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MONDAY, JUNE 26, 2017 | VOLUME 134 ISSUE 04
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THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
Self says Kings 'a great place' for Frank Mason III
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Self said he thinks Mason's mentality will
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13 acts perform at circus school's student showcase
The Last Carnival owner Sihka Ann Destroy shows student Emma Froburg a move at a lyra class on May 31.
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Sihka Ann Destroy, who uses the same stage name while busking, started The Last Carnival in Lawrence in 2014 as a studio for circus training. On June 9, Destroy and the school hosted its first student showcase, debuting the teaching and work within the school.
The comic book-themed showcase consisted of 13 different acts performed by the students and teachers from the school.
people passing by.
"I played the accordion, the saxophone, read poetry, dance, or contortion. Anything that entertains," Destroy said.
The Last Carnival was opened in Lawrence in January of 2014. Destroy said that she has always loved performing. She often went busking on the streets doing small acts for
This circus school teaches skills from juggling to aerial arts. Destroy said that if the studio doesn't offer a certain skill, she actively seeks out new artists to hold a workshop.
Amy Schweppe is one of the instructors that works at The Last Carnival. She said that about three years ago she had been introduced to circus and started taking classes at the studio. The first class she took was aerial silks, a kind of performance in which an artist performs acrobatics while hanging from a piece of fabric.
"I was fascinated specifically by aerial silks just the way they move around in the air. They're really dynamic and deathdefying," Schweppe said.
Her favorite thing about teaching is seeing students successfully get an acrobatic pose for the first time.
Missy Minear/KANSAN class on May 1
"It's this wonderful moment when people land in a pose, and they get to that moment of doing something that looks really pretty and graceful even though it was really challenging to get there," Schweppe said.
Destroy, on the other hand, said that she would have loved to join a circus.
If someone told her five years ago that she would be training and teaching at a circus school, she wouldn't have believed it, she said.
but having kids made that a little more difficult.
"This is my way of
running off with the circus," she said.
Flobots return to Lawrence for high-energy set at The Bottleneck
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Missy Minear/KANSAN Flobots perform at The Bottleneck as a part of their "NOENEMIES" tour on June 8.
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The Bottleneck hosted hip-hop rock group Flobots Thursday as a stop on their "NOENEMIES" tour. The band is spending the next 10 days on a micro tour across the Midwest in promotion of the album, their first in five years.
Local rapper Reid the Martian got the night off to an underwhelming start. His choppy energy failed to connect with the audience
- if you could even call it an audience. About a dozen people stood in front of the stage during his set, swaying slightly but not committing to anything
that resembled dancing. It wasn't a pleasant 30 minutes. The bass was too loud, overpowering Reid's rapping, and it made my photographer's pictures blurry.
Reid stopped in between songs to apologize for not being more conversational; He was trying to squeeze in as many tracks as possible rather than chat with the audience. He invited the sway-ers to find him after the show if they wanted to talk.
Second opener Qbala played an excellent, high-energy set that finally built up some momentum. The modest crowd more than doubled in size and began
to dance in earnest. The Colorado-based rapper performed tracks about gender, sexuality and personal accountability.
Qbala used part of her stage time to get political.
She asked the audience if they recognized the injustice in the world, something she'd already been experiencing for years as a black woman.
"Do something. Say
something. Stand up.
Disrupt this shit," she urged the audience.
I liked her set enough to shell out $15 for her latest mix tape, the five-track "Battle Cries," during intermission.
And what an unpleasant intermission it was. The transition between openers was fast and smooth, but the transition to the main act was anything but. The audience stood around for 45 minutes before Flobots took the stage, at which point it was after 11 p.m. Thank goodness The Bottleneck has plenty of benches and tables for camping out with a drink.
But when the band
finally took the stage, all was forgiven. A zealous audience welcomed them with open arms, and the scent of marijuana smoke almost immediately filled the air. Emcees Jonny 5 and Brer Rabbit rapped back and forth on a packed stage crowded with a full band (including a violinist) and three besequined backup singers, one of whom proudly proclaimed to be from Kansas.
"There's no place like home, baby!" she called out.
Keeping with the political tone of the night — and Flobots' MO —
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Robertson said, shows the need for a community like this one.
"We've talked about it over the years but never had a sense that there was a particular interest or need yet. When it began to percolate from the students, before it was mostly our staff wondering if we should do it." Robertson said. "Finally it was our students saying, 'Hello, we want this,' and that's when we're going to act on it."
The work group, spear-
"Having a single room was cool, but it did suck that I missed the opportunity to live with a roommate all because I couldn't find someone who was open-minded," Wantling said. "Especially because once I got to KU I met a lot of open-minded people that said, 'Oh, I would have lived with you had I
year. Waiting's year in Student Housing was a good one spent in a single room at GSP, she said, but getting there wasn't easy.
tance.
The creation of the GIH wing, Robertson said, is one step toward removing hurdles like those faced by students
"I had a lot of people turn me down just because of my sexuality," Wantling said. "I had one girl who said, 'My mom doesn't want me to live with anyone that's gay,' and another one that was like, 'Well, my boyfriend might have a problem with that.'"
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Editor's Note: This story is the third in a series of stories looking at the way concealed carry on campus will look once it goes into effect July 1.
Each new semester brings a new round of syllabuses, but this semester professors will include a new added section of information that addresses concealed
carry on campus. As the University prepares to shift to an environment where students are legally allowed to bring concealed handguns to class, this will be just one of many preparations.
In response to the arrival of concealed weapons on July 1 as a result of a 2013 state law, professors are taking steps to adjust their teaching style, class content, office hours or even seeking employment elsewhere.
Aerospace engineering professor Ron Barrett Gonzalez, president of the Kansas chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said this is because many faculty members are concerned that concealed carry will have a chilling effect in classrooms.
"I know a nontrivial number of faculty members who are changing their syllabus.
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