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FRIDAY,SEPT.7,2001
NEWS
Love Garden grows into funky home
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 3A
Lawrence-born Sommer Bussinger, Providence, R.I., likes to shop at the Love Garden whenever she returns home. Love-garden employees Adam Mitchell, left, and Kelly Corcoran insist that the four resident cats really run the store.
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Used record store provides music in unique setting
By Lauren Beatty Jayplay writer
Love Garden Sounds, 936 1/2 Massachusetts St., is a classic used record store.
It's jumbled. Its walls are plastered with fliers and posters for bands. Cats are brushing up against customers, and music is always playing.
The store came into business in January 1990. Coowner Kory Willis and his partner were in graduate school when they decided to open a record store for kicks.
The pair started from scratch. They had never worked at a record store before. Painting walls, getting permits and picking out light fixtures were just the beginning of the actual construction.
Willis said he had definitely noticed the change on Massachusetts Street in 12 years.
"It just seemed like something that needed to be done," Willis said. "There just wasn't a used record store on Mass."
"Mass. Street was a lot funkier then," Willis said. "Now there's all these chain businesses. We stick out like a sore thumb."
Katherine Dessert, Lawrence resident, said she shopped at Love Garden for two reasons.
"I like to support local stores, and I like to buy used," Dessert said.
"I'm pretty much a record freak," Pratt said. "I'm always looking for new sounds."
Ryan Pratt, Topeka freshman, also said he enjoyed the locality of the store.
Jon Harrison, an employee at Love Garden for eight years, said he enjoyed working there because of the variety of people who came in to shop.
"I grew up with parents who hated work," Harrison said. "It's really nice not dreading going to work."
Willis said the store carried CDs and vinyl, and customers could buy, sell and trade music. Harrison agreed that
"We have used CDs," Harrison said. "And they're cheap."
the store is for those who need quick cash or need to save on music.
"We're not dealing with the Billboard 100 here," Willis said. "But we can have an intelligent conversation on Black Sabbath albums."
Ask Willis what hot young crooner is rising up the charts, and he probably won't have an answer.
Contact Beatty at 864-4810.
Professor Michael Crawford and bookstore employee Lisa Eitner watch as David Hiebert browses through Crawford's new book about the migration of Native Americans from Asia to North America. Crawford was at the Kansas Union Bookstore yesterday to promote his new book.
Professor wraps up origins study in Siberia
Pair traced migration of first inhabitants of North America
By Eve Lamborn Kansan staff writer
Michael Crawford returned from Siberia just in time to teach his Native-American Origins class this semester.
Crawford just completed the field-work in a three-year study. The money for the study came from the National Science Foundation.
The KU professor of anthropology spent the summer on Bering Island, off the coast of Eastern Russia, tracing the migration path of the first inhabitants of North America.
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For the past three summers, Crawford, along with Rohina Rubicz, Seattle graduate student, worked in Alaska and Russia collecting DNA samples of the inhabitants of the Aleutian Islands, the most recent group of people to migrate from Asia.
The pair worked with the Aleutian Indians for two summers, and more recently, a team of Russian physicians.
"We're trying to figure out how the New World was populated," Rubiz said.
Crawford said one of the mysteries of science was figuring out where different groups of people came from.
"As a species, we are trying to reconstruct our routes out of Africa in peopling the world," Crawford said.
Native Americans crossed over from Asia into North America by way of a land bridge from the Chukchi Peninsula in northern Russia, Crawford said.
Another theory states that Native Americans came by way of the Aleutian Islands, a chain of islands linking southern Alaska and Russia.
Crawford said his research disproved this theory. "The DNA evidence shows very clearly the route across Berengia." Crawford said.
Crawford said his research disproved this theory.
Rubiz said certain DNA characteristics link the Aleutian people to the Chukchin Eskimos in
This conclusion dates their migration into North America to a period at least 12,000 years ago, based on knowledge of when the land bridge flooded to prevent further migration, Crawford said.
"The business of science is asking and solving questions," Crawford said. "We have solved an important evolutionary question in terms of the origins of a particular people."
Crawford has also written a book, Origins of Native Americans, which just came out in paperback. Rubicz plans to use the research she did on this project for her master's thesis, which she will defend soon, and later her doctoral dissertation.
Siberia, who live directly across the Bering Strait from Alaska.
Contact Lamborn at 864-4810.
Drinking at stadium might not appeal to all
New alcohol policy doesn't reel in some students
By Luke Daley
Kansan staff writer
The lure of a festive place to drink wasn't enough to draw Adam McCoy to the parking lots around Memorial Stadium last weekend.
McCoy, Tulsa, Okla., senior, said students would drink before entering the stadium regardless of whether it was allowed.
The University of Kansas' new football tailgating policy didn't entice him to buy a ticket for the football team's home opener, either.
"People will be people, and when you have a large group of fans getting drunk, you never know what could happen," McCoy said. "I guess it's one of those time-honored traditions of getting loaded and going to a game."
The policy allows drinking before the game within a perimeter that includes 10 parking lots around the stadium. Alcohol during tailgating has not been allowed since 1989.
McCoy isn't the only student who is skeptical of the new policy.
LeAnne Grayley, Wichita junior, said that
LeAnne Gravley tailgating could make the games more fun but that campus safety officers might have their hands full controlling the crowd.
"I don't know how they're going to be able to regulate it." Gravley said.
No major incidents occurred last Saturday as a result of the new policy, said Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office. He said that one intoxicated fan was escorted from the stadium after he ran through the marching band during halftime.
Bailey said the man did not have any identification with him but told officers that he was a KU student.
The only criminal complaint filed at the game involved a
"People will be people and when you have a large group of fans getting drunk,you never know what could happen.I guess it's one of those timehonored traditions of getting loaded and going to a game." Adam McCoy Tuksa, Okla., senior
He said the KU Public Safety Office would monitor tailating to ensure safety.
sober fan threatening an usher during the game, Bailey said.
"We're going to be present for all games in and around the stadium," Bailey said. "We did have lots of contact with students."
Bailey said officers made their rounds on Saturday, ensuring that the rules of the new tailgating policy were being enforced.
"Beer just goes along with football," Myers said. "You can have problems anywhere with alcohol-related stuff."
However, many students are excited about the new policy.
Katie Divelbiss, Iowa City, Iowa, graduate student, said she thought the tailgating areas had a fun atmosphere that it might have lacked when the old, no-alcohol policy kept some away.
But Divelbiss is also partial to tailgating because her boyfriend is a member of Full Feature, a rock band that will play outside the stadium before each home game this season.
"I think that it's a great thing because it's going to get more people to support KU," Divelbiss said. "And there's live music at every home game, so people should go."
Contact Daley at 864-4810
KU housing department provides plenty of rooms for students
Flexibility, options available at Kansas; KSU students have different situation
by Jeremy Clarkson Kansas staff writer
Even though some students may not get their first housing preference, the University of Kansas has never had a problem finding rooms for students, said Ken Stoner, director of student
He doesn't have figures for this semester but said occupancy in residence hall is high.
housing.
"We were essentially full when we opened." Stoner said.
The University avoids housing problems because it can adjust to accommodate students, he said.
For example, when Templin and Lewis halls were closed for remodeling, other residence halls offered more doubles than singles.
to adjust so we can accommodate students in housing. "Stoner said."
Seth Fisherman, complex director for apartment living, said Jayhawker Towers had a waiting list of more than 30 students, but those students were already living in residence halls.
"I think we've always been able
At Kansas State University, the housing situation is not as accommodating.
Some students live in temporary housing until more space is made available, said Bob Burgess, associate director of
housing and dining at Kansas State. He said rooms that were used primarily for guests of the university had to be used for students.
"In essence, we reactivated rooms we used as guest housing," Burgess said.
He said in the last few weeks, some rooms had become available for students, but there were still students who were waiting.
"More than likely by semester time, students will have an option of moving into permanent
spaces," Burgess said.
He said if at the end of the semester, rooms were not available for students, they would be allowed to remain in the guest rooms for the remainder of the school year.
Contact Clarkson at 864-4810.
"I think we've always been able to adjust so we can accomodate students in housing." Ken Stoner
Ken Stoner director of student housing
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