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THE UNIVERSITY DARRY KANSAN
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2008
"I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers."
— George A. Romero
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Zombies are common in hertian folklore and are believed to be brought back to life by sorcerers.
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Spotlight on Organizations
BY HELEN MUBARAK
hmubarak@kansan.com
Before joining the Ballroom Dancing Club at the University of Kansas, Merriam Ph.D. student Nick Frisby admits that he has often felt stressed in dancing situations.
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"I'll be honest - I've never had the moves," said Frisby, who is now the club's vice president. "Ballroom dances like tango, salsa, waltz, and swing allow for a more structured initial approach. You can add your own touch once you get comfortable, but having some basics to focus on has really helped me come to enjoy dancing as a social experience."
Ballroom Dancing Club
Founded in the 1990s, the Ballroom Dancing Club now has 70 members and is open to the entire Lawrence community. For $25, members can attend up to six hours of professional lessons per week to learn the Rumba, Cha-Cha, Samba, Jive, Tango, Waltz, Foxtrot, Quickstep, Salsa, Merengue and Swing.
"The turnout each semester is full of diverse people from different age groups," Frisby said. "Everyone gets to meet one another since we rotate partners throughout each lesson."
Although $25 may seem like a lot of money to students, the club's current instructor charges $75 an hour for regular group lessons outside the club.
Lisa Cason, Overland Park freshman, works on the Cha-Cha with Alberto Aveuela, San Juan graduate student, during the KU Ballroom Dancing Club meeting on Tuesday night. The KU Ballroom Dancing Club meets on Tuesday from 7-9 p.m. in the Kansas Room at the Kansas Union.
Associate Professor Kirk McClure joined the club in order to learn how to dance and later volunteered to be the faculty sponsor. He said the atmosphere at the lessons is never competitive because no one cares whether members are novices or experts.
"Dance is such a pleasant form of exercise that people are naturally drawn to it as a form of social contact," McClure said.
McClure said the club includes a large contingent of graduate students at the University who come from outside the United States. He said few clubs provide the opportunity to meet and interact with people from such a range of nations.
Frisby said the previous leaders' energy and love of dancing are responsible for the club's friendly atmosphere.
"(The preceding officers) are absolutely great teachers, and welcome people into their circle of friends. That's a feature you can't build into a club - you just have it or you don't." Frisby said.
Ph.D. student Kellen Voss, the current president of the Ballroom Dancing Club, said the main attraction of learning to ballroom dance is
that it is so unique
"A girl loves a guy who can sweep them off their feet," Voss said. "Since ballroom dance can also be applied to many contemporary songs, it always draws a crowd at bars."
Voss said that new members easily feel that they are a part of the group.
"Once they overcome the initial fear of learning something new, it becomes great fun and they seem to gain lots of confidence," oss said.
The club's officers encourage
new members to try a few classes before they decide to pay the dues. The group practices on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 7:00-9:00 p.m., but locations vary. Additionally, about once a month, the club organizes dances with a live band at the Camelot II Ballroom, 1117 Massachusetts St.
For more information about the club, email kubdc@ku.edu or visit groups.ku.edu/~kubdc.
Edited by Mandy Earles
Defeating winter with group hugs
ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this photo released by the official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, some wild macaques hold each other against cold in Qianling Park, Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou province, on Monday January 28, 2008. As the freezing weather continues, the wild macaques raised in the open air of Qianling Park lived a hard life against cold and snow, according to Xinhua. ASSOCIATED PRESS
HEADLINE Journalists place in Hearst Awards for Kansan stories
Two University journalism students placed in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program's in-depth writing competition for stories
published in The University Daily Kansan during the fall semester.
Matt Lindberg, Dallas senior,
placed seventh and won a 5500
scholarship for his story "Legally
tripping," about students' use of
salvia, an herb that produces hallucinogenic effects when smoked.
Lindberg is The University Daily
Kansan special sections editor.
Courtney Condron, Leawood junior, tied for 19th for her story "Coping with college blues," about students dealing with depression.
The Hearst program, often referred to as the "college Pulitzers" holds six different writing competitions each year. After the first
three competitions for 2007-2008 the University ranks fifth in the Intercollegiate Writing Competition, which ranks schools based on points earned in the different competitions.
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KU Libraries Instructional Services will present Dreamweaver: Creating Web Pages at 8:30 a.m. in the Budig PC Lab.
Powerpoint 2003: Intermediate will be presented by KU libraries Instructional Services at 9 a.m. in the Anschutz Library Instructional Center.
Shona Clarkson, Conor Brown and Ashley Depenbusch will present Merienda Brown Bag at 12 p.m. in 318 Bailey.
Dr. Joseph Seabrooks, president of Blue River Community College in Kansas City, MO, will present "Walking the Dream... Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr" at 6:45 p.m. in Strong Hall, the Woodruff Auditorium-Kansas Union.
Hersh Gilbert will present the Geology Colloquium: "Lithosheric Foundering in Continental Deformation" at 4 p.m. in 103 Lindley.
The workshop Endnote II in 60 minutes will begin at 6 p.m. in the Regents Center Library.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Open House will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the commons area of Continuing Education.
Tea Time will be presented by Student Union Activities at 3 p.m. in the traditions area of the Knasas Union.
KU Opera will present "La Traviata" at 7:30 p.m. in the Robert Baustian Theatre inside of Murphy Hall.
Focus The Nation Roundtable will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
Dr. Andrel N. Vedernikov, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry- University of Maryland, will present "Platinum and Palladium Mediated Aerobic CH Oxidation in Solution" at 3:30 p.m. in 2017 Malott
Tomorrow is National Wear Red Day, to raise women's awareness of heart disease. It is the number one cause of death among U.S. women, and actually takes more women than men.
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