Section A·Page 6
The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, March 2, 2000
From left to right,
Andrew Tsuukaki,
KU professor of
theatre and film
and east Asian
studies;
Fukushima Keido,
head abbot of
Tofukuji-sect; and
his nephew, Kei-
San, discuss the
plans for the
Japanese garden
that is being built
at 1045
Massachusetts St.
They visited yester-
day morning to critique
the garden.
Photo by Ellie
Hajek/KANSAN
Garden project endorsed by Japanese authority
By John Audlehelm
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A Zen abbot visiting the University of Kansas has given his approval to the city's Japanese-style garden, which will probably be completed in July.
Fukushima Keido Roshi, the head of Tobukuji, a monastery in Kyoto, visited Watkins Park, 1045 Massachusetts St., yesterday morning to critique the Japanese-style garden the city is building.
Andrew Tsubaki, professor of theater and film and east Asian studies, said Fukushima has visited KU every year since 1989.
"The first time he visited in connection with Zen paintings and a calligraphy exhibit the Spencer did," Tsubaki said, referring to the Spencer Art Museum.
Tsubaki said that during this visit, Fukushima did a calligraphy demonstration, led a Zazen sitting, or Zen meditation, and lectured at the museum last night.
Faye Watson, chair of the Sister Cities Garden Project Committee, said the garden project started in 1995 when Lawrence's sister city, Hiratsuka, Japan, gave Lawrence $5,000 to build the garden.
Ed Mullins, finance director for the city,
said Lawrence matched that grant in July
1998 when it allocated $5,000 to the garden.
Bob Schumm, chairman of the Lawrence Sister City Advisory Board, said the project would cost about $40,000 by the time it was completed.
"We're putting quite a bit of money into this project," he said.
Watson said she did not think the project would cost quite that much.
"We think if we can raise $25,000 we'll be able to do it." she said
Watson said there would be a fund-raiser in May in which garden workers would auction off the garden's parts and auctioneers would bid on how much they would donate.
The garden will not be entirely Japanese, Watson said, because some Japanese flowers cannot take Kansas weather.
The boulders for the garden are coming from a quarry in Marvysville, Watson said.
Schumm said that was because limestone, which is abundant in this area, was made of sediment and could not be used in a Zen garden.
"There's no boulders around here," he said.
Schumm said he thought the garden would be completed by July. Watson said it had to be done by October, when a delegation from Hiratsuka would visit Lawrence to celebrate the sister cities' 10-year anniversary.
Asian illustrations
Carmen Sanches, Lawrence senior, stops to get her name printed in Chinese characters by Judy Yu, Shawnee junior. The table was set up as a part of the Asian-American Festival to give people the chance to see words printed in Korean, Chinese or Japanese. Photo by Jaime Roper/KANSAN
Professors to share ideas, create bonds in Russia
By Amanda Hav
Special to the Kansan
Tom Volek just wants to make friends. And he's going all the way to Russia to do so while working with Russian journalists.
Volek and David Guth, associate professors of journalism, are leaving tomorrow morning for St. Petersburg, Russia, where they will spend 21 days teaching Russians how to create a democratic media.
The U.S. State Department enlisted the pair to go to Russia and discuss advertising, public relations, political and crisis communications, ethics and reporting methods with Russian government officials and private media companies.
liar to state-controlled media in Western Europe. Their journalists have different styles of reporting, so Volek and Guth won't tell them how to do things.
"Russia will build Russia, not us," Volek said.
The first of Volek's Russian missions was in the spring of 1997, when he received a Fulbright grant to teach two professional journalism classes at St. Petersburg State University. Since then he has been invited back three times to conduct journalism workshops and discussions.
Volek said they were willing to take the information and adapt it to their own system.
Media in Russia are state-run and sim-
"Journalists are journalists the world around," he said. "They're curious and they're concerned with where their world is going."
Iryna Rodriguez, Ukraine journalism graduate student, said she thought the outreach efforts were a good idea because both countries could learn from each other.
"I think it's great that there's that kind of exchange of ideas," she said.
Rodriguez said she has seen the media change since the Communist breakdown in 1991 — she said that media now have more press freedom.
“It's still state-controlled, but it's a lot less censored and one-sided,” she said. “There’s more criticism of the government in the media now.”
Volek said this trip is about more than helping to spread democracy, it's an opportunity to improve lives and connect with the Russians.
"We're just trying to be friends," he said.
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