Jayplay

life. and how to have one.

February 5, 2009
If you cant take
the heat ...
spice up your cooking
with curry
On your own
two feet
learn the ropes
of slacklining
Puppy
LOVE
the raising
and pairing up
of assistance
dogs
February 5, 2009
Volume 6, Issue 19 [ ]
10 FEATURE: dog days
4 NURTURE BY NATURE: get to sleep with warm milk
8 TOMORROWS NEWS: batter up
9 Q & A: get it right with Left of Northwest
13 OUT & ABOUT: ... it was growing hairs
16 MANUAL: walk the line
17 IN THE LIFE: meet your local museum guard
18 REVIEWS: fock to Andrew Birds new album
Clockwise from top right: photo by Tanner Grubbs;
photo by Allison Richardson; photo by Jerry Wang
Photo by Chance Dibben
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February 5, 2009
Editor Matt Hirschfeld
Associate editor Jessica Sain-Baird
Designers Erica Birkman, Lauren
Cunningham
Contact Elliot Kort, Stephanie Schneider
Health Sachiko Miyakawa, Megan Weltner
Manual Becka Cremer, Adam Schoof
Notice Madeline Hyden, Ross Stewart,
Zach White
Play Kelly Breckunitch, Tanner Grubbs,
Kristopher McDonald
Contributors Drew Anderson, Mark
Arehart, Alicia Banister, Taylor Brown, Chance
Dibben, Mia Iverson, Carly Halvorson, Daniel
Nordstrom, Meghan Nuckolls, Abigail Olcese,
Brieun Scott, Kelci Shipley, Amanda Sorell,
Derek Zarda
Creative consultant Carol Holstead
Contact us jayplay09@gmail.com
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785.864.4810
thursday, feb 5
Pizza & A Comedian
(featuring Sabrina
Jalees)
Hashinger Theater, 7 p.m.,
free, KU students
Quantum of Solace
Woodruff Auditorium, 8 p.m.,
prices vary, all ages
Brody Buster Band
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $3, 21+
Cyrus D and Square
Jordan
The Eighth Street Tap Room,
10 p.m., $3, 21+
Landlord/The Sexy
Accident
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.,
$2, 21+
Neon Dance Party
The Bottleneck, 10 p.m.,
prices vary, 18+
Quantum of Solace
Woodruff Auditorium, 8 p.m.,
prices vary, all ages
Bob Marleys birthday
party
The Granada, 9 p.m., $7, 18+
Big Stack Daddy/
Russian Discussion
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $4, 21+
Mammoth Life/Paper
Airplanes/Hawley
Schoffner
The Jackpot, 10 p.m., $5/7,
18+
MI AMI with Bandit
Teeth and DJ Shanks
The Eighth Street Tap Room,
10 p.m., $3, 21+
Calamity Cubes/The
Am Ramblers
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.,
$3, 21+
Dirtfoot/South Austin
Jug Band
The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., 18+
friday, feb 6
Tech N9ne
The Granada, 8 p.m., $25,
all ages
Quantum of Solace
Woodruff Auditorium, 8 p.m.,
prices vary, all ages
Future Rock/Orchard
Lounge
The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., $10,
18+
YucaRoots
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $4, 21+
Deadman Flats &
Friends
The Jackpot, 10 p.m., $5,
21+/$7, 18-20
Saturday Soulclap with
Scenebooster Sound-
system
The Eighth Street Tap Room,
10 p.m., $3, 21+
The Dead Girls CD
release/Fourth of July
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.,
$2, 21+
saturday, feb 7 monday, feb 9
Gilbert and Sullivans
Patience
Swarthout Recital Hall,
2:30 p.m., $7-$15, all ages
Scary Manilows
Night of BLOODY
VALENTINE FILMS!!
The Jackpot, 3 p.m., free,
18+
Tafelmusik Baroque
Orchestra
The Lied Center, 7:30 p.m.,
$16/KU students, all ages
Galactic
The Granada, 8 p.m., $17,
all ages
Smackdown Trivia
and Karaoke
The Bottleneck, 8 p.m.,
$5, 18+
BOOT BOOT/Asa
Ransom/Fortuning
The Replay Lounge, 10
p.m., $2, 21+
Count Bass D/
Sparkiduh and DJ
Who/Steddy P. and
more!
The Jackpot, 8 p.m., $5, 21+/
$7, 18-20
Original Music Mondays
The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., free,
18+
Dollar Bowling
Royal Crest Bowling Lanes, 9
p.m., $1, all ages
tuesday, feb 10
Whats Up With
That? featuring Ima-
nin Winds
Crystal Room in the Eldridge
Hotel, 7 p.m., free, all ages
Black Stone Cherry/
Crooked X
The Bottleneck, 7 p.m., $11,
all ages
The Sideshow Tragedy
The Replay Lounge, 11 p.m.
$2, 21+
sunday, feb 8
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venues
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Lawrence, KS
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The Jackpot Music Hall
943 Massachusetts St.
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The Eighth Street Tap
Room
801 New Hampshire St.
Lawrence, KS
785.841.6918
The Replay Lounge
946 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence, KS
785.749.7676
The Lied Center
1600 Stewart Drive
Lawrence, KS
785.864.3469
The Bottleneck
737 New Hampshire St.
Lawrence, KS
785.841.5483
editors note
calendar
It was my frst
semester living with
roommates out of
the dorms. Id lived by
myself for a semester,
and an opportunity
for some summer
roommates at a cheap price opened up. It was
just two months of cohabitating with three
girls. What could go wrong?
A few qualms about unwashed dishes and
laundry arose in the frst couple of months,
but nothing that wasnt solved with some
tough love.
The dried food-infested dishes werent, of
course, mine, and I refused to wash them. I
worked my way around the kitchen, avoiding
the mess at all costs, and the roomies fnally
cleaned them only after they resorted to
spooning cereal out of coffee mugs with serv-
ing utensils. Passive-aggressive on my part?
Maybe, but I still didnt have to lift a fnger to
clean up their mess.
I approached the laundry situation a tad
differently. It was inherently impossible for the
roomies to remove their wet laundry from
the washer and transfer it two feet to the
right and into the dryer. If it did miraculously
make it to the dryer, it didnt make it to their
rooms. Even after a dozen friendly remind-
ers, nothing changed. So once, when the wet
laundry stayed in the washer for more than
24 hours, I scooped it out and sloppily placed
the drenched clothes in the middle of their
bedrooms. It wasnt quite eye for an eye, but I
settled with sloppy for sloppy.
I eventually had to deal with the hair in the
shower situation. I shared a bathroom with one
of the roomies, and understood that most girls
had much longer hair than me. After each of her
showers, though, you would have thought she
sheared a sheep in there. She was much more
accommodating, though, than with the dish and
laundry situations, and she cleaned it the best
she could. I never really inquired how she did it,
but it got done and thats all I cared about.
I witnessed how she did it once, and it will
forever be burned into my now-traumatized
memory. I was in the bathroom with her and
casually mentioned the wool sweater that was
forming at the bottom of the drain. She obliged
and grabbed her toothbrush. She headed for the
drain, and I yelped an uber-dramatic, slow-mo-
tion NOOOOOOO. She told me to relax
she was going to use the handle, not the bristle
end. As if this was going to calm me down, I
turned away in disgust, grabbed my toothbrush
and stormed out of the bathroom.
Take a look at Kristophers Out & About on
page 15 for more disgusting and cringe-worthy
stories from KU students about their past and
current roommates.
Later, she tried to show me the Yeti that
she pulled out of the recesses of our shower.
I declined. And I also kept my toothbrush out
of harms reach in my room for the rest of my
time in the apartment.
Matt Hirschfeld, editor
Govt Mule, 7 p.m., $26,
all ages
Imani Winds
The Lied Center, 7:30 p.m.,
$12/KU students, all ages
Acoustic Open Jam
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $2, 21+
Latin/Now Now Sleepy-
head/The Cherry Tree
Parade
The Jackpot, 10 p.m., $5, 21+/
$7, 18-20
Benjamin Del Shreve/
Five Defy
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.,
$2, 21+
wednesday, feb 11
Clarifcation: In the article entitled Light-
ing up en masse from the January 29 issue of
Jayplay, some readers may have inferred that
Ken Sarber, the health educator at the Wellness
Resource Center, was a smoker. Sarber is not
a smoker, but he is available to help college
students overcome their addictions to tobacco.
4 February 5, 2009
Twirl, pull, twirl, pull. We have all seen it: the
gum puller, the person who thinks it is OK
to yank that sticky piece of glycerin and sweet-
ener, then take the stretched-out chewing gum
and construct a perfect coil around the index
fnger. Then comes the most daring part of all:
The gum goes back in the mouth.
According to the U.S. Department of En-
ergy, millions of bacteria, fungi and viruses are
on your hands. The hand comes in contact with
more foreign objects than any other part of
your body. Some of these bacteria-bearing plac-
es include the toilet seat and handle, door
knobs, telephones, and, worst of all, others
hands.
Its basically like sticking your entire fnger
in your mouth. The same bacteria sticks to your
gum and then you chew on it all day and it is
Photo illustration by Megan Weltner
Playing with your gum
Keep it classy and less germ-infested to boot: Playing with
your gum is like sticking your fnger in your mouth.
disgusting
Thats
The old wives tale that a glass of warm
milk will put you right to sleep is right on the
money.
Milk is a great sleep aid for two reasons:
1. It contains calcium and magnesium, which
both relax the body.
2. Tryptophan is the ingredient present in
turkey thats responsible for making you sleepy
after a hearty Thanksgiving feast. A glass of milk
has a large amount of this natural sleeping aid.
But does the milk need to be warm to in-
duce sleep? Dr. David Edelberg of the Whole
Health Clinic in Chicago says milk should be
warm.
Warming the milk helps because it breaks
up the protein molecules making it more read-
ily available to the body, Edelberg says. Also,
you dont want to drink something cold right
nurture by nature
Warm milk
Photo illustration by Megan Weltner
Nighty night: Milk contains calcium, magnesium and
tryptophan, which all help relax the body or serve as
natural sleeping aids.
health
in your system, says Anne Coveney, R.N. with
Pediatric Associates in Kansas City, Missouri.
Megan Weltner
before bed because that can be stimulating to
the body.
Megan Weltner
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February 5, 2009
health
Whats hot
By Sachiko Miyakawa
smiyakawa@kansan.com
A recipe for health, and an invitation to the world of spice
As cumin seeds splatter with oil on a heated
pan, Vaishali Gala adds vegetables. She quickly
stirs them on the pan and puts in a blend of
spices.
Gala, Hays senior, cooks curry once a week
when she craves spicy foods. But for her, curry
is more than just food.
I grew up eating curry every day, so when-
ever I eat it, it reminds me of home, says
Gala, whose parents emigrated from India. She
learned a variety of recipes from her mother
and aunts.
Gala sometimes cooks curry for her Ameri-
can friends. They enjoy her curry but are often
surprised because it is different from what they
have eaten in restaurants. Gala says many In-
dian restaurants in Kansas serve Punjabi curry.
Curry tastes different from region to region.
Hers is a Gujarat style and is more dry, she
says.
Secrets of curry ingredients
Gala defnes curry as a dish that has a lot
of spicy east Asian favors. She says curry is
an umbrella term that includes various Indian
cuisines. It originated in India, but was also ad-
opted by other East Asian cuisines, such as Thai
and Japanese.
Turmeric, cumin and
chili peppera combina-
tion of many different spices
creates curry favor. But the
roles of spices go beyond
seasoning. Many studies
reveal potential health ben-
efts of such spices. Among
them, turmeric increases at-
tention, says Suzanna Zick,
naturopathic physician and
researcher at the Univer-
sity of Michigan Health Sys-
tem. She says many studies
found anti-infammatory
and anti-cancer properties
in curcumin, a substance
found in turmeric.
Ingredients in curry,
such as ginger, garlic and
basil, can bring you other
health benefts. Zick says
ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon
and pepper can warm up
your body and lower your
blood pressure.
Fresh garlic can also
Ingredients
4 potatoes
2 cups gobi (caulifower forets)
2 tablespoons oil
1 teaspoons cumin seeds
1 chopped green chili
1 teaspoons coriander paste
1 teaspoons cumin paste
1/4 teaspoons chili powder
1/2 teaspoons turmeric paste
1 teaspoon chopped coriander leaves
salt to taste
1. Cook the potatoes in a large saucepan of
boiling water for 10 minutes. Drain well and
set aside.
2. Heat the oil in a large frying pan and fry
the cumin seeds for about two minutes, or
until they begin to splutter. Add the green
chili and fry for one more minute.
3. Add the caulifower forets and fry, stir-
ring for fve minutes. Add the potatoes, the
ground spices and salt and cook for seven to
10 minutes, until the vegetable are tender.
3. Garnish the gobi with coriander and serve
with tomato and onion salad and pickle.
Eat with bread, such as naan or fatbread.
Aloo Gobi (Potato and Caulifower)
Vaishali Gala shares a recipe, which she
learned from her mother.
lower your blood pressure and cholesterol,
she says. Basil, which is often used in Thai curry,
helps fght colds. Zick says basil is high in anti-
oxidants.
Cook your own curry
1. Search recipes
A number of recipes are available on Curry
recipes (www.curry-recipes.net) or CurryFrenzy.
com. Dana Schmidt, president of the KU Cu-
linary Club, cooked prawn madras curry with
the club. Schmidt, Wichita junior, found the
recipe on CurryFrenzy.com. The recipe uses
curry powder mix, which makes cooking easier,
she says. Many of the club members like curry,
but they had only eaten it in a restaurant and
didnt know how to cook curry. Schimdt says
the prawn madras curry was easier to cook
than she thought and was well-received by the
club members.
2. Buy spices and curry paste
A variety of curry ingredients are avail-
able at Quick Stop, 1000 W. 23rd St., and the
Mediterranean Market & Cafe, 3300 Bob Bill-
ings Parkway. You can cook curry from scratch
with multiple spices, but using curry paste is
easier for beginners. You
can fnd Indian, Thai and
Japanese curry paste at
several locations in Law-
rence, including Check-
ers Food, 2300 Louisiana
St., World Market, 3106
Iowa St., and The Com-
munity Mercantile, 901
Iowa St.
Those pastes provide
instructions for cooking.
Vitaliy Karakuts, 2008
graduate, quickly learned
how to cook curry,
thanks to the pastes. He
often cooks Indian curry
and eats it with brown
rice.
Putting a lot of vege-
tables and using leaner meat makes the dish
healthier. Invite your friends and boost your
health with this zesty cuisine. JP
Photo by Jerry Wang
Curry addicts anonymous: Vaishali Gala, Hays senior, serves up curry. Gala, whose
parents emigrated from India, sometimes makes curry for her friends.
Photo by Jerry Wang
Hot and healthy: The ingredients in curry can bring you health benefts. Ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon and pepper can warm you up
and lower your blood pressure, and basil, which is high in antioxidants, helps fght colds.
about curry?
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February 5, 2009
Bitch
MOAN
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with Carly Halvorson and Elliot Kort
Have relationship questions or need some advice?
E-mail bitchandmoan@kansan.com.
*Bitch & Moan is not to be considered as a substitute
for professional help.
contact
I dated a girl two summers ago
who now goes to school in Georgia.
Recently, she came out of the blue
about how much she wants me to
come visit her for spring break. Im
temptedwe got along extremely
well and only broke up because of
the distance. She has been my what
if for a while. But, its a 17-hour drive
or at least a $200 flight. Is it worth it?
Josh, junior
Elliot: Lets get one thing out of the way
from the start. The many states separating
you two will not miraculously disappear. So,
even if you have an amazing time with Ms.
Right, youre still going to have the substantial
distance to deal with. That said go for it,
dude! Mind you, Im a sucker for the chival-
rous and romantic gesture. I love the idea of
you taking a chance and fying halfway cross
the country. If you go there, meet up with
your old fame, and things click thats great.
Youre off to the races.
If, however, you go there and its not what
youd like, youd still get to spend some quality
time with a friend. Now is the time in your
life when taking a trip on a whim makes the
most sense. Youre not tied down to anything
(because of spring break) and any work you
have to do you can take with you. Youre
probably about three semesters away from
graduating. If youre going to take a crazy trip,
nows the time.
Carly: What if you go there and nothing
romantic happens between you and your for-
mer fame? Would you consider that a waste?
You need to think about what you really want
to happen before you buy a ticket or pack
up your car. Sure, its easy to say now, Oh, I
really dont care what happens, I just want to
see an old friend. But I think we both know
thats a load of crap. This girl is, as you put it,
your what if, and her asking you to come
visit is giving you the impression that she
might be having the same thoughts.
If you go up there and she just really
wanted to see you as a friend, youll leave
Georgia confused and frustrated that she
sent you (what you see as) mixed signals. Plus,
youll be out $200 and that just adds to the
blow. If you can say with confdence that you
wouldnt mind it being a completely platonic
trip, then go. If theres a little bit of doubt, stay.
My boyfriend and I got in a fight the
other morning. We didnt speak to
each other all day. Later that night,
we didnt talk about our fight and
all he said was that he loved me and
thats all that mattered. Is that a cop-
out answer? And should I bring up
the fight again even though we are
both past it? Janet, junior
Elliot: Seems to me that your boyfriend
left it at I love you because he was prob-
ably stopping himself from saying something
regrettable. In that regard, I dont think its a
cop-out. Weve all be in that situation where
were so pissed off about something that
were inches away from saying something
incredibly hurtful. I think he was smart to
step on the gas, take a deep breath, and try to
focus on the most important thing. That be-
ing said, its never a good idea to go to sleep
angry, especially if youre doing so in the same
bed as the person youre arguing with. Trying
to clear the air (at least a little) before set-
tling in for the night would have been a good
thing to try. What do you have to gain by
letting that ill will sit inside you when youre
supposed to be at your most peaceful? So, in
the event that he tries to respond that same
way again, you should look him straight in the
face and say, And because you love me, were
going to talk this out.
Carly: There are a lot of circumstances that
would affect my answer. The big thing thats
missing is what the fght was about. I can
understand your frustration if your boyfriend
was the one that blundered and he just said
that to get it over with. However, if the two
of you had conficting views and couldnt
reconcile the difference of opinions, then I
wouldnt consider it a cop-out. Sometimes,
you just have to agree to disagree. The love
is still there, and that really is what matters.
Also, there is one key phrase that you used:
We are both past it. Im assuming this
means the fght is resolved and you have both
moved on. So why bring it up again? There is
nothing more aggravating than rehashing old
fghts when there is a more pressing issue
at hand. It could make a small fght turn into
something much bigger.
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couple lives together in Lawrence.
Looking to the future, the two Brazil-
ians have quite a year ahead of them. Marcela
graduates in May and the wedding is set for
December 27.
Elliot Kort
7 February 5, 2009
contact
Love at frst sight can be thought of as a
terrible clich. But for Marcela Telles, a Recife,
Brazil, senior, meeting and falling in love with
her fanc, Elias Cabus, was just that simple.
The couple met in July 2006 when Marcela
was home in Brazil for winter break. Elias was
in Brazil working as a DJ. Returning to Law-
rence after spending an entire month falling
for one another, Marcela was forced to wait
until the following March to see him.
The couple met up in Miami for the Ultra
Music Festival in March. It was as if it were
the next day, she says. Each year, the festival
showcases some of the worlds best electron-
ic and dance music, which both Marcela and
Elias love.
So there, in the middle of the festival, Elias
got down on one knee and proposed.
We didnt have a relationship, Marcela
says. We just got engaged.
Since then, Elias has lived in both New York
and Brazil while Marcela was in Kansas going
to school. When he was in the country, Marce-
la would fy out every other weekend to see
him. But fnally, Marcela says, Elias decided that
he needed to be closer. As of this summer, the
How We
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The couple was engaged on March 21, 2007, and will
dance their way to the aisle December 27.
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with Todd Anderson
of Left on Northwood
Todd Anderson, drummer and founder of
band Left on Northwood and 2008 graduate,
moved to Lawrence to join the local music
scene and get an education to boot. Left on
Northwoods mix of punk and hard rock
prowess gives the band aspirations of the
Big Time (they travel across the country for
shows and are releasing an album, Gut Check
Personality, on iTunes and Rhapsody on Feb-
ruary 24), but Left on Northwood still hum-
bly appreciates their music roots in Lawrence
and the openness that the local music scene
offers its partakers.
Whats the best part about
being a band in Lawrence?
Lawrence gives you the freedom to ex-
press yourself musically on any kind of plane.
Everyones open to rock, rap, country, inde-
pendent, house, anything. Lawrence is just a
hodge podge of all kinds of music and not a
lot of places in America are like Lawrence,
Kansas, in that respect.
Whats the bands favorite
venue?
The Bottleneck because a lot of the early
90s infuences played there and have their
pictures hanging on the wall. To know that
Weezer, Bush, Nirvana, Blink-182 have all
played in The Bottleneck makes it a really
special place to play.
You graduated from KU with
a degree in music therapy.
What do you miss the most
about college life?
I dont miss the parking department, thats
for sure, but I do miss the sporting events. It
was such a big deal on such a big level, almost
like the local music scene: Everyone is so pas-
sionate about it.
There are probably a few
Jayplay readers who dont
know who you guys are.
Whats something youd like
them to know about Left of
Northwood?
I want them to know that were not only a
band that records music to listen to, but were
also a band that loves to play live, whether its
in front of two people or 2,000 people. We not
only express our music through our instru-
ments, but also through our bodies, through
our interactions with people. Our live shows
take our music to whole new level.
Is there anything non-musi-
cal that inspires the band?
Id like to call these guys my brothers and
not just because I have to. Weve grown up
around each other and we all come from the
same place. We all have had the same hard-
ships, and I really consider them family. Having
them as friends is inspirational. Thats what
gives us such great chemistry: We care about
each other on a loving, family level before a
musical level.
If you could spend a day
with one person, who would
it be?
Keith Buckley from a band called Every
Time I Die. Id love to spend a day with that
guy to really fnd out how to live.
Where do you see Left on
Northwood in the future?
In one year, I see us with a released E.P.
and a new full-length album almost done in
the studio. Im hoping for a few tours along
the way. If we work the way we are working
and write the way we are writing, I see a very
successful future.
Madeline Hyden
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takes Goblin to the hospital all the time.
The visit to Braddys mom would have been
an opportunity to teach Goblin about being in
a hospital.
It doesnt make sense, Brooke Langdon,
Abeline junior and former puppy raiser, says.
Nothing changes about the fact that they shed
and that theyre a dog just because they gradu-
ate.
After raising three KSDS dogs, Langdon
understands something I sometimes forget: As
impressive as their future jobs are, these dogs
are still dogs.AndTrego is still a puppy.
When were out in public, I have to be aware
of Tregos tailthe Labradors No. 1 weapon.
And, even though she is potty trained and usu-
ally asks to go out, I always have a poop bag in
my pocket. Just in case.
During our trips out, I am constantly cor-
recting her, asking her to walk nicely on a leash,
to ignore bits of food and pieces of trash on
the ground and, most importantly, to pay atten-
tion to me. We work on basic obediencesit,
stay, heel, etc.but with the added distractions
of new people, smells and sounds. It would be
impossible to teachTrego these things at home,
because our environment is too controlled; she
needs to know how to pay attention to me
whatever our surroundings.
WithTrego in tow, even a simple trip toTar-
get becomes a training opportunity. We spend
extra time in the toy aisles, for example. I push
the buttons on every electronic toy I can fnd,
working to make sure nothing shell encounter
as an adult will scare her and distract her from
doing her job. Soon, Trego will attend her frst
concert and go to her frst bar. I hope well get
a chance to attend a keg party and a basketball
game this semester, too.
Its like having a child
College students considering committing to
puppy raising need to understand that it isnt
just something you can do on the weekends,
says Dave Downing, professor of aerospace
engineering and former puppy raiser. He says
raising a puppy for service requires a lifestyle
change similar to that of having children, but
just for a short time.
Ive had this puppy for fve months and I
cant think of a better analogy.
When Trego and I walked into church on
the Sunday before Christmas, I was armed with
the Missouri lawpuppies in training have the
same access rights as assistance dogsand
pamphlets about KSDS. I thought I was pre-
pared for anything. But when the band started
playing andTrego joined in, I began to panic. Just
wait it out. Shell stop singing when they stop. I told
myself it was going to be OK, that she would
calm down when the service began. Then, the
pastor released the children to go to their chil-
drens church activities. Oh no.
Tregos favorite people are ones who are
less than three feet tall. She especially loves
children who smell like food or scream and
run around a lot. The mass exodus of children
made Trego bark even more loudly. Mom! Do
you see the kids? Look! Kids! Theyre leaving! LETS
GO! Her yelps and whines were very clear: She
wanted to go to childrens church, too.
I tried everything I could think of to get
Trego to stop barking, but my embarrassment
quickly won out. I walked Trego away from the
congregation and into a stairwell in the back of
the church and fought tears as I tried to calm
her down.
A young mother, carrying her child, ap-
proached us. We all go through this, she told
me. I wiped tears out of my eyes and replied.
But no one thinks you should have left yours
at home.
10 February 5, 2009
oursfornow
[ raising puppies for service ]
By Becka Cremer
bcremer@kansan.com

puppy manners
She has slept through my history class and
peed at the Gap.
And the one time she went to church, she
talked through the entire service.
So when I decided to take my puppy to a
movie, I wasunderstandablya little ner-
vous.
I walked into the movie theater with the
speech I give at least 20 times a day running
through my head: This dog is a service dog in
training. Im her puppy raiser. Part of what I do
is make sure she is exposed to as many differ-
ent things as possible
But the manager of the movie theater just
waved us toward the ticket counter, where I
bought a ticket to Last Chance Harvey. (I couldnt
risk the commotion Marley & Me or Bolt might
cause.)
I am a puppy raiser for KSDS, Inc., a non-
proft organization that breeds and trains gold-
en retrievers and Labrador retrievers as service
dogs for individuals with disabilities. Someday,
my puppy, Trego, will join the more than 400
working dogs placed by KSDS since 1991. She
will work as a guide dog, a service dog or as a
social dog. In about 18
monthswhen Trego
is 2 years oldIll drive
two-and-a-half hours
to the KSDS training
facility in Washington,
Kansas, and hand over
her leash. But until
then, shell live with
me. My job is to keep
her safe and happy and
to teach her how to behave in public.
Thats why Trego goes everywhere with
meto the movies, to the mall and even out
to eat. She needs to be exposed to as many
different situations as possible, so that when
she works with someone who is blind or in a
wheelchair, shell be comfortable doing her job
in public.
So when I get ready to leave the house each
day, I strapTrego into her puppy in training vest
and clip a leash onto her collar.Then I grab my
doggie diaper bag and check my pockets: Dog
food. Puppy ID. Poop bag.
Becoming a volunteer
I applied to be a puppy raiser for KSDS
about two years ago. After a surprisingly easy
applicationtwo pages and two letters of
referenceand a long wait, I was handed a
10-pound puppy on September 5, 2008. She
was 2 months old. I was 22.
KSDS looks for people who love dogs and
are willing to take the time, energy and money
to raise these puppies. They also need to be
emotionally able to give the puppy up when it is
called back for formal training, Debbie Tegeth-
off, KSDS puppy coordinator says.
As a puppy raiser, I am responsible for the
frst phase of Tregos training, the growing up
part.When I takeTrego
back to KSDS, she will
be health and tempera-
ment tested before
beginning advanced
training. Then she will
be paired with the per-
son she will help and
the two of themwill go
through team training
to learn how to work
together. The entire process takes about three
years.
Right now, about 100 volunteers are rais-
ing KSDS puppies, Tegethoff says, and 50 of us
are in Kansas.The rest are scattered around the
country, mostly in the Midwest.
We all get the look
Lisa Beck and her puppy, Willow, are Law-
rence residents just beginning the puppy rais-
ing process. For the past three months, Beck
has been thinking about the places shed take
Willow after the dog was vaccinated for rabies
and received a vest. Beck, associate director of
operations for the Offce of Admissions and
Scholarships, plans to begin taking Willow to
work every once in a while soon. She hopes
the hubbub of the Offce of Admissions and
Scholarships will help Willow learn how to be-
have in public.
Nowthat Ive been takingTrego out in public
for a few months, Im less anxious about fnding
places for her to learn new things. In the begin-
ning, though, I kept lists. Animals she needs to
meet. Types of people she needs to be around.
Sounds. Smells. Modes of transportation. Now,
Im much more relaxed, focusing on providing
extra exposure to the types of things that make
Trego uncomfortable. In the past few weeks, for
example, Ive vacuumed my house nearly every
day and weve spent a lot of time around power
tools, becauseTrego doesnt like loud noises.
Like me, Larry Braddy plans his day around
his puppy. He takes Cinnamon places that will
help the puppy learn, such as restaurants, shop-
ping centers and the bank.
We all get the look, says Braddy, vice
chairman of the KSDS puppy raiser board.Like,
Whats that dog doing here? These dogs are
not just pets, Braddy says. They are working
dogs that need to be allowed to do their job,
whether theyre at a restaurant or a bus stop.
Theyre not here because were Paris Hil-
ton showing off our fuzzy dog, he says.
People have a lot of reservations about any
dog being anywhere, and Trego and I rarely go
anywhere without being stopped every few
feet. Some people just want to tell me howcute
she isand she is cutebut others want an
explanation. Is that a service dog? people ask,
sometimes not very nicely. Im quick to explain
what were doing and to reassure people that,
yes, its legal to allow us to be in public places.
Still, puppies in training arent always welcome,
and Kansas law does not give puppies in train-
ing the same access rights as service dogs.
When Braddy was raising his frst KSDS
puppy, Goblin, he says, he had to leave the dog
behind when he visited his mother in the hos-
pital.The funny thing about that, Braddy says, is
that Goblins partner has multiple sclerosis and
theyre not here
because were Paris
Hilton showing off
our fuzzy dog
Photo by Becka Cremer
Catalpa, a KSDS puppy, waits
under a table at T.G.I.Fridays
in Shawnee while her puppy
raiser eats dinner. In Kansas,
businesses are not required to
allow puppies in training access,
but as long as the puppies are
wearing their vests, it is legal
for them to be in restaurants.
A dogs vest signals to peopleand to
the dogthat it is working. Whether the
dog is in training or with a partner, its im-
portant to ask the person who is with the
dog for permission before talking to or
touching the dog.
In most cases, a puppy raiser will allow
people to interact with the puppy, but only
if the dog is behaving. Larry Braddy says he
makes a point of allowing children to pet
Cinnamon, the dog hes raising for KSDS,
but only if the child asks frst. This way
both the child and the dog learn something
about interacting with each other, says
Braddy, vice chairman of the KSDS puppy
raiser board.
But after a dog has graduated, when it is
in public with its partner, the dog cannot be
distracted. If a dog has a sign that says some-
thing like, Im working, please dont touch,
Braddy says, dont be offended. The dog just
needs to be able to work distraction-free.
Beth Sakumura, 1983 graduate, compares
talking to a dog that is working to grabbing
the steering wheel of a car when someone
else is driving. Distracting the dog puts the
person in danger, she says.
In addition to understanding that the dog
is doing its job, people should be aware that
the person relying on the dog is living his
life, says Nancy Giossi, executive assistant
in the offce of the director of the depart-
ment of continuing education. Theyve got
their lives, she says. Theyre already busy.
Youre just one of 10 people to stop them
that day.
Photos by Allison Richardson
Far left: Paisley, Jan Broxermans 4-month-old golden retriever puppy, sits
patiently in the library of Libertyview Elementary school. Broxterman
substitute teaches at the elementary school and takes Paisley with her
to help the dog become accustomed to small children and large crowds.
Left: Broxterman sits with Paisley until the puppy calms down. Paisley
is in the frst phase of her training. The KSDS program has
three stages of training, the frst of which is when the dog is
trained by a volunteer.
Right: Spilled candy provides an impromptu training
session for Larry Braddys dog, Cinnamon. Guide dogs
and service dogs cannot be distracted or tempted
by food on the ground, so they must be taught
to ignore it.
KSDS pups
future jobs
Guide dogs help people who are blind
or visually impaired.
Service dogs perform tasks such as
opening doors, retrieving dropped
items and pulling manual wheelchairs
for people with physical disabilities.
Social dogs are trained to work with
professionals in education, counseling,
medicine, rehabilitation, retirement or
specialty agencies. They do not have
the same access rights as guide and
service dogs.
Source: KSDS Puppy Raiser Manual
feature
Check out this storys
photo gallery, which
includes photos of writer
Becka Cremers dog,Trego,
at www.kansan.com/jayplay.
February 5, 2009
11 February 5, 2009
Sometimes, especially in the beginning, pup-
py raising feels like that: parenting a child no
one else wants around. But more recently Ive
collected a lot of success stories, not the least
of which was Tregos frst trip to the movies.
Trego sat through all of Last Chance Harvey
with only a few whimpers. She thought (and I
have to agree) that the middle of the movie
was kind of boring. As we walked out of the
theater that day, several people stopped us to
say they didnt even know there was a dog in
the theater until they saw us leave. Score.
Its obvious to me that the time I put in to
taking Trego out is paying off. Giving any dog
constant and consistent correction helps the
dog behave better, and makes each day a bit
easier. And after spending so much time with
these puppies, the mental and emotional bond
is incredible, says Jan Broxterman, a puppy rais-
er from Overland Park.
Giving them back
But puppy raisers have to be careful about
how they think about that bond, because when
the puppies are between 18- and 24-months-
old, KSDS sends each puppy raiser the letter.
The letter tells the puppy raiser that its time
to bring the puppy back.
The day they go back is the worst, but its
the best at the same time. Youre so attached,
and you dont even know how attached you
are, Langdon says.
Braddy doesnt know when hell get the let-
ter about Cinnamon, but hes guessing it will be
sometime next month. Then Braddy will load
Cinnamon into his car for the drive back to
Washington, Kansas, making sure to take along
one of Cinnamons favorite toys.
After an exit interview, during which the
puppy raiser answers questions about the pup-
pys progress and shares information that will
help the dogs transition to living at the training
facility go smoothly, the puppy is taken away. Its
sad, Braddy says, but you want your dog to go
off to doggie college to learn how to do its job.
After the dogs are called back, they are sent
to Kansas State University, where their eyes
and hips are tested to make sure they dont
have any problems that will keep them from
having a long career. The dogs are also tem-
perament tested every day, Tegethoff of KSDS
says. The trainers at KSDS watch the puppies
closely. They decide which track the dog will
takeservice dog, guide dog or social dog
based on what tasks the dog is good at per-
forming and what it seems to enjoy doing.
Some dogs, Tegethoff says, arent ready to
begin advanced training as soon as they get
back to the training facility. Some of the dogs
are kind of like teenagers. They dont know
what they want to do, Tegethoff says.
These dogs are sent to the Topeka
Correctional Facility where they spend
about 30 days with teams of female
inmates who are able to spend
more time with the dogs than pup-
py raisers or the trainers at KSDS
are, Tegethoff says. The teams are
usually made up of three women
and the leaders of the teams have
passed both written and practi-
cal tests to ensure that they are
equipped to help train the dogs. After
time at the Topeka Correctional Facility,
the dogs return to KSDS for formal training,
which lasts between six and nine months.
Pairing up
After advanced training, each dog is paired
with a person whose needs, personality and
lifestyle are appropriate to the dogs skills and
personality. Then, the dogs and their partners
go through team training, which lasts between
one and three weeks, depending on what type of
service the dog will be doing. The dogs and their
partners are taught to work together before the
dogs graduate. At graduation, the puppy raisers
present the dogs to their partners and the KSDS
community celebrates the teams success.
You get to see that joy that they are ex-
periencing and theyre scared because theyre
going home with this dogsometimes its the
frst dog theyve ever had. You get to see all of
those emotions, Braddy says. You get to see
that feeling of hope. They now have hope that
their lives will be more independent.
Trego is my frst KSDS puppy, so I dont have
a graduation story of my own yet. Instead, when
people ask how I will give Trego up, or why I am
a puppy raiser, I tell them about Challenge Air,
an event during which pilots donate their time
and their private planes to take children with
physical disabili- ties for short fights. Trego
and I volunteered at
the KSDS booth
at the event. We
were there to introduce children and their
parents to the idea that a service dog could
change their lives, but the children I met there
changed mine.
One of the frst people Trego and I met that
day was a 6-year-old named Alex. When he saw
us, he dropped the braces that were attached
to his arms and fell to his knees to play with
Trego, who, at 3 months old, was still swimming
in her vest. Alex told Trego that he was about
to fy in an airplane while I talked to Alexs
mom. She told me she had been planning on
applying for a dog for him already, and seeing
him with Trego solidifed the thought.
Alex and his mom soon moved on, allowing
other children to talk to Trego. I was fguring
out how to hold a leash and unscrew the cap
from my water bottle at the same time when
Alex came running back to Trego and me. He
had left his braces behind in his excitement
and was struggling to stay upright, but he was
in a hurry to tell us about his fight.
I got to FLY the plane! he told Trego. I told
him that neither Trego nor I had ever fown a
plane, and he showed us the fight wings the
pilot had given him. The pilots at Challenge Air
had their way of letting these children experi-
ence the freedom of motion I feel every day.
Raising Trego is mine. JP
assistance
dogs on the Web
KSDS, Inc.
www.ksds.org
Lawrence/Kansas City area
puppy raiser website
http://web.mac.com/lisalrick/iWeb/
KSDS/Home.html
Assistance Dogs International
www.assistancedogsinternational.org
International Association of
Assistance Dog Partners
http://iaadp.org
For more information about service dogs and puppy
raisers, check out these websites.
Photo by Allison Richardson
Cinnamon, a KSDS puppy in training, puts
his front paws on a counter.
Photo by Allison Richardson
Jan Boxterman pulls her puppy in training, Paisley, in close to calm her down after she gets excited at work.
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February 5, 2009
[stagepresence]
Cheri Lu Woods
Contributed photo
Cheri Lu Woods, with her dog Sojourner Truth Woods,
has turned her poems into songs.
For as long as she can remember, Cheri
Lu Woods has been writing poetry. It is only
recently, however, that Woods has begun
transforming her writing into lyrical perfor-
mances on stage.
Woods credits the birth of this new style
to the days when she used to work as a cou-
rier in Kansas City.
It was inevitable that my gesturing, harsh
words to other drivers and the talking to
myself that I did while driving around town
actually turned into some pieces that I felt
were ft for recitation, Woods says.
One such poem-turned-song relates to
observations on various bumper stickers that
she encountered during hours of commuting,
including such phrases as Your Boss is a Jew-
ish Carpenter, Mean People Suck and My
Child is an Honor Student.
Woods has found sources of inspira-
tion for her writing through authors such as
Charles Bukowski and musicians such as Jim
Croce and Bob Dylan.
Hes as much a poet as a songster,
Woods quickly asserts, regarding Dylan.
More than anything, its about transcribing
the moment onto paperwhatever happens
to be on her mind at the time, Woods says.
where I went and how I got there,
some attraction I have for someone, failed
attempts at love, some oddball I saw on the
street, some oddball that is me, my desire to
defne truth so that I might embrace it. My
disdain for the world and my disappointment
in myself, Woods says.
Woods will be performing on stage to-
morrow night at The Slap and Tickle Gallery
between 6 p.m. and midnight at the Second
Annual Erotica Art Showfeaturing erotica
art from over 30 artists from Kansas City
and New Yorklocated at 504 E. 18th St. in
Kansas City, Missouri.
Tanner Grubbs
Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta by Geto Boys. I heard it one
time and thought it summed up my life. I wake up come to school, I
hustle, this is how I do it. Its my creed.
Chase Johnson, Chicago sophomore
Out About
[ if your life had a theme song,
what would it be? ]
Free Bird by Lynard Skynard, because Im pretty much a free spirit
and thats kind of what that songs about. Plus, I love Lynard Skynard.
They rock.
Dillon Zickefoose, Shawnee senior
Crazy Bitch by Buckcherry, because its just a good song to me. It
gets me going, gets me in the drinking mood, gets me in the zone.
Jacqui Belozer, Overland Park junior
Learning to Fly by Tom Petty. I like the lyrics. You can kind of
interpret them however you want and its just about rising above
things and getting through them.
Bridget Lamb, Exton, Pennsylvania, freshman
Scarlet Begonias by Sublime, because its just about being a free
spirit and doing whatever you want and thats kind of what I do.
Ashleigh Meyer, Shawnee freshman
Lets Go by Trick Daddy featuring Lil Jon, because Im usually
pretty on top of things and just have to go for it and try to do my
best at everything.
Bo Gapske, Lenexa freshman
Over by Katharine McPhee, because the song talks about starting
over and leaving the past behind and looking for a brighter future.
Taylor Hovorkn, Kansas City sophomore
California by Phantom Planet because its about going somewhere
new and trying new things and thats what I like to do.
Mike Mahon, New Braunfels, Texas, sophomore
Everything Hits at Once by Spoon, because it always seems like
when something happens in my life its followed by a whole bunch of
other bad stuff or a whole bunch of good stuff all at once.
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Behind shelves lined with assorted grocer-
ies, steam rises from a back corner in excited
plumes. A bearded gentleman with a youthful
step bounces between a noisy side room and
the mysterious thermals, bowls in hand.
Charlie Porubsky, manager of Porubskys
Grocery in Topeka, mans the old four-burner
stovesupporting stockpots of chili flled to
the brimwith steadfast grace; much like his
father, the late Charlie Sr., did when he opened
the establishment back in 1947.
Nestled in the Little Russia district, at 508
Northeast Sardou
Avenue, Porubskys
has been a mainstay
among Topeka lo-
cals for its famous
chili for over half
a century, recently
fnding a broader
audience with a
February 2008 ar-
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magazine, which
described the fam-
ily-owned eatery
as a destination for
committed chili-
heads.
To complement
the renowned chili,
Porubskys also of-
fers cold-cut sandwiches, ham
salad and cold plates consisting
of sliced deli meats and cheeses.
Oh, and the pickles. Very. Hot.
Picklesperhaps just as synony-
mous to Porubskys as its chili.
With an order of pickles to
go, Charlie imparts a very suc-
cinct farewell, devoid of any noticeable jest:
Be careful with those pickles. Weve got a
hot batch today.
Upon tossing a modest segment of pick-
le into his mouth, Overland Park senior Jack
Connor, experienced mild contortions of
the face before jumping about and releasing
a cathartic, YOOP!
Have any more? Connor asks, follow-
ing a swift recovery.
Porubskys has a narrow window in
which food is served, so plan accordingly:
Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Chili is available only from Monday through
Thursday.
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[ what is the grossest thing your
roommate has ever done? ]
Well, three years ago, my roommate peed in a girls closet.
Adam Roush, Wichita senior
He pissed in a trash can the frst week we lived together. It was pretty
nasty.
Garrett Quinn, La Grange, Illinois, freshman
He threw up in the shower and left it there. It clogged the shower
drain and when he took a shower, it all came back up.
Aaron Keck, Manhattan sophomore
My roommate didnt fnish pasta from some restaurant, so she put it
in the refrigerator. She forgot about it and two months later it was
growing hairs.
Enaam Gettino, Lenexa freshman

When he moved out, he took everything but a pile of his crusty
socks under my bed. So, when I was moving out I got the pleasure
of touching his crusty socks because I didnt know what they were.
Scott Peters, Great Bend senior
When I came home, he was sitting in a chair completely naked in the
living room.
Tristan Moody, Lawrence doctoral student
Left a condom on the foor of the bathroom oh, and it was used.
Niki Grewal, Austin, Texas, junior
Threw up in the bathroom and managed to leave it there for months
Kate Renner, Vermillion, South Dakota, senior
Put Jello in the bottom of the bathtub and let it set over night. It got
crusty and nasty by the morning.
Brooks Perry, Hutchison junior
My roommate, Brian, puked in the toilet and neglected it for at least a
month.
Michael Spero, Shawnee junior
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Choose some trees
Find two sturdy trees or similar objects about 30 to 40 feet a part. The
shorter your slackline, the more stable it will be and the easier it will be to
walk on, Hoelscher says.
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Walking is
the hard part
By Becka Cremer
bcremer@kansan.com
An easy guide to setting up a slackline
It may look as if theyre tightrope walking, but the barefoot students you see walking about
four feet off the ground are practicing another sport entirely: slacklining. A few carabiners and
about 100 feet of nylon webbing is all it takes to set up a slackline. With this handy guide and a
few days of practice, youll be ready to show off your skills.
What you need
Three climbing carabiners ($10 each). The self-locking type are the safest, says Noah Hoel-
scher, rock climbing expert at Sunfower Outdoor and Bike, 804 Massachusetts St.
60 to 80 feet of 1-inch climbing webbing ($24-$32)
Two 10-foot pieces of climbing webbing ($12). Hoelscher recommends two-inch webbing
for the shorter pieces, which are used to anchor the line to two trees. The wider webbing is more
diffcult to fnd, he says, but is gentler on tree bark than one-inch webbing.
1.
Set the anchors
Each of the 10-foot pieces of webbing will anchor one side of the slack-
line to a tree.
1. Tie an overhand knot on a bight at each end of each of the 10-foot
pieces of webbing (see Figure 1). This will create a loop on each end of each
anchor piece
2. Wrap one of the anchor pieces around a tree and thread one loop
through the other (see Figure 2).
3. Hook a carabiner to the empty loop (see Figure 2).
4. Repeat on the other tree.
2.
Hook the line to one tree
The long piece of one-inch climbing webbing will form the part of the
slackline you walk on.
1. Tie an overhand knot on a bight at one end of the line.
2. Clip the loop from that knot onto one of the anchor carabiners. Close
the carabiner.
3.
Set up tightening device
1. Walk toward the other tree, holding the webbing. Make sure its not
twisted. When youre about 10 feet from the other tree, use a clove hitch
to hook the third carabiner to the line (see Figure 3).
2. Feed the excess webbing through the carabiner on the free anchor.
3. Loop the webbing through the carabiner attached to the line.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3, tucking the line under the previous loops so it
will stay in place (see Figure 4).
Tighten the line
1. Make sure your slackline is about four feet off the ground.
2. Pull on the loose end of the webbing until the line is tight. There is
not a set rule for how tight the line should be, Hoelscher says, but gener-
ally, a tighter line is easiest to walk on.
4.
Hop on
Some expert slackliners can perform back fips and 360-degree spins
on the line, but everyone starts the same way: by standing up. Kick off your
shoes and ask a friend to sit on the line behind where you want to get on,
Hoelscher says. Your friend will help keep the line stable and make standing
up easier. Then, focus on a spot that isnt moving so you dont lose your
balance.
If you look at the line when its moving, shaking back and forth, youll fall, Hoelscher says.
And if you look at your foot, youll fall.
Some beginning slackliners put crash pads under the line to break their falls, says Mark Perry,
the outdoor pursuits graduate assistant at the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center.
Dont get discouraged if you cant walk on your slackline right away. Keep practicing, Hoel-
scher says.
Most people can stand on one foot and take a couple of steps in a couple of afternoons, he
says. It seems to be pretty intuitive. JP
Overhand Knots
Graphics by Becka Cremer
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 4
Figure 3
Dalton Howard, a security guard at the
Spencer Museum of Art, watched as a guest
knelt before a statue of Jesus, gripped his
rosary and held an impromptu Catholic
mass.
Howard, who has been a guard for more
than 15 years, says the man was a regular
at the museum for a while. Unorthodox
behavior is common at the Spencer; Rose
Kopf, a guard for two years, once found
someone talking to a person in a painting.
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guards must be ready to evacuate or lock down the museum at any moment, Kopf says.
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public, Howard says, and because guards spend much of their time giving directions. However,
Howard has been chewed out by guests who felt he was being too strict with museum
rules.
Ive been called a nasty old man, Howard says.
However, he says he is proud to protect the only comprehensive art museum in Kansas.
It doesnt look like youre doing anything, but if you werent here, you wonder what would
be happening, Howard says.
Adam Schoof
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in the life of...
A museum guard
Photo by Adam Schoof
Dont touch that!: Rose Kopf, guard at the Spencer Museum
of Art, has seen her fair share of oddities on the job.
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guitarist Brendan Bayliss vocals are excellent,
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Overall, the album is awesome. While long-
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new, more strictly structured tunes, they will
soon realize that Umphreys stays true to their
roots on Mantis by creating a truly original and
head-banging piece of art.
MOVIE: The Reader
MUSIC: Andrew Bird, Noble Beast
The genre of jam band takes on new
meaning when applied to Umphreys McGee.
The six-piece group based out of Chicago
takes a different approach to their music than
the typical Grateful Dead or Allman Broth-
ers improv. Umphreys is immaculate in their
technique and sound, and original in their song
development and creation.
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than 10 years of aggressive touring across the
country, the group shows a new level of ma-
turity and musical creativity on their fourth
studio album, Mantis.
Mantis was written entirely in the studio
a new technique for Umphreys, who typically
road tests their songs before releasing them
on studio albums. The result is interesting.
Though Mantis lacks the familiar euphoric and
lose jams found on earlier Umphreys albums,
it boasts an array of incredibly well structured
and thickly layered songs that leave listeners
refreshed with a good dose of originality.
Highlights on the album include the rock
symphony that is Mantis, the albums title
track. The song is flled with incredible transi-
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tions with his tremendous guitar work is also
noteworthy throughout the track.
Cemetery Walk is another great song. A
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BOOK: Nami Mun, Miles From Nowhere
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Rourke is captivating, not only slamming
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February 5, 2009
On my notebook
By Sachiko Miyakawa
smiyakawa@kansan.com
Photo illustration by Ryan McGeeney
I stood in a hallway of Strong Hall, mur-
muring sentences that I jotted down on a
piece of paper. I repeated the sentences until
I memorized them. The paper was wet from
my sweaty hands. I took a deep breath and
entered the Offce of the International Stu-
dent and Scholar Services to talk with a staff
member.
Im taking a reporting class at KU and
our assignment is to interview a person who
works behind the scenes and deserves to be
noticed, I said.
I tried to explain the purpose of my inter-
view. Two receptionists looked at each other,
puzzled. What was wrong with the sentence?
How come they didnt understand me? I was
panicked.
Im a journalism student. I want to inter-
view somebody in the offce ...
I restated my purpose slowly, searching for
a hint of recognition in their faces.
It was the very frst interview I conducted
in my reporting career. I was a junior and had
just gotten into the journalism school. The in-
terview stressed me out so much that I won-
dered if I could survive the major.
I came to KU three years ago after graduat-
ing from high school in Tokyo. Good journal-
ism programs and cultural and ethnic diversity
attracted me to study in the United States. I
was thrilled to travel as a journalist one day
and write stories about people from different
cultures. I had never visited the United States
or spoken English well, but I was optimistic. I
fgured, using English every day in the United
States, that I would become a native speaker
in a few years.
My English, however, didnt improve so
quickly. I could understand English well, and
learned different idioms and slangs. But I was
never comfortable speaking English, especially
when I had to explain complicated things.
When I had a complaint about my classmates
or roommates, I kept it to myself to avoid mis-
understanding and confrontation. I hesitated
to participate in a class discussion unless I
came up with perfectly grammatical sentenc-
es. I rehearsed in my head what I would speak,
but before I could raise my hand, an instructor
would move on the next question.
My insecurity turned me into an introvert.
My boyfriend once told me I was like a wall-
fower, because I became quiet in front of a
group of people. I was more articulate and so-
ciable when I was living in Japan.
Being a journalism major and reporter was
like shock treatment for my insecurity. I report-
ed for The University Daily Kansan in Fall 2008,
which forced me to be outgoing. I had to write
three stories and interview about 10 people a
week. One of my nervous habits was speaking
too fast. After a number of interviews, I learned
people could understand my accented English
better when I slowed down and articulated
each word.
The 2008 election was the hardest story I
worked on as a reporter for The Kansan. I was
assigned to go to the Republican watch party
in Topeka and cover the congressional race of
Kansas 2nd district. It was the frst presidential
election I observed in the United States, and I
didnt even know what a watch party was.
When I arrived at the watch party in the
Topeka Capital Plaza Hotel, hundreds of people
flled the hotels ballroom. Among the crowds,
I had to fnd a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Lynn
Jenkins, and some KU students to interview. I
called her spokesman several times, but was di-
rected to an answering machine. I asked around
to middle-aged men in suits where I could fnd
Jenkins. They told me she was somewhere in
the hotel. It was past 11 in the evening. I des-
perately called one of my editors, who told me
I couldnt leave the hotel until I talked to the
spokesman.
The pressure to fnish the story forced me to
be aggressive. I asked a Kansan photographer
to come along and recklessly stepped into an
elevator, not being sure where we would go.
We looked through each foor of the hotel, un-
til we fnally found a room where Jenkins and
her supporters waited for the election results.
Right after we got there, incumbent candidate
Nancy Boyda conceded the race. People in the
room screamed, cheered and hugged. When I
interviewed Jenkins spokesman, I wasnt shy or
conscious of my English at all. Questions came
out of my mouth one after another.
Being a reporter helped improve my English
and boost my confdence. I also found myself
enjoying meeting different people and con-
ducting in-depth interviews. I was surprised
many people were willing to help me out and
share their stories, some of which were very
personal. They didnt hesitate to express their
opinions on ways to improve community and
society. I found it my responsibility to develop
those issues and address them to the readers.
I didnt travel around the world for The Kan-
san, but it reminded me of my passion to be a
journalist: writing about people who live in
different cultures or have uncommon stories
to tell. JP
Biting the bullet: Sachiko now knows she needs to be more aggressive and not let the fear of being misunder-
stood stop her from asking the right questions and writing the best stories possible.
How I overcame a language barrier
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