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A LGBTQ+
DEDICATED SPACE
opened in the Union
on Wednesday. The
space is part of the
Center for Sexuality
and Gender
Diversity.
News PAGE 2

ALEX ROBINSON/KANSAN

WHERE DOES
YOUR COFFEE
COME FROM? A
look at where some
local coffee shops
get their beans.
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An activist stands on a platform in front of Wescoe Hall and speaks to assembled demonstrators in August 2014.

Discussing racial inequality on campus

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head coach after
an investigation.
Kansas will play
Rutgers a week
from Saturday.
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More than a year after the

shooting of black teenager
Michael Brown and the resulting protests in Ferguson, Mo.,
leaders on campus are looking
for ways to bring the conversation about race to all students
at the University.
During the event Making
Black Lives Matter: A Year in
Review last Wednesday, students and faculty were able to
talk about race on campus.
I think that for us to engage
in these complex things that
are happening around us, we

have to understand the narratives, the stories of everyone

that participates in this system, said Cody Charles, associate director at the Office of
Multicultural Affairs.
Charles said that while the
conversation about race has
certainly increased on campus
within the last year, the talks
are limited.
I think a pocket of students
are having some dynamic conversations about whats happening around them, around
us, and its specifically fueled
by whats happening nationally, Charles said.
Jameelah Jones, a second-year graduate student,

said conversations need to be

expanded beyond those pockets to reach more students.
I think that unfortunately,
the conversation is necessary
but it ends up only happening
in places like American studies, or African-American studies or the women and gender
sexuality studies or the Office
of Multicultural Affairs, Jones
said. And in those spaces,
youre often preaching to the
choir.
One of the first steps, according to Jones, to encourage wider-reaching conversations is to
bring it into more classrooms.
I really want the conversation to be had in other spaces,

particularly in a lot of courses,

she said. As a freshman and
sophomore, youre exposed to
so many different classes, and
I think that if we can incorporate this conversation into
those courses and into places
that universally all students
have to hit, I think it would
really be an important thing,
something thats not happening at every institution.
Another part of bringing the
conversation into classrooms,
Jones said, is increasing representation of minorities
in classes by studying more
works that were created by minority scholars.
What message is it sending

me if I look at my syllabus and

everyone that Im supposed to
be reading, everyone that the
instructor deems as smart is
white, Jones said. If you dont
see anybody in powerful positions in society that look like
you, the message is that you
dont belong.
Clarence Lang, chair of the
department of African and African-American studies, said
his department is involved in
on-campus programming like
the Black Lives Matter Event
last week. Lang also said that
there are other departments,
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The Kansas Bureau of Investigation will receive a $2

million grant from the U.S.
Department of Justice. The
money will pay for the testing
of unsubmitted sexual assault
kits, often called rape kits.
The National Sexual Assault
Kit Initiative Grant that the
KBI will receive supports efforts to reform the approaches used by law enforcement
agencies across Kansas to investigate and prosecute sexual assault cases, test kits and
notify victims, according to a
KBI news release.
The purpose of a sexual assault kit is to use forensic evidence to catch a rapist and
support testimony, according
to Lawrence Police Department spokesman Sgt. Trent
McKinley. According to the
KBI news release, testing previously unsubmitted kits can
lead to prosecuting serial rapists as well.
The rape kits that would be
tested, using the grant money,
are considered unsubmitted.
That means they have been
completed by a hospital but
never submitted to the KBI by
a police department.
McKinley said kits would
not be submitted by the department to the KBI if the
victim was unsure about continuing to prosecute the case
after having the evidence collected so as to not waste testing resources.
We need to be giving people the time they need to decide what they want to do,
McKinley said.

Untested kits are those that

have been submitted for testing, but the testing has been
delayed for more than 30
days, according to a KBI news
release. The grant is only for
unsubmitted kits.
McKinley said the LPD must
get approval from the District
Attorneys office in order to
dispose of rape kits that havent been submitted, and because of the statute of limitations on sex crimes, some kits
are held for years.
In 2014, KBI found that
statewide law enforcement
had not submitted a total of
2,008 rape kits, which the KBI
has since collected.
KBI declined to provide any
additional interviews beyond
the news release for this story.
According to the KBI, the
LPD had 50 unsubmitted sexual assault kits as of November 2014. Since then, the KBI
has begun testing the unsubmitted kits and investigating
what causes law enforcement
not to submit kits, according
to the news release.
Sexual assault kits are collected and tested by the KBI
so that there is a standard kit
for the state. Kits can be tested
by other labs if a special test is
needed or if a city has the capability, such as the Johnson
County Crime Lab and the
Sedgwick County Regional
Forensic Science Center.
Hospitals also treat victims
for injuries, STIs or give emergency contraceptive if needed.
The Lawrence Memorial HosSEE KITS PAGE 6

Unsubmitted rape kits in Kansas

Ten jurisdictions, including Lawrence, have more
unsubmitted rape kits than the rest of the state. Top
jurisdictions include several University towns.
Wichita
Population: 386,552

1,125

Riley County
Population: 75,394

159

Hutchinson
Population: 41,889

100

Salina
Population: 47,846

100

Sedgwick County
Population: 505,415

65

Overland Park
Population: 188,260

58

Lawrence
Population: 90,811

50

Leavenworth
Population: 35,891

41

Dodge City
Population: 28,159

30

Wellington
Population: 7,967

29
0

226

452

678

904

1130

Number of unsubmitted rape kits collected in 2014

Note: Some of the jurisdictions are cities and some are counties.
Source: Kansas Bureau of Investigation

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Roze Brooks, graduate assistant for the Center for
Sexuality and Gender Diversity, speaks at the opening
of the Centers new space for LGBTQ+ students in the
Kansas Union. The space is located in room 420.

The Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity

opened a new space dedicated to LGBTQ+ students on
Wednesday.
The space is an extension of
the Center for Sexuality and
Gender Diversity. The new
space is located in the Student
Involvement and Leadership
Center in the Kansas Union.
Vanessa Delgado, assistant
director, said the center has
provided services and resources for LGBTQ+ students
in the past, but not in a physical space.
We had to have an LGBTQ+
resource space dedicated just
for our queer students where
they can come and be who
they are and be honest and
open about who they are rather than having to hide that,
Delgado said.
The resource center is opening after about two years of
preparation and funding, according to Student Body Vice
President Zach George.
It was something that was
lacking on our campus,
George said. We have a
large LGBT community, and
we didnt have anything like

this. And so Student Senate

stepped up to the plate and
tried to fund a resource center
where people could go and get
information and connect and
network and just be who they
are.
Roze Brooks, a SILC graduate assistant in the Center for
Sexuality and Gender Diversity, said although its been a
long road, theyre happy to finally have the resource center.
Its been a really lengthy
but really rewarding process
trying to figure out what we
were going to do with the
space, how we were going to
get the space to look like what
it looks like right now, and
how we were going to get the
resources we wanted, Brooks
said.
Now that its here, Brooks
said they think the center will
be very helpful for LGBTQ+
students on campus.
I think bringing them to this
space, specifically, so close to
some of the student organizations and professional staff
that are doing work on campus, is going to open up opportunities for LGBT students
to get involved in things they
might not have known otherwise or had access to otherwise, Brooks said.
Delgado said that having an

LGBTQ+ dedicated space is a

big step for a college campus.
Its very innovative for KU
to even have a space like this,
because not every university
across the country has these
spaces, Delgado said. The
last time I looked, there were
only about 240 colleges across
the country that have spaces
like this. When you consider the thousands of colleges
and universities, theres thousands. It means a lot that KU
has a space like this."
In addition to providing a
space for LGBTQ+ students,
the center will continue its
work outside the office in
planning events like Transgender Awareness Month in
November.
For now, Delgado said, the
center is working on making
sure students know there is
a safe space for them to be
themselves.
We really want students to
know that this is here and feel
welcome to come and be in
this space, Delgado said. Because this is a space for them.
Edited by Jackson Vickery

KU leaders discuss safety with Regents

ALANA FLINN
@alana_flinn

In separate meetings with

the Kansas Board of Regents,
presidents of university and
student government organizations discussed plans to get
student feedback regarding
campus safety.
At the meetings, both groups
discussed laws that would
allow people to carry a concealed gun into buildings on
Regents college campuses beginning in 2017.
In 2013, the Kansas Legislature passed the Kansas Personal and Family Protection
Act, which allowed people
with concealed carry permits
to carry weapons into public
buildings, like universities,
court houses and city halls. In
July, a law eliminating the requirement to obtain a permit
for a concealed carry weapon
went into effect.
The University is exempt
from the laws until 2017, so
possession of guns in campus
buildings is still prohibited.
The exemption is set to expire
on July 1, 2017, at which time
people would be able to carry
a concealed weapon into those
buildings without a permit.
Several subcommittees of the
Regents, including University
Senate and Student Advisory
Committee, will work together to research and gather information on student opinion
about weapons on campus.
The conversations today
seem to indicate, as the other
groups start to activate their
process of information gathering, the Regents may become
a sort of clearinghouse or catalyst for sharing of information, said Mike Williams, the
University Senate president.
There would most likely be
either one single survey that
comes out and all the data
is shared with all schools, or
some combination thereof.
Some of the conversation was
seeing how that could be organized or orchestrated.
Student Body President Jessie
Pringle spoke on behalf of the
Student Advisory Committee
and detailed future plans for
a survey on the topics of gun
safety, training and education.
We have been discussing
surveying the student body at
each institution, so when we
are asked by the Board, the

University or the State, we

have an answer to what is the
true student opinion? Pringle
said. We are moving forward
to find adequate information
on the opinion of students.
Pringle said the survey would
be created by the Docking Institute at Fort Hays State University and administered at every Regents campus. Funding
for the surveys is under discussion among Regents student
body presidents. As of now,
the Student Advisory Committee hopes to have information collected by December so
student leaders can advocate
for the popular student opinion during the spring semester.
Williams said presidents of
university governance also discussed the survey and that the
University is a few steps ahead
of other schools on campus
safety. The University has established an ad hoc committee
comprised of students, faculty
and staff that conducts research and discusses what the
best solutions for weapons on
campus are.

Who is keeping
your campus safe?
What is University
Senate?

What is the Kansas

Board of Regents?

What is the Student

Advisory Committee?

University Senate is
the
representative
body including 39
members of Faculty
Senate members, 13
members of Student
Senate and 12 members of Staff Senate.

The Kansas Board of

Regents is comprised
of nine members who
are all appointed by the
governor.

In the mid-1970s, state

legislators mandated
the creation of a student committee that
would advise the Kansas Board of Regents.

Were not trying to

control weapons or
guns that are legal to
be carried. Thats not
our purpose.

MIKE WILLIAMS
University Senate
President

Some schools haven't done

that, Williams said. Were a
little ahead of the curve.
Whether the exemption is reinstated or not, Williams said,
the University will work to establish a learning environment
that is safe for all students.
Were not trying to control
weapons or guns that are legal to be carried. Thats not
our purpose, Williams said.
What were trying to establish
is practice that allows an individual to feel more comfortable
in their environment, develop
the ways to handle situations
that may arise or how to react
to a threat if they perceive one.
This is a more proactive way
to help people recognize this
is something they need to acknowledge soon.
Edited by Maddy Mikinski

We are the representative voice that

speaks to and with
the administration to
share the governance
of the University,
Williams said.

Specifically,
University Senate addresses
and negotiates any
particular policy, procedure or plan that
affects students, staff
and faculty.

The Board of Regents

are all professionals,
Pringle said. Some
have law practices or
are past legislators.

The board meets regularly to consider matters relating to academic affairs, fiscal affairs,
facilities and policy and
procedure,
according
to the University Senate code. It oversees 33
public institutions, including community colleges and public universities across Kansas.

The
committee
is
comprised of each student body president
from the six state universities: Wichita State
University, the University of Kansas, Emporia State University,
Fort Hays State University, Pittsburg State
University and Kansas
State University.
Essentially, the committees job is to discuss issues on the
Board from a student
perspective, Pringle
said. The Boards job
is to make decisions
and policies, so having a student voice is
important.

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Patty Wiggins works behind the register at the Hawk Stop in Murphy Hall. A petition circulated last week that gained nearly 500 signatures to prevent the shop from closing.

Hawk Stop in Murphy will close despite petition

CONNER MITCHELL
@connermitchell0

After news circulated around

Murphy Hall last week that the
buildings Hawk Stop would be
closing at the end of fall semester, Anna Menendez, a sophomore from LaGrange Park, Ill.,
decided she could not sit back
and let the store close quietly.
Menendez started an online
petition, which has garnered
nearly 500 signatures. The petition asks University Dining
Services to keep the Hawk Stop
open.

My goal with the petition was

for it to get more notice to the
situation and to get the process
going, Menendez said. We are
not happy that they are closing a
place that is so important to the
students of Murphy Hall.
Menendez said students depend on the convenience of the
Hawk Stop because many have
short breaks between classes.
Once the location is no longer
available, she said she thinks students would be forced to resort
to bringing their own lunches
and that Dining Services would
notice the loss in revenue.
We will definitely be bringing

the petition to Dining Services

to get their attention, she said.
They will lose so much revenue [by closing the Hawk Stop]
because there is no time for students to go elsewhere for food,
so they will start bringing their
own lunches.
Mike Reid, director of public
affairs, said the decision to close
the location came down to a lack
of student fees and the state of
Kansas not funding Dining Services. Of the $444 campus fee
each student pay each semester,
the Union receives $37.50 to
operate the 22 dining locations,
Reid said.

We would like to be able to

keep all of our locations open,
Reid said. However, we have
to depend on our own income
to operate these locations and
this operation lost at least $5,000
last year. We always keep trying
to find ways to service students,
but it doesnt always work out in
some of the locations.
Jennifer Gartner, a sophomore
from Salina, said the Hawk Stop
closing would be a great inconvenience to music and theater
students. She added that losing
the main cashier, Patty Wiggins,
would be a loss to the atmosphere of Murphy Hall as well.

"I go to the Hawk Stop almost

every day. Music and theater
students dont have time to
run to the Burge or the Underground to get food unless
we have at least an hour lunch
break, Gartner said. Also, Patty is the sweetest woman on the
planet, and she is also full of uplifting advice and helps keep us
sane.
Wiggins said the transition
away from the Murphy Hall
Hawk Stop would be difficult,
but added that sometimes
change has to come in situations
like these.
Ive gotten to know every-

body here, and I am attached

to them. The students here have
made my heart grow so big I can
hardly carry it around, Wiggins
said. "But I know change has to
come, and change is hard, no
matter what.
Reid said there have been discussions to keep the location
open until spring 2016 when
its replacement in the DeBruce
Center officially opens. However, he said the Murphy Hall location is still scheduled to close
at the conclusion of the fall semester.

Edited by Derek Johnson

University will adopt 22 of 27 recommendations

from the Chancellors Sexual Assault Task Force
MADI SCHULZ
@mad_dawgg

Of the 27 recommendations
made by in May by the Chancellors Task Force on Sexual Assault, 22 of them are implemented or are in the process of being
implemented, according to a
news release by the University.
Chancellor
Bernadette
Gray-Little formed the task
force to address issues facing
the University regarding sexual
assault. From Sept. 2014 to May
2015, the task force undertook
research and solicited feedback

and recommendations from

members of the university community before making their
final recommendations, according to the Chancellors Task
Force on Sexual Assault.
Former co-chair of the task
force Angela Murphy said she
is impressed with the work the
University is doing to address
sexual assault, even if it will take
some time to see results.
It could take a while to get to
fully and meaningfully addressing the problem, Murphy said.
This is going to move us in the
right direction.

The recommendations are divided into four categories: Policy and Process Improvement,
Prevention Practices, Support
and Advocacy for Student Victims of Crime, and Evaluation of
the Code of Student Rights and
Responsibilities.
Fourteen of the recommendations are already implemented
on campus and eight of the recommendations are being more
thoroughly researched before
implementation. The date of implementation is not yet known.
Five of the recommendations
are not being implemented be-

cause theyre deemed either unfeasible, impossible because of

lack of resources or unnecessary.
Murphy said even though the
University is not implementing
some of the recommendations
now, they could in the future.

They may be more applicable

or feasible in the future, Murphy said. I see [the recommendation] as a historical document
that we will look back on and be
used in the future to track our
progress.

Offices involved in the implementing the recommendations

include Institutional Opportunity and Access, General Counsel, Public Safety, Student Affairs, Public Affairs, the Provost,
the Chancellor, and others.

Recommendations in the process of implementation, according

to the news release:
1. Revise definitions of

4. Address the gaps in

6. Create a sexual violence

prevention advisory board

prevention and education

research center

services, resources, education, planning and prevention for all students

regardless of gender
identity or sexual orientation

3.

5. Develop college course

8. Modify discrimination

sexual harassment
sexual assault

and

2. Create a central

Implement multiple
prevention programs to all
first-year students

for student leadership and

peer educators

7. Modify fraternity and

sorority
recruitment/
membership intake practices

statement and policy on

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considered in campus rape culture
ANISSA FRITZ
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study. Numerous studies and

articles have been done in an
attempt to pinpoint what the
exact cause of these horrifying
numbers is. But there is no
one solution, just like there is
not only one problem.
Other studies have shown
that women in sororities
are 74 percent more likely to experience rape than
those who are not a part of
the Greek community. If a
woman is in a sorority, she is
not automatically going to be
sexually assaulted. If a man is
a member of a fraternity, that
does not mean he is a rapist.
And if people choose to drink
alcohol, that does not translate
to them getting sexually
assaulted later that night.
But the question still stands:
Why do these instances seem
to happen more to those in
Greek life?
The Defensible Space Theory

brings up the point that a residential environment whose

physical characteristics
building layout and site plan
function to allow inhabitants themselves to become
key agents in ensuring their
security. This relates to the
idea that for humans to feel
secure, the physical structure
of where they are plays a key
role in their safety.
Partly because of this,
something that needs to be
taken into consideration is the
layout of fraternity houses.
A typical fraternity has a
main entrance that leads to
a formal living room that is
closely connected to a library,
a dining room and a kitchen
thats connected to a house
mothers apartment. There are
stairwells and staircases that
go both up and down up
leading to sleeping dorms and
individual bedrooms, while

the bottom floor is usually

occupied by a basement, chapter room and other rooms
that could be used for things
like movie theaters or weight
rooms.
A house with this many
rooms and narrow hallways
and stairwells that can sometimes closely resemble those
in parking garages is confusing enough while sober. Once
alcohol is added, these houses
can turn into winding mazes.
Uncomfortable situations
are awkward enough to get
out of, but things can get
dangerous when someone
doesnt know how to exit the
location. The Defensible Space
Theory states that alcohol can
be disorienting on its own, but
when placed in an even more
confusing layout, finding your
friends, cell service or the
doorway out can seem more
difficult. And the only person

one can turn to in this situation is a fraternity member of

the house a member who
knows the way out along with
all the nooks and crannies that
are easily ignored by passers
by.
The layout of these fraternity houses is not the cause of
rape culture alone. But with
alcohol, the wrong timing and
someone who does not have
good intentions, these houses
can turn into traps for someone who is already dazed and
confused, and thereby forcing
them to depend on and trust
someone whom they maybe
shouldnt.
The numerous rooms, the
tight hidden stairwells and
maze-like hallways can invite
malicious acts that could turn
an individual into a statistic.

Another day, another

office hour where
no one shows up.
#TALife

Over the last year, it seems as

though cases of sexual assault
occur on an all-too-regular
basis. Editorials, news reports
and opinion pieces of all
kinds have addressed the
victims, perpetrators, alcohol,
drugs and the scene of these
incidents. Not all cases of
sexual assault are the same or
black-and-white as we would
sometimes like to believe.
What hasnt been addressed
as a possible factor as to why
fraternities specifically seem
to be a popular location for
these cases of sexual assault
is the layout and structure of
these houses.
Nearly one in every five
women will be sexually
assaulted in her life, according
to a Department of Justice

Oven mitts should

not catch on fire yet
it somehow happens
in sellards

Why society should value beauty less

The Jayhawk fanbase

has completely
unrealistic
expectations for our
football team. There.
I said it.
To the girl who only
cares about hot
pizza, try morning
after cold pizza
shuttle and youll find
the meaning of life

This is a junior level

class. We know what
a Boolean search is
Its pretty sad when
the restrooms inside
a building are nicer
than the building
itself. Sorry, Wescoe.
Strong Hall reeks of
memory foam and
sadness
Lawrence Restaurant
Week or, as I like to
call it, food-thatstoo-expensive-forstudents week.
I feel like American
Horror Story has
gone downhill with
every season. And
now that Lady Gaga
has been cast in it
just confirms this
feeling
I have a love-hate
relationship with the
Stairmaster that is
KU campus.
The next time you
wave at someone
who wasnt waving
at you just start to na
na instead.
Shoutout to the
person who glued
a quarter to the
ground outside the
underground.
Dear professor,
youve recycled the
same lecture for a
week now. Can we
learn something
new?
College: where the
squirrels are more
popular than you
Walking past
classrooms with
the door open and
making eye contact
with 30 people at the
same time is so fun.

RACHEL GONZALEZ
@KansanNews

The Dove Real Beauty

Campaign features women of
all body types and skin colors,
emphasizing the subjective
nature of physical attractiveness. The central message of
this campaign and many
similar to it is uplifting.
The problem is that, at the
same time, Dove is reaffirming
to its audience that beauty is
still physical and still important. In actuality, beauty needs
to be judged based on values,
morals and beliefs. Not the
color of your hair or how well
you contour your face.
Society as a whole needs to
stop emphasizing beauty as
a scale of worth. To do this, we
must do away with the notion

that everyone has free access

to the quality of beauty.
The standard of beauty is
constantly changing. What
was considered beautiful in
the 1980s is completely different than what is considered
beautiful now. Because of
this, not everyone can always
be beautiful and not only
should this be okay, but it
should be accepted.
Our society has agreed upon
a definition of beauty that
requires certain physical traits.
And biologically speaking that
isnt possible. If one were to
replace beauty with another
adjective and apply it universally to people as a whole, it
would be strange.
Take the adjective "energetic," for example no one says
everyone is energetic in their
own way because not every-

one is energetic and certainly

not all the time. But according
to Doves campaign, everyone
can be beautiful all the time.
Its easy to accept that a lot
of good qualities are not universal, but not beauty. Perhaps
this is because society merits
us and we merit ourselves
on the basis of beauty. It
seems that we are constantly
supposed to be reaffirming the
fact that people are beautiful.
Photos of little girls with terrible diseases often go viral on
Facebook with captions that
often read something along
the lines of shes so beautiful! or share if you think
shes still beautiful."
While these comments are
certainly well intentioned and
uplifting, those girls strength
should not be equated to
beauty. They are incredibly

strong, admirable people, but

by society's standards they
may not be beautiful and there
should be absolutely nothing
wrong with that.
Today society values beauty

I dont know if youre

beautiful, funny, smart,
friendly, musical,
caring, diligent But
I know this. You are
valuable. You are interesting. You are worth
loving.
NATHAN BIBERDORF
Author of Not
Everyone is Beautiful

over all other characteristics. It seems intuitive that

it shouldnt be this way, that

Edited by Rebecca Dowd

physical attractiveness is not

an accurate measure of worth.
A much more encouraging
Dove commercial may feature
women holding signs that say
Im a great musician or Im
the funniest person I know."
As Nathan Biberdorf puts it
in his article Not Everyone is
Beautiful published in 2014,
I want to tell you something,
whoever you are. I don't know
if you're beautiful, funny,
smart, friendly, musical,
caring, diligent But I know
this. You are valuable. You
are interesting. You are worth
loving. So forget about beautiful. It's become an ugly word
anyway.
Edited by Dani Malakoff

Increase money for NASA space research

based on importance to KU and society
JENNY STERN
@jenilikeswhales

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have

a space program. And if we
become extinct because we
don't have a space program,
it'll serve us right!
This quote from science fiction author Larry Niven playfully reminds us that some of
our most important innovations have come from having
a space program. Space and
space research is an integral
part of the University and an
important recipient of public
funding.
The University has more
connections to space than one
might think. Among Kansas
alumni are three astronauts,
one of whom is currently a
professor here.
Joe Engle is a former NASA

astronaut and Enterprise and

Columbia shuttle commander; Ronald Evans was a former
NASA astronaut and pilot for
the Apollo 17 moon mission;
and Steve Hawley, a KU professor of physics and astronomy and director of engineering physics, is a former NASA
astronaut and shuttle mission
specialist.
Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered Pluto
in 1930, was also a KU alumnus. Although not scientific
or technically in space, Scott
Bakula, another alumnus, was
an actor in Quantum Leap and
Star Trek: Enterprise.
Not only our history has
space imbedded into it, but
also our future. This past summer, KU News reported that a
KU startup company received
a grant from NASA "to further
develop an unmanned aircraft
system collision avoidance ra-

dar." Lei Shi, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering,

founded the company based
on technology he co-invented
with his faculty adviser, Christopher Allen, according to the
news release.
This is just one of many grants
KU has received from NASA.
Additionally, Jessica Creamer, a recent doctoral graduate
of pharmaceutical chemistry,
is currently completing postdoctoral studies at NASAs Jest
Propulsion Laboratory.
Even after leaving the University, you will still have inherent ties to NASA and space
research. According to the
nonprofit Penny4NASA, cellular phones, MRIs, and fuel
cells to name a few could not
have been possible had it not
been for NASA research and
development."
We fund this research
through tax dollars. NASA

currently only receives .48 percent of the U.S. annual budget.

This equates to about half a
penny for each dollar we spend
on taxes.
Penny4NASA and I argues that that funding should
be increased. An increase
would allow one penny per
dollar to go toward exploring
new frontiers.
The influence of private companies is not enough to sustain
our exploration. NASA has the
advantage of increased regulation and oversight, the ability
to pursue long-term projects
without concern for profit and
a long history with space research.
Ian Ferguson, writing for Art.
Mic, gives the example of NASAs Webb Telescope: Had the
Webb telescope been a project
in a private company, funding
would have stopped years ago.
NASA continues to pursue this

project not because they hope

for a return on their investment, but because they see the
social utility in such a project.
Limiting science to shortterm projects interrupts innovation and stunts progress.
Whether it is because of the
University's strong connection
to space or because NASA will
never be able to be replaced
by private companies, citizens
should vote to sustain our
space program. In Neil Armstrongs (slightly altered) inspirational words, Its one small
penny for mankind, but worth
a million for mankind."

Stern is a senior from Lawrence studying ecology and evolutionary biology.

Edited by Maddy Mikinski

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Where does your coffee come from?

CASSIDY RITTER

study at the University.

@CassidyRitter

The strong aroma of coffee hits

the air at Aimees Coffeehouse.
Baristas shuffle from register
to steamer and serve a piping
cup of coffee to their next customers. The rippling milk in a
hot silver jug assures customers
their cup is almost done.
College students rush in to
grab their cup, while professors
grade papers under dim lamps
and others sink into the vinyl
armchairs coffee in hand
to chat with one another.
On average, 64 percent of
American adults drink at least
one cup of coffee per day, according to a 2015 Gallup poll. In
Lawrence, Aimees Coffeehouse
uses 50 pounds of coffee per
week, said Cary Strong, owner
of Aimees.
Aimees coffee comes from
PTs Coffee Roasting Company in Topeka, a company that
works directly with farmers in
Central and South America, Indonesia, Africa, Guatemala and
Big Island of Hawaii.
The high demand has created
harsh economic consequences for coffee farmers in poorer
nations like Brazil, Guatemala,
Colombia and Honduras, according to a recent graduate

Another Lawrence coffee shop,

1900 Barker, purchases its coffee beans through direct trade
and importing companies.
Reagan Petrehn, co-owner of
1900 Barker, said most of the
coffee beans are not purchased
through fair trade because its
honestly not that good of a
deal for farmers. Petrehn said
1900 Barker finds the best coffee they can and work with
companies who care about their
farmers and pay a fair price for
coffee.
Buying coffees that are awesome means you have to take
care of farmers, Petrehn said.
To meet this increased demand
farmers made the shift to technified production, said Alexander Myers, graduate student
who wrote the study.
Coffee is kind of like a bush
that gets up to six or maybe
eight feet tall, but its not a tree,
Myers said. Its grown, traditionally, in this shaded plantations where you have the coffee
kind of bushes and above them
theres a big tree canopy.
In technified production, the
coffee is grown faster in full sun.
Myers said consumers and
local coffee shops can help reduce economic consequences

ALEX ROBINSON/KANSAN
A barista makes a latte at Aimees Coffeehouse on Massachusetts St. Aimees goes
through 50 pounds of coffee per week and uses beans from PTs Coffee in Topeka.

by buying coffee beans through

fair trade or direct trade. He
also said to be aware of where
coffee comes from.
Until I started doing this research, I kind of just took [coffee] for granted, said Myers. I
didnt really think about how it
connects me to somewhere in
Rwanda or Vietnam or Colombia.
Coffee bean suppliers can
purchase coffee through the
sea market, fair trade or direct
trade. Sea market, or Intercon-

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Youre learning quickly.
Monitor changes and
revise long-term plans.
Theres more analysis
required over the next
three weeks, with Mercury retrograde. Allow extra
time for transportation,
and care with communications. Check data for
errors, and ignore rumors.

PTs Coffee direct trade from farmers

(Parts of Central and South America, Indonesia, Africa, Guatemala, Hawaii)

tinental Exchange, is for large

coffee roaster like Folgers.
International Exchange is an
electronic trading platform
and one more way for retailers
to purchase coffee beans. Fair
trade sets a bottom line price
for coffee farmers and helps
provide farmers with a level of
stability regardless of the market price on coffee. Direct trade
is when buyers work directly
with farmers.
Jeff Taylor, president and
co-owner of PTs Coffee, said
price in the sea market is $1.15
per pound, but the coffee costs
$1.20 to produce.
So the sea market is so low
right now that its actually going to lead, Taylor said. If it
continues at the rate it is going,
it will lead to a coffee crisis at
some point.
Myers said to help reduce the
problem of under paid farmers
in poorer nations local businesses can buy fair trade or direct trade.
With fair trade, coffee farmers
get paid $1.40 per pound, according to Fair Trade Resource

Network. With direct trade, coffee bean buyers pay more than
the sea market price.
PTs Coffee typically pays
farmers double or triple what
they normally get, Taylor said.
If you look into everything
that goes into coffee, you know
the production of the bean, to
when it gets to the roaster, what
the roaster does to it, its pretty
amazing we pay what we pay as
it is, Strong said.
He said he was aware of the
farming conditions and helps
reduce it by purchasing coffee
beans from PTs Coffee.
Aimees has bought its coffee
beans from PTs Coffee for 16
years because Strong wanted
something as local as possible,
and PTs deals directly with
farmers.
They care very much about
the community they are getting the coffee from, Strong
said. They have an extremely
humanitarian viewpoint towards that. And thats one of
the reasons why Im very loyal
to them.
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In this image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Johnny Depp, left, and Rory Cochrane appear in a scene from, Black Mass.

Johnny Depp is scary good in Black

Mass, but the story lacks momentum
ALEX LAMB
@lambcannon

Welcome back Johnny Depp.

Weve missed your serious
side.
With Black Mass, Depp
steps out of the shadow he
has sunk into during recent
years, where hes taken on so
many eccentric and ridiculous
roles, hes become a parody
of himself. As the notorious
Boston kingpin James "Whitey" Bulger, Depp continues his
penchant for heavy makeup
but this time performs with
searing intensity and intimidating ruthlessness.
The whole ensemble cast is
impressive as well, with great
actors playing on both sides
of the law to intriguing effect,
often with amusing dynamics.

And while the true story of

how the FBI protected a crime
boss as he grew in power and
did whatever he wanted is
certainly attention-grabbing,
the narrative cant quite maintain momentum with its weak
central conflict.
Different members of Bulgers
crew (primarily the youngest
one, played by Jesse Plemons)
frame the story while being
interrogated by the feds, beginning in 1975 when Bulgers
Winter Hill Gang is running
South Boston but are coming
closer to a war with the Mafia,
who control the rest of the
city.
Bulgers brother, Billy
(Benedict Cumberbatch),
is the most powerful senator in the state, and when
their childhood friend John
Connolly (Joel Edgerton)

comes to Bulger proposing

an alliance with the FBI,
Bulger begins his rise as the
most powerful criminal in
the state. In exchange for very
little intel from their special
informant, the FBI takes down
the Mafia and protects Bulger
from any sort of prosecution,
which quickly evolves into
Connollys full corruption
and covering up his gangster
buddys murders.
Theres not much drama
tied to whether Bulger will
get caught for his crimes and
Connolly charged for allowing
them. Instead, director Scott
Cooper wrings tension out of
regular conversations where
Bulger seems to be scheming
how hell kill someone while
he tells that person everything
is fine. Sometimes theres
a visceral burst of violence

that follows, and other times

a funny or chilling display
of Bulgers power over the
person.
Depp exercises a tight grip on
viewers throughout, and with
the piercing blue contacts he
wears, he emanates the calculating coldness of a vampire
and white hot fury of a dangerous killer with no bounds.
That makes scenes such as
playing cards with his cute
old mom and explaining an
important lesson to his young
son you didnt get caught
because you hit the kid. You
got caught because you hit
him in front of everyone else
quite entertaining. And
once the first act ends with a
personal tragedy for Bulger,
thats when Depp really starts
getting scary.
Unfortunately, the script

starts losing some fluidity at

this point. Time jumps around
more and vignettes of new
characters doing something
wrong to Bulger then paying
the price for it are shoved in,
without enough time for those
characters to matter much to
viewers. But at least they give
Depp the opportunity to further illustrate his surprisingly
effective menace.
Black Mass is worth seeing
for what amounts to Depps
best performance in years.
For a criminal as legendary as
Whitey Bulger, its too bad the
movie about him doesnt quite
live up to his name, but at
least Depps portrayal does.
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such as anthropology and sociology, that are very invested in these issues.
Lang said several events off
campus took place last year,
including a gathering to honor Rick Dowdell, a black teen
who was shot by Lawrence
police in 1970.
Nate Thomas, vice provost
for diversity and equity, said
in an email that the Office of
Diversity and Equity, OMA,
the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access
and the Emily Taylor Center
are all working on initiatives
surrounding bias, micro aggressions and a cultural competency colloquium for all
underrepresented groups, not
just racial minorities.
I think people are doing
different things in different
spaces, Lang said.
However, that isnt enough,
according to the OMA. Jones
said the past year of protests
and police shootings has
brought race narratives onto
the national stage, and has
forced many to confront the
reality of race relations. Jones
also said that many people
may think that racism no longer exists in America.
It has brought [race] to the
forefront because we, as a society, have such a sanitized
view of things like race and
things like segregation, said
Jones. Now our problem can
at least be acknowledged.
Jones said that part of ac-

knowledging that problem

is understanding that even
though society says all people
are equal, it doesnt necessarily mean people come from
equal backgrounds. Often,
Jones said, minorities have
different interactions with
police than non-minority
groups. Those differences, she
said, have become apparent in
the past years events.
The vast majority of police
are good people with jobs to
do, but police culture has become very corrupted in this
way that its unfair towards
certain groups of people, and
I think the way to approach
that conversation is to say that
police officers arent bad, but
they have to be held accountable, Jones said. Its not a
radical idea.
As a result of the past year of
police shootings and racially charged protests, the slogan Black Lives Matter has
gained national support and
attention. However, in opposition to the slogan, many
have taken up another phrase:
All Lives Matter.
Last spring on campus,
chalk advertisements for a
Black Lives Matter event
were crossed out and replaced with All Lives Matter, according to Precious
Porras, the interim director
of the OMA.
I think that when someone is asserting that all lives
matter, it is coming generally
from a place of ignorance,
Charles said. Saying black
lives matter is not saying

that all lives dont matter, its

saying that my life has historically not been valued the way
yours has.
Jones said part of the reason
people have deflected from
saying black lives matter
to saying all lives matter is
because there is a fear around
confronting inequalities.
Were taught about the civil
rights movement and segregation, and we want so desperately to believe that that
part of American history is
over, Jones said. But the
remnants of that overt racism
led to decades and decades
of covert racism that is still
going on, and I think thats
kind of why we dont want to
face it, because we dont want
to face that something is still
wrong. We want so badly to
believe that we learn about
these things in history because theyre in the past and
thats not us now.
Katherine Rainey a senior
from Shawnee, said that in
many incidents racism is not
explicitly stated but sublimi-

nally implied.
Im forced to prove that
I matter, she said. I have
to validate myself in certain
spaces. I have to come up
with all these facts and all
these resources, and I have to
provide all this proof to white
males as to why I matter just
for someone to take my needs
seriously.
Rainey also said that more
could be done in classrooms
to facilitate conversations
about Black Lives Matter,
particularly on a syllabus.
It would open the door for
that conversation in a very
intentional way, Rainey said.
Currently no plans have
been made to formally implement discussions on race
in classrooms at KU outside
of culturally specific courses.
Organizations like the OMA
will continue working this
year with events like the Identities Symposium on Sept. 19.
I think we need to continue to have conversations,
Charles said. Raise the temperature a bit more.

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pital has 13 Sexual Assault

Nurse Examiners, or SANE
nurses, and performed 64
rape kits in 2014, according
to Terri Woodson, the SANE
coordinator for Lawrence
Memorial Hospital.
Collection usually takes

You have to state the

facts and its really
hard not to get tied up
in the emotional factors, so you have to be
able to do as much as
you can for the victim.
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around four to five hours,

and victims can refuse any
step of the evidence collection, Woodson said. The test
is free for victims.
If victims do not want to file
a report to the police, they
can have an anonymous kit
done, and KBI can store the
kits for up to five years without testing. The victim can
choose to file charges within
those five years. The anonymous kit doesnt include
urine samples, large blood
samples or clothing collection.
Its a very traumatic event
to happen to you, Woodson
said Its hard to get people to
understand the importance
of evidence collection.
Its just so we can have the
evidence available just in
case they change their mind,
Woodson said. Im so glad
we have the option of the
anonymous kit. Its better if
they report, but if they dont
then at least we are collecting

some evidence.
Woodson said some victims decide not to report
because they know the
perpetrator and are afraid
to report them or because
they cant remember what
happened. However, if a
victim cant remember
what happened, Woodson
said she would encourage
them to report it because
then the kit can test for
drugs.
If they want some advice then were more than
happy to come in and talk
to them and in that aspect
we will really try to report
or do some sort of evidence
collection, Woodson said.
Even though theres a lot
of education, you can never
quite get anybody. Its the
ones that fall through the
cracks that we need to get
that information out to.
Watkins Health Center
also performs examinations and has three SANE
nurses on staff.
Kathy Guth, a SANE
nurse at Watkins, said because of the hours of operation, most students go to
LMH. She said SANE nurses at Watkins perform an
average of two exams a year
and that in recent years victims mostly did not report
to the police.
Guth said the CARE coordinator, who serves as a
MCKENNA HARFORD/KANSAN
contact for victims of vioThe contents of a sexual assault testing kit at Lawrence
lence, can help students navMemorial Hospital.
igate resources and services
available to them.
The most important thing for the victim.
The job of that person is
to facilitate through the KU about this job is that we are
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campus and through the the patient advocate, Guinn
said. You have to state the
community, Guth.
SANE nurse Tammy Guinn facts and its really hard not
said the nurses are the pa- to get tied up in the emotiontient advocate and put their al factors, so you have to be
able to do as much as you can
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New Delhi-based artist fuses science and art

COURTNEY BIERMAN
@KansanNews

Rohini Devasher, an artist based in New Delhi, is a

self-professed science fiction
lover. In her spare time, she
studies astronomy and other
areas of the natural sciences,
which has made impressions
on her works.
Its my way of trying to understand whats going on and
why Im interested in these
things, Devasher said at an
artist talk at the Spooner Hall
Commons last week.
The Spencer Museum of Art
purchased one of Devashers
video feedback works, Bloodlines, in 2009, which is currently on display. The 45-minute projected video depicts 63
forms, one after the other, developing amongst one another
in an organic pattern that exists at the boundary between
science and art.
Whats cool is then you get
these forms that start to mimic
biological life, Davasher said.
They look like plants, they
look like trees, they look like
cells, and thats what Im really
fascinated by: the fact that you
start to have this mirroring between the digital.
Devasher is a multidisciplinary artist who has ventured
into digital and audio art in
the decades following her edu-

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Rohini Devasher explores
the boundaries of art and
science through her work.

cation at the College of Art in

New Delhi. Multidisciplinary
art may include performance
art, interactive works, multimedia performance and collaborations between art and
science that push past the
boundaries of traditional art.
Her various projects include
video, audio, prints and etching. Her work is a blend of
hypnotic visual feedback pieces
and fantastic etchings superimposed over satellite images of
mountains and deserts all
of which were inspired by and
sought to find meaning in natural phenomena.
Visual feedback art involves
plugging a hand-held camera
into a television and then recording the television screen.
The camera picks up a point of
light on the screen, and begins

to produce complex, looping

images, similar to placing two
mirrors face-to-face. Hours
of footage are cut and layered
to form the final artwork. One
video feedback piece may take
months of editing and layering.
Bloodlines took Devasher a
year-and-a-half to complete.
Although Devashers latest
projects have mostly been digital, she is an accomplished
painter
and
printmaker.
Devasher received a Bachelors
degree in painting from the
College of Art in New Delhi
and Masters in Printmaking
from the Winchester School of
Art in England. Her art can be
found in galleries all over the
world.
Where we grew up, there was
lots of green, she said. Delhis
a very green city. My favorite
time used to be going up on the
roof and just chilling, watching
the sky and the trees and that
sort of stuff.
As Devashers presentation
during her site visit to the
University was mostly limited
to pictures and short clips of
her work, first-year art history
graduate student Emily Smith
said she is looking forward to
seeing Temporal Turn as a
whole.
I feel like [Devashers] work
should be experienced in person, Smith said.
Some viewers have asked her

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about an implied spirituality in her work, but Devasher

answered that she doesnt see
her work as being religious in
nature. Rather, she wants to
express the ways she is equally humbled but also [] really empowered by the natural
world.
[My work] also gives you a
little bit of like get over yourself , she said. Youre one small
part of something much, much
bigger than yourself. Were a
tiny speck in this massive universe.
Devasher will return to the
University in fall of 2016 to
contribute to the Spencer Art
Museumss exhibition Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation
in Contemporary Asia, which
will include pieces from artists
all over Asia. The exhibit will
explore how artists from Turkey to Tokyo are contemplating
the future.
Kris Ercums is the curator of
Asian Art at the Spencer Museum and curator of Temporal
Turn. He and Devasher first
met in 2008 at Khoj, an artist-led organization based in
New Delhi.
Khoj is located in a kind
of municipal limbo in Delhi
across from a luxury mall, so
its an example of the range of
wealth and poverty in India,
Ercums said.
Initially, I was intrigued by

COURTESY OF THE SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART

Rohini Devashers video depicts arranged organic forms,
inspired by the artists interest in science.

Rohinis work, and when I saw

Bloodlines again in Hong
Kong in 2010, I was convinced
that the Spencer should acquire
one her works.
In addition to Devashers installations, Temporal Turn
will include pieces from three
other artists that will also be
visiting the University within
the semester.
In the midst of these exhibitions, Spencer continues to
undergo a massive renovation
project scheduled for completion this spring.

However, Ercums hopes patrons of the exhibition next

summer will be more than just
a novelty to those with limited
knowledge of art.
I think that arts a really great
way also for students to access
the world beyond Kansas, and
this will help them to realize
that theres this whole interesting world and theres all these
artists and theyre all working
in different locations, he said.
It will incite curiosity.
Edited by Abby Stuke

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RYAN WRIGHT
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local favorites, including the
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Greek. Each restaurant will
have exclusive menu items
throughout the week, like a
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Big 12 power rankings: TCU holds on to the lead

TCU (Last week: 1)

TCUs 70-7 win over Stephen F. Austin on Saturday was overshadowed with a knee injury to senior safety Kenny Iloka that
will keep him out for the rest of the season. The Horned Frogs
have already lost four defensive starters, but head coach Gary
Patterson said he believes his team can overcome the injuries.
Weve got some young guys who will have to step up, Patterson said. We werent supposed to be good on defense this year,
the offense was supposed to do it all. These kids have taken that
as a challenge and have played awfully hard.

Baylor (Last week: 2)

Despite their 2-0 start, the Baylor Bears have struggled out of
the gate on defense, giving up an average of 26 points per game.
Its a concern, said head coach Art Briles. We need to start
faster, and just be better. We know weve got the people, we just
need to gel.
Even though the Bears offense has put up their usual points,
they have struggled with turnovers early in the season, which is
uncharacteristic of Briless teams. But Briles isnt worried about
his team going forward.
Weve got a lot of rust on us. Were nowhere near where we
need to be to make another run at the Big 12 title, Briles said.
As the season progresses, well play up to the level of our capabilities. I dont think theres any question about that.

Oklahoma (Last week: 3)

The Sooners are coming off one of the best games of the week
in their 31-24 win over the Tennessee Volunteers in a hostile
road environment. For head coach Bob Stoops, the fact that it
was a comeback victory made it even more special.
Its pretty obvious why, Stoops said. The environment, the
checkerboard endzone, you know the whole deal. When you
come from two touchdowns behind in the fourth quarter to
win, thats pretty special.
However, the Sooners have had to deal with some negative
press because safety Hatari Byrd was seen making an inappropriate gesture at Tennessee fans.
It will be dealt with internally, Stoops said. We are trying to
teach them and educate them on that kind of behavior.

Oklahoma State (Last week: 4)

After two impressive wins to start the season, head coach Mike
Gundy said he likes the improvements his team made in the
first two weeks.
We improved in a lot of areas from week 1, Gundy said. I
thought we tackled better. But, we arent as good of a run blocking team as we need to be.
The Cowboys will have a stiff challenge in Texas San Antonio,
which gave Kansas State trouble in the first half last week.
They are very well coached, Gundy said. They played well
against Arizona (in week one) against Kansas State. Theyre a
team that you have to be well prepared for.

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Texas (Last week: 5)

The Longhorns bounced back from a blowout loss at Notre
Dame in week 1 with a 42-28 win over Rice on Saturday. The
Longhorns replaced junior quarterback Tyrone Swoopes with
freshman Jerrod Heard for some of the game. Heard threw for
120 yards with two touchdowns and had 96 rushing yards.
Game by game we have to see how it goes, said head coach
Charlie Strong. We need to execute on offense, which will lead
to first downs and touchdowns.
West Virginia (Last week: 7)
After two routine wins to start the season, the Mountaineers
get a bye week to prepare for their toughest test yet in the
Maryland Terrapins. Through the first two weeks, head coach
Dana Holgorsen said she was pleased with quarterback Skyler
Howard.
Hes playing efficiently, Holgorsen said. Hes doing a good
job in the run game and taking care of the ball. Hes more comfortable than he was last year.
Texas Tech (Last week: 8)
For the second week in a row, sophomore quarterback Patrick
Mahomes was named Big 12 Player of the Week after throwing
for 361 yards and four touchdowns while leading the Red Raiders to their second win of the year.
The most impressive thing outside all his physical attributes
is how hes protecting the ball, said head coach Kliff Kingsbury.
Thats not something that a young quarterback usually does
well, especially with the amount of chances he takes.

Iowa State (Last week: 9)

After an impressive win over an in-state rival in week 1, week
2 was a different story against the Iowa Hawkeyes. The Cyclones
dropped their second game of the season 31-14 to drop their
record to 1-1.
Big plays and broken plays were certainly factors in the
game, said head coach Paul Rhoads. We had a lot of good field
position and flipped the field a few times. But the big plays hurt
our team.
Kansas (Last Week: 10)
After another loss this time 55-23 to the Memphis Tigers
its clear that the Jayhawk defense needs to make drastic
improvements to help them compete going forward.
I know we will make improvements, if nothing else because
we have a really good staff, said head coach David Beaty. Were
a little light on experience over there right now, but thats no
excuse.
The Jayhawks have a bye week before they travel to New Jersey
to take on Rutgers. Beaty said the bye week couldnt have come
at a better time for his team.
Obviously two weeks in seems early for a bye, Beaty said.
But with the experience of our players, it couldnt have come at
a better time. Were going to look at the numbers, and pay close
attention to whats been giving us problems.

Kansas State (Last week: 6)

The Wildcats struggled offensively in the first half last week,
but their defense only gave up three points, which is the only
three points they have given up all season.
Im pleased with the way theyre playing, said head coach Bill
Snyder. They are playing hard and the tackling has improved.
Theres still some we can improve upon and some things we
havent seen that we are going to find out if we can react to.

By Evan Riggs
@EvanRiggsUDK

Baseball will begin fall

practices on Sept. 22
WESLEY DOTSON
@WesleyDee23

The Kansas baseball team is

preparing to begin its 45-day
fall practice on Sept. 22. The
Jayhawks are hoping to take a
step in the right direction after
a disappointing 2015 season
that saw them finish with a record of 23-32 and ninth in the
Big 12, which left them out of
the Big 12 tournament.
Subpar pitching was the recurring theme of the Jayhawks
2015 season as they finished
dead last in the Big 12 with a
5.56 ERA.
Former seniors Connor
McKay, Dakota Smith and
Blair Beck all left, and their
positions of left field, right
field and first base, respectively, were void.
Junior Michael Tinsley, who
spent most of last season behind the plate, will replace
McKay in left field this season.

Tinsley is a gifted athlete with

great speed, so his move to the
outfield could be a plus for the
Jayhawks. Sophomores T.J.
Martin and Tanner Gragg are
expected to each share time at
catcher this season.
The 2015-16 recruiting class
includes nine players: infielder
Ty Denzer; outfielder Devin
Foyle; pitchers Jackson Goddard, Blake Goldsberry and Ty
Stahl; outfielder Peyton Grassanovits; infielders David Kyriacou and Blake Shinkle; and
Rudy Karre, who is expected
to see time both on the mound
and in the infield.
I have to tip my cap to [assistant coach] Ritchie Price and
[associate head coach] Ryan
Graves for putting together
outstanding back-to-back recruiting classes, head coach
Ritch Price said in a news release in February. I honestly
believe the 2015 class is one of
the best I have ever been asso-

ciated with in my 22 years at

the Division I level. This class
has the opportunity to be on
par with the kids that are currently on our campus which
we are really excited about.
Price also spoke highly of assistant coach Ritchie Price.
I have to pay Ritchie a great
compliment; he has become
one of the best young recruiters in the country, he said.
It is completely evident how
much better our players have
gotten since he joined our staff
and I give him full credit for
that.
The most notable name on
the recruiting class is freshman
Ty Denzer, who was ranked
the No. 5 overall player and
No. 2 shortstop in the state of
Minnesota by Perfect Game.
Ty Denzer is an athletic switch-hitter who has the
versatility and athleticism to
not only play in the infield,
Price said. But to play in the

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Pitcher Ben Krauth throws to first, attempting to get an easy out. The Kansas mens
maseball team beat Utah 7-5 on Friday, March 6.

outfield as well. Being a switch

hitter will really benefit him in
the box against Big 12 pitching.
Other players who are expected to perform at a high
level this season include senior
starting pitcher Ben Krauth,
junior closer Stephen Villines,
senior infielder Colby Wright,
and sophomore infielder Matt
McLaughlin.

Krauth has become the ace of

the Jayhawks staff and led the
team with seven wins last season. Villines had another stellar season in the closers role as
he recorded 13 saves and was
named to the Midseason Stopper of the Year Watch List.
Matt McLaughlin made his
presence felt in his freshman
season by posting a .293 batting average with 25 RBIs. He

also earned Big 12 Newcomer

of the Week honors the week
of March 30 to April 5.
The Jayhawks will need more
of the same from these key contributors to have any chance to
compete in the always difficult
Big 12 this season.

Edited by Maddy Mikinski

Womens golf grabs 12th at Minnesota Invitational

EMMA GREEN
@ emmalee_green

The Kansas women's golf

team came in last place out of
12 at its second tournament,
shooting 79 over par after
three rounds at the Minnesota
Invitational, which was held at
the Minikahda Club.
The Jayhawks' best round was
the second, in which they shot
a 312 and senior Yupaporn
Kawinpakorn had the best finish for the team at +7.
Player of the
Tournament: Yupaporn
Kawinpakorn
Tying for 10th place with

Anna Appert Lund from Purdue and Jordan Chael from

Kentucky, Kawinpakorn, or
Mook, recorded her 21st career and fifth-straight top-10
finish. Kawinpakorn was the
best golfer for the Jayhawks
throughout the entire tournament, shooting a +2, +3, and
+2 in the three rounds.
"I'm proud of Mook for earning her 21st top-10 career finish," Kansas coach Erin ONeil
said in a press release. "She
wasn't hitting it great today but
fought hard to finish strong
against a tough field.
Shooting a 223 overall, Kawinpakorn improved her score
from last year's Invitational
when she shot a 229 and tied

for 28th.
Individual Standings
Following
Kawinpakorn,
the next best Jayhawk was
freshman Ariadna Fonesca,
who finished +19 and tied for
49th with Emmy Martin from
TCU and Maddy Rayner from
Houston.
Freshman Laine Evans, who
tied for 20th at the Sunflower
Invitational last week, recorded a 237 and tied for 56th with
Alexis Keating from Colorado.
Sophomore MacKenzie Sexe,
the lone golfer to compete as
an individual from Kansas,
carded a 238 while sophomore Pitsinee Winyarat and
freshman Victoria Chandra

finished 65th and 67th, respectively.

"As a group we are young,
raw and have lots to learn,
yet we are also very talented,
ONeil said in the press release.
"The potential is there for great
improvement, but we must be
patient, quick to learn and fully committed to our shots to
shoot the scores we are capable
of shooting."
Of the six Kansas golfers who
competed at the Invitational,
five are freshmen or sophomores. Kawinpakorn is the
only one who isn't a freshman
or sophomore.
Disqualification
In the first round of the tour-

nament, Chandra was disqualified for incorrectly recording

her score, forcing the Jayhawks
to count the other four golfers'
scores. A team is allowed to
have five golfers compete and
then drop the worst score at
the end of the round, but the
Jayhawks were forced to keep
Winyarats +14 in the first
round.
"Victoria was disqualified for
signing for an incorrect score,
specifically for a four when
she really had a five," ONeil
said in the press release."It's a
hard lesson to learn but better
to learn it earlier in your career
rather than later and there's no
doubt it's something she will
never do again.

After the first round, the Jayhawks were 27 strokes behind

leader Purdue with a team
score of 314.
Next up
On Friday, the Jayhawks will
go to Norman, Okla. to compete in the Schooner Classic at
Belmar Golf Club. The Classic
is a benefit for the OK Kids
Korral, which is supported
by country music star Toby
Keith and his wife Tricia Covel
through the Toby Keith Foundation.
This is the first year the Jayhawks have competed in the
Classic, and it will be their
third tournament of the year.

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Column: Aldridge will be a key leader

this season for womens basketball team
DYLAN SHERWOOD
@dmantheman2011

With a young team and a

brand new coach, new roles
are expected for some of the
returning players for Kansas
womens basketball. However,
sophomore guard Lauren
Aldridge's role will stay
somewhat similar, albeit on a
larger scale.
Aldridge will be tasked with
continuing to lead the team,
which had two 1,000-point
scorers, Chelsea Gardner and
Natalie Knight, both graduate.
Aldridge is the top returning
player from last years team
that went 15-17 and lost to
Kansas State in the first round

of the Big 12 Tournament. She

was named to the All-Big 12
Freshman Team; she was the
only Jayhawk to be given the
award last season.
The sophomore guard from
Marshfield, Mo., had high expectations coming to Kansas
as a freshman, and she certainly met many of them. As
a freshman, Aldridge played
and started in all 32 games
at the point guard position
averaging 8.1 points per game
in 35 minutes of playing time
which was No. 1 on the
2014-15 team.
Aldridge was also honored
as the Big 12 Freshman of the
Week on Dec. 7, after Kansas
defeated the University of
California 62-39.

As a freshman, Aldridge also

averaged five assists per game,
which was third best in the
conference.
Aldridge is a scorer and
someone who shares the ball,
so she can be trusted to lead
this Kansas team after a great
freshman campaign.
The Jayhawks return
four other players besides
Aldridge, one is sophomore
guard Chayla Cheadle, who
also saw a significant role in
her freshman campaign but
played 317 fewer minutes than
Aldridge.
Along with Aldridge and
Cheadle, the Jayhawks return
junior forwards Jada Brown
and Caelynn Manning-Allen, both who expect to play

bigger roles.
The fourth returner is
redshirt junior guard Timeka
ONeal, who will be the
backup point guard. ONeal
appeared in one game last
season before suffering a season-ending knee injury.
That lack of experience on
the team will make Aldridge's
job that much more important. However, she should be
up to the task.
Aldridge played a majority of
every game on 12 different occasions including six times
in her last eight games and
she even managed to break
through the typical 40-minute
barrier. Against Creighton last
December, Aldridge played 44
minutes in an overtime loss.

Aldridge is tried and true.

If women's basketball head
coach Brandon Schneider
wants to depend on one player
on his team, it absolutely
has to be his point guard,
Aldridge, who has the biggest
role among all of his returning
players with her accomplishments shown as a freshman.
With her experience, it's
not unreasonable to expect
Aldridge to lead this Kansas team back to the level at
which a Kansas basketball
should be. If all goes according to plan, you might see
Kansas as a surprise team in
the Big 12 Conference this
upcoming season.
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Players cheer during a set on Saturday evening against UMKC. The Jayhawks beat the Kangaroos in three sets.

Jayhawks undefeated record

and top statistics make waves
AMIE JUST
@Amie_Just

For Kansas volleyball (90), a streak of perfection

continues into the last tournament of the season. And
that streak along with the
efforts behind it is starting
to garner national attention.
On Monday, Kansas volleyball moved up five spots
in the AVCA poll to No. 17.
Very few teams around the
country in the AVCA Top 25
still have perfect records.
Only two Big 12 teams are
ranked this week. Texas, a
consistent volleyball powerhouse, is ranked No. 2 in
the country, boasting a 7-1

record. Two other Big 12

teams received votes in this
weeks poll. Kansas State, who
Kansas faces next week, was
on the brink of making the
top 25 and received 63 votes.
Iowa State received 26 votes.
Kansas isnt at the top of
the AVCA poll, but its at the
top of one national statistic:
As a team, the Jayhawks average 13.97 assists per set.
That mark is the best in the
country.
Conference foe Kansas
State is also on that list, coming in at No. 8 in the country,
averaging 13.7 assists per set.
Two of Kansas players are
on national lists as well.
Sophomore setter Ainise

Havili isnt just on one of

the national statistic leaderboards, shes at the top. She
leads the nation in assists
per set, averaging 12.31. She
and Hannah Tedrow out of
Loyola Marymount are the
only two players in the country averaging more than 12
assists per set.
Kansas Volleyball Twitter account posted, Ainise
Havili leads the NATION in
assists per set on Sept. 14.
Havili also makes a top 20
appearance on the national
leaderboard for aces per set.
Havili averages 0.52 aces per
set, ranking her No. 20 in the
country.
Sophomore right side hitter

Kelsie Payne is ranked No. 40

in the country for her hitting
percentage. Through Sept.
13, she has a .408 hitting percentage.
What does that mean for
the streak? Well, Kansas volleyball is extremely talented
and, based on the numbers,
it wouldnt surprise anyone
for that to continue.
Edited by Derek Skillett

Two games in and heading

into its bye week, Kansas football is still winless. Typically,
when a team struggles, the
blame lands directly on the
quarterback.
For Kansas, this is Montell
Cozart. Its widely known what
happened in Week 1: Cozart
fumbled the snap at the end of
the game losing the chance for
Kansas to potentially tie the
game with a field goal and even
force overtime.
Bombarded by media after
the game, Cozart remained
composed despite his blunder
just minutes before. With
the fumble last week and the
not-so-great outing this week
(Cozarts completion percentage was under 50 percent),
it would likely take a toll on
someone, especially someone
who takes the blame.
But there are no signs of
that with Cozart. Coach
David Beaty has spoken to his
demeanor as always wanting to
win and noted he does everything asked of him.
Cozart strives to be a leader
in the locker room and on
the field. He trusts his line to
protect him and let him sit in
the pocket to have time to let
the ball fly. That ability and
trust he has on the offensive
side of the ball resonates with
his teammates.
Thats running back Keaun
Kinners favorite quality Cozart
possesses, and that personality
resonates with Kinner, who
has spearheaded the offense
through two games.
He doesnt get rattled, or he
doesnt show it, Kinner said.
He always has calm demean-

or, and thats good about him. I

feel like Im the same way. I try
not to show my emotions.
The ability to not get rattled is
a valuable asset for a quarterback to possess, and its true
of Cozart. Not once, on or off
the field, has there been an
instance where Cozart let a
situation get to him, even in
the heat of the moment.
Hes good like he always is,
Beaty said. Hes a great kid.
He just wants this team to win.
Hes going to compete, hes
going to do everything you ask
him to do, but his demeanor
was good.
Rallying around a team
revolves around having a
good quarterback and while
Cozart creates a lot of missed
opportunities his teammates
and coaches have faith in him
to succeed.
We have all the confidence
in the world, Cozart said of his
team. We just have to continue to build on that.
All that confidence starts with
Cozart. By him keeping his
calm demeanor and keeping
his team motivated, the success
in football will come. Cozart
said it best: they just have to
build off what theyve already
accomplished, though it isnt
yet results in a game.
Cozart has already taken
huge steps since starting last
season; the process of growth is
there. Cozart has been pushed
through spring and fall camps
and taken the strides to earn
his job after Michael Cummings went down in spring.
Much of that is the result of
his composure on the field, and
the confidence his team has in
him. Cozart can carry the team
through his maturity and his
action, but he still has to grow
as a player on the field.

YANGENG LIN/THE DAILY TARGUM

Rutgers has suspended head coach Kyle Flood for three
games. Kansas travels to Piscataway, N.J. to face the
Scarlet Knights on Sept. 26.

CAROLINE FISS/KANSAN
Senior Liana Salazar walks onto the field during a pause in play on Sept. 6.

Salazar powers the offense to

lead Kansas soccer into its last
game of three-game road trip
SKYLAR ROLSTAD
@SkyRolSports

Anybody could have predicted senior midfielder Liana Salazar would be the goto player in Kansas midfield
this season. But, outside of
Salazar, the teams first eight
games of the season have
been rather surprising and
not in a good way.
Through those eight games,
despite returning seven starters and bringing in standout
freshman, the team hasnt
found the results it probably
should be returning.
But recently, Salazar, the
Kansas star midfielder and
MAC Hermann Trophy

Watch List player has proven

herself as the motor of the
Kansas offense. Head coach
Mark Francis looked to Salazar, who has scored in three of
the teams last four games, as
a key contributor leading up
to Kansas game on Thursday
against Arkansas.
Liana has really been stepping up for us, Francis said.
Shes been creating chances
and had some opportunities.
Shes really stepped up when
we needed some key goals in
key moments.
While the results havent
always been positive, an
overwhelming amount of the
performances were, Francis
said. Kansas recorded a 2-1

win over Colorado College

last Sunday. Before that win,
the Jayhawks lost 2-1 to Wyoming on the road and twice
at home.
Weve been playing really
well, Francis said. Weve had
better opportunities [to score
goals] than everyone weve
played, to be honest.
After the win over Colorado
College, the scorer of the winning goal, Grace Hagan, said
the team could use the emotional boost to carry into Big
12 play, which for Kansas begins on Oct. 2 at Rock Chalk
Park against Texas.
The Razorbacks have had
the same results over the last
four matches. They won 1-0

last Sunday over UMKC after

three losses in a row. Arkansas already opened SEC play
with a 1-0 loss to Tennessee
on Sept. 11.
I havent thought about
[Arkansas struggles,] Francis said. Theyre probably
pretty confident, theyre just
like us, with a win last Sunday.
Francis said Kansas could be
missing freshman midfielder
Parker Roberts due to injury.
He said Roberts would likely
be a game-time decision.
Edited by Maddie Farber

Rutgers coach
is suspended
ahead of game
DYLAN SHERWOOD
@dmantheman2011

Kansas football has a bye

week this week, following its
0-2 start to the year. However,
while it may be all quiet on the
front for the Jayhawks, that is
not the case for their upcoming
opponent.
NJ.com reported on Wednesday that Rutgerss coach Kyle
Flood has been suspended for
the teams next three games.
That suspension will include
Rutgers final non-conference
game, which is against Kansas
on Sept. 26.
The AP Top 25 Twitter account posted: BREAKING:
Rutgers coach Kyle Flood suspended 3 games for contact
over academic status.
Earlier this year it was reported that Flood was under investigation after meeting with a

school professor to determine a

players grade in a certain class.
His suspension comes as a result of contact over academic
status, according to the AP.
In addition to being suspended for Rutgers next three
games, Flood was also fined
$50,000.
Floods absence will provide
a somewhat easier opportunity for Kansas to get a rare
road win, as the Jayhawks look
to snap a 30-game road losing streak, which dates back
to 2009. Kansas last road win
was against the University of
Texas-El Paso in September of
2009; the Jayhawks won 34-7.

Edited by Vicky Diaz-Camacho