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Volume 126 Issue 104 kansan.com Wednesday, April 9, 2014
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CLASSIFIEDS 11CROSSWORD 5
CRYPTOQUIPS 5OPINION 4
SPORTS 12SUDOKU 5
Sunny skies. High 74F. Winds SSW at
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To vote in the Student Senate elections today.
Index Don’t Forget
Today’sWeather Yay, spring.
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BASEBALL PAGE 12Kansas falls to Iowa 3-5
STUDENT SENATE
Voter turnout for elections hard to predict this year
STUDENT SENATE
LGBTQ
Jake Rapp, the Student Sen-ate elections commission chair and a graduate student from Lawrence, said voting requires a little bit of effort.
Students have to figure out who the candidates are, read their online campaign materi-als and believe that these elec-tions matter.
“One of the big responsi-bilities that coalitions and candidates have is to inform the public as to why the elec-tion matters,” Rapp said. “I think that’s one of the biggest challenges that they confront, given a student body that has a lot of other things on their minds.”
WHY SHOULD I VOTE?Student Senate elections mat-
ter, Rapp said, because of the three big responsibilities Stu-dent Senate has.
1. Student Senate allocates and sets the required campus fee, prioritizing what pro-grams and policies get money.
“You see your fee dollars di-rectly impacting your Univer-sity experience,” said Marcus Tetwiler, student body presi-dent. “You see the buses. You have access to health services.”
2. Student body president and vice president appoint stu-dents to boards and commit-tees throughout the University government structure.
“It’s important to vote in Stu-dent Senate elections because, as we’ve seen this year, the people who are in the admin-istration matter,” said Emma Halling, Student body vice president. “You should identi-fy who among the candidates you agree with — both the platforms that they’re putting forward and the values that they hold as leaders.”
3. Student Senate represents the student body to the public,
to administrators and to the Kansas Board of Regents.
“It’s also important to vote because it gives those leaders legitimacy when they go into conversations with adminis-trators and with state legisla-tors,” Halling said.
When Halling goes into con-versations with the Provost or state legislators, she can say, “This is how we feel on this issue, and I represent 6,000 students who voted in this past election.”
A high voter turnout rate helps make decision-makers listen when she advocates on the student body’s behalf.
If students don’t vote, Halling said decision-makers may not keep the student body’s best interest in mind. She said leg-islators may think, “We can change this because what are the students going to do? They don’t react. They don’t vote. We
EMILY [email protected]
Funding for a full-time LGBTQ coordinator for the Fall 2014 semester was recent-ly approved by Student Senate and now awaits approval from the Chancellor and the Kansas Board of Regents.
“Students decided that it’s a priority right now that the University is not current-ly seeking and we wanted to show that we are willing to fund them and to show the University that this is a pri-ority for us because typical-
ly when students get behind something, the University will make a change,” said junior Mitchell Cota, media coordi-nator for Queers and Allies.
This will expand the LGBTQ Resource Center, which has been run by one graduate stu-dent, Michael Detmer, to reach out to the gender and sexuality minority students on campus and recruit future students.
The position would also be responsible for campus pro-gramming, advocacy and ed-ucation, as well as researching
MCKENNA [email protected]
Senate approves full-time LGBTQ coordinator
Jayhawkers disqualified for campaign violations
CONTRIBUTED PHOTOA rainbow cake inside the Student Union is devoured by students on Monday. Funding for a full-time LGBTQ coordinator for the Fall 2014 semester was recently approved by Student Senate and now awaits approval from the Chancellor and the Kansas Board of Regents.
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25 PERCENT 8 PERCENTRecord high Student Senate
voter turnout rate, from 2013 elections
Record low Student Senate voter turnout rate,
from 2012 electionsSEE VOTE PAGE 3
SEE LGBTQ PAGE 3
The Elections Commission decided Tuesday night that all candidates from the Jay-hawkers coalition have been disqualified from the Student Senate election.
The Commission found the Jayhawkers in violation of a rule that outlines penal-ties for purchasing food for a campaign event. Members of Jayhawkers allegedly pur-chased Chipotle for an event on March 30, which was not reported on the coalition’s ex-penditure report and gave the coalition an unfair advantage in the election, according to the Commission.
Below is an excerpt from the email of the Commission’s of-ficial decision, sent to the Kan-san:
2) Jayhawkers was accused of violating 7.4.9.2.6, which
should trigger penalties out-lined in 7.4.10.6.10, for pur-chasing food for campaign event. The complaint alleged that on March 30, 2014, Jay-hawkers purchased food from Chipotle for a group of stu-dents. Witnesses appeared for both sides of the argument.
Decision: The Commission finds that Jayhawkers violat-ed 7.4.9.2.6 and, as a result, the entire coalition (including all candidates) is disqualified from the election. The Jay-hawkers purchased food for the purpose of campaigning, and failed to report those ex-penditures to the Commis-sion on their weekly financial report. This event unfairly advantaged Jayhawkers over the other coalitions and candi-dates in the election.
The Jayhawkers argued that they asked attendees of the event to compensate the coa-lition leadership for the food
when they realized the viola-tion of the rules (and prior to the hearing). The Commission
finds this defense insufficient because the food was still used for campaigning, and is there-fore a campaign expense.
“The Jayhawkers will be on the ballot tomorrow, and we will go through as planned. We think this decision is inappro-priate,” Mackenzie Oatman, the Jayhawkers presidential candidate, said Tuesday night. “We are going to take this to highest appeal. Not only were we falsely accused and found
to be in violation, but Grow KU did the exact same thing and was found not guilty.”
Oatman said the decision was “a result of internal Senate politics.”
Grow KU’s Will Admussen brought the charge against the Jayhawkers in the Commis-sion meeting earlier Tuesday night.
Since the accusation was brought up last Friday, the Jayhawkers had formulated a document that stated that the attendees paid for their own burritos. The document in-
cluded signatures of the stu-dents present.
Admussen challenged the timing of the events — if the attendees knew they would have to pay for the burritos themselves before or after the Jayhawkers were accused of campaign violations.
Two other complaints were discussed at the Student Senate election committee’s campaign violations meeting Tuesday evening.
The Jayhawkers accused Grow KU of providing free food at meetings on March 3 and 8. Cody Christensen, a Jayhawkers representative, also accused Grow KU of pro-viding free cappuccinos at the March 8 event. The Commis-sion found no violation.
Another violation was brought up against the Jay-hawkers by Student Senate Chief of Staff Tyler Childress for improper registration.
Rock Chalk Central allowed the coalition to go online be-fore the approval of three stu-dents and an adviser, so even though the Jayhawkers were given the impression that they had properly registered with the SILC, they had not. Childress requested the low-est possible fine of $15, saying that the coalition did break the rule, but the group’s action won’t impact how students vote in the election.
The Commission also found no violation regarding the complaint.
The Elections Commissioner Jake Rapp was unavailable for comment at the time of the Kansan’s print deadline. This was the most up-to-date in-formation as of midnight last night. Check updates on this story at Kansan.com.
— Yu Kyung Lee contributed to this report.
EMMA [email protected]
““Not only were we falsely accused and found to be in violation, but Grow KU did the exact same thing and was found not guilty.”
MACKENZIE OATMANJayhawkers presidential candidate
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Wednesday, April 9 Thursday, April 10 Friday, April 11 Saturday, April 12What: Replant Mount Oread on the Stauffer-Flint LawnWhen: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.Where: Stauffer-Flint Hall, Front LawnAbout: The 2014 Replant Mount Ore-ad project will add between 10 to 15 new trees to the Stauffer-Flint lawn.
What: Africa World Documentary Film FestivalWhen: 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.Where: Wescoe Hall, 3139About: Also taking place Friday, April 11, from 12 to 9 p.m. in the Spencer Museum auditorium and Saturday, April 12, from 2 to 9 p.m. in the Kansas Union Alderson Auditorium. Admittance is free. A full schedule of films is available at kasc.ku.edu.
What: Cafe CastellanoWhen: 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.Where: Henry’s Upstairs, 11 E 8th St.About: An opportunity to converse in Spanish in a comfortable environ-ment. Admittance is free.
What: Faculty Staff Wellness FairWhen: 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.Where: Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center, Watkins Health Center, Robinson GymnasiumAbout: Recreation Services presents a wellness fair for all University faculty and staff members. Free for all.
What: Understanding the Crisis in Crimea and Ukraine: Perspectives from Four DisciplinesWhen: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.Where: Kansas Union, Malott roomAbout: Representatives of four different disciplines will discuss current events in Ukraine and the recent Russian annexation of Crimea. Admittance is free.
What: The Big Event 2014When: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.Where: LawrenceAbout: Thousands of student, faculty and staff volunteers will help out at numerous local job sites during one day of community service. Participation is free, and anyone can visit thebigeventku.com to learn more.
What: Japan Fest 2014When: Noon to 4 p.m.Where: Spencer Museum of ArtAbout: A free event celebrating the traditions of Japan that will feature a number of informative activities.
The University of Kansas’ Students Together Against Cancer (STAC) will be partnering with Delete Blood Cancer and hosting a bone marrow donor drive on campus this week. The drive will be held today through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wescoe Beach and in the Kansas Union.
Students are invited to stop by to learn more about the bone marrow donation process and to get registered as potential donors on the
National Bone Marrow Registry.
During the drive, no actual bone marrow will be donated. Instead, the drive is all about registering people to become possible donors.
“We have a bunch of infor-mation about bone marrow, who it helps, the statistics, that students can see before they decide to donate,” KU STAC President Haley Mead said. “It will be informational as well as signing people up as a donor.”
Blood cancer is the third leading cause of all U.S. cancer deaths. It claims more
children’s lives in the U.S. than any other disease. Delete Blood Cancer and STAC have teamed up to gather bone marrow donors so that those numbers hopefully decrease.
“When people are called to donate they could be one of dozens who are matched to the patient or they could be the only one, so it is important to be committed to donating,” KU STAC Vice President Allie Kite said.
The Delete Blood Cancer team and volunteers from-STAC will be onsite to help students get registered as donors. The entire process for
becoming a potential donor is simple and usually takes less than five minutes. A simple swab of the mouth and some paperwork will be filled out. Once a recipient is matched to you, you will then be called in for a possible bone marrow donation. Any student that is under 55 and is in good health is eligible to sign up to become a donor.
KU STAC’s goal for the bone marrow drive is to get 1,500 students registered on the Be a Match Registry.
Those who are unable to at-tend any of the drives but still would like to become a donor
can register online at www.DeleteBloodCancer.Org.
— Edited by Kate Shelton
DUNCAN [email protected]
University group hosts bone marrow driveCAMPUS
STAC BONE MARROW DONOR DRIVE
Today through Friday9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Wescoe Beach and in the Kansas Union
Goal is to register 1,500 students on the Be a Match
Registry.
The University Daily Kansan sat down with recently elected Mike Amyx, the new Mayor of Lawrence, to introduce stu-dents to him and speak with him about what we should ex-pect to see during the rest of the year.
TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
YOURSELF. I am 60 years old and am
married with one son. I was born and raised here in Law-rence, and my family owns Amyx Barber shop down-town. It has been in my family for three generations now.
WHAT IS YOUR EXPERIENCE
WITH THE CITY COMMISSION? In 1983, I was elected to the
Lawrence City Commission. I served last year as vice mayor and have just begun my term
as mayor. I will serve for one year.
WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES FOR
LAWRENCE DURING YOUR TERM?
Some of the big things that
I’ve always been involved in is job development and job growth, but I’m also in big support of maintaining our infrastructure, like street pipes, sewers, water, etc. We have to take care of what we have before we start trying to take care of new things. Over the last several years, we have been able to bring in an addi-tional sales tax and have used that money for street projects. Having the proper infrastruc-ture in place is what makes Lawrence work well.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE
INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGES LAWRENCE MIGHT SEE?
We’re planning for a new
wastewater treatment plant in the Southeast part of the community near the Wakaru-sa River. Proper treatment of water waste is going to be an absolute if we are going to see (more) growth in the fu-ture. This is something that we really need to do under this commission's work and is something to be approved this year. I’m also pushing for a new police department building— it’s something that needs to be at a good central location to meet the needs of Lawrence citizens. Right now they are at a couple of differ-ent sites, but I hope to work with the commission to com-bine them all at one location.
HOW DO YOU PLAN TO WORK
WITH THE UNIVERSITY? The City Commission has al-
ways had a good relationship with KU. This is something that has always been import-ant to me. We have a lot of
good relationships between our staff and the administra-tion staff here. A lot of the municipal services we provide the University uses, but on the other hand the university is an economic strength to the city. We are a lucky community to have such a strong relation-ship with KU and making sure we look after one anoth-er. It’s all about community.
WHY DO YOU THINK STUDENTS SHOULD CARE?
All residents, including stu-
dents, have access to what the city provides for them. Students should be aware of what’s going on and where to find the resources we provide. We are continuing to work on this.
ARE THERE ANY PROJECTS THAT THE CITY IS WORKING ON WITH THE UNIVERSITY? There is a recycling program
coming in the fall. This is re-ally important because we are trying to minimize what is going into landfills. People from the University and our staff are working together to make sure this will happen. We hope to get it rolling in October.
— Edited by Jamie Koziol
New mayor to work with University, cityMADDIE [email protected]
LAWRENCE
AMYX
Police seek federal help in highway shootings
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Federal authorities are investigating more than a dozen apparently random shootings targeting vehicles on Kansas City-area roads and high-ways to determine whether they are connected, a police spokes-man said Tuesday.
Darryl Forté, the Kansas City, Mo., police chief, met with the FBI Monday to discuss the incidents and had scheduled other meetings
this week with federal investiga-tors, Capt. Tye Grant said.
Thirteen shootings have been reported since March 8, most of them in an area on the city's south side known as the Grandview Triangle, where three interstate highways and U.S. 50 intersect. Three people were wounded, but none were considered life-threat-ening, Grant said.
While there are similarities in geography, time of day and the circumstances of the shootings, there is no physical evidence con-
necting them, Grant said. In all of the cases, someone fired shots just before reaching a highway exit ramp or road split, then veered off in a different direction from the victim's vehicle.
Detectives and police analysts started noticing a pattern last week after reports of shootings started coming in, and by Sunday had identified 13 that had oc-curred over a four-week span. Ten of them happened in Kansas City, Mo., with the other three in the suburbs of Leawood, Kan., Blue
Springs, Mo., and Lee's Summit, Mo.
The most recent shooting was Sunday, when a 57-year-old Blue Springs man was driving east on Interstate 470 when he heard two large bangs and thought he had run over something. About that time he also felt what he thought was a charley horse in his left leg, but when he put his hand down he found blood, pulled over and called 911.
The man had been shot in the calf. One other driver was shot in
the leg, while a third was shot in the arm, police said.
"This isn't the first time I've heard of a random shooting re-ported, but as far as several of them possibly being linked, I can't think of another situation that has occurred in the KansasCity area," Grant said.
No new shootings have been re-ported since Sunday.
The police department, FBI and ATF are offering a $7,000 reward for information leading to an ar-rest in the shootings.
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can get away with anything.”
RECORD VOTER TURNOUT IN 2013
Last year, students reacted. Students voted.
Last year’s Student Senate election 25 percent voter turn-out was a record high for the University.
“I hope it’s broken,” Tetwiler said. “I hope it is.”
“I don’t think it will be,” said Tyler Childress, chief of staff. “There’s not as much fervor, it doesn’t seem like the student body cares as much, and even though the campaign is short-er, I don’t think the coalitions have done as good of a job at differentiating themselves.”
Childress thinks the student body won’t bother to vote if there isn’t a difference between coalitions’ platforms.
“Even in the debate last week,
there was a lot of agreement,” Tetwiler said.
“We never did that last year,” Halling said.
“‘Yeah, sustainability,’” Tetwiler quoted. “‘I actually agree with you. I could work with you on that.’”
Rapp said student campaigns in the past have encouraged a higher voter turnout when they emphasize how their plat-forms and candidates differ.
“Students, I think, respond to
well-established differences,” he said.
PREDICTIONS FOR THIS YEARJake Rapp expects this year’s
voter turnout to be high. He predicted about 20 percent.
“Students need to believe that there’s a choice and that it’s a choice that they can make,” Rapp said.
Due to this year’s campaign reform, Tetwiler said this year’s election is an experiment.
Campaigns are shorter and less aggressive, so students are less annoyed, but also may not be as informed.
Tetwiler remembers sur-prise and disbelief after last year’s election results were announced. There’s no Gallup poll prediction of Student Sen-ate election winners.
“There’s no way to know,” Tetwiler said.
— Edited by Callan Reilly
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SEE WHAT THIS YEAR’S CANDIDATES SAID ABOUT WHY STUDENTS SHOULD VOTE.
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Kansas teachers vow to fight for rights
TOPEKA, Kan. — Leaders of the largest Kansas teachers' union vowed Tuesday to fight through November's elections against the Legislature's vote to eliminate tenure.
The provisions were added to a school funding bill adopted Sun-
day by legislators that increases state funding for public schools by more than $129 million. The fund-ing increase was made to satisfy a Kansas Supreme Court ruling last month that ordered the state to increase funding to poor school districts. The measure is now on Gov. Sam Brownback's desk.
The tenure provisions are similar to language that has been
introduced or adopted across the country in recent years, includ-ing North Carolina, Indiana and Colorado.
Mark Desetti, a lobbyist for the Kansas National Education Asso-ciation, said that ending tenure would limit teachers' ability to advocate for their students' best interests. The union also believes depriving teachers of the admin-
istrative due process provided by tenure puts their jobs in jeopardy.
Desetti said while there had been hostility in the air toward teachers in recent years there was no indication that the tenure issue was coming until it was sprung on the Senate floor during debate of the funding bill.
"I think it has become much more common in recent years," he
said. "This is political retribution by people who believe they have an unfettered right to run roughshod over people who disagree with them."
Proponents of the change included conservative Republicans and the group Americans for Prosperity. They argued the move would give local school boards and administrators more power to
remove underperforming teachers and would improve the quality of public education.
"There's no reason for tenure. There is no reason to have any protected class in this state or in this country," said Rep. Allan Rothlisberg, a Grandview Plaza Republican.
— Associated Press
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the intersection of identities.“We desperately need to do
more work on campus explor-ing the other identities of stu-dents and how those identities intersect,” Detmer said. “So that is definitely going to be a priority for the coordinator.”
According to Detmer, the ad-dition of someone with a back-ground in higher education and counseling will be valu-able because they will be able to provide guidance and sup-port for students who come into the resource center.
“Students who identify with the gender and sexuality mi-nority community often are going through a struggle with identity in their college years and we need to provide an of-
fice of support and a network of support for those students,” Detmer said.
Although the LGBTQ Re-source Center has been work-ing on getting this position for years, the administration never had the funding because of state cuts to higher educa-tion. The resource center then turned to Student Senate for funding to accommodate the growing gender and sexuality minority population.
“I really felt that we had an obligation to those students who are either here and are struggling or the students that will be coming in future years to KU, just to make sure that they have that resource, whether or not they actually need that help, just to make sure it’s there,” said senior Ty-
ler Childress, Student Senate chief of staff.
Other than providing a full-time safe space for students, the coordinator would also be creating connections and building an inclusive environ-ment through events and pro-grams.
Currently, the LGBTQ Re-source Center has campaigns and events to spread awar-ness and encourage inclusiv-ity, including the Lavender Graduation Ceremony, which celebrates the achievements of gender and sexuality minority students during their time at the University. The event will be held on May 15 at 7 p.m. in the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Students can register for this year’s cer-emony at silc.ku.edu/lavgrad.
“It’s to honor and celebrate gender and sexuality minori-ties and ally graduates so that they leave feeling a sense of empowerment and achieve-ment,” Detmer said. “They know that this is a place that values their sexual orientation or gender identity.”
The hope is that with the ad-dition of this position and the growth of the LGBTQ com-munity on campus there will be more expansion in the re-source center, both in number of positions and presence on campus.
“I think it’s going to have one of the largest impacts that we can have on this campus and I know that we are reaching out to a lot of students,” Childress said.
KU IN COMPARISON
K-State has a full-time coordinator, a graduate student assistant and an undergraduate student working in its
LGBTQ Resource Center.
Mizzou has a full-time coordinator, a graduate student assistant and four student hourly positions in its LGBTQ
Resource Center.
UMKC has a full-time coordinator and student workers at its LGBTQ Resource Center.
I have had bad teachers before. Actually, it was in the seventh grade. I
was a straight A student, yet I couldn’t get anything better than a high C or low B on anything graded in geography class. Frustrated, I chalked it up to the idea I was simply terrible at geography.
Thankfully, my parents knew better, my father and I had a long talk with my teacher. It finally came out in a passing comment that my teacher was under the impression that I did not play any sports, and if I did, I would be much more capable of grasping the concepts he was teaching us, or something to that end. Coincidentally, when my father informed him I was, in fact, very active with my local gymnastics team, I started getting straight As in that class, too.
Now think of the best teacher you’ve ever had. This person not only taught you what you needed to know to pass his or her class, he or she pushed you to develop facets of yourself you did not even realize were there. This person is probably the teacher that wrote all of your letters of recommendation for college applications and scholarships, or the first adult you ever had a connection with on a level close to friendship (parents don’t count).
Now compare the two. It’s unfortunate, these two educators should have to share a spot in your life — it’s unfortunate you should have to deal with someone like the first teacher to begin with — but would
you really want to eliminate job incentive or security for great teachers, simply to eliminate bad teachers? This is basically what I hear whenever I hear someone critique the tenure system, or teacher’s salaries, and this is a poor excuse for the state legislature to eliminate tenure for teachers.
I am the child of two public school teachers, and even though I am not a teacher myself, it frustrates me to hear teachers get thrown under the bus by voters and public spectators who simply do not understand the educational system. The public school system has always been under a spotlight, as it should be: the quality of education for future generations is unfathomably important. Yet, education is often one of the first areas of government funding to be cut, and teachers — next to politicians themselves — are probably the most critiqued and underpaid profession of all. The public does not understand the complicated politics that goes into being a teacher in the public school system. I find it absolutely disheartening that people cast such strong condemnation onto teachers and education, without truly
understanding such an intricate profession.
Tenure is not a guarantee of a job, but rather a teacher’s right to due process, or in other words, a legally binding agreement prevents a school district from firing a teacher without providing them an appropriate reason for their termination. In a system that cannot function on capitalist business practices, (meaning, a teacher cannot raise the revenue of a school by being good at what he or she does) a teacher has no job security except through tenure. Particularly when it costs schools more to pay for a teacher with experience versus a new teacher with little to no experience, schools may opt to hire less experienced teachers over teachers who might now be considered too expensive to pay for.
This means teachers risk seeing even less of an income than the abominable pay they already receive, and without financial reward and job security, what incentive will the educational system have to draw in the types of great teachers our children deserve? The truth is, the educational system as we know it is dying, and with it, good teachers. This bill, along with its other amendments likely to cause more harm than good to school systems, is only a small nod to the travesty of the under appreciated teacher.
Tasha Cerny is a senior from Salina studying English.
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To you who like the apathy party, you’re too enthused.
More shocking than the fraters breaking out those pink short shorts is that they actually
think they’re cool...
The horoscopes are the same ones from yesterday. Now I don’t know what the stars have
planned for me!
Now that I know I can call this number it’s going to be my go to
when I start drunk dialing. Prepare yourself mysterious FFA person.
Does sidewalk chalk really cause anyone to change who they’re
voting for? If so, how many times a day do you change your mind
walking around campus?
Can KU please put a handle inside the 4th floor wescoe men’s bath-
room door, I’m tired of trying to pry that thing open with my fingers.
Disgusted with the ffas about tipping. Saying offensive things
anonymously instead of writing a letter to the editor.
What part of walk to the right does 95% of KU not understand? Seri-ously. Im tired of playing sidewalk
chicken people.
Yes, Jayhawks do migrate during the winter.... to Allen Fieldhouse.
#BewareofthePhog #WinterIsComing
If your shorts are below your knees you’re doing it wrong.
What if the basketball players wore chubbies for 1 day and frat guys
had to dress normal?
KU Parking is appealing the appeal I already won. I know which
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No, Jayhawks are a Kansas bird. They only migrate for away
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Guys if your shorts are above your knees you are in fact wearing
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“The West Wing” is one of those shows I’ve watched twice through but still put on as background noise when I quilt or clean. Some parts of it are a little dated, but the core political issues addressed are still at the forefront of our discussions today. The majority of the show reaffirms my generally liberal ideology, but as I was half-watching an episode the other day, an interesting point was raised by the token Republican character Ainsley Hayes. She opposes the Equal Rights Amendment — a proposed amendment guaranteeing equality of rights between the sexes — to the bewilderment of her male, liberal coworkers.
“It’s humiliating,” Ainsley says. “A new amendment we vote on declaring that I am equal under the law to a man, I am mortified to discover there is reason to believe I wasn’t before. I am a citizen of this country; I am not a special subset in need of your protection. I do not have to have my rights handed down to me by a bunch of old, white men. The same Article 14 that protects you, protects me, and I went to law school just to make sure.”
Ainsley is right; men and women shouldn’t have to be told that they are equal. On Tuesday, President Obama signed two executive orders in an effort to increase pay equity between the sexes in
the federal government. We shouldn’t have to have laws that guarantee that men and women are paid the same amount for the same job, and that they can object if this is not true.
It is humiliating, not so much as a woman, but as an American citizen, that we must have laws that ensure equality between genders, races, sexual orientations and the like, despite the fact that as American citizens, equality is constitutionally guaranteed. It is humiliating for our society that we are not yet at the point where it just makes sense that you pay two people the same amount for doing the same job.
Ainsley Hayes would hate the fact that President Obama signed these executive orders on Tuesday, especially given the already existing acts of legislation that aim to tackle this issue, such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963 or the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. I hate it too in theory, but I’ll swallow my pride if it means that we’re one step closer to equal pay being an accepted fact rather than a topic for debate.
Helena Buchmann is a freshman from Kansas City, MO
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Progress still needed toward equal pay
Too often, student senate elections revolve around
complicated verbiage, empty promises and flashy social media campaigns. Therefore, rather than endorsing a specific coalition, the Kansan editorial board has endorsed specific platforms we believe are both feasible and necessary to the growth and academic success of the student body. We have also selected specific platforms we believe are not fiscally responsible or essential to the University. When casting your vote in this year’s election, we encourage you to take each platform into consideration and act as an informed and socially responsible member of the University community.
CRIMSON AND TRUEEndorsement: Expanding
the Writing CenterIncluding foreign language
help in the Writing Center will increase the academic
achievement for the entire student population. This is a change that is critical to the development and accessibility of our foreign language departments.
Don’t support: Jayhawk Olympics
This platform would create an annual “Jayhawk Olympics” event to encourage a healthy and active lifestyle among the student body. While health and wellness plays a key role in student success, an event like this falls under the jurisdiction of the Watkins Student Health Center, Peer Health Educators, the Ambler Student Recreational Center and other existing campus organizations. This would be an inefficient use of senate funding and energy.
For more information on this coalition, their candidates and platforms, visit facebook.com/crimsonandtrue.
GROW KUEndorsement: Non-
traditional student resource center
Providing an inclusive and welcoming community for any group of students is an important part of the future success of students and the University as a whole. Non-traditional students make up a large portion of the student body yet are frequently overlooked. A centrally located center catered to the needs of this population can serve to bridge the gap between traditional and non-traditional students.
Don’t support: Annual fall concert
Although this platform plans for a “privately funded event” during Homecoming, we disagree with the planning and accountability falling on the shoulders of senate. Our elected officials should focus their time and energy on funding student organizations
and implementing their platforms to enhance the student body. Leave the concert planning to other promotional organizations on campus.
For more information on this coalition, their candidates and platforms, visit growku.org.
JAYHAWKERSEndorsement: GaDuGi
“Safebar Alliance” Partnership
This platforms seeks to partner with the local organization GaDuGi Safecenter to promote a safer environment while students enjoy the nightlife of Lawrence. Jayhawkers hope to expand GaDuGi’s already existing “Safebar” program and its resources. Students’ safety, both on and off campus, is critical to the overall college experience. This platform has the ability to create a safer community for all students, even on the weekends.
Don’t support: Safe and responsible drinking spaces in the Kansas Union
While a safe drinking environment is important, the Kansas Union and Jaybowl should not serve cereal malt beverages. Although the idea of drinking on campus is enticing, we believe the Union should serve as an institution to promote student involvement and leadership. Additionally, although the Union is licensed to serve alcohol to faculty, liability issues are called into question when serving these beverages to students.
Find more information on this coalition, their candidates and platforms at jayhawkersku.com.
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If you’re looking for new mu-sic, you’re in the right place. Here are a few artists you might like based on artists you already listen to.
IF YOU LIKE CHANCE THE RAP-PER, CHECK OUT VIC MENSAEver since the release of “Acid
Rap,” Chance The Rapper has had a meteoric rise to fame. He’s even recently been fea-tured on Justin Bieber’s song “Confident.” There hasn’t been much news about Chance’s next project, so fans should give fellow Chicago native Vic Mensa a chance. Mensa was once a member of indie band Kids These Days, but after they broke up he’s been pursuing a solo career. Mensa possesses the same energy Chance The Rapper brings and has a great ear for production. Mensa has only released one solo project so far, 2013’s “INNANETAPE,” but it’s definitely worth a listen.
IF YOU LIKE SCHOOLBOY Q, CHECK OUT VINCE STAPLESThe West Coast is mak-
ing a strong comeback with artists such as Schoolboy Q, Kendrick Lamar and YG all releasing quality material. Another name to add to that list is Vince Staples. Staples quite possibly had the two best verses on Earl Sweatshirt’s 2013 album “Doris,” and has dropped a plethora of quality projects, with the most recent being “Shyne Coldchain Vol. 2.” Staples was recently signed to Def Jam is planning on re-leasing his debut album in the near future. He is a great story
teller and can rhyme on just about any type of production. Right now Vince is on tour with Schoolboy Q and Isiah Rashaad and the tour makes a stop in Lawrence on April 23 at Liberty Hall.
IF YOU LIKE KID CUDI, CHECK OUT TRAVIS SCOTT
Travis Scott has expressed that Kid Cudi is his favorite artist and it shows in his mu-sic. Scott sings and raps just like Cudi and also has been known to use similar flows as him, but what sets Scott apart from Cudi is his production. Scott is one of the best young producers in hip-hop; he’s signed as an in-house pro-ducer to Kanye West’s GOOD Music and his production was prominently featured on West’s 2013 album “Yeezus.” He’s also signed as a rapper to T.I.’s Grand Hustle Records. He’s only released one project so far, “Owl Pharaoh.” It’s free and is definitely worth a listen.
IF YOU LIKE THREE 6 MAFIA, CHECK OUT SPACEGHOST-
PURRPThree 6 Mafia were the orig-
inators of southern lo-fi, eerie rap music. Now that the group seems to be done with the style of music, fans should check out Miami native SpaceG-hostPurrp. SpaceGhostPurrp has mastered and improved upon Three 6 Mafia’s sound, some of his tracks are down-right spooky. His production is amazing, but as a rapper SpaceGhostPurrp could im-prove. Even though he’s not the best rapper, his beats make up for it. SpaceGhostPurrp has a long discography but his best album is 2012’s “Mysterious
Phonk: Chronicles of SpaceG-hostPurrp.” He’s a great artist, but he’s “retired” from music several times and has always come back, so who knows how long he’ll continue.
IF YOU LIKE THE BAD PLUS, CHECK OUT BADBADNOTGOODIf you’re a fan of jazz bands
like The Bad Plus, then you should check out BADBAD-NOTGOOD. Along with orig-inal works, they also do covers of classic hip-hop tracks such as Nas’s “The World Is Yours.” They have done production for Tyler the Creator and Earl Sweatshirt of Odd Future, and their most recent project “III” releases on May 6. Their oth-er two projects “BBNG” and “BBNG2” are free and can be found online at badbadnot-good.com.
IF YOU LIKE KANYE WEST’S “YEEZUS,” CHECK OUT DEATH GRIPS
“Yeezus” heavily featured industrial and minimalist sounds, which is something that Death Grips specializes in. West is incredibly intense throughout most of “Yeezus,” lead vocalist MC Ride basically screams on every song. There are clear similarities between West’s most recent solo album and Death Grips and fans of “Yeezus” would most likely en-joy Death Grips as well. Death Grips is an experimental hip-hop group from Sacramento, Calif. and they’ve released four projects, but their best project is undoubtedly 2012’s “The Money Store.” Death Grips is basically all of the weirdest parts of “Yeezus” times ten.
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Explore new territory today and tomorrow. Follow the money trail, and hit gold. A person of higher status can
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A new profitable opportunity arises before another project’s done. Make plans without taking action yet. Set
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“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” does a lot of things right, but possibly the most outstanding aspect throughout is the level of quality, consistency and effi-ciency the Avengers brand has reached.
At this point, going to see one of these films is like tuning in to a new episode of your favorite TV show. We know the sort of things to expect from each one, how they’re connected and we smirk at the references to characters and events in the universe that’s been built. Yet we’re still getting something new, exciting and thoroughly entertaining in each outing.
The first “Captain America” was by far the worst of the Avengers films, old-school in demeanor and cartoony in tone. But at least it tried to play things differently. This installment also hits a specific vibe (far more successfully), delivering a superhero spy game/conspiracy thriller with shades of Bourne and ‘70s political thrillers mixed into the explosive spectacle.
Still adjusting to the modern world, Steve Rogers (Chris Ev-ans) enters Captain America mode whenever S.H.I.E.L.D. needs him to drop into high-stakes situations and kick bad guy butt. Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) joins him with more tactical espionage goals for Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), which our good ol’ boy scout hero doesn’t partic-ularly agree with. The preven-tative measures of the agency, headed by Alexander Pierce (Robert Redford, smooth and a little too relaxed), make for simple yet relevant commen-tary on NSA methods and government secrets, while Cap
speaks of the honorable old ways.
Before long Fury is in a white knuckle car chase se-quence, under attack from the forces of a mysterious assassin known only as the Winter Soldier. Fury tells Cap to trust no one, not even S.H.I.E.L.D., who label Captain America a fugitive when he goes on the run with Black Widow to solve the larger conspiracy at hand.
Luckily for viewers, Black Widow is actually a main character now: smart, sexy, nimbly taking out baddies while also giving the lonely Captain a foil and needed friend. They also recruit Falcon (Anthony Mackie, funny and cool) later on too, who joins their cause and flies around with an awesome set of robotic wings.
There are a few solid surpris-es in the screenplay but many are pretty obvious. As much as these Marvel movies have been nailed down to an effec-tive formula, the seams of the structure definitely show here and the plot elements stick out some as the story beats often hit like a memorized routine. They’re still enjoyable, just a bit too telegraphed in advance.
The Winter Soldier himself is a fierce villain, matching Captain America in strength and besting him in badass moves. The metallic robot arm certainly gives him an edge there, though he feels some-what underutilized, playing
second fiddle to the conspira-cy plot. But admittedly, having the trusted S.H.I.E.L.D. agen-cy turn on Cap feels thrilling at all points, from having to escape from the headquarters on lockdown to the eventual large-scale set piece return there for the finale.
Directors Anthony and Joe Russo comfortably incor-porate humor, while giving characters an appreciated balance and stage the action with suspenseful closeness for the down-and-dirty fights and spacious running room for the bigger sequences. I could watch Cap sending cronies flying with powerful hits all day, but it’s probably for the best that’s a reserved type of stunt work here.
“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is one of the better Avengers movies, and by taking out more fantastical pieces present in other fran-chise installments and going the conspiracy thriller route, makes this superhero entry stay fresh in spite of its weaker points.
Glad to have ya back, Cap.
— Edited by Jack Feigh
‘Captain America’ sequel proves high quality of Avengers films
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It’s hard to find time in a col-lege student’s schedule to cook a real breakfast and we don’t all have a nice, fully-stocked kitchen. So I’m going to share my technique for cooking scrambled eggs in the micro-wave. The beauty of this is that you can do it in a dorm room with no appliances other than a microwave and a small “dorm” fridge. It’s also quick — it can be done in just five minutes.
If you’ve tried this before you might have found that the eggs were dry, rubbery or not cooked well, but I can show you how to avoid that. There are three keys to the process: moisture, stirring and know-ing when to stop.
1. Grab a microwave-safe bowl big enough for all your eggs with room to spare. Let’s say you’re cooking two eggs, so the bowl you use for a whole can of soup should suffice. For the moisture, use a quar-
ter cup of milk. You can also throw in a pat of butter if you like. That will improve the tex-ture and flavor of the eggs, but it’s optional. Whisk the milk and eggs together with a fork. Don’t worry about the butter; it will melt soon enough.
2. Cook the eggs for three minutes on high in the micro-wave but microwaves vary so keep that in mind. The trick is to stop cooking in the mid-dle to stir the eggs with the fork. Mix them up thoroughly, scraping them off the sides of the bowl. If you don’t do this, the eggs around the edge of the bowl will overcook and the ones in the middle will under-cook. Cooking more eggs will require not only more time, but more stops for stirring.
3. OK, if time is not a sure thing, how do you know when the eggs are done? Look at them. The trick here is that they’re done before they look done. You should stop cook-ing when the eggs are mostly set up and cooked through
but just barely “wet” or “run-ny”. This is because eggs soak up heat. While they release the heat they’ve stored and cool off, they will literally finish cooking themselves. So just let them set for a minute and they’ll be good to go. If they don’t look done in a minute or two, you can always give them another thirty seconds in the microwave but you can’t un-cook something that’s over-cooked.
4. While the eggs are cool-ing, add salt and pepper for taste (I like them just fine without either) and fluff the eggs with the fork. If you want, you can mix in some shredded cheese at this point, or maybe even crumbled sausage or ba-con (cooked of course). I like to cut mine out of the bowl, in-stead of fluffing them, and put half in a sandwich on whole wheat toast with a little light mayo and a slice of cheese. That works well because the eggs form up much like they do in those fast food breakfast sandwiches we all love, but this
way you can make your own that are cheaper and healthier.
Eggs are cheap, so this makes for a budget-friendly break-fast.
Another bonus is that this “recipe” scales well, which means you can make breakfast for your roommates or signif-icant other with maybe some bacon, hash browns, biscuits and/or pancakes. I like to cook the eggs in the microwave while my biscuits and gravy are cooking.
Scrambled eggs are versatile. In addition to the suggestions I’ve made so far, some folks eat them with salsa (with or without a tortilla), put them in fried rice, pad thai or ramen noodles or mix them into hash with potatoes, ham and pep-pers.
So give it a try and let me know what you think with a tweet: @EdwardLCote
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PARIS — Its gray, man-made mountain that might lure King Kong still protrudes over tree-tops, but nearly everything else has changed as Paris' zoo prepares to re-open after a multi-year, multimillion-euro (dollar) makeover.
The Zoological Park of Paris opened for a herd of journal-ists on Wednesday before a grand re-opening this week-end.
Gradually, the 80-year-old Paris attraction returned to life: Macaws cackled, red ibises perched on one foot on a greenhouse rail, and the stench of giraffe manure waft-ed through a cavernous indoor pen.
The 65-meter (215-foot) Grand Boulder, the zoo's main landmark (which ac-tually covers a water tower) has been touched up, but isn't quite ready to host visitors for its panoramic views, officials
said. When it does it may help lure visitors out to the zoo's site near the eastern suburb of Vincennes, and away from Paris' many other highlights.
WHAT'S NEW?When the zoo temporarily
closed in 2008, its crumbling displays were a safety hazard. Without major refurbishment since its opening in 1934, the zoo was a concrete jungle of traditional animal cages. Now managers trumpet an unpar-
alleled, top-to-bottom renova-tion: Winding pathways, lush vegetation, and 21st-century displays with fewer fences and cages — and clever landscap-ing to separate the wildlife from its watchers.
WHAT MAKES THIS ZOO DIFFERENT?
Instead of by type, the ani-mals have been grouped by re-gion of origin — and there are five: Madagascar, Patagonia, Guyana, Europe and Sahel-Su-
dan, the largest single area in the zoo and home to African savannah roamers. Rolling terrain and artificial rocks point to the effort to re-create the natural ecosystems, as best possible.
HOW DIFFICULT HAS THE REOPENING BEEN?
Most of the animals that left for the renovation won't be returning, so like modern-day counterparts of Noah the zoo-keepers have had to bring in
new ones. To make sure the animals are happy in their new digs the staff are letting the creatures adapt at their own speed — sometimes a snail's pace.
BY THE NUMBERSThe zoo has some 180 spe-
cies — including 74 bird and 42 mammal species — totaling over 1,000 animals (aside from the insects). Admission ranges from 11 euros (about $15) for kids aged 3 to 11, to 22 euros for adults.
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LOS ANGELES — Mickey Rooney signed his last will just weeks before death, leaving a modest estate to a stepson who had been his caretaker, but the actor had no intention of ending his Hollywood career anytime soon, his attorney said Tuesday.
Rooney's death Sunday oc-curred after the actor began to have difficulty breathing during an afternoon nap, attorney Michael Augustine said.
Augustine said Rooney, 93, passed a physical required before he could start filming for an installment of the “Night at the Museum” fran-chise and his death was due to natural causes.
Rooney's will was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday. It was signed by Rooney on March 11 and called for his stepson Mark Rooney and his wife to be the sole beneficiaries of the actor's estate, which is valued at only $18,000.
The actor designated Au-gustine to serve as the exec-utor of his estate, stating that he did not want any relative
handling his final affairs.Despite a show business
career spanning more than 80 years, Rooney said he had lost most of his fortune because of elder abuse and financial mismanagement by another stepson. Rooney's will disinherited the actor's eight surviving children, as
well as his estranged wife. Jan Rooney will receive her husband's Social Security benefits and some of his pension earnings as a result of a previous agreement; Augustine said Rooney felt that provided adequate care for her.
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HONG KONG — A Shang-hai collector paid a record $36 million Tuesday for a rare Ming Dynasty cup that's touted as the "holy grail" of China's art world.
Several records have been set at Sotheby's spring sales in Hong Kong, continuing a trend of sky-high prices in the art world driven by the newly super-rich buyers in China and developing countries.
The dainty, white cup from the 15th century measures just 8 centimeters (3.1 inches) in diameter and is known as a "chicken cup" because it's decorated with a rooster and hen tending to their chicks. Sotheby's describes the cup as having flawless translucent sides with its lively scene painted continuously around its sides.
It was made during the reign of the Ming Dynasty's Cheng-hua Emperor, who ruled from 1465 to 1487. Sotheby's said only 17 such cups exist, with
four in private hands and the rest in museums.
"There's no more legendary object in the history of Chi-nese porcelain," said Nicholas Chow, Sotheby's deputy chair-man for Asia. "This is really the holy grail when it comes to Chinese art."
The previous record for Chinese porcelain was set in 2010 when a gourd-shaped Qianlong vase sold for $32.4 million, Sotheby's said.
For such a prized item, bidding was limited to a handful of collectors and when the winning bid was hammered down at HK$250 million ($32.2 million), the standing-room-only crowd applauded. The auction house's commission brought the total to HK$281.2 million ($36.1 million). A pre-sale estimate was a maximum HK$300 million.
The auction house's Hong Kong spring sales show the region's super-rich are still spending despite fluctuating economic growth. At Sunday's
sale of modern and con-temporary Asian art, Asian collectors bought nine of the top 10 priciest lots.
"Definitely the mood in
Hong Kong at this moment, in Asia, is buoyant," said Chow.
Sotheby's identified the buyer as collector Liu Yiqian, and Chow said the cup would
likely go on display in Liu's Long Museum in Shanghai, which he and his wife, Wang Wei, opened in 2012.
Liu is a middle-school drop-
out who drove a cab before becoming a multimillionaire. Forbes estimates his fortune at $900 million, making him the 200th richest person in China.
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ASSOCIATED PRESSSotheby’s Deputy Chairman for Asia Nicholas Chow presents the Meiyintang “Chicken Cup” from the Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) during a press conference in Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 8. The cup sold for a record $36 million.
Blind test shows soloists prefer new violins over old
Mickey Rooney leaves estate to stepson, wife in his will
WASHINGTON — Ten world-class soloists put costly Stradivarius violins and new, cheaper ones to a blind scientific test. The results may seem off-key to musicians and collectors, but the new instru-ments won handily.
When the lights were dimmed and the musicians donned dark glasses, the solo-ists' top choice out of a dozen old and new violins tested was by far a new one. So was the second choice, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the Nation-al Academy of Sciences.
Of the six old violins tested, five were by made by the famous Stradivari family in the 17th and 18th centuries. The newer violins were about 100 times cheaper, said study co-author Joseph Curtin, a Michigan violin maker. But the Strads and other older Italian violins have long been considered superior, even almost magical.
The idea was to unlock "the secrets of Stradivari," the study said.
So the study tries to quantify something that is inherently subjective and personal, the quality of an instrument, said Curtin and lead author Claudia Fritz of Pierre and Marie Curie University in France. A few years earlier, the duo tested violins blind in an Indianapolis hotel room, but this one was more controlled and comprehensive, putting the instruments through their paces in a rehearsal room and concert hall just outside Paris. They even played with an orchestra, the results of which
will be part of a future study."I was surprised that my
top choice was new," said American violinist Giora Schmidt. "Studying music and violin in particular, it's almost ingrained in you thinking that the most successful violinists on the concert stage have always played old Italian instruments."
French soloist Solenne Paidassi said "there's a para-noia about new instruments," compared to "a glamour about old instruments."
Even Curtin who makes new violins for a living, said he was surprised, adding the study was designed to eliminate bias in favor of either group of violins.
"I remember trying the old violins and the new violins among ourselves just before the testing got going and say-ing, 'You know maybe the old ones will win'," Curtin said.
But when the lights were turned down, all that could be judged was the sound. Some violins were 300 years old. Some were days old.
And when the soloists were asked to guess whether the violins they were playing were old or new, the soloists got it wrong 33 times and right 31 times.
Canadian soloist Susanne Hou has been playing a rare $6 million 269-year-old Guarneri del Gesu violin and knows what she likes and what she doesn't. During the testing, some of the violins she played for only a few and then held the instrument out at arm's length in noticeable dis-taste. But, like others, she was drawn to a certain unidenti-fied violin. It was new.
"Whatever this is I would like to buy it," she said in vid-eo shot during the September 2012 experiment.
Schmidt, who normally plays a new violin with a little more down-to-Earth price tag of $30,000, liked a different new one, calling it extraordinary in a phone interview: "I said kiddingly to them I will write you a check for this fiddle right now."
Curtin said the research-ers won't ever reveal which instruments were used to prevent conflict of interests or appear like a marketing campaign.
James Woodhouse, a profes-sor of engineering and expert on musical instruments at the University of Cambridge in England, wasn't part of the study, but praised it as solid "and very tricky to carry out."
Classic violins "are still very good, but that when a level playing field is provided for making honest comparisons, the very best of the contem-porary instruments stand up remarkably well in their company," Woodhouse wrote in an email.
Hou, whose four-year loan of the classic Italian violin has expired, explained in an in-terview that finding the right instrument is so personal: "There are certain things you can't explain when you fall in love."
And since Hou is shopping for violins this week, one of the restrictions on the experiment truly bothers her: The scientists wouldn't tell her who made the violin she fell for.
ASSOCIATED PRESSThis framegrab image from video shows soloist Ilya Kaler blinded by glasses while he plays the violin during a test in September 2012. The test proved that violinists prefer to play on newer violins rather than old ones.
ASSOCIATED PRESSMickey Rooney, a Hollywood legend whose career spanned more than 80 years, died Sunday, April 6 in his North Hollywood home. He was 93.
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TUCSON, Ariz. — A once-prominent socialite was found guilty Tuesday in the 1996 Tucson car bomb killing of her ex-husband after spend-ing years abroad living a lavish lifestyle across Europe.
Pamela Phillips, 56, was con-victed of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder after less than three days of deliberations that be-gan last week. She faces life in prison at her May 22 sentenc-ing hearing.
During the trial that began in February, Phillips' lawyers told jurors their client had nothing to gain from the death of busi-nessman Gary Triano and that she was the victim of overzeal-ous authorities who failed to follow other leads. They said Phillips was already a success-ful real estate broker with her own money, and suggested that Triano had numerous oth-er enemies.
But prosecutors described Phillips as a gold digger who hired a former boyfriend to kill Triano to collect on a $2 million life insurance policy in order to maintain her extrava-gant taste for the good life.
Triano died when his car exploded as he was leaving a Tucson-area country club after playing golf. Authori-ties said Phillips paid Ronald Young $400,000 to carry out the hit. Young was convicted in 2010 and sentenced to two life terms in prison, but jurors weren't allowed to consider his case while determining Phil-lips' fate.
Prosecutors presented a por-trait of a woman who grew ac-customed to the high life and
found herself struggling finan-cially with an easy $2 million way out.
The state's case against her hinged largely on the pur-ported secret arrangement between Phillips and Young, who the defendant dated while working as a real estate broker in Aspen, Colo., after she di-vorced Triano.
While Phillips claimed she had paid Young the $400,000 for assistance with business ventures and financial plan-ning, prosecutors argued the money was clearly payment for the hit.
"He's not getting paid for business advice that she nev-er takes — he's getting paid for murder," prosecutor Rick Unklesbay said in closing ar-guments.
During the trial, in addi-tion to witnesses, prosecu-tors used financial records and telephone conversations that Young secretly recorded during talks with Phillips. In one recording, Young appears to grow angry over not receiv-ing his payments, telling Phil-lips, "You're going to be in a woman's prison for murder."
Defense lawyers said the calls were merely the ramblings of a con man.
One prosecution witness, a longtime friend of Phillips, testified that Phillips once told her how easy it would be to hire someone to kill her hus-band.
The defense downplayed the testimony, noting Phillips was distraught at the time af-ter having a fight with Triano during which he threatened her. Phillips' lawyers also called into question the wit-ness' memory.
Triano was a developer who made millions investing in In-dian bingo halls and slot-ma-chine parlors in Arizona and California before Congress authorized tribes to open full-blown casinos. But after the real estate market declined and he lost control of his gambling interests, Triano went broke.
That's around the time Phil-lips filed for divorce, prosecu-tors said.
The couple, who had two children together, separated, but Phillips remained the ben-eficiary of Triano's insurance policy, paying the premiums herself.
She eventually moved to As-pen and worked in real estate before meeting Young, and prosecutors said the two would later hatch a plan to kill Triano and collect on the policy.
After the killing, Young was on the run from a warrant for his arrest in Colorado on fraud charges while Phillips was sending him money for the hit.
The investigation into Tri-ano's killing stalled until Young's arrest in 2005 in Flori-da on the fraud charges. That's when both Phillips and Young became the key suspects in the killing. Authorities say he kept detailed records of his finan-cial transactions with Phillips, including recorded telephone conversations and invoices.
By then, Phillips had re-ceived the $2 million insur-ance payout and had left As-pen for a life overseas.
She was arrested in Austria in 2009 and extradited to Tuc-son. Her case was delayed after a judge ruled she was mentally unfit to stand trial at the time.
ASSOCIATED PRESSPamela Phillips looks on in Pima County Superior Court Tuesday, April 8, in Tucson, Ariz. Phillips, a once-prom-inent socialite, was found guilty Tuesday of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the 1996 killing of her ex-husband.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California bill that sought to end killer whale shows at SeaWorld in San Di-ego and phase out their cap-tivity was put on hold Tues-day, dousing an escalating fight between animal activists and a major tourist attraction.The bill's author, Democrat Richard Bloom of Santa Mon-ica, agreed during the bill's first hearing before the water, parks and wildlife commit-tee to revisit his proposal af-ter further study. As a result, AB2140 is dead for this year and the soonest lawmakers could vote on the proposal would be mid-2015 following additional hearings."It's unfortunate that much of the conversation has been fueled ... by fear and invective and misinformation," Bloom said. Bloom was inspired by the 2013 documentary "Black-fish" in which filmmakers argue that captivity and mis-treatment of orcas make the animals aggressive and has led to attacks on trainers. It examined the events leading to the 2010 death of trainer Dawn Brancheau in SeaWor-ld Orlando when the whale Tilikum pulled her under water.The bill would have banned the import, export and breed-ing of orcas while requiring SeaWorld San Diego to move its 10 killer whales out of
tanks and into larger sea pens.Witnesses for the marine park said that was not a via-ble option, and lobbyist Scott Wetch told lawmakers the bill would have likely resulted in SeaWorld sending its orcas to parks outside the state.Public outrage over the mov-ie drove 1.2 million people to sign a petition supporting the bill that was delivered Mon-day to the Assembly by three elementary school students who successfully stopped an overnight school field trip to SeaWorld.Dozens of animal rights ac-tivists packed the hearing room on Tuesday to support the bill, with more who were unable to get seats waiting outside.SeaWorld dismissed their contention that orcas are too intelligent and too large for captivity."That argument is not based on credible peer-reviewed science," John Reilly, presi-dent of SeaWorld San Diego Park, said in an interview. "It's based on emotion and a pro-paganda film."Business and tourist groups supported SeaWorld, saying it provides thousands of jobs and attracts tourists to San Diego.John Hargrove, a former Sea-World trainer in Texas and San Diego who appeared in "Blackfish," told lawmakers that orcas appeared agitated and pulled him under water multiple times.
SeaWorld has mounted an aggressive public relations campaign to discredit the film for relying on what it calls un-qualified former employees and biased experts.The publicly traded company bought newspaper ads, set up a website countering "Black-fish," and criticized the film on Twitter. SeaWorld says it expects record revenue in 2013 even after the documen-tary aired on CNN and at the Sundance Film Festival.Recent filings, however, showed a dip in attendance at the start of the year that the company attributes to a change in how holidays fall in the calendar year.Witnesses for SeaWorld said the animals receive the high-est level of care and provide opportunities for research to help conserve killer whales in the wild.Naomi Rose, a marine mam-mal scientist with the Animal Welfare Institute, a sponsor of the bill, said she was dis-appointed by the delay but believes the science will ulti-mately show orcas are ill-suit-ed for captivity."Nobody likes to wait, but I've been doing this for over 20 years," she told reporters after the hearing. "I'm playing the long game."Rose said she had been work-ing with lawmakers in Texas and Florida to introduce sim-ilar legislation.
California bill that would end orca shows put on hold
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Male stripper did show at NY nursing home
WEST BABYLON, N.Y. — An 85-year-old woman with demen-tia had a male stripper gyrate in front of her against her will at her suburban New York nursing home, according to a lawsuit filed by her family but the facility's lawyer said Tuesday the performance had been requested by its resi-dents.
John Ray, the attorney for Ber-nice Youngblood and her family, said the woman's son found a photograph of a man in white briefs dancing in front of his mother when he visited her in January 2013 at East Neck Nurs-ing and Rehabilitation Center.
The photo, which Ray distribut-ed to reporters, shows Youngblood putting money into the dancer's waistband. Ray said Youngblood had been urged to participate and did so against her will.
Franklin Youngblood, who at-tended the news conference out-side the Long Island facility, said he immediately went to a nursing supervisor for an explanation. The lawsuit claims the nurse attempt-ed to grab the photo from him.
Ray said Bernice Youngblood, who herself had worked as a health aide for the elderly when she was younger, had her dignity taken away when "nursing home employees subjected her to this disgraceful sexual perversion."
Bernice Youngblood, who at-tended the press conference in a wheelchair with some of her rel-atives at her side, mumbled in a barely audible voice that she felt "terrible" and "ashamed" about what happened, but had no spe-cific recollection of the details of the incident.
Ray said he has yet to deter-mine who took the photograph, or how it got in the woman's bed-room drawer.
Howard Fensterman, an attor-ney representing the facility, said a 16-member resident committee had requested the September 2012 performance and the nurs-ing home paid the $250 fee.
Fensterman said the facility's management reserves the right to reject a request by the residents' committee, particularly if the ac-tivity were deemed detrimental.
"But in this instance these are adults who wanted to have this activity, they requested it, they
voted on it and the nursing home approved of it," he said.
The claims and counter-claims came during a sequence of heat-ed news conferences outside the facility in West Babylon. Reporters and cameramen jostled in a large scrum around Fensterman and Ray when they briefly became em-broiled in an argument after Ray presented his counterpart with a copy of the lawsuit complaint.
Fensterman said the girlfriend of one of Youngblood's sons had taken her to the stripper show, and not nursing home employees.
Ray said Youngblood's son disputed that claim and, in any case, that does not mean Bernice Youngblood was not harmed by what she saw.
Fensterman also chided Ray for claiming that Bernice Youngblood was suffering from dementia, while at the same time noting the woman signed a power of attorney document claiming she was com-petent to sign it.
"Ms. Youngblood suffers from partial dementia," Ray said. "She has moments of partial lucidity."
— Associated Press
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel has barred 30 runners, including an Olympic athlete, from leaving the Gaza Strip to participate in a marathon later this week, highlighting Israel's tight restrictions on travel in and out of the Hamas-ruled territory, Palestinian officials said Tuesday.
In the case of the Olympic runner, Nader Masri, the trav-el ban was upheld Tuesday by Israel's Supreme Court. Masri, 34, participated in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Separately, 36 young musi-cians requested to leave Gaza for a weeklong music compe-tition in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, but were also denied permission, organizers said. An Israeli defense official said a final decision has not been made. The competition begins Wednesday.
The cases underscored Israel's restrictions on Gaza, which human rights activists argue amount to collective punishment and are often ar-bitrary. They say the travel ban is part of an Israeli attempt to sever ties between Gaza and the West Bank, territories that lie on opposite ends of Israel and are sought by the Pales-tinians for a future state, along with east Jerusalem.
Israel and Gaza's other neighbor, Egypt, have severely limited access to Gaza since the territory was seized by the Islamic militant Hamas in 2007. Virtually all exports from Gaza are banned and
most of Gaza's 1.7 million people cannot travel abroad. Israel considers Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks, a terrorist group.
The Palestinian Olympic Committee said it had asked Israel for permits for the 30 runners to leave Gaza so they could attend the second annual international mara-thon in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Friday.
Itidal al-Mugrabi, a senior official in the committee, said all requests were denied last month. She said the Bethle-hem event, which will also include shorter races, was expected to draw some 700 runners from Europe in addi-tion to local athletes.
After being denied a permit, Masri approached the Israeli rights group Gisha, which appealed to Israel's Supreme Court.
The judges ruled Tuesday that they could not intervene in the defense minister's policy considerations, but suggested the military consid-er more exemptions from the travel ban.
Masri said he was disap-pointed.
"The ban no doubt limits my ability to challenge other champions from elsewhere," Masri said. He said he trains daily in the streets and three times a week in a local gym.
Ostensibly, Masri should have stood a good chance of getting the exit permit even under Israel's stringent criteria.
Those permitted to leave Gaza, include members of the Palestinian Olympic team and the Palestinian soccer team, according to guidelines pub-lished in 2011 by the branch of Israel's military dealing with implementing the policy toward Gaza.
According to that list, exceptions are also made for Gaza residents seeking to at-tend events in the West Bank
sponsored by the Palestinian Authority, the self-rule gov-ernment of Hamas' political rival, President Mahmoud Abbas.
Maj. Guy Inbar, an Israeli defense official, said Masri's request was denied because it "does not meet the rules for exceptions for sports events."
Inbar said the Bethlehem marathon sponsored by the Palestinian Authority "has
political overtones," but did not elaborate. He initially said that others who applied for permits were support staff, but then said he needed to check that information.
Eitan Diamond, the head of Gisha, said underlying Israel's policy is an attempt to "create a divide between the West Bank and Gaza, to remove Gaza from the consciousness of the Israeli public, to push
Gaza away."Israel captured the West
Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem in 1967. It withdrew from Gaza in 2005, but continues to control access by air, land and sea.
Much of the international community considers the lands captured in 1967 as a single territorial unit, in con-trast to Israel's claim that Gaza is no longer occupied.
ASSOCIATED PRESSIn this April 5, 2008 file photo, Nader Masri exercises in Gaza City. On April 8, 2014 Israel’s high court upheld a decision by the military to prevent Masri, a Gaza Olympian, from leaving the coastal strip to participate in a marathon in the West Bank. Israel says only humanitarian hardship cases are allowed to leave Gaza.
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35 arrests made after UConn celebrates win
STORRS, Conn. — The Univer-sity of Connecticut men's basket-ball team plans to fly back home with the national championship that was celebrated at a campus rally on Tuesday.
The Huskies beat Kentucky 60-54 in Arlington, Texas, to win the men's NCAA title game Mon-day night, their fourth national championship. The team returned to the Storrs campus at about 5 p.m. Tuesday, where a rally was planned at Gampel Pavilion.
Back on campus, fans cele-brating the men's championship smashed a window in an engi-neering building, broke street lights and overturned furniture inside the school's student union.
Campus police made 35 arrests by Tuesday morning on charges including breach of peace, inter-fering with police and vandalism, university spokeswoman Stepha-nie Reitz said. Of those arrested, 20 were UConn students, she said.
Most of the property damage was minor and no serious injuries had been reported, officials said.
"By far, most of our students have conducted themselves safe-
ly and responsibly," UConn police Chief Barbara O'Connor said.
More than 10,000 students shook the stands inside Gampel, erupted in cheers and stormed the arena floor as the Huskies won their second national champion-ship in four years.
"I'm just so happy to be a Hus-ky right now," said Mike Butkus, a 21-year-old senior from Nau-gatuck. "So much pride. The last 20 years, you'd be hard-pressed to find a program more successful
than us."The victory comes a year af-
ter the Huskies were barred from March Madness because of grades problems. They never trailed in the final.
"This energy is like something I've never felt in my entire life," Ricky O'Neill, a freshman from New York, said Monday night. "And we're going to do this all again tomorrow."
ASSOCIATED PRESSConnecticut students celebrate their team’s 60-54 victory over Kentucky in the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball championship game Monday, April 7, in Storrs, Conn.
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Pistorius wails during his testimony, adjourns court
PRETORIA, South Africa — A subdued Oscar Pistorius on Tuesday described dinner at home, chatting and looking at cell phone photos with Reeva Steenkamp on the last night of her life. Then he erupt-ed in anguished howls and heaving sobs while testifying at his murder trial about the moments when he says he realized he shot his girlfriend through a closed toilet door.
The court in Pretoria, the South African capital, adjourned because of the star athlete's breakdown. The trial was to reconvene on Wednes-day.
Tuesday marked the first time he has spoken publicly about the details of the fatal shooting. Prosecutors call Pistorius' story an intricate lie and maintain he intentionally killed his 29-year-old girl-friend, a model and reality TV show star, after an argument.
Led by defense lawyer Barry Roux for the second day of his testimony, the runner provided more detail about
his timeline of events leading up to the shooting. He said he fell asleep between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. and woke up early the next morning.
At that point, he said, Steen-kamp asked him: "Can't you sleep?"
'"No, I can't,'" Pistorius said he replied. Then he said stepped out to the balcony to get fans, and when he returned to the darkened bed-room he heard a noise from the bathroom.
"That's the moment that everything changed," Pistorius testified.
Pistorius said he felt fearful and vulnerable as he moved to the bathroom, walking only on his stumps. He said he was screaming for Steenkamp to call the police.
He also testified he heard a door slam, which he said he took as "confirmation" that there was an intruder in the bathroom, and fired four shots at the toilet cubicle with his 9 mm pistol.
After the shots, Pistorius said, he searched for Steen-kamp in his bedroom, patting
the bed where he says he thought she was in the dark, searching on the floor next to it where he thought she might be hiding, and also behind the curtains.
"It was at that point ... that it first dawned on me that maybe it was Reeva in the toilet," Pistorius said. He said he screamed for help.
In a dramatic scene before the packed courtroom Tuesday, Pistorius left briefly at one point to change out of his dark suit and into a white shirt and shorts, similar to the clothes he was wearing when he killed Steenkamp.
Prompted by his lawyer, Pistorius then took off his prosthesis and stood on his stumps by the bullet-marked toilet door, which has remained in the courtroom for much of the trial. It ap-peared to be an effort by the defense to illustrate what they describe as the Olympian's vulnerability at the time of the shooting.
ASSOCIATED PRESSFamily members of Oscar Pistorius, including uncle Arnold Pistorius, right, cry as they listen to Oscar Pisto-rius testifying in court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, April 8. Pistorius is charged with the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day 2013.
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er, took a change in philosophy this season.
The coach talked with new wide receivers coach Eric Kiesau and has taken more precedent working with his re-ceivers and hopes to add more to an offense that was almost entirely one-dimensional last season.
While Weis wants the team to remain unscathed coming off the last practice of spring,
he wants to see what wrinkle they can add to the offense with a new play caller at the helm.
“I would like to see good execution. I don’t want to turn the ball over on offense and I want to get turnovers on de-fense,” Weis said. “I would like to see the operation on offense show efficiency because the operation is the newest thing that we have going.”
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ton, Texas had an average per game of 35,593 people attend the opening series against the Philadelphia Phillies. That was a 10,434 people per game dif-ference from the 2013 opening series. The Rangers ranked 11th in the attendance for the 2013 season, filling 78 percent of seat each night.
The other six teams that dropped in attendance from 2013 to 2014 include: the
Baltimore Orioles, Chica-go White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins and Tampa Bay Rays.
Among the 10 teams that have experience a decrease in attendance, an average total of 39,323 less people per game attended this season’s opening series.
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Kansas defeats UMKC with help from Pille
The Kansas Jayhawks (29-13, 3-3 Big 12) shut out the University of Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos yesterday 5-0. Junior pitcher Alicia Pille threw her sixth shutout on the season, and pitched without a hit from the Kangaroos until the sev-enth inning.
“I am really pleased with Pille’s performance,” said head coach Megan Smith. “After a tough week-end at Oklahoma, it’s great to see her bounce back and pitch ex-tremely well. All of her pitches were working well and she was going after hitters.”
At the plate, freshman infield-er Chanin Naudin hit a homerun, her fourth of the season. Naudin
recorded two RBIs on her lone hit of the game.
“Chanin’s late home run late in the game was a big hit for us,” Smith said. “Her home run put it out of reach for them.”
Other than Naudin, “[Ashley] Newman and AJ [Alex Jones] sparked us and did some good things up at the plate,” Smith said. “Taylor McElhaney seems to always be on base, which is a good thing. Those three really got us started and we carried that over.”
Next up for the Jayhawks is a home conference series April 17-19 against Texas Tech. First pitch against the Red Raiders is sched-uled for 5 p.m. on April 17.
— Amie Just
MINNEAPOLIS — Ricky Rubio scored 23 points and Gorgui Dieng had 12 points and 15 rebounds, leading the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 110-91 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night.
Kevin Love had 19 points and 12 rebounds and Corey Brewer scored 14 points and the Timberwolves, who have beaten Miami and San Antonio in two of their last three games.
Kawhi Leonard had 11 points and six rebounds for the Spurs, who were playing without Tony Parker and have now lost two of three following a 19-game winning streak. Parker has a back
injury, but coach Gregg Popovich said before the game he didn't believe it was that serious.
The Spurs (60-18) entered the night with a 4½-game lead over Oklahoma City in the race for the best record in the NBA.
Manu Ginobili left in the third quarter with a left calf contusion, and the Spurs were just 4 for 17 from 3-point range in a listless performance. The Spurs haven't clinched home-court advantage throughout the playoffs, but there's no doubt they would like to seal that up after losing Games 6 and 7 of the NBA Finals in Miami last season.
With the turnovers and clanked shots piling up early
— San Antonio trailed by as many as 28 in the third quarter — Popovich played Tim Duncan just 20 minutes and went deep into his bench as he often does.
The Timberwolves were playing without Nikola Pe-kovic (ankle), Kevin Martin (heel), Chase Budinger (an-kle) and Shabazz Muhammad (knee), and Love went just 5 for 15 from the field. But Ru-bio was more aggressive than he's ever been looking for his own shot and the rookie Dieng stood up well against Duncan in the paint to help the Wolves grab control early.
There was a sparse crowd for the game that was origi-nally supposed to be played in Mexico City as part of the NBA's initiative to expand
its global reach. But origi-nally scheduled meeting in December had to be canceled after a malfunctioning gen-erator sent plumes of smoke into the arena about 90 minutes before tipoff.
The Spurs were disap-pointed to have to come up to Minnesota and see what would have been a treasured four-day break near the end of the season interrupted by the trip. And once the game started, they showed little of the fire or focus that have been hallmarks of their remarkable season.
They turned the ball over 10 times in the first half and shot under 37 percent to fall behind 54-34 at the break, their lowest point total in a half this season.
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ASSOCIATED PRESSMinnesota Timberwolves’ Ricky Rubio, from Spain, guards San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili (20), from Argentina during the second quarter in an NBA basketball game at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Tuesday, April 8.
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““You know what? They got the play right. That’s the bottom line.”
— Atlanta Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez, after the first use of ex-
panded replay this season.ESPN.com
This week in athletics
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THE MORNING BREW
Q: What year did the NFL begin allowing coaches to challenge calls?
A: 1999— USA Today
!FACT OF THE DAYDuring a test run for expanded replay in the 2013 Arizona Fall League, there were 15 challenges with only a 20 percent overturn rate.
— Close Call Sports
Unfavorable replay rule changes baseball
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Is it too early to call Major League Baseball’s recently expanded replay system a total failure? No?
All right. Major League Baseball’s recently
expanded replay system is a total failure. The amendment, unanimously approved by league owners during this past offseason’s winter meetings, allows for managers to “challenge” up to two calls per game — one if they get the first challenge wrong, two if they get it right.
Sure, not everything is reviewable — balls and strikes, check swings and interference calls are still a no-go — but MLB executive Tony La Russa estimates that close to 90 percent of potential calls will now be challenge-able. The idea may seem fine on paper, but actually carrying it out has been a different story.
With the game already facing criti-cism for its increasingly slow pace, a primary concern for league officials is ensuring that disputes are handled quickly — 60 to 90 seconds is their targeted time for all replays.
Not only have the actual replays taken longer than this, but managers have predictably found a way to elon-gate the process even further.
Following a questionable call, man-agers slowly mosey onto the field to have a “chat” with the umpire respon-sible for said call. The chat — which
likely includes topics such as dinner reservations, offseason vacationing plans and the latest developments on “House of Cards” — is used to stall while a bench coach calls upstairs to see whether a replay is warranted. After a minute or so, he flashes either a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” for the manager to challenge the play or simply walk back to the dugout.
As long he doesn’t actually use a challenge, a manager is free to pull this shenanigan as many times as he pleases throughout the course of a game. If this sounds a tad ridiculous, that’s because it is. But time issues aren’t the only drawback of the new system.
The change eliminates one of base-ball’s most fabled phenomenons: the managerial meltdown. The sight of a skipper sprinting out of the dugout, placing his face within inches of an ump’s face while unintentionally spewing saliva into his face to argue a ruling is nearly as old as the game
itself. Properly executed, it can re-energize an entire team and stadium, completely shifting the game’s momentum.
It can be one of the most entertaining events in base-ball for purists and lukewarm fans alike. But with the newly revised replay system, the meltdown will become ob-solete. No more Earl Weaver shouting absurd obscenities at any umpire within a mile radius. No more red-faced Lou Piniella angrily kicking dirt on a hapless third-base ump’s shoes. No more Bobby Cox getting tossed from Game 6 of the World Series.
No, all of that will be replaced by the aforementioned stalling technique. Exhilarating stuff indeed.
It’s a curious move for a league that’s routinely knocked for lacking excitement and action; increasing idle time by expanding instant replay won’t exactly broaden its appeal. And broadening its appeal has never been more important after the alarming findings of an ESPN survey conduct-ed last month.
The survey showed that, among chil-dren 12-17 years old, Major League Soccer is equally as popular as MLB in the United States. Wait, what? A league that gathers mid-level talent in a sport generally not considered
among our
country’s favorites
has equaled MLB in terms
of popularity? Not a good sign
for baseball’s future. Either the
game is becoming less accessible than
ever or MLB’s Di-rector of Marketing
needs to be fired. I’d speculate that it’s the former.
All considered, I just don’t buy that the benefit of maybe reversing a call every other game is worth the blowback and pains of maintaining the system. Yes, expanded instant replay has worked fairly well in both the NBA and NFL, but there’s simply no room for it in a slower-paced sport like baseball. It’s bad for the game, it’s bad for managers and it’s bad for the fans.
League execs will eventually come to this realization as well — hopefully sooner than later. Don’t be shocked if commissioner Bud Selig and league owners revisit the issue next winter after seeing game durations increase to an all-time high this season.
— Edited by Stella Liang
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COMMENTARYMLB stadiums
losing fans
According to base-ball-reference.com, the stadium atten-
dance throughout the MLB increased from 2013 to 2014 with an average 76,234 more people attending the opening series than the previous sea-son, but the major stadiums such as Yankee Stadium, Great American Ball Park and Comerica Park drew a reduced.
Even though they didn’t make the playoffs in 2013, the New York Yankees were baseball’s most valuable team in 2014 with the current value of $2.85 billion. Yankee Stadium had 1,372 less peo-ple attend this season’s home debut against the Baltimore Orioles than in 2013. This shouldn’t come by surprise to Yankee fans because, last season, Yankee Stadium had an average attendance of 40,489 fans, which was only 80 percent full.
Teams that advanced into the playoffs witnessed small-er crowds than the previous year, as well.
The Cincinnati Reds, who lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 2013 National League wild card playoff game, re-main the only team to always open the season with a home game.
For decades, Great Amer-ican Ball Park in Cincinnati threw the first pitch because Cincinnati was home of baseball’s first professional team, and the city of Cincin-nati designated the opening day of the baseball season a “city holiday.”
If the whole city of Cincin-nati was focused on the Reds during opening day, why was the attendance down during the opening week? In the opening three-game series against the 2013 National League Champions St. Louis Cardinals, Great American Ball Park was 75 percent full. On average, the Reds-Car-dinals opening series had 2,013-less fans per game attend the games compared to the 2013 opening series.
The 2013 American League Series runner-up Detroit Tigers encountered a de-crease in attendance during opening week. The opening series against the Kansas City Royals drew an average crowd of 32,380 people, which were 4,808 less people per game from the opening series in 2013.
In 2013, Comerica Park was ranked fourth in atten-dance with an average crowd of 38,066, which was 94 percent of full capacity.
The opening series just isn’t as important anymore as in year’s past. Even though more people are going to season-openers in 2014 than 2013, 10 out of the 26 teams that have played a home game this season, have shown a decline in attendance. The team with the greatest differential in opening week attendance was the Texas Rangers. The Globe Life Park in Arling-
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SSOFTBALL PAGE 10Kansas shuts out UMKC 5-0
When Charlie Weis first ar-rived at Kansas, he dismissed several players from the previ-ous regime. It was a treacher-ous climb to fill in the crevass-es of a depleted roster.
Weis failed to realize how devastating it was to revamp an entire roster and start from scratch.
“What I really didn’t factor in when I came here is when I got rid of all those guys how I was really taking a bad team and making it worse,” Weis said. “Now, you did it for the right reason. The flip side is that’s there nothing wrong with doing it.”
It’s paid dividends for Weis and opened the door for more depth on the roster and pro-vided a jumpstart to have his fingerprints on the entire line up.
“Fortunately our roster is pretty full — not that we’re loaded with talent at every po-sition,” Weis said. “But I think that is no longer the issue, the infrastructure now has been rebuilt with a predominantly junior-senior team that you’re playing with. Usually [those are] the teams that win.”
Weis’ third spring game as head coach will begin at 1 p.m. at Memorial Stadium on Saturday as a full scrimmage will take place with four 15 minute quarters.
Kansas has room to im-prove coming off a 3-9 season.
The transition to a no-hud-dle offense implemented by new offensive coordinator John Reagan has been a long task and is still in the begin-ning stages.
“On offense obviously the whole thing was getting con-sistent,” Weis said. “They ha-ven’t spent time game plan-ning; they haven’t spent time scheming against our defense. It’s been more about installa-tion and getting used to the procedure of running the no huddle offense.”
Offense has been a constant project for Weis since he ar-rived to Lawrence.
While quarterbacks are an easy target, the operation of the offense is inextrica-bly linked. Everybody has a responsibility according to Weis.
“It’s almost unfair to judge the quarterback position when you haven’t solved a lot of the problems,” Weis said. “The quarterback is the easi-est player to blame.”
Weis was referring to Jake Heaps who struggled last year and forced Weis to turn to freshman quarterback Mon-tell Cozart.
Weis revealed on Tuesday in a press conference that the quarterback competition con-sists of different tiers.
Refusing to announce your starting quarterback for as
long as possible is an advan-tage according to Weis. The two starters from last year re-main ahead in the race.
If we had to play in two weeks it would be between 9 [Heaps] and 2 [Cozart],” Weis said. “I wouldn’t rule out pos-sibility of both of them play-ing because they do different things. They’ve separated themselves by their play from the pack.”
The offense also endured huge deficiencies from the wide receiver and offensive line position last season, but Weis has witnessed serious headway being made at those spots.
The offensive line in the spring has been relatively uniform, which is unfamiliar for Weis since he has been at Kansas.
“It’s been pretty constant,” he said. “You unusually built continuity in the spring that normally doesn’t play out that way.”
Damon Martin, who played at guard last year, was so strong that it afforded them the opportunity to move him to right tackle next to Mike Smithburg.
Much of the talk last year of the stalling offense that couldn’t muster enough points to protect the defense was the abundant drops from wide receivers. Weis, howev-
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MICHAEL STRICKLAND/KANSANFreshman quarterback Montell Cozart runs an option against Oklahoma State on Nov. 9, 2013. Weis has yet to name a starting quarterback and recognizes Heaps and Cozart play different roles offensively.
GEORGE MULLINIX/KANSANJunior quarterback Jake Heaps throws to the open receiver against Kansas State on Nov. 11, 2013. “If we had to play in two weeks it would be between 9 (Heaps) and 2 (Cozart),” Weis said. SEE FBALL PAGE 10SEE BBALL PAGE 10
Coach Ritch Price circled his team up in the outfield after the game. It could not be determined what he was saying exactly, but the echoes of his voice could be heard throughout Iowa’s Duane Banks Field.
Price declined to comment after the game.
Kansas lost the opening game of its mid-week series to the Iowa Hawkeyes yester-day by a score of 3-5.
The Jayhawks were able to get out on top early against the Hawkeyes. Freshman catcher Michael Tinsley pro-vided most of the offense for
Kansas, driving in two runs. Tinsley and sophomore
designated hitter Jacob Boylan each had RBIs in the third inning to give Kansas a 2-0 advantage. The Jayhawks were getting opportunities early, as they left nine runners on base through the first five innings of the game.
Their opportunities dwin-dled as the game continued, as the Jayhawks managed to leave only two more runners on base in the finals four innings of the contest.
Freshman John Hander got the start for Kansas because of the recent injuries and over-usage of the pitching staff. Hander entered the game with a 3.24 ERA in four
appearances on the season thus far.
Hander was dealing early in the game, as he was able to shut out the Hawkeyes through the first 4.2 innings. Hander’s longest appearance of the season before last night came against New Mexico when he went 4.1 innings, allowing two earned runs.
Michael Tinsley entered the game with a .349 batting average, with nine RBIs in 43 at bats. Kansas has been able to confidently sit senior catcher Ka’iana Eldredge when he needs rest because of Tinsley’s production off the bench.
Designated hitter Dan Po-tempa did the damage for the
Hawkeyes, as he drove in four runs on two hits, including a three-RBI double in the fifth.
Junior right-hander Dakota Smith came on in the fifth inning to relieve Hander. Smith finished out the fifth and pitched the sixth and the seventh, allowing one more insurance run for Iowa.
Hander was unable to go deep into the game, forcing Kansas to go to the pen early. The Jayhawks have relied heavily on their starting pitching this season. Kansas usually wins when its starters have gone deep into the game and had quality starts.
Since conference play started, the Jayhawks are 9-8, and their pitching staff has
allowed more than three runs only two times in those nine wins. On the contrary, they have allowed five or more runs four times in their eight losses.
Sasha Kuebel earned the win for Iowa in relief, pitch-ing 5.2 innings and allowing only one run. Tyler Radtke came on to record his first save of the season in the ninth inning. The Hawkeyes pitching staff combines for 10 strikeouts on the evening.
Kansas will look to bounce back against the Hawkeyes tomorrow to split the mid-week series and avoid getting swept in its second mid-week series of the season.
— Edited by Stella Liang
VALERIE BURKE/THE DAILY IOWANRedshirt sophomore Taylor Rappaport prepares to throw a pitch off the mound. The Jayhawks lost to the Hawkeyes 3-5 in the opening game of the series.