Whisper, a new mobile app,

allows users to anonymously sub-

mit secrets as personal as expos-
ing their sexuality or posts as
thoughtless as what theyre eating
for dinner. Students on campus
have begun to participate in the
Whisper world.
Danon Taylor, a freshman
from Ottawa, first heard about
Whisper from a Facebook adver-
tisement and started using it at
the beginning of the semester.
Taylor lives off-campus and said
Whisper is a way for her to con-
nect with fellow students.
Its an outlet for people to post
emotional things, Taylor said.
Its reassuring that youre not
alone.
The Whisper app, which
launched in May, receives over
one million views a day and cur-
rently has more than 100,000
users.
The first step to posting a
whisper is downloading the app
and exploring previously posted
secrets. Users are automatically
given an anonymous username,
which can be changed later.
To post a whisper, users
must select a photo from their
phone or download one from
the Internet. They then have an
option of choosing a filter for
the photo. Four font choices are
available for the text that users
add to the photo, allowing for a
customized post.
Whispers can be sorted by
popularity, latest and nearby. The
nearby tab is the most unique
feature of the app, allowing users
to access whispers posted near
their location.
Sarah Attman, head of public
relations for Whisper, said using
the app can benefit students
because so much goes unsaid in
college, and it allows people to
see what is going on within a five-
mile radius.
It allows students to see
people on campus and see them
posting about authentic events,
Attman said.
Schuyler Foulke, a sophomore
from Ottawa, has been using the
app for nearly a month. In an
email, Foulke said he doesnt get
too personal when using Whisper,
but he does use it to communi-
cate with people on campus.
People should use it because
it allows you to connect with
other students, Foulke said. But
if nothing else it can be pretty
entertaining to see how others
respond.
Edited by Emma McElhaney

Gender-neutral restrooms will
be available on campus for the
week to bring awareness to trans-
gender issues.
For the last week of Transgender
Awareness Month, the Universitys
LGBT Resource Center switched
the restrooms in the Sabatini
Multicultural Resource Center to
single-use, gender neutral. Only
one person can use the restroom
at a time, and either restroom can
be used.
The purpose of the temporary
switch is to promote the implemen-
tation of permanent gender-neu-
tral restrooms on campus. Michael
Detmer, coordinator for the LGBT
Resource Center, said it could be
uncomfortable for transgendered
people to be in a bathroom that is
designated for a specific gender.
Its a safety issue, Detmer said.
Theyre forced to make that deci-
sion, and there are people who
have had experiences with physical
and verbal assault by being in a
bathroom where others perceive
them as being the opposite sex.
Detmer said that the center
is trying to get the Universitys
support for changing some of the
single-use restrooms on campus to
gender-neutral.
Its just a matter of finding
where those single-use bathrooms
are located and changing the sig-
nage, which can be costly, Detmer
said. But were willing to figure out
how to make that happen.
Restrooms on the fourth floor
of the Kansas Union were also
switched to gender neutral last
night from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
during the The LGBT Resource
Centers viewing of the movie The
Beautiful Boxer, which is based
on the story of a Thai boxer who
underwent a sex change operation
to become a woman.
The same restrooms will be
switched to gender-neutral again
on Friday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
during a discussion with Stephanie
Mott, state chair for the Kansas
Equality Coalition.
Edited by Luke Ranker
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A sign promotes gender-neutral
bathrooms as a part of Transgender
Awareness month.
Car hits student in
crosswalk near union
A car struck a University student
who was crossing oread Avenue in
front of the Kansas Union around
6:00 p.m. monday.
The student was using the cross-
walk and received minor injuries,
said Sgt. Gary Wieden, a KU offce of
Public Safety spokesman.
At the time, it was unknown if
speed was a factor in the accident;
Wieden said the driver was cited for
failing to yield at a crosswalk.
Wieden did not know if the driver
is a student.
Rachel Salyer
raChel salyer
rsalyer@kansan.com
battlinG CanCer
University student strives for freedom from medicine and machines
Like many who wage battle,
Zach Graas fights for freedom and
independence.
But his battlefield is empty
hospital hallways and the hol-
low, piercing sound of an MRI
machine. His enemy: the dozens
of pills he swallows daily.
Zach has one word to describe
the cancer that has invaded his
19-year-old brain: frustrating.
His fight started last September
during his freshman year at the
University. In the shower, his right
hand went numb. The numbness
persisted; Zach stumbled to his
bed.
I just thought, Shit, this is not
okay, Zach said.
After an overnight trip to
Lawrence Memorial Hospital, a
CT scan and a MRI, Zach knew he
had a partial simple seizure, but
he would not learn he had fibril-
lary astrocytoma, a series of brain
tumors, until a month later.
My mom told me, Zach said.
She was crying, so I knew it
was cancer. I felt disappointed.
It was literally the worst possible
outcome.
From there, doctors wheeled
him in for surgery; then a year full
of chemotherapy and pills began.
He took five chemo pills every 23
days for 12 months, in addition to
nearly 12 seizure-prevention pills
every day.
Zach said chemo wasnt so bad.
Despite feeling tired and nause-
ated, it was the surgeries and MRI
scans that got him at first.
I remember being little and
thinking the brain was just the
scariest thing, Zach said. We saw
pictures of the MRI machines in
school, and I was so freaked out.
Listening to Tupac during MRIs
helped, but Zach said the best
remedy is a change in mindset.
I was really reckless before
and carelessly free, Zach said,
recalling a time he sped his Ford
Mustang into a tree. Now its
about wanting everyday, and
wanting to make it better than the
one before.
Eventually his right hand
became worse, he writes and types
with three fingers.
A recent MRI showed he
needs a tumor resection surgery,
in which surgeons will try and
remove the cancerous cells while
restoring the movement back to
his right hand, which he cant lie
flat. To perform the surgery, doc-
tors need Zach to be awake so he
can move his right arm. That way,
Zach says, they wont get any of
the good cells.
When he found out the chemo
did not completely destroy the
tumors, his family accompanied
him to the MRI, and so did Rachel
Forrest, a friend and junior from
Edmond, Okla.
When the results showed the
cancer was not gone, Rachel want-
ed to use her skills to help. A
painting and art history major,
Rachel began organizing an auc-
tion to raise money.
I dont like to think about the
numbers, Zach said. I know
my prescriptions alone are in the
thousands. In addition to the co-
pays, and the flight, Zach and
his family will have to make it
to the University of California,
San Francisco for his December
surgery.
Zach helped Rachel move over
the summer, despite the heat and
not having complete use of his
right hand.
I couldnt have done that on my
own, Rachel said. Hes helped for
nothing, so I wanted to help.
The silent auction will be part
of Final Fridays in the Alton
Ballroom at Pachamamas, 800
New Hampshire St., from 5 to 9
p.m.
More than 30 pieces of art have
been donated from University
students, graduates, faculty and
other artists in the community.
Rachel expects to be anxious
the day of Zachs surgery as she
awaits word from his mother.
I know Ill be nervous, Rachel
said. It helps that Zach is so chill
about it.
If the surgery goes well, Zach
hopes his battle will be over, and
he will eventually throw away the
pill bottles that surround him,
though the MRI machine will be a
familiar former foe in the months
following.
I want to be independent
again, Zach said. Its annoying
to be so dependent on the medi-
cine, the doctors and to need my
brother around just in case.
Edited by Whitney Bolden
Claire howard/kansan
Zach Graas, a sophomore from olathe, and rachel Forrest, a junior from Edmond, okla., display some of the artwork that has been donated for the Zach Graas Beneft,
a Final Fridays Silent Auction at Pachamamas Alton Ballroom on Friday, Nov. 30 from 5 to 9 p.m. Graas was diagnosed with brain cancer in october 2011. All proceeds
from the art will go to his upcoming operation and his ongoing fght against cancer.
raChel salyer/kansan
A car hit a student using the crosswalk in
front on the of the Student Union on mon-
day night. The student had minor injuries
and is expected to be oK.
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information based off the Douglas
county Sheriffs offce booking recap.
A 23-year-old female University
student was arrested Monday at 1:09
a.m. on the 900 block of iowa Street on
suspicion of aggravated assault and do-
mestic battery. Bond was not set.
A 27-year-old Lawrence man was
arrested Sunday at 11:21 p.m. on the
600 block candy lane on suspicion of
criminal damage to property less than
$1,000 and domestic battery. Bond was
not set.
A 62-year-old New Smyrna beach,
Fl. man was arrested Sunday at 6:15
p.m. on the 1800 block of west Sixth
Street on suspicion of an out of state
warrant. Bond was set at $100,000.
A 24-year-old Lawrence woman was
arrested Sunday at 3:44 p.m. on the 1700
block of west 24th Street on suspicion of
attempting to elude and theft. Bond was
set at $300. She was released.
weather,
Jay?
Whats the
Fund established for
commercial projects
Technologies invented at the Univer-
sity may soon be available on the mar-
ketplace.
the recently established proof of
Concept Fund will provide money to
research projects that have the poten-
tial to be commercialized. the fund will
award a total of $200,000 to projects
this year, and applicants may apply for
up to $50,000.
proposals for funding are due by
Jan. 2, and a panel with the KU Cen-
ter for technology commercialization
will choose the award recipients by
February 2013.
We will look at how close it is to be-
ing ready to be licensed, and if there are
people in the marketplace who would
buy the technology, said Julie Goone-
wardene, associate vice chancellor for
innovation and entrepreneurship and
president of the KUCTC.
Goonewardene said she thinks the
fund is a step toward promoting entre-
preneurship, and that the University is
emphasizing commercialization.
Its very much part of our mission as
a public institution in Kansas to move
these inventions to the marketplace to
beneft the people of Kansas and the
rest of the country, she said.
Gov. Sam Brownback has pushed
for universities to increase the amount
of entrepreneurial activity, and Chan-
cellor Bernadette Gray-Little said that
the University is answering this call.
In an interview last week, Gray-Little
said that the University has assisted in
starting up about 20 companies in the
last 25 years.
its something that we are inter-
ested in and involved in and have been
for the last few years, Gray-Little said.
We can contribute to the economy by
creating businesses and by creating
jobs in other ways.
Nikki Wentling
TRENTON, N.J. New Jersey
Gov. Chris Christie has filed papers
to seek re-election next year,
while enjoying a popularity surge
due to his hands-on response to
Superstorm Sandy, the worst natu-
ral disaster in state history.
The 50-year-old Republican
filed papers with election officials
Monday cementing his intention
to seek a second term, according to
two people close to the governor.
The technical step allows Christie
to set up a campaign headquarters,
hire staff and raise money toward
his re-election, said the people,
who spoke to The Associated Press
on condition of anonymity because
they are not authorized to speak
before the governor makes a formal
announcement in a few weeks.
Christie carried the Democratic-
leaning state by 86,000 votes in
2009, an upset win over Democratic
incumbent Jon Corzine.
Christie, who has become a
national figure during his first
term, is riding an unprecedent-
ed wave of popularity because of
how he handled the storm. Even
Democrats have applauded his
hands-on response. He appeared
on Saturday Night Live in his
trademark fleece pullover this
month to lampoon his own nation-
ally televised storm briefings.
About the only criticism direct-
ed his way since Superstorm
Sandy attacked the coast in late
October has come from fellow
Republicans who have lambast-
ed him for embracing President
Barack Obama as the two toured
New Jerseys ravaged coastline six
days before the presidential elec-
tion. Some even blame Christie
for tipping a close election to the
president.
Christie was the first governor
to endorse Mitt Romney; he raised
$18.2 million for the GOP nomi-
nee and crisscrossed the country
as an in-demand surrogate for
Republican candidates. Some are
still questioning his party loyalty,
however, as they did after Christie
delivered the keynote address at
the partys nominating convention
in Tampa. Critics saw that August
speech as too much about Christie
and not enough about Romney.
Christie was courted by some
Republican bigwigs to enter the
presidential contest early on, but he
spurned their overtures and later
ruled himself out as vice presi-
dential material as well. Buzz over
a Christie 2016 run has become
muted since the governor boarded
Marine One with Obama.
So far, no one has stepped for-
ward to challenge him as gover-
nor. Several Democrats, most
prominently Newark Mayor Cory
Booker, have been thinking aloud
about running for their partys
nomination.
Christies reputation for
bluntness and penchant for
confrontation have made him a
YouTube sensation and sometimes
obscured policy changes he has
championed.
With the help of Democrats who
control both houses of the state
legislature, Christie took on public
worker unions, enacting sweeping
pension and health benefits chang-
es that cost workers more and are
designed to shore up the under-
funded public worker retirement
and health care systems long-term.
He also enacted a 2 percent prop-
erty tax cap with few loopholes to
try and slow the annual growth rate
of property taxes, already the high-
est in the nation at an average of
$7,519 when adjusted for rebates.
Christies education reforms
have been slower to accomplish,
and Democrats have refused to
budge on his signature issue for
this year, a phased-in 10 percent
tax cut. With tax collections under-
performing the administrations
projections and storm rebuilding
threatening to eat further into rev-
enues, Democrats are unlikely to
waiver on their position that the
state cant afford the cut.
WhAt: Support Movember
WhERE: Anschutz Library
WhEN: 8 p.m.
AboUt: Show off your Movember moustache
by getting your photo taken for the KU Mous-
tache photo Gallery.
WhAt: KU School of Music Symphonic Band
and University Band
WhERE: lied center
WhEN: 7:30 p.m.
AboUt: Two of the Universitys musical groups
perform together.
WhAt: World Fashion Show
WhERE: Kansas Union Ballroom
WhEN: 7 to 9 p.m.
AboUt: check out traditional and modern
fashions from countries across the world in
this SUA sponsored fashion show.
WhAt: Full Student Senate
WhERE: Kansas Union, Alderson Auditorium
WhEN: 6:30 to 9 p.m.
AboUt: concerned about campus issues?
Voice your opinion at this meeting.
WhAt: Queervolution
WhERE: Sabatini Multicultural resource
center, room 116
WhEN: 7 to 8 p.m.
AboUt: A panel of LGBT community
members speak about their struggles and
successes after college.
WhAt: Campus Movie Series: The Campaign
WhERE: Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium
WhEN: 8 to 10 p.m.
AboUt: the presidential campaign might
be over, but you can still watch Will Ferrell
and Zach Galifanakis battle for political
supremacy.
WhAt: KUs Got Talent
WhERE: Kansas Union, Ballroom
WhEN: 8 to 10 p.m.
AboUt: come enjoy the best student talent
on campus at this SUA sponsored show.
WhAt: New Found Glory
WhERE: the Bottleneck
WhEN: 8 p.m.
AboUt: Celebrate the 10th anniversary of
the bands album, Sticks and Stones. the
Story So Far and Seahaven will also perform.
NJ Gov. Christie seeks second term
ASSocIAtED PRESS
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Chick Sorbello, right, of Lavallette, N.J., consoles Elizabeth Docimo of Brick, as she talks about damage to the shore with Gov.
Chris Christie in Toms River, N.J., on Nov. 21, as Christie, his wife Mary Pat Christie and other volunteers handed out prepared
Thanksgiving dinners to the needy near the shore area devastated by Hurricane Sandy.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A
former space shuttle commander
whose twin brother is married to
former Rep. Gabrielle Gifords will
attempt the longest spacefight ever
by an American.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly
and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail
Kornienko will spend an entire
year aboard the International Space
Station beginning in 2015.
Both countries space agencies
announced the names of the two
veteran spacefiers on Monday. Te
extended mission was approved
almost two months ago to provide
a medical foundation for future
missions around the moon, as well
as far-fung trips to asteroids and
Mars.
Both men already have lived
aboard the space station for six
months. NASA wanted experienced
space station astronauts to
streamline the amount of training
necessary for a one-year stint.
Ofcials had said the list of
candidates was very short. Tey
will begin training next year.
Teir skills and previous
experience aboard the space
station align with the missions
requirements, Bill Gerstenmaier,
head of human exploration for
NASA, said in a statement. Te
one-year increment will expand
the bounds of how we live and
work in space and will increase our
knowledge regarding the efects
of microgravity on humans as we
prepare for future missions beyond
low-Earth orbit.
Kellys identical twin brother,
Mark Kelly, retired from the
astronaut corps last year and
moved to Tucson, Ariz., his
wifes hometown. Te former
congresswoman was critically
wounded in an assassination
attempt in January 2011, while
Scott Kelly was living aboard the
space station.
Astronauts normally spend
about four to six months aboard
the space station. Te longest an
American lived there was seven
months, several years back.
Russia, though, will continue to
hold the world space endurance
record.
Kelly and Kornienko will launch
aboard a Russian rocket from
Kazakhstan.
ASSocIAtED PRESS
Experienced spacefiers to spend one year in space
SPACE
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GOMA, Congo Rebels widely
believed to be backed by Rwanda
and Uganda stepped up their
patrols Monday of this key eastern
Congo city that they seized last
week, even as a midnight deadline
issued by a regional bloc for them
to withdraw loomed.
The M23 rebels said Monday
they plan to move their headquar-
ters to this city of 1 million later
this week, another sign that they
do not intend to leave by mid-
night. Underscoring the chaotic
situation, armed rebels guarded
the Central Bank of Congo while
United Nations peacekeepers stood
watch over a gas station. Many
shops closed early on Monday and
few students attended reopened
schools.
The Congolese military, which
suffered a humiliating defeat when
it lost Goma last Sunday, was
regrouping in the town of Minova,
60 kilometers (36 miles) to the
south, but they appeared disorga-
nized and not in position to launch
an immediate assault on Goma.
Congolese Prime Minister
Augustin Matata Ponyo confirmed
that President Joseph Kabila had
met in recent days with the reb-
els during a mediation session in
neighboring Uganda. He said that
the government at this point is
leaning toward the avenue of dia-
logue and peace, suggesting it is
unlikely the military will try to take
Goma by force if the ultimatum is
not respected.
Any action to take back the
city of Goma by force will with-
out doubt result in enormous
human loss, said Matata Ponyo
in a telephone interview with The
Associated Press on Monday.
A deadline was issued by the
International Conference for the
Great Lakes Region on Saturday
in Kampala, Ugandas capital, and
gave the M23 rebels two days to
retreat to 20 kilometers (12 miles)
outside of Goma. It expired at mid-
night on Monday.
HAVANA The Cuban capi-
tal has played host to political
summits and art festivals, ballet
tributes and international baseball
competitions. Now dog lovers are
getting their chance to take center
stage.
Hundreds of people from all
over Cuba and several other coun-
tries came to a scruffy field near
Revolution Plaza this past week to
preen and fuss over the shih tzus,
beagles, schnauzers and cocker
spaniels that are the annual Fall
Canine Expos star attractions.
There were even about a dozen
bichon habaneros, a mid-sized
dog bred on the island since the
17th century.
As dog lovers talked shop, the
merely curious strolled the field,
checking out the more than 50
breeds on display while carefully
dodging the prodigious output of
so many dogs.
The four-day competition
included competitions in several
breeding categories, and judges
were flown in from Nicaragua,
Colombia and Mexico.
This is a small, poor country,
but Cubans love dogs, said Miguel
Calvo, the president of Cubas dog
federation, which organized the
show. We make a great effort to
breed purebred animals of qual-
ity.
Winners dont receive any
trophy or prize money, but that
doesnt mean the competition is
any less fierce.
Anabel Perez, owner of a cocker
spaniel named Lisamineli after the
U.S. actress, spent more than half
an hour coifing the dogs hair in
preparation for the competition.
ISLAMABAD Police on
Monday found and defused a
bomb planted under the car of a
prominent Pakistani TV anchor
threatened by the Taliban for his
coverage of a schoolgirl shot by
the militants, police said.
The bomb was made up of half
a kilogram (one pound) of explo-
sives stuffed in a tin can, said Bani
Amin, the police chief in Pakistans
capital, Islamabad, where the inci-
dent occurred. It was placed in a
bag and attached to the bottom of
Mirs car, Amin said.
One of Mirs neighbors noticed
the bomb under the car after the
TV anchor returned from a local
market, and the police were noti-
fied, said Rana Jawad, a senior
official at Geo TV.
No group has claimed respon-
sibility.
The Pakistani Taliban threat-
ened Mir and other journalists
last month over their coverage of
an assassination attempt against
Malala Yousufzai, a 15-year-old
schoolgirl activist who was shot
in the head by the militants in the
northwest Swat Valley.
The Taliban targeted Malala
for criticizing the militant group
and promoting secular girls edu-
cation, which is opposed by the
Islamist extremists. She is recover-
ing in Britain.
Pakistani Interior Minister
Rehman Malik offered 50 million
rupees ($500,000) for information
about those responsible for the
attempted attack against Mir.
The anchor said on TV after the
incident that it would not deter
him from speaking the truth.
It was proven today that the
Protector is more powerful than
the attacker, said Mir.
He said he wasnt prepared to
blame the Taliban for the attempt-
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received threats from others as
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Few plots are so convoluted that
they grow more innately ridicu-
lously as sequel after blundering
sequel is released. If youre look-
ing to snicker, read a synopsis of
Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 2.
And then cry at the fact that this
tortuous love story is a highly
successful, multi-billion dollar
franchise.
Sadly, Twilights target audience
may not be as capable of filtering
out the dysfunction of this family
of vampires.
Young women and other long-
time supporters of the series often
fail to analyze this films disturbing
violence, sexual ploys and dearth
of strong women or even func-
tional interpersonal relationships.
Role models or simply a moral
theme that could help young
women prepare for life in modern
times are stunningly absent from
The Twilight Saga. Audiences
deserve better.
From the opening title, blood
becomes almost banal through-
out the film. Rampant violence,
accompanied with mediocre
computer graphics, overtake
scene after scene. Actors heads
are casually removed from their
necks with bare hands, bodies are
burned and squeamish vampiric
feeding is implied offscreen.
Why would a love story be
accompanied by so many execu-
tions?
Theres a roaring undercur-
rent of sexualization that seems
to drive the movie as much as the
plot does. Scenes of soft-core porn,
shot in uncomfortably zoomed in
close-ups, are spliced by a plot of
impending doom. And, of course,
a certain werewolf undresses to
inspire a revitalization of the fran-
chises pin-up posters and action
figures line.
How are my middle-school
aged cousins supposed to react?
The most jarring relationship
is between the two characters that
Twilights young, female audi-
ence identify closest with a
teenage mother and her 11-year-
old daughter. Viewers will find
no humbling depictions of the
heartwarming bond here. Caring
for Renesmee appears to be a team
effort as Bella leaves her newborn
daughter to be passed around the
house full of supernatural babysit-
ters.
But one of the supernatural
adults is determined to become
more than just her caretaker.
Yes, in its newest installment,
Twilight breaks from its previ-
ous fields of necrophilia and beas-
tiality to explore pedofilic under-
tones.
Is a 12-year-old girl watching
this movie going to pick up on
how indescribably creepy it is?
Should young women be exposed
to Bella and Edwards alarmingly
gruesome world?
No.
Despite failing to reach the pre-
requisites of a decent movie, much
less a good story, The Twilight
Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
managed to earn $340.9 million
in its worldwide opening the
eighth largest premiere ever. A
teenage mother and her husband,
who cant stop getting her into
life-threatening situations, are
being marketed as the paragon
couple of our generation.
When watching a movie in
theaters, you cant vapidly accept
everything that comes on the
screen. Moviegoers, namely tween
and teenage girls, will never get
back the innocence of not know-
ing exactly how Bella and Edward
consummate their supernatural
marriage rather than spend time
with their daughter.
As college students, we have a
responsibility to point out when
pop culture is having something
so unhealthy shoved down its
throat. Make sure the susceptible
women in your life who may go
see Twilight know that violence
and pedophilia are not accept-
able.
Hold Hollywood accountable.
If were not careful, people might
actually believe Bella and Edward
are a picture perfect example of
true love.
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MINNEAPOLIS For Keira
Knightley, playing Leo Tolstoys Anna
Karenina was the mirror image of
playing Jane Austens Elizabeth
Bennet.
The heroine of her 2005 film
Pride and Prejudice is beloved by
generations of readers. This time, she
had to walk an emotional tightrope
in Tolstoys drama of infidelity, ven-
geance and retribution, making her
adulterous character spirited, ener-
getic, relatable, yet not too likable.
Knightley feared that if she made
Anna an innocent victim, youre
going to lose the audience, and if you
lose the audience they are just going
to go, Oh, shut up and jump under
a train!
There are moments when Tolstoy
hates her, she said. I first read the
book in my late teens and remem-
bered it as this sweeping romance.
Then I went back to it last summer
and thought, This is a very different
thing than I remembered. Sometimes
she is the anti-heroine. Hes almost
holding her up and saying, This is
the Whore of Babylon. Hes not going,
You should go off for this romantic
love. Then sometimes you feel he
completely understands her and hes
absolutely in love with her.
Director Joe Wright wanted all
those contradictions, Knightley said.
Thats the dichotomy of Anna that
has made her such a fascination for so
many years, Knightley said.
When half the financing dropped
away, Wrights conception of the film
changed radically. What was envi-
sioned as a naturalistic production
shot in Russia quickly became a styl-
ized version shot mostly on a sound-
stage. The shift is well-suited to a
story of a society where false and arti-
ficial values were paramount.
Wrights theatrical staging pro-
vides an ingenious background for
Knightleys tortured passions, with
Jude Law superb as her fussy, cold
husband, Alexi, and Aaron Taylor-
Johnsons romantic Vronsky the most
dashing fellow since Errol Flynn
swung from his last chandelier.
Knightley and Taylor-Johnson
spent a fair amount of time stumbling
into each other as they practiced their
big ballroom dance scene.
Its different rehearsing something
in track-suit bottoms and suddenly
adding a dress that was so heavy it
felt as if I had a small child attached
to my waist, she said. All of a sudden
youre twirling around and someone
behind you is stepping on the back of
your skirt, and then he steps on the
front and I cant see my feet and Im
stepping on his.
It was annoying because he picked
up the dance like that, and it took me
about three weeks.
Although shes no stranger to cos-
tume drama (or comedy, if you count
her Pirates of the Caribbean films),
Knightley never had a wardrobe to
match Annas. As a socialite in 19th-
century St. Petersburg, Anna dresses
in the height of fashion, luxury and
vanity.
Costume designer Jacqueline
Durran, who also costumed Knightley
in period style for Wrights Pride
and Prejudice and Atonement, vis-
ited Chanel in Paris to borrow yards
upon yards of pearls and bushels of
diamonds. Each morning Knightley
would choose what kind of jewels she
wanted from a treasure chest worth
about $2 million.
LONDON The Rolling Stones
made a triumphant return to the
London stage on Sunday night in
the first of five concerts to mark
the 50th anniversary of their debut
as an American-oriented blues
band.
They showed no signs of wear
and tear except on their aging,
heavily lined faces as frontman
Mick Jagger swaggered and strut-
ted through a stellar two-and-a-
half hour show. He looked remark-
ably trim and fit and was in top
vocal form.
The Stones passed the half-cen-
tury mark in style at the some-
times emotional gig that saw for-
mer bassist Bill Wyman and guitar
master Mick Taylor join their old
mates in front of a packed crowd at
Londons 02 Arena.
It was the first of five mega-
shows to mark the passage of 50
years since the band first appeared
in a small London pub determined
to pay homage to the masters of
American blues.
Jagger, in skin-tight black pants,
a black shirt and a sparkly tie, took
time out from singing to thank the
crowd for its loyalty.
Its amazing that were still doing
this, and its amazing that youre
still buying our records and com-
ing to our shows, he said. Thank
you, thank you, thank you.
Lead guitarist Keith Richards,
whose survival has surprised many
who thought he would succumb to
drugs and drink, was blunter: We
made it, he said. Im happy to see
you. Im happy to see anybody.
But the bands fiery music was
no joke, fueled by an incandescent
guest appearance by Taylor, who
played lead guitar on a stunning
extended version of the ominous
Midnight Rambler, and Mary
J. Blige, who shook the house in
a duet with Jagger on Gimme
Shelter.
The 50th anniversary show,
which will be followed by one more
in London, then three in the greater
New York area, lacked some of the
bands customary bravado the
worlds greatest rock n roll band
intro was shelved and there were
some rare nostalgic touches.
Even the famously taciturn
Wyman briefly cracked a smile
when trading quips with Richards
and Ronnie Wood.
The concert started with a brief
video tribute from luminaries like
Elton John, Iggy Pop and Johnny
Depp, who praised the Stones for
their audacity and staying power.
The Stones show contained an
extended video homage to the
American trailblazers who shaped
their music: Muddy Waters, John
Lee Hooker, Otis Redding, Bob
Dylan, Johnny Cash and others.
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W
ith the end of the
semester coming
up, it is important
to remember not to slack off.
Stay on top of your schoolwork
and it will pay off.
There will be many distrac-
tions for students to lose focus
on their schoolwork, such as
Jayhawk basketball and the
nightlife around town, so dont
fall victim to these traps. Youve
heard a lot of these things before,
and youve heard them for a rea-
son.
For example, Thanksgiving
Break: It is a time to go back
home for a few days, completely
forget about school and spend
the time relaxing. With finals
only two weeks after break, it is a
good idea to not completely for-
get about your studies and focus
on ending the semester strong.
Dont let bad finals ruin an entire
semesters hard work because it
is not worth it. It is probably a
good idea to spend part of your
break studying for finals because
they are an important part to a
students success.
Now that basketball season
has finally tipped off, some of
you may be more focused on
the team than school. Lets face
it: Im one of those people and
you probably are too. But dont
let the season distract you. With
basketball season meaning
so much to us students at the
University, it is easy to get lost in
the hype of the season. But we
need to remember that school is
just as important as a good sea-
son. Make sure you manage your
time wisely on game days so you
can study and watch the game.
People often like to go out and
party more than usual at the end
of the semester. It is the time
when everyone is getting worn
down from an entire semes-
ters hard work but also when
everyone wants to get all of the
partying out of his or her system.
That is fine, just dont overdo it.
Too much partying can cause
you to become sluggish and your
schoolwork will suffer. Your
bank account wont hate you as
much, either.
Lastly, it is important for us
students to get enough sleep.
Dont let yourself become sleep
deprived by staying up all night
at the bars. A weekend at the
bars or partying can mess up
your sleeping schedule for the
upcoming week. Getting a suf-
ficient amount of sleep is just as
crucial to your schoolwork as
studying is.
So why slack off for these
final two weeks of classes before
finals? It is not worth wasting
an entire semesters work in the
final few weeks. It is fine to let
loose and have a good time but
dont go too crazy. In some cases,
the final weeks of any semester
are the most crucial. You have
worked hard this far, just keep it
up and dont let it go to waste.
Ben Carroll is a junior majoring in
English from Salem, Conn.
Follow him on twitter @BCarroll91.
M
y not-so-average life
has taught me that
there are three things
in life that everyone cherishes.
Everyone values and believes in
family, friends and significant
others. Throughout life we often
lose appreciation by not always
showing it. If you want a rich
and fulfilling life, its not about
your diploma or wallet. Its about
showing appreciation for your
relationships every chance you
get.
Our best relationships tend to
be with our family. Their love is
unconditional. Sometimes as we
get older and move out on our
own, we become too indepen-
dent. Were busy and we forget
about our support systems. When
I was young, my closest relation-
ships were with my seven first
cousins. As I got older, I missed
out on cousins sporting events
and life accomplishments. My
immediate family was in turmoil.
My father committed suicide
when I was 6 years old, a week
before my parents were going
to move back in together. After
this loss, my mother became
an alcoholic. I was taken by the
state of Massachusetts for five
years from ages 9 to 14. God
bless my mom for her recovery
that she has made since then;
she is an inspirational woman.
While I was in residential, group
and foster homes, my cousins
brought a smile to my face the
most. Love and cherish your fam-
ily. Stay in touch. Nothing will
mean more as you get older than
your family.
Our second best relationships
are usually with friends only
because they arent as strong. We
have numerous associations in
life but not as many true friend-
ships. We tend to move away
from our closest friends as we
pursue a future. Throughout our
schooling, weve lost touch. But
weve always had someone there
for us. They tend to get pushed
to the side. Every day Ive been in
college, Ive wished to look down
the hall and see someone I knew
from before. From the fifth grade
until junior year, after roughly
eight years of being separated
from normal childhood and
adolescent life, I was never able to
form close relationships.
I could never maintain close
friendships while being moved
around. When I finally returned
to public school my senior year
I went from straightedge to
criminal (I was young and I hung
out with drug dealers, guilty by
association). The life and friends
I made helped me grow into a
far happier person than I had
ever been. My most stable group
of friends gave me the joy my
life was missing. When you have
these loyal undying friendships,
live them to their fullest potential.
If theyre far away, stay in touch
but dont ever put anything before
friendship besides family.
Our third best are usually sig-
nificant others because they sur-
vive less often. Everybody should
be in healthy, happy relationships
that make them want to be better.
They must be appreciated. Dont
let everyday life change the time
you have. Go out and enjoy what
binds us in this world. Enjoy life,
stick up and speak well of them,
dont lie or hide things, tell them
why they mean so much to you.
Always show them appreciation.
I recently ended a four-year
relationship that became more
surviving than enjoying. It was
with an awesome woman and
gave me the greatest gift, my son
Jacoby Charles-Edward Noble but
relationships change. About three
years were spent trying to fix
things. If you have to fix things
to be happy then youre not truly
happy.
Everyone deserves to be happy.
I have a new woman in my life
full of potential to become more
and have a better life than she
alone could imagine. She has
helped me to become a better
man by being a proud leader and
beautiful, independent woman. If
we dont consistently show appre-
ciation to our relationships, then
we will always be left wondering.
The people who we form these
special relationships with are and
always will be most important in
our lives. Theyre the ones who
see us at our best and worst but
will always be there, as we move
on in life and create our own
futures. Remember never forget
to show appreciation for those
that are, and hopefully will be in
our lives, for a long time.
Noble is a junior majoring in
journalism from Boston.
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CaMpuS RELaTIoNShIpS
Robots: Its time to tell your partner
Dont lose focus
this close to fnals
@dillondavis3
@udK_opinion yes. I loved to
hate Missouri. It was the best
rivalry west of the Mississippi, and
its a shame they broke that up.
@katiextayyylor
@udK_opinion yes! The K-State
rival just isnt the same as the
Mizzou rival.
@jeffsanoubane
@udK_opinion no because football.
@jondelabooze
@udK_opinion of course we miss
the playing our biggest rival of all
time. anyone who says otherwise
is seriously in denial.
@FoTChris
@udK_opinion Coach Fambrough,
Its a godd*amn war, and they
started it. I wish I could drink their
#tigerblood every year #MuckFizzou
@d_ray_Ku
@udK_opinion as far as the pigskin
rivalry, I like being warm while
watching them suffer in every SEC
game instead. #MuckFizzou
do you miss the border
showdown with mizzou?
Follow us on Twitter @uDK_opinion.
Tweet us your opinions, and we just might
publish them.
Everyone is pissed to be back at
school. professors should be cautious
about giving us homework...
applesauce and crackers for dinner.
College diet.
That awkward moment when guys
buy you drinks at the bowling alley
instead of at bars.
W
Must... walk... off... Thanksgiving...
meal... this... week...
all men should be required to wear
suits on Monday. The fraternity men
are looking snazzy.
Walking up the hills to class on
the Monday morning after break is
probably the hardest thing Ive had to
do all year.
To the girl who wants to meet her
boyfriends parents: Tell him youre
pregnant.
Want to know a great way to start a
Monday? Sit next to a girl smacking
on some Chex Mix in Budig. Its way
too early for this.
I think the old FFa guy/girl got
canned. The new one wont text me
back.
To the FFa about fedoras outside
Marvin: one of us is a girl. Were
dating, the fedoras bring us together.
To the people concerned about the
woo. Seriously Woo the hell cares!
Editors Note: Got em!
What is this fnals week nonsense?
We engineering majors have fnals
month.
Shout out to the makeshift river on
Jayhawk Boulevard.
I am shamelessly lending my adorable
new puppy out to all my guy friends
because I am desperate for sleep and
they are desperate for girlfriends.
My girlfriend just took the bacon out
of her Brellas wrap and put it on my
plate. Today is a fairy tale.
optimistic view of divorced parents:
I wont fnd a sex for dummies
audiobook.
one of the park & Ride drivers talked
to a passenger by name today. Guess
his career is over.
That awkward moment youre forced
to sit next to that girl from high
school that hates your guts as you
camp for a basketball game.
U
niversity students
face many hardships
during their time in
college: keeping a balanced
bank account, actually finish-
ing the readings for Western
Civ and deciding between
spending a Friday night in
watching Disney movies or out
stumbling around The Hawk.
However, all of these pale in
comparison to the real issue
facing students today: knowing
how to tell your significant other
that you are a robot.
Ladies and gentlemen, the
FFA public has spoken. And this
fall it wants robot advice.
A few years ago, I was secretly
seeing one of my older sisters
friends behind her back until
he squealed about it, causing a
painfully awkward confrontation
from sister to sister. We were
only casually dating, but despite
my frustration with his blabbing,
I wanted more. She asked if I
thought we would ever be exclu-
sive, and I answered that per-
haps we would, but that he was
sometimes a heartless robot and
therefore might not even desire
it. Three weeks later though, we
were official.
I thought nothing of it at the
time but in retrospect, could it
have really been true? Could he,
of all people, have been a robot?
Just how many of them are lurk-
ing around campus? And how
many of us need to come clean
about our robotic ways? If our
response to I love you is Does
not compute, we owe it to our
partners to be honest about our
binary beings.
In this tough yet important
process, first evaluate if youre
actually a robot. Some say that
never showering or showing
human emotions are dead give-
aways that someone is a robot.
However, this could describe
many college students at Kansas,
so here the line becomes blurred.
But if you have nightmares about
the spinning pinwheel of death
and you describe your favorite
pattern as pixilated, you might
be a robot and need to embrace
the truth.
After you carefully assess
your robot status and determine
that you are indeed a machine,
next prepare how you will tell
your partner. Some students may
not take issue with dating such
creations, but others may desire
a relationship thats a little more
human. Prepare your speech
in binary code if youd like, but
practice it in words for your
boy/girlfriend. No need to brace
yourself for a breakup here
your lack of feelings will get you
through it.
Finally, even if your partner
leaves you over your being a
robot, dont forget to process that
all is not lost. In a world in which
robots in human clothing are
rampant in movies like Vanessa
in the first two Austin Powers
flicks and the Sherminator from
the American Pie trilogy, be con-
fident that despite all odds, you
can again find artificial robot love
and perhaps one day start a robot
family of your own.
All non-robots at the
University will scoff as they may,
but when it comes to relation-
ships, its important for us to
be truthful with our partners
about being robots. Honesty is
almost always the best policy and
here, that sentiment rings true.
Sometimes status in the robot
community can really be a deal-
breaker.
If we arent honest from the
beginning, being a robot could
send our relationships in college
and in the future into system
overload and possibly result in
total malfunction. But even at
the University, successful robot-
human relationships are possible
if were willing to try them on for
size.
In the end, all we have to do
is learn how to operate them
accordingly.
Rachel Keith is a graduate student in
education from Wichita.
Follow her on Twitter
@Rachel_UDKeith.
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football
bIG 12 PoWER RANKINGS
FARzIN VoUSoUGhIAN
fvousoughian@kansan.com
1. Kansas State 10-1

It was a bitter bye week for Kansas
State. Te team spent the week work-
ing on bouncing back afer its recent
52-24 loss to Baylor.
2. oklahoma 9-2
Oklahoma won last week be-
cause of a collective group efort.
Coach Bob Stoops liked what he
saw from his ofense and wants to
see that carry over against Texas
Christian.
3. texas 8-3

A loss for Texas lowered the
teams ranking. Mack Brown has
a plan to try to beat Kansas State,
push the Longhorns back up in
the polls and keep sights on play-
ing in the AT&T Cotton Bowl
game.

4. oklahoma State 7-4

An overtime loss to Oklahoma was
not easy to take, especially afer the
Cowboys put up 48 points against the
Sooners. Oklahoma State will visit a
Baylor team that has been playing well
lately.

5. texas Christian 7-4

Coach Gary Pattersons defense came
to work on Tanksgiving against Texas.
Te Horned Frogs would love nothing
more than to do the same thing against
Oklahoma with a lot on the line for
both teams.

6. texas tech 7-5

Even though Texas Tech looked like
a diferent team on Saturday, it still
played strong against Baylor. In the
end, the Red Raiders fell short and fn-
ished the season by allowing 111 points
in two consecutive losses.
7. West Virginia 6-5

West Virginia has had enough
of being tossed around by Big 12
teams. Te Mountaineers snapped
a fve-game losing streak on Friday
against Iowa and looks to fnish
the season on a better note against
Kansas.
8. baylor 6-5

Baylors magic number is 52. For a
second week, Baylor scored 52 points
to pull of back-to-back wins at home.
Can it keep up the consistency against
Oklahoma State?

9. Iowa State 6-6

It was a season of highs and
lows for Iowa State. Te Cyclones
couldnt pull out a quality win in
the Big 12, but won enough games
to become bowl eligible.

10. Kansas 1-10

At this point, Kansas is willing to
try anything to win. Afer a season full
of hardships, a win against West Vir-
ginia would be a sweet way to end the
long season.
Edited by Laken Rapier
F
or the first time since 1918 and
the second time since the rivalrys
conception in 1891, the Kansas and
Missouri football teams did not play a
against each other.
The oldest college sports rivalry west
of the Mississippi River, the Border
Showdown drew the attention of both
schools fan bases and was an important
game on the schedule every year.
Missouris move to the SEC at the begin-
ning of this year ended the rivalry. There
are currently no scheduled games between
the two teams in the future.
After watching an incredible Saturday
of college football filled with excit-
ing matchups such as the Bedlam game
between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State
and Notre Dame against USC, I realized
that there was one thing missing: the
Border Showdown. As I was watching
Johnny Football and Texas A&M take it
to Misouri, I began to wonder how the
Jayhawks would matchup against the boys
from Missouri this year.
Thanks to a beautiful thing known as
social media, I was able to use Twitter
to gather opinions on the matchup, with
some more insightful than others. After a
couple Twitter arguments/conversations
and the subsequent loss of at least five fol-
lowers, I had garnered a decent amount of
information to make a general prediction
for the game.
Both Missouri and Kansas have had sea-
sons that have showed promise and disap-
pointment. The Tigers took Florida down
to the wire, losing 14-7 in Gainesville, Fla.
The Jayhawks looked like Big 12 contend-
ers, or something close to them, during
the first half of the Kansas State game.
Kansas also played Big 12 opponents Texas
Christian, Oklahoma State, Texas and
Texas Tech very close as well.
At the same time, each team has
had its moments looking like The
Replacements. With the inconsistency
both teams showed, who wins the game
is the team that shows up.
If I were a betting man, Id take
Missouri straight up. Theyve simply
found a way to win more football games
than Kansas this year. But rivalry games
arent that simple. With the history these
two teams have, any fan knows that
anything can happen. Theres a reason
football games arent played on paper
see Kansas State vs. Baylor two week-
ends ago. Kansas certainly has the guns
to go against Missouri and win, seeing
as Missouri is in the bottom half of most
major offensive and defensive categories
this year.
It would have been entertaining to see
how this years matchup would have played
out. Unfortunately, were left playing what
if games thinking about it. The money
driven move to the SEC by Missouri
derailed one of the best rivalries in all of
sports. With Missouris hoops team begin-
ning to rise to national
prominence, and the definite improve-
ment of KU football, the rivalry would be
heading towards a golden age. Instead, fans
miss out on a series of great games in vari-
ous sports each year, and writers like me
are left somber over our laptops thinking
about what could have been.
Edited by Andrew Ruszczyk
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thE moRNING bREW
Q: Why wasnt the Border War foot-
ball game played in 1918?
A: The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic
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tRIVIA of thE DAY
There are two offcial records
for the football rivalry, with each
side claiming a different total, both
in favor of Mizzou.
Missouri: 57-54-9
Kansas: 56-55-9
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fAct of thE DAY
Anybody thats involved in a rivalry
game like this, they can say they treat
it like any other ballgame, but you
dont. Theyll run faster, theyll jump
higher, and theyll make plays in that
ballgame that they wouldnt make in
any other ballgame.
Former Mizzou basketball
coach Norm Steward
QUotE of thE DAY
Season seems empty without Border Showdown rivalry
This week in athletics
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1:30 p.m.
Morgantown, W. Va.
Womens basketball
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Kansas City, Mo.
Te health of the Big 12 has been
a topic of debate since Nebraska
and Colorado kicked of a four-
team exodus a few years back.
Judging by the results in 2012,
the league is stronger than ever.
No Big 12 team was able to sur-
vive through Tanksgiving with a
shot at the national title. But nine of
the 10 teams, including newcomers
West Virginia and TCU, are already
bowl eligible.
Te leagues 90 percent success
rate is by far the best in the country
and thats with an extra league
game for each school and a week
lef to play.
No. 7 Kansas State can win the
league title with a victory at No.
23 Texas on Saturday, while No. 12
Oklahoma needs a victory by the
Longhorns and to beat TCU to win
the Big 12.
Everyone except Kansas will be
playing beyond this weekend.
I would say its probably as
strong and theres probably as
much parity as Ive seen, said Kan-
sas State coach Bill Snyder, who has
coached in the Big 12 for all but
three years of its existence. Youve
seen the conference kind of fall out
of the national spotlight gradually
over the season. But at the end of
the day, its because youre playing
such tremendously talented foot-
ball teams week in and week out.
Having a nine-game schedule like
that is quite difcult.
Perhaps the biggest reason why
the league is so deep is because
West Virginia and TCU have ft
seamlessly into the league in place
of Missouri and No. 10 Texas A&M,
now in the SEC.
Te Mountaineers and Horned
Frogs have discovered that things
are a lot tougher in the Big 12 than
their old homes.
West Virginia won the Big Easts
BCS berth in its fnal season there
and hung 70 points on Clemson in
winning the Orange Bowl. But af-
ter a 5-0 start in 2012, the depth of
the Big 12 began taking a toll. West
Virginia (6-5, 3-5) needed a late TD
to beat Iowa State 31-24 and simply
reach bowl eligibility.
Its a tough league, and each and
every week the same thing happens.
It doesnt matter whos playing who.
Its going to be a battle, West Vir-
ginia coach Dana Holgorsen said.
TCU went unbeaten in its f-
nal season in the Mountain West
in 2011. Te Horned Frogs have
taken their lumps in the Big 12, but
theyre coming of their biggest win
yet as a member of the league.
TCU (7-4 4-4) fell fat in its home
opener, losing 37-23 to Iowa State
in quarterback Trevone Boykins
debut. Te Horned Frogs also
dropped a wild, triple-overtime af-
fair to Texas Tech, 56-53, and lost
to Kansas State at home.
But the Frogs, in place of A&M
as Texass Tanksgiving night op-
ponent, thumped the Longhorns
20-13 for their frst win over a
ranked opponent this season.
Te thing that everybody said,
wed hear on the recruiting trail be-
fore we joined the Big 12 was, Well,
they win ballgames. But they dont
play good competition every week.
And now, weve been in every ball-
game and weve won our share of
ballgames, TCU coach Gary Pat-
terson said. Weve got to raise our
level of athletic ability at a lot of
positions. But I think our kids play
hard.
Texas Tech will also return to the
postseason afer a brief dip in 2011.
Despite losing four of their fnal
fve regular season games, the Red
Raiders are 7-5 afer winning just
fve games last season.
Season proves Big 12 is still strong despite losing teams
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Freshman Guard Ben McLemore
In 34 minutes
of play, McLemore
missed all seven of
his three-point at-
tempts, committed
four fouls, and had
three turnovers to
negate his three
assists.
Senior guard Elijah Johnson
With his team
struggling to fnd
offense for much
of the second half,
Johnson converted
a two-point jump-
er with 1:16 left,
putting Kansas up
nine and ending the Spartans upset bid.
It was Kansas frst feld goal in more
than 10 minutes.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 PaGe 8 The uNIversITy daILy KaNsaN
Senior center Jeff Withey
Withey fnished
the game with
16 points, 12 re-
bounds and 12
blocks, giving him
only the second of-
fcial triple-double
in Jayhawk history,
joining Cole Aldrich.
No other Kansas big man
had more than six points or eight rebounds.
KANSAS 70 SAN JoSe StAte 57
Game to remember
We sucked. We
couldnt pass it,
dribble it, shoot it,
screen it, rebound
it. We didnt do
anything.
Kansas
coach bill Self
Quote of the Game
Self
40|30 70
Kansas
32 | 25 57
San Jose State
JayhawK Stat LeaderS
Points rebounds assists
Johnson
5
Withey
16
Withey
12
San JoSe State
KanSaS
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
travis Releford 5-6 1-2 4 4 13
Ben McLemore 5-16 0-7 6 3 13
Jeff Withey 7-11 0-0 12 0 16
elijah Johnson 4-9 3-6 1 5 13
Kevin Young 1-5 0-2 8 1 6
Andrew White III 0-1 0-0 0 0 1
Naadir tharpe 1-5 0-1 1 1 2
Perry ellis 2-5 0-0 4 2 4
Totals 26-60 4-18 41 16 70
Player FG-FGA 3FG-3FGA Rebs A Pts
D.J. Brown 2-9 1-4 2 0 7
James Kinney 11-26 4-12 7 2 30
Chris Jones 1-4 0-1 3 1 2
Chris Cunnigham 1-12 0-0 11 2 4
Alex Brown 1-4 0-0 3 0 2
LaVanne Pennington 1-2 1-2 0 0 5
Xavier Jones 0-4 0-0 5 2 2
Mike VanKirk 1-2 0-0 4 0 2
Totals 19-65 7-21 45 7 57
unSunG hero
Mclemore
Game to forGet
Johnson
basKeTbaLL
Withey
Key StatS
12.5 Kansas second half three-point shooting percentage
16-0 the Spartans run in the second half that whittled Kansas lead to 60-52
16, 12, 12 Jeff Witheys points, rebounds and blocks
braNdoN smITh/KaNsaN
Freshman guard Ben McLemore tries to catch an alley-oop Monday night Nov. 26
at Allen Fieldhouse. the Jayhawks defeated the San Jose State Spartans 70-57.
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Senior guard travis Releford drives past the San Jose State defender Monday
night Nov. 26 at Allen Fieldhouse. the Jayhawks defeated the Spartans 70-57 to
improve their record to 5-1.
braNdoN smITh/KaNsaN
Senior guard elijah Johnson fghts for the ball with two Spartan defenders. Johnson scored 19 points helping the Jayhawks defeat San Jose State 70-57.
braNdoN smITh/KaNsaN
Freshman guard Ben McLemore attempts to block the shot of junior forward Louis Garrett Monday night Nov. 26 at Allen Field-
house. the Jayhawks improve their record to 5-1 with the 70-57 victory over San Jose State.
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Kansas 70 san Jose state 57
Key Plays
First halF
(sCOre aFter Play)
19:49 Freshman guard Ben McLemore dunks an alley-oop pass from senior guard elijah Johnson, giving
Jayhawk fans hope that another rout is on. 2-0 Kansas.
2:27 senior guard travis Releford makes a three-pointer, Kansas last points of the half. 40-25 Kansas.
0:17 san Jose states DJ Brown buries a jumper to cap a 7-0 spartan run to fnish the half. 40-32 Kansas.
seCOnd halF
11:42 a Jeff Withey jumper gives Kansas its largest lead of the game at 24 points. Kansas wouldnt score again for
6 minutes, 52 seconds. 60-36 Kansas.
2:41 a three-pointer by James Kinney brings san Jose state to within seven points. 64-57 Kansas.
0:23 Ben McLemore slams home a windmill dunk on a breakaway, giving Kansas fans something to cheer
about to end the night. 70-57 Kansas.
rewINd
sChedule
*all games in bold are at home
date opponent Time
oct. 30 emPorIa sTaTe (exhIbITIoN) w, 88-54
Nov. 5 washburN (exhIbITIoN) w, 62-50
Nov. 9 souTheasT mIssourI sTaTe w, 74-55
nov. 13 MICHIGan state L, 67-64
Nov. 15 ChaTTaNooGa (Cbe) w, 69-55
Nov. 19 washINGToN sTaTe (Cbe) w, 78-41
Nov. 20 sT. LouIs (Cbe) w, 73-59
Nov. 26 saN Jose sTaTe w, 70-57
Nov. 30 oreGoN sTaTe 7 p.m.
dec. 8 CoLorado 1 p.m.
dec. 15 beLmoNT 6 p.m.
dec. 18 rIChmoNd 6 p.m.
Dec. 22 oHIo state 3 p.m.
dec. 29 amerICaN uNIversITy 7 p.m.
Jan. 6 TemPLe 12:30/3:30 p.m.
Jan. 9 Iowa sTaTe 6 p.m.
Jan. 12 teXas teCH 3 p.m.
Jan. 14 bayLor 8 p.m.
Jan. 19 teXas 1 p.m.
Jan. 22 Kansas state 7 p.m.
Jan. 26 oKLahoma 3 p.m.
Jan. 28 West VIRGInIa 8 p.m.
Feb. 2 oKLahoma sTaTe 3 p.m.
Feb. 6 tCU 8 p.m.
Feb. 9 oKLaHoMa 3 p.m.
Feb. 11 KaNsas sTaTe 8 p.m.
Feb. 16 Texas 8 p.m.
Feb. 20 oKLaHoMa state 3 p.m.
Feb. 23 TCu 3 p.m.
Feb. 25 IoWa state 8 p.m.
Feb. 29 oKLahoma sTaTe 7 p.m.
March 2 West VIRGInIa 1 p.m.
march 4 Texas TeCh 6 p.m.
March 9 BaYLoR 5 p.m.
braNdoN smITh/KaNsaN
senior guard travis Releford fghts through the contact to score 2 of his 15 points Monday night nov. 26 at allen Fieldhouse. the
Jayhawks went on to defeat san Jose state 70-57.
Jayhawk offense loses momentum in second half
Trevor GraFF
tgraff@kansan.com
Over the break, coach Bill Self
focused on two major points of
emphasis, points that held the
Jayhawks back in early season
contests energy and assertive-
ness.
To Self, his squad played too
lethargically on offensive and with-
out assertiveness on the defensive
end. The Jayhawks struggled on
both ends of the floor, despite
senior center Jeff Witheys triple-
double, in a 70-57 win over San
Jose State.
Withey won the game for us
almost single handedly, Self said.
He was the only one that played
well.
Self said Withey has been
scoring better and covered up a lot
of mistakes in tonights game.
The Jayhawks struggled offen-
sively, a theme of the early season.
We couldnt pass it, shoot it,
dribble it, screen it, we couldnt do
anything, Self said. We were just
awful.
After first half struggles, the
Jayhawks picked up the pace on the
offensive end to start the second
half, but the hot start didnt last.
The last 12 minutes of play were a
struggle for the Jayhawks scoring
only 12 points in that stretch.
Senior guard Elijah Johnson said
playing harder in second half was
a matter of showing the difference
between the Jayhawks and San Jose
State.
Thats when we knuckle in and
grind, Johnson said. Coach puts
that in our head in the locker room
all the time at the half, we usu-
ally come out with that fresh in our
minds.
But a 16-0 scoring run from the
Spartans led to a stale shooting per-
formance late in the second half.
We did play well, but we were
up 15 with two-and-a-half left and
in our building they went on a
7-0 run, Self said. Then, in our
building earlier in the second half
they went on a 16-0 run. That was
certainly beyond discouraging in
that stretch.
The Jayhawks lack of offen-
sive rhythm early in the second
half gave San Jose State the added
momentum they needed to hang
with the Jayhawks for the remain-
der of the game.
I think we just gave them
momentum, and I think we made
some bone-headed plays to give
them some extra energy, Johnson
said. Any team can take that
momentum and turn it into some-
thing, and thats what they did
tonight.
The rough play was most evi-
dent on the glass. The Jayhawks
were outrebounded 45-to-41 by the
Spartans, and struggled to score in
the paint outside Witheys efforts.
We didnt have any post pres-
ence if it wasnt for Jeff, Self said
You can say take jump shots, but
right now Ben obviously wasnt a
factor offensively tonight. Elijah
had no juice so he couldnt get
passed anybody. When you only
have one low post presence it just
isnt that easy to say get the ball in
tight.
The Jayhawks didnt score on
opportunities when the post play-
ers established position in the sec-
ond half. This lack of interior scor-
ing led to an offensive pace that
was, ridiculously slow, Self said.
Self wasnt happy with his squads
efforts to push the pace.
It never happened tonight,
Self said. Now when we got from
defense to offense, I thought there
was some good pace involved there,
but if we hadnt figured it out, weve
got a pretty good guy behind block-
ing shots, so why wouldnt we get
out and pressure our guy? Thats the
thing thats discouraging me.
Spartans senior guard James
Kinney found plenty of open
space in the Jayhawk defense. His
30-point performance highlighted
a flaw in the Kansas defense.
He was all over the place,
senior guard Travis Releford said.
It wasnt a single-man task. He got
his chance to play against every-
body out there. He put up 26 shots.
We have to do a better job at com-
municating as guards and just go
from there.
The Jayhawks have two prac-
tices to prepare for Oregon State.
The Beavers are the biggest team
Kansas will face to this point in the
season.
Those guys that are short have
to play bigger than their standing
height, Self said. Were so passive
as far as being active and going after
the ball. Maybe I see it through
different eyes, but I just think that
were not a real aggressive group.
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Jump shots help
spread defense
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freshman guard Ben Mclemore and senior center Jeff Withey deny the shot attempt from junior forward Chris Cunningham. the Jayhawks had 16 blocks en route to a 70-57 victory over the San Jose State
Spartans Monday night in Allen fieldhouse.
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Weis preps for WVU
footBAll
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ften a lost art in the high-
light-driven college basketball
world, the two-point jump
shot is a beautiful thing when used
correctly.
Coach Bill Self has been imploring
the Kansas team, specifically senior
guard Elijah Johnson, to quicken
the offensive tempo. Last night, the
Jayhawks used jump shooting to
spread the San Jose State defense in
the first half, allowing Kansas to create
pace with its half-court offense.
Kansas has enough athletes that it
would be foolish to insist for freshman
guard Ben McLemore to take flat-foot-
ed, two-handed set shots every pos-
session like players did 50 years ago.
Against San Jose State, the Jayhawks
ability to hit mid-range jump shots
opened up the floor down low for the
big men. Kansas got good shots off
early in the shot clock, resulting in 37
first half possessions.
The Jayhawks shot better from
three-point range during the first half,
especially compared to some of their
other early-season three-point perfor-
mances. They missed enough three-
pointers that the Spartans could have
sagged on defense if Kansas settled
only for three pointers. But Kansas
kept the Spartan defense honest with
its jump shooting.
Sophomore guard Naadir Tharpe
made a leaning jumper from the free-
throw line midway through the first
halfa shot he didnt have the con-
fidence to take last year. A few min-
utes earlier, freshman forward Perry
Ellis made a jumper from just inside
the three-point line. Later in the half,
senior guard Travis Releford and
McLemore made back-to-back mid-
range jumpers.
Unlike previous games, Kansas
wasnt afraid to look for its jump shot,
even when its three-pointers werent
falling. Against Southeast Missouri
State, Kansas shot only 2-21 on three-
pointers, and against Chattanooga, the
Jayhawks missed 16 three-pointers.
During these games, Kansas tried to
shoot only behind the three-point line
or right next to the basket.
Thats fine, unless the three-pointers
arent falling, and then defenses can
take away the low post game because
they dont have to respect the three.
When Kansas adds the jumper to its
arsenal, it stops the defense from com-
mitting multiple defenders around the
basket.
The Jayhawks made only four of 18
three-pointers against San Jose State,
but they shot 30 percent from three-
point range in the first half. But Kansas
stayed committed to taking open two-
point jump shots instead of forcing the
ball to the hole, taking time off the shot
clock and slowing the Jayhawks pace
to a plod.
In the second half, Kansas jump
shooting cooled, one of the reasons
San Jose State went on an unforgivable
16-0 run in the second half. Kansas
must do a better job taking care of
the ball around the perimeter. The
Spartans jumped in front of Kansas
passing lanes, and it was San Jose State
who looked like it wanted to push
the tempo. Kansas had 37 possessions
again in the second half, but because
the Spartans offense worked quickly.
Poetically, as bad as Kansas jump
shooting was in the second half,
Johnsons two-point jumper with 1:16
left effectively ended the game. Seeing
as the Spartans were committed to
stopping his drive, Johnson pulled up
near the elbow and made the shot his
team couldnt for most of the second
half, putting Kansas up by nine and
ensuring the Allen Fieldhouse crowd
could chant Rock Chalk Jayhawk
yet again.
Edited by Hannah Wise
Charlie Weis is thankful Kansas
didnt have a football game
Saturday.
That most likely wasnt what
Weis said at the dinner table on
Thursday, but he was certainly
thinking it.
After a crushing 51-23 defeat
on senior night in Lawrence, it
would have been challenging to get
the Jayhawks mentally prepared for
quarterback Geno Smith and the
West Virginia offense.
You only can get the guys up
psychologically in a short time span
so many times without them being
flat, Weis said during Mondays
Big 12 teleconference call. I think
we were set up to be flat last week.
Now theyve had a chance to get
away and get it out of their sys-
tem.
Instead the Jayhawks systems
were filled with turkey, stuffing and
pumpkin pie, but Weis planned to
help the players digest that with a
5:30 a.m. practice yesterday morn-
ing to get their heads and stom-
achs back on track.
Mondays are typically a day
off for the players, but because
Weis allowed his team to return
to Lawrence on Sunday night, the
vaunted Sunday scrimmage was
pushed back a few hours.
Two things are accomplished,
Weis said. We got a good practice
in on a Monday, and it got them
out of the Thanksgiving doldrums
that you have by laying around the
couch and eating too much.
Although its not as if Kansas
is lagging in its preparation for
West Virginia. Weis actually gave
the team a head start before cut-
ting the players lose for the break.
The Jayhawks spent two practices
last week getting familiar with
WVU. Weis also said hes sure the
team spent Friday watching the
Mountaineers 31-24 victory over
Iowa State, the team that whipped
Kansas two weeks ago.
If they did watch West Virginia,
players probably took notice of
Tavon Austin, WVUs versatile
wide out, who also gets plenty of
action in the backfield.
Austin accounted for 261 yards
and a touchdown against the
Cyclones, including his kick and
punt returns.
Hes faster than most people
on the field, Weis said. Thats
unusual talent, unusual speed and
hes a very dynamic player. Hes a
pain in the butt that you always
have to account for.
But hes not the Jayhawks big-
gest concern.
Kansas will continue its WVU
preparation with the same ques-
tion it has every week: How can we
attack the ground this Saturday?
We try to figure out how we
are going to run the ball against
West Virginia, Weis said. Then
the rest of the game plan just falls
off of that.
Weis probably didnt say thanks
for this either, but more often than
not, he finds that answer.
Edited by Laken Rapier
tara bryant/kanSan
Coach Charlie Weis prepares for the last game of the season against West
Virginia on Saturday, Dec. 1. Weis said that even after a weekend off for
thanksgiving, the players are ready for the game.
With less than eight minutes
remaining in the game, San Jose
States Xavier Jones drove to the
basket before being stopped along
the baseline by a pair of Kansas
defenders, including senior center
Jeff Withey.
The Spartans were trailing by
14 points, and Jones was forced to
put up a shot.
Withey stretched out his arm
as if he were reaching over a vol-
leyball net to stop a spike, some-
thing he did many times while
playing volleyball growing up in
California. His forearm met Jones
shot with a distinctive thud.
The thud gave Withey his tenth
block of the night and recorded
his first career triple-double. This
was the second time any Kansas
player accomplished this feat.
Ive been wanting that for a
while now and only me and Cole
that have it, so its pretty special to
me, Withey said.
Withey finished his day with 16
points, 12 rebounds and 12 blocks,
leading the Jayhawks in all three
categories.
His 12 blocks set a new Kansas
record.
They kept on driving in and
I just kept on blocking, Withey
said. Its what I do.
He was the lone consistent play-
er all night for Kansas in its 70-57
win against San Jose State. The
team got out to big leads at the
outset of each half before watch-
ing the Spartans make runs to
crawl back into the game.
I thought Jeff was terrif-
ic, Kansas coach Bill Self said.
Getting where hes scoring a little
bit better, but more important,
hes just active and did a good job
covering up for a lot of mistakes,
because we made a ton of them
defensively.
The blocks spurred the
Jayhawks fast break offense,
allowing them the opportunity to
get out in front of the San Jose
State defenders.
The Jayhawks didnt take advan-
tage of all their opportunities to
run the court like Self wanted.
At the end of the day, Self was
disappointed with the teams pace,
despite the fact that it finished
with seven more possessions than
its season average.
They were just phenomenal
around the rim, San Jose State
coach George Nessman said. On
the sideline, I thought that some
of those shots were about to go in
and then bang, theyre going the
other way. Some of those blocks
were like outlet passes for their
fast break.
While he made it hard on San
Jose State to throw up a shot,
Witheys aggressiveness to make
the block occasionally drew him
out of position, allowing a Spartan
defender to slide behind him and
grab an offensive rebound.
San Jose State finished the day
out-rebounding the Jayhawks,
grabbing 18 off the offensive
glass.
When you block 16 shots, the
other team gets a lot more offen-
sive rebounds, so thats skewed
a little bit because if you block it
out of bounds, thats an offensive
rebound, Self said.
When Withey couldnt grab the
rebound, he didnt have much help
from his teammates as the balls
ricocheted back off of the rim or
the glass.
Most of the time, Im guilty of
it too, senior guard Elijah Johnson
said. We get caught standing
around watching Jeff, like a fan or
something. Thats when we need
to snap back into it because he
cant do everything on his own.
Jeff saved us a lot of times.
ZacH PEtERs to LEaVE
Kansas
Kansas athletics announced that
freshman forward Zach Peters will
leave the program after the fall
semester. The news came after
the game against San Jose State
Monday night.
Peters season was derailed by
multiple concussions and a shoul-
der injury, which forced him to
redshirt this season.
I was looking forward to a
great college experience here,
Peters said in a press release. But
with all the injuries, including the
concussions, that I have dealt with
lately, I feel like in order for me to
move on and be able to get over all
this, I need to go home and basi-
cally heal.
Self said if it were his son, he
wouldve made the same decision.
Peters will not transfer and
attempt to play somewhere else.
instead returning home to recov-
er.
I dont think this is a bad move
on his part at all, Self said. I
know his family was hoping it
could work out differently, but I
dont think that he was feeling it,
there was too much concern about
getting hit again.
Edited by Emma McElhaney