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The Kansas football team ends its regular season Saturday against Missouri in Columbia 6B A transgender person spoke to KU students Monday about sexuality, identity and her personal experiences 4A
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2006
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VOL. 117 ISSUE 67
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
PAGE 1A
BUSINESS
Downtown store calls it quits
Fields Gallery closes after four decades, several makeovers
BY JACK WEINSTEIN
When owner Kim Kern and manager Sheila Wilkins were cleaning out Fields Gallery they found black light posters, "Keep on Truckin" stickers and Christmas ornaments. Those were reminders of how the store had evolved since it opened as Strawberry Fields in 1968. Now it is closing after 38 years of business in Lawrence.
At 712 Massachusetts St., Strawberry Fields began as a headshop, selling incense, Eastern-style fabrics with intricate patterns, blue jeans, posters and records, among other things. The store had a barbershop in the back and a bar next door. People lived in the apartments above it.
Wilkins said Kern's store had gone through several changes, from the headshop into a Pottery Barn-style store, a framing store, a poster store and then a gallery.
"He's a creative person," Wilkins said of Kern. "The store's been a vehicle for expressing that. He's continually reinvented himself over the years and made this place interesting. I think it will be a loss for Lawrence."
SEE FIELDS ON PAGE SA
Photo right by Joed Gale/KANSAN
Fields Gallery, 712
Massachusetts St. has
closed after 38 years and
many changes to its mode
of business. Lawrence
photographer Deb Slavin
described the gallery's
closing as a loss for
Lawrence.
Contributed by Shella Fields
CRIME
Bar altercation involves Kansas baseball player
Pitcher ordered to appear in court
BY DAVID LINHARDT
A bouncer, a current KU baseball player and a former KU baseball player will be sent to court after a late-night fight at a Lawrence bar.
Sophomore pitcher Andy Marks and former pitcher Sean Land were cited for battery after an altercation at The Cadillac Ranch, 2515 W. 6th St., and ordered to appear in Lawrence Municipal Court. The bouncer involved in the incident was
cited but not identified by police.
The incident occurred Saturday morning when bouncers asked Marks and a friend to leave the bar after an argument, Kim Murphree, Lawrence police spokeswoman, said.
Police responded to calls about 12:38 a.m. and found two men and a bar employee in an alteration in the parking lot, Murphree said. No injuries were reported.
Zach Owen, a bouncer at The Ranch, said management told staff who worked that night not to talk about the fight to the media.
"These guys got out of hand and things got bad pretty quick," he said.
rks could not be
Marks
He said Marks continued arguing and one of them tackled Marks.
Marks could not be immediately reached for comment Monday.
Land said that as Marks and his friend were leaving, bouncers were "putting their hands all over" them.
Land said he tried pull the bouncers off Marks when four other men grabbed him and pinned him to the wall. An off-duty bouncer then punched Land in the face, he said.
"There was definitely excessive force here," Land said.
Management at The Ranch declined comment on the incident.
Land said the manager told him to leave unless he wanted to be arrested
Land said he wanted to stay until police came to press charges against the bouncers.
for battery. He said he and Marks left the building and a Ranch bouncer followed them out to keep Marks from leaving before police arrived.
"I was just trying to break it off," he said. "I didn't punch anybody."
Associate athletics director Jim Marchiony said he hadn't heard
about the incident, but that he would look into it.
Baseball coach Ritch Price was unavailable for comment Monday.
Andrew Fennelly, an on-duty bouncer that night, didn't return calls for comment.
Kansan staff writer David Linhardt can be contacted at dlinhardt@ kansan.com.
— Edited by Nicole Kelley
ACCIDENT
BY MARK VIERTHALER
Police have identified the Kansas State fan killed in an accident Saturday as Shawnee resident John Green and confirmed Chris Orr as the man who was critically injured. The occurred about 11:30 a.m. Saturday near the intersection of 15th and Iowa streets.
The two men were riding on the Power Cat Bus," also known as the "Cat Tracker Bus." According to a report released by the police on Monday, the bus was traveling north on Iowa with eight passengers outside on the upper level of the bus. As the bus passed under the Irving Hill Street overpass, the two men struck their heads along the underside of the bridge.
Monday afternoon police named Wamego resident Brent Simonson as the driver of the bus at the time
of the accident. Robert Pottroff was named as the owner of the bus, which had no official affiliation with Kansas State University.
Sgt. Paul Fellers of the Lawrence Police Department said the events leading up to the accident were still being investigated.
Orr, a former sports reporter for The Salina Journal, is still listed in critical condition at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Both lanes of traffic on North bound Iowa Street were closed as police conducted interviews with other riders of the bus to determine the exact cause of the accident.
Kansan staff writer Mark Vierthaler can be contacted at mvierthaler@kansan.com.
His family declined comment.
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Megan Murphy, Overland Park senior, hugs her cousin, Beth Benedict, Lenae sophomore, after leaming Monday night that the Delta Delta Delta sorority and Delta Chi fraternity team was not selected to perform in the event. "We put everything we had into it," said Murphy.
GREEK LIFE
Board announces Revue performers
"It's been a very emotional evening," said Erin Gregory, Leawood junior and Rock Chalk promotions assistant. "There's happy tears and there's sad tears tonight." Gregory is a member of Alpha Gamma Delta
BY MATT ELDER
The Rock Chalk Revue advisory board announced the five groups of fraternities and sororites that would be performing in the annual variety show this March.
Some of the students — and members of the KU greek community — couldn't contain their excitement. Others fought back tears.
2007 Rock Chalk Revue Shows
Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
> "Till Dance Do Us Part" - Kappa
Kappa Gamma & Beta Theta Pi
> "Phantom of the Library" - Alpha Gamma Delta & Theta Chi
> "Set In Stone" - Gamma Phi Beta & Delta Upsilon
- "Little From on the Prairie"
- Delta Gamma & Sigma Phi Epsilon
The five groups were selected from 20 greek originations and a University scholarship hall, all of which have been developing their shows since the beginning of the semester. The University's Rock Chalk Revue show is one of the largest student-run philanthropies in the United States.
> "Love Spell!" - Pi Beta Phi & Phi
Kappa Psi
soriority which, together with Theta Chi fraternity, was selected to perform in the revue.
The advisory board chose "Hawk Wild" for this year's theme, but left interpretation open to participants to encourage creativity. The board consists of 23 students and three University faculty members.
Source: Rock Chalk Revue Advisory Board
Jamie Lamb, Rock Chalk executive director, said this year's event would showcase the stone age, ballroom dancing, phantoms and desert island themes.
All of the applicants submitted programs to the advisory board this past weekend after three months of preparation. Twelve judges were brought in to make the show's final selections, which included an interview and skit samples, at Liberty Hall on Monday night.
"Being at Liberty Hall and utilizing the stage for the presentation makes everyone feel like they are part of a big deal and something special," said Gregory.
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when Roy Wonder, a University business student decided the University needed a campus-wide variety show.
The event's proceeds are donated to the United Way. In the past, between $30,000 and $50,000 has been raised. The show has been a tradition at the University since 1949
All members of the fraternities and sororites were required to volunteer at least one hour to charity work for their chapters to be represented in Rock Chalk Revue. Beginning next semester, the five acts will begin practicing for the event seven days a week. Participants will be expected
to volunteer one hour each weekday, and an hour-and-a-half each Saturday and Sunday. Performances begin at 7 p.m. March 8 at the Lied Center.
Kansan staff writer Matt Elder can be contacted at melder@kansan. com.
Edited by Dianne Smith