Thursday, March 9, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Group offers support to grieving students
By Warisa Chulindra
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Hollie Bush, Overland Park sophomore, didn't want to talk to anyone for weeks after her 15-year-old sister, Amanda, was killed in a car accident two years ago.
"It's shocking," Bush said. "My friends were awesome and so was my family. I was happy they were for me, but I just wanted to be left alone."
Recently, two of her friends also experienced deaths of family members. The death of her sister allowed Bush and her friends to find comfort in one another.
"It easier to get support from people who know what it's like to lose a family member that's so close to you." Bush said.
For those looking for others who have experienced the death of a loved one or have experienced a loss such as divorce, Ramsey-Yost Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St., sponsors a free grief support group.
The 12-week program began last week and members may join for the next month. It meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays at the A4
Society Conference Room in Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Since the group began in 1989, more than 250 people have gone through the program, said David Hallenbeck, chaplain and funeral director.
Hallenbeck also is a certified grief counselor from the Grief Recovery Institute in Los Angeles and leads the group. He has experienced the deaths of loved ones as well. His grandfather, father and son have died.
The group uses the handbook of the Grief Recovery Institute, which includes three written assignments. Members make a life history graph, recording significant emotional highs and lows and the ways they coped. They also make a relationship graph about the loved one who has died. Then members write a letter to the person they have lost.
"Oftentimes we're left with regrets, 'I wish I had, I wish I hadn't,' " Hallenbeck said. "We go back and tidy up those painful memories."
Other options are available to students who have experienced a death or loss. The University of Kansas offers individual counseling at Counseling and
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Grief support group sponsored by Rumsey-Yast Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St.: 843-5111
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Donna L. Flory, social worker at the Psychological Clinic, said some people would be more comfortable in individual counseling than in group counseling.
"For some people who are more private, going to a group would be intimidating," she said. "They wouldn't be focused on dealing with the grief and loss."
Flory said people dealt with grief in different ways and often sought support through other organizations such as churches. Regardless of how students deal with grief and loss, it is important they remember the process varies with each individual.
"There's no picture of what it is supposed to look like," Flory said. "The truth is it's an ongoing process."
McCain to end or suspend candidacy
WASHINGTON — George W. Bush and Al Gore, party nominations assured, reached out to John McCain's independent-minded primary voters yesterday, each man determined to capture the middle ground where the battle for the White House will be decided.
McCain, meanwhile, huddled with senior strategists and major financial backers at his mountain cabin near Sedona, Ariz., to assess the situation. Campaign events in Colorado and Illinois were canceled.
The Associated Press
McCain scheduled a news conference for noon EST today. It was unclear whether McCain
would end his campaign entirely,
or simply suspend his candidacy
to preserve his options. One
senior aide said he would halt
the campaign. Another said
McCain would quit outright.
Both spoke anonymously.
Most of McCain's senior aides have been urging him to withdraw, saying Bush has built an almost impossible lead in the delegate count.
Aides said there was no campaign schedule after today's announcement, except for an off-the-record barbecue with journalists at McCain's rustic cabin near Sedona. Reporters were told they would be dispatched to Phoenix at the end of the day —
without McCain.
"John McCain tapped into a vein," Bush said. "The McCain supporters will hear my message of reform: reforming schools, reforming the military, reforming the tax code, and renewal, renewing the spirit of America."
As for Gore, the vice president invoked McCain's name more often than President Clinton's. In a round of TV interviews, he twice started a sentence, "Like John McCain, I ..." And Gore, who campaigned in Detroit, added to the week's schedule another two stops in Michigan in an effort to convert the voters who handed McCain his Feb. 22 primary victory there.
Modernized Iliad hits the stage tonight
By Ryan Devlin
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
For many people, Homer's The Iliad conjures up images of mighty Greek warriors engaged in battle at the ancient city of Troy.
But when the Aquila Theatre Company performs The Iliad at 8 p.m. tonight at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St., they will do so in the garb of modern warfare, evoking images of D-Day. They will be working from a version of The Iliad translated by Stanley Lombardo, chairman of the classics department.
Lombardi said that his interest in Homer stemmed from his days as an undergraduate at Loyola University, where he was first introduced to The Iliad in a required course on classical Greece. He said he seriously began working on the translation in 1990.
"I had D-Day and war movies very much in mind when I was working on the translation," Lombardo said. "I wanted the Homeric heroes to sound and talk like modern soldiers."
"To modernize and colloquialize is easy." Lombardo said. "But to maintain the dire spirit and the dignity of Homer is where the challenge lies."
Lombardi compared his version of Achilles to Clint Eastwood but said that although his translation was American, it maintained the essence of Homer's original.
Lombardo said the company debuted the production at the Lincoln Center in New York City, where it was greeted with rave reviews.
Lombardo said that the Aquila Theatre Company, which is the company-in-residence at the Center for Ancient Studies at New York University, contacted his publisher last year and asked if it could use the translation in an adaptation for the stage. Lombardo and his publisher consented, and since then the company has been performing his version.
Mike Shaw, associate professor of classics, said he wanted to bring the production to the University of Kansas after he and several of his and Professor Lombardi's students saw it performed in Columbia, Mo., in October of 1999.
"The people from Aquila cared so much for Stanley's translation," Shaw said. "They said they would fit us into their schedule if we could accommodate them."
Shaw contacted the Hall Center for the
Stanley Lombardo, chairman of the classics department, said the cover photo of soldiers at the Normandy invasion on D-Day reflected the style of his translation, which makes the Homeric heroes talk like modern soldiers.Contributed art.
Humanifies to see if it would be interested in sponsoring the event. Janet Crow, executive director for the Hall Center, said the center coordinated the production.
Shaw said the company's production was elaborate, with several dramatic and visual effects. He said that the production had improved the reputation of the company and that bringing the production to the University was important.
"It is an honor for KU for a professional company of this caliber to come and perform Stanley's work." Shaw said.
Lombardo said there were many parallels between the Trojan War and World War II.
"The Trojan War helped define what it meant for the Greeks to be a hero," Lombardo said. "It was a Panhellenic effort in the same way World War II was a Panhellenic effort, and it defined national identity for the Greeks in much the same way fighting and winning World War II did for us."
Lombardo also has translated Hesiod's Works and Days, Theogony and fragments of Parmiunedes and Empedocles. His translation of The Odyssey, the continuation of Homer's epic, will be released March 18.
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