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Friday, April 27, 2012
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TEN THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT...
Liberty Hall //JOHN GARFIELD
1. The name Liberty Hall belonged to the original venue, built above a butcher shop in 1856. The title was a nod to Abraham Lincoln's having once called Lawrence the "cradle of liberty."
2. Before it held the original Liberty Hall, the space on the 600 block of Massachusetts belonged to the abolitionist newspaper the Herald of Freedom, which was burnt down in 1855 for being a "nuisance" to a Midwest that still harbored many people with pro-slavery sentiments.
3. The space that is Liberty Hall today was the prolific Bowersock Opera House from 1882 to 1911, when it perished in a fire.
4. Liberty Hall and the Lawrence Journal-World have a long and storied history of cohabitation. When the Bowersock Opera House burned down in 1911, it took the Lawrence Journal (half of the modern Journal-World) with it.
5. In addition to showing independent films, the theater operates a video rental store which offers many titles not available elsewhere in town.
6. Since being the original venue in the mid 1800s, Liberty Hall has been a half dozen venues including the Dickinson Theater, the Jayhawker Theater and the Red Dog Inn Night Club.
7. On your birthday, Liberty Hall will offer a free movie complete with a drink and popcorn and a free movie rental.
8. During World War II, inspectors certified the building that is now Liberty Hall as capable of withstanding an aerial bombing.
9. On Tuesday nights, theater tickets are two-for-one, making it a great place to take a mid-week date.
10. Liberty Hall is the only place in town to see a movie on the big screen while drinking a beer.
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Documentary prompts race discussion in schools
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Patrick Monroe, a senior from New Berlin, Wis., looks through a lens to focus a shot for his documentary. The documentary features the "Can We Talk" program at Free State High School, which focuses on racial issues in public schools.
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Sylvia Yimer, a graduate student in the School of Social Welfare, went to visit the program "Can We Talk" at Free State High School. "Can We Talk" is a localized part of a national program. Yimer said her visit was driven by her interest in race equality in public schools.
Yimer said the program was meant to facilitate understanding of different races and reduce the academic performance gap between white students and students of minority groups. She said she was surprised by how unrecognized the program
A group of University students is producing a documentary called, "Courageous Conversations about Race," a program encouraging high school students to face racial issues.
Last September, Yimer brought the documentary idea to a University student club, the Documentary Film Society. The student club was just established by then. The president of the club, Patrick Monroe, a senior studying film, was excited to hear about the idea.
Monroe said it was great to know that Sylvia was as dedicated as he was to filming and directing.
"Film can be used to make change and be the outlet for voices that are marginalized to be heard," Yimer said. "These kids wouldn't get an opportunity to get their stories heard without someone giving that to them necessarily."
Yimer said Singleton was personable. The author set aside more than four hours of his day to meet exclusively with Monroe and Yimer.
was. Yimer decided to make a documentary to raise awareness of the program.
"Since we started,we were focusing on funding and didn't have
The program is inspired by the book "Courageous Conversations about Race — a Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools," by Glenn Singleton and Curtis Linton. In February, Yimer and Monroe flew to San Francisco to interview and film Singleton.
"It was easy to tell how passionate he was about his work and how eager he was to help us," Yimer said. "The interview with Glenn is by far the most important interview for the film."
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anything solid to work on," Monroe said. "Then Sylvia called me with this golden idea."
Monroe said a lot of work needs to be done to make the documentary successful and he hoped they could eventually send the documentary to film festivals. He hasn't yet announced a release date.
racism in America. Monroe said the project would expand through the school year and develop into a 70-minute feature.
"As a filmmaker, I hope this will be a calling card not just for me, for the club, but for KU," Monroe said. "We want to show people what KU students are capable of"
During spring break the team conducted an interview with a Free
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Edited by Anna Allen
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