Humboldt junior Brad Witherspoon is the latest member of the men's basketball team.
Two artists write about 600 murals across the state of Kansas, including five on campus.
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New allegations
Mother: Giles owes me delinquent child support
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS AND SHAWN SHROYER
A day after being suspended from the basketball team, C.J. Giles will now face questions regarding legal problems that have nothing to do with basketball.
Giles will go to court next Monday to respond to allegations that he has failed to pay $4,097 in child support, according to the mother of his 19-month-old child. The Kansan has chosen to withhold the mother's name.
When reached Wednesday night,
she said she and Giles were still on good terms, and that she told him before she filed the lawsuit.
"I'm just asking him to take responsibility for what's his," she said.
Giles did not respond to phone calls seeking comment Wednesday night.
The mother has been raising the child by herself, but has received assistance from Giles' father.
tance from Giles father, Chester.
The court date will be next
Monday.
Coach Bill Self addressed the media after the teams practice on Tuesday and said Giles' issues were
Giles
primarily school-related, but not exclusively.
When reached by phone Wednesday afternoon, Web declined to comment beyond what he had already said. Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchiony echoed Self's statement.
"We've said all we're going to say about C.J. at this time," he said.
There is no timetable for the
return of Giles, a junior center.
Self is no stranger to losing players. Guard Nick Bahe and forwards J.R. Giddens and Alex Galindo left Kansas following the 2004-05 season. Guard Micah Downs left the program halfway through last season. Junior forward Darnell jackson was suspended for the first nine games last season for receiving illegal gifts.
With Kansas being a serious national championship contender this season, the loss of Giles seems detrimental.
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EVENTS
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Ambereen Shaffie, Leawood law student, and Nadine Appenbrink, Kansas City, Mo., KU alumna, break their day long fast for the Ramadan Fast-a-Thon. The event took donations from many local businesses and members of the muslim community to raise money for the Lawrence Community Shelter. About 450 non-Muslim people fasted to help raise close to $1,500.
Students fast for charity
The third annual Fast-a-thon raises money for community
BY BEN SMITH
Some students bowed their heads while others watched the translated words appear on the screen as Usama Al-Ghamdi, Saudi Arabia graduate student, recited the Adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, in the lyrical tones of traditional Arabic.
About 400 non-Muslim KU Students and Lawrence residents who volunteered to abstain from food, drink, tobacco and see as part of the Muslim Student Association's
Al-Ghamdi later lead members of the Lawrence Islamic community through the Maghrib, the sunset prayer, the fourth of five daily prayers to Allah.
third annual Fast-a-thon observed respectfully as the men and women removed their shoes and recited their prayers from memory. About 75 practicing Muslims participated in the praver.
The Fast-a-thon is a charitable
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PROFILE
BY ERIN CASTANEDA
Craftsman crosses boundaries Local bike maker merges three parts bicycle with two parts ingenuity
Instead, he built one using parts from two battered old bikes given to him by neighbors, then sent his sister for a test run down a hill. When she got to the bottom, the bruna failed. She flew off and gashed her
Eric Farnsworth's passion for bicycles began when he was eight and his father wouldn't buy him one.
Since that first failure, Farnsworth has succeeded in using scavenged bike parts to build irreplaceable creations that have made him known to friends and neighbors as the "mad scientist." Farnsworth spends hours in his basement welding, sawing and measuring parts. You may have seen his wooden tricycle or lawnmower bike in the city's annual
ankle on a metal sprinkler in a neighbor's vard.
Art Togeau Parade (pronounced art to-go). Perhaps you've seen his surfboard bike or shopping cart bike during a Red Balloon To Do Art Walk. He's even made a pedal-powered wheat grinder, inspired by his own wheat crop. City commissioner and former mayor Dennis "Boog" Highberger rides one of his three-wheel recumbent bikes, which provides back support with a leaning back seat lower to the ground that
also gives his legs more room to petal. Highberger said it changed his life. He couldn't ride bikes for 20 years because of a physical disability.
You may have even seen Farnsworth pedaling his own front-wheel-drive bike to work, wearing his usual white button down shirt, jeans and pink converse shoes.
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Unlike The Lebanese Hookah House, which opened its doors in early September, customers can bring in outside tobacco products for use inside the Men's Room. The Hookah House requires that all tobacco be purchased inside for use in its hookahs, which are available for customers to rent.
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Owners hope to attract bar crowd with late hours, tobacco products
BUSINESS
BY JACK WEINSTEIN
Lounge offers smoking inside
The smoking lounge is the brain-child of Joe Scaglia, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, and his father. Scaglia said he and his father hatched the plan to open the Men's Room in Overland Park but they ran into some roadblocks with the indoor smoking laws. They decided to open the business in Lawrence.
Located at 1606 W.23rd St., the former location of the Chartroose Caboose, the Men's Room will be exempt from the city-wide smoking ban because it obtained a tobacco license similar to those of retail tobacco stores. The Men's Room must make at least 51 percent of its revenue from tobacco products, which will be mostly cigars and cigarettes. The lounge will also sell tobacco for use in its rented hookahs.
The Men's Room, a cigar and tobacco lounge that allows its patrons to smoke indoors, will open its doors this afternoon at 4 p.m.
Freda Warfield, a public service administrator for the Kansas Department of Revenue, said the city of Lawrence determined whether customers could smoke indoors.
"As far as the 51 percent rule, that
is a Lawrence ordinance according to the rules they're using for the smoking ban," Warfield said.
Scaglia said his dad would come
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HEALTH
BY ANNA FALTERMEIER
Smoking hookah, a water pipe full of flavored tobacco, is a growing trend among college students, according to Christopher Loffredo, director of the Cancer Genetics and Epidemiology
Hookah smoking as bad as cigarettes
According to a study by Alan Shiladeh, professor of Mechanical Engineering at the American
On a trip to California with friends, Woods Denny saw people smoking hookah on the beach and was curious. He asked how it worked and bought one when he returned to Kansas. The Topeka senior was hooked.
KU students Bassem and Hazem Chahine smoke watermelon hookah at the Lebanese Hookah House, 730 Massachusetts St., Tuesday evening. A researcher from Georgetown University recently warned college students that Hookah is probably just as bad for your lungs as smoking a regular cigarette.
While it may appear different from smoking cigarettes, it can be just as harmful. There's little up-to-date research on hookah, but Loffredo said in a press release that the habit was similar to smoking cigarettes.
program at Georgetown University Medical Center.
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