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The Kansas Athletics board of


directors has new leadership
and considers changes to its
structure and outside opinions.
Uncertain
future for
Athletics
Jets | 6a
Designs made by students
won the top three spots at
the Aviation, Technology,
Integration and Operations
conference in Texas.
Engineers
take top
three slots
at contest
WAve | inside
Breakout
freshmen
lead team
Jordan Webb, Keba Agostinho
and Keeston Terry have made
successful college transitions.
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For every 1,000 children in the
United States, three to five will
develop scoliosis severe enough
to require surgery. However, there
are zero model pediatric spines to
guide the course of treatment.
Lisa Friis, assistant professor
in mechanical engineering, said
there are no available spines from
deceased children with scoliosis
to be modeled off of.
Unfortunately, a 75-year-old
males spine does not really repre-
sent a 12-year-old girls, but this is
what they are using to test spinal
implants on, Friis said.
A federal grant of more than
$1 million was awarded to the
engineering department to fund
spinal replica research. Friis, who
has worked as a research scientist
in orthopedics since 2001, said
the grant was well-founded.
The spinal industry is about
15 to 25 years behind other areas
of orthopedics, Friis said. Some
spinal surgery procedures still
dont have as high of success rates
as other surgeries, so these are
the types of things we are looking
at now.
These kinds of surgeries include
spinal implants and fusions, which
are used to treat scoliosis.
The spine is a series of con-
nected joints, Friis said. If you
do something to one level, it will
affect all levels up and down. If we
can create models and find how
treatment influences functions on
adjacent levels, we will be able to
design implants better.
The lab has successfully created
a model of an adult lumbar spine,
which has enabled researchers to
now begin creating a pediatric
model spine.
Erin Lewis, a graduate stu-
dent in bioengineering from Fort
Scott, said medical device compa-
nies rely on a scaled-down model
of an adult spine, which can lead
to error and confusion.
Babies are much more flex-
ible, for example, and in some
places have cartilage instead of
bone, Lewis said. Those kinds
of properties just dont change
overnight, so we are trying to
find out how surgeries can work
with that.
Lewis leads a group of graduate
students and undergraduate stu-
dents who help with the research.
The group works closely with a
pediatric surgeon from Childrens
Mercy Hospital in Kansas City,
Mo., and medical device com-
panies, which offer their insight.
Creating a pediatric spine rep-
lica with nothing to work off of
and measure from creates many
challenges. For example, the
engineers know that children are
more flexible and their tissues
are less dense, and that they will
grow. However, they do not know
to what extent.
Its extremely difficult to cre-
ate a model of a spine when we
dont know the target values and
also incorporate somehow the
physiological changes that occur
in kids, Lewis said.
Scoliosis surgeries involve
BY SAMANTHA COLLINS
scollins@kansan.com
A small, young woman walks
up to the stage. She begins to
tell a story about one night that
changed her life.
Kristen Tebow, a woman from
Manhattan, just wanted to make
friends her freshman year at
Kansas State University. On a typi-
cal weekend night, she made plans
with a new friend from marching
band. She and her newly found
friend visited a typical bar on the
outskirts of Manhattan. Tebows
friend got her a drink; a few
moments later she felt like the
world went crazy and passed out
in the bars bathroom.
The next morning she woke up
naked in a hotel room just outside
Manhattan, covered in bruises and
scratches. Seven naked men slept
on the floor around her. The men
paid Tebows friend to drug and
bring her to the hotel. Her friend
set her up for a night she would
never forget. She turned into a vic-
tim of sex trafficking that night.
All she wanted to do was have a
little fun in college.
I just wanted somebody to
hold me at that point, Tebow said.
I was crying for my dad.
Thursday night, Tebow took
back that night from those seven
men and her friend.
Incidents like Tebow are not
uncommon. And just like Tebow,
survivors of sexual assault, rape,
signs of A Controlling relAtionship
1. rapid Attachment Fast attachment to a signifcant other is
often the frst sign of a controlling person.
2. Mood swings People who become easily angry often turn
out to be controlling.
3. putting you down The controller doesnt only want to be
in control of your actions, but also your emotions.
other signs:
- Isolating you from friends and family
- Discouraging you from pursuing outside interests
- Perpetually blaming you for his or her own actions (anger,
cheating, yelling, etc.)
- Embarrassing you in public
- Constantly discounting your feelings
- Cycling through moods
Adapted from the Midwest Center for stress and Anxiety
speAking out
Victims take Back the night
dalton Gomez/Kansan
Attendents of Take Back the Night endure the rain while Ellie Smith sings a song she wrote about human trafcking. The night was cut short due to inclimate weather, postponing the candle light vigil and march up Mass St. to a later date.
Local event promotes awareness of sexual violence
dalton Gomez/Kansan
The Clothesline Project was a visible contribution to Take Back the Night Thurdsay evening.
Victimand supporters created shirts to hang on the clothesline to tell their stories or to send
a message about domestic violence.
see AWARENESS on paGe 3a
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Filling the gap in childrens scoliosis treatment
University researchers are working
on a more accurate spinal model
Check out our interactive guide for the diferent areas of the spine at kansan.com/
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n Student Union Activities will host tunes at
noon, featuring Quiet corral, from noon to 1 p.m.
on the plaza outside of the kansas Union.
n Student Union Activities will show the movie
Sex and the city 2 at 8 p.m. in the Woodruf
Auditorium at the kansas Union.
Whats going on?
FRIDAY
September 24
SATURDAY
September 25
SUNDAY
September 26
nthere will be a carillon concert from 5 to 5:30 p.m.
at the memorial campanile.
n the kU School of music Student recital Series will
feature Zach bachert and Justin davidson on alto sax
from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Swarthout recital Hall at
murphy Hall.
MONDAY
September 27
nben eggleston, professor of philosophy, will lead a
Lunch and conversation session on managing grade
expectations, which will focus on helping students
appreciate the realities of grade distributions in large
classes from noon to 1 p.m. in room 135 at budig Hall.
nFormer kU quarterback todd reesing will sign cop-
ies of his new book in the kU bookstores at the kansas
Union from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
n Student Union Activities will host free cosmic bowl-
ing from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Jaybowl at the kansas
Union.
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TUESDAY
September 28
nthe School of music will host the kU Symphony
orchestra from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Lied center.
tickets cost $7.
WEDNESDAY
September 29
nkU Army rotc and the School of engineering will
host race day at the burge! from 10 a.m.. to 2 p.m. in
the burge Union parking lot.
CAMPUS
SLAB to register
voters in Union
mid-term elections are right
around the corner, so its time to
register in order to have a voice in
the election process.
the Student Legislative Aware-
ness board will host weekly voter
registration every thursday and
Friday until oct. 18, which is the
last day to register in kansas.
Students can fnd SLAbs voter reg-
istration tables during tea time on
thursdays in the kansas Union at 3
p.m. and on Fridays during tunes
at noon in front of the Union. the
dole institute Advisory board will
also host voter registration on
Wescoe beach in the upcoming
weeks before the deadline.
Alex earles, legislative direc-
tor and chairman of the board,
said the goal of these registration
events is to give all students the
opportunity to register and vote.
politicians are making decisions
about our futures and we should
care and elect those that make
the best decisions for our futures,
earles, a senior from Salina, said.
Students can register with their
Lawrence address. He said stu-
dents should register if they have
moved in the past two years, or are
unsure of where they registered.
it never hurts to register again,
earles said.
Students can also register in
their home districts or states and
have an advance ballot sent to
them. the last day to register in
kansas for the upcoming elections
is oct. 18. the election is on nov. 2.
registering is only part one of
the process. remember to educate
yourself on the issues and candi-
dates and then vote on nov. 2.
Samantha Collins
THURSDAY
September 30
nSUA to show toy Story 3 at Woodruf Auditorium in
the kansas Union from 8 to 10 p.m. tickets are free with
Student Saver card, $2 with valid kU id and $3 for the
general public.
CAMPUS
Arts center holds
dance fundraiser
For Janet.
those two words, spoken
by chuck berg before his fute
performance of over the rain-
bow, encapsulated the night.
berg was one of 15 musi-
cians and dancers who ap-
peared thursday night in mad
for dance, a fundraiser hosted
by the department of dance at
the Lawrence Art center. the
event was
dedicated
to Janet
Hamburg, a
former dance
professor
who died
on Sept. 4
in new york
city.
Her legacy lives on in all of
us who were touched by her,
said berg, a flm and media
studies professor who knew
Hamburg for more than 30
years. it may be a clich, but i
cant help but think she was up
there looking down.
the fundraiser raised more
than $4,000 in scholarship
money for the department.
Students, colleagues and
friends of Hamburg, 189
people in total, attended the
event.
its amazing how many
people came out for tonights
performance, said michelle
Hefner Hayes, chairwoman
for the department of dance.
i think tonight is the frst mo-
ment of joy for a lot of us be-
cause we havent had a chance
to gather as a group.
Hayes said Hamburg had
been a passionate fund raiser
for scholarships during her
30 years at the University of
kansas.
Weve all been devastated
since she passed away, Hayes
said. the fact that were
gathering for her favorite cause
in the whole world, i think, is
pretty signifcant.
Had Hamburg been there,
said kara Vaglio, her former stu-
dent assistant, shed be smiling.
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ODD NEWS
Woman fghts of
bear with zucchini
HeLenA, mont. A montana
woman fended of a bear trying
to muscle its way into her home
thursday by pelting the animal
with a large piece of zucchini
from her garden.
the woman sufered minor
scratches and one of her dogs
was wounded after tussling
with the 200-pound bear.
the attack happened just af-
ter midnight when the woman
let her three dogs into the
backyard for their nighttime
ritual before she headed to bed,
missoula county Sherifs Lt.
rich maricelli said. Authorities
believe the black bear was just
25 yards away, eating apples
from a tree.
two of the dogs sensed the
bear, began barking and ran
away, maricelli said. the third
dog, a 12-year-old collie that
wasnt very mobile, remained
close to the woman as she
stood in the doorway of the
home near Frenchtown in west-
ern montana.
before she knew what was
happening, the bear was on top
of the dog and batting the col-
lie back and forth, maricelli said.
She kicked the bear with her
left leg as hard as she could,
and she said she felt like she
caught it pretty solidly under
the chin, maricelli said.
but as she kicked, the bruin
swiped at her leg with its paw
and ripped her jeans.
the bear then turned its full
attention to the woman in the
doorway. She retreated into
the house and tried to close
the door, but the bear stuck
its head and part of a shoulder
through the doorway.
the woman held onto the
door with her right hand. With
her left, she reached behind
and grabbed a zucchini that
she had picked from her garden
earlier and was sitting on the
kitchen counter, maricelli said.
She threw the vegetable. it
bopped the bruin on the top
of its head and the animal fed,
maricelli said.
Associated Press
fusing the curve, which requires
a surgeon to join two or more
vertebrae. Then, a spinal implant is
inserted to keep the spine straight
after the operation. Both surgeons
and medical device companies will
benefit from a model pediatric
spine that allows them to make
measurements and predictions.
Different spinal surgeons
approach how they would cor-
rect that disfigurement differently,
Lewis said. There is no cookie-
cutter method or way of fixing
it, because right now its impos-
sible to understand how different
operations or implants will change
and grow with a child.
Bioengineering is one of the
fastest growing graduate programs
at the University with 46 students
after only three years in existence.
Friis said every student she has
worked with in a bioengineering
lab has gone on to work in the
field.
The subject just really interests
me, Lewis said. Helping people
and all the research when I was
in high school I tore my ACL and
became really interested in medi-
cal devices and technology. I went
into engineering knowing I wanted
to go into the medical field.
The pediatric spine model may
be a difficult project, but Friis is
confident in her students abilities.
There are different and new
challenges being brought up, Friis
said. But we have the experience
behind us of making the adult
model work that should really
jump-start the project.
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BY CARLO RAMIREZ
cramirez@kansan.com
Te Pre-med Engineers want
to be prepared in an emergency
situation which is why they
are ofering a free CPR certifca-
tion class from 4 to 7 p.m. Sun-
day in the Spahr Engineering
Classroom in Eaton Hall.
Pre-med Engineers was started
last spring by engineering stu-
dents who wanted more hands-on
experience in the medical feld.
Jack Xu, president of the club and
a junior from Fayetteville, Ark.,
said he thought it was important
to have that experience.
Its something worthwhile
and can potentially save a life, he
said.
Chemical engineering major
Sean Parsel, a senior from Over-
land Park, is a basic life support
instructor for the American Heart
Association and will be teaching
the CPR class.
Parsel became certifed for his
job at the University of Kansas
Medical Center as an electrocar-
diogram technician. He said he
saw the benefts of teaching prop-
er technique afer responding to
multiple codes at the hospital and
witnessing improper technique
on compressions.
It could be easy to forget ones
skills in an actual situation where
someones life is in jeopardy, he
said.
Parsel has the credentials to
certify all students who attend. He
has taught about 10 classes so far,
and said it is a skill that can come
in handy at a moments notice.
Maybe youll pull up on an
accident on a freeway, or maybe
someone will collapse in class or
at work, he said.
Currently, 12 students are
signed up to take the class. Jake
Hopkins, a senior from Albu-
querque, N.M., is planning to at-
tend. He said this will be a good
resume builder and an opportu-
nity to prepare himself for any
situation.
My worst fear is actually hav-
ing to use it, he said.
Edited by Lisa Curran
FREE CPR CLASS
WHEN: Sunday, 4 to 7 p.m.
WHERE: Spahr
engineering Classroom in
eaton Hall
domestic violence and human
trafficking spoke out against
the violence at Take Back the
Night on Massachusetts St. last
night. Audra Fullerton, director
of community engagement at
The Willow Domestic Violence
Center, said this event occurred
all over the nation to promote
awareness of violence against
women. She said the idea that a
woman cannot go out at night
in a developed country is just
ridiculous, so we are going to
take back the night.
We live in a very violent cul-
ture, Fullerton said. We think
of America as a very safe place,
but its not.
The leading cause of injury of a
college-aged woman, 18 to 24, is
from a violent partner, she said.
But, that doesnt mean every per-
son will report the violence. Only
a handful of people report cases
of domestic violence. Fullerton
said domestic violence happens
between two people in an inti-
mate relationship. In more than
85 percent of domestic violence
cases, the woman is battered by
the man. She said domestic vio-
lence is a combination of tactics
of battering that have to do with
power and control.
Its happening at staggering
rates, Fullerton said.
Me r e d i t h
Pavicic, a coor-
dinator of Take
Back the Night
and a junior
from Leawood,
said one in
four college
students will
be sexually
assaulted. Just
like domestic
violence, many students wont
report sexual assault. Its some-
thing that people dont want to
think about, but it affects every-
one.
She said the definition of sexu-
al assault tends to be fuzzy, espe-
cially when it comes to the law.
Because of this, many students
wont report domestic or sexual
violence.
Its easy for people to ignore,
Pavicic said.
In Tebows case, she said the
police laughed at her because she
didnt have any defensive wounds
or evidence. She said she was
unconscious during the incident
and was unable to defend herself.
The only way they would believe
her was if they spoke with the
friend who drugged her. Tebow
was stuck. She said she waited
too long to go
to the hospital
to be evaluat-
ed for sexual
assault.
But Chris
Keary, assis-
tant chief of
police at the
KU Public
Safety Office,
said a problem
is that sexual assault is a generic
term, not a legal term.
Sexual assault is a catch-all
phrase used by people who dont
really know what to call it, Keary
said. Sexual assault can range from
rape to a person giving an inap-
propriate look to another, which
makes it difficult to define legal-
ly. However, he said that domes-
tic violence has a more straight-
forward definition. According
to the Kansas
Legi sl at ure,
domestic vio-
lence is when
s o m e o n e
intentionally
causes harm
to a fam-
ily or house-
hold member
against the
family mem-
bers will.
But, Fullerton said that physi-
cal abuse is not the most com-
mon form of abuse. Abuse doesnt
usually start out with physical
violence; it usually starts with
economic, emotional and spiri-
tual abuse. The early signs of a
controlling relationship include
rapid attachment, mood swings
and emotional abuse.
Fullerton said younger women
are more likely to be victims of
violence because they date often,
which causes them to be exposed
to many types of people. Batterers
are attracted to someone they can
easily control.
Its sort of ripe for abusive
relationships come out of that,
Fullerton said.
Both women and men can
prevent these
incidents from
h a p p e n i ng .
Its important
to recognize
the signs of
an unhealthy
rel at i onship,
und e r s t a nd
what it means
to be in a
healthy rela-
tionship, recognize what early
power control looks like and
learn how to be supportive of
people who are in this situation.
Students can get help. The
Willow Domestic Violence
Center focuses on shelter, help
and hope. The Willow offers a
24-hour crisis hotline, emergency
shelter, advocacy services, court
advocates and support groups.
The victims of domestic violence
will never be held accountable
for their batterers behavior,
Fullerton said.
Were here for you, were here
to support you and were doing
things to stop this from happen-
ing to other people.
October is Domestic Violence
Awareness Month. To further
promote awareness, The Willow
Domestic Violence Center will
host a Rally at Wescoe on Oct.
1. Students can visit The Willows
website at www.willowdvcenter.
org to learn more about events
throughout the month. If a stu-
dent needs help, he or she can
call The Willow 24-hour crisis
line at 785-843-3333.
Edited by Abby Davenport
Girl Power
Ben Pirotte/KANSAN
Members of the Commission on the Status of Women, (fromleft) Amanda Allison, PrairieVillage senior; Meredith Pavicic, Leawood junior; Haley Miller, Kingman sophomore and Kelly Bogdan, Overland
Park senior, informstudents about healthy sexuality and relationships Thursday. Students who visited the booth outsideWescoe Hall could also sign a petition to end theTitleV Abstinence Education
Program.
Settled: hot, greasy
mess of a lawsuit
ALeXANdriA, Va. A man
has settled his lawsuit against a
Mcdonalds restaurant that alleg-
edly served him a sandwich that
exploded with hot grease.
in 2005 when frank Sutton
ordered a fried chicken sandwich
at a Mcdonalds in dufeld, Va,
he said he sufered burns to his
mouth and lips when it spewed
scalding grease after he bit into it.
Associated Press
ODD NEWS
AWARENESS (continued from 1a)
We live in a very violent
culture. We think of
America as a very safe
place, but its not.
AudrA fuLLertON
director at the Willow
Sexual assault is a catch-
all phrase used by people
who dont really know
what to call it.
CHriS KeAry
Ku assistant chief of police
ORGANIzATIONS
Club hosts CPR
training class
Jessica Janasz/KANSAN
Graduate student Damon Mar, fromLawrence, tests a piece of a human spine replica for move-
ment onWednesday in Learned Hall. The spinal research is part of a nearly fnished project that
has been funded and worked on for eight years.
SPiNE (continued from 1a)
4A / ENTERTAINMENT / FridAy, September 24, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / kAnSAn.com
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most
challenging.
HoRoScopES
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 5
today you manage best by
following your outline. dont
deviate. Willpower is the single
most valuable quality in your
toolkit.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 5
other peoples comments are
not as straightforward as they
frst appeared. Utilize research
tools to clarify questionable
points.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 5
take your happiness out and
show it of at a social event.
reveal an engagement or other
steps towards personal com-
mitment.
cANcER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 6
to make this the best day so
far this week, spend time in an
exotic location, even if its just
around the corner. your partner
helps you discover balance.
LEo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 7
todays luck comes in the
form of awareness. balanced
between magic and logic, you
choose whichever satisfes your
heartsong. then do the practi-
cal work.
VIRGo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
your personal sense of respon-
sibility seems to interfere with
the desires of others. recon-
sider your intentions before
drawing a line in the sand.
LIbRA (Sept. 23-oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Use all your intellectual talents
and skills to manage a power
struggle at work. Avoid getting
in the middle between two
emotional volcanos.
ScoRpIo (oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
As you learn secrets, bring them
into the open and request oth-
ers to explain. that way each
person presents their side and
gets heard. Listen.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21)
Today is a 5
to fnish work on time, follow
your intuition. A shortcut saves
everyone a lot of energy. Spend
a little extra to save days of
work.
cApRIcoRN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 6
today you arrive at a point
where your responsibilities
overtake your optimism. dont
lose faith. youll get through this
just fne.
AqUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 6
take time to contemplate your
next action, even if it means
closing the door to prevent
interruption. this way you meet
your own needs.
pIScES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
Let someone else take charge
of everything you can possibly
delegate. this leaves you time
to handle unexpected sur-
prises. you may have a few.
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bEYoND THE GRAVE
MoVIES
Documentary hopes
for educational reform
Mcclatchy-tribune
LOS ANGELES In his previ-
ous Oscar-winning documentary,
filmmaker Davis Guggenheim
handled Al Gore, manmade cli-
mate change and imminent global
peril.
This time, hes really grabbing
something hot: education reform.
In Waiting for Superman,
Guggenheim vies to do for educa-
tion reform what An Inconvenient
Truth did for global warming:
raise awareness, make people care
and push toward a solution. But
this latest docu-editorial will divide
some of his biggest fans.
With the global-warming film,
carbon dioxide and its producers
made convenient, relatively non-
controversial targets for the films
core audience and among the direc-
tors Democratic Party friends. This
time, the pervasive, harmful force
he depicts is teacher unions, which
have driven Democratic education
policy for decades.
This idea is succinctly expressed
in the movie by Newsweek com-
mentator Jonathan Alter.
Its very, very important to hold
two contradictory ideas in your
head at the same time, Alter says
in the film. Teachers are great, a
national treasure. Teachers unions
are, generally speaking, a menace
and an impediment to reform.
The quality of public education
has become a charged topic of late
and, in various iterations, Alters
point is sounded in other educa-
tion documentaries released this
year, including The Cartel, writ-
ten and directed by Bob Bowdon,
and The Lottery, by director
Madeleine Sackler and cinematog-
rapher Wolfgang Held.
Paramount Pictures Waiting
for Superman portrays five stu-
dents from around the country, and
their parents efforts to gain admis-
sion into a charter school: Four are
minority stu-
dents seeking
to flee or avoid
lousy, tradi-
tional, urban
public schools;
one white girl
wants to escape
a mediocre
suburban high
school that isnt
adequately pre-
paring her for
college.
Over ahi
tuna salads at a downtown L.A.
cafe, an earnest Guggenheim said
his goal is to spread responsibility
among all the adults for pervasive
problems in education. He includes
himself, a parent who drives past
three public schools on the way to
his childrens private school.
Im tough on the Democratic
Party, he said. Im tough on the
centralized system of bureaucrats.
And the lip service you get from
all politicians. And Im tough on
the unions.
He also concedes: The union
thing ... screams the loudest in the
movie.
With solid writing, strong sto-
rytelling, persuasive graphics and
clever animation, Guggenheim
portrays how difficult it is to fire
a bad teacher, how resistant unions
are to reforms and how the dance
of the lemons allows ineffective
teachers to move from school to
school.
He portrays Randi Weingarten,
head of the American Federation
of Teachers, as a bulwark against
reform, an interesting choice given
that some union stalwarts worry
that Weingarten has given away
the store to anti-union reformers.
Weingarten has
worked with
both Republican
Mayor Michael
Bloomberg in
New York City
and the Obama
a d mi n i s t r a -
tion. Shes also
e n c o u r a g e d
her locals to
make standard-
ized test scores
part of teacher
e v a l ua t i ons ,
something unthinkable for a union
leader not long ago.
In public forums, Weingarten
has characterized the film as a pow-
erful, well-intentioned narrative
that ultimately misleads in myriad
ways. For one thing, she said, it
overlooks research suggesting that
charters, some of which have sub-
stantial philanthropic support, are
performing no better than tradi-
tional schools overall.
All the players in the education
reform wars tend to cite research
that aligns with their views.
In an interview, Weingarten
said she wonders why every desir-
able school in the film is a charter
school. Charters are publicly fund-
ed free schools but privately owned
and independently operated. Most
are nonunion.
MoVIES
Facebook movie
may hurt image
Teachers are great,
a national treasure.
Teachers unions are,
generally speaking,
a menace and an
impediment to reform.
JonAthAn ALter
newsweek commentator
Mcclatchy-tribune
PALO ALTO, Calif. The
company Mark Zuckerberg
founded in his Harvard dorm
room six years ago was built on
the idea that people would want
to share personal information
even very personal information
on the Web.
Yet the 26-year-old self-made
billionaire has managed to
keep a low public profile even
as Facebook Inc. shot to star-
dom in Silicon Valley, catapult-
ing Zuckerberg past Apples Steve
Jobs to become the worlds 35th-
richest American on the latest
Forbes list.
That is about to change. The
Social Network, from director
David Fincher and writer Aaron
Sorkin, about the messy and con-
tentious founding of Facebook, is
making its debut at the New York
Film Festival on Friday, and the
world will soon know a lot more
about Zuckerberg or at least
Hollywoods version of him.
The movie, with the provoca-
tive tagline You dont get to 500
million friends without making
a few enemies, is an unflatter-
ing portrait focusing on the legal
clashes between Zuckerberg and
Harvard classmates over who
should get credit for the social
networking phenomenon.
Worried that the film could
damage Zuckerbergs image,
Facebook executives pressed
the filmmakers for changes they
did not get. Now the company
often criticized for being too
cavalier with the intimate details
of other peoples lives is brac-
ing for a movie that casts its chief
executive as a scheming backstab-
ber accused of stealing the idea
for Facebook.
If this movie becomes big, a
lot of people will be exposed to
a side of Mark Zuckerberg that
wont reflect positively on privacy
issues on Facebook, said senior
analyst Augie Ray, who follows
social networking companies for
Forrester Research.
Neither Zuckerberg nor his
close associates cooperated with
the Sony Pictures film set for wide
release Oct. 1. That has raised
thorny questions about how
much artistic license filmmakers
should take in telling the story of
an ambitious entrepreneur who
gave birth to an Internet sensa-
tion while still a teenager.
The film is at its most fic-
tional in its portrayal of Mark,
Facebook investor and board
member Peter Thiel said. Its
a pretty good portrayal of how
business gets done in Hollywood,
but not how business gets done in
Silicon Valley.
The filmmakers say they set out
to capture a generation-defining
moment, weaving a story from
several different points of view
over the founding of Facebook.
I would not want a movie
made when I am 26 years old
about decisions I made when I
was a 19-year-old kid. I am very
sympathetic, producer Scott
Rudin said.
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NEVER LET ME GO
I
magine a time perhaps five
years from now, when many
of you will have careers and
a family that depends on you
for financial stability. You are
living a comfortable life and
working for the future, when a
nasty recession hits and all of a
sudden you lose your job. You
go on unemployment, but it
doesnt last. What do you do
when it runs out?
Many of your parents are
in this position. If you havent
experienced it firsthand, you
have at least likely known
someone whose life has been
altered, slightly or radically,
by the loss of a job in your
immediate family.
As of June, the U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics reports that
Kansas unemployment rate is
6.5 percent, which translates
into about 183,000 residents.
It seems that the state has it
relatively easy when considering
that just across the border, my
home state of Missouri has a
9.2 percent rate, while for the
United States as a whole its 9.6
percent. Thats a whole lot of
unemployed people, and many
of them must fight daily to keep
food on the table and a sense
of hope within themselves after
the unemployment checks stop
coming in the mail.
As a country, we need an
extension of unemployment
insurance benefits, and there
is currently a solution waiting
in the Senate. According
to OpenCongress.org, the
Americans Want to Work
Act would add a fifth tier
of unemployment insurance
benefits in states with
unemployment rates above 7.5
percent, adding an additional
20 weeks of benefits payments.
It would also create more
incentives for businesses to hire
unemployed workers.
If the thought of so many
millions of American adults and
children facing a daily struggle
to exist, much less thrive, is not
enough to make you pick up the
phone and call your senators,
then consider the economic
implications of extending
unemployment.
Extending unemployment
benefits stimulates the economy
in a disarmingly simple process.
When a person is out of a job,
his or her household experiences
a considerable decline in the
amount of money they have to
spend in relation to their normal
spending habits. Because of this,
when unemployment benefits
are offered the household is
likely to spend a high percentage
of this money, almost always
on basic consumer necessities
such as food and housing.
The unemployment insurance
benefits go directly back into the
economy. This line of reasoning
leads the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities to conclude that
unemployment insurance is a
particularly effective stimulus.
So call your senators, tell
them you want a vote on this
important bill. If youre from
Kansas, tell Pat Roberts and
Sam Brownback to get their acts
together and begin prioritizing
the needs of actual people,
rather than playing political
games and making a big fuss
about the all of a sudden crucial
national debt.
Calling your senators and
representatives does make a
difference. Even Lady Gaga
knows this thats why shes
telling her considerable fan
base to call up Washington
and ask for a repeal of Dont
Ask, Dont Tell (which, by
the way, you should also do).
You will probably not speak
directly to your senator, but the
staff member taking your call
tabulates how many constituents
call and what stance each has.
You can help change the lives of
millions for the better.
Free is a sophomore from
Blue Springs, Mo., in womens
studies.
H
eres your frst warning:
Im going to make a lot of
sweeping generalizations
in this column.
I suspect that frst statement
might entice some of the contrary
(I mean this in a fattering way
including myself in that audience)
among you to read further, so
heres my second warning: Im
going to be talking about my
sweeping generalizations good
and bad about journalists.
Journalists like to talk.
Journalists also like to listen. Good
journalists learn eventually to
listen more than they talk. Tis
very rarely comes naturally.
Journalists like confict.
Journalists like controversy,
scandal, downfall; indeed, the
rush of news coverage is almost
always related to the challenge of
quickly processing information
about someone elses hardship.
Journalists enjoy knowing things
other people do not.
As someone interested and
involved in media, I have always
had an amused fascination with
the way the collective media
conscience perpetuates stereotypes
of itself. Te archetypal image of
the prodding busybody stirring
up trouble shows up not just in
countless movies and the like,
but also in various forms of news
media itself. I think this is because
heres one last possibly negative
generality we journalists like
this reputation.
But heres where I get to
the good part. Bear with me, I
promise it gets better.
Journalists are all these things
listed above because we really like
people. And because we really like
people, we really care deeply for
people.
Te Kansan campus media staf
this semester, as a selection of
budding journalists, is likely the
most diverse of any of the many
semesters I have worked with.
We come from many diferent
parts of the country (with many
of us having lived across the
world), from many diferent
socioeconomic backgrounds,
from diferent religions, diferent
ethnicities, even, despite our
college setting, many diferent
ages.
But and forgive me now if
this is too fundamentally hokey
and sentimental what really
brings us together is that were all
journalists. And as journalists,
were bound by a common care for
our communities. Were gossipy
newshounds, believe it or not,
because we love people and we
want to serve them.
Unfortunately, though, what
frequently stands in the way of us
better serving our communities
through information is the
difculty of getting constructive
feedback from the people we serve.
In short, we need you to help us
serve you better.
Im proud to say that I have
gotten a lot of this feedback so far
this semester, and I want to make
an open and public commitment
to working hard to respond to
this feedback. I want to thank our
readers for making their voices
heard, and I want to encourage
even more readers to come
forward with their suggestions. In
short, I want to listen more than
I talk.
To get in touch with me, you
can always e-mail me at editor@
kansan.com or through my
personal e-mail, agarrison@
kansan.com. You can also fnd me
in the newsroom 2000 Dole
Human Development Center
for open ofce hours from noon to
5 p.m. every Friday.
I think journalists are good
people. Te journalists I get the
extreme pleasure of working
with on the Kansan are, at least.
Expressing your views on our
journalism with us can help us
become better journalists and,
together as a community of KU
students, we can all become better
people.
Garrison is the editor-in-chief
of The Kansan and a senior
from Kansas City, Kan., in
journalism and Arabic and
Islamic studies.
Making the switch to being a
vegan someone who does not
consume or use any products that
contain animal products is un-
doubtedly a huge lifestyle change,
and an admirable one at that.
Walking by those big tubs of ice
cream, leaving the gooey cheese
of your sandwich and skipping
the omelet bar line can be dif-
cult, and making the change takes
some extreme dedication.
Even all these measures may
not be enough. Animal products
are lurking in the most obscure
places, sneaking their way into
your foods, your beauty products,
and your clothing, even when you
thought you had escaped them
completely.
Ever heard of Amino L-
cysteine? Me neither, but its
creeping into your baked goods.
Its a product derived from animal
hair and feathers, and it can
be found in the ingredient lists
of bread and crackers. Breads
enriched with whey protein or
omega-3 fatty acids also dont fall
into the vegan-friendly category
since whey is a milk product and
omega-3s can contain fsh oil.
Scan your bread labels carefully
for these ingredients, but chances
are a bread with a laundry list of
chemicals shouldnt be entering
your stomach anyway.
One of the most ambiguous
categories of food where you
would never expect to fnd animal
products (with the exception of
milk chocolate) is candy. Marsh-
mallows and Jell-O both contain
gelatin, a product made from
animal bones. Any food or candy
containing lard (pie crusts, many
fried frozen foods, cookies, candy
and everything else dangerously
delicious) are a no-no; lard is pig
fat and thats defnitely not vegan.
Even some food coloring can
slip onto the prohibited list. Red
food coloring is generally made
from cochineal. If being vegan
doesnt deter you from eating this,
learning what cochineal actually
is will. Ready? Its a parasite native
to South America and Mexico.
Yes, it is made from insects and
that should be a food group
strictly confned to Fear Factor.
Hidden animal products dont
just creep into what you eat
they can be around your house,
too. First, any product that doesnt
have a label that says something
along the lines of, Tis product
was not tested on animals, most
likely was. Many soap products
are made with sodium tallowate,
which is just a fancy name for
animal fat.
If youre ever not sure of an in-
gredient in a product or a food, it
never hurts to do a quick Google
search before you buy anything.
Do your homework if you commit
yourself to the lifestyle of elimi-
nating animal products from your
life. Being a vegan isnt about de-
priving yourself of everything you
once loved, but rather exploring
new options and choices that suit
you and your new lifestyle too.
From UWIRE. The Daily
Campus at The University of
Connecticut
To contribute to Free For
All, visit Kansan.com or
call (785) 864-0500.
nnn
Is it acceptable to revisit my
childhood and watch Barney
sing-alongs?
nnn
I dont understand my
dentists need to schedule
appointments three months
out. I have no idea what
Im going to be doing three
months away from now,
but chances are its more
important than going to the
dentist.
nnn
Using the word bestie makes
you sound like a 13-year-old
girl.
nnn
Since were paying about
$4,000 a semester here, I dont
think its too much to ask for
to have bathroom tissue thats
thicker than won ton paper. I
am far too old to worry about
getting poop on my hand.

nnn
I think its safe to say I have at
least four cavities right now ...
Sad panda.

nnn
Anything unrelated to
elephants is irrelephant.
nnn
I cant tell you how satisfying
it is to cheat your way through
your last year of law school.
nnn
Smoke a J and Silly Bandz will
be for you too.
nnn
My teacher pulled out a BOX
of rectal dilators in class that
were bought on eBay and
previously loved ...
nnn
I realized that I do not have
any strong friendships with
people who use Macs. That is
proof Macs appeal to a specifc
range of people that I tend to
dislike.
nnn
I could eat this entire bowl of
confetti cake batter. Oh wait,
I am.
nnn
Im tired of people saying,
Sorry for partying. You
shouldnt be sorry for partying.
You should be sorry for being
a drunk idiot.
nnn
Why did I choose to take an
early class again?
nnn
My dad owes me $600. Lap
dances dont come cheap
anymore.
nnn
Its not academic misconduct,
its called academic teamwork.
nnn
Wear a Jimmy hat and save
the big cat condoms? Yes
please!
nnn
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Unemployment extentions
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uneMpLOyMenT
I dont think using $2-5 of student fee money to expand a
popular fast food eatery on campus is a victory for students.
Sounds kind of like a scam to me. With so many people
visiting the Underground getting pizza hut pizzas, ho-hum
sushi and Christ-fil-a sandwiches it really baffles me how the
Memorial Union Board doesnt make enough money to fund
this themselves. Is this the future of business? If you want to
expand, you need to take out a government subsidy, even if
you are making a healthy profit?
Sjschlag in response to Underground expansion a wor-
thy project on Sept. 15.
Nice editorial idea, but this barely even describes what
the actual issues at hand are, how much money is being taken
away, etc. The decision to cut funding has already happened
so what is the action you want taken? What do you expect
to happen?.
Douglasco in response to Health of high school jour-
nalism important to campus media on Sept. 21.
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New leaders consider the
future of Kansas Athletics
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR
smontemayor@kansan.com
The temporary chairman of
Kansas Athletics board of directors
sat by the interim athletics director
and offered sentiments no more set
in stone, albeit in jest.
Congratulations I think,
Jerry Bailey said to Sean Lester, who
is in his second week as interim
athletics director.
Tasked with
rethinking its
c ompos i t i on
and purpose,
the board main-
tained a light
mood in its
Thursday meet-
ing, despite the
existential ques-
tions hanging in
the balance.
Chancel l or
B e r n a d e t t e
Gray-Little told
the board that
outside repre-
sentation should
be considered,
as should the means of selecting
a permanent chairperson. The
boards role in reviewing personnel
and financial matters is also up for
revision.
Gray-Little removed the athletics
director as chairman of the board in
August and appointed Bailey, asso-
ciate professor of education, to the
position for the rest of the year.
The Chancellor recommended
adding one to two members to the
six-member board who are not
affiliated with
the University.
Kansas Board
of Regents
chairman Gary
Scherrer has
urged this
change.
Outside eyes
and outside per-
spectives are
healthy, Scherrer
said last week
after the regents
meeting.
Bailey researched how other
universities structured their athlet-
ics advisory boards, finding that
in most cases the university chief
executive officer typically a uni-
versitys chancellor or president
led the board. Gray-Little said this
was illogical to her.
She said she would consider
serving as chairwoman for the
board only if the boards members
were compelled to have her fill that
role. Otherwise, she said it didnt
make sense to have the chancellor
lead a board overseeing Athletics
when the athletics director already
reports to her.
The boards bylaws require it
to meet at least four times a year,
though members sug-
gested more corre-
spondence may be nec-
essary considering its
tasks this year.
The board agreed to
gather feedback on who
should serve as chair-
person in the future and
possible additions to its
structure. It agreed to
gather this information
by Oct. 14 and discuss
it in its next meeting in
early November.
The boards members include the
athletics director, provost, student
body president, vice provost for
Student Success, a faculty athletics
director and the Universitys chief
business and financial planning
officer.
Edited by Alex Tretbar
Engineering students win
top slots at jet conference
BY ALLYSON SHAW
ashaw@kansan.com
For the first time in the his-
tory of the Aviation, Technology,
Integration and Operations con-
ference, one university took the
top three spots. Three students at
the University of Kansas created
designs that won the university
those spots.
The conference was held by the
American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics last week in Fort
Worth, Texas. Competitors, such
as MIT, Stanford and Cal. Tech,
were asked to design a business
jet that had a large cabin, could
use relatively short runways and
fly farther.
The contest drew competitors
from 55 universities worldwide,
but KU students didnt have any-
thing to worry about because
they have won more awards for
aerospace engineering than any
university in the world. Ron
Barrett-Gonzalez, associate pro-
fessor of aerospace engineering,
said the competition was like the
Indianapolis 500 of aerospace
competitions.
The first-place winner, Lauren
Fitzpatrick, a 2010 graduate from
Stilwell, is the first black woman
to ever win this award. She used
an old design to build her model
aircraft.
Most business jets hold fuel in
a compartment under the plane
or in the tail cone, Fitzpatrick
said. But she used a fuel-storage
system called slipper tanks under
the wings of the aircraft. These
slipper tanks were last used in
the 1960s but were abandoned
because they created extra weight
and drag, Barrett-Gonzalez said.
Fitzpatrick also used the slipper
tanks to store the main landing
gear to make up for the slipper
tanks problems.
Lauren is a student of history,
Barrett-Gonzalez said. She res-
urrected an idea, updated it and
improved it.
Fitzpatrick said this design
was safer than other storage fuel
options because in the event of a
crash in regular jets the passen-
gers are in the same space as the
fuel so theyd be incinerated.
NASA contacted Fitzpatrick
after her presentation to inquire
about her design.
I started with a blank sheet of
paper, and I finished with a win-
ning design, Fitzpatrick said. Its
such an honor.
Fitzpatrick and the runners-
up completed the project as part
of a senior design class for the
aerospace engineering program.
Sarah Kulhanek, a graduate stu-
dent from Deerfield, Ill., designed
the second-place plane.
She said her design was unique
because her plane was the same
size from end to end. Other busi-
ness jets are tapered like a Coke
bottle and you have to crouch to
get into them, she said. She said
their designs represented the next
phase in business jets. Kulhaneks
jet would cost $14 million to build
and operate.
This project was the integra-
tion of all our classes from fresh-
man to senior year, Kelhanek
said. Its most exciting that KU
swept the top three spots.
Barrett-Gonzalez said this proj-
ect was important for Kansas tax-
payers because aerospace is one of
the top two industries in the state.
More than two-thirds of airplanes
made in the Western Hemisphere
come from Kansas.
Competitions like these are
more important than the acco-
lades, Barrett-Gonzalez said.
Our program directly supports
one of the most important indus-
tries in our state.
Edited by David Cawthon
Howard Ting/KANSAN
Fromleft: Jerry Bailey, associate professor for the School of Education and chairman of the board of directors; Sean Lester, interimathletics director;
and Student Body President Michael Wade Smith discuss the agenda of the Athletics Advisory Board meeting at Wagnon Hall on Sept. 23.
Outside eyes and
outside perspectives
are healthy.
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kansas board of regents
chairman
Lester
bailey
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BASEBALL
BY MIKE VERNON
mvernon@kansan.com
The wind and rain in Lawrence
didnt stop this years Kansas base-
ball team from getting onto the field
for day one of practice.
Its absolutely gorgeous. Price
said. The players poured out of the
dugout and began sprinting to the
outfield as
Price said to
them, Lets go
to work. Its a
great day to be
a Jayhawk.
Fall balls 45
day practice
regimen has
begun, and yet
another sea-
son of Kansas
Baseball is on
the way.
This years
squad will have a different look to it
as the team has lost many important
seniors and the field has undergone
a facelift.
Still, senior outfielder Jimmy
Waters could not hide his excite-
ment to get back onto the field.
Its an exciting time just with a
lot of new faces with the team to go
along with the stuff theyve done to
the field, Waters said.
Hoglund Ballpark is now boast-
ing brand new $1.2 million turf that
will put the cleats of the Jayhawks
on some of the
nicest ground in
baseball.
Its probably
the finest play-
ing surface in
the country right
now, coach Rich
Price said.
Gone are the
days of funky
hops that make
infielders cringe
and coaches nau-
seous. The new
surface is supposed to hold the ball
true, and make things much easier
across the infield.
It should make an average
infielder really good. The reality of
it is there are no bad hops, coach
Price said.
Having such a state of the art
field does put more pressure on
the infielders. Its a perfect playing
surface. There are no excuses. If you
kick the ball, its all on you, Price
said as he cracked a wry smile.
As for the team, Kansas looks
very young, but
they still have
an array of tal-
ent. The team
lost its second,
third and fourth
hitters in the
lineup. A lot of
the positions are
open, and the
42 days of fall
ball are where
players look to
solidify their positions on the team.
Everybody is focused on how
they are going to get better indi-
vidually, and when they do that, the
whole team comes along, Waters
said. Hopefully I can come out here
every day and improve.
This years team is in a unique
situation as they had seven players
drafted and six of them signed. We
basically have turned over almost
three quarters of our roster, Price
said. We have talent; were just
really young.
Pitching for Kansas will be as big
of a question mark as any. Senior
Pitcher T.J.
Walz leads the
rotation as the
returning KU
Pitcher of the
Year.
The pitch-
ing staff for
Kansas last year
was ravaged by
injuries, and as
a result, consis-
tency was a seri-
ous issue for the them. Walz hopes
the team can fix that this season.
We need to have a killer-instinct
attitude and also just throw more
strikes, he said.
The youth of the Jayhawks wont
change their expectations as they
look to come out onto the field and
take care of business. The goal has
got be to win a Big 12 champion-
ship, said Waters.
Edited by Abby Davenport
comes from their special teams
unit, which allowed a blocked
punt, kicked a ball out of bounds
on a kickoff and over-snapped
an extra point attempt, all in one
game last Friday against Southern
Miss.
Senior punter Alonso Rojas said
he believes the Jayhawks special
teams woes are self-inflicted and
correctable.
I dont want to take away any
credit from the other teams, Rojas
said. Theyre executing what
theyre taught to do. On our part,
its little things. Its the miscues.
Well get it fixed; its nothing that
cant be fixed. I have faith in all of
my teammates. I know that they
have my back and I dont need to
think about it. Just keep execut-
ing.
The Kansas offense will have to
work around Aggies senior corner-
back Davon House, one of the top
pass defenders in the nation during
the last three years. In his career,
House has 39 pass break-ups, 156
tackles and nine interceptions.
House should test freshman
Jordan Webb, but ball security has
not been an issue for the Jayhawk
quarterback thus far. The matchup
with House should be key in the
progression of Webb as a player.
He definitely puts it in a place
that we can go up and make a play
on the ball, said sophomore wide
receiver Bradley McDougald. A lot
of quarterbacks throw it to a place
that makes it easy for the defender
to make a play, but he puts it in a
place that usually only his receivers
can go get it or hes going to locate
it for us down field.
Edited by Lisa Curran
Season begins with some new faces and a new feld
Its an exciting time just
with a lot of new faces
with the team to go along
with the stuf theyve
done to the feld.
JIMMY wATERS
Senior outfelder
Its a perfect playing
surface, there are no
excuses...
RICh PRICE
KU baseball coach
Team starts first practice of the year with a Big 12 championship in mind
Chris Neal/KANSAN
Freshman infelder Ka'iana Eldridge runs through drills Thursday afternoon during the frst
practice of the season. This was the teams frst practice on the newturf.
MLB
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blue Jays' bautista
hits 50 home runs
TORONTO On a day of
milestone hits, Jose Bautistas big
shot won the game.
Bautista hit his major league-
leading 50th home run, con-
necting of Felix hernandez and
sending the Toronto Blue Jays
over the Seattle Mariners 1-0 on
Thursday.
Seattles Ichiro Suzuki also
became the frst player with 10
straight 200-hit seasons, breaking
his own record with a ffth-inning
single.
we got to see some things
happen today that Ive never
seen before, Blue Jays manager
Cito Gaston said. Its a day Ill
always remember.
Bautista became the 26th
player in baseball history to reach
the 50-home run mark with a
frst-inning drive of hernandez
(12-12).
Its really a big honor to be
put in that elite group of hitters,
Bautista said. To tell you the
truth, I really havent let it sink
in yet, I havent thought about it
too much. Once I do that, then
Ill probably have more feelings
to describe. Right now Im really
honored and happy.
All 50 of Bautistas homers have
been to left or left center. he
exchanged hugs and fst bumps
with his teammates before trying
to get the attention of his par-
ents, who were in the crowd.
I tried to wave at them,
Bautista said. Everybody was
standing up so I dont think they
could see me.

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BY JACKSON DELAY
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There will be no easing into
conference play for the Jayhawks,
as their first Big 12 test comes at
the hands of Missouri, the defend-
ing Big 12 champions, at 6:30
tonight.
This will be the first time since
1999 that Kansas has opened Big
12 play against Missouri. Although
Kansas usually plays Missouri
closer to the end of the season,
coach Mark Francis said that the
team is ready.
Missouri is currently 2-4-2
and was picked to finish third in
the Big 12 preseason poll, while
Kansas was picked to finish eighth.
During Francis time at Kansas,
the team has had an 8-6-1 record
against Missouri.
Francis said the Missouri team
is athletic and physical, with an
average of just less than 15 fouls
per game.
However, senior midfielder Erin
Ellefson said this is nothing unlike
past matchups.
Kansas versus Missouri is
always physical, Ellefson said.
Francis said his team has been
through highly physical matchups
before, which gives him confi-
dence for the Missouri game.
I think we will be ready,
Francis said.
The game will match the
Jayhawks against some of the con-
ferences top players, including
Missouris leading scorer, forward
Alysha Bonnick. Bonnick is the
best offensive threat for Missouri,
netting five goals throughout this
seasons eight games.
Francis noted that Bonnick is
a big time player and he said that
the Jayhawks would have to play
good one-on-one defense against
her.
The game also comes with
the high stakes of competition,
which Francis said should serve as
motivation.
Big game, big, big rivalry. If the
kids arent ready to play Friday,
they might as well pack it in and
go home, he said.
The players also have their own
reasons to stay motivated.
Ellefson, from Overland Park,
she said has had a lot of exposure
to the border rivalry.
Growing up in Kansas its
always KU versus MU, she said.
It means a lot to go out and
play for Kansas and represent our
school.
Ellefson also expects her team
to show up ready to play.
It is Kansas and Missouri so
everyone brings their A game. Its
a battle, she said.
Edited by Emily McCoy
SOccER
Border Showdown kick of
Kansas unforced errors
lead to a loss at Nebraska
KANSAS VS.
mIzzOU
DAY: friday
DATE: sept. 24
LOcATION: columbia, mo
TImE: 6:30 p.m.
Karlie Brown/KANSAN
Junior forward Kortney Clifton outpaces a Missouri State defender during a game last week. The
Jayhawks open Big 12 play this evening, facing of against Missouri in Columbia at 6:30 p.m.
KANSAS VS.
IOwA
DAY: sunday
DATE: sept. 26
LOcATION: Ames, iowa
TImE: 1 p.m.
BY IAN CummINgS
icummings@kansan.com
While the Jayhawks were
dropping a four-set match to the
Cornhuskers Wednesday night in
Lincoln, Neb., Colorado broke a
three-match losing streak by top-
pling Kansas State. Kansas will hit
the road again to play Colorado
in Boulder, Colo., on Saturday.
Kansas was off to a good start
when it won the opening frame
against Nebraska for the first
time in series history 25-21.
In her second start of the season,
junior setter Nicole Tate put up 15
assists in the first set, later reach-
ing a career high of 42. Senior
outside hitter Karina Garlington
scored four kills. Kansas best-
ed Nebraskas hitting efficiency
in that set with .243 over the
Cornhuskers .133, helped by
senior outside hitter Jenna Kaiser,
who racked up six kills with an
efficiency of .556.
From there, the Jayhawks
ran into trouble as their hitting
efficiency dropped off and the
Cornhuskers consistently stayed
on top. Freshman middle blocker
Caroline Jarmoc said Nebraskas
response was aggressive.
I feel like the other side just
stepped it up, Jarmoc said.
Kaiser said the team had pre-
pared for a tough match and felt
confident and disciplined at the
outset, but the last three sets were
problematic.
We ran into some unforced
hitting errors and blocking
errors, Kaiser said. Nebraska
just played really well.
Nebraska won the second,
third and fourth sets 25-13, 25-18
and 25-18, respectively. Kansas
made 30 attack errors in the
match, com-
pared with
Ne b r a s k a s
20. The
Cornhuskers
had no ser-
vice errors in
the match and
the Jayhawks
had three. On
the way back
to Lawrence,
coach Ray Bechard said the errors
were a big reason that Nebraska
took the match.
Thats too many, he said. But
I thought our passing was solid.
Garlington and Kaiser led the
Jayhawks with 11 kills apiece and
freshman libero Brianne Riley
topped all players in the match
with 18 digs.
It was the Cornhuskers 10th
straight win, improving their
record to 11-1 overall and 3-0 in
conference play. Kansas dropped
to 10-4 overall and 1-2 in confer-
ence play.
For Colorado, the five-set match
was its first victory in conference
play this season, and it leaves
them 4-5 overall. Sophomore
outside hitter Kerra Schroeder
recorded career-high numbers
across the board: a hitting effi-
ciency of .327,
24 kills and 12
digs. It was her
third double-
double of the
season. Two
middle block-
ers also scored
doubl e-di gi t
kills, as junior
Anicia Santos
and freshman
Nikki Lindow
contributed 15 and 11, respec-
tively. The Buffaloes also have a
group of freshmen in the back
row that made a difference in
the match against the Wildcats.
Freshmen liberos Megan
Beckwith and Elysse Richardson
each contributed 17 digs, and
freshman libero Hannah Walker
chipped in seven.
Edited by Alex Tretbar
KANSAS VS.
cOLORADO
DAY: saturday
DATE: sept. 25
LOcATION: boulder, co
TImE: 7:30 p.m.
Chris Bronson/KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Senior outside hitter Karina Garlington competes against Northern Iowa on Sept. 10 in Lawrence as part of the Kansas Invitational. The Jayhawks lost 3-2.
We ran into some un-
forced hitting errors and
blocking errors. Nebraska
just played really well.
JennA kAiser
senior outside hitter
VOLLEYBALL
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Football tailgate
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Crazy? Not in the sports world
Morning Brew
QUoTe oF THe DAY
At one point in your life, you
either have the thing you want or
the reasons why you dont.
Andy Roddick
FACT oF THe DAY
This is Kansas footballs 20th
straight television appearance.
Kansas Athletics
TriViA oF THe DAY
Q: When was the last time Kan-
sas had a losing record during its
non-conference schedule?
A: 1993 when the Jayhawks
were 1-3.
Kansas Athletics
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SPN has been pretty good about
coming up with clever commercials.
Its latest humorous ads use the
theme, Its not crazy. Its sports.
I particularly like the commercial that
opens with a group of jocks sitting around
a table, over-analyzing baseball statistics
for fantasy baseball. Then, some stereo-
typical nerds are seen walking up. Kids
with glasses, weirdly shaped bodies you
know, the type of kids who are always seen
getting a swirly in the movies. They stop,
call the jocks nerds, laugh and walk off.
The commercial finishes by saying, Its
not crazy. Its sports.
This motto definitely applies to the
sporting world. Just look around. A couple
of things jump to mind that are crazy, but
somehow happen because Its sports.
Most people would be happy to have
any type of job after spending 18 months
in jail. Michael Vick didnt just find any
job, he found a spot on the roster of a pro-
fessional football team.
Many scoffed at the Philadelphia
Eagles when they signed Vick and fig-
ured he wouldnt last that long, playing a
backup role to Donovan McNabb at best.
However, after the Eagles traded McNabb
during the offseason and Kevin Kolb was
injured in their first game, Vick had an
opportunity. He took that opportunity and
played so well that coach Andy Reid had
to give him the starting job. The former
first round pick has done his time and is
now back with a second chance to prove
himself.
Another ridiculous incident in sports
involves the Oregon State football team.
On Saturday, No. 24 Oregon State will
travel to No. 3 Boise State to take on the
Broncos on their infamous blue turf. But,
for once, the visiting team wont be awed
by the abnormal playing surface. Oregon
State painted its practice field blue this
week to get ready for the Boise State game.
This may seem foolish, but I dont blame
Oregon State for trying anything to prepa-
reto break Boises 56-game winning streak
at home.
My final example is one that most
people know about. A 40-year-old man
fake-retiring every year, only to skip train-
ing camp and still somehow start on an
NFL team is amazing. Whether you are a
Brett Favre fan or not, you have to admit
you dont see something like this very
often. I would like to see how Brett Favre
walks when he is 60 years old. By then he
will probably be tearing up the wheelchair
league with an insane passing rating. Favre
is a grandfather and a starting quarterback
in the NFL try to figure that one out.
My point in saying all this is that you
cant try to rationalize events that happen
in sports; they are too spontaneous and
sometimes defy common sense. So the
next time you see a mascot fight, or hear
of a player allegedly shooting himself in
the foot at a strip club, just remember: Its
not crazy. Its sports.
Edited by Dana Meredith
THiS weeK in
KANSAS ATHLETICS
SATUrDAY
Football
New Mexico State
K-Club Weekend
6 p.m.
Lawrence
Volleyball
Colorado
TBA
Boulder, Colo.
SUnDAY
Soccer
Iowa State
1 p.m.
Ames, Iowa
MonDAY
womens golf
2010 Marilynn Smith
Sunfower Invitational
All Day
Lawrence
Mens golf
Colorado Invitational
All Day
Erie, Colo.
Tennis
KU Tournament
All Day
Lawrence
TUeSDAY
Mens golf
Colorado Invitational
All Day
Erie, Colo.
womens golf
2010 Marilynn Smith
Sunfower Invitational
All Day
Lawrence
weDneSDAY
Softball
Baker
6 p.m.
Lawrence
Volleyball
Missouri
6:30 p.m.
Lawrence
ToDAY
By Jackson delay
jdelay@kansan.com
Swimming
Alumni Meet
4 p.m.
Lawrence
Soccer
Missouri
6:30 p.m.
Columbia, Mo.
Lester to be guest
on KJHK show today
Interim athletics director Sean
Lester will be a guest on Jayhawk
Happy Hour today on KJHK, 90.7
FM. The show, which runs from
6 to 7 p.m., is
hosted by Jay
Ingber, Peter
Knutson and
Matt Bauer.
Lester will
join the trio at
approximately
6:10 p.m. via
phone.
The group will discuss Lesters
role as interim director, his future
after that role and the Universitys
search for a permanent replace-
ment for Lew Perkins.
Fans are encouraged to call in
to the show at (785) 864-4044. The
hosts will relay the questions to
Lester.
TimDwyer
Team to sign items in
Hy-Vee Hawk Zone
The mens basketball team will
participate in pregame festivi-
ties Saturday at the Hy-Vee Hawk
Zone, which is south of Memorial
Stadium and east of the practice
felds.
The team will sign autographs
from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. The football
game is scheduled to kick of at 6
p.m.
The entire team will be present,
including all 12 returning letter
winners. Fans are asked to bring
just one item per person.
TimDwyer
ATHleTiCS
MenS BASKeTBAll
Lester
College FooTBAll
Rebuilt team shocked by recent loss
Mcclatchy-triBune
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas _
There was a time in the not-
so-distant past when handling
defeat was like rolling out of
bed to the Prairie View A&M
football team.
It was routine, rote, all too
regular.
Holders of the NCAA record
for consecutive losses at a mind-
boggling 80 from 1989 to 1998,
the Panthers did not post a win-
ning season from 1976 through
2006.
Yet there was nothing been-
there, done-that about their lat-
est loss.
A last-minute 47-yard field
goal by Alabama State resulted in
an 18-15 defeat Saturday in front
of a shocked crowd at Blackshear
Stadium. Walking off the field
with a 15-game Southwestern
Athletic Conference winning
streak in tatters, players sank
into an abyss of remorse and
pain.
This is awful, said senior
receiver Shaun Stephens. We
just dont do this.
Not anymore, anyway.
Rebuilt into one of the top
black college programs in the
nation, Prairie View A&M no
longer takes losing in stride.
The Panthers went 9-1 last
season and won the SWAC with
their only defeat a 21-18 non-
conference loss to New Mexico
State. Two seasons ago, they
also went 9-1, losing only to
Grambling State in the State
Fair Classic. Saturday, they will
return to the Cotton Bowl for
the State Fair Classic against
Grambling, which last year lost
to the Prairie View for the first
time since 1986.
Id forgotten what it was like
to handle a loss, and it really
did sort of
take all of us
by surprise,
P a n t h e r s
coach Henry
Frazier III
said Monday.
Our players
felt like it was
the end of the
world . . . and
its not. Thats
a lesson right
there that we
need to learn. We have a big
game this week, and we need to
learn how to bounce back and
how to respond to a loss.
Frazier could write a book
on lessons. Taking over in 2004
at Prairie View A&M, he has
changed not only the structure
of the program but the feel.
Bringing in coaches he knew
from Maryland, where he was
first a successful player at Bowie
State and then a successful
coach, he has constructed a staff
that simply gets the job done.
Prairie View, located north-
west of Houston, has historically
been a strong academic school
that produced engineers, teach-
ers and nurses. Once a power-
house in the 1950s and 60s, it
produced NFL Hall of Famers
Kenny Houston and Otis Taylor.
But things started to slip in
the 1970s and 80s, and the
school finally shut the program
down for a year in 1990 after
coach Haney
C a t c h i n g s
pleaded guilty to
expense report
fraud.
But instead of
rebuilding, the
football team
limped back
with no schol-
arships. The
Panthers were
outscored 617-
48 that first sea-
son back, which included a 92-0
loss to Alabama State. A decade
later, coach Greg Johnson led
the team to a 14-12 win over
Langston to end the 80-game
losing streak and started the ball
rolling.
When Dr. George C. Wright
was named president in 2003,
he dedicated funding to shore
up outdated facilities and hired
Frazier away from Bowie State.
Slowly, things changed. In 2007,
the Panthers went 7-3 and lost
to Grambling, 17-14, at the State
Fair Classic.
I think we really felt the pride
of the program and understood
we could do anything, said
senior punter Pedro Ventura.
All of the coaches are very
positive and they push you to
believe, to have pride, to put the
work in. And we believe.
Quarterback K.J. Black trans-
ferred from Western Kentucky
two years ago and said he doesnt
look at the past.
We do have high expecta-
tions, but we think weve earned
it, Black said. We want that
pressure to win every game,
because we know it will drive
us. As good as last year was, it
was last year. We have new goals
for this year.
Black missed the first two
games of the season with a knee
injury and is still shaking the
rust off. The defending SWAC
Offensive Player of the Year said
that with one conference loss
already, the pressure will inten-
sify.
Grambling is a great team
and we cant afford another
loss, he said. We have to win.
No excuses.
Thats a sign that the pro-
gram is exactly where it needs
to be. When players pick up
the expectations and push each
other, thats when tradition and
consistency can take over.

Grambling is a great
team and we cant
aford another loss.
We have to win. No
excuses.
K.J. BLACK
Prairie View A&M quarterback
Cardinals kill Pirates
season-high streak
PITTSBURGH Albert Pujols hit
his 40th and 41st home runs and
Matt Holliday reached the 100-RBI
mark, leading the slumping St.
Louis Cardinals to a 9-2 victory
Thursday over the Pittsburgh
Pirates.
The Cardinals snapped a three-
game losing streak and won for
just the 13th time in 38 games
since Aug. 14, the last day they
were in frst place in the NL Cen-
tral.
St. Louis chances of defend-
ing its division title remain slim.
The Cardinals trail idle Cincinnati
by 7 games with only 10 games
left.
Pittsburgh had its season-high
fve-game winning streak come to
an end. The Pirates are one defeat
short of their frst 100-loss season
since 2001.
Pujols got three hits, drove in
three runs and scored three times.
Cardinals rookie Daniel Descalso
had four hits, including a double,
in his second major league start.
Holliday and Nick Stavinoha each
had two of the Cardinals 15 hits.
Jef Suppan (2-7) won for just
the second time in 13 starts this
season, allowing one run and four
hits in fve innings. Both of Sup-
pans victories have come against
the Pirates and he is 16-3 against
them in his career, including win-
ning his last nine decisions.
Brian Burres (3-4) was tagged
for four runs and six hits in 2 1-3
innings.
Associated Press
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BY KORY CARPENTER
kcarpenter@kansan.com
Monica Johannessen had to
adapt to college life a little differ-
ently than her teammates. When
the sophomore swimmer decided
to make the University of Kansas
her new home, her first trip to
Lawrence was a long journey. The
Haugesund, Norway native left
her family and friends behind for
a chance to study abroad and con-
tinue her swimming career.
Johannessen committed to the
Jayhawks without so much as a
recruiting visit to Lawrence. She
says the coaches, along with the
beautiful campus, made her deci-
sion easier.
I just talked to the coaches and
they made me really confident,
and I just went for it, she said.
During her freshman campaign
Johannessen placed in numerous
events while earning a spot on
the senior Norwegian National
team. That gave her opportuni-
ties to travel home to see family,
including her twin sister who also
swims.
Her favorite event is the 100
meter freestyle, where she boasts a
career best time of 49.93 seconds
and a first-place finish against
Nebraska last season. After fail-
ing to qualify for the NCAA
championships as a freshman,
Johannessen said she hopes her
sophomore campaign is different.
She had a qualifying time last year,
but the time was set in Norway,
not in America.
The time obviously didnt
transfer over to KU, but I feel like
I can make that time in Lawrence
this year, she said. My biggest
goal this season is to qualify for
the NCAA championships.
Being away from home pres-
ents challenges to Johannessen,
who has been thrown out of her
comfort zone while being in the
United States. She said her quali-
fying time from back home was
attributed to familiarity with her
long time teammates and twin
sister.
I had confidence back home,
Johannessen said. I was able to
swim with my sister as well, which
really helped me out. It was also
my first year of college so I was
still getting used to everything.
Another year in Lawrence
should help Johannessen gain
confidence, who last season
was a First Team Academic All-
American and was also named to
the Big 12 Commissioners Honor
Roll both semesters while study-
ing psychology.
After graduating from the
University, Johannessen plans on
returning home to Norway to con-
tinue her career with the National
Team.
Edited by David Cawthon
SportS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
I
m not going to say Im happy
to see Nebraska and Colorado
leave the Big 12. Thatd be
crazy.
Nebraska fans are always listed
among the most hospitable in
the country and, for my money,
Boulder is the best town in the Big
12. (If you havent been, picture
Lawrence with a mountainous
backdrop.)
The revenue that both schools
bring in especially now that
Bo Pelini has the Cornhuskers
competing for BCS berths again
will also be missed by whoever is
named athletics director, starting
June 30 next year, per Tuesdays
announcement.
Also, Turner Gill wont draw the
same lucky slate that helped Mark
Mangino to an Orange Bowl. If
he goes BCS bowling, itll be with
wins over the big guns of the
South Texas and Oklahoma are
on the schedule every year from
here out.
So no, Im not happy theyre
leaving. But, man, I am geeked for
basketball next year. I almost wish
I could be around one more year
to cover it for The Kansan.
With only 10 schools, the league
will go to a double round robin
schedule eighteen conference
games, with each team playing all
the others twice.
Texas twice. Baylor twice.
Maybe Bill Self can get his record
in Stillwater to .500 if he gets a
crack at his alma mater every year.
College basketball fans have
loved the Big East over the last
few years even though late
finishes have been cutting into
the beginning of Kansas games on
ESPN. Every week in the Big East
it seems like theres at least one
top-10 matchup and no games off.
It looks like the Big 12 (they
really need to get a new confer-
ence name, by the way), will be
in that upper echelon come the
2011-2012 season. This conference
has always been in the discussion
of which is the best in the country
for basketball. Drop the bottom
two teams in the league, and it just
may not be a discussion anymore.
There will obviously be bot-
tom feeders Im skeptical that
new coach Fred Hoiberg can turn
around Iowa State and Jeff Capel
wont keep getting top-tier talent
to Oklahoma if he keeps losing
but there will be seven, eight
or nine teams every year that are
in serious contention for NCAA
Tournament bids.
Last year, for example, accord-
ing to the RPI, there were eight
Big 12 teams that ranked above
the worst at-large team.
If they play each other twice,
thats 14 games that are eminently
losable for each one of those
teams. There wont be another
undefeated team in the Big 12
because there will be just too
much competition.
And that will make the games
all the sweeter.
Edited by Abby Davenport
BY Tim DwYER
tdwyer@kansan.com
DAY: Saturday
DATE: Sept. 25
LOCATION: Lawrence
TIME: 6 p.m.
TV: Fox College Sports
KANsAs Vs. NEw
MExICO sTATE
Day: Friday
Date: Sept. 24
Location: Lawrence
Time: 4 p.m.
ALUMNI MEET
Friday, SEPTEMBEr 24, 2010 www.kanSan.coM PaGE 10a
BY mATT GALLOwAY
mgalloway@kansan.com
twitter.com/themattgalloway
When the Kansas football team
takes the field Saturday against
New Mexico State, it will not be
looking to make history. It will be
looking to avoid it.
The Jayhawks (1-2) host the
Aggies (0-2) at 6 p.m. at Memorial
Stadium. A Kansas loss would
mean the teams first losing record
in non-conference play since 1993.
Right now it is the time to turn
it up, said senior defensive end
Jake Laptad. This week we have
to concentrate on ourselves and
get better every day. Last week was
a disappointment for us but this
week is a new week.
The matchup pits the two strug-
gling programs, both in rebuild-
ing mode, against each other for
the first time since 1991, when
the Jayhawks defeated the Aggies
54-14 in Lawrence.
Both programs come into the
game with very different problems.
For the Aggies it is a defense that
has allowed at least 40 points in
every game this season. While they
have yet to show it, their offense
has the potential to make up for
their frequent lapses on defense.
Obviously their strengths are
passing, Laptad said. They are
a big passing team so it will be a
big test for the front four, getting
pressure on the quarterback with
a four-man rush. It is a lot of stand
in the pocket. The quarterback gets
rid of the ball fast, so it will be up to
the defensive linemen to put pres-
sure on him.
Getting pressure on junior quar-
terback Matt Christian will be easi-
er said than done. The Aggies have
only allowed one sack this season
despite already recording 74 pass
attempts through two games.
For a Jayhawk defense that has
only three sacks under its belt, none
from its front four, the matchup
against the Aggies offensive line
could be a true test.
Defensively, I am looking for
them to play more physical and
to be more consistent with their
passion of the game, said coach
Turner Gill. Like they did with
Georgia Tech, we have to have
some more consistency game after
game, week after week and hope-
fully as we go along year after
year.
The Jayhawks problem area
COMMENTArY
Big 12 realignment
leaves mixed feelings
grOwINg pAINs
rebuilding Jayhawks look to rebound
Mike Gunnoe/KANSAN FILE pHoto
Junior linebacker Steven Johnson misses a tackle in the frst quarter against Southern Miss Friday. The Jayhawks lost the game and fell to 1-2 overall but are looking to bounce back against NewMexico State Saturday.
SEE football oN pAGE 7A
The team begins season with a 45-day practice schedule on the brand new $1.2 million turf.
Hoglund Ballpark gets a facelift
BASEBALL | 7A
swIMMINg & DIVINg
Norwegian returns for second year
Adam Buhler/KANSAN
Sophomore Monica Johannessen moved fromNorway to swimat the University. Last season she fnished frst against Nebraska in the 100 meter freestyle with a time of 49.93 seconds.

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