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A conversa-
tion between
editors (and
friends):
Jaime: Dani,
what have you
learned this
semester from Jayplay?
Dani: Hmm...I haz charizma?
Jaime: Ill translate that to mean you like
www.icanhascheezburger.com. Me too. But
you know what Ive learned?
Dani: Que?
Jaime: That Jayplay has an easy job
because this campus, and this town, is full
of unexpected fun. And also that Im really
going to miss you.
Dani: Aww, thats sweet. And Ill re-
member that when I take your place next
semester.
Jaime: But its not next semester yet!
There are still stories about erections (page
5) and bar golf (page 8) to be read!
Dani: And the Facebook centerfold
(page 6)! Wait, are we Facebook friends?
Jaime: Yes, Dani. Its offcialforever.

Jaime Netzer, editor

Dani Hurst, associate editor
ONTHe cOver:
grApHIc BY BreNNA HAWleY
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JAYPLAYERS
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ASSOcIATe eDITOr FINAllY OrIgINAl
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DeSIgNerS lOverS
Brenna Hawley
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pHOTOgrApHerS McgUYver STUFF
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HeAlTH gOOD FOr YOU
chris Horn
Megan Hirt
Jared Duncan
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Photography.The Nelson-
Atkins Museum of Art, all day, all
ages, FREE, www.nelson-atkins.
org.
Portraits by Paul Hotvedt.
Lawrence Arts Center, 6
p.m., all ages, FREE, www.
lawrenceartscenter.com.
6th annual Jazz Vespers. Lied
Center, 7:30 p.m., $10 student,
$12.50 adult, www.arts.ku.edu/
musicanddance.
Play: Fool for Love by Sam
Shepherd. William Inge
Memorial Theatre, Murphy Hall,
7:30 p.m., $10, www.kutheatre.
com.
Hawk Nights Holiday Bash.
Ballroom, Kansas Union, 9 p.m.,
FREE, www.suaevents.com.
Billy Joel. Sprint Center, 8 p.m.,
$49.50/$95, www.billyjoel.com.
Another Holiday/Jen Say
Kwahs. Eighth Street Tap Room,
10 p.m., $2, www.myspace.com/
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KJHK Stop Day Party/Farm
Fresh Sounds CD Compilation
Release feat. Transmittens/DJ
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Jackpot Saloon, 9 p.m., 18+, $5-7,
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Opening, If it Melts, Cast it.
The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center,
6 p.m., all ages, FREE, www.
leedy-voulkos.com.
Cosmic Bowling. Jaybowl,
Kansas Union, 10 p.m., FREE,
www.suaevents.com.
Stop Day. University of Kansas,
all day. Where wont we be
celebrating?
Workshop: Yoga in the
Workplace. Pine Room, Kansas
Union, 11:30 a.m., FREE, www.
hreo.ku.edu. A workshop for
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Dane. Hurricane, 9 p.m., www.
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Particle/House of Fools.
Bottleneck, 9 p.m., 18+, $16,
www.particlepeople.com.
KU Architecture
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Fourth of July/Suzannah
Johannes/Midnight Vinyl/
BENE. Jackpot Saloon, 10 p.m.,
18+, $5-7, www.myspace.com/
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Black Gasoline. The Replay
Lounge, 10 p.m., $2, 21+, www.
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Delicious.6 Gallery, all day, all
ages, FREE.
Silent Saturday. Ecumenical
Christian Ministries, 12:30 p.m. to
6 p.m., $6 for vegetarian dinner,
http://groups.ku.edu/~ecmku/
about.shtml. Sign up by Thursday
to spend Saturday studying,
sleeping, meditating, journaling,
or freplace gazing. Open to the
entire campus community.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Sprint Center, 3 p.m, $35/$45,
www.trans-siberian.com/index-
main.php.
Concert: Eileen Ivers. Lied
Center, 7:30 p.m., $15/$12.50
student, http://lied.ku.edu. What
better way to spend a Saturday
evening than at a holiday Irish
fddle concert?
KU Womens Glee Club sings
music of the season. Signs
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Cross Canadian Ragweed.
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www.crosscanadianragweed.com.
Deadman Flats/Big Cat
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deadmanfats.
Cosmic Bowling.Jaybowl,
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www.suaevents.com.
Ras Neville & the Kingstonians.
Bottleneck, 10 p.m., 18+, www.
thekingstonians.com.
Small Town Memories,
Big City Dreamsby Justin
Marable. Signs of Life Art
Gallery, all day, all ages, FREE,
www.signsofifegallery.com.
The CLAS December
Recognition Ceremony. Lied
Center, 2 p.m.
KQRC 98.9 the Rock Twisted
Xmas feat. Alter Bridge/Jackyl/
Another Animal. Uptown, 7 p.m.,
$27.50, www.alterbridge.com.
The Lemonheads/Raccoon/
The New Rivals. Record Bar,
8 p.m., $16.50, 18+, www.
thelemonheads.net.
Late Night Breakfast. Ms. Es,
Templin Hall, 10:30 p.m. FREE,
www.suaevents.com.
Small Ensemble Holiday
Concert. KU Edwards Campus,
Regnier Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m.,
FREE, www.kcsymphony.com.
Ozzy Osbourne/Rob Zombie.
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Kasey Rausch and Friends.
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Jeff & Vida with Man Mountain
Blue Grass Music. The Gaslight,
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Bob Walkenhorst and Guests.
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Jeff and Vida/Kasey Rausch.
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1950DA. Record Bar, 11 p.m.,
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Heartland HorrorsShort
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Its Over. Record Bar, 7 p.m.,
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itsoverkansascity.
Mix 93.3 Jingle Jam 1 feat.
Good Charlotte/Boys Like
Girls/Matt White. Beaumont
Club, 8 p.m., $10, all ages, www.
goodcharlotte.com.
Open Mic at the Neck.
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surrendering.
senate democrats agree to support
a bill that would require a 40% in-
crease in fuel efficiency standards
for cars, light trucks and suVs by 2020.
the 11-1 KU football team gets chosen
to play in the orange bowl, passing
over the 11-2 missoUri tigers, who de-
feated KU jUst a weeK and a half ago.
the kansas alcoholic beverage
control decides not to renew
the liquor license of lawrence
nightclub last call.
Orange Bowl offcials were afraid that the Mizzou fanbase wouldnt travel
to Miami, given the areas lack of crystal meth and opossum-based cuisine.
Now The Hawk can lay sole claim to the title of Lam-
est Bar in Lawrence, although Its Brothers should
continue to provide some good competition.
Had the would-be bomber
carried out his threat, then
both Clintons could claim
to have been blown in their
offces. Hey, I tried.
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Alright guys; take a long, hard
look between your legs. See
that? Nearly half of the KU
student population comes
equipped with similar gear.
And no, I dont care if you
happened to accidentally
glance at a friend in high
school and see that his
was marginally (read
extremely) bigger than
yours. Lets leave that
for another time and
another article.Today,
kids, were going to
discuss some of the
common things
men experience
downstairs and
some potentially
e mb a r r a s s i n g
social situations.
Guys get boners.
We cant always
help it, nor does
it always mean
that were
thinking about
the hottie
three seats in
front of us. An
oc c as i onal l y
erect penis is
part of normal
sexual health in
an adult male and
can happen for
several reasons.
First and
foremost among these
erectile encounters is
something every guy has
woken up with at some point.
Morning wood, or nocturnal
penile tumescence as the guys in white coats call
it, can happen during normal REM sleep.
Dr. Robert L. Brown at Watkins Memorial Health
Center says certain psychogenic processes during
this REM sleep tend to stimulate spontaneous
erections, but that its also completely normal.
These sunrise stiffes are usually most notable
when youre shocked out of sleep by an alarm
clock, not giving your brain enough time to ease
out of sleep.
I fell asleep in class one time and woke up with
morning wood, says Kunal Bisariya, Overland
Park senior. Shit like that can happen.
Finding yourself in class with a hard-on is
defnitely an embarrassing situation for any guy,
but trying too hard to cover up just might end up
having the reverse effect.
Its not that apparent when another guy
has an erection. Id rather not know in the frst
place. But when they try and act too cool, you
know somethings up. Bisariya says. Its a self
-defeating thing.
The classroom conundrum of having an
erection in a room with 200 people in it can be a
dire situation indeed. Dustin Allen, Topeka senior,
fnds that the longer the class, the harder the
circumstance.
In long classes where youre shifting back in
forth in your seat and there are lots of hot girls,
it makes it more of a problem, he says. And it
always happens at the most inopportune times.
Other factors that contribute to an unwanted
arousal can include a number of things, such as
physical activities. Dr. Brown says that incidental
contact while playing a sport or working out
might become a factor. He also says certain things
we ingest, such as alcohol, could play a part. Not
that you all are drinking before class, right?
But no matter the cause, the fact is that most
people dont pay enough attention or care to
pay attention to whats happening under the
protective canopy of your desk. Many girls arent
even really attuned to the fact that guys even
have erections in public places.
If someone did happen to see a guy sporting
wood in a clearly urban environment, likely some
people would fnd it funny, but more people
might just feel embarassment for the pour soul.
The unfortunate nature of the beast is it can
require years of practice to attain the mental
fortitude required in taming your wang, and the
older you get, the easier it becomes. But when
you feel rigid and infexible, just remember to
take a deep breath and relax; dont just let it go.
Seriously, you could poke somebodys eye out
with that thing.
The ups and downs of erectile functions
Demystifying
the Male Member
By Nick Finnegan
Pitching
tents
Here are some
of the ways
you can hide
your erection
while trying
to escape a
public situation.
Note: some
work and some
just make the
problem worse.
tuck and cover: The most prevalent and widely used of all, the
tuck and cover works by shifting your Johnson straight up
into your waistband and covering any bits that might peek
out with the bottom of your shirt. This works especially well
with a jeans-and-belt combo because the zipper disguises the
bulge while the belt secures you frmly in place.
hoodie hands: If you wear a hoodie (you know who you are) the
front pocket is an excellent resource. No matter what kind of
pants youre wearing, you can always reach down and grab
a hold of your giblets through your hoodie and move them
away from potential humiliation.
two oclock Pocket: This simple maneuver will help keep a
situation from escalating if you cant manage to hide yourself
anywhere else. As the name implies, you position your shaft at
two oclock towards your left pocket and pretend like hell that
you have an absurdly shaped hand that extends to your balls.
Book Worm: Youre really not fooling anybody here but yourself
at this point. The whole I carry my book-bag at crotch level
ploy will only get you so far but if it manages to get you out
the door then that may be good enough.
traffc cop: Why bother hiding it anyway? Go ahead and show
the world what you have and wave your boner proudly to all
who can see. You might just impress somebody in the process.
Or you might end up grossing out a whole room. Use your
best judgement.
notice
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JAYPLAY 05
This statue has the only intact penis
on display at the Wilcox Museum in
Lippincott Hall, which houses collections
of plaster casts of Greek and Roman
statues.
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JON GOERING
feature
12.06.2007 JAYPLAY 07
feature
JAYPLAY 12.06.2007 06
From your parents to your professors to your old
preschool playmates, more than 55 million people
have claimedtheir page of Facebook, andaccordingto
the Internet marketing research company comScore,
each user is getting in an average of 20 minutes of
Face-time per day.
Onitsjourneyfromaprocrastinationtool exclusively
for U.S. college students to a global socializing
phenomenon, Facebook has raised some tough
questions of privacy and ethics, and users Facebook
faux pasdisreputable photos, offensive wall posts
have drawn national attention. Yet something that
remains largely under the radar in this nirvana of
networking is the mental effects of spending time
in a vacuum of uninhibited communication and self-
disclosure thats full of boundless information about
the people around you.
It can mess with your identity, especially at a stage
in life when youre just starting to form an identity,
like during college, says James Houran, a Dallas-
based clinical psychologist who specializes in online
relationships.
Here, a glimpse beyond Facebooks face value at
the mental appeal and effects of what great minds
have dubbedInternet crack.
WHY YOURE HOOKED
Be it baseball cards or beer bottles, humans love
collecting, and Facebook lets you collect what poets
praise as priceless: friends. Mark McKinley, professor of
psychology at Lorain County Community College in
Ohio, says a collection of any kind represents a quest,
and the collector is often in pursuit of security, a way
to fll an emotional void, or even a way to achieve
distinction, fame or notoriety. Collecting Facebook
friends, like any other collection, is characterized by
comparing your stock to others, and more always
means better.
Tim Phillippe, Forth Worth, Texas freshman, says
amassing Facebook friends is probably a way some
students boost their self-esteem. Ive met people
who instantly want to be Facebook friends when Ive
spoken one or two words to them, Phillippe says.
When I see these people have 800 friends, I think they
may not have a lot of close friends, so theyre trying to
feel secure by having hundreds of Facebook friends.
Facebook also plays on our desire to disclose
information about ourselves and also dig into what
others are disclosing. In todays culture, we like to
see ourselves and see othersa combination of
exhibitionism and voyeurism. Facebook is the perfect
example of how these two come together, says Bill
Staples, department chair and professor of sociology
at KU. Staples, who researches the connections
between technology and voyeurism, says the desire to
broadcast information about ourselves is a signifcant
departure from the attitudes of our parents, who are
more guarded concerning their personal lives.
Anationwide study published in February reported
that todays college students are more narcissistic
and self-centered than previous generations, and
researchers partly attributed these new attitudes to
sites like Facebook, where each of us can become the
center of a simulated universe. Staples says, however,
that adding a page to the Book points more toward
a social expectation for college students than self-
absorption. We want to put ourselves out there
because we want to participate. If youre not there, its
like you dont exist,he says.In a sense, youre seduced
into being on it whether you want to or not, and it may
turn out to be kind of oppressive.
Sarah Kirk, director of KU Psychological Services,
says Facebook is appealing because it allows us to
keep a tabloid-like eye on the people we know, while
also living like our private lives are fascinating enough
to merit page six coverage. It matches our culture,
Kirk says. We all know everything that Lindsay Lohan
and Paris Hilton are doing, so then when our own
privacy is taken away, we dont always think about that
as negative.
YOU THINK YOU KNOW
Waybackwhen(oh,four yearsago),closeinteraction
and time were usually necessary to fnd out someones
favorite books, his or her relationship status or political
views. But with Facebook, you can nowdig into all this
and more without ever having to speak face-to-face.
John Grohol, a Boston-based psychologist and
publisher of the online mental health network Psych
Central, says this ability to instantly access someones
personal information without any effort to get to
know him or her desensitizes our awareness of and
response to valuable details about people. Instead,
every behavior becomes a generic, bland fact with
no relevance to your relationship with the person.
We feel like its bringing us closer to the person, but
this is an artifcial connection, Grohol says. Finding
out that youre going to the airport or youre up all
night studyingthose are factual pieces of info about
your life, but theyre without context. You have all this
information, but youre not able to validate it like you
would if you were actually communicating with the
person face-to-face.
And although Facebook seems an authentic
paradise of knowledge, the site actually creates more
questions than it gives answers. You never get the
whole story when you learn about something or
someonethroughFacebook,says clinical psychologist
James Houran.Youmay feel youknowa persononline
and you only know a part of themnot all of them
and that can be awkward then in person, because you
dont knowwhat part of themyou know.
For self-proclaimed Facebook addict Caitlin Nowlin,
Rivertonjunior, the site has ledtosome uncomfortable
moments on campus. I defnitely have Facebook
friends that Im not friends with on campus, Nowlin
says. Its just like seeing someone you dont even
know, but its a little awkwardbecause youfeel like you
should knowthem.
Not only are some things better left off Facebook
for the sake of your own pride and privacy, but the
well-being of an entire community can take a hit
from too much information. The more info you have
about people, the more it can promote negative
behaviors like rumor-spreading that kill groups and
communities,Houran says.
Being overloaded with info on how others are
living their lives isnt good for your own mental well-
being, either. Knowing too much about people is
never a good thing, Houran says.It tends to increase
peer pressure, and you tend to be a follower, not a
leader.He also says that fnding out on Facebook that
you were left out of something can be a bigger blow
to your ego than fnding out the same thing offine.It
amplifes the feeling of rejection. Offine, youre only
going to know a few general things about an event
thats happening, but on Facebook you can track all
the details of an event and everyone that was there.
Suddenly it can feel like you were rejected by all 200
people there.
GETTIN FRIENDLY
The Internet has introduced oodles of words into
our lexicon, but give Facebook credit for morphing the
wordfriend into a verb. Along with becoming a new
part of speech, the termhas also, thanks to Facebook,
seen a shift in its meaning.
Friend can now mean anything from a real, true
friendinthetraditional senseof thewordtoacomplete
stranger youve never met, Grohol says. Its really a
disappointing misuse of the English language.
While Grohol says social networking sites have
cleverlyusedfriendtodrawpeoplein,hesays theshift
in connotation can actually lead to a distorted sense
of friendship, causing us to develop false feelings of
attachment and develop attachments quicker. Grohol
says these simulated friendships we have online can
cause us to spend less time with those friends who are
really available to us.
Greg Hall, professor of psychology at Bentley
College in Massachusetts, says being friends with
someone online can never truly capture the nuance
and the subtleties of a face-to-face relationship.When
your means of getting to know someone is through
online interaction, you dont have the same cues
to draw uponnothing like facial expression, eye
contact or tone of voice to gauge the persons interest
level, and these are what help people build genuine
rapport and attachment,Hall says.
Most experts acknowledge that analyzing the
psychology of Facebook is diffcult because the site
hasnt yet been the subject of much scientifc research,
though some curious minds have indeed started to
investigate. Larry Rosen, professor of psychology as
California State University Dominguez Hills and author
of Me, MySpace and I: Parenting the Net Generation,
studied how many of the friends people consider
online friends they also consider to be their real-
life friends. Rosen says the two numbers do overlap,
though usually never 100 percent.
Rosen also conducted a study in 2006 in which
participants were introduced to a friend on a social
networking site and given the opportunity to get
to know him or her and share information about
themselves.There is a gut-level sense that you always
have anonymity when communicating with someone
online, even if you know the person, Rosen said. We
found that if people were told theyd have to interact
with the person face-to-face later on, they were less
self-revealing online.
MIND YOUR MANNERS
Meredith Tack, Oklahoma City senior, logged
onto Facebook one morning to learn for the frst
time that she and her boyfriend were no longer in a
relationship.Any feelings of heartbreak quickly took a
backseat toTacks astonishment at this blunt break-up
approach. I was like, are you kidding me? Tack says.
I thought it was a really rude, distant way of doing
things, and I dont have much respect for people who
cant talk to you face-to-face.
In defense of Tacks bad-mannered ex-boyfriend,
Houran says too much time on Facebook can actually
stunt your communication skills and emotional
intelligence, so that you may very well think that
breakingupvia Facebook is the best way tohandle the
situation. After all, if a relationship isnt offcial until its
Facebook offcial, perhaps its only really over when
its over on Facebook.
Houran says Facebook interaction doesnt allow
us to learn or perfect real-world social skills, and as
a result, we may fnd ourselves more awkward and
less articulate in unfamiliar social settings. The fow
of conversation online is not the same as it is offine,
Houran says. That time in between me responding
allows me to think. We dont have that opportunity
when were in a job interview, in school.
Hall says that we followestablished social norms in
face-to-face communication, and we have a different
set of norms for interacting with a professor than
for interacting with our classmates, for example.
These standards for behavior dont exist in online
social settings, however, and we thus often lose
the inhibitions that keep us from embarrassing
ourselves in face-to-face conversation. A lot of
misunderstandings and embarrassments happen
because of social networking sites, Hall says. In face-
to-face communication, comments might be more
subtle. Online communication lacks expression and
intonation, which convey a lot of howyou mean to say
something.
A MIXED BAG
The cultural cloud that is Facebook does have a
silver lining.
For Kerri Kolzow, Chicagosenior, the site is useful for
stayinginthe loopwithher friends back home.Imnot
a junkie, but I like being able to see what my friends in
other towns are doing,Kolzowsays.I dont knowif we
could keep in touch as easily without Facebook.
Houran says that before sites like Facebook, we
didnt have as much contact with people from other
areas of the world, and when groups of people who
couldnt meet before can meet and interact, we
become more open-minded.Oftentimes we are more
comfortable with people familiar to us, Houran says.
But with Facebook, we dont rush to frst impressions
or judgments so quickly.
Kim Gregson, assistant professor of
communications at Ithaca College, says Facebook
can help shy students better integrate into college
environments and also give theman outlet to express
themselves and eventually become more open to
face-to-face interaction.
Gregson adds that, for the most part, people will be
just as honest about themselves online as they are in
person, and that even in face-to-face communication,
most people present a persona that is different from
their core identity. People you meet face-to-face in a
bar are not going to be 100 percent honest with you,
Gregson says. I think theres a lot more honesty and
positive aspects of Facebook than people give it credit
for.
For now, its an open Book.
The psychological appeal and
effect of Facebook
By Megan Hirt
Your Brain on
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GRAPHIC BY BRENNA HAWLEY
will golf for beer
It aint your grandpas
game: Plaid shorts and
argyle socks are optional in
this alcohol-soaked sport
of bar golf.
By Adrienne Bommarito
Last spring, Natalie Durda received
an invitation to a friends birthday party
that consisted of playing bar golf. Always
up for a good time, Durda, Eden Prairie
Minnesota senior, decided to attend,
though she had no idea how to play.
I was like, sure. Now what the hell is
that?Durda says.
Bar golf is a drinking game where
individuals get together and play nine
holes. However, unlike traditional golf,
bar golf is not played on a golf course,
but at nine bars.
Dan Hutchinson, co-owner of the
website www.barnonedrinks.com, says
the game should be played in a central
area with lots of drinking establishments.
Massachusetts Street provides a good
bar golf course, so if you are in the mood
for something different this weekend,
read on to organize your own game of
golf.
Tye Zehner, Overland Park senior,
organized bar golf for friends last year.
He says lots of planning is required to get
ready for a night (or day) of bar golf. Nine
establishments within the same vicinity
need to be chosen, teams need to be
made and the scoring system needs to
be decided.
First choose the nine bars that your
group will visit. It will be helpful if all
the bars are within walking distance. To
save money, choose bars that have drink
specials for that specifc night. Traveling
to nine bars and drinking at each one can
get expensive.
Next, divide the attendees into teams.
Bar golf can be played as every person
for themself, but lots of people playing in
teams can make for great competition.
Separate the teams so they are even
in terms of drinking experience. Zehner
advises not to put all the heavy drinkers
on one team and the weak drinkers on
another. Make the chance at winning fair
for everyone.
Then decide how to score the game.
Par, the number of strokes it takes to
get the ball in the hole, should be set
for each drinking establishment. Par can
be set however your group decides. For
example, you can decide that everyone
will drink a beer at one place, a single
drink at another, and a shot at a third
place.
Making par means that each person
drinks the set amount previously decided
upon. If one person drinks two drinks
at that same establishment, their score
is then minus one, meaning they drank
one more drink than everyone else. If
another person doesnt drink at all, their
score becomes plus one. The object is to
meet par or to have the fewest amount
of points at the end of the game.
Each team carries a score card during
the game. Zehner says to have a person
on a different team initial the score card
when a drink is fnished so there is no
cheating.
When Zehner played bar golf last
year, par was set for one drink at each
establishment. However, he said his
friends set a zero tolerance policy on
weak drinks. Participants had to drink
beer or a single mixed drink of some
kind.
No foofoo drinks. You cant do half
beer, half lemonade. You cant do a girly
drink,Zehner says.
Remember to give an allotted time
frame to remain at each bar. For example,
Zehner gave each player 20 minutes at
each establishment before moving to
the next hole.
Bar golf can be played during the day
or at night. Hutchinson says to play at
night to avoid complete embarrassment
while walking to each hole.
The evening covers up the stumbling,
swerving and other traits associated with
being drunk,he says.
The attire of the game is part of what
makes it so much fun. Each player can
choose to dress in the goofest golf
clothes as possible. Imagine plaid shorts,
popped polos, loafers and oversized
pearl earrings.
Once you have fnished the ninth hole
a winner should be determined. Prizes for
the winning team can be whatever you
can conjure: a stuffed animal, a trophy or
if youre really up for more drinking, a free
round of drinks.
Hutchinson says to skip the material
prize and give the winning team exactly
what they will be needing the next day.
A bottle of aspirin, warm bed and a good
nights sleep would be a great prize, he
says.
Zehner enjoyed his evening of bar
golf because it was a fun way to spend
time at the bars. He says theres a lot
of competition and bragging rights
involved.
Everyone has a common thing that
theyre doing at the bar and everyone
looks ridiculous. Youre not just going to
the bar and sitting down; its active, he
says.
Drinking establishments on
Massachusetts Street
Quintons Bar and Deli
615 Massachusetts St.
Free State Brewery
636 Massachusetts St.
Jeffersons Restaurant
743 Massachusetts St.
Tellers
746 Massachusetts St.
The Sandbar
17 East 8
th
St.
Jackpot Saloon and Music Hall
943 Massachusetts St.
Red Lyon Tavern
944 Massachusetts St.
Replay Lounge
946 Massachusetts St.
The Bourgeois Pig
6 East 9
th
St.
Louises Bar Downtown
1009 Massachusetts St.
Buffalo Wild Wings Grill and Bar
1012 Massachusetts St.
Fatsos
1016 Massachusetts St.
The Granada
1020 Massachusetts St.
Its Brothers Bar and Grill
1105 Massachusetts St.
scene
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12.06.2007 08
CONTRIBuTED PHOTO
Kyle Weinstein, Overland Park
senior, takes down a Red Bull
and Vodka at Jet Lag during a
leg of bar golf. Weinstein is a
veteran bar golfer.
Fast Food French-ies
foodreview
Steak n Shake
3111 Nieder Road
Small order $1.79
These itty bitty sticks need a lot of work. For
starters, the size of them makes you feel as if
youre on a dietfried food style. Three Steak n
Shake French fries equal one French fry at any
other fast food stop. They are way too bland, so
salt and possibly even pepper is an absolute
must. And dont think about putting the little
sucker in your mouth right away because it is
entirely too hot. Hold the fry out the window
before popping it in your mouth. H

Spangles
3420 W. 6
th
Street
Small order $1.29
It just tastes bettersometimes. These fries
have a unique potato favor that makes you
realize you are actually eating a potato.
They are long and have a tight crisp
to them. Although they arent
seasoned fries, they
have just the right
amount of salt,
so you dont
need to add
anything to
them.
HH
Back Yard Burgers
2351 W. 31
st
Street
Small order $1.19
Back Yard Burgers offers seasoned or waffe
fries. The seasoned fries are long, thick, crunchy
and perfectly seasoned. They are a little mushy
in the middle, but the outside crunch makes up
for the squishy, mushy inside.
HHH
Arbys
1533 W. 23
rd
Street
Small order $1.29
Who knew that a roast beef restaurant would
have the best fries in town? There isnt anything
straight about them either. Their uniqueness
adds to the fun. These curly fries have the
perfect amount of seasoning and crunchiness.
Some are short and curly, while others just seem
to go on forever. Its the one time you should
defnitely play with your food.
HHHH
Adrienne Bommarito
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I should have known the frst day I
donned the polyester green vest and
tie that I was in for an experience,
rather than just a new job. If I couldnt
tell from the wardrobe I most certainly
should have learned from the events of
the frst day of work at what we call a
hotel-motel.
On my frst shift, a man whose face
was swallowed by his glassesthe
kind that make hub caps out of eyes
furtively stopped by and threw his
keycards on the front desk.
Have a nice day, Mr. Smith, Theo,
my trainer, said, not moving for the
keys until the man and his hub caps
rounded the corner. Instead of going
straight for them, Theo reached for a
pack of handi-wipes just out of site
from the customers. He used the wipe
to grab and dispose of the keys.
He explained to me that, unlike other
customers, we throw out his keycards
rather than re-use them because we
simply cant trust the sanitation of
anything that comes from his room.
Once a week, like clockwork, he
comes in for the Jacuzzi suite and asks
for two keys. One key goes in his wallet,
the other, under his windshield wiper.
Sometime in the night, a woman (or
sometimes a man) walks in with a key
in hand, often asking where the room
number scribbled on a piece of paper
is, and isnt seen again for another
hour.
Its people like these we set our
clocks to. They are our usuals, our
valued customers. Its the kinks
in this routine we dread. I was
trained on the kinks on my
frst day, as well.
With one hour left to go on my frst
shift, I was told I should start answering
the phones. On the second call I
answered, a woman asked for rates
on a certain date. I had already begun
to memorize prices, so I quoted her
what I thought to be true. After typing
in more information I saw there was a
ten-dollar difference, so I apologized
and corrected myself.
The woman on the other
end of the line, well-on
in years judging by the
sound of her voice, came
completely unhinged. She
ravaged me with curse after
curse for nearly fve minutes.
She called me many things,
most of which rhymed with
runt, witch, and mass
soul.
I stared at the phone and
wondered if this was a test. Was this a
job I could honestly take for more than
a week? How much should you put up
with for a steady job?
Getting slapped, apparently.
I stuck with it and a few months into
the job, a foreign exchange program
put several students up in our hotel.
One in particular was Natasha. She was
in her 30s, and spoke little English. All
conversations between us were lost in
translation, which I found out when she
tried to make a long distance phone
call.
The frst night she was there, she
rushed to the counter and shoved a
plastic card in my face.
I call Kazakhstan!
With hand gestures
and pointing I tried to explain how to
use the calling card, but all she would
say was I call Kazakhstan.
She fnally walked away to the
computers across the lobby to fgure
it out. Five minutes later I got a phone
call.
Good evening
I CALL KAZAKHSTAN! she yelled
into the phone, and began reading me
the number she wanted
to call.
I kept trying to explain
to her that it was me at
the front desk, but she
couldnt understand.
Finally, I politely hung up.
She called six more times!
Every time I shouted
louder so that she might
hear me across the
room.
Finally, on her
seventh try, I put the phone down on
the counter and walked over to her. I
tapped her on the shoulder, picked up
the phone and said, Its me!
She turned back to her phone, I call
Kazakhstan!
I hung up the phone and walked
over to her to dial the card and number
for her, but when I reached for the
phone, she slapped me.
I was lost for words. I dug my heels
into the carpet and turned around,
went back to the desk and fnished my
shift, red in the face.
More than a year into working for the
same hotel Id grown accustomed to
the wide variety of odd customers. Mr.
Smith and his late night visitors were
just the regulars, and no customer, no
matter how crotchety, could dig under
my skin. It had offcially become just a
day job.
In September, not 15 minutes into
one of my shifts, the head housekeeper
came in and told us to put a guest in
for one more day because he had a do-
not-disturb sign on his door, and she
had peeked in to fnd him asleep.
I noticed we had extended his stay
the day before, too, and jokingly said,
Wouldnt it be funny if he were dead?
We could be on the news!
Something about
my joke struck a chord with the
housekeeper and she decided to get
our maintenance man to check on the
guest.
I had to run errands, deliver
towels and go through the daily
monotony that comes with my
job.When I got back to the front
desk, I heard sirens. I asked one
of my co-workers what was
going on and he said that
the man I had joked about
was, in fact, dead.
Immediately I ran
outside to make sure the
housekeeper was okay
and to see if there was
anything I needed to
help out with. It wasnt
until I saw the guy that
I realized there was a
dead man at work.
Work didnt stop. It
couldnt. We went on
checking guests in and
out, and taking care
of their every request,
no matter how odd.
I didnt think I was at
all affected until we
found him on our
surveillance back-up
video.
I watched the man
I had seen dead in
a bed only hours
before walk up to
the front desk, get
a room, smile at
the clerk. It was
eerie. I had checked
people in so many
times and a week
later I probably
wouldnt be able
to pick them out
of a line-up. Had
life at the front
desk hardened my
heart?
I went back to
the front desk
and resumed
checking in
guests.
Drivers license
and credit card, please.
How many keys would
you like?
Then I remembered the man
in the video.
How are you doing today?
The guest smiled, Great actually,
thanks for asking.
Adventures in
Green Polyester
And how one Jayplayer learned to
be courteous to every customer
Kyle Gray
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