Volume 124 Issue 58
kansan.com
Thursday, November 10, 2011
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STAGE PRESENCE // OH! THE HUMANITY > Feel free to swoon.
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Contributed photo Business and Pleasure: All three members of Oh! The Humanity run businesses alongside playing shows and making music.
Throwback is one word to describe the Kansas City group, Oh! The Humanity, and it's sound. It's rare to come across local musicians still playing the genre of music these guys do, but they are doing it well and keeping their scene alive.
"We're like fried cake balls - two things you like in the same experience, pop punk and hardcore," says guitarist and singer, Kyle Kumer. This genre of music peaked around 1995, but it's still the best music to hardcore dance to, and mosh to.
The guys in Oh! The Humanity have been making music together for nearly two years, but all three members have careers and businesses to run along side playing in a band. "I own PlugYourHoles.com, I'm a pastry judge, a feline dentist and I've played in several other bands before OTH," says Sam Dean, vocalist. His website sells ear gauges, clothing and accessories. Kumer is also the owner of MonsterMerch, a t-shirt printing company in Kansas City, Mo.
According to Dean and Kumer, they keep themselves pretty busy but music is what they thrive off of and will continue to do.
Their next show is on Nov. 11 with Plea for Purging, Take It Back and No Bragging Rights. Kumer says, "The show starts at 6:30 p.m. at Lakeland church (in Lee's Summit, Mo.). It's on an indoor soccer field so even if you think the bands suck you can play soccer. I believe Jay-Z would refer to that as a win/win."
DREW WILLE
SCENE AND HEARD // TEA AT THREE
> New places, new faces.
Tea, at three, for free - every Thursday. It sounds too good to be true, but it isn't. Thanks to Student Union Activities, Tea at Three is a free event held weekly on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union where teas as well as other treats are severed. And you can even go for seconds.
Tea at Three's Assistant Coordinator, Shannon Collins, says the event has been around for as long as she can remember and students, such as Cale Mages, have been attending the event for most of their college careers.
"Right around 3 p.m. it looks like everyone is casually standing around the Union, but it's people waiting to swarm the line [for tea]," says Mages, a senior from Ottawa. "They had Moroccan vanilla last week which was a good one and they have a plum tea that I really like as well. They've got milk, honey, and Splenda too if you want to spice it up."
For an event that has anywhere from 50 to 100 attendees, SUA spends roughly $58 dol-
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Taime vanilla vanilla and plum are just a few tea at Three flavors to choose from.
iars each week . "Let's face it, it's the end of the week, who doesn't want free sugar?" Collins says. "It's fun and we even have fruit punch and brownies – it's different every week. There's always a traditional tea and we even have fruity teas too."
It's a great event to socialize with fellow tea lovers or to try something new. Tea at Three is an hour-long event, so stop by before four. Cheers.
DREW WILLE
But in seven or eight years, when both schools are settled in their respective conferences, some business will try to sponsor a reunion in Kansas City of football, basketball, or both. It will be just enough time to cool off from the messy divorce, and both sides will realize hating someone else isn't quite the same.
- Edited by Mandy Matney
Kansas officials and coaches have said they have no interest in playing Missouri beyond this season, and many fans feel the same way. There's probably a lot of truth in that, too. Kansas certainly doesn't benefit financially from playing Missouri in basketball, where an annual game in Kansas City would mean a 50-50 split of ticket money. Kansas will make much more than that when they play Davidson there next month.
to "prove" they don't care reveal their bluff.
Paterno, Spanier fired after Sandusky scandal
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The longest and one of the most distinguished coaching careers in college football history ended suddenly with the firing of Joe Paterno by Penn State's Board of Trustees on Wednesday night. Paterno, who offered his resignation in the morning but said he wanted to finish this season, was joined on the unemployment line by university president Graham Spanier.
The move was in response to the arrest on Saturday of Paterno's longtime former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky and the release of a grand jury report alleging he sexually abused at least eight young boys. Although neither Paterno nor Spanier has been charged with any criminal wrongdoing,
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Paterno received an eewitness report of one alleged sexual assault in 2002 and just passed it up the chain of command. No one at Penn State pursued a criminal prosecution for Sandusky for that incident.
Speaking for the board, vice-chairman John Surma said, "The past several days have been terrible, but the outrage we feel is nothing compared to the physical and psychological abuse that allegedly took place."
Surma was pressed repeatedly for an explanation of why Paterno, who is tied with Amos Alonzo Stagg for most games ever coached at 448, was not given a chance to coach the final home game against Nebraska on Saturday at Beaver Stadium. Instead, defensive coordinator Tom Bradley was appointed to replace Paterno on an
interim basis.
"With the difficulties engulfing this university — and they are grave as you all have documented," Surma said, "it was necessary to make a change now."
Speaking at his house to students, Paterno said, "Right now, I'm not the football coach, and that's something I have to get used to."
Perhaps fearing the worst, the 84-year-old Paterno, who has a record 409 wins, attempted to make an end run around the board of trustees in the hope of going out with a shred of dignity. In his statement, which was released through a Washington-area public relations firm as opposed to being approved by Penn State, Paterno expressed regret that he didn't do more to prevent Sandusky's alleged crimes.
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Penn State football coach Joe Paterno arrives home yesterday in State College, Pa. Paterno and university president Graham Spanier were fired yesterday evening, brought down by their failure to do more about an allegation of child sex abuse against a former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, who is accused of molesting eight boys over 15 years.
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