Friday, May 1, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Graduate School gives out awards
GTAs, GRAs and students feted
By Susie Gura
sgura@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Shannon de l'Etale, music education and music therapy GTA; Amy Chappell, Hutchinson senior; and Steve Allon, Hutchinson junior, have a laugh after the Graduate School Awards Ceremony. De l'Etale was one of five GTAs to receive the award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant last night. Photo by Holly Griggs/KANSAN
Graduate students received praise yesterday afternoon during the Graduate School Awards Ceremony.
The third annual Graduate School Awards Ceremony occurred at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. The ceremony honored graduate students who have graduate fellowships, and awards and recognition were presented to graduate teaching assistants. Eight graduate students and two faculty members were recognized for their work and dedication at the University.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway welcomed the 100 people who attended the ceremony.
"Graduate students are what make the University of Kansas what it is," he said. "It is appropriate to honor all graduate students, especially GTAs and GRAs."
Awards included the Carlin Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, the Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Service, the Byron A. Alexander Graduate Mentor Award and the Dean's Award.
"Now we see how strong and positive is the impact graduate students have on society," Debicki said.
Andrew Debicki, dean of the Graduate School, recognized graduate students for their academic achievements and fellowships.
A new Graduate School fellowship was announced and awarded to Robert Futrell, graduate student in sociology.
"Every year we are able to award a fellowship, this year it is the Nelson Dissertation Fellowship," Debicki said.
Charles Barland, graduate student in music and dance, received an award for being an outstanding graduate teaching assistant.
"It was a really unbelievable honor," Barland said. "I keep thinking back to starting my career five years ago and how far
I've come."
All nominees were honored and their letters of recommendation were read to the audience.
"All of them are worthy of praise," said Sara Martin, assistant dean of the Graduate School.
Martin helped distribute awards and was recognized for everything she had done for the Graduate School.
Christine Robinson, GTA in sociology, received the graduate student award for distinguished service and an award for being an
outstanding graduate teaching assistant.
"It was incredibly humbling because I know the people who were nominated and it is hard to believe that I received the award." Robinson said.
After the awards ceremony, students, faculty and staff were invited to attend a reception for graduate students.
"I think it went beautiful," Martin said. "It was well attended by both the awardees and faculty of various departments."
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Poet speaks about diverse writing
By Laura Roddy
lroody@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Cherrie Moraga, a Chicana feminist playwright, spoke last night about writing for groups that did not fit into white, mainstream America.
Moraga's lecture, entitled "Sour Grapes: The Art of Anger," was the 1998 Horowitz Lecture, established for the promotion and understanding of cultural diversity. The lecture, which occurred in the Kansas Union Ballroom, was sponsored by the Hall Center for Humanities.
"We read one of her plays, *Giving up the Ghost*, and it was really
the lecture, the inaugural event of this weekend's Latino/a Symposium.
Moraga said it was important to write and produce the theater that people from diverse backgrounds could identify with.
Jenna Woods, Stillwell freshman, said she was exposed to Morga's work in her English 211 class.
Moraga said she went to the theater looking for complex, contradictory, compelling women of color.
Moraga also spoke about the process of writing.
"Sometimes one can write very much from the heart," she said.
More than 300 people attended
Moraga said other times, it was as if there were someone sitting on her shoulders.
Because the majority of theater spectators are white, heterosexual males'with money, it is more difficult to establish a connection with the audience, she said.
Moraga said when the subject of a theatrical work was a woman of color, she was either exoticized, eroticized or stigmatized.
Moraga also spoke about the tendency of many critics to be white males.
"Progressive theater needs them because they bring in the middle-class ticket buyers," she said.
Moraga said that forced her into a dependent relationship with white, upper-class America.
"Sour grapes?" she said. "Oh yes.
Most definitely."
"Her theorizing has actually been really influential in my work," Conrad said.
Katie Conrad, assistant professor of English, said Moraga's work had challenged her in her studies of British and Irish literature and feminist theory.
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