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Watkins Health Services offers free HIV testing

CHANDLER BOESES
@Chandler_Boese
Student Health Services

and the Lawrence-Douglas
County Health Department
will be providing free HIV
testing today from 11 a.m. to
2 p.m. at the Kansas Union.
This is part of several events
Watkins Health Services and
community partners are
hosting for the World AIDS
Day today.
The
most
common
misconception that folks
can have about HIV is that it
could never happen to them,
said Jenny McKee, a health
educator at WHS.
However, of the 1 million
people living with HIV in the
U.S., one in six are unaware
they have the disease,
according to the county
health department.
Individuals who wish to be
tested can go up to the WHS

table on the Jayhawk Walk
on the fourth floor of the
Kansas Union. They will be
escorted from the tables to
private testing rooms, McKee
said. The Health Department
will also offer free testing
services at the Lawrence
Public Library from 3-5 p.m.
This year the health
department, the Association
of University Residence Halls
and WHS will also be hosting
a screening of Dallas Buyers
Club, a movie about a man
diagnosed with AIDS in the
80s. Before the movie, a
Kansas resident will speak
about his experience living
with HIV.
The event will be held in
the Ellsworth Hall living
room at 7:30 p.m.
Additionally, WHS will
be giving out safer-sex kits
and information on HIV
prevention measures for

students, staff and faculty.
It is important for students
to learn about HIV because
HIV still exists and not just
in Africa, but right here in
the U.S. and Kansas and
Douglas County, McKee
said.
According to the health
departments news release,
there were about 3,800
Kansas residents living with
AIDS in 2012. Thirteen- to
24-year-olds are especially
susceptible to the infection,
McKee said. One in four new
HIV infections occur in this
age group.
McKee said the first step
that people can take to protect
themselves is to get tested.
Additionally, she advised
anyone who is thinking of
becoming sexually active
with a new partner should
have a discussion about
HIV FACTS
About 1 million Americans live with HIV
1 out of 6 dont know theyre infected

3,800 Kansans reported having AIDS in 2012
68 percent of Douglas County adults report theyve never been tested for HIV
1 in 4 new HIV infections occurs in people of ages 13-24
Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department and
Jenny McKee, Watkins Health Services health educator
testing before sex.
If they havent been tested
but have been sexually active
in the past, refuse to be active
with them until they do get
tested, McKee said.
Barrier methods such as
condoms and dental dams
are also an important part of
prevention, McKee said, as
long as they are being used

correctly. Lubrication also
makes sex safer, as well as
making it more fun, McKee
said.
WHS provides resources
for students year-round
as well, McKee said. Its
medical staff can answer
any questions or test for
infections. Condoms cost 50

cents for a pack of three at
the Watkins Pharmacy and
Peer Health Educators passes
out safer sex kits for Condom
Sense Fridays, which is every
Friday when school is in
session.
Edited by Yu Kyung Lee
New program aims

for more students
to study abroad
MARK ARCE
@Mark_Arce13
The Office of Study Abroad is in

its first year of a new initiative to
increase the number of students
who study abroad during their
time at the University.
The initiative, called Mapping
Study Abroad to the Major
or Study Abroad Curriculum
Integration, is a collaboration
between the Office of Study
Abroad and departments across
campus to increase the number
of study abroad opportunities
in all degree programs. In
particular, the initiative is
looking to help students deal
with common barriers they
may have when thinking
about studying abroad, such as
finances and degree progression.
Alexander
Lawson,
a
sophomore music education
major from Lawrence, said both
finances and completing his
degree are potential obstacles
for him studying abroad.
I really want to eventually,
but its just figuring out when,
Lawson said. Its figuring out
how am I still going to graduate
in four years, but get those
credits that are necessary.
The new plan is looking to
make things easier for students
like Lawson who want to study
abroad but are concerned
about finances or about finding
a program that works with
different majors.
Curriculum Integration was
the plan that was developed to
really work toward ensuring
every student who goes abroad
or whose exploring study
abroad knows that there are
programs that they can do that

directly apply to their degree
and will maintain their progress
towards a degree in a similar
fashion as if they were here on
campus, said Angela Perryman,
director of the Office of Study
Abroad.
Around 25 percent of
University
undergraduates
participate in a study abroad
program before graduation,
according to the Office of Study
Abroad. During the 2012-2013
academic year, a total of 1,321
students studied abroad.
Within five years, the office
is looking to increase the total
number of participants in study
abroad to more than 1,500. Last
spring, the office announced
it would try to increase the
undergraduate participation rate
in study abroad to 30 percent
within the same period. The
University also joined with
the Institute of International
Educations Generation Study
Abroad
Initiative,
which
seeks to double nationally
the number of undergraduate
students who participate in
international academic study
abroad programs, internships or
research opportunities.
Perryman also said the office
is trying to get more students to
study abroad for longer periods.
Perryman said in addition to
more immersion opportunities,
semester-long
programs
are more cost efficient since
students will pay similar rates
abroad as in Lawrence and may
have more access to financial aid
SEE ABROAD PAGE 2
STUDENTS ABROAD IN 2012-2013

Europe: 761, 61%
Central/South America: 173, 14%
Asia: 157, 13%
Australasia/Pacific Islands: 66, 5%
Middle East/Africa: 45, 4%
North America/Caribbean: 16, 1%
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Same-sex lawsuit expands on rights

KELSIE JENNINGS
@KelcJen
Two weeks after same-sex

couples could get marriage
licenses in Sedgwick and
Douglas
counties,
the
American Civil Liberties
Union has now amended
the lawsuit to include more
rights for same-sex couples.
Plaintiffs seek to marry and

to have their marriages recognized ... and to provide the
same legal shelter to their
families, as different-sex
spouses.
MARIE V. MOSER
Same-sex marriage case
Office of Study Abroad
Index
MIKE HUTMACHER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A woman holds an application for a marriage license at the Sedgwick County Courthouse in Wichita on Nov. 13. The ACLU has expanded it lawsuit
against Kansas ban on same-sex marriage to include more rights, like filing taxes together or receiving benefits together, for couples.
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All contents, unless stated otherwise, 2014 The University Daily Kansan
The Marie v. Moser case

filed in October by ACLU
only targeted, and succeeded,
Dont
Forget
in getting same-sex marriage

licenses in the two counties,
but the amended lawsuit,
filed on Nov. 26, aims to
address some of the benefits
still denied to same-sex
couples.
Although couples can
now get married, they still
are not able to file taxes as a
married couple, adopt their
spouses last name on their
drivers license or list their
new spouse as a dependent
on their health insurance
plan. These problems were
outlined in the amended
filing of the lawsuit.
Plaintiffs seek to marry
and to have their marriages
recognized for the same
emotional, romantic, and
dignitary reasons, and to
provide the same legal shelter
to their families, as differentsex spouses, the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit states that
the
same-sex
couples
Its December now. Whoa.
14th Amendment rights to

equal protection and due
process are being violated
by their marriages not
being recognized by state
departments.
The amended lawsuit
is now filed against the
secretary of the Kansas
Department of Revenue and
the directors of the KDORs
Division of Vehicles and the
State Employee Health Plan.
The lawsuit still includes
the original defendants,
who were the court clerks
of Sedgwick and Douglas
counties and the secretary
of the Kansas Department
of Health and Environment.
The amended lawsuit also
added three more samesex married couples; two of
the couples had married in
other states. These three new
couples have had trouble
having
their
marriages
recognized by the tax, health
Todays
Weather
insurance and drivers license

agencies.
Freshmen Garrett and Jay
Fornicola, twin brothers
from Chicago, said they both
support same-sex marriage.
When I heard the news
that they were legalizing it
in Kansas, I was like, Oh,
yay, the movements moving
forward, but I feel like its
going to happen either way,
Garrett said. Its just a little
step at a time.
Jay agreed with his brother
that same-sex marriage
should be legalized.
I think if we deny it, its
against someones right
to actually get married,
Jay said. Like my brother
said, someone has to start
somewhere in Kansas, and
its going be a domino effect,
I think.
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Thursday, Dec. 3
What: Conflict Management
Workshop
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Where: Joseph R. Pearson Hall,
Room 204
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as a natural part of relationships,
including confrontation and
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Study: Students who take

morning classes study more
HALEY REGAN
@HaleyGracen
In a recent national survey

conducted by vox.com, it
was found that students who
attend earlier classes devote
more time to studying and
less time partaking in social
events.
The study found students
who wake up earlier will spend
more than 16 hours studying
each week. The study also
found 77 percent of students
who are more likely to go to
sleep earlier spend 0-15 hours
socializing, whereas the other
23 percent who sleep through
the morning will spend
upwards of 16 hours
socializing.
College freshmen who
are self-described morning
people spend more time
studying than their peers.
They spend less time relaxing
and socializing. And they
said their classes were more
demanding and rigorous,
according to the survey.
The survey determined that

students who woke up earlier
believed their classes were
more challenging.
One thing that we cant

argue against is that if you
take earlier classes, then
odds are, you have a much
larger portion of the day
that you can devote to other
responsibilities and things.
RANDALL BRUMFIELD
Director of advising
Students who feel their

best in the morning were
more likely to report that
their classes required critical
thinking skills, that they were
asked to connect what they
were learning to real life,
and that they had to draw
conclusions based on their
own analyses, according to
the survey. They also had
better study habits, both alone

and in groups.
Nolan Scheller, a sophomore
from Emporia majoring in
business administration, said
he believes taking earlier
classes is beneficial because
it leaves students with more
time for school work during
the day.
I feel more productive
taking earlier classes because
I start my day earlier, and I
finish class earlier in the day,
Scheller said.
Randall
Brumfield
is
the director of advising at
the University. He said he
believes it is important for
students to build a schedule
that accommodates their
own wants and needs. But
Brumfield said some students
who take earlier classes tend to
be more motivated and possess
better time management skills.
One thing that we cant
argue against is that if you
take earlier classes, then odds
are, you have a much larger
portion of the day that you can
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devote to other responsibilities

and things, Brumfield said.
So, many students that take
later classes take later classes
so they can sleep in, well, what
productivity is there to be
gained, other than catching up
on rest? Brumfield said.
Although students generally
perform better in earlier
classes, it is important each
student has a schedule that
works with his or her work
schedule and extra-curricular
involvement, Brumfield said.
I think it depends on
whether youre a first-time
full-time freshman student
or youre a transfer student,
and you have circumstances
that have competing interests
involved that allow you to take
earlier classes or that require
you to take later classes.
Were here to help students
achieve long-term goals while
accommodating short-term
responsibilities,
Brumfield
said.
Edited by Emily Brown
Ohio St. football

player found dead
RUSTY MILLER
Associated Press
COLUMBUS A missing
Ohio State football player
who disappeared shortly
after sending a text message
about
his
concussions
was found dead Sunday,
apparently of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound, police said.
Police tell media outlets
the body of 22-year-old
Kosta
Karageorge
was
found near the campus
after a search since he went
missing Wednesday. The
senior
defensive
tackle
from Columbus had last
been seen at his apartment
in Columbus, when his
roommates said he left to go
on a walk.
The body was found within
a couple hundred yards of
Karageorges house. The
house was dark Sunday
evening and no one answered
when a reporter knocked
on the metal door. The site
was within a mile of the
universitys student union
building and about a half
block from High Street, the
main artery of the campus.
Karageorges parents filed
a missing-person report
Wednesday evening, and his
mother, Susan Karageorge,
told police he has had
several concussions and a

few spells of being extremely
confused, according to
the report. She said that at
about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday
he texted a message that
cited the concussions and
said, I am sorry if I am an
embarrassment.
University athletic officials
said they were grieved to
learn of Karageorges death.
A former Buckeyes wrestler,
he joined the football team as
a walk-on this season. He has
played in one game and was
among two dozen seniors
slated to be recognized at the
final home game Saturday
against rival Michigan. The
Buckeyes won, 42-28.
During halftime at the
No. 16 Ohio State mens
basketball game against
James Madison in Columbus,
pictures of Karageorge were
shown and an announcement
was made urging people with
any information to contact
police. Defensive lineman
Michael
Bennett
said
afterward that Karageorge
missed practices and that
teammates started getting
nervous Thursday.
The teams physician, Dr.
Jim Borchers, has said he
could not comment on the
medical care of student
athletes.
and scholarships.
The program was first
proposed about a year ago,
after study abroad was made
a part of the new KU Core
curriculum in Advance Goal
4.2. When the office talked
to students about why they
werent considering studying
abroad, or when they seemed
interested but didnt come
through, the two reasons cited
were finances and how a study
abroad program could fit
within their major.
The Mapping Study Abroad
to the Major was the plan that
was developed in response.
After development, it was
submitted to the Office of
the Provost and the Office of
International Programs. The
Office of Study Abroad got
the green light to put the plan
in place. After that, three new
positions were created at the
Office to help realize the new
initiative.
While the three staff
members Alexis Jones,
associate
director
of
curriculum integration, Lauren
McEnaney, project manager
for curriculum integration
and Holly Presnell, project
specialist are charged with
helping realize the Curriculum
Integration, they also help
with the regular work of the
Office of Study Abroad, such
as researching programs and
working closely with regional
coordinators.
Id say its been a really
positive experience, Jones
said. Its really exciting to
be able to develop some new
opportunities for students
or at least present them with
opportunities that already
existed that they may not have
been aware of.
Jones also said working with
other faculty members and
departments has been exciting.
Talking about study abroad
isnt just a conversation that
happens within this office here,
it needs to be happening with
advisors and admission staff
and with other faculty across
campus and so that really helps
us in that process.
KRISTEN ZEIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A police officer walks through the alley near 6th Avenue and Cortland
Avenue in Columbus, Ohio, where
the body of missing Ohio State
football player, Kosta Karageorge
was discovered in a dumpster
Nov. 30. According to police,
Karageorge died of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound.
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Darren Wilson receives no severance package

JIM SALTER
Associated Press
FERGUSON,
Mo.
Ferguson
police
Officer
Darren Wilson did not receive
a severance package when he
resigned over the weekend, the
St. Louis suburbs mayor said
Sunday.
Wilson, 28, wont receive any
further pay or benefits, and he
and the city have cut their ties,
Mayor James Knowles told
reporters a day after Wilson
tendered his resignation, which
was effective immediately.
Wilson, who is white, had
been on administrative leave
since he killed Michael Brown,
an unarmed black 18-year-old,
during an Aug. 9 confrontation.
A grand jury decided Monday
not to indict him, sparking
days of sometimes violent
protests in Ferguson and other
cities.
Wilson
wrote
in
his
resignation letter that his
continued employment may
put the residents and police
officers of the City of Ferguson
at risk, which is a circumstance
I cannot allow.
His lawyer, Neil Bruntrager,
told The Associated Press that
Wilson decided to step aside
after police Chief Tom Jackson
told him about the alleged
threats Saturday.
The information we had was
that there would be actions
targeting the Ferguson (police)
department or buildings in
Ferguson related to the police
department, Bruntrager said.
He said Wilson, who had
worked for the department for
less than three years, and the
city were already discussing an
exit strategy, acknowledging
that Wilson staying on as
an officer there would be
impossible.
Many have criticized the
authorities handling of the
case, but Knowles said no
leadership changes were in
RILEY MORTENSEN/KANSAN
More than 100 protesters in Kansas City rallied at the intersection of

Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard and Prospect Avenue on Tuesday, Nov. 25.
The rally began at 7 p.m. and participants began to march down Cleaver
Boulevard just before 8 p.m.
the works. Asked if he would
resign, Jackson said flatly, No.
Benjamin
Crump,
an
attorney for Browns family,
said Wilsons resignation was
not a surprise.
It was always believed that
the police officer would do what
was in his best interest, both
personally and professionally,
Crump said. We didnt believe
that he would be able to be
effective for the Ferguson
community nor the Ferguson
Police Department because of
the tragic circumstances that
claimed the life of Michael
Brown Jr.
Crump said the family is still
considering civil litigation such
as a wrongful death lawsuit,
but dont let that get confused
with the fact that they really
wanted the killer of their child
to be held accountable.
Victoria
Rutherford
of
Ferguson said she believed
Wilson should have not only
resigned, but been convicted of
a crime.
Im upset. I have a
16-year-old son. It couldve

been him. I feel that he was
absolutely in the wrong, she
said.
Others residents were more
sympathetic. Reed Voorhees
said he hoped Wilson could
find similar work someplace
where he would enjoy life, and
move on with his life.
Wilson has spent his career
as a police officer, first in
neighboring Jennings, then in
Ferguson. Bruntrager said its
all hes ever wanted to do.
In terms of what it (the
resignation) means, it means
at this point he doesnt have
a paycheck, Bruntrager said.
He has no income so hell have
to make some decisions pretty
quickly.
Wilson fatally shot Brown in
the middle of a Ferguson street
after the two scuffled inside
Wilsons police SUV. Browns
body was left for more than four
hours as police investigated
and angry onlookers gathered.
Some witnesses have said
Brown had his hands up when
RILEY MORTENSEN/KANSAN
The Kansas City protest, which turned into a march, was peaceful for the most part. Participants and police were
respectful and worked together to try and make sure no one got hurt. Police showed up in full force on foot, horseback and in vehicles to escort protesters through the metro area. The crowd marched for several miles, picking up
more people as it went, before returning to the intersection of Prospect and Cleaver Boulevard just before 11 p.m.
Wilson shot him. Wilson told
the grand jury that he feared
for his life when Brown hit him
and reached for his gun.
The U.S. Justice Department
is conducting a civil rights
investigation into the shooting
and a separate investigation of
police department practices. It
isnt clear when those results
will be announced.
After the grand jurys decision
was announced, 12 commercial
buildings in Ferguson were
destroyed by fire. There have
been well over 100 arrests at
St. Louis-area protests in that
time.
Knowles said there hasnt
been a cost assessment of the
damage in Ferguson yet, and
he promised residents and
businesses that the city will do
all it can to seek financial help.
We are committed to
rebuilding our city, he said.
Reverberations
of
the
Ferguson events were evident
at the St. Louis Rams game.
Inside the dome, five Rams
players engaged in their own
apparent show of solidarity for
Ferguson protesters, standing
with their arms raised in a
Hands Up gesture before

trotting onto the field for
pregame introductions. All five
Tavon Austin, Kenny Britt,
Stedman Bailey, Jared Cook
and Chris Givens are black.
After the game, about 100
protesters marched in the area
near the Edward Jones Dome,
chanting, Ram fans join the
movement. When about three
dozen St. Louis officers in riot
gear showed up to make sure
things didnt get out of hand,
many of the fans broke out in
spontaneous applause for the
officers.
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Oh, I just cant wait to be king!
Claudius, Hamlet and
Richard III probably
There should be a PSA when
there is going to be tours in the
underground so I know to not
dress like Gollum.
So since McCollum Hall is going
to be torn down soon, can I have
a brick from McCollum? Ive lived
here almost four years after all.
Just FYI, you dont have to be
drunk to call SafeRide.
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Weigh both sides in sexual assault cases

By Helena Buchmann
@Helenabee
Sexual
assault
has
become one of the biggest
conversations at universities.
It
seems
like
every
week,someone
publishes
a new report on sexual
assault. Every time a new
allegation comes to light,
a popular argument pops
up that I cant quite wrap
my head around. Its the
cornerstone of our judicial
system and something I
usually adamantly support:
innocence until proven guilty.
Look at the comment
section on any article
detailing
sexual
assault
cases and you will find

someone insulting feminists
and declaring the alleged
perpetrators are innocent
until proven guilty. And its
true, they are in the eyes of
the law. However, I find it
difficult to accept this concept
because I instinctively believe
the victims, and I dont
understand how people
couldnt.
Recently, sexual assault
accusations against Bill
Cosby have blown up, and
they seem to increase almost
every day. For some, these
allegations of brutal drugging
and assault are unbelievable.
I have noticed the disbelief
often shifts from the beloved
family man we grew up with

on television to the women
who are probably just looking
for money at the expense of
Cosbys career. This belief
culminates in the argument
that Cosby is innocent until
proven guilty, and these
women are lying. But when
were the women proven
guilty of lying? Why is their
innocence not upheld like
Cosbys?
The truth is, we dont
know. There is no way for
me, someone not directly
involved in the case, to know
for certain who is telling the
truth and who is not.
Personally, I lean toward the
victims when these stories
come out, but most of my

decision has to do with how
theyre the only ones talking.
Earlier this year, Bright Eyes
frontman Conor Oberst
was accused of sexually
assaulting a woman when
she was a minor. At first, I felt
disgusted and disappointed
in someone whose music Ive
listened to for a long time.
But then Oberst came out
and categorically denied it.
He said, [Her] statements
are not only malicious
lies, but they are an insult to
the millions of actual rape
victims around the world.
He then filed a lawsuit,
which was dropped when she
admitted she made it all up.
The difference between

Oberst and other cases
Ive mentioned is Oberst
responded.
When
the
accused does not respond,
I find a weakness to the
argument of innocent until
proven guilty. If I were
wrongly accused of such
things, I would immediately
defend my character. On a
judicial level, the concept of
innocence until proven guilty
is paramount, but on an
instinctive level, the silence of
the accused indicates, to me,
some level of guilt.
Helena Buchmann is a
sophomore from Kansas City,
Kan., studying global and
Yik Yak can be a beneficial social media app

By Maddy Mikinski
@Miss_Maddy
I am behind on a few
social networks compared
to everyone else. I still
update my Facebook status
regularly, but Ive never
used Instagram or Tinder.
Thats why it was a big deal
when I downloaded Yik Yak.

The idea seemed a bit
daunting to me. I did not
know how to feel about
something I consider an
anonymous
version
of
Twitter. Yik Yak seemed
like just another place on
the Internet for people to be
horrible to one another.
The final push for me was
on Nov. 4, after the masked
men debacle. I received the
KU alert like everyone else,
but that was the first Id
heard of the situation. Most
people had already found

out about the situation from
Yik Yak, which piqued my
interest, and I decided it was
finally time to stay current
and join Yik Yak.
When first using Yik Yak,
I had low expectations. I
assumed people would take
advantage of the anonymity
and be rude, which some
people were, but the app is
a lot more benevolent than
I thought. Yik Yak users, at
least around here, use the
app to ask for or give advice.
Its even used as a way to

spread information.
The spread of information
on Yik Yak speaks volumes
for the app. At least once,
students learned about a
major event on campus
before the University even
notified them.
Yik Yak is a new way
to inform students and
community members. The
information on Yik Yak is
based on users locations,
instead of who they follow,
and could help get important
Countdown to Thursday for a

new Serial podcast!
posts out to people who

wouldnt normally get them.
After realizing all this,
Im a full-blown Yik Yak
supporter. The app has
the potential to do good
throughout the University
and Lawrence community
and thats something that
has been missing from
social media for a while.
Maddy Mikinski is a
sophomore from Linwood
studying journalism
KANSAN CARTOON:
Met the most handsome guy ever

the other day ... Why didnt I get
his number?? #Fail
Use a pen to push the cork down
into the wine bottle. #eyeroll
#rookie
I love coyotes and wolves. But I
know its bitter sweet seeing one
in town because I know someone
will shoot them without a second
thought. #Caninelover
Perry Ellis is a beast!!
Am I the only person who isnt a
big fan of Reddit?
What was the best

thing you did over
Thanksgiving break?
Can we form a flash mob on

Jayhawk Boulevard and do it to
classical rock songs?
Tip: Guys prefer forward ladies,
not mysterious ones.
Im in a B-Dubs in SD and I still
get to watch the Jayhawks!
Fast forward my life to winter
break please
I had every intention of doing
homework over break, but nah.
Food and family over everything.
KU vs. Michigan St. almost gave
me a heart attack.
Follow us on Twitter @KansanOpinion. Tweet us

your opinions, and we just might publish them.
Waiting another year to see

Mockingjay Pt. 2 makes
me want to cry
My schedule has gotten completely screwed up from sleeping in

during break ... Im not sure if I
can go back now.
Im craving some chili hardcore
right now. Yum yum yum!
60 degree weather one day
and 30 degrees the next.
Thats Kansas for ya.
@lauwrenorder
@KansanOpinion Saw Mockingjay, took a bubble bath and ate

my weight in pecan pie. Theyre
all tied.
@NotKUCompliance
@KansanOpinion End the #kufball season.
FFA OF THE DAY
Netflix or homework? I think

Netflix.
Basketball fever; should have gotten a shot.
Im still feeling the fullness from

Thanksgiving.
Im goin goin back back to
Lawrence Lawrence
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arts & features
HOROSCOPES
Because the stars

know things we dont.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 9
Youre taking control. Assuage
doubts with factual data.
Secrets get revealed. Abrupt
change occurs. Look forward to
two days in the spotlight. Dont
fall for a trick. Thoughts turn to
home, family and food.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
Finish old projects today and
tomorrow. Productive creativity
and thoughtful insight creep in
silently. Consider all options.
A partner points out a fallacy.
Stand firm, and another backs
down. You dont need pie-in-thesky promises.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is an 8
A surprise could change things.
Take the time to understand fully. Dont run away from a tough
situation. Postpone an outing,
maybe. Travel beckons, but take
care. Avoid distraction. Dont run
away from your work.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is an 8
Enter a two-day testing phase.
Focus for intense action. There
are pitfalls, but it could get
profitable. Its not a good time to
gamble, even if moneys tight.
Draw the line.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 9
Surprises keep your focus on
immediate needs. No gambling
allowed. Set long-range goals
over the next two days. Pay
attention to one job at a time.
Dont believe everything you
hear.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 8
Changes necessitate budget
revisions. Invest in your own
education. Ignore someone who
would deceive. Communications
get garbled. Dont base your
plans on fantasies. Consider an
exit strategy before committing.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 9
Compromise and negotiation
come easily over the next two
days. Dont make expensive
promises. Involve the whole
group in your plans. Defer gratification for now. Dont talk about
dreams and visions... just keep
in action. Put in a correction.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 9
Dont fall for an impossible
scheme, with Mercury square to
Neptune. Watch out for spills.
Dont fall for crocodile tears or
tricksters. A disagreement about
priorities could slow the action.
A distressing dream includes
valuable clues.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
Romance, fun and interesting
games entice you to play today
and tomorrow. Dont talk about
ephemeral fantasies... focus on
concrete and practical efforts.
Manage resources carefully.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
Handle home repairs today and
tomorrow. Dont fund a fantasy.
Prioritize practical efforts that
increase comfort and convenience.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is an 8
Practice creating a positive
spin on whats happening, for
entertainment. Write and record
your latest collaboration. There
may be a pop quiz... keep alert
and do your homework. A conflict
with authority could arise.
Communication breakdowns
slow progress. Take it slow.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 9
Today and tomorrow could get
lucrative. Manage money wisely.
Dont be afraid of shadows.
Make a big decision. Give in to a
brilliant idea. Resist mediocrity. Look for the hidden story,
with Mercury square Neptune.
Abandon an old fear.
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Global Scholars announces recipients

ALLISON CRIST
@AllisonCristUDK
More than 40 students

applied to be Global
Scholars this year. Of the 40
applicants, 15 sophomores
were selected.
Dena
Register,
the
programs coordinator, said
more students applied this
year than in the past five
years. Register said the 15
students chosen will receive
a $1,000 study abroad
scholarship to the country
of their choice, and the
scholars will participate in a
three-hour seminar class in
the spring.
The topic for this class
changes each year, as well
as the professor teaching
it. Register, who is also an
associate professor in the
School of Music, will be this
years seminar teacher. The
class will expand upon the
selected topic: community
in a global context.
Following the seminar,
Register said students will
each pair with a faculty
mentor and develop and
carry out research projects
that interest them. Past
topics have included science
crossing boundaries, the
Americas, and education
and the global economy.
The students will present
the outcomes of their
research during their senior
year at the Global Scholars
Symposium.
These students get to
interact with their peers
who are from a variety of
disciplines, Register said.
Why are you a Global Scholar?
Alex Robinson
Mara McAllister
Alex Robinson, Stillwell:

Im a Global Scholar because I care
about our world our ever shrinking
globe where news travels at the speed
of light and connects everyone in a
multitude of ways. We are in a new
age of information and culture that
has everyone on earth fighting to be
heard and fighting to make a spot for
themselves. Im a Global Scholar because
I want to study and know the intricacies
that connect us all be it Ferguson, Mo.,
Ukraine, West Africa or Hong Kong,
every news story has an impact on us.
They get to begin engaging

in interdisciplinary work
and start understanding
how their major relates to
others on campus.
A student must be a
sophomore with 3.75 GPA
to be considered for the
program. Students who
meet the requirements and
are interested in global
studies can then fill out
an application and submit
recommendation letters.
The process calls for an
essay on what I thought
Mara McAllister, Lawrence:

Im a Global Scholar because I value
diversity and international perspective.
I firmly believe that international
experiences, like studying abroad, are
incredibly valuable in creating conscious,
compassionate citizens.
global meant and what

the program would give me
as far as opportunities and
how it would help me learn a
They get to begin engaging

in interdisciplinary work and
start understanding how
their major relates to others
on campus.
DENA REGISTER
Global Scholars coordinator
Samantha Harms
Samantha Harms, Lansing:

Im a Global Scholar because someone
saw something in me. I strive to be the
best I can be every day and someone saw
that and wanted to help me along my
way. Ive traveled the world already so
while I already have some knowledge of
the globe, being able to look at through
the eyes of a Global Scholar is something
Im extremely blessed to be able to do. All
15 of us were chosen for a reason and Im
excited to find out what my reason is.
wider perspective on issues

we learn about in school
here at KU, said Global
Scholar Alex Robinson, a
sophomore from Stilwell.
After he completed the
application process, he
was selected with a group
of other students to be
interviewed.
The interview involved
several professors, which
was the most daunting
part, Robinson said. I
needed to present myself
professionally and convey
the benefits I would get

from the program, as well as
what led me to apply.
After
the
interviews,
15 students were chosen
as Global Scholars. A
complete list of this years
awarded students can be
found at: global.ku.edu/
cherry-picked-new-globalscholars-selected
5 films to watch in honor of World AIDS Day

ALEX LAMB
@LambCannon
Today is World AIDS Day.
To honor and recognize
the day, here are five films
centered on the disease that
will leave you with a better
understanding of how HIV
affects peoples lives.
Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew
McConaughey
won an Oscar for his
terrific performance in this
admirable true story as Ron
Woodroof, a straight rodeo
man who was given an AIDS
death sentence in the 80s.
He fought to keep himself
alive, and to help others
with the disease survive, by
smuggling beneficial drugs
into Dallas that were not
approved by the FDA.
How to Survive a Plague
This extremely powerful

documentary plays out like
a high-stakes thriller. The
film chronicles the struggle
of advocacy groups for those
with AIDS trying to advance
the government to produce
effective AIDS medication,
while millions died from the
epidemic.
Rent Most of the
original Broadway cast stars
in this adaptation of the
??
famous musical about artists,

performers and activists
half of whom have AIDS
seeking seasons of love
and finding strength in each
other as they push through
their troubles with emotional
songs.
Philadelphia Tom
Hanks full dramatic talent
came into the spotlight in
this film, and he earned
his first Oscar for this legal
drama. He plays a lawyer
who was seemingly fired
because he has AIDS, so he
takes his firm to court for
it, and he is represented by a
lawyer (Denzel Washington)
struggling with his own
homophobic feelings.
Blood Brother This
documentary
follows
20-something
American
Rocky Braat, who devotes
himself to an orphanage in
India for young children
with AIDS. The film shows
the pain and suffering the
childrens affliction causes
them, how everyone else
is afraid of those with the
disease and the truly moving
connection between Rocky
and the kids, who live
joyously in spite of their
situation.
ANNE MARIE FOX/FOCUS FEATURES
Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto portray the lives of two men affected by AIDS in the 1980s in the 2013
film Dallas Buyers Club.
QUICK QUESTION
WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE PART ABOUT THANKSGIVING BREAK?
Jamie Stone and Stefanie Snyder flew home together from KCI to LAX over Thanksgiving break. Both
girls are freshmen from Los Angeles.
My favorite part about the

break was being home and seeing the people I havent seen for
four months. And Black Friday
shopping with my best friends
from back home.
My favorite part about Thanksgiving was seeing my best

friend because I missed her
since we live so far away from
each other and have such busy
schedules, so we dont talk as
much as we used to.
STEFANIE SNYDER
FRESHMAN FROM LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
JAMIE STONE
FRESHMAN FROM LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
DALTON KINGERY/KANSAN
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Reading Harry Potter gives

clues to brain activity
LAURAN NEERGAARD
Associated Press
GENARO MOLINA/TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Claremont Colleges student newspaper staff from left, Caroline Bowman, editor-in-chief, Rachel Lang, life
and style editor, and managing editors Julia Thomas and Sam McLaughlin chuckle while trying to come up
with a headline for the weekly sex column for The Student Life, newspaper.
Sex column thrives at

Claremont Colleges
JASON SONG
Tribune News Service

LOS ANGELES Buried in the back pages of the
Claremont Colleges student
newspaper, which serves the
consortium of five college
in California, is a relic from
a distant time when Sarah
Jessica Parker was still on
HBO every week and Facebook didn't exist. There, the
student sex column thrives,
amid a decline of such columns elsewhere.
Once common in the early
2000s, Carrie Bradshaw-style
articles have become rarer,
especially in California. USC,
UCLA and UC Santa Cruz
once published weekly articles that focused on everything from bondage to simple
advice, but all have ceased.
"The full-blown, confessional, first-person story seems
like it's peaked," said Dan
Reimold, a professor at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia who wrote a book about
college sex journalism.
There are several reasons
for the decline, Reimold and
others say. Many early columnists used HBO's "Sex in
the City" as a template, and
as the franchise faded from
screens, sex columnists did,
too. Recently, college sexual
assault and rape have become
hot-button topics, and some
undergraduates say they are
reluctant to take a seemingly
frivolous approach to a sensitive topic.
Students also are becoming
more aware of their digital
footprint and are afraid the
first thing that will come up
when potential future employers Google their name is
a graphic description of their

sex lives.
Editors at USC's Daily Trojan recently considered reviving the sex column but
found few candidates, said
Euno Lee, the paper's editor
in chief.
"There's definitely a PR concern," said Lee, who added
that he gets requests from
alumni who ask him to remove stories they wrote as
undergraduates from the paper's website. (Daily Trojan
editors have a policy of not
taking stories down.)
The full-blown, confessional, first-person story seems

like its peaked.
DAN REIMOLD
Professor at St. Josephs
University in Philadelphia
Accounts of students' sexual escapades are still popular

on many campuses. The Daily Californian's weekly Sex
on Tuesday column is one of
the most well-read features
at UC Berkeley. One columnist's recounting of her encounters in the library stacks
and other academic buildings drew nearly 200,000
page views.
Reimold said he has never
heard of a former sex columnist's career being harmed by
their past; rather, some have
gone on to other high-profile
entertainment or media jobs,
including writing for the TV
show "Gossip Girl."
Elspeth Keller Scott, who
wrote a sex and dating column for USC's Daily Trojan
and now writes screenplays,

said her columns have never
come up in her professional
life.
But Keller Scott said she
rarely wrote about intimate
details. "It was never about
what I did last night," she
said.
Lara Lowenstein wrote a sex
column for the Daily Bruin
for two years in the mid2000s and was concerned
that it would come up when
she was applying for jobs or
to graduate school. But it was
never an issue, so "that worry
seems to have been unfounded," said Lowenstein, who is
working on her doctorate in
economics at Brandeis University in Boston.
One reason the Claremont
Colleges' sex column may
have had such a long run,
dating back almost a decade,
is that the feature has always
been anonymous.
Editors go to great lengths
to protect the columnists'
identities. Their names aren't
included in a staff directory,
only their phone numbers.
Columnists are invited to the
paper's parties, but they don't
have to reveal themselves and
often just say they are contributors. "Maybe three people on staff know" who it is,
said Caroline Bowman, the
paper's editor-in-chief.
This year's columnist applied for the job and initially
wanted to use her real name.
Editors convinced her not to,
so she uses a pen name that
rhymes with a sex act.
Remaining
anonymous
"makes it easier for me to express myself," she said, "and
it won't come back to bite me
in the future."
WASHINGTON Reading about Harry Potter's adventures learning to fly his

broomstick activates some of
the same regions in the brain
we use to perceive real people's
actions and intentions.
In a unique study, scientists
who peeked into the brains
of people caught up in a good
book emerged with maps of
what a healthy brain does as
it reads.
The
research
reported
Wednesday has implications
for studying reading disorders
or recovery from a stroke. The
team from Carnegie Mellon
University was pleasantly surprised that the experiment actually worked.
Most neuroscientists painstakingly have tracked how the
brain processes a single word
or sentence, looking for clues
to language development or
dyslexia by focusing on one
aspect of reading at a time. But
reading a story requires multiple systems working at once:
recognizing how letters form a
word, knowing the definitions
and grammar, keeping up with
the characters' relationships
and the plot twists.
Measuring all that activity is
remarkable, said Georgetown
University
neuroscientist
Guinevere Eden, who helped
pioneer brain-scanning studies of dyslexia but wasn't involved in the new work.
"It offers a much richer way
of thinking about the reading

brain," Eden said, calling the
project "very clever and very
exciting."
No turning pages inside a
brain-scanning MRI machine;
you have to lie still. So at Carnegie Mellon, eight adult volunteers watched for nearly 45
minutes as each word of Chapter 9 of "Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone" was flashed
for half a second onto a screen
inside the scanner.
Why that chapter? It has
plenty of action and emotion as Harry swoops around
on his broom, faces the bully
Malfoy and later runs into a
three-headed dog, but there's
not too much going on for
scientists to track, said lead researcher Leila Wehbe, a Ph.D.
student.
The research team analyzed
the scans, second by second,
and created a computerized
model of brain activity involved with different reading
processes. The research was
published Wednesday by the
journal PLoS One.
"For the first time in history,
we can do things like have you
read a story and watch where
in your brain the neural activity is happening," said senior
author Tom Mitchell, director
of Carnegie Mellon's Machine
Learning Department. "Not
just where are the neurons firing, but what information is
being coded by those different
neurons."
Wehbe had the idea to study
reading a story rather than just
words or phrases.
But parsing the brain activity took extraordinary effort.
For every word, the researchers identified features the
number of letters, the part of
speech, if it was associated
with a character or action or
emotion or conversation. Then
they used computer programming to analyze brain patterns
associated with those features
in every four-word stretch.
They spotted some complex
interactions.
For example, the brain region that processes the characters' point of view is the one
we use to perceive intentions
behind real people's actions,
Wehbe said. A region that we
use to visually interpret other
people's emotions helps decipher characters' emotions.
That suggests we're using
pretty high-level brain functions, not just the semantic
concepts but our previous experiences, as we get lost in the
story, she said.
A related study using faster
brain-scanning
techniques
shows that much of the neural activity is about the history
of the story up to that point,
rather than deciphering the
current word, Mitchell added.
The team's computer model can distinguish with 74
percent accuracy which of
two text passages matches a
pattern of neural activity, he
said, calling it a first step as
researchers tease apart what
the brain does when someone
reads.
Wizard of Oz Cowardly
Lion costume fetches $3M
NEW YORK The Cowardly Lion
costume from the classic film "The
Wizard of Oz" and the piano from
the movie "Casablanca" each sold
for over $3 million at a New York
City auction.
They were among Hollywood
memorabilia offered at Bonhams
on Monday.
The big cat outfit, which went
for just over $3 million, had been
authenticated as the one Bert Lahr
wore in the 1939 film. Its face is a
sculpted likeness of the late actor.
A spokesman for costume owner
James Comisar says a secondary
costume used in the film sold at
auction in recent years for close to
$1 million.
Comisar has a trove of TV memorabilia from shows including "I
Love Lucy" and "Lost." He has said
he plans to use money from the
Cowardly Lion costume sale to exhibit his collection.
The upright "Casablanca" piano
fetched $3.4 million.
RICHARD DREW/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bert Lahrs Cowardly Lion costume from The Wizard of Oz, part of the
Theres No Place Like Hollywood movie memorabilia auction at Bonhams auction house in New York, sold for more than $3 million.
Associated Press
Letter that inspired Kerouac found

JOHN ROGERS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES It's been

called the letter that launched a
literary genre 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by
Neal Cassady to his friend Jack
Kerouac in 1950.
Upon reading them, Kerouac
scrapped an early draft of "On
The Road" and, during a threeweek writing binge, revised his
novel into a style similar to Cassady's, one that would become
known as Beat literature.
The letter, Kerouac said, would
have transformed his counterculture muse Cassady into a
towering literary figure, if only it
hadn't been lost.
Turns out it wasn't, says Joe
Maddalena, whose Southern
California auction house Profiles in History is putting the letter up for sale Dec. 17. It was just
misplaced, for 60-some years.
It's being offered as part of a
collection that includes papers
by E.E. Cummings, Kenneth
Rexroth, Robert Penn Warren
and other prominent literary figures. But Maddalena believes the

item bidders will want most is
Cassady's 18-page, single-spaced
screed describing a drunken,
sexually charged, sometimes
comical visit to his hometown of
Denver.
"It's the seminal piece of literature of the Beat Generation, and
there are so many rumors and
speculation of what happened to
it," Maddalena said.
Kerouac told The Paris Review
in 1968 that poet Allen Ginsberg
loaned the letter to a friend who
lived on a houseboat in Northern California. Kerouac believed
the friend then dropped it overboard.
As for the quality of the letter,
Kerouac described it this way:
"It was the greatest piece of writing I ever saw, better'n anybody
in America, or at least enough
to make Melville, Twain, Dreiser, Wolfe, I dunno who, spin in

their graves."
It turns out Ginsberg apparently was trying to get it published when he mailed the letter
to Golden Goose Press in San
Francisco. There it remained,
unopened, until the small publishing house folded.
When it did, its owner planned
to throw the letter in the trash,
along with every other unopened submission he still had
in his files.
That was when the operator of
a small, independent music label
who shared an office with publisher Richard Emerson came to
the rescue. He took every manuscript, letter and receipt in the
Golden Goose Archives home
with him.
"My father didn't know who
Allen Ginsberg was, he didn't
know Cassady, he wasn't part

of the Beat scene, but he loved
poetry," said Los Angeles performance artist Jean Spinosa, who
found the letter as she was cleaning out her late father's house
two years ago. "He didn't understand how anyone would want
to throw someone's words out."
Although she knew who Kerouac and Cassady were, Spinosa
had never heard of "The Joan
Anderson Letter," the name
Kerouac gave it for Cassady's description of a woman he'd had a
brief romance with.
"It's invaluable," historian and
Kerouac biographer Dennis
McNally said. "It inspired Kerouac greatly in the direction he
wanted to travel, which was this
spontaneous style of writing
contained in a letter that had
just boiled out of Neal Cassady's
brain."

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Shepherd not weakened

by Locketts career day
SHANE JACKSON
@JacksonShane3
For the second consecutive

week, Kansas found itself on
the wrong end of a recordbreaking day. This one came
at the hands of Kansas State
wide receiver Tyler Lockett,
who surpassed his father
Kevin to etch his name in the
Wildcat record books.
Lockett hauled in nine
catches for 119 yards and two
touchdowns, as the Jayhawks
were routed 51-13 by their
in-state rivals in Manhattan
on Saturday.
Prior to Saturdays contest,
Lockett had already broken
the K-State career receiving
record for yards (3,269),
putting him at sixth in the
Big 12 history books. He also
had 14 games with 100 yards
receiving, a record previously
held by Jordy Nelson.
Tasked with slowing him
down was senior cornerback
JaCorey Shepherd.
For me personally, I
was looking forward to it,
Shepherd said. Hes shifty
and quick out of the break.
As a defensive back, whether
hes shifty or not, I have to be
there.
You can now add most
career receptions to Locketts
stout resume. Lockett needed
just five catches to surpass his
father. He accomplished that
feat in the last K-State drive
of the first half, of which he
had three catches on that
drive alone.
Lockett is currently one
record shy of sole possession
for the triple-crown, as
he is tied with his father
for most career receiving
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touchdowns (26).
Hes got great hands, hes
shifty and he runs great
routes, senior wide receiver
Nick Harwell said. I feel like
he will do well at the next
level.
Kansas knew coming in
it would be a tough task to
snap its 32-game road-losing
streak against the No. 11
ranked team in the nation.
But for the Jayhawks to have
any shot, they understood
they would need to contain
the All-American receiver.
For me personally, I was

looking forward to it. [Locketts] shifty and quick out
of the break. As a defensive
back, whether hes shifty or
not, I have to be there.
JACOREY SHEPHERD
Senior cornerback
Fortunately for Kansas,

the secondary has been the
strong suit of this years team.
Shepherd has been a catalyst
of the group all season.
We (Shepherd and Dexter
McDonald) believe we are the
best corners in the Big 12,
Shepherd said after the TCU
game.
The stats backed Shepherd
up as he came in leading all
Big 12 defensive backs and
ranked second in the nation
in passes defended (19).
Of the seniors 19 passes
defended, 16 were pass
breakups and three were
interceptions.
Coming
in, Shepherd had not
surrendered a touchdown
since the season opener.
But Lockett proved to be
too much for the conferences
best
corner,
snapping
Shepherds
touchdown
drought in the third quarter
on a six-yard out route.
The matchup proved to be
much more lopsided than
expected, but to Shepherds
credit, it wasnt solely on him.
K-State utilized Locketts
skillset, lining him up all
over the field. Of Locketts
nine catches, five happened
when Shepherd covered
him. Senior safety Cassius
Sendish had the coverage on
two receptions, while senior
cornerback McDonald and
junior safety Isaiah Johnson
covered him once apiece.
Although it may have been
a game to forget for the
senior, Shepherd will leave
Kansas with success on and
off the field.
Shepherd is currently a
finalist for the 2014 Senior
CLASS Award, the first
Jayhawk football finalist
since cornerback Darrell
Stuckey in 2009. Shepherd
is also a two-time Academic
All-Big 12 Second Team
honoree.
It may have not been the
going away party Shepherd
imagined, but at the end of
the day, he can look back
at his Kansas career with a
feeling of accomplishment.
I thanked the seniors for
what they had done here
and they had nothing to be
ashamed of, interim head
coach Clint Bowen said.
They are Jayhawks for life.
COLUMN FROM PAGE 10

Harwell, the extra point was
blocked. The proceeding KU
kickoff was returned 65 yards
to the Kansas 23. Kansas State
scored four plays later.
Everything you just built
up gets taken away from you,
Bowen said of those series of
unfortunate plays. You cant
even get the momentum to
swing.
Following the 38-point
thrashing Saturday, Kansas
State (9-2, 7-1) has won its
past five games against Kansas
by 31.6 points per game.
From top-down, Kansas
State has Kansas football by a
string. And unless the athletic
department decides to take
football as seriously as the
Wildcats do, well be seeing
more of the same for years
to come. More appropriately named, the Sunflower
Beatdown, will consist of a
purple Bill Snyder Family
Stadium in Manhattan and a
purple Memorial Stadium in
Lawrence.
In a state consisting of just
3 million people and two
went just 12-41-2. But in

1991, Glen Mason had Kansas
6-5, and the following season
they finished 8-4 and defeated
BYU in the Aloha Bowl.
From 1998-2002, Kansas
went just 18-38. But the
following season, Mark
Mangino had Kansas beating
rival Missouri and playing in
the Tangerine Bowl.
Clint Bowen will give this
program his best, but he
needs support from administration. The current approach
can best be described as
rudderless.
At this flagship university,
basketball has been, is and
will always be at the forefront
of donors minds. Football will continue to be fed
chopped liver and expected
to compete against a program
and coach 80 miles to the
west that is 100 percent full
bore.
Until this athletic department reinvests itself in football, expect few fans to show,
even fewer to stay. Expect no
one to care.
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Mens basketball rewind:

Orlando Classic tourney
BEN CARROLL
@BCarroll91
Kansas coasted in the

non-bracket game of the Orlando Classic last Monday
en route to an 87-60 victory
against Rider. The Jayhawks
played the best basketball
they have all season in the first
half. Sophomore guard Brannen Greene led the Jayhawks
with 17 points. He went a
perfect 5-for-5 from the freethrow line and shot 50 percent
from 3-point range.
The Jayhawks boarded the
plane to Orlando prepared
to play Rhode Island. The
Jayhawks defeated the Rams
76-60 on Thanksgiving. Sophomore guard Wayne Selden Jr.

was all over Kansas stat line.
Selden recorded 10 points,
seven rebounds, four assists
and two blocks. Junior forward Perry Ellis led the team
in scoring with 17. Rhode
Island guard E.C. Matthews
had his second-consecutive
20-plus-point game.
With a quick turnaround
and a game the next day, the
Jayhawks continued their
winning streak with an 82-67
victory against the Tennessee
Volunteers. It was the thirdstraight game Kansas held its
opponents to under 68 points.
Ellis led the way for the Jay-
hawks with his second double-double of the season and

first since game one. He had
a season-high 24 points and
hit the glass hard with 13 rebounds.
The championship game of
the 2014 Orlando Classic was
a well-anticipated matchup
between Bill Self and Tom
Izzo. Kansas raised the trophy
in the regular-season tournament with a 61-56 victory against Michigan State.
Once again, there was a double-double dropped by a Jayhawk, but it wasnt Ellis this
time. It was sophomore guard
Frank Mason, who had 10
points and 10 rebounds.
KANSAS VS. RHODE ISLAND, QUARTERFINAL ROUND

First Half:
Kansas led 43-25
Second Half:
Kansas won 76-60
Rhode Island only tied the game once during

the first half, then the Jayhawks went on a 14-1
run. Kansas was hitting on all cylinders by 11
turnovers and hitting seven 3-pointers. Ellis
scored 11 points and grabbed five rebounds in
the first half alone. Ellis tip-slammed following
a layup Mason missed and hit a 3-pointer in
back-to-back possessions. Selden assisted four
baskets, as well.
After shooting 50 percent from the field in the

first half, Kansas shot 33 percent from the field
and turned the ball over eight times. Rhode Island outscored Kansas in the second half by two
points, but the Jayhawks hit 12 of 13 free throws;
Kansas had missed six first-half free throws. Ellis cooled off with six points on four shots, but
Alexander scored seven points and grabbed
four rebounds after playing just six minutes in
the first half.
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Kansas freshman Devonte Graham celebrates a 3-pointer during the non-bracket game of the Orlando Classic
against Rider on Monday, Nov. 24. Kansas won the game 87-60, then went on to win the tournament Sunday.
KANSAS VS. MICHIGAN STATE, CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND

First Half:
Kansas trailed 36-35
Second Half:
Kansas won 61-56
Kansas started strong with the same starting

lineup as the previous three games, jumping
out to an early 5-0 lead. Soon after, the Spartans took the largest lead of the game, 23-16,
but the Jayhawks surged back with the help of a
three off the hands of freshman guard Sviatoslav
Mykhailiuk as well as an and-1 from sophomore
guard Frank Mason. The Jayhawks took a 24-23
lead when Mason made the foul shot. Ellis led
the Jayhawks with 12 points and five rebounds.
Kansas was blistering to start the second half

and jumped back in front of the Spartans early, 39-38. Freshman forward Cliff Alexander
started the second half and made his presence
early with a block. It took nearly six minutes for
Michigan State to make a field goal in the second half. Ellis was one rebound shy of his second-straight double-double.
Ben Carroll
Blair Sheade
KANSAS VS. TENNESSEE, SEMIFINAL ROUND

First Half:
Kansas led 40-33
Second Half:
Kansas won 82-67
Kansas got off to a hot start in the first half

against Tennessee. After hitting a season-high
eight 3-pointers Thursday against Rhode Island, sophomore Frank Mason knocked a three
down to start the game. The Jayhawks continued to force up 3-pointers in the early minutes
of the game, as they fired up five 3-pointers in
the first four-and-a-half minutes, connecting
twice. Kansas size advantage was evident in the
first half, pulling down 29 rebounds. After the
Kentucky game, coach Bill Self stressed sharing
the ball and being more unselfish. Kansas continued to put that into action recording 10 assists. Tennessee kept the game close with solid
3-point shooting of its own. Kansas second unit
struggled on defense including a four-point play
when freshman guard Kelly Oubre Jr. fouled
the 3-point shooter. Ellis had another strong
half, leading Kansas in scoring with 11 points
with four rebounds and three assists. Since the
Kentucky game, Ellis has been a focal point in
Self s offense. With 2:28 left in the half, sophomore Wayne Selden Jr. committed a flagrant
foul on Tennessees Kevin Punter. Punter made
the basket, converted both free throws and got
possession, a six-point swing, bringing Tennessee within four. Kansas headed into half with a
40-33 lead.
With only a seven-point lead to start the second half, the Jayhawks would need their strongest second half of the season to take down
Tennessee and advance to the Orlando Classic
Championship. Alexander had another strong
performance off the bench. With efficient shooting and a strong finish, the freshman took advantage of the fact that he was the biggest man
on the court. By the 16-minute mark in the half,
Alexander finished his third alley-oop slam of
the game, two in two straight possessions. In his
first nine minutes, Alexander was 4-for-5 from
the field with 12 points. On a 13-1 run, Tennessee pulled the game within one with 12:12 left
to play. The rest of the half was tightly contested
with both teams trading baskets and turnovers.
With 5:37 left, Alexander grabbed an offensive rebound and finished it, drawing the foul
and converting the free throw, giving Kansas a
five-point lead. Kansas went on a 7-0 run and
secured the lead for the remainder of the game.
Ellis led Kansas in scoring with 24 points, and
he had 10 rebounds and three assists, while Alexander finished with a career high 16 on 5-for6 shooting. Kansas defeated Tennessee 82-67.
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There is not a whole lot of movement

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right now. We have had our calls
[among team representatives and
union leaders]. All the guys are on
board. Its a matter of explaining it to
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THE MORNING BREW
MLS new Collective Bargaining Agreement will bring enormous change
ajor League Soccer will enter its 21st season in March

2015, and the new season
will come with a new Collective
Bargaining Agreement. The changes
are expected to be monumental due
to the increase in attendance across
the league and the fairly low base
salary for players that the expiring
deal dictates.
One of the biggest revisions to the
agreement will be to the leagues
salary cap. MLS salary cap currently
stands at $3.1 million. Teams have
three Designated Player slots, which
allow three players to be payed above
the maximum salary of $387,500.
Some of these players are paid well
over the salary cap for the entire
team, like Kak, a player just signed
by Orlando at $7 million per year.
The new CBA will have to address the
base salaries of non-DPs who make
up most of the league.
Some DPs arent paid very much.
Sporting Kansas Citys Matt Besler
and Graham Zusi signed new contracts over the summer that increased
their base salaries to $600,000, but
both contracts include several incen-
By Skylar Rolstad
@SkyRolSports
tives.
MLS and US Soccer signed a deal
worth $90 million with Fox and ESPN
for media rights to televise MLS
soccer next season. This agreement
replaces 2013s deal with NBC and
ESPN worth $75 million.
A new television deal with Fox and
ESPN will revolutionize how soccer
is watched in the U.S., and all of the
money has to be shared between
players, owners and league initiatives like player development. The
new deal will eliminate MLS online
live streaming service and will show
every non-televised MLS game on
WatchESPN.
Player acquisition mechanisms
within the league have been singled
out for change in recent years. Players
who are released can go through a

series of drafts to allocate them to
different teams, but the format of this
often makes the player, whose salary
usually isnt terribly large, powerless
as to where he ends up.
The league also broke its own
rules to bring big new signings to
teams where they wanted to end
up. The first was Clint Dempsey,
followed by Michael Bradley and
Jermaine Jones. These players should
have been drafted by an allocation
order to the top team in the order, but
a rule was added to MLS regulations after the Dempsey signing that
essentially said the league could do
whatever it wanted when it comes to
allocating a DP to a team.
The fact that all three of these
players make several times over what
most of their teammates make and
the increased amount of money coming into the sport highlights the lack
of leverage MLS commands against
the players union.
As a result of the impending negotiations and possible rearrangement
of player acquisition methods, teams
are unsure of how to go about the off-
season.
The
Chicago
Fire has
already
released
almost half
its roster,
and Sporting Kansas
City just
made a few surprising
releases, including
midfielder Antonio Dovale.
All the changes that the league
is going to make, or that the CBA
is going to make, you may not be
planning the correct way. Thats a little
scary, to be honest with you, said
Peter Vermes, Sporting KCs coach,
via MLSsoccer.com.
Fortunately, revisions made in the
CBA will mean that the quality of play
in MLS should pick up in the years
after this agreement is made. More
money available for salaries will make
teams able to sign better players.
Kansas women misfire against

top-ranked Notre Dame 89-47
SCOTT CHASEN
@SChasenKU
Coming into the game

against
the
top-ranked
team in the Coaches Poll,
few thought the Jayhawks
were going to be able to
hang around with the
Fighting Irish. Notre Dame
had already cracked the
100-point mark three times
this season, and managed to
win games by margins of 35,
54, 60 and 75.
Kansas lost 89-47, but
that large margin wasnt
the story early on, as the
Jayhawks jumped out to a
quick five-point lead, before
battling back and forth for
a while. Nine minutes into
the game, the women found
themselves down just two;
five minutes after that the

Hawks were only down six.
The final score wasnt pretty,
but more than anything, the
game showed a bit of promise
for Kansas. The 42-point
margin of victory by Notre
Dame was its third lowest of
the season, with Chattanooga
and Michigan State being the
only schools to fare better
against the Fighting Irish.
Additionally, Kansas held
Notre Dame to 89 points,
which is its third lowest
scoring total on the season,
and more than seven points
below its average of 96.2
points per game coming in.
Senior forward Chelsea
Gardner led the Jayhawks
in scoring and rebounding,
with 15 points and six
rebounds, to go along with
three steals. Senior guard

Natalie Knight, on the other
hand, probably had the best
overall game for Kansas,
scoring 13 points on 5-of-8
shooting, and making three
of her four 3-point attempts.
Knight also racked up six
assists, while committing just
one turnover.
Outside of Knight and
Gardner, the team combined
to make just nine of its 33
field-goal attempts, which
rounds out to about 27
percent. Notre Dame shot
55.4 percent from the field,
but the Fighting Irish did
most of their damage at the
3-point line, going 8-for-13.
They also won the battle at
the free-throw line, hitting
19 of 21 attempts, while the
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By Dan Harmsen
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uch like the previous

four Sunflower Showdown matchups, Saturdays rivalry game between the
Kansas Jayhawks and the Kansas
State Wildcats lacked zest.
It was 14-0 before anything
even happened, interim head
coach Clint Bowen said. We
didnt need that.
Plagued by early turnovers, an
ill-equipped offensive and defensive line, less than stellar wideout
play, and a special teams group
that looked like it was playing
a man or three down at times,
Kansas was outclassed yet again
by its in-state competitor.
When it was all said and done,
Kansas State left little doubt
in this one, out gaining the
Jayhawks 505 to 197, while more
than doubling KUs first-down
output.
The proverbial fat lady was
singing loud and clear from the
opening kickoff in Manhattan, as
the Jayhawks closed out the 2014
season (3-9, 1-8). Dominated
in all facets of the game, it isnt
too crazy to think that Wildcats
coach Bill Snyder could have,
and may have named the score
on Saturday, which wound up
being 51-13.
As they were in Norman, Okla.,
the Jayhawks faced an opponent
for a second-consecutive week
who was imposing at home and
suffocating, borderline indomitable with early advantages.
Heading into the Oklahoma
game a week ago, the Sooners
had a 47-game winning streak
when leading an opponent by
halftime the best in college
football. At the intermission,
Oklahoma led Kansas 24-0.
Prior to kickoff Saturday,
Kansas State had won 46 straight
games when heading into the
locker room with a lead, good
for second-best behind only
Oklahoma. With 10:18 left in the
first quarter, Kansas had already
spotted the highly favored Wildcats two scores. On its first two
possessions, Kansas punted and
threw an interception. The errors
unforced. In sum, Kansas
football simply cannot get out of
its own way.
Linemen Ben Goodman (93) and Keon Stowers (98) make their way back to the locker room after Kansas 51-13 loss to Kansas State on Saturday in Manhattan.
FOGGY FUTURE
Jayhawks fall to Wildcats in what may be Bowens last game as coach

STELLA LIANG
@Stelly_Liang
The 2014 Kansas football

season is over, and it ended
with a bitter taste in the
players mouths. Not only did
the Jayhawks (3-9, 1-8) lose
to the Kansas State Wildcats
(9-2, 7-1), they did it in
blowout fashion with a 51-13
loss in Manhattan on Saturday
afternoon.
Twenty-one seniors played
their last game in a Jayhawk
uniform, and the program is
at a crossroads. Interim head
coach Clint Bowen has yet to
find out if he has done enough
for the team to earn the job
for good.
However, after the game,
Bowen reiterated his recent
comments that the decision
should be based on what
will be best for Kansas, not
for himself individually. He
pushed the spotlight onto the
seniors.
[The seniors] have nothing
to be ashamed of, Bowen
said. They need to walk out
of there proud. Our message
to the underclassmen was to
remember the feeling that we

have right now.
And that feeling wasnt
great. K-State jumped out to
an early 14-0 lead less than
five minutes into the game,
and the deficit never shrunk
for the Jayhawks.
We came out, they jumped
all over us 14-0 before
anything even happened
Bowen said. We didnt need
that coming into a road game.
Everyone knows about the
story of our road woes. We
were looking for something
good to happen early. It
didnt.
Junior quarterback Michael
Cummings
threw
two
early interceptions, and the
Wildcats capitalized.
The first play after his
first interception, K-State
quarterback Jake Waters
found senior wide receiver
Tyler Lockett for a 44-yard
touchdown. That began a
career day for Lockett, who
broke his fathers school
record for career catches with
222.
Adding to the emotion of
losing the seasons last game
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was losing to an in-state

rival. With the loss, Kansas
has now lost six straight in
the Sunflower Showdown
series. Senior linebacker
Ben Heeney, who is from
Hutchinson, grew up with the
rivalry.
[The series] is everything,
Heeney said. We havent
really brought anything to
the table for these past couple
years.
Senior wide receiver Nick
Harwell has only played with
the team for this season, but
said he has really connected
with Kansas. Harwell caught
one of Cummings two
touchdown passes.
I look at these guys like
my second family, Harwell
said. Its going to be tough
leaving.
One bright spot for the
senior class was tight end
Trent Smiley. Early in the
third quarter, Smiley caught
his first career touchdown
on what was only his second
completion this season.
Bowen said there was an
effort to get him the ball
after fellow senior tight end
JAMES HOYT/KANSAN
Kansas State running back DeMarcus Robinson drags Kansas linebacker Courtney Arnick into the red zone.
Jimmay Mundine was hurt
during the game.
Moving forward, Bowen
said the team will have a
senior banquet Sunday. Then
he said its back to the weight
room and getting ready for
finals.
Harwell said he believes the
Kansas program has a chance
to get better, starting with
closing the gap between the

Jayhawks and Wildcats.
Just start believing in
ourselves, Harwell said.
We havent been winning
a lot these past few seasons
and we just need a little bit
of confidence, a little bit of
motivation.
Volleyball gets 16 seed

for NCAA tournament
MATT CORTE
@Corte_UDK
EVIDENCE?
Example A: Slanting across the

middle, senior tight end Jimmay
Mundine watched what wouldbe a first-down reception glance
off his hands up into the air only
to drop into the arms of K-States
defensive back Dante Barnett.
The Wildcats would score on the
next play.
Example B: On its third possession of the game, in the midst
of its most promising drive
of the quarter, a deep pass to
junior wide receiver Rodriguez
Coleman was punted into the
air off Colemans left foot and
intercepted by K-States defensive
back Randall Evans. The saddest
part, yet, may have been the fact
that it was one of Kansas best
punts of the day, as senior punter
Trevor Pardulas day was rocky,
to say the least.
Example C: After an invigorating six-play, 54-yard
touchdown drive was capped off
by a 27-yard pass from junior
quarterback Michael Cummings
to senior wide receiver Nick
JAMES HOYT /KANSAN
Tied for second in the Big

12 and boasting 22 wins on
the season, Kansas volleyball's rsum prior to the
NCAA selection show Sunday night all but guaranteed
the Jayhawks a spot among
the 64 teams.
Rather than seeing a tense
group of players await their
tournament fate, there were
14 teammates enjoying the
culmination of another successful season, and one that
saw the team get placed as a
national seed.
"I'm really proud of the effort this team has put in to be
a top 16 seed," coach Ray Bechard said. "It speaks of the
work they put in, the effort
they put in and the type of
year they had."
As the 16 seed in the tournament, Kansas (22-8) will
now get to play and host
Arkansas Little-Rock (28-2)
in Topeka, which earned its
first tournament bid since
2000 by winning the Sun
Belt conference tournament
championship.
Three matches into the
Big 12 season and standing

at 0-3 in conference, not only
did a national seed seem farfetched for the Jayhawks, but
even making the tournament
was starting to be called into
question as well.
FRANK WEIRICH/KANSAN
The Kansas volleyball team reveals a new banner comemorating their

placement in last years Sweet 16 tournament. The Jayhawks earned a No.
16 seed in this years NCAA tournament.
It speaks of the work they

put in, the effort they put
in and the type of year they
had.
RAY BEHCARD
Volleyball coach
However, Kansas responded by finishing the rest of the

Big 12 season at 10-3, which
pushed the team to its third
straight NCAA tournament
appearance.
"There was a point in the
year, when, you know we
weren't doing too well in the
league, and we needed some
momentum, and the last six
weeks we've played very well,
and this teams coming to
age," Bechard said.
While it may seem like
Kansas has a lesser chance
of advancing far into the
tournament due to the Jayhawks 11 underclassmen,

Bechard needs only point to
one memory to convince the
team otherwise.
"I've got a picture in my
notebook of five kids celebrating match point to get
us to the Sweet 16, five returning kids," Bechard said.
"(Tiana) Dockery, (Tayler)
Soucie, (Cassie) Wait, (Chelsea) Albers, and (Sara) McClinton are all in that picture. We had a lot of seniors
last year, but we have a lot of
kids that experienced that
special season last year. It's a
new season, new opponents,
a lot of new things going on,
but hopefully the returners,
the veterans, will speak to
the newcomers and show by
example what it takes to have
some success in the NCAA
tournament."
With a win against Arkansas Little-Rock, not only will
it provide future teams with
the experience this Jayhawks
team has, it'll also be the
third year in a row in which
Kansas has won an NCAA
tournament match.
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