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Volume 128 Issue 78
Monday, February 16, 2015
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A woman sips on a coffee at Aimee's Coffehouse, located at 1025A Massachusetts St. The coffee shop is implementing a dinner theater into the shop.
LILY GRANT
@lilygrant_UDK
Cary Strong and his wife Aimee opened Aimee's Coffeehouse, 1025A Massachusetts Street, when they were dating 16 years ago. After so many years of business, Strong has finally decided to fulfill his dream of implementing a dinner theater
into the coffeehouse. The project is still in the early stages of planning.
Strong is a member of the South Mass Art Guild, a local non-profit organization that promotes awareness of local art. He pitched the idea to the board, and they gave him their support.
Strong has been reaching out to other local art groups to
collaborate on the project.
Kansas City magician Korso the Curious has been performing at Aimee's for the past two weekends to test out the dinner theater idea and figure out how to arrange the seating to ensure that everyone has a good view.
Reid Zimmerman is a coproducer of the project and is working with Strong to make
the idea come to life.
"It's always great to have more artistic endeavors in the community, and I think the community as a whole takes a lot of inspiration from local art." Zimmerman said.
The coffeehouse seats about 30 people, so the atmosphere
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Durham said the survey will also help Student Affairs to know what additional touch points they need to focus more attention on.
Surveys help to create safer campus
RILEY MORTENSEN
@RileyMortensen
This is the fourth survey of
"The hope is as we educate people we'll have more people coming forward, because if you're not clear, if you're not sure, then it's hard for students to know; not just students, anybody to know," Durham said. "So once we define it for people, they'll understand what sexual harassment is."
Last Tuesday, the Office of Student Affairs sent out an anonymous survey to students regarding sexual harassment and sexual assault. The purpose of the 21-question survey is to help create a safer campus, said Vice Provost of Student Affairs Tammara Durham. Durham said the Office of Student Affairs' overall goal has always been the safety of the students.
its kind to be sent out at the University. Student Affairs began working with the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access (IOA) in 2012 to create the first survey and has since sent one out every year.
According to McQueeny, the survey was written primarily out of the office of IOA, but several others had the opportunity to offer feedback on it, and IOA and Student Affairs hope to bring more in-depth surveys into classrooms in the future.
McQueeny said once the results have been tabulated, IOA will most likely release totals and summaries of the information. Individualized responses to several portions of the survey will not be released.
Jane McQueeny, IOA's executive director, said that last year IOA received 890 responses to the survey. McQueeny said that IOA hopes for at least 1,000 responses this year, but 2,000 would be even better.
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Names for new Daisy Hill residence halls released
SKYLAR ROLSTAD
skylarrolstad@yahoo.com
The University's two new Daisy Hill residence halls will be named after donors Al and Lila Self and Charles W. Oswald, University officials announced Wednesday. The north building on Engel Road will be named Madison A. and Lila M. Self Hall and the south building will be named Charles W. Oswald Hall.
"The generosity of Al and Lila Self and Charley Oswald has truly changed the fabric of our university and enhanced the lives of countless students and faculty," Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said, via a news release from the University. "It is only fitting that their generosity be remembered through buildings that will house future generations of Jayhawks."
The request to name the halls after the Selfs and Oswald originated with the chancellor, said Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, the University's director for news and media relations.
After the chancellor requested the halls be named after these donors, the Kansas Board of Regents approved of the decision.
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Student works toward equal rights for students
ABBY WALSH abby_walsh@aol.com
When Chrissie Noriega joined Queers and Allies last year, she was already contemplating a name change for the campus LGBT group. To her, it was limiting. Not every transgender person is gay. She knew the name would keep some people, including other on-campus groups, away.
"The word queer was seen as divisive, and some people didn't take that on as an identity," Noriega said. At her urging, the group renamed itself Spectrum and is working to engage a wider audience that truly lives up to the name. In the past year, the group has led discussions about LGBT Muslims and violence in
LGBT communities and hosted a viewing of the film "Pariah" with the Black Student Union. It also encourages attendance for other organizations' activities, such as The Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity's Trans+ Remembrance Day Candlelight Vigil.
"We have to be working together, because a lot of times social justice organizations are working towards the same goal, but with their own means," Noriega said. "I don't want anyone to feel left out of what we're doing, so I work with other people and try to bring them into our community."
Noriega said she was raised to believe everyone was equal. In her Queens, New York, home, she watched her father do the laundry
"I think I had a hole in my clothes, so her mom took it and was going to fix it and I was like 'Oh, my dad does that!' and they were like 'What? Your father can't do that, that's women's work.'" she said.
and make lunches. He even taught her to sew. She didn't realize that was unusual until she had a conversation with her friend's mother in fourth grade.
Noriega said being raised in an egalitarian family motivates her to change the perception of gender norms here in Kansas.
"I'm a feminist and an activist, a lesbian [and a] social justice advocate," she said.
Mitchell Cota, Spectrum's
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JAMES HOYT/KANSAN
Hundreds of demonstrators listen to to the various speakers on the south lawn of the Kansas Statehouse on Saturday.
Protesters gather at KS Statehouse for LBGT rights
JAMES HOYT
@jameshoyt
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On Saturday, hundreds of demonstrators gathered on the south lawn of the Kansas Statehouse to protest Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's Executive Order 15-02. The rally was organized by
Wichita-based LGBT rights coalition Equality Kansas and featured state representative John Carmichael (D-Wichita) as a keynote speaker.
The Valentine's Day rally was organized in response to an executive order Brownback declared Feb. 10, which revoked workplace protections given to state employees on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. This makes it legal for state employees
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"This Executive Order ensures that state employees enjoy the same civil rights as all Kansans without creating additional 'protected classes' as the previous order did. Any such expansion of 'protected classes' should be done by the legislature and not through unilateral action," Brownback said in a statement last Tuesday.
to be discriminated against if they identify as LGBT. The order reverses protections that former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius put in place in August 2007.
Carmichael expressed his support for the demonstrator's cause and informed them of his plans to advocate for the LGBT community in the legislature through his sponsorship of House Bill 2323, which aims to reinstate the protected classes.
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Daisy Tackett, a University freshman from Jacksonville. Fla., said she attended the rally because she has friends who identify as LGBT.
Catholics were banned from the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies. Catholic clergymen could be put to death in Massachusetts by law in 1647. Gov. Brownback, that's your adopted religion," Meade said.
Equality Kansas Chairwoman Sandra Meade drew comparisons to past instances of discrimination in American history to criticize Brownback's policy in front of the crowd.
"We heard about this protest and we all just wanted to come and support equality," Tackett said.
— Edited by Samantha Darling
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