Tuesday, October 5, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Events pay tribute to victims of abuse
By Lesley Simmons writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
The Clothesline Project and the "Remember My Name" reading gave pause to people walking down Massachusetts Street yesterday between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.
"Almost everyone who walked by at least turned their head to see what was going on," said Hilary Van Patten, Almena junior. Yesterday afternoon she read the names of people who had died as a result of domestic violence.
The reading and display were part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
A display at the reading said,
"Remember their names, remember
the loss, remember and act."
"I think that hearing name after name for seven hours drives home the point that a lot of women and children die because of violence in the home," said Sarah Morrison, volunteer coordinator for Women's Transitional Care Services.
Van Patten said she thought the reading sent a powerful message.
"Giving the names of the women, men and children who have died as a result of domestic violence really personalizes the issue," she said. "These aren't just statistics, they're real people."
The list of names came from the National Coalition Against
Domestic Violence, and included unborn children.
Morrison said that last year the shelter provided a place to stay for about 300 women and children and received about 1,500 crisis calls.
Organizers said the Clothesline Project was intended to break the silence about domestic abuse. Survivors of domestic abuse could create a T-shirt that reflected their experiences. Friends or family also could decorate a shirt for a woman or child killed because of abuse.
The Lawrence branch of the Clothesline Project displays T-shirts made by women and children who have been battered or assaulted, been raped or sexually assaulted, who are survivors of incest or child sexual abuse, or who have been attacked because of their sexual orientation. The project also displays T-shirts made to remember those women and children who were killed.
About 40 of the Lawrence Clothesline Project's 117 shirts were displayed.
Jennifer McAdam, Kansas City,
Mo., senior, and Jessica Postier,
Kansas City junior, coordinated
the Clothesline Project.
The project also will be on display from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Oct. 28 as part of the Womyn Take Back the Night march, rally and speakout.
— Edited by Jamie Knodel
Regents pay visit to campus
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optical microscope. Dunn led them throughout his basement laboratory while Docking shook his head in amazement as technical terms piled atop technical terms.
E. J. Reedy, Topeka junior, said he was pleased to speak with Docking and Wilcox.
After lunch Wilcox and Docking met with staff and students who spoke about the University's honors programs at Nunemaker Hall.
"It was definitely a neat opportunity to get to hear their views, and it was great to see how interested they were in KU," said Reedy, a University scholar and member of the University Honors program. "Because they can be, obviously, fairly removed overseeing so many
institutions."
Docking and Wilcox left Nunemaker at 2:30 p.m., heading for another science demonstration with Ed Martinko, courtesy associate professor of geography and biological sciences.
"Even having worked here for 15 years, there's always parts of the campus and some of the people that I didn't know very well," said Wilcox, a former communications professor.
The two men finished the day on campus by attending the Kemper Fellows awards ceremony and reception, which ended at about 6:30 p.m.
All nine Regents will get a firsthand glimpse of the campus next week, when the board has its monthly meeting at the University next Wednesday and Thursday.
- Edited by Mike Loader
A member of the Japanese dance company, Sankai Juku, performs the slow movements of the Butoh dance form. Sankai Jku will perform tonight at the Lied Center. Contributed photo
Dance troupe brings new form from Japan
By Emily Hughey
By Emily Hughey writer@kanson.com
Kansan staff writer
Sankai Juku will dance, slowly into the Lied Center tonight.
butoh, a Japanese dance form, is the medium.
"They move very slowly sometimes, much slower than American audiences are used to," said Joan Stone, head of the University of Kansas department of dance. "Sankai Juku is a really different sense of time and people have to come prepared for a mythic sense of time, as in billions of years."
The Japanese Butoh dance company, Sankai kuki, will stop at KU to perform "Hiyomeki" or "within a gentle vibration and agitation." The performance begins at 8 tonight as part of the Lied Center's New Directions Series. Ushio Amagatsu, Sankaijuku's artistic director, is from Yokosuka City, Japan, and could not be interviewed without a translator.
Some said although other Butoh companies existed in places such as San Francisco, Sankai Juku was the most widely known Butoh troupe in the United States.
Stone said the Japanese dance. Butoh, was unlike anything most Americans had ever seen.
Butch, unlike traditional Japanese dances such as Kabuki or Noh, evolved from the emotion of post-World War II Japan. Invented to express the movements of the body rather than a theoretical meaning of movement, Stone said Butch reflected the trauma of the aftermath of war and transcended tangibility.
"Their movement is mythic," Stone said. "It's in the realm of myth, like the Earth turning and the clouds passing overhead and the stars at night and emotion.
"I think there is a sense of movement coming from catastrophe. They're serious, but they're also jovious."
In a traditional Sankai Juku performance, the dancers are clad in flowing sheaths from the waist down and covered up to their shaved heads in ghostly white chalk. Some performances involve suspended plastic platform disks and white baby rabbits in metal bowls. For tonight's show, the troupe will use 1,400 pounds of sand on stage. They use the props to accentuate the emotion of their movements.
"As an audience member, this is one you watch and experience," said Stone, who is requiring most of her students to attend the performance. "When you walk out, everything looks different."
Ramie Becker, Visalia, Calif., junior and dance student, said she was looking forward to seeing Sankai Juku perform. After reading a lot about Butoh, Becker said she was excited to see and feel the performance.
"I'm just really interested in what it looks like as a performance." Becker said. "I think this will be a very spiritual experience if you see it and understand it and let it affect you."
Tickets for Sankal Juku's "Hiyomeki" are $11 and $13.50 for students, and $22 and $27 for the public.
Edited by Jennifer Roush
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Originally Conceived and Directed by Scott Ferguson
Book by Scott Ferguson, Kyle Hall and George Keating;
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Directed by, Ric Averill; Musical Direction by Shane Scheel; Scenic Design by Bill Nelson; Choreography by Marianne Kubik; Costume Design by Scott Grabau; Lighting Design by Christian Boy
8:00 p.m. October 8,9,15,16,21,22,23,1999
2:30 p.m.Sunday,October 17,1999
Crafton-Prever Theatre
Reserved seat tickets are now on sale in the KJ box offices. Murphy Hall, 785/643/3982; Lied Center, 864+ARTS, SUA Office 864+3477; $16 public, $8 all students, $15 senior citizens; VIA and MasterCard are accepted for phone orders
STUDENT
SENATE
The University Theatre is partially funded by the KU Student Senate Activity Fee.
The Friday, October 22, performance will be signed for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Promotional assistance provided bt KJHK.
Does the shape of your body shape your life?
A Body Image Discussion Facilitated by Christine Rogers, M.S. Counseling & Psychological Services
Tuesday, October 5, 1999
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
International Room, Kansas Union
For more information about this program, call the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center at 864 - 3552
Harvard University Press hardcover, $27.00
The sexual revolution as represented by a midwest college town Lawrence, Kansas. From World War II through the upheavals of the 1960s, a look at the evolution of American sexual beliefs and behavior.
IN THE HEARTLAND BETH BAILEY
SEX
Author Reading & Booksigning Jayhawk Room Kansas Union Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1999
The Pill, STDs, curfews, panty raids, women's rights, gay liberation and much more...
Free & Open to the Public -
Everyone Welcome!
Focus
store hours: Sat. 10-4 • Sun. 12-3 • Mon.- Fri. 8:30-5
Mt. Oread Bookshop
Kansas Union, Level 2 **864-4431**
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*10* Sun *12* Mon *13* Day *8:30-5*
Hit Me With Your Best Shot Visitor's Center Auditorium adjacent to Templin Hall For more information, call 864-9570.
Tuesday, October 5 Hit Me With Your Best Shot Flu shots, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Tetanus and Meningococcal vaccines will be available for a fee at the seminar from 6:00pm-8:30pm. (Payable by cash, check, charge, or by billing your insurance company.)
coming soon...
Ju $ 5.00
Hepatitis A, two shots $ 20.00 ea
Hepatitis B, three shots $ 30.00 ea
Tetanus $ 6.00
Menomune $ 65.00
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October 19 Sex Under the Influence...With Eyes Wide Shut Choices, consequences, prevention and consequence management.
STUDENT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SENATE
Attention Students!!!
Replacement Student Senator Applications are available in the Student Senate Office for the following seats:
Off-Campus (1)
Business (1)
Nunemaker (2)
Graduate (2)
Applications are due Friday, October 8th at 5:00p.m. Any Questions? Contact the Student Senate office at 864-3710