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Thursday, December 4, 2014

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Student Senate adjusts language of election code

The changes are small but
clarify key parts of the election
code that was changed drastically last fall. It makes adjustments to the requirements of
poster and banner sizes. In
addition, it adds intent clauses
into the sanctioning process.

MIRANDA DAVIS
@MirandaDavisUDK

Student Senate executives are

hopeful that small adjustments
to the current election code will
help streamline next semesters
Student Senate elections.
Two election reform bills were
heard by members Wednesday
night and passed unanimously
in Rights Committee and University Affairs Committee.
If both bills pass in full senate
next week, all of this semesters election reform will have
passed and all modifications to
Student Senate rules and regulations will be in place before
election season begins in the
spring semester.
Will Admussen, government
relations director and a co-author of the bill, said the goal
was not to overhaul the code,
but to make small adjustments.
He said that way, students have
the opportunity to learn and
execute it from year to year.
Its a continuation of election
code that was generally good
with improvements, that while
they are critical, arent going to
materially alter the entire elections code, Admussen said.

Its a continuation of election code that was generally

good with improvements,
that while they are critical,
arent going to materially
alter the entire elections
code.
WILL ADMUSSEN
Co-author of bill

The bill changes the language

of section 7.4.11.6.7. to add
intentional violations of the
section 7.4.3, which deal with
campaign finances. Admussen said this is to help remove
disqualifications if someone
makes a clerical error on the
financial reports. He said a
small error shouldnt warrant
the entire disqualification of a

coalition, which is the rule as it

stands now.
The bill also redefined the
term benefit as it concerns
elections and clarifies that coalitions cannot accept gifts of
benefits as donations from outside sources.
Many of the changes stem
from last springs election,
which was riddled with issues
as the Elections Commission
worked to interpret the new
language of the election code.
This resulted in the disqualification of one of the coalitions
and a re-election at beginning
of this semester to remedy the
situation.
The way rules are interpreted is never going to be perfect, Admussen said. So this
year, with the knowledge of
what happened last year, with
the knowledge of all the complaints filed, we can make the
rules better.
Admussen said the changes
will ensure justice for the student body and make it easier
for coalitions to interpret the
rules and avoid unintentional
mistakes.
Edited by Amelia Arvesen

JAMES HOYT/KANSAN

Student senators sit in the front row of a meeting on Aug. 27. Student Senate discussed changing the language
of current election code Wednesday night.

66 employees
newly eligible
for health care
MCKENNA HARFORD
@McKennaHarford

JAMES HOYT/KANSAN

Ice skaters make laps around the ice rink by the Lawrence Public Library on Vermont Street on Dec. 3.

The University has offered

health care to 66 employees,
including students, faculty and
staff, for the upcoming year.
These employees are newly
eligible under the Affordable
Care Act.
We had a low number of
people eligible and the eligibility was largely decided with
the old policy, Ola Faucher,
director of Human Resources,
said.
Human Resources passed a
policy that limits student employees to working 20 hours
a week during the school year
and 40 hours during the break.

In order to ease the transition,

this year the policy allows for
departments to decide if students can work up to 29 hours
a week.
Faucher said that Human
Resources hasnt received any
complaints about the policy
and that low number of people eligible for health care is a
good sign.
One can speculate that in
general, student employees
work within the hours established, Faucher said. If they
worked significantly outside of
[the policy] then the numbers
would be higher. So one could

SEE HEALTH PAGE 2A

Downtown ice skating rink

already popular with locals KORA requests
AARON GROENE
@WatchTheGroan

Growing up in Lawrence,
freshman Maddie York
took annual trips to Crown
Center to ice skate during
the holiday season. This
year, Lawrence ice skaters
wont have to make that
trek to Kansas City, as the
community ice skating rink
opened Friday.
I was really excited
because I love to ice skate,
York said. I feel like a lot of
people get bored in Lawrence
and feel like they have to go
to Kansas City to do a lot of
things, but this is another
place for families to go and
have fun.
Snuggled on the small

Index

plaza between the Lawrence

Public Library and the
parking garage on the 700
block of Vermont Street,
the skating rink is already a
popular attraction.
Jimmy Gibbs, recreational
operations manager for
Lawrence
Parks
and
Recreation, said 400 people
used the rink on opening
day and 1,300 used it over
the extended weekend,
both of which exceeded
expectations.
We knew we would have
a lot of folks out, but 400 in
a short period of time was
fantastic, Gibbs said. It was
really well received by the
community. We knew a lot

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Dont
Forget

continue for
student group
MIRANDA DAVIS
@MirandaDavisUDK

The student group that requested documents from the

University has received only
part of the Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) request it
filed to the University in September.
Schuyler Kraus, a senior
from Allen, Texas, said the
University has only provided
documents pertaining to some
of the request. She said the
University told her it would
provide the rest once it was
finished processing those doc-

Only 16 (or fewer) days until

Winter Break!

uments.
Im expecting that it will
happen eventually, Im confused as to why its taking to
long to produce that information, Kraus said. I understand that theres probably
a lot of correspondence that
needs to be reviewed for the
redaction process but its been
a few months.
Kraus is president of Students for a Sustainable Future,
the student group who submitted a comprehensive Kansas Open Records Act request

JAMES HOYT/KANSAN

Wheat State Pizza on 23rd and

Louisiana has been seized by the
State because of $42,000 worth of
unpaid state taxes.

Wheat State Pizza shut

down for not paying
taxes

Wheat State Pizza on W. 23rd

Street was seized Tuesday by the
Kansas Department of Revenue for
failure to pay more than $42,000
in outstanding state taxes over the
past four years.
According to a press release from
the department, Officers seized
all known bank accounts, on-site
cash, business inventory and personal property assets belonging to
owners Bradley L. and Jennifer R.
Remington. The restaurant has
been sealed and a public auction
will be held where the assets will
be sold to pay the remaining debt.
This is not a new situation for the
23rd Street restaurant however, as
the Remingtons only became the
owners after the previous owner
went through a similar situation
in 2010. A Kansas Department of
Revenue press release from August of that year reveals that the
previous owner, Ryan Murphy, had
Wheat State Pizza locations in
Lawrence, Baldwin City, and Emporia all seized for failing to pay almost $234,000 in sales taxes and
withholding taxes. The restaurant
was then purchased by the Remingtons, whose debts date back to
that same month.
Both press releases emphasize
that such action is a last resort
utilized only after all other methods
of retrieving the debts fail.
Only after several unsuccessful attempts does the department
take the action of seizing assets,
according to the press release,
which in this instance resulted in
the business being closed.

SEE KORA PAGE 2A

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Thursday, Dec. 4

Friday, Dec. 5

Saturday, Dec. 6

What: Conflict Management

What: Undergraduate Research

Workshop
When: 9 a.m. to noon
Where: Joseph R. Pearson Hall,
Room 204
About: A workshop about conflict
as a natural part of relationships,
including confrontation and
resolution.

Office Hours
When: 10 a.m. to noon
Where: Strong Hall, Room 151
About: Learn how to get started in
research, find a mentor or apply for
funding.

What: Open Drawing

When: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Art and Design Building,

Room 405
About: Free drawing classes offered
by the Department of Visual Art.

Sunday, Dec. 7
What: Lecture: The Plains Indians
When: 1 to 2 p.m.
Where: Spencer Museum of Art

auditorium
About: A lecture about the Artists
of Earth and Sky on view at the
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

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HEALTH FROM PAGE 1A

Sales manager
Tom Wittler

speculate that the policy hasnt

had much impact.
The University has also been
working on implementing the
software that tracks the hours
of employees and alerts the
school to people trending towards the 30 hours a week that
would make them eligible for
benefits.

Digital media manager

Scott Weidner
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Associate news editor
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Arts & features editor
Lyndsey Havens

SKATE FROM PAGE 1A

Sports editor
Brian Hillix

of folks in the community were

excited about it, and that just
confirmed that.
The skating surface cost
the city $80,000 and took
city workers a week and a
half to construct and install.
The surface isnt actually ice;
instead, its a synthetic, plasticlike ice with an embedded
lubricant. The material the
rink is made of raised some
questions for York.
When I found it was going
to be made of a plastic material,
I didnt know how it was going
to do, York said. I think the
real ice is easier to skate on.
Novice ice skaters shouldnt
be worried, though. York said
there isnt much of a difference
for someone who doesnt skate
regularly.
This surface does not require
a Zamboni, an ice resurfacer
vehicle, but does require sharp
skates. To ensure everyone has
the best experience, skaters are
required to rent skates, which
are included in the $3 skating
fee.
Regular skates just arent
sharp enough, Gibbs said. If
people bring their own skates
from home, if they are not
sharp or they are the wrong
type of blade, theyre not going
to have a good experience at
all, and we want to make sure
that that experience out there
is good.
LPR picked the plaza for
the ice rink because it met

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Gov. Sam Brownback listens as Tyler Tenbrink, Sr. Labor Economist, Kansas Dept. of Labor, outlines the
leading Indicators of the Kansas Economy, during the Governors Council of Economic Advisors meeting in
Topeka, Wednesday afternoon.

Economist: Kansas
regains lost
private-sector jobs
TOPEKA Kansas has regained the private-sector jobs
it lost during the most recent recession while seeing a shift from
employment in manufacturing to
services, a state economist told
a group of Republican Gov. Sam
Brownbacks advisers Wednesday.
Wages have been rising this
year but havent fully rebounded from the 2007-09 recession
when adjusted for inflation, said
Tyler Tenbrink, senior economist
for the Kansas Department of
Labor.
Tenbrinks report on employment and wages came during a
meeting of the governors council
of economic advisers. Brownback saw the mix of news as
positive.
The conservative governor last
month won a tough re-election
race after a contentious debate
over aggressive personal income

KORA FROM PAGE 1A

from the University about
certain professors at the
School of Business including hiring records as well as
their relationship with the
Koch brothers.
Kraus said they received
documents about the circumstances of the hiring
of three professors: George
Bittlingmayer, Art Hall and
Koleman Strumpf, who
all teach economics in the
School of Business.

I understand that theres

probably a lot of correspondence that needs to be
reviewed for the redaction
process but its been a few
months.
SCHUYLER KRAUS
Senior from Allen, Texas

Kraus and Students for a

Sustainable Future became
interested because they
heard the Koch brothers
gave donations to other universities around the country.
Internal memos and emails,
like those at Florida State, indicate the Koch brothers had

tax cuts enacted at his urging

in 2012 and 2013 to boost the
states economy. Critics argued
the cuts didnt boost growth as
much as predicted, and Kansas
now faces predicted shortfalls
totaling more than $700 million
in its current and next budgets.
Tenbrink said the state should
continue to see growth in the
number of private-sector, nonfarm jobs over the next six to
12 months. An index of leading
economic indicators compiled
for the council covering items
such as commercial truck traffic,
commercial property sales and
building permits also suggests growth.
Thats indicating a very strong
up-pull, isnt it? Brownback
said.
Tenbrink answered: Right.
In Kansas, about 1.14 million people held private-sector,
non-farm jobs in April 2008, the
previous peak, with the Great
Recession starting in December
2007. Such employment bottomed out in February 2010 at
1.06 million, eight months after

the national recession officially

ended. Kansas lost 76,900 jobs,
a decline of 6.8 percent.
As of October, such employment was back at 1.14 million.
Of the jobs lost from April 2008
through February 2010, 29,300
were in manufacturing. Tenbrink
said the state has regained only
600 of them replacing them
largely with jobs in professional
and business services.
Bob Wheeler, a council member and retired CEO for Hills Pet
Nutrition Inc., said its unlikely
the lost manufacturing jobs will
return.
Manufacturing
companies
tightened their belt, he said.
Theyve become a whole lot
more effective and efficient.
Meanwhile, a 12-month moving average, inflation-adjusted
hourly wage in Kansas peaked at
$22.53 in October 2009 and was
at $22.01, or 2.3 percent lower,
in October 2014.

influence over hiring and

curriculum.
The Kochs have given
donations to the School
of Business so the student
group filed the KORA to
learn if the case was similar
at the University.
The University hasnt released any documents about
the relationship between the
business school and Kochs
yet, but has released only the
information about the hiring
process of those three business professors.
The University is also expected to release information
about the correspondence
between those professors
and the Koch brothers. Once
the University agrees to fulfill a KORA request and have
determined that the documents are public record, they
are obligated to produce the
documents.
The KORA filed in early September came with a
$1,800 price tag. The student
group fundraised and were
able to raise enough money
to make the payment. They
have been waiting ever since.
Kraus said the University told her the documents
would originally be sent in
late October. The documents

were not released to the students until 4:55 p.m. Nov.

25, the day before Thanksgiving break.
University Administration
couldnt be reached for comment before publication.

Associated Press

Faucher said that the progress has been good so far and
that the University hopes to
have the software fully implemented soon.
The policy will be reviewed
again in a year to accommodate for any changes in the law
and to evaluate the effectiveness.

Edited by Logan Schlossberg

the necessary criteria, which

included access to electricity
and restrooms and a building
to use for skate rentals. Another
important goal was for the
rink to help bolster Lawrences
uniqueness.
As we started looking at the
sites downtown, whether it

I think its a good location

because everyone likes to go
downtown, see the lights and
visit the library.

MADDIE YORK
Freshman from Lawrence

be a parking lot or one of our

parks, that plaza area between
the library and the parking
garage just became a very
natural fit, Gibbs said. We
tried to as much as we could to
make downtown a vibrant, fun
unique area. I think having this
skating rink downtown really
ties into that purpose.
York agreed the location was
a good fit.
I think its a good location
because everyone likes to go
downtown, see the lights and
visit the library, York said.
Hours of operation and other
information about the ice
skating rink can be found at
lawrenceks.org/lprd
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014

Panel to discuss missing Mexican students

MARK ARCE

This Sunday is the 109th

anniversary of Helium being
discovered at KU and the 42nd
anniversary of the first Jayhawk
alum to travel in space. Big day!

@Mark_Arce13

This Friday, a student organization will hold a roundtable

composed of students and faculty to discuss the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico,
and among other topics, how
the incident relates to violence
and corruption. The roundtable
will take place from 5:30-7:30
p.m. in Bailey Hall in room 318.
Latin American Graduate Organization president Marisela
Chvez, a graduate student
from Colima, Mexico, sees the
roundtable as a way for other
members of the group to stay
connected with activism in response to the event, while also
contributing to the overall conversation surrounding it.
It definitely helps us feel
more connected to whats going
on, Chvez said.
The panel will discuss a variety of subjects related to the disappearance of the 43 students,
such as: education after the
Mexican Revolution, how the
government has criminalized
activities like protesting, the
Mexican presidents response
to the event and the domestic
and international response to
the event in Mexico.
Its not just about learning,
its about discussing and its
about questioning, its about
being upset and its about hearing different perspectives from
different people and their interpretations and how do we make
sense of that, Chvez said.
The panel will be made of
University faculty as well as
graduate students. Faculty includes professors Magal Rabasa, Rafael Acosta and Ruben
Flores, and lecturer Elizabeth
Villalobos. The faculty will be
joined by graduate students
Adolfo Bejar, from Mexico
City, and Tomas Soriano, from
Tampico, Mexico.
The panel is a part of an ongoing reaction to the disappear-

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ance of 43 students from Raul
Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers
College that were abducted by
local police in Iguala, Mexico,
in September. The students
were protesting controversial
hiring and funding practices by
the Mexican government.
Rabasa, one of the panelist,
said the solidarity shown for
the students is part of a larger
problem.
I see whats happening in
Mexico right now and the case
of the missing 43 students as
absolutely tied to not only 500
years of resistance and exploitation, but also to the last eight
years of the war in Mexico,
Rabasa said. I think its really
kind of a tipping point, which
is why weve seen so many protests around it.
For Chvez, the panel format
is an informal way to discuss a
complex topic.
I think the accessibility is
an important part, Chvez
said. There will be some more
experienced scholars, some
emerging scholars and then
everybody who really has some
genuine questions.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOP: Two people hold up a black Mexican flag dotted with photos of people during a march in Mexico City on
Monday. Protesters marched in several cities in Mexico to mark the second anniversary of President Enrique
Pena Nietos administration and demand the government find students who disappeared at the hands of police.
ABOVE: A protester sets on fire several busts and photographs of former Guerrero state governors outside the
state government palace in Chilpancingo, Mexico, on Wednesday.
Rabasa thinks the panel
serves as a way to show struggles students in other parts of
the world face, and can give
insight to the place some recent
immigrants are coming from as
well as raise awareness.
Raising awareness is just one
of the ways we can actually intervene in whats happening,

because when a government

knows the world is watching
they start to pay more attention
to what they are doing, Rabasa said. Its not to say I think
that the Mexican government
is going to start being nice, but
international attention has always been a very, very powerful
strategy and so my hope is that

by adding Lawrence to the list

of hundreds of cities around
the world that are doing actions
like this and having events to
inform people, contributes to
that actual awareness and that
potential to intervene.
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Youre paid to take care of the
rec. Clean the courts. Theyre
awful.
Meditation during finals sounds
nice, but honestly, I know I
wouldnt be able to think about
anything except finals.

Need for police cams strengthened after Ferguson

By Gabe Sprague
@SpragueGabe

What has happened with

Michael Browns case in
Ferguson, Mo., is tragic.
However, what people are
not realizing is that police
brutality toward African
Americans is extremely
widespread. According to an
analysis of federally-collected data by ProPublica, an
independent nonprofit newsroom, of 1,217 total police
shootings, black males ages
15-19 were killed at a rate
of 31.17 per million, while
only 1.47 per million white
males ages 15-19 were killed.
One hundred and eighty-five
more whites a week would
have to be killed in those
three years to equal that of

I accidentally clicked shut

down instead of log off
on one of the computers in
Summerfield, and its been
doing update 22 of 94 since
Monday
Dont judge me for having my
hands in my pants. My uterus
isnt happy, it wants to be held.
I guarantee I would be just as
unproductive the Friday before
finals if Stop Day didnt exist.
#NeverStopStopDay
I swear some buildings still
have their A/C running#wearingacoat #inclass #stillcold
Talking about finals makes me
realize that its that much closer
to the end of the semester!
Where has all the time gone??
I love finding a good book and
getting so lost in it! People need
to read for fun more often.
I dont understand my friends
who work all the time and complain that theyre broke. Like,
where does all your money go!?

African-American deaths.
Ferguson is just one of many
examples of racially biased
police brutality and further
solidifies the need for police
officers to wear cameras
while on duty.
Forcing police officers to
wear mandatory cameras
while on duty would provide
a level of objectivity allowing the judicial system to
know exactly what happened
in a citizen-police confrontation. Eyewitness testimonies
cannot be understood as
fact. Even in the court case
of police officer Darren Wilson and Brown, eyewitnesses
provided contradictory
evidence. If Wilson had been
required to wear a camera,
a jury would have been able
to easily decide whether

to indict him. They would

have had a factual and
objective account of what
happened.

$263
MILLION

President Obama has called

for $263 million to fund
police body cameras in order
to improve relations between
police departments and
minority communities.
Mandatory police cameras have been shown to be
effective at reducing police

brutality. According to the

Wall Street Journal, the first
year of using police cameras
in Rialto, Calif., reduced the
use of force by officers by 60
percent and citizens complaints against police officers
has dropped by 88 percent.
These improvements could
be from having an objective
account of what happened
or perhaps the psychological
effects of having a third-party observer. Regardless, if the
United States implemented
these cameras everywhere,
a lot of crime could be avoided.
On Dec. 1, President
Obama called for $263
million to fund police body
cameras in order to improve
relations between police
departments and minority

communities. This amount

would help fund more than
50,000 cameras.
Im glad President Obama
has come to the conclusion
that we need police cameras, but improving the
relationship between police
and minorities is too late.
What happened to Brown
and everyone involved has
been happening to others
for years. Police cameras will
help, but racially charged
police brutality will continue
to be a problem that plagues
our nation. Hopefully, police
cameras will be a small step
toward a police system that
does not consider race when
deciding to use force.

Gabe Sprague is a junior from

Concordia studying English

Greek Life offers positive

aspects to campus life

I havent slept in two days.

Teachers please dont call on
me because I probably cant
speak correctly right now.
Why do classes take attendance? This is university, not
high school.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014

THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN

By Adam Timmerman
@AdamTweets4You

Based on past events and

the rise of a negative perception across both campus
and the nation, someone
identifying as a fraternity
or sorority member can
meet a lot of disfavor these
days. On a regular basis,
anyone can find an article
bashing this fraternity or
that sorority, stating all the
evil things they have done.
Its true some members
of fraternities and sororities act poorly, but when
someone judges Greek Life
they should look at all of
the pieces involved in the
system, rather than just the
negativity displayed by only
a few members.
Take into account the
numbers that come out of
Greek Life here at Kansas.
According to the 2014
Greek Life Annual Report
released by the Student
Involvement and Leadership
Center office, more than
3,400 students (18 percent
of the undergraduate population) participate in Greek
Life. These students saw a
higher retention rate than
non-greek students. The
class of 2013 freshmen per-

sistence rate was 6.3 percent

higher for greeks, and the
older classes for greeks have
seen persistence rates range
between 17 and 20 percent
higher than non-greeks.
The average chapter GPA
was 3.17, and the 2013 Fall
Semester All-Greek GPA
was 9.6 percent higher than
the All-University GPA.
And its not just internally
where Greek Life is succeeding. In 2013, 60 percent of
ExCEL nominees were a
part of Greek Life, with the
winner belonging to Alpha
Tau Omega. The past five
Student Senate presidents
have also been greek. Fraternities and sororities also
completed 84,708 hands-on
service hours in Douglas
County last year, and its estimated that in 2013 alone,
greeks raised more than
$220,000 for charity.
If you wish to ban Greek
Life on campus, think
about what the University
is going to lose if they do
so. Most of the participants
in Homecoming, the KU
Dance Marathon and the
Big Event are greeks. Think
of the housing and all of the
food plans the University
would have to provide if all
of the chapters were banned
and the greek houses closed.
Think of the number of donations Kansas would lose
if it bans a system that has
produced so many successful people.
Eliminating the system

would be detrimental to the

success of the University
and criticizing the entire
greek system because a few
of its members messed up
is wrong. Also, in light of
recent events, the greek
community has stepped
up to attempt to solve the
problems that have recently
plagued the community.
In 2013, 100 percent of
the chapters participated
in council-sponsored risk
management training,
and the sexual assault task
force formed by the greek
community happened this
semester.
It may be true, fraternities and sororities arent
perfect. Its understood that
not everyone has a positive
fraternity and sorority experience and its true that its
not for everyone. However,
the greek community is not
some awful exclusive club
that only keeps to itself and
condemns those who arent
in it. Rather, its a community thats trying to get
the most out of the college
experience through bettering its members and giving
back to the local community. The greek community
does much more good than
bad, and getting rid of the
community would not be
in the best interest of the
University.
Adam Timmerman is a senior
from Sioux Falls, S.D., studying
environmental studies

Bought a new pair of gloves the

other day and Ive already lost
them :(
When does Game of Thrones
come back? I miss me some
Tyrion Lannister
#BestCharacterHandsDown
This whole bus situation is
getting out of control! Dont be
mean to our bus drivers!!
#EricGarner
Victorias Secret Fashion Show
really makes me want to get my
buns back in the gym.

Should police officers be

required to wear body
cameras while on duty?

Im almost finished with all

seven seasons of Gilmore
Girls...Im about to cry :(
Not sure what everyones
fascination is with Harry Styles.
Admit it... if he werent a celebrity you all probably wouldnt
think hes that hot.

@Sunnydaejones

@KansanOpinion Absolutely. They should

also be required to have them on at all
times. Then we could celebrate good
cops, and properly sanction bad ones.

Puking in alleys is a hobby of

most students.

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Peaceful protests
more effective in
sending message
By Madeline Umali
@madelineumali

After a grand jury declined to

indict former Officer Darren
Wilson for the death of Michael Brown, the uproar across
the nation did not come as a
surprise. After a few destructive days, people have joined
across the country to peacefully protest for what they believe
in. It is our right to peacefully
protest for whatever we stand
for and that right should
especially be protected during
difficult times.
Across the nation, a string of
dangerous riots have occurred
after the announcement.
Ferguson was the first target of
attack after the announcement;
however, people have started
to protest in San Francisco,
Seattle and Chicago, according to USA Today. Although
these protests could have been
peaceful demonstrations,
several ended in injuries and
arrests.
Instead of causing more
harm, it is time the media and
the protesters support peaceful
protests. There have been
several acts of peace already,
but to continue this pattern

we need to let people know we

appreciate their protests and
acknowledge their message.
According to the Wall Street
Journal, people in the St.
Louis and Ferguson area have
started to include members
of the clergy in their protests
to demonstrate that they have
come in peace. The protests
consisted of a sunrise prayer
vigil and several familiar
chants such as, This is what
democracy looks like!
In addition, these peaceful protests have started an
upbringing of street art in St.
Louis. According to the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, businesses in the area boarded their
windows in preparation for
potential unrest. The boards
were painted in bright colors
with messages about healing,
collaboration and peace.
These peaceful actions are
examples of how we should
demand change, but in a positive manner. Instead of putting
others in danger by starting
riots, people should be taking
part in peaceful demonstrations. The best way to make a
change without hurting anyone
else is by standing for what
you believe in with respect and
peace.

Madeline Umali is a sophomore

from St. Louis studying journalism

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that leggings arent pants and I would still
wear leggings as pants.

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arts & features

HOROSCOPES

Because the stars

know things we dont.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
Theres more work coming in.
Help your team score over the
next six weeks, with Mars in
Aquarius. Aim for long-range
targets by considering what
youd most love to increase or
protect. Moneys available. Soak
up the love.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
Others look to you for your
common sense. Advance in your
career for about six weeks, with
Mars in Aquarius. Move forward
boldly. Pour energy into your
work. Others are feeling generous. A bonus is possible. Friends
provide a connection.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is a 7
Keep up with homework. Dont
take big risks. Avoid overindulging. Over the next six weeks,
travel is likely. Youll have itchy
feet with Mars in Aquarius.
Pursue travels, studies and
adventures.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is an 8
Collaboration gets you farther
than Lone Ranger solitude. Rely
on someone who sees from a
different view. Make future plans
together over the next six weeks
with Mars in Aquarius. Review
and revise the budget.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
Push the creativity envelope. It
could get surprisingly fun. Work
as a team and get farther over
the next six weeks with Mars in
Aquarius. Support your partner,
and ask for help when needed.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 9
Focus your energy on work over
the next six weeks with Mars in
Aquarius. Theres a profitable
opportunity available. Consider
a new option or brilliant suggestion. Provide excellent service,
and reap the benefits.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
Intensify personal efforts. Give
family your full attention. Your
actions speak louder than words
for about six weeks with Mars in
Aquarius. Romance sparks when
least expected. Passion and
creativity infuse the atmosphere.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21
Today is a 9
Creative talents come to the
fore. Present your ideas. Over
the next six weeks with Mars
in Aquarius, improve your
living conditions. Get into home
renovation, organization and
beautification.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 9
Learn difficult material quickly
for about six weeks with Mars
in Aquarius. Youre intent on
getting the whole story, spurred
to action. Write, record and
promote. Dig deeper to find the
truth. Theres money available.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
A positive attitude leads to increased prosperity and affection.
Go for a raise or prize without
worrying about competition.
Over the next six weeks with
Mars in Aquarius, avoid reckless
spending.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is an 8
Think big. Provide excellent
service. Consider an option
previously rejected. You solve
problems quickly over the next
six weeks with Mars in Aquarius.
Take decisive action, in full
confidence. Let go of outgrown
associations.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
Youre very creative now. Its
easier to throw things away for
about six weeks with Mars in
Aquarius. Clean closets, garages
and attics. Rest up and exercise
close to home. Make long-term
plans and set priorities.

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Holiday drink specials in Lawrence

MARISSA KAUFMANN
@Mariss193

This season holiday drinks

are so popular that some
local coffee shops have been
running out of their seasonal
drinks and forced to order
more than anticipated. Check
out the specialties offered in
Lawrence.

Decade:

Homemade Chai: A spin

on a traditional recipe that
is spicy and stronger with
whole spices of cardamom,
black pepper, ginger and
cinnamon, and organic tea
and made in house from
scratch.
Mulled Cider: Hot spiced
cider.

Billy Vanilly:

Hawk Chocolates: Hot

chocolate flavors inspired by
their cupcakes.
Billy Vanilly: Vanilla hot
cocoa with whipped cream
and signature Billy Vanilly
sprinkles.
Death by Chocolate: Hot
cocoa with dark chocolate
ganache
topped
with
whipped cream and mini
chocolate chips.
Oatmeal Cookie: Maple hot
cocoa with whipped cream
and topped with shortbread
cookies.
Raspberry: Raspberry hot
cocoa topped with whipped

cream and chocolate chips.

Salted Caramel: Hot cocoa
with extra chocolate topped
with whipped cream and a
caramel salt drizzle.
Arctic White: White hot
cocoa with extra white
chocolate ganache, with
whipped cream.
Smores:
Hot
cocoa
complete with marshmallows
and finished with whipped
cream.

Henrys Coffee Shop:

Persian
Tiger:
White
chocolate
mocha
with
cardamom.
The Squirrels Bounty: Latte
with peanut butter, hazelnut
and Amaretto liqueur.
Muddy Pumpkin: Dirty
chai with pumpkin spice.
Caramel Apple Cider: Apple
cider with caramel sauce
sprinkled with cinnamon.
Orange
Autumn
Tea:
Harney & Sons English
Breakfast Tea steeped with an
orange and cinnamon syrup.
Green Tea Lattes
Apples + Honey Latte:
Apple cider and chai
latte steamed with honey
sprinkled with cinnamon.
La Prima Tazza:

@LarryvilleLife Yule Nog

Steamer
Tazzas Cherry Cloud Latte
Baklava Latte

Java Break:

Minty Hot Chocolate

Caramel Apple Cider
Spicy JB Mocha: Mocha
latte
with
homemade
chocolate and spiced with
cinnamon, nutmeg and a
dash of cayenne.

Caribou Coffee:

Gingersnap Cookie Mocha

Ho Ho Mint Mocha:
Peppermint Mocha
Spicy Mocha: Mexican Hot
Chocolate
Fa la la Latte: Eggnog Latte
*On Dec. 11 (Caribous
birthday), drinks are buy
one, get one free.

The Roost:

Different specials every day.

Starbucks:
Chestnut Praline Latte
Peppermint Mocha
Caramel Brulee Latte
Eggnog Latte
Gingerbread Latte
Miltons:
The most popular winter
drinks include:
Bourbon
Spiked
Hot
Chocolate
Kahlua Latte
Traditional Irish Coffee
Dunkin Donuts:

Sugar Cookie Latte

Snickerdoodle Cookie Latte
Peppermint Mocha Latte
Salted
Caramel
Hot

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JAMES HOYT/KANSAN

The Spicy Mocha from Java Break is just one of the many holiday drinks
available this winter from local businesses.
Chocolate

The Roasterie at the Union:

Edited by Logan Schlossberg

Candy Cane Mocha

ArtPlace Project remodels part of East Lawrence

DELANEY REYBURN
@DelaneyReyburn

The Lawrence Art Center

has been working on a
project to design new streets
and sidewalks that are more
artistic by adding sculptures
and other installations in the
East Lawrence community.
University alumni and
active
muralist
David
Loewenstein said the Art
Center is working with
ArtPlace America, a group
of private foundations that
pool money together in
order to carry out projects
intended to fuel economic
development through the
arts.
The Lawrence Art Center
wrote a grant for a half
million dollars to ArtPlace
to begin the process and
the city then put in about
3 million of their money
making it a 3.5 million
dollar project.
East Lawrence, according
to
Loewenstein,
is
considered to be an old
working class neighborhood
and after years of tradition
many
residents
have
concerns about trusting
new development projects.

As the project ideas begin

to surface more and more,
neighbors and residents
around East Lawrence are
advocating for a voice within
the ArtPlace project.
Loewenstein said the idea
of the project is to remake
Ninth Street from about
New Hampshire to Delaware
streets. The project is in
the process of hiring a
design firm, which will
help facilitate the types of
renovations that will be done
to East Lawrence.

firm that the city hopes to

hire, Loewenstein said.
The project has been up in
the air for two to three years
now, Loewenstein said, but
the Art Center didnt form
an official proposal until
last spring. Since then, there
has been much discussion
among the neighborhood
and residents as to the pros
and cons of this project
taking over East Lawrence.
Loewenstein
attended
graduate school at Kansas
in 1991 as a painter and
has been an artist in the
Lawrence community for
25 years. His involvement
in
community
mural
Nothing will appear on
projects contributes to his
Ninth Street that hasnt been
passion in advocating for a
a part of a public process.
voice for the East Lawrence
community in this project.
SUSAN TATE
Some of the concerns
Executive director, have been first, this
Lawrence Arts Center isnt a project that the
neighborhood chose so
its coming sort of from
Loewenstein said, KUs outside and because of that,
Department of Architecture there are a lot of neighbors
is involved in helping that would like to have a
the Art Center in regards voice in giving ideas and
to
planning.
One
of making decisions about the
the Universitys faculty project, Loewenstein said.
members, Josh Shelton, is
Specifically,
many
the head of the architecture neighbors believe the project

attempts to tell a new story

about the neighborhood
which isnt a story the
residents chose, leaving
them with the feeling that
they are losing a part of their
community.
Susan Tate, executive
director of the Lawrence
Arts Center, said parts of
the application, including
the project budget, timeline
and information about the
leadership team, hasnt
been made public because
the
information
could
compromise the identity of
private donors to the arts
center, and also could allow
people to figure out the
salaries of some arts center
employees.
Tate said that the things like
new sidewalks, public art,
streetscape improvements
or events for the corridor
will go through the normal
City Hall process for public
spending.
Im confident in our level
of transparency, Tate said.
Nothing will appear on
Ninth Street that hasnt been
a part of a public process.
The
neighbors
and
residents that hope for a
voice in the project have

been
advocating
this
through a variety of ways.
Loewenstein said neighbors
and residents of the East
Lawrence community have
been meeting with the East
Lawrence
neighborhood
association,
have
been
conversing
amongst
themselves, have written
letters to the newspaper,
and many have gone to the
city commission meetings to
speak.
Loewensteins
personal
goal in advocating for this
project is more about how the
process goes and less about
the exact outcomes. So
what I would like to see is a
process thats truly inclusive;
that gives East Lawrence
real decision making power,
instead of just input, so that
everybody else is accounted
for, Loewenstein said.
Residents with similar
views
to
Loewensteins
hope to soon have decision
making
power
instead
of simply giving input as
the project continues to
progress.
Edited by Andrew Collins

University Theatre opens The Last Cyclist

RYAN WRIGHT

@RyanWayneWright
The University Theatre
will open The Last Cyclist
this weekend. The play is
a satire and was originally
composed by Karel Svenk,
a Czech writer who lived in
Nazi concentration camps.
The play opens Saturday at

7:30 p.m. at Inge Theatre

and runs through Dec. 11.
The Sunday performance is
at 2:30 p.m., and the other
performances are at 7:30
p.m. Inge Theatre is located
inside of Murphy Hall at
1530 Naismith Drive.
This is the first time the
play has ever been produced
by a university. After Karel

PERFORMANCE
When: Saturday, Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Inge Theatre, 1530 Naismith Drive in
Murphy Hall
Cost: $10-$15
PRE-PERFORMANCE
When: Saturday, Dec. 6 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Murphy Hall, Room 354
Cost: Free and open to the public

Svenk wrote the play in 1944,

the play was rehearsed inside
the Terezin Concentration
Camp
near
Prague.
According to KU Theatre,
The Last Cyclist was never
performed after the final
dress rehearsal because it
was feared that the satire of
the treatment of Jews and
others by Nazis would lead
to fatal consequences. The
play was censored but has
since been reconstructed.
The play follows a group
of people who unite their
society around a scapegoat
for all of their problems
people who cycle which
was similar to the what the
Nazis did to Jewish people.
It is directed by Gina
Sandi-Diaz and Rachel
Blackburn, who are both
KU students. Sandi-Diaz is
a second-year Ph.D. student
and
graduate
teaching
assistant, and Blackburn
is a Ph.D. student and a
professional director.

The Last Cyclist sets itself

apart from other plays due
to the fact that its a comedy
about the Holocaust.

the play can be translated

to modern times. SandiDiaz said the play remains
important today because
unfortunately,
history
continues to repeat itself,
and violence and hatred
against others is still very
Life is absurd and darkly
much alive in the world.
funny; its an honest mix of
Its absurd and laughable
the comedy and drama that
that there could be a human
make up our lives and our
being in our day and
history.
age that learns about the
histories of the Holocaust,
RACHEL BLACKBURN slavery, Rwanda, etc., and
Director then turns around and hates
another group of people for
Its a dark comedy, and whatever reason, Blackburn
Ive always been attracted to said.
that genre because to me, it
Naomi Patz, the woman
seems the most true-to-life who reconstructed the play,
depiction in storytelling that will be in attendance on
we have, Blackburn said. opening night and will speak
Life is absurd and darkly before the performance.
funny; its an honest mix of
Tickets are still available
the comedy and drama that and can be purchased at
make up our lives and our kutheatre.com.
history.
The play is primarily about
Edited by Alyssa Scott
the past, but the themes of

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Weekend Entertainment Calendar

Friday, Dec. 5
What: Mary Poppins
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Theatre Lawrence, 4660
Bauer Farm Drive
About: The play opens Friday and
will run the first three weekends in
December.
What: Jenny Lewis
When: 8 p.m.
Where: Liberty Hall Cinema, 644
Massachusetts St.
About: The show is open to all ages;
tickets are $21-$25.

Saturday, Dec. 6

Sunday, Dec. 7

What: Winter Wonder Weekend

When: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday
Where: Downtown Lawrence
About: Various holiday events taking
place in downtown Lawrence.

What: Land of the Sweets Dance

Performance
When: 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Where: Point B Dance, 3300 Bob
Billings #11
About: The performance is open to all
ages, and entry is $5.

What: The Last Cyclist

When: Dec. 6 and 8-11 at 7:30 p.m.
and Dec. 7 at 2:30 p.m.
Where: Inge Theatre, 1530 Naismith
Drive in Murphy Hall
About: Tickets are $15 for adults,
$14 for senior citizens and KU faculty
and staff and $10 for children. KU
student tickets are $10 in advance,
$15 at the door.

What: Its a Wonderful Life

When: 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Where: Liberty Hall Cinema
About: The film is 130 minutes, rated
PG and tickets are $8.

Relics from Wonder Years series

given to Smithsonian Museum
BRETT ZONGKER
Associated Press

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SUDOKU

WASHINGTON Kevin
Arnolds green New York Jets
jacket that he wore in The
Wonder Years became a piece
of history Tuesday along with
other items from the popular
TV show that were donated to
the Smithsonian Institution.
Costumes, studio tapes,
scripts and Polaroid photos
from the show have been donated to the National Museum of American History by
several people, including Fred
Savage (who played Arnold),
his real-life mother and other
cast members. The Wonder
Years ran from 1988 to 1993
on ABC and was recently released on DVD.
Curator Dwight Blocker
Bowers said the show was
meticulously designed to
recall the American experience in a turbulent time of
the 1960s through the simple
moments of growing up in a
suburban town.
Savage said his mom, Joanne
Savage, likes to keep everything and held onto the green
and white letterman style
jacket since the show ended.
When her children joked she
was a hoarder, she would quip
that the Smithsonian might
want their things one day.
So Fred Savage said he was
surprised when the museum
actually wanted his old jacket.
He said The Wonder Years
was special because it was
about everyone.
The show celebrated the

achievements and the heroism of everyday life your

first day of junior high, the
first time you call a girl, your
first kiss, Savage said. Thats
where the beauty lies in the
simplicity of the everyday, the
seemingly mundane. Thats
what makes up our memories.
Heres a look at where The
Wonder Years actors are
now.
Savage, 38, who played the
lead character Kevin Arnold,
now has two young children
and directs TV shows, mostly comedies, including the
hit, Modern Family. As a
child actor from the age of 6,
Savage said he was fascinated
with the cameras and always
wanted to direct TV shows.
Savage said he sees some
parallels between The Wonder Years throwback to
1960s suburbia and Modern
Familys take on life now as
minds have opened to different ways families come
together.
He said there are still
those universal experiences
of parents trying to have a
date when they have three
young kids or a childs first
kiss or going away to college.
Theres still a universality, no
matter how a family is put
together.
Jason Hervey, 42, who
played Savages bully big
brother Wayne Arnold, is
now a dad who lives in Nashville, Tenn. He runs his own
TV production company in
Los Angeles, producing re-

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Actors Josh Saviano, left, and Jason Hervey, look at memorabilia from
the award-winning TV series The Wonder Years during a donation
ceremony at the Smithsonians National Museum of American History in
Washington on Dec. 2. The show aired from 1988-1993 and depicted
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University helps develop program

for students with special needs
PAIGE STINGLEY
@PaigeStingley

One of four universities

selected to partner with
TransCen Inc., a nonprofit that
works to provide employment
for youth with disabilities, the
University will help develop
a program that will ease the
transition from high school to
employment for students with
special needs.
The University will receive
$1 million of a $12.5 million
grant from the United States
Department of Educations
Office of Special Education
and Rehabilitative Services.
The other schools include
University of North Carolina
at Charlotte, University of
Oregon, and Western Michigan
University, according to the
abstract of the grant.
The end goal is to improve
outcomes for youth with

disabilities, whether it be
attending college or finding
employment,
said
Dana
Lattin, assistant director of the
Transition Coalition.
The grant will be distributed
over a five-year period and
will be used solely for the
development of the online
blended
program.
The
University was selected for
this project due to its heavy
involvement in the research
and development of youth with
disabilities.
Since the program is designed
for students leaving secondary
education, it will have little
effect on students who are
currently enrolled. Researchers
are looking at students who
have been through the process
of transitioning from high
school to college to see what
can be done to make it easier,
but the University does not
have an active role in that

research.
The Transition Coalition at
the University has collaborated
with youth with disabilities for
the past 20 years. Their focus is
to try to prepare these youth for
living in the real-world.
Stats show that students
with disabilities tend to have
a lower participation rate in
postsecondary
education,
Lattin said. They have a higher
unemployment rate than
students without disabilities,
and often times those who
are employed will be paid less
than their colleagues without
disabilities.
Each
university
has
been assigned a different
responsibility in developing this
program. The Universitys role
in developing this program is
to provide online and blended
professional development for
educators participation in the
overall program. The program

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15 states that have requested
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The
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University of Texas:
Missing brains were
destroyed
HOUSTON Dozens of human brains seemed to be missing from a research lab at the
University of Texas in Austin.
One professor guessed students
either pulled a Halloween prank
or went looking for an odd home
decoration in the form of formaldehyde-packed jars.
Turns out, the story wasnt so
mysterious.
The university said Wednesday
that environmental workers disposed of between 40 and 60 jars,
some of which contained multiple brains, about 12 years ago
after faculty members said they
werent in good enough condition
for research or teaching.
The questions were promoted by
a recently released book about a
brain collection that the university received 28 years ago from
the Austin State Hospital. The
thought-to-be missing specimens were part of the original
collection of 200 brains and had
been stored at the campus Animal Resources Center.
On Tuesday, psychology professor Tim Schallert, a co-cu-

rator of the collection, told the

Austin American-Statesman it
wasnt clear what had happened
to about half of the collection.
Fellow professor and co-curator Lawrence Cormack said it
was possible word got around
among undergraduates and people started swiping them for living rooms or Halloween pranks.
The university then investigated. On Wednesday, the school
said it couldnt provide a specific
number of how many brains were
destroyed. It also said a committee would be appointed to investigate the decision to destroy
some of the brains and how all
the specimens have been handled since the school received
the collection.
As researchers and teachers,
we understand the potential scientific value of all of our holdings
and take our roles as stewards of
them very seriously, the university said in a statement.
The schools preliminary investigation also found no evidence
to support claims that the brain
of Charles Whitman, who fatally
shot 16 people from the universitys clock tower in 1966, was ever
part of the collection.

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Professors research
suspicious online reviews
ALEX KEENAN
@AlexAlexk91

JOHN RAOUX/ASSOCIATED PRESS

The NASA Orion space capsule is seen atop a Delta IV rocket ready for a test launch at the Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station on Wednesday in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The test flight scheduled for Thursday morning will
reach an altitude of 3,600 miles before re-entering the atmosphere.

NASA flying high after

launch of new spacecraft
MARCIA DUNN
Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

With the imminent debut of its Orion spacecraft,
NASA is on a high not felt
since the space shuttle days.
Shuttle veterans, in fact, are
leading the charge in Thursday mornings two-orbit,
4-hour test flight, meant to
shake out the capsule before
astronauts climb aboard
eventually, perhaps, to visit
Mars.
We havent had this feeling
in a while, since the end of the
shuttle program, said Mike
Sarafin, the lead flight director stationed at Mission Control in Houston. Launching
an American spacecraft from
American soil and beginning
something new, in this case
exploring deep space.
Orion is set to fly farther
than any human-rated spacecraft since the Apollo moon
program, aiming for a distance of 3,600 miles, more
than 14 times higher than the
International Space Station.
That peak altitude will
provide the necessary momentum for a 20,000-mph,
4,000-degree entry over the
Pacific. Those 11 short minutes to splashdown is what
NASA calls the trial by fire,

arguably the most critical

part of the entire test flight.
The heat shield at Orions
base, at 16.5 feet across, is the
largest of its kind ever built.
Navy ships were stationed
near the recovery zone off
the Mexican Baja coast.
Its an exciting time, Jeff
Angermeier, ground support
mission manager, said from
Floridas Kennedy Space
Center. You can feel the
buzz.
An estimated 26,000 guests
were expected to jam Kennedy for the sunrise launch,
as well as 650 journalists.
(Actually, the unmanned
rocket will blast off from the
adjoining Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station.) The space
center press site was packed
Wednesday with out-of-town
reporters not seen here since
the last shuttle flight in 2011.
NASAs Orion program
manager, Mark Geyer, puts
the capsules inaugural run
on a par with the formative
steps of Apollo and the space
shuttles.
In the sense that we are
beginning a new mission, it
is, I think, consistent with ...
the beginning of shuttle, the
beginning of Apollo, Geyer
said. Its a new mission for
us, starting in the region of
the moon and then beyond.

Noted NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr.: For

the first time in more than 40
years, this nation is going to
launch a spacecraft intended to carry humans beyond
low-Earth orbit. Thats a big
deal.
Unlike the first space shuttle flight in 1981 helmed
by two pilots Orion will
not carry astronauts before
2021.
NASA wants to test the
most critical parts of the
capsule on this $370 million
shakedown cruise, including the heat shield, parachutes and all the sections
jettisoned during ascent and
entry. The capsule also will
travel through the high-radiation Van Allen belts surrounding Earth; engineers
want to gauge the effects on
the on-board computers.
A Delta IV rocket is hoisting Orion this time around.
For Orions next flight,
around 2018, the capsule will
fly atop the megarocket still
in development by NASA
SLS, short for Space Launch
System. Only after that will
humans climb aboard; NASA
hopes to send an Orion crew
to an asteroid corralled in lunar orbit in the 2020s and to
Mars in the 2030s.

Two years ago Fengjun Li

decided she wanted to get a
haircut.
She decided to use Google
user reviews since she was relatively new to the city of Lawrence to find the best salon,
but what she found made her
suspicious.
Li, an associate professor in
the department of electrical
engineering and computer science at the University,
found that a majority of the
user reviews were short, simple, nondescriptive and the
vast majority of them were
positive usually perfect
scores. After checking user
reviews of other products
and services on a number of
review sites, she noticed several occurrences of similarly
worded and seemingly fake,
or biased reviews.
Ultimately, this led to Li
starting a research project
with Hyunjin Seo, a journalism professor at the University, to help readers determine if reviews are fake or
real. Their goal is to create an
open-source algorithm to detect whether or not a review
is fake, or if the reviewer is
trustworthy or not. It will be
freely available so it can be incorporated into use by other
researchers, users, and companies/corporations.
Spam behavior is not that
obvious, Li said. And because hundreds and thousands of reviews are there
for one brand, its difficult for
people to go over all of them.
So I started to ask myself, Can
we use computer science techniques, can we use algorithms,
to help people make sound
decisions about the quality of
reviews?
The two-year project began
in early 2014 and received
$206,305 in funding from the
Universitys Internal Revenue
Code. They said they hope to
have everything done by the
end of the two-year schedule
in early 2016.
The existing research in content analysis has already made
progress in content analysis

detectors, but Li said there is

room for advancement, specifically in detection rates. An
algorithm developed in 2011
by researchers at Cornell University is used in their website
reviewskeptic.com to detect
fake reviews, but the detection rate is around 90 percent
accurate.
Li and Seo said they hope
that by first improving existing methods of content analysis, and then incorporating
new information into the existing methods, such as the relationships between a reviewer and the audience, they can
improve detection rates.
We took a look at Yelp.com
and found that it has a friendship structure, said Li. It
allows the reviewers to form
social friendships and we
wonder, Can this additional
structure help us? We want
to incorporate the trust introduced by the friendship structure into our spam detection
model.
Additionally, Li and Seo
hope to incorporate reputation into their algorithm.
By looking at reviews done
in the past by a reviewer, the
algorithm might be used to
predict the future opinions on
similar items.
Today, online reviews are
regularly created and used by
millions of people. The popular website Yelp.com reported
an average monthly rate of
138 million unique visitors
just this year. Commonly
viewed as more trustworthy
and honest than traditional
paid reviews, the popularity
of user reviews has led to alltoo-common instances of fake
user reviews, made to manipulate the perceived trustworthiness of the medium.
Fake reviews are created for
a number of reasons be
it spam, endorsement or to
damage a competitors reputation. Aside from the legal
and ethical issues that arise
concerning fake reviews, Seo
and Li said fake reviews are
damaging to the practice of
user peer-reviews for more
personal, endorsement-free
opinions.
The assumption is that these

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Associate professor Fengjun Li

is just one University professor
working on a research project to
help determine if online reviews
for businesses are fake.

reviews are done by peers

[and] customers who voluntarily share information, Seo
said. Its considered as less
biased and more trustworthy
compared with reviews done
by companies. Its an issue of
trust. If this environment is
polluted by manipulators then
we cant advance the social
media environment.
The hope is that through this
research, the methods used to
create fake reviews can be understood, making them much
easier to spot and anticipate.
The detector is meant to benefit the users of a review site,
as well as the review site itself,
and for businesses that may
be negatively impacted by
reviews posted without their
knowledge.
For [a business] it is in their
interest to be able to say that
we have improved our algorithms for reviews and these
[reviews] are more likely to be
authentic, Seo said. Policy
makers in particular, the Fair
Trade Commission and those
who regulate online content,
can utilize our study, and algorithms, and findings to develop their rules and guidelines.
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NYC cop in videotaped death: No intent to harm

COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press

NEW YORK A grand

jury cleared a white police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of an
unarmed black man stopped
for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes, triggering protests in
the streets by hundreds of New
Yorkers who likened the case
to the deadly police shooting
in Ferguson, Mo.
As
the
demonstrations
mounted, a Justice Department official in Washington
said federal authorities would
conduct their own investigation into the July 17 death of
Eric Garner at the hands of Officer Daniel Pantaleo.
Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan said the
grand jury found no reasonable cause to bring charges,
but unlike the chief prosecutor
in the Ferguson case, he gave
no details on how the grand
jury arrived at its decision. The
panel could have considered a
range of charges, from reckless
endangerment to murder.
Protesters gathered in Times
Square and began marching
toward the annual Rockefeller
Center Christmas tree lighting
with a combination of professional-looking signs and
hand-scrawled placards reading, Black lives matter and
Fellow white people, wake
up. And in the Staten Island
neighborhood where Garner
died, people reacted with angry disbelief and chanted, I
cant breathe! and Hands up
dont choke!
Garners mother, Gwen Carr,
said the grand jury decision
just tore me up.
I couldnt see how a grand
jury could vote and say there
was no probable cause, she
said. What were they looking at? Were they looking at
the same video the rest of the
world was looking at?
In his first public comments,

Pantaleo said he prays for Garners family and hopes they accept his condolences.
I became a police officer
to help people and to protect
those who cant protect themselves, he said in the statement. It is never my intention
to harm anyone, and I feel very
bad about the death of Mr.
Garner.
Police union officials and
Pantaleos lawyer argued that
the officer used a takedown
move taught by the police department, not a banned maneuver, because Garner was
resisting arrest. They said his
poor health was the main reason he died.
As protests started to gather
steam citywide, Mayor Bill de
Blasio canceled an appearance
at the tree lighting and met
with Garners father and other
community leaders. At a Staten
Island church, he said theres
a lot of pain and frustration in
the room this evening, but he
called on protesters to remain
peaceful.
A video shot by an onlooker
and widely viewed on the Internet showed the 43-year-old
Garner telling a group of police officers to leave him alone
as they tried to arrest him.
Pantaleo responded by wrapping his arm around Garners
neck in what appeared to be
a chokehold, which is banned
under NYPD policy.
The heavyset Garner, who
had asthma, was heard repeatedly gasping, I cant breathe!
A second video surfaced that
showed police and paramedics
appearing to make no effort
to revive Garner while he lay
motionless on the ground. He
later died at a hospital.
Experts said that without
knowing how prosecutors presented the case, its difficult to
theorize how the grand jury
reached its decision. Critics of
the outcome in Ferguson
where a grand jury last week
refused to indict a white po-

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Benjamin Carr, stepfather of Eric Garner, talks on the phone and to reporters after a grand jurys decision not to indict a New York police officer involved
in Garners death on Wednesday in the Staten Island borough of New York. The decision not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo added to the tensions that
have simmered in the city since Garners death on July 17.
lice officer who shot unarmed
black 18-year-old Michael
Brown complained that
prosecutors there allowed the
officer to give a self-serving
account without challenging
inconsistencies.
The Garner video speaks
for itself, said Jeffrey Fagan,
a professor at Columbia Law
School. It appears to show
negligence. But if we learned
anything from the Brown case,
its the power of prosecutors to
construct and manage a narrative in a way that can shape the
outcome.
As with the Ferguson shooting, the Garner case sparked
protests, accusations of racist
policing and calls for federal
prosecutors to intervene. But
unlike the Missouri protests,
the demonstrations in New
York remained mostly peace-

ful.
The case prompted Police
Commissioner William Bratton to order officers at the
nations largest police department to undergo retraining on
use of force.
After the grand jury decision
came down, Garners widow,
Esaw, said she spoke to Attorney General Eric Holder and
came away with reason to hope
for justice for her husband.
He will not die in vain, she
said. He has children. He has
grandchildren that miss him a
lot. I miss him every single day,
and I try to keep myself busy,
but I know I got to stay strong

and fight this fight.

Several dozen demonstrators
at the site of the Garners arrest scattered cigarettes on the
ground in homage to him and
lit candles.
Cold-blooded murder, said
Jennie Chambers, who works
nearby and saw Garner daily.
We saw it on TV, its on video.
The whole world saw it. Ferguson, now us.
The medical examiner ruled
Garners death a homicide
and found that a chokehold
contributed to it. A forensic
pathologist hired by Garners
family, Dr. Michael Baden,
agreed with those findings,

saying there was hemorrhaging on Garners neck indicative

of neck compressions.
While details on the grand
jurors were not disclosed, Staten Island is the most politically
conservative of the citys five
boroughs and home to many
police and firefighters. The district attorney said he will seek
to have information on the investigation released.
Pantaleo had been stripped
of his gun and badge and will
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Multistate coalition sues over immigration order

WILL WEISSERT
Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas Texas is

leading a 17-state coalition
suing over President Barack
Obamas recently announced
executive actions on immigration, arguing in a lawsuit
filed Wednesday that the move
tramples key portions of the
U.S. Constitution.
Many top Republicans have
denounced Obamas unilateral
move, which was designed to
spare as many as 5 million people living illegally in the United
States from deportation.
But Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott took it a step further, filing
a formal legal challenge in federal court in the Southern District of Texas. His state is joined
by 16 other mostly conservative
states, largely in the south and
Midwest, such as Alabama,
Georgia, Idaho, Indiana and the
Carolinas.
The states arent seeking monetary damages, but instead want
the courts to block Obamas actions.
The lawsuit could make things
awkward come Friday, when
Abbott travels to Washington
to meet with Obama as part of
a group of newly elected governors.
Under Obamas order, announced Nov. 20, protection
from deportation and the right
to work will be extended to an
estimated 4.1 million parents of
U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents who have lived
in the U.S. for at least five years
and to hundreds of thousands
more young people.
The lawsuit raises three objections: that Obama violated the
Take Care Clause of the U.S.
Constitution that Abbott said
limits the scope of presidential
power; that the federal government didnt follow proper
rulemaking procedures; and
that the order will exacerbate
the humanitarian crisis along

the southern border, which will

affect increased state investment
in law enforcement, health care
and education.
Abbott said Obamas actions
directly violate a fundamental
promise to the American people and that it was up to the
president to execute the law,
not de facto make law.
Republican presidents, including Ronald Reagan, have issued
past executive orders pertaining to immigration. Abbott
said those were in response to
actions by Congress unlike
Obama, who Abbott said acted
in lieu of congressional approval.
Overwhelmingly elected governor last month, Abbott has
been Texas attorney general
since 2002. Wednesday marks
the 31st time he has sued the
federal government since
Obama took office.
Many of those were over environmental regulations or
the White Houses signature
health care law, however. The
only other high-profile lawsuit
against Obamas executive order
has come on behalf of Arizona
Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Earlier this week, House Majority Leader John Boehner told
lawmakers the GOP-led House
may vote to undo Obamas executive action, but the move
would be mostly symbolic, as
Obama would certainly veto
such legislation and the Democratic-led Senate wouldnt go for
it, either.
Current Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who leaves office in January,
also spoke out against the executive order earlier Wednesday, saying it could trigger a
new flood of people pouring
across the Texas-Mexico border and create chaos that could
be exploited by drug- and people-smugglers.
Perry said hours before Abbotts announcement that
Obamas 2012 executive order
delaying the deportation of

children brought into the U.S.

illegally by their parents triggered an unprecedented wave
of unaccompanied minors and
families, mostly from Central
America, crossing into the U.S.
this summer.
In effect, his action placed
a neon sign on our border, assuring people that they could
ignore the law of the United
States, said Perry, who has deployed up to 1,000 National
Guard troops to the border.
Abbott said his state can already predict the future effects
of Obamas executive action
based on the 2012 order.
Texas has been at the epicenter of the results of the presidents executive action, Abbott
said.
The federal lawsuit involves
Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine,
Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, South
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sports

COMMENTARY
Height doesnt
matter on the
court

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Jayhawks take on Incarnate Word and California this weekend | PAGE 4B

THROUGH THICK AND THIN

Student fanatics support football team by painting chests for each game

By Blair Sheade
@RealBlairSheady

oach Bill Self

doesnt believe the
starting lineups
matter, and hes right.
Some players are better off
the bench. Take freshman
forward Cliff Alexander for
example. Alexanders fouling
troubles have kept him from
starting, Self said.
I dont know if you
noticed this, but Cliff has a
tendency sometimes to put
his hands on others wearing
a different jersey that would
lead to a whistle, Self said.
And at least this way, if he
gets two quick fouls, hes not
going to get it at the 14 or
13minute mark as opposed
to getting it at the 18minute
mark.
Alexanders woes opened
the starting role to redshirt
sophomore Landen Lucas,
whos shooting 81 percent
from the field since being
placed in the spot. Lucas
also gives Kansas frontcourt
slightly more length in the
paint, as Lucas is 6-foot-10
compared to Alexanders
6-foot-8 frame. But Self
believes height isnt the
most important thing on the
court. He says Kansas has
enough height to win.
We had (Jeff) Withey, and
we had Joel (Embiid), but
we won a National Cham
pionship and started 6-8,
6-8 guys. Self said. You
know, the twins (Marcus
and Markieff Morris) were
6-7, 6-8 or 6-8, 6-9 maybe.
But weve had teams this size
before.
When Self was asked about
the possibility of Alexan
der starting, Self said he
will start some point in the
season. This will be a similar
situation to Embiid, who
wasnt a consistent starter
until his start on Dec. 14
against New Mexico last
year.
Self thinks size doesnt
matter, but he remembers
the outcome of the Kentucky
game.
Its always a nice luxury to
have somebody back there
to block shots and correct
mistakes, but not every team
has those, Self said. Ken
tucky obviously has three or
four of them.
The right decision might
be to stay with the slightly
taller Lucas. Opposing play
ers even agree. Self said he
talked to Iowa State forward
Georges Niang over the
summer, and they discussed
how Kansas won the first
two games but couldnt win
the third in the Big 12 tour
nament. Niang said it was
easier to score on Kansas
without Embiid.
And its true, Self said.
You go from seven foot
and long to 6-6.5 and not
long guarding you and you
can play your butt off, but
still theres a comfort level
being able to score over that.
Doesnt mean youre playing
worse defense.
Edited by Kelsey Phillips

JAMES HOYT/KANSAN

University students Keaton Prather, Dakota Hamelund, Bryce Platt, Chris Sims and Alvaro Papa show their support of interim head coach Clint Bowen at Memorial Stadium on Nov. 8.
Prather and Platt are part of a group of students who show up to each football game with painted chests.

DAN HARMSEN

floor was doing it.

Along with juniors Bryce Platt
and Jonathan Crookham, the
trio spends its Saturdays in the
front row, chest-painting for
Kansas football games.
Its been just about every
game, said Platt, a Horton na
tive. We missed one or two
games freshman year, but hav
ent missed any since then.
The three juniors are the
mainstays of the group, but
several other students join the
group from the fabled floor in
Ellsworth Hall from the stu
dents freshman year.
The group has made countless
television appearances, swelling
with pride; family members,
not so much.
I get texts from my teachers
back at home and my relatives,
Prather said. Oh hey, we saw
you on TV screaming like a
madman. Or a text from my
mom saying I need to put a

@udk_dan

Lawrence, located just off the

banks of the Kansas and Wa
karusa rivers, is home to the
free-thinking individual. From
afternoons spent along Clinton
Lake to evening concerts at the
Granada, poetry slams at The
Raven, to short road trips up to
Kansas City, this college town
caters to wide-ranging interests
and impromptu weekend ad
ventures.
But for a handful of University
students, there is really only one
thing to do on a fall Saturday in
Lawrence.
What started it was two
kids on my floor spelled KU
on their chests, junior Kea
ton Prather from Sterling said.
Two more kids joined in for
GO KU the next week, and
the week after we had 10 guys
it caught on and the whole

shirt on.
Despite their unquestioned
love of the football team, the
Jayhawks havent given the
chest-painters reason to have
much hope. With a 7-29 record
in the three years the students
have been attending the Uni
versity, Kansas football has seen
as many head coaches as con
ference victories since 2012.
But that hasnt deterred the
group from painting up for
each game.
Im a huge fan of KU foot
ball, Prather said. I have such
a good time. Its a really fun
atmosphere, youre supporting
KU, hanging out with friends.
I dont see why students dont
come.
And, by and large, the stu
dents dont come.
After setting the stadiums at
tendance record in 2009 with
an over-capacity 52,530 against
Northern Colorado, Memorial

Stadiums announced atten

dance for the final home game
of 2014 against No. 4 TCU was
30,889. The actual attendance
was closer to half that number.
If we want the program to
start doing better, we should
start showing support for the
team, Crookham, a Houston,
Texas, native, said. We as a
student body should have more
people there. Apart from that, I
dont really care much. I enjoy
going.
Other members of the group
are unfazed by the lack of stu
dent attendance.
Its understandable, Platt
said. It doesnt bother me. I go
there with my friends to have
fun. If other people are there,
then thats good too.
Watching the 21 senior Jay
hawks play for the final time at
Memorial Stadium as 28-point
underdogs in frigid conditions,
the group of six, shirtless and

painted, faced its biggest test of

character yet.
The students lined up, front
row an entire 90 minutes before
the game, as they have every
week, with a cold wind blowing
and a light snow falling. One
word was painted across their
chests: SENIORS.
We made sure everyone had
hats and gloves, Platt said.
Personally, I had two pairs of
pants on. It wasnt as cold as it
looked.
In a near-upset, a 34-30 Kan
sas loss, the game was enough
to distract from the elements.
We were cheering a lot
of movement to stay active in
the game, Crookham said. It
wasnt bad because it was the
best game Ive seen.
For some members of the
group, next years season will
be their last as students. Others

SEE FANS PAGE 2B

Seniors lead Kansas into NCAA Tourney

MATT CORTE
@Corte_UDK

Kansas volleyballs two

seniors, Chelsea Albers and
Sara McClinton, have been
here before. In fact, the duo
has played more NCAA
Tournament matches (six)
than any player in Kansas
history.
That experience will be
needed as Kansas (22-8),
which earned the No. 16
overall seed, heads to the
NCAA Tournament to take
on Arkansas-Little Rock
(29-4) on Friday, with the
winner facing the winner of
Creighton and Oregon State
on Saturday. Kansas will host
the first and second rounds
for the third consecutive year,
with the matches taking place
at the Kansas Expocentre in
Topeka.
Sara and Chelsea have
played at an All-Big 12 level
for years now, coach Ray
Bechard said. I think more
than anything, they would
rather see their postseason
run go a little bit longer, a
little bit deeper in years past.
I think their career could be

much more complete, but

to this point theyve been at
a high level for many, many
years.
With the two being
blanketed in accolades, its not
hard to see why the team has

I think their career could

be much more complete, but
to this point theyve been at
a high level for many, many
years.
RAY BECHARD
Coach

had such tremendous success.

Albers gained First Team
All-Big 12 honors in the 2014
season, duplicating her First
Team selection from a year
ago, and was named an AVCA
Honorable Mention AllAmerican in 2013 as well.
Statistically, Albers career
totals of 912 kills and 874 digs
make her the seventh Jayhawk
ever to reach 900 career-kill
and 800 career-dig plateau.
Her partner in crime,
McClinton, has been just as

good.
With 1,533 career kills and
counting, McClinton ranks
seventh on the Kansas all-time
kills list, eclipsing the 300kill mark this season for an
impressive third straight year.
A 2013 AVCA AllAmerican honorable mention,
McClinton will also walk away
with two First Team All-Big
12 selections and three AllBig 12 teams overall, earning
honorable
mention
this
season.
Arkansas-Little
Rock
receives strong contributions
from the outside hitter
position as well.
A big reason for Arkansas
Little-Rocks success and
first NCAA tournament
appearance since 2000 is
senior outside hitter Edina
Begic. A three-time reigning
conference MVP including
2014, Begic leads the team
with 517 kills, averaging 4.66
per set, and is second on the
team in aces, while placing
third in digs.
At 24 games, the Trojans
hold the longest winning

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Senior outside hitter Chelsea Albers (1) and freshman middle blocker Kelsie Payne (8) block an attack by Texas Tech on Oct. 25. No. 16
seed Kansas is heading to the NCAA Tournament this Friday.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014

Kansas seeks revenge against Florida

BEN FELDERSTEIN
@Ben_Felderstein

Coming off of an Orlando

Classic Championship, Kansas will host Florida at Allen
Fieldhouse in the Big 12/SEC
Challenge on Friday. Florida
is 3-3 in the season and coming off of a poor showing in
the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament, going 1-2.
Weve been playing a lot
better, coach Bill Self said. I
think that was evident in Orlando.
Last season, the Jayhawks
traveled to Gainesville and
fell to Florida, 67-61, in the
inaugural SEC/Big 12 Challenge. Florida was ranked No.
19, while Kansas was ranked
No. 13.
Kansas heads into this
matchup ranked No. 11, while
Florida comes in unranked.
The Jayhawks will be seeking
revenge against Florida coach
Billy Donovan to extend their
early season record to 6-1.
Our so-called not hard
games have been real tough
this year, Self said. We have
as tough a seven game stretch
as anyone in America.
Kansas leads Florida 3-2 in
the all-time series, including
three separate top-ten matchups. Florida lost their two
most productive players from
last season Patric Young
and SEC Player of the Year
Scottie Wilbiken. The Gators
only have two seniors on the
roster, one being Donovans
son. Junior guard Michael
Frazier II leads Florida in
scoring with 15.2 points per
game, adding 6.5 rebounds
and shooting 42 percent from
the field.
Senior center Jon Horford
leads Florida down low with
seven rebounds per game and
a total of 10 blocks on the
season, while putting up 10.3
points per game.
Were big enough to win,

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VBALL FROM PAGE 1B

streak of any team in the
nation.
The
Trojans
outrank
the Jayhawks in multiple
categories, including hitting
percentage (.283 to .247),
blocks per set (3.0 to 2.54) and
aces per set (1.5 to 1.11).
The Jayhawks have some
advantages of its own, beating
the Trojans in assists per set
(12.85 to 12.4), kills per set
(13.84 to 13.6) and digs per set
(15.31 to 14.5).
Statistics aside, no match
is a gimme in the NCAA
tournament, and after two

straight years with an opening

round victory, Bechard is still
making sure no player takes
the first match too lightly.
We know weve got an
extremely talented and tough
opponent in front of us,
Bechard said. And if were
fortunate enough to win that,
we got Creighton or a Pac 12
opponent (Oregon State).
The tournament matches
have previously been held
at Allen Fieldhouse, but the
mens basketball game against
Florida prevents the team
from using the fieldhouse as
a venue.
Edited by Logan
Schlossberg

Indoor track and

field season begins
AMIE JUST
@Amie_Just

REINHOLD MATEY/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kansas guard Frank Mason drives down court against Michigan State guard Bryn Forbes during the Nov. 30
game in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Kansas defeated Michigan State 61-56.
Self said. Its still hard scoring over length, like they
have.
Junior forward Perry Ellis is
coming off of one of his hottest stretches of the season,
being named Big 12 Player of
the Week and Orlando Classic tournament MVP. Ellis
is averaging 15.3 points and
seven rebounds.
Sophomore forward Landen
Lucas has been efficient since
being inserted into the starting lineup. While Lucas hasnt
gotten big minutes in his

starts, he is 9-for-11 from the

field. Freshman forward Cliff
Alexander has also stepped
his game up as of late, leading
Kansas in blocks in the last
three games.
Florida is a bigger team than
any that Kansas saw at the
Orlando Classic, but the Jayhawks athleticism matches
up well against the Gators.
Sophomore guards Wayne
Selden Jr. and Frank Mason
III have been playing more
efficiently too.
Mason led the Jayhawks in

assists in Orlando and shot

61.1 percent from the field
while Selden had 12 points
against Tennessee, his tournament high.
The Jayhawks have a lot of
momentum heading into
their matchup against the Gators and will look to use this
to take advantage of a Florida
team that may be lacking it.
Edited by Andrew Collins
and Kelsie Jennings

With winter break approaching, Kansas track and field is

getting ready to start its indoor
season.
Kansas only has three home
meets for the indoor season
and theyre all stacked at the
beginning of the schedule.
Kansas has the Bob Timmons
Challenge on Saturday, the Bill
Easton Classic on Jan. 9 and the
Jayhawk Classic on Jan. 30. The
last time Kansas will be at home
will be during the outdoor season for the Kansas Relays.
For the women, Kansas
lost Olympic gold-medalist Diamond Dixon, Kansas
3,000-meter record holder Natalie Becker, All-American discus thrower Jessica Maroszek
and Kansas pole vault record
holder Natalia Bartnovskaya.
On the mens side, Kansas
lost sprinter DeMario Johnson,
sprinter Shawn Smith, middle
distance runner Brendan Soucie and pole vaulter Alex Bishop.
Athletes to watch:
Michael Stigler, senior,
hurdles/sprints
Last season during his indoor
campaign, Stigler from Canyon, Texas, won the 600-yard
run at the Big 12 Indoor Championships and set a new school
record (1:08.59). He won the
400-yard dash at the Bill Easton
Classic with a time of 48.75.
Stigler is coming off a successful outdoor season. He was

FANS FROM PAGE 1B

will stay to complete post-grad
work.
Kansas football is in a state
of flux, but in a 34-10 victory
against Iowa State, their chests,
BOWEN, gave their stamp of
approval.
I enjoy what Bowens been
doing, Platt said. Hearing that
Weis was falling asleep in meetings if nothing else, he should
have a better chance than Weis.
Crookham agrees.
I think its [Bowens] job to
lose, Crookham said. Unless
he does something wrong or a

named 2014 Midwest Track

Athlete of the Year and Kansas
Athletics Male Athlete of the
Year.
He finished second in the
400-meter hurdles at the
NCAA Outdoor Championships, earning All-American
status in that race. He won
the race at the Big 12 Outdoor
Championships and many other meets throughout the year.

Lindsay Vollmer, senior,

combined events
Last year during the indoor
season, Vollmer from Hamilton, Mo., finished 13th at the
Big 12 Indoor Championships
in the pentathlon and won the
event at the Jayhawk Classic.
In 2013, during her indoor
season, Vollmer won the heptathlon at the Big 12 Indoor
Championships and finished
ninth at the NCAA Indoor
Championships in the event,
earning All-America Second-Team status.
During her outdoor campaign, she withdrew from the
heptathlon at the NCAA Outdoor Championships due to
injury in the long jump.
Her sophomore year was
much better. Vollmer won the
heptathlon at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, earning
All-America First Team status.
She holds the school record for
that performance. She also won
the event at the Big 12 Outdoor
Championships.

Edited by Logan Schlossberg

big-name coach wants to come
to KU, I think hell do a good
job as our coach.
Whether Bowen is named
head coach or not, you can expect to see a small contingent of
letters in the front row in 2015.
They say theyll be there to support whoever is named coach.
Were just friends having fun
with it, Platt said.
Whatever compels them
to come, one thing remains
certain: There is nothing
fair-weather about these fans.
Edited by Alyssa Scott

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

Im not a politicker, but I do want
to fight for these guys. I think were
playing our best ball.
UAB coach Bill Clark

FACT OF THE DAY

UABs last winning season

happened in 2004 with a 7-5
record and an appearance in its
first bowl game. The Dragons lost
in the Hawaii Bowl 59-40 to the
University of Hawaii.
USA Today

TRIVIA OF THE DAY

Q: What was the last major
top-tier, D1 football program to
shut down?
A: University of the Pacific in 1995
Inside Higher Ed

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014

THE MORNING BREW

UAB eliminating its football program a bad decision

On Tuesday, the University of

Alabama Birmingham (UAB)
announced to faculty and students
that it planned to cut its Division I
football program at the end of the
season, citing financial reasons. The
football program, which has been
sub-par for the last several years, cost
the university $20 million in subsidies
annually.
However, the team saw more success
this year, finishing 6-6 with a chance
at playing in a bowl game. Coach Bill
Clark told AL.com he is lobbying to
keep the program and also for a bowl
invitation. If the team doesnt receive
an invite, then UAB played its final
game against Southern Mississippi,
winning 45-24. After the season,
the football program will be cut and
the money saved will be put into
furthering education and the medical
research hospital on the campus.
Without a football program, UAB
will no longer meet the requirements

By Paige Stingley
@PaigeStingley

of its current conference, Conference

USA, who requires all schools to have
an active football team.
After an 18-month review of the
Universitys finances, UAB president
Ray Watts hired CarrSports Consulting to estimate how much it would
cost to make the football program
successful. CarrSports estimated
around $49 million, which included
funds for new facilities the current
stadium is in poor state as well as
football personnel, new equipment
and other operating costs. Watts
decided he was not willing to spend

this much money on a

mediocre team.
While this decision may
save money in the short
run, Watts doesnt seem
to have considered the
long term effects it could
have. Many alumni and
fans have already spoken
out in outrage about the
decision, some threatening to withhold donations from the
university. Others believe this will
make the university less attractive to
prospective students.
Football is a religion in the south,
and the state of Alabama is no
exception. Auburn University and
the University of Alabama make that
very clear. But its hard to compete
with those big-name, big-program
schools when you are a small school.
So it is understandable why the Alabama Board of Trustees provides less
money to the UAB program.

But a school
without a football
program is way
less attractive than a
school with a mediocre football program.
Imagine if Kansas cut its
football program entirely.
Sure, we would still have
mens basketball going for
us, but we would lose out
on
so many potential students
and athletes who care about football,
whether or not our team is successful.
UAB has a strong basketball program itself, but without its football
program, the basketball program will
likely become just an afterthought to
potential students.
Alabama is all about football. Football is all about Alabama. Eliminating
football is a recipe for disaster.
Edited by Drew Parks

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KANSAS VS. NO. 10 CALIFORNIA | DEC. 7 | 5 P.M. | ALLEN FIELDHOUSE

Lauren Aldridge, freshman,

guard
Aldridge had a rough performance against top-ranked
Notre Dame last Sunday, as
she had more turnovers than
combined points and assists.
Shell look to recover over the
weekend, and it should only
get easier for the freshman.

The 5-2 Kansas womens basketball team suffered a major

loss against the undefeated
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
on Sunday, 89-47. The Jayhawks will try to bounce back
in their two home games this
weekend before they hit the
road again.
KANSAS VS. INCARNATE WORD
Kansas will take on the (2-4)
Incarnate Word Cardinals tonight at 7 p.m. Both the Cardinals and the Jayhawks are
coming off losses.
The Cardinals are coming in
with a hit to their confidence,
losing 57-31 against the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Limiting turnovers and playing better defense will be key
for Incarnate Word coming
in.
This game should be a better
matchup for the Jayhawks, as
the Cardinals have had trouble scoring in recent games.
Even in the Jayhawks biggest
loss, senior forward Chelsea
Gardner and senior guard Natalie Knight were still in double figures with 15 points and

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Kansas
Key Contributors

KIRSTEN PETERSON

Natalie Knight, senior, guard

Over the last two games,
Knight is averaging 13
points, four assists and three
rebounds. Theres no reason to
expect those numbers to dip
anytime soon, and shell be
key if the Jayhawks are going
to win the next two games
against good competition.

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Kansas Asia Boyd and Notre Dames Markisha Wright fight for a loose
ball during the second half of Notre Dames 89-47 victory during Sundays
game in Uncasville, Conn.
13 points.
The Jayhawks will need to
look past their rough game
against No. 1 Notre Dame and
focus on limiting turnovers,
drawing fouls and making free
throws.

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The Jayhawks will play in
their second game of two
at Allen Fieldhouse against
the University of California,
Berkeley Bears on Sunday at
5 p.m. The Bears have had a
strong start to the season, going undefeated in their first six
games.
Kansas, after suffering a major blow against Notre Dame,
will need be ready to play another top-ten team as California is ranked No. 10.

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Chelsea Gardner, senior,

forward
Gardner held her own against
the Fighting Irish, leading
the team with 15 points, six
rebounds and three steals. She
is currently tied for 46th in the
nation with 19.3 points per
game, and shes 46th in the
nation in field goal percentage
at 57.6.

Incarnate Word
Key Contributors

California
Key Contributors

Aricka Adams, junior, guard

Despite standing at just 5-foot-5,
Adams is far and away the best
player on the Cardinals, averaging
11.8 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.3
assists per game, while shooting
41.2 percent from the floor. That
being said, Adams does lead the
team in fouls with 20, averaging
one foul for every nine minutes of
action, so the Jayhawks will likely
attack her early to try to get her in
foul trouble.

Brittany Boyd, senior, guard

Brittany Boyd has gotten off to a
fantastic start this season, and
she even racked up a triple-double
in the Golden Bears last game
against San Jose State. Boyd
racked up 11 points, 12 assists
and 13 rebounds in just 28
minutes, and she comes into the
game leading the team in assists,
with 9.8 per game, which is good
enough for second in the nation.

Haley Frias, freshman, guard

Frias is second on the team in
made field goals this year, but she
hasnt been all that impressive
early on. That being said, 33 of her
41 field goal attempts have been
three-point shots, so the Jayhawks
will need to know where she is at
all times.
Jazmine Holman, freshman,
guard
The 5-foot-8 freshman has gotten
off to a solid start to the season,
averaging 5.5 points, 5.5 rebounds
and four assists per game.
Holman leads the team in minutes
played on the season, with 182,
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Reshanda Gray, senior, forward

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she is shooting over 70 percent
from the floor in the season, good
enough for third in the nation. If
the Jayhawks are going to pull off
an upset victory, they absolutely
must contain Gray, who is also a
very capable rebounder, averaging
6.1 per game.
Courtney Range, sophomore,
forward
The 6-foot-3 forward has been one
of the best all-around players in
the nation, averaging 15.3 points
and 8.5 rebounds per game, while
shooting 50 percent from three.

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AT A GLANCE
The Kansas Jayhawks are coming
off a 4-0 week, which included hoisting the Orlando Classic
Championship trophy Sunday after beating No. 20 Michigan State.
After being plummeted against
Kentucky, 72-40, Kansas seems to
be clicking on all cylinders again.
The four-game win streak wasnt
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rankings, staying at No. 11, still
behind Texas.

PLAYER TO WATCH

No. 11
(5-1, 0-0 Big 12)
STARTERS

Frank Mason, Guard

Mason averages at least 30 minutes per game. He is proving
himself as the official point guard of this Kansas team and he
may have sealed his case after his double-double performance
against Michigan State. In each of the last three games, Mason
has scored in double digits and added at least five assists.

Cliff Alexander,
Forward,
Alexander has flown under the radar because he doesnt start, but
he remains Kansas most physical
player and is first off the bench.
He scored a season-high 16
points against Tennessee. Alexander also averaged a season-high
26 minutes against Michigan
State, snatching eight rebounds
and rejecting four Spartan shots.

FLORIDA
(3-3, 0-0 SEC)
STARTERS

Kasey Hill, Guard

The first-year starter at point guard leads the Gators with
3.5 assists per game. Hill scored a career-high 20 points
against North Carolina, but he isnt a scorer. Hill has made
one 3-pointer this season. Before North Carolina, Hill
averaged 5.8 points and three turnovers per game.

Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, Guard

Svi is emerging as a big addition to this years team. He started
all four games of the Orlando Classic and scored 28 points in
that stretch. Against Michigan State, he played a whopping 32
minutes and scored 11 points, including going 3-6 from 3-point
range. Svi for 3 seems to be a fitting slogan for the 17-yearold kid from Ukraine.

Michael Frazier II, Guard

Frazier is the only returning starter and is the Gators
leading scorer, averaging 15 points per game. Even though
Frazier has scored in double digits each game this season,
he is having a down season. Through the first six games,
Fraziers 3-point shooting percentage is down 9 percent.

Can Kansas play the entire 40

minutes?

62.3
5

The number of points Kansas won by

against Michigan State, which is the
closest final score for the Jayhawks this
season.

Wayne Selden Jr., Guard

Selden is one of two Jayhawks averaging at least 30 minutes
per game on the hardwood. Although he has struggled from
the field (26.5 percent), he makes his presence known in
other ways, including 3.8 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game.
He shot 0-10 in the Orlando Classic Championship against
Michigan State, and will look to get back in his offensive groove
at home against Florida.

Jacob Kurtz, Forward

Kurtz is the hustle playmaker on the Gators. He doesnt
score much, averaging four points per game. Kurtz grabs
six rebounds per game and is the third leading rebounder
on the team even though hes listed at 6-foot-6. Kurtz is
usually replaced by guard Eli Carter to give the Gators a
three guard set.

BABY JAY WILL CHEER IF

Kansas can contain Floridas best
player, guard Michael Frazier II. Frazier
has scored in double digits in all six of
Floridas games this season, including a
21-point effort against UL Monroe. In the
last four games, Frazier has averaged
eight rebounds, more than what both
Alexander and Ellis averaged over that
same span.

Edited by Logan Schlossberg

AT A GLANCE
After losing in the Final Four, the
Florida Gators are 3-3 and have
had a rough start to the season.
Kansas coach Bill Self thinks Florida has played a tough schedule,
losing its second game of the season against Miami (FL). The Gator have dropped two of their last
three games against No. 5 North
Carolina and Georgetown, and the
only win during that stretch coming against UAB.

PLAYER TO WATCH

CHRIS WALKER,
Forward
Last season as a freshman, Walker was a major contributor during
the Gator NCAA tournament run.
This season, Walker is the first
forward off the bench, and he has
played a minor role with only 17
minutes per game, but Walker has
big-game ability. The 6-foot-10
forward can cause problems for
the Kansas frontcourt.

Can Floridas frontcourt cause

problems for Kansas?

The Gator frontcourt has three

players 6-foot-10 or taller and
over three blocks per game.
Kansas has shown it struggles
against taller teams.

BY THE NUMBERS

Perry Ellis, Forward

Ellis had a monster weekend in Orlando and won Big 12 Player
of the Week because of it. He dropped a double-double against
Tennessee on Friday and was one rebound shy from another
against the Spartans. After shooting 1-6 against Kentucky, hes
averaged almost 19 points per game.

Dorian Finney-Smith, Forward

Finney-Smith likes to shoot the 3-pointers but is shooting
a career-low 27 percent. Finney-Smiths has shot over 40
percent from the field, but against North Carolina, he shot
20 percent from the field and 0-for-4 from beyond the arc.

302

The Florida offense is ranked 302nd

in the NCAA, shooting 38 percent from
the field.

37

Florida averages 37 rebounds per

game, which ranks 96th in the NCAA.
.

11

11

The number of consecutive home games

Kansas has won since its last loss
inside Allen Fieldhouse on Jan. 5, 2014,
against San Diego State.

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BY THE NUMBERS

The average points Kansas has allowed

per game this season, which is down
from last years total after the first six
games (68.5).

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In the first six games, Kansas has

outscored its opponents in both
halves just twice and was outscored by two points in the second
half against the Rider Broncs. The
Jayhawks have done better in their
last two games, outplaying Tennessee in both halves and winning the
second half against the Spartans,
but were still outscored by one point
in the first half of the Michigan
State game.

FLORIDA
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The Gators have 11 assists per game,

ranking 232nd in the NCAA.

Landen Lucas, Forward

Lucas started every game during the Orlando Classic, but Cliff
Alexander still seems to be the better forward and averages
more minutes. Although Lucas only averages 11 minutes per
game, he makes the most of his playing time. He scores four
points a game, while also snagging rebounds on both sides of
the ball, averaging 3.8 total rebounds in those 11 minutes.

Jon Horford, Forward

A transfer from the University of Michigan, Horford faced
Kansas in the 2013 Sweet 16. Horford had played well for
Florida, scoring 10 points and grabbing seven rebounds
per game. At 6-foot-10, Horford averages three 3-point
attempts per game, but has only made 26 percent of them.

Prediction: Kansas 78, Florida 68

BABY JAY WILL CRY IF

Florida makes its 3-pointers. The Gators have 122 3-point attempts, but
have only converted on 29 percent of
them. If Florida gets hot from behind
the 3-point arc, Kansas could find itself scrambling to fight back. If Kansas
falls into a 3-point shooting competition, the Jayhawks could find themselves in trouble.

Edited by Jordan Fox

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