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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2014
OLYMPICS
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Sochi winter Olympics to begin this Friday
HALLIE HOLTON
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Tomorrow, Feb. 7, the opening ceremonies will commence in Sochi, Russia.
Sochi has gone to great lengths to make these Winter Games the most compact in the history of the Olympics. For spectators, it will simply take a matter of minutes to get from one part of the games to the other.
The games will take place in two arenas: the Mountain Cluster and the Coastal Cluster. The Mountain Cluster will feature Nordic and Alpine ski events, as well as the huge and bobsled. The second part of the park, the Coastal Cluster, will showcase indoor
ice sports.
The Winter Games are able to be so compact, partly because Sochi decided to build all of the athletic facilities with the needs of disabled people in mind. All of the facilities will be used for both the Paralympic and Olympic events.
In past years there have been KU athletes participating in the Olympics, but there will be no Jawhaws in Sochi this year.
Nonetheless, in two days the journey of the Winter Olympics will begin. Let us prepare for another round of exciting memories, as the Olympics are always full of remarkable moments.
Edited by Julie Etzler
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Alpine Skiing Men's Downhill Training 1
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Men's Normal HILL Individual Final Round 10:45 a.m.
LOS ANGELES — It looks like Animal Planet is barking up the right tree after all. The 10th annual "Puppy Bowl," a 12-hour marathon consisting of a two-hour broadcast played six times in a row, dug up its best viewership numbers vet on Sundav.
Animal Planet's 'Puppy Bowl' hits ratings high
As expected, the "Puppy Bowl" was big on social media, where cute animals are known to get some traction. The premiere generated 340,000 mentions on Twitter and 150,000 Instagram pictures from people using the #PuppyBowl hashtag.
The highly publicized canine competition got a total of 13.5 million viewers to tune in over the 12-hour stretch.
During the first airing, from 3 to 5 p.m., the show drew an audience of 3.3 million, 24 percent better than last year's comparable "Puppy Bowl" airing. It also beat everything on cable.
Kesha postpones tour dates,continues eating disorder treatment
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LOS ANGELES — Kesha is postponing tour dates as she completes treatment for an eating disorder, reps for the singer say. The pop star had shows scheduled for March and April.
"I was so looking forward to performing at these dates but I need to follow my doctor's advice and get my health back on track," she said in a statement.
"All of your support during this time has been so amazing. I couldn't have done this without you all. I look forward to coming back stronger than ever on the next tour."
In January, the 26-year-old checked into Timberline Knolls outside of Chicago, the same facility where Demi Lovato sought help in 2010.
"I'm a crusader for being yourself and loving yourself but I've found it hard to practice," Kesha wrote to her
fans on Facebook. "I'll be unavailable for the next 30 days, seeking treatment for my eating disorder ... to learn to love myself again. Exactly as I am."
Kesha had dates booked in Indiana and Wisconsin, according to her official website.
Fans who purchased tickets should contact their local box office for refund information.
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Red Light museum to open in Amsterdam
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In this photo taken Tuesday, a mock-up of a luxury suite in a brothel is seen at the "Red Light Secrets" museum in Amsterdam. On any given evening, thousands of tourists stroll down the narrow streets of Amsterdam's famed Red Light District, gawking at ladies in lingerie who work behind windows, making a living selling sex for money.
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AMSTERDAM — On any given evening, thousands of tourists stroll down the narrow canal-side streets of Amsterdam's famed Red Light District, gawking at ladies in lingerie who work behind windows, making a living selling sex for money. Now a small educational museum is opening Thursday in the heart of the district to show reality from the other side of the glass.
RED LIGHT SECRETS
Organizer Melher de Wind says the Red Light Secrets museum is for those who want to learn more about how the area works without actually visiting a prostitute. It's located in a former brothel, one of the narrow buildings typical of Amsterdam.
Visitors enter the museum by passing a hologram of a beckoning prostitute. Then the displays attempt to place prostitutes as part of society. There's a short film showing the many people who work with the prostitutes: cleaning or repairing their rooms, doing their laundry, or running over to their windows with coffee or food during shifts.
Prostitutes rent windows on a half-day basis and can work shifts that are 11 hours long, six days a week. They spend a lot of time waiting for customers. In their free time, they visit local hairdressers, nail salons and clothing shops.
There's also a nursery school in the heart of the Red Light District, right next to the windows. In one scene in the film, a middle-aged prostitute in red leather receives an afternoon visit from her grade-school daughter.
A LONG HISTORY IN AMSTERDAM
The museum makes only a passing attempt to document the history of prostitution tolerance in Amsterdam — starting from the 16th century, when it was a port city flush with wealth from the spice trade and authorities turned a blind eye when sailors went ashore looking for women. Or during the Napoleonic Wars, when prostitutes first began to have mandatory medical checkups to combat venereal disease among soldiers.
The museum focuses on the era since 2000, when prostitution became legal in the Netherlands. Since then the city has been struggling it says with some success to eradicate pimps and human trafficking.
Yolanda van Doeveren, who manages the city's prostitution social programs, says the district is regulated by police officers, social workers, health workers, tax authorities and civil rights groups. A new girl who appears in a window will be noticed in a matter of hours and must be able to show that she's old enough and has approval to work.
The legal age to work as a prostitute in Amsterdam has recently been raised from 18 to 21.
Van Doeveren says trafficking remains at the heart of the Dutch debate over the ethics of prostitution. There's also an acknowledgement, however, that the worst abuses of underage girls or prostitutes being exploited by pimps now take place out of sight in underground brothels — an ongoing challenge for police.
At the museum, the tour resumes: In one hallway, there's a work roster on a white board showing who's working in which room on what days, along with times for client appointments. There's also a chance to take a seat in an actual window in front of passers-by.
Ilonka Stakelborough, an escort who heads a sex-workers union called "the Geisha Institute," says the rooms, about nine feet long and six feet wide (3x2 meters) have a standardized look that could really use an update — black lights have been nearly universal since the 1970s.
IN THE WINDOW
And then the tour proceeds to a typical "peeskamer," Dutch for "workroom."
The beds are low and strong, near a sink and a small cabinet of lubricants, cleansers, condoms and sex toys.
How do you know who's just coming to look and who wants to do business?
"No perfume," Stakelborough says. "Because then the smell rubs off on a man's clothes and he has problems with his wife when he gets home."
Are married men the main customers? No, you can't generalize, Stakelborough says. Men of all types, married, unmarried, young or old visit prostitutes at all hours, she says — some even on their way to work in the morning.
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"Eye contact," she said.
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Very few women who work as prostitutes ever earn more
than a middle class income at best — and usually it's worse, according to Stakelborough and Van Doeveren.
Stakelborough says it's not the prettiest or youngest girls who get the most customers or earn the most. And escorts and high-end brothel prostitutes don't necessarily do better they have fewer customers, longer sessions and lots of costs, for taxis or splitting profits with brothel owners, she said.
A window typically rents for 150 euros ($202) for a half-day. Given the standard cost of about 50 euros ($70) for a 15-minute session, their take-home pay before taxes is only 150 euros after seeing six clients, or 250 euros ($338) after eight.
Approximately 75 percent of the women are from poorer
countries, often Romania or Bulgaria.
"Almost all the women who are here are here 'voluntarily', in the sense that they come knowing what they're going to do," van Doeveren says. "But you can ask yourself what their other options were."
Visitors can write down their own sexual secrets in a mockup confessional booth before heading back out onto the street.
At the end of the museum there's a wall of quotes from prostitutes.
"It makes me feel lonely my mother doesn't know what I do," wrote Carmen from Romania.
"This job is not for the fainthearted," wrote Eva from Holland. "I have become much harder."
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