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Campus pays respect to Nick Herren with vigil HAILEY DIXON @_hailey_dixon

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icholas “Nick” Herren will be remembered for his beaming, crooked smile and spirited, kind character.

Family, friends, students and members of the University community came together to honor and pay their respects to Herren at the University’s Campanile Tower on Thursday with a candlelight vigil.

Herren, of Alma, Kan., passed away on Sunday, Nov. 27, in a car accident.

Despite the cold temperatures, over 300 individuals hugged one another, clutched candles, and shed tears while remembering Herren at the vigil.

“He was as genuine a man as I have ever met,” Dalton Prins, a very close friend and one of Herren’s roommates, said.

Herren was a part of the Naval ROTC, as well

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as a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.

His fellow ROTC students and fraternity brothers said that he was inspirational, and always went out of his way to help and lift up those around him.

“Nick was always kind of an older brother figure to me here at KU,” said Charlie Richmond, a

fellow Midshipman and close friend of Herren, who also coordinated the vigil.

Richmond said that Herren had a strong dedication to not only serve those around him, but also his country.

“He was as true as a U.S. Marine as I ever met,” Richmond said.

The vigil included

several of Herren’s family and friends speaking about his legacy and life, such as Herren’s father, Richmond, Prins, and others.

“He truly aspired to just serve people,” Prins said.

Prins said that Herren was the person everyone went to if they needed help or advice.

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I don’t want people to mourn. I want people to remember Nick Herren, to celebrate Nick Herren, and to live life like Nick Herren.”

Dalton Prins Close friend

“He was really great,” Prins said, “Words can only say so much about the character of Nick.”

Prins said Herren adored those around him.

“He loved his family,” Prins said. “He was so committed to his family.”

The Air Force ROTC and Pi Kappa Alpha are raising money to put into a scholarship fund to honor Herren. As of Dec. 4, $4,230 has been raised on a GoFundMe account.

As the memorial came to an end, final thoughts were shared by friends and family, followed by singing and swaying to the University Alma Mater, and a short verse to “Amazing Grace.”

“I don’t want people to mourn,” Prins said.

“I want people to remember Nick Herren, to celebrate Nick Herren, and to live life like Nick Herren.”

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Student Senate placed under review Group fights rising tuition LARA KORTE @tlara_korte

In the latest push for minority representation at the University, the University Senate has formed a committee to take a critical look at how the structure of Student Senate includes — and excludes — multicultural students.

Faculty Senator Amalia Monroe-Gulick presented a proposal to the University Senate on Thursday afternoon to form an ad hoc committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within University governance. After almost an hour of debate, the proposal passed.

The committee will consist of nine members and will be responsible for implementing the recommendation from this year’s DEI report, which suggested “that the University place the Student Senate under immediate review and restructure the organization of student governance at KU.” According to the proposal, the committee shall “consider, draft, and/or propose amendments to the relevant governance documents.”

Essentially, this means that the members will

make recommendations on how to change codes and regulations to better include multicultural students. The committee will propose their amendments to the University Senate on April 15, 2017.

This is the latest of several efforts to create a more equal student governance for multicultural students. A Nov. 3 proposal by members of the Multicultural Student Government organization asked the University Senate to create a committee to determine the feasibility of MSG, but it was withdrawn from consideration on Thursday afternoon. Another proposal was presented to the Senate Executive Committee on Nov. 15 asking for 13 MSG seats on the University Senate, the same number currently held by Student Senate. The proposal was tabled.

The rationale for the new ad hoc committee, according to the proposal, was that while a Multicultural Student Government could benefit students, leaders should take a look at how the Student Senate system functions as a whole.

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sized in the DEI report and discussed during the meeting is the election system. Student Senate currently runs on a coalition system, which allows a president and a vice president to run together with a roster of senator candidates. Any number of coalitions can form each year, and students vote for one coalition every spring.

Pam Fine, a Faculty Senate representative and journalism professor, said looking into another election method could benefit minority students.

“The implication of the diversity committee’s report is that the coalition system is discriminatory,” she said. “It is incumbent upon us to say ‘OK, let’s have someone go deep in on it and see what

the ramifications are of each system and make a proposal.’”

Several student senators voiced complaints that a committee to review their election process and other structures is an overstep of power by the University Senate.

“I worry about this for a number of reasons,” said Chance Maginness, College of Liberal Arts and Science senator.

“Most important of these is that I worry about how it is going to affect the autonomy of our governance structure ... It will say to Student Senate that ‘We are going to violate your autonomy and tell you what you have to do with your rules,’ and I think that is totally unacceptable.”

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The rising cost of higher education is an issue that students and their families are quite familiar with. Two students at the University have decided to take action against the issue by organizing “KU Against Rising Tuition” through Amnesty International.

Tommy Finch, sophomore and co-founder of KUART, said the idea was born this past summer when he decided to research just how much tuition costs have risen at the University.

“I was bored one night and decided to look up the 2002 tuition cost, and compared it to this year,” he said “I saw how large of an increase there was.

I was pretty upset, so I started talking about it with people.”

According to a University press release from 2002, the cost of in-state tuition per semester was $1,741.75, while out-of-state was $5,343.25.

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ly, the standard tuition at the University is $4,790 for in-state and $12,481 for out-ofstate, according to the University’s website.

Finch said KUART aims to establish a single-issue lobbying group through a presence at universities in Kansas.

“Our plan is to tackle this issue directly, which means we need to get more funding to the school. We want to found a group, sort of like the NRA, that can be in the capital and lobby for the interest of the students,” he said.

“We want to unite all the Regents universities behind this banner. We’re fighting for lower tuitions prices at all of these schools, not just KU.” Co-founder Lev Comolli, a Lawrence native, approached the University’s Amnesty International chapter at the beginning of this semester to pitch KUART.

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Focus on out-of-state students pays off for KU CHANDLER BOESE @Chandler_Boese

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n the past nine years, the out-of-state population at the University has grown by more than eight percentage points, a result that the University attributes to a focused out-of-state recruiting strategy.

In 2008, exactly 30 percent of Jayhawks were classified as non-residents of the state of Kansas. Today, out-of-state populations make up 38.8 percent of the student body — the highest ratio since the University began tracking the statistic in 1965, according to the Office of Institutional Research and Planning.

This growth has not been entirely organic, according to University officials. News and Media Relations Director Erinn Barcomb-Peterson attributed the growth to focused strategies by Marketing Communications and the Office of Admissions.

“The national recruitment campaign is making out-of-state students familiar with what sets KU apart from their other options,” she said via email.

This recruitment campaign is mostly run through the Office of Admissions, with help from KU Marketing Communications. That department works with admissions staff on creating marketing strategies that focus on out-of-state students’ specific concerns, said Lauren Erickson, interim director of the department.

“In regards to outof-state students overall, some of the changes we’ve made over the past are really thinking about

... what those students are looking for and what those students want,” she said. “What about KU, what about being a Jayhawk resonates with a student in Texas that might be different from a message that would really resonate with a student in the state of Kansas, who’s maybe grown up with more awareness of the University?”

These marketing materials, which include emails, social media, flyers, mailers and more, are tailored to what outof-state students are most concerned about, Erickson said, such as scholarships or academic programs. Marketing can also target their materials toward specific geographical areas.

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I think we often hear how surprised [outof-state students] are that everyone here is so friendly.”

Lauren Erickson Interim director of marketing communications

“I think students who aren’t from the Midwest, when they interact with us or when they come visit campus and interact with the community, I think we often hear how surprised they are that everyone here is so friendly,” she said. “That can be kind of difficult to convey on a postcard, but that’s really important to us.”

The University’s campus was definitely a big factor for Oklahoma City native Gabrielle Jacobi.

Though she was always familiar with the Uni-

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versity, she didn’t know much about the campus or Lawrence until she and her mom stopped by on their way home from Chicago.

“I loved Lawrence because I wanted just a typical college town, and sports are important to me, so I wanted the school to have a team I could root for,” Jacobi, now a junior, said. “The campus was beautiful.”

The other aspect to the recruitment campaigns is the recruiters themselves. The Office of Admissions employs recruiters who live in cities across the country, such as Minneapolis, St. Louis and Chicago.

“These cities are based on historical market share in those areas — meaning how many students apply and enroll from those areas as well as potential growth in those areas,” said Admission Director Lisa Kress, in an email.

Both Kress and Barcomb-Peterson said the biggest focus of the increased recruitment strategy is to represent the University as a high-

ly-ranked research university and increase its brand throughout the country.

“KU is nationally recognized University, which enables us to extend reach due to tremendous brand equity and the fact that the KU alumni base is not simply regional, but disbursed across metropolitan areas across the country and the world,” Kress said.

Barcomb-Peterson said another factor that attracts out-of-state students to the University is its tuition.

According to OIRP, the University has the fifth-lowest nonresident tuition and fees among all the public institutions in the Association of American Universities.

However, another comparison of other Midwest public universities ranks the University No. 7 out of 11 schools.

For Jacobi, who always wanted to go out of state for college, tuition wasn’t such a big factor when she talked to University recruiters, but scholarships definitely

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Student Body President Stephonn Alcorn pointed out that his coalition has already been working this semester to make Student Senate more inviting and open to multicultural students.

“Since April, our number one priority … has been shaping and modeling Student Senate so that it is open to all students,” Alcorn said. “Pretty much every single day is trying to figure out how can we make things better.”

Alcorn expressed that he was not happy that

Student Senate had not been contacted prior to the proposal.

“It is a little bit concerning that we’ve been doing all this work, yet

there was no consultation with us before this was all created,” he said. “We’ve been doing this work and inviting others to do it with us and now here comes, from what seems like an outside entity, saying ‘We’re going to take a look and see how it should be for you.’”

However, one student senator, Sophie Wang, spoke in favor of a review committee.

“I think it’s a great idea to just have this to look at [Student Senate]. I would caution against expecting it to bring some sort of extreme, or the fear

of precedence to strike down something that would really help,” Wang said. “I don’t see an actual issue or valid reason to prevent this from achieving what [Student Senate] would otherwise not have the time to do.”

The nine committee members who will present in April will be composed of student, faculty and staff appointments from the Multicultural Student Government, Student Senate Executive Committee, Staff Senate Executive Committee and the Faculty Executive Committee.

“A lot of us here are from financially stable backgrounds, and we’re doing this to help others in our community who don’t come from that stable background. We want to see everybody in our community having a chance to succeed,” he said. “There were plenty of people I went to high school with that had better grades than me, and just couldn’t afford to go to school here. I think everyone should have a chance to attend an a place like KU, no matter their financial

situation.”

Finch said efforts to reach out to other Regents schools are in the early stages, but said the campaign is beginning to gain traction at KU. “I think our success here at KU will help us expand to other schools,” he said. “We ultimately want to have an ‘ART’ movement at every school we can.

That way we can get all of these schools and communities together and make this a big issue in the Capitol.”

Comolli said students interested in getting involved should visit the campaign’s Facebook page and reach out.

“Getting on the Facebook page, sharing some of the content and getting the message will really be the key,” he said. “Anyone who wants to get involved can. We’ll take any help we can get, and find tasks for people, no matter how much time they have to offer.”

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Since April, our number one priority … has been shaping and modeling Student Senate so that it is open to all students.”

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Out-of-state recruiting has been such a big focus for the University because of changes in Kansas high school graduation, Kress said.

“Over the past several years, demographic shifts and changes have impacted the number of high school graduates available in Kansas,” she said in an email. “These demographic shifts impact the number of academically qualified to attend KU with changes in state admission requirements in 2015 and changes in admission requirements that KU implemented in 2016.”

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“When I went to Amnesty KU, they were currently looking for a campaign coordinator. I said ‘I have a campaign idea in mind already,’ and we moved forward with it,” Comolli said.

Comolli, a sophomore majoring in anthropology, said the effects rising tuition have on various communities in Lawrence and throughout Kansas inspired him to move forward with the campaign.

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A look at KU’s safety plans after the Ohio State attack CHANDLER BOESE @Chandler_Boese

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he Columbus campus of Ohio State University was shaken last Monday when a student, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, attacked a group of people with his car, then a butcher knife — eventually injuring 11 people. Artan himself was shot and killed by a campus police officer.

Despite the campus police’s quick action — it took less than ten minutes for Officer Alan Hurojko to stop Artan, according to the student newspaper, The Lantern — some students have raised concerns about the school’s alerts system and emergency-preparedness training.

Here at the University, as the Kansan has previously reported, there has been a recent push to expand active-shooter training, especially for faculty and staff. After a 2014 incident involving a masked man en-

tering classrooms, students here also raised questions about the timing of campus alerts.

All of these things — alerts, training and police response — fall under the University’s emergency-preparedness plans and systems. Not all of them are publicly available, but the Kansan breaks down the key parts of what is known about the University’s emergency preparedness.

KU Alerts The emergency notification system can be activated by the Office of Public Safety if there is an immediate threat to life or immediate action is required, according to the Emergency Management Plan and the alerts website.

The system includes text messaging, email, the public address system, web resources and more. Students who provide their phone number through Enroll and Pay are automatically

signed up for text messages, and faculty can opt in. Any University email should get alerts as well.

Response Plan The University’s 144page Emergency Management Plan lays out the chain of command in cases of emergency, including what criteria a situation must meet in order to be referred to the next level. This goes all the way from an incident commander to the head of the University’s Emergency Operations Center.

In general, the amount of action that an emergency necessitates is based on how much of the University the situation threatens and what is being threatened (life, property, etc.).

The plan includes evacuation plans for all of the buildings with a significant amount of people in them regularly, though those plans are not shown in the public version of the policy.

Assoctiated Press Crime scene investigators collect evidence from the pavement as police respond to an attack on campus at Ohio State University on Nov. 28.

Training Both the alerts website and the plan offer tips for what the general public should do in case of emergencies like fires, tornadoes, bomb threats, active shooters and more.

Active shooter training has been a specific concern of the Faculty Senate, and campus administration is working on expanding

those resources.

Provost Neeli Bendapudi and the Public Safety Office say they are working on developing trainings that will be available to any member of the University, starting with faculty and staff. In mid-November, PSO hosted a training session at their office for any staff member who wished to learn.

For a previous story, the

University’s News and Media Relations Director, Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, said that any group on campus has the ability to request general emergency training from the Public Safety Office.

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Spencer Museum hosts exhibit to commemorate World AIDS Day HAILEY DIXON @_hailey_dixon

The Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity, in collaboration with the Spencer Museum of Art, is hosting an art exhibit to commemorate World AIDS Day, which was on Dec. 1.

“The exhibit, which has been running for about a week now, was put together with Spencer Museum to highlight the role that art played in the HIV/AIDS

crisis starting in the ‘80s, and how that art was used as a form of activism within the crisis,” Chloe Secor, graduate assistant with the Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity, said.

The exhibit is called “Arts, AIDS, & Activism.”

The display is in the museum’s Brosseau Center for Learning until Dec. 11. The display features many different artists’ work.

Sydney Gaylord, multicultural coordinator of the

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Spencer Museum, and Secor, who both helped organize the event, selected the pieces that would be best in the gallery.

“We have several really amazing pieces done

by LGBTQ artists, either relating to AIDS, or by artists with HIV/AIDS,” Secor said.

Much of the artwork was created as a way to release feelings associated with the negative stigma that individuals had towards people

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We have several... pieces done by LGBTQ artists, either relating to AIDS, or by artists with HIV/AIDS.” Chloe Secor Graduate assistant Center for Sexuality & Gender Diversity

“The experiences of individuals when AIDS first started emerging was really a devastation of a community,” Gaylord said. “What’s even more sad is that they were almost completely ignored by the government, and they were asking for help. A lot of people actually used art to help others process and understand and confront HIV and AIDS during this time.”

A reception for the exhibit will be held at the mu-

seum on Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. The reception is open to the public, and light refreshments will be served, according to the Facebook event page.

“We are really just providing a space for people to remember those that we have lost so far, and to reflect on how far we’ve come as a society,” Gaylord said.

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Associated Press The motorcade carrying the ashes of the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro makes its final journey towards the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago, Cuba.

Sanchez: Castro leaves contradictory legacy

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he death of Fidel Castro on Nov. 25 was met with mixed emotional responses. The Los Angeles Times called him a “charismatic icon of leftist revolution” whose “bellicose and swashbuckling” actions in the fight against capitalism left him a symbol of anti-American diplomacy, while other news outlets like the Washington Post labelled him, “a spiritual beacon for the world’s political far left.”

In Cuba, thousands of mourning people met in Havana’s Revolution Square to pay respects to their leader of

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ing to Cuba.

Castro’s Cuba was not a happy socialist paradise in which the problems of capitalism or American politics were absent, but, predictably, his death has become part of an agenda to critique these factors. As Che Guevara t-shirts and paraphernalia persist, so does the myth of the anti-capitalist hero.

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Castro’s Cuba was not a happy socialist paradise in which the problems of capitalism or American politics were absent.”

It is true that Castro enacted valuable change.

Fighting the rising U.S. superpower in the decades of overbearing American foreign policy and meddling, and emerging after the cor-

rupt and business-fueled Batista Regime, Castro was a powerful figure who oversaw various social progresses and improvements to sectors like healthcare and education.

Under his reign, Cuban illiteracy rates dropped from nearly 25 percent to being “illiteracy free,” as proclaimed

by UNESCO in 1961. Cuba is in the top 25 countries for highest life expectancy and its medical system and medical research is leading in global preventative care.

Yet any improvements under Castro’s reign come with a dark legacy of repression and economic collapse.

As noted by the Americas director at Human Rights Watch, Castro’s regime repressed “virtually all civil and political rights” by jailing political dissenters and activists as well as restricting NGO research on human rights.

In 2012, the median income per month was a measly $25, a result of little access to disposable income and

encroaching taxation policies promulgated by Castro’s economic programs across decades of resistance to U.S. trade.

Castro’s Cuba was nothing like a Stalinist regime, but it did fail to uphold key progressive values for a true working socialist state. Using his death to promote political critique of capitalist inadequacies distracts from the true discussion of his contradictory reign. El Comandante should be remembered as he was, a man who decried imperialism and capitalist hegemony while extending his power over a complicated nation. Beloved or hated, his legacy will certainly be lasting.

Sandra Sanchez is a junior studying history, Chinese and global & international studies.

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nearly half a century. World leaders from Vladimir Putin and François Hollande to Enrique Peña Nieto and Xi Jinping offered condolences. The latter lauded Castro’s “immortal contributions to the development of socialism around the world.”

However, there were those who responded with joy and relief. CNN reported that in Miami’s Little Havana, loud festivities and celebrations complete with music and dancing served as a keen reminder of the lasting legacy of Cuba’s political turmoil. After all, it was just a few decades prior that nearly one million Cubans fled the island for political asylum from Castro’s communist revolution. These migrants — many who are barred from returning to their families and homes and who were labelled gusanos (worms) by Castro himself — were denounced as traitors to a revolution that brought steadily decreasing standards of liv-

“You’ve got it set to ‘M’ for mini, when it should be set to ‘W’ for wumbo.” Many of you may remember this hilarious episode of Spongebob Squarepants in which Patrick suggests Spongebob simply flip over the letter on Mermaid Man’s shrink-ray belt in an attempt to un-shrink Squidward and eventually the rest of Bikini Bottom. The

strategy does not work.

While this piece of advice may sound ridiculous, uninformed advice seems to be all too common. As a cross country and track runner, I have been on the receiving end of much of this advice.

People who have no experience with the sport have tried to tell me how I can improve. The advice ranges from overly-simplified “Just run faster,” to overly-specific “Maybe if you shaved your beard off, you would be running faster.”

Yet athletics is not the only area of life where this type of advice comes into play. From academics to work to mental health, there are certain people who should be providing advice and certain others who should not. The chal-

lenge for all of us is to realize when we should not provide advice. To determine whether you are in such a position, you should ask yourself the following: Do I have experience with the situation?

Has this person requested my advice?

Would I take this advice myself?

If the answer is no to any (or all) of these, you’re likely not in a position where you should provide advice.

In terms of my athletic performance, the only people whose advice I truly value are my coaches, my teammates and my parents, because all of them have either experienced what I am going through, or have been around me enough to know

what will help me succeed.

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The challenge for all of us is to realize when we should not provide advice.”

Just as we all would not want a doctor telling us how to fix our cars, or Gary Johnson to tell us about foreign policy (if this reference is lost on you, just Google “Gary Johnson Aleppo”), we also need to realize when we ourselves should not advise someone on a certain issue.

If we do not know much about mental health, we should not advise our friends who struggle with it on what

they should do. If we do not understand chemistry, we should not advise our friends on how to study for their chemistry exams.

At best, providing uninformed advice can be just an annoyance. At worst, it can cause problems such as divisions in friendships. So the next time you want to give someone advice, make sure that you are qualified to do so, and that your advice is not just some version of Patrick Star’s “wumbology.”

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basketball gameday Dec. 6 | 7 p.m. | Allen Fieldhouse CHRISTIAN S. HARDY

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AT A GLANCE This is essentially a scrimmage for Kansas, though the starters should see a somewhat normal run unless the Jayhawks can really pull away. Bill Self said this is might be the best UMKC team, at least on paper, that he’s faced since he’s been at Kansas, yet it still shouldn’t be able to hang with Kansas. It may be hard for Kansas to push the pace against a team that plays at a similar pace to the Jayhawks.

That said, Kansas should still be able to get into transition with ease against a team that it should be able to outplay than at every position.

PLAYER TO WATCH

UMKC

STARTING FIVE

STARTING FIVE

Frank Mason III, senior, guard

LaVell Boyd, senior, guard

Since the CBE Classic, Mason has been a lot more careful with the ball. He had nine turnovers in those two games, and only six in the three games since, including a season low of one on Saturday.

He hasn’t shot more than 13 times in a game since the opening game of the season, yet he’s scored 20 points four times since. That’s the mark of a smart, efficient guard and one who will continue to lead this team.

Kansas has had a little trouble containing their opponents’ big men this season. Unfortunately for the Roos, this matchup looks to play in Kansas’ strengths as UMKC’s go-to guy is a guard.

Boyd leads the team in points with 19.1 per game.

Shooting 42.9 percent from the field on the year, the senior looks a lot like Kansas’ Frank Mason III in the way he runs the UMKC offense.

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Like Stanford, the setup of this team suggests Kansas might have a little trouble defending against talented big men and a guard who can score. But UMKC just isn’t powerful enough anywhere on the court to match up well with Kansas. If there were an area in which UMKC could give Kansas a little trouble in, it would be scoring down low through Darnell Tillman.

PLAYER TO WATCH

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Landen Lucas senior center Lucas had a nice game against Stanford, probably his best full performance of the season to date after taking Tuesday’s game off.

That said, he admitted after the game that he still has a long way to go, as he only played 18 minutes and also got into some foul trouble against Reid Travis. But he had five boards and three blocks, and looked like reliable Lucas of old on both ends. At least for now, he will to continue to come off the bench, but in time it’s possible he returns to a starting role. Either way, his minutes should be similar to Azubuike’s in a game in which both stay out of foul trouble.

QUESTION MARK

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Can Kansas continue to rely on three-pointers like it has recently?

Of course Kansas isn’t going to hit three-pointers at 56.5 percent like it has in the last three games. But with a four-guard lineup — three of which are tremendously efficient three-point shooters — and Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk off the bench, it may be time to start wondering if the three-point shot could be here to stay for Kansas. With the plethora of options and tremendous passing on this team, it seems realistic that Kansas could continue to rely on the three-pointers.

BY THE NUMBERS

1.2 — Mason is 13th in the NCAA in offensive win shares, according to College Basketball Reference, with 1.2. The stat measures a player’s contribution in terms of wins, taking into account point, peripherals and possessions.

46 — Kansas is current-

ly on a 46-game win streak in Allen Fieldhouse, the nation’s longest running homecourt winning streak.

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— Kansas has shot 56.5 percent from behind the arc in the last three games. Before the run, Kansas was shooting only 30 percent from three.

Devonte’ Graham, junior, guard Graham is starting to find his groove. Last game, he hit five three-pointers in the first half, and he’s gone three games in a row going at least 50 percent shooting from beyond the arc. Obviously, the offense goes through Mason, and rightfully so, but Kansas can become much more difficult to guard when Graham is the primary ball-handler, especially when the guards are hitting their shots. He didn’t have a great second half on Saturday from the floor, but he still opened up shots for teammates on the perimeter, something he’ll continue to do, as his shot is one of the most dangerous on this team.

Isaiah Ross, freshman, guard Since guard Martez Harrison was suspended indefinitely due to breaking team conduct policies, Ross has stepped into the lineup for UMKC. Harrison was, and still is, the team’s second-leading scorer at the time of his suspension, so Ross has a tough task to undertake. Ross recorded 17 points and one rebound in UMKC’s 77-68 loss at South Dakota State on Saturday.

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Darnell Tillman senior center UMKC doesn’t have the power to seriously match Kansas anywhere on the floor, especially when the Jayhawks have the homecourt advantage. However, keep an eye on Tillman’s ability to draw fouls and score down low. That is something Kansas has had a little trouble with. In Kansas’ last game, Stanford forward Reid Travis scored a career-high 29 points and attempted 22 free throws, a record for Kansas opponents.

Broderick Robinson, junior, forward Lagerald Vick, sophomore, guard Vick isn’t shooting a lot, but he’s been incredibly efficient. He has shot 82 percent in the last three games on 18-of-22 shooting. Averaging 10.4 points and 4.5 rebounds a game, the sophomore from Memphis has carved out a valuable role on this team. By the end of the year, don’t be surprised to see him move back to the bench in favor of a bigger lineup if Carlton Bragg Jr. can impress Bill Self. But either as a starter or a sixth man, Vick has been a very nice surprise for Kansas.

Robinson is another player who has recently been thrown into the starting lineup. His start in the loss to South Dakota State was his third of the season. Robinson adds some size to the floor for the Roos. He currently averages 5.4 points and 2.7 rebounds.

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Kyle Steward, senior, forward Josh Jackson, freshman, guard It’s only a matter of time before Jackson completely takes over for a complete game. We saw it a bit against UAB, when he had a season-high 22 points, but even then, Jackson didn’t completely dominate. But for now, he’s scored double-digit points in seven-straight games and is averaging 5.4 boards to go with that. Jackson is struggling from the line, where he is shooting only 56.1 percent on 41 attempts. That might not change soon, as at the Stephen Curry camp in July, Jackson shot only 55.2 percent from the line on 58 attempts.

Steward is one of three players who has started every game for UMKC this season. He is the sidekick to Darnell Tillman in the powerful frontcourt and averages 7.9 points and 4.4 rebounds. Steward will be an important player to take the workload off Tillman down the stretch, especially because UMKC is not a very deep team.

QUESTION MARK

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Will UMKC move the ball well enough against Kansas?

UMKC claimed an encouraging result against a now-top ten Creighton team in the first game of the season with a 89-82 loss, so the team has proven its ability to play tougher teams. However, one good game from LaVell Boyd can make a world of difference. In nine games, Boyd has attempted 126 shots, which is more than twice as many as the second player on the team. He’s only shooting 42.9 percent on the year.

Clearly, the Roos need to move the ball better to score more efficiently.

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★★★★★

BY THE NUMBERS

14.3 — UMKC averages 14.3 turnovers per game.

Darnell Tillman, senior, center Udoka Azubuike, freshman, center Coach Bill Self has constantly referenced Azubuike getting a “pass” on this or that because he’s still figuring things out. But, even as he figures out his defensive shortcomings, the last two coaches who have visited Allen Fieldhouse have noted that their strategy was to seal off the paint and make Kansas hit shots. That has put a lot of focus on Azubuike down low. If teams continue to focus on Azubuike, he’ll soon learn to kick it out to an open guard, and once he can do that, Kansas will become that much harder to defend.

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Christian: Kansas 92, UMKC 62

Tillman is the other go-to player for UMKC. He is a towering big man who does everything down low. He recorded four points and nine rebounds during UMKC’s loss to South Dakota State. Tillman might give Kansas some trouble defensively.

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8 — UMKC has eight players who have started at least one of nine total games this season.

37.3 — UMKC allows an average of 37.3 rebounds per game.

Beat Writer Predictions Skylar: Kansas 91, UMKC 54

Brian: Kansas 90, UMKC 62

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Contributed Photo A scene from the 2015 production of “A Kansas Nutcracker,” performed by the Lawrence Arts Center. This year, “Nutcracker: A Kansas Ballet” will incorporate more of the original story.

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hough many people may know the story of the Nutcracker, the Lawrence Arts Center is putting a new twist on it.

Unlike the traditinal version of the Nutcracker, in which Clara and the Nutcracker journey through her house, “Nutcracker: A Kansas Ballet,” will intertwine Kansas history with the original Nutcracker.

The ballet, which debuts on Dec. 9, is different than what the center has been doing for the past decade. Originally, the performers there produced a show called “A Kansas Nutcracker” that was not a full ballet and focused more on the area’s history

than on the original Nutcracker story.

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Our Nutcracker has always embodied the element of freedom and being an advocate of standing up for what is right.”

Hanan Misko Dance school director

“This year the ‘Nutcracker: A Kansas Ballet’ has taken a major evolution since ‘A Kansas Nutcracker,’” said Hanan Misko, the center’s

dance school director. “One of the things that has happened is that this is a full ballet with no dialogue. We are exploring the concept of the Nutcracker and how it would interact with it happening in Lawrence in 1864.

In this year’s production you will see that what I’ve done is create parallels between E.T.A. Hoffman’s story and potentials.”

The center’s production has always been based around the time of the Civil War. “Our Nutcracker has always embodied the element of freedom and being an advocate of standing up for what is right,” Misko said.

The Lawrence Ballet Theatre, the center’s pre-professional ballet company, is

performing in the show along with guest performers.

“We use all of the dancers in the Lawrence Ballet Theatre in the Nutcracker,” Artistic Director Cynthia Crews said. “We have open auditions for the Nutcracker as well, for those younger roles and older roles.”

Changing the show from having dialogue to being a complete ballet has been a different sort of challenge for the dancers, Crews said.

“The first act has completely gone to being dance, so that has been the biggest difference I think that changed the rehearsal process,” Crews said. “The battle scene has been reworked and more involved, and even though the second act has always been more dance,

we fine-tuned it to make the transitions and scene changes smoother.”

Even though Misko has been involved in many versions of the show since he was a kid, when he got to the center, he found something special about their version.

“The wonderful thing is that the ballet has the ongoing potential to evolve,” Misko said. “There is no limit to what it could be next year or down the road. If we become curious and see potential we can change it.”

“The Nutcracker: A Kansas Ballet” opens Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. and will be performed through Dec. 18. Tickets are available online.

— Edited by Chandler Boese

Students to direct Rock Chalk Singers concert SAVANNA SMITH @SavSmith27

The student-directed choral group Rock Chalk Singers has been working all semester to prepare for their concert next week, which will include several different languages and musical styles.

As a course requirement for a choral methods class instructed by Melissa Grady, senior music education students at the University prepare the Dec. 6 concert themselves.

The class and the concert allow the students to acquire experience in teaching music. The students build the choir by recruiting members from around campus and in the community. They draw from friend groups as well as local middle and high schools.

For example, Erin Bonifield, a student director, said she recruited members from the marching band.

“We’re a close group, so it’s fun to bring them from one musical setting to an-

other,” Bonifield said.

With approximately 55 members, the choir ranges from fifth grade to college age, according to Fern Stevermer, another student director.

The Rock Chalk Singers are an established part of the curriculum for the class.

However, year-to-year the choir is always changing.

Each new year means new seniors enroll in the class; therefore, both the directors themselves are new and the people they recruit are personalized to the new group of students.

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Andrea Ringgenberg/KANSAN The Rock Chalk Singers concert will be held on Dec. 6 in Swarthout Theater.

We all blend really well together. You’d be surprised with such a wide variety of range or of age ... it’s still a really good choir.”

Erin Bonifield Student director

Having a wide range of musical abilities, knowledge and age can be a challenge, especially in a group this size. The student directors work to learn ways to instruct the group as a whole, while also figuring out how to work with the different levels of ability and age in order to create a well-adjusted choir and make sure each piece is done to the best of their

abilities.

Each choral student chooses a piece to direct and teach, while instrumentation students direct warm-ups, all receiving teaching experience to apply in their future careers as music educators. Each rehearsal, the directors get eight to 10 minutes to work as individuals with the singers to conduct their pieces.

“We all blend really well

together. You’d be surprised with such a wide variety of range or of age ... it’s still a really good choir,” Lauren Martens, another student director, said.

The concert will be held Dec. 6 at 6 p.m. in Swarthout Theater inside of Murphy Hall. Admission is free.

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Review: Zemeckis’ ‘Allied’ is interesting, but sloppy GUS HUNNINGHAKE @gushunninghake

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ince his breakout into the spotlight with 1985's “Back to the Future,” Robert Zemeckis has taken an interesting track as a director.

He found success in the 90s with films like “Forrest Gump” and at the turn of the century with “Cast Away.” These Academy Award-winning films marked Zemeckis' ability to create impactful drama and strikingly human characters. The years that followed saw Zemeckis turn to animation with “The Polar Express” and “Beowulf” in 2005 and 2007, respectively. These films failed to grasp any human elements or sense of fun in their narrative and had some of the worst digital animation in film history. “Flight,” released in 2012, saw Zemeckis return back to form with a well-realized story of depression, guilt and alcoholism. His latest film, “Allied,” goes back to the 40s and tries to make something new and compelling out of a tried and true spy mystery formula.

“Allied” stars Brad Pitt as Max Vatan, a Canadian intelligence officer sent to Casablanca to assassinate the German ambas-

sador along with Marianne Beausejour (Marion Cotillard), a member of the French Resistance. When they complete their mission, Vatan convinces Beausejour to come with him to Great Britain and marry him. They have a child together, and all is well in the world, until Spec Ops informs Vatan that his wife may be a German spy, and it is up to him to find out the truth before he is forced to kill the woman he loves.

Zemeckis does a fine job directing this film. He really knows how to get compelling shots from interesting angles, and this is present throughout the runtime.

That said, there are many scenes that feel a bit long or drawn out for no reason. In these scenes, Zemeckis spends a bit too much time showing the viewer cool sets and the actors/actresses by using long takes and tracking shots. If there was a sense of importance to these shots, then their length in the overall scene would feel validated.

However, because these shots do nothing to drive the narrative or set the mood of the scene, they make it feel a bit dull and slower than it should.

Another noticeable caveat in Zemeckis' direction

is his over-reliance on CGI. Whereas his past films perfectly blended practical scenery with CGI, this film uses it in certain scenes without mixing many practical sets or locations, making it a bit more noticeable, even to eyes not looking for flaws.

Pitt and Cotillard deliver fine performances, but the romance that develops between them never feels fully valid or heartfelt, which is important in a story like this. After only knowing each other for about a week, they decide to move away together and get married.

These decisions feel a bit unwarranted because of how rushed they are, and that makes their supposed romance in the rest of the film a bit less convincing.

The story needs to allow these two time to grow into each other and know each other before making all these decisions, but instead it quickly moves to the action sequences and cuts down on time that could have been spent developing these two's relationship.

The film's narrative follows a beat-for-beat track that most wartime mysteries take. A man falls in love with a woman, marries her, has a kid and is told that the person they love might not be who they seem. This

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then leads the protagonist through various clues to the truth, while the possible antagonist either becomes more nefarious in their actions or stays the same until the reveal comes. “Allied” follows this track to the note until the third act.

There are some compelling sequences in the third act that go a bit off track from the normal formula, but then the story wraps up rather abruptly, which brings the fresh narrative look to a sad halt. This act is reflective of all three acts, which suffer from tonal and pacing inconsistencies from start to finish.

Overall, “Allied” offers an interesting story, but is bogged down by sloppy execution and a seemingly short two-hour runtime.

Zemeckis directs with grace and a natural smoothness, though he relies a bit too much on CGI at times. Pitt and Cotillard deliver fine performances, but they're brought down by a script that just falls a bit short of fully realizing each character. This film is a good enough time, but might be a bit disappointing for those looking for something a little different from a middleof-the-road mystery.

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Haase receives warm welcome at KU The Stanford coach and former Kansas guard says returning to Allen Fieldhouse ‘means a lot’ SKYLAR ROLSTAD

ovation."

There are few blasts from the past anymore at Allen Fieldhouse that don't intersect with the Bill Self era. In a coaching career that spans 13 years and a national championship, Self has added plenty to Kansas basketball history. Self expressed his appreciation that the fans acknowledged Haase.

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ost honorable guests at Allen Fieldhouse aren't opponents. Most never even played basketball.

Legendary Kansas coach Larry Brown was an exception last week against Long Beach State, but otherwise the Fieldhouse cheers for Kevin Richardson, a member of the Backstreet Boys who visited for Kansas' win over UNC Asheville last Friday, or Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers quarterback who visited for a game in 2014.

Stanford coach Jerod Haase was an exception.

The former Kansas guard was welcomed by a roar from the crowd as he was introduced over the PA. Fond memories came rushing back as Haase saw himself in the pregame video.

"For me personally, it means a lot [because of] the reception and the relationships and experiences I had here," Haase said.

Haase's Stanford Cardinal lost 89-74 in his return to Allen Fieldhouse Saturday afternoon.

In the 13 years since he left Kansas, Haase said a lot about Allen Fieldhouse has changed.

Rather than bringing back

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I think I will probably remember the first time at shootaround today, when I walked into the arena and saw what it looks like.”

Associated Press Stanford coach Jerod Haase talks to his players during the first half of the game on Saturday. Kansas won the game 89-74.

old memories, Haase took some new ones with him on the way out of Lawrence.

"I think I will probably remember the first time at shootaround today when I walked into the arena and saw what it looks like," Haase said. "It looks phenomenal. It has a bit of a different feel than when I played to be honest. But they have done a good job of keeping it up and making

it pristine."

Haase played at Kansas under Roy Williams, then spent four years as a KU assistant coach under Williams before following him to North Carolina in 2003. The point guard played alongside Paul Pierce and Jacque Vaughn, averaging 12.5 points and 3.8 rebounds in his three years from 1994 to 1997 at Kansas.

Ashley Hocking/KANSAN Sophomore guard McKenzie Calvert prepares to pass during the second half of the women’s basketball game on Nov. 27. Kansas beat North Dakota 76-71 in overtime.

Over a five-year head coaching career, Haase has already proven a winner.

Since moving on from Kansas under Williams, he succeeded at UAB in earning a conference title and the first NCAA tournament appearance in three years. He took the job at Stanford ahead of this season and leads an experienced team that figures to be a bubble team

come tournament time.

To Haase's Stanford players, the homecoming in Lawrence started before the team got in the gym.

"I'm not surprised at all," Stanford forward Reid Travis said. "Right when we got off the plane, people were running to shake his hand. Someone was telling me on the plane ride over here that he's a legend. We definitely saw that with the

Jerod Haase Stanford coach

"I think it's great," Self said. "I definitely agreed with the fans to recognize him in the matter in which they did so I think that was probably very cool for Jerod and his family and probably good for his players to see.

I wasn't around. I wasn't in the league when Jerod played, but I knew him from afar, you know, how hard he played and how hard he competed and those teams were really good."

Associated Press Kansas guard McKenzie Calvert defends Alabama forward Ashley Williams on Sunday. Alabama won 71-65 in overtime.

Kansas suffers overtime road loss to Alabama SEAN COLLINS @seanzie_3

The stage had been set for a road victory in Tuscaloosa, Ala. With three seconds left in the game, sophomore guard McKenzie Calvert sunk two freethrows to put Kansas up three points over Alabama.

The Crimson Tide had one opportunity left, and a miraculous three-ball from junior Hannah Cook was all that was needed to force the Jayhawks into overtime.

For Kansas coach Brandon Schneider and the Jayhawks, overtime meant an

all-out effort, but the Jayhawks still came up short in a 71-65 overtime loss. "[Cook] made an incredible shot, an off-balance, leaning three,” Schneider said in his post-game interview.

Schneider had a goal going into Sunday’s matchup: prevent the Crimson Tide from getting out in transition. Only four fast-break points were allowed in four quarters and extra time, and Schneider was pleased.

“We came into the game with a very specific plan to try to take them out of transition,” Schneider said. “I

thought, plan-wise, I was really proud of our kids.”

Shooting woes only seemed to get worse, and those frustrations can weigh on an offense that hasn’t shot well in the past.

Junior guard Jessica Washington had an important 10 rebounds. That is a factor Schneider can use in his point guard, but her shooting has struggled. As offensive-minded as Washington is, 3-for-15 from the field, including no three pointers, was rough.

The Jayhawks as a whole only shot 31 percent on the night, with five assists.

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For us to have success, we’re going to have to distribute shots more evenly and get three or four people in double figures and get off to better starts.”

Brandon Schneider Kansas coach

Earlier in the season, Schneider stressed the importance of “together-

ness” after a loss to Missouri State. The Jayhawks couldn't get anything to fall and moved the ball too little to find shots that weren’t highly contested.

“For us to have success, we’re going to have to distribute shots more evenly and get three or four people in double figures and get off to better starts,” Schneider said after the Missouri State game.

A similar theme emerged against Alabama on Sunday, and while the Jayhawks' defense was much improved and stuck to the game plan, the offense

couldn’t get the job done.

Overtime on the road isn’t a disappointing place to be. The Jayhawks have been blown out this season and recovered to win three-straight games. Sunday’s matchup proved that Schneider can put together a strong defensive game plan and get his young team behind it, but ball movement has to improve to get points up on the board.

— Edited by Chandler Boese