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KANSAN.COM | MONDAY, FEB. 13, 2017
Aries (March 21-April 19) There's an expansion phase for the next two days. Plan an adventure. You can sell your idea today, so ask for what you want. Luck favors initiative
Taurus
(April 20-May 20)
Don't believe everything you see or hear. Accept (and use) the gifts you've been given. Still, take plenty of pictures to share. Truth is stranger than fiction.
Gemini
(May 21-June 21)
Trust your partner and your intuition. Hold off on making financial decisions until tomorrow. Avoid traveling for now. Consider an outrageous request
outrageous request.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
(June 22-July 22) There could be conflict between private and public obligations. You gain experience points by taking new territory. Pinch pennies, even if just for sport.
Leo
(July 23-Aug. 22)
Honor a family tradition.
Don't restrain your creative impulses today. Your imagination makes you quite attractive. Do your homework first, and then
go play
Virgo (23-Sept. 22)
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your family and home require more attention. Don't stress about what is out of order, just get into action. Reward yourself after. A massage would be nice.
Libra
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Your ability to concentrate gets enhanced now, but patience may be required. Get in communication with someone who you haven't heard from in a while.
Scorpio
Missy Minear/KANSAN Senior Brian Wise, trombone player in the men's basketball pep band, attaches a GoPro to his instrument. His videos gives his followers a chance to experience a basketball game in the perspective of a band member.
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Don't lose what you have to get more.Invest in the highest quality.Adapt to the many changes. Your flexibility helps get you out
of a bind.
Sagittarius
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
You're on top of your game now, which is a good thing given the challenges ahead. Choose privacy over publicity and the most practical road
Capricorn
practical road.
(Dec. 22-Jan.19) Hang out around home, and keep it mellow. Slow and steady wins the race. Conserve resources. Listen to the whole story. There's a lot to think about.
Missy Minear/KANSAN
a lot to think about.
Aquarius
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
You're becoming wiser and more popular. Organize your time well. Your friends could help you solve the problem. Crowd-source the answer. Then have the
party at your house.
Pisces
Pisces (Feb.19-March 20)
The next few days are good for making decisions Be careful not to deplete your coffers. Save caustic comments for another day. You're appreciated more
than you know.
A new perspective on KU basketball
BRIANNA CHILDERS @breeanuhh3
any may say they've seen every inch of Allen Field-
they've seen every inch of Allen Fieldhouse. But Brian Wise, a senior trombone player for the Kansas basketball band, has given people a unique view into what it's like to be sitting in the band section during a Kansas basketball game.
Wise, from Wichita, has been a part of the KU marching and basketball band since his freshman year of college. That year, he said he won a GoPro after entering a drawing on Wescoe Beach.
He actually won the GoPro two hours before the band was leaving for the Big 12 Tournament. Since it was his first time at the tournament, he decided to document it. He posts the videos on his Instagram account — @bwise42.
His videos vary in length. Some of the videos Wise has posted include him playing in the band section at basketball games, KU football games, and most recently, he showed people what it's like to perform on the James Naismith Court during a half-time show.
Wise's videos have also been posted on the University's Instagram account and on the University's twitter.
"I figured it would be cool to get my perspective and to have that saved for myself after I graduate," Wise said.
Sharon Toulouse, assistant director of band, said Wise's GoPro is hysterical and a great recruiting opportunity.
"They get to see and feel what it's like in pep band or
marching band," she said. "I think something really unique we do is move the horns and create energy with it, and they see it from a different perspective."
I figured it would be cool to get my perspective and to have that saved for myself after I graduate."
Brian Wise Senior trombone player
Wise said he hopes what people get out of watching his videos is for them to get a new perspective from the band, see what the basketball band gets to do and see how
much fun it is.
Wise has been involved in the KU marching and basketball band since his freshman year, but his love for band started in elementary school.
Andrew Rosenthal/KANSAN Sculptor, writer and filmmaker Nora Naranjo Morse talked about her project she had worked on for the last ten years, Numbe Whageh.
"In fifth grade, I saw the middle school band play at a school Christmas concert and thought, that's really cool," Wise said. "The band director looked at me, and said, 'You're going to play trombone,' and I said 'Great.'"
Wise said what drew him to join the band at the University was the quality of the basketball band and watching them on television when he was growing up. He decided to audition after joining the Marching Jayhawks, a process that starts every year in mid September.
Wise said the audition consists of a prepared section, sight reading and a full chromatic scale.
"It's a blind audition, which is really the only way I got in as a freshman because otherwise seniors would have taken it," Wise said. "The seniors were really mad at me when I made it."
"The passion in him and his love of being in the band is apparent," Toulouse said. "I am thankful to have that in the band."
Toulouse said Wise stands out because he has an energy that never quits and is very animated with his horn moves.
Beside playing trombone in the band, Wise also plays guitar, writes music, likes to read and is involved in an organization called Young Life.
"Young Life is a missional organization that reaches out to middle school, high school and college kids to tell them about Jesus," he said. "I work with middle school guys, and they can be a handful, but it's something I really like to do."
After graduation, he hopes to get a job working as a consultant in Kansas City, so that he can be close to KU basketball. He also said the alumni band is something that he would be interested in a few years down the road.
"The reason I'm still at KU is because of the marching band," Wise said. "I had a terrible first semester and having 280 friends before school even started was what really got me through that semester and made me stay."
The battle to create Numbe Whageh
► BRITTANIE SMITH @britters__smith
During a talk about the struggles of the indigenous people of New Mexico, a visiting Phi Beta Kappa scholar illustrated the struggle she faced in the 10-year span of creating her land art piece Numbe Whageh
The talk took place at the Spencer Museum of Art, Thursday night. The artist, sculptor and writer, Nora Naranjo Morse, spoke to the Lawrence community during a visit to the University on Feb. 9 and 10.
As Albuquerque's first land art piece, Numbe Whageh is based on the love and respect for the Earth, Morse said. This stretch of land is 60 feet by 60 feet, and at its highest point is nine feet above sidewalk level, and six feet below sidewalk level at the lowest point. It was meant to represent a kiva, which was historically a place, in Pueblo culture, where ceremonies for restoring one's self were held. Morse said it was important to her for this to be a place of restoration and peace.
"This place is wild with all of this life," Morse said.
The words "numbe whageh." Morse said, come from the Tewa language that is indigenous to six Pueblo tribes found in the New Mexico area. Numbe means "us" or "our." Whageh means "the
center of one's self," which can be a person's soul or the physical center of something.
She said she collected rocks from different tribes and indigenous plants to place in the whageh, and even had native female artists carve into a few of them, since she said traditionally Pueblo people are a matriarchal society.
As an indigenous woman, Morse was asked by the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico to collaborate on a public art piece with an Anglo artist and a Hispanic artist for the city. The goal, she said, was to bring together the three different cultures. After agreeing to do the project, she said she quickly realized that this would be an uphill battle due to the history between the
groups.
In the 16th century, conquistador Don Juan de Oñate was creating European settlements in northern New Mexico where many of these Pueblo tribes resided.
The city wanted to romanticize Onate, who historically brought few positive things to the state, but those positives were greatly overshadowed, she said, by the anguish and slavery that were also brought into these communities.
After conducting research that included talking to members of indigenous communities, Morse said she needed to come to terms with a lot of internal grief before she could bring the project to the public.
"Different suits, different
time, but same colonization, same oppression," Morse said.
She prolonged and resisted the idea for the collaborative art piece for so long because she didn't want to contribute and continue the trend of oppression to her people.
Morse said the city wanted her to get on board with the idea even though it was deeply distressing to the indigenous people who lived in that area, so she split paths with the other artists and decided to create her own work of art.
"How to navigate [the struggles of the project] as a native person was intriguing to me, because I not only had to deal with bureaucracy and administration aspects, but
also my community and different people's perceptions of one another," Morse said.
Though the present times are slightly different, Morse said that it is still easy to be seen as the "other" and often be marginalized.
"What Phi Beta Kappa has done is made me move forward with that. What I have to offer is important. I think that is huge for us, so that we can start dealing with each other as human beings, not the 'other,' " Morse said.
Norman Akers, an associate professor in the Department of Visual Arts, is a friend of Morse's and introduced her talk at the Spencer.
"Her work enriches people," Akers said. "It comes from the Earth, the place indigenous people call home."
During the talk, Morse said the sculpture that the other artists created is of Onate, and it casts a shadow near the exit of Numbe Whageh. To her, it represents that Onate's destruction to these communities will always be present in their history. Although their heritage will always be shadowed by the past, Morse said she remains hopeful.
"I am a woman of color," Morse said. "I am a native woman who has taken her own path, and I've had to deal with the cards that have been arbitrarily dealt. I will always resist."
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