2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2005
BY KIM WALLACE
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Adam Deines
Adam Dennes Theater Manager-Kansas Union
How long have you been working at the Union?
I've worked here since the beginning of freshman year, so about a year and a few months. I worked a summer at my hometown theater as a projectionist and volunteer worker.
What is a typical work day like?
There is not any typical day. Some days I'll build a movie. Movies come in on six or seven reels and I put them all together and splice them into one big movie. It all goes into the platter system that makes the movie. It takes maybe an hour.
Does work interfere with school?
If anything, it helps me manage my time better.
What is the best part of your job?
Worst?
The best part definitely is getting paid to watch movies. The worst part is every once in a while I have to work a late night on a weekend, sometimes until midnight or 1. I'm here breaking down movies, which is basically the reverse of putting together movies, so we can
ship them back to the distributor in Kansas City. We get movies mailed in every week.
How can students find out about movie showings?
Check the SUA Web site. Every Thursday and Friday night, almost, we have a regular feature film, plus French and Italian "college flashback" films on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
What are some of the more interest-
movies that have been shown?
We just showed "House of Flying Daggers" Monday night. Foreign films are always interesting.
What is your favorite SUA activity?
Movie on the Hill, because the idea of watching a movie
outside is just a cool concept. We also do "Rocky Horror Picture Show" on Halloween in the Union Ballroom. Last year, we had a band play and a bunch of other one show activities. People dressed up and we handed out prop packs to the audience. In part of the movie, everyone throws toast, so we do that, and there's a lot of audience interaction.
How are the movies chosen?
The SUA film committee does all of that.
How many hours do you work a week?
About 15-20, but that's between two jobs. I'm also the Union Coordinator, or weekend manager.
What is the cost of an SUA movie pass?
About$25-$30 or $2
per movie. Sometimes
we have free movies
and events, too.
What is the best part of having a campus job?
What is your favorite thing about KU?
It's convenient to be able to work on campus and it's good pay and good people to work with.
HOUSING
Interesting people. I like meeting new people and finding out what they are all about.
—Edited by Kellis Robinett
Colorful co-op emptying out
BY FRANK TANKARD
ftankard@kansan.com
KANSAN WATER WRITR
A big wooden spool table sits in the middle of the room called the "rackleshack," across from a poster with crazy drawings and words that read: "Free Trade Area of the Americas: Global Resistance to Corporate Colonialism."
It is the south lounge of The Sunflower House, a cooperative living pad for students, Lawrencians and transients for 36 years.
The Sunflower House, 1406 Tennessee St., is the oldest continuously running co-op of the three overseen by the University of Kansas Student Housing Authority. Unfortunately, it's half-empty.
People move in and out so much that it's hard to say exactly how many people live there at a certain moment, but after a few residents move out next week, just 14 or 15 people will be living there — fewer than half of the house's 31-person occupancy
Reminders of the past mix with signs of the present. Walk up to the doorstep, and the first thing you'll notice is the fresh yellow paint on the outside of the house. The second thing you'll see is the bicycles chained to the front porch railing, several of them rusted and covered with cobwebs, locked up and abandoned.
"T
limit, said Aaron Goldblatt. Overland Park junior and resident since May 2004.
Patrick Cady, a 2004 KU graduate and current resident, said the occupancy was the lowest he'd seen since he moved there in the summer of 2002. But it'll rebound, he said. He hopes it will. He loves the place.
Traces of past residents also linger; a carving on the arm of an old couch proclaims "Eat Flowers and Live," and junk left behind crowds a couple of rooms.
"The last three years, I've lived with a girl from Transylvania, a professional opera singer and a guy who's fluent in Mayan," he said from his seat in the rackleshack, a fitting nickname given to the room years ago. "It's a trip. You really get a range of personalities."
The decor of the house has a vibe straight from 1969, the year of its inception, from the multi-colored walls painted by residents a few months ago to the colored silk cloths hanging from the ceiling in the north living room.
The house was founded under the name CIA House, short for Campus Improvement Association, by a 33-year-old KU professor named Keith Miller in the fall of 1969. It was a
The last three years, I've lived with a girl from Transylvania, a professional opera singer and a guy who's fluent in Mayan. It's a trip. You really get a range of personalities."
The house also shows its age.
Patrick Cady KU graduate
time when cooperative living centers were springing up across the country.
There were no rules; everyone was expected to chip in. Unfortunately, as Miller said, "someone had to take the garbage out," and no one
did. Within months, co-ops were dying across the country. They needed structure. The CIA house was filled with dogs, guests and trash.
"The place just sank," said Miller, professor of applied behavioral science. "Fewer people wanted to live there. It stank. It was just terrible."
The house shut down in the summer of 1971 for major cleaning and reorganization. It re-opened in the spring of 1972 under the name Sunflower House and with a new work-sharing system still in place today.
It's been kicking ever since, going through high points and low points, clean years and dirty years.
With residency low, it's hard for 14 or 15 residents to maintain the big house. Dinner, usually cooked by residents and served at 6 p.m., hasn't been served since mid-
The Sunflower House, located at 1406 Tennessee St., has been in operation since the 60's. Sustainability and conservation are largely emphasized as an integral part of this student co-op at the University of Kansas. Interested students are welcomed and encouraged to stop by anytime for more information. This Saturday, an open house will be held at 2 p.m., followed by a Pot Luck Dinner at 6:30 p.m.
September. Some of the residents who are moving out were evicted because they weren't doing their jobs, Goldblatt said, which made things harder.
And after a new 10-person coop, Ad Astra Per Aspera, opened Tuesday at 1035 Kentucky St., Sunflower House could be in financial trouble if it doesn't get more residents.
Zack Falin, who resigned from the board of directors of the University of Kansas Student Housing Authority on Monday, said,
"There's always an ebb and flow, and people tend to come and go in groups of two or three. But it is unusual for it to have that low of an occupancy."
But there's still something attractive about the place: cheap rent, the bond of working together, the loose atmosphere.
Cady said, "I really dug on the idea of people all-for-one putting into it. I always dug it as sort of a gypsy frat."
Edited by Becca Evanhoe
STATE
Museum guru faces theft charges
WICHITA — Jurors are expected to hear opening arguments Wednesday in the federal trial of the man who turned a small-town planetarian into a nationally recognized space museum, which houses such artifacts as
the Apollo 13 command module.
Jury selection began Tuesday in the case against Max Ary, the former director of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson. Ary is accused of stealing items from the collection, but his attorneys have contended in earlier hearings the items actually belonged to Ary.
He has pleaded not guilty to allegations that he made profits on
a number of artifacts, including ones on loan from NASA.
He faces 19 federal counts ranging from mail fraud to money laundering.
Ary has said he is looking forward to proving his innocence.
Jury selection began Tuesday afternoon, with the trial to last about two weeks.The charges carry a maximum penalty of up to five years in federal prison
and a $250,000 fine on each of the wire fraud and mail fraud counts. He faces a maximum penalty of up to 10 years and a $250,000 fine on each count of theft and each count of transportation of stolen property. Two of the counts ask for the return of any property or proceeds Ary received as a result of the alleged crimes.
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