Friday, April 7, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Greek Games slated for tonight
Charity event to raise money for Habitat for Humanity
By Jessie Meyer writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Stewart Avenue will seem more like a carnival than the Greek zhetto tonight.
The Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association will convert the street into an outdoor field-day arena and play host to the Greek Games from 5 to 8 p.m. The proceeds from the field-day event will go toward the next House That Greeks Built project.
Chris Vetter, IFC fall philanthropy chair and
Shawnee junior, said there would be everything from basketball, volleyball and kickball, to bobbing for apples, three-legged races and water balloon tosses. Winners will receive trophies and prize packs.
"There will be a lot of games and things to do." Vetter said. "It should be a lot of fun."
L. B. Ernst, the Panhellenic Association's fall philanthropy chair and co-coordinator of the event, said the idea for the event evolved by combining several ideas, but that the main focus was to have a good time.
"We are just trying to get a bunch of people together and have fun," Ernst said. "It includes all the sororities and fraternites, but we would love to have as many people there as we could."
Vetter said that teams of three would register and pay $25 to participate in all of the group
events and that individual game tickets could be purchased for $1 at the carnival. There also will be T-shirts available for $10 at the event.
The House That Greeks Built project is a division of Habitat for Humanity. The Greek Games will be the first fund-raising event for the Fall 2001 project, Vetter said.
Ernst said she thought the event would be a success even if it raised little money.
Vetter said the goal for the 2001 project was about $40,000 — the average cost for a Habitat house.
"We would like to raise about $2,500," he said.
"But it is a yearlong fund-raising event, so anything we make will be a good start."
"We can help with manpower if nothing else," Ernst said. "We will be making it known that a charity needs help from everyone."
Marionette dolls hang from the top of a cubical that contains an exhibit titled "Creation," based on the life of a woman named Ethel. "Creation" is part of a larger exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology, which will run through Aug. 6, that celebrates the everyday work that women do to perpetuate culture. Photo by Carolyn Mollett/KANSAN
Exhibit depicts women's cultural contributions
By Ryan Blethen
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Women's Works 2000, an exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology, honors the work women do and the effect they have had on forming and perpetuating cultures around the world. The exhibit, which opened Feb. 26, runs through August 6.
Sandra Gray, associate professor of biological anthropology and curator of the exhibit, said she wanted it to praise the average woman and show that women in traditional roles made valuable contributions to cultures.
"With the exhibit, we wanted to explore all those complex themes," she said.
One thing that will strike museum-goers is the presentation of the exhibit, Gray said. Each person who worked on the exhibit put a presentation together about a woman who had influenced his or her life.
All the glass cases normally in the museum have been removed and replaced by 10 cubicles that look like theater stage sets. Each set has pictures and items that represent each woman. On the outside of each cubicle is a narrative about the woman.
Gray said Christilles' vision of what shape the exhibit would take was invaluable.
Kim Taylor, exhibit designer for the anthropology museum, said the exhibit was anything but typical. Taylor worked with Dennis Christilles, assistant professor of theater and film, to develop the presentation of the exhibit.
"He knew we wanted it to be interactive, but we wanted it to be linear." Gray said.
"We wanted people to be able to walk through people's lives. We did not want a lot of ethnography."
Taylor said she enjoyed doing an
exhibit outside of the glass cases normally used in museums. Having the exhibit displayed in the cubicles makes it more interactive, and it appeals to children, she said.
"Kids love it," she said. "They get to stick their heads in."
The name Women's Works 2000 was chosen because it embodied the main points of the exhibit, Gray said.
"By using the word 'works' we thought we could get the functional aspect of it as well as the creative," Gray said.
Through the work that women do in the home, they directly affect how
cultures are formed and perpetuated. Gray said.
"It's kind of basic, but we devalue that," she said.
One of the displays by Soren Larsen, Memphis, Tenn., graduate student, displays a map and other items from the Cheslatta Ten band in British Columbia. Its main focus is on Mary Quaw, an elder of her Native American band.
Larsen's display includes a map that Quaw drew, charting the way from her village to the coast.
"It's her map and her recollections
of 'My Blue Google trail.' I accept said.
Larsen said he wanted people to
see that although jobs such as mapping had long been seen as jobs of men, in reality, women and men shared the duty in many cultures.
He said he wanted people to understand the material culture of women. Items such as clothing, pottery and maps allow women to pass on their culture, he said.
Not all the narratives and displays were written or put together by people from the anthropology department. Students and faculty from a range of fields contributed to the exhibit. Gray said
"We really wanted this to be inter- disciplinary," she said.
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