THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KU
NOVEMBER 21.1995
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KUfans cheer across U.S.
'Rock Chalk Jayhawk' resonates from coast to coast during basketball season
KU-friendly places to watch the Jayhawks:
Denver — Jackson's Hole East and Jackson's Hole West
Chicago — Kincaid's and The Alumni Club
Source: Jayhawk Basketball TV Guide
Overland Park — Johnny's Tavern
St. Louis --- Ozzie's Restaurant
Minneapolis — America's Original Sports Bar
Tulsa, Okla. — John Stark's Homecourt Sports Cafe.
Omaha, Neb. — The Scorecard
By Joann Birk
Kansan staff writer
University of Kansas students who are leaving Lawrence for the holidays do not have to miss out on watching KU basketball with other loyal Jayhawk fans.
There are Jayhawk fans all over the United States.
But the Kansas Alumni Association makes it even easier to locate Jayhawks who may not be donning crimson and blue. The association has created the Jayhawk Basketball TV Guide for fans who are searching for "KU-friendly watering holes."
It is not only a guide to what television stations will be airing the KU games, but also a guide as to which bars will be filled with KU fans. The listings include bars and restaurants in 57 cities from New York City's Boomers, to Honolulu's Player's Sports and Entertainment Club.
And participants, who are brought together by a common love for Jayhawk basketball, say it is a huge success.
At Seattle's Uncle Mo's Watering Hole, 174 KU graduate Tim Dibble joins anywhere from five to 65 Jayhawks for every game. Even when he is traveling outside of Seattle, he uses his Jayhawk TV Guide to find KU fans in other cities.
The strong connection that participants feel toward KU and Jayhawk basketball created instant camaraderie. he said.
"KU people are very loyal and tend to get along very well." he said.
Kirk Cerny, director of the KU Alumni Association, said he hoped that students who were home for the holidays would join KU alumni in cheering the Jayhawks at a designated bar or restaurant in their city. He said that alumni throughout the county have been gathering for years to watch the games, but the basketball guide formalized the meetings.
The guide also made the information more readily available for anyone looking for other KU fans with whom to cheer. He said some alumni advertised in their local newspapers to notify other alumni about future games, but most people had heard about the gatherings from the guide or through word of mouth.
Colleen Lawer, a 1991 KU alumna who watches Jayhawk basketball at Kincaid's in Chicago, said that KU game days always had a huge turnout of KU fans. She said that she hoped some of the many KU students from Chicago would join other alumni at Kincaid's during the holidays.
Mike Biggers, 1991 KU graduate, said that KU students from Denver already had caught on to the excitement of the alumni gatherings. He said that many KU students had appeared for games around the holidays in past years.
"We usually use a bunch of people, and typically we get together for every game." he said.
In Los Angeles, the third largest KU alumni chapter in the United States, almost 200 KU fans show up for some games, said Dean Brush, who watches the Jayhawk games at Legend's in Los Angeles. Brush, a 1987 KU graduate, said that the large sports bar often was taken over by KU fans.
During last year's basketball game against Missouri, almost 400 alumni from both schools gathered at Legend's, and the bar decorated especially for the two rival schools.
Brush said that the decorations,coupled with 400 loyal fans wearing their rival colors,was almost as exciting as being at the game.
"We pretty much dominate a really large sports bar," he said. "It is always a really a great time."
LEAD STORY
In September in Newport, R.I., burglary suspect Jamie Johnson, 24, while fleeing police, scaled an iron picket fence, struggled with cops at the top, then fell off and ran briefly before being arrested. At the police station, cops noticed Johnson was bleeding at the crotch. According to the Associated Press, police "returned to the [scene] and retrieved Johnson's testicles, which were still impaled on the fence." They said Johnson had never mentioned that he was in pain.
Rick Quessenberry of Springfield, Mo., was named as one of the six people on America's World Championship of Hairstyling team scheduled to compete next summer in Washington, D.C. (In all, 200,000 hairstylists will attend the Hair World convention.) The teams compete in categories such as "business hair," "nighttime social hair," "progressive hair" and a technical hairstyling event. The
COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE TRUE
A Reuters News Service dispatch from the Netherlands in July quoted Rotterdam police as lauding a new crime-detection technique. A police representative said criminals sometimes left their earprints on windows and doors. "Earprinting," he said, "is going to become almost as common as fingerprinting soon."
hairdressers march in an Olympics-style opening ceremony, and after each event, the winner's flag is raised and his or her national anthem played.
In June in a 40-minute operation, Russian army surgeons removed a live, rifle-launched grenade from the jaw of a soldier injured in the Chechnyan fighting.
A list of most-popular nursing home and retirement home songs (published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch), according to St. Louis disk jockey Michael Laurance, who entertains at about 80 such places in the area, included "YMCA" (the Village People), "Paradise by the Dashboard Light!" (Meat Loaf) and "1999" (Prince).
In April, the 1,000-ton riverboat, Showbear Branson Belle, which was built on the shore of landlocked Table Rock Lake near Branson, Mo., was launched on 160-foot-long rails connecting the construction site with the lake. To lubricate the rails without using environmentally
unfriendly industrial grease, the shipbuilders used 40 crates' worth of unneeded bananas.
CHUTZPAH
During June and July, West Liberty, Ky., prison inmate Lou Torok, serving time for child-molesting, managed to persuade the governors of six states to proclaim Oct. 7 as "Love Day."
In August, Alvin Waff, apparently confusing the brake and gas pedals, drove his car through the front window of the Hanger Restaurant and Lounge in Hampton, Va., sped across the floor, and smashed against the bar, doing about $5,000 in damage. A Hanger employee
John Bennett Jr., the president of a Pennsylvania charitable foundation, was accused earlier this year by the Securities and Exchange Commission of converting about $4 million in foundation money to his own use. Furthermore in May, the foundation filed for bankruptcy protection in Philadelphia. Shortly afterward, Bennett complained about the judge's decision to limit him to $5,000 monthly for living expenses — from foundation funds — during the proceeding, claiming that he needed about twice that amount.
said Waff then got out of the car and calmly asked for a beer. He was later arrested and charged with reckless driving.
Several days after the Oklahoma City bombing in April, Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi predicted that "thousands of militias" soon would wage revolution in America and urged President and Mrs. Clinton to seek political asylum in Libya, "the only safe country in the world."