Volume 124 Issue 104
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Friday, February 24, 2012
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ENTERTAINMENT
Get some culture Regional Choreography Festival
//KELSEY CIPOLLA
You don't have to know the difference between a pas-de-deux and pirouette to appreciate dance or enjoy the Regional Choreography Festival events going on this weekend.
Since it began showcasing choreography 18 years ago, the festival, held by the Lawrence Arts Center, has gained popularity and attracted more and more dancers and choreographers from the region.
"I think it's very important that regional dance has opportunities to be presented and make connections, particularly smaller companies," says Candi Baker,
dance program director at the center.
For one of the choreographers visiting Lawrence, the festival is also a homecoming. Eleanor Goudie-Averill, the festival's featured choreographer, grew up in Topeka and studied dance at the University.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Eleanor Goudie-Averill, the guest choreographer
"It's great to be able to come back and work with local dancers," Goudie-Averill says.
While the festival is intended to provide dance professionals with a chance to meet and learn from each other, outside audiences are invited to be a part of their learning experience. Dancers will be performing around the Lawrence Arts Center and possibly even taking to the streets for Final Fridays, tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m.
The festival ends Saturday with a showcase of the work of guest artists in a variety of dance styles, as well as a selection of other performers chosen for their excellent work during the festival.
Ten Things You Didn't Know About:
The Wagon Wheel Café //BRITTNEY HAYNES
Where to buy tickets:
Lawrence Arts
Center website at
Lawrenceartscenter.org
Many people consider the Wagon Wheel Café a Lawrence institution. The Wheel, as it's more commonly known, is a popular bar among not only students, but alumni as well. Owner Rob Farha provided these 10 facts.
2. It was sold in 1955 to Jim Large who turned it into the Wagon Wheel Cafe.
3. The Wheel got its name from the chandeliers made from real wagon wheels that are still there today.
1. The Wagon Wheel Café opened in 1906 as Rowlands College Bookstore by David and Anna Rowlands.
4. It also had wagon shaped pitchers, cream and sugar containers and menus.
5. After The Wheel was built in 1906, it's only undergone one expansion. The owner wants to keep The Wheel as much in its original form as possible.
6. The Wheel only serves cans, no bottles are allowed. Broken glass and rowdy college kids don't mix well.
7. The three murals of the conferences that KU was originally in were replaced in 1987 by the currents ones and are now on the ceiling, due to the amount of room available.
8. The Wheel has had several well-known celebrities and public figures as customers. Jason Sudeikis and the ESPN gameday crew have bee there. All either have a photo or signature on the wall.
9. A round 1982, Pyramid Pizza moved into the bottom of the building until 1999, when The Wheel Pizza Company took its place.
10. The Wheel is famous for its Wang Burger; a bacon cheeseburger with a fried egg on top.
PHOTO BY BRITTNEY HAYNES
LUKE RANKER/KANSAN
From the left to the right: Sam Kovzan, sophomore from Leawood and Tansey Schoonover, a freshman from Roswell, Georgia, work on speeches for their communication class while Emily Pfeifer, a freshman from Hays, studies biology. Kovzan said they had been camping for about 10 minutes when several basketball players came out for a press conference.
"I think it's pretty crazy," Colin Vipond, a freshman from Omaha, said. "Being from Nebraska, it's all about football. Now it's all about basketball. I was in shock when I even first heard about camping."
students descend on the north concourse of Allen Fieldhouse to ensure their camping group keeps its spot in line for the Missouri game. With this contest set to be the last tilt in the foreseeable future of a rivalry that predates the advent of collegiate athletics, students are desperate to secure their seat and witness history.
Normally, the camping is not as intense. But for Missouri, everyone is trying to get the best seats possible.
"I just know usually within the first few days people drop like flies, but only one group has dropped out ahead of us so far," Vipond said.
"It was good," Kyle Haley, a junior from Hays, said about interacting with the players. "It's different I guess, knowing they're my age. It's kind of unique that they're as popular as they are."
Haley got to split a Pizza Hut cheese pizza, delivered to him by junior guard Elijah Johnson, with another camper. But pizza time is not the only time the campers can catch a glimpse of the players.
pushed junior forward Thomas Robinson around in a laundry hamper as the players delivered pizza.
"I'm looking at the gods of our school," Tansey Schoonover, a freshman from Roswell, Ga, said as students gathered to watch the men's basketball team walk to practice.
surf the Internet. Sometimes I sleep, if you have an early shift, but it's really hard on this floor."
Worse than waking up early is the fear that a camper might oversleep his or her shift. In her freshman year, Maggie Hirschi, a senior from St. Louis, Mo., woke up at 5:55 a.m. for her 6 a.m. camping shift at the Fieldhouse before a game against Texas. She rushed over from her Oliver Hall dorm room but arrived too late, and her group lost its number three camping spot.
Students try to maintain sanity during hours of camping. Vipond's group pitched in together to purchase an air mattress that
The north concourse will continue to bustle with student activity until numbers are handed out three hours before tip-off on Saturday.
"Mizzou ones just are always fun because you see the dedication students have to come to these games," Hirschi said.
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Kansas without Missouri is like Batman without The Joker or the Hatfields without the McCoys. Would anyone really care about one without the other? Thanks to a need for attention from one side and a stubbornness from the other, we are about to find out.
Both teams will continue winning basketball games. Missouri might even win a championship in the SEC. But left in the wake of Saturday's game will be a tremendous void that a hundred games against West Virginia or South Carolina could never fill.
When the game ends, win or lose, take one last mental picture of the aftermath. Because if the powerholders get their way, that memory is all your children and grandchildren may ever know of one of the greatest rivalries ever played.
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Today's Weather
Get your ticket for the Campus Movie Series at the Kansas Union. Tonight's featured film is "The Muppets."
Strong winds, mostly cloudy.
Gone with the wind.