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Students to vote on readership program

Andrew Rosenthal/KANSAN Student Body President Mady Womack is leaving funding for the Collegeiate Leadership Program up to students, who can vote on Aprill 11 and 12.

SYDNEY HOOVER @sydhoover17

With Finance Committee in disagreement, Student Senate has given students at the University the opportunity to vote on whether or not to keep the student readership fee in the coming year. The vote will take place April 11 and 12 during Senate elections. The Collegiate Readership Program provides more than 70 newspaper kiosks across campus where students can pick up copies of the New York Times, USA Today, the Lawrence-Journal World and the Kansas City Star

for free. Though the the Kansan reported in November 2016 that 1,745 newspapers are dsitributed on average each day on campus, Senate leaders are split on whether or not the continuation of the fee would be practical. “The service has run out of money, and it will require a fee increase to keep it. During deliberations on whether or not to grant the fee that increase, Fee Review was also divided on how to proceed,” Finance Committee Chair Chance Maginness said in an email to the Kansan. “So instead of having 14 people make

a decision, Student Body President Mady Womack suggested that we send it out for the student body to make the final decision.” If students vote to maintain the service, an additional $2.50 would be added to the annual student fee. The student fee was already raised $25.20 for the coming school year, the largest fee increase since 2009. At present, the fee is set at $0.00 and the money in the fund has been redistributed, Maginness said, but this would change depending on the student body’s vote, as a fee increase would be required

to sustain the program. The fee had come up for debate in March 2017 as well, but Finance Committee voted to continue the program due to a reserve of funds that had already been accumulated to sustain the program. Overtime, money had been saved up from the fee created to establish the readership program, creating a self-sustaining fund and no need to continue requiring a fee of students for the program. “I think the committee felt that they wanted to continue the program. I think that they share, you know, their beliefs for why

it’s important, so the committee chose to keep it. But that’s not to say that there wasn’t disagreement and significant debate about whether or not to keep the program,” said Student Body President Mady Womack. As of this year, the reserve can no longer sustain the program, requiring the additional $2.50 fee. All student fees are reviewed yearly by the Fee Review Committee. According to Newspaper Readership Board Chair Stuart Bennett, if the referendum were to fail and the fee is voted out, the program would “cease to ex-

ist,” and would likely lead to removal of kiosks and exiting with USA Today partners. However, Bennett believes the program is “worthy of a student fee” to sustain its current program. “I find the Newspaper Readership Program to be an exceptionally beneficial service to students on campus. It provides daily print news to students almost anywhere they may go on campus. Personally, I was introduced to this program last year as a freshman and enjoyed the paper nearly every morning or afternoon,” Bennett said.

Provost leaving KU to become Louisville president

EMILY WELLBORN @EmWellborn

Provost Neeli Bendapudi will be leaving the University of Kansas to become the president of the University of Louisville. The Courier Journal reported Tuesday that Louisville’s Board of Trustees appointed Bendapudi in a “special meeting” Tuesday. She will be Louisville’s first female president. She was introduced as president at 1:30 p.m. EST via livestream. “My mother and father actually taught for two years at the University of Louisville, Kentucky,” she said during the livestream. During the livestream,

Bendapudi also said her start date was set as Tuesday, May 15, which is the week after finals week at the University of Kansas. Bendapudi has been the provost of the University since 2016 after being formerly the dean of the School of Business. She was the first female dean of the school. Chancellor Douglas Girod put out a statement regarding Bendapudi’s new position. “While this is a loss for KU, I am delighted for Neeli, who has served our university with passion for the past seven years and will undoubtedly do great work at Louisville,” Dr. Girod said in the statement. “As friends and colleagues, we can be

happy for her.” Girod wrote that he will be naming an interim provost “in the coming days” and will announce the search for a permanent provost and executive vice chancellor in the upcoming weeks. Provost Neeli Bendapudi put out a statement reflecting on her time at the University and thanking students, faculty and staff for what they have accomplished together during her sixyear tenure. “To the vast network of Jayhawks ... Thank you. Thank you for making our time here more meaningful, more enjoyable, and more memorable,” Bendapudi said in the statement.

Savanna Smith/KANSAN Provost Neeli Bendapudi introduces herself to the 2017-2018 Student Senate on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, in Alderson Auditorium.

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Altercation leaves one man dead

A man was shot around 2 a.m. Wednesday in a “violent confrontation” with a homeowner near South Park

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Emily Wellborn/KANSAN The home on Connecticut Street where one person was shot early Wednesday morning. EMILY WELLBORN @EmWellborn A shooting early Wednesday morning at a Lawrence home has left one person dead. The other person involved was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The altercation occurred on the 1100 block of Connecticut Street around 1:36 a.m. when two homeowners, a 44-year-

old man and a 45-year-old woman, were awoken by Trevor Mohawk, 32, when he came on their porch and knocked on their front door. According to the release, the man armed himself and confronted Mohawk outside of the home where the altercation occurred and escalated, ultimately resulting in Mohawk’s death. The homeowner and Mohawk did not know each other.

“A physical altercation ensued between the homeowner and the man,” said a press release from the Lawrence Police Department. “During the altercation, shots were fired.” Officers responded to the gunshots shortly after, and Mohawk was taken to an area hospital for gunshot wounds, where he later died from his injuries, according to Officer Drew Fennelly with the LPD. The homeowner was

injured from the fight, but didn’t receive any gunshot wounds himself. He was interviewed by LPD and was also taken to an area hospital for his non-life-threatening injuries, but has since been released. The LPD said in the press release that this is an ongoing investigation, but “police are not looking for any other individuals at this time.” The press release also said there have not been

any arrests at this time, but it will be handed over to Douglas County District Attorney’s office to consider future charges.

“Police are not looking for any other individuals at this time.” LPD press release

Student leaders to resubmit K-12 motion RYLIE KOESTER @RylieKoester Editor’s Note: Mark Johnson, one of the sources in this story, is the chair of the Kansan’s Board of Directors. Student leaders will submit a motion to reconsider after the Kansas Supreme Court denied an application that aimed to include higher education in the conversation around K-12 funding. “I think it is absolutely vital that higher education is part of the discussion around the educational constitutional interests of the state,” said Student Body President Mady Womack. The Student Advisory Committee, which is made up of the student body presidents of the Kansas Board of Regents schools, previously applied to file an amicus curiae brief to the Kansas Supreme Court in March in the school funding lawsuit, Gannon v. Kansas. As a result of the lawsuit, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled in October 2017 that the state’s educational funding system is unconsti-

tutional, and the legislature must come up with a new budget for public education during this session. The University could lose 18 percent of its state funding or about $23 million dollars for the legislature’s current plan to fund K-12 education. The court denied the committee’s application because it said the brief brought up issues that were not raised to the trial court. However, a party may submit a motion to reconsider an order made by the court, which Womack said the committee wants to use to further explain its argument to the court. “We just want to make sure that the court doesn’t say anything that would indicate that funding for public education is limited to funding K-12,” said Mark Johnson, who is representing the committee pro bono. According to the Kansas Board of Regents, there were over 94,000 students enrolled in a state university in 2017. “We just want to make sure that the policymakers and the courts in the state

Gina Huss/KANSAN Student Body President, Mady Womack, speaks during the Student Senate meeting on Wednesday, March 7. Womack is part of the committee submitting a motion to reconsider to the Kansas Supreme Court. understand that there are more public school students than just the folks in K-12,” Johnson said. He also said the committee wants to make its argument public now to ensure that higher education is in-

cluded in future discussions about educational funding. Moving forward, Womack said the committee also plans to advocate in the Kansas legislature to ensure that higher education funding will not be cut now

or in the future because of increased funding to K-12 schools. “We will just continue to have conversations about the benefits of higher education,” Womack said.

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Landolt: Fund athletes’ family travel

MOLLY LANDOLT @mollylandolt

Division 1 college athletes train their entire lives to reach a national semifinal or championship game. They can spend more than 40 hours a week perfecting their game. The least they should get in return for all their hard work is compensation for their families’ travel expenses to important games throughout the season. According to Bleacher Report, Kansas sophomore center Udoka Azubuike was unable to see his mother for six years until she was able to travel to the Final Four game to see her son play last weekend. It is generous the NCAA funded her travel, but it is still absolutely ridiculous that a mother has to wait until her

child makes it to the Final Four to receive funding to travel to a game. The NCAA should fund family travel before the rare occurrence that a team makes it that far. According to KUSports. com, the NCAA started a program in 2015 for basketball and football that funds $3,000 worth of travel expenses to families with children playing in the semifinal game and $4,000 to families with children playing in the national championship game. Families should receive funding to travel to games before they reach a Final Four game. March Madness brings in an extreme amount of revenue to the NCAA. In 2017, the NCAA made $817,517,801 just from “television and marketing

rights fees.” Most of those fees came from CBS/Turner, which made a $10.8 billion deal with the NCAA in 2010 to broadcast March Madness games through 2024. I’d understand if the NCAA does not have enough funding to provide travel for families during the entire tournament, but they clearly do. If the NCAA doesn’t want to fund travel to all games in the tournament, it should at least give schools the opportunity to fund family travel. College athletes devote their entire college experience to playing for a university. And yes, most players are getting full-ride scholarships to play basketball at the Division 1 level. But considering basketball programs bring in exorbitant an amount of revenue

to universities, schools should be allowed, and encouraged, to fund travel for families of players. Kansas basketball made a reported $97.7 million in revenue in the 2014 fiscal year. With that much revenue, the basketball program can clearly fund family travel to important games throughout the season, but it’s not allowed to. The NCAA has an amateurism policy, which states, “Maintaining amateurism is crucial to preserving an academic environment in which acquiring a quality education is the first priority. In the collegiate model of sports, the young men and women competing on the field or court are students first, athletes second.” I agree with that sentiment, but clearly Division 1 college

basketball players are dealing with responsibility that far exceeds their studies. Families of basketball players, or collegiate athletes of any type, give up so much of their lives for their child to play for a Division 1 university, and they should be given the opportunity to support their athlete in important games throughout the season — not just in the semifinal or championship games. With all of the revenue that college basketball brings in, and with the amount of time that college athletes spend training, the least they should get in return is free family travel. Molly Landolt is a freshman from Labadie, Missouri, studying strategic communications.

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Babb: Self-driving cars need more oversight

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In one of my last columns, I mentioned that the time of automated technology is coming faster than we can anticipate. These advancements in our society should be viewed with optimism under one condition: we take the proper precautions when providing them to the general public. Companies such as Tesla and Uber, who have been in the process of developing and releasing self-driving cars, learned that although these advancements are coming quickly, they can’t be rushed at the expense of human lives. According to the New York Times, a Tempe, Ari-

zona police department reported an accident in which a self-driving Uber vehicle struck and killed a 49-yearold pedestrian as she crossed the street two weeks ago. Fortunately, the car carried no passengers, but it did have a “safety driver” in case the car didn’t function safely on its own. Arizona, among other rural states, is one of the few that has allowed for autonomous vehicles because of their dry weather and wide roads. These sort of conditions were supposed to be ideal for the introduction of self-driving cars onto major roads and highways, and yet, the integration proved to be disastrous. In another article, the Times mentioned how Tesla has come under blast after

a recent accident where a 38-year-old man slammed into a concrete barrier while the car was in autopilot. This accident happened just weeks after the company’s release of a new upgrade for the autopilot system. Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla, said the new system was “really going to be beyond what people expect,” and that it would elevate the Tesla’s Model S sedan and Model X sport to the safest cars on the road “by far.” States such as Arizona have opened their doors to experimenting with self-driving cars, and they have been extremely lenient toward regulation in an attempt to attract companies to test their cars on the state’s roads. Accidents such

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as these are examples of why more oversight needs to happen regarding robotic cars for the sake of survival. Although these accidents may scare people out of ever letting a car control itself, it shouldn’t scare us of what’s to come in the future. These companies are in the experimental stage of introducing these vehicles into our everyday lives, but it’s imperative that they take the proper steps before implementing their ideas onto public roads. As proven in the accident in Tempe, a human can’t always ensure safety when they aren’t in full control of the vehicle. In theory, autonomous cars are supposed to save lives. Right now, they seem to be doing the opposite.

“It’s imperative that they take the proper steps before implementing their ideas onto public roads.” Whether robot or human, roads can have unpredictable situations that result in even the most attentive person getting into a collision. We just need to make sure that we place the value of human life over the value of luxury. Adam Babb is a freshman from Evergreen, Colorado, studying finance and economics.

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arts & culture Thursday, April 5, 2018

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Indie-folk artist to perform at Granada Singer-songwriter Julien Baker is making waves with her piognant, gripping lyrics and unabashed identity as a queer Christian

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Julien Baker, a 22-year-old indie-folk artist, will perform at the Granada this weekend.

even greater popularity. “She’s growing a following. If you’re going to look into who’s popular in the next five years, she’s going to be it,” Stratton said. Making substantial waves in the music industry at such a young age is an impressive feat, but Baker remains a humble individual. When asked for advice aimed toward young artists, her responses demonstrate wisdom far beyond her years. On a practical level, Baker agrees with the tried-and-true adage that practice makes perfect. “Practice is the most integral part of honing any skill. You hone your craft in the environment where it is practiced in a tangible way. It also gives you an opportunity to meet and engage with people. Keeping yourself open to teachable moments is important,” Bak-

er said Most of all, however, she emphasizes the need to stay true to oneself. “Be genuine in the things you do. When you meet a person, don’t think of the potential benefit you could reap from sowing a relationship with them. Just try to preserve a pure and honest fascination with human beings because they are human beings, and try to open yourself to knowing a person’s story,” Baker said. “That will form more powerful and lasting relationships that are based on mutual trust and actual support.” Baker will play the Granada on Friday at 7 p.m., joined by opener Tancred. Tickets are available on the Granada’s website for $18 in advance or at the door for $20.

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fortable with myself. It’s another to be publicly, intentionally, unrelentingly comfortable with yourself in a way that draws other people into the conversation. That’s something I still have to work on.” Baker’s first album, “Sprained Ankle,” was recorded when she was only 18. First released on Bandcamp “just for fun, and for [her] own self-gratification,” the record gained immense popularity. It was later officially re-released by 6131 Records. Last fall, Baker released a sophomore album, “Turn Out the Lights,” through Matador Records. Her musicianship has undoubtedly grown between “Sprained Ankle” and “Turn Out the Lights,” but her overall sound, which she describes as “ambient” and “largely limited to just [her], a guitar and keys,”

has remained a constant. “I kind of experimented with going for a more expansive sound. There were more tools at my disposal in the songwriting process, so we tried to make it a lot more of a dynamic and lush record and see how much depth of sound we could get out of a few instruments,” Baker said about “Turn Out the Lights.” Matt Stratton, a freshman at the University studying psychology and German, has been a fan

of Baker since her first album came out. “I listen to all of her music, and I love it,” Stratton said. “Her music is very personal. It can be very emotional, but it’s always relaxing and calming to me.” Regarding her upcoming concert at the Granada, Stratton said he hopes Baker’s first album won’t be completely overlooked in favor of newer songs. Regardless, he stresses the reach of her music and her imminent rise to

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Julien Baker, one of alternative music’s youngest breakthrough singer-songwriters, will perform at the Granada Friday as part of a multimonth international tour. At only 22 years old, Baker is already being praised for the depth and sagacity of her music by a plethora of critics. Many of her songs are both autobiographical and thought-provoking, reconciling seemingly disparate parts of her identity — identifying as both queer and a person of faith, for example. “Things about myself that I didn’t necessarily have negative feelings about such as my faith or my sexuality ... those are things that deserve to be amplified and discussed explicitly,” Baker said in a phone interview. “It’s one thing for me to be com-

“Things about myself that I didn’t necessarily have negative feelings about such as my faith or my sexuality ... those are things that deserve to be amplified and discussed explicitly.” Julien Baker singer-songwriter

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Rough moments don’t impede Dave Ross

Despite a few awkward moments from opening comedians, Tuesday night’s show at the Taproom was an overall success

Caitlynn Salazar/KANSAN Dave Ross performs at the Taproom in Lawrence Tuesday evening. The stand-up comedian’s current gig is on Comedy Central’s “Corporate,” and he can also be seen on the network’s “Drunk History.”

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Surprisingly enough, a good sex joke goes a long way. Dave Ross headlined at the Eighth Street Taproom Tuesday night with a good amount of humor focused on bestiality and masculinity. The show started out with only about five people in the basement of the Taproom. Chance Dibben, the host of the show, went into the alcove where the stand was located. “I can name literally every person in this room,” Dibben said. This small of an audience had the show off to a bit of an awkward foot, but, thankfully, as the comics took stage, the room started filling up, until it was nearly a full house within the basement. Right after Dibben opened up the night, comic Dennis Chanay took the mic. Chanay’s dry, slightly self-deprecating humor was exactly what was needed to pick up the show. As a Kansas City, Kansas, native, most of Chaney’s jokes were oriented around what it was like growing up in his hometown and his bad experiences every single time he came to Lawrence. It was exactly what the audience needed to hear in the moment. Chanay had the advantage in that Kansas City, Kansas, is far enough away for Lawrence natives to not re-

ally know about what the town was like, yet close enough for it to seem relatable in some aspect. Chanay really worked with this angle, bringing up current events — like Schlitterbahn’s Verrückt waterslide — and discussing the environment of the area. Everyone in the room was grinning throughout Chanay’s set; he knows how to tackle dark topics without entirely crossing a line by any means. Then, Anna May Smith took the stage to follow up Chanay. Smith tried to work with the crowd as she could. She first started her set by having the audience go through a couple of chants, which the audience took with hesitance at first. Admittedly, the awkwardness led to a good outcome, with her wedging in a good joke about the crowd turning into a Satanic cult after its plethora of chants. Once she started build off of that audience interaction, the crowd started to warm up to her more. Smith favors jokes targeting her own awkwardness, which worked in getting the audience to connect with her a little bit better. Though the start felt a little strange, she took full control of the weirdness and shifted it into a more fun experience. Smith’s specialty is physical comedy. Her gestures and gesticulations added more

to her set, which ultimately gained the most response from the audience. Dave Ross followed after Smith, clad in simple jeans, a black crew neck and a hat. Ross’s set relies on seeming just like a guy who wants to hang out with a couple of his friends in the basement of a bar, and he was able to work effectively to make that mood palatable between him and his audience. Ross started his set by talking about a few niche behaviors of Lawrence. “Lawrence is the town where there’s no one out on the street, but literally all the parking is taken,” Ross

said. “Where are you guys?” Ross then continued to joke about the vibe of the basement of the Taproom, pointing out the gold streamers behind him and the random piece of art that juxtaposed the party decorations surrounding him. Most of Ross’ jokes focused on ele-

ments that most of the audience wasn’t aware they were thinking, at least up until Ross specifically pointed it out. There was a whole element of the show dedicated to joking about bestiality and discovering your sexuality, which Ross made work. Genuinely, Ross’s set was refreshing.

Though the entire show had a bit of an off start, as the night continued, the mood of the room became brighter as each comic took the stage. Ross truly was the best way to close out the show.

— Edited by Erin Brock

“Lawrence is the town where there’s no one out on the street, but literally all the parking is taken,” Ross said. “Where are you guys?” Dave Ross comedian

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Sarah Wright/KANSAN Charlie Hillier, junior, and Harry Hillier, freshman, at a Kansas Athletics conference. Golfers Charlie and Harry are brothers from Te Puke, New Zealand.

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Charlie Hillier traveled halfway across the world expecting to participate in just another golf tournament. Traveling from his native Te Puke, New Zealand, to San Diego, California, to compete in the Junior World Golf Tournament, Hiller didn’t realize just how life-changing that tournament would be. On the morning of July 15, 2014, the 18-year-old Hillier teed off for the first time in the tournament, which was hosted by the University of Oregon. Hillier started strong, shooting one-under in his first three rounds combined, but a drop-off in round four pushed his final score to four-over, ultimately causing him to fall into tenth place. After his performance, Hillier was approached by a man who would go on to change his life. The man, who turned out to be Kansas golf coach Jamie Bermel, asked Hillier one all-important question: “Have you ever thought about coming to Kansas?” Perhaps forgivable, due to the fact that Hillier lived on the other side of the world, the first thing to come out of his mouth was, “Where is Kansas?” After learning about the University of Kansas, Hillier decided to take a visit to America’s heartland. Once the 18-year-old was able to pinpoint Kansas on a map,

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Hillier became close with Bremel. “He did a really good job of making us feel at home,” Hillier said, now a junior at Kansas. “It was the closest thing to home.” Hillier would soon make it official and become a Jayhawk, signing on with Bremel’s team and beginning the preparations to make Kansas his home away from home. A year on, Hillier’s freshman year was finally upon him. Making his switch from the Southern Hemisphere to the Northern Hemisphere, a 7,722-mile trip, Hillier prepared for the life-changing transition. But, according to Hillier, the transition wasn’t difficult at all. “Coach Bremel got me here and put me in a couple good classes with other athletes,” Hillier said. “I put a lot of the easiness of the transition on the coaches at the time.”

“In the summer, I didn’t even want to be here. Just thinking about it, being so far from home at such a young age, I found it really difficult.”

mitted to come here, I knew he would be a really good fit to our team.”

BACK TOGETHER

Charlie competed in every tournament for Kansas his first year, which is typically uncommon for a freshman. Hillier finished his freshman season tied for the most top-10 finishes among all Jayhawks. Hillier made even more improvement his sophomore season, finishing first among all Jayhawks twice, including the 2017 Desert Intercollegiate, and was tied for second overall in one competition.

Hillier would go on to finish in a tie for 25th place at the Big 12 Championships. Heading into his junior season, following another season in which he competed in all 13 of Kansas’ competitions as a sophomore, Hillier’s younger brother, Harry, was wrapping up his high school golf career. Harry, quite similar to Charlie, was competing in San Diego when Bremel approached Harry and asked him the exact same question he asked Charlie two years prior. “Have you ever thought about coming to Kansas?” Unlike Charlie in 2014, Harry knew exactly where Lawrence was, thanks to his elder brother. Harry would go on to follow in his brother’s footsteps and sign with the University of Kansas without hesitation. For Harry, he did not go to Kansas simply because his brother was there, but Charlie did have a big impact on Harry’s decision. “It was pretty close to home,” Harry said. “What we do on a day-to-day basis was very similar to home.” Although Harry did not need Bremel as much as

Charlie did, Harry had Charlie to look up to and go to if he ever needed anything. Yet despite that, the transition to America seemed to be more difficult for Harry than it was for Charlie. “I kind of struggled with the transition,” Harry said. “In the summer, I didn’t even want to be here. Just thinking about it, being so far from home at such a young age, I found it really difficult.” Nearly 8,000 miles away from home at just the age of 18, the transition to a new culture would be difficult for anyone. The only thing that made things easier for Harry was having his brother by his side. “It wasn’t quite what I expected, but now this is a place I call home,” Harry said. When Charlie discovered Harry was coming to Kansas, he was excited, not only because his younger brother was coming to play with him, but Harry was the perfect fit for the team. “Coach Bremel has always taught us, it’s what is on your chest, your playing for Kansas,” Charlie said. “So as soon as Harry com-

Harry did not start his freshman year the way Charlie did — in fact, Harry didn’t compete in a single event during the fall. While Charlie continued to grow and be a leader on the team, his younger brother Harry seemed to struggle. But as the spring semester came around, Harry was given an opportunity to play at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate. The freshman went on to finish tied for 11th, shooting 3-under in his final round to bolster his final ranking. In addition, Kansas went on to win the entire tournament by 21 strokes. In his first college event, Harry exceeded expectations and looked to shake off the uneasiness of his transition to the U.S. The team celebrated, but their celebration was different than what most would expect. “Walking off the second green, I was waiting for my teammate [Daniel] Hudson and he goes, ‘How’d we do?’” Harry said. Telling Hudson that the team had won by a huge 21 strokes, all that came out of Hudson’s mouth was “Oh yeah, cool.” For a team that had just won their first competition in nearly two years, Kansas did not celebrate with con-

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fetti, but rather by shaking hands with each other and looking toward their next tournament. The mindset of the Kansas golf team is just this: continue looking forward and figuring out ways to better themselves. “In terms of going forward, we approach each tournament one by one,” Charlie said. “We haven’t got any number one player in the country, but we are really good players. Depth has been big this year because it keeps competitiveness between us.” This competitiveness among the Jayhawks is what will continue to drive not only the team forward, but the pair of brothers too. While the pair do not know what their future holds, for now, they want to be good teammates. Harry has not given much thought to Charlie’s graduation in 2019, but he knows the team will be different once he is gone. As for now, Harry and Charlie hope to continue improving and maybe even make nationals as a team. The two brothers aren’t any different than your typical brothers: at a young age they simply tolerated one another, but as time has gone on, their relationship has become closer than ever. Both golfers have an opportunity to become professional golfers, but for now, they hope to make their “American father figure,” Jamie Bremel, proud.