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Divestment issue finds audience at JRP
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Members of both sides in a debate on divestment last night said they made points people might not have thought about before.
Although both sides agreed that the South African racial segregation policy of apartheid is wrong, each side advocated different methods of combating it.
Katie Steger, representative of the KU Committee on South Africa, and Dennis "Boog" Highberger, former student body vice president and
member of the Committee, represented proponents of divestment.
Steger and Highberger proposed divestment to put political and economic pressure on the South African government.
Phill Kline, chairman of KU College Republicans, and Bryan Daniel, national board member of Young Americans for Freedom, represented opponents of divestment.
Kline and Daniel said that working within the South African economy, such as encouraging non-white trade unions and creating black businesses, would better benefit both the blacks and the American corporations in South Africa.
The debate was arranged and moderated by Paul Campbell, a resident assistant in Joseph R. Pearson Hall, and was conducted in the hall in front of about 30 people.
Wednesday; Sept. 25, 1985
David Conrad, Winfield sophomore, said he attended the debate to learn about the issue of divestment.
"I'll clear everyone wants apart heid to be done away with," he said "I still haven't made up my mind Both sides had good points."
Kline said that if American companies divested, American jobs as well as black South African jobs would be lost, and other countries would gladly fill in the overall economic gaps.
Steger said American divestment would encourage other countries to divest and put political pressure on South African leaders.
"Divestment is a tactic, not a goal," Highberger said. "The goal is freedom and justice."
The debaters also differed in areas other than their opinions on divestment.
"We have a whole different approach to lifestyles," Sieger said.
Kline and Daniel wore ties and carried clipboards and notes while Steger and Highberger wore jeans. Daniel shirts and spoke without notes.
Campbell said he organized the debate as a service to the residents of the hall.
Kline said the debate was beneficial because both sides were presented.
"I think it had some influence," he said. "It made us think regardless of the side we're on."
Ghosts of Japanese folklore to haunt art museum halls
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
Macabre images of demons and inhuman apparitions leap from the newest exhibit at Spencer Museum of Art, "Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Art of the Supernatural."
The exhibit of nearly 100 works, which depict supernatural trends in Japanese folklore, opens at 2 p.m. Sunday at the art museum. The exhibit was displayed this summer at New York's Asia Society Galleries.
Demons, tricksters, mountain goblins and illustrations of supernatural tales are portrayed in prints, paintings, screens, books and sculptures from the Edo and Meiji periods.
KU professors of art history, anthropology and East Asian languages and cultures organized the exhibit, printed an exhibition catalog and a small book of folk tales and organized the accompanying program.
'Sometimes people from New York don't think Kansas has much to offer.'
The New York Times called the exhibit a "feast of bizarre, funny, sad and dramatic images." The Christian Science Monitor called it "brill
The project was financed with a grant of more than $87,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
But she said, "The Asia Society in New York requested the show for the summer. We didn't mind at all. We just speeded things up a little bit. It gave us a lot more publicity and terrific national reviews."
Carol Shankel, managing editor at the art museum, said last week that a KU exhibit normally would open on campus before traveling to other galleries.
Steve Addiss
Chairman, KU Kress
Department
of Art History
liant, entertaining and extravagantly detailed."
Steven Addiss, chairman of the KU Kress Foundation Department of Art History and one of the exhibit organizers, said it was prestigious for the show to open in New York.
"Sometimes people from New York don't think Kansas has much to offer," he said. "This time we got to show them that we do have something."
Ideas for the exhibit originated in a seminar, Japanese Ghosts and Demons, taught last fall by Addiss; Akira Yamamoto, professor of anthropology and. linguistics; and Fumiko Yamamoto, associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures.
"We were all interested in Japanese art, and particularly in the rich folklore," Addiss said.
Japanese folklore claims some of the most fearsome demons, goblins and ghosts. These beings are said to surround Japanese people wherever they go. They lurk in mountains, lakes, trees, rocks, homes, barns — even cooking utensils. No part of Japan is free of them, according to folklore.
The 10 seminar students provided the basic research in Japanese culture, art and literature, Akira Yamamoto said.
Four of the students continued to work with the professors and eventually produced the essays appearing in the book, named after the course.
Patricia Fister, art museum curator who joined the effort last summer 1984, said collaboration between the professors contributed significantly to the project.
Roger Keyes, director of the Center for the Study of Japanese Prints in San Rafael, Calif., will speak at the exhibit's opening on Sunday. The topic of his speech will be "Seeing Through: Nine Representations of the Supernatural in Japanese Prints."
"It was incredibly enriching." Fister said.
The show will be complemented during its stay through Dec. 22 by lectures, films and programs.
The art museum is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and from noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is free.
Commission endorses Main Street Program
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Downtown merchants last night asked the Lawrence City Commission to support their Main Street Program.
The Downtown Lawrence Association is applying to the Kansas Department of Economic Development for Lawrence to be one of five Kansas cities to receive technical advice and training in downtown revitalization from the National Main Street Center.
City Commissioners strongly answered. "Yes."
Each commissioner offered praise to about thirty Downtown Lawrence Association representatives at the meeting, before unanimously approving a letter of support and recommending improvements over the next three years.
The commission unanimously added a statement to the application that said the city strongly endorsed city financing through 1988.
The improvements include new drinking fountains, alley improvements and the purchase of new trees for the downtown area.
"I think the downtown people should be applauded," Mayor Mike Amyx said. "Many people took from own time to make this project work."
Commissioner Ernest Angino commended the DLA for initiating
the Main Street nomination process and then asking the commission to join the effort.
After the meeting, City Manager Buford Watson said that the commission's financial and verbal support gave Lawrence a very good chance of being accepted as a Main Street city.
"We've got a strong application," he said. "With Lawrence's past and downtown merchants' efforts, I think our application is exemplary."
DLA president Susan Cairns said she appreciated the support from not only the downtown merchants, but also the whole community. She said the other cities applying for the Main Street competition were doing a good competition for Lawrence.
"I feel we can succeed and make the Main Street program look good."
The DLA raised over $50,000 on its own for the program.
Earlier in the year, KDED contracted with the National Main Street Center for Kansas to become a Main Street state. The 1885 Legislature appropriated $40,000 to the KDED for the contract. Private contributions matched that figure.
Five Kansas communities will be selected to receive assistance from the National Main Street Center through the program. Other cities that are applying include Junction City, Manhattan, Hutchinson, Salina and Emporia.
On Campus
The KU Dr. Who Appreciation Society will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union.
On the Record
The University Forum will feature Glen E. Woolfenden, professor of systematics and ecology, who will speak on "Animal Sociobiology" at 11:45 a.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Building, 1204 Oread Ave.
■ Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, will speak at 4 p.m. tomorrow in 100 Stauffer-Flint Hall. The speech is sponsored by Women in Communications.
The Christian Science College Organization will meet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in Danforth Chapel.
There will be an Episcopal worship service tomorrow at noon at Danforth Chapel. The service is sponsored by the Canterbury House.
A car valued at $6,800 and personal items valued at $395 were stolen Monday from the owner's mobile home in the 1900 block of West 31st Street, police said yesterday. The owner told police the items may have been taken by a friend who was to meet him at his home Monday. The owner arrived home at 7 p.m. and found cash, coins, toys and candy missing from inside the mobile home, and his 1981 Monte Carlo missing from its parking space.
A radio-cassette player, cash,
and several pieces of costume
jewelry, valued together at $240,
were stolen about 2 p.m. Monday
from a home in the 2400 block of
Ousdahl Road, police said yesterday.
Vitamin E encircled by myths
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
Through the years, a lot of powers have been pinned on Vitamin E.
However, most of those powers are bunk, says Peter L. Beyer, associate professor of dietetics and nutrition at the University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Vitamin E can't save you from heart disease, it can't keep you from getting old and it certainly can't make you a better lover. Beyer said recently.
The only proven function of Vitamin E in humans is anti-oxidation. That is, it prevents certain adverse chemical reactions in cells that, in theory, could cause those cells to destroy themselves.
Beyer said Vitamin E's reputation as a "sex vitamin" stemmed from studies in which reproduction was used to test animals with Vitamin E deficiency.
That was never found in humans, Bever stressed.
Another myth surrounding Vitamin E is that it can prevent or slow
"It's a nice theory," Beyer said. "But even the guy who said it admits he can't find that in humans."
The researcher, A.L. Tappel, found that Vitamin E slowed aging in flies.
"If we want to prevent aging, there are things Americans ought to worry about other than Vitamin E." Beyer said.
He named high fat and low fiber intake, obesity and hypertension as factors that definitely shortened lives.
"People are making a big deal and spending a lot of money on things like Vitamin E and at the same time are taking in lots of fats and have poor diets," Beyer said. "Adding a vitamin to that is really rather futile."
Beyer said Americans rarely suffered from Vitamin E deficiency if they maintained a healthy diet.
"Or anything close to healthy," he said.
Vitamin E comes from oils such as cottonseed, corn, safflower and sunflower, as well as most seeds such as pumpkin and sesame.
Some vitamin E also is found in nuts, eggs, meat, green, leafy vegetables and dairy products.
Vitamin E is fat soluble, which means any excess is stored in the body instead of being excreted. And stays in the body a long time. Beyer said.
Because it stays around so long, he said, a study found that men on Vitamin E deficient diets didn't show any signs of deficiency for about five years.
Not much is known yet about the effects of large doses of Vitamin E. Beyer said, because people started taking a lot of it only in the past five or 10 years.
He said, however, that side effects such as headaches, visual disturbances, nausea and diarrhea had been reported.
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