad!
i voted because lawrence transit told
me to.
i ran from the cops shouting i didnt
do it. i got tackled and questioned. i
referred them to the FFa.
some art students are carrying giant
styrofoam and cardboard letters. i feel
like im on sesame street.
new class needed for freshmen and
grad students: Walking 101. learn to
walk a little faster and not take up the
while hallway.
ive tweeted nearly 11,000 times
because ive had twitter for four years...
Dont assume we all hopped on the
bandwagon yesterday.
to the girls who dress adorable and
cute everyday... how? honestly, it is a
miracle that i even remembered pants
this morning.
WASHINGTON President
Barack Obama rolled to re-elec-
tion Tuesday night, vanquishing
former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
Romney despite a weak economy
that plagued his first term and
put a crimp in the middle class
dreams of millions.
In victory, he confidently
promised better days ahead.
Obama spoke to thousands
of cheering supporters in his
hometown of Chicago, praising
Romney and declaring his opti-
mism for the next four years.
While our road has been hard,
though our journey has been
long, we have picked ourselves
up, we have fought our way back
and we know in our hearts that
for the United States of America,
the best is yet to come, he said.
Romney made his own grace-
ful concession speech before a
disappointed crowd in Boston.
He summoned all Americans
to pray for Obama and urged
the nights political winners to
put partisan bickering aside and
reach across the aisle to tackle
the nations problems.
Still, after the costliest and
one of the nastiest campaigns
in history, divided government
was alive and well.
Democrats retained control of
the Senate with surprising ease.
Republicans did the same
in the House, ensuring that
Speaker John Boehner of Ohio,
Obamas partner in unsuccess-
ful deficit talks, would reclaim
his seat at the bargaining table.
At Obama headquarters in
Chicago, a huge crowd gathered
waving small American flags and
cheering.
Supporters hugged each other,
danced and pumped their fists
in the air.
Excited crowds also gathered
in New Yorks Times Square, at
Faneuil Hall in Boston and near
the White House in Washington,
drivers joyfully honking as they
passed by.
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ELEctIoN RESULtS
National
U.S. hoUSE oF
REPRESENtAtIVES
(2nd District)
Lynn Jenkins
John Wilson
State
State
StAtE hoUSE oF
REPRESENAtIVES
(42ND DIStRIct)
StAtE hoUSE oF
REPRESENAtIVES
(44th DIStRIct)
StAtE hoUSE oF
REPRESENAtIVES
(46th DIStRIct)
StAtE hoUSE oF
REPRESENAtIVES
(10th DIStRIct)
Connie OBrien
Barbara Ballard
Ken Corbert
Local
coUNtY
commISSIoNER
(3rd District)
coUNtY
commISSIoNER
(2nd District)
James Flory
Nancy Thellman
Marci Francisco
Tom Holland
Casey Moore
StAtE SENAtE
(2ND DIStRIct)
StAtE SENAtE
(3RD DIStRIct)
StAtE SENAtE
(19th DIStRIct)
poLiticS
State
Judges
your ballot
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Yes NANcY L. moRItz
coURt oF APPEALS
Yes StEVE LEbEN
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Yes DAVID E. bRUNS
G. GoRDoN AtchESoN Yes
KAREN ARNoLD-bURGER Yes
RIchARD D. GREENE Yes
DIStRIct coURt
bARbARA KAY hUFF Yes
mIchAEL j. mALoNE Yes
PAULA Yes
Will they be retained
in offce?
Election Results from the Douglas county clerks office as of 11:30 p.m.
TOPEKA An incum-
bent Democratic State Board of
Education member on Tuesday
defeated a Republican challenger
with ties to an anti-gay Topeka
church notorious for picketing
military members funerals.
According to unofficial results,
Carolyn Campbell of Topeka
defeated Jack Wu, a Topeka com-
puter programmer who made
opposition to teaching evolution
the cornerstone of his campaign
in the 4th District in northeast
Kansas. Wu described evolution
as Satanic lies and said on a
website that public schools were
preparing students to be liars,
crooks, thieves, murderers, and
perverts.
Campbell campaigned aggres-
sively, saying throughout that
she took nothing for granted.
Messages left for Campbell
werent immediately returned
Tuesday night.
Wu also raised eyebrows
by saying that he was lured to
Kansas from California in 2008
by Westboro Baptist. The Topeka
church, led by the Rev. Fred Phelps
Sr., is known internationally for
picketing with anti-gay slogans
and proclaiming that American
soldiers deaths are Gods pun-
ishment for the
nations tolerance
of homosexuality.
Wu is not formal-
ly a member, but
hes attended ser-
vices regularly.
Republ i cans,
including Gov.
Sam Brownback,
disavowed Wu in June, and
Democrats worked to make sure
voters knew about his identifica-
tion with Westboro Baptist. Wu
said he didnt have the campaign
resources to counter Campbells
ads making an issue of his ties to
the church.
I dont see where that has any-
thing to do with public education.
It is what it is, he said.
Campbell, a former Topeka
school board member, was elect-
ed to her second, four-year term
on the state board.
She acknowledged that she was
worried some voters in GOP-
leaning Kansas would simply fol-
low Wus party affiliation.
John Ham, 48, a stay-at-
home father of two teenagers in
Topeka, is a registered Republican
but voted for
C a m p b e l l
because of
Wus ties to
We s t b o r o
Baptist. He
said he too
w o r r i e d
that about
Republ i cans
voting a straight ticket.
I hope that everyone else
understood the actual candi-
dates, he said, leaving his poll-
ing place at the Topeka Lutheran
School.
The election keeps the 10-mem-
ber boards balance of power the
same, diminishing any chances
that Kansas might adopt science
standards for its public schools
skeptical of evolution, as it has in
the past.
A coalition of Democrats and
moderate Republicans was firmly
in the majority.
Much of the boards work
in setting education policy has
been overshadowed since the late
1990s by debates about how evo-
lution should be taught and the
resulting national attention and
ridicule.
The state had five sets of stan-
dards in eight years starting in
1999, as evolution skeptics gained
and lost state board majorities in
elections.
The current, evolution-friend-
ly standards were adopted by
the board in 2007, but state law
requires them to be updated.
Kansas is working with 25
other states and the National
Research Council on proposed
science standards, and Kansas
officials expect the state board
to consider adopting them early
next year.
In the 2nd District in the
Kansas City area, Steve Roberts,
an Overland Park Republican and
professional math tutor, defeated
former state Rep. Cindy Neighbor
of Shawnee.
Both favored evolution-friend-
ly science standards.
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Kansans rebuff Wu, creationism
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understood the actual
candidates.
JohN ham
topeka resident
mccaskill defeats
Akin in Senate race
WaShiNGtoN Sen. claire
mccaskill has won re-election in
missouri, holding off Rep. todd
akin who came under fre for say-
ing women had ways of preventing
pregnancies in the case of legiti-
mate rape.
mccaskills victory denies Re-
publicans a seat theyd hoped to
pick up before akins comments.
Democrats have picked up two
Senate seats from the Republicans
Elizabeth Warren in massachu-
setts and Joe Donnelly in indiana
while the Gop has lost three
seats, including to an independent
in maine.
as of 10:45 p.m. Eastern time,
Democrats had locked up 45 seats,
Republicans 42, including 67 seats
not up for election. Democrats now
hold a 53-seat majority, including
two independents who align with
them.
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obama promises prosperity
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president Barack obama waves as he
walks on stage with frst lady michelle
obama and daughters malia and Sasha
at his election night party last night in
chicago.
S
porting Kansas City was picked by
many to win the Major League Soccer
Cup as it entered the playoffs as the
best team in the Eastern Conference. After
losing 2-0 at Houston on Sunday, Sporting
KC must overturn that deficit in tonights
game if the team wants to continue its post-
season run.
Sporting KC went into the playoffs
with the best defense in the league but has
struggled to score all season, averaging just
1.2 goals per game. This is a strange statis-
tic considering the team takes pride in its
attacking 4-3-3 formation.
Houston will likely sit back and defend
tonight, which is nothing new to Kansas
City. Most teams this year have come to
Livestrong Sporting Park with the defen-
sive mentality to shut down the dangerous
Sporting attack. This is one of the biggest
reasons this seasons team has had a difficult
time scoring.
Kei Kamara is the teams leading scorer
with 11 goals and eight assists this season,
but the key to the Sporting KC attack is
midfielder Graham Zusi. Zusi has made
an amazing 15 assists from his attack-
ing midfield role in addition to five goals
this season. He has been the teams best
player all season and will need to create
scoring opportunities if Sporting KC is to
avoid being knocked out of the playoffs by
Houston for the second straight season.
Despite being considered one of the more
attractive teams to watch in the league,
Kansas City doesnt ignore the dirty work.
Sporting KC is near the top in all defensive
statistical categories, and goalie Jimmie
Nielson led the MLS with 15 shutouts this
season. The teams defensive record may
be Sporting KCs biggest advantage in the
effort to turn over this 2-0 deficit.
A huge reason Sporting KC is able to
control games and keep opponents off the
scoreboard lies with the domination of the
midfield. Zusi may get most of the credit
for this, but Roger Espinoza and Julio Cesar
make it all possible. The two midfielders
can run all day and often are the ones who
stop any attack by the opposition. Espinoza
and Cesar help players move up the field
because these two are always behind to
break up any opponents attack. Both players
will be expected to control the opposition
counterattacks while the rest of the Sporting
KC team looks for the two goals it needs.
Despite struggling in the first match of
the playoffs, a return home to Livestrong
Sporting Park (LSP) will surely lift the team.
Widely considered one of the best soccer-
specific stadiums in the country, LSP also
boasts one of the best atmospheres in Major
League Soccer. This is a huge advantage for
the team, which will use the noise to apply
pressure on the Houston defense.
Throughout the history of the MLS play-
offs, teams have overturned first-leg deficits
to move on. Tonight, Sporting KC faces a
good team, but the KC players know they
have the talent and pedigree to overturn the
deficit. An early goal will really make the
team believe a win is possible; this makes
the first 20 minutes the most important part
of the game.
If Sporting KC is able to grab the early
goal, then the team will be confident about
overturning the deficit. Houston, on the
other hand, has experienced players who
know how to win big games and will make
things very difficult for Sporting KC. This
match is going to be a challenge for Kansas
City, but if the team plays its best game,
then it should be able to overcome the woe-
ful first leg that got it in this 2-0 hole.

Edited by Joanna Hlavacek
PAGE 7 thE UNIVERSItY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012
By Andrew Morris
amorris@kansan.com
thE MORNING BREW

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Q: When was the last time Kansas
City overturned a 2-0 frst leg defcit
to advance in the playoffs?
A: 2004, Kansas City won the
second leg 3-0 to beat San Jose 3-2
on aggregate
kansascity.com
tRIVIA Of thE DAY
!
Sporting Kansas Citys average
attendance for 2012 was 19,404 per
match setting a new team record.
sportingkc.com

fAct Of thE DAY
We dont want to be down 2-0, but
theres not one person on our team
that doesnt think we can come back
and win this next game 3-0, 4-0, 5-0.
Were going to come back, play this
next leg and see what happens.
Sporting KC midfelder Graham
Zusi to kansascity.com
QUOtE Of thE DAY
This week in athletics
Sporting KC looks to keep postseason hopes alive against Houston
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At three of its conference games
on the road this season, Kansas
only mustered nine points in the
second half. Te Jayhawks have
just scored a touchdown and a feld
goal.
When Kansas visited Kansas
State, Oklahoma and Baylor, it al-
lowed 70 points combined in the
second half. With two road games
remaining in the season, includ-
ing this Saturdays match against
Texas Tech, Weis added a new goal
for the team to come out of the
locker room and produce better in
the second half.
We all need to do a better job
when were on the road and in
the last three games, thats not the
way its gone, Weis said. Im very
annoyed how last week went. It
would be nice if we played good
for a whole game on the road.
Kansas trailed K-State by three
points and was down six points
against Baylor at halfime. Weis
wants his ofense to create the same
output in the second half and the
defense to play well for four quar-
ters. In doing so, Kansas is bound
to end its 18-game conference los-
ing streak.
As the Jayhawks prepare for the
Red Raiders, Weis will approach
this road game diferently. He wants
the team to get on the bus and ar-
rive in Lubbock, Texas sooner than
they had planned. Te players will
have a run-through at Jones AT&T
Stadium the day before the game,
and then hold a team meeting af-
terward before playing Texas Tech
the next morning,
Tere are things that I dont
normally do that Im doing this
week, because Im never going to
stay status quo if its not working,
Weis said. Im going to try some-
thing else.
As a senior and one of the cap-
tains on the team, ofensive tackle
Tanner Hawkinson works on keep-
ing the team in uniform and mak-
ing sure his teammates come out
of halfime with the same mindset
used at the start of the game to fn-
ish strongly.
I think we have to just keep
the intensity up, Hawkinson said.
Youre coming out of the frst half
and youve got a lot of juices fow-
ing. I think weve just got to keep
that up throughout the second
half and just not let of the pedal
at all.
Weis said the second half road
mishaps are not only on the play-
ers, but the coaches as well. Hes
told the team all season that it
needs to execute better in the sec-
ond half.
Running back coach Reggie
Mitchell said that Weis has put to-
gether a diferent game plan for the
players.
We played four quarters
against Texas, Mitchell said. Its
just something were going to build
on. We are a new program and its
going to take some time. Tat is
something that coach Weis is con-
stantly talking to the guys about,
being able to fnish a game.
Kansas impressed many spec-
tators with its ability to play four
competitive quarters at home. In
the three home conference games
the Jayhawks hosted, theyve
inched closer in the fnal score and
feel they can compete with anyone
in the Big 12.
We need to capitalize on some
of the opportunities that we have,
tight end Jimmay Mundine said.
You cant have two people to their
job and one person not to his job
because the end result wont be
good. When everyone fnally puts
it together, well be all right.
Edited by Christy Khamphilay
Outside hitter Catherine Car-
michael loves her hometown, and
she loves it even more when she
gets to play a match in her home-
town and leave with a victory.
Being from Manhattan, Kan.,
her friends wont let her forget it.
Anytime in any sport ever, it
could be the swimming and div-
ing team, anybody in K-State
beats us in anything, Ill get texts,
my phone will blow up, Carmi-
chael said. I can still be friends
with them, but when it comes to
rivalries like that we defnitely
have a divide.
Te junior will either receive
or send trash-talk texts with her
friends afer the No. 23 Jayhawks
match against No. 17 Kansas State
tonight at 7 p.m. in Manhattan.
Carmichael grew up in Manhat-
tan and said she loves the town,
but she never felt like Kansas State
was the college for her. She didnt
have any ties to Lawrence before
visiting, but her family is slowly
warming to the Jayhawks.
However, its a slow process,
especially for her stepdad. He is
from Manhattan and graduated
from Kansas State as a diehard
Wildcat, while her mom
came to Manhattan when she
met Carmichaels biological
dad. Afer spending four years at
Kansas, Carmichael said her step-
dad is fnally able to bring himself
to wear crimson and blue.
He was like, I guess Im go-
ing to have to fgure out how to
wear blue without getting hives,
Carmichael said. I never thought
Id see my stepdad wear a KU t-
shirt, but weve worked him into it
gradually. So now I think when he
comes to the game hell wear a KU
t-shirt, I hope.
Junior setter Erin McNorton
also contends with a divided fam-
ily. Her dad played football at
Kansas State and her uncle and
grandparents are Wildcat fans,
but her uncle played at Kansas.
McNorton said her dad will
wear Jayhawk gear to support her
and enjoys the rivalry, but her
cousin absolutely hates that she
plays for Kansas.
It kills my cousin to wear any-
thing KU, McNorton said. She
hates being in here. She likes
watching the games. But being on
campus and stuf, she hates it.
Just like Carmichaels stepdad,
McNortons father still supports
his Wildcat roots. McNorton ap-
plied to Kansas
State to humor
her dad, but she
said she never
seriously enter-
tained becoming
a Wildcat.
He did man-
age to show a
little bit of a sof
side for Kansas
when the teams
met for the frst
time this season
on Oct. 17.
He sent me a
text last time and
said, Youll hear
this only three
more times but
I hope that Jay-
hawks kill the
Wildcats, Mc-
Norton said.
Carmichael hopes Kansas can
fulfll Mr. McNortons wish, be-
cause it would give her a chance to
gloat to her friends about Kansas
sweeping the Wildcats, something
it hasnt done since 2009. She said
the Kansas State matches are her
favorite matches of the season.
I think people think that com-
ing out of Manhattan, I have some
thing for K-State that Ill never
admit, but I really dont, Carmi-
chael said. I love KU, and so just
to beat K-State is really big for
me.
Coach Ray Bechard said the
Jayhawks must have better ofen-
sive balance tonight than they did
in their frst meeting this season
with Kansas State, when only two
Jayhawks fnished with double-
digit kills.
Hopefully we can create some
good ofensive balance, and obvi-
ously (Tayler) Tolefree and (Caro-
line) Jarmoc are going to get their
share, Bechard said. But Dock
(Tiana Dockery), (Chelsea) Al-
bers, Carmichael and (Sara) Mc-
Clinton need to be productive,
too.
Edited by Brian Sisk
S
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Volume 125 Issue 44 kansan.com Wednesday, November 7, 2012
COMMENTARY
Goodrich
the player
to watch
By Mike Vernon
mvernon@kansan.com
work in proGress
honing the other half
sports
Volleyball
Coach Charlie Weis focuses on the Jayhawks second half performance
Outside hitter hopes for hometown victory
farzin vougsoughian
fvougsoughian@kansan.com
geoffrey Calvert
gcalvert@kansan.com
assoCiated Press
kansas quarterback Michael Cummings (14) scores past baylor linebacker eddie lackey, left, in the frst half of an nCaa college football game on saturday, nov. 3, 2012, in waco, Texas.
tara bryant/Kansan
Junior setter erin Mcnorton (17) and junior middle blocker Caroline Jarmoc (9) attempt to block a spike
by a UMkC opponent sept. 4 at the Horejsi Family athletics Center.
T
he most dominant play-
er for Kansas basket-
ball this season will be
its point guard. No, it wont
be Elijah Johnson. Or Naadir
Tharpe. Or Anrio Adams.
It will be Angel Goodrich,
the budding star of the wom-
ens basketball team.
Any one of the 1,926 fans in
attendance at Allen Fieldhouse
on Sunday knows why, too.
Goodrich only played 25
minutes in Kansas 88-43 dis-
mantling of Fort Hays State,
but in those minutes, she gave
an exhibition as to why she was
voted onto the preseason All-
Big 12 team.
She scored 19 points, had
six assists and four steals
against Fort Hays State, which
is remarkable in itself. But
actually watching how she
got those numbers is far more
remarkable than simply look-
ing at them.
There were multiple times
when Goodrich would slice
through the lane, beating her
defender and making a tricky
layup from an awkward angle.
Then Goodrich would steal the
ball from the Fort Hays State
point guard as she tried to take
it up the court and pass it to
her teammate for another two
points.
In one play, Goodrich caught
a high pass on the perime-
ter and before her feet came
back to earth, she passed the
ball inside to forward Tania
Jackson for an easy layup.
Goodrich was all over the
floor Sunday afternoon against
a Fort Hays State team that
only lost to Kansas State by
11, too. It was an impressive
stand for an impressive Kansas
team.
Yes, theres a reason this bas-
ketball team is ranked No. 22
in the country, and Goodrich
is an integral part of it.
Her defense, scoring and
passing make her nearly impos-
sible to stop, and the Jayhawks
look primed for another suc-
cessful season.
Goodrich controlled the
entire game for Kansas as it
absolutely dismantled a team
that was simply ill-equipped to
handle them. Literally, as the
Tigers starting point guard had
to sit out because of an injury.
Still, regardless of her oppo-
nent, Goodrich was good.
Really good. And thats all
you can ask from a teams best
player.
Not only is Goodrich one of
the best point guards in this
conference, but shes one of the
best in the nation. Thats not
something to take lightly.
Every player wearing crim-
son and blue any given evening
is better because Goodrich is
their point guard.
Thats why she will be the
most dominant player to don
a Kansas basketball uniform
this season.
Edited by Christy Khamphilay
The Jayhawks
take on Southeast
Missouri State
on Friday
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