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DAILY KANSANTHE UNIVERSITYThe student voice since 1904
One became an instant legend
The other never got the chance
By Jayson [email protected]
With the band playing and the hum of people surround-
ing him inside Allen Fieldhouse, Leonard Monroe started looking for someone. Kansas and Kansas State were playing that January day in 1998, and there was a buzz inside the old building. But for once, it didn’t have much to do with the game.
For the first time in 23 years, Wilt Chamberlain returned to Lawrence to watch his jersey hang high in the
rafters next to the other greats. Everyone in the crowd want-ed to see the legendary KU basketball player in person, per-haps for the last time. Monroe wasn’t any different. He asked an usher standing in one of the aisles to point out the aging Chamberlain. Moments later, they started talking.
They were once distant acquaintances, occasionally hang-ing out in the same places while they lived in Lawrence in the 1950s. Now, they were young again.
“Remember when you were back here in school, and we were running around, going to the Golden Arrow?” Monroe said to Chamberlain that day.
The Golden Arrow, a black nightclub in north Lawrence, separated and connected the two men. For Monroe and oth-er African-Americans, it was one of the few places they could
go for late-night entertainment. For Chamberlain, it was just another stop in a well-traveled life.
Yet when Monroe mentioned the Golden Arrow that day in 1998, Chamberlain laughed. He remembered.
The two men then parted ways. Later that day, Chamberlain stood on the court in front
of 16,300 adoring fans. Everyone cheered. Monroe looked down from the stands.
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Leonard Monroe settles into a chair in the corner of Milton’s Café on Massachusetts Street and orders a grilled cheese and potato chips for
— Leonard Monroe
THE GREAT DIVIDETwo men wanted to play sports at Kansas in the 1950s...
— Wilt Chamberlain
see great divide on page 6a
[Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part series about black athletes at the University]
photo courtesy of spenCeR ReseaRCH LIBRaRY photo by Travis Young/Kansan
By aleese kopf [email protected]
The House Appropriations Committee approved a bill Tuesday to reduce state university employee pay by 7.5 percent. If signed into law, the bill would reduce a state university employ-ee’s final six paychecks of the 2011 fiscal year. The bill would require those dollars to be spent on cam-pus deferred building and main-tenance projects. The bill would also prevent some state employees from receiving wage increases.
In a statement from the Board of Regents, Chairman Gary Sherrer deemed the committee’s action unfair and unneccessary.
“Removing dollars from the paychecks hard-working univer-sity employees depend upon, and then spending those dollars on building maintenance, doesn’t result in any savings to the state,” Sherrer said. “We call upon the legislature and the governor to reject this unnecessary and unfair proposal.”
Jack Martin, deputy director of university communications,
said professors haven’t received normal annual pay increases for the past two years, making it dif-ficult to retain faculty. Martin said that Yang Zhang, former associate professor of computational medi-cine and bioinformatics, left the university in 2009 after receiving an offer from the University of Michigan.
“It was a situation where we weren’t able to match the offer and keep the professor here,” Martin said. “Because of reduced resources, there is more competi-tion for talented faculty and staff.”
The goal of the bill, writ-ten primarily by conservative Republicans, is to provide a financial cushion and to help balance the state budget. In the next fiscal year, Kansas faces a budget shortfall of $550 mil-lion. The proposed cut would save the state more than $16 million, but half of the money would be retained by the Board of Regents to be used for main-tenance projects on college campuses.
The bill must be approved by
both the House and Senate before going to Gov. Sam Brownback. It is unclear when the bill will be debated, but the governor has asked that the cuts be on his desk by the end of the month if possible.
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little is expected to address the issue of salary cuts during her State of the University address today.
— Edited by Jacque Weber
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In the wake of the tragedy sur-rounding sophomore forward Thomas Robinson and his family, the NCAA has granted Kansas Athletics permission to pay for the Kansas bas-ketball team’s travel to Washington, D.C., for the funeral of Lisa Robinson Thursday at 11 a.m. EST. A state-ment from the NCAA said it offered its “deepest sympathies to Thomas Robinson following the tragic events of late in his family. To help support him and his younger sister during this difficult time, the NCAA and the University of Kansas have been work-ing closely together to determine how best to assist during these next several days and beyond.”
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n chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little will present the state of the univer-sity Address at 4 p.m. in the Woodruff Auditorium at the kansas union. The event is free.
n A painting demonstration with artist Louis copt will be held at the spencer museum of Art at 4:30 p.m.
THURSDAYJanuary 27
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n join richard norton smith and former reagan Political director Bill Lacy as they reminisce about our 40th president at the Presidential Lec-ture series: 20th century mt. rushmore, reagan at 3 p.m. in the dole Institute of Politics.
n The ku school of music, ku opera “ruddig-ore” is from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the robert Baustian Theatre, murphy hall.
n There will be a poster sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the kansas union, level 4.
n The children’s class: Lemons and Limes work-shop will be held at the spencer museum of Art from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. children’s art apprecia-tion classes are for ages 5-14.
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n The kansas African studies center will host a lecture titled “stereotypes and the social Psy-chology of repression” from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the kansas room at the kansas union.
n There will be an informative talk on careers in the foreign service by david Peterson at 4 p.m. in the English room of the kansas union.
n There will be a FacEx meeting from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Provost conference room at strong hall.
n There will be a brown bag lunch from noon to 1 p.m. in room 318 of Bailey hall entitled “The new Germany in Today’s World: strategies, Poli-cies and Great Power relations” with manfred stinnes, a lecturer in International relations at humbolt university of Berlin.
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The promise of spring also brings the imminent deadline for filing income taxes. To maximize the benefits of returns, students have the opportunity to choose from online, campus or profes-sional options that allow them to file their taxes for free.
Students can find advice on the IRS and Kansas Revenue Department websites, or through campus events to help them file state and federal tax returns free of charge.
Electronic filing options on the IRS and Kansas Revenue Department websites offer free
software for tax forms, while pro-fessional agencies such as H&R Block will file federal tax returns for free before Feb. 15. Last year, the University of Kansas’ School of Law held income tax clinics in March and April that offered free tax advice for students on campus.
Cass Singer, senior tax execu-tive at H&R Block, 520 W. 23rd St., encouraged students to take advantage of free filing services, such as those offered online and in professional agencies.
“I have had more than one stu-dent come in where I’ve told them, ‘You know how to do this yourself. I’ll do your federal for free. You go home and do yours online on the state for free,” Singer said.
Although federal returns with
the 1040EZ forms are free to file with H&R Block, a $39 fee is charged for state returns.
The online software simplifies filing by asking straightforward questions. Many students should be able to operate the programs with little to no difficulty, accord-ing to Singer.
“I would never discourage some-body who was qualified that’s in college from trying to prepare their own tax return if they are aware that there are times they need to ask questions,” Singer said.
Users who file electronically receive their tax returns much quicker, as soon as five to six days for state income taxes and eight to 15 days for federal returns. This technique also allows refunds to be
deposited directly into users’ bank accounts.
Filing directly with the IRS and state departments works well for students with relatively simple returns.
“It’s daunting and it’s scary, but once you do it the first time, it’s really easy going forward,” Raquel Alexander, professor of business, said.
Tax returns must be filed by April 18, but filing earlier can be advantageous.
“The earlier you file, the quick-er you get your refund,” Singer said. “The money is better in your pocket than in the pocket of the IRS.”
— Edited by Emily Soetaert
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For one student, the current revolution in Tunisia hits close to home, literally.
Fatma Ouaichouche’s home is half-a-world away in Boumerdes, Algeria, west of the Republic of Tunisia. Her people have taken note of the situation and have begun protesting and organizing marches against a similarly oppres-sive government.
“Tunisia gave a good les-son for the Arab governments and the Algerian government,” Ouaichouche said.
Until recently, the small, north-ern African country rarely made national headlines.
But 29 days after Mohammed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old impover-ished street vendor, doused himself in paint thinner and proceeded to light himself on fire in the central town of Sidi Bouzid, a revolution began and the country was thrust into the limelight.
The ongoing revolution spurred by protests and street marches ulti-mately led to the collapse of the government of Tunisia and ended the 23-year-rule of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’. On Jan. 14, Ben Ali’ imposed a state of emer-gency, disbanded the government and fled to Saudi Arabia leaving Mohammed Ghannouchi, the prime minister, to assume the role of interim president. Ghannouchi recently stepped down as well.
Bouazizi’s act of protest
Prior to Dec. 17, Bouazizi had already endured a lifetime of deg-radation. But on that particular day, police confiscated Bouazizi’s food cart and proceeded to physi-cally humiliate him.
After being refused a meet-ing with local officials, an angry Bouazizi set himself on fire outside of the local municipality building of the impoverished city where he lived. He died on Jan. 4 from his injuries sustained in the burning.
an impending revolution
Bouazizi’s frustrations highlight-ed those of an entire country.
Goran Sabah Ghafour, a first-year journalism graduate student from Kurdistsan, Iraq, referred to the protests as an “emotional explosion.”
“People were already boiling because of what I call a ‘fake secu-lar regime’,” Ghafour said. “When people saw the vendor, it was enough to explode.”
Ghafour said that based on his experiences in Iraq, when a country is “down” and there is no government, the politicians and the people face the most difficult moment because nobody knows what to do.
Ouaichouche said she felt it was predictable.
“This was a time that they said ‘that’s enough and we need change’,” Ouaichouche said. “The American government, I feel like they have protected the individual freedoms, but none of that is going on over there.”
Ghafour said people were angry because “money, prosperity, life and everything” was for the family of Ben Ali’ and his followers, not the people.
Tunisia’s large, educated middle-class of doctors and lawyers have witnessed unemployment rates rise from 13.3 percent in 2009 to 14 percent in 2010 with no end in sight. Many students and recent college graduates, unable to find jobs, initiated the protests.
“If there were job opportunities, he wouldn’t have been working as a vendor,” Ghafour said.
How mucH did tHe us know?
The United States’ knowledge of the concentration of power only became public after US Embassy cables were published on Dec. 7 by Wikileaks, the organization that discloses secret information.
A cable summary from June 23, 2008 signed by Robert Godec, the US Ambassador to Tunisia, states that “according to Transparency International’s annual survey and Embassy contacts’ observations, corruption in Tunisia is getting worse. Whether it’s cash, services, land, property, or yes, even your yacht, President Ben Ali’s family is rumored to covet it and reportedly gets what it wants.” The summary cable concluded “with those at the top believed to be the worst offend-ers, and likely to remain in power, there are no checks in the system.”
Thirty-three members of Ben Ali’s family were arrested and charged with “crimes against Tunisia.”
tHe role of social media
Waves of protests followed Dec. 17 and word of what happened in Sidi Bouzid spread fast via the internet and social networks.
Social media outlets, such as Twitter, mobile phones and vid-eos allowed news of the protest to reach every corner of Tunisia and inspired the title “Twitter Revolution.”
A Facebook page titled “Mohammed Bouazizi the Tunisian HERO” was created on Jan. 14, the same day Ben Ali’ fled the country and the government collapsed.
Barney Warf, professor of geog-raphy, researches the geography of internet censorship and said social
media practices about texting and Twitter are “democratizing gems that open up news outside the con-trol of the state.”
The Tunisian government was well known for their repressive practices and censorship of the internet but social media enabled the people to organize and publi-cize their struggle.
Warf cautioned that social media only serve as a platform and that “you can’t say technology does something and the revolution follows.”
“We really have to see social change and technological change as shaping one another,” Warf said.
The internet’s role in this revolu-tion encouraged comparisons to the Iranian protests of 2009, dubbed the original “Twitter Revolution.”
During the protest, social net-working sites became the primary source worldwide for information and testimonials because of strict Iranian government censorship.
The role of social media in the protests led Gordon Brown, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, to say in a June 2009 article in The Guardian that “for-eign policy can never be the same again and it’s all because of the internet.”
implications for surrounding
countriesThe leaders of neighboring
Arabic nations, Libya in particular, have said that they are worried about the impact of the Tunisian government collapse.
Sharon O’Brian, political science professor, said she thinks there will potentially be major implications for countries such as Ouaichouche’s home of Algeria.
Ouaichouche sees this as a fight to ensure the “rule of the people” or democracy, which she sees as the “catalyst change for globalization.”
“Globalization means you are going to open prison for us, for youngsters, for me and for these several countries,” Ouaichouche said. “When I go back to Algeria, I feel like I am going back in time. KU students, we don’t have the individual freedoms that you do.”
Following Tunisia and Algeria’s lead, Egyptians are organizing an anti-government revolution and have created a Facebook protest event page. The page currently has more than 90,000 confirmed guests attending the Jan. 25 protest. According to Illume Magazine, the protest is against corruption, tor-ture, poverty and unemployment.
future of tunisiaWhile the future of Tunisia
remains unknown, only time will tell whether the outcome of the revolution will in fact benefit Tunisians.
Ghafour said that he thinks it came too soon and without enough planning.
“If you don’t have a good replace-ment, another bad one could come,” Gharfour said.
Opposition to the interim gov-ernment forced Ghannouchi to step down over the weekend as interim president. Tunisia will proceed with free elections in six months.
Gharfour said the ensuing
months will be full of “drawbacks and shortcomings.”
“It’s too early in terms of what and who’s next,” Gharfour said. “Will he or she be better than Ali’ or worse, that is the question.”
Both Ghafour and Ouaichouche stress that regardless of students’ seperation from the fighting,
Americans need to take notice.Not only for their own knowl-
edge and benefit, but for the ben-efit of the oppressed.
“We need your support,” Ouaichouche said.
— Edited by Danielle Packer
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country profile the republic of tunisia
location: Northern Africaneighboring countries: Algeria to the West , Libya to the Eastcapital: Tunissize: About 64,000 sq. miles (Slightly smaller than Wisconsin)independence: French colonial rule ended in 1956population: 10.5 Million (CIA World Factbook)ethnic groups: Arab 98%, European 1%, Jewish and other 1% (CIA World Factbook)religion: 98% Muslim (CIA World Factbook)languages: Arabic, French
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Protestors run away from tear gas during clashes in Tunisia, Jan. 26. The clashes broke out in front of the prime minister’s office as the government prepared to announce adjustments to its lineup. Hundreds of protesters are pressuring the interim government to get rid of allies of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Social media captures new revelations on country’s conflict.
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LOS ANGELES — Singer Jimmy Buffett was hospitalized with a head injury after falling off the stage at the end of a concert in Sydney, Australia.
Buffett, 64, fell face first Wednesday night after an encore performance of “Lovely Cruise.” Buffett had performed Sunday
and Monday to sold-out crowds at Sydney’s Opera House before mov-ing Wednesday to the Hordern Pavilion for a show tacked on in response to demand.
The singer was listed in stable condition at Sydney’s St. Vincent’s Hospital about four hours after the fall, CNN International said.
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WICHITA, Kan. — A Wichita family is getting a new home next month thanks to ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”
The Wichita Eagle reports the network alerted its Wichita affiliate KAKE-TV last week that the show had a list of five nominated families. One of those families will get a big surprise on Feb. 17.
After several days of building, the family will be handed the keys on Feb. 24.
Bob Cook Homes of Derby has been picked as the builder, and a team of producers is already in Wichita working on preparations. The show is seeking skilled painters, plumbers and general laborers who want to volunteer.
The show will air in May.
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LONDON — Artistic genius may sometimes teeter on the brink of madness, but in the case of 19th-century romantic com-poser Frederic Chopin, some doc-tors have a more straightforward explanation: epilepsy.
During his lifetime, Chopin’s tendency to drift off while at the piano was interpreted by his part-ner George Sand as “the mani-festation of a genius full of senti-ment and expression.” But in a
new analysis published this week, Spanish doctors say Chopin’s hal-lucinations may have been due to a temporal lobe epilepsy rather than the result of any sweeping artistic tendencies.
Manuel Vazquez Caruncho and Francisco Branas Fernandez of the Complexo Hospitalario Xeral-Calde in Spain analyzed descrip-tions of Chopin’s hallucinations from those close to him. They propose the French-Polish com-poser suffered from a type of epi-lepsy that produces conscious hal-lucinations that last from seconds to minutes. The research was published in the journal Medical Humanities, a specialist publica-tion of the BMJ.
Caruncho and Fernandez cite an extract from Sand’s memoir, where she recalls returning to
the home she shared with Chopin, along with her son, after a long journey delayed by flooding. The composer had been playing one of his preludes and told Sand he was lulled to sleep while at the piano and saw himself drowned at the bottom of a lake.
Hallucinations are typically seen in patients with severe psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Other roman-tic composers such as Robert Schumann, who was committed to an asylum, experienced audito-ry and visual hallucinations which some believed were the product of his musical genius.
Caruncho and Fernandez say Chopin’s hallucinations occurred mostly in the evening or coincided with fever, unlike those linked to psychotic disorders.
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I have an embarrassing confession. Don’t laugh. The State of the Union is my Superbowl.
I watch pre- and post-“game” cov-erage. I make predictions: what the President will say, how many stand-ing ovations there will be, who will sit where.
I even shout at the TV in excitement and tear up if it doesn’t go my way.
You can laugh now. Tuesday’s State of the Union was
no disappointment. The night started with shock regarding the new seating arrangement. Traditionally, Republicans sit on one side of the aisle and Democrats on the other.
In an attempt to boost the appear-ance of bipartisanship and unity, Democrats paired up with Republicans for seating.
CNN turned into a high school cafe-teria of sorts, as pundits gossiped about who would pair up with whom for the big night.
The theme of unity persisted, as First
Lady Michelle Obama sat next to fami-lies affected by the recent Tucson shoot-ing. These seats are typically reserved for significant citizens that represent some theme the president is pushing for in his speech.
Unity was the name of the game this year. The president used the word “together” seven times within just the first section of the speech. Too bad words in a speech don’t always translate into action.
Many important and divisive issues, such as the debt ceiling, the repeal of health care and gun reform, are on the congressional agenda. It’s highly
unlikely that the president’s dream of bipartisanship will become reality.
The fact that the Republican Party couldn’t unite and choose only one member to give the response speech proves congressional unity is a long way off.
However, both Republicans and Democrats can agree the president’s speech contained few, if any, surprises.
As expected, the President focused most of his time on the economy. Confirming rumors, he announced a five-year freeze of all discretion-ary spending. This symbolic gesture falls short of what needs to be done to relieve our debt situation.
It’ll be interesting to see if the presi-dent follows through on his promise to veto all legislation containing earmarks, a comment that particularly excited Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
There were also some glaring holes in the speech’s content. The president said nothing about gun control, an issue everyone is talking about after the
Tucson shooting. More importantly, President Obama
neglected to directly address the middle class. Not only does the middle class make up the bulk of our country, but it is also widely agreed upon that assuring jobs and financial security to this class is essential for our overall economy.
More time ought to have been spent on small businesses, paying for col-lege and how to fix the broken Social Security system, as well.
Overall, President Obama’s second State of the Union was a success, but not a historic one. He adequately addressed the center and ran through a laundry list of pressing issues.
Moreover, very few of the top-ics he addressed were partisan. What he lacked in emotion, Speaker John Boehner more than made up for.
Adams is a junior political science and international studies from Overland Park.
POLitiCs
I just ate four Fiber One bars in the last two hours, which means I’ve had over 120 percent of my daily value of
fiber. I feel like a ticking time bomb.
There are millions of studies on how effective spanking is. It’s called the millions of well-adjusted adults
who were spanked as children.
To the guy walking on campus with a monkey on his shoulder today - please bring him back so I can pet
him!
If someone waves...wave back. Idiot.
Why in the hell did the paper get reformatted so that now I can’t
perfectly fold my paper to do the crossword? Get it together!
Standing between a guy’s spread legs on a crowded bus is the closest
I’ve been to a man’s downstairs in months...
I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: the Free For All needs some ELE.
Everyone Love Everyone.
That was not goal tending stupid zebra.
THIS IS FFA STEPPING UP THEIR GAME?!?!
State of the Union Vs. KU game...
I was going to go to the REC but a margarita sounded so much better
… and it was.
Thank you low profile privacy settings! For real!
Anyone want to pet my Peyton Manthing?
The second margarita was even better!!
I gave him the nickname “Spanky.”
I gave her the nickname “Sparky.”
Dirty sexy talk on the free for all I like.
Obama is a socialist.
Mmm, socialism.
Do you even know what socialism is?
I can’t respect anyone who gets on the bus from onw part of Jayhalk Blvd. to the other. It’s not that far
and it’s not that cold. Quit being a wuss.
Fratties: It would be easier to walk to class over the remaining slippy parts on the sidewalk if you’d TIE
YOUR SHOES.
A drunk man once asked me “does the strip club get postponed due to
lightning?” I still haven’t come up with an answer.
My fellow Americans, the state of the union is as such: This country is
F-d up! But it’s not my fault...
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tHursdAY, JAnuArY 27, 2011
Guys, some crazy stuff went down over break. As you may or may not have heard,
Ophiuchus – some crazy star serpent – done messed up the whole zodiac calendar.
Let me explain for those of you who are confused out there. There was a big star party, and everyone was chill-ing and relaxing on this massive couch at Aquarius’ (c’mon, who throws a bet-ter party?).
This party has been poppin’ for cen-turies. Then out of nowhere – without so much as an event invitation from Spacebook – Ophiuchus shows up act-ing like he knows everybody, trying to sit on Gemini’s lap like he knows him, acting all cuter than he is.
So, he slides on in between Scorpio and Sagittarius, and everyone’s like, “Whaaaat? Who is this snake? Who the HALE is this snake?” So, everyone had to squirm around on the couch, and the whole shift almost knocked Capricorn off.
But they made it work.The shift was reported on around
Jan. 15. Some news sources suggested that some people’s zodiac signs had changed – and those who were once one sign could now be another. It was a dark day for everyone as they simul-taneously Googled their new sign and asked themselves if that was who they really were.
Many spent the entire day staring furiously in the mirror and crying. Some began to scrape their now use-less zodiac sign tattoos off with their fingernails.
It was mass panic.Even I panicked. I’ve always been a
skeptic when it comes to the specifici-ty of most religions (why is it so damn important that Mary was a virgin?), but I’d always worn my Aquarius sign
with pride. After all, I’ve always wanted to be a
writer, and Aquarius is the epitome of creativity (he’s like Matt Damon from Good Will Hunting – he spends all day getting water at the well, but he’s got ideas…creative ones!).
I Googled and Googled until I got the answer I wanted to hear.
The zodiac signs remain the same for those born before 2009 (which is right around the time Ophiuchus showed up and was all like, “heeeeey!”).
The earth has slowly been tilt-ing, and as a result we’ve actually begun orbiting past Ophiuchus for a month of the year. If that C+ I got in Astronomy Lab is indicative of any-thing, it’s that you can kind of trust me when I say that astronomers actu-ally use the zodiac signs as a reference point for other stars and constellations throughout the year.
So, they’re the ones to blame for this zodiac scare – the four-eyed eggheads!
But at least it was only a scare! I would have had to switch my major and name if I were a Capricorn. Phew!
Chance Carmichael is a junior in creative writing from Mulvane.
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nHow do you feel about gun control on campus?
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In the aftermath of the Jan. 8 Tucson shooting that left six dead and sev-eral more injured, the issue of gun
control has resurged as a prominent topic of national debate.
Yet still, across the country, legisla-tors are pushing for less restrictive gun laws that would allow individuals to carry concealed firearms in public areas, including college campuses.
In Kansas, Republican Rep. Forrest Knox of Altoona has been pushing a bill to legalize concealed firearms in public spaces, causing an argument that has sparked controversy and outcry across the state.
If this bill is passed in 2011, students at the University of Kansas who are properly licensed will be legally allowed to carry concealed firearms on campus and in campus buildings.
Though Knox and other supporters
of this bill justify it with rhetoric based on the Second Amendment, allowing such a widespread presence of guns will serve to further threaten students’ safety rather than improve it.
Some, including Knox, have even argued that the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech, in which 32 students were killed, could have been stopped sooner if other students on campus had been carrying guns. He believes that signs prohibiting weapons do not go far enough in protecting the safety of stu-dents.
But this claim ignores the simple fact that more weapons will only result in more violence.
The proposition to allow concealed weapons on college campuses is rooted in concerns about student safety, but violent crimes at the University do not occur often enough to justify it.
According to the KU Public Safety Office, the vast majority of crimes on campus are nonviolent in nature, and annual crime occurrences have actually decreased by 34 percent during the last 10 years because of increased police patrols and improved camera surveil-lance.
With very few instances of firearm use, or even violence for that mat-ter, arming students would do little to improve the relatively safe environment in which they already reside.
In fact, a 2009 research study by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that during violent assaults, victims who were carrying a firearm were 4.5 times more likely to be shot by the assailant than victims who were unarmed.
The presence of guns in such situ-ations does little to protect students
from crime, and only increases their chances of experiencing violence and physical harm.
Students at the University of Kansas should protect themselves and others by limiting the presence of firearms on campus, and instead allow public servants who are trained to use such weapons to ensure their safety during classes. Enough innocent people have been hurt and killed when guns were used by individuals; having everyone carry a gun will only make violence more widespread and make KU and its students less safe.
spencer davidson is a senior in secondary english education from Linwood.
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school, his three track coaches fed him different advice. They said he should look at Emporia State or Washburn or Kansas State. He didn’t know why they told him that — he still doesn’t know with any certainty — but he didn’t lis-ten.
He even had scholarship offers from Maryland State, North Caro-lina A&T and Arkansas Pine Bluff. None of them interested him. He was set on Kansas.
He enrolled as a freshman in 1950, and when track season final-ly rolled around that spring, Mon-roe headed to Memorial Stadium. He wanted to talk with KU track and field coach Bill Easton about joining the team.
Now, finally, here was the payoff for all those years of hard work. His dream was just a few words away.
n n n
It was late one night in 1955, sometime close to midnight, but Wilt Chamberlain didn’t care. This couldn’t wait.
He drove straight to “Phog” Allen’s home from Kansas City. When he got there, he pounded on his coach’s door, intent on letting Allen hear about his night. The drive did little to cool him off.
When Allen answered, Cham-berlain immediately started in. He told him about the restaurant in Kansas City, the one that refused to serve him unless he ate in the kitchen after he drove more than 1,100 miles from Philadelphia. He told Allen he wouldn’t put up with something like this if he was going to play at Kansas. Not a chance.
Calmly, Allen listened and had someone bring his talented fresh-man hamburgers to Allen’s home, a tactful gesture as much as one of kindness. The burger joint, the Greasy Spoon, was also segre-gated.
“He knew that if I found that out, I’d probably say, ‘Fuck Kan-sas,’ and head back to Philadel-phia before the first day of class-es,” Chamberlain wrote in his 1973 autobiography, “Wilt: Just Like Any Other 7-foot Black Million-aire Who Lives Next Door.”
Chamberlain visited the Uni-versity twice when he was in high school and never experienced a hint of racism on either trip. Not once. But the campus is sepa-rate from the town around it. It’s isolated, an island of sorts, and a player can be shielded from such things if a recruiting trip is prop-erly handled.
The city Chamberlain visited in high school was quite different from the one Monroe grew up in.
“This had never happened to him before,” Chamberlain’s sister, Barbara Lewis, said. “Never. And it’s certainly not going to happen when you’re considered the great-est high school basketball player coming out. People are going to bend backward to accommodate you.”
Almost immediately, Allen’s son, Mitt, an attorney with a rep-utation for being a bulldog, met with local business leaders. He delivered a simple message, one he also shared with Chamberlain.
“Milt told him in no uncertain terms,” former Lawrence Journal World writer Bill Mayer said, “‘Wilt, if you go into some place and they kick you out, you let me know and we’ll close the god damn thing down.’”
Behind the scenes, Chan-cellor Franklin Murphy started making similar moves, if only with more subtle approaches.
Murphy, who became chancel-lor in 1951 after years of racial unrest at the University, met with local movie theater owners and told them if they didn’t eliminate the Crow’s Nest seating policy, he’d show movies on campus.
“He was able to do stuff like that,” said Bill Tuttle, professor emeritus of American studies at the University. “And he did it over-night.”
Maurice King, a talented guard
who arrived two years before Chamberlain in 1953, used to leave his white teammates when they boarded a bus hours before home games. He was told to go rest at home; his white teammates went somewhere else. Only later did he learn that his teammates headed to The Eldridge for a pregame nap.
The Eldridge didn’t accommo-date blacks.
Then Chamberlain arrived, and King could go almost anywhere, especially when accompanied by the 7-footer. He started eating at restaurants he previously hadn’t heard of. The limitations in Law-rence started to vanish.
“When Wilt Chamberlain came to that campus, a lot of that fool-ishness stopped,” King told The University Daily Kansan in 2006.
But the changes came slowly to those African-Americans not named Chamberlain. If Cham-berlain was the source, then those closest to him started to see the benefits while the everyday man still had a ways to wait before de-segregation came full circle.
Still, it was a start.“Before long, things just began
to tumble and crumble,” Mayer said. “Wilt was a mover in the in-tegration of the community. Now, it wasn’t all gone when he was gone, though.”
n n n
It all happened so quickly that spring day in 1951. Monroe ap-proached Bill Easton, the KU track and field coach, about the possi-bility of joining his team. Easton didn’t consider it.
“No way you’ll run for me,’” Monroe remembers Easton say-ing.
And then Monroe headed home, devastated. He told his parents he was dropping out of college and joining the Air Force. That was that.
M o n r o e doesn’t know what hap-pened that day. Was it his ability, his skin color or something en-tirely different that kept him off the track team? There’s
no way to really know for sure, but Monroe remembers what he thought that day. More important-ly, he remembers how he felt.
“That was one of the biggest heartaches I’ve ever had in my life,” Monroe said.
n n n
When Wilt Chamberlain rolled into Lawrence, everyone took no-tice. The students, the alumni, the national media outlets. Everyone.
Including Leonard Monroe.He couldn’t find a decent job out
of the Air Force, but he kept look-ing in Lawrence from 1955-58 — the same three years Chamberlain played basketball for Kansas.
When he read about Chamber-lain or watched him play, some-thing happened. The animosity he felt toward the University — for the athletic chance he never got — slowly dissolved. Wilt Chamber-lain was playing for Kansas, and he was the best basketball player in the country.
“I kept up with him the whole time,” Monroe said. “It wouldn’t do no good to hold a grudge like
that anyway. I got back to cheering for them and ev-erything. It’s just so strange that it’s so dif-ferent.”
C h a m b e r -lain left Kan-sas after three years, choosing
to sign with the Harlem Globetrot-ters and write about his decision for Look magazine for $10,000. It took 40 years before his jersey fi-nally hung in the Allen Fieldhouse rafters. Nearly 21 months after the ceremony, he died of heart failure. He was 67.
After working his way up to the rank of senior master sergeant in the Air Force, Monroe finally found the decent job he was look-ing for. He returned to Lawrence to open and run the city garage until he retired in 2000.
But the real change came
more than 40 years after Monroe dropped out of the University — more than 40 years after he learned he couldn’t join KU’s track team. His son, Darryl, played in the out-field for the Kansas baseball team. He was pretty good, too.
And from the stands Monroe
watched as Darryl, playing in a Kansas uniform, helped the Jay-hawks reach the College World Series in 1993.
“Forty years after I couldn’t get a job or go to KU to run, 40 years later, my son was the No. 1 pick to play baseball at KU,” Monroe said
inside Milton’s Café. “So things change, thank goodness.”
And with that, he picked up his coffee, took a sip, and looked out the large windows in front of him at the people and shops along Massachusetts Street.
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Wilt Chamberlain demonstrates the perks of being 7-foot-1 to Kansas basketball coach F.C. “Phog” Allen in 1955. After arriving as a highly touted recruit from Philadelphia, Chamberlain played on the freshman team that year.
Photo courtesy of SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY
Wilt Chamberlain receives a polio vaccination with other KU students while at the University. Chamberlain played an important role in the integra-tion of Lawrence.
“When Wilt Chamberlain came to that campus, a lot of that foolishness stopped.”
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lunch. He then sips his coffee and smiles.
Behind the coffee mug, his grayed hair is covered by an Air Force hat recognizing his time in the service. His glasses rest gently on his nose in front of a wrinkling face. He is 79.
At one time, Monroe was an up-and-coming athlete at Lawrence High. Fast. In shape. Still holding onto a dream. He was the second-fastest quarter miler in the state of Kansas, he says, and he competed in multiple events.
But that was a lifetime ago when tracks were loose cinder and races were measured in yards. Some-times the past is best left as a mem-ory, and that’s how Monroe would like to leave it. Talking about any of that now seems irrelevant.
Instead, he discusses his Air Force tour and the people he met along the way; about the city ga-rage he opened and ran for 23 years in Lawrence; about how even then some people said a black man couldn’t properly run the garage; and about his six children — all of whom received college degrees.
“I don’t regret anything now,” Monroe says. “My life was a whole lot better than a lot of other peo-ple.”
But Monroe still grew up in a racially-divided community at a time when the racial unrest of the 1920s and 1930s had started to cool, but before the Civil Rights movement firmly took hold. The University had opened its doors to African-American athletes in the late 1890s, but those doors quickly shut and the school kept black ath-letes out shortly after the turn of the century.
Monroe grew up at a time when the op-portunities for an African-American liv-ing in one place differed for an African-Ameri-can somewhere else. Where Wilt Chamberlain played the part of growing star, Leonard Monroe fell in line with the everyday man.
In high school, Monroe played basketball on the Promoters, an all-black basketball team formed in the 1920s with students unable to play on Lawrence High’s segre-gated team. He loved it.
Around Lawrence he could only eat at a handful of restaurants, and he had to sit in the last few rows at the four local movie theaters, called the Crow’s Nest. Monroe never minded. “Best seat in the house,” he said.
But there was a time when ... No, Monroe doesn’t really want to get into the details. He’ll tell you
what happened that day when he was still a toned college freshman. Tell you how he wanted to run for KU’s famed track and field team only to be denied. Tell you the rejection he experienced that day triggered one of the worst feel-ings in his life — not just then, but even now. Tell you that same rejection was why he dropped out of college and joined the service.
The hurt stayed with him dur-ing his first stint with the Air Force, even overseas. He contin-ued learning and adapting and moving on with his life, but the feeling still hung around, at least a little. A rejection that deep can age a young man in a hurry.
Monroe returned to Lawrence after a four-year absence in 1955, hoping to find the kind of change that comes with a good job. The job never came — and because of that he spent an additional 19 years in the Air Force — but something else did.
Wilt Chamberlain.
n n n
Every college basketball pro-gram in the country wanted Chamberlain, and every program in the country made sure he knew that.
Letters from interested colleges flowed into the Chamberlain’s Philadelphia household, some-times as many as four or five a day. Coaches constantly visited and called. Kansas coach F.C. “Phog” Allen even enlisted the help of singer Etta Motten and journal-ist Dowdal Davis, the editor of the Kansas City Call, an African-
A m e r i c a n newspaper.
The buzz Chamberlain g e n e r a t e d s u r p a s s e d anything the sport ever experienced. He was a star, and he wasn’t even 18.
Chamberlain grew up near a predominantly Jewish communi-ty and attended Overbrook High School, a predominantly Jewish school. And yet, he was the most popular person in the school. He was magnetic.
During the summers, Wilt and his sister, Barbara, would go to a camp in the Poconos. They were there to work, but only one of them truly did. During the day, Wilt rode horses. At night, he’d sneak off to have fun.
On the basketball court, Wilt couldn’t sneak away from anyone. His friends and family called him “Dipper” or “Dippy” because his height forced him to dip when he
entered rooms. He liked it. Philadelphia sportswriters
called him “Wilt the Stilt.” He despised it. He always thought it made him sound freakish.
And if there’s one thing people agree upon when it comes to Wilt Chamberlain, it’s this: He always wanted to be more than people thought.
n n n
Leonard Monroe played bas-
ketball on the Promoters in high school, but he lived for track. That was the sport he cared about, the one he invested most of his time and energy in each year.
In 1950, when Lawrence High’s basketball team integrated dur-ing his senior year, Monroe had the cartilage knocked loose in his knee playing football. He couldn’t jump or cut the same as before.
He still made the basketball team as one of the school’s first black basketball players, but he
quit shortly after and joined an intramural team to rehab his knee. He wanted to be ready when track season began.
Monroe ran the quarter mile in 48.9 seconds, the second fast-est time in the state. The fastest runner, Frank Cindrich, took his talents to the University of Kansas — a school with one of the nation’s best track teams.
That’s where Monroe wanted to go, too.
During his senior year in high
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Leonard Monroe, left, and Chamberlain talk after Kansas’ game against Kansas State on Jan. 17, 1998. Monroe and Chamberlain occasionally frequented the same spots in Lawrence when Chamberlain played at Kansas from 1955-58.
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Chamberlain accepts a plaque from the late Bob Frederick, KU’s athletics director at the time, on the day the University retired Chamberlain’s jersey.
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Wilt Chamberlain acknowledges the crowd next to former KU broadcaster Max Falkenstien on Jan. 17, 1998, the day Chamberlain’s jersey was retired. Chamberlain returned to Lawrence that day for the first time in 23 years.
“I don’t regret anything now. My life was a whole lot better than a lot of other people.”
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According to the release, the NCAA is allowing Robinson’s sis-ter Jayla to travel with her brother back to Lawrence at the expense of the University. A series of waivers were granted.
In conjunction with bylaw 16.6.1.3.1, found in the NCAA’s Division I Manual:
An institution may pay transpor-tation, housing and meal expenses for a student-athlete’s spouse, chil-dren and teammates to be present in situations in which a family member or legal guardian of the student-athlete suffers a life-threatening injury or illness or, in the event of a family member’s or legal guard-ian’s death, to provide the student-athlete’s spouse, children and team-mates with such expenses in con-junction with funeral arrangements. (Adopted: 1/10/95 effective 8/1/95, Revised: 11/1/01 effective 8/1/02, 4/25/02 effective 8/1/02, 5/22/07, 4/13/09).
By NCAA rules, Kansas Athletics would not normally be able to pay for travel because it would be considered an impermissible benefit. The NCAA is also allow-ing Kansas Athletics to pay for funeral arrangements. The amount of money being spent is not known at this time.
Theresa Becker, associate ath-letics director of compliance, said the athletics department needed to request relief through the waiver process. The waiver process allows universities with extenuating cir-cumstances to submit a request to the NCAA that allows the univer-sity to work around the bylaws.
“The NCAA staff has been extremely understanding, extreme-ly supportive, very compassionate and very sympathetic to this whole situation,” Becker said. “They’ve really been wonderful to work with and extremely supportive.”
Becker said that the compliance staff was working over the week-end researching to see if there was a valid argument. Becker said they
were able to find a number of find-ings called case precedent, where similar situations have happened and the NCAA has granted relief.
One presedent is because of a case concerning former Clemson running back Ray Ray McElrathbey, who was able to set up a fund for his 11-year-old brother. Similarly there is a fund that has been set up for Robinson’s 9-year-old sister Jayla.
“We’re thankful, at this point, for the many people that are interested in helping in some way, are able to do that through contributing to the family fund,” Becker said.
Becker said Kansas Athletics could have set up the fund for Jayla, based on the relief the NCAA granted, but chose not to because the “NCAA is allowing boosters, athletic representatives, alumni, contributors, donors, fans and friends of the University can make a contribution to the Lisa Robinson Fund without violating NCAA rules.”
Becker said the NCAA has not only been supportive, but prompt with its decision-making. Becker said the compliance staff got on the phone first thing Monday morning to talk with the NCAA and to file a waiver. She said they would have been on the phone sooner, but the NCAA offices were closed.
“When you have an urgent emergency situation like this, the staff is very gracious,” Becker said. “They will grant telephone deci-sions and that’s how we’ve dealt with this particular case.”
Normally the requests are sub-mitted in written form and the NCAA will discuss the issue with the institution and offer its guid-ance.
Every step of the way needs to be documented, but in cases like this one, the NCAA granted immediate relief and Kansas Athletics will fol-low up with the documentation.
— Edited by Brittany Nelson
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“You can’t miss free throws and turn the ball over and expect to win on the road or at home,” coach Bonnie Henrickson said.
The Jayhawks needed to capi-talize on scoring opportunities to break a three-game losing streak. However, the team did not put forth the effort needed to make free throws and avoid turnovers.
“We have got to focus and con-centrate, and we are talking about kids who normally make free throws,” coach Henrickson said.
The Jayhawks ended the night at 7-16 from the line. Free throws are one aspect of basketball that coaches always emphasize because it is the same every time.
The low percentage translates to a lack of focus from the players. Angel Goodrich ended the night 1-4 shooting free throws. She has a season average of 44.4 percent when she steps up to the line.
During post-game interviews Goodrich could not find an answer to why she struggled so much behind the line. She explained that she practices free throws every day, but that she might not have been focused enough tonight.
Carolyn Davis made eight free throw attempts, but only complet-ed three, well below her usual level of 72.3 percent.
The game was a low scoring one finishing 52-66, but many of the Missouri points were scored because of the lack of Jayhawk team focus. The Jayhawks turned over the ball 21 times compared to the 15 Missouri turnovers.
“Twenty-one turnovers. That’s just beating yourself,” Henrickson said.
Even after taking away the turn-overs by both teams the score would have been 37-45, a slightly more even game with an eight-point deficit for the Jayhawks.
The Tigers held Aisha Sutherland and Davis to three offensive rebounds. The lack of rebounds eliminated scoring opportunities for the entire team.
“They were all great rebound-ers, they found us early and they made contact. That’s what kept us off the boards,” Davis said.
It stands out when guard Monica Engleman has more total rebounds than either for-wards. Missouri grabbed 11 more rebounds than Kansas, providing the Tigers with 11 second-round scoring opportunities.
The Jayhawks lacked communi-cation and focus for the majority of the game. The lack of commu-nication was a contributing factor to the large number of turnovers. The team played a Missouri team that was focused and had plans to work hard to bring home a win.
The Jayhawks have room to improve their free throws and decrease their turnovers.
— Edited by Erin Wilbert
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Kansas lacks focus for fourth straight loss
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Fredette shines in BYU victory
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PROVO, Utah — Jimmer Fredette scored 43 points and ninth-ranked BYU beat No. 4 San Diego State 71-58 before a frenzied crowd Wednesday night, handing the Aztecs their first defeat of the season.
The loss by SDSU (20-1, 5-1 Mountain West Conference) leaves No. 1 Ohio State as the only unbeaten team in the nation at 21-0.
BYU (20-1, 6-0) has won 10 straight, and six in a row at home against San Diego State.
The biggest regular-season bas-ketball game in Mountain West history didn’t disappoint. The first matchup of top-10 teams in the conference was tight from the start, with 15 lead changes and seven ties.
The Cougars trailed 31-30 at halftime thanks to a late 3-point-er by San Diego State’s Kawhi Leonard.
But BYU, now alone atop the Mountain West, turned it on in
the second half. With the score tied at 44, the Cougars went on a 16-8 run to take a 60-52 lead with 4:12 to go.
Noah Hartsock capped the run with a layup. Fredette also hit a pair of 3-pointers, reserve James Anderson had several key blocks and BYU’s career steals leader, Jackson Emery, came up with a key theft and jam.
Leonard’s jumper pulled San Diego State to 60-54 with 3:45 remaining.
Fredette, a leading contender for national player of the year, took over. He made seven straight free throws to give BYU a 67-54 lead.
Leonard finished with 22 points to lead the Aztecs.
The game was big enough that at least two dozen NBA scouts descended on Provo.
A sign also proclaimed Fredette “The Real King James” — a refer-ence to NBA star LeBron James.
He didn’t disappoint, though San Diego State made him work for every point.
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Aishah Sutherland 3-7 0-0 5 1 6
Carolyn davis 7-10 0-0 2 0 17
Monica Engleman 1-7 1-1 7 5 5
Marisha Brown 1-3 0-1 4 0 2
Angel Goodrich 3-8 1-4 4 6 10
Keena Mays 3-7 2-4 0 1 8
Krysten Boogaard 0-2 0-0 1 2 0
diara Moore 0-0 0-0 1 0 1
Tania jackson 1-4 1-3 3 0 3
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Trenee Thornton 2-9 2-7 3 0 6
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The kansas Baseball pro-gram is making changes to its coaching staff, promoting one coach and adding another.
coach Ritch Price an-nounced Friday the pro-motion of Ryan Graves to associate coach, effective im-mediately. Graves, a long-time assistant coach, will continue his present role on the pitch-ing staff and as the team’s catching coach.
“We’re promoting coach Graves to associate head coach to reward him for his commitment, loyalty and the success of our pitching staff,” Price said in a press release.. “Ryan has a proven track record of preparing players to succeed at both the collegiate and professional level.”
This year will be Graves’ ninth at kansas and his 12th working with Price.
Price announced Tuesday the addition to the coaching staff of assistant coach Jay Uhlman. Uhlman, formerly an assistant coach for the oregon Ducks, will serve as recruiting coordinator and hitting coach, among other coaching duties.
While at oregon, Uhlman saw the Ducks advance to the regional finals, improve their batting average by 65 points, double their run total and nearly double their extra-base hits. oregon goes into 2011 ranked No.9 in the collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll.
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The Associated Press announced its NFL All-Pro team on Monday, which included the Kansas City
Chiefs’ Jamaal Charles as one of the two running backs, alongside Houston’s Ar-ian Foster. Although being named to the All-Pro team can easily be viewed as an individual achievement for Charles, on a deeper level, it is a credit to Kansas City’s whole organization.
First of all, Charles is the first Chief to be named All-Pro by the AP since Jared Allen and Tony Gonzalez in 2007. That was the first year of the Chiefs’ dreadful three-season run of fewer than five wins per year. Having a player recognized by the AP as one of the best in the NFL is an obvious sign that the team is improv-ing. But Charles’ selection is not only about himself; it is also a credit to the improvement of the offensive line, which has transformed from being a much ma-ligned weakness into one of the strong-holds of the team. The Chiefs were the NFL’s top rushing team by nearly 10 yards per game this season. As gifted as Charles is individually, without a strong offensive line and a respectable passing game, an elite running back is useless.
One of the reasons Larry Johnson flamed out in Kansas City was because pressured the line of scrimmage when they played the Chiefs. Teams knew that the passing game, headed by the
likes of Damon Huard and Tyler Thig-pen, was not a threat. The Chiefs’ offen-sive line, decimated by the retirement of Willie Roaf and Will Shields and the re-lease of Casey Wiegmann, could not hold off opposing defenses. There was nothing Johnson could do to overcome his team’s deficiencies.
From the beginning of this season however, the Chiefs dominated the ground game, an important necessity that enabled the passing game, opened the playbook and ate clock. By quickly establishing Jamaal Charles and his side-kick, Thomas Jones, early in the game, the Chiefs allowed themselves to chew up clock during long drives that potentially yielded points. In doing so, the offense kept the defense off the field, and their opponent off the scoreboard. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense.
As evidenced by the Chiefs’ late-game meltdowns against Houston, Indianapo-
lis, and twice against Oakland, the de-fense could not always be counted on to make big stops or quell an opponent’s momentum. But having a momentum shifter on offense in Charles was a key tool for the Chiefs’ fourth-quarter suc-cess. It was Charles’ 80-yard run against the St. Louis Rams that killed the mo-mentum the Rams were building in the fourth quarter. Although Charles did not score on that run, he put the Chiefs in position to, which they did shortly af-ter, securing the victory. The Chiefs won only 10 games the previous three years combined. Sustained drives and key plays by the offense, such as Charles’ scamper against the Rams, were a big reason why the Chiefs won 10 games this season.
— Edited by Dave Boyd
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QUOTE OF THE DAY“Ability is what you’re capable
of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Who is the only Jayhawk to have started in every game this season for men’s basket-ball?
A: tyrel reed
— Kansas Athletics
THIS WEEK IN KANSAS AthLEtICS
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FRIDAYTrackLawrenceAll day
SATURDAYWomen’s basketballKansas State2 p.m.Manhattan
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TUESDAYMen’s basketballtexas tech8 p.m.Lubbock, texas
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TODAYCharles owes All-Pro pick to offenseMORNINg BREW
Reed in running for student-athlete award
Senior guard tyrel reed is one of the 10 finalists for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award for men’s basketball.
the award is given to student-ath-letes classified as NCAA division I se-
niors with notable achievements in the four areas of excellence: com-munity, classroom, character and competition.
Fans can vote on the Lowe’s Se-nior CLASS Award
website. Fans’ votes will be combined with media and coaches’ votes to determine the winner.
reed, from Burlington, graduated
Lose one recruit, gain another
three-star cornerback Kenneth Lynn has de-committed from Kansas and will sign his letter of intent to play football for Iowa State next fall, scout.com’s Greg
Ohlson reported tuesday. the dallas native originally committed to the Cyclones before switching to Kansas last month following a trip to Lawrence. Lynn told scout.com his final decision would not change. Lynn’s main recruiter from Kansas was former coach darrell Wyatt, who left Kansas
for a coaching job at the university of texas earlier this month.
Meanwhile coach turner Gill landed another offensive weapon on Wednesday. three-star wide receiver Marquis Jackson verbally committed to the Jayhawks, rivals.com reported. As a high school
senior, Jackson caught 44 passes for 1,186 yards and 12 touchdowns, earning him texas 4A All-State honors. the Fort Worth, texas native also had offers from Baylor, Arkansas and Nebraska among others.
—Kory Carpenter
in december with a degree in pre-therapy and exercise science after just three-and-a-half years of study. he has been accepted into the physical therapy program at the university of Kansas Medical Center.
reed has averaged 10 points and three rebounds during the first 20 games of this season.
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Freshman guard Josh Selby is the key. Ask an expert — any re-ally, from SI to ESPN to CBS to The University Daily Kansan and on — about who is most essential to Kansas’ success, and you’ll likely get that answer. Selby is the key.
So while it’s nice for Kansas that Brady Morning-star scored in double figures for the first time in just under a calendar year, and it’s good that Marcus Morris is arguably the best player in the Big 12, and it’s a little frustrating that Tyrel Reed couldn’t buy a shot Tuesday at Colorado, that all goes by the wayside in looking at the box score.
The eyes fix on Selby’s stat line, which, after so many games of struggling from the field, saw a whiplash-inducing reversal of the trend. Selby hit 7-of-14 shots (3-of-6 from three) for 17 points to go along with four rebounds and a
5-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio.“It’s huge for him,” Morningstar
said. “Of course, in the first half he came out hot, and that’s what we needed. He hasn’t been like that for a while, and it’s good for him to get his stuff rolling.”
Self has spelled out Selby’s es-sentialnessto the Kansas offense a number of times. Kansas has a bushel of talented guards. Tyshawn
Taylor’s better than most in the country at getting into the lane and kicking to an open shooter on the wing. Reed and, now, Morn-ingstar are the benefactors of
Taylor’s skills. Both are also spot shooters and steady caretakers of the ball. Elijah Johnson is some-where in between those three. He’s a sniper from outside with the help ofReed and Morningstar and pos-sesses Taylor’s athleticism.
But no one on the roster, not even Morris, has Selby’s talent for taking a broken play and turning it into points. The scouting report
on Selby is that he can catch-and-shoot, score off the dribble, post on a guard and can shoot from well outsidethe three-point line.
Because he can mix his shots so drastically, Selby becomes the toughest matchup on the Kan-sas roster, but only when he’s on, which has recently been rare. Which is why Tuesday— apart from bouncing back from a loss, picking up a half-game on Texas and winning without the grieving Thomas Robinson— was huge for Selby.
“It’s good to see Josh be aggres-sive,” Self said. “Josh hasn’t been aggressive at all.”
That’s why at practice Monday, Self told Selby to stop thinking so much and just be aggressive. It’s not something coaches tell a lot of freshmen — there’s an inher-ent risk of turnovers and sloppy play included with that — but not many freshmen have Selby’s tal-ent.
And Selby’s responding well.“I was playing not to make mis-
takes,” Selby said. “Now since I had that conversation with coach, everything’s fine.”
— Edited by Erin Wilbert
Is it too soon to label Tyrel Reed “Big Game Reed” or “La Flama Blanca”?
It seems very hard to argue against it.
The senior guard has been put-ting up stellar numbers as of late, and he’s doing so against increas-ingly tougher opponents.
Looking at his last eight games, Reed’s average playing time was 31.5 minutes per game. During the year he has averaged 28 minutes, the highest average on the team. During his last four games Reed had 58 points and 18 rebounds (14.5-4.5 per game). In the four games previous to those, Reed had 27 points and 14 rebounds (6.75-3.5 per game).
The strange part is that Reed had statistically worse games against Miami (OH), UMKC, Michigan, and Iowa State, than playing against Nebraska, Baylor, Texas, and Colorado. It appears that the tougher the opponent, the more likely Tyrel Reed is to put up bigger numbers.
No offense to UMKC, Michigan, and Miami (OH), but these teams aren’t of the caliber that the Big XII teams are. With regards to Michigan, who put up a hell of a fight, none of the aforementioned schools would succeed in the Big XII, which makes the case for Reed all that more interesting. At the end of a close game, it seems like Reed is one to come up in the clutch, as further evidenced by his two free throws against Colorado on Tuesday to put KU up by four, and the game out of reach for the Buffaloes.
Reed also has the highest free throw percentage on the team at 85.4% (35-41), which if he stays at this pace would be his high-est career average, second to the 83.3% that Reed shot from the line last year.
In the loss to Texas, Reed put up some of his best numbers of the season. His 34 minutes tied his second highest total this season. His 17 points and 6 rebounds also tied his second highest totals of the season.
It’s becoming increasingly evident that when the going gets tough, Tyrel Reed gets going.
It isn’t just his stats that make Tyrel Reed a threat; Reed has the intangibles that make him a more than noteworthy weapon on the KU offense.
Reed is never one to quit on a play, and always hustles back hard to play defense; he can shoot the three from just about anywhere on offense, and always seems to get the last second pass for a wide-open shot.
On a team full of talented leaders, as most Bill Self coached teams are, Tyrel Reed is as poised a leader as they come. When the game is on the line I can’t think of one person on the roster I would substitute for Reed. His stats don’t lie. If it’s crunch time, look out for “La Flama Blanca” to ignite.
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Sophomore guard Angel Goodrich fires off a three-pointer during the last minutes of the second half. Goodrich was one of two Jayhawks in the double figures with 10 points and dished out a team-high six assists.
During his first 11 games, Selby had his ups and downs. The way he plays the remainder of the season will be key for Kansas.
“It’s good to see Josh be aggressive. Josh hasn’t been aggresive at all.”
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The Jayhawks struggle down the stretch at Missouri, losing their fourth straight game
BY EThaN [email protected]
The Missouri Tigers went on a 15-0 run late in the second half that led the Tigers to a 66 to 52 victory against the Jayhawks Wednesday night in Columbia, Mo. Missouri Guard RaeShara Brown highlighted the run with a three-point shot that brought the Missouri fans to their feet and shot down any hope Kan-sas had for a comeback.
The Jayhawks started out the night fast. Sophomore forward Carolyn Davis scored a quick lay-up early in the game. Senior for-ward Aisha Sutherland then hit two shots, one from each elbow, giving the Jayhawks an early six to three lead.
The Jayhawks had a 22 to 14 lead with 9:43 left in the first half, but it didnt last long. Missouri roared back and tied the game up at 25 after Brown was fouled hard by Kansas’s Monica Engelman. Brown made the bucket and the ensuing free throw. Mis-souri ended the first half with a 30 to 27 lead on a 14-5 run.
Kansas strug-gled during the first half of the game, but after a quick timeout by coach Bonnie Henrickson they pulled it together and chipped away at Missouri’s lead. Kansas tied up the game at 41 with 12:34 left in the game after Sophomore guard Angel Goodrich hit a three-point shot.
“Well (getting the ball to Davis) has always been the message. Then the lane gets more crowded. Ten people living in a one-bedroom apartment-that is what it looks like in there,” Henrickson said.
Missouri and Kansas traded buckets before RaeShara Brown and BreAnna Brock made back-to-back jumpers to spark Missouri’s 15-0 run.
Kansas struggled from the free-throw line all night, making just seven of its 16 attempts. Davis es-pecially struggled, dropping just three of her eight attempts from the charity stripe.
“We have struggled all year and I don’t know why. I couldn’t do much in college, but I could make a free throw. That might have been it for me, but I could make one. We have to focus and concentrate,” Henrickson said.
Despite having Sutherland, the top rebounder in the Big 12, the Jayhawks were outrebounded 41 to 30. Sutherland managed to grab just five boards off the glass.
“They are all great rebounders and they found us early and made contact and that is what kept us off the boards,” Davis said.
The Jayhawks also gave up the ball 21 times on turnovers, and managed to take the ball away from the Tigers just 14 times.
“I think we just weren’t patient as a team. We didn’t communicate,
we didn’t attack the ball like we should’ve and we just turned it over on our-selves,” Goo-drich said.
With the loss, Kansas dropped to 14-6 on the season, and 1-5
in Big 12 play. They extended their losing streak to four games.
“We’ve not won the toughness battle. We’ve not come out, not been competing at a higher level than who we play. It doesn’t mat-ter who we play in this league, you have to be able to fight. There are nights when you have to be able to make a run and you have to be able to answer runs, and we have allowed people to make big runs on us and not answered. That is a toughness, gut check, teamwork thing,” Henrickson said.
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“It doesn’t matter who we play in this league, you have to be able to fight.”
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