Editor's Note
I was one of the girls who turned 18 and went to the tattoo shop for a lower-back tattoo. Generic rebellion, I know. It was a Saturday afternoon and I
was lying face down on a table in a Manhattan tattoo parlor in a, shall we say, compromising position, with two of my friends cheering me on from the side. Several minutes into it, two students from my high school walked in and spotted me. They were in town for some type of choir festival. A few minutes later, three more classmates found their way into the parlor. This would have been bad enough, but then the choir teacher came in to tell the students they were getting ready to leave and saw me and my crack. Did I mention the choir teacher was also my principal's wife?
Tattoos have been a rite of passage in some form or another for thousands of years. You have the girls and guys who just get one to show their independence and piss off their parents, and the heavily tattooed who seem to form a sort of subculture. Leigh Ann Foskey looks into the history and the art in "Inked" on page 12.
Misty Huber, editor
The saying goes that once you get one tattoo, you'll never stop. Well, I've stopped, but I don't regret getting the one I have. And though it probably never made me "cool," I can be sure I was the talk of faculty lounge for at least a couple of days.
Contact editor at:
mhuber@kansan.com
Inside
3 Weekly choice
4 Bite A can-do attitude for cooking
6 Manual Grad invitations that are sure to get you a lot of money
8 Contact Keeping co-ed quarters
10 Bitch + Moan Inherited cheating and lopsided libidos
12 Feature Letting someone jab you with needles never looked so good
15 Venue Hanging backstage with the band
17 Movies, Music, Games The Interpreter, Thai Beat a Go-Go & Musashi
18 Speak A not-so-dry run
The Jayplayers//
EDITOR AKA QUEEN BEE
Misty Huber
ASSOCIATE EDITOR HATES TAGLINES
Liz Beggs
CLERK GETS AROUND TOWN Meredith Desmond
DESIGNERS MAKE PRETTY PAGES
Emily Homer
Joshua Kendall
**BITE** AWAIT THE MUNCHES
Britta Florman
Maha Masud
Anja Wilkka
CONTACT WILL HELP YOU WITH YOUR PROBLEMS
Ashley Doyle
Samara Nazir
Erin Shipps
MANUAL IS ACTIVELY USEFUL
Donovan Atkinson
Leigh Ann Foskey
Lynn Hamilton
NOTICE TAKES NOTE OF IT
Robert Perkins
Paige Worthy
VENUE HAS THE BOOZE AND THE BEAT
Chris Brown
Mandy Hendrix
Ashley Michaels
COPY EDITOR THE BRUNETTE BOMBSHELL
Jennifer Voldness
CREATIVE CONSULTANT KNOWVS A LOT
Carol Holstead
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