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Kimura made the appearance on Boy Meets World in 1996 because he and Rider Strong, who played Shawn on the show, are good friends.
Actress Danielle Fishel and Director David Hillenbrand pulsate to the rhythms at The Last Call, 729 New Hampshire, early Saturday evening, Fishel, Hillenbrand, and fellow actors and producers toured popular Lawrence bars to promote their upcoming film "Dorm Daze". Fishel is probably best known for her role as "Topanga" on the TV series "Boy Meets World".
"That was actually a prerequisite," David Hillenbrand said. "The cast for the movie must have appeared in Boy Meets World."
Fishel's on-screen cohort is Jennifer Lyons, who played Lynne. Lyons has an extensive list of guest star credits in sitcoms such as Dharma and Greg and That '70s Show. Both Marla and Lynne are talkative, nosy, over-the-top girls who are quick to get into everybody's business, Fishel said.
said.
"It was so much fun because I knew girls like this," Lyons said.
"And it was just such a blast to make fun of them and be that evil little gossip girl that kept me from joining a dorm."
Dorm Daze was about as close as Renna got to the college experience.
"I went to Berkeley for three weekends one year," he said.
His brush with the college genre may continue. There are plans for a Dorm Daze sequel.. There is also a possibility of making a television series based on the movie.
the movie. For now, the directors and cast members are enjoying the promotional part of the movie. The Hillenbrands said they were
impressed with the beauty of the University of Kansas campus and were looking forward to their next stops.
— Edited by Doyle Murphy
MILLER: Students to make up for overdue fees
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used by the rest of the University, and rent would have to fluctuate with trust income.
"For years, we've been using the fund to subsidize rent. We can't do that anymore," he said. "We have to make that up in a hurry. We don't have the ability to spread that over any more years."
At all other living areas on campus, part of rent is put into the general maintenance fund. Miller and Watkins have never paid into the fund, so they have no reserve money to pay for maintenance issues.
Those fees will have to come from rent in the future and those funds have to start being collected now for the scholarship halls to catch up, Stoner said.
Between decreased income from the trust, continuing expenses from building improvements and changes to fund management, the increase is necessary. Stoner said.
Residents from the hall questioned why the increase was so dramatic. Stoner pointed out that rent had not increased for nearly 15 years, even for inflation, and had to catch up. Becky Haas, a Denver senior and Watkins resident, thought that system was a mistake.
"Why haven't we been paying a three percent increase every year over several years, rather than a 30 percent increase now?" she said. "Why did they make that decision when prices are obviously going to go up?"
Stoner answered, saying stability was not possible anymore.
More asked who made these financial decisions and how Stoner got his numbers.
"I'm a little confused," she said. "I would like to sit down and do the analysis myself. I'm curious if this is the best thing the University can do for us."
— Edited by Katie Nelson
Store's policy puts new spin on record industry
By Steve Schmidt
sschmidt@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Buy a CD, do whatever you want to it for three days and return it in good condition—and get some money back.
get some more information The new policy of local independent record store Seventh Heaven is intended generate more CD consumers and combat Internet piracy.
Although Seventh Heaven is allowing its customers do what they please with CDs for three days, the company is not advocating illegal activities, Cabrera said.
Store shift manager Jon Cabrera said the idea for the new policy came from the promotions department of the store's main headquarters in Kansas City, Mo. The new rule was put into effect earlier this month.
"We're not encouraging CD burning," he said. "We're trying to get people back into the buying market. We're really trying to
"A lot of people don't actually understand what we're doing," Cabrera said. "You're not downloading. You're not hosting it on a Web site. In a worse case scenario, you're making a copy for yourself. During those three days the CD is your property."
focus in on the customer's satisfaction."
Cabrera said when the policy first started earlier this month about three to four people would consistently buy and return CDs, but those numbers are steadily growing.
"It's starting to get in full swing now." Cabrera said.
now. Caterra said.
The average cost for brand new CDs at the store, 1000 Massachusetts St., is $16.99, Cabrera said. Returned CDs sell for $9.99. When customers return the new or returned CDs within the three-day limit, they receive the original price minus $4.99.
Other local independent record stores have no plans to implement such a policy.
implement these steps:
"There's nothing we can do about Internet piracy. We've been doing this for 13 and a half years and it works," said Kory Willis, manager of Love Garden Sounds/Arts Multiplex, 936 1/2 Massachusetts St.
Willis said despite Internet piracy, his business had continually done more business than the year before.
year before.
He credits his store's steady success to its sale of mostly used CDs for about $8 and new bands from independent labels, ranging from $12 to $15.
Heaven that sell a fair amount of major labels and deal with high price lists were the businesses more affected by Internet download-
Cabrera said his store sold major labels but also independent ones and hard-to-find bands as well.
wen.
Business at Kief's Downtown Music, another independent store at 823 Massachusetts St., has been down lately, but store employee Tara Sloan doesn't solely attribute the decline to Internet downloading.
"I think it's been that way for a lot of stores," Sloan said. "I think there's a lot things that are going into it besides Internet piracy."
Sloan said she thought that a lot of people actually download music and then buy the CD if they like it.
lent.
The average cost for used CDs at the store is $7.97 with new CDs ranging from $10 to $17.97.
Cabrera warned that some CDs can't be copied because of copy protection systems and some can't be digitized to MP3s, but he didn't say it was impossible.
impossible.
"If they can hack into the Pentagon, they can crack a CD open," he said.
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West Wing' earns best drama Emmy
The Associated Press
who portrays his long-suffering wife, swept the top dramatic acting awards.
including James Gandolffini, who plays the hulking mobster on HBO's The Sopranos, and Edie Falco.
Although The Sopranos claimed four awards, versus two for The West Wing, the mob drama
ing awards. Tony Shalhoub, who plays an obsessive-compulsive detective on USAs Monk, beat broadcast network stars for best actor in a comedy. Debra Messing, after three unsuccessful tries, won best comic actress for Will & Grace.
LOS ANGELES — There were not term limits for NBC's The West Wing, which won its fourth Emmy for best drama Sunday despite shrinking viewership, while CBS' Everybody Loves Raymond won five awards, including best comedy.
again was denied the top award. TV academy voters have yet to crown a cable series as best drama.
"The best drama award for The West Wing represented a last hurrah for Aaron Sorkin, who created the White House drama and wrote much of it. He left at the end of last season.
end of season.
HBO won a leading 18 Emmys,
followed by CBS with 16, NBC
with 15 and ABC with nine. Fox
and PBS earned seven each.
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