After backlash, including a petition and social media ac-tivity, following changes to student parking this year, the Kansan sat down with Donna Hultine, director of parking, to get the department’s take on the issue.

Why have many of the yellow lots changed to

red lots?

Hultine said construction is the problem. Construction equipment and worker vehicles have taken over several lots, and in the interest of moving staff and faculty closer to the buildings they work in, several popular student lots, including lots near JPR Hall and the Dole Human Development Center were converted to red lots.

The University has also allot-ted space in Carruth-O’Leary Hall to make a shared ser-vice center, where support service employees for a va-riety of departments work. Due to the higher volume of staff now working in the Car-ruth-O’Leary complex, extra parking was necessary, Hultine said.

Hultine said the department has started occupancy checks-in lots, which will allow for un-derutilized lots to be assigned to graduate students. That would

free up more spaces in nearby yellow zones, she said. Hultine said she hopes underutilized spots can be assigned to grad-uate students. She clarified that the fenced off parking lot of Lindley Hall was formerly staff parking, and now that it’s in-accessible due to construction, red zones had to be allotted to the staff of those buildings.

So where am I supposed to park now?

Hultine said there are yellow spots available, but not neces-sarily in the lot that may be stu-dents’ first choice.

“Every yellow permit includes a disclaimer that the owner is not guaranteed a parking space — but what that really means is that the owner isn’t guaranteed a parking space in the lot they want,” she said. “There’s plen-ty of yellow spaces available on the main campus, just not where people think to look. We try to tweet out places that have empty spots in peak hours in real time.”

I’ve been driving laps around the Rec parking lot for an hour with no luck. Where’s the next

place to check?

“Immediately east of the Rec, lots 125 and 127 behind the field house, there are usually about a hundred open spaces

there, while lot 90 has people jam-packed,” Hultine said.

She said the stadium lots have a substantial amount of unused parking, and on one occasion, she counted 400 open student spaces on the main campus at a time lot 90 was at capacity.

“I think [the issue of over-crowded lots] is a matter of people needing to understand where yellow zones really are,” she said.

Why do I have to pay so much more this year

to park over at west campus?

Students used to be able to buy a less expensive “Park and Ride” pass, which allowed them to park in West Campus and take a bus to the hill. But an engineering school study found that the only people using that parking were going to build-ings on West Campus, Hultine said. Parking raised the price to match other passes that don’t require students and faculty to park and take a bus.

Since the University has start-ed building up West Campus with the pharmacy school and Multidisciplinary Research Building, and further research endeavors are planned, phar-macy students were buying cheaper passes only to park and walk across the street to their classes, she said.

What sort of communication does the Parking Services

maintain with the KU student body?

“We have open meetings in the fall and in the spring. What we hope to hear are student voices on how we can improve our services in the fall, and by the spring be working on im-plementing or tweaking those ideas,” she said.

Hultine said her office hosts open meetings, accepts email feedback and sends broadcast emails to the student body whenever significant policy changes are decided. The Stu-dent Senate Parking Commis-sion can also provide input. Multiple attempts to reach members of the commission were unsuccessful for this story.

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It was 1999. Her mom, who had a mental illness, was ar-rested during her senior year in high school. Shortly after, her dad — a Holocaust survivor — started to decline in health.

Dianne Kalisz’s depression began early in high school after a friend’s death but escalated as a senior. It began with self-harm.

By the end of her freshman year in college, she could hardly get out of bed and would drink to get through the day. She was 19 and also struggling with her sexual orientation. After a bro-ken relationship, she was devas-tated and had no one to turn to. Later that year, she attempted suicide.

“I was lost, and I felt my only option was suicide,” said Kalisz, a junior from Brownsville, Tex-as.

She attempted suicide two times after her first attempt in ‘99 — her most recent attempt was about four years ago. Kalisz was honest and said she still wrestles with suicidal thoughts from time to time. She said it’s important to remember self-care.

“I may not always enjoy it or even like it, but I recognize that I am learning how to live, how to actually live and that’s prog-ress,” she said. “That’s hope and sometimes that’s all we need.”

Today, she’s the president of the University’s chapter of Ac-

tive Minds, an organization dedicated to reducing stigmas about mental illness. She went back to school 15 years later with one goal in mind: help others in the same situation.

In Kansas, suicide prevention counselors are trying technol-ogy-based methods to help people faster. Texting and other technology-driven programs aim to curb suicide rates, ac-cording to a 2011 report by the National Center for Telehealth and Technology. Because younger people use technology more, national suicide lifelines have added tools, like texting programs, to try to reduce sui-cide.

Chris Maxwell, the project coordinator who began a chat program at the Kansas Youth Suicide Prevention Resources Center, said people can reach out when they want and say what they need to in a matter of seconds, which might better help counselors know what to do in a moment of crisis.

Chat counseling conversa-tions are typically straightfor-ward.

“‘I want to die,’ read one mes-sage. Chats like these spur con-versations that can last as long as two hours,” Maxwell said . “It’s just like a floodgate releas-ing at that point. We’re on the same path to innovative ways to connect with people who are in crisis.”

The Kansas Youth Suicide Prevention Resource Center is the main initiative to reach sui-

cidal young people faster. The center runs the only suicide prevention lifeline in Kansas. It is a branch of the national Suicide Prevention Resource Center supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Hu-man Services. In January 2013 the center joined the Nation-al Suicide Prevention Lifeline Crisis Chat program and saw a surge in users.

Kalisz said she’s a strong be-liever in these chat programs because of the common goal: the survival of another human being.

“I mean what could possibly more important than that?” she said.

The chat program has been in the works since March 2014 and launched in June 2014. The program was fully accredited by Contact USA on Sept. 29. Since its launch, the number of counselors — both on the phone and online — has dou-bled, and the number of online users has tripled.

Between June 2014, when the headquarters started offer-ing the crisis instant messag-ing service, and January 2015, counselors saw almost more visitors than ever before. Since joining the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Crisis Chat, almost 300 people have visited, Maxwell said.

Crisis counselor Dan Scham-le, who’s been at the phones since 1984, said he thinks tech-nology-driven programs are a good idea to serve more of the

younger people who need help.

“It makes so much sense to combine our skills and strengths and utilize these pro-grams,” Schamle said. “A pro-gram like this could remove the fear from reaching out.”

As of 2013, the Kansas suicide rate is roughly 14.7 per 100,000 population. That’s higher than the national suicide rate of 12.6, according to the Kansas Health

Statistics Report. Suicide is the second-leading

cause of death among people ages 15 to 34, according to 2015 data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 7.4 percent of adults 18-25 seri-ously consider suicide in 2015.

In 2012, the U.S. Department of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded the Kansas center a $1.5 million grant for a three-year span. Any new plans with-in the state are funded through that grant. Maxwell says the funding works in connection with statewide system changes to increase suicide prevention awareness.

The chat program began with two counselors and by target-ing only Douglas County. One month later, the center ex-panded to every county within Kansas. Users can type in any

Kansas ZIP code and chat with crisis counselors, Maxwell said.

Technology-based systems have the advantage of reaching more people and aren’t limited to business hours, according to the National Center for Tele-health and Technology’s report. The Kansas based counselors are working on text-based crisis counseling, Maxwell said.

They are still in the develop-

ment stages.“We know it needs to happen

quickly, but we want to be a lit-tle more cautious with the plan-ning stages this time around,” Maxwell said.

“Researchers show these mes-sages went into much more in-tense conversations. Chats will frequently start with very direct language about their desper-ation,” he said. “The nature is just very intense.”

He says messaging lends it-self to anonymity but at the same time opens new lines of communication. Text or online chat messages could provide the sufferer a platform to vent without embarrassment or hav-ing to share feelings in front of a stranger, Maxwell said. Coun-selors are also able to direct suf-ferers to help while paying at-

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KU PARKING QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Although the University doesn't require students to live on campus, roughly 78 percent of first-year students do. The Chancellor’s Sexual Assault Task Force recommended the Univer-sity require all freshmen to live in campus housing, including fraternity members who usually live in their fraternity houses as freshmen. Ultimately, the Uni-versity decided not to implement the recommendation.

The University is one of four Big 12 Schools that doesn’t re-quire freshmen to live on cam-pus. Kansas State, Texas and Iowa State don’t require first-year students to live on campus. The other Big 12 schools offer exemp-tions but generally require it.

Jennifer Wamelink, associate director of residence life, said the 78 percent that live on campus do so because it’s beneficial to their college experience. It can make the transition to college easier because there is a residential community and built-in support, like residential advisers.

“I think it makes a more vi-brant, educational environment when students have a place to live on the college campus,” Wamelink said.

She also said living on campus is convenient and offers perks like access to buses and a meal plan.

“Being in an environment that [is] exclusively a student environ-ment is going to be more benefi-cial to helping a student be more successful in their first year,” Wamelink said. “I think a lot of it goes back you feeling like you belong.”

Katie Treadwell, associate di-rector of orientation in the Office of First Year Experience, said students who live on campus are more engaged in their edu-cation, which means they go to

class more often and utilize the resources offered on campus.

“Our goal is to help students earn a degree and graduate on time, and this helps facilitate that goal and create a life at the Uni-versity,” Treadwell said.

Despite the advantages of liv-ing on campus, Wamelink said the University doesn’t require on-campus living because there’s not enough space for all fresh-men.

She also said students should have the ability to choose what living situation is best for them, including off-campus living, liv-ing at home or living in a Greek house.

“We have a great fraternity and sorority system, and the men go straight into their fraternity chapter houses, and [we don’t]

want to disrupt that,” Wamelink said.

The task force recommended the University require first-year students to live on campus be-cause it would give students the opportunity to learn KU’s core values, how to navigate KU and what resources are offered.

Joe Simmons, director of public relations for the Interfraterni-ty Council, said fraternities are specifically designed to house freshmen members and would be hurt financially if freshmen

weren’t allowed to live in the houses.

Simmons said freshmen living in fraternity houses benefit from having the community within the house.

“It would ruin the experience,” Simmons said. “We have a sys-tem that fosters strong friend-ships and brotherships.”

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This week, students in Uni-versity 101 classes — a fresh-men seminar — are learn-ing how to respond to the over-consumption of alcohol, cheating in a class or when someone might be in danger.

It’s all part of the Step Up bystander awareness program the University uses to encour-age student involvement to keep the community safe, said Andrea Kleekamp, executive director in the Emily Taylor Center. It’s one of a couple pro-grams that address bystander intervention on campus.

The Step Up program ad-dresses issues like alcohol, hazing, cheating, sexual as-sault and domestic violence. The program is given to the University 101 classes, which is happening this week and next week, as well as housing and student groups by request.

“We know that these things are happening where you all are at, not necessarily in a classroom space, so I think knowing the variety of envi-ronments you are in and giv-ing you the tools to offer help and seek resources as needed is important,” Kleekamp said. “I think it’s a way to make ev-eryone part of the solution.”

Kleekamp said the bystander intervention programs were like a “grassroots effort” to addressing issues like sexual assault and alcohol use.

Kleekamp said the programs are important because they empower students to call out dangerous behaviors and by-standers can help prevent un-safe situations.

“The end goal is to help peo-ple understand that this is what the Jayhawk community does. Even if I might not have a personal relationship with you, if I see something wrong, then I’m going to say something and get you the help that you

need,” Kleekamp said.Lance Watson, the director of

student conduct and commu-nity standards in the Office of Student Affairs, said the pro-gram gives students the ability to address behaviors through peer-to-peer interventions, which he said is the most ef-fective way to change them.

“It starts to get [students] confident, so when they are in their peer group they’re going to do that intervention piece and keep their fellow jayhawks safe,” Watson said.

The University also offers the SpeaK Up program through the Office of Institutional Op-portunity and Access, which promotes the reporting of sex-ual harassment, including sex-ual assault.

In 2015, 85.6 percent of stu-dents at the University said they had witnessed an inci-dent of sexual harassment and didn’t report it to the Univer-sity, according to the climate survey.

Executive director at IOA, Jane McQueeny, said the SpeaK Up program contrib-utes to addressing sexual as-sault because it creates a sense of responsibility among stu-dents to take care of one an-other. and that may help stop behaviors from happening.

“We need to help victims speak up and if others get in-volved then it will help all gain a voice,” McQueeny said.

The bystander intervention programs include informa-tion about campus resources and use videos and dialogue to show examples of situations where students should get in-volved.

Not only do they help stu-dents learn how to intervene, but also how to feel comfort-able doing so.

“I think it’s helping students understand that bystanders look different in different sit-uations and for different indi-viduals,” Kleekamp said.

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tention to their emotional state.“You have an extra layer of

separation from the person that needs help and the coun-selor,” Maxwell said. “You want to make sure that person is in a safe place at the time they’re talking to you, just like on the phone.

“But you have the ability to do that fairly quickly while still validating their emotions. You can do that all in like three or four sentences rather than overloading them over the

phone and talking over them.”“I think when you have anxi-

ety issues it’s difficult to express what you’re feeling,” Kalisz said. “But when you’re talking to somebody over chat you have time to process what to say and what the other person is saying.

“Suicide is not the enemy, si-lence is and transparency is our only ally in stopping suicide.”

If you or someone you know would like to speak with a counselor, call 785-841-2345 for the local Suicide Prevention Lifeline or chat online at the Headquarters Counseling Cen-ter website.

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Direct - insert your-self directly into the situation

Delegate - ask a friend or someone else to help handle the situation

Distract - create a distraction to inter-rupt a situation

Delay - wait until you can help the person one-on-one and then address it

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Campus crime reported un-der the Federal Clery Act, rose last year, according to data re-leased on Wednesday.

The University is required to report campus crime to the fed-eral government. Sex offenses, dating and domestic violence, and burglary all rose from 2013 to 2014.

“Last year when we did our crime statistics we noticed the same thing,“ said University Police Captain James Angui-ano. “Crime did take an in-crease last year — the reporting of crime and the recognition of crime. There’s just more report-ing.”

In the report, each of these categories are broken down into “on campus” and “non campus” to distinguish where these crimes happen. On-cam-pus is considered anything that is controlled physically at the University. Non-campus is anything that KU has “a vi-tal interest in,” which includes fraternities and sororities. The Edwards Campus in Overland Park is also considered to be under the off-campus category, according to Anguiano.

Anguiano said Universi-ty-wide bystander prevention programs may be helping in-crease reporting.

“There’s always more to do. I think the programs are do-ing their job,” Anguiano said. “In those cases, especially the stalking and dating violence, we’re seeing a high arrest rate as well, and that itself is a positive.”

Over all, the number of sex offenses rose from 15 to 32. In 2014 alone, 16 sex offenses oc-

curred in campus residential facilities.

“I think part of it is [that] those types of numbers when

you see them rise can alarm you, and I think that it is also the diligence of the reporting,” Anguiano said. “We would like

to see more people report if they had been the victim of a sexual assault.”

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BLAKE MCFARLAND@theblakemc Students and faculty across

campus have noticed itchy, red bites on their arms, legs and torso. Elizabeth Newell, a fresh-man from St. Louis, Mo., said she notices about two new bites a day. When she talked to the front desk at Lewis Hall they told her it was most likely from a mite.

After speaking with other res-idents, Newell heard the bites could be from mites, spiders or bed bugs. Diana Robertson, director of student housing at the University, said they hav-en’t been able to verify a rumor about bed bugs, but have heard about the oak leaf itch mites.

There have been an increased number of calls about bites and itching, but students haven’t been seeing the bugs, Robert-son said. The bugs' invisible na-ture indicates the bites are from mites, specifically from oak leaf itch mites, said Stan Ring, horti-culture program assistant at the University's Douglas County Extension Office.

What are oak leaf itch mites?

“This is an environmental mite,” said Douglas Dechairo,

director of Watkins Health Ser-vices. “This is not something the students are getting in the residence halls or the scholar-ship halls.”

These mites are nearly invis-ible to the eye and are about 0.2 mm in length, according to the Entomology Department at Penn State.

Oak leaf itch mites come from infected oak trees, which are distinguished by curling on the edge of leaves, Ring said. The mites crawl into the oak tree and lay eggs that hatch within seven days. Once they hatch, “they land on anything that they can start reproducing on,” Ring said. While they don’t hatch on humans, they wait about three to four hours to bite once they land on a person, Ring said.

What do the bites look like?

Unlike chiggers, oak leaf itch mites prefer loose clothing and will bite through clothing leav-ing “nasty welts” ranging from 0.2mm to the size of a dime, said Ring. He said scratching these bites spreads histamine, which makes them look larger.

“From personal experience, they can last a good week,” said Ring.

When will these mites leave Lawrence?

Ring said the mites will be around until the first “good, hard freeze,” but there is no in-dication they won’t be back.

Even though students are not seeing the mites, Robertson said students can call Housing with concerns. Robertson said spiders were more problematic in Corbin and GSP Halls, but the issue was treated inside and outside the buildings roughly two weeks ago.

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Q: My boyfriend makes backhanded racist and offen-sive comments, and doesn't understand why that is a problem. I try to correct him when he says these things, but he says it's just me being "too politically correct." Am I bad person for still loving him and being with someone who says those things, even if I don't agree?

There are many uncomfort-able situations we will en-counter throughout our adult years. But hearing someone say racist or offensive com-ments that you know are not morally or politically correct

is one of the most uncomfort-able, especially when it’s said by someone you know.

First off, you are not a bad person because you openly admit that it is wrong for him to do this. This reflects well on you for having a solid moral compass and being able to identify when something is not right, even when it comes from someone whom you love. Not only do you identify it as wrong, but you have also brought it to his attention.

I would seriously reflect on your relationship with him. Sit down and have a discussion about how these comments not only hurt you, but also others who hear him. The way he treats others reflects how he treats you. If he can’t respect others, regardless of

their social class or ethnicity, then tell him to at least respect you enough to stop saying these offensive comments.

I believe respect is some-thing that people must practice in all areas of their lives. Whether it’s respecting friends, family, authority fig-ures, partners or people from other cultures, it is very hard to respect one and not the other — if he lacks respect for other humans who have done absolutely nothing wrong to him, how are you going to expect him to respect you as well?

You are not a bad person for loving him because you see this as a problem and want to fix it. However, if he contin-ues to say these derogatory comments, you have to think

about yourself and your well being. If you were to marry this person, his close mind-edness could affect you as a couple. If you were to spend the rest of your life with this person, his character becomes a reflection of you. And even though you don’t agree with his comments, people may assume that you do because you're married.

You must also prepare yourself to be put in uncom-fortable and even dangerous situations because of the things he says. One day some-one might hear him make a racial comment and decide to confront him about it, and this person may want to harm him because what your boyfriend said was offensive. You need to ask yourself if you

are willing to be with someone who would be willing to put you in those situations just because he can’t keep his rude opinions to himself.

His offensive comments don’t reflect badly on you as an individual — yet. Take some time to evaluate your relationship and ask your-self if you want to be with a person who is capable of not only thinking badly of others, but also verbally announcing and defending it. Problems between you and him, as well as between other people, will continue to come up as long as he insists on making these comments. Either he changes, you accept that he won't change, or you break up.

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Stigma of mental illness brought on by media portrayal of ‘crazy’ people

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The media is responsible for creating perceptions of mental illness that we do not always see in reality. People link what they see on TV with what they hear everyday unintentionally. It's instinct. The problem is that most of the time, these assumptions and characters portrayed through media outlets are not always correct representations.

Inaccurate portrayals of various societal issues are prevalent today, but unjust depictions of mental illness are not commonly talked about. People with mental illnesses are commonly shown as violent, unpredictable and incurable. These are all false accusations — leading us to believe that these people are "crazy" and won’t change.

The number of students with some type of mental illness has increased because students now experience more stress than ever before. The stigma placed on people with mental problems is harsh, negative and doesn't show how these individuals feel and what they go through on a day-to-day basis.

The negative stigma makes people who have these issues scared to get help — and that contributes to the growing number of college students with mental illnesses. Accord-ing to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 50 percent of students said their anxiety was so bad, it was hard to

succeed in academics. In ad-dition, 1 in 3 college students have gone through prolonged periods of depression.

People with mental illnesses are more likely to be victims rather than committers of a crime, according to the Psy-chiatry Department of Mas-sachusetts General Hospital. This research contradicts the “crazy and violent” stereotype of people with mental illness. Being violent has more to do with one's background — not mental illness.

Additionally, many mur-der trials end with a shorter sentence for the murderers because they plea mental in-stability. This can give people the idea that people with men-tal illnesses are comparable to murderers.

Something else someone might say about mental illness is that it is a “phase.” Mental illness is not a phase; it's a condition that people cannot control. The NAMI states the number one reason people do not get help is because of this stigma, but nobody deserves to be judged or taken lightly because others see their illness as a phase. More than 90 per-cent of children who commit suicide have a mental illness. If that doesn’t prove it’s not just a phase, nothing will.

As a society, education about different types of people is important. Media can distort reality and the outlook people have on others. Even if it’s un-intentional, it happens often.

The negative stigma on mental health issues needs to be removed from society.

Mental illnesses affect more people than before, and those suffering aren’t crazy, but legitimately ill. Instead of pro-moting negative stereotypes,

the media should show more people getting treatment. It could save a life. Jessica Gomez is a senior from

Baldwin City studying journal-ism and global studies.

The last time you thought about prairies was most likely a while ago. Maybe it was in elementary school, while reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House on the Prairie.” Maybe it was on your drive out to Colorado, seeing the “World’s Largest Prairie Dog” sign as you pass through Oak-ley. However, it’s about time we start thinking about prairies on a regular basis.

Prairies have a wide range of ecosystem services. To name a few: they detoxify waste, provide refuge for pollina-tors, protect from erosion, harbor potential alternative

fuel sources and produce the most breathtaking wildflowers. While these are all logical rea-sons to protect prairies, it often takes a more personal reason to motivate action.

In his essay titled “Why I Care About Prairies and You Should Too,” Chris Helzer, ecologist and Eastern Nebraska program director for The Nature Conservancy, outlines why one should care about prairies beyond the logical reasons. Before presenting his argument, Helzer discusses the idea that people are more likely to donate money to a natural disaster close-by, rather than one on another continent.

When talking about his motivation for his career and pastime in prairie conserva-

tion, he referenced that he has developed a connection to prairie/grassland species in his close interaction with them.

“Not only do I know those species exist, I can also identify with them and what they’re doing to survive. By becoming familiar with them, I became fond of them," he said.

University students have this same unique opportunity to connect with the prairie ecosystem and the species that inhabit them, without leaving campus. Prairie grasses formerly covered the Universi-ty of Kansas. In 1932, four KU women set aside ”prairie acre,” a half-acre piece of land on campus to preserve the original character of the land.

Students can still visit this

tract of land, located behind Watson Library on Sunnyside Avenue. Only a 10-minute drive from campus, Free State High School has a recently restored prairie restored by efforts led by University profes-sor in the Department of Ecol-ogy and Evolutionary Biology Helen Alexander, Ph.D., and Free State High School Teacher Julie Schwarting.

Not only does Lawrence have opportunities for accessing prairies, Kansas as a whole has the majority of remaining prairies. North America has a long history of tall-grass prai-ries. According to Kindscher and Byczynski in their 2009 “Native Prairie Hay Meadows: A Landowner's Management Guide,” there was once 140

million acres of tallgrass prairie in North America, however, only 4 percent of that remains.

Two-thirds of that 4 percent is in Kansas. Visiting the Flint Hills or other near-by prairies is an opportunity not to be missed while at KU. It’s im-portant to take time to explore these ecosystems because they might not be here forever.

It is our responsibility as the upcoming generation, to protect these prairies. Facing threats such as conversion to agriculture, killing of prairie species, and invasive species, prairies need our support more than ever.

Jenny Stern is a senior major-ing in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Lawrence.

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Growing up in the small town of Goodland, Josh Doke was the only kid in his class interested in film.

Doke couldn’t even talk his friends into making films with him, he said.

Even so, he graduated with a degree in film and media studies at the University in 2012. Shortly after gradu-ating, Doke and a group of friends created a production studio called Rockhaven Films.

Most of the Rockhaven crew met at the Universi-ty and organically formed friendships through class-es and the film club.

"When it got to be our se-nior year of college, we had a meeting and we decided that we had two options," Doke said. "We could go to New York or L.A. and try to break into that film industry, or we could stay together, start a business and make the films that we want to make down the line."

Rockhaven was born. Lo-cated in downtown Law-rence, the studio serves as a creative space for Rockhaven but also as the home of Doke and Edward Schroer, the edi-tor of "Goodland."

Film memorabilia covers the walls, and props and wardrobe pieces are scattered

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KELCIE MATOUSEK/KANSANDiana Restrepo, president of the Latin American Graduate Organization, serves empanadas to the attendees of the Festival of Cultures on Saturday, Sept. 27.

When Diana Restrepo left Co-lombia, her birthplace, for the U.S. 16 years ago, she left a lot behind, including an imper-fect quality of life. But there’s been one thing the 31-year-old carried with her in the United States: her country’s pride and her way to express it — danc-ing.Restrepo was a vital part in

the kick-start of the Latin American Graduate Organi-zation (LAGO) last fall and is now “la presidenta” of the group. For Restrepo, and many others in the group, it’s been an outlet for people from or interested in Latin American cultures.“To be able to call this my

home, I have to bring a little piece of Colombia here, and be able to share it with the people I care about,” Restrepo said. “It's in your blood. For me, I listen to a Colombian cum-bia and I'm already feeling it because it just expresses how much I love my country.”LAGO Treasurer Matt

Fahrenbruch agreed.“I don’t think you can talk

about Latin American culture

without dancing,” Fahren-bruch said.That space for expression

through dance — a major part of almost any Latin American culture — was a need before LAGO provided it. She said there was always a part of her that sought out dancing op-portunities, as she’s a dancer herself, but there were few in Lawrence.Now, with a group of people

who have the same cultural values around her, she — along with plenty of other graduate students in the organization — are able to relax while rep-resenting their culture through dance and make friends.“One of the things that we

kept on hearing over, and over, and over again is that there was no place to go dancing," she said. "We saw that need, and we're trying to, not only fill the needs that we have, but also trying to fill the needs of other students at KU.”Nadia Ruiz, a first-year grad-

uate student from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, recently joined the group and found LAGO to be exactly what Restrepo intends: a place to create new friendships as well as dance."I think one of the main rea-

sons why I feel comfortable is because we might share the [feeling of being] home now and then," Ruiz said. "[T]hey cultivate this by being them-selves, each one of the mem-bers will treat you as friend since day one. There is no room to feel like an outsider." In just over a year, LAGO has

grown to 150 followers and Restrepo has been a driving force in continuing to increase the group’s size. However, the group wants to expand beyond the University of Kansas cam-pus.She said the group wants to

include study abroad students who are coming from South America or other countries in Latin America Restrepo wants these students to feel like they have a support system in place at the University, and learn the ins-and-outs of the American school system. “Working abroad, and re-

searching abroad is challeng-ing all in itself, and having that support system that is not as formal as having your com-mittee — or whatever — is very important,” Restrepo said. “That's also a space for them to feel a little bit more comfort-able in, to have that social sup-

port, and to transition to the graduate life here in the United States.”The group is also trying to

grow its presence in the Law-rence community in general through its events — which helps immerse those interest-ed in a full palette of differ-ent cultures — and academic roundtables.“One of the things we have

been working on is our out-reach,” Restrepo said. “We are very much focused on pro-moting the Latin American culture in the KU setting, and in the Lawrence community and bridging that gap.”Ruiz also said being involved

in LAGO helps. She says it's important to remember where she came from.On Oct. 1, the first day of

Hispanic Heritage Month, Restrepo and LAGO will hold the Exhibition of Latin Dances from the Americas at Cider Gallery — an off-cam-pus location, which the group hopes will promote Lawrence involvement.The exhibition will culminate

a host of cultures with dances ranging from Brazilian samba, to the tango world champions, to Restrepo’s native Columbi-

an dances.After a handful of unique, or-

ganized dances from different cultures, DJ Jalapeño will take over the turntables and begin the freestyle dance portion of the night. After all, the organi-zation creates an all-inclusive, comfort-zone for students and community members alike. The dance party should be pre-cisely that.At least for Restrepo it will be.“I went through a very diffi-

cult time in my life, and I de-cided that I was going to get involved and I was going to do something I'm really passion-ate about. And I feel like this is it,” Restrepo said.“That's one of the reasons that

we started with this, and why it has continued, and I hope that it will continue for a while, for a long time. It is a very con-scious effort, but I feel like it has made Lawrence a comfort-able place to express ourselves and bring back our cultural traditions.”

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After six years in the heart of the local music scene, the band Mammoth Life, formerly from Lawrence, released their latest project on Sept. 22: a five-song EP titled "Baycation."An homage to the carefree

and sun-dazed lifestyle in the band’s new home of San Fran-cisco, the album title is fitting given the evolution of the band and their transition from the Sunflower State to the Bay Area.The band was active in the

Lawrence scene starting in 2005. Elizabeth Mead and her husband Nicholas Goss started the group. Mead and Goss per-form under the stage names Kix Mead and Gibby Paul, re-spectively. They found bassist Heidi Weber and drummer Dan Staublin in California.Mammoth Life had two full-

length albums and an EP un-der their belt before the release of "Baycation."“Our first album is called

'Kaleidoscopic Art Pop,' and that was like a bedroom-pop album," Goss said. "We did all that tracking in random apart-ments and houses in Law-rence.”After gracing the stages of

nearly every downtown venue, Mammoth Life opened for Ed-ward Sharpe and The Magnet-

ic Zeros at Jackpot Music Hall in September 2009. The band still embraces Law-

rence and vows to come back soon. Goss is cousins with frontman Brad Girard from the local band Toughies, and Mead's sister plays with the Ovaries-eez. The band’s for-mer bassist, Bobby Sauder, is a co-founder of the local record label Whatever Forever and Seed Co. Studios.“We’ve been away for four

years now, but we still have family and friends that grew up with us involved there for sure,” Goss said.Full of momentum and in the

midst of a tour, the band expe-

rienced a shift that would lead them west.“In 2010, half the band quit

a two-month tour halfway through," Goss said. "When we got back, Kix Mead and I said let’s just sell everything and move to San Francisco. We found San Francisco on tour — we came through two times [and] we moved out here in 2011 as a result.” The duo have a sound repu-

tation around Lawrence and Kansas City, as well as four tours spanning 25 states under their belt. With their back-

Mammoth Life, formerly of Lawrence, releases album

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CONTRIBUTEDElizabeth Mead and her husband Nicolas Goss perform under the stage names Kix Mead and Gibby Paul.

Lawrence studio to begin feature film ‘Goodland’

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CONTRIBUTED“Goodland” director Josh Doke peers up into a combine while scouting locations on Aug. 31.

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ground, Mead and Goss were not afraid to make a change to keep the band going. "Bay-cation," to them, captures the youthful contentedness they have experienced in San Francisco since relocating, "repping San Francisco" in the sound and album title, Goss said.

“'Baycation' is just a perma-nent vacation lifestyle in the Bay Area, basically,” Goss said.Mammoth Life will release a

green vinyl pressing of “Bay-cation” through the Lawrence label Satisfying Records, which released Mammoth Life's previous self-titled al-bum in 2013. “Baycation” will also be released on cassette tape through the label Weiner Records in Fullerton, Calif., an imprint of the larger inde-pendent label Burger Records. The EP begins with the ful-

ly charged “Saturday In The City,” a windows-down track that features Mead’s powerful but refined voice accompa-

nied by escalating guitar work from Goss. The title choice was influenced by the band's location.“With 'Saturday In The City,'

everyone refers to San Fran-cisco as 'the city' out here,” Goss said.Just as energetic and vita-

min-D drenched as the first track, “Lights Out” keeps the dreamy, '80s-tinged in-die-rock alive. Mead’s ethere-al vocals have an edge to them in “Something In Between.” The song’s dream-pop chorus and vocal reverb makes for a great moment on the EP.The title track features Mead

singing: “I don’t ever want to leave this place near the

beach.”The album concludes with

the darker, synth-driven “This Moment.” Goss's guitar soars as the track develops.Perhaps an EP first envi-

sioned looking out a window at the Bay Bridge, "Baycation" is a short but sweet release that fans of the band can en-joy in their car rides."Baycation" is only the latest

chapter for Mammoth Life, and the chemistry between Goss and Mead as songwrit-ers should continue.As far as San Francisco?“We’re staying here for as

long as we can," Goss said. "We love this place."

— Edited by Leah Sitz

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throughout the house. There's even a pet spider they call Gary. Members of Rockhaven live and work like any other group of friends — the only difference is that they're try-ing to make a feature-length film.

The studio's first fea-ture-length film, "Goodland," will begin production in Oc-tober. Rockhaven has done shorts and commercial work in the past, but "Goodland" is the biggest project that its ever been involved with.

"Goodland" is funded most-ly by Rockhaven itself, but the studio has had a hard time trying to find the last $12,000 it needed to make the film.

"We decided that this is what we wanted to do and it’s hard to get someone to invest in a first time filmmaker, especial-ly if he demands surround-ing himself with first timers," Doke said. "It’s a hard sell, even if someone likes your script."

"Goodland" is a crime-thrill-

er set in a fictional ver-sion of Doke's hometown. The plot revolves around

strangers who show up in the small town on the same day a dead body is found. The death seems to be an accident, but the town's sheriff doesn't think so.

The film's producer, J.S. Hampton, said the question about violence being used for "the greater good" hooked him.

"What attracted me to the script is that it’s a lot of gray area. You don’t necessarily know who’s good and who’s bad at some points," Hampton said. "At the end [of the film]

even when you see everything going on, it’s still gray, and I think that’s how people are, living in the grey area."

Doke and Rockhaven start-ed a Kickstarter campaign to seek extra funding. Seven days from its deadline, the campaign is roughly $1,300 away from its goal.

"I was a little questionable about the Kickstarter, but J [Hampton] told me a number we had to hit, and if we didn’t hit we were running a Kick-starter," Doke said. "We’re not there yet, but I’m confident we’ll hit our mark."

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In honor of Banned Books Week from Sept. 27 to Oct. 2, local artists created trad-ing cards that feature banned books as part of the Lawrence Public Library's celebration.

"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

Synopsis: Taking place during The Great Depression, “Of Mice and Men” follows the lives of two migrant field workers, George and Lennie, and their journey as they move to work in Soledad, Calif., and discover the American Dream.Why it was banned: The book

has been challenged since 1953, but recently in Idaho, parents have challenged the book because of language like

“bastard” and “God damn.”Artist’s impression: “I fo-

cused on the unattainable na-ture of the American Dream for the disadvantaged. The eagle and rabbit represent the futility of George and Lennie’s dream of owning their own farm.” — Larissa Wilson

“Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?” by Bill Martin Jr.

Synopsis: The picture book that asks the question “what do you see?” on each page. Why it was banned: The

book was banned in 2010 by the State Board of Education in Texas because of a mistake; it confused author Bill Martin Jr. with Bill Martin, the author of “Ethical Marxism,” accord-ing to the Christian Science Monitor.Artist’s impression: “A bear

is so easy to draw.” — Rosey Anderson “The Call of the Wild”

by Jack London

Synopsis: “The Call of the Wild” follows a dog named Buck as he is taken from life as a pet and thrown into the Klondike Gold Rush.Why it was banned: It was

banned in Yugoslavia and Italy in 1929 for being “too radical.” Artist’s impression: “The

work I created shows Buck’s reversion to wild instincts. He is illustrated as sinister and aggressive to emphasize his return to the behavior of a wild animal.” — Alexandra Simmons

“Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi

Synopsis: The a memoir of

Marjane Satrapi, who grew up in Iran during the Islamic Rev-olution, describes her life as a child during a time of war.Why it was banned: Chica-

go Public Schools banned the book because of graphic lan-guage and images. Artist’s impression: “I was

inspired by the chaos depicted in the book: the sadness and yet strange harmony the young protagonist finds in the mess.” — Aiden Rothrock

“The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd

Synopsis: “The Secret Life of Bees” tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped by the death of her mom. When her “stand-in-mother” insults three racists in town, Lily is whisked away and discovers her mother’s story.Why it was banned: The book

was challenged by a school in Texas because of the use of in-appropriate language, accord-ing to a National Council of Teachers of English report.Artist’s impression: “Bees are

an integral motif throughout the book, so I created a simple pattern with them. one bee is a different color, just like the honey house.” — Emmi Murao

“Catch 22” by Joseph Heller

Synopsis: “Catch 22” tells the story of Yossarian, a captain in the US Army Air Force who is trying to avoid flying any more combat missions.Where it was banned: “Catch

22” was banned in high school classrooms by a school board in Ohio from 1972 to 1976.Artist’s impression: “The

airplane on a string suggests the limited freedoms some of

the characters have. The plane flying in a circle represents the cyclical nature of the con-tradictions that make up a catch-22.” — Barry Fitzgerald

“American Psycho” by Bret Easton Ellis

Synopsis: Patrick Bateman, a man in his 20s living in New York in the 1980s, has a nor-mal life — except for being a psychopathic killer.Why it was banned: It was

banned in Germany because it was seen as “harmful to mi-nors.” It was also banned in Australia.Artist’s impression: “The

book was brimming with mi-sogynistic, materialistic, can-nibalistic, and sadistic images that blew my mind. I repre-sented the horrors of this book with an illustration suitable for all ages.” — Lana Grove

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An electronic rock duo from Greenwich, N.Y., and a south-ern rapper from Atlanta met because of a pop-up ad on the Internet.

From there, the three started collaborating and decided to make an album.

Enter Big Grams, a group made of rapper Big Boi and the Phantogram members Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter.

This isn’t something that could’ve happened 20 years ago when Big Boi was touring the country with Andre 3000 as Outkast because the world we live in is more connected now than it has ever been.

Big Boi found Phantogram because of an ad that came across his browser one day. When you’re a member of one of the greatest groups of all time, anyone in the industry is only a phone call away.

As listeners, our ears are trained to expect certain collaborations. The thought of two distinct musical talents who might as well come from

different sides of the world is the product of 2015, and it’s something we should not only accept, but embrace.

The concern with any col-laboration album is: Who will emerge as the leader? Think about “Watch the Throne." It was a great album, but the first thought after listening through is that Kanye carried Jay Z across the finish line, giving the

album less blended styles.On the group's album "Big

Grams," Big Boi and Phanto-gram avoid one artist's style interfering with the other, and the result is something we haven’t heard before.

With "Lights On," Barthel’s vocals and Big Boi’s flow come together to give us both pop and hip-hop vibes in a sophis-ticated, meditated way that avoids the radio sound of Fetty Wap and others.

"Fell in the Sun" is Big Boi’s time to shine as he brings a dis-tinctly Atlanta sound and fea-tures him talking about vitamin D, which feels like an interlude on Outkast’s "Stankonia."

But, while he's the star of the song, it’s not all by his doing. Barthel hitting the high notes on the chorus contrasts the ag-gressive style of Big Boi, making the song the clearest represen-tation we have of proving that the artists aren’t sacrificing style, but rather bringing out the best parts of each other and making a new sound.

The album features Run the Jewels (rappers Killer Mike and El-P) and Skrillex, two artists who, like the main acts, might as well not even live in the same world. But it all works on "Big Grams." The album is a master-ful collaboration of sound that takes listeners to new places that we didn’t even know we wanted.

At the end, the question isn’t who won the album — but instead, who’s next?

A$AP Rocky and Panda Bear? Kendrick Lamar and Passion Pit?

Whoever they are, they'll be following a tough act.

Big Grams made the best kind of record possible. They didn’t make a rap record, and they didn’t make an electronic rock record. They made a Big Grams record. It’s distinctly theirs and hopefully a sign of more things to come.

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“The highest form of patrio-tism is dissent,” artist and cu-rator Daniel Joseph Watkins said of his newest exhibit "Freak Power," referencing a historical quote.

On Monday night, Watkins lectured on his most recent work: a carefully curated dis-play of art, writing, articles and photographs surrounding the Aspen, Colo., County Sheriff election of 1970.

In the election, Hunter S. Thompson, the well-known author of the classic, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Sav-age Journey to the Heart of the American Dream," campaigned on his infamous “Freak Power” platform.

“It all happened when I saw an antiwar poster in a store,” Wat-kins said.

Watkins remembered seeing an art piece decrying the nation’s involvement in Iraq in a store-front. When he said he liked the art, the store owner introduced him to the widow of Thomas Benton, who had created the piece.

“Benton had been the artist be-hind all the Thompson posters,” Watkins said. “So because I had shown so much interest and had been an artist myself, I had been asked to find the works Benton had made.”

The only catch: Thompson had notorious dealings with the Aspen drug underworld, and the only way to get the art back was to bargain with dealers directly, Watkins said. Watkins described in detail how harrow-

ing the whole situation had been and how he later considered it hilarious.

“[The dealers] wanted to trade their collections of 'Thomp-son for Sheriff ' works for other [works], and I made deals left and right,” Watkins said. “All le-gal, of course.”

It would make sense that Thompson’s propaganda ended up on the “freaky” side of town after the way he ran his cam-paign. Based on the antiwar messages, marijuana anti-crim-inalization movement and the loving acceptance of the “hip-pie,” Thompson’s "Freak Power" campaign was one that would be considered radical even today.

“Thompson wanted to change the system the best way possi-ble — by rousing the youth and the freaks and getting them to register to vote, get involved and

make a difference from within,” Watkins said.

Even though Thompson wasn't elected, his passion and message resonated throughout Aspen. In his book, Thompson wrote: “We cannot expect peo-ple to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to en-force those laws” — a sentiment still felt today in Aspen.

Watkins, an Aspen resident, is friends with Sheriff Bob Braudis, who served for 24 years before retiring in 2011. Watkins said Braudis's work was based on the principles Thompson advocated in the 1970s.

“The police trust the people, and the people trust the police,” Watkins said. “They’ve built up a relationship of communal un-derstanding which allows the police to do their job effectively

and the people to feel confident that their rights aren’t being stripped away from them.”

The audience at the lec-ture, about 30 people, seemed shocked at the radical and unconventional methods for advertising Thompson’s ideas. From a fully nude woman cup-ping her breast, to comparing Nixon to a bloodthirsty Nazi, Thompson’s campaign was any-thing but mild.

“When hearing about coun-terculture revolutions, the first places you think of are New York or Los Angeles, definitely not Aspen,” said Ashley Cervantes, a sophomore from Wichita who attended the lecture. “Thomp-son really was the definition of an underground revolutionary, fighting for modern ideas in a government that was telling him to keep to his place as a dirty

hippie.” Watkins’s mission in putting

together this collection of ex-treme campaign art and articles was to imprint the lessons taught by Thompson and Benton: “Get involved, get registered to vote and make a difference.”

Cervantes said she definitely took the exhibit to heart.

“I think it’s important to re-member that we as the young generation have a voice that can change the world around us,” Cervantes said. “We can call out injustice, we can fight for what is right and even though we may be silenced, our message will make its way through history.”

The exhibit, “Freak Power,” is on display at the Lawrence Arts Center until Jan. 2.

— Edited by Kate Miller

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KE’AUN KINNERJUNIOR, RUNNING BACK

After a pair of phenomenal games to start the season, Kinner had his first bad game as a Jayhawk with 16 rushes for 25 yards. However, he did still manage to find the end zone twice and total 49 receiving yards. Kinner is still the Jayhawks’ best play maker on offense by a wide margin. Expect him to be a big factor in the running and passing game Saturday.

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Last year, Richardson ranked 13th in completions per game (23.1), 25th in total offense (280.9 yards), and 52nd in passing yards (242.6). In addition, his 254 completed passes was a school record. This year Richardson con-tinues to throw the ball well; he is averaging 249.7 yards per game on a 61.3 completion percentage.

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MIKE WARRENFRESHMAN, RUNNING BACK

Warren got his first career start against Toledo and he made the most of it. Against Toledo, Warren rushed for 126 yards on 21 carries. It was the third time a Cyclones running back had eclipsed the 100-yard mark in the previous 15 contests.

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ALLEN LAZARDSOPHOMORE, WIDE RECEIVER

Iowa State actually returns a decent amount of depth in the receiving unit this year. The Cyclones are one of eight teams in the FBS to have three returning receivers that caught at least 40 passes last year. Sopho-more Allen Lazard is the most electric of the group.

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DALE PIERSONSENIOR, DEFENSIVE END

The senior defensive end calls himself the “sack mamba” in his Twitter handle and has backed it up in 2015. Pierson currently leads the Big 12 and is second in the nation with 1.7 sacks per game. In the season opener he got after the quarterback three times, the most by a Cyclone since 2005.

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BRIAN PEAVYFRESHMAN, DEFENSIVE BACK

Although its unclear who Peavy will be locked up on this Saturday, it is clear that whoever he does will have a tough day catching the ball. Peavy is responsible for at least half of every Iowa State pass defense statistic.

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BEN GOODMANSENIOR, DEFENSIVE END

The Jayhawks allowed a season best 27 points last week, and Goodman was one of the biggest reasons why. He recorded seven tackles and did more than his part in pressuring the quarterback. Goodman is the only member of the Jayhawk defense with multiple sacks, and he will be forced to continue to carry that load until other guys start to improve.

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TYLER PATRICKFRESHMAN, WIDE RECEIVER

Patrick played almost exclusively special teams in the season opener and saw some action on offense in week 2. Last week he caught three passes for 70 yards, and Beaty called him their most effective guy on the edge. He has proven himself as a reliable target for Cozart in the passing game, and he should receive a lot of targets going forward.

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MONTELL COZARTJUNIOR, QUARTERBACK

Even though Cozart didn’t get the start at Rutgers, he still played a decent game although he had flu-like symptoms. He went 13-of-18 for 193 yards, but had just one rushing yard and struggled to consistently move the Jay-hawks down the field. Cozart will need to be an effective both through the air and on the ground to give the Jayhawks a chance to win Saturday.

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The true freshman has made mistakes in the passing game and is far from a finished product, but he has still been the most consistent tackler in the secondary. Miller has shown a nose for the ball this season, leading the team in tackles and forced fumbles. He has shown vulnerability when defending the pass, and that will be tested on Saturday, especially if Iowa State’s starting senior quarterback Sam Richardson suits up for the first time this season.

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Ke'aun Kinner

On Saturday Kansas will begin conference play on the road at Iowa State. After an 0-3 start, the Jayhawks need to find a way to capture some semblance of momentum heading into the meat of one of the toughest schedules in college football.

To defeat the Cyclones at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa, and end a road losing streak that stretches back to 2009, the Jayhawks need someone to have a huge impact on the field.

That player will be junior running back Ke'aun Kinner.

Just three games into his college career, Kinner already established himself as one of the most dynamic and con-sistent runners that Kansas has had since James Sims graduated in 2013.

Kinner currently ranks No. 6 in the Big 12 conference in total rushing yards with 295. He also ranks No. 10 in the conference with 344 all-pur-

pose yards and is averaging about 115 total offensive yards per game.

Kinner leads all Kansas players with five touchdowns this season and is averaging five yards per carry.

These stats should bode well for Kansas, as Iowa State has one of the weakest run defenses in the Big 12. The Cyclones rank No. 7 in that category, giving up an aver-age of 185.7 yards per game and an average of 4.6 yards per attempt this season.

Not only should Kinner have an extremely good game on the ground for the Jay-hawks, but the attention that he commands from the Iowa State defense will open things up in the passing game for junior quarterback Montell Cozart. Cozart should be able to make enough plays off of play-action to be effec-tive against Iowa State's No. 4 ranked pass defense.

There is definitely the chance that Iowa State's defense plays extremely well on Saturday. The Cyclones play tough at home, most notably knocking off No. 3 Oklahoma State at Jack Trice

Stadium four years ago. So far this season, Kinner

has not been successful on the road, rushing for 25 yards on 16 attempts in last Saturday's loss at Rutgers. Granted, this is a small sam-ple size for Kinner. But, after averaging 135 yards on 21.5 carries in his first two home games, Kinner's performanc-es on the road should be something to keep an eye on.

I am not necessarily expect-ing the Jayhawks to walk into a hostile road environment and take home a win. I am not even expecting the Jay-hawks to come close to deliv-ering a win. I am anticipating that one of the most talented player on the Jayhawks team will make a big impact on Saturday.

That player will be Kinner. If he can put up some big numbers in a favorable matchup against a defense that has struggled against the run, it will be a sign of bigger things to come in the future.

— Edited by Rebecca Dowd

DEREK SKILLETT@derek_skillett

Tre’ Parmalee

The senior wide reciever Tre’ Parmalee has been the Jayhawks' most consistent re-ceiver this season, and he had a season-high five catches last week in the loss at Rutgers. He has established a fair amount of chemistry with junior quar-terback Montell Cozart, too.

Parmalee could make an-other big impact this week at Iowa State if he is able to carry the momentum he had with Cozart into Saturday’s game.

Parmalee can make his mark on third down plays against the Cyclones. Iowa State has allowed opposing teams to convert on third downs 38

percent of the time.What could work in Par-

malee’s favor is redshirt fresh-man receiver Tyler Patrick lined up on the other side of the ball. After going catchless in the season opener against South Dakota State, Patrick has caught nine passes over his last two games, which in-cluded a 70-yard performance against Rutgers last Saturday. With his recent showing, Iowa State could be inclined to show more attention against Patrick, which will allow the field to open up for Parmalee.

There is no question Ke’aun Kinner has been the Jayhawks’ best player this season, and he has a great chance to produce another stellar performance against an Iowa State defense that has had trouble stopping the run.

On average, the Cyclones have allowed 4.6 yards per carry on 185.7 yards per game. This could lead to another big game for Kinner, but his big performances have yet to help contribute to a win for the 0-3 Jayhawks.That could change this week if Kinner is able to run the ball effectively, which could put the Jayhawks in more play-action opportu-nities.

In this case, Parmalee could become a big-play threat and could make some huge catch-es downfield. He has a catch of 35 yards as his longest recep-tion this season. Parmalee has a chance to make the greatest impact in this game, especially on third down plays, if these factors can work in his favor.

— Edited by Rebecca Dowd

WESLEY DOTSON@WesleyDee23

After returning seven start-ers and introducing seven new freshmen into the fold, Kansas soccer coach Mark Francis was only surprised by one thing at the midway point in the sea-son: his team’s mental tough-ness.

“We’re a lot tougher than I thought we’d be, mentally,” Francis said. “Having gone through the stuff we’ve gone through in the first half of the season, I think we’re in a better place now mentally in terms of being able to handle different scenarios.”

Those scenarios have includ-ed five overtime games: two of them losses, one a tie and the other two wins. After a rough start of 2-4-1, the Jayhawks

have found their feet on the ground in a recent three-game winning streak ahead of the first Big 12 game of the season, a Friday, Oct. 2 match against Texas.

“We’re very excited about [Big 12 play.] We really want to start conference now because it’s like the real thing; it’s going to be like a new season for us,” said senior midfielder Liana Salazar. “We’re so excited to show what we’re capable of.”

The Longhorns have already started conference play as they lost to West Virginia 2-0 last Friday. Texas has one win in its last four games, a 2-1 win over Abilene Christian.

Texas and Kansas have a non-conference opponent in common: Oregon State. Tex-as tied the Beavers 1-1 after overtime while Kansas lost 1-0

during the first overtime.Francis said his assessment of

the team hasn’t changed much from the beginning of the sea-son. One thing that surprised him, however, was the Jay-hawks’ production on offense as of late.

“Offensively we’re at a way different place now than we were at the beginning of the season,” Francis said. “We’re creating a lot more chances, clear-cut chances, and doing a better job at finishing them.”

Kansas takes a three-game winning streak — in which the team has scored seven goals — into Friday’s match against Texas. Over the seven games before this winning streak, Kansas had only scored five goals.

— Edited by Rebecca Dowd

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A championship will be on the line Oct. 1 for a Kansas City area team, and it’s not the Chiefs or Sporting KC.

FC Kansas City, one of the premier teams in the National Women's Soccer League will face the Seattle Reign at 8:30 p.m. CDT at Providence Park in Seattle.

For the NWSL, Thursday’s match isn’t just to dish out a piece of hardware; it’s a milestone previous leagues couldn’t achieve. A fourth season will be played next year. With the help of Nike, the league isn’t just surviving;

it will add another team — to be determined — next season.

SI.com reported on Wednesday the league extended its contract with Nike through 2019, and the apparel company will provide sportswear and the official ball of the league.

NWSL commissioner Jeff Plush told SI.com the league had "always known [they]'d be around" for a fourth season. He added he's excited about the future of the league: “This is the real exciting tell-tale sign that not only are we around, but other people are investing in us and believe in us and believe in the women who make up our league.”

The exact amount of money

Nike is putting towards the NWSL was not disclosed.

Previous women's nation-al soccer leagues, such as the Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA) and the Women’s Professional Soccer league (WPS), both folded af-ter just three seasons, mainly because of debt and lack of fan support.

The Nike deal alone doesn’t mean the NWSL is out of the woods. ESPNW reported 3,031 people attended FC Kansas City’s semifinal game. In comparison, the first round of the 2014 Major League Soccer playoffs generated 15,518 fans for a New York Red Bulls match, according to playingfor90.com.

It is unlikely that an atten-dance of just over 3,000 for a playoff game means the league is turning a profit. Perhaps the best thing going for the league is that the championship match will be televised live on Fox Sports 1. SI.com also reported the league is looking at extending and expanding its TV deal with Fox, presumably to show more games on national TV.

More exposure can only help the NWSL. Stars, such as FC Kansas City’s Lauren Holiday and Heather O’Reilly, both appeared for the United States National Women’s team in the World Cup over the summer. Along with Seattle Reign's Hope Solo, all three

players bring recognition and credibility to both their teams and the league.

Nike has little to lose and much to gain by partnering with the NWSL. If the league continues to exist, Nike has a niche market cornered. If the league folds like it’s prede-cessors, Nike won’t feel many effects, having deals with other major sports leagues.

For now, the NWSL and Kansas City will look forward to Thursday, where the league and team will gain more exposure and money and, hey, maybe even bring home a championship.

— Edited by Dani Malakoff

Mark Mangino has not set foot inside the Anderson Fam-ily Football Complex in almost six years, when he split ways with Kansas in the December of 2009. Yet, when Kansas head coach David Beaty stepped to the podium to talk about the team’s upcoming matchup with Iowa State — the team Mangino is now an offensive coordinator for — Mangino’s presence was inescapable.

After all, Beaty himself first came to Kansas on Christmas Day in 2007. Just days before Mangino’s victory in the Or-ange Bowl and two years after Beaty had moved to coach at the Division I level with Rice, the Texas native received a call from Tim Beck, the receivers coach under Mangino.

Beck was set to leave for Ne-braska after the Orange Bowl, and Beck and Beaty were old buddies. So Beck popped the question that would alter Beaty’s career and subsequent-ly link Beaty to Mangino for the next year and future years: Would Beaty replace him as the receivers coach at Kansas under Mangino?

“Yeah, I’d be interested,” Beaty remembers responding to Beck in 2007. “But, dude, he’s not going to hire me. I mean, I was at Rice.”

Yet, soon after, an inexpe-rienced — maybe even un-deserving — Beaty would sit down for an interview with Mangino that he can still re-call today. Mangino was frank, calm and comedic through the interview process, and he kept Beaty comfortable with

his laid-back interview style. He quizzed Beaty on what he could bring to the table for Kansas, what his style was.

Then Beaty got the job at Kansas, which began in 2008. Years later, that connection to Kansas would land Beaty his first Division I head coaching job. But even three coaches re-moved, Mangino has not been forgotten.

On Tuesday, Beaty stood in the Mrkonic Auditorium among sprawling pictures of standouts of the Mangino era — Todd Reesing and Aqib Tal-ib, specifically. He answered a handful of questions about his former coaching superi-or, Mangino, who has quietly haunted the football program since his departure amid in-vestigation.

Defensive coordinator Clint Bowen eventually spoke in the auditorium, the only oth-er coach on the staff who was hired under Mangino. Under Mangino, Bowen moved up from special teams coordina-tor to defensive coordinator — an opportunity that has proven to pay off for Bowen.

“I learned a tremendous amount from the day one until very last day of helping me to become a better foot-ball coach,” Bowen said. “I’ll forever be indebted to coach Mangino for giving me the op-portunity to coach, and all the things that I’ve learned from him.”

More than anything, Beaty has applied one of Mangino’s favorite sayings to the week leading up to the matchup against Iowa State to open up Big 12 play: “Keep sawing wood.”

“If you’ve ever spent any time

around coach Mangino, I think the one phrase that people al-ways have common ground with is ‘keep sawing wood,’” Beaty said. “That’s probably the thing that we have started with and we are going to con-tinue with.”

As a whole, this team Beaty is taking over is similar to that of the one Mangino turned around when he took over the program in 2002; Mangino’s team didn’t win a single Big 12 game that year. Before Big 12 play has even begun, the odds to win a Big 12 game — or any game at all — this year for Kansas appear bleak at best.

That’s precisely where Mang-

ino’s catch phrase has revealed itself this week, and the players have taken notice of it.

“‘Keep on sawing wood, keep chopping away at it, and even-tually it’s going to come,’” se-nior defensive end Ben Good-man recalled Beaty saying this week. “Basically what he’s saying is just keep on believ-ing, keep doing the little things right, and eventually things are going to fall in place.”

Mangino likely said the same thing as he led up to his first game with Kansas against Iowa State in 2002. The Jayhawks would lose that game, 45-3, and hobble their way to the finish line of the season. But

Mangino took big strides in his second year at Kansas, taking Kansas to 6-6 in regular season play and to a bowl game.

Even if Beaty doesn’t explic-itly use the wood metaphor again after this week, the only way he can stay in favor is if he continues to chip away at the massive tree that lies ahead of him and will continue to lie ahead of him for the rest of the season. Mangino did exact-ly that; it’s the only reason he stayed in favor with the team for eight years.

If things go south on Satur-day, Beaty can always peek across the sideline, look at Mangino and remember that

only a few years ago, Kansas was a thriving football pro-gram.

“Listen, I hate losing. I do not like it, at all,” Beaty said. “However, I understand that everything is a process and we understand it’s a positive, and part of the process is learning to stay positive in the eyes of adversity.

“To borrow from coach [Mangino], we are going to ‘keep sawing wood,’ and that’s the way they are going to get this thing done.”

— Edited by Abby Stuke

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‘Keep sawing wood:’ Beaty and Bowen praise Mangino ahead of matchup with Iowa State

October is finally here, and with that comes the return of KU softball.

The Jayhawks will have their version of spring training — but in the fall. The team will host eight games in Lawrence at Rock Chalk Park starting on Oct. 1 at 6 p.m.

Kansas will first square off against Baker University fol-lowed by seven games against regional foes Avila and Labette on Oct. 3; Washburn and Butler on Oct. 4; Cowley

Community College on Oct. 8; Rockhurst on Oct. 155; and Johnson County Community College on Oct. 20.

Fall ball will conclude with the Kansas Softball World Se-ries.

The Fall circuit will allow many to see nine of the new faces the Jayhawks added this summer, including assis-tant coach T.J. Hubbard and transfers Jordan Zolman and Andie Formby. However, the level of competition may be a little misleading.

The Jayhawks should have no problem with these eight opponents as none of them

are Division I schools. These tuneup games will give the team an opportunity to see where it is at after offseason conditioning.

Coach Megan Smith will also test out new defensive alignments at first and third base. Since Maddie Stein, who played first base last season, and Chanin Naudin, who played third, graduated, sophomore Daniella Chavez will hold down the fort at first while sophomore Jessie Roane will see time in the hot corner — third base.

Smith will get a good feel for how the players have pro-gressed coming from different roles last season. Chavez was primarily a designated hitter and strictly hit in the cleanup spot for power last year, while Roane will make an interest-ing move from the backstop where she played last season because of Harley Ridley’s in-jury.

Fall ball will be different for the Jayhawks this season as they look to replace the majority of the leadership from last year. There is a lot of young talent on this team, and Fall ball will help develop young talent even more and identify what they need to improve on before the season starts in February.

When all is set and done on Oct. 20 and Fall ball play concludes, Smith will have a good idea about the direction she wants this team to go for Spring.

— Edited by Minami Levo-nowich

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Softball gears up for Fall play against regional foes

Sporting wins U.S. Open Cup

MISSY MINEAR/KANSANFreshman catcher Jessier Roane sprints to first base during the first game of the series against Texas. The Jayhawks lost 0-6 to the Longhorns at Arrocha Field on Friday evening.

CAROLINE FISS/KANSANSporting KC forward Krisztián Németh drives the ball against FC Dallas on Sept. 18. On Wednesday, Nemeth scored the team’s lone regulation goal against Philadelphia in the U.S. Open Cup Final.

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It hadn’t been two months since Jordi Quintillà joined Sporting Kansas City before the Spanish center midfielder made club history Wednesday. As his penalty rolled cleanly across the line, past Philadel-phia Union goalkeeper John McCarthy, Quintillà handed Sporting KC its third U.S. Open Cup win in club history, as the team topped the Union at PPL Park in Philadelphia: 1-1 (7-6).

“I think it’s the only way we know how to win champion-ships,” Vermes joked on the 810 WHB Broadcast after the game. "It was amazing. We fought hard.”

In regulation, Sporting KC fell behind early, as Sebastien Le Toux found the back of the net in the 23rd minute.

Le Toux ran onto a pass across the field from Vincent Nogueira. Sporting KC de-fender Seth Sinovic could not

keep up with Le Toux, as he fired past Sporting goalkeeper Tim Melia to put Philadelphia up one.

However, about 40 minutes later, Sporting KC forward Krisztián Németh found the equalizer.

Németh found some open space on the left side of the 18-yard box and sent a curl-ing shot into the opposite side netting. Graham Zusi record-ed the assist on Németh's goal, which actually marked a mile-stone of sorts.

Németh's goal gave him at least one in every round of the U.S. Open Cup this season, and really, it was a game of firsts. For Sporting, this match was the first away game in this year’s U.S. Open Cup run.

With the teams tied at 1-1, the game was destined for ex-tra time; 30 minutes later, it was on to penalties.

The shootout dragged on into the eighth round before Quintillà finally sealed the win. On the previous penalty,

Melia dove to his right and saved Union forward Andrew Wenger’s penalty off his shin to set up the historic moment for Quintillà, who transferred to Sporting KC from FC Bar-celona on Aug. 6.

In the shootout, Németh and Union defender Maurice Edu both missed penalties, each in the third round. There would not be another missed penalty until Wenger's.

The title for Sporting is the club’s third in four seasons as Sporting won the MLS Cup in 2013 and the U.S. Open Cup in 2012.

The final was the third US Open Cup final Sporting had played in and the third it has won. Sporting now joins DC United as the only active MLS team with three Open Cup ti-tles. Those two teams are one behind Chicago Fire and Se-attle Sounders FC for the re-cord of Open Cup titles (four) among active teams.

— Edited by Scott Chasen