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THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904

Finding support as a student parent EMILY WELLBORN

$600-$800 a month.

O’Neal hopes Hawks with Hawklets can help student parents learn about scholarship and campus opportunities, while also building a stronger sense of community.

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ollege can be difficult enough for students trying to support only themselves, but it can become even more complex when there is someone else relying on them. Parents attending the University, in turn, rely on their community to graduate.

“It truly does take a village for a stay-at-home mom to go back to school,” said Shannon Swayne, who is studying history and has a 15-year-old daughter named Julia.

Swayne said that due to the right circumstances, and family and friends that were willing to help with her schedule, she is able to earn her degree.

Unfortunately, not all parents have the same opportunities, but a new group on campus is hoping to be a place where student parents can meet and talk about the challenges of being a parent while attending school.

The group, Hawks with Hawklets, will have their first meeting on Feb. 24 in the Big 12 room of the Kansas Union.

Being involved on campus is important to founder Melissa O’Neal, who is earning a degree in community health and has a 7-year-old son named Kypton.

“I wanted to be involved in campus groups, but it

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It truly does take a village for a stay at home mom to go back to school.”

Shannon Swayne Student parent

Miranda Clark-Ulrich/KANSAN Melissa O’Neal, mother to 7-year-old Kypton, founded ‘Hawks with Hawlets’ to help other student parents.

was hard to find groups that worked well with kids because a lot of times I have to bring my child with,” O’Neal said. “They didn’t fit that need that I had.”

After a push from her adviser, Destiny Watkins, O’Neal decided to create the group where all parents, whether biological, adoptive or foster, can be included in the University community and to learn about different options, like finances, that are available to them.

The non-traditional student senator Frank McGuinness has also had help while going to school. McGuinness’s parents both work for the University and are willing to help with his three children so that he can study and focus on getting into dental school.

“My having the phenomenal support system that I do allows me to become involved on campus maybe to a degree that the average student who has kids

wouldn’t be able to,” McGuinness said.

He also said that some aspects of earning his degree can be more of a challenge for non-traditional students, such as a parking pass or campus fees, especially when many parents who go back to school don’t have time to have a job.

When McGuinness took a class at the Edwards campus, he was shocked by the new campus fee he had to pay, even though he already

paid Lawrence campus fees. “$450 is a lot of money to anybody ... but with three kids, that’s quite a few birthday and Christmas presents that, you know, I have to absorb or that I could theoretically purchase if I didn’t have that fee,” McGuinness said.

McGuinness said that there are financial aid options for student parents, but they might not cover enough, especially when child care can cost between

“It allows us a place where we can come together and talk with people who are in the same situation as us to see how they are managing school and life and kids — I guess to have fun together and kind of build relationships and not feel like we are the only ones going through this,” O’Neal said. “It’s kind of like an extension to KU so that we can feel like we’re really involved.”

O’Neal, like Swayne and McGuinness, came back to school after not being sure what she wanted to do as a career. Now, she feels she has a new reason to earn her degree.

“It can be challenging," she said. "But at the same time it’s motivating — like he’s my motivation to do this, to have a better future.”

Judge: KU not a factor in the alleged rape of former rower CHANDLER BOESE @Chandler_Boese

Contributed photo Zoya Khan, a sophomore from Overland Park, Tomas Green, a senior from Seattle and Victoria Snitsar, a junior from Santa Clara, California, speak at the campaign launch for KUnited on Feb. 12 at Daisy Hill Commons.

KUnited talks platforms, pillars at Student Senate coalition launch DARBY VANHOUTAN @darbyvanhoutan

Student Senate campaign season saw a new coalition form on Sunday afternoon and a new coalition name to go with it: KUnited.

KUnited’s campaign launch was held at Daisy Hill commons and served as a space for a group

of student senators and non-student senators alike to brainstorm ideas for their coalition and its spot in the upcoming election.

Student involvement was a common theme at the launch. Tomas Green, a senior from Seattle, Washington, was a main contributor at the event and spoke about how his involvement helped to steer him in the

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direction he is now, running with the KUnited coalition.

“Student Senate was one of those things that really transformed my perspective and made me love public policy,” Green said. “I love this work. That’s why I’m doing this.”

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A Title IX lawsuit against the University, which claims that it mishandled the alleged rape of a former Kansas rower, was dismissed in part Friday.

The rower, Daisy Tackett, is suing the University on grounds that it created the circumstances that contributed to her sexual assault and that it mishandled the case once she reported it to the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access.

A judge ruled that the University did not contribute to the alleged assault, as Tackett claims, and dismissed that part of the suit. The claim that the University did not properly handle the situation afterward, however, will move forward.

According to the sum-

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mary ruling by Chief District Judge J. Thomas Marten, Tackett has argued that by placing football players in Jayhawker Towers, where the alleged rape occurred, and encouraging the rowers to cheer on the team, the University contributed to the circumstances that led to her alleged assault.

Marten ruled that these actions on the part of the University were not direct or extensive enough to contribute to the assault, as policies at other universities have been shown to do.

“But these alleged policies played no part in plaintiff’s rape,” Marten wrote in the ruling. “Encouraging attendance and cheering at football games is not the equivalent of pairing female students with recruits to show them a good time.”

Tackett’s other allega-

tions, including that the University did not properly handle the case after it was reported, that her rowing coach made sexbased comments about her and that the University retaliated against her after the assault was reported, will move forward in court.

Tackett's lawyer, Dan Curry, said via email Saturday, "The Tackett family is pleased on the whole with the court's ruling and looks forward to investigating KU's conduct."

Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, director of news and media relations for the University, said the University was happy with the judge's decision to dismiss parts of the lawsuit.

"Moving forward, we are confident the court will agree that we've fulfilled our obligations to Ms. Tackett," Barcomb-Peterson said via email.

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KU prioritizing action, communication over sanctuary campus designation KATIE BERNARD @KatieBernard15

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wenty-eight college campuses across the country have declared themselves "sanctuary campuses," or colleges that extend special protection to undocumented and immigrant students. The University of Kansas has taken a different approach.

The University’s faculty, administration and Student Senate are working to provide support and assistance to at risk students through statements, Student Senate legislation and direct help to international students.

Through various statements from the chancellor and the provost, the University administration has worked to send a message of support to undocumented and international students. Meanwhile, Student Senate has passed a variety of resolutions expressing support for international and undocumented students.

“We feel these groups are under attack,” said Connor Birzer, Student Senate communications director.

“We need to say that we value these members of our community.”

A current senate resolution, which just passed through committees, urges Kansas senators to support the federal Bridge Act legislation. This resolution would help protect undocumented students who fall under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA).

“We are working to find tangible remedies to the problem,” Birzer said.

Student Senate passed

a resolution in November urging Lawrence to become a sanctuary city. Birzer also said that he believed the University becoming a sanctuary campus would be a positive step. He said the University should follow the example set by other universities in this matter through limited compliance with legal entities when international and undocumented students are at risk.

“We need to be sure that KU remains a place where people have access to higher education regardless of their citizen status or where they’re from,” Birzer said.

The University is not currently a sanctuary campus, but the administration has spoken out in support of students and faculty are working to aid at-risk students.

At a broader level, Charles Bankart, interim associate vice provost of International Programs, said he is trying to find tangible remedies through working with international and outof-status students affected by the President Trump’s executive order.

“We’re trying to keep students informed and actively reach out to them to let them know what we know, what we don’t know and how they need to protect themselves from the impact of the executive order,” Bankart said.

Bankart also said he has found this task especially important in regards to out-of-status students, who came to the country legally but have lost that status for one reason or another. Bankart does not work with undocumented students in his position, but said there is

Sarah Wright/KANSAN Activists protest President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration at Kansas City International Airport on Jan. 28.

little that the University can do to directly help or hinder these students.

“The institution is in a really interesting place because we don’t know who our undocumented students are,” Bankart said.

The University does not require students to show documentation in order to enroll. An undocumented student would only be inclined to reveal that status if they registered for the benefits granted under DACA. That information is held by the federal government, not the University.

Federal action under the Trump administration has not yet been taken regarding these students.

“It’s hard to comment on something that doesn’t exist,” Bankart said.

The government also holds a wealth of information in regards to international students, as the process they undergo to attend school in the U.S. is overseen by the U.S. Depart-

ment of State and Homeland Security.

With this in mind, Bankart is unsure what it means to be a sanctuary school, as many interpretations of the term suggest that universities would refuse to provide student information to the government.

“There are two contexts there that don’t exist right now,” Bankart said. “One is there hasn’t been any executive action … that would require us to provide information, and two we would have to make a decision not to provide it. I don’t know that we even have the information they would ask us to provide in the first place.”

Bankart said the University can only do so much to protect students on campus from the outside world.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is working to pass legislation that would allow the Kansas Highway Patrol to target drivers they believe may be illegal immigrants. The University,

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even if it were to become a sanctuary campus, has no authority to protect a student who encounters this off-campus.

“I am concerned about creating a false sense of security where institutions are claiming that they are protecting, and they don’t have the ability to protect,” Bankart said.

Bankart added the University should continue on the path it is on of reaching out to and assisting students.

“It’s one thing to protect students and another thing to help them protect themselves,” Bankart said.

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With warm weather on the horizon, the flu can be a cruel reminder that winter isn’t over quite yet, especially for the large numbers of University students currently coming down with the illness.

A Watkins Health Center official said influenza has sent a number of students at the University to Watkins with flu-like symptoms. The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Center said this flu season has been relatively typical thus far, but also said the peak of the flu season is approaching.

Those in Kansas and Missouri may want to consider getting a vaccination, even this late in the season, according to Watkins Health Provider Pavika Saripalli. Both states and 13 others have reported high numbers of outpatients with flu-like symptoms, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Saripalli said 102 students reported flu-like symptoms at Watkins last week.

Kansas and Missouri both sit at level 10, the highest level of severity, according to the CDC website. Other states include

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Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Wyoming.

The state data is gathered through physicians around the U.S. who report patients with flu-like symptoms to ILINET, a CDC network which tracks influenza-like illness, according to the CDC website.

In the state of Kansas, during the last week of January over 8 percent of visits to ILINET-participating providers were for flu-like symptoms, according to the CDC. Influenza-like symptoms include a fever over 100 degrees, coughing and/ or a sore throat.

Saripalli said a large number of flu cases began arriving at Watkins after a quiet winter break.

“We weren’t seeing the CDC and state numbers be-

cause not many people were on campus through the break,” she said. “Martin Luther King weekend onward we’ve seen very large numbers of cases.”

She said students who believe they are experiencing symptoms can benefit from Tamiflu, if taken within three days after seeing symptoms.

“Tamiflu has been working well. It tends to differ year to year, but it’s working well,” she said. “If you are seen after day four, Tamiflu may not work for you. If you’re still sick in seven-to-ten days you may need a regular antibiotic for infection.”

Director of Epidemiology at the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department Mary Beverly said the CDC data raise some concerns,

but does not necessarily spell disaster.

“Sometimes when you see the red, it can be alarming,” she said. “Right now we’re in line with seasonal flu and what it does every year.”

Beverly said the flu can still be an issue for the very young, old or those who are immunocompromised.

Saripalli recommends washing hands, washing shared equipment and isolating yourself when sick.

She said the vaccine is still an option as well.

“The flu vaccine has been effective this year," she said. "People with the vaccine can still get the flu, but not nearly as bad as other people."

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For food delivery, KU students turn to apps EMILY WELLBORN @Em_wellborn

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ith limited time and dining options, many students are using food apps to save time and make their lives more convenient.

The new Joy Run app is joining the ranks of Tapingo and EatStreet, all apps that partner with local Lawrence businesses and KU dining services to make money and make students’ hectic schedules easier.

“Either it’s the inability to get somewhere or the time to get somewhere and so these entrepreneurs have figured out a way to capitalize on that," said Alecia Stultz, assistant director of retail dining.

“I think with the apps in general, once one person came out with one or one

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company came out with one, everybody had to have one.”

The University Dining services is partnered with Tapingo, a third-party service that allows customers to order their food early and pick it up without waiting in lines for a fee.

The company is planning on rolling out delivery services in the next few weeks. Couriers like these

have been around since the 1990s, and she said that these new apps are fulfilling these same needs in a different form.

The University’s Dining services decided to partner with JoyRun because it is designed for college campuses. It has appeared on other college campuses, like Ohio State University and Texas Tech University.

The company started promoting their app in January and is available at 23 campuses nationwide, including the University.

Justin Turner, a senior who is a campus representative for the app, says that the company hopes to expand to 50 campuses total by the end of the year.

“I definitely see the company expanding even more,” said Turner. “I

think at the rate they are going they will exceed that number.”

Joy Run makes their money by tacking on a delivery fee of, at most, $5 to the retail price of the food, depending on what time the order was placed.

Whomever is making the food run will pay for the food and then be reimbursed by the app.

Tapingo and Eatstreet

work similarly. The restaurant gets the full price of their products without having to split profits with the apps.

“It’s been great,” said Deb Tagtalianidis, the owner of the Mad Greek restaurant in downtown Lawrence. “They’ve been good to us.”

Mad Greek has been using Eatstreet for the last six months after being approached by a marketing representative. She said she wanted to try out the app because the restaurant didn’t have an online option and wanted to expand its customer base.

Tagtalianidis thinks that more apps like these will be coming in the future.

“There’s probably going to be more and more of them,” Tagtalianidis said.

Why some students choose to tie the knot and some don’t HAILEY DIXON @_hailey_dixon

For most students, the Campanile is simply a reminder of campus traditions. But for others, it can be a reminder of wedding bells.

Despite recent studies pointing toward people waiting until later in life, some University students still choose to get married while in college.

“People are indeed marrying later, especially women,” Kevin McCannon, a sociology lecturer, said in an email. “I think the average is 28.”

McCannon said he thinks this is due to women being decreasingly dependent on men for their economic well-being.

“Opportunities in the workforce have become more available to women, not just any opportunities, but leadership positions and high wage, high skill occupations like medicine, engineering and law,” he said.

However, McCannon said that he thinks being married in college is positive for some couples.

“Although, as someone who was married throughout his entire graduate career, my work quality never suffered, and in fact, I felt motivated to do well and succeed, because I had another person depending on that success, to an extent,” he said. “I might be an anomaly.”

High school sweethearts Jon and Rachel Podschun, both juniors from Winfield,

LAUNCH FROM PAGE 1 Zoya Khan, a sophomore from Overland Park, also hosted the campaign launch and talked about the importance of inclusion to the coalition.

“Diversity and inclusion cannot be limited to a single platform issue,” Khan said. “This is a conversation that needs to happen in every single policy idea, every single conversation that we have surrounding this campaign.”

The name “KUnited” received the most votes to become the coalition’s name. Barack Chalk and

tied the knot in December.

Rachel said that they fell in love in high school and have been together ever since.

“We definitely talked about it [getting married],” she said.

“It’s not a hasty decision,” Jon said about getting married younger and in college.

The couple said that transitioning from dating to engagement to marriage was not a huge difference, as they had been living together prior to their wedding.

“The only thing with marriage is that if you get mad, you can’t leave,” Rachel said. “This is forever.”

The couple said that they think people should not be so negative about others that get married young in life.

“I feel like there’s just a stigma if you’re settled down in college, you’re weird,” she said.

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his wife Karla Gonzalez, a senior, have been in each other's lives for a while, as they met in middle school, before they decided to date.

They married in September 2015.

Gonzalez said that people are always surprised that she and her husband have done so much while still being students.

“Most college kids are broke, for you to be like, ‘You got married, you went on a cruise, you’re doing so much and you’re still in college,' that’s kind of crazy,” Gonzalez said.

The pair lives on campus and is currently enjoying their married life.

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nior Alex Robinson and his husband, Luis Lopez-Santiago, recently tied the knot, in January.

“Honestly, it’s very odd [getting married young] because it’s usually straight couples who tend to get married very young,” Robinson said. “I only know of one or maybe two other gay couples our age, and they don’t even live here.”

The couple met in 2013 and moved in together in Lawrence in November 2013. They will have been together for four years in April 2017. The engagement and marriage took place within two months, Lopez-Santiago said.

Though getting mar-

ried in college is not ideal for every relationship, the couples who did choose to tie the knot early in life are happy with their decisions.

“At the end of it, find someone that makes you happy, and don’t do it for everybody else,” Lopez-Santiago said. “Because if this person’s right for you, they’re more important than even family, I would say.”

For sophomore Carley Blevins, who met her boyfriend, Zach Shepherd, in an English 102 class last spring, waiting to get married until later on in life makes more sense to her now.

“Marriage is obviously a huge commitment,” she said.

She said that she thinks that students like her can be independent and become financially stable prior to a wedding.

“It’s personally really important, especially being in college, and only being a sophomore in college, I think it’s really important to live out your college life independently,” she said.

“I feel like this is really the time to accentuate our independence and figure out who we are personally like as individuals before we completely commit to another person.”

Junior Aaron Morris and

United Students were also suggested at the event.

However, Victoria Snitsar, a junior from Santa Clara, California, felt KUnited fit the goal of the coalition.

“Our message is uniting students,” Snitsar said.

“It’s part of our name.

We’ve seen a lot of division both nationally and on campus, so that’s our main message.”

Every student who voted on the name, either for or against the eventual winner, joined the newly formed coalition. Voting on decisions like this one serves as a binding contract to be part of the coalition, according to Student Senate Rules and Regulations. Those who

abstained from voting on a name have no obligation or link to the coalition and are free to explore other options, according to the same rule.

A central theme of the launch was the contribution of ideas from students. Justin Kim, a junior from Derby, touched on student participation and what he hopes students will bring to the coalition.

“We’re only as strong as the people we hear from and participate with us,” Kim said. “The more ideas and the more input and vantage points we have to see for issues, the better we’ll be.”

The second campaign launch of the election

season, this event laid out KUnited’s pillars: diversity and inclusion, advocacy and governance.

Green, Snitsar and Khan presented these pillars and described them as the most important part of their coalition.

Platforms of affordability, success, community and sustainability were also promoted at the launch.

Green emphasized that although both are important and will work together, the pillars and platforms are different.

“There’s a difference between platforms and pillars,” Green said.

“Pillars are what we stand on. They’re the things we

want to encourage in our community. Then there are the actual platforms. The actual things we are going to run on.”

Along with discussing pillars and platforms, the coalition nominated and approved Emma Anderson, a senior from Lindsborg, as the Election Commission Liaison. Anderson, who saw no competition in her election as a liaison, will serve as the go-between for KUnited and the Elections Commission. Similarly to coalition name, those who participated in the liaison vote are also officially part of the coalition.

Although KUnited filed paperwork for the campaign launch, they

have yet to form official coalition paperwork with the Elections Commission, according to Snitsar.

Along with filing official paperwork, nominating a president and vice president are the next steps for any coalition and are likely to be voted on at their next meeting this Thursday.

“I’ve been a part of change at this University,” Green said. “I’ve seen what committed students can do to make a difference here.

That’s why I’m excited to get started on this process.”

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The only thing with marriage is that if you get mad, you can’t leave. This is forever.”

Rachel Podschun Junior

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People who get caught up in the stupid little arbitrary details in class discussion are the worst.

If you’re not killing each other à la Lord of the Flies, then you’re fine.

Mixing more than three cold medications is for people who want to have a bad time.

It’s been a 4 margarita type of week.

Libertarians: Republicans, but with weed Dominos just tried to make me buy a salad.

Like bitch no, who do you think I am?

I’m too lazy to take down my Christmas tree. It’s February.

My favorite day of the week is payday.

Honestly one of the basketball players held the door for me on my way in so I’ve been distracted this whole class.

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o discourage officers from abusing their power and to foster public trust in law enforcement, transparency is imperative. The Kansas leg-

islature jeopardized such transparency, however, with the introduction of a bill that would limit public access to police records.

As it stands, the bill would restrict public access of officers’ performance ratings, complaints filed against officers and records for investigation into an officer’s conduct at the discretion of the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.

People deserve to know about the conduct of local law enforcement. If an officer is under investigation or has a complaint filed against

them, the public has a right to know about it.

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People deserve to know about the conduct of local law enforcement.”

In the age of cell phone vigilantism, people are beginning to document abuses by law enforcement. Keeping police records open and accessible would serve as another check on any police

misconduct. Limiting public access to police records could lead some officers to believe they are immune to public scrutiny and that they can get away with abuses of power.

At the end of June, Lawrence Police Chief Tarik Khatib will resign. According to the City of Lawrence police chief recruiting package, the next police chief must have a “desire for transparency and openness to the public.”

This desire cannot be limited to the police chief; it must be present among law enforcement across the state. If this bill becomes

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law, the CPOST must allow accessibility to the records they possess. If they do not, the secrecy of state law enforcement has the potential to erode public trust. To improve relations between the public and law enforcement, transparency needs to be a top priority.

WILL ADMUSSEN @wadmussen

There she is. How beautiful is the figure of thy fair maiden promenading across Jayhawk Boulevard. A true princess — eyes dark and strong like Princess Xena’s, yet her face as soft and supple as Princess Zelda’s.

But, alas! She is so often seen at the arm of some knave. Listen to him – he drones on about his time at The Hawk. If only you could demonstrate to her what a real man is like — by showing her the skills of your real hawk, Lykaios, whom you have trained to fetch you Cheetos.

Have sorrow no more.

This Valentine’s Day you will finally win over thy fair lady.

Simply follow these steps and you shall have victory.

So, don your fedora, mount your moped and have faith, good sir.

First, explain to her how wretchedly the knaves she has been hanging around have been treating her (and they don’t even speak real Greek). To win this beautiful Lady of Potter’s Lake over, you will have to demonstrate the character of a true gentleman. You will have to show her that chivalry and honor are not dead. Show her that knighthood is not dead.

A true knight can never

actually be condescending.

Therefore, every chance you get, reassure her that you would treat her differently. That you will always be there to protect her with your two katana and collection of throwing stars. Remind her that with your stockpile of string cheese and Capri Sun she’ll never feel famished.

She, being a fine and honorable lady, should immediately fall into your arms.

If perchance your moral superiority over all other squires does not work, lure her in with your mystery and intelligence. Use phrases like “my mind is a maze — get lost in it with me” or “this is all just an anti-in-

tellectual quagmire” (but don’t actually explain what “this” is). Demonstrate your intelligence by explaining to her that her major won’t have any effect on the world, that her career is ultimately meaningless in the vast cosmos of existence.

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Therefore, every chance you get, reassure her that you would treat her differently.”

If on Valentine’s Day you are stood up at Chili’s, you should give the fair lady a

chance to apologize to you, reminding her that you’re a true knight and will always be there for her if she wants to apologize for her stubborn attitude and for not responding to your messages on Blackboard.

If you follow this advice and act like a true gentlesir does, then you should have no problems going from calling the girl “that fair lady” to “m’lady.”

Will Admussen is a senior from Urbandale, Iowa, studying political science and economics.

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Here’s advice for those wanting to get a little kinky this Valentine’s Day HAILEY DIXON @_hailey_dixon

For couples who may want to try out some new things this Valentine’s Day, sex experts recommended safety tips and gave advice within the realm of bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism — or BDSM — and other non-traditional sexual practices.

“Part of what the turn-on with BDSM is, is there’s a little risk involved,” said Dennis L. Detweiler, a certified sex therapist in Lawrence. “There’s a little bit of surrendering, giving up, power control.”

BDSM encompasses a wide range of sexual activities, according to Meagan Collins, Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center prevention educator. These activities can also be referred to as kink, Collins said.

BDSM can include individuals tying up partners, choking them, dressing up and role-playing, using sex toys or devices like clamps or whips. BDSM can involve a couple, or a triad, depending on the situation, Detweiler said.

Within acts of BDSM, there is typically a dominant and submissive role.

“When we’re talking about dominant and submissive, one is usually more in charge of that than the other,” Detweiler said. “One is doing the tying up and the directing.

They still, in the bigger sense, keep in context who their partner is but even though they are doing that, they can role-play the dominant and submissive.”

Adam Reeves, a senior from Pleasant Hill, Missouri, who participates in BDSM and other forms of kink play, said it’s actually been a rewarding experience. Now, he lectures and gives workshop on safe practices and other issues in the BDSM community. Reeves said that he wants to increase the prevalence and understanding of BDSM, and inform those who participate in the play to practice safety and consent.

“So I think that it’s this idea that it doesn’t have to be this scary ‘Halloween’ interaction that is sort of deviant,” Reeves said. “But it’s this idea of something that’s less mainstream that shows a profound level of emotional, physical connection and trust between two individuals or more.”

Other college students may not realize that they are participating in BDSM or being kinky within their sexual relationships, Collins said.

“Whether college students know that they are participating in kink or not, many of them probably are, even if it’s like things you might consider on the more vanilla (not as kinky) end of the spectrum,” Collins said.

Before experimenting in BDSM play, Detweiler said

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BDSM can involve a couple, or a triad, depending on the situation.

it’s very important to know one’s partner or partners well.

“Doing this takes an enormous amount of trust,” Detweiler said. “It takes an enormous amount of communication and negotiating.

It should be tried by people who are very clear who they are doing it with.”

If individuals want to incorporate elements of BDSM in their relationship, Detweiler said that it is crucial to develop a plan to keep men-

tal health in check during the acts.

“The safety is really not about avoiding hurt, because hurt is part of it often. It’s about not having harm,” Detweiler said. “How do you not do long-term damage, either to the relationship or to the people involved? You have to take care of all of those.”

Safe words should also be used during BDSM, so a partner can withdraw consent if need be.

“Many folks that practice BDSM would say that they practice better consent because it is such a fundamental underpinning of kink,” Collins said.

Collins advises couples that participate in any sexual activity, including BDSM, to talk with their partner about what will happen before the acts. Collins said that Scarleteen, a sex education website for young people, has a checklist that she recommends couples use.

“It has a whole list of body boundaries, relationship models and choices, and safer sex behaviors,” she said. “This is the kind of things that I tell students to talk about with each other during any kind of sexual engagement. So some things on the checklist say, ‘You know I’m comfortable with direct eye contact,’ or ‘I’m comfortable having part of my body sexualized,’

or ‘I’m comfortable with the lights being on.’”

Collins said consent and discussion need to be continued during the play, so a partner can be allowed to withdraw consent during sex if they feel uncomfortable or harmed.

“Just because someone agreed to something prior to the engagement doesn’t mean that they have to agree to it currently or during,” she said.

After the activity, individuals participating in BDSM should check in with their partner to see what each thought about the engagement, Collins said.

If an individual feels harmed or that they were assaulted, Collins said that is when one should seek a counselor. Partners, she said, can usually tell the difference between discomfort with an act and assault.

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A new perspective on KU basketball BRIANNA CHILDERS @breeanuhh3

Aries (March 21-April 19) There’s an expansion phase for the next two days. Plan an adventure.

You can sell your idea today, so ask for what you want. Luck favors initiative here.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Don’t believe everything you see or hear. Accept (and use) the gifts you’ve been given. Still, take plenty of pictures to share. Truth is stranger than fiction.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) Trust your partner and your intuition. Hold off on making financial decisions until tomorrow. Avoid traveling for now. Consider an outrageous request.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) There could be conflict between private and public obligations. You gain experience points by taking new territory. Pinch pennies, even if just for sport.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Honor a family tradition.

Don’t restrain your creative impulses today. Your imagination makes you quite attractive. Do your homework first, and then go play.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your family and home require more attention. Don’t stress about what is out of order, just get into action.

Reward yourself after. A massage would be nice.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Your ability to concentrate gets enhanced now, but patience may be required.

Get in communication with someone who you haven’t heard from in a while.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Don’t lose what you have to get more. Invest in the highest quality. Adapt to the many changes. Your flexibility helps get you out of a bind.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You’re on top of your game now, which is a good thing given the challenges ahead. Choose privacy over publicity and the most practical road.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Hang out around home, and keep it mellow. Slow and steady wins the race.

Conserve resources. Listen to the whole story. There’s a lot to think about.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You’re becoming wiser and more popular. Organize your time well. Your friends could help you solve the problem. Crowd-source the answer. Then have the party at your house.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) The next few days are good for making decisions.

Be careful not to deplete your coffers. Save caustic comments for another day.

You’re appreciated more than you know.

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any may say they’ve seen every inch of Allen Fieldhouse. But Brian Wise, a senior trombone player for the Kansas basketball band, has given people a unique view into what it’s like to be sitting in the band section during a Kansas basketball game.

Wise, from Wichita, has been a part of the KU marching and basketball band since his freshman year of college.

That year, he said he won a GoPro after entering a drawing on Wescoe Beach.

He actually won the GoPro two hours before the band was leaving for the Big 12 Tournament. Since it was his first time at the tournament, he decided to document it. He posts the videos on his Instagram account — @bwise42.

His videos vary in length.

Some of the videos Wise has posted include him playing in the band section at basketball games, KU football games, and most recently, he showed people what it’s like to perform on the James Naismith Court during a halftime show.

Wise’s videos have also been posted on the University’s Instagram account and on the University’s twitter.

“I figured it would be cool to get my perspective and to have that saved for myself after I graduate,” Wise said.

Sharon Toulouse, assistant director of band, said Wise’s GoPro is hysterical and a great recruiting opportunity.

“They get to see and feel what it’s like in pep band or

Missy Minear/KANSAN Senior Brian Wise, trombone player in the men’s basketball pep band, attaches a GoPro to his instrument. His videos gives his followers a chance to experience a basketball game in the persepctive of a band member.

marching band,” she said.

“I think something really unique we do is move the horns and create energy with it, and they see it from a different perspective.”

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I figured it would be cool to get my perspective and to have that saved for myself after I graduate.”

Brian Wise Senior trombone player

Wise said he hopes what people get out of watching his videos is for them to get a new perspective from the band, see what the basketball band gets to do and see how

much fun it is.

Wise has been involved in the KU marching and basketball band since his freshman year, but his love for band started in elementary school.

“In fifth grade, I saw the middle school band play at a school Christmas concert and thought, that’s really cool,” Wise said. “The band director looked at me, and said, ‘You’re going to play trombone,’ and I said ‘Great.’”

Wise said what drew him to join the band at the University was the quality of the basketball band and watching them on television when he was growing up. He decided to audition after joining the Marching Jayhawks, a process that starts every year in mid September.

Wise said the audition consists of a prepared section, sight reading and a full chromatic scale.

“It’s a blind audition, which is really the only way I got in as a freshman because otherwise seniors would have taken it,” Wise said.

“The seniors were really mad at me when I made it.”

Toulouse said Wise stands out because he has an energy that never quits and is very animated with his horn moves.

“The passion in him and his love of being in the band is apparent,” Toulouse said.

“I am thankful to have that in the band.”

Beside playing trombone in the band, Wise also plays guitar, writes music, likes to read and is involved in an or-

ganization called Young Life.

“Young Life is a missional organization that reaches out to middle school, high school and college kids to tell them about Jesus,” he said. “I work with middle school guys, and they can be a handful, but it’s something I really like to do.”

After graduation, he hopes to get a job working as a consultant in Kansas City, so that he can be close to KU basketball. He also said the alumni band is something that he would be interested in a few years down the road.

“The reason I’m still at KU is because of the marching band,” Wise said. “I had a terrible first semester and having 280 friends before school even started was what really got me through that semester and made me stay.”

The battle to create Numbe Whageh BRITTANIE SMITH @britters__smith

During a talk about the struggles of the indigenous people of New Mexico, a visiting Phi Beta Kappa scholar illustrated the struggle she faced in the 10-year span of creating her land art piece Numbe Whageh The talk took place at the Spencer Museum of Art, Thursday night. The artist, sculptor and writer, Nora Naranjo Morse, spoke to the Lawrence community during a visit to the University on Feb. 9 and 10.

As Albuquerque’s first land art piece, Numbe Whageh is based on the love and respect for the Earth, Morse said. This stretch of land is 60 feet by 60 feet, and at its highest point is nine feet above sidewalk level, and six feet below sidewalk level at the lowest point. It was meant to represent a kiva, which was historically a place, in Pueblo culture, where ceremonies for restoring one’s self were held.

Morse said it was important to her for this to be a place of restoration and peace.

“This place is wild with all of this life,” Morse said.

The words “numbe whageh,” Morse said, come from the Tewa language that is indigenous to six Pueblo tribes found in the New Mexico area. Numbe means “us” or “our.” Whageh means “the

Andrew Rosenthal/KANSAN Sculptor, writer and filmmaker Nora Naranjo Morse talked about her project she had worked on for the last ten years, Numbe Whageh.

center of one’s self,” which can be a person’s soul or the physical center of something.

She said she collected rocks from different tribes and indigenous plants to place in the whageh, and even had native female artists carve into a few of them, since she said traditionally Pueblo people are a matriarchal society.

As an indigenous woman, Morse was asked by the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico to collaborate on a public art piece with an Anglo artist and a Hispanic artist for the city. The goal, she said, was to bring together the three different cultures. After agreeing to do the project, she said she quickly realized that this would be an uphill battle due to the history between the

groups.

In the 16th century, conquistador Don Juan de Oñate was creating European settlements in northern New Mexico where many of these Pueblo tribes resided.

The city wanted to romanticize Oñate, who historically brought few positive things to the state, but those positives were greatly overshadowed, she said, by the anguish and slavery that were also brought into these communities.

After conducting research that included talking to members of indigenous communities, Morse said she needed to come to terms with a lot of internal grief before she could bring the project to the public.

“Different suits, different

time, but same colonization, same oppression,” Morse said.

Morse said the city wanted her to get on board with the idea even though it was deeply distressing to the indigenous people who lived in that area, so she split paths with the other artists and decided to create her own work of art.

She prolonged and resisted the idea for the collaborative art piece for so long because she didn’t want to contribute and continue the trend of oppression to her people.

“How to navigate [the struggles of the project] as a native person was intriguing to me, because I not only had to deal with bureaucracy and administration aspects, but

also my community and different people’s perceptions of one another,” Morse said.

Though the present times are slightly different, Morse said that it is still easy to be seen as the “other” and often be marginalized.

“What Phi Beta Kappa has done is made me move forward with that. What I have to offer is important. I think that is huge for us, so that we can start dealing with each other as human beings, not the ‘other,’” Morse said.

Norman Akers, an associate professor in the Department of Visual Arts, is a friend of Morse’s and introduced her talk at the Spencer.

“Her work enriches people,” Akers said. “It comes from the Earth, the place indigenous people call home.”

During the talk, Morse said the sculpture that the other artists created is of Oñate, and it casts a shadow near the exit of Numbe Whageh. To her, it represents that Oñate’s destruction to these communities will always be present in their history. Although their heritage will always be shadowed by the past, Morse said she remains hopeful.

“I am a woman of color,” Morse said. “I am a native woman who has taken her own path, and I’ve had to deal with the cards that have been arbitrarily dealt. I will always resist.”

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Professor’s work highlights history of race in U.S. HANNAH COLEMAN @hecoleman33

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s a professor of African and African-American Studies, Shawn Alexander’s work and teaching aims to bring light to the influential activists and thinkers of the past.

Alexander writes books that surround the American history of racial issues and racial conflict. He has published five books with two in progress.

Alexander emphasized the importance of drawing parallels between historical racial conflicts and the political climate that exists today.

“I would say one of the most frustrating things about what I’ve studied and taught is the realization of how the American people are not honest with themselves about the issues of race and racism and its centrality to the American experience,” Alexander said. “And how we keep dealing with the same issues, because America continues to deny that race and racism matter. And in doing that, we fail to overcome our past.”

Alexander said the recent election and the reappearance of white supremacist and racist ideas have striking semblances to the issues of the past. He also said he thinks that there is now a space for people to feel comfortable in expressing racist ideas.

Alexander said he recognized the importance of understanding issues of race and the historical figures that initiated action on behalf of these issues early on in his life. He pursued African and African American studies in college right away.

Initially, he was intrigued by apartheid in South Africa, as it was frequently in the news, and he soon became involved in the anti-apartheid movement and began reading about South Africa and its apartheid system.

As his studies progressed, Alexander found he was more intrigued in the history of African-American political thought rather than the African side, and focused his research on that subject area. After completing his doctorate in African and African-American studies at the University of Massachu-

Sarah Wright/KANSAN African and African-American Studies professor Shawn Alexander works to create conversations about racial issues and conflict.

setts-Amherst, Alexander moved on to teach at several other universities including Yale and Gettysburg College.

Then, Alexander decided to come to the University, looking forward to the opportunity to focus on African and African American studies exclusively. He was also drawn to the large group of people outside of his department that dealt with issues of race and culture.

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American people are not honest with themselves about the issues of race and racism and its centrality to the American experience.”

Shawn Alexander Professor of African and African-American Studies

“That’s a unique situation to have on any campus, to have that many people,” Alexander said. “So I found it as a place that I could possibly do work and find a good intellectual home.”

Along with extensive research, Alexander has written books covering the subjects of the writings and thoughts of T. Thomas Fortune, including “An Army of Lions,” “Reconstruction Vi-

olence and the Ku Klux Klan Hearings,” “The Aftermath of Slavery,” and “W.E.B du Bois: An American Intellectual and Activist.” His current projects center around Booker T. Washington, another African-American intellectual, and a larger project that writes on a new perspective on the history of the NAACP in the 1930s.

Alexander said he can link the events surrounding the NAACP in 1930s to events occurring in 2017.

Alexander points to how the recently confirmed Attorney General Jeff Sessions caused an uproar within the organization, as did the nomination of John Parker for the Supreme Court in 1929.

The NAACP protested both nominations — fighting both times to keep racism out of the government.

“The saddest thing to wrap our heads around is, how much have we changed if we’re arguing over the same issues?” Alexander said. “The links in the chain may be slightly different, but the chain is the same, and that’s frustrating, eye opening, but it’s also important for students to understand because history matters.

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In becoming the director of the Langston Hughes Center at the University, Alexander has created spaces for different communities to intermingle and discuss the problem of race.

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“Those discussions with Professor Alexander regarding that topic were so important, and I think really impacted a lot of people in the class,” Cole said. “The discussions challenged conventional stereotypes and helped us to understand all of the aspects involved in college athletes’ experiences, so we left with a more wholesome view and a greater level of understanding than we previously had.”

Along with monthly talks, the center has organized “diverse dialogues” that are held in the Lawrence Public Library every month over various issues. This month, the discussion will center around education and the achievement gaps.

“It’s been very rewarding to have these discussions where we’re bringing people, students and faculty and staff from campus are going down into the community and intermingling with people from the community to talk about these issues,” Alexander said. “Often times there’s too much of a divide between, as they say town and gown. And we’re trying to break that down because these issues effect us all.”

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Josh Jackson’s heroics save the day for Kansas BRIAN MINI

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n a back and forth game, with senior guard Frank Mason III on the bench for the final shot, freshman guard Josh Jackson took the reins for No. 3 Kansas against Texas Tech.

With five seconds left in a tied game, Jackson took advantage of senior center Landen Lucas’ pick and was fouled on an otherwise-unobstructed path to the basket.

Jackson made 1-of-2 free throws to give Kansas an 8079 win in Lubbock.

“Landen made a great screen which freed him and he had a head of steam driving it downhill,” coach Bill Self said in a postgame radio interview.

Jackson set a season-high with 31 points on an efficient 12-of-15 shooting. He also finished with 11 rebounds to give him another double-double, his fourth in the last five games.

“That was probably the most complete game he’s played since he’s been here,” Self said about Jackson’s performance in his postgame press conference.

One of Kansas’ biggest issues was foul trouble.

Mason fouled out with 3:05 in the game after only playing 26 minutes. He ended the game with just 12 points, five rebounds and no assists.

“We got 26 minutes from him before he fouled out,” Self said. “He wasn’t himself and that was pretty obvious.”

The other player who struggled with fouls was Lucas with four, although Lucas did contribute 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting and an important off-the-ball play to set up Jackson’s go-ahead free throws.

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That was probably the most complete game he’s played since he’s been here.”

Bill Self Kansas coach

Aside from Jackson and Lucas, there were only sparse contributions from other Jayhawks.

Junior guard Svi Myhailiuk had three three-pointers and fellow junior guard Devonte’ Graham had six assists, but they were a combined 5-of-18 shooting from

the floor.

Kansas was outrebounded 38-32, but the Jayhawks were able to keep it close because of their 40 percent three-point shooting.

“We couldn’t guard them and they couldn’t guard us,” Self said.

Kansas shot 49 percent for the game, while Texas Tech shot 48 percent.

One reason Kansas was able to keep the game close was the lack of turnovers.

The game was relatively clean on both sides, but Kansas only turned the ball over nine times.

Another was bench points. Texas Tech’s only bench points came from an Aaron Ross jumper in the first half.

The Jayhawks only had nine themselves, but sophomore guard Lagerald Vick had seven points, two of which came from a one handed dunk that gave Kansas a momentary lead late in the game.

Texas Tech hasn’t beat Kansas since March 4, 2009.

With the win, Kansas remains one game ahead of Baylor in the Big 12.

Kansas’ next game is at home against West Virginia on Feb. 13.

Associated Press Kansas’ Josh Jackson, top, dunks the ball during an NCAA basketball game against Texas Tech, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017 in Lubbock, Texas.

Dzwierzynski: It’s time to end cheerleading in the NFL BRENDAN DZWIERZYNSKI @BrendanDzw

Associated Press Kansas’ Frank Mason III celebrates with Josh Jackson after he scored the game-winning free throw during an NCAA basketball game against Texas Tech, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017 in Lubbock, Texas.

Rolstad: Tough road ahead SKYLAR ROLSTAD @SkyRolSports

A loss in Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday would have made plenty of sense.

It was a typical trap game: an away game against the third-to-last Big 12 team in Texas Tech before a formidable stretch where No. 3 Kansas faces No. 11 West Virginia and No. 6 Baylor.

It looked that way during the action, too.

Few things were similar to Kansas’ other games. Senior guard Frank Mason III actually played significantly fewer minutes than normal, as he fouled out after playing 26 minutes. However, if you had watched a single second of the game, you’d know that the day offered no rest for Mason. Mason recovered an initially slow performance by ending up with 12 points and five rebounds.

Despite the flipped script, Kansas heads back to Lawrence to take on the West Virginia Mountaineers with an 80-79 win in hand.

For once, Mason wasn’t out of this world. Jackson compensated — because some-

one had to — and Kansas claimed what should have been a routine conference win.

Saturday’s game might have trickled down to an exciting finish, but it was the most average game of the season for Kansas.

Some things never change for the Jayhawks.

Freshman guard Josh Jackson was still impressive, setting a season-high in points with 31 and sinking the game-winning free throw.

Kansas still allowed the opponent’s big man a career day. Texas Tech’s Zach Smith finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds.

Kansas had a tough day on the boards, losing the rebound battle to Texas Tech.

Kansas’ bench still lagged behind the production of the starters, though it ultimately didn’t affect which team won. Sophomore forward Carlton Bragg Jr. replaced senior center Landen Lucas for 12 minutes and recorded two points and two rebounds. Freshman forward Mitch Lightfoot’s audition as backup big was successful, but it looks to be over now that Bragg is back

from suspension.

The only two things the Jayhawks did differently were still not that out of the ordinary. Lucas reached double figures in scoring for the eighth time this season, notching 13 points.

What also looked a little odd was Kansas’ excellent shooting, despite the close score. Texas Tech almost accomplished the near-impossible task key to beating the Jayhawks: simply keeping pace. Kansas shot an outstanding 49 percent from the field on the day and shot 40 percent from three.

The Jayhawks survived the trap game, and that’s more than a lot of the leading teams in the nation this season can say for themselves.

At least Kansas fans know exactly what to expect from this Jayhawks team.

Whether the Big 12 title will be a race to the finish or a foregone conclusion will be determined in Kansas’ next two games, but this Kansas team continues to figure out how to win against tough Big 12 opposition.

Cheerleaders are commonplace in all levels of football. Just like you’re guaranteed to see overpriced concessions and coaches overthinking their game plans, seeing cheerleaders at football games is a near certainty. However, just because it’s a convention doesn’t mean it’s the way things should be.

Twenty-six NFL teams have their own cheerleading squads, and all 26 are named in an antitrust lawsuit filed against the league by the cheerleaders themselves days before Super Bowl LI. The suit alleges the NFL intentionally keeps the cheerleaders’ wages at a level so low they must support themselves by working day jobs in addition to their cheerleading duties.

In reality, there’s a very simple solution to this issue: get rid of cheerleaders in the NFL. From Pop Warner leagues through college football, it makes sense why there are cheerleaders. For younger kids, it’s an after-school activity, and like any other extracurricular it’s just a way to stay busy once classes end.

In college, where school spirit is a major part of the aura of the game, cheerleaders serve an important purpose by executing their namesake duty. But when it comes to the NFL, where the pomp and circumstance is almost nonexistent compared to the college game, there’s no good reason to have cheerleaders in this day and age.

Let’s not be naïve, the obvious reason most of these teams maintain cheerleading

Associated Press San Francisco 49ers cheerleaders perform during the first half of an NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals in Santa Clara, Calif. A former 49ers cheerleader filed a federal lawsuit on Jan. 31 alleging NFL executives and team owners are conspiring to suppress wages for cheerleaders.

squads is for the sex appeal.

Sex sells. We all know that.

The NFL, an organization that will make a dollar any way it can, is not above using its severely underpaid employees to make a quick buck.

Look all around the league, and you’ll see cheerleaders being marketed heavily while being compensated minimally. The Miami Dolphins publish a swimsuit calendar featuring their cheerleaders annually, as do the New Orleans Saints for their Saintsations cheerleading team, while the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders have their own TV show on CMT. Ignoring the financial implications for the NFL (because frankly the league isn’t going to suffer if its franchises no longer operate cheerleading teams), there’s no legitimate reason why you need to supply sex appeal on the sidelines every Sunday in the fall. No fans are going to games just to see cheerleaders, and if there are, they may need to reevaluate some priorities and discover the internet.

Considering the needlessness of actual cheerleading in the NFL, along with the blatant and equally unneces-

sary display of sex appeal, it’s hard to defend the current state of cheerleading in professional football. This is only exacerbated when you discover this isn’t even the first cheerleading-related lawsuit filed against the league and its franchises in the last four years.

Multiple lawsuits relating to wages for cheerleaders were filed in 2014. Obviously, this is an ongoing problem, one the NFL has dealt with for years. It doesn’t make sense to perpetually underpay cheerleaders and have nasty lawsuits pop up frequently when the problem could be solved by accepting the minuscule financial implications and clear PR benefits of ending cheerleading league-wide.

The NFL has enough headaches to deal with, the last thing it needs is another lawsuit from disgruntled employees. Once this lawsuit is resolved, it’s in the league’s best interest to stop employing cheerleaders. The NFL doesn’t even need to worry about the fans in this case (not that it often does); we probably won’t even notice the cheerleaders are gone, let alone actively miss them.

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INSIDE Chemistr y 101: How college students first fall in love Experts and students weigh in on the friend zone Looking to get kink y this Valentine’s Day? The experts’ guide to BDSM

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Chemistry 101: How college students first fall in love OMAR SANCHEZ @OhMySanchez

A slight flirty tilt of the head when they talk; a smile when they walk in the room; mimicking the way they sit; they may not even know it yet, but this non-verbal dance between two college students are signs they might be falling for each other.

Across campus, and beyond, this exchange is happening. While it may seem like a sudden rush of emotion, University experts say falling in love in college involves a gradual process of building chemistry, whether the couple is aware of it or not.

“You can be very sexually involved with someone, but once you get to know them, you will develop more of a companionate love,” Parnia Haj-Mohamadi, a doctoral student in social psychology at the University said.

“Where it’s more than just a sexual desire for your partner, you accept the person and then your self concepts merge. You essentially become one person.”

Mohamadi is one of a group of University researchers at Gillath Lab that takes a look behind the curtain at what makes a close and intimate relationship.

Mohamadi is currently working on a dissertation on how people in relationships resist looking for alternative partners. Before couples get to that stage, Mohamadi said a potential partner goes through the rules of attraction in order for someone to begin to have feelings. The two pillars of these rules are proximity and similarity.

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“What’s most interesting is that a lot of college students, they attend parties and go to bars and they really engage in these shared experiences with other people,” she said. “So for example, if they go to the same sports event and they are both showing the same interest in the team or they’re both watching a movie together and they are laughing together, whenever they engaged in these similar behaviors, it really shows that shared experiences create closeness between people. They then really like them because they understand them on a different level, which makes them feel like they are much closer.”

That spark the two feel

when they are together, Mohami said, is built on being able to openly share personal interests.

are similar to us even on our levels of attraction,” Mohamadi said.

Author and professor at the University of Maryland Charles Stangor describes this dynamic of similarity in When you first his book “Principles of Sofall in love with cial Psychology.” Stangor is someone, there are a charter fellow at the Assovery high levels of ciation for Psychological Scia few chemicals in ences, and he suggests physical attraction becomes of less the brain.” importance once someone has feelings, and instead, Omri Gillath Professor and researcher they will consistently “share their important values and “We tend to be into people beliefs over time” with the who share the same interests other mate. as us, the same music preferBeing able to express ences, political orientation, yourself freely leads to what and there’s been substantial Stangor calls reciprocal amount of research suggest- self-disclosure, which he ing that we prefer those who defines as “the tendency to

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communicate frequently, without fear of reprisal, and in an accepting and empathetic manner.”

But in order to get to self-disclosure, potential partners don’t have to agree on everything. In a 2001 study done at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jody L. Davis and Caryl E. Rusbult look into “attitude alignment,” where two people in close relationships will knowingly and even unknowingly adapt and adopt attitudes to create a symmetry between the two that will create an even stronger bond. Once a person interested starts to open up to values that are different than the previous relationship, it is a sign that they are begin-

ning to look long term.

During this period of time when someone is falling in love there is also a neurological process taking place. Omri Gillath, associate professor of psychology and researcher behind Gillath Lab said there has been research using fMRI technology that shows chemicals and neurotransmitters begin to change at the sight of the partner.

“There’s actually a process of habituation,” he said.

“So, when you first fall in love with someone, there are very high levels of a few chemicals in the brain.”

This includes the hormone oxytocin, Gillath said.

Mohamadi added that once one starts to feel these chemicals during regular interactions with the other, they will begin to seek this out more and more.

These neurological studies are also a starting point for understanding falling out of love in a college relationship. When a partner feels a chemical imbalance, areas of the brain signal to the body that they no longer feeling that same rush and even in some cases, they begin to feel a level of suffering.

To maintain that relationship after the initial feeling of falling in love, Mohamadi said one must pay attention to their foundation of trust.

“Having a secure attachment style leads to the most beneficial outcome,” she said. “Not worrying if they are going to leave you, showing great emotion and intimacy, these are very important in a successful relationship.”

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JAYHAWK ON THE STREET: Is it better to be dating or single on Valentine’s Day? MOLLIE HANSELMAN, sophomore from Woodbury, Minnesota: “I guess I’d rather have a boyfriend because I want free things and, you know, to be pampered for a day.”

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Valentine’s Day: the holiday celebrating relationships or the lack thereof. In honor of the holiday, the Kansan asked various students their thoughts on being single or in a relationship.

BRIA CRUSE, junior from Lawrence: “I would rather be single just because me and my mom have a tradition.

Like we go out, we have a good time, we go to the movies and I get to stay home and eat junk food. So that’s just me personally.”

ALEAH ESTES, junior from Kansas City, Kan.: “I’d rather be in a relationship on Valentine’s Day. And not just because of the gifts or the typical, ‘Oh it’s Valentine’s day, let’s appreciate each other.’ It would just be nice to have someone to hang out with and love.”

COLE HOOVER, sophomore from Overland Park: “In a relationship just because that’s what the holiday is about.

Otherwise, free wings at Hooters.”

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Experts and students weigh in on the friend zone DARBY VANHOUTAN @darbyvanhoutan

As couples take to local restaurants to celebrate their relationships this Valentine’s Day, some people may spend the holiday in the place no one wants to be: the friend zone.

Maheen Bangash, a junior from Overland Park, says she’s “friend-zoned” her fair share of guys when the lines between friendship and relationship get crossed.

“It is extremely important to set boundaries with someone who might be making you uncomfortable,” Bangash said. “There’s always a kind way to do it. I’m a friendly person and sometimes it can come off the wrong way to guys.”

This friend zone can be most easily described as the area an individual finds themselves in emotionally when romantic or sexual feelings are not reciprocated.

Communication studies professor Jeffrey Hall agrees on this definition, but also notes the different ways it can be viewed.

“I think maybe the more harsh interpretation is that the guy expects because a woman is friendly to him he expects to have access to her sexually,” Hall said.

Hall delves deeper into the misconceptions of the friend zone in his book “The Five Flirting Styles,” which has an entire chapter dedicated to the friend zone.

“We’re just on different levels.”

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“It is absolutely possible to have a romance- and sexfree platonic friendship, but other people might not see it that way. It used to be so uncommon that women and men were ‘just friends’ that nobody believed it when they saw it,” Hall says in his book.

Although many students have only been around for the rise in popularity of the “friend zone” idea, Hall explains in his book

that it may have begun on an episode of the comedy show “Friends,” between characters Ross and Rachel.

“The friend zone has been around forever,” Hall said in a phone interview.

“The friend zone comment was a famous comment in the “Friends” television show where Joey chides Ross about not making his move quickly enough, and getting friend-zoned.”

Jadrian Salmans, a

junior from Garden City, said he thinks there is a reason why men, in particular, become caught in the friend zone.

“More often men (are victims of friend zone) because I think men seek serial relations more often.

Although that feels like a sexist thought,” he said.

However, according to Haley Vellinga, a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of

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It is absolutely possible to have a romance- and sex-free platonic friendship, but other people might not see it that way.”

Jeffrey Hall Communication studies professor

Communication studies, it may be the opposite.

“I feel like it’s more matriarchal,” Vellinga said. “I feel like it’s women kind of asserting ‘hey, this is what I want, or by my actions you should be able to figure out that I don’t want that.’”

Hall said he has heard from many women about why they feel the way they do about the friend zone.

“What I’ve heard women say to me in these conversations is women feel frustrated when they find that their male friends or men that they’re friendly with become really attracted to them and then hope that the woman feels the same way,” Hall said.

“They feel frustrated about that because they feel like the guy was not being genuine in his friendliness.”

Regardless of origin or which sex the phenomenon favors, it may be where some people find themselves around Valentine’s Day. However, this may not be a bad thing, Vellinga said.

“Minus that many people say it’s really negative, I think it does have a benefit,” Vellinga said. “If you are at a place in your life where, yes you may really care for the person and you may be romantically interested, but hopefully they’re honest and say ‘hey I think you’re a great friend’ ... I think if you can handle it there’s a lot to be gained from those interpersonal relationships.”

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GREASE (1978)

ADVENTURELAND (2009)

The only musical on this list (and for good reason), “Grease” features everything a couple could ask for in a romantic teen drama. After greaser Danny (John Travolta) spends a summer vacation with Sandy (Olivia Newton-John), he comes back to high school expecting his senior year to be no different than the years preceding it. However, when Sandy shows up as a transfer student, Danny’s cool act is thrown for a loop, turning his senior year into a dramatic ride full of nostalgia and great musical numbers.

Travolta and Newton-John have great chemistry, and it’s hard to look away once the Frankie Valli hit song of the same name blasts on screen.

This retro drama stars Jesse Eisenberg as James Brennan, a college grad forced to find a job over the summer to help pay for graduate school. He finds work at Adventureland theme park, where he meets many interesting people, including Em Lewin (Kristen Stewart). In a rollercoaster ride of a summer that’s full of games, smoking pot and 1980s nostalgia, James slowly falls for Em and their back-and-forth relationship fuels this rom-com past various genre pitfalls. Greg Mottola’s unique direction and a game cast make this picture a perfect way for couples to make their Valentine’s a great one.

SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (2012) After finding out that a worldending asteroid is headed for Earth, New Yorker Dodge Petersen (Steve Carell) shows little care or interest, prompting his wife to leave him.

Dodge aimlessly continues his life until he runs into his neighbor Penny (Keira Knightley), who gives him years of wrongly addressed mail.

When Dodge finds a letter from his old high school crush, he decides to find her, and offers to get Penny home to England if she helps him along the way. This part-adventure, part-romance allows for Carell and Knightley to deliver powerful performances in a hard-hitting, occasionally uneven but ultimately rewarding tale of love in extenuating circumstances.

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5 great movies for couples to snuggle up with, stream on Valentine’s Day GUS HUNNINGHAKE @gushunninghake

Valentine’s Day is a day split between couples looking to spend quality time with each other and singles who wish dating were easier. Or, for singles, it’s wishing that couples wouldn’t be so annoying about how lucky they are to spend time with their significant other. Regardless of which category one falls into, everyone can enjoy sitting down and watching a good flick. This list specifically covers five of the best streaming films for all those couples out there to cozy up to on that special day.

THE GRADUATE (1967) Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a recent college graduate, goes through life wondering what he’s supposed to do (which feels oddly familiar). When Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), the wife of Ben’s father’s law partner, begins to seduce him, he relies solely on that affair as a fractured connection to other human life. After being encouraged by his parents to ask out Elaine, Mrs. Robinson’s daughter, Ben slowly falls in love, finding new life in a place he never thought possible. Wonderful music by Simon and Garfunkel, vibrant cinematography and layers of subtext make “The Graduate” just the right type of comedy for couples to enjoy.

THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) “The Princess Bride” tells a whimsical tale full of swashbuckling fun and perfect notes of cheesy dialogue. When Westley (Cary Elwes), a poor farmhand, is torn away from his one true love Buttercup (Robin Wright), he must save her from a selfish crown prince named Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon). This perennial classic features standout performances, enough quotable lines to fill a book and charm that couples will especially appreciate.

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5 movies to watch if you’re single this Valentine’s Day

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Love isn’t always so easy to find. If you find yourself with no boo to comfort you on Feb. 14 (or not needing one to begin with), consider breaking out the Netflix and then breaking into these lovely movies for singles. You know, it’s technically impossible to be alone when you have Netflix.

FRANCES HA (2013)

THE IMITATION GAME (2014)

SUPERBAD (2007)

Filmed in black and white, “Frances Ha” begins with a bad breakup and is followed by the journey of Frances Halladay (Greta Gerwig) to become a professional dancer.

As a wild and quirky independent film, “Frances Ha” is rather unpredictable. It’s a touching adventure with plenty of love along the way.

Strange things happen when people fall in love with machines; it’s actually happening with today’s technology.

In “The Imitation Game,” which is set in the 1940s, tells the true story of Alan Turing and his mission to break the German secret codes to win World War II. Turing crafts a machine, which he affectionately calls Christopher, that ultimately succeeds after much work. Although the film is largely about code-breaking efforts, it also delivers on some love, both machine, and human.

A humorous tale of unrequited love, “Superbad” follows three high school buddies chasing after their crushes with alcohol and nervous smiles. It’s a classic among millennials with a strong pop culture influence. Stars Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Seth Rogen and Emma Stone were just beginning their careers when this film was released in 2007. “Superbad” can give hope to all misfits seeking love.

HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS (2003) Long gone are the days of successful, sappy romantic comedies. It’s a particular genre that Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey flourished in. As a journalist, Andie (Hudson) is assigned a special project where she has to write about her experience trying to make a man fall in love with her, followed by making him want to break up with her. The assignment goes to unexpected places when Ben (McConaughey) enters the picture.

CLUELESS (1995) “As if!” When it came out in 1995, “Clueless” was a modern take on the classic Jane Austen novel “Emma.”

Today, it’s a poignant, somewhat retro story about a precocious high school girl (Alicia Silverstone) who finds joy in bringing together couples around her, while remaining single and picky about who she chooses to date.

She soon finds love in an unexpected place.

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Can college relationships last after graduation?

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ollege is a time for exploration, a time to grow and learn about yourself. It’s an exciting time, but it comes with challenges. Balancing school work, social obligations, extracurricular activities and having fun can be quite the challenge.

Add a significant other to the mix, and the challenge can become even more complex.

Relationships create questions about the future.

Forever can be a daunting amount of time to think about when the journey of life has just begun, so the question is: will your college relationship last forever? Randy Moredock, a relationship counselor in Lawrence, said young couples need to mutually agree on a path forward, if the relationship will continue after school.

“I think there has to be that acknowledgement, that moment where you have to decide what you’re going to do,” he said. “I think that there has to be honest dialogue about ‘Are we going in the same direction?’ There has to be a sense of understanding on what we’re agreeing to do, and are we both buying into this?”

Landri James, a senior transfer student from Haskell Indian Nations University, offered a different perspective on college relationships after recently breaking up with her boyfriend, whom she

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dated through high school and her time in college.

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To the extent you can find somebody who enjoys the same stuff you do and wants to be a part of your journey, and whether that will last forever, nobody knows for sure.”

Randy Moredock Relationship counselor

“We broke up once before, when I was at Haskell,” she said. “I was a freshman, it was an exciting time. He just couldn’t trust me, being away at school.

When I got to Haskell, I

think he just knew what it was like to be a freshman.”

James said she and her boyfriend broke up this year, due to trust issues reemerging.

“We’ve been happy for the last six or seven years,” she said. “We were together my entire time at KU. Honestly, I don’t know if I could have made it without him. Just small things like getting me food, giving me rides when I needed them, he was just there for me. I think he still couldn’t trust me after the first time we broke up.”

Moredock, who spent many years as a college counselor, said young couples should make sure they know what they’re agreeing to when moving forward with a relationship.

“One of things I’ve seen that is very destructive to relationship is a person will

say, ‘I’m going to do this for you,’’’ he said. “Then, if it doesn’t work out or the person isn’t adjusting well to this new place then that can cause a lot of problems.”

Moredock said relationships in college are unique in the various challenges young couples face as they work toward a future.

“The unique qualities about college relationships is you’re not sure what’s going to happen afterward,” he said. “You may have one person who’s an engineering major and another who’s a psych major and they both have different things they want to do. The psych major might want to go and get a PhD, and the engineering major might say, ‘Hey, I have this really unique opportunity to work in Bahrain, in oil fields and

I don’t want to pass that up.’ There has to be a lot of discussion in terms of, ‘We want to keep this thing going long distance, but how do we do that?’”

James said she believed her relationship would last, but is ready for the future without her boyfriend.

“I really did think we would be together forever,” she said. “We were going to get married, we were planning our wedding and everything. I put so much energy into him and I was loyal to him, but he still accused me of cheating.

Now I can focus on larger things, I can actually enjoy myself and other people.”

Moredock said couples in college face a great deal of uncertainty when it comes to the future. This is even further complicated by the personal development that many students experience

over the course of college.

“Sometimes somebody you meet as a freshman may not grow in the same direction or at the same rate as you,” he said.

Moredock’s advice to all college students, single or dating, is to keep an open mind, be patient and have fun.

“Being in a college relationship is a guess,” he said. “You have all this stuff that is available to do. It’s just a fun time, it’s a very alive time. To the extent you can find somebody who enjoys the same stuff you do and wants to be a part of your journey, and whether that will last forever, nobody knows for sure.”

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Here’s advice for those wanting to get a little kinky this Valentine’s Day HAILEY DIXON @_hailey_dixon

For couples who may want to try out some new things this Valentine’s Day, sex experts recommended safety tips and gave advice within the realm of bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism — or BDSM — and other non-traditional sexual practices.

“Part of what the turn-on with BDSM is, is there’s a little risk involved,” said Dennis L. Detweiler, a certified sex therapist in Lawrence. “There’s a little bit of surrendering, giving up, power control.”

BDSM encompasses a wide range of sexual activities, according to Meagan Collins, Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center prevention educator. These activities can also be referred to as kink, Collins said.

BDSM can include individuals tying up partners, choking them, dressing up and role-playing, using sex toys or devices like clamps or whips. BDSM can involve a couple, or a triad, depending on the situation, Detweiler said.

Within acts of BDSM, there is typically a dominant and submissive role.

“When we’re talking about dominant and submissive, one is usually more in charge of that than the other,” Detweiler said. “One is doing the tying up and the directing.

They still, in the bigger sense, keep in context who their partner is but even though they are doing that, they can role-play the dominant and submissive.”

Alex Reeves, a senior from Pleasant Hill, Missouri, who participates in BDSM and other forms of kink play, said it’s actually been a rewarding experience. Now, he lectures and gives workshop on safe practices and other issues in the BDSM community.

Reeves said that he wants to increase the prevalence and understanding of BDSM, and inform those who participate in the play to practice safety and consent.

“So I think that it’s this idea that it doesn’t have to be this scary ‘Halloween’ interaction that is sort of deviant,” Reeves said. “But it’s this idea of something that’s less mainstream that shows a profound level of emotional, physical connection and trust between two individuals or more.”

Other college students may not realize that they are participating in BDSM or being kinky within their sexual relationships, Collins said.

“Whether college students know that they are participating in kink or not, many of them probably are, even if it’s like things you might consider on the more vanilla (not as kinky) end of the spectrum,” Collins said.

Before experimenting in BDSM play, Detweiler said

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BDSM can involve a couple, or a triad, depending on the situation.

it’s very important to know one’s partner or partners well.

“Doing this takes an enormous amount of trust,” Detweiler said. “It takes an enormous amount of communication and negotiating.

It should be tried by people who are very clear who they are doing it with.”

If individuals want to incorporate elements of BDSM in their relationship, Detweiler said that it is crucial to develop a plan to keep men-

tal health in check during the acts.

“The safety is really not about avoiding hurt, because hurt is part of it often. It’s about not having harm,” Detweiler said. “How do you not do long-term damage, either to the relationship or to the people involved? You have to take care of all of those.”

Safe words should also be used during BDSM, so a partner can withdraw consent if need be.

“Many folks that practice BDSM would say that they practice better consent because it is such a fundamental underpinning of kink,” Collins said.

Collins advises couples that participate in any sexual activity, including BDSM, to talk with their partner about what will happen before the acts. Collins said that Scarleteen, a sex education website for young people, has a checklist that she recommends couples use.

“It has a whole list of body boundaries, relationship models and choices, and safer sex behaviors,” she said. “This is the kind of things that I tell students to talk about with each other during any kind of sexual engagement. So some things on the checklist say, ‘You know I’m comfortable with direct eye contact,’ or ‘I’m comfortable having part of my body sexualized,’

or ‘I’m comfortable with the lights being on.’”

Collins said consent and discussion need to be continued during the play, so a partner can be allowed to withdraw consent during sex if they feel uncomfortable or harmed.

“Just because someone agreed to something prior to the engagement doesn’t mean that they have to agree to it currently or during,” she said.

After the activity, individuals participating in BDSM should check in with their partner to see what each thought about the engagement, Collins said.

If an individual feels harmed or that they were assaulted, Collins said that is when one should seek a counselor. Partners, she said, can usually tell the difference between discomfort with an act and assault.