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Kansan Weekend Edition
Friday
April 30,1999
Section:
A
Vol. 109 * No. 142
Vol. 109·No.142
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WWW.KANSAN.COM
Wandering the Web
(USPS 650-640)
The month of May brings with it the end of the television viewing season and the beginning of boring summer reruns. But before the season ends, viewers are treated to something called "sweeps week", in which television executives cram all the gratuitous sex and violence possible into their shows, in hopes of making their ratings look better. So grab a soda, the remote and channel surf.
www.melrosetv.com
Bid a fond farewell to *Melrose Place*. Complete with burning buildings and dead characters, this Web site has links to other Melrose pages, tons of trivia and even sound bites.
x-files.html
www.scibernet.com/xfiles/
flushdb
This is Jenifer's X-Files home page. It contains a cast list for the show, plot summaries, top 10 lists and links to other X-Files sites. She even includes some original fan fiction and X-Files humor.
www.redgreen.com
www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/4766
This is the Internet home of the new Red Green Show. The show's on public television, so it must be good for you, right? Just think of Home Improvement if it were set in Canada and featured guys who drink way too much Moosehead Beer. There are links to stations that air the show, a cast list and an episode guide.
CONCERTCALENDAR
This is The Fairly Incomplete and Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Web Page. It's devoted to Monty Python's Flying Circus, which originally aired on BBC in the late 1960s. There are scripts of all the skits, cast biographies and a Python trivia quiz.
Tonight:
Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. — Poster Children, House of Large Sizes, Believe It or Nots
Brown Bear Brewing Co., 729 Massachusetts St. — Simplexity
Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St. — Common Ground
Tomorrow:
Bottleneck — Jesse Jackson
5. Space Pocket
Brown Bear Brewing Co. The Mudslingers
Jazzhaus — Son Venezuela Sunday.
Sunday:
Bottleneck — Swing Set
Index
News ...2A
Features ...8A
Movies ...5A
Classifieds ...6,7B
Horoscopes ...2B
Sport of the Week ..8B
The University Daily Kansan is the student newspaper of the University of Kansas. The first copy is paid through the student activity fee. Additional copies of the Kansan are 25 cents.
Fred Philps is the leader of an anti-homosexual group that travels across the country spreading its hate message.
Preaching hate to the world
"They are holding our community hostage. We hate it. But it's legal."
Fred Phelps takes his message of hate on the road and concerned communities brace for his arrival.
Joan Wagnon
Topeka mayor
- Story by Katie Burford
•Photos by Matt Daugherty
FRED PHELPS
Born: 1929 in Meridian Miss
Became a Baptist preacher 1947
Moved to Topeka: 1954.
Launched Westboro Baptist
Church: 1955.
Earned a law degree from Washburn University:
1964
Disbarred by the State of Kansas: 1979
Began Gage Park Decency Drive: June, 1991
Family: He and wife,
Margie, have 13 children
and 26 grandchildren.
Eleven of his children are
lawyers.
Fred Phelps's grandson, 9-year-old Joseph Phelps, protests on the lawn of Allen Fieldhouse before Desmond Tutu's speech earlier this month.
Laramie, Wyo., woke slowly to a frigid, overcast morning the day the Rev. Fred Phelps was scheduled to arrive. Members of the national media, encamped to cover the Matthew Shepard murder trial, trickled out of their trailers and onto the lawn of the Albany County Courthouse, carrying Styrofoam cups of steaming coffee.
Inside the courthouse, lawyers were preparing to try Russell Henderson, 21, for first-degree murder in the beating death of Shepard.
Outside, two minivans containing Topeka's Westboro congregation pulled up and the group solemnly filed out of the vans and into an area fenced off for their demonstration. Cameramen and reporters gathered around the fence and began firing questions at the picketers.
"Why have you come. Rev. Phelps?"
Phelps quoted scripture.
Phiopes quoted scripture,
"Why do you preach hate?"
"Why do you think Matthew Sheppard is in hell?" Phelps quoted scripture.
Why do you preach hate?
Phelps quoted scripture.
Through the crowd, I made my way to the fence. With a 10-foot "dead zone" between us, I asked the Reverend a question:
Rev. Phelps, who's going to take over your church when you're gone?
his dialogue just a tad?"
You've been the leader for many years, I was wondering ...
"Foolish question."
There won't be a leader after your gone?
{bause}
"A verse applies here. You want me to give you the verse? Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with woman kind. It is an abomination. Good verse. And be not deceived, God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that he also reap ..."
See MESSAGE on page 6A
See page 1B
A KU student rebuilds his life after a near-death experience that left him unable to pursue his dreams of playing major league baseball.
Fighting for freedom
Recent setbacks in "political prisoner" Leonard Peltier's health have encouraged his supporters to continue fighting for his release.
Seepage 8A
A man's home is his Castle
Australian import The Castle hits theaters May 7,and Kansan movie critic Brendan
Walsh says it's a heartwarming story of a family
trying to save their home from the wrecking ball.
Seepage7A
"...'cause Stone Cold said so!"
Lawrence gets a taste of professional wrestling, and fans eat up the staged violence and drama commonly associated with the sport.
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