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When Morgan Merritt looks at her #exploreKU photo of the week she explains it as cap-turing “one of those moments.” The clouds were light and airy, the trees were bare and the brightness of the morning drew her to the window.

“I worked really hard to get here and have to continue to work hard to stay,” said Mer-ritt, a junior who works three jobs and is a full-time student from La Quinta, Calif. “Every once in a while I catch myself realizing where I am and how lucky I am to be here. It’s like everything I’ve gone through has been worth it. So captur-ing one little beautiful part of campus reminds me that I am here for a reason and to keep pushing on.”

Merritt is just one of many students who uses the #ex-ploreKU hashtag on social

media created by the Office of Marketing Communications for the school’s third social media “triathlon” last August, to encourage students, faculty and staff to share what they love about the University of Kansas.

For the triathlon, they were encouraged to post on Twit-ter: a haiku with the addition-al hashtag #hawKU, a picture posted from Instagram or a video posted from Vine. Priz-es included a University sports package, iPad, $200 gift cer-tificates for the KU Bookstore or Tech Shop and a luncheon with Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little.

“This is our third year doing this triathlon idea beginning in the fall semester. What we decided this year was that we wanted to perpetuate it beyond the two-week time frame,” said Justin Henning, associate director of interac-tive media for the Office of

Marketing Communications. “We added the #exploreKU hashtag as a way to actively engage with students and so they had some sort of enticing reason for them to tag KU in some sort of perpetual way as the year winds on.”

Now, #exploreKU is main-ly used by students, faculty, staff, alumni and prospective students who visit the Univer-sity. Usual posts include both written 140-character state-ments and pictures based on moments at the University, fa-vorite hangouts, candid beau-ty shots or interesting things happening around campus.

As a way to promote the hashtag, the Office of Market-ing Communications also fea-tures one #exploreKU photo of the week, which gets hand picked by their staff and post-ed on Sundays. Merritt’s photo was posted April 13.

“We try to look for, yes, a great photo, but we also like

people to explain what they’re doing,” Katie McCurry, digital strategist for the Office of Mar-keting Communications, said. “The more perspective you can give with your content, the greater other people are to connect with you.”

One night, Joey Beeler, who has used the #exploreKU hashtag a couple times was on his way home from the library, snapped a picture of what caught his eye.

“I like the photo because it reminds me of Friday night

football games,” said Beeler, a senior from Wichita. “I also thought it was cool that both the memorial Campanile and Memorial Stadium were lit up at night.”

Like Beeler, Connor Birzer, a freshman from Ellinwood, has also used the hashtag. Most of his posts have captured the campus foliage in full color.

“I like to see which #ex-ploreKU posts the Universi-ty reposts,” Birzer said. “It’s a great way to show how unique and beautiful of a campus we

have.” Next, the Office of Market-

ing Communications would like to see photos of students’ experiences in the classroom.

“There’re so many ideas of what a classroom is,” McCurry said. “I hope with the further use of the hashtag that we get research students showing their work in the field and in labs.”

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DUNCAN MCHENRY/KANSANThe Roasterie’s factory, located near downtown Kansas City, Mo., features a Douglas DC-3 cargo plane on its roof. The plane and its runway, which allude to the company’s signature air-roasting process, both light up after dark.

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Anyone who has bought a cup of coffee on campus has seen his name — even if they didn’t know it. Danny O’Neill, known as “the Bean Baron,” is the president and founder of Kansas City’s local air-roasted coffee producer: The Roasterie. The story of how he forged a love for coffee in 1978 by pick-ing beans at a coffee plantation as a study abroad student in Costa Rica is emblazoned on the side of all the University’s paper coffee cups.

What many may not know, however, is that O’Neill and The Roasterie, which he start-ed in his basement in the ear-ly ‘90s, have been partnered with the University from the very start. O’Neill’s first sales contract in 1993 was with the KU Medical Center, and The Roasterie has been the Law-rence campus’s coffee supplier since 1996.

In honor of this partner-ship, and in recognition of a recent donation of $22,000 to university partners in Febru-ary — with the University’s portion funding the annual Roasterie Retail Student Em-ployee Scholarship — the Uni-versity Daily Kansan met with O’Neill for an interview at The Roasterie headquarters. He discussed his company’s con-nection with the University and its business practices that have shaped coffee culture in Kansas City and the Midwest.

UDK: The Roasterie recently donated $22,000, which is dis-bursed between a few of your partner universities — includ-ing Kansas. What’s your moti-vation for doing that?

DO: I wouldn’t have gone to

school without Pell Grants, so we’re in a position where it’s just very important to me to give back. Not only do we not charge [a franchise fee], but we rebate back 3 percent. So if a café is doing $500,000 a year, that’s $15,000 that swing towards scholarships for students. We don’t have any strings on it other than that we say, if you ask us, we’d pre-fer you give it to kids who, but for this [scholarship], wouldn’t be able to go to school. We call it the “but for.” We’ve gotten dozens and dozens, if not hun-dreds, of letters over the years from students who’ve received those, and then hopefully they’ll do the same thing if they’re in that position. It’s very meaningful to me that we can do that. KU [Medical Center] was the first account for us, so we go back to literally day one. We have folks on the campus every week and I’m out there at least once a quarter if not more often. I love it. We have a great fanbase here in town and a lot of the fanbase is KU.

UDK: Growing up, what are your earliest memories of cof-fee, and how did your love for coffee begin?

DO: That’s a good question. I

don’t get asked that one much. The first one I can think of would be my mom had “cof-fees” back then. They called them “coffees.” It was usually women in the neighborhood where I grew up in a little town in Iowa. Vera Peterson, Mrs. Rules’ house — they would rotate and there would be a number of women having coffee and socializing; it was really cool. I remember stand-ing around the table in these different places and I would always smell the coffee. I don’t really remember drinking

it at that point. But then the first time I drank coffee, that I remember, was at a stock car race and it was really cold, on a Saturday night, so I got coffee. I think I was in third or fourth grade and I did not like it, but you can only imagine how bad it was. It was probably really cheap, nasty, percolated coffee. And then fast forward: I was a freshman in college, going through finals, I was a nervous wreck and I had let things go through the whole semes-ter to the last minute, [so] I drank a whole pot. I loved it.

I couldn’t sleep; I couldn’t sit still; I couldn’t study; but wow, I loved it. And I’ve been pretty much in that space ever since.

UDK: What was your experi-

ence like as a study abroad stu-dent in Costa Rica when you first picked coffee beans?

DO: When I went to Costa

Rica as a senior in high school I didn’t really drink coffee yet then, but I had grown up my whole life working on farms. So when my friends were going coffee picking and they asked

me, I said yeah. I just love farmers — people who have their hands in the dirt are just special people. It was transfor-mative, that whole experience, obviously. At the time I didn’t know why and I didn’t realize it; I wasn’t conscious of it. Of course, later, looking back, there’s this idealized memory of that coffee picking in that two to three weeks that I went, and it was just cool being up on top of the sunny mountain with all my high school friends

DUNCAN MCHENRY/KANSANDanny O’Neill, center, with barista Rebekah Albin and customer service representative Maya Greenwood, from left, at The Roasterie factory cafe. The Roasterie has been a coffee supplier to the University since 1993 and recently donated $22,000 to its college and university partners.

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What: Vigil for the Jewish Commu-nity CenterWhen: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.Where: Off Campus: Lawrence Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Dr.About: Members of various faith communities will gather and respond to the recent shooting in Overland Park with prayer, silence and song.

Climbing up the stairs in the Campanile is not for those weak of heart or suffering from claustrophobia. The spiral staircase is narrow and boxed in with concrete walls. The staircase ends at a tiny of-fice unknown to most except for the University’s carillo-nists.

A carillon is “an instrument that consists of at least 23 tuned bells,” said Professor Elizabeth Berghout, a class of 1997 alumna and the Uni-versity’s carillonist since 2000. “We actually have 53 bells.”

Though most people don’t know the carillons exist, they do know the history behind its iconic home. The idea of the Campanile was born in the 1940s after World War II. In 1950, the Campanile was erected as a dedication

to students and alumni who had played a part in the war. The bells, cast in England and brought to America on a ship, were installed a year later.

Though the bells are over sixty years old, they require little upkeep. When bells are cast at the foundry, they’re tuned for life. “They’re not tuned again unless there’s something really wrong with a bell,” Berghout said.

Part of Berghout’s job as car-illonist is to oversee the up-keep of the bells and, with the help of a technician, to keep them ringing.

Berghout was first intro-duced to the instrument as a child.

“When I was about 8 one of my mom’s piano students played the carillon at BYU,” she said. “Then I actually went to school at BYU and every hour the bells would chime, but I wasn’t interested

in learning to play it there.”When Berghout came to the

University of Kansas for her master’s degree in 1994, the bells were being renovated. After she attended a recital played by then carillonist Al-bert Girkin, her interest grew.

“I attended the rededication recital played by Albert Gir-kin and he gave tours,” Ber-ghout said. “I really enjoyed the recital, I loved the mellow sound of the bells. I came up on a tour and he showed us the practice room and we went upstairs and he played for us.”

Berghout took lessons from Girkin until he retired and she became the University’s caril-lonist.

As carillonist, Berghout doesn’t pull strings like a modern day Quasimodo; she sits at a keyboard, which is about six feet long and ar-ranged slightly like that of a

piano. “We play with our fist,”

she said. “The the keys kind of look like the end (sic) of broom handles.”

Carillonists play the bells by bouncing their fists upon the handles while also moving their feet.

“The carillon incorporates both your hands and both your feet,” said junior polit-ical science major Michael Lindgren. “For me it’s been a learning experience to coordi-nate the two.”

Lindgren plays the trumpet and has been playing the car-illon for four semesters. Lind-gren said he practices for two hours per week. He was first introduced to the instrument when his sister played it at the University of Michigan.

“I think a lot of people who play it are organ students,” he said. “I mostly take it for fun. The Campanile itself is such a

centerpiece to the University. It’s cool to say that I can go up and play the instrument.”

Lindgren is one of Bergh-out’s students. Berghout’s ap-proach to the class is different than most.

“We meet individually so it’s like a private lesson,” she said. “I meet with each of my stu-dents once a week and they have certain practice times.”

Once students have learned a piece, they get the opportu-nity to play it during recitals.

“I play most of the recitals then when a student is ready to perform something, they can participate in that recital,” Berghout said.

Recitals take place Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at noon.

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from Costa Rica; we were hav-ing so much fun. They joked that the amount of food I ate was worth more than what I made picking coffee. Every year I go back, my host moth-er reminds everybody of that fact.

UDK: You later founded The

Roasterie in your basement back in the ‘90s. What was it like starting your own busi-ness?

DO: There were a lot of big

companies, but there wasn’t really much of a local cul-ture to speak of. Even though some of us had a local attitude because I was born in Iowa and raised in a small town where, of course, you do ev-erything you can locally; it’s stupid not to. Some folks had to go away to college to learn that, but for us it was just baked in, I guess you could say. But there also weren’t that many coffee shops and people were just used to buying nasty coffee and having crappy cof-fee in restaurants, and so we really had to build it. It was

pretty much just me the first four months, although my dad came down from Iowa

to help me. But a typical day would be I’d get up at 7 a.m. and then go deliver every-thing I’d sold the day before and then I’d make sales calls until 5 or 6 p.m. Next, I’d go home and start roasting and packing and I’d do that until about 4 in the morning then get back up at 7. On Saturdays I would do demos in the gro-cery stores and then on Sun-days we’d do charity events handing out cups of coffee, you know — we did that for about a year and a half.

UDK: The Roasterie sources

coffee directly from farmers who grow the beans. How are you able to make that a profit-able business model?

DO: Most [farmers] we deal

with are an average of about two acres. So we’ll typical-ly have multiple farmers we work with in the same micro-climate. They want to mitigate as much of that risk as they can. So we can say, “Hey, we’ll buy this coffee this year for $2 or $3 a pound, and we’ll take

it for two years at $3.” If that’s the case, they can plan then; they can take care of their people. They can offer health-care if they need to and want to; they can offer benefits and take so much better care of their plants. They don’t have to worry about if the market goes south — they’re covered.

We [also] try to be non im-perialistic about it, so we don’t say, “Gee, I like you, I’m going to build you a statue, or I’m going to build you a road.” And the typical person is go-ing to be so nice they’re going to think, “Well, I don’t need a statue or a road, what I really need is a daycare,” or “What I really need is a school.” So we say, “What needs do you guys have?” In Costa Rica it was preschool, in Brazil it was a school, in Colombia it was a community daycare center, so we take a little bit of the money from what we buy and we rebate it back. In that way, for us, it’s more sustain-able because they don’t just say, “Some rich Gringo sent in a check.” That’s not sustain-able; I’m going to get hit by a truck and I’m going to end up with needs of my own. So, in

a perfect world, [the growers] think, “Our coffee is so high quality, and this company, The Roasterie, is buying it, and they’re being able to pay more because they can sell it for more because it’s so high quality and they send some of that back.” As long as we can continue to produce this ex-traordinary high quality then we can keep the partnership going. It’s been working now for 15 years in one case and 16 years in another case.

UDK: What’s next for The

Roasterie? DO: I can’t give away what

we’re going to do, but I’d say if you look at our plane out there and if you think, “What would they do if they were going to do a drive thru?” It’s going to be pretty different and radical. I hope before fall starts that we’ll have one up and open and if that works out we’ll do a bunch more. And then we’ll continue to grow outside of Kansas City in concentric circles.

UDK: What advice might you

give to KU students who want

to start their own business like you did?

DO: Love serving others

in whatever capacity it is, whether it’s a camera shop, a craft brewery, whatever it is. I knew the owners of Wheat-fields [bakery] in Lawrence and they both loved baking bread and serving, and here they are 25 years later and still going strong. If they were do-ing it for a buck there they’d have been out of business a long time ago. So I think if you have this passion and you just work unbelievably flippin’ hard, maybe you’ll be suc-cessful — no guarantees. And then if you are successful and you have a high quality prod-uct then the financial rewards will follow, but it’s got to be in that order. There’s a saying that, “The marketplace has no grace.” I don’t care who you are, how nice you are or what you do, there just is not much grace in the marketplace, so you’ve really got to earn it.


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On a walk to the Lawrence Farmers Market, you’re sur-rounded by art. There’s a statue on a street corner and a mu-sician playing guitar outside a local business. Once you arrive at the Mar-

ket, you find more local musi-cians, people gathered around booths to buy produce and a giant mural where art and community merge together.A quote by Kansas poet

Gwendolyn Brooks hovers above the scenery as if mark-ing a community creed: “We are each other’s harvest, we are each other’s business, we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” Lawrence resident Dave Loe-

wenstein is a nationally recog-nized muralist and argues that art is integral to any communi-ty’s identity. “The stories and voices that

we see represented around us in our town say a lot about who we are and what we val-ue,” Loewenstein said. Recently, the Lawrence art

community caught the at-tention of the Lawrence City Commission. A local develop-ment project led by Lawrence businessmen Doug Compton and Mike Treanor was set to encroach on the community mural that has become a part of the Market. The “Pollina-tors” mural, located at 9th and New Hampshire, was in the way of progress. Loewenstein and a group of

community members creat-ed the mural in 2007 with the help of the Spencer Museum of Art, which commissioned the project to honor Aaron Douglas. Douglas was an Af-rican-American painter from Topeka, who made a major contribution to the Harlem

Renaissance.When it became clear the ho-

tel and underground parking lot development project would require the building “Pollina-tors” rests on to be torn down, Loewenstein and Susan Ear-le from the Spencer started working to save it. For the past 18 months Loe-

wenstein, Earle and others have been fighting to preserve the mural. “They genuinely appreciated

us giving them the history,” Earle said of the developers. Loewenstein felt it was im-

portant to receive input from stakeholders, including the people who created the mural and people from the neigh-borhood where the mural is located.“He [Loewenstein] has been

really steadfast and creative and flexible, which has been a huge help to us,” Earle said. The parties developed three

options for the mural: preserve the existing mural, move the mural to an alternate location or recreate the mural in part-

nership with the development project. After discussing the options

with various groups and or-ganizations, Loewenstein and representatives from the Spen-cer crafted a proposal to pres-ent to the Commission earlier this month. “People wanted to see this

mural in some form exist in

this place,” Loewenstein said. “It wasn’t good enough to have it moved somewhere else or recreated somewhere else.” Because of the value of hav-

ing “Pollinators” in the present location, the proposal sought to work with the developer to recreate the mural instead of attempting to move it to an-

other location. Although the City of Law-

rence doesn’t have a direct say in what happens to the mural, the Commission voted on whether or not to provide up to $24.5 million in bonds to the development project. According to the Lawrence Journal-World, the developers have agreed to provide $20,000

to the mural project, which is estimated to cost $50,000. “Because the Commission

was going to vote on whether or not they got this tax break — public money — they saw it in their interest to also ad-dress this issue that was in the public’s interest,” Loewenstein said.

This particular problem re-flects a broader issue — bal-ancing economic development and community values — that art communities struggle with every day across the country.“It’s extraordinarily rare to

hear a city council or city com-mission spend so much time talking about community art,” Loewenstein said. Loewenstein said the time

spent on this issue speaks well to the future of how the city engages with these issues of art and culture. In fact, a recent job posting by the City sug-gests that art and culture will be a part of the conversation more frequently in the future. The new director of art and

culture will, according to the job listing, “Work with various arts and cultural institutions, organizations, creative busi-nesses and individuals in Law-rence to enhance collaboration and collaborative activities.”Diane Stoddard, assistant

city manager, said Lawrence is known for its art and culture, and the City recognizes how

art and culture increases qual-ity of life among local citizens. “This position will be in-

volved a lot in trying to foster collaborative efforts amongst organizations and artists,” Stoddard said. While the future of the “Pol-

linators” mural hinges on an agreement between the Spen-cer, the developers and the art-ist, the process has allowed a relationship to bloom between the City, the art community and local developers. Earle sees the process as a

victory for all involved with the mural, as well as the Law-rence community as a whole. “All the parties involved are

committed now to recreating it,” Earle said.

Klein is a reporter for the KU Wire Service.

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KAITLYN KLEIN/KANSANLocals browse the Lawrence Farmers Market in front of the “Pollinators” mural. The City of Lawrence, the art community and developers are working together to preserve the artwork.

““The stories and voices that we see represented around us in our town say a lot about who we are and what we value.”

DAVE LOEWENSTEINMuralist

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, recently released

its “Fifth Assessment Report,” the AR5. If you still haven’t read the titanic, 1,535-page report written by hundreds of scientists from various disciplines, I don’t blame you. The IPCC has for more than two decades now attempted to sound the climate change alarm, and this is the fifth iteration. If you want further exposure to climate change false alarms that stink of liberal biases, try reading the AR4, which was released in 2007.

When you hear an alarm, you’re trained to react. Fire alarm? Leave the building. But this climate change alarm, the AR5, is one that you should ignore. In fact, Robert Tol, one of only three economists that contributed to the AR5, withdrew from the final draft, claiming that the report had become “too alarmist.” Truthfully, politicians and pundits, liberal to conservative, ignore most of the report and tend to focus on a 28-page “Summary for Policymakers.”

It’s more of a liberal soapbox than a summary. The Wall Street Journal, straight from the AR5, gives the following example: “Recognizing how inequality and marginalization perpetuate poverty is a prerequisite for climate-resilient development pathways.” The IPCC goes on later to say that investment in “developing countries” must increase by “orders of magnitude.”

That’s right — to fight this climate change monster, the IPCC is taking the fight to poverty and inequality in developing countries first.

These endless political agendas mark the IPCC. If you take the liberal-spin off of the IPCC assertion, it would look like this: Improving a nation’s economy will lead to improvements in its ability to combat climate change. But the carbon taxes, intensified regulatory scrutiny and continued waves of climate activism the IPCC hopes to inspire damage the very economic growth that is absolutely critical to protecting the environment, while also confusing the public.

As the Wall Street Journal aptly puts it, “the IPCC supports the very

regulation, income redistribution and politically favored misallocation of resources that will make the world poorer — and less able to adapt if the climate threat proves to be as real as the U.N.’s computer models claim.”

Although government intervention has changed water quality, smog problems and other environmental issues for the better, climate change is not the same issue. Rather, it reeks of Malthusian error. As Matt Ridley, author of “The Rational Optimist,” asserted in the New York Times, climate change alarmism is more similar to other exaggerated global environmental scares of the past half century, like killer bees. The problem is not as extreme as the alarmists argue, but only after waves of international funds line the coffers of climate scientists will everyone quietly converge on a more moderate position.

Sadly, what determines which side — the lukewarmers like myself who don’t deny climate change, but are sick of the doom and gloom, and the alarmists who think the Earth is being poisoned — will get to say “I told you so,” is driven by perception rather than fact. The IPCC knows that.

Don’t get swept up in the climate change hoopla, especially in a liberal environment like Lawrence. Finish your engineering degree and make the next generation battery. Study business and find ways to make green energy more economic. Get involved in tangible environmental issues, like the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer. But don’t waste your time sounding the climate change alarm.

Chris Ouyang is a senior from Overland Park studying petroleum

engineering and economics.

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BINS AT THE ENVIRONMENTAL ENERGY CONFERENCE?!!!

That moment when you think you don’t need a knife to cut your pancake. Then, you remember

you’re at Es.

Thursday’s paper got me so excited for Wednesday Aug 28th 2019, I am going to jump in my freezer someone thaw me on like the

Monday before.

The Daisy Hill bus drivers hit the brakes just to watch all of the

freshmen fall over. Like dominoes.

The UDK being in black and white today makes my heart cry.

THE PHAAAAANTOM OF THE FIELDHOUSE IS THERE.... INSIDE

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Dead random girl, why are youin the library playing candy

crush at midnight?

A Nerdfighter is someone who is made purely of awesome and fights to decrease World Suck.Look up the vlogbrothers on

YouTube for more info.

The only thing my girlfriend does when she is stressed is play 2048.

I don’t know how we’d still be together without that game.

Nutella is life. Life is Nutella.

Believe it or not, eating during lecture is legitimately rude and distracting. I’m looking at you,

BIOL 412.

Downloading 2048 was probably the worst decision I’ve ever made in my life. I am now seeing it in every day situations on campus.

Any guy that likes Disneymovies is a keeper.

To the guy with the adorable dog in front of Wescoe, thank you.

I needed that.

With technology being so advanced you would think that they could increase the character limit on

text messages.

Just heard a tour guide call Haworth hall. Ha worth. It’s a long

a. Not a short one. Who trains these guys?

Editor’s Note: The Haworth family asked the tour guides to say it that way (since that’s how the name is pronounced). Most people actually say the building name incorrectly.

I want to have a huge Earth Day party. Does anybody want to help

me planet?

There are open parking spaceson daisy hill. I think I’m in the

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UN group sounds another climate change false alarm

When Nicolaus Copernicus first suggested that the Earth was not stationary,

but revolved around the sun, his idea was met with disdain. Today, we view Copernicus as a forefather of the Scientific Revolution and a saint of controversial science. His ideas ushered in not only a great change in astronomy, but also a great change in our understanding of our place on Earth.

The latest International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “Fifth Assessment Report” has been met with similar misunderstanding. In my opinion, the IPCC report should usher in a great change in policy and a greater understanding of our individual role in the largest problem facing the 21st century: climate change.

The IPCC consists of thousands of scientists from 195 different countries and was established in 1988 by the United Nations Environmental Programme and the World Meteorological Organization. During the last year, the IPCC released its latest report on climate change in three parts. The latest section, titled mitigation of climate change, was released in late March.

The third report’s message was clear: We have until 2030 to more aggressively pursue greenhouse gas (GHG) emission mitigation before our world will be unmistakably altered due to drastic temperature increases.

The science in the latest report makes it very clear that humans are responsible for an unprecedented increase in GHG emissions. In fact, the IPCC says with high confidence that rising emissions across all sectors since 2010 are due to increased economic growth. With similar confidence, the report indicates that emissions will continue to rise in the face of continued population and economic growth without implementation of GHG mitigation. This drastic upset in the balance of atmospheric carbon will cause global temperatures to rise between 38.6 and 40.6 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100 compared to pre-industrial times.

The IPCC believes this drastic increase in temperature will cause many reasons for concern, including the following harrowing examples. First, coastal communities are at risk of illness, injury and death due to

flooding and storm surges. Second, extreme weather events will breakdown infrastructure networks that deliver electricity, water and health and emergency services. Third, a high likelihood of an agricultural breakdown from water shortages will cause widespread food insecurity.

In addition to presenting extensive data on the science and outcomes of climate change, the latest IPCC report provides mitigation strategies. In order to keep our planet from warming 35.6 degrees by 2100, we must keep our atmospheric carbon content at 450 parts per million. This can be achieved by lowering our carbon emission 40-70 percent from 2010 levels through implementation of a strict carbon tax, creation of sustainable urban development, increased infrastructure and energy efficiency and modification of individual consumption behaviors.

As was true in the times of Copernicus, science can be a polarizing force that cripples reasonable action, but in the case of climate change, the cost of inaction will be far greater than the immediate costs of GHG mitigation. If we do not adopt stronger mitigation strategies by 2030, our world will continue on its doomsday trajectory. We must ask ourselves whether we want to pay higher prices for energy now or suffer food shortages, biodiversity loss, public health problems from disease and a legacy of environmental degradation in the near future.

We must take the concept of cost effectiveness out of mitigation dialogue because human life, future human life and the environment cannot be monetized. The science does not lie: If we ignore the latest IPCC report, our children and our world will pay the price for our inaction.

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careful, and do the basic work. Review, regroup and stay grounded. Focus on

deep breathing to counter stress.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is a 5

Setting priorities becomes newly important with unexpected circum-

stances. Hold onto your valuables and plan your next move. Tardiness will be noticed. Face to face works best. Enjoy

the social buzz. Friends are dealing with changes.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Today is a 5

You have more to manage at home than you may realize. It's not a good time to travel. Circumstances have

changed and it works out for the bet-ter. There may be temporary confusion.

Don't throw your money around.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Today is a 5

You may discover breakdowns with a partnership. Postpone expansion

and travel for now. Others vie for your attention. Travel to an alternative work environment. Accept support from your team. Take it slow and speak clearly.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 5

Don't try a new idea yet. Lay low and keep your head down. Breakdowns

in an alliance distract. Stay close to home and handle deadlines and ur-

gencies. Avoid expensive suggestions. Make repairs, clarify miscommuni-cations or mollify someone's hurt

feelings.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 5

Stand up for your commitments. Add spice. It could get fun if you view it as a game. Avoid an intense argument by refusing to get hooked. Others rely on

you. Huddle with family and make sure everyone's cared for, fed and tucked

into bed.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 5

Things don't go according to plan, but having a plan sure helps. Maintain

objectivity and adapt to changing circumstances. Slow down to avoid

mistakes or accidents. Clarify commu-nications and correct misunderstand-ings as they occur. Obstacles arise.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is a 5

Watch your stinger... someone could get hurt. Practice restraint. Listen to a loved one's considerations. Hold onto your money. Don't make promises you won't keep. Respectfully decline. Take it slow and easy, tackling urgencies and otherwise recharging batteries

at home.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is a 5

The momentum short-circuits and you discover a dead end. Curtail

your enthusiasm. Don't fall for an expensive trick. An uncomfortable

situation spurs you to action. Postpone a long-distance conversation. Declare breakdowns, stay in communication

and reschedule.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is a 6

Friends help you advance. Exceptional patience is required. A theory doesn't

pan out. Go beyond the minimum required. Consider the consequences

of the words you speak. You get to choose your own perspective, your own self-image. Ignore that mean voice in your head. Relax and breathe deeply.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 5

Don't over-extend or push yourself too hard. Support (and be supported

by) your friends. Collaborate with responsibilities. Make your place more

comfortable, instead of traveling. Don't repeat a mistake... it would get

expensive. Stick to your budget. Insight arises in the most unusual places.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is a 5

With the support of your friends, you can get through anything. Stash valu-ables in a safe place. Keep a positive view and move forward one step at a time. Progress could seem stopped,

blocked or impeded. Obstacles require re-routing from the expected course.

Stay flexible and adapt.

Because the starsknow things we don’t.

Who wouldn’t want a lifestyle of fishing and brawling

by summer and sleeping by winter? Disney's “Bears” does an excellent job of telling the story of the lifestyles, habitats and habits of a pack of bears on the Alaskan Peninsula. We learn a little bit about the bears’ social and hierarchal systems, watch them forage and hunt for food and see a couple of really great bear fights.

The bulk of the movie follows a young mother bear, Sky, and her two cubs, Scout and Amber. The movie begins as they emerge from their hibernation hole super high up on a snowy mountain. It’s Scout and Amber’s first time outdoors, so they have a tough time keeping up with their quick-walking mama. Sky’s mission is to lead the cubs to a meadow that is home to several other bears. Once they arrive at the meadow, the cubs are introduced to a sleuth of bears. Some are nice, some are mean, some are cuddly. But none of them escape the watchful eye of the big-dad-dy Magnus, who serves as the group’s scary leader. After some meandering and time-killing at the meadow, the bears move on in search of salmon, which appears to be their favorite food. Sky and the cubs are in tow, of course. They finally arrive at a salm-on-rich coastline somewhere and the feast begins.

Sky is not the strongest bear on the planet, however, and because she must always

keep an eye out for the cubs, it’s tough for her to hunt and leave them alone and vulnera-ble around the other bears — some of whom are apparently cannibals. Also, a seedy wolf has been stalking the cubs this whole time.

Because of the danger, Sky takes the cubs in search of a pool of water high in the mountains, where the salmon swim upstream to lay their eggs. The pool would be a prime spot for the trio because they can fatten up as much as they want with little interference. When they reach the pool, they find other bears have already staked out the pool, but fortunately there’s enough salmon to go around. After presumably spending weeks cramming salmon down their gullets, the bears are fat enough to survive the next winter. Then the film ends. Spoiler alert. There’s re-ally nothing to spoil, the quest is worth taking whether you know what happens or not.

“Bears” is riddled with inter-esting bear facts and eye-pop-ping scenery from the rarely seen Alaskan Peninsula. There is at least one cool time-lapse

and plenty of close-up bear shots. Overall, it has really impressive camera work.

There is one thing you must know, however. The movie is HEAVILY geared toward very young children. There’s nothing terribly sophisticated about this one. It’s narrated by John C. Reilly — bizarre choice — in a very childish manner. Despite the childish-ness, it’s still really interesting to watch.

I personally recommend this movie to young kids, outdoorsmen and bear lovers. If you’re a salmon enthusiast, skip this one. Your heart will break.


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Whoopi Goldberg plays dying matriarch in movie

"Dying matriarch" might not sound like a dream role for an ac-tress in her 50s, but Whoopi Gold-berg's not complaining.

"The View" co-host stars in Lifetime's adaptation of Terry Mc-Millan's "A Day Late and a Dollar Short," in which she's playing Viola Price, who, on learning that her next asthma attack will prob-ably be her last, decides that it's time to straighten out her muddled family, which includes a straying husband (Ving Rhames) and their four grown children.

"Matriarchs agewise have shifted so much," said Goldberg, 58.

"People are parents in their 20s, people are parents in their 50s," she said. "I mean, it's crazy. So, the idea that your child, or the person who's playing your child, had to be so much younger than you — well, if you got married at 18, your kids are grown."

And the dying part's OK, too."I've died before. I died in anoth-

er Terry McMillan (project). I died in 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back.'

"They're always killing me off," she said, laughing.

The actress, who has one daugh-ter, three grandchildren and be-came a great-grandmother last month, has different ideas about how she'd handle a prognosis like Viola's.

"If I got a diagnosis like that —my family knows this — my plan is to head to Greece, because that's where I want to go to die," she said.

They won't need her to stay home to straighten them out?

"I say, 'I'm going to Greece,' they all pack and come. There's no go-ing off on a mountaintop. The en-tire brood is going to be there."

Outspoken as she is herself, Goldberg said that she feels "bad for folks like Viola, who realize at that point that she needs to get them in order, who's not kind of been as present as she could be."

Viola let things slide "because she didn't want to know. She didn't want to hear it. She didn't want to get in the way. But she did want to get in the way," said the actress, who admitted that she finds the

character "annoying.""If your kids are going through

that kind of thing and then you de-cide to get in the middle of it and then you don't tell them what's going on, oh — ouch," she said, sounding exasperated.

"But I think it's in a funny way a cautionary tale. You see stuff that needs to be done, you better do your maintenance, because you don't know what is going to hap-pen in the future. You never know."

Though she's part of the EGOT club, having won two daytime Em-mys and a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony, Goldberg, who's also an ex-ecutive producer on "A Day Late," insists, "I don't get a lot of offers at all. I go looking for stuff that I'm interested in."

And with a daily platform on ABC's "The View," she doesn't keep her interests to herself.

So, when I asked her, picking randomly from her recent resume, how she came to be the voice of Mrs. Rabbit on ABC's "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland," she replied, "Well, everyone knows I'm a fairy tale and gnome and, you know, unicorn (fan). I believe in all of that.”

She's also a sucker for the Mup-pets, working with them on several occasions and playing herself in the 2011 film "The Muppets."

"I'll do voices sometimes for my friend Seth Green (of "Robot Chicken"), or I'll do something for some Russian animation that's happening, because they know I'm obsessed. I love it. I love puppets. It's all the things I grew up with. So if they're making a Muppet movie and I'm free, I'm bogarting myself in there."

For "Muppets Most Wanted" she wasn't free, alas. "But I'm in the 'Ninja Turtle' movie," she said, adding, "I'm not a turtle."

"It's like this," she said of her work ethic, "if you don't marry well, you have to keep working. And I never married well. I married often (three times), but I never married well."

Plus, staying home would "drive me crazy."

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Following Vollmer’s win, sophomore Tianna Valentine used a heavy tailwind to her advantage in the 100 meters, running a personal best 11.33 to blow away the competition and give the Jayhawks their third-straight event victory on Saturday afternoon. The time not only earned her the victo-ry, but it placed her in the top 10 of 100 meters performers in University history.

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turned in a 17:11.88 in the 5,000 meters to give her the victory in her very first race as a Jayhawk.

The Jayhawks also saw a pair of event victories on the field. The first of these came on Thursday in the women’s ham-mer throw competition. Soph-omore Daina Levy was able to hit a high mark of 60.14 me-ters to grab the event title. Two days later, on Saturday, sopho-more Sydney Conley gave the Jayhawks their second field event victory in the long jump, recording a personal best 6.50 meter-mark that put her at third in the NCAA standings.

The Jayhawks also dominated the team events over the week-end, winning five of the eight relay events. These victories

came in the men and wom-en’s distance medley relay, the men and women’s 4x100 meter relay and the women’s 4x400 meter relay.

Overall, this year’s Kansas Relays was a big success for the Jayhawks. Not only did they claim numerous victories in all facets of the track and field events that took place, but they gave the thousands of fans that came out to Rock Chalk Park a good introduction to the new home of University track and field.


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Dom Dwyer netted two goals on Saturday night as Sporting Kansas City defeated Montreal Impact 4-0 at Sporting Park.

Dwyer scored twice in twelve minutes, extending a late 2-0 lead into a four score routing.

He found the net in the 74th and 86th minutes.

"Sorry, but he was a pain in the ass for their defenders," said Sporting coach Peter Ver-mes. "They were having a hard time with him [tonight]."

Montreal Impact opened the scoring with an own-goal in

the 30th minute. Sporting's Matt Besler, throwing-in from the left sideline near the Im-pact penalty box, employed his signature long throw toward the box, which was headed by Calum Mallace over his keep-er's head and into the net. The faulty header was affected by a mid-air collision with Sport-ing's Aurélien Collin who was battling Mallace for the header.

Collin got his name on the scoresheet in the 71st minute with a low kick from outside the box, slotting it past Im-pact's goalkeeper Troy Perkins for a 2-0 lead. The lead set the stage for Dwyer to swipe a late brace in 12 minutes, put-ting the game out of reach for Montreal.

The win puts Sporting (3-1-2) into a tie for first place in the Eastern Conference. They resume play next weekend against New England Revolu-tion (2-3-2), who played to a 1-1 draw on Saturday.

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The Jayhawks had nothing to celebrate on their four-hour drive back from Stillwater, Okla., Sunday evening. Kansas traveled to Oklahoma State to play a three game conference series over the weekend.

Kansas came into the series with a 23-16 record and were 6-6 in conference play. The Jayhawks left Stillwater 23-19 with a 6-9 conference record.

The Jayhawks’ bats were stymied in the series opener as they fell to the Cowboys 7-0. The Cowboys’ Jon Perrin threw a complete game shut-out, allowing only six hits and striking out nine Kansas bat-ters.

Senior right-handed pitch-er Jordan Piché had another rough outing on the mound, allowing six earned runs on 10 hits through six innings. Piché fell to 4-5 on the sea-son and has a 6.34 ERA. The former closer has struggled in his three starts this season, allowing 17 runs in 17 innings pitched.

Sophomore first baseman Ryan Pidhaichuk had the only multi-hit game for the Jay-hawks. Pidhaichuk is batting .277 on the season in 47 at bats.

Kansas saw a late lead slip away in the second game of the series as they gave up three runs in the bottom half of the eighth inning to lose 5-3. Freshman right-hander Ste-phen Villines suffered his first loss of the season thanks to a few untimely errors.

Junior third baseman Aaron Hernandez threw a routine ground ball away, which put a

runner on second base. Cow-boys’ second baseman Tim Arakawa followed up with a two-run homerun to give the Cowboys the lead.

Junior right-handed pitcher Robert Kahana was efficient through 5.1 innings, but had to be taken out because of a high pitch count. Kahana let up one run on six hits while striking out one. Junior designated hitter Dakota Smith went 2-4 with a run scored in the losing effort.

The Cowboys completed the sweep Sunday afternoon with a 6-3 victory over the Jay-hawks. Senior Frank Duncan had his worst start since the his first outing of the season, allowing six earned runs to score through seven innings of work.

Oklahoma State used four pitchers to defeat the Jayhawks with Blake Battenfield picking up his second win of the sea-son. Battenfield went 3.1 in-nings strong allowing only one run on five hits.

Senior outfielder Tucker Tharp belted a two-run homer-un in the top half of the second inning. This was Tharp’s fifth home run of the season, put-ting him fifth amongst the Big 12 leaders.

The Jayhawks are now three games under .500 in confer-ence play and have a lot of work to do if they want to find themselves in the Big 12 cham-pionship game again.

Kansas plays Missouri State in a mid-week contest Wednesday and will host Bay-lor at Hoglund Park this week-end.

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There’s a rivalry coming to the University of Kansas. One that began

only a few years ago, but is already fierce.

Like most, it’s a rivalry rooted in pride, each side believing they are the most righteous and willing to do whatever it takes to prove it. And although Cliff Alexander and Jahlil Okafor are carrying the same expectations as they enter college for what will likely be one year, they’ll be measured against each other for as long as they play.

Kansas will just be a small part of that.

Let’s rewind for a second just to make sure you can under-stand who Cliff Alexander is.

Alexander is a 6-foot-9-inch, 240-pound McDonald’s All-American power forward from Curie Metropolitan High School in Chicago who was voted the Naismith Prep Player of the Year. As of early November, he is also one of the latest additions to the Jay-hawks. And for whatever it’s worth, he’s a top five recruit from this year’s class and a lottery pick in most 2015 mock drafts.

Unofficially, Alexander led Curie to a city title with 24 victories. Yet, Curie’s roster featured a few academically ineligible players and the

school was forced to forfeit its season.

As far as big men go, Alexander appears to be a prototypical Bill Self player: a raw athlete with a big frame and natural talent. And in any other year the recently named Mr. Basketball USA — the first Chicagoan to hold the title since Kevin Garnett in 1995 — would be the king of his sport in his hometown. Of course, that wouldn’t be fair to Jahlil Okafor.

Eight miles from where Alexander was tearing down rims at Curie, Okafor was put-ting on a similar performance at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School.

Okafor is a McDonald’s All-American, Illinois Mr. Basketball and owns a state championship ring.

The line between Alexander and Okafor may as well come down to a matter of opinion. Very rarely is one talked about in Chicago without mentioning the other, but in late March, David Haugh of

the Chicago Tribune called Okafor, “Chicago’s next great basketball ambassador,” following in the footsteps of Derrick Rose, Anthony Davis and Jabari Parker.

He just as easily could’ve given that distinction to Alex-ander, but that doesn’t mean he can’t steal it away.

Don’t get this twisted either. Just because the two have a fierce rivalry doesn’t mean they aren’t friendly. Haugh reported that Okafor and Al-exander often send Snapchats to each other.

Still, that desire to be Chi-cago’s best is getting set to move to the college stage. For Alexander that’ll be at Kansas — more than likely replacing Joel Embiid — while Okafor heads off to Duke.

After battling each other for the last four years, the two won’t play each other before reaching the NBA, unless something magical happens next March.

If that game does happen, this one will be more than Jayhawks versus Blue Devils.

No, this will be personal. And it will only be a chapter in a rivalry that won’t be fad-ing anytime soon.


By Blake [email protected]

Chicago players’ rivalry continues after high school

COLUMNSOFTBALLKansas falls to Texas Tech in weekend series

The Jayhawks battled through close games this weekend in the homestand series against Texas Tech, but failed to come up with a victory.

In the first matchup on Thurs-day, Texas Tech pulled an early 3-0 lead over the Jayhawks. Kan-sas came running back, narrow-ing the Red Raider lead to 3-2. That was the closest the Jayhawks

would come in that game. Every time Kansas would score, the Red Raiders would be one step ahead. Texas Tech took the game 7-5.

On Friday, the Red Raiders needed extra time to pull off the win. In the seventh inning, Texas Tech rallied from one run down to take the game to extra innings. The team’s hot streak continued well into the ninth, beating the Jayhawks 9-7.

The third game on Saturday was a pitching duel between

Kansas junior pitcher Alicia Pille and Texas Tech sophomore pitcher Gretchen Aucoin. Both pitchers allowed three hits and struck out seven batters. The difference was Texas Tech’s freshman infielder Cassie McClure. McClure hit a homerun in the fourth inning, the lone run of the game.

Kansas suits up again April 25. The Jayhawks travel to Waco, Tex-as, to take on the Baylor Bears.

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““We have a plan. We’re going to stick to it; we’re going to execute it and we’re going to be very selective in free agency and we’re going to build the foundation of this club through the draft.”— John Dorsey on Chiefs’ offseason

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?TRIVIA OF THE DAY

THE MORNING BREW

Q: What NFL team did John Dorsey serve as the director of football operations for?

A: Green Bay Packers— KCChiefs.com

!FACT OF THE DAYThe Kansas City Chiefs lost 60 percent of their starting offensive line 66 minutes into free agency.

— ESPN.com

2014 season doesn’t look promising for Chiefs

QUOTE OF THE DAY

After an uplifting 11-win season from the Kansas City Chiefs in 2013, the team’s offseason

activity, or lack for thereof, shows no sign of promise this year.

The Chiefs lost eight starters on of-fense, defense and special teams so far in free agency. Two Pro Bowlers are included among the eight the Chiefs were unable to retain.

To this date, Chiefs General Manager John Dorsey has been unsuccessful in bringing in new starters to the team.

If you are expecting another dou-ble-digit winning season from the Chiefs in 2014 during Andy Reid’s second year as the coach of the fran-chise, you will be expecting too much.

The Chiefs have plenty of voids that need to be filled. The offensive line is missing three starters while losing three starters on defense. When it comes to special teams, Pro Bowl returner Dexter McCluster and Quintin Demps both made some noise last season. However, neither were retained and have moved on

somewhere else.During Dorsey’s first year as the gen-

eral manager, he won fans over when he traded for quarterback Alex Smith and remained busy throughout the offseason. Dorsey built a team with eight new starters going into the 2013 season. Kansas City’s success eventu-ally translated into the team sending 10 players to the Pro Bowl.

To go from adding eight new offen-sive starters to a dreary offseason so far in 2014 has dispirited many Chiefs fans. Although the draft has yet to come, there is no sign the Chiefs will fill all of their holes through the draft with only six picks as the team is with-

out a second-round selection due to trading for Smith last year.

The closest thing Dorsey and his staff have done to adding a key player was reaching out to wide receiver DeSean Jackson after his release with the Phila-delphia Eagles.

Dorsey knows the Chiefs have plenty of room to im-prove, which forces him to be active in the offseason in order to make the team better.

After starting 9-0 last season, the Chiefs went 2-5 to finish the regular season and utterly struggled to hold on to a 28-point lead in the postsea-son loss to Indianapolis.

The Denver Broncos, who fell in the Super Bowl, have added more power to their arsenal and are poised to return to the Super Bowl. Kansas City already has fierce competition in the AFC West. If the Chiefs can’t get through the competition in the division, then it will be a long season

for Chiefs fans.After going

29-67 from 2007 through

2012, 2013 was a magical, long

overdue season that Chiefs

fans thoroughly relished with the

9-0 start. It took the Chiefs 10 games be-

fore suffering their first loss in the Dorsey-Reid era, which is impressive for a brand new staff. Chiefs fans hoped that was the begin-ning of something great to come.

But at this rate, it looks like 2014 will be a complete opposite of 2013 for Kansas City. Chiefs fans can only hope that Dorsey and Reid trust their team and know something that we don’t going into this upcoming season.


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More than 90 years ago, for-mer University of Kansas foot-ball coach John Outland had an idea. Being from the East and observing events like the Penn Relays before he came to Kansas, he had seen what world-class college track meets were like. Since the University did not have this kind of event at the time, he decided to make one.

Working with former ath-letics director and basketball coach Phog Allen and former track and field coach Karl Schlademan, Outland realized his goal of creating the first Kansas Relays at Memorial Stadium on April 20, 1923.

Over the decades that fol-lowed, memories of Olympic

athletes and record-breaking performances formed, collect-ed and stuck to the track at Memorial Stadium. Every year, people could see the physical representation of those mem-ories, watching the event take place on the same track that every athlete in the event’s his-tory had competed on.

But this year, at the 87th Kansas Relays, it was a little different. For the first time, the event was moved from Memorial Stadium, transfer-ring to the newly-constructed, state-of-the-art facility at Rock Chalk Park, which is the new home for the event. But while the event over the weekend was different because of the genesis of Rock Chalk Park, it was still a success as University athletes created new memories in their new home. In all, the

Jayhawks claimed titles in 13 events, giving the home crowd a good welcoming to the new facility.

For Jayhawks who had com-peted in the Kansas Relays at Memorial Stadium in previ-ous years, like junior Michael

Stigler, this year’s meet, even though it was in a new loca-tion, felt like the same historic event.

“The Kansas Relays is going to be the Kansas Relays no matter where it’s set,” Stigler

said. “The new facility was great and we brought home a lot of individual titles … so I think it was a great way for our team to open up the Kansas Relays at Rock Chalk Park.”

Stigler was able to grab one of these individual titles on

Saturday, taking first in the 400-meter hurdles. The fact that Stigler won the event was impressive in itself, but when you take a closer look at his time, it becomes even more impressive. Stigler’s 49.35 is

not only the fastest 400-meter hurdles time in the NCAA this outdoor season, but it is the fifth-fastest time in the world so far in 2014. This perfor-mance, combined with his role in the first-place 4x100 meter relay team, made Stigler one of the weekend’s standouts and led to him being named the Most Outstanding Male Performer at this year’s Kansas Relays.

“It just feels like all my hard work and all the preparation me and my coaches have been doing up until this point is fi-nally starting to pay off,” Sti-gler said. “Obviously being ranked that high in the world is a big deal and it’s a great feel-ing, but it’s still just more mo-tivation to keep getting better.”

Stigler was not the only Jayhawk that turned out a

gold-worthy performance on Saturday, as three University women won three events in a row on the final day of the meet. Sophomore Hannah Richardson kicked this run off in the 1,500 meters, running a 4:29.68 to give Richardson her first Kansas Relays individual victory.

Minutes later, junior Lindsay Vollmer, who was practicing a few events over the weekend in preparation for the heptathlon at the Big 12 Championships in mid-May, captured the win in the 100-meter hurdles. Her winning time of 13.49 was a new personal best in the event.

“I felt like I had a very sol-id weekend, especially in the hurdles,” Vollmer said. “It was exciting to come out and have

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““The new facility was great and we brought home a lot of indi-vidual titles ... so I think it was a great way for our team to open up the Kansas Relays at Rock Chalk Park.”

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