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As more students come to KU with mental health

issues, the University struggles to meet demand
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Of the 40 or so bus
stops at KU, EIGHT
HAVE COVERED
SHELTERS. Read
about the factors
that help determine
whether a stop gets
a cover.
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MUSIC IN FOCUS:
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distinguished
professor and
former opera star.
Read her story.
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y the second semester

of freshman year, Mark
Maiden had thought
about committing suicide numerous times. Maiden was diagnosed with bipolar II in high
school and arrived at KU with
medication to lessen the severity of bipolar mood swings. But
on this day, the urge was overwhelming.
I had a suicide attempt in the
scholarship halls, Maiden said.
I had a prescription for Xanax,
I swallowed a lot, a lot of Xanax.
I was lying on a couch in a public space and was there for, like,
12 hours from like noon to
midnight. Then I woke up and
went to bed in my room and
went to classes the next day.
That next day, Maiden did
poorly on a test and had an
emotional breakdown.
I was so upset that I left the
room, started screaming in
the library and went and cried
in Murphy Halls bathroom,
Maiden said.
Maiden withdrew for the semester and received intensive
outpatient treatment before
coming back to school.
Today Maiden, a junior from
Overland Park, is one of an increasing number of students
on campus with severe mental
health issues. Bipolar II differs
from bipolar disorder in that the
manic episodes are slightly less
intense. These students, along
with an uptick in students with
milder forms of depression, anxiety and stress, are a challenge
for campus counseling services,

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Mark Maiden, a junior from Overland Park, has bipolar II disorder.

which is on track to see a record

number of students this year.
Michael Maestas, director of
Counseling and Psychological
Services, or CAPS, the Universitys on-campus counseling
service, said earlier detection
of mental health issues and advancements in medications have
contributed to the increase of
students on campus with severe
mental health issues.
It seems to be building yearto-year, and some of it has to do
with advancement in technology
with psychotropic medicines,
he said. So now students who

might have severe problems can

function better, so theyre able to
do things now that decades before wasnt thought of.
For many of those students and
others, accessing mental health
services holds less stigma than
it used to. But it isnt just mindset driving the desire for more
services. Maestas said more students in general are experiencing adjustment problems.
One of the top concerns reported by KU students, and
nationally, is that students are
coming to campus feeling less
emotionally prepared for stress,

adjustment, for developing interpersonal relationships, coping, all that stuff, Maestas said.
In the 2015 University of Kansas National Collegiate Health
Survey, 46 percent of participating students reported feeling
more than average stress." Of
students who participated, 58
percent reported feeling overwhelmed.
Harrison Baker, a student
senator and chair of the CAPS
Advisory Board, said there are
numerous stressors that are particular to students.
It could just be the stress of

changing from high school

to college, moving away from
your family if youve gone out
of state. Being a first generation
student is a specific stressor, being a minority student, LGBT,
international, all of these types
of things interact with each other," Baker said. "So if you have
multiple ones of those, youre a
member of the LGBT community, minority student whos also
first generation, you have a lot of
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By Tuesday, it will have been

nearly three weeks since the
2015-16 season began for the
Kansas Jayhawks. The team will
have already played five games,
suffered its first loss and won its
first piece of hardware, in addition to notching its first win
against a ranked opponent.
However, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday,
a new season of sorts begins.
For the first time this year,
Kansas will be at full strength.
The team will have its full assortment of depth, even if it'll
technically be without one player because of a program-imposed suspension.
With freshman big man Cheick Diallo freed, so to speak,
the Jayhawks will finally take
the court as a complete squad,
something that many hoped
would have come to fruition
earlier. It will be the biggest
game of the year to date for the
team and the fans, and that significance remains despite the
fact that the game may not end
up being all that close.

The opponent, Loyola (Md.),

comes into the season at just
1-5. The Greyhounds are not
expected to finish as one of the
top teams in their conference,
the Patriot League, let alone
anywhere near the top of Division I college basketball as a
whole.

Everyone was excited. We were going to

each others room and
asking [them if they]
heard the news.
FRANK MASON III
Junior guard

And they arent expected to

put up much of a fight in Allen
Fieldhouse either.
However, in a different sense,
this game could end up being
one of the more crucial ones for
the Jayhawks. Kansas coach Bill
Self has talked about the need
for Diallo to get his feet wet and
figure things out before Big 12
play. If the Jayhawks can pull

ahead early, Diallo should be

able to log as many minutes as
he can play, as he looks to learn
on the court.
And considering Diallos motor, not to mention enthusiasm
about being able to play, that
number could end up being
pretty big.
I cant wait, man, Diallo said
after the teams final win at the
Maui Invitational. Even from
the bench, I was cheering for
my team. I was supporting
them [as] hard [as I could].
And that excitement carried
over to his teammates, who
at the same venue talked
about their excitement both for
Diallo and themselves, getting
to play alongside the 6-foot-9
big man.
Everyone was excited. We
were going to each others room
and asking [them if they] heard
the news, junior guard Frank
Mason III said of finding out
Diallo would be eligible. We
are looking forward to getting
back to practice and getting him
in the rotation and looking
forward to having him throughout the season.
Integrating Diallo into the

lineup should be far from seamless. Even though he showed

flashes at the high school level, where he was named the
MVP of both the McDonalds
All-American Game and Jordan Brand Classic, Diallo still
hasnt played a minute, let alone
a game, at the college level.
Hes raw as a prospect and
should be expected to have a
learning curve similar to, if not
more than, what Joel Embiid
went through at the University
a couple of seasons ago.
But thats okay.
The Jayhawks are ranked in
the top five in the country, and
the team possesses top-10 talent regardless of Diallo. ESPN
analyst Seth Greenberg lamented that sentiment back at the
Champions Classic in Chicago,
which happened about a week
before Diallo was even cleared.
At this stage of his career and
his skill level, Im not sure hes as
impactful as people are perceiving him to be, Greenberg said.
Kansas one has a skill
system, [and] two they
have depth at that position. So
its not like theyre going to get
Cheick Diallo eligible and all of

a sudden hes going to change

who they are and how they
win.
He added: Cheick Diallo is a
piece of a puzzle; hes surely not
the puzzle. What he is [right
now is] five more fouls. Hes
got great energy; he can block
shocks [and] protect the front
of the rim, but hes a fit guy right
now.
However, fellow ESPN analyst
Jay Williams differed pretty significantly from Greenberg, proclaiming the Jahawks as his pick
to win the National Championship following the news that
Diallo was cleared to play.
[Diallo] takes Kansas from
being a Final Four-good team
to a National Champion, Williams said on ESPN. "I am now
picking Kansas to win the whole
thing.
There's still a long way to go
before any of that remotely
starts to be realized. However,
as the saying goes, the journey
of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.
And on Tuesday, the Jayhawks
will take that single step.

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The bus stop at the intersection of Sunnyside Avenue and
Naismith Drive.

Jacey Bishop stood outside the

Kansas Union on a frigid morning hoping she wouldnt have to
wait long for a bus to take her to
class in the middle of campus.
I never take the bus, just days
like today where its insanely
cold. But otherwise I dont use
it, said Bishop, a junior from
Hanston.
Bishop was at one of the designated bus stops on campus
equipped with only a sign. Of
the 40 or so bus stops at KU,
only eight have covered shelters.
Covering those shelters may
not be doable, said Danny Kaiser, associate director of Parking
and Transit. He also said its not
practical to have covered stops
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Part of the difficulty with do-

Mental health service fees

University of Kansas

First session: $15; Individual and Couples: $15; Group Sessions:

$15; Psychiatric Evaluation: $70; Extended Psychiatric Visit:
$70; Brief Psychiatric Visit: $30

Kansas State University

4 free sessions per year; Sessions 5-10: $15; Sessions 10 and

beyond: $25; Group sessions: $7 an hour

University of Oklahoma

Consultation/Assessment (first two visits per fiscal year); Individual Counseling: $10; Psychiatric session: $20;
Family/Couples Counseling: $15; Group: $5 (limited to 16 sessions per academic year)

Oklahoma State
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Initial session: $10; Therapy sessions are calculated according

to sliding scale starting at $10; Assessment fees range from
$150-$1000

Iowa State University

Most services are free, testing fees apply

University of Texas

Individual counseling sessions: $10, Individual psychiatric

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Texas Tech University

12 free counseling sessions per year

Baylor University

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West Virginia University

12 free counseling sessions per year; beyond 12: $25

dent would not."

Last year, CAPS saw its highest
number of students 1,583,
according to Maestas. This year,
the number is on track to exceed
that.
Maestas said young adulthood
is often the time when, if a person is going to have severe mental health problems, the disorders show up.
Usually the first episodes happen in the early 20s. Same with
psychotic disorders, he said.
That is an area we need to take
more effort into addressing.
Currently, students with severe
mental health problems, like
Maiden, are often advised to
seek help off campus.
Due to the nature of bipolar
disorder CAPS cannot responsibly manage or treat this
disorder, even during periods
of relative stability, Pam Botts,
associate and clinical director
of CAPS, said in an email. Our
goal is to help students with
bipolar disorder establish care
with a provider who can provide
appropriate services as needed.
Baker said students are frustrated that CAPS cant treat severe
mental health issues.
They basically cannot treat
more serious forms of mental
illness like bipolar, borderline
personality disorder, antisocial,
things that are more than anxiety and depression, they cant
treat, Baker said. One: because
they dont have the facilities to
do so, and two: because they are
bound by regulations to where
they cant do it. So they have
to refer out. And so thats troublesome for students because I
want to be able to go on campus
for a service thats fairly cheap
and get my mental health there,
but then they get referred out.
As more students seek help
from CAPS, it becomes challenging to schedule appoint-

Percent of students who report

having these feelings in the past 12
months

20.6 % Hopeless
11.2 % Exhausted
23.4 % Very sad
19.6 %
13.6 %

Overwhelming
anxiety
Overwhelmed

20.6 % Very lonely

15.2 %

So depressed it was
difficult to function

7.5 %

Considered
suicide

Source: Results from 428 student respondents to the 2015 University of Kansas National Collegiate Health Assessment survey, provided by Watkins Health Center.

Reporting by Madi Schulz

Sources: University websites

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from Andover, voiced concern

over the lack of covered bus
stops during an unsuccessful
run for Student Senate this year.
We live in an environment
where the weather is really subject to change, Minihan said.
Its either too cold or too hot
or raining. If the stops were
covered then thered always be
shade or cover from rain.
Collin Smith, a sophomore
from Chicago, said hed like
to see more bus stops but has
learned to improvise when the
weather is bad.
Its not that big of a deal if its
nice out, like you only think
about it when its raining and
then yeah it would be nice,
Smith said. I go to the stop right
by Bailey [Hall] so if its raining
I just wait in the glass room in
the front of the building and its
fine.

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School

ing shelters at stops like Bailey

Hall and Snow Hall is just the
sheer number of people who are
boarding and how big a shelter it
would take to have a meaningful
effect for that number of people, Kaiser said.
He said architectural standards
are also an obstacle.
You also have to remember
that [Jayhawk] Boulevard is a
historic zone, so anything that
gets built there has to conform
to those type of requirements,
and we havent found anything
that would really fit there, he
said.
To cover the stops would cost
up to $7,000 each, Kaiser said.
The cost of a sheltered bus stop
is about $5,000 for the shelter
itself and $1,500 to $2,000 for
the concrete pad, depending on
the size.
Austin Minihan, a freshman

ments. Maestas said the soonest appointment is roughly two

weeks out at any given time. But
if a student indicates a need for
an immediate appointment,
they can be seen that day.
CAPS and Student Senate are
in discussions to find more
funding. Maestas said its recommended that for every 1,000 to
1,500 students, there should be
one professional. By that metric,
Maestas said CAPS still needs
six professionals. He said CAPS
has added three positions in the
seven years he has been at the
University.
Student Body President Jessie
Pringle said the CAPS Advisory
Board has helped aid Maestas
with addressing issues of mental health on campus. She said

the board is looking at how to

expand CAPS with more offices
and more personnel. That conversation will take place during
Senates fee review later this year.
During the fee review, Senate
allocates money to different student services.
Pringle said that if Senate increases the fee, the money could
be used to hire more personnel
or make the cost of visits free.
I definitely think that hiring
more personnel, that would
open up more spots and they
could see more students, Pringle said.
Baker said hed like to see the fee
increase.
Id like to see [the student fee]
increase because there hasnt
been an increase in that fee for

three or four years," he said. "Its

remained constant whereas almost every other fee has gone
up."
Maiden said that while the state
of mental health care on campus
could be improved, especially in
treatment of more severe mental
illness, students shouldnt give
up hope of finding help or learning to cope with their mental
illness.
I would say dont treat your
mental illness as a nemesis. Instead, view it as a roommate
who has an impact on your daily
life. Dont let it dictate your behavior, but come to terms with it
even if that means facing it as an
insecurity, Maiden said. People
are more willing to listen than
you may think. People do care.

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Crowds gather to see McCollum Hall implosion

MCKENNA HARFORD
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About 100 people gathered in

the Oliver Hall parking lot to
watch the razing of McCollum
Hall on Daisy Hill on Wednesday morning. Many were there
just to watch the building

come down, but Keesa Shrader, a senior from Dodge City,

was there to say goodbye.
The University razed McCollum Hall to create additional
parking on Daisy Hill after the
completion of Self and Oswald
Halls, which were finished this
August.
Shrader lived in McCollum

as a freshman and her father

lived in McCollum Hall when
he attended KU. Watching the
building go down was bittersweet, she said.
Its generations of memories
blowing up, Shrader said.
Shrader remembers that McCollum was full of quirks, like
a lobby chair always in the el-

evators and the stench in the

halls after a radiator combusted on her floor.
Im upset that upcoming
freshmen wont get to experience McCollum, she said. Im
convinced living there was different from every other dorm.
The razing of McCollum took
less than a minute. The Univer-

sity plans to reuse the concrete

and masonry materials and recycle any metal, according to a
news release.
Sarah Kurien, who graduated
in 2002, said she didnt live in
McCollum, but her husband
had lived there so she brought
their kids because she thought
it would be interesting and

unique. Kurien said it was impressive to watch the building

come down.
It was amazing to see the
skyline change so quickly,
Kurien said.

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We must understand the difference

between positive and negative liberty
JESSE BURBANK

Kansas is still my
favorite football team

Did you see that the

front wall of McCollum
stayed up? Whats
that thing made of?
Nobody on Tinder
cares about my Beanie Baby collection :(
I have real trust issues
with people who have
hardcore penciled
eyebrows.
That moment when
your teacher still
shows up but its
14 minutes late and
all your hopes and
dreams are crushed.
Shout out to my
classes are never
canceled for break
My mom shared
several inappropriate
Buzzfeed videos this
weekend and I have
mixed feelings about
this.
Try playing candy
crush when youre
drunk. It is hard.
its that time of the
semester where class
is optional and grades
depend on extra
credit
My roommate hasnt
seen the office. Related: He thinks all my
jokes are original and
that Im hilarious.
CHIEFS GOING TO
WIN THE SUPER
BOWLS
Can someone please
photoshop Miley on a
wrecking ball onto a
picture of McCollum
falling down?

What human has class

at 7:30?
I ate 14 potatoes this
weekend.
I miss Tony Romo.
Has anyone seen
that vine of Adeles
Hello but with Robin
Williams as Mrs.
Doubtfire? Anyone?

@JBurbank1

Political debates in the United States are often premised

on finding the ideal balance
between liberty and equality.
This manifests itself in many
ways. For example, should
everyone be granted roughly
equal healthcare or should a
persons job and income determine the care they receive?
Should citizens be required
to pay more taxes to build a
more equal education system,
like through free college?
Political questions like these
are everywhere.

However, when thinking of

how to balance liberty and
equality, one must ask what
liberty truly means.
Political theorist Isaiah Berlin provides a useful framework for this in his essay Two
Concepts of Liberty. In it, he
outlines two forms of liberty:
positive and negative.
Negative liberty is often what
people imagine when they
think of liberty the absence
of restraint and the absence
of mandates. In his arcane
language, Berlin describes
negative liberty as whether a
person should be left to do or
be what he is able to do or be,
without interference by other

persons."
But a person is not truly free
if they are simply left alone.
What ability do they have to
change their station in life if
they received a poor education, if they are starving, or if
they have never had access to
the means of fulfilling their
own potential?
Indeed, in some cases,
negative freedom can actually
represent a form of oppression. When a nation denies
large groups of its citizens the
agency to change their lives
under the guise of protecting
liberty, it relegates them to a
more difficult, more miserable
life.

Positive liberty, on the other

hand, recognizes that true
freedom is not simply the
absence of restraint. It is a societal realization that freedom
requires sacrifice. It requires
the provision of services like
quality schools and basic
healthcare
As Berlin puts it, negative
liberty means I am a slave to
no man. Conversely, positive
liberty means I am my own
master, free to pursue the life
of my choice.
As college students, we are
learning the skills necessary to
influence our own destinies.
By learning how to better
communicate, calculate, and

think critically, we are gaining

agency to influence the direction of our own lives and of
society. This is what positive
liberty means.
Of course, positive liberty
and negative liberty are not
entirely mutually exclusive
and both can be taken to extremes. However, recognizing
the difference between the two
is crucial for understanding
the assumptions of political
discussions and the goals that
society should hold.

Jesse Burbank is a junior

from Quinter studying political
science, history and economics.

Every student should get the vaccine for HPV

ABBY PETRULIS
@apetrulis

Should I get the HPV

vaccine?
The short answer is yes,
absolutely, but lets talk a little
bit more about what it means
to get the HPV shot.
Why is it important?
HPV, or human papillomavirus, is an incredibly common
virus. Nearly 80 million people, or about one of every four
people, has a current HPV
infection. But the HPV virus
is complex not all of these
infectious strains can cause
damage to your body later on.
In fact, about nine out of 10
cases actually go away on their
own and show no symptoms.
However, some strains can
cause cervical, vaginal, penile
or anal cancer, as well as
causing some genital warts
and even throat cancers. Its
these few strains that we need

to protect against, and since

HPV is really everywhere, the
best way to do that is through
vaccination.
What is the vaccine?
Most people know the
vaccine by its trade name,
Gardasil. The newest vaccine,
Gardasil-9, provides immunity to nine different cancer-causing strains of the HPV
virus, though many people in
college now were vaccinated
with Gardasil-4, the first vaccine protecting against only
four strains of HPV.
These nine strains have been
identified as HPV and as
cancer-causing, but there are
over 150 strains of HPV we
know of again, not all of
these are cancer-causing. In
fact, only about 40 of the 150
different strains infect genital
areas. The goal of vaccine development was to first identify
which strains are most preva-

lent in causing genital cancers,

and then create an immune
response. The vaccine is made
from a single protein and
cannot infect you.
Your immune system is pretty smart it can recognize
proteins that are usually on
the outside of viruses or bacteria and mark it for destruction. A separate part of your
immune system functions
as memory. That means that
every time youre exposed to
something that looks like that,
it will always be targeted for
destruction not just the
first time. Thats why we can
use just small parts of infectious agents to create vaccines,
and since its not the whole
germ, we cant get sick from it.
Who should get the
vaccine?
Everyone should get vaccinated. Not just women
men, you can get cancer from
this too, and you can keep

spreading it if you dont get

vaccinated.
However, the vaccine works
best if you get it before youre
ever potentially exposed to
HPV, which would be long
before youre sexually active.
Thats why its recommend at
such young ages, though there
is also an increased immune
response in preteen children
a fancy way of saying the
vaccination is more effective
in younger people.
The Advisory Committee
on Immunization Practices
recommends that children
start getting the shots around
age 11, though women can get
it until age 26, and men can
get it until age 21.
HPV is everywhere if you
get the shot, it doesnt mean
youre inappropriately sexually
active, it just means youre
taking advantage of modern
medicine to protect yourself. Oh, and you absolutely
cannot get HPV from a toilet

seat. You can only get it from

sexual contact.

How do I get
vaccinated?
You can easily get the vaccination here on campus at
Watkins. However, the vaccine
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Required classes waste time and resources of

students who want to jump into their majors
RACHEL GONZALES
@KansanNews

For many students, college

is a time to learn skills that
will help them start careers.
Required, or core, classes at
the college level make this
more difficult and are both
costly and time-consuming.
At Kansas, students should
be able to dive straight into
the classes that are pertinent
to their majors or interests,
saving them time and money.
At universities across the
country, students are forced
to take classes that are not
important to them in order to
graduate. These classes can,
in some cases, take up to a

couple years to complete.

And while some people go
to school full time, it is not
uncommon for students to
have other obligations like a
job or a family, and they cant
afford to waste time on classes
that are irrelevant. Students
with full schedules would benefit from being able to focus
their time toward what they
actually want to do.
Beyond the time that core
classes take away from students is the financial burden
that it places on them. A large
part of tuition goes towards
these classes. Many students
struggle to pay for college,
and not making them pay
for irrelevant classes would

significantly ease that burden.

College tuition is expensive,
and its difficult to have to pay
for classes that will ultimately
not help you in your career.
Further, these classes often
repeat material that students
have already learned in high
school. For example, classes
like English and Communications 101, which are required
at the University in order to
graduate, are similar to high
school English and speech
classes.
It would be more beneficial
to spend the first two years
of college learning new,
major-specific material. At the
college level, students have
already spent 12 years learn-

ing general education. People

go to college in order to start
a specific career, and college
should therefore be vocational
in nature.
It just takes up time I could
be using to learn other stuff
stuff that I care about, Kyle
Summers, a junior at the University, said about required
classes.
While some may say that
taking required courses
provides a more well rounded
education, students who are
uninterested in the course material are not likely to remember the minimal overview of
the subject anyway. According
to Washington Post writer
Daniel de Vise, some higher

education leaders believe

that the point of a college
education is to teach students
to think, solve problems and
change the world not to
download a compendium of
facts.
Getting rid of the core
requirements at the University would allow students to
spend their money and time
building skills that will help
them in the futures they see
for themselves.
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Castle, former opera star
SAMANTHA SEXTON
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Until Joyce Castle came to

the University, it didnt have a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Castle still calls the University her home, but now as a
distinguished professor rather
than a student.
I was in high school and
I loved to sing and I loved to
act, Castle said. KU was very
close by, but I wasnt sure I
wanted to come here until the
school created the B.F.A. just
for me. I was ecstatic.
Some may say that creating a
whole new curriculum for one
student would be a risky endeavor and may not be worth
the effort, especially if that
student chose to drop out or
switch majors, as the majority
do. However, after graduation,
Castle proved that the schools
belief in her was well placed.
I travelled around the country and was doing small jobs
here and there, Castle said.
Then in 1970, I joined the San
Francisco Opera for younger
people and it changed my life.
Raised by a pianist for a
mother and taught to sing
classically at three years old,
Castle knew that singing and
performing was her calling,
but not until the San Francisco Opera did she realize her
dream.
It was wonderful, Castle
said. I was performing all
over the country. I was slowly
but surely making my way up
to bigger and bolder roles and
I was loving every moment of
it.
After achieving success with
the San Francisco Opera, Cas-

tle decided that America had

heard enough of her talent and
decided she should share her
voice with the world.
I didnt think I would be in
demand worldwide for opera
and concerts and shows, Castle said. But everything was
coming together. I was learning and performing in Paris,
Prague, all over Europe. I was
even the first woman to perform as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd.
When her overseas adventure
came to a close, however, Castle said she realized that her
alma mater was the first place
to put faith in her and had given her that stepping stool to
help her jump into life.
I still perform and Ive always loved performing, Castle said. But I wanted to do
something more, and then I
remembered KU.
When Castle came to the
University around 12 years ago
as a professor, she knew she
had made the right decision,
regardless of how daunting it
had seemed.
I had no idea what I had gotten myself into, Castle said. I
just thought, Oh goodness,
how do I teach people how to
sing? But then I remembered
that opera is challenging and
thats why I love it; it pushes
me to be the best that I can
be and Ive always loved to be
challenged. I was worried I
wouldnt be able to teach until
I took it as a challenge.
She loves being a professor
now, but Castle isnt the only
one who was happy that she
came back to be a part of the
Jayhawk family.
I came to KU because of

Joyce, said Emily Bennett,

a doctoral student in voice.
In this field, as in any performance or art fields, you
go where the talent is, and I
wouldnt have gone anywhere
else.
Bennett has been a student
of Castle for the last couple of
years and said that working
with the opera star has made
her a better performer and an
all-around better person.
I love being a student to
Joyce, Bennett said. She actually, truly cares, not only about
you as an artist, but for you as a
person and where youre from
and what you want to do. I can
be so open with her.
Bennett said that this openness goes both ways, and that
Castle uses her 40-plus years of
professional experience to help
each of her students.
She doesnt even just help
her students, Bennett said. If
she hears about some architecture student doing something
and she has a contact, shell
do what she can to help them
out. Shes always calling up old
friends, who we all regard as
icons, to lend a hand teaching
us or to give us an experience
that she might not be able to.
In 2014, Castle was named a
distinguished professor, which
marks an instructors ability to
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the standard.
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said. She teaches each and every one of us to be well rounded, kind and generous, and to
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home stand after SMU Thanksgiving Classic
DYLAN SHERWOOD
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Going into the SMU Thanksgiving Classic last weekend in

Dallas, the Kansas womens
basketball team wanted to rebound after a 15-point loss
to Arizona last Monday. The
Jayhawks were guaranteed two
games in the tournament, either playing in the consolation
game or championship game
after Friday's game.
Kansas went 1-1 over the
weekend, picking up a 66-58
win over Northern Illinois on
Friday and falling to tournament champion SMU on Saturday, 73-64.
Game 1: Aldridge does it
again

ZOE LARSON/KANSAN
Chayla Cheadle drives toward the basket.

Sophomore guard Lauren

Aldridge went 5-of-7 from
beyond the arc, tying a career-high 17 points. Her performance was key as Kansas
notched a 66-58 win over the
Huskies.

However, Aldridge was not

the only major contributor
against Northern Illinois. Junior forward Caelynn Manning-Allen collected her first
double-double of the year with
12 points and 11 rebounds,
a game-high mark among all
players.
Through the first quarter,
there was little action between
the Jayhawks and Huskies.
However, Kansas began to pull
away late in the second quarter. Kansas went on a 10-0 run
in a two-and-a-half-minute
span late in the quarter to push
the lead to 18 points at the
halftime break.
The closest the Huskies were
after that was eight points with
2:30 left in the game at 60-52,
as Kansas went on to win fairly
comfortably.
Game 2: Comeback
nearly completed
After a win on Friday, Kansas took on host SMU for the
tournament championship on

Saturday. Trailing 9-0 early, the

Jayhawks boosted a 9-0 run of
their own but were behind, 4324, at halftime.
The young Kansas team outscored the Mustangs, 40-30, in
the second half but fell, 73-64,
in its second loss of the season.
Sophomore guard Chayla
Cheadle came off the bench
scoring a season-high 17
points in 29 minutes of play.
Manning-Allen, who was also
named to the SMU Thanksgiving Classic All-Tournament
Team, improved on her career
high in points with 14.
Foul trouble haunted the Jayhawks as five players each had
three fouls before halftime.
Two players, freshman guard
Aisia Robertson and Cheadle,
fouled out late in the game.
Home sweet home
Starting on Wednesday, Kansas will play six quality opponents, all at home, starting
with Creighton. This will be
the start of a six-game home

stand before Big 12 play begins

on Dec. 30 in Norman, Okla.,
against Oklahoma.
The Bluejays (4-2) will come
into Allen Fieldhouse after going 2-1 in the Lone Star Showcase in Austin, Texas, with
their only loss coming to the
No. 19 Northwestern Wildcats.
Creighton was also defeated by
Drake last week.
Kansas will host St. Johns,
UMKC, Navy, Washington
State and Oral Roberts to
round out nonconference play.
The next six teams have a combined record of 19-13, and the
best team is Washington State,
which is currently undefeated
at 6-0.
Kansas knows what it takes
to play on the road, so playing
back at home should be able to
return some confidence to this
young team.
Kansas (3-2) begins the
homestand on Wednesday
against Creighton at 7 p.m. in
Allen Fieldhouse.

Edited by Jackson Vickery

KUs special teams blunders lead to a

lopsided loss in Sunflower Showdown
sought out to be amongst the
conference best in turnover
margin, penalties and special
teams.
This season the Jayhawks
fell short on all three goals,
ranking towards the bottom
in both turnover margin and
special teams. The latter was a
key component in Kansas 4514 defeat on Saturday against
its in-state rival Kansas State.
The loss gave the Jayhawks
their first winless season since
1954, as they finished 0-12 on
the year.

SHANE JACKSON
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When head coach David

Beaty took the job at the University of Kansas, he knew the
daunting task he had in front
of him. A program in complete
turmoil after two coaching
whiffs was now in the hands of
a rookie head coach.
With all those things considered, Beaty set out three
achievable goals prior to the
start of the season; no wins
were promised. Instead Beaty

Special teams played a big

role in tonights game, Beaty
said. You take those two
blocked punts away and a couple poor punts after that it
had a huge affect on the game.
It affected us mentally.
On the very first possession,
the Jayhawks offense sputtered, going three-and-out.
Things took a turn for a worse
when junior Matthew Wyman muffed the snap and was
drilled on a punt; the Wildcats
pounced on the loose ball.
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It was a rough start; its hard
to get back once one thing goes
wrong, Wyman said. I just
dropped the snap. I dont know
if it was nerves or the ball was
dry; I just didnt see the ball in
my hands.
With 6:30 to go in the first
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it 21-7 on another blocked
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Thats disappointing to
end the year with a punt being blocked in a game, Beaty
said. As much time as we put
into it, that might be the one
of most disappointing things
I have experienced as a coach
this year.
It wasnt until the third try
that Kansas was able to successfully get a punt off.
But the pressure was still
there, and Wyman shanked
the punt. The ball soared out
of bounds for a net gain of 21
yards. Three plays later, Kansas
State made it 28-7 on a Glen
Gronkowski touchdown run
from eight yards out.
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the game, sophomore linebacker Joe Dineen said. It just
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in the game. It was a team effort.

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punt.

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of the game to get my mind
back into it, Wyman said. I
was definitely nervous after the
first time. It just wasnt my day
punting.
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Until Wyman began double
dipping as kicker and punter, Kansas boasted the worst
punting team in the nation. No
punter on the Jayhawks roster
had a higher average than 34
yards per punt.
Even when Kansas made the
switch to utilizing its kicker in
the punt game, the area only
slightly improved. Wyman finished the year with an average
of 40.5 yards per punt.
The whole punting game is
new to me, Wyman said. Im
still learning the Big 12 game.
It sucks because kicking definitely has its up and downs.
Im doing what I can to help
the team, today I just didnt
perform.
But it wasnt just the punt
game that struggled in the special team department.
The Jayhawks were inconsistent in the kicking game all
season. Kansas made just 6-of11 field goals all season long.
The Jayhawks booted through
four of their six field goals in
the first two games of the season.
The return game did not fare
much better either. Aside from
the 91-yard kickoff return for a
touchdown by freshman running back Ryan Schadler in the
season opener, the longest return of the season for the Jayhawks was just 26 yards.
For the season, Kansas
ranked dead last in the conference in punt returns and in the
bottom tier in kick returns.
Now, the special teams do not
deserve sole blame for the 0-12
campaign. Nor do they deserve a majority of the blame.
However, Saturday highlighted it as an area that Kansas
needs to improve on in the
offseason. If Beaty plans to be
competitive in the conference
down the road, he needs to
achieve all three of his realistic
goals he set prior to the start of
the season.
That starts with the special
teams unit.

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41-38 55-23 27-14 38-13 66-7 30-20 58-10 62-7 59-20 23-17 49-0
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CHRISTIAN HARDY
@ByHardy

Just like the first 11 games

of the season, Kansas game
against Kansas State was a
must-win. But it was the last
must-win the finale, of sorts.
It was a must-win for the seniors, whose last win came Nov.
8, 2014. It was a way for Kansas coach David Beaty to show
some hard evidence of progress
in his first year at the helm of
the program. A win would provide a way to walk away from
the 2015 season with some sort
of pride.
Instead, Kansas dropped to
0-12 with a 45-14 loss to Kansas
State. The team experienced its
first winless season since 1954,
leaving the departing seniors
and next years returners with a
sour taste.
"Im certainly not proud of it,"
Beaty said of the winless record.
"Its not something you ever really think about. We dont have
time to dwell on it. It is what it
is; we had our opportunities.
We had 12 opportunities to go
out there and put a team on the

field that could win the game."

The Jayhawks sixth-straight
loss to the Wildcats was rather
illustrative of its entire season,
too. Two minutes in, Kansas
special teamer Matthew Wyman muffed a snap and was
pulled down far behind the
line. Kansas State scored on the
next play.
"Obviously those special teams
mistakes where we were backed
up into our own territory were
huge. Not only were they huge
point swings, but they were
huge momentum swings," senior running back Taylor Cox
said. "One of the things we felt
like we needed to do to win this
game was not beat ourselves,
and, obviously, we werent able
to get that done."
But yet, at least momentarily,
there was a glimmer of hope
something that has regularly
risen out of almost every Kansas game this year. Freshman
quarterback Ryan Willis drove
the Jayhawks down in six plays
over 1:47 to tie the game at 7-7.
It would be the best Kansas drive of the game, without question. Kansas success
quickly went by the wayside,
something that has happened
far too often this year.
"What is causing that? I don't

know that there's really any excuse, to be honest," Beaty said

of the early stalling offensively.
"A lot of people talk about the
youth on our football team, but
those youthful guys get spoken
to just like those older guys do.
Weve just got to keep talking to
them until they get it."
On its next four drives, Kansas either went three-and-out
or turned the ball over on all
of them. Kansas State scored
four more touchdowns of its
own, one of which came off
a blocked punt the second
special teams blunder of the
game that led to points for Kansas State.
With that, the glimmer of
hope the chance of a victory in the final game in a Kansas uniform for some, and the
first of the season for all was
dashed. At the end of the first
quarter, Kansas State was up
28-7. At half, it was 35-7.
The game was on par with the
576 yards Kansas tallied up in
the season opening loss and
the 10-0 lead the Jayhawks ran
out to against Memphis before
being clobbered through the
remainder of the game, 55-23.
It was comparable to the opportunities Kansas had against
Iowa State to grasp momentum

before the offense stalled. The

quick drive and score to tie it
up was almost identical to that
of the game against the Baylor
Bears, where the Jayhawks tied
it up 7-7, only to lose in front of
their home crowd, 66-7.
But this one, this momentum
Kansas held for a few moments,
it was different. It wasnt just
another chance, or another
must win. It was Kansas last
chance to save its status as the
only winless team in a power
five conference.
Then, it faded; the winless season the people around the Kansas program had feared since
falling to South Dakota State
in the opening game had been
reached.
"Moving forward, this program needs more consistency,
and I think we're going to get
that," Cox said. "There's nothing you can really say. Obviously, youd love to get some
of those games back that were
close."
For most everyone, a season
like this was never expected.
Yet still, the Jayhawks sit in the
aftermath of a 0-12 season.
"I would have never thought
of anything like this ... Not in
a million years," junior safety
Fish Smithson said. "It's real

frustrating that it happened,

but that's something that we've
got to live with and try to prevent that happening again.
The Jayhawks stood at 125th in
run defense and 122nd in pass
defense of 128 teams in FBS
heading into the game against
the Wildcats.
They finished the year allowing 11 straight opponents to
rush for 200 yards. The 553
points the team allowed were
the most Kansas had given up
in a single season; the average of 46.1 currently stands as
the worst in college football,
though most teams have one
game to go.
Coming into this game,
#KUfball had given up
508 points. Today's not
over & its at 553. By my
calculations, that's the
most in KU history.
Amie Just (@Amie_Just)
November 28, 2015
Offensively, the Jayhawks
top three quarterbacks were
lost to injury, forcing Beaty to
start freshman Ryan Willis to
close out the season, without
a whole lot of success. He tallied with eight touchdowns on

1,719 yards passing, along with

nine interceptions. With Willis
under center, and even with
juniors Montell Cozart and
Deondre Ford at quarterback,
Kansas never scored more than
20 points after the Week 2 loss
to Memphis.
That was all expected, in some
way, in Beaty's first year of his
five-year plan. Still, there is
some silver lining for Kansas.
As the seniors are ushered
away, the freshman-heavy team
now has an entire year under its
belt to build off of. However, it's
certain that this season did not
go the way anyone around the
program wanted it to.
Now it's up to next year's team
to change the culture.
"That'll be motivation, honestly," sophomore linebacker Joe
Dineen said. "
Its embarrassing to go 0-12. I
mean, thats unacceptable. Its
unacceptable for the fans, and
its unacceptable for the University of Kansas. But thatll
drive us.
"All the way through winter,
spring, into the summer, and
we just know that weve got to
get better and weve got to improve on where we are now."
Edited by Scott Chasen

For KU volleyball, the road

to Omaha begins in Horejsi
AMIE JUST
@Amie_Just

The Kansas volleyball teams

initial reaction to its seeding
was lackluster. The NCAAs
Selection Sunday Show on ESPNU announced the top eight
seeds individually, then plastered the rest of the 16 in list
format. No one moved.
Aw. Wait. Thats us, one of
the players said, pointing at the
screen.
The eruption wasnt completely forgotten, but rather delayed.
The No. 9 Kansas Jayhawks,
one of 16 teams to host the
first and second rounds of the
NCAA Tournament on their
own court, screamed in excitement when Kansas flashed
up on the screen, showing its
first-round pairing with Furman.
They became even more raucous when the final team in the
division was selected.
That team? The Missouri Tigers.
But playing Missouri isnt
guaranteed. Kansas plays Furman first. And Missouri plays
Missouri State. And for a 26-2

Kansas volleyball team that

set numerous school records
throughout the year, its really
about so much more than that.
Regardless, the road to Omaha goes through Furman and
starts in Horejsi.
First round: Furman
Kansas (26-2) faces off against
Furman (21-8) on Dec. 3 at
7:30 p.m. in Horejsi. Kansas
and Furman have played one
time before in school history,
back in 2000, when Kansas
won in three sets. Currently, the Paladins are on a fivematch win streak, a run that
lasted through the Southern
Conference championship.
Kansas and Furman have both
played Missouri State, which
also made the tournament.
Furman opened up against
Missouri State and fell in three
sets; meanwhile, Kansas swept
Missouri State 3-0.
Second round:
Missouri/Missouri State
If Kansas gets past Furman, it
will face either Missouri (26-5)

or Missouri State (24-10). The

Tigers finished second in the
SEC, while the Bears finished
second in the Missouri Valleys
championship tournament.
Kansas has already played
Missouri State in what was a
three-set victory. However,
Kansas hasnt played Missouri since Nov. 2, 2011, the final
game before the Tigers left for
the SEC. Kansas lost that game
in four sets.
This season, both Missouri
and Kansas shared one opponent: Arkansas. The Jayhawks
went to four sets with the Razorbacks, but ultimately defeated them. Missouri played
Arkansas once this season as
well, winning in three sets.
The game between Missouri
and Missouri State is slated to
be played on Friday Dec. 4. The
time has yet to be announced.
Regionals: San Diego
If Kansas defeats Missouri or
Missouri State, it heads out to
San Diego for the regional.
The four potential opponents
for Kansas would be Loyola
Marymount (22-8), Colorado

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The Kansas volleyball team reacts after Missouri is revealed to be in its region.

State (26-3), New Mexico State

(28-5) or No. 8 Stanford (22-6).
If Kansas would move past
that game, the second regional
game would be played against
No. 1 USC (30-2), Cleveland
State (26-6), Northern Arizona (28-4), San Diego (21-9),
North Carolina (20-9), North
Carolina-Wilmington (24-7),
Coastal Carolina (25-4) or No.
16 Creighton (25-8).
Final Four: Omaha

If Kansas managed to get

through the gauntlet of the San
Diego regional, it would move
closer to home in Omaha, Neb.
The winner of the San Diego
regional is pit against the winner of the Lexington, Ky., regional.
The ranked teams in that regional are No. 5 Washington
(28-2), No. 12 Ohio State (239), No. 13 BYU (26-3) and No.
4 Nebraska (26-4).
If Kansas advanced in the Fi-

nal Four, it would play against

the winner of the semifinal
from the Austin regional and
the Des Moines regional.
Ranked teams in those two
regionals are No. 3 Texas (252), No. 14 UCLA (23-7), No.
11 Florida (22-6), No. 6 Wisconsin (24-6), No. 7 Penn State
(26-5), No. 10 Texas A&M (236), No. 15 Louisville (24-6) and
No. 2 Minnesota (26-4).

Edited by Scott Chasen