University Daliv Kansan. March 5. 1982
Exhibits show puppets as role models for man
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
Puppets provide models for human behavior that cut across cultural and ethnic barriers, according to a KU professor of anthropology who helped prepare a puppet exhibition that will open this Sunday.
"What we're trying to show in this exhibition is how puppies provide models for human values and feelings," Robert Smith, professor of anthropology and curator of ethnology, said yesterday.
"It's universal. You find it all over the world, from the United States to Europe to southeast Asia."
The "Why Puppets?" exhibition will open this Sunday at the Museum of Anthropology in Spooner Hall. Smith found that puppets made by puppet was to provide role models.
FOR EXAMPLE, the Pinocchio story shows children how they must act if they are to become good human beings. Smith said, "Sesame Street" is the classic example of such a tale for our time, he said.
"It's through the learning and mastering of human values that people become human." Smith said.
One display of puppets in the exhibition shows man in the epic tradition.
"You have heroes interacting with gods and evil spirits," he said.
The puppets for most displays at the exhibition are part of a gift to the Hazeley Hedgehogs Rollins of Kansas City, Mo. She and her husband were acquired Hazelee Inc., a puppet and animated manufacturing company, until 1975.
Rollins designed and created the puppets, while her husband, an industrial engineer, adapted them to the production line. More than 300 different puppets were included in the company's product line.
ROLLINS GAVE the University about 125 puppets that she had collected while traveling.
"A few of them are more than 100 years old," Smith said. "A fair number of them date back to the last century."
The puppet exhibition has been in the works for some time. Smith said that research for the exhibition started last semester.
"We've been working since last October," he said.
Since the beginning of this semester, the six students in Anthropology 397, Museum Research Techniques, have worked independently onively on the exhibition, Smith said.
Ann Schlager, exhibits designer at
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The puppets were cleaned up for the display, she said.
the museum, said, "It's an actual hand-on experience for this class."
"They all received a little hit of cleaning and pressing. Unfortunately, all of them need some care."
After the exhibition ends May 15, Schlager plants to work with the puppets some more. The clothing fabric will be cleaned to help preserve it, she said.
The light level in the museum will be reduced to help preserve the fabric while the exhibition continues.
"It's a battle between good and evil," she said.
Because many of the puppets are very old, they have been handled with special care. she said.
Whenever the puppies are moved, they are either carried in a tray with a protective lining or are carried with white gloves.
"The white glove bit drives everyone batty." Schlager said.
Tom Ferrall, a student in the museum research class, said that the exhibition would expose people to things they had not seen before, such as the shadow puppets that Vajaranant will use in her play.
Four puppets from Thailand will be used in a Thai shadow puppet play to be performed Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Piyada Vajaranant, a graduate student in theatre, brought the puppets with her from Thailand.
Shadow puppets are placed behind a sheet or curtain and a light is shined on them from behind to make them show up.
THE PLAY, adapted from an old epic from India, was also popular in Thailand. Valaran said.
A hands-on puppet theatre where people can try their hand at puppeteering will also be a part of the exhibition, Smith said. While most of the puppets are made in a special protective display cases, these will be puppets that can handle.
"A lot of people have never even heard of shadow puppet," he said.
The puppies in the display cases will be grouped in various categories. One case features Puppies and Judy puppies that were rescued by Fey Brown, a Lawrence resident.
THE PUPPETS were collected about 1800 by Brown's father, Charles Brown. The elder Brown started a traveling medicine clinic and travelled in books from Harvard and Columbia.
Kansas, Arizona and Colorado.
Foy Brown will give a special Punch
and Judy show April 15 in the museum.
"Punch is always beating his wife and throwing the baby out the window," Smith said of the tale.
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Delegates from KU praise student lobbying conference
By ANN LOWRY Staff Reporter
The United States Students Association's 13th Annual Lobbying Conference from Feb. 26 to March 2 in Washington was more successful than conferences in the past, KU participants said yesterday.
"The most important part of it was it provided an opportunity for students across the country to get together, form a network system and present information." Rose Kuo, a delegate from the University of Kansas, said.
Kuo said she had been skeptical about USSA because in the past it had taken on controversial issues, such as abortion and the draft, that she considered quite appropriate for a national students' lobbying organization.
"Some of those issues are so emotionally charged, I don't think there is a clear cut side to the issues, the students are concerned," she said.
PATMcQUEEN, another delegate from KU and a Heartland Region USSA board member, said the conference worked because both sides of issues were presented at forums.
Some of the topics delegates discussed were freedom of information, student financial aid, status of minorities in higher education, defense and education, the rights of disabled students,
"I think some representatives who students might meet with have a tendency to patronize students not as adults, but as students," Kuo said. "But for the most part, I say they're very receptive."
The conference put a special emphasis on protesting President Reagan's budget cuts that would reduce the amounts of financial aid for students.
McQueen said meetings with legislators went well because legislators were receptive to the students.
USSA HELPED organize the second annual National Students' Action Day, which was last Monday. About 5,000 students gathered in Washington to protest the financial aid cuts.
"I hope the day stays around for years to come, so students can voice their views." McQueen said.
McQueen said KU had dropped out of USSAA several years ago and could profit from reloying.
McQueen said the USSA conference itself had grown since last year. About 200 people attended the conference this year.
She said KU received some information because KU was a member of ASK and ASK is a USMA member. She also said KU received information through her because she was a USSA board member.
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who, if their kid does something they don't approve of, will say it's mind control," he said. "But religion is mind control."
MILLER SAID he opposed the bill because it threatened all religions, not only "cults."
"The question is, is there one special category of religion that doesn't have some rights and privileges?" he asked.
"They'll give it up after a while," he said. "If you leave it alone, they usually quit. The lifestyle of the movement is hard to sustain."
He advised concerned parents of cult members to leave their children alone, because they would probably drop out of the group eventually.
He said that the claim of the Unification Church that it was growing rapidly in the United States was not true.
"They peaked in 1978. Now, they're shrinking," he said.
He said the number of members had dropped from about 3,000 in 1980 to about 2,000 now.
IN RESponSE to charges that Moon was getting rich off his followers, Miller agreed that Moon "lives pretty comfortably."
"They've tried to expand, but have done very poorly," he said. "They've been here over 20 years and have only 2,000 members." That's not very impressive.
"But if the members want to support him, it's their business," he said. "He
doesn't live as comfortably as the president of the United States, or for that matter, as the chancellor of the University."
But opponents of the church are gaining strength in Kansas, where, Mitchum said, there was "a history of misunderstanding of our church."
Relatives of religious cult members have formed an organization called Citizens Freedom Foundation, based in Fresno, Calif., to push the "cult bill" through the House.
TILLMAN SAID love-balancing meant that the cults overwhelmed people with love and made them feel part of a warm, secure group.
"Destructive cults use a technique called 'love-balming,'" member Frank Tillman, professor of engineering at Kansas State University, said. Tillman then returned after she joined Maranta Gampi Ministries at K-State.
Sardella said these claims stemmed from ignorance of the group's beliefs and from fears of parents that their children were rejecting traditional values.
"They're the nicest, friendliest people you ever saw," he said. "But after a few months, you'll be driving all over town, shopping on street corners selling flowers."
"We're inspired to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of others—that's not normal in this society," he said. "If you're not after your own fame and glory, people think you're brain-washed."
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