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Think Before You Drink
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Kony 2012
The Kony 2012 Project reaches out to people all over the world.
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competitive yoga
Yoga isn't just all relaxation and peaceful. Competitive yoga is a sport that many take very seriously.
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who really lives in lawrence? Explaining the stereotypes from and about the people of Lawrence
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The Kony Effect
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Invisible Children attacks Joseph Kony on the web
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Several months ago, Joseph Kony would have been less than a household name. Now, he’s all anyone’s talking about. Kony 2012 is a protest created by the charity Invisible Children to make Joseph Kony “famous” and arrest him for his crimes in Uganda. Kony has been the leader of the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) terrorist group since 1987. Supposedly, when his army was running out of soldiers, he abducted boys to fight for him and girls to become wives for his officers. Over all, he has abducted over 30,000 children. The LRA are encouraged to rape, injure and murder civilians. Now, Kony’s army has migrated more into the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Central African Republic. The Kony 2012 video on YouTube has gotten over 75 millions views, and that number is growing.
The video starts of with the introduction of a man named Jason Russell, one of the founders of Invisible Children. Russell shows us a boy named Jacob who was one of the children abducted to be in Kony’s army. Jacob tells us about how his brother tried to escape Kony’s army, but was caught and killed in front of him. When being asked what he would say to his brother if he were still alive, Jacob starts to tear up. Then Jason makes promises they are going to do everything they can to stop Kony. Invisible children is trying to bring attention to the atrocities that happen to the kids in Africa are invisible to the rest of the world. They explain that if any of this happened in the United States, it would be on the news everywhere, however it’s just everyday life for the kids in Africa, hiding and trying to avoid the rebels as much as possible.
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10. Pretend to faint. Upon awakening, feign short term memory loss. 9. Say you can't hear anything because of your raging ear infection. 8. Ask him or her to wait just a second while you call your mother for permission. 7. Sprain your ankle. Looks like there’ll be no dancing for you. 6. Say your parents forbid you to dance within two feet of another human being. 5. Tell him or her that going to Prom would ruin your image and offer up another venue, like the cemetery. 4. Ask if it’s okay for you to wear your Halloween costume instead of a dress or a tux. (You were Chewbacca.) 3. Say you entered a blood pact to stay single through Prom. If you want to read more about Kony 2012, then go to 2. Temporarily adopt another sexual orientation. FSHS newspaper 2012: use in April 12, May 3, and May 22 issues fsfreepressonline.com and search for "The Kony Effect." 1. Turn and run. Apologize later (“later” meaning June).
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Student gets National recognition for her talent in yoga kimberly messineo
Crescent lunge, bird of paradise, flying crow, reverse warrior. These phrases that may sound strange to some people, are familiar phrases to others. While students attend Yoga Club just for fun on Wednesday afternoons, there are other students who compete in competitions for yoga. Katherine Marshall-Kramer has been doing yoga for the past five years. “It’s a workout, so it’s good for you physically,” Marshall-Kramer said. “It makes you more disciplined.” At the beginning of March, Marshall-Kramer had the opportunity to go to the National Competition
for yoga after placing at her regional competition. Each person is graded based on their form and how they present themselves. “You have a routine of poses,” Marshall-Kramer said. “They judge you the way they would judge gymnastics.” When each person is judged, there are six different
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yoga poses, or Asanas, that are judged. Four of those are done by every person, and the other two are up to the person to choose from. Every posture is judged on a scale of 1-10. The maximum number of points possible during a competition is 70: up to ten points for each of the six poses, and a possible ten points for how each person presents themselves to the judges. Marshall-Kramer placed first at the National Competition, so she will be headed to the International Competition in June.
Katherine demonstrated a few yoga positions including the dancer (left) the splits (above) and the backbend (right). Photos submitted by Katherine Marshall-Kramer
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Lawrence, Kansas doesn’t have a beach. It doesn’t have a mall. It doesn’t even have the world’s largest ball of twine. But it does have liquor stores. “There are levels to drinking,” senior Jon Fitzgerald said. “People start initially because they’re bored and it’s a very social activity. People want the experience of getting drunk.” “I have never drank before, so I don’t really know what the feeling is like to be drunk,” senior Ruthie Ozonoff said. “But, I think people like the feeling of being drunk, and ... do it socially … like it’s just kinda what everyone does or their friends do, so they want to be part of the crowd.” The drinking cycle is fostered by boredom as much as it is curiosity, and many students have tried the substance at least once. “I have heard of a lot of people who do it,” Ozonoff said. “It’s kind of surprising sometimes because I’ll be talking to a group of friends and they’ll talk about who got drunk this weekend and I’ll be like, ‘Whoa I never knew she drank.’ Usually I’m really surprised at the people who do drink, so I think lots of kids experiment.” “I think having your own opinion [about drinking] is a good way to go about it,” junior Emma Norwood said. “I don’t drink because I’ve been involved in a lot of sports and so my coaches have really influenced me not to drink,” Ozonoff said. “I know that if I did drink excessively, ... I’m not going to do as well as I would in my sports because my body would be trying to process that alcohol.” Gradually, teenage drinking became so widespread that high school students are expected to drink. “Just talking to your friends about it [creates a pressure],” an anonymous student said. “[Drinking] could influence your future … [especially] if you get caught.” “There’s a standard. High school students go to football games. High school students go to house parties and get drunk,” Fitzgerald said.
GETTING ALCOHOL
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Alcohol was a looming, forbidden evil. Until high school, that is. We are presented with a dilemma. We could satisfy our burning curiosity and try the substance that’s been stigmatized since the second grade. Or, we could resist the pull and adhere to the words spoken by parents everywhere: “Don’t drink.”
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The Aftershock of a Sticker
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In Kansas, buying alcohol for underage drinkers can carry a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail. In other words, according to stickers now decorating beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages around Lawrence, “Think. If you buy them booze, you can lose.” In March, Draw the Line Lawrence, formerly the New Tradition Coalition, sought to sway enablers of teen drinking to obey the law -- which prohibits providing alcohol to anyone under 21 years of age -- by sticking this warning to alcohol across the city. Anyone who has shopped at one of the 20 participating local stores in the last few weeks may have noticed the fire truck-red stickers adhered to the sides of 12-packs and other liquor. The program, known as Sticker Shock, is designed “to bring awareness to the issue of underage drinking, often associated with prom and graduation season,” according to DCCCA, Inc. of Lawrence. “If people would really just think about it,” said junior Rachel Longren, who designed the sticker, “think about the consequences, think about where it could get them, it might have them weigh the consequences.” In addition to creating the sticker, Longren joined 57 other youth volunteers at the Lawrence DCCCA building on the morning of Saturday, March 3 to slap 4,000 of the red circles
Despite the stringent laws regarding minors purchasing alcohol, it proves relatively easy to by katie guyot obtain. “You know someone who knows WHAT someone who’s old enough to get IT FEELS alcohol,” Fitzgerald said. “People LIKE TO BE who are of age sometimes chargeDRUNK -especially if they’re buying for junior “Basically you feel dizzy,” an anonymous high kids.” student said. “You can have clear thoughts most of the [Sometimes they] take it from their time, but it’s just really hard to express those thoughts.” parents … and hope that they don’t count Then the blame falls on the alcohol. what’s missing,” Ozonoff said. “Usually they People get drunk and use it as an excuse to be more [also] hang out with older people who are reckless. They blame it on being drunk. in their twenties who can get it for them “I had to take care of one of my friends easier.” overnight while she was drunk,” an “Older siblings or friends,” Norwood said. anonymous student said. “I woke up Students’ choices of alcohol range from and she had thrown up all over me, beer all the way to hard liquor. thrown up all over my clothes that I “There’s always beer, but whiskey and had on the bed and I had to put her rum are very popular too,” an in the bathtub for a while. It was … anonymous student said. bad. I felt really alone and really “It’s [mostly] used. I felt like … she didn’t anything they even care that she was at can get their my house [and that] I was hands on … is more developed and more going to have to explain to [like] vodka,” mature you’re ... going to have more my parents … and her an anonymous respect for your body and more parents." student said. restraint. You’re not just going to The current drinking “They usually drink and drink and drink until age (21) is nevertheless mix it you’re completely hammered and up for debate amongst with like feel disgusting. You’re going to students. soda or respect your body.” “I think [the current something Others disagree. drinking age] is good “Honestly, we can fight and in a cup so because scientifically your vote at age 18,” said senior their parents brain isn’t done growing Scott Richardson. “We can don’t know until you are in your give ourselves lung cancer, so that they’re twenties,” Ozonoff said. “I why not liver cancer too?” drinking it.” think that if your brain
to the inventories of liquor, grocery and convenience stores. These Free State and Lawrence High students split up into groups led by volunteers from the Lawrence Police Department and the Kansas Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control. “It is important to remember that we all have a social responsibility to do the right thing,” Lawrence Police Chief Tarik Khatib said in a statement. “Providing alcohol to minors or allowing them a place to drink under your control is not only illegal; it sends the message that breaking the law is acceptable. Both may lead to tragic consequences.” According to Jen Jordan, Director of Prevention at DCCCA, a 2010 Communities that Care survey found that 44 percent of LHS seniors admitted to drinking alcohol in the month preceding the survey, and 30 percent of those seniors claimed to have obtained that alcohol from someone over 21 years of age. Free State teacher Peggy Nelson believes violation of the law is a serious issue in Lawrence, especially when it comes to adults hosting parties for underage drinkers. “It doesn’t matter if it’s many times or one time,” she said. “It could be any one of those times that someone gets hurt, or gets sick.” Nelson started Sticker Shock
with Free State students two years ago. The group communicated with other cities that have initiated similar programs before contacting Lawrence retailers for permission to sticker their stocks. Though not all of the businesses contacted agreed to participate, Longren, who visited two of the 20, described the stores as “really welcoming.” “They even showed us some of the people they had caught, you know, buying for minors,” she said. “They showed us one from the newspaper who was a well-known person, which was kind of ironic and funny.” Nelson estimates the message reached 2,000 to 3,000 consumers. “I’ve talked to parents who have said if they were ever going to [buy alcohol for minors], the stickers would have made them think twice,” Nelson said. However, because the program occurs only once per year, much of the marked stock “is gone the next weekend,” she added. For this reason, program coordinators try to schedule the event around times of heavy drinking. Last year, volunteers decked the aisles for graduation, and this year Sticker Shock hit the big leagues: March Madness, St. Patrick’s Day and spring break. According to Nelson, the stickers will next target prom of 2013.
MEDIA INFLUENCES AND PEER PRESSURE
So teenagers are drinking. Perhaps a temporary escape is not the only reason why. “I’ve been peer pressured before,” an anonymous student said. “People are like, ‘Come on, drink.You’re such a sissy.You’re such a prude. Come on. We won’t get caught.’ I just can’t do it.” The media tends to treat drinking with levity. “TV shows show drinking on a regular basis,” Richardson said. “It’s a bandwagon type deal. Every body’s doing it.” “Tons of movies show people drinking, partying and how fun it is,” Ozonoff said. “But they don’t really show afterwards. … When they do, it’s usually funny like we’re laughing at the person who has the hangover, but you know, it probably really sucks.”
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East Side Story
Lawrence: as different as you think
by sam boatright
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ecently, I saw the incredible, aesthetic performance of Trevor Powers’ indie project Youth Lagoon at the Jackpot downtown. “This is our first time in Kansas,” Trevor Powers said into the microphone, his words quickly muffled by an eruption of cheers from the audience in the packed venue. Later, Powers’ quote struck a reverberating chord in my head: he chose Lawrence above any other city in Kansas. Some readers may be thinking, “Well, duh, he chose Lawrence! Where else would he go, Manhattan?” And your sentiments are strongly justifiable; Lawrence is a vibrant college town, nationally known among musicians for wholly supporting the arts. Manhattan has relatively little to offer in terms of musical entertainment and nightlife, unless you’re an avid country music fan, but we’ll get to that later. I came to the conclusion that Youth Lagoon decided to tour through Lawrence because it is a college town full of young college students and is also the cultural Mecca of Kansas, a shining oasis teeming with exuberant arts in a barren desert comprising mostly agriculturally affluent roadside stops. Yes, you heard correctly: Lawrence is the best part of Kansas. Not to say that there is anything wrong with the rest of Kansas, it’s just
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that, in my opinion, Lawrence is what keeps Kansas from being another “square” state. And what convinces musicians to stop in Kansas in the first place. To the contrary, Manhattan validates the stereotype most outof-staters believe to be true about Kansans: that they have something to do with farming, are staunch conservatives who elected Sam Brownback (Manhattan’s home county of Riley elected Brownback with a 59.3 percent majority) and love anything country related (Manhattan is hosting the 17th annual Country Stampede this year, a fourday country music festival). Lawrencians, including myself, will often stereotype the rest of Kansas as comprising nothing but farms and flatlands. (The Flint Hills aren’t even that hilly). However, this label has appeared to make Lawrencians elitist in the eyes of Kansans who reside in other towns. The reason Lawrencians may indeed prize their values and differences so highly is that we are almost completely independent from the rest of Kansas in terms of politics and culture. But the polarity between Lawrence and the rest of our more traditional graham-cracker-shaped state should not create antagonism. Although some Lawrencians may view the rest of Kansas as their kyrptonite, without the quaint, conservative small towns way out west, Lawrence may not be what it is: unique, independent and, at times, peculiar.
Yes, you heard correctly: Lawrence is the best part of Kansas.
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ll Western Kansas is, is a whole bunch of old war veterans sitting on their porches being racist and yelling about how things were ‘back in their day.’ And, I mean, everything west of Topeka really is Western Kansas.” There are only a few things that get under my skin to the degree where I can consider myself angry. Blatant ignorance is one of them. Unfortunately, I had to hear this example in one of my classes last school year. While I realize this is an extreme view that, hopefully, not many would claim as their own, it does highlight an underlying attitude held by a large part of the population here in Lawrence. The Lawrence community prides itself on its differences: it’s a part of only three blue Kansas counties and boasts an alternative music scene, oodles of “Honk for Hemp” signs and a large population of Birkenstockwearing nomads. All of these things would be hard to find in any other part of the state. Now, let me be clear when I say there is nothing wrong with being a Democrat, liking little-known music or dressing in a way that may be considered “hipster” or “hippie.” There is, however, a problem with the elitist attitude that often accompanies this behavior.
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As a future Kansas State University student, I get a little tired of people making snide comments about “majoring in farming.” One, K-State has literally dozens of other majors to offer. Two, and really more importantly, when exactly did agriculture become something that was so looked down upon? It takes an enormous amount of effort to run a farm--an effort without which most people would not be enjoying the food they consumed today. Like it or not, our country was built on the hard work people in “Western” Kansas do every day. Another falsehood often taken as fact is that everything west of Topeka is “Western Kansas.” This is really just simple geography, here. Pull out your map of Kansas. Go on, do it. The halfway point is going to appear to be around Russell: approximately 179 miles west of Topeka on I-70. It’s important to state here that Lawrence’s unique character as a town is something my fellow Lawrencians should pride themselves on. Lawrence is a great town full of great people with great ideas. My warning is to make sure the rest of the state isn’t isolated or looked down upon because it has a more traditional Midwestern culture. It’s the golden rule: treat others how you would want to be treated. And, in this case, accept others’ differences as you would like yours to be accepted.
Like it or not, our country was built on the hard work people in “Western” Kansas do every day.
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“I think [there is]. I think the rest of Kansas is a lot more conservative and Republican and Lawrence is more, politically at least, democratic and liberal so I think we are more modern, I guess, and not as ‘hicktown.’”
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“Lawrence... stands out throughout the state as being a lot different... [the difference] is [somewhat] political... and people in Lawrence are more openminded to things that are happening around here.”
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This is very weird, I know. When I first heard the term “ear candling” I had a mental picture even weirder. I imagined the scene in “Shrek” when he makes the wax inside his ear into a candle. Surprisingly, that is not the case. Candling is basically the process of sticking a wax tube in your ear in an attempt to remove some of the excess junk in there. I became interested in candling as a possible cure for the earaches I was having. My ear healed itself naturally, but the candles were soothing nonetheless. The concept behind candling is rather genius, and I’m actually surprised it isn’t more popular. People pour water in their noses with Neti pots, so why wouldn’t they try this? By lighting the top of the “candle” on fire, it warms the inside of the ear and creates a vacuum inside the tube. For those who are interested, the Merc sells locally made ear candles for $3 apiece. In preparation for the candling session, my mom and I wrapped tin foil around the candles, in order to
make sure that the wax wouldn’t melt my face off. Once that was done, the actual candling process lasted around 5-10 minutes per ear. If I hadn’t convinced myself that candling was legitimate before I tried it, the instructions that came with the candles would not have helped. On the package, they say that once the candle is lit “you will be able to hear a sound similar to the ocean.” The only thing I heard when the candle was in my ear was burning. Although the gunk inside my ear was not released immediately, there was an instantaneous feeling of relief. After the first candle, I could notice a difference in feeling between my two ears, as if one were looser than the other. I also have Tinnitus, and the candle helped ease the ringing in my ear. Once I was able to get past having a four-inch flame so close to my head, and my mom singing “Happy Birthday” (because of the candle in my ear), the experience was actually rather soothing. The only disappointment I had with candling was that although I was able to feel the results, I was not able to see them. After the experience, it became clear that the purpose was to loosen your ear rather than actually remove anything. For anyone with ear pains or ringing, or who is just looking for an entertaining activity, ear candling is the way to go.
ian's inspiration: "A Prom Predicament"
by ian patterson
In honor of this issue’s center spread (“The Drive to Drink” pg. 4-5) I wanted to weigh in the always-feverpitch argument of teen drinking. Adults view teens drinking as a problem. Right now, that’s exactly what it is. It is illegal, whether you like it or not.You may choose to drink, but as it stands, and I doubt it will be changing any time soon, there are legal consequences for drinking if you’re under 21. What I’ve noticed is that there is a vicious cycle here, though. Alcohol is a complex idea for teens. Some of us just don’t know how to feel about it. Because it’s withheld from us, for vague reasons we don’t understand, we don’t see the “big deal.” For those of us who are 18, we are allowed to vote, and we are allowed to die for our country, but we are denied by that country the ability to drink. If there is logic in this decision, it’s lost on my generation. While my Saturday nights are rather boring, I don’t believe that the drinking age should be 21. I couldn’t find any specific data pertaining to drunk driving with a comparison to US to Europe (where the drinking age is typically 18 or less) but I have been there recently. The attitude teens have towards alcohol is different. From what I viewed it seemed as though people, teens included, understand their tolerances
much better than Americans do. Drinking is not a big deal in their culture, so they feel less of a need to consume excessive amounts. So while the adults who think they know best choose to keep this at 21, I'm left wondering if they really are making the best decision. After all, most of our parents were allowed to drink when they were our age. Drinking is an everlasting fixture on the teen partying scene. In fact, I’ve noticed more and more that saying “I like to party” is the Facebook friendly way of saying “I drink.” So while kids may not think it’s a big deal to have photos on social networking sights that suggest drinking, remember that every thing we in this age put on the Internet will stay there. People are going to make their own decisions. If you’re safe about it, I don’t see it as my business to beg you not to drink. But I do feel it becomes a problem when anyone chooses to drive while intoxicated. If you choose to drink and drive you are not only putting yourself in danger, but everyone else around you as well. Teens may feel it’s socially acceptable to drink, and it’s up to you to make your own decisions. Just make sure they are smart ones. The last thing anyone wants is to make one bad decision now that will affect them (and others) for the rest of their lives.
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Spring Concert Edition
by sam boatright
Ah, Spring. The birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing, the bands are rocking. The spring inux of bands touring through Lawrence has arrived, acting as the harbinger for hopefully a sonic summer of stunning sounds and brilliant bands. Because there are just too many amazing bands gigging in Lawrence this spring, writing about all of them would be wordy and troublesome. Therefore, this edition of the Lawrence Guide will break down all the concerts by venue, price and date so you can get the most comprehensive view of the upcoming months in music, including concerts outside the date range of this paper. We do all the work so you don’t have to.
@ April the14--Cults--$12*-14 Granada April 18--Bowling for Soup--$15*-17 May 3--Quiet Corral--$7* May 12--Polyphonic Spree--$18*-20 May 21--Mayer Hawthorne--$16*-18 May 27--Best Coast--$17*-20 May 29--Heartless Bastards--$14 June 10--Destroyer--$15* *Advanced Ticket Purchase # Tickets not available yet Looking for more concert
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April 14--My Brother the Vulture, Icarus the Owl, The Faded Age and more--$5 April 21--Woods w/ MMOSS--$12
May18--Active Child--$10 May 22--Xiu Xiu--$12 April 18--Tyga w/ Lil Twist and YG--# April 24--Snow Patrol--# May 2--The Wombats--#
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