Monday, September 21, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Speaker cultivates support for bill on African hunger
By Pallavi Agarwal
Kansan staff writer
KU students should lobby federal legislators to pass a bill that would improve U.S. aid to Africa, a member of a hunger-advocacy organization said Friday.
Stephanie Seidel, Bread for the World campus organizer, spoke Friday afternoon at Alcove A in the Kansas Union. Her presentation was organized by the Center for Community Outreach. Six people attended.
Her organization, based in Washington, D.C., has about 44,000 members in the United States. It works to build support for legislation to alleviate hunger. She was on campus to discuss the Africa: Seeds of Hope Act, a bill that will be considered by the House this week and by the Senate before the fall session ends on Oct. 9.
Seidel said students should write letters or send e-mail in support of the bill to Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., who is on the Foreign Relations
Committee.
The bill would focus U.S. policy on improving food distribution in Africa and on making credit and agricultural resources available to farmers. Seidel said.
1993 World Bank statistics show that 39 percent of Africans live in poverty and that Africa is the only region in the world where poverty is projected to increase during the next decade, she said.
"Food production in Africa must triple for everyone to get food to eat," she said.
She also said that 50 percent of food produced in Africa is lost because of inadequate transportation and storage facilities.
Seidel's presentation developed into a discussion on global poverty and declining U.S. foreign aid.
Chris Hess, co-director of the Center for Community Outreach, said that public support of foreign aid seemed low.
"People say that one should first
WRITE-A-THON
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end hunger here before dedicating resources there," he said.
Jama Defever, co-coordinator of Concerned, Aware and Active Students, said that the group had organized a write-a-thon for later this month. Participants can write letters to legislators on several different topics, including the Africa: Seeds of Hope Act If Congress has not passed it by then. The campaign will be from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sept. 29 in the lobby of the Kansas Union.
Students interested in getting touch with the Bread for the World can call 1-800-82-BREAD.
Drumming lifts students' spirits
Percussion group focuses on fun, healing of rhythm
By Pallavi Agarwal
Kansan staff writer
The gazebo in South Park throbbed with percussion music Friday as a few University of Kansas students jammed and danced away in the slowly fading evening.
It was this semester's first percussion circle organized by the Circle of Percussive Sound, a student organization at the University. A group of about 10, including students and Lawrence and Kansas City percussion enthusiasts, attended the event.
The club was created a year ago to
bring together drummers and other lovers of percussion music, said Chris Lovorn, president of the club.
"A good rapport between drummers is a form of communication," he said. "We are trying to bring people together through rhythm."
Many people brought their own drums, Carol Buijut, Lawrence resident, also brought a suitcase-full of bowls and lids.
"The best part of it is to play on everything you can find," she said. "My favorite new instrument is cardboard."
A percussion instrument is anything that can be hit with the hand or a stick, said James Abbott, KU graduate and Lawrence resident.
Group meetings consist of two jamming sessions and a guest presentation, Lovvorn said. This semester, the group will meet from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Oct.16 and Nov.6 at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union.
In the past, the group has paired up with the KU music therapy club to focus on the medicinal value of drumming.
"Studies have been done on how drumming can help terminally-ill children and help in holistic healing." Lovorn said.
Students stage protest at fur store
Last year, the two clubs co-sponsored a presentation by Kansas City clinician Berry Bernstein, who spoke on healing drums, Lovorn said.
This summer, the local belly dancing group had joined the percussion circle to inject some Near Eastern rhythms, said Michael Moore, Lawrence junior.
By Pallavi Agarwal Kansan staff writer
Seven University of Kansas students joined an anti-fur protest in Overland Park Saturday.
The students, members of Proponents of Animal Liberation, or PAL, joined a Kansas City animal-rights group to protest against Alaskan Fur Co., 9029 Metcalf Ave.
They confined themselves to an
The 26-member group marched on a sidewalk outside the store, carrying signs against fur trade and animal cruelty and inviting motorists to honk for support. One of the marchers sported a furry animal costume resembling a bear.
area off the store's property, and two Kansas City police monitored the protest.
"We are trying to convince consumers not to buy fur," said Michael Schmitt, Lawrence graduate student and president of PAL.
He said it was the first time he could remember PAL participated in an anti-fur protest.
The protest was organized by the People for Animal Rights, or PAR, an organization committed to ending cruelty to animals through non-violent means, said Kelly Beard-Tittone, president of PAR.
"Fur is a thing of the past. Wearing fur just does not make sense in a compassionate, educated society," she
said.
PAR has been organizing anti-far marches in Kansas City for over ten years, she said. "We do at least two marches every year."
The group marched for an hour beginning at 11:15 a.m., carrying signs saying "No Skin Off Your Back," "Cruelty Wears Fur" and "Fashion should not cost an arm and a leg."
Beard-Tittite said fur trade statistics showed declining business.
"Mink sales are down worldwide. Fur farms have been cut by half in America and killing of animals for fur has dropped significantly since 1968," she said.
The owner of Alaskan Fur Co. would not comment.
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