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Recruitment for this fall
is at an all-time high for
sororities at the University of
Kansas. Associate Director
of Student Involvement and
Leadership Center, Greek Life
and Leadership Programs,
Amy Long said over the last
three years, registration and
participation from students
has been increasing by at
least 100 students a year. In
2012, 805 women started the
recruitment process and in
2013, 932 women did as well.
Elizabeth Erker, a senior
from Omaha, Neb. and
president of Chi Omega,
said her chapter was pleased
with the large number of
participants.
“We were really excited
that so many possible new
members were able to have
such a positive experience,”
Erker said.
According to Long, 1,038
women registered for sorority
recruitment this fall and 1,000
ofcially participated.
“Te Panhellenic
Association and Panhellenic
chapters have taken a very
proactive marketing approach
in the last two years to increase
interest,” Long said.
Te Panhellenic Association
has increased its social media
presence with its use of
Twitter, Instagram, Facebook
and YouTube.
“Each chapter posted a
YouTube video about their
chapter for women who were
interested,” Long said.
In addition to social media,
the Panhellenic Association
used guidebooks and events to
better inform both interested
and skeptical women on the
experiences involved with
sorority recruitment.
As a senior, Erker said her
initial motive for rushing at
the beginning of her college
experience was the sense of
family.
“I felt as though it was an
opportunity to shrink the
larger college community that
is KU and to fnd a smaller
community that I could be a
part of,” Erker said. “Sort of
a smaller home away from
home.”
Long also said she thinks
women seek out sororities for
a sense of community.
“I believe that women
are fnding value in the
experience. It’s great to
see that this experience is
still relevant and seen as
something important to
a woman’s college years,”
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Graduate student Rachel Schwaller speaks to those assembled for the demonstration in front of Wescoe Hall. The group gathered on Monday to protest the death of teenager Michael Brown, who was killed in Ferguson, Mo.
‘HANDS UP’
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Assistant theatre professor Darren Kanady speaks to demonstrators in
front of Wescoe Hall on Monday.
KU community organizes demonstration for Ferguson, Michael Brown
ALLISON KITE
@Allie_Kite
Interim Senate vice
president to be elected
Wednesday
Following a decision by the
University Judicial Board Appeals
Panel made on Friday which
removed Senate leadership from
office, 2013-2014 Student Senate
Vice President Emma Halling has
taken the role of acting student
body vice president. Senators will
meet this Wednesday to elect an
interim vice president.
Halling said in a statement
released Monday that Senate
operations will continue as planned
— meaning student groups will
still be able to apply for and receive
funding.
The senators voting on Wednesday
will be those who served last year
and are still eligible for their seats.
Senators who aren’t eligible
include those who were on-campus
senators and now live off campus,
those who have graduated, and
anyone who was representing
a specific school and no longer
belong to that school. The entire
Jayhawkers coalition is also not eli-
gible to vote, according to Halling.
Halling cited Student Senate
Rules and Regulations 5.16.1.1.
when explaining why the Jayhawk-
ers couldn’t vote in the Wednesday
meeting. The rule states that:
“Any student found guilty of an
egregious offense by the Elections
Commission shall be prohibited
from participation in elected
or appointed positions within
Student Senate for twelve calendar
months.”
At Wednesday’s full Senate
they will also vote to approve the
executive staff.
The Elections Commission will
also meet Tuesday to set the rules
for the upcoming re-election.
—Miranda Davis
Sorority recruitment breaks record
MARIA SANCHEZ
@MariaSanchezKU
BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN
Members of the University’s Kappa Alpha Theta sorority chapter run down to a bus on Mississippi Street on Friday, August 22.
SEE RECRUIT PAGE 7
A small group of KU
students, staf and faculty
gathered for a demonstration
called “Hands Up, Walk Out”
on Wescoe Beach yesterday in
honor of Michael Brown, the
18-year-old who was killed by
a police ofcer in Ferguson,
Mo., on Aug. 9.
Te demonstration was
part of a national movement
organized by Hands Up United,
a group that was formed in
response to the Ferguson
protests. Te group has posted
a list of demands on its website
(www. handsupunited. org)
including more accountability
for ofcers’ actions, release of
those arrested during protests
and transparency in police and
justice departments across the
country.
Megan Kaminski, an assistant
professor in the department
of English, created the event
Aug. 24, when she discovered
the University did not have
a Hands Up United protest
scheduled.
As the demonstration went
on, more and more members
of the community joined.
Tere were about 50 protesters
by the end of protest. Tose
participating put their
hands up, demonstrating the
nonviolent pose that witnesses
have said Brown held when
Ofcer Darren Wilson shot
him. Police have said Brown
attacked Wilson.
“I had some friends in other
parts of the country who talked
about going to events like this
and I looked to see if there was
an event like this happening at
KU and I saw there wasn’t one,”
Kaminski said.
Kaminski added that she felt
she needed to do something as
an educator.
“Knowing that I was going
into that and knowing that
today should have been
Mike Brown’s frst day at
class, it made me feel like
something needed to be done,”
Kaminski said. “We needed
to get together and create an
environment where people can
come out and talk and share
their frustrations.”
Attendees included both
faculty and students who stood
in solidarity with Michael
Brown.
Katherine Gwynn, a senior
from Olathe, said events
like “Hands Up, Walk Out”
are important because she
believes Americans live in a
systemically racist society, and
these events help point out
issues that she thinks need to
be changed.
“It’s just trying to raise the
voices of people of color,
especially black people
concerning what’s been
happening around Ferguson,”
Gwynn said. “It’s raising a
conversation that’s necessary
and isn’t talked about enough,
and unless we continue talking
about, the conversation around
it will die out and no change
will be made.”
As part of Monday’s event,
attendees were invited to
stand up and speak about
what happened and what they
believed. Kaminski said she
believes the issues raised by
Brown’s death are relevant to
students.
“I think sometimes in a
university community, we can
SEE SUPPORT PAGE 7
One of the most popular ac-
tivities on a college student’s
bucket list is to study abroad
at some point during their
college career. It seems easy
enough in theory, but too
many students miss out on
studying abroad because they
didn’t spend enough time
planning beforehand.
“It’s good for students to
come to the Study Abroad
Info Center during their
freshman year, even if they
aren’t planning on studying
abroad until their junior or
senior year, because the center
can help fgure out a good
time period that would best ft
in with diferent majors,” said
Jackie Langdon, a senior from
Denver and a peer advisor at
the Study Abroad Informa-
tion Center.
Students planning on study-
ing abroad should research
their trip at least a year before
leaving. Te Ofce of Study
Abroad can show students
program options for nearly
every major.
“I found my program
through one of my professors
at the business school,” said
Keertana Chary, a senior from
Wichita. “Afer he told me
about it, a peer advisor came
and talked to my class about it
and the Study Abroad Ofce
was able to give me even more
information.”
Te application deadline for
Spring 2015, Winter Break
2015 and Spring Break 2015
is Oct. 1.
“I made a last minute
decision to study abroad, and
the application process took
me the longest,” said Bailey
Goldstein, a senior from
Overland Park. “Tere’s a
lot that goes into it, and you
can’t expect to be able to
do it all a week before the
deadline.”
One reason students might
not study abroad is because
they aren’t proactively plan-
ning or talking to advisors.
“Students will miss out
on going because they are
still deciding whether they
wanted to go, and won’t
come into the ofce until
they know they for sure
want to, but by that point
it’s ofen too late,” Langdon
said. “Tey need to come
into the ofce as soon as
they even start to consider
those possibilities, because
they have less options the
longer they wait to start
planning.”
Afer students decide
where they want to study,
the next step is planning
the trip.
“Make sure to set your
budget, and budget in
diferent expenditures,
including for emergencies,”
Chary said.
Students should meet with
both a study abroad advisor
and their academic advisor.
Teir academic advisor will
be able to help them fnd
scholarships within their own
college or department and
to decide when will be the
best time for them to study
abroad.
“A lot of students are afraid
that studying abroad won’t
allow them to graduate on
time,” Langdon said, “but
studies have shown that
students are twice as likely to
graduate on time if they study
abroad, and are also more
likely to get into a grad school
of their choice and fnd a job
once they graduate.”
Te Study Abroad Informa-
tion Center is open Monday
through Friday 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. No appointment is
necessary.
— Edited by Alex lamb
Congresswoman Lynn
Jenkins met with the Title IX
Roundtable Monday afer-
noon to discuss the Campus
Accountability and Safety
Act, which addresses sexual
assault on campuses.
Te Campus Accountability
and Safety Act focuses on
making universities and stu-
dents accountable for sexual
assault by increasing trans-
parency, creating enforceable
penalties and providing more
support and resources to
victims.
Te University is currently
under investigation by the
U.S. Department of Educa-
tion’s Ofce of Civil Rights,
along with 71 other univer-
sities, as part of a look into
how sexual assault complaints
are handled on campuses.
Currently, the University is
in compliance with all federal
sexual assault laws.
Jenkins said that meeting
with the Roundtable gave
her “ideas for improving and
things to look into.” She said
she hopes that the bill will be
voted on this fall.
Emma Halling, co-chair of
the Title IX Roundtable and
acting student body presi-
dent, feels that the national
attention is important for
victims of sexual assault.
“We’re talking about it a
lot more now; it’s something
we’ve known about for a
while, but now it’s entering
student language,” Halling
said.
Te Roundtable has
discussed providing more
resources to victims, like
adding more sexual assault
nurse examiners and a
campus advocate for student
victims. Halling said these
additional resources are im-
portant because they show
solidarity.
Angela Murphy, treasurer
and development coordinator
for the Title IX Roundtable,
believes that a main obstacle
for sexual assault policies is
talking about it.
“Tis conversation is a
conversation that just doesn’t
happen and as far as I can
tell … it doesn’t happen early
enough,” Murphy said.
Erin Barcomb-Peterson,
director of news and media
relations, said that the Uni-
versity is very proactive in
taking steps to make students
and respondents feel safe on
campus.
Halling agreed and said that
the University is ahead of the
curve in addressing sexual
assault, but does think that
making the University and
students more accountable
would improve how sexual
assault is handled.
“In terms of campus safety
we’re not bad, but where bad
things happen is of-cam-
pus,” Halling said. “But the
repercussions don’t stop
of-campus.”
Murphy added that there
were issues to address of
campus as well, like better
lighting on Iowa Street.
“In Lawrence, I know I
can’t walk home by myself at
night,” Murphy said.
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MCKENNA HARFORD/KANSAN
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and development coordinator; and Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins discuss the Campus Accountability and Safety
Act on Monday.
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“I’ve had two abusers,”
her story begins. “Te frst
abuser, I was still in school
here in Lawrence, going to
KU. I met him about a block
away at a little bar right down
there.” Te account continues
with graphic descriptions of
violence. “He hit me so hard
that I went fying on the other
side of the bed,” the woman
goes on, listing the abuses
committed by her boyfriend,
Bear, during the course of their
relationship.
Tis narrative is one of
the many nameless, but not
faceless, biographies posted on
the Willow Domestic Violence
Center Blog that recounts
relational and physical
domestic abuse. Te number
of survivor testimonies
collected by staf at the Willow
Domestic Violence Center in
Lawrence is growing in light of
a new artistic and collaborative
endeavor: Te Phoenix
Project.
Te project encourages
artists to take the stories
posted on the blog and to
turn them into artistic work
to be presented at a public
engagement event next year.
Te center is seeking both
survivor stories and artists
who are willing to create
representational pieces of
the stories. Chelsea Ren
Morton, work program
manager for the Willow, said
the idea for the event is to
encapsulate all art media:
video, performance, slam
poetry, music, oil painting,
chalk painting, photography,
poetry, short stories and
cartooning. By using all forms
of media, Morton said, the
event can engage the public
on all learning levels, with
the main focus being on the
transformation from the
stories.
Dailey Tasker, a volunteer
advocate for the center since
January, said the project is
looking for any type of artist to
contribute work.
“Anything that can portray
the stories in an interesting
manner,” said Tasker, a junior
from Wichita majoring in
visual arts and design. “It’s a
collaboration, it doesn’t have
to be classical art. Anything’s
art.”
Te project theme is
“breaking the silence
on relational violence,”
emphasizing that it takes a
community to address and
heal the trauma of violence.
Maddison Lynn, project
facilitator for Phoenix,
says the project is all about
empowerment.
“We really want to expand
our base, reach a lot of people
and get some open discussion
about something that is so
isolating and not really talked
about in the community,” Lynn
said.
Te problem of domestic
violence is underreported,
Lynn said.
“It’s a problem in this
community as well as
communities all over. Just
think about the amount of
women the Willow serves on a
yearly basis,” Lynn said.
Te Willow has more than
1,600 crisis calls and houses
approximately 300 women and
children annually. Te center
also ofers support services
and public education for those
experiencing, or supporting
someone who is experiencing,
domestic violence.
Lynn says the center is
hoping to empower others
to speak up about domestic
violence, seek the help they
need and help survivors feel
as if they are not alone in their
situation.
“As a women’s studies
major, I studied a lot of
social change that happened
because somebody somewhere
gathered a lot of stories in one
place,” Morton said. “And it
moved legislation. It moved
communities to healing.
It changed the face of the
culture.”
Morton’s motivation behind
starting the archive is to not
only show people what is
happening, but also show the
support and healing that can
occur when everyone pulls
together as a team.
“I’m under the opinion that if
you believe in something, you
should act on it,” Tasker said.
“I believe no one deserves to
be afraid of their partner … no
one deserves to feel bad or be
put in a dangerous situation on
a daily basis.”
Morton said staf and
volunteers who had
experienced domestic violence
were generally enthusiastic
about submitting their stories,
especially with the idea that it
could encourage others to seek
help.
“Or it could help people
realize that this is a problem in
our community and we can’t
ignore it any longer,” Morton
said. “Tis is why people need
to support social services and
to address these problems
… that no one is necessarily
talking about.”
Over the next three months,
the Phoenix team will be
recruiting people to submit
stories, artwork and narratives.
Morton hopes this will
produce a sizeable database for
people to access.
“Tose inspired by what they
see in the database can contact
the team and contribute a
piece,” Morton said.
— Edited by Rob Pyatt
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FACTS
The annual cost of lost productivity due to domestic violence is
estimated at $727.8 million with over 7.9 million paid workdays lost
per year.
www.caepv.org
Black females experienced intimate partner violence at a rate 35 per-
cent higher than that of white females, and about 22 times the rate
of women of other races. Black males experienced intimate partner
violence at a rate about 62 percent higher than that of white males
and about 22 times the rate of men of other races.
www.americanbar.org
Nearly 1 in 4 American women between the ages of 18 and 65 has
experienced domestic violence.
www.thecenteronline.org
Females ages 18 to 24 and 25 to 34 generally experienced the highest
rates of intimate partner violence.
Nearly half of all women and men in the United States have experi-
enced psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime
(48.4 percent and 48.8 percent, respectively).
From 1994 to 2010, about 4 in 5 victims of intimate partner violence
were female.
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former Boston College
baseball captain, has
been living with Amyotrophic
Lateral Sclerosis (ALS/
Lou Gehrig’s Disease) since
2012, and he helped launch
the popular ALS Ice Bucket
Challenge. But how many
of you actually knew that? If
you did, then great! I am glad
some people actually research
why they are pouring a bucket
of ice water over their heads
before they just go ahead and
do it.
Some of you may also want
to know why it was an ice
bucket challenge in the frst
place. Why not stick raisins
up your nose? Better yet, why
not just donate? Te reason
for the ice water is actually
pretty simple. It was meant to
be a punishment for someone
who was not planning to
donate money towards ALS.
Te challenge actually did not
even originate with people
who had ALS. It started on
the Golf Channel as a way to
donate money to charities that
people cared about, and then
it led to people donating to
the ALS cause.
Te problem is people are
just pouring ice water on their
heads, which does nothing
more than raise awareness.
Raising awareness is great, but
count how many Ice Bucket
Challenge videos you have
watched that truly discuss
what ALS is or how it afects
people.
Te fad of the Ice Bucket
Challenge videos is just that
— a fad. It is one that will
go away just as 2012’s Kony
campaign did. Are people
going to remember to donate
money to charities like ALS
afer the videos stop appearing
on our newsfeeds? Would
they have even participated in
this challenge if their friends
or favorite celebrities weren’t
doing so as well?
In a few more years
someone else will come up
with another fun way to get
people to donate to important
charities. People should want
to give money to charity
because it is the right thing
to do. Tey shouldn’t feel like
they need to show of to all of
their Facebook friends.
I understand the Ice
Bucket Challenge — it’s fun,
it’s diferent and it gets the
message across. Helping
raise money for treatment
toward diseases, like ALS, is a
worthy cause. Afer all, more
than $80 million dollars have
been raised in less than a
month, according to the ALS
Association.
I just can’t help but think
some people are spending
more money on the bag of
ice than they are donating.
Te original intention of this
unique challenge may have
been good, but I believe it
has gotten way of track. It
sends the message that social
media determines where
money should be donated and
undermines people’s belief in
the true cause.
Rebeka Luttinger is a
sophomore from Dallas
studying journalism
S
ome strange
developments took
place in Kansas this
summer. Tere was the GOP
Gubernatorial Primary in
which a fringe candidate,
Jennifer Winn, earned nearly
37 percent of the vote —
and only spent a fraction of
what Brownback’s camp did.
Against a candidate without
name recognition and a
pro-marijuana platform,
Brownback should have come
out looking uncontested.
Instead, Winn tallied up well
over a third of the ballots
cast in what appears to have
been a protest vote by the
Governor’s own party.
Tere was also a joint, mass
endorsement of a Democrat
for governor by more than
100 current or formerly
elected Kansas Republicans,
the former minority leader
in the Kansas House, Paul
Davis, Brownback’s opponent
in this fall’s race. Possibly the
strangest development of all
is how these events inspired a
frenzy of recent national news
coverage unusual to Kansas
elections.
Tis November’s election
results are far from certain.
Te governor’s race may have
been enough to make Kansas
politics relevant, but it’s not
the only election you can
make a diference in this fall.
However, there is one man
on a mission to keep you
from being that diference —
Kansas Secretary of State Kris
Kobach.
Kobach is the nation’s
trailblazer in protecting his
right to prevent voters from
not re-electing him. Kansas
is taking the lead around
the country as a result of
Kobach’s initiative to, for the
frst time in history, require
proof of citizenship for voter
registration as part of a two-
tiered voting plan. Kobach’s
campaign has been built in
response to widespread voter
fraud, a malady for which he
has provided the antidote.
Where others may have
lacked the steely gumption to
attempt such a thinly-veiled
stunt to protect their ofce at
the expense of citizens’ rights,
Kobach did no such balking.
As it turns out, voter fraud
is not quite the threat to life
as Kobach has made it seem.
Te Wichita Eagle pointed out
that when Kobach presented
evidence supporting the need
for the rule change, he found
only seven individual cases of
fraudulent voting in Kansas
over the past 13 years.
Te real problem with these
new restrictions on voter
registration is cruelly ironic.
His requirements are poised
to cost many people the same
right he claims to protect.
As a result, many students
registering to vote for the
frst time will face a more
complicated task than they
would have in the past.
Evidently, Kobach feels
that the real danger of
diminishing participation
in the democratic process
by creating greater obstacles
to civic engagement pales
next to the imaginary peril
of voter fraud. With no
evidence to support his claims
of widespread voter fraud,
Kobach’s endgame is clear
— to have fewer votes in the
ballot box on Election Day.
Voter suppression is a telling
campaign tactic.
Te truly frightening part
of this “House of Cards”
scheme is how most students,
the group most afected by
the change because they
recently became voters,
remain unaware of these
transgressions.
Not everyone has been
fooled though, as Kobach has
enemies in both parties. In
the GOP primary a moderate
Republican, Scott Morgan,
used his campaign to shed
light on Kobach’s dubious
behavior, though he did
not receive enough support
to stop him. We have one
last chance for a return to
normalcy with Jean Schodorf,
another challenger committed
to stopping Kobach this time
in the general election Nov. 4.
Kobach’s plan relies on
your unwillingness to
respond to his challenge. In
the past, student apathy has
allowed our representation
to be misused and Kobach
is counting on students and
young people to let that
happen again. If we let this
misdirection keep us from
voting, we will only validate it.
When you exercise your
right this fall, don’t vote for
the guy who tried to keep
you from showing up. Protect
yourself from Kris Kobach
and vote.
Clay Cosby is a senior from
Overland Park studying
political science
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With headlines like “Local
Bar, Te Hawk, to Raise Teir
Drinking Age to 21” and “New
Drug Touted as ‘An Airplane
Mode, but for Feelings,’” it’s
not hard to see that Nowhere
News, an online newspaper
based out of Lawrence, is satir-
ical. Te publication went live
on Aug. 8 of this year.
“I feel like Lawrence kind
of brings the best out of peo-
ple with the art scene and
the comedy scene, and I kind
of wanted to put my foot in
there,” said Jake Frondorf, a
senior from Hutchinson and
head editor and creator of the
publication.
Frondorf has done all of the
marketing and web design,
and has created a large amount
of the website’s content.
“I think Nowhere News can
work as a channel for positive
change in the community. I
think satire is a really good
way to change someone’s per-
spective without forcing an
idea down their throat,” Fron-
dorf said.
But Frondorf doesn’t work
alone. A large portion of his
staf is made up of Univer-
sity students and alumni.
Sam Lamb, a graduate from
Hutchinson, is the managing
editor; Jarod Kilgore, a grad-
uate from Lenexa, is a writer;
and Mitch Montague, a senior
from Topeka, is a writer and
video editor. In the future,
they hope to share the work-
load. Frondorf said that as of
now he has 20 people on staf
as contributors.
Frondorf said that the biggest
part of applying to be a con-
tributor is generating headline
ideas. “If you can come up
with funny headlines, you’ll
probably be a funny writer,”
Frondorf said.
If students don’t want to be-
come writers or even contribu-
tors, Nowhere News still wants
their input. Students can send
headline, video and other con-
tent ideas to Nowhere News
even if they have no interest in
becoming a writer.
A common question readers
may have is simply, why the
name Nowhere News?
“It is named afer the news-
paper in ‘Courage the Cow-
ardly Dog,’” Frondorf said.
“Tey live in Nowhere, Kan-
sas, and I thought Nowhere
News is an evocative name.
Tat describes Kansas very
well.”
As Nowhere News grows,
Frondorf and his team hope to
make a positive impact on the
Lawrence and KU communi-
ty. “It’s the kind of thing that
brings Lawrence together,”
Frondorf said. “I want to give
back to Lawrence.”
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For scholarship hall
students, Hawk Week isn’t
just about Night on the Hill.
Te weekend of move-in day
through the following week
is also the Scholarship Hall
Olympics.
On Aug. 22, all 12 scholar-
ship halls afliated with the
University of Kansas began
their frst olympic event, a
game of assassins, around
midnight.
Nicole Wilburn, the
Scholarship Hall Complex
Director said the events act
to bond the scholarship
hall students together, who
include returning students as
well as new students.
“It helps students unite for
one cause and talk about
their strengths and weak-
nesses,” Wilburn said.
Te olympics continue
through Sept. 5 and include
a variety of options such
as sports activities, video
games, cooking and more.
Dakota Boyd, a freshman
from Overland Park, partic-
ipated in some of the events
including 3-on-3 basketball,
sand volleyball and assassins,
to get involved with his hall,
Grace Pearson.
“I came to KU to be
involved and it’s something
I regret that I wasn’t in high
school. So I decided I’ll do
as many things as I possibly
can,” Boyd said.
However, the olympic
events are only available to
the scholarship hall students,
with each hall putting out a
team for every event. In the
end, one women’s hall and
one men’s hall are crowned
as winners.
Lizzie Cox, a sophomore
from Mankato, said the
events are a great way to get
to know everyone in her
hall, Margaret Amini, and
in other scholarship halls as
well. She said it’s a nice way
to meet new people, see old
friends and bond with the
people in her hall.
But while the olympics
bond the scholarship halls
together, the residence hall
students are completely
absent from this experience.
Students in residence halls
do not have these kinds of
events and do not participate
in the scholarship hall olym-
pics. When asked, very few
students who lived in resi-
dence halls knew about the
scholarship hall olympics.
“We kind of feel, in that
sense, a little disconnected
from them. We don’t really
interact much with the [resi-
dence] halls but we all pretty
much know each other in the
[scholarship] hall commu-
nity,” said Carmen Ortiz,
a sophomore from Kansas
City, Kan.
Boyd said he thinks the ex-
clusive events make for a less
hectic bonding experience
for the scholarship halls.
“I mean, imagine if there’s
24,000 people on campus
and if even half of them
wanted to play, that’s 12,000
people wanting to play bas-
ketball on one little court,”
Boyd said.
Ortiz also said that com-
bining groups would be
problematic and overwhelm-
ing because so many students
live in the residence halls.
Joe Sodergren, a freshman
from Topeka, currently lives
in Ellsworth. He said events
like the olympics could open
a door to getting to know
a variety of peers better if
the event were open to both
scholarship and residence
hall students.
However, Ortiz said the
integration of groups would
be a difcult task.
“It’s kind of like they have
their own thing and we do
our own thing,” Ortiz said.
“It’s just the reality of the
situation.”
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“Sin City” remains one
of the best achievements
of a flm truly looking and
feeling like a comic book,
with violence so extreme
it can get cartoony, highly
animated sets and a
stylized black and white
palette punched up with
occasional splashes of
color. Tose elements are
still the same, but in the
nine years it took for the
sequel to come to life, the
mojo that made the frst so
potent seems to have been
lost.
While many of the
original players return for
this second set of violent
and gritty tales maxing out
on flm noir indulgences,
the problems with “Sin
City: A Dame to Kill For”
begin with the wicked
cool Clive Owen not
reprising his role of bad
boy Dwight. Instead, Josh
Brolin flls in with a hard-
headed, uncharismatic
performance that lacks the
slickness, which made the
character such a badass in
the frst place.
Te other Frank Miller
sequel this year, “300: Rise
of an Empire,” also faced
the issue of an unengaging
lead. Both flms helped
balance this out with
a delicious villainess
performance from former
Bond woman Eva Green.
As the titular dame,
she’s a femme fatale with
dastardly plans, embroiling
Dwight in a classic flm
noir setup that escalates
with growing violence.
Green is a powerful fgure,
who clearly has the most
fun in the cast as she
manipulates men and
shows of her body.
Like the frst flm, this
“Sin City” is made up
of three full stories and
a short one to open it,
each focused on diferent
characters — some of
whom overlap in the other
narratives. Tis worked
extremely well when the
segments were of about
equal length and each act
of the flm was a full story.
Here the pacing lacks such
momentum, as “A Dame
to Kill For” takes about
an hour of the runtime
and is only sometimes
entertaining, although
always visually interesting.
Its big fnale disappoints
too with the action feeling
slapped together and a
weak conclusion, further
proof co-director Robert
Rodriguez has lost his
whiz-bang master touch.
Te opening with Marv
(Mickey Rourke), the
hulking killer who leaves
a swath of destruction
wherever he goes, proves
a fun way to give the
fan favorite his due.
Troughout the rest of the
movie he only sporadically
shows up for a few
quips to fght and to kill
henchmen with the other
main characters, much of
that violence being lazily
executed.
Te most successful,
tightly wound and least
over-the-top segment
fnds Johnny (Joseph
Gordon-Levitt), a cocky
gambler who never loses,
challenging the most
powerful and corrupt
man in the city, Senator
Roark (Powers Boothe),
in a game of poker. Afer
winning, he has to face
Roark’s vindictive and
nasty backlash, while his
brazen integrity keeps him
pushing back. Gordon-
Levitt elevates everything
he’s in, and the David and
Goliath angle makes this a
satisfying investment.
Te fnal story starts
strong but, unsurprisingly,
ends with a hollow assault
of revenge against lots of
bad guys. Nancy (Jessica
Alba), Sin City’s favorite
stripper who Hartigan
(Bruce Willis) saved in
the frst flm, has become
a drunk and obsesses
over avenging Hartigan
by killing Roark. Te dark
places this one goes at frst,
as Nancy crawls into her
own deteriorating psyche
and argues with Ghost
Willis, prove dramatically
captivating and poignant.
But then Miller decided to
throw that away with a silly
(and inefectual) action
sequence that totally
contradicts the “Sin City”
timeline.
Tere are still things
worth seeing in this messy
city and stories worth
telling, but altogether,
they just add up to a
disappointing return to a
place where you’ve already
experienced the best parts.
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Hutchins
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Long said.
Madison Tubbs, a freshman
from Colby, participated
in recruitment this fall and
although she didn’t connect
with every sorority, she made
lasting friendships.
“Just because I didn’t join a
sorority doesn’t mean that I
can’t be friends with the girls
that I connected with,” Tubbs
said.
Tubbs was ofered a bid and
declined but said she is glad she
experienced it.
“I think that it’s a good
opener into the year because
you have to be able to make
conversation with people,”
Tubbs said. “It helps you with
answering questions that
people are going to ask you a
lot over the next three or four
weeks or even probably your
whole college career.”
feel like we’re isolated from
this, but... this is very much a
real part of people’s lives and I
think sometimes we don’t like
to have difcult conversations,”
Kaminski said. “I also think it
was important that everyone
got to speak and express their
feelings about it. Tat’s why I
made it more open.”
Students like Austin Fisher,
a senior from Lawrence, have
been getting involved in the
Ferguson story through other
protests as well. Fisher helped
organize a small protest on
Aug. 17, where attendees used
the human microphone, a
protest tactic used in Occupy
Wall Street in which the
audience repeats parts of a
speaker’s speech for greater
emphasis.
“I thought that there was a
lot of victim blaming going on,
and I thought there were a lot
of statements being made that
were distracting from the real
issue,” Fisher said.
Fisher said the Aug. 17
protest was not limited to the
killing of Michael Brown but
also included police actions
following including the release
of Ofcer Darren Wilson’s
name, the footage of what
happened and the treatment
of journalists and peaceful
protesters.
“Te injustice wasn’t just
limited to the death of Michael
Brown and the point of the
protest wasn’t just limited to
the death of Michael Brown,”
Fisher said. “Te point of the
protests was to tell people,
‘hey, this is a national issue.
Tis issue has been a problem
for the 400-year history of this
country.’”
— Edited by Miranda Davis
SUPPORT FROM PAGE 1
L
et’s start by looking
at the schedule. Te
Jayhawks have at least
seven winnable games against
Southeast Missouri State,
Central Michigan, Texas,
West Virginia, Oklahoma
State, Iowa State and Texas
Christian University. All
of those games are home
games, besides playing in
Morgantown, W. Va., on
Oct. 4. Kansas defeated West
Virginia last year to break a
27-game Big 12 Conference
losing streak and should be
able to do so again on the
road.
Te overall strength of
this team will lie with its
defense. Isaiah Johnson, the
reigning Big 12 Defensive
Newcomer of the Year, leads
a talented secondary that
forced nine interceptions last
year. With a full ofseason of
conditioning and practice,
those numbers should only
improve.
Te entire defense
is anchored by senior
linebacker Ben Heeney, who
is serving as one of three
captains for the Jayhawks.
Heeney should be in line
for a monster season afer
leading the Kansas defense
in tackles over the past two
seasons. Heeney makes the
players around him better
and should strongly contend
for All-American honors in
his fnal season.
On the other side of the
ball, however, there are
more question marks. Te
aforementioned season-
ending injuries to Brandon
Bourbon and Taylor Cox
have lef the running back
cupboard incredibly bare.
Tis leaves the door open
for talented newcomers
De’Andre Mann and Corey
Avery to make their marks
on the season. Mann, a
junior-college transfer from
Hartnell College, and Avery,
a freshman from Dallas,
both have outstanding
athleticism and can combine
to replace the monumental
production lef behind by
former running back James
Sims.
Te running back position
can be further bolstered by
the possibility of Heeney
getting some carries.
“I’d love to play both
ways,” Heeney said at
last Wednesday’s press
conference. “I always
thought I was going to play
running back in college
instead of defense, so if they
need me, I’m on call.”
Te quarterback position
should be much improved
this season. Montell Cozart,
a sophomore from Kansas
City, Mo., is a much more
dynamic player than Dayne
Crist or Jake Heaps ever
were. He can beat defenses
as a runner and as a passer,
and should be a great ft for
new ofensive coordinator
John Reagan’s scheme. He
also has great weapons
at wide receiver in senior
Nick Harwell and junior
Rodriguez Coleman, as well
as senior tight end Jimmay
Mundine who’s on the watch
list for the Mackey Award,
which goes to the best tight
end in the nation.
All of these factors should
contribute to a good season
for the Jayhawks. Kansas
probably will not go to a
bowl game, but it should be
competitive in every game
and have a chance to win
at least fve games, which is
more than the three games
the Jayhawks won last
season.
— Edited by Benjamin Carroll
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In the sports world, so
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Opinions formed from the
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you multiple perspectives
to a story and help you craf
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voting online at Kansan.
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Will Kansas football improve its win total from last season?
“YES”
K
ansas football has been
quite dysfunctional
since former coach
Mark Mangino resigned in
2009. Turner Gill’s two years
set the program back and
Charlie Weis is still working
to tidy up the remnants of the
past regime.
When Charlie Weis arrived
in 2012, he brought in an
astounding 15 players from
junior colleges for immediate
impact thanks to falling back
in recruiting which led to
a depleted roster. Tere are
currently seven starters on this
year’s roster that were junior-
college commits from the 2013
class, making up about half of
this year’s 13 senior starters.
While Weis and company are
working hard to improve this
year, I don’t see them winning
more than three games and
surpassing their win total from
last season.
Last season, Kansas’ ofense
averaged 15.3 points per
game last year, according to
KUAthletics.com. Kansas
ended the season ranked 121
of 124 teams in the Football
Bowl Subdivision, according to
ESPN.com.
While Kansas gained one
playmaker in transfer Nick
Harwell from Miami-Ohio
University, the team got
substantially weaker on what
was arguably its strongest
position — running back —
when it lost Brandon Bourbon
and Taylor Cox to season-
ending injuries before the start
of the season this year.
Tis places the responsibility
on the receivers whose catch
rate stood at 40.2 percent,
according to SBNation.com,
last season, and the shufing of
quarterbacks certainly played a
part, but it still doesn’t point to
optimistic signs of an improved
ofense.
While the defense made some
huge strides (improving to
94th in points allowed in 2013
from 112th in 2012, according
to ESPN.com), the other Big
12 ofenses still haven’t taken
much of a step back even with
a few talented quarterbacks
exiting the league.
For this team to eclipse its
win total from last season,
Cozart and the receivers
need to take a signifcant
step forward. However, with
a depleted backfeld and a
lack of experienced, proven
playmakers, the defense just
won’t be able to compensate for
a well below average ofense.
— Edited by Miranda Davis
“NO”

“I always thought I was
going to play running back
in college... so if they need
me, I’m on call.”
BEN HEENEY
Senior linebacker
VOTE FOR THE WRITER WITH THE MOST CONVINCING ARGUMENT AT KANSAN.COM
By Derek Skillett
@derekskillett
By Connor Oberkrom
@coberkro
Predicting the
unpredictable
Te wait for Jermaine Jones to sign
with an MLS team is fnally over, and
it ended just as bizarrely as it started.
Te 33-year-old defensive midfeld-
er is heading to the New England
Revolution afer being allocated to
the team in a “blind draw.” Jones had
previously played for FC Schalke 04
in Germany, and even more recently
for Turkish club Besiktas, but did not
sign a new contract afer the previous
season.
Speculation that Jones would join an
MLS team fnally ended with New En-
gland’s addition. Te defensive mid-
felder was expected to join an MLS
team for at least the past two months.
NBC Sports reported at the beginning
of August that he was close to joining
the Chicago Fire. Jones tweeted on a
couple occasions that rumors that he
had turned down ofers from Chicago
were not completely correct. At the
time it was reported he had turned
down a two and a half year deal worth
$6 million, according to Goal USA.
Goal USA also reported that Te
Revolution will pay Jones $4.5 million
per year over the rest of the 2014
season as well as the 2015 season with
an option for another year.
With the United States in this
summer’s World Cup, Jones had an
amazing tournament. His goal against
Portugal in the group stage might
have won the match for the U.S. if not
for Silvestre Varela’s last-gasp goal to
tie.
Jones is one of many notable United
States national team players to join
MLS teams recently. Clint Dempsey’s
blockbuster deal with Seattle in 2013
made him the highest paid player in
the league, a deal worth $32 million
over four years according to ESPN —
the same amount David Beckham
was paid with the LA Galaxy.
USA midfelder Michael Bradley
joined Toronto FC before the
beginning of this season for $6.5
million per year, according to
ESPN. MLS does not disclose
salary amounts, so these numbers
are not positively correct, but are
reliable based on the outlets that
report them.
Jones joined New England as a
result of a “blind draw” conducted
by league ofcials, according to MLS-
soccer.com. Te draw was between
Chicago Fire and New England, the
two teams willing to ofer him a con-
tract. Tis is a new player allocation
mechanism in MLS.
MLS rules state that a U.S. national
team player is allocated to a team by
the allocation ranking, which puts
teams in a certain order and gives
the top team frst right of refusal to
sign the player, like the NFL draf.
MLS teams can trade these allocation
rankings for players, money, or other
things. Te Bradley and Dempsey
signings
ignored
the
allocation
ranking, and
prompted
MLS to add
“Designated
Players of a
certain threshold
– as determined
by the League – are
not subject to alloca-
tion ranking” to the rulebook.
Designated players are players whose
contracts do not count against the
cap, and each team can sign three of
these players.
MLS had to bend the rules once
again to make a huge signing, but
New England will improve greatly if
Jones is anything like what he was for
the United States during this year’s
World Cup.
— Edited by Alex Lamb

“Playing with the U.S. national team
has given me a great connection with
the American fans, and I’m looking
forward to playing in front of them
every weekend.”
— Jermine Jones
mlssoccer.com
?
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
THE MORNING BREW
Q: Jermaine Jones scored a goal in
the United States’ World Cup game
against Portugal. What was the
final score of that game?
A: 2-2
!
FACT OF THE DAY
Jermaine Jones is the third
marquee U.S. national team player
to join MLS in the last year, Clint
Dempsey and Michael Bradley
being the other two.
— Washington Post
New England Revolution signs US National Team player Jermaine Jones
QUOTE OF THE DAY
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New coach helps cross-country team prepare for season
JOEY ANGUIANO
@KansanSports
While the season doesn’t
start for the University of
Kansas cross-country team
until this Saturday, Aug. 30,
the team has been hard at
work all summer. A new
strength coach, Jef Kipp,
assisted coaches Stanley Red-
wine and Michael Whittlesey
with training the athletes this
summer and it’s led to fantas-
tic results so far.
“I think Jef will come in and
make an immediate impact on
the team, and help us get to
the next level,” Redwine said
at fall sports media day.
Redwine also discussed
the impact the new facilities
at Rock Chalk Park had on
the team since it opened last
spring for the Kansas Relays.
“People were still talking
about the experience, and
how nice it [Rock Chalk Park]
was,” Redwine said. “Recruits
talk to me about Rock Chalk
Park. It’s a great place to be.”
With the state of the art
facilities, the team is looking
to compete on that kind of
level as well. Te team’s goals
include not only performing
well in the conference and
the region, but on an NCAA
postseason caliber.
“All eyes are on nationals,”
junior Evan Landes said.
With a young team on the
women’s side that features no
seniors, the team is looking to
the juniors and sophomores
for leaders on and of the
track to try to accomplish
their goals.
One of those juniors is Haley
Francis, who feels she needs to
perform well at the Big Twelve
Championships.
“Rim Rock is a great course,
and when you’re running on
your home course, you want
to do really well, especially
with such big stakes like a
conference championship,”
Francis said.
As the teams gear up for this
weekend’s Bob Timmons Dual
Classic on Aug. 30, look out
for fresh young faces hoping
to impress the coaches with
their frst meet of the season,
and possibly their careers.
— Edited by Sarah Kramer
By Skyler Rolstead
@SkyRolSports
Te University’s soccer
team will look to other play-
ers to fll the void of losing
one its top ofensive players
from last season, Caroline
Kastor, who scored six goals
and three assists. One of
those players is All-Big 12
First Team-elect Liana Sala-
zar.
Salazar, a redshirt junior
from Bogotá, Colombia, has
played in three World Cups
for Colombia and also drew
a start against the U.S. at the
2011 FIFA Women’s World
Cup in Germany.
Salazar said playing on the
international stage taught
her a lot about the game,
knowledge she brought back
to America and shared with
her teammates.
“I bring experience and
I’m always relaxing before a
game because I’ve played a
lot of games,” Salazar said.
“I always soaked it in and
told myself this is one more
game; it’s nothing diferent.”
Salazar has also learned
how to be a leader and how
to help her teammates learn
and make adjustments on
the feld during a match.
“If they don’t understand
something I can tell them
where and how they have to
move,” Salazar said. “I can
show them how it’s better for
them.”
Salazar is a midfelder and
has already logged more
than 3,200 minutes, netting
eight shots and adding four
assists with the Jayhawks in
her two seasons.
In 2012, Salazar utilized
her redshirt season afer her
and her coaches decided it
was in her best interest afer
representing her native Co-
lombia in the Olympics. Af-
ter starting all 20 games last
season and averaging 79.4
minutes, she is poised for a
breakout season at the new
2,500-seat venue at Rock
Chalk Park.
Afer being named to the
All-Big 12 First Team at the
end of last season, Salazar
says her teammates can learn
a lot from her and all they
need to do to receive the
same honor is to keep work-
ing hard.
“Every time I step on the
feld I always bring my 100
percent,” she said. “Push
them to make the All-Big 12
team this year and continue
to encourage them.”
Coach Mark Francis hint-
ed at the fact that this team’s
ofense will be better than
previous teams and to look
for Salazar to be a leader of
the new ofense.
“We’re playing a diferent
formation that we’ve never
played before,” Francis said.
“It’s a formation that’s going
to allow us more ofense, and
we’ve already seen it in the
exhibition game we won 3-0.
I think you’re defnitely go-
ing to see a lot more ofense
out of this group.”
Francis also added that he
introduced the new forma-
tion to center around the
group of players the team has
now to better suit them.
“As a soccer coach, you
base your formation of of
the players you have,” Fran-
cis said. ”It’s based of of the
strengths of the players you
have and that’s how we’ve
formed this system.”
— Edited by Casey Hutchins
Volume 127 Issue 3 kansan.com Tuesday, August 26, 2014
By Blair Sheade
@RealBlairSheady
COMMENTARY
Season-ending
injuries hurt
football teams
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
sports
S
B
efore the start of each
football season, fans
and media speculate
about how teams will compete
during the course of the sea-
son with the projected depth
chart, but there is one aspect
of the game that people can
never estimate — season-end-
ing injuries.
Season-ending injuries
occur in football all the time,
but it’s still sad to see, because
all of the hype of the player
leading up to the season is
diminished.
Football is especially difer-
ent because injuries to certain
positions can afect the whole
season. Kansas fans have seen
curveballs early this season
as the top two running backs,
Brandon Bourbon and Taylor
Cox, will miss the remainder
of the season due to injuries.
Teir season was over before
it even started, which is sad
because all the hard work
those players put in in the
weight room and on the feld
has gone to waste.
Seasoning-ending injuries,
especially to key players, take
the wind out of the sail for
football programs, and not
only in the college programs.
Tis happens in the profes-
sional world, as well. Fans still
get their hopes up on certain
players and then those hopes
are dashed when they get
injured.
St. Louis Rams fans have
seen this recently when
former starting quarterback
Sam Bradford injured his
lef knee during a preseason
game against the Cleveland
Browns on Saturday. Bradford
will miss the remainder of the
season. Tis was Bradford’s
second injury to his lef knee
in the past two seasons. Afer
the media reported on how
Bradford came back strong
from a torn ACL in 2013,
another season-ending injury
lef Rams fans in a shadow of
disappointment once again.
Tis has been seen within
the Kansas program, too. Te
media hyped up Bourbon and
Cox prior to the season as
the dual-set backfeld, which
means the two backs would
share carries. Now that both
are out for the season, they
must be replaced. Who will
take over for them, and can
they produce just as well as
the starters?
Te injuries that occur
during training camp or in
fall practice leading up to the
season will open up oppor-
tunities for other players to
step into the spotlight. Within
Kansas’ football program,
ofensive coordinator John
Reagan will have to fnd
replacements for Bourbon
and Cox.
Football teams are fexible,
but when a team loses a play-
er who might make or break
a season, it’s hard to look
past those injuries, and teams
ultimately sufer. On the other
hand, fans will be playing
the “what if ” game the whole
season and that leaves fans
uneasy.
— Edited by Sarah Kramer
CREAM OF THE CROP
Senior duo look for others to play a contibuting leadership role
MATT CORTE
@Corte_UDK
If it were up to outside hit-
ters Chelsea Albers and Sara
McClinton — both Nebraska
natives and the only two se-
niors on the Kansas volleyball
team — there would be no
seniors or freshmen, just re-
turners and newcomers.
Both Albers and McClinton,
along with their returning
teammates, made that choice
in a meeting with Coach Ray
Bechard, who spoke about
leadership on media day.
“Tey made the decision
last spring that there aren’t
freshmen, but newcomers,
and there aren’t seniors, but
returners,” Bechard said. “So I
thought that was a high level
step in leadership right there,
and I know that (Tayler)
Soucie, (Tiana) Dockery and
Cassie Wait were involved in
that decision, as was Maggie
(Anderson), too. So that was
a high level of leadership by
your returners, and certainly
Chelsea and Sara are driving
that bus.”
Te emphasis of that deci-
sion from the two seniors and
other returners is to show that
anyone can be a leader on this
team, not only certain players.
It may puzzle some to see
Albers and McClinton give
away their seniority so free-
ly, but this shows just how
past leadership has molded
them. Afer losing seven se-
niors from last season, the
two remaining seniors this
year quickly became aware it
would take everyone to help.
Although it’s believable that
all of Kansas’ players will ex-
hibit some kind of leadership
during the season, the team
will still need Albers and Mc-
Clinton to perform at a high
level. Each was named to the
All-Big 12 Preseason Team af-
ter being named to the All-Big
12 First Team last season.
Bechard said their experi-
ence from the NCAA Tourna-
ment last season will be espe-
cially important.
“Tat’s going to be key be-
cause in crunch time, it always
seems like it comes down to
an outside taking a big swing,
in a big moment,” Bechard
said. “I know they want to
make their own path afer
a large class cleared out last
year. I think it does hopeful-
ly drive them and give them
the motivation they need, for
Chelsea and Sara specifcally,
to have a type of senior year
that we’ll remember for a long
time.”
Both Albers and McClinton
will have to put up similar, if
not better, stats than last sea-
son in order to successfully
lead this team, but the pres-
sure to do so isn’t weighing on
the duo.
“I don’t think there’s pres-
sure, I think it’s a matter of me
stepping into a diferent role
that I’m not used to,” Albers
said. “I think the most im-
portant thing for me is to ac-
complish all the goals that our
team needs to accomplish.
Tat I need to talk and I need
to perform well.”
McClinton also put team
goals ahead of her own. She is
nearing the 1,000-kill plateau
for her career, but that doesn’t
matter as much as helping the
team.
“I’ll probably hit that during
these preseason tournaments,
but that’s kind of a side fac-
tor,” McClinton said. “I would
rather have the team winning
as a whole than a personal
success of making another 45
kills.”
Albers and McClinton now
have a chance to become the
winningest players in pro-
gram history if the team can
win at least 25 games this sea-
son (as the team has accom-
plished the last two seasons).
No Kansas team has won 25-
plus games in three straight
seasons since 1976-78.
— Edited by Sarah Kramer
FILE PHOTO/KANSAN
Senior outside hitter Chelsea Albers was named All-American honorable mention and first
team All-Big 12. Albers became the first Jayhawk with 300 kills, 200 digs and 100 blocks.
FILE PHOTO/KANSAN
Senior outside hitter Sara McClinton made the All-BIg 12 team for the second straight
season in 2013. McClinton finished the 2013 season with 354 kills.

“I would rather have the
team winning as a whole
than a personal success of
making another 45 kills.”
SARA MCCLINTON
Senior outside hitter
Salazar brings experience to Kansas
BEN CARROLL
@KansanSports
CHRIS BRONSON/KANSAN
Junior midfielder Liana Salazar competes with Tennessee midfielder Amy Harrison for a headball at the Jayhawk
Soccer Sport Complex on Aug. 19, 2011. Kansas lost the game 2-1.

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