¢ Members of Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church, known for their anti-gay views and picketing, got their first look at a documentary about them made by a KU student. The Topeka Capital-Journal provides an account of their reaction._ Throughout the film, viewers, most of whom wore shirts that read “GodHatesFags.com,” cheered Phelps’s words and yelled at the TV during interviews with those who opposed the church’s anti-homosexual message. Phelps didn’t attend the screening._¢ Lawrence’s Appleseed Cast gets a favorable review for its new album, “Peregrine,” on the site Punknews.org._ True to form, the Cast continues to push boundaries and experiment with new sounds and song production. Peregrine blurs individual track separation letting the album instead speak as one continuous story._¢ William Keel, a professor of German at KU, is quoted in this Houston Chronicle story about the Low German language, also known as Plautdietsch._”Plautdietsch speakers are coming here in droves,” Keel said. “The language is suddenly more active in southwest Kansas than it is in Germany.”_¢ Scot Pollard, the former KU basketball star now playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers, is having a tough time adjusting to life away from his wife and kids for the first time, the Akron Beacon Journal reports._It is the first time Pollard and his wife have been apart since they met at the University of Kansas, and he is missing his children, as well. It has all been part of an adjustment, which has included almost no playing time as the Cavs’ fifth big man.__”It has been a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. I thought it would be all right,” Pollard said. “They’ve always been with me. This is the longest we’ve ever been apart.”_¢ James Gunn, science fiction writing guru at KU, has been named the 24th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, according the organization’s Web site.¢ Janice Matthews, a KU psychology graduate who believes the U.S. government covered up its involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is profiled in last week’s Pitch Weekly._ Matthews wasn’t always this way. She earned a psychology degree from the University of Kansas in the ’80s and trained as a midwife. A conservative Christian, she voted for Bush in 2000. On 9/11, Matthews was raising her children in the small central Kansas town of Lindsborg. “I had a gradual reawakening,” she says._