Volume 124 Issue 128
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
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ENTERTAINMENT
Get Some Culture:
Willy Wonka
Get Some Culture:
Willy Wonka
Lacking pure imagination? Hunt down a golden ticket and see the candy man.
The magical, exuberant candy maker from Roald Dahl's beloved children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is coming to Lawrence, courtesy of a Lawrence Arts Center production of "Willy Wonka"
Ric Averill, the show's director and the center's artistic director of performing arts,says the show has a little more music and excitement,but for the most part it follows the same basic plot as the book and movies.
Charlie Bucket, a kind but poor child, wins the chance to go inside the mysterious Wonka Chocolate Factory, along with several other children. Inside the factory, they encounter fantastical creations, their own dark sides and the zany candy man himself.
Averill chose the show because it provides plenty of roles for children. Sixty kids are featured in roles ranging from the lucky tour winners to less tradition roles, like squirrels. Children also get to tackle
one of the most memorable characters in the book, the oompa-loompas. Wonka's orange-skinned, green-haired, pint-sized employees.
The show started last weekend and continues today through Saturday, April 7. Tickets are available from the Lawrence Arts Center or on its website and cost $12 for students.Everlasting gobstoppers are optional.
Jerry Mitchell plays the role of Willy Wonka
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CAMPUS & TOWN
What do you know about: In-car smart systems
//KELSEA ECKENROTH
When you're driving a car, how many times do you look down to change the radio station, check your cell phone or adjust the air conditioner? Have any of these times ever caused you to almost hit another car?
Paul Atchley, a cognitive psychology professor, along with a team of KU faculty and graduate students from the design, psychology and engineering departments, are working together to make the technology added to cars, such as GPS devices and music players, to reduce distractions on the road.
"Manufacturers add new things and there is too much information for drivers to handle," Atchley says. Engineering students build adaptive displays, and smart dashboards that adapt to what's happening around the car and to the safety needs of the driver. The different displays are tested to see what works and what doesn't work.
PHOTO BY KELSEA ECKENROTH
A driving simulator is used to test how students respond to different driving situations.
One of the graduate students involved, Chelsie Hadlock, researches how texting features can be integrated into the display. "All of the surveys we've done in the past tell us that drivers who say they text and drive say they do it safely, such as at stop lights," she says. Hadlock plans to use the driving simulator to test how people respond to driving situations while texting.
watching a ball game.
I applaud the majority of Kansas fans who handled the loss Monday night gracefully. Losing in the National Championship game hurts, but Kansas fans took the loss in stride and turned a negative into a positive by showing united school pride.
Other aspects of life exist beyond sports. Sports are just games and sheer entertainment. Sports can be a way of life, but not the way of life. Your life, which consists of family, relationships, finances, sustenance and career aspirations, is more important than whether or not your team wins a ball game.
The Kentucky basketball players and coaches deserve the NCAA National Championship, but the Kentucky basketball fans don't deserve it, even though it's only a pittance of bad apples that ruined a good tree. Their classless acts during Final Four weekend in Lexington, Ky, are an embarrassment to sports and society.
from practice because of a physical week that they had endured. The players will be in full pads for the rest of the spring, except for the April 13 practice. Instead of full pads, players will wear only helmets and shoulder pads.
For the season's third practice, the Jayhawks worked inside of Memorial Stadium. The move from the practice field was because the team hosted recruits on campus for "Junior Day." The Saturday practice marked the first time the team practiced in full pads this spring and under coach Charlie Weis.
Edited by Jeff Karr
PLAYERS PRACTICE INSIDE MEMORIAL STADIUM
COACH WEIS RETURNS FROM NEW ORLEANS
Weis returned from New Orleans Tuesday. After Monday's practice, he flew down to support the men's basketball team in the National Championship game.
lation of team rules. He was a first team all-district, all-area and all-city selection his senior year of high school. Green redshirted last season.
DEFENSE WILL PLAY
A BASE 4-3
At his press conference last week, Weis announced the defense listed in the initial depth chart was a 4-3 base defense. He said this does not mean they will always play with four down linemen and three linebackers, but that they will also show some different formations. Most of the time, though, the personnel on the field will translate into the 4-3.
MAURA SWITCHES POSITIONS
Sophomore Brian Maura is the only player to switch from one side of the ball to the other now that Weis and his staff have moved him from receiver to safety this spring. Maura played in four
FOUR PLAYERS LIMITED IN THE SPRING
conference, Weis said he was informed that the case would be presented before the caseworker left his office last Thursday. The Jayhawks should have the result soon. If McCay's waiver request is granted, he will be allowed to play immediately. If he isn't, he will have to sit out one year before being able to play for the Jayhawks.
Sophomore running back Brandon Bourbon, junior defensive tackles John Williams and Kevin Young and Maura will be limited during this spring practice season. Weis said at last week's press conference that none of the players are out for the spring, but will be limited in the contact drills.
Edited by Christine Curtin
ASHLEIGH LEE/KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Running back James Sims swiftly moves to avoid getting tackled. Coach Weis has been changing things up during spring practices this semester.
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