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University Daily Kansan, August 18, 1983
Latin students to honor Bolivar's birth
By ALBERTO SALDARRIAGA Staff Reporter
Latin American students will celebrate Sept. 6-9 as the bicentennial of the birth of Simon Bolivar, the preeminent military and political hero of Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia to freedom.
THE LATIN AMERICAN Student Association, supported by KU's Center of Latin American Studies, has scheduled several activities including lectures, a historical film and an exhibition of documents in Watson library, as a tribute to Bolivar, called the "Liberator" by his people.
"Although the date of Boliva's 200th birthday was July 24, we decided to commemorate this anniversary in early September because there will be more than a million people than in the summer," said Rosa Elena Hidalgo, association president.
She also said that the association invited Gabriel Garcia Marquez of Colombia, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, to present a lecture at KU.
"We are expecting his answer and we are very optimistic of having him here."
other Latin American personalities such as Venezuela intellectual Jose Luis Salcedo Bastardo and Colombian historian German Arciniaces", "Hidalgo, a Valencia, Venezuela, graduate student, said.
CHARLES STANSIFER, director of the Center of Latin American Studies, said that the center was supporting the initiatives for Bolivar's bicentennial
"We don't have a lot of resources or we are trying to do our best," Stansifer said. "Basically, we want to help LASA in its efforts of having Latin American students with Spanish." We have written to several governments and we are getting some support.
in fact, President Bellisario Belancur Courtas from Colombia wrote us back and told us that he is interested in his Marquez move, to KU in September.
Stansfer said that Simon Bolivar was the best-known Spanish American hero in the United States.
"Americans recognize him and tend to link him with Washington as founders of great nations," Stansifer said. "We see him as the most prominent political and military figure of the Spanish American world."
"THOSE OF US WHO are especially interested in Latin America have a
"With his Pan-American concept he became the predecessor of the current United Nations."
particular admiration for him and are aware of his giant leadership and influence in this continent.
Stanisier also said that the Center of Latin American Studies organized with Watson Library's department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin America, an exhibition of books, portraits and documents about Bolivar.
The exhibition will be presented on the fourth floor of Watson Library fourth floor.
Hidalgo said that they would have to finance the cost of Bolivar's celebrations "with our own pockets, with our Senate Denied a request for funds."
"THE CENTER FOR LATIN American Studies will also help us. We plan to hold a Latin American party to raise monarchies' association and for the women," she says.
She said that "Video-Bolivar Sinfonia Tropical," a 17-minute color film by Venezuelan film maker Diego Rizquez, would be shown on Tuesday, Sept. 6. The film is about the environmental diversity of Latin America and evokes the mood and character of "the Liberator's" time.
She also said that lectures by Latin American intellectuals had been
scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 7-8.
BOLIVAR WAS born into a wealthy Venezuelan family in 1783 and was educated in the revolutionary ideas of the 18th century. He came to the United States and studied its young democracy and in 1807, he returned to South America and began his independence campaign from the Spanish crown.
Bolivar, who died in 1830, liberated six Latin American nations that now have nearly 80 million inhabitants and about half the size of the United States.
Many celebrations took place in the United States and in Latin American countries honoring Bolivar's 200th birthday on July 24.
The presidents of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Bolivia met in Caracas, Venezuela, when he was born, and signed a declaration.
Congress issued a declaration praising Bolivar's military and political actions, and President Reagan added another message to the Bolivarian nations.
The Organization of American States conducted a meeting at the Pan American Union in Washington and decided to send commemorative statues to all 11 cities and counties in the United States called Bolivar.
University Relations shows the best of the University
By CYNTHIA PISTILLI
Staff Reporter
With so much bad news making headlines these days, its refreshing to bear that KU has a department that it is in the "good news" business.
"We get to tell stories when people do their very best," Robin Evoresol, director of the office of university relations, recently about her office's role at KU.
EVERSOLE SAID THAT sending announcements of student and university achievements to local newspapers is one of the roles of university relations
"We are here to basically respond to public inquiry and try to develop to the public a sense of what KU is doing and washing for the public." Eversole said.
The office, which operates on $150,000 a year, received the same 4.5 percent budget cut last year as every other KU department, and the office is going to suffer an additional $5,000 budget cut this year. Eversole said.
Consequently, she said the officer would no longer be able to publish a general information brochure to send to interested, but not necessarily prospective, students and faculty.
we have suttered from the budget cuts," she said, "but we learned to be very conservative and modest with what we do."
The office not only informs the public of what KU is doing outside outside media sources, but it also publishes and maintains a website that campus about the University itself.
The Oread newspaper, the KU Course Description Catalogue, the Parents Newsletter, the KU telephone directory, general information brochures and the research magazine. Explore. Of the publications the office puts out.
"Anything that goes out in printed form comes from us." Eversole said.
MOST OF THE WORK the office publishes, she said, is done on a client basis.
"We are a service agency for everbody." Eversole said.
The office provides various University department departments with copy editing, layout and design and paste up serviceliterature literature produced by those offices.
Another role the office plays is working with various student organizations to help organize Band Day, Dance Day, Commencement and convocation.
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