Serhii Plokhii, a Harvard professor of Eastern European History, will give a lecture in 318 Bailey Hall at noon today to discuss the fall of the So-viet Union, how it happened and the current situation in Ukraine. Born in the Soviet Union, Plokhii lived in the country for about 33 years be-

fore coming to the U.S. as an exchange student to work on his doctoral dissertation at Co-lumbia University.

Last night at the Kansas Union, Plokhii spoke about his book, “The Last Empire,” which argues that the Soviet Union dissolved because of tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Today, Plokhii will address the current crisis and tensions between the two na-

tions.Plokhii sat down with a Kan-

san correspondent to discuss his personal experiences with the Soviet Union and its fall.

Kansan: What kind of restric-tions were there in the Soviet Union as far as education goes?

Plokhii: In terms of educa-tion, I was in the department of history and when I applied for graduate studies and be-

came a graduate student, I was the only graduate student who wasn’t a member of the Com-munist Party. [Education] was more controlled, especially when it came to history, be-cause it was considered to be politically important.

Another thing was that there was less freedom in asking

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Bill Self named Big 12 AP Coach of the Year

For the fourth time during his tenure at Kansas, Bill Self has been named the Big 12 AP Coach of the Year. This season, Self led Kansas to its 11th consecutive Big 12 title under his helm and recorded 24 wins.

“That’s nice, but it is a reflection that you’ve got good players and good teams,” Self said. “I think there were several coaches that would deserve to be named that and nobody would have a problem with it because the league was so good and teams probably played to a higher level than what they were projected to early on.”

Self managed to lead Kansas to another regular season ring with one of the weaker teams he has had in recent memory. Kansas struggled to find its identity all

season, changing its offensive style multiple times.

The Big 12 was also as com-petitive as it has ever been and is often considered the tough-est conference in all of college basketball. In their first game of the Big 12 Tournament, Self and the Jayhawks will play on Thurs-day against the winner of the TCU versus Kansas State game Wednesday.

“I think there are several coach-es in our league that deserve this honor,” Self said. “And nobody would have had a problem with anyone winning it because the league is so good.”

“It’s a nice honor, and for the first time I actually think the me-dia knows what they’re talking about,” Self said. “[I] never have thought that before.”

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The University’s chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra-ternity released a statement on Facebook on Monday, prompted by protests and outrage after a now-viral vid-eo of fraternity members at the University of Oklahoma chanting racial slurs that sur-faced Sunday.

“Extremely shocked by the video involving SAE at OU. ‘who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rath-er than his own.’ Being an initiated member of [Sigma Alpha Epsilon] means pledg-ing yourself to be, and then continually striving every day to further become, a True Gentleman. [Phi Alpha] to those who hold these values strong, and make them what they are,” the KU SAE chapter statement said.

The video, in which frater-nity members pumped their fists and yelled, “there will never be a [expletive] SAE,” was sent to The Oklahoma Daily, the student newspaper, and a minority rights campus organization Sunday.

University of Oklahoma President David Boren said on Facebook on Monday the university would cut ties with the chapter immediately.

"I have a message for those who have misused their freedom of speech in this way. My message to them is: You're disgraceful. You have violated every principle that this university stands for,” Boren said in the statement.

The national representa-tives of Sigma Alpha Epsilon released a statement apolo-gizing for the “unacceptable and racist behavior of the individuals in the video.” The statement said the actions are not representative of the fra-ternity’s morals or beliefs.

“We are embarrassed by this video and offer our empathy not only to anyone outside the organization who is of-fended but also to our broth-ers who come from a wide range of backgrounds, cul-tures and ethnicities,” it said.

Joshua Robinson, a junior from Overland Park, is the president of the Black Stu-dent Union at the University. He said he isn’t surprised by the behavior at the University of Oklahoma.

“We know everyone is not like that, but that culture of ignorance and oppression towards African Americans seems to be a theme in Okla-homa, in my opinion,” he said. “It is ignorance. Not ig-norance of them not knowing what they’re doing, but igno-

““Even if you were on that bus and you didn’t agree with what was going on, you needed to have said something.”

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Six design students took home gold and silver awards from the American Advertis-ing Federation of Kansas City (AAF-KC) American Adver-tising Awards on Feb. 21.

Gold award winners have been entered into a regional competition and will move onto the national competition if they are again awarded gold.

Josie Miller, a senior from Lenexa, won for her Kansas City Star rebranding project. She also was named the best student in the competition. Her entry consisted of differ-ent forms of mock advertis-ing, a new web design, email newsletter and daily news feed.

“My goal was to make the news relevant to millennials while engaging them socially in Kansas City, thus generat-

ing pride for the city,” Miller said.

Miller also wanted to update the newspaper and create a vi-sion for what the media outlet could become.

“The problem within the newspaper industry has been a familiar one to me, and I be-lieve that solving this problem will start by helping compa-nies envision a future,” Miller said.

Aliaa El Kalyoubi, a senior

from Egypt, also received a gold award for her project “West + East,” an imaginary organization to promote both positive relationships and mutual interest between American and Middle East-ern students.

El Kalyoubi developed a website, app and events that would engage and enable American students to learn

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After 11 seasons of coach-ing the Kansas women’s bas-ketball team, Bonnie Hen-rickson has been fired, KU Athletics Director Sheahon Zenger announced Monday.

During her time at the University, Henrickson led the Jayhawks to the NCAA Tournament in back-to-back seasons in 2012 and 2013. Both times, Kansas made the Sweet 16. Kansas also reached the Women’s Na-tional Invitation Tournament (WNIT) five times, including the championship game held in Allen Fieldhouse in 2009.

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Imagine chooses executive candidates

The Student Senate coalition Imagine nominated senior Kath-erine Rainey from Shawnee and junior Ramiro Sarmiento from Wichita as its presidential and vice presidential candidates, re-spectively. The candidates were the only two nominated at a co-alition meeting Monday.

Sarmiento said he has a pas-sion for ending the disconnect between Student Senate and the student body.

“People don’t know Senate is there to represent them,” Sarmiento said. “They don’t feel comfortable or heard. Year af-ter year, we have coalition after coalition come to students and voice how wonderful they will be once they’re in Senate, then fall comes around and that does not happen. Those promises remain unfulfilled, and I’m tired of that. I can’t see this go on for another year.”

Rainey said she has witnessed

student senators sitting around on Twitter or doing homework at meetings instead of fighting for students, which needs to change.

“I was a part of Senate for two years, and that environment is not productive to being a student here at KU,” she said. “You don’t learn about the students you are truly supposed to be helping. Each year, students give about $450 to Senate to allocate these dollars to student organizations. But time and time again, stu-dents don’t know who to go to.”

While both nominees quick-ly accepted their nominations, Sarmiento said his candidacy is not just about the title.

“I’m not in it for the title. I’m here because I care about the students at the University of Kansas,” Sarmiento said. “This campus needs a drastic change, and we can provide that. We can speak for everyone and we can voice their concerns. We will run a strong campaign, and we will win.”

— Alana Flinn rance of not trying to be sen-sitive to African Americans.”

Robinson said he believes this type of incident is indic-ative of a larger national prob-lem.

“I think [society] is going in a way that people are not being educated about each other,” he said. “We are not taking the time out to explore different cultures and differ-ent people and we’re basing one race off of one person. People tend to think African Americans are very similar. No, we’re complex people. We’re becoming a culture of assuming.”

This type of thinking is something Robinson said needs to change on a national level, but especially a Univer-sity level. Recognizing there is an issue is step one, but reach-ing out to find solutions is crucial, Robinson said.

“What can the [Interfra-ternity Council] and Pan-hellenic do to help the black students?” he said. “I feel like they need to ask us what can they do to make sure this

doesn’t happen. Our mem-bers would be vocal about this and tell them how they feel, how some members have tried to gain access to an IFC fraternity and haven’t felt comfortable. People ask, ‘Why do we need black fra-ternities and sororities?’’ This is why. We’re not just making this up out of nowhere. This is why we have a BSU. Things like this are happening.”

Robinson said it is a univer-sity’s responsibility to ensure its students feel included and accepted.

“We’re all students, black or white, and we pay to attend this university, not the other way around,” he said. “This university needs to do things to help us feel comfortable. We’re not asking for anything outrageous. We want to be able to send our children here or our children’s children here to this university and let them know you are valued here.”

The members’ suspension and Boren’s comments are a step in the right direction, Robinson said, but while he’s optimistic some change could come from this, he said he

doubts the conversation will have lasting effects.

“The outcome, I think, will be that we all come together and those in the predomi-nantly white sororities and fraternities will try to com-fort the black students at that university,” he said. “I try to optimistic, but I do think it’ll go back to the same. Once it dies down, it’ll go back to the same. I hope their university or ours will keep the conver-sation going. It’ll all die down, but we’ll be dealing with something like this in the next few months. It’s like a revolv-ing circle.”

As an investigation moves forward at Oklahoma, Rob-inson said there must be con-sequences for the fraternity members, ranging from sus-pension from the university to probation with mandatory racial sensitivity education.

“They all need to have con-sequences. Even if you were on that bus and you didn't agree with what was going on, you needed to have said something,” he said. “You know right from wrong.”

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about the Middle East. Participants would receive a special ID membership card each time they attend-ed, such as a “get a taste of the Middle East” free food event, or a “movie viewing and reflecting on stereo-types” event.

El Kalyoubi chose this subject because she knew it needs to be addressed and it matters to her.

“I have been exposed to and heard of many offensive, inaccurate, and stereotypical facts spread about the Mid-dle East, that are unfortu-nately constantly circulated in the media and exagger-ated, mislabeled, and could negatively influence viewers who are not familiar with the real Middle Eastern ways of life, and the people,” El Kalyoubi said.

Three students who collab-orated on materials for the 2014 KU Design Week also won gold.

Seniors Claire Pederson from Omaha, Sydney Gold-stein from Overland Park, and Lexi Griffith from Law-rence, won for a social me-dia campaign and promo-tional posters they produced for KUDW.

KUDW united students in

visual communications, in-dustrial design, architecture and photo media through a weeklong series of events.

“The theme of KU Design Week was perspectives and illusions, which felt suiting since the goal was to change student’s perceptions of oth-er majors,” Goldstein said.

The group’s work has been featured in two magazines — IdN Magazine and Cargo Collective — and won three national awards.

Senior Jamal Gamby and Kristen Myers, a senior from Lawrence, received silver awards. Myers sews clothes for her son and created her rebranding project, “akin,” to expand on her hobby.

“I have been wanting to rebrand my clothes since I started design school, but I haven’t had the time because our classes are so rigorous,” Myers said.

Myers plans to sell the clothes locally and on Etsy.

“It is very validating to win an award,” Myers said. “When you’re in visual com-munications, you’re with the same 30 to 40 students and four professors for three years, so it’s nice to have an outside perspective on what you’ve created.”

— Edited by Emma LeGault

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Q&A FROM PAGE 1

questions about the revolu-tion, history of World War II, and things like that. It would come with answers that were not correct. And so it was re-ally difficult and almost im-possible to work in the 20th century without somehow not accommodating the party lines.

Kansan: Were the differences in education clearer when you came to the United States?

Plokhii: My main surprise when I was visiting the U.S. was access to the library. The fact that you could go to the stacks and see all of the liter-ature was very different from how it was done in the Soviet Union. And so the access to information in terms of the li-brary and information in gen-eral was a major surprise for me and was the biggest differ-ence between the Soviet soci-ety and the American society.

Kansan: One of the things I thought was interesting having to do with one of the reviews of your book is that you mention that it is widely believed that the U.S. withdrawing support to the Soviet Union led to its collapse, but you say that that’s a myth. Why is this?

Plokhii: The widely held be-lief is that the United States won the Cold War by wiping the Soviet Union from the map of the world and that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the symbol of American triumph and the American policy was directed toward that. But when you look at the sources including the archi-val sources coming from the George Bush White House, it

is clear that the United States government supported Gor-bachev and was in favor of the continued existence of the So-viet Union up until one week before the Ukrainian Refer-endum. It was then that the U.S. publicly stated support for Ukrainian independence and withdrew support for Gorbachev.

Kansan: You also mention in your book that this has had a negative lasting affect on for-eign policy in the U.S. How is this?

Plokhii: Generally, the U.S. has this belief that they have this enormous power to wipe out countries like the Soviet Union and that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the result of their policy. That serves as a foundation for being a little bit delusion-al about the world around them and they start to think they are a lot more powerful than they are in reality. This is once again the power of the aforementioned myth. If they choose to believe in it, they make mistakes and overex-tend.

If you look at the public pronouncements of the Bush senior administration in the months leading to the fall of the Soviet Union, they were saying that they had had very little influence over what is happening in the So-viet Union. Then after it fell, that changed and the col-lapse was suddenly named as an American victory. That was a rewrite in history that was very dangerous for its people and its foreign policy.

Kansan: As a Ukrainian, how

do you feel about the collapse

of the Soviet Union?Plokhii: The majority of the

population voted for inde-pendence in Ukraine. If you look at the data over the pe-riod of the past 20 to 23 years, the majority of the population never changed. I personally have no regret about the col-lapse of the Union. I look at it as one of the last of the Eu-ropean empires and the 20th century was the deterioration of those empires.

Kansan: Do you feel that the people that were formerly of the Soviet Union are better off now without the communist govern-ment?

Plokhii: In terms of the po-litical system, there is a lot more freedom in today’s Rus-sia than it was in the Soviet Union. In economic terms, it is a difficult time for all of the republics. It was the change of the socialist economy to a market economy, which was extremely painful, but if you look at the data, they have made progress from 1991 and so there is clear progress that has been made both econom-ically and politically, but not everywhere and not in every republic of the former Soviet Union.

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“It came down to the fact that we expect this program to rank among the best in the Big 12 Conference, and we have not accomplished that goal,” Zenger said in a press release.

The Jayhawks were 6-12 and finished ninth in the Big 12 Conference this season.

Henrickson was hired in 2004, replacing Marian Washington and interim head coach Lynette Wood-ard. Prior coming to Kansas, Henrickson coached seven seasons, from 1997-2004, at Virginia Tech.

In Henrickson’s first sea-son at Kansas, the Jayhawks went just 12-16 overall and 5-11 in the Big 12, placing eighth in the conference. Henrickson recorded four seasons with 20 or more wins in her time at Kansas.

Henrickson’s best season was 2008-09, when the Jay-hawks finished 22-14 over-all and 6-10 in the Big 12 Conference and made it to the WNIT Championship game, eventually losing to South Florida 75-71 in front of a crowd of 16,113 fans, a Big 12 single-game atten-dance record for a women’s game.

Henrickson’s best finish in

the conference was a three-way tie for sixth during the 2011-12 season.

Henrickson coached 11 Jayhawks who were 1,000-point scorers during their time at Kansas, includ-ing current seniors, guard Natalie Knight and forward Chelsea Gardner. Henrick-son also coached five play-ers who were drafted to the WNBA, most recently An-gel Goodrich, who was the 29th overall pick in the 2013 Draft.

In 2012, Henrickson was named the Kansas Basket-ball Coaches Association Women’s College Coach of the Year. In 2005, she was an honorable mention con-sideration from the Kansas City Star for Big 12 Coach of the Year.

Zenger said Kansas assis-tant coach Katie O’Connor will serve as interim head coach until a successor is named. A national search will begin immediately, he said.

Kansas finished with below .500 records in back-to-back seasons — 13-19 in 2014 and 15-17 this past season. Henrickson finished her 11 seasons at Kansas with a re-cord of 186-171.

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Mo. appeals judge appointed to take over Ferguson court

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri appeals court judge was appointed Monday to take over Ferguson’s municipal court and make “needed reforms” after a highly critical U.S. Department of Justice report that was prompted by the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown.

The Missouri Supreme Court said it is assigning state appeals Judge Roy L. Richter to hear all of Ferguson’s pending and future municipal court cases. The high court said Richter also will have the authority to overhaul court policies to ensure defendants’ rights are respected and to “restore the integrity of the system.”

Ferguson Municipal Judge Ronald J. Brockmeyer resigned Monday, saying through a spokesman that he was stepping down to promote public confidence in the court and help Ferguson “begin its healing process.”

The Ferguson City Council met in closed session Monday evening, but members left without taking questions and a city spokesman didn’t disclose the purpose of the meeting. Ferguson City Manager John Shaw was escorted to his vehicle by a police officer without fielding questions, and Mayor James Knowles III declined comment to The Associated Press afterward except to say that the city on Tuesday would begin seeking Brockmeyer’s permanent successor.

Richter will take charge of the court on March 16. The Supreme Court said it also is assigning staff from the state court administrator’s office to aid Richter in reviewing Ferguson’s municipal court practices.

“Judge Richter will bring a fresh, disinterested perspective to this court’s practices, and he is able and willing to implement needed reforms,” Chief Justice Mary Russell said in a written statement.

“Extraordinary action is warranted in Ferguson, but the Court also is examining reforms that are needed on a statewide basis,” Russell added.

The change comes after the Justice Department released a report last week that cited cases of racial profiling and bigotry by police and chided what it described as a profit-driven municipal court system in the predominantly black St. Louis suburb where Brown, 18, was shot by a white Ferguson police officer on Aug. 9. The shooting prompted protests in the St. Louis area and across the nation.

A St. Louis County grand jury and the U.S. Justice Department both declined to bring charges against Officer Darren Wilson, who resigned from the department. The Justice Department report said Wilson acted in self-defense when he shot Brown.

But the Justice Department said Ferguson’s police and court systems functioned as a money-making enterprise that

heightened tensions among residents.

The federal report noted that Ferguson was counting on revenues from fines and fees to generate $3.1 million, or nearly one-quarter of its total $13.3 million budget for the 2015 fiscal year.

Although it was rare for the court to sentence people to jail as a penalty for city code violations, the Justice Department report said the city’s court almost always imposes monetary penalties and then issues arrest warrants when people fail to pay on time or miss a court date. As a result, relatively minor violations can — and frequently do — lead to arrests and jail time, the report said.

The federal report also cited several instances in which Ferguson’s municipal judge, court clerk or city prosecutor helped “fix” tickets for colleagues and friends.

The report cited the forgiven tickets for Ferguson officials as evidence of “a double standard grounded in racial stereotyping.” It said Ferguson officials displayed “a striking lack of personal responsibility among themselves” while some nonetheless asserted to federal investigators that the city’s African-American residents lacked “personal responsibility.”

Attorney Bert Fulk said in a statement announcing Brockmeyer’s resignation that Brockmeyer had been “fair and impartial” as a part-time judge and that the court clerk bore the primary responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the court.

The city fired court clerk

Mary Ann Twitty last week.Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon

released a written statement Monday praising the “strong and appropriate actions by the Missouri Supreme Court” to overhaul the Ferguson municipal court.

Monday’s appointment of a new Ferguson judge drew mixed reviews among onlookers at that night’s council meeting. Derrick Robinson, a protest organizer, said the move was “letting us know they’re hearing our cry, and I think it’s a good step in reconstructing Ferguson.” Meldon Moffitt, of St. Louis, countered that it wouldn’t make anything better, and “the only way we can clean up Ferguson is to wipe out the police force, wipe out the courts and wipe out the judges.”

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FILE PHOTO/ASSOCIATED PRESSProtesters march in the street as lightning flashes in the distance in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 20, 2014. On Aug. 9, 2014, white police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year old, in the St. Louis suburb and now a Justice Department investigation has found patterns of racial bias in the Ferguson police department and at the municipal jail and court.

““The only way we can clean up Ferguson is to wipe out the police force, wipe out the courts and... the judges.”

MELDON MOFFITTSt. Louis citizen

FILE PHOTO/ASSOCIATED PRESSDavid Johnson, left, Mark Taylor and Charles Strozier watch as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder makes a televised announcement March 4 in Ferguson, Mo. On Monday, a Missouri appeals judge was appointed to take over Ferguson’s municipal court.

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Senior year is having a 10 a.m. class, waking up at 9, playing

video games until 9:45 and still getting to class early.

Dude with the dog problem, I think your girlfriend is trying to

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Game of thrones trailer is BADASSSS! #winteriscoming

I HATE DST! I need that hour for sleep and studying for my 4 midterms/tests this week!

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There is nothing better than being in the Union lobby when an

expert is playing the piano.

Accidentally made my coffee too weak this morning. Still going to

drink it, though.

These advice columns are pretty legit, keep ‘em coming! They’re

so relevant for my life, too!!

Thank you to the guy who smiled at me in Malott: I was having a rough day, and your action made a big improvement in a

stranger’s life.

It’s so cool how you don’t have to go to class in college.

Spring break is so close I can feel it!! This week needs to hurry

on up.

I don’t know how I feel about flying to London on Friday the

13th...

I listen to NPR all the time and I’m happily engaged.

When you decide on your paper topic a few hours before it’s due.

#procrastinationlife

I got 99 problems but I’m gonna take a nap and avoid them all.

Now let’s hope that the weather doesn’t decide to screw us all and start snowing randomly.

Why are the Kardashians still relevant? Come on people, let’s

please move on.

Soccer — best part of spring.

When someone says, “I heard” = false.

If someone asks me if I want food that’s a tell-tale sign they don’t

know who I am.

ihop and Tryyaki always sound like good decisions when you’re drunk, but never when you’re

sober.

When 90% of the class never shows up and your teacher

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Rich irrelevant in fight against poverty

You have probably heard the phrase “the rich are getting

richer and the poor are getting poorer.” Indeed, according to the Federal Reserve, that is true. But here is the kicker: We should not care about the rich getting richer. In fact, we should not care about the rich at all. Believe me, they are doing just fine.

Most concern over incomes of the wealthy comes from the notion that the rich must be taxed more to help the poor, an increasingly popular idea among Americans according to Gallup Polls taken in 2013. In my view, this is faulty reasoning. After all, the economy is not a zero-sum game. A zero-sum game means one person’s gain is equal another person’s loss. In our case, for every winner, there does not necessarily have to be a loser. In fact, when cases of winners and losers are actually evident in economics, the math proves that winners tend to win more than the losers lose. For example, when a country embraces free trade, some of its domestic manufacturers may suffer, but consumers benefit a far greater amount as prices plummet. The lack of a zero-sum game also applies for wealth in an economy.

In other words, wealth does not have to be redistributed.

All that is needed to expand the incomes of the poor is economic growth. The poor today live vastly better lives than the poor did a century ago. This is all thanks to an improving economy that provides new resources to care for the destitute and new assets for the poor to use to improve themselves, according to the World Economic Forum. That being said, the changing definition of poverty should not be used to entirely disregard the poor, as Fox News is apt to do. However, it should be recognized that economic growth improves the lives of the poor and

provides opportunities for the underprivileged to climb the ladder to a more prosperous class, according to economist Lonnie Stevans.

Even if increasing taxes on the rich to help the poor were a valid idea, the evidence shows that such a system is incredibly inefficient. The United States’ welfare system collects enough taxes for everyone in poverty to receive roughly $40,000 a year, according to the Congressional Research Service. However, the average impoverished person receives services and payments equivalent to $9,000 a year, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Clearly, the federal

government is spending a great deal of money along the way. If the government manages to waste nearly 80 percent of the money taxed from more privileged Americans to give to the less fortunate, adding more government taxation and services is not the solution to poverty.

The solution, as previously mentioned, is a better economy. But how do we get there? For starters, we need a change of focus. The primary concern should be on the poor, not the rich. Our area of interest should be policies that promote economic growth, not taxes that line the pockets of bureaucrats on the way to the poor.

Our priorities are out of place if we worry about how much the wealthy make when there are more than a billion people in the world who earn less than $1.25 a day, according to a 2011 study by the World Bank. Instead of focusing on the incomes of the most wealthy, we should focus on issues that keep entire nations in the grip of poor economic policy, or laws and institutions that prevent entire classes of people from improving themselves. Only then will the poor get richer, not poorer.

John Olson is a sophomore from Wichita studying

economics

Better etiquette needed in college classrooms

Meg Huwe@mphuwe

It’s 3 o’clock on Friday afternoon. The last place any of us wants

to be is sitting in a lecture hall, especially when there’s gorgeous weather outside. Having to attend a class so close to the weekend can easily put a damper on anyone’s day. Unfortunately,

that’s how your schedule worked out and, especially by this point in the year, you should probably just accept it. If you don’t want to go to class, then you might as well just skip. But coming to class to take a quiz, then walk out during the middle of the lecture is not only distracting to those students who came to learn, but also incredibly disrespectful to the lecturer.

On average, in-state students are paying $954 per dropped or failed class, while out of-state students pay $2,483, according to materials distributed by the University’s Undergraduate Advising Center. It is one

thing to be seriously ill or to have experienced a family trauma, but, “because it’s Friday” or “I don’t feel like it” are not valid reasons to skip a class.

Another issue arises when people come to class only to discuss the party on Thursday night or some sort of roommate drama. If you want to talk about those things before or after class, please go ahead, but the dull roar of stories from the Hawk does not help those around you learn. If you’re not that intent on learning for the day, don’t ruin it for those who are.

The most pressing issue

with classroom etiquette is cellphone usage. Sometimes the Twittersphere is way more intriguing than what the professor is saying. In large lecture halls with hundreds of other students in the hall, it’s tempting to check your phone since your teacher can’t pinpoint you. That’s why not using your phone in class is a matter of personal integrity. It’s important to practice now in the classroom because in settings like business meetings, your boss most definitely will not want you checking your phone while he or she is talking. Cellphones are such a

distraction and students should break the habit now while they can. It won’t be easy to put your phone away in a professional atmosphere if you can’t do it now.

Take a moment to consider how you’re behaving in the classroom. Your professor deserves respect, as do your peers. It is also unfair for you to cheat yourself out of learning. Implementing polite habits now, in a less serious setting, will positively impact how you act in your future career.

Meg Huwe is a sophomore from Overland Park studying

chemical engineering

PIXABAYOpinion columnist John Olson believes that increasing taxes on the rich to help the poor is flawed logic. He said the focus needs to be more on the poor, and less on what can be done to the rich to benefit the poor.

Thirty-three men of the University’s Men’s Glee Club will perform the Alma Mater, National Anthem and KU fight songs for the Kansas Legislature as part of the “KU at the Capitol Concert Series” today at noon. The semester-long series is sponsored by Reach Out Kansas, a program that supports and hosts concerts and musical events in the state. The Glee Club is one of six University music programs scheduled to perform.

Director Christopher Smith, who is working on his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting, said the group is thrilled to have the opportunity.

“I think it’s an honor,” Smith said. “The dean of music sent an email saying we have a donor who wants to pay for you guys to go sing in the State Capitol, and he said to me they’d like to see the Men’s Glee [Club].”

The Men’s Glee Club, founded in 1809, is the oldest choral group at the University. Nathan Dame, associate director and first-year Ph.D student, said the group has a rich history.

“Being a glee club, we’re more about the tradition and sharing the fight songs, not just doing normal male choir music,” Dame said. “We’re having fun while doing it. It’s a good mix between what people would think of as a traditional choir and also fun traditions. There’s just a kind of brotherhood that goes along with being in a male choir.”

Dame was the president of the club when he completed his undergraduate studies at the University in 2007. When he returned for his graduate work, he said he knew exactly where he wanted to spend his time.

“It was one of those things where I was always in choir in

high school and I had wanted to be part of something with that camaraderie of a men’s choir,” Dame said. “It’s just really fun to be a part of.”

Smith said the majority of the men in the choir are non-music major freshmen who used to sing in high school.

“They’re overachievers,” Smith said. “They’re a really challenging group of young guys. They come from all over the campus. We try to target the underclassmen, non-music majors because we want that diversity. I talk to them about what Glee is and that our concert works are not as heavy as those at other choirs. We do stuff that’s more fun, but it’s not all fluffy.”

Justin Kline, a freshman from Overland Park, said he joined the club on a whim, looking for something fun to do, but never expected the opportunities the club has given him.

“The first home basketball game of the semester, we sang the Alma Mater and National Anthem at Allen Fieldhouse,” he said. “To just jump right on board as a freshman is awesome. KU Men’s Glee is doing nothing but growing and expanding.”

Working with the human voice is something Smith said he’s always had a passion for because it is like no other instrument. He has been working with different types of choirs since he was 17 years old, so he said directing Glee Club came naturally.

“There’s something really special and unique about putting together different voices from people from different backgrounds around the country and the world,” Smith said. “There’s something about putting those voices together to make a beautiful whole, because the human voice is a part of us. It isn’t an instrument you play.”

Smith said the opportunity to work with the Glee Club and the members’ range of voices is a privilege.

“To be able to put that together in a choir is a really special experience,” he said. “To work with them day-in and day-out is a reward. It’s a special thing.”

Singing at the Capitol is something Dame said doesn’t happen often, and it is important to showcase what the University music program offers. Dame said supporting the University as a whole at the Capitol is important.

“For some of these guys, it may be the only time they ever get to do this,” Dame said. “There’s all sorts of changes going on at the Capitol, and regardless of whatever you

believe, being able to show support for what goes on not just in your own major or your own life but as the University as a whole is very special.”

— Edited by Emma LeGault

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BEN BRODSKY/KANSANKU Men’s Glee Club Director Christopher Smith conducts the club during a rehearsal on March 5 in Murphy Hall. The Glee Club will perform today at the Kansas Capitol as a part of a semester-long concert series by Reach Out Kansas.

BEN BRODSKY/KANSANKU Men’s Glee Club Associate Director Nathan Dame conducts during rehears-al on March 5 in Murphy Hall. Dame was the president of the club when he was an undergraduate at the University in 2007.

Men’s Glee Club performs as part of concert series at Kansas Statehouse

Placement auditions take place at the beginning

of the fall and spring semesters. If you are

interesting in joining Men’s Glee, contact Christopher

Smith at christophersmith@ku.edu

Upcoming performances at the Statehouse include:

KU Brass Ensemble, Steve Leisring, director

Wednesday, April 1

KU Horn Choir, Paul Stevens, director

Wednesday, April 29

KU Trombone Choir, Michael Davidson, director

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‘Chappie’ proves a messy, intriguing sci-fi tale

“Chappie” gives a new take on the robot-with-a-consciousness story, but in a more compelling way. It showcases the bizarre South African electro-rap group Die Antwoord so much that it feels more like it’s “The Die Antwoord Movie” than one prominently featuring them. Not only does their weird aesthetic accompany them, but their songs fill in the soundtrack as well.

Considering that writer/director Neill Blomkamp

and Die Antwoord are popular representatives of film and music for South Africa, respectively, it makes sense they would team up with a movie that’s fittingly idiosyncratic. While the resulting product proves less gonzo and satisfying than hoped for such a wild pairing, it certainly leaves a unique impression full of odd charms.

With gangs running rampant in Johannesburg, South Africa, the government has begun using a militarized robot police force from a weapons manufacturer. Deon (Dev Patel), the designer of these robots, steals a deactivated one after figuring out how to create a human-like consciousness, intending to test it on his own.

Before he can do so, gangsters Ninja, Yolandi

(Ninja and Yo-landi Visser from Die Antwoord, playing more criminal versions of their usual personas) and Amerika (Jose Pablo Cantillo) kidnap him. Deon can’t turn the robots off like they want him to, but offers them his robot (played by Sharlto Copley) instead, and they name him Chappie. Cute like a shy puppy at first, Chappie quickly learns about the world around him, how to express himself and how to act.

Ninja teaching him how to walk, talk and intimidate like a gangster makes for hilarious silliness, as does Chappie stealing cars for Ninja with the enthusiasm of an energetic dog destroying things around the house in excitement. But there’s real sympathy with Chappie as he suffers, Ninja acting like an

abusive dog owner trying to toughen him up, dropping the scared robot off in dangerous areas to fend for himself. This likeness is abundantly clear as Ninja convinces Chappie to join their heist plan after encountering a dead dog and a living one, telling Chappie he has to do what it takes if he wants to be the living dog.

Blomkamp’s tackling of social issues through his thoroughly detailed sci-fi vision offers food for thought in his films, but following his debut with apartheid allegory and modern sci-fi classic “District 9,” his storytelling ability has been losing steam. His follow-up “Elysium” went far more formulaic with its healthcare disparity narrative, while “Chappie” wanders around in an exploratory, but not so compelling, fashion.

Though Blomkamp does get

into thought-provoking ideas with consciousness, he drags some of them out longer than their interest sustains, while a subplot with Hugh Jackman as a designer of a bigger militarized robot is obvious where it is going from the start. And considering how awesome the action scenes were in Blomkamp’s previous two films, the action here disappoints. While still enjoyable, it lacks most of the inspired edginess and spectacular violence Blomkamp does so well. Chappie uses throwing stars as his primary weapon, however, and there is a distinct pleasure in that ridiculous concept, just as it’s a sweet surprise that a story about a gangsta robot has an emotional heart at its core.

— Edited by Valerie Haag

COLUMBIA PICTURESChappie, played by Sharlto Copley, is the main character in the upcoming film “Chappie,” a story about a robot trained to be a criminal by Ninja and Yo-Landi Visser of Die Antwoord fame.

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The next big thing Apple unveiled acts as an extension of your heart and mind, giv-ing the consumer the option to wear their watch, phone, activity tracker, calendar and notepad, all of which can be encased in yellow or rose 18-karat-gold with a polished sapphire crystal screen.

That can be yours when it is released April 24, if you’re willing to spend upwards of $10,000. The least expensive watch comes in at $349. Some of the “lower-end” watches trade the gold en-cased-screen for aluminum or stainless steel.

The Apple Watch was revealed during Apple’s Spring Forward event Monday. There have been no new gadgets in five years and since former CEO Steve Jobs died in 2011. Current CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, said this is a project he has wanted to create since he was 5 years old. According to The International Business Times, the watch has a battery life of 18 hours, but can only make phone calls with an iPhone connection.

A Wall Street Journal per-sonal technology columnist, Geoffrey Fowler, tweeted

from the event that the watch allows nearly all the capabilities of a phone, but questioned its accessibility.

The watch comes in three different faces, and all have numerous wristbands to switch out. The broadness of what the Apple Watch covers is unlike anything on the market, but this isn’t the first

Smart Watch.LG, Samsung and Motorola

have previously released such watches, and Samsung’s has a battery life of multiple days. However, Apple’s watch provides GPS capability, a gyrometer and an acceler-ometer along with general smartphone capabilities. It also looks to be the most

versatile and stylish Smart Watch.

But, if all that isn’t enough or you just don’t feel like speaking to your wrist, you can always send your mom your heartbeat in real-time to let her know you’ve survived college midterms.

Along with the Apple Watch, Apple introduced the thinnest MacBook yet. The MacBook has an all-metal enclosure, according to Harpers Bazaar. There’s more battery capability and no longer a fan within the laptop whatsoever. The new Mac-Book starts at $1,299.

Fowler tweeted photos of the new MacBook, saying it’s so thin, it could slice cheese.

Researchkit was another announcement at the event. This pulls data from your apps, if you allow it to do so, and shares it with researchers across the world who are working to find cures for diseases. One of the major benefits mentioned was how it tracks a person’s gait to look for symptoms of Parkin-son’s disease.

According to AppleInsider, other applications to help detect breast cancer, cardio-vascular disease and treat diabetes and asthma have been developed.

It seems the new watch was the big crowd pleaser and drew the expected “ooohs” and “ahhhs,” but until pre-orders are able to be placed April 10, we won’t know how popular the watch and all its features are.

— Edited by Valerie Haag

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High-fashion stylist turns focus to all women with release of new QVC line

COLUMBUS, Ohio — As Lori Goldstein was beginning her career in the late 1970s, stylists weren’t a staple of the fashion industry, home shopping networks didn’t exist and a naked and pregnant Demi Moore had yet to bare her belly at checkout counters everywhere from the cover of Vanity Fair.

But for Goldstein decades later: Check, check and check.

She spent years as a stylist determining just the right look for subjects of award-winning ad campaigns, chart-topping music videos and iconic magazine covers including Moore’s.

Then the Ohio native sought a change.

Goldstein focused on offering style to the masses with an original line on home shopping network QVC and last week started a new one-hour weekly show.

“There was a whole world out there that wasn’t privy to the world that I was in,” Goldstein, who continues to work as a stylist and fashion editor-at-large for Elle magazine, said in a phone interview. “I knew that I somehow wanted to tie those two worlds together.”

Dubbed LOGO by Lori Goldstein, the brand is less about couture and more about creativity.

Launched in 2009, it emphasizes layering, including longer tops with asymmetrical cuts as well as leggings of varying length. LOGO and its line extensions, including a jewelry collection and a line for young girls, bring a variety of colors and textures.

With her brand, Goldstein hoped to be an authentic fashion guide and give all women — regardless

of their proximity to a fashion capital — license to express themselves through flattering clothes. Goldstein remembered people complimenting her outfits while growing up in Ohio, but saying they could never pull off her style.

“So many women are afraid to wear things because they don’t understand fashion the way I do, or they’re scared to,” Goldstein said.

QVC viewer and LOGO shopper Deborah Bonfanti found there is no cookie-cutter way of wearing Goldstein’s clothes.

“It crosses generations,” Bonfanti, 53, said. “Lori gives women my age permission to play.”

Goldstein, 58, was born in Columbus and moved to Cincinnati when she was 8. She worked for retailer Fred Segal after moving to Los Angeles when she was 18, then moved to New York City in the late 1970s.

“I can’t imagine ever not coming from the Midwest,” she said. “There is that normalcy and also that understanding of this great picture of America.”

Over 35 years Goldstein built her fashion career in New York on her knack for pairing garments and accessories for photo shoots and videos, becoming one of the first stylists in the fashion industry.

Goldstein worked with

photographer Annie Leibovitz in the 1980s on projects including American Express’ award-winning “Portraits” campaign and numerous Vanity Fair covers. She went on to work on dozens of Italian Vogue covers and served in editor roles for that and other fashion publications. She has styled numerous artists and actors, including Madonna in her 1984 “Take a Bow” music video.

Fellow QVC designer Isaac Mizrahi calls Goldstein’s brand democratic and inclusive and says customers gravitate to her.

“It’s not just a connection,”

he said. “There’s a kind of fire. There’s a passion between the ladies and their Lori.”

Goldstein, who recently bought a house in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and returns to Ohio occasionally to visit family, is someone fashion hopefuls in the Midwest can look up to, said Gargi Bhaduri, assistant professor at Kent State University’s fashion school.

“People like Lori can, of course, set examples as to how, if you just have the fashion, and you know what you want to do, you can just go out and make your mark,” Bhaduri said.

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MATT ROURKE/ASSOCIATED PRESSOhio native Lori Goldstein poses for a photograph on Monday at the home shopping network QVC headquarters in West Chester, Pa. Goldstein spent years as a stylist determining the right look for subjects of award-winning ad campaigns, chart-topping music videos and iconic magazine covers. Now she is focused on offering style to the masses with an original line on QVC and she recently started a new weekly show.

““There’s a kind of fire. There’s a passion between the ladies and their Lori.”

ISAAC MIZRAHIQVC designer

ERIC RISBERG/ASSOCIATED PRESSThe new Apple Watch is on display in the demo room after an Apple event on Monday in San Francisco. Pre-orders for the Apple Watch start April 10.

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Staten over Mason was right choice for All-Big 12 first team

QUOTE OF THE DAY

This weekend, as the Big 12 came to a close, the All-Big 12 first and second teams were announced. Perry Ellis, a junior forward, made the first team, but sophomore guard Frank Mason III was only on the second team. That might come as a shock to some Kansas fans.

Juwan Staten, the West Virginia guard who made first team and was named preseason Big 12 Player of the Year, is just as good as any guard this year, but there’s no doubt Mason has had an integral role in helping the Jayhawks win games this season.

Mason improved his points per game, averaging 12.6 points per game this season compared to 5.5 last season. He also improved his average in steals, free-throw percentage (on Saturday he hit the three game-tying free-throws against Oklahoma), and three-pointers.

However, I agree with the commit-

tee that Staten is the better guard and deserved the first team nod.

When the Big 12 committee, made up of league coaches, chooses who’s on the first and second team it looks for who has a great season individual-ly, but it tends to pick veteran players — as it should — such as Ellis, Buddy Hield, an Oklahoma guard and Big 12 Player of the Year, and Staten, a senior.

For one, he has more size than Mason, who is 5-foot-11 and too short to play guard in the NBA right now, but what makes Staten a standout is that he can drive inside and not get blocked, like during the victory against Mountaineers in Morgantown, W.Va. Jayhawk fans still see Mason struggle when he drives inside.

Staten is in the upper tier of Big 12 guard play for his defensive perfor-mance. After his game-winning layup with seconds left in the Kansas-West Virginia matchup last month in Morgantown, Kansas coach Bill Self commended Staten’s play.

“Regardless of how he got to the rim, he got to the rim and made the basket,” Self said. “Then he’s the one who defended Perry on the other

end. What a great hustle play. That’s a kid who really wanted to win.”When it

comes down to it, defense and driving to the rim are the big differences between

the two guards, and they’re why Staten gets the edge over Mason. Staten also leads Mason in most statistical categories this season, averaging 14.5 points per game.

Despite the great season fans have seen from Mason, we still have two more years to see how much more Mason can improve. Staten will be a lottery pick in the NBA Draft in June, so next season the Big 12 will be Mason’s to take over.

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Moustakas gets two hits for Royals against Brewers PHOENIX — Mike

Moustakas had two hits, including a two-run double, and the Kansas City Royals stayed perfect in Cactus League play with a 5-4 win over the winless Milwaukee Brewers on Monday.

The AL champion Royals are 6-0 and the lone unbeaten team in the majors during the exhibition season. The Brewers and Cubs are the only winless clubs at 0-5.

“Our guys are real focused about what they are doing,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “Our guys are real excited about the young kids getting opportunities and it excites the kids when they see the older veterans are excited about what they are doing. It gives everybody a good feeling.”

Moustakas had been 1 for 8 this spring going into the game. Raul Mondesi, son of the former major leaguer by the same game, had two hits and drove in a run for the Royals.

Brewers star Ryan Braun fouled out and lined out, leaving him hitless in five at-bats this spring.

Matt Long and Matt Clark hit solo homers for Milwaukee.

Brewers starter Jimmy Nelson, showing his new curveball for the first time, allowed one hit in two scoreless innings in his first spring start. He’s hoping an offspeed pitch will help him be more effective in the major leagues after enjoying dominant success in the minors last year.

“I liked the curveballs. When he missed, he missed

down with them,” Milwaukee manager Ron Roenicke said. “I think it’s going to be a nice pitch for him.”

Jason Vargas gave up an RBI triple to Martin Maldonado in his first start for the Royals. Maldonado has four hits in seven spring at-bats with regular catcher Jonathan Lucroy still sidelined by an injury.

STARTING TIMERoyals: Coming off a career-

best 3.71 ERA last year and a start in the AL pennant-clinching game against Baltimore, Vargas struck out three in two innings.

Brewers: Nelson went 2-9 in 12 starts with Milwaukee last year, but sparkled (10-2, 1.46 ERA) in 16 starts at Triple-A Nashville.

“I threw three curveballs and a couple of changeups and they were good pitches,” Nelson said. “The curve is something I’ve been playing around with since Double-A. I have worked on it enough off a mound to put it into games. But this offseason, I put my mind to working on it and the speed difference will be big for me.”

TRAINER’S ROOMBrewers: Roenicke said

Lucroy, who has been out with a right hamstring injury suffered during a running drill in mid-February, could see his first game action by this weekend. Lucroy, who had hamstring problems much of last season but was able to play through it, will get some at-bats — but not run the bases — in some minor league intrasquad games in the middle of the week. ... LHP Dontrelle Willis, who has had

a stiff neck since Saturday, could throw in a minor league game on Thursday. ... 1B Adam Lind is still a few days away with a back issue.

WHO’S ON FIRST?With still Lind sidelined,

Gerardo Parra, who won two Gold Gloves in Arizona but is the fourth outfielder in Milwaukee, has been taking groundballs at first. Roenicke said he might put him there in a game there soon.

“He played over there before and he messes around there all the time so we’ve been talking about it,” Roenicke said. “It’s impressive when you watch him in workouts. So we’ll see.”

UP NEXTRoyals: Kansas City is back

in Surprise to face the Chicago White Sox. Starter Jeremy Guthrie will make his first Cactus League appearance.

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CHARLIE RIEDEL/ASSOCIATED PRESSKansas City Royals’ Mike Moustakas fields a ball during spring training practice Feb. 20 in Surprise, Ariz. The Royals snagged an early season victory against the Milwaukee Brewers Monday, winning 5-4.

CHARLIE RIEDEL/ASSOCIATED PRESSKansas City Royals’ Mike Moustakas bats during spring training practice Feb. 25 in Surprise, Ariz. Moustakas had two hits Monday night against the Brewers.

Volume 128 Issue 91 kansan.com Tuesday, March 10, 2015

COMMENTARYConference

strength led Kansas to Big 12 title

All good things must come to end.

This is the year it will come to an end. It has to.

Everyone associated with Kansas basketball heard the noise as the 2014-15 season began.

This was the year that the be-loved conference streak would ultimately come to an end.

Just last week, an improbable comeback on Senior Night over West Virginia helped Kansas win outright in front of thousands of adoring fans in Allen Fieldhouse.

It couldn’t be done, they said. The conference was too strong, they said.

Bill Self had the last laugh because the conference strength is exactly what helped Kansas win the Big 12.

But let’s backtrack to the beginning of the season and the claims that the conference was simply too strong for the Jayhawks to clinch another title.

Before the season, many experts picked Texas to bully Kansas from the top with its super-sized frontcourt. Self even considered the Long-horns the favorite before the season. But Texas finished seventh in the conference.

The veteran-heavy Cyclones, led by Fred Hoiberg, the only coach in the conference within arms reach of reigning king Self, was also supposed to have a shot. Hoiberg’s squad lost two consecutive games to Baylor and Kansas State, at a time when it controlled its own destiny to win the conference.

West Virginia saw an 18-point lead vanish against the Jayhawks, without Kansas making a shot beyond the arc. The complete meltdown demoralized the Mountain-eers, and ruined any hopes they may have had at a share conference title.

So many teams had a shot, but it was Kansas, again.

But it was because this conference was so good that the Jayhawks were able to win it in a year in which they weren’t that good. A record of 13-5 was good enough to win the Big 12, which is incredible considering how tough the conference is.

Nine of those wins came from the confines of Allen Fieldhouse, which means the recipe to dethrone the Jay-hawks is to be perfect at home. No other team, not even Iowa State with Hilton Magic, could be perfect at home.

Kansas won this conference outright with a losing con-ference road record. No team in the Big 12 had a winning conference record on the road.

Had this year been a year in which the Big 12 had just three or four good teams, Kansas may have had the streak snapped. But the depth of the league benefited the less-talented Jayhawks.

It was supposed to end this year, they said. It did not.

— Edited by Miranda Davis

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The Jayhawks will waste no time getting back to Hoglund Ballpark as they take on the Central Michigan Chippewas today at 3 p.m.

Coming off of a two-game skid to lose the home-opener series to Utah, the Jayhawks (6-10) will look to bounce back and make improvements in a single-game series with the Chippewas (10-5).

“I think for right now it’s got to start with starting pitching,” said Kansas coach Ritch Price. “We need them to go out there and pound the strike zone and let us settle in so we’re not playing from behind.”

Kansas’ pitching struggled throughout the Utah series, in which 10 Jayhawk pitch-ers saw time on the mound. Younger pitchers had to step up in the absence of senior Drew Morovick, who is out with a sore elbow.

“Obviously he’s a guy that we need a lot from,” Price said. “Hopefully he’ll be able to bounce back and be able to go next week.”

The Chippewas have been busy on the road playing at Florida Gulf Coast, Stetson, Texas State and Wichita State. They will come to Lawrence fresh off of their 2-1 series win against the Shockers in Wichi-ta this past weekend.

Kansas junior Hayden Ed-wards (1-1) will make his fourth start of the season on the mound for the Jayhawks in today’s game. He is throw-ing a 4.50 ERA this season with 12 strikeouts in 14 in-nings pitched.

IMPACT PLAYERS TO WATCH

Kansas junior Colby Wright comes into the game boasting

a .404 batting average with 21 hits and only two strikeouts. Wright has been spectacular this season at getting on base with a .537 on-base percent-age and an NCAA-leading nine times hit by pitch.

Wright led the team with five hits throughout the Utah se-ries, where the team recorded 29 hits total.

“There were a lot of hard hit balls that were outs,” said Price. “I was actually pleased with the way we swung the bats.”

Kansas sophomore Joven Afenir knows all about hard hits becoming outs as he earned the No. 6 spot on Fri-day’s ESPN SportsCenter Top 10 plays with his diving catch in center field. Afenir made an even more impressive catch on Saturday along with a home run on Sunday to make him a player to watch for at the plate as well as on the field.

— Edited by Valerie Haag

FRANK WEIRICH/KANSANInfielder Blair Beck tags out a Utah runner early in Friday’s game. Kansas defeated Utah 7-5, beginning the three-game series that ended Sunday.

FRANK WEIRICH/KANSANInfielder Blair Beck slams home the first home run of the series against Utah on Friday afternoon. Kansas won the game 7-5, but ultimately came out on bottom, losing the three-game series 2-1.

1. KANSAS (24-7, 13-5) Last week: 1-1

Previous ranking: 1 The Jayhawks closed out

their season with a loss, but with the Big 12 title locked up outright, there is no oth-er place they belong other than at the top of the list. Coach Bill Self continued to rave about the strength of the league, saying that he believes seven of the ten Big 12 teams deserve to make the NCAA Tournament.

2. OKLAHOMA (21-9, 12-6)

Last week: 1-0Previous ranking: 2

The Sooners won their lone game of the week, knocking off the Jayhawks on senior night, and they probably would have been on top of the rankings if they hadn’t fallen to Iowa State the week before. Coach Lon Kruger said it doesn’t really matter who his squad faces in the Big 12 Tournament, because either way the matchup will be tough.

3. IOWA STATE (22-8,

12-6) Last week: 1-0

Previous ranking: 3Following Iowa State’s vic-

tory over the TCU Horned Frogs, coach Fred Hoiberg talked about the momentum his team could build in the Big 12 Tournament as it heads into the NCAA Tournament,

but while one might expect the momentum to carry over, Hoiberg wasn’t convinced, and said he wasn’t sure about any “direct correlation,” al-though he added that he still found the tournament to be important to the team.

4. BAYLOR (23-8, 11-7)

Last week: 1-0Previous ranking: 4

The Bears won their only game in the last week against the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Their win wasn’t enough to move the team up a spot on

the power rankings as they tied for fourth in the league. Even with the Bears project-ed to be safely slotted in the NCAA Tournament, coach Scott Drew said he wanted to see 128 teams in the NCAA Tournament, because all of the teams work hard and de-serve to see the fruits of their effort.

5. WEST VIRGINIA (23-8,

11-7) Last week: 1-1

Previous ranking: 5 After falling to the Jayhawks

in overtime, the Mountain-eers closed out their season with a win against the Okla-homa State Cowboys. Coach Bob Huggins complimented his team’s play in the face of injury, adding that “it hasn’t been just one guy,” but rather a team effort to make up for the losses of seniors Juwan Staten and Gary Browne.

6. TEXAS (19-12, 8-10)

Last week: 1-0Previous ranking: 6

The Longhorns beat the Kansas State Wildcats in their lone matchup, solidifying their spot at sixth in the Big 12. With the team on the bub-ble headed into postseason play, coach Rick Barnes was asked if he thought the field should be expanded, and he said he likes it “the way it is right now.”

7. OKLAHOMA STATE (18-

12, 8-10) Last week: 1-1

Previous ranking: 8 Having gone 1-1 over the

last seven days, the Cowboys jumped over the Wildcats, who again fell below .500. Like many of the other coaches, coach Travis Ford raved about the strength of the league, and he definitely hopes the NCAA Tournament committee agrees, as the Oklahoma State Cowboys are one of the teams on the bubble.

8. KANSAS STATE (15-16, 8-10)

Last week: 0-1Previous ranking: 7

After falling back below the .500 mark, coach Bruce Weber acknowledged that his team held a players’ only meeting, which he hopes can spark his club. Weber also ac-knowledged that sophomore Jevon Thomas will be back for the Big 12 Tournament, which should provide his squad with a pretty big boost going into the game against TCU.

9. TCU (17-14, 4-14) Last week: 0-2

Previous ranking: 9 After winning three out

of four contests, the Horned Frogs have completely fall-en off, losing three games in a row. Coach Trent Johnson held a positive outlook on the Big 12 coaches teleconference, and said many of the losses were to NCAA Tournament teams, which speaks to the depth of the league.

10. TEXAS TECH (13-18,

3-15) Last week: 0-1

Previous ranking: 10 The Red Raiders were un-

able to finish off their season with a win, falling to just 3-15 in conference play. Coach Tubby Smith acknowledged the disappointment of this season, but said they were starting over fresh now, and it was “the only attitude you could take” heading into the tournament.

— Edited by Valerie Haag

BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSANSophomore guard Wayne Selden Jr. dunks in the victory against West Virgin-ia on March 3 in Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas is no. 1 in the Power Rankings.