University Daliv Kansan. October 10. 1983
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Special day meant for all Chinese, students say
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
Pao-Chin Shen, dressed in a deep red silk jacket and pink silk bottoms, knelt and bent backward toward the audience steadily twirling two metal sticks with bells attached.
The clear strains of a Chinese musical piece plucked through the air while Pao-Chin, Taipei, Taiwan, special student, performed the ancient dance of Lien-Hsian. As the dance was played, she touched the metal sticks to different parts of her body in an array of gentle, mobile movements.
A little bit of China was present yesterday in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union during festivities sponsored by the Chinese Student Association that were part of the China National Day celebration.
SUN SHAING-MIN, the association's president, said that China National Day marked Oct. 10, 1911 when China, led by Sun Yat Sen, shook the bonds of an old imperial structure and became a republic.
He said the show was also a way for the Chinese Student Association to express its hope for the reunion under a democratic government.
"I believe most Chinese want to be governed under a democratic system. Sun said "But political parties give us our wishes to see a prosperous China."
But he said that China National Day was not primarily a political statement, but was a message of prosperity to all Chinese.
The show consisted of a colorful and lively potpourri of Chinese culture, including a demonstration on how to attract objects by human magnetic force. A Chinese opera, martial arts demonstrations and chorus singing were among other acts.
and honor a culture that goes back thousands of years." he said.
Chu-Hua Lee, Taipei, Taiwan special student, opened the show by playing two Chinese classics on a 16-string Chinese zither, or cheng.
"WE WOULD like to celebrate
The cheng, an ancient instrument,
produces the kind of vibrating, high
sounds often associated with Chinese
music.
Dancer Pao-Chin Shen performs the Dance of Lien-Hsian at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Last night's cultural show was sponsored by the Chinese Student Association.
The next stop in the hour-long tour of Chinese culture was a piece of classical Chinese opera, Frances Tao, Taipei, Taiwan, graduate student and the show's encee, said that the Kun Chu style of opera from ancient China had the 19th century, before the Peking opera came along.
The opera singer, dressed in a glistening pink Chinese silk outfit embroidered in gold thread, mixed singing and dancing with expressive hand gestures to create a dramatic effect.
IN CONTRAST, the next act consisted of a demonstration of Chinese martial arts. Tai Chi Chi, one of the many styles of martial arts, emphasizes soft harmonious movements and breathing.
"All movements," Tao said, "are initiated from the center."
Also, the movements are circular, symbolizing the harmonious forces in the universe.
After the martial arts act, an artist demonstrated Chinese painting, which, Tho said, places a heavy emphasis on the personal interpretation of the world.
The magic of creating a painting in a few minutes was followed by a startling demonstration of Hsi Kong, in which a martial artist, through his quick reflexes, made a heavy glass jar about one foot in diameter stick to his hands.
BY PLACING his hands on top of the jar and concentrating for about two minutes, the artist lifted his arm up to the camera using what the emcee called human
magnetic force.
Tao invited a member of the audience to try to repeat the feat.
After trying twice with no success, the member of the audience smiled and shrugged.
By MATTHEW HARRISON Staff Reporter
Scientist says brain research a key in mental-illness study
Future brain-cell research will aid scientists in understanding and alleviating mental illness, Arthur Kornberg, distinguished professor of biochemistry at Stanford University, said Friday at the closing ceremonies of the University of Kansas Medical Center's Research Week.
An overview of the biomedical research conducted during this decade was presented by Kornberg to a packed crowd at the University foron the Med Center campus.
Kornberg, who won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1959, said that the first two decades of the century were marked by molecularists known as the "microbe hunters."
These were followed by the "vitamin hunters," the "enzyme hunters" of the 1940s and 1950s, and the "gene hunters" of the last two decades.
BUT IN THE FUTURE, research by "head hunters" into the unmapped areas of the brain will serve to emphasize the importance that physical and chemical factors have on mental illness. Kornberg said.
"I have never understood why the physicians of my generation, with the benefit of training in the science of medicine, would resort to tortured language and reasoning to explain the behavior of mental illness," he said.
Kornberg said that scientists have suffered repeated failures over the years in describing social, political and cultural situations in behavioral terms.
"We should accept, without reservation, that the forms of the brain and the nervous system are, in the last instance, the only matter and is matter and only matter," he said.
Kornberg listed such factors as vitamin deficiency, the invasion of bacteria and viruses into the body and inborn chromosomal errors as physical factors leading to mental illness.
THESE GROUPS that condemn brain research as holistic medicine, or factions that promote creationism, are research centers to science research. Kernberg said
"Why do these frightened figures appear?" he asked. "Because they have been generated and nourished by ignorance and fear of science.
"Scientific naivete, and the many instances of hostility towards science, are the result of the decay of science in our very curriculum level." Korberch said.
He said that such misunderstandings were evident in the public's understanding of genetic recombination. Through genetic recombination, physicians have been able to produce test tube babies and to manufacture bacteria that produce cancer-fighting interferon.
"IT IS NO wonder that journalists and members of Congress keep asking us whether a molecule, virus or cell is living," he said. "They become impatient with us when we fail to give them the answer as to where life begins and ends."
Kornberg discussed the inter-
disciplinary approach that today's
professionals must have.
"The sciences basic to medicine have converged into a single discipline," he said. "It makes research and teaching less difficult, and more dependent and virtually indistinguishable.
Other activities at the closing ceremonies in Kansas City included a long-distance dedication of the International Center for Cell Biology by Chancellor Gene A. Budig. The center is in Valencia, Spain.
Budig emphasized the significant research that had been conducted since 1979 when the University and the center share ideas, students, faculty and staff.
Santiago Grisola, director of the Center, presented a short slide show of the center. Billy Hudson, dean of research at the Med Center, also gave a research accomplishment since 1979 by the University and the cell research institute.
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