Volume 128 Issue 89

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Thursday, March 5, 2015

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Finance committee approves

changes to required fees
ALANA FLINN
@alana_flinn

In midst of the Student Senate finance committee approving its fee review for the
year, sophomore Garrett Farlow disputed the zero amount
the committee recommended
for the Student Safety Advisory Board last night.
Farlow made an argument
that the zero amount proposed should be increased to
50 cents, because this money
would be put toward student
safety.
Fifty cents is the magic
number that will give us a
lot of flexibility for projects
that would consist of security
cameras, or other capital improvement projects, Farlow
said. I dont think you can
put a dollar amount on a persons life or their safety.
Fee review applies to the
required campus fees all students pay along with tuition.
The original decision to not
allocate any money to the Stu-

ALI DOVER/KANSAN
Garrett Farlow, a senior from Tecemseh, addresses the Student Senate Coalition at the Formation Caucus.

dent Safety Advisory Board

is because the financial committee did not see a reason for
the extra funding. The Safety

Board has a $100,000 reserve,

which Senate found sufficient
enough to fund the boards
endeavors.

However, Farlow argued the

funding from Senate has one
of the biggest impacts on safety of students on campus.
Its important for students
because the public safety office and administration dont
have the ability to give the
students everything that they
need to be safe here at KU,
Farlow said. The budget cuts
are crippling these organizations and, to have student
voices say exactly what they
want done is something that
sets KU apart.
The original overall fee review amount was $453.70,
but after several other amendments made to original allocations, the final fee review
amount approved is $455.50.
Changes to the originally
proposed fees are: 50 cents
added to the original $0 allocation to the Student Safety
Advisory Board; 80 cents added
to the original $5 allocation to

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BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN
Israeli journalist Ari Shavit shares his view on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before his speech Wednesday night. Shavit is also a best-selling author.

Israeli journalist urges youth to

challenge both sides of politics
LYNDSEY HAVENS
@LyndseyAlana

Theres nothing sexy about

politics, war or nuclear power,
at least not according to Ari
Shavit. Shavit, an Israeli journalist, writer and New York
Times best-selling author, has
plans to change the way people react to and engage in such
topics. Shavit said Israeli is
important to his title because
had he not grown up in Israel, he probably would not have
been a journalist.
Shavit has spent the past year
on tour visiting various universities and speaking mostly
to the millennial generation.
Last night, he presented his
ideas and perspectives to the
University.

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Its so important to have a

new kind of dialogue between
the younger generation, the
millennials, in America and
Israel, and Im doing my best
to promote that new kind of
dialogue and this is why Im
here, this is why Im exhausted, he said. Im in a different
city everyday, Im in planes all
the time, I drink black coffee
all the time, and yet Im full of
energy and Im so happy because meeting people like you
is a great privilege and [I almost] have a sense of mission
regarding it.
During the presentation, he
called Israel an underdog on
steroids and discussed how
his best-selling book, My
Promised Land: The Triumph
and Tragedy of Israel, is essen-

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tially a yin and yang between

despair and hope.
Ive become a journalist
because I feel that Israel, my
country, is such a fascinating
human endeavor and a kind of
unique nation, for better and
for worse, Shavit said. And
therefore, to be a journalist in
Israel, I feel, is a real privilege
because we say that we journalists write the first draft of
history, so when you watch,
when you give testimony, you
are a witness of such huge drama, even on a daily basis. Its
fascinating.
Shavit released his book in
November 2013. He said its
a book about history, but its
not a history book, and that
its relevant to politics, but its
not a political book. Shavit

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Dont
Forget

added that he wrote the books

content to be relevant on a
human level and created a
non-fiction book that reads
like a novel.
The Kansan spoke with
Shavit earlier in the day, before
his presentation, about current
hot topics ranging from the
Israeli Prime Ministers recent
speech to Congress, to the importance and delicate nature
of remaining unbiased in so
much controversy.

Could you tell us about your

career and what your objective is?

Im known for two things:

one, what you are doing right

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Rock Chalk Revue
starts tonight.

KATLYN BALLARD/KANSAN
On-campus living costs for 2015-16 students are expected to increase by
an average of $130.

Housing rates
set to increase
for coming year
CHANDLER BOESE

KU

@Chandler_Boese

According to KU Student
Housing, on-campus living costs will increase by
approximately 2.5 percent
in the coming 2015-16 academic year.
Between the scholarship
halls, residence halls (not
including new halls) and
Jayhawker Towers, prices
will increase by an average
of $130. In the coming year,
each student will have to
pay, on average and not including a meal plan, $5,542
in the Jayhawker Towers,
$6,550 in the residence halls
and $3,594 in the scholarship halls.
Scholarship hall resident
Mallory Paxson, a junior
from Neodesha, isnt happy
about the increase. She said
Housing is just pushing people further away from living
on campus.
Now that apartments are
allowing you to pick your
roommates by potluck,
theyre just going to lose
more and more people,
Paxson said. Apartments
are still college life, but
theyre cheaper.
In comparison to other
universities in and around
Kansas, the University is

$9,880.13
KU (average of res. halls, plus
Crimson Flex dining plan)

K-STATE
$10,471.33
K-State (average of res. halls,
includes dining plan that is
comparable to Crimson Flex
plan)

WSU
$10,753.34
WSU (average of res. halls,
plus dining plan comparable
to Crimson Flex plan)

UMKC
$10,753.34
UMKC (average of res. halls,
includes dining plan that is
comparable to Crimson Flex
plan)
Source: university websites

about par. Information on

the websites of Kansas State
University, Wichita State
University and UMKC show
that each charges annual rates within $900 of the
Kansas.
Here, the average yearly
cost of living in a residence

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University sexual
assault cases will
remain a mystery
MIRANDA DAVIS
@MirandaDavisUDK

The Universitys administration has declined to release records requested this

semester by the University
Daily Kansan that would give
context to sexual assault cases filed at the University.
Since September, when
students protested the Universitys handling of sexual
assault, The Kansan has filed
multiple Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) requests
with the University to release data on sexual assault
cases filed at the University
through the Office of Institutional Opportunity and

Todays
Weather

Access (IOA).
In February, the University responded to one of The
Kansans initial records requests from October with
a list on the Student Affairs
website, which holds 32
sanctions it has given students who violated the Universitys Sexual Harassment
policy from IOAs creation in
2012 to December 2014. Although the University originally said it would charge the
Kansan around $600 to produce this information, it did
not because it felt releasing
the information was a service

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NEWS MANAGEMENT
Editor-in-chief
Brian Hillix

ASSAULT FROM PAGE 1A

Special projects editor

Emma LeGault

to the KU community, according to an email from records

custodian Andy Foat.
While the list includes information about the policy
and what it includes, it doesnt
include demographic information about neither the case
nor the violators, including
the violators sex, whether the
incident happened on or off
campus or the sub-violation
within the sexual harassment
policy. (It lists eight types of
harassment that fall under
the policy, from unwanted attempts, to unwelcome efforts
in starting a relationship, to
sexual violence.)
After Student Affairs released that list, Kansan editors submitted another KORA
request Feb. 11. This request
asked for specific details regarding not only the 32 cases
that did find a respondent in
violation of University policy,
but also the hundreds of cases that are reported to IOA
that dont result in sanctions.
The Kansan asked for the
supporting findings of all of
these cases, the specific policy
violation within the sexual harassment policy for each case
and demographic information
respective to the 32 violators.
At a sexual assault task force
meeting earlier this semester,
Executive Director of IOA
Jane McQueeny said IOA received 168 sexual assault complaints in 2014, which is more
than double the amount it received in 2012.
James Pottorff of the Universitys general counsel denied
The Kansans request to access
these complaints in a reply
sent Feb. 16.
While your publication may
believe these documents are
appropriate for publication,
the University does not share
that belief. Release of these
documents would constitute a
clearly unwarranted invasion
of personal privacy and would
discourage future victims and
witnesses from reporting sexual assault and cooperating
with investigations, Pottorff

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recycling programs; and 50

cents added to the original $1
allocation to the University
Daily Kansan.
Before fee review, the regular
agenda to approve bills are as
follows:
1. A bill to fund $110 for Her
Campus KU Jayhawk Jamboree, an event to tie-dye t-shirts,
which will take place on Daisy
Hill during March Madness.
2. AbleHawks and Allies was
granted $1,500 for an Alison
Kafer honorarium event.
3. The newly-formed KU Violin club was given funding for
an electronic metronome and
sheet music.
4. A bill passed to fund an
Interactive Andean concert

Legacy coalition folds

The recently formed Legacy
coalition has decided to fold in
order to achieve the inclusive
goals set by leaders at KU who
are the representative of a diverse student body, according to
former Legacy affiliate Madeline
Dickerson.
There will now be a separate
caucus forming, which will be
a homogenous mixture of people
who believe in the same values
and working towards our goals,
Dickerson said.
The new caucus formation will

said.
DEAD ENDS: How the UDK has been unsuccessful in aquiring information about
The Kansan does not intend
sexual assault from the University
to use this information in any
way that would re-victimize
these students, Kansan Editor-in-Chief Brian Hillix said.
The editors at The Kansan
hope to create a database that
paints a more accurate picture INSTITUTIONAL OPPORGENERAL
ANDY FLOAT
CHANCELLOR
of sexual assault on this camTUNITY AND ACCESS
COUNSEL
RECORDS CUSTODIAN
GRAY LITTLE
pus and gives the community
more context about what hapPUBLIC AFFAIRS
UNIVERSITYS
pens to these reported cases
FINAL SAY
and to investigate whether the
cases that result in sanctions
are treated fairly by the University. Hillix said The Kansan
NO COMMENT
believes that providing more
information to the public is
the best way to prevent future many of them would abuse printed publicly. Additionally, or drug dependency treatassaults.
that authority to keep secrets, we will not release informa- ment records which pertain to
However, The Kansan does LoMonte said.
tion likely to allow students identifiable patients.
not have to legally justify why
The Kansan did not request
Schools like the University of to be identified. We take our
it requests information. If the Virginia and Ohio State have obligation in this regard very medical or treatment records.
information is a public record already produced records seriously.
The response from general
subject to KORA, the Univer- like this to the public when
After meeting with Kansan counsel said the University
sity is legally obligated to pro- requested. Because of the ful- editors on Feb. 18 to discuss also denies to provide inforduce it.
fillment of similar requests at potentially sharing some in- mation that would reveal the
The fact is, the way that a other universities, The Kansan formation about reported sex- location of a shelter or a safeperson is going to use pub- editors do not believe they are ual assaults, McQueeny told house or similar place where
lic records has no bearing on asking for something outland- The Kansan to contact Public persons are provided protectheir entitlement to receive the ish or extreme.
Affairs in a March 2 follow-up tion from abuse or the name,
records, said Frank LoMonte,
When The Kansan asked email. She did not respond to address, location or other
director of the Student Press to meet with the Universitys additional emails and messag- contact information of alleged
Law Center in Washington general counsel, the general es.
victims of stalking, domestic
D.C. You might be requesting counsel directed editors to the
The Kansan also contact- violence or sexual assault.
them to publish,
The Kansan did not request
ed the office
you might be
of Chancellor neither information on safe
requesting them
B e r n a d e t t e houses that the University
From the editor: We dont normally write about ourselves
for your own
Gray-Little for may or may not own or opon the news pages, but because of recent developments
personal curiosierate nor information about
comment.
in the papers efforts to get records about sexual assault
ty, you might be
The
letter accusers or victims.
cases from the University, were making an exception with
requesting them
For a research project,
from the Office
todays story. We believe that, as part of the newspapers
to share inforof the Gen- Emma Halling, former acting
mission, it serves readers to provide in-depth information
mally with your
eral Counsel student body president and a
about serious issues and happenings on our campus. No
friends it just
represents the senior from Elkhart, Ind., filed
issue is more important than the safety of students.
doesnt matter.
U n i v e r s i t y s a public records request for
LoMonte said
statement on names of offenders, date of the
public entities
the records re- offense, specific violation and
subject to open records laws Office of Public Affairs. When quest, said Jack Martin, direc- sanction from 2010 to present
dont get to decide which re- The Kansan contacted Tim tor of strategic communica- on Feb. 27. Like The Kansan,
cords to release or when to Caboni, vice chancellor of tions for the University.
she also received a denial
release them based on they public affairs, he also declined
Hillix and Kansan editors Tuesday afternoon from the
think the requestor is plan- to meet with The Kansan.
believe there are some incon- Universitys general counsel.
ning to use them.
Its
important
that
The response you received sistencies between what The
He said if this were allowed, from the Universitys gener- Kansan requested and the rea- non-identifiable information
those entities could potential- al counsel is very clear and, soning the University provid- be made available on these
ly use it as a way to cover up in its totality, represents the ed for denying the request.
cases so we can understand
information they dont want Universitys statement on the
The reasons the University any trends on sexual assault
to release.
KORA request, Caboni said included for not providing this and therefore adequately adYou would never want gov- in a Feb. 24 email. The Uni- information include a KORA dress it, Halling said.
ernment agencies to get in the versity will not allow details of exemption for information rebusiness of deciding what uses the most harrowing moments garding medical, psychiatric,
Edited by Mitch Raznick
are or are not suitable, because of these students lives to be psychological or alcoholism

UDK

hosted by the Latin American Graduate Organization

on Earth Day. The concert is
open to the public.
5. The KU percussion group
was given $1,500 in funding
to commission a composer to
write a piece for the group. It
plans to use this music for concerts throughout the year.
6. A bill to fund a portion
of the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers conference also passed. This conference will be held for 12 schools
of the student chapter in the
region. The conference will
showcase work in the engineering department.
Edited by Mackenzie Clark

be held in the Big 12 Room at the

Union tonight at 8:30 p.m.
Dickerson encourages anyone
who wants to be involved with a
coalition to attend the meeting.
This is an opportunity that will
allow KU students to be represented in a way they have never
been before, Dickerson said.
This is bigger than Student Senate elections. This is progressive
thinking, progressive action and
progressive strategy. This will be
something that will unite students on all fronts.
Alana Flinn

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CORRECTION
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been updated online to reflect this change.

LIVING FROM PAGE 1A

hall and using the Crimson
Flex dining plan (12 meals
a week, $200 Cuisine Cash)
is $9,880. K-State is slightly
below that, with the average
cost of its residence halls and
a comparable dining plan
being $9,865. Both Wichita
State and UMKC are above
the Universitys average costs
at $10,753 and $10,471, respectively.
The Universitys rates are
still too high for some. After a semester of living in
the residence halls, Paxson
moved into the scholarship
halls to save money.
It seems ridiculous that
Im paying just as much to
live as go to school, Paxson
said.
The increase was approved
by the Kansas Board of Regents in December, said
Diana Robertson, the direc-

tor of KU Student Housing.

Housing staff, along with the
Student Housing Advisory
Board (SHAB), spent the last
semester determining the
new rates.
Student Housing is whats
called an auxiliary service, so
we operate fully on money
we bring in from room rates
and rent rates, said Robertson. So, as a self-funded
operation, we have to be able
to look ahead, estimate what
our operating costs will be
and how much the rate needs
to be set at.
KU Student Housing splits
up its budget into the costs
of operating the buildings,
making improvements, paying employees and maintaining facilities. When determining the rates and budget
for the coming year, housing
works to use money as efficiently as possible, which
keeps prices low for students.








  







Were certainly not a

for-profit. Were simply trying to cover expenses, Robertson said. We want to
bring that right to the wire,
but we certainly cant come
up short either.
Because utilities have become one of the biggest
forces driving up the rates,
Robertson said energy conservation can make a difference in the budget.
[Theres] lots of electricity, lots of gas, lots of water
in these buildings, so [utilities] tend to be most volatile. They can have a six to
eight percent increase, next
year, for instance, Robertson said. One of the things I
would love to see our student
government groups do more
of is advocating for conservations of utilities.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015

Nerd Nite Lawrence to

gather at new location
TRAVIS DIESING
@travis_diesing

Be there and be square.

Thats the motto for Nerd
Nite Lawrence, which will be
held in a new location starting Wednesday, March 11 at
7:30 p.m.
The monthly social gathering that features three
20-minute lectures is moving to Macelis on 10th and
New Hampshire streets. This
months theme, Smarty Party! will focus on aspects of
partying.
Presentations will cover noise-induced hearing
loss with PhD student Aryn
Kamerer, the history of
St. Patricks Day from Irishman Stephen Hassard and
the art of brewing craft beer
from Free State Brewerys
Geoff Deman. Attendees pay
$1 for entry and must be 21
years of age.
The move to Macelis was
prompted by the closing of
Pachamamas, which hosted
the Lawrence Nerd Nite since
its founding in 2011. The new
location will provide more
space for the events growing
audiences.
Nerd Nite audiences have

hit Pachamamas capacity of

150 people twice in the past,
forcing people to be turned
away. Graduate student and
Nerd Nite co-boss Emily
Fekete said about 40 people
went to the first Nerd Nite
compared to an average of
130 per month it sees now.

... were going to have food

now. Were going to do like a
little snack menu. so thatll
be fun and, you know,
obviously drinks.
EMILY FEKETE
Nerd Nite co-boss

We shouldnt ever have to

turn anyone away, and were
going to have food now,
Fekete said. Were going to
do like a little snack menu.
So thatll be fun and, you
know, obviously drinks.
Travis Weller, one of the
original founders of Nerd
Nite Lawrence, said he hopes
to see Nerd Nite continue to
bring people together.
My goal is for Nerd Nite to
be a place where if you dont

know anybody, you can come

and sit down at a group table with somebody, and the
presentations give you something to chat about, Weller
said.
The Nerd Nite format is generally consistent everywhere;
Nerds can travel to other
Nerd Nites in more than 80
cities around the world, pop
in and feel right at home.
However, every once in a
while, the Nerds try something different. Once per
summer, they host Nerd Nite
Shorts, a variation on the
presentation model. Instead
of three 20-minute presentations, they have 10 to 15
two-minute presentations.
Fekete said she and the
board are also thinking of
new possible formats for
Nerd Nite at Macelis.
We kind of toyed around
with the idea of maybe having like a Nerd Nite salon,
like in the style of like an oldschool French 1700s salon
where you could like mingle
around and talk to people
about nerdy things, Fekete
said. But I dont know if that
will pan out or not. It was
kind of an idea.
Edited by Mitch Raznick

NICK UT/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Protestors rally in downtown Los Angeles against a police shooting of a homeless man Tuesday.

Homeless man dies a victim

of three government mishaps
DAVID A. LIEB
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES Mistakes

and miscommunication by
three governments on three
continents over nearly 20
years led to a homeless man
known as Africa being on
Los Angeles Skid Row, where
he was shot by police after
authorities say he became
combative and appeared to
reach for an officers weapon.
The problems began in the
late 1990s when French officials gave him a passport under what turned out to be a
stolen name. He came to the
U.S., robbed a bank and then
was convicted and imprisoned under the same false
name.
U.S. immigration officials
wanted to send him back to
his native Cameroon, but
that country never responded to requests to take him. So
he was released from a halfway house last May, and U.S.
probation officials lost track
of him in November.
It took three failed monthly
check-ins for a warrant to be
issued on a probation violation and its unclear wheth-

er anyone actually looked

for him. He apparently was
living the entire time on
Skid Row, roughly 50 square
blocks of liquor stores, warehouses, charitable missions
and a few modest businesses.
Los
Angeles
police
Cmdr. Andrew Smith said
the man had no previous arrests in Los Angeles.
The true name of the man,
who was long known to authorities as Charley Saturin
Robinet, remained a mystery
Wednesday, three days after
a violent death that was captured on a bystanders video
and watched by millions.
Authorities said the man
tried to grab a rookie
Los Angeles police officers
gun, prompting three other officers to shoot. Chief
Charlie Beck said the officers
had arrived to investigate a
robbery report and the man
refused to obey their commands and became combative.
Axel Cruau, Frances consul general in Los Angeles,
said the system for checking
backgrounds was vastly different when the man duped
French officials.

Using the false name, the

man was believed to be a
French citizen in 2000 when
convicted of robbing a Wells
Fargo branch in Los Angeles and pistol-whipping an
employee in what he told
authorities was an effort to
pay for acting classes at the
Beverly Hills Playhouse.
In 2013, as he was nearing
his release from a federal
prison in Rochester, Minn.,
French officials found the
real Robinet in France, Cruau said. U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement
then determined the impostor actually was from Cameroon but said the African
country ignored repeated requests for travel documents,
hampering efforts to deport
him.
The U.S. Supreme Court
ruled in 2001 that immigration authorities cannot detain people indefinitely just
because no country will take
them. Justice Stephen Breyer
wrote that the government
would need a special reason
to keep someone in custody
after six months if deportation seemed unlikely in the
reasonably foreseeable fu-

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I dont need a significant other,
just a significant income.
College is like survival of the
not-so-dumbest.
Can Orange is the New Black
just come back on already??
#missinU
Muse Kobe Bryant
documentary is a must
watch. #GOAT behind MJ.
Trying to read this book for
class and I keep falling asleep
in the process. :I
Knowing the only thing keeping
me sane from these classes is
napping and cheetos.
To the person who wears clothes
twice. Wear KU gear. You can get
away with that all week every
day. #cantjudgethehawk
Did I pee myself twice while
at that game? Yes. Worth it?
Absolutely.
I hate it when you think someone
is smart and then they use the
wrong form of there and you
have to get them out of your life.
I doubt vodka is the answer, but
its worth a shot.
It still confuses me how society
can call the most basic functions
of life inappropriate
Bushes are budding and grass is
sprouting. Sorry Sean Bean, but
Spring is coming.
Knowing that spring break is
so soon means my motivation
is plummeting.
Coming up with a late new years
resolution brew my own beer!
I refuse to open my Snapchat
videos in public because I dont
trust my friends at all..
I love how my cat sleeps all day
and then decides to go crazy AF
in my room when Im trying
to sleep.
So excited for Beauty and the
Beast with Emma Watson and
Luke Evans!
The fact that I have worn real
pants three days in a row is
front-page news and I would
appreciate it if everyone stopped
commenting on it k
Id like to publicly announce that
I have no idea what Im doing.
The best part about being awake
for 19 hours is there are still five
hours left to think about where
you went wrong
Saw you in the gym with
the good good.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015

THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN

Spring break drinking can be dangerous

Maddy Mikinski
@Miss__Maddy

pring break, as depicted in the movies, is

a time of excess and
alcohol poisoning. Spring
break in real life is a slightly
lesser version of the same
thing. Just go to YouTube
and look up spring break
and youll wish some of the
things you watched were
fictional.
According to the National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism (NIAAA),
during spring break, about
42 percent of college students
get drunk at least one day.
Eleven percent of those
students drink to the point
of blacking or passing out.
Clearly, theres an issue here.
This issue stems from the
fact that students dont know
how to regulate themselves
while drinking. Instead
of taking precautionary
measures, such as eating and
drinking water before going
out, most spring breakers
ignore any tips that might
preserve their health. After
all, going into an alcohol-induced coma is not one of
the top 10 ways to keep your
body functioning for a long

KATIE DAVIES/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Getting the party started: Students have already started hitting the clubs of Cancun, pictured March 1, marking an earlier spring break than usual. The
Universitys spring break is the week of March 15.

period of time.
Before leaving for vacation,
or even a party, students
who know theyre going to
be drinking heavily should
begin to take precautions
and plan ahead. They should
drink plenty of water and eat
something so their body is
prepared for whatever spring
break might throw at it.
The difference between
passing out and death is
only a few points on the
BAC scale. Comas can start

Big Brother is
watching, and
you should care
Anrenee Reasor
@anreneer

he Academy
Awards crowned
Citizenfour
its Best Documentary
Feature of 2015. It awarded
director Laura Poitras and
producers Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
an Oscar for their reporting on Edward Snowden
and his leak of private U.S.
documents.
After watching the twohour film, I questioned
how much I value my own
privacy and the metadata
being collected on all of
us. Does it matter? If I am
not doing anything wrong,
what difference does it
make that the government
collects information about
me?
It does matter. Even as
young, budding millennials who grew up with the
Internet, smartphones and
social media, privacy still
matters. Glenn Greenwald
argued in his TED Talk,
Why Privacy Matters,
that it doesnt matter if
people are watching us;
the fact is that they can. At
any given point, if we set
off a trigger, the National Security Agency can
search all we have done in
the past and tag all of our
future activities.
Think about your credit
or debit card, your email
accounts and social media.
What we buy, the people
we spend time with, when
we do things and where we
go can all be discovered
with simple searches.
Greenwald mentioned
how Mark Zuckerberg,
CEO of Facebook, made
disarming comments
about privacy, then pro-

ceeded to buy four houses

surrounding his own
home. Greenwald further
stated people who arent
committing nefarious
activities and have nothing
to be ashamed of should
still protect their privacy.
Who would openly give
out all their passwords,
revealing their private
emails, photos, purchases
and messages? No one.
I doubt the typical
student has much to hide.
Sure, we have watched
videos, searched images or
bought things wed rather
not have publicized, but
this does not make us bad
people.
I respect privacy and
would rather not air all
my dirty laundry. As for
our government spying on
its own people, Citizenfour should alarm us. The
documentary will haunt
you more than any of the
Paranormal Activity
movies or any Exorcist
film.
Even if you arent doing
anything wrong, the governments access to your
private life should still
alarm you. Most of us are
good people, taxpayers
and friendly citizens who
do not wish harm on
others. But that does not
mean we should be cavalier
about violations of privacy.
Maybe our own government wont turn on us,
but a breach could occur
in which data is sold to
China, Russia or resident
dissidents. The fact the
metadata is being recorded
in the first place should
scare us.
Anrenee Reasor is a senior
from Thayer studying
economics and East Asian
languages and culture

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personal tolerance, as well as

the tolerance of the people
they are traveling with. They
should also be aware of what
theyre drinking, as well as
monitoring their food and
water intake.
During vacation, students
should pace their alcohol
consumption by making sure
they space out drinks with
bottles of water. They should
also keep track of the amount
of alcohol theyve consumed
over the course of the day.

Im not suggesting that

spring breakers pack breathalyzers in their suitcases or
just stay at home and read
Amish romance novels
(because that would be
ridiculous), but I am suggesting that students learn
to regulate themselves while
theyre on vacation, and in
everyday life.

Maddy Mikinski is a
sophomore from Linwood
studying journalism

JAYHAWKS ON THE BOULEVARD

DO YOU BELIEVE STUDENTS SHOULD REGULATE

THEIR DRINKING MORE DURING SPRING BREAK?

MOLLY PATT HORAN, JOURNALISM, WOODBURY, MINN.

I think so because I think that students go to spring break and theyre like, Oh lets go drink a lot because
its spring break, but its really no different than, like, being at school, so they should still monitor it.

SHEKHINAH JONES, ENGLISH, SALINA

Yeah, I completely agree with that because there are a lot of incidents that have happened, like murders and
rapes and all that. So I feel like, especially during spring break, that people should be really careful of how
much they drink and just be aware of their surroundings, but have fun.

LAUREN PATELLI, ENGLISH, BASEHOR

I think that its up to people, personally. Its their own personal decision, but [they] need to be responsible
when they do it. Theyre responsible for what happens when they drink, but it should be self-regulated.

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hop, skip and an ambulance
ride to the morgue. The
chances of death and alcohol
poisoning are almost certain
over .5.
Reaching that step can
be prevented through
self-education. The half
of college students who
consume alcohol through
binge drinking, according
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Today is an 8
Allow yourself more quiet time.
Dont gossip or get stopped by
past failures. Maintain balance
amid upheaval. Postpone expansion over the next few weeks
with Venus in Pisces.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
Imagine a delicious future. Dont
inaugurate a new trick or fall for
a tall tale. Complete a project
thats been slow. Youre especially powerful this next month.
Group and public activities
boost your career.
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Today is a 7
Follow an experts plans.
Increase your area of influence
this week. Take on more responsibility over the next month.
Watch for career opportunities.
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Today is an 8
Stand up for what you love.
Financially it could get tense.
No need to overdo. Create a
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Set goals and plan your next
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Review shared finances this
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Re-affirm a commitment. Take
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Partnerships flow with greater
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o
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,
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Today is an 8
Trust your own heart to lead you.
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Youre even smarter than usual.
Words flow with ease, so take
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BAGELS AND BASKETBALL

KU Hillel brings popular watch party back to Bottleneck
LILY GRANT

@lilygrant_UDK
Bring an appetite for breakfast food and basketball to
The Bottleneck, 737 New
Hampshire St., on Saturday.
KU Hillel will host its annual
event Bagels and Basketball, a
massive watch party, for the
game against Oklahoma, once
again this year.
For several years, KU Hillel
has hosted the popular event,
and it expects hundreds of
people to turn out this year. It
will begin 30 minutes before
tip-off. The game begins at 3
p.m. Einstein Bros Bagels will
donate bagels, and an assort-

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now, which is in-depth interviews, and the other is having a rather strong voice as a
columnist. My strong voice
is usually because I challenge
dogmas of both right and
left. I come from the left, I
am a progressive Israeli, but
I challenge the dogmas of
the progressive people, both
in this country and in Israel
as well. So I dont belong
to any herd. Im an independent voice, so that gave me a
unique place in Israeli public
arena, and yet I feel that this is
not enough.

You started as a philosophy

major, you spoke a little bit
about how you got into journalism. But why the change?

Well, I didnt decide. Life

made the decision for me. I
remembered that ever since
the age of five or six, I always
wrote. So I said, Lets try writing in a paper. Its not that I
was a journalist I was a
writing person, always. I always processed life through
words, thinking, feeling, diary
writing, poetry writing, whatever. So then came what I told
you before, because I said
Wow, do I want this? because
I didnt plan it. And then I realized what I told you... in Israel, its such a privilege to be a
journalist. When there is such
high drama, being a journalist is great. I began enjoying
the fact that I can be a player
not only in politics, but in
maintaining the democratic
system without wearing a suit
and tie.

Why exactly do you think

its so crucial to talk to the
millennials and to our generation?

I think there is a deep and

very important alliance between America and Israel,
and the alliance has strategic
elements that are a bit boring.
Theyre important, but boring. I think its real because
Israel is the only rock-solid
ally America has in the Middle East. In the Middle East,
everything is fragile and vulnerable, and we are the only
country that is the real, deep,
totally loyal ally. But its much
deeper than that, much more
interesting, because the alliance is really built on the fact
that we have shared values,
that you are a great democracy and, as I like to tell people
sometimes, I have to remind
Americans how great American democracy is, and we
are frontier democracy. My
concern is that many of the
younger people have lost the
understanding of this special
relationship, for good reasons.
I think that for many young
Americans, because there
has been so much unpleasant
news coming from the Middle East, many people lost
that understanding, that feeling, and I blame no one. This
is the way it is. So I see it as
my role to try and bring back
that notion, but also to make
it relevant for the day. On the
one hand Im a very patriotic
Israeli and I love my country, but Im also very critical
of my country, and Im into

ment of other snack food will

be provided.
All KU students are welcome to attend. Alumni and
students 21+ are invited to a
happy hour before the event.
The price of admission for
students will be $3 in advance
and $5 at the door. Non-students will be charged $6.
KU Hillel hopes to bring the
community together with this
event.
Shiri Kboudi, a sophomore
from San Antonio, Texas, is
an intern for KU Hillel, and is
helping put on the event.
It started out as a fun time
to get together, and it became
bigger and bigger each year,

Kboudi said. Were having a

bar band show up at halftime
to perform, and were doing a
big raffle for a basketball thats
been signed by all the basketball teams players.
Melissa Kingston is the program director of KU Hillel,
and is also helping organize
Bagels and Basketball.
Theres so much spirit. Its a
great way to celebrate the Jayhawks and cheer on our team
together, Kingston said.
Kingston said attendees of
the event can expect lots
of cheering, and hopefully a
win.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Students Zahava Davis, Tamar Cohen, Jeremy Kustoff, Elliben Kboudi and
Shiri Kboudi attend KU Hillels Bagels and Basketball watch party at the
Bottleneck last year.

Edited by Mitch Raznick

open discussion. And I think

that some young people were
not allowed to have an open
discussion about Israel. So,
people split into those who
thought that Israel can do no
wrong and those who thought
that Israel could do no right.
And I come and say, Lets talk
about it. Im not afraid of debates, Im not afraid of questions. Im such a great believer
in Israel, Im a great believer
in America, Im a great believer in a relationship with
America and Israel, but its all
for discussion. So I am here to
have sincere discussion that is
not with clichs but regarding
the real issues.

So regarding that, relating

to the U.S. and Israel relationship, how do you think the
relationship is right now? Is it
in jeopardy?

You can describe my Jewish

sigh. Fundamentally, its still
very strong. I think there is a
kind of slow erosion, which I
think is very dangerous, especially with younger people
and especially with progressive America and younger
America. On the one hand, I
say to my own people in Israel that Israel has to prove
how just it is, how moral it is
and how democratic it is. Im
sure of all of the above, but I
can see why some people have
questions. Because when they
look at settlement activity,
when they look at the wars,
they have questions and are
confused, and I think we have
to do much more as Israelis
to prove how moral we are,
how much we pursue peace,
even if peace is not there. But
we have to try and to prove
to people like you that we are
relevant to you, and that we
have your values. We have,
again, I think its there, but we
have to do much more work.
And for too long, more conservative forces that took over
the political system have not
projected that, and that is why
I come to bring a kind of alternative Israeli voice. On the
other hand, I ask many people in the progressive world,
in academic life, who I think,
because of political correctness, are not addressing
sometimes the difficulties of
life in the Middle East. Sometimes people blame Israel so
much, and sometimes, these
people blame America as
well, because its easy to criticize a Western power. And
these people have a difficulty
addressing the terrible, dark,
fanatic forces that we have in
the Middle East So many
people here, again on the left,
so to speak, have a difficulty
addressing this evil, and then
they dont understand why
Israel does what it does I
dont justify everything that
Israel does. Some things I do
justify, some things I criticize.
But people have to understand the context. The context
is, fundamentally, Israel is an
amazing democracy fighting for its life in a very, very
rough neighborhood a very
rough neighborhood that has
some barbaric forces within it.
So we have to do the utmost to
try peace. People here have to
understand the tragic circumstances with which we have to

BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN
Israeli journalist Ari Shavit shares his view on the Israeli Palestinian conflict before his speech Wednesday night.

deal, within which we live.

After hearing you speak a

little bit, Im just curious
how do you maintain such
an unbiased perspective on
everything? Do you ever find
that its difficult, or that you
want to sway towards one
side?

Look, its nature. Its human

nature. Im almost tempted
you are a good interviewer because I am tempted to give you
a very personal answer that I
never gave to anyone. If there
is something that I always resented, it is mob mentality,
herds. I hate it when people
are running in a herd in one
direction. One of my relatives
that I loved very much was
one of Israels chief justices.
He was one of the important
chief justices in Israel, and he
was an American. He was the
smart, wise, old man. He was
an Israeli, but very American.
I was seven years old, but he
liked me very much, and I admired him and I understood
from him... He became a
judge, he believed so much in
the rule of law, because he was
terrified of these processes
where an American little town
would go through the process
of lynching. Now, many times
when there was lynching, the
guy was a bad guy, but this is
not what you should do. You
should have a process you
should think, you should use
your brain, your heart, too. So,
I think that I got something
from my family, something
in my very base that rejects
one-sided, narrow-minded,
conformist thinking, whether on the left or on the right.
Sometimes, I think its more
difficult. To attack the people
on the other side, the other
political tribe, is easy. You
know, its easy for Democrats
to criticize Republicans or
Republicans to criticize Democrats, but to go against your
own political family is much
more difficult. This is the
story of my life because, for
years in Israel, Id been wrestling with this need to be decent, even when it contradicts
your friends and your peers,
and you know it sometimes
doesnt make you very popular. I think its so important
in order to become a great
journalist, [to have] this kind
of discipline that you look at
things fresh everyday. Youre
not indoctrinated by anyone.
You dont accept censorship,

and you dont accept indoctrination and you look at things.

I dont understand why people
have to think in a group mentality. And then, whats even
more important, to have the
courage to stand up and to
stand by whether you are right
or wrong but this is your
truth now, fight for it. Dont
let the peer pressure and the
fraternity pressure or the sorority pressure make you betray yourself. There is nothing
worse than betraying oneself.
So for me, and again, Im not
saying Im always right, but I
make all my mistakes myself
and with all my heart... So, I
think keeping that integrity,
again, in a very basic way, is
crucial.

How would you think the media impacts the war?

The media today is so effective, so quick, but it doesnt

have the ability to give you
context. So, it gives you just
the immediate pictures it
doesnt give you whats around
the picture. So, it doesnt matter, it doesnt tell you who created the situation that brings
about the death of children.
It doesnt tell you that Hamas
actually fired rockets at Israel
first. So, I dont justify every
Israeli move, Im so sorry. First
of all, Im so saddened by what
happened in the summer, and
the terrible killing in Gaza, but
it was definitely Israel reacting
to a totally unprovoked attack
by the extremist totalitarian
organization. And, somehow,
the media is attracted to the
extreme picture, and they
dont give the context when
Israel really does bad things.

What did you think of Israeli

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus speech to Congress
earlier this week?

Did Netanyahu give a speech

to Congress? I ask people to
listen to the content of what
Mr. Netanyahu has to say, because I personally am deeply worried about Iran, and I
think it will be a good idea if
people would listen. I would
ask people in Washington, in
power, to listen to the people
of the Middle East. When we
are so concerned about this,
we probably know why we
are. We know the region we
live in, and dont dismiss us.
Dont overlook our concerns.
On the other hand, I think
that Mr. Netanyahu is mak-

ing one great mistake: I think

that, while his basic analysis
of the danger of Iran and the
risks of a bad deal is correct,
the mistake he made, and he
made it in Congress as well,
was to make it an Israel issue.
I think that too many people
perceive now the threat of nuclear Iran is something that
Israel is concerned about, that
Mr. Netanyahu is personally
concerned about. If Iran will
go nuclear, it will endanger
all of us: Americans, Israelis, Republicans, Democrats,
Liberals, Conservatives, older, younger. This is an issue
that I know that young people mostly are not, for good
reasons, are not into its not
a sexy issue. Its virtual and
strange and seems remote...
I ask Americans, Europeans,
Israelis, Arabs, to rise to the
challenge. Its time to open our
eyes. This is a very great danger. Its true that its sometimes
not pleasant to talk about danger and threats, its much nicer
to talk about parties and good
life, but, if Iran will go nuclear,
that will endanger our parties
in this country as well. So lets
wake up before its too late.

In terms of your presentation this evening, what do you

want the biggest takeaway to
be?

The one thing I ask people to

do is wrestle with complexity. I
think that Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the
Middle East are very complicated, and anyone who is offering a simple, simplistic idea
about it is wrong. The result of
the conversation that I try to
initiate [is that] people will go
out thinking in a fresh way, not
telling the thematic thinking
on right or left or anti or pro,
but wrestle with the complexity. I think, hopefully, we will
have a discussion that is more
intelligent, more civilized and
deeper. And, perhaps, we will
even discover that we can
agree on much more than we
think. Israel is a manmade
wonder. It is the home of the
homeless people. Its a country that maintains democracy
while fighting for its life, and
therefore, while it should be
criticized when it does wrong
things, people should appreciate the astonishing, inspiring
human endeavor Israel is. So,
Id like people to have an eye
and heart to see that, beyond
the politics.
Edited by Mitch Raznick

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President Bill Clinton, left, looking up at his portrait after Lawrence M. Small, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, right, helped him remove the drape
at the Smithsonian Castle Building in Washington. A Philadelphia artist says that his museum portrait of former President Clinton contains a shadow
reference to Monica Lewinskys infamous blue dress. Nelson Shanks tells the Philadelphia Daily News that a shadow beside Clinton is a literal reference to
the dress and a symbolic nod to the shadow the affair cast on his presidency.

Artist: Clinton museum portrait

has nod to Lewinskys dress
MARYCLAIRE DALE
Associated Press

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PHILADELPHIA A Philadelphia artist has disclosed

that his museum portrait of
former President Bill Clinton
contains a shadow reference to
Monica Lewinskys infamous
blue dress.
Nelson Shanks told the Philadelphia Daily News that a
shadow beside Clinton is a literal reference to the dress and
a symbolic nod to the shadow
the affair cast on his presidency.
If you look at the left-hand
side of it theres a mantle in the
Oval Office and I put a shad-

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ow coming into the painting,

Shanks told the newspaper.
The Clintons hate the portrait, he said. They want it
removed from the National
Portrait Gallery. Theyre putting a lot of pressure on them.
The National Portrait Gallery
in Washington, D.C., commissioned the 2006 painting and
had it on display until about
three years ago. Its one of 55
images of Clinton that rotate
on and off display, spokeswoman Bethany Bentley said.
She said she is unaware of
any pressure from the Clintons
to have it removed from the
collection. Nor had she heard
the artist previously comment

on his use of imagery.

Thats the first time weve
heard of those comments,
Bentley said.
A Clinton spokesman did
not immediately return an
email message seeking comment.
The stained dress became
a piece of evidence in Ken
Starrs special investigation of
the 42nd president.
Shanks, 77, has painted Princess Diana, Pope John Paul II
and other luminaries. He has
two pieces currently on display at the portrait gallery, one
of opera singer Denyce Graves
and the other of the four female Supreme Court justices.

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Fossil sheds light on

turning point in human
MALCOM RITTER
Associated Press

QUEEN AND COUNTRY/BBC WORLDWIDE

Love during wartime: Caleb Landry Jones and Tamsin Egerton

John Boorman catches up with alter ego in

SUSAN KING

Tribune News Service

John Boorman has made a
lot of tough-nosed, violent
and demanding films, including the 1967 film noir Point
Blank with Lee Marvin, the
Oscar-nominated 1972 thriller Deliverance, starring Burt
Reynolds and Jon Voight, and
Excalibur, the visceral 1981
dramatic fantasy based on King
Arthur and the Knights of the
Round Table.
But the 82-year-old British
filmmaker showed his softer
side in Hope and Glory, the
charming
Oscar-nominated
1987 comedy-drama based on
his own experiences growing
up during the World War II
Blitz. Hope and Glory ended
with his 9-year-old alter ego,
Bill, rejoicing that his school
had been destroyed by a wayward German bomb.
Boorman always had in mind
to do a sequel. But it took him
nearly 27 years to make Queen
& Country. The comedy-drama follows the adventures of
the now-18-year-old Bill (Callum Turner) as he begins his
two-year conscription in the
army during the Korean War.
One reason Boorman waited
so long was because there was
an issue with his attorneys, who
thought that because the characters in the film were based
on real people, they might be
offended and might want to
sue us, Boorman said over the
phone from New York.
Im talking about the older
characters. But by this time,
they are probably all dead now
or too old to go to the trouble
of suing.
The England Boorman de-

picts in Queen & Country

is far different from the Great
Britain at the outset of Hope
and Glory.
The older soldiers who had
been through the war were still
hanging on to the idea of empire and imperial Britain, said
Boorman. For the younger
ones, it was clear to us everything was going to change. The
British Empire was the biggest
empire the world had ever
known, and within a few years
that was all gone.
It was a massive change for the
country _ and a good one, as
far as Boorman was concerned.
England became a much better country. The class system,
which you see in the film, was
much weakened, and in a few
years time, the Beatles and the
Rolling Stones were around.
Like Bill in the film, Boorman
was very much an observer at
18. He was a movie buff _ his
family lived near Shepperton
Studios _ and he noted, I felt
very much at the time if you
made movies, you could make
things come out much better
than they do in life.
Boorman has said that
Queen & Country is his swan
song, but hes beginning to
change his mind. I am tempted to do another one.
Queen & Country producer Kieran Corrigan, who runs
the Irish production company
Merlin Films with Boorman,
described the filmmaker as tremendously focused.
When he really decides to do
something, he puts a phenomenal amount of effort into it and
thought and consideration,
he said. When hes making a
movie, its like a full, absolute
commitment. He garners tre-

mendous loyalty. When you

work with John, you are always
a friend.
Boorman, who lives in County Wicklow, Ireland, has had a
lot of friends during his long
career.
After making documentaries
and drama films for the BBC,
Boorman started to get offers
to do feature movies.
Enter
producer
David
Deutsch, said Boorman, who
was always encouraging me to
do a film.
Eventually, he came to me
and said, If you do a film with
the Dave Clark Five, you can
have carte blanche and do
whatever you like.
The result, the 1965 musical
romance Having a Wild Weekend _ known as Catch Us If
You Can in England _ starring
the red hot British pop group,
impressed critics, including the
New Yorkers powerful Pauline
Kael.
She praised it much more
than it deserved, and as result
of that I started getting offers
from Hollywood, noted Boorman.
Boorman was sent the script
to Point Blank at the same
time as Oscar-winning actor
Marvin, who was in London to
make The Dirty Dozen.
We met and Lee said to me,
What do you think of the
script? I said, I think its really feeble. He said, Well, I agree
with you, so what are we talking
about? I said the character is
interesting. We met a number
of times, and I sort of wove this
story together. Eventually, Lee
said, Ill do this flick with you
on one condition. He picked
the script up and he threw it out
the window.

NEW YORK A fragment

of jawbone found in Ethiopia is the oldest known fossil from an evolutionary tree
branch that eventually led to
modern humans, scientist
reported Wednesday.
The fossil comes from
very close to the time that
our branch split away from
more ape-like ancestors best
known for the fossil skeleton Lucy. So it gives a rare
glimpse of what very early members of our branch
looked like.
At about 2.8 million years
old, the partial jawbone
pushes back the fossil record
by at least 400,000 years for
our branch, which scientists
call Homo.
It was found two years ago
at a site not far from where
Lucy was unearthed. Africa
is a hotbed for human ancestor fossils, and scientists
from Arizona State University have worked for years
at the site in northeast Ethiopia, trying to find fossils
from the dimly understood
period when the Homo genus, or group, arose.
Our species, called Homo
sapiens, is the only surviving
member of this group.
The jaw fragment, which
includes five teeth, was discovered in pieces one morning by Chalachew Seyoum,
an Ethiopian graduate student at Arizona State. He
said he spotted a tooth poking out of the ground while
looking for fossils.
The discovery is described
in a paper released Wednesday by the journal Science.
Arizona States William
Kimbel, an author of the pa-

per, said its not clear whether

the fossil came from a known
early species of Homo or
whether it reveals a new one.
Field work is continuing to
look for more fossils at the
site, said another author, Brian Villmoare of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Analysis indicates the jaw
fossil came from one of
the earliest populations of
Homo, and its age helps narrow the range of possibilities
for when the first Homo species appeared, Kimbel said.
The fossil dates to as little as
200,000 years after the last
known fossil from Lucys

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species.
The fossil is from the left
lower jaw of an adult. It combines ancestral features, like
a primitive chin shape, with
some traits found in later
Homo fossils, like teeth that
are slimmer than the bulbous molars of Lucys ilk.
Despite that mix, experts
not involved in the paper
said the researchers make
a convincing case that the
fossil belongs in the Homo
category.
And they present good evidence that it came from a
creature that was either at
the origin of Homo or within shouting distance, said
Bernard Wood of George
Washington University.

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The find also bolsters the

argument that Homo arose
from Lucys species rather
than a related one, said Susan Anton of New York University.
The new papers analysis is
first-rate, but the fossil could
reveal only a limited amount
of information about the
creature, said Eric Delson
of Lehman College in New
York.
Theres no head, theres
no tools, and no limb bones.
So we dont know if it was
walking any differently from
Australopithecus afarensis,
which was Lucys species, he
said.
Its the first time that anything other than isolated
teeth have turned up as a
possible trace of Homo from
before 2.3 million years ago,
he said.
This fills a gap, but it hasnt
yet given us a complete skeleton. Its not Lucy, Delson
said. This is always the
problem. We always want
more.
Also on Wednesday, another research team reported in
a paper released by the journal Nature that the lower part
of the face of Homo habilis,
the earliest known member
of the Homo branch, was
surprisingly primitive. That
came from reconstruction of
a broken jaw that was found
50 years ago.
The finding means the evolutionary step from the Ethiopian jaw to the jaw of Homo
habilis is not so large, said
an author of the Nature
study, Fred Spoor of University College London and
the Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology
in Leipzig, Germany.

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sports

COMMENTARY
Fools gold only
lasts so long
beyond the arc

Amie Just

@Amie_Just

Fools gold.
Thats how coach Bill Self
referred to the three-pointers that Kansas easily made
earlier in the season.
During the regular season,
Kansas has shot over 40 percent in 13 games and over 50
percent in eight games.
You cant bank on making
55 percent or 50 percent of
your threes, Self said after
Kansas defeated Texas Tech
on the road.
Before the loss at Kansas
State, Kansas made at least
20 percent from deep, averaging nearly 40 percent a game.
Since then, Kansas hasnt
managed to buy a bucket
from downtown. In the past
three games (at Kansas State,
versus Texas and versus West
Virginia) Kansas has made
3-of-36, or 8 percent, of its
long balls.
What happened?
Brannen Greene, one of
Kansas premier three-point
shooters, has trended down
as of late. Hes missed all 11
three-point attempts since
playing at Kansas State.
In the conference slate
before playing at Kansas
State, Greene was shooting
55 percent (22-of-40) from
outside the arc.
Hes not the only one.
Wayne Selden Jr., another
guard who knows his way
around the arc, has missed
nine three-point attempts
since playing in Wildcat
territory.
In the same span as Greene,
Selden was shooting 49 percent (27-of-55) from outside
the arc.
Freshman phenom Kelly
Oubre Jr. is trending in the
same manner. Since playing
at Bramlage, Oubre has made
1-of-6 threes.
During conference play
before that, Oubre connected
35 percent (16-of-46) of the
time.
Frank Mason, who is often
referred to as a fierce pitbull,
is also following suit. He is
1-of-5 from three since the
Sunflower Showdown.
In the same time span as
the three other Jayhawks
aforementioned, Mason
was shooting 37 percent
(15-of-41) from three-point
range.
With one game left in the
regular season, Kansas is
shooting 38 percent from
three, which is tied for No. 41
in the country.
No. 41 isnt so bad when
there are 351 teams playing
Division I basketball.
In the words of Greene from
earlier in the season, the
popcorns poppin. And the
Jayhawks have a large range
(0 percent to 59 percent) of
how the three ball can fall.
Kansas once hot threepoint shooters have gone cold
in the time of the year where
you live by the three or die by
the three.
If Kansas continues to fall
flat from deep, the latter
might be how things pan out.
Edited by Laura Kubicki

BASKETBALL

Kansas travels to Oklahoma for last regular season game | PAGE 7B

Kansas splits series with Grand Canyon

JOEY ANGUIANO
@joey_anguiano

For
a
team
many
considered
having
an
offense-first mindset, the
Jayhawks (5-8) didnt look
it on Wednesday, as they
flipped four double plays
en route to a 9-5 victory
against Grand Canyon
University (10-4).
The victory tied the
midweek series after the
Jayhawks lost 4-12 to the
Lopes on Tuesday.
Runs came early and
often for the Jayhawks
on
Wednesday,
as
demonstrated
by
sophomore catcher Michael
Tinsleys two-run home
run following a walk from
junior Colby Wright in the
first inning.
The second inning saw
the Jayhawks get into their
groove.
Starting
right
away with line drive from
senior Connor McKay,
the Jayhawks tallied three
more runs. Defensively,
Kansas buckled down and
escaped a bases-loaded jam
with minimal damage, only
allowing one run to score.
The third inning saw yet
another ball fly over the
fence for senior Blair Beck,
his fourth home run on
the season. It also saw the
Jayhawks expand their lead,
6-1, and the first of Kansas
double plays.
In the fourth inning, with
two outs, senior Dakota
Smith stepped up to the
plate with the bases loaded.
Smith proceeded to hit
a double that sent all of
three of his fellow Jayhawks
home.
The bottom of the inning,
though, saw a defensive
effort plagued by walks
and errors. The Lopes
of Grand Canyon were

FILE PHOTO/KANSAN
Senior shortstop Justin Protacio fields a ground ball during a game last season. On Wednesday, Kansas defeated Grand Canyon University 9-5 to split the series.

able to capitalize on this,

adding three runs to their
total, inching closer to the
Jayhawks.
The score would remain
the same all the way until the
bottom of the ninth inning,

when Grand Canyon tallied

on one more run, in a failed
last inning rally.
Overall, the midweek
series
showcased
the
Jayhawks ability to bounce
back quickly from a loss,

which will come in handy

throughout the rest of
the season, especially in
conference play.
The Jayhawks will be
back in action in their
home opener this weekend

against the Utah Utes. The

teams met once this season,
with Kansas coming out on
top 6-3. First pitch is at 3
p.m. Friday.
Edited by Mackenzie Clark

Jayhawks head south for Stetson Tournament

DEREK SKILLETT

22 runs scored. Freshman

Cori Jennings ranks second
on the pitching staff, with a
2.94 ERA and has struck out
25 batters while allowing 36
hits and 25 runs scored.

@derek_skillett

For the fourth weekend

this season, the No. 25
Jayhawks will head down
to the Sunshine State to
participate in the Stetson
Tournament in Deland, Fla.
Kansas is scheduled to face
off against La Salle, Chattanooga and Stetson. This will
be the last weekend before
Kansas starts playing at the
new Arrocha Ballpark at
Rock Chalk Park in Lawrence.
LA SALLE
Barring another weather-related schedule realignment, the Jayhawks
will open the tournament
against the La Salle Explorers on Friday at 10 a.m.
(CT). Kansas will be the
first team La Salle will play
this season.
In 2014, the Explorers finished with an 18-24 overall
record. They will be led by
sophomore infielder Christina Bascara, who led the
Explorers last season with a
.331 batting average, recording 39 hits, scoring 21 runs
and hitting 14 RBIs. Senior
pitcher Alicia Aughton
ranked fourth on the team
in 2014 with a .297 batting
average and was second on
the team with 25 RBIs.
Aughton will lead the Explorers pitching staff. In
2014, Aughton recorded a

FILE PHOTO/KANSAN
The Kansas softball team welcomes sophomore infielder Chaley Brickey at home plate after Brickey hit a home run
to put Kansas ahead of Oklahoma State last season. This weekend, the Jayhawks are headed to Florida again.

2.89 ERA, allowing 121 hits,

74 runs and struck out 88
batters. Besides Aughton,
the only returning pitcher
for the Explorers is sophomore Val Buehler, who recorded a 7.82 ERA, allowing
31 hits, 24 runs and only
striking out six batters.
CHATTANOOGA
The Jayhawks will face
off against the Chatta-

nooga Mocs on Friday at

12:30 p.m. (CT) and Saturday at 10 a.m. (CT). The
Mocs will carry an 11-4 record into the weekend and
will have the advantage of
having an extended period
of rest, as their last weekend
of scheduled games were
cancelled.
Statistically, the Mocs are
led by junior outfielder Sam
Taylor, who sports a .440

batting average and leads

the team with 22 hits, 15
runs scored and eight doubles. Senior Nicole Osterman ranks fourth on the
team with a .341 batting
average, but leads the team
with 18 RBIs on 14 hits.
The Mocs pitching staff is
led by senior Taylor Deason,
who has a 1.54 ERA and has
struck out 57 batters, while
also allowing 41 hits and

STETSON
The Jayhawks will face off
against the Stetson Hatters
on Saturday at 3 p.m. (CT).
The Hatters currently have
an 11-3 record, with the
majority of those wins coming against teams like Morgan State, Akron and Sacred
Heart, among others.
Statistically, junior Jessica
Griffin, who has a .500 batting average, leads the Hatters with 19 hits, 24 RBIs
and seven home runs. Senior Courtney Brandt ranks
third on the team with a
.439 batting average and
has recorded 18 hits and
19 RBIs.
Brandt,
who
has
a
1.17 ERA, has allowed
29 hits, six runs and has
struck out 24 batters, leads
the Hatters pitching staff.
Freshman Chelsea Hostetler
ranks second on the pitching staff with a 3.73 ERA
and has allowed 47 hits, 25
runs, eight home runs and
has struck out 27 batters.
The Jayhawks will also
play a game Sunday, but
the opponent will depend
on the results of Friday and
Saturdays games.

Edited by Mitch Raznick

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THE DAILY DEBATE

Which Kansas forward will step up in Perry Ellis absence?

Dylan Sherwood
@dmantheman2011

JAMARI TRAYLOR

unior forward Perry

Ellis, who is out for
Saturdays game against
Oklahoma, suffered a knee
injury Tuesday against West
Virginia, which means
another Kansas forward
must step up in his place.
In Tuesday nights game
against West Virginia,
junior forward Jamari
Traylor had his best game of
the season.
Traylor had a seasonhigh 14 points and nine
rebounds in 30 minutes
of play, including a huge
dunk that gave Traylor an
and-one opportunity, which
gave Kansas momentum in
overtime.
This is not the first time
Traylor has filled in for
an injured player. Traylor
helped fill in for former
Kansas post Joel Embiid
in the second round of
the NCAA tournament
last season against Eastern
Kentucky. Traylor posted
career highs in scoring
and rebounds, recording a
double-double of 17 points

and 14 rebounds.
If Traylor can put up
numbers with the injury to
Ellis, its Traylors time to
shine. There is currently no
depth at the post position,
with freshman forward Cliff
Alexander still out due to
eligibility issues. Traylor
has been known to foul too
much in games. Traylor

that game.
Traylor has started 17
games in his career at
Kansas, with 16 coming this
season. But Traylors best
games are usually when he
is the first person off the
bench. Traylor was replaced
in the starting lineup several
games ago, but has worked
his way back into a starting

TRAYLOR HAS STARTED 17 GAMES

IN HIS CAREER AT KANSAS, WITH 16
COMING THIS SEASON. BUT TRAYLORS
BEST GAMES ARE USUALLY WHEN HE IS
THE FIRST PERSON OFF THE BENCH.
is in the same situation as
former Kansas player and
current Los Angeles Laker
Tarik Black, who would get
into foul trouble early in the
game and have to sit on the
bench the rest of the half.
Should Ellis be out longer
than Saturdays game against
Oklahoma, Kansas could
use Traylor as long as
he stays out of foul trouble
and plays aggressively, as he
did against West Virginia.
Kansas fans really like what
they saw from Traylor in

role after Alexander was

benched due to eligibility.
Even sitting out a year due
to NCAA eligibility issues,
Traylors game has improved
but still needs work. Traylor
currently averages 4.7 points
and 3.8 rebounds per game
and is second on the team in
blocks with 31. Traylor has
had an up-and-down junior
season, but when it counts,
you could see him spark at
any time.
Edited by Mitch Raznick

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A SOLID ROTATION

fter locking up the

Big 12 regular season
championship
outright Tuesday, Kansas
next challenge will be to finish
the season on a high note
down in Norman, Okla., on
Saturday. The Jayhawks will
likely be facing the Sooners
without its two best big men:
junior forward Perry Ellis
and freshman forward Cliff
Alexander.
Alexander is still being
held out by the Kansas
coaching staff while the
NCAA investigates a possible
eligibility issue, while Ellis

March 11, which Ellis should

be back for. As for Alexander,
there is no telling when the
freshman from Chicago will
be back if at all this season.
If Ellis knee sprain keeps
him out longer than a week,
coach Bill Self will have to
plan accordingly. Without Ellis
and Alexander, that leaves the
Kansas coaching staff with
junior forwards Jamari Traylor
and Hunter Mickelson and
sophomore forward Landen
Lucas to fill the gap.
After Ellis went down in
the first half Tuesday night,
Traylor played 30 minutes,
Lucas saw 26 and Mickelson
was in for a season-high 13.
At one point, Self played
a smaller lineup with four
guards and one true forward,

[LUCAS, MICKELSON AND TRAYLOR]

WILL HAVE TO HOLD THEIR OWN IN THE
PAINT, SECURE THE GLASS AND PLAY AS A
UNIT IN ORDER TO FILL THE VOID...
suffered a right knee sprain
against West Virginia.
Following the Jayhawks
game in Oklahoma, they have
the conference tournament in
Kansas City, Mo., beginning

something he may be forced

to do more of in the coming
games.
If Kansas wants to have
success with its two best big
men out, it will have to work

in a strict rotation of Traylor,

Lucas and Mickelson, as well
as playing a four-guard lineup
in some situations.
Against West Virginia,
each of the three remaining
forwards exhibited their ability
to deliver for this basketball
team.
In his 30 minutes, Traylor
had 14 points and nine
rebounds, six coming
offensively, which displayed
why he is arguably the grittiest
player for the Jayhawks. This
toughness was also seen when
he posterized West Virginias
Devin Williams in overtime.
Mickelson scored a careerhigh eight points, in addition
to three steals and pairs of
blocks and rebounds. Lucas
efforts did not show up much
on the statsheet, but he had
the game-saving block in the
Mountaineers final possession
of regulation.
For Kansas to finish strong
in the regular season, Lucas,
Mickelson and Traylor will
have to play vital roles. The
three will have to hold their
own in the paint, secure the
glass and play as a unit in
order to fill the void of Ellis
and Alexander.

Edited by Mitch Raznick

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2015 Kansas Relays
will host a collegiate
quadrangular
The 2015 Kansas Relays will
celebrate 88 years come midApril. But this year, the meet will
have slightly altered format to
years prior.
There will be an open collegiate
meet, which will include athletes
from colleges across the country,
as well as high school events. New

Hosmer, Morales, Rios

power Royals to 13-2
win against Rangers
SURPRISE, Ariz. Eric Hosmer
joined Royals newcomers Kendrys
Morales and Alex Rios in hitting
consecutive first-inning homers,
and AL champion Kansas City
routed the Texas Rangers 13-2 on

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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015

to the 88th Kansas Relays will be

a quadrangular meet. The teams
competing in the quadrangular
will be Kansas, Kansas State,
Colorado State and Purdue.
With the direction track & field
is trending across the U.S., and
the world today, officials are
looking for ways to increase their
fan base and make the sport more
appealing to the non-track purist, meet director Milan Donley
said in the University release. We
think this will be a great way to

generate more interest around our

area a way for fans to come
and see Kansas athletes going
head-to-head against other great
programs for a team title.
The meet will have a team
champion and will be based on
a point system, similar to format
and point system of the Big 12
Championships and the NCAA
Championship meet. The Relays
are set to take place at Rock
Chalk Park on April 15-18.
Graydon James Melia

Wednesday in the spring training

opener for both teams.
Hosmer hit a three-run shot off
Rangers starter Colby Lewis that
landed on the grassy berm beyond
the centerfield fence. Morales
followed with a shot to right field
and Rios went deep to left, giving
Kansas City a 6-0 lead before
Lewis had recorded an out.
Lewis retired the next three bat-

ters after the homer binge, but

the veteran still needed 36 pitches to get through his only inning
against the Rangers campus
co-tenants.
Fellow starter Yovani Gallardo
fared little better, allowing four
runs on six hits over 1.2 innings
in his Texas debut.
Associated Press

Baylor women have

Big 12s top player and
coach
IRVING, Texas Baylor sophomore Nina Davis has been named
the Big 12 womens player of the
year, and Kim Mulkey is the leagues
top coach for the fifth time.
Davis, a 5-foot-11 post player
who was the Big 12s top freshman
last season, leads the league with
20.7 points a game and is fourth
with 8.6 rebounds a game.
The Big 12 honors announced
Wednesday were chosen by the
leagues head coaches.
Baylor just won its fifth consecutive Big 12 regular-season title
and sixth overall. The Lady Bears
have won the past four conference
tournaments.
Two Oklahoma guards got individual awards, Gabbi Ortiz as top
freshman and sophomore transfer
Peyton Little as top newcomer.
TCUs Chelsea Prince was named
the leagues top defensive player
and Baylors Khadijiah Cave got
the sixth-man award.
Associated Press

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Wichita State goes for second

consecutive tournament title
R.B. FALLSTROM
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FILE PHOTO/KANSAN
The Jayhawks huddle together before the 2014 home opener against Oral Roberts. The 2015 home opener is Friday.

Kansas welcomes Utah

for opener at The Hog
KYLAN WHITMER
@KRWhitmer

For the first weekend of the

season, the Kansas baseball
team will stay home to take on
the Utah Utes (2-10) at Hoglund Ballpark.
The Jayhawks will open their
three-game series with the
Utes on Friday at 3 p.m., followed by Saturday and Sunday
games at 2 p.m. and 1 p.m.,
respectively.
These two teams are not unfamiliar with each other; this
weekend will be their second
matchup this season. The Jayhawks squared off against the
Utes on Feb. 20 in Arizona as
part of the Big 12/Pac-12 challenge. In their first meeting,
the Jayhawks started hot and
didnt look back, leading the
whole game and winning 6-3.
Pitching, which has struggled
so far for the Jayhawks, had a

strong performance in the previous meeting. Senior pitcher

Drew Morovick earned his
first win of the season while
sophomore pitcher Stephen
Villines closed out the game to
earn himself a save. Morovick
pitched a full six innings, gave
up only five hits in his start
against the Utes and is the
probable starter this Friday.
Only four Jayhawks were able
to record hits against the Utes
in Arizona. Senior outfielder
Connor McKay got a hit on all
three of his at-bats, producing
two RBIs. Sophomore center
Michael Tinsley also tacked on
two hits and two RBIs, while
senior outfielder Blair Beck
took advantage of the new
baseballs and homered.
Utah has played six games
since its earlier meeting with
Kansas and has not had much
to brag about, only winning
one of those games against

Nicholls State.
The Utes have played better baseball than their record
shows, however. Of the Utes
10 losses, six have been by one
or two runs.
Pitcher Bret Helton (1-0) is
set to start on the bump this
Friday for the Utes and looks
to maintain his impressive
1.86 ERA through three appearances this season. Pitcher
Dalton Carroll (1-2) will take
on the Jayhawks on Saturday
for the second time after giving up six hits and five runs
in his last start. Pitcher Jayson
Rose (0-2) will get the start to
finish up the series in Lawrence.
The Jayhawks look to repeat
the result of the early season meeting as they open up
Hoglund Ballpark for the 2015
season.
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ST. LOUIS This time last

year, Wichita State was keeping light-hearted track of its
unbeaten streak with names
attached to the numbers
Michael Jordan for 23 in a
row, the B-29 bomber for 29-0
and so on, until the run finally
stopped at 35-0 with a twopoint loss to Kentucky in the
NCAA Midwest Regional final
in St. Louis.
We talked about it, coach
Gregg Marshall said. We
didnt need other people to
bring it up. We had fun with it.
The eighth-ranked Shockers (27-3, 17-1) were nearly
perfect this year in the Missouri Valley and are top seeds
heading back to the same
court where their dream season ended a year ago. Theyre
peaking, too, clinching their
second straight regular-season
title with a winner-take-all,
74-60 victory against No. 11
Northern Iowa last Saturday at
home. The lone loss was by 16
at Northern Iowa on Jan. 31.
Pretty big day for all of us,
Marshall said. It was an exciting week, an exciting close to
the season and a tremendous
game viewed by a national
television audience.
Wichita State opens Friday against the winner of the
play-in game between the
eighth and ninth seeds, Missouri State (11-19, 5-13) and
Southern Illinois (11-20, 4-14)
on Thursday night. Northern
Iowa (27-3, 16-2) faces either
Drake (9-21, 6-12) or Bradley
(8-23, 3-15) on Friday night.
Guards Ron Baker and Fred
VanVleet, second and third
in balloting for Valley player
of the year, have been keys to
Wichita States continued suc-

cess despite breaking in eight

new players. Forward Tekele
Cotton was named the conference top defensive player for
the second straight season.
Those guys dont walk on
the floor expecting to lose,
thats for sure, Marshall said.
THINGS TO WATCH FOR IN THE
MISSOURI VALLEY TOURNAMENT:
GO FOR THREE
Wichita State and Northern
Iowa are locks for the NCAA
Tournament. The conference
could get a third team if both
teams falter. Third seed Indiana State (15-15, 11-7) caught
stride in conference play and
Illinois State and Evansville,
the fourth and fifth seeds, are
both 19-11.

Those guys dont walk on

the floor expecting to lose,
thats for sure.
GREGG MARSHALL
Wichita State
basketball coach

Youve got two heavyweight

contenders, a logjam in the
middle and a logjam at the
bottom, Southern Illinois
coach Barry Hinson said. Ive
been on both ends of it.
TOP TALENTS
Valley player of the year
Seth Tuttle of Northern Iowa
is the conferences active career leader in scoring and rebounding. The 6-foot-8 Tuttle
leads the Panthers in scoring
(15.6 points), rebounding
(6.6), assists (3.3) and blocked
shots (18) and is shooting
63 percent. Northern Iowa

must get past falling short in

the season finale.
There was a real, genuine
sense of disappointment,
coach Ben Jacobson said.
There were some things
we did pretty well and some
things weve got to do a lot
better.
Baker averages 15.2 points
and VanVleet averages 12.5
points and 5.4 assists. Evansville landed two players,
D.J. Balentine and Egidijus
Mockevicius, on the six-player
all-conference team.

FRONT LOADED
The No. 1 seed has won the
tourney title just eight times
in 24 chances. Wichita State
is trying to become the seventh team to take consecutive
tournament titles. The last to
do it was Southern Illinois,
which took three in a row from
1993-95 with a lineup that featured guard Paul Lusk, now
the coach at Missouri State,
on all three teams. The lowest
seed to win a conference title
is No. 5 Indiana State in 2001.
For schools in the play-in
games, its a long grind: Only
one team, No. 7 seed Bradley
in 1998, has reached the semifinals.
Its kind of the gladiator approach, Drakes Ray Giacoletti
said.

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Illinois State and Southern
Illinois have both reached
the tournament title game 10
times, the most among current
Valley members. Illinois State
last won, however, in 1998
when coach Dan Muller was
the most outstanding player.
Southern Illinois last won the
title in 2007 and is in a play-in
game for the fifth time in six
years.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015

Two Kansas divers
qualify for diving
championships
Two Kansas divers qualified
for the NCAA Zone D Diving
Championships.
Sophomore
Graylyn Jones and freshman
Nadia Khechfe will represent
Kansas at the regional.
The Zone D regional is held in
Iowa City, Iowa.
HOW DOES THE
CHAMPIONSHIP WORK?
To qualify for zones, there
is a minimum dive score that

needs to be met at some point

throughout the regular season.
This can be done in either a
dual meet or championshipstyle meet.
At dual meets, divers have six
dives. At championship-style
meets, there are 11 dives.
Standards for the 1-meter
dive require a score of 255 or
better at a dual meet, or 390 or
better in a championship-style
meet.
Standards for the 3-meter
dive call for a score of 265 or
better at a dual meet, or 420 or
better in a championship-style
meet.

Jones scored 271.9 in the

1-meter dive back in October
at a dual meet. In February,
Khechfe scored 280.2 in the
3-meter dive at a dual meet.
Zones are essentially the
Sweet 16 or Elite Eight of diving.
The NCAA Championship comes
afterward.
In the Zone D regional, the top
eight in the 1-meter dive qualify
for the NCAA Championship. In
the 3-meter dive, the top 10
qualify.
Why those numbers? Its based
on the performances at the zone
during the previous season.
Amie Just

MISSY MINEAR/KANSAN
Senior forward Chelsea Gardner grabs a rebound against Iowa State on Monday. Gardner finished with 25 points and
12 rebounds in the Jayhawks senior night victory in Allen Fieldhouse.

Gardner earns second

Big 12 Player of the Week
honor
Senior forward Chelsea Gardner
was named the final Phillips
66 Big 12 Player of the Week on
Wednesday. This is Gardners
second player of the week award
from the Big 12 and her fourth in
her career at Kansas.
Gardner was selected by a
panel of media who cover the
Big 12. In her last home game

Monday night against Iowa State,

Gardner recorded 25 points and
12 rebounds to earn the last Big
12 Player of the Week award given
out by the conference. Gardner
achieved her ninth double-double
of the season and her 27th overall
at Kansas. Eleven of Gardners 25
points Monday were scored from the
free-throw line as Gardner was 11of-13 from the line, including 6-of8 with 3:18 left in the game.
Gardner also had five blocks
against Iowa State. She has

recorded 22 blocks in the past six

games. If Gardner records one block
Friday against Kansas State in the
Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship,
she will become the second Jayhawk
to record 200 career blocks.
Kansas (15-16, 6-12) will open
up the Big 12 Championship
against in-state rival Kansas State
(17-12, 7-11) for the third time this
season. Tipoff is at 6 p.m. Friday at
American Airlines Arena in Dallas.
Dylan Sherwood

FILE PHOTO/KANSAN
Nadia Khechfe, a freshman from Linolcn, Neb., performs a 1-meter dive at the Jan. 31 meet against Arkansas. The
Jayhawks fell in the dual 194-105. Khechfe will be representing Kansas at the regional meet.

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if there is a lot of rain or

THURSDAY,
if it is currently
snowing.MARCH 5, 2015
VOLUME 128 ISSUE 88
KANSAN.COM
Last year we actually
had
a practice where we went out
BEN BRODSKY/KANSAN
and we had 13 snow shovels
Betty ultimate team member Sydney Nelson tosses the frisbee during a
and we shoveled off LHS
routine practice.
football field so that we could
teammates and that they have from Mission, said many have practice, Yedo said.
Unlike most sports, Ultimate
made a big difference in her of the teams four and fiveveterans
graduated Frisbee is self-officiated by
college experience, she said. year
During practice and last year and the team is the players themselves. This
downtime at tournaments, now working to rebuild. holds the players to a higher
Were definitely hurting standard, given that they
the friendships and bonds
BEN FELDERSTEIN
that are developed are insanely without them, Yedo said. have to rely on one another to
@Ben_Felderstein
close, Agranoff said. This But were trying to get regulate the rules of the game.
Its a very competitive
Following an overtime
team has been a huge help everyone up to speed.
Finkelstein
said. victory that clinched Kansas
Although the team sport,
in my adjustment to college.
unranked,
the Youve got a bunch of an outright Big 12 victory,
They're such genuine and remains
fun people to be around. players maintain a positive college kids running around the team will travel to
attitude towards the season. competing against each other, Norman, Okla., to take on
Oklahoma
Sooners.
The teams captain, junior but its self-officiated so the the
MENS TEAM HORROR ZONTALS
Finkelstein
from spirit of the game really comes Kansas defeated the Sooners
This past weekend, the Jason
Horror Zontals took their Hopkins, Minn., said the in with people being honest 85-78 earlier this season in
farthest trip yet to compete in team has done well so far this with the rules and with each Lawrence.
Junior forward Perry Ellis
Baltimore at the Booyas Spring season, even though they have other and not getting overly
Stampede 2015, where the not traveled to a tournament as competitive and angry. There left Tuesday nights game with
team went undefeated. This is a full team yet, due to injuries arent any references or anyone a knee sprain after colliding
one of the eight tournaments and school related conflicts. to kind of break up disputes with sophomore forward
Like the Bettys, the Horror or fights. It relies on yourself Landen Lucas in the first
the team plans to compete
in during its spring season. Zontals practice weekly, even and how to stay respectful half. Ellis went to the locker
President of the Horror through the colder winter to yourself and to the game. room and didnt return to the
BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN bench until minutes before
The
team
Zontals, junior Jakob Yedo temperatures.
Junior forward Perry Ellis hits the floor in a play against West Virgina. Ellis sprained his
knee
and will
not play Saturday.
Edited
by Samantha
Darling the overtime period.
Ellis played only 17 minutes
against West Virginia and
scored only four points
on 1-of-4 shooting. Junior
forward
Jamari
Traylor
stepped up in Ellis absence,
scoring 14 points and
recording nine rebounds.
Traylor
recorded
four
points in 23 minutes against

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Kansas to take on OU
after clinching Big 12
the Sooners last time out,
adding two blocks and one
assist.
Freshman
guard
Kelly Oubre Jr. recorded 19
points and pulled down nine
rebounds on 6-of-11 shooting
against Oklahoma last game.
With Ellis absence, Lucas
is likely to step into the
starting lineup alongside
Traylor in the frontcourt.
Lucas did not play in the
teams last meeting, but
averages 2.6 points and 3.5
rebounds per game in only
12.7 minutes per game.
The Sooners come into play
with a 20-9 record, including
an 11-6 conference and a
15-1 home record. Oklahoma
has won four of its previous
six matchups, including a
seven-point loss to Iowa State
in its last game. Oklahomas
loss gave Kansas a share of
the Big 12 Championship.
Guard Buddy Hield leads
the Sooners with 17.3 points
per game and 5.4 rebounds.
Hield is also second on
the team with 42 steals on

the season. Forward Ryan

Spangler leads the team in
rebounding with 7.7 per
game while also adding 10.3
points.
Hield led the way against
Kansas in their last matchup,
posting 26 points on 7-of-19
shooting from the field.
Spangler recorded a doubledouble with 13 points and
10 rebounds as well.
Kansas will look to
build momentum into the
Big 12 tournament with a
win against the Sooners on
Saturday. Kansas has dropped
two consecutive games on the
road and has lost five on the
road all season.
The Big 12 tournament
will
begin
March
11
and will continue until
March 14. Kansas will enter
the tournament as a one seed
and will receive a first-round
bye. Kansas last won the Big
12 tournament in the 2012-13
season.

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AT A GLANCE
Without Perry Ellis, the Jayhawks appear to be at a disadvantage against a very good
Oklahoma team. Kansas already ranks in the bottom half
in the Big 12 in both rebounds
and offensive rebounds, so itll
be up to Jamari Traylor, Landen
Lucas and Hunter Mickelson to
scrap on the glass, going up
against the talented frontcourt
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former Oklahoma Gatorade
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PLAYER TO WATCH

Devonte Graham, freshman,

guard
In the West Virginia game, Frank Mason III played 42 minutes, and he hit
the 1000-minute mark for the season,
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With the Big 12 title already secured,
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that hell need to step up on the
boards as well. If Oubre can play
like he did against the Mountaineers, the Jayhawks should
be in good shape in Norman.

BY THE NUMBERS

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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015

No. 9
(24-6, 13-4)

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No. 15

OKLAHOMA
(20-9, 11-6)

PROJECTED STARTERS

PROJECTED STARTERS

Frank Mason III, sophomore, guard

Mason has been the most valuable player for the Jayhawks
for most of the season, and he was especially crucial down
the stretch against the Mountaineers. The sophomore
scored 12 points in the final minute of regulation and
overtime combined, and he would finish the game with 19
points and seven rebounds.

Isaiah Cousins, junior, guard

Coming off a solid 12-point performance against Iowa State,
Cousins is a 43 percent field-goal shooter, which ranks in the
top 10 within the Big 12. The junior is second in the Big 12 in
three-point field goal percentage as well. He hit three of his
eight three-pointers to score 18 points in the last meeting with
Kansas. If Kansas cant contain the best three-point shooter in
the Big 12, the team will have a long day in Norman.

Wayne Selden Jr., sophomore, guard

After scoring 14 or more points in five consecutive games,
the sophomore from Roxbury, Mass., has fallen into a
slump. He has scored a combined 27 points in his past five
outings, while shooting just 27.6 percent from the field.
Selden also scored just five points in the Jayhawks first
meeting with the Sooners this year, so hell be looking to
bounce back.

Jordan Woodard, sophomore, guard

Oklahoma plays a two point guard set, which means either
Cousins or Woodard will take the ball up the court and run the
offense. The two players are interchangeable, but Woodard is
more of a standard point guard compared to Cousins. Woodards 1.7 assist-to-turnover ratio and four assists per game
ranks in the top 10 within the Big 12, and against Kansas,
Woodard posted a four-assist, one-turnover game.

Kelly Oubre Jr., freshman, guard

Unlike Selden, Oubre has gotten better and better as the season has gone on. The freshman has averaged more points per
game in each month as the season has progressed. Oubre is
fourth on the Jayhawks in points per game with 8.9. However,
Oubre hasnt been as good on the road, averaging just 5.9
points in games played away from Allen Fieldhouse.

Buddy Hield, junior, guard

A candidate for the Big 12 player of the year, Buddy Hield
leads the Big 12 in scoring (17.3) and three-point field goals
made (79). Hield is the best player in the Big 12. His 6-foot-4,
210-pound body allows him to shoot over shorter defenders. If
Hield repeats his 26-point performance, Kansas will not come
out of Norman victorious.

Jamari Traylor, junior, forward

After scoring a grand total of one point in his previous two
games, Traylor exploded with 14 points and nine rebounds in
the Jayhawks comeback victory against the Mountaineers. No
play was bigger than his and-one highlight dunk in overtime,
which put the Jayhawks ahead 67-65 with three minutes to
play. Traylors impact was fairly minimal in the last game
between the Sooners and Jayhawks, meaning hell be looking
for redemption Saturday as well.

Ryan Spangler, junior, forward

The Oklahoma frontcourt is going against a completely
different Kansas frontcourt. Without Alexander and Ellis,
Spangler will have a field day against Lucas and Traylor. Kansas struggles to keep defenders off the offensive glass, and
Spangler averages over two offensive rebounds per game. If
Kansas repeats its performance against West Virginia, giving
up more than 20 offensive rebounds, Oklahoma can win with
a lot of second-chance points.

33.6

Brannen Greene has missed all

of his past 11 three-point attempts in the past three games.

The Jayhawks have won their

past three games against the
Sooners.

BIG JAY WILL CHEER IF

The Jayhawks actually make
a three-point shot. Following
a performance in which the
Jayhawks shot an atrocious
1-of-15 from three-point range
against the West Virginia Mountaineers, the team will certainly
be looking for improvement.
Oubre made two of the threepoint-attempts during the last
game versus the Sooners. The
Jayhawks went on to win that
game 85-78, despite 26 points
from Buddy Hield.

BLAIR SHEADE
@RealBlairSheady

AT A GLANCE

After giving up a 21-point lead

against Iowa State, No. 15
Oklahoma was eliminated from
winning the Big 12 title outright. Once Kanas defeated
West Virginia, the Sooners fell
two games back in the Big 12
race and completely out of contention to share the title. Earlier this season, Oklahoma was
down 19 points at halftime,
and closed the gap within two
points with five minutes left,
but couldnt against the Sooners.

PLAYER TO WATCH

Frank

Booker, sophomore, guard

Booker averages only five points

per game, but his minutes and
production have increased
in recent games. Known as a
three-point shooter, against Iowa
State, Booker failed to hit any of
his five three-point attempts. The
sophomore has the capability of
providing a spark off the bench
and can help either Cousins or
Woodard if either get into foul
trouble.

QUESTION MARK

Can Oklahoma take

advantage of a
weakened Kansas
frontcourt?

Without Alexander and Ellis, the

Kansas frontcourt will struggle
against the veteran Oklahoma
frontcourt. Both Thomas and
Spangler are in the top three for
field goal percentage, meaning
Kansas forwards Lucas, Traylor
and Hunter Mickelson will have
a tough task guarding them.
With Alexander and Ellis, the
Kansas frontcourt has struggled
rebounding, and this Oklahoma
team is a top three rebounding
team in the Big 12.

BY THE NUMBERS

37

Frank Mason averages 33.6

minutes per game, which has
been done by only one other
KU player since 2009.

OU
TIPOFF

Oklahoma is the worst defensive rebounding team in the

Big 12, allowing 37 rebounds
per game.
Landen Lucas, sophomore, forward
With Ellis likely sidelined until the Big 12 tournament,
Lucas is expected to get the start next to Traylor, just
one game after Lucas set a career-high total for minutes
played in a game. The sophomore will be playing against
the Oklahoma Sooners for the first time in his career,
as he did not enter the game in any of the teams past
three meetings.

Tashawn Thomas, senior, forward

After transferring from Houston, Thomas has become the
fifth best field-goal shooter in the Big 12, shooting 51
percent from the floor. At 6 feet 8 inches and 240 pounds,
Thomas provides the Sooners with a rim protector, blocking
more than one shot per game. Hes an excellent rebounder,
grabbing more than six per game. Thomas could score more
than his 11-point average as he faces a weakened Kansas
frontcourt.

Prediction:

Kansas 68, OU 73

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557

Oklahoma is second in the

Big 12, getting to the free-throw
line 557 times this season.

BABY JAY WILL CRY IF

Buddy Hield scores more than 20

points. During the first meeting
between Oklahoma and Kansas,
Hield stole the show. He hit four of
his 13 three-pointers and scored
a game-high 26 points. Hield
scored eight of his 26 points at
the free-throw line. He will get
there more often with Lucas and
Traylor guarding the paint because both Kansas frontcourt
players tend to foul players attacking the paint. Neither Traylor
nor Lucas is a great rim protector.

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