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Orianiz Modina, Killeen, Texas freshman, has been dancing her whole life. She is familiar with a wide variety of styles, ranging from salsa to hip-hop.
Even in silence, she moves to a beat inside
Dancer finds heritage in steps
By Vonna Keomanyvong
Kansan staff writer
The sound of Latin artist Ruben Blades can be heard blaring from a room on the seventh floor of McCollum Hall. In the middle of the room with her eyes closed, Topeka freshman Orianiz Medina salsa dances.
Medina said because she was born in the United States, she did not know a lot about her mother's native country. Panama
"I can hear the congas beating in my heart." Medina said. "When I dance to Ruben Blades, I feel connected to my heritage."
"I feel pride when I do the salsa," Medina said, "I don't speak that much Spanish, and sometimes Hispanics look down on you because of that. So the way I can show them that I
know my heritage is with my two feet."
Medina said her mother, Aris Bullard, taught her how to do the salsa, merengue, reggae and flamenco. Bullard learned how to dance in high school in Panama. Dancing is part of Panama's heritage, so the school required its students to take at least two years of dance.
Bullard said her daughter started dancing when she was a year old.
Bullard said. "She would go behind me when I would dance, and she would do what was I doing."
"Orianiz started walking very early,"
Bullard said she taught her daughter because she wanted her to continue the family tradition. Medina's grandfather, aunt and uncle also dance.
"It makes me feel good to know that my daughter wants to learn a
"I can hear the congas beating in my heart."
Orianiz Medina
Topeka freshman
little bit more about my country and to see her doing things that come from her roots," Bullard said.
One of the things Medina learned from her mother was that salsa dancing requires more than just learning four moves. The moves include stepping the left foot forward and swinging the hips to the left, then stepping the left foot back while kicking the right foot backward and bringing it down.
"After she showed me the steps, she would tell me to listen my heart." Medina said. "Anyone can learn the steps to salsa dance, but if you're a real dancer you have to feel the music and the rhythm inside of you."
Medina started teaching Sara Garlick, Stanford, Maine, freshman, how to salsa two weeks ago.
Garlick said she asked Medina to teach her because Medina enjoys what she does.
"She doesn't even need music to dance," Garlick said. "It will be quiet in her room, and she'll just start dancing. I'll be like 'Orianiz, there isn't any music on' and she'll be like 'I know.'"
Although Medina likes to teach other people how to dance, she does not see herself as a professional dancer. She wants to become a lawyer instead.
"When I get stressed out with school or work, all I have to do is listen to my heart and I'll start dancing." Medina said. "If you do it as a job then it's not going to be as much fun."
Campus online services to expand, move to one site
Contact Keomanyvong at vkeomanyvong@kansan.com. This story was edited by Erin Ohm.
By Kyle Ramsey
Kansun staff writer
Technology administrators at the University of Kansas are planning to extend many University services beyond business hours by moving them to the Web.
The plan will initially bring together services already offered online, but scattered throughout the University's Web site, under one address. The result is called a portal.
KU's portal won't differ from other portals found online. Common portals include Yahoo! and MSN.
Marilu Goodyear, vice provost for information services, said phase one of the project would tie together the online grades, schedule, timetable, e-mail and online enrollment under one address in Spring 2003. The result would be a one-stop site for these services, requiring students to only log in once to use each service. The services are now spread throughout the University's site and require students to log in individually for each one.
Existing online identifications
A committee comprised of representatives from departments throughout the University will work with students to decide what features the second phase will implement. Student Senate has also formed a student advisory committee to work with the portal. Vice Provost Goodyear said.
more commonly used to access University e-mail accounts, will work with the portal, said Julie Loats, KU Web administrator.
Phase two of the project is less concrete, Loats said.
range from online counseling and advising to online appointment and prescription-filling services at Watkins Health Center.
Loats said these features could
The University Daily Kansan reported Aug. 22 that Mary Lee Hummert, vice provost for student support, said KU Info could be moved online as part of the portal. Hummert now says the two are separate and that a committee is deciding the future of KU Info.
"They're related but not the same," she said.
Goodyear said the portal
would also serve as a digital library, housing online catalogs and journals.
The portal will eventually bring together information found now on departmental Web sites under one address, including professors' class information and research notes.
The digital library will offer an across-the-board search function that will allow students to search all journals at once. Students must now get on the library Web site and choose the journal before searching.
"There's probably 40 to 50 things we can do." Goodyear said. "We can't do it all at once."
The site will allow users to customize its look and which features appear on the site.
The technology portion of the tuition increase, $4 for each credit hour, will pay for the project. Students can access a portal prototype at www.kansan.com/portal.
Contact Ramsey at kramsey@kansan.com. This story was edited by Christine Grubbs.
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