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BY BRIANNE PFANNENSTIEL
bpfannenstiel@kansan.com
Student body president Adam
McGonigle, Wichita junior, sus-
pended the student senate treasurer
from his position Tuesday, five days
before hearings that will determine
distribution of $600,000 to student
groups.
Alex Porte, Great Falls, Va.,
junior and student senate treasurer
since the beginning of this year, said
the hearings, which are called block
allocations, were the most impor-
tant responsibility of the treasurer,
but now he wont be able to attend.
Block allocation it kind of sets
out really the crux of what Student
Senates going to fund for the next
two years, said Brian Hardouin,
Broomfield, Colo., law student,
who sits on the finance commit-
tee. Hardouin
said this years
block alloca-
tion hearings
would be even
more important
than in previous
years because
Senate would
be looking to
save money in
the process. He said that because
Senate would not be raising any fees
for next year, they must look more
closely than in previous years at the
distribution of funds during the
block hearings.
We always like to have more
people at the hearings, especially
people like Alex who know the
background, Hardouin said, ref-
Student Senate
Treasurer
suspended;
will miss
hearings
Porte
BY ADAM SAMSON
asamson@kansan.com
If the lights in Allen Fieldhouse
went out, Brady Tanners smile
would have lit the entire building.
Tanner, who is a member of
Douglas County Special Olympics,
attended the womens senior night
basketball game against Baylor
Wednesday. Fifty-seven student
athletes and 34 Special Olympians
partnered up to foster closer friend-
ships and cheer on the Jayhawks.
Tanner, who cheered loudly with
his KU gear and crimson and blue
face paint, told it all.
All you have to do is look at
their faces when you see them
interact with the student athletes,
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics
director, said. The positive influ-
ence and the joy that these student
athletes bring to those individuals
makes it all worth while.
The event was a part of the ongo-
ing partnership between Kansas
Athletics and Special Olympics
Kansas. Special Olympics has been
the Big 12 Conferences charity of
choice since May 1996.
The partnership is something
we as student athletes wanted to
pursue and once we started doing it,
we realized how much of an impact
we can make, Hannah McMacken,
Lake Tapps, Wash., senior diver,
said.
Kansas Athletics donated the tick-
ets for the womens
game, enabling the
Special Olympians
to attend.
Marchiony said
the partnership
between Kansas
Athletics and
Special Olympics
was one Kansas
Athletics took
great pride in and
was one of the most enjoyable ways
to serve the community.
We have so much too be thank-
ful for and its an important lesson
that we try to impress upon student
athletes as soon as they arrive here,
because so much is given to us, we
need to give back, Marchiony said.
Drew Dudley, College Station,
Texas, sophomore and football
player, said it was important to
embrace the opportunity to work
with the Special Olympians.
Anything we can do to give
back to them, because theyre so
into sports and you can make
them the happiest person in the
world by just hanging out with
them at these events,
Dudley said.
Matt Baysinger,
student athlete devel-
opment assistant with
Kansas Athletics, said
many of the Special
Olympians saw KU
athletes as role mod-
els, especially in the
Lawrence commu-
nity.
One of our football student
athletes told me how it was both
interesting and great how whether
we want to be role models or not,
we are, Baysinger said. Its not
quite the Charles Barkley approach
where he used to say athletes arent
role models, but the fact of the mat-
ter is that we are.
A number of the student athletes
stayed in touch with the Special
Olympians theyve worked with in
the past through e-mail and snail
mail. McMacken said promoting
the positive image in sports and
forming friendships like those the
Special Olympians and KU athletes
had formed was important.
I think its important to slow
down because often times student
athletes feel overwhelmed with
their schedules, but I think its
good to put everything on hold
and take time for somebody else,
McMacken said. Its so easy to get
wrapped up in what youre doing
and forget about the people that
helped you along the way.
Baysinger said the possibilities
to work with Special Olympics
were limitless, leaving it up to the
student athletes to determine how
many events they would like to
put on.
Other events Kansas Athletics
hosted included the annual mens
basketball clinic with Special
Olympians, an event at Power Play
Family Entertainment Center in
Shawnee, which more than 200
Special Olympians and 100 student
athletes attended, and the womens
Pink Zone basketball game this
semester.
Kansas Athletics continues its
ties with Special Olympics as it
hopes to hold a few more events
this spring, including a swimming
and diving clinic and a bowling
tournament that Baysinger said was
a success in the past.
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athleticS
Special Olympians attend womens basketball senior night
All you have to do
is look at their faces
when you see them
interact with the
student athletes.
Jim marchiony
associate athletics director
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least a share of the Big 12 regular season championship by virtue of Oklahomas 73-64 loss to Missouri in Columbia, Mo. Kansas will win the title outright with a victory against Texas on Saturday afternoon. See full Coverage onpage 1b.
national
Octomom prompts new
laws for fertility clinics
ATLANTA Lawmakers in two
states, outraged by Californias
Octomom, are seeking to limit
the number of embryos that may
be implanted by fertility clinics.
The legislation in Missouri
and Georgia is intended to spare
taxpayers from footing the bill
for women having more children
than they can aford.
But critics say the measures
also would make having even one
child more difcult for women
who desperately want to become
mothers.
What they are proposing is a
cookie-cutter, one-size-fts-all ap-
proach, said Dr. Andrew Toledo,
medical director of the Atlanta-
based Reproductive Biology
Associates. Not every couple and
not every patient is the same.
Infertility doctors argue that
decisions on how many embryos
to transfer should be left up to
medical experts familiar with
a patients individual circum-
stances.
Debate has raged since Nadya
Suleman gave birth to octuplets
in Bellfower, Calif., on Jan. 26. She
has six other children, lives in her
mothers three-bedroom home
and has relied on food stamps
and disability income to provide
for her family.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
All the adversity Ive had
in my life, all my troubles and
obstacles, have strengthened
me... You may not realize it
when it happens, but a kick
in the teeth may be the best
thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney
FACT OF THE DAY
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Eifel Towers height.
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NEWS NEAR & FAR
BY BaRBaRa PlattS
bplatts@kansan.com
City: Hutchinson
Nickname: The Salt City or
Hutch
County: Reno
Location: South central Kansas
Distance from Lawrence: 3
hours or 182.72 miles
Founded: 1871
Population: about 40,000
Destinations: Kansas State Fair,
Hutchinson Community College,
Dillon Nature Center, Hutchinson
Zoo, Reno County Historical
Museum, Kansas Underground Salt
Museum, and Kansas Cosmosphere
and Space Center.
Interesting Fact: Hutchinson is
home to the largest grain elevator
in the world. It is more than half a
mile long.
Sources: http://www.hutchgov.com/, www.
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2. Response to computer
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3. Collins and Taylor share a
special relationship
4. Student body president
suspends treasurer
5. Coalitions plan fnancial
advising ofce
ON CAMPUS
The Structural Engineering
Conference will begin at 8:30
a.m. in the Kansas Union.
The Dreamweaver: Visual
Design using CSS workshop
will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the
Instruction Center in Anschutz
Library.
The Geography Brownbag
Series will begin at noon in
Room 210 in Lindley Hall.
The Now what? Resources
and strategies to assist when
youre non-renewed, down-
sized, or let go workshop
will begin at noon in the Pine
Room in the Kansas Union.
The KU Energy Council Pres-
ents Susan Eisenhower public
event will begin at 1:30 p.m. in
the Dole Institute of Politics.
The SUA Tea Time event will
begin at 3 p.m. in the Lobby in
the Kansas Union.
The Talk and Book Sign-
ing Arlington National
Cemetery: Shrine to Americas
Heroes public event will begin
at 3:30 p.m. in Oread Books in
the Kansas Union.
The Practical Training for F-1
Students workshop will begin
at 3:30 p.m. in the Courtside
Room in the Burge Union.
The FM-chirped laser radar
using coherent homodyne
detection seminar will begin
at 4 p.m. in 1089 Malott Hall.
The Reception and Talk Fea-
turing George Gibbs Work with
Centron Films public event will
begin at 5:30 p.m. in Watson
Library.
The Price of Pleasure event
will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the
Big 12 Room in the Kansas
Union.
The Rock Chalk Revue will
begin at 7 p.m. in the Lied
Center.
The Power of Nonviolence
lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m.
in the Jayhawk Room in the
Kansas Union.
inteRnational
1. Fight in Mexican prison
kills 20, injures seven
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico A
fght between gangs at a state
prison in the Mexican border city
left at least 20 prisoners dead and
seven others injured on Wednes-
day, police said.
Some gunshot wounds were
reported and police were inves-
tigating how a frearm entered
the prison, said Victor Valencia,
the Chihuahua state governors
representative.
The fght broke out shortly af-
ter 6 a.m. as visitors were leaving
after an evening of conjugal visits,
said Marco Antonio Moreno, state
police spokesman.
An Azteca gang member pres-
sured a guard to open the cells
of fellow gang members, Valencia
said, without describing the pres-
sure.
2. China announces cuts
to military spending
BEIJING China announced a
nearly 15 percent rise in military
spending on Wednesday a
smaller boost than in previous
years as the national legisla-
ture prepared to open its annual
session with a focus frmly on
overcoming the countrys brew-
ing economic crisis.
The 14.9 percent increase in
defense spending is the lowest in
three years, a possible refection
of shifting priorities amid plans
for a 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion)
stimulus package and a 850 bil-
lion yuan ($124 billion) spending
boost to expand and revamp an
inadequate health care system.
3. U.S. warns North Korea
against missile test-fre
SEOUL, South Korea Wash-
ingtons new North Korea envoy
renewed warnings that the
communist nation refrain from
test-fring a ballistic missile.
Tensions are high on the
Korean peninsula, with the North
announcing last week it will send
a communications satellite into
orbit as part of its space program
a claim neighboring govern-
ments believe is a cover for a test
of a long-range missile capable of
reaching Alaska.
national
4. Armored car imposter
makes of with $145,000
LINCOLN, Neb. Police say a
man posing as an armored car
guard made of with more than
$145,000 from a church.
Police Ofcer Katie Flood said
Wednesday that a man dressed as
a guard walked into the fnancial
ofce of the Berean Church on
Tuesday and told an employee he
was there to pick up the weekly
deposit.
The employee said the man
appeared to know what he was
doing, so she gave him the more
than $145,000 in cash and checks.
The real armored car and driver
arrived about 15 minutes later
and church employees realized
they had been robbed.
5. Asteroid narrowly
misses striking the Earth
PASADENA, Calif. An asteroid
about the size of one that blasted
Siberia a century ago just buzzed
the Earth.
The asteroid named 2009 DD45
was about 48,800 miles from
Earth when it zipped past early
Monday, NASAs Jet Propulsion
Laboratory reported.
That is just twice as high as the
orbits of some telecommunica-
tions satellites.
The space rock measured
between 69 feet and 154 feet in
diameter. The Planetary Society
said that made it about the same
size as the asteroid that exploded
over Siberia in 1908 and leveled
more than 800 square miles of
forest.
6. United States deports
Black September terrorist
NEW YORK A recently
released Black September ter-
rorist convicted of placing three
powerful car bombs in New York
City in 1973 has been deported
to Sudan, an African nation that
once sheltered Osama bin Laden
and other terrorists.
Khalid Al-Jawary, 63, arrived
Tuesday in Khartoum, said a
U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement spokesman.
Associated Press
televiSion
Alumna to appear on
Millionaire today
KU alumna Joanna Pergande
will appear on Who Wants to
Be a Millionaire? this after-
noon. The show will air at 4
p.m. on NBC, channel 14.
Pergande appeared on the
last portion of yesterdays
show, and she will continue
to try for $1 million in todays
show.
Pergandes appearance was
taped in October. She audi-
tioned for the show in August
in Detroit by passing a multiple
choice test and going through
two rounds of interviews. In
September she was invited to
appear on the show.
It was really surreal, Per-
gande said. Im a big fan of the
show, and I was starstruck.
Pergande graduated from
the University in 2006 with
degrees in Spanish and Inter-
national Studies. She lived in
Margaret Amini Scholarship
Hall and was a member of the
honors program. She currently
lives in Bay City, Mich.
Jennifer Torline
Hutchinson
KANSASCITIES
What Was your favorite thing about groWing up in hutchinson?

Hutchinson Lawrence
Corey Ellis
Hutchinson freshman
The State Fair and always hav-
ing school of on Wednesdays for
Ride-O-Rama!
Holly Leiker
Hutchinson junior
I really liked how I went to
school with the same people
from elementary to high school.
I also liked the high school
sporting events. They were a lot
of fun.
Ezekiel Kunze
Hutchinson freshman
Dragging Main Street in my
car, racing with my friends.
Grant McCormick
Hutchinson freshman
The Cosmosphere, because
its a fun and exciting adventure!
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BY LAUREN HENDRICK
lhendrick@kansan.com
The basic definition of por-
nography, according to Merriam-
Webster, is any material depicting
erotic behavior intended to cause
sexual excitement. But for profes-
sor Robert Jensen, the definition
of pornography includes a few
more adjectives.
The content of contemporary
pornography is relentlessly sexist
and overtly racist, Jensen said.
In his book, Getting Off:
Pornography and the End of
Masculinity, Jensen discusses
what he describes as a porn-sat-
urated society that greatly influ-
ences how men and women are
socialized.
Jensen, associate professor of
journalism at the University of
Texas, will speak at 6:30 p.m. in
the Big 12 Room at the Kansas
Union. His lecture, Pornography
and the End of Masculinity,
will be followed by a documen-
tary screening of The Price of
Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality
and Relationships.
Pooya Naderi, graduate student
in the department of sociology,
said Jensen was the first graduate
student-sponsored lecture for the
department. Naderi said Jensens
talk was the beginning of what he
hoped would become a series of
lectures.
One of the graduate students
goals in the department was to
invite speakers who were critical
of society because it was important
for engaging in academic scholar-
ship, Naderi said.
Naderi thought Jensen was
a good choice to speak at the
University of Kansas because he
wasnt afraid to discuss controver-
sial things.
Jensen said he had dedicated 20
years to anti-pornography activ-
ism and research.
There tends to be a lot of porn
in this world and a large amount
of college-aged men consume it,
Jensen said.
One of his many concerns about
pornographys influence on society
is the way it presents relationships
and gender equality.
If porn was presenting healthy
relationships and gender equality,
Jensen said, maybe there wouldnt
be a reason to care.
Jensen said pornography was
affecting the quality of relation-
ships for both men and women.
Men should care because this
is profoundly unhealthy, Jensen
said.
Jensen said he visited with
young men who told him they
could no longer enjoy sexual inter-
action with their partners the way
they did before porn.
Christian Crandall, professor
of social psychology, said people
tended to create expectations
about how certain people should
look depending on the types of
media they were exposed to. He
said fashion magazines often gave
women visual representations
about how the average woman
should look and the same was
true for pornographic material.
If people are exposed to enough
pornography, they begin to believe
their sex lives should mirror those
in porn.
According to the Lighted Candle
Society, a society of concerned
citizens dedicated to the eradica-
tion of pornography, 67 percent
of young men and 49 percent of
young women thought viewing
pornography was acceptable. The
study was printed in a 2008 edi-
tion of the Journal of Adolescent
Research.
For women, I hope the argu-
ment I present helps them under-
stand their discomfort with por-
nography, Jensen said.
He said he hoped his lecture
would also point out the under-
lying hierarchical relationships
between genders and between
races.
Edited by Heather Melanson
TonighTs
lecTure
Who: Robert Jensen,
associate professor of
journalism from the Uni-
versity of Texas
WhaT: Jensen will pres-
ent his lecture, Pornog-
raphy and the End of
Masculinity
When: 6:30 p.m.
Where: In the Big 12
Room at the Kansas Union
cosT: Free
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY
agarry@kansan.com
As the search for Chancellor
Robert Hemenways replacement
continues, the departure of Provost
Richard Lariviere leaves another
vacant spot in the Universitys
administration to be filled.
Administrators and stu-
dent leaders said students were
unlikely to feel
any direct effect
but should take
a strong inter-
est in new can-
didates for the
positions.
Alex Rock,
Lawrence senior
and coordi-
nator of the
Dole Institute Student Advisory
Committee, said students gener-
ally didnt realize the importance
of the chancellors and provosts
jobs because of a lack of face-
to-face contact. But, he said, stu-
dents should still pay attention to
and care about the leaders of the
University.
Students take it for granted
what these positions do, but the
chancellor and provost dictate the
culture and environment of the
whole school, Rock said.
The top administration open-
ings mean more of the weight of
running the University will fall to
the six vice provosts, officials said.
Steve Warren, vice provost for
research and graduate studies,
said the vice provosts would feel
the effects of Lariviere leaving to
become president of the University
of Oregon.
But, Warren said, they were
well-equipped to keep everything
running smoothly. Warren said
the increased workload would
not continue to trickle down the
administration.
Were not leaderless or rud-
derless just yet, Warren said.
You can rest assured that every-
thing will be fine.
The chancellor search commit-
tee has set the end of June as the
deadline for announcing a finalist
candidate. Though the nomina-
tions are still being taken and no
stand-out candidates have been
selected, Drue
Jennings, the
chairman of the
search commit-
tee, said it was on
track to keep the
deadline.
No one wants
the University to
endure any kind
of vacuum,
Jennings said.
Jennings said once the chan-
cellor search committee made
their selection, the new chan-
cellor would then pick the new
provost.
Adam McGonigle, Wichita
junior, student body president and
member of the chancellor search
committee, said students were tak-
ing a strong interest in the chancel-
lor search and many had contacted
him asking how they could make a
difference.
The administration has a tre-
mendous impact on students
they shape the mission and the
vision of the University and set the
goals, McGonigle said.
McGonigle said he hoped stu-
dents were also involved in the
selection of the new provost and he
planned to speak with Chancellor
Hemenway to try to ensure that it
would happen.
Rock said he would like to see
a younger chancellor or provost,
making more of an effort to reach
out to students beyond those who
are heavily involved.
Those students who cant get
involved because they have to
work the part-time jobs to pay
for school, those are the stu-
dents who need to be heard even
more, Rock said. Those are the
students who need more help,
and thats something were going
to see more of.
Paul van Donkelaar, chairman
of the president search commit-
tee at the University of Oregon,
said the ability to communicate
effectively with legislators and
grant writers in order to better
provide resources for students was
a crucial quality in a good uni-
versity administrator. He said it
is also why students should care
about the selection process.
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adminisTraTion lecTure
Changes in KU leadership
unlikely to afect students
Picking apart pornography
Professor will speak tonight about how porn affects relationships
INtERNAtIoNAL
Japanese prime minister
criticized for oral gafes
TOKYO Reading Japanese
isnt easy even for the Japa-
nese.
Take Prime Minister Taro Aso.
Hes made so many public blun-
ders that an opposition lawmaker
tried to give him a reading test
during a televised session of
parliament.
The Japanese leader bungled
the word for frequent, calling
Japan-China exchanges cumber-
some instead. Another time, he
misread the word toshu (follow),
saying fushu or stench and
sounded as if he were saying
government policy stinks.
While the media and Asos polit-
ical rivals have been quick to heap
ridicule, many Japanese have seen
a bit more of themselves in Asos
goofs than they would like to
admit. Since his missteps, books
designed to improve reading abil-
ity have become all the rage.
Asos nemesis is his mother
tongues notoriously tricky
mishmash of Chinese characters
and its two sets of indigenous
syllabaries.
Just reading the newspaper
requires knowledge of about
2,000 characters. Another 50,000
are less common but useful to
recognize.
Literacy-boosting books
are selling briskly. One titled,
Chinese Characters that Look
Readable but are Easily Misread,
released a year ago, has sold
more than 800,000 copies
most of them since Asos mistakes
frst got national attention in
November, said Yukiko Sakita, a
spokeswoman for Futami Shobo
Publishing Co.
We owe a lot to Prime Minister
Aso, she said. Many people dont
want to make mistakes like his.
The book has held the top spot
in the weekly best-seller rank-
ings compiled by Japans largest
distributor, Tohan Co., since the
beginning of this year, ahead of
The Speeches of Barack Obama,
which ranked second for weeks
before falling to 17th this week.
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NEWS 4A thursday, march 5, 2009
BY DAVID UGARTE
dugarte@kansan.com
A new series of posters featur-
ing men who defne masculin-
ity will join the
Women of Dis-
tinction calen-
dars this coming
April. Te proj-
ect, called Men
of Merit, is meant
to recognize male
students, faculty
and staf who are
role models for
other males in the
University.
Rick Lofgren, Chicago second-
year graduate student and mem-
ber of the Men of Merit project,
said the posters would help show
masculinity in an appropriate
light.
It is important to recognize
these men to show KUs current
and future male population that
the current defnition of what it
means to be male may not neces-
sarily be the norm, Lofgren said.
Te idea for Men of Merit
came to Gary Green, San Anto-
nio senior, when he was looking
at the Women of Distinction cal-
endar. He thought there should
be something similar for men at
the University.
Te Athletics Department and
Emily Taylor Womens Resource
Center combined eforts to de-
velop Greens idea into a series
of posters featuring men at the
University.
Green is part of the Men of
Merit nomination committee,
which looks for men who chal-
lenge norms, take action and have
a positive efect on the University
or the community.
I believe there are many men
here at KU who are very deserv-
ing of this honor, Lofgren said.
A study done by the Popula-
tion Reference Bureau indicates
there have been lower rates of
enrollment at colleges and uni-
versities among males since 1991.
Males also tend to hold far fewer
leadership roles
than women at the
college level.
Lofgren said
he was passionate
about the Men of
Merit project be-
cause he had been
studying male de-
velopment and was
well-versed in is-
sues regarding the
college male. He said the Men of
Merit program was a great start
to creating programs that sought
to engage male students at the
University.
Lofgren said students could
feel pride and a connection with
the Men of Merit program be-
cause they had the opportunity
to nominate a man they felt was
qualifed or could be nominated
themselves.
Nominations for
the Men of Merit
program are due
March 13. Ryan
Campbell, Olathe
senior and member
of the nomination
committee, said se-
lections would be
made by late March
and the release date
for the posters was April 15.
Te project is the work of the
Women and Mens Poster Series,
a new student group also work-
ing on the Women of Distinction
calendar.
Campbell said the posters were
meant to show a whole spectrum
of male existence on campus.
Te nomination committee has
a loose rubric to guide its selec-
tions so all nominees are viewed
through the same lens, Campbell
said.
He said men were redefning
masculinity in so many diferent
ways that the committee found it
difcult to adhere to a strict set
of guidelines.
Masculinity is so much larger
than the macho image presented
by society, Campbell said. Mas-
culinity is about integrity, ac-
complishment and compassion.
Milton Wendland, Lawrence
doctoral student, said when he
received an e-mail asking him
to be part of the efort to put the
program together, he jumped at
the chance.
Wendland said he thought he
was included because of his af-
fliation with the department of
women, gender and sexuality
studies and because his teaching
and research interests centered
on gender and sexuality.
I want my father and friends
and my sons to know that being
a man is about being fully hu-
man, striving to be the best per-
son they can be,
Wendland said.
And its impor-
tant for women
to see that too.
We n d l a n d
said there was
a cultural trend
to blame men
for most of the
atrocities and
violence in so-
ciety, and there were a lot of re-
strictions placed on men.
Restricting yourself to one
idea of what a man is limits
yourself, limits your relation-
ships, Wendland said. Men of
Merit is a way for KU students to
be thinking about how they will
live their lives now and in the
future.
Edited by Carly Halvorson
CAMPUS
Posters to debut in April
Men of Merit program to honor men who exemplify masculinity
Masculinity is so
much larger than the
macho image
presented by society .
ryan campbell
Olathe senior
I want my father and
friends and my sons
to know that being a
man is about being
fully human.
miltOn wendland
doctoral student
erencing that Portes suspension
would prevent him from taking part
in the hearings. Im confident that
everything will go well and we will
have a successful allocation, but he
will be missed.
Porte was suspended after he
released a memo to The University
Daily Kansan detailing McGonigles
recommendations regarding stu-
dent fee adjustments. In the memo
McGonigle recommended the fee
review subcommittee eliminate the
campus media and safety fees while
allowing for increases to the Senate
Activity Fee to finance minimal
salary increases for senators. The
campus media fee provides money
to The University Daily Kansan,
KUJH, KJHK, Kiosk Magazine,
KUpedia and KU Filmworks.
McGonigle asked that the memo be
kept confidential.
Personally, I feel like this infor-
mation was too important to the
student body to let it be confiden-
tial, Porte said.
According to Student Senate
Rules and Regulations, the student
body president has the power to
suspend or remove from office any
member of the executive staff if they
do not meet the job description set
by the Senate. However, McGonigle
would not comment on the rea-
sons for the suspension because
University regulations prohibit the
discussion of personnel matters.
Porte said he was initially given
the opportunity to write a letter of
apology to the Senate in exchange for
keeping his job. He said McGonigle
did not think the letter was up
to his standards, even after several
edits had been made, and upheld
the decision to suspend Porte. Porte
can appeal the suspension up to one
week after the action.
Editedby Chris Horn
BY ALAN ZIBEL
associated press
WASHINGTON Te Obama
administrations housing plan is in-
tended to help 9 million struggling
homeowners avoid foreclosure,
but it leaves out tens of thousands
of borrowers in the most battered
housing markets who wont qualify
because their homes have lost too
much value.
Te program detailed Wednes-
day ofers refnanced mortgages or
modifed loans with lower monthly
payments. Yet its refnancing plan
is limited to borrowers who owe up
to 5 percent more than their homes
current value. Loan modifcations,
supported by $75 billion in federal
funding, are unlikely for severely
underwater borrowers.
In the California cities of Stockton,
Modesto and Merced, more than one
out of every 10 homeowners with a
mortgage wont qualify for any help
because they owe more than 50 per-
cent more than their houses current
value, according to data from real-
estate Web site Zillow.com.
Te plan doesnt help homeown-
ers in states that are at the epicenter
of the housing debacle, said Greg
McBride, a senior fnancial analyst
at Bankrate.com.
Te ineligible households are
concentrated in California, Florida,
Nevada and Arizona, but can also
be found in struggling cities such
as Detroit and Grand Rapids, Mich.
Even houses in the outlying suburbs
of the nations capital, where the
economy is relatively healthy, have
dropped substantially in value.
For a homeowner who borrowed
$380,000 and now has a house worth
$270,000, I just dont know what
you do with that, said Jared Martin,
a mortgage broker in Bethesda, Md.
Government ofcials acknowl-
edge that the initiatives are only a
partial fx for a sweeping problem
that has helped plunge the U.S.
economy into the worst recession in
decades.
Tis is not going to save every
persons home, said Robert Gibbs,
the White House press secretary.
Te plan is not intended to ... aug-
ment somebodys loan for a house
that they couldnt aford under any
economic situation, good or bad.
Of the nearly 52 million U.S. ho-
meowners with a mortgage, almost
14 million, or nearly 27 percent,
owe more on their mortgage than
their house is now worth, according
to Moodys Economy.com. Nearly
half of all borrowers in Nevada were
under water on their home loans
as of December, according to First
American CoreLogic.
In troubled Stockton, nearly one
in fve borrowers owe more than 50
percent above what their home is
now worth, making it unlikely that
they will qualify for any aid.
Tough banks such as JPMorgan
Chase and Wells Fargo & Co. is-
sued statements praising the plan,
there was also skepticism that banks
would be willing to participate.
Ive just seen so many of the
programs not work, said Pava Ley-
rer, president of Heritage National
Mortgage in Randville, Mich. It
gets borrowers hopes up. Tey call
and call for these programs and we
cant get anybody to do them.
Te program has two parts: one
to work with lenders to modify the
loan terms for up to 4 million hom-
eowners, the second to refnance up
to 5 million homeowners into more
afordable fxed-rate loans.
For the modifcation program,
which runs through 2012, borrowers
who are eligible will have to provide
their most recent tax return and two
pay stubs, as well as an afdavit of
fnancial hardship to qualify.
In the afdavit, applicants will
have to cite the reasons behind their
fnancial woes, such as job loss or
a drop in income. Te government
will then take steps to verify the in-
formation.
Borrowers are only allowed to
have their loans modifed once, and
the program applies for loans made
on Jan. 1, 2009, or earlier. Mortgages
for single-family properties that are
worth more than $729,750 are ex-
cluded.
NAtioN
Housing plan intended to help 9M
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifes on Capitol Hill inWashington onWednesday before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on
President Barack Obamas fscal 2010 federal budget. The administrations housing plan is intended help struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure.
Homeowners whose houses have lost too much value excluded
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BY MICHELLE SPREHE
msprehe@kansan.com
Each week, Watkins Memorial
Health Center sees about four
patients with back pain, but that
number increases in the weeks
before midterms and finals.
How students carry their back-
packs is the biggest concern, Patty
Quinlan, nursing supervisor, said.
Their class assignments have
increased and they have more
studies theyre working on so
their backpack is getting heavier,
Quinlan said.
She said college students
back pain could be attributed to
improper backpack positioning,
poor posture and faulty mattress-
es.
Emily Richardson, Derby
junior, frequently has intense back
pain that started five years ago.
Richardson, who is 5 feet 4 inches
tall and weighs 100 pounds, has
a hard time handling the weight
of multiple books and other class
necessities in her backpack.
Its been getting worse lately,
Richardson said. The more I walk
and the heavier my backpack is, it
makes the pain more intense.
Karen Loudon, physical thera-
pist at Watkins, said using both
straps on a backpack and putting
heavier objects closest to the back
could help relieve the strain put
on muscles.
You need to keep the backpack
weight about 15 percent or less of
your body weight, Loudon said.
Even if students dont carry a
backpack or bag, poor posture can
still cause back pain.
Its easier to keep muscles in
shape now than to retrain mus-
cles back to their original pur-
pose, Loudon said. The more
years of getting into that poor
posture and the stiffer they get,
its just harder to change that
position.
Loudon said another problem
occurred when people popped
their own backs because it could
lead to hypermobile joints, or
joints that are too loose.
When a joint is hypermobile,
there is more stress put on the
joint and its not as stable as
usual, Loudon said.
It can become a vicious
cycle because when you pop
it, the more you do it, the more
you feel like you have to do
it, Loudon said. We would
recommend that people not do
that on a regular basis.
Loudon said she had seen
students who were already in a
bad fixed posture.
Because of her back pain,
Richardson said she could only
study in one place for an hour
before the pain became so bad
that she had to move to a differ-
ent place.
I dont really feel like I have a
comfortable place to sit to study,
Richardson said. When I have to
sit down and do a lot of work its
not very fun for my back.
Richardson usually takes aspi-
rin or ibuprofen to help alleviate
her pain but last summer she saw
a chiropractor once a week or
every two weeks.
Students who visit Watkins for
back pain are educated on proper
positions for sitting and lifting.
Sometimes, a physician will rec-
ommend that a student see one
of the three physical therapists at
Watkins.
Quinlan said if students were
unable to see a physician, yoga
could help. And for students who
smoke, quitting could also lessen
pain, she added.
If you keep your aerobic levels
up high then youre going to have
a better oxygenation of your tis-
sues which is going to help your
spine, Loudon said. But if youre
a smoker, all the chemicals cre-
ate a quicker degenerative process
that goes on in the spine.
Edited by Melissa Johnson
Midterms can really hurt
good bad
good bad
sitting posture
standing posture
Graphic Credit: H. Duane Saunders MS, PT
Nurses say heavy backpacks, bad posture may cause back pains
Sudanese leader under fre
BY MIKE CORDER
Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands
The president of Sudan became
a wanted man Wednesday when
the International Criminal Court
charged him with war crimes and
crimes against humanity in Darfur
its first action against a sitting
head of state and one that could set
the stage for more world leaders to
be indicted.
President Omar al-Bashirs gov-
ernment retaliated by expelling 10
humanitarian groups from Darfur
and seizing their assets, threaten-
ing lifesaving operations, a U.N.
spokeswoman said.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassa-
dor to the United Nations, said
the United States supported the
courts action to hold accountable
those who are responsible for the
heinous crimes in Darfur. Up to
300,000 people have died and 2.7
million have fled their homes in
the region.
U.N. officials in Sudan will
continue to deal with al-Bashir
because he remains the president
of the country, U.N. spokeswoman
Michele Montas said in New York.
In the Sudanese capital of
Khartoum, the government
denounced the warrant as part
of a Western conspiracy aimed
at destabilizing the vast oil-rich
nation south of Egypt. There will
be no recognition of our deal-
ing with the white mans court,
which has no mandate in Sudan
or against any of its people, the
Information Ministry said.
Several thousand people waving
pictures of al-Bashir and denounc-
ing the court turned out in a rally
in Khartoum. Some waved posters
of chief prosecutor Luis Moreno
Ocampos face with pig ears super-
imposed to chants of, Cowardly
pig, you will not get to the Sudan.
Al-Bashir, who denies the accu-
sations, drove through the capital
after the warrant was announced,
waving at crowds. Security was
tightened at many embassies, and
some diplomats and aid workers
stayed home amid fears of retalia-
tion against Westerners.
The decision by the court lays
the groundwork for potential
indictments of other heads of state
who have been mentioned as pos-
sible targets of war crimes investi-
gations, including leaders of other
African nations and Israel.
Head of state immunity no lon-
ger is a bar to prosecuting heads
of state who commit war crimes
and crimes against humanity dur-
ing their time in office, said David
Crane, an international law pro-
fessor at Syracuse University and
former prosecutor of the Sierra
Leone tribunal that indicted
exiled Liberian President Charles
Taylor and put him on trial in The
Hague. After he left office, Serbian
President Slobodan Milosevic was
indicted by the tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia.
The Security Council adopt-
ed a resolution ordering the
International Criminal Court to
investigate Darfur in 2005, leading
to the charges against al-Bashir
even though Sudan does not recog-
nize the courts jurisdiction.
ICC spokeswoman Laurence
Blairon said that in issuing the
warrant for the arrest of al-Bashir
for war crimes and crimes against
humanity, the three-judge panel
said he is suspected of responsi-
bility for intentionally directing
attacks against an important part
of the civilian population of Darfur,
Sudan, murdering, exterminat-
ing, raping, torturing and forcibly
transferring large numbers of civil-
ians, and pillaging their property.
But the judges said there was
insufficient evidence to support
charges of genocide.
If al-Bashir is brought to trial and
prosecuted, he faces a maximum
sentence of life imprisonment.
African and Arab nations fear
the warrant will destabilize the
whole region, bring even more
conflict in Darfur, and threaten
the fragile peace deal that ended
decades of civil war between north-
ern and southern Sudan. China,
which buys two-thirds of Sudans
oil, supports the African and Arab
positions.
Some African nations reportedly
threatened to pull out of the court
in retaliation for a warrant. Thirty
African countries are among the
courts 108 member states.
Al-Bashir refuses to deal with
the court, and there is no interna-
tional mechanism to arrest him.
The main tool the court has is
diplomatic pressure for countries
to hand over suspects.
health international
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir attends a graduation ceremony Wednesday at an air force academy near Khartoum, Sudan. Sudan
denounced an international tribunal that issued an arrest warrant against its president Wednesday on charges of war crimes and crimes against
humanity, calling it awhite mans courtthat aims to destabilize the country.
StatE
Kansas house passes two
bills restricting abortion
TOPEKA The House passed
two bills Wednesday that would
impose new restrictions on
doctors performing late-term
abortions. Both bills went to the
Senate.
One bill, approved 82-40, re-
quires doctors to provide state
health ofcials with detailed
medical reasons for performing
a late-term abortion. The other
bill, which passed 85-37, re-
quires doctors using ultrasound
or monitoring fetal heartbeats
to ofer women a chance to
view the information at least 30
minutes before an abortion.
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10 is the easiest day, 0 the
most challenging.
Charlie Hoogner
Jefrey Baldridge
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Nick McMullen
aries (march 21-april 19)
today is a 7
Snuggle into your private
space and let your mind
wander. Do not do this while
driving a car or operating ma-
chinery. Youre about to have a
very proftable idea.
taurus (april 20-may 20)
today is a 7
Pursue a topic that interests
you. Get videos, books and
private lessons, if you can. You
always feel better when you
know whats going on, in as
many ways as possible.
gemini (may 21-June 21)
today is a 7
Do whats necessary to keep
those paychecks coming
in. Dont stir up much of a
controversy, though, if you
can avoid it. Ofer solutions,
not problems. Make it easy on
yourself.
cancer (June 22-July 22)
today is a 7
Youve been thinking about a
new course of action for quite
a long time. You were wise to
wait and contemplate conse-
quences. Conditions are good
today and tomorrow.
leo (July 23-aug. 22)
today is a 6
Bills are coming due and you
might be a little short. Can
you fnd anything to sell? The
free market is alive and well,
although sometimes under the
radar. Participate.
Virgo (aug. 23-sept. 22)
today is a 7
Youre almost fnished with the
most confusing part. Gather
with a few of your best friends
to commiserate and celebrate.
Even if you didnt win big, you
did make it this far.
libra (sept. 23-oct. 22)
today is a 6
Keep your wits about you;
things are changing fast. Youre
in unfamiliar territory, but
youre doing fne. Concentrate
on providing whatever is
required.
scorpio (oct. 23-nov. 21)
today is an 8
You and your true love dont
need to talk about every little
thing. A lot of your commu-
nication is nonverbal. Hugs,
for example, are an excellent
way of getting your meaning
across.
sagittarius (nov. 22-dec. 21)
today is a 6
You can generate more income
from the privacy of your own
home. Use it to pay of bills and
build up your savings account.
Get yourself fnancially secure
so you can relax a bit.
capricorn (dec. 22-Jan. 19)
today is a 7
Your attention will be dis-
tracted soon, by an interesting
person. Opposites do attract,
as you may have noticed. Learn
from a person who has a slight-
ly diferent point of view.
aquarius (Jan. 20-feb. 18)
today is an 8
You and your sweetheart dont
have to share the same dream,
but it sure will help if each of
you supports the other. If your
dreams match, so much the
better.
pisces (feb. 19-march 20)
today is a 7
A home-cooked dinner would
be your best option for romance
later tonight. Keep costs down
and ambiance high. Candles, for
instance, save electricity. Be sure
to invite a person who likes this
sort of thing.
Television
Producers claim Bachelor
decision was unscripted
NEW YORK Was Jason
Mesnicks change of heart on The
Bachelor staged for the cameras
to capture big ratings? Not so,
according to the shows executive
producer.
Mike Fleiss said Wednesday
that producers of the ABC dating
show did not create the outcome
of Mondays season fnale that
prompted viewer outrage when
Mesnick dumped his frst choice
for the runner-up and was the
highest rated show in its time
slot, 8-10 p.m. EST, with 15.45 mil-
lion viewers.
Mesnick, a 32-year-old single
dad from Seattle, proposed to
Melissa Rycroft in New Zealand.
But in the subsequent After the
Final Rose special, taped six
weeks later, he dumped Rycroft
because he still had feelings for
runner-up Molly Malaney, after
weeks of no contact. He and
Malaney are now dating.
Fleiss said producers have
zero infuence in selecting the
woman who wins the fnal rose.
The great thing about un-
scripted television is that its un-
predictable, and thats what this
was, he said of Mesnicks decision
to let Rycroft go and rekindle his
romance with Malaney. It caught
us of guard. It caught the viewers
of guard.
Mesnick defended his actions
in a post-fnale appearance on
Jimmy Kimmels talk show, say-
ing his relationship with Rycroft
went sour when the cameras
stopped rolling.
Mesnick said he had to break
up with Rycroft on camera
because of his contract with the
show.
There was no contractual ob-
ligation, Fleiss countered. You
can check the contract. ... How
would you put that in a contract
anyway? Like, everything you do
in your life must be shown on
ABC. Its impossible.
Associated Press
Television
Law & Order star Hargitay
hospitalized for lung
NEW YORK Emmy win-
ner Mariska Hargitay is in the
hospital.
The star of NBCs Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit was
hospitalized on Wednesday after
feeling discomfort from a partially
collapsed lung. She is undergoing
tests.
Hargitay has been ailing since
at least mid-January, when
producers announced that she
had a partially collapsed lung. Her
spokeswoman, Leslie Sloane, said
the actress expects to be feeling
better soon and that production
of the show will not be afected.
Hargitay, 45, won an Emmy
last year for her role as Detective
Olivia Benson on Law & Order:
SVU.
Associated Press
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EconoLodge
O
n Feb. 20, the Kansas
Senate approved a bill
that would raise the
states minimum wage from its
current level of $2.65 to the fed-
eral rate of $7.25 per hour. The
legislation is pending
approval in the House,
where it will likely be
passed, as it should be.
This is a positive devel-
opment for the state of
Kansas, but the effect
of this law will be more symbolic
than anything else. We believe that
the state government needs to go
further and put in place a mini-
mum wage that is connected to the
annual increases in cost of living,
a policy that is more economically
efficient and provides more ben-
efits to workers than the current
trend of large and intermittent
jumps in the minimum wage.
At a paltry $2.65 per hour, the
states current minimum wage is
the lowest in the nation, although
five states have no minimum wage.
The new legislation would raise it
to federal levels in January of 2010.
According to the U.S. Department
of Labor, in 2007, the last year on
record, there were 20,000 Kansans
working below the federal mini-
mum wage. Exempted workers
include tipped employees, employ-
ees of small farms, seasonal work-
ers, teenagers, who can be paid
$4.25 per hour for the first 90 days
of work, and full-time students,
who can be paid 85 percent of the
minimum wage. The only employ-
ees covered by the state but not
the federal law are those who work
for firms with less than $500,000
in annual revenue
that dont engage in
interstate commerce.
Ultimately, this is a
very small number of
people.
Everyone who is
covered by the state minimum
wage is under the federal law
anyway, said Sen. Dick Kelsey
(R-Goddard). The practical thing
to do is adjust the state law so that
we dont get criticized for some-
thing that doesnt matter.
The law passed the Kansas
Senate with the support of many
Republicans, like Kelsey, who are
willing to support the increase to
avoid future criticism. The law will
likely pass the House for the same
reason.
But that belies the symbolic
value of this bill. It sends a mes-
sage to the people of the state
of Kansas that we have as much
respect for their work as the federal
government, said Sen. Laura Kelly
(D-Topeka).
This largely symbolic increase,
however, does not go far enough.
We argue that Kansas should adopt
a policy that would index the mini-
mum wage to the cost of living,
something that many other states,
including Florida, Missouri and
Montana, have already done. Such
a change would benefit workers
because it prevents de facto cuts
in income that occur when the flat
minimum wage rate is eaten up by
inflation. Furthermore, the large
jumps in the minimum wage man-
dated by the federal government
every decade or so are more costly
to employers than a steady, predict-
able increase.
This incremental increase is less
costly than large jumps in the min-
imum wage, said Ron Caldwell, a
professor of labor economics at the
University.
The increase in the state mini-
mum wage will have a largely sym-
bolic impact, but it is nevertheless
an important step in the right
direction for the state of Kansas.
DanThompsonfor
The KansanEditorial Board
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ast year, Gov. Kathleen
Sebelius gave the
Democratic response to
President Bushs State of the
Union address. The year before
that, the respondent was Virginia
Gov. Tim Kaine. Neither gover-
nors response was considered
compelling. This year was the
Republicans turn to deliver a
response. They chose Louisiana
Gov. Bobby Jindal. He did not
fare any better.
Jindals speech was criticized as
stilted and dull. Many of his sup-
porters rushed to his defense by
saying he is more in his element
when speaking live and not in
front of a teleprompter. Several
political analysts have raised
the question about what effect
his poor presentation following
President Obamas speech might
have on his rumored aspirations
for higher national recognition.
Im just going to say outright
that I dont think a mediocre
response to a presidential address
is going to kill Jindals possible
aspirations to greater national
prominence. Hes in his early 30s,
so he has a lot of time to make
up for one bad night. And the
kind of attention hes garnered
since being elected governor of
Louisiana isnt going to dissipate
that easily.
What is concerning is the brief
period of panic that arose when
Jindal didnt deliver some kind
of masterful rebuke to President
Obamas Address to Congress.
It brought to light a serious
problem with all the momentum
Jindal has gained since becom-
ing governor. As Republicans
watched Barack Obama quickly
rise to prominence in the
Democratic Party, they obvi-
ously saw that it would behoove
them to have an equivalent, and
Bobby Jindal appeared to be their
answer. He is young, he is (usu-
ally) a good public speaker, and
he may very well have the abil-
ity to galvanize the Republican
Party the same way Obama did
to the Democrats. He just may be
able to sell his beliefs as exciting,
as the wave of the future, even
though they are essentially in line
with the party, much in the way
Obama did.
Jindals less-than-stellar perfor-
mance put cracks in that theory.
The GOP, desperate to repair the
damage done to its image by the
legacy of the Bush administra-
tion, has placed much of its hope
in Bobby Jindal. A straw poll
taken at a recent convention of
the Conservative Political Action
Committee, as reported by CNN,
had Jindal coming in a close sec-
ond to Mitt Romney as the choice
for GOP presidential candidate in
2012. Jindal certainly has time to
improve his reputation.
If he cant, however, the GOP
is in trouble. It has hedged its
bets on a popularly-anointed
golden child without knowing
much about his actual leader-
ship style, or whether he can
translate his success in Louisiana
to a national level. I understand
the GOPs optimism, after see-
ing somebody from the rival
party pull off essentially the same
thing, but Obamas popularity
before he was the Democratic
candidate was far more organic
than Jindals. He certainly had
help gaining national attention
(you arent a keynote speaker at
your partys national convention
because youre a nice guy), but it
took time for him to be heralded
as the face of the Democratic
Pary. The Republicans seem to be
forcing the mantle on Jindal too
hastily, which will only hurt them
in the long run
Cohen is a Topeka senior in
political science.
LeTTer TO THe ediTOr
Kansans entitled to know
whats foating in their milk
Lets pay students
to recycle textbooks
Twice every school year, KU
students bring thousands of
textbooks to the KU Bookstore
or Jayhawk Bookstore hoping
to sell them back for money.
The students receive just a
fraction of what they originally
purchased the book for just four
months ago, or they arent able
to resell it at all. Left with a book
they have no use for, more often
than not they toss it in the
nearest garbage can. Garbage
can not recycling bin. Yes,
there are recycling bins pres-
ent at both of the mentioned
bookstores but most students
either dont see them or simply
dont care.
Students not only throw
out these useless books but
also hang onto ones that the
bookstore ofers to buy back at
minuscule price, hoping to get
a better ofer elsewhere. But
these books will also end up in a
garbage can after the students
realize they will be unable to sell
them back anywhere.
This is an interesting practice
for a University that stresses
environmental-friendly actions
and a country in which you cant
go a full day without hear-
ing the phrase going green.
Wouldnt it be logical to ofer a
small amount for these out-of-
date books to get them out of
garbage cans and into recycling
bins?
Its frustrating to hear con-
stant harping on the environ-
ment when small changes
such as this cannot be made.
The University needs to open
its eyes and realize how many
trees it could save by ofering
a few bucks for textbooks and
recycling them. True, students
should take the initiative and
recycle themselves, but this
isnt realistic. College students
are lazy. Why take a minute to
recycle a textbook when you
could chug a beer, watch more
TV or add onto your nap? Yes,
its a shame, but its the truth
and this University along with
others across the nation arent
doing anything to change it.
AndrewDoughty is a sophomore
fromSt. Paul, Minn.
n n n
I wake up and watch Emeril.
Is that weird?
n n n
So, I just walked outside to go
to class and saw my neighbors
getting a squirrel. They plan to
eat it later. Weird.
n n n
OK, just because I wear a
beanie with none of my hair
showing doesnt mean I have
cancer. Stop staring.
n n n
Dear girl on the bus. You said
the word like 54 times from
when I started counting.
Thats, like, really annoying.
n n n
Do you miss the commercials
from last year? The Pizza Street
commercial, or the one that
started out: Do you ever feel
like Kansas is being
laughed at?
n n n
To the guy chomping his gum
loud enough for people in
China to hear, dont EVER sit by
me in Econ 104 again or I will
punch you in the jaw and steal
the rest of your un-chewed
gum.
n n n
I love how in the GSP cafeteria
girls stare each other down.
Like, shit guys, its a bufet, Im
not going to eat all the pizza.
Like youre going to eat it
anyway.
n n n
When someone has a cold,
do you have to say bless you
every time they sneeze?
n n n
To all my fellow males who
use bathrooms. Why dont you
fush when youre done? Do
you enjoy the smell of stale
piss for some reason?
n n n
Seeing the Kansas-Missouri
replay four times on
SportsCenter this morning
made me kind of hope that
there was somebody in
Missouri doing the same
thing.
n n n
There is a mobile hot tub
on Mass. Street that totally
trumps the party bus.
n n n
I deleted 10 friends on
Facebook for a free Whopper.
It was worth it.
n n n
The forecast for the week is
making me smile all day.
n n n
Speaking of periods, last
week my girlfriend made me
go buy her tampons so that
she wouldnt have to miss
the game. This relationship is
getting a little one-sided.
n n n
I think Ive discovered the
secret to juggling multiple
girlfriends.
n n n
Building an anatomically
correct snowman is not a
crime.
n n n
pOLiTics
W
hats in a label? Milk
with or without addi-
tive-free printed on
the carton is still the same milk,
right? At least thats what pro-
ponents of a bill being discussed
in the Kansas House Agriculture
Committee seem to think.
The bill, which has been
debated since November, strives
to outlaw labeling artificial
growth-hormone-free milk as
such. The proposal would protect
dairies that use controversial
substances such as bovine growth
hormone (BGH) to elevate milk
production while withholding
important information from con-
sumers.
Of course, theres a good rea-
son BGH-free milk producers
want to distinguish themselves
from their conventional counter-
parts.
According to the Center for
Food Safety, the majority of cows
treated with BGH suffer from
debilitating health problems such
as lameness, reproductive prob-
lems, and, most importantly, a 25
percent increase in udder infec-
tions. Diseased udders, the source
of your delicious unlabeled milk.
Mmm.
To treat the infections caused
by BGH, farmers have to pump
their cows full of additional anti-
biotics, residues of which end up
in the milk. This, of course, helps
further the problem of antibiotic
resistance among people.
Finally, BGH has been linked
to an elevation in the levels of
a hormone called insulin-like
growth factor-1. Studies have
shown that this hormone is
passed on to the consumer and
has been linked to increased
growth of breast, prostate and
colon cancer.
The FDA supports the use of
BGH, but essentially no one else
does. Since 2000, the European
Union has made sales of BGH
illegal, and it is not approved for
use in Canada, Japan, Australia or
New Zealand.
The reason BGH is still legal in
the United States is not because
we know its secret goodness.
More likely, it is because of the
incredible power of Monsanto,
the agricultural biotechnology
corporation that produces BGH
under the brand name Polsilac.
Monsanto has done quite
a job of pushing its products
and silencing opposing voices,
most notoriously in the case of
two journalists in Tampa, Fla.,
who lost their jobs after refus-
ing Monsantos request to alter a
negative report on BGH.
Heres the best part, though.
Despite several states being tar-
geted by Monsantos lapdog advo-
cacy group, AFACT, Kansas is the
only state that is still fighting over
this ridiculous policy. Everyone
else wants to know what is in
their milk. In other words,
Kansas is as backwards as you
think. (You can have that bumper
sticker slogan on the house.)
Whether because of consumer
advocacy groups fear-mongering,
as Monsanto claims, or from
genuine concern about the safety
of BGH, the USDA reports that
since the introduction of BGH,
organic milk has become the fast-
est growing segment of the organ-
ic market. Consumer demands
have prompted companies such as
Starbucks to use only BGH-free
dairy products.
Regardless of the controversy
about BGH, consumers have a
right to know as much as possible
about the contents of their food.
This is especially true in cases
where controversial practices and
products are used. By passing
this legislation, the Agriculture
Committee decides for Kansas
consumers whether to take a risk
on BGH milk and thwarts the
efforts of dairies that refuse to use
such a harmful product.
McConnell is a Dallas junior
in English.
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C
aleb Stromans job as
costume and makeup
designer began last April,
when he received the script for
How to Succeed. Since he fin-
ished his 20 costume designs
in early December, Stroman,
College Station, Texas, graduate
student, has been picking out fab-
rics, working with the University
Theatres costume shop to create
the costumes and making sure
each actors and actress costumes
fit just right, even down to the
hem length.
Its the little details that can
make Stromans job challeng-
ing.
You dont think about those
tiny details when youre putting
it on paper because everything
can work on paper and you have
no budget on paper, Stroman
said.
How to Succeed takes place
in 1961. Stroman said it was dif-
ficult finding business attire that
fit the time period, though he
ultimately based some of his cos-
tumes on research and the televi-
sion show Mad Men.
Although some of the suits in
the play are vintage, other suits
and dresses had to be made from
scratch or modified from other
costumes.
Stroman said he enjoyed
designing because he preferred
being backstage, and he liked
helping the actors and actresses
finalize their characters after they
put on their costumes.
They usually have their char-
acter fleshed out, Stroman said.
But once they put on that suit,
thats when theyre like Here it is.
Thats the tiny link that Ive been
missing.
Dress rehearsals and opening
night are the busiest time for
Stroman, who must help his crew
with wigs and makeup for the
actors while answering questions
about colors of nail polish, fixing
broken belts and making sure the
actors hair has the right 1960s
swoop.
Despite the hectic produc-
tion period, Stroman said he felt
rewarded when he saw the fin-
ished product at last weeks dress
rehearsals.
Id never seen all the cos-
tumes, let alone all onstage with
the brilliant lights and the set
with all the colors, he said. It
was exciting to see everything
together.
A
game board, cookie cut-
ters and the work of artist
Piet Mondrian all inspired
Tammy Keisers set design for How
to Succeed.
Keiser, Blue Spring, Mo., gradu-
ate student, wanted the set to have a
game-board feel because of the mu-
sicals story line. She painted the set
in a boxed style of painting, based
on Mondrian, an artist who worked
close to the musicals time period.
Tough Keiser did not use the
same bright colors that Mondrian
preferred, she said the duller shades
of blue, purple and gray that she
chose expressed the rigidness of the
1960s business world.
I wanted the prison look be-
cause the people are stuck here, she
said. I painted it fatly because its a
fat, Wonder-Bread world.
Keiser also included life-size
cookie-cutter fgures of people
within the set.
Using steel beams, she designed
a two-story high ofce building,
complete with cubicles.
Te cubicles were important
to keep the idea of the ofce go-
ing while all the other fun stuf was
going on in the front of it, Keiser
said.
Te University Teatres scene
shop built the set in less than three
weeks because the Crafon-Preyer
Teatre in Murphy Hall was being
used for other shows.
Keiser has received several
awards for her costume and scenic
designs, and she has been involved
in more than 100 shows in com-
munity theater programs and at the
University.
She said she enjoyed designing
for musicals such as How to Suc-
ceed because they arent limited by
reality.
Musicals always need to have
more fash and pizzazz and color
than real life because its not real so
you get to bump it up, Keiser said.
Teyre fun to do because you have
no reality to worry about.
A
nn Sitzman has spent more
than three years design-
ing lights for University
Theatre, and How to Succeed is
her fifth production.
After talking with
Leon, the director,
about her vision for
How to Succeed,
Sitzman, Prairie
Village senior,
began planning the
lighting based on
the costumes and
set design.
She spent more
than six weeks
hanging, focusing and choosing all
the colors for the lights.
Sitzman said her primary chal-
lenge was working lights into the
large set. She wrote the lighting cues
for the production based on the
script and developed plans for what
lights should turn on and in what
color.
During the course of the musical,
Sitzman has built in 175 lighting
cues and sequences, and she said she
was pleased with the final product.
Sitzman has won awards for her
lighting design,
including placing
second at Januarys
Kennedy Center
American College
Theater regional
festival for her light-
ing design in last
seasons The Bald
Soprano.
Sitzman said the
hardest part of being
the lighting designer was success-
fully collaborating with the other
designers to unify all aspects of the
show.
Its like manipulating the mood
in a way you dont usually get to,
Sitzman said. Im watching the
show and fixing it the way I want in
order to make it successful.
Life Behind the scenes
Designers fne-tune performance details
BY JENNIFER TORLINE
jtorline@kansan.com
Life behind the scenes of a
University Theatre production
begins months before the curtain
rises on opening night.
The backstage workers for
University Theatres produc-
tion of the 1960s satirical musi-
cal How to Succeed in Business
Without Really Trying are no
exception, and all too often they
go unnoticed.
The costume, scenic and light-
ing designers, among others, be-
gan meeting and planning with
show director Mechele Leon last
April, months before Fridays
opening night performance.
Its been a great collaborative
process, Leon, assistant profes-
sor of theatre and film, said. I
worked with them, and they
worked with me to develop the
plans.
Heres a look at three students
who work behind the scenes for
How to Succeed.
Edited by Andrew Wiebe
costume and makeup designer Lighting designer scenic designer
Tyler Waugh/KANSAN
Caleb Stroman, College Station, Texas graduate student, is the costume and makeup
designer of the spring musical Howto Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.Stroman de-
signed many costumes, including this dress that the character Helen wears during a scene where
fve girls have on the same dress.
Tyler Waugh/KANSAN
Ann Sitzman, Prarie Village Senior, is the lighting designer for the spring musical Howto
Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. This is the lighting of the songThe Secretary Is
Not a Toy.
Tyler Waugh/KANSAN
Tammy Keiser, Blue Spring, Mo., graduate student, is the scenic designer of the spring
musical Howto Suceed in Business Without Really Trying.Keiser said that many of her
cutouts were inspired by the TV showMad Men.
how to succeed in Business without reaLLy trying
what: University Theatre performs the satirical musical based on the 1960s
when: The musical opened on Friday and performances continue at 7:30 p.m. today and Friday, and
at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.
where: Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall
cost: $10 students, $17 KU faculty and staf, $18 adults. Tickets are on sale at all KU ticket ofces.
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the mood in a way
you dont normally
get to.
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against Texas Tech, check
out the Rewind on page 4B.
BY JAYSON JENKS
jjenks@kansan.com
Junior forward Danielle McCray
arrived at Kansas three years ago a
scorer the type of player expected
to lead a team.
In her frst two years, McCray
adequately flled Kansas needs,
ranking second on the team in
scoring as a freshman and leading
the Jayhawks in points per game
last season.
But only recently has McCray so
visibly fourished as Kansas go-to
ofensive player. Wednesday nights
35-point outburst, a career high, in
a 69-45 victory against No. 5 Baylor
marked Kansas fourth consecutive
victory and the fourth consecutive
game in which McCray excelled
with the ball in her hands.
I had the hot hand tonight and
everything was going in, McCray
said. And I wasnt going to stop
shooting it.
All season, McCray has been ex-
pected to carry Kansas ofensively.
But never this season or during
her career has McCray so thor-
oughly and completely flled the
role.
Facing one of the tougher defen-
sive teams in the Big 12, McCray
simply dominated. During a frst-
half in which McCray scored 23
points, fans actually groaned when
a shot missed its mark.
Any time one of the teams most
talented play-
ers is producing
and playing well,
it just gives the
whole team more
confdence, assis-
tant coach Katie
OConnor, who
works indivudu-
ally with McCray,
said.
In leading Kan-
sas past Baylor, McCray captivated
an audience and cemented herself
as a premiere scorer in a confer-
ence loaded with talented players.
Te reason she probably hasnt
been heard of as much is we havent
been winning, senior guard Ivana
Catic said. Now that we started
winning, hopefully Kansas as a pro-
gram will get more love and great
individuals will as well.
Kansas knows one brilliant indi-
vidual performance doesnt translate
into victories as well as any team in
the Big 12. Sophomore center Krys-
ten Boogaard provided the Jayhawks
with a much-needed second option.
Boogaard scored 18 points,
grabbed 11 rebounds
and provided Kansas
with an inside pres-
ence.
She knew that
coming out of the gate
wed go to her, coach
Bonnie Henrickson
said. She handled that
well, and we needed
that from her.
Individual eforts
aside, Kansas recent turnaround
was built on the commitment to
fully disrupt opponents ofensively.
Kansas stripped Baylor of any of-
fensive rhythm last night. Te Bears
made just 19 percent of their frst-
half shots, scoring 17 points.
While Baylor missed open at-
tempts throughout the game, Kan-
sas contested many of Baylors shots
and frustrated a team still ailing
from the absence of its best player,
junior Danielle Wilson.
I think everything disrupted us
tonight, Baylor coach Kim Mulkey
said.
It sure appeared that way early.
Led by Boogaard and McCray,
the Jayhawks started the game on
a 16-4 run. As the half wore on
and the fans in attendance became
more vocal Kansas continued to
increase its lead.
With three seconds lef in the
frst half, Boogaard fung a half
court pass to McCray, who tipped
the ball to junior guard Sade Morris
for a jumper. Kansas jogged into the
locker room with an almost unbe-
lievable 42-17 halfime lead.
Te rational side of you says
theyre the No. 5 team in the coun-
try and you have to stay cautious,
Catic said. But then theres that
childish side in you that says Oh my
God, were up 30 against Baylor! We
havent been up by 30 in league play
since Ive been here.
Still, despite that sense of mystif-
cation, Kansas kept Baylor in-check
afer halfime.
Early in the second half, Boogaard
rattled of seven consecutive points
to maintain Kansas lead. Ten, to
put the fnishing touches on her
night, McCray scored seven straight
late in the game.
Even though they are a great
team, we had to keep throwing
punches, McCray said. We never
rolled over and let them answer.
Editedby AndrewWiebe
WoMENS BASkEtBAll
Jayhawks destroy Bears on senior night
Jerry Wang/KANSAN
Junior Guard Danielle Mccray jumps for
a three point shot against Baylor Wednesday
night. McCray contributed 35 points and 8
rebounds in the Jayhawks 69-45 win against
the Bears in Allen Fieldhouse.
Danielle McCray scores a career-high 35 points as Kansas blows out No. 5 Baylor to send seniors out on a high note
WoMENS
BASkEtBAll
REWIND PAGE 6B
For full coverage of the
Kansas vs. Baylor womens
basketball game, check
out the Rewind on page
4B.
coMMENtARy
Women
succeed
while men
disappoint
BY StEphEN mONtEmAYOr
smontemayor@kansan.com
H
eres hoping a shockingly
bad night from the mens
basketball team doesnt
overshadow a historically good
one for the women.
For much of the first half last
night I mulled over whether No.
9 Kansas effort against the Big
12s 11th ranked team was worthy
of mention in this columns lead
paragraph. After all, the Kansas
womens basketball team earned
a colossal 69-45 victory over No.
5 Baylor at Allen Fieldhouse in
arguably the programs proudest
achievement in some time.
Junior guard Danielle McCrays
35-point effort belongs alongside
the finest performances in the
Phog. This player and this win is
just what the program needed.
Now on to darker develop-
ments.
An improbable fifth-straight Big
12 title was gift-wrapped by the
team Kansas tamed last Sunday.
No. 12 Missouri shocked No. 5
Oklahoma, guaranteeing at least a
share of the Big 12 regular season
crown and clearing the path for
Kansas to secure the title outright.
But foul trouble from the court
to sideline, 3-for-19 shooting by
junior guard Sherron Collins,
a banged up and beaten down
sophomore center Cole Aldrich
and a pass by freshman guard
Travis Releford to a referee were
just a sampling of the comedy of
errors that derailed the Jayhawks
last night.
The only thing clinched in
Lubbock, Texas was the possibility
of another maddening March first
BY CASE KEEFEr
ckeefer@kansan.com
LUBBOCK, Texas Kansas
clinched a share of the Big 12
Conference regular season cham-
pionship Wednesday. No one
seemed to notice.
Te Jayhawks received no tro-
phy. Tey didnt celebrate. Tey
didnt feel like the top team in the
Big 12. How could they? Kansas
sufered an embarrassing 84-65
defeat to Texas Tech, the 11th
place team in the Big 12, at Unit-
ed Spirit Arena.
Yeah, Im ecstatic, Kansas
coach Bill Self said sarcastically.
I told our guys, Yeah, congratu-
lations, we win our league and get
beat by 19.
But by virtue of Missouris 73-
64 victory against Oklahoma at
Mizzou Arena, Kansas is assured
the No. 1 seed in the Big 12 Con-
ference tournament next week
in Oklahoma City. Kansas (25-5,
13-2) can also win the Big 12 out-
right with a victory against Texas
Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.
Te Jayhawks were not inter-
ested in discussing that. Why
would they be? A disastrous ef-
fort from the entire team enabled
Texas Tech to win only its third
Big 12 game of the season.
Everybody was just kind of of
their mark tonight, sophomore
center Cole Aldrich said.
Junior guard Sherron Collins,
who averaged 25.5 points in two
games last week, went 3-for-19
from the feld for 11 points. Al-
drich, who averaged 14 rebounds
per game in the last four games,
recorded only three rebounds to
go with eight points against the
Red Raiders.
Sophomore guard Brady Morn-
ingstar failed in his assignment
of guarding Texas Techs Alan
Voskuil, who had a career-high
35 points and nine three-point
shots on his senior night. Self and
freshman forward Marcus Mor-
ris ruined Jayhawk comeback
attempts in the second half with
technical fouls.
On a night where the Kansas
womens basketball team recorded
the biggest victory of coach Bon-
nie Henricksons career at Kansas
a 69-45 victory against No. 5
Baylor Self sufered possibly
his worst defeat.
We had no post presence in-
side. We had nobody else mak-
ing shots. Our whole team, col-
lectively, played very, very poor
all around, Self said. Coaching,
execution, everything was poor.
Tey whipped us in every capac-
ity.
It was Kansas third straight
defeat at United Spirit Arena, a
building Self has never won in
with the Jayhawks. But their de-
feats in 2005 and 2007 came down
to the fnal possessions.
Wednesday, the Red Raiders
started to saddle up and ride of
into the sunset immediately. Tat
part wasnt anything unusual for
the Jayhawks.
Like their last two road games
at Kansas State and Oklahoma,
Kansas followed its road routine
at the beginning of the frst half
by falling behind by double dig-
its immediately. Te Red Raid-
ers lead got as large as 18 points
when Voskuil made two free-
throws with four and a half min-
tExAS tuMBlE
Kansas stunned in Lubbock
Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
Junior guard Sherron collins and sophomore center cole Aldrich struggle to gain possession after an unsuccessful shot attempt during the seconds half of Wednesday nights game
against Texas Tech. The Red Raiders defeated the Jayhawks 84-65. By virtue of Oklahomas loss to Missouri, Kansas will receive at least a share of the Big 12 regular season championship.
Jayhawks get share
of Big 12 title but
celebration must wait
SEE BasketBall oN pAGE 4B SEE montemayor oN pAGE 5B
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are a great team, we
had to keep throwing
punches. We never
rolled over.
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LOS ANGELES The winter of
discontent in Mannywood is just
about over.
Manny Ramirez and the Los
Angeles Dodgers reached a prelim-
inary agreement Wednesday on a
$45 million, two-year deal, keeping
him with the NL West champions.
The stalemate was broken dur-
ing a 6 a.m. meeting that brought
the sides face-to-face at owner
Frank McCourts Malibu home.
The gathering came after weeks of
protracted negotiations that led to
starts, stops, offers and subsequent
rejections.
At times, McCourts frustration
with Ramirezs agent Scott Boras
surfaced, with the owner describ-
ing the agent challenging to work
with.
All that was forgotten on a
rainy late-winter morning when
Ramirez surfaced in the Malibu
mist to rejoin the team and city that
embraced him after he left Boston
at the July 31 trade deadline.
We got a great meeting, Ramirez
told KCAL-TV as he emerged from
his mandatory physical in subur-
ban Inglewood. Im happy to be
here. We got some unfinished busi-
ness, and thats why Im here.
The deal is subject to Ramirez
passing physical, a person familiar
with the talks said. The person
spoke anonymously to The AP
because the contract was not final.
S
o many great stories came out
of Kansas run to the NCAA
title last March. There were
so many little tales about old
men weeping in joy and students
swarming Massachusetts Street.
And then, of course, there was
the team.
There was Sasha Kaun coming
to the rescue during the Davidson
game.
There was Russell Robinson,
who was so amped up the day
before the championship game
that he just kept repeating the
words, This is what you live for,
this is what you live for.
There was Roderick Stewart,
who dislocated his kneecap during
a Final Four practice session and
was robbed of his dream of play-
ing on college basketballs biggest
stage. And then there were the
tears that rolled down his cheeks
as the fans chanted his name dur-
ing the final minutes of the North
Carolina game.
There were so many great sto-
ries, but this one is my favorite.
It was the Sunday before the
national championship game,
and both Kansas and Memphis
were addressing the media at the
Alamodome in San Antonio.
All of Kansas starters were
placed in small rooms located
along a hallway in the bowels of
the Alamodome. Reporters could
roam from room to room and ask
questions.
Of course, you have to remem-
ber that the players had been
under intense media scrutiny
for three weeks. And Final Four
media free-for-alls are beyond
chaotic hundreds of reporters
running around, all with a dead-
line, all wanting to get the perfect
quote. And Kansas players were
24 hours from the biggest game
of their lives, so you can imagine
they were a little tired of hearing
the same questions over and over.
But that was the beauty of this
day. Maybe Darnell Jackson was
tired of the questions, maybe he
was just goofing around, maybe he
was serious. Who knows?
Whatever it was, Darnell
Jackson offered up the greatest
quote I have ever heard.
There were just a few minutes
left in the ses-
sion, and I was
busy listening
to Memphis
Chris Douglas-
Roberts tell a
funny story
about his
hyphenated
name.
Across the hall, Darnell Jackson
sat behind a microphone.
As I recall, Kansan sportswriter
Mark Dent and a local Kansas City
television reporter were the only
reporters left in Jacksons room.
Jackson was asked a question
about the Jayhawks mind-set going
into the championship game.
(Wait for it)
We just say let your nuts
hang, Jackson said. Just let them
hang. Just have fun because this is
it for most of the guys, and were
just having fun with it.
Of course, we know what hap-
pened the next night against
Memphis.
Eleven months later, were two
weeks away from the start of the
NCAA tournament actually,
were 12 days away if you count
the awful play-in game.
Were two weeks from the tears
and the joy and the Cinderellas
and Greg Gumbel.
Were two weeks away from the
greatest sports tournament in the
world.
And as Darnell Jackson said,
its March and its time to let your
nuts hang.
Wheres russrob?
Russell Robinson has been on
quite the basketball odyssey the
last few months. He played with
Houston Rockets last summer
before being released. And after a
brief stint in Turkey, Robinson has
settled in with the Reno Bighorns
of the NBDL.
And he had his best game of the
season on Sunday against the Los
Angeles D-Fenders.
Robinson finished with a sea-
son-high 25 points on 9-of-16
shooting and four assists.
Robinson has played in 33
games for the Bighorns and is
averaging 10.5 points per game
while playing more than 27 min-
utes a contest.
Edited by Realle Roth
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ThIs Week IN kANsAs AThleTIcs
QuoTe oF The DAY
Coach Self brought it up. He
told me if things worked out,
I could be the only player in
history with fve Big 12 cham-
pionship rings. I think thatd
be very cool. I came to Kansas
hoping to win a ring, not fve.
Kansas forward Matt Kleinmann,
Lawrence-Journal World
Taking a trip down March Madness lane
coMMeNTArY
By RuSTIn dodd
dodd@kansan.com
Jackson
FAcT oF The DAY
Senior forward Matt Klein-
mann has now won fve regu-
lar season Big 12 champion-
ships. Hes believed to be the
only player in Kansas history to
accomplish that feat.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
TrIVIA oF The DAY
Q: When was the last time
the mens basketball team
clinched the Big 12 title on the
road?
A: Last season. Kansas
clinched its fourth straight
regular season crown at Texas
A&M on March 8, 2008. It was
the Jayhawks last regular
season game of the year.
@
The Give and Go: Jayson
Jenks and
Clark Goble
discuss
Kansas
victory and
what it means for the rest of
the season.
courtside: Can Kansas win
a couple
games in
the Big 12
tourna-
ment? Jayson Jenks discusses
that and more in the Courtside
blog.
The strike Zone: After a chilly
home opener, Kansas played
under sunny skies yesterday.
Josh Bowe and Tim Dwyer
discuss the pleasantries of
watching afternoon baseball
in perfect weather.
First Pitch: Check the First
Pitch blog for Josh Bowes
Extra Innings following the
series against North Dakota.
MLB
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ST. LOUIS The St. Louis
Cardinals are putting single-
game tickets on sale Friday,
some at deep discounts
refecting the economic
downturn.
The Cardinals have exceed-
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of the last 11 seasons, includ-
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Busch Stadium. But for the
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expect to sell that many tickets
by opening day.
The teams kids fan-friendly
values include childrens
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home game, families getting a
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served seats for most Sundays,
and free ice cream in the Ford
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Among other ofers: a Cardi-
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seats, four hot dogs and four
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Monday and Thursday games;
13 games with half-price ticket
ofers; a gas fll-up at partici-
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earns a buy-one, get-one-free
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discounted some season-
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ofering 12 tickets for the price
of 10 and seven for the price
of fve.
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4B thursday, march 5, 2009
Texas Tech senior guard AlanVoskuil
The Red Raider seniors said they wanted one last big victory that the
fans could rush the court for to end their career. Voskuils career-night
granted themthat wish. Voskuil scored a career-high 35 points and
went 9-for-14 fromthree-point range. Kansas tried to guard himin a
variety of ways, but it just wouldnt work. Sure enough, the Red Raider
faithful rushed the court after the game.
TTU 84, KU 65 5B thursday, march 5, 2009
MENs BAsKETBALL REWIND
GAME NOTES
PRIME PLAYS
VIEW FROM PRESS ROW
Junior guardTyrone Appleton
Because Appleton didnt even make the trip to
Lubbock. Appleton had to watch the Jayhawks
struggle fromLawrence. He got sick when he
boarded the teambus en route to the airport and a
decision was made for himto stay behind. Of course,
Appleton might not have even played. Hes ap-
peared in seven of Kansas 13 conference games and
usually only when the game is decided and time is
expiring. Still, missing a basketball trip because of a
stomach illness is never something to remember.
IT WAS OVER WhEN ...
GAME TO REMEMbER ...
GAME TO FORGET ...
STAT OF ThE NIGhT ...
Texas Techs Mike Singletary scored over sophomore center Cole Al-
drich with four minutes remaining to make the score 68-58. At 6-foot-5,
Singletary should not be able to exploit 6-foot-11 Aldrich in the paint.
But the points symbolized more than that. A 10-point defcit with four
minutes remaining doesnt necessarily mean a game is over, but it did
in this case. Everything was going wrong for the Jayhawks and this was
one last reminder that it was simply not their night. Singletary fnished
with 18 points and 10 rebounds.
8:2. That was the Jayhawks turnover-to-assist ratio in the frst half.
That can usually explain an implosion and fnding yourself down by 18
points late in the frst half. Texas Tech stifed Kansas ofensively and the
Jayhawks couldnt control the ball.
Case Keefer
FIRST hALF
14:07 Kansas fashed its
frst sign of life with this alley-oop
fromSherron Collins to Marcus
Morris. Morris slipped behind the
defense for an easy fnish.
13:03 On his senior night,
Texas Tech sharp-shooter Alan
Voskuil torched Kansas. Seven
minutes into the game, Voskuil
hit his fourth three-pointer to
put the Red Raiders up 21-10 and
force a timeout. Voskuil fnished
the frst half with 16 points.
0:08 Kansas incredible
string of frst-half buzzer beaters
came to an end with Collins
bricked three-pointer.
0:00 Relegated to the bench
because of foul trouble, Cole
Aldrich fnished the frst half with
no feld goals or rebounds for
the second time in Big 12 play.
Aldrich was 4-of-4 at the free
throwline, but he played just
nine minutes after racking up his
second foul with eight minutes
to play.
SECOND hALF
13:26 Kansas came out of
halftime on fre, but consecutive
Voskuil three-pointers buoyed
Tech as the Red Raiders led wire-
to-wire.
7:43 After getting whistled
for an over-the-back call, Marcus
Morris said something that trig-
gered referee Rick Hartzell to
slap himwith a technical foul.
Morris and coach Bill Self were
both whistled for second-half
technicals.
4:03 Rarely do two players
foul-out on separate plays with
the exact same time on the clock,
but thats exactly what happened.
Marcus Morris went to the bench
after grabbingTexas Techs Mike
Singletary. Then, Techs Robert Le-
wandowski pushed Cole Aldrich
following Singletarys second free
throwto earn himself a ffth foul.
3:06 This Voskuil three-
pointer increasedTechs lead to
12 and Kansas never crept back
into single digits. Voskuil hit 10-
of-16 beyond the arc en route to
a career-high 35 points.
Taylor Bern
ThREE JAYhAWKS
NAMED ACADEMIC ALL
bIG 12
Senior center Matt Kleinmann,
sophomore guard Tyrel Reed and
sophomore center Cole Aldrich all
received recognition Wednesday.
And it had nothing to do with bas-
ketball.
Te Big 12 Conference named
Kleinmann, an architecture ma-
jor, and Reed, an exercise science
major, to the Academic All Big 12
First Team. Aldrich, a communica-
tions studies major, made the sec-
ond team.
To make the frst team, an athlete
must compile at least a 3.2 grade
point average. Te cut-of for sec-
ond teamselection is a 3.0 GPA.
SENIOR NIGhT
MASSACRE
Yes, thats an accurate descrip-
tion of Wednesday nights game.
But its also exactly what happened
last year when the Jayhawks and
the Red Raiders met in Lawrence
on Kansas senior night.
Kansas walloped Texas Tech
109-51 last season on its senior
night. A year later, its still being
talked about. Kansas coach Bill Self
reminisced on the game earlier this
week.
Everybody played well and
they couldnt do anything right,
Self said. It was one of those deals
where it couldnt go worse for them
and couldnt go better for us.
Kansas recognized seniors Rus-
sell Robinson, Darnell Jackson,
Sasha Kaun, Rodrick Stewart and
Jeremy Case that night.
It was Texas Techs senior night
Wednesday and it honored seniors
Rogdrick Craig, Alan Voskuil,
Michael Prince, Esmir Rizvic and
Damir Suljagic in a ceremony be-
fore the game.
KANSAS CONNECTION
Texas Tech freshman forward
Robert Lewandowski is a bit more
familiar with the Jayhawks than his
teammates.
A year ago, Lewandowski was in
high school at Blue Valley West in
Overland Park. Afer not receiving
recruiting interest from schools in
the area, Lewandowski wound up
at Texas Tech.
He started his 18th game Mon-
day and fouled out without scoring
any points.
Case Keefer
28 37 65 No. 9 KANSAS
39 45 84 TEXAS TECh
No. 9 KANSAS (25-5, 13-2)
SChEDULE
Date Opponent Result/Time
11/25 Syracuse (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 89-81 (OT)
11/28 vs. Coppin State W, 85-53
12/1 vs. Kent State W, 87-60
12/3 vs. New Mexico State W, 100-79
12/6 vs. Jackson State W, 86-62
12/13 vs. Massachusetts (in Kansas City, Mo.) L, 61-60
12/20 vs. Temple W, 71-59
12/23 at Arizona L, 84-67
12/30 vs. Albany NY W, 79-43
1/03 vs. Tennessee W, 92-85
1/6 vs. Siena W, 91-84
1/10 at Michigan State L, 75-62
1/13 vs. Kansas State W, 87-71
1/17 at Colorado W, 73-56
1/19 vs. Texas A&M W, 73-53
1/24 at Iowa State W, 82-67
1/28 at Nebraska W, 68-62
1/31 vs. Colorado W, 66-61
2/2 at Baylor W, 75-65
2/7 vs. Oklahoma State W, 78-67
2/9 at Missouri L, 62-60
2/14 at Kansas State W, 85-74
2/18 vs. Iowa State W, 72-55
2/21 vs. Nebraska W, 70-53
2/23 at Oklahoma W, 87-78
3/1 vs. Missouri W, 90-65
3/4 at Texas Tech L, 84-65
3/7 vs. Texas 3 p.m.
JAYhAWK STAT LEADERS
Points Rebounds Assists
Sherron Collins
4
Marcus Morris
8
Sherron Collins
11
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGARebs A Pts
Marcus Morris 5-9 0-0 8 0 11
Cole Aldrich 1-5 0-0 3 1 8
Sherron Collins 3-19 1-10 5 4 11
Brady Morningstar 1-7 1-6 3 1 3
Tyshawn Taylor 4-5 0-0 2 1 11
Conner Teahan 0-0 0-0 1 0 0
Quintrell Thomas 2-2 0-0 1 0 4
Tyrel Reed 2-7 2-6 0 0 7
Markief Morris 1-4 0-0 4 0 4
Mario Little 0-2 0-1 2 1 2
Travis Releford 2-2 0-0 4 0 4
Team 5
Total 21-63 4-24 38 8 65
TEXAS TECh (13-17, 3-12)
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGARebs A Pts
Robert Lewandowski 0-1 0-0 1 0 0
Michael Prince 1-2 0-0 1 1 2
Alan Voskuil 10-17 9-14 2 3 35
John Roberson 3-8 1-4 4 8 9
Nick Okorie 3-7 1-4 5 0 17
Craig Rogdrick 1-2 1-2 1 0 3
Dwalyn Roberts 0-0 0-0 5 0 0
Darko Cohadarevic 0-1 0-0 0 0 0
Mike Singletary 5-10 3-3 10 3 18
Esmir Rizvic 0-0 0-0 2 0 0
Damir Suljagic 0-3 0-0 1 0 0
Team 7
Total 23-51 15-27 39 15 84
UP NEXT
Kansas vs Texas
Saturday, 3 p.m.
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Appleton
utes remaining to make the score
39-21.
Voskuil eluded Kansas defend-
ers particularly Morningstar
like a crafy frefy through-
out the frst half and made four
three-point shots.
Tey made a lot of tough
shots, Morris said. It felt like
they were perfect from the three-
point line.
In addition to Voskuils 9-for-
15 performance from beyond the
arc, Texas Tech went 15-for-27 as
a team. Kansas was only able to
limit the long-range onslaught
for a nine-minute stretch from
the end of the frst half to the
middle of the second.
Not coincidentally, thats when
Kansas got back in the game. Te
Jayhawks trimmed the lead to 43-
41 when Collins converted on a
layup in trafc. Tey got an op-
portunity to tie the game for the
frst time on the next possession.
But Aldrich missed a layup
and Morningstar, who went
1-for-7 from the feld for three
points, bricked a three-point at-
tempt. From there, the Jayhawks
chances spiraled away.
Te two technical fouls didnt
help. Self received his for arguing
with an ofcial over a call with 12
minutes remaining. Texas Tech
extended its lead to 54-43 when
Voskuil made both free throws
awarded.
Kansas cut it to a two-posses-
sion game at 60-54 with eight
minutes remaining. Tats when
Marcus disagreed with a personal
foul call on him and got a techni-
cal of his own. Texas Tech made
all four free throws resulting
from Marcus personal and tech-
nical fouls. Texas Tech 64, Kansas
54. Game over.
You should never get a T.
I deserved my T, Self said. I
dont know what the ofcial said
Marcus did.
So the Jayhawks sufered their
biggest defeat of the season, but
still won their ffh consecutive
Big 12 title. Dont blame them for
their lack of excitement.
To us, it doesnt mean any-
thing, Aldrich said, until we
play well Saturday.
Edited by Andrew Wiebe
round exit a la 2005 and 2006.
I was ready to pen a column on
how securing the Big 12 title at
Texas Tech would have been a wel-
come development and that these
Jayhawks can realistically set their
sights on April.
Instead the Final Four band-
wagon lost a few members last
night. Red Raiders senior guard
Alan Voskuils domination from
behind the arc 35 points, 9-of-
14 three-point shots and 33.3
percent field goal shooting by the
Jayhawks in response ensured a
horrid night for Kansas. Foul trou-
ble for Kansas big men, a pepper-
ing of turnovers and no rhythm
established by either Aldrich or
Collins ensured not only a beat
down but a breakdown across the
board.
Any team can have a ter-
rible night when everything goes
wrong. Kansas already had two
of them a Dec. 23 84-67 loss
at Arizona and a 75-62 defeat at
Michigan State. But the timing of
this one and who it was against
was the real head-scratcher.
The attitude preceding this
game was equally disappointing.
Collins told reporters before the
game, Its a great feeling to clinch
on the road. You do it on the road,
you get to celebrate in somebody
elses locker room.
That bulletin-board mate-
rial and Senior Night for Voskuil
equaled the best showing by a
Texas Tech team that entered the
game 12-17 and 2-12 in the Big
12.
Kansas effort in response
lacked fire, motivation and, well
just about anything positive.
That said, this team is as capa-
ble as any to pick up the pieces
and reestablish themselves. After
all, coach Bill Self s candidacy for
National Coach of the Year didnt
die in one night. A fiery rebound
from last nights showing and a
successful postseason would fur-
ther highlight the job hes done
this year, as this is a rough time of
year to be licking wounds.
Edited by Carly Halvorson
MoNTEMAyoR
(continued from 1B)
Ryan McGeeney/KANsAN
sophomore center Cole Aldrich slaps down a basket attempt by Texas Techs Darko Cohadarevic duringWednesday nights game in Lubbock.
BAsKETBALL (continued from 1B)
Ryan McGeeney/KANsAN
Jayhawks coach Bill self watches in silent frustration as Wednesday nights game against
Texas Tech winds down to an 84-65 defeat for the Jayhawks in Lubbock.
Ryan McGeeney/KANsAN
Junior guard sherron Collins bowls over a Texas Tech defender in a drive toward the basket duringWednesday nights game in Lubbock.
TTU 84, KU 65
BY CLARK GOBLE
cgoble@kansan.com
Senior guard Katie Smith walked
in the locker room after Kansas
victory Wednesday night and told
her teammates that she would
probably remember two games
against Baylor the most from her
career.
The first: a 50-point loss to
Baylor in Waco, Texas her fresh-
man year. Then Ivana Catic cried
after the game because she was
embarrassed.
The second: a 24-point victo-
ry over the No. 5 Lady Bears on
Senior Day. Smith cried this time;
she couldnt hold back the tears as
she walked onto the floor covered
in roses and picked up her framed
jersey.
Look how things have changed.
It just goes to show how much
this program has grown, Smith
said. Its all thanks to Bonnie and
her hard work and determination
as a coach.
But coach Bonnie Henrickson
isnt ready to rest.
Weve got a lot of work to do
yet, Henrickson said.
After losses to Missouri and
Colorado, two teams currently at
the bottom of the Big 12 stand-
ings, Kansas hopes for making the
NCAA tournament, let alone the
WNIT, were nearly impossible at
best. But now that theyve rattled
off four consecutive wins and beat-
en a team like Baylor, they are most
definitely back in the hunt.
Were still in the mix, were still
in the conversation, Henrickson
said about their chances for the
tournament. Were at the table at
least.
However, the absence of Baylor
senior forward Danielle Wilson
may have an impact on the com-
mittee selecting the Jayhawks for
the 64-team field.
But both Henrickson and senior
guard Ivana Catic realize that
they cant look into the future too
much: a matchup with Iowa State at
rowdy Hilton Coliseum looms on
Saturday. Catic thinks they can win
their fifth in a row, but they cant
slacken after this gutsy victory.
Anything is possible, and thats
really exciting, Catic said. We
need two days of good practice.
The seniors, who all checked in
with just under four minutes to
play, may not play as much for the
rest of the season, but Henrickson
said they will definitely still affect
practice.
Senior Marija Zinic and junior
Rebecca Feickert are key members
of the scout team. Smith said that
while she cant be a body in there
pushing and shoving because of a
knee injury that ended her season,
she still tries to motivate the team
as best she can.
All the motivation may be neces-
sary if the Jayhawks want to make
the tournament. Zinic hopes that
this was her last game in Allen
Fieldhouse and that the Jayhawks
wont host a WNIT game like they
did last year.
But all in all, it was a very mem-
orable day for the three seniors and
one junior, collectively grouped
together as the four seniors
by Henrickson. All of them put
the game among their favorite
moments in their KU careers.
It was a great day for four seniors
who deserve that, Henrickson
said.
Katie Smith
5-foot-10 senior guard
Season
cut short
by knee
surgery
Career
highs
Points
- 6 (New
Mexico
State, 1-4-
09), Rebounds - 5 (New Mexico
State, 1-4-09), Minutes - 10
(New Mexico State, 1-4-09)
Former walk-on since awarded
a scholarship
Thoughts on the vaictory
Walking in the locker room, I
said I will probably remember
two games against Baylor. My
freshman year, getting beat by
ffty, and this game, beating
them by almost thirty. It just
goes to show how much this
program has grown.
Future plans Plans on being
a physicians assistant
Henricksons take Emotion-
al, tough., She made practice
more competitive.
Rebecca Feickert
6-foot-2 junior forward
Graduating
early
Career
highs
Points - 8
(San Jose
State
12-4-08),
Rebounds
- 4 (twice,
last vs. Western Illinois (12-10-
08), Minutes - 21 (Marquette,
12-7-08)
Shot 54 percent from three-
point line in her career
Thoughts on the victory Its
such a big moment for me, for
a number of reasons. For our
team, its awesome, to beat
Baylor on our home court
Future plans Completing
the masters in accounting
program
Henricksons take the
genius of the group, has an
unbelievable future ahead of
her in whatever she wants to
do
Marija Zinic
6-foot-2 senior forward
Career
highs
Points - 17
(Ole Miss,
3-16-06),
Rebounds
- 10 (UMKC,
12-7-05),
Minutes -
38 (Seton
Hall, 11-
11-06)
Started 10 games as a sopho-
more
Thoughts on the victory Its
kind of sad that its over
Future plans Trying to get
into graduate school
Henricksons take Her
growth and maturity this year
has been special, and Ive re-
ally enjoyed that personally.
Ivana Catic
5-foot-8 senior guard
Career
highs
Points - 16
(twice, last
LaSalle,
12-30-05),
Rebounds
- 7 (twice,
last vs. Fair-
feld, 1-7-
09), Minutes - 50 (Wisconsin,
12-11-05)
Thoughts on the victory
Im just so happy. So many
things came together.
Future plans Catic has two
options: go back to school or
play basketball overseas.
Henricksons take She
makes the locker room right.
sports 6B thursday, march 5, 2009
KANSAS (17-11, 6-9)
No. 5 BAYLOR (23-5, 11-4)
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGARebs A Pts
Danielle McCray 11-21 7-10 8 3 35
Nicollette Smith 2-5 0-3 2 1 5
Krysten Boogaard 7-12 0-0 11 0 18
Ivana Catic 0-0 0-0 1 6 0
Sade Morris 1-5 0-0 7 2 2
LaChelda Jacobs 1-2 0-0 5 2 2
Aishah Sutherland 2-4 0-0 2 2 5
Kelly Kohn 0-1 0-0 0 0 0
MarijaZinic 1-1 0-0 1 0 2
Rebecca Feickert 0-1 0-0 0 0 0
Team 4
Totals 25-52 7-15 41 16 69
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGARebs A Pts
Rachel Allison 0-1 0-0 2 0 0
Morghan Medlock 2-6 0-0 4 1 7
Jessica Morrow 3-14 0-4 0 2 7
Jhasmin Player 3-14 0-1 9 0 6
Kelli Grifn 1-9 0-0 2 3 2
WhitneyZachariason0-0 0-0 4 0 0
Melissa Jones 0-3 0-1 6 1 6
Terran Condrey 1-3 0-0 3 1 2
Ashley Field 4-7 1-2 5 0 11
Lindsay Palmer 2-5 0-1 1 0 4
Team 3
Totals 16-62 1-9 39 8 45
42 27 69 KANSAS
17 28 45 No. 5 BAYLOR
MarijaZinic 1-1 0-0 1 0 2
Team 4
wOMeNS BASKetBALL
Senior class basks in Baylor victory
The Jayhawks want to build on top-ten win with increased NCAA tournament hopes
Matt Bristow/KANSAN
The Kansas womens basketball teamcelebrates their win over No. 5 Baylor Wednesday night. Rebecca Feickert, center, and Marija Zinic, left,
were recognized in the senior ceremony following the game.
Zinic
Smith
Catic
Feickert
senior night
For more on Kansas
incredible 69-45 victory
against No. 5 Baylor check
Kansan.com. There you will
fnd the Courtside blog
and The Give and Go pod-
cast from reporters Jayson
Jenks and Clark Goble.
@
Jerry Wang/KANSAN
Sophomore center Krysten Boogaard goes up for an easy bucket against a Baylor defender
Wednesday night. Behind a strong performance fromjunior guard Danielle McCray and Boogaard,
the Jayhawks won 69-45.
Jerry Wang/KANSAN
Junior guard Danielle McCray slides past a Baylor defender durng the Jayhawks win
Wednesday night. McCray had a team-high 35 in one of the biggest wins in recent memory for
the womens team.
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BY TIM DWYER
tdwyer@kansan.com
Coach Ritch Price said it was
absolutely necessary for junior
starter Travis Blankenship to jump
ahead of hitters in the count if he
wanted to be effective.
Apparently, the message stuck.
Blankenship faced 17 hitters
through five innings last night and
threw 13 first-pitch strikes.
Price said it was the only way
Blankenship (1-0) would see suc-
cess this season.
Thats the way he has to pitch,
Price said. He hovers around
84-86 so hes one of those proto-
typical soft lefties. He has to get
ahead in the count in order to get
guys to chase his breaking ball. I
thought he did a really good job
against their lefties today when he
spun the ball away from them.
Blankenships ability to attack
the strike zone allowed him to
throw his slider and changeup.
With a fastball that sits in the mid-
80s, Blankenship does not have
the ability to overpower hitters at
the Division 1 level, like he may
have been able to last year pitching
for Johnson County Community
College.
When you get out ahead,
Blankenship said, youre able
to use your slider, change, really
stretch the strike zone out because
theyre going to be trying to take
out pitches and get ahead.
Blankenships job was made
easier by a first-inning Tony
Thompson three-run homer over
the 2006 Big 12 Champions sign
in left field. That was followed by
a two-run second inning that gave
Blankenship, who needed only 27
pitches to get through a perfect
first three innings, a 5-0 lead.
That takes a lot off me to get
some run support, Blankenship
said. I can go out there and just
work on some things, get after
hitters and not be afraid of work-
ing around or getting to fine with
hitters. I can just go right after
them.
It was that ability to get after
hitters that led to Blankenships
terrific outing in his first start as
a Jayhawk. He finished with five
innings pitched, three hits, three
strikeouts and one unearned run.
Any time you can get a five
run lead like that it really allows
your pitcher to throw strikes,
Price said. Thats what Travis
strength is. Hes not a top velocity
guy. Hes a guy thats got to pitch
to contact and get the ball hit so it
gave him some margin of error.
Edited by Realle Roth
sports 7b Thursday, march 5, 2009
BOCHY CONTINUES
STRIKEOUT STREAK
The frst batter sophomore
Brett Bochy faced in his
one inning of work sat
down three strikes later. It
continued a remarkable
trend for the sophomore
relief pitcher. Bochy has
made seventeen career ap-
pearances for the Jayhawks,
striking out at least one
hitter in 16 of them.
THOMPSON
ENDS HOME RUN
DROUGHT
Sophomore Tony Thompson
only needed one swing to
extend his hitting streak to
16 games. This time he did it
with an exclamation point,
sending a ball screaming
over the left-feld wall with
two men on in the frst in-
ning. It was his third home
run in the streak, and it broke
a six-game long home run
drought for the Jayhawks.
TimDwyer
BY JOSH BOWE
jbowe@kansan.com
Paul Smyth wont admit there was
a monkey on his back, but the senior
closer can at least look back at his
early struggles now with a smile.
Smyth finished off a 6-3 Kansas
victory yesterday afternoon against
North Dakota (0-6), completing a
two-game sweep and finally putting
a number next to his name in the
save column rather than the loss
column.
It took a little bit longer than
I wanted it to, Smyth said with a
smile. It always feels great to break
into it, and Im ready to get some
more now I guess.
It wasnt as pretty as Tuesday
nights six-run victory, but some of
the same story lines in that game
pitching and early runs appeared
in some form yesterday.
Except for one difference. This
time the Jayhawks finally got a ball
over the fence. Sophomore third
baseman Tony Thompsons three-
run home run in the first inning pro-
pelled Kansas (4-3) to five runs dur-
ing the first two innings. I thought
it was a relief because we havent put
up the big power stats, Thompson
said. It turned out to be a big hit for
us, helped us win the game so thats
the most important thing.
Even coach Ritch Price admitted
he was worried about the lack of
pop in the Jayhawks batting order
thus far. He believes the next step in
Thompsons maturation is the devel-
opment of consistent power.
It was good to see Tony go big
fly, Price said. One of the things
him and I have talked about is that
hes got to hit double-digit home
runs to take himself to the next level
of the player hes trying to get to.
After junior second baseman
Robby Prices RBI single in the bot-
tom of the second made the score
5-0, the Jayhawk bats didnt put up
much of a fight the rest of the way
against Sioux starting pitcher Mike
Lueck. They scored one run for the
rest of the game and collected three
more hits.
Luckily, junior starting pitcher
Travis Blankenship (1-0) quieted the
North Dakota bats, allowing only
three hits, no walks, one unearned
run and three strikeouts through
five innings of work.
I thought he did a nice job
today against their left-handed hit-
ters, Price said of the left-handed
transfer from Johnson County
Community College. Because he
has that unique delivery, he gives
himself an advantage when facing
left handers.
Blankenship was able to stay
ahead in the count against the Sioux
hitters. He said he was able to be
more aggressive towards the strike
zone, especially with an early lead.
I was more excited than any-
thing, Blankenship said. I had a
lot of backup from the guys, run
support. It made it a lot easier to go
out there and throw strikes.
After North Dakota scored two
runs in the seventh inning to make
things interesting, the one-two
combo of sophomore Brett Bochy
and Smyth closed the door in the
eighth and ninth innings.
Smyth said he has put his two
blown saves in his first two outings
in the past and out of mind.
Its something Ive done my best
to forget, he said. Thats some-
thing that you just try to put behind
you and get off to a fresh start. I was
confident that I was going to be able
to do so.
Edited by Andrew Wiebe
BASEBAll
Senior closer recovers
in 6-3 Kansas victory
Weston White/KANSAN
Sophomore third baseman Tony Thompson high-fves sophomore right felder Brian Heere. Thompson crushed the Jayhawks frst home run of
the season, driving in two runs on the hit before crossing home plate. Kansas used fve early runs to earn its fourth victory of the season.
Home run stakes Jayhawks to lead; Smyth closes it out
BOX SCORE
North Dakota 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 4 2
Kansas 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 X 6 9 1
NORTH DAKOTA AB R H RBI
Lagein 2b 3 1 1 0
Sadler lf 4 0 1 0
Magner 1b 3 1 0 0
Cook dh 4 0 0 1
Gudmunson 3b 4 1 1 1
Krivarchka rf 3 0 1 1
Nelson ss 2 0 0 0
Marek lf 3 0 0 0
Bakhit 2b 3 0 0 0
Totals 29 3 4 3
KANSAS AB R H RBI
Faunce lf 5 0 0 0
Heere rf 4 1 2 1
Price ss 4 0 1 1
Narodowski ss 4 1 1 0
Thompson 3b 4 1 1 3
Waters dh 4 1 1 0
Land 1b 3 1 2 1
Lincoln c 3 0 0 0
Afneir ph 1 0 0 0
Burnansky cf 3 1 1 0
Totals 35 6 9 6
E North Dakota: Gudmunson (5); Bakhit (1). Kansas: Murray (1)
2B Kansas: Land (2) HR Kansas: Thompson (1)
PITCHERS
NORTH DAKOTA IP H R ER BB/SO
Lueck (L, 0-2) 8.0 9 6 5 1/3
KANSAS IP H R ER BB/SO
Blankenship (W, 1-0) 5.0 3 1 0 0/3
Murray 1.1 1 2 2 2/0
Bochy 0.2 0 0 0 1/1
Smyth 1.0 0 0 0 0/1
T 2:08. A 700.
Pitcher gets a jump on hitters
Blankenship throws 13 first-pitch strikes in 5 innings against North Dakota
Weston White/KANSAN
Junior pitcher Travis Blankenship throws a pitch during Kansas game Wednesday afternoon against North Dakota. Blankenship pitched fve
innings, striking out three batters in a 6-3 victory. The junior transfer threwfrst-pitch strikes to 13 of the 17 batters he faced.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. Three
days earlier, Missouri was awful.
At home, the 15th-ranked Tigers
achieved perfection.
DeMarre Carroll had 15 points
and 10 rebounds, helping Missouri
wind up an unbeaten season at
home and grab a share of second
place in the Big 12 with a 73-64
victory over No. 4 Oklahoma
on Wednesday
night.
Perfect, thats
a good word,
said Carroll, who
is also coach
Mike Andersons
nephew. Its one
of those things
you dream
about. To finish
it off like this, its
amazing.
Leo Lyons added 15 points and
J.T. Tiller had 13 for Missouri (25-
5, 12-3), which went 18-0 at home
after regaining its footing from a
25-point spanking at Kansas on
Sunday. Missouri fans typically
find their seats after the schools
first basket, but most in a rau-
cous sellout crowd of 15,061 on
senior night remained on its feet
throughout.
Anderson said Missouris pres-
sure tactics wore out the Sooners.
It was big. You saw it, he said.
At one point they just stopped
playing and no one called time
out.
The only concern for Carroll
was handling with the emotion
of the pregame ceremonies that
left him and fellow senior Matt
Lawrence in tears.
Me, personally, I knew once I
hit the locker room I was ready,
Carroll said. I wanted those emo-
tions to fire me up so Im not
going to lose at home.
Blake Griffin had 16 points
and 21 rebounds, his
nation-leading 24th
double-double of the
season, for Oklahoma
(26-4, 12-3), which
has lost three of four.
Taylor Griffin added
14 points and eight
rebounds, while the
rest of the Sooners
were a combined
12-for-40.
Well be all right, Blake Griffin
said. This isnt the end of the
world. This isnt going to make or
break our season.
Missouri, which has won eight
of nine overall, closes the reg-
ular season at Texas A&M on
Saturday. Oklahoma, which has
lost six of seven to Missouri, fin-
ishes at home on Saturday against
Oklahoma State.
Griffin, who missed 1 games
with a concussion, hurt the
Sooners chances for a comeback
with three straight missed free
throws in the second half. He
finished 2-for-7 from the line and
Oklahoma was 5-for-13 from there
in the last 20 minutes.
Griffin, who committed a team-
worst six turnovers, was impressed
with Missouri, although he added
he would like a rematch in the
Big 12 tournament where both
schools have first-round byes.
Basically, they executed a
lot better than us, Griffin said.
Theyre all over the floor and
they do a great job of running to
passing lanes, getting steals and
pressuring.
The Sooners committed 22
turnovers, one off their season
worst, and their point total was a
season low.
One of the things we talked
about was not turning the ball
over and not allowing them to
speed us up, Oklahoma coach Jeff
Capel said. We didnt do a good
job of either one of those.
Missouri beat a top five team for
the first time since defeating the
Sooners 67-52 on Feb. 26, 2003, at
the old Hearnes Center. Missouri
led by as many as 15 points in the
second half, and protected a lead
that had been whittled to seven in
the final 3 minutes.
Blake Griffin nearly had a
double-double by halftime with
11 points and nine rebounds, but
Missouri had a 39-28 lead behind
a balanced attack and 6-for-14
3-point shooting. Carroll had
nine points and seven rebounds
and Missouri got an unexpected
contribution from reserve Justin
Safford, who hit his first two
3-pointers and had six points,
doubling his scoring total from
the previous five games.
Missouris start was a big switch
from three days earlier when they
came out tight, blew several layups
and were down 45-19 and out of it
by halftime at Kansas.
sports 8B THURSday, MaRcH 5, 2009
Big 12 BasketBall
Missouri takes down Oklahoma at home, 73-64
No. 15 Tigers hold Blake Griffin to 16 points and cap a perfect home-court record in victory against the No. 4 Sooners
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oklahomas Blake Grifn, center, shoots between Missouris DeMarre Carroll, left, and Keith Ramsey, right, during the frst half of the game
Wednesday in Columbia, Mo. Missouri won 73-64.
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