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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2015
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arts & features
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 9
Friends provide unexpected benefit to your project. Get them involved with persuasion and inspiration. Merge your interests, and work together. Articulate your shared passion into words.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is a 9
Today is an 8
Attend to career goals today
and tomorrow. Take advantage
of an opportunity. Get
a friend to help you solve
a technical problem. Ad-lib
only when absolutely neces-
sary. Keep to the script.
Plot your itinerary today and tomorrow. New expenses require attention. Adapt to shift circumstances. Talk about what you want. Catch a rare passing chance and go for it.
Today is an 8 You provide the imagination. Share your views with your partner. Let them ask tough questions. Set long-term goals over the next couple of days. Unexpected benefits to family finances appear. Track and manage them. Work together.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) Today is an 8
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 9
Partnership negotiations occur today and tomorrow. The discussion could seem intense, yet could also be enormously productive. Expand your team. Emotions may affect your judgment. Be respectful.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 9
Over the next two days,
put your ideas into action.
Unexpected communications at
work could shuffle the cards.
Suddenly you can see just what
needs to be done. Get moving,
and relish the moment.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is on 8
Today is an 8 It's really getting fun today and tomorrow.Make decisions quickly,with confidence.Ask questions early and often. Your creativity makes the whole thing work.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
Stick close to home for the next two days. Prioritize family.
Communicate with co-workers to manage upcoming tasks.
Share your vision of the future.
You have what others want.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Todays in on 8
Today is an 8 Intellectual pursuits flow with greater ease today and tomorrow. Interview an interesting subject and ask probing questions. Don't gamble or go shopping. Sell what you no longer need.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.19) Today in a 8
Focus on making money today and tomorrow... opportunities seem everywhere. Now you're cooking! Keep those hot ideas flowing, and maintain tight collaboration with your team (especially the bookkeeper).
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 9
Look forward to two days in the spotlight. Use your megaphone to direct attention to a worthy cause. Keeping and exceeding your promises raises your income. Use your power for good.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
Take some quiet alone time to balance stress or pressure over, the next two days. Think it over. If you slow down and look, you can see a better way forward.
PROJECTS GRANTED
Meet four art students who received research grants
ALLISON CRIST
@AllisonCristUDK
Four art students were just awarded $6,000 in interdisciplinary research grants to fund the projects of their choice. The students were required to submit applications with research proposals, recommendation letters and budgets to the School of the Arts Student Advisory Board. The review process looked for unique and creative projects that included a public component, like a performance or presentation.
PATRICK CLEMENT: SENIOR FROM PORTSMOUTH, N.H.
Project: "7786-Burroughs, Wm. Print Project and Exhibition"
What it is: A hybrid research project that includes research
and exhibition. It explores the creation and perpetuation of the public identity of author William S. Burroughs (a former Lawrence resident) through a series of unpublished portraits taken in Lawrence in 1983.
I'm an art student because...
I want to imagine stuff, then make it happen.
Major: Film & Media Studies Dream job: I want to share relevant stories with others.
SYDNEY PURSEL: GRADUATE
STUDENT FROM COLUMBIA, MO.
Project: "Baxoje Language Community Arts Project"
What it is: It promotes language learning within the loway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. My plan is to install signage on the reservation in the language to show how it can be incorporated into everyday use and then conduct a community project where members create their own signs in the language.
I'm an art student because... I believe that art has the ability to create change within our society. Art supplies new ways to share our concerns about topics that others might not normally be interested in.
Major: Visual Art
Dream job: I would like to work with the tribe in some way to preserve traditions, arts and languages.
SHALINN STARKEY: JUNIOR FROM OSAGE CITY
Project: "The Alma of La Paz."
there.
What it is: A mini-documentary about the historical and natural landscapes in La Paz, Bolivia, and mysticism of those sites and the people
I'm an art student because... there is nothing else I can be. Creativity cannot be taught; you either have it or you don't. To be able to share that creativity with others and change their state of being in some way is a very rewarding and powerful thing.
Major: Film & Media Studies and Creative Writing
Dream job: Cinematographer and a Documentary Filmmaker
MICHAEL WYSONG: SOPHOMORE FROM LARNED
Project: "Exploring Musical Theatre Song Cycles"
What it is: I will be researching the specific form of musicals known as song cycles while my writing partner, Brody Horn, and I write our own song cycle that will be
performed in May as a part of the Jayhawk Initiative for Student Theatre's season. I will be traveling to New York City to interview musical theatre composers about their song cycles, then draft what will become one of the first scholarly works on musical theatre song cycles.
I'm an art student because... I not only desire knowledge, but I also have the urge to create. Knowledge is nothing without practical application. As an arts student, I am constantly putting my new-found knowledge and techniques into practice.
Major: Theatre Performance Dream job: Ideally, I want to write musicals, but I also love performing. Perhaps someday I'll write myself a starring role.
THE RECIPIENTS
Edited by Valerie Haag
PATRICK CLEMENT
SYDNEY PURSEL
Kyle Thatcher, co-owner and co-founder of CrossFit Lawrence, began CrossFit Lawrence with his brother in their backyard five years ago. They saved their money to eventually open their current facility and become CrossFit certified. He said Yeager approached
MICHAEL WYSONG
SHALINN STARKEY
BABES FROM PAGE
weights.
"You feel good about yourself when you're strong," she said. "The fact you can do things you never thought you could do is going to empower you to make you feel good about yourself. I've never heard a woman who lifts weights say she doesn't like her body. A lot of girls that go to the rec are like, 'I need to lose weight.' When we lift weights, we're trying to hit goals, we're not just trying to be skinny, so I think there's a better feeling trying to be strong than skinny."
Another benefit of women weightlifting is the empowerment factor, Yeager said.
"The number one benefit is the weightlifting itself because a lot of women think they can't lift weights because they don't know how, because it's for guys or because they'll get buff," she said. "It's really showing women you can have the advantages of weightlifting. It's way better for you as far as building lean muscle versus just doing cardio."
Ashton Riffel, a freshman from De Soto, and her roommate attended their first class together last Thursday. Riffel said more women should try weightlifting because of the benefits she's noticed.
"I've been lifting for years, and I just don't understand why people always say lifting is going to make you so huge and they're only going to do cardio," Riffel said. "I think women should give lifting a try because it's so worth it and, honestly, it makes me feel better about myself. It's a stress relief."
him about her plan to start a new club at the University, and he offered his facility and coaching to do it.
"We've grown exponentially," Thatcher said. "We've gone from 30 in the backyard to over 200 to 250 now. Gabby came to me after shed done Olympic lifting here for a while and I was like, 'Absolutely, a bunch of ladies who just want to lift, you don't see that very often, so let's train them all.' I want them to be able to take this information wherever they go."
"Strength training your body is more attractive than just doing the elliptical and running and doing all that stuff," he said. "Strong is the new skinny."
Thatatcher said he recommends everyone try strength training because the benefits are outstanding and it's a better workout than focusing on cardio.
Yeager got the idea to name her club KU Babes from a gym in Miami called CrossFit Babes that she follows on Instagram.
The club meets on Tuesdays in the Robinson Center weight room from 5:30-7:30 p.m., Thursdays at CrossFit Lawrence from 8:30-10 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays at CrossFit Lawrence from 1-3 p.m. CrossFit Lawrence is located at 815 East 12th Street.
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"They don't make it nongirly," she said. "We can be girly and still lift weights. It makes me feel surprised and excited that so many women are wanting to break the norm of lifting weights and wanting to get better, physically and mentally. I'm really excited that they all want to be a part of this. It's just a bunch of women who want to do good and want to push themselves."
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Sophomore Gaby Yeger founded KU Babes after hearing a comment about the Strength Club being "all guys." Thirty-five girls were at the first workout.
BEN BRODSKY/KANSAN
From left, sophomore Gabby Yeager, sophomore Cora Burgoyne and junior Morgan Shapiro are members of KU Babes, a weightlifting club on campus.