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For artist and University of Kansas associate professor of visual art Norman Akers, identity and boundaries have played a leading role in his recent works. Brightly rendered images of U.S. presidents’ faces inside spacey aircrafts are layered over sketched historical scenes and vintage-looking road maps.

Akers is known — in his own words — for portraying topics of “personal and cultural loss,” and seeks to express the world in a light that the majority of Americans wouldn’t be able to see.

“There’s always a sense of loss, be it culturally or physically, through the loss of land for the Osage people and others like us,” Akers said. “I never meant for my art to be political, but being a part of the Osage Nation, when I express my experiences, it’s almost impossible for them to not become politicized.”

Akers grew up in Oklahoma on the Osage reservations, which is part of what inspired his work.

Akers’s most recent exhibit, “Contested Territories,” is a series of 20 monoprints that will be displayed on Sept. 25 at the Percolator Art Space. Akers uses layers to express his experience with the difficulty of “finding one’s space” in a land that uses boundaries and titles to fit individuals into his or her own “specific hole,” he said.

“Even there is an issue of having multiple separate names for one place. The Osage people call it the reservation, while the state refers to it as Osage County,” he said.

Bobbie Rahder, a board member for the Percolator Art Space who was inspired by Akers’s conclusion on space and how it can define not only individuals but whole peoples, took it upon herself to propose showing “Contested Territories.”

Akers came to the University first in 2002 and then in 2007

as a visiting artist. He said he liked the town’s ambiance.

“It’s a good place for an artist, and I enjoy the idea of having a challenge in exposing my art to a new audience,” he said.

Shortly after his second visit, Akers was offered a teaching position by the University’s art department.

“I enjoyed the atmosphere here and I thought it was going to be an important and interesting challenge to move to a place outside of where I had been comfortable,” Akers said of the different demographic of people he would meet in Kansas.

He added: “I also thought it was important that I come here and share what I know and a bit of my culture especially since Haskell is down the road.”

Akers became increasingly concerned about this “lack of identity” as he traveled for work, which can be seen in the use of mapping throughout his piece. Akers said that over the years he has come up with his own “personal symbolic styles,” like in his most recent piece, which shows bright, contrasting colors, asymmetrical linear patterns and layered images.

“I always found it interesting, when I would be driving home to Oklahoma, how there would always be sign telling you exactly where you were. But for natives, that sense of place simply doesn’t correlate,” Akers said. “When I drive to my mother’s house

down a small dirt road where boundaries don’t matter, that’s when I have a true sense of place and feel a belonging.”

Growing up in Oklahoma meant being separated from his ancestral home, which had been described to him as the land of his people, given that the Osage Nation once existed in Missouri and Kansas.

Now that he’s in Lawrence, Akers still needs to make the trip to and from Oklahoma to visit his family and friends he’s left behind. The struggle of being caught between the home of his birth and the home of his people has been the core inspiration for his most recent work.

For Akers — and he said he believes for other natives such as himself — finding a sense of identity in his home has been a difficult process. Not only are there borders in America that rarely coincide with the First Nations’ ethnic and cultural borders, but even the language used to describe people and where they belong can feel “ostracizing.”

“We use words such as ‘indigenous,’ ‘native,’ ‘immigrant’ and others to dictate where someone may belong,” Akers said. “But that rarely covers the whole subject.”

Rahder agreed with this sentiment, and said she believes it’s necessary to educate through art. She said it would help others understand how to look beyond what they’ve experienced.

“I want the audience to see his work and understand what it is that he is trying to convey,” Rahder said. “I hope that at least some people become interested in his art and what it means.”

“Contested Territories” is an effort to address several parts of identity, including contesting common stereotypes associated with native peoples and examining what is alien as the natives become foreigners in their own land.

“I don’t want to scream and yell about politics, but this issue of not knowing one’s sense of

place and not understanding one’s ancestral homeland is a real issue that I have had a personal experience with and one that I know others like me have had experiences with,” Akers said.

This series of monoprints will be the first major show that Akers will present in Lawrence. Having done most of his work while living in Oklahoma and New Mexico, Akers could not predict how local people would react to his art.

“As an artist, I want to create something that makes people think and hopefully enriches their lives,” Akers said. “This is an issue that needs to be addressed. I don’t think that my work fits the stereotypical model of what native art is, so I hope it appeals to many people in that I want to them look at my work, I want them to learn something and come to their own conclusion, hopefully starting a dialogue.”Although this September

will mark his first in public exhibit in Lawrence, he’s already managed to make a positive impact on campus. An art student of his, Hannah Soor, said she enjoys his work because because of its “connection to his Native American heritage and the way he addresses sense of place.”

“Some of my favorite moments were learning how to build our canvas frames and panels, and when he would suggest artists that we might be interested in looking at that related to the work we were making,” Soor said. “I also liked taking trips to the Spencer and having discussions about certain styles and techniques of paintings — it helped connect the past with what we were doing in class.”

Akers’s “Contested Territories” will show in the Percolator Art Space through Oct. 24. The artist will give a gallery talk at 6:30 p.m. this Friday to open the exhibit.

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Kirsti Rooks, a junior from Overland Park, noticed a red spot the size of a quarter on her arm on Sept. 19. When the spot began to itch and swell she went to see a doctor.

The doctor said the red spot was a spider bite that became infected from the natural bac-teria on her skin. Rooks was given antibiotics and steroid topical cream to help reduce the itching and heal the infec-tion.

Rooks isn’t the only one who has said they’ve noticed a po-tential spider problem. Some students and pest controllers said they have noticed an up-tick in spiders, but healthcare professionals said the potential increase is hard to pinpoint.

Even for peak spider season, Joanie Haley, the office manag-er at Haley Pest Control, said she has noticed an increase in calls about spider problems.

“It’s been the worst summer for spiders,” she said.

Haley Pest Control receives 10 to 15 calls a day in reference to spider bites, Haley said. She said she thinks the potential increase in spider bites is be-cause of the heavy rains and mild summer.

Lawrence Memorial Hospi-tal has treated 19 spider bites in the past year, said Belinda Rehmer, the communications coordinator. Rehmer had no data for August and Septem-ber spider bites, and she said she could not comment on whether there was an increase in bites. The hospital saw three to four each month over the summer.

Peak season for spider bites is from March through October, according to research from Kansas State University.

However, for the Lawrence Douglas-County Housing Au-thority and Watkins Memorial Health Center, spiders haven’t been an issue.

The Lawrence Doug-las-County Housing Authori-ty, which oversees 230 family public housing units, has re-ceived five reports and work

orders for spiders, eight for ants and seven for cockroaches this year, said Executive Direc-tor Shannon Oury.

Oury said this season hasn’t been out of the ordinary.

Brenda Bertsch, adminis-trative associate at Watkins Memorial Health, and Becky Plate, a charge nurse at Prompt Care, said spider bites are rare. Plate said they have about one to two people coming in each day who think they have a spi-der bite.

Watkins has seen an increase specifically in straw mites, which come from hay, but not an increase in spider bites, Bertsch said.

Nearly a week later, Rooks’s bite is almost cleared up. However, she maintains she has noticed an increase in the number of spiders in her apartment, and her room-mates also had bites.

“I’ve noticed more than usu-al just hanging around in the bathroom and where you least expect them,” she said.

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Results of a national survey released on Monday show that roughly 12 percent of college students said they had been raped or sexually assaulted by force or incapacitation.

The University did not par-ticipate in the national survey and does its own data collec-tion. The data from the Uni-versity vary from the new na-tional results, particularly the amount of students who said they have experienced sexual

violence — nearly 9 percent lower than the national statis-tic.

The survey was conducted across 27 campuses by the American Association of Uni-versities and included respons-es from more than 150,000 students.

In the University’s 2015 cli-mate survey, about 15 percent of students who participated said they have been sexually harassed, compared with 47.7 percent nationally.

Additionally, about 5 percent of University of Kansas stu-

dents reported experiencing sexual violence, which is also lower than 11.7 percent na-tionally.

Statistics at the University of Kansas were lower than national statistics in regard to students experiencing and reporting sexual harassment, including sexual violence, to a university or police. The University also had a higher number of students who said they knew where to report complaints compared with the national statistic.

About 41 percent of Univer-sity of Kansas students said they knew where to report a complaint, while only 25.8 percent nationally said they were “extremely” knowledge-able on where to report com-plaints.

Jane McQueeny, executive director of the Office of Insti-tutional Opportunity and Ac-

cess, the office where students can report complaints of dis-crimination and sexual harass-ment, said the University pro-motes its services to students through campaigns and ads. Because of this, McQueeny said, more students are aware of IOA.

“We’re doing a good job of getting the message out on how to report, and I also think that’s why our reports have gone up over the years,” Mc-Queeny said.

McQueeny said it’s hard to know why the University’s sta-tistics are lower than national statistics.

The 2015 University of Kan-sas climate survey doesn’t break down what specific in-cidents students reported to IOA or the police, but shows that about 10 percent of stu-dents reported their experi-ences with sexual harassment,

including sexual violence. Nationally, the percentage of students who reported sexual harassment, including sexual violence, to the police or a uni-versity ranged from 5 percent to 28 percent, depending on the kind of incident.

McQueeny said students may not report incidents to the University because survivors blame themselves instead of holding the assailant responsi-ble. The national survey found that the most common reason students didn’t report was be-cause they felt the incident wasn’t serious enough.

“We need to remove the ta-boo from talking about [sexual assault] so it makes it easier for survivors to come in and re-port,” McQueeny said.

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Voters who haven’t finished registering will be removed from state’s database

Nearly 1,400 Douglas County would-be voters could be re-moved from Kansas’ registra-tion database when a new reg-ulation takes effect on Oct. 2.

Between 150 and 200 of those would-be voters live in on-campus housing, which includes residence and schol-arship halls and three different on-campus apartment com-plexes.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach issued a new reg-ulation that allows the state to remove people with partially completed voter registration forms from the database. This means that some potential voters would have to start the process over.

The League of Women Voters of Lawrence-Douglas County

is reaching out to residents to help them complete their reg-istration process before the Oct. 2 deadline.

Of the roughly 36,000 voters across the state who would be removed, about 1,400 live in Lawrence. Between 150 and 200 have a 66045 ZIP code, which is the ZIP code for stu-dent housing at the University, according to Jamie Shew, the Douglas County clerk.

In 2011, Kansas passed the Secure and Fair Elections Law of 2011, or SAFE Act, requir-ing residents to show proof of citizenship to register to vote. Voter applications without this proof are suspended until all documentation, which in-cludes application and proof of citizenship, is received.

Residents on the suspend-ed list are not eligible to vote. Voters in Kansas may be given a provisional ballot if there is

any question about their vot-ing eligibility.

During an election, winners will be announced unofficial-ly when the votes are counted and will be made official after provisional ballots are counted or thrown out.

Lucille King, president of the League of Women Voters of Lawrence-Douglas County, said she worries that many stu-dents are unaware that they are on the list, and that efforts to inform them aren’t as effective.

Shew said different organi-zations, including the LWV of Lawrence-Douglas County, are trying to inform residents on the list. The county sends mail and makes phone calls to as many people as they can, but Shew said it’s a tedious process.

King added that representa-tives from the LWV have even gone door-to-door, encourag-

ing people to complete their applications.

The League of Women Voters made similar efforts last fall leading up to the 2014 mid-term election.

“Many student voters register through voter drives on cam-pus,” King said. “A lot of them either weren’t reading the di-rections on the application or just never got around to com-pleting them.”

Voters removed from the list will have to submit a new registration application. Craig McCullah, a media contact for the Kansas Secretary of State, said that this allows the local election offices to close its polls after 90 days.

“Local election offices spend a lot of time and money, a lot of their resources trying to get a hold of people saying you’re not completely registered to vote yet,” McCullah said.

Shew said counties would either immediately remove all residents who have been on the list for 90 days or wait to remove residents who remain on the list for 90 days after the legislation has passed. Shew said Douglas County is still re-viewing all options.

“We certainly won’t remove residents on the list until after a few more outreach attempts,” Shew said. “Trying to do out-reach with students is especial-ly difficult because they move around each year.”

King said representatives from the LWV of Law-rence-Douglas County will be on Daisy Hill helping students register on Tuesday, Sept. 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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The University and Johnson County Community College have partnered to allow stu-dents to fully enroll at both institutions at the same time.

According to a news release from JCCC, students can now take their core classes at the community college while tak-ing more degree-specific class-es at the University during the same semester.

Under this new partnership, students will be able to utilize more academic programs and resources like tutors, coun-selors and access to research centers.

“This has been a stu-dent-driven process rather than an institution-driven process,” said Andy Hyland, an assistant director of stra-tegic communications for the University. “It’s about helping students be successful.”

Hyland said he believes the institutions working togeth-er is vital in helping Johnson County transfer students stay on pace to graduate with a four-year degree at the Uni-versity.

“Students who get almost all

of their community college credits to transfer are 2.5 times more likely to earn a four-year degree than those who are able to transfer less than half their credits,” Hyland said.

According to the JCCC web-site, more than 40 percent of students enrolled in courses there say they plan to transfer to another college.

The partnership between schools is attempting to soften the transition in the trend of two years at a community col-lege followed by two years at a larger university.

“We listened to students who wanted to take courses at each institution when it’s best for them, rather than the tra-ditional and more rigid two-plus-two model,” Hyland said.

This new system is available to students now, and Hyland said he believes this is a sim-ple and effective way to help students make the most out of transferring.

“It wasn’t very difficult for us; [it] just took coordination," he said. "We have a good partner-ship and are familiar with each other, so it wasn’t very hard."

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David Mucci, director of KU Dining, answered questions about the closure of the Jay Break Snack Bar in Murphy Hall at Swarthout Recital Hall on Tuesday morning.

Mucci called the event a con-versation between him and the students. He began by explain-ing the reasons behind the Jay Break closure.

Currently, the Jay Break is losing about $5,000 a year, Mucci said.

"While it's not a monumental deficit, it is something to be cognizant of when trying to keep a total food service op-erational and solvent," Mucci said.

Mucci also said that after looking at the financials and factoring in the opening of the DeBruce Center next semester, KU Dining and other campus officials decided it would be best to close the Murphy lo-cation.

Students will be able to use the DeBruce Center for their dining needs, as it will have a

coffee shop, as well as a cafe and restaurant. Mucci said the proximity of the DeBruce Center and Murphy makes it an accessible location for stu-dents.

During the discussion, some students disagreed with Mucci and said they're worried they won't have time to get food at DeBruce between classes.

The DeBruce Center food stops will also have longer hours and more food options than Jay Break, which Mucci said he thought would benefit students.

However, students still hope to find a way to keep Jay Break open.

The DeBruce Center is sched-uled to open on March 1, so Mucci said they dining would keep Jay Break open through March to see how revenues compare between it and the DeBruce Center food options.

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Jewish Studies is the newest addition to the list of majors students will have to choose from this spring.

Last week, the Kansas Board of Regents unofficially approved the addition of the major. Formal approval from the Regents should come during its October meeting, and the process will be finalized after the Office of the Provost signs off in Novem-ber.

According to the website, if the major is approved, the department will start issu-ing major declaration forms for students who have already completed the require-ments.

The University will join two other Big 12 institutions in offering a Jewish Stud-ies major — Texas and Oklahoma — ac-cording to the new degree request sent to the Regents.

Jewish Studies has been offered as a mi-nor at the University since 2005, but the creation of a major validates the subject, said John Younger, director of Jewish Studies.

“What I’m really looking forward to is Jewish Studies acting like a department rather than a stepchild of another pro-gram,” Younger said.

Younger said he has been advocating a Jewish Studies major for three years. He said the major would give the depart-

ment an opportunity to exercise more freedom. He said Jewish Studies has op-erated under both the Religious Studies Department and the Center for Global and International Studies in the past.

“In a sense we’ve always had to an-swer to somebody, so it will be rather interesting to be an independent unit — although still affiliated with this new institute [the Center for Global and In-ternational Studies] — and to start acting like an independent unit,” Younger said.

Jay Lewis, executive director of Hillel, said he believes the major would help diminish stereotypes of Kansas as unwel-coming to minority students.

“This is huge for the University of Kansas,” Lewis said. “What it does for students to study and dive into Jewish studies is great, but it also helps break down the stereotypes of Kansas. Not only can we say we have courses [in Jewish Studies], but the fact that there’s a Jewish Studies major says a lot about KU.”

Younger said he argued for the major in part because the University has about 2,000 Jewish students.

“I would never think of KU as a mag-net for Jewish Studies, but apparently it is," he said. "A lot of that is due to Hillel — Hillel is very active — but obvious-ly there’s something about KU being a Jew-friendly campus.”

Younger added that the department feels ready to deal with the responsibil-

ities inherent in being a major program.“Like any unit, I want to start devel-

opment with a capital ‘D’ in a financial sense as well as having contacts," he said. "Looking down the road, very far down the road, we’ll have alumni, and we’ll want to nurture those contacts with our alums."

Samuel Brody, an assistant professor of religious students, said the department also plans to build strong relationships with other University humanities depart-ments.

“Once Jewish Studies is really fully fledged as its own independent major, I think given the interdisciplinary nature of the faculty involved people can look forward to hopefully another stage of Jewish Studies working with other hu-manities programs on campus.” Brody said.

In addition to those interdisciplinary connections, Younger said he hopes to expand the program’s global connections as a result of having a major.

“The idea of any program is having stu-dents who you can send out to do study abroad work or internships, so that you feel like you’re the hub with spokes going out that have influence,” Younger said. “Being able to graduate majors with a BA in Jewish Studies will be another one of those spokes.

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Man steals combine and slow chase ensues

John Roth figures it was a bullet to the oil filter that killed his old Case IH combine and brought a slow-speed police chase to an otherwise peaceful end.

Officers fired 18 rounds into the farm implement, which had been stolen Tuesday night from a cornfield east of Ellinwood in central Kansas. But not be-fore the combine rammed two patrol cars, hit a parked pick-up truck and damaged power poles as it attempted to elude officers at speeds approaching 20 mph.

“Since 1981 I’ve chased a lot of vehicles, but we’ve never chased a combine,” Barton County Sheriff Brian Bellendir said.

A 37-year-old Ellinwood man was arrested on suspicion of a

number of charges, but no for-mal charges had been filed as of Wednesday afternoon. Barton County prosecutor Doug Mat-thews said he anticipated that would happen soon.

Deputies arrived at a coun-ty road near Roth’s property around 9:45 p.m. Tuesday after receiving a call about an aban-doned vehicle. Soon, a 911 call told of a combine with no lights “weaving from ditch to ditch” east of the 1,200-person town, Bellendir said.

Andrew Sieker slowed down for a curve when he encoun-tered the oncoming implement — an eight-row corn head on the front.

“We met right at the curve and I swerved out of the way,” said Sieker, himself a farmer. “He swerved and hit some guy wires. It was close.”

The combine struck several

power poles and a pickup truck in Ellinwood, ripping the corn head from the implement.

When an officer approached, the man put the machine in reverse and rammed the of-ficer’s car before fleeing the scene, Bellendir said. During the chase, a deputy pulled in front of the machine to set a roadblock, but it was rammed and dragged. Two officers then opened fire, shooting out the tires and hitting the motor.

The sheriff said the suspect, who owns the vehicle that was found abandoned on the road, was trying to restart the ma-chine when he was taken into custody.

Bellendir said no adminis-trative action would be taken against the officers, who were deemed justified in disabling the farm implement because of the threat it posed.

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ANDREW SIEKER/AP PHOTO This photo shows a stolen combine on the side of a road near Ellinwood, where it stopped after police in pursuit fired at the fleeing piece of farm equipment to disable it.

Since the rise in popular-ity of tablets and e-readers, the debate between physical books and digital books has begun to spread through society. Most college students have become familiar with books in digital form, often consulting online sources and articles before complet-ing online assignments and submitting their work—where else?—over the Internet. But shifting to an education system in which texts are only accessible online is a mistake, particularly for those not at the university level.

Last week, the Lawrence Journal-World reported cer-tain classes in Lawrence high schools are now using digital versions of textbooks rather than checking out physical copies to students. While physical copies are still avail-able for these courses, they can only be found in class-room sets of 13 and cannot be removed from the classroom. So, when students sit down to do homework, they have to access their textbooks online.

But what happens if a student doesn’t have a reliable internet connection or an internet connection at all?

Such a system creates in-equality issues between those students whose families have Internet at home and those who don’t. If students can’t readily access it at home, then they must go out of their way to try to find somewhere else with a reliable connection—not to mention the need for transportation and the time it would take to get somewhere else.

After recognizing the potential issues with this shift for low-income students, Lawrence school officials purchased 25 additional laptops for both high schools in the city. These laptops are available for check-out by students, so the situation has gotten better. But even if there are enough devices to ensure equity among all students, digital textbooks are not the most beneficial way to pro-mote learning.

According to a 2013 study from USA Today, students don’t tend to comprehend information as well when it’s presented as an e-book. Stu-

dents who read digitally also weren’t able to recall as much information as those who read in a standard physical book.

The Guardian suggests those who read digital books are not able to reconstruct chronology of events nearly as accurately as those who read physical copies. This is especially im-portant in courses like history, which are predominantly the ones using digital books in Lawrence schools.

The shift to online learn-ing isn’t necessarily the best option for college students either. A 2012 survey of students at four-year colleges and universities found that e-books accounted for only nine percent of all textbook purchases. It’s not a surprising statistic. Many students find notetaking and annotation features on e-readers clumsy, and it can be difficult to find certain passages in texts be-cause pages aren’t numbered as they are in print.

Digital textbooks and online articles aren’t a bad compo-nent to the learning process, especially as time progresses and the shift becomes more prominent. But offering texts exclusively online is a

hindrance to student learning needs and comprehension. Digital sources are fine as sup-plemental or hybrid materials, but courses driven by online texts aren’t benefiting our

education system.

Matthew Clough is a junior from Wichita studying English and journalism.

“Are you sure you’ll be able to get a job with that?”

“Make sure you get it in a place where you can easily cover it up.”

These are common state-ments and questions that a person with tattoos or who is considering a tattoo will receive.

Tattoos are ways people can express themselves. Recently, tattoos have been considered an art form. But just as the questions above imply, there are many people who are hesitant to get tattoos because of the potentially negative impact it could have when

searching for jobs.Tattoos should not be dis-

criminated against, especially while a person is pursuing a job. There are people like me who choose to dress as dark as their soul and define who they are by designing their skin with meaningful words and symbols. I am no longer the minority; more people are adopting tattoos. It is time the workplace did the same.

It's the 21st century. People aren’t nearly as conservative as they were back when our parents and their friends were getting inked.

The cultural shift in the past two decades is diminishing the taboo against tattoos, according to USA Today. Now, there are three fundamental

concerns employers have with hiring people with tattoos: “the belief that an employee will not be taken seriously by tradition-minded clients, the concern that the organization’s brand or image might be compromised by outlandish tattoos, and the concern that one person’s body art could be perceived as offensive or hostile to a co-worker or customer.”

With this cultural shift, some companies are changing their dress code to make their employees feel more comfort-able in the workplace and to avoid turning away potentially unparalleled employees just because they’re inked from, let’s say, chest to toe.

For example, Starbucks

changed its dress code this past January to a more policy that is more accepting of tattoos. As a barista there, I am now allowed to show the tattoo on my forearm.

The Children’s Hospital in St. Louis allows tattoos to go uncovered as long as designs are not considered offensive or unprofessional. These com-panies, along with PetSmart and Wal-Mart, are among the growing list of alternative dress codes in the workplace. More companies need to look to these businesses because they are the pioneers of tattoo acceptance.

Tattoos are far from being universally accepted, espe-cially from the chest up. Neck and face tattoos are still widely

disapproved and are often not allowed in dress codes that have been modified to accept tattoos on other parts of the body.

In today’s world, we should refrain from judging people based on their appearance. Tattoos have become a tool of expression and individuality. They should be accepted in the workplace as a way to value diversity and to use it to strengthen the company and its relations. Whether an individual should get tattoos should not be decided by their future job.

Aungelina Dahm is a freshman from Chicago studying journalism and political science.

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Arts Center to host a ‘70s-themed 40th anniversary celebration on Final Friday

The Lawrence Arts Center will celebrate its 40th anni-versary downtown this Friday, Sept. 25 with a '70s themed block party.

The party outside the Arts Center will feature live music and different retro activities. The 40th anniversary block party provides a festival atmo-sphere, with new exhibitions and activities inside and music and vendors outside. The staff at the LAC has been planning a 40th anniversary party for the past year or two, Arts Center CEO Susan Tate said.

"We just wanted to throw it back to 1975 to honor the 40 years of the Arts Center being in existence,” Development Director Heather Hoy said.

Final Fridays is an event where all things cultural come together in downtown Law-rence on the last Friday of each month. This year there'll be flashback crafts, Disco 101 and a sitcom-athon with 1970s sitcoms playing in the theatre located in the Lawrence Arts Center.

“The Lawrence Arts Center started in a very small and in-timate way and responded to the interests of the people in Lawrence. As the community grew, the Lawrence Arts Cen-ter grew," Tate said.

The Arts Center was previ-ously housed in the Carnegie building on 9th and Vermont

St. downtown. Built in 1904, it is currently listed on the National Register of Histor-ic Places. Since its founding, the Arts Center has become a key part of the Lawrence com-munity, Tate said. As the Arts Center grew, its founders con-templated additions onto the Carnegie building to further accommodate the program. However, restrictions on addi-tional construction because of the building's historical status made relocation a reality.

"We rented dance studios at the end of the block," said Ann Evans, founding Executive Di-rector of the Arts Center. The program eventually partnered with Treanor Architects to construct the current 40,000 square foot building funded by a mix of city contributions and private donations.

"When we opened this new building [in 2002], we really expanded what we were able to do in three areas: temporary exhibitions, live performance, and visual and performing arts education," Tate said. “I am proud of Lawrence, Kansas for creating and sustaining the Lawrence Arts Center — very proud.”

With indoor exhibitions, out-door activities and music free to the public, the Arts Center’s 40th anniversary party invites all of Lawrence to celebrate the city’s cultural diversity as a part of the September edition of Final Fridays. Several of the event's crafts include pet rock making, vintage t-shirt print-

ing, and a tent to dance the hustle and other '70s dances.

There will also be a reunion show from theater troupe Seem-to-Be-Players; a group that features the Arts Center's Artist Director of Performing Arts Ric Averill. He and his wife Jeanne founded the group, which has not performed since a 2008 show at the Arts Center.

The event will last from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. and the film screening of "Big Eyes" will start at 9 p.m. Based on a true story, this Tim Burton film starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz tells the story of artist Margaret Keane, who became known for frequently

depicting large-eyed subjects in her work.

Live music will kick off starting at 6:30 p.m. with per-formances from local bands Truckstop Honeymoon and Chuck Mead and the Grassy Knoll Boys. Truckstop Hon-eymoon is a two-piece band that's been active for 11 years. The band is made of married couple Katie and Mike West who tour with their four chil-dren. The duo has toured three continents and are currently signed to Squirrel Records.

Chuck Mead and his Grassy Knoll Boys will follow short-ly after. Mead got his musical start leading bands in Law-

rence but currently lives in Nashville. He and the Grassy Knoll Boys will soon embark on a European tour in support of a new album out in Decem-ber in collaboration with UK artist Beans and Toast.

Hoy said Chuck is from Law-rence so it’s "bringing some-body back home."

Food and beverages will also be available from Free State Brewery, the Mad Greek, Pur-ple Carrot, Fine Thyme Foods, Drasko’s Food Truck, Torched Goodness, Air Summer Snow and Juice Stop.

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Vince Staples’s mindset and perspective can be explained by only a few words: “It is what it is.”

The Long Beach rapper’s rhymes and lyricism are keen, but his honesty and ability to speak the truth regardless of the circumstances are almost more so.

Though he didn’t grow up aim-ing at a rap career, Staples has carved out a place for himself in the rap industry and landed among the top West Coast “gang-ster rappers” of this generation.

Staples came up as a close part-ner of Odd Future centerpiece Earl Sweatshirt, then found his sound somewhere in between the eerie cynicism of Sweatshirt and the upfront activism of Ken-drick Lamar.

All of that culminated on his debut album, Summertime ‘06, which was released on June 30 as a two-disc story that dove through the reality of growing up in Long Beach and being born into a lineage gang culture. May-be that environment is what has made him so honest in his craft today.

Staples talked to The Kansan about the environment the In-ternet has created for artists, hip-hop as popular culture and the negative connotations of being black and in a gang leading up to

his solo performance at Liberty Hall on Sept. 29.

Kansan: Who is Vince Staples?Staples: Vince Staples is a rap

artist and also an interior design-er from Long Beach, Calif. Make sure you put the interior part in there, because that’s a lie. And, yeah man, we just make songs. I’ve played in Lawrence a couple times, I’ve been there with Earl Sweatshirt, I’ve been there with ScHoolboy Q. We just like to have a good time.

Kansan: How’s the tour with Tyler, the Creator and A$AP Rocky going? Where are you guys at right now?

Staples: We’re headed to Phila-delphia, or in Philadelphia. One of the two. It’s good. It’s a cool ex-perience to be around all of these different minds. It’s always cool, bringing together the different kinds of music and different fan bases. It’s cool to see.

Kansan: I saw you talk about the concept of laptop rappers be-fore the album came out. When you think of laptop rappers, who do you think of? How would you describe them?

Staples: The internet has this glass ceiling. Some artists you could be looking into on the In-ternet, but you would never play them like, in a car, not necessari-ly on radio. To escape the realm of the Internet, they don’t really translate well into the actual life. There’s a lot of things that go vi-

ral that we won’t really consider to be actual when it comes to the actual realm of music.

That’s all I mean by that. It’s kind of difficult to escape the In-ternet sometimes when it comes to certain things. There are all those artists, they kind of blow up, they have that one big viral video, but they’re never really respected as artists. I don’t real-ly know if it’s fair or not, but it’s just the nature of the way things are nowadays. There can be art-ists who had a really great song, but it’s not about you, it’s about that one song. It could have been because it was funny, it could be been because of a vine, it could have been anything that really brought you into that position. That’s just the nature of this shit sometimes.

Kansan: Were you ever in that frame? Was that ever a thing for you? Just getting over the In-ternet. I feel like Earl Sweatshirt really got you through that phase because once your name got out there, it was on a record with him.

Staples: When Earl first got out there, he wasn’t blowing up. Early on when I met him, there wasn’t much commercial success up until [Tyler, the Creator] broke through. So I definitely feel like it wasn’t necessarily all the way there. If I was being realistic with where we were, it was still very much something that was true,

like there are still people that ha-ven’t heard Earl Sweatshirt songs, no matter how big we are. We gotta understand that.

No matter how big our world might be, it’s still not a Drake, or Kendrick Lamar, or J. Cole, where everyone has heard us. I don’t feel like I started off — of course I had to fight to get a head start — I didn’t start out on, for lack of a better word. But you know what I mean, what peo-ple like to call on and what was an automatic process; you don’t have to work hard to get any-thing.

I’ve had shows, I’ve played shows with Earl that were half full, you know what I mean? I’ve played shows by myself that were half full. I’ve played shows with bigger acts that were half full. It’s all a process, man. These mar-kets, man. It’s a tricky thing to me to get the Internet to to make the shift to what’s real.

Kansan: How do you make that shift, then? Blue Suede was commercial, a few other things from you are on iTunes and Goo-gle Play, but how did you make that transition?

Staples: To me, music should always be commercial. It should always be something that’s pur-chased because it holds a value. Things that don’t have value are free. So, if music has a value, and we’re all fans of music, it should always be for sale. Every artists

should start as a commercial art-ist; that’s why the music is made, to a certain extent. That’s why all the time put into the music is to eventually turn a profit and make a career and life out of it, doing something that you love. It should always be viewed as that.

I don’t feel like ... going com-mercial isn’t a thing. It’s sad. ... An artist is trying to feed them-selves off the music is considered them making a transition. That should always be what it is. But it’s viewed as, you know, music is just free and we’re supposed to just give out music at a high value at a fast rate, and it’s all sup-posed to be free. ... You should never give less support because something is for sale. If anything, you should have more support because that says where we are as people.

Kansan: Going off that, do you think rap will ever be “the genre?” Do you think it will be respected in general by the gen-eral population?

Staples: Rap is the genre. Rap is culture. Hip-hop culture is popu-lar culture, it is American culture. Tell me who the rock star is right now?

CAROLINE FISS/KANSANAt 840 Massachusetts Street, Yuri Zpancic had his work, ZOOM, displayed for Final Fridays. People came through to admire the work of the local artist on Aug. 28.

DEF JAM RECORDINGSVince Staples released his debut album, “Summertime ‘06,” on June 30 and will be in Lawrence on Sept. 29.

A conversation with Vince Staples

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decisions. Peace and quiet get productive.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) For nearly eight weeks,

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decisions today. Don't overspend, even for a good

cause. Your team comes through for surprising

success.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)Changes are required.

Beautify your space, with Mars in Virgo for two

months. Compromise, for ease and grace. No stretch-

ing the truth now; not even a little. Secrets get

revealed. Avoid arguments. Heed your elders. Let

someone in.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) For about two months,

with Mars in Virgo, com-munications unlock new doors. Dance graceful-ly with an unexpected

reaction. Carefully craft-ed, direct words soothe inflammation. Rekindle

passion. Friends help you advance. They lead you to

the perfect answer.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Save up for something

special. For nearly eight, weeks (Mars in Virgo),

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with family finances. Avoid risky business. Defer grat-ification and budget for

what you want.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Share the load or drop it.

For two months, with Mars in Virgo, personal matters take center stage. Stick to the truth, even when awkward. Compromise. Provide cool common

sense. Do it carefully or do it over.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Slow down to avoid acci-

dents. Navigate errors and let the little stuff go. Get

into peaceful retreat mode for the next two months. Clean, sort and organize.

Look back to gain perspec-tive on the road ahead.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Grow profitable opportu-nities through socializing. Harness group power over the next two months, with Mars in Virgo. Energize a community effort. Don't

borrow or lend ... contrib-ute while leaving time for work, family and health.

Balance is key.

Sagittarius(Nov.22-Dec.21)Take your professional pas-sion to the next level. If you must ruffle feathers, do it

gently. Assert your position with humor. For nearly

eight weeks, with Mars in Virgo, career advances are

available. Practice what you love.

Capricorn(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Travel beckons for about two months, with Mars in Virgo. Nail down reserva-tions early. There are still

many secrets to be discov-ered. Don't try to run away.

Think of someone who needs you. New informa-

tion changes things.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)Don't let financial con-straints stop you. For

about two months, with Mars in Virgo, review and organize finances

for increased power and income. Private conver-

sations reduce stress. The truth gets revealed. Find

new ways to earn.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Provide support (rather

than criticism) to someone in authority. Your partner contributes valuable data.

For about two months, with Mars in Virgo, work

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On Sunday night musician Ryan Adams released the highly anticipated and wide-ly discussed album, "1989," which is his take on Taylor Swift's "1989" from last year.

In August, Adams (known for his songs in the early 2000s, such as “When The

Stars Go Blue”) announced he was working on a track-for-track cover of Swift’s 2014 album. Fans got a preview of the album when Adams' version of the song “Bad Blood” debuted last Thursday on Apple Music's Beats 1 radio.

While the songs are Swift’s, don’t confuse Adams' "1989" with a typical cover album.

Adams is not taking exactly what Swift did and simply adding his voice. For his version of "1989," Adams transformed the music by taking Swift's perspective and incorporating his own sound and experience.

The music comes from guitars and pianos, making the songs feel different, and there are some minor lyric

changes. In an interview with Zane Lowe, Adams said it was never his intention to change the intent of Swift’s songs.

Adams reimagines an already great album and adds another facet to his extensive discography. For Swift, Adams' album is a great way for "1989" to live on. When her perspective

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What does this mean? It means Adams thought about the album in a different way than Swift. He didn't just rework it to make it sound like him; he went deeper and did what he could to

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Drake has had a busy 2015. He released his platinum album “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,” made his Meek Mill feud the subject of memes across the Internet and now he’s collaborated with Fu-ture for an 11-track mixtape, “What a Time To Be Alive,” that dropped on Sunday night.

This project comes as quite a surprise — no one knew about it until the two began posting cryptic messages on social media hinting at the project.

Drake and Future have collaborated a few times in the past, but if someone would have told me a month ago that this project would come out, I would have called them a filthy liar.

That being said, this isn’t something you listen to if you want to hear deep, thought-provoking commen-tary from two of today’s top minds, but it’s a fun listen. This is primarily because of incredible production from

Metro Boomin, who produced seven of the project’s 11 songs. This is a Drake and Future project, but Metro Boomin absolutely steals the show with his hard-hitting, grimy production.

On this record, Drake and Future aren’t making sappy music that’ll make you want to drunkenly text your ex at 4 a.m. This project has music that’ll undoubtedly be played in strip clubs across the coun-try (also because of Metro Boomin’s production). And I mean that in the best way possible. The lyrics are fun and braggadocious, backed by great production. And that’s OK because the duo didn’t aim to change the sound of music with this project.

Despite this being a collab-orative effort between Drake and Future, it sounds more like a Drake album that Future is featured on in every track (besides the last two, which are solo tracks by each artist). Drake does most of the heavy lifting in this album with his confidence, energy and overall

showmanship — a problem that has often plagued collab-orative records.

2011’s “Watch the Throne” had this problem as well. Kanye West carried that album while Jay-Z took a backseat. However, this still comes as a bit of a shock because Future’s recently released record “Dirty Sprite 2” was sensational.

The mixtape’s second track, “Big Rings,” is notably one of the worst songs Drake has been involved with in years. The chorus is excruciatingly awkward while the verses aren’t much better.

Drake and Future are an unlikely pairing. One artist is a middle-class guy from To-ronto while the other is a trap rapper from Atlanta. Never-theless, the two come together for a pretty solid project. What a time to be alive.

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Roland Emmerich’s "Stone-wall" is already experiencing a flood of criticism and scathing reviews before its Sept. 25 re-lease date. The film, which tells the story of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, is controversial because

of its cast of primarily white, cisgender male characters when the riots were actually started by drag queens, lesbi-ans, and transgender women of color.

"Stonewall" has already achieved an 11 percent “rot-ten” rating on review aggrega-tor website Rotten Tomatoes. Vanity Fair called the film “ter-

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made it also for straight peo-ple,” Emmerich told Buzzfeed. “I kind of found out, in the testing process, that actual-ly, for straight people, [Dan-ny] is a very easy in. Danny’s very straight-acting. He gets mistreated because of that. [Straight audiences] can feel for him.”

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The band Kansas may not be in Kansas anymore, but they are returning in October for a series of concerts around the state. One of their stops includes the Lied Center on Oct 2.

“I always enjoy coming home,” said Richard "Rich" Williams, the lead guitarist for Kansas and one of the original band members from 1974. “So when I can, I come in earlier or stay late and spend more time (here), you know it’s my roots, it’s where I grew up, where I’m comfortable.”

Derek Kwan, the executive director for the Lied Center, said he’s excited to have a band that has withstood the test of time bring people of diverse ages and backgrounds togeth-er to celebrate the University’s 150th birthday.

“We were thinking of a great way to celebrate the 150th birthday of the University by bringing together the band that helped put the state of Kansas on the map, and the University that put Kansas on the map,” Kwan said.

The band’s stop in Lawrence is one of 95 shows this year, a

jump since the introduction of Ronnie Platt, the new vocal-ist for Kansas, after longtime member Steve Walsh retired in July 2014.

Williams said that change — like Walsh's retirement — is sometimes necessary to open doors for other opportunities.

“I’ve been through enough change now in my life to not fear it anymore," Williams said. "You know one door clos-es, another one opens, and you walk through the door and make the best of the next situ-ation. I’ve come to find that all these changes were always nec-essary to get to the next place."

Since Platt joined the band, Kansas has gone from doing around 65 shows a year to 95, and fans have embraced Platt.

“He’s very respectful to Steve and Steve’s legacy. He is his own singer, but he still sings Kansas songs as they were written," Williams said. "He’s very respectful to that and the crowd is loving what he does, much more than I would have anticipated.”

Since Platt's addition, Kansas is also in the process of record-ing a new album with Inside-Out Music, which is in the be-ginning stages of development.

“I’m very grateful for the change, because it’s been the

busiest most kick-butt year I’ve had in 30,” Williams said.

The band has recorded one song to test the dynamic of the group, and they’re current-ly putting ideas together and forming skeletons of songs, Williams said. Kansas plans to hit the studio in January to re-cord the album.

“We’re excited to see what it’s going to be, but we really don’t know what it is yet either. I don’t think it’ll be surpris-ing to anyone, we’re going to be 'Kansas.' We’re going to do what we do, we’re not going to totally reinvent ourselves and try to jump on a new way of doing things. It’s not the horse we rode in on, and we’re just planning to be ourselves,” Wil-liams said.

With over 30 years of experi-ence touring across the world and playing on the same old guitar, the biggest change Wil-liams has seen in touring was his attitude about it.

“You get to spend 24 hours of the day doing something somewhere, so you have two ways to do it. You can dread every moment, or you can just be glad to be there and take the best of the day and enjoy it, and then usually at the end of the day you get to jump up on stage and play and that’s always

the fun part,” Williams said.After playing the guitar for

over 40 years for the band, Williams has learned to live and play in the moment.

“A lot of things we did were just by inspiration, by the mo-ment. There’s an excitement in doing things that way rather than everything being note for note.” Williams said, “We don’t play as if we’re parakeets repeating constantly. Listen to what’s going on around you,

you try to fill holes. We’re or-ganic in that sense.”

Williams’s biggest piece of advice for playing as a band is to play with people you’ll get along with.

“You can get the best six guys in town in a band and you have to sit back and watch it explode because the egos are going to create a dynamic for internal combustion. It won’t work," Williams said.

He added: "Making a joy of

sound is a fun experience, and the egos pretty much have to be checked at the door. So be friends, and then make some music. If it works out, maybe you can make a life of it (and) if it doesn’t, at least you’ll have some fun,” he said.

Kansas will perform at the Lied Center on Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. Some tickets are still available online and at the Lied Center.

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CONTRIBUTED PHOTORichard Williams, Billy Greer, David Ragsdale, Ronnie Platt, Phil Eihart, and David Manion of the band Kansas.

MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE Jeremy Irvine in “Stonewall.”

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@jacksonshane3 Will KU win this week?— Laurel Kolacny (@laurel_ku)

Sept. 12, 2009. Remember the date.

That was the last time Kansas came back to Lawrence with a road victory, knocking off UTEP by a final score of 34-7. Thirty-three games have come and gone since then. After all 33 games, the players on the airplane were silent after another road loss.

It’s hard to fathom that this will be the team that snaps the streak. Kansas is currently a two-touchdown underdog to a 1-2 Rutgers team favored big at home in a morning game.

However, the Rutgers team

looks vulnerable this week. The Scarlet Knights are with-out their coach or best player due to suspension, and they have dismissed six players this year. In addition, they have lost two consecutive games.

This is certainly the best chance of the year for Kansas to snap the road-losing streak. But given from what we have seen the first two games, it’s hard to pick the Jayhawks.

The defense is still experi-encing some growing pains, evident two Saturdays ago when Memphis quarterback Paxton Lynch picked apart the Kansas defense (22-of-25 for 354 yards), as Memphis dropped 55 points on the Jayhawks. Rutgers’ quarter-back is nearly as efficient and currently leads the Big 10 with a 72.0 completion percentage.

Unless the defense has grown leaps and bounds over the bye week, it’s hard to pre-dict a road victory.

@jacksonshane3 how much game time does Ford/Willis see? Who steps up on offense to give us a spark we need for the win #kufball

— Clayton Adam (@clayleeadam)

Well the ideal answer is nei-ther. Kansas has not finished the season with the same starting quarterback that it gave the nod to in the season opener in the last two years. David Beaty would prefer to end the streak and keep junior quarterback Montell Cozart as the guy.

The other reason you would ideally say neither is that if one of the backups comes into the game, it means the game is out of reach. Kansas would like to be competitive in this game this weekend.

All that being said, if I had to pick one, I am going with the freshman Ryan Willis. Willis is far more talented and will one day get his shot to be the starting quarterback for the future.

The coaching staff seemed concerned about how short fall camp was and how that might prevent the freshman from seeing some playing time early as he adjusts to the college level. However, Willis came in for the opener and

played two plays. It’s hard to imagine Beaty burning his redshirt if he didn’t see a pos-sibility of using Willis more this season.

As far as who on this offense needs to step up, I don’t think someone has to. I think the answer for offensive success is simple: get the ball to junior running back Ke’aun Kinner.

Kinner became the first run-ning back in program history to start off his Kansas career with consecutive 100-yard outings on the ground.

Nine of Kinner’s 16 carries against Memphis came in the first quarter, so the coaching staff has to do a better job of getting the most talented player the ball. If Kansas can give Kinner 20-30 touches a game, it has a chance to come away with its first road victory in six years.

@jacksonshane3 I’ll do it! What offensive line-man has made the most improvement since the first game?— Libby McEnulty (@libbymcenulty)

It’s still very early in the

season, but I think the clear choice is freshman Larry Hughes. Hughes did not play in the season opener against South Dakota State. He did, however, start at right tackle against Memphis for senior Larry Mazyck.

Mazyck is a towering 6-feet-8, 335-pound tackle that played in all 12 games as a junior, starting in nine. He rotated in the offensive line against Memphis, particularly on point-after attempts, so he appeared healthy.

Beaty remains adamant that you have to “earn it” and, after the Memphis loss, said Hughes earned the starting role. He noted Hughes played better in practice, and that’s why Beaty elected to go with him.

It remains to be seen if Hughes will remain in the starting lineup, but through two weeks he has improved the most. Overall the offensive line has done a fine job, opening up holes for the running backs. It needs to do a better job keeping pressure off Cozart going forward.

— Edited by Derek Skillett

Kansas football mailbag: Snapping the 33-game road losing streak, backup quarterbacks, right tackle Larry Hughes and predictions for Saturday

JAMES HOYT/KANSANJunior running back Ke’aun Kinner evades a scrum at the goal line as he runs in for a touchdown against Memphis on Sept. 12.

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Brewers snap losing streak against Cubs

Zach Davies allowed two hits over six innings and Martin Maldonado drove in two runs to lead Milwaukee to a 4-1 vic-tory over Chicago on Wednes-day night, snapping the Brew-ers’ nine-game losing streak to the Cubs.

Jorge Soler homered for the Cubs, who lost for the second time in nine games and fin-ished with three hits total.

Davies (2-2) allowed two singles in the second inning, walked one and struck out four.

Francisco Rodriguez pitched the ninth and picked up his 35th save in 37 opportunities.

Luis Sardinas gave the Brew-ers a 1-0 lead with an RBI single just out of the reach of

a diving Kris Bryant at third base.

The Brewers took a 3-0 lead in the seventh when Khris Davis followed Adam Lind’s double with an RBI single. Two walks by reliever Justin Grimm loaded the bases and Maldonado hit a sacrifice fly.

Maldonado had an RBI sin-gle in the ninth.

Soler homered in the seventh off reliever Will Smith, his 10th of the season.

The Brewers couldn’t solve Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks (7-7), who retired the first 14 hitters. Jean Segura finally reached in the fifth when he legged out an infield single and he scored on Sardinas’ hit.

Hendricks went six-plus in-nings, striking out eight and allowing three runs and four hits.

TRAINER’S ROOMBrewers: RHP Wily Peral-

ta (left oblique) is out for the season. Manager Craig Coun-sell said Peralta’s oblique has “flared up again.” Counsell said OF Ryan Braun’s back “didn’t progress like we wanted to” when he took batting practice Tuesday and that Milwaukee is “kind of in a holding pattern” with the injury. C Jonathan Lucroy (concussion) worked out at first base before the game.

UP NEXTCubs: LHP Jon Lester (10-11,

3.46 ERA) will be looking for his third win in September and his second against the Pirates after limiting Pittsburgh to one hit over five innings on Sept. 15.

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NAM Y. HUH/APMilwaukee Brewers’ Martin Maldonado celebrates after hitting an RBI single against the Chicago Cubs.

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What can you accomplish in nine minutes?

There are several correct answers to this question. You might be able to read a short chapter from a textbook or take an online quiz. You can casually walk about a half mile and maybe even make it from Daisy Hill to the Underground to pick up a crunchy chicken cheddar wrap. You might even be able to get through the line at Chipotle when it’s at its busiest.

However, there’s apparently a lot more than can be done in such a short amount of time.

For Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski, nine minutes was all it took for him to make history, as he quickly poured in

five goals to completely erase his team’s 1-0 halftime deficit. .

Per the twitter account @2010MisterChip — which currently has more than 1.4 million followers — Le-wandowski became the first substitute in any of the top four soccer leagues in Europe (Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga) to score five goals in a game. He also scored his five goals faster than any other player in the history of those leagues.

It was one of the craziest stretches in the history of the sport. Quite frankly, his perfor-mance was something straight out of a video game: something that could never — or perhaps should never — happen in real life.

Two goals in one minute. Three goals in four minutes.

Five goals in nine minutes. However you break it down, it just seems impossible.

However, more and more, it seems as if athletes are able to do a lot more in a lot less time.

In many ways, 2015 has been the year of speedy soccer ac-complishments. Case in point: In the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final, it took the United States absolutely no time to build up an insurmountable lead.

The team scored four goals in the first 16 minutes of the game; Carli Lloyd led the way with three of them, posting the fastest hat trick in World Cup history.

And while Lloyd’s hat trick took nearly three times as long as it took Lewandowski to get his first three, the implications of the game were obviously far

more important. But to take it a step further,

it hasn’t just been soccer: 2015 has been the year of speed in sports.

You can look at Golden State Warriors shooting guard Klay Thompson, who set a new NBA record by scoring 37 points in a quarter back in Jan-uary — and it’s worth noting he scored all of those points in just under 9:45 of game time — or even something on a much smaller scale, like the Denver Broncos scoring two touchdowns in nine seconds of game time to stun the Kansas City Chiefs on Sept. 17.

You can look at the recent Baylor-SMU game, where the teams combined for 42 first quarter points with three touchdowns coming in the first two minutes of the game, or

at perhaps the most dominat-ing athlete in sports, Ronda Rousey, who won both of her 2015 fights in a combined 48 seconds. (The first was by sub-mission against Cat Zingano in 14 seconds, the second was by TKO against Bethe Correia in 34 seconds.)

t’s not like 2014 didn’t have its moments when it came to speed accomplishments in sports.

It took the United States all of 31 seconds to score its first goal at the men’s World Cup, as Clint Dempsey found the back of the net against Ghana. In the semifinals, Germany took a commanding 5-0 lead in the first 29 minutes of its match against Brazil, which included a stretch of six minutes when the team scored four goals.

There were also feats like Joe

Flacco throwing for four first quarter touchdowns against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and it would be impossible to leave out Dri Archer’s 2014 NFL Combine, where he posted the second fastest 40-yard dash time (4.26 seconds) since the league switched to electronic timing in 2000, according to cheatsheet.com.

However, 2015 has surpassed its predecessor. This year has been the year of speed in sports so far. Here’s hoping 2016 will be even faster.


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MATTHIAS SCHRADER/APBayern’s Robert Lewandowski, right, celebrates with teammate Douglas Costa after scoring during a match between FC Bayern Munich and VfL Wolfsburg on Sept. 22.

Brew: Lewandowski’s explosive 5-goal rush is symbolic of a fast and furious year in sports

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Fear the frog. Seriously. TCU is not a team to be reckoned with this season. The team’s consistently solid offense is matched this season by an ever-more powerful defense. TCU displayed its potential in its home-opener game against Stephen F. Austin, winning 70-7. The Lumberjacks’ first and only entrance into the end zone wasn’t until the fourth quarter. Granted, SFA may not put up the same fight as Baylor or Oklahoma, but it was still a dominant win for the Frogs.

TCU finished just shy of a bid to the playoffs last season, and it’s determined not to let that happen again. Senior quarter-back Trevone Boykin was one of the most improved quarter-backs last year and has showed this year that he has no plans of slowing down. In the first three games, Boykin has had 65 completions for 985 yards and 10 touchdowns. Senior running back Aaron Green has had 45 carries for 272 yards and four touchdowns, and senior wide receiver Josh Doctson has had 17 receptions for 326 yards and three touchdowns.

TCU has the talent and the force to be great. The Horned Frogs have a veteran offensive line, which, when they play together, can’t be beat.

Last year, the Frogs’ only loss was to Baylor, and they still scored 58 points that game. There’s no question whether or not the TCU offense is a powerhouse. The defense, on

the other hand, has suffered a lot of injuries already. The team could potentially be down eight starting defenders in their next game against Texas Tech on Saturday. Defensive tackle Davion Pierson, one of TCU’s strongest defenders, was ruled out to play last week against SMU, and coach Art Briles has not said whether or not Pierson will be cleared for this week’s game. Winning this game will be crucial for TCU’s chance at a playoff bid this year. One loss could put them out of the running.

TCU has a balanced schedule in November, playing on the road against Oklahoma State, at home against Kansas and on the road against Oklahoma State before hosting Baylor on its home turf.

Baylor, on the other hand, has a tricky month in November that could make or break its record. The Bears visit K-State for a Thursday night game, host Oklahoma and then travel to Oklahoma State before playing TCU the following week. Briles’ offense is tough, but can it han-dle a four-week beat down?

Ultimately, what it will come down to is the Black Friday, Nov. 27, showdown between TCU and Baylor. Each team should be fine handling most of their other opponents, but the true test will be to see how they handle each other. When it comes down to it, I think TCU has the stronger edge. They’ve got the talent and the experi-ence. At the end of the season, they should be the team with a playoff bid.


BAYLOR

Last season both the Baylor Bears and the TCU Horned Frogs were left on the brink of the inaugural College Football Playoff, and neither team made it. The two powerhouses are looking to dominate the confer-ence once again, but the Bears have the best chance at making it into the playoffs.

Sure, Baylor lost quarterback Bryce Petty, and TCU has the Heisman hopeful in quarterback Trevone Boykin. After years of having elite college quarterbacks at Baylor, Seth Russell appears to be nothing less of those standards.

After just two games into the season, Russell has been strong with nine touchdowns and a 187.5-passer rating, currently ranking him at No. 6 in the country, according to the NCAA. Passer rating evaluates the overall efficiency of a quarterback. The current single-season record is held by former Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson, who recorded a passer rating of 191.78 in 2011, according to sports-reference.com.

As the season continues, Russell will settle into his role more and more and, with the uncanny amount of weapons at his disposal including running back Shock Linwood and wide receiver Corey Coleman, Russell should be able to dominate the Big 12.

Although Boykin is a dominant quarterback in the Big 12 both in the air and on the ground as evi-denced by the 4,661 yards of total

offense and 42 total touchdowns he produced in 2014, the Horned Frogs have to rely on him for more of the load than Russell will. If Boykin has a rough game or the defense has locked up the run game, the Horned Frogs may find themselves in trouble.

However, Baylor’s ability to have many strong players putting up numbers in any given game gives the team a better matchup against defenses. Big 12 defenses will have a hard time balancing out stopping Linwood on the ground and Coleman in the air, giving the Bears the advantage in every game of conference play.

Unlike TCU, Baylor has most of its tough games at the end of the season, starting with Kansas State on Nov. 5. This gives the Bears time to develop and perfect their style of play with Russell commanding the offense. Lucki-ly for Russell, stud running back Shock Linwood can carry much of the load, as he had already put on a dominant performance in the first two games of the season, putting up 205 rushing yards and three touchdowns.

TCU will immediately be tested against the Wildcats and a rattled up Texas Longhorns squad. While the Horned Frogs will be favorites in all these games, it will be no walk in the park.

Baylor and TCU go head-to-head on Nov. 27, the Horned Frogs’ last game of the season. Last season, Baylor took the win in a 61-58 shootout. However, the team still wasn’t able to get into the College Football Playoff. If both teams play to their full po-tential this season, it should be a matchup of undefeated teams in late November, and Baylor should come out on top.

DAILY DEBATEWhich team will win the Big 12?

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LM OTERO/AP PHOTOBaylor running back Shock Linwood (32) jumps over Lamar defensive back Rodney Randle (20) during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015, in Waco, Texas.

A coach's true opinion is difficult to decipher, especially when talking about an oppos-ing team. They don't always say everything they know and often skew the truth. Or may-be they don't even know the truth. That's why we have the opposing sideline: to find the truth about Kansas football's opponents.

This week I talked to Dan Duggan, the Rutgers football beat writer for New Jersey

Advance Media. We touched on everything from the team's recent suspensions, coach Kyle Flood's hot seat, the quarter-back controversy and how to exploit the Rutgers defense.

KANSAN: How have the losses from suspensions affect-ed the team? Have they been overstated at all?

DUGGAN: No, they haven’t, because they’ve lost a lot of key players. The first wave of players that got arrested, included a starting corner-

back, starting free safety and one of their top cornerbacks. That depleted an already-thin secondary.

Then the latest arrest — which is such a suspension for now — is Leonte Carroo, the All-Big Ten wide receiver and by far the best player on the team. That’s been a significant blow to the offense. Add it all up, and it’s not just a matter of seven players suspended or dismissed, it’s been starters and key players suspended and dismissed.

KANSAN: How did you see the suspensions change the team last week? Especially after Carroo, who is really the main one.

DUGGAN: The Carroo loss was pretty obvious. They just weren’t able to get anything going offensively. He’s been the main downfield threat, the defenses have had to game-plan for him, had to double team him and had to roll coverages his way.

They take him off the field, not only do you lose his pro-duction you lose the attention that he draws for other guys, so now it’s more difficult for other receivers to get open. Teams are really stacking the box, because they know Rut-gers’ strength is the run game. There really isn’t much of a big play threat on this offense right now without him.

KANSAN: What’s the most disappointing thing that has gone on with all of this so far?

DUGGAN: The Kyle Flood suspension. You don’t want to excuse players being arrested, but that happens everywhere. It’s kind of an unavoidable fact when you have 105 18-to-22 years olds — they’re going to make mistakes and they’re going to do stupid things. Obviously some of these crimes are serious, so [I’m not trying] to diminish that, but it happens.

To have a coach suspend-ed for blatantly violating an academic policy, to me, that’s much more egregious. He’s the face of the program, he’s the one looked at to set an example. If he’s shorting the rules, that’s going to overshad-ow anything a player does, in my opinion.

KANSAN: Is Flood on the hot seat at all, or is his job in danger if he doesn’t win games when he comes back?

DUGGAN: I think he cer-tainly could have been fired for this offense; the University president even said that that was on the table. You have to believe he’s on thin ice. You couple that with the arrests, and it’s not shaping up to be a very good season on the field. So when you get to December, if you’re looking at suspen-sions, the arrests, and a losing season, I would think that would all add up to an unclear outcome for Flood.

KANSAN: Shifting gears here, what’s the M.O. on the offense? What do they try to do well?

DUGGAN: The strength of the team is by far their run-ning backs. They have a stable of three or, really, four guys who are getting carries right now. Without Carroo, that’s even more of a focus. That’s what they’re going to try to do. It was limited against Penn State, and I think part of that you can attribute to the fact that there were three new offensive lineman, and they had a really rough game.

Chris Laviano, the quar-terback, had some decent numbers but really hasn’t been able to make any big plays or stretch the defense. Penn State was able to bottle up the running game because they weren’t scared of anything else. But if Rutgers is going to be successful, it’s going to be off the strength of the running game.

KANSAN: There’s a quarter-back controversy, too. I don’t know if you’d say Laviano is on thin ice, but he isn’t getting support from the fans and those sort of things. What’s the deal with quarterback? Could sophomore quarter-back Hayden Rettig take over?

DUGGAN: I don’t really expect Rettig to take over. When Flood picks a guy, he kind of sticks with him. The indications are that Laviano will start against Kansas. The main issue is, the razor-thin competition in training camp, and Laviano actually got sus-pended for violating curfew and getting caught with a fake ID. So, if anything, you would think the scales would have tipped towards Rettig.

Rettig started the first half of the opener while Laviano was suspended, and performed really well, and everyone knows he has a really strong arm, he’s a four-start recruit, transfer from LSU, so he has a lot of those things that fans are going to latch onto. But once Laviano’s suspension was up, he came in the second half and he hasn’t really let go of the job. I think fans have seen the offense sputter, they’ve seen what Rettig can do, and they’re aware of his creden-tials, so I think they just want to see if he can get a shot.

KANSAN: How big is that loss? Darius sitting out?

DUGGAN: Yeah, I mean, it’s a big loss. We talked about Carroo being the best offen-sive player, but Hamilton is hands down the best defensive player. And they put him at defensive tackle — right in the middle of the defense — and the defense is a destructive force. A guy like him can free up Turay, because they might double Hamilton and that leaves Turay singled up. It’s a domino effect: you lose one of your best players in the mid-dle, everybody else has to try

to compensate and they just really don’t have enough talent on this defense to make up for the loss of their best defensive player.

KANSAN: What’s the weak-ness of this defense? Easier to pass or run against?

DUGGAN: It’s sort of pick your poison. Against Wash-ington State, they got killed in the air. Against Penn State, they got killed on the ground. That basically says, if you have a strength on offense, you just do that and attack the defense, because they haven’t shown the ability to stop anybody yet. I would say the front seven is supposed to be the strength of the team with the secondary losing so many guys, playing so many young guys. That would be the most likely area for weakness, but against Penn State, the front seven got ex-posed, so there’s holes all over this defense.

KANSAN: The spread is at 13. What’s your pick?

DUGGAN: Rutgers 33, Kansas 20. I just think that Rutgers is obviously having some major issues, but there is still some talent on this team. Kansas [is just] at 60-some-thing scholarships, and their defense looks really suspect. I would think that Rutgers will be able to run the ball against them, and I think defensively, they should be be able to play a little better since Kansas isn’t as strong of an offense as some of the ones they’ve faced. Certainly it doesn’t look like a blowout, but I can see Rutgers controlling the game and pulling out a 33-20 win.

— Edited by Scott Chasen

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KE’AUN KINNERJUNIOR, RUNNING BACK

Kinner has been the best player for the Jayhawks this season with over 100 rushing yards in each of his first two games. Kinner has shown he’s an ex-plosive athlete in the open field, but he also has the ability to break tackles on his way to three rushing touchdowns. The Jayhawks will continue to lean on Kinner to move the chains, run the clock and keep their struggling defense off the field.

★★★★✩

CHRIS LAVIANOSOPHOMORE, QUARTERBACK

Laviano looks good on paper but has turned the ball over in crucial situations this year, leading his team to an 1-2 record in his two starts. Laviano leads the Big Ten in completion percentage (72 percent), and has been incredible on first downs. But his three interceptions have come back to burn Rutgers; he’s even been booed by fans at home. It’s possible that sophomore Hayden Rettig could start over Laviano this week, though the depth chart does not reflect that.

★★✩✩✩

JOSH HICKSSOPHOMORE, RUNNING BACK

Hicks is averaging 6.3 yards per carry and is the best running back on this team, yet he is not listed as the starter. He’s averaging 86 rushing yards per game and topped 100 yards for the third time in his career last week. He’s listed behind team captain Paul James on the depth chart. James is still recovering from serious injuries, which have put a quick end to each of his last two seasons.

★★★★✩

STEVE LONGAJUNIOR. LINEBACKER

Longa is the defensive leader on this team. He has tied or led the team in tackles in 20 of his 29 career games and leads the active team with 251 career tackles. He’s a ferocious pass defender who will give Cozart trouble on short throws, a staple of this Kansas version of the air raid offense.

★★★✩✩

KEMOKO TURAYSOPHOMORE,DEFENSIVE END

If defensive tackle Darius Hamilton was healthy and ready to play, he’d be a four-star guy. But he’s questionable with what is suspected to be a knee injury and is still up for a possible redshirt, meaning he could stay sidelined this year. However, Turay is almost as exciting, albeit a bit more raw. The 6-foot-6 defensive end played mostly third downs in his freshman season but is trying to become an every down guy this year.

★★★✩✩

ANTHONY CIOFFIJUNIOR, FREE SAFETY

Cioffi is a former corner who converted to free safety over the offseason. Those ballhawking skills he learned at corner have already translated over the last two seasons when he played three games at free safety and recorded two interceptions. This year he’s done the same — three games and two interceptions. He’s quite the athlete and a guy Cozart has to be weary of when throwing the ball across the middle.

★★✩✩✩

BEN GOODMANSENIOR, DEFENSIVE END

Before the season, Goodman said his goal was to record 15 sacks, and he’s on pace to do that with 3.5 sacks through two games. The defensive line strug-gled to get any pressure on the quarterback in a big loss to Memphis. The team will rely on Goodman on to pressure the quarterback this weekend for the Jayhawks’ defense to be successful.

★★★✩✩

TRE’ PARMALEESENIOR, WIDE RECEIVER

The Jayhawks have had a very balanced attack at receiver this year with 12 guys who have caught at least one pass through two games. Parmalee leads the pack in yards (97) and is the only one to catch a touchdown this season. His ability to get open and create yards after the catch makes him a nice safety valve for Cozart in the Jayhawks first road game of the season.

★★★✩✩

MONTELL COZARTJUNIOR, QUARTERBACK

After a career day in week one, Cozart came back to earth against Memphis, throwing for just 118 yards with a completion percentage under 50 percent. Until Cozart proves he can consistently complete deep passes, defenses will continue to dare him to throw deep by taking away all of the short routes.

★★✩✩✩

FISH SMITHSONFRESHMAN CORNERBACK

Through two games, Smithson has 17 tackles, which is more than the sec-ond and third leading tacklers on the team combined (15). He’s been active in the passing game, leading the Jayhawks with two pass deflections, and his forced fumble is the only turnover caused by the Jayhawks this season. His nose for the ball will be important for a defense that has struggled to tackle so far this season.

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Rutgers players players sus-pended or kicked off the team. Of those, four were crucial and expected to be contributors to the team. Leading those four is wide receiver Leonte Carroo, an All-Big Ten player for last year.

7Points Rutgers scored in its Big Ten opener against Penn State. Quarterback Chris Laviano struggled, posting a 28.5 raw quarterback rating and tossing two interceptions along the way.

3Straight games Leonte Carroo has posted a reception in. Carroo, the top offensive player in this Rutgers offense, has been suspended and will not play.

22The amount of rushing yards per game for Kinner, which is best in the Big 12. Baylor’s junior running back Shock Linwood is a distant second with 102.5 yards per game.

135 The amount of yards per kick return for redshirt freshman Ryan Schadler, which is cur-rently 8th best in the country.

34.7The amount of total yards per game allowed by the Jayhawk defense. That is fifth worst in the country and worst in the Big 12.

557

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The Kansas men's golf team finished second overall at the Ram Masters Invitational over the weekend, eight strokes be-hind tournament winner and host Colorado State Universi-ty. The Jayhawks were led by senior Ben Welle, who shot a four under par and won the individual championship by two strokes.Kansas was only one stroke

out of the lead at one over par after the first two rounds of the Invitational on Monday,

seemingly in the hunt for the championship with one round to play.“We played well today," coach

Jamie Bermel said after the first round of the tournament. "We let a few slip away late, but overall a pretty good start to the event. The third round is going to be a lot of fun, CSU on their home course will be tough to beat but that's why we play.”The Rams proved to be too

much for the Jayhawks to handle. Colorado State shot eight over par in the third round, leaving them at nine over through the entirety of

the tournament. They finished just one over par on Tuesday, securing the championship by eight strokes on their home course.

The Jayhawks also finished second in pars and eagles made, and third in birdies made with 39. Kansas’ second place finish is an improvement

over their fifth place finish in the Rod Myers Invitational earlier this month.The brightest star for Kansas

was Welle, who finished first place overall in the tourna-ment, shooting four under par on the 7,215 yard, par 70 course. Welle put together the most complete tourna-ment of any player despite starting the first round with a double bogey.“Ben had a great day for

us today," Bermel said. "(He) made a double bogey on his first hole of his second round and really showed a lot of ma-turity and poise to put together a great second round in tough conditions.”Welle would shoot two over

par in the third and final round but was able to hold off Colorado State’s Dominic Kieffer and Max Oelfke, who finished tied for second at one under par.“This was one of my goals for

this year and accomplishing it feels incredible," Welle said. "It is not only a big win for me, but for my school as well. (I'm)

really proud to represent Kan-sas here in Fort Collins."Other Kansas individual

scores include Connor Peck who finished tied for fourth place shooting even along with Chase Hanna and Charlie Hill-ier who finished tied for 25th.Kansas men's golf will now

turn its attention toward the Badger Invitational in Mad-ison, Wis, which begins on Sept. 27. The team will look to keep improving their result as a team and notch the first tour-nament victory of the season.

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Change in practice schedule

Because of a change in the way classes are ordered, Kansas baseball players now have a new practice schedule that starts later in the day.

It’s the first time in 12 years that coach Ritch Price has had to change the way his team prac-tices, and he expressed he wasn’t too pleased about it.

“We’re doing their hitting during the day around (the play-er's) class schedule and we’re not starting practice until 3:45, and then they go to the weight room at 5," Price said. "It’s a full day but it’s different because of the class problems we’ve had."

Assistant coaches have had to put in a lot of work to switch to a

different practice schedule."There’s no doubt [that it’s

tougher this way], it takes re-ally good organization on the part of my assistants to put the guys in the groups around their class times," Price said. "Other-wise we’d practice normally at 3 o’clock and we’d have no infield-ers.”

While Price wasn’t a fan of the changes, the players who spoke seemed to enjoy them.

“I think it’s actually a good thing," said junior pitcher Ben Krauth. "I know the coaches don’t like it per se because they are out here a lot more but it gives the guys a nice little break compared to last year when you’re going to class after prac-tice and going to weight’s and tutoring you have no breaks from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.”

Under the new practice sched-ule, Krauth said players have

more down time.“Having that three or four

hour time period when you’re not doing anything you can do your homework, get a bite to eat and take care of your business off the field," Krauth said. "That way you can come to practice ready to work.”

Sophomore infielder Matt Mc-Laughlin echoed that sentiment.

“I think actually it’s going to be a pretty positive outcome," he said. "We’re able to get every single team player on the field at once.”

No lingering effectsLast season’s 23-32 record and

exclusion from the Big 12 play-off were disappointments for Kansas baseball, but Price said the team is feeling no lingering effects other than motivation.

“I’m excited about flushing last season,” Price said. “We went

through that rebuilding process and now we hope we’re back to the next level where we can be competitive in our league.”

Though the team has only been together for a short time, there's a new energy as the team

starts the 2015 season.“Other than motivation, we

have no lingering effects, I’ve already gotten a great vibe from this team," Price said. "We’re all best friends. I love coming here every day.”

Despite being 151 days away from the season opener against Arkansas Little-Rock, there is no lack of optimism as the Jay-hawks begin preparation for the 2015 season.

— Edited by Amber Vandegrift

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The Horejsi Center was once again filled with fans, and once again, they waved the wheat as Kansas volley-ball topped Kansas State. The Jayhawks bumped up its un-defeated streak to 13 match-es with a win over the rival Wildcats in four sets (25-23, 19-25, 25-22, 25-21).

The Wildcats put up an im-pressive fight, but they lost after swiping one set from the Jayhawks.

“Welcome to the Big 12,” coach Ray Bechard said af-ter the team’s rough perfor-mance. “Offensively, we hit .220, that’s probably the low-est of the year. We had to rely on some other things.”

The first set of the match proved to be difficult for the Jayhawks as they trailed the Wildcats throughout the ma-jority of the set. Kansas took the lead a total of three times in set one. Eventually the Jay-hawks took the lead at 19-18 and held it to win the set 25-23.

Right side hitter Kelsie Payne led the Jayhawks in kills, posting six throughout the set. Setter Ainise Havili

set those kills up with her 13 assists, putting up all but one of the total assists.

The second set was the fourth set that the Jayhawks have dropped this season as the Wildcats edged out a 25-19 victory. The Wildcats proved they are a force to be reckoned with after they dominated during the ma-jority of the set. But the Jay-hawks stayed level-headed.

“We can’t change our men-tality,” said libero Cassie Wait. “Our facial expressions

can’t change, our body lan-guage can’t change.”

The Jayhawks recorded only 11 kills in the second set, a relative low for the team. The leader in kills in the second set was outside hitter Madi-son Rigdon, who added four kills to bring her total to five.

Wait continued to prove her-self as a defensive specialist by adding five more digs to her five from the first set. Wait was diving all over the court, trying for balls that seemed impossible to save.

The Jayhawks took the third set 25-22 in a hard-fought battle. Payne continued to post impressive kill numbers, adding six to make her total 15 in three sets. Havili assist-ed her teammates and put up 16 assists to increase her total to 38.

Wait led the team in digs. She showed her dedication to her defensive position by tak-ing a full-speed hit to the face

but saved the ball and imme-diately got back up.

“One ball, one set, one match at a time,” Wait said. “That’s what I focus on.”

The fourth and final set came much easier to the Jay-hawks as the fire that was once burning within the Wildcats began to die. The Jayhawks took the set 25-21.

Havili added another 16 assists to bring her total to 54 — only three away from her personal best. Rigdon used those assists to post six more kills and finished the day with 14. Payne ended the day with 20 kills, five coming from the final set.

Five players ended the game with a dig amount in the dou-ble digits. Wait led with 27. Havili had 12 and posted yet another double-double for the season. Defensive spe-cialist Addison Barry had a spectacular night in the back, recording a season high of six digs.

“[Barry] was digging every-thing in her zone,” Bechard said. “That was big.”

The Jayhawks will face Kan-sas State once again on Nov. 25 in Manhattan. For now, the team’s next test comes against TCU on Saturday on 2 p.m.

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JAMES HOYT/KANSANHead coach David Beaty and defensive coordinator Clint Bowen shout as the Kansas defense runs onto the field on Sept. 12.

CHRISTIAN HARDY@ByHardy

2009 was a bizarre year for Kansas football.

Kansas football and basket-ball teams feuded early in the season, resulting in physical altercations, injuries and sub-sequent apologies from both teams. A week after the sea-son-ending loss to Missouri, head coach Mark Mangino stepped down from his posi-tion with the team. Many felt the resignation was warranted, too: under Mangino, Kansas had dropped seven straight contests while he went under investigation for the treatment of his players.

Kansas football would win only one away game that year; a 34-7 clobbering of Texas-El Paso on a feverish September day at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas. A 30-game road losing streak would follow; a streak that still stands today, six years later.

Now-head coach David Beaty was a wide receivers

coach on that 2009 team. Since then, he hasn’t seen a team that can quite compare to the Jayhawks that went through those tumultuous months. That is, until Kansas (0-2) fac-es up against Rutgers (1-2) this weekend.

When Beaty was asked this week how much Rutgers’ sev-en missing players — six dis-missed, one suspended — af-fected the Jayhawks, his reply was simple.

“None.”He attributed that to the

team’s head coach Kyle Flood, who is also suspended for two more games due to violating University policy, but can still coach the team from Sunday to Friday every week.

“He does a really good job. He's been very productive there,” Beaty said, before talking about Rutgers’ first game without Flood last week. “You saw guys straining on every play on the tape every night. You saw accurate exe-cution… Those guys did not look different to me. I think

that's a testament to him. He's done a nice job of preparing those guys whether he's there or not.”

And suddenly, Beaty might be reminded of that 2009 team. Rutgers, through turmoil and the loss of its head coach for gameday, is doing just as Kan-sas did in 2009.

“It didn’t (affect) us,” Beaty said of the issues off the field in 2009. “I think that was because of our leadership. Our coach-es did a good job through that process, which I'm sure their coaches are, too.”

The effect, though, on the field has been similar for both, despite Beaty calling it “min-imal.” Both Kansas, in 2009, and Rutgers, in 2015, don’t re-ally seem to be coherent.

Rutgers is missing three start-ers — wide receiver Leonte Carroo, cornerback Dre Boggs and safety Delon Stephenson. Carroo is considered to be the biggest loss of the group, as he is the team's top offensive play-maker. But there are still other problems.

The fans have yet to en-dorse Chris Laviano as the team’s starting quarterback, sometimes even booing the sophomore as he comes onto the field. The defensive line is banged up, including the team's top defensive talent, defensive tackle Darius Hamil-ton. Hamilton is dealing with a knee injury and could redshirt this season.

In one way or another, all of those issues have caused two-straight losses for Rutgers, including a 28-3 loss to Penn State in the first game for inter-im head coach Norries Wilson.

In a way, it could be com-pared to the collapse of Kansas football since that last away win in 2009. But that’s not on Kansas’ radar, though that’s not to say they haven’t heard about it.

“It's not something that I really have given too much thought to… I read it on Twit-ter this morning,” Beaty said. “That's one of those things that I don't think our kids really think a whole lot about that ei-

ther. We don't allow them to.”It probably shouldn’t be on

this team’s mind; not even a bit. Six years later, not one of these players was involved with that 2009 team that start-ed the slump. Only a about half of the players who are still around Memorial Stadium have been a part of the attempt to break it.

When it comes to Saturday's game against Rutgers, it will be about Kansas getting its first win of the season, and both teams leaving the turmoil of the past behind them.

“If it was a 30-game win streak or 30-game lose streak, you'd like to be on the other side of it, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter,” Beaty said. “What happens that day is what's going to matter.”


Kansas and Rutgers leave turmoil and shoddy past at the door ahead of game

““Offensively, we hit .220, that’s probably the low-est of the year. We had to rely on some other things.”

RAY BECHARDHead Coach

Kansas defeats Kansas State to extend streak

This time last year, Andrew Wiggins was focusing on getting ready for his first NBA season. Just a few months earlier, he had been selected with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, and the anticipation was building.

But the start of the 2015-16 season brings something com-pletely new for Wiggins. With the 2015 No. 1 overall draft pick Karl Anthony-Towns joining the Timberwolves, Wiggins will look to lead a franchise that has struggled historically in the postseason.

The rookie out of Kansas turned plenty of heads last sea-son, despite the Timberwolves' dismal record. The team won 16 games last year, finishing last in the Western Conference.

That didn't stop Wiggins from receiving Rookie of the Year honors, as he averaged nearly 17 points per game while showing glimpses of what his future could hold.

That was on display this sum-mer as well, although, once again, his team didn't come through.

At this summer’s 2015 FIBA Americas tournament, the highly talented Canadian ros-ter — filled with NBA players — underperformed. Canada was bounced in the semifinals of the tournament, falling to Venezuela 79-78. Canada would go on to win the third-place game against Mexico, albeit by one point.

However, while the team was far from ecstatic with its finish and failed to guarantee a spot in the upcoming Summer Olympics, Wiggins' perfor-mances were silver linings.

In 10 games at the FIBA Americas, Wiggins averaged 15.1 points per game — not an easy feat given the depth and scoring ability of nearly everyone on the roster.

Perhaps even more impres-sive, however, was his efficien-cy from the floor.

Wiggins shot 48.7 percent from 2-point land while connecting on more than 51 percent of his 3-point jumpers. Wiggins finished the tourna-ment at 15-of-29 from 3-point range, which was a big part of why he was named to the All-Tournament Team.

And that's the Wiggins the Timberwolves need.

The Timberwolves will need their Rookie of the Year to perform at an even higher level than last year if they want to improve upon the 2014-15 disaster of a season.

Last year, Wiggins put up a hefty 1,137 shots, connecting on 497 of them for a 43.7 field goal percentage. That mark was good enough for 72nd in the NBA last season and wasn't necessarily a poor field goal percentage, considering his team lacked multiple offensive threats to take the pressure off him and relied on him to create a lot of his offense.

However, the efficiency he put up at the FIBA Americas speaks to the type of player Wiggins could become. And the Timberwolves are going to need that Wiggins if they're going to have any chance at a postseason run.

It has been more than a decade since they've made the playoffs, and even with new additions, there's still a long way to go before the winning culture can be restored.

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Myths and tales of Lawrence

Myths and tales of Lawrence

What’s at the bottom of Potter Lake? Is there really a “murder room” above Jefferson’s? Does getting hit by a KU bus really equal free tuition?

Lawrence and the University are brimming with myths and tales that have been passed down through the years. We’re taking a look at the truth behind some of the most popular — and strangest — legends.

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AMIE JUST@Amie_Just

More than dirt lies under the streets of downtown Lawrence. There's an interconnected network of underground tunnels that join different buildings and sections of the Massachusetts Street area together. Entering the tunnels is

illegal, unless the passageway opens access to someone's property. With no existing map outlining the course of the tunnels and no knowledge of what condition the paths are in, walking underground is dangerous. Many of the tunnels have also been sealed off.

Then why are they there and what are they used for?Many different theories and

rumors circulate the town, but only some have been confirmed. Several of the downtown

tunnels were known to have been built in part by J.D. Bowersock and the Bowersock Dam, completed in July of 1874. In that time, electricity was carried via a conveyor belt system rather than through the overhead electric wires that are everywhere today.Architectural historian,

Brenna Buchanan, said the basement of Ernst & Son Hardware (located at 826 Massachusetts St.) used to

be an old seamstress factory. The sewing machines were powered by hydroelectricity from the dam. In that case, Bowersock's tunnel system could have reached the store (about 0.5 miles from the dam) and branched out farther downtown.Buchanan has been in the

tunnel that starts under Liberty Hall and runs to Hobbs Inc across the street. She said the tunnel used to connect to the Eldridge Hotel, but has long since been closed off. Lawrence Journal-World

articles from 1962, 1964, 1987 and 2009 have testaments from people who had been in the tunnels all over Lawrence.

Two boys found a tunnel, what they called a cave, near West Ninth Street and Avalon Road in 1962, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. The article cited "unconfirmed speculation" about the tunnel being used for the Underground Railroad.According to a Lawrence

Journal-World article on March 4, 1964, tunnels were found under the old Lawrence Brewery and Byrd Tannery building. That building has since been razed, but the building stood on Maine Street, just north of the Lawrence Memorial Hospital. According to that article, the tunnels were supposed to be salvaged and

preserved.In 1987, two other tunnels

were discovered at Sixth and Massachusetts Street when the Underwood Building was destroyed. The tunnels aren't fancy

by any means. Many of the tunnels, according to people who have seen them, aren't very big. With hardly any room to stand, people crawled through the mold, grime, and mud that coated the paths. The article from 1962 detailed how the tunnel the boys found was roughly three feet in height.As for urban legend, anything

goes.Historians in Lawrence have

been on both sides of the

Underground Railroad theory, but because there isn't enough evidence proving either side, the debate still rages on. The Underground Railroad

dates back to the 1850s and 1860s. The Bowersock Dam started construction in 1872, and was completed in 1874.In Wabaunsee County, Kan.

(two counties west of Douglas County), there is documented evidence of the Underground Railroad. No such proof exists for Douglas County, but theoretically, it's possible. Will more tunnels show up

somewhere? Who knows. You never know what could be under your feet.

None of these stories are new, but then, legends rarely are. They’re repeated and passed down from class to class, accumulating embellishments and alternate perspectives along the way. And while most cities’

histories go down in flames, Lawrence’s pretty much begins there (shouts out to William Quantrill). From the free state to the freak state, this city has maintained an identity that no one else in Kansas would want to claim. So we’re breaking oral tradition and writing a few of these stories down.

But why are these stories worth telling? Well, I grew up in Kansas City with the understanding that Lawrence revolved entirely around the University, and more specifically, Keith Langford.Not so.As hard as it is to believe,

Lawrence existed before your freshman year andv it will

live on beyond your four or five or eight years here. This city is unique in that it accommodates more than 20,000 students in addition to a wealth of business owners, families and vagrants. It’s the city where a real estate tycoon can push a Bugatti and Dennis can push a shopping cart (if you don’t

know who Dennis is, stay tuned for future stories). So as we have the time of our lives, it’s important for us to acknowledge those memories made and forgot in the bars and classrooms and streets before us. These Lawrence myths — true or not — have survived to 2015 and it’s time you brushed up.

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A prominent land-mark at the University is the Campanile and carillon. Constructed in 1950 and dedicated on May 27, 1951, the Campanile is a World War II memorial to re-member the 277 men and women from the University who lost their lives fighting in the war.

The tradition of walk-ing under the monu-ment on the gradu-ation day began the following year. The year it was created, the Kansas City Star called it "the finest musical instrument of its kind west of Chi-cago." Measuring 120-feet tall, the Campani-le contains 53 bells in the carillon.Despite all the posi-

tive history surround-ing it, the Campanile comes with a very in-famous myth as well. It's rumored that if you're a student at-tending the Universi-ty and want to gradu-ate in four years, you should steer clear of the Campanile.The legend says that a person who walks beneath the Campa-nile before their grad-

uation day ceremony is doomed to either not graduate on time, or not graduate from the University at all. Whether it’s a rebel-lious student or a new Jayhawk on campus, it seems safer to not set foot under the Cam-panile, which contains the ghost of unearned diplomas past and risk the curse.On a lighter note, it's rumored that if a student kisses their significant other un-der the Campanile, they are destined to be married.In regards to the campus monument, it seems that you can either secure a lip-lock with your future spouse or risk the curse of not earning your diploma on time. No matter the truth of the myths, this old piece of architecture seems to generate quite a buzz.

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DARBY VANHOUTAN @DarbyVanHoutan

Campanile holds a legendary curse for hopeful graduates

COURTNEY VARNEY/KANSANLegend holds that if a students walk through the Memorial Campanile before they graduate, they won’t graduate on time.

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Editor’s note: This article appeared in a previous edition of The Kansan.Stull, located about 10 miles west of Lawrence, is a town so small it feels like it's hiding in plain view.Cars passing on its roads will be in and out of it in less time than it takes to process a full thought. The town includes a United Methodist Church that appears to have been constructed in recent years and an old, darkened, brick bait shop to the west. Two small houses sit almost adja-cent to the church and across from the south side of the small town there's a cemetery containing tombstones with dozens of German-sounding last names written on them.Multiple signs attached to the cemetery gate read a sim-ple message: “No Trespass-ing.” It's a peculiar sign to be posted on a regular cemetery gate, but Stull isn't commonly defined as regular.Stull Cemetery has gained a reputation for being the site of supernatural happenings, including associations with the devil, the occult and a supposed gateway to hell in the basement of an old church, demolished in 2002, which was supposedly shel-tered from rain despite its lack of a roof.Despite the rumors and ur-ban legends that surround

the cemetery, the most activ-ity seen there in recent years are acts of vandalism—hence the trespassing signs and Stull residents' desire to keep outsiders off the property.“It used to look a lot spook-ier than it does now. It had a stone structure adjacent to it, and it used to have some pine trees, but those pine trees died,” said Lt. Steve Lewis, former Douglas Coun-ty Sheriff's Office public in-formation officer. “When I used to patrol out there, I would stop people and they would tell me that they were just trying to see something scary, and I told them they were looking at the scariest thing they were going to see all night, and I charged them with a misdemeanor.”In addition to an American flag at the east end of the cemetery, a large, bent tree stands solitary to the west on one of the curves of the grav-el road that loops around the cemetery's premises.Toward the northeast corner of the small plot of land, the only remnants of the roofless church are limestone bricks. Most of the attractions that once brought people to the cemetery have been removed, and the sight is somewhat disappointing for a day in late October.Nevertheless, the legend has a surprisingly long legacy for how uneventful the town of Stull truly is.

stull cemetery is rumored to be a gateway to hell. is it?

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On May 28, 1954, attorney Leroy Har-ris sat in his office on top of a clothing store. That night, a man named Phillip Johnson snuck into his office and shot Harris three times. Harris died in his office chair from a gunshot wound to the head. Johnson took a walk around town be-fore turning himself in. Johnson was sen-tenced to life in prison and died in 1959 at the Kansas State Pen-itentiary in Lansing, according to a story in the Kansas City Star.Ralph Wolfson owned the clothing store underneath the office and was pretty shook up after hear-ing about the murder. He hired someone to clean up the body, seal the door and cov-er the windows in the office with metal siding. The room was

sealed for almost 50 years but in 2000, ac-cording to a Lawrence Journal-World article, Wolfson’s son, Mark, decided to open the room.When Mark and a group of journalists pried open a skylight to enter the room, they were shocked at what they saw. They had expected the room to be frozen in time from 1954, but construction workers had recently been in the room to secure a false ceiling. They also found some furniture they suspect-ed had been put in the room for extra storage.The only things that remained from the murder were papers from the 1950s and the nail that Harris’ law diploma hung on.The furniture store made way for Jef-ferson's restaurant in 2000. Pretty soon, at-tention turned from the mysterious room to the famous wings

below.But on Jan. 15, 2015, a fire in the second story of the building shut the restaurant down for two months. Firefighters cut open the siding, exposing the interior and the old tale.“We had an electri-cal fire in the upstairs back portion of the restaurant," said Jef-ferson’s owner Bran-don Graham. "We don’t know the final cause; we do know that a transformer blew up and, at the same time, a fire started." After talking to the current staff of Jef-ferson’s, only one em-ployee had even heard of someone being murdered upstairs.Nevertheless, the sec-ond story of the build-ing is easily seen from the street—as well as the window of Har-ris’s office.

— Edited by Rebecca Dowd

DAN GARRETT@KansanNews

1950s murder haunts room in Jefferson's

CAROLINE FISS/KANSANJefferson’s Restaurant occupies the first floor of a building where, in 1954, a murder occurred.


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large carp could be ’Potter Lake ‘whale’

Potter Lake has been drained twice in its his-tory — once in 1957 and again in 2011. Items

found at the bottom in-clude a desk, sewing machine, a time capsule, and a Model T Ford. Some claim that a cadav-er had to be fished from the lake after pranksters

stole it from Snow Hall in the 1980s.Potter Lake is also home to a variety of aquatic veg-etation such as duckweed and water lilies, as well as mosquito fish, bass, sev-

eral breeds of turtles and possibly sunfish.But could something more sinister be lurking in its 12-foot depths?Rumors have been swirling for years that the water hides every-thing from sea monsters to infant skeletons. One commenter, who identi-fies himself as “Frederic Gutknecth IV,” claims in the comments section of a 2008 Lawrence Jour-nal-World article that he rescued a two-pound al-bino “koi” that had been washed out of the lake by a storm.“After a real gully-wash-er of a storm there were literally THOUSANDS of fish littering the rock lined ditch down to the drain near the parking lot,” he wrote. “At the drain was the big (24"?), cream-colored koi. I think it's a koi. I carried it up and plopped it back in the pond. It was half

in and half out of water down by the drain and still ‘breathing.’ I went back down to the drain and saved a gigantic goldfish. It must have weighed two pounds. I had seen the great white whale (koi) for a long time, and I have seen it since it went back into the drink.”The commenter did not respond to an interview request.In its early days, swim-mers were a common sight at the lake. Swim-ming was banned, how-ever, after seven students drowned and the water quality came into ques-tion.Last August, represen-tatives from the Envi-ronment, Health and Safety Department used a mechanical harvester to pull unwanted aquatic vegetation from the lake. The project was done for mostly aesthetic purpos-

es, said Stanford Loeb, a specialist with the de-partment. The vegetation would otherwise die and decompose, resulting in the release of nitrogen and phosphorous which would stimulate excessive algae growth.“The lake’s a wonderful lake. It’s beautiful,” Loeb said. “Sometime, prob-ably during the 1980s, somebody threw a water lily tuber into the lake, and it has since devel-oped into a problem.”Asian grass carp were introduced to Potter Lake in 2009 to control the growth of vegetation. The fish are sterile and can grow rather large. Could one of these be the fa-mous albino carp?“If they’re albino, it would be rather odd be-cause we didn’t add any albino carp, and they can’t reproduce, but you never know,” Loeb said.


COURTNEY BIERMAN@KansanNews

COURTNEY VARNEY/KANSANPotter Lake is rumored to contain all sorts of flora and fauna.


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Can You get free tuition if you get hit by a campus bus?

This myth isn’t quite as old as time itself, given that the first school bus wasn’t invented until 1921, but students have long since spread word that getting hit by a campus bus earns you free tuition.No one knows the ori-gin of this myth, but its reach extends far beyond

the hills of the Univer-sity. In fact, there’s an entire page on Snopes with commenters claim-ing the same rumor at their respective universi-ties. So is it true?Not at all. Getting hit by a KU bus (or any other university vehi-cle) does not translate to free tuition, according to the KU Info website. So before you aimlessly

steer your hoverboard onto Jayhawk Boule-vard — and again, I can’t stress enough that you shouldn’t do that — con-sider these other options if a collision does occur:

• Go to the hospital.• Call the police.• Lawyer up.• Peel yourself off

the ground and hobble away in

case the bus is persistent and tries to come back for more.

• Learn your lesson and look both ways before crossing the street.

• If previous step fails, get your eyes tested.

• Cry.

— Edited by Kate Miller

WILL WEBBER@wmwebber


At around 11 p.m. on December 11, 1970, Carol Duster walked through the open door to the Sum-merfield Hall Computation Cen-ter. Ten feet away, a homemade bomb tore through the southern wall, according to an article from the KU Department of History. Carol Duster’s contact lenses were ripped from her eyes, scratching her corneas.The building had been previous-ly evacuated into 20-degree night air after a steady voice called in a bomb threat.The warning was simple and ex-act.“There is a bomb in the machine room set to go off in three min-utes. This is no joke,” the individ-ual told the Computation Center’s switchboard operator.Three days before, a student was

shot in front of Watson Library. Fires were started in classrooms almost daily, according to a 2010 LJ World article. Two men were killed in police clashes in the summer of ’70. On April 20 of that year a firebomb scorched the upper floors of the Kansas Union.Now referred to as “The Days of Rage,” 1970 was a year of violence to rival 1863, when Quantrill’s Raiders rode into Lawrence to slaughter and pillage abolitionists.Still, Duster wasn’t fazed by the warning and evacuation. She had homework to do and bomb threats were commonplace that semester. She went back into Summerfield without a second thought.She was still shivering when the door opened. The clock struck 11. Two fellow students, Vernon Breit and Victor Harrison, blacked out immediately. Duster remained conscious. Later, she told the Law-rence Journal World she “thought

I was being electrocuted… My hair was sticking out in all direc-tion … I thought everything was on top of me. It was so dark.”Her eardrums ruptured. Her contact lenses scraped her corneas and she suffered minor scrapes and bruises.Chancellor Larry Chalmers ar-rived a few minutes after the blast. He called the bombing an act of “psychopathic behavior.” He had addressed the Board of Regents a day earlier and explained the year’s nonstop violence.In the aftermath, no one claimed responsibility. The list of suspects was long: Black Panther militants galvanized by the police shooting of a black teenager that summer; the V-Committee, white vigilan-tes radicalized by a year of racial violence; the Weathermen, a left-ist offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society; or a rogue “psychopath.”

Duster had little to do with any of these groups, yet she was the one in the rear of an ambulance, deaf and blind.In the end the bomb inflicted minor injuries and $165,000 in damages. A stairwell mitigated the damage, as did a number of boxes stuffed with blank student sched-ules where the bomb was likely hidden. The next day two more campus phones rang with bomb threats, but both were hoaxes.A dozen undercover policemen were invited onto campus to infil-trate suspected groups. A reward fund was set up to gather informa-tion on the attacks, according to Lawrence.com.No one stepped forward.A few days later, the authorities sifted through the rubble for evi-dence, a clue for who or why. All they found were Carol Duster’s contact lenses.

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