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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY GANSAN
arts & features
HOROSCOPES
Because the stars know things we don't.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
Impress your friends and family.
Work and career require more attention today and tomorrow.
Work in partnership, and magnify your reach.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
Put a female in charge. The longer you know each other, the stronger the bond grows.
Household matters need attention today and tomorrow. A sales pitch solves it. Get the best quality you can afford.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is an 8
Today is an 8 Handle financial matters today and tomorrow... harvest low-hanging fruit. Put up stores for winter. Act on long-term plans for home renovation. Build for the future.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is a 9
Upgrade your communications equipment. Share the load today and tomorrow, but hold on to the responsibility. Support your partner. Accept a challenge. A female provides treats.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
Focus on providing excellent service today and tomorrow. Buy, sell, or invest in the future. Add cosmetic touches to a project. Use what you already have. New income opportunities may arise. Prepare to jump.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is an 8
Today is an 8
Passion grows behind closed doors. Make more time for love today and tomorrow. Prioritize fun, games and delicious flavors. A female provides the sugar. Nurture a personal dream. Do it for home and family.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is an 8
Get something nice for the family to beautify your love nest. Mend your safety net. Get expert feedback. Emotions increase at home. Keep digging until you get all the data. Your efforts are appreciated.
appreciated.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 9
You're entering a two-day voracious learning phase. Find a treasure. It's a good time for financial planning. You learn quickly, so pay attention for an unexpected bonus. Your partner adds a nice touch.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 9
Listen carefully to an amazing idea. Here's where you start making profits, with a lucky break. Your magnetic personality draws someone in. Express your love and gratitude. Aim for long-term goals. You get farther now.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.19)
Today is an 8
Revamp your wardrobe. Devise a plan and take on the leadership role today and tomorrow. You have what others want. Work you like keeps coming in. Seek group approval before putting money down. You're extra hot.
down. You're extra hot
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Tuday is an 8
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is an 8
Extra thought today and tomorrow saves time later. Research vital information. Seek balance in a negotiation. Friends support with reliable clues. Gather your resources together. Provide leadership. Set long-range goals. Seek truth and consider discoveries.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
There's more money coming in.
Deal fairly with everyone concerned. Ask for more, and get it.
Launch your adventure or project soon. Invite friends. Today and tomorrow are good party days.
Relax and enjoy it.
Jehovah's Witnesses spread message
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Marcus Gubanyi, a math graduate student from Seward, Neb., opened his door in a KU Buddy System T-shirt and athletic shorts.
"Good morning," said Crystal Hartley, a 22-year-old from Lawrence. "How are you doing this morning? My name's Crystal. I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses."
Jehovah's Witnesses is an evangelical Christian denomination. The two congregations in Lawrence have about 150 members who go door-to-door spreading the Jehovah's Witnesses' message. They split the city into territories and divide up so every door is knocked on at least once a year.
Hartley asked if Gubanyi watched the news and said there's always a lot of bad news in the world. Gubanyi nodded and said "OK" as Hartley read him Jeremiah 29:11: "For I know the plans I have for you", declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.' "
Hartley's parents were Jehovah's Witnesses too and she was baptized at 15. She's supported by her husband and volunteers 70 hours a month to go door-to-door with Jehovah's Witnesses. She said spreading the message is important and that life-saving
"All right," Gubanyi said.
At 9:30 a.m. on a Friday at Chase Court Apartments near 19th and Iowa streets, most knocks go unanswered. The people who are home, like Gubanyi, are all KU students, many barefoot in pajamas.
information can really help people.
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Crystal Hartley, a 22-year-old Jehovah's Witness from Lawrence, waits outside an apartment door at Chase Court Apartments on Friday morning. Jehovah's Witnesses go door-to-door to distribute pamphlets to Lawrence residents
"If you're in a building and the building is on fire, you don't just get out," Hartley said. "You help other people get out too."
She wore sandals with orange flowers over the toes, a gray skirt past her knees and a striped cardigan — modest business attire. She held a Bible, pamphlet, brochures and recent magazines, protected from the drizzling rain in a plastic folder.
Gubanyi thanked her as he closed the door. "I let them say their thing to satisfy what they need," he said later. Gubanyi is Lutheran and he said there is no chance of him converting to Jehovah's Witnesses.
Hartley smiled as she started a note in her phone with Gubanyi's name and address. When someone is nice and seems interested, she notes their first name and makes plans to come back in a couple of weeks to see if there was anything they might want to know more about.
Hartley had a message and McCourt wanted to let her get
Great, Globally said later.
Alison McCourt, a third-year law student from Onaga,
answered the door of her apartment holding a 12-ounce coffee cup, wearing a dress with her hair half straightened and half in a clip.
"Great," Gubanyi said later.
"Yeah," McCourt said. "It is." McCourt wasn't running late that morning and she later said there's no reason to be rude.
"So that's a nice thought," Hartley said.
Hartley read her the Jeremiah verse.
it out.
"I hope you guys have a great day," McCourt said. "Thank you very much."
McCourt threw the pamphlet away as she walked by her trash can back to the bathroom to finish straightening her hair. She said someone going door-to-door wouldn't persuade her on something big like seeking out a different religion.
"The more information you have on something, the better decisions you make," said Leonard Blanton, a 67-year-old Jehovah's Witness.
Blanton has been going door-to-door since he was baptized when he was 9. His parents were Jehovah's Witnesses too. He said the biggest thing that's changed is Jehovah's Witnesses now recognize that people don't have a lot of time to talk. Instead of reading three or more scripture verses, he handed out a pamphlet referring people to JW.org.
He likes to go to the top floor of apartment buildings and work his way down to ground level.
"How you doing this morning?" he said as each door opened. "My name is Leonard. We're on a worldwide campaign to give answers to the big questions and we're just stopping briefly."
JW.org is available in more than 500 languages. The pamphlet asks questions like, "Is God to blame for our suffering?" Blanton asked everyone to take a minute and jump online.
Matt Cooper, a third-year law student from Lenexa, peeked his head out behind a cracked door of his apartment. He had just gotten back from a trip and didn't want Hartley to see the unpacked
clothes strewn across his living room.
Hartley introduced herself as a volunteer trying to share a little encouraging information with people.
"What's this about?" Cooper asked.
"I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses," she said.
"I'm not religious," he said.
"Thanks. Have a good day."
Cooper said it was like someone trying to sell a magazine subscription.
"They have to know everybody's going to say 'no thanks! It's an effort of futility." Hartley says she doesn't let a negative response get to her.
"It's not us they're rejecting," she said. "It's our message. And that's their personal choice."
Edited by Logan Schlossberg
Theater students perform in Greece over summer
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Theater students at the University were able to bring their passion for performance to foreign audiences when they traveled to Greece this summer.
Director Dennis Christilles addresses his cast and crew at rehearsal for Sophocles' "Electra" at the University Theatre. "Electra" will have a one-time performance Sept. 6 at 7:30 p.m.
For about two months, 13 students, along with a graduate teaching assistant and the artistic director of the University Theatre, stayed in the Greek village Katohi and performed "Electra," a Greek play about Electra and Orestes' revenge toward the death of their father Agamemnon by their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.
"It's all about that revenge. And whether or not the revenge is just or whether or not some other form of justice might be more appropriate," said Artistic Director and Associate Professor Dennis Christilles.
Katohi has welcomed and provided accommodations for University students since the KU Summer Theatre in Greece program started in 1990.
As part of the program, students learned Modern Greek from Dimitra Pitsikou, a Katohi resident. Alice Hofgren, the GTA present on the trip, taught students Greek dramatic literature
and mythology and Christilles taught Greek history, art and architecture.
"I think that for the students the important thing is, sure, the play and academic experience. But most importantly is being immersed in another culture and learning so much more about themselves through that culture," Christilles said.
The students stayed at a school where they lived together and rehearsed every day.
"We had a chance to not just live together, but live with the play for an extended period of time," Christilles said. "Not that the other productions don't, but for us it was a much different, kind of personal way."
Christilles said that everyone got along well together, something that he enjoyed seeing. He said that everyone, himself included, had an equally quirky sense of humor which made it fun to be around one another.
Students also visited many archeological sites, met new people and built relationships with one another as well as with the village.
Jami Bessey, a senior from Paola, was amazed to see the ruins she learned about in art history classes.
"I got to actually go to the places that I've studied in
books and see the mask of Agamemnon and the national museum," Bessey said. "Some of the locations you could actually walk through the pillars and touch the ground and everything. We actually got to go to theater of Dionysus, which was where theater was started. Very first play was done in that theater. Couple of us had this moment where we were just like, 'We're here. This is real.'"
Thomas Tong, a senior from Olathe, played the character Orestes. He said
he has always wanted to take the opportunity to study abroad during college through the theatre department.
"What was really exhilarating was doing our show in the evening. What's different was that since it's outside, we had to speak out loud to the audience and they were sitting on the seats up the stairs." Tong said.
The KU Summer Theatre in Greece program provided far more than just academic knowledge; it provided students with an unforgettable
experience.
"It was a fun place to be," Tong said. "Being able to just immerse ourselves in the culture that they have as well as them just being so open to us being there."
The play will be performed in Lawrence, partially in Greek, for a one-time-only show Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre.
Tickets are available online or at the box office located in Murphy Hall.
Edited by Kelsie Jennings
Study: Fast-paced TV encourages snacking
CHICAGO - Could action-packed TV fare make you fat? That's the implication of a new study that found people snacked more watching fast-paced television than viewing a more leisurely paced talk show.
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Cornell University researchers randomly assigned almost 100 undergraduates to watch one of three 20-minute sessions featuring: "The Island," a 2005 sci-fi thriller starring Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor; that same movie but without the sound; or the "Charlie Rose" show, a public television interview program. The students were all provided generous amounts of cookies, M&M candies, carrots and grapes.
THE SKINNY:
During "The Island," students ate on average about 7 ounces (207 grams) of various snack foods, and 354 calories. That was almost 140 calories more and nearly double the ounces they ate watching interviewer Charlie Rose. Watching the movie without sound, they also ate more — almost 100 calories more — compared with Charlie Rose.
THE THEORY:
The faster paced TV
LIMITATIONS:
seemed to distract viewers more, contributing to mindless eating, said Cornell researcher Aner Tal, the study's lead author. The results suggest that a steady diet of action TV could raise risks for packing on pounds.
The study was small and didn't last long enough to measure any long-term effects on the students'
weight. It's also possible some viewers would find talk shows or other slower-paced TV more distracting and would be more apt to snack more during those shows than when watching action-packed programs.
THE BOTTOM LINE:
Tal suggests viewers take steps to prevent mindless snacking, by avoiding or limiting high-calorie snacks when watching TV.
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