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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Sports:The softball team split its doubleheader last night against Oklahoma City. SEE PAGE 12A
(USPS 650-640) • VOL. 110 NO. 135
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2000
Inside: Tired of Lawrence? There are plenty of entertainment options in Kansas City. SEE SECTION B
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Local bands compete for stage, studio time
Bv BriAnne Hess
By BrAnne Hess
writer @kansas.com
Kansan staff write
The Battle of the Bands is back.
The annual Farmer's Ball will be at 9 tonight, tomorrow and Saturday at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hamshire St.
Eight bands will compete to be the opening act for Day on the Hill on May 6 and for free recording time at Red House Recording Studio in Eudora.
"I think it's going to be terrific," said Amy Stortz, St. Louis, Mo., senior and co-organizer of the show."The whole show is eclectic." The four bands playing tonight are the Boycott Violets, Stargeon Mill, Lake . District and Plasstown.
"Every other song was completely different from he song before it."
Amy Stortz Farmers Ball co-organizer
Stortz said tonight's performance would include mostly pop and rock music, but that the bands still were very different. Boycott Violets will start the show and be the most interesting act to see, she said.
Stortz said the group's entry tape was of one man singing acoustic songs.
"He's never played out before," she said. "This is their first big gig."
Another member of the selection
committee, Matt Dunehoo,
Shawnee senior, said that Sturgeon
Mill would describe its music as
ecluctic, but he thought it also
sounded gothic. Stortz agreed.
"Every other song was completely different from the song before it." Stortz said. "It ranged from typical goth to alternative rock that you would have heard on the LAZER before it changed."
Lake District is the side project of the Olathe pop band, Tenderpal. Stortz said the band produced a lot of sweet love songs.
Electronimo is a Kansas City-area band comprised entirely of high school students. Dunehoo said it played indie rock. Stortz
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Jill Docking, vice president of investments at A.G. Edwards and Sons, speaks during the Women's Recognition Program last night. Docking, the event's keynote speaker, said that there were few limitations to what modern women can do and that technology was breaking down barriers for women. Photo by Craig Bannett/KANSAN
Women leaders honored
By Ryan Blethen
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs, greeted the crowd at the annual Women's Recognition Program. He told the crowd that programs such as last night's were important.
About 200 people crammed into a hot Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union last night to praise past and present women leaders at the University of Kansas.
"It is important that the University make leadership part of the student experience here," he said.
After Amber's speech, Jill Docking, vice president of investments at A.G. Edwards and Sons Inc. in Wichita and the event's keynote speaker, addressed the crowd. Docking received her master's in business administration from Kansas in 1983. She said a lot had changed since her days on Mount Oread.
"When I think back 21 years ago, there were very few women in the MBA program." Docking said.
She told the crowd it was great that women had so many opportunities in contemporary society and that technology was a tool women should learn to use to their advantages.
"Whoever adapts to change the fastest wins, whether you're male
or female." Docking said.
Kathy Rose-Mockry, program director of Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said the program was started in the 1960s by the commission on the status of women. The program is co-sponsored by the commission and Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center.
Rose-Mockry said the program was special because it recognized women who had made an impact at the University.
Frances Tan, Subang Jaya, Malaysia, senior, won the award for Outstanding International Woman Student. She said it was nice to win because it validated her hard work at the University.
Twelve women received nine awards. The categories ranged from Outstanding Woman Student in Athletics to Outstanding Woman Educator.
Anneliese Stover, Overland Park sophomore and co-president of the commission on the status of women, said she learned more than she thought she would about the women of KU while organizing the program.
"It's a great honor," Tan said. "Not many international students get recognition on campus."
"All the women that come feel proud of their accomplishments," she said.
"There's so many amazing women across campus," she said. "It was hard to pick who would win."
OUTSTANDING
WOMEN AWARD
WINNERS
Hall of Fame
- Jacqueline Davis, Lied Center director
Betsy Biesecker, former associate director of the KU cancer center
Juanita Strait, long-time friend of KU students
Sandra Gray, associate professor of anthropology
Educator
Gloria Flores, associate director of freshman and sophomore advising.
Lynne Tidwell, journalism undergraduate advising coordinator
Frances Tan, Subang Jaya Malaysia senior
Dede Seibel, McPherson senior
Risa Petty, Lawrence senior Leadership
Shyra McGee, Wichita senior Athletics
International Student
Taylor Gill, Wichita senior Community Services
Student Services
Sarah Heimovics, Fairway senior
Nontraditional Student
These are some of the glass pieces created by Dick Rector and Jim Slough, owners of Free State Glass, 307 E. Ninth St. In 1997, they opened a gallery at 1021 Massachusetts St. to display and sell their artwork.
Free State Glass provides 'school' for area residents
Story by John Audlehem • Photos by Tara Krauss
Ashleigh Self has been blown away by glass sculpting.
self, Clearwater senior and architecture major, is a part-time employee at Free State Glass, 307 E. Ninth St. Free State's owners, Dick Rector and Jim Slough, have been making and shipping glass sculptures since 1984.
Only recently did they begin selling directly to the local market, opening a gallery in 1997 at 1021 Massachusetts St.
And with the closing of the University of Kansas' glass program in 1991, Free State has become an informal school for people, many of them KU students, who are interested in glass sculpting.
Rector said he received about one request a week from somebody who wanted to learn about glass sculpting.
"We can't really accommodate that," he said. "I like teaching, but I can't really do that and be a full-time artist."
So as a Free State employee, students like Self receive a paycheck and instruction in a part-time hobby.
"I really didn't know what it was all about when I went for the interview," she said. "It just sounded like a fun job, and I like working with my hands. It was wonderful. I caught on very quickly."
Self said she planned to work only part-time this summer at an arch- tecture firm so she could continue scouting glass.
sculptures, cleaning up, corresponding with galleries and making paperweights — which Rector described as the store's bread-and-butter merchandise, usually selling for $40 to $45.
"We have several students that are employed here," he said. "They assist us in almost every facet of our business. It's a learning process for them."
Rector graduated in 1983 with a master's degree of fine arts in glass. Slough, however, has a degree in pharmacy. After graduating in 1983, he said he worked full-time as a pharmacist before discovering glass sculpting.
Rector and Slough are KU graduates.
Vernon Brejcha, associate professor of design, was Rector's and Slough's teacher. He said he remembered being impressed with their glass work.
"As students they did a lot of exploring with sculptural things," Brejcha said. He said Rector experimented with sculptures made of glass and welded steel.
he looked like a little kid when he came in," Brejcha said. "He took to it like a duck to water."
As for Slough, Brejcha said that glass sculpting got in his blood.
There's something about hot glass that's absolutely magic," he said.
Therapists to evaluate running techniques, give tips on avoiding injuries
Clinic may help ease runners' pain
Bv Warisa Chulindra
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Runners experiencing aches and pains after their workouts can learn the causes of their ailments and how to avoid them at the 13th annual runner's clinic this week. They also will receive tips from physical therapists on how to improve their running technique.
The clinic will be from 1 to 4 p.m. today and 9 to 11 a.m. tomorrow in the physical therapy department on the second floor of Watkins Memorial Health Center.
It is open to students, faculty and staff, but appointments are required. Both long-time runners and beginners are welcome. Today's appointment times all are full, but times still are available tomorrow.
Physical therapists will consult with each student for about 20 minutes. To determine flexibility and strength, students will do
motion exercises as physical therapists evaluate the students' major joints and posture.
Using a video camera, a physical therapist will do a slow motion analysis to learn what is causing the pain when the student runs. By knowing the source of the pain, physical therapists can advise students how to correct the problem.
Corey Snyder, Topeka junior and physical therapy alce, said runners could experience pain for a variety of reasons.
"It depends on the person," Snyder said. "It could be the way the body is set up, running hunched over or different forces on the
back."
"If you're really into running, the clinic would help." Wade said.
"I'll do anything that will improve my running," she said.
Amber Wade, Galena freshman, runs every other day. While she doesn't experience aches and pains when she runs, Wade said she thought the clinic would be beneficial for other runners.
Marianne Hovgaard, Veilje, Denmark,
Junior, said she would go to the clinic
because she was interested in learning how
to increase her speed and endurance.
RUNNER'S CLINIC
From 1 to 4 p.m. today and 9 to 11 a.m. in the physical therapy department on the second floor of Wesley Memorial Health Centers
Students should wear shorts so physical therapists can see their joints. They should also wear their running shoes.
To make an appointment, call 864-9592.
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