Jayplay inked
March 15, 2007
A day with the owner of joe’s body art page 5
friendly competition Try trivia at local bars page 7
dance yourself fit
Zumba your way to a better body page 17
rockin’ women
Katlyn Conroy and other female artists prove that rock ‘n’ roll isn’t just for boys anymore. page 10 and Matthew Foster describes a deadly car accident and the realization that followed. page 19
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When I was a child, my mother enrolled me in piano lessons. Instead of explaining sheet music to me, my teacher labled each of the notes my tiny fingers could reach with the numbers one through five. One, two, three, two, one, one, one; I pounded out “Mary Had a Little Lamb” easily. But during our second week of lessons, my teacher introduced a dreaded number. Six. “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” was beyond my five-note musical vocabulary, so I did what any 5-year-old would do: I quit. My stint as a pianist was followed by two years of cello (it was too heavy to carry up the driveway), four years of clarinet (I really wanted to play saxophone), two weeks of sax (not cool enough), a year of electric guitar (too cool) and four months of harmonica (much less appealing once I returned from Spain). Today, a Goodtime Banjo is taking up valuable space in my tiny apartment because I plan on learning a few bluegrass tunes (as soon as I find the time). I lack the dedication to start, join or even worship a band. Obviously, I’m not the best role model for musically talented women. But Jayplay writer Jaime Netzer stuck with music, joined the band Aubrey and wrote the story on page 10 about girls who play in bands. So add her, and the women she writes about, to your list of musical heroes.
ßBecka Cremer, co-editor On the cover: photo illustration/ anna faltermeier
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people 13
music and events
St. Patrick’s Day Parade, The Elders and more
people 05
Quiet dissent
SOMA president Andrew Stangl
notice 15
living art
A day on the job with tattoo artist Joe McGill
a new do
Dreadlocks! Crazy colors! Hair run amok!
health 17
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Riddle me this
shake it fast
Play a game of trivia at a local bar
A new workout shakes and shimmies into Lawrence
speak 19
feature 10
she rocks
Women break into the rock ‘n’ roll boys’ club
the tao of compassion
Matthew Foster and the car crash that changed his life
JAYPLAYERS EDITORS MAKIN’ IT HAPPEN Becka Cremer Dave Ruigh
PHOTOGRAPHERS MCGUYVER STUFF Amanda Sellers Anna Faltermeier
CLERK GETS AROUND TOWN Michael Peterson
HEALTH GOOD FOR YOU Lindsey St. Clair Kim Wallace Elyse Weidner
DESIGNERS MAKE IT PRETTY Katherine Loeck Bryan Marvin
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PEOPLE KNOW EVERYONE Sam Carlson Jennifer Denny Anne Weltmer
OUT HIT THE TOWN Matt Elder Courtney Hagen Jaime Netzer NOTICE TAKE NOTE OF IT Laura Evers Dani Hurst Katrina Mohr CONTACT HELP YOUR LOVE LIFE Matthew Foster Nicole Korman
CREATIVE CONSULTANT FOUR SEA CREATURES Carol Holstead WRITE TO US
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Ca l e n d a r march 15
THURSDAY
Gallery Exhibit: The Dead Sea Scrolls. Science City at Union Station, 9:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m., $20–36, www.sciencecity.com. The Dead Sea Scrolls will be on display through May 13.
Gallery Exhibit: Jennifer Steinkamp. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., FREE, www.kemperart.org. The Los Angeles-based artist’s work will be on display through May. Gallery Exhibit: The Neighborhood Show. Signs of Life, 10 a.m.–11 p.m., FREE, www.signsoflifegallery.com. Eight local artists’ work will be on display. Lecture: “Process in Formalization: Housing and Land Tenancy in San Jose, Costa Rica.” 318 Bailey Hall, 12 p.m., FREE. A rice and beans lunch will be available with a donation. Lecture: “A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts and Urban Senegal.” Spencer Museum of Art, 12:15 p.m., FREE, www.spencerart. ku.edu. Tea Time. Traditions Area, Kansas Union, 3 p.m., FREE. Haste The Day/From Autumn To Ashes/Maylene and the Sons of Disaster. Bottleneck, 5 p.m., all ages, $15. UMKC Jazz Matinee. Mike’s Tavern, 6 p.m., 21+. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s Casino, 7 p.m., 21+, $35, www.nittygritty. com. Film: Mardi Gras: Made in China. Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union, 7 p.m., FREE. Fred Eaglesmith/Romi Mayes/ Scott Noland. Knuckleheads Saloon, 8 p.m., 21+, $15 adv./ $19 at the door. El Canero. Mike’s Tavern, 9 p.m., 21+, www.myspace.com/ elcanero. The Old Black/Clutch of Undeath. Jackpot Saloon, 10 p.m., 18+, www.myspace.com/ theoldblack.
march 16
FRIDAY
march 17
SATURDAY
Gallery Exhibit: The Dead Sea Scrolls. Science City, Union Station, 9:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m., $20–36, www.sciencecity.com.
The 34th Annual Kansas City St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Downtown Kansas City, 11 a.m., www.kcirishparade.com.
Gallery Exhibit: Jennifer Steinkamp. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 10 a.m.–9 p.m., FREE, www.kemperart.org.
White Glove Tour of the Dole Archive. Dole Institute of Politics, 11:30 a.m., FREE, www. doleinstitute.org.
Gallery Exhibit: The Neighborhood Show. Signs of Life, 10 a.m. –11 p.m., FREE, www. signsoflifegallery.com.
St. Patrick’s Day Party feat. The Danny Pound Band, The Kinetiks, Red Lefty, The Afterparty, PBR Band and more. Replay Lounge, 12 p.m., 21+.
Walk-Ins Welcome Friday. Spencer Museum of Art, 10 a.m., FREE, www.spencerart.ku.edu. Arena Football: Kansas City vs. Dallas. Kemper Arena, 7 p.m., $9, www.kcbrigade.com. Trivia Riot. The Brick, 7 p.m., $5, www.thebrickkcmo.com. Players are welcome to come as a team or all alone. There is a $5 entry fee for all who wish to play. Professional Championship Bullriders Tour. Kansas Expocenter, 7:30 p.m., www. ksexpo.com. Roman Numerals/The Republic Tigers. Voodoo Lounge at Harrah’s Casino, 8 p.m., 21+, www.myspace.com/ romannumerals. March Metal Massacre. Grand Emporium, 8 p.m., all ages. The Brainwaves. Mike’s Tavern, 8 p.m., 21+, www.myspace.com/ thebrainwaves. Mirror Image/The Biggs/ Global Warming. Boobie Trap Bar, 8:30 p.m., all ages, $5-6, www.myspace.com/ mirrorimagetriplets. Chubby Carrier. Knuckleheads Saloon, 9 p.m., 21+. Ladyfinger/His Mischief/Rent Money Big. Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+, $2, www.myspace. com/ladyfinger. Pert Near Sandstone/ Deadman Flats. Jackpot Saloon, 10 p.m., 18+, www. pertnearsandstone.com. Cosmic Bowling. Jaybowl, Kansas Union, 10 p.m.
Bob Walkenhorst . Record Bar, 12 p.m., 21+, www. bobwalkenhorst.com. Lawrence St. Patrick’s Day Parade. South Park, 1 p.m., www. lawrencestpatricksdayparade. com. Gym Class Heroes/RX Bandits/ P.O.S./K-OS. Granada, 6 p.m., all ages, $13, www.myspace.com/ gymclassheroes. The Elders. Uptown Theatre, 7:30 p.m., all ages, $23–48, www. eldersmusic.com. Professional Championship Bullriders Tour. Kansas Expocenter, 7:30 p.m., www. ksexpo.com. The Leo Project/Vice and Virture/Johnny Rook. Grand Emporium, 8 p.m., all ages, www. theleoproject.com. TV on the Radio. VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s Casino, 8 p.m., 21+, $15, www. tvontheradio.com. Razorwire Halo. Mike’s Tavern, 8 p.m., 21+,www.myspace.com/ razorwirehalo. That Damn Sasquatch. Boobie Trap Bar, 9:30 p.m., all ages, $5–6. Cosmic Bowling. Jaybowl, Kansas Union, 10 p.m. An Angle/Paleo. Bottleneck, 18+, $5. Death of Faith. Mike’s Tavern, 21+, www.myspace.com/ deathoffaithmusic. Head for the Hills. Jazzhaus, $5
march 18
SUNDAY
march 20
TUESDAY
Carillon Concert. Memorial Campanile, 5 p.m., FREE, www. carillon.ku.edu.
Workshop: Stress and Time Management. 103B CarruthO’Leary Hall, 9 a.m., FREE.
Chess Night. Henry’s on Eighth, 7 p.m., FREE, all ages.
Make ‘n Take Crafts. Lawrence Public Library, 2:30–4 p.m., FREE.
Republic Tigers/Great Glass Elevators/Peach Cake/1090 Club. Record Bar, 7 p.m, 18+, www.myspace.com/ therepublictigers.
Baseball: Kansas vs. Northern Colorado. Hogland Ballpark, 4 p.m., ticket required, www. kuathletics.com.
Poker Pub. The Pool Room, 7 p.m., FREE. Play for the chance to win prizes.
Jon Dee Graham/The Silos. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 8:30 p.m., 21+, $10 adv./ $12 day of show, www.jondeegraham. com.
The Blood Brothers/ Celebration/Moonrats. Granada, 8 p.m., all ages, $12 adv./ $14 at the door.
Hooray for Earth. Grand Emporium, 9 p.m., 21+, www. hoorayforearth.net.
Smackdown! Trivia. Bottleneck, 8:30 p.m., 18+, $5.
Seklusion/Vaeda. Boobie Trap Bar, 9:30 p.m., all ages, $5-6.
Brody Buster and Mike Cibura Blues Duo. Harbour Lights, 10 p.m., 21+, $2.
Pelican/Russian Circles/Young Widows. Record Bar, 10 p.m., 18+, www.myspace.com/pelican.
Dark Meat/Drakkar Sauna/ Hope for a Golden Summer. Jackpot Saloon, 10 p.m., 18+.
Team Lift. Jackpot Saloon, 10 p.m., 18+, www. thejackpotsaloon.com.
Poker Pub. The Pool Room, 10 p.m., FREE.
The Thermals. Bottleneck, all ages, $9.
march 19
MONDAY
Playing with Your Food. Dyche Hall, 10 a.m., FREE, www.nhm.ku.edu. Hands-on demonstrations and activities with kitchen foods. Creative Movement and Music. Lawrence Public Library, 2:30–3:15 p.m., FREE, www. lawrence.lib.ks.us. Beyond Blue Mondays with Lee Mcbee, Pat Nichols and Friends. Jackpot Saloon, 5 p.m., all ages, FREE.
march 21
WEDNESDAY
Chess Night. Aimee’s Coffee House, 7 p.m., FREE.
Stand Up, Stand Off w/Roy Wood Jr. Hawks Nest, Kansas Union, 7 p.m. Todd Oliver. VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s Casino, 7 p.m., 21+, $15, www.funnydog.com. The Sword/Priestbird/ Yearlong Disaster/Lethe. Bottleneck, 9 p.m., 18+, $9.
Spanktones Open Jam Session. Jazzhaus, 9 p.m., 21+, $2.
Rockabilly Roundup feat. The Rumblejetts. Knuckleheads Saloon, 7:30 p.m., 21+, FREE.
Mejudice/Abject Horror/ Strength Beyond U. Hurricane, 9 p.m.
Theater: The Maids. CraftonPreyer Theatre, Murphy Hall, 7:30 p.m., $10, www.kutheatre.com.
Seminar: Kansas City Jazz. Regnier Hall Auditorium, Edwards Campus, 7 p.m., FREE. A jazz bassist, drummer and pianist will perform.
Coffee and Culture. Lobby, Kansas Union, 8 p.m. Fresh Ink. The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $3, www.jazzhaus.com.
where?
VENUES
Beaumont Club 4050 Pennsylvania St. Kansas City, Mo. (816) 561-2560
Bottleneck 737 New Hampshire St. Lawrence (785) 841-5483 The Brick 1727 McGee St. Kansas City, Mo. (816) 421-1634 Fatso’s 1016 Massachusetts St. Lawrence (785) 865-4055 Gaslight Tavern 317 N. Second St. Lawrence (785) 856-4330 Grand Emporium 3832 Main St. Kansas City, Mo. (816) 531-1504 Harbour Lights 1031 Massachusetts St. Lawrence (785) 841-1960 Jackpot Saloon 943 Massachusetts St. Lawrence (785) 843-2846 The Jazzhaus 926 1/2 Massachusetts St. Lawrence (785) 749-3320 The Record Bar 1020 Westport Road Kansas City, Mo. (816) 753-5207 Replay Lounge 946 Massachusetts St. Lawrence (785) 749-7676 Signs of Life 722 Massachusetts St. Lawrence (785) 830-8030 Uptown Theater 3700 Broadway St. Kansas City, Mo. (816) 753-8665 VooDoo Lounge 1 Riverboat Drive Kansas City, Mo. (816) 889-7320
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MUSIC THAT MOVES YOU Listener: Brian Katz, Deerfield, Ill., senior Tune: “Joyful Noise” by the Derek Trucks Band While pumpin’ the jams, he was: Sitting on a bench outside of Bailey Hall He says: “My iPod was about to run out of batteries and I wanted to listen to this one song before class.”
Listener: Kyle Gorynski, Topeka senior Tune: “Panda” by Dungen While pumpin’ the jams, he was: Headed to the lawn to read for his chemistry class He says: “It’s really energetic and something new. I really like the change in moods.”
Listener: Kyli Christopher, Lee’s Summit, Mo., freshman Tune: “You’re Ever So Inviting” by Underoath While pumpin’ the jams, she was: Headed to the Underground She says: “They’re coming in town tonight so I’m getting ready for their show.”
Listener: Hadley Kombrink, Shawnee freshman Tune: “Warning Sign” by Coldplay While pumpin’ the jams, she was: Waiting in Wescoe Hall for her English class to start She says: “It’s fitting with the two books I’m reading, kind of mellow and emotional.” ■ Sam Carlson
Back in the day: Katzer was busy waiting tables at Henry T’s during her three-and-a-half years at the University, which she describes as being her escape from school. She also competed for the KU Varsity Women’s Rowing Team for a year and was a member of Chi Omega sorority.
GRAD CHECK
Emilee Katzer
Year: 2002 Degree: Strategic Communications Hometown: Ottawa
The grad life: After graduating in the fall, Katzer stuck around Lawrence to walk down the hill in May. She married her fiancé less than a year later and took a job with Barkley Evergreen & Partners, an ad agency where she was a “Media Planner” for a year and a half. Today: Katzer now works for Pennington & Co., a fundraising, consulting and public relations firm for fraternities and sororities. She travels a couple of weeks each month to visit with alumni from schools across the nation. In May 2006, her husband’s accounting job with Deloitte & Touche moved
the couple to Stamford, Conn., but Katzer continued her job as senior consultant for Pennington & Co. “It’s been so fast paced, but I love that. There’s so much to do!” she says. They will continue to live in Connecticut for two more years before relocating to an undecided location. Her goals are simple:“I just always have to have something going on: volunteering, a job, kids, whatever it might be,” she says. “I never want to be bored.” She says: Katzer loved the beautiful spring days walking on campus and seeing friends, but she would have liked to take each day with more excitement during her time as an undergrad. “I wish I would have lived in every moment. You kind of go through the motions — go to class, not appreciate it. But live in every moment. Once college is gone, it’s gone,” she says. ■ Jennifer Denny
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Living art
The tattoos Joe McGill inks on his customers are almost as interesting as the man himself.
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Joe McGill, owner of Joe’s Body Art, outlines a tattoo on the arm of one of his customers. Each needle McGill uses can make 3,000 holes per minute and fill them with ink.
Photos/ Sarah Leonard
by Anne Weltmer A man stops in the middle of the lane on Vermont Street just outside of the Lawrence Public Library, honks at me getting out of my car, pulls his navy sedan into a parallel parking spot, and walks across the street and into Joe’s Body Art right behind me. He greets Joe McGill, the owner of the parlor, and the seven other people in the room, then sits in a tall-backed chair with wooden armrests in the corner of the room next to a shelf full of children’s books and starts sketching out his next tattoo. Chris Lang, the graying, wavy-haired man in the corner doodling an image of the Predator, is one of the people whom McGill works on regularly in his parlor. Working with the people is fun, sometimes out-ofthe-ordinary, but his love of the job is more than just meeting interesting people and drawing on them. “I got fascinated with it because it really is a living art,” McGill says about why he’s been tattooing for more than 25 years. “If people die, the art dies. The artwork’s going with them.” McGill, originally from Sedan, moved to the Lawrence area when he was 15 years old. He took all the art classes he could
in high school in Perry and one more at the University of Kansas. After partying too hard and failing the class, he decided college wasn’t for him. After that he painted houses to support himself, but continued to draw and paint in his spare time until he met someone who knew how to make a homemade tattooing machine in 1980. It’s addicting to give and receive tattoos, McGill says, so he tattooed out of his house in the late 1980s and early 1990s until a law was passed that tattoo artists had to be certified. He wasn’t happy about the change and tried to convince the authorities to grandfather him into the new system because he’d had so much experience. But he ended up having to get certified anyway. McGill’s been tattooing professionally since 1994, but opened Joe’s Body Art at its current location, 714 Vermont St., three years ago. The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Snow (Hey Oh)” plays faintly from an old black boombox, but the closest noise to me is the hum of the drill hollowing 24,000 holes per minute into the arm of Travis Baucom, a Haskell Indian Nations University
“I got fascinated with [Tattooing] because it really is a living art. If people die, the art dies. The artwork’s going with them.” — Joe McGill freshman from Cowita, Okla., and filling them in the shape of a lion coming out of fog. McGill uses eight needles, each with a capacity to make and fill 3,000 holes per minute with ink. He stares intently at his newest artwork through his thick, black-rimmed glasses. He’s wearing an old Harley-Davidson short-sleeved T-shirt with holes around the pockets. I’m trying to observe McGill at work and question Baucom about his new tattoo, but Lang insists that I be the one interviewed first. He asks me the usual get-acquainted questions, and then if I have a tattoo. I don’t. Then Lang opens up about himself. I ask him what his first tattoo was, but he says he was young and drunk in China and it wasn’t the best idea, even though he was going to get one anyway. He says a 14-year-old boy gave him a rose-and-heart design on his forearm, but I can’t see the original version when I
ask because McGill has reworked it, Lang says. “Want me to take my shirt off?” he asks after I inquire about his other tattoos. He wants to show me the latest parts of his full-back tattoo that he and McGill have been working on in phases, so he takes off his Harley-Davidson thermal longsleeved T-shirt and shows me his thick back. McGill’s quiet demeanor doesn’t hide his amusement at Lang’s forwardness and he shows his orange chewing gum as he grins. But he does agree with Lang that the body is a canvas to express oneself. Lang’s back looks like a scene from Lord of the Rings: craggy mountains extend from his scapula to his love handles with a lake, a castle and figurines on either side. He says it hurt so bad getting the tattoo on his ribs that he had to take a break. I ask if he planned on doing any more tonight, and he said probably not — he just wanted to stop by and
hang out. Like an old-fashioned barbershop, people drop in just to hang out, talk and “see who can lie the most,” Lang says. Lang says McGill has either created or modified every tattoo on his body, and there are a lot — his arms and back are covered in ink. He says that he didn’t have a master plan when he started getting tattoos, but he’s noticed a pattern of good and evil emerge. “My body is a battleground. I think we all are a spiritual battleground,” Lang says. Now he tries to plan his tattoos accordingly. He says he finds out more about himself from them and does them in reaction to big events in his life, such as his break-up with an exgirlfriend. Baucom agrees and says he thinks of them as scars. Every time he goes through a traumatic experience, he wants to get a tattoo to remind himself that he survived it. The lion emerging from the fog represents passing through all of the obstacles in his life, Baucom says. He decided to get it after he had a dream about the image and soon after received an acceptance letter to attend Haskell. While all of this is going on, McGill’s 12-year-old
stepdaughter, Haley, is also hanging out in the tattoo parlor with her friend. She fits right in the casual atmosphere with her hooded sweatshirt and jeans on. She calls McGill “Joe” when she jokes around with him; she’s not shy at all. She plays on the computer and answers the phone for McGill while he works. His wife calls to see if he can take Haley to church later that night; he says yes. McGill’s work schedule is flexible. On his business card, it says “open 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. or later.” “He has a pretty low-key life for such an old man,” Lang says jokingly. McGill is not really old; he’s only 47. He still has a heavy, untrimmed black beard with two white streaks down either corner of his chin, and a black ponytail hanging out of the back of his denim cap. McGill says he’s not going anywhere. Besides Haley, he has another stepdaughter and a new baby on the way. He plans on staying in Lawrence — although maybe not in his current location because the rent’s too pricey — for the rest of his tattooing days. He says it’s not a physically demanding job, so he plans on doing it until he’s “really old.”
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It’s happened to everyone: You get home from class and realize something’s missing from your bag. If your lost item is not in the office of the building where you lost it, check the centralized Lost and Found at the KU Public Safety Office, 1501 Crestline Dr. The Lost and Found room is a temporary home to many common items such as clothing, electronics, books
and accessories. And, every so often, something as random as three garden gnomes turns up, says Captain Schuyler Bailey, KU Public Safety Office spokesman. People trying to recover a lost item must be able to describe it, so engrave or have something identifiable on valuables such as iPods, Bailey says. And if you lose something nice, don’t simply assume someone took it. “Things get away from us, but there are a
lot of honest people walking around who turn in wallets full of money,” he says. When any form of ID is turned in, the Public Safety Office will attempt to contact the person, he says. Items are kept for three months; after that, reusable items are donated to charity organizations in Lawrence. For more information about lost items, call (785) 864-5910.
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Trivia Tips from those who know it best
Play with a small group, says Andy Morton, host of Smackdown! Trivia. “If a team comes in with 12 people, from our standpoint, that team is not going to win. There’s no way — it’s too many people to argue with.” Vary your expertise, Morton says. Don’t bring your two roommates who also share your Star Trek obsession. Listen to NPR or watch CNN, says Dan Pierron, Olathe senior, because there’s usually a current events category.
If you’re an expert in something, hone those skills. “I’m not embarrassed to admit I know my celebrity gossip,” says Laura Watkins, 2006 graduate. “I keep up on all of the online gossip blogs.” Don’t take yourself too seriously. “This one time, a team was trying to prove that a wrong answer they had given was right, and someone said ‘No, that’s right, I saw it on eBay!’” Watkins says. “Now people repeat that as a joke if they answer wrong.”
Photos/ Anna Faltermeier
Question: What is trivia? Answer: A better way to spend your time at bars.
Members of trivia team “The Best Team Ever” brainstorm during trivia night at The Brick in Kansas City, Mo., Friday night while host, Megan Metzger, reads off trivia questions.
by Jaime Netzer The host announced the final category: this day in history. Laura Watkins, 2006 graduate, took a swig of her Newcastle and decided with the three guys on her team to bet all of their points. They were far behind the other 11 teams playing at the Brick, 1727 McGee St. in Kansas City, Mo., that Friday night, and had nothing to lose. “On what show was John Lennon’s death first announced?” Watkins was worried. Under pressure her memory is horrible, she says. Then it hit her. “Just from a time I randomly vegged out in front of VH1 for like, 20 hours, I remembered it was announced on Monday Night Football,” Watkins says. Because of Watkins’s ability to retain this seemingly useless piece of information, her team was the only one to answer the question correctly. They won first place. Watkins is one of several dozen regular trivia players in Lawrence. She plays almost every week in different bars
around town. Watkins says she enjoys trivia because she’s naturally competitive and learns interesting, random facts. But the main reason she plays is to spend time with her friends, she says. So if you’re stuck in Lawrence over spring break, avoid the usual get-drunk-and-standaround routine, and give trivia a try — you just might learn something useless. What is trivia? Trivia first took off in the United States in 1927, although the term wasn’t coined until the 1960s. The publication of a series
of popular quizbooks called Ask Me Another, filled with questions like “what is a Bunsen burner?” and “how do kangaroos carry their offspring?” got Americans hooked on quizzing themselves. Trivia in Lawrence is set up in a system similar to the one used on Jeopardy!. Teams select categories and answer questions for points. One team can challenge another team if they think the other team won’t be able to come up with the answer. If the other team fails, the original team receives double the points. If the team being challenged answers the questions correctly,
play trivia this week Sunday, March 18 Smackdown! Trivia at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. Cost: $5 Wednesday, March 19 Live Action Pub Trivia Show at Conroy’s Pub, 3115 W. 6th St. Cost: Free
Thursday, March 22 Brainville Trivia Show at Johnny’s Tavern, 410 N. 2nd St. Cost: $5
Friday, March 23 Trivia Riot at the Brick, 1727 McGee St., Kansas City, Mo. Cost: $5
they receive double the points. The points are also doubled in the second round, and at the end comes a final question, for which teams know the category and must make a wager before they are asked the question. The team with the most points wins. Smackdown in L-town Several bars around town host trivia nights. Andy Morton hosts what is arguably Lawrence’s most popular trivia night, Smackdown! Trivia at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. “There are a lot of people that just remember the strangest things,” Morton says.“Where else are you going to be able to vomit up all of that knowledge?” Jon Nicklas, Overland Park senior and a regular trivia player, says that people who are into trivia are usually relatively smart people who like to learn eclectic information that can come in handy during conversation. “For some reason, I like knowing obscure facts,” Nicklas says. The best moments in trivia are when the answer hits you like a bolt of lightning, says Dan
Pierron, Olathe senior, who plays and hosts trivia regularly in Lawrence. Pierron’s love of trivia began with Trivial Pursuit when he was a kid. He participated in scholars’ bowls in high school and now plays at bars for fun. During school breaks, he usually doesn’t miss an episode of Jeopardy!, he says. Some people might be naturally more inclined than others to soak up trivial information, says Ray Hamel, a former trivia writer for the New York Times and co-author of The New York Times Trivia Quiz Book. He says that the ability to recall trivia is a talent that people are born with. “I’ve known people who try blunt force memorization of facts,” Hamel says. “Trivia people want to know what they know — studying takes the fun out of it.” Both Hamel and Morton, the trivia host, have experience on the other side of the trivia aisle as well: they have to write it. Hamel says that most of the puzzles he writes begin with a basic theme and he then formulates questions related to that theme.
Most of the questions come straight from his own trivia-filled memory, Hamel says. He then fills in the last few pieces needed by looking online or in a thesaurus. Morton has to write 100 new questions each week for Smackdown! Trivia, an event he has hosted for seven years. “Do that math,” he says. Sometimes it feels like a chore for Morton, and other times he has no trouble creating the 12 categories and questions to fit them, he says. Morton says that sometimes he intentionally tries to irk people with the categories he creates. His favorite example? Full House questions. Trivia is a creative effort; hosts come up with categories like “celebrity pedophiles” and “famous cheaters”and teams who play trivia create team names like “the Fibonacci Sequins” and “the Amazing Racists”. The winners of trivia usually earn a small cash prize, but they also walk out with enough tidbits of worthless information to add up to one bloated ego and several weeks’ worth of bragging rights.
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THIS WEEKENDÌ
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Before you fly off to Cancun or Nassau, make the short trek to Kansas City for the city’s 34th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The parade is the fourth largest St. Patrick’s Day celebration in the nation and will stretch for more than a mile in downtown Kansas City, Mo. The parade starts at 11 a.m. in front of Union Station on Pershing and Main Streets and will travel east and then north, ending at 15th Street. This year’s parade, set with the theme of “Celebrating St. Patrick in Kansas City,” will feature balloons two to three stories high and thousands of marchers, says Gary Jones, director of media relations for the
parade committee. The committee is expecting a crowd of more than 100,000 revelers and recommends coming early to stake out a spot at the parade’s starting point to get the best views, Jones says. For more information on the parade, visit www.kcirishparade.com. ■ Courtney Hagen
food review smoothies
As the days get longer and temperatures inch up the thermostat, a sumptuous smoothie may be just the thing to refresh and recharge you before your next class or game of Frisbee. Jayplay’s Jaime Netzer breaks down Lawrence’s best locally made smoothies.
Granita Italian Cream Soda
Strawberry Ginger Smoothie
This recipe could use some tweaking — the smoothie ended up pretty slushy after a spin in the blender. The saccharin sweetness was overwhelming.
The price isn’t worth the unpleasant zing of this dairy-free strawberry smoothie. Somewhere between the strawberry and the excessive ginger, the smoothie ends up tasting like butter.
J & S Coffee Co Inc. 4821 W. Sixth St. $2.55 16 oz., $3 20 oz.
★★★ Strawberry Banana Smoothie Sylas & Maddy’s Ice Cream 1014 Massachusetts St. $4 16 oz.
Unlike their crave-worthy ice cream, the flavors in this smoothie are muted and transparently artificial. Save your taste buds: select a smoothie elsewhere.
★★
Local Burger 714 Vermont St. $4 12 oz., $5 16 oz.
★ BEST: Strawberry Fruit Smoothie
Aimee’s Coffee House 1025 Massachusetts St. $2.95 16 oz., $3.25 20 oz. Quality ingredients must be the secret behind this simple smoothie blend. Ice, milk and strawberry syrup add up to a sweet treat.
★★★★ ■ Jaime Netzer
★★★★★ All ratings are out of a possible five stars. ★★★★★
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BITCH +
moan
with Niloofar Shahmohammadi
I met this guy two weeks ago and we hung out every day for a week. This week, we only hung out three times, but I’m certain it’s because he had a lot of homework. We talked about doing something this past weekend, but he never called. I called him and he apologized and then we made tentative plans — But then he broke those plans. What’s going on? I’m freaking out. He told me he likes me, so why is he acting this way? — Elizabeth, sophomore Elizabeth, you need to pull over, ‘cause you’re doing 80 in a 25. You’ve known the guy for two measly weeks and you’re already spending every day with him? Put on the brakes. Instead of agreeing to see him every time he calls you, force him to set dates with you. That way you’re not waiting by the phone wondering if you have plans tonight or not. Train him to book you in advance. He’ll place a greater value on you and you’ll also rest easier. And also, if you have set plans, he’ll have to call you when he needs to break them, as opposed to just leaving you hanging because your plans were tentative anyway. OK, so now that you’ve slowed down, the next thing you need to do is stick your butt in a bucket of ice water, because you’re right, you are freaking out. There’s no need — you only had trouble getting together
with him for two days. That’s another reason why hanging out too much too soon is a bad idea. It really screws up your perception of timing. Who knows what could have been going on for him this weekend? Relax. He’ll call. But if by Monday or Tuesday you haven’t heard from him, then you can start to let go of the loser. If he does call, which he probably will, say “Oh, don’t worry about this weekend. It’s no big deal.” He’ll probably want to hang out that same night; that’s when you say, “Sorry, I actually have a ton of homework tonight and I have a really busy week, but either Tuesday or Thursday would be good.” Then he picks a day. Then you pick a time. And then you have a date. Keep it nice and slow from now on and you’ll have more time to figure out if you want to be dating this guy at all. Good luck.
I’m really hot for my biology professor, and he’s into me too. He hasn’t done anything about it, but I’m having trouble concentrating in class. I daydream about him all the time. I’ve been thinking about going to office hours and asking him out. I know it’s a little taboo, but we’re both legal adults so it’s not a big deal, right? — Lisa, Freshman Yeah, you’re both adults, so use your adult brain and think about the consequences. KU has clearly laid out the policy on relationships of “unequal power,” which you can find online at www.hreo.ku.edu/policies_ procedures/other/ConsentRelation.pdf. Basically, don’t start anything, and if you do, the University community
won’t support you. You could also be screwing your grades (no pun intended) and doing a lot more damage to a lot more people than you realize. If this is true love, it can wait until the end of the semester.
Please send your questions and concerns to
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For years, women were excluded from the boys-only rock ‘n’ roll club. Today, a growing number of female artists are bridging the gender gap in the local music scene.
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Women in Rock
She by Jaime Netzer
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The Lilith Fair tour spotlights female headliners
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Megan Brozanic and Megan Dudley of Dolly Surprise DJ at The Eighth Street Tap Room, 801 New Hampshire St.
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(above) Kate Furst of Dolly Surprise DJs at The Eighth Street Tap Room, 801 New Hampshire St., Saturday night. Furst is in the allfemale group with Megan Brozanic and Megan Dudley. (right) Katlyn Conroy performs with Another Holiday March 1 at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
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Photo/ Jaime Netzer
Katlyn Conroy, an 18-year-old high school senior from Kansas City, Mo., steps up onto the slightly elevated wooden stage. It’s bitterly cold outside, but Conroy is dressed in a thin lacey white top and a short denim skirt. An asymmetrical slip peeps out from underneath the frayed denim, and Conroy’s bare legs meet white leather boots that fold at her ankles. When I first saw Conroy walk into PJ’s Restaurant and Pub, 1129 Laramie St. in Manhattan, I assumed she was dating someone in the band. I watched the doorman place pungent black Xs on her hands and wondered why she was at the club long before the show would start. Though I’ve been the only girl in a five-piece band for the past three years, I still made the assumption that this girl wouldn’t be sharing the bill with me that night. Conroy plays with Another Holiday, an indie-pop band based in Lawrence. As they took the stage and she settled herself behind her keyboard and pushed her unkempt hair out of her face, I wondered about her. Was she the lead singer? Did she do any of the writing? Did she always dress up for shows? Conroy is part of a relatively small population of female musicians in the Lawrence area. Though www. lawrence.com lists 317 local bands, only a handful of those bands have an active female presence. Rock and roll has traditionally been a boys’ club, and women who have pursued careers in rock have faced struggles since the 1950s. However, the expanding presence of an alternative and independent music scene has helped to carve a niche for women whose voices may
have otherwise gone unheard. Elvis stole my music Most people place the birth of rock ‘n’ roll around 1954, with the arrival of Bill Haley and the Comets. Women’s presence in popular music actually pre-dated men’s, says Susan Shaw, co-author of Girls Rock! 50 years of Women Making Music. For many years, both female and African-American music was essentially co-opted by white men, she says. “Big Mama Thornton recorded ‘Hound Dog’ long before Elvis got a hold of it,” Shaw says. Because these women were kept out of the public eye, young girls had very few role models to look to, Shaw says. Without examples of women succeeding in rock, young girls had no proof that it was possible. Aaron Couch, Overland Park junior and guitarist for Another Holiday, remembers when he was in middle school and first started playing guitar. When he was younger he listened to classic rock musicians like Jimi Hendrix whose songs, he says, were pretty misogynistic. “The song ‘Foxy Lady’ is a pretty politically incorrect song,” Couch says. “These old rock ‘n’ roll guys were all about the conquest of women, not necessarily seeing them as viable artistic people.” Parents usually aren’t much help either. Julie Lane, keyboardist and vocalist for the Lawrence-based band Ad Astra per Aspera, says most young girls’ parents don’t encourage them to buy electric guitars or amplifiers. Lane, who took piano lessons throughout her childhood, says that most young girls took lessons for some other
instrument instead. “A lot of boys saw a video on MTV when they were 12 and thought, ‘I want to be the front man of a rock ‘n roll band,’” Lane says. Most girls don’t have that kind of egotistical drive, she says. Women like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and even Pat Benatar are not rock ‘n’ roll musicians, Lane says. They are pop stars. She also says the women who are in rock are often perceived as scary or trashy. “You just don’t see the badass ‘I write my own music and play in a good rock ‘n’ roll band’ woman,” Lane says. Not that there aren’t female musicians out there who are successful and influential. Conroy can list several female-fronted bands she listens to regularly (Rilo Kiley, Tilly & the Wall and Matson Jones, for example), but she says that she looks more often to male musicians for inspiration and influence. Conroy writes the lyrics and melodies for Another Holiday and tries to incorporate techniques used by singer-songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes. Conroy likes the idea of writing in a way that someone wouldn’t necessarily expect from a female. Women and rock have had a tenuous relationship. The concepts of rock ‘n roll and femininity just don’t go hand in hand, Shaw, the author, says.“Rock is about rebellion, machismo and sex,” she says. “It’s anything but feminine.” Shaw even points to the physical
design of instruments like the guitar shoulder to catch the eye of Couch as another subtle reminder that as they begin to play. She smiles women are out of place in rock‘n’roll. at him and he returns the gesture Shaw says the guitar was originally while bobbing his body to the a women’s parlor instrument. gentle and precise beat coming “Then it just kept increasing in size from their drummer. until today. Women tell me that it Another Holiday’s music is not smashes their boobs!” she says. up-tempo, and I suspect this is a conscious C o n r o y choice to show doesn’t have to deal with a “Rock is about rebellion, off Conroy’s talent. She has guitar, though. machismo and sex. It’s the kind of voice She spends her anything but feminine.” that makes you time on stage sitting upright — Susan Shaw, co-author slow down. It rests confidently on a stool with of Girls Rock! in the back of a mic positioned her throat and is in front of her pure and strong mouth and piano keys just below her fingertips. — until she flips into falsetto. Then it Couch says he doesn’t feel like becomes light and slightly breathy. Conroy turns back around and Conroy is out of place in his band. In fact, when his band was looking for begins to tap her feet on the floor in a new vocalist, the fliers specified time with the music. that they preferred a female lead, Having Conroy join the band though they would have considered didn’t change their dynamic that much, Couch says. As far as telling males as well. The appeal of the female lead vocal can be elusive to crude jokes, he says the guys in pin down. “There’s just something the band just don’t hold back. He charming about female vocals,” remembers wondering if one band Couch says. He says that when a member with an especially small band wins him over because of a bladder would refrain from using voice, the singer is usually female. the restroom located smack dab Female leads are usually used to in the middle of their rehearsal add sensitivity to music. Conroy likes space as often once Conroy joined to hear a female voice that is harder the band. Nothing changed; the or loud, but it’s not that common, frequent bathroom trips lived on. she says. “Girls can’t necessarily be Standing on stage, illuminated badasses on stage,” she says. “Or if by spotlights and exposed to they do, somehow it’s not honest.” however many people may be watching on a particular night, it’s One of the guys… in a skirt only natural for any girl in a band to Conroy peers over her right be aware of the way she looks to an
audience. Conroy wants to be taken seriously as a musician. She never wants to be seen as an accessory or as the “visual pleasure” or “hot-ness factor” in Another Holiday. However, she does put time and thought into dressing up for shows. “I have a unique, crazy sense of style and it does add a visual effect,” Conroy says.“I can pull off a lot of things the guys in my band couldn’t.” Skirts, make-up and strategically exposed skin can change the audience’s perception of a show. Appearance can even be a way to draw in fans, but most female musicians are uncomfortable with this. Megan Dudley, a DJ for the all-female group Dolly Surprise, also based in Lawrence, relays some mixed experiences about appearance and music. “My friends tell me that people will come up to them and say, ‘Oh, Dolly Surprise, you should see them, they’re hot,’” Dudley says. “We don’t promote ourselves as these sexy girls — we like to emphasize the fact that we’re women, but there are no naked pictures of ourselves on fliers.” Where my girls at? Dudley says she’s surprised by the lack of a strong female presence in the local music scene. She says that because she views Lawrence as a progressive city, she would expect to see lots of different kinds of people in bands. However, Lane, who has been touring with Ad Astra per Aspera CONTINUED ON PAGE 12Ë
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how to start your career as a female in music Megan Dudley of Dolly Surprise: “Be different. Try not to focus too much about making a huge statement, but have something to say. People respond to something honest going on.”
Julie Lane of Ad Astera per Aspera: “Put it out there that you are competent and you know how to play music. If you know the way notes and chords work, you know just as much as some guy with a bass. You also have to have a thick skin.”
Susan Shaw, co-author of Girls Rock!: “Don’t listen to people who discourage you. Really work on the music, know your theory and take your craft seriously. Don’t turn yourself into an object in order to succeed in rock, and don’t let it be about what you look like. Let it be about the music.”
Katlyn Conroy of Another Holiday: “Don’t sell yourself short. Dress like you want. Don’t restrict yourself. You want to talk about subject matter out of the norm? Do it. Remember, you’re a musician. Boy or girl, if you have talent, and more importantly the drive, don’t let miniscule details like your gender keep you down.”
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ÁCONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 for five years, says that she sees more women in bands now than she used to. “There have been three or four nights on this tour where every other band we’ve played with had a woman in it,” Lane says. It’s almost becoming cool to have a girl in a band, Lane says. This is great in many ways, she says, but it’s also nice to have competent musicians in a band instead of having a girl just for the sake of having a girl. “There still aren’t that many girls shredding on lead guitar, but when you see it it’s really cool,” Lane says. While Dudley works at Rudy’s, 701 Massachusetts St., she mentions upcoming shows to people and says they are often surprised to learn she is a DJ. “They give me this look, like, ‘Are you serious? You’re a girl.’” Dudley says people have a certain idea in their heads of what a DJ or musician looks like, which she doesn’t always fit. There was a band in the Northwest known as Swamp Mama Johnson who had a regional following, Dudley says. They were about to sign with a major label, but when an executive told them that they needed new hairdos, sexier clothes and to lose weight, they refused to sign. “Women want to be themselves and express the sexiness of rock ‘n’ roll in a way that’s empowering,” Shaw says, “not in a way that conforms to pressures and
expectations should look.”
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Slowly but surely Women are often ignored or misunderstood when they go into music stores to buy equipment, Shaw says. Women often report male employees assuming they’re purchasing equipment for their boyfriends, or simply being rude if a girl is trying to purchase an electric guitar, bass or drum kit. Doormen, bartenders and other men who also sometimes prejudge women. Lane recently had a negative experience on tour at a bar in Missouri. After loading in her equipment, she approached the bartender and ordered a PBR, explaining that it was free because of a drink special for the band. The bartender responded that the special was for the band, not girlfriends of band members. “I’m sure my face got really red because I was mad,” Lane says. “I wanted to say, ‘Why would you assume that just because I’m a girl I would never be in a band?” Instead, Lane corrected the bartender, who she says was especially nice to her the rest of the night. Lane says she has often been called “sweetheart” or had people assume that she was setting up her boyfriend’s drums. Women are also routinely mistreated in the record industry, Shaw says. She credits improved technology as a step toward gender equality in rock ‘n’ roll.
Women no longer have to rely on a record company to give them a contract, because they are able to make a living by making CDs and selling them independently. “It might not make as much money as having a record deal,” Shaw says, “but a lot of alternative rockers aren’t interested in making the big bucks. They just want to be able to make a living playing their music.” And what about those women role models? The more girls who show up in bands today, the more younger girls may decide to pursue careers in rock ‘n’ roll. One of the best parts about being a woman in a band is being at the merchandise table and talking with younger female fans after the show, Lane says. The younger girls are really excited to see her and her bandmate Brooke Hunt playing, she says.“They realize, ‘Oh, I can use all of those piano lessons I took for years and
years,’” Lane says. She says she feels good because the girls are a lot less frightened to approach her or Hunt than to talk with the guys in her band. Curtain call The music fades out and Conroy hunches up her shoulders, tilts her head and demurely thanks the audience again, as though no one has ever liked her band’s music before. Her face spreads into one last shy smile as the between-set music gets louder and conversation resumes. She unplugs the black cords from the back of her keyboard and smiles as she walks into the shrieks and admiration of her friends. I stop her to tell her she is fantastic, and she thanks me. As she turns to leave, I cannot help but feel both embarrassed for doubting that Conroy was a musician and pleased that she has proved me wrong.
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PeOPLe
The separation of church and student
Quiet Dissent
by Sam Carlson Andrew Stangl sits silently at the front of the room, listening intently to the 25 people who have gathered for the bi-weekly meeting of the Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics (SOMA). Stangl, Wichita senior, is the president of the club. Besides a brief introduction and a review of upcoming events, Stangl rarely speaks. His reserved temperament matches his simple, conservative clothes and haircut. But don’t be fooled. “He’s a radical in choir boy’s clothing,” says Paul Scott, assistant professor of French and director of the 2005 study abroad program in France that Stangl participated in. Scott describes Stangl as a lighthearted yet
serious person who is never afraid to voice his opinion. Scott says he and Stangl disagree on such issues as abortion but that Stangl is extremely respectful of other people’s opinions while standing firmly behind his own. “His chief weapon is definitely his tongue,” Scott says. Stangl joined the group his freshman year, when SOMA held its meetings in a small alcove in the Kansas Union. The group outgrew the area and now meets in the International Room in the Union, and at most meetings every seat is taken. The mood tonight is light and the laughs plentiful. The topic is the Ten Commandments, or, as one member calls them, the “Cliffs Notes” of the Bible. Besides planning events and scheduling lecturers for SOMA, Stangl must make time for school. This time can be hard to come by, considering his three majors: political science, international studies and French;
and one minor, history. “It’s really just my way of saying I don’t know what to do with my life,” Stangl says. Although he comes from a religious background, Stangl began to lean toward secular beliefs before he arrived at the University. He attended an Episcopalian church until he was 6 years old and began to think critically about his beliefs in high school. His study of Christianity led to an eventual rejection of it and Stangl says he became an atheist during his senior year of high school. “I got through about 450 pages of the Bible that I had and stopped,” he says. “I discovered what I was doing was basically creating a religion based upon what I wanted to believe.” SOMA’s name alone intrigued Stangl at first and the group soon provided him with a circle of friends that he remains close with today. He even met his fiancée through the group. He
says these close bonds help he and the group remain steadfast in their mission to serve the community of secular students on campus. According to the University’s Student Organizations Web site, there are 44 registered religious groups on campus. SOMA, however, is the only secular group. Stangl says his group not only serves as a network for secular students but also as an outreach program that benefits the community. SOMA’s major fundraiser,“Soul Auction,” benefits the Douglas County AIDS Project. After an audience bids on the “souls” of participants, the participants must perform pre-determined activities for the highest bidders. These activities include anything from manual labor to going out on a date. Half of the profits go to the AIDS Project while the other half goes to SOMA. Another event, “Ask an
Atheist,” is scheduled for early May. A panel of three atheistic students will answer questions from the audience in an attempt to educate people about atheism and agnosticism. Stangl also worked to bring Michael Newdow, a lawyer who challenged the use of “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance in court, to campus. Newdow spoke at the University on March 13. Efforts such as this show Stangl’s devotion to the group, says Laney Albritten, Cunningham senior and SOMA secretary. “He’s overall just a really encouraging, motivational, organized leader,”she says.“Since he’s been president, SOMA has only gotten stronger.” Stangl will step down as president when SOMA holds its officer elections in April. He will return to the University for a fifth year and says he plans to stay involved with the group.
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Andrew Stangl, right, SOMA president, with fellow group members.
Atheistic Amendments: Soma’s Ten Commandments 1. Think for yourself 2. Don’t bind yourself to one ideology. 3. Do not invoke a god’s name in war. 4. Relax. 5. Honor your community and the Earth. 6. Do no harm. People are not possessions. 7. Find your own sexuality. Do not be afraid to love. 8. Don’t abuse the notion of personal property to rationalize other people’s poverty. Give. 9. Tell the truth to be trusted. 10. Recognize the shades of gray.
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RAINE REVIEWS NEWS YOU CAN USE
HAWK TOPICS A number of the new George Washington dollar coins are mistakenly struck without the edge inscriptions, including “In God We Trust.” Surprisingly, America hasn’t suffered even a single biblical plague yet…
President Bush seeks 8,200 more troops for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on top of the 21,500 he requested in January. What do the War in Iraq and Grey’s Anatomy have in common? Really dumb people think both are great and get better with each episode.
Chrysler Motors recalls nearly half a million Dodge Durango and Jeep Liberty SUVs. So basically, if you’re a poorly endowed dbag, your vehicle is being recalled. If you’re a really, really huge d-bag with a really, really small penis, don’t worry, your Hummer is running just fine.
Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich admits he was having an affair while criticizing former President Clinton for his marital infidelities. Gingrich unfortunately bought into the convenient but false belief that “what happens in Congressional Break stays in Congressional Break.” Comic book icon Captain America is killed in a recent issue by a sniper’s bullet. As soon as he was able to stop crying, President Bush used the superhero’s death as justification for an invasion of Iran.
KU men’s basketball defeats K-State for the third time this season and for the 35th time in the last 36 meetings. Looks like Huggins has adapted to Manhattan and their quaint custom of losing every game to KU rather nicely.
Winemaker Ernest Gallo dies at age 97. Fortunately for tacky, tasteless wine drinkers, Steve Franzia is still alive and healthy.
Brad Delp, lead singer of the rock band Boston, is found dead in his home. Although the cause of death is currently unknown, doctors have speculated that it was “more than a head cold.”
A new University of Pittsburgh study asserts that genetics may be the reason that some women are more ill-tempered than others. The study is the subject of chapter four in the book, My Girlfriend is F’ing Crazy: 101 Reasons That Women Act All Psycho and Stuff. Laguna Beach star Jason Wahler is sentenced to two months in jail for drunkenly punching a city worker and tow truck driver while screaming racial slurs. And he seemed like such a cool guy on the show.
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■ Chris Raine
A NEW DOÌ
NOtIcE Alternative hair colors and styles attract and repel
create Dreadlocks naturally
Wash hair a couple of times a day without conditioning The hair will get very dry and stick together over time Twist sections to get them to stay together
This way takes time, but is much better for your hair in the long run, Gray says For a one day method check out www.dreadlocks.com Courtesy of Courtney Gray, who has had dreadlocks for six years
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by Katrina Mohr For three years, Lindsey Yankey, Leon sophomore, had wanted Run Lola Run red hair. Yankey, an illustration major, created self-portraits of herself with fire engine-red hair and even made Photoshop creations to see what she would look like. Her curiosity eventually got the best of her, and the week before spring semester started she became a redhead. Americans spent $10.4 billion to change their hair color in 2005, according to data compiled by the company Packaged Facts. Alternative hairstyles are a way for people Lindsey Yankey, Leon sophomore, drew portraits of herself with bright red hair before dying her hair this winter.
to experiment and assert their personal identities. Yankey says she’s happy with her new hair color and gets lots of compliments from strangers. She likes that the color is loud and outrageous because she wanted it to be obvious that she dyed it. She doesn’t feel like she has to put a lot of thought into her outfits, she says, because having red hair makes it look like she has already put effort into her appearance. It also gives her something to talk about. “I feel a camaraderie with people who also have crazy hair,” Yankey says. “It’s like a club.”
Yankey works at the Hilltop Child Development Center and says she has had no problem with her employers. The children she works with are intrigued by her hair and always ask her why she dyed it. “My latest reply is, ‘Because it keeps my head warm.’ The kids think that’s funny,” Yankey says. Yankey has not had any problems with her unusual hair color affecting her work situation, but some workplaces have strict guidelines about what is an acceptable or unacceptable hairstyle. “Hair must be natural, clean, well-groomed and simply arranged. Faddish, extreme hairstyles, including (but not limited to) multi-color or unnatural colors, sculptured hair, tails, partially shaved heads and dreadlocks are not permitted.” Grooming guidelines such as these, taken from an amusement park’s employee handbook, are common in today’s job world. Sean O’Dwyer, Mission senior, recently cut off his dyed black and blue hair for a job interview because he wanted to look more
professional, he says. After the interview, however, he plans to color it again. O’Dwyer has been bleaching and dyeing his hair different colors on and off since his freshman year. He dyes his hair because it’s fun and he and his friends often make it into a social activity, he says. “It’s kind of weird, but my friends and I will be hanging out drinking and dye our hair,” he says. O’Dwyer describes himself as impulsive. If he’s tired of a style he says it’s easy to change. He’s not too concerned with how his experiments turn out. After he discovered his head didn’t look bad shaved, it wasn’t a big deal to cut all his hair off and start over. “I’m young. At this point in my life I can get away with this kind of stuff,” O’Dwyer says. Though unusual hair colors and styles have become more common, stereotypes still surround those whose hair deviates from the norm. Courtney Gray, Lawrence resident, has had dreadlocks for
six years, and says that people sometimes have misconceptions about what kind of person she is. “People think I’m a dirty slacker and that I do drugs,” she says. “I’m a normal person. I just have different hair.” Gray wanted dreadlocks for five years before she got them, she says. She likes the style and respects the Egyptian and Rastafarian cultures they came from. Dreadlocks separate her from society, but not in a negative way, she says. “I’m a free person. Dreadlocks are a lifestyle change, but they’re fitting for me,” Gray says. “I want to represent these beautiful cultures well.” Jim Grimes, owner of Headmasters, 809 Vermont St., says that he has seen people change their hair for many reasons in his 22 years as the salon’s owner. One of his clients was a chemotherapy patient and when her hair started growing back she wanted to try purple hair. He says she got so much positive reinforcement because of her new hair that having purple accents in her black hair
has become her trademark. “There are times in our lives when we want recognition or to make a splash,” Grimes says. “Some people buy shoes, but that’s not as permanent as changing your hair.” Many people make extreme changes when they want an emotional response, Grimes says. Hair is something that you can control today. For that reason, he says it’s important to step away from the mirror and ask yourself, “Is it really the hair?” He recommends that when people want to dye their hair they approach a stylist with a picture and reasonable expectations. Salons want you to be happy with the end result, so a picture helps clarify what your idea of “fire red” is compared to the stylist’s. Even though hair is a personal expression and alternative hair may express things a little louder than highlights, Grimes says it’s important to keep things in perspective. “It’s just hair,” he says. “It doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.”
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■that's disgusting■ Booger Basics For young children, blobs of slimy snot appear to be selfmade snacks only a pick and a scratch away. But for those over the age of 5, boogers are more hanging hazards than they are tasty treats. Everyone has them, and nearly everyone has some degree of hands-on experience with the clinging clumps, but far fewer people know what boogers are made of and how they end up in your nose. Each day your nose produces nearly a cupful of mucus —
that slimy stuff better known as snot — that seeps out each time you sneeze. This snot acts like a fly trap, catching the dust, pollen, germs, sand and smoke that enters your nose each time you breath, before the particles reach and begin to infect your lungs. Tiny nasal hairs move the snot and its contents away from the lungs and toward the front of your nose. As the mucus, dirt, germs and sand move, they dry and mold together to produce a bounty of boogers.
So next time you go digging for gold in your nose or snack on a piece of solidified snot, think about the dirt, pollen and smoke behind that booger. Source: www.kidshealth.org ■ Elyse Weidner
■sport specs■ Rowing The sport: Rowing is the oldest intercollegiate sport in the United States. The first Harvard-Yale regatta, or rowing race, was almost 160 years ago, before football was even invented. The objective: The first racing shell to cross the finish line wins. Rowers race 2,000 meters in designated lanes. Racers can’t jump the gun,
and they have to stay in their lane and cross the finish line with at least the coxswain, the on-board navigator and motivator, in the boat.“Rowing is the only team sport where there’s no substitutions and no timeouts,” says Rob Catloth, women’s rowing coach. The positions: The pair of rowers closest to the bow is called the bow pair and is smaller and quicker than the rest of the team. The middle four rowers are called the engine room, and they are the most powerful rowers. The last two are known as the stern pair and they set the pace for the rest of the rowers. The coxswain is the closest to the stern and is the only crew member who faces forward. The workout: Rowing is a great total body workout. It’s lowimpact and works the legs, back and arms. Kara Boston, Chicago junior and rower, wears a heart monitor during practice and says she burns anywhere from 800 to 1,000 calories during an hourand-a-half workout. During the offseason, rowers practice inside
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on ergometer rowing machines. Check it out: Watch the women’s rowing team during their home races this spring at Burcham Park, Second and Indiana Streets. The team faces Texas and Southern Methodist University on March 24, Tulsa and Drake on March 31, and in-state rival Kansas State on April 7. Get involved: You don’t need to know how to row to walk on the women’s team. A week after school starts in August, the women’s rowing team holds tryouts where they teach candidates how to row and see if they like the sport.“If you have a reasonable athletic ability and you’re willing to try, they’ll take you,“ says Whitney Fasbender, Cheney senior.There’s also a novice team for first-year rowers. For more information, visit the women’s rowing Web site at kuathletics.com. There is also a co-ed club team on campus called KU Crew. For more information on that group, check out http://groups.ku.edu/~kucrew/. ■ Lindsey St. Clair
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Katy Parker leads a Zumba workout, which mixes traditional and modern dance moves, at Lawrence Athletic Club, 3201 Mesa Way.
Perfect your dance moves and break a sweat with this new workout
by Kim Wallace
Katie Rash isn’t sure what to expect as music from Grease blares from the stereo. She waits as the toned, blonde instructor jogs to the front of the class and begins simple steps — forward, forward, back, back — and begins imitating the moves as the workout begins. Next, Rash, Leawood senior, finds herself shimmying and shaking the way she does to her favorite songs in the privacy of her bedroom. But this time, she’s with a group of about 40 men and women of all ages. Surrounded by full-length mirrors, Rash continues to move to the upbeat music. The next song on the playlist is “La Mayonesa,” a popular Latin tune. “The music threw me off at first, but it was a fun, new way to work out,” she says. Rash is at Zumba class, a new dance workout session at Lawrence Athletic Club, 3201 Mesa Way.Though Zumba started gaining popularity around the nation in 2002, this is the first
class offered in Lawrence. Zumba instructor Katy Parker took her first class in Parsons and loved it so much that she decided to become certified to teach it. With this, she brought the trend to Lawrence in January. Zumba combines dance moves from cumbia, meringue, rumba, mambo and salsa with time-tested dance moves such as air guitar, hip pops, booty shakes and shoulder shimmies. Parker says she likes throwing in her own ideas for routines because Zumba is all about having fun. Signature moves include “walking like an Egyptian” and “disco pointing” à la Saturday Night Fever. Created by celebrity fitness trainer Beto Perez, Zumba’s pace is similar to aerobic interval training. Some routines speed heart rate up and others slow heart rate down. This allows the body to burn more calories. An hour of medium-intensity Zumba burns anywhere from 500 to 700 calories. “It all depends on how hard you push yourself. The idea is to keep moving and having fun,” Parker says. Something from nothing Perez created the workout when he was forced to improvise during his fitness class. He forgot
his normal routine music and had to make do with the tunes he had in his car: traditional Latin music. His antics went well as his Latin fitness class became the most sought-after class at his gym. At that point, he named his class “Rumbacize.” He changed the name to Zumba when he brought his trend to the United States in 1999. Perez’s concept for a Latin-infused dance class took off in 2002 after he marketed thousands of at-home videos in the States. Demand for Zumba instructors followed. Katy Parker is one of 2,000 Zumba instructors worldwide. She took a trip to Miami for an intense weekend Zumba certification clinic and came back to Kansas as an official Zumba trainer in 2005. She was directly trained by Perez during her two-day workshop where she learned all the basic steps to everything from salsa to tango. She then learned how to choreograph the steps to hiphop and Latin music and was encouraged to add her own spice to the routines. Zumba is comparable to other dance class workouts, such as Jazzercise, but the atmosphere of Zumba class sets it apart from other dance-inspired fitness trends. Perez designed the workout to be fun and easy to do
so participants would stick to the workout. He describes it as a “feel happy” workout. Parker mixes moves such as “the lawnmower” with Latin dance steps, and then throws in a little disco to make it fun. The repetition of these moves keeps the workout toning and cardioheavy, but the familiarity of the junior high dance moves keeps it lighthearted and fun. “Throwing in moves like that breaks up the routine,” Parker says. “It’s beneficial, too. Moves like leaning side to side and putting your finger over your lips makes working your sides more fun,” she adds. Come one, come all For the next hour, Parker leads her class — middle-aged women and men, a few KU students and alums — through Will Smith’s “Getting’ Jiggy Wit It,” more Latin music and a cool down to Kelis’ “Milkshake.” Dressed in a tank top and camouflage pants, she has the men emulating her hip pops and hip rolls as her long blonde ponytail bounces up and down. Elizabeth Doak, Dallas junior, shakes it in the back of the workout room. Though it is her first time at Zumba, she catches on quickly and loosens up to the music. She moves to the beats freely and smoothly, and takes a
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moment to laugh at herself if she gets off track. “It’s fun because you’re comfortable doing the steps. You can do as much or as little as you want,” she says. Doak says she feels like she is getting just as much or more of a workout than her usual routine of elliptical training and running. She likes that there is no equipment or partner required to participate in Zumba, and all she has to show up in is a Tshirt and sweats or shorts: no special dance shoes or clothes are required. Others in the class don all black and jazz shoes, tank tops and shorts or sweatpants. The informal environment of this Latin-inspired dance class keeps the atmosphere laid back for such an energetic workout. Growing demand The popularity of Parker’s Zumba
class at Lawrence Athletic Club is evidenced by the growing numbers who come to the class each week. Parker teaches five days a week, and had to split the Sunday class into two backto-back sessions because more than 60 people showed up. Zumba is the only class that a non-gym member may attend at Lawrence Athletic Club. After signing a waiver, Zumba attendees pay $3 per session to work out for an hour. In that hour, Parker instructs 10 Zumba routines, including a warm up and cool down. Participants under 18 must have parental permission to attend the regular Zumba class. Parker also offers a kids-only Zumba class for those under 14. “Zumba welcomes all ages,” she says. We’ve had senior citizens in here, younger kids and even pregnant women.”
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Miracle of Five Music
Eleni Mandell plays the type of music you’d expect to hear in a dark, after-hours club full of misunderstood poets, jazz pianists and acoustic solo artists. On her latest album, Miracle of Five, Mandell plays soft music mixed with jazz flourishes and soul-baring vocals. “Moonglow, Lamp Low” opens the curtain on Miracle of Five with percussive acoustic guitar and emotional saxophone by Ryan Feves. “Girls” features jazzy drumming, vibes and Mandell’s intimate vocals. “Wings in His Eyes” is another
by Eleni Mandell
300 Movie
Comic books have been turned into feature-length films for almost 30 years now, but rarely have they been as innovative or enthralling as the work of Frank Miller. In 2005, Miller helped bring his Sin City comic to life, producing one of the most exciting films in years. He also helped resurrect the Dark Knight by inspiring Batman Begins. Miller’s work is brought to the big screen once again, this time with lackluster results, with the release of 300. The film tells the story of the Battle of Thermopylae, in which a band of
jazzy track, this time with viola and upright bass anchoring the song. On “Somebody Else,” Mandell picks things up with a busy drum part, a wavy organ and subtle acoustic guitar. Miracle of Five has several great tracks, but how many sleepy lounge songs can you hear before you wish something different would happen? Like a lot of albums, Miracle of Five would’ve been better with a little more variety.
only 300 Spartans fought off at least 200,000 Persians intent on taking over Greece. But the truth is just too boring, so historical inaccuracies are woven throughout. 300 has a distinct color pattern and countless men and women in peak physical condition, so there’s no doubt that it’s nice to look at. The film also proves that action sequences can be effective even if they are all in slow motion. Unfortunately, the moments between action scenes bog the movie down. When the characters aren’t fighting, they’re talking, which is where the problem lies. Much of the dialogue is taken verbatim from Miller’s comic. While Miller can craft a great story, he doesn’t have much of a penchant for the way people talk. The hammy dialogue might have worked for the noir-driven Sin City, but here it cheapens the characters and the thrills they’re supposed to produce. Ultimately, 300 can be exciting, but it seems that when it gets going, it slows itself down, along with the audience’s interest. Rated: R Running time: 120 minutes
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The Tao of Compassion I lay on that road for what seemed like an eternity before some other travelers arrived and called for help. My foot had started to swell and I wasn’t quite sure what had just happened. It was a clear and beautiful Saturday afternoon last September and I was on the way to a potluck. As I moved along the bumpy, rural road that runs between my house and Lawrence, I noticed a car entering the road from a hilltop driveway in the distance but immediately lost sight of it as I entered the base of a closer, smaller hill. As I crested the hill, it became horribly apparent that I had misread the situation. In the other car I saw long, dark hair surrounding the slender face of a middle-aged woman. Her name was Michele Bird and she most likely died instantly when my little red Honda T-boned her Toyota Camry.
I’m a firm believer that we sucked toward me in slow create our own reality and get motion. I vividly remember what we want out of life. But my car collapsing to form a “V” after the crash I was forced to ask that pointed right at me and myself, “Why would bent around the I ask for so much passenger side of physical pain?” her car. Then the Why would anyone airbag deployed ask to deal with and beat me into the guilt over the place. The collision death of that lady ended with a horn in the other car? that wouldn’t stop Even though beeping and my I know what the engine revving police investigation loudly. The airbag proves — I am not deflated, leaving by Matthew Foster responsible that a smoky haze and she lost control chemical smell. of her car and ended up sliding I thought there might be a toward me in my lane — I can’t fire, so I undid my seat belt to help but feel guilty. get out of the car but my door Besides pain and guilt, why wouldn’t open. My window was would anyone ask for the fear down, so I climbed out and fell associated with a highway to the ground. I tried to stand up collision? During the accident but my right leg couldn’t hold it was like I was a black hole my weight. It was like my ankle watching the universe get wasn’t there any more. To get to
what seemed like a safe distance away, I dragged myself 30 feet down the road. As I lay there pulling pebbles out of my palms and from under my fingernails, I nursed my shattered ankle and wondered what had happened. My right foot had been crammed up into my leg, forcing my ankle to dislocate to the point of being at a right angle to my foot and leg. Because I didn’t have the lap belt down in front of my pelvis, my seat belt was too high and cut my liver. I had a couple of fractured bones in my left foot and much of my upper body had been beaten black, blue and yellow. The abdominal surgery came the day after the accident and caused the most pain, if for no other reason than the catheter the doctors installed. Two weeks later I was healthy enough to have ankle surgery, which resulted in pain similar to the
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Getting what you deserve in one instance and what you don’t in another pain before they reset my ankle on the day of the accident. If we get what we want out of life, then what was I getting out of this? The accident gave me the wisdom of knowing that we are all responsible for each other’s well-being. We are responsible at any moment, but particularly when we drive a one-ton hunk of metal 50 or 60 miles per hour across a world full of fragile life. If we slip up, we can’t help but recognize how we are responsible for each other’s wellbeing. Even more importantly, I gained compassion. Compassion is a virtue found in many world religions, like in my own Judeo-Christian tradition, and it’s central to the Buddhist and Taoist philosophies that reflect my adult spiritual views. In Taoism, compassion is considered one of humanity’s three “greatest treasures” next to patience and simplicity.
Since the accident, I readily empathize with people who are scared, in pain or wish they could go back and make things different. I have to take away something from the crash beside scars, and I take compassion. I wish that I could go back and be the hero who rescues a lady stuck in a ditch instead of being another victim. But I know that the one thing we don’t get out of life, no matter how badly we want it, is the chance to go back and make things different. I’m not responsible for the crash, but I’m always responsible for the reality I create because I have to live with the results of my unconscious decisions. Luckily for me, Taoism offers help for situations like this in chapter 58 of its essential text, the Tao Te Ching: “Good fortune, we say, can come from disaster. And the reverse is true as well. Who knows where all this will lead?”
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