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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, April 13, 1998
Seniors lose hair for real world
Local stylists say spring customers look for new looks
By Julie Eberle Special to the Kansan
Long hair signifies youth, local hair stylists say. So as students come to terms with graduation and growing up, they come into the salon for the annual spring shearing.
"I've cut a lot of long hair in the past few weeks," said Nichole Sappington, hair stylist at The Total Look, 708 W. Ninth St. "A lot of it has to do with them getting out of college, getting rid of that 'college look.'"
Whether students like it or not, they graduate, and once unfamiliar phrases, such as health insurance, car payments and haircuts roll off their lips.
Angel Radefeld, hair stylist at Headmasters, 809 Vermont St.
said that when women start interviewing for jobs, they cut and style their hair, begin wearing more make-up and change their wardrobes significantly.
"This is the beginning of the real world," she said.
She said students changed their appearance to look older and more business-like.
The professional look for women is usually a crop cut just below the ears, with some layers, hair stylists say.
"Usually, the one's with longer hair tend to try to stay at shoulder length, maybe to the chin, with layers. They don't want to go too drastic at first." Radefeld said.
Sappington said that graduating women were looking for something a little more professional, with a little more style.
Men are no exception to the post-
graduation hair bob.
"Guys are cutting their hair from long to short and want to know how to style it." Radefeld said. "Most of them are just worried about interviewing."
The professional look for men is a style that is more clean cut, tapered and styled, Radefeld said.
"It's that Meirone-man look," she said.
Growing up also involves cleaning up and maintaining facial hair. "Guys also shed their goatees." Radefeld said.
Some KU students say that cutting their hair is not so much about finding a job but more about starting new a chapter in their lives.
Kory Krahl, Westwood senior,
said he had long hair for most of
his life before he cut it off during
the fall semester.
"When I was a little kid in the seventh grade, I wanted to be a rock star and nothing else." Krahl said. "Then after a certain level of judgment, which came with a little bit of maturity, I realized it was time to cut it and join reality."
Krahl said that long hair did have its advantages when he was growing up.
"When I was in high school, I couldn't grow a beard," he said. "So it was my way of looking older. It was handy to buy liquor."
Lainie Misler, Overland Park senior, has had dreadlocks for the past three years. Recently, she decided she was ready for a change and cut them off. She said she left as much length as possible, which was about an inch.
He said that long hair was like a crutch and that he did not need it anymore because he had moved into a new phase of his life.
"I realized that I didn't know what I looked like as an adult," Krahl said.
"I'm ending a stage in my life and starting a new one," she said.
Misler said that graduation had partially influenced her decision to cut her hair and that she also was concerned about getting a job.
I'm going to be certified in the "all for teaching," she said. "It's going to be a lot easier to get a job without being discriminated against because of your hair."
Junior high students get taste of the law
By Emily Reid Special to the Kansan
Lawrence junior high students became criminals, attorneys and Supreme Court justices during Thurgood Marshall Law Day at the University of Kansas Thursday and Friday.
The 100 students from Central, West, South and Southwest junior high schools gathered at Green Hall to participate in the event, which was organized by the University of Kansas chapter of the Black Law Students Association.
Judges from the Kansas Court of Appeals conducted mock trials dealing with drug testing and the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Nick Luna, South Junior High student, said that he enjoyed the workshops.
Each of the four junior high schools selected 25 students who were interested in law to participate in the program. Students attended workshops and interacted with a panel of speakers, which included district attorney Christine Tonkovich, Lt. Dan Affalter of Lawrence Police Department and a representative from the Douglass County Sheriff's office.
"They show us what can happen to you if you get involved in drugs or gangs," Luna said. "It's cool because they don't preach to us, they just tell it like it is."
Richard Prince, Lawrence third year law student and National Director of Community Service for the National Black Law Students Association, developed the idea for the University's Thirgood Marshall Law Day
Prince said he was inspired by a similar program in Wichita, which he attended in eighth grade. He participated in mock trials and group discussions, much like the ones that the University presented.
The University's program is in its second year, and Prince said he hoped it would continue into the future.
"With support from teachers, the school board, the BLSA and corporate sponsors, all who are committed to the success of the program, we should be able to make it a permanent fixture at
Above: Officer Tom Polson of the Lawrence Police Department, demonstrates how to use a radar gun to a group of Lawrence Junior high school students. The group attended the Thurgood Marshall Law Day in Green Hall, Friday. Photo by Augustus Anthony Piazza/KANSAN
Right: Deputy Gayland Guinn holds back Deputy Baloney, a police dog. Guinn gave a presentation to a group of Lawrence Junior High School students at Green Hall Friday. The presentation showed the students how police dogs search for narcotics. Photo by Augustus Anthony Pizzaza/KANSAN
KU." Prince said.
BLSA received additional contributions from the Lawrence Police Department, Douglas County Sheriff's Department, Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas Court of Appeals, KU Law School and the Office of Minority Affairs and Admissions.
Joe's Bakery, Pizza Hut, Mr. Goodcents. Checkers and Dillons donated breakfast and lunch. Sav-On Office Supplies donated office supplies to the program.
Police officers from the Lawrence Police Department brought in two police dogs and presented a mock narcotics search.
Tibetans in exile urged to go home
The Associated Press
DHARMSALA, India — For nearly four decades, Tibetans have been making the treacherous journey across the Himalayas to escape Chinese rule, taking refuge in exile with their revered leader, the Dalai Lama.
Now, the illicit traffic through the high, snow-covered passes is increasingly moving in both directions. The Dalai Lama wants young educated Tibetans to return to their homeland to keep Tibetan traditions alive.
The Tibetans go the way they came: on foot, braving frostbite and hunger, evading Chinese border patrols. They say they are escaping back.
Chinese officials deny trying to stamp out Tibetan culture and denounce the Dalai Lama and his followers as separatists bent on winning independence for Tibet
International human rights groups say China, which claims sovereignty over Tibet, has flooded the forbidding Tibetan plateau with ethnic Chinese settlers and seeks to destroy the indigenous culture. The Dalai Lama accuses China of committing cultural genocide and wants to negotiate autonomy for the land he ruled unchallenged until 1950.
Alongside the steady flow of refugees moving southward across the Tibet-Nepal border, there has always been a smaller stream going north into Tibet; traders and smugglers; professional guides for refugee groups; pilgrims returning home after receiving a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
Also among them are parents
who deposit their brightest children at the Dalai Lama's boarding schools in India and return to their remaining family in Tibet.
Some of these children nurtured in India, armed with an education and political awareness, are going home. In the last 10 years, as many as 1,000 have gone back, said Sonam Topgail, chairman of the Tibetan exile administration.
Many are found, arrested and interrogated. To avoid jail, some sign denunciations of the Dalai Lama. Afterwards, they are kept under surveillance. Usually they are the first to be picked up at the first sign of popular unrest, Topqal said.
Since the Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 during an abortive anti-China uprising, 100,000 Tibetans have joined him in India. Thousands more live in Europe and North America.
About 2,000 Tibetans make the hazardous exit across the mountains every year to reach Kamtandu, Nepal's capital, where officers of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees register them. From there, they are bused to the northern Indian city of Dharmsala, the Dalai Lama's base in exile.
Nude bar provides beer sketching opportunities
The Associated Press
A dozen people sitting in straight-backed chairs at cheap tables watch closely, unabashedly. They are drinking beer.
PHILADELPHIA — A woman with jet-black hair and porcelain skin pulls off her clothing, strides confidently to the center of a stage and starts contorting her arms and legs this way and that.
Beer? Nudes? Hold on. It is not what you think.
"If you pay for a class, you feel like you damn better come up with something good," Smith said.
"Here, you just feel relaxed."
The woman is a studio-model-fire. The gazers? They are artists, and Philadelphia's new Art Bar is their new favorite watering hole.
Three days a week, the bar supplies a model, and artists bring their sketch pads to the dimly lighted tavern with cheap beer.
"This is like being back in art school," said 32-year-old Michelle Smith, a typical customer here. "With beer."
The Art Bar is about the only place frustrated artistic wannabes can do fundamental studio art for free. The other option is enrolling in art school classes at $5 a session.
She studied fine arts, then realized she could not make any money as an artist and found a job teaching elementary school.
How can she not? The model chats up with the artists during breaks. Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello songs roll out of the jukebox, and Guinness and Rolling Rock flow freely. It is exactly the feeling owner David Simons sought when he came up with the idea last year.
He has developed a place for folks who would never consider paying for an art class.
"This presents itself, so you might as well try it," Simons said. "They say, 'Oh no, I don't draw. But they come and try it a few times and they really get into it.'"
Unlike a session-for-pay, no teacher is looking over their shoulders to criticize this shape or that line. Some artists sketch just a few lines. Others draw more elaborate color portraits.
"It allows you to express yourself more," said graphic designer Rose Drew, 32. "Music seems to help, drinking sometimes seems to help. It's cathartic."
Simons hopes his drink-and-draw concept, plus the poetry readings, alternative music, pool league and $1.50 bottles of beer, will turn the Art Bar into a meeting place for the artists — and people with artistic bents.
"It's like 'Cheers!' for art," said Dawn Marie Morpurgo, who arranges the poetry readings.
USING THE INTERNET IN THE JOB SEARCH
A workshop on conducting an electronic job search.
Tuesday, April 14, 1998 - 3:30pm 149 Burge Union
These workshops are meant to expose students to the Internet as it relates to the job search process. Participants will be given a brief overview of the Internet and an introduction to the types of resources available online to assist them
In their job search. There is no charge for attending the Sign-up at University Career & Employment Services 110 Burge Union 864 - 3624 www.ukans.edu/~upc
÷ $2 Miller Lite, long neck pints
- Free drawing for Miller Lite Chief's Recliner.
- Bar Games- win $$$ and prizes playing pool, pinball, video golf, darts, foosball and Lite Basketball.
- New Games every Monday.