Volume 124 Issue 5
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
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GET SOME CULTURE // BARON WOLMAN EXHIBIT
>it's not all about fast food and beer pong.
Although today's traditional college students weren't alive in the 1960s, the Lawrence Arts Center is bringing an exhibit to town aimed to interest all generations. The exhibit features the work of Baron Wolman, the first chief photographer for Rolling Stone magazine. It's made up of portraits he took of artists from the 60s, such as Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead and Jimi Hendrix, along with the covers of Rolling Stone and the contact sheet of photographs to show the process that went into choosing a cover shot.
The iconic quality of those artists is something that influences people young and old, Ben Ahlvers, Exhibitions Director for the Lawrence Arts Center, says. "You can't imagine music today without those artists. They are intertwined with the social and political changes of the time." Ahlvers savs.
The exhibit opens Friday, August 26, and will run until Saturday, October 1, at the Lawrence Arts Center. Admission will be free.
There will also be several special events related to the opening of the exhibit. It starts
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The Arts Center will also give away an acoustic guitar from Mass Street Music and a signed photo of Jerry Garcia. Saturday, the 27, at 2p.m., Wolman will give a lecture about his experience working for Rolling Stone. Tickets are needed for this event and are available for free at the Arts Center.
KATIE JAMES
- Edited by Mike Lavieri
Big 12 has been on the support for at least 12 months and there's not many legitimate options to replace Texas A&M, if and when it leaves.
There isn't a single BCS conference school that would join the Big 12 right now, so remove any ideas of poaching a team like Louisville. And if you think Arkansas would leave the SEC — as I've heard a few Kansas fans mention for geographic reasons — you must live in a nice world because that isn't happening.
Other possible replacements wouldn't be worth their share of the television contract. It's a sticky situation, to say the least. A situation that will probably doom the 16-year-old conference.
Then again, the remaining schools could sing "Kumbaya" and tell us everything is fine in the heartland. That seemed to work really well last summer.
Sopnomore aadas numor, new spin to old sport
LAURA DRUMMOND
ldrummond@kansan.com
To many avid golfers, who require silence during putting and teeing off, the sport is one of con-
conservation and reservation. But for KU golfer David Catt, a sophomore from Shawnee, the game
bit of a different spin.
KU golf Coach Kit Grove can attest to this.
Catt
"He's got a really unique sense of humor," Grove said. "He doesn't
always try to be funny but he is way funnier than he thinks he is."
Catt joined the team as a freshman last year but did not get into the lineup very often because of more experienced upperclassmen. However, Grove has high expectations for him after watching his performance at KU as well as in high school.
"As far as from a golf stand point he's a really good putter," Grove said. "His biggest strength is definitely his putting. He also has a really great attitude, which is very important to the game of golf."
In addition to his sense of humor, Catt also brings key golf skills to the KU golf team.
"He is from Kansas and I saw
him play a hand full of times in high school and I was actually quite happy to give him a spot on the team during his senior year of high school."
Catt played high school golf for Shawne Mission Northwest being named to the All Metro golf team as a junior and senior. He also broke a 30-year-old school record by shooting a 5-under-par 66 as a junior.
Catt's intelligence was also a draw for the KU golf team. Catt was National Merit Scholar finalist. "Hes really, really smart kid," Grove said.
The key for Catt's success both on
SEE GOLF 16
Russian pro team
The man with the most assists in Kansas basketball history is off to Russia.
KUAthletics.com confirms that
Narain Mittire, former Jayhawk point guard, has signed with Krasnie Krilya, a professional team in Samara, the sixth most populated city in Russia.
In the 196-07 season, Miles
Miles, who is already working out with his new team
in Italy, spent last season in the NBA Developmental League with the Renq Bighorns, a team affiliated with the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, Memphis' Grizzlies and Sacramento Kings for the 2014-15 season.
Miles
Orthez of Pau, France, and won the French Cup. He then played for Cajasol Sevilla, of Spain, in the 2007-08 season, Panionios of Greece, in the 2008-09 season and Aris BC, also of Greece, in the
2009-10 season.
Miles will join former Jayhawks Sast Kaun and Keith Langford in Russia. Kaun is a center with CSKA Moscow and Langford is a guard with Khimi Moscow.
In his junior season in 2003-04. Miles was.
member of the Big 12 All-Defense team and third team All-Big 12. H was the first recipient of the Dann Manning Mr. Jayhawk award and a starter in every game except senior day of his freshman year.
Max Rothma