Volume 124 Issue 31
kansan.com
Monday. October 3, 2011
the student voice since 1904
Jayhawks have third-quarter blues Three interceptions blow a 20-0 lead PAGES 6-7
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WHAT IT'S LIKE // TO SURVIVE A HOUSE FIRE
> You know you're curious.
| JAMES HENNAHANE AS TOLD TO MATT GALLOWAY |
James Hennabane, a sophomore from Leawood, lost virtually all his material possessions on Sept. 11, 2011. Flames consumed his student residence at the 1300 block of Tennessee Street. Hennabane made it out with his laptop, the shorts he was wearing and nothing else. But the fact that he, his brother and others in the residence at the time made it out alive is enough to make him feel thankful. He now resides at The Reserve with several other students who lost everything in the fire that night.
When my friend Andrew Adford started banging on my door at 6 a.m., I blew him off. We all got a little wild the night before celebrating the football team's win, and I wrote it off as more drunken craziness. But he just wouldn't stop hammering on my door.
"Stop messing around," I finally barked.
"Our house is burning down," he replied.
That was more than enough to jolt me out of my deep sleep. Wearing only my boxers, I ran out of my room and turned to the left. The smoke was already bellowing from our porch and into our house. Panicked, I tried to remember where we kept our fire extinguisher. Then I remembered where it was: our porch. Well, shit.
I rushed back into my room, now fully jarred out of my slumber. Unfortunately, I couldn't say the same for my brother, who was still sound asleep. I woke him up and as he got dressed, I saw my curtains ablaze. It had only been about 90 seconds since Andrew woke me up and the entire place was already consumed with smoke and flames.
“Get the fuck out!” I shouted. When it got to the point that I couldn't breath, I got the hell out of there. My roommate was close behind, and he was the last one out. I called 911 and we stood there helplessly as we watched everything we owned burn in flames. It was kind of ridiculous.
I'm so paranoid about fires now. I get anxious every time someone throws a lit cigarette on the ground. I think the more eerie thing about the whole ordeal is the voka we purchased and drank for the first time the night before. It's called Fire Starter, and it comes in the shape of a fire extinguisher.
and dug for treasure. It was a great feeling just finding something we had easy access to only a day earlier. The week after the fire was really shitty. We went from couch to couch with only the clothes on our backs.
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The next day, we returned to the wreckage
James Hennahane, a sophomore from Leawood, lost almost all of his possessions in a fire that destroyed his house at 1300 Tennessee St.
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Why you should follow him: "I like his wit," Michaellyn Everhart, a sophomore from Waverly, Kan. says. "I follow him for entertainment value because his tweets brighten my day. Sometimes he will post videos of his daughter. One time she was dressed up as a T-Rex. You can tell she inherited his weirdness. Sometimes he will even give you a preview of his new single which is always hilarious."
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Student authors offer insight, advice on amateur publishing
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kipolla@kansan.com
Held initially had no intention of participating, but other members of the Jayhawk-Writers on Campus group, or J-WOC, convinced him to participate in the arduous contest.
While some students refused to shave or looked forward to celebrating the holidays last November, Jason Held, a senior from Minneapolis, wrote a novel. For writers across the country November is National Novel Writing Month, an online contest that challenges participants to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
"You have to go in there knowing what your book is going to be about," Held said. "I didn't have a complete outline for it, but I knew what it was about."
His book, "The Write Message," follows a 15-year-old boy who hires a literary agent and pursues a publishing deal while trying to balance high school, the challenges of the industry and familial loss. Select chapters of the protagonist's own writing are also included.
J-WOC teamed up with KU
"We teamed up with Hewlett-Packard a year ago to start this project and they gave us grant money to come up with ideas to encourage printing on campus," said Rachel Barnes, the KU Bookstores custom material specialist. "What we came up with was the book contest."
After months of editing and revising, Held's book was finally ready for publication. The Print-
Bookstores to incentivize competing in the contest. Participants who met the 50,000 word minimum would have a chance to publish their book.
On-Demand center, which allows students, faculty, and community members to print and bind their own works, helped produce "The Write Message."
"We were serving as a small scale publisher for him," said Barnes. The bookstore also coordinated selling the book in the store and through Amazon.
Julie Honn, outreach and communications officer for J-WOC and a senior from Lenexa, said Held's success is encouraging to other student writers.
"It shows that it's achievable, to achieve that balance and achieve
Although the novel was published last April, Held is still shocked to have actually published a book.
that dream" Honn said. "That's what everybody who writes does it for, that' I hope somebody reads this someday."
"It's a really strange feeling," he said. "I almost couldn't believe it, but I knew it was my story, I knew I wrote it. I had spent months on it."
Held will discuss his book today at 5 p.m. at Jayhawk Ink inside the Kansas Union. There will also be a panel discussion with other
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CROSSWORD 4
CRYPTOQUIPS 4
OPINION 5
SPORTS 12
SUDOKU 4
Monday October 3, 201
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Ticket Cost: Free
Student Author Reading Jason field will read from and discuss his new novel "The Write Message."
—Edited by Josh Kantor
student writers about students writing experiences.
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Don't forget to floss! October is National Dental Hygiene Month.
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