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More stores and websites offer book rentals because of increased demand
BY KELLY STrOdA
kstroda@kansan.com Textbook prices have risen during the past few years, and Brad Rector knows that just as well as anyone. Rector, a junior from Overland Park, is used to spending $300 to $400 on textbooks each semester. I try to go used as often as possible, Rector said. But for a lot of my books, you can only buy them new, which can be very frustrating. So this semester, Rector is considering renting his textbooks instead. As a way for students to grapple with inflating textbook prices, book rental programs have been catered to students needs in recent years. Online companies like Chegg.com began providing textbook rentals in 2007, according to their website. But rental programs are beginning at local bookstores, too. Bookstores, like KU Bookstore in the Kansas Union and University Book Shop, are providing options for students to rent textbooks. Really, its just something the students wanted, said James Rourke, textbook manager at KU Bookstore. The industry is changing all the time with the shift from print to digital, and we think that rental will be part of that transition. According to research performed by the National Association of College Stores, prices for both new and used textbooks rose an average of 14 percent from 2007 to 2009. So, a book that cost $100 in 2007 cost around $114 in 2009. For students taking 15 credit hours, thats an increase of around $70 each semester. KU Bookstores book rental program works with Bookrenter.com, a used book wholesaler, Rourke said. Textbooks can be rented for as little as one-fourth of the cost of buying the same book new. Psychology by David G. Myers, a textbook used in a section of Psychology 104 at the University of Kansas, can be rented from KU Bookstore for $52.37. Buying the same book new would cost $114.95, according to its website. The company provides about 80,000 titles that are available for students to rent. But KU Bookstore isnt the only

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the Office of Study Abroad, has led re-entry sessions at the University of Kansas for two years through the Reverse culture shock, or re- Office of Study Abroad. However, entry shock, affects thousands of this year she isnt sure if one will returning study abroad students be offered because of the lack of every year. Symptoms include attendance at these non-mandatolacking the ability to communi- ry meetings in the past. She said this would simply be due cate the significance of time spent abroad, being critical of values, to the busy schedules that students have when they customs, and beliefs get back, but the that werent botherPeople in Europe importance of some before studylearning how to ing abroad, as well just seem more apt deal with these as simply missing the to dealing with hard feelings cannot lifestyle of a foreign country full of circumstances, or not be ignored. One issue stuadventure and new ideal situations. dents encounter experiences. is the lifestyles I felt depressed PaUl tackett they come for a couple of weeks Wamego senior across abroad when I got back, said and differences Leslie Gustafson, a in outlooks on senior from Overland Park who studied in Costa Rica for life compared to what theyre used two months this summer. I didnt to at home. People in Europe just seem have a job to come back to, so I missed all of the things I had done more apt to dealing with hard cirin Costa Rica, and not really having cumstances, or not ideal situations, anything to do for a while made it said Paul Tackett, a senior from Wamego who spent four months in worse. Jen Weghorst, the program director for Spain and Latin America in SEE abroad oN paGE 9a nroesler@kansan.com

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Melissa Steuart, a freshman from Topeka, carries her belongings into her new room at Ellsworth Hall. Most of the students living in residence halls moved in on Sunday.

Still deciding? Thats fine, just dont be undecided


BY MICHAEL HOLTZ
mholtz@kansan.com Justin Thornbrugh is a lot like many freshmen. Hes excited for the first football game, eager to make new friends and anxious about the independence that comes with college life. But Thornbrugh is like many of his classmates in another way he hasnt chosen a major. With a diverse class schedule, Thornbrugh said he wants to keep his options open. This semester hes enrolled in English, math, philosophy, geology and acting, the class hes most excited about. I havent really thought about what I want to do for the rest of my life, said Thornbrugh, a freshman from Lenexa. I can take classes I think I might like, and then figure out what I actually want to do. As chairman of the Deciding Students Committee at the University Advising Center, Dan McCarthy works with many students like Thornbrugh. He said that though the use of the term deciding in place of undecided might seem semantic, there was an important difference. It implies a more active process, McCarthy said. Theres absolutely no problem with coming to college as an undecided student as long as thats an active process of exploring different ments. Theres a lot of time to do opportunities that are out there. With more than 130 bachelors that sort of thing. Even if they dont take his advice, degree options at the University of McCarthy said Kansas, McCarthy a semester in said theres somewhich a student thing for everyI would encourage loathes every one. With so many the student to start one of his or her options, its little classes does have wonder that most taking classes that its benefits. undergraduate stuappeal to them. Being in dents switch majors classes that you three to five times Dan mccarthy cant stand is before they graduUniversity advising center actually a wonate. derful experiI would encourence because its age the student to telling you what start taking classes that appeal to them, McCarthy you do like, McCarthy said. Its said, rather than taking classes to an experience where you really fulfull general education require- start to develop the skills to say, No, Im not going to associate class with pain. As long as students stay active in pursing their academic and career interests, McCarthy said theyd eventually choose the right degree. Its when students develop a passive approach to choosing a major McCarthy said he worries. The greatest disadvantage is for students to wait for this moment of epiphany to occur, McCarthy said. Thats not likely to happen. Aaron Othmer, a junior from Topeka, remained undecided until he declared biology as a major during the second semester of his freshman year. He said he soon thought sports management would be a better fit. After he had enrolled in several sports management classes, Othmer said he lost interest and once again switched degrees. A year later, during the spring semester of his sophomore year, Othmer declared a major in atmospheric science. Having finally settled on a major, Othmers advice for freshmen is simple: Keep an open mind. Spend some time to think about it, Othmer said. Dont come dead set on one thing, because more than likely its not going to happen. Edited by Lisa Curran

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n The engineering department will be hosting a free barbecue for engineering students from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. outside Learned Hall.

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August 18
n There will be a part-time job fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the fourth floor of the kansas Union. n The opening convocation ceremony will be from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Lied center.

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August 19
n classes begin. n kU dining will be holding a back-toschool barbecue from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. n Ambler Student Recreation Fitness center will be hosting Rock the Rec from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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n The EcM center, 1204 oread Ave., will be hosting a free welcome barbecue from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. n The Adams Alumni center will be hosting a free ice cream social from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. n The office of new Student orientation will be hosting Traditions night from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Memorial Stadium. n Student Union Activities will be hosting night on the Hill, a free concert with musical guest SafetySuit, from 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. near Memorial campanile.
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n The office of new Student orientation will be hosting the annual Beach n Boulevard student organization info fair from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in front of Wescoe Hall.

August 20
n The Theater department will be hosting open auditions from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Murphy Hall. n The Lied center will be hosting a free concert with Jeffery Broussard and the creole cowboys at 7 p.m. n Student Union Activities will be hosting a free screening of Iron Man 2 at 9 p.m. on daisy Hill.

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n The center for community outreach will be hosting its Saturday Service Project from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the kansas Union. n The School of Engineering will be hosting Frosh Frenzy from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in front of Learned Hall.

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n The School of Business will be hosting a free resume workshop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in koch commons in Summerfield Hall. n Someone Must Wash the dishes: An AntiSuffrage Satire, a one-woman show by kU graduate Michelle LaRue will be performed at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. Tickets are free.

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Obamas daughter makes mini golf ace
PAnAMA cITy BEAcH, Fla. Sasha obama is proving that the president isnt the only golfer in the family. on a family trip to a miniature golf course, 9-year-old Sasha hit a hole-in-one in front of the watchful eye of the media, and much to the delight of her father, an avid golfer. The president gave Sasha a high-five, and declared her stroke, unbelievable. The president followed up by making par with his two shots on the first hole. The obamas are in the Florida Panhandle on a quick weekend trip that the president hopes will jump-start the regions tourism industry, which has suffered following the Gulf oil spill.

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Driver uses dirty diaper in dispute

Man goes naked for spiritual outing

connELLSVILLE, Pa. State police said a woman wiped a dirty diaper on the window of another womans vehicle during a dispute in a traffic jam as both were leaving the Fayette county Fair. Jessica Hollis, 23, of Mount Pleasant, has been charged with harassment in the incident which state police in Uniontown said happened about 10:50 p.m. Saturday. Police said Hollis smeared the diaper on the rear window of a vehicle driven by 36-year-old Melanie campbell, of Hopwood. Police said the women began arguing while they were stuck in traffic leaving the fairgrounds in dunbar Township. online court records dont list an attorney for Hollis, and a phone number listed in her name was disconnected Monday.

Suitors lining up for rare space artifacts


aerospace heritage, say they have the right stuff. The shuttle was created here, WASHINGTON Theyve racked up a lot of mileage and said Jeffrey Rudolph, presitheir $28.8 million price _ sans dent and CEO of the California engine should be enough to Science Center in Los Angeles. cause sticker shock. But that Shuttle components were manuisnt stopping institutions from factured in Downey and assemChicago to Los Angeles from bled in Palmdale, not to menengaging in a new space race to tion that Southern California has land one of the soon-to-be-retired been occasionally jarred by sonic booms from desert shuttle landspace shuttles. Twenty-one institutions are in ings at Edwards Air Force Base. Chicagos Adler Planetarium fierce LeBron-style competition is competing, as are institutions for what one museum director called the rarest of space artifacts. in Seattle, Tulsa, Huntsville, Ala., Theyve enlisted former astronauts and McMinnville, Ore., home of and high-flying officials to back another big flying machine _ the Spruce Goose. their bids for one N A S A of three orbiters. Administrator Lawmakers have Like anything rare, Charles F. Bolden even tried to the orbiters will be Jr. has final say use congressioover who will nal legislation to hugely popular receive one of the give their states attractions. shuttles, which a leg up. one bidder called Like anyVALERIE nEAL the modern-day thing rare, the Space history curator equivalent of housorbiters will be ing Columbus hugely popufamed ships _ the lar attractions, Nina, the Pinta or said Valerie Neal, space history curator at the Santa Maria. No date has been set for a decithe Smithsonian National Air sion, but the shuttle, workhorse and Space Museum. They are the most significant space artifacts to of the space program for three become available since the Apollo decades, is scheduled to make its and Skylab command modules in final space flight next year. Bolden has heard from Sen. the 1970s, she said. Florida, where the shuttle is Bill Nelson, D-Fla., who flew launched, and Texas, home to with him during a 1986 shuttle mission control, say they deserve flight, on behalf of Kennedy Space one. Ohio says it should get one Centers commercially operated because it was the home of the visitor complex. Ohio Gov. Ted Wright brothers. New York City Strickland pitched the National says it should get one because it Museum of the U.S. Air Force near Dayton to President Barack can draw the biggest crowds. At least three museums in Obama when he visited the state. Southern California, with its

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LIncoLn, neb. Lincoln police say a man was spotted walking naked near two churches and a parochial high school. Police said a passer-by called dispatch around 8:40 a.m. Sunday after seeing the man near Pius X High School. According to police reports, the 35-year-old man told officers that he went naked for a spiritual experience. capt. david Beggs said the man was cited on suspicion of public indecency, among other misdemeanors.

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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle react after daughter Sasha, 9, gets a hole-in-one during a game of miniature golf on Saturday in Panama City Beach, Fla. two restaurant employees and smashing a drive-thru window because she couldnt get chicken Mcnuggets. The tantrum caught on tape in Toledo earlier this year shows the customer reaching through the drive-thru window, slugging one worker and then another. She then grabs a bottle out of her car and tosses it through the glass window before speeding off. It happened early on new years day. Police say Melodi dushane was angry that Mcnuggets werent being served, because it was breakfast time. dushane says she was drunk at the time. She was sentenced to 60 days in jail last month and ordered to pay Mcdonalds for the broken window. The video was released Monday when it became public record.

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nEWPoRT, ore. People who bought pink shrimp at some oregon stores are reporting that it glows in the dark. Experts told The Register-Guard that they shouldnt worry because its due to certain marine bacteria that can cause shrimp and other seafood to appear luminescent. They said its not a health risk and does not indicate mishandling during processing. Specialists at oregon State University Sea Grant Extension say the bacteria can grow at refrigerator temperatures, especially on seafood products where salt was added during processing.
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Precautions necessary while living at college


BY CAROLINE BLEDOWSKI
cbledowski@kansan.com Adam Herberg, former resident assistant at Ellsworth Hall, left his door unlocked while he was helping students move out of their dorm rooms. He assumed it was safe, but when he got back to his room, his Playstation 2 was missing. That was the only thing they took, said Herberg, a graduate student from Fenton, Mo. I find it weird because they didnt take my computer or anything like that. Herberg is not the only one whose property was stolen during moving day. Moving can be a stressful and chaotic time for students, which is convenient for thieves. While students are carrying boxes in or out of their dorms, many leave their cars unlocked or doors open. A lot of expensive property, unfortunately, is very portable iPods, laptops, iPads. We all want the newest technology, said Capt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office. The problem is other people want it, too. Theft of unattended property is the No. 1 crime on college campuses, Bailey said. In 2009, theft accounted for 32 percent of all crimes committed on campus, according to records from the KU Public Safety Office. When students start college and move into new homes, they have a lot on their mind, which often does not include safety. Leaving the door open when going to lunch or leaving a laptop unattended while going to the bathroom is not only convenient to students, but also to potential thieves. If I was in the library and I was just running to the bathroom then Id probably just leave it here, said Taylor Scott, a senior from Wichita. But I think Id take into account how many people are here. Although other people may be willing to prevent a crime if it unfolds in front of their eyes, they Stay aware of your surroundings Dont leave your belongings unattended Lock your car or door when you leave Dont walk in dark, lonely places Walk in groups If in danger, yell and seek help If attacked, call 911 and try to provide details Dont drink too much or have someone take care of you are not obliged to do so. Even if a laptop sits next to the library desk, the library staff is not responsible for protecting students belongings, Bailey said. Besides taking care of their property, students also need to take care of themselves. When deciding to go out at night, students should make sure they know how to get home afterwards, especially if they plan to consume alcohol, Bailey said. You need to be clear-headed, so that you can notice whats around you and react appropriately, Bailey said. A person walking alone in a dark quiet street can be an easy target, so Bailey recommends that students avoid deserted areas and stay aware of their surroundings. If you think someone is following you, go to a more crowded area, and in the event of an attack make noise and seek the help of residents in nearby houses or businesses, he said. When someone yells for help, people will come out of their doors, people will open their windows, Bailey said. The simplest way to avoid crime is to avoid dangerous situations and be careful, he said. Herberg said students should not be too paranoid, but neglecting safety can be expensive and painful. Edited by Joel Petterson

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KU Public Safety, 1501 Crestline Drive, responds to all emergency calls on campus. The Public Safety office must communicate with the Lawrence Police Department to avoid confusion between jurisdictions.

Campus police respond to the call


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BY GARTH SEARS

A man has an emergency on campus. He dials 911. Where does his call go? Whether hes on a cell phone, land line or one of the 78 blue emergency phones on campus, his call goes to the dispatch center at the Public Safety Building, 1501 Crestline Drive. If its a call that requires police response, the University of Kansas Public Safety Office sends a car. If the call involves a fire or requires medical attention, the dispatch center will radio to the LawrenceDouglas County Fire Medical Department to send the appropriate vehicles. The center has Enhanced 911, which means that the dispatch center will receive the mans loca-

tion along with his call, even triangulating the location of a cell phone with nearby cell towers. Its all simple enough, except that the entire campus is enclosed within the jurisdiction of another police force. If the man has his accident just outside of campus, his call goes instead to the dispatch center with the Lawrence Police Department, 111 E. 11 St., and a different department would intervene. There are potential problems with one police jurisdiction located entirely within anothers. But the campus and Lawrence police coordinate well, according to Chris Keary, the Universitys assistant chief of police. Both dispatch centers will actually use the other for an overflow of calls mutual backup, Keary said. They use the same computer

system and monitor each others radio, too, so theres no confusion in a case of multiple calls about the same incident. Marjorie Hedden, the evening shift supervisor at the Douglas County dispatch, said that the similarities were so close that her staff could even move into the Universitys dispatch center in an emergency. Keary said that some cellular companies were even working with both departments to determine the exact latitude and longitude of the campus jurisdiction for their Enhanced 911 cell phone locator. When questions arise about which department is responsible for dealing with a crime say an on-campus crime spills off campus the police officers on scene quickly solve them based on things like where the crime started.

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We figure it out: Whose is this? Is this a crime? Whos going to report this? Keary said. We know where our jurisdictions are, and were good at working it out. Strictly speaking, property owned or operated by the University or any of its associations Endowment, Alumni, Athletics, or student is under the jurisdiction of the Public Safety Office, including all streets and property adjacent to campus. But University officers are allowed authority off campus in two ways. They are allowed to follow up on crimes that started on campus. The city of Lawrence and the University also have a jurisdiction agreement that allows University officers to use authority in off-campus areas of Lawrence if they think a crime is occurring. They are allowed full authority given to the Lawrence Police Department until one of the Lawrence police officers arrives. We work well together, Hedden said. For us, its no different than working with the other local governments, which we do all the time. Edited by David Cawthon

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Stressed students might THE BIGGEST find peace with feng shui B A C K T O S C H O O L
BY KELLY MORGAN
kmorgan@kansan.com There is one item that Ronda Reinke recommends for all students moving into new dorm rooms: a fresh bundle of sage. While not a typical item on most students packing lists, Reinke, owner of Happy Healthy Homes in Lawrence, said sage played an important role in the cleansing process of feng shui. When you move into a new space, the dirt and dust in the room holds the energy of the person who lived in there before you, Reinke said. You really want to clear that out and make a fresh start by wiping the walls down with sage or even holy water. Originating nearly 5,000 years ago in China, feng shui is the belief that the location and mateCONTRIBUTED PHOTO rial of the items in a persons room Mallory Bayles, a sophomore from Lenexa, turned all of the desks and chairs in her freshman has a direct effect on that persons dorm room so they faced a window. She found this feng shui pointer in a magazine article. well-being. Depending on their birthday, Reinke suggests that students friendly dorm room. a person can be one of eight difinvest in storage containers, such One of those tips was to turn ferent elements, Reinke said. as baskets, to keep their visual all of the desks and chairs in a This element will determine how room so that they faced a window. they should arrange the furniture space clear. Theres a lot to be said for Boyle said she was pleased when in their room to obtain the best keeping your space organized, the minor change resulted in a less energy. While its difficult to give a gen- Reinke said. You want to be radi- claustrophobic atmosphere. I really started to notice that eral answer for how KU students ant and clutter can make you procrastinate, affect the area became a lot more comshould arrange how people treat fortable and just a friendly and their rooms, Too much clutter you and can even relaxing place to hang out, Boyle Reinke believes affect your body said. that the best makes you tired and weight. Despite its growing popularity, thing a student lethargic and adds While not there are still many who question can do to ensure experts, some KU feng shui and its impact on a perto the congestion in a balanced life is students have start- sons life. to cut back on your body. ed to incorporate I dont quite see how arrangclutter. feng shui into their ing furniture can create energy in Leaving RONDA ReiNKe furniture arrange- a spiritual way, Mallory Bayles, Feng shui expert clothes on the ments. a sophomore from Lenexa, said. floor, not putting I dont follow it But I believe that there are ways paperwork in the to a T, Veronica to arrange your room to create an right place, it all builds on each other, Reinke said. Too much Boyle, a senior from Wichita, said. environment that benefits you and clutter makes you tired and lethar- I read a magazine article a few your lifestyle. gic and adds to the congestion in years ago that gave some point Edited by Dana Meredith ers for how to make a feng-shuiyour body.

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Volunteering offers new experiences


cbledowski@kansan.com When Kelly Unger, a junior from Overland Park, decided to attend the University of Kansas, classes werent the only thing on her mind. She also wanted to get involved in extracurricular activities. I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to get to know a whole bunch of other people, she said. Today, Unger hasnt just met other people, she is the chapter president of her sorority, Kappa Delta. Unger is just one of many students who decide to be involved at the University beyond the classroom. More than 600 groups and organizations on campus give students the opportunity to develop skills and interests that classes cannot or do not offer. Most of these groups are run entirely by students. While professionals and faculty often give advice and help out with problems, students bear the main responsibilities, including managing finances, delegating responsibilities and com-

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municating with people outside of them focused on class work, which helps them graduate, Quisenberry the organization. Being part of an organization said. means investing time and energy, Being part of the community is but it also results in new experienc- the key word. Fraternities and sorores, new friends and new opportuni- ities, as well as other organizations, ties that will help after graduation. invest a lot of time in working with Greek life, for example, gives stu- non-profit organizations and funddents and alumni the opportunity raising. They are not only part of the University, to network but also part with other people and be Its always important to get of Lawrence. an successful in yourself out there, push your Beingmember active the job market, said Amy comfort zone, try something in any organization can be Long, associnew. time-consumate director ing, especially of the Student kELLY UNGER when students Involvement kappa Delta president have both a n d classes and a Leadership job. Yet, activiCenter. Besides helping in building a ties range from only one hour to 40 resume and networking, being hours per week. What you put in is what you get active in extracurricular activities helps develop a new skill set and out of it, said Long. Paige Blevins, a junior from try out leadership roles, said Aaron Quisenberry, Associate Director Great Bend, is freshman/sophomore of the Student Involvement and student senator for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and has Leadership Center. It helps students make connec- learned to manage her time accordtions and helps them feel a part of ingly in order to fulfill her duty as a the University community, which student and a senator. She said she keeps them engaged, which keeps needed to put her priorities in line

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and finish class work earlier to focus on her role as a senator. Blevins joined the Student Senate committee in her freshman year and ran as senator in her sophomore year. Her position includes writing bills, attending Senate and committee meetings and reviewing policies. Its almost like having a class and then having to do homework for it. Its a little less intense. Youre not going to be graded on it, Blevins said. Although there are no grades, extracurricular activities can be a challenge, but they offer experiences that prepare students for life after college. Its always important to get yourself out there, push your comfort zone, try something new, Unger said. Edited by Dana Meredith

ORANGE, calif. A parolee jumped into a Southern california police squad car and drove away with overhead emergency lights flashing while the officer was nearby investigating traffic issues. Orange Police Sgt. Dan Adams says the patrol officer had stopped his squad car Wednesday evening to investigate malfunctioning railroad crossing arms. The officer left the Ford crown Victoria running with its emergency lights on. Moments later, 35-year-old Jon Anthony Tolden jumped in and drove away. Adams says Tolden abandoned the black-and-white about a half-mile away and jumped a wall. He was arrested a short time later and booked for investigation of theft of a police vehicle. Hes being held without bail and faces a Friday court hearing. The police car wasnt damaged.

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BALTIMORE A Baltimore man has been sentenced to a year and a half in jail for faking seizures to get out of paying restaurant bills. city prosecutors said 43-year-old Andrew Palmer pleaded guilty last week to one count of theft scheme, and a judge agreed to impose an 18-month sentence the maximum Palmer could have received. Prosecutors said Palmer ate and drank at several restaurants between April and July, and when he couldnt pay, he would feign a seizure that required medical personnel to respond. The maximum penalty for each individual offense was 90 days in jail because the value of each meal was less than $100. court records show Palmer has a long criminal record that includes 40 convictions for theft and dozens more arrests.

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Pledge encourages sustainable habits


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scollins@kansan.com The Center for Sustainability is using Hawk Week to get an early start on promoting eco-friendly habits throughout campus, which includes a sustainability pledge. Its asking students to commit to some specific behaviors and then also along with that well also provide incentives for them to do that, Jeff Severin, director of the center, said. It really focuses on reducing waste. The pledge kicked off at Unionfest Sunday when the center handed out steel water bottles and will continue tonight at the ice cream social at the Adams Alumni Center with free, reusable shopping bags. The center will wrap up its efforts to promote the Rs reduce, reuse, recycle Thursday, when it will pass out cloth napkins at the back-to-school barbecue at Mrs. Es and more steel water bottles during Rock the Rec. The whole idea is to reach out to students to teach them ways to reduce waste in general, Severin said. Mahleea Satomi, coordinator of Environs, said that living more sustainably can be as easy as turning off the lights when leaving a room. Environs is a student group devoted to promoting environmental issues and awareness around campus. It is our responsibility to keep our environment, the place that we call home, in a healthy condition

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Technology fee of $10 per credit hour included
by StePhen MOnteMayOr
smontemayor@kansan.com While some lament the rising costs of higher education, leaders at the University of Kansas call the recent tuition increase and new technology fee necessary. With a 6-3 vote on June 24, the Kansas Board of Regents approved the Universitys latest proposal for tuition increase. Costs per credit hour will increase between 5.2 and 9.2 percent for students without a tuition compact. The University cites more than $40 million in budget cuts and unfunded mandates for the measures necessity. I think its unfortunate, but I think its absolutely necessary to sustain services to keep our professors here teaching our courses and to keep the top researchers from around the world coming to this institution, Student Body President Michael Wade Smith, a senior from Goodland, said. Included in the approved proposal was the addition of a $10-percredit-hour technology fee. Also, the University will use $2.5 million of federal stimulus funds for onetime $1,000 Jayhawk Assistance Grants. Regents Chair Garry Scherrer was one of the three votes against the proposal. Scherrer said that while he understood the Universitys need for more financial resources, he thinks that state universities are beginning to make opportunities for higher education too expensive. This is actually a very historic year because this is the first time in the history of the state of Kansas that students are actually paying more for higher education than the state is contributing to it, Scherrer said. And I dont believe that is what the people of this state want. Jack Martin, a University spokesman, said that those who drafted the proposal considered student needs, the states budget situation and how the Universitys education costs compared with others. The main thing were doing right now in this budget environment is focusing on core student services, classes that students need to graduate on time, Martin said. The University has said that 45 percent of students will see no change in tuition. These are students that entered into the KU Four-Year Tuition Compact, a program for first-time freshmen that fixes their tuition rate for four years. Every year, the Tuition Advisory Committee makes a recommendation to the chancellor and provost on what tuition should be. The chancellor takes the proposal to the Board of Regents if it is approved. If the state does not increase the Universitys budget, both Scherrer and Smith expect tuition increases to continue. Were at a place where our increase was just a catch up move and were trying to get close to where we should be, Smith said. But theres no way with the millions of millions of dollars of cuts that we took that we can get up without taxing our students 30 percent on top of their tuition, which just isnt an option for KU. We all know that. However, Scherrer is wary of the message that continuous tuition Below are the following changes in tuition for the 2010-2011 school year: Standard Tuition: n Undergraduate residents: Tuition increases from $218.90 to $228.90 per credit hour (4.6 percent). With the $10 technology fee added, total tuition becomes $238.90 (9.1 percent). n Graduate residents: Tuition increases from $270.50 to $285.50 (5.5 percent). With technology fee added, total becomes $295.50 (9.2 percent). n Undergraduate nonresident: Tuition increases from $575 to $595 (3.5 percent). With technology fee added, total becomes $605 (5.2 percent). n Graduate nonresident: Tuition increases from $646.25 to $681.25 (5.4 percent). With technology fee added, total becomes $691.25 (7 percent). New compact Tuition Rates for Fiscal Year 20112014 n Undergraduate Resident: Increases from $245.30 to $252.50 (2.9 percent). With technology fee added, total becomes $262.50 (7 percent). n Undergraduate Nonresident: Increases from $644.25 to $679.35 (5.4 percent). With technology fee added, total becomes 689.35 (7 percent). Student fee increases going into effect this year Student Senate approved in April the following student fee increases: n A $4 increase in the Student Health Fee that represents a $3 increase in operations and a $1 increase in Counseling and Psychological Services. n A $2.60 increase in the Campus Transportation fee represents a $2.25 increase in operations and a 35 cent increase for SafeRide/SafeBus. n The Newspaper Readership Fee increases from $3.75 to $4.45 to include the $1.70 transferred from the Student Media Fee. The $1.70 represents what is now being labeled a subscription fee for The University Daily Kansan.

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Garrett Rainbolt, a senior from Larned, breaks down a cardboard box last year as part of the KU Recycle program behind Corbin residence hall. The Center for Sustainability is asking students to take a sustainability pledge this year. for future generations to come, Satomi, a junior from Lawrence, said. She said another way to conserve was to reduce the amount of water a student uses. An easy way to do this is to take shorter showers and turn off the water while brushing teeth. Satomi said students should also recycle, something Environs helped promote by starting the first recycling program at the University in 1988. Seth Macchi, a sophomore from Topeka, works for the Environmental Stewardship Program, which took over responsibility for the recycling on campus in 1996. He said recycling benefited many people and that everyone should recycle. Basically, there are so many locations on campus that students should never have to throw a recyclable item in the trash, Macchi said. If you know you can do something simple that helps save the world a little at a time, whats stopping you? Students can easily recycle glass, plastic, cardboard, white and colored paper, and aluminum cans at the recycling bins scattered around campus. Its a way of rethinking of your own personal habits and thinking about the little things that may not seem very important in the grand scheme, Severin said. But if you add up those things for over 30,000 students on campus then the accumulated effect is really impactful. Edited by Dana Meredith

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Construction crews demolish McDonalds, 901 West 23rd St., Aug. 9. The building, which opened in 1970, was Lawrences first McDonalds location. A new McDonalds will open on the same lot.

Study: Oldest children show higher aptitude


the firstborn scored highest on the national Iowa Test of Basic Skills, MELVILLE, N.Y. An Adelphi suggesting a higher level of aptiUniversity students research that tude, younger siblings had higher found firstborns score higher on grade-point averages. Frank began the study eight intelligence while younger siblings often get better grades drew some years ago, while a junior at the attention at a national psycholo- high school. She was a semifinalgists convention in San Diego ist for the research in the 2002 this week. But for the researcher, Intel science competition. That Tiffany Frank, 26, it was personal. research formed the basis of her My interest in this started current study. We were because I have an really surprised older sister whos that the firstvery smart, she The first-born came born came out said of elder sister out with higher with higher Samara, the firstintelligence, but born. I felt no inteligence, but the the later-born matter how hard I later-born worked worked harder worked, I wasnt as and had higher smart as her, said harder and had GPAs, Frank Frank, the younghigher GPAs. said. You est of three, who is would think the pursing a doctorate TIFFANY FRANK firstborn would in psychology at Researcher have higher Adelphi. grades. Frank spoke Her study delivered her differs from some of the myriad paper at the annual convention of the American Psychological birth-order literature in its methodology, which focuses on the Association in San Diego. Her research on 90 pairs of intelligence, achievement and persiblings at Lawrence High School sonality of a sibling within famion Long Island found that while lies. Other studies have looked at unrelated random people and

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focused on their achievements based on their birth order, she said. The second part of the study, conducted by Franks young co-author Hannah Turenshine, focused on sibling personalities, concluding that younger siblings were more extroverted than the firstborn, a finding at odds with some previous research. Turenshine, 18, of North Woodmere, N.Y., said that difference could be the result of differing definitions of extro-

vert. The 76 different pairs of siblings were each given surveys to assess their personalities. Resulting comparisons showed younger siblings were more sincere, more emotional, more sentimental, more socially bold, said Turenshine, who graduated from Lawrence High this year and is headed to Binghamton University. Firstborns tended to have stronger perfectionist tendencies, and were more fair.

increases sends to students. If the legislature wont do its part and refuses to give adequate funding, I suppose that realistically higher tuitions are going to be the path we have to continue down, Scherrer said. But that path means that were going to start telling people that its not your talent that gets you into a university, its your ability to pay and, frankly, thats not the kind of state I want to live in. If people have the ability to go and perform well at a university, the state ought to make sure they get that opportunity or at least share more of the costs of it. Edited by Sean Tokarz

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University Career Center eases strain of job search


BY KELLY MORGAN
kmorgan@kansan.com After years of countless tests, all-nighters and packets of Ramen noodles, many KU students will take the final step in their collegiate careers when they trade in their sweats for slacks and apply for a job in the real world. While just the thought of filling out a job resume is enough to scare students back to the undergraduate starting line, it is an apprehension that they need not experience alone. Located in room 110 of the Burge Union, the University Career Center offers students everything from resume and interview counseling to access to their network of professional employers. There are a couple of other offices on campus that work with specific majors, Ann Hartley, associate director of the University Career Center said. But we are the one that works with career assistance and part-time job search for most everyone. One way that the Career Center assists students is through resume counseling. Students who submit their resume can receive tips for how to improve it before it is sent out to potential employers. We typically look for anything that doesnt follow the norm, Tanvi Nimkar, a sophomore from Lawrence and Career Center employee said. We have an official guide that we use to look for general formatting mistakes like not putting your work history in chronological order. Other services provided by the Career Center are mock, group interviews. Adam Smith, a junior from Kansas City, Kan, participated in one such interview during his search to find an internship. We were each asked a question

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William Harper, a graduate student from Baxter Springs, looks over and discusses his resume with Sara Clayton, the assistant director of the University Career Center, Thursday. The Career Center is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mnday through Friday. and then went around and critiqued one another, Smith said. They really tried to guide it toward our major. For those individuals unable to make it into their office, the Career Center brings their knowledge and opportunities to students in the form of job, major and volunteer fairs held throughout the year in the Kansas Union. It was just a happy mistake that I ran into someone from the World Company at the Career Fair, Smith said. It was the first time I was heavily using resources and I ended up with a summer internship at Channel 6 News. Hartley emphasizes the importance of these career fairs, noting that some companies in attendance do not advertise their open positions. A lot of times employers are looking specifically to hire someone right out of college, Hartley said. Theyll work with a university to contact students and may or may not post that position on their website. Students looking to utilize the Career Center can make an appointment on its website at www. kucareerhawk.com or can attend the part-time job fair in the Kansas Union on August 18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Its not too early to start looking for full-time or part-time jobs your freshman year, Hartley said. The earlier you get started, the more opportunities youll have. Edited by David Cawthon

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cially during the summer wedding season. Lantz said that when the club While students took it easy this reopened with school, they would summer, local businesses faced an advertise and reach out to students annual three-month crunch both familiar patrons and those how to cope with several thou- new in town. The feast-and-famine sessions sand of their customers leaving for University Book Shop, 1116 W. the city. The University of Kansas had 23rd St., arent limited to summer, nearly 24,000 on-campus students though they feast for about two last semester including com- weeks every semester. According to store manager muters, compared to fewer than 100,000 Lawrence residents. The Colby Venema, the bookstore gets University represents almost a about 90 percent of its sales from textbooks, and therefore does half quarter of the citys population. Many students went home of its yearly business during the for the summer, or on vacation first two weeks of school. The bookstore still faced a sumsomewhere, and each departure was another lost opportunity for mer slowdown and employed about Lawrence businesses. Every busi- half of its usual number of workers ness felt the pinch differently and during the summer. During those each has a different method of get- two big weeks, the store will have twice as many workers, quadruting through the summer. Ken Holloway, assistant gen- pling its numbers from summers eral manager at Ingredient, 947 end to schools beginning. Ron Hassen, owner of Rays Massachusetts St., said that fewer customers meant that more Liquor Warehouse, 1215 W. 6th unused food spoiled in addition St., said he noticed the summer to reduced sales, so their summer absence of students in a couple inventory had to be smaller while ways the Thursday and Friday nights were slower but not costs stayed high. Holloway said Ingredient had many. He said the students old enough especially been feeling students absence in the dinner crowd. to buy alcohol tended to be the So in addition to attracting the ones who live here year round, Massachusetts Street crowd, they compared to younger students in the dorms. And as Lawrence have been proslowly expands moting new dinwestward, bringing ner-only menu Theres a huge difin more residents items and promoference not having and a more diverse tions. Theres a huge all the kids in town. economy, there are more non-student difference not customers in town. having all the keN HOllOwAY Hassen said his kids in town, Ingredient assistant general manager summer effect of Holloway said. losing students was But we can surworse 20 years ago vive on downwhen Lawrence town traffic and was more geographically cenlocals. Other businesses, such as Abe tered around the University. But and Jakes Landing, 8 E. 6th St., more recently, he has experience depend on students. In fact, Abe with liquor stores near Sixth and and Jakes was closed during the Wakarusa streets on the northwest edge of town that actually see summer. According to general manager business increase in the summer. Ryan Lantz, money is generated Edited by Clark Goble from holding wedding receptions and other events year round, espegsears@kansan.com

Volunteer center seeks KU students


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An easy way for students to become more involved in the Lawrence community is to volunteer. KU students can find volunteer opportunities in the area through the Roger Hill Volunteer Center, 2518 Ridge Court, a partner with United Way. The center represents more than 150 volunteer programs throughout Douglas County. Opportunities range from working in food pantries to working with animals. Lori Johns, director of the center, said volunteering was about more than resume-building. It helps get you connected in the community and it makes you feel like youre a part of Lawrence, Johns said. It makes you a more well-rounded person. Johns said the center constantly received various volunteer opportunities, so students should check back often. Kellen Bolt, a junior from Iola and communications director of the KU Center for Community Outreach, said he urged students to volunteer. Youre going to be in Lawrence for four years, Bolt said. Its important to be aware of what is actually happening in the community.

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Volunteer coordinator Veronica Howard takes student and local volunteers on a tour through the Humane Society. The group learned of their responsibilities at the orientation which took place on Thursday night. The Center for Community Outreach provides both on and off-campus volunteering opportunities. Bolt said there was a program to suit every student. Students can find more information by visiting the Community Outreach office, located in the Kansas Union or by calling the center at 785-864-4073. Johns encourages students to look into volunteering, even if they have no past experience. Some people find that they become absolutely hooked with volunteering, Johns said. It fills up your gas tank of life. Eliot Hill, a junior from Topeka, volunteers with Meals on Wheels and Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He said volunteering provided him with great life experience and helps him become more involved. Most importantly its made me realize that as college students, we are sitting in one of the most hopeful and fortunate places of our lives with regards to our futures, Hill said. It offers more real-world experiences that often arent apparent walking around campus. Edited by Emily McCoy

Obama gives OK for Ground Zero mosque


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Federal funds cut results in fewer jobs Professional school


By STEPHEN MONTEMAyOR
smontemayor@kansan.com With 25 percent of the University of Kansas Federal Work Study funds set to expire, students could see a more constrictive job market as the school year begins. Making matters more difficult, August is traditionally the most competitive time of the year for on-campus job seekers. Federal Work Study is a federally subsidized program that covers 75 percent of the salary for financially eligible students. Funds from the America Recovery and Readjustment Act increased the amount of funding last year and, consequently, work study positions. As that funding shrinks, University officials expect to see a drop in available jobs. We anticipate that those positions probably will not be offered again because those departments wont have those funds to rely on, said Todd Cohen, director of University Relations. We anticipate that it will just go back to the prestimulus period. The University received an extra $284,667 in ARRA funds last year, bringing its total Federal Work Study allocation to $1.63 million, a five-year high. That increased the number of work study positions available from 514 to 576. However, the University saw a slight decrease in overall on-campus jobs 3,711 in 2009-10 from 3,749 in 2008-09 which is attributable to budget cuts. Kendall Riley, a sophomore from Lawrence, has worked the circulation desk at Watson Library for about a year. With a job off campus, Riley said that he wouldnt expect the same flexibility with his studies that he receives at the library. Here I have a lot of extra time to do my homework and since youre already at the library thats the first step, Riley said. So I guess I just wouldnt have extra money and I guess I wouldnt study as much as I

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By MICHAEL HOLTZ
mholtz@kansan.com While undergraduate enrollment in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences continues its five-year decline, many students are turning to professional schools for their degrees. As the data over the last 10 years indicates, enrollment fluctuates, Danny Anderson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said in an e-mail. The College, as the largest unit at KU, mirrors the overall fluctuation. Last spring, enrollment in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dropped by 1,455 undergraduate students from spring 2005, according University reports. With the addition of five new majors, undergraduate enrollment in the School of Business rose 22 percent, to 1,093 students. The School of Engineering saw a 24 percent increase, to 1,607 students. Enrollment in the smaller professional schools, such as education and social welfare, has remained consistent during the past five years. In the wake of the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression, some students feel pressured to major in a degree that offer greater financial stability and job security. For me personally, it didnt have as big of an impact, said Mitch Morrow, a senior from Lawrence in electrical engineering. For people who are coming in right now, I think it definitely plays a part in it. According to a survey done by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, 78.1 percent of incoming freshmen last fall said financial well-being was their top goal. It was the highest percentage since the survey first asked that question in 1966. With an average salary offer of $56,367, engineering degrees account for eight of the 10 highest paying college degrees, according a study done by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Though the average starting salary offer for college graduates fell 1.3 percent in the last year, the starting salary offer for engineering graduates slipped only 0.5 percent. The average starting salary offer for liberal arts graduates fell 3.9 percent, to $34,747. If engineering paid similar to a teachers salary, I may have pursued something different just because of the amount of work you have to put into an engineering degree and a job in engineering, Morrow said. Ninety percent of the kids in engineering wouldnt be if it wasnt for high paying jobs. Engineering and business degrees offer more than high starting salaries. They also provide plenty of job opportunities. Employers in accounting, financial and engineering services are the most interested in hiring 2010 college graduates, according to a separate NACE study. Certainly one of the very attractive things about engineering is the job market and the potential salaries you can earn, said Alexis McKinley Jones, recruitment director for the School of Engineering. The same holds true for business degrees. Average starting salary offers for accounting and financial graduates are $50,402 and $49,703, respectively. A lot of the students I talk to see business as something that could open the doors to many types of job opportunities, said Frances Lyons, academic advisor in the School of Business. They see business as an area where they will be able to apply what theyve learned in the classroom to a particular job. Despite the allures of high salaries and a growing job market, Jones said students should choose their degree based on personal interests. I tell students that its easier to do things that youre passionate about, Jones said. If theyre not passionate about engineering, its not going to be a good fit for them. Edited by Clark Goble

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Casey Burkitt, a senior from Olathe, repairs books for the library as part of his student job. According to KUs Library Communications Director, Rebecca Smith, the libraries employ between 200 to 300 student workers each year based on the librarys need. do. Riley said that the work study job allows him to pick up a few hours of work between classes, understands about class obligations and even allows employees to choose their schedules during finals week. He found the position on the Universitys jobs website, and while he applied for at least seven jobs, Riley said that only the library responded, calling him a week later. Last year, 25,455 applications were received for 650 on-campus student hourly jobs, or more than 39 applications per job. Rileys strategy is precisely what Ann Hartley, associate director of Career Services, recommends students use when seeking on-campus jobs. It will pick up a lot toward the middle of August, when the students come back to campus, Hartley said. You really do have to check every day and then just apply for everything that interests you that youd at least be qualified for. More than 20 percent of all applications in the last three years have come in August. Last year, that number was 5,897 in the first month of classes. Jeremy Horkman, Watson Library service desk supervisor, helps review applications and interview interested students. He said that chief among what the service desk looks for in an applicant was background in related work, interview performance, availability and, sometimes, a certain age and field of study. Like for the on-campus job market as a whole, this time of year is as busy as any for libraries. By the beginning of August, Horkman said the service desk has an idea of how many positions and hours it will need to fill due to graduation or transfers. We try to see at least see two times or three times more people than we are going to hire to really get the right person and get the right fit, Horkman said. For students that find themselves overlooked, Hartley said failing to complete a resume or cover letter is one of the primary causes. I dont think people realize how important that is, but people really will use a cover letter and resume in addition to that application form to weed you out or to find out how interested you are in the job to take the time to write a letter, Hartley said. As an individual conducting job interviews, Horkmans advice to students looking for jobs is similar to Hartleys. When theyre looking for jobs, really try to align and pay attention to preferred and required qualifications, Horkman said. If they sort of apply selectively and meet the preferred requirements theyll probably be at an advantage. Edited by Dana Meredith

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Wales, United Kingdom, this past spring. Whereas coming back to America, if something doesnt happen according to plan, people get upset quickly and dont really go with the flow as much. Weghorst described these recurring sentiments. You can see home in a more critical light, she said. Meaning, you more closely examine things that you might have taken for granted before you left whether they be social, cultural or political aspects of life. In 2007-2008, 262,400 students studied abroad, according to the latest numbers published by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Educational Sciences. For most of these students the experience changed their lives and had an immensely positive effect on them, but one of the biggest transitions students face is conveying their stories of adventures and the significance of their travels to others. Weghorst recommends that returning students set up Facebook groups or general discussion groups among other students who have traveled abroad either with them or at other times. This allows students to compare notes on their transitional progress and experiences, and especially on the things they miss. Educating people on how to transition back into their own social networks when they return has helped past students, and the Office of Study Abroad includes this in pre-departure mandatory meetings with students. When youre talking with friends back home, all theyre doing is listening and asking questions, said Brian Kelly, a senior from St. Louis who studied abroad in Rome for six months last fall. But when you talk to somebody whos done the same thing, you can relate with them and its more like a discussion. The Office of Study Abroad recommends that students dealing with severe reverse culture shock take advantage of counseling services offered at the Counseling and Psychological Services located in Watkins Health Center. Edited by Joel Petterson

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store listening to what students want. University Book Shop, 1116 W. 23rd St., began a version of a book rental program in 2009, said Colby Venema, manager of University Book Shop. We rent between 25 to 35 percent of our books, so at least a quarter of our store is rentable, Venema said. University Book Shop is offering about 5 percent more rentable titles than it did last semester. Textbooks available to rent have a rental sticker on them. The price of a rental textbook at UBS is half of the price of the buying the book new. Edited by Anna Nordling

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Nurse threatened over baby name

EVERETT, Wash. An exconvict was jailed on a charge that he harassed a nurse who laughed at his plan to name his newborn after late mob boss John Gotti. John Keinath allegedly told the nurse back in March he would strangle her for laughing at him. He was charged with felony harassment and had been free awaiting trial, but on Monday, a Snohomish County Superior Court judge ordered him held on $1 million bail. The Herald of Everett reported that according to prosecutors, Keinath spent the past few months trying to trick people at Stevens Hospital into giving him the nurses identity, and he finally learned it. That led to concerns about her safety. Keinath was arrested late last week after being chased

around by local police and U.S. marshals. His previous convictions include a drive-by shooting and assaulting someone with a piece of pipe. It was unclear if Keinath has an attorney.

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LAWRENCE White posters are going up across Lawrence this week that warn minors about the consequences of using fake IDs. Its illegal, its unhealthy and its unsafe for you, and this is one of the campaigns to let them know that if they go out and get a fake ID to enter a bar, that theyll get in trouble, said Jen Brinkerhoff, director of prevention for the Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism. The DCCCA is a Lawrence agency that provides education, prevention and treatment services for residents and families suffering from alcohol addiction. For the second straight semester, DCCCA is leading a campaign to keep minors out of area bars. Fake ID 101 was initiated earlier this year with the help of several area agencies, including The New Tradition Coalition of Lawrence, The Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office, Alcoholic Beverage Control, KU Public Safety Office, Lawrence police and the Douglas County Sheriff s Department. A $25,000 grant funds education and enforcement efforts that are As much education as possible is designed to curb the use of fake great, he said. IDs. Hundreds of posters are being Employees at The Wheel will distributed in Lawrence and sur- get a refresher course this week on rounding communities. The post- spotting fake IDs. Farha said they ers detail what a would learn to fake ID is and check birthdays the consequencand expiration Its illegal, its unhealthy es of using one: dates, while also and its unsafe for you. a $2,500 fine or closely looking up to one year in at eye color, hair JeN briNKerhOff jail or both. color and more. Director of prevention, DCCCA In the spring, He said it was the posters were not always easy primarily put up spotting the in restaurants fakes. and bars, but We do our now theyre also best; technology going in churches, grocery stores, is unbelievable out there, but we do theaters and more. the best we can do, he said. Anywhere that this age group Brinkerhoff said an important under 21 might be going to see part of Fake ID 101 was educating this message, Brinkerhoff said. minors so they wont even approach The campaign provides funds for establishments where theyre not additional law enforcement efforts allowed, easing the burden on workas well. In February, Lawrence police ers checking IDs. used grant funds to conduct four We want to educate students, separate fake ID sting operations especially when theyre coming in at 94 drinking establishments. The as freshmen, and say, hey, we are effort yielded 37 citations for 48 vio- a college town and we have a lot of lations, according to Brinkerhoff. great things, but we do not tolerThe Wheel owner Rob Farha said ate underage drinking, Brinkerhoff he appreciated the campaign. said.

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Bikes left at student housing refurbished, donated


By KELLy STRODA
kstroda@kansan.com Luke Ristow brought his bike to campus to make his morning easier. Ristow, a sophomore from Columbia, Mo., wanted to wake up later, but still get to class on time. You can bike from the dorms to almost anywhere on campus in about five minutes, Ristow said. The buses are convenient, but they are slow and do not seem to follow a strict schedule, so biking became my best option. Unlike Ristow, some students who bring and store bicycles on campus do not make the nearly one-mile ride to campus. Instead, their bikes sit chained to racks outside student housing facilities and are forgotten at the end of the school year. Each summer, around 100 bicycles are loaded up and travel a bit farther than Ristows everyday ride to class. They are transported about 40 miles away to Lansing Correctional Facility. Bicycles abandoned at the residence halls after the spring semester are sent to the correctional facility to be refurbished and given back to people in need, said Jennifer Wamelink, associate director of Residence Life with Student Housing. This year, 113 abandoned bicycles were collected from the residence halls and put into storage. Vince Avila, associate director for Facilities Planning and Development with Student Housing, said Student Housing stores bikes for 60 days. During this time, the KU Public Safety Office records each bikes serial number. Ten of the 113 bikes collected were reclaimed by students, but the remaining 103 will be sent to Lansing soon. The Department of Student Housing will give leftover bicycles to the Lawrence Public Works department, which will then transport the bikes to Lansing. Although the Department of Student Housing has only been donating the leftover bikes to this program since 2004, inmates at Lansing Correctional Facility have been refurbishing donated bicycles for over 10 years. A crew of six inmates works Monday through Friday each week on repairs. In the 2010 fiscal year, inmates at Lansing Correctional Facility spent 11,592 hours repairing bicycles. Tracy Ashton, coordinator of the bike program at the facility, said that after bikes are refurbished, they are donated to children and adults in need. The facility has donated bikes to children in Stouffer Place Apartments, the Lawrence Bike Rodeo and even to members of the U.S. Military in Iraq. It is a win-win situation for everyone involved and it takes a great team to make it happen, Ashton said. The inmates take a great deal of pride in the project and receive a sense of accomplishment because this program gives them the opportunity to give something back to society. Edited by Kelsey Nill
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Lansing Correctional Facility will donate these recently refurbished bicycles to children and adults in need. Inmates at the facility spent 11,592 hours fixing up bikes last year, some of which were donated by Student Housing after students abandoned them in residence hall lots.

Rumors fuel brawl


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BETHLEHEM, Pa. Bethlehem police have charged five women including a woman who was stabbed five times with a brawl earlier this month that broke out over rumors on Facebook. Police said Lianmary Rosa, 18, was stabbed three times in the leg and twice in the shoulder by two different women during the fight around 10 p.m. Aug. 8. But, by the end of the investigation, Rosa, her mother Maria Rodriguez, 40, and sister Marylian Rosa, 20, all of

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Bethlehem, were also charged with disorderly conduct for participating in the fight. Lianmary Rosa told police she got into the fight because of rumors posted about her on Facebook. Court records did not indicate what the rumors were. Charged with stabbing Rosa are Krystal Ann Espinosa, 25, and Brenda Santiago, 25, both of Bethlehem. Both Espinosa and Santiago are charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct and are in Northampton County Prison under $50,000 bail each.

Students adjust to life after on-campus living


amcnaughton@kansan.com For Ashley Eubanks, living in Ellsworth Hall her freshman year meant constant socializing, access to food and minimal responsibility. Last year, Eubanks, a junior from Topeka, transitioned from on-campus living to an apartment. Although the apartment meant more freedom, Eubanks said it also meant more responsibility. I could just get up and walk to class or eat whenever I wanted when I lived in the dorm, Eubanks said.

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Similar to Eubanks, many students chose to live on campus during freshman year. After that point, students prefer off-campus living arrangements. Kelly Davis, a sophomore from Overland Park, currently lives at The Exchange. As a former Templin resident, Davis said living in the dorm helped ease her into living on her own. Lawrence offers multiple apartment complexes geared toward students, including The Exchange and The Legends Place. Brittany Butterworth, media coordinator for The Legends Place, said the dorm style rooms, rent

and utility packages helped make the transition to off-campus living easier. Each room is leased out individually, so all residents have to worry about is their own rent, which includes utilities, making it all one payment, Butterworth said. Butterworth said The Legends Place came fully furnished and hosts frequent events, such as pool parties. Davis said that student-oriented apartments kept her surrounded by friends. Unlike the dorms, though, residents often have more room to themselves. Although she now has more

responsibilities, Eubanks said she liked having space that wasnt possible in the dorms. I got sick of the dorms, Eubanks said. There were always so many people there all the time. Butterworth said amenities, such as shuttle buses to campus, packaged rent and entertainment helped students transition to off-campus living. Im very glad I lived in the dorms, Eubanks said. But I was very happy when I moved out. Edited by Emily McCoy

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Rock the Rec event highlights groups, programs KU offers various


By STEPHEN GRAy
sgray@kansan.com When new students arrive at college, often having left home for the first time, there is always the concern that maintaining a healthy lifestyle could be difficult with the enduring temptation of fast food restaurants and all-you-can-eat dining halls. However, by taking advantage of the facilities at the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center, any such worries should quickly fade. Jill Urkoski, associate director of fitness and staff development at the recreation center, said one of the best ways for students to become familiar with the various programs and activities is to participate in Rock the Rec, an annual Hawk Week event that will be held on Thursday night at 6 p.m. Our student staffs are very knowledgeable and can guide participants on how to get involved, Urkoski said. Everyone is welcome to come out and have some fun. Students pay $74.50 in student fees for the recreation center in the fall and spring semesters, which provides even more incentive to use its services frequently. In this way, every student holds a share of ownership in it. Once students have enrolled and paid their tuition, their KUIDs will immediately gain them access to everything that the recreation center has to offer, Urkoski said. Students returning to the recreation center will notice a few changes for the fall: the upgrade of some cardiovascular equipment, installation of new flat-screen TVs in the training area and the Legacy Walk sidewalk, the 2010 senior class gift. The $17 million recreation center, which was recently expanded in December 2008, contains a suspended track, a rock-climbing wall, weight rooms, aerobics and martial arts studios, cardiovascular training equipment, and basketball, volleyball and racquetball courts among its many amenities. KU Recreation Services will continue to offer all of its past programs, which include intramurals, outdoor pursuits, sports clubs and fitness. Sports equipment, like tennis rackets and boxing gloves, can also be checked out for daily use. Intramural sports, in particular, are an opportunity for students to again play the sports they did in high school. They are also a great way to meet new friends with many of the same interests. If a freshman lives in a dorm or in a fraternity or sorority, grab a few people on your floor and make a team, Matt Beck, intramurals coordinator, said. For those new students who wish to stay in shape and prevent the freshman 15, KU Recreation Services offers personal training and a variety of fitness programs. The KU Fit program at the recreation center includes more than 40 classes per week of cardio, strength, flexibility and functional training to help students create a wellrounded fitness regime in a group environment. A $50 annual pass allows students to take part in an unlimited amount of KU Fit classes during the year, all of which are run by certified fitness instructors. Outside of fitness classes, the KU Sport Club program offers opportunities for members of the University community to compete in sports at both a competitive and fun level. Some club sports are recreational and others are competitive, Urkoski said. Student officers are elected for each club sport and many travel to compete. They practice on a regular basis, Urkowski said. With the facilities at the recreation center, the numerous fitness and sports programs available to students, and a knowledgeable and welcoming staff willing to help, staying in shape at the University of Kansas shouldnt be much trouble. I can honestly say that this facility offers quite a bit more than most places out there, Beck said. Students should definitely take the opportunity to use the building while they are getting their education at KU. Edited by Clark Goble

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You might be a genius at school. You might be able to sit through a math lecture and understand theories with ease. You might be able to write a perfect A paper on your first try. Not everybody is a genius though. Most students need some help with classes at some point. Whether youre a freshman or a graduate student, its important to know where to find the help when someone needs it. Check out these tutoring options that KU has to offer.

it, Tannenwald said. Its cool to see students get better and pick stuff up, but frustrating when students come in and they just want to be shown how to do it. Theres a lot available if you really want to learn.

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Justin Riley, a junior from Lees Summit, Mo., sets aside time to work out at the recreation center.

Patricia Noteboom, assistant director of the Academic Achievement and Access Center, said students pay $75 per course to be placed in a tutor group of no more than four people, but one person is enough to get a group going. The tutors are KU students who have been approved by the center. Students arrange the meeting time and place and can request a tutor through the first ten weeks of the semester. The Center is located on the first floor of Strong Hall.

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The Writing Center offers students a chance to bring in their papers at any point along the writing process. From outline to final draft, the graduate and undergraduate students who work as writing consultants will talk you through ideas and work on parts that the student is concerned about. Terese Thonus, director of the writing center, said this last academic year, more than 2,000 students visited the Writing Center. Consultations are free.

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Rock the Rec (Social Event) Thursday August 19, 2010 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Ambler Student Recreation Fitness center check out all the health and fitness opportunities available to students on campus. Watkins Student Health center and the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness center will be hosting this event full of information, demonstrations and giveaways. Sport clubs and health and fitness programs will be on hand to answer questions. Recreation center Hours, August 16 - September 3: Monday - Thursday 5:30 a.m. - Midnight Friday 5:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. Sunday 9:00 a.m. Midnight more Information at: http://recreation.ku.edu

The Math Help Rooms, located in Snow and Strong Halls, cater to students who need assistance with specific math courses. Students come in with their questions and calculators and are helped by instructors or, in some cases, student assistants. The rooms are open five days a week and students can walk in anytime. Ben Tannenwald, a senior from Overland Park, is one of the student assistants who work in the Math 002 and Math 101 Help Rooms. If you come in here and you really want to learn, then youll get a lot out of

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This may seem like an obvious suggestion, but a professors office hours can often be a useful tool for studying. Office hours vary for each professor and most professors are open to making appointments. Laura Vinci, a senior from Lincoln, Neb., used office hours before most big assignments. My professor was really helpful because he used his office hours to actually comment individually with me about my writing style and to make sure I was following the assignment requirements, Vinci said. I liked getting the feedback from him on my work because it would either steer me in the right director or assure me that I was being successful. Professor of African Studies Beverly Mack said she helps two to a dozen students during her office hours every week. Edited by Sean Tokarz

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Technology dominates campuses


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CHICAGO Nineteen-yearold Taylor Matichak calls her mom several times a day, in between the flurry of text messages they send one another discussing academics, social life or just daily chit-chat. Though the sophomore at the University of Missouri spends most of the year more than 300 miles from her familys Plainfield, Ill., home, the distance seems to evaporate with technology. I like it because we can stay close, said the teen, who says she initiates most of the calls and texts. Its profoundly different from the college days of her mother, 52-year-old Debbie Matichak, who remembers waiting in long lines at her dormitory pay phone to make the obligatory Sunday collect call home. Keeping in touch with parents was more expensive and timeconsuming when she attended the University of Denver three decades ago. But as college students prepare to descend on campuses in the coming weeks, many are finding that with the ease of cell phones, unlimited text message plans, e-mail, Facebook and Skype, they can have near-constant access to mom and dad. Its changed the experience of being away at college, said James Boyle, president of College Parents of America, based in Arlington, Va. A generation ago, when your parents said goodbye and drove away, many (students) didnt see their parents again until Thanksgiving. But some experts fear this communication shift could hamper the independence of older teens at a time when they traditionally come into their own. Sometimes these students are not being as autonomous or selfsufficient as they should be, said Barbara Hofer, psychology professor at Middlebury College in Vermont and co-author of the book The iConnected Parent: Staying Close to Your Kids in College (and Beyond) While Letting Them Grow Up, which is being released this month. Staying close is different than being dependent, she said. Her 2008 study of students at Middlebury and the University of Michigan found that students on average contacted their parents 13 times a week, mainly via cell phone calls and e-mails, though text messaging and Skype seem to be growing in popularity. This is a marked shift from the students parents who reported calling home about once a week when in college. Much of the change stems from the rising use of technology among all age groups. A Pew Research Center survey this year found 40 percent of adults use the internet, e-mail or instant messaging, up from 32 percent in 2009. Seventytwo percent of adults this year reported sending or receiving text messages compared to 65 percent last year. Hofer said problems arise when these electronic conversations entered regulatory territory: Parents reminding their student about assignments, making course schedule decisions, monitoring posts on Facebook or telling the child how to handle basic conundrums of life, from questions about washing machine settings to trouble with professors. The immediacy of todays technology can also chip away at selfreliance, Hofer said. While past generations would call home on the weekend and review the events of the week, students are now able to call or text for feedback in the midst of a crisis. Hofer found that students often go straight to their parents rather than figuring out solutions or handling the emotional fallout on their own, as they would have been forced to do in previous years.

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Downtown offers students shopping, food and nightlife


amcnaughton@kansan.com When Morgan Stewart needed a job, downtown seemed like the logical place to look. I chose to work downtown because its busy, close to my house and I like it, Stewart said. Stewart, a senior from Topeka, now serves at Jeffersons Restaurant, 743 Massachusetts St. Known for its wings and burgers, Jeffersons dollar-covered walls and laid-back style also contribute to its popularity among students. The downtown district contains a wide array of restaurants, shops and bars that offer something for everyone. Jane Pennington, executive director for Downtown Lawrence, Inc., 900 Massachusetts St., said those businesses were housed in authentic, turn-of-the-20th-century buildings.

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There has been a great deal of effort to preserve downtown and its historic nature, Pennington said. New Englanders founded Lawrence in 1854 and from its birth, Lawrence residents have made Massachusetts Street and the downtown area the center of its commercial, political and local activity. That center was threatened, however, when on Aug. 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 300 Missouri men in ransacking the businesses on Massachusetts Street. The House Building, where Lids and Francis Sporting Goods are currently located, was the only downtown building left standing from the raid. Carol Francis, a KU journalism alumna, currently owns the building at 731-737 Massachusetts St. More than 150 years after Quantrills Raid, the only name remaining from the historic birth of downtown is Weavers Department Store, 901 Massachusetts St.

Considered one of the longest running department stores in the country, Weavers is one of 20 clothing and shoe stores that can be found downtown. Sunflower Outdoor and Bike Shop, 804 Massachusetts St., Urban Outfitters, 1013 Massachusetts St., and Third Planet, 846 Massachusetts St., are all within walking distance of Weavers. The biggest difference between downtown and other shopping districts is that in most cases, you are dealing with the owner, Pennington said. And when the owner is dealing with the customer, he knows what the customer wants and if he doesnt have it hell get it for you. In addition to shopping, at least 20 restaurants can be found on or around Massachusetts Street. Zen Zero, 811 Massachusetts St., offers Pan-Asian cuisine and veganfriendly options. For a more upscale evening, Tellers, 746 Massachusetts St., serves Italian food and wine.

Bookstores, like locally owned and operated The Raven, 8 E. Seventh St., banks and gift shops also populate downtown. For students looking for a fun night out, downtown has bars such as the Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St., Quintons Bar and Deli, 615 Massachusetts St., and the dueling piano bar The Barrel House, 729 New Hampshire St,, Each provides a special atmosphere. All the bars are within walking distance and there is a good variety of restaurants, which helps make it a vibrant area, Stewart said. If students arent interested in drinking, Liberty Hall Theatre, 644 Massachusetts St., shows art films, while The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, offers shows by local and national artists. Further enriching the downtown arts scene, beginning on Aug. 27, Final Friday Artwalk will

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Daniel Lierz, a junior from Topeka, is ready to greet customers outside of Kansas Sampler. Kansas Sampler is just one of many KU apparel shops on Massachusetts Street. Lierz said he enjoys the diversity Massachusets Street has to offer. I like all of the shops and everything, and just being able to walk around for hours and see something new everyday, Lierz said. take place downtown on the last Friday of every month from 5-8 p.m. Galleries will open their doors to visitors and the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St., will hold a variety of activities. In the evening, all of the places will be open and make it a festive place to be out and about, said Laurie McLane-Higginson, educational consultant at the Lawrence Arts Center. We want to help make people aware of the art community and bring them in the doors of the center. Edited by Dana Meredith

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. Forget 15 minutes of fame. Austin Sendek is getting hella minutes. The University of CaliforniaDavis physics undergraduate has reaped international attention since March, when Sacramentos newspaper, The Bee, wrote about his campaign to establish a new, scientifically accepted prefix, hella, to be used in front of units of weight, distance or just about anything. It would be used much the same as kilo, mega and giga. However, instead of designating, respectively, a thousand, million or billion, hella would mean 10 to the 27th power, or 1 followed by 27 zeroes. The international committee that decides such matters is expected to hear the idea at its September meeting in Paris. Chances of approval are considered to be hella slim. Undaunted, Sendek has continued his campaign, buoyed by the attention it has garnered. Measures of interest include: News stories in papers in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as websites around the world. Radio interviews with broadcasters from Canada to Australia. His Facebook petition now has about 63,000 fans. Wikipedia includes the proposal in its discussion of units of measurement, while Google includes it in its online calculator. Perhaps the most gratifying experience occurred when he returned home to Yreka, Calif., for summer break and went to visit a former teacher. He was on the playground when a kid did a double take and asked, Are you the hella guy? It turned out the teacher had shown a TV clip of Sendeks proposal. He was quickly surrounded by fifth-graders seeking autographs and saying hella repeatedly. Which is quite a change from when Sendek was that age and wasnt supposed to use the word. I always thought of it as a borderline bad word, he said. The word is a mostly Northern California slang usage, according to a San Francisco linguist, Rachelle Waksler. Grammatically, its an intensifier, roughly equivalent to really or a lot of. But Sendek wants it to be precisely equivalent to 10^27.

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College students filling out their dormitory housing requests this summer are making decisions about their future roommate: Messy or neat? Smoker or non? Early bird or night owl? Now, many of them have a new question to ponder: Male or female? Across the country, colleges are changing the roommate rules and allowing men and women to share a bedroom. Only a small portion of students are choosing the option, college officials say. And when they do, the arrangements almost always are platonic. But the shift marks the next step in a decades-long evolution thats shrunk the space that once separated the sexes on college campuses. Back in the dark ages, a coed dorm was separate floors (for men and women) with an RA making sure you didnt have guys on your floor after a certain time, said Vicky Jones, a Bay Area homemaker who graduated from UCLA in 1974. Then came coed floors. And then coed bathrooms. Now Jones daughter Kendall goes to Occidental College in Los Angeles, where she roomed with a male friend her sophomore year. Occidental is one of more than 50 colleges across the nation that offer whats described as gender-inclusive or gender-neutral housing rooms or suites shared by male and female students. My main reason for choosing gender-neutral housing was simply feeling more comfortable with a guy as a roommate, Kendall Jones wrote in an e-mail interview. Jones grew up with three brothers and said she was fed up with female energy after a freshman year in which she was one of three girls squeezed into a room built for two. It made me cringe to think about living with a girl the next year, so when I found out there was another option I jumped at the chance, she wrote. Jones chose to live with her friend James Case. He said they were compatible because they have similar lifestyles and the same tolerance for mess. There was nothing awkward about it, Case said. When one of us would change, youd say, Hey turn around for 10 seconds. It really wasnt complicated, he said. Other schools that allow men and women to room together include the University of California-Berkeley, the University of California-Riverside, Stanford, Humboldt State and the University of Oregon. College housing officials say mixed housing hasnt led to increases in sexual violence. Most schools limit mixed-gender rooms to specific buildings or floors and assign students to mixed rooms only when both people request it. And its generally not couples who are asking to share a room. The requests tend to come from gay and lesbian students who feel awkward being paired with a roommate of the same sex, or from transgender students who feel their identity makes it difficult to fit into a typical dorm setting. Its been a natural progression in university housing, said Marty Takimoto, a University of California-Berkeley housing director. Students, as the customers, are the determiners of their living situation. About 10 students on the Berkeley campus lived in mixedgender rooms last year, Takimoto said out of a residential population of 5,900. And all the mixedgender rooms are in Unity House, a dormitory designated for people who care about issues of sexuality and gender identity. One resident was Rose DeLeonFoote of Sacramento. She said she was not a lesbian but wanted to live in Unity House because she is passionate about gay rights. She shared a room with a transgender man who was born female but identifies as male. I have a lot of close friends that are gay, DeLeon-Foote said. I thought Unity would be fun, it would be a place for me to get some friends at Cal. Making gay students more comfortable is part of the drive for mixed-gender housing, but not the entire story, said David Norton, executive director of the National Student Genderblind Campaign, which helps students lobby for gender-neutral housing. He cofounded the campaign when he was in college and was forbidden from sharing a room with a woman who had been his best friend since middle school. Many best friends these days are opposite genders, said Norton. It doesnt make sense to have a policy that makes it so you cant live with the person you feel most comfortable living with. Occidental student Laura Harmon was able to share a room with her best friend, a straight guy. The mixed-gender housing at her school is advertised as a good option for gay students, but not restricted to them.

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KU on Wheels bus system offers cost-effective transportation option


BY STEPHEN GRAY
sgray@kansan.com Waking up early on a sweltering morning and walking up the hill to class can be a daunting task for anybody. For those students without access to a car, it might seem like a hopeless situation. With the KU on Wheels bus system, however, there is a convenient and costeffective solution. Because of a 2008 student agreement to eliminate bus passes, the University of Kansas transit system is fare-free during the school year. Students need to only show their KUID while boarding to have access to the transit system. One-way dollar fares are also still accepted by KU on Wheels. Many off-campus students can use the transit system to get to and from campus in a timely and cost-saving manner, said Derek Meier, KU on Wheels transportation coordinator. An additional agreement made in 2008 among the city and the University also allows easier access to both coordinated bus systems. Students, faculty and staff can ride the Lawrence Public Transit service, or the T, for free by showing a valid KUID. City residents who show a valid T bus pass or transfer slip can also ride the University buses for no fare. Overall, the relationship has been a success, Robert Nugent, Lawrence Public Transit adminstrator, said. Ridership is up eight percent through the last year on city buses. Lawrence Transit has begun combining informational pieces to allow riders to take advantage of Student fee Allocation: $21 Bus Acquisition and Maintenance $10.35 SafeBus and SafeRide $47.15 Operations Bus Route changes: Route 1 and Route 2 have been merged into a single route, called Route 1. The route will serve East Lawrence from Downtown to 23rd Street and Haskell Indian Nations University. Route 2 will no longer exist. Route 3 has been modified to include peak and off-peak alignments, and an off-peak Flex zone. During off-peak periods, the fixed route will end at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and riders may call and schedule to be picked up at any address in the Flex service area. Route 5 has been split into two routes, called Route 5 and Route 9. Route 5 will travel from South Iowa to the East Hills Business Park. Route 9 will travel from South Iowa to 6th and Wakarusa. Route 6 has been split into two routes called Route 6 and Route 10. Route 6 will travel from Downtown to 6th and Wakarusa, via 6th Street. Route 10 will travel from Downtown to 6th and Wakarusa via 9th and 15th Streets, and will return via the KU campus. Route 7 has been modified to create more frequency. There are no changes to the route alignment. Route 9 is a new route created by splitting Route 5 into two routes. It will travel from South Iowa to 6th and Wakarusa. Route 10 is a new route created by splitting Route 6 into two routes. It will travel from Downtown to 6th and Wakarusa via 9th and 15th Streets, and will return via the KU campus. Route 26 alignment has been modified to reduce overcrowding. Downtown bus stops moved for construction: Bus stops in the downtown area will be moved due to the construction of a seven-story multi-use building at the southwest corner of 9th and New Hampshire. Effective August 2, buses will no longer stop along 9th Street between Vermont and New Hampshire streets. Bus System map: http://www.lawrencetransit.org/pdf/2010-system-map.pdf Links: KU on Wheels website: http://www.kuonwheels.ku.edu/ Lawrence Transit website: http://www.lawrencetransit.org/ Route information: http://www.lawrencetransit.org/routes/

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A KU bus drives pass the Burge Union on Irving Hill Road. KU on Wheels underwent many changes last summer due to road construction and other conficts, including the merging of several routes. the two systems. Since the fare-free system was put into place, KU on Wheels has proven to be a more popular transportation option with students as well. Ridership doubled during the first year of fare-free, with another 20 percent increase last year. Coordination with the city, improved service on the street and the reciprocal fare agreement are the large drivers for last years increase, Meier said. Students still pay $78.50 in student fees per semester toward KU on Wheels. Danny Kaiser, assistant director of Parking and Transit, said the fee money is used on operational costs, bus acquisition, maintenance and the free nighttime transit services on campus SafeBus and SafeRide which help combat drunken driving. Service and route changes were also implemented earlier this month to coincide with the start of the Universitys school year. The adjustments include improvements to the citys main 10 routes, and an alignment modification for the 25th and Melrose route to prevent overcrowding during peak demand. The changes are intended to enhance access to the city and University, increase service frequency and make the best use of resources available. In addition to being convenient and cheap for students, using alternative transportation reduces greenhouse gas emissions and benefits the environment. Why burn gas in your own vehicle when you can ride on the bus? Kaiser said. It helps the environment and it helps keep cash in students pockets. For more information on bus schedules, rules and maps, check http://kuonwheels.ku.edu/ Edited by Tim Dwyer

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Mental illnesses on rise among students


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LOS ANGELES The number of college students who are afflicted with a serious mental illness is rising, according to data presented Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in San Diego. The findings came from an analysis of 3,265 college students who used campus counseling services between September 1997 and August 2009. The students were screened for mental disorders, suicidal thoughts and self-injurious behavior. In 1998, 93 percent of the students seeking counseling were diagnosed with one mental disorder, compared to 96 percent of students in 2009. The percentage of students with moderate to severe depression rose from 34 percent to 41 percent while the number of students on psychiatric medications increased from 11 percent to 24 percent. However, the number of students who said they had thought about suicide within two weeks of counseling fell from 26 percent in 1998 to 11 percent in 2009 a figure that could reflect improvements in suicide prevention and counseling outreach on college campuses. Efforts have been made in recent years to improve the lives of college students who have mental illnesses. Our findings may suggest that students with severe emotional stress are getting better education, outreach and support during childhood that makes them more likely to attend college than in the past, the lead author of the study, John Guthman of Hofstra University, said in a news release. Several programs are available to assist students with mental illness, including Half of Us (halfofus.com), Active Minds (activeminds.org) and the Jed Foundation (jedfoundation.org).

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Late-night dining options popular around University


really hits the spot. Schmidt isnt alone in his love for greasy food in the wee hours of the Whether theyre working late morning. The cars waiting in line into the night cramming for a at McDonalds often interfere with physics test or having a few drinks 23rd Street traffic on any Thursday or Friday night. with friends, Across the many college street, the line I want to stay in shape, students need for Taco Bell late-night hunand eating late at night gets equally out ger relief. of control. doesnt really help me do Several resMatt Dickey, taurants in that. a junior from Lawrence stay Wichita, recalls open past midNATHANIEL VIGIL a particularly night to provide Senior from Lansing memorable for students Taco Bell mogrowling stomment he had achs. Andrew Schmidt, a senior from Pratt, often stops at McDon- with his roommate a couple years alds for a sausage burrito and hash ago. My roommate wanted it two browns when he is out late with his years ago on New Years Eve, and friends. I dont normally eat greasy I wouldnt stop, because I saw that food, Schmidt said. But after a they were closed, Dickey said. couple of beers with my friends, it But drunks were still waiting in jpatton@kansan.com

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line yelling at the box. The sign wasnt even lit. However, not every KU student shares a love for midnight food binging. Nathaniel Vigil, a senior from Lansing, doesnt like eating late because of the extra calories that go with it. I want to stay in shape, and eating late at night doesnt really help me do that. Vigil said. Healthy or not, its safe to say late night dining will continue in Lawrence as new and returning customers flood the town at the new school year. Edited by Sean Tokarz

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EDINBURGH, Scotland Drinkers uninterested in designated drivers should consider the new offering on Scotlands real estate market the Old Forge. The local is Scotlands most remote pub with no roads in or out. Located on the Knoydart Peninsula in the West Highlands, the thirsty must hike about 18 miles (29 kilometers) from the nearest road or travel seven miles (11 kilometers) across the sea loch from the town of Mallaig. Owners Ian and Jackie Robertson are retiring and seeking offers starting at 790,000 pounds (US$1.2 million). Jackie Robertson said Thursday she enjoyed the pub, which she describes as ideally situated for those who want to get away from it all. But she says its time to stop pouring pints and start drinking them.

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. A former volunteer with an Arizona fire department is accused of setting fire to a station while firefighters were on a call. The U.S. Attorneys Office says Jamie Billy of Tuba City is charged with one count of willfully and maliciously setting fire to the Navajo Nation Fire Department station. The Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says a passer-by noticed

the station on fire in the early morning hours of Aug. 5. The crew was not in the station because of a call. The fire started in the station truck bay and caused damage to a fire truck and to the station. Billy is scheduled to appear in U.S. Magistrate Court Thursday to determine whether he should be released from custody until his trial.
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Thrift stores offer chance of acquiring cash, clothes


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jpatton@kansan.com Packing to move into a new place can unearth clothes in the back of students closets that they havent worn or even seen in months. Before students kick these unwanted shirts and skirts to the curb, however, they could consider visiting one of Lawrences many thrift stores to pick up some extra cash or some new clothes. Consignment stores such as Platos Closet, 3514 Clinton Parkway, offer cash or store credit to individuals wanting to sell their gently used clothing. Michelle Hansen, a senior from Victoria, has gone to Platos Closet a few times after cleaning out her closet. They didnt take all of the clothes I offered them, Hansen said. It was nice to get some extra cash to add to my Starbucks fund though. Platos Closet isnt the only store in Lawrence that buys used clothing. Arizona Trading Company, 736 Massachusetts St., accepts clothing, shoes, purses, belts and even some vintage knickknacks such as furniture. Madison Oller, a freshman from Eudora, said she liked to visit Arizona Trading Company when she is searching for clothing items that arent in style anymore and cant be found easily. Ive actually gone there a lot for costume parties, Oller said. They just have a lot from different eras, and they are cheap. Another thrift store in Lawrence, Wild Man Vintage, 939 Massachusetts St., has an unusual selection of merchandise. Inside the store, shoppers can find wigs, belt buckles and men and womens hats in addition to ties, scarves, apparel and purses. The Lawrence Antique Mall, 830 Massachusetts St., can also be a gold mine for shoppers looking for cute clothes and low prices. Mindy Jenks, a sophomore from Hutchinson, said the store is one of her favorites to visit in Lawrence. I like it because its stuff you just cant go buy in a retail store, Jenks said. This summer I found original Converse One Star shoes that had never been worn. It made my day. Whether they are buying or selling back clothes, thrift stores in Lawrence offer students a lot of options that can benefit both them and others. Edited by Dana Meredith

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Megan Hughes browses through racks of sunglasses at Arizona Trading Company Tuesday afternoon. Any time I come to Lawrence this is the first place I stop and probably the only place I will visit today, Hughes said.

Hawk Week teaches KU traditions


basketball games would benefit from purchasing the All-Sports Combo package, Marchiony said. With the first football game of The package costs $150 and can the season on Sept. 4, its important be purchased under additional to know what to expect when it campus fees in Enroll and Pay. It comes to attending sporting events, guarantees admission to all of the a significant part of the college home football games, he said. According to the Kansas Athletics experience. There are a few important website, football ticket distribution things to remember when attend- will begin at 9 a.m., August 18 at the Kansas ing a Kansas Athletics Ticket football game, Office, located Jim Marchiony, A Hawk Week guide will in the southeast associate athwalk you to each and corner of Allen letics director, said. every one of your classes. F i e l d h o u s e . The only thing It is imporrequired to pick tant to get there jOSh DebOer up tickets is a early, be loud Overland Park sophomore KUID. and wear blue, At games, Marchiony some fans like said. When it comes to football games, to bring more festive items. Many its important to be prepared, he fans decide to tailgate beforehand. Tailgating is an essential part of said. Students who plan on attend- the KU football experience, Marie ing a majority of the football and Dowd, a senior from Des Plaines, mkalen@kansan.com

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Ill., said. Marchiony said. On game day, its important to I would encourage freshmen to arrive early, Marchiony said. The attend Traditions Night on Monday, student section is general admis- Aug. 16 at Memorial Stadium, he sion, so the earlier students get to said. At Traditions Night students games, the better seats theyll get. learn about the Rock Chalk Chant Student seating is on the east side and the clap and other great tradiof the stadium and encompasses tions. sections 18 through 20 and the Traditions are what set Kansas top of section football games 21. The stuapart from dent entrance other schools, It creates a feeling of is in the northand even other camaraderie with your west corner of sporting events, the stadium Dowd said. fellow students. near section The best 17. Students part is particiMArie DOwD should remempating in cheers Des Plaines, ill., senior ber to bring and clapping their tickets during the and KUIDs to games, she games. . said. It creates a feeling of camaraAn important aspect of cheer- derie with your fellow students and ing on the Jayhawks is knowing really makes you feel like youre a the popular KU chants. Attending part of the Universitys legacy. Traditions Night during Hawk Week is a good way to get some Edited by Sean Tokarz practice before the big game,

Graduation in six years is the norm


ever had before, said Weil from William Paterson, where the fourHACKENSACK, N.J. If youre year completion rate is just over 20 counting on four years of college percent, according to the federal tuition, think again: It now takes data. Nationally, only about 36 perthe majority of students at least six cent of students finish within four years to earn a bachelors degree. And the federal government this years, according to the federal year began tracking the eight-year data. The federal stats are flawed graduation rate an acknowledgement that more students are given that they exclude those taking longer than ever before to who transfer and graduate from schools other than those at which get their diploma. It was a long road, said Dwight they started. Experts are looking Braswell, 30, of his decade-long for other ways to measure succollege career. It does cost you cess at community colleges, where more, but I got some life experi- many, if not most, students wind up transferring. ence. We cant argue with societys Braswell graduated from Rutgers University in May with a bach- definition of success, which is a elors degree in business. The road degree, said Jerry Ryan, president to his diploma took him through of Bergen Community College. While 40.4 percent of Americans four states, several jobs, marriage, ages 25 to 34 hold an associates fatherhood and his twenties. degree or higher, the rates drop for But at least he finished. Only about two-thirds of those minorities and low-income stuwho start college wind up earning dents. Thirty percent of Africana degree within six years, experts Americans and 20 percent of say. And there is growing concern Latinos in that age group hold that the U.S. has slipped from first degrees. And the College Board place a generation ago to 12th in found that students from the highthe world in the percentage of est-income families were eight young adults who have completed times as likely as those from the poorest families to graduate from college. Just over 40 percent of college. We have a long way to go, there Americans ages 25 to 34 have a is work to be done, said Christen degree, compared with almost 56 percent in Canada, which tops the Pollack from the College Board. list, according to figures released The group called for changes beginning in preschool, with the aim of by the College Board last month. Indeed, with tuition at public boosting college completion rates. colleges in New Jersey, for exam- Those include better advising and ple, topping $10,000 annually and aligning high school curriculums private schools costing as much as with college expectations. The three times that, finances remain need for remedial coursework is a prime reason that students take one reason it takes many students longer to finlonger to earn ish. a degree and, Its possible to graduDePue, the in many cases, biology major dont make it to ate in four years, but from William the finish line, you need the right set of Paterson, experts said. complained of circumstances. At different the number of points in his colgeneral eduNick DePUe lege career, Nick Former college student cation classes DePue worked required to three partcomplete his time jobs while attending William Paterson. He degree. To be perfectly blunt, a graduated in May with a degree in great number of college credits biology, six years after he started. arent useful anyway, he said. Kristin Bonczek said she would Its possible to graduate in four years, but you need the right set have had to take classes every sumof circumstances to get it done, mer in order to complete her physical education major at Paterson in said DePue. College enrollment nationwide five years. Now she plans to graduhas leaped by a third since 1986, ate next May after six years. Both DePue and Bonczek said from 12.7 million to 18.7 million today, according to federal data, they never expected their college with some of the largest growth careers to last so long and were in community colleges and other unaware that six years was now the norm. I absolutely had the public schools. We have many more non- expectation that it would take four traditional students than weve years, Bonczek said.

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Resources available to help navigate campus


BY MICHELLE KALEN
mkalen@kansan.com For freshmen and even some of the upperclassmen, navigating the University of Kansas vast campus can be a daunting task. With more than 40 buildings to distinguish the campus, it is easy to get confused, is by taking advantage of the Hawk and no one wants to walk into class Week tours. Not only will it help late on the first day. new students better understand the Luckily the University has some layout of campus, it will also be an resources for those who are direc- opportunity to walk around during tionally challenged. your first week. The great thing to do is to If you would rather figure things utilize class tours during Hawk out for yourself, there are some Week, said things to keep Josh DeBoer, in mind when a sophoexploring camA Hawk Week guide will more from pus. walk you to each and Overland It took me Park who a while to figevery one of your classes. ure out camis a student orientation pus, Candice jOSh DebOer assistant. A Metzinger, a Overland Park sophomore senior from Hawk Week Wichita, said. guide will I find it makes walk you things easier to each and to visualize a map of campus in every one of your classes. Whether you want to partici- my mind and find everything in pate in a Hawk Week tour or fig- relation to the main buildings on ure things out for yourself there Jayhawk Boulevard. Jayhawk Boulevard is home to are many ways to get prepared Strong, Wescoe, Fraser and Budig for the first day of class. DeBoer said that the easiest Halls. Between Budig and Wescoe way to get acclimated to campus Halls you can make your way down the hill to Sunnyside Drive and Naismith Drive. These three streets house most of the buildings on campus. Curtis Marsh, director of KU info, said it is important to walk through campus before the first day of class. Knowing where you are headed by being prepared makes striding with confidence a much easier task. Still lost? Dont stress, there are ways to figure out where you are going even if you are running late on the first day. One big thing for incoming freshmen to know is this: The first two days of class, we have three KU Info tables placed around campus specifically to help students find their classes, Marsh said. One is on Wescoe Beach, the other in front of Watson Library, and the other inside Strong Hall. Edited by David Cawthon

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ove-in day is a pain. If you live in student housing, like me, then you know that on Sunday you saw waves of people descend upon the residence and scholarship halls, sometimes with parents and siblings in tow, storming lobbies and common rooms everywhere, searching for the right paperwork and the right room. While everyones focused on signing the right papers and unpacking their stuff, its easy to miss that move-in day represents one of the best ways for new students to see the diversity of the University. When students mingle

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together and room doors are open its hard to miss as introductions are made and stories exchanged. That initial discovery of diversity can fade for students, though, when friend groups and cliques are formed and many of the new, interesting people that students have met inevitably fade into the background. This semester we, that is associate opinion editor Shauna Blackmon and myself, want the Opinion page to be like those first few hours and days of the college experience when it seems youre meeting someone new every five minutes and encountering a mil-

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lion unfamiliar ideas every day. This is a page for ideas. Quirky ideas, intelligent ideas, inspiring ideas, smart ideas. Its a page for you to find new ideas and contribute your best ones.

Thats why we have close to 20 columnists, all students, to bring you new ideas every school day. Each columnist writes on a different subject area from fashion to foreign policy. Thats why we publish letters from students on virtually any topic that affects you and your fellow students. Whether you agree with what you read, disagree or are just plain disgusted, write to us. Then theres Free For All, a place that celebrates anonymous speech, where you can just as easily give your two cents about last nights escapade as well as the

most pressing issues facing this campus. The positions taken in the editorials, which use the voice and authority of the paper, help push for policies and decisions that we believe will make this university a better place. This semester were also starting a new feature, tentatively called Opinion Minute which will consist of short video interviews with columnists posted online a few times each week. It will be a chance to get the backstory on columns and tidbits of information that dont always make it onto the printed page.

In all these ways, we want to make the Opinion page a place where every student will find something to agree with, something to disagree with and something that shines a new light on a difficult subject. If this page can do that then we will have been successful. So be sure to pick up Thursdays Kansan and see how weve done. Until then, enjoy Hawk Week and welcome to the University. shorman, the opinion editor, is a junior from McPherson in journalism.

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Kansas legislature proposes much needed ban on texting while driving

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ansas officials met Tuesday to discuss the passing of an overdue and imperative state law to penalize Kansas drivers who choose to text while driving. This is an act that will keep streets safe from negligence. According the Hands Free Information website, the law that took effect on the first of January and bans texting and e-mailing for drivers with a restricted license remains in full force. Both the Kansas House and Senate proposed bills to extend the ban to all drivers, and failure to comply would result in a $100 fine. This bill, however, shouldnt be necessary for drivers to practice good streetsense. Texting while driving may sound harmless at first, given that this generation has grown up with the development and mass-dispersal of technology. But it is only another impairment, an irresponsible habit that can cause damage. Kansas is not the first state to recognize this issue. Nineteen other states and the District of Columbia currently have similar laws in effect. Strong supporters of a broader federal ban include Verizon Wireless and The Wireless Associationcompanies that agree drivers who text are substantially more likely to be involved in an accident. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, drivers are four times more likely to be involved in harmful accidents

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when texting. In Kansas, drivers without restricted licenses who get into accidents because of text messaging are only subject to being ticketed for reckless or careless driving. However, ticketing the use of cell phones as being reckless would be more difficult for law enforcement to prove without an existing rule as a binding reference. Many accidents are the result of negligent driving, leading to injuries or fatal consequences to passengers and other drivers and making those negligent drivers responsible for the lives or damages to others. A law regarding the use of cell phones would prevent car accidents, saving the lives of not only the victims, but also the offenders. Exclusively banning messaging for restricted drivers makes

the habit appear to be something that has to be practiced and only performed by experienced drivers, similar to driving on the freeway or operating a manual transmission. Texting while driving is not a skill to be rehearsed; it is a hazardous behavior that should be habitually avoided. Regardless of state statute, Kansas drivers, especially teenagers and college students, should have the self-discipline to ignore their cell phones while driving. If the state legislators are looking out for the best interest of Kansas citizens, they should pass this bill.

If you see a restricted driver texting while driving, call: (785) 843-0250

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hat do you do when one of your icons doesnt have the law on his side? Apparently, you try and change who interprets the law. At least, that is the page in the playbook of an anti-abortion group, Kansans for Life. While protesting Roe v. Wade at the Kansas Judicial Center recently, the group announced it would campaign against Kansas Supreme Court Justice Carol Beier in her retention election later this year. Why is this? Apparently Kansans for Life didnt like some recent rulings she handed down in hearings involving former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline. But, conservatives rallying against so-called activist judges are nothing new. People trying to oust judges in retention votes arent new, either. I spent a summer a few years ago interning at the Judicial Center. Occasionally, I got to read or hear stories when some fringe group or another had campaigned against a Supreme Court justice and failed miserably. I believe that none have succeeded at all in this state since the Supreme Court became an appointed, not elected, position. We can argue all day about the merits of the rulings against Kline. What he did, regarding moving medical records subpoenaed from an abortion clinic in Wichita out of the possession of the Attorney Generals office, did go against an order by the Supreme Court. This matter was settled about a year ago in the hearing that featured Beiers controversial ruling. So, here we have the basis for the ruling, and why the majority opinion contained such harsh criticism. (Kline was described as showing little, if any respect for the court.) But, is this the way to fight for a cause? Coming to

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the defense of somebody who has been an awful spokesman for a cause, and who hasnt been able to win public election on either state and county levels for the better part of a decade? The members of Kansans for Life think it is, sadly. The group will fail, as well they should; but, they will continue on in their inane efforts to fight against reproductive choice, and we will be forced to watch it all. Why then, if the effort is almost guaranteed to fail, is this news annoying? Kansans for Life is crossing a line when they go after the Judicial Branch in this way. The one non-partisan branch of government is that way for a reason, to make sure that nobody interpreting the law is beholden to the ideology of a fickle electorate. By targeting Justice Beier, and threatening similar campaigns against other judges, Kansans for Life is trying to inject a fear of its far-right beliefs into the justice system itself. The statement it makes is to rule the way we want, not the way the law dictates, or suffer the consequences. We can take solace in the likelihood that the group will fail. But if this level of ambition continues past the upcoming election, it is a given that we will be subjected to more such campaigns, for equally shoddy reasons. Cohen is a senior from topeka in journalism

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Defense for Alito is purely political
I dont believe that United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alitos critical reaction to last weeks State of the Union address was particularly offensive, although the defense of Alito has offended me. The majority of his conservative peers have jumped to Alitos defense, but perhaps they should reconsider. Let us assume that one of the two liberal women had reacted to a conservative president the way Alito reacted to a liberal one. I can hear what she would be called now: an over-emotional and sassy drama queen. Had it been one of the two liberal men, there would be cries of childishness, immaturity or sophomoric behavior. Or worse, let us imagine that Obama had made a similar gesture to Alito or fellow Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia while they were presenting a law school lecture. Undoubtedly, Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck would be fighting to be the first to prey on negative stereotypes to account for his actions. The point is that those who most frequently criticize actions like Alitos find no irony in their current opposition to a page taken from their very own playbook. The partisan criticism of Alito was that he abandoned decorum in order to criticize the president. The partisan response was that he is entitled to his reaction to a president who shouldnt have criticized him in the first place. Lest we forget, this whole debacle resulted from a mention of a recent landmark decision on campaign financing. Yet, in discussions of the Obama-Alito feud, those words rarely, if ever, appear. The fact of the matter is that those jumping to the defense of Alito have done so, not out of genuine concern, but rather out of political motivations. Partisans have put aside a critical and profound issue, instead opting for a senseless response to a senseless criticism that they would claim, if given the chance. Unfortunately, its our loss.
A. Bryce Myers is a graduate student from Overland Park.

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ou may know that a certain James Camerondirected movie not named Titanic swept through movie theaters last month, becoming the second mostgrossing movie of all time with more than $500 billion in total global revenue. That movie, Avatar, is the latest pop culture phenomenon (an honorable mention goes out to Jersey Shore, a program that shouldnt even deserve quotation marks). It recently won a Golden Globe for Best Drama. Everyone has talked about the films stunning visuals and special effects. But, little has been said about the story development and dialogue. As 3-D viewing experiments are becoming the norm, television and movies are changing forever. But does commonplace 3-D movie viewing translate into a progressive movie experience? Until the arrival of 3-D movies, one of the qualities of a good movie was whether or not it made viewers feel like they were in the movie. For me, the sign a movie was good was if when the credits started to roll they brought me back to reality. When watching The Shawshank Redemption for the first time, I forgot where I

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was. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman were talking to me as if I was standing next to them in the prison courtyardjust another day. It was one of those movies where thinking was required for the full experience. In other words, I wasnt paying $10 to watch giant robots based on Hasbro toys blow up one another for two hours. Most everyone has fond memories of the violent fight scenes in Fight Club; certainly the inclusion of these scenes is what makes the movie such a popular one. But, has anyone ever stopped to think why the fight scenes stick out? Its because of the art in the storytelling. When Edward Nortons character gives his famous I am Jack narrations throughout the movie or Brad Pitt demonstrates the inner workings of movie reels, the scenarios are so bizarre that viewers cant help but think

about the character, about the story, about something. Thus, when you watch Pitt and Norton beat the hell out of each other, it means more to the movie. The problem with standardizing 3-D in movies is that the one element of a good 2-D movie when you find yourself sitting next to Morgan Freeman in the courtyardis automatically commonplace. This is because, well, you really are in the movie. How will movies such as Up in the Air, Shawshank, or Schindlers List find a home in 3-Da genre built for action next to giant exploding robots? They cant. The point here is not to call for the elimination of all genres except drama. I could talk about TPS Reports, Bond movies, or ask if anyone knows where Doug, from The Hangover, is all day long; all genres have merit. The fact that the technology is even available to make a movie like Avatar is amazing in itself. But if 3-D, over-lade visual movies become the latest way to make money in Hollywood, expect to be stuck with less Shawshank and more G-Force. Boultinghouse is a sophomore from Girard in history and journalism.

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2010 football preview


New names step up to lead the team this season. FOOTBALL| 4B

Athletics summer recap


Wrap-up of a tumultuous offseason for Kansas, Big 12 ATHLETICS| 9B
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Starting QB still to be determined


Sophomore Kale Pick, freshman Jordan Webb fight to fill vacancy
the gridiron. Pick is seen as more of a scrambler who can make plays with his legs, while Webb is viewed He is the Jayhawks career pass- as the traditional NFL prototype. ing leader by a 4,784 yard mar- Regardless of who seizes the job, gin. He is the only quarterback in the offense will be developed school history to throw for 3,000 around what the new quarterback yards in a season, and he did it brings to the table. Whoever wins the job, were three times. He holds each of the top three records in single-season going to tailor our offense to them, passing yardage, touchdown passes said offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Chuck Long. and completion percentage. He is Todd Reesing, and he is Im not so stubborn to say, This no longer on the Kansas football is it, and if you dont fit it, you cant play. We want to put our best playteam. Replacing him will be either ers on the field, and were going to sophomore Kale Pick, who has just tailor it to whoevers in there. Coach Turner Gill , a legendary 22 career passing yards, or freshquarterback in his own right, has man Jordan Webb, who has zero. We obviously have big shoes to no timetable on when the decision fill, Webb said. Todd was one of at quarterback will be made. It can go right up until the the greatest to ever play here. It will be hard to replace him, but I think day before the game, Gill said. Chuck and I dont have a deadline were both up to the task. Luckily for whoever wins the or a timeline to make a decision. ongoing quarterback competition, Whenever we believe that it is the the Jayhawks have a recent history right time to make the decision with unproven quarterbacks find- and the person has earned it and ing success on the field. Reesing deserves it, then well do that. Junior offensive lineman Jeff only had 204 of his record 11,194 career yards passing under his belt Spikes season-ending leg injury when he was awarded the starting may appear to give the swifter Pick a leg up on the competition, but job his sophomore year in 2007. ultimately the most talented player Naturally, in will win the addition to batposition regardtling each other We obviously have big less of the team for the position shoes to fill. Todd was one around him. of starting quarYou want terback, Pick of the greatest to ever to play the guy and Webb are that earns the play here. also battling the job, Long said. constant comJordan webb We have confiparisons to the Freshman quarterback dence that were man affectiongoing to have ately referred an offensive to as Sparky by line come first game that is solid fans and teammates. They dont move around the and good and regardless of whos pocket as much as Todd, said back there. Both underclassmen understand senior wide receiver Johnathan Wilson. He would be running the importance of securing the job around and then he would turn now and making this squad their own. around and run the other way. While they may not be Reesing Edited by Tim Dwyer reincarnate, both quarterbacks bring their own unique abilities to

replacing reesing

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Freshman quarterback Jordan Webb throws to sophomore quarterback Kale Pick during the Jayhawks' first practice of the season Aug. 4. The two are competing for the starting quarterback position.

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Excitement not always better when it comes to controversies

Twins reunite at Adidas Nations


Marcus, Markieff attend camp after summer apart
tdwyer@kansan.com Marcus Morris had a whirlwind summer. He was in Las Vegas to practice with Team USA. He spent time in Chicago for Amare Stoudemires big-man camp. He was in Akron, Ohio, for the LeBron James Skills Academy. He missed time with his Kansas teammates in order to further his game his mid-range game, in particular, he said against some of the best competition in the nation. Most recently, he was back in Chicago for the Adidas Nations summer camp. And he finally had some company from his Jayhawk teammates, including his twin brother, Markieff. It was different having my teammates there, he said. It was more fun." Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress.com said Morris

hope you all enjoyed it while it lasted. The past 365 days were as entertaining as it can get. Think about how much this beloved university was on the news in the past year. It had to be more than any other college. Be proud, Jayhawk Nation. What other university can claim to have its high-profile football and basketball teams duke it out on school grounds? How many coaches and athletic directors were surrounded by controversy? Where else can you find the most illustrious ticket hijacking scheme in recent memory? Im sad to tell you, but 20102011 cannot compete. Nothing can. The Big 12 exists now as 10 schools in a summer with twists not even M. Night Shyamalan could have written. Now were stuck seeing how long that lasts. The mens basketball team fell in the second round in an ESPY award-winning upset by Northern Iowa. Sorry to open up old wounds, but think about it in terms of this season: theres nowhere to go but up. And the football team. So promising last season. The Jay-

BY coREY ThIBoDEaux
cthibodeaux@kansan.com hawks won their first five games but then splat. Lost the final seven. You can fill in the blanks with any other newsworthy story surrounding the University of Kansas. Not even USC and its chaotic summer cant compete. It may be more affected, but its not as widespread as Kansas. I want to point out track and field middle distance runner Lauren Bonds graduated with a 3.93 grade point average and was nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year. Sophomore thrower Mason Finley was the best discus thrower at the NACAC Under-23 Track and Field Championships in early July. But corruption in the organization they were part of masked those achievements.

Perhaps the only way to salvage the thrill of Kansas Athletics and make us forget about 2009-2010 is to win an NCAA championship. A football bowl berth would help. There is no substitute for winning on the grandest stages. But there is a positive to all of this: I will promise that this year will be better than last year. Exciting doesnt always mean better. And there is hope in the revenue sports. The basketball team is poised for something special. The Morris twins are looking excellent this summer, working out three times a day. Freshman Josh Selby is skilled enough to perhaps make his own shoes to fill someday. And how can you not like where the football team is at? Coach Turner Gill sat down this summer and said his purpose on life was to teach 18- to 22-yearold men how to be better people. Whatever side Im on, I want him on my team, whether he wins or loses. And whether its exciting or not, its going to be a good year. Edited by Clark Goble

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Junior forward Marcus Morris launches a shot over former Iowa State forward Craig Brackins in Allen Fieldhouse Feb. 13, 2009. Morris practiced with Team USA during the summer.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY


I wish I had an answer to that because Im tired of answering that question.
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Miami trio bad for sport of basketball


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The Brews 10 best players for the 2010-11 NBA season
1. LeBron James, Miami Heat 2. kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers 3. Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat 4. kevin Durant, Oklahoma city Thunder 5. carmelo Anthony, Denver Nuggets 6. chris Paul, New Orleans Hornets 7. Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas Mavericks 8. Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic 9. chris Bosh, Miami Heat 10. Deron Williams, Utah Jazz prime. LeBron has never been so good. Same with Bosh. Weve likely already seen the best of Wade, but he has shown no signs of slowing down. This is all without a superb supporting cast in their histories. These three were already considered the best of the best with scrubs like Mo Williams, Michael Beasley and Andrea Bargnani as their finest complementary pieces. In Cleveland, LeBron won 66 games with the aforementioned Williams and chump change by his side. In Miami, with Wade, Bosh and the rest, this team should easily trump the 72 win record set by Michael Jordans 1995-96 Chicago Bulls. Heck, this team might win it all every single year. Sure, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Boston Celtics and a few other teams catching their stride at the right time might be able to compete with the Heat. But to actually win a seven game series? I dont think so. So the rings will pile up as LeBron and Co. cackle like Dr. Evil on a good day. It wont be a dynasty. Itll be a monopoly. And it wont be like building houses on Broadway and Park Place. Itll be like building the Yankees in a salary capped league. May parity rest in peace. Edited by David Cawthon

FACT OF THE DAY


The Jayhawk football team has six players that weigh more than 300 pounds.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY

Q: In 1970, how many players in


the NFL weighed more than 300 pounds?

A: One (Gene Ferguson of the


San Diego chargers)
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NFL

PHILADELPHIA Playing their first game without Donovan McNabb, the Philadelphia Eagles showed they have capable quarterbacks. Starter kevin kolb was impressive and backup Michael Vick displayed flashes of his old self before rookie Mike kafka rallied the Eagles to a 28-27 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in their preseason opener Friday night. Pro Bowl kicker David Akers made all five of his field goals, including a 36-yarder that gave the Eagles a one-point lead in the fourth quarter. Jaguars backup Luke Mccown picked apart Philadelphias juniorvarsity secondary, throwing for 244 yards and three touchdowns.
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Eagles QBs step up after McNabb loss

all me a pessimist, call me a homer, or call me an antidreamer I just cant lie to myself. The three-headed Mon-star in South Beach leads me to fear for the future of professional basketball. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the 2010-11 Miami Heat and perhaps the grandest demolition crew that never broke a rule. Now before you get out of your proverbial beach chair and toss said chair in a vicious manner out of severe disagreement with my previous statements, allow me to relate to all you dreamers. I get it. I really do. First of all, the Miami Heat will be nothing short of a flabbergasting cash crop. They will rake in television ratings like American Idol on fire. NBA 2K11 might be the best selling and most enjoyable video game of all time. Together, these three will sign so many endorsement deals, they will put Peyton Mannings advertisement total to shame. Forget Obama and that little economic recession thing. The Miami Heat will dominate our nations attention, basketball fans or not. Few things will match the brilliance of watching a squad akin to the USA

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mrothman@kansan.com Olympic team playing 82 games plus playoffs per year. Throw in Mike Miller, Zydrunas Ilgauskus, Mario Chalmers, Eddie House and more, and this team could roll to gold in the summer games. This is also why they might just ruin the NBA. This team is simply too good. Talented players from far and wide are throwing their names into the hat, praying that Miami Heat president Pat Riley throws a bone (a league minimum contract) their way. The world of sports has never seen anything like it. Weve seen stars take minor pay cuts so that they can return with their beloved franchises. Weve seen juggernauts join forces so that they can finally hoist that first championship trophy. But never, and I mean never, have we seen three of the finest athletes in their respective sport combine to form a super squad while still in their

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll Jayhawks to face energized by return to the pros football upheaval Q
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SEATTLE Pete Carroll pumped his fists and hugged players, greeting nearly everyone. He ran a lot on the sidelines on a left knee the 58-year-old had surgically repaired just two weeks ago. And all that was before the national anthem. Then he highfived the guy who sang that. The coach who bolted Southern California in January to resurrect the fallen Seahawks looked like he was having more fun than his players during Seattles 20-18 preseason victory over the Tennessee Titans on Saturday night. Carrolls first NFL game since Jan. 2, 2000, when he was coaching New England, was more notable for the new leaders energy being as advertised than it was for anything the players did. Chris Johnson scored a touchdown to end Tennessees first drive, on the same field where he became the sixth player with 2,000 yards rushing in a season last January. He had five carries for 7 yards on Saturdays initial drive. His score came on his third try from the 1, a cutback behind tight ends Bo Scaife and Craig Stevens. It felt good to get hit a few times because I really havent felt that since last year, Johnson said in quotes provided by the Titans at halftime. We still have some work to do together uick. List the first six people who come to mind with regards to the last few years of Kansas football. Heres the six you thought of: Todd Reesing, Darrell Stuckey, Mark Mangino, Kerry Meier, Dezmon Briscoe and Jake Sharp. Now tell me where they are. They are, respectively, with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, San Diego Chargers, now living in Florida, Cincinatti Bengals, Atlanta Falcons and trying to latch on in the NFL. Not a Jayhawk among them. Now list the first six people that come to mind with regards to the coming year of Kansas football. Youre stuck at Turner Gill, arent you? If you got to three, chances are you listed the two favorites for the quarterback position, which says something about the stability of the 2010 Kansas Jayhawks football season. No one can, with any certainty, say who the starting quarterback will be in, oh, three weeks. Its OK. Head coach is really the only position in Kansas football thats locked down at the moment. Sophomore running back Toben Opurum was the Jayhawks leading rusher last year. He was the favorite to win the starting job in a walk this year. Hes not on the two-deep depth chart, meaning hes at best third in the rotation. Angus Quigley, back at running back after a one-year move to linebacker, tops the list (Blake Gideon quivers with fear). Huldon Tharp had 59 tackles as a true freshman in 2009. Hes out for the season. tdwyer@kansan.com And of course, theres the quarterback position that is all sorts of wide open. It could be Pick (who, lets face it, should really wear number six. Pick six. Get it?). It could be Webb (who, lets face it, nobody really knew anything about until spring practice). The point Im making is that in 2010, with Jayhawk football, the unexpected is all you can expect. I dont think Im exaggerating when I say that all but a couple of positions locked down for game one are on the offensive and defensive lines. Skill positions are up for grabs, save for Johnathan Wilsons hold on the top wide receiver spot. Gills first year as head coach could get ugly at times (and likely will). Or it could be a seamless transition (but likely wont). With as much turnover as the football team is experiencing, matching last years 5-7 record would be, in my book, pretty much expected. Going bowling at the end of the year would be impressive. But like I said, in 2010, with Jayhawks football, the unexpected is all you can expect. Edited by Anna Nordling

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NFL

Cowboys unable to convert in red zone

ARLINGTON, Texas Just in case they didnt already know, the Dallas cowboys got a reminder of the importance of getting touchdowns whenever theyre close. The cowboys were within 16 yards of the end zone on four drives against the Oakland Raiders on Thursday night, yet managed only three field goals. It came back to bite them when the Raiders got two touchdowns and a field goal in the final 4:58 for a 17-9 victory. Dallas (1-1) had snaps from Oaklands 16, 13, 9 and 10 without getting into the end zone. One of those drives was stopped on downs, and the others were settled by David Buehler making kicks of 42, 27 and 28 yards. Oakland went ahead 10-9 with 2:24 left when first-string kicker Sebastian Janikowski nailed a 28yard field goal.
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Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll greets quarterback Charlie Whitehurst on the sidelines during the first half of a preseason game against the Tennessee Titans , Saturday in Seattle. (but) well be ready to go when it matters. Vince Young, heading into the season as Tennessees starter after going 8-2 to finish 2009, completed his first five passes for 78 yards. Seattles Josh Wilson intercepted the sixth and final one, on a comeback route near the sideline intended for Justin Gage at the Titans 39. Chris Simms replaced Young with 4 minutes left in the opening quarter. The rest of Tennessees starting offense was out by the start of the second period. The Titans rallied within 20-18 with 4:39 left on a 1-yard run by LeGarrette Blount and 2-point pass by rookie Rusty Smith. Tennessee got the ball back with a minute left but Smith threw an interception to Kam Chancellor with 25 seconds remaining. Seattles first-team offense produced a 44-yard field goal by Olindo Mare in its three drives. Matt Hasselbeck was 4 of 10 for 26 yards. He was sacked once and had three passes deflected, two by Titans linebacker Stephen Tulloch. The toasty home crowd on an 87-degree night got its biggest thrill from Mike Williams. The top-10 pick by the Lions in 2005 who ballooned out of the league for two years caught a short pass from backup Charlie Whitehurst midway through the second quarter. Williams, and ran 51 yards untouched for a touchdown.

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LOS ANGELES An off-road truck plowed into a crowd and scattered bodies everywhere moments after sailing off a jump at a California race Saturday, killing eight people and leaving 12 injured, authorities and witnesses said. The crash came shortly after the start of the 8 p.m. PDT race called the California 200, said San Bernardino County sheriff s spokeswoman Cindy Bachman. Bachman said eight people died and 12 were injured, several of them seriously. Seven ambulances and 10 emergency aircraft responded to the scene. Most of the injured were airlifted from the area to Loma Linda University Medical Center or St. Marys Medical Center. There was dust everywhere, people screaming, people running, David Conklin, a photographer covering the event for off-road magazines, told The Associated Press. Conklin said the Prerunner truck was among the first 20 off the line in the race, and had just gone over a jump known as the rockpile about two miles into the race. He said he watched the vehicle sail through the air. Then he turned to watch for other cars when he heard the commotion caused by the crash. When I got up to the vehicle I could tell that several people were trapped. There were just bodies everywhere, he said. One woman with a major head wound (was) lying in a pool of blood. Someone else was crushed beneath the car. The truck came to a rest upside down with its oversized wheels pointing toward the sky.

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Altered Gill makes positive changes to team dynamics fight song should unite KU
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he soap opera that was the summer of 2010 for the Big 12 Conference ended with a pleasant, anti-climactic agreement to keep most of the conference intact. But the departure of Nebraska and Colorado, to the Big 10 and Pac 10 respectively, has actually changed the history of the University forever without many people noticing. The Im a Jayhawk fight song that everybody claps along to at football and basketball games is now changing because of the imminent departure of the Cornhuskers and the Buffaloes. After three years of going to home football games, Ive sung until my lungs didnt have any more air during the Rock Chalk Chant. Ive waved the wheat. And Ive tried to master the Im a Jayhawk clap during every lull of every game. But Ive never known the lyrics to Im a Jayhawk, which, now that Ive learned them, I think it makes the fight song one of the Universitys most special traditions. The fight song shows a competitive tradition, challenges the Universitys Big 12 rivals and rings with Kansas pride for not just the school, but for the state as a whole. I find it surprising that the lyrics to this chant, which has been around for almost a century, are never sung. Doing so could add an extra fighting spirit and another unique showing of school pride at football games, which can sometimes be lacking in enthusiasm as evidenced by the crowds that leave at halftime. The lyrics that will be changed this year are: Husk some corn and listen/ to the Cornhuskers wail, Talk about the Sooners, the Cowboys and the Buffs and Talk about the Wildcats, and those Cornhuskin boys. The Alumni Association is holding a contest for students to submit new lyrics. The winner will be announced at the homecoming game on Oct. 23 and the new lyrics will be put into effect in the 2011-2012 season. I suggest emphasizing tradition and the strength that is left in the remaining ten teams of the former Big 12. Tradition is a perfect three-syllable word to substitute in for Cornhusker. Something like: Got a beak thats big enough to twist the tigers tail, We the crimson and blue, shine as tradition prevails. It wouldnt be a direct stab at either of the teams for abandoning one of the most historically strong conferences in the country. But it would show the values of a school proud of its history. Kansas and Nebraska had the longest continuous series between two schools in the country during their time together in the Big 8 and Big 12. They have played each other 104 straight years, for a total of 116 times since 1892. Sometimes money and TV contracts overrule tradition, but not in Kansas, and thankfully not in Texas. This is exactly why the new fight song should emphasize the importance of tradition for Kansas and should be more of a part of game day experiences in the future. Edited by Dana Meredith

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The Kansas football team has a completely new feel this year. Last season, the internal issues of the Jayhawks were well documented. Players claimed to have suffered all kinds of distress, leading to a complete remodeling of the coaching staff. With first-year coach Turner Gill at the helm, senior cornerback Chris Harris senses an overwhelming change within the team. Hes a loving coach that wants the best for us, Harris said. Other college coaches are just like a robot. Gills positive idealism was evident during the recruiting process. Instead of focusing solely on the Xs and Os of football, he communicated faith and good human qualities. Senior defensive end Jake Laptad had nothing bad to say about his new coach. It struck him how caring his coach is to the students athletes. Hes more concentrated on your personal life, Laptad said, not only just getting you a better football player but a better person. With that mentality, Gill has instilled some unusual, but positive, customs. For instance, he had players stand up and discuss the most influential person in their lives. He said it was an effort to build relationships and looking inside yourself will help others see you as you truly are. I wanted to make sure that we got a chance to know that theres a lot more in common that we have with each other than we have differences, Gill said.

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Coach Turner Gill talks with the media before the start of Kansas first practice of the season Aug. 4. Kansas opens the 2010-2011 season Sept. 4 against North Dakota State at Memorial Stadium. Cursing is discouraged, which could be a difficult transition for some. We try not to cuss, Harris said. Weve been around it so long. And when a player does something wrong, the punishment is not as bad, Harris said. Former coach Mark Mangino would tell players something once and they would have to figure it out on their own. Gill walks players through the learning process. If we mess up on the field, he teaches us, Harris said. They come at us in a totally different way. Through the tumultuous summer, Gill could only do his job as a coach since the realignment and ticket scandal were all out of his control. And it didnt affect his lifes purpose. Gill said his purpose on Earth is to work with men 18- 22 years-old. Its what he loves. As long as I was going to be able to be coaching and teaching young men, thats all that mattered to me, Gill said. Senior lineman Brad Thorson loves his new coach. Gill has entrusted a leadership role to him and the other seniors, and even more than that. Hes truly a mentor to me right now, Thorson said. Hes what I want to become as a man. Edited by Clark Goble

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SEATTLE They werent really sure if it would ever happen for them. And if it were to happen, they certainly didnt know when. So long snapper Brendan Lopez, linebacker Jonathan Amosa and three other walk-ons to the University of Washington football team initially didnt know how to react when they heard the news Thursday night that they had been put on scholarship for the 2010 season. I had no idea, said Lopez, from Bellevue, Wash. I was just like really? I was speechless, like what? Each proved the beneficiary of good timing and hard work. Division I football teams are allowed to have 85 players on scholarship at a time. Washington, however, fell to 78 in recent weeks with the losses of several players (such as tight end Kavario Middletons dismissal, linebacker Alvin Logans retirement due to a knee issue, and lineman Scott Shugerts decision to transfer). So Washington coach Steve Sarkisian announced Thursday night that he had put the five players on scholarship during a team meeting. Also awarded scholarships were senior center Greg Christine of Camarillo, Calif., and two players from Edmonds, senior linebacker Brandon Huppert and sophomore offensive lineman Daniel Kanczugowski. We had room to put guys on, and (we) put five guys on that I think were deserving of it and have worked extremely hard, Sarkisian said. The additions mean UW now has 83 scholarship players, Sarkisian saying that you always got to have a little wiggle room. Christine and Huppert were on scholarship last season, and having worked their way up to backup status and seeing action in games, each seemed likely to get a scholarship again. Still, such scholarships are one-year renewable technically, all scholarships are, though players who sign lettersof-intent live much more securely and each entered this year not completely sure they would again get one.

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Defense
Defensive Line
The defensive line is having trouble keeping bodies on the field and is probably the most uncertain group on defense. The Jayhawks kicked Jamal Greene off the team after he was connected to an attempted robbery. With off-and-on injuries on the line, sophomore Darius Parish is back on the defensive front after playing on both sided last season. Senior Jake Laptad will be relied on as the main pass rusher, leading kansas with 6.5 sacks last season. Defensive line coach buddy Wyatt said a few young players are making strides in camp. Freshman defensive end Tyrone Sellers, Wyatt said, has made the biggest improvement since the beginning of summer. Freshman kevin Young impressed both coach Turner Gill and Wyatt from the defensive end position, making himself an early breakout-player candidate.

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Senior receiver Johnathan Wilson cuts inside after a reception from senior quarterback Todd Reesing. Wilson had 66 yards receiving in Kansas Sept. 12 win at Texas-El Paso.

Senior chris Harris leads a unit that lost Darrell Stuckey to the NFL and bradley McDougald, Daymond Patterson and D.J. beshears to the offensive side of the ball. by moving the more athletic players back, kansas might get exposed in the secondary early in the season. calvin Rubles, a 6-foot-3 senior, shows promise as a bump-and-run coverage man. Free safety Lubbock Smith was a productive tackler last season and could emerge as a play maker. Teams might stay away from Harris, a starter in the 2008 Orange bowl, and try to exploit kansas at the opposite cornerback position.

Receiver core relatively unknown


said he knows the underclassmen look up to him. He talked to Briscoe and Meier earlier this summer If it wasnt Kerry Meier or Dez- for words of encouragement. Im the oldest one now, Wilson mon Briscoe catching the ball last said. I learned from them, so I just season, you probably didnt recogneed to do the same thing to teach nize. This season, those players have these younger guys. Patterson and sophomore D.J. something to prove. Im going to show them we were Beshears transitioned from cormore than Kerry and Briscoe, ju- nerback to receiver, and both join nior receiver Daymond Patterson sophomore Bradley McDougald in adding some experience to the said. corps. Freshmen Erick McGriff and The cast of reChristian Matceivers are relathews are looking tively unknown to Im going to show good in camp as most. The offense well. them we were more was geared to the Those names playmakers now in than Kerry and may not look fathe NFL. miliar, but wide Briscoe. Led by senior receivers coach Johnathan WilDarrell Wyatt DAYMOND PATTeRSON son, the young said he thinks the Junior wide receiver core is getting rave group has somereviews in camp. thing to prove. Coach Turner Gill Even though said the receivers these guys didnt were a strength of put up significant numbers, they do the team this year. When we put the ball in the have experience in this league, Wyguys hands, theyre going to make att said. They are aware of what its like to walk out there on game day. something happen, Gill said. But being in the shadow of BrisWilson is the lone senior and coe and Meier might have actually helped the current receivers. When you see players of that caliber, you cant let them go by without picking up how they do things, Patterson said. As with almost all positions on the team, all spots are up for grabs. Wyatt said after the show the stars put on last year for Kansas, its hard not wanting to continue that tradition. But with the roster as it is, the coaches said the game plan doesnt focus on any one or two players. Its going to be a combined effort designed to get the playmakers the ball and let them play to their strengths. So far in camp, the Jayhawks have practiced everything from two tight end sets and four wide receiver spreads. Even junior tight end Tim Biere is trying to get a significant role in the offense. We want to pick up some of those receptions Kerry and Dez had last year, Biere said. Everybodys working to get out on the field. The Jayhawks havent even assigned captains yet, so the leadership is up for grabs. As evident in this receiving group, everyone wants a piece. Your leaders leave and everyone can just shut down and look at each other, or everybody can step up and build around each other, Patterson said. And thats what our team has done. cthibodeaux@kansan.com Edited by Anna Nordling

BY COREY THIBODEAUX

Linebackers

The linebacking unit took a huge blow with the season-ending injury to sophomore Huldon Tharp. He started seven games last year and made a couple of freshman all-American teams last season. Gill suggested at the football media day that the coaching staff might move someone to a different position to fill the gap. Senior Justin Springer will likely start at middle linebacker and played in all 12 games last season. Dont be surprised if Gill converts a safety to linebacker to get more speed on the field.

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Junior wide receiver Daymond Patterson returns a kick for a touchdown against Florida International Aug. 30, 2008. Patterson switched to No. 15 last season.

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Sophomore wide receiver Bradley McDougald fights off a Northern Colorado defender Sept. 5, 2009. McDougald is one of several wide receivers vying for the starting job this season.

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cgoble@kansan.com Sixth-year senior Angus Quigley knows hes been on the football team forever. His running back peers dont let him forget it either. Ive heard it all, Quigley said, from that I played with Gale Sayers to I was here in Mitchells first term and that Im an assistant coach. Its all fun and games. But right now, Quigleys the one sitting on top of the depth chart at running back. Coach Turner Gill said that the coaching staff, including new running backs coach Reggie Mitchell, is still trying to find out how they want to use the running game. Regardless of the pass/run playcalling ratio, Gill wants a feature back that can get 20-25 carries per game. I just want that guy to be a physical runner, Gill said. I want him to be athletic, make people miss. And hopefully we get a home-run hitter who has the speed that can take it the distance. As for who might get those reps, the competition is wide open. Sophomore Toben Opurum was the leading rusher last year, picking up 554 yards on 133 carries and scoring nine touchdowns. He was slowed in spring practices by an ankle injury suffered at the end of last season and, as a result, he didnt find his name on the two-deep depth chart released in May. Opurum said the spring was real frustrating. A lot of people would use that as motivation, Opurum said. I expect to see myself at the top of any depth chart. I have to use that to get back to the top where I feel that I belong. Redshirt freshman DeShaun Sands, 5-foot-7 and 190 lbs., sits second on the depth chart. Mitchell knows that freshmen Brandon Bourbon and James Sims have talent, but he said its hard for first-year guys to pick up the offense quickly, especially when it comes to pass protection. Junior Rell Lewis had a 42-yard reception in Kansas final game of the season against Missouri, but hes out for 2-3 weeks with a knee

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Offense
Offensive Line

Despite all the turnover the Jayhawks have this year, the offensive line remained completely intact. All five starters at the end of last year seniors Brad Thorson and Sal Capra, junior Jeremiah Hatch and sophomores Tanner Hawkinson and Trevor Marrongelli return and look to have a crucial role protecting the new quarterback. Earlier this summer, the Jayhawks lost junior Jeff Spikes for the season with a leg injury.

Quarterbacks

Controversy. Battle. Competition. Call it what you want, but both sophomore quarterback Kale Pick and his freshman counterpart Jordan Webb are ready for a starter to be named at their position. We both want to know, but were just making ourselves better now, Webb said. So I think the competition is going to pay off in the end. Pick, the only quarterback on the roster with any FBS experience, has only 22 yards in mop-up time accumulated last season. Webb, who is almost identical to Pick in height and weight, redshirted last season. Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Chuck Long is not working on a deadline to name a starter, but he does have a comfort zone he would like to stick to. The latest you ever want to go is 10 days before the first game. Youd like to give them 10 days at the very minimum, Long said. Thats as far as Ive gone before; weve named the quarterback anywhere before that. But again, thats up to coach Gill.

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Sophomore running back Toben Opurum makes his first career touchdown against Northern Colorado Sept. 5. injury. Opurum said all the guys are getting pretty even reps in early practices. All its doing is making each and every one of us better every week, Opurum said. I think its a competition thats going to keep going until one of us can emerge as the number one. Mitchell certainly appreciates that the coaching staff has a little less than a month to see if any one back will emerge. If no one sticks out, Gill knows he might have to wait until the middle of the season to get a true answer for the position. Quigley wants the chance to start at running back like he did at times in 2008, but that doesnt mean he minds the competition. Tobens pushing me, Im pushing Toben, Quigley said. Rells pushing Sands and Sands is pushing me. Thats the way it has to be. If you have a core of guys who are competing for a spot, you cant help but be successful at that spot. Edited by Tim Dwyer

Believe it or not, Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco could end up influencing the Jayhawks most talented receiver. Speaking to former teammate and Cincinnati Bengals rookie Dez Briscoe on Facebook, senior wide receiver Johnathan Wilson said he learned a thing or two about the duo referring to themselves as Batman and Robin. [Dez] was talking about Chad and T.O. and how its crazy, but he said hes learned a lot from those two guys, Wilson said. Im just excited for him to be in that situation because he can learn a lot from those two guys, and when he comes back, Ill try to learn what he learned from them. Wilson also received words of advice from former teammate Kerry Meier, now with the Atlanta Falcons. He just told me to be a leader because Im the oldest one now, Wilson said. I learned from them, so obviously I need to do the same thing, teach guys and show them the ropes.

Running Backs

Last year, senior Angus Quigley was a backup linebacker. But right now, hes sitting on top of the preseason depth chart at running back. Quigley rushed for 309 yards in 2008. Sophomore Toben Opurum started as a true freshman last year, but it is clear that the competition for carries will run through August. Look out for freshman Brandon Bourbon, a raw talent with the straight-away speed that Gill loves. We may not see anything settled until Big 12 play starts up.

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Sophomore Linebacker Huldon Tharp dives at Duke quarterback Sean Renfree, forcing him to throw the ball away. The Jayhawks won the Sept. 19 game, 44-16.

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Tharp to miss 2010 season with injury

Sophomore linebacker Huldon Tharp will miss the 2010 season because of a foot injury.

Coach Turner Gill said that the injury will definitely affect the linebacking corps. He definitely was going to be a guy who was going to play, Gill said.

Tharp was slotted in as the starter at weakside linebacker on the preseason depth chart. Gill hinted that the coaching staff might tinker with a couple players positions to fill the gap.

Freshman Josh Richardson was second on the depth chart at weakside linebacker.
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Champion freshman, transfer join


icummings@kansan.com The womens golf team is seeing some changes in its lineup this fall as it prepares for September tournaments both at home and away. The team has added two new players to its roster this fall, Meghan Potee and Katy Nugent. Potee, a freshman, is the 2009 Indiana State High School Champion in both golf and diving. Nugent, a junior, is a Wichita native and transfer from the University of Arkansas. Nugent took first place in the Kansas Womens Golf Association Amateur Championship in July, at McDonald Park Golf Course in Wichita, for the second consecutive year. Katy brings a lot of competitive experience and leadership with her, coach Erin ONeil said.

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Meghan also has a strong competitive fire. Fellow Jayhawks Jennifer Clark, a junior, and Audrey Yowell, a freshman, placed in the top eight in that amateur championship. We have a lot of experience in our upperclassmen, ONeil said. Overall, everyone has done a great job of playing in tournaments and keeping their games sharp. However, two of the teams key players from last year, Meghan Gockel and Emily Powers, graduated this past spring. Gockel was a four-time member of the National Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team and played in every tournament for Kansas, with an average of 78. She will be working on an MBA at the Texas this fall. In the last academic year, the womens golf team set a Kansas

Athletics record-high GPA of 3.62. event needs to be prepared for ONeil attributes this success to the in the same way. I think we have basics: studying and tutoring, as many great opportunities waiting well as good management of sched- for us this year and Im looking ules and support forward to another from the athletic year. department. She The Kansas womOne thing we need tells the golfens golf team will to get better at is ers that they are host the Marilynn students first treating every tourna- Smith Sunflower and athletes secInvitational tournament like its the only ond. ment this September One thing we at Alvamar Golf & tournament. need to get better Country Club, 4120 at, ONeil said, Clinton Parkway. In EriN ONEil coach is treating every the coming weeks, tournament like the team will play its the only tourrounds to deternament. It seems mine who will travel like we will make certain tourna- to the Nebraska Womens Amateur ments, like the Big 12 Conference Golf Association Tournament in Championship for instance, into Kearney, Neb. the biggest event in the world. It definitely is important, but each Edited by Dana Meredith

Seniors Barbee, Bell lead Jayhawks


BY ETHAN PADWAY
epadway@kansan.com The mens golf team will open up its season Sept. 5 at the Turning Stone-Tiger Intercollegiate in Verona, N.Y. They will be led by senior Nate Barbee. Last season Barbee was named a Cleveland Golf/Srixon AllAmerican Scholar. Barbee was also the first Jayhawk to compete in the mens NCAA tournament since the team qualified in 2007. Barbee shot a final round 71 to finish the tournament in 39th place. Barbee was also named to the PING All-region team. We are very proud of Nates work both on the course and in the classroom, coach Kit Grove said in a press release about Barbee receiving the Cleveland Golf/ Srixon All-American Scholar. He has been a great ambassador for the Jayhawk golf program. Senior Jeff Bell finished second over the summer in a playoff at the 16th Annual Kansas Public Links Championship at Colbert Hills Golf Club. After the Turning Stone-Tiger Intercollegiate, the Jayhawks will travel to Nebraska City, Neb., for the Fairway Club Invite Sept. 13 and 14 before hosting the Kansas Invite on Sept. 20 and 21. Edited by Anna Nordling

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Athletic director Dick Baddour said he understands the publics desire for information but reiterated the NCAAs request that UNC not discuss the details of an investigation into its football program. We have not hidden from this, Baddour said. Baddour called the NCAA investigation very complicated and very detailed and said it would take a lot of time to sort out. He did not know if the players involved would be cleared before the seasonopener Sept. 4. I know that the NCAA is working as hard as they can to bring it to resolution. I know we are working as hard as we can to bring to resolution. When that occurs, we will come forward and tell you everything we are allowed to tell you. The N.C. Secretary of States office has asked sports agents registered in North Carolina to preserve all information regarding six UNC football players. Christopher B. Rawls, the enforcement attorney for the department of the Secretary of State, requested that agents preserve all documents, tangible things and electronically stored information that you possess regarding the following individuals: Marvin Austin, Greg Little, Deunta Williams, Kendric Burney, Bruce Carter, and Quan Sturdivant. All six players were considered NFL draft picks after last season. All six opted to return to UNC for their senior years.
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was one of the most impressive players at the camp. Givony cited Morris versatile game his ability to score inside and outside, ball handle and defend as what separated him from the group. Thats a pretty complete game for a guy thats played two seasons of college basketball, Givony said. Kansas sent five players Marcus and Markieff Morris, Tyshawn Taylor, Thomas Robinson and incoming freshman Josh Selby to the Adidas camp last week and for Marcus, it was the first game action hes had with his teammates since Kansas crushing loss to Northern Iowa. Givony said Markieff didnt have the overwhelming production of his brother, but has more upside in the long run, with an inch more height and more explosiveness. Hes not as polished as Marcus, but hes got a lot of talent, Givony said. The light switch hasnt come on as much as it has for Marcus, but hes still young, so obviously theres plenty of time for that to happen. Markieff and Robinson will be entrenched in a battle for the starting center position. Morris is the early favorite, but Robinson wowed Givony, as he did fans last season, with his raw athleticism. The guys a great athlete, Givony said about Robinson. Hes got an amazing body and he plays very hard. Hes obviously a useful guy to have on your roster. Marcus also was impressed with the development of his brother and Robinson and said that the frontcourt, with himself and 7-footer Jeff Withey in addition to those two, could be a strong unit for Kansas. Were better than a lot of people think we are, Marcus said. Thats going to be one of the strongest parts of our team is that frontcourt. Edited by Dana Meredith

starting lineup not set in stone


tdwyer@kansan.com Its hardly a rebuilding year for the Jayhawks theyve been ranked as high as fourth in some preseason polls. But only two positions on the floor have a starter locked in, with veteran standouts Tyshawn Taylor and Marcus Morris all but guaranteed their starting roles. The Jayhawks early high rankings speak to the depth of Bill Self s roster and the competition that will go into earning those last three spots. Heres the Kansans early projection of what the Jayhawks lineup could look like come November.

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fellow 2009-2010 redshirt Travis Releford and maybe even Tyrel Reed, who has improved his defense to the level that hes no longer just a sniper for the Jayhawks. If the job Little is Littles, though, hell bring a dangerous mid-range game to the lineup. The 6-foot-5 Little played primarily power forward in the Jayhawks 2008-2009 Sweet Sixteen season, but he has said hes much more comfortable on the outside.

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If Selby is cleared for play by the NCAA, hell have a pretty solid hold on the point guard spot for the Jayhawks. The nations toprated recruit is under investigation for a Selby relat ionship with Robert Frazier, the manager for the NBAs Carmelo Anthony. Selby, Anthony and Frazier are all from the Baltimore area. If hes not cleared at this point still a big if the job may go to Elijah Johnson, who showed flashes of inhuman athletic ability in his freshman year.

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Sophomore guard Tyshawn Taylor drives to the basket against Missouri. Taylor scored seven points but turned the ball over five times against the Tigers. Kansas won 84-65.

After emerging as the top returning option for the Jayhawks throughout a stellar sophomore campaign, Morris has earned rave reviews for his performances at various camps over the summer. He Marcus Morris spent some time training with the national team in Las Vegas, where Kansas will return for the Las Vegas Invitational Thanksgiving weekend. Morris is a serious candidate for Big 12 Player of the Year in what could be his last year in a Kansas uniform.

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Saints facing uphill battle this season


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. A new season, a different result, a lot of improvement left for the Super Bowl champions to make. The New Orleans Saints gave up big plays and a decisive 28-yard field goal in the final minute as the New England Patriots opened their exhibition season with a 27-24 win Thursday night. Last seasons title wont help the Saints repeat. Thats been our mindset from the start, linebacker Jonathan Vilma said. Weve got to prove ourselves all over again. Weve got to keep working and improve on the little things. For the Patriots, it was a successful return to the field where their last game was a rout, a 33-14 loss to the Baltimore Ravens in the first round of the playoffs. That shouldnt affect the coming season, either. Its a new year. Weve had 20 practices, coach Bill Belichick said. Whatever happened last year was last year. The Saints lost more than a game during their visit to New England, which began Tuesday with two days of joint practices. On Wednesday, No. 3 running back Lynell Hamilton tore his right young players. On his first series since being anterior cruciate ligament, an injury that likely will sideline him for voted Super Bowl MVP, Drew the season. On the Saints first pos- Brees threw an incompletion and session Thursday, punter Thomas was sacked for a 10-yard loss. But Morstead hurt his left shoulder on his third and final possession, knocking Julian Edelman out of he led a 20-play, 86-yard march bounds after a 40-yard return and that lasted 10:01 and ended with placekicker Garrett Hartley punted a 2-yard scoring run by Reggie Bush that cut New Englands lead the rest of the night. After the game, Morstead was to 10-7. Brees completed 9 of 13 passes walking with his arm in a sling. for 55 yards. Coach Sean Tom Brady, a Payton said two-time Super X-rays were We pretty much put the Bowl MVP, negative, and Super Bowl behind us. played New Morstead was Englands first due for an MRI We were rusty and have two series and in New Orleans to execute better in all went 5-for-8 for on Friday. aspects of the game. 67 yards. In last The Saints years exhibipunted four Tracy Porter tion opener, he times on their Saints cornerback played for the five first-half first time since possessions and the 2008 regumanaged just a field goal on their last four of the lar-season opener, when a knee game. Their final series ended with injury ended his season. This is all about establishing an an interception. And there were attitude any time we step on the plenty of missed tackles. Too many sloppy things weve field, New England tight end Alge got to get corrected, Payton said. Crumpler said. Regardless of who I know its the first week of pre- we play or what the circumstances season; still, a lot of things are are, if we play together as a team disturbing. ... I think well put the good things will happen. Gostkowski kicked the wintape in and well see it wasnt just ning 28-yard field goal with 53 seconds left after Darnell Jenkins caught a short pass from seventhround draft pick Zac Robinson and turned it into a 52-yard gain. The Saints also allowed kickoff returns of 52 and 50 yards by first-round draft pick Devin McCourty. The Patriots held out wide receiver Wes Welker despite his strong comeback from a torn ACL in his left knee suffered in the last regular-season game. He is expected to be ready for the opener Sept. 12 at home against Cincinnati. The players who didnt dress we didnt think were ready to play, Belichick said. New Orleans beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in the Super Bowl, overcoming a 17-16 fourth-quarter deficit and scoring the final touchdown on a big play, Tracy Porters 74-yard interception return. We pretty much put the Super Bowl behind us, Porter said. We were rusty and have to execute better in all aspects of the game. New England played much better than in New Orleans last year, a 38-17 loss in which Brees threw five touchdown passes and gave the Saints an 11-0 record.

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Markieff doesnt get praise to match his brother, but he has an inch and 10 pounds on Marcus. Hes not a traditional center the Jayhawks will look to Thomas Markieff Morris Robinson for a back-to-thebasket guy on offense but he brings plenty of offensive ability and rebounds like an absolute maniac on both sides of the floor. Markieff s performance at the Adidas Nations camp turned some heads, and hell likely be the Jayhawks top center over Robinson and 7-footer Jeff Withey. Edited by Sarah Kelly

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NEW YORK Danny Granger scored 22 points and the United States sprinted past China, 9851 in a scrimmage Saturday. Eric Gordon strengthened his case for a spot on the team with 15 points, while Kevin Durant added 14 and Derrick Rose had 12. The teams played four 10-minute quarters, with the

score reset at the beginning of each period. The Americans outscored the Chinese 35-8 in the third quarter, then lost the fourth 17-16 . Coach Mike Krzyzewski likely showed who two of his cuts will be, not using Jeff Green or JaVale McGee. Yi Jianlian of the Washington Wizards scored 13 for China.
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redskins, Bills adjusting to new coaches in first preseason games


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LANDOVER, Md. Donovan McNabb threw a touchdown pass in his Washington Redskins debut, Albert Haynesworth looked suitably motivated in his debut as a $100 million backup, and the newlook Buffalo Bills looked like the same old Buffalo Bills. McNabb went 5 for 8 for 58 yards in two series Friday night and hit first-year player Anthony Armstrong for a 4-yard touchdown in the Redskins 42-17 win over the mistake-ridden Bills. It was a first-glimpse preseason game that shows Washingtons new coach Mike Shanahan is quite a bit further along than Buffalos new coach Chan Gailey. Its been a little over four months since the Easter Sunday trade that brought McNabb to the Redskins, and its still a jarring sight to see No. 5 in something other than a Philadelphia Eagles uniform. After a few wayward throws on his first series, he went 4 for 5 for 47 yards on his second drive and showed he still has some speed in his 33-yearold legs by scrambling to convert a third-and-1. When you play your first game, obviously, with a new ballclub, it takes you back to the first game you played, McNabb said. Your adrenaline is high, and you have to settle down a little bit. The second time we went out, after our first drive, it led to us putting up some points. Then good things happen. There are a lot of things we have to work on, but I thought offensively we were able to progress. McNabbs favorite target was tight end Chris Cooley, who caught three passes for 33 yards McNabbs last throw was the TD to Armstrong, who has made a surprisingly strong case for a roster spot. Clinton Portis, got more than his usual work for a first preseason game, carrying six times for 22 yards. Brandon Banks, an undrafted rookie receiver from Kansas State listed at 5-foot-7, made some noise with a 77-yard punt return down the right sideline for a touchdown in the third quarter.

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Helmet advances concussion safety


Concussion issue drives new helmet design, production
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who claimed the results could compromise the safety of youth athletes. In the trials, three helmets (two produced by Riddell, one by Schutt) performed better than 13 others. But several medical experts questioned the studys methodology and whether the helmets safety performance can translate to all levels of play. One of them was Dr. Robert Cantu, a senior adviser to an NFL committee on head injuries and director of the Neurological Sports Injury Center at Bostons Brigham and Womens Hospital. It cant be interpreted as showing product A or product B as being better or less protective against concussions, Cantu said. It wasnt tested to a standard that had anything to do with concussions. And my concern is that given what human nature is, the wrong conclusions will be drawn. I just want to see better products and better protection out there.

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Outfielder Brian Heere is one of five Jayhawks from the 2010 team now playing in the minor leagues. Heere is playing for the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, a Single-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians.

Ex-Jayhawks see success in minors


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ahammond@kansan.com After the disappointing ending to the Kansas Jayhawks 2010 baseball season, Junes MLB Draft brought joy back to coach Ritch Prices program after they went on a six-game losing streak to end the season. Six Jayhawks were selected in the 2010 MLB Amateur Draft, five signed, and a total of 15 Jayhawks are now in organizations around Major League Baseball. Heres an update on how the most recent crop of Kansas Jayhawks are doing. slow start, but has recently picked up his stride with the Scrappers. Heere is currently hitting .267 with a triple, five RBI and a .368 on-base percentage. with six doubles, three homers and 13 RBIs. Thompson had what some would call a down year because he did not have a repeat of the triple crown season of 2009. Thompson, who was slowed down by injury during the preseason, managed to get drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the sixth round of this years draft. Thompson Thompson took his hitting talents north of the border to play for the Vancouver Canadians in Single A ball. Tony has been on fire since he was drafted, recently going on a ten-game tear with a double, two homers and seven RBIs. On the season Thompson is hitting .292,

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Heere currently plays for the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, the Cleveland Indians Single A farm team, after being drafted in the 41st round. Heere is a Lawrence native who has Heere gotten off to a

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Selik has had the most recent success out of any of the young Jayhawks. On Aug. 1 he picked up his first professional victory with the Vermont Lake Monsters, the Single-A affiliate of the Wa s h i n g t o n Nationals. He has been used as a relief pitchSelik er in all 10 of his appearances this season, and boasts a 3.45 ERA in 15.2 innings and along with the win he also has a save on the season.

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three doubles in his last 10 games and has carried a .343 average during that run. Price has hit .322 in Price 35 games with 14 doubles, a triple and two home runs, he also has swiped 14 bases for the team.

The last of the Price boys to play at Kansas, Robby has lately picked up the hitting for the Hudson Valley Renegades. Price has had

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Now with the Tri-City Valley Cats, Blankenship is currently 2-0 in 14 outings. Blankenship recorded nine consecutive scoreless appearances out of the bullpen, and held opponents to a batting average of .190 which now Blankenship has reached almost 13 innings. Blankenship is currently with the Houston Astros on their Single A roster. Edited by Tim Dwyer

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Jets look to running game to contend in 2011


wide receiver Santonio Holmes (79 catches, 1,248 yards, five TDs CORTLAND, N.Y. _ Like his old last year), Ryan admitted that his man, Rex Ryan is a defense-orient- teams run-pass discrepancy probed coach who prefers his offensive ably wont be quite as large as last football over-easy with a side order seasons. But the ground still will be their preferred method of travel. of smashmouth. What will be different, though, Last year, nobody in the NFL ran the ball more or threw it less than is the people lugging the football. Ryans New York Jets. Averaged a Out is Thomas Jones, who finleague-high 37.9 rushing attempts ished third in the NFL in rushing per game and a league-low 24.5 last season with 1,402 yards, and pass attempts. While part of the Leon Washington. Jones, who will reason for that was the fact that the turn 32 next week, was released Jets started a rookie quarterback in March and signed with Kansas (Mark Sanchez), a bigger part was City. Washington, who broke a leg that thats just the way Ryan pre- in the sixth game of the season, was traded to Seattle. fers it. In is Shonn Greene, the secondIt wasnt so much that we had year bruiser who averaged 5.6 yards a rookie quarterback, Ryan said. It was what we wanted to do. We per carry during the Jets postseawant to be a physical football team son run to the AFC Championship Game, and that runs the foot31-year-old ball. If youre going future Hall of to win the Super If youre going to Famer LaDainian Bowl, youve got to win the Super Bowl, Tomlinson, who win in December was signed after and in January. youve got to win getting released Where we play, in December and in by San Diego. youd better be able Greene, who to run the football. January. the Jets took with Because sometimes the first pick in rex ryan the wind and the the third round Jets coach elements get so bad of the draft last that you have to be year, had just 108 built that way. Thats carries in the regour approach. Our roots are going ular season, but averaged 5.0 yards to be running the football. Of course, the Eagles play in per carry. It was in the playoffs that he pretty much the same elements as the Jets, and that never has affected convinced Ryan and general manAndy Reids voracious appetite for ager Mike Tannenbaum that he was throwing the ball. But thats an ready to be the lead dog. He rushed for 135 yards and a touchdown issue for another day. With Sanchez, the fifth over- on 21 carries in the Jets 24-14 all pick in the 2009 draft, a year wild-card win over the Bengals. older and wiser, and with the off- The next week, he rushed for 128 season acquisition of ex-Steelers yards and a score on 23 carries in

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New York Jets running back LaDainian Tomlinson carries the ball during morning practice at the teams NFL football training camp in Cortland, N.Y., Tuesday, Aug. 3. a 17-14 divisional-round win over the Chargers. He rushed for 41 on 10 carries against the Colts in the AFC Championship Game, but left the 30-17 loss early in the third quarter with rib cartilage damage. We thought he was ready when he was in college (at Iowa), Ryan said. Thats why we moved up in the third round to get him. He was well worth it. You look at him, hes a banger. Hes a No. 1 back without a question. But the funny thing is, we have another No. 1 back in LaDainian. Its going to be a terrific one-two punch. Thats what it takes in this league. Tomlinson is ranked eighth in the league in career rushing with 12,490 yards, and second in career rushing TDs with 138. But as with most running backs who turn 30, his numbers have fallen off dramatically the last couple of years. He averaged just 3.3 yards per carry last season and 3.8 the year before. The beauty of it is this guy has a huge chip on his shoulder, and rightfully so, Ryan said. This is one of the best backs in the history of this game. We had to defend against him in the playoffs last year. We had to put two guys on him. So we knew how valuable he was, even though the yardage totals and average-per-carry mightve made it look like he had dropped off.

FORNEY, Texas _ In Hank Semlers office, just beyond the North Forney High School field house, a shiny, plastic helmet sits on the shelf. It wouldnt catch anybodys eye at first glance. Its a pretty standard decorative item for a coachs office, after all. But to Semler, that shell and face mask symbolize the fledgling programs emphasis on safety. Those helmets are definitely his pride and joy, said Sloan Walls, a junior safety. They are like his babies. As awareness of the dangers resulting from concussions grows, more coaches and athletic trainers are seeking solutions in improvements in headgear. SAfETy ComES firST North Forney, a Class 3A proSo does Semler, who came away gram that was launched two years impressed when he witnessed a ago, paid between $150 and $200 presentation by Xenith at a coachapiece for 250 helmets made by es convention a few years ago. Xenith, a company that devised a Xenith, which pulled out of revolutionary approach to head- the recent NFL testing because of gear and is a newcomer among the studys procedural approach, traditional primarily marmanufacturers kets its product such as Riddell, The consensus is that to athletes on Adams and the amateur levthere are no helmets Schutt. els. Semler liked But while or mouth guards that what he saw, medical experts and he equipped will prevent concusare heartened his players with sions. with advances in Xenith helmets technology that last season. Tamara C. can reduce the Sports are vvaloviCH mCleod risk of head injuabout tradition, concussion expert ries, they caution even down to the that there is no equipment, said such thing as a Semler, whose concussion-proof helmet. team will make its varsity debut The consensus is that there this season. are no helmets or mouth guards And we didnt have tradition. that will prevent concussions, For Semler, traditional headsaid Tamara C. Valovich McLeod, gear seemed to always present a leading national concussion problems. The foam padding in expert and an associate professor most helmets even those that of athletic training at A.T. Still were reconditioned and recertified University in Arizona. yearly deteriorated regularly Maybe there will be something when he was on staff at Southlake down the road, McLeod said. If Carroll, Texas. Sometimes, the air someone could design a helmet bladder that was supposed to prothat could prevent concussions, vide cushion would leak. that would be like winning a lotAnd thats when a childs safety tery ticket. is compromised, Semler said. When Semler played in high school, he wore a plastic shell that SignS of progrESS While that breakthrough may was held together by four canvas never come, progress has been straps. The primitive technology made in recent years as helmet didnt safeguard him against mulmanufacturers have responded to tiple concussions. He doesnt want the growing concern about head his players to suffer the same fate, especially after considering the injuries. Simbex, in partnership with recent studies. Last summer, a report published Riddell, developed an apparatus that can be placed inside the by the Dallas-based National helmet, measures and identi- Athletic Trainers Association fies the location of head impacts showed that high school footand transmits a wireless signal ball players suffer greater head to the sideline athletic trainer. accelerations after impact during Oklahoma is one of several col- play than college football players, leges that have used the Simbex which can lead to more concusHead Impact Telemetry (HIT) sions. And nothing, Semler said, system, which made its debut in can replace a caring, knowledge2003. Its still largely a research tool able coach that has that childs for us, said Scott Anderson, the welfare at heart. They are going head athletic trainer at Oklahoma. to make sure that childs skull is It gives us information on con- protected. cussions . . . and it could have an impact on how we manage conpoSiTivE rESuLTS cussions and recognize concusSo far, Semler has been pleased sions. But were not there now. Its with his purchase. Last season, still a work in progress. one North Forney player suffered And while Oklahoma has a grade-one concussion, said the funds Deniese Anderson, to invest in a licensed athletic They are going to HITS technoltrainer at the school. ogy, few high make sure that childs The year before, schools have four concussions skull is protected. the financial were diagnosed. wherewithal Those numbers Hank Semler to purchase were reflected in a High school football coach what amounts report by Xenith, to a diagnoswhich claimed that tic device. The the number of diagcost to outnosed concussions fit an entire among the seven team with the high schools outfitRiddell Revolution IQ is $60,000 ted entirely with its helmets had to $70,000, and highlights the dif- decreased since the equipment ferences among the various levels switch had been made. of football with regard to headThose positive results are gear. touted by Vin Ferrara, the CEO of Xenith and a former Harvard quarterback, who said he started STudy quESTionEd The issue came to the forefront his company to seek a solution to in the last couple of weeks, when a problem that affects thousands the NFL released data from a of athletes a year. helmet-testing program that elicited criticism from outside parties

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Perkins plays chaotic role in Kansas hectic summer


in a press conference over the summer. Since Perkins announcement, conference realignment Its still a year away, but the talks have played their final note University is not any closer to of 2010 and two former Kansas finding a replacement for Athletic Athletics employees plead guilty to miss prision charges for their Director Lew Perkins. Perkins announced his retire- roles in the ticket scandal. As if the summer was not eventment this summer, effective Sept. ful enough for Perkins, the Kansas 4, 2011. A spokesperson from the chancellors office said no names City Star recently released the or candidate qualities have sur- amount of money he spent on air travel over a period of 22 months. faced. Even when the I have loved team took the my time here at Its not as if only one bus, the story the University of Kansas and person was on the plane. said, Perkins was up in the I will continue air spending leading Kansas JiM MArChiONY Associate athletic director $150,000 from Athletics over July 2008 to the course of May 2010. the next year, Associate Perkins said. a t h l e t i c He initidirector Jim ated a meeting this summer with Chancellor Marchiony defended Perkins. Its not as if only one person Bernadette Gray-Little and in that meeting, he announced his retire- was on the plane, he said. You ment. Gray-Little said she had not have to take into account what all pushed him to retire or resign at those peoples time is worth. Perkins does a lot of fundraisany time, nor did she expect him ing and the flights are part of that, to make this decision. But with all the distractions Marchiony said. Mens basketball coach Bill Self surrounding Perkins, she said this would be a benefit when it comes said he knew Perkins would evento solving the issues such as the tually retire but was still surprised by the decision. ticket scandal investigation. Self said he had conversations I believe that part of his deciwith Perkins, where Perkins talksion to retire may have been to allow him to focus on things that ed about what he was going to need to be done, Gray-Little said do when he retires and looking cthibodeaux@kansan.com

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Kansas athletics director Lew Perkins pulls away from Allen Fieldhouse as members of the media follow. Perkins announced that he will retire after the 2010-11 school year.

forward to that day. And these werent recent discussions. Im not talking about the last two months, Self said in June. Im talking about in the last year or so. I knew that the day would

come. Perkins went through a lot this summer, dealing with the ticket scandal, being blackmailed (then cleared of wrongdoing), and the near-implosion of the Big 12. But,

Self said, his departure was not because he wants to avoid these problems. He wont walk away or run away from any battle or fight and you guys know that being around

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Kentucky heads to Canada for three games


ing enhanced roles, Calipari said, What you said is the No. 1 Gather together and sing thing. In that regard, the trip is wellKumbaya. Get a better appreciation for each other as people and timed. NCAA rules permit such players. Maybe gain a few basket- pre-season trips only once every four years. The Canadians invitball insights. Coach John Calipari spoke of ed Kentucky last year, but an those objectives as Kentucky pre- NCAA rule forbidding incoming pared for a three-game exhibi- freshmen to participate before tion series in Windsor, Ontario, the beginning of classes contributed to UKs decision to pass. Canada, that begins Sunday. When the NCAA changed the I think we should shoot the ball better and all that, Calipari rule to allow incoming freshmen said Friday. But what were doing to play if they pass three hours on this trip is lets come together, of summer classes, UK agreed lets learn about our team, let this year. Last years team was like that individuals learn about themselves and let me learn about (he clasped his fingers together in a two-handed fist), Calipari them. said. Thats what this is about. That would be especially Calipari jokingly noted the importance of winning since the important with a group of highly three games will be televised in decorated freshmen who came 22 states. The games, which will to Kentucky on the strength of a recruiting pitch largely based begin Sunday, on the individual and will congoal of getting tinue Monday Were trying to get to the NBA as and Tuesday at them to be together quickly as posthe University sible. of Windsors that way and respect UKs coaches St. Denis each other. fostered that Centre, will be togetherness by televised on having the playKentuckys Big ers watch movBlue Sports ies and using the JOhN CAlipAri Network, Fox Kentucky basketball coach analogy of coal Sports South miners who rely and Fox Sports on each other in Ohio. their dangerous Is Fox California taking it? Calipari underground work. Were trying to get them to quipped. But, really, the trip is not about be together that way and respect beating the University of Windsor each other, Calipari said. Kentucky acknowledges that (Sunday and Tuesday) and the University of Western Ontario the competition will be largely unknown. Earlier this year, (Monday). If we go up there and we really Windsor Coach Chris Oliver learn about our team, and they noted his teams ability to play with NAIA beat us, theyre better than us, competitively schools. Calipari said. Just as long as we One of UKs veterans, DeAndre learn, well be fine. Calipari mentioned one basket- Liggins, noted that winning is ball insight that might be learned: part of the objective. Oh, we want to win, he which UK player will want to take said. We want to win all three the clutch shot? The UK coach noted the many times John Wall games. Then he added, the ultimate or others came through in the goal is to learn and get better. clutch last season. In preparation for the trip, Theres going to be some baskets (where fans will say) that was Fridays practice was UKs the basket, Calipari said. Did he 17th in the permitted 10 days. make it or miss it? How did he Learning the dribble-drive offense has been the focus of respond to it? One reason UK runs drills that much of practice, Darius Miller have a winner and a loser is to said. With three low-post anchors condition players to carrying that last season, Calipari played to onus, he said. When a reporter asked about that obvious strength and used the trip serving as a bonding a lot of pick-and-roll action. experience for a group of mostly All three Patrick Patterson, newcomers or veterans assum- Daniel Orton and DeMarcus

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Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little answers questions about the retirement of athletics director Lew Perkins. Perkins ended his tenure at the University of Kansas with the end of the 2010-11 school year

Fans disagree with Big 12s guidelines


tdwyer@kansan.com Its been one hell of an offseason for the Big 12. For about a week in June, it seemed as if the conference wouldnt survive beyond 2012 proving the ancient Mayan calendar right in the process. Colorado and Nebraska defected for the Pac-10 and Big Ten, respectively, and it seemed like Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Texas A&M were only a signature away from following them. Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe proposed a plan that eventually saved the Big 12, but he did so with major ramifications that garnered plenty of negative reactions. Under the new plan, five schools Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Baylor and Missouri have pledged financial support to three others Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M if they fall short of the revenue that was promised them by other conferences, rumored to be $20 million per year. Kansas athletics director Lew Perkins said he analogized it to paying more money to a successful coach entertaining offers from other schools. Five schools got together and we tried to develop a business plan, like anything else, Perkins said. Think about this in the simplest analogy I possibly can. You have a coach and he just won a national championship or is the best coach in the country, and other suitors come after

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that coach. Your institution has a responsibility to try to keep that coach. Beebes plan was an 11th hour desperation move to save the conference, and while it did work, it raised plenty of questions. Beebe had to reprimand Texas Tech football coach Tommy Tuberville after Tuberville voiced some of those questions in an interview with Rivals Radio. We have a 10-team league right now, but I just dont know how long thats going to last, to be honest with you, Tuberville said in the interview. Tuberville cited the imbalance of funds that could be brought about with the new deal: no school in the Big 12 reached the $20 million mark last season. I dont think this conference will last long because there is too much disparity between all the teams, said Tuberville, who most recently coached in the SEC at Auburn. In the SEC, for instance, Vanderbilt makes as much money in the television contract as Florida. Everybody is good with it. Everybody is on the same page. Beebe assured fans that Tubervilles attitude was an isolated one, but questions still linger among fans. Tubervilles comments were unfortunate and contrary to the very strong feelings of unity expressed publicly and privately by the Big 12 Board of Directors and athletic directors, Beebe said. Edited by Anna Nordling

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University of Kentucky coach John Calipari answers a question during a news conference held in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N. Y., March 26, 2010.

Cousins are NBA rookies now. Calipari said he anticipated about 90 percent of UKs scoring effort to be a product of the dribble-drive, which he said contrasted to a 30-percent reliance last season. Miller described the practices as a lot of just trying to get down the offense. As simple as it might look to people, its difficult to run. Nobodys ever played that way in their life. The variance from conven-

tional basketball complicates the learning process, Miller said. The dribbler must beat his man and be confident of where his teammates are ready to receive passes. Everything has to be perfect timing, really, for it all to work, Miller said. The practices and the trip to Canada can enhance Kentuckys ability to learn. Its kind of like a head start on everything, Miller said. And I definitely think thats going to help us.

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Four freshmen look to have immediate effect for Kansas


BY MEGAN RUPP
Last seasons WNIT loss presents further motivation for this years eager freshmen. The four new additions to the womens basketball team said they look forward to contributing to the mrupp@kansan.com overall goal of making it to the NcAA Tournament in the 2010-11 season. While reflecting on last seasons disappointing finish, they each smiled and said they were ready to get in the gym and dispel any doubts. The seasons exhibition games may not tip-off until Oct. 31, but the women say they are ready to start practicing and preparing to start a new chapter of their athletic careers. Meet the first-year Jayhawks, colorado native Brooke Jelniker and a trio of Texas guards keena Mays, Diara Moore and charlicia cece Harper.

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A 2010 McDonalds All-American nominee and First Team All-conference player for two consecutive years, Jelniker averaged 15.3 points, 2.7 assists, 6.2 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game her senior season. After signing with the University, coach Bonnie Henrickson said in a news release that she was confident in Jelnikers strong shooting and rebounding abilities. Jelniker said she appreciated Henricksons comments, but thought her ability to contribute might change early on in her career at kansas. As a freshman I need to do the little things like hustle plays and just always be the one whos known to work hard, Jelniker said. For right now, I need to focus on getting rebounds, shooting when Im open and getting my teammates the ball, but that could change. Jelniker said leaving colorado for summer school on campus made her much more nervous initially than the upcoming season did. It was really hard for me in June, Id call my mom like three times a day, Jelniker said. Its still hard knowing that Im nine hours away from home, but Ive gotten a lot closer to my teammates, which has definitely helped. Jelniker said that team unity was a major factor in deciding where she would play college ball. She said she had always wanted to play in college, she just had no idea where basketball would lead her. I loved the coaching staff and the team, they just all seemed like a big family and thats what I was looking for, Jelniker said. When I walked on campus for my official visit, it just felt right.

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Sophomore guard Monica Engelman drives past an Iowa State defender Feb. 25 at Allen Fieldhouse. Engelman served as a mentor for local elementary school children through the Schools for Success program.

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Sophomore guard bonds with local elementary school students
BY KATHLEEN GIER
kgier@kansan.com Up in the stands at Allen Fieldhouse there is a young but vocal following for sophomore guard Monica Engelman. The group of children comes from Hillcrest Elementary School in Lawrence and their bond to Engelman is the product of the Schools for Success Program. Each student athlete on the womens basketball team last season adopted a local elementary school. All fifteen Lawrence elementary schools participated and competed against one another in an attendance challenge based on showing up for womens basketball games throughout the season. Hillcrest Elementary won the challenge with nearly 11 percent attendance. For their support they were awarded a $10,000 stipend and an assembly featuring mascots and student athletes along with other prizes. The kids that go to the basketball games they have someone they can look at and say, I know her, Ive seen her and that was really cool, said Sandra Walker, Hillcrest physical education teacher. Engelman and the other athletes helped with reading programs, played at recess, attended assemblies and ate lunch with the students at their respective schools. She is a good positive role model, Walker said. She works hard and it shows, she is very nice and easy to get along with and genuinely a good kid. From a leadership standpoint she gets good grades, she is positive and she shows up where she needs to be. Those qualities have not only made her popular at the elementary school, but around the Kansas Athletics Department. When she walks into a room, she just has a bright shining light and all of us that get to work with her and know her really appreciate that about her, said Mike Haritty, associate athletics director. She truly is a leader among her peers and has a positive influence wherever she goes. The students were not the only ones to benefit from the program. Coach Bonnie Henrickson said that Engelman gained confidence throughout the process. That is all about selfesteem and self-confidence and that is where she has grown, Henrickson said. Engelman started to hone her leadership skills before her freshman year even started after attending a Jayhawk Leadership Program retreat held last summer. Engelman helped out at Hillcrest during the season and then, this summer, she continued her journey by attending the inaugural Big 12 Leadership Summit held in Lawrence. The summit included 47 athletes representing different sports from the 12 conference schools. The summit was modeled after leadership programs run by the Student Athlete Advisory Committee for which Harrity serves as advisor. You could tell quickly that this was the cream of the crop from the whole Big 12 Conference, Harrity said. It was a special group that was ready to learn and to invest in the process and I think they had a wonderful time. The athletes were intermingled in smaller groups so that they could meet attendees from other schools and discuss different issues which they faced back at their own schools. With all these different athletes you are able to get new ideas from other people and share your own ideas, Engelman said. I saw some people that I have seen before like Texas and Kansas State basketball and it was kind of cool to know them as a person, not just as a competitor. For Kansas the representative athletes were chosen by coaches and members of the Athletics Department. Edited by David Cawthon

Upon signing Moore, Henrickson looked forward to the element of toughness Moore would bring to the team. Averaging 17.1 points, 1.1 assists and 1.9 steals per game her senior season, Henrickson said part of the appeal was her ability to be an active rebounder, despite her 5-foot-nine stature. Moore averaged 3.2 rebounds per game in high school and said being able to maintain that role would be an important part of helping her team and living up to Henricksons expectations. When I saw that she said that about me I was kind of surprised, but now I just want to work to uphold that, Moore said. In this conference, being an aggressive rebounder is really important, especially on the offensive end where people dont go to the boards. Moore said she considered herself to be a scrappy player who recognized the impact hustle plays can have on the outcome of a game. Growing up in cedar Hill, Texas, Moore said she remembered being a 4-year-old little girl who dreamt of playing in the Big 12 one day. I remember having a little basketball goal in the backyard and I just used to play with it all the time, I thought it was just my best toy ever, Moore said. Ever since then, Ive just been in love with it.

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Mays was also a 2010 McDonalds All-American nominee after averaging 10.8 points, 4.3 assists, 5.1 rebounds and 2.9 steals per game her senior season. As the 18th rated point guard in the country, the Texas standout said she knew her role would change and she was ready to take backseat early. Ive got to do whatever I can to help my team, which means more of a leadership thing now and distributing the ball to my teammates and not so much being as big of a scorer, Mays said. Henrickson said that Mays was not only a strong outside scorer, but also had the ability to drive hard and finish. This season, Mays said she might have to adjust her typical game with the more intense physicality shell face in college. Its definitely going to be harder, but Ive been working hard already to get in the weight room to get stronger, Mays said. Ive always looked to pass first, but now Im really going to have to look for whoever gets open even more. Mays said she trusted her teammates to be able to finish those shots and if they did, she was confident they would perform well enough to make it to the tournament. It was pretty depressing when they lost so early, but it was more motivation for me to come and help improve on last years season, Mays said. She said coming to the University was daunting at first, but as quickly as she adjusted to campus life, will be as quickly as shell need to adjust to a faster, more physical style of play.

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Unlike Mays, Harper didnt know basketball was her passion immediately. Instead, the 29th best point guard, according to HoopGurlz.com, began her athletic experimentation with almost everything but basketball. I used to do cheerleading, gymnastics, softball and soccer, Harper said. Hard to believe she was able to average 22.2 points, 3.5 assists, 9.2 rebounds and 3.8 steals per game her senior season with so many other interests. My brothers used to play and I cheered for them and one day, when I was like 10, my dad put a basketball in my hand and I just basically never put it down, Harper said. Over the years she was able to develop a consistent shot and court vision that Henrickson appreciated. Harper said she hoped to improve her shooting power further in the upcoming season. We set a lot of screens, so I just got to be ready to come off of those to shoot and score, Harper said. Henrickson said Harpers ability to be effective off the dribble was one her greatest strengths, something Harper said she looked forward to put into practice. Harper said she is more comfortable driving than shooting and for a unique reason. I drive left, but I shoot right, which can be kind of tough to guard, Harper said. Harper said she is prepared for the more physical game the college world had to offer, considering the aggressive nature of Texas basketball, but she didnt underestimate the strength shed face inside. I think college is more fast-paced and everybodys stronger, so going up might be a lot harder, Harper said. On the other end, I think theres going to be a lot more people who can handle the ball, so we might need to learn to move our feet better. The four freshman Jayhawks will join the returning players in their season opener against Fort Hays State on Oct. 31 at Allen Fieldhouse. Edited by Tim Dwyer

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Bill Phillips, a former University of Evansville football player, died when the single-engine plane crashed on a remote mountainside Aug. 9. His youngest son, 13-year-old Willy, survived with undisclosed injuries and was taken to an Anchorage hospital.
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Emily Cressy wins third national title with club team


BY JACKSON DELAY
jdelay@kansan.com Emily Cressy added another record to her resume this summer. The junior forward who scored 12 goals last year, the second most in Jayhawk history competed in the U-23 Adult Soccer Association tournament in July and helped her team win its third national title. Cressys team, the Eagles Soccer Club, is just the second to win three titles in the 31-year history of the USA Youth and Adult Soccer Championships. Being able to win three national championships is every players dream, she said. And we are hoping to win the fourth one next year. Cressy has been with the Eagles SC since she was 8 and she is one of seven players to have played in all three of its championships the U-23 title this year, a U-17 title in 2007 and a U-14 title in 2004. I think this is different than the other two we have won because we have not played with each other in a few years, so to transition from college soccer to our club team again and still be as good as we were is just a great thing, Cressy said. In the 2007 championship run, the standout Kansas forward won the Golden Boot, the award for the most outstanding offensive player of the tournament. Overall, she finished this years tournament with three goals and an assist in four matches, all of which resulted in wins. The assist came on the winning goal of the championship game, putting the Eagles SC on top of the Arizona Rush, 2-1. It was the best feeling to know I was able to participate in a big play like that in such a big game, she said. Cressy wasnt the only Jayhawk on the field during the championship, as teammates Erin Ellefson, senior midfielder, and Whitney Berry, sophomore forward, played for the opposing squad. We were texting each other throughout the weekend to see who won, Cressy said. When we found

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Junior Emily Cressy makes a move on a defrender at the US National Womens Under 23 Cup. Emily played for the Eagles Soccer Club from Southern California during the summer where she won a national title. out we were playing each other, we kind of trash talked each other, but it was all in fun. Head Coach Mark Francis said he can see the effect that playing in tournaments over the summer has on his players. We had several players go out and do that, and you can definitely tell they look really sharp, Francis said. Some other players are fit, but soccer-wise, you can really tell, they are sharp. Cressy also noted the effect that playing in the ment had on her. The experience of the ment definitely prepared preseason and the upcoming season, she said. This season, Cressy looks to lead the Jayhawks to new heights. My main goal is to help this team get farther than we have ever gone before, she said. I think this year more than anything I want to be someone who is pushing everyone to the best of their abilities. Edited by Dana Meredith

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COLUMBIA, Mo. Jerrell Jackson trotted off the practice field on Wednesday morning more intent on providing a verbal pickyou-up to teammates than thinking about the dull pain at the base of his left thumb. Its so hot outside, Jackson said, I saw a dude selling shade. By 2 in the afternoon, a grim Jackson was considering whether to have surgery on his wrist, where X-rays showed a fractured scaphoid, or to have it put in a cast with the chance of missing only a couple of games. Surgery would have put me out for the whole year, Jackson said Thursday after a morning spent coaching up his fellow receivers. I can touch it up after the season. Jackson is definitely out for the Sept. 4 season opener against Illinois and probably wont return until after the Sept. 11 game against McNeese State. The home opener would be pushing it, Jackson said Thursday, echoing coach Gary Pinkels forecast that Jackson would be out until the middle of September. Missouri can only hope that Jacksons injury is the last big hurt of what has been a brutal first week of drills. Already out for the season is reserve linebacker Donovan Bonner, who has a torn ACL. Today, former starting safety Jarrell Harrison will undergo surgery to repair a meniscus tear in a knee. After Thursdays first hard-hitting practice, 10 players were either out for the year or for some time. Besides Jackson, Bonner and Harrison, defensive end Aldon Smith could miss a couple of days because of a hip pointer, Pinkel said, and linebacker Will Ebner was still on the sidelines Thursday because of a hamstring strain. Also banged up Thursday were safety Kenji Jackson, linebacker Andrew Gachkar and reserve receiver Brandon Gerau. Reserve guard Jayson Palmgren spent most of the day on an exercise cycle high school that was discovered because of an undisclosed prob- only after he got to MU, a broken lem, and reserve receiver LDamian foot and a torn ligament. If I didnt make the first guy Washington had a thigh bruise. Pinkel did his best to downplay miss then I was in trouble, Moe said, because I didnt have anythe rash of injuries. Its just two-a-days, he said. thing else underneath me. Right now, tailback Derrick Things happen. But at wide receiver and lineback- Washington is the leading career er, in particular, too many things receiver on the roster with 65 catchhave happened. Jacksons injury has es for 503 yards in his first three caused Pinkel to consider moving seasons. But his prime role is the an outside receiver to the inside, or leader of the running game. Fortunately, Washington said, H receiver, position that is so key to three true freshman receivers Missouris offense. Jimmie Hunt, It was Marcus Lucas and from that slot Surgery would have Bud Sasser have that Danario stood out in preAlexander put me out for the season drills. On caught 113 whole year. Thursday, Lucas passes for 1,781 hauled in an alleyyards and 14 Jerrell JACKSON oop pass in the touchdowns last Missouri receiver right corner of season. It was in that position the end zone for a that Jackson touchdown during opened practice s e ve n-on-s e ve n as MUs leading returning receiver. drills. Were going to keep everybody We have a variety of receivat their position right now, Pinkel ers that bring something different said. But were going to make a to the table that we need in this decision probably after Saturday offense, Washington said. (the first full scrimmage of August). Starting linebacker Luke Its not fair to move a player ... from Lamberts shedding of a protecthe outside, inside, if he hasnt had tive red jersey earlier in the week any work. helped ease some early concerns Right now, sophomore T.J. Moe about depth at that position, which is the player set to replace Jackson seemed to be thinning dangerously in the starting lineup. Moe has had with the absence of Bonner and a very good camp, but he caught Ebner. two passes for a total of 8 yards in We cant afford three or four 10 games as a freshman. guys getting hurt, Lambert said, Part of Moes problem last season noting that at one point the Tigers was an injury he had suffered in were down to 10 mostly healthy linebackers. Its hard when you only have 10 guys, just to practice. Gachkar, a starter at linebacker, was also dinged on Thursday. He limped noticeably to the end of practice after intercepting quarterback Blaine Gabbert midway through the morning drills. Gachkar is a tough guy, Lambert said. Hell get some treatment and hell be back. So will Ebner. At safety, Jackson is recovering from a shoulder/neck stinger suffered when he hit tight end Michael Egnew on a sideline reception. The practices are real physical and intense, Washington said. You saw that with Egnew and Kenji. That was crazy. Egnews helmet was bent up. People want spots, and theyre giving it all theyve got. We just have to get everybody healthy.

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The KU womens team leads the pack at the start of the Bob Timmons Invitational meet last season at Rim Rock Farm. The team finished with a first place victory. The Jayhawks will run the race again on Sept. 4 in their first competition of the season.

Jayhawk runners will balance class with two-a-days


BY LAUREN NEWMAN
lnewman@kansan.com The cross country team was recognized last spring for the achievement of a high academic progress rate, among the nations top 10 percent. To continue this upbeat motivation, assistant coach Michael Whittlesey has encouraged the teams to remember their first priority is always academics. To maintain good grades the coaches require progress reports from each runner in order to keep the team on the right path. Without alumna Lauren Bonds, a leader on the team, Whittlesey still said the strong connections and leadership Bonds left will continue throughout the team. The womens team has 15 returning runners and eight new competitors. Senior Amanda Miller, junior Rebeka Stowe, and sophomore Allie Marquis, in previous seasons, proved themselves to be outstanding leaders on the womens team. These three women give confidence to the entire team and continuously support one another. The inspiration for the mens team comes from several key runners, especially junior Donny Wasinger, who finished first in all six meets last season. This summer, Wasinger focused on building his stamina and would frequently visit with Whittlesey about the upcoming season. Other runners like senior Nick Caprario and juniors Austin Bussing and Zach Zarda are also strong contenders for the first meet. In addition to these runners, the mens side will welcome back eight runners from last season along with 12 new faces. The approaching cross country season looks promising to the coaches for several reasons. Whittlesey and head coach Stanley Redwine are hopeful because the success of last years track season inspired each runner to set individual goals. Runners who participated in the Spring 2010 track and field season proved themselves to be tough competitors. Their success sets the bar high for the upcoming cross country season and encourages the whole team to strive to do its best. The runners reported to campus Sunday and practice officially starts Tuesday. The team will start off with two-a-day practices in order to set the tone for the season and new runners. The first meet is the Bob Timmons Classic Sept. 4. The first couple weeks of practice are pretty tough, Redwine said in a release. It will be two-adays. I am not trying to kill them by any means because the season gets really long. We will be teaching the newcomers to understand our ways. Edited by Alex Tretbar

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After a second-half surge and a fourth-place finish in the Big 12 Championship, the 20092010 Kansas swimming and diving team ended the year with a 33rd place finish in nationals, finishing with 18 points. Coach Clark Campbell said he looked to build on that late success this year. Honorable Mention All-American Iuliia Kuzhil will return for one final season as a Jayhawk. The Cherkasy, Ukraine native finished ninth in both the 100-yard and 200-yard backstroke events at the NCAA Championships. Kuzhil will be joined by senior Joy Bunting, a three-time winner of the Karen Dionne award, given by the coaching staff to the most inspirational

athlete on the team. Bunting was also named one of this years captains, joining junior Abigail Anderson and senior Brittany Potter. After the annual alumni and intrasquad meets on Sept. 24 and Oct. 8, the team heads to Tuscon, Ariz. to compete against the powerhouse University of Arizona Wildcats in the Arizona Triple Duals, which will be held Oct. 15 and16. The teams first home meet puts Kansas against Drury and North Dakota, set for Nov. 13. After picking back up in Florida for the Orange Bowl Classic Jan. 4, the team competes throughout February leading up to the Big 12 Championship Feb. 23-26 and culminating with the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas March 17-19.
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ATLANTA Matt Ryan played two decent series. Matt Cassel played four average ones. Both quarterbacks lacked solid protection in the preseason opener, but Ryans Falcons got better play from their rookie reserves in Atlantas 20-10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Friday night. Dexter McCluster, a secondround pick, made a few dazzling moves as a tailback and a slot receiver for Kansas City. But Dimitri Nance and Shann Schillinger helped put the Falcons ahead to stay early in the third quarter. Nance, an undrafted rookie free agent from Arizona State, ran for a 3-yard touchdown to make it 10-3. Schillinger, a sixth-round cornerback, set up the score by picking off Brodie Croyles throw and returning it 29 yards. Kansas City safety Eric Berry, the

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Kansas City Chiefs coach Todd Haley argues with referees Doug Rosenbaum and Carl Paganelli during the second half of an NFL preseason football game against the Atlanta Falcons Friday in Atlanta. Atlanta won 20-10. No. 5 overall pick, was credited with one tackle. The Chiefs had a winless preseason in 2009, then no victories in the first five weeks of the regular season. They finished 4-12 under first-year coach Todd Haley. Atlanta is coming off a 9-7 season that ended a 44-year franchise history of never achieving consecutive winning records. The first half was a dud despite McClusters speedy bursts and a few timely defensive plays by the Falcons. Five of the first eight drives ended with field-goal attempts. Matt Bryants 30-yarder on Atlantas first possession made it 3-0, but the next four tries all missed from 50 yards or more. Falcons running back Michael Turner, a 2008 Pro Bowl selection trying to come back from an ankle injury last year, gained 29 yards on four carries. Ryan, whose final month of 09 was affected by a turf toe injury, connected on a pair of third-andlong completions to tight end Tony Gonzalez, for 16 and 12 yards. He otherwise went 1 of 4 for 6 yards. Cassel, who completed 6 of 8 passes for 25 yards, suffered from worse protection. After a three-and-out, Cassels second drive ended with Kroy Biermanns sack and John Abrahams fumble recovery. Nine plays into his third drive, Cassel was sacked by middle linebacker Curtis Lofton for a 6-yard loss. Lofton, the heart of Atlantas defense, limped off the field before halftime, but Falcons officials said he only had a leg cramp. McCluster, a second-round pick from Mississippi, ran five times for 25 yards and caught three passes for Wichita. The kickoff gala will feature National Football League great Gale Sayers as its first speaker on Aug. 30. The Wichita native known as the Kansas comet starred at the University of Kansas before going on to a Hall of Fame career as a running back with the Chicago 22. He needed only limited space to run past the first level of Atlantas defense and into the open field. Chiefs kicker Ryan Succop twice tried field goals from 53, hitting the left upright and missing wide right. His 20-yarder with 2 seconds left before halftime made it 3-3. Haley started Thomas Jones ahead of Jamaal Charles at running back. Jones played one series, gaining 2 yards, before Charles played the rest of the first quarter and into the second, running five times for 33 yards. Croyle was 8 of 16 for 65 yards. Third-string Chiefs QB Tyler Palko completed 7 of 10 passes for 62 yards, but Falcons cornerback Chevis Jackson picked him off and ran the ball back 26 yards to set up Steve Hauschkas 37-yard field goal and a 20-3 lead. Palko ran for a 1-yard TD in the final minute. Bears. Kansas Hall board director Tim Daniel says the board wants the Boathouse Club to be like a private country club for sports junkies.
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Royals pitcher, No. 1 pick finally wins Colts backups struggle in first preseason game
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Eight years after he was baseballs overall No. 1 draft pick eight long years Bryan Bullington finally has a major league win. The soft-spoken right-hander who wondered more than once during long bus rides through the minors if he should find something else to do shut out the defending world champion New York Yankees on two hits through eight innings Sunday afternoon. Joakim Soria pitched a perfect ninth, the Kansas City Royals beat the Yankees 1-0, and Bullington felt like, finally, he had arrived. Yeah, today it feels like it, he said. Im 29. Creeping up on 30. Ive been kind of plodding along, been down the last couple of years. It feels really good today, thats for sure. Bullington (1-2) walked one and struck out five to outpitch A.J. Burnett (9-10), who yielded only four hits and one run in eight innings. Its a long time coming, said Bullington, who was drafted by One day after everyone in the Pittsburgh in 2002 but also spent New York lineup got at least one hit time with Cleveland and Toronto in an 8-3 victory, the Yankees, facbefore signing on as a minor league ing a pitcher theyd never seen, were free agent with Kansas City last shut out for the sixth time. November. The first time through, I thought I had a few brief (major league) we hit some balls hard, Girardi said. stints, Bullington said, but this Then after that maybe he wasnt in is the first time I myself believe I the middle of the plate. He used his belong here and can slider effectively. pitch at this level. He used his chanAlex Rodriguez, geup. He threw This is the first time who homered in his some 3-2 offI myself believe I final three at-bats speed pitches. Saturday night, gave The Royals belong here and can Bullington a scare only run off pitch at this level. leading off the secBurnett was ond. His drive to earned, but helped BrYAN BULLINGTON deep center drove along by a Yankee royals pitcher Gregor Blanco error. almost to the wall, W i l l i e but A-Rod went Bloomquist sindown quietly the gled in the first, rest of the way. stole second and When it left the bat, you could went to third on a throwing error tell he hit it pretty well, Bullington by catcher Francisco Cervelli before said. But there was enough wind Billy Butlers RBI single. coming in that Gregor was able to Burnett walked three and struck get back on it. out six in one of his best outings. It gave Joe Girardi a start, too. I was having fun out there today I thought it was gone when he pretty much, he said. I gave up the hit it, said the Yankees manager. one early. Me and Cervelli got on a good pace. It was a fun game to be part of. Bryan kept us off balance and pitched a heckuva game. Thats basically the story. Robinson Cano grounded a single into right field with one out in the fifth to become the first Yankees baserunner, and was erased on a 3-6-1 double play. Brett Gardner singled with one out in the sixth but was thrown out trying to steal. The only other baserunner Bullington allowed was Marcus Thames, who walked with one out in the eighth while batting for designated hitter Lance Berkman. Berkman stumbled going across the bag in the fifth inning and left with a sprained right ankle. Soria pitched a perfect ninth and extended his club record with his 26th consecutive save. He has 33 saves in 35 chances. Bullington was making his 20th major league appearance and seventh career start. Its taken him a long time, said Royals manager Ned Yost. He was touted as a high prospect a couple of times in different organizations, but sometimes you find a late bloomer.

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as hed like to, but he needed some help, too, Colts coach Jim Caldwell said of Painter. The things that are hidden, dropped passes, the things you need to extend drives, you need guys to do their jobs and we certainly didnt play as well as we wanted. The game did rekindle some old memories, though. Manning was in midseason form, going 8 of 10 for 91 yards and leading the Colts to scores on their first two drives just minutes after accepting the MVP trophy. Smith, who finally emerged last season as the quarterback the 49ers expected, was 3 of 9 for 37 yards and managed only two first downs. Six Colts starters including Pro Bowlers Dallas Clark, Dwight Freeney, Bob Sanders and Jeff Saturday did not play on Sunday.

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Freshman Kara Wehrs sets team up for season success


By SARA KRUGER
skruger@kansan.com The intensity of the volleyball team is sure to live up to the Jayhawk reputation in the 2010 season. With coach Ray Bechard on the sideline and a top-30 recruiting class featuring new setter Kara Wehrs, the Jayhawks are set up for success. Wehrs, a 5-foot-10-inch freshman from Hampshire, Ill., is ranked 44th nationally, is a decorated player and a driven student. Most of the team towers over Wehrs, but her personal drive and familiarity with running a 6-2 rotation could allow her to transcend them all. Wehrs holds four All-Conference Selections, All-Area Honors, a runner-up finish in the state championship, regional titles and multiple high school career records. On top of that, Wehrs still managed to earn Superior Honor Roll throughout high school and graduated with the she said. I plan to study and stay top 5 percent of her class. on top of all my homework readHer legacy at Hampshire High ings as I get them. Prioritizing is a School is a lasting one, but shes key aspect and not procrastinating projected to set many new records will help as well. as a Jayhawk, Bechard said. Since volleyball is on the top We think Kara has the chance of her list this summer, shes been focusing on team to compete and bonding. Spending contribute at a It will be a lot more days at the pool, very high level hanging out at the in the setting intense, faster pace dorms, or working position, she and a lot more talent. out four days a week said. When you is sure to play a role combine her I am not afraid of a in the future sucquickness and challenge. cess predicted of the physical presence Jayhawks. and great delivkARA WEHRS ery, youve got a College volFreshman Setter young lady who leyball will be totally has a chance to different from high have a very good school volleyball, career in our league. Wehrs said, It will be a lot more But Wehrs said she isnt just intense, faster pace, and a lot more going to work on excelling on the talent. I am not afraid of a challenge. court. My academics are just as Edited by Roshni Oommen important to me as my athletics,

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Kansas Speedway earns casino rights


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KANSAS CITY, Kan. Kansas Speedway officials have made good on their promise to bring another Sprint Cup race to Kansas in exchange for the right to build a racetrack casino. Speedway president Patrick Warren announced Aug. 10 the track will host Cup races next year on June 5 and Oct. 9. The October race at the 1.5-mile track will be the fourth in the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. Officials estimate the additional race will have a $100 million economic impact on the region. Thats on top of more than $200 million projected annually for the Hollywood Casino, a joint venture of International Speedway Corp., the tracks owner, and Penn National Gaming Inc. of Wyomissing, Pa. The casino is scheduled to open in early 2012, just off the second turn. Warren said the race fulfills a vow ISC made to state regulators when the company applied for a license to build and operate a $521 million state-owned casino next to the speedway. Were delivering (the second race) before the casino even opens its doors, Warren said. The second Cup date is part of a restructured 2011 Cup schedule that will include a new race at Kentucky Speedway in July. Phoenix International Raceway also announced Tuesday it will continue to have two Cup races in 2011. The first race will follow the Daytona 500 in February. AutoClub Speedway, which has hosted two Cup races, will host just one race next season. Kansas Speedway this year hosts the Price Chopper 400 on Oct. 3, the third race in the Chase. ISC CEO Lesa France Kennedy said with the addition of the casino, the region is more than capable of hosting two Cup events. Theres a natural connection between Kansas Speedway and the casino, and it will establish this area as one of the major sports and leisure destinations in our country, Kennedy said. She said the casino and other entertainment options nearby will make Kansas Speedway two of the most anticipated stops on the schedule.

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Jimmy Johnson tackles another role: Survivor: Nicaragua contestant


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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. When Jimmy Johnson first appeared for the cold, rain and videotaped discomfort of the Survivor television set in Nicaragua, the other contestants didnt believe it was him. Youre a look-alike, they said. Why would a guy like that be here? they said. Thats the first, fascinating question, isnt it? Why did Jimmy do it? Why did he disappear to a remote part of the world for a month? Why start his own fire? Why build his own shelter? Why live on 100 calories a day, go nights without sleep, interact with strangers and have so few basic necessities that he used a palm frond to clean the grit off his teeth? They felt better afterward, he said. Hes rich. Hes famous. Hes successful. Hes 67. He has a great wife. He has the dream home in the Keys. He can fish or drink or sit with friends all day if he wants. Why do this? The answer offers the great thing about Jimmy. There was a philosophical part to doing it, he said. I read this one quote. I cant say it verbatim, but it goes, Live your life from the start to the finish, but dont just live the length Johnson of it. Live the width of it, too. Its kind of like Wayne Huizenga is doing now with the QTL Quality Time Left. When I was a kid, I dreamed of actually living on the Amazon. Just in the wild. In nature. I dreamed of stuff like we did (on Survivor). Jimmy was home in Tavernier as he talked, home with Rhonda and an aging Buttercup, home with all the things he never had in Nicaragua. No watch. No mirror. No phone. No comb, no hairspray, he said. Go ahead, insert a line on Jimmys hair. The other reason I did it is I love the show, he said. Its the one show I watch that I never TiVo because Im always there watching it live. He applied to do the reality TV show seven years ago. He was turned down. Three years ago, he tried again and was approved. But doctors found one completely blocked artery and another 70 percent blocked. He immediately had surgery. He lost 30 pounds. He got his cholesterol from 220 to under 100. In some ways, Survivor mightve saved my life, he said. To prepare for this years show, he swam. He dieted. Let me see you start a fire with nothing, Rhonda would say, and hed do it. But nothing could quite prepare him for the 39 days spent in the mud and rain and mountains of Nicaragua. We could hardly even get any drinking water to boil because of the parasites and such, he said. Youre thirsty, dehydrated. And that wasnt the worst part. The thing I had a tough time dealing with was no sleep, he said. I mean, none at all for nights. When youre cold at night because youre soaking wet and its raining and you have to stand by the fire to stay warm and youre saying, I hope the sun comes up soon thats the thing that stressed me as much as anything. I got so tired I didnt even slap the mosquitoes or flies off me. Ive been through three-a-day practices as a coach or player. Its really hard. Strenuous. Taxing. But at least you get a good nights rest. What did he want most upon returning to civilization? The word got out and I had a cold, light beer waiting for me, he said. Survivors theme held. The 20 contestants were split into two teams. The twist this year was one team consisted of people under 30 while Jimmys team didnt have anyone younger than 43. He was the second-oldest contestant ever on the show. And surely its most famous. But then Jimmy has never been constrained by convention. As a coach, he always thought differently, talked differently and was viewed differently than others. He coached two of the three Dolphins playoff wins in the past 15 years, but dreamed so big that his reign gets branded a failure. Jimmy keeps being Jimmy, too. In the past several months, he did penis enlargement ads surely to enlarge his wallet and this Survivor show to enrich his life. As much as anything else, I wanted to get into nature and challenge myself, he said. It gives me that much more respect of what our forefathers went through living out in the wild. It gives you a completely different perspective. The show airs in September and all the bug-eating, people-eliminating details will have to wait until then. But upon leaving Nicaragua, he told the shows director, Some of the most miserable nights of my life were spent here. Hes back in the real world now of flying to Los Angeles for a commercial and to New York for a Fox TV seminar. There are schedules to follow and a known role to play. But for 39 days this summer he did something to stretch the width of life. Its interesting. Its unusual. Its Jimmy.

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Jayhawks look to build on success with young team


BY SAMANTHA ANDERSON
sanderson@kansan.com While most eyes are on Kansas football and whether Turner Gill will lead the Jayhawks to a breakout season, another team is primed to break out Kansas volleyball. The volleyball team is improving. Last year, it recorded its first winning season and most victories 16 since 2004. We made some breakthroughs last year, said coach Ray Bechard. We met a lot of our individual goals, technical goals, but the main goal, obviously, is to be a top half finish in this conference. Senior outside hitter Jenna Kaiser agrees with Bechard. This is probably going to be a strong group of girls, Kaiser said. It needs to be the breakout season. The Jayhawks open the season with a recruiting class ranked 26th in the nation according to prepvolleyball.com and the team is picked to finish eighth in the Big 12. The recruiting class consists of middle blockers Jessie Allen, Marianne Beal and transfer Taylor Manning; setters Erin McNorton and Kara Wehrs; defensive specialists Jamie Mathieu and Brianne Riley; and an outside hitter, Amy Wehrs. Wehrs was ranked in the top 50 in the nation by PrepVolleyball. com and Beal was the top female volleyball player in the Kansas City area, according to the KU Athletics website. Weve got the largest freshman class that weve ever brought in, Bechard said. Not only in numbers, but in quality individuals. College athletics are not like high school, however. These freshmen will be going against women that have years more experience than them and time spent in some of the top athletic training facilities in the country. Its a huge jump, Kaiser said. The coaches, however, think that some of the new women will

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Junior outside hitter Karina Garlington spikes a ball past two UMKC defenders. Garlington posted 10 kills and 2 digs in the 3-0 win at Horejsi Family Athletic Center. follow Kaisers footsteps and contribute their first year. We do feel like theres a number of these newcomers, these freshmen, that will have an opportunity to jump in the mix right away, Bechard said. Having such a strong recruiting class will also help the teams veterans. I think its going to make a competitive atmosphere in the gym and I think its going to push us to the next level with the competition it will provide, senior outside hitter Karina Garlington said. The freshmen will have plenty of guidance. There are nine returners, four of whom were starters and one who was a libero, or a defensive specialist. One returner, Garlington, also made the Preseason All-Big 12 team. In addition, she has made the Academic All-Big 12 team two years in a row, has made alltournament teams twice in her volleyball career and has a record number of kills for Kansas. Two of the remaining returners, senior libero Melissa Manda and junior setter Nicole Tate, are also in the Jayhawk record books Manda for career digs and career digs/set and Tate for assists/set and assists. Not all of the record makers returned, however. Setter Katie Martincich graduated last year. You cant replace Katie Martincich, said Garlington Shes a great leader and shes a great person to have on your team. If this is going to be a breakout season, the Jayhawks will have to find a way to make it happen. Other people are going to have to step up and I feel like we are in the process of that, Kaiser said. The coaches have already held more open gyms this summer than in previous years so the team could start working earlier on coming together and defining team roles. The public will see the freshmen and upperclassmen work together in a game-like setting on Aug. 21 when volleyball will hold a team scrimmage in Lawrence. The teams first opponent this season will be Libscomb in the Creighton tournament, Aug. 27-28. Edited by Dana Meredith

Wildcats on path K-State quarterbacks fighting for starting job to have best class
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April 14. Eight days later, Calipari landed another top-five prospect As Kentucky basketball fans in Teague. It will be nice (playing with prepare for their first look at the Gilchrist and Teague), Davis told class of 2010 this weekend, coach John Calipari has given them ESPN. They are very talented another reason to salivate over and unselfish players, who are about winning, like me. the incoming freshmen in 2011. Davis, who plays for Anthony Davis, a 6-foot-10 forward from Chicago, commit- Perspectives Charter in Chicago, ted to the Wildcats on Friday, his shot up the recruiting lists this spring after an 8-inch growth father said Friday. Davis, who is rated the No. spurt. Hes now a 6-10, 2205 player in the nation by the pound prospect with the skills of Scout.com recruiting service a guard and a 7-4 wingspan who and No. 8 overall by Rivals.com, appears an ideal fit for Caliparis picked Kentucky over Ohio State, dribble-drive offense. I used to stay on the perimSyracuse and DePaul. Davis joins eter a lot, and now Ive got to go 6-6 forward down low and Michael Gilchrist my weight hasnt of Somderdale, They are very caught up with N.J., and 6-2 me, Davis told point guard talented and unselfScout.com in an Marquis Teague ish players, who are earlier interview. of Indianapolis Ive got to put about winning, like as top-10 proson more pounds. pects in the class me. It makes it a litof 2011 committle harder playted to play for ANThONY DAviS ing with bigger Kentucky. freshman forward guys, but I use C o a c h my strengths Calipari is easy pulling up for to talk to and he listens to what you are saying, jumpers, shooting a three, or Davis told ESPN recruiting writ- going past them with the driber Paul Biancardi on Friday in ble. Davis was the subject of a recent explaining his choice. (Calipari) will be a father figure to me away controversy involving a report in from home. Hes a demanding the Chicago Sun-Times newspacoach that will not tell me what I per that cited anonymous sources want to hear, but what I need to suggesting the players family was soliciting financial offers in hear to improve. Calipari, who is unable to return for his sons commitment. speak about committed players The newspaper suggested that the until they sign national letters of Davis commitment would cost as intent, is taking his current lineup much as $200,000. Davis father vehemently of Wildcats to Canada this weekend for a series of three exhibi- denied the report, which was criticized by many in the national tion games beginning Sunday. Kentuckys 2010 group was the media. For me, I would never in my No. 1-rated recruiting class in America, and Davis commitment life ruin my sons opportunity to made it almost inconceivable that go play in college and possibly Kentucky wont again have the the NBA for $200,000 or any type of money, the elder Davis, also No. 1 class in 2011. Gilchrist, the No. 1 prospect in named Anthony, said. the 2011 class, pledged to UK on

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MANHATTAN, Kan. Usually when a coach has several quarterback candidates and says no one is standing out, it means no one is outstanding. In Bill Snyders case, that does not always hold true. Starting in the early 1990s when he practically raised Kansas States program from the grave, Snyder has consistently come up with productive winners at the key position in the game. Players like Jonathan Beasley, Michael Bishop, Ell Roberson and Chad May never went on to start in the Pro Bowl. But Snyder was able to hone their skills and burnish their talents, and package it all into an effective attack that took the once-woeful Wildcats to 11 straight bowl games. Now in his second season after KANSAN FILE PHOTO a three-year retirement, the 32nd Kansas State running back Daniel Thomas leaps over Kansas cornerback Chris Harris for extra yards. Thomas was the Big 12s leading rusher in 2009. and 34th coach in Kansas State history again finds himself with a challenge. Hes moving with custhis season. Davis had 23 sacks in tomary caution while deciding season nod as Big 12 offensive Prince, the man who was fired two years in junior college and his player of the year. three years after replacing him. among Carson Coffman, Collin Thomas proclaims himself 100 I just feel like we have a bet- loss could hurt. Klein and Sammuel Lamur for the We need to come together, said percent. ter grasp of how this programs quarterback job. I think the sky is the limit going to be run, said center Wade Lamur. But the whole defense has Coffman may have a slight edge room to improve. We are a team, since he started four games last for us, Thomas said. We have a Weibert. We have a good idea of so it is not just the defensive line year before giving way to Grant lot of playmakers on offense so what coach Snyder wants from us or the linebackI think we can be as good as we at all times. There Gregory, a sixth-year senior who ers or the secwant to be. really are no surhad transferred as a graduate stuondary. We all Thomas consistency and prises, like, Oh dent. I think hes the best have areas we toughness has made him popular my gosh, he wants I would say that when we take running back in the can improve. with teammates. us to do that? the reps, Carson takes the first rep, Various proI think hes the best running D e f e n s i v e l y, Big 12. Collin takes the second rep and jections have the back in the Big 12, said Coffman. the strength may Sammuel takes the third, Snyder Wildcats picked Four of the five starting offen- lie in the secondCArSON COffMAN said. We arent going to invest anywhere from sive linemen who helped open ary. Returning are Senior quaterback that kind of repetition unless there third to sixth in holes for Thomas are back. But Tysyn Hartman, is a belief that they are on an equal the Big 12 North the loss is a big one all-confer- Emmanuel Lamur stage and will remain competitive following last ence left tackle Nick Stringer. and Troy Butler. for the spot. years 6-6 camThe bad news is the departure Hartman sufWhoever winds up under cenpaign. of Brandon Banks, the 5-foot-6 fered a knee injuter will not be the hub of the Snyder said hes equally uncerdynamo who tied for the national ry in the season-ending loss to offense. That job falls to Daniel tain how things may turn out. Thomas, the Big 12s leading rush- lead last year with four kickoff- Nebraska but had a team-leading Teams are different year-in return touchdowns. five interceptions. er in 2009. Though hampered by Altogether, the Wildcats return Adam Davis, a defensive and year-out, he said. Theyre a sore shoulder that he hurt on always going to be different, no the last play of the season opener, five starters on offense and seven end who starred last year at on defense. The returning play- Hutchinson Community College, matter what. You can have all of Thomas wound up with 1,265 them back or none of them back. yards, the fourth-largest harvest ers have a better idea of what to was being counted on to shore up expect from Snyder, who came the line. But a disk problem will Things are always going to be difin school history. The rugged 6-2, ferent. 228-pounder got this years pre- out of retirement to replace Ron require surgery and sideline him

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Soccer team looks to rebound after unsteady 2009


but have a strong recruiting class mlavieri@kansan.com with six newcomers. Theyre a little banged up right After an injury plagued 2009, now, with two-a-days, Francis the soccer team looks to return to said. They have a lot of potential the NCAA tournament this sea- though. Magness believes they will son. A year removed from making have a huge impact on the team. the tournament for the first time Last year as freshman, forward since 2004, the expectations are Whitney Berry and forward Shelby Williamson contributed 37 high for the Jayhawks. The goal is to always make it to goals. If the Jayhawks get similar the NCAAs, coach Mark Francis production out of the this years said. But we also want to win the freshmen, the team should have a lot of success. Big 12. T he y re Senior forward all excited, Kaitlyn Cunningham Its a huge loss. Mangess said. said the team got But theyre a ahead of themselves Monica was part of little nervous. last year. almost every single It will take a We need to take it little time for step by step and focus attack. them to transion each individual GENEvA MAGNESS tion from high game, Cunningham Senior defender school to colsaid. lege, but with It did not help that strong leaderinjuries left the team ship from the thin and tired when upperclassmen, they should be Sunday games rolled around. They did a good job adjusting, able to find their step quickly. Cunningham believes that she Francis said. The new players will can be a leader for the team this step in and fill those voids. The team returns seven seniors year and Francis agrees. Its not just on the field, but off and five of their top six leading goal getters. However, the team it too, Cunningham said. Francis said that Cunningham did lose one of their key contributors in Monica Dolinsky, who is a leader by example and that she has a commitment to the team and graduated in the spring. Its a huge loss, senior defend- her teammates. Francis, however, er Geneva Magness said. Monica does not look at just the seniors was part of almost every single for leadership. Among others, junior midfielder Jordyn Perdue, attack. Dolinsky led the team with 10 Berry and Williamson have shown assists and was second in goals leadership potential. With the young leadership, it with 22. The team lost four seniors total, will be important that the team takes full advantage of their prac-

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Freshman Whitney Berry cuts inside to free herself of a Missouri defender. Missouri started out with a goal in the first minute but Kansas came back to win the game 3-2. tices in order to be on the same page. The Jayhawks played Creighton Sunday night in their only tuneup game before the season starts on Aug. 27, when the Jayhawks host Western Kentucky at 5pm at the Jayhawk Soccer Complex. The preseason will allow the team to gain experience as a team. Well gain team chemistry, Magness said. And with team chemistry comes good play. Edited by Tim Dwyer

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Texas coordinator excited about aggressive defense


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AUSTIN, Texas Talent always trumps scheme in Will Muschamps world. Square pegs usually go into square holes. Its a lot easier than taking a hammer to a problem. Now Muschamp may have more pure talent with which to work than at any time during his three years as Texas defensive coordinator or even the entire Mack Brown era. I do think this could be our best defense, Brown said, noting health and depth as variables. We should be really, really good on defense. Texas has featured some impressive defenses since Brown arrived in 1998. Last seasons group was ranked third nationally in total defense, allowing 251.9 yards a game en route to the BCS title game. We want to come out with that same intensity, that same edge, that same chip on our shoulder every day, junior safety Blake Gideon said. We left something on the field last year and we want to make sure that doesnt happen again. This could be even better, despite concerns about depth at tackle. At every other position, Texas has speed, big-play ability and a mix of experience and youthful depth. Its going to be new faces doing the same thing, linebacker Keenan Robinson said. Case in point: the loss of AllAmerica defensive back Earl Thomas as a first-round NFL draft pick. Nobody has forgotten Thomas or his eight interceptions. But the secondary may be the Big 12s best. Junior Aaron Williams could become just as significant a playmaker as Thomas playing the nickel spot. Christian Scott, who emerged in last seasons camp only to run into academic troubles, has continued to deliver attention-getting hits. I dont feel like theres any drop-

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Kansas guard Sherron Collins drives into the lane during the K-State game in Manhattan.

Sherron signs with the Bobcats


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Former Jayhawk point guard Sherron Collins may not have been drafted last July, but things have decidedly turned in his favor since then. Following that disappointment, Colins signed on with the Charlotte Bobcats summer league team. After a successful summer he scored 32 points in the final game the

Bobcats offered a league minimum contract to Collins. Hell make $473,604 for the season. With the departure of starting point guard Raymond Felton, the Bobcats had space on the depth chart for a third point guard. Collins is expected to compete for the backup point guard spot with Shaun Livingston. Former Longhorn D.J. Augustin is slotted into the starting role.

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University of Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp reacts during the second half against the University of Alabama at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Cal., on Thursday, January 7. Alabama won, 37-21. off, not to take anything away from Earl. Hes richer than all of us for a reason, Gideon said. But Christian is a great player, and hes going to contribute to what we hope is a great secondary. Added Brown: What we do feel is that our secondary can all run, they can all cover, we can disguise (and) were really two-deep. Linebacker features Robinson and Emmanuel Acho, who can both close quickly. Defensive end? Freshmen Reggie Wilson and Jackson Jeffcoat might have been starters for a majority of Bowl Subdivision teams. Instead, theyll add big-time depth behind Sam Acho, Eddie Jones and Alex Okafor. Only tackle seems suspect behind junior Kheeston Randall, though redshirt freshman Calvin Howell has been solid. Then again, Muschamp always has options. Acho played tackle about 40 percent of the time last season, mainly in passing situations, by Muschamps estimates. He still recorded 10 sacks. Or Texas could throw a 3-4 look at opponents. Muschamps goal remains the same: Tweak and change just enough. It starts with recruiting and evaluating talent. Then you get them on campus and figure out the best things that they can do, Muschamp said. Gideon and Robinson say Muschamps combustible, type-A-tothe-max personality shows no signs of mellowing, even now that hes Browns designated successor. Hes the same guy that we met that first night in spring ball my freshman year, Gideon said. Thats his personality. So why does Gideon remember that first meeting so much? I probably had the worst buttchewing of my life, he said.

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Schaub impresses despite 19-16 loss

GLENDALE, Ariz. Houstons Matt Schaub had a short, highly efficient night and teammate Mario Williams didnt look like someone slowed by a hip injury, especially to Arizona quarterback Matt Leinart. Schaub completed 5 of 6 passes

for 78 yards, directing Houston to a field goal on its first possession and throwing a 44-yard touchdown pass to Andre Johnson on the second before retiring for the game in a 19-16 preseason loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Saturday night. Rookie John Skelton directed two late touchdown drives against the Texans reserves to give Arizona the victory. Williams, battling a hip

problem, sacked Leinart twice as Houston took a 16-0 lead. Leinart completed 6 of 7 for 49 yards but, in addition to the sacks, misconnected with Tim Hightower on a handoff, for a fumble. Leinarts backup, former Cleveland quarterback Derek Anderson, threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to Beanie Wells but was intercepted twice. Too sloppy, Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt said at halftime.

Asked about Leinarts play, Whisenhunt targeted the entire first-team offense. Im not pleased with how our offense performed in general, he said. Its not so much the quarterback. We had guys the wrong routes, guys in the wrong spot. We had a protection breakdown, not a breakdown but we got beat. All things that weve got to clean up.
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Mathews leads Chargers in preseason opener victory


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SAN DIEGO Ryan Mathews had an impressive debut and the San Diego Chargers got along fine without holdouts Vincent Jackson and Marcus McNeill in a 25-10 preseason victory over the Chicago Bears on Saturday night. Mathews, the first-round draft pick who will replace the departed LaDainian Tomlinson, gained 50 yards on nine carries and caught two passes for 11 yards. Philip Rivers threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to Legedu Naanee, one of the receivers the Bolts will depend on in Jacksons absence. It was the Chargers first game since they took a face-plant in a 17-14 playoff loss to the New York Jets, which was Tomlinsons last game with San Diego. He was released in February and signed with the Jets. The Chargers were 13-3 last year, winning their fourth straight AFC West title. The Bears are coming off a 7-9 finish, their third straight season out of the playoffs. Restricted free agents McNeill, the left tackle, and Jackson, a Pro Bowl wide receiver, are holding out, upset that they havent been given long-term contracts. The Chargers have threatened to put them on the roster exempt list if they havent signed their tenders by Friday, meaning theyll be suspended for three games once they sign. They are believed to be willing to sit out the first 10 games, returning for the final six to gain an accrued season. Rivers played two series and wasnt sacked. Backup Billy Volek was sacked once, midway through the second quarter. Brandyn Dombrowski, the first-string left tackle in McNeills absence, played two series. The Chargers had six sacks. Mathews first carry, a 3-yard gain, came on San Diegos second series. His longest run was 18 yards from the Chargers 4. He was pushed back almost to the goal line, then bounced off a defender and broke free for the long run and a first down. Ryans great, coach Norv Turner said. He said that things slowed down for him as it went on. Obviously hes a guy who can break tackles and hes got great speed. Rivers TD pass to Naanee was set up by a 51-yard kickoff return by Richard Goodman, an undrafted rookie, after Robbie Goulds 38-yard field goal. Linebacker Brandon Lang, another undrafted rookie, had a big game. His blocked punt late in the third quarter resulted in a safety, and he sandwiched Bears second-string quarterback Caleb Hanie along with Antwan Applewhite which led to a sack and forced fumble for Applewhite, with Paul Oliver recovering. Hanie stayed on the ground for a few minutes but left the field under his own power.

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St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford drops back to pass during the third quarter of a preseason NFL game against the Minnesota Vikings Saturday in St Louis.

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mvosburgh@kansan.com Micah Brown made only one catch in his college career at Kansas, but perhaps its one you might remember, as it was certainly one for the highlight reel. Kansas was up 17-14 against Virginia Tech in the 2008 Orange Bowl and looking to melt time off the clock when it was faced with a fourth-and-10 at its own 49-yard line. The play was a fake punt and Brown, who was standing near the sideline, caught a 22-yard pass for a first down. That turned out to be the end of Browns career at Kansas. The catch was used in highlights and included in stories of the game. However, little did Brown know at the time, it wouldnt be the last opportunity he had to create highlights for the Kansas football team. Brown graduated with a major in film directing and screenwrit- campus. With his background ing and moved to Los Angeles to in film, he was given complete work with movie trailers. After freedom to create something for doing that for a couple years, people to watch as this new era in he received a call from the KU Kansas football unfolds. Athletics department asking if he Using the new HBO series Hard would like to come back to Kansas Knocks as inspiration, Brown and shoot film of the football created an inside-access, raw look team. into a side of football In a smallpractices, games and I get to do everyworld coinciteam activities that dence, Browns thing that you would fans normally never dad, Todd, and see. get to do in coach Turner I have two perGill are life-long spectives, Brown making a movie or a friends. When said. I have a perTV show. Gill was a coach spective of being on at Nebraska, the team, knowing MIcAH BROWN Browns dad was how things work and Director, The Gridiron a receiver for the also the perspective Cornhuskers. It of being a fan, sitting just so happened outside as an alumni that Gill was hired at Kansas, open- and being curious. ing a door for Brown to return to Thus, The Daily Grind and the Midwest. The Gridiron were born. The KU Athletics gave Brown free Daily Grind is a daily 30-secreign when he arrived back on ond video clip recapping that days activities. The Gridiron is a weekly episode that comes out every Monday and captures progress through the entire week starting with practice and team meetings, ending with the game that week and access into the locker rooms. The guys on the team really like it, Brown said. They were really excited and cooperative letting me shoot with them and stuff. The little things like hanging out in the locker room, going to Dave and Busters and all those things that kind of get forgotten are now captured on film and it just kind of completes the experience. Brown and his wife, Leann, live in Lawrence now and have been promoting the videos on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. You can view the videos by going to kufootball.com and clicking on The Gridiron. So how does a guy who played a part in the Jayhawks Orange Bowl

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Micah Brown makes his only career catch on a fake punt in the 2008 Orange Bowl on Jan. 3, 2008. He is returning to the team this fall to direct program documenting football behind the scenes. victory feel about his new role at Kansas? Im really grateful for the opportunity, Brown said. I get to write, direct, produce, edit and do sound design. I get to do everything that you would get to do in making a movie or a TV show. Im involved in every part of it. The guys I work with are awesome. Coach Gill and his guys are great. Edited by Clark Goble

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Will Stanfords next Toby Gerhart please stand up? It could be Jeremy Stewart, a 6-foot, 218-pound senior from Baton Rouge, La., the Cardinals most experienced tailback. Everybody is trying to figure out what were going to do without Toby, Stewart said of the player taken in the second round of the NFL draft by the Minnesota Vikings. So were looking to make a name for ourselves. Or it could be Tyler Gaffney, a 6-1, 216-pound sophomore from San Diego, who like Gerhart also played on the Cardinal baseball team. That was last season, he said of Gerharts fairy-tale year that put Stanford on the national stage. Theres nothing I can do. I cant call Toby and tell him to come back out here. Or perhaps it will be Gerharts backup last season, sophomore Stepfan Taylor of Mansfield, Texas, who gained 303 yards in 56 carries. Whether it is one, two or three backs, the theme heading into the Cardinals 2010 season is simple: duplicate Gerharts school-record 1,871 yards rushing and 28 touchdowns. Stanford was second in the Pacific-10 Conference 11th nationally in rushing offense with an average of 218.2 yards per game. We dont have the 235-pound monster sitting back there for 30 carries a game, but were feeling good about where we are, offensive coordinator David Shaw said. We might look a little different. We might do a few things a little different. But the way we play football is really not going to change. At least thats the plan. Stanfords running game remains one of the biggest question marks on offense as the Cardinal prepares for the season opener Sept. 4 against Sacramento State. If any of the backs who played last year struggle, coaches might consider redshirt freshman Usua Amanam of Bellarmine College Prep or incoming freshmen Ricky Seale of Escondido and Anthony Wilkerson of Foothill Ranch in Orange County. As of now the team refuses to back away from a brand of football coach Jim Harbaugh loved as an AllAmerica quarterback at Michigan. Were still going to be focused on the power running game, said left tackle Jonathan Martin, one of four returning starters on the offensive line. Were still going to be physical, trying to get the other team to quit. What Stanford doesnt have is a human bowling ball who demoralized defenses by refusing to go down even on broken plays. A handful of relatively unknown players are being asked to build on the extraordinary legacy left by Gerhart, who finished second to Alabamas Mark Ingram in the closest Heisman Trophy vote ever. While Gerhart tries to learn the complicated schemes of the NFL, the new tailbacks want to establish a rushing game that complements quarterback Andrew Luck. Everybody wants to be the guy, said Stewart, who missed seven games last season because of an ankle sprain and stress fracture.

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LOS ANGELES Problems. Many problems. The obstacles littered in front of a new James Bond movie may be more devilish than anything one of the film franchises many villains could have dreamed up. In addition to financing woes and increasingly crowded talent schedules, theres this nagging fact: The script isnt ready. Last week a fresh speed-bump was laid on the road to the 23rd film in the Bond franchise when Quantum of Solace and Casino Royale star Daniel Craig formally committed to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. David Finchers remake of the Swedish-language best-seller wont begin shooting until later this year, meaning that Craig wouldnt be free until later in 2011 at the earliest. Even then, hed need to navigate around promoting Jon Favreaus Cowboys & Aliens, which hes currently shooting (and which could also spawn a sequel, on which the actor has an option). Craigs moves away from Bond, meanwhile, come as MGM sits in a state of financial limbo. The company has accrued nearly $4 billion in debt and has received a sixth debt forbearance on interest payments until Sept. 15 and is unable, in the meantime, to fund new movies. Legal agreements apparently prevent the Bond film from being extricated from the studio by Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, the tight-lipped pair who control the franchise through their EON Productions company. But while MGMs financial woes have been a focus of much of the news coverage which alternately have had the movie canceled and suspended sources say that those difficulties have not been the only hold-up. The secrecy valued by EON scares off most public comment on the films status, but sources familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity say that discussions among producers and the creative team hampered the process. Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes worked on the script last spring, the sources said, polishing the contributions of Frost/ Nixon screenwriter Peter Morgan. Morgan, in turn, had rewritten parts of an earlier screenplay by Bond veterans Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. EON typically develops scripts before sending them to the studio that will finance and distribute the given film. That has yet to happen with the new Bond, which is to be financed and distributed by MGM. The creative issues around the new Bond are notable because it means that even if MGMs financial wrinkles were ironed out in the form of a potential Time Warner acquisition of MGM, a corporate

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Although its still unclear who will be the American Idol judges next season, two major behind-thescenes changes are underway for Foxs aging hit show, the Los Angeles Times has learned. After two years away, Nigel Lythgoe is returning to run the talent show that he helped make a huge hit. Lythgoe, who also is a judge and executive producer on Foxs So You Think You Can Dance, will manage American Idol with executive producer Ken Warwick, according to two sources close to the show. Lythgoe left American Idol in 2008, in part to focus on the dance show, but sources at the time said that friction with Cowell behind the scenes was the primary reason for his departure. Also taking a role on American Idol will be renowned music producer Jimmy Iovine, co-founder of Interscope Records, who will be a central figure on American Idol next season, according to a person close to the show. Since leaving American Idol, Lythgoe has been openly critical of the talent competition. When Fox allowed former judge Paula Abdul to depart over a salary dispute, Lythgoe criticized the network and producers, adding that the show had lost its heart. Lythgoe was unavailable for comment. With Cowell and DeGeneres officially gone, and Kara DioGuardi reportLythgoe edly out of a job, it looks as though Lythgoe will have his way. Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler are negotiating deals to sit at the table with Randy Jackson, according to sources and a person close to Tyler. Tyler has confirmed his interest publicly, but officials at Fox and the producers FremantleMedia and 19 Entertainment have declined comment. Nick Cannon is late calling in for a phone interview, but with the schedule hes keeping these days, its easy to cut him a little slack. In the space of a week, Cannon has hosted two live episodes of NBCs Americas Got Talent, been on the air daily as the main morning personality for New Yorks WXRK-FM and begun a run of stand-up shows in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area. The latter is part of his first national stand-up tour. Pile on to that Cannons other careers: R&B singer, actor, producer, chairman of cable TV channel TeenNick, with the 29-yearold coming full circle to the Nickelodeon empire that gave him his breakthrough when he was still a teenager. As busy as Cannon is, it doesnt seem like hed need to add a national stand-up tour to his plate especially while hes hosting AGT and its in the thick of its season. Within the past 10 days, Cannon has hosted the show in Hollywood, flown to Florida for his act, flown back to Hollywood for another week of AGT, then made his way to Texas. But he says it was time to do the stand-up tour. Its just something that I needed to do, he said. Ive gotta exercise my stand-up muscle. According to his Americas Got Talent bio, he headed to Hollywood at age 15 from his hometown of San Diego and got gigs at comedy clubs such as Improv, the Laugh Factory and the Comedy Store. He did warmup for the Nickelodeon show All That, and had such a knack for it that the producers cast him on the show and hired him as a writer when he was 17. He later became host and executive producer of his own show, The Nick Cannon Show, then went on to a movie career, making his breakthrough with the 2002 sleeper hit Drumline. Around the same time, he began a recording career, releasing his debut album in 2003. In 2009, he took over as host of Americas Got Talent when Jerry Springer departed. Cannon says his stand-up act will be pretty freewheeling, and that hell talk about everything. This includes pop superstar Mariah Carey, whom Cannon married in April 2008. I always tell people shes one of the funniest people Ive ever met, he said. As Cannon begins his standup show, another project of his premiered on TeenNick: The Nightlife, four summer variety specials centered on contemporary music, dance, fashion and entertainment. Among the people scheduled to appear are rapperactor Ice Cube, Up in the Airs Anna Kendrick and hip-hop artist T.I., as well as several dance troupes. Its just creating a destination for young tastemakers, he said, the same way that we all grew up on American Bandstand, Soul Train, all the way to TRL. Its just todays generation, giving them that same outlet. The series is currently down as

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Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon arrive at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 7. The couple married in April 2008. four summer specials, but Cannon says he thinks it could go beyond that. Im hoping, as the person who runs the network, that it keeps going, Cannon said.

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Former NFL player Terry Crews relishes new experiences in film


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PASADENA, Calif. Former NFL defensive end Terry Crews has made 30 movies in the last decade and he has his own television series now with Are We There Yet? on TBS, but he knows fame is a fickle thing. The people that recognize me, the ones that stop me on the sidewalk, its because of that Old Spice commercial, Crews said. I didnt know the meaning of viral before those commercials came out. I cant get away from those things. The quirky and unsettling commercials show the brawny Crews usually wearing just a towel knocking down skyscrapers, riding a stuffed tiger or screaming his head off about Old Spice body wash. The commercials are a weird sensation theyve been viewed more than 9 million times on YouTube. Adding to Crews new-found ubiquity, hes also sharing the screen with Sly Stallone, Mickey Rourke and Bruce Willis in the all-star commando movie The Expendables, which opens next week. At this point in his strange Hollywood adventure, he will take fame and opportunity as it comes and will happily stare down conventional notions of credibility. When I was filming the first Old Spice commercial I knew it was either going to be the best thing I had ever done or the absolute end of my career, he said. But that seems to happen to me a lot and I kind of like it. All or nothing. If its going to shut down, so be it. After football, Crews, who is an accomplished illustrator, revived his dream of using his skills in the movie business and moved to Los Angeles with his family just to be near the industry. He ended up doing bodyguard work and, as a lark, tried out for a television show called Battle Dome, an American Gladiators-style knockoff, and he won the role of the wildeyed villain T-Money. That ridiculous duty led to more screen work and the movie

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Angela Grube, owner of 9th Life in Baltimore, holds up a beaded silk-wool cocktail dress from the early 60s. AMCs hit drama Mad Men has captured fans not only for its Emmy-winning writing and acting, but also for its fashion.

Terry Crews, left, a cast member in The Expendables, and his wife Rebecca pose together at the premiere of the film Aug. 3 in Los Angeles. titles could be strung together as commentary on Crews and his career: The Benchwarmers, The Longest Yard, Harsh Times, Get Smart, Middle Men, Gamer and, now, The Expendables. Theres plenty of muscular, glowering actors, but Crews has made his mark as the big man who can flip easily into broad comedy and winking irony. As Ice Cube, who once employed Crews as a bodyguard and then shared the screen with him in Friday After Next, puts it: Terry is the funniest muscle-bound man in America. For black America, Crews is something of a franchise guy he, his wife, Rebecca, and their five children even had their own realty show, The Family Crews, air for 11 episodes early this year on BET. The real breakthrough for Crews was playing the father role on Everybody Hates Chris for four years, a role that echoes now in Are We There Yet?

Mad Men sparks new interest in vintage wear


Now she finds herself going online to sites such as eBay.com BALTIMORE Angela Grube and Etsy.com to find clothes and quickly combed through the cloth- making trips to neighboring stores ing rack, ignoring several pristine- to not only find clothes to resell but looking garments before the prized to make reproductions, a two- to item caught her eye: a black dress three-day process that requires her with a torn zipper and holes in the to take an outfit apart seam by seam and then use the pattern to make a underarms. Grube was shopping in the base- replica garment. We cant hold it in the store long ment of a vintage store in Baltimores quirky Hampden neighborhood enough to advertise the items, said when she found the treasure: a Grube, who has owned her store for three-quarter length cocktail dress the past two years. You barely get it adorned with bluish glass beads on the rack and its gone. Mad Men joins Sex and The atop embroidered trees. She basked City, Miami Vice and Thirty in her good luck. The damage to the dress would something as some of the more be a quick fix for the self-taught recent television shows to shape the seamstress and vintage clothing fashion of the time, according to store owner. More importantly, the Robert J. Thompson, a professor garment appeared to have originat- of television and popular culture at ed from the Mad Men era, which Syracuse University. What is interesting here is that are the most sought after items in you have so many people who look Grubes Hampden store, 9th Life. Mad Men, AMCs hit drama, so cool, Thompson said. You wear has captured fans not only for its the clothes and you look like you are going to have Emmy-w inning dinner with Frank writing and acting, You wear the Sinatra and Sammy but for its fashion, which has inspired clothes and you look Davis Jr. Only Davy throngs of men to like you are going Crocket in the flock to a more 1950s had more of tapered look and to have dinner with an ability to inspire has encouraged Frank Sinatra and viewers to dress in women to embrace clothes from anothSammy Davis Jr. their voluptuouser era, according to ness with simple Thompson. rObert j. thOMpSON designs and high professor You had millions waists that accenof baby boomer kids tuate curves. wearing raccoon Although the show takes place in the 60s, many of the hats, Thompson said. While Davy Crocket might have characters wear clothing associated with the 40s and 50s, which was had the largest reach as far as sheer common at the time, according to audience numbers is concerned, the depth of Mad Mens influence will fashion experts. The style craze generated by the likely be greater. In addition to the show has been both a blessing and a boom experienced by vintage stores, curse for vintage store owners such the show has inspired a clothing as Grube. Before the show became a line at Banana Republic. Hair salons critical success, Grube would have now have walk-ins demanding flips, simply gone to estate sales, relied on beehives and other updos from drop-in customers to bring clothes that era. Shane Gullivan first heard about and sell her items, or gone vintage shopping for garments to stock her Mad Men a year ago when customers came to his Towson, Md., shelves.

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n roll, you wouldnt call Lulu stark. When I started out, my ego was Having a voice like mine is like having a rabid dog you have to so on fire, so eager to devour the muzzle or release against your planet, Wainwright says, that I just ran with my voice. One could enemies. Rufus Wainwright is reflect- argue it wasnt up to those staning on his operatic, unmistakable dards ... yet there was a blissful voice, and on how he manages, brazenness to it ... still, I have or does not manage, to keep it in really worked hard to refine my instrument. check. That work began with Rufus That voice is speaking by phone from a limo speeding between New Does Judy (2008), in which he York and Asbury Park, N.J. Its sang Garlands signature tunes Sunday, the first U.S. date of his backed by a 36-piece orchestra. current tour, in which the sing- Those classic songs, with those er-songwriter performs his new incredible lyrics I had to think album, All Days Are Nights: Songs about what I was doing in terms of diction, he says. And the voice is for Lulu, in its entirety. The reaction in Europe was still a work in progress. Ive been astounding, says Wainwright. singing a lot with my dad recently. One of the greatest experiences of Hes 63 and singing better than my life was the performance in the ever. My dad would be Loudon Grand Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona. I ended the tour at a Greek temple. Wainwright III, the singer-songNow its Asbury Parks turn, which writer associated with Dead Skunk, Daughter, and much is a temple of sorts. Lulu is both a departure and else (including the song Rufus a further journey. Wainwright has Is a Tit Man). Rufus mother, been busy, with an opera (Prima Kate McGarrigle, of the revered Donna), written with Bernadette Canadian folk duo the McGarrigle Colomine; a Shakespeare sonnet Sisters, died of clear-cell carcicycle for the stage, created with noma in January. His aunt Anna McGar r ig le director Robert still performs, Wilson; and as does his albums, such Having a voice like mine aunt Sloan as Rufus Does is like having a rabid dog Wainw r ig ht, Judy at Carnegie and his sisHall, that often you have to muzzle. ter Martha. feature flamboyRufus father Rufus wainRight ant, lush arrangealso has a singer ments. daughter, Lucy But Lulu Wa i n w r i g h t strips it down to Roche, with piano and voice Suzzy Roche fitting for an album that faces the death of of the Roche sisters. One of the most affecting tracks Wainwrights mother, that sings of grief, loss, and identity. Yet, thanks on Lulu, Martha, depicts Rufus, to that voice, a voice that owes aware of his mothers illness and as much to classical music, opera, time ticking away, calling his sister, and torch-song cabaret as to rock getting her phone machine:

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Every song is fully realized in what Im trying to say, pop singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright says about his new album, Release the Stars. Martha its your brother calling time to go up north and see mothin the hospital, and I was working on the Shakespeare show in Europe, and I was trying to get her there to see it, and it wasnt looking good, and I was totally, totally helpless. Over the years, says Wainwright, 37, Ive learned to appreciate and be grateful for this huge, musical family dynamic, and give myself permission to use it. Everyone has been generous and kind as we all work through this.

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Studio owner Jim Tullio adjusts a microphone for Glen Hansard, of the group Swell Season on July 27 for a recording session at Butcher Boy studios in Evanston, Ill.

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EVANSTON, Ill. Glen Hansard wasnt happy, but at least he was polite about it. It sounds cool, the 35-year-old singer said in his Irish brogue after listening to the studio playback of what he and fellow members of the Swell Season had just recorded on an afternoon last week. It just doesnt sound great. I dont want to be a bummer. I just think maybe we havent got it yet. I agree, said Jim Tullio from behind the console of his Evanston recording studio, the smell of cigarette smoke now winning the battle with some long-lit incense. The Swell Season led by singer-guitarist Hansard and spotlighting his interplay with 22-year-old singer-pianist Marketa Irglova, with whom he shared a best song Oscar for Falling Slowly from their 2007 film Once had played Chicago just two weeks earlier before proceeding to tour stops at the Hollywood Bowl and in Oregon, Calgary, Alberta, and, the previous night, Minneapolis. They arrived in south Evanston in the early afternoon, and after the recording session, hopped the tour bus overnight to Buffalo, N.Y. What brought them so many miles was Tullios invitation to record a song by British singersongwriter-guitarist John Martyn, who died in January 2009 following a 40-year-plus career. Tullio, who has produced Steve Goodman, John Prine, members of the Band, Mavis Staples and many others, recorded Martyn multiple times and has been compiling a tribute album to him.

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Playboy founder keeping busy at 84


Were not worried; Hef s shown his staying power. Could be the company he For someone who (many would keeps. assume) lies around his mansion Young people keep you young, in a silk robe a good portion of the day, Hugh Hefner manages to stay said Hefner, who is reportedly only dating one woman at the moment, pretty relevant. Lets just take a quick overview Crystal Harris. Remaining active of what the 84-year-old has cook- pays dividends. Like most of his galpals, Harris ing: a) A new safe for work web- has appeared in the original lads site, TheSmokingJacket.com: Now mag. Crystal is lovely. We have a office drones can scroll on their very good relalunch hour without getting fired. It tionship. Harris helps links to amusing videos, sex trivia keep her guy in as well as PG photos from the the loop: She 57-year-old mags archives. b) A documentary about his life: just bought me Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist an iPad for my and Rebel paints the bon vivant birthday so Im Hefner as most people likely never envi- Twittering. And he sioned him: a defender of human be rights and his impact on current couldnt more happy that old chums Kendra events in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Hmm, who knew? Though we did Wilkinson and Holly Madison give him props for salvaging the have parlayed their Girls Next Door fame into Hollywood their own reality sign _ twice. Young people keep you shows. c) An Im so tickintriguing ad young. Remaining active led for them, for Stoli vodka pays dividends. he gushed. I in which the knew from the power pubHugH HefNer very beginning lisher talks to Playboy founder that Kendra was himself in a a special lady. bar with the It makes me help of highproud. tech magic. If Hefner thinks life is going to The slogan: Would you have a drink with you? One of him is in slow down soon, hed be wrong. Hollywood big-wig producer his signature pajamas, the alter ego Brian Grazer is reportedly working in a stuffy suit and tie. Reached at his Beverly Hills on a big-screen version of Hefners mansion, Hefner seemed slightly life; Brett Ratner would direct. And who has the chops to hanoverwhelmed by all the action. Goodness gracious, Ive literally dle the role? Robert Downey Jr. He was got five back-to-back interviews great in Iron Man and Chaplin. on the phone, he said. Then I have to get ready and do Larry Hes got something. King.

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Jack Lawrence, from left, Alison Mosshart, Jack White and Dean Fertita, of The Dead Weather, arrive at the 2009 mtvU Woodie Awards at Nov. 18 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City.

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The Dead Weather is the latest freewheeling project for Detroitbred musician Jack White, who relocated to Nashville in 2006. White sounds relaxed but energized as the group, which includes band mates Alison Mosshart (the Kills), Jack Lawrence (the Greenhornes, the Raconteurs) and Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age), winds its way across the country on this latest tour supporting its sophomore album, Sea of Cowards. Life has been a whirl for White since landing in Nashville. With the White Stripes on and off hiatus, hes kept his hands in a slew of pots: forming new bands the Raconteurs and Dead Weather, ramping up his Third Man label with a bustling store and studio, diving into collaborations with the likes of Loretta Lynn and rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson. Its the Dead Weather that has kept the bulk of his attention for the past year. Spawned from informal jam sessions at the Third Man complex _ White is the bands drummer _ the group found itself with a set of songs that became the album Horehound, and hit the road facing a world that wasnt quite sure what to make of it all. Were in a studio and working together, the four of us all writing in the room together _ its the first time Ive been in a band that does that _ and we sort of have our own little world going on, he says. And its strange to walk outside the studio and have to say to each other, Oh, thats right, we have to give this away now to everybody, and they have all those preconceptions of who we are, and the other bands weve been in, etc. So that becomes our challenge to try to overcome that. But its almost an impossible task. Its not really something that can be achieved, you know. We just have to go out and play. Theres not much we can do about all those preconceptions. The new album has met a more positive reception, bringing cohesion to the lusty, tempestuous rock introduced on the debut album. Recorded in spurts last year, the 11-song effort was issued in May, just 10 months after Horehound. That quick turnaround was a product of the bands creative momentum the songs just kept coming and coming, says White but it also meshes with his ideas about the way music can work in the modern era. I have a grand idea in my head Wanda Jacksons record, and then _ and I dont know if its true _ I dont know what. Maybe anothbut I have this feeling that the er White Stripes record within a short attention span provoked and month. I really just dont know. But that spontaneity shouldnt encouraged by the Internet will translate itself to music in some be translated as disregard for detail, way, he says, and people will pro- and thats clear when he reflects duce more, and albums will come on the White Stripes early years. out two or three times a year like The duos cryptic color schemes, mythology and hands-off relationthey used to 30 years ago. White thinks in broad strokes ship with the press were all part of a carefully like that: orchestrated Concepts concept get chewed I have this feeling that the a showbiz on. But short attention span prowhen it s e n s i b i l i t y, c o m e s he says, that voked and encouraged by the to career Internet will translate itself to I still have planning, inside me. he prefers The easy music in some way. to keep it way to rebel JACK wHite loose. early on for drummer, the dead weather When us, the White we started Stripes, was re c ord i ng not to give out the Dead information Weather, we had no plans to make like everybody else was doing, and an album, no plans to go on tour, not give it to them in the way they no plans to start a new band. wanted it, he says. Rock n roll Definitely no plans to put out a and punk rock rebelled in 50,000 second album 10 months later, ways, and whats left? Theres not he says. Its all been off-the-cuff. much left. The thing that always And I dont know what Im going bugs me as a person, as a creator to do when I go home after this of things, is that (music acts) are tour. Those guys are going on to sort of giving everything away, the Kills and Queens of the Stone which seems to be anti-showbiz, Age, and Im going back to finish in a sense.

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. What should a photographer shoot when hes entrusted with the very last roll of Kodachrome? Steve McCurry took aim at the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Terminal and a few human icons, too. Paul Simon, the singer-songwriter synonymous with the fabled films richly saturated colors, shied away. But Robert De Niro stood in for the world of filmmaking. Then McCurry headed from his base in New York City to southern Asia, where in 1984 he shot a famous portrait of a green-eyed Afghan refugee girl that made the cover of National Geographic. In India, he snapped a tribe whose nomadic way of life is disappearing just as Kodachrome is. The worlds first commercially successful color film, extolled since the Great Depression for its sharpness, archival durability and vibrant yet realistic hues, makes you think, as Simon sings, all the worlds a sunny day. Kodachrome enjoyed its massmarket heyday in the 1960s and 70s before being eclipsed by video and easy-to-process color negative films, the kind that prints are made from. It garnered its share of spectacular images, none more iconic than Abraham Zapruders reel of President Kennedys assassination in 1963. But Mama Time is taking Kodachrome away, and McCurry feels the tug of nostalgia even as he loads Eastman Kodak Co.s last manufactured roll into his Nikon year. National Geographic magazine F6, just as hes done so many tens is considering doing a spread on of thousands of times. From that moment on, theres McCurrys trip that would include a certain amount of observation a handful of images. All the origiand walking around exploring, nals are destined for air-condihunting, moving, McCurry said tioned safekeeping at the George of his craft. Its not all about tak- Eastman House film and photoging pictures. Its about appreciat- raphy museum in Rochester. McCurry relied on a digital ing this world we live in for such a camera to help evaluate composibrief amount of time. I thought, what better way to tion, perspective and light, but chooskind of ing the honor the moment memory I thought, what better way to to press of the film kind of honor the memory of the the shutthan to try film than to try and photograph ter was and phopressuretograph iconic places and people? packed. i c on i c E v e n places and Steve MCCurry seasoned people? Its National geographic photographer photogin (my) raphers DNA to have a want to hard time tell stories knowing where the action is, that shed light on the when youre going to get that one emotional component to the human condition. Betting its future on digital pho- picture, McCurry said. His nerves were jangled again tography, Kodak discontinued the slide and motion-picture film with when he had to run the loaded a production run last August in camera through airport X-ray which a master sheet nearly a mile machines in Italy and Turkey. One long was cut up into more than security guard joked, Oh, take a 20,000 rolls. picture, which was kind of funny McCurry requested the final because we were trying to make 36-exposure strip. After nine every frame count. months of planning, he embarked McCurry returned to old haunts in June on a six-week odyssey. in western India where color is Trailing him was a TV crew from important culturally, drawing National Geographic Channel, on Kodachromes magical power which plans to broadcast a one- to subtly render contrast and hour documentary early next color harmony in depictions of Ribari tribespeople in Rajasthan and Bollywood luminaries in Mumbai. His journey ended in July in small-town Parsons, Kan., the home of Dwaynes Photo, the last photo lab in the world that processes the elaborately crafted color-reversal film. Dwaynes will close that part of its business in December. Its not a process like blackand-white that hobbyists could do in their own dark room, coowner Grant Steinle said, warning Kodachrome hoarders they really need to get out and shoot those pictures and perhaps shift over to newer lines of slide film like Ektachrome and Fujichrome. In McCurrys roll, one or two exposures were a little off, but he was pleased with the results. In one self-portrait, he posed next to a Kodak-yellow taxicab bearing the license plate PKR 36 the code name for Professional Kodachrome film; in another, hes sprawled on a hotel bed at journeys end. McCurry has a personal archive of 800,000 Kodachrome images he takes good care of. But in late July, he chanced upon a batch of 1969 and 1972 Kodachromes hed put in storage in Philadelphia long ago and forgotten about. The discovery got him reminiscing about his days as a hungry photographer hopping from Amsterdam to Africa to Soviet-era Bulgaria. Not only was the color really good, but they were actually not bad pictures, McCurry marveled.

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