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Student Senate opened up itsull meeting on Wednesdaynight to a large group in theBig 12 Room at the KansasUnion to discuss a bill o im-peachment, Rock Chalk Invis-ible Hawk demands and otheritems on the agenda.
Student Body Vice PresidentZach George, Chie o StaffAdam Moon and Student BodyPresident Jessie Pringle did notresign by 5 p.m. Wednesday,which was the Student Exec-
utive committees request, andsaid they were committed tothe cause o addressing racismon campus. Afer their state-ments, Shegufa Huma, vicepresident o University Senate,outlined a bill o impeachmentthat was served to Senate andSenior Senator Lauren Arney.
Te meeting lasted nearlysix hours. Te roles o Pringle,George and Moon were calledinto question during their offi-cer reports and throughout theevening.
During the meeting, mem-bers o Rock Chalk Invisible
Hawk explained some o theirdemands and fielded questionsrom the audience, whichcomprised student senators,students and aculty.
Full Senate then passed aresolution to support the de-mands afer the Rights Com-mittee passed it last week.Bills addressing the electionspending cap, the Sae CampusAct and general student groupunding were also discussedand passed.
LEADERSHIP
QUESTIONS
Afer confirmation that theywill not be resigning romtheir positions, the leadershipabilities o Pringle, George andMoon were called into ques-tion.
Pringle said she wants to stayin her position because she iscommitted to the issues o di-
versity and inclusivity.Tere are things on campus
that have not been addressedwell enough until this past
week, Pringle said. oday,I stand beore you to let youknow that I did not resign, andI am not leaving this body be-hind, and I still have work todo. Its more than I can imag-ine, but Im going to commitmysel to it.
George said that ollowingthe events o the town hallmeeting last week, he elt re-gret or his inaction.
Since town hall, Ive beendoing a lot o processing andsel-reflection. Ive been re-flecting on what Ive done toaddress these important is-
sues and what student senatehas done. Its easy to go withmy instinct and try to deendmysel and what I thought wasproper measure to get results.But it clearly was not enough,but I acknowledge that and Iam sorry, George said.
Jyleesa Hampton, a graduatestudent in communicationsstudies who attended themeeting, asked George howhe plans to rebuild trust withblack students on campus.
Over this week we were lis-tening and evaluating and nowwe are promoting that action,
George said. And I hope thatour and the eature o the ac-tions we are taking and our e-orts to start having, realizingmistakes we have made in thepast and correct them and thatwe can create trust and I canassure you that I will do all Ican to remedy the problems.
Earlier this semester, Moonwrote a bill to increase theSenate campaign spending caprom $1,000 to $2,000. Te billwas criticized by opponentsor marginalizing candidateswho cannot afford to spend$2,000 on a campaign.
In the meeting on Wednes-day night, Moon said that, a-ter reflection, he understandsthe problems with the spend-ing cap.
IMPEACHMENT
With no resignation romPringle, George or Moon, theprocess or impeachment be-gins.
o move the process orward,the bill needed support rom
20 senators. Te bill, whichincluded a list o 17 reasonsor impeachment, got 27 sig-natures.
Among these reasons werean alleged lack o responserom the three senators afer
the town hall meeting, the sub-mission o alse minutes andailing to address enrollmentand retention rates o studentso color at KU.
AUDIENCE RESPONSE
Afer the statements regard-ing the leaderships decisionsnot to resign, many in the au-dience expressed doubts in theconvictions and ability o Prin-gle, George and Moon to ad-dress the demands presentedby Rock Chalk Invisible Hawkand the needs o the minoritypopulations on campus.
rinity Carpenter, a student,asked Moon whether he be-lieves that he, along with Prin-gle and George, have the skillset and motivation to fix theproblems in Senate.
Moon affirmed his confi-dence in Senate leadership.
I think that we do have theskill set to be able to workwithin administration be ableto take these concerns and findthe solutions that the commu-nity is looking or, Moon said.
I think we have spent our en-tire time in office and these en-tire six months developing theskills that are needed to bestaddress systemic issues in theUniversity.
Alcorn also showed support
or the leadership ability oSenate, particularly Pringle.
Ive been with [Pringle] overthe past six days, working veryclosely with her and I eel like Ihave a very good idea and sheis someone who is very legit-imate in the words that she issaying right now, Alcorn said.She has a conviction morethan ever to help every singlestudent here at KU. Ive seenher real tears about this issue.About what more can we do.We havent been ulfilling ourpromise, and I know that sheis the person who should stay
in office.Some in the audience said
sympathy doesnt equate toleadership.
erri Harvey, a student, askedAlcorn i he believes empathyis equal to tangible actions.
Anyone can take action onanything, Alcorn said. Butwhen it hits you in your heart,when it hits you in your gutthat you need to take actionand that there are people call-ing on you at all time. And
thats what I know shes gointo do moving orward in thaaction. Tat empathy, thasympathy, that tangible action,you mix all o those togeth-er, youve got a leader who ipoised to do whats best or ou
university considering all stu-dents moving orward.
Katherine Rainey, a senioand member o Rock ChalInvisible Hawk, said Pringlshowed empathy and tears atSenate transitional meeting simonths ago about similar is-sues, but no action was taken.
Rainey said she and anoth-er student pulled Pringle anGeorge aside afer senatorwere silenced, and not givethe right to speak. Rainey saithey discussed how that si-lencing will occur again unlesthere is action taken.
In this instance, not onlwere there tears on almoseverybodys part, but speci-ically [Pringle], Rainey saidSo why are her emotions anempathy shown now supposeto validate our reasonings ogiving them a second chancwhen six months ago they dinot?
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Te Black Student Unionaffirmed its support o RockChalk Invisible Hawk whiledistinguishing differencesbetween the two groups in astatement released on uesdayby Black Student Union VicePresident Chancellor Adams.
Adams said that although the
members o BSU understandand support the 15 demandspresented by Rock Chalk In-
visible Hawk, they do notagree with all o their methods.
We understand that theyare fighting or black students,and other underrepresentedgroups on campus, which webelieve everyone should do,and I believe everyone shouldlook into, Adams said. How-ever, our organization and ourboard members and our mem-bers do not approve o all otheir methods. We believe be-ing respectul is key.
Black Student Union Presi-dent Kynnedi Grant has beena major part o the efforts oRock Chalk Invisible Hawk.At the town hall orum onNov. 11, Grant was part o thegroups demonstration whereshe spoke publicly about a hatecrime she said happened toher at a party over Halloweenweekend.
Although Grant is the presi-dent o BSU, Adams said BSUwas not involved in the cre-ation or the actions o RockChalk Invisible Hawk.
BSU was not on the stage
Our president joined RockChalk Invisible Hawk. Butthat is not something she ad-dressed to our exec board, orinvolved any member in BSU,Adams said. Everybody upthere except or our presidentand [a ormer member] werethe only people involved inBSU. No one else was a mem-ber or has paid their dues. SoBSU had no part in that. BSU
cant over-manage people andsay, You cant do this. Tat isnot our responsibility.
In a news conerence onWednesday, Grant said she be-lieves her role in Rock ChalkInvisible Hawk is a part o herposition as BSU president.
BSU was created by BlackPanthers and by doing whatwe are doing, Grant said, Itskind o like that balance obeing in this movement andeducating and uplifing andbringing olks with us on this
journey. Because its not justour fight. Black Student Union
its their fight, she said.Adams said he sees Grants
involvement with Rock ChalkInvisible Hawk as separaterom BSU. However, he saidBSU stands in ull support oher.
We stand in solidarity withKynnedi, Adams said. Wewant Kynnedi to know that sheis a black woman, and we loveher and embrace everythingabout her. But we know thatshes an activist at heart. TatsKynnedi, weve all known thatrom the start, and we love heror that.
But at the end o the day, wejust want her to understandthat shes our president, and
just like people demand stuffrom the senator, we demandstuff rom Kynnedi.
Although Adams said mem-bers o BSU respect Grants de-cision to be involved in RockChalk Invisible Hawk, he saidthe tactics used by Rock ChalkInvisible Hawk do not mirror
BSUs values.For the organization, we
say its separate, Adams said.What people do is what peo-ple do. Our organization be-lieves in being respectul, andi that would have been our or-ganization, it would have gonea lot differently.
Adams said there have beenconversations among BSUmembers regarding the ac-tions o Rock Chalk InvisibleHawk, particularly around theidea o respect.
Its about being proessionaland thats what we do, we cre-
ate uture leaders, and thatsthe reality o it, Adams said.Tose conversations are hardconversations to have. Butthose conversations are need-ed when youre the ace o anorganization.
At the news conerence,Grant said she eels the con-
versation about respectabil-ity is an issue that is beingbrought up to divert attentionaway rom the goals o RockChalk Invisible Hawk.
Te rhetoric o respectabil-ity is something that is alwaysbrought into question when
youre doing something likethis, Grant said. But revolu-tion isnt pretty. Its not cook-ie-cutter either.
Adams said BSU is in ullsupport o the demands madeby Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk.
Tey take steps to makingthe University a better learn-ing and social environment orblack students and other op-pressed populations, Adams
said.However, Adams said he sees
problems when it comes tologistics o the demands, par-ticularly with the tight dead-line o Jan. 19 or a thoroughplan o action rom Universityadministrators. Adams saidhe eels that deadline is notadequate or administrationto make efficient and correctdecisions.
Tose demands are some-thing you need to look into.You dont put anybody intothose positions, Adams said.Te case o where they called
out the proessor or sexual as-sault. Tat takes a ull investi-gation. Tey could put anyonein the OMA. I want somebodywho is thoroughly looked at,who has gone through what-ever interview process they gothrough.
Adams said he eels the townhall orum was a visible signthat administrators care aboutthe needs o students and cre-ating saer campus or minori-ty students.
Te town hall meeting wascreated, in my opinion, or thebetterment o this campus cli-
mate, Adams said. I believethat we had everybody in po-sitions o authority and whocould make change on thiscampus and they wanted tohear what students had to sayand what was going on on thecampus so they could access itand create a better campus cli-mate or students.
Adams said stories likeGrants and those sharedduring the town hall orumare important to continue themomentum created by RockChalk Invisible Hawk. Goingorward, Adams said BSU isready to see more studentsspeaking out about their ex-periences to spur change oncampus.
When you have one personwho decides to get the courageand say, Oh this happened tome, that all o a sudden, it juststarts to spark like wildfire,Adams said.
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Afer the town hall meeting onNov. 11, racism and discrim-ination at the University hasbecome the dominant conver-sation. Troughout the year,several events have contributedto the current campus climate.
Jan. 28: In December, Stu-dent Senate approved the cre-ation o a position that hadbeen in the works or most othe all semester: director odiversity and inclusion. On Jan.28, Jameelah Jones, graduatestudent rom Conyers, Ga., isappointed to the new position.A previous bill to create the
position had been introducedin the Student Senate RightsCommittee and ailed in Octo-ber 2014.
March: A character namedPaco in one Rock Chalk Re-
vue show the first weekend oMarch upsets students in theHispanic American LeadershipOrganization and others oncampus.Paco was a stereotypical
portrayal o a Hispanic manwearing a sombrero, rainbowponcho and drawn-on mus-tache. Many students postedon witter in response to theperormance, using the hashtag#ImNotPaco.Te next week, HALO opens
its weekly meeting to allow thepublic to listen as membersshared how they elt about theincident.Te Office o Multicultural A-
airs also hosts an open orumto discuss race on campus, asthe timing coincided with anincident at Oklahoma Uni-
versitys chapter o Sigma Al-pha Epsilon involving a racistchant.
April 13:University officialsban rom campus a person whowrote racial slurs on a dry-erasecalendar in a students room inMcCollum Hall in November2014.Dates on the calendar were
marked with catch [N-words],eed [N-words], and kill[N-words]. A photo o the cal-endar appeared in a tweet withthe hashtag #RockChalkInvisi-bleHawk.April 27: An Islamophobic
post on the social media appYeti prompts leadership at ZetaBeta au raternity to expelour o its members.A statement Zeta Beta au is-
sued on April 27 says the our
members had been expelledwithin 24 hours o them ad-mitting they had taken partin the 10-second video, whichshowed a ew men laughingas one yelled Allahu Akbar,which means God is greatestin Arabic.
May 1: Blane Harding, or-mer director o the Office oMulticultural Affairs, officiallyresigns.Beore Harding leaves, he
shares some concerns, whichpartly revolved around the di-rection o central leadership at
the University.I just wish that central lead-
ership would do somethingconcrete to support students ocolor, Harding said. How longhave we known the black 6-yeargraduation rate is at 46 percent?wo years. And we still donthave a program in place. Ivebeen saying we need it, the stu-dents have been saying it, theSenate has been saying it, buttheres still nothing concrete inplace. I cant stay around andwatch that anymore.Precious Porras is appointed
as interim director. She said inMay that a national search wasanticipated to begin that monthwith a permanent director tak-ing over by Sept. 1. Te OMAstill does not have a new direc-tor.
June 22: Cassandra Osei, a
2015 graduate, writes a guestcolumn in the Kansan, posingthe question: Do black livesmatter at KU?On top o asking i black lives
matter at KU, I also asked my-sel i I was crazy, she wrote.How is it that majority are notaffected by seeing black peoplebe murdered every week? Howam I expected to attend class,study and ace exams when Imconstantly reminded that I canbe murdered or eating Skit-tles, wearing hoodies, swim-ming, driving, asking or help,playing in the park, breathing,
shopping, minding my ownbusiness or going to church?Is it normal or me and otheraffected students to greet eachother with weary aces, tensenerves, and cynical commentsabout how were next? Wheredo I look or support, i my nat-ural allies themselves are too
weary, i my administrators aretoo araid o political allout, imy proessors and Universityemployees are intimidated bypotential backlash or accusa-tions o avoritism?Sept. 9: Te Office o Multi-
cultural Affairs hosts "MakingBlack Lives Matter: One Year inthe Movement, acilitated byOlubukola Gbadegesin o SaintLouis University and a panel ospeakers.Te next week, campus lead-
ers said they were striving toengage all students in conver-sations about racial inequality.
Oct. 5:KU students join stu-dents rom the University oMissouri in expressing rustra-tion over an incident o racismon campus, using the hashtag#KUstandswithMU.At Missouri, an inebriated
white man interrupts the re-hearsal o an Arican-Americanstudent group's Homecomingperormance. Te man argueswith members o the group be-ore calling them a racial slurwhile on the phone with some-one else.
Nov. 9: Afer more incidentso racism, student protests atthe University o Missouri re-sult in the resignation o UMSystem President im Woleand Chancellor R. Bowen Lo-tin.Te protests begin to reverber-
ate throughout the country asnational news outlets pick upthe story.At KU, students show support
or protesters at Missouri againwith the hashtag #KUstand-swithMU.Nov. 9: At a Black Student
Union meeting, students share
stories o experiencing racismat KU, posting on social mediausing #RockChalkInvisible-Hawk, a hashtag created lastyear by Osei.
Nov. 10: Kynnedi Grant,president o Black StudentUnion, posts a status on Face-book saying she and her riendswere attacked and a gun waspulled on her riends at a par-ty in Lawrence on Halloween.It was shared more than 500times.
Nov. 11: Chancellor Berna-dette Gray-Little moderatesa town hall orum on race,respect and responsibility inresponse to events at MU andother universities. More than1,000 people attend.During the orum, a student
group named Rock Chalk In-visible Hawk takes the stage tointroduce a list o 15 demands
or the University, includinghiring a director o the Officeo Multicultural Affairs by De-cember and banning concealedcarry on campus.Nov. 11: Later that evening,
the Student Senate RightsCommittee eventually passes aresolution in support o the 15demands.Nov. 12: On Wescoe Beach,
Rock Chalk Invisible Hawkmembers stand in solidaritywith Concerned Student 1950at the University o Missouri.Katherine Rainey, a member
o Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk,
says a large ocus o the group ismaking all students eel includ-ed at the University.We truly are looking to bring
other students into this space tomake sure that they are able tohave a conversation, able to eelsae at KU to eel supported,to eel respected, to eel like
they can succeed, Rainey said.Nov. 13: Gray-Little releas-
es a statement, saying that KUwould begin sharing inor-mation on how we will moveorward on this issue togetherearly next week.Other departments, senates
and student groups also beginto release statements in supporto Rock Chalk Invisible Hawkand student calls or change.Nov. 13:A graduate student,
Johnny Cowan, starts a hun-ger strike until the Universityresponds to the 15 demands oRock Chalk Invisible Hawk.
Nov. 13: Later that evening,the Student Executive Com-mittee calls or the resignationso Student Body President Jes-sie Pringle, Student Body Vice
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A timeline of incidents in 2015 leadingto the current racial climate on campus
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Te night beore the first dayo the spring 2007 semester,David Guth, a proessor ojournalism, reviewed his class
rosters and noticed somethingpeculiar all 26 students inhis Strategic Campaigns class
were women.Although there are typically
only a handul o men in theStrategic Campaigns course
every semester, he said he hadnever experienced anything
like this since he began teach-ing the course at the Universityin 1991.
I wondered why this was thecase, Guth said. My wie said,Its because youre so cute, andI told her that I dont think [en-rollment] works that way.
Guths experience was unusu-al, but women have outnum-
bered men in all but one resh-men class since 2002, accordingto the Office o InstitutionalResearch and Planning.
On average, about 133 moreemale students than male haveenrolled as new reshmen eachyear over the past 13 years.However, the 52 percent emaleKU campus is lower than thenational average; according tothe American Council on Ed-ucation, campuses across theU.S. are, on average, 57 percentemale.
Lisa Kress, director o ad-missions, said that while the
University as a whole does notspecifically recruit a certain
gender, there are departmentsand schools that do, such as theSchool o Engineering, whichmakes an effort to recruit wom-en because its current studentpopulation is heavily male.
Despite women being, onaverage, 52 percent o total in-coming reshmen classes, theUniversity has a much closer
male-to-emale ratio comparedwith the rest o the nations col-leges, according to the NationalCenter or Education Statistics.
Tese trends in data romuniversities across the U.S. havesparked questions as to whymore women than men are notonly attending post-secondaryschools, but why more womenare accepted to these schools.
Why are women more likelyto go to college?
Gender stereotypes play a ma-jor role in why women seem tobe more likely to go to collegethan men, according to re-
search by two sociologists.In their book, Te Rise o
Women, Tomas DiPrete oColumbia University and Clau-dio Buchmann o Ohio StateUniversity say that, on average,girls exhibit better social andbehavioral skills than boys andearn higher grades throughoutschool, increasing their chanceso being accepted to college.
But those higher grades dont
necessarily come rom superiorability or intelligence, but rath-er attitude toward school. Girlsare, on average, more inclinedto admit they enjoy school andexpress their value o goodgrades, the authors said. Girls,they say, are more likely to en-gage in their studies while boysbecome less engaged and areless likely to be prepared orcollege.
Daniel Kindlon, a Harvardpsychologist, suggests thatboys could be alling behind inschool because they have ewermale role models during their
primary education.Men may pursue higher ed-
ucation in ewer numbersbecause o the availability oblue-collar jobs in manuac-turing and construction, whichare typically marketed towardmen. Tose jobs generallydont require a college degree.Structural iron and steel work-ers earned a median salary o$46,140 in 2012, as reported by
the U.S. Department o Labor.Te labor department projectsthat, by 2022, employment inthis industry will increase by21.8 percent approximately31,500 additional job opportu-nities.
Guth has yet to encounteranother all-emale class sincespring 2007, but he said he willnever orget that class that ex-pressed sincere kindness andcompassion when his wie diedin the middle o the semester.
I started with 26 women inthe class and ended with 26daughters, Guth said.
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More women than men are enrolling as freshman at KU
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President Zach George andChie o Staff Adam Moon byNov. 18 at 5 p.m. yler Chil-dress, finance committee chair,presented a document detailingreasons or a vote o no confi-dence in their leadership.Nov. 14:Pringle, George and
Moon respond to the calls orresignation with a statementsaying that they would publisha plan to address Rock ChalkInvisible Hawks 15 demandsearly the next week.Black lives matter. Black lives
matter at the University o Kan-sas, the statement reads.Nov. 15: An online petition
suraces calling or Pringle,George and Moon to resign.Te petition reads in part:
Te lack o meaningul ac-tion, advocacy, and respect insupporting black students andother students o color gravely
threatens the Senates missiono maintaining strong connec-tions with student body andKU community, and inhibits itsability to address and developsolutions to acing the studentbody, including black studentsand students o color.Nov. 16: An online count-
er-petition suraces calling orPringle, George and Moon tostay in office and or senators to
reject any impeachment mea-sures.Tat petition reads in part:
Change must occur throughconversation, however difficultor ugly it is. I conversationdoes not change the environ-ment on campus, change mustoccur through the democraticprocess in the spring elections.Forcing officials to resign be-cause o a difference o opinionor difference on the process toachieve these goals, it sets a ter-rible precedent or uture dem-
ocratic processes. Althoughimportant to address the cul-tural inadequacies o our Uni-
versity, it is important to notethat allowing a small group opeople to dictate the policies oa university begins a dangerousprecedent.Nov. 16: Cowan ends his
hunger strike afer more than70 hours without ood. In astatement, he said he was end-
ing it because it was gainingattention or the wrong reasons.It is not my place to act with-
out guidance o oppressed peo-ple, Cowan said in a statement.Nov. 16: Student Senate re-
leases an 11-item action plan toaddress issues o diversity, dis-crimination and other issues.Te first issue and subpointsreer to making Senate moreinclusive. o achieve what a cam-
pus needs to be inclusive andsupport its students, it begins
with actions. Te work to cre-ate a campus that recognizesits pitalls, but yearning to bebetter, continues to exist. But,it adapts, the statement reads.o be better is a continual pro-cess o reevaluation. StudentSenate, and the University oKansas, must move orwardand lead this conversation na-tionwide, and within our com-munities."
Nov. 17:Provost Jeffrey Vit-ter, in a campus-wide email,asserts that the institution weare today is not the institutionwe strive to be, or need to be."We are assembling a small
advisory team o aculty, stu-dents, staff, and administrators.Te group will deliver an actionplan by mid-January that ad-dresses challenges put orwardby Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk,as well as concerns rom othersat the orum, he wrote in theemail. Te action plan will
target retention and gradua-tion rates o students, in addi-tion to mandatory education,through acilitated sessions, oninclusion and belonging or allstudents, aculty, staff, and ad-ministrators and a plan or ac-countability.Nov. 17:A screenshot circu-
lating on social media purportsto show a conversation betweenBlack Student Union President
Kynnedi Grant and UniversitySenate Vice President ShegufaHuma. Te conversation asit appeared in the screenshotshows Huma editing Grantswritten account o a hate crimeRock Chalk Invisible Hawk
releases a statement saying thatthe screenshots were abricated.
Te Kansan will update thistimeline online at Kansan.comas this story develops.
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On Monday, a column au-thored by Gov. Sam Brown-back was released in whichhe explained his decision tosign an executive order di-recting that no state agencyor organization receivinggrant money rom the statewill participate in or assistin any way in the relocationo Syrian reugees in Kan-
sas. His decision was madeater the terrorist attacks inParis last Friday.
Brownback claims he tookthis action to protect thesaety o Kansas citizens.Brownback attributes thisto the belie that the ederal
government cannot guar-antee that Syrian reugeescoming into America wouldnot be part o a terrorist or-ganization seeking to harmour citizens, and he calls oncountries who are geograph-ically closer to Syria to stepup and help instead.
What Brownback hasmissed, though, is that theU.S. has a responsibilityto help relocate displacedSyrians because we helped
displace them in the irstplace. he U.S. must acceptthe consequences o militaryaction that they continueto participate in. he U.S.,Kansas being no exception,should be held accountableor its active role in creating
the Syrian conlict.Laith Shakir, a ellow o the
Next Leaders program at theInstitute or Policy Studiesin Washington, D.C., saidU.S. policies have contribut-ed to the destabilization othe Middle East generallyin almost innumerable ways,[and] at least three directlylink the country to the waveo Syrians leeing violence:racturing Iraq, prolierat-ing arms throughout the
region and continuing airstrike operations againstthe Islamic State. Despiteits active participation inthe cause o the crisis, theU.S. has accepted only 1,500o the more than 4 millionSyrians who have led their
home, said Shakir.Some individuals may be
concerned that opening thecountrys door to reugeeswill mean giving potentialterrorists access to the U.S.However, the people whoare making the extremelydiicult trek to Americaare mostly doing so to lee
viol ence and destr uct ion,not to create it.
It is relevant to comparethis crisis to the displace-
ment o Iraqis, o whom theU.S. has legally relocatedalmost 100,000, accordingto the U.S. Department oState Fact Sheet on reugeesettlement. Likewise, theUnited States does not grant
just anyone asylum. here is
even an application processor reugees looking to enterthe United States, in orderto protect against criminalsor potential threats.
As a country, we are notonly able to but should eelobligated to help Syrianreugees. America hasplayed an undeniable partin creating the violence anddestruction these reugeesare leeing. here is no rea-son that we should not step
up to the plate and acceptSyrian reugees.
Rachel Gonzales is a juniorfrom Ft. C ollin s, Colo., s tudy-ing journalism and sociology.
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Last week, a string o terror-ist attacks in Paris promptedworldwide outcry. Public offi-cials, celebrities and everydaycitizens changed their profilepictures and poured out their
hearts in posts and speeches.People rom every nation,religion, race and ethnicitygrieved or Paris.
While this sympatheticgesture is an appropriateresponse to senseless terror,one has to ask why it takesa massive attack on a majorWestern city to rouse peoples
sympathy.It is imperative that people
eel this level o sympathy orthose o different nations at alltimes, not just during times ocrisis and not just in nationssimilar to ours.
We live in a global com-munity where people oncedistant are now reliant on oneanother or security, polit-ical stability and economicsuccess. We need to care aboutwhats going on in the globalcommunity and recognizethat we share a common atein an interdependent world.Whats going on in Paris orBrunei or Syria will not stayconfined to narrow geograph-
ic boundaries.Beyond being concerned
or others who are differentrom us, we have to act on thisconcern. One key method isthrough oreign aid. Far rombeing the waste o money, fi-nancial aid or struggling anddeveloping nations provides amassive return on investmentthrough regional stability, eco-nomic development and betterlives or local inhabitants.
Famed economist JeffreySachs writes about oreignaids importance, arguing,Te opponents o aid are notmerely wrong. Teir vocalantagonism still threatens theunding that is needed to get
the job done, to cut child andmaternal deaths and to con-tinue afer that to ensure thatall people everywhere finallyhave access to basic healthservices.
Indeed, Sachs gets to theheart o the problem in hisbook, Te End o Poverty.In discussing why the UnitedStates does not respond to thesuffering o much poorer na-tions hunger, ethnic strie,political instability, terrorism he argues we simply dontcare as much about them aswe do about our ellow West-ern democracies.
Sachs elaborates, Deepdown, i we really accept that
their lives ... are equal to ours,we would all be doing moreto put the fire out. It is anuncomortable truth.
We must realize that whatgoes on beyond our bordersintimately affects our livesand our uture, regardless owhether people are differentrom us. Trough sympatheticprograms like oreign aid,we can work toward a saer,healthier and better world.Trough mutual concern, wecan build a better world.
Jesse is a junior from Quintermajoring in history, politicsand economics.
Edited by Rebecca Dowd
Concern for events and tragedies around theworld is necessary, no matter which country
JESSE BURBANK@JBurbank1
Letter to the editor: Sound, fury and sense
Over dinner, I told myhusband about the town hall
meeting. He then asked me:what do people have to beangry about at the Universityo Kansas?
I take a deep breath, ready toattack. Being a black womanall my lie, Im usually at-the-ready to address these sorto inquiries. Tree semesterso teaching Diversity in theMedia at the KU-Lawrencecampus has helped me attackwith finesse. But first, I pause.
I have never elt like I wasmistreated because o my racein the KU School o Journal-ism or KU Medical the twoplaces I attend class and work.Honestly, I was not aware othe extent o equity issues oncampus until last weeks townhall. Maybe, I live a moreclosed-off lie as a graduatestudent. Maybe, I am lucky.However, I imagine that manyother students o color, as wellas other minorities have nothad the same experience.
Staring at the ceiling, Ireminisce about my journeyto Lawrence, Kansas. I grewup on the east coast, and have
previously lived and attendedinstitutions in Maryland andSouth Dakota. I know what itis like to be the only black per-
son in a classroom, or even anacademic department. It canbe lonely, and yes, sometimesyou eel the eyes o curiosity,
judgement, and even hate.Statistics, I say.What do you mean?I start rambling off the
acts. Or, these things I havebeen led to believe all o mylie. Because I am black, I amautomatically less likely tosucceed. Because I graduatedrom high school, college,have a masters degree, andam likely to finish my doctoraldegree, I am a super-minority.
Or, a token, as someone oncerecently told me. Yet, thereshope. Because I am a blackwoman, I am not as likely asmy brothers to have a run inwith the justice system. Still,it hurts to see another storyon my Facebook or wittereed o yet another black bodybeaten, bruised, broken, oreven killed at the hands o thelaw every other day. I still haveto be careul though, becausesince I am black, this is morelikely to happen to me. I keep
my cellphone camera on themain screen.
I tell him that I have beenexoticized, excluded, and
judged because o my black-ness. Even more disturbing,I tell him that at least sincethird grade, I have beencomplimented despite o myblackness. I am so articulate,or a black person. I am sosmart, or a black person. Iam nice, or a black person.Are you mixed? a commonquestion Ive received. Quali-fied, judged, made to eel likeI am an exception to all themother olks, these micro- andmacro- aggressions that are sothick in my memory that I cancut them with a knie.
I I have been told thesethings, I cant imagine whatother black college studentshave been, and are being told.What are black people in gen-eral being told? What wouldthat collection o stories looklike? Pain, hurt, rustration anger.
o add insult to injury, weare told that the problemscannot be that bad. Look atSyria? Invalidated.
Just because we do not seethe problems, does not mean
they do not exist.A ew days later, we revisit
the topic. I understand, hesays over dinner. I reminded
him about the own Hallmeeting where demands werelisted. Strong voices withstrong messages importantmessages rang across theauditorium. I was proud, but
very, deeply concerned.We look at the list o de-
mands on his phone. Someo these demandsyeah,that probably should happen.Some o these others, can KUreally do anything about it?
Probably not, I bite into ary, something needs to bedone, but this probably wasnot the best way.
Various conversations overthe next ew days with peoplein Kansas and across thecountry fill my head. As aounding member o a BSUat the University o SouthDakota, as a representativeor several diversity initiativesacross a ew institutions, Ireflect on all o the meetings,paperwork, and rustrationthat mysel and others havedealt with. Research, collabo-ration, discourse: it was hardwork. But, I also remember
the success.Tere is a lot o legitimate
sound and ury over equity is-sues at the University o Kan-
sas. It is important, even moreso in light o recent events,that we use our platorms,whether you are a transerreshman in a class o 300 oran administrator, to promoteand realize diversity on ourcampus. No, not just racialdiversity and equity butalso gender, GLB, religion,nationality, disability, andsocial economic status, andmore, should be addressed.However, raw emotion andunrealistic and undirected de-mands are not the oundationo a road to lasting, impacting,
and meaningul change.What we need now are
actionable plans. Weve got thesound and ury; now we needsome sense.
Monique L. R. Luisi is athird-year doctoral student
from Burtonsvill, Md.,studying journalism and masscommunications.
MONIQUE LUISI
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WHATS YOUR SIGN?
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Success is a unny word, saidLara Tomas Ducey, companymanager or Buran Teatre,because what success meansto one person can mean some-thing completely different or atheater company.Buran Teatre was created at
the University in 2006 whileounders Lara Tomas Duceyand Adam Burnett were goingto school. Henry Bial, associ-ate dean o the School o Arts,assisted them in ounding thetheater, which was not official-ly ormed until 2008.Burnett said the ensemble
has between 60 to 80 companymembers and about 25 percentare KU alumni.Ducey said she and Burnett
started the theater becausethey loved the University Te-atre and were heavily involvedin it.We kind o wanted to do
something on our own, so itwas a chance to make newwork independent o thestructures o the Universityand see where that took us,Ducey said.
Burnett and Ducey both
graduated rom the Universi-ty in 2008. Burnett earned his
degree in theatre and Duceyearned her degrees in theatre,film, and English.Afer graduation, the two col-
leagues went in separate direc-tions; Burnett moved to NewYork and Ducey moved to LosAngeles.
While the two were living inseparate cities, Buran Teatrecontinued to grow. Burnettcontinued to direct new plays,and Ducey said the process hascontinued to be very amilial.While Burnett directs romLos Angeles, the theater ismainly a touring company.Everyone who wants to be
[at Buran Teatre] has grav-itated towards there because
o their desire to be there, notbecause its the only place to dowork, Ducey said.While Buran Teatre has
had many successes, such as"Nightmares: A Demonstra-tion o the Sublime," Duceyhopes its next play will be thenewest success."Mammoth," a play written
and directed by Burnett, o-cuses on themes such as emo-tional loss, extinction, globalwarming and human condi-tion patterns. Te play ocuseson two mammoth tusk hunt-ers that discover each other in
the wild and go on a journeytogether that transports themthrough many different cli-mate variations, Burnett said.Burnett said he elt a play like
this wasnt being represent-ed on stage and that peoplerun rom topics like climatechange. He said he wanted towrite a play that tapped intothe emotional experience oloss but on a much more inti-mate and personal level.When writing, I ocused
more on romantic and inti-mate loss as a way to tap intothe larger issues o how our
world is changing and how wemight be a part o that, Bur-
nett said.As to why Burnett wrote a
play about mammoths, hesaid there is a lot going onwith reviving extinct species,and mammoths have beenthe main ocus o that. Hefinds the idea o bringing backmammoths unathomable andalmost cartoon-like.I became obsessed with that
and how we project emotionsand personalities, not just onanimals, but those we are clos-est to and those we love themost, Burnett said.Ducey said she hopes the
audience walks out eelingstrongly about the topics andbegins to think about them.I dont care i they hated it;
hopeully they love it, but Iwant them to have a strong re-action to what they saw, Du-cey said. Anytime an audienceleaves saying, Oh, that wasnice, its kind o like, Oh, youdidnt eel anything, you didntexpand in some way.Burnett said he has never
liked to put too much on au-dience expectation and whathe wants rom audience mem-bers.
I anything, its to take some-thing away rom this medita-
tive state and be able to dreamabout it and hope the languageand imagery stays with them,Burnett said. And a month ortwo later, [the audience] willbe thinking about somethingand suddenly this play willhave meaning."Mammoth" is being shown at
Highways Perormance Spacein Los Angeles Nov. 20 and 21at 8:30 p.m. Afer the show inLos Angeles, the theatre willtake the show to Albuquerque,where it will be perormedDec. 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. Teplay will make it to Lawrence
in January, according to thetheater's website.As or the uture o Buran
Teatre, Ducey sees it continu-ing to expand and have moreplaces to perorm. She said shewants the theatre to becomebi-coastal.I cant get away rom the
eeling o live perormanceand being in a space with anaudience, Ducey said. We arecommunally breathing and ex-periencing what is happeningon the stage together, and youcant get that in film or .V.
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BRIANNA CHILDERS@breeanuhh3
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Kristina Haruna Lee and Tina Shepard in Mammoth.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Erin Mallon and Starr Busby in Mammoth.
I cant get away fromthe feeling of live per-formance and being in aspace with an audience.... We are communallybreathing and experienc-
ing what is happening onthe stage together, andyou cant get that in filmor T.V.
LARA THOMAS DUCEY
Alumnis touring ensemble presents Mammoth
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Alzheimers disease is thesixth leading cause of deathin America and the onlycause of death in the top 10without a method for pre-
venting , curing or slowingits progression, according tothe Alzheimers Association.
Hilarity for Charity ismeant to promote aware-ness to campuses and helpcollege students cope withfamily members who havethe disease.
Even though we are justone school, we can make abig difference, Kesler said.
Kesler is a committee mem-ber for Hilarity for Charity,and her job is to tel l studentsabout the organization andsell tickets for t he show. heshow is at 7 p.m. on Nov. 19at Liberty Hall.
It will consist of perfor-mances by the Sharp Sisters,Captiva, stand-up comedi-ans, and it will have a live
auction.Kesler said she has seen
the impact of HFC throughCrowdrise, a fundraisingwebsite that keeps track of
how much other universitieshave raised.
Despite his pending gradu-ation, Ashley kept the groupgoing and passed the torchto Sarah Graves, a seniorfrom Colorado, and KeatonPrather, a senior from Ster-ling.
Rogen started the organi-zation nationally to get peo-ple in the millennial gener-ation aware of Alzheimers
disease," Graves said. "[Ourgoal is to] bring awarenessto campus and hopefullycure Alzheimers.
Hilarity for Charity is oneof the only organizations oncampus related to Alzhei-mers. Graves said she choseto get involved because sherealized that Alzheimersalso affects people in collegewho have family memberswho suffer from the disease.
[Im] motivated by thelack of people our age try-ing to make a difference,
Graves said.As director of sponsorship,Crysta Moon, a sophomorefrom Overland Park, saidshe joined because she sawthe opportunity to get in-
volved with this great neworganization on campus.
[I also l ike that] they dontkeep any money for them-selves," Moon said. "heygive it all to the organiza-tion."
In its first year, KU Hilar-ity for Charity raised morethan $5,000, the third largestamount out of all the uni-
versit ies that participated,Graves said. Moon said the
organization continues togrow, which provides moreopportunities for students toget involved.
Ashley said he attributesHilarity for Charity's success
in its first year to his friendson campus who supportedhis vision for the organiza-tion.
My executive board wasmade up of close fri ends andfraternity brothers who wereall already proven, passion-ate leaders on campus, Ash-ley said.
But the goal of Hilarity forCharity at the University hasnot only been to raise funds.
It's also a platform for com-munity support.
Alzheimers gets so littleattention compared to othercauses so I am hoping thatKU HFC creates a voice forthose affected by Alzhei-mers and inspires them to
join in the f ight too, Ashleysaid.
He added: I am passion-ate about HFC because Ihave seen the devastatingeffects of Alzheimers Dis-ease firsthand and hope thatsomeday soon no one has to
see their grandfather forgettheir name or their mothercome home from the nurs-ing home tired, sad and ex-hausted after care giving allday."
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In this Sept. 10, 2015 file photo, director Michael Moore
attends the Where to Invade Next premiere at the
Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. Moore
is protesting the R rating given to his upcoming
documentary Where to Invade Next by the Motion
Picture Association of America. Moore said in astatement Monday, Nov. 2, that the MPAA gave his film
an R rating for language, some violent images, drug
use and brief graphic nudity. In the film, Moore travels
abroad to co-opt civic ideas he believe would help the
United States.
MOORE FROMPAGE 8
his way.Moore also stirred up some
harsh reactions in 2014 whenhe gave his opinion on snipers.Although he didnt mention any-thing about the film AmericanSniper, based on the true storyof United States Navy SEALChris Kyle, it is likely that itinspired his tweet.
My uncle killed by sniper
in WW2. We were taught
snipers were cowards.
Will shoot u in the back.
Snipers aren't heroes. And
invaders r worse
@MMFlint
It is unclear what is next inMoores battle with the MPAA,and it is likely that this isnt
the last of it. Te controversialfilmmaker will continue to becontroversial. Where to invadenext? For Moore, its the MPAA.
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As the State o Kansas contin-ues to work to repair budget is-sues, ederal unding or the artsmay be cut.
Te State General Fund is es-timated to decrease by $353.6
million over fiscal years 2016-17,according to the state's consen-sus revenue report. Kansas mightlose ederal art dollars becausethe state is underunding art pro-grams.
Sarah Bishop, director o grantsand special projects at the Law-rence Arts Center, said that thecuts on art unding will have animpact on not only Lawrence,but also the Lawrence Arts Cen-ter and Free State Festival.
Te idea behind the grant wasthat when you put art and artistsat the center o the community,you are generating socio-eco-
nomic benefits or the entirecommunity, Bishop said.
Te Lawrence community re-ceives a lot o their unds romthe Kansas Creative Arts Indus-tries Commission and the largestgrant it has offered is the CreativeEconomy Support Grant, Bishopsaid. Te grant that offered up to$175,000 was cut rom the pro-gram.
Aside rom the Creative Econ-omy Support Grant, KCAIC hastwo other grant programs: a stra-tegic investment program and
arts integration program. Teseprograms offer only around$5,000, which is $170,000 shorto the original grant amount.
However, Bishop said the ArtsCenter is a strong organizationwith a $2.5 million budget and isalso unded by private donations,ederal grants and public grantsat the state level.
Generally when you takemoney away rom a state artsagency, we believe that has con-sequences or the entire state oKansas as well as the art culturein all states, Bishop said.
Bishop said she thinks that theramifications are not usually ob-
vious but rather indirect.When you have less grant
unding, it makes it harder to domore art projects, which means[art programs] cant hire artistsand they dont have money,Bishop said. Tere are a lot oconsequences but they are more
long term.Bishop said the short-termproblems affect gaining moregrant dollars whereas the long-term effects have more o animpact on the economy and artindustry.
Te decrease in arts undingdoesn't look like it will affect theUniversity's art history program,the chair o the art history de-partment, David Cateoris, con-firmed in an email. He also saidthat the art history departmentdoes not receive state arts und-ing.
Henry Bial, associate dean othe College o Liberal Arts andSciences and Director o theSchool o Arts, said because theUniversity is a state agency, theyhave never been eligible or di-rect support or the Kansas ArtsCommission.
Despite that, the University willeel the unding cuts indirectly,
Bial said. Art research requiresmoney and those researchersneed support at a state and ed-eral level.
"Reduced unding or the artsmeans reduced grant opportu-nities or students and acultyresearch, and ewer opportuni-ties or students to access the artsoff-campus," Bial said.
Bial added that many o the artgraduate students go on to workin the non-profit arts sector andreduced public unding mayaffect their prospects or utureemployment.
On a city level, the LawrenceArts Center had planned on ap-plying or the Creative EconomySupport Grant in partnershipwith Lawrence to help und theFree State Festival.
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Native American HeritageMonth is observed each No-vember to promote awarenessand understanding o the UnitedStates indigenous peoples.
Here are six things you need to
know about the month:
1. It has roots in Lawrence:
In 1915 afer holding its annualmeeting in Lawrence, Arapa-ho minister Reverend ShermanCoolidge, the president o theSociety o American Indians,called upon the country to setaside a day o observance orNative Americans. Shortly afer,Coolidge issued a proclamationthat declared the second Satur-day o May as American IndianDay. Te same document alsoappealed or U.S. citizenship orAmerican Indians, but it wouldnot be granted until 1924.
2. It took more than 80
years to achieve a full
month of observance:
In 1992, the 500th anniversaryo Christopher Columbus ar-rival in the western hemisphere,President George H.W. Bushdesignated November as Na-
tional American Indian HeritageMonth. He also declared the en-tirety o 1992 as the Year o theAmerican Indian.
3. A new proclamation is
issued each year:
Presidents Bill Clinton andGeorge W. Bush continued to
issue yearly proclamations toobserve November as Nation-al American Indian HeritageMonth rom 1994 to 2007. Itwasnt until 2008 that PresidentObama changed the name to Na-tive American Heritage Month.
4. Native American Heri-
tage Month is also known
as...
American Indian and AlaskaNative Heritage Month to in-clude those who do not identiywith the Native American title.Tis includes Inuit peoples, whodifferentiate themselves rom the
tribes o the continental U.S. be-cause o their distinct languagesand history.
5. Native American isnt
necessarily the preferred
term:
Always reer to someone bytheir tribal identification whenpossible. Lakota activist RussellMeans amously rejected the
term, saying: I preer the termAmerican Indian because I knowits origins. ... As an added distinc-tion the American Indian is theonly ethnic group in the UnitedStates with the American beoreour ethnicity. Some historicalfigures such as Crazy Horse andSitting Bull proudly reerred to
themselves as Indian. erms suchas First Nations (more commonin Canada) and indigenous areused as well.
6. There are 566 federal-
ly recognized tribes in the
U.S.:
Te Navajo tribe is the largestwith more than 300,000 mem-bers. Tere are also many moretribes that do not have ederalrecognition.
Te closing ceremony or Na-tive American Heritage Monthwill be streamed online Nov. 18
starting at 10 a.m. ES and willeature a lecture rom KevinWashburn, the Assistant Secre-tary or Indian Affairs at the De-partment o the Interior.
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Academy Award winningdocumentary filmmakerMichael Moore is known or hisoutspoken belies, which ofencauses controversy to ollow.
His newest documentary,Where to Invade Next, hasunsurprisingly ollowed suit.Te Motion Picture Associationo America (MPAA) has givenhis eature an R rating, whichcaused great backlash rom the61-year-old filmmaker.
Moore has promoted his
newest eature since it debuted atthe oronto International FilmFestival in September. Sincethe news broke about its rating,Moore said in an USA odayarticle the MPAA's decision ispolitically charged, and he isupset because he wants as manypeople to see the film as possible.
Moore took to witter, his re-quented outlet or opinions, toexplain his side o the argument.
(1/5)Jeez. Once again theMPAA has given a film ofmine an "R" rating, citing
"violence, drug use & brief
graphic nudity." Here's thetruth:(2/5) The "violence" in
WHERE TO INVADE NEXTis footage of the NYPDofficers killing an unarmedEric Garner on a StatenIsland sidewalk.(3/5) The "drug use"
in WHERE TO INVADENEXT is me showing howPortugal ended their "waron drugs". Haven't arresteda 1 drug user in 15yrs.(4/5) The "brief nudity"
in my film is 2 secs of Ger-
mans whose health care
card gives em 3 free wks@ a spa if stressed. Don'tshow us that!(5/5) That's what the
MPAA doesn't want teen-agers 2 see w/o parentalsupervision. As always,teens: You know what 2do, u know how 2 get in. @MMFlint
According to a Variety article,Moore plans on appealing thedecision, which isnt the firsttime he's had a tussle with theMPAA. o Moores disappoint-
ment, many o his other films,
including Fahrenheit 9/11,have been given an R rating.Famed film critic Roger Ebertalso criticized the MPAA in thearticle or giving Moores filmBowling or Columbine thesame rating.
It is all still up in the air. As onow, Where to Invade Nexthas an R rating. I things go asthey have in the past, Moore willput up a fight. He will express hisopinions regardless o what oth-ers think, as he did during hisacceptance speech in 2002 whenhe won the Academy Award or
best documentary eature.
Despite receiving a standingovation when his documentarywas announced as the winner,his speech garnered an oppositereaction. Rather than recitingsomething lighter and conven-tional, Moore took the time toshare his opinion o PresidentGeorge W. Bush and the War onerror that began just afer 9/11.Moore was played off by musicand lef the stage while peoplecontinued to throw harsh boos
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or some University students, Alzheimer's disease has become a part o their dailylie.
hose personal experiences have inspired the leaders o KU Hilarity or Charity, a
variet y bene it show, to help other students aected by amily members wit h Alzheimers.Jordan Ashley, a recent graduate rom Olathe, started the organization last year ater he
saw Seth Rogen testiying beore Congress in spring 2014.he day I watched this video was just a couple short weeks ater my grandather lost his
ight against Alzheimers, so Seths conviction and passion or speaking up or those whohave been aected by the disease real ly hit home, Ashley said.
When he heard about Hilarity or Charity University, he was prompted to bring it to KU.I knew I could do my part in the ig ht and honor the memory o my grandad and honor
the sacriices o my grandmother, mom and other amily members who sel lessly gave somuch to care or my g randad, Ashley said.
It was similar or Katy Kesler, a junior rom Overland Park. During amily gatheringsand the holidays, Kesler watched as her grandma became lost and conused.
Keslers grandma, who is currently ighting Alzheimer's, looked around at the smilingaces, overwhelmed and trying to igure out who they were. When someone mentionedher sons name, she did not know who he was.
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it all in, when she real ly is having a hard time tr ying to igure out what's going on and whoshe is surrounded by," Kesler said.
Kesler said her grandma is why she got involved with Hilarity or Charity at the Uni-versity.
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Te regular season or No. 9Kansas volleyball is drawingto a close. Te Jayhawks havethree more matches lef be-ore Selection Sunday or theNCAA ournament on Nov.29.
Up next or the Jayhawks isa road trip to Morgantown,W.Va., to ace the West Virgin-ia Mountaineers.
When West Virginia came toLawrence in early October, aew games into the conerenceseason, Kansas swept them inthree sets.
Kansas was 15-0 then. WestVirginia was 5-10.
Kansas has dropped twomatches since the two schoolslast played. West Virginia haslost all 10. And every match,with the exception o one, wasa sweep on their opponents'end.
West Virginia has yet to win aconerence match. It's the onlyschool in the Big 12 without aconerence win.
Stat sheet
West Virginia registers lastin the conerence in all sev-en team statistics hittingpercentage, opponent hitting
percentage, assists per set, killsper set, blocks per set, serviceaces per set and digs per set.
Kansas is first or second ineach o those statistics, withthe exception o digs per set,where Kansas ranks No. 4 inthe Big 12.
Individually, our West Vir-ginia players are on the top 10charts in the Big 12 comparedto Kansas' 13.
Awards roundup
Te Academic All-Big 12awards were released this weekand six Jayhawks made thelist. Junior setter Maggie An-derson, junior middle blocker
Janae Hall, sophomore outsidehitter Madison Ridgon, juniormiddle blocker ayler Soucieand junior libero Cassie Waitwere tabbed to the first team.Sophomore setter Ainise Havi-li was named to the secondteam.
Tree West Virginia volley-ball players Gianna Gotter-ba, Morgan Montgomery andHannah Shreve were named tothe academic first team as well.
Match details
First serve between Kansasand West Virginia is at 2:30p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 21.
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CHICAGO While theKansas Jayhawks were set totake on the Michigan StateSpartans in Chicago at theChampions Classic, reshmanphenom Cheick Diallos eligi-bility was still up in the air.
On uesday, the Kansanspoke with Seth Davis, collegebasketball reporter or SportsIllustrated and CBS Sports andhost o Te Seth Davis Showon Campus Insiders, about theDiallo situation. Here is theperspective he offered.
On the entire process:
Te process thats set up
is set up because the schoolswant this process. So whenpeople keep saying, Well theNCAA is taking too long, well,Kansas is the NCAA. So, the
rustrating part or everybodyis that theres just not a lot ogood inormation. We dontreally know why its taking aslong as it is.
Tey say that 99 percent
o the cases just kind o flythrough no problem. And thisis really the only lingering one,and with international kids,its even more complicated. Soits easy to sit back and play tothe cheap seats to be honest and say, Oh, whats takingthem so long? Well, only thepeople involved know whatstaking so long, and the NCAAby rule and by law cannot re-lease this inormation.
On what he would
change with the way its
set up now:
I Im looking to changesomething Im not lookingto make it aster or slower,
(although) obviously aster isalways going to be better Iwould like there to be rules inplace where they can be moretransparent what I find iswhen you dig, and you really
get to some answers, it doesbecome clear more ofen thannot that theres a legitimatereason why it takes as long asit does.
On why the current
policies are in place:
I was actually just in thenational office, meeting withOliver Luck, and I askedthis question: Why are youguys even in the eligibilitybusiness? And his answerwas, Because thats what theschools want. Te act is thatKansas does not trust schoolX, Y, Z, A, B or C to be aboveboard, on the level, as ar aswho theyre admitting into the
school. Tey want some kindo saety net where people arelooking at transcripts, lookingat academic qualifications, andmaking sure students who are
being admitted to college legit-imately belong there.Tis is what the schools want.
Tey dont trust each other.I thats what they want then
thats what they have, but youhave to be careul what youwish or.
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Kansas and West Virgin-ia are connected, despite the900 miles in between the two
states.Te link started with Kansas
coach David Beaty's playingdays.
We actually played againsteach other. He was a heck o aplayer, Beaty said about WestVirginia coach Dana Holgors-en, who played at Iowa Wes-leyan while Beaty was at Lin-denwood.
Te connection betweenBeaty and Holgorsen began in1991. Even now, Kansas offen-sive scheme has ties to WestVirginia and Holgorsen.
I you do the research backto where the air raid started,[Iowa Wesleyan], that's kind owhere it was developed," Beatysaid.
Despite those small connec-tions, Kansas and West Virgin-ia are quite different. However,that connection doesn't takeaway rom the biggest differ-ence between the teams. Kan-sas is looking or its first wino the season; West Virginia isseeking a big win over Kansas,on the verge o becoming eligi-ble or a postseason bowl spot.
Tey get a chance to be
bowl eligible i they get thisone," Beaty said. "So there isplenty o motivation or thoseguys coming into this gamethis week you can see themimproving. Tis is no smalltask or us. It's no differentthan playing any other Big 12games."
Even with West Virginiasadditional motivation, Kansasstill has a reason to be hope-ul. With two home games re-maining in the season, Kansasis determined to get its first
win o the season against WestVirginia or Kansas State.
Were trying to go 2-0 inthese last games," said seniordeensive end Ben Goodman,who is tied or third on the
team in sacks and leads theteam with tackles or loss. "Wedefinitely want to beat WestVirginia and we or sure wantto beat Kansas State.
Kansas has a couple actorson its side. Te first actor:both o these final games are atMemorial Stadium. Beaty hada lot to say about Jayhawk ans,and how they can help themdown the stretch.
I keep saying it, man, theJayhawk Nation, that's themagic," Beaty said. "Tere are
very ew places in the worldthat are like this.
Te second actor: neither othese teams would be classi-fied as the elite Big 12 teams.Kansas State has had to dealwith injuries to key playersand is the only other team inthe Big 12 that does not haveat least two wins. West Virgin-ia recently lost by 30 to CU, acouple o weeks beore Kansasonly ell by six.
Tat doesnt mean WestVirginia will be an easy win.Deensive coordinator ClintBowen had high praise or twoWest Virginia running backs
Wendell Smallwood and Rush-el Shell.Both o them are good,"
Bowen said. "Both o themare physical runners. Teyredownhill runners. [Tey]make you miss.
Kansas deense perormanceagainst CU also has Bowenoptimistic or the uture. TeJayhawks held the HornedFrogs' offense second in thecountry at the time to only26 points at home.
I think the big thing is, weve
been close on a ew game,"Bowen said. "Te biggest thingI want to take out o the CUgame is, they stuck to the plan."
Te last time West Virgin-ia came to Memorial Stadi-
um, Kansas snapped its 27game losing streak in the Big12. Behind 211 yards and 3touchdowns rom runningback James Sims, Kansasdowned West Virginia, 31-19.Te Mountaineers have vast-ly improved since that game,though.
Tere might not be any GenoSmiths or avon Austins onthis roster, but there are stilltalented players.
Tey have some athletes onthat side o the ball so weregoing to account or them andplay our best, said sophomorelinebacker Joe Dineen, who issecond on the team with 59tackles.
Te Lawrence native still ac-knowledges that against mostBig 12 teams, theres a bit o atalent gap.
Its just confidence," Dineensaid. "You go into every gameexpecting to win but you alsoknow where their athletes areand where they stand.
David Beaty echoed thatstatement, which is a messagehe's continued to preach, weekafer week.
Tey continue to believe,"Beaty said. "Tat's because ourcoaches worked really hard toshow them how they're im-proving and where they start-ed and where they're comingrom.
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On uesday morning, theLos Angeles Athletics Clubannounced Kansas seniororward Perry Ellis had beennamed to the John R. Wood-en Award Preseason op 50.On uesday night, against theMichigan State Spartans in theChampions Classic, the stagewas set or him to show exact-
game or Kansas, and he hadat least hal o the teams pointsor nearly 12 minutes in thefirst period.
Ellis came into the game 10points off o Aaron Miles or36th all-time in scoring atKansas. He easily passed thatmark in the first hal, and theteam was rolling.
Te Jayhawks jumped outto a double-digit lead, and itseemed like there wouldnt bean answer or Ellis all night
on, as the lead slowly slippedaway. Michigan State would goon to win, 79-73, handing theJayhawks their first loss o theyear and their second straightloss at the Champions Classic.
We werent throwing it inthere [to the big men]. Its re-ally on me, Frank [Mason III]and Devonte [Graham], saidKansas guard Wayne Selden Jr.Weve got to get up in there,and weve got to find the bigs.
Ti i ll t
held scoreless over the finalnine minutes, and while hewasnt getting the ball as muchas he did in the first hal, healso wasnt converting whenhe did get it.
Ellis missed our shots in thesecond hal, along with a reethrow, which was part o why,afer the game, Kansas coachBill Sel said he wasnt reallyupset with how much the ball
went into the posts. He alsohighlighted junior big manLanden Lucas getting touches,in addition to Elliss strugglesfinishing, as evidence per-haps o things not being asbad as they seemed in terms othrowing the ball inside.
We went to Perry early alot, and he delivered [but]we didnt come away with asmuch as what we hoped, Selsaid. Tey did such a good jobo jamming it up.
However, somewhat o aproblem remains, and its onethat wont be going away any-time soon.
Sel has lamented that theteam needs to play throughEllis, but it seems as thoughgame afer game, down thestretch, the ball ends up in thehands o the perimeter playersmore ofen than not.
Even though in this case Seldid say his team threw the ballinside a air amount, Ellis isntgetting the touches that heprobably needs to truly be theocal point o the offense. Andone would think, with it beingh h ld b
there are people out there whosay it eels like hes played atKansas or a long, long time.
And that makes some sense.Its rare or a player as good
as Ellis to stay in college orall our years, regardless oNBA potential. And talkingto the players and coaches, itsclear that they trust Ellis; its
just that, or whatever reason,the team wont stick with him
down the stretch.Part o that may just be whoEllis is. Hes quiet by nature,and even when he posts adominant perormance, hisperormances are ofen classi-fied as such (quiet). It seemsthat more ofen than not hespreads his points and re-bounds throughout the game,and never really has onestretch where he just absolute-ly takes over.
But when he gets the ball,good things happen.
Even when Ellis isnt scoring,deenses have started to col-lapse and send extra help to
simply get him to give up theball. And in many cases, thatsas good as any other result thatwould come rom throwingthe ball inside.
However, until that stays thecase or an entire game, theJayhawks will keep runninginto the problems they raninto on uesday night; at somepoint the offense is going toalter, and theyll need some-thing on offense to all backon.
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Beer and ootball. Ongamedays, the two seem tobe inextricably linked. Tis isespecially true in the world ocollege ootball, as students those who are 21 years old orolder, o course enjoy theiravorite beers while watchingtheir school compete on thegridiron.
At the University, much othat alcohol consumption isdone outside o MemorialStadium, as the sale o beer in-side the acility is not allowed,save or special occasions.
According to the Universi-tys alcohol policy or events,the use o alcohol is permit-ted only or approved eventsheld in... Anderson FamilyFootball Complex (Chancel-lors Lounge, Wagnon FamilyRoom and Gridiron Room).Te use o alcohol is also per-mitted or approved events athome games, including Me-
morial Stadium and designat-ed parking areas.
However, it wouldnt be easyto get that policy changed.
I think it would take somemore conversation beorewere sure that the currentpolicy should be changed,said Jim Marchiony, the as-sociate athletics director atKansas. Any kind o changein University policy wouldonly come afer some pret-ty thorough discussion thatwould involve [University ad-ministration], would involveAthletics and various entities
around the campus.As o now, West Virginia is
the only school in the Big 12Conerence to allow beer to besold at ootball games. Duringthe proposal o the policychange in 2011, Oliver Luck,West Virginias ormer ath-letic director, cited a need toimprove public saety, whichled to the implementation oa policy that orbade re-entryinto the schools stadium aferhalfime.
West Virginias policychanges in 2011 also allowed
or strict enorcements oID checks, and they assuredthat alcohol would not beserved near student sec-tions.
I think every schoolneeds to decide or itselwhether [selling alcohol atootball games] is the rightthing to do or the school,Marchiony said.
Attendance at Kansas oot-ball games has been consid-erably low this season. Tat
act could be because o awinless ootball team thattakes the field at MemorialStadium during a ew Satur-days in the all. Or it couldbe because o the idea thatsome students or ans mayfind it more enjoyable towatch the games at houseparties around the stadiumor sports bars around Law-rence.
Tat said, Marchiony saidhe doesnt see serving alco-hol as the best way to fill thestands to capacity.
Were disappointed withany crowd thats below capac-ity, Marchiony said. Wedlove to see sellouts [at thestadium] whether we win orlose, but the reality is that thebest way to guarantee a ullstadium is to wi
