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Healing after an abusive relationship and

becoming an advocate for others in need

When Bethany McMillen, a

senior rom ecumseh, and herthen-boyriend started dating,it didn’t seem like an unusu-al relationship. But slowly, hestarted telling her what shecouldn’t do, what she couldn’twear, where she couldn’t goand who she couldn’t speakwith.McMillen said she elt isolat-

ed rom her riends becauseo this and said she elt shecouldn’t turn to her mom be-cause she was grieving a di-

 vorce already.Her boyriend became in-

creasingly violent. She said he

would extort her insecuritiesto manipulate her; then hestarted threatening to hurt orkill McMillen, her amily orhimsel to get what he wanted.She tried to break up with himat least seven times over fiveyears together, she said, butit never worked, and she wasaraid o the consequences.“I knew he wasn’t good or

me, but he knew how to get meto stay,” McMillen said.One night, when McMillen

was out at a concert with herriends, her phone died. Whenshe was finally able to charge itshe had almost 100 messagesand voicemails rom him. Shesaid there were two pictures:one o her boyriend and abottle o whiskey, and one ohim with a gun in his mouth.McMillen immediately calledthe police.“Luckily the police got [to my

apartment] beore he did,” Mc-Millen said.McMillen was eventually put

in touch with the Willow Do-mestic Violence Center orhelp, thanks to a amily riend.Tere she was offered support

and provided a court advocateto help get a restraining order.

“It was very hard or me toaccept that I was a survivor,”McMillen said.Now McMillen works as a

 volunteer at Willow to helpothers in her situation. Shehopes to educate people on theintricacies o dating violence,like why people stay in abusiverelationships.Several organizations in Law-

rence, including the Willow,the Sexual rauma and AbuseCare Center, and the Universi-ty’s Office o Institutional Op-portunity and Access and Em-ily aylor Center are honoringdomestic violence awarenessmonth in October by educat-ing students on campus withtabling and chalking.

Te Willow provides supportor victims and offers serviceslike counseling and advocacy.

COMMON QUESTIONSABOUT DATING AND

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE:

What constitutesdating violence?

Michael McRill, interim mea-sures coordinator or IOA,said dating violence is physi-cal, emotional or mental abusewithin an intimate relation-ship.“You see some physical

punching or slapping, butmainly there’s a long historyo manipulation, mental oremotional abuse,” McRill said.“You could be in a dating rela-tionship that’s only emotion-al, mental or verbal abuse andfile a complaint [with IOA].”

Where can someonego?

In Lawrence, victims can goto the Willow Domestic Vio-lence Center and the Sexualrauma and Abuse Care Cen-ter — ormerly known as Ga-DuGi Sae Center — or sup-port. Both offer 24/7 hotlines,

counseling and educationservices. Willow also has ashelter and can provide courtadvocates.Victims can report abuse

through the Lawrence PoliceDepartment, the KU PublicSaety Office or IOA.

What do I do if myfriend is affected?

McMillen suggests beingthere or them so i they de-cide they want to leave orneed help, they have someoneto turn to. Joan Schultz, the

executive director o Willow,said the hotline is also avail-able to answer questions romriends or amily members.

Can it happen to men?Kathy Rose Mockery, execu-

tive director o the Emily ay-lor Center, said anyone can bea victim o dating violence,regardless o gender or sexu-ality. She also said that anyonecan perpetrate violence.

Why don’t people inthese situations leave?

McMillen said she tried toleave her abusive relationship,but she couldn’t because oher boyriend’s threats andbecause she didn’t eel thatshe had any support rom herriends or amily. She saidpeople have to be patient ortheir loved ones in abusive re-lationships.“You don’t know what’s going

on in the relationship, so justtry to be the best riend thatyou can,” McMillen said.

MCKENNA HARFORD@McKennaHarford

Afer a night out with herhusband in the city, DeanneArensberg, an undergradu-ate affairs administrator inthe chemistry department,called or an Uber driver topick them up.She expected a col-

lege-aged student strappedor cash. Instead, the driverwas someone like hersel— employed ull-time withchildren in college. Tenshe realized she could dothis, too.“Almost all the Uber driv-

ers that picked us up werepeople who worked ull-time jobs, had students incollege and were just doing

it or extra money,” Arens-berg said. “I thought, waita second, I have a ull-time

 job. I have two kids in col-lege. I have a decent car. I cando this. Tat’s how it all gotstarted.”One Friday night, when

picking up a rider and hiswie rom Bella Sara, a Law-rence apartment complex,the usual small-talk took

place. But when Arensbergmentioned she works or thechemistry department, therider mentioned he was thenew dean o the College o

Liberal Arts and Sciences.“I think that’s the coolest

thing about Uber — younever know,” Arensberg said.“Te person who is takingyou to Starbucks may workwith someone you know andis the most normal person.”Uber runs a system that al-

lows drivers to see the closestperson requesting a ride, andprovides them with the nameo the rider, location and theplace he or she is headed.

Te rider is then inormed owho is picking them up, whatcar he or she is driving, andhow long the wait is or thedriver to get there.With a base are o two dol-

lars and a charge o 20 cents

per minute and $1.65 permile, Uber serves as a lessexpensive way to get romplace to place. Afer reach-ing a destination, a rider isallowed to rate his or her rideon a scale o 1 to 5 stars andleave any comments.Arensberg got started driv-

ing in early August — theweek when internationalstudents came to campus ororientation. Arensberg saidshe saw this as a way to helpstudents get around campussaely while also seeing whatUber was all about.“Tose were my first riders,

the brand new internation-al students, and then I keptgoing rom there,” Arensbergsaid.Tose students requested

rides during the day. Herfirst night drive was whatis commonly reerred to as“shark night” — the night a-ter recruitment when soror-

ity members aren’t restrictedby their chapters rom barsand parties. She said that shestayed busy throughout thenight.“Tat was crazy," Arens-

berg said. "I mean, as soon

as I would drop someone off,bing, bing, bing. It wouldn’tstop."With a ull-time job at the

University, Arensberg saidshe drives a ew times duringthe week, setting her ownhours and driving when shewants. She said that since theapp is relatively new in thearea, traffic varies rom dayto day.“Tat’s the beauty o it," she

said. "I you don’t eel like it,you don’t have to do it."One concern or Lawrence

drivers is intoxicated stu-dents, but Arensberg said shehas never driven anyone whohas been drunk enough tocause a problem. Although ithas not happened to her, sheattended a get-together oUber drivers in the area andheard their passenger horrorstories.

““I think that’s the coolestthing about Uber — younever know. The per-son who is taking youto Starbucks may workwith someone you knowand is the most normalperson.”

DEANNE ARENSBERG

Lawrence Uber driver

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With hal a semester under itsbelt, Student Senate is workingon different projects to ulfillits campaign promises. Senatehas also passed bills undingstudent organizations in addi-tion to a controversial electionreorm bill.Platorm progress is being

monitored in part by the Stu-dent Senate platorm progressupdate webpage.

CULTURAL

COMPETENCYPlatform:  Student Senate is

working with the Office oMulticultural Affairs to im-prove cultural competency oncampus.

Progress: All Student sena-tors were required to partic-ipate in cultural competen-cy training provided by theOMA, said Director o Diver-sity and Inclusion Omar Rana.

AIRPORT SHUTTLE

Platform:  “o improve stu-dent’s access to Kansas City

International Airport by pro- viding a shuttle to and romKU’s campus,” according to thewebpage.

Progress: Senate has beenworking since August to sur-

 vey and measure student inter-est. Tey should be distributedwithin the next month. Senatewill start receiving private bids

rom contractors at the end othe semester, said Communi-cations Director Isaac Bahney.

COURSE EVALUATIONS

Platform: Senate is workingto make the results o semes-ter-end course evaluationspublic. According to the web-page, Senate thinks studentsshould have more inormationavailable to them about theclasses they take.

Progress: An official propos-al has been written, and it willbe introduced to UniversitySenate within the next month,

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Platform:  Student SenateOutreach Board plans to host“University Conversations” oncampus issues. Tese open-o-rum style meetings will beheld several times a semester.

Progress: Te first UniversityConversations will be held onTursday, Nov. 5. A time andlocation is to be announced,Bahney said.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

EDUCATIONAND AWARENESS

Platform: Student Senate willtake up human trafficking asan issue and work to address itin and around Lawrence.Progress: Senate has part-

nered with the Willow Domes-tic Violence Shelter to provide

training on helping victims otrafficking. Senate set up thepartnership, and Willow de-

 veloped the training. So ar,Watkins Health Center staff,Counseling and PsychologicalServices staff, and Internation-al Student Services staff haveall received training, Bahneysaid.

100 PERCENT COURSE

REFUND

Platform:  “Senate will workto extend the period o timein which you can switch outo a class and still receive a 100

percent reund. Currently, thecutoff is the day beore classes,but the national average is 14days,” according to the web-page.Progress:  Development Di-

rector omas Green said Sen-ate has been working withStrong Hall on this project. Hesaid it has its own momentum,and it depends on the internalworkings in Strong Hall to im-plement it.

STUDENT ATHLETICS

Platform:  Student Senateplans to create a Student Ath-

letic Board that will create anincentive program to encour-age students to attend wom-en’s and nonrevenue sportingevents.

Progress:  Te best plan oran incentive program is in theresearch phase, but there isno progress on the plan itsel,

Bahney said.

SENATE

ACCOUNTABILITY

Platform: Student Senate willhold members accountable byrequiring them to engage withconstituents, attend events andreach out to students.

Progress:  Te ExecutiveBoard re-implemented theOutreach Points System,Bahney said. Each senator, ex-cluding graduate and nontra-ditional senators, must reach100 points per semester. Tey

can earn points by going tomeetings o their constituentorganizations, meeting withtheir constituents, going toconstituent events and goingto mandated office hours.

CITY GOVERNMENT

Platform: o create a strongerrelationship between studentsand city government, Senateplans to create a non-votingseat on City Council and es-tablish an internship programin city hall or a University oHaskell student.

Progress:  Te non-voting

seat has been established andis held by Stephonn Alcorn,Student Senate governmentrelations director. An officialwritten proposal or the in-ternship and what it wouldentail is being drafed, Bahneysaid.

NATIVE AMERICANSTUDENT ADVISORY

BOARD

Platform: Student Senate hascreated a Native American Stu-dent Advisory Board to betterrepresent Native Americanstudents. Te board will workwith Vice Provost or Diversityand Equity Nate Tomas.Progress:Te board has been

created and has met once,Bahney said.

CAMPUS

SUSTAINABILITY

AND SUSTAINABLE

FACILITIESPlatform: o increase sus-

tainability on campus, StudentSenate is working to reimaginethe purpose o the Student En-

 vironmental Advisory Boardand establish a stronger con-nection to the SustainabilityLeadership Board. Senate willalso continue to invest in mo-tion-sensor lighting and airdryers in bathrooms.

Progress: Green said he hasbeen working with adminis-trators at Strong Hall to makesustainability an issue import-ant to the University. Rightnow they are coming up withprojects and unding or thecoming months.

— Edited by Derek Johnson

One o those stories was rom31-year-old Mike Saina, who

has been driving with Uber ora month.“I drive a lot o students home

late at night,” he said. “I gave acouple o women a ride homearound two in the morning. Itwas a busy night, and I lookedlater and saw my rating hadgone down by two stars. I re-alized soon afer that someonehad pooped in the back seat omy car."Saina added: “Don’t worry, it

was proficiently cleaned.”

Arensberg said her lack othrow-up in her back seats isluck.“Te main thing is I don’t

drive late at night, and Uberwill charge a rider $100 i theythrow up,” Arensberg said.When Arensberg wants to earn

some extra cash, all she has todo is open her Uber app. Aferlogging on, she can immedi-ately find multiple people re-questing rides to Jefferson's, theairport, or anything in between.It’s then her job to accept it andhead toward the rider.“Teir whole goal is to make

things as seamless as possible,”Arensberg said.

racy Jefferson, a 31-year res-ident o Lawrence, has beenan Uber driver or nearly twoweeks.“At first I didn’t know much

about Uber," Jefferson said."I started listening and heardmore interesting things."Afer looking into the service,

he said he realized it was some-thing he could do.“Now I’m driving and I love

it," he said. "It’s one o the bestthings I’ve done."Since Uber is new to Lawrence,

it has to separate itsel rom oth-er transportation services in thearea.“It’s a aster and quicker service

than taxis," Jefferson said. "Telongest it has ever taken me toget to someone is five minutes."Some students say they enjoy

Uber or the convenience actor,while others say they enjoy get-ting to know the Uber driverswho pick them up.Athena Baker, a reshman,

took Uber during her secondweek on campus.“I was going downtown. Sae-

Bus and SaeRide were takingso long. Uber was just so easy,"Baker said. "We had it back inMinnesota, so when I saw ithere, I was excited."Karina Ramos, a reshman

rom Waco, exas, said she

doesn’t preer Uber but likesthe people she has behind thwheel.“It’s a good way to get rom

point A to point B I guess. Idon’t go out o my way to use it,but I kinda like getting to knothe drivers,” Ramos said. “OncI took an Uber downtown andthe driver had an auxiliarycord. I took it and put on somChie Kee. Te driver knew thwords."Obviously, I elt sae at th

same time, but it was awesomthat this guy didn’t make thride awkward. It was like driv-ing with a riend.”

— Edited by Derek Johnson

UBER FROM PAGE 1

According to Michael McRill,interim measures coordinatorat the Office o InstitutionalOpportunity and Access, theUniversity has seen an increasein reports o dating and do-mestic violence rom studentsin recent years.

IOA received 10 complaints

in 2014 and has received eightcomplaints so ar in 2015, twoo which are open cases. Mc-Rill said it could be relatedto the increase in awarenesssurrounding sexual assault ormore coverage o dating vio-lence in media.

McRill defined dating vio-lence as occurring betweentwo people in a relationship,while domestic violence usu-ally involves people livingtogether. But both orms o

 violence include emotional,physical and mental abuse.

Te number o complaintsmade to IOA involving dat-ing violence could be evenhigher because some sexualharassment and sexual assaultcomplaints also include dating

 violence, but are categorizeddifferently, McRill said.

“In many ways dating vio-lence includes [sexual vio-lence] behaviors, so there isa large degree o overlap,” hesaid. “Sexual violence and dat-ing violence are intimately re-lated in similar ways but theyhave their own unique diffi-culties that you have to work

with.”KU’s Clery data shows that

there were 12 instances odating violence on campus in2014. Tere was one instanceo domestic violence on cam-pus and 22 instances o do-mestic violence off campusreported last year. Te CleryAct was enacted in 1990 andrequires campuses to reportcrime statistics to the U.S. De-

partment o Education.Te Clery data is comprised

o IOA reports and other crimereports, including those re-ported to the KU Public SaetyOffice. en o the 12 reports in2014 came through IOA.

KU was not required underthe Clery Act to report in-stances o dating or domestic

 violence until recent amend-ments to the act went intoeffect. KU began reportingboth in 2013. In 2013, therewere three reports o dating

 violence and five reports odomestic violence on campus

and no reports o either off campus.

McRill said the increase inreports could be due to the in-crease in awareness on issueslike sexual assault and morecoverage in the media.

Executive director o the Wil-low Domestic Violence CenterJoan Schultz said the Willowhas also seen an increase inpeople using their services.Schultz said the increase start-ed around when the tape oNFL player Ray Rice abusinghis wie was widely publicized.

“I attribute it to the aware

ness work we do on campusand people are getting moreaware o what eels right in arelationship and what doesn’teel right,” Schultz said.

Schultz said people betweenthe ages o 16 and 24 are mostat risk or being victims andthat students ofen call Wil-low’s 24/7 hotline and someuse their shelter. While shesaid Willow deals with many

situations, people ofen call thehotline just to find out i whathappened to them was domes-tic or dating violence or askinghow to talk to loved ones abouttheir relationships.

“It’s a heavy burden to carryon your own,” Schultz said.“Many times victims willblame themselves. So we talka person through ault and selblame and what next steps to

take.”KU’s Emily aylor Center

or Women and Gender Eq-uity offers programs on dating

 violence, including an edu-cational program on healthyrelationships and the annualJana Mackey Lecture Series,which ocuses on domestic vi-olence. Dating violence is alsodiscussed in KU’s bystanderintervention programming.

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Te University establishedthe new Sexual Assault Pre-vention and Education Center(SAPEC) this week.

Te SAPEC will be the cen-tral coordinating office thatdeals with sexual assault pre-vention, education and train-ing, according to a University

news release this week.Currently, offices all over

campus are starting sexual as-sault programming, includingthe Office of Institutional Op-portunity and Access and theEmily aylor Center.

“Over the past year, as we’velooked at the issue and workedwith students, one of thethings we’ve recognized wecould do better was to coordi-nate and centralize all of those

programs under one roof,” saidJoe Monaco, director of strate-gic communications from theOffice of Public Affairs.

Te center will consist of adirector, two educators and anadministrative assistant. Teywill create programming relat-ed to bystander intervention,sexual violence and healthyrelationships, among othertopics. Te University will be-gin the search for the director

within the next few days andhopes to have the center openby the end of the year, Monacosaid.

Te center was the resultof a recommendation thatthe Chancellor’s ask Forceon Sexual Assault submit-ted to Chancellor BernadetteGray-Little in May 2015. TeUniversity is implementing 22of the 27 task force recommen-dations.

Former co-chair of the taskforce, Angela Murphy, said agoal of the center is to createa campus-wide sexual assaulteducation program with a fo-cus on public health and pre-

 vention.“Te task force’s primary

recommendation was that thedirector be someone with apublic health background andthe office have a public healthframework because that’s

where the best research is,”Murphy said.

A bill to include the center inthe new Burge Union passedthe Student Senate financecommittee last night and willbe discussed in full at the Sen-ate meeting next Wednesday.

— Edited by Colleen Hagan

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Assault Prevention and Education Center headquartersMCKENNA HARFORD@McKennaHarford

With higher admission standards, KU strives

to keep minority enrollment numbers stable

Jarius Jones, a high schoolsenior at Sumner Academy in

Kansas City, Kan., applied tothe University this semesterand is waiting to find out ifhe will be able to walk downJayhawk Boulevard in the fall.Te University is familiar to

Jones and his family — it'swhere his parents met. He hasbeen involved in Universityactivities, from working withthe KU RIO alent Searchto attending an engineeringcamp. Jones applied to theUniversity earlier this fall andsaid he hopes to be accepted.Jones said he feels pressure to

be admitted because his par-ents attended the University,and as a minority student, hewill face unique challenges.Te University’s admissions

standards are higher this year,which some say can pushdown minority enrollment.In the last 10 years, minori-ty enrollment numbers havefluctuated, but minority stu-

dents are making up a greaterpercentage of the population.Nationally, enrollment forminorities in college has in-creased over the years as well.

With the higher standardsgoing into effect, the Univer-sity will look at how it cankeep minority enrollmentnumbers up.“Te presence of difference

creates different perspectivesand brings new ways of doingand seeing the world,” saidPrecious Porras, interim di-rector of the Office of Multi-cultural Affairs.Keeping minority enrollment

up will be a challenge becauseminority students tend tohave lower standardized testscores, according to a 2014 re-

port from t he AC.“Yes, enrollment will de-

crease if schools and KU isnot doing our jobs to helpprepare students and get themready for new admission stan-dards,” said Vice Provost ofDiversity and Equity NateTomas. “If we have done adecent job of getting the mes-sage out to schools we will not

see a decrease in minority en-rollment."Te change in admission

requirements comes from

the University’s attempt toimprove student success, in-crease graduation rates andplace higher in national rank-

ings. Te new university ad-mission standards will requirea higher GPA and AC score.Other options will be avail-

able for students who don’tachieve the minimum re-

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Number of black first-time freshman coming into KU and continuing to a second year, according to IOA.

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In recent years, a discussionhas begun about the Disneyprincesses’ negative influenceon young girls’ expectationsor their uture. Te so-called“classic” princesses supporta society where women aretaught rom a young age thattheir worth is more aboutbeauty than anything elseand in which stereotypical,

outdated gender roles prevail.However, the popularizationo a more positive message innewer Disney princess filmsreflects an encouraging shifin social norms.

Te Disney princess ran-chise began with the pro-duction o “Snow White and

the Seven Dwars” in 1937.Following Snow White came“Cinderella” (1950), “SleepingBeauty” (1959), and “TeLittle Mermaid” (1989).

Tese princesses emergedduring a time when con-

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portrayal suggests that womenneed to be taken care o inorder to survive. Likewise, theclassic princesses gloriy phys-ical attractiveness, domesticresponsibility, nurturing per-sonality and a dependency onmen as the eminine ideal.

Snow White, or example,places an emphasis on her

ability to gleeully cleanthe dwars’ house and actmotherly towards the dwarsand animals. Cinderella andAurora (Sleeping Beauty)both obviously assert that iyou are pretty enough, a manwill come along to provide agood lie or you. As AshleyBispo puts it in her journal“Fairytale Dreams: DisneyPrincesses’ Effect on YoungGirl’s Sel Image,” “In almostevery Disney airytale, the

princess unquestionably and,with minimal effort, manag-es to capture the heart andaffection o a handsome andwealthy prince.”

Te young women whowatch these movies internalizethe concept that women areexpected to live up to an un-realistic ideal and that living

up to that ideal will mean theattainment o the love o aman who will provide the bestlie or her. Young girls whoaspire to be like the classicDisney princesses internalizethe gendered messages o thepast that are conveyed.

Society should take pridein the act that media hasbegun to reflect a progressiontowards gender equality andemale empowerment.

Starting with “Mulan” in

1998, princesses begin tobe portrayed as stronger,independent and sel-assured.“Look at me; I will never passor a perect bride or a perectdaughter,” said Mulan in thesong “Reflection.” “Can it beI’m not meant to play thispart?”

Even more progressive-

ly, queen Elsa o Disney’s“Frozen” tops the list o themost popular princess oneBay, according to Jezebel. Tebest and most surprising partabout Elsa is that she doesn’tend up with a prince.

Te image o Disney prin-cesses is one that impactsthe minds o women roma very early and vulnerableage. It is important that theideals conveyed to younggirls continue to progress

towards a more empoweringand equality-based view owomen. Society will signifi-cantly benefit rom raising lessSnow Whites and empoweringmore Elsas.

Rachel Gonzales is a junior from Ft. Collins, Colo., study-ing journalism and sociology.

Disney princesses are outdated and

don’t reflect values of young women

Broadcasting presidential debates exclusively

on cable networks restricts voters without cable

Te race or the presidencyhas already contained dramaand heated competition, es-pecially when the candidatesshare a stage or televised de-

bates. From Carly Fiorina call-ing out Donald rump to Ber-nie Sanders condemning thecontinued hype o Clinton’semail scandal, and all the mo-ments in between, the debateshave been incredibly revealingor each candidate.

But some Americans don’thave the opportunity to watchtheir potential next presidentdiscuss important issues be-cause they don’t have cable.

All o the presidential debatesthus ar, both Republican andDemocrat, have been airedexclusively on cable networks.ypically broadcasted by net-works like CNN or FOX, thedebates can’t easily be viewedwithout a cable subscription.According to a report romthe Washington Post, 10 o the15 scheduled primary debateswill air on cable networks.

Because o these channelrestrictions, watching the de-bate without a cable or satelliteconnection is an arduous task.Although the debates are si-multaneously streamed online,they typically can’t be accessedwithout signing in via a cableprovider. Other streams cansometimes be ound, but these

are typically illegal and arepoor quality or delayed.

Such accessibility issues are amajor challenge or millions oAmericans. It is absolutely un-acceptable that people cannot

 view important programmingconcerning the uture o theirnation solely because theydon’t subscribe to cable. Tedebates exist so that Ameri-cans can get a sense o who thepresidential candidates are andwhat they stand or, so peopleshouldn’t have to pay to accessthem.

As o August 2014, 7.6 mil-lion American householdshave elected to discontinue ca-ble services in a three-year pe-riod. Tis has also continuedto rise as amilies decide to cut

out such expensive subscrip-tions. Not only are Americansbeing stripped o the ability tobecome inormed citizens, butpoliticians are missing the op-portunity to reach a broaderaudience.

Presidential debates are notthe only place where voterscan learn about the candidates.People can read news articlesand conduct research on theirown. But none o these meth-ods can provide as complete apicture o a candidate’s charac-ter as the debates, where theyare pitted directly against oneanother.

It can ofen be difficult to tellwhich candidates differ romothers on particular issues, es-pecially among this year’s nu-

merous Republicans. Te de-bates are the most direct way to pick out differences and seehow each candidate interactswith others in a high-pressure,public setting.

Media outlets need to broad-cast presidential debates onstandard channels availableto all Americans. Voters can-not be held ully responsibleor being uninormed i theyaren’t given the ull ability towatch the debates.

 Matthew Clough is a junior from Wichita studying Englishand journalism.

— Edited by Derek Skillett

When moving to college,students normally leavebehind the lie they grew ac-customed to, including livingwith their mom, dad, siblingsand, usually, a amily pet.

Having a pet during college

is beneficial, but a lot o stu-dents can’t have them becausetheir living situations do notaccommodate them. Tereshould not be restrictions onpets’ weight and breed.

College can be extremely di-ficult and stressul. Tere arealways classes to read or, tests

to study or or meetings toattend. Even i a student has arelaxed schedule, the amounto pressure can impact him orher negatively.

During midterms and finalsweek, Anschutz Librarywelcomes therapy dogs orstudents to play with on theirstudy breaks. Pets are stressrelievers — creatures whobring us joy during difficulttimes. Although Lawrenceis an easygoing city, a lot othe apartments in Lawrenceare not pet-riendly or havespecific restrictions on them,such as weight or size limits.

According to the AmericanHumane Association, more

than 8 million animals eachyear go to a shelter. One o themain reasons that number isso high is because o movingsituations. It’s unair to haveto leave an animal in a shelter

 just because they are too largeor an apartment complex.What’s worse is that theycould be euthanized i they arenot adopted in time.

Many apartment complexes’restrictions include weightand breed. Tere is a miscon-ception that big dogs are moreaggressive and destructivethan smaller dogs. Some thinkthat because a certain dogis bigger, it is noisier. Tis iswrong — smaller dogs can

make just as much noise. Itdoesn’t make sense how somebelieve a certain behavior ina small breed is cute, but or alarger breed it’s aggressive.

I students were to need theassistance o a service dog,most likely they would notbe permitted because the dogis normally a larger breed.Te usual weight limit or apet in apartment complexesis 35 pounds, which makeshaving some common breeds,like a retriever or a collie,near impossible. Pets will actaccording to how they weretrained; their obedience willdepend on the owner, nottheir size or breed.

Something off-campushousing complexes shouldconsider is that they losepossible tenants each yearbecause o these pet restric-tions. Potential tenants couldbe interested in a unit, butonce they find out that theirpets are not allowed, thatplace is no longer an option.Tese restrictions also createassumptions that larger dogsare more aggressive, when thesize and breed o the pet doesnot matter as much as howthey were trained.

 Jessica Gomez is a senior fromBaldwin City studying journal-ism and global studies.

Apartment complexes should not have breed,weight or size restrictions for pets of tenents

RACHEL GONZALEZ@KansanNews

MATTHEW CLOUGH@mcloughsofly

JESSICA GOMEZ@jessicataylurr

JOHN LOCHER/APHillary Rodham Clinton, right, smiles as Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, speaks during the CNN Democratic presidential debate Tuesday, Oct. 13,

2015, in Las Vegas.

Heard sporting

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England. Makes

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Update: have

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it’s past midterm

so I guess I shouldstart homework for

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about. Aiming for a

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Ate too much at

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Just FYI, OU beat

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Tere’s a new che in town,but he’s hardly new to Law-rence.

Drue Kennedy, a ormerUniversity student, is the newexecutive che or the EldridgeHotel on Massachusetts Street.Kennedy said to expect a wide

 variety o dishes to chooserom, including some with

Mexican flair rom his previ-ous stint with Zócalo on theCountry Club Plaza in KansasCity, Mo.

“Tere probably will be dish-es that will utilize some othose flavors, and techniques,but as an 'American style’restaurant, we kind o do thewhole palate," Kennedy said."It’s a country o immigrantsso we can do a little bit o ev-erything, and so I intend to dothat."

Kennedy’s career switch romKansas City to Lawrence cameafer he received an unexpect-ed email asking or an inter-

 view or his current positionafer he had applied or the jobseveral years ago.

“I got an email out o the bluerom Nancy [Longhurst], ourgeneral manager, asking i I’dbe interested in interviewing,and I hopped on it,” Kennedysaid.

Te historic location is alsowhat attracted Kennedy toworking at the hotel.

"It’s always been such a cool,

historic venue, and the actthat it’s supposed to be haunt-ed is also kind o cool," Kenne-dy said. "Te idea o workingin a haunted hotel is kind ocool."

Kennedy said his history asa che dates back to when hedecided to take a year off aferattending the University. Aferthe coffee shop he was washingdishes or went out o business,his riend set him up with a jobas a cook or eller’s restau-rant, which is now MerchantsPub and Plate.

“I had no intention o being

a cook, but I needed to paymy bills, so I started cook-

ing at ellers," Kennedy said."Afer about a year and a halo not going back to school, Iwas thinking about going backto school, and then I startedthinking about cooking or aliving."

Kennedy ound a che whotook him under his wing, and22 years later, he is still cook-ing. Over the years, Kennedysaid he worked under severaltalented ches who helped him

become the che he is today.“I did train under a lot oreally talented guys that werealways willing to push me andencouraged me to push my-sel,” Kennedy said, “I eel I’mbeing successul when I’m notletting mysel get lazy — men-tally or creatively.”

Kennedy said his influencesor cooking come rom otherches, ingredients he comesacross, and his staff.

“I they want to learn some-thing that I don’t know or Ican’t do, then I have to learnit so I can teach them, or we’ll

learn it together," Kennedysaid. "So it’s nice to have a staff

that will push me to become abetter cook."

Kennedy said he’s inspiredto cook by ood that he wouldwant to eat.

"For the most part I tend tocook dishes that sound goodto me and that taste good tome," he said. "I don’t have a loto luck trying to cook outsideo that paradigm, and luckily Ihave a pretty broad flavor pal-ate that I like."

Te hardest challenge orKennedy isn't cooking — it'sthe commute rom KansasCity to Lawrence. He is stillsearching or housing in Law-rence.

“[Te commute is] just a nicekind o way to unwind and letgo some o the stress," Ken-nedy said. "But it’s time awayrom my wie and stepson anddogs."

Looking toward the uture,Kennedy said he wants toeventually own his own restau-rant.

“Te ultimate dream would

be to have a little bed-and-breakast out in the country

somewhere that my wie andI would run,” Kennedy said.“Te older I get, the more Ithink that living kind o out inthe middle o nowhere appealsto me.”

Kennedy said the biggesttakeaway he wishes or peopleeating his ood is a deliciousmeal and good service.

“I you’re willing to try andexperiment that’s great, but orthe most part I just want you

to eat something delicious," hesaid. "I just want to make youhappy, I want you to leave hav-ing elt that you’ve been takencare o."

Kennedy said one thing toexpect rom his cooking is orit to not always be the same.

“I’d like to think that mycooking now would be differ-ent rom my cooking last yearregardless, because it’s alwaysgoing to change and shif andgrow," he said. "I’m not thesame cook now that I was ayear ago, or two years ago, or10 years ago.”

— Edited by Derek Skillett 

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Not many up-and-comingbands get the chance to openor a amous musician, but

on Saturday night at the LiedCenter, sophomore twin sis-ters Amanda and Kelley Sharprom Olathe were the openingact or David Cook, the win-ner o “American Idol” seasonseven.

“It was just a really good eel-ing,” Kelley said. “Te audi-ence was just really receptive,the sound was great, the light-ing was great, everything wasgreat.”

Although the Lied Centerwasn’t packed, the audiencewas still loud, enthusiastic andsupportive o the twins andCook.

Te Sharp Sisters heard aboutthe chance to open or Cookseveral days ago afer the ex-ecutive director o the LiedCenter, Derek Kwan, askedthem to submit their music tobe approved by Cook’s man-agement.

During the twins’ openingact, they perormed nearly hala dozen original songs, includ-ing “Devil and Me,” “Foreverand Always,” and the song thatwon them KU’s Got alent lastyear, “Haystack.”

Te audience became even

more receptive with each song,and by the time their last song,“Con-man,” ended, the twinswere getting loud cheers andsupport rom everyone.

“It’s a good experience, it’s

great to open or someone thatpeople actually know,” Aman-da said.

Kelley said she wasn’t wor-ried about perorming.

“I was more nervous to beopening or David Cook thanto actually perorm,” she said.

Amanda said that openingor David Cook, or any a-mous artist, would help themget their oot in the door in theuture.

“Tat’s how people get a-mous, that’s how you get dis-covered, you slowly earn yourspot as the headliner,” Amanda

said. “Most people don’t justrocket to stardom.”

Standing with the crowdwere the sisters’ parents, Brentand Holly Sharp, who bothwent to the University.

“As a mom, it was really re-warding to hear them at a

 venue where they could be re-ally appreciated. It was a greatevening, and we appreciate allthat Lawrence gives the girls,”Holly said.

Brent said he was pleasedwith how the show turned out.

“I thought it was excellent,I thought they did a really

good job,” he said. “Te soundhere at the Lied Center is justphenomenal, and it just reallyhelped out, but I thought their

set was excellent.”Haley Hennier, a sophomorerom Kansas City who wasworking at the show, said sheenjoyed the Sharp Sisters’ mu-sic.

“I thought they were actuallyreally awesome. I had like nev-er heard o them beore, and Iwas pleasantly surprised thatthey sounded really good liveand put on a cool show,” Hen-nier said.

Hennier ended up doingmore than just working atCook’s show. Afer dancing tothe music in the back, Cook

called out to her rom across

the room and said that every-one should have been danc-ing like her. Afer mishearingher name and calling Hennier

“AJ,” Cook started a new songand called her onto the stageto lead the audience with herdancing.

Hennier said that althoughshe was nervous, the experi-ence was exciting and hilari-ous.

“I was shaking because I wasnervous, but I ran back to myriend who was in the back andwe screamed a little bit becausewe were an-girling rom mid-dle school ‘American Idol,’”Hennier said.

Meeting David Cook live onstage and getting a picture tak-

en with the “American Idol”

winner was an experience shesaid she would never orget.

“Tirteen-year-old me crieda little bit,” she said. “It was

pretty nostalgic.”Cook rounded out the nightby playing some o his oldermusic, a couple covers andsome songs rom his new al-bum. Cook interacted withthe audience quite a bit duringthe show — he responded tosome comments, talked aboutthe Royals and made un o hisbrother, who was in the back othe room.

Over all, the night went off without a hitch or Cook andthe Sharp Sisters, and Aman-da Sharp said it was the littlethings that counted in the end.

Talent show winners collide: The Sharp Sistersof KU’s Got Talent and ‘Idol’ winner David Cook

A professional cooking career, from

Lawrence to K.C. — then back againRYAN MILLER@Ryanmiller_UDK

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Find peace and tranquilityover the next two days.Make time for private

rituals. You’re especiallysensitive. Allow for miracles.Beware misunderstandings.Forgive a fool. Meditate inseclusion. Make plans and

weed out impractical ideas.Guard your health.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Friends are helpful. Checkpublic opinion today andtomorrow. Accommodatesomeone’s demands. A

new scheme occurs to you,but hold on to your money.

First, get organized. Youdon’t have to do it all. Set

meetings. Discuss the plan.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)Focus to find solutions. A

challenge at work occupiesyou over the next few days.

If the financial situationseems unstable, make

adaptations and compro-mises. Communication

breakdowns could stall theaction. Have a backup plan.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

Be prepared to move quick-ly. Someone’s demandingaction ... help them see thebigger picture. Educational journeys hold your focustoday and tomorrow. Han-dle practical priorities, and

weigh pros and cons beforemaking reservations. Will

the trip generate business?

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)

Manage accounts andreview numbers todayand tomorrow. What

you’re learning contradictswhat you thought. Don’tget stopped by the past.

Patiently tend your garden.Guard your resources. Keepyour agreements. Work out

details with your partner.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Consult a good strategist.Converse with someone

attractive over the next fewdays. Work with a partner

to get farther. Learn how tomake your system better.Let go of a preconception.

Misunderstandings arelikely. Listen carefully.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)For the next two days, fulfill

promises you’ve made.Profit from impeccable

service. The details are im-portant. Use logic and newmethods to make life easier.

The workload could getintense. Mistakes are part of

the learning process.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Relax and enjoy goodcompany over the nextfew days. Practice yourtricks and play around.

Don’t forget a get together.Someone may be countingon you. Keep things simple.Lay low with someone cute.

Sagittarius(Nov.22-Dec.21)

Your home and familyrequire more attention over

the next two days. Keepcosts down ... make im-

provements without greatexpense. Repurpose some-

thing you already have.

Clean, sort and organize.Play with color and fabrics.

Try mood lighting.

Capricorn(Dec.22-Jan.19)

Tempers could fray. Careful-ly choose your words today

and tomorrow. Cleverlycraft your message. Checkplans and directions. Solu-

tions come from far away. Ina conflict of interest, avoidantagonizing your elders.Make it easy on yourself.

Aquarius (Jan.20-Feb.18)

The next two days couldget extra profitable. Get

tools and supplies together.Return communicationsquickly. Don’t spend yet.New information could

change your choice. Misun-derstandings could provecostly, so take it slow. Con-sider a spiritual perspective.

Pisces (Feb.19-March 20)

Take charge. You’re readyto make changes for thebetter today and tomor-row. Assertiveness workswell now. Clean up your

speech. Postpone financialdiscussion. Find ways to cutstress and tension. Ignorenastiness. Proceed with

caution

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assured admission require-ments, you should still apply,”Pinamonti Kress said. “Allapplications are welcomed.Assured admission is just oneway to become a Jayhawk, andour individual review takesmore into account.”Te University has seen a 3

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sor or the Multicultural Re-cruitment eam, said reach-ing out across Kansas shouldhelp KU maintain its ability toattract minority students.“Te idea o MR is to help

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Te film "Freeheld" is apoignant story o love in theace o terminal illness and the

fight or gay rights.Te film presents the lives

o Laurel Hester and StacieAndree and brings their storyto the screen with a genuineheart, an activist’s soul and atalented ensemble. Writtenby Ron Nyswaner, “Freeheld”is a sorrowul screenplay thatleaves little room or relax-ation. Unlike many films o itskind, “Freeheld” satisfies theviewer with a meaningul se-quence o events that seldomdeers rom the point.

Julianne Moore, who is well-

known or playing strong,troubled women, does notdisappoint with her peror-mance as Laurel, a closed-offNew Jersey detective whoselie is changed when she meetsStacie (played by Ellen Page),a mechanic rom Philadel-phia. Te two become loversand are eventually joinedin a domestic partnership.Moore and Page maintainsolid chemistry, though theirpairing sometimes seems a bitout o place, partially becauseo the 19-year age difference.

Teir legal union proves to

be insignificant when pittedagainst the heteronormativelaws o the early 21st century.In 2004, Laurel learns she haslate-stage lung cancer. Beoreher impending death, sherequests to have her pensiontranserred to her partner. Tefive Republican members othe Ocean County Board oFreeholders twice deny therequest. As Laurel's healthcontinues to deteriorate, manyorces work together to fightor her rights, including herlongstanding work partnerDane Wells and the ounder oGarden State Equality, Steven

Goldstein (a amiliar, yet flam-boyant Michael Scott-esqueSteve Carell).

Te film successully toucheson equality, religion inpolitics, peer pressure, ethics,integrity, white supremacy,and heteronormativity. Teoligarchy o board memberscontinue to deny Laurel's part-ner her benefits because they

eel it violates their own be-lies, and they don’t want to beseen as the men who approvedthis sort o thing. When Danetries to rally support romhis and Laurel's co-workersat the police station, many othem hesitate because theydon’t want to be seen as gaysupporters.

Early on, Laurel makes it

apparent that she is fightingor equality, not marriage,which helps make the filmmore personal than political.However, it does commit itsair share o political activ-ism. Te film shows just howar the gay rights movementhas come. In today’s politicalarena, New Jersey same-sexcouples are allowed to get

married. Although societywasn’t as riendly towardsame-sex couples at the time,the two come out victorious,and Stacie is able to receiveLaurel’s pension afer she losesa battle with cancer at the ageo 49.

Afer coming out just lastyear, Page brings authenticityto her role o Stacie, providing

a delightul complement toMoore's Laurel. “Freeheld”is worth the time. I nothingelse, keep your ears open orCarell’s humorous dialogue,and keep your eyes on Mooreand Page or their strongacting.

Rating: 2.4/3 stars

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People of all ages got in on the fun and dressed to be characters of all types at the ninth annual Lawrence Zombie Walk on Oct. 15.

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Many casual zombies were dressed like everyday people who had an accident, or as bloodier versions of movie or book characters.

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CHRISTIAN HARDY@ByHardyGradecard: Kansas vs. Texas Tech

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B-

Ryan Willis

He gave Kansas “hope,” sophomore linebacker Joe Dineen

said. He was called a “little Peyton Manning” by sophomore

wide receiver Darious Crawley. He was the reason the Jay-

hawks were in the game late. But in the end, the freshman

quarterback was also the reason for the team’s demise. He fin-

ished 35-of-50 and threw for 330 yards, but it was his pick-sixon the drive where the Jayhawks could take the lead, which

hurt his good-standing in this game. That said, Willis proved

that his arm is easily the best Jayhawks have had under-cen-

ter since Todd Reesing, he just has some growing to do. Over-

all, it was an extremely encouraging game from the freshman;

this was the type of performance that makes you believe he

can be a four-year starter for Kansas.

De’Andre Mann

Mann started at running back with junior Ke’aun Kinner

(hamstring) not at 100 percent. Mann started his day with a

41-yard run off the right end, and didn’t slow down much. The

team’s gameplan was to pass the ball, but when they decidedto run it, Mann did well, as did senior Taylor Cox, who came

into the game here and there. Mann got 15 of the 31 carries

that were handed off to the running backs, and he took those

carries for 107 yards — a 7.1 yards per carry average. Beaty

pointed him out in the post-game as a player he was really im-

pressed with. When Kinner is fully healthy, there will be three

fully capable running backs who can lead the Jayhawks back

field.

Offensive line

The struggles, again from the offensive line, are what made

Willis’ performance so impressive. The interior line wasn’t

completely awful, but both tackles really struggled to hold

their blocks, and the pocket quickly collapsed on Willis on a

regular basis. One of those collapses came near the goal line

late in the game when Willis lost awareness and was blind-

sided after the left tackle lost his block. Luckily, offensivecoordinator Rob Likens made up for the O-Line struggles in

the second half by getting the ball out of Willis’ hands quick-

er. It meant the freshman made some not-so-great decisions,

but at least he wasn’t getting sacked. All in all, Willis only hit

the turf twice in this game, but the offensive line made his

 job a whole lot harder.

Defensive line

Easily the biggest surprise of this game; even bigger than

Ryan Willis, personally. Whether it was defensive coordina-

tor Clint Bowen drawing up a better gameplan, or whether

it was just better executed (linebacker Joe Dineen said it

was execution), this line looked amazing in this game. After

tabbing only seven sacks all year long as a team, the Jay-

hawks came up with five sacks against the dual-threat TexasTech quarterback Patrick Mahomes. On top of that, the team

reeled in nine tackles for loss. Half of those came from the

defensive line, which was missing sophomore defensive

tackle Jacky Dezir. That pressure made the cornerback’s jobs

easier, taking pressure off of them versus the high-powered

Texas Tech offense. The front’s success may not be some-

thing that can be sustained, but for this week, it was maybe

the most impressive aspect of the game for Kansas.

B

D- D+Special teams

Like junior kicker Matthew Wyman said after the game, the

team was good in two aspects, punts and kick-offs, but not

in what puts points on the board — field-goal kicking. Kansas

missed three field goals and an extra-point in the 30-20 loss.

If you didn’t add that up in your head, that’s 10 points. Thosespecial teams points are the difference between overtime and

another Kansas loss. Wyman missed two kicks (one was from

52 yards) and sophomore Nick Bartolotta missed another

from 23 yards. All three cost Kansas severely. If one was made,

Kansas would have still been one possession away after Willis

threw a late pick-six.

Beaty did decide to go with Wyman at punter, as the team

was in the bottom half of the Big 12 in yards per punt before

Saturday. Senior Eric Kahn had been the punter before this

game — he punted once on Saturday for only 23 yards. Mean-

while, Wyman punted three times for an average of 42.3 yards

after picking up his punting game during the week. The punt-

ing improvements with Wyman were the only thing that kept

this section from being an F.

Coaching

Beaty finally started taking chances on fourth down late in

the game. But for the first half of this game, when it ap-

peared Texas Tech would run away with it, Beaty made some

questionable fourth-down decisions. On fourth-and-12 fromthe Texas Tech 34 yard-line, Beaty decided to let Matthew

Wyman try a 52-yard field goal. It was short and wide right.

On the next drive, still tied 0-0, Beaty punted on fourth-

and-4 from the Tech 42. That punt netted 23 yards. The

Jayhawks were within 10 yards of midfield on fourth down

two other times in the first three quarters and Beaty opted

not to go for it both times. Down 14-0 in the second quarter,

Beaty opted to kick the field goal from the Tech 4 yard-line

rather than go for it. Bartolotta shanked the kick.

However, as I noted in early sections, Likens and Bowens

made great in-game adjustments to get the job done on

both sides of the ball, which gives this rating a big bump.

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Te Kansas City Royals areclutch. Just look at their post-season run. Te Royals havebeen notorious or late-inningcomebacks.

Rewind to Game 4 o the

American League DivisionSeries: Te Royals trailed theHouston Astros 6-2 in the topo the eighth. By the time theinning ended, it would be acompletely different series. TeRoyals' offense ignited.

According to ESPN, the Roy-als had just a 3.2 percent chanceto win the game at that point;however, Kansas City scoredfive runs in the eighth and twomore in the ninth to beat theAstros 9-6. Tat win tied theseries at 2-2; the Royals wonGame 5 behind a strong peror-mance rom Johnny Cueto and

were off to the ALCS.Now ast orward to Game 2

o the American League Cham-pionship Series: Te Royalstrailed the oronto Blue Jays 3-0in the top o the seventh.

Once again, the odds weren'tgreat. According to ESPN,the Royals had a 12.4 percentchance o winning as ace pitch-

er David Price had silenced theRoyals batters behind his threeprimary pitches: a our-seamastball, cutter and knucklecurveball.

But someone must have or-gotten to tell the Royals.

Once again, the bats camealive; Kansas City scored fiveruns in the seventh to take a 5-3

lead. Te Royals' winning per-centage went rom 12.4 percentto 80.6 percent.

Tird baseman Mike Mous-takas finished off any hope theBlue Jays had lef, hitting anRBI single in the eighth as theRoyals took Game 2 by a scoreo 6-3.

At this point, neither o thesecomebacks is too shocking.Afer all, the Royals are nowbatting .342 in the seventhinning or later this postseason,which has led to them rackingup 20 late-inning runs.

So how do the Royals comeback in these situations? Tereare our major ways.

First, the team strikes out ew-er times than any other team inMLB. Tis keeps the ball in playand keeps pressure on deenses.

Second, the Royals’ bullpenis one o the best in baseball,ranking first in the postseason

among active teams. Tis allowsthem to keep offenses at bayand to chip away at the lead.

Tird, the Royals are one othe best on base. Tey’re aggres-sive and know how to get runsin crucial moments. Accordingto sportcharts.com, Kansas Cityhas the third best stolen base

percentage in MLB. Addition-ally, the Royals are the best inbaseball with runners-in-scor-ing position, posting a .308batting average this postseason.

Finally, the Royals have themost balanced lineup in thepostseason. Kansas City is firstin teams batting and leads all

teams with 34 total RBIs.Maybe the biggest piece o the

Royals rallies is players steppingup. Moustakas was just 2-or-22entering Game 2 o the ALCS.In Game 2, he went 2-or-4 withtwo RBIs. His first score tied thegame at three. His second putthe game away.

Tese are the plays andaspects that have brought theRoyals success and have madethe comebacks possible. And atthis point, the extraordinary hasbecome the exact opposite.

— Edited by Emma LeGault

Brew: Anatomy of a late-scoring Royals teamCHRIS SITEK@Creative_Canon2

NATHAN DENETTE/AP

Kansas City Royals’ Mike Moustakas celebrates after hitting an RBI single against the Toronto Blue Jays during the

eighth inning in Game 2 of baseball’s American League Championship Series on Oct. 17 in Kansas City, Mo.

KELCIE MATOUSEK/KANSAFreshman Sharon Lokedi leads the women’s 6K pack at Rim Rock Farm on Oct. 3.

Women’s team outperforms

men at Pre-National Invite

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The rowing team in Lawrence on Oct. 18, 2014

Kansas rowing starts off the season at Jayhawk Jamboree

Kansas rowing took centerstage on Sunday as its 2015-16campaign began at the annualJayhawk Jamboree.

Te Jamboree was more than just a regatta — it was an eventor the ans that included reeood, live music and gamesthroughout the day. Accordingto head coach Rob Catloth, whois the only coach Kansas Rowinghas ever had, this was the biggestfield the Jayhawk Jamboree hadever seen, with 126 teams romnine Midwestern schools com-

peting.“Tis has become a really good

event,” Catloth said.Te Jayhawks started off hot in

the second race o the day, win-ning the open women’s two-by-two final by two seconds overulsa.

Te Kansas Novice Eights fin-ished second, 10 seconds behindIowa, in the the first afernoonrace o the day.

Te two early top-two finishesset the stage or the first varsityevent, the Varsity Fours. JuniorMaddie Irelan said the Jayhawkshadn’t practiced much in theours, but Kansas had five varsi-

ty boats competing, all o whichfinished in the top 15. Te “C”boat finished in 17 minutes and44 seconds, while the “B” boattook the top time or Kansaswith 16 minutes and 50 seconds,good or third in the event.

“We’re showing some o the re-sults [o training],” Catloth said.

“Good training, hard training… the great attitude the teamhas.”

Te final endurance event othe regatta was the Varsity EightFinal. Kansas had three boatscompeting in the event. Eachfinished in the top eight, withthe “A” boat pacing the team at15 minutes and 4 seconds —three seconds behind the lead-ing time.

“We’ve been training really,really hard or this,” Irelan said.“We perormed really well …I’m happy with our results.”

Te Varsity Eights movedon to compete in 300-meter

sprints, one o the day’s mostpopular events.“Te sprints were meant to be

exciting,” Catloth said. “No one’sreally working on starts thistime o year.”

Te varsity “C” boat finishedtwo seconds behind the lead inits heat — the eventual winning

boat rom ulsa. Te varsity “A”and “B” boats both won theirheats, setting up an all-Kansassemifinal or the right to aceulsa.

“Beating the other boat wasdefinitely the top o the list as aras things to accomplish today,”said senior Mary Slattery.

Te Jayhawks’ varsity “A” boattook the semifinal and finishedless than a second behind theleading time set by the ulsaGolden Hurricanes’ varsity “A”boat.

Coaches and athletes agreedthat the first regatta o the sea-son was a success or the Jay-

hawks. Tey’ll get their chanceat avenging the sprint loss tothe Golden Hurricanes in threeweeks when they travel to theulsa Fall Invitational on Nov. 6.

— Edited by Derek Johnson

GRIFFIN HUGHES@GriffinJHughes

Looking to pickup where theylef off two weeks ago, the men'sand women's cross countryteams were in action over the

weekend.Among the highlights romthis weekend's meet, thePre-National Invite, was theperormance o reshmen Sha-ron Lokedi. Facing the top run-ners in the NCAA, she finishedourth individually and was theonly women's track athlete romKansas to finish in the top 100.

Lokedi's perormance boltedthe women's team up to 19thwith a time o 20:08.3 — eightseconds slower than eventchampion, Erin Clark o Colo-rado.

wo Kansas runners finished

within 70 seconds o Lokedi:Nashia and Malika Baker, whoare sisters, finished in 2nd and3rd place among the Kansasrunners with times o 21:21.9and 21:22.6, respectively. Over-all, Nashia finished in 138th andMalika finished in 141st.

Sophomore Lydia Saggau, whowon the 6K race in the first crosscountry event o the season,finished right behind the sisterswith a time o 21:25.3, whichearned her 143rd place overall.

While the women’s crosscountry team continued its suc-cess, the men’s team wasn’t asortunate. Unlike the women,who finished near the top otheir races, the men struggledto get any leads down the homestretch.

Seniors Evan Landes and JacobMorgan led their team and pro-

 vided the senior leadership that

bolsters many top programs.Morgan and Landes kept pacewith each other through the en-tire race and ended up only fin-ishing one second apart. Mor-gan crossed the 8K finish linefirst, posting a time o 24:13.4,while Landes crossed at 24.14.5.

However, those times werenot good enough to finish any-where near the top 50. Morganand Landes came in at 82nd and85th, respectively.

As a team, the women finished19th, while the men were a biturther back.

Both the men's and women’steams have a lot to improveon, but time is on their side, asthey both have two weeks lefuntil their next race, the Big 12Championship in Stillwater,Okla.

— Edited by Rebeka Luttinger

NICK COUZIN@Ncouz

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How women’s tennis did at the ITA RegionalsSHELBY DUFOUR@shelbsdu456

Kansas women’s tennis haseen preparing or the IA Re-ionals, and the team's efforthowed with the number oins it picked up.Freshman Anastaysia Rycha-ova advanced to Monday’shampionship title match inhe singles competition. Sheeat tough competitors to earnhe spot, including the No. 12CAA player."I do not even know where

o begin with Anastasiya, I amo impressed with her," headoach odd Chapman said innews release. "It is amazing

ow poised and mature she isn the court in pressure sit-ations, especially as a resh-an."

DAY 1

Tursday began the first dayo the IA Regionals. Te Jay-hawks won eight o their 11matches o the day. In the sin-gles competition, five Kansasplayers advanced to the SinglesMain Draw.

Nina Khmelnitckaia wonagainst Vasanti Shinde romNebraska 6-3, 6-1. Rychagovadeeated Anne Marie Emmeo Minnesota 6-2, 6-4, keepinga winning streak or the Jay-hawks.

Sophomore Summer Collinswon a match against MissouriState, sophomore Smith Hin-ton deeated Iowa, and resh-man Janet Koch beat out Ar-kansas State.

DAY 2

A winning streak carried onor Kansas in the second dayo the tournament as Col-lins, Hinton, Rychagova andKhmelnitckaia all aced back-to-back matches, bringingKansas all around victories.

Highlights rom the day in-cluded Collins deeating Kan-sas State’s Sara Castellano 6-4,7-6. Rychagova also won 6-0,6-1 against Lily Miyazaki romOklahoma.

“We had a great day today. Itwas really nice to see the girls'hard work paying off," Chap-man said. "o have our play-ers advance to the Main Drawourth round is really exciting.Te girls played some greattennis today."

DAY 3

On the third day o the com-petition Rychagova advancedto the quarterfinals afer de-eating Kelsey Laurente oOklahoma State 3-6, 6-3, 6-0.

"I am very proud o Anasta-siya because she ound a wayto win today despite not play-ing her best tennis," Chapmansaid. "She showed a lot o ma-turity or a reshman today."

DAY 4

On Sunday, Rychagova com-peted in the singles quarterfi-nals against Carolina Ryba oMinnesota. Rychagova beatRyba 6-2, 6-1, advancing Kan-sas to the semifinals. Facing offthe No. 12 ranked NCAA play-er, Viktoriya Lushkova romOklahoma State, Rychagovawon 6-4, 6-3.

Rychagova will now competeor the IA Regionals singleschampionship title on Mondayagainst Oklahoma State’s Kata-rina Adamovic.

DOUBLES

On the first day, Koch and Ry-chagova had back-to-back wins.During their first round theyknocked off Drake’s SummerBrills and Adrienne Jensen 8-6.Ten they deeated AnastasiaReimchen and Annette Do-chanics o Iowa 8-6, advancingto the round o 16.

Maria Jose Cardona andKhmelmitckaia also had back-to-back matches. Tey deeatedtheir first opponents, MoniqueKrutak and Madeline Hill romSIU-Edwardsville, 8-5. Howev-er, Kansas lost to Keli Hine andBea Machado Santos o Missou-ri 8-5.

On Saturday, Koch and Rycha-gova advanced to the DoublesMain Draw and aced off againstLushkova and Carla ur Mari.Te Oklahoma State duo deeat-ed Kansas 8-2.

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railing 20-0 at halfime tothe exas ech Red Raiders,it seemed like it was going tobe the same song and danceor the Kansas ootball team.However, on the shoulders oreshman quarterback RyanWillis, the Jayhawks not onlybattled back, but also had ashot to pull ahead late in theourth quarter.

Te Jayhawks’ comebackeffort ultimately ell short at30-20, but as is ofen the casein sports, a storyline emergedwith greater long-term im-plications than just the finalscore.

When Jayhawk ans first sawWillis — in the season open-er against South Dakota State— he threw three consecutivepasses into the dirt; it didn’teel like he belonged on thefield. However, six weeks lat-er, he looked like a completelydifferent player.

On Saturday, Willis was 35-o-50 or 330 yards, with twotouchdowns to just one inter-ception. His 35 completionswere just two off the school re-cord odd Reesing set in 2008against Florida International.

“35-or-50: Tat’s awesome,”sophomore linebacker JoeDineen said. “He has a brightuture.”

And afer that 20-0 halfimedeficit, Willis made play aferplay, slowly bringing the Jay-hawks back into the game. Andwhile passing numbers can bedeceiving in some games, such

was not the case on Saturday.Willis’ passing yards were

not inflated with big plays; hislongest pass o the day was 32yards. He made a living con-tinuously squeezing passesinto tight gaps, as the Jayhawksslowly progressed down thefield.

“He’s going to be a great play-er,” sophomore wide receiverDarious Crawley said. “I lovethat [he takes risks] becausethere’s times in the game where

you’ve got to take chances andlet the receiver make a play. Hegives us that opportunity.”

In his first start — last weekagainst Baylor — Kansascoach David Beaty said Wil-lis was “just a kid having unout there.” However, this week,Beaty said Willis was doingmore thinking, and or a quar-terback with his arm talent,that seems to be a positive signor things to come.

“He can flip that thing prettyquick now,” Beaty said o Wil-lis’ throwing ability. “He canmake all the throws, and he’ll

continue to get better as hegets chemistry with his play-ers.”

Now, Willis’ day wasn’t with-out flaws. Late in the ourthquarter, down just 23-20, theJayhawks had the ball insidetheir own 10 with a chance towin the game. On third down,exas ech’s Jah’Shawn John-son intercepted Willis, takingit all the way back or a touch-down, which sealed the game.

And while Beaty said Willisshould’ve made a different de-cision on the play, he also saidhe knew the right way to relay

that inormation to the resh-man quarterback.

“Te answer was on the otherside (o the field), he just didn’tget there,” Beaty said. “I knowscreaming at him instead oteaching him would be a hugemistake. When he makes amistake the first thing coach(Rob) Likens and I do is startteaching. He takes that coach-ing well.”

And all o that teaching isimportant. Afer all, it’s easy

to orget that Willis was orig-inally ourth on the depthchart at the quarterback spot.But afer injuries to MichaelCummings, Montell Cozartand Deondre Ford, Willis wasthrust into the starting role,and he’s answered the bell.

“I think it speaks volumesabout him as a player and aperson,” junior saety FishSmithson said. “I can’t say thatI would be able to do what he’sdoing as a true reshman.”

Smithson said he has alsobeen impressed with Willis’leadership ability, saying thathe’s even been in deensivehuddles trying to pump themup.

“I think our kids gravitate tohim,” Beaty said. “I think theyappreciate they way he lovesthe game.”

In the end, even though theJayhawks came up short onthe scoreboard, Willis showedwhat kind o player he could

be.“I told him on the sideline,

‘You kind o remind me o alittle Peyton Manning,’” Crow-ley said. “As a true reshman,he’s showing that he’s going tobe a great player.”

Senior running back De’An-dre Mann agreed.

“I think Ryan (Willis) is go-ing to be a great player,” Mannsaid. “I don’t want to put pres-sure on him, but I think he’sgoing to be great.”

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True freshman quarterback Ryan Willis flashes

potential in near-comeback against Texas Tech

ZOE LARSON/KANSANAt a score of 23-20, freshman quarterback Ryan Willis raises his arms in an attempt to get the crowd cheering.

Te Kansas volleyball team iscurrently the most successulKansas sport, sitting at 18-0 onthe year and 6-0 in Big 12 play.However, that mark is not onlya credit to the team’s talent level,but the act that it fills the Hore-jsi Family Athletic Center pastcapacity at each home game.

Te Horejsi Center can hold1,300 ans, but Jayhawk ansalsiy that number when theypack in more than 1,300 specta-tors each home game.

Te past our home gameshave recorded over 1,500 in at-tendance, with the Kansas Stategame recording the season higho 1,565. Tese numbers haverisen in the years afer Kansaswas ranked 29th in the NCAAor average attendance pergame, according to KUathletics.com.

Athletes rely on the crowd tokeep the atmosphere intenseand unwelcoming or the chal-lengers, and the ans help makethat happen. Te band cheersor the Jayhawks and jeers at theguests.

Te players pump themselves

up to the sounds o the band,screaming at the opposing teambut waving the wheat or theJayhawks. While the Jayhawksserve, the band is silent; howev-er, when the enemy serves, theband makes as much noise aspossible to distract the server.

Attendance or a sportingevent can make or break a team.I a team, such as volleyball, hasthe support o its peers, thenthe team will play its hardest

JOSH MCQUADE@L0neW0lfMcQuade

Volleyball

success

drawing

crowds

Nonconference play

Te Kansas baseball sched-ule is highlighted with mar-quee matchups that will makeor break Kansas’ nationalranking, with a ew easier op-ponents sprinkled in so theJayhawks can rack up wins.

Like the break in a game o

pool, the first ew games usu-ally determine how the rest othe season is going to go. Kan-sas baseball opens its seasonagainst the University o Ar-kansas at Little Rock. Kansaswill be heavily avored in thegame, as Arkansas went 16-33last season.

Next comes Kansas’ homeopener: a two-game se-ries against the Universityo Northern Colorado. Te

things get interesting. Kan-sas plays its first well knownteam in Utah or the start oPac-12/Big-12 challenge. TeUtes, while not toting a greatrecord in 2015, should pro-

 vide the first real test o theseason or Kansas.

Games five and six are thefinal “eight ball” shot or Kan-sas. Te Jayhawks ace No. 25Oregon State in a two-gameseries, which is also part othe Pac-12/Big-12 challenge.Te Beavers finished with animpressive 39-18-1 record lastyear and have made appear-ances in the NCAA ourna-ment each o the last six sea-sons.

For a Kansas team thatdidn’t make the Big 12 our-nament