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What’s next for Mass Street?

As retail vacancies increase, dowtown shop owners are looking for ways to bring business back.

KALLI JO SMITH @kallijosmith It was a typical day in the shop for Melinda Nichols, store manager of Lululemon, a recently added pop-up clothing shop on Massachusetts Street. As customers were coming in and out of the store, Nichols said business was as good as ever. However, she did notice there was one thing missing from Mass Street since her arrival: other retail businesses.

“It’s not like we’re missing a ton of businesses, but, I really wonder what is making [retail] businesses not stay on Mass Street,” Nichols said.

Vacancy rates downtown have climbed within the last year, said Sally Zogry, executive director of the non-profit group Downtown Lawrence. According to a recent report by the Lawrence-Journal World, there are currently 16 vacant storefronts on Mass Street.

Mass Street has seen vacancies from Buckle, Fortuity and Ernst & Son Hardware, but each closed based on entirely different circumstances.

Sara Scott, store manager at Glik’s, which is located at 717 Massachusetts Street, said she also wonders why retail businesses continue to struggle.

The main factors Scott cited stemmed from issues such as high rent rates and inventory issues. She also said some of the small businesses have closed as family members retire or pass away.

“We just lost Buckle about a year or so ago, and now with Fortuity gone, it really makes you wonder what’s making these shops leave,” Scott said. “Since Fortuity left, we really lost some of our main retail stores down here.”

Scott has been working for retail businesses on Mass Street for over six years, and is no stranger to witnessing shops close, despite the fact that every business she has worked for has closed based on entirely different factors.

Later this year, downtown retail stores such as Saffee’s and Envy Boutique will be closing as well, according to Zogry.

Does this mean Massachusetts Street has a vacancy problem?

Zogry said not entirely.

However, Downtown Lawrence has seen a drop in retail shops on Mass Street recently, mainly due to a recurring cycle.

Most commercial properties on Massachusetts Street operate on a fiveyear lease, many of which ended in 2013, Zogry said.

Leases begin to end this

Bob(Jiatong) Li/KANSAN Reports show an increasing number of business vacancies on Massachusetts Street . year, which Zogry said is why the public is seeing a decrease in retail stores downtown.

Concerning other factors that play into what’s making businesses leave, Zogry said rent for buildings downtown tends to be high for businesses.

“The rents are high here, and there’s a lot of discussion about that,” Zogry said. “And we as Downtown Lawrence have no influence on that though.”

Zogry said while small retail stores might be struggling downtown, corporate clothing businesses like Urban Outfitters, Lu-

lulemon and Francesca’s manage to stay afloat due to being international and having more brand awareness.

Although individuals might think smaller businesses may hurt from having larger chain retail stores on Mass Street, Zogry said this isn’t necessarily the case. As Downtown Lawrence attempts to bring more businesses to the area, large corporations may benefit small businesses by helping them gain awareness in the community.

“The challenge is to remind people of what we do

have because Lawrence has a lot of great stores,” Zogry said. “If a family comes down and they’re shopping at say Francesca’s, and that store might not have what they’re looking for, then they might go to another store and it might have what they’re looking.

But we could use more density, and we have lost quite a few clothing stores over the last few years.”

Zogry said in spite of the vacancy issue, Downtown Lawrence is currently asking her organization and its members to figure out what businesses the public would like to see.

Members of the community can send their suggestions to downtownlawrence.com through the Contact Us page.

“We have reached out to them to ask what they might feel they want to see on Mass Street; whether it be a hat store or a baby store, or I don’t know,” Zogry said. “[The business owners] hear from their customers, ‘oh I like to come here for, or it would be great to have this.’

So we’re reaching out to members, and they’re listening to the public to get some feedback.”

“This was a needle in a haystack, when we got that,” Craig said.

After investigating Amos more, Craig said they were able to “tie” him to the house he was picked up and dropped off at. He had been living there with his mother at the time, according to a neighbor.

In the original trial, Jones had never been linked to the house.

“So the original investigation, the detective put his card on the door and it said ‘call me.’ Nobody called,” Craig said. “I mean, it’s a house where you’re buying drugs. Nobody’s going to call the detective. They didn’t follow up, they didn’t sit on the house, nothing.”

Amos “testified and denied involvement” in the crime, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. Jones was exonerated five days after the testimonial, on June 12, 2016. He had been in prison for almost 17 years of the 19-year conviction.

“I did not think I was going to get exonerated.

We had everything that we needed, but still, I just couldn’t get my hopes up until I heard it out of the judge’s mouth,” Jones said. “Alice Craig just kept telling me, he’s going to release you, he’s going to release you, and I still wasn’t accepting it for what it was.”

Now, Jones is working

to improve the lives of exonerates like himself.

Through the Project for Innocence, he was connected with two other exonerees – Lamonte McIntyre, who spent 23 years in prison for murder, and Floyd Bledsoe, who spent almost 16 years for murder, child sex abuse and kidnapping.

The three of them testified in front of lawmakers at the Kansas State Capitol last spring, and on May 3, Kansas became the 33rd state to honor a “compensation bill,” which provides exonerates such as Jones, McIntyre and Bledsoe with financial compensation of $65,000 per year of wrongful conviction.

“You can never get the time back, but when you’re in a position financially to not worry about stress over money, that takes a lot of stress off of life, period. I’m just proud to be a part of that,” Jones said.

“No matter what I went through, I’m just proud to be a part of that and to come out with something positive from this.”

Above all else, Jones said he is thankful for the help that Craig, the faculty and the students at the Project for Innocence provided him.

“We became friends,” Jones said. “They believed in my innocence and they went a long way with me.”

KU Law School helps overturn wrongful conviction SYDNEY HOOVER @sydhoover17 Richard Jones says the only word he can find to describe the feeling he had when he was released from prison is “surreal.”

With the assistance of the Paul E. Wilson Project for Innocence at the University of Kansas School of Law, Jones was exonerated in June 2017 after serving almost 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

Jones filed his own petition for Certification of Innocence in the state of Kansas on Aug. 29. In addition to monetary compensation of over $1 million for the 17 years he spent in prison, the petition would also give him tuition assistance to attend a postsecondary school for himself and his daughters, counseling, housing and health care assistance and more.

“I don’t know if I would ever feel like that again in my life,” Jones said. “The fact that my kids who were babies when I went in and I wasn’t around for all that time, they could see me come out the way I did, with my name cleared.

That was just a wonderful feeling.”

Jones was arrested in 1999 after a two witnesses identified him from a random selection of photos as the culprit in a burglary

Contributed Photo After being wrongly convicted for a crime in 1999, Richard Jones, left, was freed with the help of the KU Law School. Jones was mistaken for Ricky Amos, right. in Johnson County.

The burglary, committed at a Walmart in Roeland Park, occurred on Memorial Day in 1999.

The burglar, who witnesses were able to identify by the name ‘Ricky,’ had been picked up by two other men from a house for a drug deal. Ricky proceeded to rob a purse from a woman in the Walmart parking lot, then the men dropped him back off at the house, according to Alice Craig, supervising attorney at the Paul E. Wilson Project for Innocence through the School of Law. Jones and his family testified that he had spent the day at home in Kansas City, Missouri, celebrating his girlfriend’s birthday.

But it wasn’t enough.

He was convicted of robbery on April 24, 2001 and sentenced to 19 years in prison, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. “[The police investigating] said they had the description from the victim and the people in the car and they had the name Rick or Ricky,” Craig said.

“They looked for a black male or hispanic with the name Rick, Ricky or Richard, and they had one of the witnesses come in and flip through six photos at a time and at the 202nd photo the witness picked out Richard.”

Jones sent an application in to the Midwest Innocence Project, who forwarded his case onto

the Project for Innocence at the University. His case was picked up in 2015 – 14 years after his conviction.

Craig said for the first year of the project, attorneys could not find sufficient evidence to begin litigating the case.

“There really was nothing that put him at that location or at the crime.

He had a solid alibi — the problem was it was his family and the state just argued, ‘well it’s your family, they would lie for you,’” Craig said.

Then there was a breakthrough, discovered by Jones himself. He said that he was talking with one of the other inmates in the prison when he heard about a man named Ricky Amos.

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Breaking the mental health stigma NICOLE DOLAN @nikkidolan279

It took a long time for Kali Boydston to come to terms with her mental health.

Growing up in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, Boydston said she was surrounded by unrecognized mental health issues and fell into a routine of convincing herself that her problems were “all in her head.”

“I was the first one out of my family to go out to a psychologist and a psychiatrist and get diagnosed with mental disorders,” Boydston said. “It was really empowering to me to know that there was actually something wrong and that I wasn’t all in my head like how I was told my entire life.”

Now, Boydston said she wants to share her sense of empowerment with others.

A recent study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that students who were familiar with on-campus groups, such as Active Minds, also were associated with decreased stigma. Boydston said she wants to be part of the movement to help college students be a resource to others.

“There’s more stress and anxiety here than anywhere else,” Boydston said. “A lot of the time it is getting misrepresent-

Bob(Jiatong) Li//KANSAN Junior Kali Boydston runs a mental health blog. Boydston said she wants to be part of a movement to reduce the stigma around mental health. ed as just stress or having too much to do when there very well could be something else going on that resources would be needed.”

The study also found that active peers who make themselves available as resources strengthen college students’ mental health knowledge, awareness and helping behaviors.

After getting professionally diagnosed, Boydston said she started using bullet journaling as inspiration to expand her creative space into something empowering for her peers. Now, she runs a blog, called “Conquering Control,” where she discusses mental health issues and stigma.

“Bullet journaling helped me channel my anxiety into a productive form, but I wanted it to be out there and I knew I had a place of power online where I could tell my story and empower others,” Boydston said.

Cody Campbell, a senior from Wichita, is the president of Active Minds on campus, the national organization emphasizing student-to-student discussions on mental health. Campbell also advocates for the improvement of mental health resources and awareness on campus.

The University offers mental health counseling through Counseling and Psychological Services, but there’s often

a high demand from students. Last year, CAPS announced its plans to hire additional licensed staff to provide services for more students.

As an alternative to CAPS, Campbell said he recommeds students look around Lawrence for affordable, off-campus mental health care, but said “we still need to improve our way of how we represent mental health on campus.”

Dr. Michael Maestas, director of CAPS, confirmed that there is a high demand for its services because college is a transition period for students, especially those with mental illness. He said CAPS has a high involvement on campus through

its participation and sponsorship of multiple mental health awareness activities.

“For the college population, mental health awareness matters because this is an important developmental period for transitions into adulthood,” Maestas said.

“Finding effective ways to cope with stress and maintain balance in one’s life is critical to academic performance and life balance.

CAPS participates in and sponsors numerous mental health awareness activities, such as tabling, information fairs, presentations and programs for faculty, staff and students, Maestas said. CAPS also provides Mental Health First Aid in Higher Education training for KU Lawrence faculty, staff and students.

Through journaling, blogging and the support from her sorority sisters, Boydston said she has grown to accept her own mental illness and hopes to be a voice for improving resources for mental health and breaking the stigma.

“We are recognizing our power and doing these amazing things to have our voices heard and we have a chance to make a change,” Boydston said.

“Making resources available for everyone could make campus and society a more welcoming place.”

KU PSO officially introduces Phog the dog KALLI JO SMITH @kallijosmith Following the addition of Phog the explosivedetecting dog to the KU Public Safety Office team last week, the latest furry member of the University met with students at the KU Card Center at the Kansas Union on Friday.

While there, Phog took a photo for his own KU ID, with his handler and KU PSO Officer John Haller by his side.

According to KU PSO Chief of Police Chris Keary, Phog remained as still as possible while taking his photo for his KU ID. “Some have noted how calm he is for being two years old — like when he got his KU ID. He posed patiently for the photo,” Keary said.

Phog, a two-yearold labrador retriever, was officially named by members of the public last week in an online contest KU PSO made accessible through social media.

“It was a good way to introduce the canine program to the community, and reflects the departments commitment to community policing that works to involve the KU community in the safety initiatives and programs on campus,” Keary said.

Keary said KU PSO chose to acquire a canine explosive-detection dog because, although the

dogs are typically used at large athletic events, the dogs KU PSO used before were from the Kansas Highway Patrol.

“For football and men’s basketball, we usually try to get one or two canines from the Kansas Highway Patrol, but they are a resource that may not always be available,” Keary said.

With KU PSO having its own explosive-sniffing canine, Keary said Kansas Highway Patrol will be more readily able to provide canines to other events in the state of Kansas, such as sporting events at Kansas State University.

“Phog will ensure that we will have a canine available, plus he will be able to be used at smaller sports venues, and other venues or gatherings on campus,” Keary said.

The initial startup cost for the canine program was about $45,000, with most of that cost going to purchasing a vehicle for the handler and dog to use, according to Keary.

Keary said KU PSO bought a used 2017 Dodge Charger from the Kansas Highway Patrol for $20,000. The car was recently used by one of KHP’s canine troopers, and came equipped with a canine cage, a heat sensing system that will open windows and sound alarms if the air conditioning stops working or if the

Chance Parker/KANSAN Phog is a trained canine in detecting bombs for KU Public Safety at campus events. temperature of the vehicle’s interior rises above a preset limit.

Phog’s handler, Haller, will also carry a pagerlike device that will allow him to open the car door and release Phog with a push of a button if the car temperature alerts him that it is too hot.

Haller is a three-year veteran of the KU PSO team. Haller’s job is to take care of Phog and continually train him to make sure he maintains his skills to detect explosive substances. Keary said

although several officers applied for the position, Haller was chosen based on his previous experience working with explosivedetection canines in the Air National Guard.

The Kansan reached out to Haller for an interview, however, KU PSO Deputy Chief James Anguiano said Haller and Phog were in the middle of training for the next several weeks and would not be available to speak.

Keary said this training is incredibly important for Haller and Phog because

a handler has to not only understand what to look for when it comes to explosive devices, but he also needs to be able to identify when and what the dog is sensing.

“That is why the training is always on-going for both the handler and dog,” Keary said.

After training is complete in five weeks, Keary said Officer Haller and Phog will be an available resource to any requesting law enforcement agency.

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Cheech Marin opens Free State Festival GRACE MENNINGER @KansanNews

Richard Anthony “Cheech” Marin, the famous stoner comedian of the 1970s, stopped in Lawrence on Monday to give a talk at the Lawrence Arts Center and kick off the Free State Festival.

Marin has an impressive collection of Chicano art and has been collecting art for 40 years.

His collection has toured at 50 major art museums across the country. Marin said he hopes to have completed the nation’s first Chicano art museum in Riverside, California, by 2021.

The crowd filled up the Lawrence Arts Center’s auditorium while at the same time, in the front of the house, The Raven Book Store sold copies of Marin’s two books, “Cheech Is Not My Real Name...But Don’t Call Me Chong!” and “Chicanitas,” a colorful art book full of tiny paintings from his collection.

The auditorium was packed mainly with people who were most familiar with Marin’s comedy during the drugfueled haze of the 1970s.

Marin gave a shoutout

to the Chicano audience members and talked about the origin of the word; how it was originally an insult to Mexicans who moved north of the border.

As Marin spoke, there were moments when you could forget he was one half of the counterculture comedy duo, as he felt more like an art history professor who made funny quips from time to time.

“Topeka freaks me out,” Marin joked. “But it’s got more Mexican restaurants than McDonald’s,” he said with a sly grin and a shrug.

Reacting to a colorful painting of a topless woman, a toddler giggled and asked, “What?” “No questions just yet,” replied Marin.

The art Marin showed was colorful and full of life. Much of Chicano art is scenes of neighborhoods and the people that inhabit them and live alongside the artist.

Friends, family members, and other artists are frequent subjects for the portraits of Chicano art — Marin showed portraits of people who may not have been painted otherwise.

“They were tired of being excluded,” Marin

Grace Menninger/KANSAN Richard “Cheech” Marin, known as half of the comedy duo Cheech and Chong, opens the 2018 Free State Festival with a lecture about the origins and cultural significance of Chicano art.

said. “Chicano art started as a political statement.

San Antonio, Los Angeles and San Francisco were the birthplaces of Chicano political movements and artwork.”

That sentiment rang true with Marglin

Hinojosa, a local Chicana artist and University alumna. Hinojosa was all for Marin’s work coming to the festival.

“I’m glad to see Chicano art in Lawrence,” she said. “The more underrepresented art

REVIEW

Leads thrive in ‘A Simple Favor’

that’s shown, the better.”

Audience member Sierra Two Bulls agreed.

“It’s also really interesting to see indigenous roots in the artwork we saw tonight,” she said.

Marin ended his speech

Author to speak on LGBTQ+ themes TAMIAH COFFEE @kissmy_melanin_

Contributed photo “A Simple Favor” is the latest film from director Paul Feig.

RACHEL GAYLOR @raegay218 It’s a comedy — no, a thriller. Or a comedy. Both, really.

“A Simple Favor” comes from director Paul Feig, best known for directing “Bridesmaids.” The film stars Anna Kendrick as Stephanie Smothers, a single mom who runs a vlog for “all the moms out there.”

She meets Emily Nelson (Blake Lively) — another mother and Stephanie’s foil. The two bond over martinis and secrets before Emily disappears.

The tone of the movie changes with each scene.

There is a dark comedy backbone which fits well to the humor of its stars.

Kendrick and Lively play their characters perfectly.

You know there’s more to Lively’s character than she’s letting on and Kendrick

has such an innocence about her that hints there’s something deeper.

The twists are plentiful.

Some are obvious thriller tropes, but others take the film in an unexpected direction. And through it all is Kendrick who slowly finds out the truth behind her new best friend’s disappearance.

Henry Golding plays Emily’s husband, Sean. The trope is that the husband is always involved — some way, somehow. Golding’s performance never lets the viewer in on the truth. We don’t know if he is involved or not until the end. And even then, it’s a gray area.

The film can be confusing with the mixed tone. Sometimes I didn’t know whether to laugh at it or take it seriously.

But that’s what made it so enjoyable. Though the movie is based on a book of

the same name, you don’t have to have read it prior to watching to enjoy “A Simple Favor.”

If any other actors played the leads, I don’t know if the film would have worked well.

Where the film truly excels is with its leads.

Kendrick and Lively have undeniable on-screen chemistry. If any other actors played the leads, I don’t know if the film would have worked well.

Though the character of Stephanie was a departure from Kendrick’s role in the “Pitch Perfect” series, she is believable as an overinvolved mother while

Lively shines in the “cool mom” role.

The fashion in this film adds another layer to it, almost like another character. Lively predominantly wears suits in this film with dark tones and flashy jewelry, giving the viewers an idea that she is shielding the outside world from truly knowing her. Kendrick wears bright colors to begin with but develops a darker wardrobe as the film and mystery shift.

The plot can be considered far-fetched but, given that the film is based on a book, it’s forgivable.

The film is simply fun. With heightened performances and twisty turns, “A Simple Favor” sets out to show the complexities of women and that there is always more than what meets the eye.

And that something more is never what we expect.

with a call to action to the audience to participate in politics in America and to make use of the power of voting in a democracy.

“I smoke weed, and I vote.” The crowd gave him a standing ovation.

For some, having a name on the cover of a book, selling out bookstores and meeting publishing deadlines is what defines their lives. For Michelle Tea, this distant thought became an unexpected reality.

“I didn’t even expect to get published,” Tea said. “I was writing to read aloud; I was writing to perform.

I didn’t even understand how people got published into books, so it didn’t seem like a reasonable goal for me to have, so I didn’t.”

Tea will be a guest at the Free State Festival in Lawrence on Thursday, Sept.

20. She is the author of five memoirs and has gained global recognition for her memoir “Valencia,” adapted into a feature film after being awarded a Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction.

Her autobiographical works have been known for exploring queer love and life, race, sex work, drugs, class and more all while incorporating her own life.

Appearing in festivals and events has always been of interest to Tea after seeing various authors receive invitations. Although she never expected to be called upon for appearances, she’s found a sense of excitement surrounding it all.

“Once you had books out, you could get invited to go do cool things,” Tea said. “You could travel, and people would put you up in hotels and that sounded so exciting to me to get to actually travel and get to

see the country and to be coming to read my work in a place I’ve never read it before. It’s awesome.”

Not only does Tea use words for art, she uses her body, too. She has over 20 tattoos, each one telling a different story, she said. One in particular, a spade tattoo on her knee, includes a wild story containing Vegas, shady tattoo artists, a tour and horoscopes.

“People got really messed up tattoos,” Tea said. “Mine is probably one of the least messed up ones they did, but it’s certainly not a precision piece of art at all.”

Tea plans to read selections from her body of work at the Free State Festival as well as incorporate clips from her film, “Valencia,” to add to the film component of the festival.

The overarching goal of the festival is to bring the Lawrence community together and introduce people to new spaces they may not have encountered before, according to Emily Ryan. Ryan is the director of the Spooner Hall Commons and initially invited Tea to be a part of the Free State Festival.

“It gives us a chance to bring people where they aren’t,” Ryan said.

“It’ll be cool to have such a high-caliber writer and cool human at the festival.”

Tea will be alongside other artists, film producers and musicians to celebrate art and culture. Tea’s appearance is free and open to the public from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Lawrence Arts Center on Thursday.

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64-year-old professor kayaks Arkansas River ALEX ROTHERS @Alex_Rothers

Paddling down the Arkansas River this summer in his bright red kayak, Hannes Zacharias heard the sound of a large waterfall and saw the edge of the river in front of him — without any river beyond. He realized he was fast approaching an uncharted, low-water dam, and if swept over, would send him down a 10-foot drop.

As the water picked up speed before the edge of the overflow, Zacharias said he was able to pull himself and his kayak to safety just 10 feet before the drop, avoiding injury.

On May 26, 64-yearold Zacharias, a professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration, embarked on a roughly 2,000-mile solo kayak trip down the Arkansas river.

He started at the Tennessee Pass in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Zacharias kayaked the majority of the trip, but also rode a horse and Conestoga wagon through some dry parts of the river. His journey came to an end on Sept.

3 in Venice, Louisiana, where the river empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

Zacharias said this trip was a great way for him to transition from his work life as former Johnson County city manager, to the next phase of his life as a professor of practice at the University’s School of Public Affairs and Administration.

This isn’t the first time Zacharias has taken a journey like this; he completed a similar trip down part of the Arkansas river when he was 22 years old. In 1976, Zacharias delivered a bicentennial

message via kayak from the mayor of Dodge City, Zacharias’ hometown, to the mayor of New Orleans.

“I promised myself when I got that done that I wanted to do the entire length of the Arkansas River, not just part of it,” Zacharias said.

In his most recent trip, through the entire length of the sixth-longest river in the country, the beauty of the Arkansas river stuck out to Zacharias, he said.

“Memories stick in my brain of camping out on the sandbar and seeing the full blue moon — sounds kind of corny,­but glistening off the waves of the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers,” Zacharias said. “It really is gorgeous and people should know that.”

He also faced dangers along the way, such as coming face-to-face with an alligator. At first, he mistook the alligator for a log, but then he saw it had eyes and a snout — he realized he was trapped with a 10-foot alligator in an enclosed lock, a device used for raising and lowering boats.

However, he said the greatest dangers he faced were health issues, such as severe dehydration and heat exhaustion. Zacharias said traveling alone in 95-degree heat and 100 percent humidity is dangerous because there’s no one around to give a fair health assessment.

“I was very close to getting into serious trouble by virtue of dehydration and heat exhaustion that I didn’t finally recognize until several days into it,” Zacharias said. “It’s kind of like being poisoned by carbon monoxide. It creeps up on you.

You don’t know what it

Contributed photo Hannes Zacharias, a professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration, has been home since Sept. 3 after kayaking the length of the Arkansas River. is until it’s too late. I was fortunate enough to recognize it finally and pull myself off the river to go ahead and recover.”

Along with the need to fulfill a promise he made 42 years ago, Zacharias took on this adventure to be able to speak firsthand about the demise of a river that has been significant for thousands of years.

“During my lifetime I’ve seen the Arkansas River basically go from a river that was mostly flowing in Dodge City, Kansas, to the reverse, where most of the time there is no flow whatsoever and occasionally has some flow during heavy weather events,” Zacharias said.

Though he knows he isn’t the first to kayak the Arkansas River, he want-

Contributed photo After making a trip down the Arkansas River in 1976, this was Zacharias’ second time kayaking the river.

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ed to “discover” the river in a way that gave him firsthand knowledge. He also had a chance to hear the stories of people who have been living along the river for generations.

“I made this trip significantly different than in 1976 because I allowed some time to visit cities, and city managers, policy makers and ranchers, and average users of the river to get how they feel about the river and what its future is,” Zacharias said.

Zacharias said the people he met in cities along the river were all knowledgeable about their area and the river’s history, and they were also always willing to help him out, which “restored his faith in humanity.” He met with many people, including Darryl Grennell who is the mayor of Natchez, Mississippi, one of Zacharias’ Dodge City High School classmates, and a former Scout in Zacharias’ old Boy Scout troop.

Although many had interesting stories to tell, Zacharias said he was disappointed by one thing: “What I did find striking as compared to 1976, is that the most frequently asked questions when I ran into people was not about what kind of critters did you run into, about the bad weather, or how hard is the paddling, it was — ‘are you carrying a gun?’ which really shocked me,” Zacharias said.

Zacharias said despite

the dangers he encountered, he never felt as if he needed a gun. His BB gun and rock-throwing served him well.

“The fear factor that we have in this country

“After you’ve been paddling five to six hours in the heat, you want to be able to talk to somebody and kind of share your misery.”

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toward one another has, in my viewpoint, markedly increased compared to in 1976, which is really disappointing,” Zacharias said.

Just a week after Zacharias’ river adventure, he said he is still unpacking all he learned. He said his trip reinforced the idea that many people view rivers in this country as a nuisance instead of a help, which he said is unfortunate. He also learned that he’s no longer 22 in terms of physical limitations, but he said he doesn’t think that should stop people in his generation from going on adventures.

“We need to be reasonable and appropriate with our physical abilities,” Zacharias said. “But I wanted to be able to show people that it was still possible, to have adven-

tures in our life and do things post-retirement.”

Back home, Zacharias’ family was able to track his location on a GPS. Every day when he would get in the water, Zacharias’ wife, Marcia Higginson, would get a notification that allowed their family to see his location.

“As long as we heard from him on the schedule that we were expecting and we were able to track him as we needed to, I didn’t worry from dayto-day. I also trusted him to be careful,” Higginson said.

Zacharias said that he would take on this trip a third time, but not by himself. He said doing a solo trip like this is as “if you’re a golfer and you have a hole in one, but no witness.” It doesn’t feel very good, he said.

“After you’ve been paddling five to six hours in the heat, you want to be able to talk to somebody and kind of share your misery,” Zacharias said. “You do get lonely, and I missed my family and my wife very much.”

Higginson said she also missed having someone around to talk to.

“After 33 years of marriage, we’re used to just kind of chatting about stuff, but I knew he was doing something that he had been dreaming about doing ever since I met him,” Higginson said.

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FFA of the Day: My psych teacher kept using the words “tostada” and “burrito” in place of “vagina” and “penis,” and I’ve never wanted to die so much Texas wants to eliminate Hillary Clinton from their history books, but do they know I’d like to eliminate them from this country?

The way British people pronounce oregano should be illegal. ok here’s the thing: i was never asked to be born had my first ever lucid dream the other day bc in it michelle obama started talking to me, and i quickly realized there was no way i was worthy enough to ever have michelle obama even look at me Mood: life is pointless, and everything only gets worse “She really came alive after her husband died” KU should bring that nuclear reactor back on campus. KU engineers will be second to none!

My parents went to great lengths to have children, and I’ll never forgive them for that “Whose grandfather isn’t a war criminal?”

Making republicans angry is my favorite pastime. all these people getting engaged, and I’ve never been on a date, so I guess I’ll get married to Netflix I can’t speak any languages today.

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Letter to the Editor: Jeff Long To the KU student body: You were a big part of the victory in David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium last Saturday!

On behalf of Coach Beaty and your fellow students who compete on the Jayhawk football team, Thank You! Your energy and enthusiasm was felt by our coaches and student-athletes throughout the game. Your presence lifted our level of play and lifted our alumni and fans to energize the stadium!

As impressive as you were during the game, students were even more impressive by the manner in which you handled the end of the game. The health, safety and well-being of our students and all of our fans is our Number 1 priority. By expecting to win and remaining in the stands, you helped ensure the safety of all students and student-athletes alike.

As you saw last Saturday, your team feeds off your support! Please plan to join us in David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 29, when we face Oklahoma State on Homecoming Weekend. Let’s show our fans – and alumni – what a great student body looks like and sounds like.

Expect to win and remain safe.

Rock Chalk!

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KU has a parking crisis

File Photo/KANSAN A KU parking ticket sits under the windshield wiper of a car on campus.

SARAH GRINDSTAFF @KansanNews The average price of a bachelor’s degree at the University of Kansas, including living expenses, is over $100,000.

Not included in this hefty cost? Convenient parking for residential students, as well as the basic health and safety that’s connected to having sufficient parking.

Whether it’s early Monday morning or late Saturday night, dozens of cars can be spotted making rounds at the Templin Hall parking lot, hoping to find an almost unattainable parking space within a reasonable distance of their dorm room. While the overflow spots at the Daisy Hill parking lot may have room, these spaces can be up to half a mile away from many of the students’ dorm rooms. Some students have to park their cars at the Lied Center when residential

parking lots become full.

Gavin Glaza, a freshman from Thornton, Colorado, knows this struggle all too well. Glaza said he received $50 in parking fines since his start at the University. He recalled receiving one such fine while parked at the Lied Center after discovering all other residential parking lots were full.

The University has failed to provide sufficient parking for students on campus, especially those residing in the Templin and Lewis Residence Halls. But there is a straightforward solution. The University should consider building a parking garage in the lot and empty plot next to Templin and Lewis on Daisy Hill.

In the 2017-2018 fiscal year, the University’s Parking and Transit operating budget reached over $5 million.

With a new budget model in the works for the coming decade, I am hoping for the

inclusion of a parking garage project. For the current academic year, incoming students paid nearly $500 in student fees — up by $25 from last year. Why aren’t these fees being partially allocated to one of the most basic student needs — personal transportation?

President of Templin and Lewis Halls Max Schreiber, a freshman from St. Joseph, Missouri, said residents have far too few parking options.

“There [are] approximately 70 parking spots in the parking lot for over 500 students who live in Templin and Lewis,” Schreiber said.

“The math simply doesn’t add up.”

The parking crisis isn’t just a severe inconvenience.

The limited parking space in the Templin and Self residential lots also impact students’ safety and health.

When parking availability is low, students are forced to park nearly half a mile away

from their dorm room. Student safety is easily compromised during these late night walks home — a long and untimely walk can prove dangerous for students making the lonely trek back to their dorm.

In addition to safety, inconvenient parking also indirectly impacts student health, forcing them to make these long treks in the unscrupulous heat that has been bearing down on the Lawrence campus. This issue will flip to the other extreme in the coming winter months. The safety and wellness of students on campus, as well as fair utilization of heaping college costs, should be the University’s top priority.

Fixr, a website that estimates construction costs, predicted that a parking garage on campus would cost around $8.5 million to build.

But that would add an enormous 520 parking spots, according to numbers developed by the University of Tennessee’s Institute of Agriculture, for students who live in residence halls, and a project like this could even draw prospective students to the University.

The fair appropriation of student funds for increased campus wellness is worth the price. The real question is: is it worth it to the University of Kansas?

Sarah Grindstaff is a freshman from Columbia, Illinois, studying political science.

Trump’s isolationist mindset is costing KU HAELI MAAS @haelimaas A recent story broken by The University Daily Kansan revealed that the University of Kansas was relying on a vast increase in international student enrollment to pay for the Central District constructions that were completed this year.

The new Burge Union and Integrated Science building — two of the major projects of the construction — are beautiful and stateof-the-art, but the University is now riddled with budget cuts due to the University’s gross overestimate of the number of incoming international students.

The University reportedly planned to pay for the project by doubling the 2014 international student enrollment count for the 2018-19 school year, but instead, international student enrollment has dropped about 4 percent, according to the Office of Institutional Research and Planning.

At first, this drop does not seem all that significant, but it matters — the University now has to make up for the revenue international students would have generated by cutting academic programs within the college.

The Kansan’s report cites the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration pol-

icies as a possible cause in the decline of international students at the University.

Donald Trump has long been vocal about his viewpoints on immigrants — both legal and undocumented — and his actions as president have shown that he plans to “Make America Great Again” by isolating the country.

Trump’s ideas are deeply rooted in a nationalist, protectionist ideology — and his fear of globalization and a need for western dominance are only hurting Americans, immigrants and anyone who desires to help our country.

His trade war with China, comments at recent rallies in Tampa, Florida, and Great Falls, Montana, and famous “America First” slogan only touch the surface of his deeper thoughts about the role America is to play in the world.

Trump has set out to make the United States a “dominant” country on the global stage. His wish is to isolate the nation in order to preserve the sense of superiority that Trump feels makes America unique.

This idea is not novel — Kansans see it in gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach.

It has undertones that are deeply rooted in the notion that America will never be safe unless it is on top and isolated from other nations.

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Chance Parker/KANSAN As part of the new Central District, Stouffer Place Apartments was one of the University’s latest large-scale investments.

But Trump’s anti-immigration stance is actually hurting the U.S. and everyone in it.

The University’s most recent budget crisis is just one example of this — a school that relied on international enrollment now has to make cuts to academics in order to compensate for actions caused by the Trump administration. International students look to America and no longer see a beacon of opportunity, but a country pursuing only its self-interest, for the sake of maintaining power and dominating other countries.

Colleges that were once teeming with international

students — students who helped them survive financially — are now considering cuts to education in order to cushion the blow of the Trump administration’s policies.

This attitude will not get the United States far. The world is becoming more and more globalized, and isolating the U.S. will only hurt its economy, its military and its diplomatic relationships with other countries.

The U.S. is teeming with capable and strong people — immigrants and American-born — that want to make the world, not just the country, a better place.

It is time that Americans

contact us Shaun Goodwin Editor-in-chief sgoodwin@kansan.com

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understand their role within their own borders as well as their global reach to other countries.

This is not to say that the U.S. is responsible for fixing every problem another country has, but that by understanding the power and influence that we hold over the global economy and international stability, we can make the world a more inclusive place.

Haeli Maas is a junior from Lindsborg studying strategic communications.

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Members of the Kansan Editorial Board are Shaun Goodwin, Conner Mitchell, Rebekah Lodos and Baylee Parsons.

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Bender to start despite strong Kendrick showing MADDY TANNAHILL @maddytannahill

Heading into the second half with a substantial 31-14 lead over Rutgers on Saturday, Kansas coach David Beaty started the third quarter without routine starting senior quarterback Peyton Bender, instead opting for sophomore transfer Miles Kendrick for the initial drive of the second half.

While Beaty elected to alternate the duo throughout the first half, much like he had in the Jayhawks’ first two games of the season, Kendrick was used for the entirety of the second half, ultimately playing more than Bender that day.

For his first major contribution of the season, Kendrick completed sixof-11 passes, throwing for a total of 66 yards against the Scarlet Knights, including one eight-yard passing touchdown late in the first quarter.

A multifaceted quarterback, Kendrick additionally covered 28 yards on the ground on six carries, one of which was an

eight-yard touchdown run to extend the Kansas lead to 38-14 in the third quarter.

At his weekly media availability on Tuesday, Beaty expressed confidence in Kendrick’s development since beginning at Kansas after having transferred from College of San Mateo.

“Miles has done a really nice job of developing as he’s come in,” Beaty said. “There was some things early on heading out of fall camp that he still just needed some game time to get better at before he was able to play a lot in a game — and he’s really continuing to develop. You can see him starting to get a lot more comfortable there.”

However, despite Kendrick’s integral performance and Beaty’s apparent faith in his progress, Beaty announced that Bender will still receive the start against Baylor come Saturday.

“Peyton will get the start again this week," Beaty said. "He is a guy that brings a certain skill set to the table that helps us in his role. The plan isn’t gonna change for us.

Chance Parker/KANSAN Senior quarterback Peyton Bender throws the ball during Saturday's game against Rutgers. The Jayhawks defeated the Scarlet Knights 55-14 on Sept. 15.

We’ve got an idea of how we’re gonna approach it.

We’ll start Peyton, might be for one play might be for fifty plays. We’ll see how it goes.”

Performing at a 59.7 completion percentage through the first three games, Bender completed 7-of-11 pass attempts against Rutgers for 68

KU volleyball shows progress in win over Drake

Sarah Wright/KANSAN Outside hitter Jada Burse completes a final defensive set against Drake University on Tuesday evening. The Jayhawks defeated the Bulldogs 3-1.

JORDAN WOLF @JWolfAP Kansas ended its non-conference schedule with relative ease Tuesday night, as it was able to take care of Drake in four sets (25-15, 25-22, 22-25, 2520).

With the win, the Jayhawks enter Big 12 play at 7-4. Looking at where they sit now compared to at the beginning of the season, it’s clear there’s been some significant development.

“We get to 7-4, and it’d be real easy to (have) a couple what-ifs,” Kansas coach Ray Bechard said. “So now we move on to the fun part.”

The biggest example on Tuesday came through the offense. Kansas’ attack has had to adjust since the beginning of the year, both as it searched to find its rhythm early, as well as adjusting to the loss of junior hitter Patricia Montero earlier this month.

It seems as though they’re starting to find it, though, as the Jayhawks swung for a strong .320 hitting percentage against Drake, which is tied for their second-highest clip

of the year.

When was the first? Just five days ago against UNC Greensboro.

Another big difference was on prime display against Drake, as junior outside hitter Jada Burse racked up a season-high 18 kills on an extremely efficient .444 hitting percentage. The preseason All-Big 12 First-Team selection didn’t play much against Arkansas, or the beginning of the season as a whole, so having her back has made quite the impact.

It wasn’t just Burse, though. Junior middle blocker Zoe Hill finished with 11 kills on a crisp .550 percentage, and junior hitter Ashley Smith turned in 10 of her own.

When the attack is as effective and as balanced as that, good things will come, according to Bechard.

“If we can get three kids bringing it every night, that’s hard to defend,” he said.

Not all has improved, though. Kansas still struggles at times to close out sets, particularly when both teams are in the 20s.

This was the case in the

third set, the lone frame Drake would win.

Aside from the Bulldogs leading 5-4 early, the Jayhawks controlled the entire set. Slowly, though, Drake worked its way back in, soon tying it at 21-21 before going on a 4-1 run to steal the set and delay its defeat.

Back against Arkansas, Kansas dropped the second set after leading 24-21, and the fourth after leading 24-23. The problem didn’t stop there, either, as multiple matches ended with similar storylines.

While the Jayhawks held it together after the fact Tuesday, that can’t be expected to always be the case moving forward, especially within the competitive Big 12 conference.

“I think the message tonight would be once we have a team kind of on the ropes, in the league we play in, we better not let teams hang around,” Bechard said. “We better apply a little bit more pressure.”

Kansas will take on TCU at home to open up conference play on Saturday, with match time set for 1 p.m.

yards, two more yards than Kendrick.

However, Bender added no rushing yardage to the stat sheet.

As Bender will open the game yet again, meaning the two-quarterback system remains intact, Beaty stayed adamant that the offensive game plan for the Jayhawks will

remain unaltered as they head into Big 12 play.

“Our plan was to play Miles in every game for sure, so I wanted to make sure I was forthcoming in that,” Beaty said. “But the thing for us is that it’s very specifically based on our opponent; what gives us a schematic advantage in terms of what they do,

and then how and which way do one of those guys fit into the game plan.”

Bender and the Jayhawks will head to Waco, Texas, this Saturday as they take on the Baylor Bears, in search of redemption following last year’s 38-9 loss at Memorial Stadium. Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m.

Defense remains the focus for football heading into Big 12 play FULTON CASTER @FCaster04 For the second week in a row, coach David Beaty discussed how his defense has shown a lot of improvement through the first few games of the season.

Beaty said he is pleased with the development of his squad from week to week, particularly with how the defense has been so apt to forcing opposing offenses into committing turnovers.

Kansas currently leads the nation in turnover margin at plus-12 and leads the nation in total takeaways with 13.

Additionally, Kansas has recovered six fumbles, tied with Florida and Navy for second in the country, as well as seven interceptions, which is good for third in the nation.

According to Beaty, his team’s ability to get off the field when it matters has been one of the squad's biggest strengths.

“Still impressed with our defense" Beaty said.

"Creating turnovers, still impressed with their mentality.

Impressed with those guys getting off the field in the first drive of each half. I think we had five three and outs in their 15 drives, so a third of their drives were three and outs, which is something that you shoot for.”

Defensively, Kansas is holding opponents to 15.67 points per game, allowing 294.3 total yards per game. Kansas also currently ranks in the top 25 in scoring defense and top 15 in total defense.

The Jayhawks are 14th in pass defense.

Going up against Baylor this week, Beaty recognizes the talent that the Bears' offense possesses, particularly at the wide receiver position.

“When you talk about the guys that they have — they have that Jalen Hurd kid who transferred from Tennessee, he was a

running back... but he’s reshaped his body. I think he’s lost 20-25 pounds," Beaty said. "Certainly, looks like a wide receiver now. I really like the (Denzel) Mims kid. I think Mims might be the best receiver in the league.”

Beaty said he respects what the Baylor offense brings to the game, so he knows that his defense will need to be prepared to continue making plays and forcing turnovers.

“I think our hands are going to be full whether it’s Corione (Harris), or anybody," Beaty said.

"We’re going to have to do a good job of managing these guys. They have an ability to make a big play at any time, and we are going to have to prepare well this week because I’m not sure we’ve seen a group of guys like this put together.”

Kansas kicks off Big 12 play against Baylor in Waco, Texas, at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.

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KANSAS (2-1, 0-0 BIG 12)

Jack Johnson: Kansas 21, Baylor 20 Maddy Tannahill: Kansas 30, Baylor 27

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Pooka Williams Jr.

Denzel Mims

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junior, wide reciever

After being ineligible for week one against Nicholls State, freshman running back Pooka Williams Jr. has been nothing short of spectacular in the first two games of his college career. Following his performance last Saturday versus Rutgers, rushing for 158 yards and a touchdown on 19 carries, Williams is currently rated the best running back in the entire country after the first three games of the season, according to Pro Football Focus.

Despite not playing in last week’s match-up against Duke, first team preseason All-Big 12 junior wide receiver Denzel Mims totals 213 receiving yards after playing in only two games. Having opened his season with three catches for 80 yards, in Sims’ most recent outing against University of Texas, San Antonio he corralled eight receptions for 133 yards and a touchdown, playing a vital role in the Bears’ 37-20 victory.

Mike Lee

Charlie Brewer

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sophomore, quarterback

Becoming the third Jayhawk to return an interception for a touchdown this past Saturday, junior safety Mike Lee made his presence known after tallying only seven total tackles in first two games this season. Although he was only credited with three tackles, Lee received a 93.3 on the Pro Football Focus Big 12 defensive players of the week chart, which was not only the best at his position, but was the highest rating of any of the positions for week two.

In his most recent performance, sophomore Charlie Brewer completed 14-of-26 passes, throwing for 175 yards against the Blue Devils, as well as rushing for two touchdowns.

Having thrown for 328 yards against UTSA, Brewer earned Pro Football Focus National Team of the Week honors.

Brewer’s intelligence and accuracy, performing at a 60 percent completion rate, will separate him from the struggling quarterbacks Kansas defense has faced this season.

Corione Harris

JaMycal Hasty

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freshman, cornerback

junior, running back

Standing at 6-foot-1, 180-pounds, freshman Corione Harris is one of the bigger cornerbacks on the Kansas roster, his strength and speed proving to be a difficult match. It's still early, however Harris has stepped up after being put in such a major role. With Baylor’s explosive receiving core awaiting the Jayhawks, it will surely be the toughest assignment Harris and the cornerbacks have faced so far this season.

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So far this year, junior JaMycal Hasty has covered 122 yards off of 24 attempts, averaging 5.1 yards per carry.

Against the Blue Devils, Hasty showcased his offensive versatility as he tallied his first punt return touchdown of his career. Though only 5-foot-9, 211-pounds, Hasty’s quickness and stealth make him a dangerous piece of the Baylor run game that Kansas will look to limit come Saturday.

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The Jayhawks’ ranking in the nation in turnover margin (plus-12)

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Double-doubles tallied by freshman setter Camryn Ennis to lead the team

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