The Mount Oread Scholars

program will end in May after 16

years at the University because of
the Honors Program expansion.
The Mount Oread program pro-
vides resources like living learning
communities, seminars and advis-
ing for incoming freshmen with
high abilities. It is meant to foster
a sense of community and help
with the transition into college.
A lot of it is working against
the myth that high-ability stu-
dents are automatically success-
ful the moment they step onto
a college campus, and inevitably
thats inaccurate because theyre a
student population, just like any,
that has special needs, said Dan
McCarthy, scholar adviser.
To be eligible for the program,
students must have an ACT score
of 28 or higher and graduate in
the top 20 percent of their high
school class. After their freshman
year, they can to mentor incoming
freshman and speak at events.
Kathryn Tuttle, assistant to
the provost, said next year, the
Honors Program will include
Mount Oread Scholars. She said it
is a more comprehensive program
for high-ability students, and the
Honors Program will give them
more access to honors courses.
The Mount Oread Scholars
program has been a wonderful
program, Tuttle said. Its been
great for the students. The staff
and faculty that were involved had
an excellent program.
Zach Dennett, a freshman from
Winfield, is a member of Mount
Oread Scholars and the living
learning community at GSP-
Corbin Hall. The living learning
community houses students tak-
ing similar classes on the same
floor.
Its nice because we do every-
thing as a floor, Dennett said. So
I have really close connections
with my floor. The main thing is
Ive enjoyed all of the activities
and that theyve introduced me
to all the friends I have right now.
I kind of feel bad that upcom-
ing freshman dont get the same
opportunity I got.
Edited by Emma McElhaney
UDK
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rush to the altar?
25 To life
A recent study shows that students believe 25 is the ideal age to marry

Adam Buhler didnt wait to walk
down the hill at graduation before
walking down the aisle to get mar-
ried.
The 27-year-old Lawrence native
said graduating was not a prior-
ity over marriage. Buhler said he
always looked forward to getting
married growing up and didnt feel
he needed to graduate before mar-
rying the perfect girl. He married
his wife Karen at age 22 and now
the couple has two children, a two-
year-old son and a four-week-old
daughter.
I know other students stay out
and party all night, but they can
come home and take a nap dur-
ing the day, Buhler said. I cant
because I have a kid to take care
of.
A recent study taken from five
different colleges shows Buhler
may not be alone in putting mar-
riage above graduation.
Five professors from Brigham
Young University surveyed 536
college students and their parents
about the ideal age to get married.
They also studied the differenc-
es between college students and
their parents views on marriage
readiness criteria. The age students
chose as the perfect or ideal time in
their lives to get married was 25.
Buhler said that juggling school
and a family
definitely teach-
es you to priori-
tize.
We studied
better because
we were staying
in school and
could encour-
age each other
along the way,
Buhler said.
Other students agreed that 25
was an ideal age and appropriate
time in their lives to get married.
Paul Pierce, a sophomore from
Kansas City, Mo., said that 25 is an
ideal age to get married because
most people are fresh out of col-
lege and entering the professional
world.
For me, I look to get married
when I am 25 because I plan to be
graduating from law school around
that time, he said.
Alanna Muirhead, a sophomore
from Elkhorn Neb., said that any-
where between 25 and 30 would be
an ideal age for marriage because
students will have graduated by
then and have had
time to live the
young life a little
while.
At the age of
25, you can gradu-
ate from college
and do some back-
packing around
Europe or go on a
mission trip, what-
ever sparks your fancy, Muirhead
said.
Muirheads father, David
Muirhead, agreed with his daugh-
ter. He also said that the right age
may be higher for women who
have finished professional school
and established a career before set-
tling down.
Not everyone agrees with the
studys find-
ings.
Wh i t n e y
Antwine, a junior
from Dallas, was
shocked by the study
results and disagrees
that 25 is the ideal age to
marry. She said that personal
maturity has more to do with
the right time to get married
than age does. Antwine is 27 and
decided to come back to school to
finish her degree.
I have learned so much about
myself this time around because I
am older and take different things
more seriously than when I was
21, Antwine said.
Antwines mother, Diane
Holliday, also said that 25 is way
too young to get married. Holliday
said that students need to graduate,
find a job and live on their own for
a few years in order to find out who
they are as a person.
Honestly, not much should
happen before youre 30, Holliday
said.
The study also researched
stu-
dents
o p i n -
ions on
the impor- tance of
factors for marriage readiness such
as interpersonal competence and
familial capacities. This showed
that students find personal knowl-
edge of themselves and readiness
to start a family important when
deciding the age to get married.
Eric Bowman, a sophomore
from Chanute, said his ideal age
to marry would be 28. He said his
main reason for the extra three
years is based on the tendency of a
married couple to have children.
I
t h i n k
a parent
shouldnt be too
old so that they can still be active
with their children, Bowman
said. But I also believe a parent
shouldnt be so young that they are
ill-prepared.
Edited by Luke Ranker
hannah barling
hbarling@kansan.com

We studied better because

we were staying in school
and could encourage each
other along the way.
ADAm bUhler
married student
woodard will run for
student body president
for the frst time in KUnited history,
the current vice president will run for
Student body President on the coalitions
ticket in 2013.
brandon Woodard, a Topeka senior
studying political science, was an-
nounced as the presidential candidate
by KUnited yesterday.
Serving as vice president this year,
i have the experience and know-how,
Woodard said. i
know how KUnited
operates.
blaine bengt-
son, a Salina
junior, will serve
as the vice presi-
dential candidate.
bengston directed the new game day re-
cycling program recycle & blue, KU.
Woodard said the recycling program
and senates current work to establish a
Spanish minor are two of the changes he
is most proud of this year.
KUnited is the frst student coalition
to announce its candidates for Student
Senate elections in April.
The coalition will decide next years
platform during its spring meetings.
i, as a student, have ideas im pas-
sionate about, but we get ideas from the
coalition, Woodard said.
The KUnited coalition was established
18 years ago and has won 18 of the past
19 elections.
Rachel Salyer
Woodard
rebekka sChliChting
rschlichting@kansan.com
rebekka sChliChting
rschlichting@kansan.com
film TeChnology
honorS
STUDenT SenATe
travis young/kansan
A group of mount oread Scholars made a flm portraying high school stereotypes for fmS 100. The half-hour long movie was
produced in about a month and a half.
Freshmen produce movie
A commons room in Gertrude
Sellards Pearson (GSP) was hop-
ping with about 10 college fresh-
man pretending to be drunk for
a class project for Liberal Arts
and Sciences 101, which worked
in conjunction with the course,
Introduction to the Film Medium.
The film, T Buffet of Life, pre-
mier was held in the Kansas Union
Woodruff on Nov. 28, leaving the
crew with around a month and a
half to produce the half an hour
long film.
I was really disappointed with
amount of time we had to make
the movie, said Zach Dennett, a
freshman from Winfield. For the
amount of time that we had, we
did an awesome job, so I was happy
with what we did at the given cir-
cumstances.
The plot, about a new girl in a
boring school and two guys fight-
ing for her companionship at the
upcoming dance, portrays stereo-
types in high school movies.
Most of the students partici-
pating in the course are not film
majors. Michael Riedl, a freshman
from El Dorado, said despite his
lack of experience he was cast as a
main character.
For the most part we were able
to draw on our experiences to act
as what certain people where like in
our high school and try to embody
those characters, Riedl said, My
character was a loud jock who was
up in everyones grill and being a
goof ball.
The goal of the film project
was to help students realize their
potential as high ability students,
develop collaborative working
skills and build a sense of commu-
nity on their floor of GSP, said Dan
McCarthy, the seminar instructor.
Edited by Whitney Bolden
mount oread program ending
Share photos on Snapchat
For people looking to send tem-
porary photos to your friends and
family, no need to worry. Theres
an app for that.
Snapchat, an app created by
Stanford students Bobby Murphy
and Evan Spiegel, provides people
with a new, unique way to com-
municate. The app enables users
to send photos to other users, but
theres a catch. These photos are
only visible to the receiver for one
to 10 seconds. Users can also add
short captions to the photos that
they send.
The app is currently the
fourth-most downloaded app on
Apples App Store and the 19th
on Androids Google Play store.
According to Spiegel, there are 30
million photos shared on Snapchat
each day.
Snapchat has also spread to the
KU campus. Campbell Gatehouse,
a sophomore from Orono, Minn.,
said Snapchat has become one of
her main ways to communicate.
I text and use Snapchat
equally now, Gatehouse said. I
Snapchat a lot because its easier
and quicker than texting because
its more straight to the point.
Spiegel said part of the inspi-
ration behind Snapchat was his
dissatisfaction with the state of
social media.
We wanted to do something
that was more fun, Spiegel said.
Social media had gotten really
boring. People werent acting
naturally and were too worried
about trying to impress their
friends.
In an age when users face
the pressures of maintaining and
improving their social media
profile and persona, Snapchat
provides user with a unique
social media experience that
emphasizes entertainment and
spontaneity.
Madison Wagner, a senior
from Fort Myers, Fla., said that
although she enjoys Snapchat and
uses it often, she doesnt believe
the app will become a social media
staple like Facebook or Twitter.
I think this [Snapchat] is going
to be a fad, like Draw Something,
because youre constantly taking
pictures of yourself and being
funny with your friends, but thats
only going to be fun for so long,
Wagner said.
Edited by Hannah Wise
Chris sChaeder
cschaeder@kansan.com
ashleigh lee/kansan
Snapchat is an app that allows you to
temporarily send pictures to friends.
The app allows the photo be seen for 10
seconds before it disappears.
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whEN: All day
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ABOUT: Suffering from election withdrawal?
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the presidential election.
whAt: Late Night Winter Bash
whEN: 9:00 to 11:00 p.m.
whERE: Hawks Nest, Kansas Union
AboUt: Kick-off Stop Day by building a ginger-
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whEN: All Day
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whEN: 11:00 a.m.to 2:00 p.m.
whERE: Kansas Union, 4th foor lobby
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whEN: 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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A 21-year-old Lawrence man
was arrested Monday at 3:40 a.m.
on the 1000 block of Tennessee
Street on suspicion of criminal
trespassing. Bond was set at $100.
He was released.
A 19-year-old male Univer-
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at 8:42 p.m. on the 1700 block of
Engle Road on suspicion of pos-
sessing a controlled substance,
possessing drug paraphernalia
and cultivating or distributing a
controlled substance.
A 43-year-old Lawrence man
was arrested Sunday at 11:15
a.m. on the 500 block of Frontier
Drive on suspicion of battery and
domestic battery. Bond was set at
$500. He was released.
POLICE REPORTS
Dont hold your breath wait-
ing for a fiscal cliff agreement.
Landmark deals between presi-
dents and Congresses sometimes
arent struck until the final hour
of the final day before lightning
strikes.
The negotiations to avert a year-
end economic disaster of automatic
tax increases and spending cuts
may be following such a pattern.
With just four weeks to go to
the fiscal cliff, the postelection
test of wills is being played mainly
in public on television shows,
news conferences and by President
Barack Obamas campaign-style
excursions to gin up popular sup-
port and strengthen his bargaining
hand.
Theres been little progress at the
negotiating table.
In fact, there doesnt even seem
to be a negotiating table.
Were nowhere, period, House
Speaker John Boehner told Fox
News Sunday.
Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner, Obamas point man for
the talks, went on five Sunday news
shows to reiterate the administra-
tions insistence on higher taxes for
households earning over $250,000.
After all, Obama ran on it and
Democrats see raising taxes on the
wealthy as a mandate.
Republicans oppose increasing
any tax rates, while saying theyre
willing to trim unspecified deduc-
tions to boost tax revenues.
They mostly want to tame soar-
ing deficits with federal spending
cuts, particularly on entitlement
programs such as Medicare and
Medicaid.
Strangely, the simplest option for
both the president and Congress
doing nothing and going over the
cliff would give both sides a lot
of what they want. Obama would
get higher taxes on the wealthy.
And Republicans would get deficit-
slashing spending cuts.
And a lot more.
Defense spending would also
suffer from across-the-board cuts,
which Republicans dont want. And
nearly everyones taxes would rise,
which neither side wants.
While some of the self-inflicted
mix of tax hikes and spending cuts
could be undone retroactively, the
austerity bomb could trigger a new
recession.
Unfortunately, how this plays
out may not be known until were
welcoming in 2013.
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asia south america
middle east
DHAKA, Bangladesh As 112
of her co-workers died in a gar-
ment-factory fire, Dipa Akter got
out by jumping from the third floor
through a hole made by breaking
apart an exhaust fan. Her left leg is
wrapped in bandages and she has
trouble walking.
Now she wants back in.
If the factory owner reopens
the factory sometime soon, we will
work again here, the 19-year-old
said. If its closed for long, we have
to think of alternatives.
Major retailers whose products
were found in the fire have dis-
avowed the Tazreen Fashions Ltd.
factory, but workers who survived
have not. They cant afford to.
Factories like the one gutted
Nov. 24 are a rare lifeline in this
desperately poor country, and now
many of the more than 1,200 sur-
viving employees have no work
and few prospects.
Akter spent 25 minutes trying
to get down the smoke-filled stairs
before jumping, which she said was
the only option other than being
burned.
Despite her injuries and trauma,
she needs the job. Without it, she
said, she would either be a house-
maid or jobless in her home vil-
lage.
Almost one-third of Bangladeshs
150 million people live in extreme
poverty. There are few formal jobs
in villages, where about 70 percent
of the population lives. Garment
work is one of the few paths to
secure a stable income, collect
some savings and send money to
family especially for young,
uneducated rural women, who are
already trained to make clothes at
home.
The industry has given women
in this Muslim-majority, conserva-
tive nation an accepted opportu-
nity to leave their homes and join
the main workforce.
I have a life here. Akter said.
I have a timetable to wake up in
the morning and I know when I
should go to bed.
Akter made about 4,550 takas
($57) a month sewing pants, shirts
and nightgowns.
MEXICO CITY Software
company founder John McAfee
said Monday he has left Belize
and is still on the run, adding we
are not in Belize, but not quite
out of the woods yet.
McAfee claimed in a blog post-
ing he had evaded authorities by
staging an elaborate distraction
in neighboring Mexico. It was a
turn typical of the bizarre saga of
the eccentric anti-virus company
founder wanted for questioning
in connection with the killing of
a fellow American ex-pat.
In an email to The Associated
Press, McAfee confirmed a post-
ing to his website in which he
described, in what appeared to
be joking tones, how he mounted
the ruse.
My double, carrying on
(sic) a North Korean passport
under my name, was detained
in Mexico for pre-planned mis-
behavior, McAfee wrote in the
posting, but due to indifference
on the part of authorities (he)
was evicted from the jail and was
unable to serve his intended pur-
pose in our exit plan.
McAfee did not describe the
entire plan, nor did he say where
exactly he was now. In a previous
interview with the AP, McAfee
had said he had no plans to leave
Belize.
Im not going to leave this
country, he had told the AP.
I love this country, this is my
home. I intend to fight the injus-
tice thats here from here, I cant
do much from outside, can I?
Police in Belize have called him
a person of interest in the slay-
ing of fellow American Gregory
Viant Faull and asked him to turn
himself in for questioning.
Faull was shot to death in early
November. McAfee acknowledges
that Faull had complained about
his dogs, which were poisoned
shortly before Faulls killing, but
says he didnt kill Faull.
ISTANBUL The leaders of
Russia and Turkey on Monday
downplayed differences over the
Syrian civil war, saying they shared
the common goal of trying to end
the humanitarian crisis there and
hailing their countries booming
trade ties.
President Vladimir Putin of
Russia, one of Syrias few remaining
allies, said he understood Turkish
concerns about its border security
after Syrian shells hit Turkish terri-
tory in recent months.
But he warned that Turkeys
request that NATO deploy Patriot
missiles on its border with Syria
could escalate fears of a wider con-
flict. Turkey and its Western and
Arab allies are calling for the ouster
of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
We share Turkeys concern
about the developments on the bor-
der, said Putin. But we are calling
for restraint because increasing
(military) potential will not settle
the situation but create the oppo-
site effect.
After meeting Putin in Istanbul,
Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan said the Turkish
and Russian foreign ministers will
work together more intensively on
the Syrian problem.
Russia has blocked tough action
against Syria with its Security
Council vote at the United Nations,
while Turkey has urged the estab-
lishment of an internationally pro-
tected buffer zone for civilians in
Syria.
Putin and Erdogan empha-
sized the blossoming economic
ties between their two countries,
saying they should aim for bilat-
eral trade to triple to $100 billion a
year. Russian and Turkish officials
signed 10 agreements on trade,
energy, finance, banking and other
issues.
Putin was making his first trip
after a two-month hiatus that
raised concerns about his health.
Jobs still desired
despite factory fre
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in this photo taken on thursday, relatives console shirin, mother of amena who died
in a garment factory fre, outside the factory, in dhaka, Bangladesh. major retailers
have disavowed the Bangladesh garment factory where 112 workers died.
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John mcafee speaks at a ceremony for the offcial presentation of equipment at
the san Pedro Police station.
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mcafee wanted for
questioning in killing
Turkey and Russia call for restraint in Syria
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entertainment
Alicia Keys can do it all.
Since graduating as valedictorian
from the Professional Performing
Arts School in New York City at
the age of 16, Keys has appeared in
three major motion pictures and
released five studio albums. She is
a rare R&B artist with the ability
to belt out an Aretha-esque soul
ballad one minute and then turn
around and play Beethoven like a
virtuoso the next.
Keys fifth studio album Girl
on Fire is her first release since
2009 The Element of Freedom.
Beginning with the second song,
Brand New Me, she makes it
clear that her life has changed
drastically since the last album.
She sings, Its been a while, Im
not who I was before, which is
understandable considering she
married producer Swizz Beatz and
gave birth to a son in 2010.
While Girl on Fire constantly
attempts to convey the new emo-
tions Keys feels in her life, many
songs either miss the mark or feel
forced and clich. The prominent
piano chords and creative song-
writing of past hits such as You
Dont Know My Name and If
I Aint Got You are too often
missing. Instead, several songs feel
like boyband filler tracks albeit
extremely well sung ones.
The lowpoint of the album is
the syrupy-sweet love song Thats
When I Knew. The problem with
this track isnt the subject matter
she mentions love in virtu-
ally every song she writes but
the grating cuteness of acoustic
guitar behind emotionless vocals.
Fans have come to love Keys for
her empowering lyrics and force-
ful singing, and this one leaves
them with a corny description of
weak knees and butterflies in
the stomach.
Not all of the songs on Girl on
Fire are this bad. Many initially
seem promising but end up lack-
ing Keys characteristic flair for the
soulful. The album does improve
toward the middle with a series
of three songs: Fire We Make,
Tears Always Win and Not
Even the King. Fire We Make is
a funky slow jam with incredible
falsetto vocals from R&B singer
Maxwell, and Not Even the King
reverts to the classic sound of Keys
alone with a piano and her singing
voice.
Girl on Fire isnt an utter fail-
ure by any means, but it is striking-
ly mediocre when compared with
Keys past work. Fans should con-
sider picking and choosing from
the better songs on iTunes rather
than buying the entire album.
Edited by Sarah McCabe
LONDON The most wide-
ly anticipated pregnancy since
Princess Dianas in 1981 is offi-
cial: Prince Williams wife, Kate, is
pregnant.
St. Jamess Palace announced the
pregnancy Monday, saying that the
Duchess of Cambridge formerly
known as Kate Middleton has a
severe form of morning sickness
and is currently in a London hospi-
tal. William is at his wifes side.
News of the pregnancy drew
congratulations from across the
world, with the hashtag royalba-
by trending globally on Twitter.
The couples first child will be
third in line to take the throne
leapfrogging the gregarious Prince
Harry and possibly setting up
the first scenario in which a U.K.
female heir could benefit from new
gender rules about succession.
The palace would not say how
far along the 30-year-old duchess
is, only that she has not yet reached
the 12-week mark. Palace officials
said the duchess was hospitalized
with hyperemesis gravidarum,
a potentially dangerous type of
morning sickness where vomiting
is so severe no food or liquid can
be kept down. They said she was
expected to remain hospitalized
for several days and would require
a period of rest afterward.
Its not unusual for pregnant
women to get morning sickness,
but when it gets to the point where
youre dehydrated, losing weight
or vomiting so much you begin to
build up (toxic) products in your
blood, thats a concern, said Dr.
Kecia Gaither, director of mater-
nal fetal medicine at Brookdale
University and Medical Center in
New York.
The condition is thought to
affect about one in 50 pregnant
women but Gaither said less than
one percent of women with the
condition need to be hospitalized.
The news came just days after
the duchess, on a royal appearance,
played field hockey with children
at her former school.
Not only are the attractive young
couple popular with Williams
easy common touch reminding
many of his mother, the late Diana
but their child is expected to
play an important role in British
national life for decades to come.
William is second in line to
the throne after his father, Prince
Charles, so the couples first child
would normally become a mon-
arch eventually.
Girl on Fire not so hot
Music
Duncan mchenry
dmchenry@kansan.com
Final ratinG
Royals expectations abound
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ster Abbey, London, following their wedding on April 29,2011. The duke and duch-
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expecting a baby, st Jamess Palace offcially announced Monday.
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later. Postpone travel.
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Today is a 9
conditions begin to improve, with
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the tone and pace. dont ask many
questions. Take coaching from an ex-
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Today is a 7
Misunderstandings are likely.
Nonetheless, commit to your pas-
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have.
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push too hard. Hammer out the de-
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fears. Test it before sealing up every-
thing. A lovely moment is possible.
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Today is a 5
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T
he fiscal cliff poses a mul-
titude of well-documented
problems. The crisis cur-
rently consuming our airwaves is
a many sided issue that does not
offer a straightforward answer. But
if no agreement can be made our
economy will get the shaft of the
political gridlock. The message
this would send to the American
people of bickering over serving
would be the most damaging facet
of not reaching a deal and our
democratic process would suffer
those ramifications.
The reason for this self-imposed
time bomb is the motivation of
catastrophe to force a settlement
(cage-match style) in order to con-
front the debt problem but it could
have the opposite effect, further
exacerbating the problem. The
consequence of not reaching an
agreement by the end of the year
is the automatic end of the Bush
tax cuts for all income groups as
well as major spending cuts. This
is worrisome because we have
learned that lowering spending
and raising taxes to such a degree
during or shortly after a recession
can be bad news for the recovery.
The Great Depression, in addi-
tion to being deep, was rather
lengthy. The length was perpetu-
ated by the recession within the
Depression coming in 1937. In
1937, when economic recovery
was on the horizon, there became
a sudden emphasis on debt and a
concern to immediately address
the issue. So in the midst of
the worst recession in memory,
similarly draconian levels of
spending cuts and tax hikes were
imposed, successfully weighing
the economy down until 1941.
If that sounds familiar that is a
big reason why the cliff has been
so villain-ized, however naysay-
ers have a point as well. While the
Congressional Budget Office has
forecasted that going off the cliff
would result in recession, some
have been quick to note that it
also said that it would take a full
year of these policies for a reces-
sion to be the result; that would
put the date for resolving the cliff
in December 2013. These observ-
ers have also called the cliff a
mischaracterization by the media
saying it only serves to dramatize
the situation. Instead they call it a
slope or a variety of other gener-
ally less-steep things. However the
idea from these individuals that
we could go over the cliff without
a hiccup, because these changes
would not immediately have an
effect, seems flawed.
Even if a deal was struck early
next year. there would likely be
plenty of consequences and they
could be both immediate and
long-lasting. The longer it takes
to reach an agreement, the more
uncertainty will flood the econo-
my and that is not an environment
conducive to economic recovery.
That would be an unlikely anti-
dote to our tenuous economys
stress.
Perhaps the biggest mistake
in flunking the fiscal cliff may
manifest itself in the message
Washington D.C. sends the public.
A failure to compromise on this
issue, whether the cliff is only
a matter of perception or not it
doesnt matter, would further
characterize the dysfunction of the
government and negatively impact
our democratic process. The best
solution to this puzzle may just be
any solution at all.
Cosby is a sophomore majoring in
economics and political science from
Overland Park. Follow him on Twitter
@claycosby.
E
specially in liberal
Lawrence, a popular
sentiment among
many young adults is to go
with the flow and do what
comes naturally. And when
it comes to relationships, sci-
ence tells us that what comes
naturally is interestingly
enough not monogamy.
By nature, most people
at least subconsciously crave
some sort of stable relationship
because of its emotional and
social benefits. But for some of
us who are considering going
the opposite direction into an
open relationship, or one in
which people date but have
sexual encounters with others
outside the relationship, we need
to weigh our options before we
dive right into such a nontradi-
tional framework.
I recently had dinner and
drinks with a former crush in
Leawood, and the newly single
Kansas alumnus made it clear
that he was enjoying the single
life and later suggested that even
an open relationship can be a
beautiful thing. Unsurprised to
hear that from him, I scoffed.
A week later, though, I was still
wondering about open relation-
ships and their effect on the
people.
By no means am I a prude
about sex and dating and feel
like relationships are one-size-
fits-all institutions, but I cant
help but be skeptical of just
how beautiful an open relation-
ship really is. It may work for a
minority group of students, but
what about the rest of us?
Open relationships arent
always recipes for disaster, and
if they do work for us, they can
reap serious benefits. For people
who can handle them, they
offer the best of both worlds: an
exhilarating rush from new sex-
ual adventure and the comfort
and stability of partners we can
count on. In the wake of long-
term relationships that often
become stale, hearing about
other people who are single or
are dating openly can send us
spiraling into jealousy.
But speaking of which, if we
enter open relationships out
of jealousy but cant stand the
emotional heat, the structure
of them can keep us there.
Open relationships may not be
totally taboo or less valid than
exclusive ones, but they tend to
be like making $5 bets with a
slot machine: exciting because
the payoff could be big, but
may leave you suffering from
remorse if the house wins in the
end.
Open relationships that col-
lege students may experience
can spawn emotional casualties
if they go awry, leaving us jeal-
ous, upset and self-conscious.
The reward can be high, but the
risk can be ever higher.
If we hesitate to partake, we
shouldnt even go there, espe-
cially if were thinking about
transforming an exclusive
relationship into an open one.
Doing so will likely break a
heart in the process and cause
irreparable harm unless both
people equally want to be
open.
This phenomenon is unlike-
ly, however, so if were craving
an open relationship but our
partners arent, we should
probably have no relationship
with them at all.
Open relationships may
be exciting and beneficial for
many of us, but meanwhile
shouldnt consider monogamy
to be binding and outdated.
Sometimes whats traditional is
good, and if we find that it is
for us, we should take it and let
it ride.
When I left Leawood, I
couldnt stop thinking our
conversations during my drive
down K-10. He said that even if
we tried, we probably wouldnt
work out as a couple, and that
didnt upset me.
So maybe that kind of struc-
ture works for my old crush and
some of his alma mater at the
University now.
But I knew it wouldnt work
for me, and the potential exhila-
ration and free attitude of open
relationships shouldnt trump
our ideals if they dont ultimate-
ly fit the mold because itll leave
us wishing they hadnt.
In the end, openness and
exclusivity are up to us, and
against a backdrop of hallowing
the go-with-the-flow attitude of
open relationships, we shouldnt
have to apologize for desiring
a dating life a little more tradi-
tional for the sake of being truly
satisfied.
Rachel Keith is a graduate student
in education from Wichita. Follow
her on Twitter @Rachel_UDKeith.
I
ve been distracted from
politics lately. I wont call
it depression, but Ive been
stuck in a happiness recession
ever since I made the ill-advised
decision to leave home and get a
proper education.
Ive only slept eight hours
total in the past three days and
I can feel the medicine creeping
out of my system. I got a D on
my Bio test and Im one slip-up
away from losing my scholarship,
packing up my things and riding
K-10 back home. And as much as
I want to go home and sleep in a
bed that actually fits me, I know
I couldnt look my parents in the
eye if I ever failed. So Im crying
on the floor of my dorms empty
lounge, hoping that no one comes
in and sees me, and kind of hop-
ing that someone does. Im too
proud to show anyone that Im
hurting. Im supposed to be num-
ber one.
This is way too hard and I
need someone, or something,
to blame. Its my adviser, for
pushing me into an 18-hour
schedule of mostly honors
classes. Its my parents for
halting my spending and
constantly reminding me how
much money I owe them. And
please for the love of God, let
me blame this emotional insta-
bility on a chemical imbalance
brought about by medicinal
withdrawal or something. Just
dont let me be broken.
Everyone thinks they have the
quick fix to cheer me up. Work
harder, work less. Hang out with
friends, spend some more time
alone. Eat healthier, get drunk.
But these are short-term solu-
tions; Im trying to get better.
Im going to a therapist now. Im
trying to do some volunteer work
because God made me strong and
I owe it to help others as much
as I can. So I join my girlfriend
in her classes where she teaches
dance to kids with mental
disabilities. I bond with a little
girl who has Down syndrome.
She smiles and learns to clap
her hands along with a beat and
I learn that I can overcome my
relatively small disabilities and be
happy.
I go back to school the next
day with a fresh outlook and a
great attitude. And then I dont
feel so great. I run to the bath-
room and vomit five times. I
shiver and burn my way through
a 103-degree fever and wind up
lying on a hospital bed, bracing
myself for every syringe like a
human pincushion. The doctor
says with near certainty that I
got the infection from one of
the kids at the dance class and
strongly advises that I dont do it
again. I can do no right.
I want to go back to my simple
high school days at Shawnee
Mission East, where I could be
an all-star student without even
trying. But even the school has
changed; they lost a beloved
senior/star athlete/all-around-
great kid in an accident and the
very next day, another student
lost her father. Everyone is hurt-
ing and I just want it to be like
the good old days.
I sit down at my computer
before my deadline and just
cant bring myself to write about
cabinet appointments, General
Petraeus or taxes. Ive become
consumed with something. And
Im not going to call it a hap-
piness recession anymore I
have depression. But Im in good
company. My high school is in
a depression. My country is in a
depression. So Ill talk about poli-
tics anyway. Just like a scared col-
lege freshman, we are struggling
and want to blame our problems
on a common enemy: on Obama,
on China, on the rich or on the
poor. We want to help Israel just
like I wanted to help Sarah, but
we cant even take care of our-
selves. As truly as I cant go back
to high school, we cant go back
to the Reagan or Clinton years;
weve already graduated. And just
like my friends with their advice,
everyone thinks they can fix the
country with a quick tax code
change or spending cuts. But we
need to look long-term and sup-
port one another. We need a little
therapy.
Webber is a freshman majoring in
journalism and political science from
Prairie Village. Follow him on Twitter
@webbgemz.
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Who needs a bowl game when you
have the no. 1 quidditch team in the
world!?
In order to hang out with my friends I
had to doodle them.
I knew my boyfriend was a robot
before we started dating, and we put
our differences aside for love! <3
When you erase a word, where does
it go?
To the guy who asked if he would
be considered a tool if he got an ear
pierced. The answer is no. Its the way
you act that determines if youre a tool
or not.
KU IS HOGWARTS!!!!
That awkward moment when you and
your brother get mistaken for a couple.
Go home Mother Nature, youre drunk.
Engineering is just physics with less
math, and more random labs. Calm
down.
Dear undergraduate engineers, your
life is not that hard. Now get back to
studying. Sincerely, your grad school TA.
Someone please explain to me why
were getting Postsecret. We already
have an anonymous place we can
submit our darkest secrets. Its called
the FFA.
KU volleyball and soccer thanks for
giving us something to cheer for this
fall.
Dumbledore is dead, so no.
Editors Note: SPOILER ALERT!
Really dude, you walked into the
wrong class on the last week of
school?? Someone hasnt had the best
attendance!
Punched a mailbox. Broke my hand.
Mailbox 1 Me 0.
I bet the girls love your deep-cutoff/
wife-beater combo.
Bahahahaha (unranked) Kentucky!!
All I want for my birthday is some big
Jimmy Johns.
Editors Note: Cant tell if this is for
sandwiches, or a sexual innuendo.
Just played Withey for 45 points in
Scrabble. Boo yah!
Shhhh, no need to tell others about
our $80K starting paycheck. Sincerely, a
fellow engineering major.
Im using Whisper to make sure a
friend I recently lost is doing okay and
staying safe. She doesnt know that I
know her screen name and look for just
that.
I just got hit in the face by a giant
leaf...
End of semester depression abounds
THERAPy
DATING POLITICS
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Fiscal cliff gridlock not
to take effect until 2013
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NatioNal
ASSocIAtED PRESS
New faces come to Statehouse
TOPEKA, Kan. Nearly a
third of the Kansas Legislatures
members will have no previ-
ous experience in either cham-
ber when lawmakers convene in
January, bringing new energy and
less predictability to their next
annual session.
The large freshman class is
likely to have a big influence over
how lawmakers and conservative
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback
close a projected budget short-
fall and follow up on massive
income tax cuts enacted this year.
Turnover in the Senate will push it
to the political right following the
ouster of moderate GOP leaders
whod worked with Democrats to
stall initiatives from Brownback
and other conservatives.
Some veterans believe that new
legislators impatience will be a
significant issue for their leaders
and expect some early hitches
in drafting policy as lawmakers
receive on-the-job training. But
Brownback also will have solid
majorities of fellow GOP conser-
vatives in each chamber.
In the House, 49 of the 125
members will have no prior leg-
islative experience. Four of 40
senators will have no previous
service in the Legislature, though
12 are new to the chamber after
serving previously in the House.
Everybodys going to come in
with the attitude of, I know whats
wrong, and Im going to fix it
you know, be a giant, said Sen.-
elect Jim Denning, a conservative
Overland Park Republican, whos
coming off of two years in the
House. We think were going to
get in here and fix it by the end
of the day.
Newcomers already were a sig-
nificant voting bloc as legislators
prepared for party caucuses in
both chambers Monday to pick
new leaders. Candidates for the
top jobs in both the House and
Senate wooed them and prom-
ised open communication and a
significant role in policy-making
for freshman.
In the House, Republicans
retained their 92-33 majority in
this years elections, and 40 GOP
lawmakers-elect have no legisla-
tive experience. Nine Democrats
also are newcomers.
The Senates party division
also remained unchanged, with
a 32-8 GOP advantage. But 14
Republicans will be new to the
chamber next year, including the
four with no legislative experi-
ence. Democrats have two new
senators, both former House
members.
The Legislature has so many
new faces partly because of politi-
cal redistricting. A bitter stale-
mate between GOP factions pre-
vented lawmakers from approv-
ing any redistricting legislation,
forcing three federal judges to
redraw political boundaries to
ensure equal representation.
Also, Brownbacks fellow con-
servatives and allies such as the tea
party movement, abortion oppo-
nents and the powerful Kansas
Chamber of Commerce made a
concerted and largely successful
effort to defeat GOP moderates in
the Senate.
Conservatives are eager to
push legislation that previously
stalled in the Senate, such as a
proposal backed by Brownback
to give the governor and legisla-
tors more power over appellate
court appointments. There are
also initiatives pushed by House
members who will be joining the
session, such as a measure aimed
at allowing concealed weapons on
university campuses.
VENTURA, Calif. A sus-
pected smuggling vessel rammed
a U.S. Coast Guard chase boat
during a counter-drug operation
off the California coast, killing
one Coast Guard member and
injuring another, authorities said.
Chief Petty Officer Terrell
Horne III, 34, of Redondo Beach,
was pronounced dead Sunday
after he was brought ashore at
Port Hueneme, said James Baroni,
Ventura County chief deputy
medical examiner.
Horne suffered a traumatic
head injury in the crash near the
Channel Islands west of Malibu,
Coast Guard officials said.
The second man was treated for
minor injuries. His name wasnt
released.
Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano said Monday
that Horne and fellow crewmem-
bers of the Coast Guard cutter
Halibut were engaged in an at-
sea interdiction when they came
under threat by a small vessel that
rammed their small boat.
A Coast Guard maritime patrol
aircraft spotted a panga an
open, low-sided fishing boat
favored by Mexican smugglers
before dawn and the cutter was
sent to intercept it, officials said.
The cutter deployed a smaller
inflatable chase boat, but as that
vessel approached the panga with
its blue light flashing, the panga
veered toward it at high speed and
struck it before fleeing.
Horne and another crewman
were thrown into the water.
Another Coast Guard vessel
stopped the fleeing panga and
detained two suspects.
Asked whether any drugs were
found, Coast Guard spokesman
Adam Eggers said he could not
immediately comment.
Smuggling boats carrying
drugs or illegal immigrants from
Mexico have been ranging far-
ther and farther north along the
California coast.
Our fallen shipmate stood
the watch on the front lines pro-
tecting our nation, and we are
all indebted to him for his ser-
vice and sacrifice, said Admiral
Robert J. Papp, Coast Guard com-
mandant.
Napolitano said the tragedy
was a reminder of the dangers
men and women in uniform face
daily while protecting the nation.
She said her thoughts and prayers
were with Hornes family and all
Coast Guard personnel.
KaNSaS goverNmeNt
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Coast guard member killed
during anti-drug operation
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operations near Santa Cruz island, Calif.
LOS ANGELES Results are
in from the first test of Martian
soil by the rover Curiosity: So far,
there is no definitive evidence
that the red planet has the chemi-
cal ingredients to support life.
Scientists said Monday a scoop
of sandy soil analyzed by the rov-
ers chemistry lab contained water
and a mix of chemicals, but not
the complex carbon-based com-
pounds considered necessary for
microbial life.
The latest findings reported
at a meeting of the American
Geophysical Union meeting
in San Francisco came from an
instrument aboard the six-wheel
rover that baked the soil and ana-
lyzed the gases released.
Curiosity landed in Gale Crater
near the Martian equator in
August on a two-year mission to
study whether the environment
on Mars could have been favor-
able for life.
The dirt at Curiositys land-
ing site appeared similar to that
found in regions visited by other
Mars spacecraft, scientists said. It
contained water, sulfur and pos-
sibly perchlorate, a compound
made up of oxygen and chlorine.
NASAs Phoenix lander, which
touched down near the Martian
arctic, previously found perchlo-
rate in the soil.
The rover did find a simple
carbon compound, but scientists
have yet to determine whether its
native to the red planet, or came
from elsewhere.
Scientists think the best chance
of finding complex carbon is
at Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high
mountain rising from the crater
floor. Curiosity wont trek there
until early next year.
A comment two weeks ago by
the missions chief scientist led
to speculation that Curiosity had
made a major discovery that
would be announced Monday.
But NASA last week said that
wasnt the case.
The rover is the most sophis-
ticated spacecraft sent to Mars.
The rover Opportunity has
been exploring craters in Mars
southern hemisphere since 2004.
Opportunitys twin, Spirit, fell
silent in 2010 after getting stuck
in a sand trap.
ASSocIAtED PRESS
Rover fnds no life on Mars
SPaCe
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Senior center Jeff Withey was
named the Phillips 66 Big 12 Mens
Basketball Player of the Week for
his performances in the two games
the No. 9 Kansas mens basketball
team played on November 24 and
December 2.
Withey helped Kansas (6-1) to
victories against San Jose State and
Oregon State by averaging 16.5
points, 8.5 rebounds and 7.5 blocks
during the week.
Im feeling like Im on a roll for
sure, Withey said in availability
before the Oregon State game. I def-
initely want to keep it up. Im getting
extra shots up with coach Roberts
and trying to get more aggressive.
Coach Self is trying to install that in
my head.
The 7-foot tall Withey also
notched his first career triple-double,
only the second in Kansas history. In
the Jayhawks game against San Jose
State; he scored 16 points, blocked 12
shots and grabbed 12 rebounds.
His 12 blocks set a new school
record for most rejections in the
game.
Whats been really impressive is
how big of
a presence
Withey has
had on the
defensive
end with-
out getting
into foul
t r o u b l e .
He is aver-
aging less
than one
foul per game this season.
If you have five fouls, and weve
played six games and youre a big
guy, maybe not as aggressive as you
need to be, but on the flip side it does
show that his timing is off the charts,
and his ability to stay away from
body contact when hes blocking balls
above the head is tremendous, Self
said at his press conference before
the Jayhawks played Oregon State. I
thought the other night, we played
poor defense on many possessions,
and he just bailed us out.
By being selected for the award,
Withey became the second consecu-
tive Kansas player to
be named the Big 12
Player of the Week
after senior guard
Travis Releford
received the honor
for his performance
in the CBE Classic.
This is the sec-
ond time Withey
has received this honor, the first on
February 13 last season, after he led
the Jayhawks to wins against then
No. 6 Baylor and Oklahoma State.
Withey and the Jayhawks return
to the court against former confer-
ence foe Colorado (6-1) on Saturday
at 1 p.m. in Allen Fieldhouse.
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EthAN PADwAY
epadway@kansan.com
Jeff Withey awarded
Player of the Week
Mens basketball
tYLER RoStE/KANSAN
senior center Jeff Withey slams the ball into the hoop in the second half of Friday nights game. Withey had 17 points against the Oregon state
beavers Friday night.the Jayhawks won the game with a fnal score of 84-78.
FARzIN VoUSoUGhIAN
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1. Kansas State (11-1)
Kansas State scored fve touch-
downs in the second half to defeat
Texas and capture the Big 12 title.
Kansas State was ranked sixth in the
Big 12 preseason polls. Coach Bill
Snyder deserves a lot of credit for
helping Kansas State fnish the season
on top. Te team will play Oregon in
the Fiesta Bowl.
5. baylor (7-5)

You have to applaud Baylor for com-
ing out strong in the fnal three games
of the season. Coach Art Briles de-
serves a lot of credit for how the team
rebounded to wrap up the season. Te
Bears will play UCLA in the Bridge-
point Education Holiday Bowl, hoping
to translate their hot run into a bowl
win.
2. oklahoma (10-2)

Oklahoma came of two narrow
wins and concluded the season
with a big road win against Texas
Christian. A loss to Kansas State
and Notre Dame earlier this season
hurt a little, but the Sooners played
well enough to earn a spot in the
AT&T Cotton Bowl against former
Big 12 rival Texas A&M.

8. texas tech (7-5)

Texas Techs season was over early
and coach Tommy Tuberville has a lot of
concerns with his team. Te Red Raid-
ers lost four of their last fve games and
will go into the Meineke Car Care Bowl
of Texas against Minnesota lacking
momentum.

3. texas (8-4)
Texas coach Mack Brown has a
lot to work on with his team be-
fore playing Oregon State in the
Valero Alamo Bowl. Texas con-
cluded the season with two losses
in a row. Brown has a little over
three weeks to decide who he
thinks is the best ft for quarter-
back in the Alamo Bowl.
6. west Virginia (7-5)

West Virginia dealt with a lot of
problems in the Big 12 this season
and a win against Iowa State and
Kansas didnt help them in the
rankings. Coach Dana Holgorsen
must do a better job preparing his
football team before it takes on
Syracuse in the New Era Pinstripe
Bowl.
7. texas christian (7-5)
Coach Gary Patterson didnt get the
ending that he wanted for his football
team. However, the Horned Frogs fn-
ished 2-2 in a tough four game stretch.
A close loss to Oklahoma set TCU back
a little bit and will fnish its season
by playing in the Bufalo Wild Wings
Bowl against Michigan State.
9. Iowa State (6-6)
Iowa State concluded its season
last week afer falling short to West
Virginia. Te Cyclones were pro-
jected to fnish near the bottom of
the Big 12. Although they fnished
ninth, they played well enough to
earn a trip to the AutoZone Liberty
Bowl and will play Tulsa.
4. oklahoma State (7-5)

Oklahoma State wanted to bounce
back from its tough overtime loss to
Oklahoma, but Baylor prevented that.
Te Cowboys fnished their season
with questions regarding who their
quarterback will be for the Heart of
Dallas Bowl against Purdue.

10. Kansas (1-11)

Kansas ended a long season on a
bad note afer it allowed a season-high
of 59 points against West Virginia.
Even though coach Charlie Weis saw
a more competitive team, he wants to
see that spirit translate into wins next
season. Kansas is the only Big 12 team
to not play in a bowl game.
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thE mORNING bREW
Q: The Wildcats were the highest
ranked team in Associated Press top
25 history to go drop out of the top
25. Who holds the record for second
largest dropout?
A: Missouri Tigers. The Tigers
were ranked 9th overall before drop-
ping out Jan. 10, 2011.
ESPN.com
tRIVIA Of thE DAY
This marks the frst time that
Kentucky has not been ranked in
the top 25 since Calipari took over
as coach.
ESPN.com
fAct Of thE DAY
This young Kentucky team didnt
have a veteran point guard like
Baylor to guide them through the last
few minutes.
WDRB.com
QUOtE Of thE DAY
New playoff system in 2014 will allow for more advancement
This week in athletics
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3:00 p.m.
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Colorado
1:00 p.m.
Lawrence
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2:00 p.m.
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Arkansas
7:00 p.m.
Fayettteville, Ark.
Tuesday
S
undays announcement that the Notre
Dame Fighting Irish and the Alabama
Crimson Tide will face off in the BCS
Championship game was a surprise to no one.
Between Notre Dames perfect season and the
SEC championship game win for Alabama,
the two schools clearly outshined any other
schools case for the chance to play for the
championship.
The matchup is one that most college foot-
ball fans wanted to see, but there is still a
good argument that schools like Georgia,
Kansas State, Florida and Oregon should have
a chance to play for the championship as
well. It is unfair those schools do not have a
chance to play Notre Dame and Alabama and
prove they belong with the teams selected to
play in the biggest game of the season (though
Georgia did have that opportunity in the SEC
championship game).
The playoff system that will begin in 2014
allows for the course of the season to be deter-
mined on the field rather than in the hands
of computers and companies with greedy
interests. The nature of sports, after all, is to
watch two teams battle on the field with the
knowledge that any team could win on any
given day.
While both Notre Dame and Alabama have
earned their spot in the championship game,
the prize is diminished as there is no advance-
ment through a playoff system. The playoff
systems in professional sports allow for a
clear champion to be crowned as it measures
a teams abilities at the end of the year. In the
BCS system, an entire season can be unraveled
by an early regular season loss before a team is
able to find its footing.
Over the past two seasons in the NFL,
the Giants and Packers won the Superbowl
after surging late in the season to earn a wild
card spot. While the two teams were not elite
regular season teams, they were able to correct
mistakes and play their best when it mattered
the most.
In the NHL, the Los Angeles Kings went
into the playoffs as the eighth and final seed
in the West before winning the Stanley Cup.
These Cinderella stories are the reason why
playoffs are so fun to watch, and is also why
March Madness is the best month of sports,
professional or collegiate.
KENtucKy fallS out of toP 25
The Kentucky Wildcats, who defeated the
Kansas Jayhawks for the championship last
season, may finally be seeing the consequenc-
es of relying so heavily on one-and-done
players.
Coach John Calipari has built a tremen-
dous programs over his career but had per-
haps his best team last season as Kentucky
cruised through the regular season and the
NCAA tournament on the way to their eighth
national title.
Kentucky then lost six players to the NBA
draft and replaced them with more great tal-
ent. Unfortunately for the Wildcats, the talent
hasnt gelled, and the team has stumbled to
a 4-3 start with losses to Duke, Baylor and
Notre Dame.
Still, Calipari knows how to get young
talent to produce at a high level and should
lead Kentucky back into the top 25 and to a
deep tournament run. It is likely, however,
that Kentucky will be dethroned this season.
Not only does the field look stronger, but the
Wildcats do not possess the same level of skill
they did last season.
Jayhawk fans will delight in the early strug-
gles of the team that derailed their champion-
ship aspirations last year, but dont sleep on
Calipari and the Wildcats. They may present a
very dangerous challenge come March.
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Two freshmen up for Heisman Trophy
NEW YORK Johnny Manziel
and Manti Teo are in position to
make Heisman Trophy history.
Manziel, the redshirt freshman
quarterback from Texas A&M, and
Teo, Notre Dames star linebacker,
along with Kansas State quarterback
Collin Klein, were invited Monday
to attend the Heisman presentation
ceremony.
Manziel is the favorite to win
college footballs most famous player
of the year award on Saturday night
in New York. He would be the first
freshman to win the Heisman and
the first Texas A&M player since
halfback John David Crow won the
schools only Heisman in 1957.
Im overwhelmed by this tre-
mendous honor of representing
Texas A&M, the 12th Man and
all my teammates in New York,
Manziel said in a statement. This
is a dream come true for me, and I
know its a credit to all my coaches
and teammates. I definitely wouldnt
be a Heisman finalist without my
teammates and coaches.
Three sophomores have won the
award (Tim Tebow in 2007, Sam
Bradford in 2008 and Mark Ingram
in 2009), but the best a first-year
player has ever done is second.
Adrian Peterson of Oklahoma fin-
ished second to Southern California
quarterback Matt Leinart in 2004.
Peterson was a true freshman. As a
redshirt freshman, Manziel attended
A&M last year and practiced with
the team but did not play.
Michael Vick of Virginia Tech
came in third in 1999 as a redshirt
freshman, and Herschel Walker
was a true freshman for Georgia in
1980 when he finished third in the
Heisman balloting.
Nicknamed Johnny Football,
Manziel quickly became a national
sensation this season. ASSOcIAtED PRESS PhOtO
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As a shooter, freshman guard
Andrew White III has spent
numerous hours studying the
great NBA shooters and trying
to mold his games after the best
parts of his game.
From his favorite player, Miami
Heat guard Ray Allen, White likes
how quickly he gets his feet set
before a shot. With Dirk Nowitzki,
White appreciates his high follow-
through.
Because of his father, White also
grew up studying former Indiana
Pacer guard Reggie Miller.
Reggie was just a cold killer,
White said before the Jayhawks
game against Oregon State. Out
of Reggie Miller, I think his men-
tality, his cockiness, I think that
was the best part about him. He
knew he was the best shooter in
the world at that time and I think
thats a lot of what made him such
a good player.
And then theres five-time NBA
champion Kobe Bryant, who
White says most young players
look up to. He said he admires
how Kobe knows how to create
separation with his body and his
shoulder movement.
Thats something that I always
look to do better, White said.
White first made a name for
himself as a shooter in a Kansas
uniform when the team traveled
to Europe over the summer to
play four exhibition games.
In Europe, White led the team
in scoring by averaging 11 points
per game and knocking down
eight of his 18 3-point attempts
on the trip.
The Richmond, Va. native real-
ized he had a gift for shooting
towards the end of middle school.
Rather than move outside to
start putting up as many 3-point
attempts as he could, he stayed
within 15 feet of the basket and
waited until he was older and
stronger to start shooting threes.
I actually didnt shoot a
3-pointer until my 11th grade
year, White said. I think that
paid off in the long run because
I was always trying to perfect the
mid-range game.
White had a breakout game last
Friday against Oregon State. And
more important to his develop-
ment as an all-around player and
as a contributor to the Jayhawks,
he did it not just with scoring, but
by pulling down six rebounds in
13 minutes of play.
He turned it over a couple
of times, but at least he got
in there and fought, Self
said in his postgame
comments. When
hes your second
l e a d i n g
rebound-
er from a
big guard
spot, you
know hes
not nervous
to get his nose
dirty.
Through the first seven games
of the season, White is averaging
only 6.2 minutes per game, so he
knows he has to take full oppor-
tunity of every chance he gets on
the court.
I know defense is something
you have to do to stay on the
court, White said. So when Im
out there for that minute or two,
Im trying to keep my head on a
swivel, trying to move quickly,
and concentrate on what I do
best, which is shooting the ball.
Coming off the bench also
means that White wont have
many opportunities to get out of
cold streaks, and he must capital-
ize on every 3-point attempt he
gets.
To avoid cold streaks, he gets
into the gym to put up shots
whenever he can.
I dont have the gift of just keep
shooting myself into a hot streak,
White said. I just get into the
gym on my own a lot, I just enjoy
putting up shots on my own, thats
what keeps me confident.
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By Ethan Padway
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Rise and fiRe
Sharp Shooter
Weis hasnt shown
hes got the chops
Withey wins player of the Week
paGe 8 paGe 9
Kentucky
falls from
top 25
andrew White iii looks to offensive stars before him for inspiration
NathaN Fordyce
nfordyce@kansan.com
Womens basketball
Jayhawks earn new
ranking at no. 17
ethaN padWay
epadway@kansan.com
After seven straight victories,
coach Bonnie Henrickson and
the womens basketball team
find themselves ranked No. 17
in the Associated Press Top-25
coaches poll. This is the highest
ranking since Dec. 6, 1999 when
they were ranked No. 14 in the
nation.
After a victory over the
Minnesota Golden Gophers on
Sunday, the Kansas Jayhawks
find themselves at 7-0 for the
third straight season.
Kansas is one of 19 unbeaten
teams in Division I basketball.
Of those 19, five are from the Big
12: No. 3 Baylor, No. 12 Texas,
No. 16 Oklahoma State, No. 22
Iowa State and Kansas.
Kansas defense has been key
they have yet to allow a team to
score over 60 points. Jayhawk
opponents have averaged just
over 51 points per game while
shooting 34.8 percent from the
field.
The Jayhawks start has
been fueled by seniors forward
Carolyn Davis and guard Angel
Goodrich. The duo is averag-
ing a combined 27.3 points per
game.
The Kansas bench has also
contributed to the teams early
success. In particular sophomore
forward Chelsea Gardner. She
found her shot during the past
week in Jayhawk victories over
Grambling State and Minnesota
scoring 26 and 14 points in the
respective games.
The Jayhawks face another
test Thursday as the team trav-
els to Fayetteville, Ark., to face
the Arkansas Razorbacks. The
Razorbacks are 7-1 on the year,
Rheir sole loss was to No. 13
Oklahoma on Nov. 23.
Edited by Hannah Wise
I
am not a football coach, nor have I
spent extensive time with legends Bill
Parcells or Bill Belichick like Kansas
coach Charlie Weis has.
But I do watch a lot of football.
I believe that when Weis opened up
the Jayhawks game against West Virginia
by trotting out senior Dayne Crist at
quarterback, he showed he might not
have what it takes to turn the Kansas
program around.
Yes, the team has improved from last
year, being competitive at times, but it
was a joke how many times this season
Weis returned to playing the proven bust
known as Crist in games when he under-
whelmed whenever he stepped foot on
the field.
So why did Weis think it would be any
different this time around?
If youre a coach, your responsibility
is to put your team in the best situation
to win the game; against West Virginia,
Weis didnt do that. When facing a fast-
paced offense, you dont want to get in a
shootout, especially when your quarter-
backs havent thrown a touchdown to a
wide receiver all season.
The best way to shut them down and
take away their momentum is to rely
heavily on the ground game, milking the
clock and keeping your opponents high-
octane offense on the sidelines.
Kansas has the pieces to do this.
Between running backs James Sims,
Tony Pierson, Taylor Cox and Brandon
Bourbon theres no reason to try to keep
pace with the Mountaineers through the
air.
If Weis truly wanted to be revolution-
ary or original, he couldve changed up
his attack and used a different ground
approachthe triple-option.
Not the spread-option or read-
option that has overtaken college football
recently, but the good ole triple-option
with the quarterback under center where
everyone knows youre going to run the
ball, they just dont know who will be
carrying it.
It relies on deception to move the ball
forward on the ground and employs
multiple runningbacks on the field at
the same time. It isnt a viable long-term
solution in the current college football
climate, but for one game it couldve
taken West Virginia by surprise.
Cox wouldve been perfect as the
dive back and the prospect of Sims and
Pierson sharing a backfield would make
any football fan salivate.
When the defense is guarding the
edge, Cox takes the ball up the middle.
When they squeeze in, the quarterback,
preferably Christian Mathews or the for-
gotten about Kale Pick an effective
runner out of the quarterback position
as a freshman takes it outside and
options the end by pitching it to either
Sims or Pierson.
Not only did the Jayhawks have a whole
two weeks to install a unique offense, but
West Virginia wouldve spent their week
preparing for the wrong offense, leaving
them scrambling to make adjustments.
If Kansas comes out on its first pos-
session and rips off an extended scoring
drive, taking time off the clock, its a
whole different ball game.
Maybe Kansas gets its first conference
win since 2010.
Instead, Weis stuck with Crist as his
offensive wrinkle and after two drives,
the game was all but over.
Weis showed that he is not the new,
humbled coach he presented himself
as in his introductory press conference.
Instead, he is just as stubborn as ever, and
may not be the solution to the Jayhawks
football woes.
Weis can talk about recruitingwhich
is importantall he wants, but at the end
of the day, hell never win at Kansas
on talent alone, the victories will only
come if hes finally able to out-coach his
opponent.
Edited by Whitney Bolden
tyler roSte/KaNSaN
senior forward Carolyn davis looks to attack the rim. davis had six points in the Jayhawks victory Wednesday night winning
with a fnal score of 101-47.
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freshman guard andrew White iii
sprints down the court toward the
kansas basket in the second half of
the nov. 19 game against Washington
state. kansas won 78-41.