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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 2014
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THE UNIVERSITY DARY BANSAN
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arts & features
HOROSCOPES Because the stars know things we don't.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
Unexpected good fortune surprises you. Count your blessings,
and maintain your idealism. A dream provides a secret clue.
Discover you have what it takes.
Partnership is the key that unlocks the lucky door.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
Lucky surprises show up at work. Handle important tasks and listen to your intuition about which way to go. Friends and partners can help make a connection. Focus on short-term goals
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is a 9
Get swept away by romance, carried off in a passionate whirl, and captivated by someone (or something) you love. Don't worry about the future. Enjoy the present moment, and company. Fun is the name of the game.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is an 8
A lucky break interrupts previously scheduled programming at home. It could cause some chaos at work, but you can resolve this.
Watch your steps and dance with changes that improve your domestic bliss.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
You are an 8
Your studies and research wander in a lucky direction.
Discover a happy surprise.
Take advantage of emotional expression. It can be a useful tool, especially with writing and recording projects. Inject passion into your work.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Todav is an 8
Today is an 8
Plug a financial hole. You've got the facts at hand, and profitable prospects. Develop your income potential by providing excellent work. Don't give up. Make a startling revelation. Watch out for accidents. Be logical.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
Let hope replace an old fear.
Don't do a job that's no longer necessary. Use your imagination.
Listen, don't argue. There's potential for breakage. Clean up messes. Good luck comes out of left field
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Don't worry about the money.
Follow your heart. A lucky break arises when you least expect it. Don't over-extend, though.
Consider what you really want,
and go for that. Live simply,
pursuing joy.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
Group efforts bring magnified
rewards. Unexpected luck fills
in the gap between what you
have and what you intend to
accomplish. Keep in action, and
invite more participation. Many
hands make light work.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is on 8
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
Being well organized is crucial.
Gather valuable information,
and carefully file. You don't
mind shaking things up a bit.
Your good work adds to your
reputation. Take it up a notch.
Luck blesses dedication.
Aquarium Canal. 20-4 on Today is a 7 Focus on the adventure at hand, rather than future prospects. There's more money coming in. Don't drive love away by being unavailable. Allow for some spontaneity. Intuition matches the facts. Explore new territory.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 7
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 8
A fortunate surprise impacts your bottom line. Organize paperwork and process financial documents. Sign on the dotted line! Manage family assets.
Give away what you're no longer using. Work together to make it happen.
Sophomore models during KC Fashion Week
MARIA SANCHEZ
MARIA SANCHEZ
@MariaSanchezKU
Sophomore Savannah Zielinski was in seventh grade when she met with a New York modeling agent and was told she needed to lose 10 pounds.
"It's definitely hard to be resilient when someone looks at you and says, 'you're not skinny enough' when I was perfectly healthy," Zielinski said. "I took that and realized it's not worth it."
So she stepped out of the modeling world.
Zielinski attended the University in 2012 before moving to Princeton, N.J., for a year with her boyfriend. Zielinski returned to the University this fall to study music education and, after being out of the game for seven years, she also returned to modeling. Zielinski said she felt her career would be more successful now that she was older. Most recently, she tagged along with a friend to audition for Kansas City Fashion Week.
That friend was McCartney Payton of Kansas City, Mo. Payton has participated in Fashion Week before and invited Zielinski to auditions.
"I told her this would be a great opportunity for her because she just recently moved back to Kansas City and she wanted to get back into it," Payton said.
Zielinski and Payton are walking for multiple designers, starting this Friday. Both will walk together for Little Shell Designs and Meredith Lockhart, both of which Zielinski met through her recent
SAVANNAH ZIELINSKI Student model
"Walking down the runway is honestly so exhilarating, there's so much adrenaline. It's so quick but it feels like forever."
Once I was chosen to walk for [the designers] I was so excited," she said. "It's a huge event and it's another place to network and find more people to work with and more jobs."
work getting back into the modeling world.
"I live in Lawrence so driving to Kansas City definitely makes it more costly because I am paying for gas every time," Zielinski said. "I am walking for three different designers so I'm going to be driving to Kansas City three times in one weekend. I am one of those stereotypical broke college students."
However, Zielinski said she is okay with the fact she will have to make sacrifices because Fashion Week is such an important event.
The benefits of networking and learning from experience come with a few sacrifices as well that Zielinski has to make as a student. As a model, she is unpaid for her contribution to the shows.
"It's really important, especially for the Kansas City designers" Zielinski said. "To make an established event that the designers of Kansas City can go to and show off and make noise abut their
Although Zielinski said Fashion Week is a great place to network for jobs, she also said the experience is beneficial.
"Something always happens," she said. "I've been in a fashion show where a girl almost fell off the stage. I've been in a fashion show where I actually tripped. It's different practicing and doing your rehearsals. When everyone is watching things will happen out of nerves."
designs. That's important. From a modeling aspect, it's important to be seen and to be doing big events."
Zielinski said she is most excited to work with Althea Harper because she has not seen Harper's entire collection yet. Payton is also excited to work with designers and showcase their styles on the runway.
"Walking down the runway is honestly so exhilarating, there's so much adrenaline," Payton said. "It's so quick but it feels like forever."
In stark contrast to her seventh grade experience with a harsh critic, Zielinski said being on stage gives her a sense of strength and confidence.
"It's very empowering. No matter how insecure you may be in real life, when you get on the stage you are a model," she said. "You are confident and for all intents and purposes you are a blank canvas. You get to be this awesome confident person whether that's in your normal day-to-day persona or if it's not who you really are. When you get on that stage, it's who you are."
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ANNA WENNER/KANSAN
Sophomore Savannah Zielinski models on Massachusetts Street. Zielinski has returned to modeling after a seven-year absence and will walk for three different designers during Kansas City Fashion Week.
BEN LIPOWITZ/KANSAN
Student wins national book collecting contest
@DelaneyReyburn
DELANEY REYBURN
@DelaneyReyburn
Katya Soll has had a passion for Spanish and Latin American theater since she was in middle school. Soll, a graduate student from St. Louis, materialized her passion into a collection of more than 100 books and programs from plays she saw personally. She not only entered her collection into the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest, but she also won.
Graduate student Katya Soll reads "La señora Macbeth" by Griselda Gambara in her office in Wescoe Hall. Soll entered her collection of more than 100 Latin American theater books into the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest and won a $2,500 prize as well as $1,000 for KU Libraries.
Soll said it started with a KU competition called the Snyder Book Collecting Contest. The Snyder is a competition through KU Libraries for people who have built up a collection of books and other materials on a specific topic.
Soll won the competition with her impressive collection of books and programs related to Latin American theater. After winning the Snyder Book Collecting Competition, Soll was eligible for the national contest through the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America and the Library of Congress.
"I figured ... why not, I already did the work, let's go ahead and submit it," Soll said. "That was back in the spring, and then they got in touch with me in August to tell me that I won."
When Soll found out she won the national contest, she was completely stunned. She said she hadn't expected to win anything, so she was pleasantly surprised. The national contest awarded her with a $2,500 prize, as well as a $1,000 prize for KU Libraries.
"It was definitely exciting for KU Libraries, as well as the University as a whole," Meyer said. "Her winning goes to raise the profile of the University's libraries, as well as speak for the prestige of the Snyder competition itself."
Soll always had an interest in collecting, but didn't pick up most of the materials in her collection until her trip to South America last sum-
LeAnn Meyer, communications coordinator for KU Libraries, said she was glad Soll won the national contest.
"There was a limit for the Snyder competition," Soll said. "You could only show a maximum of 50 items, and that was really cutting it down for me. I probably have at least twice that much in my overall collection."
"I was going through a phase where I refused to take anything that my older sister had taken, so by default I ended up with Spanish, and then I just fell in love with it and kept going." Soll said.
mer, which included stops in Argentina and Chile. While there, she said she browsed bookstores, collected programs from the nearly 60 plays she saw and stuffed all she could fit in her suitcase.
The art of Spanish and Latin American theater is a specialized field, Soll said. In the U.S., acquiring books about Argentinean theater is difficult and can be expensive. While Soll
Soil currently teaches elementary Spanish at the University and hopes to inspire her students the way her classes inspired her. She received her undergraduate
Soll began taking Spanish classes in middle school and immediately fell in love with the language.
was in South America, she knew she needed to pick up as many materials as she could to build her collection.
Once Soll realized she could combine her love for Spanish and theater, she decided she wanted to learn more about Spanish and Latin American theatre and decided to attend graduate school for Spanish.
"I love discovering a new author or a new play," Soll said. "Not only does it expand my understanding of theater and theatrical culture in these countries, but they are incredible and insightful works of art and literature as well."
degree double majoring in theater and Spanish.
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"I would notice in my theater classes we barely talked at all about Spanish and Latin American plays," Soll said. "I think our textbook for the theater history had one paragraph on Latin America, and meanwhile I was taking a course where I was reading two plays a week and they were amazing, so I got really interested in translation and translating plays."
For her, the theater major was more important because she knew that was something she wanted to do for the rest of her life. She said Spanish was just something she enjoyed and continued to take.
She said she then began reading more Latin American plays, which sparked a fascination with helping other English speakers learn about them as well.
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Graduate student Katya Soll's passion for Spanish and Latin American theater has led to an award-winning collection of more than 100 books and programs from plays she has seen.
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