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Behind LFK: The acronym created by

local printmaker and University alumna
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Local artist and University

alumna Leslie Kuluva, known
on social media as Leslie Kay
has worked in various media
throughout her career, but she
is best known for her screen
printing: LFK.
Although the meaning of acronym LFK cant be explicitly published in this paper, its
Lawrences most beloved slang
term. LFK shirts and stickers are found on campus and
in the greater Lawrence area
almost as often as University
merchandise.
Kuluva moved to Lawrence
from Kansas City in 1999 to
study art and design at the
University, where she gradually developed her artistry. She
was working toward a degree
in textiles until she discovered
printmaking and just fell in
love with it, she said.
Kuluva would steal away
to the textiles department at
night to make t-shirts for her
friends. Much of her work was
done in her living room where
shed make prints on her coffee table and dry shirts on her
couch.
All the grad students kept
telling me I was a printmaker,
and I had no idea what that
even meant, she said. "Finally

I took a printmaking class and

it was like the exact opposite."
She added: "Textiles [class]
was upstairs. It was basically all female[printmaking]
was downstairs and all dudes,
and they were all making, like,
penis prints. And I was like I
think Im a printmaker!
Kuluva created LFK when she
unwittingly made the first LFK
spray paint stencil in 2001.
The original LFK design was
spurred by a road trip. Kuluva went on several road trips
around the Midwest, usually
traveling with friends to see
a concert, and shed make a
new spray paint stencil for every trip to tag the destination.
They usually said something
like Lawrence Pride or 14th
Street Pride. LFK was inspired
by the reaction Kuluva got
when she told people where
she was from.
I would travel and people would say Where are
you from? and Id say Im
from Kansas and theyd be
like Oh Kansas and then I
would say Lawrence, Kansas
and their face would change,
she said. Theyd be like Oh,
Lawrence, Kansas! That place
is really coolits just funny
how Lawrence was viewed. So
I made a [LFK] stencil.
The design took off. The first
LFK shirts were made by Kuluva and a friend using the orig-

inal stencil. When people wore

them in other places, the shirts
were recognized and Kuluvas
name would come up.
People would meet each
other in other states because of
it, because one of them would
be wearing the shirt and theres
only one place you can get it,
she said. So theyd have this
weird six degrees of separation
thing.
It wasnt long before the design started to be copied. As
LFK increased in popularity,
Kuluva began to see bootlegged merchandise around
the city. Clothing store ACME
in downtown Lawrence is one
of the most popular places to
buy LFK shirts and stickers.
ACME's LFK merchandise is
sold without Kuluva's involvement, although the design is
different than the original according to assistant manager
Katlyn Conroy.
"Here at ACME we try to
definitely tell people 'That's
actually a local artist's design,"
Conroy said. "If you want [Kuluva's] design you have to go
[to a different store]."
Kuluva works with art gallery
Wonder Fair and retail store
Third Planet, but other business that sell LFK merchandise are doing so without her
permission, though she admits
that the ripping off of LFK is
likely due to ignorance rather

than intent to steal.

They dont know where it
came from, she said.
Last year Kuluva had LFK
trademarked, but she isnt
planning on taking legal action.
At least I feel like I have a little bit of power if I want to use
it, she said. I dont know yet.
I dont want to be a brat about
it, but if youre making t-shirts
or stickers with it, thats kind
of my livelihoodI would
rather be the place you can buy
the merch because I came up
with it. I like seeing it around
besides that.
Today Kuluva owns and operates print shop LFK Press
in East Lawrence with fellow
artist Jeff Eaton. The shop allows Kuluva to do a little bit
of everything. Shes able to
continue creating original material while also filling orders
for local bands and businesses. Warner Brothers Music is
one of her biggest clients, and
she was recently hired to create merchandise for country
musician Dwight Yoakam. She
also books bands for the Replay Lounge.
The Bourgeois Pig is also currently displaying some of Kuluvas work in an show she titled Lawrence Feral Kansas, a
play on LFK, for the rest of the
month. It was inspired about
all the things she loves about

her town and what makes it

wild: sunflower fields, camping, feral cats and lakes.
I really love it here, Kuluva
said. It does feel smaller and
smaller all the time because
Ive been here for so long, and
as Im getting older Im like I
know everybody!, but I dont
know everybody. I still meet
new people.
Although Lawrence is her
home base, Kuluva says she
has a hard time staying motivated in a small community.
I sometimes wonder if the
big city thing might be a little
motivating because theres a
lot more competition and your
rent's a lot higher, so you really
have to kind of kick ass, she
said. Whereas in a town like
this, its really easy to be lazy,
and I have a constant struggle
to self-motivate.
She said she works to maintain her passion and keep her
focus.
"Youve got to make your own
deadlines and pretend like
youre still in school a little bit,
she said. There are a lot of talented people in this town that
probably have the potential to
be kicking a little more ass, and
I dont want that to happen to
me. So I really just try to keep
busy.

Edited by Maddy Mikinski

In an effort to combat microaggression at KU,

campus departments team up to create a video
KATHERINE HARTLEY
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As an African American
student on campus, Ebony Onianwa, a junior from
Wichita, remembers being in
chemistry lab and having her
comments dismissed because
of her race.
It affected me a lot more
when I was a freshman and
a sophomore, she said. I remember in my chemistry lab,
I knew what was going on, but
they wouldnt listen to me. It
was like, Oh, she doesnt know
anything about science. It was
so frustrating, and I still remember that and it just makes
me so angry.
For Onianwa and other mi-

nority students on campus,

dealing with everyday slights
or unintended discrimination
is so frequent and damaging
that the Universitys Office of
Diversity and Equity and others are working to call attention to the problem, known as
microaggression.
The Office of Diversity and
Equity has joined up with the
Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access to create a
video with student actors to
sensitize students and others
on campus to the problem.
We want to make sure it is
something that is good, but we
also want it to be something
where the University and people are having really good,
constructive
conversations

and not just saying, Oh, thats

just a microaggression video,
but asking, How do we help?
said Nate Thomas, vice provost
for diversity and equity.
The two offices created the
video with the help of the theater departments Interactive
Theatre Troupe, a group of five
students that uses interactive
performances and improvisational theater to help diverse
groups deal with challenging
issues they face on this campus.
Our main goal is to point
out when things are messed
up that we see on campus that
we see in the media and in
the world, and to make people think about it that havent
thought about it before, said

Diadra Smith, a senior from

New Jersey and member of the
troupe. If we have to do these
performances for people to
start talking, then thats what
were going to do.
Smith said she has also experienced forms of microaggression.
Obviously when you bring
together hundreds among
thousands of students from all
kinds of varying backgrounds
and different levels of understanding as far as sensitivity toward other peoples' lifestyles,
you're going to get negative
experiences," Smith said. "Especially as someone belonging
to a marginalized group."
In the past, the troupe has
focused on topics such as the

shooting of Trayvon Martin,

dating violence among both
straight and gay couples, and
sexual assault.
We are trying to open up opportunities for the whole campus to be able to have common
discourse that they can use to
talk about these topics and address them as they come into
our everyday campus lives,
said the troupes director, Nicole Hodges Persley.
Jane McQueeny, the executive director of IOA, said the
troupes interactive performances provide a good vehicle
for students to have peer-onpeer interactions on the topic
of microaggression.
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We were trying to figure out
what we could do to give people a baseline understanding,
and when you have a campus
this large, this is one of the
ways you do that, she said.
KU Athletics is also working to provide student athletes
with information and education on microaggression and
other issues. The department
has a diversity committee
made up of staff, student athletes and representatives from
offices on campus like the
Multicultural Center and the
Emily Taylor Center.
The committee works to
educate and inform student
athletes and staff on different
diversity topics every year, said
Theresa Becker, associate athletics director.

Thats because the University,

unlike other Division I schools
in Kansas, doesnt accept Visa
as a payment option for tuition
and fees.
Wichita State University and
Kansas State University are
among those that accept Visa,
according to their websites.
Nationally, more than 60 percent of public universities accept Visa for tuition and fees,
according to Creditcard.com.
It was inconvenient for me

because Im an international
student and I dont have a lot
of options to pay my tuition,
Park said.
He said other "foreign students use Visa since MasterCard isnt that popular in other
countries like South Korea.
According to Cardhub.com,
roughly 50 percent of credit
card users have Visa, followed
by MasterCard with about 30
percent. Along with MasterCard, KU accepts Discover

and American Express. If an

attempt is made to use an invalid card to pay for tuition, or
a card is returned for another
reason, the University charges
students a $1.50 fee.
Katrina Yoakum, the Universitys comptroller, said she
periodically receives questions
from parents and students
about why the University does
not accept Visa for tuition
payments. She said the Universitys billing system cannot

meet Visas requirement that it

separates a 2.25 percent convenience fee from the overall
tuition bill that the University
charges for credit card transactions.
Visa has some very specific
requirements, and currently
we cannot meet those requirements, so therefore we dont
accept Visa, Yoakum said.

Its kind of a broad topic

for us this year, but generally
speaking it has everything to
do with social issues, Becker
said. With that being our focused topic, we are going to be
very, very sensitive to and very
committed to making sure
we address microaggression
issues when we present our
information and our training
and education to our students
and staff.
Becker hopes this sort of
awareness and training, paired
with the education from the
Office of Diversity and Equity,
will help prepare student athletes for the real world after
they finish their eligibility and
graduate.
Thomas said he also agrees
that this sort of awareness
and training can help prepare
students for successful careers
and a future in the world after

college. He said he believes

this generation doesnt want to
create spaces where people feel
mistreated because of certain
comments and stereotypes.
We want people to be more
thoughtful, and I think this
generation is pushing that,
Thomas said. How great
would it be for our students to
say, Yes, when you think about
how we promote diversity and
how we are seen as a leader
around diversity, thats KU.
Our students can wear that as
a badge of honor. Our faculty can wear that as a badge of
honor."
Onianwa and others say a
more welcoming environment
could help KU improve the retention rate of black freshmen,
which has been declining since
2010.
Something I tell people to
do a lot is go to office hours,

and go talk to teachers because

they help a lot, Onianwa said.
But if you dont feel comfortable going to your teacher at
all, especially if you feel like
they arent going to take you
seriously, then you really wont
go. Then your grades slip, and
youre afraid to ask for help because youre afraid to fulfill the
stereotype of not doing well in
school or something. So then
you get behind even more, and
then you drop out.
As far as the efforts of the
University go, Onianwa said
she thinks that they are a good
start, but said she wonders
whether people can change
their habits.
With microaggression, the
people that actually know what
it is are the people that actually
care, she said. But most people when they hear microaggression defined theyre like,

Oh thats stupid, why are you

offended by that? So the people who dont care probably
arent going to understand it.
The Office of Diversity and
Equity and IOA are working
to get feedback about the video from some students and
groups to ensure that they are
releasing an effective product.
We want to get to a place
where people are having more
conversations than this office
is having, and that they are
starting to facilitate the process of, Hey lets talk about
these things, Thomas said.
We really want it to be infused
throughout our campus.
Edited by Amber
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Student Senate committees pass a bill to use

gender-neutral pronouns in rules handbook
ALANA FLINN
@alana_flinn

Two Student Senate committees passed a bill on Wednesday with the goal of eliminating microaggression on
campus.
In an effort to make Student Senate more inclusive, a
bill passed through both the
University Affairs and Rights
committees tonight that, if
passed through full Senate
next week, would remove all of
the gender-specific pronouns,
including he," "she," "him,"
"her," "his" and "hers, from
the Student Senate Rules and
Regulations. They would be
replaced with gender-neutral
pronouns "they," "them" and

"their.
Harrison Baker, an author of
the bill and a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator,
said there would be about 90
pronoun changes. The changes
aim to make transgender students who want to be involved
in Senate less alienated.
I went through and eliminated every possible combination of pronouns that are
microaggressions, Baker said.
We strive to be an inclusive
group in Senate and sometimes we fall short of that, and
this opens up as many doors as
possible for those people.
The bill will be seen by full
Senate next Wednesday.
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Lauren Arney, a senior from

Stilwell, has wanted to take
POLS 640: Politics of Reproductive Policy to help fulfill
her public policy minor, but
she wont get to before she
graduates in May.
A shortage of faculty in the
political science department
has resulted in a dearth of
public policy elective classes,
and some professors worry the
situation will only get worse.
Weve had lots of retirements and very few replacements, political science professor Burdett Loomis said.
We will be hard-pressed in a
couple of years to teach very
basic things like the Congress,
political parties, stuff like that."

Don Haider-Markel, chair of

the political science department, said the manpower crisis is caused mainly by retirements and budget constraints.
The department has struggled
to fill spots for tenured professors.
Weve gone through a period where weve had a number
of senior faculty retire, and our
ability to teach the courses we
normally teach were really
understaffed, Haider-Markel
said. Weve gone from 24
faculty down to 17 in a really
short period of time.
Next semester, two upper-level courses that can be
taken for the public policy
minor, POLS 629: Topics in
Health Policy and Politics in
America; and POLS 669: Comparative Politics: Comparative
Public Policy. Both classes will

be taught by graduate teaching assistants, according to the

University Registrar website.
For a minor, students need
four upper level elective public
policy courses along with two
introductory courses.
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in its struggles. Other departments from around the
College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences have also had trouble
filling their ranks.
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around would like to have another faculty member, or two
or three or four, said Don
Steeples, interim dean of the
college.
Haider-Markel said that the
best option for students who
fear that they will not be able
to finish the policy minor
track is to check with the department for the possibility of

substituting a class from another political science track or

elsewhere at the University.
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syllabus and determine if that
[course] is an appropriate substitute, Haider-Markel said.
Undergraduate adviser Emily
Plotkin said its up to the individual schools to make substitutions in a students curriculum and advisers will pass
those requests along.
The good news is that whole
idea of being able to petition
things is a great thing to be
able to do at KU, because it
doesnt make you feel like you
cant question authority, and it
is possible to do, she said.
Arney, a biology major, is
on track to graduate with the
minor by taking one class each
semester. However, she said
that had a class not lined up

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with the rest of her schedule or

been available for one semester, she would not receive the
degree on time with the political science classes.
Theres only one offered this

semester, so I dont really get

the option of choosing a class
in the minor that I may be
more interested in, she said.
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Study: Cuts for clinics leads to fewer women seeking care

CONNER MITCHELL
@connermitchell0

A study co-authored by a
University professor shows
that cuts in funding directed
at health clinics that provide
abortion services and preventative care leads to fewer women seeking preventative care.
The research by David Slusky,
assistant professor of economics at the University, and Yao
Lu of the Analysis Group in
Boston, was released on Oct.
6. Slusky and Lu localized their
research to Texas and Wisconsin, two states that enacted early legislation cutting funding
to womens health clinics that
provided abortion services.
Slusky said the research was
conducted by a national network, which reported quarterly what clinics closed in

DAVID SLUSKY

Texas and Wisconsin. He said

those states were picked because they were two of the first
to eliminate funding for the
clinics that provide abortion
services. The driving distance
to the nearest facility from
each ZIP code in the state was
then calculated to compare
with independent survey data

from women about the relative

changes in driving distance
and the relative changes in
preventative care.
The research, which was
partially funded through fellowships with the National
Science Foundation and the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, found
when a facility closed and
women's drives increased by
100 miles or more, the rate
at which women sought preventative screenings such as
breast exams, mammograms
and Pap smears decreased by
11 percent, 18 percent and 14
percent, respectively.
This result is not unique to
[Texas and Wisconsin]. If access to care is reduced, emphasis of care goes down, Slusky
said. If preventive care doesnt
have an immediate benefit,

then it also has opportunity

costs such as taking off work,
driving a whole day one way of
the other to get such care, and
people are going to get less of
it if we close these women and
health and family planning
clinics.
Slusky said while there is not
an explicit push from state and
federal governments to cut
funding for preventive care
services, there is a push to cut
funding for abortion services.
However, he said separating
the two issues is not as simple
as politicians would like it to
be.
Organizations have fixed
costs, he said. They offer
a wide variety of services to
cover their fixed costs, and if
you limit them to individual
services, they may not be able
to cover their fixed costs and

it might not make sense for

them financially to stay in operation.
Planned Parenthood is a
womens health care organization which provides preventive
services including Pap smear,
breast exams and screenings
for cervical cancer, according
to its website. The organization
has been the target of much
of the government reduction
in funding for its offering of
abortion services.
Kansas won a federal court
case in 2014 which allowed
the state to entirely defund the
organization. Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri filed the lawsuit in 2011
after Governor Sam Brownback announced that funding
for organizations that provide
abortion services would be
revoked in the 2012 budget.

Slusky said under federal law,

the Hyde Amendment stipulates government funding can
not go towards abortion services.
Therefore, the calls to eliminate funding to health care
clinics who provide abortion
services would eliminate funding needed to provide other
necessary services.
If zero percent of the federal
funding is going towards abortion services, and politicians
are still calling for that money
to be cut, then they seem to
be willing to call for it to be
cut from reimbursements to
Planned Parenthood and alike
for other services, Slusky said.
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The guns dont kill people argument

oversimplifies the gun control debate
VANESSA ASMUSSEN

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leggings.
Dr. Brian Staihr
bought pizza for
our WHOLE CLASS
on Thursday. Best
professor ever.
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In a heated discussion
concerning gun regulation,
a person might use or hear
the phrase, Guns dont kill
people; people kill people.
While in a very literal sense
this is true, this argument is
unsuccessful at attempting to
make sense of the problem
regarding gun violence. This
logic does not settle the gun
control debate happening in
our country right now.
Using that particular phrase
as the basis of an argument
makes the issue of guns sound
more simple than it really is.
In the guns dont kill people
argument, guns are not dan-

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Data published by experts

from the Harvard School
of Public Health has shown
that the United States has
exponentially more gun-related deaths, roughly 15 times
that of any other wealthy
country with tougher gun
laws. A study posted by JAMA
Internal Medicine shows that,
by a state-to-state comparison
in the United States, increased
regulation significantly reduces gun violence. Stricter gun
regulation wouldnt mean that
no one could posses a gun, but
it would make it more difficult
for guns to end up in the
wrong hands.
Many fear that placing regulations on guns is an infringement of their Second Amendment rights, but gun laws do

not intend to punish law-abiding gun owners. These laws

intend to provide regulations
such as background checks
and take measures to ensure
that guns and ammunition
are not carelessly provided
to anyone who desires them.
Since the constitution was
written more than 200 years
ago, firearms have evolved and
become increasingly lethal,
making measures such as
these necessary.
Gun-related tragedies in
schools, churches, malls,
theaters and workplaces have
become all too common. We
are becoming desensitized to
stories in the media depicting
mass murders of innocent
people. We assume its something that we have no control

over and cannot change, but

through stricter regulation,
we can.
The ultimate question is:
What is important to us? If
we could reduce the loss of
life, would we be willing to?
Or are we so concerned about
preserving our old ways that
we are unable to stand up and
make a change that is proven
to work? Guns may not literally kill people, but such loose
regulations on guns lead to an
increase in deaths.
Vanessa Asmussen is a junior
from Neodesha studying journalism and sociology.

Edited by Maddy Mikinski

Find yourself not your soulmate in college

AUNGELINA DAHM
@aungelinadahm

I just wanna stay

broke forever yeah
thats that ish no one
ever said

gerous unless someone uses

them in a violent manner. This
is also true for other violent
weapons such as grenades, yet
we have laws against those.
The argument might continue as, If guns kill people,
other objects such as knives
do, too. Why are there no
regulations on them?
The clear fact about guns
compared with other potentially violent objects is simple:
Guns make it a lot easier and
faster to kill people, and in
greater numbers.
Placing sensible regulations
on guns is not a new idea, but
it is an important and effective
one. Stricter gun laws are not
just assumed to succeed at
reducing gun violence they
are proven to.

Through both observation

and cultural knowledge of
young adults, it seems many
college students devote large
amounts of their social time
in college on the hunt for their
hopeful significant other.
Many students have adopted
the ideology of If I cant see
myself marrying them, Im
not giving them the time of
day. This mindset restricts
individuals from possibly

embarking on a relationship
of just pure love and bliss.
It is unlikely one will find
their soul mate in college
because of such common
circumstances like barhopping
and cheating. College is a
better place to find happiness
within yourself and others and
less of choosing and locking-in your future love life.
College bars arent usually
the best of places to meet your
future spouse. Telling your
children that you met your
significant other in the Boom
Boom Room of an establish-

Ask Anissa: Im
in love with my
longtime friend
ANISSA FRITZ
@anissafritzz

Q: I have fallen in love

with a friend who I've
known for five years, but I
don't know if she reciprocates these feelings. I
don't want to make our
friendship awkward by
asking and getting rejected, but I really want to become more than friends.
Countless movies and books
have come into existence
based off of this exact situation. However, what these
fairytale plots often dont show
is the outcome that you fear:
getting rejected and losing a
great friendship.
In my past experiences, it
is better to be honest and
upfront about a situation like
this rather than keeping it inside and letting it blow up the
day your friend gets engaged
to someone else. You owe it to
yourself to express these legitimate feelings to this girl.
We live in a time where
deeply caring for someone is
a sign of weakness and has
to be concealed. But clearly
these feelings are legitimate
because youve known her for
five years and the superficial

stage of your relationship has

passed. Over the course of
this long friendship, you both
have seen each other at your
ultimate highs and lows. My
mom always told me that love
is seeing someone while their
world is falling apart and still
thinking the world of them,
which Im sure the two of you
have both experienced with
each other.
Youre concerned that you
expressing these feelings
would make your friendship
awkward, but technically your
friendship already is awkward,
but its only from your side.
It would be more awkward if
you drunkenly profess your
love to her or if she hears this
news from someone else. If
you are as good of friends as a
five-year friendship would imply, then regardless of whether
she reciprocates these feelings
or not, you two will be able to
work through it.
Sit her down and have an
honest talk with her. Dont
talk to her like she is the girl
of your dreams, even though
she may very well be. Talk
to her like you normally
would, in a place that you two
normally would be together.
Dont take her to some fancy
dinner or somewhere implying romantic motives. It will

ment known for its particular

smell and stickiness might
raise some red flags. A place
like this is not somewhere to
sit and wait for your dream
lover to whisk you up on a
carriage or, more realistically,
his cab.
Cheating is a relationship
breaker in college also. Youre
constantly surrounded by
20,000 other people or an
individual in the relationship
who might not respect
the concept of a committed
relationship. Applications
such as Tinder dont help

cheating either. Being plugged

in to social media is a large
part of college, and it can be a
dangerous place to find someone who looks better online
than your current romantic
partner.
Many people also forget that
a person usually leaves college
a different person than they
were when they started. The
four years spent trying to attain a degree include personal
growth on an emotional and
professional basis. Instead of
taking time to get to know a
potential mate, get to know

yourself.
Become someone you truly
admire, love and respect, and
only then will you be able
to give those three things
to someone else. Now is the
time to learn your own values
and ideals so you're ready to
match them with someone
later in life. But for now, seek a
soulmate within yourself.
Aungelina Dahm is a freshman from Chicago studying
journalism and political science.
Edited by Rebecca Dowd

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make her feel uncomfortable

and confused as to what is
happening, and this will cause
her to ask questions that will
lead you to proclaiming your
feelings in a jumbled nervous
mess.
When this talk happens,
both of you need to be in
a comfortable place. It will
allow her to not feel so caught
off-guard, and it will soothe

you while you try to form

coherent sentences, instead of
nervously mumbling, Your
hair smells good and I love
you. This actually happened
to me once, and Im trying to
prevent this from happening
to the male population ever
again. Youre welcome.
If she doesnt feel the same,
chalk it up to bad timing and
mixed signals. Regardless of

the fear and heartache that

might follow, everyone has the
right to know who has feelings
for them. You owe it to both
yourself and her. In the wise
words of Taylor Swift, "Its going to be forever, or its going
to go down in flames, but either of those options are more
appealing than never knowing
what could have been.
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Donning (fake) blood for Zombie Walk

SAMANTHA SEXTON
@Sambiscuit

In advance of Halloween, students and local residents will

dress like zombies and meet at
South Park on Oct. 15 at 6 p.m.
for the ninth annual Lawrence
Zombie Walk. For one University student, the walk has become an annual tradition.
Its just so much fun, said
Annika Wooten, a senior from
Richmond, Va. This will be my
third time doing the Zombie
Walk, and what makes it better
is that its for a good cause.
The walk, which is sponsored
by the Lawrence Humane Society, encourages participants to
donate anything from canned
goods to a few dollars, which
will go to the Lawrence Humane Society. Though Wooten
said she enjoys the charity, her
real passion for the event comes
from experiencing zombie culture.
This is honestly the pinnacle of my year, Wooten said.
I plan for my costume all year
long. The only downside is how
much money I end up spending
on my costume and makeup.
While trying to find the perfect outfit, Wooten was discouraged when she saw the price
tags for the costume pieces she
had in mind. Instead, Wooten
found a blousy top from her
mother, an old vest she had in
her closet, and various bits and
bobs to complete the look. The

hardest part, she says, is making the death wounds realistic.

I had to make my hat from
scratch, but most of what I
needed I got from either a
thrift shop or I just had it lying
around, Wooten said. I have
this vision in my head about
how the Mad Hatter died, so
Im hoping to have shards of tea
cups sticking out of my neck
and brain.
Wooten says that her costume, with the fake blood and
wounds, can cost somewhere
close to $100.
Wooten is still putting the
coup de grace on her costume,
but says that when shes done,
shell be a terrifying Mad Hatter from Lewis Carrolls Alice
in Wonderland.
Wooten said her favorite part
about making her costumes is
coming up with a creative death
for her character so that every
wound has a story.
If someone asks me how I
died and became a zombie I
want to be able to entertain
them, Wooten said.
Being a participant of the
zombie walk doesnt always
require so much razzle dazzle,
however. Wooten said a handful of people will show up with
ripped jeans and T-shirts covered in ketchup.
Were all there to be part of
the charity and to be with people who find the zombie culture
exciting like I do, Wooten said.
Wooten said that over the past

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Senior Annika Wooton in makeup for the Lawrence Zombie Walk.

three years the walk has grown

from a couple dozen to over a
hundred walkers.
I love how many people are
showing up, Wooten said. I
dont know if its a raise in zombie culture appreciation or a

tighter community, but its still

my favorite time of the year.
Walkers dont require any
special training or rehearsal.
Wooten encourages anyone
who may be interested to show
up at South Park to walk with

the rest of the zombies.

We show up, get bloody, and
do a lot of moaning and groaning at one another, Wooten
said. I wouldnt miss it for anything.
Edited by Derek Skillett

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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
From left, characters Blaze, Butch, Chanel and Jessie from Hell town.

Indie film director Steve Balderson returns

to Kansas to make his latest film, Hell Town
CAMERON MCGOUGH
@cammcgough

Since shooting the 1998 film

Pep Squad in his hometown
of Wamego, Steve Balderson
has proved to be the embodiment of an independent filmmaker.
With films shot in London,
Hong Kong, Italy, and most recently Mexico for El Ganzo,
Balderson has practiced his
craft all over the world, garnering numerous awards. For
one of his most recent projects,
Hell Town, he decided to film
where his life and his career
began: Kansas.
After graduating from Manhattan High School a semester
early in 1992, he headed to Los
Angeles to pursue his passion
for filmmaking at the California Institute of the Arts, which
has produced many industry
veterans like Tim Burton and
John Lasseter.
One day in the spring semester of his third year, Balderson
said he woke up, sat down
at his computer and wrote
the script for what would become his very first film, Pep
Squad. Without telling his

friends, family or professors,

he dropped everything and
headed back to Kansas without
a diploma to start his career as
a filmmaker.
After Pep Squad was
Baldersons second film, Firecracker," with Karen Black, an
Academy Award-nominated
actress. The film garnered an
outstanding reaction from
critics, screening to sold-out
crowds during its premiere at
the Raindance Film Festival in
London, where it also received
the Jury Prize nomination for
Best Picture.
One of the most celebrated
film critics of all time, Roger
Ebert, gave Firecracker a 3.5
out of 4 rating. He said the film
was original and peculiar,
and described one scene as
Hitchcockian, alluding to the
great filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.
After Firecracker, Balderson continued his work filming across the United States
and eventually across the
world. When it came time to
begin filming Hell Town,
he decided to return to Kansas. With filming locations
in Wamego and Manhattan,
Balderson wanted Hell Town

to build upon the style he used

in "Pep Squad."
I thought it would be really funny to revisit the type of
really sick humor that was in
my first film, he said. Only
what I wanted to do is sort of
take Pep Squad and then give
it crack. I wanted to use that
small town Americana thing,
which Wamego has plenty of.
When he isnt filming in Kansas, Balderson is often attending film festivals and working
on projects outside the United
States. One month after finishing the rough cut of Hell
Town, Balderson headed to
Mexico to begin shooting "El
Ganzo," and while at a film
festival in Italy a couple weeks
ago, he met a filmmaker from
India who wanted to collaborate.
Despite his success as an independent filmmaker, Balderson has also faced some difficulties. Balderson said he
believes one of the biggest
struggles he's encountered
throughout his career takes
root in Kansas soil.
Being taken seriously in
Kansas [is a major struggle],
he said. For instance, the week
after Roger Ebert had a huge

review of my film Firecracker

in the Chicago Sun-Times it
was basically a love letter
there were some people that
were a part of the independent
film world of Kansas that just
completely belittled it.
Balderson said people probably spoke poorly of his film
because he has rarely reached
out to the Kansas independent
film community.
Aside from the critics,
Balderson has successfully
networked through the business, connecting with filmmakers from all over the country. Wherever his projects take
him, he sees it as his duty to
bring undiscovered talent on
board.
There is talent everywhere.
And sometimes people, especially in the Midwest, dont
have the opportunities that
people on the coasts have,"
he said. "So if you are going
to make a movie some place,
I think its responsible to look
around."
In addition to posting casting
calls for his films, Balderson
helps aspiring filmmakers in
another way. As a former film
school student, Balderson said
he understands the value of

hands-on experience.
When I went to film school,
I sort of expected to leave with
a piece of work, he said. For
some reason, I got it in my
mind that they would teach
me how to write a script, direct
a movie, and then edit it and
market it and sell it, and then
Id come home with a finished
movie
He added: "I dont think
theres a program like that in
the world that offers that exact
setup, and so I started actually
teaching that to people.
Balderson started the Maverick Filmmaking Mentorship
Program in order to impart on
young filmmakers the knowledge he has gained over his
career. Baldersons mission is
to teach filmmakers the skills
they need to succeed in the
business while not incurring
gratuitous amounts of student
debt.
For Balderson, the mindset
required to achieve success is
simple, and its the mindset he
teaches his students.
Anything is possible," he
said. "I simply ask myself,
'How can I do that? Theres
going to be a way.

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House of Representatives,
disagreed with Sluskys research, saying Planned Parenthood was entirely separate
from womens health care
centers.
Planned Parenthood is not
womens health, Whitten
said. We cant interchange
those two. Planned Parenthood runs an abortion facility. Womens health is gynecologists, etc. They are separate,
and you cannot interchange
those.
Elise Higgins, a spokesperson with Planned Parenthood
of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said Sluskys research goes
along with what the organization has said: Defunding
clinics that provide preventive
services has a direct negative
effect on women.
Higgins also agreed with
Sluskys finding that women who have less than a high
school diploma for an education are less likely to seek preventive care than women with
a higher level of education.
Because education can be
linked to income, that is absolutely true. Having a lower
income makes it much harder
to travel over an hour to get
the health care you need, especially if you work at a job
without flexible times or if you
need child care, she said. Politicians dislike Planned Parenthood because of abortion,
but abortion has nothing to do
with the funding that is cut off
for family planning services.
These policies always end up
hurting the most vulnerable
women in our community."
Slusky said the findings directly impact University and
other college students as they
begin voting in elections and
determining how they evaluate the statements politicians
make about womens health
issues. He added that college
students are in a key age group
when it comes to receiving
preventive care.
KU students are of the
prime age that are served
by these types of clinics. For
many women, the only doctor
they see in a year is a doctor at
Planned Parenthood and the
other organizations. If those
organizations dont exist, it is
possible that KU students are
not going to be getting preventive care as well, he said.
Slusky said the goal of the
research was not to sway a
political argument one way or
another. He said the argument
was determining whether a decrease in preventive care was
justifiable, or if there needs to
be more emphasis on funding
preventative care and making
it more accessible.
With this particular research, what I am hoping to do
is add a piece of nonpartisan
analysis to this conversation
about how much public funding should be going to these
organizations, he said.

With this particular research, what I am hoping to do is add a piece

of nonpartisan analysis
to this conversation
about how much public
funding should be going to these organizations.
DAVID SLUSKY
Co-author of study and assistant
professor of economics at the
University

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Universitys first bilingual play tells the story

of a domestic violence survivor, Johanna

JESSICA LARSONKANSAN
From left, Cassidy Ragland as Maritza/Hilda, Samantha Foreman as Carmen/Candida, Alejandra Villasante Ramos as Johanna, and Becca Huerter as Juanita/Pat.

BRIANNA CHILDERS
@Breeanuhh3

Johanna: Facing Forward,

the first bilingual play to show
at the University, is the story
of a young woman surviving
domestic violence, a journalists ethical boundaries and a
recovery story. It debuts Friday
night.
The playwright and director, Tlaloc Rivas, said he was
moved by the survival story of
Johanna Orozco, a nationally
recognized survivor of domestic violence. In 2007, Orozcos
life changed. Orozco is from
Cleveland, Ohio and suffered
gunshot wounds after she tried
to break up with her then-boyfriend.
The young Latina became
known for showing her
wounds to the public, becoming the face for the movement
against domestic violence.
Rivas was haunted by Oroz-

cos story and thought theater

would be the best platform to
present it.
What I like to say about the
theatre is that it gives voice
to the voiceless, Rivas said.
There is an unspoken conversation that takes place between
audiences and actors on stage
and there is also a community
sort of witnessing that happens
when a live audience sees a
show like that.
Rivas, who is originally from
California but now teaches at
the University of Iowa, was
asked by University theatre instructor Jane Barrett, to bring
the show to the Kansas.
Rivas received his undergraduate degree at University
of California-Santa Cruz, then
went on to receive his graduate degree at the University of
Washington in Seattle where
he got his Masters in directing.
He has been directing plays for
20 years.

Rivas plays with a lot of different themes but said performance explores what a healthy
relationship looks like, the role
of family and access to guns for
violence offenders.
Somewhat related is what
constitutes a healthy relationship, especially when you go
to college and how to navigate
those waters when you are going to an environment where
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Villasante said she is able to
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directly experienced, I kind of
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or form of harassment, Villasante said.
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Webber said they hope their
little free library encourages
reading and neighborliness.
Its fun to watch and see
and we try to pay attention to
when somebody stops there to
see what they are doing, Farrar said.
Farrar said when she sees
someone putting books in the
little library, she cant resist the
urge to look.
Webber said that when they
first built it, they filled it with
books from their own shelves,
but when they need to, they
will go to the Dusty Bookshelf
or a yard sale to buy books for
the little library.
When picking out books,
they know they have to consider what goes in the little library
and they want to keep it PG.
I think its general but I think
we need to curate it a little and
make sure its appropriate. I
dont think I want something
horribly violent, Webber said.
Farrar said that if she buys
something for the little library,
she tries to make it a quality
book inside and out.
Farrar said when she puts
books out for people to consume, she doesnt want them
to pick up a shabby book.
Webber and Farrar want to
make sure that the books in
their little free library are being read, and if books have
been in there since May, Webber said that they need to think
about removing them come
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out of her life, and what she
wants to do for other people,
Villasante said.
Though the play deals with
traumatic and heavy ideas, the
cast will lighten the mood with
musical numbers intermittently. Rivas hopes the audiences
sees how a perfect relationship
can change in a heartbeat and
that it doesnt matter who a
person is or where they come
from.
I think most of us know
someone or have been a part
of an experience that has
touched upon domestic violence, violence at home, or
dating violence and this play
touches on those issues, Rivas
said. I hope that the play gives
the audience the opportunity
to think about and examine
those issues.
Villasante said she hopes
audiences gain a sense of empowerment, awareness, and
hope.
Be whatever it is, we all have
something that we are struggling with and we all lose control over our own lives at some
point or another, Villasante
said. This is a story about how

December.
That is part of curating and
making sure that it doesnt
become a dead collection that
no one wants to use, Webber
said.
Webber and Farrar said they
dont see any negatives regarding their little library, though
people have voiced their concern that it could be an avenue
for vandalism.
I feel like there is an element
of trust to have a little free library. You are welcome to take
this, Farrar said.
And I trust you wont throw
them into the street, Webber
added.
Webber and Farrar said they
way they read has changed
since they built their little library.
Its interesting because the
way I consume books. I want
a particular author and you
cant do that with a little free
library, Webber said.
Webber said that he has been
reading books that he would
have never picked up at the
library and that its a different way to read that broadens
horizons.
Farrar has also been reading
more in her free time.
I have given myself permission on a weekend to grab a
book from the little free library
and read it before its gone,
Farrar said.
As for their favorite part
about having a little free library, Webber said he likes the
Johanna managed to survive
and take control of her own
life after this series of devastating events that could have
ended her life in many ways
but they didnt.
Villasante said the play needs
to inspire people and empower
them.
It needs to create awareness
that relationships can go to a
toxic place really quick if the
signs are not detected in the
right moment and they arent
discussed like they should be,
Villasante said.
Rivas said he does not plan
on taking the show anywhere
else on his own, but hopes that
other people will ask for a copy
and take it other places.
The show starts on Friday,
Oct. 16 and runs through the
25. On Oct. 24, Rachel Dissell
will host a talk-back after the
show with a representative
from the Willow Domestic Violence Center.
The cast members are also
going to the Topeka Womens
correctional facility to perform a reading. Rivas hopes
this gives them the opportunity to gauge their response on
the play.
Edited by Maddie Farber

looks of it. Farrar, on the other

hand, likes seeing the human
behavior, and not only do
others benefit from it, but she
does as well.
It was about the second time
I grabbed a book, I thought
this wasnt the intent of putting
it up, but I suddenly have permission to read again, Farrar
said.

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Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes II passes against Baylor in the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015, in Arlington, Texas.

Kansas football mailbag: Positives from Baylor

and expectations for game against Texas Tech
@jacksonshane3

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Early #kufball mailbag
submission. Were there
any positives to take
away from this game?
#AskShane @KansanSports
Derek Skillett (@derek_skillett) October 10,
2015
Without trying to sound
too sarcastic, Baylor was
held to a season-low of 644
yards against Kansas. No one
believed Kansas could contain
the nations best offense, but
there were some positives on
that side of the ball.
The reserves played a
majority of the second half,
and Kansas held Baylor to just
14 points after giving up 52

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noticed from him early, since
recruiting, was that he was
very passionate about becoming great, and not just giving
it lip service. After a while,
you can kind of tell between
the guys. Coach, Im going to
come in there and start. Okay.
Then youve got the guys that,
when they say it you go, Okay,
I believe it. Hes one of those
guys.
For a moment, though, there

points on 52 plays in the first

half. It was against the second
team, but the defense showed
flashes of improvement in the
second half.
We knew this year was going
to be a growing process,
particularly on the defensive
side of the ball. Even without junior corner Brandon
Stewart, Kansas played fairly
well in the secondary in the
second half.
Senior safety Michael
Glatczak was a bright spot
leading the way with double-digit tackles. Texas Tech
expects to take advantage of
this youthful defense, but after
this weekend fans might see
an improved defense. However, the biggest bright spot was
freshman quarterback Ryan
Willis.
@jacksonshane3
I
thought Willis looked
was a glimpse at the future
of Kansas football. As Willis
tossed two flawless passes to
his freshman teammates, you
could peer through the eyes
of Beaty and see what he has
seen in rebuilding the Kansas
football program. What he saw
in those two plays in the first
quarter they made him excited for the future, but not so
much that he lost sight of the
present.
We have to deal in reality,
Beaty said. The reality is that
we have a lot of young guys

@jacksonshane3 Whats
one major change that
could
increase
KUs
chances against Tech
this weekend?
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First career start and the

freshman looked pretty good.
He completed 20-of-36 passes
for 158 yards and a touchdown. His touchdown was
the lone score of the game
for Kansas and it came on a
beautiful 36-yard seam route
connection to freshman
receiver Steven Sims Jr. It was
the first touchdown thrown
by a freshman since Todd
Reesing.
Willis had a pair of turnovers and an interception and
a fumble. But the thing that
impressed me most about
him was after the turnovers,

he didnt look fazed at all.

After the game, the players
and David Beaty noted that
his demeanor is much more
mature than the average
freshman, and nothing seems
to rattle him.
That will be important going
forward, especially if Willis is
the guy for the rest of the season. But the biggest takeaway
for me was Willis cannon
arm. The coaching staff had
raved about his strong arm,
but Saturday was the first
chance in game action to see it
first hand. It was nice seeing a
quarterback take shots down
the field.
Although he still has to work
on making reads and taking
care of the ball, there was
plenty to be optimistic about.
Willis and fans should be
confident in the quarterback
they have going forward.

playing. We also have a lot

of seniors here that deserve
better than what were giving
them right now. Those guys
have years left, and the quicker we can get them developed,
the better its going to be for us
down the road.
Yeah, Im excited about the
future because I know we got
the right guys here right now.
Of course, playing freshmen
can be a negative. It gives fans
and probably coaches, too
headaches. Its asking for disaster and can be hard to watch

at times. But this is the state of

Kansas football: developing
young players through Division I playing time in hopes
that they can be leaps and
bounds ahead of the current
upperclassmen Kansas has on
the roster.
Soon after Willis connected
with Sims, Baylor would pile
on; it was 24-7 at the end of
the first quarter and 66-7 in
the end. On the scoreboard,
its not expected to be much
better this week against Texas
Tech a consensus 31-point

favorite to beat Kansas or

through the rest of Big 12 play,
where it becomes more likely
with each loss that Kansas will
go winless.
In the end, Beaty can get
glimpses of the success of his
young players, but full games
in which the Jayhawks are
successful are still years away
from fruition. If all goes well,
it will be that same group of
freshmen to whom Beaty is
giving experience.
You look at it through whatever perspective you want

okay for what this game

was. Made some good
passes, only one pick.
Thoughts?
Brett Steinbrink (@
ThatHawkwardGuy) October 10, 2015

The University of Kansas

I think the defense is going

to struggle and Willis will look
his age at times this Saturday,
so the running game needs to
be a factor this week. Kansas
hasnt had a ball carrier amass
100 yards on the ground since
Kinner did it consecutive
weeks to start the season.
Against Baylor, Kinner was a
non-factor due to injuries and
only carried the ball twice.
Sixth-year senior Taylor Cox
helped out this week, with 19
carries for 45 yards in his first
game after being sidelined for
765 days.

This backfield is the deepest

and strongest position on the
team, but unfortunately for
Kansas its becoming thinner
and weaker due to injuries.
If Kansas can get completely
healthy, this would be the best
weekend to get the running
game going by keeping pressure off its young quarterback.
Another benefit is keeping
the ball of the hands of Texas
Tech and that high-octane
offense. Texas Tech boasts
the second-best offense in the
country, next to Baylor.
Of the Red Raiders 44 scoring drives, 19 of them took
less than two minutes, and 10
were less than a minute. Getting the running game going
will help slow down the game
and potentially keep it closer
than expected.
Edited by Rebecca Dowd

to look at it, Likens said. I

choose to look at like this: In
two and three years, those guys
are going to be really good
players. As youre looking at
the scoreboard, its not a lot of
fun sometimes.
But when you see those
guys out there playing, you see
them competing and getting
the experience in right now, its
definitely going to pay off.

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RYAN WILLIS
FRESHMAN, QUARTERBACK

PATRICK MAHOMES II
SOPHOMORE, QUARTERBACK

Willis was the lone, bright spot in Kansas 66-7 defeat at the hands of Baylor. He
threw for just 158 yards, but could have easily racked up more yards if not for a
handful of drops by his receivers. Hes still showing some growing pains, but his
touchdown pass to freshman wide receiver Steven Sims Jr. was the best throw
by a Kansas quarterback this season.

Was dubbed Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week for the third time as he continues to direct a high-octane offense. Mahomes has thrown for over 300 yards in
eight of his last nine games and tossed four or more touchdowns in six of his last
nine games. Baylor junior quarterback Seth Russell torched the inexperienced
Kansas secondary even just in one half, but expect Mahomes to do far more
damage.

KEAUN KINNER
JUNIOR, RUNNING BACK

DEANDRE WASHINGTON
SENIOR, RUNNING BACK

After a hot start to the season, Kinners production has been declining each
of the last three weeks, including just two carries for six yards last week. The
decline in production can be attributed to the offensive lines inability to run
block, as well as a hamstring injury which cropped up last week. The Jayhawks need him to get back on track this weekend to take pressure off Willis.

Currently ranks as one of the best running backs in yards per carry (7.1) at 11th
in the nation. He sits 26th in total rushing yards with 586 and 37th in yards per
game with a 97.7 mark. Only four backs in program history have had a pair of
1,000-yard seasons, but it appears Washington is on pace for that mark for the
second-consecutive year.

STEVEN SIMS JR.

FRESHMAN, WIDE RECEIVER

JAKEEM GRANT
SENIOR. WIDE RECEIVER

With injuries sidelining senior receiver Tre Parmalee and freshman Bobby
Hartzog, Sims stepped up with a 36-yard touchdown. Willis has proven he
can throw the deep ball, and Sims will need to be the playmaker down the
field to help open up the short passing game and running game.

MARCQUIS ROBERTS
JUNIOR, LINEBACKER

GARY MOORE
SOPHOMORE, DEFENSIVE END

Kansas has struggled up front this year particularly the last two games against
some of the better defensive lineman in the conference. Texas Tech does not
create a lot of pressure, but Moore is someone to keep an eye on. He leads the
team in sacks with two, both coming against Iowa State. The sophomore defensive lineman has not started in a game, but Moore might have done enough to
be more involved upfront this week.

Roberts is the leading tackler among the Jayhawks front seven with 32, and is
the only linebacker with a tackle for loss this season. A week after scoring the
lone defensive touchdown for the Jayhawks, he recorded seven tackles against
Baylor. The Jayhawks will look to him to help shore up their rush defense that
ranks 121st out of 128 teams.
FISH SMITHSON
JUNIOR, SAFETY

Another senior on its roster that will be a tough matchup for Kansas. Grant
ranks first in the Big 12 and sixth nationally in all-purpose yardage with 174.83
yards per contest. Grant has the ability to score in several ways as he threw a
touchdown pass, return a kickoff for a score, in addition to having at least one
rushing and receiving touchdown. Look for the Red Raiders to get the ball in
the hands of Grant this week.

J.J. GAINES
SENIOR, DEFENSIVE BACK

As a team, the Red Raiders have a turnover margin with a 0.83 margin that ranks
them in the top 20. They have forced a dozen turnovers that also put them in the
top 20 in that category. A third of those turnovers have come on four interceptions
by Gaines. The senior defensive back intercepted a pair of passes last weekend. It
was the first time a Red Raider had recorded two interceptions since 2012.

Smithson enters the Texas Tech game leading the Jayhawks, with 45 tackles
this season after recording nine of them last week. That number is also good
for fourth in the Big 12. Like the rest of the Jayhawk secondary, Smithson has
struggled defending the pass. But his three pass breakups lead the team this
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football game in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015.

How should the Chiefs play out the rest of the year?
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Keep trying
After a 1-4 start, Kansas City
Chiefs running back Jamaal
Charles was announced out for
the season with a torn ACL.
Now, in their darkest hour, the
Chiefs should look hard into the
importance of this season.
Taking into account Kansas
City has lost three undefeated
teams in its five games, the
division is still up for grabs. The
AFC West division is just 10-10
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Offensively, Kansas City has
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Suspensions have also played
a part in the Chiefs defense.
Cornerback Sean Smith recently
returned from his three-game
suspension, but the secondary, as
a whole, has all struggled at one
point or another. Specifically, the
pass defense has been lackluster,
giving up 285 passing yards
per game. Rookie cornerback
Marcus Peters has been the
lone bright spot for the Chiefs;
his two interceptions and eight
passes defended lead the team.
The Chiefs biggest obstacle may be the offensive and
defensive lines. According to
Pro Football Focus, the Chiefs
ranked 27 in pass blocking last
season. This season, quarterback
Alex Smith has been sacked 21
times.
The weakest of this group may

be left tackle Eric Fisher. Last

season Fisher gave up seven
sacks and has struggled at both
tackle spots this season. Meanwhile, the defensive line has
struggled to sack the quarterback. Kansas City ranks just 13,
which is a little above average, in
quarterback sacks. Overall, the
Chiefs have to improve on both
sides of the ball to start winning,
but they can.
Charles is injured, but the freeagent field has a lot of potential
starting backs. Running backs,
such as Pierre Thomas, Ray
Rice, Ben Tate, Isaiah Pead and
Ahmad Bradshaw, could make
sizeable contributions to the
Chiefs offense. They could also
look within their own roster
in Charcandrick West or Knile
Davis to fill the void of Charles
To give the team the best
chance to win, the Chiefs need
to make the necessary changes
both on offense and defense.
The AFC West is tied for fourth
in total wins-per-division in
the NFL, which leaves the door
open for the team that should be
facing an easier schedule. Given
all of those things, the Chiefs
should not tank this season.

MATT HOFFMANN
@MattHoffmannUDK

Tank
Staring down the barrel
of another losing season,
already sitting at an abysmal
1-4 record, its not too early
for the Kansas City Chiefs
to consider the age old tactic
of tanking for a better draft
selection.
In short, the practice
involves intentionally losing
games in order to get a better
selection in next years draft.
Because the draft order is
determined by the opposite
order of finish the Super
Bowl champion picks last
if teams lose on purpose, then
they will have a higher draft
selection.
Theoretically, a better draft
selection leads to better players drafted, which, in the long
run, leads to a better team. Of
course, intentionally losing
games is ethically murky at
best and often costs teams lots
of money, specifically the loss
in ticket sales, merchandise
and shrinking fanbase with

bandwagon fans jumping

ship.
The aforementioned 1-4
record does not bode well for
the Chiefs playoff chances.
According to Sports Club
Stats, Kansas City has just a 4
percent chance of making the
playoffs. In fact, since 1990,
when the 12-team playoff format was introduced, only one
1-3 team makes the playoffs
on average. Entering Week 5
of the season, the Chiefs were
1-3, along with the Miami
Dolphins, Cleveland Browns,
Baltimore Ravens, Jacksonville Jaguars, Houston Texans,
Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago
Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
New Orleans Saints and San
Francisco 49ers. Four of those
teams picked up victories,
improving their records to
2-3. The Chiefs, however, did
not, which makes it unlikely
for them to be the one team
that started 1-3 to advance to
the playoffs.
While draft talk in October
seems premature, ESPN analyst Todd McShay has already
released his top 32 players
for the 2016 draft. Among
the heavy hitters likely to be

drafted in the top 10 are defensive end Joey Bosa out of

Ohio State, cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III from Florida and Robert Nkemdiche,
a defensive tackle from Ole
Miss. All of these prospects
could help a beleaguered Kansas City Chiefs defense, which
ranks 27th worst in the league
in net yards allowed and 29th
worst in average points per
game allowed.
Tanking doesnt necessarily
mean a lost season. Allowing
backups on the depth chart
to get meaningful reps can
improve the team in the long
run. Many game situations
simply cant be replicated in
practice, and game reps are
a good way to improve the
team without winning games.
Losing games intentionally
doesnt sit well with many
fans, but, in the long run,
a better draft position can
drastically improve a team
from season to season. After a
1-4 start and only a 4 percent
chance at making the playoffs,
its time for the Chiefs to
make the tough decision and
look to the 2016 draft for
relief.

Soccer faces West Virginia in Big 12 matchup

SKYLAR ROLSTAD
@SkyRolSports

Kansas soccer travels to Morgantown, W.Va., on Friday for

a Big 12 clash against conference leader, West Virginia. The
Mountaineers rank third in
the national rankings.
Every game in the conference is big, said Kansas coach

Mark Francis. You have eight

conference games and every
one is as important as the other. Obviously, its a good opponent and were looking forward to play[ing] them.
The Jayhawks, however, have
won six of their last seven
games and are third in the Big
12 with a 3-1 record.
Going into Fridays game, its

all or nothing for us, said senior midfielder Liana Salazar.

We need to win if we want to
be the Big 12 champions in the
regular season.
Last season, the Jayhawks
faced a similar situation. Backto-back losses to Texas Tech
and West Virginia on Oct. 17
and 19 in 2014 ended the Jayhawks chance at finishing top

of the conference. Those losses

were two of the Jayhawks three
conference losses in 2014.
Having already avenged a
1-0 loss to Oklahoma from
last season with a 1-0 win last
Sunday, Kansas has a chance to
claim Big 12 supremacy. This
time, both pivotal games are
not on the same weekend.
Francis said the timing of the

game helped with his teams

preparation since the Jayhawks
only have one game this weekend and will face Texas Tech
the following Friday. However,
the opportunity to face one of
the top-ranked teams in the
nation did not change Kansas preparation. The Jayhawks
worked on defensive shape in
practice on Thursday.

The biggest thing for us is

going to be when we win the
ball playing our game and doing the things were good at,
Francis said of the matchup.
Defensively, were organized.
When we win the ball, weve
got to keep our key attacking
players in the game.

Edited by Leah Sitz

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Price strengthens KU baseball

through hands-on recruiting
NICK GEIDNER
@nickgeidner

One of the most important

if not the most important
aspects of a robust college
athletic program is recruiting.
As players age and move on
to higher levels, the only way
for a program to survive is by
bringing in newer and younger
talent year after year.
Assistant coach and head of
recruiting Ritchie Price has a
unusual style of bringing new
talent to the Kansas baseball
program. He focuses heavily
on paying his recruits the attention they need and sells all
that Kansas has to offer when
those recruits come to visit.
That style has plenty of people talking, and he's probably
earned that credential. These
days, it's hard to look at Kansas' recruiting without seeing
the massive fingerprints that
Ritchie has left on the team.
I have to pay Ritchie a great
compliment; he has become
one of the best young recruiters in the country, coach Ritch
Price said of his son in a September news release. I honestly believe the 2015 class is
one of the best I have ever been
associated with in my 22 years
at the Division I level.
In 2013, Ritchie went out
of his way to recruit a player
who would go on to be a crucial player on the team's 2015
squad: now-sophomore shortstop Matt McLaughlin.
Last season, McLaughlin
had a batting average of .293,
which ranked fourth on the
team. McLaughlin also had
a fielding percentage of .947,
which placed him among the
top infielders on the team.
Ritchie flew to California
three separate times to watch
McLaughlin play and always
kept in contact with him,
which is one of the reasons the
shortstop is at Kansas today.
It was just the communication and the effort he put
in to come watch me play,
McLaughlin said of Ritchie's
recruiting tactics. He flew
down to San Diego twice to
see me play, [and] he flew in
to San Jose to watch me play.
The feeling of being wanted is
huge, obviously, rather than

just getting the routine emails

of, Hey, come to our camp.
Of the 35 active players on the
2015 roster, 28 of them or 80
percent are from outside the
state of Kansas. Each of those
are guys Ritchie and the rest
of the Kansas recruiting staff
had to leave the state of Kansas
and invest time and money in
order to recruit. Perhaps more
importantly, that's 80 percent
of the active roster that chose
to come to Kansas of all places.
We believe that Kansas is
a place that if we can get you
here to make the visit [...] show
you the campus, the University, the college town and the
facilities, Ritchie said. We've
got a really good chance to
land you.

Its completely evident how much better

our players have gotten since he joined our
staff, and I give him full
credit for that.
RITCH PRICE
Head Coach

Sometimes, the campus or

town isn't always enough to
fully land a player. The recruit needs to feel comfortable
and at home when visiting a
school. Ritchie has an unorthodox way of doing that, and it
starts in the clubhouse.
We feel like we have really
good kids on our team and a
really good clubhouse chemistry-wise, Ritchie said. "The
more that our recruits interact
with the entire team, the more
they'll feel the family atmosphere we have here at KU.
Another way Ritchie is a successful recruiter is how well he
can relate to players.
Ritchie began his collegiate
coaching career at South Dakota, where he had the title of
the youngest head coach at the
Division I level. He believes his
young age played an important
factor in the way he was able to
relate to the players.
I think the situation [being
the youngest head coach] was
good because I could really relate to them, Richie said about

his time at South Dakota. I

was able to sell the opportunity
to play for a young coach that's
going to be able to relate to you
and have fun. At a school that
didn't have a lot to sell to kids,
that was something that we
were really able to lean on.
When Ritchie made the decision to take the assistant
coaching job at Kansas in
2011, he continued to use his
young age to relate to players,
but he also was able to use the
fact that he was a former player for Kansas, graduating back
in 2007.
During his time as a player at
Kansas, Ritchie set 24 school
records, was a four-year starter at shortstop, where he was
named top shortstop in the
Big 12 in 2004, was honored
with the status of team captain
in both 2005 and 2006 and
helped lead Kansas to its first
Big 12 championship in program history.
McLaughlin explained how
much having Ritchie as a
coach helped him make the
transition onto the team in his
first season last year.
[Ritchie] was probably the
best shortstop that's ever
played here, McLaughlin said.
Playing shortstop for part of
the time last year and hopefully this next year, I would
try to pick his mind as best as
possible and try to do some of
the things that he did and how
he had so much success here.
I would ask him a lot of questions, and he would recognize
when players really want to get
better and, you know, he'll take
them under his wing and really
try to improve them.
Ritchie doesn't recruit just
anybody either. During his
time on staff at Kansas, he has
managed to sign three of the
top six prep players in the state
of Kansas and two of the top
five prep players in the state
of Nevada, including the No.
1 left-handed pitcher and the
No. 6 overall player. And that's
not including all the talent he
recruited from the rest of the
country in states such as California, Hawaii, Colorado and
Texas, to name a few.
While a lot of the time Ritchie
spends as a coach at Kansas
focuses on recruiting, he also
works heavily with the team's

offense and the team's infielders.

Ritchie finished his college
career with a batting average
of .305 and still holds the Kansas record for most career hits
(312). He uses the knowledge
he has to teach his players
some of the same techniques.
In 2014, Ritchie led the Jayhawk offense to a team batting
average of .283, which helped
the team reach the NCAA
tournament for the fifth time
in school history.
The 2015 Kansas baseball
team began its fall practices
on Sept. 22. Trying to move
forward from its disappointing 23-32 end to last season,
Kansas is looking forward to
this upcoming spring, where
coach Ritch will turn to Ritchie
to continue to work with the
players on getting to where
they need to be.
The team aims to get back to
the NCAA tournament, which
it fell short of last season. And
while that task may be tall,
Ritch seems to have full confidence in his son's ability to get
their players where they need
to be.
It's completely evident how
much better our players have
gotten since he joined our
staff, he said, and I give him
full credit for that.
Edited by Dani Malakoff

ZOE LARSON/KANSAN

Assistant coach and head of recruiting Ritchie Price.

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IN-CUETO-BLE:
Royals win 7-2
DAVE SKRETTA
Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Johnny Cueto delivered a masterpiece on his biggest stage yet,
pitching eight dominant innings Wednesday night and
leading the never-say-die Kansas City Royals to a 7-2 victory
over the Houston Astros and
back to the American League
Championship Series.
Cueto (1-0) allowed two hits, a
single by Evan Gattis followed
by Luis Valbuena's second-inning homer, before retiring
the final 19 batters he faced.
He struck out eight without a
walk in the kind of clutch performance the Royals expected

when they traded for him.

When Wade Davis breezed
through the ninth, the Royals
poured onto the field to celebrate.
The defending AL champs will
host the Toronto Blue Jays in
Game 1 on Friday night. The
teams have met once before in
the ALCS with the Royals winning in seven games in 1985
they would go on to beat the
St. Louis Cardinals for their
only World Series triumph.

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INVINCI8LE

No. 9 Kansas wins 18th in a row

MISSY MINEAR/KANSAN
Tayler Soucie cheers after a score on Sept. 23.

AMIE JUST
@Amie_Just

It wasnt easy, it wasnt pretty,

but No. 9 Kansas defeated Baylor in four sets (25-21, 13-25,
25-20, 25-17) to extend its undefeated streak to 18-0.
Kansas (18-0, 6-0 Big 12)
dropped just its fifth set of the
season in the win over Baylor
(13-6, 1-4). Kansas dropped
one set each against Arkansas,
Northern Colorado, Gonzaga

and Kansas State.

[We] didnt serve well, didnt
pass well, and a lot of that has
to do with your opponent,
coach Ray Bechard said in a
postgame interview. Baylor
played a high level match tonight.
Sophomore right side hitter
Kelsie Payne and sophomore
outside hitter Madison Rigdon
hammered out 13 kills apiece
to lead the Kansas offense.
Sophomore setter and reigning AVCA Player of the Week
Ainise Havili notched 34 as-

sists and 13 digs, marking her

sixth double-double of the
season.
The first set was one for the
ages. The score was deadlocked 13 times and the lead
alternated seven times. Kansas
won the set off a long attack attempt from Baylor.
The second set was a completely different story. The
Jayhawks and the Bears were
tied at five at one point, but the
Bears took it and never looked
back. Baylor ran away with the
set, giving Kansas its worst set

loss of the season, 13-25.

At the break, Bechard said he
told the team that Baylor outworked them in the first two
sets.
Our team takes that personal when we talk about other
people outworking us, Bechard said. We are committed to having a culture of hard
work. They were on our heels
the entire time that second set.
Thats a good wake-up call for
our team.
The third set was slightly
reminiscent of the first set, as it

was tied seven times throughout, but Kansas powered

through to take the two-set
lead. Senior outside hitter Tiana Dockery was a main factor
in closing out the final points,
as she and Janae Hall went up
for a block to give Kansas the
match point serve. A kill from
Dockery sealed the deal, giving the Jayhawks the 2-1 set
lead.
The fourth set was tighter,
but not as close as the first and
third. Kansas and Baylor were
tied early at nine points apiece,

but Kansas charged ahead,

winning five of the next six
points. Baylor couldnt recover
and Kansas ended the set, winning 25-17.
Next up for the Jayhawks is a
home match against the Oklahoma Sooners on Wednesday,
Oct. 21 at 6:30 p.m. Kansas
will shoot for 19-0 in the game
against the Sooners.
Edited by Leah Sitz

Womens basketball
picked to finish 10th in
the Big 12 Conference
DYLAN SHERWOOD
@dmantheman2011

After finishing ninth in the

Big 12 Conference last year, the
Kansas Jayhawks were picked
to finish 10th in the Big 12s
preseason poll released by the
conference on Wednesday.
The Jayhawks have not finished higher than sixth, which
they did during the 2011-12
season. Kansas finished ninth
in the Big 12 last season with
a 6-12 conference record, finishing one game ahead of Texas Tech and one game behind
both Kansas State and West
Virginia.
Baylor is picked to win the
conference, receiving eight
first-place votes, followed by
Texas and Oklahoma, each
receiving one first-place vote.
Iowa State comes in at number
four, followed by TCU, West
Virginia, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Kansas.
Coach Brandon Schneider
enters his first season at the
helm of the Jayhawks and
looks to rebuild the womens basketball program after
a successful five-year stint at
Stephen F. Austin, leading the
Ladyjacks to back-to-back
Southland Conference regular
season championships. Schneider knows how tough the Big
12 Conference is one of the
toughest womens basketball
conferences in the nation.
One thing Schneider mentioned at womens basketball
media day last Wednesday was
that a sophomore is basically a
veteran on his young team.
We have some veteran players that have really stepped
up and tried to demonstrate a
work ethic and an approach to
the process that we really like,
Schneider said.
When Schneider was hired
back in April, he knew he
had some work to do. He also
brought two Division-I transfers into the program in sopho-

more guard McKenzie Calvert

and junior guard Jessica Washington. With those two having
to sit out a year due to transfer rules, Schneider believes
Calvert and Washington can
help out his very young team.
They are ultra-confident,
and I dont think it hurts to
have that in your facility every
day because those are the caliber of players that were playing
against, Schneider said.
Schneider wanted his team
to play hard when he was introduced as coach in April.
The teams mantra all over the
womens basketball facilities is
Tough and Together, which
is what the team worked on in
September with strength and
conditioning coaches Andrea
Hudy and Glenn Cain.
For you to build that toughness and that togetherness,
then youve got to have some
built-in adversity, Schneider
said.
The team also had training
camp for a three-week period,
and Schneider said he thinks
they really came together
during that time.
Schneiders team welcomes
nine newcomers along with
six returners including sophomore guard Lauren Aldridge,
who was named to the All-Big
12 Freshman Team. Also returning are sophomore guard
Chayla Cheadle and sophomore forward Lorraine Enabulele, as well as junior guard
Timeka ONeal and junior forwards Jada Brown and Caelynn
Manning-Allen.
With the beginning of the
season right around the corner
in 17 days and Late Night behind them, the team is gearing
up for a long stretch of practices before its first exhibition
game against Pittsburg State at
2 p.m. on Nov. 1. at Allen Fieldhouse.
Edited by Rebecca Dowd

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Freshman quarterback Ryan Willis runs the ball against Baylor on Saturday, Oct. 10.

Freshmen Willis, Booker and Sims

give David Beaty glimpses of what
Kansas football could be someday
CHRISTIAN HARDY
@ByHardy

Kansas had already driven

23 yards down the field on its
opening drive against Baylor.
The Jayhawks were almost to
midfield not a bad start
against the No. 3 team in the
nation.
This is where drives had often stalled for coach David
Beatys offense in past games,
and it did on this drive too
for two downs, at least. It
was 3rd-and-17 when freshman quarterback Ryan Willis
showed exactly what Beaty
has raved about since camp:
his arm.
Willis completed a 22-yard
pass on the sideline to freshman wide receiver Jeremiah
Booker, then floated a pass
over the shoulder of freshman
wide receiver Steven Sims Jr.,
which hit him in stride.
Booker made his career first

catch, Sims caught his first

career touchdown and Willis
became the first true freshman quarterback to throw a
touchdown pass since Todd
Reesing did it in 2006. Call it
the freshman trio, if you will.
Theyre very confident,
those young guys, and I love
it, said offensive coordinator
Rob Likens. They watch film
and they go, Oh, I can beat
that guy. I can beat that guy.
Its very refreshing to watch
those guys.
If they can keep that, we
can build on that.
Ultimately, thats the goal
with the host of young guys
Kansas is putting on the
field right now get them
playing time and, hopefully,
confidence. Whether its by
choice or purely out of necessity, Beaty is getting plenty of
those guys face time early in
his tenure.
The team started six fresh-

men last week two were

redshirt freshmen. In all,
eight more non-starter freshmen got playing time for
Kansas.
You look out there at one
time, Likens said. I think
we had five true freshman out
there playing offense at one
point.
One of those freshmen was
Booker a 6-foot-2 receiver
out of College Station, Texas.
In the minds of Likens and
Beaty, it was only a matter of
time before Booker got some
field action, and they knew
that would come early in his
career. In fact, it came in his
first game as a starter. Booker
led the team with three catches for 39 yards.
We always thought after
a couple of days of practice,
Man, this guy is going to play
for us early, Likens said, referring to fall camp. He was
able to do that this Saturday,

and he looked good.

The number of days it took
Booker to break through
and start getting snaps with
the starters in camp could
be counted on a single hand.
Soon after, with the help of
what Beaty called a tireless
work ethic that dated back to
the weight room of Bookers
high school, he was an integral piece of the starting 11
before he was injured.
When he was ready to return to the field, the big-bodied, strong-handed wide receiver stood out as part of the
offense.
He kind of has it all, Likens
said. Sometimes freshmen
are a little squirrelly you
dont know exactly if they are
going to do the right things all
the time, but he does, because
he cares a lot.
One of the things we just
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