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Anarchists raise money by selling nude calendar
Contributed Art
Meredith Lemon, Pisgah Forest, N.C., junior, posed for the cover of the Kansas Anarchist calendar and also for the month of July. The calendar is a fundraising idea to support the anarchist cause.
By Amanda Kim Stairrett
astairrett@kansan.com
kansan staff writer
When the idea came up, it was a joke. Members of Kansas Anarchist thought it would be funny to get naked for a calendar. The joke turned serious when the anarchists realized it would be a way to raise funds for their cause.
Now the Kansas Anarchist group has a 2004 calendar filled with photos of members doing everything from leaning over a dumpster to welding — all while partially or fully nude.
"We're a group of people who are really comfortable with ourselves and each other," said Vanessa Hays, Topeka junior. "Who don't view our bodies as negative or obscene."
Along with black and white photographs, the calendar contains a suggested reading list, Web site list and dates important to anarchism.
Wesley Teal, Lawrence resident and one of July's models, said most of the subjects were friends.
"It was a fun way for us to build money for our community and different projects we do." he said.
The photographs were shot in March. Hays said the models chose their own settings, props and how much to reveal.
"We don't feel objectified simply because we are being looked at," read the calendar's introduction. "We think our bodies are beautiful and that being naked is natural and not a cause for embarrassment."
Hays said the Kansas Anarchist movement started six to seven years ago when people began meeting at local coffee shops. Hays said there were 25 to 30 active members of Kansas Anarchist.
Events raised funds for the creation of the Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library at 13 W. 14th St. Since
Aug. 1, it has been a meeting place for anarchists and contains a bike shop, darkroom, public Internet access and union-owned-and-operated screen printing shop.
Hays said Kansas Anarchist is made up of University of Kansas students, high school students, members from the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice, activists from the 1960s and Lawrence residents. She said most are between the ages of 18 and 35.
"We work to dually create community and spread knowledge while at the same time trying to dismantle current power structures that are oppressing people," Hays said.
The 2004 Naked Kansas Anarchist Calendar costs $8 each or $6 each for 10 or more. To buy a copy of the calendar call (785) 843-1105.
— Edited by Ehren Meditz
Tuition group to investigate University's use of funding
By Robert Perkins
rperkins@kansan.com
Kansan atfaff writer
A new student group has formed to fight for lower tuition.
Students for Fair Tuition, led by president Tommy Bobo, North Augusta, S.C., junior, held its first meeting Nov. 6 to discuss its mission at the University of Kansas and decide how best to get started.
Bobo said that while the University needed more funding, it was mishandling the money it has.
"Universities in general are the most unaccountable institution in the U.S.", said Leo Khayet, Overland Park junior. "Nobody can tell me where my money is going."
Lynn Bretz, director of University Relations, said she disagreed with Students for Fair Tuition and said the administration hadn't tried to cover up its spending at all.
said. "Everything we do is very open."
"It's a public university," she
The eight-person group discussed its dissatisfaction with University spending on technology, while at the same time, the Museum of Anthropology was closed.
To combat such issues, Bobo proposed a two-stage attack. First, the group plans to get the most-detailed copy of the University's budget and highlight what it sees as a major misappropriation of funds. Second, the group plans to distribute its highlighted copy of the budget to students to rally support to its cause.
"We need to do more than have meetings," said Patrick Quinn, Andover senior and off-campus student senator. "We need to get students outraged about this."
Bretz said that a copy of the University's budget was available for review at the Watson Library reference desk.
"Students who are interested
just need to read what's out there," she said.
Students for Fair Tuition's next meeting will be at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas University Atrium.
In addition, the group is working with Student Senate for a higher education rally scheduled at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
The rally's coordinators have invited Lawrence-area legislators as well as Provost David Shulenburg, and Janet Murguia, executive vice chancellor for University Relations, to participate in an open forum. Blake Shuart, Senate's Student Legislative Awareness Board legislative director, said the forum would focus on tuition issues.
Rather than question University spending, participants in the open forum will try to sell legislators on giving the University more money, Shuart said.
Candidate loses press secretary
Edited by Ehren Meditz
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's press secretary and deputy finance director quit yesterday, adding to the bitter turmoil on Kerry's team after the dismissal of his campaign manager.
Robert Gibbs, chief spokesman for the Massachusetts lawmaker, and deputy finance director Carl Childlow quit in reaction to the firing of Jim Jordan, who was abruptly let go by Kerry Sunday night. Both expressed dissatisfaction with the campaign, according to officials.
Gibbs will be replaced by Stephanie Cutter, a former spokeswoman for Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, and currently the spokeswoman for the Democratic National Convention, officials said.
Jordan was replaced Monday by Mary Beth Cahill, who was Kennedy's chief of staff. The switch, less than three months before voters in Iowa participate in the first-in-the-nation caucuses, was designed to jump-start Kerry's campaign by signaling to fundraisers and activists that he was addressing problems that have caused his campaign to slump.
Many Democratic strategists, however, say the problems were caused by the candidate himself. They said he has campaigned as if the nomination was his entitlement while allowing former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean to catapult ahead. Dean sealed two key union endorsements last week, forcing Kerry to examine his presidential prospects.
The staff shake-up consolidates power around Kennedy's former staff after months of internal division. Kerry's team has consisted of roughly three factions: his Washington team, paid consultants and friends and family from Boston.
"We're sorry to see them go. They served the senator well," campaign spokeswoman Christine Anderson said of Gibbs and Chidlow.
The departures threaten to further erode the morale of a campaign that had been viewed just months ago as a front-running team. Kerry, who has been trailing former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean in key state polls, had been pressured by donors and supporters to shake up his campaign.
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