2012-03-30

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calm north wind.
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Index Dont
forget
Todays
Weather
Everyone can see you sweating.
HI: 80
LO: 51
The Lawrence art community
has something to offer everyone on
Final Fridays.
Downtown businesses work with
artists from around the country to
exhibit and sell artwork on the last
Friday of every month. The art
event brings hundreds of people
downtown every month.
A recent economic impact study
shows that Final Fridays are bring-
ing in at least $85,000 each final
Friday to restaurants and busi-
nesses around the locations, said
Final Fridays Coordinator Molly
Murphy.
Lawrence Art Center, Downtown
Lawrence Incorporated, the
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce,
art galleries and artists collabo-
rated in August 2010 to create the
monthly event.
Before it started, artists and gal-
leries worked individually. Murphy
said the art community is now
coming together, and there is more
emphasis on community projects.
This sort of energy is good for
Lawrence, and it is a more cohesive
night for everybody, Murphy said.
This Friday, 26 businesses and
galleries downtown will take part
in the event. Lost Space Art, 845
Massachusetts Street, for instance,
has participated in Final Fridays
four times, and hosts both art dis-
plays and live music during the
event. Five local artists create all of
the art that this gallery hosts on a
final Friday.
It goes straight from the wood
shop to the easel to the wall and
then out the door, said Paul
Flinders, an artist at Lost Space
Art.
Like many downtown galleries,
its busiest day of the month is on
the last Friday.
The place gets pretty packed,
Flinders said. The town is on fire
on Final Fridays.
Artists from around the country,
as well as those from the Lawrence
area, have benefited from Final
Fridays.
Weve had anyone from KU
professors, to people who ship their
art in from Seattle, said Summer
Bradshaw, an intern at Wonder Fair
Art Gallery, 803 Massachusetts
Street.
Among the local arists who par-
ticipate in the event, University
students have taken advantage of
showcasing their work during the
event.
In 2011, Jessie Kelley, a senior
from Wichita, curated a gallery
specifically for 16 college students.
Kelley said it was a great oppor-
tunity for students to get used to
the idea of showing their work in
public.
Its always good to get the KU
art department out from campus,
Kelley said. Not a lot of people
see what we do on campus. It was
nice to bring art downtown and let
people view it.
Businesses outside of art galler-
ies, such as the Fox Trot shoe store,
823 Massachusetts Street, also par-
ticipate in Final Fridays. Owner
Caroline Mithias said the event
brings in a lot of foot traffic into
her store, and it supports the art
community.
Big Daddy Cadillacs Tattoo, 938
Massachusetts Street, features one
artist a month. This Friday, they
are showing Erin Brazlers Fatties
on Parade exhibition, which are
marker-drawn portraits of humor-
ous cartoon characters.
Final Fridays gets people in the
store, said Irene Walker, an art-
ist and employee at BDC Tattoo.
Sometimes there are people who
would never step foot in a tattoo
shop that have come in.
Edited by Corinne Westeman
1. DIANES ARTISAN GALLERY
(4 E. 7th St.)
2. VAN GO! MOBILE ARTS
(see Lawrence Art Party)
3. THE ELDRIDGE HOTEL
(701 Massachusetts St.)
4. LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY
(707 Vermont St.)
5. SIGNS OF LIFE
6. THE LAWRENCE ART PARTY
(718 New Hampshire St.)

7. TELLERS RESTAURANT UPSTAIRS
8. PACHAMAMAS
(800 New Hampshire St.)
9. SMILING MAD DESIGNS & INKELLO
LETTERPRESS
(801.5, Suite 3 Massachusetts St.)
10. THE INVISIBLE HAND GALLERY
(801 1/2 Massachusetts St.)
11. WONDER FAIR
12. FOXTROT
13. LOVE GARDEN SOUNDS

14. DOWNTOWN UPSTAIRS
(824 1/2 Massachusetts St.)
15. PHOENIX GALLERY
16. LOST ART SPACE

17. THE BOURGEOIS PIG
(6 E. 9th St.)

18. Zs DIVINE DOWNTOWN ESPRESSO
(10 E. 9th St.)

19. BDC TATTOO
20. LAWRENCE PERCOLATOR
(in the alley behind Lawrence Arts
Center on 9th St.)

21. LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER
(940 New Hampshire)
22. KANSAS SAMPLER

23. THE GRANADA

24. AIMEES CAFE & COFFEE SHOP

25. WATKINS COMMUNITY MUSEUM

26. 1109 GALLERY
final friday Venues & eVent listinGs
(in order from 6th Street to 12th Street in Downtown Lawrence)
reBekka sCHliCHtinG
rschlichting@kansan.com
Final Fridays beneft art students, local shops
ARTS
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
final four-Cast
As loads of people walked by
the corner of Canal and Bourbon
Streets the very center of
downtown New Orleans four
Kansas students stopped walking.
Something had caught their atten-
tion.
Sending ripples into the standing
water from earlier rain was a New
Orleans street band, and for those
four Kansas students, the bright
lights of Bourbon Street could wait
another minute. They wanted to
watch the nine New Orleans locals
blast their brass instruments.
These Kansas students had a
particular interest in the street band
on New Orleans most eccentric
street because the students them-
selves are in the KU Pep Band.
Its pretty sick, they play entire-
ly different from the way that we
play, said Sarah Rucker, a junior
from Lawrence. And its really cool
to see something that different. It
sounds great. I love it.
As the University students
applauded the band, Rucker did
not hesitate to explain just how dif-
ferent this street band is from the
one that livens Allen Fieldhouse at
every Kansas home game.
When we play, its all about
tone, and we play much quieter
than they do. Rucker said. For
them its pretty much about energy
it seems like, and volume is incred-
ible. Its a street band; its com-
pletely different.
And this unique energy is exact-
ly what downtown New Orleans
adds to the Final Four.
Basketball fans have started to
arrive, wearing Mardi Gras beads
in their teams colors, and extra
enthusiasm for the weekends
events.
And two Kansas fans, Bob and
Mac Austin, who have attended
all but one Final Four tournament
since 1990, were particularly excit-
Bourbon Street welcomes Kansas
fans with music, unique energy
Mike Vernon
mvernon@kansan.com
traVis younG/kansan
The stage is set at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, as
fans head to town for the Final Four showdown between Kansas and
Ohio State. Kansas defeated Ohio State 78-67 on Dec. 10.
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and promotes leadership
Students and staff partner to
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police in two cities prepared
for fnal buzzer, crazed fans
If the Jayhawks win The Final
Four, fans will flock to Bourbon
and Massachusetts Streets to cel-
ebrate, and both Lawrence and
New Orleans are taking mea-
sures to make sure there arent
any party fouls.
The Lawrence Police
Department announced its
plans to block traffic from
Massachusetts Street from
Sixth to 13th streets following a
Jayhawk victory.
If it looks like there is going
to be celebration, we will put the
barriers up sometime during the
game, said Sgt. Trent McKinley,
a spokesperson for the Lawrence
Police Department.
McKinley said the barricades
may be used if the basketball
team loses and if it appears peo-
ple still plan on crowding the
streets, and the department will
keep the barricades up until the
streets clear out.
The number of people antici-
pated to be in the streets will
really shut the streets down any-
way, McKinley said. So, its a
safety consideration. The num-
ber of people who are there plus
the amount of alcohol combined
with moving vehicles is a bad
one.
Nancy Longhurst, general
raCHel salyer
rsalyer@kansan.com
THE BIG EASY: BY THE NUMBERS
The estimated amount of money New Orleans
will make from the games.
$135 to $140 million
The number of seats sold out in
The Mercedes-Benz Superdome for all games.
74,400
The number of people New Orleans expects
to be in town for the games.
More than 100,000
The number of hotel rooms reserved for Saturday night.
About 36,860
The number of people employed in the
New Orleans travel industry.
175,000
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CHris neal/kansan
Kansas Head Coach Bill Self addresses questions in New Orleans Thursday about
losing assistant coach Danny Manning to Tulsa. New Orleans is drawing hundreds
of students and fans for Saturdays national semifnal against Ohio State.
see additional
coverage on
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BASKETBALL MADNESS
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weather,
Jay?
Sunny skies with
winds from the
south between 5 to
15 mph.
Saturday
Perfect for porch sittin.
HI: 84
LO: 60
Warm with lots of
sunshine. Gusty
winds from the
south at 15-25
mph.
Sunday
Fire up the grill.
HI: 83
LO: 60
Cooler, partly cloudy
with a slight chance
of thunderstorms.
Monday
Dont wear your chain mail.
HI: 68
LO: 46
Forecaster: Stacia Gudmonson and Ciissy Orzulak,
KU Atmospheric Science
Whats the
PoLICE REPoRTS
calEndar
Sunday, April 1
what: Wayne Simien Free Throw
Challenge
wheRe: Allen Fieldhouse
wheN: 2 p.m.
aBoUt: The registration deadline
for the competition, is Thursday;
the event is hosted by local chari-
ties, Called to Greatness and Family
Promise of Lawrence.
what: Carillon Recital
wheRe: Memorial Campanile
wheN: 5 p.m.
aBoUt: Dr. Elizabeth Berghout and
carillon students perform; bring your
blanket and sit by Potter Lake to enjoy
the bells.
what: Speakeasy Sunday
wheRe: Jazzhaus
wheN: 10 p.m.
aBoUt: A variety show and jam ses-
sion with different musicians each
week; cover is $3 and the event is
21+.
what: Soapbox Friday
wheRe: Spencer Museum of Art
wheN: Noon
aBoUt: Got something to say? Youve
got two minutes to do so at the Spen-
cer on Friday.
what: Tunes @ Noon
wheRe: outside Plaza, Kansas Union
wheN: Noon
aBoUt: Its fnally spring, and SUA is
sponsoring bands to play out in the
sun for free.
what: The Foreigner
wheRe: William Inge Memorial The-
atre, Murphy Hall
wheN: 7:30 p.m.
aBoUt: University Theatre presents
a comedy by Larry Shue; tickets cost
$10 for students.
Friday, March 30 Saturday, March 31
what: The Big Event
wheRe: Ambler Student Recreation
Center
wheN: 8 a.m.
aBoUt: Students volunteer for various
organizations around town; meet up
at the Rec Center Saturday morning
before heading out to help.
what: Concert: Mnozil Brass
wheRe: Lied Center
wheN: 7:30 p.m.
aBoUt: An Austrian brass septet visits
Lawrence to perform its music and
slapstick comedy routines.
what: Cosmic Bowling
wheRe: Jaybowl, Kansas Union
wheN: 10 p.m.
aBoUt: SUA sponsors free weekly
bowling for students; bring your
glowsticks.
BURBANK, Calif. Mitt
Romney doesnt always wear
suits these days, and his hair
isnt always so perfectly coiffed.
He shows up at NASCAR events
and tweets pictures of himself
eating Subway sandwiches. His
wife, Ann, gushes in a new online
video about the start of their four-
decade old love story.
The Republican presidential
front-runners latest efforts to
show his more personal critics
would say more human side
were on display Tuesday as he sat
down with a late-night talk show
host for the first time since 2010.
I can do you a favor with this,
Romney said on The Tonight
Show With Jay Leno, as the
host pressed him about his list
of potential running mates. Ill
choose David Letterman.
Expect more attempts at lev-
ity in the coming weeks as the
likely GOP nominee shifts toward
the general election and starts
to introduce himself in earnest
to voters who dont know him
nearly as well as the Republican
primary electorate does.
Aides and allies long have
insisted that theres a likable,
personable, even fun Romney
underneath the persistent image
of a buttoned-down, multi-
millionaire businessman that
Republican voters got to know
during his failed bid for the nom-
ination in 2008. This time, the
former Massachusetts governor
has sought to shake the rap, even
among some supporters, that
hes awkward, boring and overly
scripted.
Romneys advisers downplay
any notion of a makeover or a
major shift in the campaign. And
they publicly insist they are still
focused on the primary race even
though their boss is all but cer-
tain to clinch the nomination.
But aides also are mindful
that when he does get the 1,144
convention delegates needed to
secure the party nod, the general
electorate will start to pay closer
attention and some voters will
take their first serious look at
Romney. The campaign is look-
ing for ways to attract indepen-
dent voters who will be critical in
the campaign against President
Barack Obama.
Just 38 percent of independents
said they had considerable inter-
est in the primary fight, accord-
ing to a February AP-GfK poll.
The rest had only a passing inter-
est or no interest at all. Thats far
lower than partisans - 73 percent
of Republicans said they had a
great deal or quite a bit of interest
in the election.
So, the campaign is discussing
possible ways to show Americans
a more complete picture of
Romney, from giving longer TV
interviews with his five sons and
16 grandkids by his side, to hav-
ing his wife appear on daytime
talk or cooking shows.
Ann Romney, whom the can-
didate introduces as my sweet-
heart at nearly every campaign
stop, is likely to play a big role in
introducing Romney to a wider
audience; aides say her mere pres-
ence softens his sometimes rough
edges. Thats why shes been a
near constant presence on the
campaign trail, taking the micro-
phone to tell the story of how
they fell in love and how hed call
while away on business trips to
tell her that raising their children
was more important than his job.
Information based on the Douglas
county booking recap
A 26-year-old Lawrence woman was
arrested Thursday at 3:28 a.m. on the
2000 block of Bluffs Drive on suspi-
cion of possessing stolen property less
than $1,000 and possession of stolen
property greater than $1,000 and two
counts of failure to comply with a
District Courts orders. Bond was set
at $3,000.

A 27-year-old Lawrence man was
arrested Thursday at 1:27 a.m. on
the 2000 block of Murphy drive on
suspicion of domestic battery. Bond
was not set.

arrested Wednesday at 8:10 p.m.
on the 900 block of Massachusetts
Street on suspicion of consumption or
possession of a cereal malt beverage
in public and aggressive panhan-
dling, which is defended by the city
of Lawrence as any request for or
solicitation of an immediate donation
of money. Bond was set at $200. He
was released.

arrested Wednesday at 7:38 p.m. on
the 4800 block of Bob Billings Park-
way on suspicion of sexual exploita-
tion of a child under the age of 18.
Bond was not set.

A 23-year-old Houston man was
arrested Wednesday at 3:55 p.m. on
the 3100 block of Creekwood Drive
on suspicion of soliciting without a
license. Bond was set at $100. He was
released.

A 28-year-old man was ar-
rested Wednesday at 3:31 p.m. on
the 1700 block of St. Andrews Drive
on suspicion of soliciting without a
license. Bond was set at $100. He was
released.
arrested Wednesday at 10:21 a.m. on
the 2400 block of Iowa on suspicion
of driving while suspended or with a
revoked or cancelled license and no
insurance. Bond was set at $200. He
was released.
arrested Wednesday on the 1700 block
of west 24th Street on suspicion of
criminal trespassing and interfering
with the duties of a law enforcement
offcer. Bond was set at $500. He was
released.
Rachel Salyer
PoLITICS
STUDENT SENATE
what: Physics Colloquium
wheRe: 2074 Malott Hall
wheN: 4 p.m.
aBoUt: Discuss neutrinos massless
particles passing through you right now at
the speed of light with Fermi Lab (Ill.)
physicist Dave Schmitz.
what: Philosophy lecture
wheRe: 305 Courtside Burge Union
wheN: 4:30 p.m.
aBoUt: David Boonin, a professor of
philosophy at the University of Colorado
in Boulder, presents a lecture titled The
Non-Identity Problem.
what: The Foreigner
wheRe: William Inge Memorial Theatre,
Murphy Hall
wheN: 7:30 p.m.
aBoUt: If you cant make it tonight, Uni-
versity Theatre is holding another showing
of this comedy by Larry Shue. Tickets cost
$10 for students.
aSSocIateD pReSS
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talks
with Jay Leno on The Tonight Show in Burbank, Calif., Tuesday. Romney joked that
hed pick Leno rival David Letterman as his vice president, talked at length about
health policy and said hed be happy to have a rival of his own, Rick Santorum,
serve in a Romney administration.
aSSocIateD pReSS committees pass bill
to amend budget code
Student Senate committees passed
a bill to substantially amend the Sen-
ates budget code on March 27.
Discussion on the bill lasted more
than two hours in the fnance and
rights committees. Josh Dean, the
fnance committee chair and author
of the bill, said that the intent of the
changes and the hard part of the
bill was to clarify the code while
preserving the intent of the rules and
regulations regarding funding for stu-
dent organizations.
The bill abolished a rule against
funding meetings and newsletters and
clarifed that Senate will fund up to
$1,000 plus 50 percent of costs of an
organizations event, and added im-
plied defnitions to the code.
Members of the fnance commit-
tee attempted to generate a bill that
would allow Senate funding for events
that are open to all students, bypass-
ing a regulation that requires organi-
zations requesting funding to be open
to all students.
The bill was a reaction to Senates
denial of funding to the Homecoming
Steering Committee because it was not
inclusive to all students.
After heated debate, the bill didnt
pass.
The bill to amend the budget code
will go to full Senate for offcial ap-
proval on April 4.
Vikaas Shanker
Monday, April 2
NEW DELHI The Tibetan who
burned himself alive on the eve of a
visit by Chinas president left a letter that
urged the world to stand up for his home-
land, activists said, while Indian authori-
ties detained more Tibetans on Thursday
in the Indian capital.
Police have taken hundreds of Tibet-
ans into custody since Mondays self-
immolation by Jamphel Yeshi, 27, and
have effectively closed off New Delhis
Tibetan neighborhoods, fearing embar-
rassing protests during the visit by Chi-
nese President Hu Jintao.
The Tibetans are expected to be re-
leased after Hu leaves New Delhi on
Friday. He is in the city for the BRICS
summit with the leaders of India, Russia,
Brazil and South Africa.
At a time when we are making our
fnal move toward our goal: If you have
money, it is the time to spend it; If you
are educated it is the time to produce
results; If you have control over your life,
I think the day has come to sacrifce your
life, wrote Yeshi, who died of his burns
Wednesday.
The letter was released by activists
and translated on the website Burn-
ing Tibet. Activists said he wrote the
letter about 10 days ago, and left it in
his apartment where friends found it
after the self-immolation. The letters
authenticity could not be independently
confrmed.
The fact that Tibetan people are set-
ting themselves on fre in this 21st cen-
tury is to let the world know about their
suffering, the letter stated. People of
the world, stand up for Tibet.
Hundreds of police are manning bar-
ricades along roads throughout the city,
some carrying blankets soaked in water
to quickly smother the fames if anyone
else sets themselves alight.
About 30 self-immolations have oc-
curred over the past year in ethnic Tibet-
an areas of China in protest of Beijings
heavy-handed rule in the region.
BAGHDAD Sunni Muslim rulers
largely shunned an Arab League sum-
mit hosted by Shiite-led Iraq on Thurs-
day, illustrating how powerfully the
sectarian split and the rivalry with Iran
defne Middle Eastern politics in the era
of the Arab Spring.
The crisis in Syria is the epicenter of
those divisions. The one-day summit
closed with a joint call on Syrian Presi-
dent Bashar Assad to stop his bloody
crackdown on an uprising seeking his
ouster. But the fnal statement barely
papered over the differences among the
Arab nations over how to deal with the
longest-running regional revolt.
What disturbs the breeze of our Arab
Spring and flls our hearts with sadness
is the scenes of slaughter and torture
committed by the Syrian regime against
our brothers and sisters in Syria, said
Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, leader of Libyas
National Transitional Council.
In a snub to Iraq, only 10 heads of
state from the Arab Leagues 22 mem-
bers attended, with the rest sending
lower-level offcials. Especially notable
were the absences of the rulers of Saudi
Arabia, Qatar and most other Gulf coun-
tries, as well Morocco and Jordan all
of them headed by Sunni monarchs who
deeply distrust the close ties between
Baghdads Shiite-dominated govern-
ment and their top regional rival, Iran.
The Gulf countries also see Iraq
as too soft on Syria. Saudi Arabia and
Qatar have talked of arming Syrias
opposition, apparently eager to bring
the fall of Assad and break the Sunni-
majority country out of its alliance with
Iran.
Speaking to the gathering, Iraqi
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki urged
restraint, saying Baghdad opposes
any military intervention and citing his
countrys years of turmoil as an example
of what happens when outside forces
get involved in national struggles. U.S.
forces left Iraq just over 100 days ago
after nearly nine years of war and oc-
cupation.
Iraq is afraid of the attempts to mil-
itarize the Arab uprisings, because this
will deviate them from the right course
and push toward the wrong position,
al-Maliki said. Dialogue between the
government and the opposition is the
right option to solve the crisis.
Iraqs hosting of the annual summit
for the frst time since 1990 was touted
by Baghdad offcials as a victory in their
efforts to show the country is moving
toward stability after years of sectarian
fghting that almost tipped the nation
into civil war. Thousands of security
forces cleared the streets and locked
down the capital in one of the quietest
weeks in years, although offcials said
two Katyusha rockets hit near the forti-
fed Green Zone where the summit was
held just as diplomats convened. No
casualties were reported.
The summit was the frst since the
wave of Arab Spring uprisings began
sweeping the region more than a year
ago, targeting its long-ruling strong-
men. The 2011 summit was canceled
because of the turmoil. There were two
new faces at Thursdays collection of
heads of state: Libyas Abdul-Jalil, who
holds nominal power after the ouster
and killing of Moammar Gadhaf, and
Tunisia President Moncef Marzouki, a
former human rights activist who was
elevated after the fall of Zine El Abidine
Ben Ali.
The new leaders of Egypt and Ye-
men the other two countries whose
rulers fell last year did not attend,
a refection of their continuing domestic
troubles.
The session was dominated by the
uprising in Syria, where the U.N. says
more than 9,000 people have been killed
in the regimes yearlong crackdown on
its political opponents. The regime has
sent tanks and troops into Syrian cities
and towns, saying the country was un-
der attack from the armed groups.
MOSCOW Russias top investi-
gative agency fled new charges Thurs-
day against police offcers accused of
torturing detainees amid growing public
outrage over police brutality.
The Investigative Committee said it
had charged four offcers in the Siberian
city of Novokuznetsk in the torture death
of a detainee. It also leveled new ac-
cusations against a police offcer in the
Volga River city of Kazan who is already
in custody on charges of torturing a man
to death.
Victims and human rights activists
say Russian police routinely use torture
to extract false confessions from those
they have arbitrarily rounded up. They say
police reforms undertaken by President
Dmitry Medvedev have failed to stop or
even contain police crimes and achieved
little beyond changing the forces name.
Kazan resident Sergei Nazarov died
earlier this month of injuries suffered
when police offcers allegedly sodomized
him with a champagne bottle. His case
has caused outrage across Russia and
drawn calls for an urgent overhaul of
a force long accused of corruption and
brutality.
The four offcers charged in No-
vokuznetsk were accused of causing a
detainees death by asphyxiation by put-
ting a gas mask on him and cutting off
the access to air a torture technique
popular among Russian police, accord-
ing to rights groups.
Police regulations still require offcers
to report a certain quota of solved crimes,
a practice that encourages police to make
arbitrary arrests and extract false confes-
sions to make their numbers. Police from
across Russia also learned cruel interro-
gation practices during tours of duty in
Chechnya and other restive provinces in
Russias Caucasus, contributing to the
culture of brutality.
Activists have urged the Kremlin
to change regulations that encourage
police brutality, oust Interior Minister
Rashid Nurgaliyev, conduct a thorough
cleansing of the police force and set up
a separate independent body that would
investigate police crimes.
Alexei Navalny, a popular anti-cor-
ruption blogger and a key organizer of
massive opposition protests in Moscow,
said the government should dismiss all
Kazan policemen and recruit new ones as
a model of how to conduct a future na-
tionwide reform of the police.
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ASIA
Indian police detains hundreds of self-immolating Tibetans
Associated Press
EUROPE
Four Russian police offcers accused of torturing detainees
CENtRAL AMERICA
Fourteen inmates confrmed dead after riot prison fre
MIDDLE EASt
Sunni rulers snub Iraq at Arab summit
tEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
Honduran authorities say at least 14
people have died at a prison after
armed inmates started a fre during
a riot Thursday.
San Pedro Sula police commis-
sioner Yair Mesa says there are at
least 14 dead, but the riot has been
brought under control.
Inmates began fghting among
themselves and tossed the severed
head of one prisoner over the walls
of the jail as they held frefghters at
bay.
The grisly scene at the prison in
the rough northern city of San Pedro
Sula came 1 1/2 months after Hon-
duras overcrowded prisons were hit
by the worst prison fre in a century, a
Feb. 14 blaze at the Comayagua farm
prison that killed 361 inmates.
ASSOCIAtED PRESS
An Arab League summit in Iraq
Thursday. Only 10 of the 22 mem-
bers attended to oppose Iraq.
ASSOCIAtED PRESS
Police offcers in Russia have faced
public scrutiny for torturing detainees.
ASSOCIAtED PRESS
About 30 Tibetans have set themselves
on fre to show their disapproval of
Chinas power in their region.
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Employees wait for customers to arrive at Big 6, a new, 1920s-style bar at The Eldridge Hotel, 701 Massachusetts. The bar
has been open on Thursday nights, but is switching to Friday nights next week.
FLASHBACK tO 1920
PROVIDENCE, R.I. People
queuing up for Mega Millions
tickets arent the only ones salivat-
ing over the record $540 million
jackpot that could be won Friday
some state governments strug-
gling through lean times know a
hometown winner would bring a
tax bonanza.
Taxes on a lump-sum payment
option to a single winner could
mean tens of millions of dollars of
badly needed revenue that could go
to restore entire social service pro-
grams on the chopping block, pay
for hundreds of low-income hous-
ing units, forestall new taxes or hire
more state troopers.
So many tickets have been sold
that the jackpot climbed Tursday
to the largest in history, according
to ofcials in Rhode Island, one of
42 states where Mega Millions is
played. If a lone winner took the
lump-sum payout on the jackpots
current amount, it would be an es-
timated $389.8 million.
Id love it if a Rhode Islander
wins, said Rep. Helio Melo, the
chairman of the Houses Finance
Committee.
In Rhode Island, when the tax
man comes calling for his 5.99 per-
cent, that would mean an estimated
$23.3 million, forked over in a single
payment.
With it, the state could pay for
most of a $25 million bond for af-
fordable housing that voters may be
asked to approve this fall. It could
also help Rhode Island reach its goal
for aid to school districts for the frst
time. Te state, which has a $7.9 bil-
lion budget, is $22 million short.
A big lottery windfall wouldnt
solve the states fscal woes, but it
could help chip away at the debt,
pay for one-time expenses or delay
budget cuts or tax increases in-
cluding on expensive clothing, pet
grooming, car washes and taxi fares
at least for a year, Mello said.
States set their own tax rates on
lottery winnings. New York, for in-
stance, charges 8.82 percent, while
several, including California, charge
none.
Ohios share of the lump-sum
payout would be $23 million, hardly
pocket change but still a fraction of
the states $56 billion two-year bud-
get.
Were not holding our breath
waiting for a tax windfall for the
state, but we will always root for
Ohio and Ohioans and hope lottery
luck comes to a Buckeye, said Joe
Testa, the states tax commissioner.
Te Rhode Island Association
of School Committees has asked
the state to use the $17 million for
technology and wireless Internet in
schools. Tat would be in place of a
$20 million bond.
MONEY
Lottery reaches record amount
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HOROSCOPES
Because the stars
know things we dont.
Crossword
sudoku sErIEs
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check out
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http://udkws.rfky/
aries (March 21-april 19)
today is a 6
Think it over before making a
change. Check the facts. Go
over your lists again, and post-
pone travel or big expenses.
stick to simple tasks. you're
clever with words.
taurus (april 20-May 20)
today is a 6
A friend of a friend is a big
help. Get some physical exer-
cise. don't dip into savings.
Learn from resistance, and
don't launch any new endeav-
ors yet. There's love all around.
gemini (May 21-June 21)
today is a 7
money is flowing, so keep an
eye on the budget or be tempt-
ed to blow it all on spontane-
ous luxury (rather than those
necessities you've been saving
for). Get them on sale.
cancer (June 22-July 22)
today is an 8
work behind the scenes and
travel later. A secret is itching
to be shared. Build energy, and
research the background. save
up and prepare. Baby steps get
you a long ways.
Leo (July 23-aug. 22)
today is a 7
It's important to show you
care. Take a walk together,
somewhere lovely. share a
nice experience, and get some
exercise: It's a win-win. Turn
your phone off for a while.
Virgo (aug. 23-sept. 22)
today is a 7
passions stir. Take advantage,
and capture them on film, can-
vas, paper or your hard drive.
working up a sweat provides
contemplation and release.
stay thrifty.
Libra (sept. 23-oct. 22)
today is a 7
you're in the limelight and
things could get confusing,
especially around love and
money. Listen to the one who
tells the truth. Find an answer
in meditation.
scorpio (oct. 23-nov. 21)
today is a 7
Adventure time again! There
are dragons to be slayed and
hanging bridges to be crossed.
you could just stay at home,
but then who will save the
villagers?
sagittarius (nov. 22-dec. 21)
today is a 7
you're in the middle of a prac-
tical phase. Creativity comes
in handy. If at first you fail,
don't worry. There is a lot to
learn from the experience.
capricorn (dec. 22-Jan. 19)
today is a 7
when the going gets tough, it
helps to stick together. don't
fall for the negative thoughts.
Listen instead to those who
support you. Take regular
breaks.
aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
today is a 6
stick to your plan and to what
worked before. don't get dis-
tracted, and rake in the prof-
its. only go for cost-effective
strategies, and don't gamble
your winnings.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
today is an 8
romance is here to stay (at
least for the weekend). make
sure you understand the
instructions before moving
forward. Now your creativity
counts double.
katie couric on morning
news for robin roberts
katie Couric is returning to morning
TV, for a week anyway. But whats got
people raising their eyebrows is where
shes doing it ABCs Good morning
America.
Couric, who has a deal with disney-
ABC domestic Television for a daytime
talk show called katie, which will
debut in september, will be flling in for
regular GmA co-host robin roberts, who
is off on vacation next week.
roberts made the offcial announce-
ment Thursday morning and Couric
tweeted, rise + shine! Excited to be
back on morning TV next wk, guest
hosting @GmA w/ @Gstephanopoulos.
#katieonGmA.
The news cant be welcome over at
Courics old home at NBC. while Today
is still the No. 1-ranked morning show,
GmA is on the rise. According to the
average ratings for the week of march
12, Today was just 260,000 viewers
ahead of GmA, the smallest gap be-
tween the two since July 2008.
Couric made her name on Today,
where she began as a national cor-
respondent in 1989. she soon became
the permanent co-anchor in 1991 when
deborah Norville didnt return to the
show.
In 2006, she left Today to become
the anchor of the CBs Evening News,
where she stayed for nearly fve years.
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
In its frst season, AMCs ofeat
crime series, Te Killing, started
with a really cool idea and then
blew it big time. Now, as Season 2
is about to unfold, the question is:
Can this show win back the skep-
tics who feel burned by it?
Presenting itself last spring as a
fresh alternative to broadcast tele-
visions formulaic crime-of-the-
week shows, Te Killing took on
a single case the murder of Se-
attle teen Rosie Larsen and ex-
amined it in-depth, from various
angles, over 13 moody episodes. It
instantly seized our attention.
Ten came a disappointing bait-
and-switch fnale. Instead of pro-
viding a resolution, executive pro-
ducer Veena Sud and her writers
not only kept the case open, they
tossed in a couple of wild, out-of-
nowhere twists right at the end.
For the shows ever-patient devo-
tees who expected some closure, it
was a slap in the face a senseless
act of disrespect and betrayal.
So the haters went on a rampage.
Critics and viewers tore into Sud,
many of them vowing to dump the
show for good. All the clamor put
AMC executives in the awkward
position of having to apologize
without overtly admitting they did
anything wrong. At a news con-
ference with TV critics last year,
network programming chief Joel
Stillerman said, If we had to do
anything diferently ... we would
have taken a diferent approach
with respect to managing the ex-
pectations ...
Now, as 13 new episodes come
down the pipeline, Sud and AMC
are doing their best to head of
those expectations, telling anyone
whos still listening that spoiler
alert! Rosie Larsens killer will,
indeed, be revealed at the conclu-
sion of Season 2.
But is that what fans really
want to hear? Tat theyve spent
13 hours following a complex,
sprawling mystery, just to be told
that theyre only halfway there?
Te ratings will provide our an-
swers in coming weeks, but frst a
quick review: When Season 1 end-
ed, stoic homicide detective Sarah
Linden (Mireille Enos) believed
the Larsen case was solved. But
suddenly, one phone call changed
everything: Te prime suspect,
mayoral candidate Darren Rich-
mond (Billy Campbell) apparently
might be innocent, and Lindens
partner, Stephen Holder (Joel Kin-
naman) might be corrupt.
Te good news is that Sundays
two-hour opener answers several
key questions in relatively rapid
fashion and in ways that dont
seem totally unreasonable. Te
bad news is that it also puts Sarah
back at Square One, and therein
lies the problem.
Even before critics vented their
spleens in righteous outrage over
last years fnale, the show had de-
veloped a limp. In their efort to
lather the Larsen case over a full
season, the writers found them-
selves backed into narrative cor-
ners with too much time to fll. So
they frantically threw out red-her-
rings and eye-rolling plot contriv-
ances like 24 used to do.
MccLatchy triBune
Finale lets down
The killing fans
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Actors Joel kinnaman and mireille
Enos pose for a photo for the new
AmC television series.
MccLatchy triBune
From left, sam worthington, director
Jonathan Liebesman and Liam Neeson
on set during the production wrath of
the Titans.
Filmmaker uses 2011
movie for inspiration
FrEsNo, Calif. _ A Los Angeles
community destroyed by aliens and the
ravaged remains of mt. olympus have
more in common than you think. direc-
tor Jonathan Liebesman took what he
learned while flming the 2011 release
Battle Los Angeles to make his lat-
est action-heavy feature, wrath of the
Titans.
I defnitely learned a lot about the
hand-held style of flmmaking, says
Liebesman. I also learned a lot about
how to integrate CGI characters into the
hand-held frame. If you want visual ef-
fects to work, they have to interact with
whats in the frame. you have to have
the actors hit by real things.
That was a major lesson.
In Battle Los Angeles, creepy look-
ing creatures from another world cre-
ated massive destruction in California.
The action moves to Greece and the
characters are mythological in origin
for wrath, but the destruction is just
as grand as the heroic perseus (sam
worthington) tries to stop the release of
the Titans.
The south African-born director,
whose flmmaking inspiration ranges
from michael Jackson music videos to
steven spielberg, has amped up the
action in his flms since he debuted
with darkness Falls in 2003. one
thing is clear he tries to adapt and
change on the set.
I like to invent a lot on the day and
I dont like to be too precious with plan-
ning, Liebesman says.
such willingness to adapt was im-
portant because the director discovered
there was both a freedom and restraint
to directing the sequel to Clash of
the Titans. He knew he had the entire
Greek mythology catalog he could use,
but he was afraid to go too far off the
path from the original flm because the
story has continued to have a following
since the original opened in 1981.
CATCHING UP
The cartoonishly cruel
sociopath boy king Joffrey
Baratheon (Jack Gleeson) has
taken the Iron Throne after
murdering Eddard Stark (Sean
Bean), which gives him effec-
tive if not actual control
over the seven kingdoms of
Westeros.
Meanwhile, Daenerys
Targaryen (Emilia Clarke)
among many vying for
the throne smothered her
beloved Khal Drogo (Jason
Momoa). She places Drogo
on a funeral pyre, along with
her precious eggs, enters the
roaring fire, and emerges with
three new pets her baby
dragons. Finally this: Jon Snow
(Kit Harington), Starks ille-
gitimate son, has headed out
with the Nights Watch north
of the Wall that towering
edifice that keeps the ghostly
Others out of Westeros. Who
knows what they will find?
WHAT SUNDAYS ABOUT
A great comet with a tail
the color of blood stretches a
quarter of the way across the
sky of Westeros. An omen ...
but of what? Winter is finally
coming, too, and winters
like the summer just ending
last years. On the eve of
this monumental natural cycle,
civil war is tearing Westeros
apart, with no fewer than
three would-be kings vying
for the Iron Throne, includ-
ing Joffreys brothers Stannis
(Stephen Dillane) and Renly
(Gethin Anthony). Joffreys
uncle Tyrion Lannister (Peter
Dinklage) arrives at the seat of
the kingdom, Kings Landing,
where he finds (what else?)
trouble and court intrigue.
His evil sister, Cersei (Lena
Headey), is trying to keep her
idiot son, Joffrey, in check but
also wants to find her twin
brother (and lover), Jaime
Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-
Waldau), now in the hands of
Robb Stark (Richard Madden),
who wants to use him as bait to
get his beloved sisters back.
One is with the evil Joffrey.
The other, Arya (Maisie
Williams) has gone missing.
But where? This season is
based on A Clash of Kings,
the second volume of George
R.R. Martins epic fantasy
novel series, A Song of Fire
and Ice.
MY SAY
Even for those who have
read the books and Fire/
Ice fans are many heres a
sage word of counsel. Go back
and watch the last two episodes
of the first season. Youll be
glad you did. Thrones may
be a faithful adaptation of the
Martin series, but its foremost
a self-contained television
series bound by its own logic,
plot and cast of characters.
Sundays second-season
premiere sounds dense and
impenetrable, but (trust me)
its not if you come pre-
pared. Game of Thrones is
worth the effort because this is
the best show on television.
Thrones is the rarest of
the rare a TV show with
lofty intellectual ambitions
that manages to be entertain-
ing and even strangely relevant
at the same time.
Thrones
begins
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My professors advice for Monday nights
inevitable celebration: Keep your shoes
and dont date rape.
Everyones gone from looking the same
in leggings to looking the same in pastel
shorts.
I miss Danny Manning already.
I heard Withey is throwing a block party
on Bourbon Street. One that will rival
Mass Street.
Is it illegal if a Jayhawk jay walks?
Bill Self should use executive power to
override the chancellor.
Campus is gorgeous, bring on the allergy
meds!
Getting on Pinterest when youre
starving; worst mistake ever!
On a scale from Twilight to Harry Potter,
how good is The Hunger Games?
Now I know why we get money off our bill
in the Scholarship Halls: They pass the
savings of never mowing on to us.
Saw the headline, Thousands attend
Mass where Pope spoke out, and my
frst thought was, The Pope was on
Mass Street? Im a Jayhawk.
Listen professor, this is a great lecture
and all and Im gonna let you fnish, but
that line on the board that you forgot to
erase is killing my OCD. Please fx it.
Housing does not run like a machine.
Its more like squirrels, everyone runs
around and eventually something might
get done.
If KU doesnt win the national champion-
ship Im blaming my anthropology pro-
fessor for opening an umbrella inside!
I just know that Im going to be hit by a
stray Frisbee. Thanks warm weather.
The new library printers are the spawns
of Satan himself.
After reading my professors handwrit-
ten notes, I feel like I could decode
hieroglyphics.
Everybody sign the petition so we can get
out of class Tuesday. I have a paper due
that day.
To the guy at the rec playing basketball
in sweatpants and no shirt: You look
ridiculous.
Penguin love triangle? I love psych 120!
Just heard the new student tour guide
describe safe ride as, If you are some-
where and dont feel safe, you can call
them. Right...
Why is it that the bathrooms in JRP
always smell like poopy diapers? Were
here to learn how to teach kids, not smell
like them.
We will go to class on Tuesday if the
basketball team does.
Its ok squirrel. You can eat the leftover
pizza on the ground. Dont mind me, Im
just walking on by.
P
ink Slime. Sounds and
looks like radioactive
waste from a sci-fi movie
but its actually an ingredient in
up to 70 percent of American
ground beef. There has been
much controversy about it in
the news recently and rightly so,
if you havent seen pictures yet
I recommend a quick Google
search so you have a sense of
what I am talking about here.
What the beef industry calls
lean finely textured beef has
been coined pink slime by a
critical public. So what exactly
is it? The trimmings and con-
nective tissue of cows that has
been treated with ammonium
hydroxide. The beef companies
need to treat this meat with
chemical to kill possible infec-
tion causing bacteria like E. Coli
because according to Senator
Robert Menendez in a letter to
the Secretary of the USDA, The
leftover scraps come from parts
of the cow with high exposure to
fecal matter. This same product,
when left untreated by chemi-
cals, is basically whats used in
dog food. Are you craving a
hamburger yet?
Alas, this product is some-
thing the Food and Drug
Administration has categorized
as GRAS (generally recognized
as safe; comforting right?). Even
though this product is legally
deemed safe, major food and
grocery chains like McDonalds,
Burger King, Taco Bell, Costco,
and most recently Safeway and
Kroger have vowed to remove
the product from their meals
and shelves. This is good news to
any Dillons shoppers out there
because Kroger Co. (the parent
company of Dillons) initially
claimed it would not stop selling
this product in its ground beef.
These companies responded
quickly to the fear of customer
backlash but dont go running
out to buy your ground beef
just yet, the grocery stores will
probably try to sell through their
remaining stocks of slime-filled
beef before halting its sale.
Now how will you be able to
tell what ground beef products
contain these trimmings? You
wont. Its not required to be
labeled so what says 100% fresh
ground beef could actually
mean mostly fresh ground beef
but also with connective tissue
and ammonium. So my advice
to avoid ingesting this question-
able quasi-food product is to stay
away from ground beef unless its
from organic, local sources; but
since a study has recently linked
red meat to early mortality, I
would just avoid it entirely.
To me, the most disturbing
part of this whole fiasco is that
the USDA plans to purchase 7
million pounds of pink slime
from its producer, Beef Products
Inc. for use in the national
school lunch program, to be
served unknowingly to children
across the country in public
schools. The New York City
School District just announced
they will choose not to serve it in
their schools and I recommend
other school districts follow suit.
In a society where we enjoy the
luxury of endless options for
what to eat, we should not settle
for questionable and unhealthy
food being delivered to us in the
grocery stores or in childrens
school lunches.
Pred is a junior in political science
and peace and confict studies from
Kansas City.
Court must set limits for Constitution
GOvERNMENT
By Christian Corrigan
ccorrigan@kansan.com
T
his week the United States
Supreme Court heard
oral arguments over the
constitutionality of President
Obamas Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (known as
ObamaCare). From a policy per-
spective, the decision is certainly
important because of its impact
on healthcare, the economy, and
our national debt. It will not
shock any of you to learn that I
think ObamaCare is one of the
most egregious pieces of legisla-
tion in recent history. But the
Supreme Courts decision is about
something even more important
than healthcare policy that can be
summed up in one simple ques-
tion. If ObamaCare is constitu-
tional, then what isnt?
At issue is ObamaCares indi-
vidual mandate, which requires
every American to have health
insurance by 2014 or pay a hefty
fine to the federal government.
The Administration is primar-
ily relying on Article 1, Section
8 of the Constitution (known as
the interstate commerce clause),
which gives the federal govern-
ment the power to regulate
commerce among the several
States. The rationale is that since
healthcare spending constitutes
roughly 1/6 of our economy and
since uninsured people have an
effect on healthcare the mandate is
justified under the interstate com-
merce power.
The federal individual mandate
is a great distance from the system
of government envisioned by our
Founding Fathers. The Framers of
our Constitution created a system
of dual sovereignty where the state
and federal governments share
power. James Madison explained
in Federalist 45 that the powers
delegated to the federal govern-
ment are few and defined while
the powers reserved for state
governments are numerous and
indefinite.
The Tenth Amendment to the
Constitution, which was ratified in
1791 as part of the Bill of Rights,
mandates that [t]he powers not
delegated to the United States by
the Constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the States, are reserved to
the States respectively, or to the
people. This was purposely done
in order to address concerns that
the new federal government would
become too powerful and erode
state sovereignty.
The commerce clause was
included in the Constitution to
address a central inadequacy of
the Articles of Confederation,
which was the lack of authority to
prevent states from enacting laws
that were harmful to interstate
commerce. But over time as the
economy became more complex
and the size and scope of the
federal government increased,
the scope of the commerce clause
increased as well. It wasnt until
the 1990s that the Supreme Court
began to recognize modern limits
on the commerce power.
That is the real issue with the
individual mandatelimits. The
most important question sup-
porters of ObamaCare have yet
to answer is the so-called broccoli
question. That is: If we accept
that the individual mandate is
constitutional because of its effect
on healthcare and thus interstate
commerce, then what is to stop
the federal government from
requiring everyone to eat three
servings of vegetables every day or
pay a fine?
It might sound ridiculous at
first, but think about it. Heart dis-
ease is the leading cause of death
in the United States. Stanford
Hospital estimates that obesity-
related conditions cost over $150
billion and cause 300,000 pre-
mature deaths annually. Forcing
people to eat right could save
countless lives and hundreds of
billions of dollars every year. The
link to interstate commerce is just
as strong as it is with the individu-
al mandate, yet no one reasonably
believes the government should be
allowed to fine us for not eating
correctly. At least not yet.
The point is that there is virtu-
ally no end to the federal govern-
ments power if it can force you to
buy a product solely because you
reside in the United States. This is
extremely troubling for a federal
government that was meant to
only possess enumerated powers.
We have already strayed from the
Founders intent and created an
oversized, intrusive, and wasteful
federal government. We cannot
afford for it to get any worse.
Even if you dont share my
affinity for Federalism, the
Constitution, or limited govern-
ment, I bet some of you hate broc-
coli just as much as I do.
Christian Corrigan is a third year law
student from Wichita.
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AssociAtEd PrEss
A hamburger made from ground beef containing what is derisively referred to as pink slime, or what the meat industry
calls lean, fnely textured beef, is ready for tasting Thursday, March 15 in Concord, N.H. Under a change announced
Thursday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, districts that get food through the governments school lunch program will
be allowed to say no to ground beef containing the ammonia-treated fller and choose fller-free meat instead.
Slime-y beef patties worry
U.S. food companies, schools
By Gabby Pred
gpred@kansan.com
lEttEr Editor
to the
G
rowing up in
Lawrence my entire
life, I am certainly
one of the biggest, die-hard
Jayhawk basketball fans you
will meet. Also, growing up
in Lawrence and having a
parent that has worked at the
University of Kansas, I have
observed that KU athletics
receives much more attention
and monetary value than aca-
demics ever has. As Im sure
everyone has heard by now,
classes will not be cancelled if
we win the national champion-
ship. The chancellor stated,
our first mission as a univer-
sity is to foster academic suc-
cess and that is accomplished
in part by setting high expec-
tations for our students. A
national title would be worthy
of celebration, but we are con-
fident those celebrations can
take place without disrupting
KUs academic mission.
While I agree that academ-
ics should come first, I do not
believe that KU has followed
through on this first mission
repeatedly, and I find it disap-
pointing that in a time where
not only the entire student
body, but pretty much the
entire town, has united and
felt a common camaraderie to
safely celebrate, the chancellor
has chosen to now enforce this
mission.
When we hired Turner Gill,
we paid him millions. Then,
after just two seasons, we fired
Turner Gill, and we paid him
millions. I realize this money
is through the athletics depart-
ment, but this is a ridiculous
sum of money that is being
given to a collegiate football
coach when the smallest frac-
tion of that pay-out could
have helped several students
studying at the university. KU
has also been talking about
giving student athletes a sti-
pend to assist them. While I
realize student athletes spend
an insane amount of time bal-
ancing training and keeping
up grades, do you know how
many non-student athletes
there are that are working
40 hours a week while being
enrolled full-time just to get
by and they receive absolutely
nothing? In addition, on game
days, football or basketball
parking is stripped not only
from the paying students, but
from the paying faculty as well.
As many students dont
care about sporting events,
they arent able to go up to
campus and park anywhere
near a library where they may
need to study for an upcoming
exam. Faculty cant park near
their buildings to do academic
work. In fact, on KU basketball
game nights, faculty have had
to let their students out of class
early because students and fac-
ulty have been ticketed for not
moving their cars. We are pay-
ing for those parking passes,
which are already over-sold,
and yet, the University chooses
to tell us that we must move
our cars or pay a fine when we
are in classes that we are also
paying for. While some have
successfully appealed these
tickets, why should we have to
even receive or appeal them in
the first place when we are on
campus learning? These few
of many actions dont seem to
support the Universitys so-
called first mission to foster
academic success.
If the Chancellor wants to
enforce the first mission of
academic focus, it needs to
be enforced throughout the
entire year in every aspect, not
all of a sudden when our stu-
dent body is feeling the most
united.
Amanda Kong is a Senior studying
Human Biology from Lawrence.
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Kansas vs. Ohio State
Tip off: 7:47 p.m.
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Allen Fieldhouse
Game televised on video board at Allen Fieldhouse.
Doors open 6 p.m. Saturday. Fieldhouse to
close immediately following game.
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Almost 40 years ago, Sarah
Weddington won the Roe v. Wade
Supreme Court case that legal-
ized abortion in states across the
country.
Tuesday night, she spoke to an
audience at Woodruff Audito-
rium about womens rights and
leadership.
Weddington was invited to speak
by Hall Center for Humanities.
Kansas State Representative Bar-
bara Ballard helped organize the
event and said controversies over
reproductive rights and contra-
ceptives ongoing in some state
legislaturesmade this week an
opportune time to hear Wedding-
tons story.
She won one of the most con-
tentious court cases in this coun-
trys history, Ballard said.
Weddington was only 26 years
old when she became a lead at-
torney in the Roe v. Wade lawsuit,
which invalidated all state laws
limiting womens access to abor-
tions during the first trimester
of pregnancy. Before that 1973
Supreme Court ruling, abortion
was limited in many states and
entirely illegal in others.
I was the only person willing
to do the case for free, so I did it,
Weddington said.
Weddington said she learned
something about womens strug-
gle for equality in college, but it
wasnt new to her. As a student at
McMurray University, in Abilene,
Texas, Weddington was discour-
aged from running for class presi-
dent. She said a male administra-
tor at the university told her that
men were presidents and women
were secretaries.
She said the administrator also
discouraged her from going to
law school, saying that no woman
from McMurray had ever gone to
law school because it would be
too difficult to succeed there.
Weddington, of course, did go
to law school. She became one
of five women in her class at the
University of Texas.
After he told me it was too
tough, that was the moment I de-
cided I was going, Weddington
said.
Victor Bailey, director of the
Hall Center, said Weddington
blazed a path for women and
provided a role model for female
leaders in America. He said that,
even today, women often are
overlooked for top leadership
positions even when they have es-
sential talents and skills.
Weddington said prospects for
women have improved since her
college days.
There were so many different
things that women could not do
when I was young. I just keep try-
ing to push back barriers so wom-
en have a bigger arena in life, she
said.
Weddington said she speaks
at venues like the University be-
cause she wants young women to
know that they, too, can make a
difference and better the future
of the nation. Part of leadership
and preparing for leadership is
practice. There were a lot of op-
portunities that happened be-
cause I was willing to take a risk,
Weddington said.
Leadership is the willingness
and ability to leave your thumb
print.
Weddington left her thumb
print and urges young women to
leave theirs.
Some leaders are born wom-
en, she said.
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Campus
Roe v. Wade attorney urges women to lead
hANNAh bARLING
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tYLER RoStE/KANSAN
sarah Weddington, the woman most notably known for representing Jane Roe, whose real name was Norma mcCorvey, in the famous Roe v. Wade case of 1973, spoke last
night in Woodruff auditorium at the union. The case ruling supported womens reproductive rights, overturning state laws against abortion across the country.
Food iNdusTRy
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb.
Governors of three states donned
coats, hair nets and goggles to tour
a main production plant for pink
slime Tursday, hoping to persuade
grossed-out consumers and grocery
stores to accept the processed beef
trimmings are as safe as the industry
insists.
Tree governors and two lieuten-
ant governors spent about a half-
hour touring Beef Products Inc.s
plant to show their support for the
company and the thousands of jobs
it creates in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas,
South Dakota and Texas.
Its beef, but its leaner beef, which
is better for you, Iowa Gov. Terry Br-
anstad said afer watching a presenta-
tion of how the textured beef product
is made and taking a walking tour of
the plant.
Beef Products, the main producer
of the cheap lean beef made from
fatty bits of meat lef over from other
cuts, has drawn extra scrutiny be-
cause of concerns about the ammo-
nium hydroxide it treats meat with to
slightly change the acidity of the beef
and kill bacteria. Te company sus-
pended operations at plants in Texas,
Kansas and Iowa this week, afecting
650 jobs, but it defends its product as
safe.
While the ofcial name is lean
fnely textured beef, critics dub it
pink slime and say its an unappe-
tizing example of industrialized food
production. Tat term was coined
by a federal microbiologist who was
grossed out by it, but the product
meets federal food safety standards
and has been used for years.
Te politicians who toured the
plant Branstad, Texas Gov. Rick
Perry, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback,
Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy and
South Dakota Lt. Gov. Matt Michels
all agree with the industry view
that pink slime has been unfairly
maligned and mislabeled and issued
a joint statement earlier saying the
product is safe.
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Friday, March 30, 2012
sustainability
Students, staff work to restore campus trees
kelsey cipolla
kcipolla@kansan.com
The 10 small trees planted
between Bailey Hall and Lippincott
Hall yesterday dont dramatically
change the appearance of campus.
They do mark the inaugural efforts
of a new group that hopes to bring
about big change in the future.
The rosebud trees were planted
by students, faculty and staff as the
inaugural effort of the Universitys
recently formed Campus Tree
Advisory Board.
Jeff Severin, director of the
Center for Sustainability, said he
was approached around the same
time last fall by two different stu-
dent groups, the Environmental
Law Society and Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity, interested in working to
restore campus trees.
Victor Zaharopoulos, a fresh-
man from Lenexa, and a member
of ATO, said that he got interested
in campus trees after hearing about
the tree canopy that once stood
above Jayhawk Boulevard.
I want KUs campus to be
as beautiful as it was and more,
Zaharopoulos said.
The students partnered
with Severin and Facilities and
Operations to form the adviso-
ry board. When it came time to
choose a first project, students
were discouraged to find restoring
the canopy wasnt a possibility this
year because maintenance on the
street needs to be done before new
trees can be planted.
Instead, they decided on the
more manageable task of planting
10 trees. While the small act might
not seem likely to make a drastic
impact, the tree planting attracted
interest from students and faculty
and informed people of some of
the issues facing campus trees.
We really need to be thinking
about how we maintain the his-
toric landscape of our campus, and
being prepared for whatever tree
disease or insect infestation that
causes the next round of trees to be
lost, Severin said.
Tree disease recently killed
many campus pine and elm trees.
Trees are also lost every year to
new construction projects.
The event benefited campus
in another way; it helped the
University meet one of the require-
ments to become a Tree Campus
USA. It also brought students
together.
The sense of community,
everybody getting behind mak-
ing our campus more beautiful is
just as important to me as the
event itself, said Isabel Segarra,
a second year law student from
Austin, Tex., and an officer for the
Environmental Law Society.
Next year she hopes students
take the lead in organizing the
event and come up with new ideas
about how to reinvigorate the cam-
pus landscape. Future goals include
replacing aging trees in Marvin
Grove, planting new trees in other
locations across campus and even-
tually revisiting their first goal.
By senior year, I hope to have
the huge event where we restore the
tree canopy on Jayhawk Boulevard,
Zaharopoulos said. Im definitely
cautiously optimistic about it.
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Mount Oread workers prepare to replant trees along Jayhawk boulevard between lippincott Hall and bailey Hall. March 29
is the anniversary of the frst arbor Day celebration, which Ku students celebrated in 1878 by planting more 300 hackberry,
evergreen, elm and honey locust saplings.
ed that New Orleans is hosting this
years event.
Mac Austin and his wife Debbie
Austin live in Topeka, Kansas, and
Bob and his wife live in Tucson,
Arizona, but they all enjoy the
annual Final Four adventure
together.
As a Final Four veteran, Bob
said that New Orleans and San
Antonio are the two best cities to
host a Final Four, and even then,
New Orleans can boast some lively
features that San Antonio cant.
Food and booze and partying
and basketball, he said.
Aside from the festive atmo-
sphere, Bob Austin said that
another advantage of this years
Final Four is that the venue is cen-
trally located within New Orleans,
so people can walk everywhere
they need to go, instead of renting
a car.
The one Final Four that the
group missed took place in Detroit.
In its place, the group went to
the Masters Golf Tournament, in
Augusta, Georgia.
New Orleans is a hard vacation
to beat, and Debbie Austin has
already said she is not looking for-
ward to attending next years Final
Four tournament.
Next year its in Atlanta, she
said. So I dont know.
Even so, the experienced group
is enjoying their time in downtown
New Orleans, and the fact that
Kansas is part of the Final Four this
year is just an added bonus.
We dont wail and scream that
were going to win, Bob said. I
just hope that we have a really
good game, and I think we can win
if we do.
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manager of the Eldridge Hotel,
701 Massachusetts Street, and
the Oread Hotel, said the 155
rooms among both hotels are
booked for Saturday night.
The people who want rooms
just want to be on the streets
when we win, Longhurst said.
They want to be a part of the
local celebration here.
No glass, plastic bottles and
cans are allowed on the streets.
Although alcohol is not per-
missible on the streets by law,
McKinley said the police would
not focus on handing out alcohol
citations Saturday night.
Alcohol use will likely occur
downtown, but our focus will be
on personal safety and property
safety, McKinley said. As long
as people arent handling glass-
ware or being destructive, their
experience with police should
be positive.
Mark Romig, president
of New Orleans Tourism
Marketing Corp., said of the
38,000 hotel rooms in New
Orleans, 97 percent of them are
booked for Saturday night.
We will have about as many
people here as we do for Mardi
Gras, Romig said. New Orleans
was really built for events like
these, but safety is always a con-
cern.
Romig suggests visitors stay
on heavily traveled streets.
We will have a very strong
police presence, Romig said. If
you stick to heavily trafficked
streets, there will be officer
attendance everywhere.
As a part of the celebration,
drinking is expected.
Tyler Rockers, a junior from
Greeley, is going to the game
with three of his friends and
hopes to pack Bourbon Street
with crimson and blue.
Were all 21, so we definitely
want to hit the town with other
KU fans, Rockers said. We will
have to stick together, but Im
not worried about it because
we dont plan on venturing out
too far.
Both New Orleans and
Lawrence safety officials want
party-goers to be aware of open
container laws. In New Orleans,
alcohol can be consumed on the
streets in a plastic cup or a can,
but no glass or plastic bottles are
allowed. Romig said most estab-
lishments would provide plastic
go cups for customers.
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Harry and the Potters perform in front of an intimate crowd at Wonder Fair on thursday evening. as part of a tour across the
u.s. the band started a genre of music called Wizard Rock, which is an entire genre of music based off the world of Harry
Potter. brothers from Massachusetts, Joe and Paul DeGeorge, were only 12 and 15 when they started the band. they take on the
character Harry Potter during their shows. they hope their music will continue to be popular even without new books or movies.
wizard rock, MaGic Music
democrat pushes for
change in casino laws
tOPEKa, Kan. a southeastern
Kansas Democrat is renewing his ef-
fort to bring a measure that would
modify the states gambling laws to
the foor for a debate before the 2012
session ends.
Rep. bob Grant of Frontenac
made a motion thursday to pull a bill
he and fellow Democratic Rep. Doug
Gatewood of Columbus sponsored
out of the House Federal and state
affairs Committee. a similar effort
was defeated earlier in the week.
this isnt about gambling. We
already have gambling. this is about
economic development, Grant said.
the measure would change the
investment threshold for construct-
ing a state-owned casino in either
Cherokee or Crawford counties. Vot-
ers there have approved allowing for
a casino but no developer has been
willing to make the required $225
million initial investment.
the bill would lower the invest-
ment to $100 million, similar to the
amount set for developers of the
Dodge City casino.
aDMinistRatiOn
students invited to help
hire new vice provost
students have the opportunity to
weigh in on the hiring of a Vice Pro-
vost of student affairs by attending
a public forum
today with one of
the candidates
at 1:30 p.m. in
the Kansas Room
of the Kansas
union.
George Mc-
Clellan, the vice
chancellor of
student affairs at
indiana and Pur-
due universities,
is the frst candi-
date who will feld
questions from
students and the Ku
community this afternoon.
the vice provost is considered an
important advocate of students in
administration, according to student
body president libby Johnson. the job
description states the vice provost
must have experience with leading
students, faculty and staff in inno-
vative program development, and
should have experience teaching at
the college level.
i think its exciting for the student
body to partake and give input if they
want to, Johnson said. this person
is the student voice in the room when
students arent in the room.
along with talking to McClellan to-
day, students also have the opportu-
nity to ask the two other candidates
questions on how they will represent
students on the administrative level.
the public forum for beth Hellwig,
a vice chancellor at university of Wis-
consin, will be held at 1:30 p.m. on
april 2 in the Centennial Room in the
Kansas union. the universitys interim
vice provost of student affairs tam-
mara Durham, the third candidate, will
answer questions at her public forum
at 1:30 p.m. on april 6 in the Malott
Room in the union.
Vikaas Shanker
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Friday, March 30, 2012 Volume 124 Issue 124
L
ike most of my college days,
my Wednesday night began
with my now daily pilgrimage
to YouTube, the animated face of the
sometimes-disturbing world of the
Internet.
Its hard to say how many com-
bined hours, days or months Ive
spent looking at videos of people
hurting themselves on swing sets
or cats jumping into progressively-
smaller boxes, but one video in
particular caught my eye that night.
Sometime afer watching a clip
of a road-raging Brazilian woman
attempting vehicular manslaughter
on a motorcyclist who kicked the
side of her van, I stumbled upon a
clip of Jack Harry from NBC Action
News from a few months ago set to
ominous, Hans Zimmer-like back-
ground music.Ive got a beef with
the leagues coaches, Harry barked.
Tey really whifed on this one,
folks. Every year the so-called ex-
perts close their eyes and automati-
cally anoint Kansas as conference
champions.
Ouch.
KU will be lucky to fnish in the
top fve, Harry continued. Tere
is no way the Jayhawks repeat this
season.
Double ouch.
Since the video was posted on
March 28, it has received more than
10,000 views, 250 likes and only
three dislikes. Harrys words are so
satisfying to Kansas fans because
the Jayhawks, preparing to play in
their 14th Final Four and going afer
their second national championship
in four years, can fnally play the
Nobody believed in us! card.
Its bizarre to think of a No. 2 seed
in the NCAA Tournament and a
team that just earned its eighth-con-
secutive Big 12 regular season title as
underdogs, but Harry was certainly
not alone in his assessment of the
Jayhawks before the season started.
Several media outlets projected
teams like Baylor, Mizzou and even
Texas A&M ahead of Kansas in the
conference standings.
It is hard to blame them. With
several stars on last seasons squad
jumping to the NBA or graduat-
ing and with the ineligibility ruling
against several key freshmen, the
Jayhawks more resembled the Island
of Misft Toys than a Final Four
contender.
Who could have foreseen the
frequently-suspended senior guard
Tyshawn Taylor overcoming his
personal and on-court struggles?
Who imagined the lanky Jef Withey
would blossom into one of the most
imposing defensive fgures in all of
college basketball? Or how about
sparingly-used reserve junior for-
ward Kevin Young averaging more
than fve rebounds a game in the
NCAA Tournament?
One of those happenings would
have been a pleasant surprise. Two
would have been a blessing. All of
them, along with junior forward
Tomas Robinsons unanimous All-
America play, is a miracle not unlike
Manning or Mario.
Kansas fans should embrace the
underdog role while it lasts, because
it should be a long, long time before
the talking heads in the media ever
underestimate Bill Self again.
For the first time this season,
the Kansas baseball team will play
more than two games in a row at
home. Kansas will host the Texas
Tech Red Raiders for a three-game
series that starts today at 6 p.m.
Kansas will try to put an end to
a four-game losing streak and win
their first game in Big 12 play.
Kansas was beaten by a two-
run double in the eighth inning
Sunday against Baylor and a walk-
off single Tuesday against Missouri
Sate.
Coach Ritch Price said despite
the tough losses, it was good to see
the Jayhawks competing with good
teams late in games.
When youre playing as many
young as Im playing, you know
there will be growing pains, Price
said. Traditionally it takes guys
20 to 25 games to become good
Division 1 ball players. I think
were just starting to take that next
step.
After struggling early in the sea-
son, the Kansas offense is beginning
to find its stride. Kansas scored 14
runs in its last two games. In each
game, Kansas batters recorded 10
hits.
The Jayhawks fell to 10-14 this
season Tuesday at Missouri State,
but they have only played three of
their 24 games at Hoglund Ballpark
in Lawrence. They are 2-1 at home
this season.
The Red Raiders are 15-11 this
season, but are just 1-5 on the
road. Like the Jayhawks, the Baylor
Bears swept the Red Raiders in
their first conference series. They
are 1-5 in Big 12 play.
Junior pitcher Thomas Taylor
said Kansas starters will need to
be better to have success this week-
end.
The hitters have been doing
exceptionally well the last two
games, Taylor said. The pitch-
ing staff needs to go out there and
try and limit the runs as much as
possible and get back to what we
were doing in the beginning of the
season.
Texas Tech boasts a strong
offense. It averages 6.73 runs per
game and every starter in its lineup
is hitting above .275.
Senior catcher James Stanfield
will be calling the pitches for the
Jayhawks young pitching staff. He
said its important that the pitch-
ers dont shy away from the Red
Raiders batters.
A lot of it is just confidence,
Stanfield said. Weve got to have
a little more bulldog in us. Theyre
tring to hurt us, were trying to
hurt them, and we just have to
finish off their batters when we
got them.
Sophomore pitcher Frank
Duncan (3-3, 3.54 ERA) will take
the mound today. He will face
red-shirt sophomore Duke von
Schaman (3-3, 2.08).
Duncan has struck out 34 bat-
ters, but has walked 17 this season.
He wont be able to afford walking
batters against the Red Raiders,
who bat .311 as a team.
Duncan will have confidence
pitching to contact knowing the
defense behind him ranks 17th in
the nation with a .978 fielding per-
centage. The defense has commit-
ted only 20 errors in 25 games.
This weekend is the 48th time
the two teams have met and the
45th time they have met in Big 12
play. Saturdays first pitch will be
at 2 p.m. and Sundays at 1 p.m.
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KAnsAn file photo
Junior forward Thomas Robinson rests his hands on his
hips during a dead ball period in Saturdays game against
Ohio State. Robinson went 7-9 for 21 points in the 78-67
victory.
NEW ORLEANS Recent his-
tory often hints toward the future
better than anything else in bas-
ketball. It reveals player trends. It
exposes match-up disparities. It
gives us a final score.
Not long ago, on Dec. 10, to
be exact, the Ohio State Buckeyes
visited Allen Fieldhouse and
stuck with the Kansas Jayhawks,
but lost 78-67. It was a back-and-
forth affair that gave the unproven
Jayhawks just what they needed.
We had to have a feather in our
cap, coach Bill Self said.
Does this recent history help us
assess a rematch between Kansas
and Ohio State in Saturdays 7:49
p.m. national semifinal?
The Jayhawks would argue that
it doesnt. Not in the slightest.
This might as well be a whole
new year, said senior guard
Tyshawn Taylor.
Before that game, Buckeyes
coach Thad Matta shook hands
with Self and told him: Merry
Christmas. Matta had an early
gift. At the time, the Buckeyes
were undefeated and ranked No.
2 in the nation. But in this match-
up, they would play without All-
American forward Jared Sullinger,
who suffered from back spasms.
Also in that game, Taylor
guided his team with 13 assists,
but surrendered seven turnovers.
Taylor, a point guard of speed and
deception, was hobbling on a torn
meniscus in his right knee. He
would have surgery the day after
the game.
Then there was the Davidson
game on Dec. 19: an 80-74 loss
that plummeted Kansas to its
lowest point of the season. After
the game, Self said he thought
his team just stunk. They werent
tough or energized when they had
to be. Then Taylor went through
his bumps, which involved turn-
overs and careless tempo, and he
inspired a now-infamous analysis
from Self.
He makes plays you cant
coach, Self said, and then he
makes plays that look like hes
never been coached.
The Buckeyes had their strug-
gles, too. They lost three in a five-
game stretch in February. Some
observers tagged Sullinger as an
overrated name, and many no lon-
ger considered the Buckeyes to be
elite. Kansas has endured a similar
perception. Yet both teams braved
their struggles and reached the
Mercedes-Benz Superdome for
the Final Four.
Most folks dont question
Sullinger any longer. They say
he uses all his might to beat a
defense.
Taylor has redefined the per-
ception that he plays carelessly.
Instead, they say, he just wins.
And so, when you watch
Saturdays game, know that the
product on the floor is of two
teams that have progressed over a
season. It wont be a mirror-image
of the Happy Holidays meeting in
the Fieldhouse.
Anybody you play in November
or early December is like two sea-
sons ago, Self said.
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Selfs strategies against Sullinger
This week in athletics
Monday
Tuesday
vs. Creighton
6 p.m.
Omaha, Neb.
Baseball
Friday
vs. Texas Tech
6 p.m.
Lawrence
Baseball
vs. Oklahoma
7 p.m.
Norman, Okla.
Softball
Thursday
Saturday
vs. South Dakota State
11 a.m.
Lawrence
Soccer
vs. Ohio State
7:30 p.m.
New Orleans
Mens Basketball
Wednesday
Sunday
vs. Texas Tech
1 p.m.
Lawrence
Baseball
vs. Oklahoma
Noon
Norman, Okla.
Softball
NCAA Tournament
Championship
8 p.m.
New Orleans
Mens Basketball
There are no athletic events
scheduled for this day.
There are no athletic events
scheduled for this day.
W
hen Ohio State coach Thad
Matta and his coaching staff
decided to sit forward Jared
Sullinger out because of an injury in their
Dec. 10 matchup with the Jayhawks, no one
would have guessed that they would be giv-
ing up a preview of the national semifinals
matchup.

Honestly, while the addition of the
6-foot-9-inch, two-time All-American
forward would undoubtedly have pro-
vided a boost for the Buckeyes that day in
December, I dont think Sullinger wouldve
been enough to overcome the 16,000 cheer-
ing fans that packed the Fieldhouse.

But what we did miss out on was the
opportunity to peer into the mind of Self
and see how he would have defended a
team that is normally led by one player:
Sullinger.

Ohio State is no North Carolina or
Kentucky, both having multiple players
expected to be drafted as lottery picks in the
upcoming NBA draft. Aside from Sullinger,
the only other player nbadraft.net predicts
being drafted from the Buckeyes is guard
William Buford, and he is not expected to be
drafted until the second round.

Self will have options as to who he wants
to have guard Sullinger. With Sullinger
being the tallest player in the Buckeyes
starting five, Self could employ 7-foot center
Jeff Withey to guard him.

Withey has greatly improved since the
two teams last met he only scored two
points in that matchup but has since
evolved into a shot-blocking machine and
was named defensive player of the year.

While it makes sense for the Jayhawks
to defend the Buckeyes tallest player on
the floor with their tallest player, one of the
flaws with this approach is that Withey is
not as strong as the shorter Sullinger. Withey
will yield 30 pounds in that matchup.

While forward Thomas Robinson would
also be giving up a serious weight advantage
to Sullinger, he is a much stronger player,
and could be more effective neutralizing
Sullinger on the defensive boards; prevent-
ing second chance opportunities for the
Buckeyes.

This would also place Withey on the
much smaller Deshaun Thomas. Thomas,
only 6-foot-7-inches, would be giving up
serious height to the taller, longer, Withey,
and I would find it hard to imagine Matta
using Thomas to guard Withey when the
Jayhawks have the ball.
But one reason why Self might shy away
from placing Withey on Thomas is that
Thomas has made the second most
three pointers for Buckeyes and Withey has
struggled at times when teams have brought
him away from the basket on defense.

I believe Self will have Withey start out
on Sullinger, and Robinson on Thomas, but
dont be surprised to see Jayhawk forward
Kevin Young in the mix. Young had his
breakout game the last time these two teams
met, playing 24 minutes and scoring 14
points.

And while Robinson has had the bet-
ter season, we will finally have the answer
to the debate as to who the better player
is between Robinson and Sullinger come
Saturday night in New Orleans.
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Kansas coach Bonnie Henrick-
son describes her team as strong
and resilient. She describes her
athletes as sisters. And after a
tumultuous season, the Jayhawks
showed all of these things and be-
came a family.
The Jayhawks withstood trans-
fers, injuries and a roller coast-
er schedule which could have
knocked down a similar team, or
even a former Kansas team, but
this time was different. The team
played for each other and they
played to win.
You cant do it if you have kids
pointing fingers at everybody and
wanting to feel sorry for them-
selves and they never did, Hen-
rickson said.
Kansas kicked off the season
with an 11-1 non-conference per-
formance, but lost two players,
sophomore guard Keena Mays
and freshman guard Donielle
Breaux, to transfers in that time.
Mays decision came after her
career-best performance against
Alabama on the road and mere
hours after another strong game
against Wisconsin. A few weeks
after her unexpected departure,
Breaux followed suit.
But Kansas was resilient.
Kansas defeated No. 25 Texas
in the Big 12 opener and started
conference play 5-2 before drop-
ping three straight to ranked op-
ponents. With another victory
against Texas things seemed to
look up again, but the tide quickly
turned in the next game.
Junior forward Carolyn Davis
was injured in a loss at Kansas
State on Feb. 12. Davis, a second-
year captain and All-American
candidate, tore her ACL and dis-
located her knee minutes into the
game and was wheeled out on a
stretcher. The team met her in the
hospital back in Lawrence and
then the loss started to sink in for
them.
It was a devastating to see
her go down but we wanted to
stay positive, junior guard An-
gel Goodrich said. We knew we
had a couple games ahead of us
still and we still had a season left.
We were still hungry to make the
tournament.
In the upcoming week, tears
welled in the eyes of Davis team-
mates and coaches with a simple
mention of their wounded war-
rior, and the Jayhawks started to
slide again in conference play.
They lost six of the next eight
games and were hanging on the
hopes of a post-season appear-
ance.
Once again, their resiliency
was tested.
When Selection Monday came,
the scene was tense. The team,
coaches, administrators and
loved ones watched quietly while
the announcers rolled off the first
three regions. It came to the fi-
nal region with six Big 12 teams
already chosen and Kansas was
announced. The room exploded
with joy and relief as they tasted
the satisfaction of the programs
first bid since 2000.
I am so glad we stuck together
when things could have gone
downhill and that has been the
difference in this team, Goo-
drich said. We just fought back
and I am so glad this is the team
that it was this year.
When they got to Little Rock,
Ark., for the first two rounds they
had something to prove. In the
first round they defeated Nebras-
ka and in the second round they
notched another upset when they
defeated Delaware. Those two
games led them to the programs
first Sweet 16 appearance since
1998.
Kansas lost to Tennessee, but
after the game the Jayhawks
showed a unique combination of
temporary disappointment and
insurmountable pride.
After transfers, they prevailed.
After tough losses, they prevailed.
After one of their leaders fell,
they prevailed. Those small vic-
tories all combined to lead them
to the ultimate reward: the NCAA
Tournament.
This is a great basketball les-
son for this program and these
players, but also a great life lesson
because life is tough, Henrickson
said.
These trials brought them
closer together and made them
a family. As Davis recovers after
her Tuesday morning surgery, the
team will continue to rally around
her. They fought for her and their
lone senior Aishah Sutherland.
Sutherland was part of the 2008
team that played in the WNIT
Final, but she wanted more. Her
goal was the tournament and in
her final season she took the team
there with her.
This team has been through it
all, Sutherland said. Every year
there has been injury or some-
thing that has stopped us, but we
have taken adversity and used it
as strength and I just love how we
reacted this year.
And so the Jayhawks who were
picked to finish seventh in the
league and seemed doomed after
the loss of Davis find some heal-
ing in the end of the season.
After the last game the players
sat together on benches quietly
reminiscing. Suddenly, laugh-
ter cut through the stillness and
smiles returned to their faces.
Their resiliency paid off.
I couldnt be more proud of
this team, Goodrich said. We
have come so far and weve done
so much for this program and it
has been such a blessing just to be
here.
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Womens Regional semifnals at Wells fargo arena in Des moines, Iowa on saturday.
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Junior infelder, mariah montgomery swings for a double in arrocha ballpark. the Jayhawks will take on no. 7 oklahoma this
weekend. the sooners feature junior all-american keilani Ricketts who was just named big 12 Pitcher of the Week.
Te Kansas sofball team hopes to
forget about a midweek loss to Mis-
souri State when it goes on the road
to face No. 7 Oklahoma Friday in its
third conference series of the season.
Similar to most weekends in Big 12
sofball, Kansas (23-7, 2-4) squares
of against a national powerhouse.
Oklahomas (27-4, 3-1) pitching staf
has allowed fewer than one earned
run per game (0.71 team ERA) while
its hitters lead the league with 46
home runs this year.
Were in a conference where we
play the best every weekend, and this
weekend will be no diferent, said
coach Megan Smith.
Te Kansas ofense, ranked ffh in
the conference with a .291 batting av-
erage, certainly faces a tall task.
Oklahomas junior All-Ameri-
can Keilani Ricketts (14-4) takes a
0.74 ERA in 114.1 innings into the
weekend and has been named Big
12 Pitcher of the Week the past two
weeks.
Tats not all, though; she can also
swing the bat. Ricketts is batting .403
with eight doubles and eight home
runs. Among Oklahomas other of-
fensive threats are freshman Lauren
Chamberlain, who leads the league
in homers (12) and RBIs (39), and
fve other Sooners who are batting
better than .300.
Kansas senior pitcher Ashley
Spencer, who faced Oklahoma last
season, said KUs pitchers would
need to be working one pitch at a
time to control an ofense that can
otherwise become overwhelming.
You cant focus on the whole in-
ning, Spencer said. If you focus
on one pitch, thats going to be key
against these hitters that attack the
ball.
Kansas ofense has been lead by
sophomore infelder and leadof hit-
ter Ashley Newman and junior out-
felder Maggie Hull. On the season,
Newmans 31 runs ties her for fourth
in the Big 12, while Hulls .374 batting
average is tenth in the league.
Kansas will likely need the entire
ofense clicking to score runs, but
Smith knows it starts at the top.
Undoubtedly, Maggie and Ash-
ley have been the catalyst for our
ofense, Smith said. Tey increase
our chances of winning when they
do well.
Kansas wants to forget about the
two-game series against Oklahoma
last year in which the Jayhawks failed
to score a run.
Hull said it is all about staying
positive, maintaining a short-term
memory and simply playing the
game. Kansas brings a diferent team
to the diamond than it did a year ago,
and Hull hopes that works in their
favor.
Teyre probably thinking theyre
going to roll over us, Hull said. My
hope is well catch them by surprise.
Were a talented team and we believe
that.
Te three-game series begins Fri-
day night at 7 p.m. Te second game
begins Saturday at 2 p.m. and the f-
nale is Sunday at noon.

Edited by Nadia Imafdon
ALEc tILSoN
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Players to return to Yankees after pre-season loss
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TAMPA, Fla. The New York
Yankees got good news about two
injured outfielders.
Curtis Granderson went 1
for 4 after missing two games
because of right elbow soreness
but the Yankees lost 4-3 loss to
the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday
night.
Curtis was great, Yankees
manager Joe Girardi said.
Granderson, the designated hit-
ter, singled in the third. The cen-
ter fielder could play defense on
Friday night.
I hope so, Granderson said.
Everything is good.
New York right fielder Nick
Swisher, out with a groin injury,
hit in a minor league game for the
second straight day. It hasnt been
decided if Swisher will play another
game in the minors or rejoin the
Yankees on Friday.
Well see where hes at, Girardi
said.
Rotation candidate Ivan Nova
pitched in a Triple-A game instead
of facing the Orioles, giving up
three runs and seven hits in 7 1-3
innings. The Yankees play their
second series of the regular season
at Baltimore.
He looked pretty good, Girardi
said of Nova, a 16-game winner last
season. I think you have to look
at everything, but you also have to
look at his body of work from last
year, too.
Orioles starter Jason Hammel
went 5 1-3 innings, allowing two
runs and five hits. Matt Wieters
had a double and triple in three at-
bats, and is 10 for his last 13.
Pretty much everything I
was working on Im happy with,
Hammel said. The results were
good. Real good execution.
Baltimore infielder J.J. Hardy,
sidelined by a right shoulder injury,
is expected to return Friday.
Looks like it, Orioles manager
Buck Showalter said. I made the
lineup (for Friday) and hes in it.
New York closer Mariano
Rivera gave up his second hit this
spring during a scoreless sixth. The
right-hander has not allowed a run
in seven innings overall, and also
extended his streak of not allowing
an earned run in spring training
dating back to 2008 to 28
consecutive innings.
Raul Ibanez hit a long solo
homer off Hammel and added an
RBI single.
Worked on getting the two-
seamer in action, and except for
one that probably went 900 feet, I
was real happy with it, Hammel
said.
New York has four pitchers,
Nova, Phil Hughes, Freddy Garcia
and Michael Pineda competing for
three starting slots behind open-
ing-day starter CC Sabathia and
Hiroki Kuroda.
Were just not quite there yet,
Girardi said. Yankeeland, its wins.
Weve got to do whats best for this
year.
Hughes is considered a front-
runner for one spot. Garcia will
pitch in the minors Friday, while
Pineda goes against Philadelphia in
the big league game.
I think these starts at the end
are a lot more important than the
ones at the beginning, Girardi
said.
Girardi said the pitcher that
loses out is not guarantee a spot in
the bullpen.
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throwers set to begin
outdoor track season
While a part of the track and field
team has already begun competing at
the Texas Relays this week, a group of
Jayhawks will begin events for the Ar-
kansas Spring Invitational in Fayette-
ville, Ark., on Friday.
The Arkansas group is highlighted
by two All-American throwers.
Alena Krechyk will compete for the
womens team in the second outdoor
meet of the season following her suc-
cessful indoor All-American season.
She finished the indoor season ranked
13th in the womens weight throw.
Mason Finley was an All-American in
the outdoor season in 2011. He is also
returning with his second meet of the
season for the mens squad after an
injury forced him to sit out for the en-
tire indoor season.
Finley wasted no time getting back
into form. After the Baker Relays last
weekend he is already the nations
current leader in the discus throw and
second in the shot put going into the
Arkansas Spring Invitational.
Senior Joel Krause will throw in
three events this week for Kansas: the
hammer throw, the shot put and the
discus.
Its a little bit tough to focus on
three events, but its also exciting
because I get some rest time between
each event and I get to focus on differ-
ent aspects, Krause said.
The hammer throw is a new event
for Krause this season.
Krause says the key to throwing is
to let your training take over and not
put too much thought into the throw.
When you are over thinking it the throw
becomes too technical and usually will
not travel as far, Krause said.
The womens hammer throw will be-
gin the Arkansas Spring Invitational
tonight at 6 p.m. followed by the mens
hammer throw. The rest of the events
will take place Saturday.
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Sophomore Josh Munsch and freshman Gabe Gonzalez run the mile race at a home indoor track meet in December. The outdoor season is just beginning.
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Heat top Mavericks in 106-85 victory in Miami
MIAMI (AP) No fourth-
quarter collapse this time against
Dallas. These days, everything
seems to be going right at home for
the Miami Heat.
LeBron James and Chris Bosh
each finished with 19 points and
nine rebounds, Dwyane Wade and
Udonis Haslem scored 16 apiece
and the Heat extended the leagues
longest home winning streak this
season to 15 games with a 106-85
win over the Mavericks in an NBA
finals rematch on Thursday night.
Mario Chalmers scored 12
points and Norris Cole added 10
for Miami, which swept its two
games with Dallas this season and
snapped a two-game losing streak.
We just worked our habits,
James said. The best thing about
tonight, we didnt take another step
backwards like we did the last two
games. And it was good to see.
Dirk Nowitzki scored 25 for
Dallas, but was held to 1-for-9
shooting in the second half. Lamar
Odom had 12 for the Mavericks,
who were outrebounded 44-29 and
were held to only two fast-break
points.
Miami outscored Dallas 26-13 in
the fourth quarter to cap the win.
You have to give them credit,
Nowitzki said. They stepped up
their pressure on both ends of the
floor. In the first half everything
came a little too easy for us. We got
some good looks, got some rolls,
had everything going. Then they
really picked up their pressure and
we didnt have many good looks.
It was Dallas first time playing
at Miami since winning Game 6 of
the NBA finals last June, a series
that turned after an epic late Game
2 comeback by the Mavs in Miami
and eventually became the ultimate
payback hoisting a champion-
ship trophy in Miami, five years
after Wade and the Heat celebrated
winning their title in Dallas.
Still, Dallas insisted this trip
wasnt about revisiting memories.
Just another day at the office,
Mavs owner Mark Cuban said.
Well, not an altogether friendly
day at the office particularly
late.
In the fourth quarter alone,
Nowitzki had the bridge of his
nose bloodied, James got hit in the
mouth and Wade spent a few min-
utes grabbing at his right index fin-
ger in obvious discomfort. Adding
to Miamis discomfort: Dallas being
within 90-83 with 4:37 left after
Nowitzki made four free throws in
a 27-second span.
Any angst existing at that point
dissipated quickly.
I felt like we were in control,
Wade said. They got a couple
things to go their way. It was just
about settling down and running
offense.
Simple as that. A 9-0 run sealed
it for Miami, with Wade quarter-
backing the charge.
His two-handed dunk pushed
the Heat lead back to double fig-
ures, then he found Bosh to set up
a three-point play and set up James
for a slam that pushed the lead
to 99-83 with 3:03 left. The Mavs
called time out, took Nowitzki and
three others off the floor for the
night, and the Heat slide was soon
over.
Vince Carter and Brandan
Wright each scored 11 for Dallas.
Its tough, Carter said of facing
the Heat. When theyre rolling,
theyre rolling.
Miamis offense has sputtered
for nearly a month, but the Heat
scored 60 points by halftime for
the first time in 11 games. James,
Bosh and Wade shot 12 for 21 by
halftime, and Miamis bench
Haslem and Cole, mostly con-
nected on 10 of 13 shots before
intermission. Haslem made all four
of his shots in the half and Cole
was 4 for 6 after making four shots
in his last seven games.
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Te season was spiraling away,
the players didnt seem to care and
Tad Matta had had enough.
So, as he watched his team stum-
ble lackadaisically through practice
on the eve of a big game, the Ohio
State coach snapped. Stop, days
over, head home, he told them.
Not so fast, coach.
Led by William Buford, the teams
lone senior, the Buckeyes pushed
back, decided to fnish practice on
their own.
I didnt let us leave, Buford said
Tursday. I told them we need to
stay here and keep practicing, thats
all there was to do. Tere was no
sense in going home. We needed to
stay together and show coach that
we really wanted to be here.
Tey sure did.
Sparked by that well-show-coach
moment of solidarity and buoyed
by a refresher-course team meeting,
the Buckeyes have made an unex-
pected run into the Final Four.
Following a loss to Wisconsin
the day afer Mattas outburst, Ohio
State (31-7) has won eight of nine
games and is playing its best basket-
ball at just the right time.
Te young Buckeyes face Kan-
sas in Saturdays Final Four in the
Big Easy and have found the con-
fdence that was missing during an
ugly stretch in February that had
Matta wondering if his team could
even get past the frst round of the
NCAA tournament.
Tere was a lot of fnger-point-
ing going around. Tere was some
adversity; we werent playing as well
as we thought we should be, point
guard Aaron Craf said. Tere
were guys just not taking responsi-
bility for their actions, and he tried
to kick us out. I think we did a good
job of fghting back. Since the last
week of the season, its been a better
team mind-set, and weve dealt with
adversity a lot better.
Te Buckeyes opened the sea-
son with some decent expectations,
thanks to Jared Sullingers decision
to return for his sophomore season.
Still, they were young and inexpe-
rienced, with 11 underclassmen on
the roster, leaving Matta unsure of
where the team was headed.
Ohio State was a smooth-shifing
machine early in the season, play-
ing with poise and efciency while
getting scoring from Sullinger and
Buford and steady play from Craf
at the point.
Ohio States only losses were
on the road to Kansas without
Sullinger Indiana and Illinois,
and it had moved up to third in the
rankings.
Ten, the Buckeyes seemed to get
discombobulated.
Sullinger started complaining
about the way ofcials were call-
ing games and seemed bothered by
teams playing physical defense. Te
entire team became more selfsh,
sometimes not even knowing what
play was being run or where to be
on the court.
In position to take a two-game
lead in the Big Ten with six lef on
Feb. 11, the Buckeyes labored in a
58-48 loss to Michigan State, shoot-
ing 26 percent while scoring 29
points below their average to see a
39-game home winning streak end.
Te Buckeyes bounced back with
a road win against Minnesota but
followed with a 56-51 loss at Michi-
gan and still seemed to be in a funk
despite beating Illinois.
Facing a huge game against Wis-
consin the next day, one that could
determine the Big Ten champion-
ship, the Buckeyes should have been
focused and ready for an intense
practice on Feb. 25.
Instead, they labored through it,
prompting their coach to blow his
stack and tell them to go home.
It was a big risk with a cru-
cial game the next day, but Matta
couldnt sit around and watch his
team fritter away what he thought
could be a good season.
Weve always tried to set the
stage of how we practice is how we
play at high speed, we dont stop.
It takes guys a little longer to get the
intensity and what were trying to
get, Matta said. And it took this
team took a little while to under-
stand.
Te Buckeyes stumbled afer
Mattas gamble, losing to Wisconsin
63-60 the next day. Tey rallied af-
ter that, though.
Sullinger, who had just eight
points and six rebounds against
Wisconsin, shook of his midsea-
son funk and concentrated just on
his game, not outside infuences like
ofcials or what people were saying
about him.
Deshaun Tomas, Ohio States
second-leading scorer in the regu-
lar season, picked up his output in
the NCAA tournament, leading the
Buckeyes with 21.8 points per game
while giving the Buckeyes a tough,
who-do-you-stop combination with
Sullinger.
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Te Kansas womens tennis
team has already face two ranked
opponents this season, and the
schedule will only get harder this
weekend.
Te team played No. 13 Baylor
and No. 18 Texas Tech last week-
end, but the Jayhawks will need to
regroup quickly for this weekends
action. By Sunday, the team will
have played its fourth top-20 team
in a row, afer it travels to play No.
10 Texas today and No. 16 Texas
A&M on Sunday.
Its so much diferent because
our conference is pretty tough,
junior Monica Pezzotti said. All
the teams have been ranked ex-
cept for us and Iowa State, so its
a really hard challenge for us to do
well.
Texas comes into the match
fresh of a 4-3 loss to No. 21 Il-
linois and currently holds a 9-5
dual match record in 2012. Te
teams other four losses came to
teams ranked No. 12 nationally or
better.
Te Longhorns have two na-
tionally ranked players, led by No.
25 junior Aerial Ellis and followed
by senior Krista Damico at No. 58.
Todays match is set to begin at 2
p.m.
Texas A&M, which is moving to
the Southeastern Conference next
year, has won 11 straight matches
afer opening the season with a
4-3 loss to No. 17 Mississippi. Te
Aggies face Kansas State today,
before the Jayhawks travel to Col-
lege Station for the 1 p.m. Sunday
match.
Temperatures are forecasted
to soar into the upper 80s for
both matches this weekend, but
the team should be fairly well-
conditioned to play in the heat,
as recent temperatures have been
well-above average in Lawrence.
Both the Baylor and Texas Tech
matches were played in 80-degree
heat.
Te weather has been hard on
us all, sophomore Dylan Windom
said. I had like a two-and-a-half
hour match against Baylor and
have been cramping unbelievably.
I think it has taken a toll on our
bodies, because we are used to
playing indoors and 70-degree,
not 80-degree, weather.
Kansas (9-7) has lost seven of
its past nine dual matches, includ-
ing a winless record in conference
play. All of the teams remaining
regular season matches will be
played on the road before the Big
12 tournament begins on April
26.
Te girls know if they get out
and compete and play hard. Men-
tally they have to keep pumping
themselves and stay on top of their
games, coach Amy Hall-Holt said.
Were playing hard. Were right
there and hopefully eventually its
HARRISBURG, Pa. The
judge overseeing former Penn
State assistant football coach Jer-
ry Sanduskys child sexual abuse
case on Thursday delayed the
start of the trial by three weeks to
early June, and prosecutors filed a
lengthy court document that said
the case should not be dismissed.
Judge John Cleland said the
additional time was needed to
accommodate various logistical
contingencies that have arisen,
and the attorney generals office
supported the postponement.
The prosecutions 21-page an-
swer to a catch-all pretrial motion
that Sanduskys lawyer submitted
a week ago said the common-
wealth had broad latitude to
establish the dates of allegations
in child sexual abuse cases. San-
dusky has asked for more specif-
ics about when the alleged crimes
occurred.
Defendant cannot exploit
the appalling breadth of his own
criminal conduct by claiming it
encompasses so long a period
as to hamper his defense, wrote
chief deputy attorney general
Frank Fina.
The 68-year-old retired defen-
sive coordinator faces 52 counts
involving 10 alleged victims over
15 years. He remains confined to
his home to await trial. Prosecu-
tors have accused him of engag-
ing in a range of illegal behavior
with the boys, including sexual
assaults, allegations he denies.
Fina disputed Sanduskys ar-
gument that witness Mike Mc-
Queary will not be able to prove
the charges involving a young boy
allegedly seen by McQueary being
sexually abused by Sandusky in
the Penn State showers in 2002.
The defense appears to argue
that an eyewitness who sees an
adult man having sex with a child
cannot provide sufficient evi-
dence of the conduct of crimes,
Fina wrote. It is noteworthy that
the defense provides no legal sup-
port for such a specious asser-
tion.
Cleland said a hearing remains
scheduled for April 5 in Bellefonte
to argue over the pretrial issues.
Fina wrote that the prosecu-
tion agreed with Sanduskys re-
quest to have prospective jurors
questioned individually, and to
sequester them at trial.
In Sanduskys omnibus pretrial
motion last week, defense law-
yer Joe Amendola argued some
allegations were not sufficiently
specific, others lacked evidence
and the statute of limitations may
have run in some cases.
Messages seeking comment on
the prosecutions filing were left
for Amendola on Thursday eve-
ning.
Fina noted that Sandusky
waived a preliminary hearing
that would have allowed him to
test some of the evidence against
him.
He cannot now be heard to
complain the information is in-
sufficient, having conceded the
ability of the commonwealth to
prove each count if submitted to
a fact-finder, Fina wrote.
Fina told Cleland that prosecu-
tors expect to disclose additional
information to the defense as the
investigation continues. He asked
the judge to allow Amendola to
amend the omnibus pretrial mo-
tion two weeks after that addi-
tional information is received.
The prosecution filing said a
search of Sanduskys home in June
was authorized by a valid warrant,
and that investigators legally in-
tercepted conversations between
Sandusky and two alleged vic-
tims, identified as Victim 1 and
Victim 9 in court records. They
include a seven-minute conversa-
tion with Victim 1 in June 2009,
and a conversation with Victim
9 about four days after Sandusky
was arrested in early November.
It is denied that the intercep-
tions were in any way illegal or
improper, Fina said. It is abso-
lutely admitted that the defendant
was unaware of and did not con-
sent to the interceptions.
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ally abusing boys, leaves the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa on Dec.
13, 2011. a psychologist who looked into a 1998 allegation against sandusky told
police at the time that his behavior ft the profle of a likely pedophile, nBC news
reported saturday.
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Jayhawks turn focus inward before Final Four
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kcarpenter@kansan.com
NEW ORLEANS Te story has
been told a few times already. Be-
fore the season, former NBA coach
Jef Van Gundy and Kansas legend,
Larry Brown spoke at the coaches
clinic hosted by Bill Self. Te duo
watched a Kansas practice without
junior forward Tomas Robinson,
to be fair and the opinions werent
pretty.
Coach Brown thought that if we
played really well we could maybe
get to .500 and win 15 games, Self
recalled Tursday afernoon in the
Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New
Orleans.
Expected losses to Kentucky and
Duke early in the season were fol-
lowed by a head-scratching loss to
Davidson on Dec. 19 in Kansas City.
Self was fairly certain the players
didnt like him around that time and
he had his doubts on whether the
players evened liked each other.
Should the Jayhawks win two
games here in New Orleans, how-
ever, the days surrounding that
loss to Davidson may very well
have been the turning point in the
season. Senior guard Tyshawn Tay-
lor certainly believes so, recalling a
discussion the rotation players had
about what each players contribu-
tions could be to the team.
But it wasnt just another team
meeting.
We had a lot of things that we
went through that made us closer,
Taylor said, noting the hardships ju-
nior forward Tomas Robinson went
through last season. He then added,
We were just taking pictures right
now in front of the green screen, and
they told us it seemed like we like
each other more than the other team
they just did.
What makes this such a tight knit
group is also the reason the team is
criticized.
Te Jayhawks have just six players
who average 21 minutes per game
or more. Te bench is usually just
two players former walk-on and
senior guard Conner Teahan and
junior forward Kevin Young. and is
rarely greater than three.
Te starting fve has been the same
in 34 of 37 games. Tat includes the
36 starts by junior guard Elijah John-
son, who almost seemed angry when
asked about a writers opinion of his
performances earlier in the year.
If youre not a part of the team
or our program, or people who have
been with us to help us work to win,
when I hear things thats one person,
Johnson said. Te outside.
Kansas players have talked about
shutting out the outside since the
tournament started two weeks ago
in Omaha, Neb., avoiding reading
stories or listening to advice from
friends and family. And however that
cohesiveness was formed, theyve
slowly and quietly become one of
Self s best tournament teams at Kan-
sas.
Ive had more fun coaching this
team than any team Ive had going
back to my Tulsa days, Self said. I
could not have enjoyed this group
more.
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Junior guard elijah Johnson speaks to members of the media thursday afternoon in new orleans. Johnson talked about the
teams effects to mentally shut out outside infuences, including media.
Danny Manning is officially
leaving Lawrence to fill the head
coaching vacancy at Tulsa, and
he is taking another familiar Jay-
hawk name with him.
Joining Manning as an assis-
tant coach will be current Baker
head coach and former Jayhawk
Brett Ballard.
Tulsa athletic director Ross
Parmley announced the hiring
of Manning, a Kansas mens bas-
ketball assistant coach and 80s
on-court legend on Thursday
morning.
Im excited and looking for-
ward to being the head basket-
ball coach at The University of
Tulsa, Manning said in a press
release.
Manning went on to thank
Kansas coach Bill Self for having
him on his staff for the past nine
years.
I have learned a tremendous
amount about the game and the
profession from him and all the
members of his staff, Manning
said.
Several Kansas players dis-
cussed Mannings departure
Thursday , including junior cen-
ter Jeff Withey. Withey said he
will be sad to see Manning go,
but he thinks he will improve the
Tulsa program.
He gave me a lot of confi-
dence. Every day we worked
with him, we got a lot of shots off
and we work on our footwork,
Withey said. He gives us a lot of
tricks when we are playing, so he
will definitely be missed.
Withey said the timing of
Mannings departure, along with
that of director of mens basket-
ball operations Barry Hinson,
will not be a distraction heading
in to the Jayhawks Final Four
clash with Ohio State at 7:30
p.m. Saturday in New Orleans.
It doesnt change much. We
are definitely happy for both of
them, Withey said. It shows
that if we keep on winning it
opens a lot of opportunities for
everybody. Its awesome for both
of them. Its not a distraction by
any means.
The team feels comfortable
knowing Manning and Hinson
will remain through the remain-
der of the postseason, said junior
guard Travis Releford.
Right now, we cant even pic-
ture them not being with us until
the time comes, Releford said.
We arent really focused on that
because they are still with us.
Junior guard Elijah Johnson
echoed Witheys sense of pride
that two Kansas basketball fig-
ures have parlayed the Jayhawks
recent success into new jobs.
Jayhawk nation will always
love them, Johnson said. That
shows you if you do the right
thing, the pie is big enough for
everybody. I never thought Id be
able to help one of our coaches
get a job and for us to be part of
the reason that happened makes
me feel good and makes me want
to win even more.
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Coach danny Manning gives advice to junior forward thomas Robinson during the frst half of the season opener against
towson at allen Fieldhouse. Robinson contributed 18 points and 11 rebounds in the Jayhawks 100-54 victory.
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the stanford mens basketball team celebrates its 75-51 nit Final victory over Minnesota.
Athletics announces
Mannings departure
NEW YORK Stanfords young
guards Chasson Randle and Aaron
Bright each scored 15 points, and the
Cardinal routed Minnesota 75-51 to
win the NIT title Tursday night.
Stanford forced two turnovers
to open the second half to take a
10-point lead and stayed up by dou-
ble fgures the rest of the way. Te
Golden Gophers turned it over 22
times on the night.
Te third-seeded Cardinal (26-
11) won their second NIT title, the
frst coming in 1991.
Te fnal minutes turned into a
celebration of 3-pointers and fast-
break layups for Stanford, players on
the bench jumping up to cheer on
nearly every possession.
Both teams got of to a hot start,
but then the Cardinal turned up the
defensive pressure, and when the
Golden Gophers (23-15) got good
looks, they couldnt make them.
Sixth-seeded Minnesota missed 16
of its last 19 shots in the frst half.
Te Cardinal scored 12 straight
points to go ahead 29-21 with 4
minutes lef before the break. Bright
had six points, including a four-point
play, and an assist during the run,
and Stanford drew three charges.
Bright, a sophomore, had six as-
sists and earned most outstanding
player honors. Randle, a freshman,
was 3 for 5 on 3-pointers.
In front of a sparse crowd at Mad-
ison Square Garden, the atmosphere
on the court had some sizzle. Min-
nesotas Elliott Eliason and Stanfords
Dwight Powell had to be separated
afer getting tangled up on a held ball
late in the frst half, and the two ex-
changed words again in the second.
Powell was later called for a contact
technical foul when the Gophers
Rodney Williams hit the foor face
frst afer being whistled for fouling
the Cardinal forward.
Williams stayed on the court for
several minutes before walking of
under his own power and returned
to the game soon thereafer.
It was the fourth foul on Williams,
who at that juncture had scored 12 of
Minnesotas 30 points. Williams, who
made the all-tournament team, fn-
ished with 12 to lead the Gophers.
Powell hit both of his free throws,
and in a sign of how the game was
going for the Golden Gophers, Andre
Hollins, a 92.2-percent foul shooter,
made only one of two, and Stanford
led 47-31 with less than 12 minutes
lef. Hollins, a freshman, also made
the all-tournament team.
Te injury-riddled Golden Go-
phers had made a spirited run to the
NIT title game. But they hit just three
of their 13 3-point attempts Tursday
and allowed the Cardinal to shoot
57.1 percent in the second half.
Stanford is just the second team
to play in the fnal of the preseason
and postseason NIT in the same
season. In the NIT Season Tip-Of
in November, the Cardinal let a late
lead slip away against Syracuse. Min-
nesota isnt exactly the Orange, but
this time Stanford never looked back
afer going ahead.
Minnesota had won the frst four
meetings in the series, though the
teams hadnt played since 1975.
ASSocIAtED PRESS
stanford defeats Minnesota
in national invitation tourney
MAtt GALLowAY
mgalloway@kansan.com
Friday, march 30, 2012 PaGE 7B thE UNiVErSity daiLy KaNSaN
OhiO
StatE
tiPOFF
KaNSaS VS. OhiO StatE
7:49 P.m., VENUE, NEw OrLEaNS
KaNSaS
tiPOFF
cOUNtdOwN tO tiPOFF
all-american matchup
No. 2 seeds head-to-head in the Final Four
GAME
DAY
at a GLaNcE
Ranked No. 3 in preseason polls,
Ohio State (31-7) looked like an un-
derachiever in February. The Buck-
eyes had lost three of fve games
and were two games back in the Big
Ten race. Since then, Thad Mattas
squad has won eight of nine and
advanced to the programs 11th Fi-
nal Four. Sophomore forward Jared
Sullinger is playing like an all-Amer-
ican again, averaging 20 points per
game during that stretch.
at a GLaNcE
Kansas (31-6) is making its 14th
Final Four appearance and second
under Bill Self. The Jayhawks under-
whelmed during the frst three games
of the tournament, but sprang to
life in an 80-67 Elite Eight win over
North Carolina. Kansas beat Ohio
State on Dec. 10 in Allen Fieldhouse,
but the Buckeyes were without frst-
team all-American Jared Sullinger
(back spasms). Sullingers presence
in the rematch means the Jayhawks
will have to step up.
QUEStiON marK
Will Jared Sullingers pres-
ence be the difference-maker?
Kansas won the frst meeting this
season, but Sullinger was injured
and didnt play. That appeared to
give the Jayhawks the advantage,
as Robinson and forward Kevin
Young combined for 35 points. With
Sullinger involved, the frontcourt
matchup becomes even more in-
triguing. Will Jeff Witheys length
bother Sullinger? Can Robinson con-
tain the rapidly improving Deshaun
Thomas on the perimeter? Who gets
into foul trouble frst?
Prediction:
QUEStiON marK
Will Kansas toughness con-
tinue to carry the Jayhawks?
Coach Bill Self said the 2008
Final Four team would be favored
against the 2012 team, but that
the 2012 team wouldnt buy into
that. Indeed, while this years team
might be Selfs least talented, it
is probably his toughest. Kansas
willed itself to victory in a 19-point
comeback against Missouri and
against Purdue and North Carolina
in the tournament. Against Big Ten
co-champion Ohio State, toughness
may be the decider again.
hEar yE, hEar yE
I think the more you try to con-
trol something, the less you actually
do. You just have to let it ride and
go play. The things you try to control
arent the things between the lines.
Its the media, distractions, agents,
runners, family members, tickets and
hotel rooms. Those are the things we
need to control. As far as playing, I
am not going to try to control that.
All four teams have gotten here by
playing a certain way.
Kansas coach Bill Self, on how
to control things while playing on a
national stage.
hEar yE, hEar yE
There was a lot of fnger-pointing
going around. There was some ad-
versity; we werent playing as well
as we thought we should be.
Sophomore guard Aaron Craft, on
his teams mid-season struggles.
Source: ohiostatebuckeyes.com
Kansas 67, Ohio State 65
PLayEr tO watch
Tyshawn Taylor, Senior guard
Kansas foor
general is full
of confdence
after register-
ing 22 points,
six boards, fve
assists and fve
steals against
North Carolina.
However, Taylor
has yet to hit a
3-pointer in the tournament (0-17)
and has never made a 3-pointer in
a domed stadium. Saturdays game
is in the Louisiana Superdome. Ohio
State guard Aaron Craft, one of the
nations best on-ball defenders, will
hound Taylor all night. If Taylor limits
turnovers and makes shots, Kansas
will be tough to beat.
Taylor
PLayEr tO watch
William Buford, Senior guard
If Buford
stays in his
current slump,
Ohio States
tournament
run will likely
end on Satur-
day night. He
has hit just 29
percent from the
feld and has a 1:1 assist-to-turn-
over ratio during the tournament.
Chances are Buford is too good a
player (15 points per game) to con-
tinue struggling. Expect a solid per-
formance from him, and hope that
Kansas can limit his impact.
Buford
Sam KOVzaN
editor@kansan.com
Johnson
taylor
releford
withey
robinson
KaNSaS
(25-5, 16-2)
StartErS
TyShAwn TAylor, guArd
Thus far in the tournament, Taylors level of
play has corresponded with Kansas level of
play. He shot a combined 6-25 against Pur-
due and North Carolina State and struggled to
ignite Kansas sputtering offense. He was ter-
rifc against Roy Williams Tarheels. Matching
up against lockdown defender Aaron Craft,
Taylor must value offensive possessions and
select shots wisely. Under college basket-
balls brightest lights, Taylor has the chance
to prove his critics wrong once and for all.

ElijAh johnSon, guArd
Nobody on the Kansas roster has made
larger strides in March than Johnson. He is
averaging 15.8 points per game in the last six
contests, compared with his 9.8 season av-
erage. Without Johnson, Kansas likely would
have fallen to Purdue in the second round, but
his clutch three-pointer, layup and alley-oop
pass to Taylor in the fnal moments proved
decisive. Johnson hit fve threes against Ohio
State in the frst meeting.
TrAViS rElEFord, guArd

Although quiet offensively, Releford has
expended great energy on defense throughout
the tournament: he guarded versatile Pur-
due forward Robbie Hummel, sharp-shooting
North Carolina State guard Scott Wood and
North Carolina star Harrison Barnes. His next
assignment is 6-foot-6 wing William Buford,
Ohio States ffth all-time leading scorer. Rel-
eford cannot let Buford break out of his current
slump.
ThomAS roBinSon, ForwArd

Kansas thoroughbred forward gets what he
wished for back in December: a showdown with
Ohio State big man Jared Sullinger. Robinson
is averaging 17.9 points and 11.8 boards per
game, but has shot just 37 percent in the tour-
nament. In order to steal the National Player
of the Year award from Kentuckys Anthony
Davis, Robinson must outperform Sullinger
and avoid foul trouble against Ohio States
physically strong frontcourt.

jEFF wiThEy, CEnTEr

The 7-foot centers ability
to protect the rim on de-
fense and block shots has
proven invaluable. Withey
blocked 10 shots against
North Carolina State in the
Sweet 16, falling one short of
tying the NCAA Tournament record.
He followed that performance with
another fne outing against North
Carolina, scoring 15 points,
grabbing 8 boards and swatting
three shots. Jared Sullinger
may be his toughest defen-
sive task all season.
OhiO StatE
(27-4, 4-14)
StartErS
AAron CrAFT, guArd
Just a sophomore, Craft is one of the most
underrated point guards in the country. His
offensive numbers arent spectacular (8.8
points per game, 4.7 assists), but he lim-
its his turnovers (just 2 per game) and is a
fantastic defender. Against Kansas on Dec.
10, Craft single-handedly forced six Tyshawn
Taylor turnovers. He excels at defending ball
screenssomething Kansas on relies heav-
ilyand his quick hands lead to steals and
transition scoring for Ohio State.
lEnzEllE SmiTh jr., guArd

The sophomore guard is Ohio States ffth
leading scorer this season (6.7 points per
game), but is fresh off two excellent games.
Smith scored 17 in a Sweet 16 win over
Cincinnati and 18 in the East regional fnal
against Syracuse. Smith shoots 37.7 percent
from 3-point range and, at 6-foot-4, has good
length on defense. Smith is the least likely
Buckeye starter to hurt Kansas, but he showed
his ability last weekend.
williAm BuFord, CEnTEr

The 6-foot-6 senior is Ohio States ffth
all-time leading scorer. Buford is streaky,
but can score in bunches. He has scored at
least 23 points six times this season and is
Ohio States best shooter. Hes labored in the
tournament, hitting under 30 percent from the
feld. Even so, he remains an offensive threat
at all times.
dEShAun Thom-
AS, ForwArd
Deshaun
Thomas NBA
draft status
has skyrock-
eted during
the NCAA Tour-
nament. The 6-foot-7
sophomore forward leads the tour-
nament in scoring (21.8 points per
game) and has shot 41.1 percent
from 3-point range. He had 19
points in the game at Allen Field-
house, proving a tricky matchup
for Kansas big men. Thomas Rob-
inson struggled guarding Purdues
Robbie Hummel on the perimeter,
so expect Kevin Young to play a role
in trying to slow Thomas down.
jArEd SullingEr, ForwArd

Ohio States leading scorer (17.6 points
per game) and rebounder (9.3 per game)
is playing his best basketball at just the
right time. Sullinger suffered through a
winter slump, but has scored 20 or
more points in fve of Ohio States
last nine games. His 16 double-
doubles this season rank second
in the Big Ten. Sullinger would
have been a top-3 NBA draft pick
last year, but he returned for his
sophomore season in hopes of
winning a national champion-
ship. Hes awfully close now.
craft
thomas
Buford
Smith
Sullinger
Big jAy will ChEEr iF...
The Jayhawks make clutch plays
on both sides of the foor, maintain
their aura of toughness and
advance to Monday nights national
championship.
BABy jAy will wEEp iF...
The Jayhawks make costly mis-
takes down the stretch and Craft
and Sullinger outplay Taylor and
Robinson.
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