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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103,NO.146
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1994
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TAROT CARDS SHINE LIGHT ON FUTURE
Reader gives insight to life
By Angelina Lopez Kansan staffwriter
I expected to see beaded curtains, a haze of incense and an old woman with a fringe scarf around her head sitting in front of a crystal ball.
I was a cynic walking into the home of a Lawrence tarot card reader.
Sitting in a bright, spacious room with several decks of tarot cards spread in front of her, the 24-year-old woman was not much older than me.
Anna Lunaria, who changed her name two years ago to fit her spiritual personality, smiled, shook my hand and told me to sit down and relax.
Relaxation was essential in getting a correct reading from the tarot cards, she said. A reading could advise people through their present life, as well as reveal things that might happen in the future.
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After I relaxed for several minutes, Lunaria placed a deck of tarot cards in my hands and asked me to shuffle them.
"As you shuffle, think of a question or situation in which you need insight," she said. The quick flipping of the cards accompanied the mystic music playing in the background.
When I was done shuffling, she told me to separate the card into three stacks. She took the middle stack, discarded the other two and began laying my future on the table.
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The cards she turned over bore the images of men and women, glowing gold cups and swords. With a superstitious paranoia that my future was engraved in those cards, all of them seemed ominous.
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But when Lunaria began to read
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the cards, the words were neither terrifying nor a glaring declaration of my future. Instead, they were sometimes reassuring, sometimes cautioning statements about events that were occurring in my present and what may occur in my future.
and what may have happened.
The most surprising aspect of her reading was that the things she saw in the cards about me were true. She made no grand revelations about my life, but she knew things she probably should not have known after a 20-minute acquaintance.
She knew about my doubts about work. However, she said a purple-colored card with the word "Work" at the bottom showed that my doubts were unwarranted. The card showed that I was good at what I did, she said.
she knew about my boyfriend. A card showing a man and woman entwined with the word "Love" at the bottom was my root card, she said. It showed I was in a stable, loving relationship.
"At parties, I usually come across one or two people who don't believe," Umaria said. "But if I give them a reading, they're pretty blown away."
Lunaria has been reading tarot cards for five years. Rather than seeing tarot cards as a fortune telling device, she said she used them as a guide.
"Tarot cards help a person gain insight into their life," she said. "I personally don't believe that they can tell the future. Every second that we're alive, we make different choices."
Anna Lunaria, Lawrence resident, reads tarot cards. She taught herself how to read the cards and has been reading professionally for five years.
Budig recommended for new American League president
The Associated Press
NEWYORK—University of Kansas chancellor Gene Budig, a member of the Kansas City Royals' board of directors for a year, has been recommended by the search committee for a new American League president, the New York Times reported in today's edition.
The committee, chaired by John Harrington of the Boston Red Sox, met with the candidates April 15 in Chicago and spoke by conference call last week, the Times reported.
The Times attributed the report to two unidentified executives familiar with the committee's deliberations.
Budig, 55, would replace Bobby Brown, who has held the job since 1984. Brown was to have stepped down Dec. 31, 1993, but agreed to remain until a replacement was found.
Budig, the Kansas chancellor since 1981, was not at his home in Lawrence, Kan., last night, and was not available for comment.
"The Royals and Rusty Rose (of the Texas Rangers) have been pushing this fellow," one AL team chief executive, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press. He said
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ne was not aware a recommendation had been made.
Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad, another committee member, denied a recommendation had been made.
Milwaukee Brewers president Bud Selig, chairman of the ruling executive council, said, "I am not in a position to really talk about it" and "there's been no definitive recommendation at this point."
"I wouldn't characterize anybody as the front-runner," he said. "There's three or four people in the running."
Budig would join Leonard Coleman in baseball's executive suite. Coleman became National League president in March.
Owners say they won't hire a new commissioner until after they have a new collective bargaining agreement with the players' association, which figures to be August at the earliest.
George Mitchell, the U.S. Senate majority leader, is expected to become the next commissioner. Baseball officials and owners say they believe he will be offered the job, which has been vacant since Fay Vincent's forced resignation on Sept. 7, 1992.
Budig, who was the head of the University of West Virginia and Illinois State before moving to Kansas, is a professor of journalism and higher education.
Peter Bynoe, a former partner of the Denver Nuggets, was the candidate of Chicago White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, according to several owners.
Thousands vote in South Africa
Bombings. Massacres. White domination for three centuries.
none of this stopped Black South Africans from voting yesterday by the thousands in South Africa's first free elections.
Yesterday, the old and infirm were allowed to vote. Today, the general public will be allowed to vote.
The vote could signal the end of apartheid, the policy instituted by the nation's British settlers earlier this century that dictated separate living conditions for Black people.
Pollsters predict the African National Congress, which clashed with the white-dominated South African government for decades, will win 60 percent of the vote. The National Party, under current president F.W. de Klerk, is expected to finish second.
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Two students console each other near the spot beside Corbin Hall where Scott McWhorter, Dallas freshman, fell to his death early Sunday morning.
Fatal fall accidental
Report says KU student sleepwalked
By David Wilson Kansan staff writer
A KU student who fell from a fourth-floor window in Corbin Hall on Sunday morning and later died of internal injuries was sleepwalking at the time, according to KU police.
The report released yesterday said that there was no evidence that Scott McWhorter, Dallas freshman, committed suicide or was pushed out of the window.
"We believe he was sleepwalking when he kicked out the screen and fell through," said Cindy Alliss, a KU police representative.
Alliss said McWhorter, who was staying at his girlfriend's room in Corbin, had a history of sleepwalking.
The report also said McWhorter had traces of alcohol in his bloodstream, although the level would not be known until the results of an autopsy were announced later this week.
Weston Hyter, president of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, said that McWhorter had experienced episodes of sleepwalking at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house, where he lived.
"It wasn't uncommon, but it wasn't habitual," he said.
Bob Whitman, director of the sleep disorders laboratory at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said that sleepwalkers could injure themselves while sleepwalking.
"People have been known to go
Whitman said that it would be unusual, but not impossible, for a sleepwalker to have the motor skills to kick out a screen.
through plate glass windows," he said.
Whitman did not know whether alcohol exacerbated a sleepwalking disorder.
Sleepwalking is not a well-understood condition, Whitman said. The best explanation, he said, is that it is partly neurological and partly psychological.
McWhorter's mother and sister were in Lawrence on Sunday for Phi Gamma Delta's Mother's Weekend. The three of them had spent the Saturday evening at the Lied Center watching the comedian David Naster.
At the memorial service at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center last night, friends and Phi Gamma Delta brothers remembered McWhorter as a charming, compassionate person who not only lived by his own ideals but encouraged others to do the same.
McWhorter's fraternity brothers wore navy blazers and walked solemnly, two by two, to their pews in the front of the church. Fraternity brothers of the freshman class formed an honor guard for people leaving the church.
Lea Chediak, Lawrence freshman and McWhorter's girlfriend, said his sense of humor was one of his best qualities. During the memorial service, she recalled a camping trip she had gone on with him. A campfire had been started, and he brought back two whole trees for firewood.
"I can only feel honored to have been a part of his life," she said.
She ended her eulogy by saying, "I think he's smiling right now."
Offices closed to honor Nixon
Kansanstaffreport
Editor's note: The Kansas erroneously reported in a Page One story yesterday that federal offices in Lawrence would remain open today.
Some Lawrence offices will be closed today to honor the death of former President Richard Nixon.
Lawrence post offices are closed, but mail will be picked up as usual and express mail services will be available.
Haskell National Nations University also shut its doors for the day in remembrance of Nixon.
All Lawrence banks will hold regular hours today.
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The Kansas softball team splits a doubleheader with Southwest Missouri State at Jayawk Field
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New adult gift store emphasizes fun, monogamy
By Cheryl Cadue
Kansan staff writer
A new store in Lawrence's largest business district sells merchandise that not every Lawrence resident would find desirable — or even tasty.
Christie's Toy Box, 1206 W. 23rd St., which opened two weeks ago, sells everything from risque cards to bathing suits to inflatable dolls. Matt Sheets, the owner, said that while some may find it hard to believe, the store was marketed toward couples and monogamy
"This is not a sex shop," he said. "We are more of a specialty store for adults. We sell more cards, lingerie, swim wear and suits than anything else."
Sheets, a KU graduate, said the store promoted monogamy and safe sex by adding excitement into relationships that had become boring.
"The emphasis is on fun," he said. "We're not lawless. It's just a retail business."
Unlike other businesses that have not fared well at the store's location, Sheets said the business already was doing well.
dong well.
"Our business is unique," he said. "We do not have direct access. For people who want a funny card or some other gift, we're a destination point.
"We try everything possible to break the negative stereo
type associated with this type of business."
However, his Christie's store in Overland Park has been picked since its opening last December by residents of a nearby neighborhood. Because of the store, local politicians passed an ordinance prohibiting stores such as Christie's from doing business in residential areas or near schools or churches. The Overland Park Christie's has until mid-July to close its doors.
Christie's Toy Box is a regional chain with stores in Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. Sheets, who owns six other Christie's stores in Kansas, said his Topeka store had no negative impact on neighboring businesses or property values in the area.
Mike Wildgen, Lawrence city manager, said Lawrence did not have a similar ordinance.
Mark Hegeman, a Lawrence resident who lives behind the store, said the store should not be near a residential area.
"Other than it being new, you can get some of those same things they sell in many places in town," he said.
"That type of store belongs in a strip mall, away from housing and where people are trying to raise their children," he said.
Besides wanting an eight-foot wall separating his home from the store, Hegeman said, he would like the windows
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Christie's Toy Box, which claims to be "America's No. 1 Adult Doke and Gift Store," opened on the corner of 23rd and Naisimith streets on April 20. Customers must be 18 years old or older to enter.
boarded so that children could not see the store's products.
Daniel Field, Horton freshman, said people should not make a big deal out of the new store.
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"It's not like in a red-light type of place where it's just sex, sex, sex," he said. "It's for adults. It's for more mature people who understand what it is."