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Pepsi replaces Coke as campus drink provider @CHANDLER BOESE @Chandler_Boese
After two decades of being sponsored by Coca-Cola, the University decided this week to make Pepsi its official beverage company. Coca-Cola has had a partnership with the University since 1997, which entails selling Coke products on campus (in vending machines, KU Dining operations, etc.), free products for some events and activities, and funding for scholarships and programming. The original contract was renewed in 2007, but that expired last Saturday, July 1.
Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, the director of News and Media Relations for the University, told the Kansan via email Friday that the University had selected Pepsi as its official beverage provider. She could not give any more information. PepsiCo includes beverage brands like Pepsi, Gatorade, Mountain Dew and Naked juice. While the details of the partnership with the University are still being decided, other partnerships have included increased student scholarships, sustainability programs, career development opportunities and student programming.
For Kansas State, which is also a Pepsi school after renewing its contract in 2015, the deal means that Gatorade products are provided to their athletic programs. Pepsi has been the brunt of some controversy earlier this year for its ad depicting a protest being stopped by model Kendall Jenner offering police a Pepsi. Many critics called the ad “tone deaf,” and Pepsi pulled the ad with a public apology. The Kansan reached out to both Pepsi and Coke for comments on Friday and did not immediately receive a response.
Missy Minear/KANSAN The University will transition to Pepsi products after being sponsored by Coca-Cola for two decades.
New partnership could offer students free textbooks
File photo/KANSAN Students could be assigned free textbooks under a new campus partnership.
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When some students pull up their class lists next fall, they may be surprised to find that there’s a new option next to one of their required textbooks: “free PDF.” This cost-free PDF option is one of the benefits of the University’s new partnership with OpenStax, a program that creates professional-grade textbooks and then distributes them for free. Under the pro-
gram, the University will get to expand its efforts to offer affordable, and even free, books. “No one will wait for their loans to buy the book or not buy the book and take academic risks in doing that or take fewer courses if their textbook is free,” said Josh Bolick, a scholarly communications librarian who has spearheaded the effort. In order to get these open textbooks, faculty members will have to select one of the available texts
as a class’ required material, instead of a traditional commercial product. Faculty can get open educational resources, as they’re broadly known, from OpenStax and other venues like the Open Textbook Library. In order to encourage these choices, KU Libraries offers grants to faculty members who do choose to use open educational resources for their classes. “I never want someone to adopt something that they feel like is lesser quality, or going to be less effective,”
Bolick said. “But if they look at an open textbook and they say, ‘Oh, this is good, I can imagine adopting this,’ then we want to incentivize that activity.” Most of the current OERs focus on classes and subjects with the highest potential for large enrollment, Bolick said, like core, introductory or high-interest courses. For those students whose instructors decide to assign an open textbook, SEE TEXTBOOKS PAGE 2
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2 FROM TEXTBOOKS PAGE 2 they’ll be able get a PDF of the book online, print it themselves or buy a printed version of it at the KU Bookstore. Any of those options would cause it to come out cheaper than a commercial book, according to James Rourke, the bookstore’s assistant director for academic resources. For example, in the fall of 2016, a large introductory physics course switched
from a traditional commercial book to an OpenStax book. The traditional one was $298 new for each of the 343 students who had been enrolled in the fall of 2015. The OpenStax book, if purchased at the bookstore, cost $48.50. However, of the 328 students enrolled the next fall, only 15 percent purchased the book. “If you think about those numbers, I think it’s a tremendous win for the institution, for that faculty
member or department that opted to go that route,” Rourke said. “To see numbers like that, I think we want to do the best we can to promote that.” Rourke said a move toward open textbooks is something the bookstore (which is non-profit) is absolutely behind, since it contributes to student success. The bookstore will keep informing both faculty members and students about open textbooks and
their usage, Rourke said. The partnership with OpenStax is still in the early stages, but, right now, Bolick expects it’ll involve lots of conversations with other member institutions and OpenStax itself in furthering the movement for open educational resources. “OpenStax is really high-profile and really at the center of the open educational movement, they’re really a major player,” Bolick said. “This gives
KANSAN.COM me direct access to a lot of expertise that they have in advocating for and implementing greater adoption of open educational resources and particularly, open textbooks.” To do this, Bolick said, OpenStax will work with the University to create a strategic plan for expanding open educational practices into the future. Looking forward, the libraries, bookstore and several other University of-
fices will look to further the efforts to increase textbook affordability. “We hope to grow the proportion of courses which you can take at KU in which the materials are free or open,” Bolick said. “We’re working hard to advocate for, and educate, and provide support for instructors who choose to adopt these materials instead of traditional ones.”
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Campus carry training to be optional @CHANDLER BOESE @Chandler_Boese
As campus carry goes into effect at the University, many may have questions about this change. The University is now saying it will address these questions through an optional online training. As of July 1, anyone 21 years old or older can carry a concealed weapon on campus grounds or inside campus buildings. In mid-June, the provost’s office had posted procedures for implementing concealed carry on campus. In these procedures, all students, staff and faculty were to receive training in the safety information regarding campus carry, like how to report violations and what the potential sanctions were. Now, the University is saying the training will be optional.
Jill Hummels, the communications manager in the provost’s office, told the Kansan via email on Monday that the earlier procedures had been posted by mistake. She said they were a previous draft of the procedures and that the final draft had been posted once the mistake was realized. The training on campus carry will focus on the University’s policies and procedures surrounding guns on campus. It’s currently under development and will be offered online. Hummels could not say for sure when the training would be available, though she said the start of the fall semester would be ideal. Because the University is not legally mandated to do the training, Hummels said, administration decided not to make it mandatory for anyone in the University com-
munity to take the training. “While it is important that citizens, residents and visitors are aware of and familiar with this particular law, that responsibility always rests with the individual,” she said via email. Information on concealed carry as also been available for months in the form of the University’s concealed carry website and various information sessions. Beside the change in the training, the final procedures also do not exempt the Watkins Health Center and law enforcement training center in Yoder from concealed carry. Hummels said concealed weapons will generally be permitted at the Yoder campus, but administrators there will be able to make some activities or spaces gun-free if deemed necessary.
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Van Nortwick: Trump’s sexism sets example for others
Associated Press President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Poland’s President Andrzej Duda after arriving at the Royal Castle, Thursday, July 6, 2017, in Warsaw.
MADISON VAN NORTWICK @mvannortwick13
I see examples of sexism every day, which is infuriating, but I think the most frustrating thing is having to prove to someone that sexism actually does exist. Sexism nonbelievers have a magical power of being incapable of seeing blatant sexism in front of them. I say that this is a super power because it seems completely unrealistic. Sexism is so deeply ingrained in our society. We see sexism in our media, in marketing of everyday products, in the workplace, and in our everyday language, it is almost impossible to
escape. Trying to reason with a sexism nonbeliever is hard. Sexism is rarely tangible, it is hard to point to one solid thing and say, “Look, here is sexism.” Instead, it is the accumulation of comments, attitudes and behaviors. Proving the reality of sexism to a nonbeliever has become exponentially easier since Donald Trump became president. Trump is sexist, and his ability to win the electoral college and become president proves — at least to some extent — that sexism is not a greatly diminishing quality, but instead is a clear example that you can be sexist and still hold the highest position in the world. Trump is the tangible
thing we can reference as an example of sexism. Trump recently let his sexism show when tweeting at Mika Brzezinski, one
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Associated Press Mika Brzezinski waits for an elevator in the lobby at Trump Tower, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in New York. President Donald Trump has used a series of tweets to go after Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, who’ve criticized Trump on their MSNBC show “Morning Joe.”
Trump referenced her menstruation and blamed it for her harsh questions. The president is threatened by women
The President is threatened by women with power who oppose him, and chooses to insult their looks and femininity rather than their ability to do their job.“
of the hosts of Morning Joe calling her “dumb as a rock,” and insulting her looks, saying “she was bleeding badly from a facelift.” Trump has a history of using bloody imagery when insulting women. When going after Megyn Kelly from Fox News,
with power who oppose him, and chooses to insult their looks and femininity rather than their ability to do their job. He is obsessed with women’s looks and insults their appearance when he really wants to insult them as people. Trump has insulted other women’s looks in the
past as well, like comedian Rosie O’Donnell, Miss Universe Alicia Machado, reporter Natasha Stoynoff, singer Cher, Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington, supermodel Heidi Klum and so many more. There is actually a sexism tracker that documents every sexist comment Trump has made since the 1980s to now. Trump has repeatedly thrown sexism into our faces, making it impossible to ignore its existence today. Both Republicans and Democrats cannot stand behind his sexist comments and will hopefully start holding him accountable for his disgusting behavior, so that everyday people become accountable as
well. I hope that seeing Trump in power will be the shock that this country needs. I hope he will be the thing we can point to and say, “look, here is sexism,” that will show nonbelievers that this is real, this is a problem, and that we need to make a change from the top down to eliminate sexism. Maybe it’s idealistic, but maybe Donald Trump is exactly what we need to say enough is enough. Madison Van Nortwick is a junior from Denver studying English.
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Fish House gives its pitch to become a Lawrence staple CHRISTIAN S. HARDY @ByHardy
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yrick Madeira is fully aware why someone might question this place before stepping inside. Mass Street Fish House and Raw Bar is, quite literally, a fish out of water — a fish house and raw bar in the middle of Lawrence, where the closest body of saltwater is over 800 miles away. There is, without a
doubt, a stigma that comes with seafood in the Midwest. Part of it is valid: Most everyone has heard horror stories about a friend eating clam chowder or smelled the foul scent that can linger in grocery stores. Seafood is not always seen in the best light in this part of the country. But that stigma is exactly what Madeira, along with his staff, is trying to shake. During an hour at the Fish House,
something along the lines of, “It doesn’t smell like fish in here,” was uttered a half-dozen times, a testament to the freshness
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...in the Midwest, it’s meat and potatoes, so how do you get people to try other things?” Ayrick Madeira Proprieter
of the seafood Madeira is selling. “My personal mantra, since I order all the seafood, is I only order it if it’s fresh,” Madeira, 29, said. “Good products, good ingredients, they speak for themselves.” The restaurant is a culmination of Madeira’s prior experience paired with the influence of his Lawrence friends and his executive chef – Kealan O’Boyle — he’s met along the way. Three years
in at the University, he dropped out, realizing his real passion was in the kitchen. In the seven years since, he’s worked with 715, Teller’s, helped open Merchants, then started selling seafood around Kansas City for Northeast Seafood Products. Madeira, as well as O’Boyle and most others at the raw bar, can tell any customer where the fish or oyster came from, when it was in the water, what time it came out, how it is
farmed — he knows it all. Before he opened the Fish House, he toured clam and oyster farms looking for the right ones to put on the rotating menu of oysters that come from the East and West Coasts, fresh and salt water. He went to one farm in the Olympic Mountains in Washington, farmed oysters himself, and stayed in a log cabin, a la Bon Iver, except seafood. SEE FISH HOUSE PAGE 5
Former ‘The Voice’ contestant to perform debut EP at Bottleneck COURTNEY BIERMAN @courtbierman
Former contestant on “The Voice” Taylor Phelan will visit Lawrence on Monday in promotion of his first EP as a solo artist. Phelan will perform at The Bottleneck with opener Faintheart. The tour started last Saturday in Chicago, which is where Phelan began his music career as part of The Canes in 2011. Chicago is also where Phelan met and married his wife, Nikki. He and Nikki now have two daughters, Addison and Amelia, who they’re raising in Dallas. This isn’t Phelan’s first tour, but he said it’s still tough being away from his family. He reminds himself daily to not get caught up in the chaos of being on the road. “There's just some big practical things I have to
make sure that I do, like call my wife and FaceTime with my kids,” he said. Phelan said his EP “1 of 2,” which will be released on August 18, is a long time coming. After being eliminated from the top 20 of “The Voice” season seven in 2014, he started working on his music career full-time. The songs started to come together with the help of a few bandmates and Nashville-based music producer Josh Niles. “In the beginning we didn't really know where it was going to go or what kind of shape it was going to take,” Phelan said. “But we just started diving in.” After recording the first six songs, Phelan decided that the project would work best split into two EPs: “1 of 2” being the first installment, and “2 of 2,” which will be released later this year, as the second. “Settle Down” is the first
single from Phelan’s upcoming EP. Lyrics such as “In every kingdom there's a crooked figure/That makes it easy to assign the blame/ From the bottom it's an unfair picture/But in the end, you see, we're all the same,” are a plea for listeners to remember the humanity of whoever it is they’re arguing with — especially in today’s political climate. “It’s just a reminder that on every side of any argument, there’s another human on the other side of it,” Phelan said. Phelan has been playing the EP live since 2015, which means audiences are already familiar with the songs. It also means fans have also been able to hear Phelan and his band develop the songs over time, as his background playing in a church band as a teenager encouraged Phelan to improvise from early on in his musicianship.
Contributed Photo “The Voice” contestant Taylor Phelan will perform at The Bottleneck Monday, July 10. Doors open at 8 p.m. and the concert starts at 9.
“We don’t play the songs verbatim live,” he said. “They definitely have their own feel, and from night to night they change subtly. They’re still growing, and so audiences get to experience that growth as it’s happening.” Kansas City, Missouri, resident Pheobe Rain has known Phelan for most of
her life. Her father was the pastor at the Texas church where Phelan first started playing music. She’s followed Phelan from his gospel music roots to his time on “The Voice,” and she’ll be in the audience at his Lawrence show. “I'm really excited for this one because the music with this newer band, it's
kind of a newer tune, and it's kind of more modern-y, more alternative,” Rain said. “So I'm super excited about this, because I think it's some of his best stuff yet.” Taylor Phelan will appear at The Bottleneck on Monday, July 10. The show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are available online.
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KANSAN.COM FISH HOUSE FROM PAGE 4 “In my opinion, in the Midwest, it’s meat and potatoes, so how do you get people to try other things?” Madeira said. “They don’t trust seafood in the last 30 years... but we’re wide open with what we’re doing.” O’Boyle is keen on sharing his knowledge, too. Both Madeira and O’Boyle aim to share the knowledge they have of seafood with their staff, knowing that is maybe the best way that information can be conveyed to the public. “Knowledge is the biggest thing,” said O’Boyle, who is in his first executive chef position at age 25. “Teaching the public in seafood — we are in the Midwest, but it’s
really easy to get straightfrom-the-ocean seafood nowadays.” For as much of the Fish House’s products that are imported, the restaurant is still finding ways to connect to the community, too. Much of the produce O’Boyle uses is vended by local farms, and he occasionally uses products from the Lawrence Farmers Market to craft something special, which is where O’Boyle said he finds his passion and inspiration — in locally sourcing products to mix with imported seafood. Flowers that occasionally appear on the patio or on tables in the restaurant are from a bartender’s mother, who lives in Lawrence. It’s easy to chalk that touch of Lawrence up to just how ingrained
Madeira, and the rest of his staff, is in the community. There’s one more thing that has helped keep the Mass Street Fish House relatively busy since it first opened in December: The restaurant is original, and it’s continued to fill a niche, and do it well. Madeira is very aware of that, too. “Downtown (Lawrence) has a lot of restaurants, so you want to try to do something that’s not covered by somebody else,” Madeira said. “A raw bar and a fish house, nobody’s done this big like we have... We want to be considered one of the staples of the Lawrence community."
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Seat reallocation to lower student ticket prices WESLEY DOTSON @WesDotsonUDK
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new agreement reached last month between the Student Senate and Kansas Athletics will reallocate a part of the student section in Allen Fieldhouse to donors, as well as lower the price of student ticket prices next season. Section 19 — which is located behind Kansas’ bench in the middle and upper sections — will be reallocated to boosters, which will directly lower the student all-sports combo pack from $179 to $159. The section has about 400 seats, according to Associate Athletic Director Jim Marchiony. One of the main driving forces behind the agreement was the decline in student attendance. “The key fact, and the fact that made this all work so well for students and [Kansas] Athletics, is that students were not using nearly the number of seats that were allotted to them,” Marchiony said. “That means that Athletics isn’t ‘taking away’ seats from students, and students aren’t ‘losing seats.’” According to the Kansas City Star, Kansas Athletics has typically reserved around 4,000 seats for students for home games, but student attendance has declined recently. Students will now be
strictly assigned to the end zone sections behind each basket, as well as corner sections 20 and 21. Marchiony said the agreement will benefit students, as it will lower the cost of football and men’s basketball game tickets. “We give a lot of credit to KU student leadership, which was purposeful in its desire to lower the price of student season tickets and saw this as a way to gain something
for students without sacrificing anything,” Marchiony said. The agreement will also have another benefiter: Pell Grant-eligible, low-income and firstgeneration students. Kansas Athletics will reserve 20 season tickets for these students, and those seats will be given away for free through a lottery on a game-bygame basis. “We also credit student leadership for caring
enough about their fellow students to ask Athletics to provide 20 free tickets every game for Pell Grant-eligible students,” Marchiony said. “That displayed to us a genuine concern for students who otherwise would not be able to attend the games, and we were very happy to make that part of this arrangement.” This is the second time in the past three years Kansas Athletics has relocated student seating,
according to the Kansas City Star. In 2014, Kansas Athletics switched 120 seats in Section U — located directly in front of Section 19 — to a donor location as a response to the University’s student government voting to eliminate a student fee that provided Kansas Athletics with more than $1 million annually. However, Marchiony said he doesn’t believe this newest change will impact
the student experience at Allen Fieldhouse. “I don’t think this arrangement will have any effect on the student experience; the students will continue to make game day at Allen Fieldhouse the awe-inspiring homecourt advantage that it has always been,” Marchiony said.
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