February 19, 2009

Volume 6, Issue 21 [ ]
10 FEATURE: East meets West
4 OUT & ABOUT: my roommate doing his thang
6 GOOD FOR YOU/BAD FOR YOU: cookie dough
9 TOMORROWS NEWS: music-inspired jewelry
9 WESCOE WIT: I dont bitch on your crushes!
14 HOW WE MET: scavenger hunt love
18 REVIEWS: Lily Allen not as likable
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by Chance Dibben; photo illustration by Jerry
Wang; photo illustration by Weston White
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February 19, 2009
Editor Matt Hirschfeld
Associate editor Jessica Sain-Baird
Designers Erica Birkman, Lauren
Cunningham
Contact Elliot Kort, Stephanie Schneider
Health Sachiko Miyakawa, Megan Weltner
Manual Becka Cremer, Katherine Mulder,
Adam Schoof
Notice Madeline Hyden, Ross Stewart,
Zach White
Play Kelly Breckunitch, Kristopher
McDonald
Contributors Drew Anderson, Mark
Arehart, Alicia Banister, Taylor Brown,
Chance Dibben, Mia Iverson, Carly
Halvorson, Daniel Nordstrom, Meghan
Nuckolls, Tom Powers, Abigail Olcese, Brieun
Scott, Kelci Shipley, Amanda Sorell
Creative consultant Carol Holstead
Contact us jayplay09@gmail.com
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785.864.4810
Billy Spears and the
Beer Bellies
Johnnys Tavern, 6 p.m., free,
21+
Poker Pub
The Pool Room, 7 p.m., free,
21+
Chess night at Aimees
Aimees Coffee House, 7 p.m.,
free, all ages
The Americana Music
Academy Jam
Signs of Life, 7:30 p.m., free,
all ages
The Airborne Toxic
Event/The Henry Clay
People
The Jackpot, 9 p.m., $10 to
$12, 18+
That Acoustic Jam
Thing
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $2, 21+
Bob Wayne/Deadman
Flats/Old Country
Death Band
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.,
$2, 21+
thursday, feb 19
Jon McLaughlin/
Parachute VA
The Bottleneck, 7 p.m., $9,
all ages
Wu Man and Friends
The Lied Center, 7:30 p.m.,
$9/KU students, all ages
Bring Back The
Comedy
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $3, 21+
Goblin Cock/Warship/
New Franklin Panthers
The Jackpot, 10 p.m., $8 to
$10, 18+
Cyrus D/Godzilla
The Eighth Street Taproom, 10
p.m., $3, 21+
Fiance/The Sailor
Sequence
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.,
$2, 21+
Neon Dance Party
The Bottleneck, 10 p.m.,
prices vary, 18+
Truckstop
Honeymoon/Oakhurst
The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., 18+
From Quiet Arms
The Granada, 10 p.m., $5,
all ages
DJ Jalapeno/DJ Kiko
The Granada, 10 p.m., $5, 18+
Billy the Squirrel
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $4, 21+
Miles Bonny and
Scenebooster
Soundsystems Sweat
The Eighth Street Taproom,
10 p.m., $3, 21+
The F Holes/Unknown
Stuntman
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.,
$3, 21+
friday, feb 20
Douglas County AIDS
Project Mardi Gras
featuring Kelley Hunt
Liberty Hall, 5:30 p.m., $25.50
to $50.50, all ages
EXIT 159 Reunion
Show!/Charles McVey
The Replay Lounge, 6 p.m.,
$3, all ages
The Opinions 25th
Anniversary Reunion
Show!
The Jackpot, 7 p.m., $3, all
ages
GO! with J. Wail/Tim
Hjersted
The Jackpot, 10 p.m., $10,
18+
Trucker
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $4, 21+
Gold Label Soul with
Sadie Soul!
The Eighth Street Taproom,
10 p.m., $3, 21+
Waka Winter Classic
The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., 18+
saturday, feb 21 monday, feb 23
Poker Pub
The Pool Room, 7 p.m.,
free, 21+
Jeff Harshbarger
Presents An
Alternative Jazz
Series
The Record Bar, 7 p.m.,
$5, 21+
1st International
Film Festival at KU
Woodruff Auditorium, 7:30
p.m., free, all ages
Instrumental
Collegium Musicum
Swarthout Recital Hall,
7:30 p.m., all ages
Smackdown Trivia
and Karaoke
The Bottleneck, 8 p.m.,
$5, 18+
Rooftop Vigilantes/
Baby Birds Dont
Drink Milk/Private
Dancer/The
Chambermaids
The Jackpot, 10 p.m., $5 to
$7, 18+
William Elliott Whit-
more
Love Garden, 6 p.m., free,
all ages
Dollar Bowling
Royal Crest Lanes, 9 p.m., $1,
all ages
Original Music Mondays
The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., free,
18+
Karaoke Idol Party
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+
William Elliott Whit-
more/The Shadow
Government/T. Wehrle
The Jackpot, 10 p.m., $8 to
$10, 18+
Brainbow/Latin
The Record Bar, 11 p.m., $7,
21+
sunday, feb 22
jayplayers editors note
calendar
Reese
Witherspoon just
won. She traipsed
up to the stage in
her second-hand
dress and accepted
her Oscar for
Walk the Line. Well deserved, I thought.
Id never seen any actual footage of June
Carter Cash, but I assumed Witherspoon
deserved it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman was next up.
His performance in Capote was astonishing
and he was a shoe-in for Best Actor. He gave
a typically humble speech.
I was watching the 2006 Oscars and
making a mental list of the nominated
movies I missed out on in 2005. I really
cared only about two movies back then,
though: Brokeback Mountain and Crash.
Two races were left in the program: Best
Picture and Best Director. Both Brokeback
and Crash were up for each award, and each
flm had won two Oscars so far that night.
Brokeback needed to winI would hear
nothing to the contrary. I shared a certain
affnity with the movie (and no, its not a
likeness for cowboys or Western gear) and
I thought it was a better movie overall. And
despising Crash fueled my biased feelings
even more.
The next award announced, Best Director,
made my day. Ang Lee won for Brokeback and
I let out a sigh of relief. Throughout Oscar
history, Best Director and Best Picture have
lined up about 75 percent of the time.
Only Best Picture presenter Jack
Nicholson stood in the way of making my
night. Brokeback and Crash were front-
runners for the award and I was so sure
Brokeback had it in the bag.
And then Jack ruined it all. He opened the
envelope and uttered that one-word movie
title. Nicholson raised his eyebrows with a
surprised expression as the cameras quickly
zoomed in on the producers of Crash and
its cast.
I furiously gave the remote a nice little
click before the producers made it to the
stage. I was in a negative disposition for the
rest of the night. I lived alone at the time, so
only my Beagle sensed my bitter wrath.
None of my friends share my interest in
awards season. It doesnt matter to them who
won a Golden Globe or a SAG award and
who is favored to win at this Sundays Oscars.
Kellys story on page 5 can get you and your
friends talking about whos nominated at this
wednesday, feb 25
KU Symphony Or-
chestra
The Lied Center, 7:30 p.m.,
$5/KU Students, all ages
Flogging Molly
The Uptown Theater, 7:30,
$25, all ages
Keller Williams
Liberty Hall, 8 p.m., $20
advance/$25 door, all ages
SUA YouTube Laugh-
a-Thon
Hashinger Theater, 8 p.m.,
free, all ages
These Arms are
Snakes/Darker My
Love/All the Saints/
Thunder Eagle
The Jackpot, 10 p.m., $8 to
$10, 18+
Valentine Road/The
Os
The Record Bar, 10 p.m.,
$7, 21+
tuesday, feb 24
years Oscars and how to have your owned
Oscar-themed get-together.
And just in case any of you are interested,
here are my predictions for this years main
races:
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director: Danny Boyle,
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Best Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger,
The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis,
Doubt
Im picking Slumdog over fellow Best
Picture nominee and gay-interest movie
Milk. Ill never concede that Brokeback was
inferior to Crash, but Ive learned sometimes
youve got to set aside personal preferences
in favor of the big, orin this casebest,
picture.
Matt Hirschfeld, editor
For Ben Markley, music is a family matter.
Both of his parents taught music for a living.
Markley, who hails from Chapman, says he
started taking piano lessons at the age of three.
He didnt accept music as his calling, though.
I wasnt music full speed ahead in my high
school years, he says. Even in college, Markley
didnt gravitate toward a music major. He says
he received a golf scholarship to Fort Hays
State University and focused on sports and
other things in his frst few years of college.
In his junior year, though, he fnally settled
on music. I guess I wasnt really fnding a lot of
fulfllment in the other things that I was doing
and music seemed to do that, Markley says.
Markley and says he likes performing in
Kansas because he can get feedback from those
people most familiar with his music: his family
and friends. They, more than people I dont
know, have seen me evolve, he says. Markley
fought against music for a while but now hes
in the groove and enjoys his profession. For
[stagepresence]
Ben Markley
Contributed photo
Family matters: Ben Markley enjoys performing in Kansas
because his family and friends can give him honest feedback.
me, its the journey of music, Markley says.
Markley will be performing at the Folk on
Mass House Concerts, 1646 Massachusetts
Street, on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Kelly Breckunitch
The worst of the worst I saw my parents having sex.
Michael Poe, Wichita freshman
[ what is the most awkward thing
you have ever walked in on? ]
My roommate doing his thang.
Sarah Murphy, Atchison sophomore
My roommate doing the dirty with her boy.
Hannah Lowry, Wichita freshman
I opened a door and started talking to someone but it wasnt who
I wanted.
Emily Soetaert, Olathe sophomore
My roommate engaging in, ummm, you know, sex.
Batya Meyer, Dallas senior
I walked in on my friends mom fnishing up giving her husband
fellatio. They tried to act innocent, but the damage had already been
done. Whoops!
Heidi Schmidt, Prairie Village junior
At my former job, I walked in on my boss sleeping in the
break room.
Tyler Janzen, Lindsborg senior
Out About
I walked in on my suitemate pleasuring himself.
J.T. Craig, Junction City senior
My roommate and his girlfriend having sex on the kitchen counter.
Branden Tinker, Wichita junior
I went into a room where they were going to have a wakeI didnt
know about itand started eating the food. I felt really awkward
when I realized it was for the wake.
James Cook, Lawrence senior
Kristopher McDonald
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The Academy Awards ceremony is an
extravaganza. Eric Melin, flm critic and founder
of www.scene-stealers.com, knows all about the
excitement of the night. In fact, he gets into it
every year by hosting an Oscar party of his
own.
For me, the Oscars is my Super Bowl,
Melin says.
Kelli Berry-Szrot, owner and principal
designer of Red Door Event & Design, 941
Pennsylvania Street, says though the Super
Bowl leads to a different party, an Oscar
party can be similar in some ways, especially
when friends are rooting for different movies.
Theres that quiet competition of, This is who
Im supporting, this is who Im backing, and,
you know, My guy against your guy, Berry-
Szrot says.
The tension is a lot more evident at his
parties, Melin says. Theyre taunting each
other to see whos doing better than who,
Melin says.
Alex Backus, Lawrence junior and media
relations contact for KU Filmworks, says the
awards spark conversation between friends.
Whichever one wins, we can debate about it
or talk about it, Backus says.
All three recommend watching the
Oscars with friends because its just a better
experience. Backus says being a flm student
it gives his friends and him a chance to discuss
the flms in more detail, especially because they
have a keener eye when watching flms.
Melin says you almost have to watch the
Oscars as part of a group because of the length
of the program.
He knows from experience. Melin says he
has been hosting Oscar parties since 1992 and
he enjoys being able to do it.
Melin used to live in Manhattan, but he
still remembers the last Oscar Party he
threw there. We had a big, giant cardboard
Oscar that we mounted on the roof and we
put spotlights up there and we had a big red
carpet, Melin says.
Berry-Szrot says his partner at Red Door
picks a different theme each year based on a flm
nominated for Best Picture. She says one year
her partner chose a Brokeback Mountain theme
and everyone came dressed as cowboys and
her partner served some elk chili. Berry-Szrot
also says her partner comes up with a specifc
cocktail tailored to the theme each year.
Berry-Szrot says in terms of planning your
own Oscar party, you can be as creative as you
want. Films are such a creative medium as it
is that theres so many different directions you
can go, Berry-Szrot says.
A lot of times people dress up for Oscar
parties as well. Berry-Szrot says that shouldnt
be a problem for college students. It can be
elegant without being extravagant, she says.
Maybe you dont want to stay home
and watch the Oscars with your friends. If
not, you can still watch it as a group at the
Granada Theater, which is where Backus and
KU Filmworks are hosting their Oscar party
this year. Backus says there will be prizes and
ballots for guests who predict the winners.
If you do stay at home though, make sure
ballots are available. Its something all three
have noticed as a staple of Oscar parties.
We all watch movies with our friends, so
why not watch the awards ceremony for those
movies with friends as well?
Melin says flms can really be as much of
a hot topic as anything else friends may talk
about. The way people talk about sports, its
kind of funny to hear them talk about movies
the same way, Melin says.
Melin has even seen people start fghts
and get kicked out of bars over the Academy
Awards. He says at the Scene Stealers last
Oscar party, when Crash won best flm, some
attendees started fghts in the bar where the
party was hosted and were thrown out.
The Academy Awards may not be the
Super Bowl, but it still gets people talking. You
dont want to predict the winners alone, so
round up some of your friends and get your
own Oscar party together. Its really not that
hard. Please, though, just dont punch anyone if
Frost/Nixon wins Best Picture. JP
Lights! Camera!
By Kelly Breckunitch
kbreckunitch@kansan.com
Oscars!
Host your own glamorous Academy Awards party
and invite your friends as your own personal A-list
Photo illustration by Chance Dibben
And the winner is ... : The Academy Awards can be tension-flled time when watching the show with friends. The
Oscars are at 7:30 p.m. Sunday on ABC. Throw your own viewing party to celebrate the best movies of 2008.
Eric Melin, flm critic, can help you catch up
on the Best Picture nominees with synopses
from his reviews of the Best
Picture nominees. If you want
to read the entire review,
you can fnd it on his website,
www.scene-stealers.com, which
is the only place you can
check out his video review of
nominee The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
(Grade: Minor rock fst down).
Frost/Nixon
Melin says: Because of the
fat, reality-style presentation
of the movie, I still couldnt
help but wondering why I was
watching a movie based on a
play based on a TV interview.
And while I normally dont complain too
much about facts getting distorted in
movies for better drama, Howards format
inherently seems like its trying to pass itself
off as reality, and that really bugged me.
Grade: Minor rock fst up
The Reader
Melin says: As it stands,
The Reader at least has a
perspective on the Holocaust
and deals with a subject that
most flms wontthe idea
of a national conscience and
responsibility vs. personal relationships.
Grade: Minor rock fst up
Slumdog Millionaire
Melin says: [Director] Boyle
has made one of those rare
movies that brings to life the
sights, sounds, and smells of
one specifc place while also
making a flm that anyone
anywhere can relate to. If you are wondering
why I havent mentioned subtitles up until
now, its because I almost forgot there
were any. Foreign flms are so commonly
associated with great, slow-moving works
of art that I almost forgot I had to read
subtitles throughout Slumdog Millionaire.
Grade: Rock fst way up
Best Pic rundown
Milk
Melin says: Suffering a little
bit from the common biopic
hazards, Milk doesnt always
have a plot that propels
itself forward effectively,
especially in the beginning.
Like Harveys life, though, the movie fnds its
direction and positions its main character
as a symbol of hope without a preachy
mentality. ... Van Sants agile movie, full of
fresh performances and vigorous life, should
go a long way towards making people
examine how they feel about human rights.
Grade: Solid rock fst up
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health
Photo illustration by Sachiko Miyakawa
Eating raw
cookie dough
Rocking out
to loud music
Photo illustration by Weston White
Unbaked goodness: As delicious as raw cookie dough can
be, a risk of salmonella infection can leave a bad taste
in your mouth.
Keep em plugged: Repeated exposure to loud music can
cause permanent ear damage and eventual hearing loss.
A fne combination of textures and favors
tempts us to taste raw cookie dough. Some
people like to eat dough more than its baked
counterpart.
Cookie dough containing raw eggs carries the
risk of a salmonella infection, says Bill Picking,
professor of molecular biosciences. Salmonella
infection can cause stomachaches, diarrhea and
cramps. The risk of getting salmonella from
uncooked dough is low, Picking says, but if
young children or the elderly get infected, the
symptoms can be severe.
But what about cookie dough ice cream?
Picking says such ice cream sold in a store
usually uses pasteurized eggs, so the chance of
getting salmonella is much lower than eating
homemade cookie dough.
If you still crave raw cookie dough, check
out Recipezaar (www.recipezaar.com), which
lists egg-free dough recipes.
VERDICT: BAD FOR YOU
Sachiko Miyakawa
Lawrence is a town full of rockers. However,
little do these guitar-playing, drum-banging
artists know, their favorite pasttime could
mean big problems in the future. Peter E.
Shapiro, specialist in otolaryngologythe study
of the ear, nose and throatsays the constant
exposure to loud music will most likely lead to
permanent hearing loss.
When the ear is exposed to loud music, the
sound vibrations damage the tiny hairs in the
cochlea (organ in the inner ear) and lead to
hearing loss. Generally, this type of hearing loss
is reversible, but over time constant exposure
can cause permanent damage.
Shapiro used the example of musician Mick
Jagger. Jagger might play in a concert and hear
a little ringing on his way home from the Sprint
Center, but that will most likely go away. Its
10 to 15 years later that he will notice the
permanent hearing loss.
So for all of you who like to rock out, you
might think about investing in some earplugs. A
pair of effective earplugs costs about $100 to
$200. The price may seem steep, but its quite
reasonable compared with the fnancial and
physical toll of wearing a hearing aid.
VERDICT: BAD FOR YOU
Megan Weltner
A bottle of wine (or two), an order of
calamari, a nice flet, and of course, chocolate
cake. Sounds like the perfect romantic, candlelit
dinner, right? Not necessarily. These romantic
dinners could be doing more harm to your
body than good for your relationship.
Laura Delcore, Leawood senior, says some
of her favorite evenings with her boyfriend,
Patrick, are spent dining at The Eldridge.
However, these dinners can make it a challenge
for her to maintain a slim physique. When
Delcore started dating Patrick a year ago, she
wondered if her health habits would have to
take a backseat to their relationship. Delcore
is not alone in her struggle to balance healthy
eating and exercise with her relationship.
According to The Obesity Society, young
women in romantic relationships gained an
average of 15 pounds over fve years and men
saw similar upward trends.
Your partners health habits can have a large
infuence on your diet and exercise routine,
too. Oftentimes our behavior is shaped by the
people around us, says Jenny Prohaska, M.A. in
clinical psychology. When one member of the
relationship is more sedentary than the other,
the lazy person infuences the more active.
Students in relationships may have a hard
time fnding activities to do together that are
healthy. In the beginning of Andrew Wanks
relationship, the Leawood senior says he tried
to impress his girlfriend, Kristen Conway,
by taking her out to
dinner and to movies.
Both found it hard to
continue their healthy
diet and exercise
habits with meals
at restaurants and
movie popcorn every
weekend.
I transferred from
a school where my
only focus was tennis.
When I came here, I no
longer played a sport
and I spent more time
with her so I got away
from diets, Wank says.
However, as a beauty
pageant competitor, it
was not a choice for
Conway to let her diet
and exercise go. Being
in the pageants kept
Conway motivated and
showed how the trend
of conforming to your
partners habits can
work both ways.
This fall, Conway
suggested they make a
commitment to having
a healthier relationship.
We both had to be
ready to do it for
ourselves before we
could do it for each
other, Conway says.
Since then, Conway
and Wank spend time
going on walks, playing tennis and cooking
dinner for each other. It is a far cry from the
fat-laden meals and hours spent in front of the
TV that consumed their relationship before.
Cori Colombe, holistic health counselor
with Your Wellness Connection, says this is
a perfect example of how to resolve a diet-
related relationship issue.
Colombe says communication is the key.
She says people have a hard time understanding
when their partner says ugh, Im fat
Colombe says it is much more effective to say
you want to be healthier or have more energy.
From there you can fnd things you would
enjoy together, such as yoga, golf, tennis and
the gym.
Some suggestions for maintaining a healthy
and ft romantic relationship include taking up
a new sport together, parking farther from
dinner or exploring new, healthy recipes at
home. Colombe recommends going back to
what made you happy as a childbeing outside,
playing sports, or playing a simple game of tag.
No one is saying you have to throw those
romantic dinners out the window, just modify
them. In the end you will be a happier and
healthier couple. JP
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health
Photo illustration by Weston White
Perfect candlelit calorie count: Red wine in moderationand healthy meals can be good for your body when
spending time with a signifcant other cuts time out of your exercise schedule.
Alls fair in love
and ftness
By Megan Weltner
mweltner@kansan.com
Why staying fit in a relationship is not easy
The perfect healthy date
1. Head to a ftness center to play a set of
tennis.
2. Back home for a quick shower and then
browse the Web for a delicious health-
flled recipe. Once you have found your
recipe, its off to The Merc to pick out your
groceries.
3. Set a romantic table with candles and
spend the evening together preparing your
meal and sipping a glass of heart-healthy red
wine.
4. After cleaning up, take a walk to the
movie store, head home and kick up your
feet with the satisfaction of knowing that
a romantic afternoon and evening can be
good for your health as well as your heart.
Some of these healthy recipes can be found
at www.yourwellnessconnection.com. Click on
Resources, then Recipes. Photo illustration by Weston White
Hand holding for your heart: Take your date to the ftness center to stay in shape
while also buttering up a lover.
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WESCOEWit
Guy walking out of the bathroom: I wouldnt
go in there. That was a fve-fuckin fusher.
Girl 1: Why are there so many
guys wearing plaid shorts and
Lacoste polos? Because its
warm?
Girl 2: Probably because its
national Im a big douche day.
Girl on cell phone: Wait, wait slow down. You
know Im not smart enough to understand that.
Girl on cell phone: I know youre sick, sweetie,
but we have to put on the wrestling uniforms
tonight.
Madeline Hyden
Girl 1: Why dont you just
send her a text that says, Hey,
youre ruining my life. Thanks
for nothing.
Girl 2: That might send the
wrong message, though.
Girl: So where are you studying
abroad?
Guy: Probably Germany.
Girl: But you dont speak French.
Girl 1: Is quip even a word?
Girl 2: Well, it was on
Shallow Hal.
Professor to student: Hey, are
you my friend on Facebook?
Student: Yeah, I think so.
Professor: Your new pictures
are awesome.
Girl 1: Jesus! I dont bitch on your
crushes!
Girl 2: Maybe you should. Thats what
friends are for.
Nothing says fandom like wearing your
devotion on your sleeve. Wear Your Music has
come up with a unique way to combine music
allegiance and charitable donation with its
guitar string bracelets.
The company takes used guitar strings
from rock, pop, jazz and country artists and
hand makes the strings into bracelets. Artists
include Carlos Santana, Elvis Costello, John
Scofeld, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Slash,
Bonnie Raitt and John Mayer, and Wear Your
Music constantly updates its website with new
artists.
Hannah Garrison, president and designer
of Wear Your Music, says 100 percent of the
profts from each bracelet goes to a charity
of the artists choosing. The bracelets range
in price from $50 to $500, depending on the
level of the artists stardom, and each bracelet
is hand-engraved with the stars initials.
Madeline Hyden
Wear Your Music
Contributed photo
Embracing the music:Wear Your Music sells bracelets made
from used guitar strings from your favorite artists guitars.
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By Madeline Hyden
mhyden@kansan.com
Photo illustration by Jerry Wang
Even though acupuncture needles are approved by the
FDA, many dont consider it a valid form of medicine.

Photo illustration by Erica Birkman and Jerry Wang

Refexology is the practice of massaging pressure points on the
feet and hands that correspond with various organs. 11 February 19, 2009
lternative
T O H E A L I N G
My foot twitched nervously as I sat alone in
the quiet waiting room. I was nestled between
a sage-colored wall and a stack of tattered
health magazines. I watched the ladies behind
the reception counter whisper to one another
and I tried to convince myself that I wasnt
anxious. But I was. Needles were fne when
they were used for vaccinations or blood tests,
but seemingly arbitrarily jabbing them into my
fesh? I wasnt buying it. Just when I was about
to bolt, Dr. Khosh walked out to greet me. He
shook my hand and smiled warmly.
Dont be nervous, he said, and led me
back to his offce.
Alternative medicine is the use of
unconventional techniques to alleviate
discomfort and illness, without disrupting
the bodys natural fow of energy. This means
swapping cough syrup for herbs and anti-
anxiety drugs for meditation.
Alternative medicine consists of ancient
healing processes that have been in practice
for thousands of years. It is considered any
practice that deviates from orthodox medical
treatments, such as prescription drugs and
surgery, and can be used to replace or used
alongside standard medical care. Alternative
medical practices include acupuncture,
acupressure, chiropractic, herbal medicine,
meditation and yoga.
Seeing the whole picture
Shanna Nguyen always felt like something
was missing from her pre-medicine studies at
KU.
I didnt want to be a conventional doctor
and I didnt want to do conventional practices,
the Kansas alumna says. I constantly asked my
professors, What are my alternatives? What
can I do in the 21st century to better the
health care system?
After graduation, she skipped medical
school and looked into other options.
While she was a student at KU in the mid-
90s, alternative medicine was considered an
afterthought to traditional medicine, but she
found a niche in alternative medicine education
on the East Coast. She now attends the
University of Bridgeport in Connecticut for a
masters degree in acupuncture. Her concern
with the health care and insurance industries
led her to believe the general public was being
deprived of proper medical care. She says
modern medicine forces patients to adhere
to an industrial complex that uses invasive
procedures and unnecessary chemicals that
dont treat the body as one interdependent
entity.
Alternative medicine focuses on holistic
healing. According to the National Center for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the
body is made up of 14 meridians, along which
qi (pronounced chi) fows. Qi is vital energy
that is essential for living a healthy life. If there
is pain or a blockage in the body, the qi fow is
disrupted. Alternative medicine works to keep
qi fowing freely along patients meridians at all
times.
* * *
May I see your tongue?
Dr. Khosh furrowed his brow as he stared
at my mouth.
You have a qi spleen defciency, he said.
He told me I had severe discolorations
on the back of my tongue, which led him to
say that the qi fowing through my spleen was
blocked. Dr. Khosh explained to me that the
human body is a huge jigsaw puzzle and all the
pieces have to ft together perfectly in order
for it to work to its full potential. If one piece is
missing or broken, the puzzle isnt complete.
* * *
Kristie Martin can tell you if youre
congested, if youre wearing the wrong size of
shoe, or if youre having digestive problems just
by glancing at the bottom of your foot.
Martin is a licensed refexologist and
the owner of A Quiet Sole Refexology in
Overland Park. Refexology is the practice of
applying pressure to various parts of the feet
or hands that stimulate correlating organs. She
says refexology shouldnt be confused with a
simple foot or hand massage. The bottoms of
the feet and palms of the hands act as roadmaps
for the rest of the body, and by stimulating
those areas of the feet and hands, energy can
fow more easily to other parts of the body.
While acupuncture clears qi by stimulating
meridians with needle pressure, refexology
clears qi by stimulating pressure points on the
feet and hands.
As clich as it sounds, the soles are the
windows to the soul, she says. If a client
doesnt tell me something about their health,
Ill fnd it on their feet.
Martin sees clients with a range of health
concerns and oftentimes works with people
undergoing cancer treatments. She currently
has a client in the midst of chemotherapy for
leukemia, and regular refexology sessions help
relieve pain from her patients chemotherapy
side effects, such as nausea, fatigue and muscle
pain. In fact, the First International Symposium
on Refexology and Cancer was held last
October, and refexologists from around the
world discussed refexologys effect in aiding
cancer treatment symptoms.
I knowI cant cure her with refexology. But
Im helping her body heal itself, Martin says.
alternative
medicine clinics
in lawrence:
Janssen Clinic of Natural
Medicine
900 Indiana Street
785.830.0044
Southwind Health Collective
1045 Kentucky Street
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785.749.2255
Wakarusa Wellness Center
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Suite B
785.856.6030
Dara Sims, Olathe senior, notices immediate
results after her regular refexology treatments.
She says that after looking at her feet, her
refexologist noticed she had sinus congestion.
After the refexologist stimulated the areas of
her feet connected to her sinuses and lungs
(usually the second toe and central area above
the arch), she felt her congestion lift. Sims
also noticed nausea during her refexology
treatments.
If you sit up too fast you can end up
throwing up. [Refexology] stimulates all of
your organs and bodily functions, Sims says.
A different ApproAch
When Dr. Khosh led me back to his offce,
I wasnt greeted with cold medical tools or lab
coats, but rather a cozy, warmly lit room. I sat
down on a cushy leather couch, and Dr. Khosh
asked me about myself. He asked about my
eating habits, my stress levels, my lifestyle. He
asked how much time I spent on my feet and
how many hours of sleep I was getting.
how to find the best
naturopathic doctor:
Look for a practitioner with N.D. after
his or her name. This indicates he or she
is a licensed naturopathic doctor who
studied at a naturopathic college.
cost:
Ranges from $80 to $150 for an initial
consultation and from $40 to $100 per
follow-up appointment. These prices
do not include any costs covered by
insurance.
questions to ask
the doctor:
What is your success rate with
patients seeking the same
treatment as me?
Does your practice work with
traditional doctors?
How much does a session cost?
Are follow-up sessions required?

if a client doesnt tell me

something about their health,
Ill fnd it on their feet
T H E
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He asked about my balance and any sort of
painphysical, emotional or spiritualI was
experiencing. It felt more like a therapy session
than a consultation. My fear and anxiety quickly
melted away as I spilled to Dr. Khosh about my
chronic neck and shoulder pain and my severe
allergies.
The actual acupuncture room was anything
but the oftentimes intimidating exam rooms I
was used to visiting in a doctors offce. There
were no boxes of latex gloves, blood pressure
monitors or tongue depressorsnot even a
stethoscope around Dr. Khoshs neckjust a
bed, a peaceful painting of an ocean on the wall
and a tray of glistening needles.
He told me to lie on my stomach. I barely
felt the prick when he pressed six thin needles
into the back of my neck and anklesI felt
more relaxed than anything else. Dr. Khosh
turned off the light and told me to breathe
deeply and let my body heal.
He stopped to put a blanket on my feet
before walking out the door.
I dont want you to get cold.
Because alternative medicine relies on
holistic healing, practitioners examine every
aspect of a persons physiology and mental
healtheven if its just to alleviate a headache.
Extensive consultations are necessary before
an initial visit.
Amanda Assaf, Wichita junior, became
interested in alternative medicine after
she started regularly doing yoga and began
receiving acupuncture for shoulder pain.
I think that the fact that I was becoming
more conscious of my body made me not
want to put anything into it that would disturb
its natural balance, she says.
She says her pain subsided immediately after
her frst treatment and she began understanding
the importance of natural healing.
Placebo
Because alternative medicine practices have
only been included in the Western medical
realm since the 20th century, they have
generated skepticism from both the general
public and the medical community. Though
acupuncture needles have been approved by
the Food and Drug Administration as medical
tools, most herbs and herbal supplements
have not been approved because of high
testing costs of the FDA and many alternative
medicine practitioners inability to receive
patents on their products.
Some think alternative medicine is based
on nothing but a placebo effect. Ill admit
fnding medical evidence to back up the claims
of alternative medical success was nearly
impossible. Qi and meridians are not defned
as anatomical processes; they are explained
as more of a guidance tool for practitioners.
Its clear that people have found huge success
from alternative medicine, but fguring out how
exactly that success is attained is a little fuzzier.
It wasnt until the next afternoon after my
appointment that I noticed my shoulders felt
better. I sat through a lecture for the frst time
in years without feeling a twinge of pain shoot
down my scapula. I immediately wondered if it
was all in my head because I just couldnt fnd
a way to explain the absence of discomfort.
A pain that had become a sort of hated
companion in my life was just gone.
Shanna Nguyen is aware of the stigma and
assumption of a placebo effect attached to
alternative medicine.
People label it as some sort of witchcraft
or voodoo practice, she says. And I do think
about a possible placebo effect, like were
just helping the person believe they can help
themselves.
But its followers swear alternative
medicine has life-changing abilities and month-
long waiting lists at acupuncture centers,
chiropractors and refexologists give evidence
that there may be something to all of this
voodoo witchcraft.
The 2007 National Health Interview Survey,
conducted by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and released last December,
indicated that four out of 10, or 182 million,
U.S. adults and children had used some form
of alternative medicine treatments in the past
year, compared with the 2002 survey where
three out of 10, or 101 million people, sought
alternative medicine care.
Sims cannot pinpoint how her refexology
treatments have provided her with relief, but
she knows something positive is happening to
her body.
I dont know how to explain it other than
saying that I simply feel healthier, she says. And
when I do get sick I feel like the refexology,
through the stimulation of organs, helps me to
recover quickly and without medications.
Many practitioners strive to combine
alternative medicine with traditional, Western
medicine. Kim Nguyen, a licensed acupuncturist
and herbalist,works for East West Medicine in Falls
Church,Virginia, where an M.D. works downstairs
and licensed acupuncturists work upstairs.
My goal and vision is that they can exist is
the same realm, offering health care services
to the public, she says.
She says having a medical doctor under the
same roof has given her exposure to traditional
medicine, which enhances her own alternative
medicine practices. Medical care should always
be the choice of the patient. She says its not
up to any particular feld to decide what path
of healing is best for a person.
Childrens Mercy Hospital in Kansas City,
Missouri, opened its Integrative Pain Management
clinic six years ago and offers patients alternative
medicine options such as acupuncture,refexology,
therapeutic massage and hypnosis as an adjunct to
their traditional medical treatments. Joy Weydert,
M.D.and chief of the clinic,says patients underlying
problems arent often addressed with medical care
alone. She says alternative medicine brings balance
to a persons life by attending to physical, mental,
emotional and spiritual components of his or her
being.
The beauty of alternative medicine is that it
is what it says it is: an alternative choice. Health
is not black and white and the path to wellness
may require different options and different
attitudes.
After talking to Kristie Martin about her
refexology business and hearing story after
story of people fnding relief from her services,
she said to me before we hung up, You have a
promising future, Madeline. I can just feel it.
Pain or no pain, Ill take that kind of
reassurance over an immunization any day. JP
Photo illustration by Jerry Wang
Alternative medicine uses healing techniques, such as acupuncture and refexology, to address a persons entire be-
ing, not just his or her physical health.
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Heres my constant dilemma. I go
out with a lot of girls, but it usually
doesnt make it past the first date
or two. After I decide I dont want
to date them, I always get confused
about how to proceed. Do I just stop
answering their calls and texts, which
seems rude? Or, do I have to actu-
ally tell them that Im not interested,
which again sounds rude and a little
presumptuous after just a date or two.
Im trying to do the mature yet polite
and kind thing.
Eddy, sophomore
Carly: Kudos for wanting to do the mature
yet polite and kind thing. As far as what ex-
actly the mature yet polite and kind thing
is, Im not sure. As you said, ignoring calls and
text messages is rude. Plus, it puts extra
and unnecessarystress on the girl, who will
wonder why youre not calling. If I were one
of these girls, I would appreciate a direct ap-
proach. It may seem rude, but its effective.
This may sound heartless and very anti-girl
of me, but a simple text would suffce. There
really is no reason to make a big production
out of thingsit has only been one or two
dates. Just say something like, I had fun with
you, but I didnt really feel a connection. My
only word of caution is to make sure you say
something that wont make a chance encoun-
ter with this girl extremely awkward. Keep it
plain and simple.
Elliot: Look, if youre not interested after two
dates, youre not interested. Also, stop with the
false modesty. If you were really beating your-
self up for being presumptuous, you would
have changed your standard operating proce-
dure by now. As for how to share your point
of view with the person, its fairly simple: be
honest and tactful. Point out that you like her
but not in a romantic context. In all likelihood,
the other person will agree. If not, then the
dynamic was fawed from the start. You cant
simply ignore phone calls. Thats when things
devolve from an understandably dead-end dat-
ing situation into you being an asshole. Man up.
Answer the phone and speak your mind. The
honesty youre showing these potential mates
will only build and strengthen so that, by the
time youve found someone with potential, you
wont self-sabotage by being less than truthful.
My brother just got out of a long
relationship. The other night, he
called me, telling me he thought he
was suddenly bisexual because so
many girls were hitting on him and
he wasnt interested in any of them.
What do I tell him?
Amanda, freshman

Carly: Your brother is freaking out a little
bit. Id tell him to take a breath and calm
down. If he just got out of a long-term rela-
tionship, of course he wouldnt be interested
in other girls. However, if his recent ex called
him up and asked for a post-breakup booty
call, Im sure hed go over there running. Your
brother isnt bisexual; at the risk of sounding
cheesy, hes just heart-broken. Tell him to quit
being such a baby about these girls hitting
on him. If anything, it should be comforting.
Just because theyre hitting on him does not
mean he has to accept their advances. He
should take it as a sign that there are plenty
of fsh in the sea, as the old saying goes, and
when hes ready to start diving again, there
will be someone waiting for him.
Elliot: Your brother is not bisexual. Hes an
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because none of them were his ex. And, of
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to go on their frst offcial date, theyve been
together ever since he took the plunge.
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Meeting new people is one of the goals of
KUs Freshman Summer Institute. But for Kyle
Mansoor, Dublin, Ohio, sophomore, and John
Biersmith, Leawood sophomore, love was
also on the agenda for their very frst day of
college life.
The two met when placed into the same
team for a group scavenger hunt. I noticed
him right away, Kyle says. I thought he was
really cute.
John also noticed her immediately. He told
all the other guys in the group to keep their
distance.
I called dibs on her, he says with a laugh.
Throughout the course of the scavenger
hunt, the two teased one another, argued over
who got to ride shotgun, and generally firted
until Kyle decided to pull a prank on John at
one of the fnal stops. A clue on the scavenger
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Naughty but nice: Crillas employee Allison Ortego
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Take-out containers
Dinner tonight, lunch tomorrow: Ask your servers if eco-friendly options
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An adult novelty store employee
When her job working at a daycare
became too stressful, Allison Ortego started
looking for something a little more fun. Now,
the Wichita senior gets paid for sitting behind
a cash register surrounded by dildos and
condoms and for helping people pick out
vibrators.
Ortego works at Crillas, 1026 West 23rd
Street. Most of her job is helping people at
the register, she says, but when people ask
for a recommendation, Ortego knows what
shes talking about. She says that her bosses
didnt really give her much training about the
products, but that she wouldnt have applied
for the job if she didnt already know what
most of the products in the store were.
Im pretty knowledgeable about vibrators,
Ortego says. And I dont think someone who
doesnt know about this stuff would even
apply.
The jobs pretty easy, Ortego says, especially
because she is not easily embarrassed and her
family and friends arent shocked by her job
choice.
My parents have known me all my life, she
says. Theyre fne with it. My grandparents are
fne with it.
One time, though, when Ortego was visiting
a friend who also worked at Crillas, one of her
professors was shopping at the store.
I hid, Ortego says. He didnt see me.
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Casey Millstein, co-owner of
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If you think writing to a representative
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that next step in reminding elected offcials of
who they represent.
To e-mail your U.S. representatives, go to
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To e-mail either of your two U.S. senators,
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senators are listed in alphabetical order by last
name. Select a senator, and then look for the
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pitching rotation and make calls in a game.
Front Offce Manager does not lack in choices.
The gamer is even able to scout in Japan and
partake in bidding wars.
Though this game is entertaining in the
beginning, the games downfall is how time
consuming and complex it becomes. Playing
more than 100 individual games of baseball
becomes repetitive and the hundreds of
players makes a trade take too long.
However, the game isnt completely
negative. Gamers can make calls in an actual
game. Unlike a regular baseball game, the
gamer can control how the team plays. Using
knowledge and strategy could easily increase
the probability of a successful season.
Though someone with infnite time and
knowledge of baseball may fnd this to be like
Christmas morning, others will realize time
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VIDEO GAME: MLB Office Manager
Lily Allens second album, Its Not Me, Its You,
is a whirlwind of Allens emotions and com-
mentaries on the world around her, from fame
to family and from drugs to religion. For her
second album, Allen has become more refec-
tive but still delivers her fun, candid songs with
the same wit and sarcasm seen on her frst
album, Alright, Still.
In her frst single, The Fear, Allen sings,
I dont care about clever/I dont care about
funny. However, she still manages to be
both. When her boyfriend fails to make her
scream, she sings about it (as in Not Fair).
She sings about the good relationships and she
sings about the bad. Allens serious topics, such
as her remarks about pills and cocaine in her
track Everyones At It, are balanced by light-
hearted lyrics like the ones in Chinese, about
her desire to get Chinese and watch TV with
her boyfriend.
Its Not Me, Its You has a more electronic
sound, and is not as freshly unique and relaxed
as Alright, Still. Even so, Allen, with her outspo-
ken, in-your-face personality, has managed yet
playing this game will never be regained. The
potential was there, the execution was not.
Drew Anderson
MUSIC: Lily Allen, Its Not Me, Its You
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William Elliott Whitmores voice is quite deceiving. Just listening to him,
youd think he was a seasoned blues musician who grew up in the Mississippi
Delta during some of the toughest times in American history.
Not so. Instead, Whitmore is a Lee County, Iowa, native who has just barely
crossed the 30-year-old threshold. Before the release of his record, Animals
in the Dark, on February 17 and the beginning of his tour on Valentines Day,
Whitmore took a few minutes from a day off to chat with Jayplay.
Question
with William
Elliott Whitmore
After one of my
friends heard you
for the first time,
he said, Who
knew a white boy
could produce
such soulful
blues? Do you
get that reaction
a lot?
(Laughs) I do, and you
know, Im honored
that anyone would be
caught off guard by it.
Im just thankful that
anyone would want
to listen, frst of all. Im not sure what [that
comment] means, but I take it as a compliment
that they think Im going to be a 90-year-old
black guy. Thats a kick ass compliment when
youre a musician and an aspiring songwriter.
On your new CD, you have a bigger
band playing with you than on
previous CDs. Are you going to
be touring with a band this year,
or can we still expect just you on
stage?
During the frst week of the record release
shows, Ill be playing with some really good
friends of mine. Theyre in a band called The
Shadow Government. Theyre going to open
for me and play with me as well. But I will be
playing a lot of the set by myself. Thats how
I enjoy it most. Its what Im used to doing. I
thought itd be interesting to have a band play
some of the songs like they are on the new
record. I want to keep it new for people, keep
it fresh and maybe have it be a bit challenging
as well. But I dont want it to be like Bob Dylan
showing up with an electric guitar and all you
wanted to hear was Blowin in the Wind.
Anyone who listens to even a tiny
bit of your music knows your love
for whiskey. What do you prefer to
drink?
Hell, I dont know any of the really nice brands.
Id have to say my favorite is Templeton Rye. Its
made right here in Iowa, which is how I got
turned on to it. Its the only distillerywell, the
only legal distilleryin Iowa. The word is that it
was one of Al Capones favorites, and he would
drive to Iowa just to bootleg it back to Chicago.
But I dont discriminate. Ill drink any kind.
What do you like to do when you
stop in Lawrence?
Oh man, I love coming to Lawrence. Its like
a second home to me. I like to go play some
pinball at the Replay and have a few beers. Ill
go instrument shopping at the various local
music shops. I go record shopping at the Love
Garden. Its one of my favorite record stores in
the world. I hang out down by the river. Theres
a great park down by the river that I like to
go to and get some peace of mind. And then
of course, I get to the show and have a grand
time.
Is it hard to play a show when
people keep giving you shots on
stage? Do you ever just wish theyd
stop?
(Laughs) Actually, that happens a lot in
Lawrence. Ive got so many good friends down
there and Ive played so many times over the
past 10 years. I love it in the fact that its people
reaching out to you in a certain way. They
might not know what else to doespecially
guys. We dont know how to communicate
sometimes, so the shot does the talking. Its
like saying, Hey buddy, nice work. But shit, I
aint 21 no more. I do love my whiskey but I
cant be blacking out on stage. It used to be
that I didnt care at all. I would down every
single one faster than you can hand it to me.
But I want to put on a good show for people.
Whats one thing you want people
who havent heard you before to
know about you and your music?
They should know that everything I write
comes from my heart, and I want to share it
with the world. I want to put my little drop in
the ocean of great music out there in hopes
that maybe someone can draw something
positive and thought-provoking out of it. Music
is my religion, and I really enjoy making music.
Anyone that can take someone positive from
it makes me so happy. If people love it, then
theres love all around.
Carly Halvorson
Contributed photo
William Elliott Whitmore plays the banjo and acoustic guitar. He has sampled Snoop Dogg, Rockmaster Scott and
The Dynamic Three.
Contributed photo
William Elliott Whitmore will be at the Jackpot Music Hall on February 23.
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