THE UNIVERSITY DARY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
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Asteroid Head shows off art
BY ZACH WHITE white@kansan.com
For the next week and a half a group of local artists calling themselves Asteroid Head are displaying their works in the Wonder Fair: Art Gallery & How! at 803 Massachusetts, in the basement underneath The Casbah Market.
The show, called "Asteroid Head Would Like To Have A Word With You," is a collection of 64 pieces — eight from each of the eight artists in the collective, two of whom are KU students. Each artist came up with one word, like "harsh" or "Kenneth," then all eight created something for each word. The styles and materials vary from artist to artist, including prints to pens to paints, and are bound together by nothing but the same starting point.
The idea for the show came from one of the members' meditation sessions at sunset during an event the group held this past summer. The weekend event consisted of nearly 100 Lawrence area artists
and friends gathering to recreate a summer camp experience. The group divided into teams and competed in various competitions such as tug-of-war.
The closing night of "Asteroid Head Would Like To Have A Word With You" on Sept. 12 also brings a reunion of the participants in this summer camp retreat to release the
summer camp yearbook. The yearbook will feature pictures of the event and art inspired by it.
"I think it's going to be the best opening in Lawrence ever."
JASON BARR
Olathe senior and artist
"We took pictures with
everyone in their team shirts and face paint," said Eric Dobbins, a member of Asteroid Head, and operator of the Wonder Fair gallery. "And we are putting those into an elementary school-type yearbook with collages and stuff."
The collective hopes this event can help boost interest in art in Lawrence, particularly with students. Jason Barr, Olathe senior and member of Alerhead Head,
explained that he tried to make the sort of things he wished were around when he first came to Lawrence.
"This town needs to have more sick stuff," Barr said.
"I think art in Lawrence is okay,
Ryan Schick, Warrensburg, Mo,
sophomore, agreed that Lawrence
needed something.
but it could go a lot further," Schick said. "People don't want to experiment enough."
The event will also feature live music by Lawrence band Fourth of July, the ceremonial presentation of art from
the gallery to a person who found a golden ticket tied to a balloon released by the gallery earlier this summer and a reenactment of the summer camp's closing ceremony.
"I think it's going to be the best opening in Lawrence ever," Barr said. "It's just some far-out family fun."
Edited by Tim Burgess
NATIONAL
In a pinch, plane lands on highway
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MANSFIELD, Mass. — A small plane with engine trouble made an emergency landing on a Massachusetts highway late Tuesday morning, causing a traffic jam but no injuries.
A firefighter applies fire retardant foam around a plane that made an emergency landing on Interstate 495 in Mansfield, Mass., on Tuesday. The two men aboard were uninjured, and the interstate was reopened before rush hour.
The two men aboard had been practicing stalls — slowing down the airspeed to the point that the wings stopped giving the plane lift, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters.
Around 11 a.m., the pilot called Norwood Memorial Airport to report that he was having engine trouble and would have to land the 35-year-old single-engine Piper Cherokee on Interstate 495 in Mansfield, about 25 miles southwest of Boston, Peters said.
"But the engine just quit and didn't restart." said Peters.
were evaluated by paramedics as a precaution. State police identified the pilot as Matthew Kleindienst, 24, of Stoughton, and the passenger as Brian Souza, 21, of Stoneham.
The pilot and passenger were already out of the plane when Mansfield fire officials arrived soon after the landing. The two
The plane wound up nose down and with a collapsed undercarriage, taking up nearly all three
southbound lanes of the highway. Firefighters used foam and sand to soak up leaked fuel.
State police temporarily closed the entire southbound side of Interstate 495 on Tuesday afternoon as authorities removed the plane. The lanes were reopened just before rush hour traffic.
HEALTH
Smokeout events help student smokers kick their habit
BY ALY VAN DYKE
avandyke@kansan.com
Donnie Aaron, Wichita freshman, tried to quit smoking six months after he started. He lasted a week.
Now he's been smoking for three years and is up to a pack a day, he said.
"I started out smoking socially, and I still smoke socially," he said. "But now I find myself smoking by myself too."
Aaron said he planned to quit after college because he knew smoking wasn't healthy for him.
be so easy.
But, said Ken Sarber, health educator with Student Health Services, quitting after graduation might not
"The numbers show that students who don't quit before graduation become smokers for life," he said.
To provide students with information about how to quit smoking, Sarber and his team of peer educators offer four Smokeouts a year. This year's first is today.
Though Smokeouts in the past have targeted tobacco use, Sarber said, this year the KU Smokeouts will offer information on marijuana use too.
Sarber said the main goal of the Smokeouts was to start conversations with tobacco users who needed help.
a non-aggressive way", he said.
"Snokers aren't used to people coming up to them to help them in
Sarber said he scheduled four Smokeouts a year in the hope that students would retain what he said
and remember him when they wanted to quit
wanted to quit.
He said he also hoped the Smokeouts would encourage students to ask for help.
Marie Wilcox,
Chicago sophomore and coordinator of peer health education, said a number of her friends smoked socially, but were too embarrassed to smoke on campus.
"In a college setting, it's easy for people to think its OK to smoke socially," she said. "But really, nicotine is an addictive drug and can
"In a college setting, it's easy for people to think its OK to smoke socially."
MARIE WILCOX Coordinator of peer health education
form a really bad habit."
"When some smokers try to quit, they find out that their addiction levels are too high to quit on their own," he said.
KanUQuit is an opportunity from Student Health Services for students to receive one-on-one assistance in the battle to quit smoking, Sarber said.
Sarber and the peer educators also will be distributing information filers about a free service for University students known as KanUQuit.
"When you see how difficult it can get to quit smoking, it makes you want to help people more and more," he said.
He said he worked with students to cut down their craving times to get to a first quit date, after which the student stops smoking for a week. Then, he said, the students come back into his office to talk
about the experience, make adjustments and prepare for a two-week smoking hiatus. He said students either graduated from the program after the two-week stopping period, or he continued to work with the student to help them quit.
KanUQuit started in January 2008. Since then, Sarber said, he's helped 35 people quit smoking.
He said he wanted students who want to quit using tobacco to remember not to be too proud to ask for help and not to become discouraged if they didn't successfully quit. He said the average person tried to quit smoking five or six times before they were successful.
- Edited by Sarah Kelly
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