University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 27, 1992
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GTAs to petition loss of office space
By Michelle Betts
Kansan staff writer
Failure to notify Western Civilization graduate teaching assistants that their offices would be moved because of the opening of a multicultural center in the building may have been an administrative mistake, said David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs.
The building, called the Grider House, is located at 1400 Louisiana St. Eighteen of the 30 Western Civilization GTAs have offices in the building.
Amber said, "We were trying tokeep the whole matter quiet until everyone was in agreement about whether it would actually happen."
James Woeelfel, director of the Western Civilization program, said he was surprised and upset when he read about his daughter's death where his GTA's offices were located.
He said he had not been notified about the center in any other way.
Annie said he assumed that the space committee, which makes decisions concerning University building space, would have notified the GTAs.
"I guess that was a wrong assumption," he said.
Amber said the GTAs would remain in the building until Fall 1993, when the center is scheduled to open. Then they relocated to equal or better facilities.
However, a decision about where the GTAs will be moved has not been made, he said.
Kae Chatman, senior instructor in Western Civilization, was unhappy that she and other GTAs heard about the new center's location after the decision was made. Her office is in Wescoe Hall.
"They must assume that the GTAS can be put in any broom closet," she said. "We count enough in the University to deserve better than this."
Chatman said the Western Civilization GTAs had supported further discussion of a multicultural center in November when Student Senate passed a resolution for it. The location was not discussed.
The Western Civilization program worked with African studies, East-Asian studies, and supported the requirement of a nonwestern culture course, she said.
"We do not look at the West as the only cultural area," Chatman said.
She said she was drafting a petition that would launch a protest against moving the offices.
"It punishes that group of graduate students who are some of the very best GTAs on campus." Chatman said.
She did not know whether GTA unionization influenced the University's decision to move the Western Civilization GTAs from their offices.
Conference to feature Latin-American plays
For five nights this week, the University of Kansas will attract some of the most prominent names in Latin-American playwriting.
By Ranjit Arab
Kansan staff writer
George Woodyard, dean of international studies, said the Latin American Theater Today conference, which begins tomorrow, would feature 12 plays, most of which were written by Latin Americans.
The first performance of the week is a Peruvian production of "Adios Ayacucho," by Julio Ortega. The play will be performed at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. The KU theater department has more information about times and locations of the other productions.
Woodyard said he organized the conference to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Latin American Theater Review of which Woodyard is editor.
Although Ortega will not be at the University, among the playwrights attending the conference will be Naum Alves de Souza, Brazil; Marco Antonio de la Parra, Spain; Sabina Berman, Mexico; Emilio Carbalheid, Mexico; Luisa Josefina-Hernandez, Mexico; Matias Monies-Hudobro, Cuba; Carlas Otero, Spain; Roberto Ramos-Perea, Puerto Rio; Diana Razniovich, Argentina; Guillermo Schmidhuber, Mexico; Jose Triana, Cuba; and Egon Wonff, Chile.
University and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Aside from the performances, events will include thesis presentations and discussion sessions.
Woodyard said production groups from Houston, San Francisco and Notre Dame University were among the performers from the United States. Groups from Peru, Colombia and the Dominican Republic also will perform.
Woodyard said eight of the plays would be performed in Spanish, but the productions would give all students and teachers more about Latin-American cultures.
The conference was financed by the
"In most cases, I think people can appreciate a great deal of the performances even if they do not understand the language." he said.
John Gronbeck-Tedesco, acting head of the department of theater and film, said a group from the University would perform a radio drama, "Burning Patience," at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Swartwhort Recital Hall. The radio drama was written by a Latin-American writer.
Gronbeck-Tedesco said he thought the conference was especially timely because of the political turmoil in Latin-American countries.
"Some of these plays are written by playwrights and performed by actors from countries in which their freedoms were violated." There are a worldwide movement for freedom. "
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