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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

KANSAN SPECIAL SECTION:

KANSAN

DAY IN THE LIFE

VOL. 2

Day in the Life is an exploration of the daily lives of University

students, faculty and staff. The section, composed entirely of
features on people in the KU community, focuses on what makes
someones typical day unique and how the University fits into their
lives.

The student voice since 1904

Sexual harassment reporting

policy raises faculty concerns
ABBY WALSH
@abbywalsh20

A policy requiring faculty to

report sexual assault and harassment complaints by students has led to an increase
in reports, but some faculty
members say they wouldnt feel
comfortable making reports
without the students permission.
We have had reports from
professors, said Jane McQueeny, executive director of
Institutional Opportunity and
Access. Are there some that
may not? Probably. But I think
the whole campus is pretty sensitive to making sure the students get help if something has
happened.
The mandatory reporting
requirement issue was raised
recently in an article in Inside
Higher Ed, revealing concerns
that such policies, which have
been widely adopted, can violate the trust students place in
faculty. The University adopted
its policy in 2012. McQueeny
said there has been an increase
of faculty reports in the three
years since the policy was en-

acted at the University, but did

not have an actual number of
cases.
Not all professors think its in
the best interest of students to
require reporting unless theres
a real safety issue involved.

I like treating my students

like adults. If they didnt
want me to report something
and I was convinced they
were safe and could take action on their own, then I dont
know that I would report, to
be honest,
ALICE LIEBERMAN
Social welfare professor

I would not feel free to report what I had heard from a

particular individual unless I
had that individuals permission, said James Carothers, an
English professor and president
of Faculty Senate. I feel like its
my responsibility to keep that
to myself. Obviously if I heard
about a felony, I would pass that

on, but I would not be comfortable filing [that] kind of report.

Alice Lieberman, a professor
in the School of Social Welfare,
said she also believed that while
the policy has good intentions,
she would have reservations
about notifying University officials about student complaints
without their permission.
I like treating my students
like adults. If they didnt want
me to report something and I
was convinced they were safe
and could take action on their
own, then I dont know that I
would report, to be honest, Lieberman said.
William Staples, professor of
sociology, said it seemed like
common sense to file a report.
He said professors should stand
in the place of a parent for students while they are in college,
and that makes reporting an
obligation in order to keep students safe.
Kathy Rose-Mockry, the executive director of the Emily
Taylor Center, said mandated
reporting is a way to ensure
students are getting the help
they need.
As a campus, we take stu-

dents abilities to succeed seriously, and we need to get rid

of any roadblocks that prevent
student success, Rose-Mockry
said. Title IX legislation is in
place for a purpose, and the
intention is to get rid of any
roadblocks that might make a
student feel unsafe in the classroom.
While not all students knew
this policy was in place, they
agreed professors should be required to report.
I didnt know this was a policy, but I think it should be, said
Mariah Morley, a sophomore
from Shawnee. Psychologists
are required to report things
like this, so teachers should
have to. They have a similar responsibility.
Miranda Wagner, Student
Senate vice president, did know
the policy was in place and said
student safety should always
come first.
It is really important that our
faculty and staff are insuring
the safety of students, so they
do have an obligation to do that
reporting, Wagner said.
Edited by Valerie Haag

MACKENZIE CLARK/KANSAN
Jameelah Jones, the Student Senate director of diversity and inclusion,
speaks to the Research Methods in Communication class.

Class conducts
focus groups on
OMA perceptions
MACKENZIE CLARK
@mclark59

Student perceptions and

knowledge of the Office of
Multicultural Affairs are the
subject of focus groups currently being held by the Research Methods in Strategic
Communication class.
Patrick McFarland, a junior
from Olathe and student
in the class, said the focus
groups give the class an opportunity to learn about
how to conduct this type of
research while also helping
the OMA gain relevant information.
[This information] will
help [the OMA] reposition

themselves and help them

understand why students arent really partaking in some
of their programs, he said.
McFarland said the groups
questions were fairly generic
to start, then moved into discussing students perceptions
of the OMA and the reasons
they choose whether to participate in the offices programs.
Blane Harding, director of
the OMA, said the office has
been expanding across campus and wants to continue to
do so.
The class research will give
us a better idea of the image

SEE OMA PAGE 2A

HSES professor
receives national
trainer award
ALLISON CRIST
@AllisonCristUDK

GLASS CLASS
ALI DOVER/KANSAN
Ryan Riedel creates a perfume bottle Saturday in class at Illuminated Glass. The studio is located inside the Brewhaus Coffee Shop at 624 N. 2nd St.

For Lawrence
glassmaking
duo, teaching is
an art of its own
KELLY CORDINGLEY
@kellycordingley

Crafting a new generation to

twirl, mold and blow molten
glass is what Illuminated Glass
partners Brad Chun and Ben
Kappen have focused their
business on. Their combined
experience of more than 35
years allows them to pass on
their knowledge to anyone eager to learn.
Kappen and Chun both have
experience in glassmaking, but
each is specialized in a different
area. Illuminated Glass currently resides in The Brewhaus
coffee shop at 624 N. 2nd
Street and offers classes twice a
month.
Kappen opened Illuminated

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OPINION 4A
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Glass in 2004, making pieces from soft glassmaking and

lampworking. He teamed up
with Chun in 2012.
The pair said they hope to
move into a larger space and
reach out to the University and
the Lawrence Arts Center to
teach an adjunct class.
I hope to make a thousand
new glassblowers, Chun said.
I love to teach.
When they started, Kappen
focused more on soft glassmaking, where a furnace and
large space is required. Soft
glass is generally seen in drinking glasses or larger chunks of
glass without intricate detail.
Chun focused on lampworking, where hard, or borosilicate, glass is heated by a lamp
or torch and then molded into
a figure.
The two began working together after Chun noticed Kappens glass work in Third Planets upstairs pipe shop. They
met and said they immediately
knew they wanted to work together.

PUZZLES 6A
SPORTS 10A

To contact Ben or Brad or to enroll in a course, visit

their website: www.illuminatedglass.com.
Classes are offered twice a month, and a maximum of four people can enroll in each class.
Illuminated Glass is located in North Lawrence inside The Brewhaus coffee shop at 624 N. 2nd Street.
Kappen, from Olathe, said
he first saw soft glassmaking
at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Mo., and was immediately
captured by it. He attended the
University in the 80s after
the glassblowing courses were
removed from the curriculum
and studied illustration, but
he dropped out when he realized his passion was glass work.
Kappen then moved to Oklahoma and took a glassblowing
class. Later, he moved back to
Lawrence, opened a soft glass
shop (which is now closed) and
started to learn lampworking.
Chun, who is from Hawaii,
became interested in lampworking when he followed the

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Dont
Forget

Grateful Dead on tour in the

early 90s and noticed glass
pipes were a trend, so he began making and selling them.
He later moved to Oregon and
worked as a glassmaking apprentice. From there, Chuns
abilities far surpassed making
pipes.
While we started in the pipe
movement, thats not really a
part of it anymore, Chun said.
Were focused on sculpture, on
teaching, and now well be selling raw supplies.
When the two began working
together, Kappen said Chun
polished his self-taught lamp-

SEE GLASS PAGE 5A

Check out the Day in the Life

special section!

Phillip Vardiman, an associate professor in the department of health, sport and

exercise sciences (HSES),
will receive the 2015 Athletic
Trainer Service Award from
the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA).
Vardiman said the NATA
award is given to individuals
nominated by peers in recognition of their service to the
HSES profession at the district, state and national level.
I was honored to even
be nominated, but Im very
grateful that I have been selected as a winner, Vardiman
said.
He was nominated by Dr.
David Carr of Missouri State
University. The two worked
together on the executive
board of the Kansas Athletic
Trainers Society.
We
provide
service
through our profession on a
daily basis, Vardiman said.
I want to try and teach to
students the importance of
providing any type of service, not just when it comes
to athletic training.
Vardiman teaches and has
taught numerous classes
here at the University, some
of them regarding rehab injuries and a therapy class for
athletic training students.
One of his students is Emily

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She said he has influenced
both her educational and
personal life.
He is one of my greatest
mentors and hes helped me
in every way he can, Ball
said. He has encouraged me
to follow my dreams of being an athletic trainer and to
overcome any obstacles that I
may encounter.

Vardiman

Ball has taken multiple

classes with Vardiman, including therapeutic modalities, rehabilitation, manual therapy techniques and
emergency care instructor
training.
Dr. Vardimans classes are
all about involvement, and
being able to get your hands
on a person or patient so that
you can actually learn the
skill and get experience with
it, Ball said.

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Indiana Senate Democratic Leader Tim Lanane (left) D-Anderson, and Indiana House Democratic Leader Scott Pelath,
D-Michigan City, call for the repeal of the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act during a news conference.

Indiana officials try to

quiet new laws backlash
TOM DAVIES

Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS Gov.
Mike Pence called off public
appearances Monday and
sports officials planned an
"Indy Welcomes All" campaign ahead of this weekend's
NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis as lawmakers scrambled to quiet the firestorm
over a new law that has much
of the country portraying Indiana as a state of intolerance.
Republican legislative leaders said they are working on
adding language to the religious-objections law to make
it clear that the measure does
not allow discrimination
against gays and lesbians. As
signed by Pence last week, the
measure prohibits state laws
that "substantially burden" a
person's ability to follow his
or her religious beliefs. The
definition of "person" includes religious institutions,
businesses and associations.
"What we had hoped for
with the bill was a message
of inclusion, inclusion of all
religious beliefs," Republican
House Speaker Brian Bosma
said. "What instead has come
out is a message of exclusion,
and that was not the intent."
The efforts fell flat with
Democrats, who called for
a repeal, and even some Republicans.
"They're scrambling to put
a good face on a bad issue.
What puzzles me is how this
effort came to the top of the
legislative agenda when clearly the business community
doesn't support it," said Bill
Oesterle, an aide to Republican former Gov. Mitch Daniels and CEO of consumer
reporting agency Angie's List,
which canceled expansion
plans in Indianapolis because
of the law.
Indianapolis Mayor Greg
Ballard, a Republican, said the
law threatens to undermine
the city's economic growth
and reputation as a convention and tourism destination
and called for lawmakers to
add protections for sexual orientation and gender identity
to Indiana civil-rights laws.
"I call upon Governor Pence
and the Indiana Legislature
to fix this law. Either repeal
it or pass a law that protects
all who live, work and visit
Indiana. And do so immediately. Indianapolis will not be
defined by this," Ballard said.
After a two-hour private
meeting of House Republicans, Bosma said Monday
that repealing the law isn't "a
realistic goal at this point."
"I'm looking for a surgical solution, and I think the
least intrusive surgery is to

clarify that (the law) cannot

be used to support the denial
of goods, facilities or services
to any member of the public,"
he said.
Pence, who defended the
law during a television appearance Sunday, canceled
scheduled appearances Monday night and Tuesday, in part
because of planned protests.
In an essay for The Wall
Street Journal, Pence said "the

What we had hoped for

with the bill was a message
of inclusion, inclusion of
all religious beliefs. What
instead has come out is a
message of exclusion, and
that was not the intent.
BRIAN BOSMA
Republican House Speaker
of Indiana

law is not a 'license to discriminate'" and reflects federal law.

But the Affordable Care Act,
he said, "renewed concerns
about government infringement on deeply held religious
beliefs."
"Faith and religion are important values to millions of
Indiana residents," he said.
"With the passage of this legislation, Indiana will continue
to be a place that respects the
beliefs of every person in our
state."
Republican Senate President
Pro Tem David Long stressed
that the new law is based on
the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993,
which has been upheld by
courts.
But the Human Rights Campaign said it's disingenuous to
compare the two laws.
The campaign's legal director, Sarah Warbelow, said the
federal law was designed to
ensure religious minorities
were protected from laws
passed by the federal government that might not have
been intended to discriminate
but had that effect.
The Indiana law, she said,
allows individuals to invoke
government action even
when the government is not
a party to a lawsuit. It also
allows all businesses to assert
religious beliefs regardless of
whether they are actually religious organizations.
She said one of the best ways

to fix the law would be to add

language that explicitly says it
cannot be used to undermine
civil-rights laws.
Democratic House Minority
Leader Scott Pelath said Republican legislators fail to admit the law is a mistake.
"They're not facing up to
reality this is a national
embarrassment," Pelath said.
"The bush needs to be pulled
up by its roots and thrown
into the fire."
Indiana University law professor Deborah Widiss said
the Indiana backlash is being
fueled by the legalization of
gay marriage and last year's
Supreme Court ruling in a
case that found Hobby Lobby
and other closely held private
businesses with religious objections could opt out of providing the free contraceptive
coverage required by the Affordable Care Act.
Indiana's lack of a law banning discrimination based on
sexual orientation or gender
identity is also a contributor,
she said.
Long and Bosma did not appear eager to add such protection into the measure, noting
that it is a big policy decision
and that only four weeks remain in this year's legislative
session.
Meanwhile, the fallout continued. The public-employee
union known as AFSCME
announced Monday it was
canceling a planned women's
conference in Indianapolis
this year because of the law.
The band Wilco said it was
canceling a May performance.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe issued a letter to Indiana
corporations saying Virginia
is a business-friendly state
that does "not discriminate
against our friends and neighbors," while Chicago Mayor
Rahm Emanuel sent letters
to more than a dozen Indiana
businesses, urging them to relocate to a "welcoming place
to people of all races, faiths
and countries of origin."
Washington state Gov. Jay
Inslee said he was imposing
an administration-wide ban
on state-funded travel to Indiana.
As a similar bill advances in
Arkansas, Warbelow said lawmakers need to take notice.
"We hope that the state legislature is paying attention
... and taking seriously that
the whole world is looking at
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For the third time in the

last 10 years, the Universitys debate program has
ended the regular season as
the top-ranked team in the
country, according to a University news release.
The team will travel to the
National Debate Tournament, its last competition
this year, April 3-6 at the
University of Iowa.
The University qualified
three teams to compete in
the national tournament,
which is the maximum number of teams allowed from
one school.
Nick Khatri is one of the
students
competing
in
the tournament. He and
his partner, Chris Carey,
reached the Round of 16 in
the Cross Examination Debate Association National
Tournament last week, but
said the debate team considers the NDT its national
championship.
For me personally, its
been an interesting year,
Khatri said. We have pretty consistently had similar
results through the year. For
the squad as a whole, we
have surpassed the expectations that we had.
The teams top performers,
Jyleesa Hampton and Quaram Robinson, qualified for
the national tournament as
first round at-large qual-

ifiers in February, which

means they are in the top 16
debaters in the country.
Hampton, a senior from
Overland Park, received
the Johnston Award at the
CEDA tournament as the
top debater in the nation.

OMA FROM PAGE 1A

of the OMA, what the campus
believes is our mission, have we
been effective and most of all,
how [we can] better serve students, Harding said.
McFarland said the class
hopes its research will make a
difference in the bigger picture
of diversity on campus.
From the other research
weve been doing in class
leading up to this, I think it
really contributes to how we
view diversity on campus and
how students view it, he said.
Thats kind of our overall goal,
but its still a long process.
Joseph Erba, assistant professor of strategic communications, said his class works with
an on-campus office each semester. Students spend part of
the semester learning about the
process of conducting research;
then they put their knowledge
into practice by collecting data
through focus groups and surveys.
Erba said the School of Journalism has been working to
build a relationship with the
OMA. Since his class needed
a client and the OMA needed
this type of research, he called
it a win-win.
In total, the class plans to hold
10 sessions, the last of which
will take place Thursday. The
groups last approximately 90
minutes, and Erba said they
aim to include 10 to 12 student
participants in each one.

For the squad as a whole, we

have surpassed the expectations that we had.
NICK KHATRI
Debater

Jyleesa is an outstanding
debater and an inspiration
and role model for the entire
debate community, Scott
Harris, the debate teams director, said in the release.
Harris was awarded the
Brownlee Award, which recognizes the National Debate
Coach of the Year.
Khatri said it has been a
successful year for Kansas
debate.
It has definitely been a
long season, Khatri said.
Weve been to a lot of tournaments and its consumed
a lot of weekends. Its difficult to miss school and
spend your weekends flying
and driving to tournaments.
But its fun. The competition
makes it worth it.

Edited by Emma LeGault

The OMA is also very interested in perceptions from faculty and staff, but it would not
be possible to do everything in
one semester, Erba said.
Erba said he also believes
focusing research on student
participants allows students
in the class to be more comfortable. For many of them, he
said, this is their first experience in hands-on research of
this nature.


 




 


 
 

 


 

From the other research

weve been doing in class
leading up to this, I think it
really contributes to how we
view diversity on campus and
how students view it.
PATRICK MCFARLAND
Junior from Olathe

Michael Curnes, a sophomore from Lenexa, participated in a focus group Friday. He

said he had heard of the OMA
before but didnt truly understand its purpose.
I had the preconceived notion that you go there because
you have an issue that needs
resolved, he said.
Curnes said he believes the
more people who are included
in conversations about diversity, the more good ideas will
emerge from discussions.
Edited by Chandler Boese

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TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015

Campus is at its best right now, with trees and flowers blooming everywhere. If you check out kuinfo.ku.edu and type in trees
on campus, youll find a cool database of our flowering trees. And you might even learn how many total trees we have!

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The Supreme Court of the United States will hear Kansas appeal, which seeks to reinstate the death penalty. The appeal comes after a case in which two brothers were convicted of robbing four people and forcing them to engage in sex acts before killing them.

SCOTUS to hear Kansas plea to restore death penalty

ROXANA HEGEMAN
Associated Press

WICHITA The nations

highest court agreed Monday
to hear Kansas appeal seeking
to reinstate death sentences
for two brothers convicted
of robbing and forcing four
people engage in sex acts
before being shot to death
naked in a Wichita soccer field
in 2000.
The U.S. Supreme Court
also agreed to review a
separate Kansas Supreme
Court decision overturning
the death sentence of a man
convicted of killing a couple

in Great Bend in 2004.

The justices said they will
review the Kansas high
courts rulings that threw out
the sentences of Jonathan
and Reginald Carr and
Sidney Gleason. The Kansas
court hasnt upheld a death
sentence since a new capital
punishment law was enacted
in 1994. The states last
executions, by hanging, took
place in 1965.
The U.S. Supreme Court will
consider instructions given to
jurors in the sentencing phase
of capital trials about evidence
favorable to the defendants,
as well as whether sentencing

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the Carr brothers together

violated their rights.
Sedgwick County District
Attorney Marc Bennett said
the Carr case is important to
us, important to the victims,
important to this community.
In terms of legal importance,
well, I guess that is in the
eye of the beholder. The U.S.
Supreme Court obviously
thought it merited their
attention.
But Sarah Johnson, an
attorney with the state capital
appellate defenders office
who represents Gleason and
Jonathan Carr, said they were
honestly a little surprised

that the court agreed to hear

the cases.
We dont think this is an
issue that really is worthy
of the U.S. Supreme Courts
time and attention, but we
are confident that once they
get into it, they will recognize
that the Kansas Supreme
Court acted well within its
discretion, Johnson said.
The Kansas Supreme Court
in July upheld one conviction
of capital murder with
respect to the Carr brothers,
but overturned their death
sentences. That same month,
the court also upheld Gleasons
conviction, but reversed his

death sentence.
We have carefully analyzed
the opinions of the Kansas
Supreme Court and we do not
believe they have correctly
applied the U.S. Constitution,
Kansas Attorney General
Derek Schmidt said in a
written statement. I am
encouraged the U.S. Supreme
Court has agreed to review the
cases.
The brothers broke into a
Wichita home in December
2000 and forced the five people
there to have sex with each
other and later to withdraw
money from ATMs. The two
women were raped repeatedly

before all five were taken to a

snow-covered soccer field and
shot. Four of them 29-yearold Aaron Sander, 27-yearold Brad Heyka, 26-year-old
Jason Befort and 25-year-old
Heather Muller died. One
woman survived a gunshot
wound to the head and ran
naked through the snow to
seek help.
Gleason was convicted for in
the 2004 murders of Mikiala
Martinez and her boyfriend,
Darren Wornkey. She was
a potential witness against
Gleason in an earlier crime.
The cases will be argued in
Washington in the fall.

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Unnecessary classes have steep costs

John Olson

@JohnOlsonUDK

e all want the

biggest bang for
our buck. When
it comes to a college education, this may be even truer.
Many of us will have student
loan debts of roughly $30,000
by the time we graduate,
according to the Institute for
College Access and Success.
We want each of our willfully
spent dollars to achieve our
goals in an efficient and fair
manner, with maximum
return on our investment.
Unfortunately with the Universitys degree requirements,
this is hardly the case.
When the KU Core was
implemented in Fall 2013,
the purpose was to build
a broad background of
knowledge, according to the
University. Despite notions
of increased flexibility, many
students are required to take
a broad assortment of classes

as a result. Courses ranging

from the arts and humanities
to mathematical sciences
are necessary to achieve the
six goals of the Core and to
obtain a degree. This comes
with a bite, as each of these
classes cost nearly $1,000, according to Financial Aid and
Scholarships. It may seem
like six simple targets, but
the reality is that these goals
cost thousands of dollars to
achieve.
The problem goes beyond
individual electives. Goal
6, known as Integration
and Creativity, encourages
students to earn an extra
major or minor, which can
cost thousands more. By encouraging, and in many cases
forcing, students to take these
classes, the University seems
to not trust us with our own
money and is grabbing for as
much of it as it can get.
This all amounts to increased administrative costs
to implement, enforce and
advise students, which is no
doubt accounted for in the
costly price tag of classes.
With this, the University is
scarcely bucking the nationwide trend of ballooning administrative budgets, which
have increased by more than

60 percent in the past two decades despite improvements

in computer technology, according to political scientist
Jay Greene.
Unfortunately, the costs do

is a worthy and legitimate

interest. The problem is that
many degree requirements
may not even well-round
us. For example, many
students are required to take

STUDENTS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED

TO TAKE CLASSES THAT ARE NOT
PERTINENT TO THEIR MAJOR. IF
POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS PREFER MORE
WELL-ROUNDED GRADUATES, THEN
INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS SHOULD TAKE
THAT INTO ACCOUNT.

not end there. As more classes are required for students to

earn their degrees, additional
teaching staff must be hired
and housed in more classrooms. With massive budget
cuts currently gutting higher
education, the University
may very well be extending
its reach beyond what it can
handle.
There is no doubt that creating a well-rounded student

western civilization classes.

As participants in western
society, these classes explore
the history of what many
of us live each day. If we
truly want to broaden our
minds, should we not move
beyond our own history?
Besides, the classes tread a
well-worn path of material
many of us covered in high
school history courses. Such
a requirement hardly gives us

new perspectives.
To me, the solution for
taming the expensive and
exhaustive list of requirements is simple: Students
should not be required to
take classes that are not
pertinent to their major. If
potential employers prefer
more well-rounded graduates, then individual students
should take that into account.
Rather than the University
forcing the entire student
body to take certain classes,
students should be free to opt
out of ones they know future
employers may see no value
in. Let students take charge
of their own future. In the
process, we each could save
thousands of dollars.
Students should be allowed
and encouraged to explore
knowledge for themselves.
Coercing students into
specific classes or areas of
study may lead to rooms full
of disinterested, nodding-off
peers, rather than the worthwhile pursuit of individual
passions. The buck should
stop with us, the students,
rather than the University.

John Olson is a sophomore

from Wichita studying
economics

Modern feminism receives support from men

Remind me to never go
to the casino again.
#500dollarsdownthedrain
Dont worry, I am smiling into my
phone because I am crazy.

Kanika Kshirsagar

Anyone wanna have a Harry

Potter movie marathon with me?

here is no doubt that

the American society
has made progress
in terms of womens rights
in the past two centuries.
According to the National
Womens History Museum,
women have been granted
the right to vote, serve in
the U.S. military and attend
college. However, more social
progress needs to be made in
order to break down the barrier that continues to divide
men and women. Everyone
should be a feminist.
From my personal experience, when someone claims
he or she is a feminist, people
tend to feel like they are in
the presence of someone
who is angry and thinks
women are better than
men. Although the feminist
movement is geared toward
equality between the sexes,
there are still those who are
more extreme, but this does

Girl who hates pet names tell

him to stop. If he gives a crap
about you he will listen. If he
doesnt, kick him. Easy.
Average GPA for chem majors is
2.78? Sounds like there should
be fewer chem majors.
Theres nothing manlier than
walking through campus
eating a rare chunk of meat
with your hands.
I think I saw the main character
from Brink! on campus.
Grad school expenses are really
wigging me out ... Why must you
cost so much money?!
Why does breaking in shoes have
to be such a pain in the ass? My
heels are dead. :(

@sneakykaniky

not define all who identify as

a feminist.
When individuals identify
themselves as a feminist,
they believe women should
have equal opportunity in
all realms, with respect to
men. By acknowledging
that a woman should not be
judged on her gender, but
on her merit, is the type of
forward-thinking feminists
want to push. This can also
be applied to men. They, too,
should be judged based off of
their merit. Gender should
not give anyone an advantage
or disadvantage.
According to Arlie Hochschild, author of The Second
Shift, there are generally
three different gender ideologies couples tend to practice
in the realm of parenting
and marriage: egalitarian,
traditional and transitional.
An egalitarian couple distributes the spheres of work and
home equally. Traditional
couples represent a woman
spending most of her time at

The Second Shift

Arlie Hochschild

According to Arlie Hochschild, author of The Second Shift, in the

realm of parenting and marriage,
there are generally three different
gender ideologies couples tend to
practice in the realm of parenting
and marriage: egalitarian, traditional and transitional.

home, while the male brings

in the income. The transitional couple lies somewhere
in between the woman working but still spending most of
her time at home, while the
male does household chores
but his main focus is at the
workplace.
According to sociologist
Suzanne Bianchi, the gap
between the workload of
the home between women
and men has been gradually
getting smaller. In an August
2011 Time article titled
Chore Wars, Bianchi stated
that Men are doing a lot of
child care too an average
of 53 minutes a day in 2010
for children under 18, which
is almost three times as much
as they did in 1965. Working
women are doing an average
of one hour and 10 minutes
a day, which is only 17 more
minutes. This is a step in the
right direction.
Males and females are both
a part of the modern feminist
movement. Some notable

male figures are Daniel

Radcliffe, John Legend, Andy
Samberg and Will Smith.
Recently, Ashton Kutcher
began a petition on change.
org advocating for changing
stations in mens restrooms.
These men identify themselves as feminists, yet the
extremist stereotype would
never be tied with their
names.
If I ever have children, I
do not want them to feel that
they could not accomplish
their goals and dreams because of their sex. My parents
had those dreams for me, and
I ended up studying chemical
engineering, despite the lack
of women in this field. It is
important to acknowledge
and respect the importance
of equal rights, regardless of
your gender.

Kanika Kshirsagar is a junior

from Overland Park studying
chemical engineering

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people I should unfriend.
Job apps be like: Must have a
college degree. Must have 5
years experience. Must have
volunteered as tribute and won
the 74th Hunger Games.
Brain: Why did you just eat
seven donuts?! Rest of me: Why
didnt you stop me from eating
seven donuts?!
Favorite hobby: holding doors
open for people that are far away.
Nothing is more frustrating
than spreading hard, unmelted
butter on toast.
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Trevor Noah named new Daily Show host

arts & features

HOROSCOPES

Aries (March 21-April 19) Today

is an 8
Today is an 8 Get into your
work today and tomorrow. Youre
exceptionally clever with words
over the next few weeks, with
Mercury in your sign. Creative
ideas abound. Write them down.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
Today and tomorrow could get
creatively fun. For the next three
weeks, with Mercury in Aries,
finish up old business. Review
what worked and didnt, and
update plans.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is an 8
Your team is especially hot
over the next three weeks, with
Mercury in Aries. Friends are a
constant source of inspiration.
Over the next six weeks, with
Mars in Taurus, clean closets,
garages and attics.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is a 9
Together, anything seems possible over the next six weeks, with
Mars in Taurus. Friends provide
your secret power. Watch carefully for professional opportunity
over the next three weeks, with
Mercury in Aries.

Kelly Cordingley
@kellycordingley

hen Jon Stewart

announced hed
be stepping down
from his 16-year reign as host
of Comedy Centrals The
Daily Show, people started speculating who would
replace him. Comedy Central
announced Monday that
Trevor Noah, one of the newest correspondents to join the
show, will be the new host.
Noah, a 31-year-old from
South Africa, joined The
Daily Show in December
2014, but according to a
news release from Comedy
Central, Noah made his U.S.
debut in 2012 with Jay Leno
on The Tonight Show and
also appeared on The Late
Show with David Letterman.
In some of his best clips,
Noah has poked fun at the
lack of media attention when
Boko Haram killed more
than 2,000 people in Nigeria
in early January, compared
U.S.-Russia relations to a
game of chess and joked
about race relations in America and in Africa.
Despite a limited career in
the U.S., Noah isnt biting off
more than he can chew, as he

has hosted his own late show

in South Africa, Tonight
With Trevor Noah, and has
appeared in multiple magazines, the release said.
Stewart said hes excited
about the pick and even hinted he wishes hed be around
to witness the new host in
action.
Im thrilled for the show
and for Trevor, Stewart said
in the news release. Hes a
tremendous comic and talent
that weve loved working
with. He added, In fact, I
may rejoin as a correspondent just to be a part of it!!!
After Stewart announced
that he was stepping down
Feb. 10, questions swirled
about whether a woman
would break into the boys
club that is late-night television. A Newsweek article by
Zach Schonfeld called for Jessica Williams, another Daily
Show correspondent, to
take over the show because,
among other reasons, Shes
fun ruthlessly so, however
serious the subject matter.
Plus, she is a woman of color
whose lived experiences help
her to tackle the infuriating
absurdities of racism and
sexism.
Comedy Central President
Michele Ganeless told The
New York Times that while
women were considered for
the position, Noah was the
perfect fit. Ganeless explained
some of the reasoning behind
the pick in the news release.
He has an insightful and

unique point of view, and

most importantly, is wickedly
funny, Ganeless said. For
the next host of The Daily
Show, we set out to find a
fresh voice who can speak
to our audience with a keen
take on the events of the day,
and we found that in Trevor.
He has a huge international
following and is poised to
explode here in America, and
we are thrilled to have him

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Today is a 9
Work faster and make more
money over the next six weeks,
with Mars in Taurus. Romantic
communication flowers over the
next three weeks, with Mercury
in Aries. Express your deepest
feelings.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
Your actions speak louder than
words over the next six weeks.
Romance and passion take new
focus. Practice what you love.
Take on a home renovation project over the next three weeks.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 9
Pay bills today and tomorrow.
Learn voraciously over the next
three weeks. Youre especially
creative and words flow with
ease. Write, record and report.
Improve your living conditions
over the next six weeks.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 9
For nearly three weeks, with
Mercury in Aries, develop
new sources of income. Make
profitable connections. Writing
projects flow with ease over the
next six weeks, with Mars in
Taurus. Get the word out.

join Comedy Central.

Noahs style of humor
permeates even his Twitter
bio: Comedian from South
Africa. I was in the crowd
when Rafiki held Simba over
the edge of the cliff, like an
African Michael Jackson. He
tweeted Monday that, while
no one can quite fill Stewarts
shoes, hes excited to continue
the legacy to make this the
best damn news show.

Edited by Emma LeGault

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Today is a 7
Its easier to manage shared
finances over the next three
weeks, with Mercury in Aries.
Your wanderlust grows with
Mars in Taurus over the next six
weeks. Get up and go!

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Today is an 8
Partnership flowers over the next
six weeks, with Mars in Taurus.
Work together for a shared vision. Over the next three weeks,
with Mercury in Aries, find ways
to work smarter. Organize your
work for greater efficiency.

Noah is currently on his

Lost in Translation tour.
When the news broke, Noah
was finishing up a leg of
his tour in Dubai, and The
New York Times tweeted his
response Monday morning.
Noah told the Times he was
in disbelief at first, joking
that although he wanted a
stiff drink he couldnt have
one because he was in a
region where he wasnt able
to drink.
Noah said he recognizes the
prominence of the position
hell take over, but with the
team hes going to work with,
hes looking forward to the
future.
Its an honor to follow Jon
Stewart. He and the team
at The Daily Show have
created an incredible show
whose impact is felt all over
the world, Noah said in the
news release. In my brief
time with the show theyve
made me feel so welcome.
Im excited to get started and
work with such a fantastic
group of people.
Because of Noahs appeal in
other regions, his new role
may attract a more global
audience. According to
The Wrap, Noah brings five
unique things to the show,
one of which being his dashing good looks and youth.
Hes versatile, globally present, self-deprecating and, as
Matt Donnelly writes, Hes
never afraid to go there.

BONGIWE MCHUNU/ASSOCIATED PRESS

South-African comedian Trevor Noah, who has contributed to The Daily
Show a handful of times during the past year, will replace Jon Stewart as
host, Comedy Central announced Monday.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)

Today is a 9
Travel beckons over the next
three weeks, with Mercury in
Aries. Make long-distance
connections. Advance in your
career over the next six weeks,
with Mars in Taurus.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Today is an 8
Think and plan today and
tomorrow. The competition heats
up over the next few weeks, with
Mercury in Aries. Work together.
Revise the budget to fit future
plans over the next six weeks.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Festival goers hold up cameras and phones during the 2014 Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. The
sticks are banned this year at the event.

No narcissists: Lollapalooza,
Coachella ban fans selfie sticks
CHRISTINE ARMARIO
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES You can

bring your beach towels and
floral headbands, but forget
that selfie stick if you're planning to go to the Coachella or
Lollapalooza music festivals.
The devices, which grasp
cellphones to allow people to
take pictures of themselves
farther away from their faces,
are banned at this summer's
festivals in Indio, California,
and Chicago. Coachella dismissed them as "narsisstics"
on a list of prohibited items.
Selfie sticks have become a
popular but polemical photo-taking tool: Avid picture
takers like snapping their
own shots in front of monuments and sunsets, but critics
dismiss them as obnoxious
and potentially dangerous to
others around them.
A spokeswoman for Coachella would not comment on
the restriction. Lollapalooza
representatives did not return
a request for comment but on
the festival's Twitter account
said the decision was being
made "for safety, to speed
security checks at the gate &
to reduce the number of obstructions between the fans
and the stage."
Coachella and Lollapalooza are among dozens of big
events and landmarks taking
a stand against the sticks.
In Europe, the Palace of Ver-

sailles outside Paris, Britain's

National Gallery in London
and the Colosseum in Rome
have all banned selfie sticks,
saying they need to protect
exhibits on display and ensure the safety of visitors.
In the U.S., Ultra Music
Festival in Miami, one of the
world's largest electronic music festivals, also prohibited
selfie sticks at last weekend's
event.
"They will be turned away
and we'll probably make
fun of you," Ultra said on its
Twitter account earlier this
month.
Wayne Fromm, creator of
the Quik Pod and the first to
patent the selfie stick more
than a decade ago, said he understood the decision for museums and festivals to ban the
stick and that the intention
was never for the device to be
fully extended in busy spaces.
"Intentionally or not, there
is a danger to other people in
crowded places," he told The
Associated Press.
He added that he is at work
on a new selfie-taking tool
that will accomplish the same
tasks without so many problems.
Another selfie-stick entrepreneur, Jacqueline Verdier,
CEO of Selfie on a Stick, said
the festivals were going too
far and that the sticks can be
used safely.
"I think it's really doing a bit
of disservice to the attend-

ees," Verdier said. "They're

not going to be able to capture the same memories."
Some concertgoers praised
the decision, saying the sticks
promote a culture of narcissism and detract from the
festival experience. Others
said they enjoy using them
and lament there is so much
negativity around them.
Thomas Smith, 31, of Los
Angeles, will be going to
Coachella this year and said
he wasn't planning to bring
it into the venue because of
recent backlash against the
stick even though he's
used it on previous occasions
and likes the sticks because
of the perspective he's able to
get for photos and video.
"People make fun of the
people who use them," he
said. "Taking a selfie is kind
of an embarrassing thing but
when you see someone who
went out of their way to get
equipment to take a selfie,
there's an extra level of embarrassment attached."
Asked about Coachella and
others dubbing the self-stick
as a "narsisstic," Fromm said
he found the term offensive.
He said people have liked to
look at themselves since the
beginning of time and that
everyone wants to look their
best.
"My intention was to encourage better photos for
posterity," Fromm said. "Is
that narcissistic?"

working skills, and Kappen

helped Chun on the soft glass
side.
He has skills I dont have,
and I have skills he doesnt
have, and it worked, Kappen said. Now were getting
into a position, since there
are very few opportunities to
learn this stuff in the region,
that we really want to focus
on glassblowing learning centers.
Kappen said after years of
glassmaking, their focus is on
teaching students to find their
own sense of creativity.
When we produce students
who are steeped in either
one of our styles, I think its
important they learn their
own visual style to progress
their art, Kappen said. We
really try to push that in our
students. A lot of other glassblowing learning centers
dont do that; they say, This is
how you do it. Thats contrary
to how we work.
Chun said they want to
create an environment for
people with varying levels of
glassmaking experience.
Im hoping to alleviate anyones apprehensions about
poking their head in to say
hi or to see what its about or
taking a class to give it a try,

Chun said.
While the two are focused
community programs, their
products can be found in
boutiques in Chicago, Detroit, California, New York,
Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
Its not just a local thing
as far as where we send our
product, but it is local as far
as our focus on a learning

Now were getting into a

position, since there are
very few opportunities
to learn this stuff in the
region, that we really want
to focus on glassblowing
learning centers.

BEN KAPPAN
Co-owner of
Illuminated Glass

center, Chun said.

Watching students perfect
their art is something Kappen
said spurs his love of teaching.
Watching that moment of
recognition is really why I
teach, Kappen said. Theyre
like, Oh, that actually
worked, thats not a magic
trick.
Edited by Emma LeGault

ALI DOVER/KANSAN
Ryan Riedel, a student at Illuminated Glass, creates a perfume bottle
during a class Saturday. The studio is now enrolling for classes in April.

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Robin Williams wife fights

court for his wedding tuxedo
SUDHIN THANAWALA
Associated Press

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SAN
FRANCISCO
The wife and adult
children of Robin Williams
agreed Monday to meet
outside court to try to
resolve their dispute over a
tuxedo he was married in,
photographs taken on his
60th birthday and other
items belonging to the late
actor.
San Francisco Superior
Court
Judge
Andrew
Cheng told lawyers for
both sides during a
hearing to meet before
April 10 and enlist the help
of a mediator if necessary
before returning to court.
In
papers
filed
in
December, Susan Williams
said the contents of the
home she shared with
Robin Williams should be
excluded from the things
the actor left his children
from previous marriages.
She also claimed some
of her husbands personal
items were taken without
her permission.
Williams
children
countered
that
Susan
Williams was adding
insult to a terrible injury
by trying to change the
trust agreement and rob
them of items their father
clearly intended them to
have.
They said the belongings
include clothing, watches,
photos
taken
before
his marriage to Susan
Williams, and memorabilia
and entertainment awards.
Attorney Jim Wagstaffe
told the judge that Susan
Williams has agreed with
how hundreds of items
should be distributed and
was trying to amicably
resolve problems involving
others. He also said she
wants
their
wedding
presents.
I think we can work
our way through this,
Wagstaffe said.
Attorney
Meredith
Bushnell,
who
is
representing
Robin
Williams
children
Zachary, Zelda and Cody,
said the public dispute has
been excruciating for her
clients.
We would like to see
this wrapped up as soon
as possible, so they can
move on with their lives
and continue the grieving
process, the attorney told
Judge Cheng.
Robin Williams died
in August at his home
in Tiburon in the San
Francisco Bay Area. The
coroner ruled his death a
suicide. The actors wife
has said he struggled with
depression, anxiety and a

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In this Nov. 13, 2011 photo, Susan Schneider (from left) Robin Williams and Zelda Williams arrive at the premiere
of Happy Feet Two at Graumans Chinese Theater, in Los Angeles. Attorneys for Robin Williams wife and children
are headed to court in their battle over the late comedians estate. The attorneys are scheduled to appear before a
San Francisco probate judge Monday, as they argue over who should get clothes and other personal items the actor
kept at one of his Northern California homes.

KATY WINN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

This Nov. 9, 2009 photo shows actor Robin Williams and his wife Susan Schneider at the premiere of Old Dogs
in Los Angeles. Schneider said some of the late actors personal items were taken without her permission. She has
asked the court to set aside the contents of the home she shared with Williams from the jewelry, memorabilia and
other items Williams said the children should have.

diagnosis of Parkinsons
disease.
Susan Williams is also
seeking clarity on assets
and money that will go
into a reserve account that
she said Robin Williams
intended to help pay for
maintenance
of
their
home, Wagstaffe said.

The lawyer added that

a judge might have to
decide what constitutes
memorabilia
in
the
dispute.
Andrew
Bassak,
an
attorney
for
trustees
overseeing
the
estate,
argued that the court does
not have jurisdiction over

the dispute.
Robin
Williams
was
an
intensely
private
individual
who
gave
the
trustees
absolute
discretion over how his
personal property was
to be distributed, Bassak
said.

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THE DAILY DEBATE

Will the Royals have over or under 90 wins in 2015?

G.J. Melia
@gjmelia

OVER
The Kansas City Royals
enter the 2015 Major League
Baseball season coming off
the magical run to the 2014
World Series, before losing
to the San Francisco Giants
in seven games. General
Manager Dayton Moore
brought in a few new faces
in the offseason to add to
the same core that fueled
the postseason success.
He and Manager Ned Yost
look for more consistency
this season, along with
the youthful energy as last
season.
Kansas City has made the
most offseason additions to
its pitching staff. Following
starting pitcher James
Shields departure, Moore
signed 10-year veteran
starter Edinson Volquez to
a two-year deal, expecting
Volquez to be a large part of
the Royals starting rotation
behind Danny Duffy and
Yordano Ventura. With
Shields leaving, Ventura will

be the No. 1 starter, with

Duffy likely at No. 2.
Former Atlanta Braves
starter Kris Medlen was
also signed to a two-year
deal. Medlen underwent
his second elbow surgery in
2014, and the Royals were
able to sign him to a cheaper
$8.5 million deal over the
two years.
With the big three of the
bullpen Kelvin Herrera,
Wade Davis and Greg
Holland returning, the
Royals relief will be just as
strong as 2014. Relievers
Tim Collins and Jason
Frasor also return to the
bullpen and will contend
right behind the big three.
Assuming players wont
suffer major injuries are
suffered, both the infield and
outfield will be set for 2015.
Kansas City returns the
entirety of its 2014 infield,
as well as outfielders Alex
Gordon and Lorenzo Cain.
Outfielder Jarrod Dyson will
again be available out of the
dugout for Yost, as he was
also a pinch-running threat
late in games last year.
The only big question for
Moore, Yost and the rest of
the Royals organization is
how newly inked designated
hitter Kendrys Morales will
perform. Morales was signed
in December to fill the spot
of Billy Butler, who left for

the Oakland As.

With all of these pieces in

IF THEY ARE
ABLE HAVE A
MORE CONSISTENT
STRETCH
THROUGHOUT THE
MAJORITY OF THE
SEASON, THEY
SHOULD FIND
THEMSELVES ATOP
THE AMERICAN
LEAGUE CENTRAL.
place, the Royals are setting
themselves up well for a
successful year. If they are
able have a more consistent
stretch throughout the
majority of the season, they
should find themselves
atop the American League
Central. The Royals could
also find themselves with a
record 90 or more wins for
the first time since 1989 and
a second-straight year in the
playoffs.
Edited by Miranda Davis

Dylan Sherwood
@dmantheman2011

UNDER
After making a Cinderella
run through the playoffs
last season, the Royals are
back for another season,
hoping for another playoff
berth. The Royals will make
the playoffs as a Wild Card
like last season, but will not
get over 90 wins.
The Royals, a .500 level
team, can easily get 80-89
wins. The American League
Central is getting tougher
with improvements to
the Chicago White Sox,
who should contend for
the division title with the
Detroit Tigers and the
Royals.
This Royals team is
different from last years.
With the departure of
designated hitter Billy
Butler to Oakland, the
Royals need someone to fill
that spot. Plus, the Royals
also lost Nori Aoki, who is
now with the San Francisco
Giants. The Royals biggest
offseason blow came with

the departure of James

Shields, who signed with
the San Diego Padres.
Off-Season acquisitions
Alex Rios and Kendyls
Morales can make an
impact immediately. Rios
could join Alex Gordon
and Lorenzo Cain in the
outfield, while Morales
could be a designated hitter
and could be used as a first
baseman if Eric Hosmer
gets injured or needs a day
off.
The Royals still have one
of the best back-ends of the
bullpen together in Kelvin
Herrera, Wade Davis and
Greg Holland. The Royals
will have to produce offense
late in games in order to get
to these three players in the
bullpen and seal huge wins
against quality teams in the
league.
Another big question for
the Royals is who will take
the top pitching spot with
the departure of Shields.
Yoldano Ventura could
possibly fill that hole. The
Royals also have Danny
Duffy and Jeremy Guthrie,
who could give the Royals
quality starts in key roles.
If the Royals can end up
getting off to a good start
in April but not fall apart in
May, then they will have a
promising season.
It does not start off easy

for the Royals, taking on

the White Sox at home for
a three-game series next
week. The Royals will have
to focus on trying to win
more divisional games
because it will help them
out later on in the season
if they are in the running
for a playoff spot in the
American League.
The key to success for
the Royals will be not only

IF THE
ROYALS CAN END
UP GETTING OFF
TO A GOOD START
IN APRIL BUT NOT
FALL APART IN MAY,
THEN THEY WILL
HAVE A PROMISING
SEASON.
starting the season strong
but making sure they can
continue to play strong and
win games well into the
season.

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Hendricks shutout streak ends, Cubs top Giants

JASON P. SKODA

weaknesses are yet."

Cubs: In addition to his three
starts in the Cactus League,
Hendricks had allowed three
runs in 10 innings in two 'B'
games.

Associated Press

MESA, Ariz. Chicago Cubs

starter Kyle Hendricks gave up
his first runs against big league
batter this spring after extending his scoreless streak to 12
innings in an 8-5 win against
the San Francisco Giants on
Monday.
Hendricks, who went 7-2 with
a 2.46 ERA as a rookie, didn't
allow a run in his first two exhibition outings. He threw five
shutout innings against the
Giants before they scored five
times in the sixth.
Hendricks went 5 1-3 innings,
allowing seven hits with a walk
and striking out five.
"I feel good," he said. "I felt
strong through all those innings
and made a few bad pitches late.
But that's part of getting that
pitch count up there and I'm
right where I need to be."
Joe Panik led off the Giants'
sixth with a home run and Daniel Carbonell had a bases-loaded, two-run double.
Giants starter Tim Hudson
gave up 10 hits and four runs in
4 2-3 innings.
"They hit a couple of good
pitches," Hudson said. "It was a
work day for sure. I got in some

TRAINER'S ROOM
Giants: Travis Ishikawa, who
was pulled from Sunday's game
because of back tightness, has
a sore back and is considered
day-to-day. An MRI on Monday came back good according
to manager Bruce Bochy, who
said Ishikawa should return to
the lineup on Thursday.
Cubs: Outfielder Chris Denorfia, who has been dealing
with a sore left hamstring, took
batting practice on Monday.
He is expected to play in a minor league game by mid-week.
His availability for opening day
is still to be determined.
DARRON CUMMINGS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Francisco Giants Ryan Vogelsong throws during the first inning of a spring training game against the Chicago
Cubs on March 5 in Scottsdale, Ariz. The Giants lost to the Chicago Cubs 8-5 yesterday.

jams, but limited the damage."

Jonathan Herrera had three
hits for the Cubs.
STARTING TIME
Giants: Hudson was far from

concerned about his first bad

outing of the spring coming so
close to the start of the season.
"I didn't make great pitches
throughout the day," he said.
"It's one of those things where

East Tennessee State hires

WSUs basketball assistant
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.
Former Wichita State mens
basketball assistant Steve
Forbes says he plans to build
a winner at East Tennessee
State by following the same
formula that worked at his
old school.
After being introduced
Monday as ETSU's coach,
Forbes said he was indebted
to Wichita State coach Gregg
Marshall and noted that they
share the same philosophies.
"I believe in all the things
that he believes in," Forbes
said. "He's given me a tremendous blueprint to bring
here to East Tennessee State."
Forbes replaces Murry
Bartow. ETSU fired Bartow
on March 13 after he went
224-165 with three NCAA
Tournament appearances in
12 seasons. ETSU earned the
last of those NCAA invitations in 2010.
ETSU went 16-14 this season and lost eight of its final
12 games, including each of
the last four.
"We want (our players) to go
to the NCAA Tournament,"
ETSU athletic director Richard Sander said at a Monday news conference. "We
want them to have an arena

where people are yelling and

screaming and just crazy for
ETSU basketball. And unfortunately, that wasn't the case,
and so I really wanted to go
out and find somebody who
could make that happen for
these men, for our great fan
base.
"I know we have found that
person."
The 50-year-old Forbes
spent the past two seasons
at Wichita State after going
62-6 in two seasons as the
head coach at Northwest
Florida State, a junior college
in Niceville, Fla.
Forbes said the ETSU job
appealed to him in part because of his previous connections with the area. Forbes
spent five seasons working as
an assistant on Bruce Pearl's
Tennessee staff.
"It was a place I was familiar
with because of my five years
at Tennessee," Forbes said. "I
knew there was a passionate
fan base here and a tradition
of basketball and people who
loved basketball. It was a really, really, really good fit for
me. When the opportunity
came, I jumped on it."
Forbes received a one-year
show cause penalty from the
NCAA in 2011 as part of the
NCAA investigation of Ten-

nessee that resulted in Pearl's

firing. Forbes says the experience taught him that "when
you make a mistake, you
learn from it and don't do it
again."
"What you do in a situation
like that is you look in the
mirror, you're accountable
for your actions, and then
you move on," Forbes said.
"I use myself as an example. As a coach, you always
tell your players when you
get knocked down, you've
got to get back up and you've
got to keep going. Well, I got
knocked down, and I decided to dust myself off, be
accountable for my involvement and then move on."
Forbes also has worked as
an assistant at Texas A&M,
Illinois State, Louisiana Tech
and Idaho. Now he gets his
first Division I head coaching opportunity.
"You never know if this
day's ever going to come,"
Forbes said. "Then after what
I went through four years
ago, to be able to come back
to the state of Tennessee and
be a head Division I basketball coach, to me is a surreal
moment and something that
I'm very proud of.
"I'm ready to go to work and
build this program."

there wasn't a game plan, and

obviously I was throwing a
lot of pitches while not really understanding what some
of these younger guys (in the
Cubs' lineup) strengths and

CLEARER IMAGE
With the demotion of top
prospects Kris Bryant, Javier Baez and Addison Russell
earlier in the day, the Cubs'
infield outlook became a little
more definitive with Mike Olt,
Tommy LaStella and Arismendy Alcantara looking to break
camp with the big league club.
Olt would see time at third

and spell Anthony Rizzo at first

base, while LaStella is expected
to play third and second and
Alcantara can play the outfield
as well as the infield.
"Tommy has done a really
good job offensively and defensively," Cubs manager Joe
Maddon said. "Mendy can do it
also. We have different options
during the course of the game.
We have some things to iron
out yet."

GET IT TOGETHER
The Giants haven't had a good
spring they fell to 9-20-1
with the loss to the Cubs
and there have been struggles
in nearly all facets of the game.
"The little things hurt us
all day," Bochy said. "We just
didn't play good fundamental ball. I bet five or six runs
of those runs shouldn't have
scored. Give them credit but
we didn't play well at all again
today."

UP NEXT
Giants: Host Colorado as Tim
Lincecum faces the Rockies'
Tyler Matzek.
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Bauer strikes out

7, Indians rout
White Sox 4-1
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CHARLIE RIEDEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kansas City Royals Eric Hosmer (left) celebrates with Kendrys Morales and Lorenzo Cain after hitting a three-run home run during a spring training game.

Moustakas hits grand slam in

Royals victory against Rangers
ALAN ESKEW

Associated Press
SURPRISE, Ariz. Mike
Moustakas hit a grand slam in
a seven-run first inning as the
Kansas City Royals outslugged
the Texas Rangers 11-7 on
Monday.
Alex Gordon, who also homered, and Eric Hosmer each
had three of the Royals' 15 hits.
Rangers starter Lisalverto Bonilla retired only one of eight
batters he faced before being
pulled after 37 pitches. He allowed five hits, walked one,
hit a batter and balked home
a run.
"The inning kind of got away
from Bonilla," Rangers manager Jeff Banister said. "He fell behind and his pitch count got up.
It was inconsistency. The home
run looked like it might have
been middle-middle. It's not an
outing you'd want to see."
Moustakas hit a 1-2 pitch over
the left field wall after Hosmer
singled, Alex Rios walked and
Salvador Perez was hit by a
pitch.
Gordon, who was held out of
early games while rehabbing
from December right wrist
surgery, had only three singles in 24 at-bats, entering the
game.
"Obviously, I got a late start,"
Gordon said. "The numbers
aren't great, but you turn the
page every day and realize this
is spring training. I want to
go out there and produce and
perform and when that's not
happening, you've just got to
come here the next day and try
to figure it out.
"I'm trying to do as much as
I can right now with the time
I have to get ready for the season," he added. "The whole
point was to make the wrist
feel normal again and that's
what it's feeling like right now.

LENNY IGNELZI/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kansas City Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas stretches to snatch a hard grounder hit from Los Angeles Angels
Daniel Robertson in the second inning of a spring training baseball game Saturday, March 14 in Surprise, Ariz.

I think our main focus was just

to come back healthy."
Adam Rosales, Leonys Martin, Jake Smolinski and Ryan
Rua each hit solo home runs
off Royals left-hander Jason
Vargas.
Rua extended his hitting
streak to 10 games, while Martin went 3 for 3 and has reached
base safely in 11 straight games.
"Another outing to get ready
for the season," Vargas said.
"Obviously, you don't want to
give up four home runs. It happened."
TEPESCH OPTIONED
The Rangers optioned RHP
Nick Tepesch to Triple-A
Round Rock a day after yielding seven runs in 3 2-3 innings
to the Dodgers. Tepesch, who
made 22 starts last year, had a
10.38 ERA in five outings. RHP
Nick Martinez earned the final
rotation slot with a 0.84 ERA in
10 2-3 innings.

STARTING TIME
Rangers: RHP Jamey Wright
is pitching his way back into
bullpen consideration after
throwing 2 2-3 scoreless innings. Wright, who failed to retire any of the seven Brewers he
faced on March 21, has allowed
three hits and no runs over 4
2-3 innings in his past two appearances. "Jamey is a known
guy," Banister said. "He's probably had more multiple innings
in the last few years than quite
possibly any other reliever."
Royals: Vargas, who allowed
five runs on seven hits in five
innings, has one more exhibition start left, in Houston. Is
he ready for the season? "Yeah,
I ain't got no choice, right?"
Vargas said. "I don't think if I
wasn't ready, there would be no
excuse. They give you all the
time to prepare."
TRAINER'S ROOM
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stiffness. RHP Tanner Scheppers had a MRI Monday on his
bothersome right ankle.
Royals: OF Terrance Gore,
who was a pinch runner on the
postseason roster, broke his jaw
when he was hit by a pitch in a
minor league game.

UP NEXT
Royals: RHP Jeremy Guthrie
starts Tuesday against the Padres.
Rangers: LHP Derek Holland
will face the Cubs at Surprise.
In a split squad, Martinez will
start against the Diamondbacks in Scottsdale.

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UP NEXT
White Sox: Carlos Rodon
makes his final start of the
spring Tuesday against the
Dodgers at Camelback Ranch.
Last year's third overall pick is
coming off a nine-strikeout,
four-inning outing against
Kansas City.
Indians: Veteran lefty Bruce
Chen faces Felix Hernandez
and the Mariners on Tuesday
in Goodyear.

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TRAINER'S ROOM
White Sox: GM Rick Hahn
said before Monday's game
that reliever Jake Petricka will
"in all probability" begin the
season on the disabled list.
The White Sox think the righthander, who has had soreness
in the forearm/elbow area,
could be ready as soon as he
is eligible to come off the DL,
which would be April 11.
"We don't foresee this being
a long-term problem," Hahn
said.

ROSS D. FRANKLIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chicago White Soxs George Kottaras connects on a two-run double against
the Cleveland Indians as Indians Roberto Perez (left) looks on during a
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The White Sox sent RHP
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camp and released pitchers J.D.
Martin and Joe Savery.
The Indians sent outfielder
Tyler Holt to Triple-A Columbus.

DETWILER WORKS
Left-hander Ross Detwiler,
who will be in the Rangers
rotation, threw 97 pitches in 6
1-3 innings in a minor league
intrasquad game, allowing two
earned runs on eight hits and a
walk.

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HOUSING

GLENDALE, Ariz. Trevor

Bauer struck out seven, working solidly into the seventh inning, and the Cleveland Indians connected for three home
runs Monday in a 4-1 victory
against the Chicago White Sox.
Bauer gave up four hits, including a home run to Tyler
Flowers, in 6 1-3 innings. He
fanned Melky Cabrera and
Adam LaRoche three times
apiece but walked his first batter of the spring, Adam Eaton.
This outing, he said, was
about "trying to get into a season mindset, get guys out more
so than working on stuff.
"The things that I worked on
early in spring, I was able to execute today and put into use,"
he added.
Bauer, the Arizona Diamondbacks' first-round pick
in 2011 out of UCLA, is coming off a 5-8 season with a 4.18
ERA in 26 starts for the Indians.
One area he wants to improve in was his effectiveness
in the first inning. Last year he
had a 5.54 ERA in the opening
inning, often putting himself
in an early hole.
"It's been a point of emphasis
this offseason, doing some research on what was going on
in the first inning," Bauer said.
"It's spring training, you never
know until you get into the
season. So far, I'm encouraged
by it. We'll see how it carries
over."
Bradley Zimmer hit a tworun homer to the right field
bullpen off Hector Noesi in the
fourth. The homer was the first
of the spring for Zimmer, an
outfielder who was Cleveland's
first-round pick 21st overall
in last June's draft.
Veteran catcher Brett Hayes
followed Zimmer's long ball
with his third of the spring, a
long drive over the bullpen in
left.
Noesi went 5 1-3 innings and
gave up five hits, walking two
and striking out five.
Jerry Sands also homered for
the Indians, off Zach Duke.

STARTING TIME
Indians: Bauer lowered his
spring ERA to 3.90 in 22 2-3
innings. He has one start remaining before the Indians
open the season in Houston.
"I thought he was really
good," Cleveland manager
Terry Francona said. "He's
starting to get deep into the
game and he's starting to mix
all his pitches in now. The timing's about right."
The improved control also
got Francona's attention.
"That's been great. Love that.
Love when guys work quick
and throw strikes," Francona
said.
White Sox: Noesi, likely to be
Chicago's No. 5 starter, went 5
1-3 innings and gave up five
hits, walking two and striking
out five.

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sports

COMMENTARY
David Beaty is
#EarningIt on
Twitter

Amie Just

@Amie_Just

ome coaches dont

understand social
media websites, like
Twitter, whatsoever.
Other coaches, like
Kansas David Beaty, are
dominating the digital front
by using new hashtags for
the football program and
tweeting videos and photos
from practice.
Beaty, @beaty_david
on Twitter, incorporated
#EarnIt and
#PlayersoftheDay in his
tweets.
The #EarnIt hashtag, in
relation to KU football, first
showed up in a tweet from
the Kansas Football account
March 23, the day before
spring practices began.
Just one day later, Beaty
used the hashtag in a tweet
wishing good luck to the
players participating in Pro
Day.
Where does the hashtag
come from? At this point
in time, Beaty hasnt said
anything publicly about
the hashtag specifically,
but said Championships
are won in weight rooms,
on football fields and in
meeting rooms. We win by
outworking folks and having
a work ethic that is second
to none, in a video that
Kansas Athletics posted to
YouTube on March 10, titled
A Movement Has Started.
He also told the Lawrence
Journal-World that theres
gonna be a high premium
on ourselves. The way
were going to get better
faster is by being the most
disciplined team in the
country and being a smart
football team.
Beaty said in that same
interview that he wants his
players to love the game and
to be consistent.
After practice, Beaty
tweets photos of three to
four players who earned
#PlayersoftheDay shoutouts.
On the first day of
practice, Ben Johnson, T.J.
Semke, Jordan ShelleySmith and Ronnie Davis
garnered the award.
On Saturday, Beaty called
out Tr Parmalee, Fish
Smithson and Davis for
#PlayersoftheDay.
It may not be much to the
standard fan, but it shows
the players, especially the
underclassmen, that the
coaching staff is watching
them, when in the past,
their hard work might have
flown under the radar.
In contrast, Charlie Weis,
Kansas last head coach who
was fired in October, still
has Jayhawks all over his
Twitter and still retains the
@CoachWeisKansas Twitter
handle. He last tweeted on
Aug. 6.
In an age where social
media is at the forefront of
everything, Beaty knows
exactly what hes doing.
And hes doing a great job
with it.
Edited by Valerie Haag

ROYALS

Royals outslug Rangers 11-7 | PAGE 9A

Soccer to face defending NWSL champs

GRIFFIN HUGHES
@KansanSports

Its not every day a college

team can say it has played
against professionals, and
seldom are those professionals
the
defending
league
champions.
The Kansas womens soccer
team will take on the National
Women Soccer Leagues FC
Kansas City today at Rock
Chalk Park. FC Kansas City
won the NWSL League
Trophy last year.
The match is the third
rendition of the annual
exhibition on the road to
both teams regular seasons.
FC Kansas City outscored the
Jayhawks 4-0 in 2013 and 3-1
last year, although its not the
worst thing in the world for
the Jayhawks to say they have
been beaten by professionals.
Kansas is coming off a 1-0
win against Iowa to begin

their
spring
exhibition
schedule after a 15-6 season
that led the Jayhawks to an
NCAA Tournament in the
fall. Freshman Eli Mayr scored
the game winner in the 70th
minute of that contest, giving
the Jayhawks their first win
in their first spring game.
The young German prospect
showed off both exceptional
footwork and vision in the
effort that lifted Kansas to a
1-0 start.
Kansas coaches are more
concerned with improved
offensive production in these
spring games. Kansas scored
1.67 goals per game while
allowing .8, meaning they
outscored opponents by nearly
one goal per game. However,
when it mattered most, the
Jayhawks couldnt draw up
that offense they scored just
one goal in last years NCAA
Tournament game.
Their offense will certainly

be tested against FC Kansas

City, who allowed just 32
goals last year, third fewest
in the NWSL. Kansas City
also assisted on 30 of their 39
goals. The Jayhawks assisted
on 25 of their 35 goals a
lower percentage than that of
FC Kansas City.
Kansas fed most of its offense
through
the
Colombian
superstar midfielder Liana
Salazar last year. Salazar scored
13 of the teams 35 goals: no
other Jayhawk had more than
seven. The midfielder also had
four assists, good for second
on the team behind senior Ali
Kimura.
One of the main issues
for Kansas last year was
production from strikers.
Forwards scored 15 goals
on the year. Three of those
strikers are also seniors who
wont be around next year.
This is why coach Mark
Francis is giving his younger

FILE PHOTO/KANSAN
Junior Liana Salazar shoots the ball from inside the goalbox.

players the chance to score

early in the spring season,
including the freshman Mayr,
who will be a crucial offensive
weapon in the match against
FC Kansas City.
The Jayhawk backline will
have to contend with Kansas
City striker Amy Rodriguez,
who finished second in the

NWSL with 13 scores in 22

games.
Autograph signings and
pictures will follow the game
at Rock Chalk Park. Fans can
also take a picture with FC
Kansas Citys 2014 NWSL
League Trophy.
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defender and clutch player,
Chalmers was named the 2008
Final Four Most Outstanding
Player after leading Kansas
to
the
2008
National
Championship.
Against
Memphis in the championship
game, Chalmers hit the gametying three point shot late to
send the game to overtime. A
three-year player at Kansas,
he is the total steals leader in
Kansas mens basketball history
at 97.

Most Outstanding Player in the 2008 Final Four

Led the Big 12 in steals in three seasons

CHRISTIAN MOODY

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Moody was recruited by former

Kansas coach Roy Williams and
began his career in Williams
final year (2002-2003). His junior
season, when injuries sidelined a
few Kansas bigs, Moody took over
a starting spot. Eventually earning
a scholarship by his senior season,
Moody was once called the
greatest walk-on in the history of
college basketball by Billy Packer,
a college basketball analyst for
CBS Sports. He was named an
academic All-American in his
final three years at Kansas.

Edited by Laura Kubicki

PPG: 2.9
RPG: 2.4
APG: 0.4

Academic All-American his final three years

59.3 percent career field goal percentage

Search for new womens basketball coach begins

DYLAN SHERWOOD
@dmantheman2011

According
to
Jeff
Carmody,
a
coaching
consultant,
the
Kansas
womens basketball team
should look at four different
candidates. Carmody, who
worked for KU Assistant
Director Student Housing
Custodial Services for 25
years and retired in 2012,
has been doing research on
his own and has helped with
multiple coaching searches
around the country.
He was a training camp
aide and statistician for the
Kansas City Chiefs from
1969-70 and was on the
sidelines for Super Bowl IV.
Carmody also worked for the
San Antonio Spurs as director
of group sales. Carmody also
ran in two Boston Marathons
in
1971-72.
Carmody
received
his
bachelors
from Eastern Kentucky in
1969 and his masters from
Western Kentucky in 1973.
Heres who he thinks Kansas
should go after.
COURTNEY BANGHART
Banghart coached her
eighth season at Princeton
University, leading the Tigers
to a 31-1 overall record this
year in the Ivy League. She
is the winningest coach in
Princeton womens basketball
history with a record of 169-

Adams

Banghart

Wisconsin-Green
Bay in the first
round this year,
80-70
before
losing to No. 1
seed
Maryland
in the round
of 32 at 85-70.
Bangharts team
has a 100 percent
graduation rate.

JODY ADAMS
The
current
Wichita
State
Shockers coach
has
led
the
Johnston
Collins
Shockers to threestraight Missouri
Valley
Regular
67, including a 92-17 record
Season titles, including backin Ivy League play.
After her successful season, to-back appearances in the
Banghart was named to NCAA Tournament. Adams
Fortunes Top 50 Greatest just finished her seventh
World Leaders. Banghart season at Wichita State. Last
was ranked 43rd along season, the Shockers were
with Taylor Swift, Jimmy a No. 14 seed. In this years
Fallon, LeBron James, Bill tournament, they were a
and Melinda Gates, Pope No. 13 seed and they lost to
Francis, Mark Zuckerberg California in the first round
and Yao Ming just to name with 78-66. Adams coached
a few. Banghart played at two players that were on this
Dartmouth and graduated years All Missouri Valley
in 2000. Before Princeton, First Team: seniors Alex
Banghart was an assistant Harden and Jamillah Bonner.
Bonner was named the
at her alma mater from
2003-07. She has coached Missouri Valleys Defensive
Princeton to five Ivy League Player of the Year and Harden
Championships and was the was named the Player of the
second Ivy League program Year. Adams was named the
to secure a win in the NCAA Missouri Valleys Coach of
Tournament.
Princeton the Year this year as well.
defeated
University
of She recruited Bonner from

Butler Community College,

where she is the all-time
leading scorer in program
history with 1,081 points.
Before Wichita State, Adams
played at Tennessee under
Pat Summitt and was named
the Tennessee Sixth Player
Award in 1990 after her
freshman year.
AARON JOHNSTON
From South Dakota State,
Johnston could be a sleeper
for the coaching job. Johnston
has coached the Jackrabbits
to their 11th 20-win season
in the past 14 years. The
Jackrabbits received their
second No. 14 seed this
season, with their last No. 14
seed in 2010. The Jackrabbits
ended up losing in the first
round to Oregon State, 7462. Johnston has an overall
record of 341-117. Johnston
is 15-1 in The Summit League
Postseason Tournament.
He has been named the
Summit League Coach of the
Year four times in 2008, 2009,
2012 and 2014. Johnston was
in the transition when South
Dakota State was becoming
a Division I school, posting
a 216-84 record in their
first 300 games. In 2009, he
was a finalist for Naismith
Womens College Coach
of the Year. When South
Dakota State was in Division
II, the Jackrabbits claimed
the schools first National

Championship in 2003.

JORY COLLINS
Just down the road in Emporia
sits a major powerhouse in
Division II Womens Basketball
at Emporia State University. In
2010, the Lady Hornets were
the National Champions when
Collins was an assistant coach
under former coach Brandon
Schneider. Schneider is now a
coach at Division I Stephen F.
Austin. In April of 2010, Collins
took over the Lady Hornet
Program. In his five seasons, he
has an overall record of 125-36.
Collins has led the Lady
Hornets to three MIAA
Tournament Championships,
five conference title games,
and four trips to the NCAA
Tournament. Collins had his
best season, with his team
making it to the Division II
Elite Eight for the first time
since 2010. Collins has been
around the program since 2000
as a student/volunteer assistant
until 2003, before becoming a
fifth grade teacher.
He then became a graduate
assistant in 2004. In 2006, he
was a volunteer coach, before
becoming a full-time assistant
in spring of 2007. Collins
graduated from Emporia State
in 2002 with a bachelors degree
in elementary education and in
2006 with a masters degree in
educational administration.

Edited by Valerie Haag

DAY IN
THE LIFE
Spring 2015 | VOL. 2

THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN

FROM THE
EDITORS DESK

PG. 4-5

PG. 12

TIM HOSSLER

ALEX KONG

Design professor Tim Hossler is a Kansas

native who has had a successful design
career in New York

Alex Kong has found ways to bring his

extracurricular passions to the forefront of
his time at the University
PG. 13

BAKARY SUSO
Architecture graduate student Bakary
Suso works to bring health care and
playgrounds to his home country in Africa

AMIE JUST | @Amie_Just

magine walking down Jayhawk

Boulevard. Look to your left. Look
to your right. What do you see?
Within seconds, hundreds of
faces whiz by.
Imagine sitting in the Underground,
eating your lunch, reading the
newspaper. You can hear chatter
in a few different languages, from
Chinese to Portuguese, from Arabic
to English.
All of those people, regardless of
gender identity, race, age, sexual
orientation, religion, nationality and
any other demographic, are the
people who make up the University
of Kansas. No other place in the
world can elicit the experience that
the University has to offer, and its
because of the people who are here.
Everyone who attends, works at or
visits the University has a story to
share. This section showcases just
a tiny slice of those stories. From a
Rock Chalk Dancer who wakes up at
5:15 a.m. to prepare for her day, to
a rabbi who has seven children and
gives back to the Jewish community
at KU, every person has a different
perspective based on his or her
life experiences. Keon Stowers,
for example, plays football and will
celebrate his sons first birthday in
May, while Bakary Suso helps build
health centers in Africa.
Tomorrow when youre sitting on
the bus with your headphones on,
take them off and talk to the people
next to you. They have stories to tell.

PG. 7-9

ZALMAN TIECHTEL
Rabbi Tiechtels work at the campus
Jewish Center focuses on making a home
away from home for Jewish students
PG. 14-15

BRADLEY VONADA
Bradley Vonada, the vice president of the
club Quidditch team, is competing at the
top of his game during the season
PG. 16-17

KEON STOWERS
PG. 10-11

KILEY DOMBROSKI

The possibility of going pro is important to

former defensive lineman Keon Stowers,
but not as important as his family

Kiley Dombroski lives for the moments

when she leads the crowd in the Rock
Chalk chant at basketball games

PG. 18

SOPHIA TEMPLIN
Managing time is crucial for Sophia
Templin, who is a softball player, sorority
member and student senator

YOUR HOME AWAY FROM HOME

Account Manager, Molly
Edwards (bottom left), is
responsible for account
There are several apartments receivables and payables. She
in the Lawrence market, but
plays a vital role in the
there is one that stands out
collection of rent. Molly also
from the rest. The Hawks
strives to work with the
Pointe Management team is
residents to ensure a dialogue
unlike any other property
is present in the rent collection
management team in
process as she works to support
Lawrence, KS. They have
them through challenges that
taken significant steps to
may arise in life.
make Hawks Pointe more
Elodia Terrazas (bottom
resident focused while
right), a Senior Leasing
improving facilities. There is
Specialist, supports the office
an understanding that the
from a leasing and marketing
place where you live needs to role. Her leasing experience
be more than just a place
and connection with the
where you eat and sleep, it
residents plays an energetic
needs to be about your
role into making the office a
education experience; hence, fun place.
your reasons for being
Hannah Sybert (top right), a
at KU.
Senior Leasing Specialist,
Lead by their General
supports the office from an
Manager, Tadros Teddy
operations role ensuring that
Abdelmalek (top left), he
your preferences and your
strives to use his student
needs are met when you lease
affairs experience toward
with Hawks Pointe.
supporting and understanding Devan Schaly (middle right),
what his residents need. He
the newest member of the
works daily to support his
Leasing Specialist team, brings
staff and his residents through her experience with organizaany obstacles that the day
tions and programming of KU
may bring.
to the Hawks Pointe team. Her
HAWKS POINTE

April 1, 2015 (3:30 4:30pm)

Spooner Hall, The Commons

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Reception to Follow
An enrolled member of the Osage Nation, Warrior is the author of The
People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction, American Indian
Literary Nationalism (with Craig Womack and Jace Weaver), Like a
Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (with
Paul Chaat Smith) and Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian
Intellectual Traditions. He is also a member of the Native Critics
Collective, which published Reasoning Together, a collection of essay
focused on Native literary criticism.

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outgoing personality allows

for successful outreach
marketing.
Two other important people
that are not pictured are Brent
Cobb and Greg Hamill. Brent
is Hawks Pointes Facilities
Manager bringing 27+ years of
maintenance experience to the
table and ensures that
everyones apartment is in
good working order. His right
hand man, Greg Hamill,
supports the team by
certifying that concerns are
dealt with proactively and that
quarterly inspections are
handled for the property.
This team showcases a
diverse group of employees
that bring out the best
qualities that can be
established in a management
team. For more information
about how you can be a part of
this community, feel free to
reach out to them via their
office located at 1421 West 7th
Street or by emailing/calling
them directly at
hawkspointe.info@campusapts.com or at 785.841.5255.
More info available online at:
www.hawkspointeapts.com

BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN

DESIGN AND H
CONQUER

Ben Lipowitz
@BenLipowitz

OW DID YOU GET STARTED

IN DESIGN?

Design professor and Kansas native Tim

Hossler uses what he learned under the
guidance of Rolling Stone photographer
Annie Leibovitz as inspiration in and out
of the classroom
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Well, I grew up in Dodge

City, Kan. From really early
on, like age 11 or 12, I really
wanted to be an architect.
Because Im an only child
I guess, all of our family,
vacations were based on
Frank Lloyd Wright houses
because that was the only
architect that they knew of.
It became this really great
experience of traveling and
visiting real architecture. So
I went to Kansas State to
study architecture. Kind of
in the middle of architecture
school, I realized that I loved
everything about school,
but it wasnt what I really

wanted to do. I loved all the

other parts like doing posters and books and doing all
the other models. Then I realized that graphic design and
art directing was what I was
really interested in. So after
K-State, I moved to New York
City. After several years of
working for various design
firms, I made contact with
the Annie Leibovitz Studio.

HAT WAS YOUR ROLE

WORKING
WITH
LEIBOVITZ?

I always described it as: I

did everything after the photographs were taken. We did
a lot of photo editing with
her or piecing stuff together with her. We did a lot of
compositing of images. And
then I would do the layouts
for the magazines and for

the books. I would go with

her to Vogue and Vanity Fair
and meet with the editors
and art directors, and basically we would just tell them
what she wanted.

HAT WAS WORKING

WITH HER LIKE?

Well I mean it was amazing.

It was kind of like the best
graduate school I could have
ever had because youre
standing next to one of
the most famous photographers in the entire world,
just hearing her comments
about stuff or hearing the
stories about the shoots.
Sometimes I would actually
travel with her and be on
set and just see how the
photographs were made.
Shes just like a genius, and

not only is she a genius

with photography, but she
is very interested in the
history of photography and
other forms of art such as
architecture, which is really
why I got the job in the first
place. She was such a big
fan of architecture, so we
had that immediate connection.

HAT
DO
YOU
TAKE FROM THAT
EXPERIENCE WITH
LEIBOVITZ THAT YOU GIVE TO
YOUR STUDENTS?
One thing is, hopefully,
teaching by example. Like
follow your dreams and
push yourself to do the
best thing you can do, even
if that thing might seem
super crazy. Find the people you want to work with.
Find the cities you want
to live in. But then also be
flexible enough. Theres going to be your dreams, but
then theres also going to
be those paths that come
along and be willing to
take them and be willing to
change your goals.

HAT
IS
YOUR
FAVORITE THING TO
DESIGN?

Well, I love doing books. I

love working with museums, artists and photographers. Last spring, I did a

book for the Nelson-Atkins

Museum that was about
their anniversary of their
sculpture garden, and it was
about the new Robert Morris glass labyrinth. The book
is made out of the glass
panels, and then it has this
bronze cap on the top of it.
Its really exciting and really
neat. The projects that have
been the best are the ones
when you are working with
a group of people that are
very confident and who are
excited about what they are
doing. Also the time schedule was super fast, and I
like working on those faster
quicker projects because
I feel like [with] the longer
ones, you are just kind of
spinning your wheels for
too long.

HAT IS A DAY IN YOUR

LIFE LIKE?

I have two daughters, so in

the morning were always
rushing around to get breakfast and get them ready for
school. My wife also teaches
here at KU. So some mornings I am teaching, so she
is getting the kids ready for
school, and sometimes she
is teaching, so I am the one
to do it. And then theres
teaching. The design classes are studio classes, and
they are three-hour blocks.
I love teaching that way be-

CONTRIBUTED/TIM HOSSLER
Assistant design professor Tim Hossler created this book for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Arts anniversary of its sculpture garden.

cause I love getting to know

my students and having
one-on-one communication
with them. When I am not
teaching, I am working on
other projects. Right now I
am working on a guidebook
for Havana, Cuba. So it feels
like all my time outside of
class right now is trying to
figure out what that is going to be and doing research
and reading and looking.
Feels like most of my day

READ MORE ABOUT HOSSLER

ONLINE AT KUDAYINTHELIFE.COM
and then I get home and
have dinner and prepare for
my next day.

HAT IS THE MAIN

THING YOU WANT
YOUR
STUDENTS
TO TAKE AWAY FROM
ALL OF YOUR CLASSES?

I just hope that I teach to

look and look and look as
a designer and photographer because youre making stuff. Youre creating
and developing things so
you need to look and be
inspired by things maybe
youre not even studying.

Like if youre a photographer, look at other photographers and know the

history of photography,
but also look at art, look at
culture, look at films. Even
everyday kind of stuff that
normal people wouldnt be
looking at. What that will
do is enrich your ideas, and
that will give you a different point of view that anyone else has.

WHO IS ANNIE LEIBOVITZ?

Leibovitz is considered on of the worlds best portrait photographers, who developed her signature
use of colors and striking poses while chief photographer at Rolling Stone. One of her most notable
photographs is of nude John Lennon curled alongside his clothed wife, Yoko Ono, on Dec. 8, 1980.
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FAITH AND FATE

To Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel,
all Jews are family
Mackenzie Clark
@mclark59

hen a student mentioned his plans

to spend Passover in Oklahoma
with a friends grandparents, Rabbi
Zalman Tiechtel wouldnt let him
leave the Chabad Center emp-

ty-handed.
Instead, Tiechtel used tissue paper to wrap some
delicate handmade matzos, or unleavened bread
eaten during Passover. He placed them in a cardboard box with a note wishing the family a happy
holiday and sent the student on his way.
To those who dont know him, this may appear
to be an act of kindness toward strangers. For
Tiechtel, its simply a message of love to his extended Jewish family.
Along with his wife, Nechama Tiechtel, the rabbi directs the Rohr Chabad Center for
DITL | 7B

Jewish Life. The center

serves as a home away
from home for Jewish
students at the University and is open to all who
want to learn more about
the faith and culture.
The centers motto is
labels are for shirts, not
for people, and its services are not limited to
members of a particular
denomination of Judaism.
What defines your
Jewishness has nothing
to do with your level of
practice, your affiliation,
how you label yourself
it is simply the fact that
you are part of the Jewish family, Tiechtel said.
Born and raised alongside 12 siblings in
Brooklyn, N.Y., Tiechtel
experienced major culture shock when he, his
wife and his firstborn
daughter, Mina, moved
to Lawrence 9 years ago.
I remember the first
time I saw what happens
at a four-way stop sign in
Kansas, he said. In New
York, it doesnt work, because everyone would
try to go first; in Kansas,
everybodys waiting for
you to go first. That is
something [that] I really
appreciate.
Although it was difficult to leave behind his
neighborhood abundant in kosher delis, kosher bakeries and synagogues Tiechtel said
he believes his life in

LISTEN TO
TIECHTEL
SHARE THE
STORY OF
HOW HE
CAME TO LAWRENCE IN
THE ONLINE VERSION OF
THIS ARTICLE.
8B | DITL

BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN
Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel runs the Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Life with his wife, Nechama Tiechtel. The center is a few blocks
south of campus at 1201 W. 19th St. The couple leased both sides of the duplex before they purchased the property in 2008.

Lawrence is his destiny,

and he was brought here
by faith and fate.
Everybody has a calling, and if were willing
to listen and hear it,
then we will be able to
achieve our lifes purpose, Tiechtel said. I
believe that me being in

Lawrence, Kan., is not by

default. This is the purpose of my souls journey
into this world.
Tiechtel said he learned
of the Universitys need
when he met a rabbi
from Kansas City by
divine providence. Listen to Tiechtel share the

story of how he came to

Lawrence in the online
version of this article.
I had this dream of
moving anywhere it
made no difference to
me where where there
was potential to contribute to the community,
he said.

Tiechtel and his family fell in love with

Lawrence and signed a
lease on the spot when
they stumbled upon a
duplex near campus. He
said at that point they
didnt even realize it
was a prime location for
students.

Two months later, the

students who lived on
the other side of the
duplex moved out and
the Tiechtels leased the
other side. The Chabad
Centers popularity grew,
and in 2008 the family
purchased the property.
The only mistake we
made is that we underestimated the potential for
success, he said.
The Chabad Center,
1201 W. 19th St., offers
Jewish students Shabbat
dinner every week. At
the first dinner in March
2006, the Tiechtels welcomed just a handful;
now, an average of 50 to
80 students attend each
week.
His family has grown as
well; he is a proud father
of four daughters and
three sons, ranging in
age from 4 months to 9
years. He also calls himself a proud Jewhawk.
Tiechtel said his daily
schedule varies, which
he likes. Some days he
visits hospitals and prisons, and he is in charge
of fundraising for the
Chabad Center. He often
talks to concerned parents of students at the
University. He frequently meets with students
for personal talks or to
plan events, which is a
major part of the Chabad
Centers purpose.
The biggest obstacle
for growth for college
students today is stig-

+WHATS IN
A NAME?

BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN
Rabbi Zalman Tiechtels family consists of his wife, Nechama, and his seven children. He has
four daughters and three sons, who range in age from 4 months old to 9 years old.

ma, and we are here to

rewrite the experience,
he said.
Tiechtel said no matter
what his schedule holds,
he aims to do three
things each day: make
time to pray three times,
have a personal interaction with a student and
do something outside his
comfort zone.
Despite his honest
smile, life is not always
easy for Tiechtel and his

extended family. In 2008,

he lost a fellow rabbi
and childhood friend
from his neighborhood
in Brooklyn. The friend
and his wife were killed
in a terrorist attack at
their Chabad house in
Mumbai, India.
Last April, a shooting
at the Jewish Community Center in Overland
Park shook the Jewish
community. The J, as
its attendees call it, is

where three of Tiechtels

children attend school.
Tiechtel said in times
of challenge, what drives
you will determine how
you move forward.
The only way we were
able to overcome that
hardship in 2008 was by
remembering why were
here, Tiechtel said. If
you focus on the purpose and the mission,
you win. You keep on
going.

Jewish names have historically

varied over the centuries and
encompass many different
traditions. In ancient societies,
these names often held
spiritual significance. It is
estimated that a majority of
2,800 names found in the Torah
convey a particular meaning.

MEANINGS OF RABBI
TIECHTELS KIDS NAMES:
Mina Bracha:
Blessing from God
Mendel: Humble
Man
Yosef Meir: An
Increasing Shining
Light

Levi: Attachment
Yisroel: Israel
Sima: Treasure
Esther: Hidden
Inner Beauty

In 2011, Tiechtel worked to establish

Kosher Korner at Allen Fieldhouse,
which he said is the first kosher deli in
a college athletic facility in the country.
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Kiley
Dombroski
Its 5:15 a.m. and
her alarm is going
off. But she has
already been up
for hours. For Kiley
Dombroski, this is
a normal weekday
morning.

BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN

Ben Felderstein
@Ben_Felderstein
For Dombroski, the inability to sleep in
the mornings before dance workouts is
typical.
Dombroski is a junior from Lakewood,
Colo., and a member of the Rock Chalk
Dancers.
On the days that I have workouts, Im
usually waking up anxious every hour, she
said.
Dombroski is a journalism major studying
strategic communications and is minoring
in creative writing. She has spent the past
three years on the Universitys dance team.
Dombroski juggles dance, school work
and classes, and is a member of the Kappa
Kappa Gamma sorority.
I make it work, Dombroski said. You
have to sacrifice sleep sometimes, but Im
the type of person that needs to be staying
busy.
Growing up in Colorado, most of
Dombroskis high school friends attended
local schools like the University of Colorado.
She wanted to get away from home and start
a new chapter.
Dombroski came to visit Kansas during
the final Kansas-Missouri basketball game
in 2012. Following the victory, she and her
father rushed to Massachusetts Street to see

students and Kansas fans celebrating.

My dad looked at me and said, This is
where youre going, Dombroski said. I
fell in love with the campus, the tradition,
everything.
The dance team plays a large role in the
Universitys tradition, and it has a big
presence at sports events throughout the
year.
Dancing at basketball games will always be
some of Kileys most cherished memories,
from building relationships with the other
dancers to getting to lead fans in the Rock
Chalk chant on one of the most famous
basketball courts in America.
Its the best, most unreal feeling, standing
out on the court doing the Rock Chalk
chant, Dombroski said. It gives me
goosebumps every time. Its something only
a few people will experience in their lives.
The Rock Chalk Dancers serve as
University ambassadors and have a lot of
responsibility to keep up a public image.
Dombroski and her team run camps for
children and make public appearances.
With the hectic schedule of a dancer,
things are often subject to change.
We have a motto on the team,
Dombroski said. Its cope and adjust. We

say OK, reset and go on with whatever you

have to do.
Dombroski and the rest of the Rock Chalk
Dancers have developed bonds that are as
strong as familial ties. Dombroski attended
a former dancers wedding this past summer
with close to 30 other dancers.

I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE

CAMPUS, THE TRADITION,
EVERYTHING.

KILEY DOMBROSKI

Seeing seniors at the center of the court

on their senior night is always an emotional
experience, Dombroski said. For her, this
years senior night meant she is one year
closer to her last game dancing at the
Fieldhouse.
Theyre going to have to drag me off the
court crying, Dombroski said. Itll be hard
to get me out of Allen [Fieldhouse].
After her senior night next fall,
Dombroski hopes to graduate the following
May and start another chapter in her life in
sports marketing. She said she hopes to stay

around the University and live in Lawrence

for a little while.
Dombroski said she has loved every
moment she has spent dancing for Kansas
but does not see that as a part of her life after
graduation.
A lot of girls try out for the Chiefs or
Broncos, she said. But I dont really think
thats for me.
Next year will be her last year waking up
at 5:15 a.m. for workouts and her last year
making public appearances and posing for
pictures with little kids. It will be her last
year dancing on the sidelines of Memorial
Stadium and her final season leading 16,300
people in the Rock Chalk chant from the
court of Allen Fieldhouse.
But it wont be the last time she practices
the traditions of being a Jayhawk and spends
time with her teammates, and it wont be the
last time she gets goosebumps inside Allen
Fieldhouse.
Ive learned so much about life from
being a Rock Chalk Dancer, Dombroski
said. And to know that the way we do
things is the same as weve always done it
at a school that is so rich in tradition and
basketball history is really special.

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Alex Kong
Standing in his
apartment kitchen,
4P pharmacy student
Alex Kong adds a splash
of whiskey to his apple
cupcake mix.
FRANK WEIRICH/KANSAN

Alana Flinn
@alana_flinn

or Kong, baking is a way to turn the

science he studies into something
fun.
I started baking when I was
working on an experiment I couldnt
get down, Kong said. I was frustrated with
it because I couldnt get it to work. During
this time, I gained my appreciation for
[baking] because so much of chemistry and
experiments go into baking.
However, baking is just Kongs hobby to
help him unwind, following a day of working
on a large variety of activities.
Kong conducts pharmaceutical research
in two labs on campus, is the business
director and a member of Genuine Imitation
A Cappella, and the 4P pharmacy class
president.
Beyond that, Kong is the chapter president
of Mortar Board Honor Society, the founder
and president of Society of Scientists, and
a co-founder of ResearchRx. Hes also an
ambassador for the Center for Undergraduate
Research, an ambassador for the Honors
Program and a scholar for the Hall
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Center for the Humanities.

Kong is also working on writing a personal
memoir about his life as a second-generation
Chinese American and on Thursdays, Kong
reads the University Daily Kansan to the
blind.
How does Kong manage to have time for
each of these organizations and activities?
Not well, Kong said jokingly.
However, Kong said he thinks he has done
a pretty good job of making sure everything
goes smooth so far.
For Kong, being involved with so many
organizations on campus is less about
building a rsum and more about pursuing
his passions.
Im involved in a lot of things, but whats
cool about that is Im involved in so much
because I really do care about every activity
Ive committed to, Kong said.
While it may seem like Kong does it all, he
does tend to avoid certain types of activities.
Pretty much anything that requires physical
coordination and gracefulness, Kong said.
Luckily, Kongs passions are less about
physical ability and more about brainpower.
Looking to the future, Kong said he thinks

engulfing himself in activities, events and

organizations will pay off in applications for
scholarships and graduate school, but that is
not his priority. Long term, Kong said he sees
himself as a professor at a university.

ALL OF THESE EXPERIENCES

THAT IVE HAD HAVE BECOME
PART OF WHO I AM.

ALEX KONG

I hope to work at a university where I can

research and teach, Kong said. Its hard to
pinpoint a certain topic, especially since I
know that I have so many more professors to
work with in the future and areas to discover,
but it will be in some way related to drug
development. [Being involved] has helped me
to become a more well-rounded person. For
me, its never really been about boosting my
rsum so much as doing the things that I
legitimately enjoy.
But, for now, Kong is encouraging younger
students to pursue their own passions.
A lot of the time, when I meet with these

prospective students, they talk about how

theyre really passionate about a sport or their
religion or music, but they dont know if they
can manage it on top of their studies, Kong
said. And what I like to tell them is to not
let their passions die, because even though
youre switching to college and have these
preconceived notions about what college will
be like, its really a shame to let these passions
go.
Kong, who said he finds that everything he
has been involved with at the University has
truly shaped him into the person he is now,
really encourages others to do the same.
All of these experiences that Ive had have
become part of who I am, Kong said. All
of these things come together and having
something to be passionate about, whether
it be one thing or several, has been a really
defining moment in my KU experience and I
feel like it should be in others as well.
While Kong spends more time in the lab
than the kitchen, he does have a baking
specialty.
Alcoholic cupcakes, Kong said. I have this
huge alcohol collection, but I dont drink. I
just put it into food.

Bakary Suso
Kate Miller @_Kate_Miller_

Like those of his native

country, the Gambia,
graduate architecture
student Bakary Suso
always has a smile on
his face.

JILL STIVERSON/KANSAN

The Gambia may be the poorest in the world, but one

thing I know about them is their resilience, Suso said.
You can see somebody who doesnt have much, but
theyre always smiling. That makes me really want to do a
lot of things because people smile no matter what [in the
Gambia.] And that lights a fire to keep me going.
Suso, the founder of the nonprofit KINitiative, is
currently working to bring affordable and sustainable
health care centers to the African country of the Gambia.
The nonprofit aims to bring community centers like
health clinics and playgrounds to rural areas of the
country, as well as employment and empowerment for
residents.
Suso, who lived in the Gambia until he was 18, founded
KINitiative as a response to his experiences in the
country. Growing up, Suso lacked a public playground;
he and his friends played in the streets the same streets
through which traffic ran every day.
Growing up, I didnt have that protected space, he
said. Granted, growing up, we were able to be kids and
run wild, and we were given that playtime. But we were
not in a protected area.
Susos main focus in founding KINitiative was to create
those spaces for the people of the Gambia. He wants to
build playgrounds that also double as youth centers.
Last time I was in the Gambia to do my research,
in terms of playgrounds, we only had two public
playgrounds for 1.8 million people, he said. So, I
think this is something that I will pursue eventually, but
through architecture, Im trying to see how I can help not
just Gambia, but Africa as a whole.
Currently, KINitiative is in the process of building and
designing a Reproductive Child Health (RCH) center for
communities in the Gambia. Suso said this project came
out of his recent visit to the Gambia, where he saw the
lack of available health services for people in rural areas.
The healthcare system of Gambia is divided into three
sectors: hospitals, health centers and RCH centers. The
280 RCH centers are located in rural areas of the country
without access to other health care.
Suso said two health care providers visit each RCH
center once a month to cater to women in need of
prenatal care and children under five. The conditions are
far from ideal.
The spaces they go to sometimes are almost
falling apart, he said. Some of them are pretty much
nonexistent. Some of them have a nurse assistant sitting
under a tree, and theres a long line. One of them was so
bad, it had animal feces all over the floor. Some women
actually have their children in these places. As soon as I
saw that, I knew this takes more of my attention.
Suso and KINitiative recently presented their proposals
for a new RCH design to government officials in the
Gambia. At this point, KINitatives design will be the new
standard for RCH centers in the country.
The new design aims to make the centers as sustainable
and affordable as possible. While concrete is the usual
construction material in the Gambia, it is too expensive
to maintain for the poor living in rural areas. Suso said

a bag of cement can cost $10, while the typical monthly

salary for a Gambian in this area is $30.
In addition, the new design will provide a community
space when its not in use as a health center. Because
parts of the Gambia can lack accessible electricity, Suso
wants the centers to have an area for children to work
on homework. A playground will also be built around
the structure.
I talk to [the community] about the ideas and what
these spaces should look like, he said. Its not me
just imposing my ideas but listening to them. We can
design together. Our goal of KINitiative is to involve
communities in this design process. We want to
empower them.

GROWING UP, I DIDNT HAVE THAT

PROTECTED SPACE. GRANTED,
GROWING UP, WE WERE ABLE TO
BE KIDS AND RUN WILD, AND WE
WERE GIVEN THAT PLAYTIME. BUT
WE WERE NOT IN A PROTECTED
AREA.

BAKARY SUSO

KINitiative comprises several University students and

alumni, with several professors acting as advisors. Eddy
Tavio, an architecture student who graduated with his
masters degree in 2012, is Susos co-founder.
Tavio, a native of Venezuela, shares Susos desire to
empower the communities KINitiative serves, not to just
impose their own ideas.
We want to talk about solutions, Tavio said. We want
to be perceived as an organization that provides support.
When Suso graduates in May, he looks forward to
continuing with KINitiative. He will continue to oversee
the design and construction of his first RCH center in the
Gambia this semester he anticipates sending the final
designs at the end of April and receiving the estimated
cost for the building. After that, the fundraising process
begins.
Suso said he is extremely thankful for the opportunity
that the University has provided. Coming to study in the
United States from the Gambia has given him an even
greater appreciation for education than he had in the
Gambia.
Students dont know the power they have, he said. I
wish I thought about this three years ago rather than just
last year because as a student, people are willing to help.
People are really willing to listen to you because they see
themselves in you, or they see themselves and something
they wish they could do. It is good for students to really
take leadership roles and be passionate about something.
Students have more power than they know they have.

CHASING
THE CUP
Brian Hillix @DoubleHillix

Armed with a broom in one

hand and a quaffle in the other,
senior Bradley Vonada steps onto
Robinson field as his team begins
the days practice for the looming
World Cup Championship. Vonada,
a chemical engineering major from
Shawnee, is a chaser and the vice
president for the Kansas Quidditch
club team.
BEN BRODSKY/KANSAN

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GET TO KNOW BRADLEY VONADA

FAVORITE HARRY POTTER MOVIE:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone

FAVORITE THING ABOUT HARRY POTTER:

Quidditch
Editors note: Didnt see that one coming.

FAVORITE CITY HES TRAVELED TO

FOR A TOURNAMENT:
Kissimmee, Fla.

FAVORITE HARRY POTTER CHARACTER:

FAVORITE HARRY POTTER SCENE:

FAVORITE HARRY POTTER HOUSE:

Sirius Black

Wizards Chess in Sorcerers Stone

Gryffindor

his is Vonadas third year playing

the sport inspired by the popular
Harry Potter book series.
Looking to join a club at the
student fair in Fall 2011, Vonada
spotted the Quidditch club table. He enjoys
playing sports, and he likes Harry Potter, so
the choice to join wasnt a difficult one.
I thought, Lets try something new,
Vonada said. Lets try something that not
every kid says they played growing up.

for conditioning on their own, as practices

are mainly devoted to enhancing skills and
simulating game situations.
Vonada needs that conditioning as a chaser,
which is the position responsible for scoring
by throwing the quaffle, or in Muggle terms a
volleyball, through one of three hoops.
I like the chaser position because its a lot
more pass-oriented and its a very offensive
position, Vonada said. Ive always enjoyed
the teamwork aspect.

LIFE ON THE PITCH

Vonada said a typical week for him includes
three practices that last about two hours
each. Practices include a warmup, stretches,
position drills and usually conclude with
a short scrimmage. The team practices at
Robinson Field off Sunnyside Avenue.
Kansas has competed in three tournaments
and a head-to-head matchup this season.
Depending on the size of the tournament,
Vonada said he has played in as many as six
matches in a single day and as many as 10 in
a two-day span. A typical Quidditch match
lasts about 25 minutes, but Vonada said one
can last as long as an hour and a half.
As an outdoor sport, the team doesnt
always play in ideal conditions. Vonada
said the temperature for one tournament
bottomed out at 26 degrees.
If the temperature was anywhere in the
20s or above, we were practicing because we
needed to get used to what it would be like,
Vonada said.
To stay in shape on off-days, Vonada spends
a lot of time at Ambler Student Recreation
Fitness Center. He said players are responsible

SENIOR YEAR SUCCESS

With a 14-2 record this season, Kansas
Quidditch is currently ranked No. 13 in the
country, according to the US Quidditch
organization. Vonada said the team peaked
at No. 2 earlier in the season behind the
University of Maryland.
In October, Kansas finished first in
the Kansas Cup, where it went 4-0 and
defeated the University of Minnesota in the
championship. The team also finished in
second place at the Cowboy Cup tournament
in Stillwater, Okla., later that month.
The team is now preparing for the Quidditch
World Cup, which Vonada said is the March
Madness of Quidditch. The tournament will
be in Rock Hill, S.C., on April 11-12, where 80
teams and 1,600 players will compete for the
Quidditch Cup. The University of Texas took
home the cup in 2014.
HIS BEST QUIDDITCH MOMENT
Two years ago, that setting provided Vonada
with what he said is his best time at KU.
Up against a heavily favored Baylor squad
that had been ranked No. 1 in the country,

LETS PLAY QUIDDITCH

CHASER
Advances the quaffle (volleyball) down the field by
carrying, passing or kicking it. Chasers score goals
worth 10 points each by throwing them through goal
hoops. Each team has three chasers.

Kansas pulled off the upset by snagging

the snitch to end the match with a narrow
10-point victory in front of hundreds of
spectators.
All the writers had us getting slaughtered,
Vonada said. But we kept them close
throughout the game and eventually pulled
off one of the biggest upsets in Quidditch at
the time.
That momentum carried to the next round
against a Marquette team that took first place
at the Midwest Regional Championship
that season. Kansas again caught the snitch
to claim the match and advance in the
tournament. The team ended up making the
Elite Eight, losing to UCLA.
MAKEUP OF THE QUIDDITCH TEAM
Kansas team consists of 41 players: 29 men
and 12 women.
Vonada said a lot of players on the team
played sports in high school, but the team
also includes people who hadnt competed
athletically before college.
[Those players] are outstanding for having
never played sports, Vonada said. Theyre
taking some of our top spots.
In addition to the 41 players on the team,
Vonada said other students will occasionally
practice with the team to try out the sport. He
said you dont have to travel with the team to
participate.
Thats something we encourage, Vonada
said. We want to spread the sport, and we
want everyone to have fun and try something
new.
Not everyone on the team is a Harry Potter
fanatic, but a good portion of the team likes

BEATERS
Disrupt the flow of the game by throwing dodgeballs
called bludgers at players to knock them out. The player
hit with the ball is out of play until they touch the teams
own goals. Each team has two beaters.

to stick to its roots, Vonada said. The teams

captain, senior Kate Cooley from Topeka,
owns a Christmas tree covered in Harry
Potter ornaments, complete with a Sorting
Hat at the top.
ROLE AS VICE PRESIDENT
As vice president of the club, Vonada assists
the president with tasks like deciding which
tournaments to compete in, planning trips
and planning how to fund them.
The club primarily relies on merchandise
sales to help fund its trips to tournaments. It
sells items like T-shirts, jerseys and sunglasses.
Vonada also helps to promote the sport on
campus and in the community. He organizes
appearances at University fairs and local
elementary and high schools. He also wears
his Kansas Quidditch jersey on campus,
sparking conversations with strangers who
are interested in the club.
FUTURE OF QUIDDITCH
Vonada said the sport has continued to
grow in popularity nationwide, noting the
recent creation of Major League Quidditch,
a national league composed of teams from
Boston, New York, Washington D.C.,
Cleveland, Rochester, Indianapolis, Detroit
and Ottawa.
When Vonada sees the Harry Potter
characters playing Quidditch in the movies,
he wonders if the sport will evolve to the point
where it can be played with flying brooms and
a floating snitch.
Maybe we could be the next sport on TV,
Vonada said. In 20 years, I could definitely
see Quidditch becoming a big deal.

KEEPER
Defends the goal hoops. Each team has one keeper.

SEEKER
Catches the snitch to end the game. The snitch is worth
30 points and is a ball attached to the waistband of a
neutral player called the snitch runner. Each team has
one seeker.

FAMILY

MATTERS
For Stowers, new family
trumps football

MISSY MINEAR/KANSAN
Kansas football defensive lineman Keon Stowers holds his 11-month-old son, Dallas Anderson Stowers. Stowers proposed to his longtime girlfriend and mother of his son, Carley Baker on Saturday.

Christian Hardy
@Hardy_NFL

eon
Stowers
woke up in his
apartment at Jayhawker Towers
and glanced at
the clock. He hustled out of
bed, grabbed his things and
sprinted to practice as fast
as a 6-foot-2, 224-pound
defensive lineman can.
Stowers has been fighting
against the clock his whole
life. In high school, when
Stowers decided he wanted play football, his grades
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were poor. But when he

decided he wanted to turn
that around, one teacher at
Northwestern High School
in Rock Hill, S.C., wasnt on
the same page.
He basically told me, Its
too late. You should have
thought about this a year or
two ago, Stowers said. I
kind of used that my whole
life a teacher telling me
it was too late, and they
couldnt do anything.
After high school, he
spent two years at Georgia
Military College, where he
earned his associate degree

and caught the eye of multiple Division I colleges. At

Georgia Military he was
given a rigid schedule.
One thing I did take from
there was being on time,
Stowers said. I was late to
one workout ever here at
KU, my three years here.
Everything else, Ive never
been late, never missed anything, always been on time.
I take pride in that, he
said.
NOTHING BUT GOOD
THINGS TO SAY
Now, ready to graduate

from the University in May

with a Bachelor of General
Studies in Liberal Arts and
Sciences and a minor in
history, he has a lot more to
be proud of than being on
time.
Stowers was courted by
a handful of NFL scouts at
Kansas Pro Day on March
25, including the Texans,
who said they wanted him
in their training camp.
On Saturday, Stowers
proposed to his longtime
girlfriend and mother of his
son, Carley Baker, during a
two-day vacation their

first together since their son

was born in Branson,
Mo. In May, their son, Dallas Anderson Stowers, will
celebrate his first birthday.
Baker, who works at her
sons daycare, has given
Stowers the structure that
he needs but lacked for the
first part of his life.
Shes been instrumental,
Stowers said. Shes been to
almost all of my games from
high school to junior college to here. Its been great
to be able to have someone
like that. When Ive been
up, shes been there, and

when Ive been down shes

been there. Its been really
good to have support and
her family.
Stowers parents were
both in and out of jail when
he was growing up, but
when he was in high school
he realized he didnt want
that, so he turned to football and started improving
his grades.
I definitely think I would
be selling drugs, in jail,
dead, somewhere, if I didnt
choose to go the right way,
Stowers said. I probably
definitely wouldnt be with

her.
Stowers didnt meet Bakers family from South Carolina until the two had been
dating for a year. Stowers
was a senior and finally had
his act together, but Baker,
who is white, wasnt sure if
her parents would accept
Stowers because he is black.
I knew my dad wasnt going to go for that, she said.
But when Stowers went
away to Georgia Military,
Baker knew she had to tell
her parents something. The
next weekend, when he was
back in Rock Hill, Bakers
dad, Anderson, told Stowers to get into his truck for
a ride.
He went and told him,
Ill kill you if you hurt her,
Baker said.
He did say that, Stowers interrupted, laughing.
With a shotgun in the back
of the truck.
But after seeing Stowers,
Anderson, who died last
year, wanted more information about the kid who was
dating his daughter.
He was trying to find
something bad about him,
but nobody could say anything bad, Baker said.
MOVING FORWARD
Since Stowers didnt have
a home in Rock Hill when
his mom was in prison,
Bakers home became his
own when he was in town.
But his family from his
hometown eight brothers and one stepsister are
still struggling, for the most
part.
Im onto bigger and better things and making a life
with my family now, and
theyre still there, Stowers
said.
Stowers past has influenced his outlook on life.
You can be successful in
what you do and what you

MISSY MINEAR/KANSAN
Former Kansas defensive lineman Keon Stowers gives his son,
Dallas, a kiss on the cheek. Stowers is graduating in May.

love, Stowers said. Keep

going. Keep trying. Dont
let anybody tell you that you
cant do it, or dont let one
incident mess up everything
else that youre trying to do.
Stowers name isnt expected to be called in the upcoming NFL Draft, though
hell be highly sought after;
hes expected to be a priority
undrafted free agent.
When he gets the call
from a team, hell send his
dad an email or pick up a
phone and call him, as he
does almost every week.
And he might pay per minute to talk to his mom in a
state penitentiary.
But everything Stowers
has done since hes been at
Kansas is to benefit his new
family, Baker and Dallas,

who have supported him

and been there for him.
After he injured his pectoral muscle on Pro Day, he
said he realized how fleeting a career in football can
be. And he doesnt want to
be late preparing for his future.
If I have to get the surgery and Im unable to get
picked up by a team this
year, Im going to probably
retire from football, Stowers said. I have a family,
and a life to attend to. You
cant spend it chasing a silly
dream. You have to enjoy it
when youre in it, but once
youre out, youre out.
Now Ive got to start
prepping my little guy to
get up there and to be a Jayhawk, he said.

MISSY MINEAR/KANSAN
Former Kansas football defensive lineman Keon Stowers poses with his fiancee, Carley Baker,
and their son, Dallas Anderson Stowers. Stowers said if he isnt picked up by a professional
team this year, he would most likely retire from football.

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THREES
COMPANY

Sophomore journalism
student juggles softball,
Senate and a sorority

JEFF JACOBSEN/KU ATHLETICS

Sophomore Sophia Templin is a softball player, a student senator and a sorority member. Ive never wanted to be just one thing,
because Ive always wanted to do everything, and Ive always been able to make it work, she said.

Amie Just
@Amie_Just

ophia
Templins
multi-colored, floral-patterned planner has seen better days.
The rings of its spine have
started to bend in multiple directions; the corners
are starting to wear. The
gold, glitter stickers that
spell Theta on the bottom
righthand corner are peeling at the edges.
Templins planner goes
everywhere with her. Its
her lifeline. Without it, her
life would fall into complete chaos.
The sophomore journalism student does much
more than take classes
and return home. She is a
member of Kappa Alpha
Theta sorority, is a student
senator and plays Division
I softball for the University,
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while making grades in the

Honors Program.
But she wasnt always this
involved.
My freshman year, my
first semester, I was just
a student-athlete, and I
had never been just a student-athlete,
Templin
said. I had never solely
identified with athletics as
who I was. In my first fall
semester, all my friends
had rushed sororities and
were getting involved with
things like SUA and being
involved on campus doing
new things, and I was just a
softball player.
Templin acknowledges
that playing softball is a
huge time commitment,
but it wasnt enough for
her. She needed more on
her plate, just like she did
in high school.
She attended De Soto
High School, a 4A school,

in a small town located between Lawrence and Kansas City. There were around
160 students in her graduating class, and Templin
did everything she could
to stay involved. She was
editor of the school newspaper, a class officer, a softball player, in the band and
on the dance team. She was
also in charge of planning
prom.
Ive never settled, Templin said of her long list of
activities. Ive never wanted to be just one thing, because Ive always wanted
to do everything, and Ive
always been able to make
it work.
Conflicts arise all the
time for Templin.
She has sorority chapter
meetings when shes on the
road for softball. Senate
still meets on Wednesdays,
with or without her.

Theres kind of like a

hierarchy and everybody
is really understanding of
things, Templin said. I
wish I could be everywhere
at once, but I cant. A lot of
times, Ill be on the road
for softball and Ill be on a
Google doc with people for
Senate or group projects for
class. My groups hate me
because Im so busy.
And everything gets
harder during softball season because of travel.
Large blocks of time are
blacked out when on the
road, Templin said.
Offseason is something
that you dont realize is
as wonderful as it is until
youre during the season,
Templin said. You think,
What did I do with all that
time?
Whatever problem or
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ALI DOVER/KANSAN
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Greek life, athletics and
Student Senate are three
things that most people
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But if she had to pick one
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Im at KU because I love
KU, Templin said. I love
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