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The weekend's weather
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Kansan Weekend Edition
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Friday
October 29,1999
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Vol. 110 • No.51
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WWW.KANSAN.COM
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Women rally against abuse offering hope
By Erinn R. Barcomb
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Celia Shacklett put the feeling of last night's Womyn Take Back the Night into words. Accompanied by her acoustic guitar, she sang the lines, "Darkness doesn't always mean night."
The 12th annual rally brought together about 300 members of the community hoping to reclaim the night from violence against women and children.
Shacklett was one of three local artists who performed at the South Park gazebo at the start of the rally.
"The first year I was reluctant but this year I'm so pumped," she said.
Melineh Kurdian and Becky Farris performed original music in a reminiscent of the Indigo Girls.
"Even though I'm a senior at KU, this year is my first Womyn Take Back the Night, and it's beautiful." Kurdian said.
The duo performed *She Is Us*, a song written with the march in mind. During their last piece, Fill Me Up, several women in last year's purple Womyn Take Back the Night T-shirts and yellow arm bands danced around the gazebo. The women, with a raised fist in the middle, held up a large white sheet that had a spray-painted female symbol on it.
The event also included speeches. Kathy Rose-Mockry, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said that while one in four college
See MERIT on page 3A
CONCERT CALENDAR
Tonight:
KU Jazz Singers at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center
Hairy Ape's BMX, Holstein at 9 p.m at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
The Bel Airs at 10 p.m. at the Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St.
Billy Ebeling and the Late for Dinner Band at 9:30 p.m. at Pat's Blue Rib'N Barbecue, 1618 W. 23rd Street St.
Mudslinger at 9 p.m. at Stu's Midtown Tavern, 925 Iowa St.
Tomorrow:
Halloween Bash with Star
80, The Webstirs at 9:30 p.m.
at the Bottleneck
Embius Trio, Space Pocket at 9 p.m. at the Jazzhaus
Wags at 9 p.m. at the Brown Bear Brewing Company, 729 Massachusetts St.
Sunday:
American Pianists Association Competition Winners at 2:30 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall
Index
News ...3A
Nation ...7A
Feature ...8A
Game times ..1B
Horoscopes ..2B
Classifieds ..7B
Movie Listings ..5A
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BRINGING HELL TO EARTH
Haunted house spreads messages of fear and Jesus
Above: A volunteer inside Nightmare on 13th Street reaches out to God in a depiction of hull. Shocking scenes inside the house targeted young people and aim to spread the
By Steph Brewer Kansan features editor
Blood, guts and Jesus.
Down the street from the flashing neon signs and huge lines at The Beast and The Edge of Hell haunted houses, Pastor Dave Muolo stands outside a modest establishment, Nightmare on 13th Street. Kansas City's newest haunted house has the traditional strobe lights, dark corridors and fake smoke, but it also has a message.
"We share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with everyone who walks through the backdoor," Muolo said. "For a Christian, it's bungee jump Christianity. It's not just 'Kumbaya.'"
Nightmare on 13th Street, a nonprofit haunted house, opened its doors for the first time last night. Problems obtaining parking and building permits forced the house to keep its gates to hell closed in past weeks. This weekend the house is up and running, and spreading the gospel to anyone older than 12 years old and willing to pay the $10 entry fee.
Last night's patrons were on the young side. The throng of junior high youth group members pushed and giggled their way to the front of the line. The giggling stopped momentarily as the tour began.
"You'll like this man," Muolo said before entering the house. "It starts off, 'Hello, this is not where you want to be.'"
The scene of drugs, decay and miscarriage that greeted Nightmare patrons certainly wasn't inviting. A bloody woman screamed, "My baby! My baby!" The girl next to her was slumped in a chair, catatonic, covered with rats. The walls were scrawled with words such as "sex." "heres" and "Limp Bizkit."
Muolo said that the haunted house and his church. Revival Generation, of
Blue Springs, Mo., targeted young people. He said that he believed America was one nation under God.
"It's almost anti-God in school," he said. "They don't get to hear anything in school even though we're a Christian country. We wanted to get it out where they'd come."
Whether they will come is yet to be seen, but Muolo said that when he visited The Nightmare in Tulsa, Okla., which was a model for the Kansas City house, 3,000 young people waited outside the doors.
The house deals with real-life horrors such as drugs, drinking, violence and suicide, acted out by volunteers from seven supporting churches.
Muolo said that he didn't think any of the scenes were inappropriate for youngsters. He said that 12-year-olds
word of God's salvation. Right:One of the last scenes in the house portrayed the grisly crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Kansan staff photos
probably had seen all of these things before and if they hadn't, they should. He said he didn't agree with those who thought a church shouldn't stage a haunted house.
"OK, I'll go sing 'Kumbaya' and 'Amazing Grace' to Generation X who couldn't give a rip about Jesus," he said. mockingly.
The second room was a standard driver's education cautionary movie scene. A bloody arm hung out of a car that had crashed into a house strewn with Christmas lights.
The next room was straight out of newspaper headlines. As patrons filed into a classroom setting, two young men toting semi-automatic guns stormed around
See CHURCHES on page 2A
Fright fest
This weekend's Nebraska - Kansas game could be fittingly frightening for Halloween, if the history is any indicator.
See page 1B
Gate to jail
Sheriff officers will guard the gateway to hell at Stull Cemetery. Trespassers could be fined up to $100.
See page 5A
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