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Missy Minear/KANSAN Frank Farmer, A professor of English at the University and Becky Schulte, University archivist and curator, have helped make KU libraries home to a large collection of zines.
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Schulte said a typical zine is made of 8.5-by-11-inch pieces of paper folded and stapled in the middle.
"If you look at enough zines, they have their own sort of aesthetic," Farmer said.
Farmer said zines include clip art, pasting, design, handmade drawings, text and a creative layout.
"They are supposed to give you the feeling of spontaneity and purposeful amateurishness," Farmer said.
He said a comparison that has been made by others is between blogs and zines, but there is also a huge difference between the two.
"Blogs are an always 'on' phenomenon, but zines are not that way at all," Farmer said.
"These people are
not usually a part of an organization but rather a loose camaraderie with other people who are fans," Schulte added.
Zines also attract a wide community of people because a zine can be written about
Farmer explained that while zines have taken a back seat, in the past five years there has been an explosion of zines that includes zine festivals such as KC Zine Con.
anything that anyone is passionate about.
"Zines almost go in search of an audience and they are written with an audience in mind, but also with an audience that has yet to be discovered," Farmer said.
Schulte has spent a lot of time looking through all of the zines the library has received and said that some of the zines are notably personal.
therapy to get this written down and put out there and might make them feel better about it," Schulte said.
"It's sort of like
Schulte said what makes zines special is that they are unique to the creator.
"They may be similar in the way they are presented or constructed but the feelings and thoughts are unique," she said.
Schulte said she hopes to continue obtaining zines for the
collection.
"One of the things that we bring to this relationship is that we provide a place for special things to reside," she said. "This zine collection is not circulating, which is sort of against what zinesters stand for, but preservation is one of our purposes for being here."
- Edited by Shane Jackson
Caroline Fiss/KANSAN the Democratic National
Caroline Fiss/KANSAN Damien Gilbert, a junior from Wichita, is one of 33 Kansas delegates for the Democratic National Convention in Pennsylvania.
Justin Kim, a sophomore from Derby, is one of 33 Kansas delegates for the Democratic National Convention in Pennsylvania.
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Two students elected as Democratic National Convention delegates
The convention, which will be held July 25-28, is the formal nominating process for the democratic candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. Each state is given a proportional amount of delegates and superdelegates to award to a candidate Delegates pledge their vote to a candidate based on the results of the state primary or caucus. Superdelegates, however, are not bound to support either candidate.
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Gilbert's early political upbringing will come full circle in July. He and Justin Kim, a junior from Derby, were elected earlier this month as two of Kansas' 33 delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
When he first stepped into a voting booth with his mother in 2006, Damien Gilbert, a junior from Wichita, said he knew he was interested in politics.
"We were in the voting booth together and she said, 'Who do you think should win?' and I said, 'Well, I think [former Gov.] Kathleen Sebelius should win,' and my mom said, 'I think so too,'" he said.
He said the first time he realized he was a Democrat was when his brother decided he was a Republican.
"I kind of grew into it and I have better reasons for being a Democrat now," Gilbert said.
Gilbert and Kim have pledged their support for former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton. Although Clinton's opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders, won the Kansas Caucus on March 5. Clinton still won 10 of the 33 state delegates, according to the Associated Press.
"I agree with most of Bernie's positions, and that tends to blow people's minds. I actually support most of the things Bernie says," Gilbert said. "But I don't think he should be the president."
He added: "I think
that Hillary is much more qualified, and she has a lot more experience."
Kim, who supports Clinton for her "pragmatism," said his interest in politics took off when he came to the University.
"My hometown, like a lot of Kansas, is more conservative but really just less involved. [Politics] is really something that isn't important to people," he said. "It was when I came to college that I really started paying attention and wanting to have a voice and some advocacy."
The convention provides Democrats in Kansas, a typically conservative state, to have their voice heard on a national scale, Kim said.
"Kansas Democrats do have a real say in this situation because they're separate from the Republican field," he said. "That's one thing I was really excited about is the fact that this is a real decision and a real voice you have for participating and choosing the candidate you want the party to support."
- Edited by Sam Davis
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