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Wiggins era of KU basketball begins Exhibition against Pittsburg State tonight
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he cover of Sports Illustrated. Shirtless, hanging from a rim in GQ magazine. Jamming nasty dunks — 360, between the legs, behind the back, you name it — all over YouTube. On mock NBA drafts as the likely No. 1 pick. Is there anywhere Andrew Wiggins hasn’t been spotted yet? Oh, yeah, playing in an actual college basketball game. That changes tonight, when the 6-foot-8 freshman guard
their exhibition debuts as well. But most of the hype centers on Wiggins, the Canadian freshman. No. 22 jerseys and T-shirts have been moving steadily at Lawrence athletic gear stores, managers say. If you have one, wear it while you can — nobody expects the Wiggins era at KU to be a long one.
— the nation’s top high school recruit — and the Kansas University men’s basketball team face their first opponent of the season. Tipoff for the exhibition game against Pittsburg State is 7 p.m. at Allen Fieldhouse. Wiggins isn’t the only highly rated member of KU’s six-deep freshman class, just the highest rated. Joel Embiid, Conner Frankamp, Brannen Greene, Frank Mason and Wayne Selden bring impressive credentials to
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This year’s corn harvest has pop
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J.C. BROWN, far left, watches a Baldwin Feed Co. employee clear grain from the elevator floor before Brown unloaded his soybeans Monday at the elevator at 1600 High St. Baldwin employee Pete, above center, who wished to give only his first name, and Matt Wyckoff tend a stream of soybeans pouring from his truck. A Baldwin employee, above left, tended corn bound for Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Intermodal and Logistics Park in Edgerton.
Farmers seeing better yields after ‘disaster’ last year By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com
Mark Wulfkuhle, who farms west of Lawrence, recently finished up his corn harvest and is just about done
cutting soybeans. So far, he’s pleased with the results. “Our corn yields were much better than we expected. Our whole farm was in the 130-140 bushel (per acre) range,” he said, calling that above average. He classified
his soybean crop, meanwhile, as “right at or below average” and added that he finished planting wheat earlier this month. “This has been a blessing compared to the last two years (of drought). Last year we didn’t even harvest a
lot of our corn. Last year was kind of a disaster for us.” Even though the corn harvest is slightly behind schedule in the Douglas County area because of a delayed planting season and late rains, area farmers look to
Prehistoric mammal named after KU museum director By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
Fifty million years ago, central Wyoming was dense rainforest. In the lush undergrowth of the forest floor, one of the world’s early mammals, Nyctitherium krishtalkai, scampered around looking for bugs. It was a diminutive critter, resembling a modern shrew. “You would have bare-
ly noticed it,” said one of the animal’s discoverers, Richard Stucky, a curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. If the name “krishtalkai” sounds familiar, you’re not going crazy, and you didn’t spontaneously acquire knowledge of taxonomy or Latin. The recently discovered animal was named after a well-known figure at Kansas University. A few geological ep-
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Agency offers raises for relocation By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
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LEONARD KRISHTALKA is a Kansas University professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. ochs after Nyctitherium krishtalkai went extinct, Leonard Krishtalka, director of KU’s Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Institute since 1995
and the man who put the “Krishtalka” in krishtalkai, labored around the same patch of ground. Please see KRISHTALKA, page 2A
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be getting some nice yields. Soybeans are also progressing, as many farmers started combining them while they waited for their corn to dry out. Meanwhile, much of the
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As part of the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s move to Manhattan, the agency is offering its employees who are relocating a 2 percent pay increase plus a longevity bonus if applicable. For classified employees, however, there is a catch: They must agree to accept an unclassified position.
That means the employee would no longer have the protections of the Civil Service statutes and could be fired at will. Agriculture Department spokeswoman Mary Soukup said the pay raise is “an effort to mitigate the impact of the department’s upcoming move to Manhattan on employees.” To receive the salary increase, the employee Please see RAISE, page 2A
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