Volume 124 Issue 64
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Friday, November 18, 2011
COMMUNITY
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Dennis Dailey, retired University professor, taught sex education for more than 30 years and now continues teaching off campus. The 10-week course begins Jan. 26 and will meet each Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
Learn, love your body
I BOBBY BURCH
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For students in Dr. Dennis Dailey's course "Human Sexuality in Everyday Life," eyeballing six-foot photographs of penises and vaginas is simply a method to understand the human body.
The exercise's objective, according to Dailey, professor Emeritus of the University's School of Social Welfare, is to normalize and desensitize attitudes about the human body.
"People — particularly women because they are so objectified in our culture — become detached from their bodies. They don't understand their bodies and they don't live with them graciously," he said. "If you see enough bodies, you see enough genitals, all of a sudden it will occur to you
— in the general flow of things — there's nothing wrong with it”
Dalley's non-credit 10-week course on human sexuality, which begins next semester at the Ecumenical Campus Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., examines a variety of topics, ranging from human physiology and anatomy to masturbation.
The course, organized by the University's Sexuality Education Committee, opens with an indepth conceptualization and definition of human sexuality. Dailey
said that he encourages his students to share their personal experiences in class discussion and that no topic is taboo.
Ali Free, a junior from Blue Springs, Mo., and co-coordinator of the University's Sexuality Education Committee, said that the course offers students and the Lawrence community valuable lessons for couples in relationships.
"Trial and error works, but it's not very efficient and it causes so much pain," she said. "He addresses a lot of the underlying issues that plague a lot of relationships."
Dailey taught his course on human sexuality at the University for more than 30 years, attracting hundreds of students to enroll in the class each semester. However, the course encountered controversy throughout its history at the University, including protests from the Westboro Baptist Church.
In 2003, Kansas Sen. Susan Wagle alleged that Dailey's course was obscene and that students experienced sexual harassment, according to University documents. But after an investigation conducted by former University Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor David Shulenburger, Sen. Wagle were deemed
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Former bank exec returns to campus
BOOK SIGNING
Kaplan, a professor at the Harvard Business School, spoke to more than 350 people at Dole Institute of Politics Thursday evening about his management role at one of the world's largest investment banking firms.
Robert Kaplan, a University alumnus and former vice chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., offered a piece of leadership advice: "You can't do it alone."
Kaplan spoke, about a variety of topics, but focused primarily on the qualities of leadership described in Kaplan's book, "What to Ask the Paplan in the Mirror." Kaplan also answered audience members' questions regarding the erosion of the middle class in the United States.
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all the answers — it's about asking the right questions," he said. "And being willing to ask questions and seek help and be open to learning."
"As a leader you have to articulate a vision — an aspiration," he
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"Leadership is not about having
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JUST DANCE
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GRACE THE STAGE
University Dance Company dancers perform "And Now," a routine choreographed by Janet Charleston. The performance was one of six in the Fall 2011 Concert.
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Moving with grace and precision across a stage is no easy feat. Learning and practicing several complex routines while going to classes, working and trying to have a social life makes it an even tougher achievement, but the University Dance Company made three months of hard work look real as they performed on the Lied Center stage last night.
The University Dance Company is a student organization run through the dance department. Students began preparing for this performance at the beginning of the semester and have been working on each piece for three to four hours per week, said dance company president Libby Ingram, a senior from Tulsa, Okla.
"I'm in four of the pieces and its a really great concert this semester just because there's a really large variety," Ingram said. "In terms of style, there is a vast range."
Several different types of ballet were represented as well as modern dance and moments of jazz, step and folk dancing. Music pieces ranged from polka to Celtic, delivering climactic crescendos and eerily quiet passages. One dance, "And Now," did not include any music at all.
"It was interesting," said Halley Laskey, a sophomore from Gray-slake, lll. "I feel like you would have to have good time and pay attention to your surroundings since there is no music. It was different."
Presenting something different to both the audience and the dancers was one of the goals of the performance.
Jerel Hilding, assistant professor and associate chair of dance, choreographed two of the show's pieces and said he tried to use his years of professional experience to introduce dancers to a style of ballet that they might not normally learn.
and broaden our technique and capabilities. And we get to perform at such a prestigious facility, the Lied Center."
Dancers also got the opportunity to work with guest choreographers such as Jennifer Hart and Janet Charleston, as well as faculty members Muriel Cohan and Willie Lenoir.
Less serious students of dance enjoyed seeing the works of their professors take center stage.
Hilding said there were other benefits, too.
For members of the University Dance Company, performing in the group provides valuable experience and performing opportunities.
"The University Dance Company is such a great outlet for undergraduate dancers." Ingram said. "It's an opportunity to learn a lot
"It's a way to develop more of a mentorship with the students," Hilding said.
"He's my dance instructor," said Cassie Benedict, a sophomore from Bennington, Ill., after watching a routine choreographed by her jazz teacher, Lenoir. "His piece had the most energy."
The University Dance Company will hold an encore performance tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center. The cost is $10 for students and faculty.
— Edited by Jason Bennett
BOWLING A TURKEY
Lucy O'Connor, a junior from Kansas City, Kan., bowls with a 20-pound frozen turkey in front of the Kansas Union Thursday afternoon. Student Union Activities put on a Thanksgiving Open House in the Union lobby from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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CROSSWORD 4
SPORTS 10
SUDOKU 4
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