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Dandara, leader singer for the group Pambores Do Brasil, pumps up the crowd during Carnaval II Saturday. The party, organized by the Brazilian Student Association, was held at Abe and Jake's Landing, 8 E Sixth St.
Brazilian group sponsors party
BY NIKOLA ROWE
nrowe@kansan.com
KANSAN STAF WRITE
Out of season doesn't mean out of style to Rafael Demarco, Recife, Brazil junior. At the Carnaval II — Micareta, or carnival out of season, Demarco, Brazilian Student Association social chair, said that Brazilian style was the vogue, as hundreds of people filed into the party sponsored by the University of Kansas Brazilian Student Association.
More than 800 tickets were sold before the night was over at the Carnaval II Saturday night at Abe & Jake's Landing, 8 E. 6th St.
The student group sponsors Carnaval, every spring, but this year the executive board wanted to start a new tradition with another party in the fall. Last year ticketes were sold out, Terena Silva, president of BRASA, said.
"We didn't want to make them wait another year," the Recife, Brazil junior said.
Ticket sales for the event were slow at first. For the spring Carnaval the tickets usually sell out by Friday, Silva said. With every new tradition you have to start somewhere, Silva said, but he said was happy with the results.
BRASA and Sao Paula senior,
said the prizes were not big, but
they are things that you can only
find in Brazil. Alves said it was
stuff that she missed from home,
like Brazilian chocolate.
Tickets were put into a raffle to win Brazilian products. Barbara Alves, vice president of
Inside the club the Brazilian band Tambores Do Brasil took over the entire stage with percussionists and lead singer, Dandara belting out lyrics in Portuguese.
Everyone was really getting into the band and the singer was great, Demarco said. In Brazil a Carnaval would be held in the streets, but here we have to have them in clubs. There is the same joy here as there is at home, Demarco said.
"I love it," Janaina Correa, Macapa, Brazil sophomore and member of the Kansas volleyball team, said. "This is the best thing we have for Brazilians."
Katie Laird, Leewood senior, said she appreciated the opportunity for everyone to enjoy the Brazilian culture.
The party brought in students from across the state. Tisha Rivas, Wichita State sophomore, said that a friend from the University told her the party would be something different. Rivas said that her friend was right. She had never been to a party that was as energetic, she said.
- Edited by Ashley Bechard
Professor has a 'peel' with students
BY AUSTIN CASTER
acaster@kansan.com
XANSA STAFF WINTER
Central America expert integrates laughs, fruit into teaching style
Charles Stansifer took a different approach than most professors to tardiness in his Modern Latin America class last Friday.
"Uh-oh, someone's late!" Stansifer said as he shot the student with a yellow bananashaped squirt gun.
Stansifer showcased his banana paraphernalia during his final lecture about the Banana Republics: Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala.
Retiring professor Charles Stansifer gave his final speech on the Central American countries of the Banana Republic to his Modern Latin America class in Wescoe Hall last Friday. Stansifer passed out bananas and banana-flavored candy for the occasion.
He specializes in Central America.
Throughout his 41 years at the University he has served as the director of the exchange program twice.
Stansifer took students to visit the banana plantation at the University of Costa Rica, he said. He has traveled around the country to give his lecture at colleges and high schools, he said.
The professor of Latin American history will retire at the end of this semester.
Since the 1970s, Stansifer has tried to appeal to students by slipping humor about bananas into his lecture, he said.
Stansifer joined the University of Kansas staff in 1963 and gave his first banana lecture in the mid 1970s, he said.
A former professor inspired him to incorporate humor into lectures.
"To be honest, this is the one lecture they all remember," Stansifer said.
He called his collection of banana memorabilia a museum. He said former students gave him banana-themed presents.
Items include banana Christmas ornaments, bananized glasses and a banana umbrella.
Stansifer displayed his collection in the mid 1980s on the lawn of Allen Fieldhouse in honor of Mayfest.
He said he gave away 400 pounds of bananas in two
"I think he's an excellent teacher," said Kuznesof, director of the center of Latin American Studies. "He does
hours.
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incorporates humor, it's easier to relate to them. You feel more comfortable. It's easier to get through a topic that's a little more serious."
Megan Bates
Lawrence senior
have great relationships with his students."
Kuznesof met Stansifer in 1976.
Megan Bates said Stansifer's humor was usually more subtle but she enjoyed the banana lecture.
"When a professor incorporates humor, it's easier to relate to them," Bates, Lawrence senior, said. "You feel more comfortable. It's easier to get through a topic that's a little more serious."
The self-proclaimed certified "bananologist" gave students bananas and banana-flavored candy.
"They're quite possibly the world's most perfectly packaged fruit." Stansifer said.
He explained how nutritious bananas were because of their low fat content, high potassium and lack of cholesterol.
Stansifer made his audience members' sides split with his punch lines, limericks and cliches.
He joked about dictatorship, communism and even religion made it into the lecture.
"Adam was tempted by an apple," Stansifer said. "Eve was tempted by a banana."
Edited by Steve Schmidt
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