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When it comes to multicul-tural groups on campus, theUniversity has a large numbero distinct organizations likethe Black Student Union, His-panic American LeadershipOrganization and the AsianAmerican Student Union.

Unortunately, many o theseorganizations struggle becauseo a lack o resources andlarger support system. Tat's

where Mosaic comes in.Multicultural Organizations

or Student Advocacy, Involve-ment and Community, or Mo-saic, was created last spring bysenior David Lam in an effortto provide support and coop-eration between multiculturalcommunities on campus. Tegroup is comprised o rep-resentatives rom differentcultural groups who work to-gether to make students moreaware o the multiculturalgroups on campus. Lam, whois graduating in December, has

started to hand off responsibil-ity to Assistant Director Karen

Chin.Chin, a senior rom San

Francisco and president othe Asian American StudentUnion, said the idea or thegroup came afer realizing howseparated many groups oncampus are.

“When you look at multicul-tural organizations on campus,a lot o us are very siloed andwe’re doing our own thing, andsometimes people don’t noticeus as much,” Chin said. “And

the thing is that some multi-cultural organizations and mi-

nority groups are small, and soit’s more difficult or them tobe active on campus.”

She added: “My hope is thatas a whole, as a group, we canshow more support to eachother, so we can allow our or-ganizations to be ull and tothrive."

Part o that support is cre-ating a sense o communi-ty within the multiculturalgroups on campus, said MarkMaiden, a junior rom Over-

land Park.“Personally, or me, com-

munity is huge,” Maiden said.“It’s about being able to have asupportive community wherewe recognize each others di-erences and embrace eachothers differences so that we’reable to work together towardsa common goal o recognitionand support. Having that kindo system is huge or any stu-dent group or marginalized

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From left, Modern Nomad consists of Susan Cross, Michael McCulley, Jack Hoard andKristin Scheurer. Modern Nomad is a startup that will sell modern, plywood furniture in

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Senior outside hitter Tiana Dockery hits the ball over thenet. The Jayhawks defeated TCU on Saturday to advanceto 14-0 on the season.

No. 15 Kansas volleyball de-eated CU to bring home its14th consecutive win. Te Jay-hawks swept the Horned Frogsin three sets (25-21, 25-18, 26-24).Te Jayhawks posted a total

o 51 kills during the victo-ry, and six players recordedat least three kills. Right sideKelsie Payne led the pack with13 — two shy o her personalbest (15)."It was an ebb-and-flow

match," head coach Ray Be-chard said in a news release."Offensively we didn't play

very well in the first set, butplayed great deense. Tenwe got the offense going inthe second set and started thethird set well."Outside hitter Madison Rig-

don ollowed close behindPayne, posting a total o 10kills while adding 11 digs. Tatperormance was her seconddouble-double o the season.Outside hitter iana Dock-

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ing her just one kill short o adouble-double.

Setter Ainise Havili added 42assists — five short o the ullteam assist total. Libero CassieWait led the team in digs, with14.However, it wasn't all good

or Kansas. Te team almostlet CU back into the matchin the third set afer a couple ocritical errors."Tere were just too many

unorced errors in the thirdset, [which] let a good teamback in it," Bechard said. "Wewere ortunate to close out thematch in three sets."Against Kansas — a deensive

stronghold — CU struggledto do much on the offensiveend. Te Horned Frogs fin-ished with a .106 hitting per-centage, which marked the13th time out o 14 games thatKansas' opponents hit under.200.Kansas now leads the all-time

series with CU 6-2, accord-ing to the news release.Kansas' next match will be

against West Virginia on Sat-urday, Oct. 3, at home. TeJayhawks will be looking toextend their winning streakto 15.

Mosaic hopes to bring multiculturalgroups together by providing support

Seats quickly filled and par-ticipants lined the walls atthe second annual LawrenceStartup Weekend presenta-tions on Sunday night. A qui-et room with 36 empty chairs

became a group o 45 as theybegan at the Bioscience andechnology Business Center.

Each o the our teams wasgiven five minutes to presentits ideas to a three-judge pan-el, competing teams and oth-er attendees.

Afer little sleep, a crashingcomputer and accompaniedlaser burns, a new Lawrencestartup was announced asthe winner: Modern Nomad.Te team, composed o twoUniversity students and twoLawrence residents, proposedthe idea o selling modern,plywood urniture online.

Michael McCulley, a juniorrom Champaign, Ill., andco-owner o Modern No-mad, said he ell in love withmid-century modern designat the age o 10.

“My grandpa had an Eameschair and a aux Eames chairand they were acing eachother in his study, and he saidthat one is good design andthat one’s not,” said McCulley.“I studied both the chairs tosee what made them differentand what was the good de-

sign and why it was bad, and

it just sparked a passion orurniture, mid-century anddesign.”

As or Jack Hoard, a ju-nior rom opeka and ellowco-owner o Modern Nomad,he said he loved to build anddraw things as a kid but nev-er knew where that would go

until his senior year o highschool when he saw that de-sign was an option. Duringhis reshman year o collegehe ound out how challengingdesign could be.

“I ound out design was athing that people actually didand it wasn’t just a designerbeing attached to expensivethings, and so I kind o gotthe trial by fire my reshmanyear,” Hoard said.

McCulley and Hoard metthrough the industrial designprogram and began workingtogether, eventually leading

to Modern Nomad.Tis 54-hour event allowed

University students and com-munity members to pitchideas and potentially walkaway with a new business onSunday night. Te winningteam receives six months oree space at the Bioscienceand echnology BusinessCenter and our hours o reeaccounting help. Te team isalso entered into KU Catalyst,a business accelerator.

Hoard and McCulley start-ed the weekend with sketchesthat developed into three-di-mensional prototypes. Mod-

ern Nomad uses lasers to cutthrough plywood and ormprototypes or their urniture.

“It was unanimous whenwe talked to our target cus-tomers, they all said the samething that putting togetherIkea urniture was so rustrat-ing,” said Kristin Scheurer, a

Lawrence resident and mar-keter or Modern Nomad.“And so when you recognizethat point o pain in the mar-ketplace that was where thisproduct solves that.”

ime became an enemywhen the last model didn’tcompletely cut through theplywood. With time runningout, Hoard couldn’t wait orthe laser to trace the designone more time. Instead, hehad to punch the design outo the plywood.

“I was speeding quite abit with our last model be-

ing knocked out o the ply-wood that it didn’t quite cutthrough five minutes beorewe are supposed to be meet-ing or presentations,” Hoardsaid. “Tere was a little bit ostress, but it’s also what hap-pens every other Monday inour program.”

McCulley said the next stepor Modern Nomad is to fi-nalize the models and hope-ully have a ull-scale modelin the next couple o weeks.Tey hope to have their busi-ness ully launched by thesummer o 2016.

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Te Student Senate Fee Re- view Committee discussed andapproved a potential increase inthe Student Union Renovationfee, which would be renamedthe Burge Union Fee.

Te committee approved amemorandum of understand-ing, which would change the

name and raise the fee from$13.80 per student per year to$18.70. Te plan still has to beapproved in Finance Committeeand then full Senate.

Tis money will be designatedfor furniture, fixtures and equip-ment during the 2017 and 2018fiscal year and extended to fundthe construction lease from fis-cal years 2019 through 2048,according to the memorandum.

Once completed, the Burge

Union will include retail services, lounges for activities andevents, a meeting space andclassroom space, offices forLegal Services for Students, areflection room, KU Info help-desk, the Emily aylor Centerfor Women and Gender Equity,the Campus Sexual Assault andSexual Harassment Preventionand Education Research Center,and a production kitchen and

service system.

Te Campus Sexual Assaultand Sexual Harassment Preven-tion and Education ResearchCenter was a recommendationfrom the Chancellor’s Sexu-al Assault ask Force. AngelaMurphy, graduate affairs direc-tor for Senate, said establishinga space for the center is hugeprogress for the administration.

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physical space ready for this

center is them putting a physi-cal administration forward andsaying, ‘yes we’re committed tothis,’” she said.

Murphy added that the loca-tion of the services is beneficial.

“All of these are at the heart ofcampus,” she said. “Tat sendsa strong message to our stu-dents to say there are resourcesavailable right where you needthem.”

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iffany Littler, a senior fromFord, transferred to the Uni-

versity last fall from DodgeCity Community College. Shebrought nearly 60 credits withher, but the journalism classesshe took didn’t transfer for hermajor.

“Te only issue was the two journalism classes because theyweren’t like the classes up here,”she said. “I think it set me backbecause I’m graduating in fiveyears instead of four.”

On average, transfer students

take 1.15 years longer to com-plete their degree than thosewho entered KU as first-timefreshmen and, as a result, spendroughly $10,000 more to gettheir degrees than their peerswho finish in four years, accord-ing to the Office of InstitutionalResearch and Planning.

Last year, 1,204, or 6.4 percent,of KU’s 18,851 undergraduateswere transfer students. Tis year,1,113 students are transfers, ac-cording to Erinn Barcomb-Pe-terson, director for news and

media relations.Te Board of Regents and the

University have been working tomake it easier for transfer stu-dents to get credit for their class-es from community collegesand other schools. Te Regentslast year approved a total of 56courses that are guaranteed totransfer from any public Kansascommunity college or technicalschool. Each year, representa-tives from Regents universitiesmeet to discuss additions to thecourses that can transfer. Overthe last 10 years, 13 new courseshave been added.

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University has focused atten-tion on how to best help trans-fer students transition. Whilethe number of transfer studentsfrom 2004 to 2014 has de-creased by nearly 300 students,Barcomb-Peterson maintainedtransfer students are a crucialpart of the University. She saidmore students are attendingmultiple universities or gettingcredits at numerous communitycolleges before transferring tothe University.

“ransfer students are an in-

creasingly important group forKU as more and more people

begin their college careers attwo-year institutions, and mostare looking at cost and conve-nience when they transfer,” Bar-comb-Peterson said in an email.

For Littler, cost was a majorfactor in deciding to attendcommunity college before com-ing to KU. She said she wasoffered a full-ride dance schol-arship to Dodge City Commu-nity College and it made senseto take it.

While she said she’s glad shetransferred to the University, ithasn’t been without financial

strain.“It is a very big stressor be-cause I was on scholarship at mycommunity college,” she said.“It covered free tuition and freebooks, so the biggest issue nowfor me is buying books. I lost itall when I came here, but I al-ways wanted to come here.”

Kelsey Baska, a junior fromLawrence, transferred to theUniversity from Johnson Coun-ty Community College this fall.She spent three years at JCCCand said she plans to graduate in

five years. She said graduating infour years isn’t for everyone and

that taking more time to gradu-ate is becoming the norm.

“It’s anyone’s own journey. Ifyou were to graduate at KU infour years instead of five years,it’s how you space out yourcredits,” she said. “I think thewhole idea of four years is onlyfor a certain type of people. Tepeople might have the time totake all those credits. I think fiveyears or more is the new fouryears; it’s just happening now.”

Roughly half of the under-graduate population in the U.S.spends time at a community

college during their higher ed-ucation process, according tothe American Association ofCommunity Colleges. wen-ty-five percent of students inKansas who started their edu-cation at a two-year institutioncompleted their degree at afour-year institution within sixyears, compared with 16 per-cent nationally, according to theNational Student ClearinghouseResearch Center.

From 2013 to 2014, the num-ber of students enrolled in

community colleges in Kansasdropped by 3,370, or 4.34 per-

cent, according to the KansasBoard of Regents. Barcomb-Pe-terson said the University cur-riculum changes have helpedtransfer students transition.

“Te creation of a more flexi-ble general education programat KU is also designed to helptransfer students have more oftheir courses count toward thecompletion of general educa-tion,” she said in an email.

Brian Inbody, president ofNeosho County Communitycollege in Chanute, said if stu-dents tell their advisers ahead of

time where they want to trans-fer, it’s likely even major-specificclasses will transfer. But whenstudents flip-flop, the adviseris unable to help, and that cansometimes result in lost credits.

Baska brought with her a gen-eral associate’s degree and vari-ous fashion design credits. Shesaid all of her credits transferredto the University.

“JCCC has a lot of equivalentclasses you can take,” she said.

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Less demand. Gas pricestend to decrease every fall af-ter the summer driving season,according to Patrick DeHaan,senior petroleum analyst for

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Lower quality gas. DeHaansaid that around Septemberthe Environmental ProtectionAgency’s requirements for gas-oline relax, so refiners can of-fer cheaper, lower quality gas.Refineries tend to sell moreexpensive gas in the summer.

Increased oil supply in the

United States. While oil de-mand is down worldwide, the

U.S. has more oil than it didlast year, creating a surplus,said Paul Willhite, distin-guished professor of chemicaland petroleum engineering atthe University. Willhite saidmore oil is being drilled inColorado and North Dakotathis year than last year.

Will gas prices continue to

fall?“I think that prices will ulti-

mately be lower by Christmas,”DeHaan said. “Tey may beanother 15 to 20 cents lowerby then.”

DeHaan added that gas pric-es would bottom out aroundTanksgiving and Christmasbut could last through Valen-tine’s Day.

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ber?Both DeHaan and Willhite

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“What we are seeing at thepump right now is consider-able disconnect as comparedto the past few years,” he said.

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community.”Although Mosaic was or-

mally ounded last year, theorganization didn’t have timeto institute much change, saidChin. Starting this semester,the members are working togain traction on campus.

At a meeting last Friday, Mo-saic members began laying outthe year. In addition to estab-lishing a ormal constitution

and bylaws, the group ocusedon community support.

Lilimay Bangoy, a juniorrom Los Angeles, said havingcommunity support when itcomes to cultural events andissues is a part o giving un-derrepresented groups a voice.

“When we put on things as

Mosaic, it’ll be representativeo all our organizations and allthese people that back Mosaicup,” Bangoy said. “It’s Mosaichelping to bring up under-represented belies and issuesand just making people moreaware about cultural issues.”

Te plan or Mosaic is to havethe representatives supportother cultural groups by at-tending their individual eventsand having more conversa-tions around cultural issues.

Te group will also provide aresources or the groups it sup-ports, whether by helping withevent preparation or giving ad-ditional unding. Mosaic dis-cussed a scholarship programthat would allow one group torequest unding rom another.

“I’m hoping that Mosaic can

at least lessen the stress o anorganization or group o or-ganizations choose to worktogether, so you don’t eel likeyou only have six people to puton an event, or only have sixpeople to try and gain moremembers” Chin said.

Chin said that with the helpo Mosaic, all multiculturalgroups on campus could gar-ner more attention rom thestudent body. Holding eventscan be challenging, she said,

because the groups want par-ticipation rom other students.

“Te purpose o our events isto showcase our talent and saythat we are more than just ourstereotypes and our cultures,"Chin said. "We are individualsas well with our own talents,so when we have these big

events we try to reach out tothe greater community."

Members o Mosaic also dis-cussed including a retreat orunderrepresented students, anidea suggested by the Office oDiversity and Equity last yearduring a talk about the stu-dent climate survey. Althoughno plans have been ormallymade, members o Mosaic saidit’s an event the group couldpotentially help organize.

Other event ideas included a

mid-year conerence open tothe student body and a videocampaign based on a popu-lar Buzzeed video. Te videocampaign would aim at break-ing down stereotypes o the

various multicultural groupsrepresented in Mosaic.

For now, Chin said Mosaic is

ocusing on solidiying utureevents and generating a senseo community within multi-cultural groups.

“It’s really just a bunch o stu-dents getting together tryingto make something happen,”Chin said.

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For the first time, the Center for Sustainability will host a weeklong event in an effort to bring more attention to issues of sustainability.KU Campus Sustainability Week kicks off Monday and will last through Sunday.Past efforts to make the event a week long have been unsuccessful, said Kim Criner, education and outreach coordinator for the

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For more informa-tion on KU CampusSustainability Week,visit sustain.ku.edu/ kucsw15.

Monday FridayThursdayWednesdayTuesday

“Bikers’ Break” —11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Te center will hand outsnacks to students who ridetheir bikes to campus. Te KUCycle Club will be available togive ree bike checkups.

Trees of KU ScavengerHunt — 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Students can participate inthe race to find 12 historictrees on campus. Te winnersget $100 gif certificates toUp a Creek Canoe and KayakRental.

Rock Chalk Recycle andWaste Audit —11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Te KU Recycling Club willbe on Wescoe Beach to sortthrough recyclable materi-als with students and educatethem on recycling.

Picnic at the Prairie —4-6 p.m.

Picnic at the Prairie will giveaculty experts an opportuni-ty to talk about Prairie Acre,the patch o unplowed prairienorth o Sunnyside Avenue atthe edge o campus. Te eventwill also eature snacks andbluegrass music.

Friday Night Lights Out— 5:30 p.m.

Events on Friday will ocuson energy conservation. Be-ore students start the week-end, Unplug KU — a studentorganization dedicated toenergy conservation — willmake sure all the lights areshut off with the help o stu-dents who attend.

Sunday

Prairie Seed Collecting— 1 p.m.

o wrap up the week on Sun-day, students can go to prairiesaround campus and retrieveseeds to replant at Prairie Acre.Te location or this event willbe announced later in theweek.

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By this point, we’ve all heardabout the overnight price hikeo Daraprim by uring Phar-maceuticals chie executiveMartin Shkreli. While mosto us can agree that increas-ing the cost o an old drug tomore than 55 times o whatit was the day beore is morethan a little insane, many peo-

ple are wondering how thiscould even happen. In act,it’s become a political issue —what do we need to changeabout the cost o healthcare inAmerica?

Isn’t it an old drug?

Why aren’t there

generic versions?

Drug companies have about20 years on a patent or a newdrug that is submitted or ap-proval by the Food and DrugAdministration under a newdrug application. However,

the patents are typically filedas the drugs are entered intoclinical trials, which can takethe better part o a decade.

As soon as that patent is

expired, other companies cansubmit their generic versionsor speedy approval by theFDA. Tat process is designedto get generics on the marketas ast as possible.

However, the pharmaceu-tical industry is growing andchanging all the time to thepoint that these companiescan almost end up with amonopoly on a certain drug,especially i it’s older and still

considered one o the mosteffective treatment options.

Daraprim isn’t the first drugto have this happen, andunless something changes, itcertainly won’t be the last.

Isn’t there a limit on

what pharmaceutical

companies can do?

Te short answer is no.Along with being one o two

countries in the developedworld to allow direct-to-con-sumer advertising, the U.S. isalso one o the only countriesthat allows pharmaceutical

companies to set their pricesby comparing them to otherpharmaceutical companies,rather than going through aederal negotiation program.

Tat is a large part o whydrugs like Daraprim, or evenchemotherapy, are much moreexpensive in the U.S.

In the U.S., that kind oederal negotiation programdoesn’t exist. In act, Medi-care, which is or seniorcitizens, is required to acceptprices set by these companies.No negotiation is allowedbetween the government-runinsurance program with more

than 49 million people andpharmaceutical companies.

I we were to introduce aederal negotiation system orMedicare, it could potentiallysave millions o dollars. Teree market system we have inthe U.S. is great in most cases— in act, one could argue it’sthe entire basis o the Ameri-can business model.

But there are extremes, likeraising the cost o a drugmore than 5,000 percent inone night. I understand thenecessity o recouping costs,

especially to urther drug development, but ast cash at theprice o making people sufferwithout a drug they could a-ord yesterday is unacceptable.

What can we do?

Healthcare in America is abig problem, especially whenwe spend the highest amounto money per person per yearon prescription drugs (some-where around $1,000). It’s

important to take a stand orwhat you believe in and makethis a political issue, regardlesso party. Tat’s how we canchange and allow some morecontrol over pharmaceuticalcompanies.

I don’t think controllingprices entirely will fix theproblem — in act, I think itwill slow our progress as oneo the most innovative coun-tries in drug development. Ido, however, think institutingprograms to allow Medicareto negotiate would be a good

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Tis is one o Bernie Sand-ers’s specific platorms. HillaryClinton has also spoken outon the issue; she wants tocap American out-o-pocketpharmacy spending at $250monthly. While these aresome specific examples, I

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Beore starting a new job, there are severaldifferent concerns thatare bound to eventuallycross someone’s mind.Coworkers, office space,and a new boss are allthings one would beworried about. Butrecently, another issuepeople are running intois whether or not theywill be drug tested.

Tere have been spikesin positive drug testswithin the country inrecent years. A study o7.6 million urine drugtests had a 3.7 percentpositive rate in 2013,according to an articleon Business News Daily.In 2012, it was 3.5 per-cent. Tat’s a five percentincrease, and the firstincrease in ailed drugtests in a decade.

Although marijuana

has become legal inmore states throughoutthe country, it is still im-portant or businesses todrug test their employ-ees. A lot o people are

against this, but it’s notto discriminate or crimi-nalize potential employ-ees. esting or illicitdrugs needs to be donein businesses becauseit helps create a sae,healthy and productiveworking environmentor all employees.

It’s important to eelsae and be in a healthyenvironment on the job.Despite popular belie,marijuana does havenegative effects thatcould potentially hurt

an individual’s work.Whether it’s short-termor long-term, drug usecould impair memo-ry, judgement, motorcoordination and criticalthinking according toresearch.

Some may say thatdrug testing costs thecountry a lot o money,but so do drug userswithin the company.Drug abuse can cost em-ployers about $81 billioneach year according tothe National Council onAlcoholism and DrugDependence (NCADD).Many businesses thathave employees whotest positive are able togive that person help, in

whatever orm they mayneed.Te NCADD started a

program called the Em-ployee Assistance Pro-gram, where companieswill help their employeeand amily by findingservices and resourceswithin the communitythat give them treat-ment. Companies whohave successul EAP’sshow improvement inmoral, productivity andhealth.

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criminalizing drugusers, it’s only to create awork-riendly environ-ment. Businesses wantworkers who will be pro-ductive each shif andbenefit the company.Tese tests benefit theeconomy and people, itspurpose is not to singlepeople out.

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A recent study showedthat just under six per-cent o the ull-time col-lege students surveyedhad smoked marijuanadaily or at least 20 timesin the last month, with21 percent admittingthey had smoked atleast once in the sametime period. Marijuanause is becoming moresocially acceptable, andeven being legalized orrecreational use in many

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and policies regardingmarijuana use and otherdrugs need to be updat-ed to ollow this trend.

Zero-tolerance policiesin regards to marijuanause are outdated andimpractical, mainlybecause trace amountso marijuana can bedetected in urine upto two or even threeweeks afer use in somecases. Smoking outsideo work should not leadto an employee gettingfired, but because mari-

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Most Americans tendto think that drug useshould be treated as acriminal matter, wheninstead it should betreated as a health issue.

A handul o countriesaround the world haveimplemented more lib-eral laws regarding drugoffenses, with Portugaleven taking the bold stepto decriminalize posses-sion o all drugs.

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For over 20 years, artistRobin Richerson worked as asculptor making everythingrom Viking busts to athletes

in action. Richerson, based inKansas City, is now working ona collection o Jayhawk sculp-tures to be sold under ICONArtworks. Te sculptures willdocument the evolution o theJayhawk logo over time.

Richerson said he’d alwayswanted to do something re-lated to the University, but be-cause o the Jayhawk being li-censed, he never went throughthe process o acquiring thelicense in order to legally sellthe logo.

Matt Palmer, a KU alumnusand Richerson’s nephew, orig-

inally approached Richersonwith the idea o making theJayhawk in 2009. Te ideawasn’t anything more thanconversation during the holi-days between amily.

However, in late 2013, thetwo established ICON. Fromthere, Palmer worked on ac-quiring the license, which hegained in July 2014. Te Jay-hawk collection debuted onSept. 1 this year.

“Tis is going to be an on-going thing, and it’s really in-teresting to think that this isgoing to go on afer me,” Rich-

erson said. “Someone’s goingto be making these and pur-chasing these long afer me. It’s

just a unique experience.”Te sculptures come in sev-

en- and eight-inch versionswith the option o bronze orpewter. Te pewter sculptures

cost $289, while the bronzecost $589. Within the nextmonth, the company will de-but a cheaper five-inch versionor the common an.

Te company uses the lost-wax casting method, a styleused or thousands o years,according to the MetropolitanMuseum o Art. Te processincludes a clay model, a waxmold and hours o intensivelabor.

Both Richerson and Palmer’sconnection to the school andthe state o Kansas as a whole

gives them a sense o pride inthe sculptures.“I do eel a sense o pride,”

Richerson said. “Te two-di-mensional drawings o theevolution o the Jayhawk havebeen around or a long timeand I’ve seen these drawingsand as ar as I know, I’m thefirst person that has producedthem in three-dimensions andhad the University’s blessing.”

“For me to have the oppor-tunity to [work on the sculp-tures,] I can’t describe the kindo honor and pride that I eel,”Palmer said.

Richerson has two degreesrom UMKC, one in art educa-tion and another in studio art,but he said our years o train-ing rom Chinese sculptorKwan Wu provided his most

valuable education. Wu is re-sponsible or the Phog Allenstatue in ront o Allen Field-house and the George Brettstatue at Kaumann Stadium,

amongst many other works.“I worked my schedule

around to work with him, andhe helped me to understandmore about anatomy, propor-tion and to use my eyes bet-ter,” Richerson said. “I learnedmore in those our years than Iever did at the University.”

Going orward, the companywill continue to work with the

University to make new sculp-tures beyond the six Jayhawksit now eatures. Tey are alsoworking with other schools tostart doing similar projects.

“o launch our company withthis mythical bird we all knowand love has been a dreamcome true,” Palmer said.

— Edited by Maddy Mikinski

An evening spent — nude — with the

Heartland Naturists nudist communityJARRET ROGERS@JarretRogers

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On a cool, gray evening Ientered an indoor swimmingacility about 45 minutes awayrom Lawrence to meet up

with the Heartland Naturists,a group that practices nudism.Adrenaline shot through me asI prepared or what I thoughtwould be a wild night o skin-ny dipping.

Since its inception in 1982,the Heartland Naturists hasbeen a group or those whowant to experience lie withoutthe typical threads. Te mem-bers o the community partic-ipate in a wide range o activi-ties; one night they'll socializein a coffee shop, the next they'll

jam out to '80s music whiledoing jello shots — all o this

completely nude.For one night I decided to

ollow their lead and see i thereedom o nudity would over-take me or i I would all vic-tim to embarrassment.

I had no experience with any-thing like what I was walkinginto. In the high school lockerroom, guys tried to dress asquickly as possible. At home,clothing is the only acceptableoption. Inside my dorm, theshower is the only place I’m

ever nude.o see how comortable

people were with leaving alltheir clothes behind and step-ping into the pool was odd.I knew what would happen,but — similar to how HunterMickelson is never as tall as heis when he is standing next toyou — the Heartland Naturistswere never as naked as theywere until I was among them.

Inside the swimming acility,there was no turning back. Te

longer I chose to stay clothed,the more I would stand out.Beore I could talk mysel intoanything else, I undressed andgot in the pool.

Te initial eeling is one opersonal shock. “Am I reallydoing this?” I thought to my-sel.

I bobbed around in the wa-ter, taking in some o the acessurrounding me. People chat-ted each other up about therecent events in each otherslives and said hello to thosewhom they’d missed the past

couple weeks. Tere were menwho looked like V politi-cians, couples who looked likethey were rom a bad roman-tic comedy, and someone elsewho looked like my brother'sbest riend rom college.

It was an overwhelminglynormal group o people, whichshouldn’t have been a shock —but it was.

My first encounter was witha ellow student, L. A junior,L. had been a member o thegroup since the spring.

“It’s just un being nude,” L.said. “I never really under-

stood what the big deal is.Back when I was in Germanythere were magazines out inthe open with nudity in them.In America [being nude] issuch a big deal.”

L.’s riends around campusare unaware o L.’s nudist hab-its, but at the end o the day, L.said secrecy is no big deal.

“I’m just not an open bookthat opens up about every-

thing," L. said. "No one everreally asks, and I just tell themI’m going out."

For others in the group,though, secrecy is crucial.

“Some people in here keepthis away rom their spouses orother people like that in theirlives,” said Scott Haines, thegroup's PR director. “A lot opeople don’t get what it is thatwe do here. Most people thinkit’s one big sex orgy when thetruth is there is nothing sexualabout what we do. We just like

to be naked."He added: “Anytime I’ve told

a girl about this, things havegone downhill pretty quickly."

Ray, a man in his 60s whotold his amily about his mem-bership with the group, wasdisregarded by his childrenwhen he opened up about hisliestyle.

“I told my daughters andthey just don’t get it," Ray said."Tey can’t really comprehendwhat it is I do so they don’t re-

ally speak with me anymore."Te general sentiment

among the group: Other peo-ple can’t seem to comprehendthe reedom o the people in-side o the group. Tey can’tathom a group that sees eachother nude more than they doclothed and has no sexual de-sire or each other, Haines said.

I’m not one to step intopeople’s minds, but the onlyreason I can imagine peoplehaving such a visceral reactionto people coming out as nud-ists is that they haven’t seen it

themselves. Sure, it’s easy tosee the group as a place to fillsexual antasies i you’ve nev-er been there. But even i youspend the smallest amount otime with the group, all prede-termined conclusions will goby the wayside.

Te people o Heartland seekthe same thing as anyone elsein the world: Tey want to beaccepted or who they are andor doing what they choose todo with their ree time. Tegroup is nothing more than a

social community that gets to-gether to have some un withpeople who have similar tastes.

Te group itsel is a diverseset o people who are the mostopen-minded and kind peopleI personally have spent timearound. Tey took interest inwho I was even though I was

just a writer looking or a story.Tey invited me to play volley-ball and were open and honestwhen I asked questions. Teydidn’t want me to see what

they experience; they wantedme to experience it or mysel.

Afer the swim wrappedup, the group reconvenedat a restaurant. I you didn’tknow any better, the Naturistsseemed like office employ-ees who had just put in a latenight. People talked to theirkids on the phone, asked eachother about where they’d goneto college and collectivelygroaned at the Royals' loss.

Te Heartland Naturistsmight not be the group you’relooking or. Tey weren’t the

group I was looking or. I washoping to report back withcrazy stories o how nudistslove to flaunt their bodies andget crazy, but instead I lefmeeting great people, many owhom ran into real road blocksbecause o how they’ve chosento spend their ree time.

I went in expecting to meetpeople I never considered asnormal humans. But I lefwishing everyone could be ashuman as the people I had justmet.

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get what it is that wedo here. Most peoplethink it’s one big sexorgy when the truth isthere is nothing sexualabout what we do. We just like to be naked.”

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Deondre FordBeore leaving in the second quarter with a thumb injury, Ford was errant with histhrows and didn’t show too much to make anyone miss him. Te junior transer,who started in place o Montell Cozart (flu-like symptoms), went 6-o-13 or 85yards and an interception. Tough he was pressured ofen, Ford orced throws thatweren’t there, and didn’t do well under stress — he did the same in his short stintagainst Memphis two weeks ago.Even on short, easy throws, Ford seemed just a bit off. Despite his struggles through

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Receiving Corpsyler Patrick started in this game and has become the mainstay o the Kansasreceiving corps. Te redshirt reshman played most o the snaps in this game,and caught all three o his targets in Week 3. He’s probably the first name thatcomes to mind when Beaty mentions “earn it” — in all camp he rarely ran withthe starters, now he’s in there all the time. He had three catches or 70 yards today.re’ Parmalee has also been a consistent, reliable target or Cozart, and he led theteam in receptions in this game with five.

Montell CozartKeep in mind: Cozart was dealing with a 104 degree temperature on Fridayand was playing with flu-like symptoms on Saturday. Nevertheless, he camein when Ford went down and played reasonably well or the situation. He wasplaying behind a struggling offensive line, but looked comortable rolling outo the pocket.He went 13-o-18 with 193 yards and led Kansas on each o the team’s scoringdrives. Most importantly Cozart didn’t turn the ball over. Tough Rutgers was

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very good — at least yet. Freshman yrone Miller seemed to be beat every timehe was on the field (and that umble he “orced” was an error by the runningback). Brandon Stewart was extremely sof in coverage, though he seemedmore reliable than Miller in this game. And the saeties didn’t especially standout.

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Afer Rutgers kicker KyleFederico missed a 39-yardfield goal with 11:53 lef onthe clock, Kansas seemedto have a chance — at leastor a moment. Te Jayhawkshad some momentum, andthe lead was down to 13. Tegame was still within reach.

Junior quarterback MontellCozart, who didn’t start the

day under center due to flu-like symptoms, took over athis own 21-yard line. Treesuccessul plays later, Kansaswas just 23 yards rom theend-zone with a resh set odowns.

It was then that Kansas de-cided to do what burned theteam to the ground againstRutgers: run the ball.

Afer our unsuccessulplays, Kansas would turn itover on downs, and the teamnever really got its momen-tum going again. Its best

chance to get late points — tomake it a close-game — hadended on two consecutive runplays. Te Jayhawks wouldn’tscore another point in the fi-nal 8:59, and eventually ell toRutgers, 27-14 in New Jersey.

“You can’t take the scoreout o it unortunately,” Beatysaid. “Tere were some bet-ter things at certain points. Ireally liked the way our de-ense responded afer we gave

up a touchdown on that firstdrive in the second hal…Tere was some improvementthere.”

Te improvements certainlydidn’t come in the runninggame. All day, the groundgame on both sides o the ballwas what sealed the Jayhawks’ate.

Kansas ailed to get any sorto a rhythm out o the back-field behind an offensive rontthat crumbled, both in run

and pass protection. JuniorKe’aun Kinner, who cameinto the game averaging 6.3yards per rush, couldn’t findthe cracks this week. Despiterushing or both o the team’stouchdowns, Kinner ran 15times or 23 yards — a 1.5yards per carry average.

I it wasn’t or De’AndreMann’s 41-yard run in thesecond quarter, the Jayhawkswould have tallied 23 yards on28 rushes.

What Kansas couldn’t doon the ground, Rutgers didtenold. Averaging 5.4 yards

per rush, Rutgers could runtwo rush plays and move thechains or most o the game.When Kansas did occasional-ly get Rutgers to third down,the Jayhawks couldn’t stopthe short passes rom Rutgers’quarterback Chris Laviano —that became a cycle.

Te Jayhawks made adjust-ments, even bringing eightin the box or much o the

ourth quarter, but the team just couldn’t make a stop. Atthe end o the day, Rutgershad rushed or 312 yards andtwo touchdowns.

“Tey held the ball or37 minutes and they did agreat job o converting thirddowns,” Beaty said. “Tat’sa Big en ootball team andthey are built a lot differentlythan we are. [Rutgers] did agood job o holding on to theootball, which is the name o

the game when you play tem-po teams like us.”

For Kansas, the offensestalled early with junior trans-er Deondre Ford under cen-ter. Ford replaced Cozart, whowas scratched rom the startdue to flu-like symptoms.According to Kansas Athlet-ics, Cozart had a ever o 104degrees on Friday. And as aresult, Beaty decided to giveCozart rest afer the team puthim in his own hotel room onFriday night, and he struggledthrough Saturday morning’swalkthrough.

On the other side, Rutgersscored on two o its first threedrives. And it wouldn't beuntil afer that third Rutgersdrive that things would real-ly get going or Kansas. Fordwent down with a hand in-

jury, and despite the illness,Cozart was able to come inand replace him. Kansas gota clear bump in productionrom then on out.

“[Cozart did] a great jobholding his composure and[he did] a good job o cheer-ing on Deondre [Ford], buthe was coughing and didn’tlook very good,” Beaty said.“Te second he put that hel-met on, he went in there, andI think he played as hard as hecould have possibly played,

particularly giving his currentsituation.”

Rutgers went into the hal20-7, but the score would notstay that way or long. Com-ing out o the hal, Rutgersneeded only 12 plays, 11 othem rushing, to find the endzone, making the score 27-7.wo drives later, afer a um-ble recovery, Kansas churnedout a nine-play, 52-yard drive

to answer Rutgers and makeit 27-14 with 1:55 to go in thethird quarter. But that was asclose as it would get.

“Offensively, it was good tosee that we had some adversi-ty and guys handled it,” Beatysaid, noting the quarterbackswitch. “No one ever thoughtabout who was at quarter-

back. Tey just did their job.”Kansas dropped to 0-3 with

the loss — its 31st consecu-tive loss on the road and 34thconsecutive loss away romMemorial Stadium. Te Jay-hawks will move on to coner-ence play next week, as theytake on Iowa State in Ames,Iowa.

— Edited by Scott Chasen

CHRISTIAN HARDY@ByHardy

Kansas struggles with run game and

momentum in 27-14 loss to Rutgers

Kansas soccer extended itswinning streak to three games

Friday night at Rock ChalkPark with a 3-0 win over SouthDakota State. Ashley Pankeyscored two goals while AshleyWilliams scored her secondgoal in two games.

Te win wraps up noncon-erence play or the Jayhawks,who will ace exas on Friday,Oct. 2.

“We talked about today beingthe last nonconerence game,”Kansas coach Mark Francissaid. “Last year we didn’t re-ally finish the way we wantedto and so we just really want to

finish this part o the year inthe right way.”Pankey scored the first goal

o her career when she nudgeda ball bouncing past the SouthDakota State goalkeeper intothe net in the 79th minute.Tat put Kansas up 2-0. Shewould score her second in the84th minute rom approxi-mately 25 yards away, catchingthe SDSU goalkeeper NicoleInskeep off her line.

Williams continued her goodorm and added a goal in the

into the opposite side nettingover Inskeep.

“[Scoring] eels great, comingback rom injury last season, itwas just that much sweeter,”

Pankey said afer the game.“In the last ew weeks, my teamhas been working so hard. Fi-nally everything’s coming to-gether, the team’s been work-ing together so well and I hopethat we keep this up going intoconerence next week.”

“Earlier in the season having[had] struggles offensively, it’sgreat to have one o our or-wards on the scoring charts,”Francis said o both Williamsand Pankey netting goals. “It’sgood or their confidence.”

Francis said the convincingwin was a product o an em-

phasis on attacking throughthe wings and practice in at-tacking areas on the field.

“We’ve worked a lot the last10 days on off stuff and thegirls have really done a good

job o committing to it andpicking up on the things thatwe’ve worked on,” Francis said.“It’s always nice when you dostuff in practice and actuallyget better at it.”

Kansas will return to thepitch next Friday when it be-

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Rutgers wide receiver Carlton Agudosi makes atouchdown catch against Kansas defender Tyrone Miller.

Soccer extendswinning streak

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Junior Hanna Kallmaier clears the ball in a game on Friday.

Basketball boot campemphazises mentaland physical fitness

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Senior Perry Ellis speaks to the media on Friday, Sept. 25.

“Let’s go.” “Te season ishere.”

It’s 7 a.m. on Monday.Most students at the Univer-sity are ast asleep, subcon-sciously dreading the firstalarm o the school week.However, or Kansas basket-ball assistant coach JerranceHoward, it’s time to bringthe energy.

“Help each other.” “Mindover matter.”

Tose words echo through-out Allen Fieldhouse as the

players run up and downthe courts in what is a yearlytradition in college basket-ball and at the University oKansas: boot camp.

With boot camp comes alevel o dread, and even a bito anxiety, especially or thereshmen. However, at theend o the day, it serves asar more than just a physicaltest. It’s a mental one, too.

“You just have to get it intoyour mind to work hard andgrind hard and be able to

Mason III. “You just have tothink positive and you’ll get

through it.”“I knew it was going to

be tough, [but] mentally Ithink I prepared mysel orit,” said reshman orwardCarlton Bragg. “Instead othinking 30 [sprints] youthink 100. Ten it’s a littleshorter.”

Bragg mentioned seniorbig men Jamari raylor andPerry Ellis as being crucialin helping him ocus. Hesaid raylor in particularlet him know that, as a unit,each player had to be on hisgame and had to be willing

to help out others when theywere struggling.

Tere is no shortage oleaders or this year’s team.With a slew o upperclass-men across the roster, thereshmen have been able tocome in and step up rightaway with an excess o guid-ance.

And because o that, every-one — including the resh-men — reached their goaltime or finishing, accordingt Elli lth h th

the first-year players.“It went by ast,” Ellis said

with a smile. “I’m eeling thebest [I’ve] ever [elt].”

“Everyone has adjusted towhat needs to be done,” Ma-son said. “Te younger guysare picking it up [too].”

With boot camp over, theJayhawks are now less thantwo weeks away rom LateNight in the Phog on Oct.9 at 6:30 p.m. At Late Nightthe players will not onlyscrimmage or the crowd,but also step into a differentrole as entertainers.

While the preparationor boot camp and or Late

Night is dramatically differ-ent, both have their place inKansas basketball. Te or-mer serves the purpose ogetting the team ready whilethe latter is about buildingexcitement rom just abouteverywhere else.

“[Late Night] is a greatevent and a great time orthe team, ans, coaches andeveryone,” Mason said. “It’salways un. It’s one o thebest events o the year.”

SCOTT CHASEN@SChasenKU

Afer finishing last seasonwith a record o 23-32 — amark that was not good enoughto make the Big 12 ournamentor the NCAA Regionals — theJayhawks are hoping to put adisappointing year past them.

Pitching was a glaring issueor the team last season as itranked at the very bottom o

the Big 12 with an ERA o 5.56.oward the end o the seasonthe pitching staff improved, andby the end it was an effectiveweapon or coach Ritch Price.

Te Jayhawks now hope thatmomentum carries into thisyear with an even strongerstarting rotation, led by seniorlef-handed pitcher Ben Krauth.

Krauth, who was named Big12 Newcomer o the Year, was atrue bright spot in the Jayhawks’subpar season. His seven winsand 84 strikeouts in 91.1 in-nings pitched both led the team,and he truly became the ace

o the staff. Now entering hissenior season, Krauth is keenon becoming more o a leaderon and off the field.

“As a senior it’s a little easier tocome back acting like a leaderand eeling like one at the sametime,” Krauth said.

Krauth is vital to the Jayhawksand will need to produce thekind o numbers he did last yearin order or the team to havemore successul pitching. Forhim to improve he’ll need tohave better control o his pitch-es, most notably his astball.

“Tis offseason, coach [Ryan]Graves has given me the ree-dom to work with my deliverya little bit more and try to figureout my own problems with me-chanical issues,” Krauth said.

He also said he eels morecomortable with the deensebehind him and said that wouldhelp him with his control.

“Tat was part o the reasonlast year, also coming in as anew guy, not being comortablewith the team behind you andnot being accustomed to theDivision I level yet,” Krauthsaid. “All those things are

disappearing as the days go byjust because you’re getting morecomortable.”

Te offense that was rankedourth in the Big 12 last seasonwill turn to other players onthe team to help match thatsimilar production. Formerplayers Connor McKay, DakotaSmith and Blair Beck were allimpactul bats in the lineup lastseason. It will take many otherplayers to make up or the bigbats o that trio, but sophomoreinfielder Matt McLaughlin isready to take on the challenge.

McLaughlin became a orceul

bat in his reshman season ashe posted a .293 average, hada 10-game hitting streak anddrove in some key runs. Pricehad high expectations or himand McLaughlin delivered.

“I came in early in the all andI really struggled,” McLaughlinsaid. “But I kept getting betterevery day, [and] the coachesstuck with me. I got a chanceopening night against LSU, andI did my best and really ranwith the opportunity.”

A new trio could orm thisseason that surround Mc-

Laughlin in the middle o thelineup with junior Michaelinsley, who will make the tran-sition rom catcher to lef fieldthis season, and senior ColbyWright, who will work his wayback rom an injury.

“You look at some o the otherguys we have coming back, likeMichael insley, in the heart othe order, and Colby Wright’sback in the heart o the order,and some new guys who lookedreal good in their individual’sin the all,” McLaughlin said. “I

McLaughlinand Krauthwill be key

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