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MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
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arts & features
HOROSCOPES
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
Good news comes from far away. Choose the most fun option. Look outside habitual routines. Keep standing for love, even in the face of breakdowns. Show respect, especially when others don't.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
Financial sands are shifting. Get input from family, but don't look to them for financial support. Discover hidden treasure buried in your own house. Clear out clutter.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) Today is a 7
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is an 8
Get into a creative project. A friend leads you to the perfect partner. Forge plans, contracts and agreements. Write the intended outcomes and post publicly. Streamline your routine to minimize chaos and clutter.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 9
There's work coming in. You may have more than expected. Work now translates into profit and a rise in status later. Avoid gossip and arrogance. Listen to your partner's advice.
You can get what you want. Persuade your team by restoring optimism and confidence. Refine your pitch to emphasize the bottom line. Creative ideas blossom. Take charge, and get organized.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 6
You're most productive behind closed doors. Focus on nurturing yourself and others with meditation, exercise and unscripted time. Indulge in nostalgic reverie. Consider where you've been and where you're going.
LIDRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Nurture your friendships and partnerships by spending time together. Hold meetings. Strengthen old bonds, even as new ones spark. Expect some change and separation with differing priorities and personal directions. Share your appreciations in real time.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
Short-term prospects could seem lean, but the long-term outlook is positive. Revise your resume to include recent accomplishments. Polish your presentation and it could raise profits. Upgrades in style and appearance pay off more than their cost.
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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
Learn as you go. Handle details impeccably. Find the fun side of the job. You're making a good impression. Dress up your report with visuals like charts and graphs. Listen for what your audience wants and address it.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 7
You find more room in the budget by tracking meticulously. Your actions now pay off later. A partner has good ideas. Collaborate to get more done with less. Provide straight facts in a confrontation.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is an 8
today is all 8
Strengthen bonds with old partnerships, and forge new ones.
Spend time together. Talk about what you love, and re-commit to common goals. Choose the next direction of your collaboration.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
Set your course toward optimistic work goals. Make long term plans that include more of what you love Accept coaching enthusiastically Invest in success. Try a new style Produce powerful results and impress clients. Demand grows.
Sophomore to release single on iTunes
RYAN MILLER
@Ryanmiller_UDK
Sophomore Bryton Stoll, from Marysville, recorded five songs this past summer. This week, one of those tracks will be released on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. In addition to recording his own music, he is in a family band called The Bryton Stoll Band, which started his junior year of high school.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/KANSAN
While many mechanical engineering students are overloaded with homework and difficult calculations, Bryton Stoll, a sophomore from Marysville, finds extra time to create music.
In addition to pursuing more gigs this year, Stoll recorded five songs this past summer. Stoll said he finetuned one of the tracks and decided he wanted to release it as a single. It will be available on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify within a week.
He also competed in this year's KU's Got Talent and placed second for his two original songs, "Finger on the Trigger" and "A Long Ways from Nowhere." One of the main reasons he chose to come to the University was because of Lawrence's music scene.
Nicolas Stoll, Bryton's brother, said they've been playing music together for almost 10 years.
"Seeing what he comes up with, that's probably the best part. And to see what his potential is, to see how far he can take it [his musical talents]," Nicolas said.
Bryton said music for him really began to kick off when his father formed a family band. He said his father would sing and play guitar.
Bryton said The Bryton Stoll Band began in his
"Him and my uncle started teaching my brother to play the drums, so the only thing left was the bass. So I got a cheap little bass guitar and they started teaching me to play that, then eventually I started singing," he said.
junior year of high school.
"Slowly but surely, I learned the six string guitar, started writing songs and singing, and now I have my own band," he said.
"It was a class in our high school that started up my freshman year that was basically a rock band," he said. "It was awesome."
Bryton said one of the biggest struggles with the band is getting together for practice. He said it's difficult because each member
Bryton said one of his favorite memories was in a high school class called popular music lab. He said all of the band members were also in that class at one point, which is how the band got started.
attends a different university or lives in a different place.
"Other than that, I would say it's tough getting started, to find a place to play and get your name out there, but once you get the ball tolling it gets a little easier," he said.
"I can't really get away from it," Bryton said.
Bryton said he's looking to a future in music with optimism.
Bryton said his favorite part about playing music is the lure of it. He said a driving force for why he does it is because it's a lot of fun. Music is also something he feels will always stick with him.
Bryton has also been collaborating on a different project with twin musicians
Amanda and Kelley Sharp, freshmen from Olathe. The twins participated in KU's Got Talent several weeks ago and placed first. Stoll said they are planning on writing music together, but they are not sure what it will be just yet.
More information about Bryton's upcoming shows and songs can be found on his Facebook page, website, and Twitterfeed at @BrytonStoll.
"My hope is that by the time I graduate I'll kind of have a little network built up, and I can just hit the road as soon as I graduate. And whenever it'll allow it, I'll get a mechanical engineering job," Bryton said.
Bryton's best advice for other up-and-coming musicians is not to give up, something he said he knows sounds cliché, but has learned there's value in it.
"Like everyone says, you just have to keep going for it," he said. "I've started to realize everybody would always say that to me, and I would hear them, and I'm beginning to realize what they meant. The more you just do all of it, the better you get. The more you try to get a gig, the more likely you are to get the gig. The more you write songs, the better the songs get, and the more you practice, the better you sound."
Edited by Lane Cofas
SISTERS FROM PAGE 1
Maggie is pre-physical therapy at the University and hopes that her sister's stay will help her understand more of her life when she's away at college.
Grace and Maggie will make jokes, hang out and catch up on their lives now that they're apart from each other.
"I think when she does something like this, she's more likely to understand what's going on, what I'm doing and now whenever she'll FaceTime me she'll be like, 'oh, are you in your dorm?' and she'll know what it looks like," Maggie said.
A trip to Lawrence
The first couple of hours on a college campus can be nervewracking for anyone. With entirely new faces around you and no sense of direction, it can be overwhelming.
In her first hours on campus,
Grace walked up to most people she saw and started conversations, made friends, played a quick game of soccer on Jayhawk Boulevard and gave hugs to people she had just met. Most students won't start that many conversations with strangers in their entire time at the University.
"The two are truly close. Grace needed to see that Maggie was in good hands with good people," Tom said. "Maggie's classmates have always accepted and embraced Grace as a friend. I wanted them to have the opportunity to see why Maggie is who she is."
Grace has traveled to other high schools in the St. Louis area where she's from to get different experiences. She also visited her older brother when he attended college in New York.
Tom, the girls' father, originally planned the visit.
Grace was a part of a seven-year special education
Grace has three jobs at home in St. Louis. She is a hostess at two restaurants and also works at the Down Syndrome office in the area.
During her trip to the University she tended to do equal parts taking in what was around her as well as worrying about her responsibilities back home. She made several calls to check in on her work and let them know she wouldn't be around this weekend.
program in the Kirkwood, Mo., area where she graduated high school. Grace played basketball and soccer and ran track. After high school, she spent three years at Webster University, also in the St. Louis area. Grace learned to take the public bus so she could continue her education. The Mehans built a bus stop specifically for Grace and often decorate it for different holidays.
Grace's lack of fear for trying new things is apparent from the first time you meet her.
Maggie said it comes from her parents. They never let her disability get in the way of her living her life.
they never really said 'no,' Maggie said. "Like 'oh no Grace you can't learn how to ride a bike," or 'oh no Grace, you can't go out and get those jobs... I think that's one of the reasons she's really high functioning, always on the phone, always very social. She's always been like that."
Grace knows she has Down Syndrome, and she will tell people about it when she needs to, typically to discourage use of certain words associated with it.
Situational favoritism
Grace has a tendency to declare all those currently around her as her "favorites."
Many of Maggie's friends who spent time with the two this weekend became Grace's "favorite boy" or "favorite girl."
The Mehan family will tell you that it's lucky that
Grace only had one sister (her "favorite sister") and one brother (her "favorite brother") because she never had to actually choose.
Grace's relationship with Maggie goes beyond naming her a favorite for a few minutes or a couple of hours. Maggie and Grace's can now add memories at the University to their list of things they've done together.
She said that when Maggie comes home it's not because she's homesick, it's because she's "sister sick."
When Grace was at the University this weekend she was able to experience a lot of what makes Lawrence and the University memorable and important to so many people. But when asked what her favorite part of her trip to Lawrence was, the answer was simple.
"Being with my favorite sister," Grace said.
Edited by Paige Lytle
QUICK QUESTION
Freshman Katie Bandle and Junior Carolyn Bandle are sisters from Lawrence. They now live in Rieger Scholarship Hall together.
Kansan: What is the best April Fools' Day prank you've done or had done to you?
When she was a kid, [Carolyn] had an obsession with floppy hats. So one April Fools' Day, my older sister and I hid them. She comes in looking for them, asking where they are, and we're just like, 'We don't know.' She got pretty mad when she found them in my closet.
KATIE BANDLE Freshman from Lawrence
CHANDLER BOESE/KANSAN
I had a teacher who passed out a pop quiz in class one day, then, just as we're getting ready to take it, says, 'Just kidding, April Fools' Day!' It was the best day, but it was almost the worst day."
CAROLYN BANDLE
Junior from Lawrence
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