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IT’S NOVA OVA

KU’s improbable path to the Final Four ended by “unreal” Villanova shooting SEAN COLLINS @SeanCollins_UDK It had to be perfection.

The Jayhawks’ road to the championship game hung in the balance of playing a perfect game, coach Bill Self said after Kansas lost 95-79 to Villanova in the Final Four on Saturday night.

The Jayhawks had an improbable run to the Final Four in the first place, as explained by Self. A team that was eight players deep would have to play its best basketball possible to achieve such a feat, and Kansas did that.

But it was met with history.

“It just seemed to kind of catch up to us today, in large part because Villanova was so good,” Self said.

“So good” is making a Final Four record 18 threes, on 45 percent shooting. The Wildcats got open shots early, but even when the attempts were heavily guarded, they still fell. The Jayhawks were stunned.

“They were shooting lights out. It was unreal. I had never seen that before,” sophomore center Udoka Azubuike said. “It lowered our confidence a little bit and they were just shooting and making everything, it seemed.”

This shooting performance carried the Wildcats

to an early 22-4 lead. Kansas eventually cut the lead to 11, but that was the closest the gap got. Kansas trailed by double digits for 36 minutes, due to a performance it had never seen before.

“That’s the first [I’ve seen a team shoot like that],” freshman forward Silvio De Sousa said. “It’s hard to guard when everybody can shoot the ball. That was the thing today.”

Senior guard Svi Mykhailiuk echoed De Sousa’s thoughts, but put blame on the Jayhawks.

“It’s the first time, but I

think we just let them shoot like that,” Mykhailiuk said.

Kansas made a couple burst runs in the second half to put pressure on Villanova, but the lead was never threatened. Self was asked after the game if this was a sour ending to the season.

“To me, it’d be a sour ending if we lost on the last possession,” Self said. “You always want to perform in a way that you put yourself in a position to win, but when it’s the last game it certainly stings and hurts no matter what.”

Self said he remembered

“They were shooting lights out. It was unreal.”

Udoka Azubuike sophomore center

looking up at the clock in the first quarter and seeing a 20-point deficit. He said from that point on Kansas had to be perfect. At one point this season, the Jayhawks had come back from down 16 on the road to defeat the West Virginia Mountaineers, but this was a more demanding task.

“We’ve been down to good teams on the road before by at least 15 or more,” Self said. “But we haven’t been down to Villanova by 15.”

With the loss, Kansas’ season officially ended. The Jayhawks went 31-8, won a Big 12 regular season and tournament championship, and had a first team All-American in senior guard Devonte’ Graham.

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Survivors urged to ‘embrace your voice’ KU adopted the national theme prioritizing victims’ experiences for Sexual Assault Awareness Month DARBY VANHOUTAN @darbyvanhoutan Editor’s Note: This story is the first in the Kansan’s series on sexual assault at the University in conjunction with Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

The Kansan will examine how the University addresses sexual assault, four years after poor KU policies sparked national criticism. Every Monday in April, there will be a new story on the topic.

“What do you need? How can I help? Is there a way I can make you feel comfortable?”

Asking these things to survivors of sexual violence is key to helping those survivors embrace their voice, according to Sexual Assault Prevention and Education

Center Director Jen Brockman.

In the past year, the voices of sexual assault survivors have been heard in almost every facet of American society. From the USA gymnastics team, to Hollywood and even at the University on the pages of legal documents that established a non-disclosure agreement between survivors and the University, which paid $395,000 to survivors who claimed their alleged assaults weren’t responded to correctly.

Now, the idea of survivors embracing their voices is the theme for this year’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month. April has been the month to bring awareness to sexual violence since 2001, according to the National

Sexual Violence Resource Center. This year’s “Embrace Your Voice” theme has made its way to the University as well.

There are several events scheduled throughout the month by SAPEC, the Sexual Trauma and Abuse Care Center, and CARE Coordinator Merrill Evans. Evans, who works as an advocate for student survivors of sexual assault at the University, said the month of April allows the work people like her do every day to reach a larger audience.

“Awareness is imperative,” Evans said. “And I think as a society you see this kind of shift. Like, let’s prevent these acts of violence from happening instead of just responding to the survivors.”

This shift is one that Evans described as one more focused on prevention. The implementation of mandatory bystander intervention trainings for all University students is an example of this new model making its way to the University, Evans said. More than this, she said, students play a big role through the minor things they do day-to-day in preventing sexual assault.

“I think there are a lot of things that people engage in on a daily basis that are hugely problematic in terms of comments that they make that reinforce rape culture,” Evans said.

Calling out sexist and overtly offensive language is one example of this, according to Evans. Also important, she said, is being aware

that there are institutions in place to aid those affected by sexual violence.

In the city of Lawrence alone, there are 12 offices that deal with sexual assault. As Brockman described, there’s a role for everyone to play by raising awareness and acting as activists. Most importantly, however, Brockman said it’s important to ensure survivor’s voices aren’t being left out.

“When folks are coming into this cause because a friend or a loved one has experienced something, they usually come in with a lot of passion, a lot of anger, wanting to burn things down,” Brockman said. “Always remember to give choice to the survivor and keep their narrative.”

After crushing defeat, KU fans remain proud

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Jayhawk fans left the Final Four Watch Party at Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday night feeling a mix of happy and sad emotions after watching the basketball season come to an end at the hands of the Villanova Wildcats, 95-79.

After the defeat, Jayhawk fans began hugging one another, saying that at the end of the day, they were proud of their team.

Dan Phalen, a pharmacy student, said watching the season come to an end was hard, but he was still proud of his team.

“I’m disappointed with the outcome, but these last few weeks have been so much fun to watch, and these guys went so much further than expected,” Phalen said. “I am so proud to be a Jayhawk.”

At the start of the watch party, fans began packing the arena as soon as doors opened at 6:30 p.m., with tip off beginning around 7:50 p.m.

Fans excitedly cheered and sang along with the KU Pep Band before the basketball team took to the court in San Antonio, with

Sarah Wright/KANSAN During the Final Four watch party in Allen Fieldhouse, students erupt in cheers as they toss their newspaper confetti for the last time this season. the student section even throwing shredded newspaper in to the air as the starting lineup was announced.

As the game progressed, Jayhawk fans inside the Fieldhouse became restless watching the Wildcats pull ahead, putting Kansas down 47-32 at halftime.

Despite the 15-point halftime deficit, Robert Newman, a junior who has lived in Lawrence his entire life, said he still had faith that redshirt sophomore guard Malik Newman

would lead the team to a victory. Malik scored all 13 of Kansas’ points in overtime against Duke in the Elite Eight.

“The first half was a little troubling,” Robert said.

“If we lost, it would be pretty devastating, but I have faith that (Malik) Newman will come through in the second half.”

However, with 5 minutes remaining in the game and the Jayhawks down 78-59, fans began shaking their heads and putting their

faces in to their hands, realizing that defeat was the most likely outcome.

However, fans like Jace Erwin, a medical student from Lawrence, said, even after disappointing losses like this one, he was just happy the team had overcome its issue with making it past the Elite Eight to the Final Four. The Jayhawks had back-to-back Elite Eight losses in the past two years.

Erwin said, despite the loss to Villanova, he and his

friends were still planning on going to Massachusetts Street after the game because they wanted to support their team.

“We’re going despite the loss and sticking around to see the seniors and be supportive,” Erwin said.

“You can’t not be proud, and if you walk away from something like this then you walk away from a lot.

Devonte’ (Graham) and Svi (Mykhailiuk) have been amazing to watch.”

After the game, however, Lawrence Police Department issued a tweet around 10:17 p.m., saying Massachusetts Street would be re-opening to traffic since there wouldn’t be a celebration.

Ahmed Jakmouj, a freshman who’s lived in Lawrence his whole life and saw Kansas bring home the national championship in 2008, said, no matter win or lose, he was a Jayhawk and this was his team.

“The game had some pretty rough moments,” Jakmouj said. “I was hopeful they could turn it around but even if not, I’m still proud.”

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Experience dominates Senate debate DARBY VANHOUTAN @darbyvanhoutan

Situated against the backdrop of platform and personal character trait discussion, the second Student Senate debate posed one overarching question: who has experience and is it necessary?

Over the course of two hours in Woodruff Auditorium on Friday night, candidates from the Rise KU, Jayhawker and Crimson and Blue coalitions tried to poke holes in the feasibility of one another’s major platforms. All three — each with varying platform specifics — focused mainly on student health and transparency.

Elections Commission Chair Jeremy Latronica served as moderator of the debate, which was hosted by the commission. After asking a round of about ten questions, Latronica would open the floor up for audience questions. Split into two sections, the three vice presidential candidates faced off first.

VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

Jayhawkers’ Election Commission Liaison Nick Latimer served as proxy in place of the coalitions vice presidential candidate Avery Anderson who had prior medical obligations.

“Being the Elections Commission Liaison means that I can speak for the coalition,” Latimer said after the debate. “And serving as a friend of Avery’s, someone who has known him since we’ve both been at KU, I’m able to also probably talk about his beliefs and his qualifications.”

During a period where audience members were

Bob (Jiatong) Li/KANSAN Presidential candidates Zoya Khan, Anna Buhlinger, and Noah Ries field questions at the second debate of the semester, hosted by the Elections Commission. allowed to ask candidates questions directly, sophomore Jessica Guardiola from Newton asked what set the candidates apart from what’s happening in Senate currently.

“How is your administration going to be any different from this year’s?”

Guardiola asked. “I guess from my experience with current exec members in the current Senate, they’ve not been very transparent or accessible.”

In his response, Latimir said that voting for the Jayhawkers coalition would ensure a vote for change in the way recent Student Senate’s had operated.

“I think it’s important that the people that are running Senate aren’t just the same people every year,” Latimer said. “We need to be reaching out to new individuals and reaching new corners of the student populus that hadn’t previously been interacting

with Student Senate.”

Rise KU Vice Presidential Candidate Nellie Kassebaum was also critical of the current Student Senate executives and their role in supporting marginalized identities.

“I think it’s really nice to say, ‘Yes our candidate supports [Multicultural Student Government] and marginalized identities on campus.’

But I really don’t think anyone who’s been on the current Student Senate exec staff can say that they support MSG after the memorandum of agreement was broken,” Kassebaum said.

“I don’t think it’s a matter of MSG voices coming to Student Senate... I think it’s Student Senate execs going to MSG meetings.”

These sentiments came after audience member and MSG President Constanza Castro asked the candidates what they would do for MSG and how they would do it differently than

what has been approached in the past. After the debate, Constanza said the only coalition that had set up a meeting with MSG thus far has been Crimson and Blue.

Charles Jetty, vice presidential candidate for Crimson and Blue and current Student Senate Chief of Staff, utilized his past experience throughout the debate to bolster his coalition’s platforms.

“When you first take office in this regard, it can be kind of overwhelming.

You’re faced with so much responsibility,” Jetty said.

“Having done this process before, I know what works and I know what doesn’t.”

PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

Noah Ries, presidential candidate for Crimson and Blue, was also vocal about his experience in Student Senate. Currently serving as Student Senate Policy and Development Director, Ries

often cited his experiences as proof he could fulfill the expansive responsibilities of Student Body President — such as potentially serving as Chair of the Kansas Board of Regents Student Advisory Committee.

“It’s important you have someone chairing this committee who has worked with the current Student Body President, who shares an office with the Government Relations Director, who actually goes with the Student Body President to all those meetings,” Ries said.

As part of her response to the same question, Rise KU presidential candidate Zoya Khan rebutted Ries’ statement that only veteran executives could represent the student body.

“I think it’s one thing to say that I share an office with someone,” Khan said.

“And another to prove you can actually get the work done.”

Anna Buhlinger, presidential candidate for the Jayhawkers, was asked directly by audience member Tom Babb, a junior, how she would approach her work in Student Senate as an outsider lacking substantial experience in Senate.

Buhlinger, who previously served as a city intern, working as a liaison between the University, Haskell and the city as a whole, described the notion that she lacked experience as a ‘misconception.’ More than that, she said, a student body president could be effective even without past experience working within the body.

“I think having professional experience on the outside, achieving pretty difficult tasks and being out in the real world is also very important to getting things done on this level,” Buhlinger said.

The election will take place April 11 and 12.

Alumnus, Boise State CIO to present for top tech job RYAN LISTON @RyanListonUDK

On Friday, the University announced the first candidate for chief information officer, a position that oversees the University’s “information technology services, infrastructure, hardware and software,” according to the press release.

Max Davis-Johnson is the CIO at Boise State University. He graduated from the University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1977, according to his vita, which details his professional experience.

“I was born and raised a Jayhawk,” Davis-Johnson said in an email with the Kansan. “I went to school at KU. Two of my daughters have graduated from KU ...

The KU CIO job would be doing something I love at a place I love.”

Davis-Johnson will give a public presentation over his previous experience and plans for the University at 10 a.m. on Monday, April 2, in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.

“I will be discussing my high level view of the Future of Technology in Academia and at KU,” Davis-Johnson said in the email. “I will be focusing more on strategies and practices to enable the

Kansan file photo The University announced their first candidate, Max Davis-Johnson, for the position of chief information officer. future and not so much on any one technology.”

For each presentation, Carl Lejuez, committee search chair and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the committee wants to see a general understanding of IT in higher education, along with a plan specifically geared toward the Univer-

sity.

“In the presentations, we’d like to see the articulation of a vision for IT in higher education broadly, but also a clear sense of how we can move to the next level of IT capability, security, and service here at KU,” Lejuez said in an email to the Kansan.

Davis-Johnson currently

serves as CIO at Boise State, a position that the release said he excelled in.

“Since 2010 when Davis-Johnson joined Boise State, the Office of Information Technology (OIT) has been able to align technology priorities and resources to meet the needs of a growing and dynamic university,” the release said.

“Under his leadership, OIT has been able to create a responsive, dynamic, innovative and world-class information technology organization at Boise State.”

Davis-Johnson also worked in technological roles at Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University before going to Boise State. Before high-

er education, Davis-Johnson worked in architectural engineering for 19 years.

Two other candidates have yet to be announced by the search committee.

The release said these individuals will be announced approximately 24 hours before they give their public presentations. The second presentation is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Thursday in the Alderson Room of the Kansas Union. The third is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Monday, April 9, in the Bruckmiller Room of the Adams Alumni Center.

Information about the candidates will be uploaded to the CIO search website, according to the release.

Each candidate’s presentation will be video recorded and all of the recordings will be released after the final candidate has presented, according to the release.

Public feedback can be submitted for each candidate at that website until Thursday, April 12.

“We are excited about his public presentation, and we will take all of the feedback we receive very seriously in how the committee evaluates the candidates and ultimately the recommendations we make,” Lejuez said in the email.

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Van Dyke: Stop sensationalized media

FFA of the Day: Sister Jean didn’t deserve this!!!

What’s the point of having a crippling mental illness if you can’t tokenize it in your personal statements for grad school the couple next door is having very loud sex and the girl below me is coughing nonstop it is 12:43 am on a wednesday everybody go to bed You’re telling me I used to be able to fall asleep at 9pm?

Dress for the mental health you want to have, not the mental health you actually have having an entire box of garlic bread as breakfast at noon because I’m a garbage person it’s 2018. we’re all nearing some form of adulthood. can we please stop meme-ing dumbass spongebob scenes? i hate the internet I refuse to leave the bar despite the fact I literally just ripped my skirt in two alright y’all WHAT THE F—Newsflash: Not every older white woman who likes basketball is Sister Jean Well I punched a hole in the wall.

That’s how I handled my feelings...

I want to cry with Devonte

MAX VAN DYKE @ StealYoRedbull This past weekend, on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper sat down for an interview with Stephanie Clifford, aka ‘Stormy Daniels.’ In total, 22 million viewers tuned into the interview during which Clifford recounted her alleged affair with President Donald Trump back in 2006.

While both controversial and entertaining, two things that often go hand in hand, there is a more troubling aspect to this story and others like it.

While certainly concerning that the current president may have had an affair with a 27-year-old sex worker while he was 60 and married with his wife having just given birth to his son, this kind of media ultimately does a disservice to the public and keeps the people uninformed on real issues. It’s a bit ironic that the Washington Post, for example, has as its slogan “Democracy dies in Darkness” while it went on to publish no less than nine articles all about the Stormy Daniels incident.

In his town hall last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), joined by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Michael Moore among others, expressed frustration with media coverage during the current administration. The three shared their belief that the mainstream media is selling the American people short

with their insistence on covering sensationalist stories for ratings.

Take, for example, the entire Russia-gate story. For months, we’ve been told that the smoking gun is within reach and that the next shoe will drop any day now. Months later, here we are, still waiting. Meanwhile, crucial legislative votes take place every week, which go completely uncovered or get mentioned only in passing while networks opt to cover glorified tabloid stories.

The problem with the mainstream media is not that it unfairly covered the Clinton campaign, aiding in

La Quinta WiFi almost as bad as KU’s It was like we walked on the court yesterday and Villanova told us to bend over and just paddled us repeatedly

a joint effort between Mike Lee, Chris Murphy and Bernie Sanders to end U.S. aid to Saudi Arabia’s genocide in Yemen was killed in the senate by a 55-44 margin.

As Vox put it, “the US will therefore continue to help commit war crimes in Yemen.” Both stories received little to no coverage from cable news.

Another little-known fact revealed in December of last year is the state of Alabama has the worst poverty in the developed world.

After a UN investigation in the cotton state, the UN rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights said in an interview he’s never seen anything like it in the developed world. At a time when Hillary Clinton recently spouted off about Trump voting states “looking backward,” perhaps knowing that Alabama has the worst poverty in the industrialized world might help contextualize that. How many Americans knew that? How many news outlets reported

on that? In a ratings-driven world, the media has all but abdicated its responsibility to the public and has opted instead to become parodies of themselves, pumping their viewers full of fear and adrenaline in hopes of raking in profits.

Media coverage under Trump has been as pathetic as anything else under this administration. Suppressing important stories, such as the U.S. involvement in the Yemen genocide while devoting non-stop coverage to an alleged affair, is the sorry state our media lies in.

Actively keeping the public uninformed on crucial issues while continuously throwing out sensationalist headlines with buried leads is exactly the kind of darkness that the Washington Post tells us democracy dies in.

Max Van Dyke is a senior from St. Paul, Minnesota, studying religion and communications.

Associated Press This image released by CBS News shows Stormy Daniels, left, during an interview with Anderson Cooper which aired on Sunday, March 25, 2018, on “60 Minutes.”

Khaliq: Writers shouldn’t misuse platform

My advice to all of you is to start drinking heavily, now.

Or just curl up under a blanket, in the fetal position, and cry until there’s no tomorrow?

Whenever I open a bag of chips I quickly stick my finger in there to see if I can figure out the temp of the factory it came from

her loss to Trump, nor is it that the ‘left-wing-liberal media’ is actively trying to sabotage the current president at every turn. The problem with the mainstream media is that it neglects its chief responsibility and chases ratings above all else.

From the very beginning of his campaign, then-candidate Trump received ample media coverage without paying for any of it. In September of 2016, CNBC reported that during the campaign, Trump received a whopping $4.6 billion in free media.

Trump even acknowledged this throughout the primary, frequently bragging about it.

Yet while the media works itself into a frenzy over every little thing that Trump does, consider what they aren’t covering when they do that. Earlier this month, in a rare act of bipartisanship, 17 senate Democrats joined Republicans in voting for a bill to gut DoddFrank banking regulations.

Also happening this month,

AROOG KHALIQ @aroog_twt There is certainly room for philosophy in opinion columns. A deconstruction of thought and the historical flux of the formation of opinions surely makes for a stimulating, if a little off-putting, read. Yet David Brooks, New York Times columnist extraordinaire, seems to misunderstand the purpose of this sacred, 400-800 word space. His recent column, titled “Speaking as a White

Male…,” uses the forum of an opinion column in one of the country’s most prestigious newspapers to peddle little more than a half-baked personal gripe with bringing up a person’s identity when making personal opinions on issues seemingly unrelated to the person’s identity. This farce of a column suggests that the college newspaper circuit demands more professionalism in topic selection and content than the New York Times. After all, you don’t see me or my col-

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What astounds me most about Brooks’ haphazard piece is not the utterly misguided analysis of several movements in the world of writing, but that this pseudo-intellectualism is used to blanket the fact that Brooks thinks aligning individual opinions with those of a group the individual belongs to is foolish. Coating a simplistic criticism of humanity in jargon does not make a smart argument, which is the very purpose of a column.

It is my goal to lead you to my argument with subtlety and finesse. My words, my evidence and my organization must all pull their weight in this space. I must make what I believe is worthy of the reader’s time and brain power, and before I even construct my sandcastle of words, I have to check for structural integrity. Does

this issue matter? Do I need people to care about it? Otherwise, the waves of other columns — better in their scope, their style or their story — will wash away all of my work.

This column is not a refutation of Brook’s argument, but a refutation of, frankly, bad writing.

This is the core of the matter, then. A bad column is disrespectful to the reader, and upon reading the measly seven sentences Brooks devoted toward the end of his column to hammer out his point, I felt disrespected. To argue that people prefacing statements with “as a member of X minority group”

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is not conducive to good opinions, good deliberation and good truth construction is bold — so bold, in fact, that even 800 painstakingly pieced together words could not do it justice.

This column is not a refutation of Brooks’ argument, but a refutation of, frankly, bad writing. To do justice to the column and the reader, the writer needs a topic that can be examined briefly, but thoroughly, and a healthy respect for the reader’s time — a treasure that is earned, not granted. I will now subvert Brooks’ tactics and end with a bit of philosophy. Indeed, it was Britney Spears who captured the spirit of writing a meaningful column best: “You better work, b*tch.”

Aroog Kahliq is a freshman from Overland Park studying English and psychology.

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‘This never happens’ Panic! at the Disco show delivers rare, intimate experience

Katie Counts/KANSAN Brendon Urie takes the Bottleneck stage on Friday night.

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“It takes me back to my first tours,” Urie said during the concert.

The band’s current tour features a number of smaller, more intimate venues to promote the band’s newest album “Pray for the Wicked.”

“This never happens,” freshman and Panic! fan Parker Liu said. “No one comes to Kansas.”

When the news broke on Thursday, fans were in a flurry to figure out where and when the concert would be. A number of people drove into Lawrence from places like Kansas

City and Omaha. Several people even camped overnight at The Bottleneck and many students skipped class to line up, even before the location was officially announced.

“I totally went on a whim, and I just took a chance,” Liu said. “But I’m really glad I did.”

On Friday night, the

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The Bottleneck was packed. Roughly 400 fans stood in anticipation. They had been waiting hours for this moment. At 9 p.m., Kansas’ “Carry On My Wayward Son” played and, as the chorus faded out, Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco burst onto the stage.

Panic! At The Disco is used to performing to crowds of thousands, but on March 29 they performed to a crowd of just a few hundred at the Bottleneck.

band performed two songs from the new album “(F--a) Silver Lining” and “Say Amen (Saturday Night),” but they also performed old favorites like “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” and “This is Gospel.”

Throughout the event, Urie was incredibly involved with the crowd. He cracked jokes with fans, handed out

“I have no words to describe how good it was.”

Parker Liu KU freshman

one of his guitar picks and even borrowed someone’s pride flag when he sang “Girls/Girls Boys.” He mentioned countless times how much he appreciated the fans for being there.

“I have no words to describe how good it was,” Liu said after the concert.

But it took a lot of work to get this concert organized.

“Putting an arena act in this size of a room is no easy task,” said Emily Katz, a talent buyer with Mammoth, a Lawrence-based company that organizes concerts.

According to Katz, the

plan had been in the works for several weeks, but the hard part was keeping everything secret. The Bottleneck knew they would be receiving a big act, but they had no clue who it would be until less than a week ago.

“I knew it was going to sell out instantly,” said Mike Dye, the general manager of the Bottleneck. “How could you not?”

For many fans, Panic! At The Disco certainly lived up to those expectations.

“It’s powerful music,” Liu said. “His voice moves me to tears.”

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Q&A: Dave Ross reflects on anxiety, career start

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Comedian Dave Ross will perform in the Taproom Basement April 3 at 8 p.m.

NICOLE ASBURY @nicoleasbury

Comic Dave Ross almost didn’t pursue stand-up comedy. It wasn’t until a good friend signed him up for a show without his permission that he started to conceptualize it as a career.

Now nearly ten years later, Ross makes frequent appearances on Comedy Central and will be touring across the country this year.

Ross will make a stop in Lawrence on April 3 at 8 p.m. in the Taproom Basement and tickets can be purchased for five dollars. According to Ross, ten percent of his set is yelling about Trump and the government in general.

The other 90 percent is all focused on his own mistakes and how everyone at some point messes up.

Before his set, Ross met with the Kansan to talk about starting out as a comic, his anxiety and discovering his own humor.

The following Q&A has been edited for brevity and

clarity.

KANSAN: How did you get into stand-up?

DAVE ROSS: The way I got into stand-up was loving it and thinking about doing it for a while. Then, I was a radio DJ and when I was getting ready to quit that — because they treat you like sh-t — some of the other DJs started stand-up. I tried it and I loved it, but it was super scary. I convinced myself I never wanted to do it again. For three years I kept on saying that, ‘Oh yeah I did it and I probably will try it again,” then I had one friend who would always bug me to go to open mics with her, but I always made up an excuse because I was scared. Then, one day, she invited me to be her cohost for an open mic and she basically called me a coward up until I agreed to do it with her. That’s how I started stand-up.

KANSAN: When you first started getting into

stand-up post-working as a DJ, what drew you out of stand-up?

ROSS: I have really intense, inborn performance anxiety. So back then, I did it maybe four or five times, and every time I would be thinking about the set for a week or two leading up to it all day every day. I would get so nervous about it that I would start shaking on stage and my heart would be pounding. A couple of the sets, I cried after. I was like 23; I think I needed to live a little bit more to know I would be OK. Now, I get nervous, but I feel like I get nervous in the way anyone gets nervous; if something is a big deal, I’ll get nervous or randomly I’ll have an anxious day. It’s gone, but I had to work on it. It’s weird how much anxiety can mess with you. Once I quelled the anxiety a little bit, [standup] was immediately my favorite thing that I had ever done and I couldn’t stop doing it.

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KANSAN: What advice would you give yourself when you first starting out in stand-up?

ROSS: I don’t know if I would give any advice to that kid; he did what he needed to do. My advice to anyone who deals with anxiety, depression or any mental illness is to take care of yourself. It’s going to be OK, no matter what. People think that when you get nervous about something it means you lack confidence or you’re bad at it, it’s just something to overcome.

You just have to look at it, know it’s there, get into it and push. That’s what I did.

It’s not like I can tell that kid to not be anxious; it’s going to happen.

KANSAN: How did you figure out your niche of humor?

ROSS: I think I’m still finding my niche; it’s been an ever present journey. I don’t know; journey is a dumb word. All I knew was

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KANSAN: How do you determine what the line is for joking about something?

ROSS: Comedy is entirely subjective. The other thing about stand-up is that you can tackle a difficult subject and joke about it. You can do it with class and have people who would normally be offended by it be like, “That’s funny. I get that it’s a joke.” In order to get there, you have to write the joke and practice

it. Often times, when you joke about something that someone finds offensive, it means that you messed up your delivery. I feel like I’m pretty sensitive to stuff like that. If something’s hurtful to a group of people, I tend not to joke about it, but I also like dark humor. I think mean comedy is really funny when it’s done right. As far as finding out what the line is, you just have to suss it out; I really think it comes down to feeling.

KANSAN: What can audience members expect from your upcoming show?

ROSS: A lot of fun. I tend to tell a lot of stories about mistakes I’ve made.

I’m a big fan of screwing up and then making fun of that. There’s a pretty good chance I’ll make a couple of fart sounds during my set; I’m a big idiot and I like to have fun.

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End of the road for Kansas seniors

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Walking off the court in a Kansas jersey one final time, Devonte’ Graham fell into Bill Self’s arms. What started as an arm around Graham’s shoulder turned into a full-on embrace between the pair. The thousands of Jayhawk fans behind Kansas’ bench stood to applaud the senior guard, but all Graham could do was bury his face into the shoulder of his coach.

The Jayhawks may have lost their Final Four matchup to Villanova 95-79, and trailed in the game for all but 1 minute and 22 seconds, but every fan remained to see Graham’s final minutes as a Jayhawk.

Just one minute prior to Graham checking out, he hit an open three-pointer to bring the score to 91-73.

Graham’s threes are usually greeted with a rousing cheer, but not this one. A slight murmur came from the nearby traveling student section, but that was all as Graham slowly walked toward the Kansas bench for a timeout following the three.

As the final buzzer sounded, officially confirming the end of Kansas’ season, Graham could only toss a colorful Final Four towel over his head to cover the tears and make his way down the tunnel.

“I just knew it was my last time coming off the court in a Kansas uniform and I just got really emotional,” Graham said after the game.

Just ahead of Graham,

Missy Minear/KANSAN Kansas coach Bill Self hugs senior guard Devonte’ Graham in the final seconds of Kansas’ 95-79 loss to Villanova on Saturday, March 31. walking toward the bench for the final time, senior guard Svi Mykhailiuk walked dolefully past Self and toward his seat. While a little more composed than Graham under the bright lights of the Alamodome, the Ukrainian’s eyes also looked a little bloodshot as he sat stiffly in his chair in the locker room.

“It is very hard, you know, I’m probably never going to play as a Kansas basketball player,” Mykhailiuk said.

“It’s really hard, but I have to think about the next step.”

Mykhailiuk endured a tough game against Villanova, not making his first field goal until just over 28 minutes into the contest.

But the sharpshooter has endured as good a season as any Jayhawk, breaking the school record for made three-pointers in a season, totaling 115.

Even walk-on senior guard Clay Young was in disbelief that he’d pulled on the Kansas jersey for the final time. Head down in the locker room, Young only looked up when addressed — as soon as he was left to himself, his head drooped to looking at the spot of floor between his feet.

“It’s pretty heartbreaking knowing that’s the last time I’ll ever suit up for KU. It doesn’t seem real right now,” Young said. “To end

my career in the Final Four is pretty sweet, but ending on a game like this it hurts.”

Young managed to play in 13 games his senior year, including his final seconds on top of the “Final Four” logo pasted in the middle of the Alamodome. Having transferred from Kansas City Kansas Community College, Young spent three years at Kansas. Still wearing his blue jersey, despite having been in the locker room for over 20 minutes, Young marveled at what being at Kansas has meant to him.

“It means the world. My three years, my time here, being able to run out on that court and wear that

jersey, it’s changed my life,” Young said. “It’s completely changed my life.”

“It’s pretty heartbreaking knowing that’s the last time I’ll ever suit up for KU.” Clay Young Kansas guard

A similar story can be told for Graham.

“The coaching staff, all the friends you make and the fan base is amazing. And just waking up in our dorm

and being able to walk over to the Fieldhouse and shooting and practices,” Graham said on what he’s going to miss most.

From an unknown freshman who originally committed to Appalachian State, to a player who Bill Self said his jersey would “hang in the rafters,” Graham has left his mark on Kansas as much as Kansas left a mark on him.

And perhaps most importantly, Graham left his mark on the next crop of hopeful Kansas greats.

“Since the first day, Devonte’ was a big person for me,” said freshman forward Silvio De Sousa, who only got to play with Graham for two months. “He means a lot to me, not just on the court but off. He is a great leader, and I wish I had more time to play with him.”

It may have not been the ending none of the seniors had wanted at Kansas, but the trio still have a lot to look back on with pride. For Graham and Mykhailiuk, who both spent all four years at Kansas, they have four Big 12 conference titles, two Big 12 tournament titles and a Final Four under their belts. Additionally, Graham was voted a consensus All-American for his senior year.

Graham’s playing career may have ended at Kansas, but his impact on the program will last forever, with no doubt in anyone’s mind that he’ll one day return to see his jersey hanging in the rafters of Allen Fieldhouse.

Villanova had Kansas running in circles

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Although you couldn’t tell in the moment, one play represents the entire game in which Kansas fell to Villanova 95-79 in the Final Four.

During the seventh possession of Saturday night’s game, Villanova’s Phil Booth receives a pass in the corner. As senior guard Svi Mykhailiuk sprints to the corner to close out, Booth drives baseline and throws a pinpoint bounce pass to Mikal Bridges.

With Omari Spellman open in the corner, junior guard Lagerald Vick is frozen in place as Bridges gives a pump fake — leaving Vick in limbo, guarding neither Bridges nor Spellman.

Bridges knocked down the three to give the Wildcats a 6-2 lead.

“When we got spread out, and our game plan went to crap on how we were going to guard certain actions, then we got caught in between,” Kansas coach Bill

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Self said after the game.

“The worst thing you can do defensively is be caught in between.”

The whole game, Kansas was reacting. It was a complete heel turn for the Jayhawks after setting the tone in games against Clemson and Duke in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight, respectively.

Where it all went wrong for the Jayhawks was with its big men.

Both sophomore center Udoka Azubuike and freshman forward Silvio De Sousa looked lost — especially when Spellman and Eric Paschall started to make shots.

“The worst thing you can do defensively is be caught in between.”

Bill Self Kansas coach

“I personally knew it would be hard if [Spellman]

Missy Minear/KANSAN The Jayhawks huddle in the second half against Villanova on Saturday, March 31. The Wildcats defeated the Jayhawks 95-79. got off to a good start, because Dok’s never guarded out there, never. And Silvio has never guarded out there,” Self said.

Spellman preyed on Azubuike’s and De Sousa’s inexperience, literally sending De Sousa in circles looking for him.

And even after multi-

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Right handed sophomore pitcher Ryan Zeferjahn had another great outing Saturday in Kansas’ 12-0 victory over Morehead State. Zeferjahn threw eight shutout innings, only allowing four hits and nine runners on base.

This is the Topeka native’s fifth game where he went six innings or longer.

ple made threes, Azubuike still could not keep track of Paschall, once again getting caught in the middle.

The two bigs combined for 39 points, including seven made threes. With Spellman on the court, Villanova outscored Kansas by 26 points.

“We didn’t do what we

were really supposed to do with the aggressiveness that we should have, because we were worried about the results because they’d already picked on us some,” Self said.

As Villanova has all season, it made its opponent pay for its bad closeouts and for helping on defense.

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Track and Field Pole vaulter Andrea Willis claimed Kansas track’s only victory Friday at the the 91st Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays. Willis beat her personal best by .18 meters, putting Willis in the top five in Kansas women’s history in pole vault. Her new record is second-best in Division I this outdoor season and best in the NCAA West Region.

Every time a Wildcat would beat a Jayhawk off the dribble, another Kansas teammate would come and help, as the team has all year. But, against Villanova, that is a dangerous game.

“They had us rotating a lot,” senior guard Devonte’ Graham said after the game.

Those rotations are what Villanova thrives on; as a team it makes the extra pass to turn good looks into wide-open ones.

Yet to some degree, there was nothing Kansas could do.

Associated Press Player of the Year Jalen Brunson made multiple threes with a hand in his face, and the same could be said with just about any Villanova player.

At the end of the day, Self says he won’t think about what Kansas did wrong.

“But I’ll look at it, and if I ever watch the game tape (which I know what happened so I probably won’t), but I’ll think more about how good Villanova was today,” Self said.