THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN

MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2015 | VOLUME 129 ISSUE 02

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Parking lots to change, pass prices to increase

REBECCA DOWD
@beccapfleger0

Starting Aug. 1, additional parking lots on campus will be restricted to faculty only, and new
technology will make it easier for
officers to issue tickets.
Lot 34, east of the Computer
Services Facility, and Lots 50 and
52 behind Joseph R. Pearson Hall,
will become staff-only parking.
Donna Hultine, director of
Parking and Transit, said there is
plenty of parking with only 70
percent occupancy at peak time.
Most of the open parking spots
are by the stadium and west campus, and expanding staff parking
will move students to these lowoccupancy lots.
The Parking and Transit Department will also implement a digital
parking pass system on Aug. 1.
Hultine said the department has
purchased license plate reading
software and two mobile License
Plate Recognition enforcement
bundles.
The new software, which costs
$75,800, will interpret the image
of license plates on parked cars
and pull up the image in the parking officers car to read if it is registered for that lot.
Tickets will also be emailed to
reduce the number of misplaced
tickets, and paper tickets will be
given to cars that are not registered.
Parking passes will also increase
15 percent in cost because the de-

partment is self-funding the new

equipment. The yellow pass cost
$225 during the 2014-15 year and
will cost $260 during the 2015-16
school year.
In the past, Hultine said, the
department was reluctant to
increase pass costs because of
higher costs of living and tuition
increases at the University. However, she said over time this digital
process is believed to save money
and allow the parking system to
run smoothly.
Only two officers with cameras
will drive through parking lots,
which will be more efficient because they do not have to hunt for
a physical permit in a cars windshield.
We looked closely at Texas Tech
University who implemented [License Plate Recognition] passes
several years ago, and they had
good success reading the plates
with no mistakes, Hultine said.
The department consistently
deals with lost, stolen or traded
passes, but this new system should
eliminate all of these problems,
Hultine said. She said it should
also hopefully increase the number of passes bought and decrease
the number of parking tickets in
the future.
Jessica Larson, a junior from
Lincoln, Neb., said she believes
the new parking system and
the increase in price will deter
students from purchasing passes.
Students will not pay more

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money for a parking pass and

then still walk 20 minutes to class
from that lot, Larson said.
Larson said she thinks the only
way to solve the problem is to
build up and expand parking by
building a parking garage modeled after cities.
The department will continue to
offer its parking ticket forgiveness
plan for students. Students can

take a quiz online under the appeals section of the departments

website and certain tickets will
be removed from their accounts,
Hultine said.
Students and staff can register
their license plates online through
their myKU accounts to be assigned a pass to a certain lot, Hultine said.

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Flora Richardson was one of four KU students who made up our first graduating class. She not only
became KUs first female graduate 142 years ago, but she was also our first valedictorian.

Rainfall causes issues for local farmers, crops

CHANDLER BOESE
@Chandler_Boese

Farmers set up shop at the Lawrence Farmers Market on Saturday,

taking advantage of the only-partlycloudy weather. Still, effects of the
recent rainfall which have caused
problems statewide were apparent.
Patrons of the Lawrence Farmers
Market have had fewer options to
buy crops that are more sensitive
to moisture, said Amy Johnson, the
Farmers Market assistant.
The variety that the market offers
has suffered, Johnson said. There
are so many greens on the table, not
very much of anything else. Very few
tomatoes or strawberries they
didnt do very well in the rain.

At Saturdays market, many of the

farmers present said the rain had
been both helpful and harmful for
them. All the water has allowed
many of the plants to grow more,
and allowed the farmers to water
less.
However, the rain has also caused
quite a few issues, from delayed harvest to rotting crops to stalled planting. Despite everything, though, the
vendors said they have managed to
keep their market prices consistent.
The market as a whole hasnt exactly had booming business in the
last few weeks, though. Johnson said
the rain has cut down on the markets number of clients and vendors.
People are just less likely to come
out on a Saturday morning when
they see that its raining, she said.

The rainy market days have hurt

Jack Wilson, the owner of Washington Creek Lavender Farm. The
products his family makes out of
lavender cant get wet, so coming to
the market to sell them has been difficult.
We cant harvest because its so
wet, we cant plant because its so
wet, but we cant complain about
the water because weve been in a
drought for the past couple years,
he said.
A couple of weeks ago, Wilson had
to dig up about 500 plants that had
died. Mud made it nearly impossible
to dig and move the plants, and then
the rain filled the holes right back
in. He said he wont be able to plow
the field or replant anything for at
least another month, even if the rain

stops.
Because of all the mud and rain, he
had to cancel the farms open house
last weekend.
We had to buy TV and radio time
just to tell people it was cancelled,
he said.
Farmers all over Kansas have been
having issues with planting and
crops, said Jude Kastens, a research
assistant professor from the Kansas
Biological Survey. He said crops
such as winter wheat and soybeans
have suffered the most from the rain.
Winter wheat is a couple weeks
away from harvest, he estimated,
but the crop is especially sensitive to
moisture, so the rain poses a threat.
Rains need to shut off or well see
some loss, Kastens said.
Soybeans are especially in dan-

ger because of their delayed planting and slow emergence. As of last

Sunday, only 31 percent of expected
harvest in Kansas had been planted,
according to the USDA Crop Progress Report.
Even if they were [planted], they
might not be emerging like they
should, Kastens said. Soybeans
dont like to have their roots saturated.
The USDA backs this up, reporting
that about a fifth of the planted crop
has emerged. Kastens estimated that
it should be closer to half at this
point.

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Summer leaves Humane Society crowded

MADI SCHULZ
@Mad_Dawgg

Every summer, the Lawrence Humane Society sees an increase in the

number of animals in its shelters.
This summer is no exception, and
the organization is in the swing of
the busy season.
There are various factors that contribute to the larger number of animals during the summer.
Normally cats would go through
one kitten season until a few years
ago now were seeing them go
through two and even three, said
Jamie Straley, community outreach
manager for the Lawrence Humane
Society.
Although kitten season may seem
like a cute, fun time filled with an
overload of baby animals to play
with, it can cause problems because
of the large amount of kittens being
born at once.
The Fourth of July is also a notorious time for spooked and scared
animals to run away because of all
the commotion from parties and
fireworks.
A lot of shelters will do microchip
clinics in the days preceding Fourth
of July, Straley said. There are pets
that may get out and theres a much
greater percentage of owners and
pets being reunited if theyre microchipped or have a collar and tag.
One way the Humane Society
copes with the variant amount of animals coming in is through a foster
program when a family or person
temporarily adopts an animal until it
is ready for a permanent home. For
different animals this could mean
different things. A kitten, for example, has to be at least 8 weeks old
and weigh 2 pounds to be placed in
a permanent home.
The greatest need for fosters is
from April through October, generally with kittens, but finding the
right family is more difficult than
simply reaching out to volunteers.
Weve had a lot of interest, but
matching up the right people with

Consequences of
leaving animals in
hot cars:
It can take less than 15
minutes for a vehicle to
heat up to 99 degrees,
even on an 80 degree day.
Rolling the windows down
has little effect on the
temperature of the car.

An animal left in a hot

car may suffer these
effects:
-Heat stroke
-Shallow breathing
-Vomiting
-Diarrhea
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Daisy Duke, a 7-month-old brown tabby, looks over Lawrence Humane Society staffer Austin Clines
shoulder during the cats recess from their cages.

-Blue tongue
-Brain damage
-Death

the right kittens and having the resources to do all the training we have
to do has been the hardest part for
this program, said KT Sessler, who
is in charge of placing animals and
training the foster families.
With dogs or cats, there are also
certain challenges that come with
trying to find a proper home that
outweigh a volunteers desire to foster.
The hardest to place are the neonatal kittens that have to be bottlefed every three hours because people have jobs that wont let them
leave that often, Sessler said. It has
to be a quiet home if its for a behavior animal. If its a dog that needs
foster care it helps to have another
dog thats good with other dogs that
they can learn from.
The foster program can be mutually beneficial. The animal gets to
grow up in a quiet, safe place and
gets used to various stimuli to be
ready for adoption, while the foster family or person gets to have
the experience of taking care of an
animal without actually having the
commitment of being an owner. The
Humane Society also pays for the

animals food, supplies or vet bills.

Were pretty open to anyone [who
wants to foster], Sessler said. [...]
I think those dogs and cats being
raised with children and other pets
make for a good pet that is able to
adapt more easily when theyre finally adopted.
Recently, the number of returning foster families and new ones has
been changing. Before, there were
more returning fosters but now the
Humane Society has seen an uptick
in new volunteers.
I think thats because Ive been doing some new things with the volunteer program, and communication
is a big part of it now, Straley said.
I think that my requests for fosters
are being answered. And they were
out there before, but there have just
been some different avenues to get
the word out that Ive been using.
Another resource the Humane Society uses to alleviate the pressure is
their relationship with off-site pet
stores, such as Petco and PetSmart.
Our off-site partners allow us to
have help with kitten season, and
it allows us to have those adoption
events and have some more spaces

so the shelter isnt completed inundated at any given time, Straley said.
Along with its partnership with
large chain pet stores, the Humane
Societys relationship with Pet
World proved beneficial until a fire
on Memorial Day weekend closed
the store. Before the fire, the organization opened a kitten pit in the
pet store and asked for volunteers to
help run it. They saw a positive response to this program, with almost
all of the kittens being adopted.
The Humane Society directors plan
to restart that program when Pet
World reopens for business.
There are also public events, but
the resources to attend them are not
always available.
We get a lot of requests to do
more events than we have the staff to
do or the volunteers to do, Straley
said. We have to make sure whenever we agree to do an event thats
in the future that we let the planner
know that its all subject to what we
have population- and pet-wise. Two
weeks from now we might not have
any dogs that are appropriate to take
to a childrens event.

Things can happen, and what you

think will just be a minute can turn
into five or 10 minutes, and that can
be very dangerous not only for pets
but for children as well.
KATE MEGHJI
Lawrence Humane Society
Executive Director

If you see an animal left

in a hot car, officials urge
you to call the police.

Kelly Cordingley
Sources: Humane Society of
the United States; Lawrence
Humane Society Executive
Director Kate Meghji
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Ask Anissa: I have never made a mistake

Summer...tanned legs,
beach, sand. In reality:
work indoors for long
periods of time without
going outside.
I solemnly swear that I
am up to no good
You know its summer
when you dont see
police swarming Tonic
every Thursday and/or
Friday
No shoes, no shirt
does equal problems.
Apparently gets you
kicked out of places,
thanks Kenny Chesney
We need more delivery
services in Lawrence that
deliver desserts -- like
pie.
This year, man buns
are at an all-time high.
Please, educate your
children #manbuns
#manbunprevention
When the email address
for your online class
instructor is invalid
Boys wear shorts in the
winter and hoodies and
jeans in the summer....
Can someone explain this
to me?

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Q
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My problem is kind of tricky. Everything bad that has ever happened to me hasnt been my fault. And, if I am being honest with you, I have never actually made a mistake in my life. So like how do I deal with people who try to blame me for
stuff when I know that I am always completely in the right and they are completely in the wrong?

Ever since I began college, I have

felt my world collapsing down on
me about three times every week.
College has been said to be the best
time of your life, but with any good
thing also comes the bad stuff, often
in bulk. And yes, sometimes they
are out of your control.
But allow me to break an illusion
for you, and I apologize if this too
makes your world come crashing
down when bad things happen
to us, its usually either because we
did something to cause it, or its just
plain bad luck. But like most things
in life, it is never always bad luck or
always your fault. Bad things in life

are a mix of the two.

Over time I have deemed myself
to be a pretty stubborn person, and
I too often believe that I am right
and anyone who says otherwise is
clearly wrong. However, the world
doesnt work well for people who
always act on the belief that they are
always right.
You are entitled to think you are
right all that you want, and hopefully with the right amount of age
and wisdom you will come to think
of yourself as a human who can possibly be wrong. But to actually treat
others as if you are always in the
right is the main flaw in your moral

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compass.
You asked how to deal with people
who try to blame you for things that
you know are not, and will never
be, your fault. The truth is, you cant
deal with those people, but you can
deal with yourself.
By opening up your own mindset
to the possibility that you might
be wrong, by at least allowing your
opposing party to see that you are
considering what they are saying
and recognizing they may be right,
you appear to be a more reasonable
person. Odds are once they see that
you are reasonable, they too may
find themselves seeing your side of

the argument and become reasonable as well.

I have learned through my 20
years of life that changing others
is not only difficult, but almost
impossible but changing myself
and how I handled situations and
other people was easier and more
effective.
Start practicing the idea in your
head that you in fact are human and
thereby have a good chance of being
incorrect. Being right is a good feeling, but having good relationships
with others is a much better one.

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ARTS & CULTURE

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Student, alumna go medieval for Missouri event

eval weapons at a young age.

Since Ive grown up with it, my
family are these people, Lewis-Neff
Once a year, the Smithville Lake said. I have my direct family, but
campground in Smithville, Mo., these are people Ive know all my
is overtaken by people dressed in life. These are my best friends and
medieval garb hauling bows and ar- I really enjoy spending time with
rows, pavilion-sized tents and bear- them. This hobby gives me the oping household and kingdom arms portunity to spend a week straight
all ready for a week of celebration with these people and go on vacacalled the War of the Lilies.
tion without costing thousands of
This is the Society for Creative dollars.
Anachronism, a non-profit organiSafety and family are two of the
zation dedicated to recreating medi- biggest values for SCA members.
eval culture from pre-17th century In reenactments of battles, all parEurope. A worldwide organization, ticipants are covered in heavy armor
more than 30,000 members are in- with no skin left uncovered. Nonvolved across 20 different kingdoms. member guests to SCA events are
Lawrence is known
ushered through
as the Shire of Carlsby tour guides and
by and sits within the
watched closely.
Kingdom of Calontir,
There are experiences The magic word
which has hosted the here that you cant have in hold is ingrained
annual War of the Lil- any other context.
into every memies for 29 years. This
bers brain. The
LARRY BROW word calls for evyears event runs for
Founder of Lawrence SCA group eryone to freeze
nine days, serving as
the longest event for
until safety issues
the Calontir Kinghave been resolved.
dom during the year. The Kingdom
Battles are only half of the story,
expects 1,200 members to attend though. The site also includes a
this weeks event.
food court and market area, allowWe are historical- and education- ing members to sell their goods
based, said Miranda Lewis-Neff, although the barter system is more
event steward. We want to do re- common. Members trade their
search and find out what they would goods among one another rather
have actually done and try to recre- than exchanging currency, said tour
ate that in a period fashion. We do guide Tola Rufusdogter.
this for ourselves and not for other
But thats not her real name. Upon
people; unlike the Renaissance fes- joining, members get to choose
tivals, we dont try to make money their own SCA name, and many
off of what we are doing.
only know their fellow SCA memLewis-Neff, who graduated from bers by these medieval names.
the University in 2011, has been
Members also pick household
part of the SCA since birth. Like colors and devices to display upon
many others in the organization, their coat of arms. Purple and gold,
the tradition has been passed down the Calontir coat of arms, flies from
through her family. Young children
run freely around the campground,
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Top: Society for Creative Anachronism member John Brooks stands with Quicksilver, his deer falcon.
Falcons can be trained to take down other birds such as ducks.
Bottom: Jerry Harders dogs Freya, Kira and Axel work to spin a barrel of tanned leather. Harders shop is
part of an SCA event known as the War of the Lilies, an annual war lasting nine days, held in the Kingdom
of Calontir (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Northern Arkansas).

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FRANK WEIRICH/KANSAN
Society for Creative Anachronism member Jerry
Harder shows a tour group how fibers are pulled out
of barley and wheat stacks.

standards around the campsite.

The SCA group in Lawrence has
close ties to the University: the
founder of the Lawrence group,
Larry Brow, is a current archivist and library assistant at the
Spencer Research Library. Brow
founded the group after he moved
to Lawrence his senior year of
high school and brought his past
SCA experiences with him. A selfprofessed history geek, he uses his
time at SCA to live out the subjects he researches as well as create works for sale with his Masters
in pottery.
Ive been doing this for 41 years,
and I have friends from all over the
world who do this, he said. There
are experiences here that you cant
have in any other context.
Brow works with current graduate student and teaching assistant
Carla Tilghman to create and sell

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pottery at SCA events. Tilghman founded the SCA group in

Manhattan when she was in high
school.
Theres an emphasis on fighting,
on the arts and on service, she
said. Theres a nod to the romanticized version of chivalry, which
is fun.
We dont have plagues; its a
selective recreation of the Middle
Ages, she laughed.
The SCA emphasizes an inclusion of everyone, no matter their
background. In the mundane
world, members can be everything from a law enforcement officer to a factory worker, but all of
that goes out the window when
they put on pre-17th century
clothes.
Its the enacting version of being a history nerd, Brow said. Its
a lot more fun when its not just
from books.

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MAKEUP MATCHUP

Alumna competes against YouTube beauty vlogging sensations

RILEY MORTENSEN
@RileyMortensen

Im going to need to eat soon,

said Elsa Rhae Pageler, a 2013 University graduate, who spent her
morning unpacking two giant cardboard boxes full of cosmetic goodies
on nothing but a Redbull and a lot of
enthusiasm.
You may know Pageler or Elsa
Rhae, as shes known to her fans
and more than 36,000 YouTube subscribers from one of her many
videos showing her work her magic
as she transforms her face into a host
of colorful, detailed and sometimes
menacing painted creations.
Pageler, who has just over two
years of experience face painting,
first became interested after taking
a class at the University. She signed
up for a class on stage makeup her
senior year to meet one last requirement to graduate.
Since then, shes recreated countless characters from television,
comic books and video games including Batmans The Joker, Harley
Quinn and Two-Face, Captain Planet, Groot from Guardians of the
Galaxy, a gruesome White Walker
from Game of Thrones, multiple
Mortal Kombat characters such as
Mileena and Baraka and a few of her
own original looks.
Pagelers White Walker video,
which has more than 291,500 views
on YouTube, remains one of her
most popular.
Now shes found herself on a new
adventure. Pageler, who sits in her
studio in an unfinished basement in
Overland Park, learned just days before that she made it to the top 20 of
the Face Fine Artistry of Cosmetic
Elites Award Contest, commonly
known as the NYX Face Awards.
The contest is based on popular
vote. It features the best beauty vlog-

gers from North America. The vloggers are competing to win $25,000,
a trip to Los Angeles for the top six
to compete live and the chance at
the No.1 Beauty Vlogger of the Year
title.
Pageler said she learned about the
NYX Face Awards after seeing Instagram photos mentioning the competition and entries from other contestants online. She then decided
that this year she should enter too.
In years past she watched as other
YouTubers gained exposure from
the competition, so she took out her
paints and put together an elegant
black and white design that featured some of her most meticulous
doodles around her eyes and on her
chest, which she turned in on the
May 8 deadline.
A few days later, Pageler received a
phone call from NYX officials telling
her she had made it into the competitions starting top 30 and to be on
the lookout for an email with details
and a box of NYX supplies.
It was awesome, Pageler said.
Just super rad. I had seen in the
past the boxes that they would send
for the competition, and its insane,
so I was stoked just to get this box.
Pageler was at first ecstatic to have
made it in, but once she realized
whom she was up against, she said
she felt defeated. Other contestants
in the competition were extremely
talented women Pageler said she
had been following on YouTube for
years.
Pageler is up against contenders,
some of whom are professionals,
who bring with them an army of
Youtube subscribers. Mykie, also
known as Glam&Gore, has more
than 438,000 subscribers. PatrickStarrr, a freelancer from Orlando,
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Elsa Rhae Pageler, a beauty vlogger popular for her Youtube creations, dons the disguise of a White Walker
from the show Game of Thrones. Pageler, a 2013 graduate, is a finalist in the NYX FACE Awards.

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Alumna starts free yoga classes at Public Library

MADI SCHULZ
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Sarah Trowbridge-Alford performs yoga before a free class held at
the Lawrence Public Library. Trowbridge-Alford was certifed to teach
through a 200-hour course at Westside Yoga.

When Sarah Trowbridge-Alford

first discovered yoga during a class
at the University, she experienced
something that she never had before: a quieted mind.
That was the first time my brain
ever just shut up, and I was just like,
Where has this been all my life?
she said.
From this first positive experience
came the inspiration to continue on
and teach yoga and perhaps even
help others to reach that same moment of peace.
Now, once a month, TrowbridgeAlford, a 2003 graduate, teaches a
free yoga class at the Lawrence Public Library for those of all ages and
skill levels. Held in the auditorium
and various meeting rooms, the
class sizes vary each month.
Honestly, Im always a little nervous at the beginning of each class,
she said. When I focus on my
breathing and become mindful of
my intention, which at its very base
is to transform the suffering of others, my anxiety fades.
For Trowbridge-Alford, it was important to have a free class where her

students could try yoga because that

was how she started.
Because it was paid for in my campus fee, thats what kind of got me
going, she said. So thats one of the
reasons Im so adamant about making sure that I can offer a free class.
She earned her yoga certification
in 2014 through a 200-hour course
from Westside Yoga in Lawrence under teacher Gopi Sandal.
Now, Trowbridge-Alford teaches
Hatha yoga involving sun salutations
and a dancing warrior sequence. By
mixing basic moves that beginners
can master and some challenging
balance exercises, she said she keeps
her students on their toes while also
adhering to their needs as students
who want to learn.
Kim Heck of Lawrence has participated in the free class three times
and said she comes to the sessions
to relax. Another participant from
Lawrence, Lauren Krivoshia, has
found that yoga is the best way
[she has] found to relax, and its also
a great way to keep [her] body engaged and active and feeling better.
In each of her classes, TrowbridgeAlford hands out information on
other free yoga classes in Lawrence,
acting as an advocate for her stu-

dents to find good teachers and

classes that will work for them.
Trowbridge-Alford also works in
the Teen Zone at the library five
days a week. She finds the Teen
Zone helpful as a place for kids to
hang out and socialize without their
little brothers and sisters or their
parents. As a teen growing up in
Lawrence, she remembers having
limited places to hang out at night
that her parents felt were safe.
Now, with the Teen Zone in the
library and with her yoga, she said
theres an opportunity to connect
and help with the issues young people can have.
Whether it has been teaching at
the Boys and Girls Club or at one
of her free classes at the library,
Trowbridge-Alford has been able to
share her love of yoga, and help her
students get rid of monkey-mind, a
yoga term that refers to the chatter
that can clutter minds the chatter
that was silenced on her first day trying yoga.
All of the conditions for my happiness are present in [yoga], Trowbridge-Alford said. I have no reason
to be unhappy. Im supported, Im
warm, Im well-fed. I just feel so
much gratitude when Im doing it.

Love & Mercy biopic honest, refreshing

VICKY DAZ-CAMACHO
@vickyd_c

Love & Mercy, the biopic on

Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson, artistically showed the inner
workings of the mind behind
the sunny sounds of the Beach
Boys. Its star-studded cast shreds
through the mysteries and drama
of becoming a billboard sensation. Viewers also get to see the
hidden truths of music production in the 1960s.
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distraught and damaged individual. His fathers verbal and
physical abuse echoes throughout
Wilsons adult life (played by
John Cusack).
Even though he has a sup-

portive wife, family and band

mates, Wilson detaches himself
to escape reality and entertain
the songs swimming in his
mind. Here, the camerawork and
sound editing express Wilsons
momentary madness, which flux
throughout the film a rhythmic, mysterious bunch of good
and bad vibrations.
Danos performance as the
young Wilson is compelling.
Were enveloped in a world where
the Beach Boys music is an
escape for listeners, yet its mas-

termind troubled with what we

can only understand as mental
illness. He is swallowed by social
anxiety and as we see early on
in the film the voices in his
head. No spoilers here, but Dano
sells the part of a mysterious
songwriter battling his demons
and his past.
So does Cusack. As an older
Wilson, Cusack leaves his sweet
rom-com box and lends his
acting chops in the dramatic
territory. Were able to empathize
with a talented, yet stifled, song-

writer who wants a normal life

but whos dictated by an opportunist doctor, Dr. Eugene Landy
(played by Paul Giamatti).
Wilsons love interest, Melinda
Ledbetter (played by Elizabeth
Banks), acts as the compassionate, persistent savior.
For a musical biopic, Love
& Mercy was refreshing and
dynamic. Viewers are exposed
to the raw method behind the
madness, which is beautifully
curated and steered by director
Bill Pohlad.

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Fla., has more than 261,000 subscribers.

Regardless, Pageler is just excited
to be in the competition, noting that
whatever shes doing must be working because she made it through the
first challenge: Timeless Beauty.
Pageler and the other contestants
had two weeks to brainstorm ideas
and create a look, followed by just
over a week for viewers to vote.
Pageler said for the first few days
when deciding on her look she had
500 million thousand and two
ideas floating around in her head.
I wanted to do futuristic and I
wanted to do something 70s, like a
flower child, like a futuristic flower
child, but that ended up being weird,
and I had friends tell me that thats
not timeless, Pageler said.
Since she had so few followers
compared to other contestants,
Pageler said she knew she would
have to do something that was much

more than makeup.

Pageler practiced her look every
day for two weeks, sometimes multiple times a day. Whenever she
practiced, she found a new element.
Her final version featured a classic
60s style mod eye, a soft cheek and
lip paired with a mix of a psychedelic
sun and bright colors that appear to
melt down her chest and stomach.
The effect worked.
I just wanted to die, Pageler said.
I was so excited that I got into this
next round.
Participants are currently working
on their entries for the second challenge, which they learned last Friday
should be their interpretation of
paranormal activity.
Challenge two voting begins June
26 and ends July 3, when the top 20
will become the top 12. Voting for
challenge three begins July 24 and
will determine the top six entrants.
They will fly to Los Angeles in August to compete live in the Nokia
Theatre for the top spot.

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Pageler said shes already met her

own personal goal, though.
Getting to the top 20, where Im
at right now was my goal, but top
12 is extra credit, and then I think
Ill just collapse if I make anything
higher, Pageler said.
Even if I dont win, Ive already
gotten a lot of traffic on my channel
and stuff, and thats cool, but whats
pretty crazy is that I got to connect
with a ton of people and Ive been
doing collabs with other people and
just totally growing my own circle
of people, she said. Its been really
cool to be able to learn from every-

one and learn from practicing.

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Stigler becomes
National Champion
DEREK JOHNSON
@DJohnson1510

Senior track star Michael Stigler

took the 400-meter hurdles crown
at the NCAA Outdoor Championships on Friday. Stigler ran a time of
48.84 seconds in the final race. He is
the Kansas mens first NCAA Outdoor champion since 2010 and the
first in a racing event since 2003.
The 5-foot-10 senior from Canyon,
Texas, ran a 48.90 in the semifinal
round on Wednesday. Stigler had the
fastest time in the semifinal round
and was undefeated in the 400-meter hurdles all season, making him
the favorite on Friday. Stigler took
care of business, winning the final by
four-tenths of a second.
"It feels so good to finally be number one," Stigler said in the teams
press release. "As soon as I crossed
that finish line, I couldn't do anything but thank God and give thanks
to my coach and my family. To finally get that win and get over that
hump, it just means so much to me,
and I'm so happy all that hard work
finally paid off."
Stiglers win capped a phenomenal
career at the University. In his four
years of outdoor competition, Stigler was First Team All-American
and Big 12 Champion every year.
In 2013 and 2014, Stigler finished
in the runner-up spot of the NCAA
Outdoors. Finally, in his senior season, Stigler is a national champion.
Stigler has exhausted his eligibility at Kansas but will compete in
the USA Track and Field Outdoor
Championships from June 25-28.
Stigler is currently ranked fourth
among 400-meter hurdlers in the
world. Three 400-meter hurdles
spots are on the line for the U.S. in
the World Championships in July.
All of the events during the four
days took place at Hayward Field in
Eugene, Ore. Kansas had a total of
11 track and field athletes compet-

ing during the four days. The mens

team finished in 19th place of 81
teams with 10 points. The womens
team finished in 32nd place of 71
teams with seven points.
Kansas started the week strong.
Besides Stiglers semifinal performance, junior Jake Albright and
sophomore Nick Meyer both earned
NCAA Second Team All-America
honors in the pole vault. 2013 National Champion and senior Lindsey Vollmer had the strongest first
day of her career in the heptathlon.
Vollmer competed in a Kansas uniform for the final time on day two.
She was unable to record a mark in
the long jump, her first event of the
day. Just like that, Vollmers dreams
of winning another title and going
out on top were crushed. This year
was the only year Vollmer failed
to earn any type of All-American
standing at the NCAA Outdoors.
Vollmer leaves the University as
the only woman in team history to
win an individual title at the NCAA
Outdoor Championships.
Two other Jayhawks struggled on
Thursday in racing events, while juniors Daina Levy (hammer throw)
and Sydney Conley (long jump)
earned First Team All-American
honors in field events.
I cant be upset at all about my
performance, Conley said Thursday
in the teams press release. Being an
All-American for the third time is a
huge honor, so Im definitely pleased
with what I did.
Stigler took over the show on Friday at the NCAA Outdoors. Three
more Jayhawks competed in the
final two days, but the hype con-

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Senior Michael Stigler reacts after winning the mens 400-meter hurdles during the NCAA track and field
National Championships in Eugene, Ore., Friday, June 12.

tinued to surround the serenade of

champion Michael Stigler.
Stiglers 400-meter hurdles victory
is Kansas first in the event since

1960. His accomplishment is a rare

feat. He did more than defeat the
competition; he conquered history.

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Schneider prepares to rebuild womens basketball

DYLAN SHERWOOD
@dmantheman2011

If you asked womens basketball

coach Brandon Schneider what
his dream job is, you might think it
would be coaching at a powerhouse
program. The Kansas womens
basektball team might not be the
first to come to mind.
For Schneider, however, its living
the dream.
Ive always wanted an opportunity to coach at a school like this,
said Schneider, who has coached at
Emporia State and Stephen F. Austin State University. I feel blessed to
be here.
Schneider got the call from Kansas
administrators asking if he was interested in the Kansas job in March. He
said he jumped at the opportunity.
I really liked that Dr. [Sheahon]
Zenger, [director of KU Athletics],
and staff did what I call a traditional
search, not using an outside firm, he
said. I ultimately wanted to coach
somewhere where I can recruit in
Texas as well as in-state in Kansas.
On the job since April 21, Schneider has already done some key
things for Kansas, including bringing in two new staff members,
A'Quonesia Franklin as associate
head coach and Damitria Buchanan
as assistant coach, and keeping current assistant Katie OConnor. He
also had his first recruit commit for
the class of 2015 in Chelsea Lott, a
center from Houston.
Schneider first experienced Allen
Fieldhouse as a first-year assistant
coach for Emporia State in an exhibition game against the Jayhawks in
1995. He became an immediate fan.
I began to feel it, Schneider said.
Theres an appreciation of how basketball is at the University of Kansas,
whether its on the mens side or the
womens side. The history and tradition of this place is well known.
Coaching basketball certainly runs
in Schneiders veins. His father, Bob,
who won more than 1,000 games in

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The University hired Brandon Schneider, former head coach at Emporia State, to be the next womens basketball coach for the upcoming
season. Ive always wanted an opportunity to coach at a school like this, he said.

his career as a womens basketball

coach, greatly impacted his sons
coaching career.
Hes been a tremendous help
being a role model and [me] observing him in practices and games,
Schneider said. The big thing I took
away from him was that he was a
teacher of the fundamentals and
places a good deal on being fundamentally sound and playing the
right way.
The coaching lessons paid off but
maybe came back to haunt the patriarch. The elder Schneiders last
game in 2006 pitted him against his
son as West Texas A&M faced Emporia State in the NCAA Division II
South Central Regional. The progeny won.
It was one of those monumental
games of my career, Schneider said.
We didnt even know that he was
going to retire afterwards.

Schneider put Emporia State on

the map after winning the Division
II National Title in 2010. The team
is still a powerhouse with coach Jory
Collins, who was an assistant under
Schneider.
Collins started out as a volunteer
assistant for the Hornets while attending school. In 2006, Schneider
hired him full-time as an assistant
coach.
He gave me the opportunity that
I wanted, Collins said. I couldve
followed him to Stephen F. Austin,
but I decided I needed some head
coaching experience.
Collins said Schneiders terrific
attention to detail was a main part
of how he coached the game. Collins mentioned the 2010 National
Championship team how that
team started grinding out games
and starting rolling on to a quest at
a national championship as an

example of Schneiders skill.

One of Schneiders former players,
Carolyn Lee (then Carolyn Dorsey), walked on at Emporia State and
had to earn her spot on the Hornet
roster. For her, Schneider's coaching
skills were instrumental in the teams
success.
He challenged his players and
high results applied to each other,
Lee said. He pushed everyone and
it made anyone dangerous.
Emporia State Athletic Director
Kent Weiser said he saw Schneider
as a man of few words but knew his
womens basketball program was in
good hands.
Everyone got on the same page
and everything went from there,
Weiser said.
Although quiet, Schneider was a
reliable and easy person to get along
with at Emporia State, said Greg
Rahe, the Voice of the Hornets for

KVOE/KFFX radio in Emporia.

Sometimes it just takes time for
him to talk, Rahe said. He always
expects his team to be in the NCAA
Tournament. He wants his team to
do the little things well and to do it
right.
In his 12 years at Emporia State,
Schneider led the Hornets to 11
NCAA Tournament appearances.
Now that he is back in Kansas after
a five-year stint at Stephen F. Austin, Schneider can use his relationships to rebuild the Kansas womens
basketball program after the team
finished below .500 in back-to-back
seasons.
My goal is to make progress every day, Schneider said. I told [the
team], Lets focus on winning basketball games and show them what
wins and losses mean at another
time.

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Southern Methodist guard

Nic Moore arrives at Kansas

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Southern Methodist guard Nic Moore speaks to the media following a session of Bill Selfs basketball camp
on June 14. Moore will play on the Kansas World University Games squad.

DYLAN SHERWOOD
@dmantheman2011

Southern Methodist University

point guard Nic Moore would be
in summer practices right now with
former Kansas coach Larry Brown,
getting better for next season.
Instead, Moore is on Kansas upcoming University World Games
roster. Bill Self wanted the 2015
American Athletic Conference Player of the Year to join the team, and
Brown agreed to loan his player out.
Moore averaged 14.5 points, 5.1 assists and 1.3 steals a game last season
at SMU.
Its an honor to be around the
Kansas locker room, Coach Self and
the tradition here to be a part of
it, Moore said.
Moore said he sees himself as a
leader out on the floor, even though

hes only been here since Friday.

He sees Self as a similar image to
both Brown and current SMU associate head coach Tim Jankovich.
I like the way [Self] coaches, fasttempo, Moore said. What he says
is second nature to me, because its
what I hear everyday from Coach
Brown and Coach Janks.
Senior Perry Ellis said he sees practice going well, with the new guys
getting to know the system quickly.
Ellis added Moore is already vocal
while on the court, even though
Moore has practiced with the team
just once since arriving in Lawrence.
He moves the ball real well and he
can score as well, Ellis said. The vocal he has is a huge addition to us.
Moore adds depth at the point
guard spot, standing at 5-foot-9.
Weve got a lot of guards, and its
really going to help us with pressure

situations and how we can play with

that, Ellis added.
The first action for the team is right
around the corner, starting next
Tuesday with the first of two exhibition games at the Sprint Center
in Kansas City, Mo., against Team
Canada. Moore can begin to learn
what the current Kansas team and
coaches want out of him so he can
bring what he has to offer to the
table.
Overall, practice has been going
smooth and everybody is competing, Ellis said.
Kansas will continue practicing
this week, while holding the second
session of Self s basketball camp.
Campers will be able to see Moore
and the team practice during a
scrimmage on Wednesday.

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