friday, august 29, 2003
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the university daily kansan
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Donation helps welfare program
By Amber Bylaray
abylaray@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A retired University of Kansas professor has given the School of Social Welfare more than $1 million.
Norge Winifred Jerome has donated an expendable fund of $30,000 that the school will be given during the next three years.
The fund is being used to begin
a project that helps a doctoral student do research in a multicultural community. The student is expected to work with the community to decide what it needs and what type of research should be done.
The first doctoral student chosen to work in this program is Graciela Couchonnal. According to a University Relations press release, Couchonnal is an Overland Park doctoral candidate who
15 researching grassroots leadership by women.
When lerome dies, the school will begin to receive money from a $1 million fund.
Because the money is in an endowed fund, it will remain with the Kansas University Endowment Association, and the interest that the money collects will fund the doctoral program.
Jerome is residing in Shawnee and said she donated the money
because she wanted to leave a gift for a university that could carry on her community-based and collaborative approach to research.
The Endowment Association's director of communications, John Scarfe, said it was a rare gift.
"The purpose of the gift is quite outstanding and different than most of the gifts that KU Endowment receives," Scarffe said.
Edited by Ashley Marriott
Partners Gary Shainheit, left, and Dawn Rothwell, right, opened The Sacred Sword, a new business at 732 Massachusetts St. on Monday. The store offers both swords and holistic health items. Courtney Kuhlen/Kansan
Sacred Sword offers weapons, art
By Joe Hartigan jhartigan@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
for those waiting for a one-stop dagger, sword and Japanese therapeutic-touch massage shop, the time has come.
Sacred Sword, 732 Massachusetts St., officially opened for business on Monday. Although the shop sells swords, daggers, and other various "fantasy art" pieces, store owners Gary Shainheit and Dawn Rothwell aren't required to perform background checks on weapon purchasers.
weapons "Criminals and felons know what they can and can't have," coowner Dawn Rothwell said. "It's their responsibility to regulate it, not ours."
The shop does impose restrictions on selling the weapons to minors, requiring a permission slip signed by a parent or guardian to sell to anyone under the age of 18.
"These are meant to be more collectors' items or for people who need them for their work or to hunt." Rothwell said.
Rothwell said the clientele for the swords and other "fantasy art" pieces consisted mostly of men who were married with children, art collectors and martial artists.
Ian Ostrander, Emporia junior and owner of an axe and rapier, said he wasn't concerned that the swords would fall into the wrong
hands.
"I would purchase them because I would like to be able to show someone 'here is what was used, once upon a time."
Ostrander said many collectors purchase the items for decoration purposes.
Shainheit said he was excited about his new shop.
"We're stepping out into a market that people are looking for" Shainheit said.
Sacred Sword also offers Reiki, a healing technique and Japanese
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Shainheit, who handles the fantasy art and weaponry side of business, first began selling swords and daggers in Lawrence's Wholesale Mart, at 615 Florida St.
"It is a theory that we become ill because our energy is depleted," Rothwell said.
"He became a collector, and then it became a matter of supply and demand, so we moved," Rothwell said.
form of therapeutic touch, to cor rect balance.
Rothwell said the most popular
"Give people until October or November, and we'll be swamped," Rothwell said.
items at the shop have been tarot readings and limited edition pieces of fantasy art, including a Lord of the Rings sword series and other replica pieces.
Rothwell was confident the new shop would do well.
Rothwell offers Reiki classes as well as incense burners and holistic health products.
Edited by Erin Riffey
By Meghan Brune
mbrune@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Exhibit highlights campus history
The University of Kansas has a story to tell. A story rarely told in the present.
Their project, named the KU History Galleries, was funded through a Student Senate Reserve Fund for special projects to enhance the University. It received a grant of $15,000.
Fortunato, then a graduate student in history, made similar observations and united with Mucci to fill the void.
A team of historians led by Henry Fortunato, project director, and David Mucci, KU Memorial Unions director, have researched for two years to uncover the varied history of the University. The history panels are the second part of this project, which began with a Web site.
When Mucci first walked into the Kansas Union in 1999 he noticed the acres of empty wall space and the lack of University history on display.
Ten history panels were unveiled yesterday to tell that story as a permanent display on the third floor of the Kansas Union.
"This was a collaborative effort," Fortunato said. "More than 100 writers, researchers and historians were involved."
The project also received funding from the KU Endowment Association and the KU Coca-Cola Partnership.
The panels feature a subdued tone of the crimson and blue, the limestone of Kansas and the brick color of the Union.
Each panel takes a thematic approach to 10 different moments of the University's history.
Three panels spotlight sports, specifically basketball, football and track. The "Net Effectiveness," panel profiles the University's basketball heroes and sagas up to April 8, 2003. It ends with The University Daily Kansan headline "It's Over," from when the team lost in last year's NCAA Tournament championship game.
The other 36 by 50-inch panels highlight history around the campus, including "the Rock Chalk Cheer," "Protest and Dissent," "Lost Traditions," student journalism and three that focus on University architecture.
John McCool, Evansville, Ind., graduate student and one of the project's article writers, said he found many oddball stories. One was that in 1905, freshmen were required to wear "cap flaps," or beanies, to distinguish them from the upperclassman. Their reward for donning the caps either a paddling or being thrown into Potter Lake.
The first completed part of the project was the Web site, www.kuhistory.com. In January 2001, the team took their hours of research and put it on the site, where the community could access it.
in the University Fortunato said that since its beginning, the Web site has had 200,000 page views.
The site is updated weekly with four events from that week in the University's history.
"It's pretty incredible," Fortunato said. "People are really interested in KU's history."
Beyond the weekly briefs, the site houses 123 articles that the information on the panels came from.
The future of the project depends on funding. Fortunato said he was looking for additional grants to continue the panels.
Looking around the hallway, Fortunato said he was pleased.
"seeing all of this makes me say, 'My goodness, we need more,'" he said.
- Edited by Andy Marso
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