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Study looks for wastewater disposal alternative to prevent earthquakes The injection of wastewater has caused earthquakes along the Kansas-Oklahoma border.

Students’ questions answered at Sex in the Dark event A panel of professionals answered anonymous student questions about sex in Hashinger Hall on Thursday night.

Luckyberry rebrands, renovates to keep up with customer demands Luckyberry Juice Café is set to rebrand itself to accommodate year-round demands.

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NICOLE ASBURY @NicoleAsbury SOPHIA BELSHE @SophiaBelshe Staff Senate voiced disappointment and called for more transparency from administration regarding ongoing financial changes at the University of Kansas in a letter addressed to Interim Provost Carl Lejuez.

The letter, signed by Staff Senate President Michelle Ginavan Hayes and Staff Senate President-Elect Robert Waller, requests the new budget model “equitably take into account KU’s staff, including those from non-aca-

demic and non-student credit hour units.”

“In light of all the other letters and statements that have come out of University Senate, we wanted to make it personal,” Waller said in an interview with the Kansan. “We wanted them to understand that it is directly affecting staff.”

Waller said the letter was sent in an effort to ensure Lejuez understood many staff members were hurting and afraid as budget preparations are going through.

“You have staff that, especially around December and Christmas, were very much afraid that the next day ... they wouldn’t have a

position to come back to,” Waller said.

Lejuez said he’s appreciated his time in working with the current Staff Senate leadership.

“They are tremendous advocates for our staff and great partners in a challenging time,” Lejuez said in a text message to the Kansan. “Most importantly, they have been instrumental in helping me approach our budget cut and our developing budget model in a manner that seeks to take staff concerns and needs into account as much as is possible at this time.”

The letter, obtained by the Kansan, was original-

ly presented in a meeting with Lejuez on Jan. 28 and in a separate meeting with Chancellor Douglas Girod on Feb. 11, according to Waller. Although members participated in sending previous letters from University Senate, Staff Senate felt it was important to voice its concerns separately.

The new budget model is a hybrid model, in part based on how many students are enrolled per credit hour for an academic unit, as well as whether that unit is pursuing other strategic priorities — such as diversity and equity, research and more.

For staff who do not

teach in academic units, the amount of money their unit accrues will be primarily based off of whether they are in-line with the University’s strategic priorities.

“We’re going to do everything we can to roll it out in a way that’s humane to our units,” Lejuez said in a previous interview with the Kansan. “It’s already challenging enough with the 6 percent cut, that we’re going to keep units as close to that as possible.”

Units meeting those standards will gain more money.

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KU professor wins Oscar COURTNEY BIERMAN @courtbierman

University of Kansas Film and Media Studies professor Kevin Willmott has won an Oscar.

Willmott won Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on “BlacKkKlansman” along with his three cowriters Spike Lee, Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz. The award is the film’s first win of the night out of a total of six nominations.

Ryan Jenga, a freshman film and media studies student at the University, said he had no doubt Wilmott would

take home the Oscar but it was still a thrill to see

“If [Kevin Willmott] didn’t win, he’d be robbed.”

Ryan Jenga freshman

the professor on stage. “[My reaction was] joyous shock, I guess.

It’s crazy to see someone you know at the Oscars getting an award, getting a big honor,” Jenga said.

“If he didn’t win, he’d be robbed.”

Sarah Wright/KANSAN Faculty and students of the film and media studies program celebrate after “BlacKkKlansman” wins an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Willmott did not the take the microphone, but director Lee used the speech to acknowledge Black History Month, thank his family and encourage everyone to vote in the 2020 presidential election.

“The goal is not to be nominated. The goal is to make films of impact, and this film definitely has,” Lee said. “I’m not trying to be some grandiose motherf---er like, ‘Oh, I don’t need awards.’

I’m not saying that. But what I’m saying is that, there are things more important.”

The “BlacKkKlansman” screenplay also garnered wins at the British Academy Film Awards and the African-American Film Critics Association, among others.

Willmott and Lee are frequent collaborators, having previously worked together on the screenplay of the 2015 film “Chi-Raq.” This is Willmott’s first nomination and win after a 20-year career in film.

Brooke Boyer/KANSAN KU basketball pep band drummer Donovan Miller reflects on going viral.

Meet KU’s viral drummer BROOKE BOYER @BrookeBoyer422

Donovan Miller was a pep band drummer simply trying to fill some dead air.

What was a routine request during a secondhalf timeout of Saturday’s Kansas-West Virginia basketball game turned into an online sensation.

“All I’ve heard is that I’m a legend,” Miller, a fifthyear senior from Woodbury, Minnesota, said. “I’ve heard it multiple times in the last

couple days.”

Miller’s eight-second jam has received more than 800,000 views on Bleacher Report, 300,000 Twitter views and 57,000 on Barstool KU. It began with a request from Assistant Director of Bands Sharon Toulouse, who asked Miller to start playing along to the fight song during a timeout.

“I can tell him to just go, and he goes nuts filling time that otherwise would have been silent, and I

know without a doubt he’ll make it entertaining,” Toulouse said in an email to the Kansan. “He brings a flare to the songs we play that catch the attention of the students and crowd.”

A wide-eyed Miller broke into rhythm with passion, and ESPN’s live broadcast caught him right as the song’s beat was gaining momentum.

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Daisy Hill to try health vending machine LUCY PETERSON @petersonxlucy Policy and Development Director Tiara Floyd is working with Student Senate to implement a wellness to-go vending machine in the Daisy Hill Commons that will house various health products for University of Kansas students.

The idea for the machine stemmed from a similar concept at the University of California, Davis and has since been popping up nationwide, according to Floyd. It will have products ranging from Advil and Emergen-C to condoms and emergency contraceptives.

“To me, the concept is just to make it so that students have more accessibility to these things,” Floyd said. “Going to the store, even going to Watkins, they have limited hours. It takes a lot of time and a lot of planning, so if someone can just go to a vending machine and grab it, it’s a lot easier.”

Floyd has worked closely with Student Body President Noah Ries and Watkins Health Services to implement the machine. The machine will be stocked with Watkins’ inventory of products, which will also make the products significantly cheaper than they would be over-thecounter.

BUDGET FROM PAGE 1 “How do you really make this merit-based?

You’re going to have to let some people down,” Hayes said in a previous interview with the Kansan. “He’s talking about the 1 percent raise, but that’s not going to be 1 percent for everybody.”

Over 60 positions have been eliminated since July 2018, all of which were directly tied to the $20 million budget cut, Lejuez said at a budget conversation in December.

University governance held an open forum shortly after the budget conversation, which demanded more answers from University administration concerning plans to protect the quality of education at the University and pushed for more students to be involved in voicing their concerns about the budget cut.

At the open forum, a staff member anonymously said through Zoom that staff members have stayed quiet on speaking out against the budget cut out of fear of retaliation, as they are not tenured like faculty.

“We will keep asking hard questions, monitoring decisions and making our voices heard as we continue to be the backbone of this great institution we all love,” the letter said. “We are still here, taking care of our students, supporting the faculty and enriching the KU community.”

Sarah Wright/KANSAN Tiara Floyd of Student Senate has collaborated with Watkins Health Services to implement a vending machine filled with health products in the Daisy Hill Commons.

The accessibility factor of the machine is what Floyd and Ries said they find most important. Instead of students needing to drive to a pharmacy when they may not have a car, Ries said, the vending machine will be easily accessible on campus.

“Think of it as, like, a CVS on-the-go. There will be a lot of sexual health related things, but also a lot of general health related things,” Ries said.

Floyd and Ries were originally planning on placing the machine in a

discreet location in the basement of Anschutz for privacy purposes. However, after speaking with Student Affairs and administrators, they plan to place the pilot machine in Daisy Hill Commons to ensure it is used solely by students.

The pilot machine will only house 11 items due to vending machine permit rules. It will have Azo, which is a urinary tract infection treatment, emergency contraceptives, pregnancy tests, four types of menstrual products, lubricant, three types of condoms, an

allergy medication, a pain medication such as Advil and Emergen-C. “We’re going to keep it to 11 items, which sort of limits us, but also allows us to hone in on the purpose of the vending machine,” Ries said. “You’re not going to the machine to get Oreos or Mountain Dew. You’re going to the machine because you need something for your health.”

Currently, they are in the final stages of setting up the vending machine.

There are many rules the University must follow,

especially when providing medication to students; therefore, Floyd and Ries anticipate the machine to be up and running in the fall of 2019.

While both Ries and Floyd anticipate a slow start to the vending machine’s foot traffic, they both hope to receive a positive response from students so they can expand across campus in the future.

“This is something students don’t really know they need until they have it,” Floyd said.

Student coalition to run unopposed

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Crimson+Blue will be the only coalition running in the 2019 Student Senate elections, according to Elections Commission Chair Kelsey Rolofson.

“Being the only coalition running, I think it speaks to the unity that Seth [Wingerter] and Tiara [Floyd] have been able to provide for this campus,” said Zach Thomason, Crimson+Blue campaign manager and current Senate chief of staff.

Members of Crimson+Blue are proud of the coalition they have formed and are excited of what Floyd and Wingerter running unopposed represents. However, some senators are hesitant of what this means for students and the election.

“When we get to a point where no one even thinks that it’s worth even putting up a fight because

they just know they’re going to lose and why waste an entire semester and a campaign, that maybe is something we need to look at,” said Nick Hinman, a student senator representing freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

“We look forward to the rest of the election regardless if it’s just [Crimson+Blue] or against an individual presidential candidate.”

Zach Thomason campaign manager

Hinman is also a member of Crimson+Blue.

Crimson+Blue is comprised of presidential

candidate Tiara Floyd and vice presidential candidate Seth Wingerter. The two are expected to run on platforms focused on expanding resources for LGBTQ+ students, improve travel affordability to University sporting events and increasing the products within the University’s campus cupboard.

Floyd is the current Senate policy and development director, and Wingerter is the finance committee chair.

While they are still unsure if Crimson+Blue will be officially running unopposed due to the possibility of an independent candidate filing, Thomason believes in Floyd and Wingerter’s “ambition and experience and their ability to help the campus grow.”

“While we don’t know what the next month will bring, these last few weeks have been a great

time to really evaluate their opportunity to help this campus and we look forward to the rest of the election regardless if it’s just them or against an individual presidential candidate,” Thomason said.

One independent senatorial candidate filed this week, according to Rolofson.

Independent candidates have until Mar. 18 to file to run for President and Vice President, and Mar. 25 to file to run for a senatorial position.

Thomason and the rest of Crimson+Blue are planning to work towards getting their senator pool elected, as they believe that some independent senatorial candidates will file to run against them.

Other platforms and the coalition’s mission statement will be developed at a later coalition meeting. The original meeting was scheduled for Feb. 19, but canceled due to inclement weather.

Photo illustration by Sarah Wright/KANSAN Crimson+Blue presidential candidate Tiara Floyd, left, and vice presidential candidate Seth Wingerter, right, are at the helm of the only coalition to file for the 2019 Student Senate election.

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KU student’s lizard poem to appear in magazine WYATT HALL @thewyatthall15 University of Kansas senior Spencer Frank has been writing since he discovered words, but in his final semester at the University, his poetry is being featured in the Kansas-based nonprofit publication I-70 Review.

The I-70 Review is published annually with a variety of poetry and short stories from artists all over the world, including England and India. It was created almost 20 years ago.

Poet Gary Lechliter originally founded the publication to share other artists’ poetry to the world.

“I was wanting to reach other people’s work,” Lechliter said.

“We’ve published many Kansans’ work, as well as others across the nation.”

“[Writing is] something that brings me a lot of joy and meaning into my life.”

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Brooke Boyer/KANSAN Senior Spencer Frank holds up last year’s I-70 Review poetry book. Frank will be featured in the Kansas-based publication this year.

While the published work doesn’t necessarily have a common theme, I-70’s objective is to find and feature the highest quality of poetry it can.

“We like poetry that surprises, poetry that shows a lot of work and careful revision,” Lechliter said. “The kind of poetry that we read and say, ‘Wow, that is really good.’”

Frank’s upcoming featured poem is titled “Autotomy,” referencing the detachment and dropping of tails that many lizards use to escape predators.

“It’s about me and about moving on from different kinds of pain in your life,” Frank said. “I tell it through the lens of my old pet leopard gecko that I had

when I was a kid.”

This kind of poem where he explores more complicated topics through simple subjects is generally what Frank likes to focus on when he’s writing.

“I like to take a topic that is really heavy and has a lot of gravity and marry it [with] something really simple or mundane,”

Frank said. “I try to ask big introspective questions and try to relate those to things that we don’t think about every day but happen every day.”

Frank said he mainly writes for himself.

“At its core, I’m just trying to convey a feeling or an experience that I have and the way that the experience makes me feel

looking forward,” Frank said. “I do it as a sort of process to understand myself or my feelings.”

Through the experience of getting his first poem published, Frank said he learned a lot about how to write and submit his work professionally.

“It’s not just taking your work and shooting it out into the void to scatter it to as many places as you can,” Frank said. “You have to approach it a little more thoughtfully than that.”

Frank became serious about writing professionally about a year ago and is now focusing on it as part of his future.

With graduation coming up, Frank is beginning to look ahead.

“Of all the things I’ve done at KU, finding this and finding my passion for this is the most meaningful to me,” Frank said. “It’s something that brings me a lot of joy and meaning into my life. Whatever I do, I know writing will be a part of it.”

The 2019 issue of the I-70 Review is now in the editing stages of production and will be released in the coming months. Orders for the publication can be placed online.

Architecture class draws plans for Farmers’ Market RYLIE KOESTER @RylieKoester University of Kansas architecture professor J. Todd Achelpohl’s second-year architecture design studio class designed hypothetical plans for the downtown Lawrence Farmers’ Market, a project second-year architecture students don’t normally get to do.

While the design project wasn’t meant to decide any concrete design plans for the Lawrence Farmers’ Market, it allowed the Board of Directors to explore its options if it decides to create a more permanent infrastructure in the future.

“The idea was not to identify a solution but to create a conversation,” Achelpohl said.

Last year, the Lawrence Farmers’ Market board approached the School of Architecture and Design about potentially drawing up plans for a more permanent structure for the farmers market.

The current farmers

market is located at 824 New Hampshire St. and is open Saturday mornings from April to November.

Each student spent half of the semester drawing a plan for one of four potential sites for the farmers market: its current location, 11th and Massachusetts Streets, 9th and Vermont Streets, and 6th and Massachusetts Streets.

Achelpohl said the project fit his second-year design studio class, “Architectural Design I,” last semester. The project allowed students to experience a real-world practical situation and client and at the same time were encouraged to think freely because their designs were hypothetical, Achelpohl said. The project also allowed the farmers market board, which might be constrained by funding in the future, to imagine more ideas for its project.

“I think it was kind of a win-win for everybody,” Achelpohl said.

The first step in the project had the students listen to a focus group

Brooke Boyer/KANSAN Sophomores Isaac Taylor from Overland Park and Celine Khashram from St. Louis, Missouri, are architecture students who worked on potential plans for a Lawrence Farmers’ Market permanent structure. about some of the issues the board identified with its current market. The focus group consisted of board members, local farmers and Lawrence residents. Achelpohl said the board’s issues are mostly associated with its current

Contributed photo Sophomore Celine Khrasham’s design for a potential Lawrence Farmers’ Market structure focuses on openness and giving visitors a clear route.

location in a parking lot, which doesn’t have any permanent infrastructure.

The board identified a lack of shade as an issue, especially during the warmer months. It also said it wanted to have a clear route customers could follow through the farmers market to see each vendor. The students made these some of their chief concerns when drawing up their plans, Achelpohl said.

Celine Khashram, a sophomore from St. Louis, Missouri, said she was most concerned with creating a sense of openness in her design while simultaneously giving the vendors shelter from the weather.

Khashram’s design included canopies to help with the issue of lack of shade.

She said another focus of her design was creating a clear route through the market that custom-

ers could follow to see all of the vendors, which she learned was an issue during the focus group.

“They really wanted a sense of permanence, and that’s what we were trying to show them,” Khashram said.

Isaac Taylor, a sophomore from Overland Park, incorporated a giant glass atrium into his design to maintain the promenade of Massachusetts Street at his site at 6th and Massachusetts Streets.

Taylor said the project allowed for a good educational experience because they got to work with and design for a hypothetical client in a real-world situation.

“You never design in a vacuum,” Taylor said.

“There’s always somebody who needs something, and you have to do what they want, not entirely what

you want.”

Achelpohl said he also supplemented the project with certain educational goals for the architecture students. He had them think about parking and whether or not that would be a factor in their designs.

The students also designed a food hall at each of the sites, which is similar to a farmers market but is enclosed and better suited for long-term businesses.

“There was the opportunity for the students to live in a real practical situation, but at the same time they were also encouraged to think very freely,” Achelpohl said.

The students’ models will be on display today, Feb. 22, at the Carnegie Building, 200 W 9th St., from 5 to 8 p.m. as part of Final Fridays. The event is free and open to the public.

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KU student makes her music ‘Like That’ Chicago-native singer and University of Kansas English-creative writing major, Sydny August, recently released her second music video, shot in Lawrence DEASIA PAIGE @deasia_paige With less than a week until the release of her second music video, University of Kansas junior and singersongwriter Sydny August sits in her living room with a T-shirt and sweats, killing time before work.

Now, August already has two music videos out this year, the first of which was her foray into shooting music videos and the second released Wednesday, Feb. 20.

Balancing a music career and student life at the University may seem difficult, but for August music is part of her identity.

“School is a priority, but, at the same time, I’m going to do my music because that’s the one thing that I feel like I need to keep myself sane,” said August, an English major.

However, August admits it’s often hard to fully commit to her music the way she wants.

“Because we just had break, that’s when I kind of knock out a lot of my stuff,” August, a Chicago native, said. “Coming here, I haven’t recorded anything since I’ve been back, so it’s kind of hard because there’s all this homework I need to get out of the way before I can enjoy making music.”

That’s why it was easy for her to release her second EP, “August Project,” last summer. As the title suggests, the EP was released in August of 2018. August released a song for every week in August and published them individually on SoundCloud.

She compiled them toward the end of the month to release the EP on Spotify and Apple Music.

“I thought it was cool because my name is August, and I just wanted to put something out before school started,” August said. “I just like how August Project sounds because I just did this weird process of making a song each week.

So it was a little project to me, so I was in shock that my project was one of the top 50 Chicago projects because I wasn’t even striving for that. I was just putting music out for myself and whoever wants to hear, so I definitely felt honored.”

Ranked at No. 46, “August Project” was featured on Lyrical Lemonade’s list of the best 50 Chicago projects from last year.

The five-track EP is an easily listenable representation of August’s sound — soothing and sultry alternative R&B. August’s falsetto is in a league of its own, and it’s certainly the highlight of her sound.

August shot her firstever music video while she was home during winter break. It’s the visual for “Ride,” a single from “August Project.”

The video was shot

by DGaines, a Chicago videographer who’s worked with artists like Chief Keef, Lil Durk and King Louie.

“I realized I didn’t have any visuals for my music, so that’s when I met this videographer DGains, who’s a Chicago videographer legend, and we met another day, then that’s when we shot,” August said. “We really didn’t have a plan because the song is just about riding with a friend and having a good time, so we wanted to capture just that.”

“There’s so many influential people that come out of [Chicago], and that inspires me.”

Sydny August junior

Connecting with fellow Chicago creatives is something August has done since high school, the nascent stages of her singing career. It was during that time

Rachel Griffard/KANSAN Sydny August, a junior at the University, records her music from her make-shift studio in her apartment.

August watched YouTube tutorials to learn how to use Garageband and mix her beats.

“I feel like I knew that I always could sing, because I started taking vocal lessons in middle school, but I started getting more serious with my art when I entered high school,” August said.

“All four years, I did a lot of things that contributed to my music, and I learned a lot of skills there that kind of helped craft what I now know.”

August, whose real name is Sydny Smith — August is her middle name — started her career by covering her favorite artists and posting them on YouTube.

She’s covered Adele’s “Hello” and Chance the Rapper’s “Sunday Candy,” to name a few. However, she doesn’t do covers anymore because she received personalized beats from producers to record her songs. That’s how she recorded one of her first singles, “Over.”

When she’s in school, August’s room becomes a makeshift studio with a microphone, laptop and speakers. August records and mixes her own music.

Although she’s gradually gotten the

Rachel Griffard/KANSAN Sydny August, a junior at the University, records and edits her own music from her own make-shift studio in her apartment room. hang of mixing her music, August said she eventually wants her music to sound like that of Tink, a Chicago-based rapper and singer. August said Tink, along with Kehlani, is her biggest inspiration as a singer and songwriter. R&B singer Kehlani shares the same soothing vocals present in August’s sound.

“I get inspired when I listen to Kehlani,” August said. “I kind of like how she articulates her word when she sings.

I like Tink, an artist from Chicago, because me and

Rachel Griffard/KANSAN Sydny August, a junior at the University, records and edits her own music from her own make-shift studio in her apartment room.

her have sort of the same writing tendencies from a journaling standpoint.

We get everything out through song, and I look up to her that way because that’s just how she writes, and I like her beats as well. Everything just complements each other. I kind of want to emulate that.”

August credits her family for being her creative inspiration.

“My family has always been pretty creative,” August said. “My dad’s a creative director, so he does a lot of advertisements, like the Allstate commercials you’d see on TV. My mom’s an interior designer, and my sister is a visual artist, so we’re all pretty creative in our own way and we support each other.”

Living in Chicago and being involved in the city’s unique arts scene has also been a strong inspiration for August, who grew up in the city’s north side.

“Chicago has a huge music scene,” August said. “When I started really getting into it in high school, I started meeting people who were more familiar and into the underground music scene. I started meeting more people, and that’s kind of how I got my sound around because the youth would throw shows and events and have their friends perform. Chicago’s just known for their art and people who came out of Chicago, like Chance and Kanye. There’s so many influential people that come out of there,

and that inspires me.”

August shot the video for “Like That,” another song from “August Project,” around Lawrence and at the University. It was shot in the Lawrence Laundromat as well as Summerfield Hall and was released Wednesday, Feb. 20, as her second video.

It was directed, edited and shot by a student and an alumnus from the University’s Department of Film and Media Studies: Gary Lange and Jaiden Royal. Erik Harken, a senior in the film school, helped with the lighting for the video.

Lange, who was the director of the video, said he instantly liked August’s music when he heard it and wanted to work with her.

“Usually you hear people say they make music, and you listen to it, and they’re like every other rapper or somebody who claims they sing,” Lange said.

“There’s always something missing.

When I listened to Sydny’s music I thought it was actually good music, and I can sit down and enjoy it.”

August said she wants to start working on her first mixtape soon, although she hasn’t had time to really think about it. After graduation, she hopes to return to Chicago to pursue music full-time.

“My mom really wanted me to go to school to get my degree,” August said.

“But I plan to focus on my music more and meet more people that’ll help me with it when I return home.”

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FFA of the day: plot twist: inside the campanile is just a photo of every ku student that’s even been to the hawk, and if your photo isn’t there you don’t walk through My one claim to fame is that I’m graduating KU this semester and I’ve never been to the Hawk since i pay $1800 extra per semester to take business classes, you’d think i’d get the luxury of the wifi automatically connecting in capfed people who are really into disney as grownups scare me This 42 blue is wheezing like it has asthma. I’m scared I almost admire Gilderoy Lockhart’s confidence and selfimportance no matter how hard i study spanish, it only seems to get harder and harder, and I continue to get even more stupid “I don’t care how bad my life is, I will never acknowledge the Dave Matthews Band.”

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For the first time ever today I asked for a Venti rather than going “Uhh...what size is the large?” at Starbucks, and I feel like a new man “My skintone is exactly British khaki.”

“I always feel particularly yeehaw in this shirt” “Are you crying at a WatchMojo video?”

“You need a backseat driver when you walk down the street” the first of the Ten Commandments states “Thou shalt not eat your roommate’s snacks without helping pay for them”

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Scholarship halls are underrated RHEA MAHESH @rheam_ I can count on one hand the amount of times someone hasn’t questioned me on what the scholarship halls are after telling them where I live.

There’s an implied expectation regarding where students usually live at the University of Kansas — either it’s Templin if you’re an honors student, Self if you’re majoring in engineering or Lewis, Oliver or Ellsworth for the majority of other students. If you’re not in these dorms, then maybe you’re part of Greek life, or maybe you’re even off-campus. Regardless, the scholarship halls never come up, a result due in part to declining membership, which itself stems from a lack of publicity.

The scholarship halls are a collection of 12 houses, split into six women’s halls, five men’s halls and one coed hall. The application process to join consists of responding to a few short-answer questions, as well as providing your high school GPA and test scores.

If accepted, residents are assigned to a hall of their preference and given shift responsibilities.

These include kitchen cleaning and cooking shifts, or general hall cleaning shifts. While the idea of weekly shifts may deter potential residents, it’s what gives the scholarship halls

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K.K. Amini is the University’s first co-ed scholarship hall. the biggest advantage over other dorm options: reduced cost.

Those seeking to live in a dorm with at least one other person face annual rates ranging from $6,000 to $10,000. For on-campus apartments, rates range from $6,000 to $12,000.

For the scholarship halls, however, annual rates range from about $2,800 to a little less than $5,000. If a student decides to join, living in a “schol hall” cuts a significant amount of money from their overall payment for a year. This may be something worth considering, especially with the gradual increases seen in University tuition.

But aside from this,

the schol halls gave me something I personally feel trumps the lowered housing rate: the community.

It was a lot easier to get acquainted with all the girls in my hall considering there were only 50 of us, which wouldn’t have been the case if I was encountering 300 or more people, as seen in the other dorms.

We eat meals together, go to monthly meetings and perhaps the most exciting of them all, intracommunity events.

Various houses have traditions they keep up, such as Lupi day (late night donuts), cereal night (late night pancakes), formals, summer/winter Olympics and much more.

These are unique to the schol halls and something I’ve really come to appreciate. If others were aware, I’m certain they would, too.

When talking to other girls in my hall, most of their explanations for how they discovered the halls were, surprisingly, not from the KU Housing information most incoming freshman receive.

Instead they were referred by friends they knew within the community or personal research for affordable housing options.

This was disappointing, until I too remembered I’d learned about the schol halls from a friend of a friend. Coming across information about the

scholarship halls requires an explicit search using key words, which can be next to impossible for someone unaware of its existence to begin with.

Fortunately, this was fixed by the recent overhaul of the KU housing website, where scholarship halls appear alongside the residence halls and apartments, but the University must do more to advertise this hidden gem to incoming students who are looking for affordable housing, a unique community or both.

Rhea Mahesh is a freshman from Lenexa studying molecular, cellular and developmental biology.

Give behind-the-scenes workers recognition JEFFREY BIRCH @KansanNews For anyone following the Oscars, watching the development of the famous award show’s 91st year has been quite a rollercoaster. The Oscars were in the news for all the wrong reasons with controversies such as the “Best Popular Picture” award being announced for 2020, and Kevin Hart being chosen as host and then subsequently removed after old homophobic tweets were excavated.

The latest controversy arose with last week’s announcement that awards would be given to four categories during commercial breaks. While the affairs of a Hollywood awards show are far from life and death, this most recent move by the academy is frustrating to watch for anyone that understands the movie-making process.

Before I dig too deep into this, I will note that the academy reversed this decision following enormous public backlash.

The reason this seeming-

Students wait for the bus at Wescoe Beach. ly small change was such a controversy is worth exploring because it is relevant to those of us in Lawrence.

On Feb. 11, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced that the awards for cinematography, film editing, live-action shorts, and makeup and hairstyling would be presented during commercial breaks to cut down the ceremony’s runtime (last year’s lasted about four hours).

Professionals from all fields of the movie busi-

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ness were outraged. Famous filmmakers and Academy members such as Guillermo del Toro, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino all signed an open letter lambasting the Academy’s decision. As del Toro said, “cinematography and editing are at the very heart of our craft. They are not inherited from a theatrical or literary tradition: they are cinema itself.”

Ultimately, this all speaks to a more deep-seated problem in society. The people in

Emma Pravecek/KANSAN those four categories aren’t known to the general public; they’re invisible to us even though their work is essential. Movies as we know them simply would not exist if it weren’t for these people.

Think of how many things are like that; how many jobs get done without thanks or acknowledgment, or only get noticed when a mistake is made.

A lot of students grew up watching Mike Rowe’s, “Dirty Jobs,” where he endeavored to feature people who do these thank-

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less, disgusting jobs that help us live our lives more comfortably.

If you can’t imagine what a world without good editors looks like, then maybe try to imagine what it would be like without sanitation workers, plumbers, janitors, graders, TAs, construction workers and hundreds of other employees that help students through their days at the University.

That’s where the fire behind this controversy comes from. People in the film industry know how vital these invisible jobs are to making their jobs possible and are going to stand up to make sure that they get the recognition they deserve.

I think Jayhawks need to take a page out of their book. Thank your bus driver, the janitor cleaning the bathrooms, the people you don’t notice who nonetheless keep everything running smoothly on campus.

God knows they deserve it.

Jeffrey Birch is a sophomore from Wichita majoring in accounting.

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Jayhawks take Big 12 blow in Texas Tech loss JACK JOHNSON @JohnyJ_15 It wasn’t the game Kansas would’ve liked to have, it was the one they needed to have. With a win on Saturday night, the path to the 15th straight Big 12 conference title would have become considerably easier.

Coming in on a threegame winning streak and the wind most certainly behind its back, No. 12 Kansas was wrecked by Texas Tech with the battle for second place on the line.

The Jayhawks stumbled out of the gates, and the Red Raiders pounced on the opportunity, winning 9162.

Seemingly from the opening tip, Texas Tech attacked aggressively on the offensive end while stifling even the slightest number of good looks the Kansas offense could surmount.

“I definitely felt like they were going to come out fired up,” redshirt junior forward Dedric Lawson said. “They came out with a chip on their shoulder, so you got to give credit to them.”

Cruising to a 9-4 advantage after a thunderous slam by Texas Tech guard Jarrett Culver, Kansas coach Bill Self burned his first timeout,

Chance Parker/KANSAN Redshirt junior forward Dedric Lawson watches his team play against Texas Tech. The Jayhawks fell to the Red Raiders 91-62 on Saturday, Feb. 23. sending the capacityfilled crowd into utter chaos. From then on, the Jayhawks looked like the shell of a team that had rebounded so well after the loss to Kansas State on Feb. 5.

But as the beat down ensued for the remaining 37 minutes, the cause of it all could be traced back to the first few minutes

of this top-25 showdown.

As Texas Tech forward Norense Odiase completed a turn around hook shot for the games first points with the shot clock winding down, the over 15,000 people inside United Supermarkets Arena erupted into a frenzy.

On the ensuing possession, Lawson

forced a running jump shot, leading to a fastbreak and two more points on the other end for Texas Tech.

A banked in threepointer by Culver on the next possession indicated it was the beginnings of what was soon to be a long night for the Jayhawks.

“I felt like I came out

a little lackadaisical,” Lawson said. “They just came out and made shots.

That’s all it really came down to.”

The hot start from beyond the arc by the Red Raiders imploded the 7-2 lead, to a 40-17 stranglehold before it had even hit the half. The 45-20 hole the Jayhawks faced heading into the

Track and field awarded at Big 12 championship LOGAN FRICKS @LoganFricks Kansas track and field traveled to Lubbock, Texas, to compete in the Big 12 Championships on Friday and Saturday. Despite sitting in first at the end of day one, the men’s team fell down to third by the end of competition while the women’s took fourth place overall.

The first day of competition was led by senior distance runner Sharon Lokedi. Lokedi competed in the women’s 5000-meter run and finished in first place, the third time in her career she has won an event in the Big 12 Championships.

Lokedi won the race with a time of 16:11:50, exactly 11 seconds faster than the second place runner.

To help cap off a promising first day, sophomore thrower Gleb Dudarev took his second crown in the men’s weight throw with a throw of 23.29-meters. Dudarev took first place in 2017 but redshirted the 2018 indoor season.

In the final race of the day, the men’s distance-medley-relay team took first with a time of 9:57:78. The team consisted of senior Dylan Hodgson, juniors Bryce Hoppel and Cody Johnson and sophomore Ethan Donley.

Senior mid-distance runner Marleena Eubanks moved on to the finals in the women’s 800-meter run after taking first in the prelims race. Eubanks ran a time of 2:08:53, less than a single second off her personal-best time of 2:07:94.

In the men’s mile, ju-

Kansan file photo Then-junior distance runner Sharon Lokedi, running unattached, ran a 5:00 mile at the Kansas Classic in 2017. nior runner Dylan Hodgson took third overall running a 4:09:89.

Junior sprinter Jedah Caldwell nearly set a personal-best with a time of 23.55, but was .04 seconds off her record. Nonetheless, her time put her in first in the prelim race.

The men’s pole vault team has been strong all season and continued its strong performance headed by senior Hussain Al Hizam’s jump of 5.63-meters, which put him in second place behind Baylor’s KC Lightfoot.

Two other Jayhawks finished in the top-five as Zach Bradford took fourth with a leap of 5.53-meters followed by sopho-

more Kyle Rogers’ jump of 5.43-meters.

The biggest highlight of the weekend for Kansas was [Sharon] Lokedi, who ... took the crown in the women’s 3000-meter race.

Following a strong performance on the first day of competition, Kansas track and field continued to break records on the second day of the Big 12

Championship.

The biggest highlight of the weekend for Kansas was Lokedi, who after winning the women’s 5000-meter run on Friday took the crown in the women’s 3000-meter race Saturday, finishing with a time of 9:20:71 and winning the race by eight seconds.

She also took home the 2019 Big 12 Track and Field Indoor Championship Women’s High Award. The senior will compete one more time at Nationals before calling it a career in the red and blue.

The Jayhawks also saw high success in both the men and women’s

800-meter run as they broke two school records over the weekend.

Starting with the women’s 800-meter run, Eubanks took the crown with a time of 2:03:99.

Eubanks’ time was not only a Kansas record, but also a meet record, surpassing the former record of 2:04:50 set by Baylor’s Olicia Williams in 2016.

In the men’s 800-meter run, Hoppel took the crown by setting a Kansas record. Hoppel’s time of 1:46:84 beat the former record by .20 seconds.

Competing in their first Big 12 Championship, freshmen high jumpers Rylee Anderson and Cordell Tinch found themselves in a positive spot, finishing second and third overall respectively. Anderson cleared a personal best of 1.82-meters and Tinch jumped a 2.24-meter leap, which put him on the podium.

To cap off the weekend, both men and women’s 4X4 relay squads finished in the top three.

The women’s team, which consisted of juniors Caldwell and Mariah Kuykendoll, sophomore Honour Finley and Eubanks, took second overall with a time of 3:34:49.

In the men’s 4X4 relay, the team took third with a time of 3:10:23. The squad consisted of senior Marcus Davis, juniors Hoppel and Johnson and freshman sprinter Ethan Fogle.

Before the indoor season concludes, Kansas will have one more stop at the NCAA National Championships, which takes place on Friday, March 8 and will continue through Saturday.

locker room was the largest deficit at halftime in 18 years (Feb. 12, 2001 at Baylor). It was the largest in the Bill Self era and wound up being the worst defeat in Big 12 play during his 16 years at Kansas.

On whether or not his team came in prepared, Self reiterated that just simply wasn’t the case.

“I think we showed up ready.” Self said.

“We just played bad and they played great. They could’ve beat anyone in the country tonight.”

Now, Kansas is handed a quick turnaround with only one day of rest before going toe-totoe with the first place Kansas State Wildcats on Monday evening.

“It’s one game,” Self said. “Whether you lose by one or lose by thirty ... certainly that will not put a damper on our spirits getting ready to play K-State.”

Sitting two games back in third place in the standings, controlling their own destiny is no longer an option with only four games left.

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“At that moment, … it was going a lot faster than I thought it would,” Miller said. “But I was just told to go, so I just went for it, and that moment was created.”

Miller realized he was on the jumbotron about halfway through the chant, but he was unaware he made it on ESPN until someone reached out and told him.

“I was like, ‘What?’... I freaked out,” Miller said.

As well as the live coverage and social media, Miller was mentioned on CBS Sports and 247 Sports. He had an interview with Fox Sports Friday as well.

“The last time we received that kind of media attention was when we played with Chad Smith, drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Champion’s Classic in 2017,” Toulouse said.

Apart from basketball band, Miller is a jazz major involved with a few jazz ensembles and the marching band. He joined the basketball and marching bands this year.

“I was thrilled when I heard he was going to be joining our ranks, so he could bring that energy and hype to the band,” Toulouse said.

Miller also plays in a band called Glass Bandit.

They frequently play shows at The Bottleneck and Jazzhaus downtown.

“I just want to continue to play music. Music is my passion. I love it,” Miller said. “I want to make it my career if I can.”

He said the past few days of his music career have been unexpected and cool.

“It’s a fleeting moment that will be ingrained in our memories forever,” Toulouse said.

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Freshman guard Ochai Agbaji drives the lane against Kansas State. The Jayhawks fell to the Wildcats 74-67 on Tuesday, Feb. 5.

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70-68

KANSAS 20-7 (9-5 BIG 12)

75-73

KANSAS ST. 21-6 (11-3 BIG 12)

Dedric Lawson

Barry Brown

★★★★

★★★★

redshirt junior forward

Once again leading the way for the Jayhawks, Lawson ended Saturday’s matchup with 14 points on a 3-of-8 performance from the field, contributing seven additional makes from the free-throw line. Also Kansas’ leading scorer in the team’s first matchup with the Wildcats, the Jayhawks will need another strong outing by the Memphis, Tennessee, native in hopes of toppling the Big 12’s leader.

senior guard

Over the past month, Brown has established himself as one of the best players in the Big 12. He’s averaging 15.7 points per game, scoring 16-plus in three of his last four games.

Last time out against Kansas, Brown dropped 18 points, capped off by a windmill dunk at the buzzer that was later waved off.

Devon Dotson

Dean Wade

★★★★

★★★★

freshman guard

senior forward

Recording his fewest minutes since the Jayhawks’ opening-week contest with Louisiana, Dotson had an uncharacteristically rocky night against the Red Raiders, tallying seven points in a game plagued by foul trouble for the young guard. Visibly flustered by the early foul calls against Texas Tech, Dotson will need to quickly regain his composure in preparing to take on the Wildcats.

After recovering from a foot injury earlier this season, Wade has added a significant defensive presence and inside option. And even with missing multiple games, Wade still averages 13.1 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. Wade also scored 12 points and pulled down nine rebounds against the Jayhawks on Feb. 5 in Manhattan.

Marcus Garrett

Kamau Stokes

★★★

★★★

sophomore guard

Competing in his first game since Jan. 29 against the Texas Longhorns, Garrett recorded 22 minutes off-thebench for the Jayhawks, missing only two of six shots for a total of nine points on the night. A missing element for Kansas in its 74-67 loss in Manhattan, the sophomore’s contributions on the defensive end could help flip the outcome in Allen Fieldhouse come Monday night.

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Bryce Hoppel Track & Field

Crossing the finish line at the 1:46.84 mark, junior Bryce Hoppel picked up a first-place finish for the second-consecutive year in the men’s 800-meter run at the Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championship.

Hoppel’s time claimed the school record in the 800-meter, surpassing Jeremy Mims’ 1:47.04 mark set in 2005. The junior will compete in his final indoor meet of the season at the NCAA Championship on March 8-9.

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Capping off the senior trio for the Wildcats is Stokes, who serves as more of a support to Wade and Brown offensively. Stokes averages 10.1 points per game and had only nine against Kansas on Feb. 5. However, Stokes is still a key contributor on offense (85 assists) as well as the Wildcat defense that allows just 59.8 points per game, amassing 33 steals this season.

Harry Hillier

Men’s Golf Finishing eight-under par through the second day of the Wyoming Desert Collegiate on Saturday, sophomore Harry Hillier’s round score 64 marked the best of his young career thus far for the Jayhawks. Spearheading the way to the career-best performance for Hillier was an eagle on the fourth hole of the course.