Monday, April 17, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
The hallmark of Z's divine espresso, 1800 E. 23rd St., Suite A, is a drive-through window where customers can get coffee without having to leave their cars. Those who choose to venture inside will find murals, blown glass lamps and handmade paper fixtures made by local artists. Photo by Craig Bennett/KANSAN
Drive-through coffee shop to open today near K-10
By Karen Lucas Special to the Kansan
Gourmet coffee lovers pulling into Lawrence from westbound Kansas Highway 10 now can buy espresso and other drinks without leaving their cars.
Z'is divine espresso, a coffeehouse with a drive-through at 1800 E. 23rd St., Suite A, is scheduled to open today. It is part of 10 Marketplace, a new strip mall.
"I always felt like it was a niche for coffee drinkers that needed filled," said Mark Zwahl, owner of Z's divine espresso and KU alumnus. "The drive-through concept is offering a product that is at least as good as other coffee shops' products in a more convenient way."
visited Seattle in the early 1990s and saw some there.
But Russ Livingston, owner of The Bourgeois Fig, G. 6, Ninth St., said he wished his competitor had chosen a location closer to his business.
ronnie Chamberlain, a program associate for the School of Social Welfare who commutes from Prairie Village, said she would try it.
"His traffic is good for my traffic, and my traffic is good for his traffic. We all tend to feed off each other," he said.
Z's divine espresso has more to offer than just a drive through window. A customer can sip a latte and munch on a pastry at a handmade
mosaic table inside the shop.
Lawton said she made one of the tables during spring break.
"I had never done any mosaic
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David Montgomery, a local artist, also contributed to the coffeehouse's decor by painting a large mural along one of the walls.
Roger Shimomura shows a crowd of about 100 people a picture that illustrates his memories of internment during World War II. Shimomura and two others spoke about their experiences yesterday at the Lawrence Public Library. Photo by Carolyn Mallett/KANSAN
Zwahl said the mural was a juxtaposition of images from religion, the industrial complex and nature. A dung beetle, a pagoda and a car are just some of the images that grab the customer's eye.
Z's divine espresso also will do its own bean roasting and Zwahl said he preferred to sell organic and freetrade coffees.
As for the store's name, Zwahl said "Z" was his nickname and "divine" comes from his former business partner, Kirk Devine.
Internment veterans look back
U.S. citizens were held during World War II
By Jim O'Molley
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
It was one of the worst mass violations of civil liberties in U.S. history. But strangely, some of the memories of three people who experienced it are happy ones.
Roger Shimomura, professor of art, and former teacher Helen Gee spent part of their childhoods in internment camps where the U.S. government confined Japanese-Americans during World War II. Another woman, Barbara Curry, worked as a teacher in one of the camps.
The three gave a presentation on their two-year internment camp experiences yesterday afternoon to a crowd of about 100 at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. The presentation was part of the "Lawrence's Greatest Generation" series on local residents' wartime experiences sponsored by the library and the Raven Bookstore, 8 E. Seventh St.
Chico Herbison, assistant professor of African and African-American studies, opened the program with some historic background about the camps. In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order authorizing the removal of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast. Without any kind of hearing or trial, more than 100,000 people were removed from their homes and sent to 10 interment camps in the desert and mountain regions of the West. Two-thirds of them were U.S. citizens. They were allowed to take only one suitcase each.
Herbison said after the presentation that Japanese-Americans in Hawaii were not intermed because that would have left Hawaii with no labor force.
The relocation order was the product of 100 years of anti-Asian prejudice and wartime hysteria after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Internment camp was a euphemism for a concentration camp, Herbison said.
Families of seven were given only a 20- by 20-foot room, and there were no private baths or kitchens.
Gee said she was only 2 years old when her family was forced to relocate from Watsonville, Calif., to the internment camp in Poston, Ariz., so she didn't remember much.
"It was hot," she said. "I was in the desert. But I have fond memories. I was a child. I remember playing with other
children."
She remembered bonfires in the evenings and a fish pond her father built in the camp and stocked with fish he caught in the Colorado River.
Shimomura was also too young to remember much about his family's relocation from Seattle to a camp at Minadoka, Idaho, but he said he remembered life in the camp as a child.
"For me it was great because all of my friends lived close to me," he said. "Many recollections are about mischievous events. It seems we were always getting into trouble."
Shimomura has done a series of paintings of his earliest 10 memories—all of them from the camp. Subjects include celebrating his third birthday and long bathroom lines.
For their parents, though, it was different. Shimomura said he first asked his father about the camps for a paper in high school. His father became angry and told him never to bring up the subject again.
For Shimomura and Gee, the painful memories came when they returned to their homes after the war. Gee said some neighbors welcomed them back, but others didn't.
Gee said many Japanese-Americans in her town had left their belongings in a Buddhist temple. But the temple was broken into and property taken or vandalized, so many families had to start again with nothing.
"My first grade teacher made first grade a living hell," she said.
She said her father had to start anew but never gave up, and he ensured that all of his 10 children got college educations.
WWII INVOLVEMENT
- Despite the injustice of internment, many Japanese Americans volunteered to serve in the U.S. military. Later in the war, others were drafted out of the camps.
- Helen Gee's older brother fought in Italy with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most highly decorated unit of its size in American military history.
Roger Shimomura created a painting recalling his sadness when his uncle went away to fight in the war.
Barbara Curry said she remembered one Japanese-American family that had four sons in the military. One was wounded in Italy, and another stayed in the military and retired as a lieutenant colonel.
Chico Herbison, assistant professor of African and African-American studies, said 33,000 Japanese-Americans served in the military. "In an effort to prove their loyalty, they went and fought so hard while their families were in these camps," he said.
Barbara Curry's first job out of college was teaching at the camp in Poston, Ariz, and she said the physical conditions in the desert were hard.
She said the children were eager to learn, and she was always busy working in the camp.
"But it was a wonderful place to be a teacher," she said.
"Which was great because there was nothing else to do," she said.
Retired Lt. Col.
Consulco Castillo
Kickbusch speaks
to members of the
Hispanic
American
Leadership
Organization
about blazing
new trails.
Kickbusch
addressed the
group day
night at the
Spencer Museum
of Art. Photo by
Melissa Thornton/
KANSAN
Speaker urges Hispanic American students to set higher standards
Rv Jenni Valadez
Special to the Kansan
The history and hardships of previous generations, whose dreams rest in the souls of this generation, were emphasized at the Hispanic American Leadership Organization spring keynote address.
Retired Lt. Col. Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch reminded Hispanic-American students at the University of Kansas that they were adding a new chapter to their families' histories by obtaining a college education. Kickbusch is the highest ranked Hispanic-American female in the U.S. Army.
"When I look at you, I am in awe of you," she said. "I wish that we could have been a generation like you — a trailblazing generation."
As Kickbusch referred to her own experience as a first generation Mexican American growing up in Laredo, Texas, she said her parents always urged her to succeed beyond the working-class level of their own generation. Kickbusch also said the same principle applied today.
"You have doubts during this experience called your collegiate life...but you must make it because you come from a people who never quit," she said. "Work that mind, for no longer must we only work with our hands."
Perception, Kickbusch said, is the
word that follows — and sometimes discourages — young Hispanic Americans as they aspire to attain their goals.
"Perception is what somebody else thinks of you," she said. "Therefore, it's how they treat you."
Kickbusch also spoke of how Hispanic American high school students often were slated to become vocational rather than college-bound students.
About 30 people attended the speech Friday at the Spencer Museum of Art. For one Hispanic-American KU student, the hour-long speech both inspired her and reminded her of what she still must learn.
"As an education major, I was interested in the fact that (Kickbusch) mentioned the vocational tracking of Hispanic students," said Felicia Orozco, Kanopolis junior. "Because many people don't think that type of discrimination goes on anymore."
Other students said they were touched by the cultural aspect of the address.
"It was a cultural experience for me,
"said Rosalba Lopez, Lyons junior. "It's nice to know there are other Hispanic students that I can identify with."
"I like what (Kickbusch) said about us being the dreams of our parents and grandparents," said Eulalio Muñoz Jr., Topeka sophomore. "That we are the products of their sweat and tears."
Annual Elections
Tuesday, April 18th at 5:30
Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Society is having our annual election in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
E-mail: <kuprelaw@falcon.cc.ukans.edu> or visit the pre-law office for more information.
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