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KU gained thousands in switch to Pepsi NICOLE ASBURY & BRADEN SHAW @nicoleasbury @bradenshaw4real

The University of Kansas accumulated thousands of dollars in student support services when they switched from Coca-Cola to Pepsi products for purchase in July 2017, a Kansan overview of records shows.

Pepsi supplies drinks in KU Dining facilities across campus, like the Memorial Union, DeBruce Center, dining halls and at concession stands during games. Before the 2017 academic year, students could purchase Coca-Cola products on campus, but the University decided to switch it up after a 20-year-long partnership with Coca-Cola.

Though Coca-Cola and the University had been long-term partners, the switch racked up about $50,000 more for the Memorial Union. Numbers on how much money Kansas Athletics, Inc. accumulated were not available through University or Kansas Athletics spokespeople.

email with the Kansan.

HOW KU AND MEMORIAL UNION BENEFIT The Kansan reached out to Memorial Union Director David Mucci for comment, but Barcomb-Peterson responded on behalf of Mucci, stating in part, “there may be a number of people who would be best able to answer various questions.”

Both the Pepsi and Coca-Cola agreement pushed for support services for students, and have funded scholarships on campus.

The Coca-Cola agreement allowed students to seek support through two different programs: 1) program funding for financial support of University-sponsored activities and 2) product requests as a form of support of University programs, according to the University’s Coca-Cola agreement website.

“The Coca-Cola agreement provided program funding for which registered student organi-

scholarship funds for the first year, then $50,000 every year following.

Additionally, there are $20,000 in sustainability funds, $30,000 for annual campus initiatives and $60,000 in advanced student funds — the last two of which support campus and are administered by Student Affairs, Barcomb-Peterson said.

In the second year, the University came to the agreement to aquire $28,000 for Bubly brand support, which is partially why there’s been such a push for the product within Wescoe’s Underground and other facilities on campus. This money does not carry forward following this year.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN KANSAS ATHLETICS, INC. AND PEPSI

In the agreement, more football and basketball tickets were given to Pepsi than Coca-Cola, though Pepsi gained fewer Late Night in the Phog tickets.

In the agreement with Coca-Cola, the University offered 20 season football tickets to Coca-Cola.

Now, Pepsi receives 10 season club experience tickets, 10

“The University’s Executive Sponsorship Committee looked at a number of vendors and found Pepsi best combined opportunities to benefit students with pricing, services and products,” University spokesperson Erinn Barcomb-Peterson said in an

zations and University units (primarily non-academic units) could apply,” Barcomb-Peterson said.

However, the Pepsi agreement provides a number of different funds for programs it supports.

The Pepsi agreement outlines $250,000 in

season tickets between the 40-yard lines, 50 single-game tickets and 50 tickets for a football game against instate rival Kansas State played at Memorial Stadium, bringing the total to 120 tickets. Though it’s the same amount of season tickets, with more precise seating, there are over 100 more football tickets Pepsi acquired over Coca-Cola.

Pepsi also acquired two football parking passes in surface lots near the stadium and four other parking passes. Coca-Cola had 10 football parking passes.

NICOLE ASBURY @nicoleasbury

He was a longtime public official, serving as the vice president when former President Ronald Reagan was in the White House, and was elected as president in 1988. Prior to those terms, he’d been a World War II veteran, Texas congressional representative, United States ambassador to the United Nations and director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The display will be available to the general public, starting at 12 p.m. on Dec. 3, and it will honor the relationship Bush shared with United States Senator Bob Dole.

Guests will be able to sign a memorial book and share their condolences, of which will later be shared with the Bush family. Admission is free.

“Our nation has lost a cherished servant leader

Sarah Wright/KANSAN At the beginning of the fall semester of 2017, the University switched to provide Pepsi products instead of Coca Cola products.

For men’s basketball games, Coca-Cola acquired 20 season tickets.

However, Pepsi has four lower level tier-one season tickets, eight tier-two season tickets, four general admission season tickets, 10 general admission tickets to the K-State game and 12 single game general admission tickets upon request two weeks following the release of the schedule — which brings the total to 38 tickets. Pepsi acquired $18,580 worth in tickets for men’s basketball games, according to figures provided by Jim Marchiony, associate athletic director.

Pepsi gained four fewer parking passes than Coca-Cola had for basketball games. Initially, Coca-Cola had 10 men’s basketball parking passes. Currently, Pepsi has three garage parking passes and three surface parking passes.

The Coca-Cola contract also specified the company would gain 10 women’s basketball season tickets, but Pepsi did not have any negotiations in the contract specifically for women’s basketball season tickets.

Pepsi acquired 12 season tickets to other sports provided through Kansas Athletics, which

is two more than Coca-Cola acquired.

But while Coca-Cola received 100 complimentary tickets to Late Night in the Phog, Pepsi only received 20 complimentary tickets.

For Coca-Cola, football season tickets were listed to be in “prime locations” and 10 of the men’s basketball tickets were included in the lower level between the baselines, the contract said. The other 10 men’s basketball tickets were elsewhere in Allen Fieldhouse, but not behind the baselines, according to the agreement.

Marchiony said the ticket agreement was handled through the University’s negotiations, not through Athletics.

“Athletics, like the University, benefits financially from it,” Marchiony said. “Obviously we provide the tickets but the ticket part of it is just apart of the overall negotiation. It’s a small number of tickets so it doesn’t have a large effect on any particular group.”

In the new Pepsi agreement, the University also complied to providing the company up to $25,000 in Adidas store credit per year.

Marchiony said that this store credit comes from sponsorship mon-

ey that Adidas provides Kansas Athletics, and that the funds do not come out of the Athletics budget.

who has truly been the man for all season,” Dole and his wife, Elizabeth Dole, said in a statement.

“President Bush answered the call to serve whenever our nation needed him — and we needed him often and in so many important capacities — congressman, vice president, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, ambassador to China and as the 41st

president of the United States.

He brought wisdom, a keen sense of mission and diplomacy, incomparable patriotism, along with compassion and humanity, to each and every assignment he accepted on behalf of the American people.”

Bush once visited the University of Kansas to receive the Dole Leadership Prize in 2008 for a long career in public

service.

“I had the honor of working with the president in the Reagan White House and on his two general election campaigns,” Bill Lacy, the director of the Dole Institute, said in a University press release.

“He was an extraordinary guide for America during the critical transition after the fall of the Iron Curtain.”

WHY DETAILS ARE EMERGING NOW

Details of the Pepsi agreement were kept relatively under wraps by the University in earlier records requests from the Kansan during July 2017, as “final negotiations” were not complete, an earlier article in the Kansan reported.

“The negotiations on this contract are not yet final,” stated a response to a Kansas Open Records Act request by the Kansan. “Therefore at this time the University has determined that it possesses no records responsive to this request.”

The full contract didn’t go into effect until Aug. 2, according to a first amendment to the contract signed by David Mucci, from KU Memorial Union Corporation, and Sean Lester, the deputy director of Kansas Athletics, Inc. Campus Operations is the unit who facilitated the agreement, but was not a signatory as the entity does not receive funding, according to Barcomb-Peterson.

Dole Institute to honor the late George H.W. Bush The Dole Institute of Politics will host a special memorial display to honor former President George H.W. Bush, on Monday, Dec. 3, according to a press release from the Dole Institute.

Bush died on Nov. 30 in the presence of his family and friends, the New York Times reported.

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LARA KORTE @lara_korte It was the weekend before Thanksgiving break, and Kathryn Ammon was stuck in Washington D.C. Well, not stuck, per se.

The senior had just finished up a round of interviews and cocktail parties with members of the US-Ireland Alliance. While other scholarship candidates took trains or short plane trips home, Ammon stuck around for her flight back to Kansas City the next day, hoping to avoid an eighthour layover in Chicago.

As she was heading out to meet a friend for dinner and drinks, she got a call from a number with a D.C. area code.

“I was like ‘well this is it,’” Ammon said.

On the line was Trina Vargo, president of the US-Ireland Alliance, telling Ammon she had been selected as one of a dozen students to receive the prestigious George J. Mitchell Scholarship. Not only was Ammon chosen out of a starting pool of 370 students, she was one of only a handful of students from public institutions, and the University of Kansas’ first-ever Mitchell scholar.

“It still hasn’t fully sunken in yet,” Ammon said.

“Everybody asks me, ‘how do you feel that you’re going to Ireland?’ And I joke that it just has like a really long buffering time because it feels like everyday or so it feels like I get another like one percent, and I’m like ‘oh my god I’m moving to

Lara Korte/KANSAN Kathryn Ammon, a senior from Fort Worth, Texas, is the first student from the University to receive the prestigious George J. Mitchell Scholarship from the US-Ireland Alliance.

Ireland.’”

Ammon, who is originally from Fort Worth, Texas, will spend a year in Dublin earning a Master of Social Science, focusing on abortion access in Ireland — a topic that’s been part of her undergraduate experience since she first came to the University.

During her first week on campus, Ammon said she (reluctantly) joined a friend at the first meeting of the campus feminist group, Students United for Reproductive and Gender Equity, commonly referred to as SURGE. Ammon kept going to meetings, and after awhile, she says, “something switched in me.” Over the course of the next four years, Ammon would become treasurer, vice president and president of SURGE, add a women, gen-

der and sexuality studies major to her already full course load, and go on to intern with Planned Parenthood as a public policy intern.

“I feel an incredible obligation to try to make things right,” Ammon said. “A lot of times, we talk about the unfinished promise of Roe v. Wade, how a standard was set that we’re not living up to now. And I’ve talked to older activists, older women who are like ‘we were fighting for this when I was your age in the 70s and we’re still having to fight for this.’”

Both Ireland and the United States are at critical moments in the battle for women’s reproductive rights. Earlier this year, Irish citizens voted to repeal its amendment making abortion illegal. Come January, the country will look

to redefine the parameters of what abortion and reproductive rights mean for its citizens.

“I think that’s such an amazing thing that Ireland’s getting to define that,” Ammon said. “Especially when you compare it to the United States, and how in, except for a few states like Massachusetts, who’ve already passed laws saying even if we lose Roe v. Wade, abortion’s going to be legal.

We’re kind of looking at a collapse of abortion rights.”

Anne Wallen, program director of the University’s Office of Fellowships, was a large part in helping Ammon on the path to the Mitchell Scholarship. Wallen described Ammon as “authentic and straight-forward in a way that’s refreshing and impressive for someone her age.”

“She’s done meaningful

University and about five other universities across the country including Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, according to Rossomondo.

With Contraseña, students in Elementary Spanish I and Intensive Elementary Spanish receive feedback through video, and watch or read slightly modified texts originally created for Spanish speakers.

Lecturer Denisse Cruz said some of the benefits of the program include practicality, immediate feedback and better time management for students and instructors.

“Honestly, it is extremely helpful for me as an instructor to log into the platform and check how my students are doing in particular areas, how much time they spend on each activity,” Cruz said. “Because of this, I am able to give a more personalized instruction

and feedback.”

Cruz said all of her teaching experiences have been entirely online, and she has witnessed the positive effects technology has on the classroom. However, there are a few downsides to online resources.

Distraction proves to be the main challenge in using technology in the classroom, Cruz said. While there is an abundance of in-class group activities that can encourage some students to avoid participation if they tend to be shy, Cruz said there is still a silver lining to the challenges.

“I think this ends up being a positive, too,” she said. “This allows instructors to be more intentional about individual participation and adapt activities on the program to the individual needs in our class.”

Another twist Contraseña takes on the typical classroom experience: no exams.

Rossomondo said traditional testing does not align with the emphasis foreign language courses place on oral communication. Not only do tests require students to memorize conjugations and fill in the blanks rather than use their speaking skills, but in her 15 years at the University, more and more students

have begun to request testing accommodations due to test anxiety, she said.

work and volunteered in a variety of contexts that all relate to her long-term goals and advocacy interests. Then she’s woven all of that experiential learning in with academic excellence in three different majors,” Wallen told the Kansan in an email. “That intentionality is very special, and I think that’s something the Mitchell Scholarship Committee recognized in her.”

In addition to a degree in women, gender and sexuality studies, Ammon will be graduating in the spring with degrees in history and political science. Wallen said the award is a credit to Ammon as a student, but also the University as an institution.

“KU has wonderfully bright and talented students who absolutely can compete at the national level,” Wallen said. “We’re proud that Kathryn has demonstrated that.”

Although Ammon describes herself as a “proud product of public schools,” she said she was intimidated by other Ivy League candidates who had spent a year at the University of Oxford or interning at the U.S. Department of State.

Nonetheless, she said she’s proud of all that she’s accomplished in her four years working for the movement of reproductive rights in Kansas.

“We’ll see what’s going to happen next,” Ammon said. “I think it’s going to be interesting.”

‘Contraseña’ takes Spanish classes online Six years ago, Amy Rossomondo, Spanish Language Program Director, and her colleague decided to address their dissatisfaction with Spanish language textbooks for first-year Spanish classes at the University of Kansas.

“We felt that the textbooks were from a different paradigm, they didn’t recognize our students as the intellectually-advanced adults that they are and all the material focused on themselves,” Rossomondo said. “There’s so much more you can be thinking about as you learn a second language.”

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Contributed Photo Contraseña allows students to learn Spanish without a physical textbook. Instead, students access Contraseña online.

watching my students learn and progress – and some of them were true beginners, and I’m

“There’s so much more you can be thinking about as you learn a second language.”

Amy Rossomondo Spanish language program director

“If it’s such a miserable experience for students, and it’s not giving us any information we need, it sort of feels like hazing,” Rossomondo said. “[It’s] not really aligning evidence of learning with what they’re learning.”

Instead of exams, students have readings and a project for each unit.

For unit two, students in Rossomondo’s Elementary Spanish I class created a video answering questions in Spanish such as ‘what’s your name?’ and ‘where are you from?’.

For example, in one unit, students wrote a hypothetical letter in which they nominate someone they admire for a Person of the Year award.

Rossomondo said these projects can measure students’ progression.

“I’m not convinced that they’re not just psyched to not have tests, but I think they’re learning,” Rossomondo said. “I’m

watching them learn.”

In addition to the new tactics used to teach firstyear Spanish courses, at $75 per semester, Contraseña is relatively low-cost for a platform of its nature, Rossomondo said. And, students will get their money’s worth.

“It’s $75, but they use it every single day for every single thing,” she said.

Cruz said her students enjoy completing exercises on Contraseña and has overheard “positive comments about the platform.” She said she would recommend the program to other Spanish instructors.

“It is practical, resourceful and innovative,” she said. “It can be challenging to adapt to technology at the beginning, but the benefits that it brings to both students and instructors outweigh the challenges.”

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Alumnus makes ‘dynamite’ pet portraits

RYLIE KOESTER @RylieKoester

Cats, dogs and even hedgehogs fill most of alumnus Drew James’ days.

James, who graduated in 2012 with a degree in film and media studies, runs Dynamite Tree Designs, a business where he free-hand draws and sells personalized pet portraits, which he said is more unique than just having a photograph of a pet.

“They’re easy to personalize in a way that a photograph isn’t,” James said.

for bands like “Murder by Death”.

James said several people suggested he digitize all of his artwork, so he set up a Facebook page.

This was his first step in setting up Dynamite Tree Designs.

Several years and two sons later, James became a stay-at-home dad. He said he needed something to do during the day while he was at home, so he decided to draw pet portraits. He said his wife suggested it to him and it was something fun to do, not to mention pets have a wider appeal than “scary, dark t-shirt

“The dog or cat won’t be offended if they feel like you screwed up their proportions a little bit.”

Drew James Owner, Dynamite Tree Designs

Before James started Dynamite Tree Designs in February, he worked at The Granada and Eleven Productions, a concert booking company. While working there, he started doing art by drawing t-shirt designs, band posters and album covers

designs.”

One of James’ first pet portraits was inspired by his family’s three-legged dog, Tipsy.

Jenny James, Drew’s wife, helps Drew with customer correspondence, social media and she also set

up a form to smooth the personalization process.

Drew and Jenny send a form for customers to fill out and get a sense of what they want the portrait to feature. The form includes a photo of the pet and other details, such as their name, age and anything else wanted in the background.

A lot of detail goes into each portrait, sometimes taking Drew days to complete.

“I feel like I’m pretty meticulous, so I kind of go the extra mile as far as detail goes,” Drew said.

Drew mostly does portraits of cats and dogs, although he has done the occasional hamster or hedgehog. He said he enjoys drawing portraits of pets more than humans because it gives him more artistic license.

“The dog or cat won’t be offended if they feel like you screwed up their proportions a little bit,” James said.

One of Drew’s customers commissioned a piece for a dog named Link, named after a character in the Legend of Zelda games. So, he included all kinds of

Contributed Photo James mostly draws dogs and cats but sometimes will have requests for other unique pets.

Zelda-themed items in the background.

“I really enjoy the ones where people have

something really creative to add,” Drew said.

Customers can contact Drew and Jenny on

Dynamite Tree Designs’ Facebook page to order a personalized pet portrait.

Open mic pays tribute to late poet Ntozake Shange DEASIA PAIGE @deasia_paige Scholars, students and faculty gathered to honor the late poet and playwright Ntozake Shange on Friday.

At the event, Shange was honored with poems and presentations Friday morning during the celebration at The Commons.

Shange, who’s best known for writing the acclaimed play “for colored girls who have considered suicide / When the rainbow is enuf” in 1976, died in October.

The event was hosted by the Project on the History of Black Writing. Maryemma Graham, founding director of the Project on the History of Black Writing and the University’s distinguished professor in the Department of English, was the first person to take the stage.

Graham discussed how Shange’s work provided a different medium for black cultural expression that wasn’t typically practiced at the time. With “for colored girls,” Shange introduced a new genre of dramatic expression — the choreopoem — which combines dance, music, poetry and song. The play details the experiences of women of color.

“You’ve got these really interesting ways in which people are looking at life,” Graham said. “Black women authors, in particular, are looking at lived experiences through this new genre or form or writing.

With this choreopoem, we’ve really got free thinking — what theory is, what rhyming is, what narrative is, how to tell a story and

DeAsia Paige/KANSAN Doctoral student Alysha Griffin reads a poem by Ntzokae Shange at The Commons on Nov. 30, 2018. how to interact with the audience.”

Graham also talked about how the audience for the play has grown throughout the years. In 2010, the play was adapted into a Tyler Perry film of the same name.

“It would be in high schools,” Graham said.

“It would be in colleges.

It was a play that many people felt they could embrace for many reasons, so the fact that the audiences who saw this were wide, diverse and inclusive is really important.”

Next to take the stage was Darren Canady, playwright and English professor at the University.

He talked about how “for

colored girls” related to similar experiences with his mom.

“As a black woman reared in the ‘50s and ‘60s in Topeka, Kansas, who then comes to the University of Kansas, and, in the midst of becoming radicalized, in the midst of organizing on campus, she sees how her work in the movement is not honored as much as she felt it could’ve and should’ve been,” Canady said. “After graduating and experiencing ‘for colored girls’ it gave an artistic expression and outlet to so many of the things she felt she had not been allowed to say and speak back to, particularly to the black men

with whom she befriended and had relationships.”

Canady said at the time, he didn’t understand

the play), but he said he later realized it was a testament to how the poem related to her experiences.

“Those ‘mmhmms’ become a moment of her, as a Midwesterner and a black woman, being heard and seeing herself, her sisters, her cousins and her aunts captured in a five-minute stretch theatrical literature.”

Darren Canady University English professor

his mother’s reception to the recording (highlighted by the “mmhmms” he remembers hearing from his mom when she listened to

“Those ‘mmhmms’ become a moment of her, as a Midwesterner and a black woman, being heard and seeing herself, her sisters,

her cousins and her aunts captured in a five-minute stretch theatrical literature,” Canady said.

Nicole Hodges Persley, associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and a theater professor at the University, gave the last presentation for the event. Before reading a poem she dedicated to Shange, she said she didn’t take her death lightly.

“The way that I’ve had to process Shange’s death was similar to when I heard Prince had died,” Hodges Persley said. “My whole hip-hop theater survey class knew it was a bad day.”

Hodges Persley began to recite her poem “A Rant for Shange.”

“She made a way for me, a way for me to imagine myself into existence while existing,” Hodges Persley said. “She made a way for me to see myself in all my beauty and intelligence and zeal and power and love and sparkle and quirkiness and funniness and shine.”

The event ended with people from the audience reciting poems from “for colored girls.”

Maxwell Birdnow, a graduate student who attended the event, said he liked seeing the audience’s reaction to hearing Shange’s poems being read.

“I wasn’t super familiar with her work, but I definitely want to check it out now,” Birdnow said. “Seeing the different attitudes in which they read her pieces was really cool.”

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‘Green Book’ fails to capture history of racism

JAYA CHAKKA @jaiyaofthebees

In 1962, a classical piano virtuoso named Dr. Don Shirley was set to embark on a concert tour through the Midwestern and Southern United States. A wealthy man with multiple doctorates, Shirley’s music had gained fame around the country, but there was one glaring issue: he was a black man in the middle of the era of racial segregation.

To serve both as a chauffeur and protector for Shirley from agitators on tour, his record company decided to hire a bodyguard, a position which would be filled by an Italian bouncer, Tony Vallelonga.

The film “Green Book,� released in early November, dramatizes these true events surrounding the time Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and Tony (Viggo Mortensen) spent together on tour. The name comes from a guidebook of rest locations that were safe for black people to stop in while traveling.

Like many recent films attempting to tackle large-scale social issues like racism, “Green Book� attempts to balance out its more serious content with a healthy dose of humor. And, like many recent films about these types of issues, I went in hoping this would be the film to finally get it right.

It wasn’t.

The primary issue is that this movie falls into one of the most common traps of portraying such touchy subjects. It attempts to find a balance between differing ideologies that simply should not exist. Instead of candidly and resolutely approaching the subject of historically institutional racism, “Green Book� tries to make nice between the oppressors and the op-

For much of the movie, Tony’s character is granted legitimacy in discussions of racism and discrimination because he’s stereotypically Italian and lower class. This is despite blatant displays of bigotry toward black people and other racial and ethnic groups throughout the film.

Tony may be white, but he is, in his own words, “blacker� than Shirley because the latter is wealthy and a bit of an elitist. Because Tony is also an outsider, to a much lesser degree, and because Shirley holds open disdain for his

diction and habits, Tony’s continued bigoted microaggressions are justified and allowed to exist largely without question.

These comparisons create a false equivalency between the completely different forms and intensities of discrimination these men might have faced at that time.

It also legitimizes Tony’s attempts to teach Shirley about “[his] people� and culture because Shirley lives a different lifestyle than a black person apparently should and is, therefore, not really black.

Never mind the first thing everyone notices about Shirley is his skin color.

In one particularly disturbing chain of events, Tony nearly forces Shirley to try fried chicken, which Shirley had apparently never eaten before, but he takes a liking to it. Later in the film, the white host of one of Shirley’s concerts announces he has asked his (black) help what Shirley might like to eat; he then proudly unveils a plate of fried chicken. The blatant racism of this action is all but laughed off because it ties back to the joke of Tony introducing Shirley to food from his “own culture.�

The one saving grace of the movie is how powerfully and effectively Ali plays the part of Shirley.

His portrayal of a lonely man who can’t reconcile the disparate components of his identity in order to find a place to fit in is emotionally raw and moving.

Were the movie framed from Shirley’s perspective, the embedded messages would have gained much more significance.

The potential depth of Shirley’s need to act as a role model for his entire race, of his need to prove himself in different ca-

in and around the Kansas City art scene.

Rosenthal, an associate professor of visual art, has a portfolio spanning over eight years from before Rosenthal publicly came out as a member of the LGBTQ community. The project examines a larger “queer techno-sexuality,� where the physical act of sex is “not privileged over technology,� or the experience of the human body.

The project focuses on sexuality, but also acknowledges the notion that not everyone desires sex.

However, Rosenthal said he hopes the project will create

an understanding about the interaction of queer people. “We speak so much about future possibilities, but it’s also a way to help understand a present that is very real for a lot of people,� Rosenthal said.

Castillo, who graduated with an MFA in 2017, is a current second-year resident at the Charlotte Street Foundation Studio in Kansas City, and has been working on his portfolio dealing with levels of intimacy for seven years. “[My project overall] has been about intimacy and what it looks like, so I make a lot of work about that,�

pressed.

This approach doesn’t cut it.

Perhaps the intention is to make a harsh subject more palatable for the common viewer, but all that’s accomplished is reaffirming the idea that making peace and graciously accepting differences is always a mutually beneficial option.

However, instilling the same validity into the views of racist bigots in long-held positions of sociopolitical power and people of color who have only recently escaped Jim Crow laws is clearly problematic.

What was really frustrating is that the film prioritizes Tony’s character over Shirley’s. The storyline is framed from Tony’s perspective, which means this is the perspective the audience is meant to sympathize with — but his perspective is bewilderingly flawed.

It attempts to find a balance between differing ideologies that simply should not exist.

Contributed photo “Green Book� stars Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen in the true story of the friendship between black musician Don Shirley and his white chauffeur. pacities in black settings and white settings, is lost.

By the end of the movie, Tony still hasn’t figured out that Shirley’s experiences, as a black man, have difference significance than his own.

Even after witnessing the struggles Shirley faces in both black and white social settings — and seeming to have gained a newfound sense of understanding — the ulti-

mate message is still that Shirley’s life would be infinitely better if he would just stand up for himself and open his life up to other people.

Attempting to seamlessly combine a feelgood story about overcoming differences through friendship with a story about the horrors of segregation-era racism in the deep South just doesn’t work. At the end

of the day, a slow-burning friendship cannot and will not solve racism, even on an individual level.

Despite the acclaim it has received, “Green Book� is not a groundbreaking film that will finally and successfully break down the history of racism in America — or even come close.

Castillo said.

He mostly utilizes drawing and sculpture to capture images that don’t just represent people, but also an idea of intimacy with objects like toothbrushes, pillows and closets. “It was something I was really interested in because at the time I had just come out,� Castillo said. “I was really curious to know and understand what intimacy meant but from a queer perspective.�

Castillo said heteronormative and heterosexual images are prominent in art, but there aren’t a lot of images from a queer perspective. He has been working with that idea since his undergraduate senior year at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Rosenthal primarily uses video installation and 3D animation for his artwork. He focuses on the technological aspects of art along with the interaction with the environment.

While he will also utilizes drawing and sculpture,

video and animation are what he focuses on.

He also said while he has had exhibitions around the world, the article in KC Studio magazine was the first to significantly discuss his craft and has opened doors for projects and exhibitions locally. “For a long time, I had just been making my work and showing it everywhere,�

Rosenthal said. “It’s opened up opportunities in the region for the work.�

Castillo was contacted in August about being featured in the KC Studio magazine and thought it was a great opportunity to share his work. He said the feature helped him disseminate his ideas and gave validation to a project that he has put his heart in could in for almost a decade. “It was beautiful to be able to see the work in a magazine,� Castillo said. “It was wonderful and really helpful.�

Rosenthal said while he is glad for the opportunities

he’s received, he hopes there is a larger increase in opportunities for his students, colleagues and queer artists in general. “There hasn’t been a lot of representation of artists who are queer working unabashedly with sexuality in non-predictable ways,�

Rosenthal said. “I think now we’re seeing people like Ruben find success and I think that’s great. I hope that the article, not just for me personally, but for others opens up a larger conversation that includes others in the dialogue.�

Castillo echoed Rosenthal in that he hopes the publicity can open opportunities for other queer artists. He also said he hopes to continue looking at the definition of intimacy through art and exploring the different ways in which people can be intimate. “I only do what I love at this point,� Castillo said. “If I don’t feel particularly strong about something, I don’t really feel the need to do it.�

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University professor Benjamin Rosenthal along with alumnus Ruben Castillo’s portfolios were featured earlt in November.

KC Studio, which is in its 10th year of publication, releases six editions every year — utilizing online and tangible platforms. The magazine features artists, patrons and organizations

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If someone could inject rat poison straight into my veins right now, that would be great. “i had a dream that I went to a frat party and all i did was insult them on only wearing hoodies with jerseys over the top” “You can’t trust anyone that doesn’t get double toast instead of slaw”

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It’s getting hard to give a damn HAELI MAAS @haelimaas

This isn’t a cry for help. That would mean that I need help, and I just don’t think I‘m the one who does. What I do need, maybe, is fewer political science courses on my class schedule (kidding, of course).

This semester I have learned more about myself and others than I think I really wanted to know, and yet instead of creating a wholesome and thoughtful person, it only created someone just a bit more cynical than when I started. I am sure that wasn’t any of my teachers’ intentions, but here we are. So how did I get here?

It started with how interested I was in politics from the beginning of high school. I always thought that politics could create real change — and in some ways I still do — but I failed to see the systems that were also hard at work in changing the role of politics. Then President Donald Trump sprang onto the scene and started spewing the words “fake news.” I immediately hated the idea of someone attacking news outlets just because they weren’t saying what he wanted them to say.

After a while, I dug deeper and started to really figure out what was going on. How could peo-

Hailey Dixon/KANSAN President Trump supporters awaiting his arrival to a political rally in Topeka on Oct. 6, 2018. ple believe that something from a reputable source could be fake news? How are people this divided politically? What in the world do we need to do as a society to stop all of this division?

I started to pay attention to the people close to me and around me. When I found family members who supported Trump, I also found that their ideas about the way things should be were not that different from mine. Sure, there were some things that we didn’t agree on, but for the most part, the people from “across the

aisle” in my own life didn’t show any of the characteristics that were portrayed by the media or politicians. It was hard to come to terms with the fact that the division in our society may not actually be as divided as it seems. But politics makes it that way.

Every time we think about politics, we pick a side. I’ve done it before, and I know that others have too. The political system embedded into the fabric of America leaves no room for compromise, no room for negotiation and no room for true democracy. How are we, as

have a direct control over what we believe.

Stephanie Morales, a freshman from Seattle, Washington, talked about how her background impacted her worldview.

“I grew up in a traditional household where my parents taught me gender roles, especially when dating. I have become more open about it since I’ve moved out and able to make decisions on my own, but I for sure grew up thinking a bit like that,” Morales said.

Since starting college, Morales has been able to see situations where gender roles hardly ever apply or do not apply at all.

This experience is changing something that was not only taught to her, but something she had begun to look for and long for when in a relationship.

Most of us, like Morales, have been raised in a certain way and maybe even forced to believe certain things, but as college students, we are in the perfect setting to change all of that. College, especially the University of Kansas, is filled with diversity. There are going to be all types of people from completely different backgrounds than you, which gives you the opportunity to learn outside of the classrooms — only in a different way.

Going to college builds

character because we grow into our own person. If we don’t already have our own, self-formed opinions about things, or if we’ve never had certain experiences, then college can be the place to change that.

I am from Chicago. I went to preschool, elementary school and high school surrounded by people of my skin color. I have always considered myself politically aware and able to disagree with someone in a polite manner.

I knew that coming to a PWI — a predominantly white institution — meant I would no longer be surrounded by people I could relate to culturally, and that I would see things I didn’t agree with. Even a lot of preparation did not stop me from becoming incredibly angry when people on Wescoe beach tried to convince me that abortion should be illegal.

But even if you are a person whose parents taught you things you still agree with and absolutely believe in to this day, you should use college, or any other diverse environment, to expand your horizons and challenge your own beliefs.

The majority of our lives may have been spent being shaped by our parents, but the rest of our lives will be based on our own opinions. It is important to make sure that the

people, supposed to make the best decision when no one really represents everything that we believe in?

When we by chance find someone we do believe in, if they don’t have that blue or red ticket, there’s almost no chance it even matters. The winner-take-all system means that, hypothetically, while 52 percent of people may have got what they wanted, 48 percent of people did not. That is almost half of the population that is now unrepresented — and some people who may have chosen on a whim

because they were unsure about who they wanted now have to stick to their choice, even if it means giving up the other things that they also believe in.

This electoral system, this idea that there are only two sides to every issue, only deepens the division that exists in America. Two-party rule is frustrating and absurd when you think about all of the people sitting right in the middle, having to choose which idea they want to stick to most. I believe that most people are good people, and I think that others do too, but how are we supposed to know how people feel if we keep making them choose between A or B without any other option?

Political parties divide us, and the only people who benefit are the politicians who landed on the winning side. What would happen if there were many sides, and many voices, and many “parties” that represented all of the different and diverse interests of Americans? Would we see less winner-takeall? Would we have better representation if we let all sides show in Congress?

Would I begin to feel like I give a damn again?

Haeli Maas is a junior from Lindsborg studying strategic communications.

Let college shape and challenge your mind KELSI WILLIAMS @Kiwi_Writes A multitude of things help mold us into the people we’re becoming, or have become. Our identities are a mash-up of the music we enjoy, the shows we watch and the people we interact with.

Lots of us are not aware of this fact. But we can all accept that our parents’ beliefs, or their parenting style, have a large impact on our lives.

Currently, we live in a society in which millennials and kids in Generation Z are extremely outspoken about everything, from political views to what type of restaurants should no longer exist. Our generations plan to change the world.

But before we do, we have to get a handle on our own thoughts and beliefs — not just the ideas ingrained into our brains since childhood.

Plenty of people in these generational groups have family members, oftentimes a grandparent, who might have bought into racist ideas decades ago, or perhaps they were the first to be a black student at an all-white school.

Whether we know it or not, these are things that also impact who we are. For example, it is often said that racism is learned and taught. Our parents tend to

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Stanford coach Jerrod Haase returns to KU MADDY TANNAHILL @maddytannahill

In Kansas men’s basketball’s 90-84 overtime victory over Stanford on Saturday, senior guard Lagerald Vick was not the Jayhawk with the most career points to touch the court in Allen Fieldhouse, nor was he the Jayhawk to start the most games or even play in the most contests.

Instead, on Saturday, Stanford coach Jerod Haase ranked at the top of each of these categories, having recorded 1,264 career points, started 99 games and saw action in 101 games during his time in the crimson and blue from 1994 to 1997.

Receiving a warm Allen Fieldhouse welcome following the introduction of the Stanford starting five, Haase returned to a standing ovation in Lawrence for the second time in the last three seasons, the next most recent a 89-74 loss for the Cardinal in 2016.

On both occasions, returning to the hallowed halls of the Fieldhouse and walking up and down the hills of campus have provoked an emotional reaction from the former Naismith and Wooden award candidate.

“It’s a long answer,” Haase said following a long pause in response to what returning to Kansas means to him. “I’ve had great experiences. It’s

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Chance Parker/KANSAN Kansas basketball alumnus Jerod Haase returned to Lawrence as the coach of the Stanford men’s basketball team. always emotional for a variety of reasons. During the game certainly I was able to lose myself in the game and I’m so excited, to be honest with you, with what we’re doing at Stanford, even when we’ve stunk it up this year. I really believe in what we’re doing.”

Though a key

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“To come in here is always meaningful,”

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Haase said. “My oldest son’s middle name is Lawrence. I met my wife here. I had great experiences here. Having said that, it’s been a while since I’ve been back and walked through campus and while the memories are wonderful, I think in large part I am today who I am because of my

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experience here.”

With Haase’s squad having competed with No. 2 Kansas right up until the buzzer, Kansas coach Bill Self had nothing but praise for Haase’s young men, 11 of which are currently playing in only their first or second season at the collegiate level. Self talked about how they were both well coached and well prepared – perhaps even more so than his own roster.

“I thought they were better prepared obviously,” Self said. “I thought he did a much better job than... the coach on the other side

of the court did. I thought they played with poise and I know that’s got to be a hard, heartbreaking loss for them.”

Self and Haase will meet up yet again next season as the Jayhawks are scheduled to travel to Stanford, California, at the end of December 2019.

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Swim and Dive ends first half of season on high note JORDAN VAUGHN @JVSmoove14 Kansas wrapped up its third and final day at the USA Winter National Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina, with a pair of top-3 finishes in the ‘B’ finals.

Freshman Kate Seward

rounded out the final race for all Jayhawk swimmers with a secondplace finish in the ‘B’ final of the 200-meter breaststroke.

Seward’s time of 2:32:70 was good enough to make the Olympic Trial cut. This was the first weekend to qualify for the 2020 trials.

Sophomore Lauryn Parrish finished her impressive weekend with a third-place mark in 200-meter backstroke ‘B’ final.

In all, seven Jayhawks competed over the weekend with several setting personal bests across the array of races.

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Junior Jenny Nusbaum swims in the 100 free on Nov. 18 at the Kansas Classic.

Valuable Swimmer performance at the Kansas Classic, junior Jenny Nusbaum set personal bests in the 400-meter freestyle and 200-meter individual medley on Thursday. “[Nusbaum] swam the 400 free the way that you need to swim it to get a best time,” Kansas coach

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“[Nusbaum] swam the 400 free the way that you need to swim it to get a best time.”

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Clark Campbell said, according to a Kansas Athletics press release.

Junior Elizabeth Amato-Hanner also set her own personal best time in the 200-meter individual medley with a time of 2:21:16.

On Friday, Nusbaum tied her personal best in the 200-meter freestyle that landed her a sixthplace finish in the ‘B’ finals.

Seward was impressive all weekend as she also picked up a fifth-place finish in the 100-meter breaststroke ‘B’ final.

“For a team that doesn’t get a lot of longcourse we were really pleased with how it went,” Campbell said in a the release.

This weekend was the last competition for the Jayhawks in 2018 as they will finish out the first half of the season with a 4-0 record in dual

meets, a Kansas Classic victory and a lot of experience gained from this weekend.

The short course time trials meet began Sunday morning at 8 a.m.

Kansas will start 2019 and the second half of its season on Jan. 11 in a double dual against Northern Arizona and Northern Colorado in Flagstaff, Arizona.

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After dropping just two points in the first half against Stanford — his lowest first half total since Nov. 6 against Michigan State — Vick came out of halftime on fire, finishing the game with 27 points. Not only that, but Vick hit seven three-pointers, including a game-tying three-pointer with 6.8 seconds left. Vick is now shooting 59.6 percent from beyond the arc this season.

Returning to Wofford after averaging a team-high 22.1 points per game through the 2017-18 season, Magee has averaged 17.9 points per game thus far in his senior campaign for the Terriers, including a game-high 24 points on Saturday against in-conference-foe Eastern Tennessee State University. The SoCon preseason player of the year, was also named to Jerry West Award watch list.

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Dotson has quietly scored double figures in three straight games, including a season-high 17 points against Tennessee in the NIT Season Tip-Off final. Most recently, Dotson scored 10 points against Stanford, added four assists and two steals. He also proved instrumental in setting up the game-tying three from Vick at the end of regulation.

Joining Magee on the Lou Henson Award watch list, Jackson leads Wofford in steals per game at 1.75, recording three in the Terriers’ most recent matchup alone where he additionally contributed 12 points and eight rebounds to the cause. A 6-foot-8, 250-pound presence, Jackson registered 45 blocks as a junior ranking him second in program history.

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Garrett sat out the NIT Season Tip-Off final against thenNo. 5 Tennessee on Nov. 23 due to concussion protocol, but was back in action against Stanford. The 6-foot-5, 195-pound guard played a season-high 33 minutes against the Cardinal, contributing four points on 2-for-5 shooting, as well as four steals on the defensive end.

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Lagerald Vick Men's Basketball

Trailing 72-75 with 12 seconds remaining Saturday night against Stanford, senior guard Lagerald Vick knocked down a heavily contested three to send the game to overtime, where he went on an 11-0 run to hand the Cardinal a 90-84 loss. Keeping the hot hand from behind the arc, Vick finished 7-of-11 from three-point range in a 27-point performance on the night.

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In only his second season as a Terrier, Alumna has battled his way into the starting five after contributing off the bench for the majority of last season. Averaging 28.5 minutes per game, the Berlin, Maryland, native is shooting a lights-out .793 from the floor, though only putting up an average 7.1 points per game.

Kate Steward

Swimming Competing at the USA Swimming Winter National Championship at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in North Carolina, freshman Kate Steward posted a lifetime-best mark of 2:32.70 in the 200-meter breaststroke B Final, earning a silver medal and an Olympic Trial qualifying time. Steward additionally swam a career-best 1:11.05 time in the 100-meter breaststroke C Final, finishing fifth in the event.