Monday, April 12, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
PRIDE WEEK EVENTS
This is a partial list of the Pride Week events scheduled for this week. For a complete list, visit the Queens and Allies Web site at www.ukans.edu/~qanda.
Tuesday: Ally Award Presentation and author/activist Riki Anne Wilchins, 7:00 p.m. at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
Wednesday: Party Like it's Pride Week 1999 Celebration, 9:30 p.m. to close, Tremors Night Club 729 New Hampshire St.
hursday: LGBT Community Leader Award presentation and Leslea
Newman lecture, 7:00 p.m. at the
Pine Street Museum
Name: LEGT Community Leader
Thursday: LGT Community Leader
Award presentation to judges
Newman lecture. 7:00 p.m. at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
Friday: Sixth Annual Basket Bag
Lunch Drag and Drog Race, Noon
to 1:00 p.m., Kansas Union Plaza;
The Queer Prom, 9:30 p.m. to
2:00 a.m., at the Tee Pee in
Lawrence
Sunday: Pride March, Rally and Potluck. March begins at 1:30 p.m. at City Hall, Sixth and Massachu-
seits streets. Rally begins at 2:00 p.m., potluck will follow the rally.
Pride Week activities grow
Week's events mix seriousness with fun
By T.J. Johnson
tjohnson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Today marks the official start to an annual spring tradition at the University of Kansas — KU Queers and Allies Pride Week.
Pride Week has grown to the point of being Pride Month, with activities scheduled throughout the month of April. Speakers, rallies and parties are scheduled for the next two weeks to celebrate the queer community on campus and in Lawrence.
Marvin Decker, Pittsburgh junior and co-president of Politically Active Queers, said he thought more activities were planned for Pride Week this year than had been planned in the past.
"I think this is going to be one of the
largest Pride Weeks ever," Decker said.
Corrina Beck, Kansas City, Mo. senior and co-coordinator of Pride Week, said Pride Week was an opportunity to unite the homosexual community on campus and helped raise awareness.
"Our main goal is to instill pride in the queer community, and we also hope to teach queers and our allies something about the queer community they didn't know before."
Don Rowland, les/bi/gay translasion for the University, said the events scheduled this month could raise awareness and tolerance of queer issues even though the University is a fairly accepting environment.
"I think KU offers us a wonderful living and learning environment, but we still have gains to make," Rowland said.
The lack of spousal benefits for same-sex partners is just one example of inequality that exists at the University, Rowland said.
Documentaries, slide shows and presentations will highlight transgender issues, hate crimes, domestic violence in the queer community and other topics.
"In the face of the diversity we experience in the queer community, it is a way for us to celebrate survival and tenacity," he said. "We also get together and have a great time with people who share our goals."
Rowland also said one focus of this year's Pride Week events was to thank the ally community for its support of ouer issues.
Although Pride Week has events that address serious issues, it is also a time to celebrate, with events such as the Brown Bag Lunch drag show and the Queer Prom, Rowland said.
Multiple events are planned for almost every day this week. For a complete list of events, visit the KU Queers and Allies Web site at www.ukans.edu/ -qanda, or call the Queers &官兵 office at 864-3091.
—Edited by Darrin Peschka
Spring powwow includes farewell for professor
By Dan Curry
By Dan Curry dcurry@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The First Nations Student Association's Annual Spring Powwow, which is often a time of merry-making and remembrance, lingered Saturday night in the bittersweet business of saving goodbye.
Cornel Pewewardy, assistant professor of teaching and leadership, dedicated the powwow to Luci Tapahonso, associate professor of English, and her husband Bob Martin, Haskell Indian Nations University president, who will leave to take positions at the University of Arizona next semester.
Standing at the front of the arena with their children and grandchildren, Tapahoson and Martin bid farewell to the University of Kansas and Haskell communities.
"It's hard to express how much the sort of education and the sort of gifts we've been given here mean to us," Tapahonso said.
"On behalf of our family I want to express our gratitude to the First Nation Student Association and to the University of Kansas for this honor," Martin said. "You will always be in our hearts."
The drummers struck their drums and sent up a salute that thundered through the rafters of Anschutz Sports Pavilion, high above the heads of about 400 people who attended.
As the songs began and dancers escorted
Martin and Tapahonso during an honor dance, well-wishers approached to hug them and to shake their hands.
Drum circles from South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas City and Lawrence took turns providing the music for the dance competitions in the categories of Northern Traditional, Southern Straight, Grass, Fancy, Jingle Dress, Fancy Shaw and Southern Cloth, and Buckskin.
Each dance featured a different step and a different outfit.
In the women's Northern Traditional dance, three women in fringed dresses bobbed at the knees and slowly rotated to the beat of the song.
Daisy Begay. Lawrence resident and member of the Bine Nation, helped judge the dancing competition.
She said she rated the dancers according to the beauty of their regalia, their footwork and how well they stepped on beat.
Raven Heavy Runner, Browning, Mont., senior and president of FNSA, said more dancers and singers with greater reputations were at this year's powow.
Heavy Runner, who has attended the powwow four times at the University, said this would be his last, because he will leave Lawrence after the summer.
He said the powwow did not honor only Native-American students.
This is for all KU students, he said.
Native American students.
"This is for all KU students," he said.
Cornel Pewwardy, assistant professor of teaching and leadership, says goodbye to Luci Tapahonso, associate professor of English, and Bob Martin, her husband and Haskell Indian Nations University president. Tapahonso and Martin will leave Lawrence to take jobs at the University of Arizona this fall. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
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