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Students reflect on flag controversy

After “Untitled: (Flag 2)” drew criticism, students are circling back to discuss the nuances

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Bob(Jiatong) Li/KANSAN Joe Hams, a graduate student from Nebraska, shares his opinion on the Spooner Hall flag art during a conversation on Thursday evening., Sept. 13.

NICOLE ASBURY @NicoleAsbury Students and faculty aimed to continue the conversation on “Untitled (Flag 2)” by Josephine Meckseper on Thursday, Sept. 13 at Spooner Hall, in an event co-hosted by The Commons and the Spencer Museum of Art. The three University of Kansas graduate students that spoke at the event — Joe Hams, Alysha Griffin and David Tamez — all pursued individual action following the removal of the artwork outside of Spooner Hall. The artwork depicted an abstract depiction of a map of the U.S. divided in half. The flag drew harsh criticism from conservatives across the state, including Gov. Jeff Colyer. It was eventually moved to the Spencer Mu-

seum of Art. Most of the current student body was absent from campus when the controversy began on July 10, following a tweet from the KU College Republicans Twitter account.

With the fall semester already partially underway, Emily Ryan, the director of The Commons, felt it was time to bring students and faculty together for a discussion.

“This was intended as a way that once students were back, they’d have more of an opportunity to learn about what happened and to learn more about ways to which their peers responded,” Ryan said following the event.

For Hams, he stood outside of Spooner Hall and surveyed passers-by in the weeks following the flag’s removal on what exactly flag desecration means.

Griffin wrote an open letter to Chancellor Douglas Girod, where she said Girod’s action to remove the flag from outside of Spooner Hall “indicates questionable intentions.”

“I think of us being bathed in this flag culture in everywhere in America. I wish we were talking about the root of it.”

Joe Hams KU graduate student

Tamez, who studies philosophy, used his website, “Lawrence Talks!,” to evaluate the controversy from a philosopher’s perspective.

Once the panelists finished speaking, Ryan opened up the conversation to all attendees.

She challenged audience members to “lean into the discomfort when conversation topics become something that aren’t necessarily easy,” and to be mindful of other people in the room who may have wanted to speak.

During the discussion portion of the event, an audience member asked Ryan and Joey Orr, the Andrew W. Mellon Curator for Research from Spencer Museum of Art, how the incident may have changed the way they went about picking projects.

“One thing I hadn’t considered as much was the context for viewing. I hadn’t thought about social media as much changing things, and I’m still

thinking about context a lot,” Ryan said. “A lot of people experienced it not from a physical location at all, but from seeing a view of it against the sky without the label or the associated text or the associated programs listed.”

Now, even with the artwork gone from campus, it’s brought in a bigger question for students like Hams. In the months following his own discussion with students on campus, he’s thought more and more about the implicit bias of citizens of the United States, he said, and how that affects the United States’ actions abroad.

“I think of us being bathed in this flag culture in everywhere in America,” Hams said. “I wish we were talking about the root of it.”

bil has donated at least $650,000 to Kansas higher education every year for the past decade. We need to create incentives for corporations to donate more money to our colleges. I support implementing tax credits to doing so.

KANSAN: How do you plan to retain young professionals and graduates in the state?

Caldwell: To ensure young professionals and graduates remain in the state, Kansas needs a technological advancement such as having rural broadband access to the Internet. Reducing property taxes will lead to business expansion, as well as attracting firsttime businesses in Kan-

sas. Legalizing cannabis, hemp and sports betting will also help to retain younger generations.

KANSAN: How are you expanding job growth in rural and urban areas in Kansas?

Caldwell: Full legalization of hemp and cannabis and implementing rural broadband access to the Internet will expand job growth in rural and urban areas. Furthermore, lowering private property taxes will spur more economic expansion. Farmers and ranchers are hurting right now because of property tax and agricultural tariffs. They need relief and an alternative crop like hemp could help to supplement income.

Abolishing the tax on food

The Office of the Provost has announced four candidates for Vice Chancellor for Research, and is currently requesting feedback from the University of Kansas community.

Only two names have been formally announced from the Office of the Provost — Arizona State University Assistant Vice President of Research Development Cheryl Conrad and KU distinguished professor of educational psychology Neal Kingston.

The pair are only half of the candidates currently in the process of being reviewed for the position.

Each candidate is expected to give a presentation at the Lied Center Pavilion on their work.

Conrad gave her presentation on Friday morning, and Kingston is expected to present on Sept. 18 at 10 a.m. according to the Office of the Provost. Other candidates will not speak until Sept. 27 and Oct. 5.

The position of Vice Chancellor for Research facilitates “innovation, creative activity, discovery, and the application and dissemination of knowledge across all academic disciplines,” according to a news release from the Office of the Provost. The position has remained filled by two interims for approximately a year.

Chancellor Douglas Girod said in an earlier news release that the University is still on track to announce a finalist for the position this semester.

Candidate evaluation forms are available on the Office of the Provost website, and videos of all the candidate presentations will be available online after the last candidate presents.

All feedback is expected to be turned in by Oct. 18 at 4:30 p.m. to ensure consideration by the search committee.

Q&A with candidate for governor Jeff Caldwell

Contributed Photo Jeff Caldwell, running on the Libertarian ticket, is on the Nov. 6 ballot for governor of Kansas.

HAILEY DIXON @_hailey_dixon

Libertarian candidate Jeff Caldwell is campaigning to become Kansas’ next governor.

Caldwell, who is running alongside Mary Gerlt, is preparing for the general election on Nov. 6.

The Kansan issued student-related questions to Caldwell via email.

The following interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. Answers were shared in an email with the Kansan.

KANSAN: If elected as governor, what is your plan in regards to higher education and funding?

Caldwell: Exxon Mo-

and water will bring massive relief to all Kansans, especially in Johnson and Wyandotte County.

KANSAN: What do you think the government’s role should be in free speech issues at college campuses?

Caldwell: The government should ensure and protect all students’ rights to free speech.

KANSAN: Do you have any plans to tackle issues related to gun control and campus carry on college campuses?

Caldwell: I fully support the 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms.

I do not believe mentally ill or violent criminals should have the ability of purchasing or owning a firearm.

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A new study has shown that gun owners are more politically active than nongun owners, according to Abbie Vegter, a graduate student studying political science at the University of Kansas.

Vegter said results from the study showed that American gun owners tend to not only vote more, but, also, they register to vote, post on social media and file petitions at higher rates in relation to gun politics.

“We looked at gun policy in America, and we noticed preferences of gun owners were out of step with other Americans,” Vegter said.

Vetger, along with KU political science professors Don Haider-Markel and Mark Joslyn, collaborated together on the study last summer.

The researchers studied the years 1972 through 2012 in which gun owners participated in voting by conducting an online general social survey. According to the data provided by Vegter, compared to every year studied, gun owners voted at higher rates than non-gun owners.

Haider-Markel said the study on gun-ownership interested him because although there is much discussion about guns in

society today, little social science research has been done on guns in America.

“In the case of political participation, we theorized that the meaning of gun ownership has changed for American gun owners over time, with owners adopting a new social identity that is politicized,” Haider-Markel said.

In their study, Haider-Markel said they found that many gun owners view themselves as engaged in daily performance practicing their 2nd Amendment rights.

The study also found gun owners actively self-mobilized to protect themselves and their families.

“Thus, the gun owner’s self-mobilization makes her more likely to participate in all forms of civic life including politics,” Haider-Markel said. “Our results support this argument and help to explain why gun control advocates face an uphill climb.”

This data will be used to understand why legislative gun control has been difficult to achieve for advocates and supporters, according to Vegter.

Vegter said her and her colleagues recently presented the data found in the study on Sept. 2 to the American Political Science Association’s annual meeting in Boston.

“It’s really been a long time coming,” Vegter said.

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Hadley Kubicki/KANSAN A recent study discovered that gun owners are more politically active than individuals who do not own guns.

“I came in knowing I wanted to do research, but I’ve really kind of shifted my

focus as we took on this study. Gun politics are generally understudied

and we think it’s really ripe for research and we hope to fill those gaps.”

vors in the United States, according to statistics from the National Cancer Institute. The University of Kansas School of Medicine is offering a new, free wellness program called Cancer Connections to help cancer survivors like Rochelle.

The wellness program comes in the form of six separate, hour-long informational sessions covering topics such as physical activity after cancer and long-term effects of cancer treatment. Each session includes a presentation with an expert in the topic and is offered virtually, so participants can watch from anywhere.

Cancer Connections was developed by KU School of Medicine research instructor Judy Johnston and psychologist Susan Kriegel. It spread from one of their oneday, breast cancer-focused boot camp called the Pink Platoon, which discussed the same survivorship top-

ics as Cancer Connections.

“There was a strong feeling that we needed the same kind of survivor education for survivors of all types of cancer, not just breast cancer,” Johnston said.

Topics for the wellness program were chosen based off of positive evaluations from the Pink Platoon and research from Johnston and Kriegel’s personal experiences with cancer survival, according to Johnston.

Rochelle said she found out about Cancer Connections from the KU Today newsletter, and thought it would be interesting to learn more, even though she said life after cancer for her has been similar to life before cancer. She tuned into the first session on Sept. 6, in the comfort of her own home.

“Actually, I was eating my dinner and I just put it on mute and listened to [Judy Johnston] go through the presentation,”

Rochelle said. “It was easy.”

Last week’s session covered healthy eating after cancer, and Johnston said participants can still register for the program by emailing her. They can also still receive the materials used in the first session. The next session will be Sept. 20 from 6 to 7 p.m., and the topic will be an update on genetics and cancer.

Participants can attend the event in person, tune in at home like Rochelle or go to a local organization that will virtually host the program. There will also be repeat sessions in January, February and March, which will be recorded and uploaded so any survivor can access them, Johnston said.

“The chances of survival are much better, yet there hasn’t been a lot done to help survivors live a high quality life and be as healthy as possible,” Johnston said.

said Donald Whittemore of the Geohydrology Section of the Kansas Geological Survey. “In May, the drought lessened to a little to between moderate and severe. In June, the conditions began to become a little direr so that by July, the county was again in a severe drought.”

Now, in September, the drought has escalated in

Douglas County from severe to extreme.

The recent rainfall in Lawrence has slowed the drought from worsening, said Whittemore, but more can be done to alleviate the drought, such as limiting lawn and garden watering.

Water for Lawrence is obtained from three separate sources: the Clinton

Reservoir, the Kansas River and wells in the Kansas River alluvium, according to Whittemore.

Residents can prevent the drought from worsening in the Clinton Reservoir by using less water.

“Then we would need to cut back on such activities as lawn and garden watering and car washing,” said Whittemore.

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JULIANA GARCIA @slim_jim09 At first, Mary Rochelle thought she strained her neck. She put an ice pack on it in hopes that the lump she found would go away.

It didn’t.

That was early June 2016, when she found out she had stage four lymphoma. Within one month, she began her first round of chemotherapy.

By mid-October, she was cancer free. Today, almost two years later, she is only reminded that she survived cancer for one reason: her hair.

“Quite honestly, the only thing that is a daily reminder is my hair,” said Rochelle, a KU business analyst. “I totally lost all my hair with chemo, and then when it grew back, it’s totally gray.”

Rochelle is one of over 15 million cancer survi-

Douglas County still in severe drought LINDLEY LUND @lindley_mae98 Douglas County is currently in an extreme drought, with parts of the county experiencing a severe drought, according to the United States Drought Monitor map.

Kyle Poage, forecaster for the National Weather Service in Topeka, said Douglas County has re-

corded some of the driest days the past year.

During the period between September 2017 and August 2018, 24.05 inches of total precipitation were measured, in comparison to the driest period during 1999 to 2000, where the total recorded precipitation was 21.99 inches.

“By March, the drought began to become severe,”

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Free State Festival looks to attract students COURTNEY BIERMAN @courtbierman

For the first time in its history, the Free State Festival will be accessible to University students during the fall semester.

The Lawrence Arts Center’s seventh annual festival of music, film, visual art and ideas starts this Monday, Sept. 17, and will continue through Sept. 23.

It typically takes place in August, but founder and director Marlo Angell said she wanted this year’s event to be available to a younger audience.

“We really wanted to engage our universities, so the University of Kansas and Haskell, because they’ve been involved with the festival for years,” Angell said.

“So we decided to make the move and really try to see if that will attract a younger audience.”

It’s a big change from a year ago, when Angell said it was uncertain the festival would happen at all in the face of budget cuts. To save money, the programming mostly included film and the festival was temporarily renamed the “Free State Film Festival.” But “Film” has officially been dropped from the title, and the festival is interdisciplinary once again thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The grant even allowed the Lawrence Arts Center to make a significant portion of the lineup free to attend.

The 2018 festival will kick off Monday night with Cheech Marin, the comedian, actor and activist behind half of the iconic comedy duo Cheech and Chong.

Marin will spend an evening discussing his expansive

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The Lawrence Arts Center is the primary host of the annual Free State Festival. collection of Chicano art. “[Marin] is really what the festival is: he’s an interdisciplinary artist,” Angell said. “Somebody that you might think of as an actor, but really he’s this passionate art collector and has this incredible collection of Chicano art, and his whole mission is making it so that the country acknowledges that Chicano art is American art.”

Art and activism is the theme of this year’s Free State Festival. The lineup of art and artists include the film “BlacKkKlansman,” a film about a black police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan;” “Mankill-

er,” and “Warrior Women,” two documentaries about two Native American women activists; and a talk by University professor Laura Kirk, who recently authored a book about women screenwriters in the era of silent film. Angell said each piece of this year’s festival was selected to promote discussion of political and social issues.

“We really looked at what spoke to our audiences, and we’re a very active community,” Angell said.

“Sometimes you’re feeling powerless; you feel like you don’t have a voice, so being able to experience a film and talk about it with your

event that would transform the planet was still a comfortable distance away.

“It was at a transitional point in history. In the beginning of the Cretaceous world, the first flowering plants have appeared, but they do not dominate.

Our planet is a gymnosperm-dominated planet,” Engel said.

Because insects and plants display what Engel calls the “most significant biological association in earth’s history,” it proves difficult to study one without also studying the other.

The first angiosperms (the flower-bearing plants Engel refers to) appeared about 140 million years ago. Gymnosperms, the coniferous group of plants, have been around for much longer —nearly 400 million years. Both gymnosperms and angiosperms are set apart from earlier plants by the fact that they rely on pollen for fertilization.

However, modern pollinators such as bees and butterflies were just beginning to appear around the time that angiosperms flourished. The question arises: What kind of insects pollinated the gymnosperms before then?

The preserved insect the research group came across is not a particularly rare find, as this family of beetles was prevalent in the Cretaceous era. What sets the amber sample apart is a subsequent discovery made by Chenyang Cai, a scientist from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology in China.

“I did a lot preparation of this sole amber specimen, including cutting, trimming, and polishing.

When I put the prepared rectangular amber piece under a high-resolution compound microscope, I unexpectedly found dozens of tiny pollen grains alongside the beetle,” Cai said in an email interview with the Kansan.

After further analysis, the pollen proved to belong to a type of gymnosperm called a cycad. This still-extant plant has an appearance similar to a stout, wide palm tree. During the Jurassic Period, cycads were so common that the time is often referred to as the “Age of Cycads.”

Previous research had suggested a biotic relationship between boganiid beetles and cycads, but there was little physical evidence

community is really important to us.”

In addition to moving the start date, Angell said she and the other organizers looked into creating an immersive experience to attract students. They decided to “eventize” certain film screenings to give them an “irreplaceable, unique feeling.” For example, a tequila tasting at Genovese Restaurant will follow the screening of “Agave: Spirit of a Nation,” a documentary about the spirit’s tradition and current trendiness.

Other highlights of the festival include an appearance by memoirist and fiction writer Michelle Tea.

Tea will appear at The Lawrence Arts Center in conjunction with The Raven Book Store and The Commons on Sept. 20 to talk about her frequent literary work with LGBTQ issues.

Tea was invited to be a part of this year’s festival by Emily Ryan, director of The Commons at the University.

The Commons is also sponsoring Red Hot Research, a regular feature of The Commons’ programming that will also be featured in the 2018 Free State Festival.

Ryan said The Commons’ mission to bring artists together across disciplines — arts, science and humanities — overlaps with that of

the Free State Festival.

“Michelle Tea as a writer, scholar, arts advocate — she’s a great example of how to turn research and, in her case, expertise in creative writing, how to turn that into a palatable or accessible format that people can understand,” Ryan said. “And with Red Hot Research, that’s a good way for us to demonstrate a way that research is fun to engage with and fun to experience and not intimidating necessarily.”

The Free State Festival starts Monday, Sept. 17 and continues through Sunday.

Ecology professors discover 99-million-year-old beetle

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One of the University of Kansas’s professors recently played an integral role in a scientific discovery dating back to the age of the dinosaurs.

Michael Engel, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and senior curator at the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, is a paleoentemologist. In simpler terms, he studies fossilized insects.

His office is tucked away in the Public Safety Building on West Campus. It’s a cozy little building, housing rows of climate-controlled archives as well as a plethora of scientific posters and pinned specimens.

Recently, a group of scientists — Engel included — made an exciting discovery while examining amber samples in Myanmar: a 99 million-year-old boganiid beetle, perfectly preserved.

Earth looked quite different 99 million years ago.

The Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era was just beginning: dinosaurs were still at the top of the food chain, the supercontinent Pangaea had not completely fragmented, and the looming mass extinction

Contributed Photo University professor Michael Engel is part of a team of professors that discovered a 99 million-year-old boganiid beetle perfectly preserved in amber. supporting this hypothesis. The paper the group published about the finding has generated a great deal of clamor in the scientific community and has even caught the interest of the New York Times.

As Engel explains, discoveries such as this one are vital because increasing amounts of physical evidence from the past can illuminate recurring trends, which can be extrapolated to examine current conditions. The boganiid-cycad relationship can reveal a

great deal about both past and future ecological occurrences.

“In many cases, what we are seeing is that climate change over geological time scales has had profound impacts on these organisms. Now, we’re going through an artificially induced period of climate change which is lightning-fast compared to what has happened before,” Engel said. “We can start asking the bigger, more proximate questions.

What are the underlying

mechanisms driving these changes that we can now document and observe?”

Whether or not you’re enthralled by the minutiae of ancient symbiotic relationships, it is clear that the work of Engel and his colleagues has practical applications in the modern era. That’s the beauty of science — it has a nifty way of bringing even the most obscure phenomena into focus.

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KU grad’s first film gets distribution deal

Contributed photo Josh Doke is a 2012 alumnus whose debut film received a distribution deal through Parade Deck Films.

This turn of events put raise an extra $12,500 to deadline of September “Goodland” on multiple in- help fund production and 2016. dependent theatre markets post-production on the around the country, thanks project.

“I really just “That was just finishto help from Yennie and Pawanted to paint rade Deck Films, a company ing funds. We had raised that picture money outside of that from based out of Portland. of western For Doke, the film was a personal investors, and Kansas and the long process from its con- kind of finished that Kickception in 2014 to a fin- starter run as were starting Midwest in a ished product at its film production in October of way that I feel 2015,” Doke said. festival run in 2017. is underrepreFrom there, the pro“I started writing ‘Goodsented.” land’ in the fall of 2014. duction process moved to I completed the script in shooting film in just 17 Josh Doke March of 2015,” Doke said. days, a short time frame KU film graduate “And my production com- that Doke knew he had pany Rockhaven Films was coming into the project.

Despite the timeframe “It was a whirlwind. [It’s] already on board, so we were primed and ready to not a lot of time to shoot a from production to finished feature length film, so we product, Doke said he and make our first feature.”

At that point, Doke and shot six-day weeks with his company felt prepared his company spent about Sundays off,” Doke said. for this process and gave six months doing rewrites “We ended up shooting 12- credit to his earlier experiences in film for preparing and working out other var- hour days or more.”

The end of the film’s him for these restrictions. ious pre-production tasks “Myself and my team like casting and scouting for shoot in October 2015 led almost straight into came up through doing on-location filming spots.

In September, Doke set post-production and the a lot of guerilla filmmakup a Kickstarter fund to editing process, with a ing,” Doke said. “So when

I wrote this screenplay to begin with, knowing the locations I was going to film at, I wrote it for something I knew we could film right then.”

Location was an aspect of the film Doke knew would be an important role in reflecting certain themes and aesthetics in the final product. This led him to shoot most of the film in Goodland and other rural towns in western Kansas.

“I sat down and spent a lot of time with my cinematographer, Iain Trimble, and we really hashed out every scene and every single shot,” Doke said. “I really just wanted to paint that picture of western Kansas and the Midwest in a way that I feel is underrepresented.”

Trimble, Doke’s director of photography and fellow 2012 University alumnus, shared this sentiment with Doke, adding that locations added to the film’s visual potential.

“A lot of our projects were inspired by locations that made our imaginations turn,” Trimble said. “That’s always a part of what intrigues us, what a location can conjure up in our imagination.”

Trimble added that the on-location shooting led to many instances of refashioning spots for sets, especially when shooting scenes in small towns. Places like the police station, which were involved in multiple scenes, required reorganizing to create a different

type of office.

“The sheriff’s office was an existing insurance claims office, but the walls were painted right,” Trimble said. “We needed a couple of things and all of a sudden it looked like a sheriff’s office.”

Despite the multiple public location shoots, Doke said that a closed set, which is a private location to eliminate public interference and time constraints, used for a diner scene allowed him to have a bit more freedom than normal.

“We actually filmed in a diner that had been closed down, so we had an actual closed set for the first time all shoot,” he said. “And I just got to sit back at the monitor and watch [the actors] do their jobs.”

After post-production, Doke began putting the film into festivals. He said that quality over quantity was always on his mind during this process, which helped lead him to Yennie.

Now, with distribution rights and a small theatrical run behind him, Doke said he looks forward to releasing “Goodland” to the public, as well as seeing how the film does during a current limited Redbox release.

“We’ve reached out to fans to look out for it,” Doke said. “And hopefully we’ll spread out from there.”

“Goodland” will be released on Blu Ray and video on-demand before the end of the year.

minister endless amounts of pain to themselves, passing off as pleasure. The drugs allowed for many long, still scenes involving psychedelic colors and distorted voices.

Length plays a role in more than just the length of Red’s chainsaw-wielding opponent. Scenes are extended for long periods of time, including a four-minute scene in which Sand speaks to Mandy about his connection with God, an exploration of his character’s insanity. Focusing the camera on single characters allows for the audience to truly understand just how insane the world of “Mandy” is.

Although some may be turned off by the insanity of the film, the director, Panos Cosmatos, embraces that fact and takes the idea of a psychotic cult and runs with it. “Mandy” is Cosmatos’ sophomore film, his first being 2010’s “Beyond the Black Rainbow.” There are few directors who are

able to stray away from the mainstream format of film.

Cosmatos has just solidified himself as a director whose obscurity doesn’t get in the way of his inventiveness.

Staying true to his vision throughout the film, Cosmatos combines shock with thrill and a splash of comedy. The comedy in “Mandy” comes from the many one-liners Red has throughout the film, including a scene in which he is slashed in the chest and wounded. The action calls for Red to state one of his few lines: “that was my favorite shirt.”

Cage’s character Red is the perfect role for the actor, as he is a man rapidly falling into insanity, just as Cage himself seems to do in every film. However, “Mandy” is one of Cage’s best films yet, so don’t give up hope on the actor just yet.

Although he has been in flops such as “Ghost Rider,” “Rage” and basically every other film, “Mandy” pairs right up there with his Os-

car-winning performance in “Leaving Las Vegas.”

Acting beside Cage is Riseborough, whose performance as Mandy was subtle, yet forceful. She embodies a quiet, shy woman who loves books and heavy metal music. The majority of moments with Mandy on the screen allows the audience to see the subtlety of the character. However, when confronted by the over-confident cult leader, Mandy bursts into laughter as the man brags about his connection to God. The brief break in character was shocking, but it perfectly advanced the film.

Great acting, camera work and story writing helped create the best film to come from Sundance this year.

Everyone who is a fan of weird, fun and intense films should find themselves at the theater for this unforgettable movie experience.

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Josh Doke spent three years on his first film. After the film, titled “Goodland,” was completed in 2017, he secured distribution rights for the murder mystery set in rural west Kansas.

The film takes place in the titular town — Doke’s hometown — after a dead body shows up on a local farmer’s land the same day a mysterious photographer comes to town. Law enforcement are left to figure out what’s going on underneath the surface, leaving a twisted turn of events in its wake.

Doke, a 2012 University of Kansas film school graduate, said a formal distribution deal became possible after he read about the American Film Market, an annual film industry event in Santa Monica, California.

“I picked up a book written by Ben Yennie,” said Doke. “And at that time, we were thinking about taking it to the American Film Market, but we didn’t really have a full working knowledge of how that was going to work.”

After reading the book, Doke reached out to Yennie, an author and frequent collaborator of films presented at the Film Market.

“I reached out to [him] on Twitter of all places, and he got back to me and he saw the trailer for the film and he ended up becoming our producer’s rep for the film,” he said.

‘Mandy,’ featuring Cage, is fun, bloody insanity

Contributed Photo Nicolas Cage brings a new level of performance in his latest film, “Mandy.” member Jeremiah Sand (Linus Roache) for her beauty. After a series of events, Red’s quest for revenge begins with a crossbow, a homemade axe and LSD. Cinematography leads “Mandy” to a new degree of an ethereal, apocalyptic world from close ups of each character in key, drug-fueled scenes, to the wide, scene-setting shots of the surroundings. The color

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Obscurity reigns supreme in “Mandy.” The film embraces weirdness, allowing Cage to overact to his heart’s desire. A tainted strain of LSD allows a gang of motorcyclists, who are depicted as demons, to ad-

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I wish my prof would stop saying moral “rectal-tude” on purpose I was just called a turtle and I feel confused and attacked apparently KU used to have a nuclear reactor on campus so add that to the list of things they’ve done wrong “I have a theory a giant Jayhawks lives in the Campanile and you see it when you walk through the campanile at graduation but you’re not allowed to tell undergrads or it’ll hunt you down” I’ve been drinking since 6:30 a.m., and that’s a new record for me.

I gotta outlive donald trump so I’m gonna stay alive out of spite tbh To the lady wearing the “I Miss Obama” shirt: Me too “Hockey is dope. I think I’m going to play it professionally.”

Just found out that Wagner was a high key nazi so there’s that “I want Phog to maul me to death” Hurricane Florence is thiccc y’all do you ever just look at all the work you still have left to do and open Netflix instead?

Yeah… me too.

“Why is the pope still a thing?”

I woke up after my 113am shift staring at my roommates girlfriend.

She just nodded her head and went back to sleep. I didn’t even know she stayed the night Cop pulls up to us. “Hey, have you guys heard any gun shots recently?” Then proceeds to say “not that there have been any” “I wish upon a star that my family was conservative” i wanna walk thru the campanile, i already know i’m not gonna graduate on time

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MSG needs to make more noise HANNAH HENRY @hannahh3614

FFA of the Day: pretty sure I just walked to class while still asleep

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A plethora of feelings are associated with being part of a racial minority demographic. Across the board, these feelings are generally of hardship and discomfort. Not seeing someone else who looks the same way as you, or more often, seeing very few people who do, can be a culture shock.

These underrepresented students sometimes feel forgotten or lost. The University of Kansas’ Multicultural Student Government seeks to “intentionally advocate for the empowerment of marginalized and traditionally underrepresented identities.” These identities include, but are not limited to, race, ethnicity, origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation and mental health.

This obviously encompasses a great deal of identities, which prompts the question: how does it concentrate the same amount of energy towards each identity? The organization is the first of its kind nationwide, so the argument could be made that everything they do is influential. But do minorities actually benefit from it?

According to data from fall 2017, the latest available, the University’s demographics are, not shockingly, 69.5 percent white. That’s expected; this is a school in smalltown Kansas. It also means that 30.5 percent of the student body is made

up of five or more races/ ethnicities. That’s a lot of races for such a small percentage. Of course, in accordance with current trends, the University’s diversity numbers are growing from year to year, and perhaps someday, a long way down the road, there will be more balance.

Last October, a oneon-one interview between the Kansan and then-president Chiquita Jackson focused on MSG’s goals for the 2017-2018 school year. Jackson highlighted community outreach to set up events around minorities as a way to remind them that there are resources available to them. This came after MSG hosted a series with Chancellor Douglas Girod that focused on discussing retention rates and student comfortability.

MSG’s Rock Chalk Central events page has but three already-passed events: the “MSG Welcome” event, which was listed twice, and the “Multicultural Student Government Forum” last April.

In the face of deterioration, how has MSG benefited from minority students?

The organization then faced turmoil and a possible loss of funding for allegations that included misuse of funds, offensive comments, and refusal to collaborate with the Multicultural Affairs Com-

Sarah Wright/KANSAN Then-Multicultural Student Government Vice President Constanza Castro speaks during a meeting on Feb. 27. The two, now president and vice president, are hoping students up involvement so the organization can continue. mittee. After many bitter discussions, funding was eventually restored per the campus fee increase, from which 25 cents were allocated to the Multicultural Education Fund.

But this is in the past.

So, again, in the face of deterioration, how has MSG benefited minority students?

Current co-president Constanza Castro, a senior from Raytown, Missouri, believes MSG’s events have so far been successful.

“We have seen actual benefits from our events as students have been connected to resources they actually use, such as TRIO and financial services,” Castro said.

TRIO is a federally funded program for first generation and low-in-

come students.

“Initiative-wise, increasing representation of students in governance has been successful through having students be placed on university boards and committees,” Castro said.

These boards and committees were not disclosed.

So, despite a rocky start, it seems MSG has not lost sight of its goals of educating, providing resources for, and increasing representation of minority students at the University.

It is the implementation of these goals that must be built stronger.

To be more beneficial, and because it is a new student organization, advertising is key moving forward. Getting the word out about who MSG is and

what it’s here for is the baseline way this organization will see success.

Without doing so, it will constantly be confused with the administrative Office of Multicultural Affairs and will soon collapse as a student-initiated government known mostly for being riddled with allegations and scandals.

Minority students need the representation MSG aspires to provide. But the organization has a lot of work ahead before it can begin to see its goals fulfilled in the student body.

Hannah Henry is a sophomore from Omaha, Nebraska, studying political science and global and international studies.

percent rating from the National Rifle Association.

Two months later, she was rated at 7 percent. That’s quite a large swing. Is this massive shift genuine, or is it a calculated political maneuver?

Kelly defends the discrepancy between her past votes and her current stance by arguing that she has recognized the policy has failed and now seeks to correct it. While her candor is admirable, it is hard to believe that a politician can undergo such a significant reversal. Is the sole Democratic sponsor of concealed carry legislation really willing to make a U-turn and pass a slew of gun restrictions?

Reversals are endemic to politics. Shifting political winds require candidates to adapt if they want to curry favor. Such a dramatic shift should be considered with heavy skepticism, especially considering the vital importance of the matter.

Voters should not legitimize opportunistic rebranding.

According to her campaign promises, Kelly intends to implement gun control legislation. However, her resolve is yet

untested. If she encounters opposition in the legislature, will she expend valuable political capital to push it through? Or will she pick her battles and decide to fight a more winnable fight? Judging by past votes, it’s more likely that the latter will prevail.

This is not a negotiable issue. There are an estimated 38,000 gun deaths in the United States each year. In the wake of a series of horrific mass shootings, gun control legislation is needed now more than ever. Legislative irresponsibility has led to the failure of common-sense gun legislation on the national level. The battle over public safety will be waged anew on the state level. It is imperative that Kansas voters elect someone who is actually committed to action.

If Kelly is truly willing to abnegate her previous positions, then that’s great. But if her reversal proves to be illusory, Kansas voters ought to think twice before casting their ballot.

John Higgins is a sophomore from Olathe studying economics and sociology.

Kelly’s pro-gun past casts doubt on campaign JOHN HIGGINS @john_f_higgins If you’re waiting for politicians to be consistent, then you probably shouldn’t hold your breath.

Democratic nominee Laura Kelly, Independent Greg Orman and Republican Kris Kobach participated in a debate at the Kansas State Fair on Sept.

8. The participants hashed out familiar party platforms and largely stuck to their talking points. Water is wet, and Kobach wants to cut taxes.

Gun control was also discussed. Kelly, toeing the party line, emphasized her desire to implement “comprehensive gun sense,” the Kansas City Star reported. A part of this involves rescinding Kansas’ concealed carry laws and establishing a license requirement. While Kelly’s concern for public safety is admirable, it is quite ironic considering she was a co-sponsor of the concealed carry legislation in question.

Kansas Senate Bill 45, which authorizes the concealed carry of firearms without a license in public spaces, was introduced in

Kansan file photo Democratic candidate for Kansas governor Laura Kelly spoke at the Kansas Union on Feb. 5, 2018.

January of 2015. Kelly was the lone Democratic senator on the list of sponsors.

Kelly also voted for the 2013 bill that paved the way for concealed carry on college campuses. Support for such legislation cross-

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es a line. Concealed carry without a permit poses a threat to public safety and her unique role in the creation of this policy cannot be swept under the rug.

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Six forced turnovers fuel football victory MADDY TANNAHILL @maddytannahill

With a slim 3-0 Kansas lead early in the first quarter against Rutgers, junior safety Bryce Torneden corralled an interception off the pass of Scarlet Knight quarterback Artur Sitkowski, returning it 39 yards for a Kansas touchdown.

The junior’s pick-six shifted the momentum in favor of the Jayhawks early and, from that moment on — it was all Kansas, ultimately resulting in a 5514 victory, as well as the first two-game win streak in the era of David Beaty.

“We really emphasize on turnovers obviously and those definitely are an energy booster I feel like and I’m very fortunate that I was in that position,” Torneden said.

“Game kind of slowed down, it was kind of surreal, but definitely very thankful.”

Having forced six Rutgers turnovers on the day, two of which were returned for touchdowns, the Jayhawk defense yet again played a critical role in the outcome of Saturday’s matchup, as Kansas boasts 12 takeaways in the last two games combined.

Feeding off the energy of Torneden’s touchdown, junior safety Mike Lee capitalized on his own opportunity early in the second quarter, completing a 31-yard touchdown return off another

Chance Parker/KANSAN Junior safety Mike Lee intercepts the ball against Rutgers. The Jayhawks defeated the Scarlet Knights 55-14 on Saturday, Sept. 15.

Sitkowski interception.

“Bryce pumped me up,” Lee said. “I felt like he had caught his picksix and I felt like I was the only [defensive back] out there without an interception, so I felt like my time was gonna come. My time came. I felt like I had to make a play and I did.”

With both safeties able to transform defense into

offense so early in the first half, the Kansas defense ultimately was able to tally 70 yards off three interceptions. Torneden explained that it was no coincidence that the Jayhawks converted the momentum of one interception into two more.

“I’d say energy is contagious, especially on defense,” Torneden said.

“We kind of feed off each other. So if I was in that position I’m definitely thankful that Mike felt like he could piggy-back off of that and carry that into further drives."

With Kansas having forced only nine turnovers in the entirety of 2017, this year’s 13 through the opening three games certainly comes as

an improvement. Though with only 24 of the Jayhawks’ 55 points coming off turnovers against Rutgers, coach David Beaty explains that he is still not satisfied.

“We’ve left so much stuff out there that we can get so much better on,” Beaty said. "I mean, I think that’s the thing that we’ll build off of,

is you know, we had 24 point of off six turnovers.

That’s not good enough.

We’ve had that the last two games. We just haven’t capitalized.”

Heading into Big 12 play next week, Kansas travels to Waco, Texas, to take on the Baylor Bears, with kick off set for 2 p.m.

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yards, it was defensive coordinator Clint Bowen's unit that set the tone for the lopsided victory this afternoon.

The defense allowed only seven points and 274 yards of total offense, while taking the ball away six times for the second consecutive week.

Despite defensive tackle senior Daniel Wise sitting out the second half due to a leg injury, the Jayhawks managed to completely shut out the Rutgers offense down the stretch.

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On Saturday afternoon, the Kansas Jayhawks broke yet another streak with their 55-14 victory over Rutgers inside David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, marking back to back wins for the first time since 2011 (McNeese State, Northern Illinois).

For Kansas, it marks the largest margin of victory since 2016 when they beat Rhode Island, 55-6.

Behind an impressive and surprisingly rowdy crowd for a kickoff time set for 11:00 a.m., the Jayhawks came out swinging early, landing some heavy blows to the Scarlet Knights in the opening minutes.

Following a quick three-and-out to open things up, a newly charged offense, led by freshman running back Pooka Williams Jr., marched down to Rutgers territory, but was stalled due to a couple of errant throws by senior quarterback Peyton Bender. Bender's struggles meant the Jayhawks had to settle for a fieldgoal.

On the ensuing defensive series by Kansas, junior safety Bryce Torneden jumped a pass from Rutgers quarterback Artur Sitkowski, returning it 39 yards for a score to put

Chance Parker/KANSAN Junior safety Bryce Torneden celebrates with his teammate after scoring on a pick-six against Rutgers on Saturday, Sept. 15. The Jayhawks defeated the Scarlet Knights 55-14.

the Jayhawks up 10-0 less than five minutes into the game.

However, just as the momentum was seemingly all coming from the home side, the Scarlet Knights refused to be put away so early, as they blocked a 36-yard field goal by senior kicker Gabriel Rui and returned it for the teams first touchdown in two weeks.

The Jayhawk offense kept the foot on the gas throughout the first half, highlighted by a

touchdown throw from new sophomore transfer quarterback Miles Kendrick to senior wide receiver Jeremiah Booker on a six yard fade route to the corner of the end zone.

Kansas controlled the rushing game as well, accumulating 400 yards on the ground, with five players rushing for over 30 yards. Williams led the way with 165 yards on 18 carries.

On the defensive front, turnovers came aplenty

“We defensively were very good, but we were so much better offensively,” Bechard said. "To beat a team that’s really competitive and scraps — and to win 3-0 two nights in a row — is not easy, especially when you’re repeating an opponent.”

least six kills.

“Jada took some really good swings out of system, and we had some really good balance too,” Bechard said.

Junior Allie Nelson once again started at libero after doing so against the Spartans on Friday. However, Bechard still started freshman Lacey Angello, who had taken the job from Nelson earlier in the year, as he continues to run sets with both on the floor. Bechard described the battle as “week-toweek, day-to-day.”

Freshman setter Camryn Ennis shined once again, logging 25 assists and 14 digs. That marks her sixth career double-double in just her seventh appearance.

The numbers have been consistently strong, but Bechard said he believes she’s still improving every match.

This match wasn’t supposed to happen until earlier in the week, when it was announced that the Spartans would be traveling to Lawrence instead of the Jayhawks

in the first half by way of an interception return and two fumbles, junior safety Mike Lee decided to add his name to the list with the Jayhawks second pick-six of the game, the team's third in the last five quarters of play.

“I felt like I was the only guy who didn’t have an interception yet,” Lee said. “I knew my talent was there and it was going to come in at any time."

As the second half began, it was no longer Bender taking the snaps

for the offense, as Kendrick was awarded the entire second half start, adding another score to pad his stats with an eight yard rushing touchdown.

“We felt that Miles was better suited for the game plan we had going against their defense,” Kansas coach David Beaty said. “We are not going to name our starter for next week, we are just going to have to go back and look at the tape.”

But, even though the offense shined with 544

“I felt like we've moved on from the Nicholls game...we've been able to move on from that going forward.”

Mike Lee Junior safety

“I felt like we’ve moved on from the Nicholls game,” Lee said. “Credit to them as they came out and beat us, but we’ve been able to move on from that going forward.”

Kansas will open up Big 12 play next week against the Baylor Bears in Waco, Texas, on Saturday, Sept.

22. Kickoff is set for 2:00 p.m.

Volleyball sweeps UNC Greensboro in home series JORDAN WOLF @JWolfAP

Just hours after Kansas football sealed a 55-14 blowout victory, Kansas volleyball responded with a dominant win of its own, sweeping UNC Greensboro for the second straight night.

“We’re excited about how today went,” coach Ray Bechard said of the football team’s performance. “I thought that carried a little momentum into the crowd tonight. Got our gals excited.”

It took the Jayhawks just three sets (25-22, 25-15, 25-17) to get past the Spartans, thanks to another dominant defensive showing and a vast improvement offensively.

The proof is in the box score. Kansas swung for a strong .344 hitting percentage while holding UNC Greensboro to just .106. This comes on the heels of Friday’s match, in which the Jayhawks held the Spartans to an even .000 figure but hit just .194 themselves.

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“Our administration stepped up big time and made some decisions that would create an opportunity for them to come up here, that we could help them out a litte bit.”

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The attack was led by junior outside hitter Jada Burse, who led the match with 11 kills on an extremely efficient .526 clip despite falling out of system on multiple attempts. In total, four Jayhawks finished with at

Chance Parker/KANSAN Freshman setter Camryn Ennis sets the ball to her teammate in the game against UNC Greensboro at Horejsi Family Athletics Center on Friday, Sept. 14.

facing off against them and two other schools as part of a tournament across the state of North Carolina, which is experiencing flooding in the wake of Hurricane Florence.

Bechard tipped his hat to not only Kansas and UNC Greensboro officials for getting the series together, but also to the Spartans for being tremendous guests. The

Mike Lee Football

Early in the second quarter against Rutgers, junior safety Mike Lee grabbed his first interception of the season, returning it 31 yards for a pick-six to extend the Kansas lead to 24-7.

Breaking multiple tackles to eventually land in the end zone, Lee’s pick-six was the second of the game for the Jayhawk defense. In addition to his interception, the junior also accumulated three solo tackles on the day.

two teams had dinner together after Friday’s match, and the Spartans went to Saturday morning’s football game as well, as their school doesn’t have a team.

“Our administration stepped up big time and made some decisions that would create an opportunity for them to come here, that we could help them out a little bit,” Bechard said. “And it

Camryn Ennis

really helped us, because our team grew over the last two matches and played better and better."

Now sitting at 6-4, Kansas will next face Drake on Tuesday night in its final nonconference match of the season. Big 12 play opens up against TCU on Saturday afternoon.

Volleyball In a match originally scheduled to take place in North Carolina, freshman setter Camryn Ennis led the Kansas offense to a series sweep over UNC Greensboro. Notching 25 assists on Saturday evening, the freshman coordinated a season-best .344 attack percentage for Kansas. Having added a team-high 14 digs to her stat sheet on Saturday and 21 assists and 14 digs the night before, Ennis increased her double-double count to six on the season.