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KANSAS UNIVERSITY GUARD ELIJAH JOHNSON LEAVES THE COURT as Baylor fans surround Baylor players at half court after KU’s 81-58 loss to the Bears Saturday in Waco. Even though KU lost, the Jayhawks clinched a share of their ninth-straight Big 12 regular season title. See a photo gallery from Saturday’s game at KUSports.com.
Despite loss, KU wins 9th-straight Big 12 title By Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com
WACO, TEXAS — The Kansas University basketball team clinched a share of its ninth consecutive Big 12 regularseason title and then watched Baylor celebrate at its expense Saturday at the Ferrell Center, where the Bears defeated KU, 81-58. Earlier in the day, Kansas
State lost to Oklahoma State, which ensured Kansas would at least tie for the title a couple of hours before the game in Waco tipped off. Kansas had taken a sevengame winning streak into the game and took out of the day the second-worst defeat in Bill Self’s 10 years on the job at Kansas. Pierre Jackson (28 points) and Cory Jefferson (25 points)
combined to make 22 of 26 shots from the field and greatly improved the Bears’ chances of making the NCAA tournament field, chances that had taken a major hit when they lost five of their last six games leading into Saturday’s upset. Ben McLemore (23 points) and Perry Ellis (12 points) were KU’s best performers during a comeback that brought the visiting team
within six points with 6:23 left. Baylor outscored Kansas 20-3 the rest of the way. KU (26-5 overall, 14-4 in the Big 12) next meets the winner of Wednesday’s Texas TechWest Virginia game, at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.
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Saturday’s game in Sports, page 1B.
may have just beaten Max Falkenstien in a game of handball. I’m not sure. I’m mainly just glad he didn’t bust my glasses. When I walked into the room with him and shut the door behind me, he looked them over pretty good. “I’d be worried about those,” he said. Great. Not that I didn’t already have enough on my mind: Like these gloves. I’m wearing a pair of thick, leather work gloves, and apparently that is not the height of fashion in the world of handball. In my defense, they’re not my gloves. Lawrence dentist Ed Manda has loaned them to me. He plays handball three days a week, and always with leather work gloves instead of the specially made and more expensive handball gloves. Please see HANDBALL, page 5A
Open access to research, a focus at KU, getting national headlines By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com
Taxpayers funded it. Researchers produced it. So why should scholarly work at universities sit behind fences built by publishing companies?
For a decade or so, Kansas University leaders have asked that question about academic research published in scholarly journals. But this year, the issue has made national headlines like never before.
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among public universities, and now a KU figure has stepped into a top leadership role for a group pushing for change in Washington, D.C. Lorraine Haricombe, KU’s dean of libraries, in February became the
chairwoman of the steering committee for a group with representatives from academic libraries from around the world that pushes for better access to scholarly research. The group is called the Scholarly Publishing and Aca-
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The suicide of a “hacktivist,” a new order from the White House and legislation introduced in Congress have all drawn attention this year to an issue supporters call “Open Access.” It’s an area in which KU has led the way
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demic Resources Commission, or SPARC. That’s a follow-up to a meeting in 2011, when Haricombe and other KU faculty and librarians sat around the table in her
KU group to play Carnegie
Please see ACCESS, page 6A
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The Kansas University Wind Ensemble is preparing to perform an original symphony at Carnegie Hall. Page 1C
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