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FRIDAY
What's going on?
february 25
- "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" will show as a part of the Campus Movies Series. It will start at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union, level five. Tickets are free with a Student Saver Card, $2 with a valid KUID and $3 for the general public.
SATURDAY
february 26
KU Theatre for Young People will present H.G. Wells" "The Time Machine" at 10:30 a.m. in William Inge Memorial Theatre at Murphy Hall. Tickets are $10 for the public, $9 for senior citizens and KU faculty and staff and $5 for KU students.
For more events, see calendar.ku.edu
SUNDAY
February 27
Dr. Berghout will perform on World War II Memorial Campanile's 53 bronze bells from 5 to 5:30 p.m. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be canceled.
TUESDAY
MONDAY February 28
March 1
Geographer Lee Schwartz will discuss the importance of geography in the formulation of foreign policy at 7:30 p.m. at the Dole Institute of Politics.
WEDNESDAY
The Hall Center for the Humanities will host a workshop to discuss ethical, philisophical and social implications of youth in media. The workshop will be held at 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the Hall Center.
March 2
Stacy Nadeau, an original Dove Evolution model, will talk about true beauty and how it is not dependent upon skin color or size. Nadeau will speak at 7 p.m. in the Woodruff Auditorium on level five of the Kansas Union.
March 3
Author Alan Glines will speak about his recent memoir "A Kansan Conquers the Cosmos: or, Spaced Out All My Life" at 1 p.m. at the Jayhawk Ink, level two in the Kansas Union.
THURSDAY
Bikers put a twist on traditional polo
2008 KU alumnus organized bike polo as an alternative to unsanctioned races
Malakai Edison, a 2008 KU alumnus, Billy Prince, a 2003 KU alumnus, and Harold Fatzer, a Lawrence resident, practice shooting for bike polo Tuesday evening. The three are members of Scary Larry Bike Polo in Lawrence.
BY GARRETT GRIFFIN
editor@kansan.com
Bike polo is a growing sports trend bringing polo to the streets. The sport involves two teams of three players on a hard court. Like traditional polo, the point is to whack the ball into the opposing team's goal using mallets. But instead of horses, the players are on bicycles.
Malakai Edison, a 2008 KU alumnus, recently became a board member of the North American Bike Polo Association, a nonprofit organization that is trying to spread the popularity of bike polo.
"I was one of the voices of Lawrence Critical Mass, so I started seeing a lot of people with bikes on Facebook." Edison said. "I probably have 150 or 200 friends on Facebook just because our profile pictures were bicycles."
In 2009, Edison began hyping the bike polo scene in Lawrence as an alternative to "unsanctioned" races and events such as alley cat races, which are bicycle races from one point in the city to another. Typically, alley cat races involve traffic violations such as running stop lights, which has led to encounters with Lawrence police. Thus, Edison organized bike polo as a sanctioned bike sport. He eventually helped create the Scary Larry polo team.
Edison began to organize
bike polo practices and skirmishes through Facebook, flyers and Critical Mass, a nationwide monthly event in which a large group of people bike through the streets of various cities in support
excited to just swing at the ball."
Because the space was leased, the landlord still owns the storefront, said Jeannine Koranda, from the Kansas Department of Revenue.
Scary Larry entered the 2009 Midwest Bike Polo Championship in Columbia, Mo., after just a few weeks of practice.
"We obviously would like to reopen for March Madness, but that would be a stretch," Webb said.
"We thought we were prepared.
of alternative transportation. At the beginning, the Scary Larry team used make-shift equipment such as ski poles in their games.
The assets seized by the state have not been auctioned off yet. United Country, an auction company out of Salina, has not set a date for the auction. The proceeds from that auction will go back to the state in order to pay off the $46,847.75 in taxes Jefferson's owed.
"We played with one of those stress smiley-face balls, and it was awful. But everyone loved it."
even have a ball." Edison said. "We played with one of those stress smiley face balls, and it was awful. But everyone loved it. Everyone was
MALAKAI EDISON
2008 KU alumnu
"We didn't even have
Jefferson's to reopen under new owners
but then we went and watched a couple of games and realized that we had never seen bike polo before," Edison said. "People were hitting the ball so hard, and people were covered in pads. We had neve
Webb couldn't say who the new owner would be or if the staff and management would stay the same, but he said the restaurant aims to reopen within the next month.
LAWRENCE
After more than two weeks in the dark, Jefferson's is looking to reopen under new ownership, said Jeff Webb, owner of the franchise.
even worn helmets before."
One of the Scary Larry teams even received the DFL, or "Dead Fucking Last," award. Edison said
this award was, surprisingly, a good thing.
These days, Scary Larry holds practices three days a week at Edgewood Park, which is at the intersection of Maple Lane and Miller Drive. The group has rented out a basketball court to keep from being kicked out of public spaces.
good thing.
"It's actually a celebrated award," Edison sid. "Usually, it means that it's a new team that is trying really hard. It's a big deal."
spaces.
Scary Larry meets at Edgewood Park every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday from 7 to 11 p.m.
Newcomers are welcome to play.
Edited by Helen Mubarak and Brittany Nelson
— Laura Sather
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