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FOOTBALL
Kickoff chant narrowed to 2 options; vote today
Kansan.com users have voted, and now two chants will face off to determine which one will become a new KU football tradition.
The Kansan-submitted winning chant is, "Go ... lahvaws!"
The student-submitted winning chant is, "Kayyyyyy (kick) Youuuuuu!"
Each poll recorded more than 1,000 overall votes.
Go to Kansan.com by 5 p.m. today to choose between these two chants. The overall winner will be announced in Friday's Kansan.
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Vote for one of the remaining two chants by 5 p.m. today at kansan.com
ATHLETICS
KU donor Kivisto not discussing firing issue
Former KU basketball player Tom Kivisto promised to give $12 million for the construction of the new football facility, but was recently fired as CEO of his company SemGroup LP and owes it $290 million. He appears to be on schedule with his payments to the Athletics
Kivisto
Department, but hasn't spoken about the issue since he was fired on July 18.
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Local convention provides opportunity to dress up, have fun
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA smiyakawa@kansan.com
Erica Binns dons a bright blue wig, fiery red contact lenses and a white form-fitting suit. The outfit cost $300 to make and took six months to construct. She didn't make it for Halloween; she made it for an anime festival.
Binns, Olathe senior, modeled her latest costume on a character from
Neon Genesis Evangelion." Her costume won a prize at Naka-Kon, an anime festival in Kansas City, Mo., where she competed with other fans who dressed up as various Japanese cartoon characters.
Hogan said many Americans still believed anime was only for children, but she said it could be instead accessible to a wider audience because of its solid plots and variety of genres, including comedy, fantasy and romance.
"To me, anime is another medium of sitcoms." Hogan said.
the club had more than 40 members this year.
"I like the challenge of creating a character and pulling off."
William Tsutsui, professor of
"I like the challenge of creating a character and pulling off the costume convincingly."
ERICA BINNS
Olathe senior
pulling off the costume convincingly" Birns said.
Binns is among a growing number of Japanese anime fans at the University of Kansas. Not many students dress up as anime characters, let alone create character costumes; however, Dee Hogan, Leavenworth junior and president of the KU Anime Club, said that more students are getting interested in anime and that
"A lot of Americans, especially American youth, have really come
processor of history who studies Japanese history and popular culture, said Japanese animation had spread across the world during the past 15 years.
to enjoy and really identify with anime and its sensibilities," Tsutsui said. "The anime popularity is going to be a peak soon."
Michiko Ito, Japanese studies librarian, said the success of the two children programs "Sailor Moon" and "Pokemon" was a turning point of the anime boom in the U.S. After the two programs became popular in the late 1990s, more Japanese anime programs
were exported to the U.S., including series that older audience could enjoy.
Erik Buchholz, St. Louis senior, said he enjoyed the complexity of anime. He said while many anime series were set in imaginary and fantasy world, some of them portrayed the dark side of society and challenged what people took for granted, such as gender roles.
"It makes social norms visible by breaking them," Buchholz said.
Tsutsui said anime was largely based on Japanese cultural and social backgrounds, and it could be hard for the American audience to understand all the contexts.
"In one way, that's an appeal of anime," he said. "It allows Americans to imagine things."
He also said Japanese anime could be appealing to Americans who didn't fit into the mainstream popular culture.
"Americans who like anime see themselves as being rebellious, opposing American pop cultures because anime is so different from Hollywood and traditional narratives Hollywood puts out," Tsutsui said. "They see themselves as kind of an underground movement opposing American society."
American fans also contributed to the creation of the anime subculture
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CAMPUS
International organization raises awareness of AIDS
BY JESSE TRIMBLE
jtrimble@kansan.com
Megan O'Malley didn't know when she traveled to South Africa last summer that two girls she met would die from AIDS before she returned to the United States.
O'Malley, Overland Park senior, traveled across the world to work with the AIDS Haven in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, through AIESEC, an international student exchange organization.
The focus of the AIDS Haven is to counsel children and adults with AIDS, to educate those who live with someone who has AIDS and to educate children with AIDS. The Haven also provides support groups
O'Malley said the two girls — Siphokazi, who was nine, and Sisipho, who was four — were the two children in the orphanage who most looked up to her. She said two more children were brought in to fill vacancies at the orphanage immediately after Siphokazi and Sisipho died.
"It fluctuates so much, sadly," O'Malley said. "No one should ever have to attend the funeral of a child."
for those affected and creates on-going staff education in handling death.
To help raise awareness for the AIDS epidemic in Africa, AIESEC will sponsor an event, "Explore Africa", for the AIDS Haven at 7 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
AIESEC, the world's largest student organization, sends 4,500 students each year to work in different countries around the world and the organization is present at 1,100 universities in more than 105 countries.
Marley Parsons, vice president of events for AIESEC in Kansas, said that once a month the group sponsored Global Village events, such as "Explore Africa," that focus on different countries. She said people from different countries set up tables with pictures, clothing and food.
"They just talk about their culture and represent all different aspects of their country," Parsons said.
attend the events. This evening, Kansas Africa Relief, or KAR, UNICEF, Peace Corps, Oxfam and KU for Uganda will attend the event. Parsons said the countries that would be represented this evening were Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Senegal, South Africa, Ghana and Ethiopia.
She said different organizations also
Parsons said the events focused on demonstrating different aspects of each country's cultures.
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Megan O'Malley, Overland Park senior, traveled to South Africa last summer and worked in an orphanage for children with AIDS. O'Malley traveled with AISEC, an international student organization.
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