Armies of slim glass bottles

flled with neon-colored

liquids that fzz when shaken
line the shelves inside a new
store in downtown Lawrence.
Mass Street Soda, a
specialty shop located at 1103
Massachusetts St., between
Fuzzys Taco Shop and
Englewood Florist, opened
last Tuesday, and boasts a
repertoire of more than 1,000
carbonated varieties.
Owners Matt Baysinger and
Luke Tompson are graduates
of the class of 2008 and are
two dudes who came together
a few years ago with a shared
love of craf soda. Teir big
dream bubbled into a reality.
Weve had a lot of folks
tell us theyve traveled the
entire country and never
seen something like this,
Baysinger said.
Bottles are $2 each and can
be chilled in two minutes
with a gadget kept behind the
bar. Te bar is furnished with
six, red leather seats where
customers are encouraged to
hang out and chat.
Already, a few regulars have
been established, including
Lawrence resident and soon-
to-be employee Matt Duval.
I hadnt had soda this much
since high school, but now
that its opened, Ive drank it
every day, Duval said.
Since day one, packs of high
school students, father-son
pairs and trendy townies have
wandered the aisles searching
for something unique to
quench their thirsts, with
either a classic cream soda or
a bubbly rendition of espresso.
Ive seen some giddy older
people here who havent seen a
brand in 50 years, Tompson
said. Tey just light up and
buy two cases of it.
Similar to beer, sodas from
the same family have distinct
Te University Registrar and
the academic departments are
looking toward a more efcient
way of creating class schedules
for academic semesters and
reducing the use of paper in
the process.
Green scheduling, which
will be used to prepare the
course schedule for Spring
2015, aims to make a simpler
and more efcient method
for academic departments
to coordinate their courses,
and to communicate with the
University Registrar.
Brian McDow, the
senior associate director
of the Enrollment Systems
Integration and Student
Records, said the University
Registrar currently has to
make changes to the class
schedules through paperwork
and by sending updates back-
and-forth as the schedule is
constructed.
Te change will not only
afect the efciency of
communication between
the individual academic
departments and the
University Registrar, but it
will also afect the enrollment
and advising processes. Te
course schedule for Spring
2015 will be published a week
earlier than it has been in
previous semesters, falling on
September 25 instead of early
October, McDow said.
Te Undergraduate Advising
Center provided its service
to over 500 students during
the last week of March, and
experienced an increase in
advising trafc the following
week, meeting with over
630 students. Having the
course schedule available for
an extra week may increase
fexibility for students and
advising faculty, said Randall
Brumfeld, the director of
the Undergraduate Advising
Center.
If we have a longer time
frame, then we have more
fexibility for our students, and
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Beefdrinker Teriyaki Beef
Jerky Soda
The label reads For that deep
carnivore thirst, and while
not everyone comes in looking
for sweet, liquied meat,
Baysinger and Thompson agree
its the most unique soda on
their shelves.
Dublin Vanilla Cream Soda
As the cream soda connoisseur,
Baysinger said Dublin Vanilla
Cream is his favorite. He said
it has a sugary base and a
refreshing zz.
Big Red Cream Soda
The smoothness of Big Red
distinguishes it from other
cream sodas, Thompson said.
Despite the name, it isnt
based off the cinnamon gum.
Nu Grape Soda
Like other grape sodas, Nu
has a deep, purple color, but
Thompson classies it as
perfect out of its kind.
Manhattan Special Orange
Soda
The citrus recipe has been
successful enough, it
hasnt changed since 1895,
Thompson said. This 10-ounce
bottle is less recognized in
the Midwest because its a
Northeast brand.
Blenheim Ginger Ale, extra
spicy
Contrary to the expected bub-
bliness, the Blenheim has an
extra zing. Thompson said even
one sip made his nose tingle.
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favors and textures,
Baysinger said. He said
he doesnt drink alcohol,
which is why hes taken to
the sugary beverage and
welcomes the opportunity
to host an establishment
for all ages.
Between Baysinger
and Tompson, theyve
tasted 30 percent of the
wide selection. Tey limit
themselves to one bottle
per day, even though the
majority of favors are
made with cane sugar as
opposed to high-fructose
corn syrup.
Te grand opening is
planned for June, and
until then, Baysinger and
Tompson have even
more ideas. In addition to
the expanding collection,
they plan to add freezers
with ice cream for foats,
additional seating, the
prospect for groups to
sample tastings, a patio
and eventually make their
own soda.
Tis specialty shop brings
a new meaning to drinking
downtown.
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Where: Spooner Hall, The Commons
About: University professors, and
attendees, will join David Krakauer in
an open discussion on the future of
universities. Attendance is free and
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What: Friday Night at the Kino: Rozy-
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When: 7 to 9 p.m.
Where: Bailey Hall, 318
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English subtitles, presented by the
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Te Online Education
Committees report about
online classes revealed
benefts and concerns, all of
which will be considered by
the University in the future of
online classes.
Te committees report
advised the University to
watch four main areas: the
quality of the online classes,
the time required to develop
a class into an online class,
the economics and intellectual
property involved, and
integration of online classes.
Tere needs to be clear
parallel pathways of course
approval, course assessment,
so that the quality of online
courses are as good or
better than face-to-face
classes, said Professor Mike
Williams, who is also the
co-director of the online
education committee.
Te KU Center for Online
and Distance Learning will
start to transform face-to-face
classes into online-friendly
classes by helping faculty
members build an online
course and running it through
a quality-check program,
which can simulate what parts
of the course will be successful
learning tools and what wont
be.
Its more about becoming
more efective in how we teach
and how to be more efective
in creating an environment
where learning can actually
happen, Williams said. It
speaks to the understanding
that our teachers are trying
to fnd the best ways possible
to facilitate learning, in other
words fnding ways to make it
easier, more efcient.
Assuring the quality of
online classes means students
get the same education with
the added beneft of fexibility,
said Sara Rosen, KU vice
provost for academic afairs.
Williams agreed, saying that
he feels one of the benefts
of online learning is that
the courses can be more
interactive and get more
students involved.
Te outside-of-class contact
that I have, I tend to have more
contact with more students,
Williams said. Tere is almost
a bit more civility to [online
classes] than in a classroom
and more students share their
ideas.
However, Williams
cautioned that students who
sign up for online classes
should be aware of their
time-management skills and
maturity level because online
classes require more focus.
Despite this challenge,
there were around 51 courses
designed through the Center
for Online and Distance
Learning in 2013.
[Te CODL] can work with
[faculty] to fgure out how to
bring this material into an
online space, in an engaging
space, in a way that students
can respond to, Rosen said.
Te University is moving
toward a variety of hybrid
courses, which integrate online
and face-to-face components.
Also, the University will
ofer fipped courses, where
preparation is done outside
of class and students use class
time for active learning, like
group work.
I think it helps us be
progressive in that we are
responding to the student
population needs, Rosen said.
It allows us to be more global,
be more mobile. It allows us to
work with students where they
are.
Tis expansion of online
courses coincides with how
the University is changing to
a more outcome- and goals-
based learning style, rather
than a course-based system.
Rosen said due to this change,
the University will continue
to explore the role of online
classes in education.
We really have to think about
whether degree programs are a
set of competencies or a set of
learning experiences, Rosen
said.
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FUTURE OF ONLINE EDUCATION
Rosen hopes that online education
will lead to lengthier study abroad
opportunities.
The School of Education has
partnered with Everspring to market
online courses to students outside
of the University, as well as those
in the program.
The School of Journalism has
started to offer online intersession
classes during winter break.

There needs to be clear

parallel pathways of course
approval, course assess-
ment...
MIKE WILLIAMS
University professor
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for our staf to work with
students, Brumfeld said.
Although the new system
for course scheduling
allows for more efcient
communication between
the registrar and academic
departments, scheduling
conficts may still occur.
Marcia Powers, a research
analyst at the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences,
said that most of the conficts
that exist between majors
concern the hard sciences.
Tese conficts especially
occur between the CLAS and
the School of Engineering.
Powers said that the
scheduling between these
two units is something that
has evolved historically, and
said that student complaints
in scheduling are what bring
about scheduling changes.
If there happens to be
something where there is
a confict one semester,
it never happens again,
Powers said. But we really
change things with very little
frequency because there is
sort of a complex web there.
It has to do with things that
confict. It has to do with
lecture hall size, labs, math
class availability. Its pretty
complex.
Edited by Alec Weaver
ENROLL FROM PAGE 1

It has to do with lecture

hall size, labs, math class
availability. Its pretty
complex.
MARCIA POWERS
Research analyst
HEALTH
School conrms
6th-graders death from
meningitis
LOUISBURG, Kan. A Kansas
sixth-grader has died from com-
plications of bacterial meningi-
tis, but his school district and
state health ofcials insist the
disease is not contagious and
does not pose a public health
risk.
The Kansas City Star reports
the Louisburg Unied School
District on Wednesday conrmed
the death of Aaron T. Willard a
day earlier. The district said in
a statement it was providing
counselors for students and staff
members who need them.
Kansas state epidemiologist
Charlie Hunt says the Kansas
Department of Health and Envi-
ronment has not recommended
taking any preventative actions
in regard to Aarons death.
Hunt says bacterial infections
causing meningitis typically oc-
cur in household or dormitory set-
tings where there is close person-
al contact with someone carrying
the bacteria, but not so much in
general classroom settings.
Associated Press
Spurred by the possibility
of a University policy that
could reduce their work
hours, graduate students held
a meeting on Wednesday to
discuss reviving membership
in a union already in place at
the University.
Te meeting of about
20 students from various
departments focused on
recruiting members to join the
Graduate Teaching Assistants
Coalition, a union representing
graduate student employees
that has been under contract
with the University since 1997.
Te union was active until the
mid-2000s when membership
eventually dissolved, leaving
the organization with no
members but still technically
representing graduate student
employees.
If youre a teaching
assistant, you sign a form that
says, Te union agrees to
this, so that sort of gives you
the idea that there is a union,
but theres nobody there, said
Laurie Petty, a Ph.D. student in
sociology who helped organize
the meeting. It was essentially
defunct, but were still bound
by the contract from when the
union was active.
Petty said the main goal
of the meeting was to begin
rebuilding membership and
leadership for the union on
campus and making sure the
representation for workers is
up-to-date again.
We need to recruit
membership and reconstitute
ourselves essentially as GTAC,
and we can move forward
from there to address concerns
and changes that are afecting
us now as opposed to ten years
ago, Petty said. Were just
trying to give students a voice
in things that afect them.
An email from the University
of Kansas Policy Library
leaked last month, detailing
a policy that could cut the
maximum hours graduate
students are allowed to work
for the University from 30
hours per week to 20 in order
to comply with the Afordable
Care Act. Since then, hundreds
of graduate students signed a
petition asking the University
to not cut their hours,
prompting a reply from the
University promising forums
and discussion on the issue
going forward.
If a policy were to be
implemented cutting graduate
student employee hours, in
order to fle a grievance, the
union would need to fnd the
University in violation of an
article in the contract, but no
article currently pertains to
the hours worked by graduate
students.
Rachel Craf, an organizer
of the meeting and a Ph.D.
student in Sociology, said the
idea for reviving the union
had been around for a while,
but the leaking of the policy
idea served as a catalyst for
reorganizing the union.
I think theres been some
discussion among graduate
students for a while, Craf
said. We did notice our GTA
contracts started becoming
more stagnate, because my
frst couple years as a GTA we
experienced some mediocre
increases in our wages, but
Ive noticed thats stagnated in
the past few years, so its small
issues like that and some of the
issues that we face in our day-
to-day lives that have started
those discussions, but I think
now is an important time to
formally get involved and
make things happen.
Craf and fellow sociology
Ph.D. student Adrianne
Showalter Matlock began
sending emails in the days afer
learning of the policy proposal,
contacting graduate students
in various departments to set
up a meeting discussing the
union. Showalter Matlock said
that even though the potential
cut in hours helped kick-start
the discussion, one of the main
reasons for the meeting was to
begin to create a unifed voice
for graduate students.
Tis meeting is just for
graduate students to come
and get information about
proposed policy changes, and
to discuss ways we can work
as a graduate student body
to represent ourselves when
important policies are going to
be put in place or considered
that afect us too, Showalter
Matlock said.
At the meeting, students
also discussed rewriting the
bylaws of the union to bring
them up to date, and they
hope to have enough structure
in place to table and recruit
more members at the graduate
student orientation in the fall.
Te students also began
planning for a Union 101
informational meeting with
representatives from the
GTAC, tentatively set for
April 30. More information on
future events and meetings can
be found on the KU Graduate
Student Facebook page.
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Do Jewish to protest
WBC in Leawood
Some University students will
gather for a peaceful count-
er-protest on Friday in front of
Westboro Baptist Church pick-
eters at the funeral for two of
the men killed at the Jewish
Community Center Sunday.
After WBC announced it
would picket the funeral in
Leawood, senior Alex Brown
and other students created
a Facebook event page, The
Do Jewish Movement. Be-
tween its creation on Sunday
and Wednesday afternoon, the
event had 215 participants.
Brown said he created the
page because he and his
friends couldnt sleep on Sat-
urday night, and they wanted
to do something. He said they
wanted to get the page up be-
fore Passover started on Mon-
day so Jewish families could
keep it in their prayers during
this week of prayer.
Brown said the Facebook
group reminds people that not
only Jewish people are being
targeted and hurt.
Selsh people who act on
their hatred affect more than
the actual group targeted,
Brown said.
Brown said support for the
counter-protest is welcome
from all denominations.
Kayla Soper
STATE
POLICY
Neb. governor signs water sustainability bill
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LINCOLN, Neb. Gov.
Dave Heineman signed a bill
Wednesday designed to help
Nebraska prepare for foods,
water shortages and water
quality problems.
Budget bills approved this
year are expected to generate
$32 million to help pay for
projects related to water
management and quality, food
control, and compliance with
interstate compacts by mid-
2015. Afer that, the measure
will provide about $11 million
annually.
Te bill by Sen. Tom Carlson,
of Holdrege, comes in the
midst of recent drought years
and legal fghts with Kansas
over access to the Republican
River, which runs through
southern Nebraska.
Tis is a difcult and
challenging issue, and this
legislation is aimed at planning
for better future water use in
our state, Heineman said. ...
Preserving and managing our
water resources is important
to Nebraskans, especially
those who work in our No. 1
industry agriculture.
Te law will also expand
the Natural Resources
Commission, from 16
members to 27, to ensure
that more major water users
are represented. Te new
commission would include
irrigators, cities, public
power districts and wildlife
conservation groups.
Carlson, a Republican
candidate for governor, said
the commission was expanded
to include people from
diferent backgrounds and
diferent interests in the states
water supply.
I believe that (the measure)
will be remembered as a
bill that helped make water
sustainability a possibility for
generations to come, he said.
Sen. Mark Christensen of
Imperial said the law will
provide water projects with a
steady source of state money,
matched by local government
dollars. Christensen said it
also will force ground water
and surface water users to
work together, despite their
past conficts over the limited
water supply.
For too many years now,
weve been on opposite sides of
the fence, fghting rather than
working together, he said.
Carlson and Christensen
represent large areas of
southern Nebraska, including
parts of the Republican River
basin. Water usage in the
basin is driven heavily by the
Republican River compact, an
agreement between Nebraska,
Kansas and Colorado. Te
1943 compact requires
Nebraska to send some of its
water downstream to Kansas,
but the two states have battled
over the river for years in a
series of lawsuits.

I believe that (the measure)

will be remembered as a
bill that helped make water
sustainability a possibility
for generations to come.
TOM CARLSON
Nebraska senator
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In this Jan. 15, 2014 le photo, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman delivers
a speech in Lincoln, Neb. On Wednesday, Gov. Heineman said he was
pleased with the tax-cut bills approved by lawmakers.
S
en. Robert Olson,
a Republican from
Olathe, was recently
quoted in the Wichita
Eagle saying, When I drive
through western Kansas and
see these wind turbines, it
just puts my heart out, to see
that beautiful land with all
them turbines, some of them
turning, some of them not.
Te comment was made
in response to the Senate
vote on March 25 to repeal
Kansas Renewable Portfolio
Standard (RPS). A couple of
things came to mind afer
I read this quote. First, this
guy knows exactly how I feel
when I see the smoke stacks
of the Lawrence Energy
Center from the windows of
the KU Memorial Union and
second, if the House votes
down this repeal I would be
both shocked and impressed.
Here I sit, shocked and
impressed. On March 26,
just one day afer the Senate
voted to repeal the 2009 RPS,
which requires all Kansas
utility companies to provide
20 percent renewable energy
by 2020, the Kansas House
voted down the repeal
44-77. Te bill was pushed
by a Heartland Institute
(a famously conservative
think tank funded by the
Koch brothers and known
for its eforts to debunk
anthropogenic climate
change) analysis that named
the renewable energy
mandate as the cause of
increased utility rates in
Kansas. Watchdog groups
and some Kansas decision-
makers have since debunked
this claim, naming increased
federal controls on coal
pollution as the culprit.
Meanwhile, the House saved
Gov. Brownback from either
approving a bill that goes
against his pro-wind stance,
or vetoing the bill and
royally ticking of members
of his own party.
Te move by the Kansas
House is important for
many reasons. First, RPS
has pushed the demand
for energy in an otherwise
coal-dominated market.
Te subsequent boom in
construction of wind farms
brought roughly 4,000
jobs to Kansas and 2,713
megawatts of electricity.
Tats enough energy to
power 800,000 residences,
according to a 2013 article in
the Kansas City Star. Second,
if RPS were repealed, Kansas
would more than likely lose
its rank as the ninth largest
supplier of wind energy in
the country. Tat ranking,
coupled with our superior
terrain for wind capture is
what makes us appealing
to wind companies. Tird,
the decision to protect RPS
protects us from further
ridicule as a backward
state, moving the opposite
direction as the rest of
the country in social and
environmental issues.
Essentially, we showed the
nation that we are here to
play ball in the renewable
energy industry.
Tat being said, I will
not fail to mention that
the majority of our power
in Kansas still comes from
coal-fred power plants.
According to the U.S. Energy
Information Administration,
61 percent of our electricity
generation comes from coal-
fred power plants, which
account for 31,692,844
metric tons of carbon
dioxide emissions. As a state
we have made a progressive
step toward sustainability
but we need to take more.
Because we are the newly
dubbed Saudi Arabia of
wind energy, we must focus
on what our landscape
has given us, rather than
exploiting the coal and
natural gas that lies beneath.
Gabrielle Murnan is a
sophomore from Pittsburg
studying environmental studies.
I
n my everyday life I
try to always live by
the notion that there
are no dumb questions.
Sometimes, though, thats
just too hard to do. You
see, in certain instances
there are questions that
are inappropriate or rude
to ask. In other instances,
there are questions that
are just plain thoughtless.
Regardless, most awkward
situations can be avoided
if one stops to think for a
moment.
Heres an example. I have
unilateral coloboma, an
unusual deformity of the
eye that I have had since
birth. It can cause a lot of
horrible side efects, but in
my case, the only negative
thing it really causes is a
key-hole shaped pupil and
slight vision impairment.
Basically, if both eyes were
like my afected eye, Id
need glasses. Te other
consequence of the pupil
being abnormally shaped
is that my unafected eye is
blue while the afected eye
is green.
Its natural that people
are curious about my
eyes, as theyre pretty
unusual. Ive never met
someone else who has
coloboma or eyes that are
two diferent colors, so
Im not surprised when
friends and acquaintances
have questions. I always
prefer someone ask
questions directly than
gossip with others when
Im not around. I dont
even have an expectation
of people being politically
correct when they ask
about my eye. As long as
their intention is good and
their words are thought
through, I dont really
mind answering. However,
there has always been
an interesting tendency
for people to forget the
second part to act as
if thinking through your
question before asking isnt
important.
I remember adults
coming up to my mom and
I when I was a kid, and
afer seeing my eyes, the
adults would ask questions
like Whats wrong with her
eye? and Why is her eye
so weird? I was certainly
old enough to understand
them, and my mom
frequently had to remind
them that my vision was
impaired, not my hearing.
Kids would tease me at
school for having a freaky
eye or a cat eye. Even
now, at college, people
notice my eyes and ask
some pretty uncomfortable,
loud questions.
Te thing is, I dont
mind awkward questions,
I mind stupid questions.
One friend confessed that
they had wondered about
my eye since we met two
years ago, but they didnt
want to ask about it and
ofend me. Tats not what
I want, and I dont think its
what anyone really wants.
Having an open dialogue
is the only way to really
understand something new.
More than anything, I want
my friends to all notice
and ask about my eye
so that they wont spend
years of our lives together
wondering.
However, I also want
people to stop and think
for a moment before
asking. Te most common
question I am asked about
my eye is Did you know
your eyes are two diferent
colors? It takes all of my
strength not to roll my
eyes and reply, Wow, if
only Id looked in a mirror
before now! Ive been
asked worse than that,
though. Ive had people
Ive never spoken to stop
me in a crowd and start
the conversation with,
Woah, look at her eyes!
as they glance at all their
friends. Ive had a woman
ask me about my eyes, and
afer I told her, say she was
curious since coloboma
was a trait she breeds out of
her dogs. Wow, thanks.
What Im really getting at
here is that we are adults.
We are educated college
students, and we know how
to ask a proper question. I
dont mind when a 6-year-
old stops me and asks me
if I know that my eyes are
weird, but I defnitely
mind if a classmate of
mine stops and asks the
same question. Questions
are an important step to
understanding. Just be
sure when you open your
mouth to ask a question,
that its a question worth
asking. Sometimes, it really
is what you say, not how
you say it.
Anna Wenner is a junior
from Topeka studying English
and history.
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2014 PAGE 4
To the fratter that pees outside the
schol halls: we are like a Shake-
spearean theater, if we dont like
your performance, we throw food.
I got to the 4096 tile ve times.
Get on my level.
I really want to be an astronaut,
but just so I can call up every girl
Ive dated to make them upset that
they broke up with an astronaut.
Seriously, KU, invest in more buses
for the 36 route. I live all the way
across town and dont want to
have to wait 30 minutes every time
my professor talks an extra 12
seconds.
Did people at the UDK get
bullied by professors to make the
crossword harder to fold and do
in class?
To set the record straight, park and
ride only stops on Daisy Hill from
7:00-8:00 in the morning, and
from 5:30-10:30 at night.
Get rid of shampoo? This is why
hippies always smell funny.
Are tomatoes really vital to the
integrity of a crunchy chicken
cheddar wrap? NO. #nomoretoma-
toesplease
In all seriousness what is a
Nerdghter group? Nerds that ght
each other? Or normal people that
ght nerds?
$3.50 crunchy chicken cheddar
wraps are what dreams are made
of.
Is it possible to overdose on cough
drops?
The only person I ever pocket dial
is 911.
To put down the Nutella and stop
watching OTH and go to class ... Or
to keep eating Nutella and watch-
ing OTH. That is the question.
F*** you parking department! I
hope you are ready to count 2500
pennies.
To the urinator: Touch. Ill bring
my camera.
To the dude who pees on schol
halls: only poor performers perform
for free.
Did anyone else see the unattend-
ed, empty white van sitting on the
sidewalk by Fraser with the sliding
door open? It was like a postcard
for the word sketchy.
Not to worrry dear students, they
take the ags down when its really
windy. Theyll be back soon.
ANYWHERE YOU GO LET ME GO
TOO! CHRISTINE, THATS ALL I ASK
OF YOU!
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@m2marcus
@KansanOpinion If the wind from
today wasnt enough to convince
you, then I think you should see a
doctor.
@Ben_Samson
@KansanOpinion if by focusing on
wind energy you mean harvesting
methane from my roommates atro-
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Think before you speak:
questions can be dumb
C
an Twitter be an
artistic medium for
literature? Twitter has
been around for a while now,
and those that joined early
have seen it grow and mature
(or become less mature,
depending on your opinion).
Twitter has progressed from
mundane status updates to
celebrity accounts to news.
Users have continued to
innovate, from the comedy
of @robdelaney to the non
sequitur of @Horse_ebooks.
Despite the restrictive 140
character limit (or possibly
thanks to it), the range of
creativity that spans Twitter
is enormous. Recently Teju
Cole (@tejucole) has pushed
the boundaries of literature
by publishing two works via
Twitter.
Te frst began on January
8 with a retweet: . . . to the
subway, I saw a man on
the ground. He sat on the
sidewalk, under trees, with
his feet out to the quiet street.
Over time the story, entitled
Hafz, developed tweet
by tweet from seemingly
unconnected accounts. Te
tweets were collected into a
coherent narrative by retweets
on Tejus feed, while each
contributor drew readers to
the story with their out-of-the
ordinary narrative fragments.
Te second is a nonfction
piece entitled A Piece of
the Wall, which documents
Tejus observations and
conversations with people
concerning immigration
in Nogales, Arizona on the
Mexican-American border.
Specifc accounts were
made for each character to
handle dialogue, and Coles
photography was interspersed
throughout to accentuate the
narrative.
What is remarkably
innovative about these two
pieces is that Cole could have
just as easily published them
in a medium like Te New
Yorker, but he chose to use
Twitter, forgoing the monetary
compensation that would
have come with publishing
elsewhere. Making these
items available on Twitter
fundamentally changed their
audience. Where before,
the pieces would have been
read by a given publications
subscribersmost likely
predominantly middle class
and highly literateinstead
anyone who is drawn into the
narrative by a (re)tweet can
read.
Besides the merit of the
writing itself (and I urge
you to read both; they are
excellent), I think that
these works are worthwhile
because of the statement
that Cole is making about
the universality of art and
literature. By making them
widely accessible, he wishes
to connect with as many
readers as possible: A lot of
the people I want to be read
by, a lot of the people I want
to speak to, are not people
who have subscriptions to Te
New Yorker or Te New York
Times, so its important for
me to speak to them in this
way also (NPR Interview).
Te theme that I return to
time and again in my columns
is how literature can speak
to you, and Teju is at the
forefront of fnding new
ways to do so. Get out there
and read something you can
connect to.
Jason Bates is a senior from
Overland Park studying chemical
engineering.
LITERATURE
Literature on Twitter
pushes boundaries
By Anna Wenner
opinion@kansan.com
By Gabrielle Murnan
opinion@kansan.com
By Jason Bates
opinion@kansan.com
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RUNAWAY
In 2010, Kanye West
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Fantasy, to much critical
acclaim. West also made a
short flm to accompany the
album, entitled Runaway.
Te flm features the ofcial
music video for Wests single
of the same name. West faunts
his artistic chops with the
video as it features over the top
imagery and heavy metaphors.
Tere were several videos from
My Beautiful Dark Twisted
Fantasy, but the Runaway
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BEST VIDEO OF 2011: TYLER, THE
CREATOR YONKERS
2011 was a breakout year for
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Te video is very minimalistic,
the only things in the video
are Tyler, a stool, a noose and
a cockroach. Even though
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and Tylers performance in
the video matches that. In
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crazy things such as eating
the cockroach and hanging
himself at the end. Te video
was shocking when it debuted
but its undoubtedly one of
the best videos of the past
fve years. Without this video,
Tyler may not have the success
he enjoys today.
BEST VIDEO OF 2012: TAME
IMPALA FEELS LIKE WE ONLY GO
BACKWARDS
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its second studio album
Lonerism. One of the
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is Feels Like We Only Go
Backward, and the video
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of the song and theres not a
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BEST VIDEO OF 2013: BOB DYLAN
LIKE A ROLLING STONE
Afer nearly 50 years, Bob
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Rolling Stone fnally got an
ofcial video last year. Even
though the song is old, the
video is innovative. Te video
is interactive and allows
viewers to peruse a variety
of television channels with
several television personalities
lip-syncing the song. Te
video features rapper Danny
Brown, comedian Marc
Maron, ESPNs Steve Levy and
others. Tere has never been a
music video like this and its a
treat to watch.
BEST VIDEO OF 2014 (SO FAR): DJ
SNAKE TURN DOWN FOR WHAT
(FEAT. LIL JON)
We still have about eight
months of 2014 lef and over
the past few months a lot
of great videos have been
released, but theres one video
that stands out among all of
them. Tat video is DJ Snake
& Lil Jons club anthem Turn
Down for What. Tis video
is perhaps one of the craziest
things youll ever see. Tere
are things in this video that
you might have thought youd
never see. For example, a police
ofcers face melts of because
he presumably couldnt handle
the turn up. Te video is
incredibly entertaining and
you wont be able to take your
eyes of of the screen.
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Transcendence draws
parallels with Her
Transcendence is Her
for dummies a romance
between a woman and a
machine for people who care
more about technology, pixels
and special efects than, you
know, the things in life that
matter.
Te movie marks the debut
of cinematographer Wally
Pfster, a frequent Christopher
Nolan collaborator, and you
can picture him sitting at
home at Oscar night, shaking
his fsts and yelling at the TV
when Spike Jonze won the Best
Original Screenplay award for
Her. Judging by the size and
scope of the movie, Pfster
probably started working on
his flm frst. But there are
too many similarities not to
compare the two pictures, and
there isnt a single instance in
which Pfster comes out top,
aside from the number of shots
of Johnny Depp speaking into
a futuristic Skype camera.
Why pay the notoriously
costly actor his typically
enormous salary when hes
barely in the movie? Tat
could be Max Headroom
macking on Katherine Heigl
up there and you wouldnt
notice the diference. Heigl
would have probably snuck
in a couple of cute pratfalls,
though, or a scene where she
grabs a cord and asks Where
does this go? while holding it
comically near her face.
Te premise of
Transcendence (which was
written by Jack Paglen, who
should invest his paycheck
wisely) follows what happens
when the terminally ill
Depp comes up with a
groundbreaking idea to plug
himself into a mammoth
computer an enormous,
sentient machine with
advanced artifcial intelligence
and see if he can continue
to live virtually when his body
dies on him. His wife and loyal
partner (Rebecca Hall) goes
along with the plan, if only for
the possibility of not losing
her husband. As FBI / NSA
agents, Morgan Freeman and
Cillian Murphy see nothing
wrong with this idea, even
if Depp would gain instant
control of every computer and
smart device on the planet if
he succeeds. Hey, whats a little
God complex between friends,
right?
Only two people in the
movie seem to have any
common sense at all: Paul
Bettany, as another of Depps
fellow scientists, who isnt
too sure this whole lets-give-
Depp-control-of-the-planet
enterprise is a good idea, and
Kate Mara (as driven here as
she is on House of Cards),
who is part of a terrorist
organization plotting to pull
the plug on this bunch of not-
so-bright brainiacs.
Transcendence is flled
with preposterous, you-gotta-
be-kidding-me story elements
you cant stop to think about,
or else youll start craving a
trip to the concession stand
anything to stave of the
boredom. (Wouldnt the
government notice a gigantic
solar-powered laboratory
the size of a university seems
to have popped up in a
dusty town like a weed?) As
Depps powers grows, his
performance becomes more
and more HAL-like (still the
grandmaster of evil machines),
and afer he starts seizing
physical control of people and
gives them super-strength, I
kept waiting for him to pull of
a toupee and break out with a
Dr. Evil laugh.
For all its improbabilities,
Her explored the intricacies
of romantic relationship and
how much they hurt when
they end while giving you
plenty of neat eye-candy.
Transcendence is a movie
that, aside from a few scene
where hes seen walking
around in a suit, Depp could
have shot in his living room
while instant-messaging his
agent about the next Pirates
of the Caribbean movie.
Tat prospect, torturous as it
sounds, is a better alternative
than this.
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MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
From left, Johnny Depp as Will Caster, Rebecca Hall as Evelyn Caster, and Paul Bettany as Max Waters in Alcon
Entertainments sci- thriller Transcendence, a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
TELEVISION
WGN America has high
expectations for Salem
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
SHREVEPORT, La. A
woodsy stretch of Willow
Lake Farm, just outside this
city, has been painstakingly
built to look like a 17th
century New England village,
flled with shops and houses
with steep-pitched roofs and
drab clapboard exteriors.
Milling about nearby are
women in elaborate capes
and cinched dresses, and
men clad in peasant shirts
and heavy coats.
Its all textbook quaint
until you see the towering
gallows at the center of town.
Tis is the setting for
Salem, the new TV
series from Tribune Co.s
WGN America set in the
Massachusetts village that
was the scene of notorious
Colonial witch trials.
Te show itself will be a trial
of sorts for WGN America.
With Salem, the Chicago
network _ best known for
showing Chicago Cubs
baseball games and sitcom
reruns _ is entering the
increasingly crowded feld of
original content. Te hope
is the new programs can lif
WGN America from being
largely a regional player to
a top-tier national cable
channel.
Te new show will run
Sundays, the most hotly
contested night in television
because of shows such as
HBOs Game of Trones,
CBSs Te Good Wife and
AMCs Mad Men. Salem
must also stand out from a
host of other programs with
the supernatural or witches at
their narrative center.
All this is not lost on Peter
Liguori, the chief executive
of Tribune Co. (which also
owns the Los Angeles Times).
Liguori says Salem, which
premieres April 20 at 10
p.m., is simply the opening
act in transforming the
struggling media company
into a proftable TV-centric
enterprise.
Tis is Step One, Liguori
said. We are by far and away
no FX. We are no AMC. We
are no HBO.
But Liguori, a veteran
entertainment executive who
oversaw programming at Fox
and FX, said WGN America
has potential because
of the quality of its new
programming and Tribunes
media muscle. Te company
is one of the largest television
station owners in the country,
with nearly 40 stations,
including WGN America,
and it can reach more than
70 million homes through
cable providers and satellite
services such as DirecTV.
Its got tremendous upside,
he said. Its prime real estate.
Te company has more
than witches waiting in
the wings. Other original
scripted series ordered by
WGN America include
Manhattan, a period piece
set in Los Alamos, N.M., that
dramatizes the Manhattan
Project scientists racing to
build the frst atomic bomb.
Te network also will
present another version of
Te Ten Commandments.
Te 10-part miniseries
boasts high-profle actors
and flmmakers _ including
Michael Cera, Wes Craven,
Lee Daniels, Jim Sheridan
and Gus Van Sant _ each
directing an installment.
Both Salem and
Manhattan were ordered
straight to series with 13
episodes each. Although
increasingly common in
the ferce competition for
original programming,
straight-to-order series carry
risks because executives dont
have a pilot to review. Tats
ofen where weaknesses in
the plot or the characters are
identifed and corrected
before the show airs.
Media analysts say the
move may be risky, but it
is necessary for Tribune
Co., which is poised to spin
of its newspaper holdings
later this year and is still
recovering from a four-
year stretch in bankruptcy
reorganization it emerged
from in 2012. Without
original programming, a
network cannot expect to
grow fnancially, they say.
Tey are now in a forward-
looking mode, as opposed
to maintaining status quo,
said Bill Carroll, an analyst
at Katz Television Group,
which advises companies on
TV advertising. Te risk
is balanced by the potential
reward. Salem sets the
foundation.
In another move to
bolster revenue, the
company also recently
relaunched L.A.-based
Tribune Studios to develop
original programming for
its own network and local
stations owned by Tribune
Broadcasting.
Last month, WGN America
joined the annual stampede
to the cable upfront market,
where networks unveil their
new programming lineups
for advertisers in hopes of
corralling big dollars.
Its too early to know how
Tribune performed, but
upfront sales for cable have
steadily risen for years as
networks scramble to beef
up their stock of original
programming. In 2013-
14, ad-supported cable
networks generated a record
$10.2 billion in advertising
commitments, surpassing the
$9.15 billion in sales for the
broadcast networks.
AMCs zombie apocalypse
tale, Te Walking Dead,
routinely outperformed its
scripted cousins on broadcast
networks. HBOs fourth-
season premiere of sword-
and-dragon fantasy Game
of Trones drew so many
viewers that its streaming
service was overloaded and
shut down.
Salem places a twist on
the infamous Massachusetts
trials. Te supernatural
drama posits there was good
reason for the hysteria: Te
witches were real and they
were running the trials.
Knowing that the horror
drama and supernatural
drama is a genre thats
thriving and the audience
seems to have an appetite for
is important because it can
do some of the heavy lifing
for us in terms of drawing
audience to the network,
said Matt Cherniss, president
and general manager of
WGN America and Tribune
Studios.

The risk is balanced by the

potential reward. Salem
sets the foundation.
BILL CARROLL
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Suspect found guilty in 4
Omaha shooting deaths
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OMAHA, Neb. A
Nebraska man described by
one prison psychiatrist as a
psychopath and one of the
most dangerous people the
doctor had ever evaluated
was found guilty Wednesday
of four counts of frst-degree
murder in the shooting deaths
of four Omaha people last
summer.
Nikko Jenkins, 27, who is
representing himself, fled a
handwritten motion to the
Douglas County District
Court last week stating his
intention to plead guilty to
all felony counts against him.
But on Wednesday, he pleaded
no contest to the murder
counts, eight weapons counts
associated with the killings
and two separate counts of
being a felon with a gun.
Judge Peter Bataillon found
him guilty of all charges.
A no-contest plea
acknowledges there is
sufcient evidence to convict
but is not an admittance of
guilt.
Prosecutors say Jenkins
shot Juan Uribe-Pena, Jorge
Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford
and Andrea Kruger in three
separate ambushes over 10
days last summer afer his July
30 release from prison without
supervision.
While prosecutors say that
Jenkins planned the killings
to cover up robberies of the
victims or to keep them from
identifying him, Jenkins
insisted he did not remember
killing anyone, only that
an Egyptian god named
Ahpophis ordered him in a
foreign language to kill the
four as human sacrifces.
Dr. Eugene Oliveto, who
serves as a psychiatrist
for the prison system in
Douglas County, testifed in a
February hearing on Jenkins
competency that Jenkins was
a psychopath and one of the
most dangerous people I have
ever evaluated.
Bataillon found Jenkins
competent to stand trial.
Jenkins had fipped between
expressing his guilt and
declaring his innocence
since being charged with the
killings in September. Afer
initially pleading not guilty, he
declared in November that he
wanted to plead guilty. He had
changed his mind again by late
January, saying he is mentally
ill and should be released from
jail.
During a contentious two-
hour hearing in which Jenkins
cursed and attempted to
introduce various arguments
rejected by the judge, he said
Wednesday that he wanted
to plead guilty because he
believes his constitutional
rights are being violated and
that he cant get a fair trial in
state court. Te judge later let
him plead no contest to the
charges.
Jenkins had tried to plead
no contest to all the charges
earlier this month, but the
judge refused to accept the
plea because of the severity of
the charges.
Te judge later allowed
Jenkins to plead no contest
to the murder counts, as
well, when Jenkins denied
prosecutors version of how
Jenkins carried out the fatal
shootings.
My problem is, he disagrees
with your factual analysis of
the case, Bataillon said to
Douglas County Attorney
Don Kleine, in explaining why
he could not accept Jenkins
guilty pleas to the murder
counts. Hes not admitting to
anything.
Police say Jenkins used a
sawed-of 12-gauge shotgun
loaded with deer slugs Aug. 11
to kill Cajiga-Ruiz and Uribe-
Pena, whose bodies were
found inside a pickup truck
in southeast Omaha. Eight
days later, he used a small-
caliber gun to kill Bradford, a
one-time prison acquaintance.
Ten, on Aug. 21, police say,
Jenkins pulled Andrea Kruger
from her SUV as she drove
home from work and shot her
four times before speeding of
in her vehicle.
Prosecutors said Wednesday
they will still seek the death
penalty for Jenkins, who
waived his right to a jury trial
on the question of whether
he should be put to death or
sentenced to life in prison
without parole. A three-judge
panel will instead decide his
fate.
Kleine said he doesnt know
of a Nebraska case in which
a person has been executed
afer pleading no contest
to frst-degree murder, but
said Jenkins is not the frst
defendant to plead no contest
and be convicted of frst-
degree murder.
Jenkins release from
prison is one of several that
have prompted the state to
reconsider its supervised
release programs.
He had threatened violence
while incarcerated and
begged corrections ofcials
to commit him to a mental
health institution. A state
ombudsmans report released
in January faulted the
department for its handling of
the case.
Two bills introduced by Sen.
Brad Ashford of Omaha on
the topic were passed by the
Nebraska Legislature this year
and are awaiting the governors
approval. One would provide
more supervision for former
inmates and another would
create programs that help them
transition back to society.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nikko Jenkins, charged with four counts of rst-degree murder in the slayings of four Omaha people last
summer, is led to court by a Douglas County deputy in Omaha, Neb., on Wednesday. Jenkins was found guilty on
all charges.

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the case. Hes not admitting
to anything.
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Detroit still needs $350M
from state lawmakers
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DETROIT Pressure
was building Wednesday
for Michigan lawmakers
to commit $350 million to
Detroit pensions, a day afer
the city reached tentative
agreements with pension
funds and a retiree group to
reduce payouts.
Te city has an $816 million
pledge from foundations,
philanthropists and Gov. Rick
Snyder to shore up pension
funds and prevent the sale
of city-owned art as part of
Detroits strategy for exiting
the largest public bankruptcy
in U.S. history.
But the states share still
hasnt been nailed down,
and some in the Republican-
controlled Legislature arent
sold yet.
Its not going to be
easy because its so easily
demagogued, said House
Speaker Jase Bolger,
R-Marshall, who supports
the plan. Tere will be an
important balance between
ensuring Detroits success on
the positive side and ensuring
Detroit doesnt lapse back
into trouble on the cautionary
side.
Retired police ofcers and
frefghters would see smaller
cost-of-living payments but no
cut in pension benefts under
a deal announced Tuesday.
Detroits other retirees, who
have smaller pensions, would
get a 4.5 percent cut and
elimination of yearly infation
allowances under a separate
compromise.
Retirees and city employees
who qualify for a pension will
get a ballot in a few weeks. If
they dont support the plan,
the $816 million vanishes
and deeper pension cuts are
inevitable, Detroit emergency
manager Kevyn Orr warned.
Bolger said the citys unions
should put money in the pot
and not just in the form of
concessions from members.
Tey have profted from
these contracts. Tey have
collected union dues. Tey
should step forward and join
in mitigating the efects of the
bankruptcy, he said.
State aid for Detroit is
tricky for the Republican
governor and lawmakers
who are uncomfortable with
talk of a bailout. Some
legislators are worried about
the rescue setting a precedent
if other cities collapse. Draf
legislation is in the works; the
money could be diverted from
tobacco settlement funds that
Michigan receives each year or
come from securitizing future
payments to get a lump sum
up front.
One potential advantage for
Snyder is that southeastern
Michigan is home to many
lawmakers who want to see the
city turn a page. Nearly fve of
every 10 lawmakers represent
parts of Wayne, Oakland
or Macomb counties. City
retirees at risk of signifcant
pension cuts without state
aid also live in many of those
districts.
But lawmakers outside the
region say their constituents
have other priorities, such as
better roads and schools.
Snyder, Bolger and other
leaders in the Capitol are
hoping to persuade them that
Michigans long-term health is
related to a healthier Detroit.
Te House returns Tursday,
while the Senate is back in
session next week.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this Oct. 23, 2013 le photo, Dennis Marton walks with protesters at a rally outside The Theodore Levin United
States Courthouse in Detroit. The city of Detroit reached tentative agreements to preserve pensions for retired
police ofce and reghters but cut monthly payments for other former employees, ofcials said Tuesday.
POLICY
Federal judge overturns
6-week abortion ban
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BISMARCK, N.D. A
federal judge on Wednesday
overturned a North Dakota
law that bans abortions
when a fetal heartbeat can
be detected, which can
be as early as six weeks
into pregnancy and before
many women know theyre
pregnant.
U.S. District Judge
Daniel Hovland said
the law is invalid and
unconstitutional and that
it cannot withstand a
constitutional challenge. Te
state attorney general said he
was looking at whether to
appeal the decision by the
Bismarck-based judge.
North Dakota is among
several conservative states
that have passed new
abortion restrictions in recent
years, but abortion rights
supporters called North
Dakotas fetal heartbeat law
the most restrictive in the
country. A fetal heartbeat
law passed in Arkansas
would ban abortions at 12
weeks into pregnancy, but it
was overturned by another
federal judge. Te states
attorney general has said he
will appeal.
North Dakotas heartbeat
measure was among four anti-
abortion bills that Republican
Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed
into law last year with
overwhelming support from
the states Republican-led
Legislature. Backed by the
New York-based Center for
Reproductive Rights, the
states only abortion clinic,
the Red River Clinic in Fargo,
fled a lawsuit against the
heartbeat law last July.
Te United States Supreme
Court has spoken and has
unequivocally said no state
may deprive a woman of
the choice to terminate her
pregnancy at a point prior to
viability, Hovland wrote in
his ruling. Te controversy
over a womans right to
choose to have an abortion
will never end. Te issue is
undoubtedly one of the most
divisive of social issues. Te
United States Supreme Court
will eventually weigh in on
this emotionally-fraught
issue but, until that occurs,
this Court is obligated to
uphold existing Supreme
Court precedent.
Nancy Northrup, president
and CEO of the Center for
Reproductive Rights praised
Hovlands ruling.
Te court was correct to
call this law exactly what it
is: a blatant violation of the
constitutional guarantees
aforded to all women,
Northrup said in a statement.
But women should not be
forced to go to court, year
afer year in state afer state,
to protect their constitutional
rights. We hope todays
decision, along with the long
line of decisions striking
down these attempts to choke
of access to safe and legal
abortion services in the U.S.,
sends a strong message to
politicians across the country
that our rights cannot be
legislated away.
Supporters of the measure
have said the measure is a
challenge to the U.S. Supreme
Courts 1973 ruling that
legalized abortion up until
a fetus is considered viable,
usually at 22 to 24 weeks.
Opponents say its an attempt
to shutter the Red River
Clinic.
Te director of the Fargo
clinic, Tammi Kromenaker,
said Hovlands ruling was
expected.
Its not a surprise that the
judge ruled this way but its
defnitely a relief, she said.
We told the Legislature and
we urged the governor to
veto the bill, telling him this
was not going to withstand
constitutional muster.
Last year, lawmakers in oil-
rich North Dakota allocated
$400,000 that was requested
by Attorney General Wayne
Stenehjem to defend against
any lawsuits arising from the
states new abortion laws.
Stenehjem told Te
Associated Press on
Wednesday that he needed
to read Hovlands ruling
and talk to the governor and
others before deciding what
the state will do next.
Tere are those who
believed that this was a
challenge that could go to the
Supreme Court, Stenehjem
said. Whether or not thats
likely is something we need
to confer about.

The court was correct to

call this law exactly what it
is: a blatant violation of the
constitutional guarantees
afforded to all women.
NANCY NORTHRUP
Center for Reproductive Rights
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PRETORIA, South Africa
Oscar Pistorius lawyers tried
to roll back the prosecutions
momentum at his murder
trial Wednesday following the
star athletes shaky testimony,
presenting a forensic expert
who quickly found his own
credentials and fndings
sharply questioned.
With Pistorius now back
watching the proceedings from
a wooden bench, the double-
amputee Olympians defense
team was attempting to bolster
his account that he shot
girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
by mistake through a toilet
door in his home, thinking
she was a dangerous intruder
about to attack him in the
night. Pistorius faces 25 years
to life in prison if convicted
of premeditated murder in
Steenkamps death in the early
hours of Valentines Day last
year.
But former police ofcer
Roger Dixon, testifying for
the defense, also appeared
unsteady as chief prosecutor
Gerrie Nel warned him that it
was irresponsible to try and
be an expert in areas he was
not. Nel asserted in his cross-
examination that Dixon was
not an expert in light, sound,
ballistics, gunshot wounds or
pathology all areas about
which he was testifying.
Dixon worked at the
police forensic laboratory
in Pretoria until he lef the
force in December 2012. He
was a specialist in analyzing
materials at crime scenes. He
now works in the geology
department at the University
of Pretoria.
Nel also accused him of not
answering questions directly.
For an expert you are
evasive, Nel said, prompting
the judge at one point to tell
the energetic prosecutor to
restrain himself.
Earlier, the judge ruled that
proceedings will adjourn for
more than two weeks afer
Tursday because a member
of the prosecution team has
another case to attend to. Te
trial will resume on May 5.
During the cross-
examination, Nel showed that
Dixons fndings regarding
Steenkamps gunshot wounds
came from analysis of
autopsy photos and from a
pathologists report because he
was not present at the autopsy.
He also hadnt read parts of the
pathology report, Nel charged.
Te prosecutor also
criticized Dixon for not
bringing photographs and his
written reports with him and
abruptly told him to bring
them on Tursday.
I said I will, Dixon snapped
back.
Good, Nel responded.
Nel ridiculed Dixons fnding
about the sequence of the
shots that Pistorius fred at
Steenkamp through the door,
testimony which contradicted
that of a police ballistics
expert and state pathologist
Prof. Gert Saayman.
I use the word fnding
very loosely, Nel said wryly of
Dixons theory.
Questioned by defense
lawyer Barry Roux, Dixon
said he believed Steenkamp
was hit in the hip and the
arm in quick succession by
the frst two of four shots
while she was standing close
to the toilet door. Raising his
right arm in the courtroom,
Dixon indicated he believed
Steenkamp may have had
her right arm extended and
maybe her hand on the door
handle, as if she was about to
open the door through which
she was shot.
Te defense was using his
testimony to try to cast doubt
on the prosecutions account
that Steenkamp fed to the
toilet and was hiding there
during a fght with Pistorius.
Nel has said that the runner
intentionally shot Steenkamp
through the door as she faced
him and while they were
arguing.
Nel mocked what he said
was a suggestion by Dixon
that Steenkamp was knocked
backward by one of the bullets.
Its something you see on
TV, Nel said dismissively,
challenging the expert to
fnd scientifc literature that
showed it was possible.
Nel also pounced on Dixons
concession that an audio test
that the defense conducted
to compare the sounds of
gunshots to those of a cricket
bat hitting a wood door
which both happened on the
night of the killing had to
be done a second time because
of problems with the frst.
He even asked him if he was
an expert at swinging a cricket
bat, a cutting reference to his
hitting a bat on a wood door
in the defenses audio tests at a
gun range.
Dixon had also said he took
part in the audio tests that
showed the sounds of gunshots
and of a cricket bat hitting a
wood door were similar and
could be confused. Tat is
important because several
neighbors have testifed that
they heard Steenkamp scream
before shots on the fatal night,
backing the prosecutions case
that there was a fght before
Pistorius shot his girlfriend
with his 9 mm pistol.
Pistorius defense says the
witnesses are mistaking the
sequence and they heard
Pistorius screaming in a
high-pitched voice for help
before breaking the toilet door
open with his bat to get to
Steenkamp. When played by
Pistorius lawyers in courts,
the two noises were similar.
But questioned by Nel,
Dixon said the tests had to
be repeated and that they
were recorded and edited by
a music producer who had
no experience in recording
gunshots.
I have no idea on the
expertise of the person who
recorded the sounds, Dixon
said.
Pistorius defense attempts to rebuild his case
COURT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oscar Pistorius, center, shares a hug with unidentied woman as he leaves the high court in Pretoria, South Af-
rica, on Wednesday. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp,
on Valentines Day in 2013.

Its something you see on

TV.
GERRIE NELL
Chief prosecutor
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kansas to host Texas Tech
After a nine-day rest from
competition, Kansas softball is
back up and playing again. The
Jayhawks host Texas Tech April 17-
19 at Arrocha Ballpark. First pitch
on Thursday is scheduled for 5 p.m.
Kansas looks to sweep Texas
Tech for two seasons in a row, and
increase its four-game winning
streak. Kansas has won the last four
games against the Red Raiders over
the last two seasons.
The Jayhawks will be helped by
junior pitcher Alicia Pille, who was
named Big 12 Pitcher of the Week
on Tuesday. She has six shutouts
under her belt and one no-hitter on
the season.
Kansas has won a conference
award for ve straight weeks, which
breaks the University record for
conference weekly honors in a single
season. Play starts at 5 p.m. on
Friday and 1 p.m. on Saturday, both
at Arrocha Ballpark.
Amie Just
Sharper challenges evidence and
his no-bail status in rape case
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NFL All-Pro safety Darren Sharper appears on Monday, March 24,
2014, in Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles. The judge has
again refused to release Sharper from jail. Sharper is awaiting trial
in Los Angeles after pleading not guilty to charges that he raped
and drugged two women last year. He was previously released on $1
million bail before being charged in Arizona with similar counts.
PHOENIX A judge in
Phoenix will hold a hearing
Wednesday in which lawyers
for former NFL All-Pro safety
Darren Sharper will challenge
the evidence used to keep him
in jail without bail on charges
that he drugged and sexually
assaulted two women in
Arizona.
Te hearing before Maricopa
County Superior Court Judge
Warren Granville marks
the latest development in
several ongoing sexual assault
investigations involving
Sharper, 38, in Louisiana,
California, Florida, Arizona
and Nevada.
He was previously released
from jail in a rape case in
California on $1 million bail,
but was denied bail in the
Arizona case.
Sharper will not attend
Wednesdays hearing.
Sharper, 38, was indicted
in Arizona last month on
charges of sexual assault and
administering dangerous
drugs. He is accused of giving
the sedative zolpidem to three
women and then had sexual
intercourse or oral sexual
contact with two of them
without their consent on Nov.
21 at an apartment in Tempe.
Sharper has not yet entered
a plea in the Arizona case,
although one of his attorneys
said Sharper will deny those
allegations.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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NEW YORK Masahiro
Tanaka allowed two bunt hits
in eight dominant innings
on a frigid Monday, Carlos
Beltran homered for the third
straight game and New York
welcomed the Chicago Cubs
to the current Yankee Stadium
with a 3-0 victory in the
opener of Mondays day-night
doubleheader.
Te 25-year-old Japanese
right-hander struck out 10
for his second straight start,
this time while wearing three-
quarter sleeves on a 43-degree
day that felt much colder
because of a brisk wind.
Tanaka (2-0) gave up a replay-
aided hit to Junior Lake in the
second inning and Anthony
Rizzo pushed a bunt toward
a vacated third base with a
shifed infeld leading of the
seventh.
Tanaka threw 107 pitches,
and Shawn Kelley allowed a
single to Rizzo as he fnished
the three-hitter for his fourth
save.
Dean Anna had a sacrifce
fy and Jacoby Ellsbury added
an RBI tap-out against Jason
Hammel (2-1) in Chicagos
frst regular-season game in
the ballpark, which opened in
2009.
Te Cubs have yet to win in
the Bronx. Tey were swept in
the 1932 and 38 World Series
and lost all three-games in
2005, their only interleague
series in New York.
With Tuesdays rainout
postponing Jackie Robinson
Day festivities, the Yankees
planned to unveil a plaque
honoring Nelson Mandela
before the nightcap. Players
from both teams were to wear
No. 42, and Michael Pineda
was set to make his frst start
for New York since he was
spotted with a mysterious
brown substance on his hand
Tursday against Boston.
Travis Wood was slated to start
for Chicago.
Afer an overnight storm, the
grounds crew used blowers to
melt the ice on the tarp before
removing the covering from
the infeld. Snow still covered
the grass in right feld while
the Cubs took batting practice,
and many players wore ski
caps.
But it wasnt too cold for
Beltran. He connected on a
1-1 changeup from Hammel
with one out in the frst. Anna
started again at shortstop for
Derek Jeter and drove in his
run with a fy to lef feld in
the fourth. Jeter missed three
games with a tight quadriceps
but manager Joe Girardi said
the captain would start the
second game.
Te Yankees added a run
in the ffh when Junior Lake
lost Brett Gardners liner to
lef in the sun for a double.
Afer Gardner advanced on
Beltrans groundout, Ellsburys
bat made contact with catcher
John Bakers glove before
dunking a ball in front of the
mound.
Tanaka cools Cubs bats in Yankees 3-0 win
MLB
MANHATTAN, Kan.
Kansas State basketball coach
Bruce Weber has received a
one-year contract extension
through the 2018-19 school
year afer leading the Wildcats
to 47 wins in his frst two
seasons, the most victories by
any coach in his frst two years
in school history.
Kansas State athletic director
John Currie announced the
extension Wednesday, citing
Webers 47-21 record since
taking the helm in March 2012,
including two straight NCAA
tournament appearances.
Lon Kruger is the only other
Wildcats coach to have led the
team to NCAA appearances in
his frst two seasons.
A signifcant part of
building a successful program
is continuity, and this type of
commitment ensures that we
have all the parts necessary to
continue to build upon what
we have accomplished the last
two seasons, Weber said in a
statement.
Weber will be paid $2.25
million during the extension
year. If Weber stays through
the end of his contract, he
will also receive a $500,000
retention bonus, Currie said,
adding that salaries for Webers
assistant coaches also will rise.
Te K-State Athletics
Inc. Board of Directors
unanimously approved the
extension.
Weber led Kansas State to
a 20-13 record last season
and a berth in the NCAA
tournament, where the
Wildcats lost to Kentucky in
the second round.
In his frst season, Weber led
Kansas State to one of the best
seasons in school history with
a 27-8 record and a share of its
frst conference championship
in 36 seasons. Te 27 wins
were the schools second-most
in a single season and gave the
Wildcats only the ffh season
of at least 25 wins. Weber was
named Big 12 Coach of the
Year that season.
Our mens basketball
program continues to make
terrifc progress under
Coach Weber and his staf
since their arrival, Currie
said. I am excited about the
future of our program and
forward trajectory under his
leadership.
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Chicago Cubs catcher John Baker catches the late throw as New York
Yankees Brian McCann scores on Dean Annas fourth-inning sacrice y
in Game 1 of an interleague baseball doubleheader at Yankee Stadium in
New York on Wednesday.
Kansas State gives Weber 1-year contract extension
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Kentucky in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Friday, March 21, 2014, in St. Louis.
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So many people along the way,

whatever it is you aspire to do, will
tell you it cant be done. But all it
takes is imagination. You dream.
You plan. You reach. There will be
obstacles. There will be doubters.
There will be mistakes. But with hard
work, with belief, with condence and
trust in yourself and those around
you, there are no limits.
Michael Phelps (His book No
Limits)
?
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This week in athletics
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday Saturday
No events
Track and eld
Kansas Relays
All day
Lawrence
Track and eld
Kansas Relays
All day
Lawrence
Track and eld
Kansas Relays
All day
Lawrence
Womens golf
Lady Buckeye Invitational
All day
Columbus, Ohio
Baseball
Oklahoma State
3 p.m.
Stillwater, Okla.
Baseball
Oklahoma State
7 p.m.
Stillwater, Okla.
Baseball
Oklahoma State
1 p.m.
Stillwater, Okla.
Thursday
Womens soccer
Kansas Mens Club
5:30 p.m.
Lawrence
Softball
Texas Tech
5 p.m.
Lawrence
Softball
Texas Tech
5 p.m.
Lawrence
Softball
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1 p.m.
Lawrence
Baseball
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6 p.m.
Lawrence
Track and eld
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All Day
Des Moines, Iowa
T
he legend is back. Its not going
to be like the past Olympics,
but regardless, Michael Phelps
is back.
On Monday an announcement
was released stating that Phelps was
re-entering competition, afer he had
been retired from swimming for over
a year. Te announcement didnt sur-
prise some, as Phelps had entered the
drug testing pool back in November.
Dont expect him to be winning
every race by leaps and bounds,
though. Hes not going to be in every
race. Bob Bowman, Phelps coach,
said that Phelps will be focusing
on three events: the 50-meter and
100-meter freestyles and the 100-me-
ter butterfy.
I think hes just going to test the
waters a little bit and see how it goes,
Bowman said. I wouldnt say its a
full-fedged comeback.
Hes also pretty far from being in
his best shape, but thats not going to
stop him from hopping back in the
pool.
His frst meet since the 2012
Olympic Games will be on April
24-26 in Mesa, Ariz. On the frst day
hell swim the 100 free and 100 fy
preliminaries. If he qualifes for fnals
hell swim one event there, even if he
qualifes for both events. Ten hes
swimming the 50 free on the second
day of competition and could pos-
sibly swim the 50 fy just for fun,
Bowman said.
Hes gotten back into good shape
since September, Bowman said. He
can give a good efort and certainly
not be embarrassed. Hes in enough
shape to swim competitively.
His return alone, regardless of the
events hes competing
in and the shape that
hes in, is sparking
excitement from all
around the swim-
ming community.
Former Olym-
pic swimmer and
NBC commentator
Rowdy Gaines said
he was overjoyed
by Phelps return to
swimming.
Hes our Babe
Ruth, our Michael
Jordan, Gaines
said. When I
retired in 1981,
I meant it. But
I realized it was
something I loved
and I came back. Michael misses
the limelight. He misses making an
impact. Swimming is in his DNA, so
why not come back?
Who knows how far Phelps return
will take him. He may compete
in one
or two
meets, or
he may
make it all
the way to
the Olym-
pics.
Whether he
wins or loses, it
doesnt matter,
Gaines said.
Hell never be
better at anything
in his life than he
is at swimming fast.
Hes younger than
LeBron James. Should
we tell James to retire
because he fnished on
top last year? Its like ask-
ing a master woodworker
to stop his craf because his last piece
was perfect.
Edited by Brook Barnes
Womens tennis
Kansas State
noon
Manhattan
Volume 126 Issue 109 kansan.com Thursday, April 17, 2014
By Mike Vernon
sports@kansan.com
COMMENTARY
KU sports bucket
list before
graduation
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
sports
S
I
f youre a senior here at
the University, your time
is running out like theres
30 minutes till close at the
Hawk and youre still fying
solo in the Boom Boom
Room.
Its time to get spontaneous
and soak in your last few
days in Lawrence. Fortunate-
ly for you, theres still a little
bit of time and plenty hap-
pening in the sports world to
fll in those lazy afernoons
of avoiding the inevitable.
You can fll this time start-
ing today. Heres a list of ways
to spend your time until you
walk through the Campanile:
Go watch shot put down-
town: Every year, downtown
Lawrence hosts the shot put
during the Kansas relays.
You can even go today. Its a
spectacle worth watching.
Spend an afernoon at
Hoglund Ballpark: On a
sunny weekend day, go check
out the Jayhawks at Hoglund
Ballpark. Buy some peanuts
or sneak them in, either
way youre sure to have a
good time watching Kansas
baseball.
Walk through the Booth
Family Hall of Athletics:
Take advantage of the fact
that the Booth Family Hall
of Athletics is open during
the day. Walk through its
halls and look at a basketball
with laces on it. Gaze at the
Championship rings and
trophies.
Try to take a look at Allen
Fieldhouse when its empty:
While youre at the Booth
Family Hall of Athletics, see
if you can sneak a peek at the
empty basketball gym youve
come to know and love in
your time here. Walk onto
the court if you can. Look at
the banners and years and
names that line the ceiling.
Remember all of the fun you
had in the student section.
Sit on the top of Mt. Oread
and gaze into Memorial Sta-
dium: OK, so you probably
didnt spend much time here
at all, but that doesnt mean
the view isnt nice.
Visit the graves: Take a
short drive to the grave
sites commemorating the
lives of James Naismith and
Phog Allen. Take a moment
to look around and realize
how big of an impact these
Jayhawks had on modern
athletics and this world that
consumes them.
Grab a Wangburger at the
Wheel: Its Friday afernoon
and the weekend has arrived.
Walk from campus down
14th street where you can
grab a Wangburger and beer
while soaking in a true KU
atmosphere. Look at the fa-
mous faces on the walls and
put a dollar into the jukebox
to pick three songs that were
likely made before you were
born.
Its the perfect place to
refect on your four or fve or
maybe even six years in Law-
rence. Go with your friends
and relish in the fact that
youve made it. Youve made
it through the emotions. Te
bad tests. Te stress. Te all
nighters. Teyre done.
Now its time to celebrate.
Edited by Blair Sheade
Jon Hander walked of the
mound afer seven innings on
the mound, eyes glued toward
the dugout where he would
be greeted with smiles by his
teammates. Several Jayhawks
lined up to fst bump the
right-handed freshman,
congratulating him on his frst
collegiate win, a 7-1 victory
against Grand Canyon, to
split the midweek series.
It feels good. I just trusted
my defense. I just went out
and threw with no fear, and
didnt worry about missing
one or two spots, Hander
said.
As the Jayhawks ffh starter,
the freshman out of Sioux
Falls, S.D., doesnt see a lot of
time as a starter. Hander only
starts in two-game midweek
sets like the one against Grand
Canyon. Because of this,
Hander was making just his
third start, frst in the confnes
of Hoglund Ballpark, in his
young Jayhawk career.
Hes been really good in his
frst two starts, but when he
runs up to about 60 pitches,
he runs into the wall. To see
him push it into the seventh
tonight, I thought was a huge
step for him, Coach Ritch
Price said.
Making his Hoglund debut,
the freshman 6-foot-2 seemed
to have more confdence
than in his prior two starts.
Coming into Wednesday
nights contest, Hander had
a 0-1 record, tossing just 13
innings in fve appearances on
the mound.
It was real nice. Its a great
mound and great place to be.
It feels good to pitch at home,
Hander said.
Hander tossed a total of 78
pitches, going seven innings
deep and allowing only one
run of fve hits.
Te freshman did not walk
a single Antelope, keeping the
base paths clear for a majority
of the night. Hander struck
out four batters, two in a row
to start the game of. Hander
showed his ability to handle
pressure situations. Time
and time again the freshman
regained his composure afer
giving up a base hit.
He allowed his frst hit in
the second, before getting
the next batter to ground out
into an inning-ending double
play. In the third he allowed a
two-out single, but sat down
the next guy he saw with a
strikeout.
Te lone mistake the
freshman made was a leadof
double in the ffh to Grand
Canyon freshman catcher
Josh Meyer, who would be
brought home on a sac fy to
right.
It helped that Hander
dealt the entire game with
a commanding lead. Te
Jayhawks scored fve runs
of just three hits in the frst
inning afer drawing three
straight walks to start of the
game.
Tats what you have to
do, if someone sets the table
up for you like that, Price
said.
Kansas tacked on two more
insurance runs, one in the
ffh when junior designated
hitter Dakota Smith ripped
an RBI single to score
sophomore second baseman
Colby Wright. Junior lef
felder Michael Suiter was
brought home afer a leadof
double in the sixth, the third
of the game, to make it 7-1.
Jayhawks move to 3-6 in
midweek matchups, and
afer the phenomenal start
by the freshman, Price may
consider pitching more of
Hander in those midweek
games.
As good as he has thrown
the ball, its a possibility he
could move into the Tuesday
spot, Price said.
Kansas will look to carry
its momentum into a big
conference weekend series on
the road against Oklahoma
State.
We are going to have to
continue to swing the bats
well if we want to come away
with a series win against a
pitching staf like Oklahoma
State, said senior catcher
Kaiana Eldredge.
Edited by Alec Weaver
and Paige Lytle
Te 87th annual Kansas
Relays began yesterday at
the brand new Rock Chalk
Park with the beginning legs
of the combined events: the
decathlon and heptathlon.
Te only Jayhawk athlete in
action yesterday, sophomore
Mercedes Smith, enters today
in third place afer the frst
four events of the seven-event
heptathlon, with a combined
score of 2,778. Te leaders of
the two events entering today
are Nebraskas Guy Fenske,
with a 3,666 point total afer
the frst fve events of the
ten-event decathlon, and
Trumans Rebecca Nelson,
who leads the heptathlon with
3,042 points.
Smith, in her frst career
heptathlon, was able to tally
personal bests in two of
yesterdays four events to
get her into the third place
spot. Entering the high
jump in third place afer the
frst event, Smith was able to
clear the bar set at 51.25 for
her career-best mark in the
high jump, allowing her to
remain in third place heading
into the fnal two legs of the
heptathlon.
In the fnal event of the day,
the 200 meters, Smith grabbed
her second personal record of
the meet so far, clocking in at
24.97 to beat the rest of the
feld by over a second. Te
890 points Smith gained from
this event contributed greatly
to her 2,778 point total, which
set her up nicely to make
some moves in the fnal three
events today.
Junior Lindsay Vollmer, the
school record-holder in the
heptathlon, chose to forgo the
heptathlon this week because
she already qualifed for
nationals in the event three
weeks ago at the Texas Relays.
Instead, Vollmer will look to
get in a little extra practice
this weekend, as she is slotted
to compete in the 1600-meter
hurdles and the high jump,
and could potentially be a late
entry into the 4x400-meter
relay.
Smith will have 21 other
Jayhawk athletes join her
in competition today, as 12
additional events will begin.
Besides Smith, one athlete
to keep an eye on tomorrow
will be sophomore thrower
Dasha Tsema, who got her
outdoor season of to a good
start at the Texas Relays, with
a discus throw of 52.25 meters
(1748), which made her the
No. 4 performer in school
history. Today, she will look
to have similar success, but
this time in the hammer
throw competition, which is
slotted to begin around 2:45
p.m.
Todays competition will
start with the days frst leg of
the decathlon at 9 a.m., and is
expected to fnish up with the
mens 10,000 meters, which
is expected to start around
9:08 p.m. Any fans looking to
catch some of todays action
and check out the new Rock
Chalk Park facility will be able
to do so for free, as patrons
will be admitted to todays
events free of charge.
Edited by Julie Etzler
SHANE JACKSON
sports@kansan.com
BEN BURCH
sports@kansan.com
Kansas Relays kick off at Rock Chalk Park
GEORGE MULLINIX/KANSAN
Shortstop Justin Protacio elds a hard hit ground ball up the middle and
throws to rst for the out. The Jayhawks defeated the Antelopes 7-1 on
Wednesday after a Grand Canyon victory of 5-3 on Tuesday.
Hander proves himself against Antelopes

As good as he has thrown

the ball, its a possibility
he could move into the
Tuesday spot.
RITCH PRICE
Basball coach
BASEBALL
TRACK AND FIELD
GEORGE MULLINIX/KANSAN
The Kansas Relays are in full swing and atheletes will continue to compete until Saturday, April 19. Events today begin with the decathlon, 110-me-
ter hurdles, heptathlon and long jump. The atheletes will nish up the day with the 10,000 meters.
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THE MORNING BREW
Michael Phelps returns from retirement