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Friday, November 19, 2010
Charges filed after investigation
BY NICOLAS ROESLER
nroesler@kansan.com
The former director of ticket opera-
tions, Kassie Liebsch, resigned Thurs-
day after the U.S. Attorney General’s
Office federally charged her and four
Jones
other former Kansas Athletic officials
with the “misappropriation” of tickets
valued from $3 million to $5 million.
Liebsch remained on ticket office
staff after the University of Kansas
commissioned an independent investi-
gation last spring into fraudulent tick-
et sales. The report did not implicate
Liebsch in any of the activity.
“We went by the report,” Jim
Blubaugh Marchiony, associate athletics direc-
tor, said.
However, since the investigation
began last spring, Liebsch has been
named as one of the four former
employees and a former consultant
indicted for stealing tickets. Each of the
Waiting for wizards
The seventh and final installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows premiered this morning at 12 a.m. at the Hollywood Theaters — South Wind 12 on Iowa Street.
Many Potter fans showed their support by dressing up as their favorite wizard or witch.
administration
Regents assess University’s proposals
BY ANGELIQUE
MCNAUGHTON
two-person room raising the rate
from $3,642 to $3,700.
This year’s increase proposals
amcnaughton@kansan.com
The Kansas Board of Regents met
are lower than they were last year
because of the deactivation of stu-
Thursday in Topeka with higher
education officials from state uni-
dent phone lines in student rooms
from the summer. That saved the
University about $500,000.
versities.
Diana Robertson, director of stu-
Much of the meeting was devoted
dent housing, said she based her
to discussing issues pertaining to the
proposals off estimated increases for
University of Kansas and Chancellor
the following year.
Bernadette Gray-Little addressed
The University’s increases were
Regents on four separate occasions.
the lowest pro-
The following
posed from the
is a list of some
state universi-
of the issues “If you can’t track where ties.
and propos-
als that Regents
a dollar comes from and Approved:
reviewed and where it goes, then you Regents
received
their effects on
students and the
don’t have a good system. ” U n i v e r s i t y ’s
report
University.
Gary sherrer the Jayhawk
Approved:
chairman, Board of Regents Generations
T h e
Scholarship
U n i v e r s i t y ’s
Program and
request for
approved the request to make the
a Master of Arts and doctorate
pilot program permanent. For more
program in Women, Gender and
information regarding the tuition
Sexuality Studies was approved.
Refer to Stephen Montemayor’s arti-
and fee waiver program refer to
Stephen Gray’s article.
cle for more information regarding
Updated:
the program.
Gray-Little and Provost Jeffrey
Reviewed:
Vitter updated Regents on the exter-
Regents reviewed the Department
nal audit recently ordered for the
of Student Housing’s proposal for a
School of Business. The accounting
1.6 percent increase in housing fees.
firm BKD LLC performed the audit
The increase in fees is not uncom-
and stated in its report that of the
mon and occurs annually to offset
$30 million raised since 2004 from
the increases in the cost of living.
A 1.6 percent increase translates
course fees, 99.8 percent of the funds
were spent appropriately.
to about $58 more for a traditional
Although Regents acknowl-
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ticket trials
defendants face a maximum penalty of
30 years in federal prison, as well as a
$1 million fine per person.
“With a federal investigation ongo-
ing, we have known that indictments,
unfortunately, were a possibility,” inter-
im athletics director Sean Lester said
in a press release from the Athletic
Department. “We strongly support
the U.S. Attorney’s search for the truth
in this matter.”
Tom Blubaugh, 46, and Charlette
Blubaugh, 43, both from Medford,
Okla.; Ben Kirtland, 54, of Lenexa;
Rodney Jones, 42 and Liebsch, 28, both
from Lawrence, are the indicted.
According to a press release put
out by the Attorney General’s office,
Blubaugh began stealing season tickets
for KU athletic events in 2005. She gave
the tickets to Kirkland, Jones, Liebsch,
Brandon Simmons, former assistant
athletics director, and Jason Jeffries,
former director of ticket operations, to
edged that many of the financial
issues occurred before Gray-Little
and Vitter, Regent Chairman Gary
Sherrer and Regent Tim Emert were
dissatisfied with, of all schools, a
business school’s mishandling of stu-
dent funds.
“If you can’t track where a dol-
lar comes from and where it goes,
then you don’t have a good system,”
Sherrer said.
Sherrer said that kind of miscom-
munication sends a bad message to
students.
Vitter and Gray-Little said they
now know funds weren’t accounted
for and that the student advisory
board should not have been dis-
the
solved back in 2006. Both Gray-Little
and Vitter said they are looking to
move forward.
on The search is currently underway
for a new dean for the school and the
fourth candidate to visit campus was
here this week.
New scholarship
program approved
Students with family ties to KU
can apply for tuition discounts
now that the program is in place.
read more on 3A
sell to third parties.
Simmons and Jeffries pled guilty to
related offenses and are not included in
the new indictment. They have delayed
their sentencing until March 2011 but
possibly face three years in prison and
fines up to $250,000.
The report also claims that the offi-
cials entered false information into a
computer system installed to prevent
ticket theft. It also said that they made
payments, wrote checks and had ticket
brokers write checks to parties not
affiliated with Kansas Athletics.
One method they allegedly used was
to purchase money orders with cash in
amounts less than fund requirements
in an effort to keep their personal
gains from being traced back to them,
according to the Attorney General’s
office.
This violated University policies
limiting staff members to two compli-
mentary season tickets for football and
Howard Ting/KANSAN
Reported:
Along with other state universi-
ties, Gray-Little presented to Regents
the University’s annual sustainability
report.
The University has more than 230
sustainability related-courses and
various avenues are taken on campus
to increase the University’s efforts.
This year, the University’s website
for energy-related issues was updat-
ed to highlight sustainable efforts in
education, research, operations and
campus life.
In January, the University will join
Kansas State University in a sustain-
ability competition that will last until
June.
Gray-Little said she has been
working with Jeff Severin, director
for the Center for Sustainability, and
student leaders to further develop
strategies to reduce waste on campus
and within the community.
— Edited by Alex Tretbar
Department adds
doctoral program
The University now offers a Ph. D.
in women, gender and sexuality
studies.
volume 123 issue 65
basketball, which are not allowed to be
transferred or sold.
Liebsch had been serving as the
director of ticket operations at Kansas
Athletics since January. She had start-
ed working for the ticket office as a
University student in 2002.
Efforts have been made in the last Liebsch
six months to ensure donors, fans and
students can trust the Kansas Athletics
ticket office, Lester said in the press
release.
“We have implemented measures to
strengthen our ticket protocols and
make the entire process more transpar-
ent,” Lester said.
Those measures include new con-
trols and restrictions on access to the Kirtland
ticketing system and new transpar-
ency regarding seating among other
actions.
— Edited by Lisa Curran
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student senate | 2A
Senate task force unveils website
meant to help inform students
The website cost $3,500 to redesign and took 10 weeks. Michael
Wade Smith commissioned the task force that put the website
together. Senate hopes to allow students to more easily see what it
is doing around campus.
Inside
Discus
legacy is all
in the family
Brian Bishop, senior discus thrower, is one of a long line of KU track
and field athletes.
Also, a preview of the game — Jayhawks take on the Oklahoma
State Cowboys.
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“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb.
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— H. Jackson Browne
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November 20 November 21 November 22

Friday
November 19
n The Department of Human Resources and
Equal Opportunity will present a professional
and technical writing workshop from 9 to 11:30
a.m. in Joseph R. Pearson Hall, room 204.
n Student Union Activities will present the
movie “Inception” from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Kansas
Union, Woodruff Auditorium, level five.
n Instructional Services is hosting a workshop, “Com-
munity of Science,” at 1:30 p.m. in Anschutz Library.
n University Governance is holding a SenEx meeting
at 3 p.m. in the Provost Conference Room of Strong
Hall.
tuesDAY
November 23
n The Department of Physics and Astronomy will have
an astrophysics seminar from noon to 1 p.m. in room
2055 of Malott Hall.
n The Department of Chemistry will present the 15th
annual Carnival of Chemistry from 1 to 4 p.m. in Malott
n The Spencer Museum of Art will present the
lecture “Tower of the Sun: Okamoto Taros Colossus for
Hall. the 1970 Expo in Osaka” at 5:15 p.m. in Room 211 of
the museum.
wednesday ThursDAY
November 24 November 25
n Thanksgiving break. No classes.
n Thanksgiving Day. No classes.

n Elizabeth Berghout will be performing on the Cam-

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Politician promises a news conference Thursday, Ed

to work on driving
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsyl-
vania’s governor is grappling
with a problem facing many
teenagers — inexperience be-
hind the wheel.
Responding to a question at
Rendell acknowledged that he
has not driven extensively for 20
years — since before his days as
Philadelphia mayor in the 1990s.
For the past eight years, plain-
clothes state troopers assigned
to his security detail have chauf-
feured Rendell in a state-owned
sedan. Rendell says he expects
that privilege to continue for
about six months after he leaves
office in January.
He’s promising to bone up
on his driving skills during that
time. However, he says he was
never a great driver to begin
with.
Robber fails in slow
getaway attempt
AIKEN, S.C. — Police in South
Carolina say a man attempted
a slow getaway by lawnmower
after robbing a convenience
store.
Aiken County sheriff’s depu-
ties told The Aiken Standard
that the man left the store on
a riding lawnmower Thursday
morning but didn’t get far be-
fore he was arrested.
Capt. Troy Elwell says Ricky
New has been charged with
assault and battery, first degree
and armed robbery.
Investigators say the suspect
beat a store clerk with a stick
during the robbery. New was
being held at the Aiken County
jail. It wasn’t yet known if he has
an attorney.
— Associated Press

student senate

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design, goes live
SHOW YOUR PRIDE WITH THESE WINNING Student Senate launched a new
TITLES FROM TRIUMPH BOOKS website Thursday with the hope
of creating a more visible and
interactive online presence.
The redesign cost $3,500 and
took more than 10 weeks to
complete. Chief of Staff Aaron
Dollinger initially said he hoped
the website would be completed
in four to six weeks. He said Kern
Group, a Lawrence marketing firm
hired for the project, completed Name/KANSAN
the website in its timeframe of 10 The website cost $3,500 and took more than 10 weeks to complete.
to 12 weeks.
Senate also hired Kern Group interactive than the previous one. It be easy for future chiefs of staff to
to create a new logo as part of its includes a link to Senate’s Facebook operate. Elections are held annu-
rebranding efforts, which includes page and a live Twitter feed. The ally, and new Student Executive
the website redesign and the new logo is prominently displayed Boards are appointed after each
President’s taskforce on Mission, in the top-left corner. one.
History and Vision. Student Body “I’m most excited to have some- “Next year they can update the
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and present . . . in their own words designated the task force to create our rebranding process,” Dollinger do a complete overhaul,” Dollinger
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Tuition discounts available Passion drove faculty member
for students with family ties
BY STEPHEN GRAY
sgray@kansan.com
The Kansas Board of Regents
approved Thursday the perma-
nent application of the Jayhawk
Generations legacy tuition discount.
This scholarship program was
designed last year to encourage
enrollment of high ability out-of-
state students with family ties to the
University of Kansas. The Regents
had approved the program on a tem-
porary basis for fall 2009, and it has
proven beneficial to recruiting with
the 123 students currently in the
program.
“We want to be able to take advan-
tage of multi-generation ties and
bring students to KU so they can
continue their family traditions,” said
Jack Martin, the deputy director for
University Communications.
Martin said the scholarship helps
the University and contributes to the
state’s economy in that it brings tal-
ented students to Kansas who might
not be interested otherwise.
Bringing students to the University
can, of course, also lead them to
stay. According to a study done by
the University in preparation for the
proposal last year, 27 percent of non-
resident students remain in Kansas
or the Greater Kansas City Area after
graduation.
Several regional universities such
as the University of Missouri, the
University of Oklahoma and the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln also
have similar out-of-state programs
for legacy students. Remaining com-
petitive in this area was one of the
main reasons that the University
originally adopted a program,
Martin said.
Jennifer Jackson Sanner, senior
vice president for communications
campus
Board of Regents approves
new doctoral program at KU
BY STEPHEN
MONTEMAYOR
smontemayor@kansan.com
Beginning next fall, the
University of Kansas will offer a
doctoral program for the depart-
ment of women, gender and sex-
uality studies.
The Kansas Board of Regents
approved the program at its
Thursday meeting, accord-
ing to Regents spokesman Kip
Peterson.
John Younger, director of
WGSS and professor of classics,
said he saw the program’s estab-
lishment as both legitimizing the
discipline and contributing to its
definition.
“And even so, it’s still evolving,”
Younger said.
Only 17 other universities
nationwide offer a Ph.D. pro-
gram in women’s studies, with
the closest being Texas Women’s
University in Denton, Texas.
Younger said the field was still
fairly new.
The University has one of the
oldest programs in the field,
but the major was not official
until 1974 and the program until
the early 1990s. When Younger
became director in 2008, the
department changed its name
from women’s studies to women,
gender and sexuality studies.
After completing the program’s
required classes, Younger said
candidates would take a qual-
ifying oral exam to determine
whether they received a master’s
and leave the program or con-
tinue on toward a Ph.D.
He said PhD candidates would
later present another oral presen-
tation on what they wanted to do
for their dissertation. The idea,
he said, is that they make certain
they’re aware of their stance in
the history of the field and what
change or development they will
contribute.
“I rather like this concept,”
Younger said. “Placing yourself as
a scholar within a continuum is
really good. You know where you
are in this program.”
The University submitted
a proposal for the program to
n Tuition Waver Discounts (for out-of-state students with at least
a 3.25 high school GPA)
n Students with an ACT score between 26 and 29 receive a 12
percent discount.
n Students with an ACT score between 30 and 33 receive a 20
percent discount.
n Students with an ACT score of 34 or above receive a 30 percent
discount. (added for the fall 2011 semester)
n For the 2008-2009 academic year, a nonresident student paid
$16,272 in annual tuition; the actual cost to provide educa-
tion for this student was $12,678. The Jayhawk Generations
Scholarship makes use of this difference ($3,594) to establish a
tiered system of partial tuition waivers for eligible students.
—Source: Vice Provost for Student Success Marlesa Roney
of the University of Kansas Alumni
Association, said alumni and their
families have been fully supportive
of the scholarship.
“We felt it was important to get
into the competitive arena among
other top regional universities that
have programs that are similar if not
more generous,” Sanner said.
There are several qualifications
that must be met to receive a schol-
arship. First, a nonresident freshman
must have a parent, legal guardian or
grandparent that graduated from the
University to be eligible. In addition,
these students have to maintain a
minimum 3.25 GPA while enrolled
at the University, as the scholarship is
renewable for up to four years.
Sanner said it was important to
note that the program doesn’t reduce
the regents in 2009. An external
review team of women’s studies
professors from outside universi-
ties also met with students, facul-
ty and staff last May and recom-
mended approving the proposal.
The University has said the
program would not require
additional costs and would be
financed within the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences.
In its proposal, the University
said the doctoral program was
a response to growing nation-
al demand for interdisciplinary
scholars. The external review
team came to a similar conclu-
sion.
“Women’s studies is one of the
most swiftly growing fields of
inquiry to emerge in the past 40
years, generating one of the most
significant and influential shifts
in academic thought in recent
memory,” the review team said in
its report.
Associate professor Hannah
Britton occasionally works in
Africa researching women in
government and women organi-
zations that fight gender-based
violence. Her courses often blend
WGSS and political science,
Women, gender and sexuality studies Ph.D.
requirements
13 credit hours of WGSS courses
15 credit hours of WGSS electives
18 credit hours in a concentration
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tuition for out-of-state students
below the cost of providing their
education at the University.
“It is still above the current in-
state rate and still will help subsidize
the costs for in-state students,” she
said.
Melissa Hebberd, a freshman from
New Jersey, was awarded a scholar-
ship and is in favor of the decision to
make the program permanent. She
said the tuition waiver made going so
far out of state to attend her mother’s
alma mater seem reasonable.
“I think it provides students with
the opportunity to continue, or even
start a tradition of academic success
here at the University of Kansas,”
Hebberd said.
national
Former solider charged in
— Edited by Alex Tretbar
murder of Auburn student
an interdisciplinary approach
she said was a strength at the
University.
DaMaris Hill is a doctoral stu-
dent from Baltimore. Her dis-
sertation, a novel titled “Willows
of the Spring,” uses literature
to examine the cases of women
who were discriminated against
and imprisoned during the Great
Depression.
Hill expects to graduate in Aug.
2011 with a Ph.D. in English and
creative writing with a WGSS
certificate. She said without the
WGSS program, she wouldn’t
have been exposed to profes-
sors with approaches like that of
Britton.
Hill said the program was
also important because it
allowed for opportunities to talk
about how genders interacted.
“That’s what it’s really going to
come down to,” she said. “How
will they work together?”
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obituary
BY ALLYSON SHAW
ashaw@kansan.com
Faculty member Mary Brieck
died of hip cancer on Nov. 9 at
age 59. Brieck had been working
as the operations manager for the
Center for Research on Learning
since March 2002.
Brieck was passionate about
the mission of the Center, which
is to help individuals who struggle
with learning, said Don Deshler,
the Center’s director.
“She wanted to help students
be better students,” Deshler said.
Brieck will be remembered for
her infectious laugh, her dedica-
tion to her job, and her passion
for life Deshler said.
Her laugh also stood out to co-
worker Shanah Williams.
“It was such a great laugh,”
Williams said. “I can still hear
it today.”
Brieck owned a horse named
Scarlet and would often change
out of her cowboy boots into
work clothes in the morning. Contributed photo
Williams said she visited the Mary Brieck (left) marches with her horse club. Brieck passed away from cancer on Nov. 9.
horse almost daily and was a
member of the Midwest Mustang Once it was time to work, band, Eugene, and two sons,
& Burro Saddle Club. Deshler said, she put in tremen- Eugene and Jonathan, who both
Kristi Billinger was close friends dous hours and never looked at went to the University of Kansas.
with Brieck for the last eight the clock. Williams said Brieck was very
years. The two bonded through Deshler said in the last few close with her sons.
a mutual love of mustang horses. weeks, Brieck spoke of some leg Brieck was born on March
Billinger said they enjoyed going pain. She waited to go to the doc- 21, 1951, in McKeesport, Penn.
to parades and demonstrations tor until all her deadlines were She received her bachelor’s
together. Billinger remembered met and she had a day off. She degree from Point Park College
the day that Brieck bought Scarlet continued to work from home, in Pittsburgh, and obtained her
in 2007 and called it one of her but never returned to the office. master of business administra-
happiest memories of Brieck. “She was such a hard work- tion from Ohio State University.
Brieck was a passionate er — a delight to work with,”
woman, Billinger said, both Deshler said. “Everyone thought — Edited by Dana Meredith
about the plight of the mustang the world of her.”
and about her work. Brieck is survived by her hus-
ASSOCIATED PRESS set sentencing for Jan. 28. he drove it off.
But District Attorney Nick During the argued sentencing,
OPELIKA, Ala. — A former Abbett, who is retiring in January, jurors heard emotional testimo-
Army soldier who claimed to said it might be hard for the judge ny from Lockhart’s mother and
be mentally disturbed from his to overturn an unanimous rec- father, who expressed sorrow for
deployment in Iraq was convicted ommendation for life. the grief the son caused the Burk
of capital murder Thursday in “That was a pretty strong state- family.
the abduction and shooting death ment from the jury,” Abbett said. His mother, Catherine Lockhart
of an Auburn University student Burk’s sister, Jaklyn Semones of Williams, tearfully apologized to
from Georgia. Alpharetta, Ga., said she felt fine Burk’s mother, who was sitting in
Jurors deliberated about six- with the life in prison without the front row of the gallery.
and-a-half hours over two days parole recommendation. “I just want to say to you and
before convicting Courtney “I’m just happy this has come your whole family that I am sorry.
Lockhart, 26, of rural Smith to an end. Justice was done,” I feel your pain because I am a
Station, in the killing of 18-year- Semones said. mother, too. If I could I would get
old freshman Lauren Burk of Burk’s father, Jim Burk, released up and hug you but they prob-
Marietta, Ga. a written statement thanking ably wouldn’t let me do that,” said
Wearing a black suit, Lockhart police, prosecutors and the jury Williams.
sat calmly with his lawyers and of eight men and four women for In a statement to police read
showed no emotion when Circuit the verdict. to jurors earlier during the trial,
Judge Jacob Walker read the “We still have some questions Lockhart said he ordered her to
verdict. Burk’s family members, as to why this happened, but disrobe, not to have sex with her
mostly sitting behind the pros- hopefully we can find answers in but because he thought it would
ecution table, began hugging each the future. We continue to love make her less likely to escape the
other and patting each other on and pray for Lauren,” he said. car. At one point Lockhart said
the back. Burk was abducted on the he spoke of his problems: “We
Jurors then voted 12-0 after night of March 4, 2008, as she got started talking about how my life
deliberating for another hour to into her car in a campus parking was over. She said she could help
recommend sentencing him to lot after visiting her boyfriend. me get a job,” he said in a written
life in prison without parole, rath- According to statements given by statement.
er than death by injection. The Lockhart, he pulled a gun on the But Burk was shot in the back
judge is not bound by the jury’s screaming student, trying to rob at close range as she opened the
recommendation. He tentatively her, and forced her into her car as door and jumped from the car.
The Department of Dance, School of the Arts and the School of Music present
UNIVERSITY DANCE
COMPANY AND
KANSAS UNIVERSITY
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18-19, 2010
LIED CENTER OF KANSAS, 7:30 PM
With conductor David Neely, soloist Patrick Suzeau and a
flamenco work by guest artist Melinda Hedgecorth.
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Horoscopes
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most
challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 6
What seems gloomy in the
morning cheers up if you make
an effort. You can change the
way the wind blows, if you want
to. That could be great fun.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 6
A close associate places de-
mands on your time and energy
today. Put your own ambitious
plans on the back burner and
pay attention. It’s not about you
today.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 6
Hard work accompanied by
intelligent thinking produces
unique results. Then you must
find a clever way to enroll oth-
ers. This is the challenge.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 6
Finances prevent a perceived
obstacle to your creative pro-
cess. With a little examination,
you discover ways to get materi-
als without breaking the bank.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
Try not to demand change, even
though you know it’s neces-
sary. Instead, present a logical
argument, as well as a variety of
choices. Ease others into align-
ing on a plan.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
If you narrow your focus too
quickly, you miss some exciting
possibilities. Maintain an open
point of view, and record the
choices for later use.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 6
To be effective, remain within
your own boundaries. Use
tension or stress as an indica-
tion of which direction not to
go. Choose the path of least
resistance.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
You need fun today, regardless
of what coworkers require of
you. Joke around while handling
serious matters. Notice where
exuberance meets practicality.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 6
Take extra time today to clarify
what remains to be done on a
project. That way, you can mull
over possibilities over the week-
end and be prepared.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 6
Independent actions boost your
self-esteem. Others need to
remain in the loop. Refine the
logic. Take notes and share them
as you go along.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 6
Keep your head down, focusing
on your task. Let others handle
their own problems. They learn
from the experience, and you
get your work done.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
You won’t get all the info you
need today. Develop questions
that will elicit what’s missing.
You’ll feel quite productive this
way, correctly so.
/ Friday, November 19, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / kansan.com
The Next Panel
music
Cee Lo Green’s ‘Forget You’
helps push his new album
McClatchy-Tribune
NEW YORK — Looks can be
deceiving. The 36-year-old Cee Lo
Green enjoys dazzling people, but
he is human and totally aware of
how useful eccentricity can be.
“I am a rare occasion,” he said,
turning the word “rare” into a purr-
ing roar. “I think if everyone had
known it was going be me who
succeeded, they would have sup-
ported me a lot more. They would
have known what to do with me a
lot earlier. They just didn’t know.”
Green has dealt with the music
industry’s attempts to squeeze his
major talent into manageable pack-
ages. His label Goodie Mob helped
invent the Dirty South sound that
brought hip-hop into the 21st cen-
tury; Green was the rapper-singer
whose musical flow pointed to new
styles of rhyming later picked up by
the likes of Lil Wayne.
movies
Q&A with ‘Harry Potter’
antagonist Tom Felton Films fight for revenue
McClatchy-Tribune
Tom Felton has played Draco,
son of Lucius (Jason Isaacs in
the films), the Hogwarts bully,
Slytherin slimeball and always in
Harry’s way during each phase of
the young wizard’s quest.
We reached
Felton, 23,
a native
of Surrey,
England, an
enthusias-
tic musician
and estab-
FELTON
lished child
actor (“The
B or row e r s” )
before “Harry Potter” came along,
in London.
Q. What’s been the most fun
about Draco’s journey?
A. The last year or two, the last
part of that journey, has been a
joy. It’s so nice to have established
a character who grows from child-
ish bully to snottish teen, and
Green (born Thomas Callaway)
made a few far-out solo albums
after leaving Goodie Mob in 1999.
His new album
for Elektra
Records,
“The Lady
Killer,” offers
a sharkskin-
smooth new
framework for
his constant-
GREEN
ly evolving
sound.
“This project is neatly defined,
for the first time in my career,” he
said of the new album, released
last week.
“The Lady Killer” has already
proven to be a gift that keeps on
giving. Its first single, the mirth-
fully profane “Forget You,” became
the viral hit of late summer in its
uncensored version and established
Green’s new identity as the harbin-
then have the chance to explore,
in the last films, why he’s like that.
Hopefully, after all the years of
hate for poor Draco, he’ll get a bit
of empathy, now.
He’s questioning his relation-
ship with his father. He’s petrified.
Lord Voldemort has crashed his
house, and believe you me, he
does NOT make a pleasant house-
guest. All that makes things him
question who he is and why he is
the way he is.
Q. There’s an urgency to the per-
formances in “Deathly Hallows:
Part 1.”
A. Oh, we’ve been passionate
about these films from the start.
But we’re giving it all we’ve got in
these final ones, to make sure we
go out with a bang.
Q. What’s been the best fringe
benefit of being in the “Potter”
films?
A. The great thing I think we’ve
all derived from these films is
making a lot of people happy. I
was at the premiere realizing how
Nicholas Sambaluk
ger of forward-thinking retro-soul.
“Forget You” bubbles along on
the trickster spirit of cognitive dis-
sonance, its kiss-off to an unfaith-
ful lover turning into an affirma-
tion of self-love. The song cracked
the Billboard Top 20, gave Green
his first No. 1 hit in England, and
set up “The Lady Killer” as one of
the fall’s major album releases.
“It definitely has a silver lining,”
he said of the song’s mix of bub-
blicious melody and nasty lyrics.
“It’s what the English would call
‘tongue in cheek.’ It’s just meant to
be funny, really.”
The single’s modernized doo-
wop sound is just one example
of Green’s time traveling on “The
Lady Killer.” Tracks like the bour-
bon-mellow “Old Fashioned” (“I’m
right on time,” sings Green, “and
I’m timeless!”) and the bouncy
“Cry Baby” pull from gospel and
Otis Redding-style grit.
movies
fantastic it is to be able to make a
during Thanksgiving
child’s day just by signing a piece
of paper. We’ve brought some-
thing children love to life. That’s
our great reward.
Q. So with the last “Harry
Potter” film in the can, what do McClatchy-Tribune “There was nothing going after
you have planned for the future?
this audience,” Robert Teitel, a pro-
A. I’m launching an indepen-
LOS ANGELES — The best ducer of “Faster,” says of the deci-
dent record label to put some of
Thanksgiving clash won’t be over sion to schedule the film as coun-
my stuff (search “Feltbeats” on
who has to sit at the kids’ table. terprogramming. CBS Films hopes
YouTube). And I just finished
The more interesting battle is that Johnson, a former professional
“Rise of the Apes,” a “Planet of the
Hollywood’s holiday weekend cam- wrestler who has recently been
Apes” prequel, and I was down making kiddie fare such as “Tooth
paign to seize family and female
in New Orleans doing a part in moviegoers — without being Fairy,” “Race to Witch Mountain”
this independent film about golf, undone by the leftovers of the pen- and “The Game Plan,” can recap-
“From the Rough.” Did another ture the patrons who attended his
ultimate “Harry Potter” film.
one with Ashley Greene called Four movies will premiere in earlier, more violent works, includ-
“The Apparition.” wide release on Wednesday, double ing “The Rundown,” “Walking Tall”
Q. You’ve been growing up on the total from last Thanksgiving: and “The Scorpion King.”
set, for a decade, with the cream Screen Gems’ musical romance “Dwayne has never looked bet-
of British acting. Who have you “Burlesque,” 20th Century Fox’s ter, and if he is going to come
learned the most from? romantic dramedy “Love & Other back in the format, you had to
A. They’re all inspiring and if Drugs,” Disney’s animated fairy tale bring him back bad — he’s on
you watch them, you can’t help “Tangled” and CBS Films’ revenge a total revenge path and nothing
but learn something. Jason Isaacs thriller “Faster.” gets in the way to stop him,” Teitel
has been very helpful for me as a Even though the studios are says. “You get behind his character
young actor. widely (and perhaps rightly) criti- right away.” CBS Films, which has
cized for making few movies aimed been advertising “Faster” on its sis-
at women, their Y-chromosome ter broadcast network, hopes that
partiality is not obvious over next women who took their children
week’s holiday break. “Burlesque,” to Johnson’s PG-rated family films
“Love & Other Drugs” and and came to like the actor might
“Tangled” are all chasing women turn out for this movie as well.
as their primary audience. Disney Last summer, “Harry Potter and
is betting that a lot of moms — and the Half-Blood Prince” grossed
maybe a few dads — will bring their $158 million in its first five days,
children to its animated retelling of and $77.8 million in its first three-
the Rapunzel story. The only new day weekend. More worrisome to
entry aimed squarely at men and the four new films is that “Harry
older boys is “Faster,” an R-rated Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
action film starring Dwayne “The grossed $29.5 million in its second
Rock” Johnson. weekend.
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nnn
Good sir, can you educate me
in the way of the Douglas?
For what purpose?
For all the maidens adore me.
nnn
Man, ‘Sex on the Hill’ was so
much better freshman year.
Where are all the pictures?!?!?!
nnn
You know, you wouldn’t be
late to your 8 a.m. class if you
didn’t fix your hair perfectly
or cake on your makeup
EVERY morning. It’s 8 a.m.!
nnn
I enjoy seeing people smile
when they look at their
phone. They just got a text
from someone special!
nnn
I think ‘Sex on the Hill’ should
put up a list of men and
women who cheat so we can
stay away from them.
Editor’s note: Someone did not
read ‘The Scarlet Letter’ in high
school.
nnn
I think ‘Sex on the Hill’ came
too early. They should have
waited to put out this year.
nnn
I didn’t just trip. The ground
bit me! I swear!
nnn
So why is everybody in
hoodies when it’s 30 degrees
out? Is being freezing cold
the new trend?
nnn
Harry Potter sold out.
Yeah, u know u like it.
nnn
Me and my roommate just
sprinkled Pixie Stick dust onto
my other roommate. That’s
what you get for not sleeping
in the bedroom!
nnn
I was sitting in Anschutz for
so long today, that when I
get up to leave, I forgot what
level I was on.
nnn
KU is all about hooking up, or
Harry Potter. Those are your
options.
nnn
A girl recently told me I was
a bad influence. Really I like
to think of myself as the ‘fun’
influence.
nnn
SPORTING KANSAS CITY.
nnn
I should be studying. Instead
I’m sitting naked, eating pie
and watching ‘Criminal Minds.’
nnn
I have the world’s worst
boyfriend.
nnn
Just solved the secret Kansan
Code. It says “Be Sure to Drink
Your Ovaltine.”
nnn
United States First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
editorial
Indictments needed Lame-duck Congress
step toward justice contains opportunities
W A
ith the resignations of
Mark Mangino, Lew
Perkins and Perkins’
ongoing ethics issues, the ticket
debacle at KU Athletics has
sometimes had to compete for
attention.
Yesterday, however, it was in the
spotlight.
Four former KU Athletics
officials and the current head of
ticket operations at KU Athletics
were indicted on charges related
to the ticket scandal that took
thousands of tickets off the market
at a value of somewhere between
$3 to $5 million.
Tom Blubaugh, Charlette
Blubaugh, Ben Kirtland, Rodney
Jones and Kassie Liebsch were all
indicted.
Liebsch was the director of ticket
operations, but resigned Thursday
before the indictment came out.
It is disturbing that an individual
now charged with a federal crime
cartoon
Letter to the editor
Risk of superbug from vaccination misrepresented
Monday’s letter to the editor
about vaccination unfairly repre-
sents the associated “risks.”
It claims that the flu shot can
cause the virus to mutate into a
sort of “super-bug,” and while it’s
true that strains of the flu virus are
constantly mutating, it’s a process
that has nothing to do with “ac-
cess” to strains from a vaccine as
claimed in the letter and can occur
just as well in someone who hasn’t
had a flu shot.
Bacteria can be expected to
evolve a resistance to antibiotics.
Hand sanitizer, anti-bacterial soap
and sterilization of anything and
guest column
Thanksgiving reminds Americans of history
Even though it’s still almost a
week away, Thanksgiving is a holi-
day of great importance to this na-
tion and has a lot more history to
it than people think. The day when
Americans stuff their faces and get
fat, at least more than they do on
most days, is not just a holiday for
eating. And it is not just a holiday
for the pilgrims and Indians of
Plymouth Rock. Both historically
and traditionally, this holiday is
one of the most meaningful.
Most people associate Tur-
key Day with the landing of the
Puritan Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock
in 1620. It is a great image to see
Europeans and Indians working
together and coming together over
a large feast. It is a great image for
the early history of what would
eventually become the United
States. Though it helps to forget
that within a hundred years, most
of the Indian peoples in the area
had been destroyed.
But Hallmark images and Indian
Wars aside, the actual history of
the holiday is even more interest-
ing and much more modern than
people think.
The tradition started, not in
1620, but in 1863 right in the
middle of the American Civil War.
And it had nothing to do with Pil-
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was until yesterday in a position of
leadership in KU Athletics.
Defendants are innocent until
proven guilty. We strongly believe
this. Regardless of ultimate guilt or
innocence, though, this scandal has
already harmed the image of the
University.
KU Athletics does not
operate in a bubble. Its Share your thoughts
actions reflect back on
the entire community.
That can be a good thing Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little
— such as winning a
national championship
— or it can be a very bad
thing.
Lately, it seems like
there’s been more bad
than good.
The indictments are
welcome. It’s important Director of Ticket Operations Kassie
that each of the
individuals have his or
her time in court.
It’s one more step
everything will lead to resistant
strains, forcing us to constantly de-
velop new hand sanitizers, soaps,
and sterilizing wipes. However,
the flu vaccine has no part in that
cycle.
The letter also suggests that the
flu shot is only necessary for those
who are particularly at risk, but
when one able-bodied person gets
immunized, they are reducing the
chance that they will get the flue,
but also the likelihood that they
will transmit the virus to those
without the shot.
The flu shot is a safe, preven-
tative method for reducing the
grims or Indians. Instead, it was a
holiday proposed by President Abe
Lincoln to encourage the Ameri-
can people to give thanks and
increase national morale. It was
also in part to help the Americans
celebrate the victories the Union
Army had won that year, especially
the battles fought at Gettysburg
and Vicksburg.
The holiday for giving thanks
continued throughout the war
and beyond, as people celebrated
the return of the soldiers and the
victory of the Union. As the years
and decades went by, the holiday
became more popular, especially
when advertisements started to
link Turkey Day to the pilgrims
and the earlier days of the nation,
something that the holiday origi-
nally had nothing to do with.
The holiday changed very little
after that, with the exception of
a date change implemented by
President Franklin Roosevelt in
the 1930’s to try and stimulate the
economy, but besides that Thanks-
giving remained much the same.
Now a days, Thanksgiving seems
to be becoming the forgotten
holiday, with stores and malls,
and even radio stations, skipping
it entirely, going from celebrating
Halloween and straight through to
toward putting the last year and a
half behind us.
— Jonathan Shorman for
The Kansan Editorial Board.
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Liebsch
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impact of flu season, both for those
who may experience the flu as
only a mild inconvenience, and for
those with a weakened immune
system, for whom it can be a much
more serious issue. Unfortunately,
many people forego immunization
each year due to needless worries
such as the ones published in this
letter to the editor, unfounded
fears that we may be creating “big-
ger, badder viruses.”
— Tim Clark is a sophomore in
physics in Lawrence.
Christmas.
Some say it’s because the holiday
is not politically correct. There
are even protests against it by
Indian Rights groups who feel that
Thanksgiving, along with holidays
like Columbus Day, mark the
beginning of the end of Indian cul-
ture and way of life. Others say it
is not as popular because it cannot
be commercialized. All you buy
is food, that’s it. No presents, no
costumes, nothing that advertisers
can really push, so they ignore it.
This simply isn’t right. Thanks-
giving is important because it does
focus on America’s past. And not
just Pilgrims and Indians, but the
hard days of the Civil War and the
Great Depression. No other major
holiday focuses that much on our
own national history.
And we should love it more be-
cause it cannot be commercialized.
It really is the holiday that brings
family and friends together for a
big dinner. Nothing superficial,
just a fun time with good food.
What’s more American than that?
— From UWIRE. Brian Warrick
for The BG News at Bowling
Green State University.
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politics
merica is in a funk.
This year’s midterms
served more a punching
bag for voters than a referendum
on politicians.
According to a recent Pew
Research Center survey, voters
are less enthused and more
skeptical about this year’s
midterm results than in 2006,
when Democrats took control
of the house, and 1994, when
Republicans took control of the
house.
The poll revealed that 41
percent approved of Republican
policies, while 37 percent
disapproved. Worse, only 22
percent thought the relationship
between Democrats and
Republicans would improve in
the next term.
The funk’s bad.
So bad, many people didn’t
even care enough to vote.
In Lawrence, voter turnout
was down by 20 to 60 percent
in precincts closest to the
University, which consists mostly
of student housing.
There was no “Rock Chalking”
the vote.
The doldrums of a slow
recovery and the fear of an ever-
rising deficit-mushroom-cloud
have curbed America’s resolve,
replacing national ambition with
national angst.
Quite a change from the last
election cycle.
Two years ago, I went to the
inauguration of Barack Obama.
More than a million Americans
descended on the nation’s capital
with hope, however naively,
that a new day had arrived in
Washington politics.
The moment that hit me the
hardest, the moment I will always
carry with me, didn’t happen
during the swearing-in ceremony,
however. It came two days
before, during the “We Are One”
concert.
Right before John Mellencamp
sang one of my favorite songs,
“Pink Houses,” Joe Biden took
the stage and said, “Work is
more than a paycheck. It’s about
dignity. It’s about respect. It’s
about whether you can look your
child in the eye and say ‘Honey,
it’s going to be all right.’”
Standing on historic ground,
I thought about how America
had triumphed over greater
obstacles, how America survived
a revolution, civil war and the
civil rights era—times that truly
threatened America’s solvency.
And at that moment, standing
before the memorial of the Great
Emancipator, I firmly believed
our country would be OK despite
the economic uncertainty that lay
ahead.
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Responses to the news of the week on Kansan.com
  “A conservative ideology itself, however, is intrinsically greedy. If these
people believed in their small government as much as they claim to, how
come they always cut social programs for the middle class but never military
budgets or the subsidies that go to their respective states? What do you expect
from a party that calls Reagan the “father of conservatism” when he sent the
country into horrendous debt? And we’re back to Reagan; full circle.”
—“xz007” in response to “Believe it or not, taxes benefit everyone” on Nov.
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Starting the
Conversation
by D.M. Scott
dscott@kansan.com
Two years later, I still do.
I have always abhorred the fear
card Republicans so often like to
play. But I can understand how
the ballooning deficit and the
recently outlined proposal made
by the National Commission on
Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
would have some people on edge.
I also understand how Allen
Greenspan’s recent warning about
a possible bond market crisis
might send some of those same
people off the edge.
Sovereign debt crisis, anyone?
Little good comes from fear,
and it’s time to snap out of the
funk.
As a nation, our greatest
achievements come when we
believe and work toward ideas
that are bigger than ourselves.
And our prosperity and resolve
have always stemmed from the
collective backbone of the middle
class.
Once again, the middle class
will be called upon, only this
time, as the beast of burden for a
balanced budget.
Some of the proposals made by
the bipartisan debt commission
include increasing the retirement
age, eliminating tax credits for
families and raising the federal
gasoline tax by .15 cents.
Quick recap. The middle class
will pay for the wars that they
sent their children to fight in,
they will pay for the greed of
Wall Street barons with their jobs
and houses and they will make
the greatest sacrifices in order to
balance the budget.
It’s not right, but it’s OK
because middle-class America
has the resolve to do so. As the
song goes, “’Cause the simple
man, baby, pays for the thrills, the
bills, the pills that kill.”
I believe in the middle class. I
know it will rise to the occasion
and make the sacrifices needed to
secure America’s future.
It just needs to get its swagger
back.
I only ask that the lame-duck
Congress do that right thing and
repeal the Bush tax cuts for the
wealthy. It’s time the rich pay
their way, too.
Scott is a junior from Overland
Park in journalism.
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Obituary
‘Not as many smiles around’ ‘Octomom’ doctor testifies
as students remember friend
BY ALEX GARRISON
agarrison@kansan.com
Once you met Matt, you were
friends with him. And once you were
friends, there was no going back -
you would always be friends, Matt
would always be there for you and,
like it or not, when you saw him, you
were always in for a treat.
“He was the funniest guy I ever
met. Whenever he was in the room,
you didn’t really have a choice, you
were laughing, ” Todd Davidson, a
graduate student from Tonganoxie,
said.
Matt was blunt, brutally honest
and probably more than a little crass.
But even that, friends said, was all
part of the “Matt package” - the one
goal he had for himself and the over-
whelmingly dominant characteristic
of his personality — the desire to
make those around him feel good.
“Matt was who you’d call if you
wanted to have fun, always,” Phil
Cole, a senior from Boston, said.
That was until Tuesday, when, sud-
denly and painfully, Matt was gone.
Matt Adair, a former student from
Topeka, was found dead in his off-
campus apartment early Tuesday
morning. The cause is presumed to
be suicide.
Now, Matt’s myriad friends are liv-
ing without their jokester, struggling
to grieve, and to live with the diffi-
culty of the idea his death could have
been prevented.
“It’s such a shame that he couldn’t
see how many people truly loved
him,” Carly Moon, a friend from high
school, said in an e-mail.
Adair had last been enrolled at the
University in fall 2009, as an engineer-
ing major. He did not re-enroll in the
Sweets and smokes
Matt Adair, right, a former student from Topeka, was well-known and liked.
spring, but took a job in Gardner to
build up funds to return to school lat-
er, friends said. Eventually, he wanted
to go into law enforcement.
In life, he was the loveable guy who
spoke his mind, cracked jokes and
listened to his friends’ stories. But he
rarely talked about himself.
“He had an amazing ability to make
everyone feel better,” Sean Kelly, a se-
nior from Southborough, Mass., said.
“And you knew you could call him
at 4 in the morning just to get some-
thing off your chest, but you had to
dig to get him to tell you what was up
with him.”
Friends and roommates such as
Kelly said they’re still in shock, but
trying to process their grief by re-
membering Adair’s infectious per-
sonality and wild antics, focusing on
his life — not his death.
“We’re just trying to remember
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Contributed Photo
him in the fond light we knew him,”
Kelly said.
Funeral services for Adair will be
held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at West-
minster Presbyterian Church, at 1275
Southwest Boswell Ave. in Topeka.
As friends continue to grieve their
“favorite little hobo,” the stories con-
tinue - of trying to drive a stick shift
for the first time down Mass. Street,
of late-night chats over beers, of their
beloved brother, son, never-forgotten
friend.
And Matt’s friends smile at their
memories while knowing their big-
hearted comedian-confidant won’t
be able to crack any more jokes.
“I was late to get to know him, but,
right away, he treated me the same
way he did everyone else - he had
me on the floor laughing,” Davidson
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said. “I know now there’s not going to
be as many smiles around.”
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Kansas to face North Texas
BY TIM DWYER
tdwyer@kansan.com
North Texas looks, at first glance,
like easy fodder for Kansas to get
its 62nd consecutive home victory,
tying the school record.
The Mean Green, by all the mea-
surables, aren’t in the same class as
the Jayhawks. The best player on
the North Texas roster, point guard
Josh White, is listed at 5 feet 10
inches and 175 pounds, but stands
about a couple inches shorter than
that. North Texas is 129th in the
country in field goal percentage.
The Mean Green come from the
Sun Belt conference.
Add it all up to another easy win
for Kansas, right?
Wrong.
Tuesday night, North Texas rode
a 32-point night from White past
the Big 12’s Texas Tech in a 92-83
overtime win.
“They played really well. They
got a big win under their belt with
Texas Tech,” junior guard Tyshawn
Taylor said.
Junior forward Marcus Morris
also is a little more tuned into the
Mean Green after their big win.
“Every team gets my attention.
You can’t overlook a team, but beat-
ing a team in the Big 12 definitely
got my attention,” said Morris.
White, who through his career
is averaging 18.6 points per game
against Big 12 teams, is not the only
player to watch on the North Texas
roster, though.
Senior power forward George
Odufuwa is perhaps the best
rebounder Markieff Morris and the
Kansas frontcourt will face until
conference play (although UCLA’s
Reeves Nelson is certainly in the
discussion). Odufuwa is averaging
13 rebounds and has been excel-
lent against Big 12 competition. He
pulled down 15 boards against Texas
Tech Tuesday and had a remarkable
eight offensive rebounds against
Kansas State in the first round of
the NCAA Tournament last year.
The Jayhawks will also have to
keep an eye on shooting guard
Tristan Thompson, who is averag-
ing 18 points and four rebounds per
football
Seniors hope to keep up with top OSU offense
BY KORY CARPENTER
kcarpenter@kansan.com
Saturday’s matchup with
Oklahoma State will be the last
game in Memorial Stadium for
the 20 seniors on Kansas’ roster.
This season has been anything
but easy, since the team opened
with a loss to North Dakota State
and started conference play with
a four-game losing streak. The
coaching change has been tough
on everyone.
“We were dealt a tough hand,”
senior wide receiver Johnathan
Wilson said at Tuesday’s press con-
ference. “This year didn’t go the
way we planned, but it’s a building
process and I’m sure everybody
here enjoyed their senior year and
their experience at Kansas.”
Like Wilson, many of the
seniors began their careers with
an Orange Bowl win in 2007.
After a win of that magnitude,
the last two seasons have been
disappointing for the football pro-
gram.
Even this year, after a record-
breaking victory against Colorado,
Kansas had three final games star-
ing them in the face: Nebraska,
Oklahoma State and Missouri. All
three are ranked in the top 15 and
only one game is at home. The
home game this weekend might
be the most challenging, as the
how mean are the green?
game, and sixth man Dominique
Johnson, who is averaging 16.5
points and leading the team with
four assists per game.
With four players averaging
double-figure scoring, the Mean
Green are 15th in the country in
points per game.
“They have our respect without
question,” Kansas coach Bill Self
said. “Their perimeter guys can
all score, and their big guys are all
quick and active.”
Likely joining the Jayhawks on
the floor for the first time this sea-
son is backup point guard Elijah
Johnson, who missed the first two
games because of what Self called
“some off-the-court issues.”
“Hopefully, Elijah will be back,”
Self said Wednesday. “I think
there’s a really good chance. I’m
meeting with some people today
to make sure he’s got some stuff
done. I have every indication that
he has, so I anticipate Elijah play-
ing on Friday.”
Johnson has been missed most
when Taylor rests, with Brady
Morningstar forced into a point
guard role that does not fit his
style of play.
“He’s our emergency backup
point guard right now,” Self said.
“He’s handled it pretty well. He’s
not a point guard, though.”
— Edited by Abby Davenport
gameday | 8B
Preview tonight’s
opponent inside
The Kansan breaks down each
team and looks at keys to the
game against the Mean Green.
Cowboys boast one of the nation’s
best offenses.
“Their offense is very, very
explosive,” coach Turner Gill said.
“We’re going to have a tough time
to try and slow them down. That’s
what you’re going to do because
you can’t stop them.”
The offense, led by junior
quarterback Brandon Weeden
and sophomore receiver Justin
Blackmon, is second in the coun-
try in passing yards and third in
scoring.
Gill hopes to slow them down,
but not many teams have been
able to accomplish that feat this
season. Therefore, the often stag-
nant Jayhawk offense will need to
score frequently.
“I get excited because we’re
going to need to keep up with
them to stay in the game,” Wilson
told reporters Tuesday.
Wilson has been the second
option for Kansas quarterbacks
this season, catching 33 passes for
two touchdowns. The first option,
junior cornerback Daymond
Patterson, echoed Wilson’s senti-
ments on the offense’s need to step
up this Saturday.
“We’re really looking to put up
some points after last week,” he
said. “Not having a good game,
we’re looking to bounce back.”
Patterson will have another year
in Lawrence to write his legacy as
Junior guard Tyshawn Taylor is fouled by Valparaiso guard Erik Buggs as he attempts a layup. Taylor finished with eight points and dished out
five assists in the 79-44 victory at Allen Fieldhouse Monday night.
Senior wide receiver Johnathan Wilson breaks free against Colorado Saturday. Twenty seniors will play their final game as Jayhawks Saturday.
a Jayhawk.
Others, like fifth-year senior
running back Angus Quigley, are
starting to realize the finality in
all of this.
“It’s very much real for me,”
Quigley said on Tuesday. “Now,
it’s like two games and college is
over for me. It’s right around the
corner and I’ve started to realize
that so we’ll see what happens.”
volleyball | 3B
Jayhawks face No. 8 Longhorns
Kansas travels to Austin to challenge Texas’ 12-match winning streak, despite only having two
days to prepare for the match. Coach Ray Bechard said the team needs to be aggressive.
Beating Oklahoma State won’t
be easy. But then again, noth-
ing has been easy for this Kansas
team, especially for the seniors
who experienced so much success
early in their careers.
A bowl game is officially out
of the question, but a win or two
against a couple of ranked teams
could work wonders for the play-
ers returning next season. As for
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Mike Gunnoe/KANSAN
this year, Gill thanked the seniors
for smoothing the coaching tran-
sition.
“They accepted me,” he said.
“I would say from the beginning
their eyes, heart and soul, they
have given all of that. And that’s
all you can ask from a coach’s
perspective.”
— Edited by Lisa Curran
COMMENTARY
Stats show
top recruits
rarely lead to
NCAA titles
BY tim dwyer
tdwyer@kansan.com
A
s signing week drew to
a close earlier this week,
there were a couple of
thoughts that I couldn’t get out of
my head.
First, I love recruiting talk. I love
the optimism, love the hoopla, love
the reveling in projections of glory
and riches and NCAA titles.
I am not alone in this. We are a
culture that is as interested in projec-
tions as in results, desperate to know
what happened yesterday and what
will happen tomorrow.
It’s why recruiting has grown from
niche to front page news. It’s why I
and plenty of others were glued to
the TV screen when LeBryan Nash
pulled out a big, floppy, orange hat
and committed to Oklahoma State.
It’s why I was watching when Quincy
Miller and Deuce Bello announced
“I will be taking my talents to Waco,”
one after the other, like mini-LeB-
rons with all the ego and a fraction
of the world-altering talent. It’s why I
got hate mail when I wrote that, yes,
on paper, Kansas State was the right
preseason pick to win the Big 12
Conference.
But none of those things really
matter. Of course recruiting does,
but not nearly to the level it is hyped
up to. Because we are such a culture
of immediacy and impatience — and
I count myself among that — we feel
like we need to know 11 months in
advance what some 17-year-old kid
is going to do with the next one, two,
three, four years of his life.
It was with that basis in mind that
I started to look into the world of
recruiting. And the second idea that
was lodged in my head all week was
formed: It. Doesn’t. Matter.
Rivals.com is pretty widely regard-
ed as the top recruiting analysis site
out there, and with good reason. The
site’s rankings go back to the class
of 2003 and not one No. 1 overall
recruit has stayed more than the
required amount in college (2003-
06 jumped from high school to the
NBA; since then they’ve all stayed
just one year).
But while Rivals has a talent for
predicting individual stardom, it’s
startling how rarely that translates to
team glory.
Exactly zero No. 1 recruits have
ever won a national title. No recruit
ranked in the top four ever has.
Only two recruits ranked No. 5
have: Duke’s Kyle Singler, who by
no coincidence is also the only top
five recruit to wait around until
his junior season, and Charlie
Villanueva, who out of the 70 top-10
recruits in Rivals’ seven-year ranking
history is the only one to win a title
in his freshman year.
And I know Josh Selby was the
top-ranked recruit in the country
this year, and I know that Kansas
fans will hammer me for this.
But barring an NBA lockout that
forces Selby to stay a second year in
Lawrence, I don’t see him competing
for an NCAA title.
This isn’t to say talent is not essen-
tial. It is. Of course. You have to have
good players to win games. But it’s
not the guys ranked one through 15
that make up national-title winners.
It’s the guys ranked 15 through 100;
guys like Marcus Morris (No. 29),
Markieff Morris (No. 49), Travis
Releford (No. 70), Tyshawn Taylor
(No. 77), Thomas Robinson (No.
31), Jeff Withey (No. 36) and Elijah
Johnson (No. 24).
Those are the types of guys who
win championships.
— Edited by Alex Tretbar
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Morning Brew THIS WEEK IN

QUOTE OF THE DAY KANSAS ATHLETICS
“Look around the table. If you
don’t see a sucker, get up, be-
cause you’re the sucker.”
Cam Newton, a lesson to coaches Today

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—Professional Gambler Amarillo Slim
f you’ve seen even a split second of sports
coverage the last few weeks, you know
about Auburn’s Cam Newton. He’s the
ultra-athletic quarterback of the Auburn
Tiger offense, leading his team to a No. 2
ranking in the latest BCS standings. He’s also
FACT OF THE DAY a front runner for the Heisman Trophy.
Seventeen Jayhawk football He also likes cash. Allegedly.
According to an ESPN.com report,
players were recognized on the
Mississippi State booster Mike Bell received
Academic All-Big 12 Team. First a text from Newton’s father, Cecil, during
team qualifiers have a GPA of 3.20
his son’s recruitment last year. Cecil alleg-
and higher.
edly wanted $180,000 for his son to play for
— Kansas Athletics
Mississippi State.
When coach Dan Mullen supposedly
refused to pay Newton the recruitment was
complete, and Cam eventually signed with
Auburn. Whether Mississippi State refused
to pay or Auburn simply had a bigger check
waiting is still unclear. It’s SEC football, any-
thing is possible.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY What is clear, is that Auburn is on track to
Q: Before this year, what was play for the national title and Cam Newton is
almost certainly headed to New York City as
the highest amount of Kansas a Heisman Trophy finalist.
football players recognized for Great timing, isn’t it? Mississippi State has
this honor? supposedly known about these allegations
A: 11 in 2007. since last November, but has stayed quiet
until Auburn is a title contender 12 months
later.
— Kansas Athletics
According to ESPN.com, “Bell said the
reason he’s providing details of the alleged
scheme is because he wants to make sure
everybody knows Mississippi State didn’t
break NCAA rules.”
Texas
6:30 p.m.
Austin, Texas
Men’s Basketball
North Texas
7 p.m.
Lawrence
By kory carpenter
kcarpentar@kansan.com
saturday
Is Mississippi State now just bringing
Football
it up, to clear their name even though the
Oklahoma State
NCAA supposedly had no clue of wrong- 11 a.m.
doings and there was no investigation at any more evidence before the BCS title game
Lawrence
the time? Mississippi State didn’t bring up on January 11. And with the news less than
these allegations to clear its name. a month old, this investigation is far from
complete. sunday
They play in the SEC, where football rules Women’s Basketball
everything and the coaches, for the most part, It’s extremely naïve to think that every year
certain big-time football recruits aren’t getting Wisconsin
don’t like each other. If they allegedly got out- 5 p.m.
a little cash under the table. But most coaches
bid for a star recruit, they won’t like it. And if
and programs are smart about it. They cover Madison, Wis.
said recruit is on his way to hoisting the tro-
phy, any dirt they have will be thrown. And their tracks, especially in the SEC. And when
you don’t cover the paper trail, your confer- Monday
it has so far, even with the Florida Gators,
ence rivals will be more than glad to call up Cross Country
Newton’s former school. Reports surfaced
the NCAA. NCAA Championships
last month that Newton cheated on multiple
My parting advice to Auburn coach Gene T.B.A.
tests at Florida before transferring to a junior
college in January 2009. Cheating on an alge- Chizik, who’s very new to the SEC: If you’re
going to pay your quarterback more than a
Terre Haute, Ind.
bra test two years ago isn’t a huge deal, but
thanks for playing Gators. The Bulldogs from lot of your coaches, don’t get caught. TUESday
Mississippi State are here to help you out. Men’s Basketball
Apparently for Auburn $180,000 wasn’t — Edited by Abby Davenport Texas A&M Corpus
too much for a Heisman Trophy finalist Christi
and potential BCS National Championship 7 p.m.
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volleyball
Kansas to take on Texas after loss
Freshman middle blocker Caroline Jarmoc makes a two handed block in the match against
Baylor Wednesday. The Jayhawks lost to the Bears 3-1.
By Ian Cummings
icummings@kansan.com
With just two days to prepare
— instead of the usual three —
the Jayhawks travel to Austin,
Texas for a rematch with the No.
8 Longhorns today.
college football
New OSU offensive coordinator finds success
Associated Press
STILLWATER, Okla. — Mike
Gundy spent the better part of
a decade going up against Mike
Leach’s potent offenses at Texas
Tech, then watched as the Red
Raiders took the next step and
became a legitimate national cham-
pionship contender.
The questions from Oklahoma
State fans were only natural: Why
not just do what Leach was doing?
It was never that simple, but now
the 12th-ranked Cowboys have
the next best thing — or perhaps
something even better.
First-year offensive coordinator
MLB
Seattle’s Hernandez
wins pitching award
SEATTLE — Felix Hernandez
consistently proved the lone stan-
dard of excellence in an otherwise
miserable Mariners season.
And Wednesday, with the fran-
chise still reeling over 101 losses
and the death last week of Hall of
Fame broadcaster Dave Niehaus,
Mike Gunnoe/KANSAN
Kansas is just three games from
the end of the regular season,
and senior outside hitter Karina
Garlington said the match was a
must-win for the Jayhawks.
“It’s a do-or-die situation,” she
said.
The Texas Longhorns are on a
Dana Holgorsen has Oklahoma son and are closing in on their
State (9-1, 5-1 Big 12) leading the first appearance in the conference
nation in total
offense despite
massive turnover
on the roster
“You don’t ever take the
from last season, foot off the gas pedal. Just season to find
including the
loss of two first-
let her rip.”
round NFL draft
picks. Behind
their 547.5 yards
and 45 points
per game, the
Cowboys also
lead the Big 12 South with only attractive to recruits. He was able
games against Kansas and No. 16 to land Holgorsen, who had been a
Oklahoma left in the regular sea- part of offenses that were in the top
the 24-year-old Hernandez once
again provided a rare glimpse out of
the darkness.
Hernandez captured just the
second American League Cy
Young Award for the Mariners on
Thursday, beating out rivals C.C.
Sabathia of the New York Yankees
and David Price of the Tampa Bay
Rays in voting conducted by the
Baseball Writers’ Association of
America.
Hernandez received 21 first-
place votes and 167 ballot points.
Price of Tampa Bay was second
KANSAN.COM / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / Friday, November 19, 2010 /
WHO: Jayhawks vs. Longhorns
WHEN: Today, 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Austin, Texas
12-match winning streak and have
won 23 Big 12 Conference home
games in a row.
In their last meeting, Texas (20-
5, 15-2 Big 12) swept Kansas (16-
12, 7-10 Big 12) in Lawrence. On
Wednesday, the Longhorns swept
the Missouri Tigers while Kansas
dropped a four-setter to the Baylor
Bears at home.
Longhorn senior outside hit-
ter Juliann Faucette led the Texas
offense Wednesday with 16 kills
and a .324 hitting efficiency, add-
ing 10 digs for her 19th career dou-
ble-double. Junior middle blocker
Rachael Adams and junior outside
hitter Amber Roberson rounded
out the offense with 11 and nine
kills, respectively. Roberson aver-
aged a .714 hitting efficiency in
the match.
Kansas lost to Baylor at home,
despite out-digging Baylor’s No.
2 ranked defense. Freshman
libero Brianne Riley recorded 22
digs, reaching double-digits for
the third-straight match. Junior
setter Nicole Tate contributed 12
digs and senior defensive special-
ist Melissa Manda added 11. The
Jayhawks put together a total of
71 digs in the match compared to
Baylor’s 69.
The Jayhawks also out-blocked
the Bears 13-11. Redshirt fresh-
man middle blocker Caroline
Jarmoc alone recorded a season-
high nine blocks, including three
championship
game.
Gundy set
out after last
an coordinator
who he con-
sidered a great
Mike Gundy play-caller and
Coach someone who
could bring
in a system
that would be
with 111 points (four first-place
votes), and Sabathia was third with
102 points (three first-place votes).
Two BBWAA members from each
of the 14 American-League cities
cast votes.
“It is a very emotional day for
me,” said Hernandez in a statement
released by the Mariners. “I’m very
proud that I was able to accomplish
this not only for myself, but for my
family, my country and my team. I
don’t have the words to describe the
way I feel.”
Hernandez’s win could provide
SPORTS / 3B
cross country
solo rejections.
Garlington and senior out-
side hitter Jenna Kaiser led the
Jayhawks’ offense with 12 kills
each, and junior outside hitter
Allison Mayfield added 11 and
two service aces.
Despite all that, and winning
the first set 25-23, the Jayhawks
ran into big trouble starting in the
second set. Kansas was plagued by
errors, a problem that only grew
worse in the next three sets. In
the third set, the Jayhawks took an
18-13 lead only to see it disappear
after a string of mishaps that gave
Baylor the lead. Kansas managed
to tie the set at 22-22, but Baylor
won 25-23. The fourth set was
even worse, as Baylor hit a match-
high .500 hitting efficiency while
Kansas dropped to -.037. Baylor
won set 25-12 to end the contest.
Kaiser said serving aggres-
sively would be important to the
Jayhawks on Friday, a sentiment
echoed by the coach Ray Bechard.
“We’ve still got to be aggressive.
We can’t get tentative,” Bechard
said. He said it was hard for the
attackers to continue taking big
swings after missing and having
shots go out of bounds.
“That’s a tough combination, Jeff Jacobson/KU ATHLETICS INC.
but that’s what we’ll have to do,” Donny Wasinger, the captain of the cross country team, was chosen by the NCAA to recieve
he said. an automatic bid to the NCAA championship.
— Edited by Lisa Curran
Wasinger earns
spot in Nationals
by Lauren Newman that believe in him, such as his
six in the nation each of the past lnewman@kansan.com parents and coaches, are what
eight years. motivate him.
Holgorsen’s success in Year 1 at Monday is a day that junior Being a captain on the team
Oklahoma State comes without the captain Donny Wasinger has has put Wasinger in a leader-
opportunity to load up the roster been waiting for his whole cross ship role that he highly values.
with players who fit his system. country career. That day is the He feels that the team has made
He inherited a group of unprov- NCAA National Championship lots of improvements from last
season and especially feels that
en receivers and has seen Justin
Blackmon turn into the nation’s top
that will be held in Terre Haute,
senior Nick Caprario stepped
Ind., which Wasinger will indi-
receiver for Bowl Subdivision pass- vidually compete in. it up as he took on the role of
ing leader Brandon Weeden. The NCAA offered Wasinger being the men’s team No. 2
“You would eventually like for an automatic bid to the champi- runner.
this offense to evolve where you onship. The NCAA take the top As a team they had higher
get some more skill guys to play two teams from NCAA Midwest hopes, and Wasinger wished the
in here on the perimeter and then Regional Championship and team could have competed as
just keep going,” Gundy said. “You those athletes automatically go a whole in Nationals. Factors
don’t ever take your foot off the gas on to NCAA Nationals. The that hindered the success of the
pedal. Just let her rip.” top four individual runners men’s team came from junior
who are not on the qualify- Zach Zarda’s injury early on
ing teams go on to Nationals and some injuries from fresh-
as well. Wasinger, who placed men that took place at the end
a historic shift in the emphasis Cy 10th at the Midwest Regional of the season. As for next year
Young voters place on wins by a Championship, was the fourth Wasinger feels that the team will
pitcher. The 13 wins by Hernandez
sets a new low for a Cy Young
individual selected. This is a
huge accomplishment since
be more prepared and ready for
the season.
winner, trumping the 15 by Tim
Lincecum of the Giants in the
it has been four years since a “It’s definitely a confidence
KU male has qualified for the boost being able to go on to
National League race last season. Nationals,” Wasinger said.
NCAA Championship.
Instead, voters focused on
Wasinger first tried out for “Afterwards I just plan to roll
Hernandez’s league-best 2.27
cross country in eigth grade on to the next season and stay
earned-run average and 2492/3
because he was too small for healthy.”
innings pitched. He was also sec-
ond in the league with six complete football and would have to
stand on the sidelines. He joined — Edited by Abby Davenport
games and 232 strikeouts.
cross country because everyone
— McClatchy-Tribune competes. The people in his life
6B / SPORTS / FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / kansan.com

nba

Spurs defeat the Bulls to nab eighth straight victory

ASSOCIATED PRESS never smiled. largely enjoyed insularity and few
He seldom did from the time off-the-court distractions.
SAN ANTONIO — Tony Parker he showed up at AT&T Center, When Parker emerged from the
scored 21 points, hours after his where his night began with a brief locker room to meet reporters, he
Hollywood actress wife filed for but uncomfortable session with a succinctly answered three ques-
divorce, to lead the San Antonio swarm of reporters crowding the tions before a team official ended
Spurs to a 103-94 victory over the hallway outside the Spurs’ locker the interview.
Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night. room. It was only hours earlier that Asked about speculation that
The Spurs won their eighth Longoria had filed for divorce, end- Parker might have been involved
straight and improved to 9-1, tying ing a celebrity marriage that began with the wife of a former Spurs
a franchise-best start that even Tim with a storybook wedding in Paris teammate, Parker replied: “That’s
Duncan never saw during any of in 2007. my private life.”
the four championship runs for the “It’s a difficult time right now for Longoria often attended her hus-
Spurs. me and Eva,” Parker said before the band’s games when not filming —
But when Parker arrived at the game. “We got a joint statement and making for a rare courtside celebri-
arena, none of that seemed to mat- everything else is our private life.” ty sighting at AT&T Center. When
ter. The Spurs trailed 47-37 at half- Parker signed a four-year, $50 mil-
Actress Eva Longoria filed court time but stunned the Bulls with lion extension with the Spurs last
papers in Los Angeles earlier a 37-point third quarter in which month, the 28-year-old spoke as
Wednesday to divorce Parker, citing San Antonio shot 71 percent. though staying in San Antonio was
irreconcilable differences between Meanwhile, Chicago missed six of as important to Longoria as it was
the “Desperate Housewives” star and 23 shots and scored just 12 points, a to him.
the point guard. A swarm of media season low for any quarter. Popovich said during a morn-
before the game waited for Parker, Manu Ginobili scored 20 points ing shootaround that his star point
who called the and Duncan had guard getting a divorce — during
divorce a private 16 points and 18 what has so far been one of the best
matter. “It’s a difficult time right rebounds for the early starts in Parker’s career —
Spurs, who last wouldn’t be a distraction.
Derrick Rose now for me and Eva. We opened 9-1 in Popovich then addressed the
scored 33 points
for the Bulls, got a joint statement and 1981 during the situation one more time before the
George Gervin game.
whose win everything else is our era. “This is a difficult situation for
streak ended at
four. private life.” Luol Deng everyone, obviously,” Popovich
Parker was 9 scored 18 points said. “Eva and Tony are two people
of 14 from the Tony parker for the Bulls, but that we love and care about. We
floor and had San Antonio point guard on 6 of 17 shoot- wish them both the best as they
seven assists, ing. Joakim move through this.”
and when the Noah had 10 Longoria, 35, did not indicate in
Spurs emptied their bench with 22.2 points and 14 rebounds. the court filings when the couple
seconds left, fans treated the three- Parker and Longoria’s split made broke up. They have no children
for an usually frenzied atmosphere together, and Longoria has one pre- AP PHOTO/ERIC GAY
time All-Star to a standing ovation.
vious marriage. Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose, right, drives to the basket as San Antonio Spurs’ Tim Duncan, left, defends during the second quarter of an NBA basket-
Parker kept his head down and around the Spurs, whose teams
under coach Gregg Popovich have ball game Nov. 17 in San Antonio. The Spurs beat the Bulls 103-94.

ncaa football

Poll attempts to predict 2010 Heisman Trophy winner

McClatchy-Tribune
Auburn quarterback Cam
Newton remains in control of the
Scripps Howard News Service
Heisman Trophy poll, based on
Wednesday’s latest round of ballot-
ing, but backtracked by one first-
place vote amid ongoing contro-
versy about his recruitment.
Newton received eight of 10
available first-place votes — one
less than last week — while FBI offi-
cials began looking into published
reports that he wound up at Auburn
as part of a pay-for-play scheme
after completing the 2009 season at
Blinn College in Brenham.
Newton, who accounted for four
touchdowns in last week’s 49-31 vic-
tory over Georgia, remains the poll
frontrunner for a fifth consecutive
week. But he has a different player
nipping at his heels.
Boise State quarterback Kellen
Moore, who received the two
remaining first-place votes from front-runners for the Heisman player NFL scouts consider the most
pollsters, climbed to No. 2 in this Trophy: desirable QB in college football has
week’s balloting, trading places with Cam Newton, Auburn: Versatile all the tools.
Oregon running back LaMichael performer continues to shine on the Cam Newton, Auburn: Dual-
James. field, but off-field issues could cloud threat QB ranks 2nd nationally in
The poll, which began in 1987, his candidacy. passing efficiency and is tied for the
solicits input from 10 Heisman LaMichael James, Oregon: NCAA lead in rushing TDs (17).
voters — including representatives Transplanted Texan leads the NCAA Kellen Moore, Boise State: Savvy
from each of the five Heisman bal- in rushing (158.0 avg.) and shares veteran has won 23 consecutive
loting regions — and assigns voting the top spot in rushing TDs. starts and leads the NCAA in pass-
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big 12 basketball
Bettencourt leads by two Williams and Millsap lead
strokes at Pebble Beach Jazz in balanced victory
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — PGA
Tour winner Matt Bettencourt shot
an 8-under 64 at Del Monte on
Thursday to take a two-stroke lead
in the Pebble Beach Invitational,
while Annika Sorenstam opened
with a 69 at Del Monte in a rare
competitive start since her retire-
ment in 2008.
Bettencourt, the Reno-Tahoe
Open winner in July who finished
114th on the 2010 money list, had
two eagles, five birdies and a bogey
in the Callaway Golf-sponsored
tournament that features 76 male
and female players.
“I started slow, but hit a great
shot on No. 9 from about 250
yards to 12 feet and got the eagle,”
said Bettencourt, who tied for
fourth in the tournament last year.
“I didn’t know I was in the lead,
but I knew 64 or 65 was out here.
Del Monte on a day like today is a
pretty benign course.”
Bettencourt birdied three of
the final four holes, but missed a
15-inch birdie putt on the 14th.
“I was good round, although I
left some putts out there,” he said.
LPGA Tour player Morgan
Pressel, PGA Tour veteran Bryce
Molder and New York club pro
Heath Wassen opened with 66s,
also at Del Monte.
Five players, including
Champions Tour player Tom
Purtzer, shot 67s.
Ten of the top 11 opening-round
scores were posted at Del Monte,
which is used in rotation with
big 12 basketball
Kansas State narrowly
avoids upset to Blue Hose
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Kansas
State coach Frank Martin let his
players know there are conse-
quences for poor efforts on the
court.
Jacob Pullen scored 15 points,
and No. 3 Kansas State struggled
for a 76-67 victory over over-
matched Presbyterian on Thursday
night.
“I told the guys after the game I
hope they have a good social life,”
Martin said. “Because I’m getting
ready to ruin it.”
What was supposed to be an
easy game before playing No. 11
Gonzaga on Monday and then
either No. 1 Duke or Marquette on
Tuesday, turned out to be a tough
test for Kansas State.
Up 14 at the half, Kansas State
(3-0) couldn’t shake Presbyterian,
which lost its opener by 41 points
to Vanderbilt.
“Today, you saw the ugly head
of youth and lack of leader-
ship,” Martin said. “Presbyterian
deserved to win. They played their
hearts out. We didn’t.”
The Blue Hose (0-2) opened
the half with 13-7 run, six of the
points coming from Josh Johnson,
and then kept chipping away. Jake
Troyli and Khalid Mutakbbir hit
3-point shots to cut the Wildcats’
lead to 63-60 with 9:35 to play.
“We were just going through the
motions,” Pullen said.
It was 69-65 with 2:30 remain-
ing before K-State’s Jamar Samuels
tipped in Martavious Irving’s and that helped give us a chance.”
miss. When the Wildcats’ Rodney
Magruder sank a baseline 3-poo- Coleman, who had 15 points and three-pointers for a 6-5 Blue Hose
inter with 51
seconds remain-
ing to make it
74-65, the home
“Presbyterian deserved
to win. They played their
crowd could
finally relax. hearts out. We didn’t.”
“It was defi-
nitely awesome,”
Presbyterian
coach Gregg
Nibert said. “I
told our guys,
even after
Vanderbilt, we are a defensive, more turnovers by shooting 50 per- K-State to a 44-30 advantage at the
tough-minded team. We put them cent from the floor and making break.
in the zone, and I tell you, we can nine of 15 three-point attempts.
be tough in the zone. I think we
matched their tough-mindedness, eter shooting to stay in the game
KANSAN.COM / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / Friday, November 19, 2010 / GAME DAY / 7B
nba
ASSOCIATED PRESS minutes remaining that put had grabbed yet another offen-
Utah ahead 93-86. sive rebound, but was called for
SALT LAKE CITY — Deron Anthony Morrow scored 24 an offensive foul, and he fouled
Williams scored 23 points and points, Devin Harris added 19 out with 3:32 remaining.
and Brook Lopez 17 for New Utah lost one of its players
dished out eight assists, Paul
Jersey, which had a 57-44 advan- earlier in the game when reserve
Millsap had 19 points, 15
tage on the boards. C.J. Miles left midway through
rebounds and four assists and the
On a night when neither team the second quarter with a back
Utah Jazz used balanced scoring
shot the ball very well, the Jazz strain.
and an efficient fast break to
did a better job of pushing it up But it was the return of Bell
beat the New Jersey Nets 98-88
the court. Utah, which was just that provided a spark. He played
on Wednesday night.
1 of 12 from three-point range, solid defense, something that
All five Jazz starters were in
at one point held a 20-3 advan- was missing in Utah’s loss to
double figures by early in the
tage on the break. The Jazz also Oklahoma City on Monday
third quarter, with Al Jefferson
blocked 10 shots. night.
adding 16 points and Andrei
Utah led 53-47 at halftime, That made the difference on
Kirilenko 15.
and by as many as 13 points in a night when the Jazz shot just
Raja Bell, back after missing
the fourth quarter before the 40.2 percent, and the Nets a
one game with a groin injury,
Nets (4-7) stormed back and shade worse at 37.6 percent.
also scored 15 for Utah (8-4),
pulled within five.
including a key basket with two
Just before Bell’s jumper Lopez
nba
Stoudemire, Gallinari score 27
as Knicks break six-game skid
ASSOCIATED PRESS 29th in 38 attempts since late in son in place of Udrih and Omri
Associated Press
the first quarter — a 76 percent Casspi, and the Knicks going
Swede Annika Sorenstam shoots out of the sand trap at the Mission Hills Star Trophy tournament. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — shooting clip that exposed Sac- with Ronny Turiaf instead of
Amare Stoudemire and Danilo ramento’s defensive woes this Timofey Mozgov.
Gallinari each scored 27 points season. “When you lose five in a row,
Spyglass Hill and Pebble Beach for 77 at Del Monte. Juli Inkster, who Little-used Donte Greene it’s not a bad thing to shake
to help the New York Knicks
the first three rounds. The final in 1990 become only female player
overcome a slow shooting start then sparked a 9-0 run with a things up,” Kings coach Paul
round will be played at Pebble to win the event, shot a 2-under 70
to snap a six-game losing streak 3-pointer in just his third game Westphal said of his switch to
Beach. at Pebble Beach.
with a 113-106 victory over the since starting the season opener a more defensive lineup before
Defending champion Mark The winner will receive $60,000
Sacramento as the Kings the game.
Brooks, the only three-time Pebble from the $300,000 purse.
Kings on closed to 93- The moves appeared to pay
Beach Invitational winner, had a
Wednesday 90. A dunk by off for the Kings early, or it
“Presbyterian deserved Carl Landry could have just been the effects
night.
Raymond to win. They played their made it a two- of the Knicks playing a night af-
F e l t o n hearts out. We didn’t.” point game, ter losing in Denver.
added 16 but the Knicks New York opened the game
points for Frank Martin responded shooting 3 for 21 and fell be-
the Knicks, Kansas State coach with a 9-2 hind by 15 points in the final
who were run capped by minute of the first quarter. But
the stronger an emphatic the Knicks quickly found their
team down one-handed stroke after that, hitting 13 of
the stretch despite playing for dunk by Stou- 17 shots in the second quarter.
the second straight night. demire. They took the lead with a 17-2
It was another rough game Beno Udrih then scored five run early in the second, capped
for the young Kings, who gave quick points for the Kings. But by a 3-pointer by Douglas.
the Knicks far too many open Felton hit a jumper and Tyreke The Knicks led 54-49 at the
looks and easy points at the Evans missed a shot and turned break — the 10th straight game
foul line in losing their sixth the ball over to end Sacramen- this season Sacramento has
straight overall and fifth in a to’s hopes at a comeback. trailed at the half.
row at home. Evans scored 23 points to
After trailing by 15 points lead the Kings. Landry added
early, the Knicks went on a tor- 21 and Udrih scored 18.
rid shooting spree to take a 93- Both teams juggled their line-
81 lead early in the fourth on a ups in hopes of snapping their
long jumper by Toney Douglas. skids with the Kings starting
That basket was New York’s Luther Head and Jason Thomp-
nfl
Injury-plagued Miami Dolphins
overwhelmed by Chicago Bears
ASSOCIATED PRESS for an illegal block and dropped rassed what we put on the field,”
two passes before he left the game Thigpen said. “I put the blame on
MIAMI — The Chicago Bears in the second quarter after aggra- me.”
had a ready response for Bran- vating a sore right hamstring. He Playing in Miami for the first
don Marshall’s taunting. wore street clothes on the sideline time since losing Super Bowl 41
Julius Peppers and a swarm- in the second half and didn’t talk to Indianapolis, the Bears (7-3)
ing defense allowed only 187 to reporters after the game. won for the third time in 12 days
yards and a single third-down Miami’s already depleted offen- and moved a half-game ahead of
conversion Thursday night, and sive line lost center Cory Procter Green Bay atop the NFC North.
the Bears won 16-0 to send the with a left knee injury. And with The Dolphins (5-5) lost at
injury-ravaged Miami Dolphins third-string quarterback Tyler home in prime time for the third
to their second home shutout in Thigpen taking six sacks in his time this season. Coach Tony
40 years. first NFL start since 2008, the Sparano declined to blame inju-
Marshall drew an early flag for Dolphins were no match for a ries for the dismal showing.
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taunting when he flipped the ball Bears defense that took over the “Those are excuses,” he said.
Kansas State guard Jacob Pullen shoots against Presbyterian. Pullen had 15 of his team’s 76 points NFL lead in points allowed per “I’m not going to use them. I don’t
at former Denver teammate Jay
Cutler, standing in front of the game. want my team to use them.”
for the first 12 minutes. Johnson Bears bench. “Offensively we’re embar-
Presbyterian was led by Al’Lonzo and Mutakabbir hit consecutive “We don’t need that to fire
us up,” Chicago coach Lovie
14 rebounds. lead. Even after K-State scored
M a g r u d e r seven straight for a 23-13 lead,
Smith said. “We were fired
up when we stepped on the
Flu during finals week:
finished with Presbyterian’s Pierre Miller drove
13 points while the baseline for a basket and then
field.”
Marshall also was penalized EXPENSIVE
t e a m m a t e s sank his second three-pointer, cut-
Jamar Samuels, ting the Wildcats’ lead to 23-18
Irving and with 7:59 remaining in the half.
Frank Martin Wally Judge Martin called a timeout and the
Kansas State coach each had 10. Wildcats responded with a 13-4
The Blue run that featured four interior Flu shot
Hose stayed baskets. Magruder capped the run
close despite with a post move, part of his eight
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COUNTDOWN TO TIPOFF
KU
tipoff
At a Glance
It looks like another high-scor-
ing, uptempo game for the Jay-
hawks. Tyshawn Taylor said North
Texas likes to play a fast game,
similar to Kansas’ style, and both
teams rank in the top 20 in the
country in scoring. The Jayhawks
average a little more (96 points
per game to the Mean Green’s 92),
but both teams are offensively
potent. Look again for Bill Self to
utilize his frontcourt’s size against
North Texas, which lacks elite re-
bounding talent other than power
forward George Odufuwa. That
should mean about 20 minutes for
Thomas Robinson and around 10
for Jeff Withey.
Player to watch
Elijah Johnson
Johnson’s return will have some
serious effects on the Kansas line-
up. Brady Morningstar will see his
minutes drop dramatically, as he’ll
no longer be needed for emer-
gency backup
point guard
duties. Johnson
could also
challenge Travis
Releford and
Tyrel Reed for
Johnson
not only playing
Releford
time but for
their starting jobs. Reed is a great
athlete, but his athleticism doesn’t
translate to the court as well as
Johnson’s does. Releford may be
every bit the athlete Johnson is,
but Johnson is a better creator
and should be a better outside
shot. He won’t crack the starting
lineup yet, but it’s certainly a pos-
sibility down the road.
question mark
Can the Kansas bigs stay out of
foul trouble?
With Jeff Withey healthy, this
is less of a concern than it was in
the preseason, but when Markieff
Morris had to sit with two early
fouls against Valparaiso, it made
frontcourt depth an issue for the
rest of the first half. There aren’t
enough bodies in the Jayhawk
frontcourt to withstand serious
foul trouble, and the Mean Green
led the nation in free throws made
per game last season. If two of the
Jayhawks bigs get into foul trou-
ble, Mario Little could be forced to
spend some time in the front-
court, which offers opponents a
size mismatch in their favor.
Robinson
hear Ye, Hear ye
“I never expect to lose here. This
is the best home-court advantage
in the country. Coming in here
and getting those chills before the
game, I definitely don’t expect to
lose here.”
­— Marcus Morris
FRIDAY BIG 12 Schedule
Teams
Texas vs. Pittsburgh 6 p.m. Nov. 23
Nebraska vs. Davidson 2:00 p.m.
Texas A&M-International at Texas A&M
Stephen F. Austin at Texas Tech
meeting mean
A quick glance at Kansas and North Texas
KANSAS VS. North texas
7 p.m., Allen fieldhouse, Lawrence
KANSAS
2-0 (0-0)
starters
Tyshawn Taylor, junior guard
Offensively, Taylor has been nothing short
of breathtaking at times. His improved consis-
tency, decision-making and vision have turned
him into an all-conference caliber point guard
for the Jayhawks. He didn’t shoot the ball well
Monday, going just 2-of-8 from the field, but
was excellent as a distributor, dishing out five
Taylor
assists against one turnover. Tonight, it will be
his defensive skills getting the workout against
North Texas’ dangerous Josh White.
★★★★★
Tyrel Reed, senior guard
Twelve minutes into the Jayhawks’ 79-44
scorching of Valparaiso Monday night, Reed was
3-for-3 from behind the arc and looked to have
his old stroke back. Then he missed his next five
attempts from outside. The senior is shooting an
Reed
uncharacteristically low 33 percent from outside,
and the Jayhawks need him to find his touch
once again.
★★★✩✩
Travis Releford, sophomore guard
Releford was solid but unspectacular in his
15 minutes in Kansas’ victory against Valparaiso
Monday night. He made both shots he attempt-
ed, but was overshadowed by the dramatically
improved play of senior guard Mario Little, who
finished with nine points, four rebounds and
three assists in 20 minutes.
★★★✩✩
Marcus Morris, junior forward
Marcus unleashed a much more complete
game Monday than in his 18-point, two-re-
bound effort in the Jayhawks’ season-opening
win. He finished with 22 points, 11 rebounds
and four assists and demonstrated the versatil-
ity that makes him a potential lottery pick in the
very near future. He’s been the Jayhawks’ most
Morris efficient shooter, hitting 60 percent of his threes
and a remarkable 77 percent of his field goal
attempts.
★★★★★
Markieff Morris, junior center
Markieff has unquestionably established
himself as the best rebounder on this Jayhawks
team (with an honorable mention to Thomas
Robinson off the bench). His 14 boards per
game are just one shy of what Marcus and Rob-
Morris
inson are averaging combined. Markieff played
just five minutes and pulled down three boards
in the first half against Valparaiso because of
foul trouble, but had 12 points and 10 rebounds
in the second half alone.
★★★★✩
Sixth Man
Thomas Robinson, sophomore forward
Robinson is getting almost as many minutes
as the starters (or more, in the case of Releford)
with 20 per game. It’s hard for Self to keep
him off the floor, as he has the ability to be
a double-double player, even off the bench.
Self has taken to playing both Morris twins
and Robinson at the same time, creating size
mismatches at the three and four against most
teams. Robinson gets a fourth star for the first
time.
★★★★✩ — Tim Dwyer
Time (CT) Allen Fieldhouse will rock if…
The team ties the school record for consecutive wins in the
building with 62. Marcus Morris said he “can’t, can’t, CAN’T” lose a
game in his home building, so he may have a little extra fire with
the streak on the line. If he does, look out North Texas. He could
go for 30.
Baby Jay will break down and cry if…
Kansas allows Josh White to do what he did to Texas Tech —
7:00 p.m.
light up the scoreboard in a stunning Mean Green upset. White
is excellent against Big 12 competition, but there’s a difference
between a team picked to finish in the middle of the pack, and a
7:00 p.m.
team ranked No. 6 in the country.
Prediction:
Kansas 98, North Texas 64
green
north texas
2-0 (0-0)
starters
Tristan Thompson, senior guard
Thompson averaged 14.5 points per game
last season while earning a Third-Team All-Sun
Belt Conference selection. He scored in double
figures in 26 of his last 27 games last season.
His three-point percentage is down this year
(.200), but is 37.9 percent for his career and shot
40.4 percent last year. He was named to the Pre-
season Second-Team All-Sun Belt Conference.
★★✩✩✩
Josh White, senior guard
White scored 35 points in the game against
Texas Tech and is averaging 20.5 points per
game through two games. White is averaging
35 minutes a game this season. A season ago,
White averaged 14.5 points 3.5 assists per game
while starting all 33 games for the Mean Green.
He earned a Third-Team All-Sun Belt Confer-
ence selection last season.
★★★✩✩
Shannon Shorter, senior guard
Shorter has made 21 consecutive starts dating
back to last season for the Mean Green. He shot
47.2 percent from the field last year, but was
only 3-18 from behind the arc. He is currently
averaging 2 points per game while shoot-
ing 28.6 percent. Kansas will want to try and
force Shorter to shoot from the outside, he is
currently 0-3 on the season, but his cold streak
should continue tonight.
★✩✩✩✩
Kedrick Hogans, junior forward
Hogans is a big body down low. He will be
matched up with the Morris twins and Mario
Little. Besides Odufuwa, Hogans is the tallest
player with the most experience. He is averag-
ing 9.5 points and 2.5 rebounds per game in
29.5 minutes. Hogans averaged 4.5 points and
3.3 rebounds per game a season ago.
★✩✩✩✩
George Odufuwa, senior forward
Odufuwa was named to the Sun Belt’s pre-
season All First-Team. He is currently averaging
10.5 points and 13 rebounds per game. He
is averaging 35 minutes per game as well. A
season ago, Odufuwa averaged 11.5 points and
10.7 rebounds per game. He started 32 of North
Texas’ 33 games.
★★✩✩✩
Sixth Man
Dominique Johnson, senior guard
Johnson is averaging 16.5 points off the
bench this season in 31 minutes. Johnson may
crack the starting lineup if his play continues.
However, having two 5-foot-10 guards in the
lineup makes the Mean Green very small in
the frontcourt. Johnson is North Texas’ best
three-point shooter. He is currently 8-13 on the
season. He was one of four players to average
double figures (11 ppg) last season.
★★★✩✩
Date
Nov. 26
Nov. 27
Dec. 2
unt
tipoff
At a Glance
The Mean Green fans stormed
the court Tuesday in a huge 92-
83 overtime victory over Texas
Tech on Tuesday. The Mean Green
outscored Texas Tech 18-9 in the
overtime period. North Texas is
3-0 at home against Big 12 teams
under coach Johnny Jones with
wins over Oklahoma State and
Baylor. The Mean Green is the
only “mid-major” team to defeat
a Big 12 school this season. North
Texas was named the Sun Belt’s
Thompson best preseason squad by ESPN,
Blue Ribbon and Lindy’s. The
Mean Green returns four starters
and has a lot of leadership, with
seven seniors.
Player to watch
Josh White
White can do it all for North
Texas. He can handle the ball, he
White can shoot, he can distribute and
he can defend. He is the Mean
Green’s best all-around player. He
was named to
the Preseason
First-Team
All-Sun Belt
Conference.
He ranks 10th
in North Texas
White
history with
1,285 points. He
is a guard that the Jayhawks don’t
Shorter
want at the free throw line. He is
84.9 percent at the free throw line
for his career. There are only four
current point guards in the NCAA
that have more starts than White
(93).
question mark
Hogans Will North Texas stop the
streak?
The Jayhawks streak of 61
consecutive home victories could
stop tonight, but it won’t hap-
pen. Kansas has too much talent
compared with North Texas. The
Mean Green caught the attention
of the Jayhawks last season when
both teams played in Oklahoma
City for the first two rounds of the
NCAA Tournament. North Texas
Odufuwa
lost to Kansas State 82-62. The
Mean Green entered the tourna-
ment with an 11-game winning
streak, but had it snapped by
the Wildcats. North Texas hung
with Kansas State for the first 10
minutes until Kansas State pulled
away. The games against Texas
Tech regained Kansas’ attention
if it was lost during the NCAA
Tournament.
Johnson
hear Ye, Hear ye
“He was truly a pioneer at North
Texas because he showed that you
could have sucess here. His will-
ingness to share his experiences
helped in my transition to North
Texas. I have fond memories of
— Mike Lavieri
him, and he will be sorely missed.”
­— North Texas coach Johnny Jones on legend-
ary Mean Green coach Bill Blakeley, who passed
away on Oct. 26, according to a news release.
schedule
Opponent TV Channel Time
Texas A&M-CC Jayhawk TV 7 p.m.
Ohio Jayhawk TV 7 p.m.
Arizona Jayhawk TV 7 p.m.
UCLA ESPN2 9:30 p.m.