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Two professors hired to create new center focused on immigrationALLISON CRIST@AllisonCristUDK

The University recently hired two sociologists who will lead the way for the cre-ation of a migration and im-migration studies center.

Victor Agadjanian and Ce-cilia Menjívar are both distin-guished professors at Arizona State University, and they will begin planning the center this fall.

At this point, it is unknown whether or not an entirely new building will be built, or if the center will be placed with an already existing building. The name for the center is still un-der consideration as well.

The need for this center comes from Bold Aspirations, the strategic plan that aims to improve the University as a whole. An aspect of the plan calls for growth in the area of human migration and im-migration, as well as human trafficking. This center will be dedicated to researching in these areas.

In addition to Agadjanian and Menjívar, the University will hire two foundation dis-tinguished professors this year to fulfill the plan.

David Smith, chair of the so-ciology department, said the center will satisfy the plan and allow people at the Universi-ty to address issues of public concern.

“In the spirit of the Bold As-pirations plan, the issues asso-ciated with immigration and migration are not just relative to us, but worldwide,” Smith

said. The center is in its earliest

stages of planning, and Smith said the two professors will think carefully on how to pro-ceed with its implementation. Nonetheless, the two profes-sors are in an agreement that the process will be fully par-ticipatory, meaning that they will welcome input from both students and faculty.

“They are both extraordi-narily accomplished sociol-ogists,” Smith said. “Their geographic specialities differ when it comes to research, which allows them to cover a

lot of ground.” Menjívar has done extensive

research regarding migration, specifically focusing on those immigrants that are U.S.-bound from Central America. She has published six books, ranging in topics from Latin American women to Salva-doran immigrants in America.

“I’ve examined both how im-migrants adapt to living in the U.S. and the problems many face when crossing the south-ern border to enter the coun-try,” Menjívar said.

Menjívar said she thinks this center will be beneficial be-

cause of the Kansas’ location. “It’s easy to find immigration

studies centers on the coasts, but to have one in the center of the country is important,” Menjívar said. “It will provide a different angle and shed light on relevant issues.”

Menjívar said she is looking forward to collaborate with the faculty here at the Uni-versity to provide a space for people to focus on important issues.

Agadjanian is also looking forward to collaborations.

“I’m excited to build this new center which will hopefully be an important place for new ideas to generate,” Agadjanian said. “I want to focus on the migration process and broad-ly define it while relating it to every other aspect of human and social life.”

Agadjanian hopes to work with experts from a wide vari-ety of disciplines to really look at migration and immigration from a broad perspective.

“Every place is affected by migration,” Agadjanian said. “It’s an increasingly global process, so it’s important to find solutions to the problems and challenges of this process.”

Agadjanian said he is ready to move to Lawrence.

“I’ve heard a lot of good things about the Universi-ty’s faculty and student body, but especially the life in Law-rence,” Agadjanian said.

— Edited by Valerie Haag

Brandon Schneider hired as women’s basketball coach

TONY GUTIERREZ/ASSOCIATED PRESSBrandon Schneider, former coach at Stephen F. Austin State University, will replace Bonnie Henrickson as coach of the women’s basketball team.

DYLAN SHERWOOD@dmantheman2011

Kansas Athletics an-nounced Monday that Stephen F. Austin State University coach Brandon Schneider has been hired as the new women’s basketball coach at the University of Kansas, after SB Nation and the Lawrence Journal World published multiple reports on Sunday.

“Brandon is an excellent fit for Kansas,” KU Athletics Di-rector Sheahon Zenger said in a press release.

Schneider will be officially announced as the new coach at a press conference at 10 a.m. today at Allen Field-house.

Schneider just finished his fifth season at Stephen F. Austin, where the Ladyjacks won back-to-back Southland Conference regular season championships. Following their 2014 regular season championship, Schneider guided the Ladyjacks to the Women’s Basketball Invita-tional championship games, where they were the run-ner-up. In 2015, the team lost in the first round of Southland Conference Tour-nament, but qualified for the Women’s NIT, where they didn’t make it past the first round.

During his time as coach at

Stephen F. Austin, Schneider combined an overall record of 108-49 in his five seasons. His best was the 2012-13 season, when the Jackrabbits were 28-2 and 17-1 in con-ference play.

His father, Bob, was also a successful coach in the world of women’s basketball. He won more than 1,000 women’s basketball games in a coaching career that lasted 43 years. In 1988, he coached West Texas A&M to a Division II National Cham-pionship game.

The Kansas position is not Schneider’s first coaching job in the state of Kansas. Prior to Stephen F. Austin, Schnei-der was the coach at Empo-ria State. He spent 12 seasons at Emporia and produced a 306-72 record, making him the winningest coach in pro-gram history.

During Schneider’s tenure at Emporia State, his team qualified for the NCAA Di-vision II National Tourna-ment 11 times, made it to the Final Four twice and won the whole tournament in 2010.

“We are confident that Brandon’s teams at KU will display the same tenacity and competitiveness that his teams showed at Emporia State and Stephen F. Austin,” Zenger said.

— Edited by Chandler Boese

Agadjanian Menjivar

1. The University is creating a center that will be dedicated to researching migration and immigra-tion.

2. Two Arizona sociologists have been hired to create the center.

3. The planning and implementation of the center will begin next fall.

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University research finds motivation behind small college athletic donationsSKYLAR ROLSTAD@SkyRolNews

A study by a group of Uni-versity researchers found that donations to small NCAA Di-vision III or National Associ-ation Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) athletics programs are largely motivated by rewards gained from donating, rather than a sense of giving back.

The study also showed why people choose to donate and why they choose to stop do-nating to their programs.

Jordan Bass, a graduate stu-dent at the University and assistant professor of health, sport and exercise science, researched the topic with University doctoral student Rebecca Achen and Bri-an Gordon, a student at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

“We thought it would really be ‘I want to give because I

have a strong attachment to the school,’ that’s what we’ve seen in the literature before,” Bass said. “It was more of a transactional relationship instead of this very relation-ship-based thing.”

Although the research fo-cused on small schools, the team’s discoveries highlighted the process of donations and revenue at larger schools as well.

Bass said the difference between funding for large schools like the University of Kansas and smaller Division III and NAIA schools lies in the consistency of funds and size of staffs.

“A school like KU has money consistently coming in from bowl games or [the NCAA Tournament],” he said. “Those are going to be consistent sources of revenue and these schools have a lot more ex-penditures.”

Bass said at some of the small schools he researched, the school’s sports staff would only consist of four people who weren’t coaches, like sports information or market-ing directors.

Because the schools have fewer resources than Division I schools, money that comes in from donations is much more valuable. But Bass said

the reason people donate is changing.

“I have been shown that my love is only as deep as my pockets,” one respondent wrote for the study, accord-ing to a University press re-lease, acknowledging the idea that many donors feel like the schools don’t care about them and only care about the dona-tions they make.

The press release also said “benefits of giving, from tour-ing facilities to something as simple as receiving a brand-ed license plate frame, were the most cited reasons people liked giving. They also dis-cussed the positive feeling of helping and being affiliated with the university as top ben-efits.”

The study found that one of the reasons people stop do-nating is they don’t receive

enough return on their in-vestment. Among the reasons people donated were better seats for season tickets or gifts from the university. Bass said these benefits could also be small things like license plate covers.

According to the release, there are ways to win back do-nors and they can be small.

The study focused only on small donors, because large donors tend to get more at-tention and be less difficult to keep donating.

“[The reason people donate] has changed over time,” Bass said. “You don’t really have to give to be associated now. We can just follow from afar and have this connection without having to have a physical show that [a fan is] associated with a university.”

— Edited by Chandler Boese

1. The University group’s study found that dona-tions to small collegiate athletics programs are no longer based on one’s affection toward a college.

2. Donations are more essential to a small col-lege’s funding than a large Division I program.

3. The study found that people stop donating be-cause of an inadequate return on their investment in the university.

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““It was more of a transac-tional relationship instead of this very relationship-based thing.”

JORDAN BASSGraduate student

Student wins Truman Scholarship, receives call from chancellor

University student Ashlie Koehn was chosen as the University’s 18th Truman Scholar on Wednes-day. According to a University press release, Chancellor Berna-dette Gray-Little told Koehn the news over a Skype call. Koehn currently studies Russian and economics in Kyrgyzstan.

“At first, I thought she was just calling to congratulate me on the Udall [Scholarship],” Koehn said. “It had a surreal quality, being here in Kyrgyzstan and taking a break from helping my host family ... to Skype with the chancellor.”

Koehn is a junior from Burns, studying environmental studies, global international studies and economics. She plans to work toward a Master of Science in Environmental Economics.

The Truman Scholarship, to-taling $30,000, is a prestigious scholarship awarded to select students across the country who plan on attending graduate

school. Koehn hopes to attend the Lon-

don School of Economics after graduation for its environmental economics program that focuses on climate change.

“It is truly an honor to be in-cluded in the Truman communi-ty and I am looking forward to meeting all of the other scholars during orientation,” Koehn said.

Nominations for the Truman Scholarship start at the univer-sity level with professors and advisors who interview the best candidates. The best candidates’ applications are then sent to a regional committee who will se-lect the finalists. There are usu-ally one or two winners per state.

According to the Truman Foun-dation website, Koehn is a Staff Sergeant at the Kansas Air Na-tional Guard, runner and mando-lin player.

“Joining the Guard was the best single decision I have ever made and I am so grateful for the support and mentorship I have received from this great organi-zation,” Koehn said.

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Bird flu confirmed at farm in IowaDAVID PITTAssociated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa — Up to 5.3 million hens at an Iowa farm must be destroyed af-ter the highly infectious and deadly bird flu virus was con-firmed, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday.

The farm in northwest Io-wa’s Osceola County has nearly 10 percent of the state’s egg-laying hens. Iowa is home to roughly 59 million hens that lay nearly one in ev-ery five eggs consumed in the country.

Egg industry marketing ex-perts say it’s too early to pre-dict the impact on prices, but say it’s unlikely to immediate-ly cause a spike or a shortage, because number of chickens that are to be euthanized is a little more than 1 percent of the nation’s egg layers.

“Don’t panic,” poultry in-dustry consultant Simon Shane said. “Let’s wait and see.”

If the disease keeps spread-ing and 20 million to 30 million hens are infected, consumers could start seeing prices rise, said Shane, who’s also an adjunct professor of poultry science and veteri-nary medicine at North Car-olina State University.

Several Midwestern states have been affected by the outbreaks, costing turkey and chicken producers nearly 7.8 million birds since March.

The virus was first detected in Minnesota, the country’s top turkey-producing state, in early March and the H5N2 virus has since shown up on commercial farms in Arkan-sas, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. On Monday, the virus was confirmed in an-other turkey farm in Minne-sota and a backyard flock of

mixed birds in Wisconsin.The Osceola County farm

experienced a high num-ber of chicken deaths and sent samples to a USDA lab at Iowa State University for confirmation. It’s the first chicken farm in Iowa to be affected by the virus, which was confirmed at a turkey farm in the state last week.

The chickens at the large

farm reside in more than 20 houses, said Dustin Vande Hoef, a spokesman for Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey.

“It’s a huge challenge for this producer and highlights the importance of biosecurity and other producers trying to take steps to limit the spread of this disease,” he said.

Vande Hoef said there is no

food safety risk.The Center for Disease

Control and the Iowa De-partment of Public Health considers the risk to people from these infections in wild birds, backyard flocks and commercial poultry, to be low. No human infections with the virus have ever been detected.

BETHANY HAHN/ASSOCIATED PRESSIn this photo is a flock of turkeys at a Minnesota poultry farm. The country’s poultry industry may have to live with a deadly bird flu strain for several years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief veterinary officer said April 16 on a visit to Minnesota, the state hit hardest by outbreaks that have cost Midwest producers over two million turkeys and chickens.

The article “Professors weigh in on Kansas’ new EPA regu-lations” that was printed in The University Daily Kansan on Wednesday, April 15, incorrect-ly referred to restrictions on carbon monoxide, and should have referred to restrictions on carbon dioxide. The regulations will reduce carbon dioxide emis-sions, not carbon monoxide.

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Kansas cuts forecast for taxes by $187M JOHN HANNAAssociated Press

Kansas officials on Mon-day cut their projections for tax collections from now through June 2016 by $187 million, which will force Gov. Sam Brownback and legislators to consider larger tax increases to balance the budget.

State officials, legislative researchers and university economists issued a new fiscal forecast, revising one made in November. The Republican governor and GOP-dominated Legislature must use the new, more pes-simistic projections in fin-ishing work on a proposed state budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

The forecasters reduced the estimate for total tax col-lections for the current fiscal year by nearly $88 million, or 1.5 percent, to about $5.7 billion. They also cut the tax estimate for the next fiscal year by nearly $100 million, or 1.7 percent, also making it almost $5.9 billion.

The new forecast also re-duced the official projection for total tax collections in the fiscal year beginning in July 2016 by $88 million, or

about 1.4 percent, making it about $6 billion.

Before the new forecast, top Republican legislators had been working on budget proposals requiring general tax increases of about $150 million a year.

The state’s budget prob-lems arose after Brownback successfully pushed legis-lators in 2012 and 2013 to slash personal income taxes in an effort to stimulate the economy. The state cut its top rate by 29 percent and exempted 281,000 business owners and 53,000 farmers from income taxes altogeth-er.

Brownback has not backed off those policies, though he’s proposed slowing down future personal income tax cuts. He’s also pushing to raise alcohol and tobacco taxes and has said he’s open to boosting the state’s sales tax.

Legislators are scheduled to reconvene April 29 to wrap up business for the year.

Before the new forecast, tax collections for the cur-rent fiscal year, through March, were $43 million less than anticipated, a shortfall of about 1.2 percent.

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Willie Nelson to release own marijuana brandNICHOLAS K. GERANIOSAssociated Press

SPOKANE, Wash. — Coun-try music star Willie Nelson announced plans Monday to roll out his own brand of mari-juana, capitalizing on his asso-ciation with pot and the unoffi-cial stoner holiday, 4/20.

The move makes the 81-year-old “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die” singer the latest celebrity to jump into the marijuana marketplace.

“Willie’s Reserve” will be grown and sold in Colorado and Washington, where recre-ational pot is legal. Nelson said in a statement that he’s “look-ing forward to working with the best growers in Colorado and Washington to make sure our product is the best on the market.”

Nelson joins other famous pot personalities, including rapper Snoop Dogg, who en-dorses vaporizing products; singer Melissa Etheridge, de-veloping marijuana-infused wine; and reality TV star and self-help guru Bethenny Frankel, who is working on a strain of Skinnygirl weed that wouldn’t leave users with the munchies.

“Like other industries, brand-ing and creative marketing is a big part of supporting legal cannabis products,” said Vicki Christophersen, director of the Washington CannaBusiness Association.

Christophersen said these connections continue a long tradition of celebrities endors-ing the use of marijuana — even decades before it became legal for adult use.

Nelson, who was not avail-able for comment Monday, is among those with well-estab-lished connections to cannabis.

He’s been a decriminalization advocate and has been bust-ed for pot possession several times. He also appeared in the stoner comedy “Half Baked.”

Washington and Colorado made pot legal for adult use in 2012. Oregon, Alaska and the District of Columbia also have removed legal restrictions, and more states are expected to vote on legalization next year.

The moves have created mar-keting opportunities, but links to celebrity smokers aren’t al-ways considered a positive.

This year, the National Can-nabis Industry Association decided to drop actor Tom-my Chong — co-star of the “Cheech and Chong” comedy team — as it prepared to lob-by Congress for pot-friendly regulations. The group wanted to move past the stoner ste-reotypes they say Chong rep-resents in favor of positioning pot as similar to fine wine.

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JACK PLUNKETT/ASSOCIATED PRESSWillie Nelson performs at the iTunes Festival during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas, on March 15. Nelson announced Monday he plans to roll out his own brand of marijuana called ``Willie’s Reserve,’’ that will be grown and sold in Colorado and Washington, two states where recreational use of the drug is legal.

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It’s 6:30 a.m. on a Satur-day. If you’re a college student, you’re almost

certainly sound asleep, exhausted from celebrating the end of the school week. But in downtown Lawrence, local vendors are setting up stands to sell their goods, and community members are beginning to congregate. The farmers market season is just starting in many communi-ties, and students are missing out on this unique opportu-nity.

Since many college students are busy and on a budget, they opt to do their shop-ping at grocery stores such as Walmart or Dillons. While these businesses offer convenience and low prices, they fall short in one major category: local sustainability. Students need to understand the benefits of supporting local businesses, including those at the farmers market.

More than anything, shop-ping locally strengthens the community both personally and financially. Buying from those in your city creates an interpersonal bond, especially if the visits are repeated and personal relationships can be established. Local business owners also tend to donate more to local programs

and groups than corporate businesses.

According to a research reported in USA Today, supporting local businesses also keeps money in the consumer’s area. On average for every $100 spent locally, $68 stays in the community. This is more than the $43 that remains when the money is spent at local branches of chain stores. The long-term benefits of strengthening the community far outweigh the costs of spending a little bit more at the farmers market.

Farmers markets also offer goods unique to their specific shopping experience. Pro-duce, meats and other food items aren’t the only things being sold. For example, the Lawrence Farmers Market has vendors that sell hand-made wool hats, handcraft-ed soaps and pottery. The Kansas City’s Historic City Market has more than 140 vendors and offers fresh-cut flowers and various craft items from local artisans. No two markets have the same experience, and each market can say something different about its city’s unique culture.

The food available at farmers markets is also more likely to be grown organi-cally, meaning there are no pesticides or other harmful, contaminated products being used. This is clearly a health benefit, although the organic movement is also becoming a social phenomenon. As people realize the importance of eating healthier and going green, farmers markets have been rising in popularity.

In the past five years, the number of U.S. farmers

markets has nearly doubled. In 2013, there were 8,144 farmers markets listed in the national directory and 4,685 were listed in 2008. Buying locally is turning into a new American tradition, for both health and community reasons.

Students should try shop-ping locally, especially at establishments such as the

Lawrence Farmers Market. It’s true that products may be slightly more expensive than at a chain grocery store, but for those who already buy organic items, prices are comparable. Even so, the long-term benefits to a com-munity of shopping locally and building a culture should be preserved and continued in the years to come.

The Lawrence Farmers Market is located at 824 New Hampshire St. Parking infor-mation and operation hours can be found at lawrencefar-mersmarket.com.

Matthew Clough is a sophomore from Wichita

studying journalism and English

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PHOTO COURTESY OF LAWRENCE FARMERS MARKETThe Lawrence Farmers Market opened for the 2015 season on April 11. The market is open Saturdays from 7-11 a.m.

Removing teaching qualifications hurts schools

Cecilia Cho@ceciliacho92

Before we moved on to pursuing higher education, we had to

work through 12-13 years of schooling (if you’re counting kindergarten). We encoun-tered several different teachers who challenged and inspired us, and probably a few that drove us crazy. But what is one thing all of our past teachers have in common? They were licensed in the courses they taught and were properly equipped to take on those classrooms.

In 2013, Bill 2319 proposed the establishment of inno-vative districts in Kansas; meaning 29 school districts in the state of Kansas could be excused from hiring teachers that meet “certain state laws in pursuit of innovation,” the Lawrence Journal-World

reports. For example, teachers with a journalism degree can teach different sections such as drama or speech classes. This year, the Kansas State Board of Education will finally decide whether or not to approve Bill 2319.

Currently there are six districts seeking to create a “Specialized Training Certif-icate” for those who wish to teach but have not obtained the proper licensing to do so in a particular subject. In order to receive the STC, one must pass a background check and “approval from the local and state school boards.” The districts, called the Coalition of Innovative Districts, are Kansas City, Marysville, Hu-goton, Blue Valley, Concordia and McPherson. The reason behind dismissing the require-ment of having a license in teaching is so “rural western districts” such as Hugoton can overcome “the challenge of recruiting teachers,” according to the Lawrence Journal-World. In addition, some believe that having “more flexible regulations” will proliferate the quality of education students receive. For urban districts, such as

Blue Valley, proponents argue that “more flexibility would increase innovation and edu-cation quality.”

This is a complete disser-vice to current educators in our state, as well as students in these districts who will potentially have to deal with these “innovations.” Propo-

nents of Bill 2319 are basically saying that people can teach whichever subject they desire, as long as they have a clean record. Using the earlier example, having a background in journalism, which may tie in with speech and some dra-ma, is not the same as being able to teach a whole course on speech or drama. All three subjects can borrow ideas from one another, but they are not substantive enough to properly teach students at the full capacity that they deserve to learn.

Having a shortage of teach-

ers in certain districts is prob-lematic, but if this were an issue of dwindling physicians, dentists or lawyers, would we be proposing the same structure? Would you feel comfortable having a general physician perform surgery on you? Would you allow your orthodontist to give you a root

canal? Would you go to a law-yer specializing in elderly care if you were seeking a lawsuit for environmental reasons? No. All of these jobs have loose knowledge of different disciplines in their respective fields, but we have special-ized positions for a reason. Similarly, students should not be forced to settle for their education just because Kansas needs to fill up job space.

It doesn’t make sense to strive for an increase in stu-dent’s education by decreasing the qualifications a teacher must have. I know proponents

are not wishing to hinder stu-dent’s academics intentionally, but if this bill passes, this may happen as an unintentional result. Teachers who are not specialized in certain courses may veer from less creative and effective methods of teaching, and instead may use more generic, straight out-of-the-book teaching styles due to their unfamiliarity in the subject. Think back on your K-12 experience: who are the teachers you most remem-ber? Were they the ones who taught everything by the book? Or were they the ones who went above and beyond in the classroom because they were teaching a subject they were truly passionate and knowledgeable about?

We must be careful in the decisions we make regard-ing our future generations’ education. Proponents must not be hasty to make such a detrimental decision and they need to see all of the potential issues that may arise, instead of aiming to solve just one problem.

Cecilia Cho is a senior from Overland Park studying

American Studies

“WE MUST BE CAREFUL IN THE DECISIONS WE MAKE REGARDING OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS’ EDUCATION.”

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Only in Schol Hall land does one think of free food when FFA is labeled on the said free food.

Game of Thrones is hands down the greatest show on television!

Had a ghost pepper wing from Buffalo Wild Wings... #mouthwassmoking

We are One! Pray for Kenya - #147NotJustaNumber

Re-watching Gossip Girl reminds me of how much I miss this

show. <3 <3

Currently crying because I missed out on Lilly at Target.

Bittersweet when you have to complete all these final papers and projects but great at the

same time because that means summer is close!

On a scale of 1 to Nature Valley Granola Bar, how much is your

life falling apart?

Why do bikes have to be so expensive???

I wish emojis were able to show up in the FFAs :’(

Big Sean and Ariana Grande break up? Don’t worry Sean, I’m here for you. #wishfulthinking

#butseriously #iloveyou

All I want to do is set up a hammock and drink some brews

instead of going to class... Is that too much to ask?

Finished my last reading assignment of the semester!

Feeling too good!!!

Yeah, It’s completely normal to have the meow mix theme song

stuck in your head during an exam.

Once I got free t-shirts at a liquor store because I’m an alcoholic.

#Blessed

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HOROSCOPES

Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is an 8

Keep quiet and take action. Push for what you believe. Conditions are changing. Don’t splurge. All turns out even better than you’d hoped, if you’ve been gentle. It could get tense. Keep your objective in mind.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)Today is an 9

Practical efforts reap abundant rewards. Don’t get distracted by talk that goes nowhere. Get moving! Convince others by showing them. Don’t forget what you’ve learned the hard way.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)Today is a 9

Express your love with your favorite media. Use your own particular art or science. Aban-don a self-imposed limitation. Your confidence grows today and tomorrow. Take practical action for a personal project.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)Today is an 7

Action you take now has long-lasting consequences. Save your money. Stick with what’s real. Get your body moving. A hike or adventure in nature provides peace and even spiritual discovery.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is an 8

Parties, meetings, conferences and gatherings go well. Work together to make something happen. Idle chatter makes no difference. Don’t waste time on gossip. Make promises, agreements and schedule who will do what.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is an 8

Don’t show critics unfinished work. Creating beauty may require making a mess first. If you can’t do your chores, hire someone who can. Make a professional move. Action taken now goes the distance.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is a 9

Don’t talk about it ... just go. You have what you need. Study your subject in person. Follow your passion. Communication breakdowns get resolved later. Take action for what you love and it goes further than expected.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is an 8

Don’t make loans today. Finan-cial discussions can morph into arguments. Is it about money or power? Inspect your own situation for leaks, and take discrete action.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is an 9

Shake things up. Don’t just talk about playing with your partner; get out and do it. You’re inspired to take action, and together you can generate amazing results.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is an 9

An unexpected development at work requires all hands on deck. Postpone a trip. Don’t waste time talking ... get moving! Handle what you said you would. Take care to conserve resources.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is an 8

The game is getting good. The gears begin to turn on a new project. Play full out. Don’t stop to natter about it. Throw your full weight into the action. Put your heart into it.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is an 7

You’ve been talking about it long enough. Take action on a home project. It’s amazing what a coat of paint will do. Get your family involved for increased results. Dig in the garden.

Everything’s bigger in Texas, even the Acad-emy of Country Music

Awards. The 50th anniversa-ry of the award show turned out to be the most-attended live awards show, and it was studded with plunging necklines, cowboy boots, pop-art pants and, of course, Taylor Swift.

Hosted by heartthrobs Luke Bryan and Blake Shel-ton, the show kicked off with “Let the Good Times Roll,” performed by Darius Rucker and Jake Owens. More than 20 performances took the stages Sunday night.

Miranda Lambert was up for eight awards, leading the pack, and took home four of them on Sunday night: Female Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year for “Automatic” and a 50th Anniversary Mile-stone Award. Her popular-ity was evident on Twitter as well, with users — like Perez Hilton — tweeting kudos and compliments like wildfire.

Hilarious duo Reese With-erspoon and Sofia Vergara, stars of the upcoming movie “Hot Pursuit,” introduced Lambert as she stepped on stage to claim her 50th An-niversary Milestone award — the fourth award she took home.

Alan Jackson’s perfor-

mance of “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)”, his song about Sept. 11, 2001, was enough to send chills down your spine. It was widely regarded as one of the most touching events of the evening — CBS tweeted, “Country music doesn’t get much more clas-sic than @OfficialJackson.”

Taylor Swift, who has been largely absent from the country music scene as of late, was absent from the red carpet as well. After her recent announcement that her mother, Andrea Swift, was battling cancer, it was even more heartwarming to see the mother-daughter embrace after she presented her daughter with a Mile-stone Award.

Swift’s mother described watching her “tangle-haired little girl” who loved to “write a song, tell a story” grow up.

“I am a very proud mom, so I’d like to thank the ACMs for honoring her in that way, but I’d also like to

thank the entire music com-munity for taking such good care of her,” she said.

Swift thanked the country music industry for support-ing her pop album, saying

she’s “so happy to learn to write songs in a town like Nashville, I’m so grateful that I learned what hard work is from my heroes who are all sitting here and I’m

so unbelievably proud that I learned to treat people with kindness and respect from country music.”

— Edited by Emma LeGault

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CHRIS PIZZELLO/ASSOCIATED PRESSMiranda Lambert performs at the 50th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at AT&T Stadium on Sunday in Arlington, Texas. Lambert went home with four awards at the end of the night, including Female Vocalist of the Year.

JACK PLUNKETT/ASSOCIATED PRESSLuke Bryan poses in the press room with the awards for entertainer of the year and vocal event of the year at the 50th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at AT&T Stadium on Sunday in Arlington, Texas.

““...I’m so unbelievably proud that I learned to treat people with kindness and respect from country music.”

TAYLOR SWIFTCountry singer

SC paper wins Pulitzer for domestic violence reporting

NEW YORK — The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina, won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for an examination of the deadly toll of domestic violence, while The New York Times collected three awards and the Los Angeles Times two.

The Seattle Times staff took the breaking news award for its coverage of a mudslide that killed 43 people and its exploration of whether the disaster could have been prevented.

The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal both won investigative reporting prizes, the Times for an examination of lobbyists’ influence on state attorneys general, the Journal for detailing fraud and waste in the Medicare payment system.

The Times’ coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa won Pulitzers for international reporting and feature photography, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was honored in the breaking news photography category for its images of the racial unrest touched off by the deadly police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

The Washington Post took the national reporting prize for exposing security lapses that spurred an overhaul of the Secret Service.

The Pulitzer judges also recognized less widely known stories, such as The Post and Courier’s exploration of 300 women’s deaths in the past decade. The paper shed light on a legal system in which first-time offenders face at most 30 days in jail for a domestic violence beating but can get five years in prison for

cruelty to a dog.“We felt so passionate

about this project, and we felt so passionate about the difference it could bring to South Carolina,” said P.J. Browning, publisher of 84,200-circulation Post and Courier, which last won a Pulitzer in 1925 for editorial

writing.Since the series was

published, state lawmakers have proposed tougher penalties for domestic violence, and Gov. Nikki Haley created a task force to investigate the problem.

The prizes spanned news outlets large and small: The 70,000-circulation Daily Breeze of Torrance,

California, won the local reporting award for exposing corruption in a school district. And Bloomberg News was a first-time winner, taking the explanatory reporting award for an examination of corporate tax dodging.

The Los Angeles Times’

prizes were for feature writing that put a human face on California’s drought and for Mary McNamara’s television criticism.

The Seattle Times newsroom erupted in cheers after its mudslide coverage was honored.

“We did what any good newsroom should do when a big story breaks,” Editor

Kathy Best told staffers. “We gave people accurate information when rumors and inaccuracies were swirling all over the place. We asked hard questions in the moment. When public officials were saying, ‘Oh, this was unforeseen,’ we showed that it was not unforeseen.”

The commentary prize went to the Houston Chronicle’s Lisa Falkenberg, who examined the case of a man wrongfully convicted of killing a police officer, among other problems in the legal and immigration systems. Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe was recognized for editorial writing; she looked at restaurant workers’ low wages and examined the toll of income inequality.

Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News won the editorial cartooning prize for his look at such issues as immigration, gun control and problems in the VA hospital system.

The Pulitzers, established by newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer and first given out in 1917, are American journalism’s highest honor. The public service award consists of a gold medal; the other awards carry a prize of $10,000 each.

For the first time this year, many online and print magazines were eligible for the journalism awards — in feature writing and investigative reporting only — but none of them won.

While the winners were largely drawn from old-media names, “the digital component of their work is becoming more and more sophisticated,” prize administrator Mike Pride said. “Newspapers know where the future is and, in some cases, are doing really good jobs at it.”

ROBERT COHEN/ASSOCIATED PRESSThis August 13, 2014, photo by St. Louis Post Dispatch photographer Robert Cohen shows Edward Crawford returning a tear gas canister fired by police who were trying to disperse protesters in Ferguson, Mo. Four days earlier, unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot to death by white police officer Darren Wilson. The killing ignited riots and unrest in the St. Louis area and across the nation. Cohen and members of the St. Louis Post Dispatch photo staff are winners of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography it was announced yesterday at Columbia University in New York.

JENNIFER PELTZAssociated Press

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BOSTON — Ben Affleck requested that the PBS documentary series “Finding Your Roots” not reveal he had a slave-owning ancestor, according to emails published online by whistleblower site WikiLeaks, and the information never appeared on the program.

PBS and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, host of the show that traces the ancestry of well-known guests, said in separate statements that they didn’t censor the slave-owner details. Instead, more interesting ancestors of the actor emerged and Gates chose to highlight them in October’s segment featuring Affleck, they said in the statements posted on the PBS website.

“For any guest, we always find far more stories about ancestors on their family trees than we ever possibly could use,” Gates said in an emailed statement to The Associated Press. He said finding slave-owning ancestors was very common in the series, and noted Ken Burns and Anderson Cooper were two guests with slave-owner relatives.

In Affleck’s case, “we decided to go with the story we used about his fascinating ancestor who became an occultist following the Civil War. This guy’s story was totally unusual: we had never discovered someone like him before,” he said.

Affleck’s rep did not immediately respond to an email request for comment Saturday. The award-winning actor and filmmaker (“Good Will Hunting” and “Argo”) has also organized humanitarian work in Africa.

The email chain between Gates and Sony Pictures co-chairman and chief executive Michael Lynton was part of a trove of hundreds of thousands of emails and documents from last year’s Sony hack that WikiLeaks put into a searchable online archive on Thursday.

In their email exchange, Gates asked Lynton for advice on how to handle Affleck’s request.

“Here’s my dilemma: confidentially, for the first time, one of our guests has asked us to edit out something about one of

his ancestors — the fact that he owned slaves. Now, four or five of our guests this season descend from slave owners, including Ken Burns. We’ve never had anyone ever try to censor or edit what we found. He’s a megastar. What do we do?” Gates wrote on July 22, 2014.

Lynton replied that it all depends on who knows that the information was in the documentary already.

“I would take it out if no one knows, but if it gets out that you are editing the material based on this kind of sensitivity then it gets tricky. Again, all things being equal I would definitely take it out,”

Lynton wrote that same day.After going back and forth,

the two seemed to decide censoring the information is a bad idea, with Gates writing later on July 22 that if the public learned of it, “It would embarrass him and compromise our integrity. I think he is getting very bad advice” and adding: “Once we open the door to censorship, we lose control of the brand.”

Affleck was never mentioned in the exchange of emails between Gates and Lynton; instead he’s referred to as a “megastar” and “Batman.” He was filming “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” in Detroit at the

time.When the segment aired

Oct. 14, Gates focused on the occultist, a Revolutionary War relative and Affleck’s mother, who was a “freedom rider” in 1964.

A PBS spokeswoman said in an emailed statement Saturday that PBS did not know of the exchanges between Gates, Sony and Affleck and wasn’t part of editorial decisions made by Gates and his producers.

“It is clear from the exchange how seriously Professor Gates takes editorial integrity,” PBS said in the statement posted on its website.

Email: Affleck asked PBS to not reveal slave-owning ancestor

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EVAN AGOSTINI/ASSOCIATED PRESSHenry Louis Gates, Jr. attending the premiere screening of “Faces of America With Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York on Feb. 1, 2010. In response to Ben Affleck’s requests to not reveal he had slave-owning ancestors on the PBS documentary series “Finding Your Roots,” Gates and PBS chose to highlight more interesting ancestors in the October segment, they said in statements

CLIFF OWEN/ASSOCIATED PRESSActor Ben Affleck testifying on March 8, 2011, before the House Foreign Affairs, Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights Subcommittee hearing in Washington. Affleck requested that the PBS documentary series “Finding Your Roots” not reveal he had a slave-owning ancestor, according to emails published online by whistleblower site WikiLeaks, and the information never appeared on the program.

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As much success as Kansas baseball had last year, this

season has been a swing in the opposite direction. With more underclassman taking on bigger roles, Kansas has not clicked on a good everyday starting lineup.

Currently the Jayhawks are 16-24 on the season and 4-8 in Big 12 Conference play — a similar conference record before Kansas started its run toward the top of the Big 12 last season. This season, Kansas had to replace pitchers and other key players from last year’s squad, which qualified for the Louisville Regional but ended the season with a loss to Kentucky.

Michael Suiter, Jordan Piche’, Frank Duncan, Robert Kahana and Ka’iana Eldredge were all major contributors on that team. All but Suiter were seniors. All but Eldredge were selected in last year’s MLB Draft. Important players back from last year’s team include seniors Connor

McKay, Dakota Smith, Blair Beck, Justin Protacio and junior Colby Wright.

However, this season, all three weekend starters are brand new. Senior Drew Morovick went from the mid-week starter to the Saturday starter. Morovick is one of the main pitchers that the Jayhawks still have from last year’s squad. You can also add sophomore reliever Stephen Villines to the equation, but Villines is limited in playing time as a reliever.

Sophomores Joven Afenir and Michael Tinsley have made their way into the regular Kansas lineup. Freshman Matt McLaughlin has been the biggest factor for the Jayhawks as the everyday third baseman and mid-week shortstop when Protacio needs rest to play a weekend series.

The offense was expected to be the strength of the team. But even with the

emergence of these young players, Kansas has still had games where the offense disappeared. In the rubber match against Texas last Sunday, Kansas offense was asked to carry a depleted pitching staff. With windy conditions and a freshman starter in the finale, it was up to the Kansas lineup to knock off the far inferior Longhorns on the offensive end.

Coming into the finale, Texas had the last-ranked offense in the conference in terms of batting average, whereas Kansas has consistently ranked toward the top. But it was the Longhorns who took advantage of an inexperienced Jayhawks pitching staff, out-hitting them 23-11 with the aid of five home runs.

Because of its inexperience, Kansas does not seem to be going far this year, with Baylor and TCU still to play on the schedule. It would not be surprising if Kansas started to make a run this late to gear up for postseason baseball, but with this team it just doesn’t feel like it’s going to happen.

— Edited by Emma LeGault

It’s very difficult to see the Kansas baseball team — which sits at

121st in the country with a 16-24 record overall — in postseason play. If the season ended today, the last team in would be California, and it has a 23-11 record, playing in the third-best conference in the country.

With a month left in the season, it seems unlikely the Jayhawks can even get above .500, let alone make an NCAA Regional Tournament appearance for a second straight year.

However, since the beginning of the season when the Jayhawks were swept by the LSU Tigers, coach Ritch Price’s team has improved mightily, the pitchers have gotten more experience, and, as a result, Kansas has picked up more crucial wins. The Jayhawks took the series against Oklahoma State (which was ranked ninth at the time), they took games from Texas Tech and Utah, and, just recently, they stole

one from Texas. Their remaining schedule

also looks promising if they continue in that form. In the rest of April, Kansas faces Wichita State — which it has already beaten — West Virginia and Arkansas-Pine Bluff, none of which has more than 22 wins.

With strong performances in those series, the Jayhawks can find themselves right near .500 and with plenty of momentum heading into the home stretch.

Baylor and TCU await them once May starts, neither of which will be easy wins by any means, but we’ve seen Kansas can beat top-tier teams when its pitching is on. Price is as good as any coach

in the country at getting the best out of his players in crucial times, and his experience will be useful to the young pitching staff, most of whom have never pitched in crunch time at the end of the season.

When Ben Krauth and Drew Morovick are on, they can contest any lineup in the country. With Stephen Villines seemingly out of his slump, Kansas has a dominant closer who can shut down the game on the back end.

Once Blair Beck, Connor McKay and the other seniors realize that this is their last go-round at Kansas, they’ll take the offense up a notch — an offense that has already hit more than 20 home runs this season.

It’s all a snowball effect triggered by Price’s motivation and the experience of the team’s seniors. Now that they have wins against top-10 teams and some of the best teams in the Big 12, the Jayhawks have enough momentum and enough talent to make one final push towards a second-straight NCAA Regional.

— Edited by Emma LeGault

“When I’m playing softball, I’m always just focused on try-ing to get this program to be a household name, getting it to be a place where everyone wants to go because we have a great softball program and a place that wins and makes the postseason,” added Stein.

Stein came to Kansas from El Reno High School in Oklaho-ma City, where she was a four-year letterwinner, and lead her team to four-straight regional championships.

Coming to the University was an easy choice, according to Stein.

“I just loved the college ex-perience. I had narrowed it down to a few colleges and just coming here to KU, the cam-pus was beautiful and the way the coaches treated me and the support staff around KU, it just seemed like such a fami-ly-friendly atmosphere.”

As a senior at the University, Stein has been looked to as a leader throughout the season. That has been the case for her throughout her career as a Jay-hawk.

“It’s been fun watching her grow. Her freshman season, she didn’t start for half of it and kept working hard and kept doing extra. She was very de-termined and she got her shot and ran with it,” Kansas coach Megan Smith said.

“She’s been really consistent for us and has grown every year into an unbelievable lead-er, not only for our team, but for the entire athletic depart-ment,” added Smith.

Stein has been taking a men-torship role with younger play-ers this season.

“I just want to try to teach others great ways to help other people and help them become a better softball player. That’s what the girls in front of me have done and I just want to make a difference,” said Stein.

Stein’s teammates have no-ticed her leadership abilities at work throughout her career.

“She’s really helped me be the player that I am today. She pushes me when she’s in the lineup and on defense she’s al-ways there,” said junior Chaley Brickey. “She just has a happy character to her. When you see her on the field, it just puts a smile on her face and when she’s yelling, you know that she means it. You want to fight for her just like she’s fighting for you.”

On Jan. 17, Stein and 14 oth-er student athletes from other schools had the opportunity to speak at the 2015 NCAA Con-vention in Washington, D.C.

Stein and the other student athletes helped adjust policy on a variety of issues: cost of attendance and scholarships, concussion management re-quirements, as well as a dis-cretionary student-athlete assistance fund to allow stu-dent-athletes to borrow against potential future earnings.

Stein, who would eventually like to work in college ath-letics, said that attending the convention helped to give her

a difference perspective on the business of college athletics.

“I definitely think it’s a lot more political than what I wanted to believe it was. But after being at the convention, I realized that there are a lot of people who think genuinely about athletics and why they are involved within it,” said Stein.

After graduating, Stein hopes to continue to play softball while working her way toward a career within the business side of athletics.

“It definitely reassured why I want to be in athletics and that the people I’ll be around

and working with for the next 20-or-so years will be people who really have the heart for what they’re doing and helping student athletes,” added Stein.

Stein plans to earn a master’s in public administration at the University of Oklahoma when she finishes up this May.

“Hopefully, I can play profes-sional softball if that is in my cards, I would love to continue to do that until I can’t play any-more,” Stein said.

Statistically, Stein will be re-membered as one of the best hitters in recent Kansas soft-ball memory. Her next goal it to lead the Jayhawks to a Col-

lege World Series title in her hometown of Oklahoma City.

However, Stein’s record book appearances and stats aren’t the only that she wants to be remembered for.

“I want to feel like I made an impact and helped do some-thing for the program and for the school. Looking back, I just want to feel like I put my whole heart and soul into what I was trying to do here. When peo-ple think of me, they think of a person who genuinely cared about what she was doing,” said Stein.

— Edited by Miranda Davis

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MISSY MINEAR/KANSANSenior utility player Maddie Stein rounds second base during the first game of the series against Texas on March 27. Stein will leave behind a legacy that will be hard to compete with, recording 148 RBIs in her career.““Looking back, I just want to

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Jayhawks host in-state foe Shockers tonightKansas baseball will host

Wichita State tonight for the second and final game of the teams’ two-game series.

The Jayhawks (16-24) came out on top of an offensive battle 13-12 against the Shockers (14-25) in their first meeting at the beginning of April in Wichita.

In their first meeting, the Jayhawks wasted no time in taking a lead as they would go up 5-0 in the middle of the first inning. However, even with the hot start, the Jayhawks found themselves down by four runs with just three innings remaining. Kansas tied the game to force extra innings and prevailed in the 11th inning with a sacrifice bunt by senior outfielder Dakota Smith. There were a total of 30 hits combined from both teams.

Since their previous meeting, the Shockers have found themselves in a slump. The Shockers recovered from their loss to the Jayhawks by

winning a home series against Indiana State. The two wins Wichita State recorded in that series are joined by just one other win since playing Kansas. The Shockers have played 11 games and lost eight of them, including one against a Big 12 opponent, the Texas Longhorns.

Kansas is coming off of a weekend series with Texas that was packed full of action. Texas took the first game of the series in a heartbreaker which saw five extra innings of play. The Jayhawks recovered by earning a 5-4 win in a walk-off fashion after senior outfielder Connor McKay hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning.

“Me and my teammates have stuck through a lot of tough stuff this year,” McKay said. “We’re really dialing through all of this adversity we’re facing, and that [home run] meant a lot to me.”

Unfortunately for the Jayhawks, the rubber match was all for the Longhorns as they left Hoglund Ballpark with a 16-7 win.

“We need to figure things out on our off day and bounce back Tuesday night against Wichita State, which is a huge game,” said senior infielder Justin Protacio.

Kansas has gone 5-7 since playing Wichita State, and although the losing record might be unpleasing to the eye, there are positives as it includes a sweep of New Mexico and a series win against then No. 9 Oklahoma State.

Tuesday’s game against the Shockers will be the only midweek game for the Jayhawks as well as the last game of the 10-game homestand before returning to conference play.

“It’s an in-state rivalry, and we’ve won the last five games and our focus is trying to make it six,” Protacio said.

Protacio and his teammates will look to get the sixth win in a row against the Shockers at Hoglund Ballpark with the first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m.

— Edited by Valerie Haag

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BEN BRODSKY/KANSANJunior designated hitter Steve Goldstein runs to first base during a game against Missouri State on April 15. Kansas will play Wichita State tonight at 6 p.m. at Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence.

BEN BRODSKY/KANSANJunior third basemen Tommy Mirabelli prepares to throw the ball during a game against Missouri State on April 15.

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A new legend in hockey histo-ry is beginning to form, and his name is Connor McDa-

vid. McDavid is the overwhelming to favorite to be taken with the number one pick in the upcoming NHL Draft, which makes sense, consider-ing his skills have been compared by many to the great Sidney Crosby.

McDavid entered the Ontario Hockey League when he was only 15. The Erie Otters picked him first overall in the OHL. During his first year with the Otters he had a total of 66 points and was named the 2013 OHL Rookie of the Year.

Now, three years later, he has completed his final season with the Otters, and he went out with a bang. McDavid finished the season with 44 goals and 76 assists, for a total of 120 points in just 47 games.

In addition to playing for the Erie Otters, McDavid has excelled for

Team Canada. In 2013 he played for the national team at the U-18 World Junior Championship, where he was the team’s top scorer, leading Canada to victory while racking up the tour-nament MVP award.

McDavid also played for Team Can-ada during the U-20 World Junior Championship in 2014 and in 2015, and in the latter year, Team Canada brought home the gold medal. Mc-David’s performance was impeccable as he was the co-leading scorer for Canada, as he was named to the Tournament All-Star team.

So what does an 18-year-old do with such great talent once he has mastered everything he can at the OHL level?

He likely becomes the number one

pick for 2015 NHL Draft. On April 18, the NHL

hosted the draft lottery for teams that did not place in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The teams are assigned odds based on their records, and then one team is randomly chosen, winning the first overall pick in the draft.

This year the Edmonton Oilers won the lottery, giving them the first opportunity at having McDavid. However, the Oilers were no strangers to lottery success.

In the five lotteries preceding this year’s, the Oilers have had three lottery wins, which have led to the selections of Taylor Hall, Ryan Nu-gent-Hopkins and Nail Yakupov.

With the possible addition of McDavid, the Oilers will be able to

fill the current holes in their

offense, which would help their

odds of reaching next year’s playoffs. “I think offence

wins hockey games and we’re going to

be loaded with it,” said Edmonton Oilers

general manager Craig MacTavish to NHL.com. So for all hockey fans,

keep your eye out for the name Con-nor McDavid. He will take on a new challenge as he enters the NHL.

With his speed on the ice and effortless aggression toward the goal, scouts have no doubt that he will succeed and continue to impress fans everywhere.

— Edited by Miranda Davis

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama honored the na-tional champion Ohio State foot-ball team Monday, taking just a little bit of credit for the new playoff system that the Buckeyes mastered.

Ohio State won the first College Football Playoff in January, beat-ing Oregon in the title game.

Obama jokingly talked about throwing his political weight behind the idea of a four-team playoff to replace the old system in which voters and computers selected two teams to play for the championship.

"I cannot claim full credit. But I will point out that I pushed for a playoff system in 2008," Obama said. "This is a promise kept. You're welcome, America."

Ohio State coach Urban Meyer thanked the president, noting that the Buckeyes probably wouldn't have been eligible to

play for the title under the pre-vious system.

"He made the point sever-al times, but it's true that he jumped right in the middle of a conversation about a college football playoff that we obviously benefited," Meyer told reporters.

More than 200 guests and dig-nitaries packed the White House East Room for the ceremony, in-cluding former Ohio State play-ers Archie Griffin and Cris Carter.

Ohio State made an improbable run to the championship after losing two starting quarterbacks to injury, winning its final three games with third-string quarter-back Cardale Jones.

All three quarterbacks return for the upcoming season, which has everyone in Ohio — and much of college football — won-dering who will be the Buckeyes' starting quarterback.

Meyer said he got no advice from Obama.

"That was my fault. I should have asked," Meyer said.

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SUSAN WALSH/ASSOCIATED PRESSPresident Barack Obama stands with Ohio State wide receiver and pro football hall-of-famer Cris Carter, left, and former Ohio State running back and two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin, right, during a ceremony welcoming the national champion Buckeyes yesterday.

148. That number represents the type of personal suc-cess enjoyed by Kansas softball senior utility player Mad-die Stein in her career as a Jayhawk. The number is the amount of career RBIs that Stein has accumulated in her college career, eclipsing the previous program record of 140.

“It was just kind of a crazy accomplishment. You don’t re-ally come into college thinking you’re going to accomplish things like that and being able to accomplish something like that made me feel like all the hard work I’ve put into it has paid off in a way that I can see it. It was just a great moment for everything to come together,” said Stein.

Stein recorded her record-breaking 141st RBI in a March 22 victory against the Georgia State Panthers this season.

Stein has been a major factor in the Jayhawks’ 33-8 sea-son, recording a .373 batting average, 47 hits, 13 doubles, six home runs and 39 RBIs.

“If runners are in scoring position, I’m thinking ‘try to do anything it takes to get them in’. It honestly just depends on the situation. Usually I’m just trying to have a quality at-bat to try and help my team,” said Stein.

Every game, Stein tries to think about the bigger picture of what this can do for the program.

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