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    Ed schroer has had to deal with a very important transitional period partially without a dad. Construction for the 139-seat expansion to The Underground is tentatively scheduled to begin after classes let out this month. KU's alumnae are among those affected by the tragedy.

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    com volume 123 issue 151


    D
    AILY
    K
    ANSAN
    T
    HE
    U
    NIVERSITY
    The student voice since 1904
    tragedy in transition
    the story of three students sufering from the loss of a parent in college
    see tragedy on page 6a
    ed schroer holds the DVD case to a
    video he created to honor his late
    father, who died earlier this year.
    as a college student, schroer has
    had to deal with a very important
    transitional period partially without
    a dad.
    All contents, unless stated otherwise,
    2011 The University Daily Kansan
    Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8A
    Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4A
    Cryptoquips . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4A
    Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5A
    Sports. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . ..10A
    Sudoku. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4A
    WeaTHeR
    InDeX
    Forecasts by University students.
    For a complete detailed forecast for the week,
    see page 2A.
    Scattered Strong Storms
    85 65
    ToDay
    Dining
    adds on
    after
    classes
    campus
    In memorIam
    BY ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON
    amcnaughton@kansan.com
    Construction for the 139-seat
    expansion to The Underground is
    tentatively scheduled to begin after
    classes let out this month, according
    to KU Memorial Unions officials.
    David Mucci, the director of KU
    Memorial Unions, said the project
    is on track to begin shortly after
    commencement.
    Mucci said its just a matter of fin-
    ishing up some paperwork in order
    to break ground.
    The expansion to the congested
    area in The Underground, designed
    by third-year architecture stu-
    dent Whitney Jones, served as a
    major platform for Senate coali-
    tion KUniteds 2010 campaign. In
    a recent interview with the Kansan
    where former student leaders
    Michael Wade Smith and Megan
    Ritter reflected on their time in
    office, Smith said the expansion
    was one of the most noteworthy
    accomplishments of their term.
    When we were running a year
    ago, people were really excited
    about making that horrible space
    down there at lunch time a little bit
    easier to navigate, Smith, a senior
    from Goodland, said during the
    interview.
    May 5 was the construction bid
    see underground on page 8a
    speakIng up | 10a
    Mangino talks
    after lengthy
    silence
    After a year and a half,
    Mangino spoke to his
    hometown newspaper.
    caMpus | 3a
    grad students
    get ahead with
    social media
    Three grads provide
    social media solutions.
    Ben pirotte/kansan
    BY KELLY STrOdA
    kstroda@kansan.com
    As Chris Schaadt tore around the corner in
    his black Ford F-150, he saw police cars and ambulances
    lining the street at his home in Lenexa. Their lights were
    off.
    Schaadt sensed the magnitude of the situation when his
    dad called and said his mom had a medical emergency.
    He needed to come home immediately. Hed never heard
    his dad cry before.
    Schaadts mother, Dana, died Nov. 5, 2008, at age 40.
    An hour before this scene, Schaadts life was normal.
    An 18-year-old KU freshman at the time, he and his
    buddies were watching a movie in his Ellsworth Hall
    room and drinking beer. He had spent the day before
    with his mom. It was Election Day 2008 monumental
    because the first African-American president was elected
    but he remembers it for a different reason. It was the
    last time he would see his mom alive.
    Lindy Anderson was finishing a shift at
    Lawrence Athletic Club when a flurry of calls lit up
    her cell phone, several from her aunt. Thats when she
    learned her father was dead.
    Andersons father, Gary, died Oct. 5, 2009, at age 64.
    She felt especially alone when she drove home to
    Lenexa and walked into an empty house. Her parents
    had divorced years before and her mother and stepfather
    were away in Branson, Mo.
    Stricken with grief and facing midterm exams, she
    had another heavy burden she had never anticipated as
    a 19-year-old: She, the daughter, the kid, would arrange
    the funeral, tell family and friends, decide on the
    disposition of the body and hire an attorney to handle
    the estate.
    Ed Schroer walked into a Topeka hospital room
    to see nurses circling his dads body on a gurney. He
    had gotten news that his dads heart was failing and
    he needed to come home immediately. When he saw
    his father, his chest was badly bruised after nearly two
    hours of nurses performing chest compressions.
    Once a prominent lawyer in Topeka, Schroers father,
    Gene, died December 11, 2010, at age 83.
    After a year of his dad being in and out of the hospital,
    Schroer knew he would have to deal with his elderly
    dads death sooner than most children. That didnt make
    it easier when the call finally came from his mom.
    2A / NEWS / wednesdAY, mAY 11, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / kAnsAn.com
    QUOTE OF THE DAY
    while there is a lower class, I
    am in it; while there is a criminal
    element, I am of it; while there is a
    soul in prison, I am not free.
    Eugene V. Debs
    FACT OF THE DAY
    eugene V. debs made later
    presidential runs in 1908, 1912
    and 1920, the last of which was
    his most successful with nearly 1
    million votes.
    u-s-history.com
    WEDNESDAY
    May 11
    FRIDAY
    May 13
    SATURDAY
    May 14
    THURSDAY
    May 12
    SUNDAY
    May 15
    Whats going on?
    nFinals week
    TUESDAY
    May 17
    mONDAY
    May 16
    WEDNESDAY:
    cloudy skies, high of 83. winds from the south at 10-15 mph. Fifty percent
    chance of thunderstorms.
    WEDNESDAY NIgHT:
    Cloudy skies, low of 64. Winds from the southeast at 5-10 mph.
    Sixty percent chance of thunderstorms, some could be severe.
    THURSDAY:
    Thirty percent chance of lingering thunderstorms into the morning hours, but giv-
    ing way to clear skies in the afternoon. High near 80. south winds at 10-15 mph.
    Information fromforecasters Carisa Morgan and Regina Bird, KU atmospheric science students
    Weather forecast
    FRIDAY: High of 66. Fifty percent chance of rain. Low of 45.
    THURSDAY NIgHT:
    Clear skies will become cloudy as more rain moves into the area.
    Forty percentg chance of rain. Winds from the west at 10-15 mph.
    SATURDAY: High of 62 with partly cloudy skies. Low of 48.
    kJHkis the student voice inradio.
    eachday there is news, music,
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    check out kansan.comor kUJH-TV on knology of
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    youve read in todays kansan and other news.
    Updates fromthe newsroomair at noon, 1 p.m.,
    2 p.m., and 3 p.m. The student-produced news
    airs live at 4 p.m. and again at 5 p.m., 6 p.m., every
    monday through Friday. Also see kUJHs website at
    tv.ku.edu.
    ET CETERA
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    of kansas. The first copy is paid through the student activity fee.
    Additional copies of The kansan are 50 cents. subscriptions can
    be purchased at the kansan business office, 2051Adole Human
    development center, 1000 sunnyside dr., Lawrence, kan., 66045.
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    CONTACT US
    Tell us your news.
    contact nick Gerik, michael Holtz, kelly stroda,
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    nThe dole Institute of Politics will host a
    lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob
    woodward from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at the dole Institute
    of Politics. The event is free.
    n The kU Alumni Association will host a Grad Grill
    from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Adams Alumni center.
    nThe english department will host an honors and
    awards ceremony at 6:30 p.m. in the Ballroom of
    the kansas Union.
    nProfessor emeritus Ted Johnson will give a stop
    day walking tour of campus beginning at 9:30
    a.m. at the natural History museum. The event is
    free.
    nThe school of music will host a French
    horn recital for michael cooper as part of the
    student recital series. It will be at 7:30 p.m. at
    swarthout Recital Hall in murphy Hall.
    nFinals week begins.
    walking down the hill and
    leaving before the ceremony
    is a little like walking down the
    aisle and leaving before saying,
    I do.
    KANSAN.COM / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / wedNeSdAy, MAy 11, 2011 / NEWS / 3A
    Tech-savvy grads help businesses
    BY CHRIS HONG
    chong@kansan.com
    In 2010, Blake Lawrence, a
    University of Nebraska student from
    Overland Park, began an internship
    with a company in Lincoln, Neb.
    He was in charge of managing the
    companys social media presence.
    However, the company did not have
    a social media strategy. So, Lawrence
    built one.
    Lawrence created a model for that
    company which, according to him,
    helped generate over $500,000 in
    new leads. After he completed the
    internship, Lawrence hit the ground
    running.
    I realized I could take the same
    model and start a company with it,
    said Blake, who founded Hurrdat
    Social Media in August of 2010.
    HELp fRom A fRIEND
    Four months later, Lawrence
    enlisted the help of his high school
    friend and KU student Austin Brown.
    Brown, a senior from Overland Park,
    said hed been involved in finding
    new clients and managing relation-
    ships with them. He also said his
    concentration on entrepreneurship
    in the School of Business provided
    him with the necessary foundation
    to be involved in a young company.
    Right now as a start up, there
    really isnt a specific role, he said.
    We do everything.
    WHAT IS HURRDAT?
    Hurrdat, or heard dat, pro-
    vides social media solutions to busi-
    nesses. According to Brown, many
    businesses want to build their online
    presence, but arent quite sure where
    to start. Thats where Hurrdat comes
    in.
    We kind of step in and help busi-
    nesses who dont have the resources
    or the know-how to do their social
    media for them on their behalf, he
    said.
    Brown says their services include
    creating content, interacting with
    viewers and providing analytics
    that measure growth and audience
    feedback. The five-person company
    currently has 25 clients, with some
    located in the United Kingdom and
    Australia.
    Hurrdat recently started a
    new company, Hurrdat Athletes.
    Lawrence, a former football player at
    Nebraska, built relationships with his
    teammates that are helping his busi-
    ness grow. The new company helps
    athletes connect with companies that
    want them to represent their brand
    online. Prince Amukamara, a former
    Nebraska safety who was drafted this
    year by the New York Giants, is its
    most high-profile client.
    Lawrence said one of his advantag-
    es in the business was being young.
    Although a common problem for
    new companies is credibility, his gen-
    eration is often seen as competent
    when dealing with the Internet.
    Since social media is so new,
    we are useful and seen as credible,
    Lawrence said.
    INcREASE YoUR pRESENcE
    Brown offered a tip hes learned
    in the business for people looking to
    build their audience on social media
    networks: Add value to conversa-
    tions.
    Whether thats being funny or
    providing good information, provide
    value for anyone who is following
    you so they have a reason to follow
    you and get something out of the
    relationship, he said.
    EditedbySarahGregory
    Howrd Ting/KANSAN
    Hurrdat.comis a networking website managed by Austin Brown, a senior fromShawnee. Hurrdat Social Media was founded in August of 2010 by
    Browns business partner Blake Lawrence, a graduate of the University of Nebraska. The site is dedicated to providing small to medium-sized busi-
    nesses a newand exciting way to connect with their target markets.
    Engineering alumni
    to receive honor
    The School of engineering
    will honor three alumni dur-
    ing its annual distinguished
    engineering Service Award in
    a ceremony at 6 p.m. Thursday
    in the Kansas Ballroom of the
    Kansas Union.
    The ceremony is invitation-
    only but will include a sort of
    State of the Union address
    on the school from its dean,
    Stuart Bell, as well as honoring
    the infuential recipients
    engineering graduates Frank
    Gordon, Allyn Risley and Scott
    Smith.
    It is an honor to recognize
    these three great Jayhawk
    engineers for their outstand-
    ing career achievements, Bell
    wrote in a media release. They
    have all shown wonderful
    support to the KU School of
    engineering over the years.
    Gordon is a mechanical
    engineer who received his
    doctorate in 1971. He spent 38
    years in the civilian ranks of the
    Navy, where he worked in the
    applied science department
    at Space and Naval warfare
    Systems Command on projects
    including work on cold fusion,
    according to the release. Allyn
    Risley earned a bachelors in
    petroleum engineering in 1972
    and has worked for Conoco-
    Phillips since. Smith earned a
    masters in civil engineering in
    1981 and works for the Kansas
    City frm HNTB. He also serves
    on the School of engineerings
    advisory board.
    Alex Garrison
    cAmpUS
    cAmpUS
    Lawsuit from Wren
    death is dismissed
    A lawsuit against Sigma
    Alpha epsilon, 1308 west
    Campus Road, was settled in
    April and ofcially dismissed
    on Friday.
    Court records show district
    Judge Michael Malone dis-
    missed the case fled last year
    by Jay wren against several
    fraternity members as well
    as the local and national chap-
    ters of the fraternity where
    Jays 19-year-old son, fresh-
    man Jason wren, died from
    alcohol poisoning on March
    8, 2009.
    wren and SAe attorneys
    settled last month but have
    not given any information on
    the terms of the settlement.
    The dismissal came from a
    request by the attorneys but,
    again, no comment or further
    details were given.
    After his sons death, wren
    called for the fraternity to go
    dry and for tougher alcohol
    regulations on campus.
    Alex Garrison
    cAmpUS
    NATIoNAL
    MCClatCHY- tRIBuNe
    High gas prices have reignited
    a familiar debate about drilling off
    Californias coast, with everyone
    playing their usual part and the out-
    come pretty much predictable.
    Republicans urge energy inde-
    pendence. Democrats warn of
    coastal devastation. And while the
    House on Wednesday will approve
    an offshore drilling bill that includes
    part of California, the effort almost
    certainly will sputter out on the
    Senate side of Capitol Hill.
    With California gasoline pric-
    es averaging over $4.20 a gallon,
    Republicans can mobilize public
    resentment and distinguish them-
    selves from Democrats. The title
    of one of the bills being approved
    Wednesday clarifies the parti-
    san point: its called the Reversing
    President Obamas Offshore
    Moratorium Act.
    Democrats, in turn, are sending
    messages of their own to their envi-
    ronmentalist base. Rep. Lois Capps,
    a Democrat from Santa Barbara,
    Calif., charged that Republicans are
    removing all of the protections for
    the coast, while Democratic Sen.
    Barbara Boxer declared Republicans
    would jeopardize Californias ...
    coastal economy.
    Statewide, its the Democrats
    who may find the more sympa-
    thetic audience. Last July 59 per-
    cent of Californians surveyed by the
    Public Policy Institute of California
    opposed additional drilling. Thirty-
    six percent favored more drilling.
    Oil experts say, however, that
    there is ample excess production
    capacity to pump more oil, weak
    demand and low utilization rates at
    U.S. refineries. These factors point
    to a plentiful supply of oil.
    High gas prices lead to more drilling
    cAmpUS
    Air handling unit
    sets of fre alarms
    The KU endowment building
    on west Campus was evacuated
    around 9 last night after smoke
    from an air handling unit set of
    fre alarm, Sgt. John dietz of KU
    Public Safety Ofce said.
    dietz said broken bearings on
    the motor of the air handling unit
    used to circulate air through-
    out the building caused the
    smoke.
    Around 10 emergency vehicles
    responded to the alarm. No one
    was hurt and no damage was
    caused by the smoke, dietz said.
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    4A / ENTERTAINMENT / WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / kANSAN.coM
    ARIES (March 21-April 19)
    Today is a 7
    Gather with family to make plans. Theres
    a promise of more money coming in.
    Youre very persuasive now. Use what
    youve kept hidden to further long-term
    goals.
    TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
    Today is an 8
    keep putting your message out there.
    Guests contribute, and love comes from
    near and far. Prospects are excellent, and
    offers start pouring in. Its a great time
    for romance.
    GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
    Today is a 7
    Get all your responsibilities into your
    schedule. Study with an expert to learn
    faster. Abundance shows up at home.
    CANCER (June 22-July 22)
    Today is an 8
    News at work is good, and its a good
    time to deliver a message. Get coaching
    from a trusted mentor, and prepare a
    great presentation for success. The spot-
    light beckons.
    LEo (July 23-Aug. 22)
    Today is an 8
    You may feel strong temptation to spend
    on a whim, but consider it well. Your
    heads full of ways to make money, but
    dont spend it before its in your pocket.
    Practical work earns dividends.
    VIRGo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
    Today is a 6
    You can see clearly now, the rain is gone.
    Youre beginning to understand and are
    back in control. Nothing can stop you
    now that you believe in yourself. keep
    it up.
    LIbRA (Sept. 23-oct. 22)
    Today is a 6
    Youre getting compliments, even if the
    voice in your head doesnt want you to
    hear them. Pay attention anyway. You
    worked for them, and the acknowledg-
    ment is fair.
    SCoRpIo (oct. 23-Nov. 21)
    Today is a 6
    Get a financial deal in writing. You have
    the home court advantage; dont let it go
    to waste. Reduce or eliminate your debt
    from now until the end of June.
    SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
    Today is an 8
    Youve got more work coming in, and the
    place is energized. Folks are checking out
    your performance, so put aside distrac-
    tions and focus. It pays off.
    CApRICoRN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
    Today is a 7
    For about six weeks, competition will be
    fierce. Friends help you stay on the right
    track. Talk to them and listen intently. Do
    it all for love. keep your promises.
    AqUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
    Today is a 7
    Its all about collaboration today. Listen
    graciously. Be receptive, and respect
    your partner. New business opportunities
    appear when youre open to them.
    pISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
    Today is a 9
    Theres a new assignment coming in.
    Focus on the work that you most want
    to do. You find beauty right around the
    corner. Study with a partner. Experiment
    with color.
    HoRoSCopE
    10 is the easiest day, 0 the
    most challenging.
    MoNKEYzILLA
    Kevin Cook
    THE NExT pANEL
    Nick Sambaluk
    Third time is the
    charm for McCartney
    A publicist says Paul Mccart-
    ney is engaged to his girlfriend
    of nearly four years.
    Stuart Bell said Friday that
    recent media speculation over
    a proposal is true but declined
    to give further details on when
    and how the former Beatle
    asked New York socialite Nancy
    Shevell to marry him, saying
    only were all thrilled for him.
    The marriage will be Mccart-
    neys third; his frst wife, Linda,
    died of cancer in 1998 and the
    rocker divorced his second
    wife, Heather Mills, in 2008
    after a separation period.
    Mccartney and Shevell
    started seeing each other in
    Long Islands Hamptons area in
    late 2007.
    Associated Press
    MUSIC
    TELEVISIoN
    TELEVISIoN
    Palin daughter gets
    her own reality show
    TV stars vie for Oprahs crown
    By Mcclatchy- triBune
    Oprah Winfrey, the monarch of
    daytime television, tapes her final
    episode this month. For 25 years,
    Winfrey, avatar of the national
    psyche and high priestess of the
    self-empowerment movement,
    has ruled the daytime airwaves by
    inviting celebrities and statesmen
    to her couch for friendly tete-a-
    tetes watched by millions of loyal
    followers.
    Already, members of TVs roy-
    alty are plotting to seize Winfreys
    crown. Katie Couric is marshaling
    an insurgency. Anderson Cooper
    has staked a beachhead. Judith
    Sheindlin aka Judge Judy
    has built her own fortress with
    more than 6 million daily viewers.
    Ellen DeGeneres is carving out
    her niche as the queen of nice.
    Theres even an opening for a
    new jester of daytime as Regis
    Philbin who has logged more
    hours in front of the camera than
    any player in the realm and turns
    80 in August exits Live With
    Regis and Kelly.
    It could be years before any of
    the claimants emerge as Winfreys
    rightful heir if at all. Daytime
    television may never again give
    birth to an uber-personality
    like Winfrey. With hundreds of
    cable channels and thousands of
    Internet sites vying for peoples
    time, it is becoming ever harder
    for an individual to command a
    common audience of shared inter-
    ests and empathy.
    Its going to be very difficult, if
    not impossible, for someone to be
    as dominant as Oprah has been,
    said Bill Carroll, director of pro-
    gramming for Katz Media. When
    she came on the air, most cities
    had only two or three TV stations
    and cable penetration was rela-
    tively low. Many channels didnt
    exist.
    The turnover comes as soap
    operas once the chief form
    of escapism from the tedium of
    household chores for countless
    women are nearly washed up.
    When ABCs All My Children
    and One Life to Live end their
    runs next season, only four net-
    work soaps will remain on the air,
    compared with nearly a dozen a
    decade ago. At its peak in 1981,
    more than 14 million people
    watched General Hospital on
    ABC. Now, fewer than 3 million
    tune in daily.
    There is a transition going on
    in daytime television, and it is
    a generational change, said Ken
    Werner, president of Warner Bros.
    domestic television distribution.
    A wave of women flooding the
    workforce has been accompanied
    by a rise in the popularity of shows
    featuring women in charge of their
    lives and influencing others.
    Staple soap opera themes of
    women in jeopardy or navigating
    relationships has given way to role
    models such as Winfrey power-
    brokering presidential candidates
    on her show, upscale female pro-
    fessionals crossing swords on The
    View, and litigants submitting
    to justice dispensed by a stern
    68-year-old schoolmarm-in-a-
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    By Mcclatchy- triBune
    When John McCain talked
    about job creation back in 2008,
    he probably wasnt thinking about
    Bristol Palin.
    Still, the man who tapped Sarah
    Palin as his running mate three
    years ago could probably claim
    some credit for the apparently
    unstoppable career of the former
    Alaska governors 20-year-old
    daughter, whose latest gig, a 10-epi-
    sode reality show on A&Es Bio
    channel, was announced Monday.
    But then McCain might be just
    as happy to have been left out of
    the Bio statement, which hailed
    Palin as the most famous single
    mother in America (yes, even
    more famous than the ones on 16
    and Pregnant) and a national
    media darling.
    Prominently mentioned: Palins
    odds-defying, ratings record-
    breaking run on (ABCs) Dancing
    with the Stars.
    Not mentioned: Her mother,
    who has, after all, had her own
    reality show, TLCs Sarah Palins
    Alaska, in which Palin played her-
    self.
    Dont expect much mountain-
    climbing or deep-sea fishing in the
    so-far untitled Bio project, which
    has Palin and her son, Tripp, mov-
    ing to Los Angeles to work for a
    small charity in need that the
    network wont yet identify and
    to share a home with her fellow
    Dancing with the Stars contes-
    tant Kyle Massey and his actor
    brother, Christopher.
    Because, according to Bio, since
    Dancing, Palin and the brothers
    have become best friends.
    And as Paris Hilton and Nicole
    Richie taught us long ago, theres
    no better way to truly be BFFs than
    to do a TV show together. (Hiltons
    newest show, Oxygens The World
    According to Paris, will focus in
    part on her friendship with Charlie
    Sheens ex, Brooke Mueller.)
    Bio describes the show as fol-
    lowing Palin as she moves from
    Alaska to L.A.
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    summer travels
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    The libraries should add No couples
    to their quiet zone signs, as they can
    never resist talking to each other.
    Who wears a beanie when its 90
    degrees outside?
    WHY IS IT SO HOT OUT?!?
    Found an old paycheck while
    cleaning out my apartment; at least
    there was a reward for it.
    Defnition of senioritis: When your
    motivation to attend class is at an
    all-time low and your motivation to
    smoke pot is at an all-time high.
    Its so hot in my dorm room tonight,
    I cant even sleep. Good thing I have
    articles to read, fnals to study for...
    but most importantly a beautiful
    game I like to call The Sims 3.
    My brother just encouraged me to do
    a wet T-shirt contest to make money
    to pay for our cable bill. Wouldnt that
    mean hes trying to pimp me out?
    Youre the only person on Earth whom
    I would prefer being with than being
    single. That might sound sweet, but
    mostly everybody else just sucks.
    My motivation is like your sex
    problem: It just wont come. Ever.
    FFA kind of invented Twitter. Just
    sayin.
    Today my professor set a piece of
    paper on fre using a magnifying
    glass, and tomorrow we get to see
    who can throw a desk the farthest.
    Engineering is so fun.
    Accounting majors do it on top of
    the balance sheets.
    My fnals are worth 25, 25, 30, and 40
    percent of my grades, which equates
    to paying $766 to take four tests and
    have two stressful weeks of studying.
    If guns kill people, then I can blame
    mis-spelled words on my pencil.
    When your kneepits are sweating,
    you know its hot out.
    To steal ideas from one person is
    plagiarism; to steal from many is
    research.
    I went outside once. The graphics
    were alright, but the game play
    sucked!
    Happy couples, please stop rubbing
    it in that Im single. My mom already
    reminds me all of the time.
    Without bin Laden and the Lakers to
    hate on, I dont even know who I am
    anymore.
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    WednesdaY, MaY 11, 2011 PaGe 5a
    POLitiCs
    Pre-natal care is not a privilege; its a right
    Creative thinking can eliminate the
    waste from a night out with friends
    enVirOnMent
    I have a friend who claims that shes
    come up with a system for making a
    Chipotle burrito bowl last for four meals.
    Unfortunately for my waistline, my bowl
    is always empty before anyone else has
    even unwrapped a burrito. But, like my
    friend, I still take the bowl home with
    me. To be honest, I often take other
    peoples empty bowls home with me too
    because they are compostable.
    Chipotle, in all of its environmental
    genius, designed its packaging to be
    recycled and composted. The foil bur-
    rito wrappers can be recycled and the
    cups and bowls are paper, which can be
    composted. This is significant because
    recycling aluminum is 95 percent more
    efficient than sourcing brand new alu-
    minum and composting organic matter
    such as vegetation, paper and food scraps
    provides us with great soil for producing
    more food. If you take your cup and bowl
    home with you and add them to your
    compost pile, they will break down in a
    matter of weeks, leaving you with a little
    more dirt and your community with a
    little lighter landfill.
    Actually, many restaurants are starting
    to use compostable cups, which I think
    is great. Whats not so great is that these
    restaurants arent providing a compost
    disposal option and they arent doing
    anything to educate their customers
    about composting at home. Right now,
    the only way to dispose of these items
    in the restaurant is to throw them in the
    trash. This means that they will end up
    inside of a plastic bag, which will take 10
    to 20 years to decompose in a landfill. So
    whats the point?
    If the restaurants did a better job of
    educating customers about composting,
    maybe more people would cart their
    trash home with them like I do. However,
    this isnt the best system, since you are
    rarely going right home from eating fast
    food and this can easily lead to unintend-
    ed science projects in your car.
    As I write this, I have four bowls from
    Chipotle in my car from last nights din-
    ner with friends, and one of them is not
    empty. I know my car is going to smell
    for a few days and that my friends think
    Im a little crazy for bringing their trash
    home with me, but Im going to make
    soil for a fantastic garden, and I feel good
    about keeping our trash out of the land-
    fill. Now my friends know that the bowls
    are compostable. And now, so do you.
    `Handshy is a first year MBA student
    from Lawrence.
    by Raeanne HandsHy
    rhandshy@kansan.com
    In February 2011, Lady Gaga
    released her next hit, Born This Way,
    breaking iTunes records. In this song,
    the pop-bubblegum (or rock-bubble-
    gum?) sensation attributes biology to
    her bisexuality (hence, she was born
    [that] way) and intersects her Judeo-
    Christian beliefs with this attribution
    singing that A different lover is not a
    sin/ Believe capital H.I.M.
    On May 2, 2011, Rep. Steve Simon
    from Minnesota, in an attempt to per-
    suade his uncertain electorate to vote
    against a 2012 bill banning same-sex
    marriage in the state, asked, ...[i]f its
    true, that sexual orientation is innate,
    God-given... [h]ow many more gay
    people does God have to create before
    we ask ourselves whether or not God
    wants them around?
    Questions and claims regarding the
    origins of homosexuality are clearly still
    salient in our culture and politics, as
    neither social scientists nor scientists
    can prove one or the other, and people
    often use religious beliefs to give divine
    ethos to their assertions. Who cares,
    right? A lot of people, apparently.
    In studies conducted in 2005 and
    2008, Don Haider-Markel and Mark
    Joslyn, who happen to be professors of
    political science at the University, found
    significant correlations with beliefs
    about the origins of homosexuality and
    support for, or opposition to, gay civil
    rights. The authors conclude that, if a
    person believes homosexuality to be a
    choice or the result of environmental
    factors, he or she can predict a lack of
    support for pro-same-same policies
    from that person. Conversely, those who
    believe homosexuality to be the result of
    biological factors are much more likely
    to support gay rights. Explanations for
    this have to do with whether these urges
    can be controlled, and thus can change
    (opposition), or if the individual has no
    control (support) and cannot change.
    Independent research groups, such as
    Pew and Gallup, often ask the question,
    Do you believe homosexuality to be
    a choice? Given the political climate,
    its understandable for the researchers
    to word the question in such a way, but
    do people understand the implications
    of this wording? The questions assume
    being gay or lesbian is something to be
    researched and that other sexual orien-
    tations toward sex (because there are
    other things that make up our sexual
    orientations) are not, because there is
    no question as to the origins of hetero-
    sexuality, right?
    Homosexuality is a part of a persons
    orientation, and if you believe homosex-
    uality to be a choice, you are implying
    you believe sexual orientation toward
    sex to be a choice. You are also implying
    you believe other sexual orientations
    toward sex to be a choice, including
    bisexuality, heterosexuality, etc.
    I am not arguing whether sexual
    orientation is a choice (though the
    American Psychiatric Association and
    the American Psychological Association
    both agree its not). And Im not argu-
    ing that its the result of environmental
    factors or biology; it could very well be
    either or both.
    But when you are asked whether you
    believe homosexuality is a choice, ask
    yourself whether your sexual desires
    for another person are a choice. Think
    more broadly about orientation. Is your
    gayness or lesbianism a choice? Is your
    bisexuality a choice? Did you choose to
    be straight? Is it the environment? Or
    were you born [that] way?
    Castle is a junior from Stilwell in
    political science and human sexuality
    studies.
    CuLture
    If sexuality is a choice, then its a choice for all
    After celebrating our mothers on
    Sunday, we should take a good look at
    what our government is doing to pro-
    tect maternal health.
    Maternal mortality, the death of a
    woman due to complications in preg-
    nancy or childbirth, is primarily a
    problem in the developing world, but
    preventable deaths still occur in the
    U.S. The maternal mortality ratio is
    higher in the United States than in 49
    other countries. A nation that boasts
    such great technological advances in
    health care and such a high standard
    of living should not be a more danger-
    ous place for a woman to be pregnant
    than 25 percent of the worlds coun-
    tries.
    In the U.S., the maternal mortality
    rate among black women is almost
    four times the rate of white women.
    Amnesty International says that the
    obstacles some women face in obtain-
    ing adequate maternal health care
    in the U.S. include discrimination,
    language barriers and financial bar-
    riers. Race and poverty are obviously
    two major determinants of safety in
    pregnancy.
    Even though this is a prevalent
    issue, it often doesnt get the attention
    it deserves. This seems to follow the
    trend of mothers not being as appreci-
    ated as they should be until Mothers
    Day rolls aroundI think that many
    students would agree with that. It is
    time for us to make mothers a priority.
    Congress has become stagnant and
    unresponsive to the plight of pregnant
    women in our country. After failing
    to pass the Partnering to Improve
    Maternity Care Quality Act, our leg-
    islature now needs to make maternal
    health a priority. According to the
    Centers for Disease Control, many
    maternal deaths are preventable; it
    is unacceptable for Congress to con-
    tinue ignoring maternal health when
    improved care could be saving lives.
    Congress must pass the MOMS
    for the 21st Century Act, introduced
    by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, a
    Democrat from California. By increas-
    ing public awareness and focusing on
    the standards for medical practices
    and the diversity of the workforce, this
    bill would address many of the current
    problems with maternal health.
    A significant shift in focus is neces-
    sary for our legislators to make this
    important decision to assist mothers.
    In Kansas, the state government
    has passed some abortion regulations
    that seem to suggest that the health
    and well-being of mothers are not as
    important as playing politics. While
    some regulations are claimed to be in
    the interest of the health of the moth-
    ers, it is arguable that they effectively
    place political interests over maternal
    health interests.
    In particular, the new parental con-
    sent law will place a larger burden on
    pregnant minors who may in fact be
    seeking an abortion (pre-viability) for
    their own safety or the safety of the
    child. This new law would require the
    consent of both parents for the minor
    to obtain an abortion, not just one
    parent.
    In Planned Parenthood v. Casey,
    the Supreme Court held that a law
    requiring specifically one parents
    consent was constitutional as long as
    there was a judicial bypass option. The
    Supreme Court has not passed judg-
    ment on a law requiring both parents
    consent; however, it is my hope that
    the Supreme Court will see this as an
    unnecessary addition to the process
    that places an undue burden on the
    woman seeking the abortion. There is
    still a judicial bypass option, but this
    should only have to be considered
    if the woman cannot obtain consent
    from either parent, not if she can
    obtain one parents consent.
    Only two other states (of the 24 that
    have consent laws) require consent
    from both parents. Obviously, this
    statute is about anti-abortion poli-
    tics, not the health and welfare of the
    woman.
    If our state legislature is any indi-
    cation of some of the attitudes in
    Congress, representatives need to re-
    evaluate their mindset and their com-
    mitment to protecting mothers. One
    way to do that is to address the issue of
    maternal mortality with the mothers
    interests in mind, not politics.
    Kelly Cosby is a junior in English
    and political science from Overland
    Park. Follow her on Twitter @
    KellyCosby.
    by kelly cosby
    kcosby@kansan.com
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    dad fromher high school
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    and their dog on
    Election Day 2008.
    Schaadt was a
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    University in this
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    last photo Schaadt
    has of his mom
    before she died.
    Lindy
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    dads lap
    during a birthday
    celebration with his
    side of the family.
    Anderson , a junior
    from Lenexa, was
    4 years old in this
    photo.
    Ed Schroer
    and his dad
    sit in their kitchen
    afer having guests
    over for dinner.
    Schroer, a junior
    from Topeka, was
    4 years old in this
    photo.
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    Academic Achievement
    and Access Center

    For students who experience the
    death of a parent or another tragedy, there
    are services on campus to help them. Te
    Academic Achievement and Access Center
    on campus is available for students to contact
    when dealing with life-changing events.
    Mary Ann Rasnak, director of the
    Academic Achievement and Access Center,
    said contacting their ofce is helpful in several
    ways. If the student cannot contact their ofce
    directly, friends, relatives, residence assistants,
    housing directors or other people who are
    close with the student can contact their ofce.
    In the event of a family death, the
    Academic Achievement and Access Center can:
    Informfaculty of the situation and alert
    faculty that the student will not be in class
    Work with students to get back on track
    afer returning to classes
    Informstudents of counseling services
    available on campus and in Lawrence

    Rasnak said tragic events happen to
    students more ofen that one might think. Te
    University is essentially a town of about 30,000
    people, she said. If any other town of that size,
    a day wouldnt go by when someone wouldnt
    sufer froma serious illness, be involved in a
    car accident or lose a loved one.

    Academic Achievement and Access Center
    www.achievement.ku.edu
    (785) 864-4064
    Counseling and
    Psychological Services
    Students who are grieving can contact
    Counseling and Psychological Services. John
    Wade, licensed psychologist and outreach
    coordinator with CAPS, said that grief is the
    natural response to the loss of a loved one. In
    respect to losing a parent, Wade said that college
    students may think about how their parent died
    too soon.
    Teres the added component of Tis
    wasnt supposed to happen, he said. I think it
    is more difcult if it is out of sequence.

    Te grieving process varies for diferent
    individuals, but some symptoms of grief include:

    Feelings of loss and sadness
    Feeling of being unsettled
    Feeling of loss of control
    Anger
    Depression
    Lack of motivation
    Having What if questions

    Wade said that friends and family of
    individuals experiencing grief should remember
    to be available to listen. He said that talking
    about loss is one of the most important aspects
    of accepting loss. Talking about an experience
    helps the individual make sense of the situation.
    Additionally, people should remember to
    continue to invite grieving individuals to
    participate in activities they would normally
    attend, he said.

    Counseling and Psychological Services
    www.caps.ku.edu
    785-864-CAPS (2277)
    Many college students like Schaadt,
    Anderson and Schroer are preparing for
    independence by educating themselves for
    future careers while still depending on parents
    for help with tuition, health and car insurance
    and transportation. They are exploring
    relationships with potential partners, while
    celebrating holidays and family milestones
    with mom and dad. They are living on their
    own in dorms, fraternities and sororities and
    apartments, yet often thinking of their parents
    house where they grew up as home.
    They are responsible for clothing and
    feeding themselves, while sometimes hauling
    laundry bags full of dirty clothes home to mom
    and dad and appreciating their home-cooked
    meals. In short, the leap from dependent
    child to independent adult is more daunting
    for any college student without the help of a
    parent who has been there before and is now
    suddenly gone.
    According to the American Sociological
    Review, one in 10 children lose a parent before
    they reach age 25.
    Debra Umberson, a professor of sociology
    at the University of Texas and author of Death
    of a Parent: A Transition to a New Adult
    Identity, said there is little research conducted
    on college students and the death of a parent.
    The effect of losing a parent is devastating at
    any age and marks a turning point in a persons
    life, she said.
    For people in college, one of the big issues
    for them is that its premature, she said.
    Youre supposed to have your parent at that
    age.
    Umberson said adult children who
    experience the death of a parent show increased
    psychological distress and depression,
    increased alcohol use, a decline in health and a
    decline in the quality of relationships. She said
    these effects can be apparent for up to three
    years after the death of the parent.
    Most of us are sort of in denial of death,
    and this is one of those things that pierces that
    denial, she said.
    College students who lose a parent are
    affected emotionally, psychologically,
    physically, academically and financially. At the
    very time they are about to launch independent
    lives, they lose the people they rely on most for
    direction.
    Anderson wonders who will walk her down
    the aisle when she gets married; Schaadts
    grief led to depression, alcohol abuse and bad
    grades; the fact that Schroer lived in Topeka
    and commuted to the University means he will
    only now move to Lawrence and learn how to
    be a real college kid.
    CHRISS STORY
    Chris Schaadt quickly parked in his driveway
    in Lenexa. Police officers standing on the
    porch of his house tried to talk to him but he
    pushed his way inside.
    His mothers body lay on the floor of the
    living room covered by a white sheet.
    Schaadt learned from his dad that his
    mother had died of cardiac arrhythmia.
    The next five days swirled by with what
    seemed like hundreds of people flowing
    through his house. Plates of food brought by
    friends and family filled every square-inch of
    counter space in the kitchen.
    Almost 700 people filled the Lutheran
    church in Lenexa where the memorial service
    was held. Near the front of the church, flowers
    surrounded a picture of his mom wearing
    her wedding dress. Schaadt remembers how
    stunningly beautiful she looked in the photo.
    Two weeks later, the company and bustle
    were gone and Schaadt was alone with his
    memories. Thats when darkness set in. He
    was back at school lonelier than ever. As a
    freshman, he sat in giant classes in Budig Hall,
    alone in a crowd, no one knowing what he was
    dealing with.
    He stopped going to class. He couldnt stand
    being in school. His dad thought he was going
    to classes, but he spent his days in his room.
    He withdrew from half of his classes.
    The next semester wasnt any better, and
    he seemed to spend more time at home in
    Lenexa than on campus. After his semester
    ended with a plummeting grade point average,
    Schaadt transferred to nearby Johnson County
    Community College. He couldnt stand to be
    at school in Lawrence, so he thought living at
    home would be better.
    He was wrong.
    He felt like he had nothing. No friends. No
    mom. No classes he wanted to go to.
    Hed spend his time alone in his basement at
    home watching TV and playing video games.
    Some days hed hang out with the one friend
    he saw regularly an ex-Marine who had
    a family. Theyd drink beer and play video
    games all day.
    At home in the evenings, hed try to hide
    being intoxicated from his dad. When his
    brother and dad went to bed, hed start drinking
    again and continue into the morning.
    Soon, he dropped out of Johnson County
    Community College. The downward spiral
    that began with his mothers death had ended
    with him out of school, searching for a job and
    considering the Marine Corps. Schaadt now
    works at Lenscrafters in Overland Park.
    LINDYS STORY
    As soon as she heard her aunts trembling
    voice on the phone, she knew something was
    wrong. Her aunt struggled to get the words
    out that her brother Andersons dad was
    gone.
    Andersons dad died at home alone
    presumably of a heart attack. He had suffered
    from heart problems for years. He had three
    heart attacks already.
    Anderson had pondered before how she
    might respond: What would I do if someone
    close to me died?
    She thought memories and emotions would
    race through her head.
    Instead, there was nothing. She was numb.
    You just, you cant prepare for it, she said.
    You really feel like your world just ended.
    As if her dad dying wasnt enough, it was the
    week of midterms. She had three tests to take.
    At least theyd keep her mind off of everything.
    Well, maybe.
    Her classmates could tell something was
    wrong. Her face and eyes were red from
    crying. They could tell something was up.
    She wasnt herself.
    The drive from Lawrence to Lenexa on K-10
    seemed to take forever.
    Once she got home, she walked into an
    empty house. She would stay in the house
    alone for three days and nights.
    Because her dad hadnt planned a funeral
    and didnt have a will, Anderson made almost
    all of the arrangements.
    She found a place for the funeral.
    She designed the memorial pamphlet that
    would be handed out at the funeral.
    She called relatives and friends.
    She took money out of her own savings
    account to pay for the funeral.
    She considered hiring a lawyer to deal
    with her dads estate, but ended up declining
    because she couldnt handle the expense.
    She faced hard decisions, made more
    difficult by her grief.
    She couldnt help but think that a 19-year-
    old shouldnt have to plan her fathers funeral.
    Anderson endured the worst three nights
    of her life. She spent three days at home in
    Lenexa alone working to prepare for the
    funeral. She would scream and yell, angry at
    the world. She would beg for her dad to come
    back. She would try to sleep, but instead lay
    awake thinking of her dad.
    But now, she surveyed the foyer of the
    funeral home, more nervous than shed ever
    been in her life. Tears streamed down her
    face as she tried to gather the courage to see
    her father one more time before his body was
    cremated.
    She walked into the room where her dads
    body lay on a table in front of the room, a
    handmade quilt covering his body from the
    chest down. She wondered where the quilt
    had come from. It looked like something a
    grandmother would make, she thought.
    The floral smell of potpourri filled the
    room. Since her dad would be cremated, he
    didnt need a casket.
    It didnt seem like him. Sure, it was him,
    but it wasnt him.
    Andersons half-sister, Kristy, niece and
    nephew stood at her fathers feet. She could
    see the grief in their eyes. She was impressed
    with how brave her niece and nephew were.
    She could see how the services provided
    closure for the rest of her family. But for
    her, closure hadnt come since she received
    the phone call several days earlier from her
    aunt.
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    sees his body lying on that table.
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    fresh even overwhelming.
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    apart from her dad after her parents divorced.
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    out and get back together.
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    herself trying to hang up the phone before
    she had to say I love you. The day before
    her dad died, she talked to him on the phone.
    That time, the last time, she said I love you,
    and that was rare. Now, she cherishes the
    moment.
    Despite the volatile relationship she
    had with her dad, they shared a special
    relationship. When events, both good and
    bad, happen in Andersons life, she often still
    finds herself thinking she needs to tell him.
    When she starts thinking about him, she
    hates talking about it. Shes heard countless
    friends and family recite the clich: If you
    need someone to talk to, Im here.
    But Anderson, now a junior, doesnt want
    to talk to anyone. She doesnt want to make
    them uncomfortable. She feels she has to be
    alone with those thoughts and memories.
    She likes to sort through her memory box,
    filled with pictures, cards, and an old, but
    fragrant cigar from his collection. Certain
    things trigger memories of him like cigar
    smoke, of course, and Bob Seger songs. The
    last time Against the Wind came on the
    radio in her car, she started tearing up. Those
    are the good memories. Thats why she sifts
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    sister, Kristy, shes constantly reminded of her
    dad. Family is bound to make you remember
    lost loved ones, especially now that Kristy
    lives in their dads house in Olathe, where he
    spent his last minutes. When she visits, she
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    The death of her father makes her
    appreciate others in her life. She tries to
    spend more time with her family her
    dads four step-daughters from a previous
    marriage: Renee, Mindy, Kim and Jennifer
    and her half-sister, Kristy, along with her
    sisters children.
    Whenever she leaves after seeing them,
    she always says I love you.
    The times she sees her family the most
    are holidays. For someone who lost a parent,
    holidays are difficult. Holidays used to be
    her dads favorite time of the year because
    the whole family would be together. It was
    what he lived for.
    Her first Thanksgiving without her dad
    was six weeks after his death; Christmas
    just a few weeks later. The holidays brought
    memories, but also sadness. And each
    June, Anderson doesnt know what to do
    for Fathers Day. Theres nothing left to
    celebrate.
    As Anderson approaches her senior year,
    she laments that her dad wont see her
    graduate from the university he was so proud
    she attended. When other parents gather
    to watch their children walk down the hill,
    the man in her life who was ready to snap a
    photo at any important moment wouldnt be
    there to shoot her in her cap and gown.
    If she gets married, she doesnt know who
    will walk her down the aisle.
    When these thoughts flood her brain, she
    grabs her journal she started days after his
    death. She uses it to write down her feelings
    and memories of her dad. She wants to make
    sure she doesnt forget them.
    Thats the point of the journal. Its a way to
    keep him alive, in a sense.
    Thats all she has left.
    EDS STORY
    Ed Schroer, a junior from Topeka, was
    walking with some friends to a house party
    on a cold night last December when his cell
    phone rang. It was his mother calling from
    a Topeka hospital. She was with his dad,
    whose heart had started fibrillating a
    quivering that precedes heart failure. She
    said the doctors were doing CPR and chest
    compressions and he needed to immediately
    drive to Topeka.
    Schroer tried not to worry. His dad had
    been in and out of the hospital for a year. He
    always got better.
    This time was different.
    Schroers hopped into his brothers green
    Ford, got on the turnpike and sped 80 miles
    per hour back to Topeka.
    It was 2 a.m. when he walked into St.
    Francis Health Center. The waiting room,
    dimly lit and reeking of cleaning supplies,
    was vacant except for Schroer, his mom and
    his brother, Mack. His other two brothers,
    John and Paul, werent answering their
    phones.
    The hospital scene wasnt new but
    being there at that time of night was.
    In 2006, Schroers dad had been diagnosed
    with Parkinsons disease, a degenerative
    neurological disease that causes tremors and
    difficulty with walking, coordination and
    movement.
    His dad was 78 at the time.
    Schroer was 15 the youngest of four, too
    young to understand what the disease really
    meant. The effects of Parkinsons werent
    obvious at that point. His dad was still able
    to practice law and manage his cow-calf
    operation every day.
    Schroers dad had been a prominent trial
    lawyer in Topeka for more than 50 years.
    His dad had to leave his practice and start
    working from home in 2008. Instead of
    going to court, he gave advice to clients and
    other attorneys. When Schroer transferred
    from Highland Community College to the
    University in 2009, he decided to live at
    home on the family farm outside of Topeka
    and commute to class.
    One reason for living at home was to help
    his dad, who had stopped practicing law
    altogether and sold his cattle herd because of
    his failing health. Schroer would commute
    to Lawrence 28 miles each way several
    days a week.
    In addition to Parkinsons, his dad had his
    bladder removed because of cancer.
    A missing kidney caused multiple kidney
    infections. During one of his stays in the
    hospital, his dad contracted a highly resistant
    bacterial infection that was difficult to treat.
    He would help his dad get in and out of
    bed and into his wheelchair. Some days,
    Schroer would feed his dad. Other days, he
    would change the sheets on his bed, bathe
    and clothe him. The family as a whole acted
    as an in-home nurse.
    Schroer never questioned his decision to
    care for his dad, who was as old as most of
    his friends grandparents.
    His dad had another family from a first
    marriage that ended in divorce. Schroer had
    four half-siblings. When his dad married his
    mom, the couple adopted three sons before
    Schroer was born. The family joked that they
    were far from normal. Helping take care of
    his dad just played into that.
    Even when his dad first became sick and
    bedridden, he was still mentally alert in the
    beginning. Eventually, he developed slight
    dementia and was confused about where he
    was at times.
    Back at the hospital that December night,
    the doctor escorted Schroers family to a
    smaller, private room.
    Oh, I dont like the looks of this, Schroer
    remembers his mom saying.
    As Schroer, his mom and brother sat
    in the smaller room, the doctor crouched
    down and told his mom the compressions
    werent working that it didnt look like
    his dad would make it. Together the family
    returned to the hospital room where nurses
    surrounded his dad like bees in a hive.
    Two nurses were switching back and forth
    performing compressions. Another nurse
    hovered above his head pumping air into
    his lungs. The doctor stood there viewing
    the monitors. His dads chest was badly
    bruised, the product of nearly two hours of
    compressions.
    Schroer started crying.
    His mom asked Edward and his brother,
    Mack, what they thought should be done at
    that point. They held hands and said a family
    prayer. They then agreed to tell the nurses
    to stop compressions. But first they told his
    father goodbye and his mother closed his
    fathers eyes.
    A few days later, more than 300 people
    filled the First Methodist Church in Topeka
    at the funeral. His fathers casket rested at the
    front of the church covered with red roses
    and sunflowers, his dads favorite flowers.
    Friends, family members and pastors took
    turns speaking about his dad. Schroer, a
    film studies major, played a 10-minute long
    memorial video about his father that he
    made.
    Afterward, family and friends traveled to
    Pleasant Hill Cemetery for the burial. An
    American flag lay draped over the casket
    commemorating his service in the Army
    during the Korean War.
    Nearly five months later, Schroer has come
    to terms with his dads death and can talk
    about his dad and his death without getting
    emotional. He says its because of his faith in
    God and he has had time to mentally prepare
    himself.
    After all, his dad was 83. He knew that his
    dad lived a good, long life, but he still misses
    him. But, Schroer had the opportunity to
    spend 21 years with him and inherited his
    dads love of baseball.
    His dad played AAA baseball and on the
    New York Yankees farm team when he was
    younger. The talent scout who recruited Joe
    DiMaggio also recruited his dad. His dad was
    the reason Schroer started playing baseball
    and eventually went to Highland Community
    College on a baseball scholarship as a left-
    handed pitcher as was his father.
    Schroer still lives at the family home
    where he is constantly reminded of his dad.
    The leather chair where his dad would sit
    and watch CNN in is usually empty.
    He says the family has become closer since
    his dads death.
    This March, when federal student loan
    applications were due, the family was initially
    stymied by his fathers missing expertise. He
    was good at forms and also did most of the
    family taxes. Since the familys taxes werent
    filed before March 1, Schroer was granted a
    deadline extension while his oldest brother
    filed the familys taxes.
    Medical and health-care bills and the
    expense of the funeral put extra stress on
    Schroers mom. Schroer felt obligated to help
    his family out by getting a job. Last semester
    he worked at the Ambler Memorial Student
    Recreation Center as a game monitor for
    intramural basketball games. Recently,
    Schroer took a different job working in a
    computer lab at the Art and Design School.
    He says the extra money lessens his moms
    financial burden.
    Schroer is looking forward to having a
    more normal college experience next year.
    He plans to move out of the family home
    and live in a house near Allen Fieldhouse
    with his college friends. Hes only been to
    one KU basketball game last years game
    against Missouri so he looks forward to
    attending more. He wants to tailgate and go
    to football games.
    Hes glad he was a good son and helped
    his dad, but the experience thrust him into
    adulthood for a year and a half. He looks
    forward to being a normal college kid during
    his senior year. The only thing not normal:
    when he walks down the hill at graduation,
    his father wont be there.
    Edited by Joel Petterson
    trAgedy (continued from 1A)
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    deadline and now Design and
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    Mucci said it takes about 30 days
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    The timeline for the project is
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    the majority of construction tak-
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    The rest of The Underground will
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    With varying estimated dates
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    beginning of fall classes.
    But Union officials think it could
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    Wayne Pearse, the director of
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    pleted on or before fall classes
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    I believe it will be accom-
    plished, Pearse said.
    Other estimated dates of com-
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    Funding for the project is possi-
    ble because of a recently approved
    $1.80 increase to the Student
    Union renovation fee under stu-
    dent fees. Student Senate approved
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    Edited by Dave Boyd
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    MORNINg bREw
    QUOTE OF THE DAY
    The teams that do the best job
    of putting personal agendas aside
    are the successful teams. Its not
    easy. Thats why its hard being a
    good teammate, but everyone
    has that choice.
    Ray Allen
    FACT OF THE DAY
    Kevin durant had a 3.0 GPA as
    a college freshman. He attends
    classes at UT in the summers and
    is working toward his degree.
    jockbio.com
    TRIVIA OF THE DAY
    Q: what other notable play-
    ers were in the 2001 Michigan
    State basketball team with Zach
    Randolph that made it all the way
    to the NCAA Final Four?
    A: Jason Richardson and Charlie
    Bell.
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    Last seasons lessons to learn
    THIS wEEK IN
    KANSAS ATHLeTICS
    TODAY
    No events are scheduled for today.
    THURSDAY
    No events are scheduled for today.
    FRIDAY
    baseball
    vs. Alabama A&M
    6 p.m.
    Lawrence
    Track
    Big 12 Outdoor
    Championships
    All day
    Norman, Okla.
    SATURDAY
    baseball
    vs. Alabama A&M
    2 p.m.
    Lawrence
    vs. Alabama A&M
    5 p.m.
    Lawrence
    Track
    Big 12 Outdoor
    Championships
    All day
    Norman, Okla.
    womens Rowing
    Conference USA
    Championship
    All day
    Oak Ridge, Tenn.
    BY Joel Petterson
    jpetterson@kansan.com
    BY HannaH Wise
    hwise@kansan.com
    The softball team was counting
    on three final games against Drake
    and UMKC to round out its sea-
    son and bolster its way into post
    season play. That was not the case,
    though. The Drake double-
    header was scheduled for
    May 5, but was rained out.
    Yesterdays scheduled game
    against UMKC was can-
    celled because of scheduling
    conflicts between the uni-
    versities.
    Honestly, we were all
    really disappointed with how
    it ended, said sophomore
    outfielder Maggie Hull.
    The team finished the
    regular season with a 31-22
    overall record. The team still
    hopes that its 26-3 pre-season non-
    conference record will bolster its
    RPI enough for the team to advance
    to post season play.
    As of May 1, the team is ranked
    No. 49 in the nation, according to
    RPI, as calcuated by strength of
    schedule and win-loss record. The
    RPI is a main selection factor that
    determines the field of 64 teams for
    the tournament, and being ranked
    No. 49 gives Kansas a good chance
    of entering the tournament.
    The team has the potential to
    make regionals for the first time
    since 2006.
    Thats on everyones mind that
    we are making it, Hull said.
    The team will continue practice
    this week as it waits for the Sunday
    selection show on ESPNU at 10
    p.m.
    We are trying to give them some
    reps, so that they stay sharp in case
    we make regionals, coach Megan
    Smith said.
    If the team is not accepted into
    the field of 64 teams, the play-
    ers and coaches will bid farewell
    to senior pitcher Allie Clark and
    senior catcher Brittany Hile as they
    reflect upon the season. The team
    broke the record for home runs in
    a single season with a total of 60. It
    won six of the seven pre-conference
    tournaments, beginning the season
    10-0. It defeated two top-25
    ranked teams: Georgia Tech
    and North Carolina.
    The feeling of how happy
    we were and how in sync we
    all felt; it felt like we were on
    this kind of high almost, said
    junior outfielder Liz Kocon.
    No matter what the score of
    the game was, we were going
    to just keep fighting no mat-
    ter what. It was an incredible
    feeling and I wish that I could
    live in that moment forever.
    It will be that kind of men-
    tality that the team will need if
    it makes the NCAA tournament.
    Although who it will face, where
    it will play and even if it will play
    has yet to be determined, the team
    is locked in, focused and ready to
    continue the season if given the
    opportunity.
    Edited by Caroline Bledowski
    Davis gets to work
    out with team USA
    Sophomore forward Carolyn
    davis led the Jayhawks this
    season, averaging 19 points,
    7.4 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per
    game. Now davis will try to lead
    the USA Basketball womens
    world University Games Team.
    davis will join 34 of the nations
    top players, including fve ath-
    letes from the Big 12 Conference.
    Iowa State coach Bill Fennelly has
    been named head coach for the
    team.
    I feel so honored to be cat-
    egorized as one of the best in the
    country, davis said. To possibly
    represent my country at the Uni-
    versity Games would be a huge
    accomplishment.
    davis is the second Jayhawk
    in three years to receive an
    invitation to the tryouts. Former
    Jayhawk danielle McCray was a
    member of the 2009 USA world
    University Games team that took
    gold.
    davis will join the other ath-
    letes at the U.S. Olympic Train-
    ing Center in Colorado and the
    tryouts will run from May 22-25.
    The group of 34 athletes will be
    narrowed to a 12-member team
    which will train from July 31 to
    Aug. 8 in Colorado Springs and
    compete Aug. 14-21 in Shenzhen,
    China, at the 2011 world Univer-
    sity Games.
    USA Basketball womens teams
    have brought home seven gold
    medals, six silvers and one bronze
    in 15 years of competition.
    By Kathleen Gier
    Softball ends without fnal games, but with anticipation
    SOFTbALL
    Chris Neal/KANSAN fle photo
    The softball teamis waiting to see if its pre-season record of 26-3 combined with its RPI ranking of No. 49 will send it to NCAA
    tournament for the frst time since 2006.
    No matter what the score of the game
    was we were going to just keep fghting
    no matter what. It was an incredible
    feeling and I wish I could live in that
    moment forever.
    LIZ KOCON
    Junior outfelder
    wOMENS bASKETbALL
    I
    ts just about that time of the year,
    when college sports fans will soon
    be resigned to watching nothing but
    professional baseball and soccer highlights
    every night and counting down to college
    footballs first kickoff.
    Aside from a handful of track meets,
    baseball games and golf tournaments, the
    sports year at the University is history. But
    instead of immediately looking forward
    to next fall, its important to take time to
    reflect on the lessons that can be gleaned
    from the past nine months. As the saying
    goes, those who dont learn from history
    are doomed to repeat it, and I doubt many
    sports fans would like to live through the
    disappointments from last year again.
    Lesson No. 1: It takes more than seven
    months to build a good football team.
    This really shouldnt be a lesson that
    Kansas fans needed to learn; it should have
    been common sense. After all, the great
    Mark Mangino had even fewer wins his
    first season, going 2-10 five years before
    winning a BCS championship. However,
    the immediate calls for Turner Gills firing
    from incensed fans suggest that this is a
    lesson that needs to be learned once again.
    Lesson No. 2: Sometimes September
    football makes about as much sense as
    March basketball.
    For all the effort that goes into break-
    ing down matchups, stat lines and
    x-factors, sports make extremely little
    sense sometimes. Were used to see-
    ing nonsensical results in March, like
    Kansas loss to VCU two days after an
    absolute dismantling of Richmond. But
    Kansas football experienced a similar week
    in the fall call it September Madness
    when it followed up a less-than-inspiring
    opening loss to South Dakota State by
    upsetting Georgia Tech. That result against
    Tech made even less sense as the disap-
    pointing season continued.
    Lesson No. 3: Never trust a Bubba.
    You remember Bubba Cunningham,
    right? Last fall, almost no one at the
    University of Kansas had heard of him.
    Then, on Dec. 14, a Tuesday, several major
    news outlets reported Cunningham had
    all but signed a contract to be Kansas next
    athletics director.
    Or maybe he wont, they reported the
    next day.
    Actually, he definitely wont, it was
    decided on Thursday.
    Who knows why he ultimately decided
    to turn down Kansas and return to Tulsa,
    but surely Kansas learned its lesson in
    messing around with Bubbas and ultimate-
    ly decided to go with the candidate with
    the second-best name they could find:
    Sheahon Zenger.
    Lesson No. 4: If you want to be a pro-
    fessional basketball player, make sure you
    average 8.7 points per game and maintain
    a .382 field goal percentage.
    Take note, young basketball players. If
    you want to make it to the NBA draft, all
    it takes is two-thirds of a collegiate sea-
    son playing in a limited role and earning
    mediocre stats. You might also sit out three
    games in the middle of the season with
    a stress reaction in your foot, just so you
    dont gain too much momentum through-
    out the season. It worked for Josh Selby, so
    who says it cant work for everyone?
    Well, sure, there was the whole No. 1
    high-school recruit thing, but dont get
    caught up in details.
    Edited by Dave Boyd
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    BY MIKE VERNON
    mvernon@kansan.com
    While wearing a blue Kansas baseball shirt and
    waiting for his dad to meet him for lunch at a
    Pepperjax Grill in Omaha, Neb., incoming freshman
    Colin Belmont fell under the shadow of a 6-foot-1,
    180-pound college student. Colins shirt had attract-
    ed the attention of the visitor, who asked Colin first if
    he went to Kansas, then if he played baseball.
    Collin told the stranger that he planned on attend-
    ing Kansas in the fall, that he had played baseball at
    Millard North High school, and that he hoped to
    walk-on to the Kansas baseball team.
    He happened to be speaking to senior pitcher T.J.
    Walz of the Kansas baseball team.
    Walz, a former walk-on himself, went on to
    exchange phone numbers with the future freshman
    and even offered to throw with Colin once he got to
    Lawrence. The experience for Colin, who couldnt
    believe that an athlete approached a student, was one
    that will stick with him forever.
    Playing baseball here was like a dream for me, and
    I never thought that it could be realistic, Belmont
    said. When he talked to me, it seemed real; it was
    definitely life-changing or at least view-changing.
    Now one win away from tying the all- time wins
    record for a pitcher, Walz came to Kansas under very
    different circumstances a walk-on with a guaran-
    teed spot on the roster. Walz said he didnt think he
    would have a significant role on the Jayhawks roster
    his freshman year. Instead, he started seven games
    for the Jayhawks his first year, going 4-1 for the team
    with an ERA of 5.00.
    After exceeding expectations in his rookie cam-
    paign, Walz blew them away his sophomore season.
    He came in throwing 86, and as a result of
    working hard in the weight room and his long-toss
    program, he elevated his velocity to 90-91, coach
    Ritch Price said. That made his breaking ball really
    special.
    The added speed on his fastball helped Walz
    frequently keep batters off balance. He struck out 88
    batters in 82 1/3 innings his sophomore year, while
    being named to the All-Big 12 second team.
    Walz wasnt content after his breakout year,
    though. He added a changeup for his junior season,
    something coach Price said would help him against
    left-handed hitters. The hard work played off for T.J.,
    as he was named Jayhawk Trophy Pitcher of the Year
    during the 2010 season.
    After coming in as a walk-on just two years
    before, Walz received a phone call from the Oakland
    Athletics organization in the 2010 draft letting him
    know that he had been selected by the team in the
    50th round.
    Walz had little interest, though; he wanted to
    return to school and continue to receive the most
    important thing to him his education.
    As the ace and Friday night starter of this years
    pitching staff, Walz has gained an incredible amount
    of respect from his teammates. The undersized
    pitcher isnt the most vocal player on the team, but
    has led the Jayhawks in a different way this season.
    T.J. just leads by example, hes not a man of a lot
    of words, senior pitcher Wally Marciel said of one
    of his best friends. When he gets out on the mound
    hes all business and plays his heart out.
    So now, with the bright light that is his collegiate
    career beginning to burn out, Walz puts perspective
    on why he approached the random kid in his home
    town who happened to be wearing a Kansas shirt.
    Thats just part of being a Jayhawk, Walz said.
    You see the bird everywhere and its fun to start
    conversations based upon the pride you feel in being
    a Jayhawk.
    EditedbyCoreyThibodeaux
    SportS
    THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
    Because of rain and a scheduling confict, the Kansas softball team had to miss its last op-
    portunities to further raise their RPI. But it still has a shot at regionals.
    Season ends without fnal games
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    BY tIM dwYER
    tdwyer@kansan.com
    When sports
    can break
    boundaries
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    Senior pitcher T.J. Walz hurls in a pitch Friday at Hoglund Ballpark. Walz pitched 7.2 innings with
    11 strikeouts.
    KaNSaNfIlE pHoto
    Former Kansas football coachMark Mangino looks upto the scoreboardinthe fnal seconds of a game against Nebraska. Mangino broke his
    year-and-a-half silence to talk to his hometownnewspaper, the NewCastle news, about his past coachingandwhat he wants for the future.
    I
    believe in sports.
    I believe Nelson Mandela was right
    when he said sports have power greater
    even than governments to shake estab-
    lished racial boundaries. And I believe he
    proved it with South Africas 1995 victory
    in the Rugby World Cup. (Read the book
    Playing the Enemy by John Carlin rather
    than watch Invictus. Its better. The book
    always is another thing I believe).
    I dont think that I will ever see a perfor-
    mance again that is as racially inspiring as
    Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier
    in baseball, or Jesse Owens humiliating
    Adolf Hitlers Aryan master race in the
    1936 Olympics in Berlin. Thankfully, the
    world has come a long-enough way that
    the circumstances dont exist for such a
    showing.
    But to say there are no boundaries left
    to be broken would be hopelessly nave.
    There will come a day, in the near future I
    think, that we will see Iraq or Afghanistan
    or another country absorbed in war earn a
    trip to a World Cup. I think that the guns
    will silence, if only for a few days, and the
    warring factions will find at least one thing
    they can unite behind, even if it is some-
    thing so superficially perceived as sports.
    I believe there was a glimpse of that
    power when, in 2008, the Philippine gov-
    ernment called a ceasefire to watch Manny
    Pacquiao, local hero and best pound-for-
    pound fighter in the world, fight Juan
    Manuel Marquez. When Gen. Hermogenes
    Esperon was asked what the rebels would
    do, he offered only this: I suggest that they
    watch the fight also. There were no attacks
    during the ceasefire.
    There is a certain beauty in coincidences,
    and it was particularly evident when the
    death of Osama bin Laden was announced
    two Sundays ago at a game between the
    Mets and the Phillies that was tied at one in
    the bottom of the ninth. To rearrange those
    numbers: thats 9, 11, with teams from New
    York and Pennsylvania. I believe the U-S-
    A chants were particularly loud there.
    I think there will be an openly gay pro-
    fessional athlete in a major sport in our
    lifetime. Soon. I think this man will be
    both hero and goat, as Robinson was. But
    the courage of that one man to endure the
    emotional beating he will surely take will
    open eyes and further discussion well past
    what we can even imagine right now. He
    will, by displaying his own bravery, give
    courage to young people to endure the
    same. And I think not fearing who you are
    is a wonderful thing.
    I believe that, as a child, playing base-
    ball for my father was one of the most
    influential moments of growing up. Seeing
    his work ethic, his passion, his ability to
    control the room outside of the house, was
    essential in developing my work ethic, pas-
    sion and charisma. My dad never feared
    making a decision as a coach. He never
    feared repercussions from parents or from
    the league. If he thought it was the right
    thing to do, he would do so. And so that
    lesson passed to me incalculably more fully
    than if he had simply said, Boomer, stand
    up for what you believe is right. I believe
    sports shaped me into the man I am today.
    I believe, as I ready myself to walk down
    that hill in a couple weeks, that I have
    witnessed the sheer joy that sports can
    bring here at Kansas. Anyone who was
    in Lawrence three years ago was prob-
    ably with me, and witnessed it in their
    own right. On April 7, 2008, the flight of
    a brown leather ball out of the hands of
    Mario Chalmers sent a jubilant group more
    than twice the size of the student popula-
    tion of Kansas 80,000 people hurtling
    into the streets.
    They did not go to riot. They did not go
    to burn. They went and they embraced and
    they cheered and they high-fived and they
    danced and they drank.
    For a night, the elation of winning
    brought together 80,000 people, most of
    who had never met each other and would
    never see each other again. But for that
    night, they were joyful together, regardless
    of class or race or sexuality or religion.
    Thats what I believe in.
    Edited by Caroline Bledowski
    BY KORY CARPENtER
    kcarpenter@kansan.com
    Its been 17 months since Mark
    Mangino resigned as the head
    football coach at Kansas. During
    that span, Mangino has been vir-
    tually silent in his dealings with
    the media and has turned down
    interview requests while spending
    time with his wife in Naples, Fla.,
    away from the public eye.
    Manginos nearly year-and-
    a- half silence was broken when
    he recently met with Kayleen
    Cubbal of the New Castle News,
    a paper in Manginos hometown
    of New Castle, Pa. While he could
    not delve into too many details
    regarding the investigation by
    former Kansas Athletics Director
    Lew Perkins (Mangino and the
    University agreed to a $3 mil-
    lion buyout with a gag order), he
    said the allegations of player abuse
    caught him off guard.
    I was blind-
    sided and
    didnt realize
    there were any
    issues at all,
    he told Cubbal.
    To use the
    word shocked
    would be
    appropriate.
    During his
    eight-year ten-
    ure in Lawrence, Manginos accom-
    plishments were unmatched by
    any of his predecessors and were
    highlighted in 2007, when he led
    Kansas to a No. 2 national ranking
    and an Orange Bowl victory.
    His coaching wasnt without
    flaws, though. A 2007 incident
    with Raimond Pendleton fol-
    lowing an unsportsmanlike con-
    duct penalty became infamous.
    Mangino was caught on video rip-
    ping into Pendleton with some
    vulgar language. Manginos take
    on the incident:
    That should never even have
    been an issue, Mangino said. The
    conversation was between me and
    the player. It is an unwritten rule
    in college football that video is
    fair game in the coaches box, but
    audio is absolutely off limits.
    The heat Mangino received
    from the Pendleton incident was
    short-lived, as the Jayhawks were
    playing great and just beginning
    their 2007 season.
    But before that season even
    began, Mangino was accused of
    verbally attacking a KU student
    who issued the coach a parking
    ticket on campus, in a spot where
    he had allegedly already received
    22 violations. That story went
    largely unnoticed, if noticed at all,
    during the 2007 season.
    It wasnt until a 2009 Lawrence
    Journal-World article brought the
    incident to light, while Mangino
    was in the middle of a seven-
    game losing streak, that informa-
    tion about these incidents started
    trickling out. Also during the 2009
    season, Mangino was investigated
    for poking the chest of linebacker
    Arist Wright during a practice.
    With the parking ticket story,
    player abuse allegations and sev-
    en-game losing streak that ended
    the 2009 season, Manginos time
    in Lawrence seemed to be coming
    to an end, and he agreed to a $3
    million buyout with the school on
    Dec. 9. Even though he couldnt
    disclose details, Mangino said he
    didnt want to dwell on the past
    anyway.
    When I
    look back on
    my time at
    Kansas, I want
    to remember
    the positive,
    not dwell on
    the negative,
    he said. Im
    very proud of
    my time there.
    Although hes spent much of the
    last 17 months with his family, hes
    still found time for football. This
    spring, he spent two weeks with
    his former boss and University
    of Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops,
    helping the coaches and players
    as an offensive adviser. Hes also
    spent time with Akron, BYU and
    the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an
    adviser.
    The juices are still flowing, he
    said. Im getting the itch.
    He said hes currently looking
    for head coaching positions, but
    he has criteria that the position
    would need to meet.
    I want to be in a football envi-
    ronment in other words, I would
    only go to a place where football
    has a high level of importance,
    he told Cubbal. I dont want to
    go someplace where football is an
    afterthought or a hobby; that just
    would not work for me.
    Edited by Amanda Sorell
    Quotes fromKathleen Cubbal of the New
    Castle News
    When I look back on my
    time at Kansas, I want to
    remember the positive, not
    dwell on the negative.
    mark mangino
    Former kU football coach

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