Jayplay March 29, 2007 knittin’ a scarf Men who wield their needles proudly page 5

secrets under there Changing your underwear can change your mood page 11

puppet patrol The felt show brings puppet theater to adults page 15

and Jaime Netzer explains her odd relationship with her little sister, Shelly. page 19 09 ABLE F ONTENTS 07 11

The weekt before spring breaknote. I pulled my first all- Spring break200711 nighter in years. I spent nine hours at my former high school supervising the yearbook editors as they finished their final deadline. When I finally left at 5:15 a.m., I fully planned on 13 19 making the 45-minute trek back to Lawrence to grab a shower and a bowl of cereal 09 before heading to my 10 a.m. class. I fit in the shower and breakfast, but somehow ended up curled in a ball on my extremely comfortable 07 bed. At 11 a.m. my cell phone rang, waking me. 13 I spent the next 10 minutes panicking about the homework for LING 106 ­— worth 8 percent of my grade — wrinkled at the bottom of my messenger bag. Then I rolled over and went back to sleep; my calendar 03 notice 11 spring break started a little music and events switch your skivvies early this year. I barely survived my one Blue Man Group, Dreamgirls and more Depressed? Buy new underwear! all-nighter this semester, and I ended up shirking responsibility because I needed sleep. notice 05 contact 13 I’m nothing like the stitches in britches friends who fight Lawrence night owls Courtney Hagen tracked Knitting has become more acceptable for men Capoeira strengthens bodies and bonds between midnight and 5 a.m. The people she writes about on page 15 stay awake to make a living. They’re being people 07 out 15 responsible and pulling all- No strings attached Sleepless in Lawrence nighters. Needless to say, I’m Paul Santos’ passion for puppets On the job between midnight and 5 a.m. impressed.

ßBecka Cremer, co-editor mouta ch09o motivation Mspeaky ol 19der baby sister On the cover: Muscular men on screen affect guys’ body images Jaime Netzer’s sister Shelly is younger and wiser photo illustration/ anna faltermeier JAYPLAYERS

EDITORS MAKIN’ IT HAPPEN PHOTOGRAPHERS MCGUYVER STUFF OUT HIT THE TOWN CREATIVE CONSULTANT FOUR SEA CREATURES Becka Cremer Amanda Sellers Matt Elder Carol Holstead Dave Ruigh Anna Faltermeier Courtney Hagen Jaime Netzer WRITE TO US CLERK GETS AROUND TOWN HEALTH GOOD FOR YOU [email protected] Michael Peterson Lindsey St. Clair NOTICE TAKE NOTE OF IT Kim Wallace Laura Evers JAYPLAY DESIGNERS MAKE IT PRETTY Elyse Weidner Dani Hurst The University Daily Kansan Katherine Loeck Katrina Mohr 111 Stauffer-Flint Hall Bryan Marvin PEOPLE KNOW EVERYONE 1435 Jayhawk Blvd. Sam Carlson CONTACT HELP YOUR LOVE LIFE Lawrence, KS 66045 Jennifer Denny Matthew Foster Anne Weltmer Nicole Korman 02 JAYPLAY 03.29.2007 VOLUME 4, ISSUE 24 march 29 march 30 march 31 april 1 april 3 where?

THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY TUESDAY VENUES Gallery Exhibit: The Dead Sea Walk-Ins Welcome Friday. Print Squiggle Puppet Productions Softball: Kansas vs. Baylor. Workshop: “Blackboard Scrolls. Science City at Union Room, Spencer Museum of Art, Show. Oread Books, Kansas Arrocha Ballpark, 12 p.m., ticket Strategies and Tools.” Room 6, Beaumont Club CStation, 9:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m.,a 10 a.m., FREE, www.spencerart.l Union, e10:30 a.m., FREE, www. required, n www.kuathletics.com.dBudig Hall, 9–11 a.m., FREE.a 4050 Pennsylvaniar St. $20–36, www.sciencecity.com. ku.edu. oreadbooks.com. Kansas City, Mo. The Dead Sea Scrolls will be on Carillon Concert. Memorial Current Issues Forum. (816) 561-2560 display through May 13. Concert: Tunes at Noon. Plaza, Softball: Kansas vs. Baylor. Campanile, 5 p.m., FREE, www. Traditions Area, Kansas Union, Kansas Union, 12 p.m., FREE, Arrocha Ballpark, 2 p.m., ticket carillon.ku.edu. 12 p.m., FREE. Come discuss Bottleneck Majors Fair. Kansas Union, 10 www.sua.ku.edu. required, www.kuathletics. current events and eat free 737 New Hampshire St. a.m.–1 p.m., FREE, www.advising. com. Skybox/Stockmarket Crash/ cookies. Lawrence ku.edu. Golf Clinic. Watkins Memorial Lovers in Transit. Record Bar, (785) 841-5483 Health Center, 1–4 p.m., FREE, Dance: Armitage Gone! Dance. 6 p.m., all ages, www.myspace. Softball: Kansas vs. Arkansas. The Brick Gallery Exhibit: Jennifer www.studenthealth.ku.edu. Lied Center, 7:30 p.m., $12-14.50, com/skybox. Arrocha Ballpark, 2 p.m., ticket 1727 McGee St. Steinkamp. Kemper Museum www.lied.ku.edu. required, www.kuathletics.com. Kansas City, Mo. of Contemporary Art, 10 a.m.–9 Lecture: “An American Lawyer The Early November/The (816) 421-1634 p.m., FREE, www.kemperart.org. in a Chinese Company.” Film: Dreamgirls. Woodruff Rocket Summer/Melee/ Workshop: “Resumes from Centennial Room, Kansas Union, Auditorium, Kansas Union, 8 Nothing Ever Stays. Granada, Scratch for Juniors and Fatso’s Gallery Exhibit: The 2:30 p.m., FREE. p.m., $2 or FREE w/ SUA movie 6:30 p.m., all ages, $15, www. Seniors.” Budig PC lab, 3:30 1016 Massachusetts St. Neighborhood Show. Signs card. myspace.com/theearlynovember. p.m., FREE, www.ucc.ku.edu. Lawrence of Life, 10 a.m.–11 p.m., FREE, Lecture: “Political Violence (785) 865-4055 www.signsoflifegallery.com. and Human Rights in the Blue Man Group. Kemper Chess Night. Henry’s on Eighth, Cranium Game Night. GSP Eight local artists’ work will be Peruvian Amazon.” Seminar Arena, 8 p.m., $50.50–86, www. 7 p.m., FREE. Residence Hall, 7 p.m., FREE. Gaslight Tavern on display. Room, Hall Center, 3:30 p.m., kemperarenakc.com. Compete for cash prizes. 317 N. Second St. FREE. Killswitch Engage/ Lawrence Film: El Enemigo Comun. 318 Winard Harper. Blue Room, 8:30 Dragonforce/Chimaira/He is Concert: “Joy of Singing.” Lied (785) 856-4330 Bailey Hall, 12 p.m., FREE. A Film: Time of the Gypsies. 318 p.m., $15. Legend. Uptown Theatre, 7:20 Center, 7:30 p.m., $5, www.lied. discussion with the filmmaker Bailey Hall, 7 p.m., FREE. p.m., $26. ku.edu. Grand Emporium will follow the screening. A rice Sonic Spectrum Anniversary 3832 Main St. and beans lunch is available Arena Football: Kansas City Show w/ American Kirsten Paludan/Trentalange/ Talib Kweli/Approach. Kansas City, Mo. with donation. Brigade vs. Arizona Rattlers. Catastrophe/The PedalJets/ Arthur Dodge. Jackpot Saloon, Granada, 8 p.m., all ages, $20. (816) 531-1504 Kemper Arena, 7 p.m., $9-120, Ghosty/Softee. Record Bar, 9 p.m., 18+ Tea Time. Lobby, Kansas Union, www.kcbrigade.com. 9 p.m., 21+, www.kcur.org/ The Show is the Rainbow/ Harbour Lights 3 p.m., FREE sonicspectrum.html. The Extraordinaires/The Fairer Many Moods of Dad. The 1031 Massachusetts St. Trivia Riot. The Brick, 7 p.m., Sex, The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., Lawrence Lecture: “You, Me, Educational $5, www.thebrickkcmo.com. Explosions in the Sky/ 21+, $2, www.myspace.com/ 21+, $2, www.myspace.com/ (785) 841-1960 Video Games and the Players are welcome to come as Eluvium/The Paper Chase. theextraordinaires. theshowistherainbow. Meaning of Life.” 150 JRP, 4:30 a team or all alone. Prize money The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., all Jackpot Saloon p.m., FREE. is divided among the winning ages, $9. 943 Massachusetts St. teams at the end of the night. april 2 april 4 Lawrence Bill Gaither and Friends. The Afterparty/Crawling with (785) 843-2846 Kemper Arena, 7 p.m., $19.50– Film: Dreamgirls. Woodruff Kings/OK Jones. The Hurricane, MONDAY WEDNESDAY 36.50, www.gaither.com. Auditorium, Kansas Union, 8 p.m., 9 p.m. Workshop: “Resumes from AfterSchool Special. Granada, The Jazzhaus $2 or FREE w/ SUA movie card. Scratch for Freshmen and 1:30 p.m., all ages, $3. 926 1/2 Massachusetts St. Film: Dreamgirls. Woodruff Hate Made Easy/Rotted Sophomores, Budig PC lab, 3:30 Lawrence Auditorium, Kansas Union, 8 Ida McBeth. Blue Room, 8:30 Remnants. Boobie Trap p.m., FREE, www.ucc.ku.edu. Softball: Kansas vs. Nebraska. (785) 749-3320 p.m., $2 or FREE w/ SUA movie p.m., $10. Bar, 9:30 p.m., all ages, Arrocha Ballpark, 3 p.m., ticket The Record Bar card. $5–6, www.myspace.com/ British Seminar: “A Colony of required, www.kuathletics.com. 1020 Westport Road Cherry Bomb. VooDoo Lounge hatemadeeasy. Children: Cultural Theory for Kansas City, Mo. Gloves and Glory. VooDoo at Harrah’s Casino, 9 p.m., 21+, the Modern Nation.” Seminar Chess Night. Aimee’s (816) 753-5207 Lounge at Harrah’s Casino, $5, www.cherrybombrocks.com. David Lindley/Pieta Brown. Room, Hall Center, 3:30 p.m., Coffeeshop, 7 p.m., FREE. 8 p.m., 21+, $40–125, www. Knuckleheads Saloon, 9:30 p.m., FREE. Replay Lounge VooDookc.com. Sonic Spectrum Anniversary $20. Theater: Keely and Du. William 946 Massachusetts St. Show w/ Starlight Mints/State Eric Clapton. Kemper Arena, Inge Memorial Theatre, Murphy Lawrence Dr. John. Beaumont Club, 8 p.m., Bird/ The Caves/Minus Story. Stinking Lizaveta/Sentient. 7:30 p.m., $49.50–86, www. Hall, 7:30 p.m., ticket required, (785) 749-7676 all ages, $20–25, www.drjohn. Record Bar, 9 p.m., 21+, www. The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., kemperarenakc.com. www.kutheatre.com. com. kcur.org/sonicspectrum.html. 21+, $2,www.myspace.com/ Signs of Life stinkinglizaveta. Guster/The Format. Liberty Lecture: “Hurricane Katrina: 722 Massachusetts St. The Falling View/Lloyd Reign of 1000/Headgear for Hall, 8 p.m., $25, www.guster. An Insider Tells His Side of Lawrence Likes Mike/Chelsea Laswell. Grasshoppers/Stand Under Cosmic Bowling. Jaybowl, com. the Story.” Dole Institute (785) 830-8030 Granada, 9 p.m., 18+, $5, www. Nothing. Boobie Trap Bar, Kansas Union, 10 p.m., FREE. of Politics, 7:30 p.m., FREE, myspace.com/thefallingview. 9:30 p.m., all ages, $5-6, www. The Extraordinaires/ www.doleinstitute.org. Former Uptown Theater myspace.com/reignof1000. Bockman. Gaslight Tavern, 10 Arrah and the Ferns. FEMA director Michael Brown 3700 Broadway St. Howling Hex/Witch and Hare. p.m. Record Bar, 21+, www. discusses the government’s Kansas City, Mo. Record Bar, 9 p.m., 21+, www. The Roseline/Fourth of July. extraordinairesmusic.com. response to Hurricane (816) 753-8665 dragcity.com/bands/hagerty. The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., Waterfowl Habitat/Obelisk/ Katrina. html. 21+, $2,www.myspace.com/ MC Cat Genius. The Brick. Same Sick Feeling/Los VooDoo Lounge colinpepper. Craptaculares/Neutralboy/ Ferocious Eagle/Panda & 1 Riverboat Drive Birds of Avalon. The Replay Small Sails/The Capsules/Baby KTP. Boobie Trap Bar. 9:30 p.m., Angel. Record Bar, 8 p.m., Kansas City, Mo. Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+, $2, www. Cosmic Bowling. Jaybowl, Birds Don’t Drink Milk. Jackpot all ages, $5–6,www.myspace. 21+, www.myspace.com/ (816) 889-7320 myspace.com/birdsofavalon. Kansas Union, 10 p.m., FREE. Saloon, 10 p.m., 18+. com/samesickfeeling. ferociouseagle. 03.29.2007 JAYPLAY 03 Jose Tapia Katie Marickovich Real World: Key West Wichita senior

If the world were I love you, mom. I love you. ending, what would your last words be?

what word best Determined. Determined. describes you?

What’s one food you Chicken. I grew up in a Chocolate — it’s my vice. can’t live without Spanish household and my and why? mom always made it.

What’s your To be a real estate To own my own interior dream job? entrepreneur so I can sit back design company. and relax and make money. If you could be an An eagle, because I would A cheetah, because they are animal, what would like to fly. beautiful and ferocious. you be and why?

■ Nicole Korman Fri Mar 30 Alpha Phi Alpha Party Sat Mar 31 ULTIMATE FOOLS FEST PARTY (DJ SKU) Sun Apr.1st The Early November, Rocket Summer and Melee Couples that skate Apr.3 Talib Kweli w/Approach Apr.5 Particle w/Boombox together, stay together Apr.6 Cory Ryan with TANNER WALLE & EVAN JACOB how we Apr.7 DJ SKU’S BLOCK PARTY Apr.8 GALACTIC w/PAPA MALI Lyndse Bortnick, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, met her Apr.10 Anberlin metboyfriend Pete Hanes, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, in Apr.11 YO LA TENGO seventh grade at an ice skating mixer. Bortnick says that Apr.12 MUTEMATH w/Somebody Still Loves you Boris Yeltsin she had heard that he liked her and then they skated Apr.13 American Cancer Society Benefi t w/ Krux Krew, Nick West, DJ Keef together during couples skate. After that they went on Apr.14 Type O-Negative w/Celtic Frost one date their freshman year of high school on Valentine’s Apr.15 Bleu Edmonson w/Back Porch Mary Day. But it wasn’t until they were on spring break in Vail, Apr.17 Lucero w/Catfi sh Haven Colo., that the two began dating. Bortnik and Hanes have Apr.18 KU of UGANADA Fundraiser been together now for four years. Apr.19 Anti-Flag ■ Nicole Korman Apr.20 Four Twenty Celebration featuring AFROMAN photo courtesy of Lyndse Bortnick Apr.21 Antibalas (formerly Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra) Apr.25 VICTOR WOOTEN w/Andy Mckee Apr.27 Fetish Night Apr.28 Mr. Shamrock Contest May 3 CORY MORROW May 4 Deadwood Derby Finals May 5 Cinco De Mayo Party May 5 American Head Charge May 10 EL-P May 11 Minus the Bear May 16 The Audition May 18 CLUTCH w/Backyard Tire Fire May 19 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club May 20 Animal Collective May 31 Jason Boland & the Stragglers June 2 Son Venezuela June 4 ICP w/Twiztid June 16 Tortoise & Hot Chip

04 JAYPLAY 03.29.2007 notice Stitches in Britches The art of masculi-knit-ty by Dani Hurst Ryan Agnew lounges in a Who Knit & The Dogs Who Love maroon chair in the Kansas Them. She attributes this increase Union with something notable to society’s ability to take male between his legs: Two skeins of knitters more seriously instead yarn lie on the floor at his feet, of laughing them off. and a strand from each one “It’s like when women wanted leads up past his lap and to the to be racecar drivers,” Modesitt neon blue and green coozie he is says. “At first, people just thought agilely knitting. they were cute, but when they Agnew, Leavenworth proved they could win, people freshman and self-proclaimed started taking them seriously. It’s “knitting machine,” knits the same with men who knit.” and talks with ease, hinting Men were actually the first at his experience interacting knitters, Modesitt says, but as it comfortably with others while became a less utilitarian craft knitting. He smiles but doesn’t and a more social one, men left hide his needles when a pretty the trade behind and women girl walks by. In fact, he says his picked up the slack. Since then, hobby helps in that department. knitting has been seen as a “It gets the ladies,” he says woman’s work not fit for a man. with a sideways grin. Recently, social boundaries Knitters like Agnew are have changed, Modesitt says. It’s becoming a more common now OK for guys to like knitting sight. There has been a rise in the and to admit that they prefer number of male knitters, says a number of colors in their Annie Modesitt, author of Men clothing to monochromatic tones. She says men just have to feel comfortable in their own skins before they’re ready to Close-Knit Fellas step outside a social norm. Tips to start a knitting “We have to do what makes group for men us happy,” Modesitt says. “I just think it’s a beautiful thing to see Set a date and time that men free enough to admit what works for everyone, and they love.” stick with it. Modesitt traveled the country interviewing male knitters from all walks of life for her book, but Choose a suitable a student need look no further location: It should be than campus to find one. well lit, quiet and large Greg Hill, Nashville junior, enough to accommodate doesn’t consider himself a all members. great knitter, but he has dipped his fingers in the hobby and Make fliers to advertise discovered that he enjoys the group, then hang it. Knitting’s cathartic and them in places where communal nature, as well as its men who knit are likely ability to calm his jittery fingers, to go: yarn and fabric are some reasons he enjoys the stores, cafés, bookstores activity, he says. He also likes the and hardware stores. fact that anyone can learn to knit and the activity can bring Knit in public. This is a people closer together. good way to meet other “A kid can learn a simple male knitters who might stitch-and-knit with his be looking for a group grandma,” Hill says. “You can cross three generations that to join. photo/ Marla Keown way. That’s something you can’t even do with rock ‘n’ roll.” which he uses even though it Like Hill, Danny Hoyt, Omaha disappointed when the second Ryan Agnew, Leavenworth Don’t get frustrated Hill began knitting when his doesn’t cover him entirely. For junior, knits during the winter. hat didn’t come out right, freshman, knits a coozie in the if it takes awhile for the Home Economics teacher gave Hill, knitting isn’t always about He picked up the craft with especially because he liked the Kansas Union. Agnew began group to come together. him a pair of needles and some perfection. the help of his mom over winter look of a blue hat with white knitting after he saw a girl When the group finally yarn, he says. It took Hill six “One of the best feelings break a few months ago when snowflakes on it, he says. knitting a scarf and taught comes together, be months to finish his first scarf, is making something out of he had some extra time on With 19 hours of classes, Hoyt himself how with the help of supportive of new which looks something like a nothing,” he says. his hands and wanted to do says that knitting has taken a the Internet. members so they feel as snake that swallowed a tennis He hasn’t knitted anything something productive. backseat for now. When he does comfortable as possible. ball, he says. Although he never lately because the weather often For his first project, Hoyt get back into the swing of things wears it outside, he still keeps it affects his motivation, he says. It opted to make a hat. The with his knitting, Hoyt says that Source: Knitting with for sentimental reasons. hasn’t been very cold, Hill says, so first one he made was too he intends to try another hat. Balls, by Michael del Vecchio Since that first scarf, Hill has he hasn’t felt the urge to pull out big and the second turned “Maybe I’ll make one that fits completed an Afghan blanket, his needles. out too small. He was really me,” he says. “It’ll be my first.” 03.29.2007 JAYPLAY 05 but only participated in one later, with his wife, Julie Yaeger play at KU, an experimental and his 2-year-old son. version of Shakespeare’s LWRNC’s Macbeth, in which there were Today: Rudd made a great newest sk8shop two Macbeths — good and group of friends at the {longboards} evil — and he was the good University, some of whom he one. Rudd says he grew a beard still talks to regularly, he says. dogtown and long hair for the part, but Some of his favorite shows sector 9 the play was at best “weird.” to watch are The Simpsons surf one He didn’t grow up thinking he and the British version of The would be an actor; it was an idea Office, which “may be the best given to him by his neighbor in show ever made,” says Rudd, high school when he showed whose parents are both from talk to us @ an interest in improvisational London. He’s also learning to 785.856.WCHO comedy, radio, television and play the guitar, which he says speech classes, Rudd says. He he’s “crappy” at, but he wishes GRAD pursued acting open-mindedly he could record a song for the until his junior year of college, Kansan so that students could when he decided that acting judge for themselves. CHECK was what he wanted to do with Rudd is enjoying his latest his life. At that point, he left the project, producing The Ten. It’s ten-o-five massachusetts lwrnc 66044 Paul Rudd University to go to acting school his first time producing and in Los Angeles. he says it’s very different from Attended KU: what he’s done before, but fun. 1988-1990 Post-University life: Once Major: Theater Rudd figured out his career He says about show business: plan, he became “hyper- “It really is kind of creatively Hometown: focused.” He even wished fulfilling. I really love what I do. Overland Park he’d studied a little more at I love the people I work with. I the University so he wouldn’t believe everybody needs to be Back in the day: Paul Rudd says have been overwhelmed in creatively fulfilled somehow.” he was just a regular college acting school, he says. His first Rudd also says he doesn’t student at the University of big break was 1995’s Clueless, agree with the movie stars Kansas. He went to basketball but some of his favorite movies who complain about how the games, concerts, played to work on were Anchorman, business is “not glamourous.” drinking games, ate Yello Sub, The 40 Year Old Virgin and Wet He says it’s a lot of fun — even watched bands perform at The Hot American Summer, he says. though he thinks it’d be way Bottleneck and went to bars After the production of Clueless, cooler to be a musician. like The Wheel, The Bull and The Rudd moved to New York City Crossing. He studied theater, where he lives today, 12 years ■ Anne Weltmer

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03.08.2007 JAYPLAY 15 No strings PeOPLe attached

meet the puppets of the felt show

The Devil: Hates his job and has difficulty communicating with a Spanish-speaking Nicaraguan who shows up at the doors of hell.

photo illustrations/ Anna Faltermeier Emily: Vicodin-popping, booze-guzzling news One KU grad shows why we aren’t on car in the summer of 2004. Santos booking agent. Santos put on But maybe more importantly anchor at a failing station. asked Rumback, a former KU art the show virtually by himself and than his monetary contribution She infuriates her co- Sesame Street anymore... student, if he would make him landed a similar gig at the Jackpot is his devotion to the group and anchor, who is the only a puppet. Since then, Rumback Saloon shortly after. his fellow members. person at the station who by Sam Carlson has made about 17 puppets for These days, Santos has a “He’s extremely driven, and I still takes his job seriously. It’s about 30 minutes until Sure, he had always been a the show. bit more help. The group now think he just wants nothing more show time and Paul Santos is fan of Jim Henson, but puppets After efforts to produce a consists of more than two dozen than for the show to succeed, scurrying around the Jackpot were never really his thing. music video and other projects people and its last show was a but he also wants everyone to Saloon, 943 Massachusetts St. Now they’re practically failed, Santos had a bunch of two-hour performance in front succeed within the show,” says He’s wearing a black shirt bearing his everything. Santos, 2004 puppets — and no idea what to of a large audience. Gabe Dorsey, an actor in the the famous white “HOLLYWOOD” graduate, directs, produces, do with them. His duty to the group is almost show. lettering, which is appropriate, acts in and writes for the adult- Noticing the absence of like a full-time job, says Santos, Santos hopes to soon book considering his work is about to themed The Felt Show. any sort of “puppet theater” in who also works for a freight a show at a larger venue, take center stage. “He has his mind on The Lawrence, he decided to create company in Kansas City. such as the Granada, 1020 Every light in the bar is Felt Show most of his waking a live act. Sometimes he spends his Massachusetts St., or Liberty Hall, dimmed except for the bright life,” says puppet maker Ben He scored his first show when a breaks at work calling cast and 644 Massachusetts St. He says spotlights shining on the set. Rumback. friend who worked at the Replay crew members about the show. he would also like to take the Crew members dressed in black It all started when Santos Lounge, 946 Massachusetts “There’s maybe a couple show on the road, with possible from head to toe are conversing spotted a puppet in Rumback’s St., mentioned him to the bar’s hours of the day that I don’t performances in the Kansas City with each other and putting the think about it,” Santos says. area and Norman, Okla. Edgar “Ed” Allen Poe: finishing touches on the stage. Because the shows are not yet For these goals to become Sits in his room all day, But the audience hasn’t come profitable, cast members do not reality, Santos says the group wallowing in his own to see Santos or the rest of the get paid. But Santos hopes that must recruit more members and misery. Nothing bad ever cast. The characters they’ve will eventually change. “My goal adopt a more stringent practice happens to him, although come to see are three feet tall is to make this into something schedule. Members currently meet he constantly expects and made of felt. that people who are working on when their schedules allow them something to. Crouching down behind a can be supported by,” he says. to, usually about twice a week. wall, Santos holds a red devil The show earned $500 from Looking ahead, Santos, who puppet high above his head, its most recent performance. considers himself an “idea man,” controlling its every movement However, Santos recently spent wants to have creative control A Meatloaf: Sings — the show has begun. As the $1,000 on wireless microphones. in whatever position the future Meatloaf’s “Paradise by devil’s jaw flaps, Santos’ voice fills He pays out-of-pocket for holds for him. the Dashboard Light” with the room. The dialogue picks up everything, from promotional T- “If you don’t want to have a a talking toilet. and laughter erupts throughout shirts to the puppets themselves. regular job, you essentially have the audience. Although his All revenue from the shows goes to create your own job,” he says. photos courtesy talents are apparent, almost back to Santos, who says he’s still Judging from his dedication, it of paul santos natural, Santos never thought he working toward making back his could be awhile before Santos would be in this position. initial investments. puts down the puppet. 03.29.2007 JAYPLAY 07 ■sport specs■ Wiffle Ball The sport: Wiffle ball is a and a defending replacement for baseball, team, but there is stickball and softball for both no base running. indoor and outdoor play. The Three sections game came to life in 1953 exist for scoring: when David N. Mullany of single, double and Shelton, Conn., decided to triple markers. If the reshape a playing ball for his defense does not catch son so that it would curve the ball in flight, the easier. Mullany carved some offense scores according holes in old, spherical Coty to where the ball is hit. Batters Perfume packaging that was receive strikes for swinging and made for cosmetic cases. and missing at the ball, having s o m e The plastic cases were half- their hit ball caught or having pitchers can get spheres, so Mullany glued the a ground ball stopped before the ball moving up to 80 halves together, resulting in a it reaches a marker. mph. Though it’s not a cardio- makeshift ball. heavy sport because there’s The appeal: Wiffle ball can no running involved, it does The gear: All you need is a be played in small, congested help players with hand-eye ball, some bats and some areas such as parking lots coordination and skill. bodies. You can purchase or backyards, without great “I really enjoy the ultra- plastic bats at most discount risk to property because competitive nature of the and sporting goods stores. of the lightness of the ball. sport. It’s probably one of my Players on defense use their “I’ve played Wiffle ball in my favorite obscure sports,” says bare hands to catch the ball. backyard every summer for 10 Jason McCandless, Lawrence years,” says Max Hire, Kansas freshman. “Anywhere you can The rules: Play requires at City, Mo., sophomore. “Every find space is a good place least two people, a pitcher time it gets warm, my friends to play, especially the many and a batter, but up to 10 and I go to the dollar store parks in Lawrence.” people can play per game, and stock up on plastic balls with five players per side. The and bats.” Sources: www.wiffle.com, game resembles baseball in As few as two players can www.wiffleball.net that there is a batting team play the game of throw and hit, ■ Kim Wallace

■that's disgusting■ Thong underwear can cause yeast infections Unlike regular undies, thongs come in close contact with the genetalia and anus. If there is fecal material on a thong, it can easily travel to the front via butt floss. Thongs can also cause irritation because the tight fit and synthetic materials don’t allow the vagina to breathe. If you have to wear a thong during the day, wear white cotton panties at night, says Patty Quinlan, registered nurse at Watkins Memorial Health Center. Regular panties decrease the chance for irritation and the entrapment of organisms because cotton is a natural fiber, which is breathable and absorbs moisture from the skin. Cotton underwear can also be bleached, and bleach kills organisms that cause yeast infections.

■ Lindsey St. Clair

08 JAYPLAY 03.29.2007 hEalth Macho motivation Research shows that images of muscular men in the media can depress regular guys and lead to unhealthy eating and exercise habits. by Elyse Weidner After watching the movie The study, titled “The Impact exposed to ideal body images Troy and seeing the 40 pounds of Media Exposure on Males’ projected through the media of sculpted and toned muscle Body Image” and published can force men to practice Brad Pitt gained for his role, in a 2004 edition of The unhealthy ways of attaining and Chris Brown and his roommates Journal of Social and Clinical duplicating these results, such went home and looked up the Psychology, divided a random as extreme dieting, dangerous workout routine Pitt followed sample of male undergraduate workout routines and steroid while preparing for the movie. students into one experimental use, Dunn says. It was aesthetic results like group that watched a 30- Media projections of those seen on the big screen minute television show with muscular images led Chris — looking stronger and more exclusively appearance-related Barlett, a graduate teaching toned — that were the primary commercials containing ideal assistant at K-State, to research motivators for Brown, Oberlin male images. The control whether handling action senior, a few years ago when group watched the same figures with exaggerated and he began to exercise and extreme muscles would lead lift weights on a routine and male participants to feel worse regimented schedule. The dissatisfaction men about their own bodies and, if it Today, Brown’s commitment feel about their bodies did, why it was happening. to his strict strength and weight after being exposed In his study, published in training routine is motivated by Sex Roles: A Journal of Research ambitions of a future career to ideal body images in December 2005, randomly in law enforcement. But he projected through the assigned groups of college- remembers that a few years media can force men to aged men handled action ago his only goal was to “look figures with varying degrees big.” practice unhealthy ways of muscularity. One group was Trying to reach those results, of duplicating these asked to hold figures with images of the “ideal” body results. extreme muscle depictions, image projected by the media Barlett says, such as wrestling that Brown now realizes are television program but saw action figures or figures of nearly impossible to duplicate, only nonappearance-related or the Incredible Hulk. Another often became immensely neutral commercials. group handled figures with less frustrating, he says. The participants were pronounced muscle definition photo illustration/ anna faltermeier When men are exposed to polled before and after the and the third group never saw self-esteem and body image. Men’s Health, a magazine with better, Campbell says. images of muscular or overly experiment in regard to their an action figure upon entering The result was that the men a circulation of more than 1.8 Campbell also says that toned bodies, they become general feelings of anxiety, the laboratory. Those handling who handled action figures million readers, are meant to the media may be touting the depressed and dissatisfied with depression, body image and the action figures were asked with exaggerated and more be inspirational, says Adam lesser evil in categorizing lean their own appearance, says satisfaction with their overall to position the figures in a pronounced muscles felt worse Campbell, the publication’s and fit images as a negative for Stacy Tantleff Dunn, director of appearance. The study showed number of poses, forcing them about their own bodies. Barlett sports and nutrition editor. He men’s health. Perhaps a bigger the Laboratory for the Study of that men who had been to touch and feel the level of says that when men handle this says that although most men problem in the United States Eating, Appearance and Health exposed to the appearance- muscularity in the arms, legs, extreme degree of muscularity don’t boast the same lean is that too many men aren’t at the University of Central related commercials became abdomen and pectorals of the they tend to think they will and defined physiques often concerned enough about their Florida. In 2004, Dunn began significantly more depressed figure, Barlett says. never be able to accomplish this depicted in the magazine, the bodies. When you consider that one of the first studies that and more likely to report high After holding and positioning level of strength — a frustration potential is there. Most guys belly fat is strongly linked to eventually showed that men, as levels of muscle dissatisfaction. the figures for 10–15 minutes, that can lead to depression could use the images and heart disease and diabetes, he well as women, were vulnerable The dissatisfaction men feel participants were asked to fill about their own bodies. expert advice found in Men’s says, the quest for six-pack abs to concerns about appearance. about their bodies after being out questionnaires about their Images within the pages of Health as encouragement to do isn’t simply a shallow pursuit.

“I get pressure “I don’t want to “To get laid.” “I’m rehabbing my Why do you from my friends get fat.” — Dave Wise, knee from surgery exercise and where who are football — Kevin Brown, Overland Park I had two months players. They Overland Park senior ago.” do you get your can’t be taking sophomore — Mark Robinson, motivation? away from my Prairie Village manhood.” junior — Serrgio Wilson, Wichita senior 03.29.2007 JAYPLAY 09 RAINE REVIEWS nOTICe NEWS YOU CAN USE HAWK TOPICS Health officials find rat SWITCH YOURV SKIV IES poison in the pet food blamed for the deaths of cats and dogs across the country.

Osama bin Laden released a videotape claiming responsibility for the pet deaths, saying, “An American man’s best friend is an Al Qaeda man’s best enemy and deserves the same death as their infidel masters.”

A Republican state senator in Texas California proposes that pregnant women state insurance considering an abortion should be regulators fine offered $500 to not end their pregnancies. Blue Cross, the state’s largest Make the change to sexier underwear and improve your mood. In related news, every pregnant woman in Texas is now reportedly healthcare provider, $1 by Laura Evers considering having an abortion. million amid findings In college, young women should thong or something high cut to make Besides the reactions that can be that the company have fun, go out and enjoy their you feel sexier and better about your brought about by others who see the time in school. Along with all the body. “The problem with plain white underwear, adding a personal touch The number of permits regularly dropped excitement, though, many young panties is they hide womanly graces to your unmentionables can help issued to carry concealed policyholders after they women can begin to feel sad because and curves,” she says. “Color shows real reflect individuality, even if you aren’t weapons has doubled became sick or pregnant. of the pressures of academic success. individuality. If you always wear white, allowed to show it on the outside. But according to one psychologist, be experimental and try something Graduation leads many girls into in New Orleans since In Blue Cross’s defense, they had to cut costs feeling happier can be as easy as more sexy and mysterious.” the workforce, dressing in a basic Hurricane Katrina, despite the city somehow to be able to changing your underwear. The trick is getting rid of all the old black suit from day to day. Troiani losing half its population. pay for premium policy- Maryann Troiani, a psychologist and “frumpy” underwear that can lower suggests wearing lacey underwear or The increased gun ownership prompted the NRA to call New holder Paris Hilton’s co-author of Change Your Underwear, your mood, Troiani says. She suggests pantyhose without underwear at all Orleans “a rousing American success story” and to call for the increasingly expensive Change Your Life: Quick & Easy Ways to women make the leap to a more under your professional uniform. “You flooding of every major American city. Valtrex prescription. Feel Fun, Exciting and Vibrant, says the daring style for a few weeks and watch can conform to what society wants on underwear a woman chooses says a as their moods improve. Then throw the outside while being feminine and lot about her general mood and self- away all of your old underwear. “Don’t sexy underneath your clothes and no The Berlin Zoo unveils Democratic confidence. feel frumpy anymore,” Troiani says. one needs to know,” she says. its new polar bear cub, presidential Troiani discovered the importance “You should buy new underwear at The bottom line (excuse the pun) is: Knut, to the public. of underwear in relation to women’s least every six months, but three times If you want to feel sexy, adventurous, candidate Animal activists claim that self-worth when she surveyed more a year is ideal.” daring and like an overall different Knut, who was abandoned by his John Edwards than 500 women who were leading Changing your underwear can do person, make the change. As we enter mother, should have been left in the vows to continue his happy, confident lives. “We asked the more than just heighten your mood. into spring, experiment with new wild to die, which is the exact same campaign despite the women what made them feel good This wardrobe change can also help styles and vibrant colors. Change your argument I made concerning both of reemergence of his about themselves and underwear spice up your romantic relationships. underwear style and see if it changes the Spears-Federline babies. kept popping up,” she says. Troiani suggests playing what she you. wife’s cancer. It wasn’t long before the surveys calls “The Underwear Game.” Wear a Political analysts were began to show some patterns: certain different color panty each day. Then, lukewarm towards styles and colors of underwear instead of showing your partner, France officially opens up their “UFO Files,” a web Edward’s bold anti-cancer reflected a positive frame of mind in simply lean over and whisper the site that documents more than 1,600 reported UFO stance and speculated women. For example, women who color in your significant other’s ear What your underwear it could cost him in the wore yellow underwear were more once a day. sightings over the past five decades. polls amongst pro-cancer energetic and creative, while those At the end of the day, the couple color says about you The French term for UFO is actually “CGV,” which stands for croissant primary voters. who wore green underwear were is giggly and playful, Troiani says. “It Pink géant de vol, or “giant flying croissant.” more stable and generous. takes only two seconds and it can Romantic, sweet and girlish Katie Self, Lawrence senior, has make a relationship fun and give it a noticed the effect of underwear on real spark,” Troiani says. Red Iran captures and interrogates An autopsy of Anna KU loses her own mood as well. According to The reaction a woman gets from Daring, energetic and exciting 15 British sailors after Nicole Smith confirms to UCLA in Self, wearing cute underwear always her partner has the potential to make accusing them of illegally that she died from makes her feel more attractive than if her more confident. When a woman the Elite Purple sailing through Iranian waters. an accidental drug she were wearing plain underwear. “It wears a sexier type of underwear, she Creative, vibrant and unique Due to an overdose. Eight. definitely makes you feel better about can begin to feel better about her This is the least surprising celebrity unfortunate yourself,” she says. body, and the new positive attitude autopsy report since L.A. police Blue misunderstanding, Interesting, considering the can begin to rub off on her partner, confirmed that Cool, peaceful and sensitive the Iranians have other side. Women who were often strengthening their bond. Nicole Brown depressed or unhappy wore cotton Megan Mercer, a former KU student, refused to release I don’t know what Yellow Simpson and underwear in basic white or black agrees. “There are a lot of stipulations the soldiers until Great hurts more, another Lively, original and imaginative Ronald Goldman every day without ever wearing about how certain groups of people Britain promises to turn over tournament loss for KU died from O.J. something more daring. should dress and act, but when it the “fission chips” the sailors or sitting through an Green Simpson-inflicted The key to letting underwear comes down to it, you’re all naked repeatedly referred to during entire episode of Grey’s Stable, kind and nurturing injuries. change your overall mood, Troiani says, under your clothes, just like everyone the interrogations. Anatomy. is trying something new, like a colorful else,” she says. Think you have a better joke? E-mail me at [email protected]. ■ Chris Raine 10 JAYPLAY 03.29.2007 03.29.2007 JAYPLAY 11 BITCH +

with Niloofar Shahmohammadi I recently went out on what I thought was an amazing first date withmoan this guy I’ve been talking to for awhile. I made him a really nice dinner and, in an attempt to be honest, I told him how great I thought he was and how excited I was about getting to spend the evening with him. He seemed grateful, but it’s been three weeks and he hasn’t called. how could I have been so wrong in interpreting the evening? — Patti, Sophomore

You cooked him dinner? On the him. Men can smell desperation like first date? Please tell me your idea of dogs and unfortunately, whether you a “really nice dinner” is popcorn or realize it or not, you’re desperate. And microwavable Mac ‘n Cheese. that sends men running for the hills. It sounds to me like you went According to Sherry Argov, author all out, and that’s exactly the of Why Men Love Bitches, there is one problem. You were trying too hard. Of notable exception. Wear a black lace course he’ll appreciate the nice dinner, teddy for him and first he’ll have sex but if that’s how you treat him from with you... then he’ll go running. I hate day one, when he’s done nothing to to say it, but you’ve probably lost your deserve you yet, you have just set chance with this guy. a (really awful) standard. You’ve let Next time, demonstrate you know him know by your eagerness that he your worth by having him take you doesn’t have to work to impress you. out to dinner. Let him pay. Make him You’ve sent him the message that prove to you he really wants you. As you’re so eager to be his girlfriend I’ve said before, slow and steady wins you’re ready to compete with the race. world-class contortionists to please

My girlfriend says she doesn’t want to have sex until she’s married, but I’m a 21-year-old guy and I want to be having hot sex! I’m getting really frustrated and I don’t know what to do. I’m thinking we might have to go our separate ways. am I being a total jerk here? — Alan, Junior

I don’t think the question is really with her, but if you have so much fun whether you’re being a jerk, but how just spending time with her and she much you love your girlfriend. The makes you feel so good, than waiting truth is, if she wants to wait, then if to have sex is a tolerable sacrifice. So you really love her you won’t force her it’s up to you. to sleep with you. True love accepts The sex issue, rather than being people unconditionally and doesn’t an issue in and of itself, might just want to hurt them in any way. be highlighting the strength (or lack If you really want to have sex, then thereof) of your bond. perhaps the right thing to do is to And also, is she willing to engage leave her, knowing that the two of in anything sexual? Sex doesn’t have you have different expectations for to be the only way to enjoy each the relationship. But if you really are other physically. If it’s just too much crazy about her, waiting wouldn’t be for you though, then it would be best so bad. There’s more to a relationship to go your separate ways. She can than the physical stuff, and if she’s find a nice church boy and you can the girl for you, then just being with pick up a (not too) nice girl in the her can be amazing. dildo section at Priscilla’s or Naughty Of course you would want to sleep But Nice.

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(left) Members of the KU Capoeira Club watch two capoeiristas in combat. (below) Alaide Vilchis, club president, and Leah Goldblatt, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, greet each other before begining a match. Friends who fight Ì

What is Capoeira?

Capoeira is a 400-year- old Brazilian martial art. It was developed by African slaves and photos/ Jon goerring the indigenous people of Brazil. “Because of Relationships formed between opponents are a key part of capoeria, a Brazilian martial art. coming from a slave background, capoeira by Matthew Foster is very social”, says Jacob Dysart, Overland Dancing, singing and joking one of the five pairs brakes off translates to “Capoeira: It’s Besides the lessons learned in capoeira, which happens all the Park senior. “You had around probably aren’t the first by themselves to compete in a defense, attack, movement of roda from malandragem, Dysart time, it’s not the person who to get to know people things that come to mind when spinning headstand contest. the body. It’s trickery.” also says that verbal dialogue is kicks who is at fault — it’s the because those are describing a martial art. But in Eventually everyone “As the song says, capoeira important because capoeiristas defender’s fault for not getting people that you have capoeira, these social aspects makes it through the motions can’t be categorized as only a have to explain to each other out of the way,” he says. to survive with.” are just as important as the demonstrated by Jacob Dysart, fight, or definitely not a dance, what they are doing and why Dysart, Vilchis, Staley and discipline itself. Overland Park senior, and the or only trickery,” Vilchis explains. they are doing it during training. Leah Goldblatt, Kansas City, Dysart says capoeira During meetings at the club’s president, Alaide Vilchis, “Capoeira is all of them put Dysart explains that this type of Mo., freshman, also participate appears very acrobatic Student Recreation and Fitness Mexico City junior. together.” dialogue may not be the most in a capoeira group in Kansas because the slaves Center, members of the KU As the group begins to form Trickery is malandragem in important type that takes place City. Amongst these more weren’t allowed to Capoeira Club, known as the roda, which is Portuguese Portuguese. Vilchis believes in capoeira though. Dysart, who experienced capoeiristas, terms practice martial arts, so capoeiristas, ignore the somber for circle, Dysart strings up that malandragem, as well as has studied the art for two years, like hit, kick, trick and takedown they disguised it with environment of the martial arts his berimbau, a percussive verbal and physical dialogue, is also describes what he calls aren’t the only prevalent themes. dance and music. room and clap their hands and instrument with one string that a big part of the roda because physical dialogue. There are also many sentiments sing in celebration of the 400- resembles a bow. Dysart explains the circle is reflective of the “You throw a kick and they of how much the members rely Capoeira has two year-old Brazilian martial art. that a roda can include up to relationships that are found in escape from the kick,” he says. on each other. basic components: Watching the capoeiristas three berimbaus and that the everyday life. “It’s like saying hello and having “We’re an extremely tight-knit roda (the game) and move across the padded floor, number determines the pace of “I often think of a roda as a response.” group of people,” says Goldblatt, luta (the fight). Dysart it’s unclear whether each pair is the exercise. something that symbolizes the Dysart says that to learn who has practiced the art for has studied the art engaging in combat with high- With the berimbau strung and world and all the interactions in how to effectively attack and four years. “Although we all have for two years and reaching kicks or dancing to the the capoeiristas in a circle, the it,” says Vilchis, who has practiced defend, the participants must lives beyond capoeira, when says that most of the Hispanic rhythms coming from a group claps and repeats each the art for more than four years. understand themselves as we’re there training and playing relationship building boom box in the corner. verse sung by T.J. Staley, Battery “Sometimes things can get ugly well as the other capoeirista. in rodas and performing, we’re happens during the Even after the leaders of the Hill, Ala., graduate student. The and you might get kicked, and This view of combat may seem all a family. When something game, which is all group begin to give instructions roda is formed and, within it, sometimes everything goes well counterintuitive, but it actually happens to one of us, other about dialogue. about proper movement, it still capoeira is performed. and as planned. Not every day is helps build relationships within group members are there to doesn’t seem like this could be According to Vilchis, one of perfect, just as not every game the capoeira community. congratulate, comfort, or joke Source: Jacob Dysart a martial arts lesson — after all, the songs in the roda roughly you play in roda is perfect.” “If somebody gets hit in with you.” 03.29.2007 JAYPLAY 13 Half-Price Tickets for KU Students! MUSIC THAT MOVES YOU ARMITAGE GONE! Listener: Bill Walberg, Listener: Adam Collins, Sunnyvale, Calif., Paola senior sophomore Tune: “Degausser” by Tune: “Some Beach” by Brand New DANCE Blake Shelton While pumpin’ the While pumpin’ the jams, he was: Waiting saturday, march 31 - 7:30 p.m. jams, he was: Walking for the bus outside the into the Kansas Union Kansas Union Event tickets for a Student Senate He says: “It’s kind of meeting alternative. It was emo at available at He says: “I listen to this one time, but it evolved. lied.ku.edu song because when I’ve liked them since high things aren’t going the school.” way they are supposed to, I just think of being home in California.”

Listener: Fayz Algarni, Listener: Lauren Viscek, Saudi Arabia sophomore Overland Park senior Tune: “Lonely Day” by Tune: “Look After You” by System of a Down The Fray While pumpin’ the While pumpin’ the jams, he was: Sitting jams, she was: Studying with friends outside the for a psychology test in Kansas Union Anschutz Library He says: “I like listening She says: “It’s something to American songs. that doesn’t have a beat. I’m still not good in I’m trying to tune out English, so that’s why I’m the other noises in the listening to it. You can library because I need to say I am a party man.” concentrate.” ■ Jennifer Denny

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Damon Brooks, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, makes doughnuts at Muncher’s Bakery, 925 Iowa St.

Photo/ Anna faltermeier sleepless in lawrence Between midnight and 5 a.m., some Lawrence residents are wide awake. by Courtney Hagen When the lights go out for worked the same midnight–4 most weekdays and all night spend making memories with the night and most Lawrence a.m. shift for two years now. She on Saturdays. friends. residents have sleepily crawled says she has just now gotten While free pizzas (thanks to under the covers or drank their used to her odd nocturnal employee goofs or unresponsive 2 to 3 a.m. — Hashinger Hall last sip at the bar and arranged a schedule. She relies on lulls at the deliveries) are job perks, the Lauren Eby, Topeka ride home, some individuals are library to get her own homework shift still interferes with Brow’s sophomore, kicks it at the starting their workdays. done while her fellow students sleeping schedule. sleek front desk of the newly Follow the steady blinking are burning up the midnight oil He has had to deal with some renovated Hashinger Hall from yellow of Lawrence stoplights, studying. When she gets off work bizarre deliveries on the late- 11 p.m.–3 a.m. She says the through the quiet streets and she tries to catch a few hours of night job, including one instance interesting people she meets into libraries, coffee houses and sleep before she goes to class. To where a group of children placed each night keep her going until bakeries and you will find them: make up for everything, Pauley and order and then tried to jump the wee morning hours. the often unrecognized nocturnal says she normally sleeps about in his car to grab the pizzas as Eby socializes with most crowd. They work the graveyard 20 hours on the weekends. In soon as he pulled up, he says. people who walk through the shift, baking bread, serving coffee, spite of the long hours, she Experiences like this sometimes door, which can sometimes be cataloguing books or cleaning up. says she enjoys her job and the make him regret that he doesn’t complicated for her when she They fight sleep deprivation, lack Photo/ Courtney Hagen interesting stories she gathers have a normal job. He also feels needs to regulate behavior. of motivation and the still, sullen Orielle Pauley, Kansas City, Mo., senior, works on a computer at from it. bad about missing out on quality “There’s always the problem loneliness of the night. Anschutz Library. social time. when it’s your friend that’s According to a 2005 Sleep in 1 to 2 a.m. — Pizza Shuttle “When I’m working a shift breaking the rules, but usually America study from the National are living reflections of this. On Midnight to 1 a.m. — The smell of hot tomato I can’t really go out after I people understand,” Eby says. Sleep Foundation, 71 percent of any given weeknight they can Anschutz Library sauce and melting cheese fills get off work, and I know I’m She’s scheduled herself for late adults reported that they got be found working and waiting Orielle Pauley, Kansas City, the air as Avery Brow, Lawrence missing out on some things morning classes each semester less than eight hours of sleep for the sun to come up. These are Mo., senior, runs back and forth sophomore, jumps in his car to during the week,” Brow says. to accommodate her schedule, on weekday nights. Lawrence’s just a few of their stories from behind the front desk on the first deliver pizzas for Pizza Shuttle. He tries to make up for it by but says that sometimes she bleary-eyed night shift workers one sleepless Lawrence night. floor of Anschutz Library. She’s He works from 5:30 p.m.–4 a.m. setting aside his Fridays to CONTINUED ON PAGE 16Ë

03.29.2007 JAYPLAY 15 ÁCONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 St., as Damon Brooks kneads cleans and helps the occasional to catch a quick nap before he still misses out on sleep. She dough and fries donuts. Bathed customer during his shift, “All the heads to his first class, he says. sometimes covers a shift until 6 in the yellow glow of neon normal things someone would Even with the tiring schedule, a.m., so she doesn’t get to feel lights, with the heavy smell of do in a food place, just during Brooks says he still enjoys his her head hit the pillow on those sugar and fresh pastries filling the middle of the night,” Brooks job. He likes the occasional days. the air, Brooks, Kansas City, Kan., says. customers who wander in at freshman, works from 2–7 a.m. He has stopped sleeping in two and three in the morning, 3 to 4 a.m. — Muncher’s Monday through Friday. one chunk and instead catches even if most of them have been Bakery When most people are naps throughout the day out at the bars. He says he’s seen A fine mist of powder shutting their eyes for a night whenever he has time. He tries to most of Lawrence walk through and glaze floats in the air at of sleep, Brooks is waking up finish all of his homework before Muncher’s doors while he’s been Muncher’s Bakery, 925 Iowa to head into work. He bakes, he goes into work and attempts working. “I’ve met professors and business owners,” Brooks says. “Whenever I go out I see people that recognize me from Muncher’s.”

4 to 5 a.m. — Java Break Sometimes work is so boring and slow in the last few hours of the dark night during her shift Photo/ Anna Faltermeier at Java Break, 17 E. Seventh St., Damon Brooks, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, works the grave- that Courtney Heston resorts yard shift at Muncher’s Bakery, 925 Iowa St. to playing with her yo-yo or making grocery lists. The 18- like when a drunk customer Java Break before she realized year-old Lawrence resident came in around 5 a.m. and told that it was a Saturday and things works from midnight–8 a.m. Heston that he wanted to take were closed for the weekend. making food, preparing drinks her and duct tape her into a box She relies on sleeping the day and brewing coffee behind to keep in his apartment. “I just away to keep her mind clear and the flier-and-sticker-plastered kind of went and hid in the back stay rejuvenated for another day counter. until he left,” she says. at work, but says it’s hard to find Most of the time she works Sometimes the faces of time to both sleep and get done there are University of Kansas customers start to blur and the everything she needs to do in students also there studying and Photo/ Anna Faltermeier night gets so long that Heston the daylight hours. After all, by getting their caffeine fix, she says. sometimes forgets what day it the time her workday is done, Lauren Eby, Topeka sophomore, checks in residents during the late-night shift at Hashinger Hall. Sometimes things can get out of is. She once tried to get some Lawrence is just waking up to Eby scheduled her classes for late in the day so she could work late. hand that late at night though, business transactions done for start a new one.

16 JAYPLAY 03.29.2007 Jenna Woods THISÓ Riverdance wardrobe Q&AQ&A supervisor WEEKEND Despite recent closings of several local questions about his work. galleries, art still lives in Lawrence. At 7 p.m. SEED began as an alternative way for local tonight, check out the SEED artists’ lecture series artists to display their work, according to founder at 4-1-1 Studio, 411 E. Ninth St. The monthly SEED Leslie vonHolten. She says that art needs a lectures, which are free and open to the public, community for inspiration and growth, and that are a gathering place for anyone interested in SEED is a forum that brings artists face to face Since graduating from KU with a degree in interesting lifestyle; going home sounds local and contemporary art. This month’s featured with their community. theater design in 2001, Jenna Woods has lived almost daunting because I’m only there a few artist is Shawn Bitters, a local printmaker, who life from out of a suitcase as the wardrobe months out of the year. will give a 30–40 minute lecture and then answer ■ Jaime Netzer supervisor for the touring theatrical production of Riverdance. She relived a part of her college Q: Did you have a chance to years when the show appeared March 13 and enjoy Lawrence again between 14 at the Lied Center. shows? I made sure initially that we stayed in a Q: How did you get involved in hotel on Mass. Street so that everyone could Riverdance only a few years enjoy downtown. I got to run around, and I WESCOE after graduating? even booked myself a really late flight out so I got offered a job on a national tour of that I could hang around Lawrence a few extra Girl: What? That’s like ordering Girl 1: I have a class in the Teacher: Does anyone have a Footloose, a fairly small production, when hours. an ice water with no ice, no basement of Fraser.witstapler? I left school. It’s a pretty small community water and vodka. Girl 2: Ew! (No one answers) Really? All of within the stagehand world, especially within Q: Any old hot spots you had Girl 1: I know. you are unprepared? the touring part of it. It was through word of to visit while back in town? Girl 1: My mom has a Jayhawk Girl 2: Are there big rats? Guy: (Hesitantly pulls 8-inch mouth, mostly. I definitely had to get Papa Keno’s pizza and tattoo on her ankle. stapler out of his backpack) I some of the other standards. I used to spend a Girl 2: So? DJ at a bar (singing on forgot I had one. Q: What keeps you returning to lot of time at the Replay and drinking coffee at Girl 1: She didn’t even go to microphone): “If you’re 18 Teacher (sarcastically): You touring life? Henry’s. But I also tried to check out the new KU. and you know it clap your really are prepared. Just being able to go to places I wouldn’t on things since I’ve left. Downtown is definitely hands. If you’re 18 and you my own. It’s definitely an addiction and a very one of the best parts about Lawrence. Girl (listening to rock song): know it and you really want to Doesn’t this make you want to show it, clap your hands.” ■ Matt Elder grow a mustache? Girls in front row (clapping and cheering): Woo hoo! ■ Katrina Mohr

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18 JAYPLAY 03.29.2007 sPeaK Ì my older baby sister

Shelly is my little sister, but she’s the one giving me advice.

photos courtesy of Jaime netzer

When I was 13 and my sister advice. We speak on a daily basis to a name usually given to Teddy to go away to school. My left for school; we listened to three years; they (and I) are Shelly was 11, I nearly drowned and hang out several times a bears and dogs. parents and I drove her down it constantly. She later told me quite certain that they will marry on a family vacation. My cousin week. As children, we played to Springfield, Mo., and my that as the drums kicked in and one another. Shelly has a more had been jumping off of the side Often, people think we’re twins. constantly and fought rarely. dad’s sunglasses hid his tears the soaring harmonies floated mature perspective on a genuine, of my raft until it turned over. My A c q u a i n t a n c e s Barring one as we pulled away from Drury over Chris Martin’s pure voice, supportive relationship than I do. legs were tangled in the rubbery moan to me, “Man, incident in which I University. I didn’t cry that day, she simply sat on the sidewalk The only logical option I have is to plastic and I couldn’t free them. I saw this girl on vividly remember but soon after I started to feel the outside of her dorm and sobbed. beg for her sage counsel. Then, from behind me, I felt small campus the other the fear in her big loss the distance was creating. She didn’t admit this to me until She offered a portion of her hands clearing my feet from the day and she looked brown eyes as I As she went through sorority months later. wisdom up this past spring. I raft. I breached the surface of the just like you, so I chased her around rush and I began my junior That first semester was hard had a crush on someone who water to see Shelly’s face peeking said ‘hi,’ but she the yard with a year, we spoke infrequently. She on her too, though she never regularly came into the coffee out from above her raft. didn’t say anything loaded water gun, would mention a name, and I once cried to me about it. Drury shop where I work, and one “I could swim to you really back…” “Must’ve we just got along, had to be reminded who she was too small and she wasn’t hot May afternoon, Shelly and fast ‘cause I was on this thing,” been my sister,” I plain and simple. was talking about. I had never getting the education she had I saw him there. I did my best she grinned. reply with a smile. We built forts out been unfamiliar with Shelly’s expected, so, to my utter delight, to emanate wit and charm as In some way or another, Shelly People usually by Jaime Netzer of comforters friends and had previously she decided to transfer to KU at he waited in line. After we had has always looked out for me. have trouble strewn over metal always known her teachers and semester. Once she was home, flirted and he had walked away, My sister Shelly, whose full guessing who is older based on swing set poles and mourned the town she lived in. we shifted right back into gear. iced coffee in hand, Shelly and I name is Rachelle, fell in love our looks. the loss of her first pet goldfish Each of our conversations had Coming to KU in the middle of checked him out from behind. before I did. She also moved Shelly came into the world by burying him in a black velvet to start with the required updates her freshman year wasn’t easy “Is it OK that I think he’s really away from home before I did and when I was a year-and-a-half jewelry box a few inches into the on the past week’s events before on Shelly, but we were back cute,” I asked her. got her first kiss long before I did. old. As a result of some technical sun-dried dirt beside our house. we could get into the real, mile- together again and needed no She pushed her dark Shelly is the reasonable, practical difficulties pronouncing As the average lifespan a-minute, excited exchanges we time to adjust. sunglasses up into her brown sister — she is my voice of sanity “Rachelle,” I began calling increases in America, sibling were used to sharing. She was Shelly often says to me that hair, squinted her eyes, puckered when my own goes missing. I go her Duh-Bow. This eventually relationships often last longer four hours away, but it made a I’m the fun in her life, and she her mouth a bit in concentration, to her as any girl would her older morphed into a family nickname than those we have with dear world of difference. knows that she is the sanity in and reached a verdict. sister — but Shelly is younger that has followed her for all of old mom and dad. Indeed, when I called her one time that fall, mine. As I have spun in and out “He is cute,” she replied. “You than I am. her twenty years: Bobo. I still my parents are gone, I know that before she was home, from a of the arms of more guys than I should date him.” She doesn’t party as hard as occasionally have to explain to I will rely on Shelly even more concert and let her listen to a would like to admit over the past Nine months later, I still am. I do and she scolds me when I new friends and acquaintances than I do now. song over the phone. Coldplay’s five years, Shelly has been in two The greatest thing about taking drink too much coffee. She’s the why I am calling out, “Hey, Bo!” I was both proud and “Fix You” had been our song of relationships. 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