William Jewell College

It makes us look like hillbillies and hicks.

Alrighty joining us to dissect what's at stake on this referendum and the rest of the statewide ballot questions in Missouri a political scientist Abigail vector from William Jewell College Park University political scientist Matthew Harris from the Missouri Independent news site in Jefferson City political reporter Jason Hancock and UMKC political scientist Deborah lighter Deborah first of all if the courts are have already settled which congressional map we'll use this November.

What exactly are voters deciding with Proposition A?

What they're deciding is what map we're going to use after this election.

Look for the patterns and changes over time.

And at the national level, what we're seeing is a pretty strong Democratic wave, but those Senate-level elections really show that it's a candidate-to-candidate fight in a huge number of states, a number which we weren't expecting, including Kansas.

So when you're teaching at William Jewell, what are you telling your students about those polls, particularly, again, in that U.S. Senate race in Kansas between Roger Marshall and Adam Hamilton that you said?

Yes, well, we're talking first about how hard it is to get reliable polls.

So in 1906, these books came to Kansas City.

They first were at William Jewell College, which was the Missouri Baptist Seminary.

And then in 2006, they were acquired by Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

And We built a beautiful space to house it in 2015.

Um, and so and I've been coaching college soccer since 1999.

Um, that was my first coaching job, was actually at my alma mater, which is William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, and we were NAIA at the time and then transitioned to Division II.

Um, but I grew up playing soccer in St. Louis, and I was fortunate enough to be coached by the absolute legend of Pat McBride.

Um, so I'm-

I don't try to insult my goalkeepers of going over and telling them how to be a goalkeeper when I only have one arm.

Mm.

So, uh, but, uh, yeah, I played, played college soccer at William Jewell.

Uh, played one year of pro over in England.

There's, there's a dozen ways to go get a job.

He went to William Jewell College, by the way.

He went to William Jewell, and then-

Right here in Kansas City

They did not exactly go to Notre Dame and Alabama as undergrads, by the way.

Lanning is from William Jewell College in Missouri.

Chesney is an alumnus of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

It just kind of goes to show that these great minds and great people can come from anywhere.

I ran across this yesterday.

The last time UCLA beat Oregon in Eugene, Dan Lanning was a freshman linebacker at, uh, William Jewell, and Bob Chesney was the special teams coordinator at Kings College.

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It's been a minute, you're telling me.

Look, UCLA hasn't won in Eugene since 2004.

That was when Dan Lanning was a freshman linebacker at William Jewell.

So it's been a bit [chuckles] since the Bruins have gone on the road and handled business in Autzen.

And 11 and a half points, a lot to lay against an unbeaten team, unless you've studied how that unbeaten team plays.

We need to know the book, right? We need to know the truth and grow in this, but it should be done face-to-face.

Why face-to-face? Back many eons ago, when I was a college student at William Jewell College, we had a class in the communication major called nonverbal communication.

It was the class that transformed a lot of what I know about life today.

It was a class about why your facial expression matters, why your hand mannerisms matter.