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Insisting public higher education should remain a public good and not a private one was the focus of Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little’s Monday Message this week.

Citing that over the last 15 years, per-student state support has decreased roughly 40 percent, Gray-Little noted some of the ramifications of that decline.

“Though universities continue to seek ways to become more efficient, the erosion of state support has inevitably forced many schools to scale back their mission or, in many cases, to increase tuition,” Gray-Little wrote in her message.

Joe Monaco, associate director of Strategic Communications, said the chancellor’s Monday Messages typically touch on topics that would affect the University or current happenings. This trend in education from public to private, and the proposed legislation to freeze Regents University’s tuition are some of the issues currently at hand.

“We often write about topics that are timely or relevant to the campus community,” he said. “This seemed like one that was timely and relevant.”

Gray-Little wrote the proposed freeze to tuition “was a curious move by legislators, as it does nothing

to address the state’s revenue shortfall, and because KU remains very affordable compared to neighboring state universities and aspirational peer universities.”

This proposal is more detrimental to the University than previous proposed cuts, Monaco said.

“We understand the intent of that, and we share the legislature’s focus on affordability for Kansas students and families,” Monaco said. “But a tuition freeze is complicated and would result in a greater loss of revenue for the University than the original cuts that were proposed earlier in the session.”

As Gray-Little continued, she added the freeze “prevents us from being able to keep up with inflation, let alone to embark on new initiatives to benefit Kansas.”

While the legislature debates this bill, among other budget bills, Monaco said the University will continue to

To celebrate Earth Day, two student organizations will work to clean up campus. Peer Health Educator (PHE) and the KU Center for Sustainability student groups will be on Wescoe Beach and Stauffer-Flint Lawn from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m to educate about cigarette litter and pick up cigarette butts around campus.

Kelsey Fortin, a health educator at Watkins Health Center, said the groups plan to educate students on what happens environmentally when cigarette butts are littered. Volunteers will scatter around campus picking up cigarette butts, where they will display the litter in a litter box at Stauffer-Flint.

“We will be displaying the litter box showing cigarette

butts so students can see the impact that is being made,” Fortin said.

Kirby Knipp, a senior and Peer Health Educators from Olathe, helped other Peer Health Educators and students within the KU Center for Sustainability group pick up cigarette butts in preparation for the event.

“We have each collected hundreds and hundreds of butts to showcase in the litter box and we aren’t done yet,” Knipp said.

Morgan Beaumann is a senior from Norton studying applied behavioral sciences. As part of her practicum, she has been working as an intern for the KU Center for Sustainability. Beaumann conducted research on smoking behaviors in preparation for this event.

“We are trying to understand why people believe it is okay to

litter cigarette butts and how we can prevent them from doing so,” Beaumann said.

KU Center for Sustainability Education and Outreach Coordinator Kim Criner agreed. She said throwing out cigarette butts is the last “socially acceptable” form of littering.

“People think the [cigarette] butts are biodegradable, but that is a false perception,” Criner said. “The butts are full of toxins that leach into our environment, like our water supplies.”

The Peer Health Educators and KU Center for Sustainability groups want this event to lead to a cleaner campus and environment in the future. Both campus groups will use this opportunity to provide education on the current push

‘Kick Butts, Clean Up Campus’ event today

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JAMES HOYT/KANSANFuture Majority members sell baked goods on Wescoe Beach on Tuesday afternoon. They are a student political interest group working to raise political aware-ness about the current state of the education budget in Kansas.

Future Majority group aims to raise education budget money

““We understand the intent of that, and we share the legislature’s focus on affordability for Kansas students and families.”

JOE MONACOAssociate director of

Strategic Communications

Late Tuesday afternoon, members of the Student Safety Advisory Board heard proposals from the Student Senate Transportation Coordinator and representatives of the Willow Domestic Violence Center.

The Willow Domestic Violence Center presented a proposal for the creation of a full-time KU Outreach Advocate. The advocate position would be paid and allow the Willow to provide advocacy and outreach services to students, staff and faculty in an on-campus setting, according to the proposal.

Kristine Chapman, director of community engagement at the Willow, pointed out that in their needs assessment for the proposal they found that, according to the Center for Disease Control, 1 in 3 teens and young adults of both genders will face dating violence.

“We feel like there’s a huge demographic of people that are falling through the gaps,” said Becca Burns, director of volunteer services for the Willow. “If the numbers are

as high as they state they are nationally, it’s an impossible task for any one person.”

Burns also said another issue their proposal is trying to address is the difficulty students have in reaching off-campus services like their center.

“Being able to be on campus and provide on campus support group services, for example, might be really beneficial to someone who does not feel safe enough

Members of Future Majority, a student political interest group, held a bake sale Tuesday afternoon in front of Wescoe Hall to raise money toward the state of Kansas’ budget shortfall. The group also distributed flyers and voter registration information.

The group’s focus on this budget shortfall was how the shortfall would affect education.

“We want to make students aware that poor governance and bad policy does have a consequence for them, so we thought we’d have some fun with it,” said Clay Cosby, a University senior and Future Majority member. “We said

we’d try to raise $667 million to help save the state of Kansas with a bake sale.”

Cosby said 60 percent of the Kansas budget funded education.

“I just thought it was a really important issue because I’m paying for my own college,” said freshman Vince Munoz another Future Majority member.

The Associated Press reported that the budget shortfall after Monday was $400 million and growing, but previously was reported as $667 million at the beginning of April. It was reported by the Kansas City Star that Kansas’ budget shortfall between both 2015 and 2016 could be around $1 billion.

Cosby said the group planned

to meet with legislators who are sympathetic with their initiative to raise awareness of the budget shortfall at the Capitol building in Topeka. They will also film a video of their trip.

Future Majority also plans to send a check with the $17.25 they raised, Cosby said, and offer it to the Kansas Department of Revenue.

“I’m not under the impression that the Department of Revenue is going to accept a check from the Future Majority,” said Cosby.

Munoz and Cosby said the people on Wescoe Beach who donated to the bake sale or spoke to the group received its tongue-in-cheek message well.

“When they see we’re having

fun with it its a little bit more engaging to have a bake sale,” Cosby said.

“A lot of people didn’t know what we were doing at first,” Munoz said. “Some people even thought we were seriously trying to raise [$667 million] with a bake sale.”

The group identifies itself as non-partisan. Cosby said the purpose of Future Majority is two-pronged: to raise awareness in state and local politics and to mobilize student engagement in politics.

“We are independent speakers,” said Munoz. We’re not out to elect a certain person with an R or a D by their name.”

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MISSY MINEAR/KANSANKristine Chapman, director of community engagement for the Willow Do-mestic Violence Center, presents a proposal to the Student Safety Advisory Board on Tuesday afternoon in the Kansas Union. Chapman is proposing to have a full-time advocate for domestic violence on the KU campus.

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Two experts will speak tonight about the legalization of marijuana — a popular topic nationally, especially with the unofficial marijuana holiday 4/20 happening earlier this week.

SUA is hosting the debate on the legalization from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The event is free for any student with a KU ID.

The guest speaker favoring the legalization of marijuana is Aaron Houston, a founder of The Marijuana Majority and a full-time marijuana legalization lobbyist.

According to its website, The Marijuana Majority aims to help people better understand marijuana and its current legal status.

“Marijuana Majority exists to help more people

understand the simple fact that supporting commonsense solutions like regulating marijuana sales and ending marijuana arrests are mainstream positions and that there's no reason those who support reform should be afraid to say so,” the site said.

Kevin Sabet, an assistant professor of psychiatry and director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida and a co-founder of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, is the man on the other side of the debate. In a 2013 Rolling Stones Article, Sabet was named one of the top-five opponents to marijuana legalization.

He served in the Obama Administration as Senior Advisor at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) from 2009-2011, according to his website, and worked

in the Clinton and Bush administrations as well. Currently, Sabet works as a consultant collaborating with various governments, the media and other organizations on a wide array of issues relating to drug policy.

Sarah Ingham, the Current Events Coordinator for SUA, said SUA works to bring events to KU that are interesting to students. The organization chose to bring a political debate about marijuana to KU

to raise awareness on the issue and because it was relevant to students.

“They [students] have ideas if it should be legalized or not, and seeing two people show their opinions could give them the opportunity to learn more about it if they want,” Ingham said.

Ingham said SUA will have Brett Bricker, a debate coach at KU, act as the moderator for the debate. After the debate, there will be a question and answer session with Sabet and Houston where students can ask any questions they want.

Brandon Tómas, a sophomore from Wichita, said he’s interested in attending the event. Tómas said that legalization of marijuana can be important for students in college.

“Marijuana can be used as a relaxing agent, so students who are getting stressed

or depressed have a way to relax, and get away from it for a moment. A lot of people are turning to alcohol, and alcoholism is a huge problem,” Tómas said.

Danny Hsieh, a junior from Princeton, N.J., said while he agrees there can be benefits to using marijuana, it can have an adverse effect on students’ education.

“You’re supposed to study and not get addicted to something else like marijuana,” Hsieh said.

With the legalization of marijuana a prominent issue in politics today, especially among college students nationwide, the “Cannabusiness” debate is relevant and noteworthy for students who care about the issue or want to learn more and hear from both sides on the legalization of the drug.

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This Feb. 1, 2011 file photo shows medical marijuana clone plants at a medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland, Calif. Two experts will speak tonight in the Kansas Union Ballroom about the legalization of marijuana. The debate, hosted by SUA, is free for students with a KU ID.

““You’re supposed to study and not get addicted to something else like mari-juana.”

DANNY HSEIH Junior from Princeton, N.J.

3 TAKEAWAYS:

• SSAB is considering the option of adding an on-campus KU Outreach advocate from the Willow Domestic Violence Center.

• SSAB also heard ideas about adding student volunteers to Safe Buses to act as advocates and witnesses for students and assistants to the bus drivers.

• Future recommendations for positions from SSAB will not be made until after the Chancellor’s Sexual Assault Task Force releases their recommendations on May 1.

Sustainability group files first motion in Hall vs. KU lawsuit

Students for a Sustain-able Future (SFASF) have filed their first motion for a judgment on the proceedings in the Hall vs. KU lawsuit. The motion to the court is in defense of the release of the Koch-KU contracts and related correspon-dence, which was what prompted the lawsuit by business school lecturer Art Hall in the first place.

SFASF’s reasoning for this defense was re-leased in a statement:

1. Art Hall is a full-time University employee and is governed by university rules;

2. The University has advised all employees that email is not confi-dential partly because the University is ac-countable as a public institution and subject to the state open records law, and;

3. Academic freedom is advanced by allowing the students to engage in the free pursuit of truth;The group is waiting for the court to grant a hearing, and in the meantime, asking for donations to help with attorney costs at gofund-me.com/unkochku.

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to step outside of their community,” Burns said.

SSAB asked a number of questions about the proposal, including where the advocate would work from, funding, mandatory reporting and the overlap with services already offered on campus.

The advocate, who would most likely be a recent University graduate, would work from a safe,

confidential location on campus, according to the proposal.Jane Tuttle, assistant

vice provost for Student Success, also said SSAB should first consider the recommendations of the Chancellor’s Sexual Assault Task Force Committee, which are scheduled to be presented on May 1.

SSAB also heard beginning suggestions of an idea to add student volunteers to ride

the Safe Bus and to act as advocates and witnesses for students and assistants to bus drivers, according to Student Senate Transportation Coordinator Jenny Erice.

SSAB asked a number of questions about the idea, such as incentives for volunteers, training to prepare volunteers and volunteers’ anonymity.

SSAB’s next meeting is scheduled for May 5.

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towards banning tobacco on campus. The proposed policy can be found at www.tobaccofree.ku.edu.

Students will also have the chance to receive free KU Tobacco-Free t-shirts and bracelets at the event.

Students who’d like to be involved should show up

anytime between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Wescoe Beach. They can also volunteer by signing up at www.sustain.ku.edu/kickbutts before the event.

If unable to attend the event, students can fill out a survey at sustainability.ku.edu/litterbutts.

— Edited by Vicky Diaz-Camacho

work with legislators.“It is something we would

encourage lawmakers to consider very carefully because there are a lot of implications of this,” he said.

Mirroring that message and emphasizing the importance of the University’s students, faculty and discoveries, Gray-

Little said, “Whether you are educating students, providing outreach to underserved communities, or discovering the next product or idea that benefits our world, you are the reason the University of Kansas remains — and should always be treated as — a public good.

— Edited by Jordan Fox

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This Feb. 1, 2011 file photo shows medical marijuana clone plants at a medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland, Calif. Two experts will speak tonight in the Kansas Union Ballroom about the legalization of marijuana. The debate, hosted by SUA, is free for students with a KU ID.

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NEW YORK — The nation's biggest city, in a far-reaching effort to limit its impact on the environment, is set to mark Earth Day by announcing the ambitious goal of reducing its waste output by 90 percent by 2030.

The Zero Waste plan, which includes an overhaul of the city's recycling program, incentives to reduce waste and tacit support for the City Council's plan to dramatically reduce the use of plastic shopping bags, will

be announced by Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday. Its goal is sweeping: New York would be the largest city in the Western Hemisphere to adopt the plan, which aims to reduce the amount of its waste by more than 3 million tons from its 2005 level of about 3.6 million tons.

The waste reduction plan is part of an update to the sustainability project named PlaNYC, created by de Blasio's predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, to provide a framework for mitigating the

impacts of population growth and a changing climate on the city's infrastructure. De Blasio, who largely praised PlaNYC, is keeping its components but rebranding it OneNYC.

"The average New Yorker throws out nearly 15 pounds of waste a week, adding up to millions upon millions of tons a year," de Blasio said in a statement to The Associated Press. "To be a truly sustainable city, we need to tackle this challenge head on."

For decades, the city's trash has been exported by rail or barge and sent to facilities in

South Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania or upstate New York. The new plan would eliminate almost all of the garbage exports, which currently cost more than $350 million a year.

The amount of waste produced by the city has fallen 14 percent since 2005 due to an increase in recycling, and a key component of the Zero Waste plan is to bolster that output by simplifying the process.

Currently, residential buildings have two types of recycling bins. The city's new single-stream plan, already

used by other cities, would consolidate all of the recycling into one type of bin by 2020.

Organics — food scraps, yard waste and other things that cannot be recycled — make up 31 percent of the city's residential waste stream. A program to collect that material directly from residents' homes is being expanded to nearly 200,000 residents by year's end, and officials want to serve every home in the city by the end of 2018. The city, which has about 8.5 million residents, also will offer economic incentives

to participate, including potentially a property tax rebate for homeowners.

The city also aims to reduce commercial waste by 90 percent by 2030 by adopting a program similar to what is being used with residential buildings. That could also mean tax incentives for businesses who participate and fines for those who don't.

Environmental groups briefed on the plan Tuesday applauded its wide-ranging scope.

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When looking ahead at the broad expanse

of life we have before us, we hope that it will be shining and bright. But as we all know, our future may throw us a curveball or two, one of which may very well be concerning bouts of unintended unem-ployment. According to the Associated Press, each one of us has a significant chance of being laid off for some period in our lives.

Unemployment brings a

host of negative effects. The loss of a job is often coupled with negative psychological effects, slides into poverty and a decline in the production of goods and services. However, it is not all bad, especially looking at the grand scheme of things. It is easier said than done, but perhaps solace can be taken in the magnificent behind-the-scenes mechanics of a growing economy, like the one in the United States.

In capitalist economies, there will always be some level of unemployment. This is not necessarily a fault of capitalism; rather, according to economist John Buck, it is the result of workers in a free society being able to choose what sort of work they wish to do. While it is true that unemployment may be lower in communist economies, this comes with a sacrifice of restricted liberties or even forced labor.

So why is there always some unemployment? One reason is that job searching can take a significant amount of time — up to 27 weeks at the height of the Great Recession — but this is not necessarily an entirely bad thing. After all, we would rather take time to search for a job that we like and matches our skills, rather than immediately be pushed into a job we hate, right? This type of joblessness — called frictional unemployment — allows businesses and individ-uals to match jobs effectively and efficiently.

When industries change or whole new ones are invented, job loss can be an unfortunate albeit necessary consequence through a method that sounds like the title of a Hollywood thriller: creative destruction. Take for example the inven-tion of the personal computer. Entire industries sprung up overnight, with the adoption

of the new technology leading to a phenomenal growth in the standard of living.

Even though everybody benefited from this in the long run, typewriter manufacturers were not happy about this development. Should the gov-ernment have spent billions of taxpayer dollars to prop up an industry that had outlived its usefulness? I don’t think so. If we insisted on that logic, we would be spending millions to subsidize the production of abacuses. This concept may apply differently in the public sector, such as when cuts to education occur, but the fact of the matter is that this logic applies perfectly well to the private sector, which makes up 85 percent of the American workforce.

This does not mean that those of us who lose their jobs should be thrown out on the street. I believe that in pros-perous system that requires

both gains and losses, such as capitalism; those saddled with the losses should have access to a safety net. In addition, they should be granted oppor-tunities to retrain their skills and to adapt to innovations, perhaps through government programs. Thus, they will ultimately join the ranks of the more prosperous.

But we can’t avoid not harm-ing anyone with economic progress. If we did that, then all of our technology would still be stuck in the middle ages. Unemployment is no doubt a burden, but beneath the mucky exterior, there lies opportunities for an entire na-tion’s economy. And luckily, it means we do not have to write essays on typewriters.

John Olson is a sophomore from Wichita studying economics

I have never heard of a more ridic-ulous notion than “buying your homework.” Students are already

required to pay good money for other miscellaneous fees, so why should homework be an additional cost? In most classes, online homework is worth about 10 percent of the overall grade. While 10 percent isn’t a large amount, getting an A without doing any of the homework would require receiving perfect scores in every other aspect of the class.

While it’s becoming easier to find cheaper textbooks on sites like Am-azon, or by borrowing books from individuals who have taken the course already, access codes eliminate the possibility of renting textbooks for a cheaper cost. Access codes from rented books aren’t guaranteed to work, ac-cording to the general policies of pop-ular book-rental site Chegg. Although online textbooks with access codes can be cheaper than print editions, overall, they are not cheaper when one already has the textbook one wanted to rent.

Once access codes are purchased, they only last for a certain amount of time, so if there’s a gap between taking the first-level course and second-lev-el course you may have to buy an additional access code. For example, Physics 211 and Physics 212 both use MasteringPhysics for their online homework, so the same access code

will work for both classes, but only when both are taken within a 12-18 month period. While it’s nice that you wouldn’t have to pay for an access code for the following semester, it causes problems if courses can’t be taken consecutively. Additionally, if students must repeat a course they will need to purchase a new access code, since they are unable to use the access code from the previous semesters.

According to Time, material read from printed books as opposed to e-books may be more likely to be remembered long-term. The article refers to a study done by Kate Garland, a lecturer from University of Leicester, who observed that more repetition was required with computer reading for the information to stick. Access codes typically include access to the online textbook, while the printed loose-leaf version costs, of course, a little extra.

Although both online homework and written homework can be easily googled for the answers, some online programs allow a way to guess and check solutions until coming to the right answer. Online homework gen-erates direct feedback so that a student can see what they did wrong, but that feedback doesn’t always include an ex-planation on why the answer is wrong. While it all boils down to the integrity of the student, online homework needs to offer a more unique way of working out problems that eliminates the guess and check option.

It’s outrageous to make students, who are already paying a lot of money, pay even more for the ability to do their homework. I’d rather take back my pen and pencil and do it the old-fashioned way.

Meg Huwe is a sophomore from Overland Park studying chemical engineering

Homework is never going to be fun no matter how you frame it. Whether

your professor hands out hard copies of assignments, or you have a class that requires homework to be completed online, both, in the end, are equally boring. However, turning in an assignment online is a much more convenient option for students, as well as our teachers.

Certain on-campus classes at uni-versities require an access code to be purchased in order to complete homework assignments or use Blackboard for homework purpos-es. Instead of having to make cop-ies for hundreds of students which will eventually get thrown away, each student has a virtual copy of their homework which can be easily accessed, making this a more environmentally friendly option. In addition, professors’ workloads are reduced when opting for online homework; less time is put into collecting, grading and returning assignments. This also reduces the amount of paperwork students need to keep track of.

Some may argue that online homework makes it easier for students to cheat on their assign-ments, yet this can be argued for both situations. When have you ever had homework that was given

to you in class and due during that same period? Homework is work done at home, meaning students are given the same opportunity to cheat on hard-copy assignments as they would an online assignment.

Another thing to consider is handwriting legibility. Have you ever had an answer become mis-interpreted due to your handwrit-ing skills, or lack thereof? It’s a frustrating situation for students and teachers to deal with. Having the ability to type in your responses and/or select certain answers, ver-sus writing them down, stops your professors from having to decipher your handwriting.

Certain online systems provide students with additional features when purchasing an access code. Some of these features include on-line tutorials, practice quizzes/tests and further instruction on items that may be giving students a hard time. These additional features may be what spikes up the price of ac-cess codes, but the benefits of these features are priceless.

During a time when basically everything can be done online, it’s only natural that homework is one of those options as well. Students and staff benefit from the ease of online assignments. The ability to receive instant feedback on a homework problem is helpful for the learning process of students, and lessens the already heavy workload our educators must han-dle everyday.

Cecilia Cho is a senior from Overland Park studying American Studies

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FFA OF THE DAYUsing your straightener to iron

your clothes... #poorcollegekidproblems

Missy... Is your mother!!

Nothing beats a day when you beat the Sudoku, cryptoquip AND

crossword

You know it’s a good night when your roommate brings home a bucket of chicken and booze.

If one more bug flies in my eye or up my nose, I quit. I’m done.

I like the person who is sitting next to me in the 11 bus april 21,

2015.. 4:11pm

Don’t you just love it when all the red buses are all together

instead of spaced out! Way to go bus drivers!

College Logic: Skip class in order to do better in another class.

I love that I’m in a class that just watches movies the whole time.

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I was shushed in the library while doing hw... I was sitting alone, not talking to anyone. I must

have turned a page too loudly. #mybad

Pet peeve: when you know some-one read your text bc they have

the read message feature on and they still don’t answer!

Coffeee buzzzz.

The first five days after the weekends are the hardest.

Today’s smokey eye is brought to you by yesterday’s eyeliner on top

of Tuesday’s eyeliner.

If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me when i’m

graduating... #Idberich

Shut up liver, you’re fine.

I just wanna thank cheese for being the only thing stable in my

life. #cheeseordie

This week has been too much stress and too little booze.

22 is still an acceptable age to love spongebob, right?

The biggest lie I tell myself is that I’m gonna wake up early to

study tomorrow morning.

I wish my friends were cool and liked to facetime with me. >:[

xoxo gossip girl.

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This year, the University’s Choreographic Fellow chosen by the Department of Dance was Regina Klenjoski, founder of her very own dance company that’s based out of Long Beach, Calif. The fellowship provides an opportunity for guest artists to not only share their work, but also give dance students the experience to work closely with a professional.

Klenjoski’s plans to apply to the University’s fellowship coincidentally aligned with her husband’s plans, and her family moved to Wichita before she was even offered the position. Since January, she has been training students in the University Dance Company, all while maintaining operations in California from thousands of miles away.

After months of preparing, the University Dance Company’s spring concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday and Friday at the Lawrence Arts Center. The Kansan spoke with Klenjoski regarding her work

on the show, her personal accomplishments and more.

KANSAN: How did you decide that you wanted to make a career out of dance?

KLENJOSKI: I was studying business in college, but I had a roommate who was dancing. I had danced in high school, and she ended up opening up a lot of possibilities for me. I still wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do, but I kept dance a part of my life. When I decided to develop my own company, I got to combine my business skills and dance.

KANSAN: What’s it been like owning your own dance company?

KLENJOSKI: I love teaching and working with the younger dancers. It’s been about 20 years that I’ve been training dancers through the company and I still enjoy it. I also like to teach at universities to work with other passionate dancers who want to do this for a living.

KANSAN: What made you

decide to be a Choreographic Fellow here at KU?

KLENJOSKI: It was the application. It seemed to fit me as an artist. I’ve been presented with opportunities throughout my life, but this was right up my alley. I also love the midwest, and it just happened to be a coincidence that my family and I were planning on moving to Wichita.

KANSAN: Why did you decide to move to Wichita if your company is based in California?

KLENJOSKI: My husband was recruited for work here, and it’s generally a good place to raise a family. I’m getting ready to start strategic planning for my company and how I’m going to move forward while living here in Wichita, whether it be with a dual city program or to move it to Kansas.

KANSAN: What has your work been like as Choreographic Fellow?

KLENJOSKI: I auditioned

dancers, and I set one of the dances as one of my company’s works. I created “Emoticons” in 2011, and it involves five dances. I spent weeks teaching that dance, and even had two of my dancers from California come to assist me. I also taught in modern technique and that was a daily occurrence.

KANSAN: What can the audience expect from “Emoticons?”

KLENJOSKI: It’s about technology, stemming from the idea that I can’t ever put my cellphone down. I’m constantly checking my email, texts, voicemails — it really is an addiction. Technology is infiltrating society and changing the way we act, so I wanted to bring awareness to this. The dance is set in a very indigenous, isolated world. In it, there’s this need to connect with other people.

KANSAN: What are you looking forward to most with the show?

KLENJOSKI: I’m excited to see how the dancers have grown

in their work. Every dancer will perform slightly different, and I’m looking forward to seeing how they each fit into their role and how they’ve developed. I’ve really enjoyed my time here at KU in working with these talented and incredibly professional performers.

KANSAN: What do you have to say to any young person hesitant to pursue a career in dance?

KLENJOSKI: If you love it, it makes you feel good and it fuels you, pursue your dream. I’m not going to lie, it’s hard. Dance is a difficult career, but if you love it and have a passion for it, don’t give up. Surround yourself with people who believe in what you’re doing, because nothing will tear you down faster than someone who doesn’t want you to succeed.

— Edited by Vicky Diaz-Camacho

MADISON, Wis. — Late last spring, a doctoral student worked late into the night. As she doodled, her chemistry thesis took on a life of its own, transforming into a comic book.

Veronica Berns, 28, was working on her Ph. D. in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin -Madison. Berns said she long struggled to explain her work to her parents and friends. The self-described comic book fan said she began drafting her thesis on quasicrystals — a subset of crystals that diverge from the usual structural characteristics of crystals. Berns quickly concluded that she would be best able to describe the oddball compounds with illustrations.

“They’re not very well-polished illustrations. That’s on purpose,” Berns said. “I wanted it to be like I’m explaining on the back of an envelope.”

And on many occasions, it was on the back of an envelope or on a napkin

that she doodled sketches of the chemical bonds to better show her parents what she was working on in the lab. Jody Berns, Veronica’s mother, said their family has a history of doodling and has shared comics for years.

Berns surprised her family with her comic book “Atomic Size Matters” at her graduation last year. The book depicts cartoons of Berns wearing various costumes and uses humor as well as simple comparisons to describe elaborate chemistry.

“We’re just really proud that she can take something so complex and put it into a fun visual explanation that everyone can enjoy,” Jody Berns said.

Veronica Berns’ professor Danny Fredrickson said Berns was the first of his students to construct her thesis in an artistic way. He said often it is difficult for scientists to explain what they do with proper context.

“If it’s worth doing, we should be able to explain it,” Fredrickson said.

And he said Berns managed to accomplish that.

Berns said she hopes other

scientists will find ways to illustrate what they’re doing in the lab. She now lives in Chicago and works as a chemist. Berns also writes a blog in which she uses comics

to explain the work of Nobel Prize winning scientists.

Berns started a Kickstarter fundraising campaign to finance printing a small batch of the books. She

said she wanted to raise $5,965 to cover the costs of professional printing. The website says she has raised more than $14,000.

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CARRIE ANTLFINGER/ASSOCIATED PRESSVeronica Berns holds the comic book “Atomic Size Matters” that she created to explain her doctoral chemistry the-sis to her family at her apartment in Chicago. Berns, a comic book fan, says the illustrations are not well-polished because she wanted it to be like she was explaining on the back on an envelope. She ended up raising more than twice what she asked for on the crowd funding website Kickstarter to print the book.

EDM artist Muzzy Bearr to open for GRiZ at the Granada tonight

Funk EDM artist GRiZ will be performing at the Granada tonight for his Say It Loud tour, accompanied by opening acts Exmag and Muzzy Bearr. They give electronic music a twist by building tracks around saxophone and guitar to make it jazzy and soulful feel. The Kansan sat down with Muzzy Bearr to talk

about his passion for music, and find out what inspired him to contribute to the EDM world.

22- year-old Dan Hacker, better known as Muzzy Bearr, originated in Detroit. He started producing EDM during his freshman year of college at Michigan State University under the mentorship of GRiZ, and his debut album, Vintage Sutra, was released this year.

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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/ASSOCIATED PRESSEDM artist GRiZ is performing at the Granada tonight with opening acts Muzzy Bearr and Exmag.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/ASSOCIATED PRESSGRiZ, an EDM artist from Detroit, is performing at the Granada tonight. GRiZ gives electronic music a twist by using saxophone and guitar on his tracks.

ALI DOVER/KANSANMuzzy Bearr will be the opening act for GRiZ at the Granada tonight. The Kansan sat down with Muzzy Bearr to get all of the details on his performance.

Reviews for the highly anticipated Apple Watch are in. Reviews conducted by techradar.com help the consumer know what to expect, and whether to plan on adding the new gadget to the expanding collection of Apple products.

The 38 and 42 mm device comes in three different designs, 25 colors and styles, and nine different faces. It’s compatible with the iPhone and works by itself when accessing all 20 Apple apps or listening to music, just like your cellphone.

It also features a heart rate monitor and two fitness apps that can tell you when you’ve been sitting too long. According to Apple, the watch has a 24-hour battery life, but with the amount it’s able to do, you will most likely have to plug it in before you get your eight hours of sleep each night.

The watch is water resistant and sells for anything from $342 to about $17,000 for the 18-karat gold model. But is this new computer watch worth the price? How does it stack up to its competition?

TechRadar applauded the watch’s different sizes, but was not as keen on the price for the more expensive models. The website was also iffy of it potentially being slightly clunky. TechRadar considered the Apple Watch still an unfinished product, or, in their words, a “bauble.” Yet, the company said the gadget is something to look forward to.

Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times said although it took him three days to get used to it, on the fourth day it was like a new experience.

“There’s a good chance it will not work perfectly for most consumers right out of the box, because it is best after you fiddle with various software settings to personalize use,” Manjoo said in his review.

However, the reviews aren’t praising the product 100 percent. On Bloomberg.com, Mark Rolston, founder of design consultancy Argodesign, says Apple could have taken more risks with the shape of the watch, suggesting for the screen to wrap around the wrist.

Overall, reviews for the Apple Watch are positive after the first couple days adjusting to the device. So, if you’ve got the cash and want to know what it’s like to wear a 38 mm computer around your wrist, the watch will be available April 24 online and in stores.

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With football season less than four

months away, it’s time for the perennial question: How many games will Kansas lose this year?

While the team has fallen on hard times lately, the annual Spring Game is the best way to get the fans — and the players — back into the football mindset. For journalists, it’s our first chance to pick a football game since February, and we get to choose between the first team offense (White) or

the first team defense (Blue).Coach David Beaty has

infused energy and life into a team that, for the last eight years, has been utterly devoid of purpose. His uptempo practices and infectiously eager and intense attitude has given life to a team that looked like it had totally lost its direction in the middle of last season.

Beaty’s personality shows up most in his offense, which has taken a complete 180 after the disastrous 2014 season. Senior Michael Cummings is improving with every throw and he continues to compete for time with Montell Cozart. Corey Avery and De’Andre Mann have each had an entire offseason to develop and work on themselves. With Beaty’s new “weight room first” attitude, Avery and Mann have undoubtedly built up the strength to run between the tackles much more effectively.

After the departure of Nigel King and Jimmay Mundine, the receiving corps needed help desperately. Rodriguez Coleman and Tre` Parmalee are both going to be featured targets on the field, and the arrival of Matt Denning and Chase Harrell will help with depth and athleticism.

With a running game he can actually rely on, Michael Cummings won’t feel so much pressure on him as a

quarterback, and he can sit back and show off his arm which, at some points last season, dazzled us with its accuracy and strength.

The defense, on the other hand, will have to deal with the loss of captain Ben Heeney, one of the best defensive players to come through KU this century. They also have to replace the leader of their defense, JaCorey Shepherd, who seemed to make the big plays every time they were needed at the end of last season. They also lose their leader in the pass rush, Michael Reynolds, not to mention defensive line plugs Keon Stowers and Tedarian Johnson.

This isn’t to say the defense won’t look great next year, but the Spring Game is more of a gauge of which side of the ball has improved more. David Beaty’s intensity and passion has definitely rubbed off on the offense more than the defense. The offense seemed to give up on Charlie Weis early last season, and now the entire unit seems energized and ready. With a chip on their shoulder and fire in their hearts, they’ll be ready to show the world they’re an offense to be feared.

And the first step is the annual Spring Game.

— Edited by Victoria Kirk

This Saturday is the Kansas spring football game,

featuring the White (1st team offense and 2nd team defense) versus the Blue (1st team defense and 2nd team offense). When all is said and done at Memorial Stadium, the Blue will be victorious.

The 1st team quarterback has yet to be decided, but with Michael Cummings more successful than Montell Cozart, Cummings will most likely get the start for team White and Cozart will start for the Blue.

However, most Kansas fans are relying on Cozart to be our starter. From what the coaches have seen from him so far, based on his talent and athleticism, he will be going into Saturday’s game looking to outperform Cummings. He also hopes to show the Jayhawk nation

that he is capable of bouncing back to be the quarterback everyone expected him to be when he first stepped foot in Lawrence.

The 1st team defense took a hit this offseason after losing a wide array of seniors, two of whom will likely get drafted: cornerback JaCorey Shepherd and linebacker Ben Heeney. Luckily, they do have a load of returning players on the Clint Bowen-run defense.

Two players worth focusing on are junior Fish Smithson at safety and senior Jake Love at linebacker. As a sophomore, Smithson was Kansas’ fifth leading tackler on defense and recorded 49 defensive stops on the season. He also put himself on the stat sheet by racking in two tackles for loss and one pass break up.

Smithson had a career-high nine tackles against arguably the best team in the Big 12 last year — Baylor. As a transfer student, last year was Smithson’s first year, but it was a great one and he will look to become a force to be reckoned with next fall.

Jake Love comes in this season as the most experienced, after playing alongside Heeney and other senior linebacker Michael Reynolds for his last three years on the field. He has two accolades he can put on his resume; for example,

in the third game of the season against the Central Michigan Chippewas, he earned honorable mention linebacker of the week, and all five of his tackles were behind the line of scrimmage and one for a sack.

He started seven of the 11

games he played last season, he was the fourth leading tackler on the defense with 53 stops and he will be the defense’s leader this year. Because of an experienced defense that has been the star of Kansas football for the past couple of seasons, and a poised young quarterback looking for redemption, team Blue will take the W on Saturday afternoon at 1 P.M.

— Edited by Victoria Kirk

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The Jayhawks (33-8, 4-5 Big 12) will try to get back into the win column with a midweek matchup against the SIU-Edwardsville Cougars (35-10, 16-4 Ohio Valley Conference) in Arrocha Ballpark at Rock Chalk Park. The Jayhawks will play the Cougars today at 1 p.m.

The Jayhawks are coming off a 2-3 loss to the Tulsa Golden Hurricane on Sunday. Kansas has only won one of its previous four games and have only won one conference series this season.

Junior infielder Chaley

Brickey leads the Jayhawks with a .418 batting average and has recorded 56 hits, scored 41 runs and has hit 11 home runs and 49 RBIs. Senior utility player Maddie Stein ranks second on the team with a .373 batting average and has recorded 47 hits, 28 runs scored, 13 doubles and 39 RBIs.

Freshman infielder Daniella Chavez, who was named an NFCA Freshman of the Year finalist last week, ranks fifth on the team with a .342 batting average and has recorded 40 hits, 21 runs scored, 10 home runs and 49 RBIs.

Senior pitcher Alicia Pille leads a talented Jayhawks

pitching staff with a 2.81 ERA and has recorded 155 strikeouts while allowing 121 hits and 69 scores this season. Freshman Bryn Houlton ranks second on the pitching staff with a 2.94 ERA, and has recorded 27 strikeouts while allowing 52 hits and 26 scores.

The Cougars come into Arrocha Ballpark with an incredibly impressive 35-10 record this season, with recorded wins over programs like Ohio State, Villanova and Georgetown.

“Edwardsville has one of the best freshman pitchers in the country. They also have an upperclassman who’s one of the best pitchers in the country.

They’re a great team, they win a lot of games and they pitch really well. They’re the best team we’ve faced in the past few weeks,” said Kansas coach Megan Smith.

Among the leaders of the Cougars’ offense is junior

Haley Chambers, who boasts a .382 batting average and has recorded 55 hits, 35 runs scored, 12 doubles and 33 RBIs this season. Senior Rebecca Gray leads the Cougars with a .391 batting average and has recorded 50 hits, 29 runs scored and 13 RBIs.

Sophomore Allison Smiley ranks second on the team with 32 RBIs on a .305 batting average and has recorded 40 hits and 20 runs scored.

Chambers also leads a powerful Cougars pitching staff with a 1.34 ERA and has recorded a remarkable 233 strikeouts while allowing 107 hits and 42 scores. Freshman Baylee Douglass ranks second

on the pitching staff with a 2.01 ERA and has recorded 127 strikeouts while allowing 89 hits and 42 runs scored.

After Wednesday’s game, the Jayhawks will prepare for their toughest challenge of the series: a weekend series against the No. 5 Oklahoma Sooners at Arrocha Ballpark. The Jayhawks will play the Sooners on Friday and will finish up the weekend on Sunday.

—Edited by Garrett Long““They’re a great team, they win a lot of games and they pitch really well. They’re the best team we’ve faced in the past few weeks.”

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COMMENTARYDiallo’s decision getting closer

No. 7 recruit Cheick Diallo has narrowed his college decision

list down to five schools: Kansas, St. Johns, Iowa State, Kentucky, and Pitt. 247sports.com gives the Jayhawks a 34% chance to land Diallo.

Diallo posted a tweet Monday night that read, “It’s been a long 3 years. Just wanted to thank all the coaches who recruited me and stopped by my school ... appreciated all the fans who followed my journey.”

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Diallo is 6-foot-9 but has a wingspan that measures 7-foot-3. The power forward weighs in at 210 pounds and will become a better defender as he adds muscle. Diallo is a menace on the offensive boards and possesses strong ball skills for a big man.

According to scouthoops.com, Diallo has a competitive drive that will likely make him one of the hardest workers on any team he chooses. He also has the ability to score on the low-block with advanced footwork.

While Diallo has a strong skill set, he is still a raw product with a lot of sharp edges. Diallo shot a mere 58 percent from the free-throw line during his senior season and has relied on his physical prowess through most of his young basketball career. If Diallo is to become an eventual NBA prospect, he is going to need to develop a stronger and more consistent inside scoring game.

Similarly to former Jayhawk Joel Embiid, Diallo picked up basketball late in his life and adjusted to the game very quickly. Embiid climbed the recruiting charts all the way to the No. 6 spot before committing to Kansas.

Embiid’s quick adjustments accelerated even quicker at Kansas as he cemented himself as one of the best big men in the country during his freshman season and eventually became the No. 3 overall draft pick.

Diallo is being projected as a two-year player, but Embiid’s one-and-done success was not anticipated, so an impressive freshman season is not out of the picture for Diallo.

Diallo will help fill the void that is being left by former Jayhawk Cliff Alexander who has declared for the NBA Draft. Diallo will also look to join a class that, so far, only includes Carlton Bragg. Kansas has had top recruiting classes in each of the past two seasons.

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When Brandon Schneider, the new Kansas women’s basketball coach, was first introduced on Tuesday, he talked about his first visit to Allen Fieldhouse in 1995, while being a first-year coach under Cindy Stein at Emporia State University.

“Before I stepped on the court, I could feel it, the goosebumps,” Schneider said. “There’s something special about this place. The last 20 years, there have been two words I’ve been wanting to say and I decide to wait one day until I became a part of the KU family.”

The next two words Schneider said were “Rock Chalk”.

Schneider was named the sixth women’s basketball

coach in program history on Monday. It happened to be the same date Schneider was hired in 2010 at Stephen F. Austin after he left Emporia State following the National Championship Division-II win.

“We found the coach who checked all the boxes off our list,” KU Athletic Director Sheahon Zenger said. “A coach that has spent his career in Kansas and Texas, who can identify and recruit talent in the Big 12 corridor.”

Schneider expects big things out of his team in the near future.

“We are going to play extremely hard,” Schneider said. “We are going to be the team jumping over the scorer’s table, diving on the floor for loose balls and rotating to take charges.”

Schneider wants his team to

play physically and mentally. He also wants there to be a strong sense of unity between the team and the coaching staff.

“We are going to be a team that promotes unity and communication,” Schneider said.

He believes that togetherness between the team and coaching staff can bring toughness, and a team that can accomplish this can

win a high percentage of games.

Relationships are key for Schneider, and his teams have been successful in the past. Schneider is the second-winningest coach at the NCAA Division II level, and he ranks in the top 10 in fastest coaches to 100 wins and the third fastest among women’s coaches.

One thing Schneider does in his coaching positions is turn the team around. In his first season at Stephen F. Austin, the Jackrabbits won 12 games, and the next

season, they won 23. During the past two seasons, Kansas won 13 games during the 2013-14 season, and 15 games this past season. He considers himself a basketball junkie.

“I did get a check from Paramount Studios being a basketball extra,” Schneider

said. “When you are a basketball junkie, there’s no other place you want to be.”

The future is looking up for Kansas Women’s Basketball, and with Schneider at the helm, you can see Kansas make a turnaround just like that.

— Edited by Victoria Kirk

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FACE OF THE STREAKWayne Simien vs. Joel Embiid

WAYNE SIMIENWayne Simien earned Big 12

player of the year his senior year, as well as being named a consensus All-American. His teams at Kansas won three conference championships and went to the NCAA Tournament every year, including two appearances in the Final Four. Simien finished his career 13th all-time on the University’s scoring list with 1,593 points. Simien averaged 20.3 PPG and 11.0 RPG his senior year.

JOEL EMBIIDJoel Embiid came to Kansas

from the Rock School in Florida after growing up in Cameroon. He only started playing basketball at the age of 16. In one lone year playing in Allen Fieldhouse during the 2013-2014 season, he was named a Naismith finalist. In last June’s draft, he was selected third overall by the Philadelphia 76ers.

FG%: 63RPG: 8.1

PPG: 11.2

• First Team All-American in 2004-05• Ranked 1st in the Big 12 in points per game in

2004-05

• Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year in 2013-14• Ranked second in the Big 12 in blocks per game

in 2013-14

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OF THIS MATCHUP AT KANSAN.COM BEGINNING

AT NOONFG%: 56RPG: 8.3PPG: 15

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Brandon Schneider““We are going to be the team

jumping over the scorer’s table, diving on the floor for loose balls and rotating to take charges.”

BRANDON SCHNEIDERWomen’s basketball coach

Kansas baseball earned their second sweep of the season Tuesday night after defeating Wichita State 11-6, also giv-ing them their second victo-ry against the Shockers this year. Tuesday’s win gives the Jayhawks their sixth straight victory against the Shockers.

“It’s an in-state rivalry and it has been forever, so it’s good to get the win,” said senior Dakota Smith.

The Jayhawks wasted no time in putting runs on the board, scoring within their first two at-bats of the game. Senior Justin Protacio singled to left field to leadoff the inning, and Connor McKay followed with an RBI double to put the Jayhawks up 1-0.

Wichita State’s Gunnar Troutwine was a one-man show in the top of the second inning for the Shockers. The freshman walked to leadoff the inning, and followed it by stealing second base.

After the Shockers recorded their second out, Troutwine advanced to third on a balk, and on the very next throw, scored on a wild pitch to tie the game at 1-1.

Pitching would plague the Jayhawks in the next inning. The Shockers’ Trey Vickers reached base due to a fielding error and soon after found himself on third after a wild pitch. Vickers scored on a routine groundball by teammate Daniel Kihle to take the lead.

In the bottom of the third, the Jayhawks got two runners on base in McKay and Blair Beck. With two outs on the board, Smith ripped a shot over left field, but it passed just outside of the foul pole. On the next pitch, Smith learned from his mistake and launched a home run over left center to give the Jayhawks a 4-2 lead.

McKay started things off with a single up the middle in the bottom of the fourth, giving him his third hit in

three at bats. Freshman Matt McLaughlin took the batter’s box in the at-bat following McKay, and mimicked his teammate Beck by hitting a home run of his own over left-center.

McLaughlin’s home run is not only the first of his career, but according to him, it is his first ever at Hoglund Ballpark including batting practice.

The Jayhawks’ scoring barrage continued in the fifth. After the Shockers failed to get anything going on their end, the Jayhawks loaded the bases against Wichita State’s Taylor Goshen, who walked another batter to bring in a Jayhawk run, giving them the lead 7-2.

Goshen was replaced by freshman Tyler Jones, who started his night with a wild pitch. Kansas junior Tommy Mirabelli turned on the jets to take advantage of the wild pitch and reach home to put his team up by six after five innings.

After five straight innings

with no hits, Wichita State’s Jordan Ferris finally got the Shocker bats going in the top of the sixth with a base hit. Following Ferris’ at-bat, teammate Ryan Tinkham earned the Shockers their second hit of the game with a line drive to right field. In their third at-bat of the inning, the Shockers recorded their third hit of the contest after clean-up batter Sam Hillard sent a ball over dead center to cut the deficit to 8-5.

The Jayhawks would take advantage of three walks and a hit batter in the bottom of the inning to walk in a run of their own, giving them a 9-5 lead through six.

The Shockers tried to spark a comeback in the eighth, and they cut the lead to three after a throwing error plated a runner, but the Jayhawks were not impressed. In the bottom of the inning, the Jayhawks’ Owen Taylor and Tommy Mirabelli hit back-to-back RBIs to take a five run advantage.

The Jayhawks’ lead would hold through the ninth as the Shockers could not get anything going, giving Kansas an 11-6 victory and a season sweep over the Shockers.

Coach Ritch Price’s squad was dominant on offense during the game, showing a team effort with eight players contributing to the team’s 11 total hits.

“I thought they did a good job,” Price said. “It’s a shocking thing to say but hard to hit when they’re walking that many guys. They went to their bullpen a lot to try and mix and match but our guys did a good job overall of taking the runs.”

With the Wichita State game in the books, the Jayhawks complete their 10-game homestand and will continue Big 12 play on the road at West Virginia on Friday.

— Edited by Victoria Kirk

Jayhawks sweep the Shockers, win 11-6KYLAN WHITMER@KRWhitmer

ANNA WENNER/KANSANSenior shortstop Justin Protacio throws the ball early in the game against Wichita State on Tuesday night. The Jayhawks defeated the Shockers 11-6.