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LOVE 'EM OR LOSE 'EM: Signs your relationship just isn’t meant to be.

Rock n’ roll magic Local duo Harry and the Potters ushered in a new genre, “Wizard Rock”

tales of mass. street The rich history of Lawrence’s oldest buildings.

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Inside this issue

{From the Editor }

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iddy. It’s that feeling you get when you step outside after your last class on Friday afternoon to the sun’s warm embrace, enticing you to cure your cabin fever in the playful freedom of an ideal spring day. Especially when that Friday marks the beginning of spring break — here in Lawrence it was 84 degrees that day. I know it seems like years ago already, but rewind back two weeks and try to remember how you were feeling as the temperature began to rise and your week-long plans far away from the school grind became real. That feeling is perfectly summed up for me by quintessential feel-good summer jam “Feel It

All Around” by Washed Out. Youtube it, folks. Really.

Spring inevitably ushers in another kind of giddyness in young people — that of a blossoming romance. As the trees regain life and the flowers blossom, so do our hearts and hormones. New relationships come to fruition, new crushes develop and lovin’ is on many minds as students ditch the winter blues in favor of summer love.

But I must give credit to Rachel Cheon for her use of “giddy” in this week’s issue. Her feature story on the common mistakes students make in relationships examines that excitement felt in the early stages of a new relationship and how you can find out if it’s truly meant to be. See page 11 for more.

Whether or not it works out long-term, that giddyness is a feeling we’ve all probably felt, appreciate and love. So enjoy it!

Let the flirting and the chases commence.

But remember, when it comes time to hibernate through the winter again, make sure you can stand the person you’re slated to cuddle up with.

LINDSEY DEITER | ASSOCIATE EDITOR

What’s hot this week thursday march 29

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What: blue martian tribe with meatpop & rolling foliage When: 10 p.m.

Where: jazzhaus, 926 1/2 mass st.

Why you care: with a name like that, do you really want to miss this

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mixture of funk, rock, electronic and bluegrass magic? $3 tickets.

friday march 30

What: seun kuti & egypt 60 When: 9 p.m.

Where: granada, 1020 mass st.

Why you care: the youngest son of nigeria’s legendary fela kuti is performing, and performing along with this band is hearts of darkness and lawrence’s afrobeat funk band sunu. $20 tickets.

saturday march 31

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What: men’s basketball championship- final four at new orleans When: 7:49 P.m.

Where: on your television Why you care: you aren’t going to want to miss this mass street camaraderie.

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sunday april 1

What: roald dahl’s willy wonka When: 2 p.m.

Where: lawrence arts center, 940 new hampshire Why you care: this performance features songs from the 1971 film willy wonka and the chocolate factory. $18 tickets.

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What: electric six with aficionado, andy d When: 8 p.m.

Where: bottleneck, 737 new hampshire Why you care: this rock and roll band wants to perform where it got its start right here in lawrence. $13 tickets.

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EDITOR sss NADIA IMAFIDON ASSOCIATE EDITOR sss LINDSEY DEITER DESIGNERS sss EMILY GRIGONE, ALLIE WELCH LOVE sss SASHA LUND, ALIZA CHUDNOW, RACHEL SCHWARTZ SCHOOL sss ALLISON BOND, MEGAN HINMAN CAMPUS + TOWN sss KELSEA ECKENROTH, JOHN GARFIELD, BRITTNEY HAYNES ENTERTAINMENT sss KELSEY CIPOLLA, RACHEL SCHULTZ, ALEX TRETBAR PLAY sss SARA SNEATH, RACHEL CHEON CONTRIBUTORS sss Michelle Macbain, landon mcdonald, LIZZie MARX CREATIVE CONSULTANT sss CAROL HOLSTEAD 03 29 12

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tuesday april 3

What: eldridge wine tasting, wines from southern italy When: 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Where: eldridge hotel, 701 mass st.

Why you care: for 21+ only, have a classy evening on a tuesday night. $15.

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What: student lecture series: bill rassmusen When: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: kansas union Why you care: hear stories from the daring entrepreneur and founder of espn, along with his video-illustrated presentation.

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table of contents

love: olympic swimmers Maintaining a healthy sperm count.

school: better options for cursing

How to clean up your dirty mouth (at least when you have to).

entertainment: movie review

Was sending a Civil War soldier to Mars the key to success or a major disaster in “John Carter?”

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entertainment: album review Another Tennis album tops the KJHK charts.

campus & Town: You know you love their products, but what don’t you know about The Love Garden?

speak: personal essay From brother to best friend—one Jayplay writer’s experience truly getting to know her younger sibling.

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It’s your summer. Make the most of it.

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Catch of the Week

Why I’m a catch?

I think I’m pretty funny and pretty laid back. I can go with the flow and do whatever.

// Aliza Chudnow

GINNY BROWN

Hometown: olathe Year: junior Major: communications Interested In: men

Favorite Lawrence Hangout?

Probably the Hawk. There is always somebody to talk to there. And it is a bar with a lot of different rooms so the change of atmosphere is fun.

Major Turn Ons? I can be really shy when I first meet someone, so if I meet someone who is really funny and can break me out of my shell, I find that really attractive.

Dream Date?

I love animals so I would love to go to the Kansas City Zoo for a whole day with someone. It would be fun to walk around, see the animals and get to know that person better.

Major Turn Offs?

Someone that comes across as arrogant. If they are rude to their parents, especially their mom, I find that really unattractive.

How is someone going to treat me if they don’t treat their mom well?

Theme song to your life?

“What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong. That song is about appreciating all the little things in life and that is how I like to be. It’s good to appreciate everything you have in your life.

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First thing you notice in a guy?

His smile and the way he carries himself.

I like someone who is really confident.

What are three things you can’t live without?

My family, my sorority sisters and Diet Coke.

If you could spend one day in someone else’s shoes, who would it be?

Miranda Kerr because she is a Victoria’s Secret Model and she is married to Orlando Bloom.

Celeb Crush?

Josh Hutcherson because he’s really cute and he said in an interview that in real life he is similar to the character Peeta, who he plays in the movie “The Hunger Games.”

love

Love Your Partner As You’re Taught Different variables, including religion, influence how we see and //Rachel schwartz express love.

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In addition to culture, the media and other factors, religion plays a large role in romantic relationships.

Religion is an integral part of some people’s relationships. Whether it is going to services together or reading religious books, religion is a main factor that plays a large role. Some people will only date people of their same religion, while others who value religion are open to dating people with other beliefs. Religion is also important in some relationships because of how the religion defines love and relationships.

Emily Brenner, Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) missionary, tries to help cultivate a Christian culture on campus in many aspects of life including romantic relationships. Love is a fundamental and innate vocation of every human being, Brenner says. “Dating is supposed to help you discern and lead to marriage, not meaning every person you date you have to think you have to marry.

But every person is part of your story for a reason,” Brenner says.

Brenner is dating Brandon Gargus, a non-denominational Christian who attends McKendree University in Lebanon, Ill. When she first met him, she thought he was cute, but didn’t think she could date him because of his religion. She decided to give it a try, but within two

weeks, she says she had an emotional breakdown thinking about the religious barrier. When Brenner talked to Gargus, he said he was open to being married in the Catholic Church, and Brenner was relieved.

“People ask would I marry him if he wasn’t Catholic. I wouldn’t be dating him if I couldn’t see myself marrying him,” Brenner says. “I believe love is willing the good of another and doing everything to help them get to heaven. Me loving him was sharing my Catholic faith and lifestyle.”

Katie Hayes, a sophomore from Pittsburg, was raised Catholic, and was taught from an early age that the greatest love comes from Jesus because he died for us. “If someone loves you so much that they’ll do anything for you, that’s ultimately what love should be,” Hayes says.

For Hayes, loving someone also means you will do anything to help that person get to heaven. That is what Hayes and her boyfriend of the same faith, TJ Wallace, try to do for each other. One way they try to help each other is by staying abstinent.“If I love him, I’m not going to try to tempt him and he feels the same way about me. We don’t want each other to sin, so we try to keep it pure,” Hayes says. The two decided the best way for them to keep a pure relationship was with

prayer; the two try to pray together on the phone each day.

Because the religious aspect of her relationship with her boyfriend is so important, Hayes doesn’t know if she could date someone who wasn’t a devout Catholic. “If I don’t have a boyfriend supporting me, that would be hard. A lot of people don’t understand and misunderstand the Catholic church, so, if he didn’t understand my views, that would be really hard,” Hayes says.

Robert Shelton, professor of religious studies, says it’s hard to determine what religion dictates because culture always plays a big role in religion. “Culture is a given in human experience. It can change and vary. Sometimes people make a change in religion and in the process they make adjustments in what they have practiced through culture,” Shelton says.

To Mike Marcus, Shawnee freshman, God is the essence of love. Marcus, a Methodist, says it is important in a relationship to be able to grow in faith with that person. To grow in faith together, Marcus and his girlfriend Sam Hinrichs, Kansas State freshman and non-denominational Christian, send each other Scripture passages via text every morning and then talk about it that night when they Skype. But he knows everyone doesn’t see love in that way, and there’s

no universal definition. “There are always differing opinions on what a relationship is,” Marcus says. “Even in my own church there are people who have complete opposite thoughts. Ultimately love is what you make of it.”

Diverse Devotions

KU religious studies professors Robert Shelton and Jacquelene Brinton share how other religions view relationships and love.

- In Hinduism in India, parents find

families for their sons to marry into. The parents have the final say on the marriage.

Sometimes the future married couple won’t meet until after the marriage has been arranged.

- In Islam, the Koran has teachings about relationships and spousal roles. It says that males and females were created to be companions. A couple is supposed to complement each other through fulfilling the different roles they have. This has been interpreted to mean that a man has a more worldly role and a women has a role at home.

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The Hookup Dear Michelle, I want to know what advice can you give me to maintain a healthy sperm count and quantity.

Wanting Powerful Swimmers

Dear WPS, The average volume of semen produced during ejaculation is between 2 and 5 milliliters; 5 mL being approximately 1 teaspoon. Lower volume may occur

after frequent ejaculation and higher after prolonged abstinence.

According to the World Health Organization, “normal” sperm count should: be at least 40 million in number; have at least 75 percent of the spermatoza be living; at least 30 percent should be of normal shape and form; at least 25 percent should be swimming rapidly; and at least 50 percent should be swimming forward, even if only sluggishly. A “normal” sperm count does not guarantee fertilizing success — too high of sperm count can also result in fertility problems.

You can increase your chances of producing healthy sperm by increasing your vitamin intake, eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, managing stress levels, exercising frequently, and lowering your body fat (too much fat can disrupt production of reproductive hormones).

Your little guys are sensitive to environmental factors and toxic chemicals.

Therefore, to keep them strong and healthy:

If you continue to have low quantity or have reproductive difficulty, ask your doctor about a semen analysis.

* Avoid tobacco, excessive alcohol, and drugs. Marijuana can decrease sperm and cocaine can cause erectile dysfunction * Avoid excessive and prolonged heat to the genitals. Although, don’t be like Mike “The Situation” on “Jersey Shore” and think you won’t get a girl pregnant if you have sex in a hot tub. I would not recommend taking any sex advice from him. * Limit time on your bike, throw out tight underwear, keep your laptop off of your lap, and if you’re taking steroids, stop.

Michelle MacBain, Kansas City, is a graduate student in Communication Studies. She studied Psychology and Human Sexuality at KU and the University of Amsterdam.

Email questions to michelle@michellemacbain.com

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It’s karaoke night and Andrew McCracken stands on the stage at Set ‘Em Up Jacks, waiting patiently for the music to begin. As soon as the song starts and with a big smile on his face, he begins singing “Everything” by Michael Bublé.

As he gets comfortable with the song, he looks out into the audience, his eyes

fixated on the only person he will ever sing it to; his girlfriend Anna Smith.

Music has always been a huge part of Anna and Andrew’s relationship, both seniors from Overland Park. Anna, who is a music therapy major, met Andrew during homecoming week their freshmen year. After they both decided they wanted to be a part of the homecoming jingle, they ended up sitting next to each other during a practice. “I texted my friend and said ‘Who is the girl in the yellow sweatshirt?’” Andrew says. “The first thing I thought when I saw her was ‘I absolutely have to talk to her.’”

Now, three years later, Anna and Andrew know that the constant support they give one another is what has kept them together.

Dating Tip: Make each other a priority and always support one another.

This past summer, Anna studied abroad in Ireland while Andrew held an

internship in Overland Park. Andrew worked 40 hours a week and Anna was halfway across the world, but at the end of the day, they made it a priority to talk and catch up on their separate endeavors.

Even now, if Anna is having a bad day, Andrew will surprise her with a Coke or send her pictures of dogs wearing hats and mustaches, just to make her smile.

“Whenever I am sad he talks to me in an Elmo voice,” Anna says. “That always makes me laugh.”

No matter where they go after graduation, Anna and Andrew know that they will always be each other’s biggest fans. Just like their song “Everything” says, “You’re every line, you’re every word, you’re everything.”

“The best way to explain why I love Anna is because she’s my moment,” Andrew says. “She is constantly on my mind and she is always there for me through all aspects of our lives.”

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Accomodating people with Disabilities on Campus Providing equal opportunity and equal access.

Recently, the University created a new position on campus to better accommodate people with disabilities. Jamie Simpson started her work as the director of Accessibility and ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) Education on March 22.

She will coordinate campus-wide activities to promote the ADA and she will be the go-to person for ADA compliance.

She will also help professors better ac-

commodate students with disabilities on a more personal level, like suggesting ways to work with each student’s individual disability in class.

On the search committee for that position was Glen White, who is a professor of Applied Behavioral Sciences, director of the Research and Training Center on Independent Living (RTCIL), and a wheelchair user. He says Simpson will be

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Elizabeth Boresow, senior from Overland Park, has austism but knows her rights are the same as any other person’s.

//megan hinman the person for professors to go to when they don’t know how to best educate a student with a disability. “If I had a student that was blind, and I didn’t know what to do to accommodate that person,” White says, “she could give me some ideas about Brailling or when I do my presentations, describe what’s in the pictures.”

White advocates for all people with disabilities. The RTCIL is meant to help people with disabilities fully participate in society, and that includes students. “We have a lot of students with disabilities on campus,” White says. “I think the key thing is to try to provide equal opportunity, equal access for all students so they can compete on equal footing.”

One of those students is Lauren Wismer, junior from Overland Park, who is deaf.

If you didn’t already know, you probably wouldn’t be able to guess that Wismer is deaf. She can read lips and speak to people who don’t know sign language, but in classes, it’s difficult for her to try to read every word her professors say and take notes at the same time.

Two years ago, before her hearing loss “bottomed out,” as she says, she could use hearing aids. Now, the hearing aids don’t help much because she can’t hear noises that are less than 120 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw. Anything much higher can cause pain in an average ear.

Wismer must only focus on her sign language interpreters, which she uses in all of her classes, tutoring sessions and advising appointments. It can be very confusing to switch her thoughts from speaking to signing, Wismer says.

Because of this, she also uses in-class note takers. And, the fire alarm in her dorm flashes to alert her to the sound she can’t hear.

However, Wismer doesn’t want people to think that her accommodations are giving her more help than necessary. “The accommodations that people with disabilities get are to make the playing ground equal. It’s not to make things easier for us than it is for other people,” Wismer says.

“We’re not just getting it easy.”

Wismer is in the majority of students with disabilities on campus who have nonobvious disabilities. Of the approximately

700 registered students with disabilities, about 85 percent of them have nonobvious disabilities, says Andrew Shoemaker, director of Disability Resources.

Non-obvious disabilities include learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), psychiatric, health or medical issues.

In the other 15 percent of those students are the ones with mobile disabilities. A person in a wheelchair cannot use a single one of the hundreds of stairs on campus — Strong Hall alone has 595 stairs, inside and outside combined, according to KU Info. To accommodate for the stairs, every building has a wheelchair accessible entrance.

Because it can be so difficult to climb the hill using a wheelchair, if a person who uses a wheelchair requests to have his or her classes moved to more easily accessible buildings (for example, all along Jayhawk Boulevard), the University makes every effort to accommodate that request. Similarly, when an elevator breaks, the Disability Resources office notifies the students who have reported mobility disabilities, and then works with the Registrar’s Office to try to relocate the class, Shoemaker says.

Anyone who wants accommodations on campus must provide the appropriate documentation of his or her disability to Disability Resources. Then that person and Disability Resources work together to determine the appropriate accommodations, Shoemaker says. The most common accommodation for a person with a disability to receive is extended time on tests, followed by an in-class note taker, like Wismer has.

Elizabeth Boresow, a senior from Overland Park with autism, receives less common accommodations. Loud noises and commotion make her uncomfortable.

When a fire alarm goes off, she is excused from class for the rest of the day to calm down. When she becomes distressed or tired, she is unable to communicate verbally and must use sign language. “It makes me a little different, but I think it’s okay,” Boresow says. “People with disabilities can do everything other people can.”

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KU Habitat for Humanity­

developing communities with people in need.

Zach Lee and Dakota Henke secure an inside wall with a good, old-fashioned hammer and nails.

Standing on a roof, I’m holding basic nails and a hammer. I have no experience building a house but here I am, volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, putting a roof on a house. I know I’m out of my element, but I feel good and useful building a house for a family in need. “There is no

experience necessary to volunteer,” says Brittany Krutty, a junior from Olathe and president of the KU Habitat for Humanity. “Anybody can do it.”

The KU chapter of Habitat for Humanity works with Lawrence Habitat, and together the groups work to build houses

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for low-income families in the greater Lawrence and Kansas City area. At their monthly meetings, this KU club focuses on learning about the Habitat mission, hears from Habitat homeowners, finds out about upcoming volunteer opportunities and plans events such as the fall semester Crunchy Chicken Challenge fundraiser.

Helping out with Habitat for Humanity since fall 2009, Krutty says that while getting to build houses is why she started to volunteer, today her favorite part is getting to know the people that will eventually live in the house and hear their stories. “Working with the people that will eventually live there is the best part of the experience,” Krutty says.

One recipient of a Habitat house, Phyllis Bia, helped Krutty realize that there was more you can do with Habitat than building houses. You can build relationships with the people you are helping.

“Phyllis helped me realize that these people work hard and they just need a helping hand at that point in their life,”

Left side, from top to bottom: Dakota Henke, Lauren Ferris, Brittany Krutty Right side, from top to bottom: Katrina Rivera, Julia Martinez, Caitlin Perry, Ellen Frizzell, Loryn Goebel, Sammy Forbes Posing behind the fence and gate they just built from recycled materials.

Krutty says.

To get involved with KU Habitat for Humanity or learn more about the organization, email Brittany Krutty at kuhabitat@gmail.com or visit their website at www.kuhabitatforhumanity.org.

Better Options:

Cursing­—It's pretty common, but not always acceptable.

You might call it cussing, cursing, or swearing. If you’re my mom, you call it “using toilet-tooth, potty-mouth words.”

No matter what you call it, other people may perceive your foul language negatively, depending on your social context and your intent, says Wes Crenshaw, psychologist at Family Therapy Institute Midwest in Lawrence.

“What is acceptable among friends is not with family, and may meet with consequences,” Crenshaw says. “Cursing at a bar is seen as part of the conversation. Cursing at a nice dinner date, even just with a partner, would not be seen as acceptable.”

For Greg Pach, sophomore from Athens, Ohio, cursing comes naturally. He says it is habitual for him. “I just do it a lot at inappropriate times,” Pach says, like while watching the KU basketball game 03 29 12

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against Missouri in the presence of young children, or in class. “I don’t think it’s a bad thing. I think I just need to choose appropriate times wisely.”

He’s right. It’s not a bad thing. Several studies have found that cursing can literally relieve pain. One 2009 NeuroReport study showed that when two groups of college students held their hands in freezing water, the ones who were allowed to repeat a curse word reported less physical pain than the group who could only repeat a normal word. However, the more often you use a curse word, the weaker its effect becomes.

To lower your usage of offensive language, try replacing curse words with G-rated words. Nocursing.com offers a filter for swear words. Just type in the word you need to replace and an equal, more socially acceptable word will appear.

Hear no evil: Dirty words should be reserved for appropriate situations.

If that doesn’t do the trick, try cursing in another language if you know it, or just make up a word. Or, try replacing curse words with similar sounding words, like “shoot” instead of “shit.”

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Actively trying to change your language can make you more aware of how often you use these words, and could better prepare you for a time when cursing is unacceptable.

entertainment Movie Review

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie // Landon McDonald If the only difference between genius and insanity is success, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are two of the most daring, transgressive comedians working today.

From their early viral videos to cult TV favorites “Tom Goes To The Mayor” and “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job,” the deadpan duo’s anomalous blend of aggressively absurdist humor and publicaccess channeled grotesquerie has earned them scores of loyal pep-peps and beaver boys, along with a band of equally passionate detractors. I personally find them hilarious, so perhaps this review of “Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie” should be taken with a Chippy-sized grain of salt.

Like the slack-jawed, khaki-loving spawn of Andy Kaufman and David Lynch, Tim and Eric embrace a very specific comic aesthetic, one that foregoes nuisances like plot or character development in favor of delivering one gut-busting gag after another. The story, such as it is, involves the boys’ failure to

recoup their losses after a billion-dollar film shoot produces only three minutes of usable footage starring an obvious Johnny Depp impersonator and the interminable services of self-help guru Jim Joe Kelly (Zach Galifianakis).

With a price on their heads courtesy of wrathful billionaire Tommy Schlaaang (a nearly mummified Robert Loggia), Tim and Eric shed their spray-tanned Hollywood personas and skip town. After weeks of awkwardly galloping through the desert, they arrive at the derelict Swallow Valley Mall, a wolf-infested hellhole run by a deranged “Top Gun” enthusiast (Will Ferrell) and inhabited by a horde of post-human wretches, including an ill-tempered sword salesman (Will Forte) and the loveable but diseased man-child Taquito (John C. Reilly). In exchange for safe harbor, the boys pledge to revitalize the mall using their apparently unrivaled (and previously non-existent) PR skills.

The film is populated by a bevy of bona fide movie stars, ranging from Jeff Gold-

blum (credited here as Chef Goldblum) to “Twin Peaks” veteran Ray Wise as the mall’s resident spiritual healer, whose patented “Shrim” baths are the stuff of nightmares. But it’s Reilly’s phlegmchoked, yogurt-loving dummkopf who truly steals the show.

While “Billion Dollar Movie” will doubtlessly please longtime fans, the

uninitiated may emerge dismayed or even repulsed by what they’ve seen. This is exactly what Tim and Eric want. Comedy, whether it’s meant to induce fits of laughter or unrepentant squirming, is one of the most subjective pursuits imaginable, and these guys have found its sweet spot.

Great job!

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entertainment Movie Review

John Carter // Landon McDonald

Since their publication nearly a century ago, Edgar Rice Burroughs’s John Carter novels have represented a literary benchmark for geeks, a sci-fi touchstone that has gone on to influence everything from “Star Wars” and “Avatar” to Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” saga.

Now Andrew Stanton, the Pixarschooled futurist behind “Wall-E” and “Finding Nemo,” is attempting to kickstart a new franchise with “John Carter,”

an ambitious but dramatically inert swashbuckler that suffers from uneven plotting, lackluster visuals and a mythology rendered obsolete by decades of refined imitation. To be fair though, almost any movie involving a Civil War soldier who gets zapped to Mars to battle giant white apes and save a princess who’s also a professor is bound to seem inherently goofy when presented on an enormous screen in murky, post-converted 3-D.

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After a ponderous prologue featuring a fictionalized Burroughs (Daryl Sabara from “Spy Kids”) and the discovery of a desert cave lined with Apache gold, John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) awakens on Mars, referred to here as Barsoom. Rendered superhumanly light and agile by the red planet’s gravity field, the former Confederate quickly finds himself caught up in a sectarian war between two city-states: the embattled citizens of Helium, represented by the spunky scientist Princess Dejah (Lynn Collins), and Zodanga, led by an evil autocrat (Dominic West) and his ominously bald advisor (Mark Strong).

There’s also a proud warrior race of fourarmed green creatures led by the bombastic Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe), who insists on calling our hero Virginia after a conversation about home states is lost in translation.

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Much fault can be found with the screenplay, which seeks to replicate Burroughs’s pulpy prose with embarrassingly stilted dialogue.

It doesn’t help matters that Kitsch chooses to play Carter as a sneering, guttural meathead instead of a noble savior of worlds. The attractive Collins fares a bit better as Dejah, although Carrie Fisher’s Leia remains the bun-headed standard by which all warrior princesses are judged and then summarily dismissed. Strong and Dafoe, both consummate actors, rail against the constraints of the script and in Dafoe’s case, the woefully uninspired creature design that turns a passionate, rousing performance into a gawky, scuttling blob. Is it too late to call Pixar?

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Meant to be...

or not?

Signs a relationship won’t last

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ou are thinking about texting your crush. You want to talk and flirt, but you are afraid that person might think you are being too obvious, too smitten, too easy, or you’re afraid of possibly getting ignored. You want to play hard to get, but you don’t want the crush to think you are not interested. While pondering the possibilities, you get a text from your crush. “What’s up?” which

means in your mind “I’ve been thinking about you too and want to talk to you.”

Yay! You become giddy.

Simply liking someone can make a short, mediocre text an endorphin-inducing experience. But if liking someone and falling in love is so wonderful, why do so many romantic relationships fall apart? According to the book, “A General Theory of Love” by Thomas Lewis, Fari

Amini and Richard Lannon, people fall in love seven times in a lifetime on average.

This means we tend to have more failed relationships than successful ones that last.

Dennis Dailey, retired social welfare professor at KU, taught about human sexuality for more than 37 years, and offers private counseling for couples. He says the biggest mistake college students

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make in relationships is holding on too long. “Of all the time you explore, before you make the decision to commit to somebody, all of those other relationships broke up, because they were supposed to, because of wrong timing, wrong person, or wrong match,” Dailey says.

Romantic relationships have different phases that the authors and other experts acknowledge, and the failed relationships

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feature may come from mistakes common in these phases. ( Getting to know each other and the chase ) Wearing rose-colored glasses Isabella Sangui, a KU graduate, has counseled students about relationship problems for eight years as a psychologist for the University of Oriente in Cumana, Venezuela, and Central University in

Caracas, Venezuela. She says when getting to know each other, students commonly make mistake of not seeing the person clearly, and moving too fast. “Everybody in this stage is nice, gentle, sweet, and hiding whatever would make the other person have doubts about being in a relationship,” Sangui says.

David Kim, a senior from Wichita, agrees people often act to impress their crush. “You might have to change up your game depending on what kind of girl you are flirting with,” Kim says. “But if you

want to keep this girl around for a long run, it’s important to show her who you really are.”

This phase can determine if the attraction is mutual, but because of the natural desire to show only the best sides, Sangui suggests slowing down to get to know the person.

Expecting too much Another common mistake in this stage is acting like a couple, even though the two aren’t officially together.

Irene Smith, graduate student from Chicago, says she expected too much, too soon. During her sophomore year in college, she was seeing someone who seemed to be her potential boyfriend.

They flirted daily, and she thought they would become official in a matter of time.

However, when she found out that he was going on a trip for two days with a student organization, she worried he would meet new girls and flirt with them. She told him not to go, but he went and they had a fight afterwards and never ended up together. “He was still single,” Smith says.

“In my mind, I was already expecting to be treated like an exclusive girlfriend.”

Remember to slow down, and enjoy the light, fun part of the phase. ( In a relationship )

photo illustrations by ashliegh lee

Sometimes it takes making multiple mistakes with different people before finding “the one.”

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Thinking the honeymoon phase is real and eternal The beginning part of the actual relationship is referred to as the “honeymoon” phase because it’s when two people feel like they are falling in love with each other. Sue Olson, marriage and family therapist at Sunflower Family Therapy, 729 ½ Massachusetts St., says there’s a neurological explanation behind the honeymoon phase because endorphins, or the “happy hormone,” and oxytocin, the “cuddle hormone,” create intensely fuzzy, positive happiness.

“These hormones don’t let us think very clearly,” Olson says. “We tend to think, ‘I can’t even begin to see your flaws. You are perfect in every way.’”

Kevin Kline, a junior from Seattle, says he likes everything about a girl during this stage. “If I’m in this phase, I like even the freaking dirt in the air as long as I’m with her,” Kline says. He warns, however, that he starts to see flaws of the woman he’s into after this phase and realizes that

everything he’s been seeing in her so far has been more of the perfect, impossible version of the real person.

Olson says even if you see a potential problem in this phase, you don’t think it will be an issue. “Much of the phase is physiological, reacting from neurological perspective, and we are just enjoying,” Olson says. Realizing that honeymoon phase is temporary, and being aware that you may be ignoring warning signs may help to make fewer mistakes.

Getting too comfortable, and playing the blame game As the honeymoon stage passes, couples start showing their real sides and getting too comfortable, starting “sweatpants syndrome” and not being as attentive to partners as before, resulting in accusations that the partner has changed.

Vickie Hull, marriage and family therapist with a private practice on 1201 Wakarusa Dr., has seen couples who became disappointed with each other after dating for a while. “I have worked with young married couples who have divorced only after a couple years of marriage, because ‘It just wasn’t fun anymore’,” Hull says. “That is tragic, because all relationships have this initial feel-good phase, but then the relationship naturally matures, and real life does set in.”

Kathy Garner,* a senior from Overland Park, says long-term relationships may fall apart when a couple gets too comfortable with each other. “My ex started to vegetate and play video games, got fat and quit his hygiene upkeep, as well as going to classes. He got pretty disgusting and I couldn’t stand it,” Garner says.

Hull says in this case, Garner’s ex-boyfriend was showing his true self, rather than having changed as a person. Before, he was using Prince Charming as a shortterm persona to attract and interest her, but he couldn’t keep that persona up any longer. “Even if she could convince him to put the prince suit back on, it wouldn’t fit forever. Think how hard it is to change yourself and then realize it will be even harder to change someone else, especially if they don’t want that change.”

It is common to think a partner has changed than to realize that the person you possibly fell for in the beginning was not 100 percent real to begin with, and it can also be a mistake to take each other for granted and stop making an effort to impress each other.

feature Not maintaining individuality Being in a relationship may come with another common mistake: neglecting friends by having the partner become their only go-to person.

Julia Schafermeyer, licensed professional counselor in Lawrence at 1012 Massachusetts St., often sees someone going through a break up and having a hard time as an independent person. While dating, the person has cut off friends and spent time and shared thoughts with mainly the significant other. That person loses one’s identity, and everything about the person has become more of the identity as a couple. After breaking up, “they have the story about really needing the other person and feeling really empty without them,” Schafermeyer says.

“The mistake is having lost their sense of identity.”

Being on different pages (or circles) Anne Owen, psychologist at 5200 Bob Billings Parkway, says to think of a relationship as an archery target. If the person is acting near the bulls-eye, the person is being very intimate and feels like their partner is the most important person.

The further away from the bulls-eye, the lower the level of intimacy and the fewer shared goals. “You want to be in the same ring (of the circle) that the other person expects. If not, it can be painful and sort of disconnect the couple.” Owen says.

Christina Weiss, a senior from Los Angeles, thought her three-year relationship was dull, and thought her boyfriend was more like a brother, but she was not breaking up yet because she didn’t know if it was just a phase. When her boyfriend realized how she felt, he became afraid of losing her and became possessive, and told her he wanted to marry her. He pressured her to express the same desire, and even had his parents talk to her about a wedding date. “It was too soon, and I wasn’t ready. I realized that we weren’t right for each other. I didn’t feel that way so strongly until he brought marriage up though,” Weiss says.

Acting outside the ring of the circle that you are being presented with can result in either being too demanding, or too apathetic to the partner, which can wear both partners down.

Four Horsemen of a Relationship John Gottman, a marriage researcher and co-founder of The Gottman Relationship Institute, came up with four characteristics of a couple that can predict a relationship ending. “Horsemen” refer to the four evils that will come at the end of the world in the Bible. Anne Owen, psychologist in Lawrence, explains the four horsemen.

1. Criticism- “It’s like saying ‘You never take me anywhere,’ rather than saying ‘I would really like it if you would take me out to dinner.’”

It’s not hard to find yourself on a different page than your partner.

( The Break-Up Phase ) Being afraid to suffer Lawrence therapist Vickie Hull says trying to convince yourself and your partner to hang on to a dead relationship is common, even by begging, pleading, or threatening. “None of these are attractive or worth it. If you have to coerce someone to stay, do you really want to know that is why they are staying? The risk of dating is that you might break up. This is reality,” Hull says.

Irene Smith was in a four-year relationship, and she remembers that after breaking up with her boyfriend, she kept thinking about the good memories with him and thought being together again would make her happy. Her ex felt the same way, and they did get back together.

But shortly after, they broke up again.

“Usually, unless it was just some break up over a stupid, petty fight, couples that break up once over a serious problem will likely to break up again with that exact same problem,” Smith says.

In order to move on, you have to suffer, even though it may seem more comfortable to go back to the in-a-relationshipphase you are used to being in.

Not taking enough time to heal After breaking up with her boyfriend for good, Smith had hard time dealing with the sudden feeling of “emptiness.”

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She had been in the relationship for so long, it took her a while to get used to being single. “It was hard to deal with, at that time not knowing when I would completely heal,” Smith says. “So I dated guys who were being nice to me. I wasn’t even into them that much, but I liked the attention and the sense of security that someone likes me.”

Hull suggests taking time to reflect on what worked and what didn’t work so that you will have a better idea of what will make for a better next relationship.

To help with this phase, it is important for the person initiating the breakup to let the partner know why the relationship wasn’t working. ( The Moral ) So after that ‘What’s up?’ text, you and the crush may go out on a date, see each other few more times, but not end up as a couple. Or you two may become official.

But then again, you might also break up.

Who knows? Even if you meet “the one,” your relationship will still be unpredictable and require effort. Professor Dailey has been married since he was 21 years old, and he says he and his wife constantly negotiate to manage differences that are inevitable in relationships.

“College students are always asking me, ‘How do you know he’s (or she’s) the

2. Contempt- “This includes sarcasm, eye-rolling, making insults, and other things intently trying to hurt the other person.”

3. Defensiveness- “It’s like when someone says ‘You never spend time with me,’ and the other person gets defensive and says, ‘What do you mean? It’s you who doesn’t spend time with me!’ It’s an opportunity to fix the problem, but the issues don’t get resolved.”

4. Stonewalling- “It’s when someone is just like ‘talk to the hand, I’m not listening anymore.’

The person shuts down and just utterly derails any kind of communication, and conveys disrespectful attitude. right one?’” Dailey says. “You can’t possibly know that on some final terms. So then the question becomes, how willing are you to take a risk that this might be the right person?”

Taking a risk means going through the phases and possibly making mistakes such as these common ones. We may even not realize some mistakes before it’s too late. But in reality, “That’s what dating is all about,” Dailey says. “Otherwise it’s romance novels from Dillon’s, or Hy-Vee.” *name has been changed

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Tennis—"Young and Old" The denver husband-wife duo’s second album topped kjhk's pre-spring break charts // Alex Tretbar

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Everything changed for Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore when they set out on a seven-month sailboat adventure along the Atlantic coast. Reflecting on their trip, the married couple wrote some songs upon returning to Colorado. Reputable indie label Fat Possum took notice after some of their mp3s picked up Internet buzz, and the band released a handful of EPs and 7-inch singles in mid-2010. Fat Possum eventually released the group’s debut album “Cape Dory” in January 2011.

Tennis’ sophomore effort “Young and Old” was released (also by Fat Possum) last month on Valentine’s Day. The album was produced by Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney — Black Keys had a string of releases on Fat Possum between 2003

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and 2006. “Cape Dory” is a dreamy, oceanic collection of straightforward pop songs with lo-fi dirt and old-school girlgroup aesthetics. The new record shoots for a bluesy, more rock ‘n’ roll edge, which is where Carney comes in.

Riley and Moore recruited drummer James Barone for support on their first tour (which included a February 2011 stop at The Jackpot) after releasing “Cape Dory.” Tennis is currently on tour, but won’t be stopping in Lawrence this time.

The group is taking a break after hitting the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas earlier this month, but they head out in April for eleven more shows from Vancouver to Tucson.

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Harry Potter Rocks

The boy who lived lives on thanks to a local wizard rocker. //kelsey cipolla Ever wonder what happened to Harry Potter after he defeated Voldemort? He became a rock star, trading in his wand for a guitar and fighting to keep music fun. He also owns an art gallery.

Ok, fine. Even as a super fan, I’m willing to admit Harry Potter is a fictional character, but Paul DeGeorge, the very real owner of Wonder Fair, the downtown Lawrence art gallery and store, is keeping his name and spirit alive and rocking with his band, Harry and the Potters.

The band formed in 2002 as a joke between Harry Potter aficionados and brothers Paul and Joe DeGeorge. The duo had always appreciated concept bands and thought the idea of playing punk rock to kids in libraries was the perfect blend of subversion and fun.

With voices that sound like indie-rock darling Connor Oberst and lyrics that put a hilarious spin on scenes and characters from the iconic books, they quickly became more successful than they had imagined.

Their fan base was built-in, thanks to the series’ devoted fan following, Paul DeGeorge says.

Lovers of the books came out to see the band play at libraries, bookstores, Potter-themed events and more traditional concert venues across the country.

They were at the forefront of what is now known as “Wizard Rock,” an entire genre of music based off of the world of Harry Potter.

“I think that it’s amazing the Harry Potter series is able to inspire people to make a subgenre of music, and even a whole sub-culture,” says Kim Barrientos, a junior from Kansas City, Kan., and a big fan of Harry Potter. “It shows how powerful and meaningful a story can be for readers of all ages.”

Giselle Anatol, an associate English professor at the University who teaches the book in her children’s literature class and edited a book of scholarly essays about the series, says that she has found current college students to be the most dedicated fans. Many of us grew up with Harry and company, waiting in bookstores and movie theaters until midnight to buy the newest book or watch the latest movie.

Joe and Paul were only 15 and 23 when they started the band, but a lot has changed over the past decade. They independently released seven albums, including a Christmas album, and went on several tours. A few years ago, Paul settled down in Lawrence, where he owns Wonder Fair with his fiancee, a doctoral student at the University.

Summer Bradshaw, a Wonder Fair staff member and a senior from Olathe, was working on making fliers for the show when I stopped in to ask her what it’s like to have a boss that moonlights as Harry Potter.

“It’s a fun time,” Summer says. “It’s a big part of his life, and I think they’re pretty rad.”

Paul’s fondness for the series even makes remembering the office WiFi password easier, since it’s the name of one of the Potter world’s most beloved characters.

The brothers DeGeorge will play at Wonder Fair tonight, Thursday, March 29 at 7 p.m. as part of their current Midwest tour, which proves there’s life for Harry and the Potters even after the end of Harry Potter.

“What we were finding was there are still a lot of new people coming to Harry Potter, parents bringing their kids into that world,” says Paul. “If anything, I think we can fill a gap now that there aren’t any books or movies. There are still people out there who love Harry Potter and want to celebrate that.”

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Joe and Paul DeGeorge, brothers from Massachusetts, take on the character of Harry Potter during their shows.

Wizard rock guide

For a genre built around a children’s book series, Wizard Rock has produced a diverse range of groups. Of course they are united by a few common traits, including a love of Harry Potter and an ability to turn easily over-looked details into catchy songs.

Draco and the Malfoys

Draco and the Malfoys take on the persona of Harry’s childhood nemesis, Draco Malfoy. Expect lots of insults about poor people and orphans, and a surprising amount of bluegrass.

Top songs: My Dad is Rich, Potions Yesterday, A Gift for Lucius,

Ministry of Magic

This trio takes its name from the government agency that rules over Potter’s wizarding world, but their songs are better for dancing than bureaucracy. Assuming the clubs you frequent aren’t full of muggles.

Top songs: House Song, Accio Love, Gryffindor Rally Cry

The Parselmouths

This female duo, which sounds like a mix between Lisa Loeb and t.A.T.u, produced three albums in a year before calling it quits in 2009. It’s a far cry from what the name suggests—parselmouths are people that can talk to snakes in their native hisses.

Top songs: What Kind of Name is Hermione, The Day I Met a Snake, Voldemort Fangirl

The Remus Lupins

Named for Harry Potter’s favorite teacher who also happens to be a werewolf, The Remus Lupins produce cheerful indie-pop with classic rock influences.

Top Songs: Lovely Lily, At Hogwarts, Marauders Worst Memory

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Left: The band’s second album, “Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock!” was released in 2004. The DeGeorge brothers worked on it in their parent’s shead before taking off to tour the country. Right: Harry and the Potters’ self-titled debut album featured some of the Wizard rock’s most recognizable songs, including “Save Ginny Weasley.”

Other Wizard Rock acts: The Moaning Myrtles, The Butterbeer Experience, The Mudbloods, Justin Finch-Fletchley and the Sugar Quills, The Whomping Willows, The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office, Tom Riddle and Friends

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entertainment Q&A:

Casey Donahew's Country Roots

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The Granada will turn honky tonk when these country-rockers come to town.

Casey Donahew is pure Texas. He was born in Burleson, Texas, graduated from UT in Arlington, and is now the frontman for the popular country-rock music group, Casey Donahew Band. When he’s not on stage, he’s outside, often playing golf with the band’s bass player, Steve Stone. Although he’s sold out in Fort Worth at Billy Bob’s Texas, “the largest honkey-tonk in the world,” he still enjoys stopping in Lawrence to play shows at the Granada, as he will April 5 at 8:30 p.m.

Texas A&M, but I got asked to leave for a lack of attending classes. So I went to UT in Arlington and got a degree in finance in about 2001, I think. I was just always mindful of money, I guess. I figured it would be something I would excel at and keep my interest.

When and how did you know you wanted to be a performer?

What’s your favorite song right now?

I started writing in high school but really sucked at playing guitar. In college, my roommate played guitar and my grandpa had given me an old one, so I taught myself how to play.

I started playing out at bars in Fort Worth [Texas] and it really went from there.

Where did you go to college? When did you graduate and what did you study?

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What was the worst job you ever had?

Why? I was a 9th grade algebra teacher. I was scared all the time. It was not for me.

I still love “Much To Young to Feel This Damn Old” by Garth Brooks.

How would you personally describe your music?

Oh, you know, I like to call it “Texas music.”

I grew up watching Pat Green and he would always say “Texas music,” so that’s what I always go with. It’s rock and roll country.

All through life, something happens all the time that motivates every song. I try to come up with a good hook and work from that. It

comes from everyday life.

What do you love about your career?

I just love performing. I love being on stage and having music as an outlet to express myself. I really love the band and the crew and the guys we travel with. We spend a lot of time together and there’s good camaraderie; they’re a second family.

What challenges do you face in this business?

Trying to stay creative with my music and trying to grow as an artist. I try to write better songs and play an instrument better. And there’s always missing your family and being away from home; that’s the tough part.

Are you watching March Madness at all?

[Laughing] I might get in a lot of trouble in Kansas. I don’t follow it a lot. I could tell you a lot more about the Dallas Cowboys or Texas Rangers.

The Casey Donahew Band is a country music sensation that released its fourth album, “Double Wide Dream,” in fall of 2011. The band has been to Lawrence quite a few times and will return April 5th for a show at the Granada at 8:30 p.m.

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Love Garden Sounds

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4. Talib Kweli provides the lone autograph gracing the walls of the new storefront.

The old location had an entire wall of signatures.

5.

The walls of Love Garden are adorned with the works of various local artists.

Though the art for sale is rotated, certain pieces are there to stay, being either contributions or because the management thought they were just too good to let go.

6.

Love Garden holds live shows in its store every once in a while, but makes a conscious effort to distinguish itself from a venue. It does this by pitching the shows as events, consistently coinciding with album release parties, art shows, fundraisers and other events. photo credit goes here

1. Love Garden has only occupied its current location at 822 Massachusetts St. for the

last two years. The move, inspired by differing levels of landlord enthusiasm, ended the store’s 20-year stint at its old location above The Toy Store.

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Love Garden intentionally keeps a large selection of bargain albums in store.

Though they bear a smaller profit margin than the more upscale inventory, the store wants to foster musical interest across all tax brackets.

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Two cats, Sam and Mickey Roy, grace the floor of the shop, greeting customers. In the 22-year history of the store, there have been a total of seven fuzzy companions.

7. The current location was once a pawnshop. In the back of the store, there is even a hatch, which was allegedly used to test-fire weapons into the ground.

8. Also in the back of the store is an old manual elevator, showing the age of the building and connecting the basement and attic to the main floor.

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The landlord of the current location actually “wooed” Love Garden to the location, being considerably more “community-oriented” than the previous landlord.

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The giant neon Johnny Cash sign hanging over the entryway came from a junk shop in Topeka. It was discovered by a third party who called the store, knowing it would be perfect, and suggested it to the business.

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HISTORY “EN MASS”: Lawrence Rising

Today’s epicenter of student recreation, Massachusetts Street, is a long way from the frontier identity that forged it, a vague and distant dream of that time.

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Northbound view of the 900 block of Massachussetts Street during the early 20th century.

Founded to populate new territory with anti-slavery advocates, Lawrence experienced more than its share of growing pains becoming the town it is today. Horse-drawn carriages, a half dozen wars, the Depression, protests and prohibition are but a few memories of the city, and Mass Street saw it all.

Though it may be difficult for students to imagine these things happening on the same plots of land that they eat, drink, shop and dance on, there are businesses in Lawrence operating today that are living relics of those times.

The Eldridge Hotel The Free-State Hotel was built in 1856 at the cost of $20,000. The hotel had 50 rooms, along with stables and outhouses specifically purposed to accommodate emigrants to the free state, quickly gaining a reputation as a symbol for abolitionist sentiments.

Not long after its inception, the hotel, along with the abolitionist publications the Herald of Freedom and the Kansas Free-State drew the ire of the Douglas County grand jury, Sheriff Samuel Jones and an angry mob determined to shut them all down by force.

After surviving cannon blasts and detonated kegs of gunpowder, the actual newspaper from the recently-destroyed anti-slavery publications was used as kindling to burn the hotel down.

Later that same year, the hotel would rise

again, one story taller under the ownership of the Eldridge family that occupied the building during its destruction.

It was less than a decade, though, before tensions surrounding slavery would bring the symbol of freedom to its knees once again with Quantrill’s raid in 1863.

Though the hotel had been declared a sanctuary by the Provost Marshal of Kansas, and Quantrill himself had even declared that the guests should not be harmed, disgruntled border skirmishers killed all but one guest, who survived by playing dead.

Despite the city’s best efforts, Lawrence only raised enough funds to rebuild one floor and had to sell the icon. Though it rose again to three stories, the hotel eventually floundered and was left in disrepair.

The year 1925 marked the development of the motif the hotel is known for today. Though the surge of motels in the 1960s would close it again, it would eventually be reopened in 1985 with $3 million in donations to stand at five stories tall — one for each time it shut down.

Weaver’s Department Store In 1857, Lathrop Bullene moved to Lawrence and started a department store with his stepbrother. Though they would eventually split and become competitors, Bullene stayed in the business of selling groceries, glass, shovels and tailoring services as he moved to several locations up and down Mass Street.

The store even survived Quantrill’s raid in 1863, with whispers abound that Bullene’s wife had fed the raiders in turn for protection. Despite this stroke of luck, the department store would continue a long Lawrence tradition of burning to the ground only a decade later.

In 1883, Bullene hired Arthur D. Weaver, and within two short years, Weaver had both married into the family and inherited the store in the wake of Bullene’s newly developed bronchial condition.

Weaver’s son would eventually inherit the business in 1915, and in 1929 buy out their largest competitors, the Innes Store, and acquire the location they occupy today.

Exploring other ventures, Weaver gradually transferred the store to Larry S. Flannery, whose son Joseph operates the store today.

Liberty Hall When the the Herald of Freedom was burned down in 1856, a new building would rise in its place. At its base a butchery, the two-story building held up a small theater that would come to be known as “Liberty Hall,” a nod to Abraham Lincoln’s referral to Lawrence as the “cradle of Liberty.”

That name would, however, be short-lived as the building was sold in 1882 to J.D. Bowersock, becoming his namesake opera house.

In keeping with the tumultuous times and fire-prone architecture, the Bowersock Opera House burnt down in 1911, taking with it the

newspaper that would become the Lawrence Journal-World.

Rebuilt in 1912 as “fire proof,” the renovated venue gradually incorporated movies throughout the 1920s until Bowerson’s death in 1923, when it became the Dickinson Theater. By the time it became the Jayhawker Theater in 1940, it showed mostly movies.

Following the Jayhawker’s closure in 1956, the venue would be reopened as several night clubs and theaters throughout the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s until it was eventually purchased and restored in 1986 as Liberty Hall once again by David and Susan Millstein and Rob Fitzgerald.

The venue now shows independent movies as well as live shows in its two theaters.

The Lawrence Journal-World The Lawrence Journal World’s location represents a long and storied history of newspapers in Lawrence. Though officially created in 1911, the Journal World as it is known today exists as a consolidation of the Lawrence Journal and the Lawrence World.

Created in 1892, the Lawrence World was owned by Wilford Collins Simons who worked as a newspaper editor in Lawrence from 1891 until his death in 1952. Though Simons acquired the Journal in 1905, it was not until the 1911 fire that also destroyed the Bowersock opera house that the two papers were merged.

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campus & town What it’s like to...

Chase a storm

In pursuit of one of nature’s most powerful forces.

Last year, Adam Smith, a senior majoring in atmospheric science, went on four storm chases. Smith goes on a storm chase about every other week from March through May with a group of about eight students and a professor from KU. Our day starts at the mock lab in Lindley Hall. The group decides where to storm chase that day and we leave for our destination around 8 a.m. We drive and adjust where we go based on the weather activity. Car windshields have cracked before, so we take a car that belongs to someone who isn’t afraid of getting some hail damage.

The equipment we have is limited. We take our laptops and listen to local radio stations.

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in Iowa last April. We drove about 95 mph down an Iowa state highway trying to catch up to the storm. When we came up on a hill, there was a tornado on the ground. It was too far south and we couldn’t get to it, so we drove along side it. I always hope to see a tornado, but it rarely happens. When I do witness a tornado, the feeling is incredible because I’m witnessing a natural monster.

We ended up camping in a field in a smaller city because we heard on the local radio that there was another storm coming. The storm started rotating and putting down a funnel. It was very weak, but we felt it lift up our jackets and felt the rush of air. It was scary because we knew what we were doing, but the local radio didn’t know the storm was actually in the city. The storm never actually dropped a tornado, but it was ready to. The classroom is great for learning about storms, but until you are out there watching what is happening, it’s hard to get a sense of what really goes on.

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The Iowa storm right before a funnel cloud developed.

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Custom cupcakes

These tasty treats go much further than plain vanilla and sprinkles.

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Billy Vanilly cupcakes topped with Oreos and peanut butter cups.

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Amy Sanders, senior from Overland Park, planned to have friends over for drinks and cake before going out bar hopping for her 21st birthday. But when she realized over 20 people were coming, she thought cupcakes would be better than cutting a cake into 20 super-thin slices. So she ordered two dozen cupcakes of different sizes, flavors and designs. “It put the party off to a great, happy start,” Sanders says.

Like Sanders, you can custom design fun cupcakes and enjoy these fluffy, sweet cakes.

There are two places to get cupcakes custom designed in Lawrence; Cupcake Construction Company (727 Massachusetts St.) and Billy Vanilly Cupcakes (914 Massachusetts St.). At Cupcake Construction Company, you can choose four aspects of the design and flavor of the cupcake, and the staff will assemble the cupcakes for you. First, you choose the foundation, which is the cake flavor, and second, you choose the interior, which is the filling.

Third, you choose the topping, which includes mini Oreos or strawberry drizzle. Lastly, you choose the icing, which includes coffee, chai, and mint flavors. Each custom-designed

cupcake costs $2.75, and mini cupcakes cost a dollar each.

At Billy Vanilly, there are freshly-baked pre-made cupcakes available, but customers can still customize and decorate them by adding edible decorations to the cupcakes, such as flowers, hearts, graduation caps or animals.

Unlike Cupcake Construction Company, you pre-order at least two days in advance to get cupcakes customized. Gluten-free flavors are available on Fridays, sugar-free flavors are available on Saturdays, and fat-free “skinny cakes” are available on Sundays. Cupcakes come in three sizes: Big kid (jumbo) for $3.50 each, baby (standard) for $2.50 each, and preemie (mini) for a dollar each.

Lucy Brown, a senior from Seattle, likes to give custom-designed cupcakes as gift for her friends, whether it’s a single cupcake for a sad friend or a box of cupcakes for a special occasion. She says going out for custom-designed cupcakes always puts her in good mood.

“They are soft and sweet,” Brown says. “ It’s like few bites of heaven.”

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Milk alternatives

Lassi

Four options for the lactose intolerant.

If you have a milk allergy, a dietary restriction or you’re just not a fan of cow’s milk, there are plenty of milk alternatives available in grocery stores. However, what I wanted to know is how they taste on cereal or, more importantly, in macaroni and cheese.

Soymilk: Haley Gilchrist stopped drinking dairy milk three years ago in an attempt to minimize her use of animal byproducts.

Gilchrist, a freshman from Wichita, says she primarily drinks unsweetened soymilk.

Soymilk is a bit sweeter than cow’s milk and has a slight beany aftertaste. Gilchrist says sweetened soymilk is also good, but may be too sweet for cooking.

Coconut: This is not just the juice from the center of the coconut, but from coconut meat

A traditional drink of India.

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as well as the juice. Because of this it’s thicker and sweeter than soymilk. I would not put this in my mac and cheese, or in my cup for that matter. However, it makes a sweet milk mustache.

Rice: Rice milk is thinner than other milks, but comes the closet of all to the taste and smell of dairy milk. It is mildly sweetened and would be great in cooking or on a bowl of cereal. I liked the oat taste so much I was ready to cast off dairy milk for good, until I saw the percentage of carbohydrates: Rice milk has 8 percent carbohydrates compared to the 4 percent in whole organic dairy milk.

Almond: Mica Mendez says unsweetened almond milk has a bitter aftertaste, like drinking liquid almonds. Mendez, a sophomore from Lawrence, says the bitterness is less noticeable in cooking.

Sweetened almond milk is very similar in taste and texture to coconut milk. Mendez describes it as melted ice cream.

If you’re cooking, rice milk, unsweetened almond milk or unsweetened soymilk will do the trick, even in macaroni and cheese.

Rice milk is also a satisfying alternative to cereal.

Taken straight, none of the alternatives have the buttery sweet taste of

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Sweet lassi ingredients: 2 cups curd 1 tablespoon sugar ¼ tablespoon cardamom 2 drops vanilla extract People in India drink lassi to cool down from the Indian heat after long hours of work, Bhargavi Krishnan Arvind says. There are two types of lassi, she says, one sweet and one salty.

When I first heard lassi was made from yogurt or curd, I thought it might have a smoothie-like consistency. It is actually more akin to frothy milk. The drink is filling and has an almost carbonated taste from the live and active milk culture, an ingredient in the curd. Arvind, a graduate student from Chennai, India, says the salty version is more diluted than the sweet version and is often drunk after a heavy lunch.

The northwest Indian state of Punjab is famous for its lassi, Greeshma Umapathi Santosh says. Santosh, a graduate student

from Bangalore, India, gave me a Punjab recipe for sweet lassi. You can buy the curd at the Mediterranean Market, at Bob Billings Parkway and Kasold Drive, or you can make it from scratch.

At the Mediterranean Market, two cups cost $2 and saved me the eight to 12 hours Santosh says it takes to make homemade curd. Check the ingredients for pectin and gelatin when buying curd at the store, she says. These ingredients will not give you the authentic lassi taste. The Dana brand sold at the Mediterranean Market does not contain either of them.

For sweet lassi, add the curd, sugar, cardamom and 2 drops of vanilla extract to a large bowl. You can also use powdered sugar or honey as a sugar alternative. Next, whisk the mixture until it becomes frothy. Finally, pour the mixture into a cup with a half cup of crushed ice.

You can also find lassi at India Palace, 129 E. 10th St., and Curry in a Hurry, 1111 Massachusetts St.

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Growing Together How my relationship with my brother went from just siblings, to best friends

Brittney Haynes with her younger brother Brad.

I was 17, a senior in high school, and my brother Brad was 15. While I went out with friends and was involved in clubs and activities at school, Brad preferred to listen to music in his room or go hunting with his dog. We’d always gotten along, but never really had a relationship. Starting that September though, things began to change.

When my parents asked to have a family meeting, I knew what was coming.

To me, it was obvious things hadn’t been going well between them. A few months earlier they’d started fighting about everything — money, intimacy, bills, you name it. Every fight took place in the living room, which happened to be right outside my bedroom door. So what my dad said next came as no surprise to me.

“Here’s the deal guys. We’re getting a divorce.” I looked at my younger brother, who was sitting across the room. His face dropped in complete confusion.

Brad rode with me to school every day since we lived seven miles out of town,

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and he couldn’t drive. On the way to school in the mornings, we would talk, mostly about my parents. I did my best to answer his questions, but his face still told me he was upset. I felt like I had to be there for him, because all we had was each other.

I went off to college the following fall, and we would talk periodically on the phone or on Facebook. When I came home for the summer, we both returned to our summer jobs of lifeguarding at our hometown pool. We were out on rotation at the same time, so we also had our breaks together. That summer I felt that my brother began to see me as more of a friend than just his older sister. We went to Warped Tour together, made frequent Sonic and ice cream runs and went to the movies. He asked me when was the right time to ask a girl out and talked to me about how I knew I was in love. He asked my opinion on classes he wanted to take his junior year and even started discussing the possibility of majoring in

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elementary school education in college.

We began to discover the things we had in common: a love for alternative rock, sweet potato fries and children. After that summer, I finally began to feel a connection to my brother and I found leaving home to go back up to school a little harder than the year before.

During my second year of college, my mother moved closer to her job in Sedgwick, and my brother moved with her, 50 miles away from my hometown of Sterling. Brad switched high schools for his senior year. He was excited to move to Sedgwick and get a fresh start. Brad had been playing football since he was in the fifth grade. He wasn’t getting much playing time, so he really looked forward to football season at a new high school.

He fit right in. He had friends over at the house constantly and he went from getting Cs and Ds, to As and Bs. I began to get phone calls from him after every football game to tell me how his team did. I could tell how happy he was just from hearing how optimistic he sounded.

On his 18th birthday, he had his opening game, which they won. I was able to go home for his senior night game later in the season, and it was one of the best football games I’ve ever been to. Brad played the entire game and had several key tackles and blocks. After the game, I ran onto the field to see him. He wrapped me up in a hug as I told him how proud of him I was.

My brother had never been up to visit me at college by himself so this past November, he came up and spent a weekend with me. It was one of the best weekends we’ve had together. We went ice-skating, hung out at my boyfriend’s fraternity, and went out together that night. He got to experience college life as I experience it.

Towards the end of winter break as I was shopping with a family friend, I got a call from my mom.

“You got a second?” she asked.

“Yeah, sure.” I replied.

“Well, your brother just signed with the Army.”

I felt my heart drop in my chest.

“What?”

“He decided to do the Army Reserves.

He had been talking to a recruit about

it for awhile, and after discussing it with your dad and me, he decided to do it.”

A million things were running through my head. “What is the Army Reserves?

Is he going to be deployed? Why did he decide to do this instead of school? Is he not going to college anymore?” I asked my mom every question I could think of, and although I tried to not cry, I felt the tears start to fall.

She explained to me what the Army Reserves is. Brad will go to boot camp and then training for whatever he wants his specialty to be. He’ll be gone for a year and a half before he’s able to attend college. The Army Reserve will pay for his college as long as he does his monthly commitment, which is one weekend a month, the entire time he’s in school.

After I understood things a little better, I asked my mom to hand the phone to my brother.

“You didn’t think to talk to me before you made a decision like this?” I asked.

“Sis, I’m sorry I didn’t tell you before, but this is my decision. And this way, I’ll get to go to KU, just like you.”

I slowly began to realize that my brother was a man. He wasn’t my little brother sitting in my front seat on the way to high school. He didn’t need my advice.

He’d grown up and was able to make decisions for himself, and this was obviously what he thought was the best choice.

“You know I love you, right?” I said.

“I know that.”

“Then know that I’ll stand by you and support you no matter what. This is the right decision for you.”

After Brad graduates in May, he’ll leave for boot camp in September. He also recently found out that after his training, he’ll be deployed to Afghanistan for two years. I won’t get to spend the summer with him because I’ll be abroad for an internship. I’m upset that I won’t get to spend the summer with him, and I’ll be the first to admit I’m terrified at the thought of him being deployed and in Afghanistan. But despite that he won’t be just be a phone call away anymore, I couldn’t be prouder of him and the man that he’s become.

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